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FACULTY

Computing faces hiring crisis Faculty of Computing sees mass retirement on the horizon with no promise of new hires V ictoria G ibson Assistant News Editor

Class of 2019 arrives on campus

PHOTOS BY JESSICA SUNG

Steven Chen, Comm ’18, stands before his frosh.

TOWN-GOWN

Students shake car with driver inside

Damage to vehicle the latest incident in three days of rowdy street parties V ictoria G ibson J acob R osen Journal staff

However, Moroz maintains that the more spirited aspects of Queen’s aren’t to blame.

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While driving down University Ave. Tuesday night, a woman reported a large group of Queen’s students swarmed and rocked her vehicle.

The students — whom the women identified as from Queen’s by their clothing — caused roughly $800 of damages, as the spoiler was ripped off the car.

After hearing of the incident, Queen’s student Max Moroz, Sci ’13, set up a Tilt fundraising page, on behalf of the Queen’s community, in order to pay for the damages. As of 10:46 p.m. on Sept. 9, the fund had raised $592.

Speaking to The Journal via Facebook, Moroz said that he isn’t seeking attention for the good deed, but rather, he thinks it is important “to maintain good relations with the city and not be irresponsible.”

He added that “there just really isn’t a reason for being destructive and rude to anyone.”

thrown in the direction of police, according to a Kingston Police press release.

The report states that at approximately Sunday night: a bottle is thrown 11:30 p.m., patrol officers were driving at a police cruiser through the crowd when the bottle was thrown, striking the hood of a Kingston Police shut down University Ave. marked cruiser. on Sept. 6, after at least one beer bottle was See Police on page 4

PHOTOS BY JACOB ROSEN

Crowds gathered on University Ave. Tuesday night.

After a decade without hiring new faculty members, Queen’s School of Computing is nearing a state of crisis.

The School of Computing hasn’t been permitted to hire a new group of professors since 1995, according to Professor Selim Akl, the director of the School of Computing.

That year, the department was allotted “five or six” positions, he said. One additional professor joined the department in 2006.

According to the data available to The Journal by the School of Computing, seven professors have retired since 2007 and none have been replaced.

This past year saw some improvement, as the School of Computing gained a faculty member to be shared with the department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences.

According to Akl, the average age of tenured professors is 54.5 years of age. The average age increases by approximately three years — to around 58 — if Continuing Adjuncts are counted, he said.

In addition to the seven departures in the past eight years, at least two and possibly three of these professors are set to retire in the next year. By 2017, Akl says the faculty expects to lose 14 out of its 28 faculty members.

Susan Mumm, dean of Arts and Science, said the lack of hiring is a response to budget cuts.

“To offset significant cuts to its base budget over the past seven years, the Faculty of Arts and Science has replaced only a fraction of faculty retirements and departures,” she said.

She added that the majority of new faculty members have been sponsored chairs, including Tier 1 and 2 Canada Research Chairs, Queen’s National Scholars, one NSERC Industrial Research Chair and a Canada Excellence Research Chair.

These chairs are designated to departments through open competitions rather than traditional hiring practices. Mumm says that while Computing forwarded a submission to every competition, they have been unsuccessful in each competition so far.

“Other base budget faculty positions were allocated to some departments in response to unique opportunities or to acute teaching See Student on page 5

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EDITORIALS

OPINIONS

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Educate cultural appropriation out of Frosh Week

Probation wrong move for Commerce Orientation Week

Diversity celebrated in Multicultural Festival

A father-son road trip across the continent

Mulcair and Trudeau swap positions in the left wing

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RESEARCH

Queen’s goes nuclear New Reactor Materials Testing Lab brings research potential

V ictoria G ibson Assistant News Editor Queen’s has flipped the “on” switch for its newest laboratory, with hopes to create unprecedented opportunities in nuclear research for both undergraduate and graduate students.

On the morning of Sept. 1, the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science formally opened

its Reactor Materials Testing Laboratory (RMTL).

The RMTL brings Queen’s to the forefront of current scientific research in the nuclear field, according to Mark Daymond, NSERC/UNENE Industrial Research Chair in Nuclear Materials and Canadian Research Chair in Mechanics of Materials. “[We] have something that’s PHOTOS BY VICTORIA GIBSON

Mark Daymond explains the inner components of an accelerator.

cutting edge, internationally,” he said. “We’re expecting people from the US and from Europe to be coming here to conduct experiments. It’s also an opportunity for undergraduates to work with thesis projects, [and get] involved with research.”

The $17-million facility — funded in part by a $6.9 million contribution from the Canada Foundation for Innovation — will develop and refine nuclear power sources for the Canadian industry.

The facility is located at Grant Timmins Dr., which is 35 minutes from main campus by bus.

Daymond said the trek could take up to an hour and a half depending on the route.

Rick Holt, the previous NSERC/ UNENE Industrial Research Chair in Nuclear Materials, originally spearheaded the project. After Holt retired in 2012, Daymond took

Equipment for analysis in the RMTL.

over to lead the RMTL. According to Daymond, while there are a handful of similar labs across Canada, there are “none quite like this”.

He says the aim of the facility is a key differentiator.

The Queen’s facility will let researchers study the interactions of materials and the stresses they are placed under, rather than only irradiating material and making observations afterwards.

“Rather than irradiating the material and then looking at it, we’re looking at the interactions,” Daymond said. “So, irradiation plus stress, plus temperature, or plus a corrosion environment.”

The RMTL operates using an accelerator rather than a reactor, which uses protons rather than neutrons for experiments.

Daymond said the choice gives the researchers more control

over variables.

“From an experimental point of view, you can really control the conditions,” he said. These conditions include the flux — the number of particles hitting the sample — as well as temperature and stress.

“You can’t do that with a nuclear reactor,” Daymond said.

While accelerators run a lower risk of radiation than reactors, the construction of the facility required approval by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission.

“Accelerators are inherently potentially dangerous,” Daymond said. “It’s high voltage. We can produce radiation, so we have to be cautious.”

However, he added that a person is more at risk of radiation while “taking a transatlantic flight” than working in the lab.

RESIDENCE

Queen’s opens two new residences The residences will be open to incoming first-year and returning upper-year students T arini P ahwa Assistant News Editor The Class of 2019 was welcomed to Queen’s with the opening of two new residence buildings this year — with a capacity to house 550 students in each.

The new buildings open as enrolment targets are planned to increase by roughly 2,000 more students over the next two years.

Last year, the University exceeded enrolment targets by 226 students, and many common rooms in residence buildings were converted to bedrooms to guarantee students spots in residence.

With the increased number of rooms available this year, most rooms will become common spaces once again, according to Bruce Griffiths, the executive director of Housing and Ancillary Services.

“With the opening of the new residences, a significant number of common rooms have now been restored,” he said over email.

Both buildings will provide

accommodation for 550 students.

David C. Smith House and Brant House have been named after former principal David Chadwick Smith, and Drs. Marlene Brant Castellano and Clare Clifton Brant, two Queen’s alumni.

Smith House will be home to upper-year students that applied to live in residence. According to Griffiths, Housing and Ancillary Services was able to accommodate all applicants.

The remainder of the rooms in Smith House will be occupied by first year students, while Brant House will be home to incoming first year students only.

The layout of the two buildings is identical to Watts Hall and Leggett Hall.

“We felt it would be a good fit for these students based on previous consultations,” Griffiths said.

To accommodate the influx of students, a new food outlet was built in Smith House.

The new outlet, named Location 21, offers food similar to Victoria Hall’s Lazy Scholar with the addition of a salad

station and Queen’s first Coca-Cola Freestyle Machine.

Both buildings offer only Single Plus Rooms with an upgraded price of $13,105 — which includes a meal plan — which are pricier than older Single Rooms at $12,826.

Each room is outfitted with a flat screen television, basic cable and a mini-fridge.

“Students and staff were both involved in the design, and a focus group was held with residents of Leggett and Watts to determine the best layout and amenities for the new buildings,” Griffiths said.

“This layout is attractive to first-years, upper-years and graduate students.”

The buildings have been designed to ensure that they’re accessible to every student.

Hallways, common rooms and bedrooms were designed to accommodate wheelchairs as well as gender-neutral washrooms in common areas and shared rooms.

The new common rooms in Smith House.

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FEATURE STUDENT WELLNESS SERVICES

Wait times persistent barrier to student health Amidst many changes, delayed appointments remain primary concern for students seeking care at Queen’s A llison W illiams Features Editor Over the last half-decade, Queen’s has dramatically changed the way it provides student health services, but it has yet to make lengthy waiting times a thing of the past.

What once had a long history as Health, Counselling and Disability Services (HCDS), has been renamed the “Student Wellness Services” (SWS) by the University.

Since the Principal’s Commission on Mental Health was established in 2011, the University has created faculty-specific counsellors, pledged to add an accommodated exams centre and established programs such as QSuccess and Bounce Back to assist students as they progress through university life.

But the most pressing problem — lengthy weight times for appointments — has proven to be remarkably resilient.

Counselling Services, one of the SWS services, is used by around 10 per cent of students each year.

It provides one-on-one crisis counselling, short-term counselling interventions and other services to students, staff and faculty.

In a 2008 article, The Journal reported that HCDS had asked for a $10 increase to its student fee in response to concerns about wait

times for booked appointments, which the service’s then-Director Mike Condra said “could take weeks” to obtain.

According a 2015 report released by the Provost’s Advisory Committee on Mental Health (PACMH), “most requests” for non-urgent appointments are still scheduled with a two-week wait.

In addition, two evening clinics — which require appointments — have been in operation since 2011. These clinics are consistently fully booked, according to the 2015 PACMH report.

Despite high demand for clinics and appointments, the total number of visits in 2014-15 decreased significantly from previous years.

From April 1, 2014 to March 31, 2015, 22,885 students were reported to have used the service, down from 26,583 in 2013-14.

According to the PACMH, the decrease in total visits may be due to a decrease in the number of “physician clinics” offered each week. Another factor could be an increase in length of appointments, which would mean that fewer students are seen each day.

The theory couldn’t be verified, though, as SWS doesn’t track the length of appointments.

In either case, although there are

fewer appointments, the decrease is due to a change in capacity, rather than a drop in student demand for services.

According to an external review of HCDS undertaken in 2015, “the demand for individual counselling resources may always exceed capacity.”

That being said, most students appear to want more than one counselling appointment.

PACMH data reveals that the average number of visits per student each year to Counselling Services has remained constant — at three per student — since 2012-13.

There’s no hard limit to the number of appointments students can book in a year, but Counselling Services operates as a short-term solution.

Although students book more than one appointment on average, there’s no capacity for longer-term care. Students seeking care and support in the long-term are instead referred to services within the greater Kingston community.

Although capacity may remain constrained, data from the PACMH also reveals that since 2011-2012, when a new intake protocol was applied, waiting times for first appointments were reduced to less than five weeks.

Counsellors currently see 95 per cent of students seeking an appointment for an “immediate issue” within one working day.

A significant change affecting the improved wait times for Counselling Services could be the addition of embedded counsellors across campus.

In 2011-12, Queen’s established the “embedded counsellor program”. Embedded counsellors allow the University to adopt a “hub and spoke” model of care,

The PEC has been identified as a new site for the creation of a student wellness centre that would house SWS.

whereby students have access to general support through SWS in addition to faculty- or situation-specific professionals.

Last year, an embedded counsellor was introduced at the School of Medicine, bringing the number of outreach counsellors to eight. When the program was established, only three counselors existed.

In a 2014 interview with the Centre for Innovation in Campus Mental Health, embedded counsellor Joanne Roston — who works in the Faculty of Engineering & Applied Science — spoke about the program.

According to her, “a definite strength [of an embedded counsellor] is being able to understand the culture around a specific faculty or discipline … essentially all therapeutic interventions can be tailored and met where they are more directly.”

For example, as the embedded counsellor working with students studying Engineering and Applied Science, Roston applies the principles of engineering education to her programming.

“Engineers seem to really like looking at issues and ways to solve problems that have a middle, beginning and

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an end,” Roston said.

“Understanding how students think is very helpful for me to direct programming using their (faculty and students) strengths,” she added.

Mike Young, ArtSci ’16, B.Ed ’17 and Queen’s Rector, told The Journal via email that despite the provision for urgent appointments, his quality of care was affected by lengthy wait times.

“As a student who was struggling considerably with personal issues, I had a choice between an appointment 2 weeks away or to claim one of the emergency next-day appointments.”

Young recalled the pressure not to take a spot from a student experiencing similar hardship.

“I wasn't willing to take the emergency spot from someone who might be in more of a crisis than I was experiencing”, he said adding that, “… this wasn’t a comfortable position to be in.”

At the end of the day, he took the later appointment. But after a two-week wait, the appointment was of much less use than it could have been.

“I had to deal with a lot of my issues myself.”

Solving the space problem

GRAPHIC BY ASHLEY QUAN Despite a decrease in physician visits, increased counselling appointments have led to more overall visits to SWS.

While a lack of space has been a barrier to progress for Student Wellness Services, the repurposing of the Physical Education Centre (PEC) provides an opportunity for change.

A report released by the Provost’s Advisory Committee on Mental Health in May 2015 identifies the PEC as the site for a Student Wellness Centre, which would include more space for Student Wellness Services alongside new student wellness programs.

As stated in the report, planning work for this initiative is already underway, and the report cites a 2016/2017 date for implementation.

This initiative is in the works following concerns raised about the LaSalle building, which currently houses the University’s health and counselling services.

As reported by The Journal in 2014, the building has reached capacity and has limited the service’s ability to hire additional staff.

According to Mike Condra, former Director of HCDS, “[the building’s] layout can create barriers to access for some students. The quantity of space available is insufficient.”

A 2013 report released by the Alma Mater Society found that the service was unable to hire new physicians

due to the constraints of the LaSalle building.

An external review of HCDS conducted in 2014 identified the need to move the service to the PEC, calling it, “an ideal location to house [a student wellness centre], central to students and in proximity to the ARC physical wellness, recreation and clinical partners.”

According to the report, moving into the PEC would increase the physical capacity of the service and allow the University to “design a purpose based facility.”

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UNIVERSITY DISTRICT

Police shut down street

Energy scam targets students

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Students say company representatives implied contract was for a mandatory service T arini P ahwa Assistant News Editor

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states that people who’ve been targeted as a part of this scheme have 10 days to cancel their agreement.

Danko wasn’t the only one in Kingston to Residents in the University District were targeted late last night by solicitors from encounter Summit Energy.

Jennifer Whitaker and Melanie Summit Energy, a company reportedly Nelson, both ArtSci ’17, also encountered marketing gas and energy.

Sam Danko, Sci ’18, was at her home a representative while enjoying evening on Frontenac and Princess St. when a drinks outside their home on University and representative of Summit Energy approached William St. The pair described the representative as her asking to see a copy of her hydro bill.

He was wearing what Danko described suspiciously “overly friendly”, as he asked to sit down with them on their front lawn. as an “ill fitting blue polo and black shorts”.

“He explained that our hydro price They agreed. They had seen representatives was going to be frozen at 8.7 cents per canvasing the area, and the representative kWh instead of the standard tiered pricing had just left their neighbour’s house.

The representative — who introduced for ... on and off mid peak hours”, Danko said himself as the manager — handed them a via Facebook.

Danko isn’t the only person to be targeted contract to sign and a business card with the in recent months. Summit Energy — based number of their head office in Mississauga.

“He kept making inappropriate jokes and out of KY, Louisville — has visited homes across Ontario in the hopes of finding new getting drunk with us, and he only left because we signed the contract,” Nelson said. homeowners and residents.

“He made it seem like everyone needs an The company claims to be offering a “price protection agreement” to customers, energy supplier, and he was surprised that we according to students who were contacted by didn’t already have one,” Whitaker added.

Like Danko, when the two researched its representatives.

An independent representative claiming the company in the morning they were an affiliation with the government typically shocked to realize what they’d signed up for. gives residents a contract to sign and a Whitaker attempted to call the company to number to call with a business card. The cancel, but couldn’t to get a hold of anyone.

Whitaker said she’s not too worried representative doesn’t explain that it’s an optional service, and instead implies that now that she’s done some research on the company, and says as long as she doesn’t it’s mandatory.

After doing a little research on the answer their call in 10 days, her account company, Danko took heed of the warnings won’t be activated.

However, she still feels the company took online about the company and decided to advantage of their leisurely state of mind. cancel the service.

“I just wish that they didn’t make us feel “When we cancelled it, they were extremely pushy on the phone, but we did like it was something we had to do when we knew so little about it.” get it cancelled,” Danko said.

The Consumer Protection Act of Ontario

Due to the size of the crowd, estimated to be as large as 2,000 people, police officers couldn’t clear people from the streets or make any arrests due to safety concerns.

Instead, the street was contained and access was shut off for one block from William St. to the south and Johnson St. to the north.

At least eight uniform patrol officers — normally available for regular calls for service, including 9-1-1 dispatches — were re-assigned to contain the street party.

According to Steve Koopman, media relations officer for the Kingston Police, the bottle-throwing was “a relatively isolated incident”. He called majority of the students and partygoers relatively calm otherwise.

However, he admitted that the large crowds were relatively unexpected, not having such incidences in prior years on the Labour Day weekend.

“We had to pull I think seven constables and one patrol sergeant away from regular calls for service,” he explained. “That did affect response times, and even potentially 9-1-1 calls, just so we could do containment for University Ave.” No charges or arrests were made in relation to events on Sunday night, according to the police report.

After the incident, many took to social media to express their discontent with the partygoers.

According to AMS Municipal Affairs Commissioner, Matt Kussin, students in the Queen’s community have condemned the actions of the few offenders.

“Students are taking it upon themselves, and realizing that this isn’t something that we can do. There is a lot at stake,” Kussin, ArtSci ’15, said. “We, as students, realize that it’s unacceptable - and we’re all, within our own student body, trying to make sure that it doesn’t happen again.”

Other students took to the streets the next morning in an attempt to restore community relations.

Taylor MacPherson, ConEd ’15, woke up Monday morning to social media posts about the incident and decided to take matters into our own hands. She spent over two hours on

University St. that morning cleaning up the debris of broken beer bottles and cans.

“What happened last night wasn’t a good representation of our university, and I wanted to do what I can to change the narrative,” she said.

Monday night: the crowds return However, the following night, much of the work to clean up the University District was reversed, as Kingston Police were summoned back to the University District beginning around 10:30 p.m. The streets again overflowed with students; however this time police were on the scene early in order to maintain control.

“The main priority was simply to keep the peace, make sure public safety was a priority, and just to keep the sidewalks and streets clear,” Koopman said with regards to Monday night.

Several alcohol-related tickets were issued along with warnings and only one arrest for public intoxication. Otherwise Koopman said partygoers on Monday were generally compliant with the requests of CORE (Community Oriented Response and Enforcement) and Street Crime Units.

“The students, and anyone that was in and around the University District, for the most part were very respectful for the officers,” he said.

Tuesday night: hundreds of students gather at the pier Tuesday night saw more of the same situation, as Kingston Police were called back to the University area.

Two individuals were taken to hospital for intoxication over the course of the night, and a single student was arrested following a fight around 1 a.m.

At around 11:20 p.m., a separate incident was called into Kingston Police, reporting hundreds of Queen’s students on the pier and in Lake Ontario. Due to concerns of intoxicated students jumping into the water, eight officers were assigned to clear the area throughout the night.

CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS

University and faculty association reach agreement for new contract Process finalized on Aug. 21 for a four-year collective agreement V ictoria G ibson Assistant News Editor With the announcement of a firm collective agreement between Queen’s and its faculty, students can anticipate a review of both professor evaluations and teaching methods at Queen’s.

On Aug. 21, after eight months of grueling negotiation and 37 bargaining dates, the Queen’s University Faculty Association (QUFA) accepted the terms of the tentative collective agreement set out on July 29.

A key factor for students in this agreement is a promised review of teaching strategies at the school, as well as the University Survey of Student Assessment of Teaching (USAT) process.

Three days before QUFA’s vote, the Human Resources Committee of the Queen’s Board of Trustees also voted to ratify the agreement.

The QUFA website states that a detailed overview of the new collective agreement will be published shortly. The agreement was accepted with over 95 per cent support from QUFA voters, and will serve QUFA until April 30, 2019.

In the interim, QUFA President Lynne Hanson provided details on some of the agreement’s contents to The Journal.

According to Hanson, the highlights of the new agreement include: ·Detailed terms and conditions for online courses ·A memorandum of agreement on the pension plan ·“Modest improvements” in faculty compensation. The Gazette reported the increase in compensation as between 1 and 1.75 per cent. ·Inclusion of LGBTQ terminology in the agreement

·Additional definitions of “diverse experience” for hiring equity ·Review of teaching strategies and the USAT process Hanson says equity measures at the University will be improved by the inclusion of LGBTQ terminology into the definitions section of the Collective Agreement.

Where the previous agreement included “persons of any sexual orientation or gender identity’, the new definition is “more inclusive”, according to Hanson, and specifies “persons whose sexual orientation is other than heterosexual and/or whose gender identity or presentation is at variance with the sex assigned to them at birth”.

The agreement similarly includes “the recognition of diverse experiences”, which Hanson said increases equity in hiring.

A committee of faculty,

administration and students will Deputy Provost.

However, Hanson also review the USAT in the summer of 2016. The group will work said her team had observed to “develop better assessment a “dispiriting reluctance to methodologies”, according to recognize our members’ concerns,” Hanson, and will operate under especially surrounding issues of the Joint Committee to Administer “deteriorating” working conditions, a lack of resources and “the erosion the Agreement (JCAA).

The new agreement will also of authority.”

Dan McKeown, Associate provide increased protection against departmental closures due Director of Faculty Relations, said he disagrees with Hanson’s to budgetary concerns.

Hanson said the last few portrayal of the negotiations. months have seen improvements “Discussions with QUFA were in the University’s approach respectful and positive in tone to bargaining. throughout the process,” he “This last round of wrote in an email statement to bargaining was somewhat more The Journal.

In the email, McKeown stated constructive [than previous that the agreement was “good rounds],” she said.

She said the University’s news for all parties”. “[This] is an agreement that approach has been “less aggressive”, and noted the positive impact of helps the university preserve the senior academic leaders at the quality of its academic mission, bargaining table, including Dr. within the limits of its current Susan Mumm, Dean of Arts and financial realities.”

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Student leaders claim concerns go unaddressed retirements in the School and a substantial increase in our student FTE [Full Time Equivalent], are not being taken into consideration.

In this age of information, the reliance on two-year old data for important decision making by a distinguished university is, to say the least, astounding,” he wrote.

The email exchange revealed that 2011 data was submitted for consideration in 2014, which made the student to faculty ratio appear lower than it was during that year.

In 2011, the School of PHOTO BY MARIA VLASOVA Benjamin Cecchetto, president of the Graduate Computing had 11 students for each faculty member. By 2014, Computing Society. the ratio had increased to 19.5 students to each faculty member.

Continued from page 1 Journal with email correspondence The University used the between Professor Akl, capacity shortages, and not as former Associate Dean of outdated information during the part of a regular faculty renewal Research for Arts and Science Arts and Science hiring window Robert Lemieux and Dean last year to determine the need for process,” she said. new faculty. Computing was not Mumm said she was confident Susan Mumm.

In a November 2014 email, among the 10 Arts and Science in the abilities of computing faculty members, regardless of the Akl claimed that Lemieux and departments given permission Mumm provided incorrect budget to hire. average age.

While the faculty loses members, “We believe that a combination information to the Provost’s Office Computing has seen an increase in of knowledge and experience, both during the hiring window.

“The figure of $750,000 supplied enrolment. In 2007, 35 first-year in field and in the classroom, makes for the best faculty complement, by the Faculty to the Provost, is a students enrolled in computing. In gross overestimate of the so-called 2015, the number is over 200. The regardless of age.”

She added that the ‘budget deficit’ of the School,” Akl school enrols an average of 140 graduate students, which is among undergraduate student/faculty wrote on Nov. 6, 2014. “[It] is based, not only on a the highest at Queen’s. ratio in the School of Computing The School of Computing at remains “one of the lowest in the flawed and unusable budget model Queen’s is nationally renowned for but also, on 2012 data.”

Faculty of Arts and Science.”

In the email, Akl also wrote its research and academic programs.

The student-to-faculty ratio has been a point of concern for that the information submitted by Some of the department’s computing students in the past year, Lemieux and Mumm didn’t reflect programs, such as Computing according to Benjamin Cecchetto, the changes that had occurred in and the Creative Arts, are the only programs of their kind in President of the Graduate the School of Computing.

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highest percentage of female students in Canada enrolled in computer science at 48 per cent.

Cecchetto says the lack of hiring has made him and other students concerned for the future of the computing faculty. He and Graduate Student Senator Eric Rapos, PhD ’16, set up a meeting with Dr. Lemieux and Vice Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science

Gordon E. Smith. He said little came of it.

“It was a long meeting, but they didn’t really say anything,” he said.

Cecchetto added that the high median age for computing professors has raised concerns from students due to the quickly evolving field of computing.

“It’s the sign of an unhealthy department,” he said.

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AMS

AMS executive summer in review Team CBW finds a replacement for Catherine Wright, sees the implementation of a new scramble crossing and prepares to launch their new website S amantha F igenshaw J acob R osen Journal Staff

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Throughout the first four months of their term, the AMS executive — President Kanivanan Chinniah, Vice President (Operations) Kyle Beaudry and the recently-appointed Sarah Letersky — have worked to pursue a number of platform points they set out in the spring.

Although Team CBW has seen the departure of Catherine Wright as Vice President (University Affairs) (VPUA) her replacement Letersky says she’s been transitioning well into her new position.

“We’ve been lucky to have a very strong team that we can rely on from our six commissioners to four directors and the four officers.

They’ve all been very good and they’ve really dug into their Kyle Beaudry (left) and Kanivanan Chinniah (right) stand on either side of Sarah Letersky projects,” Chinniah said. (middle) following the announcement of her appointment as Vice-President (University New VPUA appointed Sarah Letersky, ArtSci ’16, was appointed as Vice President (University Affairs) on Aug. 26, following the resignation of Catherine Wright roughly two weeks prior.

The announcement was made at a special press conference held in Wallace Hall.

Wright resigned as Vice President (University Affairs) on Aug. 12, which she said was due to personal reasons.

Chinniah said they approached AMS Assembly Speaker Sam Anderson on the morning of the announcement to inform him of their decision. According to Chinniah, it was based on consultation with internal staff and a majority of the members of AMS Assembly.

“Our first priority is to ensure that the AMS can deliver strong programs and services that student rely on,” Chinniah said during the announcement.

“This appointment takes that into account, and we have full confidence in Sarah’s abilities to do exactly that.”

Chinniah added that any confidential information disclosed to Letersky as her capacity as the Human Resources Officers will remain confidential when she assumes her new role.

With her history of involvement in various student services and programing — including an internship with the 2013 Vice President (University Affairs) Thomas Pritchard — Beaudry said Letersky has demonstrated the qualities necessary for the position. “[Sarah] is approachable, responsible and committed to serving students. We have full confidence in her ability to lead the [AMS] and step into the executive role,” Beaudry said.

The Vice President (University Affairs) is responsible for all AMS matters of a political and or educational nature, research and policy development, internal academic issues and university

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Affairs) on Aug. 26.

administration affairs.

Common Ground seating The position also oversees the operations of six commissions: the Although their initial plan Academic Affairs Commission, the for Common Ground (CoGro) Campus Activities Commission, the has been reworked, planning is Commission of the Environment underway to add seating before and Sustainability, the Commission the end of the month. Originally, of Internal Affairs, the Municipal the executive platform proposed to Affairs Commission and the Social add bar style seating built into the Issues Commission. walls around the CoGro, using a In her first year, Letersky studied Student Centre Fund of $400,000 at the Bader International Study to cover the renovation costs.

Centre (BISC) in Herstmonceux, The plan they submitted this England where she served as the summer to the Student Life Centre student government president. Management Board features lower Upon returning to the Kingston and longer common worktables campus, she served as an extending from the pillars. Having ambassador for BISC on campus received quotes and fittings for the and worked for the Student Life new furniture, they only require Centre. This May, she began as the approval from the board, which AMS Human Resources Officer for will meet next week to vote. the 2015-16 school year.

The increased seating will At the press conference, provide a maximum capacity of Letersky said she’s been humbled 263 chairs — 37 seats more than by the support of the AMS team the current accommodations. following her appointment to the “This would not only benefit AMS executive.

Common Ground as a service, “Having the commissioners but also address the need of welcome me in, as well as the declining study space on campus,” directors and everyone in the AMS, Beaudry said. with open arms has been one of the most rewarding experience I’ve had to date,” Letersky said.

As with all appointments made by the executive, AMS Assembly must ratify the decision before it’s official. A motion to ratify her as the Vice President (University Affairs) will be presented to Assembly at their first fall meeting on Sept. 24.

Until then, Letersky can’t sign any official documents as the Vice President (University Affairs).

Chinniah will continue to take on the responsibilities of the Vice President (University Affairs) until Letersky is properly transitioned into the position. Chinniah said Wright has agreed to help in the transition process.

Letersky has submitted her resignation as the AMS Human Resources Officer. Applications for the vacant position were due as of Wednesday and the executive said they will be have a new replacement by this weekend.

Bus routes

Chinniah said.

The new executive is running with the momentum produced by last year’s executive on the Homecoming ReUnion Street Festival. According to the three executive members, they’re close to signing an agreement with the City to bring back the festival for a second year.

The executive have already obtained road closure and noise exception permits through City Council for the festival. At this point, the planning is merely operational aid, Chinniah said.

According to their platform, this year’s AMS executive aim for the festival to become financially self-sufficient. They told The Journal that they’ve been working with the Queen’s Office of Advancement for sponsorship.

However, they say because the festival is only in its second year, they’ve been realistic in their expectations and budgeted for only a small portion of the festival to be funded by sponsorships.

Experiential Credits The team picked up from Experiential Credits, or ‘pass/fail’ where the previous executive left off with the new Route 20 buses credits, have long been a discussion to the Isabel Bader Centre for the point among the members of the AMS since it was first brought up Performing Arts.

Their official platform in 2013.

The executive said a joint aimed to extend bus services throughout campus. Through proposal with ASUS is underway initial conversations with the city and will eventually be submitted in May, the executive learned that to the Faculty of Arts and Science. there may not be enough money They’ve decided to pilot the project in the city budget to pursue in the Arts and Science before new routes, however. In recent they proposing to expand it to conversations, the AMS executive every faculty.

According to them, they’ve they were happy to hear that due to additional funding, new spoken with members of the routes may be possible within the faculty on several levels of the administration and have received next year.

They say they will continue to positive feedback on the plan. analyze ridership statistics at the As far as their official proposal, end of September on Routes 17, they say they are currently in the process of discussing details as to 18 and 20. how many ‘pass/fail’ credits can be taken, course restrictions and other ReUnion Street Festival specific details.

Much of the proposal will “This year we’re lucky in the sense that the festival happened draw from models from other last year so there are a lot of hopes universities, such as UBC, with a that last year had to jump through few tweaks, they said.

Along with Experiential Credits, we don’t have to do this year,”

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JDUC revitalization

One of the largest developments of the summer was the finalization of this year’s budget in August — two months earlier than is historically done.

As part of the budget, the executive says there has been various savings made to avoid “creeping growth” in the cost of the AMS. Due to the early completion of the consolidated budget, the budget will be available online as soon as the new ASM website is launched.

The AMS executive got their ENG Cuts during Frosh Week.

the AMS executive have been discussing new adaptations to the recently implemented Arts and Science Internship Credit.

Last year, ASUS and AMS lobbied for an Arts and Science academic credit for internships.

The exec worked this summer to lobby for academic credit for certain positions within the AMS, with the program set to pilot next school year.

not to pursue it further.

Otherwise, Letersky said she’s been working with AMS Marketing and Communications to develop a way to inform students on the peak hours, class times and special offers at the ARC. Student card

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available, this year’s executive has focused on communicating the details and benefits of the optional AMS Health and Dental Plan.

They’ve set up a marketing campaign including emails and infographics, with less focus on print advertising. They’ve also worked on changing the dates for opting out of the Health and Dental fees so students can opt out throughout the entire month of September.

Last year, project planning for the revitalization of the JDUC began as the deadline to use the $1.2 million fund — originally collected to finance the Queen’s student capital contribution to Phase 1 of the Queen’s Centre — quickly approached.

The AMS executive has set construction dates for the project, with the aim to finish within their term in office. Physical Plant Services will manage the project.

The AMS is currently waiting for a final quote from them New AMS website before deciding which of the three proposed projects they will pursue.

Picking up from some of the The executive says construction work of by last year’s AMS council, will ideally be finished by March.

AMS Communications and IT have been working to complete Scramble crossing the development of a new website for the student government.

Under the supervision of the The new website is set to Municipal Affairs Commissioner, launch on the first day of classes the AMS teamed up with on Sept. 14. Based on data on the city councilor Peter Stroud to most viewed pages, the new site unveil Kingston’s first scramble will highlight what students want crossing at Union and University most from the AMS website by Ave. The official ribbon cutting displaying them more prominently. ceremony for the new crossing was held on Aug. 31.

Last year, Hospitality Services changed its definition of what a meal equivalency could buy.

“We saw this as an opportunity ARC people counter to see what our student card could While the previous executive do relative to other schools in looked into the feasibility of Ontario, and it was significantly Athletics and Recreation Centre lower,” Beaudry said.

While other schools can use (ARC) fitness apps, this year’s executive said there wasn’t enough their student cards to pay for cabs room in the budget to pursue or restaurants downtown, Queen’s student cards can’t even be used at the proposal.

Instead, they’ve decided to look AMS services.

Beaudry said he was unable at current software to develop a way to track the use of the to meet over the summer with Bruce Griffiths, executive director ARC gym.

The ARC gym tracks how of Housing and Ancillary Services, many students enter the facilities, to discuss the issue, but plans to do but there’s no current software so in the coming month. that tracks how many exit the Health and Dental Plan facility. Moving forward, the AMS plan to look at other models, like As part of their platform last body counting video cameras. The feasibility of such a project, they year, WRL brought a dentist into said, would determine whether or the JDUC. With the new service Mayor Bryan Paterson was at the unveiling of the new scramble crossing on campus.

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EDITORIALS Learn from gaming

Joseph is The Journal’s Assistant Sports Editor. He’s a third-year history major.

The Journal’s Perspective

CULTURAL APPROPRIATION

Joseph Cattana

Historical video games undergo criticisms for inaccuracy, but as their popularity increases, they can grow to be a powerful source of information as well as entertainment.

Games like Assassin’s Creed III or the Civilization and the Total War series might not be academic, but they provide a chance to creatively investigate a subject that’s often considered mundane or obsolete.

History is a branch of knowledge that records and explains past events.

But, history isn’t only rooted in truths; it’s also packed with biases and opinions, both past and present.

Video games with a historical background have recently undergone scrutiny, similar to movies that distort historical events.

For example, Assassin’s Creed III is a video game rooted in the events of the American Revolution.

The player acts as the game’s main character, a half-Mohawk man fighting for the revolutionaries against the British.

The protagonist’s allegiance to the revolutionaries has brought this game into the ongoing debate over historical video games. According to most historians, Native Americans largely sided against the revolutionaries and fought with the British in return for the protection of Native lands.

But historians, like the creators of historical video games, interpret facts to present their own version of the past. Thus, the study of history often produces multiple interpretations of a single event.

For example, Maximilien Robespierre — a leader during the French Revolution — is both celebrated for his virtue and sovereignty, and condemned for the violence of his regime.

Non-conventional methods of learning, like video games, allow players to engage with these deeplylayered topics.

By having these games readily available, students can be exposed to the bare bones of a given topic, and can then pursue more in-depth study.

At my high school, there were only three options for history classes: Canadian, American or European.

And while lectures in university cover a wide array of topics, many important moments in history are glossed over.

During one of my two-hour HIST 122 lectures — that was solely based on revolutions — the French Revolution was discussed for no more than 10 minutes.

Such pivotal moments in history aren’t merely footnotes.

Instead of frowning upon video games and movies for taking liberties, they can be viewed as springboards — a new opportunity to engage learners of all ages.

After all, just like a virtual battlefield, history is never neat and clean.

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Know where to draw the line ILLUSTRATION BY KIA KORTELAINEN

Frosh Week at Queen’s expends a lot of resources to discuss important topics like mental health and sexuality, but race is conspicuously absent.

Cultural appropriation is everywhere, especially during Frosh Week, but despite the open opportunity to talk about it, we’re unwilling to confront our microaggressive habits.

This year, Western University’s O-Week frosh leaders aren’t allowed to wear fake dreadlocks, native headdresses, Mohawks, bandannas over the face, turbans or hijabs, unless these items are a part of their cultural or religious identity.

Western’s Orientation Planning Committee set the ban after receiving several complaints

because of their connotative link to from students. make it just hair.

The tradition of culturallyHowever innocent the a specific cultural or ethnic group inspired attire, such as intent, disrespect for traditional risks negatively colouring items Mohawks, has been shared customs can be a serious offense that should be proudly worn.

There are many healthy ways by frosh leaders at Queen’s for to an increasingly international to share in traditional customs at many years. student body.

The Mohawk is a hairstyle But by simply banning specific Queen’s, as shown by groups such originating with items of dress or as the Four Directions Aboriginal Native American hairstyles, Western Student Centre and the African tribes such as “It shouldn’t be this is missing out & Caribbean Students’ Association, the Iroquois and hard for us to figure on a valuable who both hold regular open events.

Platforms like Frosh Week Mohawks, or teaching moment. out when it’s not Mohicans.

Instead of simply exists for conversations about okay to wear a Being ignorant creating a ban list, appropriate behaviour to happen. headdress.” of the cultural it would be more It shouldn’t be this hard for us to connotations effective if students figure out when it’s not okay to of your apparel doesn’t make the received guidance, so that they wear a headdress. appropriation of it excusable. could independently gauge what is Even if you don’t know and isn’t appropriate.

— Journal Editorial Board Moreover, only banning the historical and cultural value of a Mohawk hairstyle, it still doesn’t the wear of specific items

STUDENT AID

Grants or loans?

The most effective method of reducing student debt through financial aid has yet to be determined by Canadian provinces, but advertising grants already available might be the right approach for Ontario.

This year, Newfoundland and Labrador became the first province to switch to offering non-repayable grants for students in lieu of interest-free repaid loans.

The province will dedicate $12.5 million over the next four

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years to student grants — 40 per cent of which is student aid and 60 per cent is federally funded.

While federal funding is a national standard, provincial approaches to assuaging student debt vary.

In Newfoundland and Labrador, 7,000 eligible students can receive up to $2,380 in non-repayable grants. They don’t, however, have the option to apply for a loan from the province if this isn’t enough.

And in Ontario, anything

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you’re loaned from the Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP) beyond $7,300 will be converted into a grant, meaning you don’t have to pay it back.

With its small student body and desire to swell its working population, a grants-only system makes sense for Newfoundland and Labrador.

However, for over-burdened Ontario, grants-only may be an unnecessary measure.

Although unadvertised, OSAP currently offers a fairly generous grant program, the Ontario Student Opportunity Grant.

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For Ontario, it’s more a matter of making the already available assistance more accessible to the students who need it most.

Reducing student debt means that more students from a variety of socio-economic backgrounds have access to the opportunities incumbent in post-secondary education.

If each province follows Newfoundland and Labrador’s example to meet the needs of its students equally, there should be no room for crippling student debt.

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ORIENTATION

Probation does more harm than good Why the Commerce Orientation Week’s sanctions say more about the board that imposed them Commerce Orientation Week was placed on probation in October 2014 for “verbally abusive and profane taunts to students” and “relentless required running”.

The organized chaos that introduces thousands of first-year students to the university experience has no equivalent.

However, I’m worried about the direction student and staff policy makers are taking Orientation Week.

When I chaired the committee, four of the six student members Roy Farrer, Comm ‘14 were in ArtSci, and two of them The changes mandated for held AMS positions. It was easy to Commerce Frosh Week have me see the strong influence from this worried that Queen’s is losing faculty and the AMS on the board.

I believe an institutional bias something that makes it special: a Frosh Week unique to each faculty. towards the Arts and Science Frosh For most students, Week is building in the AMS and extra-curricular activities help on SOARB. This bias is causing decision define their time at Queen’s.

For some, it’s playing on a makers to craft policy that erodes varsity team, or holding down the uniqueness that makes the a bartending job on campus week special and different from or downtown. For me, it was faculty to faculty. I experienced this planning Frosh Week and organizing Frosh Week.

I spent two years organizing saw it escalate as I assumed Commerce Orientation before more responsibility.

The most recent example I decided to serve one term as the Student Co-Chair of SOARB occurred when SOARB placed (Senate Orientation Activities Commerce’s O-Week on probation.

Review Board), the Senate The faculty was mandated to committee responsible for change and conform to a Frosh monitoring O-Week and crafting Week model similar to that for policy on a university-wide basis.

ArtSci students.

I’ve had the chance to According to the terms of experience Frosh Week from every probation SOARB presented angle and had an amazing time. to the organizers of Commerce

Talking heads ... around campus

“My floor is pretty cool.”

Chris Nam, CompSci ’19

Frosh Week, the event was sanctioned for two main reasons: “hazing by means of verbally abusive and profane taunts to students … deemed as verbal/ psychological abuse” and “relentless required running”.

Personally, I would say neither was extreme in my four years, but I don’t think my own levels of tolerance should be the standard for the whole faculty.

Instead I turn to the University’s annual O-Week survey, which is distributed to first-year students.

The survey’s data is what SOARB would’ve used as their basis for placing Commerce on probation.

The administration’s survey found that 60 per cent of Commerce students reported that Frosh Week was either “extremely” or “very” demanding.

To put it in perspective, the next closest faculty was engineering at 51 per cent, and the average across all weeks was 35 per cent.

Respondents from all faculties reported some level of hazing, but Commerce ranked the highest.

When Commerce students were asked if they experienced hazing in first year, 22 per cent of respondents said they’d experienced what they deemed “subtle” hazing.

In response to these results, SOARB went ahead with sanctions that included new hiring terms and criteria for the Commerce Executive on Orientation (CEO) and Orientation leaders — which including going as far as to ban video submissions for Orientation leader hiring.

The fact that SOARB didn’t consult with stakeholders, but instead opted for probation, disappoints me as a former board member.

I’m of the opinion that students are reasonable. SOARB could have sat down with stakeholders, demonstrated that students wanted change and gotten the same results.

Instead they stepped way past setting and enforcing policy and started controlling the operations of an individual faculty’s week.

Commerce O-Week brought to you by SOARB. This isn’t the first time the Board has done this, as Engineering Frosh Week was sanctioned similarly in 2012. A more measured reaction would’ve been to outline the problems with the faculty’s student representatives and allow a chance to remedy.

An interesting side note: PheKin respondents reported a similar amount of hazing at 23 per cent and that faculty’s week not only went unsanctioned, but wasn’t even mentioned.

SOARB has taken extreme steps and seized control of the key decisions of Commerce Frosh Week and, to me, this is unacceptable.

What I’m suggesting is that the solution to problems raised

by SOARB isn’t taking control of individual weeks.

When the board tries to fix faculty’s orientation weeks, it instills the best practices of Arts and Science, because that is what its members know best. The minute all faculty weeks tone it down and follow the ArtsSci model is the minute Queen’s loses one of its most unique institutions.

It’s not just me who thinks so. Although the survey didn’t explicitly ask the student how much they enjoyed Frosh Week, it did ask what amount of Frosh Week they attended.

If we use the per centage of

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students who attended their faculty’s entire orientation week as a measure of how much they enjoyed it, we can surmise as to which faculty had the most popular program that year.

Of students who responded to the survey, 84 per cent of Engineering, 79 per cent of Nursing and 75 per cent of Commerce students attended every event. These were the top performing faculties.

The worst? Arts and Science at a dismal 37 per cent. Not exactly the kind of results you’d hope to emulate in other Orientation Weeks.

Hey frosh, how do you feel?

Bored. So, so bored.

Roy Farrer is a Queen’s alumni and former co-chair of SOARB

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Re: Obscenity laws leave us covering our eyes On July 28, The Journal published an editorial that referred to an informational display in downtown Kingston by the group Show the Truth. The Journal erroneously described the group as “anti-abortion”. This term is problematic and offensive. This group and many others self-identify as “pro-life”.

This has been the accepted term for the pro-life community for many decades. Those of us in the prolife community would appreciate your co-operation in using more culturally sensitive language.

Colin MacDougall, associate professor of civil engineering

What’s been your favourite part of O-Week?

“We think it’ll be the Frosh Olympics.”

“Making friends that I’ll keep for the rest of my life.”

Jessica Mackay and Taryn Kemp, ArtSci ’19

Katherine Lei, Comm ’19

“My floor.”

“I really liked Existere.”

Paige Gleason, PheKin ’19

Lauren Duffy, ArtSci ’19

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Dave Monks performing at The Grad Club on Aug. 22.

CONCERT

Dave Monks gives solo performance Tokyo Police Club frontman plays his second solo show at The Grad Club K iera L iblik and L auren L uchenski Journal Staff Dave Monks, frontman of Tokyo Police Club, confidently performed the second solo show of his career in Kingston.

On Aug. 22, the indie rock artist from Newmarket, Ontario performed an intimate acoustic set on The Grad Club’s small stage.

The audience grouped close to the stage throughout his performance, singing along to almost every song.

Monks played two encore songs and chatted with audience members after the show, even signing a few of his albums. He released his first solo EP, All Signs

Point to Yes, earlier this summer.

In an interview with The Journal, Monks said recording alone lets him make artistic decisions without needing anyone else’s approval.

“I just hired the best drummer and bass player I know and did it,” Monks said.

His favourite part of performing as a solo artist is the intimacy with the crowd. But when working with Tokyo Police Club, he says he appreciates eccentric performances.

“I like the looseness of playing by myself and that you just talk [to the crowd] and it flows with the songs,” Monks said. “With the band it’s really dynamic; the lights go on and it’s very dramatic. It’s a different type of performing.”

Monks said his experience moving to New York City and living away from his band inspired him to write the album.

“I was, and am, really in love with a new person,” Monks said. “All of these songs just started happening and turned into the album.”

Although Monks has been recording his own music, he says he likes recording with Tokyo Police Club because they have an established sound and style.

“There’s a pillar there already, which really matters,” Monks said.

“But it’s also exciting to go out and explore your own sound.”

For Monks, recording the Tokyo Police Club’s latest album

Forcefield was a “bizarre” process.

“We were like kids before we recorded Forcefield and when we recorded it we were adults and we had so much to figure out,” Monks said. “It just took a long ass time.”

Monks has been working on several projects, including new music with Tokyo Police Club.

“We just recorded a whole bunch of songs,” Monk said.

“Doing the solo work and coming back to [Tokyo Police Club] has been a great refresher.”

The band formed in 2005 when they began playing together in a basement in Newmarket, Ontario.

After 10 years of playing together, Tokyo Police Club has accumulated many stories.

One of the band’s most memorable experiences came when their van broke down on the way to the Lollapalooza music festival.

They were forced to swerve off of the highway and sell the van at a garage in Tennessee, Monks said.

Monks says they rented SUVs instead and barely made their set on time.

“I’m amazed that we survived.

We had to get off of the highway quickly and there were sparks,” Monks said. “My bike was in the van … it didn’t fit in the SUV so I was just in Tennessee, on the highway, trying to give away my bike.”

THEATRE

Local theatre company re-teaches Sir John A. history Kingston’s SALON Theatre Productions explores Canada’s first prime minister in a new light R amna S afeer Assistant Arts Editor In Sir John A.’s Footsteps consciously refuses to whitewash or romanticize Canadian confederate history.

The interactive outdoor play centres on the retelling of the life of Sir John A. MacDonald in 1901, a decade after his death.

Kingston-based theatre company SALON Theatre’s production opened on July 3 and will be playing until Sept. 27.

The play features a walking tour of Kingston’s historical attractions and a theatrical and musical performance about Canada’s first Prime Minister.

A central theme of the play is Sir John A.’s political relationship with controversial Canadian figure Louis Riel, the founder of Manitoba and leader of the Métis people.

SALON uses Riel’s character to explore and critique Sir John A. rather than sensationalize his politics. Riel is a central

character and his trial for treason in 1885 is a focal scene in the play.

The theatre company, according to Artistic Director Paul Dyck, makes a conscious effort to work against the whitewashing of Canadian history.

“We’ve worked with Four Directions, Indigenous visual artists, musicians,” he said.

“We wanted to learn and educate ourselves and make sure that their stories and sides of the

See Portraying, page 13

Patrick Downes (left) and Paul Dyck in a past show.

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Global cultures collide in Kingston

Sixth annual Multicultural Arts Festival celebrates ethnic diversity and welcomes immigrants

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From left: dancers Minarwa Shrethsa, Abbu Bhandari, Simran Bhandari and Aastha Sah representing Nepal at the 6th annual Multicultural Arts Festival.

R amna S afeer Assistant Arts Editor A vibrant and raucous celebration of Kingston’s culturally diverse communities took over Confederation Park last Sunday with art, dance and food from around the world.

On Sept. 6, during one of the last truly warm days of the summer, the glistening lakeside was home to the sixth annual Kingston Multicultural Arts Festival (KMAF).

The event was presented by the Kingston Immigration Partnership (KIP), an initiative funded by the federal government to make local communities more welcoming

for immigrants.

From just before noon until 6 p.m., the main stage on Ontario St. outside City Hall held a lineup of culturally diverse dancers and musicians, many of them coming in from Toronto for the day’s festivities.

KIP Facilitator, Sunita Gupta, said the celebration is part of a community-wide effort to make Kingston welcoming and warm for newcomers.

“Our partnership is about doing the broader work between newcomers and the general community, such as bridging gaps between institutions like Queen’s and St. Lawrence and

immigrants,” Gupta said.

“We want to help break down barriers and make everything more welcoming for them.”

The day’s acts varied from traditional Chinese and Nepali dance by Kingston’s Cultural Associations, who opened the day’s

performances, to the grand finale Bollywood dance performance

by The Shiamak School of Dance from Toronto.

Ten different cultures appeared during the day’s events, each of them colourfully diverse, to represent Kingston’s welcoming

Nine year-old Tasha Coe attending her first Multicultural Arts Festival.

Henna tattoos were being sold at the festival, representing Indian culture.

atmosphere for new immigrants.

Gupta said she hopes people attending the festival for the first time come away feeling amazed by the level of diversity and vibrancy in Kingston’s communities.

“We’re not the GTA, but we have lots of different cultures and ethnic communities,” she said.

The non-ticketed family event also let festivalgoers experience the diversity of these cultures themselves.

Pavilions housed workshops to make Indigenous dolls, learn a traditional Latin guitar song, make their own piñata or dabble in the art of Chinese calligraphy.

Gupta says the City should be providing ongoing funding for events celebrating Kingston’s multiculturalism.

Currently, the Multicultural Arts Festival applies annually for a grant from the Kingston Arts Council.

“We shouldn’t have to wait one year to go by to celebrate Kingston’s cultural diversity,” she said.

“We should have ongoing City support for people to truly understand the significance of events like this. This should be happening all the time.”

Yessica Rivera Belsham (left) leads the World Drumming performance on the main stage.

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READING

A new spin on the summer book club

Kingston Frontenac Public Library takes unique approach to encourage reading L auren L uchenski Arts Editor During the hustle and bustle of the school year, many students forget to indulge in a readily available pick-me-up: reading.

Reading for fun, that is, and not the endless amounts of reading required for your degree.

Liz Coates has been working to implement programs at the Kingston Frontenac Public Library (KFPL) for young adults and students in Kingston. As the library’s the New Adult and Teen Librarian, she’s involved with the Summer Book-It List, an online and unconventional summer book club. “[Queen’s] libraries are great.

[Students] have lots of access to research,” Coates said. “But at the public library, we offer connecting over books and reading for pleasure.”

Their unconventional reading club, the Summer Book-It List, has been running since June 13 and will end on Aug. 29.

With the help of young adults and Queen’s students who sit on the library’s New Adult Advisory Board, KFPL has created an accessible summer reading program for the young adult age group.

The alternative book club does away with many of the conventions of traditional book clubs.

Firstly, there’s no set reading list. Instead, the 300 participants are given a theme for the week.

The theme is posted on KFPL’s Summer Book-It List page, where participants comment and start conversations about the books they’re reading.

For example, one of Coates’ favourite themes asked participants to comment with a book that changed their life.

“Participants can read whatever they want to read. What they end up doing is discussing books and giving each other recommendations,” Coates said.

By commenting on the theme, participants are entered to win for that week. A random winner will also be selected at the end of the

New Adult and Teen Librarian, Liz Coates, at KFPL’s Central branch.

nine weeks to win an iPad. Unlike traditional book clubs, the group is entirely online. “[The public library] isn’t just about physical books anymore,” Coates said. “Reading is what’s important … We want people

to be engaged.”

KFPL will be offering other events for students and young adults to encourage reading and connection with the Kingston community. So far, their events include literary speed-dating and

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Viva Voce, a storytelling event held at the downtown branch.

For more information on how to get involved with KFPL, email Liz Coates at lcoates@kfpl.ca

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POETRY

Prof asks poets to get weird

University of Saskatchewan professor hosts poetry workshop on defamiliarization L auren L uchenski Arts Editor Kingston Summer Slam’s poetry workshop wants poets to get weird.

Jeanette Lynes, the featured poet at Kingston Summer Slam’s poetry workshop, was invited to coach a workshop on the theme of defamiliarization.

Lynes is the director of the Master of Fine Arts in Writing program at the University of Saskatchewan.

In 2008, she taught a gender studies course at Queen’s as a visiting professor.

Defamiliarization is a literary theory derived from Russian Formalism. The theory, coined by Viktor Shklovsky in 1917, presents audiences with common things in unfamiliar ways to enhance their perception of something familiar. “[Shklovsky] really talks about how art has to displace the world and take it sideways somewhere else to help us see anew,” Lynes said. “Art has to make things strange.”

Lynes said it’s important for poets to inject their work with aspects of defamiliarization, as she does in her own work, to keep their writing interesting.

“I try to be strange. I guess it’s my way of pushing back against some of my habits as a writer that I’m trying to move beyond,” Lynes said.

In the workshop, Lynes conducted a variety of exercises with the small crowd of poets that

gathered on the third floor of the JDUC on a rainy afternoon.

In one of exercises, the poets picked a line of Renaissance poetry from an envelope. Lynes then instructed them to use this line as the first line of a poem, which they wrote on the spot.

The combination of Renaissance and colloquial language is a defamiliarization technique that keeps readers alert, Lynes said.

“It’s a way of mixing things up so that you can kind of create ruptures that generate energy,” she said.

Lynes encouraged poets to share the poems they created with the rest of the group, but never pressured anyone into reading their work aloud.

Many of the poets felt comfortable sharing their words, which Lynes said was her hope in holding the workshop. “[My passion] is to mentor writers. If anybody leaves a workshop feeling discouraged, I have failed,” Lynes said.

She’s worked closely with Carolyn Smart, who teaches Contemporary Canadian Literature and creative writing at Queen’s.

From her experience at Queen’s, Lynes said she was impressed with the interest and success of students in the creative writing program. “[Smart] has been an incredible force and mentor for writers for many years. The students have gone on to publish and win prizes and teach writing,” Lynes said.

Jeanette Lynes performing at the Kingston Summer Slam in June.

Portraying all parts of Sir John A. MacDonald

Actors Paul Dyck, Patrick Downes, Lauren Casselman and Anna Sudac.

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story were included as well.”

During the performance, audience members meet a small group of actors in Confederation Park, who are already in character.

The actors are dressed for 1901, complete with lace-up boots and white shirts with puffy sleeves and tight collars.

The actors strum a ukulele and sing songs about Sir John A., leading audience members out of Confederation Park towards the Market Square.

They talk the entire way, bickering with one another in old English or pointing out historical buildings from Sir John A.’s time.

The play, which spans just under an hour, features three stops near City Hall.

At each location, the troupe tells another chapter of the prime minister’s life and the political timeline before Confederation.

They make note of MacDonald’s personal turmoil, including his alcoholism and his rocky upbringing, as well as his political downfalls, such as his ignorance of First Nations peoples.

For instance, the last scene of the play is a monologue by Sir John A. himself.

He emotionally retells the story of his brother’s death at the hands of the man his father hired as his children’s caretaker.

As the monologue ends, MacDonald realizes his faults as a politician and apologizes for his faults as a politician.

Paul Dyck said SALON has

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worked to learn about the stories of First Nations communities that are often omitted from confederate history in an effort to include those stories in their performances.

“We had a show that toured out West where we put Sir John A on trial, where we made sure we were being critical of him and not being reverent of history,” he said.

According to Dyck, SALON Theatre aims to educate Canadians on their history and heritage, particularly Canadian youth.

The company has done a Canada-wide tour in the effort to teach Canadian history theatrically and musically.

“We hope that, coming forward, we can link our play and interactive plays about Canadian history like ours to school curriculums,” Dyck said.

Dyck said holding the play outdoors is also significant, because SALON was founded on the idea of creating theatre in natural environments.

“People don’t always identify with a two-hour-long show in a dark theatre,” he said.

“We bring the theatre to the people, and it becomes organic when you perform theatre where people can see and feel what the actors are seeing and feeling.”

The play continues until Sept. 27, playing every day at 11pm and 2pm.

With valid student ID, the play will be just $5 for returning students from Sept. 9-13.

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SPORTS MEN’S SOCCER

Gaels battle through rough weekend games Men’s soccer take just one of a possible six points against pair of Toronto teams C ameron N ewell Contributor Despite a bevy of early chances, men’s soccer picked up only one point and scored just one goal over two games this weekend.

The Gaels fell to 0-1-2 on the season after they were shut out 3-0

by U of T’s Varsity Blues at their first home game, before tying with the Ryerson Rams 1-1.

While the Gaels controlled the open stages of the match on Saturday, their early opportunities weren’t capitalized on before the Varsity Blues struck their first goal in the 10th minute.

Goalkeeper Taylor Reynolds’ clearing attempt was intercepted by a Blues player, who slotted the ball into the net for the early lead.

“We were lacking

communication in the back, and that starts with me,” Reynolds said. “We had momentum at the beginning of the game and that goal swung it back against us.”

The Blues added another goal in the 25th minute on a well-executed counter-attack off of a Gaels turnover to give them a 2-0 lead going into halftime.

They sealed the game in the late stages with their third goal on an unlucky play that found the ball just outside Reynolds’ reach.

Both teams were visibly unhappy with the officiating, with frequent foul calls throughout.

There were two yellow cards given during the game to Queen’s Jacob Schroeter in the 33rd minute, and the Blues’ Devon Bowyer just before the games conclusion in the 88th minute.

Gael Sam Abernathy (#2) battles the Ryerson Rams at Miklas-McCarney Field.

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opponent, they did themselves in on Saturday afternoon. Hoefler stressed the need to come back strong on Sunday.

Ryerson’s matchup was a different story, as Queen’s managed to strike first with a goal in the 62nd minute by forward Tonko Bacelic. While the Gaels took their one-goal lead late into the contest, it was washed away by an 81st minute strike off a penalty kick from the Rams’ Raheem Rose.

The kick was awarded due to a handball within the 18-yard box

by Queen’s defender Keven Mastri, who was sent off with a red card for his action.

There was perhaps a silver lining in conceding the draw, as the Rams came into the matchup ranked eighth nationally. There were also three yellow cards handed out to Ryerson in the matchup, while Queen’s received one (along with Mastri’s red.)

Men’s soccer will cross the St. Lawrence River this Saturday to face off against the RMC Paladins at 3:15 p.m.

The Gaels looked overmatched after the first goal was scored. They managed only two shots on target for the game, both coming in the first half while the game was still within reach. Their subpar effort was noted by their head coach Christian Hoefler.

“It was a lack of focus. We didn’t do what we trained and we didn’t do what we planned,” said Hoefler.

“This is the worst performance I’ve seen this side play.”

He added that while the Blues were a solid, well-coached

WOMENS’ RUGBY

Steep learning curves for first-timers

Rookie players tested in four pre-season matchups against trio of classic opponents as tourney host J oseph C attana Assistant Sports Editor The Gaels hosted and faced four tough matchups to kick off their 2015 pre-season.

Ottawa, McGill and Western travelled to Nixon Field to participate in a pre-season round-robin tournament.

In their first match-up against the Ottawa Gee-Gees, the Gaels were shut-out 26-0. In their second match-up against the Gee-Gees they performed much better, but the tries scored by Leigha Stiles and Sam Ellis weren’t enough to win, resulting in a 12-10 loss.

On Friday, Queen’s seemed extra motivated to dismantle the 2014 OUA Bronze Medalist Western Mustangs. On the backs of Emma Chown and Lauren Murray — who both scored three tries — they blew out their Old Four rivals 73-10 in the contest.

Kara Gani complemented Chown and Murray’s outstanding play with a try of her own and three conversions.

In their final game against another Old Four rival, the McGill Redmen, both teams played their second string players. With a team of almost all first-year players, the Gaels were unable to find the endzone, losing 41-0.

After the final whistle had blown, the Gaels finished a

disappointing 1-3 in their exhibition contests. Despite this record, head coach Beth Barz said there was a silver lining in

their play.

“We did not look for perfection today,” Barz said. “We were just looking for little pieces of basics

to do well. Today we did a very good job with the basics in both games.”

Throughout the round-robin,

First-year Gaels used this round-robin tournament as preparation for the upcoming year.

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it became clear that one of the biggest hurdles the Gaels will face this year is the experience gap between their players and the opposition.

In a roster of 40 people, the Gaels lineup is almost at a dead split of first-years and veteran upper classmen, which is rather unusual at the OUA level.

For the first-year players, Barz believes this pre-season play was vital for their growth. “[The first-years] put themselves into some positions that were uncomfortable, or recognized where they should have been when they weren’t, absolutely.”

“The learning was significant, just asking them after the game, there was a lot of ‘yeah, I know I did this, or didn’t do this’.”

Looking ahead to the season, Barz believes that the pre-season could be one of the defining moments in letting the players gel.

“It’s that feeling out process, figuring out who is going to carry the ball, who is going to do the dirty work, who is going to kick and who is going to run fast. It all boils down to that during the pre-season.”

Up next for women’s rugby is their regular season opener against the McMaster Marauders on Sept. 13.

When these two teams met in the 2014 season, the Gaels fell 21-20.

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FOOTBALL

New quarterback settles in

Second-year pivot Nate Hobbs finds his footing in starter’s role

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Hobbs (#5) and receiver Doug Corby (#23) are looking to be one of the OUA’s top aerial threats this season.

A dam L askaris Sports Editor When Nate Hobbs was first recruited for the Queen’s football team, he was told he would be a critical player from the get-go.

Now a second-year student, the Mississauga native is settling into his role as the Gaels’ starting quarterback this season.

“They told me coming in that if I was who they thought I was, that I would’ve backed up [former starting quarterback Billy McPhee] my first year,” he said.

McPhee had a five-year career at Queen’s and was a starter for each of his last three seasons with the team.

“It turns out that in camp I did enough to earn that #2 spot. I learned a lot from Bill and it was a pretty good experience overall.”

In what was one of the most disappointing seasons in recent Gaels football history, Queen’s finished with a 3-5 record in the 2014 season.

This season, Hobbs has the Gaels off to a 1-1 start against a pair of opponents from Ottawa, with a 31-24 home victory against Carleton followed by a 41-17 loss on the road against Ottawa the next week.

Though Hobbs will definitely be one of the key pieces of the Gaels offence throughout this season, he pointed to his offensive linemen and running

back Jesse Andrews as leaders in the attacking unit.

Hobbs recognized that while there are other options for offence, some key moments will be decided by his contributions.

“I have to be able to make big plays for the team too,” he said. “I have a lot of confidence in myself.”

Two of Hobbs’ three touchdown passes from this season have proved the Gaels’ Doug Corby to be a top receiver.

After McPhee’s departure at the end of last season, Hobbs was informed by head coach Pat Sheahan that he was going to be the team’s starting quarterback moving forward.

To prepare for the upcoming year, Hobbs stayed in Kingston over the summer to be closer with

the training staff and facilities rather than returning home for the break.

Hobbs admits there were times in the summer where he had to reflect on his current position.

“There were a lot of moments when I was like, ‘Oh wow, I’m here now.’ To be the quarterback at Queen’s with such a great tradition, I’m definitely proud.”

However, he says the novelty has worn off and he has fully accepted his role as the starter.

Hobbs said a highlight of his first year was watching the homecoming game against York, including McPhee’s first touchdown pass of the game to Queen’s receiver Alex Carroll less than two minutes

into the game and seeing the crowd’s reaction.

Though Hobbs’ first win as quarterback was at home, it was during the end of summer with few students at the game. The Gaels game against Waterloo this Saturday will be his first opportunity to showcase himself in front of the team’s faithful fanbase.

“I’m really looking forward to it,” he said.

While other athletes have diverse goals, there’s only one thing Hobbs hopes to accomplish this year.

“Win games,” he said. “I like winning, Winning’s fun. I think everyone here likes winning.

We didn’t do enough of that last year.”

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WOMEN’S SOCCER

Gaels cool down under heat Women’s soccer remains winless on the year after a pair of draws

J oseph C attana Assistant Sports Editor The women’s soccer team settled for a pair of draws this past weekend due to an inability to finish in front of goal.

The Gaels (0-1-3) only got one goal past the keeper in their two games against U of T’s Varsity Blues and the Ryerson Rams.

In their first action, the Gaels faced the undefeated Varsity Blues (2-0-1). Falling behind 1-0 early, the team clawed back and scored in the 33rd minute with a goal from forward Sarah Nixon from the 18-yard box — the first goal of her CIS career.

While the Gaels controlled the flow of the game for most of the second half, they were unable to score. A clean sheet in the second half was largely due to four key saves by Queen’s goalie Madison Tyrell.

In a hope to get their first win of the season, and to combat the heat, Coach Dave McDowell changed the lineup against the Ryerson Rams (1-1-1).

“Our players are pretty fit, but doing two games when it feels like 40 degrees out on only 24 hours rest is pretty tough,” McDowell said. “I thought that by resting a few

players on the Sunday and mixing in some different combinations that would help it, but maybe it wasn’t the right combination that we were searching for.”

Despite getting six shots off on target, the Gaels were unable to score, resulting in a 0-0 draw.

Goalkeeper Michalia Frawley stopped all four shots that came her way, playing her role in keeping the shutout.

While the Gaels dominated most of the match, Coach McDowell believes that the Rams’ physical defensive play was enough to hold the team scoreless.

“Give Ryerson credit, they were very well-organized; defensively they did a very good job,” McDowell said. “They were physical, and it almost took us a half to figure something out in terms of playing against them.”

“We didn’t generate any real quality chances, certainly we did not test the keeper nearly as much as we needed to have.”

For the time being, the weekend action has left the Gaels eighth in the OUA East.

But despite not registering a win yet this season, McDowell has high praise for his team.

“In each of our games… by far we have had the better chances,”

Micah Vermeer (#18) looks up-field against the Ryerson Rams

he said.

“First weekend we were let down by some individual defending mistakes, and this weekend we were let down by finishing.”

“A real positive about the start we have made is that we only need to tweak a few little things, and I think we will be good.”

While he gave his team praise, McDowell was also quick to point

out how strong the OUA East is this year.

“A big thing is with the league this year is there isn’t any easy games... which is fantastic,” he said.

McDowell also stressed the importance of his goalkeepers, Michaila Frawley and Madison Tyrell.

“I think goalkeepers are

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going to be a very big part of our success throughout the year,” he said, “not necessarily only in terms of shot stopping, but in terms of organization and the little things that make goalies so dependable”.

The Gaels are in action next on Saturday at RMC, who are ninth in the OUA East standings.

Sports in Brief

Gaels dominated in national capital The football team suffered a rough defeat in their first road game of the season.

The Gaels were bested 41-17 by the Ottawa Gee-Gees this past Sunday. Queen’s opened up with an early 3-0 lead from a field goal by kicker Dillon Wamsley.

However, the Gaels were unable to contain the Gee-Gees’ offence in the second quarter, which scored 34 points within the frame. Jesse Andrews led the Gaels offence with 15 rushes for 112 yards.

Quarterback Nate Hobbs threw for 149 yards on 11 completions and a touchdown, while running in for a nine yard score himself.

Linebacker Nelkas Kwemo had 12.5 tackles, including 12 solo tackles, which was one off of a school record.

— Adam Laskaris

Setton Battin (#53) and John Meenagh (#59) are two key parts of the Gaels offensive line.

Local station lands broadcasting deal

Field Hockey Trip to New York

Queen’s Athletics has signed a multi-year partnership with local broadcasters AMG Media Group and Station 14 to offer live web streams of Gaels sporting events.

The partnership looks to offer live streaming of up to 100 Gaels games, as well as the creation of highlight packages and other unspecified video productions.

The partnership replaces a former agreement with QTV, who previously was the primary broadcaster of Queen’s Athletics home games.

The women’s field hockey team went to the state of New York for number of pre-season friendlies.

The Gaels took on St. Lawrence University, William Smith College, Skidmore College and SUNY Cortland in a variety of locations around upstate New York.

The Gaels went 0-4 on the trip. Second-year forward Emslie Attisha led Queen’s in scoring with two goals on the trip.

The Gaels look to build off of a Bronze medal last season at the OUA level.

— Adam Laskaris

— Adam Laskaris

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Trip to Spain for women’s basketball The Gaels took their pre-season outside of Kingston, facing opposition from Barcelona, Spain.

In their first match-up against Lima Hort BCN, the Gaels won 59-53. This was due in large part to the Gaels outscoring the Spanish side 23-13 in the final quarter. Fifthyear wing Jenny Wright scored nine of her 13 points.

Unfortunately in game two, Sant Adria was too much for the Gaels, who lost 35-66.

Queen’s looks to build on a strong year in 2014-15, where they fell to Ryerson in the OUA final four. The Gaels kick off their season on Nov. 7 at home against York.

— Joseph Cattana

Fifth-year Gael Jenny Wright (#21) stood-out during their pre-season tune-up in Barcelona.

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LIFESTYLE TRAVEL DIARIES

Coast to coast: the last father-son road trip B lake C anning Contributor 4,538 miles may not seem like much on paper, but things can change quickly out on the road.

That’s how far my dad and I pledged to travel from one end of the United States to the other by car — a true cross-country road trip.

California, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico and Oklahoma, then Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee and Georgia, before dragging our tired selves across the Florida state line.

A massive trip, and an endeavour we didn’t take on lightly, for a couple of reasons.

My relationship with my father had always been turbulent, to say the least. A classic case of being too similar at heart is how my mom always put it. I suppose mirror images never do quite see eye to eye.

However, I was turning 21 and preparing to move on with my life.

We knew we’d see less and less of each other over the years, and we realized that this might be our last chance. With that in mind, I boarded a flight for San Francisco.

We left the historic Fisherman’s Wharf and traveled down the winding cliffs and spectacular views of the Pacific Coast Highway amid a flock of expensive, vintage cars.

By utter chance, it seemed we were visiting during one of the largest car shows in the country.

Having quite the passion for classic muscle cars myself, I began our trip in pretty high spirits.

The route led us straight to Los Angeles, where I spent most mornings on a surfboard amid the waves for hours, pondering how different my life may have been had I been born on the coast.

In the evenings we’d reunite,

One favourite stop was Golden, Colorado. An unassuming little town, but also the site of the only brewery on Earth that makes Coors Banquet beer. Every can is shipped straight from there, and their tasting tour redefined the term “rocky mountain cold”.

Finally, as we made the long crossing to Oklahoma City, it dawned on me that, whether I liked it or not, this would be a trip that I’d never forget.

I’m fortunate enough to have traveled a fair amount in my time.

Three days before I was meant to fly to California, however, I was convinced there was no way I could go through with the Views of Bryce Canyon, Utah.

Canning enjoying a cold brew in Vail, Colarado. road trip.

Personal issues or obstacles can take on many forms. In this case, I was facing some very troubling times and having fun was the last thing on my mind.

As a lot of us start classes this week, many of us will face our own personal issues.

While it may seem like the end of your own little world at the time, it is important to remember that better things will eventually come. My father told me this over his first cigar in more than 20 years, after I finally explained to him why I hadn’t been sleeping.

What I realized then was that in a PHOTOS BY BLAKE CANNING year from now I may have trouble Country Music Hall of Fame, Nashville.

Carhenge in Amarillo, Texas. remembering what I was so sad Through Utah and Colorado about, but that conversation will once to go to an LA Dodgers blasted by what I first thought was we saw some of the most incredible always stick with me. game and fireworks. I don’t even a silent explosion.

We then prepared ourselves for You know that feeling of landscapes imaginable. remember who won, but as the My dad and I discussed the second half of our auto-Odyssey. crowd streamed on to the field standing behind a running car’s tail to sit and watch the show, it was pipe with hot wind in your face? what it would’ve been like for The next day we’d see Dallas, and worth it just to see the glow in my Multiply that by seven, and try pioneers walking across these nothing could’ve prepared me barren lands for months on end. for what we saw in the weeks dad’s eye — I’d never even known doing it for three days. It was hot.

Luckily, I was distracted by what He mentioned something about that followed. he liked baseball.

But I also failed to realize what it could only be described as adult Aboriginal relations. Personally I If you liked this story, keep means to travel during a heat wave. Disneyland. The tacky surrealism is was convinced I would’ve thought A few days later, as we entered something I think everyone should I’d landed on Mars. Utah’s massive reading next week online as I wrap rock formations can have that up my trip.

Las Vegas, I rolled down my experience at least once in their affect on you. window for a picture and was life — maybe just once.

QJ POLITICS

As Mulcair steps right, Trudeau steers left How the NDP and the Liberals have switched ideological places M ikayla W ronko Contributor Challenging the status quo of being Canada’s left, NDP leader Thomas Mulcair looks as though he’s shaping his party to be a more centrist option for voters in the 2015 federal election.

As a traditionally left party, a centrist NDP is unconventional.

Before Jack Layton ignited the Orange Wave in 2008, a movement that brought the NDP to Official Opposition status, elections were historically between the Conservatives and the Liberals.

The Conservatives, led by current Prime Minister Steven Harper, are Canada’s conventional right-wing party, and the

Liberals, up until now, were the centrist option.

But as Mulcair guides the NDP towards the centre, current Liberal leader Justin Trudeau seems to be steering his party left on the political spectrum.

Both parties have repetitive mantras of strengthening the middle class. However, Mulcair and Trudeau’s approaches to middle-class empowerment are fundamentally different.

Mulcair pledges to strengthen the middle class by giving small businesses a tax break from 11 to nine per cent. Trudeau, on the other hand, has said, if elected, he’ll target the wealthy and large businesses with harsher taxation.

In short, Mulcair wants

to level the classist playing field by bring the middle class up, whereas Trudeau wants to level by removing wealth from the wealthy.

Mulcair has yet to come out with an official stance on corporate taxation and has said the NDP will not raise income taxes.

In the grander financial scheme, the NDP has presented an atypically conservative budget plan in comparison to the Liberals.

Even among traditional NDP promises, Mulcair has vowed to make balancing the federal budget a top priority. Andrew Thomson, an NDP candidate and former Saskatchewan finance minister, following Mulcair’s suit, said budget cuts would be inevitable See Party, page 22

Thomas Mulcair, leader of the NDP.

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BLOGS

The struggles of large breasts in an itty-bitty world E rika S treisfield Lifestyle Editor Growing up, Judy Blume was my childhood hero. I used to walk around my house chanting, “I must, I must, I must increase my bust”, like a character in one of her books.

It was only when I got older and finally acquired a bust of my own that I realized the burden of big boobs.

From shopping, to exercising and even the bedroom, everyday activities seem difficult.

Shopping for the average busty woman is nearly impossible. Unless the article of clothing is a bag, there’s a good chance it’ll either suffocate your breasts, overemphasize your cleavage or give you side-boob.

No matter what you wear, you’ll look sexual.

Similarly, exercising becomes a difficult and often embarrassing task. It only takes a slight movement to trigger those breasts to bounce out of control — you can

imagine what an intensive exercise looks like.

At times, getting a solid workout seems almost impossible when your breasts are jiggling all over the place. You’d think that Lululemon would’ve designed a heavy-duty sports bra by now, but it has yet to be seen.

Instead, those of us with a large bust, strap those ladies down by doubling up our sports bras, which for an added bonus also helps in catching the infamous boob sweat.

Besides them bouncing all over the place, large breasts are extremely hefty; it’s like constantly carrying around heavy medicine balls.

Eventually, they pull you Bras for the average busty woman. forward and give you a not-so-pretty hunchback look. once bought me a special band Busty women unite over this that pulls my shoulders back and common issue, especially the bad pushes out my boobs — worn posture and horrible back pain that around the house only! While I accompany it. might’ve looked like a complete To combat this unfortunate look idiot, it helped in correcting and health concern, my mother my posture.

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Unfortunately, we’re not all Kate Upton, who’s made having large breasts look flawless.

There are many issues that face the average busty woman.

While boob reductions can be an easy fix to a large bust, it’s often

hard to say goodbye to their visual appeal. Large breasts are in a sense, extremely sexy.

At the end of the day, the benefits can outweigh the burdens — well, at least some of them.

STUDENT LIFE

Transforming your room into a homey retreat

Warm up a room with candles.

E mma macnaught Outreach Manager Whether you’re moving into Vic Hall or onto University Ave., your room should be a comfortable escape.

Here are five easy tricks to elevate your room into a homey getaway.

Photo arrangements and collages Try replacing stock posters with your own photos. Instead of the simple framed collection, try a photo clothesline mixed with fairy lights as a showcase.

Want to try something different? Cut and paste photos onto your wooden initials and

hang them above your bed for a decorative headboard.

plants, such as cacti, aloe and jade plants are an easy and interesting way to liven up your room.

Pieces of home For those with a green thumb, planting flowering herbs or small For those of you traveling vegetables is a rewarding way from outside of Kingston, try of decorating your new room. incorporating pieces reminiscent Try herbs such as lavender or PHOTOS BY KAILUN ZHANG of home into your room’s decor. rosemary for the added bonus of Plants can add a fresh touch to any gloomy space.

From BC driftwood, to Prince relaxing scents.

Edward Island sand, these tiny making use of those bottle caps sight and out of mind, use drapery capsules of home will be unique Tea lights lying around your kitchen by using to your advantage. to you. them as mini candle-holders.

Beyond Etsy and Urban For those of you out of dorms, Outiftters, many fabric stores offer Plants candles are wonderful accent Decorate your walls excellent textile options to soften pieces to both relax and enjoy. the four walls you now call home.

As a living and breathing As a fun project, try hunting for There aren’t many sights less Tapestries not your thing? Try decorative element, adding plants teacups at one of Kingston’s many reminiscent of home than the removable wall decals as a focal to your space can be both homey thrifty outlets as a holder for a brick walls of your dorm room, point in your room. and practical. homemade “tealight”. or patched up plaster of your For the no-fuss crowd, succulent For a more “college” feel, try house. To keep these views out of

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NDP swings right Continued from page 20

if the NDP were to take power.

Mulcair’s promise heavily contrasts Trudeau’s announcement that his party would only balance the budget in the 2019-2020 fiscal year, following a three-year deficit. The Liberals’ plan is to invest $125 billion into public transit, social infrastructure and environmental projects before trying to balance the books.

Even on the topic of marijuana, Trudeau’s the only leader from the dominant parties to vocalize favour for immediate legalization and recreating Colorado’s success in legalization.

On the other hand, Mulcair has been less specific on the topic of marijuana, stating that his party is committed to the decriminalization of marijuana with no mention of legalization.

It shouldn’t be a surprise that Mulcair’s political leanings are more centre than left considering his previous political career with the Liberal Party of Quebec. From 1994 to 2006, Mulcair operated under the Liberal brand as a member of the National Assembly in Quebec.

Recently, Mulcair’s 2001 comments, in which he praised Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative Party, resurfaced and generated slight controversy among the left. Mulcair gushed that the English economy was rebuilt by Thatcher’s “winds of liberty and liberalism” that “swept across the markets in England.”

Keep in mind, Margaret Thatcher was an enemy to the left and trade unions during her run as Prime Minister in England.

In addition, Barry Weisleder, chairman

of the NDP Socialist Caucus, revealed his dissatisfaction with Mulcair’s branding of the NDP in an interview on Aug. 28.

“I don’t hear the leader claiming to be leading a left-wing party. I would like to hear that. And I would like to see the policies and actions to back it up,” Weisleder said.

Weisleder and the caucus have gone on the record pushing Mulcair to introduce more leftist promises of national pharmacare, a pro-Palestinian stance and harsher taxation policies.

Could it be that the NDP and the Liberals have switched ideological places? If so, it seems to be working for the NDP, as they lead ever so slightly in the polls.

Throughout the entirety of the campaign, the Conservatives, NDP and Liberals have been hovering around each other roughly within 5 per cent. Éric Grenier, a poll analyst for CBC and founder of ThreeHundredEight. com, has predicted that if the election was held on Sept. 7, 2015, the NDP would win a minority government with 122 seats, 48 seats away from a majority government.

A consequence to having two ideologically similar parties running Justin Trudeau, leader of the Liberal party, in Halifax, NS. against each other is that it splits like-minded voters among different parties.

While Mulcair was open to a coalition between the Liberals and the NDP, Trudeau said the possibility of combining the two Volunteer with someone who has an intellectual parties was “out of the question”. disability for friendship, recreation, tutoring, Right now, in the shuffle of redefining party political ideology, it’s looking like the teaching life skills and more. We match you NDP could win a minority by being right. according to your preferences and availability.

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FASHION

What’s in your bag?

A deena zeldin Contributor The contents of someone’s purse can say a lot about a person. In that case, I’d be considered a hot mess.

Amongst the crumbled receipts, gum wrappers and expired gift cards, lies what I like to call my PEK: my performance enhancing kit. And as I stare at the contents poured out on my desk, I can confidently say that each play a significant role in my day-to-day life.

but body odour be one of them.

shouldn’t

Snacks

into anything. After a long day of work or school, it’s nice to put in headphones, whether you’re listening to music or not, and zone out the rest of the world. iPad mini Of course there are the other

essentials like my cell phone, wallet, gum and makeup, but my most beloved staple in the PEK is the iPad mini.

The anonymity of an iPad in place of a paperback or hardcover spares me embarrassment with subway strangers.

Why embarrassment? My iPad is

filled with romance novels, and ending a long hard day with a steamy book really takes the edge off things.

So if I were you, I would visit a nearby Shopper’s Drug Mart, stock up on some essentials and create your own PEK. Be creative and think smart.

A staple piece to the kit is snacks.

I always carry around either a crunchy granola bar or roasted almonds to cure any case of hunger.

For those of you who’re constantly on-the-go, an emergency snack is a purse must-have.

Advil

Another purse essential is Advil.

You never know when a headache is going to arrive, so it’s best to Deodorant be prepared for the unexpected. I Let’s be real, days can be carry around a travel-sized bottle stressful and that can take that’s affordable and pocket-sized a toll on the underarm area. to take anywhere.

A quick application of your Headphones personal deodorant on the way to class, or slyly in your cubicle, Headphones can be a lifesaver can save you from awkward body odour, leaving you feeling and I never leave the house without fresh for the rest of the day. them. Sometimes I wear them Life is full of unexpected moments, when they aren’t even plugged

Essentials to carry around in your purse.

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Embracing my inner cavewoman A week-long trial of the Paleo diet

One of Zhang’s Paleo-friendly meals. kailun zhang

Assistant Lifestyle Editor Last week, I paid homage to my prehistoric ancestors by eating a copious amount of boiled broccoli.

According to enthusiasts of something called the Palaeolithic diet, our ancestors from 10,000 years ago ate better than we do today. So I gave their dead, caveman spirits the benefit of the doubt and went Paleo for a week.

Before the agricultural revolution brought farming, we homo sapiens had to take what the good land gave us — animal meat, plants and seeds. Paleo dieting aims to follow a similar food regimen, restricting grains, dairy, legumes and processed food.

Although particularly popular among CrossFit and body building communities, the Paleo diet has made its way into mainstream dieting. It even beat the juice cleanse for most Googled diet in 2013.

The first thing I did on the morning of day one was download a couple of Paleo recipe apps onto my iPhone.

It was like Paleo food porn, and it kept my spirits up about the whole only-eating-plants-and animals situation.

I didn’t actually make a single recipe from the apps, but it was

fun to look at while I already started dreaming of bread.

The first few days were, to my pleasant surprise, painless. Still living at home for the summer, I had full access to a fridge full of fresh food.

In a combination of laziness, and not wanting to drive myself into obsession, I also didn’t prepare fancy dinners for myself and eat it haughtily if my family was having something else.

Instead I ate what I could of what they were eating. Luckily my mother kept me in mind while she planned meals for the week — I just had to make small adjustments like picking the potatoes out of my pot roast.

My grandmother, who’s living with my family over the summer, wasn’t completely onboard with the Paleo idea.

She scolded me for throwing my diet and body off balance by imposing such drastic restrictions so suddenly. I still don’t know if I’ve got her completely convinced that this wasn’t a desperate attempt to lose 10 pounds.

“I’m 70 and look, I still have these thick thighs! You just have to embrace them!”

I got some good pep talks nonetheless.

The third and fourth day was when the diet started to take its toll.

red variety — but what else was I sister eat it while it was warm out going to eat that’s salty and chewy? of the pan.

Unlike our caveman Seasoned kale?

With my cold thankfully counterparts, eating isn’t just a plateauing at nasal congestion routine chore to keep us alive. I and a sluggish feeling, I still had eat when I’m sad. I eat when I’m an appetite. Paired with some stressed. I eat when I’m happy. I vegetables, I was loving a good eat when I feel like celebrating. I piece of chicken or salmon, and eat with friends.

Of course, the core function of I wasn’t having resounding issues eating is still physical. We haven’t with feeling hungry.

Still, coming down to it, I reached the point where we can wouldn’t say I was enjoying the slurp back magic sludge and get all our nutritional needs fulfilled. But entire Paleo experience.

Maybe cavemen did eat more I think that food is meant to be wholesome foods than us, but I enjoyed, and a crash version of the don’t think cookies were created Paleo diet certainly didn’t promote that for me. for nutritional purposes.

My weeklong stint was an They ate to survive; we 2015 humanoids eat for many more interesting challenge. There was something nice about eating so reasons than that.

When I was out for dinner with simply, but personally, all the some friends on the seventh day, restrictions and rules of a specific I couldn’t split a dessert or try diet just made me feel deprived of their food. At work, my manager the joys of modern food.

The day after I ended the Paleo brought in pizza, and I couldn’t have a slice. My grandma made diet, my sister made cupcakes. I ate “bing” — my childhood favourite one happily.

The cavemen didn’t know what I was feeling lethargic and pita-like bread — one night for somewhat under the weather. I dinner, and I longingly watched my they were missing. knew it couldn’t have been solely the diet backfiring on me because I could taste that unmistakable bitter, sick flavour in my throat.

It’s hard to tell if my eating was affecting me in a good or bad way, if at all. Continuing to eat fruits and veggies couldn’t have made it worse, but I could’ve done with a few more carbs for energy.

The Paleo diet is often discredited for promoting a lowcarb lifestyle, when starchy carbs are argued to have actually been a large part of cavemen’s diets and are vital source of energy.

Having worked in a restaurant, I’ve seen enough lettuce-cupped hamburgers and gluten-free pizza doughs to conclude that even outside of the Paleo diet, starchy carbs are deemed the devil. And perhaps unfairly so, because while a cold was definitely a factor in feeling bogged down, the tiredness I felt in my body was hard to ignore.

Accordingly, I tried to dig deeper for my inner cavewoman and eat more meat.

When you can only eat meat and a selection of vegetables, fruits, nuts and seeds, a hearty meal relies heavily on its protein PHOTOS BY KAILUN ZHANG counterpart. I’ve never been a huge A typical Paleo breakfast: berries, bananas meat lover — particularly of the and peaches.