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Yesterday at 11 a.m. Queen’s Wears Pink supporters descended onto Tindall Field for the campaign’s last day. Sarah Emery, MSc ’80 and breast cancer survivor, spoke at the event. The campaign started Oct. 12 and aimed to raise awareness about breast cancer and funding to fight the disease.

Upgrading sustainability at Queen’s Annual College Sustainability Report Card raises Queen’s grade from B- in 2010 to B

By Clare Clancy News Editor For the past few years, sustainability has been a hot topic around campus. There have been clubs formed, documents signed and policies written. According to this year’s Green Report Card, these initiatives seem to be working.

The annual College Sustainable Report Card, released on Oct. 27, is created by the Sustainable Endowments Institute. It’s used to measure the sustainability of over 300 post-secondary institutions in North America.

Queen’s has stayed in the middle of the Canadian rankings, but has moved from a B- to B grade.

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Aaron Ball said the grade improvement reflects Queen’s commitment to environmental sustainability.

“It’s an indication that the university as a whole is on the right track in terms of sustainability,” he said.

The Report Card operates by using survey data and dividing it into nine categories: administration, climate change and energy, food and recycling, green building, student involvement, transportation, endowment transparency, investment priorities, shareholder engagement.

Ball said that since all data is gathered through surveys, it takes a broad opinion base into account but since it lacks official numbers, it shouldn’t be considered the ultimate sustainability authority. “[That said,] I think it does a very good job of what it’s trying to do,” Ball said.

One category where Queen’s improve significantly was climate change and energy, where the University went from a B grade to a A. Ball said this improvement isn’t

much of a surprise given the steps the University has taken to combat climate change.

On Feb. 9 2009, Prinicipal Woolf signed the Climate Change Statement of Action for Canada (UPCC). Another initiative

by Principal Woolf has been to eventually stop the sale of water bottles on campus over a five year period. Ball created the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Working Group in order to deliberate upcoming targets to make Queen’s carbon neutral by 2050. “[It’s] a clear reflection of

directly what has happened this year,” Ball said. “Queen’s is in the process of coming out with a climate change plan.”

Student involvement also improved from a B to an A this year. Ball said this is due mostly to better channels of communication between different student groups.

“Students have always been active but there’s a bit more cohesion,” he said. “The SGPS will work the with the AMS and they’ll work with our office.”

Nontheless, Ball said there are still categories which could be

improved. Queen’s received a C in the transportation category for the second year in a row.

“There’s some room to improve.

We’ve had some fairly longstanding transportation practices,” he said, adding that car pooling and the West campus shuttle bus are two examples. “[There are also] supplied bike racks, 70 some odd, on campus,” he said.

He said that in order to improve the grade, Queen’s needs to raise awareness about existing Please see Queen’s on page 5

Specializing Ontario schools

Higher Education Quality Committee advises university specialization

By Labiba Haque Assistant News Editor Universities across the country are looking at the benefits of specialization, and if they decide to move forward, the change could alter the nature of post-secondary education for students.

A report, called The Benefits of Greater Differentiation of Ontario’s University Sector, was released Tuesday morning from Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO). It indicated that specializing a university’s academic concentrations will be create a more efficient system.

It suggested making changes to university structure, programs offered, research, teaching and services in order to make specialization a reality.

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schools are too low. by differentiating universities and allowing them to concentrate in a desired discipline, it will provide students with more resources devoted to their field and a better overall quality of education.

“It’s encouraging universities to think hard about what their jewels in the crown are.”

—Harvey Weingarten, president and CEO of HEQCC the paper argues that the Ontario university system is already very diverse due to the regional, geographical, economic and cultural variations found throughout the province. It says universities need to concentrate their resources on a specific area such as graduate research. Doing so, the report argues, will permit the maintenance of the quality of education provided to students despite greater enrollment and larger class sizes. Harvey Weingarten, president and ceO of HeQcO, said his company was approached by the Ontario Ministry of training colleges and University (MtcU) to write the report.“We convened a working group. We considered the issue and solicited some advice from that sector,” he said adding that the report’s purpose is to encourage government and intuitions to spend money in a more focused way.

“It’s encouraging universities to think hard about what their jewels in the crown are,” he said. Although there are many who are concerned with the direction that the paper suggest the post-secondary educational system move forward, Weingarten said it was meant to provoke a debate and furthermore, many universities are responding positively to the report, Queen’s in particular.

“Queen’s is engaged in a process right now in academic planning … this kind of process may result in larger and better programs and less emphasis on certain programs,” he said, adding that Queen’s has been consistent with differentiation by already implementing it in the academic planning process.

In acquiring a differentiated postsecondary institution, the government must consult with universities and the public. After the consultation period, universities must write a mission statement which highlights

factors such as their desired target enrollment, priorities of teaching and research and new programs they wish to develop. the MtcU then reviews these statements and negotiates with universities. this results in multi-year accountability agreements. both parties will then agree on the funding allocation and expectations for the university.

Principal Woolf said he was given the chance to view the report, a few days before its release.

“I think it’s an interesting document without question. It has valuable insight including the recognition that universities are already differentiated,” he said. “One of the challenges for us is that Queen’s is a mid-sized university; we have strong undergraduate education, but also strong graduate programs. It is very important if any differentiation occurs, we preserve our position.”

If differentiations were to occur at Queen’s, Woolf said he hopes to concentrate on crossdisciplinary specialization as opposed to departmental or faculty changes in order to maintain equality among disciplines. . the academic planning exercise will assist in making some of the choices in the future in terms of choosing where to specialize.

“We can’t possibly be excellent across the board,” he said.

Alexi White, executive director of the Ontario undergraduate students (OUSA), said the organization is very optimistic about the report.

“It’s important to stress the difference about not closing programs and to stress that this is about bettering the funding for universities,” he said, adding putting the idea into action has a tremendous potential to have positive effects.

Nonthless, he said that in order to ensure the process it a success, there is a need for a consultation process with students.

“I think that universities make that decision every day, and this is not necessarily forcing university to cut funding at all,” he said.

“When universities make these decisions, it’s important to see how it fits in the boarder picture, it’s important for the province to take a role in working with the universities and be proactive.”

—With files from Clare Clancy

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rankings until it increased to 13 this year. Healey said the research and planning department had concerns This year, Queen’s chose to forgo with the weighting of some of the the opportunity to appear on a list new factors. of the top universities in the world.

“We looked at it all very carefully The Times Higher Education’s and had some issues with some World University Rankings were of the measures they were talking released last month and the Globe about using, [so] we declined to and Mail’s Canadian University participate,” he said, adding that Report was released on Monday. one heavily weighted factor in the Queen’s did not participate in the rankings is the number of times the Times international study and were university’s research is cited. subsequently omitted from the “We [would have] had to list of the 200 top universities in do some work to help them the world. compile,” he said.

Principal Daniel Woolf said the Healey said the changes made to Times Higher Education Survey the survey this year compromised (THES) requires the consent and its reliability as a legitimate indicator cooperation of the universities of international university rankings. involved, and Queen’s chose not “The jury’s still out as to to participate. whether this stuff is reliable and “[Institutional] analysis staff valid or not,” he said. “There’s a lot felt very strongly that there were of controversy about how they’re serious methodological problems used. We just wanted to wait with the way the data [was] being and see how they were going to collected and the questions being use them.” asked, and I have to defer to their Healey said the University advice on that,” he said, adding chose to forgo the survey because that Queen’s was not alone with they still take part in domestic these concerns and the University ranking systems. of Waterloo and the University of “We have to be mindful of Western Ontario also chose not what’s going on from a Canada to participate. point-of-view,” he said. “We’ve been involved right from day one “Within Canada, I find with the Maclean’s ranking, which that rankings are not as came out in 1991. We were heavily involved in making sure that survey important to students. was as accurate as it could be.”

But when we look at Still, he said there is concern things internationally, over how the University is seen on rankings sometimes do an international stage.

“We do know that some have a higher impact.” international students and faculty ­—Kutay Ulker look at this stuff,” he said. “I hope Queen’s Admissions staff they don’t put all their weight on it, but if it’s something they look at, “Given the sharp reaction to the we have to take it seriously.”

THES rankings by a whole bunch In his January 2009 vision of British vice-chancellors ... and document, Where Next?, Principal by a couple of Canadian university Woolf made similar claims about presidents, I think [Queen’s the value of these rankings for staff] were quite right to make internationalization—one of his that call,” he said. “That doesn’t four key pillars for development. mean we wouldn’t participate in “We should pay attention this particular ranking exercise in to ranking exercises such as the another year ... But we’d have to Globe and Mail, Maclean’s and be satisfied that they were using the Times Higher Education appropriate methodology.”

Supplement to the extent that they The Times rankings have often guide many international been published since 2004 and universities’ decisions on potential are often considered the premier partnerships,” he wrote. international university rankings Kutay Ulkuer of Undergraduate report. Office of Institutional Admissions said THES and Research and Planning Manager international rankings have Roger Healey said the THES more impact on international methodology was simplistic students than Canadian high until recently. school students.

“They used very simple, fixed “Within Canada, I find that indicator measures to come up rankings are not as important with their ranking numbers,” he to students,” he said. “But when said. “Many of those numbers they we look at things internationally, were able to get publicly, without rankings sometimes do have our input, because they’re on a higher impact on how we our website.” recruit and how our recruitment Healey said the new is formulated.” methodology implemented in Ulkuer said the international March required help from the confidence in the Canadian research and planning department. educational brand is high.

He said the 2010 methodology is a “[International] students look radical departure from years past. into several different things when “They virtually reinvented it,” deciding where to study,” he he said. “They started to involve said. “First of all, it starts with some indicators that are quite the country. Canada enjoys a controversial in the international very good reputation [as] an rankings community.” education destination.”

The THES methodology used He said the confidence to use six factors to develop the comes from a high standard of

average quality.

“The United States houses the top universities, some of the best universities in the world, but there are also universities of very low quality,” he said. “Canada doesn’t have that.”

In an op-ed piece last month in the Guardian titled “University world rankings are pointless,” President and Provost of University College London, Malcolm Grant, voiced his opinion on the practice.

“Imagine a newspaper decided

Queen’s received in the Physical Fitness, Sports and Recreational Facilities category improved from a C+ in 2010 to an A+ in the recent 2011 report.

Sean Cameron, a Burlington high school student, is in the process of applying to business schools at Ontario universities. He said rankings are only one factor in choosing a university.

“Queen’s has had a reputation as a good school in a lot of programs,” he said. “Just because

Rankings from Times Higher Education, Maclean’s and the Globe renowned surveys of Canadian Universities. to create a table ranking the they’re not participating in a certain world’s cities. Is Moscow better survey, they’re not going to be hurt than Sydney? Would Hong Kong that much.” squeeze in above Manchester?

He said his visit to campus Or Bangkok above Brighton?” mattered more than the university Grant wrote. “It would be a rankings he read. nonsensical exercise.”

“Once I visited, it was really University College London was great to see what the campus was ranked 22nd among the top 200 in like, and I think that was a lot more the Times rankings. important than reading something “Global rankings have afforded in the Globe or reading something annual light entertainment but they in Maclean’s.” are now seriously overreaching Cameron listed small class themselves,” Grant wrote. “They sizes, an excellent reputation do a disservice if they influence among employers and an attractive student choice, or come to campus as selling points of the be treated as a performance Queen’s Business program, but measure by the leaders of hugely said individual students look for diverse institutions.” different things.

The Globe and Mail’s “To some of my friends, the Canadian University report on most important thing is athletic Monday surveyed over 35,000 complexes, or scholarships,” current undergraduates, asking he said. “It’s all about what over 100 questions. The mark the individual person feels is

their best fit.”

He said rankings can be an important initial tool, but more research must be done in choosing the right fit.

“It’s good to see Queen’s on the list,” he said. “It’s not a bad thing to participate in surveys, but it’s not the [most important] thing.”

His mother, Sara Cameron, said rankings can be contradictory, and schools often use them arbitrarily.

“We have been to so many campuses,” she said. “Everybody

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can call themselves number one in something.”

She said the administrators at her son’s school advised them not to get lost in the numbers, and not to focus on the ‘best’ school, but the ‘right’ school.

“Some people are very analytical, and get very caught up in the rankings,” she said. “But when you get on campus, that’s where you make the decisions.”

She said rankings can sometimes make people lose sight of what’s really important.

“Rankings drive people to try and find the best, instead of finding the right fit,” she said. “And getting on campus is how you find the right fit.”

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Medical record revolution Queen’s professor leads project to track medical records online

By Jessica Fishbein Assistant News Editor Queen’s University professor Richard Birtwhistle is leading a new project that will revolutionize how Canadian healthcare data is collected.

The project is called the Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network (CPCSSN).

The $11.5 million network is the first tool in Canada to catalogue patient diagnoses and care across the country.

“This has been done in Europe

in the U.K., but this type of data has never been available nationally in Canada before,” Birtwhistle said.

Family care physicians with electronic medical records share their patient files with the database so other physicians can browse them to learn more about disease frequency, treatment possibilities and success rates.

“We can now collect information and use it to look at a national picture of chronic diseases in Canada at the primary care level,” he said. “We can also use information to give feedback to individual practitioners, so a doctor can reflect on that information and decide if they’re meeting standards to improve their practice.”

With one in three Canadians suffering from a chronic disease, and family physicians as a main point of contact, it’s important that they have access to this type of information.

So far, there are 140 family doctors participating in CPCSSN, but the Network plans to attract 600 to 1,000 within the next five years. By then, CPCSSN hopes to be able to provide researchers, physicians and policymakers alike with detailed information on the prevalence and progression of their five diseases of focus; chronic

obstructive pulmonary disease, hypertension, diabetes, depression and osteoarthritis.

Birtwhistle said the main challenge is finding doctors with electronic files that can be transferred to the database.

“As a country we’ve lagged behind in having doctors use digital medical records,” he said. “Only 25 per cent of family doctors use electronic medical records but the tide is turning and this could change in the future.” supplied As more records go digital, it’s more important than ever that Richard Birtwhistle is planning to implement an online system of electronic medical records across Canada. they’re well protected.

“We really wanted to extract do a feasibility pilot, where we clerk who has to scan files into information from these records were able to collect information the computer,” she said, adding in a way that patients remain about people with chronic disease that it’s also advantageous because unidentified. Issues of privacy have from family doctor records,” he electronic records link information been brought up, but we’ve made said. “[Eventually, we’ll expand about patient’s prescription records sure information is as secure and with] a central database for other to pharmacies more efficiently.

She said hospitals already private as it can be. A person’s types of primary research, where name, address, health care number we can see the adverse effects of use a lot of electronic records but it’s much harder to do are not extracted. Instead we assign new drugs.”

Before all Canadian physicians in a smaller practice. individual number to each person “We are a private business so we can track them over time and enjoy the benefit of this type all information that is extracted of database, they need to and not with a lot of resources,” she said. “We have to digitize their records. travels in encrypted form.”

Cheryl Wein, a family doctor use our own money.”

Birtwhistle said this information Nevertheless, implementing will be extracted every three who practices out of Toronto, said months and has been extracted the cost and initial time investment electronic medical records will is the main barrier stopping family inevitably happen in today’s since 2008.

“In 2008, we were funded by the doctors from implementing information age, she said.

“I don’t know how or when, Public Health Agency of Canada to electronic medical records.

“Electronic medical records but at some point everyone will be are ideal and probably easier, but using them,” she said. “I’m just a the implementation is hard. My little reluctant to make changes. It’s own family doctor uses electronic hard to change your whole system medical records and finds them of doing things.” useful, but she has a full time

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transportation options.

“We might look towards further promotion of some of these alternative modes of transport,” he said.

Queen’s lowest grade was a D in shareholder engagement.

According to the Sustainably Endowment Institute, this category evaluates shareholder proxy voting practices, including opportunities for student, faculty, and alumni participation.

“I think as our culture of sustainability grows at Queen’s … there’s a greater and better sense of a need to incorporate sustainability into our operations,” Ball said.

“That’s true of our investment team.”

Although the category of administration remained a consistent B, Ball said there were improvements made this year including the use of the Queen’s Sustainability Advisory Committee (QSAC). QSAC was created last fall, but has been put into action more this year, Ball said. “[It’s] a formal way of getting multistakeholder involvement in sustainability on campus,” he said. “It advices … policy options and recommends the best action to take.”

Of 19 Canadian schools, Queen’s ranked eighth tied with University of Alberta, Dalhousie University and McMaster University for B. Sophie Lubin, communications fellow at the Sustainable Endowment Institute, said University of British Columbia, University of Calgary and University of Toronto were the Canadian universities which received the highest grade of A minus.

McGill, University of New Brunswick,

University of Victoria, and York University received B plus grades.

University of Guelph, Universite Laval, University of Western Ontario, Wilfred Laurier University B minus.

Carleton University and University of Waterloo ranked C plus along with University of Saskatchewan.

University of Manitoba made a C, ranking lowest.

Lubin said shareholder engagement is measured because the Sustainable Endowment Institute wants to ensure sustainability is made a priority in decision making.

“We want to see members voting with sustainability and socially conscience minds,” adding that this frame of mind also opposes policy decisions being made mainly for financial profit.

Nonetheless, schools without adequate finances were not even graded.

As of March of this year, Queen’s operated on an endowment of $558 million, according to the Sustainable Endowments Institute. This is important because Lublin said schools are chosen for the Report Card based on their endowment size.

“We automatically include the [300] universities and colleges in North America that have the highest endowments …. We have an opt-in process so any university that wants to be part of it can be.”

Although Queen’s may not be at the top of the endowment rankings, it’s Report Card shows it’s doing well with sustainability compared to other North American universities.

“Initiatives on campus are coming through,” she said. Any increase in grade is always really great.”

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Queen’s Sustainability Manager Aaron Ball says Queen’s has taken steps to improve its green grade.

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arents of minor hockey players in Calgary must take part in a mandatory, hour-long presentation before their children can hit the ice this season.

The presentation is part of the Respect In Sports (RIS) initiative, which provides parents and guardians with information about how to interact with referees, other parents and parents who abuse other children—or their own. Hockey Calgary chose to adopt the measure because of the increasing prevalence of parental behaviour issues.

Some hope that the program will create a sense of unity among non-aggressive parents so that they can act as a positive influence on those who cause problems. Parents were given more than a year’s notice that they would be required to complete the presentation. The response was almost entirely positive, with only a handful of families failing to take part.

It’s important to note that this isn’t a quick fix. Online training measures are notoriously easy to ignore, or breeze through with a few quick clicks. But while this presentation won’t do away with the problem of

“hockey parents,” Hockey Calgary’s decision is commendable.

It’s unsettling that parents who enrol their children in an extra-curricular sport might be driven to abusive behaviour. Making this measure mandatory for the parents or guardians of a player is a proactive attempt to combat a problem before it develops.

Hopefully, even the minor time commitment made to the RIS program will encourage parents to be more careful about their own behaviour, and more considerate of the feelings of others. Providing a clear standard of behaviour makes individuals accountable, especially if it’s directly endorsed by the hockey league.

Parents who refuse to partake in the program are being short-sighted. By doing so, they deny their children a chance to take part in a rewarding team activity, and waste money previously spent on equipment.

The RIS program won’t eliminate problem parents in organized sport, but it’s certainly a step in the right direction.

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backgrounds should work to improve their ability to teach. However, the responsibility is not on the shoulders of the instructor alone.

Communication issues can present real obstacles to students, impairing learning or forcing them to drop out of an important course. But simply giving up because an instructor is difficult to understand is purely an act of laziness.

Just as instructors need to be open to improving their teaching, students need to make an effort to facilitate their own learning. International Vice-Provost John Dixon does well to point out the reality of this scenario, stating that this skill is a realistic part of “engagement with diverse people in the world.”

Instructors and students alike need to acknowledge the strengths and weaknesses of the University Survey of Student Assessment of Teaching (USAT), the primary method of student feedback. While an instructor who relies on the USATs alone to inform their teaching style is short-changing the students they teach, students who fail to complete these forms diligently are depriving the instructor of constructive feedback. A personal attack on an instructor in a USAT evaluation doesn’t help them improve.

Ultimately, the solution to communication problems is more communication.

Learning to listen Features piece published in the Oct. 26 issue of the Journal considered communication problems within the classroom. The article focused on the resources available to instructors who have difficulty communicating with students, including courses offered to English as a Second Language (ESL) teaching staff. The article also captured both student and faculty perspectives on communication barriers in teaching.

A communication barrier, affects both the student and the instructor, and poses challenges each side must be willing to tackle.

This applies to any communication issue, whether it be an accent, a quiet voice or a tendency to speed through material.

Instructors must acknowledge that communication issues can complicate the learning process, and be prepared to repeat material, or explain material in a different way. Their teaching style should emphasize the communication of key points via visual representations. Furthermore, instructors need to let students know that they are open to feedback surrounding these issues.

This is in no way a commentary on the intelligence or qualifications of any instructor. A willingness to facilitate learning applies regardless of whether or not an instructor has difficulty communicating with students. Instructors at all levels and from all

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ight now, my best friend is tucked into the corner of a Starbucks in Vancouver sipping a pumpkin spice latte with whipped cream.

How do I know this moderately creepy tidbit?

My all-knowing BlackBerry Messenger tells me so.

Over the course of our time together, the two long vibrations from the tiny device—which is more or less glued to my hand—have now come to represent a once loving, now loathing two-year relationship with technology.

Don’t get me wrong. My friends are wicked cats and I’m not complaining about the privilege of being kept in the loop on their daily goings-on, I relish it.

But the constant ‘Liking’, tweeting and pinging is starting to make me a little claustrophobic.

Last week, after a particularly eventful evening, I left my phone behind at a friend’s house. In the hours that lapsed before I picked it up, the lack of response on my end managed to convince my parents and friends alike that I’d evaporated from humanity.

I’m beyond thankful to have people in my life that worry when I go AWOL, but the fact that my cell phone has become an essential extension and representation of me makes me uneasy. The same goes for Facebook and Twitter.

It’s not a novel idea that a life without Facebook these days is no life at all—no life worth caring about anyway. Recently a friend got word she’d been accepted to grad school

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and did what every other applicant would by sharing the good news on Facebook.

I quickly sent her a congratulatory text, but my neglect to comment or ‘Like’ her status led her to think I didn’t care. It became painfully clear that unless my declaration was public, it didn’t have the same effect.

Whatever happened to the days of a high five and a coffee on me?

We’ve become so desensitized by our connectivity that I barely feel emotion when corresponding anymore. The exchange of a few brief messages back and forth removes all feeling from words and offers the possibility of doing the unthinkable, and not responding.

Anyone who knows me is reading this with a smirk. It’s a safe bet that I’m typing away on my Blackberry this very second. I’m as guilty as the rest and am the first to admit the importance and necessity of my trusty handheld, which keeps me on top of three email accounts, Facebook, Twitter, texting and BlackBerry messaging.

Technology will only become more efficient and omniscient as time goes on and I hope our personal skills will follow suit.

Rather than taking for granted what our phones and laptops do for us, remembering the man behind the mechanism might be a reminder to tune into life more than just virtually.

If that’s too much to ask, at least take your phone off the dinner table.

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The multicultural milieu Multiculturalism has indeed failed, but not in the sense international pundits have described

Elamin Abdelmahmoud, ArtSci ’09, ’11 In 1991 former French President Jacques Chirac, then the Mayor of Paris, declared that the immigrant population of France had exceeded the “threshold of tolerance,” and that the values of newcomers not of French ancestry had come into a collision course with decidedly French values.

Just a few weeks ago in another European giant, Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel declared the death of multiculturalism, saying that it has failed in Germany because of “alien cultures”.

And right here at home we’ve always been a country that prides itself on multiculturalism, but there is a new discourse emerging, and its foundation is particularly xenophobic.

The Globe and Mail has declared that Canada ought to “strike multiculturalism from its vocabulary,” suggesting that in order for Canada to move forward, the idea of the “mosaic” must be removed from our national vision.

It may come as a surprise to some that one of Canada’s biggest newspapers might suggest such a move.

After all, a national survey in 2002 found that for Canadians, multiculturalism was the second most pride-inducing characteristic of Canada. We seemed to place a fair bit of importance on the idea of an inclusive, welcoming Canada.

Now we find ourselves at a moment where our leading media outlets are rethinking multiculturalism

in favour of some kind of pluralism that allows for the development of a “successful society around the concept of citizenship”.

Multiculturalism, they say, has proven unsuccessful in the Canadian project and in order for Canada to develop a distinctly Canadian idea of citizenship, multiculturalism must be ditched. Some have asked: why is it failing now? What has changed?

What has led the Globe and Mail to declare to immigrants to Canada: “Canada cannot replicate their homelands, nor should it strive to”?

The answer I would have for them is that it’s probably more accurate to say multiculturalism has never been successful since its inception.

While Canada has been a diverse country, the idea that multiculturalism works is a widely held mistaken belief.

If multiculturalism is about an equal mosaic of people living together and living with differences equally, then let’s not kid ourselves.

I by no means wish to suggest that Canada’s population is not diverse.

Immigrants come from all over the world and choose Canada as the place to build their new future.

However, the criteria for the success of multiculturalism cannot include the mere existence of several backgrounds side by side. The pluralism being advocated by the Globe is a more accurate description of what exists in the Canadian state now.

Being tolerant of difference in Canada has always come with a particular boundary, and some immigrants are not allowed to cross it. Much like the French “threshold of tolerance”, many newcomers to Canada have been particularly

restricted in existing as they please.

This is no way reducible to all immigrant communities: we can hold the Taste of the Danforth in Toronto or Oktoberfest in Waterloo as successful examples of celebrating roots outside of Canada.

But the idea that every culture is permitted to exist freely is simplistic: Sikhs had to go to court for the right to wear the Kirpan and Muslim women who choose to wear the Niqab in Quebec are still facing problems with their religious choice.

The limits of multiculturalism are such that one may be just different enough so as to not offend the historic European-sensibilities that set the political agenda in this country. These sensibilities may not be surpassed.

So in an increasingly hostile post-9/11 world, we begin to see new ways through which the limitations of multiculturalism are imposed. For some cultural groups, multiculturalism has been a lie.

Make no mistake: the multiculturalism we know about has never existed in this country. If multiculturalism is about an equal mosaic of people living together and living with differences equally, then let’s not kid ourselves.

According to Statistics Canada, immigrants (and particularly immigrants not classified as white) are less likely to find a family doctor, have a harder time finding housing, less likely to find a job (even if they have more education), and when they do find jobs they can be sure they will be paid less than their white counterparts.

Furthermore, new immigrants report high levels of discrimination, leading us to question just how tolerant we are as a society.

A truly multicultural society would (presumably) be able to introduce policies and national discourse that would curb the problems these newcomers are facing.

However, we continue to be

unequipped to deal with these problems, probably because multiculturalism has never come to take place in Canadian policy, but only in the image Canadians have of themselves.

I am for striking multiculturalism from our national vocabulary.

However, I’m not for it because for the same reasons as the editors of the Globe. I support this idea because multiculturalism is talked about so much without any real desire to institute it.

Being tolerant of difference in Canada has always come with a particular boundary, and some immigrants are not allowed to cross it.

I figure we should stop pretending and start dealing with the reality of pluralism in Canada.

If newcomers to Canada are experiencing an array of problems integrating to their new home, and if they’re only allowed to recognize their own cultures to some extent, then I ask: what is the difference between Canada’s “mosaic” and America’s “melting pot” analogies?

The answer is there is no difference, only we’ve convinced ourselves that Canada is exceptionally tolerant.

Multiculturalism is more than the existence of different backgrounds together. Multiculturalism is an active commitment to fostering difference and the acceptance of that difference.

If we were to just examine the experiences of some groups in Canada, we would see clearly that multiculturalism is not an accurate description of Canada.

What we do with this knowledge, whether we build a truly multicultural state or institute pluralism is a matter of opinion. But let’s at least acknowledge the truth.

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What should next week’s Talking Heads question be?

“What’s the sketchiest costume you saw?”

Jim Schaming, Sci ’07

“Do you believe holiday prep should begin immediately after Halloween?”

Katherine Stasiak, ArtSci ’12

“What’s your favourite song to sing in the shower?”

Sukaina Ally, ArtSci ’14

LETTERS TO THE EDITORS Charity Ball is not a mess Re: “AMS, confess you’re a mess” (October 22, 2010).

Dear Editors,

We would like to clear any misconceptions that may have arisen following Mr. Rotman’s piece in last Friday’s edition of the Journal.

While he is correct to point out that this year’s Campus Activities Commission (CAC) budget lists that Charity Ball has projected $28,500 in revenue and $30,500 in expenses, Mr. Rotman does not account for the fact that our committee has received a $2,000 allocation from AMS Assembly, which appears as part of the “Assembly Allocation” budget line.

Thus, what at first glance seems to be an event with a $2,000 deficit is in fact a perfectly balanced budget – one that includes a $2,500

minimum donation to the Charity Ball’s beneficiary this year, Home Base Housing.

Mr. Rotman’s mistake is an easy one to make, as the AMS’s budgeting model is unusual and unique: the entire society budgets for zero.

This means that some aspects of the AMS will make a profit while others break even or go into a deficit. The profits that are made in some aspects of the society are thus reallocated to other areas of the society in order to fund opportunities for students that would otherwise not be available.

We have a long-standing tradition of offering students unparalleled leadership and volunteer opportunities; without this funding model, it would be increasingly difficult for these experiences to be offered.

We are sorry that Mr. Rotman chose not to speak to either of us, or to anyone in the Campus Activities Commission, prior to publishing his piece. However, we invite him,

as well as any other concerned students, to contact the CAC if they would like to learn more about Charity Ball, the Commission, or the society as a whole.

Christina Mariani and Catherine Normandeau, Charity Ball Co-Chairs 2010

AMS is still a mess Re: “AMS, confess you’re a mess” (October 22, 2010).

Dear Editors, Mr. Rotman’s article misses the point. The Alma Mater Society is able to spend students’ money irresponsibly and fail at representing students because, as a mandatory union, it receives funding no matter what.

Services like Charity Ball, Capture the Faculty, the Common Ground, etc. make losses— excluding subsidies from student

fees—because students do not value the services for what they cost. Queen’s Model Parliament lost nearly $10,000 last year because students do not pay the full cost of the event. Effectively, the AMS determines that some people deserve your money more than you do.

The union runs these services by taking a guaranteed and predictable amount of fees from students each year. These fees total about $1,000 for each undergraduate student at Queen’s and go to support a variety of things: the AMS itself, faculty student unions (ASUS, EngeSoc, ComSoc, etc.) and various organizations and services the AMS has deemed to be worthwhile.

Membership and its mandatory fees are obligatory. This means the AMS is able to subsidize and support whatever failing services or political schemes it would like.

If the student union is guaranteed a hand in our wallets, it doesn’t matter how well it is run or

whether it represents us students. It can do whatever it wants!

What Mr. Rotman should have asked is how the AMS can represent the diversity of students if it’s content in violating one of their most fundamental human rights: the right to freedom of association.

By choosing or not choosing to associate with an organization, one is truly voicing their opinions and representing themselves. Mr. Rotman should have suggested that Queen’s follow the model that has been legislated in Australia: a policy of voluntary student unionism.

In this model, students are not forced to support failing services or organizations which they might find morally reprehensible.

They represent themselves by actually agreeing or disagreeing with the student union instead of being forced into losing their individuality.

Dan Osborne, ArtSci ’12, President, Queen’s Campus Libertarian Association

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Learning how to play by heart

After a year of teasing us with his captivating music videos, Diamond Rings is bringing his Special Affections to Kingston

By Ally Hall A&E Editor I’ll never forget the first time I saw a Diamond Rings video. As my eyes flashed from John O’Regan’s pink and blue eye shadow to his impossibly lean spandex clad legs, I was instantly in awe of his ability to pull off bona-fide pop star while dancing before a green-screened image of the Toronto sky line in “All Yr Songs”.

His launch to underground notoriety over the past year may have been sparked by that video, but his memorable live sets and the highly anticipated release of his debut Special Affections prove he’s showing the right stuff to stay on the rise.

Speaking over the phone on the morning of his record’s release, he sounded excited and relieved to be moving into the next stages of his latest sonic pursuit.

“It’s been a lot of work,” he said. “This album is really an experiment in my opinion.

I wanted to do something that incorporated elements of electronic music … It’s a style that fits the high rises and street cars and buses and captures that kind of intensity and vibrancy.”

O’Regan’s no stranger to the stage. Some will recognize him from his main gig as the front man of Toronto rock act The D’Urbervilles. After a few years of balancing his work with the band and attaining his art degree at the University of Guelph, it was an organic evolution when his focus turned toward his solo endeavor after graduation.

“I think it was a matter of me finishing up school,” he said.

“School takes a lot of time, even if it’s art college. It involves you running around in your underpants a lot of the time.”

After devoting the time he once spent as a student to his

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Known for his Bowie meets Vanilla Ice aesthetic, O’Regan has a no regrets approach to life. songwriting, he gained the way his work may be received is that’s an homage to the original confidence to move to Toronto shrugged off with the blue-eyed artifact while taking it somewhere to find a way to incorporate his glamazon’s simple adage, “No new. Those separate elements rubbing up against each other.” background and training in art into regrets, coyote.”

The performative quality to Inevitably, his music videos his musical practice, subsequently taking himself where a became an extension of the art he his art is evident from the bleach blonde coif on his head to the was doing. band couldn’t.

“The videos are a really meticulously cleaned high top “I eventually decided to go for it and play a few shows,” he said. collaborative process,” O’Regan kicks on his toes. With style best “[The record’s] about Toronto, it’s said. “Especially the “Show Me described somewhere between Salt, about my experience moving here Your Stuff” video. They come Pepa and David Bowie, the value and not really knowing what I was from everything, the people I’m of the visual aspect of O’Regan’s going to do with my life. It’s just collaborating with, my friends pursuit is clear.

“We went through a big period about figuring yourself out and watching YouTube videos and figuring out that it’s a long process trolling the internet for interesting in the 2000s where independent and not everything will make total things. It’s a form of collage for music sort of neglected the visual sense. It’s about enjoying life and me, finding these elements I like, and counter-performative aspect,” that I gravitate towards, and he said. “I have these songs with seeing the beauty in it.”

Any second-guessing on the re-contextualizing them in a way a few distinctive looks, Vanilla Ice

Face the love

Far from unfamiliar with the Limestone City, PS I Love You is returning with a debut record

By Jacob Morgan Staff Writer Paul Saulnier and Benjamin Nelson make up the guitar, bass pedal and drum duo that is PS I Love You. Paul yelps and screams over his feedback and fuzz drenched guitar while Ben hammers out the driving drum lines. The songs are simultaneously lo-fi and anthemic, catchy and noisy, and they embody everything that indie rock has come to represent.

PS I Love You is made up of Kingston locals but they’re currently on tour in support of their debut full-length, Meet Me at the Muster Station. The band returns home to headline a Halloween show on Oct. 30 at The

Mansion with longtime friend and collaborator, Toronto-based artist Diamond Rings.

“It’s close to all the cities but small enough to be cozy and good.”

—Paul Saulnier, lead singer and guitarist of PS I Love You Saulnier caught up with the Journal for a phone interview while on the road. He took the time to discuss growing up in Kingston and his band’s rise with an album that has garnered much critical praise.

However, this success clearly hasn’t gone to their heads and despite their recent acclaim, Saulnier said

they have “no plans to move.”

“Both of us grew up there and it’s close to all the cities but small enough to be cozy and good,” Saulnier said. The town informs all the songs that he writes and plays.

As he put it, “You can do a tour [of the town] with the songs and find out what we’re all about.”

The connection runs deep. For example, the Muster Station is a nautical reference to the part supplied of the Wolfe Island Ferry where Saulnier and Nelson cite their people gather in case of emergency. stomping grounds in Kingston Also, the carefully assembled 10 as inspiration for their LP. songs run a similar length to the they’re from a town better known ferry ride. for its universities and penitentiaries The songs draw much of their than its music scene, fellow emotional power from a strong Kingston natives and Canadian connection to a physical space. Paul juggernaut The Tragically Hip are explains that the themes of Muster often name-dropped in a discussion Station are “sort of mixed together. of PS I Love You. Love and all the good and bad Saulnier said he likes the things that come with that and how comparison, but at the same time it relates to the places in Kingston.” he doesn’t entirely relate. “They’re The band’s sound has been obviously a wicked rock band, compared to a variety of different but of a different era” he said. artists. For one thing, because Please see It’s on page 10

and MC Hammer paired with something that sounds like the Juno soundtrack, it’s a way to blend all those worlds.”

His penchant for denim, bling and glitter might seem like an effort to grab attention, but his aesthetic is as much a facet of Diamond Rings as the array of drumbeats in his tracks.

“I was trying to push myself to this point where I was almost sort of uncomfortable in a way,” he said. “Whether musical or visual, that’s what makes things exciting, finding that place where I’m unsure and uncertain, like tip-toeing up to the edge and jumping off, seeing if you have wings.”

If you’ve seen O’Regan’s live show, you know his fearless nature permeates through each gyration and piercing stare he throws at the audience. His concert costume has become a second skin for the 25-year-old, but he told me there was a certain level of anxiety that came with the first time he brought Diamond Rings to the public.

“It was a NXNE show with PS I Love You and it was really the first time I decided to play in the way I do now,” he said. “We’d discussed what I wanted to present and what I wanted to do … the first few songs, the first few moments were terrifying but totally thrilling, it’s a feeling I’ve never been able to experience in another way.”

After a visit here last August for the Wolfe Island Music Festival and a gig-packed summer, O’Regan is making a triumphant return to Kingston, this time with a particularly personal partner in crime, Paul Saulnier of PS I Love You. The bands have been on a similar journey since the release of their 7” split last year and the coincidental October release of both bands’ debut LPs. “I like to think things like that go unplanned, I try not to ask why but just go with the momentum and the energy,” he said. “I mean to some extent it was linked but were on different record labels.

There wasn’t a lot of talk in having the releases connected but we’d been working on them at the same time.”

O’Regan hinted their show tomorrow at The Mansion will be one for the books. When the duo share a bill they’ve been known to join forces on stage for a couple hypnotizing tracks.

“It’s going to be fun, we’ve been great pals for quite a while now and it’s been an adventure,” he said. “I hadn’t seen [PS I Love You] play in months and they were the best I’ve ever seen them, I’m really very excited for the show obviously.”

Diamond Rings plays The Mansion tomorrow night with PS I Love You, Agpak Mum and Switchyard Sullivan.

Tickets are $8.

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The zombies are coming The King’s Town Players talk to the Journal about their newest production and welcoming all types into their theatrical sandbox

The musical adaptation of The Night of the Living Dead promises to be a gory affair.

By Jaclyn Gruenberger Contributor The King’s Town Players, a new company in the Kingston community theatre scene, want you to delve into your inner zombie.

The Night of the Living Dead, a stage adaptation of the 1968 cult horror film, is the second production of the group’s inaugural season. It features dancing zombies, multimedia presentations and 25 feet of real pig intestines.

“We thought, that’s crazy enough to work,” Clay Garrett said, one of the four founders of King’s Town Players.

This sort of adventurous and creative thinking is the force behind the troupe. Founded last year by Myriam Beaulne, Kevin Fox, Clay Garrett and Krista Garrett, King’s Town Players is bringing quality volunteer theatre to Kingston. The Players are looking to create a group in which all members of the Kingston community can work together in a volunteer-focused environment.

“We want to create a volunteer

organization that is very strong for its volunteers. We want to make sure we appreciate them,” Clay said.

The Players are also focused on the diversity of their volunteers, and encourage participation from anyone from long-time Kingston residents to new Queen’s students.

“For Night of the Living Dead, we’ve got a great mix. We’ve got Queen’s students, St. Lawrence students, older people; there are theatre veterans and people who are new to the game,” Krista said.

“We want to have everyone play in our sandbox.”

The King’s Town Players’ metaphorical sandbox changes location with each production, as the Players currently have no permanent theatre space. The company’s debut production, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), was performed in Convocation Hall on Queen’s campus.

“We really wanted to use our first two shows to make our connections to Queen’s campus, to encourage students to come out

and audition for our shows,” Clay said. “We wanted to give students the idea that there is something outside of campus.”

Along with bridging the gap between Queen’s and Kingston community theatre, the Players are determined to establish Kingston as a theatre destination comparable to Toronto or Stratford. They’re eager to assert theatre-going as a popular form of entertainment in Kingston.

“Whether you’re in the audience, or onstage, or backstage for that matter, it’s something very different. A movie is always going to be the same, but when it comes to theatre, it’s alive,” Clay said.

Night of the Living Dead plays tonight and tomorrow night at Duncan McArthur Hall at 8:30 p.m., tickets are $17 for students.

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Mangan returns to Kingston to show off a more refined sound, playing hits from his latest album, Nice, Nice, Very Nice.

A very nice acoustic device

BC folk rocker Dan Mangan waxes poetic on novels, the varying degrees of epic and crowds

By Andrew Stokes Copy Editor Dan Mangan has never seen Star Wars, loves Van Gogh and is particularly fond of the colour blue. Besides this, he is known to play “music that has words and chords,” and the Vancouver native is performing a concert today at Sydenham United Church in support of his newest album Nice, Nice, Very Nice.

Mangan has been riding a

wave of recent success, particularly after his three wins at the Western Canadian Music Awards, picking up awards for Independent Album of the Year, Roots Solo Recording of the Year and Songwriter of the Year, but managed to stay particularly humble about it.

“I’ve been very fortunate … I’ve just been so lucky,” he said. Besides these three wins, he was also shortlisted for this year’s Polaris award, and was the recipient XM Please see Robotic on page 10

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“[This is] something new, it’s just a coincidence we’re both from Kingston. It’s cool to be compared to them but we’re not trying to follow in any musical footsteps.”

A more apt stylistic comparison would be with something in the same vein, like classic alternative rock bands the Pixies or Dinosaur Jr. In response to this, Saulnier says that it’s “not really a sound we’re going for, but a sound that just happens … It’s a bit like an amalgamation of everything I like and our own sound apart from that.”

A technically proficient electric guitar player, he’s capable of some seriously face melting shredding.

“My guitar playing style is very informed by a teenage obsession with Jimi Hendrix, one of the greatest electric guitar players of

all time—kind of a given.” But PS I Love You subtly incorporates many influences into a unique distillation.

The video for the single “Facelove”, which originally appeared as a B-side on a seven-inch release with Diamond Rings, is a perfect homage to the video for “Love Will Tear Us Apart” by Joy Division. Paul explains that the reason for the nod was “fandom but also because in the video for “Love Will Tear Us Apart” they show the sort of warehouse in Manchester they rehearsed in and wrote their songs.

We have a similar setup in Kingston where we play in a warehouse that’s sort of decrepit. Making music in this environment that’s cold and crumbling apart, we have that connection to Joy and where they made that video.”

The latest triumphs for PS

I Love You include an 8.1 out of 10 rating on Pitchfork, a site notorious for being able to make and break bands. Saulnier said that it’s been great to get that kind of acknowledgment.

“I’ve been reading Pitchfork since 1997. It’s cool to be a part of that and get some recognition from that world. But it’s also kind of scary in a way; it’s a big world to jump into.”

They’ve also recently done a spot on the bill of the highly respected CMJ (College Music Journal) Music Marathon in New York City.

In Brooklyn they played six shows in three days. “We didn’t get a chance to see a lot of bands,” Paul says about their visit there. “It would have been cool to go as a fan, but we were busy working. We had some really well attended shows after touring parts of America where no one’s heard of us yet.”

It’s an exciting time for PS I Love You, but an anxious one for their guitar player. Paul’s take on their recent success is that the band is “definitely ready for it, but sometimes I worry we’ll put out a crappy album and everyone will hate us.” Of course, he may be worried for nothing. With their fan base on the rise and the critics praising their album, it looks like PS I Love You is moving nowhere but up.

PS I Love You play The Mansion tomorrow with Diamond Rings, Agpak Mum and Switchyard Sullivan.

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Satellite Radio’s Verge Award for best artist.

When asked what he did besides making music, Mangan was quick to discuss his love of literature, “I love to read, and I wish I had more time to read,” he said. Nice, Nice, Very Nice is a reference to Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle, and he excitedly recited a favourite passage from the book’s fictional prophet figure.

“A Chinese Dentist, and a British Queen—All fit together in the same machine. Nice, nice, very nice.”

This poem is also where he found his album cover. “It’s a nice iconic image, I saw it and I knew I wanted it,” he said.

Mangan has been rigorously touring, and hasn’t been home since mid-August, but is nonetheless bringing his trademark enthusiasm to each show.

“When you step onto a stage and you see [the audience] get excited, you can’t help but get that shot of adrenaline” he said.

“Whatever energy we give off, when it’s reciprocated, it makes us have more fun. When we have more fun the audience has more fun, and then we have even more fun.”

The excitement can spiral out of control, like he said it did at his last Kingston show at the Grad Club. Playing a “late” show where the crowd was already a few drinks in turned the concert into “a wild rompus.”

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This element of refinement seemed to be a big part of what sets his second album apart from his first.

“The first album is very folky, singer-songwritery. It was all of my songs to that point on one album,” he said.

After four years of touring, meeting other musicians, and learning his craft, Mangan feels more comfortable with his music.

“I’m more certain what I’m looking for. [On the first album] I wanted every song to be epic, but this new one is comfortably ‘un-epic.’ The lyrics are stronger,” he said.

Mangan will be playing along with Harbourcoats and The Crackling, his drummer’s side project, a playbill which he had a hand in.

“When you pick the bands you play with,” he said, “It’s almost like you curate the show and present the bands you want heard.”

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Queen’s 3, Laurentian 1

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Men’s soccer breaks on through For all the chips By dropping Laurentian, the Gaels win their first playoff game since 2007

By Paul Bishop Staff Writer

The Gaels earned a spot in the OUA quarterfinals on Wednesday, as they battled a strong Laurentian team to win 3-1. It was the first playoff win for the men’s soccer team since 2007, when they claimed a bronze medal in the OUA playoffs.

Captain Michael Arnold showed cautious optimism after his team’s win.

“It’s good, it’s what we wanted,” he said. “You never know, playoffs are a totally new season. So it’s good to get this under our belt and move forward. It was just about battling and making sure that we’re outworking the other team. We know that we have the quality, but it’s just about putting it to work.”

The Gaels stormed to an early 2-0 lead after just 19 minutes, with striker Eric Hoskins and centreback Joseph Zuppo both finding the back of the net after goal line scrambles.

“We executed early on our chances,” said Arnold. “We made sure that we got those scrappy goals.”

Laurentian hit back in the 33rd minute, narrowing the Gaels’ lead to 2-1. Arnold said he was pleased with his team’s ability to hang on to their margin through the second half.

“It was tricky,” he said. “Being up one goal is kind of a tricky spot. You have to make sure to play your game and not fall back into the mindset of, ‘we’re up one goal, let’s hold on to it.’ So, I think

Gaels enter their first OUA title game with confidence

By Kate Bascom Sports Editor

Nathan Klemencic goes for the the key was to continue to attack and create chances, and to open [Laurentian] up.”

Queen’s had many chances during the latter half to score a third goal and put the game away.

Despite this, the Gaels were unable to capitalize on these opportunities.

Midfielder Daniel McBride as well as Arnold both saw major chances go wide of the goal.

The captain saw the Gaels’ lack of opportunism as a key area for improvement for the team’s next match up.

“Games get tougher as you go forward, so we need to make sure we capitalize on all our chances,” he said.

Arnold finally sealed the Gaels’ fate late in the game, netting a well-executed 3-1 goal in the 87th minute.

Despite being seeded fourth in the OUA East and finishing with an

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ball against the Laurentian Voyageurs’ goalkeeper Wednesday.

8-5-1 record, Arnold said he was mixed thoughts. optimistic about his team’s chances.

“I felt there were times when “If teams are just looking at our we sat back a bit, after we went regular season, we are considered two goals up,” he said. “But in the underdog,” he said. “But, we the second half I was happy with feel that … we are a scary team to the way we were able to hold play. We have aspirations to make it on and bring our game to them. to the finals and win the finals, so I On the whole, I was satisfied believe it’s possible.” with the performance.”

Head Coach Chris Gencarelli The Gaels had met the Lakers had a cool-headed approach to in their last regular season game, the Gaels’ chances in the playoffs. beating them 4-0.

The Gaels will face the University “That [game] was important,” of Toronto on Saturday; Queen’s said Gencarelli. “The previous lost both their games against weekend, we had not gotten any them this season. Despite this, points. So it was good to get the Gencarelli dismissed taking a win, and it was also good for our different approach. confidence coming into this game.”

“We are going to treat it like any other game,” he said. “Whoever it The Gaels will face off against is, we are going to have to just play the Toronto Varsity Blues our game; we are going to go and on Saturday in Toronto. The play mistake-free soccer.” game is set to start at As for the Gaels’ performance 3:15 p.m. on Wednesday, Gencarelli had

Queen’s alum comes home Kingston is hosting Skate Canada International at the K-Rock Centre this weekend

By Kate Bascom Sports Editor Jackie Stell-Buckingham is back in a familiar haunt. A Queen’s graduate, she’s returned to oversee the annual Skate Canada International being held at the K-Rock Centre in her role as Director of Events for the organization.

Stell-Buckingham first experienced Queen’s when she attended a model United Nations symposium as a high school student. She said she took precautions ensuring she would get into Queen’s by applying to two different programs.

“The minute that I set foot on the campus at Queen’s I was hooked,” she said. “I had been to a couple other universities but there was something about Kingston and Queen’s that really appealed to me at that point and there was no looking back.”

Stell-Buckingham was accepted into the Bachelor of Arts-Physical

Education program at Queen’s, a dual degree program. She said the Phys-Ed program emphasized the community aspect of university.

“I really liked being in Phys-Ed because it was a smaller faculty,” she said. “I knew everyone in my class and we did a lot of things together from intramurals to competitive sports to socializing ... you kind of felt part of a bigger family in a way.”

The Oshawa-native experienced the same transformation many students feel in attending university; the learning experience of moving away from home, living on your own away from the familiar environment of family and friends.

“If I had to narrow down the life opportunities of attending university particularly one like Queen’s offered, there was a lot of learning to be done,” she said. “It’s the same for any university student. It’s moving Photo by Christine Blais away from home, figuring out Jackie Stell-Buckingham is in Kingston with Skate Canada for Please see I was on page 15 the Skate Canada International event at the K-Rock Centre.

The mantra for the women’s rugby team this season has been to ‘control the controllable’. Gaels scrum-half Susan Heald said they need to remain focused on that mantra going into the OUA finals against the Guelph Gryphons this weekend.

“We’re just going to go out and play our game,” she said. “We’re going to take the opportunities we get and keep doing what we’re doing on defence. We’re right where we want to be.”

Heald said the Gaels have prepared physically and they now have to work on their mental game.

“We just need to get into the right mindset,” she said. “I think there’s a good balance right now between nervousness and excitement so as long as we maintain that and don’t get caught up in the whole this is the final game, this is it like we have to do it [attitude]. I think we just need to stay calm and do what we do, just like every other game.”

This is the first time since 1995 that the Gaels have made the OUA finals and the first time in team history that they have earned a berth to the CIS Championship.

Coach Barz said the undefeated season is a special achievement but that the playoffs offer a new challenge.

“We’ve taken it one step at a time,” she said. “It’s nice to look back and see what we’ve been able to accomplish through the regular season and moving into the second season. Really what it boils down to is that it really doesn’t matter what we’ve done. We could be coming in with a losing record and facing a team with a winning record, we still have to perform.”

Queen’s has been confident in their defensive play all season, crediting many of their wins to their strong defensive effort.

“Our defence creates opportunities for our attacks,” she said. “We have a pretty varied attack that we can move the ball where we want to, dependant on who’s on and where the space is. We have really cultivated the opportunities for athletes to create for themselves and see if there’s space to exploit it.”

The Gaels will face the Guelph Gryphons on Saturday at Kingston Field. The game starts at noon.

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Goaltending hot, offence not for Gaels

a goal and a win for women’s hockey as they split weekend action

By BeNJamiN DeaNs contributor The women’s hockey team had a mixed weekend against the University of Ontario Institute of Technology Ridgebacks.

On Saturday, the Gaels beat the Ridgebacks 1-0 in overtime and lost 4-0 on Sunday. Kelsey Thomson scored the team’s only goal, her third this season and her 50th as a Gael.

Goaltender Mel Dodd-Moher said she wasn’t happy about the games from the weekend.

“A weekend like that, we should be coming out with ... four decisive points,” she said. “I know we won our first game but it was too close.

It shouldn’t be that close.”

The Gaels have a 3-3 record and sit fifth in the OUA. UOIT sits just beneath them at sixth.

“I don’t think we were focused enough,” Dodd-Moher said. “It’s not that we don’t have enough talent on our team, but I think it’s more of a mental game right now.”

Dodd-Moher, who played on Saturday, made a crucial save in the third period and now has two shutouts in the Gaels’ young season.

“I’m happy with [my individual play], but it’s a team game,” she

said. “I’m happy to help out the team as much as I can ... throughout the season, there will be times when they save me too. We’re going to have to work on the whole team, and I’ll try to just keep doing what I’m doing.”

“A weekend like that, we should be coming out with ... four decisive points.”

—Mel Dodd-Moher, goaltender Head coach Matthew Holmberg has a similar view of last weekend. He said both goaltenders were effective and that a factor in Sunday’s loss was the amount of shots Karissa Savage faced.

“It was basically a tale of two different games,” he said. “The first game on Saturday, we heavily outshot them, and even though I thought we could have played better, we came away with the win.

Two points on the road is always a good thing. Sunday, unfortunately, we just didn’t show up to play and UOIT took advantage of that.”

The Gaels had 40 shots on net in the Saturday game and only 24 shots the following day. The team has experienced difficulty scoring

recently. Thomson’s overtime goal on Saturday was their only goal in the last three games.

“Right now, everyone seems to be stuck in a bit of a scoring slump,” he said. “We’re going to work on things this week to get us ready for the weekend.”

The Gaels continue their season with games against the Guelph Gryphons and Brock Badgers. The Gryphons are third in OUA and the Badgers sit at fourth.

This weekend offers an exciting rematch between Guelph and Queen’s after the Gryphons acted as spoilers in the Gaels’ playoff dreams last season.

“We’re looking for some revenge against Guelph; they’re the team that knocked us out of the playoffs last year, so we should have plenty of motivation against them, and we can’t take Brock lightly,” Holmberg said. “[Guelph] started the season very strong and [they] have a very good goaltender.

We expect there will be two good battles this weekend.”

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SPORTS IN BRIEF No blues for men’s volleyball in season opener The men’s volleyball team kicked off their season with a clean victory over the University of Toronto Varsity Blues. The Gaels swept the hosting Blues in three sets, 25-19, 25-12 and 25-14. Michael Amoroso led the Gaels in scoring with 14 points.

After a challenging preseason that saw the Gaels go 2-6, they were happy to start off the season with a clean victory on the road.

The Gaels will continue their quest for a repeat OUA banner next Saturday against the RMC Paladins at home. The game will kick off at 8 p.m.

—Lauri Kytömaa

Women’s volleyball sweeps weekend The women’s volleyball team enjoyed two wins in their opening weekend. Action kicked off in Toronto on Friday against the University of Toronto Varsity Blues. The Gaels split the first two sets but then rattled off two straight to take a 3-1 win over the Blues, 25-16, 23-25, 25-19, 25-18. Outside hitter, Natalie Gray, recorded 19 points to lead the way.

The next day the Gaels traveled to St. Catharine’s to take on the Brock Badgers. It took five sets to down the Badgers: 18-25, 25-23, 22-25, 25-19, 15-10. Natalie Gray led the way again with 18 points.

The Gaels will play their home opener on Saturday against the Lakehead University Thunderwolves.

—Lauri Kytömaa

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STAT OF THE WEEK in this week’s women’s rugby oua Championship, the Queen’s Gaels will take on the Guelph Gryphons in Kingston on saturday at noon. the Guelph Gryphons have outscored their opponents 497 to 7 while the Gaels have outscored their opponents 222 to 53.

Gaels get one last try Gaels head to hamilton for first round of playoffs By lauRi KytÖmaa assistant sports editor With the regular season behind them, the Queen’s football team can only look forward to their OUA quarterfinal matchup against the McMaster Marauders. The Gaels were the sixth and final seed to make it into postseason play but flashes of potential make them a dangerous team in the weekend to come.

In 2006, the story was the same: a six seeded Gaels squad traveled down to Hamilton to face off against the third seeded Marauders. Despite being crushed earlier in the season 5-37 by the Marauders the Gaels came out and won 25-19. Despite the historical parallel there are barely any other similarities between the two games. The cast of ’06 is long and gone and young faces dominant both rosters, so history shouldn’t be in anyone’s mind on Saturday.

The Gaels transition from last year’s championship season has not been an easy one. The team suffered three brutally close losses against McMaster, Guelph and Ottawa in the first half of the season. They were dominated by Western and Wilfrid Laurier in the second half. They took their frustrations out on the non-playoff teams: Toronto, Windsor and York. Most of their losses resulted from self-destructive turnovers rather than an inability to compete.

The team finished the season with 29 total turnovers in eight games, amassed through 14 interceptions and 15 fumbles. It was often an inability to steady the ship when things went wrong that really hurt the Gaels.

The Laurier game particularly epitomized this problem when they gave up 43 points in the second quarter because of special teams errors.

Part of the problem is that new players have had to adapt to huge increases in playtime.

Head coach Pat Sheahan emphasized that this is a natural transition with the graduation of key players. “[I]t is difficult to lose great players in one

Friday, october 29, 2010 year and replace them in a 12 month period with other guys who haven’t ever played at that level. I think the adversity that we faced is a part of the growth that was needed to develop the team,” he said.

Rookie quarterback Justin Chapdelaine has played well over the season, but inconsistently: in his first game of the season against McMaster he threw 315 yards and a touchdown but in the third game he threw zero touchdowns and three interceptions raising concerns about the quarterback position. He recovered and head coach Pat Sheahan said he feels confident in the quarterback’s future.

“I think he’s on schedule, I really do.

There are many demands on the quarterback that you don’t have on other positions and I think to be able to step in and manage all of these variables are a significant challenge,” he said. “He has also had a chance to learn and at that position there’s no substitution for experience.”

Another example is Giovanni Aprile.

With the injury to Chris Ioannides, Aprile looked like a star against the Ottawa Gee-Gees receiving 179 yards and a touchdown. However, he regressed in the following weeks and was responsible for some of the special team’s break downs in the game against Laurier.

However, football is a team effort and there’s been a lot of positive this season.

Rookie Sam Sabourin has emerged as a star in the OUA. At season’s end he ranks second in the league with 64 tackles, 50 of which were solo. The team’s rushing offence has produced two 500+ yard running backs in Ryan Granberg and Jimmy Therrien, attesting not only to their abilities but strong play by the entire offensive line. As a team, the defence has given up the third least yards per game of any team in the OUA. A victory in Hamilton will require the Gaels to iron out inconsistencies and play to their potential. Sheahan said he still feels confident in his team’s ability to play well. “[Our goal is] to play to our potential.

We can play with anyone. The whole idea is to manage adversity, how to deal with explosions. They are going to happen,” he said.

If the team can minimize the turnovers and play to their strengths, we may just see Western for a rematch.

The Gaels will face off against the mcmaster maurauders in Hamilton on Saturday. Kickoff is set for 1 p.m.

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Maxfield Materne Men’s Soccer

Ashley Ward Women’s Rugby

Most first-year students have a lot on their plate between getting used to university academics, meeting new people and living away from home for the first time. Freshman Maxfield Materne fits this exactly, but has one other small commitment; he’s the starting goalkeeper for the men’s soccer team.

As the team headed in to the playoffs, Materne backstopped the Gaels to consecutive 2-0 and 4-0 victories over the Nippising Lakers and the Laurentian Voyageurs respectively to close the regular season.

Materne was not worried about the extra time commitment this year, but rather focused on his passion for the game of soccer.

“There’s something about sport and the level of competition that you get out of it that is really amazing,” Materne said. “It’s so fun to play and you get such a feeling of achievement when you win a game or make a great save.”

It hasn’t been an easy road for Materne, who began the season at the Gaels’ first-string keeper.

“I started off as the starting goalie but I lost my position after about five games,” he said. “I had to work pretty hard to get it back. There are some really good goalkeepers on the team. They deserve credit for being as good as they are. It certainly made me want it more.

You sort of get complacent maybe when you have a starting spot for too long.”

Materne credited his teammates for helping him make the jump to the OUA and hopes the team can begin a deep postseason run.

“The team is great, they’re the best guys I’ve met at Queen’s so far,” he said. “For me it was a little bit daunting to jump in to the being the first goalie and play guys who are upwards of three years older than you.

“Out of the CIS, I feel like we have the most talented team and we definitely work as hard, if not harder, than the top teams.”

As the women’s rugby team prepares for the OUA championship game, eight-man, Ashley Ward, can reflect on her journey that began in Barrie, Ontario.

Ward initially got into rugby because it was a popular sport at her high school. When her older sister got into the sport, it became a foregone conclusion that she too would play. Ward began playing when she entered the ninth grade and it stuck: she competed for all five years of high school.

She went on to the University of Nova Scotia where she played for another four years while studying.

After completing her BA, Ward took a break from athletics and entered the working world. She returned to Ontario and began working in Kingston at a ski shop. She then did a social work program at St. Lawrence College and followed that up with an outreach program.

Over the course of these three years she would come to the Queen’s rugby games and watch.

Her sister is the assistant coach for the team so there were personal reasons for coming as a spectator, but she also couldn’t get away from the game.

“I’ve been coming out and watching the games and sort of wishing to get back into it,” she said.

The desire to return to rugby and continue post-secondary education led her to apply for the bachelor of education. She was accepted and the season took a turn for the best.

Last weekend in the OUA semifinal Ward posted a try to help bring the Gaels back from a 3-0 deficit. In her season with the Gaels, the team has enjoyed a perfect regular season and the first CIS berth in the team’s history. They hope to go for the banner next weekend against the University of Guelph.

“Obviously it’s really exciting for the team. It is the first time the team has ever been there. It’s the most successful season Queen’s has had in a really long time just to get to the final,” Ward said. “It’s been the perfect match.”

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—Lauri Kytömaa

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Figure skating had always been a major part of Stell-Buckingham’s life. She skated through university as member of the Queen’s varsity figure skating team and was involved in the Kingston figure skating community.

“I did a lot of work in the Kingston area while I was here as a student [like] judging figure skating,” she said. “I also ... helped out the synchronized skating program that was just starting here at the time.”

Stell-Buckingham has been involved in Skate Canada in different capacities for the last 25 years. In her current position, she oversees the production and execution of all events that are held by Skate Canada over the year including this weekend’s at the K-Rock Centre.

“Basically from the time I graduated, I lucked into this position at Skate Canada and I’ve just progressed through the organization ever since,” she said.

“I did coach for awhile ... before I had my family, so I’ve just always been involved at the sport at many levels.”

Kingston serves as the perfect host for this year’s competition.

Stell-Buckingham said most events that occur in a post-Olympic year are generally smaller due to the reduction in talent as older skaters retire and young skaters begin training for the next winter Olympics. The town and its facilities offer a perfect balance for fans and skaters with the newer facilities for the athletes and the small-town feel of Kingston’s downtown.

“We love the city of Kingston,” she said. “It’s very hospitable town.

It has great facilities for fans and for the participants as well. The ability to be able to walk from the arena to the hotel to restaurants is ideal and we don’t often find that in cities, so that was an attractive point in the city of Kingston as well.”

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Friday, October 29, 2010

Teenage dream for halloween Still struggling with a costume idea? Postscript features 10 pop culture inspired costumes

By Alyssa Ashton Assistant A&E Editor It’s midterm season and between cramming for tests and copious amounts of time spent in the library, it’s easy to forget to plan out your Halloween costume. This leaves you stuck in huge lines at Dollarama or perusing the empty shelves of Phase 2. But never fear—the Journal is here with a few easy costume ideas to help.

The Jersey Shore Cast This is the perfect group costume idea and all it requires is “gym, tan, laundry.” For guys, it’s simple: spike your hair up so it’s reminiscent of a porcupine, walk around without a shirt and then right before you head to the clubs yell “It’s t-shirt time!” For girls, invest in a Bumpit to give yourself that Snooki poof. Then find the tightest and shortest dress you can find and simply add tanning lotion or way-too-dark-for-you makeup to get that Jersey glow. photo by justin tang

photo by christine blais

California Gurls Arguably the song of the summer, Katy Perry’s music video provides a plethora of costume ideas. Most girls already own a pair of short shorts, so all you need is the cupcake bikini and a blue or purple wig. For those who are more conservative, opt for a body suit and then put Styrofoam on it to make your cupcakes. Add a cherry and you are ready to go—extra points if you can make your cupcakes spray whipped cream.

Vampire Luckily in today’s world vampires don’t look like Dracula. Instead, they look like normal people, creating an expense-free costume. Being Edward from Twilight just requires a pea coat, white makeup and Robert Pattinson’s famous mane.

You could also channel Damon from the Vampire Diaries by wearing an all-black ensemble topped with a leather jacket. Don’t forget your special ring that lets you walk in the sunlight. For girls it’s just as simple: just wear jeans, a t-shirt and of course gold coloured contacts. If you want a great group costume, have an Edward, a Bella and a wolf pack consisting of shirtless men in cut-off jeans.

Mad Men A trip to the nearest vintage store is in order for the ladies to find a shift dress, a high-waisted skirt or a dress with tons of volume

in the skirt. Make sure you enhance your curves and of course break out your best pearls. For the gentlemen it’s easy: put on your best suit, throw on a matching fedora and order yourself an Old-Fashioned.

Avatar Engineers turn themselves purple all the time, so why not turn yourself blue and be a Na’vi from Pandora? Braid your hair into tons of tiny braids with wooden beads throughout. Add some beaded necklaces on your arms and legs, and don’t forget the feathers.

Toy Story If you want to stay true to the Toy Story franchise, be Buzz Lightyear or Woody. Dress like a cowboy/girl and you’re Woody or Jessie. Buzz is more complex and requires painted cardboard or some serious eBay perusal. Other notable options: Mr. Potato Head, Barbie, Rex, Slinky Dog or Dolly. If you want a group costume, this is the way to go.

Facebook Applications Wear a cardboard box with the word “Like” on it, or put a frame around your face and be your display picture. On a huge piece of Bristol board, you could also make a news feed and wear it as a sign. Mark Zuckerberg is also an easy costume—just wear jeans and a Harvard sweatshirt. If you want to be billionaire Zuckerberg, put on your best suit and walk

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Clockwise from top left: a colourful Ke$ha, dapper Don Draper from Mad Men and Katy Perry. around with a Justin Timberlake look-a-like.

KE$HA Frizz out your hair, smudge your eye makeup and add some glitter all over your face. Ke$ha’s clothes are easy to replicate with a pair of jean shorts, a loose fitting concert t-shirt and a pair of ripped fishnets under black boots.

Lady Gaga If you’re truly daring, take a trip to Metro for a selection of raw meat. Then find an old dress you no longer like and stitch the meat onto the dress. For those who only buy meat to eat, take a trip to the fabric store to wrap yourself in

yards of red lace and include a face mask. Or find a short dress that you can bedazzle with rhinestones.

Add some super high heels, a crazy headpiece and tons of make-up and you are now Gaga.

Tiger Woods/Jesse James It was sadly the year of seemingly good guys cheating on their gorgeous wives with large numbers of remarkably less attractive

women. For Tiger: find your best golfing attire—a classic polo shirt, dress pants, golf shoes, a white glove and a Nike hat. If you’re going as a group have a bunch of girls dress slightly scandalously.

Jesse James is also an easy one. You just need to wear jeans and a t-shirt.

Then throw on a pair of sleeves, or if you’re feeling creative draw your own sleeves. Bonus points if your friends look like Kat von D or Michelle “Bombshell” McGee.

Hear something funny on halloween? send in your halloween overheards to: journal_postscript@ams.queensu.ca