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Islamic history in focus Kingston celebrates Islamic History Month

By Katherine Fernandez-Blance Assistant News Editor Along with seven other Canadian cities, Kingston has proclaimed October Islamic History Month.

Mohamed Bayoumi, professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering has been involved with Islamic History Month since its inception four years ago. He said the month was organized by Muslims in the Kingston community, including students, faculty members and Kingstonians.

Bayoumi said the aim of the month is twofold: to increase the exchange of information about Muslim issues, and to promote acceptance of Islam in the local community.

“To me there is nothing worse than ignorance. We aim to help educate people so that they won’t be prone to misunderstandings, and will be subjected to information coming from the source,” he said.

One common misconception is that Islamic History Month started as a result of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Bayoumi said.

“The issues we are presenting have existed for years. They started way before 9/11,” he said, adding that Queen’s Theological College and the Islamic society of Kingston collaborated to bring Islamic History Month to Kingston and brought the idea to the city council in 2007.

It was unanimously approved.

“Kingston was the first city in Ontario where this was proclaimed, and the second city in Canada.

In 2007, Canadian Parliament proclaimed October Islamic

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Painting the town pink Queen’s wears pink this month to raise money for the fight against breast cancer

By Jessica Fishbein Assistant News Editor

From wearing pink to changing Facebook statuses, people across Canada are teaming up to take part in Breast Cancer Awareness Month and from Oct. 12 to Oct. 28 the Queen’s Wears Pink campaign will make sure all of campus notices.

A new initiative this year, Please see Bridging on page 4 Queen’s Wears Pink aims to raise funds to combat breast cancer.

Throughout October, pink t-shirts with the slogan “Queen’s Wears Pink” will be sold for $10, with Volume 138, Issue 12 proceeds going to the Canadian www.queensjournal.ca Breast Cancer Foundation.

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chair of the Queen’s Commerce Society, said.

“The primary objective of this campaign is to raise awareness and allow students to support such a worthy cause.”

He said the Commerce Society had no set fundraising goal for the campaign but hopes it will explode on campus.

Oct. 28 will be ‘Pink Day,’ Mitchell said everyone will dress in pink and meet at Tindall Field at 11 a.m. where photographs will be taken of students and faculty united in their support for combating breast cancer.

“Within 28 hours we had over 1,400 people attending Queen’s Wears Pink on Facebook,” Mitchell said. “The most amazing thing is that this campaign is so viral.”

Kathleen Kramer, president of

Queen’s Nursing Science Society (QNSS), said QNSS is one of many other on-campus groups teaming up with the Commerce Society to help them raise funds.

“The [Q]NSS has assisted in t-shirt sales throughout the nursing faculty, to both students and staff.

The t-shirts say ‘Nursing Wears Pink,’ ” Kramer, Nurs ’11, said.

One in nine Canadian women is expected to develop breast cancer in her lifetime. In 2010, an estimated 23,200 women and 180 men will be diagnosed with breast cancer in Canada. An estimated 5,300 women and 50 men will die from breast cancer in Canada this year.

“Breast cancer is an emerging diagnosis for a lot of people,” she said, adding that so far the faculty of nursing has sold over 100 shirts.

“Through t-shirt sales we have

already raised awareness within the School of Nursing,” she said.

“Many people have become very interested in the statistics and the opportunities available within the Cancer Society.”

Kramer said for many nursing students, breast cancer is a topic that hits close to home.

“The nursing students are exposed to many patients that have been diagnosed with breast cancer during our clinical and community placements, and as such, cancer in general is a topic that is very important to all of us,” she said.

“Breast cancer is affecting our moms, sisters, grandmothers and aunts, and now that men are being diagnosed too, it’s also affecting our dads, uncles and brothers.”

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Teaching fellowships in the ring Cost effectiveness and experience for future professors make Teaching Fellows an attractive alternative

By Andrew Stokes Copy Editor Queen’s students are experiencing an evolving mix of intructors at the front of their classroms.

According to a Maclean’s campus assessment, the average tenured Canadian professor makes between $100-110,000 each year while a teaching fellow is given $7,000 per course per semester, making teaching fellows a prudent financial decision.

Tim MacIntrye, the interim executive at the local chapter of Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC), will teach as a fellow at Queen’s in the English department next semester.

“We’re a cheap alternative,” he said, adding that while applying to graduate schools, Queen’s was the only one he was aware of where he could get a fellowship as a PhD student.

He said some professors request fellows to teach their class so that they can concentrate on the other aspects of their job.

“Graduate students see it as a great opportunity, but it’s a big commitment,” he said.

“We often have to put our own research on hold in order to successfully teach.”

A Teaching Fellow is a fourth or fifth year PhD student. Queen’s now has 250 TFs, primarily teaching in arts courses.

While the intention of giving graduate students a much needed leg-up in an increasingly difficult job market is certainly a facet of the policy, the truth is in the money.

Queen’s has 250 lecturing Teaching Fellows, primarily in Arts and Science courses.

The rise in dependence on teaching fellows is a trend throughout Canadian universities, said Queen’s Vice President of Graduate Studies Daniel Moore.

From 1997 to 2002 the number of full-time teaching staff increased in Ontario by nine per cent, whereas the number of Teaching Fellows grew by 25 per cent, Moore told the Journal via e-mail.

He said the number reflects well

“Some people see that you’re young and just don’t like it.”

Paul Saunders, Queen’s Teaching Fellow on Queen’s graduate program.

“In graduate programs where a university teaching career is the traditional goal, a Teaching Fellowship is highly desirable,” he said. “In some programs it’s expected to hold a fellowship at some point in your graduate education.”

Teaching Fellow positions have also been affected by budget cuts, Moore said. In the past, some

programs guaranteed fellowship for Ph. D. students who wanted to participate. Some programs have since had to sacrifice these class sizes.

Paul Saunders, an ENGL 260 TF, said he was excited at the chance to independently teach a class.

“TFs are typically on the cutting edge of their research,” he said.

“TFs are given classes pertaining to what it is they specialize in … they’ve done six years of graduate student study—they know their stuff.”

Saunders had to submit a proposal about how he thought the course should be taught to the english department before he was given the position.

Even with the application process, Saunders said some students aren’t very open to being taught by a Fellow.

“Some people see that you’re young and just don’t like it,” he said, adding that others see it as a benefit to be taught by someone closer to their own age.

“If a student isn’t comfortable being taught by a fellow, they should

probably pick another class.”

Saunders said the current University practice of hiring adjunct professors is threatening the quality of learning at Queen’s.

Adjuncts are contracted teachers, also referred to as sessionsals, Saunders said.

The motivation for Teaching Fellow and Adjunct hiring isn’t just one of financial parsimony, but also the selectiveness that departments exercise when picking instructors.

With approximately 40 per cent of teaching jobs going to contracted workers, it’s becoming more and more difficult for PhDs to get a tenured professorship, Robin Hartley, a staff member at the local PSAC, said.

The local PSAC chapter serves as the Teaching Assistant and Teaching Fellow union for Queen’s. Hartley said the PSAC sees the growing number of TFs as a good thing because it saves the University money and gives graduate students a chance to get valuable work experience.

Marisha Caswell, a fifth-year PhD student and Teaching Fellow for an upper-year history seminar,

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said there are pros and cons to being taught by a TF. On the one hand, she said student evaluations hold more currency for Teaching Fellows because they’re essential to land a professorship.

“It helps you with your teaching applications,” she said.

However, a recommendation from a TF doesn’t mean much for a student applying to graduate school.

“It’s a matter of seniority,” Caswell said. “Generally, if you’re applying for a grad school, it’s recommended that a full professor do the letter.”

Funding packages for graduate students have an average minimum of $18,000, which includes compensation for teaching obligations.

Stephanie Sankovic, ArtSci ’13 said she’s had two classes with TF instructors.

“I don’t particularly like it ... having a professor as an instructor just seems to result in a better lesson,” she said, adding that she felt her two TF-taught classes were disorganized.

“One put too much text on the slides he showed ... while the other talked far too much,” she said.

Sankovic said there needs to be more effort to incorporate varying learning styles if they want to maximize the effectiveness of their lectures.

“It’s never their knowledge in question, only their teaching style,” she said. “They haven’t had the chance to teach for tens of years [like most professors], they haven’t had a chance to get the experience to develop what style best suits them.”

Sankovic said that the only way for Teaching Fellows to improve is to do more teaching.

“I don’t think TFs are bad, they just need to acquire some experience to become truly effective.”

Caleb Mitchell, Sci ’13 said the quality of a class isn’t dependant on the lecturer’s classification.

“I’ve heard about TFs being less than satisfying,” he said. “But the same can be said about some professors I’ve had.

“If their heart isn’t in the teaching, I won’t be in class.”

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Donning a degree Student affairs is a growing professional field in Canada

BY LABIBA HAQUE ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR The lack of Canadian graduate programs in student affairs has led to an increase of students enrolling in American universities, Hung Mai, Residence Life coordinator said.

Staff in student affairs provide students at universities with services and support.

There has been a recent trend in master’s degrees specializing in the study of how to support students.

Mai presented a case study last Wednesday at Gordon Hall based on personal research.

The presentation, “All Signs Point South: the Experiences of Canadians in American Student Affairs Graduate Programs,” discussed the experiences of Canadian students in graduate programs specializing in student affairs in the United States.

Jobs which are often available in the field of student affairs are; administrative support staff, dean of student affairs, coordinators, vice-chancellor or president of student affairs and directors. “[When I] first started this, my research question was to gain better understanding of what leads Canadians to purse their Master’s degree from US schools,” he said in his presentation, adding his research consists of personal experiences of individuals pursing their master’s in student affairs in American graduate universities.

During the research process, Mai strived to figure out the factors causing students to study in US schools, what extracurricular experience these students have before completing their undergraduate degrees and how these experiences affect their desire to purse student affairs in their professional field.

There were six individuals selected for

the purpose of this study: four females and two males.

“Participants were selected using a combination of purposive sampling and snowball sampling,” he said.

Mai, who received his undergraduate degree from Carleton University and pursed his master’s at the University of Vermont, said his experience as a residence don influenced his decisions to pursue student affairs.

There are currently five universities in Canada which offer some type of graduate level degrees in student affairs, they are; University of Toronto, University of Calgary, Memorial University, University of British Columbia and Simon Frasier University.

Mai said oftentimes Canadian students go to American universities for these graduate programs because of the more practical experience they provide.

“It’s a different kind of student affairs,” he said, adding that his educational experience at Vermont University allowed him to view the field from a different perspective.

He said students who often have experience in part-time parent type positions, such as being residence dons and orientation leaders are students who are often interested in student affairs as a profession, adding that there needs to be a way in which younger students can learn about this professional field at an earlier age.

“Awareness for these opportunities don’t come [to students] until third or fourth year,” he said, adding that this is a field which he can see growing tremendously in the graduate level.

“It’s important for students, who’ve had those [extracurricular] experiences to think, ‘hey I’ve enjoyed my experience, would I be willing to do this more than just part-time job.”

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History Month. It’s gaining acceptance in many communities,” Bayoumi said.

He estimated that every year there are close to 500 Muslim students at Queen’s. He said that despite the number of Islamophobic incidents that have happened at Queen’s in recent years, the University is doing a good job promoting tolerance and acceptance.

In Sept. 2008, the Queen’s University Muslim Students Association (QUMSA) had its club space broken into and money stolen from donation boxes. Shortly following the break-in, a poster hanging in the JDUC was vandalized with discriminatory writing.

In Oct. 2006, a QUMSA banner was lit on fire outside QUMSA club space which is used as an on-campus prayer room.

“Nothing is ideal. I know there were some problems in the past affecting the Muslim community at Queen’s, but at the highest

level, I believe that people are listening to these problems,” he said.

“It’s part of trying to build bridges with non-Muslims. We want to be seen as trying to fit in rather than be looked at as outsiders of the community.”

All Islamic History Month events are free of charge and open to the public. Upcoming events include an on-campus screening of the PBS film Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet on Oct. 19, an open house at the Islamic Centre of Kingston on Oct. 24, and a speaker on ‘Social Justice in Islam’ on Oct. 28. A discussion on Islam and the environment was held on Oct. 9 at Queen’s.

Other cities that celebrate Islamic History Month in October are Victoria, Port Coquitlam and Burnaby in British Columbia, Calgary in Alberta and Ottawa, Toronto and Windsor in Ontario. Victoria was the first city to celebrate Islamic History Month.

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Mohamed Bayoumi, professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering, has been involved with Islamic History Month since its creation in 2007.

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depends on when it is detected, Kramer said. If a woman does a self-breast exam and mentions that she feels a lump in her breast to a doctor, if it turns out to be breast cancer she can start treatment earlier.

“Breast cancer isn’t preventable, but it is treatable,” she said, adding that it’s important for Queen’s organizations to get involved in cancer awareness.

“Over the last year the Nursing Society has become a strong advocate for cancer awareness and research,” Kramer said. “We are a small faculty but a passionate one that enjoys being involved, especially in great causes such as this.”

Kramer said the Nursing Society is involved with events like Queen’s

Wears Pink, The Inside Ride (Nov. 12) and Run for the Cure (Oct. 3) to raise cancer awareness.

“Cancer is a disease that touches most lives in Canada, whether it’s a diagnosis of self, a friend or a family member. As such, becoming involved in such a great cause helps promote events, fundraisers and shows that as a university we can make a difference,” Kramer said. “This particular campaign is a great way for students to be involved and raise awareness for such a wide spread illness.”

Katrina Keilhauer, head manager of Tricolour Outlet, said that while Tricolour did not initiate the campaign they are excited to help out.

“We were contacted by Adam Mitchell to show our support. We aren’t selling shirts

but we are wearing shirts that say ‘Tricolour Outlet Wears Pink,’ ” she said. “It’s exciting to get involved. It’s important for us to help out with the campaign because we’ve all been touched by breast cancer.”

Besides the Commerce Society, Nursing Society and Tricolour Outlet, other

organizations participating in Queen’s Wears Pink include the Engineering Society, Common Ground, Taps and AMS. Some teams participating include Men’s Hockey, Men’s Soccer, Women’s Lacrosse and Women’s Volleyball.

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n one of the most controversial studies of the 1960s, Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram showed that authority figures can often override an individual’s moral beliefs, even leading them to kill a complete stranger.

Milgram’s experiment put test subjects in a position where they were ordered, by a phony researcher, to administer increasingly strong electrical shocks to a stranger.

The majority of subjects agreed—even when the shocks were of a lethal strength.

Milgram’s study is the inspiration for a French documentary entitled Le jeu de la mort, currently playing in Quebec.

The film reenacts the obedience experiment by putting participants in a fake game show with the same premise, delivering shocks to another person while an audience watches. If a participant becomes reluctant, the audience eggs them on from the sidelines.

The vast majority of participants administered lethal shocks, even though the show offered no cash prize for participating.

The film’s creators meant to expose the dangers of television. They allege that contestants were so enraptured by the thought of being on television, and so overwhelmed

by the glamour of the game show set, that they were willing to commit murder. The general public takes television for granted, unaware of its deadly potential.

It’s important to note the form the filmmakers chose to test their theory: the so-called “reality” TV show.

While seeing Milgram’s study reenacted in a modern setting is interesting, it’s far from hard science. The film’s creators aren’t scientists and it’s likely they had an outcome in mind when they started their project.

Reality TV bears the faintest possible similarity to real life. Imagining that it is in some way representative of how things work in the “real” world is pretty far-fetched.

The most interesting “conclusion” offered in the film—that members of visible minority groups are least susceptible to mass pressure— borders on stereotyping.

In any case, what is the viewer supposed to take from this conclusion? The simple act of watching television doesn’t place us in control over life and death, nor is it likely an unscrupulous broadcaster will suddenly attempt to incite a riot using high-pressure programming.

Concluding that television can make us kill doesn’t really fit the picture.

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students into “the homosexual lifestyle.”

Shrivell has defended his actions by insisting that he worked on the blog in his personal time, but this doesn’t excuse the fact that his criticism of Armstrong focuses almost entirely on Armstrong’s personal life.

Shirvell has also admitted to protesting outside of Armstrong’s house.

Homophobia may not be illegal, but discrimination certainly is. While Shirvell may claim he’s exercising his First Amendment rights, there’s a difference between freedom of speech and libel. It would be troubling enough for an ordinary member of the public to target and harass one individual over their sexual orientation.

While Michigan’s attorney general was quick to indicate that Shirvell’s opinions are his alone, it’s absurd that an individual in Shirvell’s position has been allowed to keep his job.

Shirvell should note that he has recourse to indicate his displeasure with Armstrong’s decisions without attacking him personally.

The University of Michigan’s student assembly is a body within the university itself and Shirvell could lodge a complaint with the University directly.

However, he’ll need to be more specific than stating a “homosexual agenda.”

Reading Shirvell’s drivel or the past six months, an assistant attorney general for the state of Michigan, Andrew Shirvell, has filled his downtime by writing a blog.

The blog, titled “Chris Armstrong Watch”, refers to the openly gay president of the University of Michigan’s student assembly. Shirvell has used this blog to attack Armstrong, whom he accuses of a laundry list of indiscretions.

The majority of the accusations Shirvell has made are directly related to his belief that Armstrong is abusing his administrative role to advance a “radical homosexual agenda.”

Armstrong has previously supported gender-neutral housing for transgender students who haven’t undergone sex reassignment surgery.

Shirvell, an alumnus of the University of Michigan, claims his concerns aren’t driven by Armstrong’s sexuality but by his “homosexual agenda.” It’s unclear exactly what this agenda entails.

It’s difficult to take Shirvell’s role as the concerned alumnus seriously when one considers his single-minded focus on Armstrong’s sexuality. He charges Armstrong with hosting an orgy in his residence room in 2009 and attempting to inculcate other student government figures and first-year

My eight foot spear Andrew Stokes

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belong to a persecuted minority. Wherever I go I am given looks of contempt, laughs of condescending disbelief and most often a gaze that belies a shocked terror. And it’s all because I walk in public with an 8’ spear. I’m one of few people who enjoy the athletic pursuit of throwing javelin for means of recreation and exercise.

I started throwing in high school when I was helping my Dad clean out my Grandmother’s loft. I moved away a dusty old bin and there it was: a relic from days past. From the first glance I had of that gleaming metallic wonder I knew I had to throw it soaring through the air.

I have a genetic disposition for hurling things. My father was a competitive javelin thrower in high school and most people are aware of my brother’s well documented and meteoric rise to fame as a regional ball throwing champion back in grade six. It was assumed that I had a golden arm.

Perhaps I didn’t have the prodigious might of my family, but I knew I liked it, and thus began years of casual insults.

I was honked at, yelled at, and more often than not beset by curious observers who were in disbelief at my chosen hobby.

Along with them came the parade of people who scoffed at the seemingly puny distance I was able to get with a good toss and then bragged that they could do better.

There’s an incredible tendency to hit yourself in the back of the head and fall over the first time you try throwing, and I made

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no attempt to teach these people otherwise.

What the typical person would realize after trying and (typically) failing was that the entire motion was not at all what they expected.

You throw not with your arm, but your rotator cuff, and the grip is not firm, but a loose cross-palm. Your balance comes from your toes, and to make the spear fall tip-first requires a wrist flick that takes lots of practice.

It’s the technical and counter-intuitive aspects of the sport that keep me so intrigued, but there’s also a visceral level to it. Letting out a feral roar as you whip your arm forward gives a satisfaction that can be felt at the most primal level; it sends a cathartic jolt to your deepest guts.

Not to mention the smile that comes to my face when I think of the echoes of raging Achilles, cunning Odysseus, and courageous Leonidas that this simple implement carries with it. The closest I can get to fighting in the Trojan War is running around with a pointed stick in a park, and that’s just fine with me.

It’s an activity that combines aspects of athletics, history, geometry, precision, strength and technique into a single rhythmic movement. To see it done right is to see the confluence of so many forces at work.

If you’re intrigued by the idea, or even curious, look for me around. I’ll be the guy who’s trotting through the laughs of the passerby and imagining some ancient legend.

Who knows, if you ask politely, maybe I’ll even teach you to throw.

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Vice-president a precedent The only way to solve our problems with systemic oppression is to change our institutions

ELAMIN ABDELMAHMOUD, ARTSCI ’09, ’11 All across the University at different levels, there are dedicated individuals working towards solutions to the multi-faceted issues of racism.

These issues range from curriculum reform to the recruitment of non-white students to Queen’s, and on a macro-level, tackling what has come to be known as the University’s “culture of whiteness.”

There are students, staff, professors and administrators who are doing anti-racist work at Queen’s and have dedicated years to doing so. All these groups run into the same problem: there appears to be some kind of university-wide amnesia that sets in every year with regards to issues of racism at Queen’s.

Every year, the conversations at different levels are basically a repetition of the ones that were taking place the year before. I should know—I just started my sixth year.

Consider this: in 1991, the Final Report by the Principal’s Advisory Committee on Race Relations (also known as the Barry report) came out, addressing some of the serious race and diversity issues that the University had to deal with.

Fifteen years later, and only after six professors—five women of colour and one indigenous woman—left Queen’s citing systemic racism as the reason, the University asked Dr. Francis Henry to investigate further.

The Henry Report uncovered a

larger issue, a “culture of whiteness” that permeates through all the levels of the University, acting as a systemically oppressive matrix for non-white students, staff, and faculty. The Henry Report presented several recommendations to the University Senate in order to address this issue.

But you knew all that.

You might not know that Dr. Barrington Walker of the history department was appointed as the Diversity Advisor to the Vice-Principal (Academic).

He presented his report last year, which included several immediate, short-term and longterm recommendations.

Furthermore, Dr. Adnan Husain was appointed the Director of Educational Equity & Diversity Projects within the office of the Provost and is directing the Diversity and Equity Taskforce (DET) to work on better integrating equity into the University structure.

Presumably Dr. Husain’s taskforce will issue its report in the coming year.

This takes us to 2011.

Nearly 20 years since the PAC Report was issued, we find ourselves with four major reports, and yet Queen’s is still merely reactive to racist incidents and embarrassingly stagnant on systemic issues.

A faculty member of colour hears racial slurs and gets forced off the sidewalk? Let’s have a rally against racism! Vehicles of Jewish students get defaced with swastikas? Let’s issue condemning statements!

These are always great starts, but the action has stopped there.

The overall issue always gets overlooked—this university needs a high-level administrator to deal with problems of racism, equity and diversity.

Without such a position, Queen’s will continue to do its

best by having different arms of problems at Queen’s.

As an example, this person the University respond to problems as they come up and in different would be involved in the academic process currently ways—and clearly, the University’s planning underway at Queen’s, thus giving best hasn’t been good enough.

The dedication of the people the process more legitimacy with who have worked or who those who do anti-oppression are working on equity issues at work by ensuring that problems of are always Queen’s is admirable and should Euro-centrism not be forgotten, but every year talked about.

It’s time for Queen’s to introduce the recommendations are not implemented, and every year this new position. Only then can someone has to remind us there are we start to make progress on equity recommendations in the first place, issues. Only then can we begin to is another year where we do these adequately address the “culture of whiteness” which has been talked dedicated people a disservice.

Without a vice-principal position about for so long, without anything dedicated to diversity and equity at being done.

By having a vice-principal Queen’s, we will continue to come up short. Unless there is a centralized (diversity and equity) we can position in the structure of the finally begin to implement the University that is in place to deal recommendations of 20 years with these issues, we will continue worth of reports that we have to treat the symptoms separately, fallen behind on.

What is needed is a role that while letting a larger illness will shepherd all the efforts go unaddressed.

The University currently has working on the diversity five vice-principal positions. These front, including dealing with positions, it can be argued, represent reports and recommendations, the areas that the university takes with the authority to start most seriously. By virtue of being implementing them.

The alternative is continuing to elevated to one of the highest levels of governance, the focus on these do great work every year, and then losing the continuity by having to areas is intensified.

For instance, the position of start all over again the next year.

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The Journal’s photo editor Christine Blais was on hand to capture the mayhem that ensued when Steve Aoki made his latest drop into Kingston

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Bleary-eyed attendees escape into a alternate universe of breaks, beats, sweat and heat at Steve Aoki’s sold-out show at Stages last Wednesday night.

The psychedelic pop pandas Hot Panda are bringing their rambunctious live energy to The Mansion

By Christie Dehoop Contributor They’ve toured across the country in a shabby van, crashed in cheap motel rooms, slept on rock-hard floors and experienced a setback with a band member’s departure—yet indie pop rockers Hot Panda continue to have a damn good time pursuing their passion.

It’s not the lavish lifestyle, but this power quartet doesn’t exactly fit into the definition of “typical.”

The group strives to differentiate themselves from other musicians by shedding convention and embracing their originality.

“We don’t have any rules of what we can or can’t do in Hot Panda,” energetic front man Chris Connelly said over the phone.

“I listen to a lot of other bands, but I don’t try to sound like other bands.”

Edmonton based Hot Panda is led by vocalist/guitarist Connelly and fused together with Maghan Campbell on drums, Catherine Hiltz on bass and Heath Parsons

on keyboard/accordion. Soon after forming, they began playing shows and catching the eyes of representatives from their current label, Vancouver Mint Records.

According to Connelly, “it was one of our first shows outside Edmonton, and they were there. It was the right time, the right place and the right people.”

After landing a recording contract, everything seemed to fall into place for the foursome.

Until the band suffered a minor upset with the departure of Keith Olsen, a founding member. It was a bittersweet time for the group as they lost a band mate and welcomed Hiltz into the mix.

Since Hiltz’s arrival, the band has maintained a tightly woven bond.

Connelly said the key to cultivating the band’s harmony lies in their ability to stay positive, respectful and light-hearted.

“Giving people faith and not being too pushy with ideas or personalities, even though you are around them all the time,” he said. “We keep it fun and have a good attitude.”

Hot Panda have been touring incessantly across North America and Europe for years. Once, they even found themselves playing a stage that had been occupied by another famous foursome.

For Connelly, it was one of his most memorable experiences while touring.

“Our first show in Europe, we had just landed, it was in Hamburg, Germany,” he said. “It was so surreal, right before we went on stage, we were told it was the same stage The Beatles played on.”

The band’s reaction?

“Holy shit, this is crazy!”

Connelly’s early musical influences derive from his father’s classic record collection.

“My dad was really into British stuff,” he said. “I actually still love that … I’ve got really eclectic taste.”

Eclectic could be one of the many words used to describe the creative influences embedded into Hot Panda’s records. One of the most admirable qualities of the band is their willingness to experiment with their sound. Compared to the

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Edmonton’s Hot Panda just want to make you dance. likes of other genre-jumping acts How Come I’m Dead? is a like The Talking Heads, the Pandas return to where the group was in wrap pop, swing, rock, opera, their earlier days and is reflective of lo-fi and glam into unequivocally the constant touring that separates catchy melodies. Connelly stressed them from their loved ones. the band’s attempt to integrate “This record is about not having the unexpected, while staying a place as a home … and feeling true to the quirky spunk that kind of bad about that.” defines them.

Kicking off the fall with a “Bands don’t always have to be new album and tour, the band’s serious or funny,” he said. “I like future is continuing in a direction when they change expectations. I worth watching. While Connelly is never like when a band is in a box currently taking things “one song or a genre.” at a time,” he hopes the band will As for what to expect for the embark on further recording and band’s upcoming album How continue to evolve. Although it’s Come I’m Dead?, Connelly said the uncertain where the quartet will be band doesn’t limit themselves. heading in the future, one thing’s “We don’t want to say we can’t for sure—they’ll be having fun. do certain things with the band. I want people to go on iTunes and Hot Panda play the Mansion be surprised by the album or by tomorrow with Boats and the next 30 seconds of the song,” Dave Borns at 9 p.m. Tickets he said. are $8 at the door.

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Love from Lisbon to the Limestone City Claire Nelischer and Tyler Ball give us the lowdown on the sixth studio record from garage rockers The Walkmen and a debut release from hometown heroes PS I Love You T H E W AL K M EN lisbon

The Walkmen emerged in 2000 as another addition to the growing New York vintage rock scene, joining fan favourites like The Strokes and Interpol. Despite a string of well-received albums, The Walkmen have yet to experience

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Don’t get me wrong, I love The National’s High Violet and The Antlers’ Hospice remains in heavy rotation on my iPod. However, amidst all these sad and somber tunes, I find myself looking for a sort of pick-me-up, something to get me through these dreary fall days.

Lisbon is exactly the bright blizzard of sound I have been searching for. Seeped in surf-rock nostalgia, filled with warm, infectious melodies and carrying a crisp simplicity throughout, Lisbon is a toe-tapping, shoulder-shaking thrill of an album.

The signature sounds of winding guitars, confident vocals and surging, pop-infused melodies that the group created in Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me is Gone, developed in Bows + Arrows and seemed to have perfected in You & Me, have culminated in Lisbon. This artistic development has resulted in an incredibly rich, fine-tuned and intentional album with a bright, yet decidedly vintage, ambiance. The opener, “Juveniles,” is a bouncy and breezy track that sets the tone of the album from the get-go. The jangly guitar featured in the verses is juxtaposed with heavy cymbals and soaring pop vocals in the chorus, proving that Lisbon has both pop and kick.

The punchy and up-tempo “Angela Surf City” is perhaps most reminiscent of The Walkmen’s earlier triumphs, demonstrating

the same swelling intensity featured in “The Rat.” The track begins with rumbling drums and reserved guitar, leading to an explosive chorus with punchy chords and strong percussion.

“Stranded” serves as a shining example of the group’s growth in their use of brass—woozy horns underscore drawn-out vocals, coming to a strong and beautiful finale. Despite lead singer Hamilton Leithauser’s loose lyrics, his prose is strikingly comprehensible and surprisingly captivating. An eager listener will no doubt be left “stranded and starry-eyed” by these moody lyrics.

The pulsing chords at the outset of “Victory” seem to foreshadow a throbbing, glorious chorus, but the verses are misleading and the track ends up as a bit of a disappointment—you just don’t get the ending you were hoping for.

But not to worry, in the addictive surf-rock-inspired “Woe Is Me,” The Walkmen return to their signature sound in full-force. Zing-y guitar and a strong, steady beat build to a huge, rocking climax in the chorus and a powerful crescendo at the ending. It’s a damn good song.

In the latter part of the album, The Walkmen take it down a notch.

“Torch Song” is a beautiful, fuzzy ballad with graceful vocals and surging percussion. Measured, slow and steady piano breaks alternate with thunderous cymbal crashes in the chorus. The band’s preference for vintage instruments and old-school sounds are well illustrated here in the lumbering six-string and backing oohs and aahs.

The final track “Lisbon” brings the album to a close with aching strings and lazy vocals. Starting out

slow and building to an unexpected height, before drifting off, the track ties everything up quite nicely and demonstrates the incredible cohesiveness of the album as a whole.

Carefully measured numbers with a certain degree of restraint are balanced by raucous bursts of explosive strength and tracks with dizzying energy and disheveled vocals. But, the atmospheric value of the record is never compromised.

Staying true to its vintage vibe, bouncy riffs and confident vocal smoothness, Lisbon plays from start to finish like a breeze.

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I Love You, may be the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first band to break into national and global recognition based on Internet exposure. Earlier this year Pitchfork.com listed their single â&#x20AC;&#x153;Faceloveâ&#x20AC;? in their Best New Music category. It seems these days bands can tour on that accolade alone.

But Kingstonians know their success is a product of years of hard work. Paul Saulnier and Ben Nelson played in the local quartet Magic Jordan before branching off into a duo with a bit more emotion and a bit more precision.

Three years of hard work, playing almost every venue in Kingston and recording demos, brought them to a deal with Paper Bag Records and their first LP. Meet Me At The Muster Station is 10 tracks and 30 minutes of echo-y riffing that see the band reaching outside the fuzzy-minimalism of their live shows. Not that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d notice any studio trickery, though. The album plays like it was recorded live in a big room and on a time-limit.

But the imperfections play to PS I Love Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strengths. These songs are short blasts of emotion, not meant to be picked over by somebody who cares about playing perfectly on tempo or a radio-ready mix. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the noise of Dinosaur Jr. with notions of danceability like Death From Above 1979.

The album opens with its title track, a downward chord progression into Saulnierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shouty yowl, sounding like a mix between Mick Jagger and Spencer Krug.

It builds towards an epiphanic moment when he stomps in the complimentary notes on the bass pedal. â&#x20AC;&#x153;2012â&#x20AC;? is a standout with its up-tempo, ramshackle display of guitar wizardry reverberating around Saulnierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s yelping and Nelsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s open hi-hat. Its chaos is more convincing as a treatise on apocalyptic theories than any John Cusack disaster film.

Even through the slower, more spacious tracks in the middle (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cbezâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Little Spoonâ&#x20AC;?) PS I Love You retain their energy and their rawness. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a quality difficult to describe, or apply to a peer. The band is a confounding mix of noise and sublety, thrash and ability to still reach down and pull out a love song.

This crossroads is laid out plain over the closing three tracks, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Facelove,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Get Overâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Meet Me At The Muster Station (Pt.2).â&#x20AC;? The former starts with a pronouncement of feeling, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Your love is like a giant strawberry/ thrown in my face,â&#x20AC;? but with a sense of humour. It then explodes into a jumpy, double-time instrumental with progressing layers of shredding. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Get Overâ&#x20AC;? is an engineerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nightmare. Nelsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crackling stick-work floats around the stereo mix above a heavily distorted

Sabbath thing from Saulnierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s guitarâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;like so distorted you can barely make out the notes.

Then, with some 808 claps and a scream, the chorus enters with the bass pedalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brown-notes nearly drowning out the entire mix, compression and EQ be damned. Beyond that, the song trails off into an electronic feel with flanging, phasing and a layer of electronic drums floating to the surface.

Then some of the cleanest guitar on the album starts the closing number, with a steady Jesus and Mary Chain kick-snare from Nelson and some Frank Black-style vocals from Saulnier. But quickly the guitar overlaps itself until it fades into a void of tape hiss and unknown clanging.

Every song on Meet Me At The Muster Station contains all the elements of every other song on the album. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an album of greatest hits,

made up of songs that sound like compilations within themselves. It has something for everybody, but PS I Love You straight-up doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t care about enough formalities to retain cohesiveness. There are just enough annoyances on the record to keep away that universal appeal

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Gaels soccer finding postseason form The men’s soccer team sweeps RMC to move up to 6-3-1 and second place in the OUA East divison

By Lauri Kytömaa Assistant Sports Editor It will take more than rain and wind to derail the resurgent 2010 men’s soccer team. The Gaels took advantage of a dreary Wednesday at Tindall field to produce a 6-0 win over the RMC Paladins.

The scoring started uncharacteristically early for the Gaels when Adrian Rochford landed one in net 13 minutes into the game. Nathan Klemencic joined in three minutes later to push the lead to 2-0. Eager to add to the margin, team captain Mike Arnold booted in his seventh and eight goals of the season at the end of the first half.

Up 4-0 at halftime the Gaels entered the second half brimming with confidence while a disheartened RMC couldn’t find any way to respond. The latter half gave the Gaels fewer opportunities, but Eric Koskins was able to find the back of the net twice in the last five minutes. Covered in a healthy mix of rain and sweat, the team came off with a dominant 6-0

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The Gaels sweep their season series against RMC with a 6-0 win Sept. 29. Carleton is the top found its chemistry after opening “I take 27 players for a on team in the OUA East and took the the season with a 1-2-1 record reason, at the beginning season series from the Gaels 2-0. and struggling to find consistent of the season I told my However, Vermeer said the team play. Vermeer commented on the guys everyone has to be doesn’t feel they’re outmatched by team’s improvement.

“I don’t know if anything has ready to play at the top the Ravens. “[The] loss to Carleton was changed; we are getting used to level of their game.” really unlucky, I thought we played the system the coaches want to put —Chris Gencarelli, really well, then we had a lapse and in place. We are finding more net men’s soccer head coach they capitalized on it,” said Gaels and playing together more than we team captain Justin Vermeer. “You have in the past,” he said. “I think performance, their fifth win in the obviously can’t have breakdowns [our development] was just about against good teams like that, but we getting enough time to gel.” last six games.

Winning five out of the last The only loss in that streak had a lot of possession.”

With the postseason fast six games, the team has pushed came at the hands of Carleton who was able to squeak to a 1-0 win approaching, the team seems to have itself to second place in the OUA

at home. east, with a 6-3-1 record, right behind Carleton.

Surprisingly the string of success has come in spite of various injuries to veteran players on the roster.

Eight players are injured, including Vermeer with a stress fracture and Eric Cappon with a concussion.

The injuries to regular starters have allowed younger players to gain valuable experience. Head coach Chris Gencarelli said the injuries do have a unique benefit.

“I think it is giving other guys an opportunity to step up, with injures you never know what’s

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Gee-Gees takes the season series from otherwise undefeated Gaels soccer team with another 1-0 win.

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going on, [I am] very pleased what is going on with everyone,” he said.

“I take 27 players for a reason, at the beginning of the season I told my guys everyone has to be ready to play at the top level of their game and clearly that has come to fruition. The injuries aren’t too serious but we’re a deep team.”

With four games remaining in the season, the Gaels need to maintain their composure if they hope to go deeper into the postseason. Gencarelli said he Please see Soccer on page 14

Ottawa’s got the kryptonite Men’s rugby ousts

By Kate Bascom Sports Editor The Queen’s women’s soccer team took on the University of Ottawa Gee-Gees last Wednesday, losing 1-0 in Ottawa. The Gaels sit at the top of the OUA East with a 10-2 record going into the Thanksgiving weekend. Both teams are nationally ranked with the Gaels third in the CIS. “Ottawa’s always a tough game for us,” forward Kelli Chamberlain said. “They’re probably our toughest competition all year ... They’re the only team we’ve lost to.”

The Gaels’ only losses of the season have come against the Gee-Gees. Chamberlain said that although Ottawa has been a challenge for the team, the low-scoring games haven’t worried them.

“It’s been a 1-0 game both times,” she said. “I think we’re equally matched in some ways. I think we have some strengths that they don’t have and they have

some strengths that we don’t have.

I think it’s just going to come down to playing our game if we meet them again.”

Chamberlain said the team needs to stick to their game plan going into games against the Gee-Gees.

“I think one of the reasons we’ve had trouble against them is because we wind up just kind of getting off our game, not playing the way we usually do,” she said. “We just need to focus on that.”

Queen’s leads the OUA East with Ottawa behind them by only seven points. Chamberlain said their lead isn’t as secure as it may seem since the Gaels have played two more games than the Gee-Gees.

“They’re right on our tails,” she said. “We can’t lose any more games at this point ... It’s just kind of an extra motivation to keep working hard for the rest of the season, to just keep our spot.”

With injuries and a tough September schedule, Chamberlain said the women’s soccer team is looking for a well-deserved break

over the weekend.

“We’ve had a lot of long stretches where we’ve had five games in a week,” she said. “It’s just really straining on the body ... [We] get some time for injuries to heal and have people come back down to base level.”

Chamberlain trails her teammate Jacqueline Tessier, who has 12 goals, in the OUA scoring race with seven goals. The team’s offensive power has been a highlight to their 2010 season. With the graduation of CIS Player of the Year Renee MacLellan, there was concern over who could step up to fill her offensive prowess. Chamberlain said Tessier has been one of those individuals but credits a full team effort.

“Obviously everyone loves scoring,” she said. “It all starts from the rest of the team.”

Queen’s is back at home on Oct. 16 against the Ryerson.

The game starts at 1 p.m.

Gaels recover from loss to Western

By Kate Bascom Sports Editor The men’s rugby team defeated the Guelph Gryphons 28-0 on Oct. 1 in Guelph. The win came on the heels of a disappointing loss to the Western Mustangs as the Gaels improved their record to 3-1.

Wing Daniel Moor said the team wanted to keep the play tight and eliminate any errors early.

“I thought we played a pretty good game and stuck to the game plan,” he said. “Our game plan early was just to keep it tight, make sure it was clean, not a lot of errors.

Defensively we just tried to play solid and come up together.”

Moor said the Gaels’ convincing win was due to the team’s hard work at practice and focusing on their game plan.

“There’s a lot of good teams in the OUA this year,” he said. “We were just able to execute our game plan pretty well.”

A strong defensive effort

secured the win for the Gaels as they kept the Gryphons off the scoreboard. Moor said going into the postseason the team is hoping build on their success.

“We have a lot to improve on for sure,” he said. “Offensively, it’s just eliminating errors, making sure the back line is working clean together. ... Defensively, just sticking to our systems. ... We’re just trying to get a little better and keep building.”

The end of the season brings the Gaels home for their final three games at Kingston Field. The men’s rugby team said they’ll be taking the end of the season one game at a time.

“We’ve just got to focus on the next game,” he said.

“The biggest game of the season is always the next game, we’re never looking past that.”

The Gaels will play Waterloo on Oct. 16 at Kingston Field.

The game starts at 1 p.m.

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hesitates to rely on the team’s recent success.

“Guys are starting to find what we are looking for and playing to our strengths. If you can do that and continue to improve we will be ready to play come playoff time,” he said. “My worry is guys will get comfortable, we need to make sure to maintain our focus for playoff soccer. The next four games are huge.”

After the Thanksgiving break the Gaels will face off against the Ryerson Rams and the Toronto Varsity Blues who are right on their heels, ranked fourth and third respectively. With a game plan in place, a little bit of turkey shouldn’t slow down the emerging Gaels soccer team.

The Gaels will play against Ryerson Oct. 16 at home.

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Women’s golf medals in Guelph

With the Queen’s football team’s playoff chances hanging on the edge, the OUA has added an interesting twist to the Gaels postseason hopes.

The Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks played the first three games of their 2010 season with an ineligible defensive end, David Mantoya.

Mantoya violates a new rule requiring players to exhaust their five years of eligibility in a seven year period. Montoya played for four years from 2002-2005. At 27 he has returned this year to attain a business degree.

The OUA rules require that a team starting an illegible player to forfeit any games that they have used that player. The Golden Hawks benched him after their first three games. Currently the CIS has ruled that Montoya violated the eligibility rules and in accordance with OUA rules, the Golden Hawks stand to lose their win over the Toronto Varsity Blues. Montoya has chosen to appeal the case to a third party, the Sport Dispute Resolution Centre of Canada.

The OUA will wait for the appeal process to resolve before making anofficial decision, but it’s unclear how long the process will take.

How this affects the Gaels still remains to be seen. As of Oct. 7 the Gaels have a 1-4 record coming off of their tough loss to Western. The Golden Hawks were at 3-2 and the Varsity Blues sat at 2-3, if the Golden Hawks are forced to forfeit they will fall to 2-3 and Toronto will move to 3-2. Toronto holds down the sixth and final spot in the playoffs without a forfeit. The ruling will certainly mix things up.

Casey Ward led the women’s golf team to their fourth consecutive silver medal at the Guelph Invitational. Ward shot a three-over par 75 to earn the individual silver medal at the tournament held at the Cutten Club.

The men’s team posted a combined score of 303 and placed sixth. The men’s top scorers were Sean Lackey and Matt Courchene who each shot two-over par 74.

The Gaels’ final event will be in Hamilton at the McMaster Invitational on Oct. 12.

—Kate Bascom

Queen’s recognizes student-athletes Queen’s announced its CIS Academic All-Canadians and OUA Academic All-Stars for the 20092010 season. Queen’s has 118 Academic All-Canadian which ranks Queen’s fourth in the CIS behind McGill, Laval and Alberta.

There are 107 student-athletes who earned OUA Academic All-Star status.

Student-athletes must earn an average of 80% or higher to earn this honour.

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Using smell to get well

Have a headache? Skip the drugstore! Postscript explores the practice of aromatherapy and its natural benefits to the body

By Kelly Loeper Postscript Editor Ever take a soothing bath with rose-scented salts, or light a relaxing lavender candle? Scents and aromas can take you to a relaxing state of mind and even trigger past memories. Next time you have a migraine, though, think of swapping your Advil for some Rosemary and try aromatherapy.

Although aromatherapy is a fairly new alternative healthcare practice, it actually dates back to 4000 BCE. Ancient Egyptians used plant oils and herbs for cosmetics, spirituality, relaxation and even mummification.

Medical physicians in Ancient Greece continued the Egyptians’ legacy and used aromatic baths and massages to promote health; they even used herbs and oils in surgeries.

During the European Renaissance, the wealthy used aromatic oils on their handkerchiefs to avoid unpleasant smells. Physicians, pharmacists and chemists also used essential oils to help patients relax.

Not soon after, apothecaries began popping up all over Europe, where herbalists and physicians sold herbs, oils and fragrances as pharmaceutical remedies.

The term “aromatherapy” didn’t come into use until the 20th century, though—French chemist named René-Maurice Gattefossé was the first person to coin the term. After severely burning his hand, he immediately applied pure lavender oil; amazingly, the swelling went down right away.

Soon after this discovery, during the Second World War, a French army doctor named Jean Valnet treated wounded soldiers with essential oils.

Austrian botanist Marguerite Maury also used essential oils in healing massage. Valnet and Maury’s techniques continued all the way into the 21st century.

In the Western World today, aromatherapy is just starting to find its place, especially in holistic medical practices.

Louise Bertrand, owner of Holistic Scents in Kingston and a registered aromatherapy health care practitioner, said she has been involved with aromatherapy for 15 years.

“Aromatherapy essential oils are pure plant extracts and they work with the body, not against the body,” she said.

Bertrand said aromatherapy is used as a way to assist the body on its path to heal itself.

“Every essential oil has three properties: they’re anti-viral, antibacterial and they’re anti-fungal,” she said, adding that some also act as an anti-inflammatory.

She said there are many ways essential oils can be administered, such as breathing them in, putting

them in a bath or putting a couple of drops into a candle.

People often mix them with carrier oils, she said, such as grapeseed, coconut or olive oil, she said.

“Essential oils are not greasy,” she said, so if someone is going to perform aromatherapy massage, carrier oils are necessary.

Each essential oil is different in terms of their scent strength, she said.

“You have a top note, a middle note and a base note,” she said.

“A top note is very airy—it disperses fast.”

The middle notes are balancers, she said. “They will hold part of the top note without releasing it all.”

Base notes are the strongest, she said. “They linger.”

Bertrand said it’s also important to remember the impact essential oils can have on your body. For example, someone with low blood pressure should avoid ylang-ylang, as it will lower their blood pressure further and cause serious damage.

“Be careful with essential oils because they are very powerful ... don’t underestimate [them].”

Jeanette McPherson, owner of Elements Natural Therapies in Kingston, is a natural therapist and photo by christine blais certified aromatherapist and has been involved with aromatherapy Essential oils are known to help you relax or heal many common ailments, such as depression, migraines, muscle aches and skin problems. since 1998.

“Eucalyptus is really good for “I think some people colds; you can either just breathe it in or put it in your shower are really tired of the or bathtub.” traditional health Lavender is one of the most system ... They want to useful, * Chamomile: Is a calming agent, antibiotic, antiseptic and as it has so many uses, try something natural antidepressant. Helps digestive inflammation and acne. she said, such as helping with instead of taking depression and relaxation. * Eucalyptus: Helps treat respiratory issues, is an antiseptic, “Lavender is sometimes called a drug.” antispasmodic, decongestant, diuretic and stimulant. Has deodorizing ‘the queen of essential oils’—you — Jeanette McPherson, can put it directly on your skin and characteristics, helps fight migraines, fevers and muscle aches and pains. certified aromatherapist not get a rash,” she said. “Rosemary * Jasmine: Eases depression, pain during childbirth and enhances libido. is good for memory. Inhale it or put Helps treat respiratory problems, addiction issues and reduces tension She immediately became very it around your temples. and stress. passionate about the field.

“Grapefruit is very uplifting,” “I think because I was working she said, adding that it often * Lavender: Is an antiseptic, antidepressant, anti-inflammatory in a very stressful field in an office helps depression. decongestant, deodorant, diuretic and sedative. setting,” McPherson said, and McPherson said scents are also aromatherapy provided a very often very personal, and can trigger * Lemon: Helps treat skin irritation, digestion and circulation problems. drastic change. different memories and feelings for Is a natural immunity booster, helps reduce cellulite, alleviate headaches, She said she sees a wide range different people. fever and lifts mood. of people seek out aromatherapy “One woman [I knew] didn’t services, such as people with sports like orange because it reminded her * Patchouli: Promotes skin cell growth, helps relieve anxiety, injuries or others looking for of being in a hospital ... it can be depression, fatigue, addiction and reduces cellulite and bloating. relaxing massage. very psychological.”

“We do see students as young Many people are becoming * Rose: Helps depression, anxiety and digestion. Helps with circulation, as 16, up to older people who just interested in aromatherapy as an heart problems and respiratory conditions. want to maintain their health.” alternative to traditional medicine, She said the most common she said. * Rosemary: Enhances memory, focus and overall brain performance. problems she sees that seek “I think some people are really Acts as an analgesic; soothing aching, cramping muscles, headaches and aromatherapy are depression, tired of the traditional health migraines. Helps with digestive and liver infections. arthritis, joint and muscle stiffness system,” she said. “They want to and Fibromyalgia, a condition in try something natural instead of * Tea tree: Is a natural immune booster, it helps heal skin conditions, which people experience muscle taking a drug.” burns and cuts and works as an insecticide. Helps to soothe and treat and tissue pain.

It’s important to note the nature cold sores, respiratory conditions, muscle aches, the flu, athlete’s foot and If someone is just starting out of holistic medicine, though. dandruff. with aromatherapy, McPherson “I think mostly this kind of said there are some basic essential natural healing is considered * Ylang-ylang: Has calming properties, soothes headaches, nausea and oils out there that will help treat preventative health. You’re keeping skin conditions, stimulates hair growth, helps reduce high blood pressure common problems. your stress down and that could and intestinal problems.

“Tea tree oil is a must. It is really prevent any more serious diseases good for cuts and also mosquito from happening.”

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