The Queen's Journal, Volume 141, Issue 14

Pedaling to progress An in-depth look at the state of page 3 cycling in Kingston

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CRIME

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Student Ghetto sees a surge in computer thefts B Y A BBY A NDREW Assistant News Editor Sixteen break-and-enters were reported to the Kingston Police Force over Homecoming weekend, with Macbook Pros being the most commonly stolen item.

Haley Campbell, who lives on Aberdeen St., had her laptop taken from her room on Saturday night, she said.

“I went out, I didn’t sleep at my house ... came back the next morning and ... went to look for my laptop and it wasn’t where I remember putting it,” Campbell, See Police on page 7

ARTS

In spaces of spectacle Artist Lynne Marsh is the first to take up residency at the AEAC PHOTO BY CHARLOTTE GAGNIER

KPF reported an increase in stolen laptops last weekend.

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B Y J ANINE A BULUYAN Staff Writer Lynne Marsh’s performance and video pieces concentrate on time and location — and the subtleties of everyday life.

Marsh is the fall 2013 visiting Artist in Residence at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre (AEAC).

In partnership with Queen’s University, the AEAC started this

initiative to welcome artists, explore new ways of exhibition-making and facilitate artistic collaborations in Kingston. Marsh is the first to take part in the initiative.

Marsh fell in love with the arts through an intense need to be creative.

“I always loved painting and drawing as a kid — I wanted to do something creative,” she said. “I went to art galleries […] and then

Lynne Marsh’s work will show at next year’s Toronto International Film Festival

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art school.”

As AEAC’s Artist in Residence, Marsh will be continuing the conversation with the cultural studies program.

She’ll be working in the studio on her latest project, reflecting on and getting feedback on her previous works and doing research for future projects.

“To do that in the context of See Capturing on page 12

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MENTAL HEALTH

Colour captures “1 in 4” event showcases prevalence of mental health diagnoses on campus B Y O LIVIA B OWDEN Assistant News Editor Roughly a quarter of Queen’s students were diagnosed with a mental illness in 2012, a statistic that led students to rally for mental health awareness on campus.

Students gathered outside of Stauffer Library on Wednesday to participate in the “1 in 4” event hosted by the Queen’s Mental Health Awareness Committee (MHAC).

The rally was part of the wider national movement of Mental Health Awareness Week, which was first implemented by the Canadian Psychiatric Association in 1992.

MHAC, the Canadian Mental Health Association in Kingston (CMHA) and the AMS Peer Support Centre made a joint effort to organize the rally.

Student volunteers, dressed in black clothing, lined up along University Ave. while passing out education material.

One out of every four wore a green shirt to represent a student with a mental illness.

Isabelle Harris, promotions coordinator for MHAC, said the visual element of the display will cause students to remember the statistic of “1 in 4”.

“The point of [the event] is to get people talking about the topic of mental health, and get people more educated,” Harris, ArtSci ’14, said.

“I would like everyone to start learning more about [mental health] and reduce the stigma.”

Harris said the creation of the event itself made an impact — a student had shared their experience dealing with mental illness to one of their professors, who then promoted the event in class.

“If one person walks away feeling more comfortable to discuss this topic, and not feeling like there is a stigma, [it’s] what really matters,” she said.

Harris, whose siblings have suffered from bipolar disorder, depression and substance abuse, said that she has witnessed a greater student effort to learn about mental health issues.

However, she said, there remains much to be done.

“There will always be people who know they are suffering from something, but we are still trying to figure out how to get those people comfortable enough to go and approach someone for help,” she said.

Dr. Mike Condra, director of Health, Counseling and Disability

Students take part in “1 in 4” in front of Stauffer Library on Wednesday.

Services (HCDS), spoke at the event, touching on the progress the University has made in regards to mental health over the past 20 years.

“It’s important that young people remember that people of my generation lived in a world where we didn’t talk about mental health,” he said.

“It’s a huge change.”

Condra said that the HCDS has spoken to over 6,000 Queen’s community members concerning mental health over the last six years.

“Mental illness can be an extremely lonely experience,” he said, adding that it’s important to

reach out to those who may appear to be suffering.

“Make sure you’re familiar with resources that are available [like the] Peer Support Centre, HCDS so that if your friend needs someone to talk to, you know how to help them,” he said.

Kiersten Forkes, a volunteer at the event, was drawn to participate given her own personal experience with mental health.

“Even trying to get help last year, I felt that there was a lot of stigma by choosing to go to the HCDS,” she said. “[It’s important] to make

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people more aware how prevalent mental illness is on campus, one in four is a pretty high statistic so it’s not something to be embarrassed or ashamed about.”

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to be approved for March 2014. It will detail how campus will develop over the next 10 to 15 years.

“Cycling figures prominently in the new Campus Master Plan,” said Yvonne Holland, the planning manager for Campus Planning.

Holland also said that they’ve been in consultation with the cycling community to further Road Cycling Coalition. It also develop plans directly related to hosted Cycling Sunday, a seven the CMP. Campus has space on racks for kilometre bicycle ride along Front Rd. and King St. to promote about 2,000 to 2,500 bikes on main campus and they’re looking active transportation. to increase these numbers, she said.

With bike lane solutions still Priority should go in progress, many students have to walking first, then become frustrated with the biking, buses and current situation in Kingston and then the car is last ... on campus. that’s the hierarchy of Natasha Bowman, ArtSci ’15, said she rides her bike everywhere transportation. she can, every day of the week.

However, Bowman said she — Dan Franco, professional engineer for the City isn’t completely pleased with the of Kingston resources for cyclists in the area.

“I think that we’re heading By putting bike lanes in, Franco in the right direction, but at the said, the City is helping to build the present moment, I’d have to infrastructure to make Kingston say that no, [Kingston] isn’t [a more bike-friendly, and the awards bike-friendly place],” she said.

A lack of bike lanes is one of the and education initiatives show that causes of Bowman’s problems.

Kingston is on the right track.

“When bike lanes do exist, there But, he said, there’s always are usually substantial obstructions room for improvement.

Kingston can be found on a in them, which makes safe and similar level when compared to law-abiding biking difficult,” she said. “If I have to quickly swerve other cities’ cycling initiatives.

Municipalities such as Guelph, to avoid an obstruction, I’m either Mississauga, Burlington, Markham swerving onto the road or onto and a few others also received the the sidewalk.”

One of her other frustrations is Bronze Award from the Share the Road Cycling Coalition in 2012, traveling by bike right after class, while cities like Ottawa, Waterloo when many students crowd the and Toronto have won the streets and step into the lanes, causing a safety issue. silver award.

“Bikers have to stay close to “It’s not a contest,” he said.

“But, we know Kingston has the sidewalk, so if you even step some unique features other places into our lane without giving us any don’t and we know we have a indication that you are going to do lot of features that are similar to so, you are seriously endangering your life and ours,” she said. other cities.”

With so many cyclists in Franco said that keeping Kingston a bike-friendly Kingston, regulating traffic is community will be a top priority in important for the Kingston Police Force (KPF). future planning.

For KPF, the month of The City’s current multi-year capital plan ends at the end of September was dedicated to 2014. They’ll fulfill the cycling enforcing rules of the road for initiatives outlined in this plan and cycling as part of Selective Traffic will look to create a new one for Enforcement Program (STEP) 2015-18. Franco said they‘ll still initiative, which focuses on a plan to keep cyclists in mind when different law under the Highway Traffic Act each month. developing the new plan.

Education was a large part of The University also has its sights set on making campus a more the recent crackdown on bicyclists, according to Steve Koopman, bike-friendly environment.

A new Campus Master Plan media relations officer for (CMP) is in development and is set the KPF.

A lane of their own

Queen’s and the City of Kingston make plans with bicyclists in mind as new Princess St. bike lanes are approved B y R achel H erscovici Features Editor As cycling becomes a hot button issue, the City of Kingston says it’s on the right track to becoming a bike-friendly municipality.

According to Dan Franco, professional engineer for the City of Kingston, right now, bike lanes have been planned and approved for Princess St. through Williamsville and scheduled to be put in next year.

The City committed $450,000 a year for the past three years for this expansion.

“You can see how serious [the City] is about biking if they’re spending a lot of dollars and committing a lot of funds to expand the cycling network,” he said.

“The City is serious about active transportation.”

Active transportation refers to human-powered travel, including walking or biking.

Riding your bike instead of using a car promotes an active lifestyle, is easier on the wallet and better for the environment.

Kingston has a 2.4 per cent bicycle mode share, which is the percentage of travelers using bicycles as a form of transportation to work. This is high compared to other Canadian cities, according to Franco. Toronto’s mode share sits below Kingston’s at 1.7 per cent, as calculated in 2006.

“The priority should go to walking first, then biking, buses and then the car is last,” he said. “That’s the hierarchy of transportation.”

Promoting cycling, however, isn’t new to the City.

City policy states that the City “should actively promote pedestrian and cycling travel as progressive, socially responsible and enjoyable” and that they “should lead by example. Adopt programs to encourage walking and cycling by City employees.”

In 2004, the Kingston Transportation Master Plan (KPMP) further solidified these objectives.

These ideas did come with some setbacks, doubts and

challenges, however.

The Williamsville Main Street Study, approved by City Council in February 2012, initially determined that Princess St. couldn’t accommodate cycling lanes.

This triggered “The Williamsville Main Street Study: Review of Cycling Lanes”, a new, more in-depth study on how to make bike lanes happen after the community voiced concerns about the prior study.

It was completed and concluded that bike lanes could, in fact, be put in at the expense of removing some on-street parking — a decision City Council opted to make.

While there’s still some resistance to this decision, Franco said that for now, the project is moving forward.

These lanes in particular are buffered lanes, which means they’re painted in with no barrier between them and the motorist lanes.

New bike lanes were put in on University Ave. up to Princess St. a few weeks ago. According to Franco, they won’t stop there.

“There was an identified need ... for pedestrians and cyclists,” he said. “You’ve got a wider sidewalk, some cycling lanes … on-street parking was removed.”

Other locations of interest are Brock and Johnson Streets between Sir John A. Macdonald Blvd. and Division St. “We do have [more] cycling lanes planned for that sometime next year,” he confirmed, adding that they’ve already been approved

by City Council.

All this work hasn’t gone unrecognized.

While there’s always improvements to be made, the City of Kingston applied for and won the Bike-Friendly Community (BFC) Bronze recognition from the Share the Road Cycling Coalition in 2012 for investing in its cycling infrastructure.

The City also promotes active transportation through its Bike Summit, held in March in association with the Share the

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The mass ticketing caused some outrage among students. Some said they felt uneducated, undeserving of a fine or unprepared for the ticket they received.

Koopman said that two weeks into September, the program was started to educate and warn students about the rules of the road for a cyclist.

“Pretty much the rules of the road that apply to a vehicle, apply to a bicycle,” he said, adding that bike lanes may also be a good idea to help promote proper traffic flow and obedience of traffic laws.

“Bicycles lanes, I think, do offer that buffer,” Koopman said.

“From the studies that are done, they appear to make a difference in regards to creating that space between the [motor] vehicle and the bicycle.”

When you’re not riding your bike, keeping it locked up and safe is also a major concern. Bike thefts are definitely on the rise, said Koopman.

KPF does recover many stolen bikes whose owners haven’t been identified.

“Sometimes we have as much as 200 bicycles going up for auction,” he said. “The reason they’re going up for auction is that people haven’t reported them to police, or ... people actually have reported it to police but don’t have any details on their bicycle.”

Koopman recommends taking a photo of your bike, noting identifiable or unique features of it as well as keeping track of your bike’s serial number found, normally, at the bottom of the bike.

If your bike is stolen, you can report this number to be recorded in the Canadian Police Information Centre database, where the bike will be listed as stolen, boosting chances of recovery.

Koopman says that KPF is also looking into the feasibility and logistics of creating a bicycle registry for people to register their bikes with KPF in advance, giving them the details and the serial number. In the case of a theft, your bike will already be on file, making it easier to report.

“It’s usually opportunistic thefts.

These guys are not high-end thieves, they’re not master safe crackers, it’s normally opportunistic where a bike will be left unlocked or it will be locked in a poor fashion,” he said.

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Muslim students subject to hate crime Police investigate incident where six students physically and verbally assaulted by group of four men B y Vincent B en M atak News Editor Six Queen’s students are the victims of a hate crime that took place on Sunday, according to Kingston police.

The male students, who self-identify as Muslim, were walking home from Empire Theatres near Division St. and Highway 401 at approximately 1:30 a.m. when they were assaulted by four Caucasian males.

The assault itself happened closer to the downtown core, at Fraser and Patrick Streets.

Approximated to be between 18-25 years old, the group approached the students on bicycles, yelling hate-based profanities and racial slurs while

wielding a baseball bat.

Faraz Naeem, one of the victims of the attack, said they were approached by the males, who were drunk and offering to sell them drugs.

“As they turned onto Fraser St. these four guys started chasing [us] who are all Muslim and they started screaming out ... foul languages and racial hate speeches,” Naeem, Sci ’14 said, adding they originally thought the attackers wielded a machete.

“We were terrified because we thought it was really a machete and the guy was going to literally slit open and kill everyone,” he said.

“They caught one guy and they hit him on the biceps and the thigh area, but it turned out to be a baseball bat, not a machete.”

The attack, which Kingston Police have classified as a hate crime, left one student with minor injuries.

Steve Koopman, Kingston Police media relations officer, said police don’t suspect the assailants to be Queen’s students, given the area the assault took place. He added the victims, who were unable to be contacted, had no association with their attackers.

“The fact that they are visible minorities is why we feel it’s a hate-based crime,” Koopman said. “They did not know them ... there was no reason for an assault to occur.”

Police are currently investigating and looking for the suspects, one of which was photographed by the students.

“We are treating it seriously,” he said. “It wasn’t just a simple assault,

One of the assailants captured on camera.

as there was a weapon involved with one of the suspects.”

Anybody with additional information is asked to call Kingston Police Detective Jay Finn at 613-549-4660 text 6228 or via email at jfinn@kpf.ca.

Anonymous tips can be made to Crime Stoppers at 1-800222-8477 (TIPS) or on the website at www.tipsubmit.com.

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Group contests city count HIV/AIDS Regional Services claims survey too intrusive B y O livia B owden and Vincent B en M atak Journal Staff The City of Kingston is set to survey homeless people in the downtown core next week, despite strong opposition from local social groups.

The census, termed a Point-in-Time (PIT) Count, is part of Kingston’s 10-year Municipal Housing & Homelessness Plan.

The census will be conducted every two years over the next decade.

The PIT count is being implemented by the Housing Department along with United Way Kingston, Frontenac Lennox and Addington, who will provide up to 200 volunteers to conduct the census.

The census will take place on Oct. 16. The City also plans to survey rural areas over a two-week period alongside Frontenac County.

The City has stated the survey’s purpose is to garner data to better provide for homeless people in the area, in terms of social programs and public services offered to them.

Despite this, HIV/AIDS Regional Services (HARS) is contesting the survey’s methodology, claiming its questions are too intrusive and

inconsiderate of the experiences of local homeless people. The service is also questioning the accuracy of a PIT count.

“The methodology being used is very flawed,” Deb Kinder, women & HIV/AIDS coordinator at HARS, said. “It’s going to cause a ton of triggers for a lot of people.”

The survey questions may potentially be indicting in nature, she added.

“How would [anyone] feel if three people were approaching [them] at night and asking all kinds of intrusive questions?” she said.

“Many people could have just had peaceful nights, but some could be criminalized for this process.”

Kinder said HARS was not invited to take part in City-run consultation regarding the survey. She said it was a disappointing oversight given their experience dealing with the homeless in Kingston.

“We really do have a fair relationship with quite a number of street-involved people because we’ve got a drop-in centre and lots of people use that space,” she said, adding the census may invoke inaccuracies from those surveyed given its political nature.

“Imagine somebody is walking

up the street and asking if [those surveyed] have used the services of a patrol officer this month? Well, they’re going to be pretty afraid to answer truthfully,” Kinder said.

HARS mass emailed a letter on Wednesday which outlined their concerns. Other groups and agencies have signed the letter, including The Sexual Assault Centre of Kingston, and the Levana Gender Advocacy Centre.

Sheldon Laidman, director of the Housing Department at the City of Kingston, said he dismissed the groups’ concerns, claiming that the list of questions to be included in the survey has undergone heavy revision since its initial proposal.

He added an extensive consultative process, which included 20-30 local organizations, took place before the questions were finalized.

The questions, which Laidman emailed to the Journal, ranged from asking how a person ended up homeless, to their health issues, their financial situation and where they may possibly receive assistance.

“I think we’ve gone to great lengths to make sure the questions are appropriate,” he said.

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GRADUATE ADMISSIONS

French studies admission suspension revisited School of Graduate Studies to discuss future options of program at Oct. 17 meeting B Y S EBASTIAN L ECK Assistant News Editor The department of French studies is meeting with the School of Graduate Studies (SGS) and the Faculty of Arts and Science on Oct. 17 to discuss the future of the program.

The suspension of the French Studies graduate program will likely continue next year, according to department head Catherine Dhavernas.

She said the department has also looked into ideas for revamping the program.

Admissions to Master’s and PhD programs in French studies were suspended by the School of Graduate Studies last February due to a decline in applications.

No students were admitted to the program during the 2012-13 school year.

At the time of the announcement, the SGS stated that the program would be restructured and eventually reopened.

According to Dhavernas, the department is still in the early stages of planning, but it’s unlikely that admissions will reopen next year.

“As things stand, we will likely request that suspension of admissions be extended for another year,” she said.

Dhavernas said she is currently meeting with other members of her department, as well as with the SGS and Faculty of Arts and Science.

She said the faculty will also consult graduate students throughout the year.

François Rouget, the chair of graduate studies at the department of French studies, said the department has looked at two options for changes to the program: an entirely revamped French studies program or the creation of an University of Ottawa

inter-departmental program.

The reopening of the French studies program would be preferable, he said, but it will depend on the resources provided to the department by the Faculty.

“One idea has been the study of rhetorics,” he said. “We would offer mostly in English, but maybe also in French, with … philosophy, modern languages, maybe film studies, arts, English.”

Rouget said this would conserve resources, as the Faculty of Arts and Science could run the program at a lower cost.

His highest priority, he said, is full transparency among all the affected parties.

“Nobody should be kept in the dark about what is happening,” Rouget said.

It’s especially important that students are consulted, he said.

He hasn’t been able to meet with the School of Graduate Studies yet, Rouget said, and although Dhavernas has held meetings, he hasn’t been updated on their outcomes.

“You could say it is a bit of a communication gap,” he said.

Rouget said members of the department have worked on the two proposals together, which will be presented at an Oct. 17 meeting with the SGS. “I don’t want to talk about one thing and then the second afterwards, because when we reach the second part of the discussion, I think [graduate studies] will be gone.”

He said the department is already low on funding, as class tutorials have been cut and each of the professors teach five half-year courses rather than the usual four.

Despite this, Rouget said he doesn’t blame Queen’s, since all universities in Ontario are making cuts.

The responsibility lies with the provincial

government, he said.

“They are putting pressures on all the universities to make sure we deliver more with less,” he said.

Rouget added he wants to be certain that any collaboration between the

Department and the administration will be positive and transparent.

“I want to be proactive, because clearly if nothing is done, forget the program of French studies,” he said.

Admission to french studies could be suspended for another year.

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WEATHER

Rooftop cracks cause campus leaks Heavy rainfall on Monday made its watery way into Stauffer Library and Queen’s Pub B Y S EBASTIAN L ECK Assistant News Editor

can patch up the ceiling.”

She said QP hasn’t experienced a leak before.

“The problem was on the sixth floor,” Water leaks in both Stauffer Library and the JDUC were reported during the past week, she said. “It wasn’t anything to do with the pub … it could’ve been any room.” following heavy rainfall over the weekend.

It’s likely the heavy rainfall on Sunday Stephanie Johnson, The AMS Pub Services (TAPS) head manager, reported a caused the leak to actually become a problem, leak in the pub on Sunday morning, while she said.

Zach Wells, ArtSci ’14, said he noticed a student studying in Stauffer reported water dripping from the ceiling the the leak in Stauffer while studying on the first floor. following morning.

“I was right in the middle of Johnson called Physical Plant Services about a leak in the Queen’s Pub (QP), which the first floor, just past the stairs,” was then cordoned off in an area near the he said.

He said the water dripped onto his entrance while plumbers made repairs.

“It was dripping pretty consistently,” keyboard sporadically for an hour and a half.

“It was just three or four drops, not an she said.

“I came in on Sunday morning and intense leak or anything,” he said.

“Just enough to look up and wonder what saw a puddle.”

She said the leak has already been repaired, it was.”

John Witjes, the engineering and although the area can’t be reopened until the operations director at Physical Plant Services ceiling dries in two to three days.

“The problem’s been solved,” she said. (PPS), said the leak came from a cracked “Right now we’re waiting until it’s dry so they pane of glass in the skylight.

“[It] allowed water to seep through,” he said.

“It’s going to be repaired on Oct. 26, which is a Saturday.”

He said PPS will close off the area while they make repairs. To avoid disrupting activities in the library, he said, they scheduled the repairs for Homecoming weekend.

“We’re going to have to barricade the glass off on the floor level to reach up to the skylight,” Witjes said.

“We’re scheduling it around times when the library is not that busy.”

He said PPS has a regular maintenance program as well as longer-term roof replacement programs on their budget.

The speed of their response, he said,

depends on the severity of the leak. Some leaks, he said, are repaired immediately, while others take longer to fix.

“We dispatch people immediately to look at the leak and decide if it is serious or not,” he said.

For the Stauffer leak, he said, the University had to order glass panes, which will slow down the process.

He said the Stauffer roof is covered by the regular roof maintenance program, but it wasn’t the origin of the problem.

“It wasn’t really the roof that was leaking, it was the skylight,” he said.

“The roof isn’t that old so we wouldn’t expect it to leak.”

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Charity Week charts funds for its first year Queen’s University Muslim Student Association helps raise $4,000 for orphanages worldwide B y S tyna Tao Staff Writer From Sept. 30 to Oct. 4, the Queen’s University Muslim Student Association (QUMSA) rallied in support of the first annual Canadian Charity Week campaign.

Charity Week, a non-profit organization started by a network of University Islamic Societies in the UK, aims to unite Muslim youth upon Islam and support social causes.

Currently, Charity Week focuses on raising money on projects for orphans around the globe.

This is the first year that it has expanded into Canada, where 10 university Muslim associations, including QUMSA, responded positively to the idea.

It works in partnership with Islamic Relief, a UK-based charity which provides financial, logistical and moral resources.

Altogether, the inaugural Charity Week campaign at Queen’s raised just over $4,000.

Faraz Naeem, the president of QUMSA, estimated that about 300 to 400 people came out to the events each day.

Throughout the week, QUMSA hosted events such as a basketball shooting contest, henna and calligraphy drawing, as well as popcorn and cotton candy sales to raise money.

Though there was a suggested minimum donation for the items

being sold, QUMSA accepted all donations.

Naeem said he considers the campaign a success since more money was raised than expected, which they’re hoping will go towards providing psychological treatment for Syrian children.

He said he plans on organizing the campaign again next year, and hopes to collaborate with other

clubs and committees on campus on the events.

“Next year, I want to spread more awareness about the charity itself, and make it a more global message,” Naeem said.

“These activities create a revolution in terms of unity, and removes differences when you come together on one platform, no matter what cause.”

The first Charity Week

campaign was held in 2004, when it raised approximately £30,000.

All the money raised by students during Charity Week fund a project that is voted on by all the participants of the campaign.

The project may be rebuilding schools in Gaza, providing health and education for girls in Bangladesh slums or building dormitories for girls in rural China.

Although Charity Week as

an organization is founded on Islamic principles, Naeem said the campaign and its cause are not limited to Muslims.

“I want clubs to be more encouraged to these activities on campus,” he said.

“It promotes positivity on campus, and we can achieve much more through united effort.”

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Sci ’15, said.

Campbell said that she guarded the front door to ensure random party-goers didn’t stumble into her house on Saturday during the Aberdeen St. party.

She left at around 11 p.m. the same night and Campbell said she noticed the next morning that her 13” Macbook Pro had been stolen.

“Clearly people managed to worm their way in there,” she said.

“I don’t remember seeing anyone in the house.”

Dakota Cook also had her MacBook stolen from her apartment on Elm St., although it happened early Monday morning.

“At 10 a.m. I heard someone walk into the apartment but I just thought that it was one of my

roommates ... then I heard them leave,” Cook, ArtSci ’15, said.

“The scary part was we were all home when it happened.”

She said she reported the theft to the police force that morning, but they claimed that they could do little to help. “[I] got a new laptop and the guy at the campus computer store said that probably fifteen people since Frosh Week have come to buy a new laptop because [theirs] were stolen out of their house,” Cook said.

Samantha Hume, ArtSci ’15, also had her MacBook Pro stolen two weekends ago from her home at Johnson St. and Collingwood St. Hume said the back door was unlocked and was likely the point of entry, but her housemates were

asleep during the incident.

Constable Steve Koopman, media relations officer for Kingston Police, said that the break-ins took place between south of Princess St. and north of the waterfront, extending to the Cataraqui River.

“Unfortunately, being part of a resident household where you [live with multiple] people, is that [the thieves feel] comfort about having that many people around because quite often the doors are left unlocked and insecure,” said.

Koopman said that at 2 a.m. on Saturday, a house on the 200 block on Albert St. reported a MacBook Pro, iPad and Nintendo DS stolen.

A house on the 300 block on Brock St. also reported a MacBook Pro and Nikon camera stolen that same day.

“We have heard of a Queen’s university student losing a thesis because they had it on their laptop ... and their laptop was stolen,” he said.

Koopman said students should back up all information to cloud services like Dropbox or Google Drive to prevent the risk of losing valuable information.

He also said students should keep their blinds closed and doors and windows locked.

“It’s not always at night, it can be during the day. [The thieves] are very opportunistic,” he said.

“That’s alarming to a lot of people, that someone would boldly walk into a house knowing that somebody is there.”

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“It doesn’t make sense to punish Queen’s students as a whole for the actions of a small handful.”

Toss the costs The first Homecoming weekend who misbehave already pay the exorbitant fines doled out during has brought on yet another debate about policing costs and events like Homecoming. All student behaviour. While the other students pay property weekend’s celebrations triggered taxes through their rent, and large contributions many students to gather on make Aberdeen St., and Queen’s has to the local economy in a plethora contributed to policing costs in the of other direct and indirect ways.

Mayor Mark Gerretsen is the past, renewing such an agreement main voice calling on Queen’s to would be unjust.

It doesn’t make sense to punish compensate the City. This is Queen’s students as a whole for unfortunate for the proponents the actions of a small handful. of such a plan, as Gerretsen Additionally, Queen’s students has lost credibility in the already contribute a fair amount aftermath of the exaggerated of economic benefits to the City and divisive rhetoric he voiced over Homecoming weekend. of Kingston.

Gerretsen’s ongoing campaign Although the Aberdeen street party was much smaller to have students eliminated from this year than in previous years, census data for future municipal it got big enough to warrant elections, thus reduce student extra policing. However, it’s representation on council, makes important to note the composition his attempt to shake Queen’s of the crowd that called for this down for policing costs an extra attention from police: even greater farce. Gerretsen Approximately two-thirds of those is trying to get students to pay for policing while ticketed or arrested were not more simultaneously working to Queen’s students.

There’s no good argument eliminate their say in local politics.

It’s too bad that some students that differentiates Queen’s students that did participate see Homecoming solely as an from other Kingston residents. opportunity for a street party.

They were off campus, and they This tendency develops into a weren’t at a University-sanctioned mob mentality, which effectively event. Queen’s as an institution eliminates closing Aberdeen did its due diligence to prevent St. as an effectual resolution a recurrence of Homecoming’s to Homecoming’s problems.

That said, forcing Queen’s worst problems.

The fact that a tiny percentage to pay for policing costs is a of Queen’s students participated non-starter. What we need in the Aberdeen street now is leadership and a party shouldn’t come with renewed attempt to find alternative consequences for the entire student solutions. body: financing a fee for policing — Journal Editorial Board expenses. Queen’s students

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Busy buzz How busy are you at this very moment?

I ask, wondering what’s brought you to this brief reflection in the Journal’s most interior pages.

I’m flattered, and frankly, mildly bewildered, when someone tells me they’ve read one of my articles entirely, especially when people today seem busier than ever.

Our society glorifies many things, among them, being busy.

Among social pressures to be successful, sought-after and stereotypically attractive is the pressure to remain perpetually immersed in an endless set of tasks, to remain engaged with coworkers, peers, friends, acquaintances and even relative strangers, via email, text-messaging and a slew of social media platforms.

When someone is busy, it’s considered a good thing. After all, attending to a full to-do list, packed schedule and landslide of messages can’t mean you’re unsuccessful or overlooked. Being busy, therefore, must mean you’re doing something right.

Until very recently, I’d always loved keeping busy. My childhood and adolescence were absorbed with extra-curricular activities — conditioning conducive to joining an overachieving Queen’s population.

I was led to believe that busyness is synonymous with happiness.

I kept getting busier and busier, assuming I was doing myself a favour.

Until one day, amidst my feverish multi-tasking and over-zealous smartphone usage, I caught a glimpse of a woman sitting complacently on a wooden bench, reading a magazine, and sipping an iced tea.

That’s when I realized it.

Being busy doesn’t mean being happy, nor does it necessarily mean being productive.

I’ve spent an unreasonable number of hours detailing to-do lists when I could have actually done things.

Scheduling every second of my day isn’t a greater achievement than if I were to opt for a coffee break or enjoy a long lunch with a friend.

Sifting through emails seconds before going to bed isn’t accomplishing too much either, save insomnia.

As a wise teacher once told me, “you always have time for what you make time for.”

Perhaps the art of prioritization lies in a more laissez-faire approach.

Important things will get done because they must, while others will fall away, revealing how trivial they always were.

Priorities define our lives, but I’m not sure being busy should be one of them. There are far more worthwhile ways to spend one’s time.

I no longer believe in being busy.

I believe in prioritizing the things I love to do, and the people I love.

Because it’s a choice. I could choose to be busy, or I could choose to simply be.

Emily is one of the Journal’s Features Editors. She is a third-year Politics major.

Globe’s gambit During a recent publishing conference, Globe and Mail publisher Phillip Crawley said that the Globe is only interested in courting readers who made in excess of $100,000. While this statement may have some alienating effects, it’s simply an honest telling of the Globe’s longstanding tendency to cater towards a wealthier and more educated readership.

These are trying times for print journalism. Every newspaper is tinkering with different methods of garnering advertising money, readership and online subscribers.

The fact that the Globe is solidifying its reputation as a newspaper for “elite” readers is a pragmatic business decision.

If the Globe was Canada’s sole news service, this announcement would be much more problematic. However, there are newspapers and news outlets that cater to many different socioeconomic classes and political persuasions. As long as there’s still a wide variety of news offered to Canadians, then a single company’s business decision should not be cause for alarm.

The Globe’s announcement has some awkward implications, however. Readers who don’t make over $100,000 in a year might feel slighted. The large number of people who work for the Globe and don’t make enough money to be in its ideal readership demographic may resent their position. It’s also possible that the Globe’s editorial bias and news coverage could shift as its readership narrows. However, it has always been a somewhat elitist centre-right outlet, so any shift won’t be substantial.

If anything, it’s good that the Globe is being transparent and direct about a marketing strategy that it has employed for some time now. It’s always been a newspaper for the upper class, and now that Phillip Crawley has been honest about it, the discerning public can make more informed choices about whether to get their news from other sources.

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SEAN SUTHERLAND

Respect for Ryp There’s an argument to be made for removing fighting from hockey, but using Rick Rypien’s death to further that position is shameful.

Rypien played in 119 games with the Vancouver Canucks during his NHL career, serving as a fourth-line forward. As a hard-nosed physical player, a part of his job description was to fight from time to time.

While he won a fair number of battles on the ice, the one fight he never won was his battle with depression. On Aug. 15, 2011, Rypien took his own life at the age of 27.

Since then, almost every anti-fighting proponent has tried to pin his death on fighting. It seems like every time something controversial happens during a fight at the NHL level such as the recent injury to George Parros of the Montreal Canadiens sports writers are quick to use Rypien as an example of the dangers of fighting.

While he won a fair number of battles on the ice, the one fight he never won was his battle with depression. On Aug. 15, 2011, Rypien took his own life at the age of 27.

Using Rypien’s death in this manner is short-sighted, ignorant and simply wrong.

It’s a perfect example of cherry-picking facts

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Rypien had been suffering from depression for over ten years at the time of his death. This fact is never brought up when anti-fighting articles mention him, because it wouldn’t fit with the narrative. Instead, the only explanation for his suicide and his struggles with depression is fighting Rypien’s family and close friends don’t believe fighting caused his depression or led to his death, so why do people insist on pinning the blame on it?

Doing so is a slap in the face to anyone who has ever suffered from depression.

Instead of opening doors to help people who may be in a similar situation to Rypien’s, these articles trivialize depression.

His death should be used to encourage discussion about depression and to help end the stigma attached to it, especially in the athletic community.

Rypien’s family and close friends don’t believe fighting caused his depression or led to his death, so why do people insist on pinning the blame on it?

For those suffering with mental illness, including Rypien, the associated stigma makes it hard to admit to having a problem. Often, those with mental illnesses are afraid of being seen as a burden, or as weak. Rypien’s story could be a huge benefit for those with depression if it’s told in the correct way.

There should be a robust debate about fighting in hockey, but using his death as a tool in that argument is simply wrong.

Sean is the Journal’s Assistant Sports Editor. He’s a second-year English major.

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Talking heads ... around campus Photos By Erin Sylvester

What’s your favourite Thanksgiving food?

“Turkey, because with gravy, potatoes and peas it’s delicious.”

Sasha Zarnke, ArtSci ’17 Police patrol Aberdeen St. on Saturday night to keep the Homecoming parties under control.

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Homecoming

The weekend in two words: just fine Our contributor examines the true meaning of Homecoming and the changes since she was at Queen’s

Daphne Hendsbee, ArtSci ’13 I first heard about Homecoming and the car flipping incident that led to its cancellation in 2010, when I was in second year and returning from two semesters abroad at the Castle.

That year, some friends and I dropped by Aberdeen St. during the Fauxcoming celebrations and were met with a sea of people, riot police, officers on horseback and patrol cars. There seemed to be officers on every corner and it felt like every student in the city was out between campus and Johnson St. At its busiest, Aberdeen was chaotic and overwhelming. The next day, it was a mess. In the week that followed, Fauxcoming continued to strain town-gown relations as it drew bad press on both local and national levels.

In a 2010 statement on the University’s decision to suspend Homecoming for another three years, Principal Woolf noted that “the negative national media coverage Queen’s has received over the years related to these events has threatened to undermine their academic accomplishments and community involvement.

This issue has also affected our relationship with the city and Kingston residents.”

Somewhat surprisingly, I found myself in agreement with the Principal. We needed to repair our relationship with alumni who missed coming home and the Kingston community where we live. Responsibility for these changes lie with the current students.

Last Saturday’s Homecoming was my first real Homecoming, as

the weekend event was cancelled the year before I became a student here. It was the one quintessential Queen’s experience that was lacking in our undergrad years — there was a Fauxcoming weekend every fall in the three years I lived in Kingston, but they always lacked the link to the tradition of an official reunion weekend.

We needed to repair our relationship with alumni who missed coming home and the Kingston community where we live.

As a recent graduate, I came back this past weekend to see friends, watch the football game, revisit places and memories and, like many students and Kingstonians, to see how the weekend would unfold for the first Homecoming in five years. I was hoping for the best: to be proud of my alma mater and to not be embarrassed by its antics.

Despite the mixed reactions I’ve read in regards to the first Homecoming weekend, I think we are well on our way to having it continue for future years.

In my third year, I chose not to participate in Fauxcoming. I didn’t attend the parties and I stayed far from Aberdeen St. The rowdier the Fauxcoming, the longer we would wait for Homecoming to be reinstated. Why would I get involved with an event which consistently earned the school I loved a terrible reputation?

Homecoming was presented to me as a weekend of football and street parties. Missing from this explanation is the fact that the point of Homecoming is exactly that — for alumni to come home.

It’s a weekend for alumni to revisit familiar places from their student days and bond

with current students through Queen’s school spirit. While the tradition of Homecoming and the notorious Aberdeen street parties aren’t affiliated, in regards to the University’s image, town-gown relations and public safety, they’re a part of the same package.

A safe weekend on the streets around campus means a successful Homecoming weekend. The current student body knows that this October is its one chance to prove Queen’s can keep the Homecoming tradition alive without it getting out of control.

I was pleasantly surprised by what I saw this weekend — or rather, what I didn’t see. The streets around campus were relatively subdued on Saturday afternoon, both pre- and post-game.

Police presence was visible but not over-the-top. I was both surprised and pleased to see police checks for impaired drivers on Alfred St. and near Richardson Stadium. I was even more impressed with the Aberdeen St. cleanup on Sunday morning.

Homecoming was presented to me as a weekend of football and street parties. Missing from this explanation is the fact that the point of Homecoming is exactly that — for alumni to come home.

Homecoming has to be safe and welcoming for everyone: from current students to alumni of all ages to permanent Kingston residents.

Queen’s students are stewards of the neighbourhoods around campus. For those of you who are still at Queen’s, establishing the future of Homecoming can be your legacy.

On the second Homecoming weekend, think of yourself not just

as a Queen’s student, but as a resident of Kingston. Treat this city as a place where you want to live, a place you respect — not as a place you quickly pass through while at university. Imagine yourself coming back to Queen’s as an alumnus in four or five years. What do you want to see?

I also urge Mayor Gerretsen to treat Queen’s students as residents of Kingston.

His comments about last weekend on Twitter, which received national attention by the Globe and Mail, served to further alienate Queen’s students and alumni.

For those of you who are still at Queen’s, establishing the future of Homecoming can be your legacy.

The Aberdeen St. gathering was controlled by police and the “aftermath” was cleaned up by students before lunch time the next day.

Should police presence be necessary for crowd control? No, but the relatively incident-free weekend and the cleanup are a step forward from the out-of-control street parties that got Homecoming cancelled in the first place.

I hope that in future years, I’ll be able to come home and meet up with the Class of 2013 as a part of Queen’s-sanctioned events.

I hope the City of Kingston will accept that students are Kingston residents who, in a few years’ time, will be alumni attending Homecomings of their own.

I’m looking forward to celebrating the fifth anniversary of my graduation from Queen’s in a few years. From what I saw this weekend, Homecoming went smoothly. I have four words for you: so far, so good.

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“Cranberry sauce, because I like sweet things.”

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“Pumpkin pie. I had it for the first time two years ago and I baked it myself.”

Shelene Satar, ArtSci ’14

“Pumpkin pie with a layer of cheesecake and streusel layer. I haven’t tried it yet, but I’m excited.”

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Cerebral metaphors Zachary Gray of The Zolas has a love for the stars B y K ate S hao Assistant Arts Editor Earth is in a beautiful heyday.

Not many have contemplated the allegorical significance of our solar system, but Zachary Gray, one half of The Zolas, has.

Behind The Zolas’ latest album, Ancient Mars, lies a myriad of stories riddled with deep metaphors. The third track, the album’s namesake, takes lyrical expression to a different level.

The tune describes a time when “the rusty rocks were covered in groves / and the pyramids foretold acidic snows.”

For most, this may sound like a song literally depicting a planet’s rough surfaces, but for Gray, it was far from it.

“Ancient Mars” to him was a much more “cerebral metaphor.”

With an interest in sci-fi that began as a kid, Gray always had a fascination with the planets.

“It always blew my mind that it is suspected that Mars at one time harbored life, water and an atmosphere,” Gray said.

The Vancouver native went on to explain how Mars had a beautiful heyday billions of years ago, and now there’s no evidence of the life that once existed. It’s gone, thanks to the natural passage of time.

“People or relationships that

meant everything to us, whether it’s that house you lived in after you moved out of [residence] or that person you spent your summer with — they’re the whole world,” he said.

“But two years later, you run into that person in line at the grocery and there’s nothing between you anymore; it’s barren,” Gray said. “To me, Ancient Mars is that beautiful place you can’t get back to once you’ve left.”

The metaphor-heavy song traces its roots back to Gray’s days at the University of British Columbia.

If you haven’t already guessed, Ancient Mars refers to a love lost.

Accompanied by the West Coast’s heavy smog and the ominous architecture of the library, Gray was inspired.

“I went back to the library — the area where I used to wait for her to get out of class — and just sat there,” he said. “I decided to write the song and wasn’t going to leave until I had finished.”

It took the UBC grad three years to muster up the audacity to pen the lyrics, but he’s glad he did.

He said it’s his favorite song to play live.

Gray’s university experience not only lent to Ancient Mars; it also paved the way for his career as a musician.

The history major entered university because he was an

The Zolas — Zachary Gray (pictured left) and Tom Dobrzanski— named themselves after the naturalist French riter, Émile Zola.

“academic kid and really liked writing essays.”

It wasn’t until his second year when he joined a band, the now-defunct Lotus Child, and didn’t start taking the music seriously until fourth year.

During that time, he’s built close ties with the Vancouver music scene.

“Vancouver’s a really tight music scene,” he said. “We’re roommates with each other, date each other and dump each other.”

He lists Aidan Knight and Mother Mother as close friends, both of whom recorded with them.

The story of how this studious songwriter got into music is like no other.

He got kicked out of high school due to a spat with the principal.

“I didn’t have any friends at the new school so I used to go home and play the guitar and sing angsty teen songs,” Gray said.

Getting kicked out of school was definitely a blessing in

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disguise, he said, as his peers who stayed in school led different lives as professionals, like doctors and lawyers.

“Maybe I would have ended up doing that and not what I’m doing now,” he said.

“And I like what I’m doing now.”

The Zolas will be playing with the Born Ruffians and Hollerado at The Ale House on Oct. 16.

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‘There is a broader world outside of your bubble’ Matt Rogalsky, Queen’s music professor and musician, will be opening for the Tone Deaf music festival B y M ichael G reen Contributor

Matt Rogalsky knows his way around sounds — despite playing in the Tone Deaf festival next week.

Rogalsky is both a Queen’s professor in the department of music and a musician who has

previously co-curated the Kingston experimental music festival, now in its 12th annual year.

This time, he’s returning to open it. “[Tone Deaf] means suppressing your instinct to only gravitating towards music you already know and like,” Rogalsky said. “There

Matt Rogalsky will be playing at Tone Deaf, a music festival in Kingston.

is a broader world outside of your bubble.”

The festival will take place over a period of four nights, each of which differ in style.

“They will try to cover a large spectrum of adventurous musical performance,” he said.

Despite featuring a number of

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ensembles and traditional chamber music performances, all the musicians will be pushing the limits of their genre.

One such performance, on Friday night, features Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq, accompanied by violinist Jesse Zubot and percussionist Jean Martin. “[Tagaq] is going to improvise a live soundtrack for the 1922 silent documentary Nanook of the North, which is a famous problematic Inuit documentary,” Rogalsky said. “It will be an extremely rich evening.”

In prior years, the festival has had performances in unusual locations around Kingston, including a parking garage, where an abstract musical trio from San Fransisco played.

“It was a bitterly cold night and I remember the performers were freezing and constructing wind breakers out of garbage to keep the wind out,” Rogalsky said. “They were not impressed with the venue, but it was memorable.”

Rogalsky is performing on Friday with other electronic music acts in what’s being called “Ambient Occlusion.”

“My own piece will be entirely based on the ambient bass and hum that comes from your standard

guitar pickups — when you’re not playing the instrument, when it’s just picking up the electromagnetic interference from the room,” he said.

Rogalsky has been creating experimental music for most of his life now. His most memorable moment was from an experience he had in England while a guest at the Sadler’s Wells, a London theatre.

“I was invited to sit in the pit for the show,” Rogalsky said. “Then they handed me a conch shell and I got to go join the band. It was really interesting being in Sadler’s Wells Theatre blowing a conch.”

The balance between teaching and having another career can be difficult, but Rogalsky said he doesn’t feel it detriments either of his lives.

“As I teach in the School of Music ... I have the good fortune to think about music and art all the time,” he said.

Tone Deaf begins Oct. 17. Tickets can be bought at the door or at Brian’s Record Option, The Jungle or ticketscene.ca. The festival will be taking place at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church.

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Capturing moments in time Continued from page 1

a gallery with the support of the University is exciting,” she said.

“I think this idea of fostering dialogue, of giving artists the time and the space to share their ideas and get input and feedback from an academic community is essential for the growth of the community and the artist.”

Given her international experience and reputation, the artist continues to have a high regard for the AEAC’s international reputation and high calibre of work. “[The Kingston art community is] a very proactive community [that’s] hungry and thirsty for input and excited about what they’re doing,” Marsh said.

The artist lives and works around the world.

She currently hops between Montreal, Berlin and London and has showed her work in Germany, Spain, China, the United States and here in Canada, at the National Art Gallery of Canada and in Montreal.

Marsh’s artistic work combines

moving images, performance and installation.

With a focus on specific sites and architecture seen through location-based filming and behind-the-scenes views, she creates “spaces of spectacle.”

“I’m interested in moments around the spectacles so I often work in specific locations,” she said. “I’m looking for the moment, the latency of the spectacle [when] there’s a sense of absence or presence in the work.”

These spaces are temporally out-of-place, either too early or too late, and so they give us a sneak peek of the processes that go on before and after the polished product.

By capturing the people, the historical, the social and the political forces that create the spectacle, the art enacts crucial moments — the intake of breath before or the sigh of relief after the performance.

These snippets of time, encapsulated in a video installation, take about a year to complete.

Her works are “specific

evocations of the complex relationships between complicity and participation, camera and subject and the individual and the social.”

Marsh is currently working on a project titled Anna and the Tower, which will be presented at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2014. The upcoming piece will feature a young air traffic controller, Anna, working at an airport tower outside of Berlin.

“The tower becomes a kind of stage and she performs the ritual of her job as a performance rather than the job,” Marsh said.

“I see it as a kind of conjuring.

She’s conjuring the planes, [imagining the] choreography of planes coming and going and [the] air traffic.”

“It’s always important to figure out what you’re interested in and to make work about your interests.”

Marsh will run public conversations on Oct. 24 and Nov. 7 in Dunning Auditorium from 7 to 8 p.m.

Long weekend watches

Eight films currently in theatres to see over the long Thanksgiving weekend.

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Hungry like the wolf shark Queen’s last line of defence feeds off crowd support and sudden chemistry B y J osh B urton Staff Writer The wolf and the shark unite at Richardson Stadium.

Both apex predators come together to form the “wolf shark,” an accurate symbol for the Queen’s Gaels’ secondary.

Visualized on-field by the “fins up” gesture — extending an elbow and bringing the hand to the forehead — the Gaels’ defensive backs are a hungry group who look to make the big, impact play whenever possible.

“We characterize our play around a pack mentality,” said defensive back Andrew Lue. “We’re out there hunting all game.

“When the ball’s in the air, it’s our ball and we’re not afraid to rough up the opposing team.”

Made up of versatile athletes, the Gaels’ secondary is a fluid group that can easily transition between defensive back and safety.

Starting backs Lue, TJ Chase-Dunawa and Yann Dika-Balotoken are joined by safeties Brendan Morgan and Matt Webster. Rounding out the starters is Justin Baronaitis, a unique player with the ability to play both defensive back and linebacker.

The welcoming atmosphere fostered by the defensive backs

eased the transition for Morgan, a transfer from the University of Virginia. His athleticism, coupled with quick learning, vaulted him to a starting position when Webster went down with an injury in September.

A veteran pack, much of the secondary’s success hinges on knowing each other’s tendencies and predicting how teammates will react in specific situations.

New additions have no difficulties fitting into a group that PHOTO BY SAM KOEBRICH can already read minds.

Queen’s defensive backs have adopted the persona of the wolf shark, characterized by the “Across the board, there’s some on-field gesture and slogan: “Fins up.” good chemistry,” Lue said. “We do With three-quarters of the OUA Richardson Stadium, only increases figured if we do that, we’ll come everything together.” season completed and the playoffs the wolf sharks’ appetite.

With a stout run defence in out with a [win].”

“We appreciate the support and That’s mostly been the case looming, the secondary knows it’s the front seven, the secondary can play aggressively and take risks in so far this season. Queen’s is in their time to step up and make the all the fanfare behind [the team],” Lue said. third place at 5-1 in the top-heavy plays expected of them. passing situations.

“And always keep those Seeing a packed house and Dika-Balotoken leads the OUA, while the defence is second hearing the crowd roar on a big fins up.” group in ball-hawking this season, in points allowed.

Despite their exemplary work defensive play, a common sight at having broken up six passes and snagging four interceptions. He ethic, being a Gaels defensive back returned two for touchdowns in isn’t all work and no play. The a pivotal September win over the group enjoys watching professional Men’s Hockey sports, from football to basketball McMaster Marauders.

Baronaitis is the group’s anchor, and soccer.

One would think they’d have leading the team with 39.5 tackles, good for sixth in the OUA. His little time for other games, but ability to cover players in the slot they’re all fans, of course, of allows the outside backs to focus the Madden NFL video game franchise. Across the board, on one-on-one matchups.

“We all have a set of goals hung their go-to move was the up in our lockers … that we look to right-side rollout with quarterback meet every game,” Lue said. “We Michael Vick.

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Junior jolt for Gibson’s Gaels

New netminding tandem hits Memorial

Mixed Martial Arts

A new fighting spirit UFC veteran’s visit demonstrates growing interest in the sport B y B rent M oore Contributor Next spring, French-Canadian fighter Patrick Côté will meet the country’s next great fighter.

As a coach for television show The Ultimate Fighter Nations: Canada vs. Australia, he’ll mentor a group of Canada’s top prospects as they compete for a coveted Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) contract.

Before he enters the limelight once again, the Rimouski, Quebec native visited Kingston last weekend to pass on his Mixed

inside Sideline Commentary Our Assistant Sports Editor writes about poor attendance at Gaels home games.

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Sports in brief Men’s and women’s soccer lose and draw in Ottawa.

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Martial Arts (MMA) knowledge at the Hayabusa Academy, a recreational combat training centre in the city’s east end.

Most seminar attendees were local, with a few hardcore practitioners coming in from out of town. Côté was pleased with the turnout, with approximately 15 to 20 attendees ranging from school-aged to roughly 50 years old.

“Everyone was open-minded,” Côté said. “It’s great when you teach something that people want to learn.”

Côté has fought professionally for 11 years, competing regularly in the UFC since 2004. The Hayabusa seminar was a far cry from the ones he taught in his early days as a fighter.

“Seminars back in the day were more underground — more tough guys and doormen,” he said. “Now it’s more young guys.

They start very young and I think that’s good.”

Still, this increase in recreational participants hasn’t led to a surge in high-level Canadian fighters.

Before his career in the UFC began, Côté fought for a Montreal-based organization

called TKO. The organization was a springboard for a number of future superstars, including current Canadian pros Georges St-Pierre, Sam Stout and TJ Grant.

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B y A dam L askaris Contributor Men’s hockey head coach Brett Gibson has reason to believe 2013-14 will be a special season for the Gaels.

Gibson, who’s been coaching at Queen’s since 2005, said he’s noticed changes in the team’s preparations for the upcoming year.

After finishing seventh in the OUA East last year, the club added 10 incoming recruits, many of whom boast extensive junior experience.

Centre Taylor Clements was second on the Gaels in goals last season, tallying eight.

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“You can see there’s a major difference in attitude [from previous years],” Gibson said.

With longtime backstop Riley Whitlock gone due to eligibility restrictions, Gibson noted that there will be a season-long competition between the team’s two new goaltenders.

Chris Clarke won a Memorial Cup as a backup goaltender with the Halifax Mooseheads in 2013 and is heading into his first season with the Gaels.

The other newcomer is Kevin Bailie, one of three goalies that spent time with the Ontario Hockey League’s London Knights last season. Bailie appeared in 27 games for the 2012-13 Knights while managing an 18-4-1 record.

Gibson said Bailie would start in the Gaels’ season opener, but he’s unclear of who the number one goalie for the year will be.

“Do I have a set starter for the season? No, it’s still early,” he said. “They’ll be competing all year long.”

In addition to the goaltending changes, the team has added eight other new players, including forward and former Kingston Voyageurs captain Mike Schug.

“There will be five guys sitting out every night,” says Gibson. “It makes guys try that much harder in practice to want to be on the ice.”

The Gaels finished the preseason with a 3-0-2 record, losing their first two games in shootouts before winning three straight.

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Attendance woes reach new lows Why students should invest more in Queen’s teams

B Y S EAN S UTHERLAND Assistant Sports Editor Our apathetic student body hinders athletics programs at Queen’s.

After last Saturday’s Homecoming football game, it may look like the student body cares, but don’t let ticket lines at the ARC fool you into thinking the attendance had anything to do with the sport.

If it wasn’t Homecoming, the student side at Richardson Stadium likely would have been nearly empty.

Last season, this was the case for the last two home football games. The first two were heavily attended, but only because the first was during Frosh Week and the second took place on Fauxcoming weekend.

Most fans left at halftime of the Frosh Week game, both this year and last.

In the past, Queen’s students cared enough about sports to compose a fight song to get over the sting of a loss. Now, we don’t care enough to see if the Gaels win.

Football is by far the most popular spectator sport at Queen’s. If it induces this level of student apathy, what chance do other teams have of getting students interested?

Take the hockey programs. While the men’s team has struggled in the past, the women’s program is one of the best in

Canada. Both teams fail to generate much student interest in games, drawing less than 150 spectators at each — many of them non-students.

The hockey teams are definitely affected by the distance students must travel to attend games at the Memorial Centre, but even the basketball and volleyball teams, which play on campus, fail to get the same attendance at home games that other schools do.

If students are unwilling to attend games no matter where they are, why would Athletics even bother building an arena on campus?

The same idea applies to any plans regarding Richardson Stadium. There’s no purpose to a new stadium if one side of it is going to remain unoccupied for half the games played there, or if half the seats are empty after halftime.

Students simply don’t care about our teams, and therefore there’s no reason for the school to invest in them.

The sad thing about this apathy is that students should care about the athletic programs at Queen’s for reasons that have nothing to do with sports.

Our varsity teams play a crucial role in getting alumni to financially support the University. Football in particular is a money-making sport, with some alumni only donating to the football team.

Seeing students out at all the games would help bring in more alumni interest, and therefore more money, for the school.

Having crowds of students at games

All kinds of athletes Continued from page 13

“Everyone who is in the UFC now, especially Canadian, we all fought [in] TKO,” Côté said.

The league was a touchstone of French fighting culture until it went out of business in 2008.

Côté is proud of Quebec’s position as a longtime hub of Canadian combat sports, but said there are now fewer opportunities for up-and-coming fighters to compete for big purses at home.

was open-minded.

“It’sEveryone great when you teach something that people want to learn.

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— Patrick Côté, UFC fighter

Inspiring a new generation of Canadian fighters is one reason why Côté was eager to sign up to appear on The Ultimate Fighter.

“Because, man, we’re getting old,” he said.

Québecois fighter Olivier Aubin-Mercier, who tried out for the show, is a new face who Côté feels has tremendous potential.

“He almost went to the last Olympic Games in judo and I think he has a great chance to make the [TUF Nations] team.”

Côté’s visit to the Kingston academy was an opportunity for local athletes to learn from a Canadian fight icon. The seminar had something for everyone, from eager youth to seasoned amateurs to weekend warriors.

The days of underground fight clubs have long passed and the norm has shifted to refined facilities catering to athletes of

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Côté’s seminar drew between 15 and 20 participants, ranging from school-aged to roughly 50 years old.

all types. Ashley Hoskin, a Queen’s PhD student, is one such athlete.

“I’ve been interested in kickboxing for several years, but was slightly intimidated to join without having prior boxing experience,” said Hoskin, who took up fitness kickboxing at Hayabusa last month.

“After my first class, I was hooked.”

Hoskin’s experience is reflective of MMA becoming more accessible for the casual practitioner.

“Everyone is so supportive of each other,” she said.

Sporadically low student attendance has hindered football at Richardson Stadium, painting a bleak picture for less-renowned Gaels sports.

cheering on their fellow students strengthens school pride. Nowhere outside of university sports can fans have that same personal connection with athletes and, as students, that’s something we should cherish.

And, after all the work these athletes put in on a weekly basis, shouldn’t their classmates be willing to support them?

Obviously sports aren’t interesting to everybody and students who don’t like sports may not be attending games. If Queen’s Athletics took the initiative to educate students on the deep role that our sports programs have, and the impact supporting them can make, maybe the average student would be more willing to come out to games.

An important part of Queen’s heritage lies in our athletic programs. The players on our teams are incredibly talented and deserve better than the sight of empty stands.

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Sports

Puck drops tomorrow Continued from page 13

Gibson was proud of his team’s effort and willingness to compete in exhibition games.

“We’re learning early how to win games in a number of ways and how to play well,” he said.

Despite his confidence in the team, Gibson is wary of being over-optimistic heading into the season.

“We’ve been together for a month — we’re still gelling,” he said. “I don’t want to be a man of predictions. I’ve been in this league too long to do that.”

The Gaels bowed out in the first round of last year’s playoffs, losing two straight games to the Carleton Ravens.

In addition to Carleton, Gibson noted McGill and Université de Québec à Trois-Rivières as two top opponents they’ll face throughout the year.

“Any time you want to make a playoff run in the OUA, you’re going to have to go through those three teams,” he said.

Besides their 28-game regular season schedule, the Gaels are also venturing to the United States for a pair of exhibition matchups against Division I NCAA squads.

They defeated the Rochester Institute of Technology on Oct. 5 and will head to Potsdam, NY to play the Clarkson Golden Knights on Dec. 1.

“You look at the sort of commitment and dedication that those schools put into their hockey program and you can’t help but learn from that,” Gibson said.

The Gaels open their season this Saturday JOURNAL FILE PHOTO on the road against the Waterloo Warriors, Corey Bureau enters his before hosting the York Lions on Friday, second season as the Gaels captain. He had Oct. 18 for their home opener. nine goals and seven assists last season.

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SPORTS IN BRIEF Women’s soccer draws in nation’s capital

Men’s soccer loses in nation’s capital

They earned a point, but the Gaels missed an opportunity to climb the OUA East standings last night.

Queen’s tied the Carleton Ravens 2-2 in Ottawa, keeping them in fourth place in the division with four regular season games remaining.

With 22 points, they’re still three back of third-place Carleton, though the Gaels have a game in hand.

Leapfrogging Carleton would likely set up a first-round playoff matchup with the sixth-place Ryerson Rams, who have nine less points than the fifth-place Laurentian Voyageurs.

Still, jumping ahead became a tougher proposition after yesterday’s draw, which was marked by an early Carleton goal and a late-game Ravens equalizer.

In between, fifth-year midfielder Riley Filion and rookie striker Tara Bartram netted for the Gaels. Filion now leads the club with six goals in eight appearances.

The two goals against Queen’s were the most they’ve conceded in any game this season, aside from a 2-1 loss to the Toronto Varsity Blues on Sept. 22.

The Gaels are now winless in two games, after registering two straight 8-0 victories over the Trent Excalibur and RMC Paladins.

Queen’s lost 1-0 to the first-place Ottawa Gee-Gees last Saturday.

Queen’s couldn’t capitalize with a first-round playoff bye essentially on the line.

Over a month after dropping their season opener to the Carleton Ravens, the Gaels fell by an even wider margin in their road rematch. Carleton rode two first-half goals by midfielder Joey Kewin to a 4-1 win.

Last night’s loss came at an inopportune time for fourth-place Queen’s, who could have drawn within three points of Carleton, with two less games played.

Instead, they’re now nine points back, and with just four regular season games left, the Gaels are facing an early playoff match rather than a bye to the OUA quarterfinals.

After Kewin’s pair gave Carleton the halftime lead, the Ravens went up further in the 67th minute, courtesy of striker Andrew Latty’s eighth tally of the campaign.

Gaels captain Joe Zupo continued his recent scoring binge, heading home his second goal in as many games in the 90th minute.

Though that broke the clean sheet, Carleton converted a counterattack in stoppage time to close out the scoring.

Since beating Carleton 4-0 last September, the Gaels have dropped three straight to the Ravens, including a 2-0 loss in this year’s season opener.

— Nick Faris

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POSTSCRIPT RECIPES

A very cranberry Thanksgiving This holiday weekend, take advantage of this superfood to spruce up your traditional dinner B Y R ACHEL H ERSCOVICI Features Editor Nothing says Thanksgiving more than a table full of meals scattered with cancer-fighting, infection-preventing little berries — cranberries, that is.

This tiny soldier berry packs a punch. Cranberry has tons of vitamin C, which helps fight infections, and antioxidants, which protect cells from unstable molecules called free radicals.

In preliminary research, cranberries have also been found to prevent or help reduce certain types of cancers, tumors, heart diseases and bad cholesterol production.

Who knew such a common ingredient on many tables this holiday season could do so much for you?

So, be thankful this little guy exists and show this berry some love; indulge in these cranberry-inspired ideas for an easy Thanksgiving with friends or family.

AUTUMN WHISKEY COCKTAIL The weather is getting colder, the leaves are changing colour — why not bottle the autumn atmosphere into a cocktail? This cranberry and apple sweetened cocktail is perfect for kicking back after a stressful start to the semester with family and friends. You deserve it; start the Thanksgiving weekend off right. Yields two drinks. brown sugar, apple sauce and water, stir and put over high heat for about 2-3 minutes until the 1 cup frozen cranberries ¼ cup brown sugar mixture comes to a boil. ½ cup unsweetened apple sauce 2. Turn the heat down to medium 1 cup of water and let the mixture simmer for ¼ cup unsweetened apple juice another 10 minutes until syrupy. ¼ cup unsweetened 3. Let this cool until at least cranberry juice room temperature 4. Throw the ice into the blender, 3 cups crushed ice cubes along with your whiskey (I Desired amount of whiskey recommend two ounces), to taste Cranberries/apple peels subsequently adding the apple for garnish and cranberry juice along with the cooled syrup mixture.

DIRECTIONS 5. Blend until slushy in consistency then pour into glasses, adding 1. In a pot, throw in cranberries, garnishes as desired.

SAGE SPICED GOAT’S CHEESE CHICKEN WITH CRANBERRY SAUCE Sage leaves and cranberries are the perfect pairing for Thanksgiving dinner. Just like your crazy aunt and mismatched cousins, you can’t celebrate the holiday without them. Quick and easy, this Thanksgiving entrée for two can be multiplied easily and enjoyed by all.

INGREDIENTS 4 tbsp. dried sage Salt and pepper 2 tbsp. olive oil, plus extra for pan 2 chicken breasts Small package of honey goat’s cheese 6 oz. fresh cranberries 1 cup water ¾ cup granulated sugar DIRECTIONS 1. Preheat oven to 350 °F and

prep a baking tray, covering it in tin foil for an easy clean up, and brush the tin foil in olive oil to avoid sticking.

2. Aside, place the two breasts into a large bowl along with olive oil, dried sage and salt and pepper to taste. Toss until evenly coated.

3. On a flat surface, use scissors to cut evenly into the centre of the chicken breast, making a big enough pocket for the desired amount of goat’s cheese.

4. Place cheese in the hole and seal with about three toothpicks

and place on baking sheet.

5. Bake breasts for about 30 minutes.

6. While the chicken cooks, toss cranberries, water and sugar into a pot on high heat.

7. Bring to a boil for about three to four minutes and let simmer for 10, stirring occasionally until the mixture thickens.

8. Once the sauce and chicken are both finished, pour the cranberries over the chicken and serve with desired sides, such as peas and carrots.

INGREDIENTS

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DRIED CRANBERRY SHORTBREAD COOKIE Simplicity could always use a twist every now and then, and these simple shortbreads are just the thing to add a little bit of festivity. With few ingredients and many cookie cutter options, these cute little sweets are the perfect end to your very cranberry Thanksgiving. Yields 15 to 18 cookies.

INGREDIENTS 1 cup softened, salted butter ¾ sifted confectioners’ sugar 1 tsp. vanilla extract 2 cups all-purpose flour Dash of salt ½ cup finely chopped, dried cranberries 1 egg yolk

minutes, or until the bottoms are crisped golden brown.

7. Let cookies cool on a wire rack

and then enjoy with black tea or prefered beverage of choice.

DIRECTIONS

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1. Preheat the oven to 325 °F and prep baking sheet with parchment paper to avoid sticking.

2. In a bowl, throw in butter and sugar, blending with a pastry cutter.

3. Next, add the flour and blend in with the pastry cutter.

4. Add the vanilla and egg yolk with the pastry cutter. Fold in the dried cranberries evenly.

5. Once you have an even dough ball, roll it out in sections about a pinky finger thick and cut cookies in desired shapes.

6. Bake for about 15 to 20

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