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The Gaels looked to overcome the nationally ranked Ottawa Gee-Gees on the weekend at Richardson Stadium. The Gaels forced overtime but lost 27-25.

Fauxcoming fallout Police estimate the weekend cost around $375,000

By Clare Clancy News Editor Michael Carclucci said he was at a friend’s house on Friday night when a police officer walked in.

“There was no loud music, no under-age drinking. We’re all third year or above,” he said. “There was no reason for the police to come in other than the fact that it was a student house.”

Prior to 2008, Carlucci’s gettogether would have coincided with Homecoming weekend, but two years ago, former Principal Tom Williams cancelled Homecoming events held in September. This was an effort to suppress the Aberdeen Street party which has always been

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unsanctioned by Queen’s. Despite its temporary cancellation, the street party continued, leading to an increased police presence during what would have been Homecoming weekend.

Carlucci, ArtSci ’12, said he was at the Johnson and Toronto St. house with 10 or so friends and no one had been outside the house for at least an hour before the police officer entered.

Carlucci said upon entry, the police officer proceeded to ask for his ID and student card, which he refused to hand over.

“I know my rights,” he said.

“The officer pulled out a small little booklet full of Queen’s student numbers. Most people in the house gave over their IDs. “I asked what right they had to demand our Queen’s IDs. He said ‘if you’re a dick to us, we’ll be a dick to you, so just cooperate ... the fines can get pretty hefty, up to $5,000.’ ” Carlucci said he believes the police were trying to prevent students from attending the Aberdeen Street party the

following night.

“The officers were just going down the street, looking for Queen’s students,” he said. “It was officers going door-to-door trying to intimidate Queen’s students.”

After the police officer left his house, Carlucci said he filed an online complaint to the Kingston Police department.

“As soon as the police left, I [also] e-mailed local councillors and mayoral candidates,” he said. “[But] for every one person like me who says something, there are ten people who were intimidated into not saying something.”

Police expected throngs of students and alumni to converge on the traditional Aberdeen Street party on Saturday night.

Kingston Police Chief Stephen Tanner said this year’s Fauxcoming celebration was successfully controlled by police.

“I believe that last year was a critical point in the history of this event when the decision was made … to keep Aberdeen Street open so that it would be open and accessible

Queen’s 25, Ottawa 27

Gaels can’t close game in overtime ‘Rivarly Weekend’ ends on a bitter note in front of packed crowd at Richardson Stadium

By Kate Bascom Sports Editor

A forgettable beginning led to a potential upset for the Queen’s Gaels as they battled from a 14-point deficit to take the nationally ranked Ottawa Gee-Gees to overtime at Richardson Stadium on Saturday.

The Gaels’ 27-25 loss came after the Gee-Gees completed a 30 yard field goal during the first possession of overtime. Their loss brings the Gaels to a 1-3 record and was their first loss in Kingston since 2007.

Early in the game, the Gaels were forced into a desperate situation after Chapdelaine’s shaky start. On the first three plays of the game, he dropped the ball twice and threw an interception. He was quickly replaced by rookie quarterback Billy McPhee.

“It was horrible,” Chapdelaine said. “I played horrible. I Please see Homecoming on page 8 couldn’t get a grip on the ball. It

was embarrassing.”

McPhee’s action was short lived, completing two of seven passes for 30 yards and two interceptions.

Chapdelaine was promptly brought back in, but he said that it was rough to be taken out so quickly.

Never the less, the rest of his team including receiver Giovanni Aprile never lost confidence in their young quarterback’s ability.

“We knew he was going to do what he did out there,” Aprile said.

“We were just waiting for it to happen and it did.”

Chapdelaine came back in with calm and composure. He finished the game with 18 passes on 28 attempts, rushing for 335 yards.

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Vogue recieves healthy makeover Vogue Charity Fashion show encourages diversity, healthy lifestyle with new initatives

By KatHerIne FernanDeZ-BlanCe ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR

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Vogue Charity Fashion Show is getting a facelift in an effort to promote healthy body images on campus.

Last March, Queen’s students shed stereotypes in appreciation for self-love and beauty in a flash-mobstyled fashion show called Rogue, resulting in claims that Vogue had a body-type-bias.

This year’s Vogue co-presidents Nicole Emmet and Jessica Lancaster said that although they agreed with the basis of Rogue, they don’t believe the message was directed at their show.

“Their message wasn’t different than anything we’ve been trying to achieve in the past,” Lancaster, ArtSci ’11, said. “We’ve always strived to have a message of diversity. Vogue has always been a proactive organization. We’re not blind to the changes needed. Our new initiatives this year were not developed as a reaction to Rogue.”

Lancaster, said the theme of this year’s show ‘Vivre: Virtue de la Vie’ (virtues of life), correlates to big changes they’ve put into action.

“This year, Vogue is open to a lot of individuality. Living your life is a virtue itself,” she said. “We recognize there are hardships, and it’s about embracing those that we encounter. It’s about embracing who you are. your flaws are part of

your image and character.”

Emmett, ArtSci ’11, said she wants to encourage self-esteem and diversity this year, and wants models of all body types to apply.

“We’re looking for people who are confident in themselves, and can command the attention of the audience. We want them to make the effort to connect with us,” she said.

In the past, models trying out for Vogue have been asked to audition by walking down the runway in a bikini. Emmet and Lancaster said that while this is not required this year, it’s still recommended because it shows that people are confident in their own skin.

That isn’t the only thing they’ve changed though. Previously, the show’s lingerie scene was mandatory for all models, but this year, models and dancers get to choose whether to participate in it or in the ensemble dance scene.

Emmett said both she and Lancaster are partaking in the lingerie scene to inspire confidence in others.

“It’s about pushing ourselves outside of our comfort zone. I wouldn’t want to walk up on the stage in front of 700 people, but Jessica and I are going to do it anyway. We want to inspire other people to embrace who they are,” Emmet said.

Rosie Shipton, ArtSci ’11, modeled for Vogue last year and said she’s planning on trying out

again this year. She said she loves the show for the great environment it promotes and the sense of community it creates.

“I felt absolutely no pressure to be a certain size. The focus wasn’t on body type it was on energy,” Shipton said. “Everyone was there for the same reasons, for the charity, and to put on a great show.”

Emmett said the executive will be organizing an ‘I am Vogue’ week which will be a proclamation of self-love and living a healthy life style. Students can expect flash mobs on campus and a two-hour relay event on Oct. 24 sponsored

by Minute Maid.

“We’ve always strived to have a message of diversity. Vogue has always been a proactive organization. We’re not blind to the changes needed. Our new initiatives this year were not developed as a reaction to Rogue.”

—Jessica Lancaster, ArtSci ‘11, Vogue co-president Emmett and Lancaster said they’re trying to stress the charitable nature of the show because of cast members’ commitment to their charity, the Learning Disabilities Association of Kingston. Last year, Vogue’s audience grew to about 2,000 people over the show’s four day run which amounted to $25, 000 split between Frontenac Public School and Holy Family Catholic School.

Emmett said this year’s focus is the promotion of what Vogue really is and what it stands for.

She hopes that this will encourage a more diverse group of models to apply.

“The reactions to the changes have been very positive so far.

A lot of girls have come up to me, surprised that we are actually open to all different body types.

They said that they might not have applied to be a model in the past,” she said.

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Rules of engagement Campuses of decades past may have had an aura of activism, but dean says students are as involved as ever

By Rachel Kuper Managing Editor In the late ‘80s the world started to find out about HIV/AIDS and people were scared.

“It was devastating,” said Bill Flanagan, dean of Queen’s faculty of law. “It was a new disease which governments were very slow to respond to and it was highly stigmatized.”

At the time, no one knew what caused it, how it could spread or how to treat it. As a student at Columbia University, Flanagan took a stand.

“This was something that required a huge amount of political activism,” he said. “I became quite involved in a group called ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power).”

In so doing, he learned how engaging in politics could lead to change.

“It was a great affirmation of the democratic process,” he said. “It was a tremendous eye opener for how a group of engaged citizens working together … could have over a few years an enormous impact on government policy.”

While today’s university students are often touted as apathetic partiers, Flanagan said this simply isn’t true.

He said that it’s easy to contrast the protest era of the ‘60s with today’s calmer campuses but that isn’t to say students don’t care.

“The ‘80s didn’t have the issues [of the ‘60s] and students were very engaged and I think they remain very engaged,” he said.

Flanagan is currently running for the Liberal nomination for the Kingston and the Islands riding. In the three months since he entered the race, Flanagan said he’s amassed about 30 student volunteers.

“In my campaign students have

been central,” he said. “Students bring energy and new ideas. …

They’re the future, so that’s a very powerful collection of interests.”

He said students often underestimate their influence, but that when they band together, leaders listen.

“Seniors are a very engaged group, I talk to a lot of seniors and they care a lot about politics and politicians listen,” Flanagan said. “When seniors say ‘we’re concerned about health care or treatment of our veterans,’ politicians pay attention because seniors are engaged and they vote.

“Students have the additional advantage of being young and what they have to say carries tremendous weight,” he said. “If students are engaged, it means student issues will become front and centre on the political stage.”

He said politicians in the Kingston area are lucky because Queen’s students tend to be especially engaged.

“Queens has always played a major role in forming national policy,” he said. “That’s [part of] why students are drawn to Queen’s.”

Flanagan said that as dean, he feels it’s innapropriate for him to recruit students to help with his campaign and so all of his volunteers have approached him.

The onus isn’t completely on students though. He said politicians need to focus on what young people want to talk about and how they want to talk about it.

“That involves technology,” he said, adding that he was especially impressed with Obama’s ability to address young people through social networking.

“His use of Facebook was one of the first major campaigns to make use of these technologies,” he said.

Getting involved in political initiative during university can mimic real world experiences.

While Obama activley sought out young people, the Ontario Public Interest Research Group, prefers to let students come to them.

“We get a lot of wander-in traffic,” said Leda McDonald, the OPIRG Kingston office intern, of their on-campus office.

The group focuses on political activism and encourages members to petition, protest and put pen to paper to evoke change.

“It can be really overwhelming to think about how huge politics is

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and I often feel like we can’t make change,” she said. “But engaging informs you and makes you more aware and a better citizen.”

McDonald said she is interested in politics but prefers to grassroots projects to political campaigns.

“I like on the ground as opposed to sitting in suits in important rooms,” she said, adding that OPIRG hosts an alternative “Rad Frosh” roster of events for others with a similar mentality.

Events include workshops, concerts and panel discussions throughout September and October, but McDonald said attendance hasn’t been as high as she would like.

She said almost 60 people came out to a Reelout film screening but only about 15 people came to an alternative transportation demonstration.

McDonald said that nonetheless, this isn’t a sign of indifference.

“People tend to discover these cool things a little later in their university career,” she said.

Simon Hickson, ArtSci ’11 certainly fits this profile.

Now the director of recruitment and membership for the Campus Conservatives, Hickson only got involved with the party this year.

“It’s not like I haven’t voted conservative in previous elections but I didn’t want to tie myself down to a political affiliation,” he said. “I tried to stay independent because I wanted to enact my own change for my own attitude.”

Now in his fourth year, Hickson said his idealism gave way to practicality thus prompting him to work for change in a more organized manner.

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that may be a form of protest but unless you’re organized, it’s going to be a lot harder to get that done,” he said. “It’s extremely hard to just change things according to your whim ... unless you have the support of a large group of people.”

Hickson said the executive team has been working to recruit new members at Frosh Week events but also targets upper years. “[We’re looking for] people like myself who had never considered joining because they never knew what they could do,” he said, adding that students are often unsure of what organizations really do and how they can help.

“That’s the problem,” he said. “[Students] don’t look into what they can do and they’re waiting for the organization to tell them what they’ve been doing.”

By engaging in politics, Hickson said students host socials, fundraise and campaign manage for candidates and lobby politicians and in so doing, get real-world experience.

“If you get involved in a political organization you’re on a good track to learning what the political system is all about,” he said. “I found out just recently at a youth [Progressive Conservative] conference that they’re looking for anyone who wants to get involved because once you show the desire it’s just [a matter of] getting out there a really making a difference.”

Hickson said that students may say a campus political organization doesn’t lead for change on a grand enough scale, but that’s no reason for apathy, he said.

“If you’re looking for more change, then think of it as a stepping stone.”

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Anxiety, eating disorders on the rise

Statistics show 51 per cent of university students between the ages 18-25 reported binge eating due to academic stress

By Labiba Haque Assistant News Editor Anxiety-related disorders and eating disorders remain prevalent in Canadian university students.

According to data published

by University of Alberta Student Counseling Services, more than 20 per cent of students in post-secondary education felt moving away from home and managing their time effectively caused stress-related concerns that hindered their academics.

The same study reported that 33 per cent of female university students between the ages of 18 and 25 reported to be binge eating at the beginning and end of their first year and over 51 per cent of students reported to binge eating due to stress and pressure to academically succeed. It has also been reported that bulimia nervosa amongst females enrolled post-secondary institutions has been as high as two per cent.

Queen’s University Health Counselling Disability Services (HCDS) Director Dr. Mike Condra said he’s seen an increase over the years of students diagnosed with eating disorders and anxiety disorders.

“There’s been a significant increase in pretty much everywhere in the world, specifically in Western culture in anorexia and eating disorders,” he said, adding the increase in cases has been

accompanied by an increase in academic research on these topics.

“I think that eating disorders [are due to] a lot of pressure on young people to have the perfect body and the perfect shape,” he said. “[There’s] a lot of general pressure on young people for careers and to be successful in ways that didn’t exist forty years ago.

You have a lot more choices now and along with choices you have more indecision,” he said.

While pressure to maintain a certain body weight for athletic reasons can add to stress, Condra said negative self-body image and a desire to maintain their body weight is often a factor in causing an eating disorder.

“The fairly competitive nature of universities, the need for students to be focused, to be high-achieving … being academically involved, extracurricular, sports, student government—all of these are factors that can increase the stress and they are consistent in being a factor in developing an eating disorder,” he said.

According to the Ontario Community Outreach Program for Eating Disorders (OCOP), one in four adolescent females in Ontario (13-18 years) is reported as engaging in at least one symptom of an eating disorder.

Oftentimes drastic visible changes in a person’s appearance

are an indicator when a person is developing an eating disorder.

“When a person develops an eating disorder there are a number of things that become noticeable, they tend to become more preoccupied with their weight and shape,” he said.

Although in our culture it isn’t uncommon for young women to be concerned with their weight, in this case they’re more preoccupied, Condra said, adding that a sudden loss in weight or frequent visits to the washroom after a meal may be an indicator to friends.

“Sometimes there is often a strong scent of vomit after they have used the bathroom, if they are purging. One of the other things is that as their weight gets lower and they are becoming distinctively thin … they may wear lots of heavy and bulky clothes that may seem to hide their body.”

Condra said the stress of daily pressures can manifest itself in an eating disorder but it can also manifest as an anxiety disorder.

According to the Public Health Agency of Canada, anxiety disorders affect approximately 12 per cent of the Canadian population.

There are several types of anxiety disorders some of which are Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Panic Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder, Childhood Anxiety and Specific Phobias.

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Dr. Mike Condra Director of HCDS says the university enviornment can often cause stress and anxiety. most common problems amongst student in universities.

“It’s a fairly high-pressure situation, in some cases very high pressure,” he said, adding that students are often put in the situation of having a larger workload in universities, which often leads to higher expectations.

“Students are anxious about lots of things, exams, careers … frosh are anxious about settling in, finding a niche and those are all often factors,” he said“[A] person may become irritable, they may show signs of having difficulty in concentrating, they may show signs to becoming preoccupied.”

Condra said although during examination period most students are preoccupied and show signs of anxiety it’s not necessarily an

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anxiety disorder.

“They know that around the corner somewhere they will be okay,” he said.” Here we are talking about a situation where it is much more difficult to let it go. They consistently feel stressed.”

Condra said many students who have come to the HCDS with anxiety problems have been very successful at getting better.

“We teach them relaxation, how to stay calm, how to talk to themselves to stay calm instead of paying attention to ‘oh my throat is getting dry, or oh I feel a little twinge on my chest,’ ” he said.

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Powwow a success

Event celebrates Aboriginal people’s culture and heritage

By Jessica Fishbein Assistant News Editor Although the educational powwow is in its fourth year, the Four Directions Aboriginal Student Centre brought something new to the table.

“Celebrating the Harvest of the Three Sisters” was the theme of Saturday’s event.

According to a Haudenosaunee story, three sisters, who are different from one another, must stay together to remain strong.

The Haudenosaunee people plant corn, beans and squash next to each other so they can all help each other grow, mirroring the story of the three sisters.

“The educational powwow is important because it gives people a greater understanding of the Aboriginal people.” ­—Janice Hill, director of Four Directions Aboriginal Student Centre

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The Three Sisters soup, which was prepared by Sodexo Food Services and made with all three crops, was offered for the first time this year.

Traditionally the three ingredients had useful purposes in farming. The corn stalks were able to be used as poles for the beans, the beans added nitrogen into the soil and the squash’s leaves covered the ground, making the soil more fertile.

Last Saturday’s educational powwow was organized by Four Directions Aboriginal Student Centre and took place at Agnes Benidickson Field.

Michela Ferguson, powwow coordinator, said the event incorporates many aspects of the Aboriginal people’s culture.

“The educational powwow features the Aboriginal people’s culture, music and dancing. It is a free event and everyone is welcome to come to it,” she said, adding that, participants were encouraged to make a donation to the AMS Food Centre; a service run through the Social Issues Commission, offering students a confidential food service in a supportive environment.

This year’s powwow drew in a large crowd. A bonfire was blazing beside the field, which was packed with more than 1,500 people passing through, while others watched and cheered on the dancers.

Ferguson said the dancers made their grand entry at noon. No pictures were allowed to be taken during certain performances.

Ferguson said once the dancers entered the field, they showed off a number of traditional dances. “The powwow has participatory dances, such as Inter-Tribals, and everybody is encouraged to come and dance,” she said, adding that other styles of dance include men’s grass, men’s traditional, men’s fancy traditional, women’s traditional, women’s fancy shawl and women’s jingle.

These forms of dance are all symbolic.

For example, the elaborate dancing in the women’s fancy shawl dance is said to represent a butterfly.

Ferguson said dancers come from all over Ontario to participate in the powwow.

“We have a wide range of dancers from the greater eastern Ontario community so places like Ottawa, Kingston and Cornwall,” she said.

The event also featured a performance group made up of youth who performed the legend of the Three Sisters and the Iroquois creation story.

In addition to the performances, the powwow also featured a tent with arts and crafts activities for children as well as tents which housed Aboriginal artwork and jewelry for sale.

Janice Hill, director of Four Directions Aboriginal Student Centre, said that even with so much going on, the Three Sister’s vegetable medley remained central to the celebrations.

She said the Centre planted and grew their crops on a garden granted by Reg Pierce, executive chef at Queen’s University, as part of MyFarm. Pierce owns MyFarm, which is a property east of Gananoque and about half an hour away from Kingston. He has partnered with Queen’s and Sodexo.

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on MyFarm and next year crops will be harvested for seeds.

Hill said the event cost over $20,000 and that Four Directions received support from

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The fourth annual educational powwow, held on Sat. 25, showcases Aboriginal people’s talent and culture.

numerous organizations including Queen’s and the AMS. “The Educational powwow is important because it gives people a greater understanding of the Aboriginal people,” she said.

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to any emergency vehicles,” he said at a press conference yesterday.

Early on Saturday night, police patrolled Aberdeen St. while the crowd slowly grew.

Police cars, mounted units and officers on foot also increased their presence steadily.

The party peaked in numbers at around 11:30 p.m. at which time police began to block off the street. By 1 a.m., the crowd on Aberdeen St. was almost gone, bringing an end to Fauxcoming 2010.

Tanner said the Aberdeen Street party saw a low turn-out compared to previous years but that police-monitoring of the event will continue in future years.

“Our numbers, we believe, are significantly down for people attending the event despite relatively good weather. We have estimates in the neighbourhood of 1,500 to 2,500 in the Aberdeen/University area on Saturday night,” he said. “That is still a substantial group of individuals, often fuelled by the large consumption of alcohol. [It] can still be dangerous and certainly is still not the best situation for the city or for the Queen’s living area.”

Police arrested an estimated 100 individuals over the course of Fauxcoming weekend, 35 on Friday and 65-70 on Saturday. Of the arrests, 45 were for liquor license arrests, 16 occurring on Friday and 29 on Saturday. There were 48 (13 on Friday and 35 on Saturday) additional individuals arrested for Breach of the Peace, a Criminal Code charge. In total there were 217 liquor license charges made, 98 on Friday and 119 on Saturday.

Tanner said although he doesn’t have estimates yet on how many Queen’s students were arrested on Saturday night, of 30 people arrested on Friday night, he believes less than half of them were from Queen’s.

“We had representation from Western,

McGill, St. Lawrence College as well and a number of people from the Toronto area,” He said, adding that the number of arrests shows a marked decrease in arrests and fines.

“I think if we look at our overall provincial offense notices, which include the Liquor License act, they went from perhaps a higher number of 558 and 619 in 2007 and 2008 to 312 last year, which we felt was a substantial decrease,” he said. “And between 250 and 300 possibly this year ... we’re looking at some final tallying there.”

Kingston Police partnered with Ontario Provincial Police forces, the Toronto Police Service, including mounted units, Durham regional police and community police from Belleville, Brockville and Gananoque to ensure enough resources for Saturday night, Tanner said.

“I would definitely say a large part of the success when that crowd started to swell was a direct result of the Toronto Police mounted horse unit,” he said. “I would not say it’s a complete success because I would rather not have those crowds swell to 1,500 or 2,500 in the first place ... or rather us not need or require 200 or 250 additional police officers to police this event.”

A cost estimate for this year’s Fauxcoming could be around $375,000, Tanner said.

“Internally, our early indications are probably in the area of $75,000 of overtime for probably close to 150 people,” he said, adding that external costs could amount to up to $300,000. “A crowd of 1,500 or 2,500 versus a crowd of 8,000 is great but a crowd of 1,500 or 2,500 still costs the citizens of this city a great deal ... we need to work to lower those numbers even more.”

Despite the sizeable police presence on Aberdeen, Tanner said he has yet to catch wind of the Kingston Police receiving any complaints about their conduct.

Fauxcoming celebrations drew 1,500 to “I’d be surprised if there are none with that size of crowd and with 100 people being arrested over the weekend ... but it would be nice if there wasn’t.”

Over the course of the weekend, Kingston General Hospital (KGH) treated a total of 21 patients for alcohol-related illnesses or injuries. Karen Smith, lead public affairs specialist for KGH said alcohol-related illnesses and injuries are generally seen in the 17-25 age group.. Four patients were treated on Friday, two of which were sent to the Campus Observation Room (COR).

On Saturday, there were 17 patients treated for alcohol-related illnesses or injuries, 7 of which were sent to the COR. KGH had 172 patients register on Saturday. On a typical Saturday, around 130 patients are seen, Smith said.

This year there was an increase in alcohol-related illnesses or injuries seen over Fauxcoming weekend at KGH compared to last year when eight patients were seen.

Associate Vice-Principal and Dean of Student Affairs John Pierce said in terms of re-instating Homecoming, a decision will be made before January, “We’ll have a decision late in the fall ... by the end of the calendar year,” he said.

Pierce said Queen’s was concerned about the possibility of a Fauxcoming party on Kingston Field on Saturday night. A Facebook group called ‘Queen’s Homecoming 2010’ had promoted a gathering at Kingston Field

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2,500 people on Saturday night and almost 6,000 members had confirmed they were attending. In the end though, few people showed up.

“We were aware that students would be gathering on the field and so did allow the police to come on campus property to dissipate that gathering,” he said. “We were concerned on all fronts. We wanted to make sure that the community was not disrupted, that there was not an inappropriate gathering on any Queen’s property and so on. It wasn’t just Aberdeen that was affected ... groups moved up University Ave as well so we had to be concerned on all fronts.”

While concerned, Pierce said Queen’s will not be contributing to the bill for this year’s Fauxcoming costs.

“Policing and public safety is a matter for all ... it would be bad precedent to move in that direction,” he said. “There’s not a sanctioned event that’s taking place in this weekend that’s connected with Queen’s.”

AMS President Safiah Chowdhury said she’s discussing the possibility of re-instating Homecoming with Principal Daniel Woolf but the decision ultimately rests with him.

“At this moment in time, we’re just in a state of gathering all the information we can,” she said. “The [campaign] promise was to seek ways to bring Homecoming back and we have been in touch with the Principal .... The decision to bring Homecoming back will not lie in our hands.”

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Phone-owning Facebook users may quickly become the most visible users of the popular social networking site, due to a new feature made available Friday. Facebook’s “Places” feature allows a user with Facebook’s iPhone application to use the phone’s GPS to broadcast his or her location—following pre-input landmarks—to update his or her Facebook profile in real-time.

A Facebook spokesperson was quoted as saying the new feature was an attempt to accommodate users who already use their Facebook status boxes to narrate their whereabouts.

It’s important to note that this is not unbroken ground. The social networking site Foursquare awards users points for “checking in” at certain locations using their GPS enabled phones—and users have the option of posting their Foursquare locations on Facebook and Twitter. Businesses stand to gain a lot from a feature like Places, which will enable them to target people on the go, not just those seated at computer screens.

While the Places feature suggests Big Brother-style surveillance to some, Facebook’s latest toy is an opt-in feature, so those who don’t want to trumpet their location on an immediate basis are free to stay away.

Those who choose to use the Places feature should exercise common sense in

doing so. While some people don’t mind the idea of their Facebook friends being able to track them online, it’s important to remember that Facebook profiles can be left logged in on public computers, or compromised by snooping friends. Facebook offers its usual range of adjustable privacy preferences in terms of how a user’s location is shared, and any responsible user should be familiar with how they work.

The concerns don’t stop there, however.

Other users have the option to input addresses to track their location—including those referring to friends who don’t have the feature. While a Facebook representative was quoted as saying that unwanted information can be taken down “within a matter of hours,” the thought of one’s home address secretly floating around on the internet is disconcerting at best.

Any process of social networking involves placing some personal information in the public eye. In this sense, Facebook’s Places feature is a handy reminder of the real purpose of social media. As much as it’s comforting to imagine that websites like Facebook exist to facilitate social networking, they also serve the interests of the advertisers and companies that use them to target clientele. Ultimately it falls to the users to exercise caution and avoid putting themselves in harm’s way.

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male children for each female birth—far above the usual ratio of 1.05 to 1. Some claim this is a direct consequence of the one-child policy, as the cultural preference for male children places female babies at a higher risk of abortion or infanticide. An abundance of single men—and the difficulty of finding a female partner—feeds an increasing occurrence of wife and infant trafficking.

The gradual easing of the birth restrictions—which weren’t universal to begin with—suggests that the one-child policy will eventually be scrapped. Some experts suggest that large families are now less likely to occur, as rising housing and education costs have a similar effect on family size.

The real issue the Chinese government and population face is what originally led to the one-child policies in the first place.

If the Chinese economy cannot support a “natural” population growth, they will inevitably encounter difficulties with or without external limits on population—a rapidly aging working class is first among these issues. Whether or not the one-child laws are entirely abandoned, the Chinese government still faces many hurdles in terms of population growth.

One child, many troubles hirty years after China’s “one-child” policy was first introduced, the Chinese government has started to consider relaxing the rules in some provinces, the Globe and Mail reported Sunday.

The policy is a blanket term used to describe a complicated set of restrictions that determine the number of children a family may have. Restrictions are based on factors like parent family size, province of residence and previously-born children with disabilities.

The one-child policy was introduced in an attempt to combat resource scarcity and spare China’s strained educational system and labour market.

There is no simple perspective on the one-child policy. Critics are quick to point out the policy’s shortcomings, which have resulted in sterilizations and forced abortions in some areas. Also, state-determined limitations on family size run contrary to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

While the policy appears to be guided by a concern for the well-being of the current population, it has created long-term problems that may be more difficult to resolve than simply repealing existing restrictions. China has a reported birth ratio of about 1.19

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ere’s a story that I’m sure we can all relate to. You’re at a party at some friend-of-a-friend’s house and you’ve had a bit to drink. You meet some great people, and of course, as soon as you get home, you add all of them on Facebook.

A week later, you see the same people on the street—you easily recognize them because you’ve already looked through their profiles—and you’re not quite sure if they’ll remember you. What do you do? Do you say hello? Wave? Nod your head so if it goes unreturned you can just pretend that you were stretching your neck? You know this person’s full name, their hometown, their birthday and any mutual friends you may have. Why is it so difficult to interact with them in person?

Since the advent of social media, the lines between friends, family, acquaintances, hook-ups, exes, pseudo-acquaintances, coworkers and strangers have blurred. The privileged information that you used to reserve for your closest friends is now readily available to the five-hundred-or-so people that are able to view your profile.

Back in the day, your friendships were measured by the time you were willing to invest in them and the information you were willing to share with your closest circle.

But friends lists on Facebook today are usually in the hundreds, if not thousands, of individuals. The reality is that humans aren’t made to keep track of so many people, let alone meaningful relationships.

Aside from the superficial friendships that

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Facebook and Twitter have created, social media may be damaging the real relationships we already have. It’s become so easy to maintain contact with our friends through technology that we begin to take for granted what really strengthens those bonds: human interaction.

Status updates may have made it easier for us to follow developments in our friends’ lives, but they’ve also led to a passive approach to staying in touch that may be pushing us away from each other without us realizing it.

But the side effects of social media aren’t limited to relationships. Texting and instant messaging give us the luxury of being able to type out and edit our comments before we send them, something that does not translate well to face-to-face interaction.

The filter normally honed through years of conversation is rusty at best, and we find ourselves saying a little too much before we realize that there is no delete button in real life. The truth is, we’ve forgotten the art of conversation.

I’d be lying if I said that I wasn’t victim to these social pitfalls. And the reality is that social media aren’t going away any time soon. Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn are only going to become more entrenched in our lives as time goes on. But it’s important to remember that at the end of the day, these portals are effectively glorified phone books, and not a replacement for real, human relationships. It’s time for all of us go offline and spend some time with our friends face-to-face. And no, Skype doesn’t count.

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How often do you skip class in an average week?

James Simpson, ArtSci ’11 Governments have the unfortunate tendency of aiming high but missing the mark. An example of this is the Ontario government’s Reaching Higher plan, which was designed to improve the accessibility and quality of Ontario universities.

It has certainly succeeded in improving accessibility, over 120,000 more students are currently enrolled in Ontario universities and colleges than were enrolled in 2003.

Quality is a separate issue.

Funding under the Reaching Higher plan was tied to various growth targets, so universities have done everything short of getting rid of the kitchen sink to cram more students in.

Although, with the conversion of many residence common rooms into double rooms, the kitchen sink at Queen’s is often gone too.

Queen’s has chased growth targets aggressively. In the past 10 years, it has added 2,500 undergraduate spaces, the equivalent of almost three Victoria Halls worth of students.

Graduate enrollment has increased as well. There are 50 per cent more graduate students than there were 10 years ago; the number of new graduate students would fill Victoria Hall almost twice.

Yet only 70 tenure-track professors have been added during the same period.

In other words, for every professor recruited at Queen’s, we have accepted 35 more undergraduate students and 18 more graduate students.

This growth has led to several major challenges. Due to tuition caps, Ontario universities have been unable to raise revenue fast enough to keep up with cost increases.

The government has also been unwilling to cover the shortfall.

Paradoxically, these pressures have created a situation where enrollment is increasing but resources are decreasing.

For instance, there are 35 sections of English classes instead of the 50 there used to be.

This reflects lower course availability, more students in each class and less flexibility

“None! Only bad students do that.”

Margaret Donahoe, ArtSci ’11

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Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty announced the $6.2 billion Reaching Higher plan in 2005. for students interested in taking English courses.

Quality has decreased in other areas of the University as well. In science programs, labs and tutorials have been cut.

Medial degree programs and many degree options and combinations have also been lost.

Increasing the percentage of the population with a university degree means nothing when the value of a university degree drops.

Entire departments, such as language studies, have faced the chopping block.

In Where Next?, Principal Woolf’s vision document for the future of the University, he states that rather than doing more with less, Queen’s needs to begin to do “less with less.”

Spend a minute thinking about what this means.

What is truly appalling with this statement is that, in the context of the University’s financial situation, he is correct.

If you disagree, take some time to read the 2010-2011 Budget Report (posted online at queensu.ca). Woolf’s conclusion appears to be both obvious and unavoidable.

In this situation it is absurd to focus on growth; to do less with less for more people.

Yet this may just be the beginning. The next phase of

the Reaching Higher plan has a target of providing 70 per cent of the Ontario population with a university degree.

Much of the population is employed in industry, retail or services; why is it an advantage for many of these people to have degrees? Why is the government continuing to emphasize quantity of education over quality?

In many ways, Ontario has been giving education the “Field of Dreams” approach: if you build an educated population, industry and commerce will come.

The problem is that we have been building bigger, not better.

Increasing the percentage of the population with a university degree means nothing when the value of a university degree drops.

Furthermore, this approach does a great disservice to students, especially those pursuing graduate degrees.

Due to the increased graduate enrollment there are now 23 PhD students in Philosophy at Queen’s, with another 16 pursuing Master’s degrees.

Presumably, many of these students want to remain in academia. There are currently no jobs in Philosophy at Queen’s.

This is not just picking on the social sciences. Chemistry has 45 PhD students and has no jobs in academia posted.

There are 54 PhD students in Biology and the staff recruitment link on the department’s webpage doesn’t even work.

This situation is more than a

little disturbing. Ontario’s funding decisions have encouraged universities to increase the number of graduate students but have simultaneously decreased the number of job opportunities for these students when they graduate.

The Ontario government will spend billions of dollars over the next few years on its “Reaching Even Higher” program.

Rather than attempting to increase enrollment, the focus of this spending should be on improving quality to achieve and maintain academic standards.

The Ontario government’s pursuit of enrollment growth hurts the quality of our education and is diminishing the number of opportunities available to us when we graduate. Its policy is rooted in idealism rather than reality.

As students, we know the value of our experience and we are the first ones to feel the impact of this decision.

Students should get more directly involved in the academic planning process at Queen’s, and speak up about what we really need.

On a larger scale, we can get involved with organizations such as the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance (OUSA), which represents student interests to the Ontario government.

Now is the time to stand up and defend the quality of your education.

“Never, class is sacred.”

Ben Hartley, ArtSci ’10

“Zero times.”

Nick P., B.Ed ’14

“Probably once a week.”

Emily Ho, ArtSci ’13

“About five times.”

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Submit a letter to journal_letters@ams.queensu.ca

Dan Szczepanek, ArtSci ’11

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Electrifying eccentricity

Toronto based artist Kate Wilson brings her magic lens to Kingston with Curious Lights

By Chloe Campion Staff Writer Picture Tom Cruise’s masked venture through a strobing night club in Vanilla Sky. If you haven’t seen the film, the scene is overwhelmed with a bizarre haze that blurs any semblance of reality.

Kate Wilson’s artwork is made of similarly strange tones—the stuff of lucid dreams. Over the past two decades the paintings and drawings of the Toronto artist have tangled familiar images with her dark, socially-charged imagination. Her creations are warped depictions of reality. Wilson’s work is quite abstract, but the consistent botanical and molecular imagery and subtle pop culture references allow viewers to find connection with her work. The enchanting dreamlands she creates have captured the attention of an international audience and have won her many national awards.

Curious Lights is no exception to Wilson’s magic artistry. The large scale installation, in Union Gallery’s main space until the end of October, is an amalgam of rural scenes painted directly onto the gallery’s stark walls in rich black calligraphy.

A thick tree trunk surrounded by doodled flowers on one wall floats independently of a barren tundra on the other. They are contained architectures, each piece with its own delicacy like dandelion seeds in August.

The exhibition was crafted with such honest creativity that it almost seems like the product of a stream of consciousness exercise. Yet in actuality, Wilson slaves through many preliminary stages before anything is done on location. Before she set her paintbrush to the walls of Union, hundreds of drafts were completed. During that process, Wilson transferred her work back and forth between computer

generation and hand drawings then printed and reprinted them until she was happy with the design.

Finally, they were painted onto the walls of the exhibition space.

According to Wilson, the temporary nature of her work in the exhibit shows the impermanence of the environments we live in—a reality that she feels is overlooked all too often.The exhibit is more utopic than much of Wilson’s earlier work, a little less Cameron Crowe and a little more James Cameron perhaps.

While her earlier work is often very dark, in Curious Lights, each piece calls back to a simpler age in a playful manner. Whimsical brush strokes are carefully textured in a way that creates a soothing and organic sense of movement. This texture has a trancelike effect on its audience that captures people within her work.

The longer you stay engaged the more of her intricacies become apparent. Over time, minuscule detailing comes into plain focus and the untouched lands begin to reveal signs of inhabitance. A tiny hut nestled in a tree branch and an igloo on the tundra terrain may go unnoticed, but it livens the piece. You’d almost expect to see a tiny Avatar character wander out onto the scene and start smelling flowers.

Curious Lights evokes inquisition and altered perception through the magical lens Wilson uses to view the world. Her work calls attention to, “overlooked parts of our built environment while subtly altering the viewer’s experience of space.” It is relaxing, captivating, strange and beautiful.

Curious Lights is showing in the main space of Union Gallery until Oct. 23. An artist talk will take place on Oct. 21 at 6:30 p.m. with a reception to follow.

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Wilson includes a wide range of visual references in her work.

From the top: the always glam Cherry Chapstick, thrash act Hellaluya and psych-garage collective La Casa Muerte brought intrigue with their stellar sets at The Mansion last Friday.

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‘This is supposed to be the Four words antithesis to the norm’ preferred Bassist Chris Barker of Anti-Flag talks to the Journal about jamming in Pittsburgh attics, signing indie vs. major label and whether punk rock can ever truly die

By Jacob Morgan Staff Writer Anti-Flag is an American band from Pittsburgh who play highly politicized and intense punk rock.

With their middle fingers pointed straight up at anything remotely establishmentarian and their tongues firmly planted in cheek, they turn their amps up to 11 and crank out cathartic anthems of angst and outrage designed to subvert the status quo.

In a recent phone interview, current bassist, Chris Barker, frequently referred to as Chris #2, sat in the band’s tour van for shelter from a downpour of rain and reminisced about AntiFlag’s early days.

In 1988, guitarist and vocalist Justin Sane and drummer Pat Thetic were young, loud and snotty kids in small town Pennsylvania with “16-year-old punk rock nicknames.” They initially enlisted the help of Justin’s sister, Lucy Fester, for the role of bass player and played some local gigs.

However, they were just “being little kids and wanting to be in a band. They jammed in their mom’s attic,” Barker said.

Barker said that it wasn’t until 1996 that the Anti-Flag of today truly began to form.

“In ‘96 Anti-Flag was a threepiece. Andy [Flag] left the band before the release of the first record.

After that Chris [Head] came in as bass player. At the end of ‘98, Chris moved to guitar and I came in as bass player,” he said. “Before the record A New Army (1999) the four of us got together and it’s been the same lineup since September of ’98.”

In addition to the various line-up changes that have occurred over the years, he said that the band has evolved musically over time.

“I like to think we’re better at the instruments. But our favourite bands and favourite songs for the most part have stayed the same— love The Clash, love the Dead Kennedys, love political punk rock,” he said.

For almost two decades, AntiFlag has railed against nationalism, fascism, corporate culture, religion and anything else that pisses them

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After forming in 1988, Anti-Flag gained quick notoriety for their hardcore left-wing political views. off. They epitomize the sort of antiAmerican radicalism that reached a zenith in popularity during those heady Bush years when everyone seemed to be up in arms about everything.

Even mainstream society was hopping on the revolutionary bandwagon during the height of the Bush-Cheney era with Green Day’s American Idiot (2004) hitting the top of the U.S. album charts and selling over 14 million copies worldwide. Of course, with Green Day their pose of protest was a fashion commodity, more style than substance. Anti-Flag, on the other hand, exudes the kind of disarmingly grizzly integrity that comes with sticking to hard-line beliefs and living a fuck-the-system lifestyle for so long.

That doesn’t necessarily mean being the stereotypical rocker, getting wasted and throwing television sets out of hotel windows, nor does it mean being an anarchist and disregarding any form of structure.

“We lead a fairly non-exciting life,” Barker said. But, “if you believe punk rock is not having a good time that’s sort of backwards.

The reason we created a counter culture that’s different from your school or nine-to-five workday is to be something that’s different from normal lives.”

Expounding on the philosophy behind the band and punk in general, Barker asserted the importance of remaining aware of your role at an Anti-Flag show.

“If punk rock is plugging into an amp and yelling what you believe, then how can that die?”

—Chris Barker, bassist of Anti-Flag “If people want to have a good time then so be it, as long as they realize when they come to a show that this is supposed to be the antithesis to the norm.

Sexism, homophobia and racism are invisible barriers that people put up over time … punk rock cannot be a microcosm of society, it’s got to be a place where you can be yourself,” he said.

Anti-Flag garnered some criticism and accusations of sellingout when, despite their overt anti-

capitalist and anti-consumerist lyrics, they signed a two-album contract with major label RCA in 2005. The band is now back to their D.I.Y. roots and have released their newest album, The People or the Gun (2009), on the independent label, SideOneDummy.

Barker defends his band’s choice and reconciles their hardcore left-wing stance with the corporate evil of a major label deal. He is honest and upfront when he states that the majors have deep “pockets to spend money on their ideas and you don’t feel as bad spending it because you don’t personally know the owner.” At the end of the day, he said there’s no point being caught in a battle between major and indie.

“The band can dictate their actions. Sometimes a band signs a bad deal and they get fucked,” he said. “We signed a good deal and we put out two records as ourselves then went to put out with friends again.”

The truth is, the entire music industry is inherently capitalistic and Anti-Flag is just making the best of the situation. Barker explains that they are “trying to create something that doesn’t have blood on its hands … we’re not just turning a blind eye and printing on the cheapest shirts possible.

We’re making sure there are no sweatshops and that the people are in Pittsburgh with us.”

Punk is a complex and often contradictory concept. While the old-school style of Anti-Flag saw its heyday in the first wave of punk during the late 1970s and early 1980s with socially conscious bands like the Circle Jerks and The Exploited (both of whom have played shows with Anti-Flag), punk is certainly not dead.

“Punk rock is indefinable.

How can you kill something that’s indefinable? If punk rock is plugging into an amp and yelling what you believe, then how can that die?”

Anti-Flag played last night at Time to Laugh Comedy Club with The Menzingers and Vulgaires Machins. See Friday’s issue for photos from the show.

Film buffs’ beloved website Four Word Film Reviews is getting a hardcopy makeover “An idea is like bird crap. It strikes you without warning or explanation and leaves you desperately scrabbling for paper,” Benj Clews said in his “fourward” for Four Word Film Reviews, a website turned book that attempts to describe 90 plus minutes of film in just four words.

The Journal brings you an exclusive interview with Michael Onesi, communications officer of news and media services at Queen’s and one of the editors of the book, as he talks about being associated with The DaVinci Code, getting on Oprah and dreams of drinking Guinness in London.

The book Four Word Film Reviews, started as a website, when did you decide for it to become a book?

There was an article in Time Magazine that talked about the trend in “micro-writing” and talked about Four Word Film Reviews, the website, and a New York Times bestselling book called Six Word Memoirs, where people summed up their lives in six words. I just remember thinking “If a six-word book about people I’ve never heard of can be a New York Times bestseller, then a book of four-word film reviews can be a best seller too.” So I emailed Benj Clews (the book’s co-editor) and asked him if he was interested in turning the website into a book. He was a web developer and said everyone tells him it would make a good book but he had no idea how to find a publisher. At the time, I was a newspaper reporter/editor at the Kingston Whig-Standard so I said “Let’s give it a shot together.”

(I’m one of the top writers at FWFR.com and have written more than 4000 reviews.)

Who inspired you to write the book?

Benj Clews—the man who founded the website and co-editor of the book. Long before Twitter and Six-Word Memoirs, he came up with the idea for the four-word film reviews website in 1999! (Which makes the website about 100 years old in World Wide Web years).

Today the site has 320,000 reviews of more than 38,000 films. He did all the hard work, I’m just the guy who came along and helped him take it to the next level.

What was the biggest challenge in writing this book?

Picking the reviews. With 320,000 reviews on the website, I’d say about 20,000 of them are brilliant and rate a 10/10 on the hilarious scale. It was hard to pick only 1,700 to put in the book.

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After two decades in the punk profession, Anti-Flag haven’t lost their knack for stage stunts and wild live shows.

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“Film critic seemed like a cool job ... but so did astronaut and superhero’ Continued from page 15

Are you surprised at how successful the book has already become?

Stunned and amazed. When Benj and I started the process of looking for an agent and/or publisher, we decided to try for a year or two and if that didn’t work, we’d self-publish the book and sell it directly on the FWFR website. I sent out 20 query letters to agents and publishers and within three weeks we had four agents and three publishers interested. I decided to Google the name of

one of the literary agencies that wanted to represent us (Sanford J. Greenburger Associates) and the word “clients� to see if they have represented any authors who have had decent sales. The first name that popped up was “Dan Brown�.

This is the agency that sold The Da Vinci Code. I couldn’t believe that a major U.S. agency was interested in a book by a first-time author from Kingston. The cool thing is now I get to impress people at cocktail parties by saying the line “I was talking to my agent yesterday ‌â€?

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I think people are impressed by the writing. Most people wonder how you can sum up a movie in four words or less. Then they start reading some examples, “From beer to fraternity� for Animal House or “What happened in Vegas?� for The Hangover, and are amazed at how you can actually say a lot with four words or less.

Is it a process thinking of the perfect tagline or is more of an arbitrary thing?

Arbitrary-reviews just come to me. I was watching Marmaduke the other day with my kids—it’s a really bad movie about a Great Dane. All of the sudden “Great Dane, bad film� popped into my head. For me, the reviews just kind of happen when I’m not sitting in front of a computer screen thinking, “write a funny movie review.�

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(Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve also never met my agent who lives in New York City or my book editor who lives in Boston.)

But Benj and I have exchanged hundreds of emails and talked on the phone a lot and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great guy. I told him when we cash a big royalty cheque after Oprah mentions our book on-air one day, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m flying to London and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll shake hands and have a pint of Guinness together.

Have you always wanted to be a film critic or did you have other aspirations growing up?

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Not really, I was going to be a business man like my dad. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always loved movies. My dad was an insomniac and he would rent one or two movies every day.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d come home after school and watch them so by the time I was 20 Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d seen thousands of movies.

Film critic seemed like a cool job growing up, but so did astronaut and superhero, they all seemed like unattainable employment for me.

Even when you start work in the newspaper industry itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still hard to become a film criticâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;everybody wants the job so once a critic gets it, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll stay in the position for 20 years.

How did being a reporter and editor help? What made you move into film reviews?

I started writing for FWFR.com because I love movies.

There are more than 10,000 registered movie reviewers on the website and none of them are

paidâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;we submit reviews because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of fun. I literally laugh out loud when Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m on the website.

I was a newspaper reporter and editor for 13 years mainly doing news and sports, but only a handful of movie reviews (mostly for my university newspaper The Eyeopener at Ryerson University).

Where is your book available in Kingston and how are you feeling about your upcoming book party at the Grad Club?

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Slow start leads to rugby’s first loss to the Western Mustangs since the 2006 OUA semifinals

By Tim Mackay Contiributor

In a rematch of last year’s OUA final at Kingston Field on Saturday, an extremely strong Western Mustangs team beat the Queen’s Gaels by a score of 31-15.

After third-year winger Dan Moor converted a penalty kick to give Queen’s an early lead, Western pulled away, scoring four tries before the end of the first half.

The Gaels had a push later in the first half after eight-man Myles Dingwall made a brilliant block as the Mustangs’ full-back attempted a clearing kick. Dingwall scampered to secure the loose ball, putting down a try for the home team and sending the large 400-fan crowd into a frenzy.

“[Western] really impressed. They’re probably the best team in the league right now.”

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Queen’s hooker Mason Curtis tries to escape Western’s grasp in men’s rugby’s 31-15 loss to the Mustangs on Saturday.

—Peter Huigenbos, Queen’s 3, men’s rugby head coach Nipissing 2; Unfortunately for the Gaels, they were unable to maintain that momentum moving into the second half. While Queen’s threatened to score on several occasions, they were unsuccessful in executing effective line-outs, eventually losing ball possession near the Western tryline. Fourth-year prop Burke MacDonald tacked on a try for the Gaels, but the push from Queen’s was too little too late.

Head coach Peter Huigenbos was disappointed with the loss, but conceded that his team faced a strong opponent. “[Western] really impressed,” he said. “They’re probably the best team in the league right now.”

He also emphasized his confidence in the team. “[The game plan] was to play some good rugby, and to move the ball,” he said. “All the boys put in a really solid effort today.”

“From line-outs to tighter passes, we need better execution next time around.”

—Burke MacDonald, prop The game was a marquee matchup between two of the best teams in the OUA, with a massive crowd on hand.

Huigenbos said that it was an important game, but also just another game on the schedule for the Gaels.

“For us it was just the third Please see Gaels on page 21

queen’s 4, Laurentian 0

Women’s soccer tested but triumphant

Gaels roll on to 7-1 with two wins on the weekend

By Lauri Kytömaa assistant Sports Editor

After taking their first loss of the season against Ottawa last week, the Gaels entered the weekend with ambitions of a new winning streak.

The home field action kicked off on Saturday against the Nipissing Lakers at Tindall Field.

After a tough week of training for the Gaels, Nipissing came out with formidable pressure. The Lakers went up to a 1-0 lead half way through the second, but were answered quickly by Gaels striker Kelli Chamberlain’s goal a minute later. Nipissing held on and grabbed a 2-1 lead in the waning minutes of the half.

Down 2-1 at the half the Gaels had no intentions of adding a second loss to their record. The team’s leading goal scorer, striker Jaqueline Tessier stepped up again to erase Nipissing’s hopes after half

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Defender Meredith Raddysh blocks the Laurentian Voyageurs offence on their way to a 2-1 win. time. She scored two goals to bring half but felt that multiple factors bit,” he said. “We have to get ready in the ARC which is further away the Gaels to a 3-2 lead that they contributed to their struggles. made sure to retain. The game was “Against Nispissing we played from the field than we are used to. only their second to be decided by maybe our worst half of the season Also I believe we are a good team a one-goal margin, the other being in the first half, but in the second on turf but we train everyday on a loss to the Ottawa Gee-Gees. half we played better and showed grass, it was nice to get back to character,” he said. “I think we Richardson [on Sunday].”

“I think we had some had some players who didn’t have The women clearly enjoyed players who didn’t terrific games, we were questioning their return to the stadium, easily if we worked them too hard [this dismantling the Laurentian Lady have terrific games, we week]. The legs looked a little slow Vees 4-0. Defender Brienna Shaw were questioning if we in the first half.” took the spotlight by scoring two worked them too hard Playing at Tindall Field may have first-half goals, one off of a penalty [this week].” affected performance. Normally kick. Midfielder Jennifer Hutchison —Dave McDowell, playing at Richardson Stadium and Tessier also scored. Tessier’s women’s soccer head coach for home games, McDowell said three goals on the weekend move Tindall felt more like being on her OUA leading goal total up to 13.

Head Coach Dave McDowell the road. said he was frustrated with his “Tindall isn’t like a home game; Please see Women’s on page 19 team’s performance in the first it changes up what you do a little

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Successful six-point weekend for soccer

gaels top nipissing and laurentian to pick up two wins on the most successful weekend of the season.

MacArinze Ojiaku and Jordan Brooks, midfielder Andrew Colisimo, as well as Arnold.

Head Coach Chris Gencarelli was After a shaky 1-2-1 start, the men’s soccer team appears to be hitting their stride. A win more cautious in his approach to the last weekend against Trent helped kickstart team’s success.

“It’s just one weekend,” he said. “I don’t their winning ways. This weekend, the team cruised to a 4-0 win against the Nippising want to jump the gun … we have just got to Lakers on Saturday and a 3-1 victory over take it day by day.”

Still he said, the Gaels’ performance the Laurentian Voyageurs on Sunday. in the last three games gives “I think if we play to our him hope for the rest of the season.

“The important thing is that we are really potential, we are capable of starting to show improvement,” he said. beating anyone.”

“If we stay focused and continue to work —Chris Gemcarelli, hard in practice, we’ll be in good shape for men’s soccer head coach the playoffs.”

Offensive production was the clearest area Captain Mike Arnold scored three goals of improvement coming from the weekend. this weekend and was enthusiastic about the In their first fives games of the season the team was only able to muster seven goals, team’s performance.

“It’s great,” said the midfielder. “We for a 1.4 goals per game average. Against haven’t had a six-point weekend in a while.” Nipissing and Laurentian the team matched Arnold was confident that the Gaels, their season output while giving up only who had a mediocre record coming into one goal.

The team’s wins were marred by injuries this weekend, were starting to play like a to Ojiaku and right back Scott Compeau. different team.

“I feel that we were really clicking out Both players had to be carried off the field there,” he said. “The last few games, we after suffering ugly tackles by opponents.

“I don’t know the extent of Scott’s injury,” hadn’t been playing to our potential, but I Gencarelli said. “But I don’t think [Ojiaku’s think we have started to do that.”

The captain was especially pleased with injury] is too serious. He should be able to play next week.” the team’s offensive performance.

Gencarelli was able to see a silver “It’s a lot more fun when we’re able get the ball up front, and start attacking and lining in the loss of two of his more experienced players. scoring,” he said. “[Compeau and Ojiaku] offer leadership,” The weekend saw goals from strikers

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he said. “But this gives other guys a chance to step up and show us what they’ve got.”

The Gaels had an impressive 8-3-4 regular season record last year, but were eliminated in a heartbreaking shootout loss to Carleton in the first round of the OUA playoffs.

Carleton also defeated the Gaels 2-0 last month in Ottawa.

Gencarelli hoped to underplay the importance of the game against Carleton.

“We are going to treat it like any other

game,” he said. “But we want to do better than last time. Carleton is a very strong team but I think if we play to our potential, we are capable of beating anyone.” the men’s soccer team plays Carleton at richardson stadium on Wednesday.

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The number of games in which the Gaels dominate the opposition does not seem to have had much on impact on the women’s work ethic this season, yet McDowell remains wary of overconfidence.

“One of our focuses is to improve from game to game and training session to training session,” he said.

“The girls realize that in terms of putting together a full 90 minutes of effort, we haven’t really done that completely yet.”

A tough week lies ahead of the Gaels with a midweek game added into their schedule as well as their weekend games. The whole roster will be put to the test in order to keep the top group fresh. “[It’s a] crazy schedule,” he said.

“I think for us there will be a real focus on the group of players getting us results in each game. We will be using a rotation of people in and out to keep the legs fresh. Maybe a little bit of extra recovery.” the Gaels face the Carleton ravens at 1 p.m. on Wednesday at richardson stadium. the Gaels will play a home-and-away series against the rMC paladins this weekend.

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Gaels lose on Quebec road trip

Women’s hockey splits games

The men’s lacrosse team suffered two losses against the McGill Redmen and the Bishop’s Gaiters on the weekend. Queen’s lost 13-4 to the Redmen on Saturday. Matt Erickson had two goals in the game while Garrett Quinn and Kevin Harper scored one goal each.

The Gaels struggled in the second quarter when Bishop’s scored six unanswered goals in an 11-10 loss.

Eriksen had seven goals and two assists in the Sunday game.

The Gaels will face the Trent Excalibur and the McGill Redmen this week.

—Kate Bascom

Men’s hockey dominates at York Invitational

The Gaels played teams from the Provincial Women’s Hockey League this weekend in Kingston.

They were able to come up

with a win against the Durham Intermediates with goals from five different players.

Women’s hockey could not achieve the same results against the Burlington Intermediates even with the help of four different scorers and came out with a 5-4 loss. The Gaels will open their season on Thanksgiving weekend in Kingston at the Memorial Centre. Game time is 8:30 p.m.

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seven receptions for 179 yards.

Head coach Pat Sheahan said that Chapdelaine sitting out offered him the opportunity to collect himself after his rough start.

“Justin got a little flustered there at the beginning,” he said.

“I think everybody understands now as a young quarterback, it’s hard to go out there and carry the load themselves. Fortunately we gave Justin the opportunity to calm down, get his heart rate back into something that is measurable. [When we] put him back out there, I think that he did exceptionally well.”

“Our goal is to be one of those teams that nobody wants to play at the end of the year.”

—Pat Sheahan, football head coach The slow start led many to believe that the 4-0 Gee-Gees would be too much for this young Gaels squad. The Gee-Gees were only held off in the first quarter by the Gaels’ outstanding defence who worked overtime as the offence collected themselves from their horrible start.

“I don’t think it could have started any worse than it did,” Sheahan said “[The defence] saved us. They bailed us out during the first half ... The first half Ottawa probably had an overwhelming advantage there ... Ottawa’s got a big strike game, they’ve got a lot of weapons. They have a well-trained, experienced quarterback who I thought made some really good plays.”

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Running back Jimmy Therrien battles against the Ottawa defence in the Gaels’ 27-25 loss on Saturday at Richardson Stadium.

After the Gaels took the lead in the fourth quarter, Ottawa’s fourth-year quarterback Brad Sinopoli was able to pull his team back into a tie with Queen’s on a 68 yard touchdown pass. The teams would trade field goals within two minutes of each other to send the game into overtime.

Sheahan said he was impressed with his team’s effort. The young squad experienced a tough start to the season where mistakes and penalties amounted to three losses.

“You’ve got to remember with these guys, you’re running out there and there’s 8 or 9,000 people,” he said. “This is the first time everything they do is a play of consequence, in front of a big crowd, lots of noise ... These things have an impact. You’ve got to get used to playing under those situations. It was a terrific effort [against Ottawa], normally you win those.”

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game in an eight game schedule,” he said. “I’ve been around the league long enough to know not to put any extra emphasis in one particular game”.

The loss allows the Gaels to analyze their weaknesses.

“We need to be better as a team in executing our plays,” MacDonald said. “From line-outs to tighter passes, we need better execution next time around.”

Losing isn’t something the Queen’s men’s rugby team is used to. Over the last three years, they haven’t lost more than once in any individual season, going undefeated last year and winning the OUA Championship.

Men’s rugby now switches their attention to their Friday night away game against the University of Guelph Gryphons.

MacDonald said that this loss doesn’t change anything with regards to the Gaels’ preparation PhOtO by ROn yAn routine and that they continue to Gael battles Voyaguer for the ball at richardson stadium on sunday. the two wins for men’s soccer double their win total. take a week-by-week approach.

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Globetrotting and people watching

Postscript contributor Sara Melvin chronicles the many interesting and amusing characters one may encounter while backpacking around the world MEC backpack, endure 24-hour The Canadian rickety bus rides and sleep in grimy impostor

They look Canadian, their accent is passable and they have a Canadian flag stitched on their backpack. But any mention of poutine, Nunavut, Wilfred Laurier or the Toonie and you’re met with blank stares and empty words.

Try asking them to spell the word ‘colour’ or say the last letter of the alphabet, and you’ll know— THEY’RE FAKING IT! THEY’RE ACTUALLY AMERICAN! For decades, residents from the US have held a not-so-ideal global reputation. Europeans sometimes bash their mass consumer culture, many third-world countries often blame their poverty on American foreign policy and the southern drawl is hated on universally.

However, the individual American traveler is frequently underrated. I have had many good times with Julien from California who taught me how to surf or with Gabe from Chicago who shared my love of Tsing-Tao beer in China.

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Travelling around the world is an amazing opportunity to meet all sorts of people, many of whom can be recognized as part of certain quirky categories.

By Sara Melvin Contributor Backpacking is most certainly a popular way to explore our world. Whether you’ve done the oh-so-popular East Asian circuit, the classic Euro-trip, an exotic adventure through the South American Amazon or trekked through the Himalayas in Nepal, it is inevitable that you will establish an international network of friends.

Hostels are social spaces that catalyze quick friendships. In the early weeks of your travels when your backpack doesn’t seem so heavy and there is an uncanny spring in your step, meeting new people is FUN and EXCITING. In and around week three, the novelty of meeting so many unique and interesting people may wear off a little. In fact, you probably find yourself meeting the same types of people over and over again and having the exact same conversations multiple times.

Levi Urman, avid traveler and owner of Charlottetown Backpacker’s Hostel in P.E.I., said, “Ten years ago while I was traveling Australia, I had this idea to make a T-shirt that said ‘Levi.

From Toronto. I rented a car and have been to Sydney and down the East Coast. Stopping in Fiji on the way home,’ so we could get past all the obligatory small talk and get to real conversation.”

I’ve travelled to China, Central America, Greece and Israel and have met countless backpackers in hostels across the globe.

Some fit perfectly into amusing

stereotypical categories, from the Australian surfer to the Canadian imposter. All have a unique place in my heart (and will always have a place for me to stay when I visit their country).

Don’t forget to write their names down in your travel journal for future Facebook friend requests.

The “let’s get shwasted”

Australian surfer “G-day mate. Let’s have heaps of fun today.”

Australians are very prevalent in the hostel scene and mesh well with many nationalities. Friendly, loud, blonde and attractive, they love to get their drink on with anyone who will join them.

Their leadership skills are not to be discredited; Aussies have the uncanny ability to lead a 25-person game of Kings and provide a ton of positive reinforcement. The goal of the night: passing out on the beach so that they can wake up and immediately start ripping some gnarly waves.

“Australians are born and bred travelers. They seek to explore other cultures possibly because they are on an island quite far away from everywhere else,” said Zoe Cameron, an exchange student from Canberra and The Australian National University.

“For one thing, they infiltrate every system. You cannot get away from them. You try to go somewhere unique and different, but they are everywhere. Many

younger travelers flock to really publicized areas, like Whistler.”

Cameron said even she agrees that most Aussies measure up to the stereotype.

“Wherever [Aussies] go, the idea is about traveling and getting wasted,” she said. “Any male Aussie has beach, babes, and beers mentality. I call it the triple B!”

The euro-bohemian artisan

Placid face, dreadlocks twice the size of their head, Jasmine balloon pants, tattoos written in Asian script, tambourine in hand and digging through the free food bin in the hostel kitchen— the traveling artisan community is an unknown population in this world.

The Hippies of our modern age, they weave bracelets of thread and rare stones and sell them to other travelers in order to keep on traveling. Don’t be fooled, though, they still line up at hostel computers to Skype their hippie friends on other continents.

River, a self-named Swedish 20-something traveler, spoke in a wispy, quiet voice as she tried to sell me a crocheted anklet.

“If I sell more jewellery, I will make enough money to take a boat to Columbia. If not, I will reside in this hostel in Honduras until more people buy my things. My handicrafts support my livelihood on the road. I have never saved money for a trip before,” she said, as she took a toke from the questionably pungent hand-rolled ‘cigarette’ being passed around.

the band of patriotic israelis Mirit Rafael, an Israeli friend I met in Guatemala, said, “There are three places in the world where every Israeli is after their compulsory years the army— South East Asia, Australia and Central America.”

Traveling post-army, preuniversity is as ritualistic to an Israeli as St. Patty’s Day is to a Queen’s student.

The patriotic Israelis band together in clumps and tend to stick to themselves, holding a certain level of elitist exclusivity. Hebrew is the new English, and although Thailand might be beautiful, there is nowhere in the world that compares to Israel. It’s actually very endearing how much they love their country.

Naturally aesthetically pleasing and tanned, the Israeli always has a Marlboro cigarette in hand and will talk your ear off about pretty much anything. From my own experience, as soon as I dropped the “at my Bat Mitzvah …” line, I was instantly part of the crew and became the perfect candidate to be convinced to ‘Make Aliah’ (move to Israel).

The tired traveller (aka the old guy) “So, how long have you been travelling for?” you ask the prematurely graying man in the corner.

“16 years,” he replies with no hesitation. You then realize the old looking guy wasn’t dealt bad genes, but is actually OLD. For some, it becomes a way of life to haul around an oversized

hostel beds for years on end. Only pausing their lifelong world-wide trip to work in a fast-cash type job, the Tired Traveler has no interest in companionship, having a family or being tied down to any real responsibilities.

I met a 46-year-old man in San Jose, Costa Rica who fit into this profile perfectly.

“So many people judge me for not having a family or a wife, but that is their idea of what life should be like. Why can’t my life be a solo expedition across the world? The meaning of life can be construed in so many different ways, so what if I don’t have loved ones? Am I being defensive?” he said, refusing to give his name (not that you could track him down if you tried).

The cute japanese girl

Highly fashionable, clean, polite, often smaller than her backpack and displays emotions audibly, this traveler is the ideal guest for a hostel owner. Although they tend to stick to themselves, if another traveler draws them out, they will devote their full attention to their new friend. And yes, peace signs do end up in every single picture.

The german hiker biker

Short hair, muscular and fit, often vegetarian and usually riding solo is the German Hiker Biker.

“I have been riding on my bicycle for 7,000 kilometres through 23 countries for three years,” they say.

“I have replaced my tires eight times and lost 17 pounds along the way.”

Pushing their physical activity and mental strength to the limits, I often think their strong willed travel plan borders insanity.

Another defining characteristic of this strand of backpacker/cycler is their rigidly planned out itinerary.

“Ve must be in zis country by zis date, no exceptions!” Freespirited travel is literally out of the question. So let’s strap on those hiking boots and keep on trekking!

According to AFAR, a magazine devoted to alternative travel, Canadian travelers have the best international reputation and the lowest narcissism index, meaning that we are well-liked and aren’t all that full of ourselves.

Whether you like it or not, as a traveler you must choose how to represent the Canadian image and will probably come back appreciating your country a whole lot more. Oh, and please do yourself a favour at the end of your trip and get a long, sensual massage—you deserve it.

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24 â&#x20AC;˘ queensjournal.ca T uesday, September 28, 2010 ostscript