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Queen’s to pay City for Homecoming The University agrees to pay $100,000 a year for three years to cover the cost of extra police presence B Y O LIVIA B OWDEN AND VINCENT B EN M ATAK Journal Staff The University announced yesterday that it would pay $100,000 to the City of Kingston for three years, to help cover policing costs associated with Homecoming and the general student population.

Principal Woolf met with Kingston Mayor Mark Gerretsen and other stakeholders leading up to the agreement, after Gerretsen said in October that Queen’s should contribute to the extra policing costs.

This year, the City of Kingston spent $104,000 on policing during Homecoming celebrations.

Principal Woolf stated in a press

release that the unsanctioned street party put an unnecessary strain on the City’s resources.

The money given will also contribute to policing as well as “outreach and engagement” work.

In an interview with the Journal, Woolf said he’s satisfied with the decision to pay the City. This isn’t the first time Queen’s has allocated funds to the City for this reason,

he added.

“I don’t think the University has to [pay], but I think it’s a good thing for us to do as a responsible institution,” he said.

He said his reasons for the agreement come from the need for extra policing in the student areas throughout the year, and during certain unsanctioned celebrations, such as Homecoming and

St. Patrick’s Day. “We [are] making this as a contribution to cover anything that would occur year round … and in general to keep students safe and secure,” Woolf said. “[Safety] is a very high priority.”

The University consulted a variety of stakeholders, he added.

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Inside this issue:

News

Professor helps discover new galaxy

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FEATURE

On the outside looking in As Kingston vows to eradicate homelessness, those still on the streets struggle to survive Arts

Combining computer science with creativity

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B Y N ICK FARIS Sports Editor Eleven years ago, Scott fell off a 12-storey roof.

It happened in London, Ont., where he’d taken a covert roofing job to compensate for a lack of hours and pay with a landscaping company.

He survived the plummet, but shattered his entire left ribcage, smashed his solar plexus and

cracked his left shoulder blade in half. Since then, the fall has led to far greater misfortune.

“That [job] was under the table, so worker’s comp wouldn’t cover that,” said Scott, who asked that his last name be omitted.

“I was on [Ontario Works financial assistance], and at the time, that wasn’t enough to pay my rent, so I ended up sleeping on the streets for a little while.”

Since his fall, Scott has been

homeless on four occasions times. He now lives in a meager apartment in Kingston, and while his experience is somewhat stable for the moment, it’s hardly unique in town.

According to the City of Kingston, 818 individuals spent time in local shelters in 2012. With just a small monthly stipend from Ontario Works to rely on, Scott is essentially on the brink.

He’s applying for funding from

the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP), but all his requests to date have been denied.

For Scott and Kingston’s homeless, survival is a daily endeavour.

“If you want to get off the street, you got a choice: move into a small room for all your money [or] live with a bunch of drug addicts,” he said.

“Once you get into it, it becomes a friggin’ cycle.”

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Postscript

A visit to the Limestone Organic Creamery

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Tennis team goes incognito

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2013

RESEARCH

Hidden galaxy found far, far away Astrophysics professor Judith Irwin makes six billion year-old scientific breakthrough through radio imaging B Y S EBASTIAN L ECK Assistant News Editor Queen’s professor Judith Irwin has discovered a new galaxy, which will help astronomers shed light on the nature of the mysterious celestial bodies.

The discovery, which was made in a study conducted by 28 astronomers from across North America and Europe, could help scientists better understand the physical make-up of galaxies.

The new galaxy, which is over six billion light years away from Earth, was found after researchers studied radio emissions from 35 different galaxies.

The galaxy, which has yet to be named, appears as a vertical jet coming from the spiral galaxy UGC 10288, Irwin said, but on closer examination it turned out to be a galaxy much farther away than the first one.

“The foreground galaxy is 100 million light years away.

“The background galaxy is more than six billion light years away,” Irwin said.

“That clinches it, that it’s really a background source.”

The unnamed galaxy was discovered nearly seven billion years behind UGC 10288.

The team, which represents seven countries, comes from an international study aspects of 35 galaxies.

Journal, which publishes original research for consortium of researchers.

A paper documenting their findings the wider scientific community.

The consortium pools their resources to has been published in The Astronomical Irwin looked up the location of the new galaxy, she said, and found that something called redshift had been observed in its light emissions, indicating its distance from the Earth.

Redshift describes a phenomenon where the wavelengths of emissions increase as faraway objects become more distant.

The newly discovered galaxy could be an elliptical galaxy, Irwin said.

Elliptical galaxies are flat or spherical, unlike a spiral galaxy such as the Milky Way. “We can’t tell what it is,” Irwin said.

“However, these big jets, they tend to come from elliptical galaxies, not spirals.”

Irwin said the distance of the galaxy allows us to look into the past.

“It’s not what it looks like now but what it looked like six billion years ago, because it’s taken that long for the light to come [to Earth],” she said.

PHOTO BY CHARLOTTE GAGNIER In comparison, scientists estimate the age Irwin, above, made the discovery alongside 28 other scientists.

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of the Earth at 4.54 billion years old.

Many elliptical galaxies have jets coming out of a region surrounding its centre, she noted, which is often a supermassive black hole.

Jan English, a professor at the University of Manitoba and former Queen’s graduate student, also took a prominent role in the project and helped publicize the discovery, according to Irwin.

The team used data from the Very Large Array (VLA), a series of radio antennae in New Mexico, which allows astronomers to observe high levels of detail using radio emissions.

What humans see in the night sky, Irwin said, is a tiny fraction of the actual activity in the universe.

“You’re looking at what you might call the vacuum of space, but it’s not really a vacuum,” she said. “There are high energy particles. If you look in other wavelengths you can find them.”

Radio waves have much larger wavelengths than visible light, she said, which means a larger telescope is required to get the same level of detail.

The VLA solves this problem, she said, by using a group of antennae to act as one telescope.

Each antenna captures images of faraway objects as the Earth rotates to view them.

Irwin added that the discovery of the new galaxy helps the team with their original goal, which was to investigate radio halos around galaxies.

The new galaxy lets the astronomers see how radio emissions from the new galaxy are “polarized”, or filtered, by the galaxy in front of it.

Light from UGC 10288 is filtered by the galaxy in front of it, she said, similar to how a pair of sunglasses filters sunlight.

“We can measure that change,” she said.

“It tells us the actual strength of the magnetic field in the halo of the foreground galaxy without actually seeing it.”

The study, she said, leads the way for other researchers to learn more about distant celestial bodies.

“It’s important aesthetically because you really do see a three-dimensional universe … our sensitivity is now so good you’re seeing galaxy upon galaxy.”

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Feature ‘Once you get into it, it becomes a friggin’ cycle’ Continued from page 1

*** The City’s goal is to eliminate long-term homelessness — and to do it soon.

Last Thursday, the City of Kingston approved the 10-Year Municipal Housing & Homelessness Plan, which represents a drastic shift in policy from Kingston’s previous approach to vagrancy.

It’s an ambitious set of objectives that, if successful, will provide 80 per cent of chronically homeless Kingstonians with stable housing by 2023.

The Plan defines chronic homelessness as a year-long absence of stable housing, or four separate bouts of homelessness over three years.

Perhaps the most notable change is an immediate ideological shift — one that seeks to eradicate homelessness, rather than simply manage it.

“Managing [means] that we’re offering services that are going towards those that are homeless, but they’re not getting at the root causes of a person’s homelessness,” said Sheldon Laidman, the director of the City’s housing department.

According to Laidman, external research suggests that 20 per cent of a city’s homeless population can be classified as chronic, and these individuals can cost the City and related services around $62,000 a year — over triple the cost of care for a regular homeless person.

Over the next decade, the Plan hopes to ensure that no Kingston resident is homeless for longer than a month.

“The plan isn’t naïve to think that there will be no homeless people, but it defines homelessness as a system where people are only homeless for a short period of time,” Laidman said.

The task of quantifying Kingston’s homeless population began on Oct. 16, when the City conducted its first-ever Point in Time count.

Over a hundred volunteers surveyed homeless people throughout the downtown area to gain demographic data. Laidman said the goal was to evaluate Kingston’s homeless situation on that specific evening.

On Oct. 18, the Journal reported that several volunteers, shelter workers and homeless individuals were concerned with the procedure and accuracy of the survey.

Still, Laidman said the City plans to conduct a similar Point in Time count every two years. Final results from the October survey are expected by the end of December. *** The dog at Scott’s feet is three years old, jet black with a shade of brown across his back, lying

obediently among a stream of pedestrians. He’s a Rottweiler and black lab mix. His name is Kon. Scott and Kon have been together since the latter’s birth, in and out of temporary and makeshift homes. Most days, Scott finds a quiet spot on Princess St., unfurls a tattered blanket and lays out two silver dog bowls.

The dog keeps Scott company, out of trouble, away from danger.

Trouble and danger intercede in Kon’s life, like uninvited guests, and Scott does his best to shoo them away.

It isn’t always easy. Last year, Scott moved into a boarding house in Kingston with Kon, only to discover that their fellow lodgers were selling crack and meth out of the residence.

The police realized it, too.

*** Help can be a conversation, a bundle of clothing or a meal.

All three are offered at Lunch

by George, a drop-in food provider located in the upstairs wing of St. George’s Cathedral on Wellington St. The program operates every weekday morning, handing out cups of coffee at 9 a.m., a bowl of soup at 10 and a full lunch at 11.

Their clientele fluctuates week by week, according to board member Peter Gower, but daily numbers can get up to 70 based on financial circumstances.

“We know that our numbers spike toward the third week of the month, which is when the welfare cheques run out,” Gower said.

quoted “There’s a lot of us out there, and there’s a lot of people that need someone, sometimes. Look to them and look to yourself, and maybe you’ll find something in your heart — maybe, yourself.”

— Robert, 49 years old,

ODSP recipient

“The door got kicked in and [Kon] almost got shot, so I left. I just walked out,” Scott said. “That was in the summertime, thankfully, so I spent a couple months camping out.”

Eventually, man and dog were taken in by Home Base Housing, which provides affordable living accommodation to needy Kingstonians.

When money runs thin, which it often does, they panhandle.

At first, Scott didn’t like the idea. It conjured images of a meek, undignified beggar pleading for a pittance of change, frail palm outstretched as the fortunate sped by, blissfully or awkwardly unaware.

That vision’s changed.

“For me, it’s actually a godsend,” Scott said. “I’m antisocial and stuff, so this is therapy. I talk to people that I would never talk to. You learn different stories and different things.”

When four hours on the street is too much to bear, there are other places Scott turns to for help. With limited income and a dog to care for, a cheap meal at Martha’s Table or the Salvation Army can be his best bet for sustenance.

“There is a lot of help out there,” he said. “There’s no reason to go hungry in this city, that’s for sure.”

“We’re assuming that most of our people have difficulty making either their welfare cheque or their pay cheque run for a whole month.

“I suspect that for some of our people, that mid-day meal is probably their only meal of the day — certainly their major meal,” he added.

The food service operates on a non-judgmental, anonymous basis. Any customer is welcome, and all sorts of Kingstonians take advantage.

“We try to give some sort of dignity to people that could well spend two, three hours in the morning wandering somewhere,” Gower said. “We bring them together — they can share

information on where else to go.”

One regular customer is Gary, a former millwright who’s been homeless since moving to Kingston in 2009. He receives around $1,140 per month from ODSP, which isn’t enough to afford regular housing.

Instead, he lives in a motel, trekking to Lunch by George or a similar food provider for the bulk of his meals.

“You can’t let people starve on the street,” said Gary, who requested that only his first name be printed. “It’s good the churches are able to pick up.”

Most afternoons, Gary walks three blocks north to volunteer with Peers of the Roundtable — the Kingston branch of the Mental Health Support Network South East Ontario Corporation.

It’s a peer support program located in eight Ontario towns, providing non-clinical assistance for mental health concerns.

“We provide a warm space for people to be at in the winter months and an air-conditioned place in the summer months,” said Michelle Way, support centre coordinator of the Kingston branch.

“We advocate with people about their homelessness issues. We just let people know what’s out there.” *** Tattoos and prison. The two have been entwined in Scott’s life since adolescence, from his first conviction at 12 years old to a month-long jail stint last June.

He’s 44 now, and Scott estimates he’s spent half his life behind bars.

Thefts, break and enters and driving offences have cost him valued possessions and precious time — but in a small, roundabout way, they may have saved him, too.

“I got my first tattoo when I was 14,” Scott said. “When I was 21, I got a tattoo in the penitentiary and I watched the guy build his homemade [tattoo] gun. When I built my own homemade gun, I started tattooing myself.”

That spurred a lifelong pursuit, and after Scott purchased a professional tattoo set 12 years ago, he began offering his services to others.

“It’s just a chance to hang out, talk, get to know people and give a tattoo,” Scott said. “It’s something I enjoy doing, and it gives other people a chance to get a tattoo without paying friggin’ $600.”

Small sums of cash and a chance to connect. They keep Scott going,

for now. He has a roof over his head, for now.

For those whose lives are spent drifting in and out of housing, every action is predicated on the short-term: the next client, the next donation, the next meal.

Scott hopes to be approved for ODSP in the coming months. The income would allow him to buy a month’s worth of groceries and dog food. It’d be a step up from mere survival.

“There are a lot of homeless people where part of the reason they’re homeless is because the only place they can get into is a crack house or a drug den,” he said.

“For a minimum of $450, they’re living in a small closet.”

He points to old, forgotten buildings throughout downtown — a chemical building on Montreal St., and others. There are houses sitting empty, he said, that could be fixed to help those in immediate need.

“It’s something that bugs me because it’s a solution,” Scott said.

“You don’t have the buildings sitting there abandoned and rotting, and you’re giving people more options than what there are out there.”

Yesterday, the Whig-Standard reported that Home Base Housing is currently constructing a new men’s shelter in the old chemical building, with space to accommodate up to 30 people.

“If I ever won the lottery, I’d buy one of these old buildings and fix it up,” Scott added.

Until that stroke of luck arrives, he waits. It’s late November on Princess St., and the temperature creeps towards freezing. In the afternoon, though, the sun still shines, and foot traffic remains steady.

“Kingston has pretty cool people,” Scott said. As he speaks, an older woman stops on the sidewalk. She bends down, pets Kon on the head and pulls out a toonie.

The coin clangs in the dog bowl as she smiles and walks away.

“You get the odd person that gives you a snot face, but then you get people like that,” Scott continues. “You get people that don’t give anything, but they still want to say hello and talk and pet the dog.”

Raised from his slumber, Kon takes a sip of water and nestles himself back in his owner’s lap.

Scott stares ahead.

“Sometimes, a smile and a conversation is worth more than a dollar,” he said.

According to the City of Kingston, 818 individuals spent time in local shelters in 2012.

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CITY OF KINGSTON

Mayor shows support for OMB Mark Gerretsen says results of hearing should be applied province-wide B Y A BBY A NDREW Assistant News Editor Kingston Mayor Mark Gerretsen is asking City Council to lobby the provincial government to expand the Ontario Municipal Board’s (OMB) recent ruling province-wide.

Two weeks ago, the OMB ruled to include students in the City’s population tally.

The ruling followed a City Council vote to dissolve Sydenham District and exclude students from the count.

The AMS, the Sydenham District Association and law student Kevin Wiener filed separate appeals in June, which resulted in the reinstatement of a fourth city councillor representing Sydenham District, where Queen’s is situated.

Gerretsen said he thought the decision to include students was appropriate.

“Otherwise I wouldn’t have asked council to lobby,” he said.

Gerretsen, who supported the original realignment structure brought forward at City Council, said it’s important for bylaws to remain consistent throughout the province. “[I] respect the fact that

the OMB feels differently about it and I’m okay with that and now it’s time to move on and prepare for the election in 2014,” he said.

According to Gerretsen, all municipalities should be doing things the same way. “[We] all need to be playing by the same rule book.

That only makes common sense to me,” he said.

Kingston is the only municipality to count student populations when drawing city districts.

“If this is the new norm, which Mark Gerretsen speaking at AMS Assembly earlier this month.

I accept … then we need to Gerretsen said he’s yet to see if wasn’t supportive of this notion move forward and start to talk about how to integrate this the OMB decision will affect the … [but] if he’s now on board, that’s great,” he said. throughout the rest of the upcoming municipal election.

Berkok said he can’t speak to “I have no comment on how it province,” he said.

Gerretsen said that it’s will affect the election. I’ve never the effect the change will have on the election but said the hearing problematic that all municipalities really considered that,” he said.

AMS president Eril Berkok has drawn awareness about it. do not abide by the same rules.

“This issue has become quite “None of the other 443 said that he hopes Gerretsen is municipalities count students. being genuine about his interest popular,” he said.

While the AMS supports Neither does the provincial in the inclusion of students in the realignment, they did not government … or the federal population counts.

“We hope that … like us, he intend on it being spread to government,” he said.

A press release announced on believes university students should other municipalities.

“Our intention in pursuing this Tuesday that the City racked up a be counted in electoral boundaries,” was to look at Kingston and our $50,990 bill in legal fees to defend he said.

Gerretsen voted three times community representation, but their position at the OMB hearing.

The costs are comprised of against “Option 1” at council, obviously we would be in support $43,700 in legal fees, $1,424 in which did not count students in of other municipalities investigating it,” he said. disbursements and $5,866 in HST the electoral boundaries.

He also pointed out that all “There was a time when he for the four-day hearing.

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municipalities are different and can’t always run by the same bylaws.

“It is important to keep in mind that not all municipalities of secondary education institutions share the same population dynamics,” Berkok said.

While a large number of Queen’s students are from out of town, other schools in Ontario are more commuter-driven, he said.

Berkok said that the AMS doesn’t have any plans to meet with Gerretsen regarding the hearing.

“I’m looking forward now that this issue is over to working together with the City … on any future opportunities to collaborate,” he said.

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AWARENESS

Tackling transphobia Candelit ceremony memorializes transgendered victims

Kingston residents gather in front of City Hall Wednesday night.

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lack knowledge on this issue,” she said. “Awareness leads to acceptance.”

This means raising awareness is the best strategy for preventing hate crimes, she said.

Mark Leonard and Shannon Watson, co-chairs of Education on Queer Issues Project (EQUIP), also spoke on the hate crimes committed in the last year.

Michelle Hamelin, the event’s organizer, said transgender people are still attacked and murdered at higher rates than other groups.

She said this is the first year there has been a single event for both the Queen’s and Kingston communities.

“Last year there were two separate events in Queen’s and the Kingston community,” Hamelin said. “I got together with Shannon last year and talked about changing it into one event.”

She said greater visibility of transgender individuals would help spread awareness in the Kingston community.

“Every time someone comes out as trans, someone else is being educated about it,” she said.

“Talking about and discussing these issues is important.”

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from television and the media, she said, which sometimes gives them a skewed perception.

In reality, Hamelin noted, transgender people live the same way everyone else does.

“We’re judges, we’re lawyers, we’re everywhere,” she said.

Amanda Ryan, the outreach committee chair for Gender Mosaic in Ottawa, said he attended the flag-raising earlier in the day.

Gender Mosaic is the oldest transgender support group in Canada.

“It’s important to remember the people who have been murdered worldwide,” she said. “Canada can be a very friendly country, but there can still be violence and discrimination.”

Ryan said Canada as a country has made great progress in improving the lives of transgender people.

“We’ve made great leaps and bounds … we used to say transgender and get various sexual stereotypes come back at you. Now, when you say that, people say ‘Oh, I’ve heard of that, tell me more’.”

In his five years at Queen’s, Thomas Pritchard has been yelled at from cars and porches, and his friends have been beaten up and publically insulted.

Pritchard said it’s a fact of life for transgender students, and he’s grown to expect some ignorance about transgender issues.

“I think it’s a common story. A lot of my friends have been in violent and uncomfortable situations,” Pritchard, AMS vice-president (university affairs), said.

He’s the first member of an AMS executive to identify as transgender. Even with support from community organizations, he said, the situation for transgender students hasn’t changed much since he arrived at Queen’s.

Pritchard was among the 60 Queen’s students and Kingston residents attending a candlelight vigil for transgender victims of hate crimes.

The event took place at Confederation Basin in front of — With files from Nicholas Kingston City Hall on Wednesday Wheeler-Hughes night. Each person in attendance was given a candle to hold throughout the service.

The event was held as part of Transgender Remembrance Day, which began as a tribute to Rita Hester, a transgender woman who was murdered in Allston, Massachusetts in 1998.

Excluding suicides, 238 transgendered people have been killed around the world this year.

None of the murders occurred in Canada.

Ruth Wood, a transgender minister with the United Church of Canada, gave a speech at the event on transgender discrimination.

Much is being done to increase societal awareness and acceptance for gay and lesbian people, Wood said, yet little is done for transgendered people.

After the ceremony, Wood said she was pleased with how many people came out to show their support.

Wood said that although no murders have occurred in Canada, transphobia and discrimination still exist.

PHOTO BY CHLOE SOBEL “This is because lots of people Participants held candles during the ceremony.

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HUMAN RIGHTS

Equity offices proposes new policy New guidelines will promote equitable employment standards, clarify outdated regulations B Y O LIVIA B OWDEN Assistant News Editor The Equity Office has proposed a renewal of Queen’s Employment Equity Policy, which hasn’t been revised since it was implemented more than a decade ago.

The revisal of the policy stems from plans to make it more readily available for the Queen’s community in order to ensure transparency within policy, said Irène Bujara, director of the Human Rights and Equity Office.

The purpose of the policy is to outline the need for equity in the workplace, and that Queen’s remains committed to a fair hiring process as indicated in Section 5(1) of the Ontario Human Rights Code.

The office of the Provost will now be responsible for the employment equity program, and the Equity Office will monitor the University’s commitment to the program.

She said the University is obligated by the federal government to have an equity policy, as Queen’s qualifies as a federal contractor.

To qualify as a federal contractor the organization must receive $1 million or more from the government, and employ more than 100 people, Bujara said.

The policy has been revised to be made clearer, she added. The existing policy wasn’t readily available to the public.

“The policy is more precise in terms of who has responsibilities for what,” Bujara said. “Some of the precisions were there before, but not in a format people could consult.”

A transparent policy is important for employees and employers, she said. “[A policy] should be precise about what exactly it is, who is responsible for each part of the policy, and the time frame for reviewing,” Bujara said.

She said the need for employment equity policies come from an understanding that there could be discrimination in the workforce.

“In the late 80s … it was a realization through [studies] that there were barriers [in the workforce] for certain groups in society,” Bujara said.

Women may continue to face a “glass ceiling”, which prevents them from

advancing. Other barriers exist for historically-discriminated groups as well, she added.

“With employment equity, we want to look at our workplace and see if there are barriers for those particular groups … and remove those barriers,” she said.

The policy will not be implemented until the community gives the Equity Office their feedback. Changes may be made based on the feedback given.

Bujara said with strong employment equality in place, a more diverse body of employees may apply to work at Queen’s.

“We want to have the best people who include the full diversity of who’s in Canada,” she said.

She said the faculty who comes to work at Queen’s has an impact on students. “[Diversity of faculty] connects with who is going to want to come and study with these researchers and teachers,” Bujara said.

“You are only as good as the people within your institution.”

She said a diverse faculty reflects Canadian society and enhances an institution.

Heidi Penning, equity advisor at the Equity Office, said that Queen’s is more equitable then other institutions, as the school recognizes the LGBTQ community as having been discriminated against in the workplace.

“Queen’s has gone over and above federal designated groups … we recognize

equity seeking groups such as the LGBTQ community,” Penning said. “We recognized that they have been disadvantaged in the workforce.”

She said the most important change in the policy is that employment equality will be communicated better.

“Policies are meant to be revised from time to time … and to be communicated,” Penning said.

“Policies are meant to be embraced by every member here so that they can see their role in contributing to and fostering work place equality.”

Heidi Penning, equity advisor at the Equity Office.

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POLITICS

Second-year students rally Feedback session organized following criticisms of Politics deparment B Y O LIVIA B OWDEN Assistant News Editor Second-year political studies students are having their grievances heard at a department feedback session, to be hosted next Thursday.

The event was organized to gain insight

into concerns second-year students have raised about the Politics department.

The results of the session will be compiled into the report and given to the department in December.

Isabelle Duchaine, student council (DSC) executive member for the department, created the event alongside Adam Grostky, ASUS academics commissioner.

Tegan Marie, a political studies student and ASUS Board of Directors member who helped create the event, said she is specifically disappointed with POLS 262 this semester.

“The Professor was away for six weeks of the semester.

“We had one hour of class per week instead of three,” Marie, ArtSci ’16, said.

The class watched a documentary for two weeks, and had other classes lead by TAs “who had little to no experience teaching”, she said.

“We pay tuition to be taught by experienced professionals, and I feel as though the students of POLS 262 were not given this experience,” Marie said.

Marie said she plans to voice these concerns at the feedback session.

Sam Bellefeuille, ArtSci ’16, voiced similar concerns about the course.

“I appreciate what the TAs are doing, [but] I’m paying to be instructed by a professor, not a TA,” he said.

He said he has been displeased with the lecture style in some second-year POLS classes.

“The lecture style, while fine in some courses, has been extremely sub-par in others, often leaving me and other students more confused about the lesson plan,” he said.

If assignments were coordinated better, he said, that would be an improvement.

“The scheduling of assignments has been

demonstrated to be quite poor, with several assignments due on the same day,” he said.

Bellefeuille said grading seems to be a widespread issue with second-years, as well as upper-year students.

“Marking across the faculty seems exceedingly harsh, with often very little feedback regarding marks being available,” he said.

“This makes adjusting one’s approach to writing a paper… to get a better mark very difficult.”

Isabelle Duchaine, ArtSci ’14, said an influx of student concerns prompted the discussion. “[The DSC was] receiving a lot more questions about students within second year about the transition between the first and second year, and the courses,” she said.

The feedback session will be good for students as well as the department, she said.

“Things I’d like to see come out of this is a greater understanding both from students and … from the department about what we expect students to walk away from after the first two years of politics,” she said.

Duchaine said she met with the politics department this Wednesday afternoon to tell them the event will be happening.

Feedback will be given to the faculty in December, so that the faculty is not overwhelmed with complaints, she said. “[The session] is a good step forward for students to realize that they can have a say by knowing what’s happening in their department, and hopefully getting involved,” she said.

The Second Year POLS Feedback Session will take place on Nov. 28 in the Kingston Hall Red Room at 5 p.m.

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Alumnus tells students to ‘dream big’ Alan Mallory, who climbed Mount Everest, returns to give motivational talk on campus about his experience B y S tyna Tao Staff Writer Queen’s alumnus Alan Mallory, with his father and two siblings, became the first family to climb Mount Everest.

Mallory, a part-time motivational speaker, spoke to students and University staff yesterday about the trek. Mallory, Sci ’07, uses the experience as a means to inspire others to “dream big.”

Around 150 people attended the talk, which was held in the main atrium of Goodes Hall yesterday evening. A reception was held afterward where Mallory personally met with attendees.

“Figure out what you want out of life,” he said in an interview with the Journal before his speech.

“Too many people float through life. Find what you want to do, put your mind to the goal and chip away at it.”

Mount Everest, located at the border of Nepal and Tibet, is about 29,000 feet in elevation. The expedition usually takes two months to complete.

The year that Mallory made the climb, three people died attempting the expedition on the Nepalese side.

“It takes this long because you have to give your body time to climatize to the conditions,” Mallory said. “There is very little oxygen up there, so your body needs to make more red blood cells.”

To prepare for the climb, the family practiced crevasse rescuing at their cottage in Parry Sound, different climbing techniques at indoor climbing areas, while mentally preparing themselves for the expedition.

Before they began their trek, the Mallorys first flew to Katmandu, Nepal, before flying to a village at the base of the mountain. They then began a 10-day trek to the base camp at Mount Everest.

The initial plan was for the entire family to complete the climb, but the last member of the family, Mallory’s mother, couldn’t continue because she suffered a fall at base camp and injured her Achilles heel.

The family faced many challenges during the expedition, Mallory said. Crossing Khumbu Icefall, an area where glaciers break off between two mountain peaks, was particularly difficult.

Mallory said they had to use aluminum ladders tied to each side of the peaks in order to cross.

“The [glacier] pieces can fall at any

time,” Mallory said, “and there have been people who have died from being hit by a fallen piece.”

The biggest challenge though, according to Mallory, was the final summit push.

“We had to climb for over 26 hours without sleep. The climb is very steep and difficult,” he said. “This is the death zone, where there is not enough oxygen to support life. You have supplement oxygen, but it’s very little. Every step you take is excruciating.”

Reaching the summit brought Mallory mixed feelings, he said. While it was his proudest moment and he had feelings of accomplishment, he was also worried about

what’s ahead.

“You think, I finally accomplished this,” he said, “but you’re so exhausted and depleted because you still have the way down, and people also die on the way down because your body starts to shut down.”

Currently, Mallory is a mechanical engineer at Hatch Engineering, working in Arizona.

Mallory said he owes his adventurous nature to his father, an avid mountain climber.

“We’ve always enjoyed the outdoors and doing adventure-some activities,” Mallory said. “I guess it’s the life style of the family.”

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administrative colleagues, student leadership, city councillors, the police and business leaders,” Woolf said.

“Not just [about] the issue of payment but their general view of Homecoming.”

Despite this, he said most stakeholders consulted were pleased with how Homecoming went this year.

Mayor Gerretsen said he’s happy with the results of his talks with Woolf.

“It’s up to the University to decide how they come up with the $100,000,” he said. “I’m just thrilled that the University …. recognizes a need to be a contributing partner.”

Gerretsen said this agreement with the University differs than ones made in past years.

“This is the first time that there’s been a multi-year commitment,” he said.

“That’s good because it allows us to predictably budget for these events, and what it’s going to cost in terms of the policing,” he added.

Gerretsen said he is unsure if the agreement will extend beyond the three-year period.

“You’ll have to ask me three years from now,” he said. “I think it’s a good start.”

Alan Mallory spoke yesterday about his trek.

News in brief Construction on residences commences

Confederation Hotel, the residences will create more living options for all students.

Construction process on two new residences — Abby Andrew was said to begin this month, but has been pushed to early December.

The pressure of high enrolment rates Honourary degrees awarded will be alleviated with the new residences that will accommodate approximately 550 Four leaders in business and law students each. received honorary degrees at this fall’s The University has issued a letter of intent convocation ceremonies, including the first with Graham Construction and Engineering Canadian-born black judge.

Inc. who will be building the residences.

Justice George E. Carter, Thomas Kierans, With the company recently completing a and Peter MacKinnon will be receiving graduate student residence at the University of their honorary Doctor of Laws degrees for Saskatchewan, they have diverse experience their accomplishments. in similar large-scale construction contracts.

Justice George E. Carter was appointed Graham Construction and Engineering as an Ontario court judge in 1979, after Inc. is a solutions partner that is practicing law for 31 years. He was later employee-owned and has revenues exceeding appointed to the Ontario Court of Justice, $2.2 billion annually. where he served for 16 years.

Although the beginning of December calls Thomas Kierans is currently the chair for final exams, the construction is expected of council and vice president of the Social to cause some noise pollution during the day. Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

To avoid disturbance, contractors will He’s also chaired various other organizations, be notified of exam periods so they can such as Petro-Canada and the Canadian structure their schedule accordingly.

Journalism Foundation.

The University said they will Michael M. Koerner is the founder communicate regularly with students and current president of Canada Overseas and nearby residences to update them on Investments Limited. the project.

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Editorials — The Journal’s Perspective

“However, the simple existence of “men’s rights” advocates should not taint the project by default.”

gender

Men make mark with centre second-class citizens lacking basic Most importantly, a men’s centre rights. For these reasons, women could help foster healthy dialogue still deserve the majority of with feminists on topics like attention and resources when it gender equality. ate hao The risk that an extreme comes to gender issues.

However, men have their “men’s rights” or otherwise faction could own genuine concerns. They’re anti-woman more likely to commit suicide gain sway in a men’s centre and more likely to abuse alcohol. is plausible and this possibility They deal with mental and physical should be guarded against with health problems in different ways vigilance. However, the simple than women and are more reluctant existence of “men’s rights” to get professional help for both. advocates should not taint the We’re constantly urged to travel in Men are also often treated unfairly project by default. order to become “more worldly.”

Men’s centres should be in the court system during divorce It’s a thing — especially if you’re embraced by feminists as long in the self-discovery stage of life, and custody battles.

At a more theoretical level, as they are operated in good which I consider to be in your 20s. men are coping with stereotypical faith; they provide an opportunity It’s hard not to stumble upon notions of masculinity at a time to create dialogue between genders a travel-themed post during the when expectations for male and offer support to men. hourly Instagram or Facebook behaviour are changing at a faster scroll. Wanderlust induced quotes pace than ever before.

— Journal Editorial Board like “he who returns from a journey This confluence of issues calls is not the same as he who left” for a “safe space” to discuss them. are rampant.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m a big travel advocate, but I have a little tiff with the way some choose to go about it.

Over the past year, I’ve been fortunate enough to spend time abroad in China, Japan and Thailand. During this time, I noticed a trend: I just couldn’t get past the hoards of entitled Gen-Y “self-seekers.”

I think it’s great that young people are daring enough to broaden their experiences by travelling. However, I can’t help but cringe at their culturally insensitive behaviour.

Certain pockets in Asia are hotspots for global north tourists — Shanghai, Bangkok, Ko Phi Phi and the like. While plenty of visitors respect the people, places and cultures they come across, a handful come up short.

Those few approach their travels with rose-coloured glasses on.

How can you go to China and not know about the Cultural Revolution or the corrupt illustration by Katherine Boxall Communist Party? Or take a trip to Bangkok and ignore sex-trade workers right in front of you? journalism It’s difficult to fathom, but it happens.

Some travel enthusiasts venture blindly and blissfully into lands ridden with complex politics and don’t even considering their role own country.

In commemoration of the 50th are not warranted.

While critics see these in it all.

First and foremost, Time anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s Ignorance truly is bliss. assassination, the cover of a magazine is a business. Most covers as furthering American While becoming “cultured,” recent issue of the U.S. edition detractors would acknowledge insularity, they are overstating of Time magazine features a that if Time’s owners could the importance of a simple some travellers forget to stop and picture Kennedy overlaid with make more money easily, cover. The American edition of think about why it is that the food the headline, “The moment that they would. The magazine Time still covered the typhoon in and trinket souvenirs are so cheap is based in America and is the Philippines, but it just didn’t in certain locales. Instead, they changed America.” continue to consume local crafts, to understand feature the event on its cover.

At the same time, the editions well-suited In general, Americans, while which represent their “worldliness” of the magazine published in American preferences.

Time has to compete with a they could stand to be more to friends back home.

Europe, the Middle East, Africa, on international This sort of ignorant travelling Asia and the South Pacific have plethora of other publications, informed a cover that shows the damage many of which run more typical issues, aren’t the compassionless is frustrating, beause it can caused by the recent typhoon in and serious covers. In this sense, and slack-jawed bunch imagined by dehumanize the local population the Philippines. This isn’t it can separate itself from its some outsiders. and dismiss their histories The American edition and cultures. the first instance where the competition and respond to of Time should continue to American edition of Time has differentiated American demand.

While abroad, it’s important had a different cover than its Moreover, many of the stand out. Time’s editors to think critically about your international editions.

American Time covers that and publishers know better than surroundings. Question everything.

While we should be somewhat didn’t appear elsewhere were their detractors, who themselves Only then will you have really, wary of this ongoing pattern, concerned with American politics are guilty of narrow thinking. truly travelled.

Time is simply specializing its and other important American — Journal Editorial Board Kate is the Assistant Arts Editor at the coverage for the US in order to topics. These covers aren’t Journal. She’s a fourth-year political make a profit. Overarching symbols of American ignorance studies major. concerns about American because Americans are right ignorance and narrow-mindedness to prioritize the affairs of their An organization called the Canadian Association for Equality has raised enough money to fund the first Canadian Centre for Men and Families in Toronto. The organization hopes to be up and running in the coming months to provide help, services and referrals to men in need.

This new men’s centre will be a positive force in society provided it doesn’t get co-opted by misogynistic “men’s rights” activists. Men have issues of their own and will benefit from an institution geared to their needs.

Feminists should embrace this development as it will mean more dialogue and a progression towards gender equality.

Women still have a lower social position than men in Canadian society and there are parts of the world where women are

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Policy compose before we close Queen’s should consult with interested parties when cutting programs

... around campus Photos By Erin Sylvester

What are you reading over winter break?

“The Irrational Man. I’m a philosophy major and it’s book about existentialism. ”

Isabelle Duchaine, ArtSci ’14 The practice of suspending admissions — from Fine Art, graduate French Studies and now perhaps to Theological Studies — has opened a can of worms at Queen’s.

If a program is struggling to attract applicants or support itself financially, should we stop offering it? Or, does offering a wide variety of academic programs improve the overall calibre of university, even if it comes at a financial cost?

The unfortunate reality of the situation — and this is the situation affecting programs like the Ukrainian folklore program at the University of Alberta and the Centre for Studies in Social Justice at the University of Windsor — is that some programs are more popular than others.

Prospective university students are prepped to enrol in certain degrees over others, by society urging them to seek degrees with a high return on investment and by their own particular interests. Some, like Engineering, Medicine and Commerce have a competitive admissions process, while others, like French studies and Theology, aren’t currently in vogue.

The majority of funding for universities comes from tuition, so fewer students means fewer resources to fund programs. The costs of running a program, including faculty salaries, overhead costs, departmental administration and teaching assistant salaries must come from somewhere; if not from students, then through some method of cross-subsidization or equalization payments.

I do fundamentally believe that society should be increasing its commitment to post-secondary education. I believe, and the data supports me, that well-educated citizens are better at refuting lies by politicians and contribute more to the economic and social well-being of our society.

However, living in the reality of ballooning health care costs, underfunded pensions and environmental degradation, I don’t foresee a larger commitment to post-secondary funding.

We can’t wait for Queen’s Park or Parliament Hill to fix chronic funding shortages at Queen’s.

We now need change to happen at an institutional level.

When a program is created, as the Indigenous Studies program was last spring, it requires a Byzantine level of bureaucratic planning and oversight. The steps include: 1. Interested faculty members beginning to devise a curriculum.

2. Consultations taking place with respective partner departments

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Shir Fulga, ArtSci ’14

“I just started my Masters so journal article after journal article.”

Alex Love, MEd ’15

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and programs.

3. The proposal being assessed and voted on by Arts and Science Curriculum Committee.

4. The proposal being assessed and voted on by Arts and Science Faculty Board.

5. The Senate Committee on Academic Development assessing and voting on approval.

6. The program being presented to the University Senate, which votes on approval.

Prospective university students are prepped to enrol in certain degrees over others, by society urging them to seek degrees with a high return on investment and by their own particular interests.

Throughout this process, administrators compare the proposed program with others across the province. They also address funding variables, ensure faculty are available to teach, analyze learning outcomes and assess the impact of the program on the broader Queen’s learning environment.

But what process exists to close a program? None.

This isn’t to say Queen’s has never closed programs before.

We no longer offer a Russian literature program; German and Italian converged into world languages; and the literatures and cultures department and Canadian studies program completely disappeared.

The conversations within university governance bodies have revolved around the legality of closing a department.

Article 39 of the Queen’s University Faculty Association Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) covers “Closure of an academic

program or academic unit for academic reasons” and raises questions of process. Highlights from the CBA include: “This Article applies only when there is a risk of closure of an academic Program or Unit arising from concerns about academic quality, relevance or enrolment ... which may result in the layoff of one (1) or more Members or the non-voluntary redeployment of one (1) or more Members.”

Nowhere does the CBA seek to define “academic quality” and “relevancy,” terms which are incredibly difficult to quantify.

The CBA ultimately limits its relevance to circumstances in which at least one faculty member is laid off or involuntarily deployed, therefore excluding its applicability to departmental mergers or closures in which faculty are reallocated without complaint.

I’m personally uncomfortable with a set of procedures that excludes students from the decision-making process.

When the administration considers closing a program, the CBA mandates the creation of an academic review committee of five members, none of them students, to review the program in question.

Society should be increasing its commitment to post-secondary education ... well-educated citizens are better at refuting lies by politicians and contribute more to the economic and social well-being of our society.

Queen’s needs a set of procedures on program closure, procedures which will lead to a more balanced academy

and allow for broader consultation.

The University of Guelph has undergone a “program prioritization process” which identifies the programs that are critical to the university’s mission and those which are more peripheral.

The process at Guelph remains highly political, and I remain hopeful that our conversations here will be more inclusive.

I’m personally uncomfortable with a set of procedures that excludes students from the decision-making process ... the CBA mandates the creation of an academic review committee of five members, none of them students, to review the program in question.

Nobody wants to hear that their passion, research or area of study is “peripheral.” Nor do I feel comfortable, as a history-politics student, labelling other fields of study as “not critical” to my university’s mission.

Queen’s desperately requires a broadly consultative process that allows professors, administrators, staff and students the ability to transform aspects of our education system instead of quietly underfunding programs until they wither away.

These conversations may be difficult. They will encourage much soul-searching about the tension of Queen’s as an institution responding to consumer demand, and the sanctity of a university as a house of intellectual thought.

Unfortunately, even ivory towers need to pay the bills.

“Crime and Punishment because it’s a classic and it’s a good combination of psychological thriller and exciting plot.”

Sophie Sabet, ArtSci ’14

“The Picture of Dorian Gray because it’s my favourite book and a comforting read when I’m home.”

Isanna Biglands, ArtSci ’14

“The Book Thief before the movie comes out.”

Danny Shneer, Comm ’16

“The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao because Junot Díaz has some interesting things to say about the representation of women and ethnic minorities in literature.”

Deborah Chu, ArtSci ’14

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Friday, November 22, 2013

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Girl power Kitchener-based band Courage My Love talks breaking into a genre dominated by men B y C harlotte G agnier Photo Editor As a female-fronted band in the rock n’ roll world, it hasn’t been easy.

Mercedes Arn-Horn, one part of Courage My Love, along with sister Phoenix, said they’ve sometimes had trouble breaking through in a male-dominated genre.

“There’s that stigma [like] you can’t shred as hard as this other guy,” she said. “Not a lot of female-centered rock bands get played on the radio these days and I don’t know why.”

But the band doesn’t let this hold them back.

“But on the upside that just makes us work a lot harder to become better at what we do and I do think that it draws people to our music,” she said.

For these musical twins, it’s do or die.

When they get an opportunity or face a change, Arn-Horn said, the band has to take advantage of it.

One of these changes came in the form of replacing a band member in the middle of recording an album.

After their first EP For Now was released in 2011, the band went on tour, playing about 200 shows.

While in the process of writing and recording their most recent EP Becoming, the band’s original bassist left the band, to be replaced

by Brandon Lockwood.

Twin sisters, Mercedes and Phoenix Arn-Horn, who both cover vocals, brought Kitchener-based trio Courage My Love together.

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Arts The pop-punk, alternative metal band from Kitchener was founded by twin sisters Phoenix and Mercedes Arn-Horn.

Activism

Music making for social justice The Kingston Soul Shakedown aims to spread awareness about cultural issues B y J essica C hong Blogs Editor Think music rooted in social justice.

The Kingston Soul Shakedown, an event run by a group of local DJs and dancers, aims to create a positive space for marginalized individuals.

Ekta Singh, also known as DJ E, combined her social activism and love of international and independent music to help form the Kingston Soul Shakedown group in 2008, after returning from her time abroad.

“Originally it had emerged by a few friends of mine that were involved in DJing that had lived

overseas and had a really unique and interesting collection of music,” she said.

Singh, who specializes in South Asian dub and Middle Eastern music, explained that they like to feature artists who are also activists.

“We like to highlight artists that are promoting socially-conscious messages and playing a lot of female empowerment … messages as well,” she said.

Each member of the group brings different specializations based on their personal interests and experiences abroad.

“Another one of the DJs and organizers, DJ Redfoot, has lived in Zambia and Senegal,” Singh said,

If you combine arts with computing, you get cutting-edge creativity.

Queen’s professor Roel Vertegaal said he believes in combining computing with the creative arts. By using state-of-the-art new media software technology, it may give students

“and his area of interest has been African funk.”

Singh’s DJing skills, she said, were built over years of experience practicing at parties and clubs, as well as a stint hosting her own radio show with CFRC. She originally learned to DJ in Monterrey, Mexico.

“I also learned a lot, in terms of trying to perfect the skills I [already had] at CFRC,” Singh said.

What sets their group apart from mainstream music, she said, is that their music is quite specific and not top 40 music.

“A lot of what you will hear is a diverse collection of rare dance grooves from all corners of the

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Cutting edge creativity New Queen’s courses combine computing and the creative arts

Roel Vertegaal is the professor of COCA 201, Introduction to Computing and the Creative Arts.

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a new kind of multidisciplinary education.

This, he said, can inspire students to develop innovative computer applications for the future.

Vertegaal, who teaches the course Introduction to Computing and the Creative Arts (COCA 201), said that the University should work towards introducing students to a more hands-on education.

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This, he said, can be achieved by combining theory with practice, preparing them as they face a competitive job market.

The Computing and Creative Arts program began in 2008.

“It was partly meant to encourage students in the arts to embrace the computer sciences in order to create something entirely new,” Vertegaal said.

The program is meant for students who are interested in both computing and at least one of the creative arts taught at Queen’s: art, film and media, drama or music, Vertegaal said.

He said the program is a good way to balance the skewed enrolment of a lot of males in computing and mostly females in the arts.

It’s also meant to attract females to the program so that they realize that when they combine arts and computers, they create something entirely new.

“The arts should have a more hands-on approach which teaches students proper skills, allowing them to create their own jobs for the future,” Vertegaal said.

“Just like biologists learn to do lab experiments, we need to teach our students not just Java, but Microsoft Windows, and use specific examples that are not abstract.”

Students in the program are exposed to a wide range of innovative possibilities.

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world,” she said.

In celebration of the Kingston Arts Council’s 50 years of arts advocacy, the evening will begin with a dance showcase. It’ll include a presentation that highlights the work of local dance organizations, shortly followed by the Kingston Soul Shakedown.

“This is the first Shakedown we’ve had in, I’d say, about six months or five months,” she said, “so it’s kind of exciting and a lot of people are looking forward to it.”

Since the group’s conception, they’ve encountered a successful following of soul shakers, comprised of students, faculty and community members that all share a strong interest in international music.

“They always look forward to when we have our events,” Singh said. “They love listening to music that you will probably not be able to hear anywhere else in Kingston.”

In addition to showcasing different cultural music, the group also supports immigration rights and other marginalized groups.

“Above everything it’s a celebratory space — and, it’s an open space,” said Toby Moorsom, another lead organizer of the group, known as DJ Redfoot.

The group aims to inform people about the challenges others face in their lives and in other parts of the world, he said.

Funk is about a freedom of expression, he said, as well as a disavowal of rules. “[It’s] about shaking away the forms of oppression one experiences in their work day and drudgery,” Moorsom said.

Moorsom has an intrigue with soul and discovering what it means across different cultures and time periods.

“For me, it was digging through old records at garage sales and various second-hand shops when I didn’t have a lot of money,” he said.

The Kingston Soul Shakedown will be at the Grad Club on Nov. 30.

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Louder than the noise Craig Cardiff, a Kingston veteran, returns for two shows B Y J ANINE A BULUYAN Staff Writer With a soft voice, digital vocals and unmistakeable guitar loops, Craig Cardiff’s music reflects an uncompromising humanitarian.

The Canadian folk singer-songwriter is back in Kingston to tour his new album Love is Louder (Than All This Noise) and to reconnect with fans.

Officially, Cardiff’s music is described as “edged, folk, beautiful, melancholy and left leaning, one song breaks your heart, and the next one puts it back together,” but this description is nothing compared to the actual musical experience that the singer-songwriter plays.

From alternative touring to organizing workshops, the independent artist has a way of keeping the focus on the music and the people who want to listen.

He’s performed in camps, prisons, basements, festivals, kitchens and even on the streets.

But no matter where he performs, Cardiff keeps his performances intimate, like a two-way conversation.

He prioritizes genuine connection with the audience over big business.

“At the end of the day or the night [after a show], people feel that they have something to share in common with each other,” he said.

Cardiff encourages people to be open and not be afraid of adventure or mistakes.

A notebook dubbed the The Book of Truths is passed around at his shows. Fans are invited to write something truthful in it — a story or a secret that the person may not want to say out loud. “[It’s important because] I feel like it gives people a voice,”

Craig Cardiff ’s newest album title is inspired by his fans.

Cardiff said.

He’s a genuine musician whose Facebook page alone has 10,000 likes and whose following continues to grow.

“I go where people are excited to listen and be part of the music,” Cardiff said. “If people want me to play in a church, then I’ll go play in a church.”

In 2012, Cardiff was nominated for a Juno Award for Roots and Traditional Album of the Year: Solo and for a Canadian Folk Music Award as Contemporary Singer of the Year.

Earlier this week, his new album Love is Louder (Than All This Noise) was released.

“We’ve been working on it for a while so in a way it’s a relief,” Cardiff said.

Recorded primarily in Cardiff’s home studio, the “one-part boisterous group sing-along and

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one-part gentle lullaby” is his way of consoling his audience His album is named after a particular showgoer, who had “love is louder” tattooed on his wrist. Someone else at the show wrote a heartbreaking story in the Book of Truths, and thus the album title in full was born.

Yet another way Cardiff is currently connecting with fans is by asking them to share father-daughter pictures to include in the music video for his song “Father Daughter Dance”.

“The song is about a shared experience and it’s hard to recreate authentically with actors,” Cardiff said. “[This way is] more genuine.”

Cardiff will be performing at his sold-out show at the Clark Hall Pub tonight. Due to high demand, he’s set to play another show on Nov. 25 back at Clark Hall.

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Queen’s Players in perspective The Arts and Photo Editors at the Journal provide sober and drunk commentary, respectively

SOBER Out of my four years of attending Queen’s bobbing my head and eyeing the wasted Players productions, I can’t say I’ve ever ones begrudgingly.

The worst part about attending sober is been sober.

Traditionally, the arts editor of the Journal dealing with the drunken people all around.

Acting gaps between songs were filled writes the sober review of the production, which I sort of saw as quickly ripping off with voices in the audience, discussing what a band aid. It had to be done, and thus I club they planned to go to next and filling would do it — but not without a preparatory themselves with alcohol. Clearly, the show schooner at the Mansion to at least provide was a charitable pre-drink for them.

As a Queen’s student myself, and me with the illusion that this would be a understanding that the production goes fun evening.

My family has a longstanding history towards charity, I would love to say I enjoyed with Queen’s Players. My brother starred, the show.

But I have a responsibility to be honest to my mom and dad both won first and second respectively in a parental drinking my sober self.

The band, as usual, was the best part. competition and I’ve been in the audience They played flawless covers, like of Daft every year I’ve been at Queen’s.

Not denying the fact that these students Punk’s “Get Lucky”. have clear comical talent, Queen’s Players’ The female roles, for the most part, were “Call of Judy: Modern Daycare” was painfully forgettable. If you don’t watch like going to a house party, awkwardly See Pop on page 14

DRUNK I feel like Queen’s students often judge another’s artistic creation, forgetting the fact that their fellow students created it.

We judge something based on “real world” criteria, failing to realize that the very reason someone is attending university is because they are not ready for the “real world” yet.

Real world or not, Queen’s Players’ “Call of Judy: Modern Daycare” fucking rocked.

It was a booze-saturated party obsessed with laughs, cheers and cheesy dance moves.

Maybe it was the pitcher I drank alongside J-Rose at POLS “beers with profs” beforehand, but the dedication and talent of the performers was evident throughout the entirety of the show.

A mix of pop hits and satire-ridden comedic dialogues, Queen’s Players expectedly delivered a performance that I will reminisce upon whenever I am in a

similarly inebriated position.

Transitioning between absurdly relevant caricatures and amazing-when-I’m-drunk karaoke, the show was nothing short of a festival of laughs. The self-deprecating parodies ultimately won me over.

Where else can you pay 13 measly dollars to see “the Prince of Wales” discussing the meaning of life at an imaginary urinal alongside Ron Burgundy and Pinocchio?

The range of the performance was most impressive. I was able to laugh along with Amanda Bynes and sing Macklemore with a crowd of dazed supporters.

One such dazed supporter was a lass wearing a plaid shirt and glasses whom I swing-danced with. Call me please; you were cute.

Applause was heard as consistently as it was deserved. Applause sounds a lot like

On top of writing drunk and sober reviews of the Queen’s Players productions, we also had our two photo editors take sober and drunk photography.

See Pop on page 14

PHOTOS BY CHARLOTTE GAGNIER AND SAM KOEBRICH

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Pop-wrecks, top 40 and a lot of beer to drink Sober

Continued from page 13

Game of Thrones, you would never understand Arya Stark’s jokes.

Wednesday Addams was a random character who had no relevance to the rest of the cast, although her deadpanned face was a personal favourite of mine. The audience, too, loved her rendition of Ellie Goulding’s “Lights”.

One of the best male actors was flamboyant baby Prince George, played by a grown man in a diaper and a tiara, smoking a cigarette.

Ron Burgundy, on the other hand, was just a bearded man in a tacky suit, not actually a caricature.

Oliver Twist didn’t quite do it for me, but Mr. Rogers hit the nail on the head in terms of creepy old men.

Yoko Ono, Stifler’s Mom and Pinnochio dominated the entire show. They kept in character, never

Drunk

once faltered and had vocal chords from the gods. Stifler’s Mom and her smoky voice filled the room with a flawless rendition of Christina Aguilera’s “Candyman”.

Possibly the highlight of the show for me was something I would’ve never noticed had I been drunk. It was Mrs. Doubtfire’s solo at the end, singing Seal’s “Kiss From A Rose.” His eyes were lit up as he clutched the microphone in his hands.

Maybe Seal was taking his hold on me, but as I looked around the room and saw parents to my left staring at him in awe, I could tell how much this performance meant to him.

In that moment, Queen’s Players presented itself with a new purpose to me.

Pinnochio hit centre-stage with one of the many top 40 tunes of the evening.

They learn about the electronic arts, computer games, architectural design, animation, virtual reality and critical philosophy.

Vertegaal said he was always passionate about both the arts and computing since he started playing around with graphics and electronic music in 1986.

This, he said, inspired him to become a professor and teach technological innovation.

“Our students evolve in the program starting with almost no knowledge of computers to producing internationally-accepted art pieces that are produced electronically,” Vertegaal said.

Antonio Gomes, PhD ’16, assists Vertegaal and is the TA for the course.

The course, he said, allows students to tap into skills they never thought they possessed.

“What really fascinates me is how students from different backgrounds have no awareness of their creative potential,” Gomes said.

“If you ask a science student to produce something artistic, he will think he can never do it and if you ask an arts student something about computers, he will say he doesn’t know anything.”

But when arts students take

applesauce. Applause, applesauce.

See? I’d love to see “applesauce” in Golden Words’ “quotes from the Journal”.

The level of comedic creativity exemplified in this showing is what Queen’s Players is hailed for, and rightfully so.

Pop-culture figures gathered for a meta-satire of giggles and thrills.

Characters seamlessly delivered lines and lyrics with precision and tact.

The story features pop-wrecks being guided by less than admiral mentors Big Brother-Big Sister style.

The mentors play off the flaws of their mentees in a parodied account of sex, drugs and rock and roll. Frankly, the story doesn’t matter. I was drunk when I saw it, am drunk while I’m writing this and hopefully you’re drunk while reading this.

I can’t recall that much and that’s good, not because it was a bad time, rather because it means

that I must have had a great time.

Just as I’ve dreamed of meeting Stifler’s mom in a musty pool room, I’ll dream of my experience seeing Queen’s Players’ “Call of Judy: Modern Daycare” over and over again.

Watching Queen’s Players in any state of sobriety sounds enjoyable, but for this reviewer, alcohol was able to greatly add to the experience.

I’m going to go pass out now.

— Sam Koebrich

From Kitchener to Kingston Continued from page 10

“A lot of stuff changed, but I — Meaghan Wray think that all of that really helped with the writing of Becoming,” Mercedes, who plays guitar while her sister plays drums, said. “I feel like we needed that pressure and that ‘do it or die’ type of attitude.”

On Nov. 17, Courage My Love began their current tour in their hometown. It’s their longest headlining tour to date and they’re set to play in cities across Canada and the United States.

At only 19, that’s a pretty big deal.

Their sound has been described as pop-punk rock but to the Arn-Horns, a label doesn’t really matter.

Photo by Charlotte Gagnier “I don’t really care what people call it as long as they think it’s good,” Mercedes said.

The sisters started writing music together even before they formed Courage My Love in 2010.

“I just feel like [Phoenix] hears things and has ideas that I might

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never have,” she said, “and I just think like that totally rounds out the sound when we have a collaboration.”

Their inspirations, she said, come from absolutely everywhere.

“Lyrically, our whole world influences us, like we’ll write about friends or we’ll write about ourselves or something that we heard in the news,” Mercedes said.

“Just the other day we heard about Chelsea Manning and [Phoenix] was moved by the story we heard and she decided to write a song about it.”

The bands they listen to, like most musicians, also inspire their music. Arn-Horn cited Brand New and Ellie Goulding’s new album Halcyon as current go-tos.

“I definitely think you can hear it, especially in certain songs,” she said. “I feel like if the production was different, if there wasn’t full band behind it, you might be thinking to yourself ‘this is an Ellie Goulding song.’”

The band wants to have listeners

COCA 201, they end up engaging with computers and producing interactive art that they never believed they were capable of creating, he said.

“We’re past the stage where art was just inside a museum. Now, we can produce art via virtual technology that is available at your fingertips,” Gomes said.

“This program really enables you to think outside the box.”

Courage My Love playing at the Duo Music Exchange in Tokyo in 2012.

The Journal staff put together a list of good reads for the holiday season — perfect for a cozy night in front of a fire.

connect to their lyrics.

“As long as it affects them in a positive way, that’s all we really want,” she said.

Since their creation, their sound has been constantly evolving. “[When] we wrote For Now, we hadn’t gone on tour ever and it was our first time in a big studio and we had a record deal on the way,” ArnHorn said, “so we were just stoked on life and were writing about all that sort of stuff.”

After a well received first show in Kingston last June, they are excited to return.

“I think that every time you’re playing to an audience that might not know you, you kind of have to break though their shell a little bit with the first couple songs,” she said.

“I feel like in towns like Kingston where they’re just there to have fun and stuff, that shell already is gone and you’re ready to just party.”

Courage My Love will be playing at the Mansion on Nov. 28 at 7 p.m.

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Tennis club stuck at love Team forges on despite no tie to Queen’s B y N ick Faris Sports Editor

Lucas Rivet-Crothers (left) and Marshall Mackoff captain the unofficial tennis squad.

PHOTO BY SAM KOEBRICH

They’re the Queen’s tennis team, in everything but name.

The school’s unofficial competitive squad is made up of 36 Queen’s students. They play in tournaments and exhibitions against other Ontario teams.

They’re captained by two fourth-year students with extensive on-court experience.

Still, tennis isn’t an official Gaels varsity or recreational club. The sport hasn’t been sanctioned at Queen’s since the

Women’s hockey

Down and up

Special teams lead way on western trip

MEN’S HOCKEY

Veteran spark

B y J aehoon K im Staff Writer For the first time this season, women’s hockey fell in regulation.

The Gaels (9-1-3) lost 6-3 on the road against the Windsor Lancers (6-5-1) Saturday, but rebounded with a 2-1 shootout win against Western (7-4-1) the next day to remain in first place in the OUA. The Gaels’ power play shone against Windsor, scoring twice on the man advantage for only the second time this year.

Third-year winger Taryn Pilon scored the first power play goal, tying the game at 1-1 13:53 into the first period, less than two minutes after Windsor opened the scoring.

The Gaels took their only lead of the game early in the second period when Pilon set up rookie Jessica Wakefield.

However, the Lancers responded with ferocity, peppering Queen’s netminder Mel Dodd-Moher with 13 shots in the second period, scoring on two of them.

“We got up 2-1 in the second period then there was an injury to a Windsor player that stopped the play for about 15 minutes,” head coach Matt Holmberg said. “That break seemed to give Windsor a little jump for whatever reason, and they seemed to have our number for the rest of the period.”

Queen’s failed to start the third period strong as Mary Coughlin and Morgan McHaffie were penalized for tripping and slashing, respectively.

While the Gaels killed off both penalties, including almost a minute of five-on-three play, the floodgates opened for Windsor just a few minutes later.

“We were perfect on the penalty kill again and we even See Holmberg on page 17

Captain propels Gaels to overtime win B y A dam L askaris Staff Writer

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The Gaels sit first in the OUA in power play percentage.

Men’s hockey played a pair of overtime games this weekend, leading to mixed results.

The Gaels beat the Guelph Gryphons 4-3 on Friday before falling to the Western Mustangs 2-1 on Saturday. Queen’s has earned points in all 11 of its games this

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Rebound win

Bounceback victory makes up for big loss B y J ordan C athcart Staff Writer Men’s basketball faced highs and lows last weekend, losing by double digits before pulling out a tight road win.

The Gaels dropped their first contest last Friday to the Laurier Golden Hawks 92-75 and picked up the win over the Waterloo Warriors on Saturday 61-57.

The Gaels had their hands full Friday night, matching up against a Golden Hawks team (3-3) boasting OUA first team All-Star Max Allin.

He torched the Gaels defence for a game-high 27 points to go along with 12 rebounds.

Nikola Misljencevic led the Gaels’ scoring charge with 18 points, while Sukhpreet Singh hooped 16 points and snagged 12 rebounds.

season, giving the team a 6-0-5 record, good enough for 17 points and a tie with McGill for first place in the East Division.

Head coach Brett Gibson was pleased with his team’s efforts in the two games.

“We were able to hold our own,” he said. “I think we actually played a better game than Western, but weren’t able to pull it out.”

Captain Corey Bureau scored the overtime winner on Friday, much to the delight of Gibson.

Bureau led the Gaels in goals last year with nine, but the goal against Guelph was just his second of the season.

“Corey played really well this weekend. I’m happy for him to score the OT winner after getting off to a bit of a rough start

mid-2000s — and according to Queen’s Athletics, it won’t be for the foreseeable future.

“We’re not allowed to use ‘Queen’s’,” said captain Marshall Mackoff, ArtSci ’14. “We try to keep it all legit. We try to keep things saying ‘Kingston’ so it gives us the chance to play.”

Mackoff and co-captain Lucas Rivet-Crothers have both been involved with Queen’s tennis for the last three years. According to Mackoff, they approached Athletics in 2012 with hopes of gaining rec club status, but had their efforts rebuffed.

“We got a lot of interest, a lot of support, a lot of signatures and emails,” Mackoff said. “When they refused that, it seemed a little bit ridiculous. That pretty much takes us to where we are now.”

In May 2003, the Journal reported that Gaels tennis had its varsity status revoked, allegedly because players missed a scheduled practice session at the courts near the Kingston Airport.

While the competitive team was scrapped, Rivet-Crothers said a group of tennis enthusiasts reunited in 2010, led by former captain Nathan Terrana. When a deal couldn’t be struck with Athletics, they went their own way.

Now, all team members pay full membership fees to the Kingston Tennis Club, located at Earl and Napier Streets. In return, they receive 27 hours of practice time per week, split over three courts and three days.

“That in itself is a good amount of time for the team to practice as a whole and communicate, which is key,” Mackoff said.

This year’s team was selected from a pool of nearly 100 candidates, most of who were cut in September tryouts due to practice time and space limitations.

Those constraints and the lack of an affiliation with Queen’s means the club can’t provide a formal framework for recreational tennis players.

“The only thing we can do is offer them a platform on which they can communicate with other

Gaels head coach Stephan See Lack on page 19 Barrie wasn’t pleased with the See Extra on page 18 performance, but understood the Gaels’ talent was overmatched.

“They’re a tough team to play in their gym,” Barrie said. “They are very talented offensively and they got going so it was very difficult to stay in that game.”

On Saturday night, the Gaels faced the winless Warriors in what turned out to be a tight game. The Gaels led 28-27 at halftime and ended with the four-point victory.

Barrie took some positives out of the game, although he said the win was a little too close for comfort.

“We struggled a bit on offense, but our rebounding and defensive were quite good,” he said. “We held them to 57 points and outrebounded them by a significant margin, which is what you need when things aren’t The men’s hockey team has gone to overtime in six of their Journal File Photo See We’re on page 18

11 games this season.

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WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL

MEN’S VOLLEYBALL

After sweeping Lakehead, province’s best await

Gaels drop six straight sets against top opponents

Rough road ahead Swept from the court B Y S EAN L IEBICH Staff Writer With their eyes on the fourth spot in the OUA East, women’s volleyball is hoping to make a mark in the coming weeks as they face tough inter-division competition.

Queen’s improved to 4-2 this weekend as they beat the Lakehead Thunderwolves in three straight sets. The squad earned victory by a greater margin in each set, winning 25-22, 25-19 and 25-13.

Head coach Joely Christian-Macfarlane said the match was the team’s most consistent of the season.

“I was really happy with our execution in terms of how we managed the match,” she said.

Outside hitter Kelsey Bishop led the way offensively, recording 12 kills in the match, while rookie setter Gabrielle Down contributed 29 assists. On the defensive side,

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Brett Hagarty’s 10 digs led the team.

Christian-Macfarlane said the team geared their offence towards Lakehead’s smaller left-side blockers.

“We ran our offence to attack what their weaknesses were,” she said. “So Kelsey got quite a few more balls than anyone else on the court.”

Despite the victory, it’s going to be an uphill battle for the women’s volleyball team to accomplish their goal of finishing in fourth.

Over the next two weeks, they face three of the top four teams in the OUA East to close off the 2013 portion of their season.

The fourth-place Ryerson Rams boast a 4-0 record in their home barn, and the third-place Toronto Varsity Blues have a 3-0 record at home.

To top it all off, the following weekend, the Gaels host the second-best team in the OUA, the Ottawa Gee-Gees. Ottawa has gone an impressive 3-1 on the road this year, with their only loss coming to the undefeated York Lions.

Christian-Macfarlane acknowledges the competition that comes with playing against top-tier squads.

“Those matches will be a challenge for us in terms of playing at that level all three matches,” she said. “It’s important that we’re strict and disciplined about our execution on our side of the court, and not too worried about what they’re doing on their side of the court.”

On the plus side, Queen’s has played two fewer games than all of the teams they will play before the break. A strong push now could lead to a major rise in the standings.

The team is also coming off a rather light weekend, where they played only one game and earned a quick victory in straight sets.

The key matchup for this weekend is the Ryerson game, due to its potential impact on the OUA East standings. A Queen’s victory would close the gap between the Gaels and the Rams, tying them in fourth, while a loss would widen it to four points, making the Gaels road tougher for the remainder of the season.

The Gaels will enter the contest against the Rams riding a two-game and six-set win streak.

Outside hitter Philippe Goyer led the Gaels with 16 kills in the two games.

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An injury-hampered men’s volleyball squad fell twice in straight sets this weekend, sliding to 3-3 after back-to-back road losses.

The Gaels (3-3) started their road trip against the Waterloo Warriors (7-2), losing in three sets 25-21, 25-21 and 25-18.

The team is having injury troubles, with last year’s leading scorer, Mike Tomlinson, out until the holiday break. He’s been participating in practices, but is currently limited to isolation drills.

Head coach Brenda Willis thought her team played a good game in Waterloo, but lacked consistency from start to finish.

Outside hitter Philippe Goyer provided 11 kills and Will Sidgwick tallied four, while libero Ivo Dramov helped on the defensive side with five digs.

The Gaels had 21 errors compared to the Warriors’ 12 .

One day after facing Waterloo, the Gaels were swept by the McMaster Marauders 25-21, 25-12 and 25-23.

The Marauders (6-0) were last year’s champions and are the only team besides Queen’s to win the OUA title since 2006.

Even though the team lost, Willis wasn’t discouraged with the team’s play.

“I thought we played some of our best volleyball this season, but obviously I’m disappointed with the outcome,” she said.

— With files from Sean Sutherland The offensive effort was led by Goyer

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and Stephen Holmes, with five and six kills respectively.

On the defensive end, Holmes registered five digs, while Matthew Bonshor and Jacob Glantz each contributed four. Scott Brunet stepped up with two solo-blocks.

Willis thought the team bounced back in this game, but said McMaster was more refined than Queen’s.

Despite the loss, she feels the Gaels are still eager.

“There is no sense of pessimism on the team right now,” she said. “We just need to be patient.”

Queen’s benefited from the return of some key players this weekend. Middle blocker Tyler Scheerhoorn is back in the mix but not back in full force, having played in one set of each game, contributing only one dig.

The Gaels are looking ahead to another two road games this weekend in Toronto, the first tonight against the Ryerson Rams (5-3).

“Ryerson is pretty physical. We’re going to work on hitting high and mixing up our shots,” Willis said.

At 3-3, the Gaels aren’t playing up to their potential, she added.

“We have the talent in every position to be top two in the OUA.” After Ryerson, the men will play Toronto (2-6) tomorrow. Two more home games are scheduled before the winter break, when the team will embark on a tour in Bulgaria.

SPORTS

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2013

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Late run leads to loss Blowout win overshadowed by fourth-quarter struggles B Y J ERRY Z HENG Staff Writer Women’s basketball’s inability to close cost them a perfect weekend.

The Gaels (3-3) fell 66-62 to the Laurier Golden Hawks (5-1) last Friday and blew out the Waterloo Warriors (2-3) 60-43 on Saturday.

It was a back-and-forth affair against Laurier until the fourth quarter. The Gaels held onto a sixpoint lead with five minutes to play in the final frame, but allowed the Golden Hawks to go on a 12-2 run to close out the game.

Head coach Dave Wilson was disappointed with this particular loss.

“We did so many things well in that game, especially in our offensive reads,” he said. “It’s like there was a lid on the basketball at critical times.”

Wing Gemma Bullard, who finished with eight points, thought they were going to come out on top.

“There wasn’t really any point in that game where there was any doubt in my mind that we were going to win it,” Bullard said. “It was really disappointing [to lose], especially to a team that wasn’t as skilled as we were.

“They’re nothing special … we were definitely going into that confident,” she added.

Liz Boag led the Gaels with 17 points, while shooting 63 per cent from the field. She was perfect from beyond the arc, going 3-3.

Both teams shot well from the floor. The Gaels shot 43.1 per cent, while going 66.7 per cent from the three-point line. Laurier was 44.1 per cent from the field and 45.5 per cent from the three-point territory.

Against the Warriors, the Gaels had their first double-digit win of the season.

They had early troubles scoring in the first period, registering only eight points to the Warriors’ 19, but outscored them in every ensuing period and held Waterloo to only five points in the fourth quarter.

When the Gaels pulled ahead of the Warriors in the third quarter, Waterloo wasn’t able to come back to overtake them for the rest of the game.

Robyn Pearson had a monster game as she led the team in both points and rebounds with 16 apiece. Boag was held scoreless in the game.

The Gaels will return home this weekend to face the McMaster Marauders (5-1) and the Brock Badgers (4-2) on Friday and Saturday, respectively.

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managed to score two power play goals, but they had our number on five-on-five today,” Holmberg said.

Lancers forwards Bree Polci and Erinn Noseworthy scored within 30 seconds of each other to put the game away at the halfway point of the third period. Noseworthy scored a hat-trick on the day, while Jenny MacKnight, the leading scorer in the OUA, added three assists for the Lancers.

McHaffie tallied a power play goal late in the game to round out the scoring.

On Sunday, the Gaels successfully killed off five more

shorthanded chances against Western in a penalty-filled affair, in which the two teams combined for 28 penalty minutes.

Queen’s had 44 shots on net against Western, but Wakefield was the only Gael to score in regulation, 29 seconds into the third period.

The Mustangs evened the score seven minutes later. After overtime solved nothing, the Gaels headed into a shootout for the fifth time this season.

In the shootout, Pilon — the Gaels’ first shooter — scored, while Dodd-Moher turned away all three Western attempts.

With the win, Queen’s improved to 1-2 this year in the shootout.

Before the weekend started,

Queen’s announced that Holmberg had signed a long-term contract extension to stay at the helm of the program through the end of the 2017-18 season.

“Obviously, I’m very happy with [the extension] because this job is a passion of mine and I have a love for this school,” Holmberg said. “We have a big group of first years this year — there’s 11 of them — and signing an extension means I can see them develop and grow throughout their careers.”

Queen’s will travel up north this weekend to face the Laurentian Voyageurs (5-7-0) tomorrow and the Nipissing Lakers (4-8-0) on Sunday.

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‘We’re a work in progress’ Continued from page 15

falling offensively.”

The Gaels won the battle of the boards in both contests, outrebounding the Golden Hawks 38-37 and wiping the glass clean, grabbing 50 rebounds to the Warriors’ 23.

Last season, the Gaels struggled to rebound and found themselves losing games because of it.

Since the start of training camp, Barrie has emphasized the importance of rebounding to the team’s success, but also realizes the Gaels must improve in other

facets of the game to become an elite team.

“Our rebounding has been improving over the past couple weeks and [we] are happy about that, but the reality is it’s not enough,” Barrie said. “Our turnovers are still too high and that is the next area we have to work on.

“If we can get those things combined, then we have our best chances to win.”

With the Gaels fielding a small, guard-heavy lineup that starts the 6’5” Misljencevic at centre, rebounds will only come if the

Gaels put in maximum effort.

Meanwhile, turnovers are Queen’s latest issue for the Gaels, as they gave up the ball 17 times in both games.

“We’re a work in progress,” Barrie said. “There’s no question there has been improvement with turnovers and rebounds, but we are not where we need to be yet.”

The Gaels are back in Kingston this weekend after two weekends on the road.

They’ll host the McMaster Marauders (3-3) tonight and the York Lions (4-2) tomorrow, with both games starting at 8 p.m.

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offensively this year,” Gibson said.

Defenceman Patrick McEachen and forwards Harrison Hendrix and Tyler Moore also added goals for the Gaels against Guelph.

Meanwhile, Kelly Jackson was the Gaels’ lone goal-scorer against the Mustangs, tallying a shorthanded marker late in the second period.

Gibson wasn’t surprised by Jackson’s team-leading fifth goal of the season. “[He’s] been our most consistent performer all year,” Gibson said.

Matt Clarke scored the winner for Western, putting the puck past Gaels netminder Kevin Bailie with only 18 seconds left in the extra frame.

Bailie played well in net for

the Gaels in both games over the weekend, stopping 25 shots on both nights.

In front of Bailie, a trio of Queen’s defenders were key to shutting down the opposition in Gibson’s mind. “[Chris] Van Laren, [Patrick] Downe, and [Stephane] Chabot all played well on defence for us over the weekend,” he said. “To only give up four goals in regulation over two games says a lot about their play.”

The Gaels are aiming to continuously build on their success.

Still, they remain wary of the dangers that can come around playoff time, having been swept in the first round of the playoffs the past three years.

Gibson believes that it’s an asset

that most of the Gaels’ games have gone into overtime.

“Every game we’re looking at getting better,” he said. “We don’t want to make the playoffs and get bounced out in two or three games.

We’re used to playing longer games and that’ll be useful once the games start to really count.”

The Gaels have two home games scheduled against the OUA West-leading Windsor Lancers this weekend.

Gibson emphasized the importance of proper preparation for the set of games.

“Playing them twice in one weekend, we’re preparing like it’s a football game,” he said.“We’ll be watching a lot of film so there’s no surprises about what they’ll be doing.”

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Lack of campus courts Continued from page 15

people, and then organize it themselves,” Rivet-Crothers said. “That’s the extent of the recreational part. It died when we weren’t given club status anymore.”

To drum up interest for the competitive team this September, the club squeezed themselves into the Tricolour Open House at the Queen’s Centre, despite not having an official booth in the lobby or the main gym of the ARC. Instead, the captains sat down across from the DrugSmart Pharmacy, stacking a few tennis racquets on the table in front of them.

Roughly 70 interested students signed up, according to Rivet-Crothers, while the club received 60 more emails afterwards.

The captains said they’ve received mixed messages from Athletics over why tennis isn’t a viable athletic club.

According to Rivet-Crothers, Associate Director of Business Development and Facilities Jeff Downie was initially supportive of a tennis club, but said it couldn’t be sanctioned due to a lack of suitable facilities.

Conversely, Rivet-Crothers said another Athletics official pointed to a lack of interest in tennis among students as the reason it shouldn’t be ratified.

“It’s just stupid — it’s unfounded,” Rivet-Crothers said. “We have [around] 78 people try out every year consistently, without a platform.

“People call the ARC asking for tennis.

People go to Clubs Night and ask for tennis,” he added. “It’s a bit of bullshit on their side.”

Even with a potential lack of outdoor facilities, Rivet-Crothers said tennis could be played year-round in the gym at Duncan McArthur Hall.

“There’s a tennis court outline on the gym at West Campus,” he said. “I played six years of my life on a rubber surface, and it was totally fine … Even though it’s [only] one court, it’s still good for us.”

In an interview with the Journal, Downie said Athletics can’t support a tennis club due to a lack of suitable courts on campus.

“We don’t have the facilities here at Queen’s,” Downie said. “There’s really nothing that’s changed from years past here.

We certainly would love to be able to support a tennis community, but we don’t have the facilities to do so, unfortunately.”

While there are sets of courts located near Nixon Field and Richardson Stadium, both are unfit for play, and Downie said Athletics isn’t currently planning to refurbish them.

According to Downie, Queen’s best tennis courts were located outdoors on the roof of the old Jock Harty Arena. Those were torn down along with the hockey rink in 2007.

“With those being gone, there are really no other good facilities on this campus, unfortunately,” he said.

Athletics considers a number of criteria when deciding whether to sanction recreational and competitive clubs, according to Downie, including coaching, funding and student interest.

“Tennis, currently, doesn’t score well on some of those, and the leading one is facilities,” he said.

Downie said that because Queen’s doesn’t have suitable courts, Athletics hasn’t sought to evaluate interest in tennis among the student body.

“Are there tennis players in our community? Of course there are — people play every sport in our community,” he said.

“It is unfortunate that we can’t meet their needs right now.”

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ON DECK CIRCLE MEN’S BASKETBALL Friday, Nov. 22, Gaels (4-2) vs.

Marauders (3-3).

8 p.m.: McMaster

Saturday, Nov. 23, 8 p.m.: Gaels vs.

Brock Badgers (0-6).

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Friday, Nov. 22, Gaels (3-3) vs.

Marauders (5-1).

8 p.m.: McMaster

Voyageurs (5-7-0).

Sunday, Nov. 24, 2 p.m.: Gaels @ Nipissing Lakers (4-8-0).

MEN’S VOLLEYBALL Friday, Nov. 22, 8 p.m.: Gaels (3-3) @ Ryerson Rams (5-3).

Saturday, Nov. 23, 6 p.m.: Gaels @ Toronto Varsity Blues (2-6).

WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL

Saturday, Nov. 23, 8 p.m.: Gaels vs.

Brock Badgers (4-2).

Friday, Nov. 22, 6 p.m.: Gaels (4-2) @ Ryerson Rams (5-3).

MEN’S HOCKEY

Saturday, Nov. 23, 8 p.m.: Gaels @ Toronto Varsity Blues (6-2).

Friday, Nov. 22, 7:30 p.m.: Gaels (6-0-5) vs. Windsor Lancers (9-2-0).

Saturday, Nov. 23, 7:30 p.m.: Gaels vs. Windsor.

WOMEN’S HOCKEY Saturday, Nov. 23, 3:45 p.m.: Gaels (9-1-3) @ Laurentian

Follow @QJSports.

ACROSS

1. Double agent 5. Core of a PC 8. Million-byte units 12. Line of rotation 13. Trench 14. Pronto, on a memo 15. Woody barbecue fuel 17. Tear down 18. Pismire 19. Butterfly catcher 20. Team 21. Central 22. “Skip to My —” 23. Jeweler’s measure 26. Berry used to make gin 30. Culture medium 31. Candy in a dispenser 32. Unaccompanied 33. Big feast 35. Yo-Yo Ma’s instrument 36. Dos Passos trilogy 37. That guy’s 38. Host 41. Enthusiast 42. “Acid” 45. Vegan’s no-no 46. Summertime pest 48. Fails to be 49. Umpire’s call 50. Accomplishment 51. Quaker address 52. Raw mineral 53. Partially mine

DOWN

1. One of the Three Bears 2. The yoke’s on them 3. Roster 4. Abbr. after a lawyer’s name 5. Wept 6. Green shot 7. Multipurpose truck 8. Earls’ superiors 9. Birthright barterer

10. Middle Eastern strip 11. Raced 16. One 20. Junior 21. Lewis : Clark :: — : Joliet 22. Light (Sp.) 23. Taxi 24. Khan title 25. Sprinted 26. Lustrous black 27. Dem. or Rep. 28. Right angle 29. Kanga’s kid 31. Shell game item 34. Work with 35. Five (Fr.) 37. Waste maker 38. Send forth 39. Netting 40. Walking stick 41. Quartet 42. Stead 43. Celebrity 44. Morse morsels 46. Cattle call 47. Venusian vessel?

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postscript

Local Food

Milking the charm Limestone Organic Creamery puts an old spin on innovation B y D avid C arpenter E rin S ylvester Journal Staff

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While the flavour of Limestone Organic Creamery’s milk is fresh, their approach to farming is time-tested and traditional.

In 1989, Kathie Groenewegen and her husband Francis took over running the business from Kathie’s parents, whose family began farming the land in 1967. The couple switched to organic farming practices in 1998.

When we arrived at the Creamery shop it felt like stepping back to a simpler time when things were homemade.

Old-style furnishings with chipped paint decorate the shop, and butter was browning on the stove for ginger cookies.

We immediately felt cozy and welcome.

Produced by cows at the small family-owned farm just outside of Kingston, the milk is processed and even bottled there. It can also be delivered right to your door.

For around 240 Kingston area families, this is the case once per week. The Groenegewen couple, along with their two children Patrick and Olivia, serve Kingston with the only farm-fresh milk delivery in this region.

According to Kathie, running a milk delivery service in Kingston fits with the local foodie culture.

“Kingston is a really progressive city when it comes to the local food movement, and the slow food movement and organic food,” she said. “We thought that it would be an ideal spot to have a home delivery service.”

Kathie said the organic and local food movements are very important to the Groenewegen family, which is why they decided to run their farm organically. They process the milk from their cows in the creamery, which they opened in the spring of last year.

“We get to actually oversee the whole process right from the seed going into the ground to harvesting the crop, and feeding the

cows and then milking and taking our milk down to plant ... and selling it right directly to our neighbours and consumers,” Kathie said.

“There are no hormone residues in the milk and I think that’s pretty important, so we’d like to see the map dotted with little processing plants again like it used to be,” she said.

Nostalgia seems to be a recurring theme with the Limestone Creamery and farm.

At first, we were almost overwhelmed by the number of fresh, homemade products displayed in the homey shop. Limestone’s organic milk isn’t the only product sold at the store.

They also offer fresh baked goods, ice cream from Kawartha Dairy Company and Slicker’s, homemade pasta from Pasta Tavola and a variety of spices and ingredients.

When the Groenewegens decided to open the store, they wanted to include their friends and neighbours in the endeavour by giving them a place to sell their products.

“It helps bring people into the store,” Kathie said, “and I think it also helps [the farmers] to have an outlet.”

Eventually we decided to try the chocolate milk, a choice praised by other shoppers. The thick and creamy whole milk was, without a doubt, the greatest milk we had ever tasted.

This is apparently a common reaction from Limestone’s customers and one that inspires the Groenewegen’s to continue selling their own milk.

“People tell us every day how much they love it and the mothers tell [us] that their kids won’t drink anything else. We have so many young families that are consuming our milk that we feel really good about that,” she said.

Kathie said she suspects that the glass bottles their milk comes in may have something to do with the flavour.

“Those glass bottles keep the milk colder and I think the milk actually lasts longer and it

just tastes better when you don’t have the flavour of the carton or the plastic bag,” she said.

The bottles have more benefits than just improving the flavour of the milk.

“We chose [them] because we can reuse them at least twenty times and it will save a lot in a landfill,” Kathie said.

Kathie said there’s been much focus placed on ultra-high temperature pasteurization within milk production. This process ensures that milk can sit for 42 days, she said.

“We just can’t figure out why you’d want to drink milk that’s 42 days old, you know?”

Kathie said.

Some of their customers even prefer their milk non-homogenized, meaning that the cream separates and sits on top of the milk.

“You can either skim it for your coffee or shake it up and mix it in and a lot of people like it and it has one less process on it,” she said. “I guess [it’s enjoyed] by people that remember milk the way it used to be. They get sort of nostalgic.”

Although the Creamery is known for its old-fashioned atmosphere, it recently won a Premier’s Award for Agri-Food Innovation.

“It seems kinda crazy to innovate something that’s already been done but I guess it’s something that hasn’t been done for a long time so it is kind of new to sell milk directly,” she said.

According to Kathie, around 18 local businesses receive weekly deliveries of the Creamery’s freshest milk.

The Creamery also supplies dairy products for St. Lawrence College’s culinary program.

The folks down at the Creamery provide more than just milk that’s good to the last drop.

Sharing with the local community is the most important part of running the farm, Kathie said.

“My favourite part is that we can actually produce something that’s valuable and that’s good for everyone,” Kathie said.

The Creamery store offers a quaint atmosphere.

Photos by Chloe Sobel