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Homecoming on hold

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Woolf suspends Homecoming for three years

By Clare Clancy News Editor Fall Homecoming has been suspended for three more years in a decision made by Principal Daniel Woolf earlier this week.

Woolf said that even though attendance is shrinking, the Aberdeen Street Party, traditionally coinciding with Homecoming, is still too dangerous to warrant re-instating the Queen’s tradition.

“I would think that [it’s] for the same reasons Principal Williams decided to suspend it for the first two years,” Woolf said. “Those reasons still apply.”

On the night of Sept. 25, 2010 there were an estimated 1,500 to 2,000 individuals on Aberdeen St. celebrating Fauxcoming. By 1 a.m. police had dispersed the crowd bringing an end to the street party that traditionally continues for hours. Over the course of the weekend 95 people were arrested and over 200 charges were made.

The Aberdeen Street Party in 2008 drew a crowd of 6,000 to 7,000 people, resulting in Principal Tom William’s decision on Nov. 14, 2008 to cancel Homecoming for at least two years.

Woolf said the smaller numbers this year aren’t low enough to bring back the fall event.

“The numbers have gone down but they’re not, in my judgement, where they need to be in order to restore Homecoming,” he said.

“Were we to put Homecoming back now, I think the inevitable consequence would be the numbers would spike up again.”

Queen’s reputation is another reason Homecoming was suspended until 2014, Woolf said.

“This is one of Canada’s premiere academic institutions.

I would like us to be judged in

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the press by the achievements of our students, our alumni and our faculty and staff and not by one street party or a series of parties once a year that get out of control. We have had an inordinate amount of attention in the press over the last several years to this event,” he said. “The reputational damage … even with the last few years of non-Homecoming or Fauxcoming, the University is still continuing to suffer.”

When consulting with student representatives about the decision, Woolf said he made it clear that the Aberdeen Street Party had to stop for fall Homecoming to be restored.

“I had discussions with the alumni association leadership and with the students. I’ve made it very, very clear from the beginning and indeed even before Sept. 25 that the cycle of street parties had to be dead before I would consider restoring Homecoming,” he said, adding that he spoke to the Society of Graduate and Professional Students (SGPS), the Rector and the AMS. Please see It does on page 4

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Canadian Juno Award-winning singer LIGHTS performed in Kingston Friday Nov. 19 at Sydenham St. United Church.

Gender struck from AMS applications AMS removes gender requirement for applicants to volunteer and service positions

By Katherine Fernandez-Blance Assistant News Editor AMS assembly approved a motion to strike gender identity questions from AMS applications last night, following concerns over the question’s legality.

Board of Directors member-atlarge Kathie Beers said she was worried about the AMS requiring applicants to AMS service and volunteer positions to give their gender, student number and international status and brought this up at the Nov. 18 Board of Directors meeting.

“I was simply asking from a Human Resources perspective, we have strict guidelines on what we can and can’t ask,” Beers said. “It’s an issue of collection and violation

of privacy; I wanted to be sure that we weren’t violating provincial and federal legislation.”

Ben Hartley, AMS vice-president (operations), said the AMS can ask for an applicant’s gender identity, student number and international status by law.

“We are legally allowed to [ask the questions]. It’s a question of whether or not we want to,” Hartley, ArtSci ’11, said.

Other questions typically asked on AMS applications for service and volunteer positions concern a student’s degree program, email, address, academic standing and credit enrollment.

“These are to ensure that you are allowed to work [or volunteer] for the AMS,” Hartley said.

In order to qualify for an AMS position applications state that you

must be in good academic standing as defined by your program and you must be registered in a minimum of 2.0 credits for salary positions and 3.0 credits for volunteer or parttime positions.

Hartley said that the AMS wanted to remove the requirement

on applications for students to identify their gender because of ongoing concerns amongst students who didn’t feel that the identifier was necessary.

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Amending OUSA AMS Assembly amends constitution changing process of OUSA fee renewal

By Jessica Fishbein Assistant News Editor At last night’s AMS Assembly, an amendment to the AMS constitution was passed allowing the AMS to determine student affiliation with

the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance (OUSA).

The section of AMS constitution under discussion outlines policy on external alignment with provincial Please see AMS on page 5

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Queen’s oxfam bundles up and flash freezes on campus to bring attention to canada’s freeze on foreign aid.

c o r r E c t i o N s arig Girgrah is the assistant dean of students (diversity programs, community development and residence Life.

The Ontario Superior Court of Justice released the decision regarding decriminalization of prostitution in Ontario. The bedford v. Canada case was an attempt to strike down three provisions that previously made prostitution illegal.

Nov. 27 2010 is the deadline for a stay motion issued in the case.

The existing administrative system bumps students who have not paid their

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full tuition fees and will not allow them to add new courses.

Justin Giannoccaro played Harry Potter in Queen’s Players.

Gaegana Girardi from Summitt energy was interviewed. incorrect information appeared in the Nov. 19 issue of the Journal.

The Journal regrets these errors.

… the initiative was done through the amS’s Human resources Office,” Hartley said.

For certain services, such as Walkhome and Student Constables, removing gender from applications could make the hiring process more difficult. Walkhome requires each team to have both a male and female member of staff on walking teams, and the Student Constables do not allow males to frisk females. Hartley said that for Walkhome, the question regarding gender will remain on the application, but for Student Constables, the question will be removed. “in the 2004 to 2005 academic year, the amS decided to add the ‘prefers not to identify’ box to amS applications,” Hartley said. This was done in order to ensure that applicants didn’t feel pressured to choose a gender if they didn’t identify with a particular one. “This choice will remain on the Walkhome applications,” Hartley said.

The amS is also in the process of re-evaluating the use of student numbers on applications.

“Our intention [instead] is to develop a tracking system for both employees and volunteers [of the amS.] it’s historically been a problem because the main issue with student numbers is the storage of information,” Hartley said. at amS assembly last night, the motion to remove student numbers from amS applications was also passed following privacy concerns. access to student numbers can expose students to risk because of personal information they’re tied to. Though there haven’t ever been security breaches because of access to student numbers, Hartley said the amS wants to move away from them.

“We don’t feel comfortable storing

student numbers [anymore],” Hartley said. “instead, we hope to use employee numbers and develop a similar numerical system for volunteers within the amS.”

“In the 2004 to 2005 academic year, the AMS decided to add the ‘prefers not to identify’ box to AMS applications.”

—Ben Hartley, AMS vice-president (operations) Hartley said that for now, student numbers will remain on amS applications, until the details about the new tracking system pan out.

The amS’s policy towards international students will remain the same. Currently, amS applications require students to identify whether or not they are an international student because a certain percentage of service jobs are guaranteed for them.

“We hold a certain number of jobs for international students in the fall because they can’t apply in the winter. [The question on the application] ensures that these students get this consideration,” Hartley said. “Their international student status allows them to be employed on campus, so we need to make sure that there are sufficient opportunities for them to have campus employment.”

The changes to the amS applications will not come into effect until next year’s hiring period, and Hartley said the changes will not have any effect on the efficiency of amS services. “it’s a long term project,” Hartley said.

“We expect that it will be completed by the end of our term, but it’s something that we will keep pushing for in the future.”

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Treating depression differently Queen’s Blue Sky Project is looking to link depression to genetics and early childhood experiences Kamil Aleksander Contributor Maayke Schurer struggled with depression.

The practicing Buddhist visits with a psychologist regulary, but said she’s learned how to deal with it largely on her own.

“I’ve found that the most powerful help is simply recognizing the inherent wisdom that is already inside me,” said Schurer, an ArtSci ’03 alumnus. “Through meditation, I’ve gained the momentum to help myself.”

Kate Harkness, the head of Queen’s Blue Sky Project, said the most effective long-term therapy resembles Schurer’s method of becoming your own therapist.

“It helps to prevent them from getting depressed again in the future,” she said, adding that a form of meditation called mindfulness meditation is proven to have a physiological effect on those with depression.

“There’s evidence at the neurological level that mindfulness meditation actually stops some of the cognitive processes that are really negative in depression.”

The Blue Sky Project began in Toronto four years ago in partnership with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. The goal is to determine the causes of depression by examining the interplay between DNA and the experiences of early life.

“We think that those two things, the genetic vulnerability and the early environment, work together to make some people less able to cope with stress than others,” she said.

Harkness, who was principle investigator for the Project in Toronto, said they relocated to Queen’s in September to focus on undergraduate students.

“We really wanted to target depression in college students,” she said. “With most people who get depressed, we find that their first onsets of depression are in the university-age range.”

The Canadian Institute for Health Research funded the project with $650,000. Harkness, who has taught in Queen’s Pyschology department for 11 years, said campus is an ideal place for the project.

“Queen’s has such a vibrant student population and people are really interested in mental health here, more so than we found in Toronto,” she said. “Here there’s the Mental Health Awareness week and people over at [Queen’s] Health Counselling and Disability Services are really involved and interested in raising awareness of depression on campus.”

The Blue Sky Project recruits students struggling with depression to participate in a series of interviews.

Participants speak about past and present stressful life experience, like transitioning to university or a history of abuse or neglect, to help Harkness and her team find correlations between stress and depression.

“People who have those sorts of [negative] early life experiences have a much more sensitized neurobiology to recent stress,” she said. “They require much lower levels of stress to trigger their episode than people who don’t

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Visitors at the Kuluta Buddhist Centre on Wellington St. participate in a meditation led by Kelsang Donsang on Tuesday night. have this history of maltreatment.”

Student subjects give a saliva sample so Harkness can record their genetic information, because phenotypes don’t just determine eye colour, they also code for particular personality styles, she said.

“You’re born with a particular temperamental style, and then that interacts with environmental insults.”

The project is concerned with observing three particular genes responsible for transmission of serotonin and other factors relating to stress and depression during the transitional period between early adolescence and early adulthood.

Harkness said this is because kids typically don’t experience depression—fewer than five per cent. “[But] by the time these people are 18 [or] 19, their rates of depression equal those of older adults” Harkness said.

The Blue Sky Project is also concerned with raising awareness about depression on campus.

According to Harkness, although most people have their first episode of depression in young adulthood, the vast majority of people aren’t getting treatment.

A Toronto-based group of researchers published a study this year on the effect of meditation on

individuals with depression. The study, entitled “Minding One’s Emotions: Mindfulness Training Alters the Neural Expression of Sadness,” used film to stimulate sadness in two sample groups.

One group had participated in a meditation called Mindfullness Training and the other group hadn’t. The study concluded that the group exposed to meditation had reactions “associated with decreased depression scores.”

Local yoga instructor, Perri van Rossem, owns Living Yoga Studios.

She said she’s seen cases in which yoga had a positive effect on people with depression.

“The nature of the human condition of suffering stems from the fragmented nature of the mind,” van Rossem said. “In the yogic tradition, what we seek to understand and recognize is that the disturbances of mind can be brought into a more balanced state only through the power of mind.”

She said because yoga is a tool for addressing the fragmented mind, it’s beneficial to individuals with depression.

“The practice is about a dedicated mental focus and concentration” said van Rossem.

“The external practice of yoga brings comfort and awareness to the body and breath. One can learn how to use the breath to

calm the mind.

“As we move through these external practices, we move inward and to the practice of meditation.”

She said meditation is the method by which we move away from the distractions, patterns, perceptions and habits of the mind to stillness—where clarity may be found.

Practicing yoga builds focus and concentration, developing the ability to observe patterns that cause depressive episodes and change those patterns.

The resident teacher at Kingston’s Kuluta Buddhist Centre, Kelsang Donsang, said the causes of suffering can be traced back to the mind and solved within it.

“If your mind is peaceful, no matter how bad outer conditions may be, you’re happy,” Donsang said. “If your mind is agitated, no matter how good they are, you’re miserable.”

Donsang advises individuals to pin-point every painful feeling, as soon as it’s experienced. Then, recognize one has the power to change the pain by looking back to the root cause and letting it go.

Donsang said the individual should see a completely different effect arise because the root cause has been abandoned.

He described meditation as “observing your mind, observing the causes and effects, taking responsibility for the effects and taking responsibility for changing the causes.” Through meditation an individual can come to understand that a peaceful mind causes positive action, and an agitated mind causes negative action.

By relating current suffering to past suffering, Donsang said, it becomes easy to realize that recreating this agitated mind will certainly lead to the familiar pattern of suffering.

“By observing the mind and saying ‘no, no matter how much I experience difficult situations, I am going to keep a peaceful mind, and eventually, I’m going to make my way out of suffering’,” he said. ­— with files from Jake Edmiston

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Facilitators of the Blue Sky Project conduct interviews with Queen’s students at the mood lab in the Craine Building.

For more information on the Blue Sky Project, visit blueskyproject.ca

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“I have had a series of discussions again with the student leadership and they have indicated they are disappointed by the decision just as I am disappointed having to make that decision,” he said. “But they do understand and share my concern for safety.”

Woolf said the future of Homecoming is still up in the air, but if it is reinstated, he’d like it to coincide with the last home game of the football season.

“The next steps are we will continue to monitor the situation over the next three years. We will be working with the next generations of student leaders to see what form it can be brought back in and at

what date,” he said. “I certainly, as an alumnus, would very much like to bring it back at some point but we must put the safety of our students and of Kingstonian citizens as our primary consideration.”

Between now and 2014, Woolf said student leaders will continue to be consulted in regards to Homecoming and the Aberdeen Street Party.

“Just as we’ve been working with them over the last two years on this issue, we will continue to discuss it with them.

I’ve made a commitment to look at the situation again three years from now,” he said.

Woolf, Queen’s 20th Principal, is currently in the second year of a five year term.

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Samantha Jenkins, ArtSci ’11, said a university-sanctioned event could cut down on police presence.

“What we want is a sort of normal acceptable level of festive activity of the sort that has happened at Queen’s and every other university in the country in the past. So we’ll see where we are in three years.”

Samantha Jenkins, ArtSci ’11, said she’s disappointed by the decision because there are alternative solutions to cancelling Homecoming.

“They haven’t been handling it correctly in the past. If instead of doing nothing the Saturday of Homecoming they had a university sanctioned student event … where they check student cards at the door and had StuCons present,” she said. “It would deter students from other universities coming for the party of it and cut back on police presence necessary. A lot of it’s been escalated not because of the student body but because

of others.”

AMS President Safiah Chowdhury promised to seek ways to bring back Homecoming as part of her campaign for AMS Executive in 2009. “[But] the decision of Homecoming of course is always the Principal’s, which is why we consulted with him before to figure out exactly what was necessary to bring it back,” Chowdhury, ArtSci ’11, said. “He told us that the way to bring it back was for illegal and unsafe partying to stop.”

Chowdhury said student opinion seemed to favour the reinstatement of Homecoming so the AMS made student outreach prior to this year’s event a priority.

“Unfortunately despite our efforts to communicate to the students, it was still not met,” she said, adding that ultimately, whether or not Homecoming is

re-instated, falls to the students.

“Every student makes a choice as to whether or not to engage in the street partying and what Homecoming really means to them. It does come down to individual decisions.”

Chowdhury said she’s hopeful fall Homecoming will be re-instated eventually.

“The numbers this year for street partying did go down significantly which is a really, really positive sign and gives us hope for the future,” she said. “Unfortunately the numbers were still large enough to not meet the Principal’s stipulation.

We’re hoping that it continues to decrease to the point where the street partying is pretty much nonexistent. I don’t want to speculate but if the numbers continue to decrease in the significant way that they have been, I definitely hope for a fall homecoming.”

To ensure the numbers continue to drop, Chowdhury said she’ll work with next year’s AMS executive.

“Transition is a big focus for our executive year. It’s something that we’re going to put a lot of emphasis on,” she said. “There needs to be an end to the unsafe street partying that happens and has been associated with Homecoming.

Hopefully [next year’s AMS Executive] can continue this line with students. The Principal has told me that he’s committed to further his communication with the AMS for fall Homecoming so I expect and hope that my successors will continue along the same thread.”

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and federal postsecondary lobby organizations.

Chris Rudnicki, vice president (university affairs) said OUSA is an organization aimed at lobbying the government to lower university tuition, increase financial aid and improve the quality of education at universities. He said it’s the only postsecondary lobby group the AMS is aligned with, meaning they are currently the only group of this nature outside of the University to which students must pay fees.

Before last night’s amendment, students had to vote whether or not they want to pay mandatory fees, like the OUSA fee, every three years at the fall or winter referendum.

Now, AMS voting members are exclusively responsible for the fee approval or rejection in cases of external alignment with provincial and federal postsecondary lobby organizations.

“If the AMS decides to reject the fee, students will no longer have to pay for it we will no longer be affiliated with OUSA,” Rudnicki said.

Whether or not this amendment is rejected does not impact Queen’s becoming affiliated with other postsecondary lobby organizations in the future.

“At the end of last year, Assembly allowed membership with Canada Alliance of Student Associations (CASA) to expire, but we can still be affiliated Canadian Federation

of Students (CFS) and CASA in the future,” he said.

The amendment passed but some gallery members, including Elizabeth Drew, were adamant that this was not a good decision.

“I’m very disappointed that the constitution was amended.

There was no one in support in the gallery,” Drew, ArtSci ’12, said.

“It’s ridiculous that OUSA doesn’t get the same process as other mandatory fees.

“It’s frustrating. I’m in other groups on campus that have to go to referendum. We put our whole existence on the line, but we’re changing the constitution to accomodate OUSA. Assembly shouldn’t be passing motions to give them more power.”

Presidents’ Caucus proposed amending the AMS constitution to Kieran Slobodin, AMS academic affairs commissioner, in mid-October.

Slobodin said a lack of information about OUSA’s function among students contributed to the decision to put forward an amendment at assembly.

“We had been in discussion over the upcoming referendum and realized that we weren’t spending as much time engaging students about important issues as we wanted,” Slobodin said. “We weren’t able to reach out to as many first years who may not know about OUSA.” In order to make an amendment, there must be two readings of the constitution and two votes held at AMS assembly. Last night’s

assembly was the second reading.

The first occurred on Nov. 11 and was met favourably, Rudnicki said.

Each year students pay a specific AMS student fee set by the Board of Directors, several corporate fees that can only increase by referendum and optional fees, for groups like the Debating Union or Sailing Team, which students can opt out of in September. The OUSA fee is categorized as a mandatory fee, like the fees for the Queen’s Centre or Walkhome. Much like optional fees, mandatory fees need to pass through referendum every three years, but unlike an optional fee, students cannot opt-out.

This year, OUSA increased their fee from $2.18 to $2.68 so Slobodin said membership cost must be assessed.

“Every time there is a fee increase a referendum must be held, and we commit to pay this amount for three years. So, if we approve this fee, for the next three years we will be paying it,” Slobodin said.

In the 2007 fall referendum, the OUSA fee increased from $1.98 to $2.07 and 66.51 per cent of students voted in favor of remaining affiliated with OUSA. It automatically increased to $2.18 because the Consumer Price Index has increased $0.11 and the fee is adjusted annually according to the CPI. Rather than having an automatic campus-wide referendum, the process for deciding whether to renew OUSA fees and remain affiliated with the organization will

be slightly different with the new amendment. Under the amended policy, two thirds of the AMS voting members must approve the fee in order for it to be renewed and three quarters must approve the fee in order for it to increase.

Slobodin said the process for renewing other mandatory fees could be subject to Assembly’s decision if members of the gallery express concerns.

“If other mandatory fees were to be changed they would need to come to Assembly, voice their concerns and Assembly would consider it,” he said.

Slobodin said students shouldn’t

worry about the AMS deciding whether or not students continue to pay OUSA fees.

“Students that are dissatisfied would have to petition elected officials to call vote or start collecting signatures to have referendum,” Slobodin said, adding that 750 signatures would have to be collected and presented to Assembly.

“We haven’t ruled out having referendums. However, rather than there being default referendum where this automatically occurs once every three years, students would have to initiate one,” he said.

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statement made by Pope Benedict XVI in a new book suggests that using condoms might be less taboo than the Vatican had previously suggested.

The comments appeared in a book entitled Light of the World: The Pope, the Church and the Signs of the Times, which was released Tuesday. The book is based on interviews conducted between the Pope and a German journalist. In the quoted interview, the Pope stated that he believes that condom usage may be appropriate for male prostitutes, as an indicator of a “first step” of moral responsibility.

Benedict drew considerable fire for downplaying the usefulness of condoms in preventing the spread of AIDS while visiting Africa in 2009. The move towards the acceptance of condoms marks a clear departure from Pope Benedict’s perspective as stated previously.

Officially, the Catholic Church opposes the usage of any contraceptive method, including condoms. The Vatican was quick to insist that the Pope is not adjusting existing doctrine.

It’s difficult to determine the exact

significance of the Pope’s statement.

While it’s encouraging to see the Church approaching contemporary issues from a more contemporary perspective, some insist that the Pope’s words were too vague.

It’s tempting to criticize the incompatibility of the Church’s stance on homosexual relationships with their acceptance of condom use in this case. However, a sweeping reversal of Catholic beliefs is an unreasonable expectation.

A statement like this will at least prompt discussion in religious circles. The Church has long been subjected to quiet pressure to loosen their opposition against condoms—pressure coming from inside and outside the church. Approving of condoms for male prostitutes, even in an unofficial capacity, will likely help those struggling to negotiate faith and contraception.

While the Pope’s statement may not have been a categorical endorsement of condom usage, it represents a move towards a more inclusive and proactive understanding of contraception.

Hopefully it isn’t the last move the Church is willing to make.

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report published by the Human Sciences Research Council puts an unpleasant spin on foreign visits driven by good intentions, otherwise known as “voluntourism.”

While many believe that travelling abroad marks an opportunity to do some good, the report indicates that organizations may be feeding a market which capitalizes on the poverty of others.

Some tour agencies allow travellers to visit orphanages or pay to distribute food, reducing the children to a spectacle to be observed and pitied. Orphanages will often allow tourists to work with children, a safety risk that most would never condone at home.

In addition, some groups have indicated that these visits have serious emotional consequences for the children in question, who form attachments to foreign visitors very quickly. Little of the profit generated by tourist vists is spent feeding and sheltering the children, who are often abused into the bargain.

Other forms of volunteering come with invisible costs to less-fortunate populations.

Paying to work abroad for a brief period of time robs local workers of viable sources of income, and the money spent is rarely directed to improving the local

community. Similarly, the time and energy put into housing these visitors could be better spent elsewhere.

Sometimes a little bit of help is better than none, but that reasoning doesn’t seem to apply here. Charity isn’t charity when the money doesn’t help someone in need.

This doesn’t mean that we should condemn volunteering abroad wholesale, but instead look for productive and effective ways to contribute our time and energy.

Individuals looking to volunteer should conduct critical research into the activities that they will be conducting. Not all organizations conducting charitable activities are actually charities.

It’s also important to make sure that you aren’t simply writing a cheque for a feel-good experience. Volunteering is about helping others, not about your self-concept. As well, would-be volunteers should make sure that they’re addressing a serious issue, not a hot-topic trumped up by a celebrity or the media.

Volunteers should take time to recognize the value of contributing time and energy at home, where one can see the positive effects of charitable contribution clearly, and be more directly engaged.

It’s important that money-making schemes don’t supplant legitimate cases of need.

Don’t say no to Mo’ Clare Clancy

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new trend in men’s style has erupted on campus in recent weeks. Standing in line at Common Ground, or studying in the darkest corner of Douglas, I am surrounded by a new wave of sketchy upper-lip hair growth.

The moustache is back in full force, thanks (for the most part) to Movember.

Every year I know more men participating in the Movember fundraising challenge, and this year my brother Eoin, ArtSci ’07, is among them. His team of veterinary students named ‘Vet Bro’s for Mo’s’ at the University of Calgary has joined the popular new movement to raise money for Prostate Cancer Canada. To do this, they have subjected themselves to a month of ridicule and judgement from strangers, their families and their closest friends.

I donated on the condition that he send me photos of what I had heard is an offensive moustache.

Movember was started by a group of friends in 2003 at a pub in Australia, and has since become an international phenomenon.

Millions of dollars have been collected for charities, and global awareness about prostate cancer is on the rise. After all, it’s tough to ignore the statement of support plastered across the faces of your male friends.

The rules of Movember are simple. One must have a completely hair-free upper lip on Oct. 31, dubbed “Shadowe’en,” and grow a moustache without other facial hair over a four week period. Thankfully,

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joining moustaches with sideburns is strictly prohibited.

Movember activities escalate each year.

Thirty men took part in the first official Movember seven years ago, and today the number has climbed to almost 2,000,000. According to Movember Canada, over 115,000 Canadians have raised almost $13 million this month.

Men are now finding unique ways to increase their fundraising potential by doing things like keeping the moustache for an extra month.

Another new trend for Movember is the participation of all sexes. Most recently I was invited to participate in the Nov. 16 “Have sex with a guy with a moustache day.” Men, I am not sure whether that additional facial hair is hurting or helping your game, but I am glad that the moustache has become the new signature of support for men’s health.

I hope that in years to come, men sporting moustaches in November will be a pleasant reminder to think about important health issues but also, for men to see their physicians for screening and health risk reduction measures in general.

As Movember 2010 comes to a close, I offer my congratulations to those who stuck it out. If you grew a silky smooth moustache worthy of Tom Selleck or Ron Burgundy, I applaud you.

For those of you who could only manage patchy, fuzzy upper-lips, don’t worry.

There’s always next Movember.

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On Nov. 11, AMS Assembly passed a motion censuring Rector Nick Day for the speech he delivered at the Remembrance Day ceremony. Two students weigh-in on the debate

Jessica Wan, ArtSci ’11 One of the main reasons for the censuring of Nick Day according to the AMS Assembly—but only 14 members of it—is that he failed to “preserve the political neutrality of Remembrance Day” for his speech at the Remembrance Day ceremony.

First, I want to remind students of the fact that only 14 out of 35 members of Assembly were pro-censure while 21 representatives expressed their disagreement with the censure either by abstaining from or voting against the motion.

In other words, there was not only a lack of overwhelming concern regarding his action rather than his “opinions,” but the majority of the Assembly did not agree with the final decision.

Moreover, despite the outpour of disagreement with the AMS decision to censure Day from both students and faculty members, they nonetheless maintain that he violated the student body’s consensus view on Remembrance Day. In spite of the lack of an established norm for the student body to follow, Day was disciplined for his deviance from this imagined consensus.

Second, in response to the “political” nature of his Remembrance Day speech, one cannot argue that the event itself is apolitical, considering that the event has deep-seeded and significant political attachments.

Day merely represented one of the many stances, his stated intention to “truly honour the sacrifices of those who fought for justice.”

If Day were to speak about the heroic actions of Canadian soldiers overseas today, surely we would be able to identify the political nature of war or any humanitarian intervention.

Moreover, the decision to push for the censuring of Day is equally a political act, and those who criticize Day for “furthering” his political agenda ought to examine the political nature of silencing and condemning a voice that strays from “the norm.”

Third, for those who claim to have been grossly offended by his “abuse” of the Rector position to further his own political agenda, I wanttoclarifythedifferencebetween offence in creating an unsafe space versus “offence” in making the audience uncomfortable through thought-inducing statements.

The former notion of offence or unsafety refers to the state whereby a participant in an event, activity, or discussion feels as if they face sincere emotional or

physical danger.

The latter “offence” is discomfort—though often mistaken as unsafety—which suggests that a person may feel that their conceptions of personhood are challenged by Yuchen Wang, ArtSci ’13 parallel narratives which require a personal re-examination of the embeddedness of such identities, Rector Nick Day’s speech at the official Queen’s Remembrance ideologies or personal beliefs.

Day ceremony was an irresponsible What Day has done is act that disrespected the audience, demonstrated a serious lack of apply the ideals fought for in the World Wars ... discretion and a general disconnect the student body he was to demonstrate that the with elected to represent. struggle continues today.

Remembrance Day—as many in the student body have rightly This discomfort arises from interpreted it—is an apolitical the exposure to the histories that commemoration of Canadian defy our normalized conceptions military sacrifices around the world.

It’s a day for all of us to pay of ourselves—this normalized conception may be and most tribute to those who died to often is political, social, cultural, preserve the liberties we hold dear.

The ceremony was meant as historical, ideological, racial, colonial, heteronormative, ablist, a memorial service for the dead and a commemoration of Canada’s elitist and gendered.

Through the years of proud history, not an opportunity socialization under the Canadian for the Rector to express his primary and secondary educational personal views.

Mr. Day completely missed the system, many students are acquainted with a particular story mark in his address by delivering a politically divisive speech that about Remembrance Day. What Day has done is apply the discussed nearly everything, save for ideals fought for in the World Wars, the honouring of fallen Canadians. and the world-changing effects to prevent future atrocities (in the The ceremony was establishment of Bretton Woods, meant as a memorial the UN, etc.) to demonstrate service for the dead and that the struggle continues today, a commemoration of whether the internal conflict and displacement of more than a Canada’s proud history, million people in Columbia, the not an opportunity for slaughter of civilians in Darfur or the Rector to express his the violent raping and killing of personal views. persons in the Democratic Republic To make matters worse, Mr. of Congo.

Lastly, in terms of the Maclean’s Day seems to misunderstand the article on Day possibly tarnishing cause of the ire he’s earned in the reputation of the University, the the past weeks, believing that the act of silencing Nick itself tarnishes objections are regarding his views.

Indeed, his apology at AMS Queen’s University as a place of critical discussion and dialogue. Assembly was directed toward As a dear friend of mine says, people taking offence to his beliefs, not the fact that he brought up “universities are dead.”

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Rector Nick Day at AMS Assembly on November 11.

completely inappropriate topics at the ceremony. It appears that he doesn’t grasp the nature or extent of his faux pas.

While some people are defending Mr. Day based on his right to free speech, the simple fact is that he delivered the speech in his official capacity as the Rector.

As an official of the school and a representative of the entire student body, his position simply does not entitle him to such a liberal dispensation of personal opinions while acting directly under his official title.

It’s time for the Queen’s community to address this issue properly, so that nothing like this happens again.

Had Mr. Day expressed his opinion in a more private setting or a forum for the open exchange of ideas, the Queen’s community would’ve gladly welcomed it.

Certainly, many of us who disagree with some of what he had to say would be more than happy to engage in a stimulating discourse, maybe over a cup of coffee or a pint of beer.

But as such, Mr. Day chose to use the Remembrance Day ceremony—and his rather prestigious position—to launch an ideological tirade about a litany of issues ranging from the actions of the Pinochet regime in Chile to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, all in front of the shocked students, veterans and community members in attendance.

Certainly, Mr. Day’s message was important and he raised many issues that need to be discussed, but the Remembrance Day memorial service simply was not the right channel to address them and served only to—perhaps unintentionally— offend the students, alumni and Kingstonians who attended the event or read his speech.

Instead of doing what was right, and honouring those who died, Mr. Day devoted his speech to his own opinions, which as it turned out, did not place “honouring” particularly high on the agenda.

Instead, he focused on turning the Remembrance Day ceremony into a partisan soapbox.

It’s time for Mr. Day to present a serious apology that addresses the core of the issue, instead of a passive-aggressive jab at the disapproval that the AMS and the majority of the student body have levelled against him.

More importantly, it’s time for the Queen’s community to address this issue properly, so that nothing like this happens again.

The censure motion was a good first step, but more action is needed. I will leave the broader student body to decide what form of action is required.

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Is Movember effective at raising awerness?

“It’s raised awareness, but whether or not it’s raised money is up for debate.”

Emily Davies, ArtSci ’11

“I think it is. It’s something visible you can see around campus.”

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“It’s certainly raised awareness, but I’ll be happy on Dec. 1, when everyone looks clean again.

Kelly Whiting, ArtSci ’12

“Yes, definitely. It’s a very creative way to get the word out.”

Med Christens, PhysEd ’12

“Damn straight.”

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Royal wedding makes fools of subjects the global fascination with the recent royal engagement is a symptom of our culture’s fixation on unimportant things

JOrDan raY, artsci ’12 Perhaps you’ve heard that Prince William of the United Kingdom recently announced his engagement to Kate Middleton for sometime next year.

The charming rags to riches story of true love has received thousands of lines of coverage in foreign and domestic publications as the world becomes increasingly besotted with the two 28-year olds.

For me though, it highlights the troubling fascination that the world has with stuff that, frankly, we should care less about.

I’d like to take a moment to declare my bias. I have this silly, naive idea that people should pay attention to politics and current events.

I believe that people should read books and see movies (fiction or non-fiction) that make them pause and think about something bigger than who the Leafs are playing tonight or comparing the hotness of two young men/women in one’s tutorial group.

I’m a huge fan of three hour long philosophical debates over the importance of freedom versus security, especially when I get to listen to what others have to say.

Don’t get me wrong, I love hockey and girls. But there are other things besides them, aren’t there? These days, it seems like there aren’t. And it troubles me.

When we become more concerned with how Brangelina will patch things up this time or, “Just how many women did Tiger have affairs with anyway?” we develop the habit of being easily distracted.

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Our generation is always becoming preoccupied with something else.

We bounce from school to work to friends to parties to shopping to sports to whatever, and our minds don’t have the time to reflect on anything. We just do.

It’s the “Ooooh, shiny!” syndrome, that increasingly ubiquitous condition whereby people display an alarming tendency towards a clinical diagnosis of ADHD. As much as we might joke about it, this isn’t really a good thing, as it takes away from our ability and motivation to pay attention to things that would be considered by many to be more important.

We take a look at our political candidates and judge them on factors that shouldn’t even be in the realm of criteria for selecting our leaders.

We ask questions like, “I wonder how good he would be at flip cup?” and draw conclusions like, “She really should have gone with the Prada instead of the Armani, she clearly has poor judgment.”

For me though, it highlights the troubling fascination that the world has with stuff that, frankly, we should care less about.

Granted, these are by no means the only set of factors that determine elections.

But isn’t that only because most of the people who vote are older than we are, and generally have slightly longer attention spans?

It’s a known fact that the 65 and over demographic is among the most likely to vote.

What happens when our generation, having formed our habits of continuous distraction, starts to get older? I dearly hope that we stop making decisions based on, “Hot or not?”

Prince William and Kate Middleton announced their engagement on November 16.

We are the generation of the internet, cell phones and iPods.

Many use these technologies as tools to educate themselves about current events like the earthquake in Haiti or the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a man in China jailed for political dissent.

But many more use these technologies as fillers for the times in their life when they’re bored and have nothing to do.

Someone once told me that boredom was good for you because it forces you to think creatively.

But there’s always something to do these days, whether it’s playing Super Mario or checking the news feed on Facebook for status updates and photos, we hardly even have the time to think, period!

I’m not saying that these things are bad. Everyone needs to escape from reality once and a while.

What I’m saying is that moderation is a virtue. We’ve all had that moment when the light from the laptop screen is the only light reflected in our eyes, we’re on the eighth episode of Lost or Gossip Girl, we look at the clock and slowly realize that we’re never

going to get that four and a half hours of our life back.

This is the problem I have with the intense global fascination with Prince William and Kate Middleton’s impending nuptials.

There are quite frankly, things we should care more about.

For example, did you know that the debate over Canada’s role in Afghanistan has been reignited?

The outcome of this discussion will determine whether this country spends $500 million plus casualties per year on trying to help a country that really needs our assistance.

Did you also know that His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI recently began to reverse the Catholic Church’s position on using condoms to fight HIV? The impact of this for Africa and on the war against HIV and AIDS cannot be understated in any way, given the widespread influence and affluence of the global Catholic community.

The impact of Prince Williams announced engagement to Kate?

The debate about members of various European royal families to persons of “common” heritage

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has been becoming less and less controversial since the successive marriages of the Prince of Norway, the Princess of Sweden, and the Prince of Denmark to persons of “common” birth.

Perhaps adding fuel to the debate on the future of the monarchy?

The only way that would happen would be if Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II became seriously ill in the near future.

No. The impact of this marriage is quite simply that people will be paying attention to it instead of other, more important things.

We should give the two love birds a break from the spotlight and do something else, l=ike read a book or watch a movie.

And no, not Twlight or Harry Potter. I’m talking Atlas Shrugged or An Inconvenient Truth.

We have the potential to be the most intelligent and engaged generation that ever walked this planet.

So please, the next time you get the urge to check your Facebook news feed, read a newspaper instead.

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In the penultimate Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows: Part 1, the fans’ familiar favourites are transported to dismally dark and threatening territories.

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Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint Director: David Yates Screenplay by: Steve Kloves Duration: 150 mins Penultimate wizardry is among us. Ladies and gentlemen grab your wands, Hogwarts robes and annular glasses because Harry Potter is here again.

But Hogwarts, sadly, isn’t.

Instead of being captivated by the labyrinthine terrain of the enchanting school, we move across vast landscapes and monumental plateaus, as we make our way to the prominent showdown to end all showdowns (I hope).

How is the trip getting there?

While it lacks most of what I enjoyed in the previous Potters, it spins off our expectations appropriately.

This is not a silly Hogwarts fantasy anymore. This is becoming very real—and dangerous.

Lives are at stake. The whole ensemble of zany sorcerers assemble at The Burrow, the Weasley’s residence. They morph into Harry Potter replicas in attempt to elude the nefarious Death Eaters.

This opening has the Potter package that works: terrific wit (courtesy of the Weasley twins in particular), whimsy and intensity.

The camera spirals around in a nifty tracking shot as the characters all turn into Potters—beware, the potion they take to do so tastes like “Goblin piss” warns Mad Eye Moody (Brendan Gleeson).

There’s a chuckle or two.

It’s action scenes galore, for a little. A real treat. Characters die instantly and our sympathies become very vulnerable, but that tension loosens. Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe), Hermione Granger (Emma Watson) and Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) are in grave danger and are forced to flee from their alliances (and the fun).

For a series that tended to act like a John Hughes melodrama

fused with Tolkien fantastical innovation, it becomes more of a Michael Mann’s Public Enemies charade. Key difference: Potter is ‘Undesirable No. 1.’

The plight continues. The trio break into the Ministry, steal a locket (because lockets, keys and gold always represent something important) and disappear into the forest. They try to destroy the Horcrux, a device that, if destroyed, would eradicate Voldemort’s (Ralph Fiennes) duress. But of course all fails. We need part two—it’s in our wallets to go!

Now, where does Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 1 deteriorate? The midpoint.

Director David Yates, responsible for uncharted short films, never keeps up the chase. What I did appreciate was the effort.

The script persists pitiably to keep our emotional interests, but I feel though these Harry Potter characters have always been mechanisms of the plot, nothing more. Their chemistry is impeccable but they all represent identical emotions and the script is trying to convince us of what we already know.

Two scenes that really worked in this irksome middle: there’s a nice scene with Harry grabbing Hermione’s hand and doing a friendly dance to reassure her.

The characters are all caught in depressed moods, which are almost coma-inducing for us. The dance is a moment of peace, a break from the anguish they’re going through.

The dance was delightful, complex and original. It reminded me of the scene in Peter Jackson’s remake of a remake King Kong, when Naomi Watts randomly juggled to Kong. Critics scorned that scene for its children’s appeal, but it was fascinating: these are characters, in one way or another, confronting and dealing with their problems.

A second sequence that added to the film’s originality was the story-within-a-story of the Deathly Hallows, in which the characters are represented as shadow puppets, giving the story an expressionistic style, like a children’s tale read with

the lights turned off.

What vexes me is Voldemort’s underuse. Underusing a villain can have a dramatic effect, as we are let to anticipate their presence throughout the film’s course. But Yates places Voldemort mainly at the beginning and the end. It disposes his menace because we never sense his presence throughout the chase, which is probably why a chunk of the film is sedated in emotional place-holder scenes.

The wand has to be the greatest plot contrivance in all of cinema.

I don’t criticize the film for that, but I’m fascinated by its glaring flaw. All characters need to do is swirl a wand that looks like a long cinnamon stick and whatever plot device they demand will surface right in front of them.

We accept the ludicrousness of it because Harry Potter is purely matter-of-fact with its fantasy—it’s

not necessarily credible as far as realism goes.

The film will be sweeping to most. Especially to those who have read the books. I’m not one to review the books—I have not read a single Harry Potter book and I do not plan to. But it is in my right to treat the film as a piece of cinema and declare it average. It has trouble dealing with its characters outside of the narrative.

Now, the ending is a good cliffhanger. It’s not a cheat, because the suspended conclusion is precisely the point. We are to await Part 2 (which releases this summer) idle with wands in hand.

I didn’t mind this Harry Potter but the greatest of scenes will surely belong to its successor, as it’s the final showdown. Part 2 should be great closure for everyone, just don’t get me started on the 3D.

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Destination far from nowhere Mookie and The Loyalists bring buoyant grooves, melodic blues and an unwavering thirst for success with the release of their self-titled EP

By Ally Hall A&E Editor Yes, Mookie Morris was on Canadian Idol, but don’t hold it against him. Do yourself a favour and leave any notions of fabricated pop-stardom at the door.

Since the conclusion of the show’s sixth season in 2008, the Toronto native has been hard at work getting his footing in the music industry and solidifying the lineup and vision of his band, Mookie and The Loyalists.

“I always saw myself in a band and never as a solo artist,” Morris told me over the phone. “It’s still weird to me to have my name in the band name. I almost wish it could be ‘The Loyalists’.”

When he united with Queen’s alum and lead guitarist Mike Butlin (who Morris proclaims “the guru of the band”), keyboardist and guitarist Sean Fisher, bassist Mark Godfrey and drummer Lewis Spring, Morris said he knew he’d found the mates he’d been

looking for.

“Having a loyal band, guys who are going to stick by me—even though essentially they didn’t write the songs—it’s still Mookie and The Loyalists.”

The band, comprised of Morris’ childhood friends and the other of Toronto musicians, released their self-titled EP last month.

“It was tough,” Morris said. “It took about a year and a half, almost two years of just writing on end trying to find the right songs that I was happy with and the label was happy putting out.”

Though being tucked under the wing of a major record label can be perceived as forefeiting creative control, Morris said he and his new business partners were on the same page.

“I never did see myself as one of those, you know … manufactured big-time pop stars and the guys at Sony Canada were also on board with that,” Morris said. “It’s almost a stereotype to say the label wanted

better or more commercial songs almost, but I think most of the time that’s the case. It just took time to get to the right point.”

“It’s almost a stereotype to say the label wanted better or more commercial songs ... but I think most of the time that’s the case.”

—Mookie Morris, lead singer of Mookie and The Loyalists The right point for Morris seems to be in the driver’s seat. When it comes to evolving from what some may know from watching Idol, the proof may be measured in his melodies.

“A couple of the songs are definitely about driving away or escaping or wanting to move to another town or being in another environment overall,” Morris said. “[It] probably stems from having a Please see The on page 13

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Remembrance, reception and representation Modern Fuel’s party tonight will take place outside the gallery walls, currently occupied by the engaging Reconnaissance

By Ally HAll A&E Editor The days of baseboards, boots and briskly biting breezes are upon us in Kingston. Luckily, hand-in-hand with those chilly accompaniments come cozy ones, like tonight’s party celebrating the debut of Modern Fuel’s Kingston Artist Deck—54 playing cards featuring the work of local artists.

“We thought it was a great opportunity to showcase a large number of artists’ work in a very portable way,” the gallery’s artistic director Michael Davidge said. “We have 46 artists’ work available in the deck.”

Chances to connect with members of the arts community don’t often come in packages as pretty and personal as these.

“It’s a playful way of engaging with contemporary art while being accessible,” Davidge said. “Contemporary art is often

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seen as being very foreboding and forbidding.

But not with these—you can play Crazy 8s with these.”

Crazy 8s, Old Maid, Bridge, Solitaire and both beginners and advanced Poker tables are some of the games that will undoubtedly invite attendees to try out the set of cards, rub elbows with local talent and provide the added option of taking a deck home for a mere $15, which will go towards supporting the Artist-Run Centre.

“We’re doing a bunch of different activities,” the Centre’s administrative director Bronwyn McLean said. “There’s going to be tarot readings with those cards, which is great fun and there’s some Kingston architects who are going to be doing a house of cards building competition.”

Modern Fuel’s penchant for parties never fails to top my list and I have a hunch this one will be no different. Last year’s Solid Gold party, featuring an hour-long masterfully mixed performance by sound artist Craig Leonard, had me hypnotized—and it wasn’t just those delicious gold-flake-filled drinks they were serving.

Valentine’s Day brought the memorable balloon-filled fundraiser Slow Dance, where attendees swapped dance cards, corsages and grooved to Kingston DJs Haircut and Abdell Drums along with LK aka Laura Kelly, who will be making a triumphant return to the tables and the town, enveloping attendees at tonight’s highly anticipated party after moving to Toronto.

“We leapt at the opportunity to get her,” Davidge said.

The art card party is happening in The Atrium of Confederation Place rather than within the Queen St. walls of Modern Fuel, which is currently splashed with Reconnaissance, a show featuring the work of Kingston’s William MacDonnell and Bowmanville’s Todd Treemer. The engaging exhibit laces together the work of the two artists who commemorate military history and complicate its representation and reception in varying ways. After a visit to the gallery, I found Davidge’s accompanying exhibit text to be the most apt and helpful introduction to the work and its dealings with “heaving subject matter, military conflict and its representation, in a way that is not heavy-handed. The work raises many

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Complicating military history is a thread running through both artists’ work. questions concerning technology, history, aesthetics and politics; to provide a pithy response is a challenge.”

The emotion in the pieces is palpable.

Not only for the observed and imagined subject matter but also the grandiose size and sheer life, not to mention death, present in the pieces.

Two of MacDonnell’s monumental acrylic on canvas paintings, “On the Wilhemstrasse, Later in the Day” (1997) and “Ruin Upon Ruin (The King’s Palace)” (2010) sit on opposing walls of the gallery.

This moving depiction of perceptions surrounding Hitler’s blasted Chancellery building and the war in Afghanistan during the artist’s recent deployment as an official War Artist beg to be taken in personally.

Their effect simply cannot be adequately expressed in words. MacDonnell’s extensive experience-based work also encompasses far-traveled explorations as an unofficial war artist and interpretation of the conflict in the Balkans.

Engaging in military history in a different way, Tremeer’s watercolour work highlights the gaps, ambiguity and incomplete nature of some of its past representation. An official War Artist like MacDonnell, the white space, omissions and conjectures in Tremeer’s

work speak what Davidge describes as, “the avant-garde language of abstraction.”

“Detachment” (2010), his troop of tiny uniformly constructed paper doll soldiers caught my eye when I first walked into the gallery space and call to light both the glamorization of war and its trickling down into the public’s grasp through video games and simulated battle, turning destruction into something to be desired.

War undeniably evokes emotion in everyone, making MacDonnell and Tremeer’s work rewarding for viewers.

Leaving Reconnaissance I felt dark, but not at all dire. Standing safely outside the subject matter of the paintings I was drawn in and found myself attempting to grasp the reality the artists encountered, which eventually inspired and comprised their work. This provocation is proof enough of their power.

Reconnaissance is showing at Modern Fuel until Dec. 18. The Artist Deck launch party is happening tonight at The Atrium in Confederation Place at 237 Ontario St. at 7 p.m. Tickets are $10 if reserved through kingston.artist@gmail.com in advance, or $15 at the door. Artist Decks are available for $15.

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cheesy rep on Idol.”

Teaming up with a slew of diverse talent from the far reaches of the Canadian sonic stage (including familiar faces from Saint Alvia and Jay Malinowksi of Bedouin Soundclash) gave Morris the tools to develop as a unique writer. “[The label] didn’t go with your typical co-writers who’ve done Celine Dion and Kelly Clarkson or whatever,” he said. “I got to work with Ben Cook with the band Fucked Up … guys like that were honestly just so good for me with just developing and learning how to write songs in general and choosing good music and getting introduced to good music. Guys like Ben and Simon Wilcox … she was one of the writers who

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has done more pop stuff but is really cool.”

Things shifted into high gear when Morris coordinated with burgeoning producer Adam King. “[Adam and I] were connected oddly through this guy Nate who I was writing with right after the show,” he said. “He knew this guy Adam King he used to work with who’s a drummer, producer and writer. From there, us three probably wrote a good 15 or 20 songs for the album … he seemed like the right guy to do the producing.”

Released on Oct. 12, the lively EP is one part bouncing rock, one part grooving vocals that bring to mind an infectious Fratellis, Beck and Strokes lovechild that beckons to be clapped along to.

It’s tight and rich enough to satisfy rock-listeners, has a surprising bluesy ting that conjures crooners of decades past and has upbeat and dynamic melodies that will inevitably lend the group to pop fans alike.

Recorded in less than four weeks, Morris said the group spent many late nights testing the tolerance of their ears.

“To be honest, I can’t even listen to it,” he said. “Those three or four weeks in the studio you probably listen to each song a good hundred times.”

Forever engraining the songs in his head may not have been the worst thing, the benefits are clear given the fresh-faced band’s already established reputation for a fiery

live show. When our phone chat was peppered with the occasional cough from Morris’ end, I inquired as to whether a sore throat might detract from belting out his best.

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“I’m actually really nervous but we shall see.”

Something tells me tonsil turmoil won’t get in the way of this hungry band’s success. Their passion is clear from Morris’ discussion of their future gigs in supplied Mont Tremblant in January to their plans for summer strumming at Morris leans on The Loyalists for support onstage and off and Canadian Music Week and festivals dubs lead guitarist Mike Butlin (left) “the guru of the band.” like North by Northeast and South

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“I see it as unnecessary to show up in rags and wear what you wore last night to bed, treat it professionally. I think of it as going to work, so I’m suiting up, putting on my suit and going out there. It’s sacred,” he said with a laugh.

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Queen’s rolls over Ottawa at home Women’s volleyball heads into winter break first in the OUA East

By Anand Srivastava Staff Writer In an OUA East showdown, the women’s volleyball team powered past the University of Ottawa Gee-Gees in straight sets last weekend at the ARC. Both teams entered the match with identical 5-1 records, but the Gaels swept aside the Gee-Gees to grab a share of the division lead heading into the winter break.

Head coach Joely Christian-Macfarlane was extremely pleased with her team’s play on the court.

“For the first time since the season started, we actually played like we’ve been training,” Christian-Macfarlane said. “We were very intense, we dictated the pace of the game and focused on our side of the court and what we had to do. I feel really good about the game and really good about what I saw tonight.”

The Gaels’ defensive effort was led by outside hitter Natalie Fisher who, along with nine kills, picked up a match-high four solo

Photo by Justin Tang

Middle Katie Matthews spikes the ball during the Gaels’ straight-set win over the Ottawa Gee-Gees last Saturday at the ARC. stuff blocks. The team recorded nine blocks compared to Ottawa’s four, helping Queen’s defend their lead in the final set when the Gee-Gees scrambled to close the scoring gap and force a fourth set.

Outside hitter Natalie Gray boosted the Gaels’ offence with seven kills, two service aces and a team-high ten digs.

Christian-Macfarlane said she

was expecting a stronger opposition from the Gee-Gees.

“It does feel good [to beat Ottawa],” she said, “They’re a fantastic team. They’re young and physical, so for us to be able to, not only play with them, but beat them so handily, it’s a bit of a surprise despite how well we’re playing.”

Queen’s put their talent on showcase during the successive

25-19, 25-18 and 25-22 Queen’s 3, Guelph 2; set victories.

Queen’s 2, McMaster 3 “Even though we missed a couple of critical serves, we served tough and took them out of their passing game,” Christian-Macfarlane said. “We blocked well, we’ve been training our blocking and working on being a strong blocking and Please see Break on page 18

Queen’s 4, Waterloo 2; Queen’s 1, Laurier 3

Women’s hockey picks up points Gaels end five-game losing streak with two goals from Morgan McHaffie against Warriors

By Lauri Kytömaa Assistant Sports Editor After a tough start to their season, the women’s hockey team appears ready to climb back up the OUA standings. The sixth-place Gaels enjoyed a winning weekend at home, defeating the Waterloo Warriors 4-2 on Friday and battling with the first-place Laurier Golden Hawks in a tightly contested 3-1 loss on Saturday.

Forward Elizabeth Kench opened up the scoring against

Waterloo in the first period with Morgan McHaffie adding a pair of goals in the second to give the Gaels a three goal advantage. The Warriors answered back with a late powerplay goal at the end of the second.

The other McHaffie sister, Brittany, found the back of the net to take a dominating 4-1 lead over Waterloo. Waterloo scored at the end of the second but the goal proved too late to be decisive.

Gaels head coach Matt Holmberg said the win was

important to the team.

“It was a good come-out game for us,” he said. “We’ve been struggling, needing a win and the girls pulled it together. And as a team, [we] worked hard and [it] got us that win that we really needed to get us out of the slump. [It] was a key game.”

The game’s statistics suggested little struggling as the Gaels outshot Waterloo by more than a two-to-one margin, 33-16. Gaels goaltender, Karissa Savage didn’t see much action, stopping 14 of the

Photo by Mike Krauchynu

Forward Kelsey Thomson races for the puck against a Laurier player in their 3-1 loss Saturday.

16 shots she faced.

Though the Gaels were happy with their game against the last place Warriors, it was the tight loss to the 11-1-0 Golden Hawks that provided the team with the real confidence boost. Early in the tilt the Gaels had an odd-man rush on the Golden Hawks’ goal, looking like they were about to take the lead. However, after a good save and a quick transition to the Gaels end, it was Laurier that took the 1-0 advantage.

Despite having their best opportunity reversed on them in the early going, the Gaels didn’t lose their composure. The game became a low scoring scuffle the rest of the way. The shots went 12-11 in Laurier’s favour in the second as both teams tried to find the back of the net.

Holmberg said the margins of error were very small. “[The difference in the game was] a matter of inches,” he said.

“Both goalies played really well, they had a couple of opportunities where a bounce went their way and in a game like that, that’s all it takes.”

The Gaels accumulated chances with three breakaways and numerous odd-man opportunities, yet no one could find the back of the net. The score remained 1-0 until late in the third when Laurier scored shorthanded.

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Road weary Gaels

Injuries create opportunities for Gaels’ depth to shine

By Benjamin Deans Staff Writer The men’s volleyball team experienced their first tough weekend of the season with a testing victory over the Guelph Gryphons 3-2 last Saturday and a tight loss to the McMaster Marauders 3-2 on Sunday. They are now second in the OUA with a 7-1 record.

Serving proved to be an issue for the Gaels all weekend. They made 41 service errors while their opponents only made 25.

“I thought we had some really great moments on the court but I also feel as though there were areas that we could improve upon including our serving,” outside Bryan Fautley said. “That was a big deficiency against McMaster and one of the leading reasons why we lost to them actually.”

While the loss to the Marauders ended the Gaels’ perfect record, the team put up a good fight given their circumstances.

With injuries to veterans Daniel Rosenbaum, Niko Rukavina and Joren Zeeman as well as second-year outsider Nick LeBlanc, the Gaels have been forced to use their depth to overcome the significant absences. “[These injuries] are awful,” Fautley said. “At this point, we’re not expecting any of our injured players to come back until the first weekend [of next term].”

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Wrestling showcase at the ARC the Queen’s wrestling team inaugurates the Arc with a sixth place finish on sunday The ARC hosted the Queen’s University Open Wrestling Tournament this past Sunday with over a hundred wrestlers in attendance.

The Gaels placed sixth with nine points.

The Gaels saw top performances from third-year wrestlers Joel Smith and Kellie Heney who finished second and third respectively. Smith would lose in the gold medal match by decision, even after scoring more overall technical points in his weight class.

With a fourth-place finish 76 kg, first-year wrestler Feodor Snagovsky was the only other Gael able to grab points for the team.

Brock Wrestling Club was awarded the team gold medal with 85 points. The Guelph Wrestling Club placed second with 42 points.

After the winter break, the Gaels will compete in St. Catharines on Jan. 8.

—Kate Bascom

SPORTS IN BRIEF Losses mount for men’s hockey The Gaels were unable to grab any points on the road this weekend against the Guelph Gryphons and the Laurier Golden Hawks.

The men’s hockey team comes back to Kingston 5-6-1 on the season.

After the Gaels were unable to stop the Gryphons’ offensive burst that pushed them ahead 4-0 going to the third, Queen’s battled back with goals from forwards Jonathon Lawrance, Kelly Jackson and Jordan Mirwaldt. Guelph would answer with two more goals to end the game 6-3.

The Gaels showed a better effort on Saturday, holding the Golden Hawks to a 2-1 loss. Forward Brock Ouellet scored early in the first with assists from forward Alexi Pianosi and Mirwaldt. The Golden Hawks would score on a powerplay late in the first and again in the third to secure the win.

The Gaels will be at home this weekend facing off at the Memorial Centre against the Western Mustangs Friday at 7:30 p.m. and the Waterloo Warriors at 8:30 p.m.

—Kate Bascom

Men’s basketball lose two over weekend The Gaels fell to the McMaster Marauders Friday in a 69-67 loss in Hamilton. The tight game was their third straight loss of the season, leaving their record at 1-4. Queen’s saw another great performance by guard Dan Bannister who finished the game with 28 points.

Following the loss, the Gaels continued their road trip to Thunder Bay to face the

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wrestler liz hobbes (right) holds down a McMaster wrestler and tavis sisco (above) grapples with an opponent at the Queen’s open over the weekend. hobbes finished fourth in the women’s 59 kg event.

Lakehead Thunderwolves. Though Bannister had anthor strong game, Queen’s was unable to grab a lead and lost 78-47.

The Gaels will look for wins this weekend at home against the Windsor Lancers Friday and then Saturday against the Western Mustangs. Tipoff at the ARC is at 8 p.m.

—Kate Bascom

Women’s basketball lose two on the road The Gaels lost their fifth straight against the McMaster Marauders last Friday in Hamilton. The 68-47 loss was highlighted by guard Paige Robinson’s 15 point performance. Queen’s was unable to end their losing streak on Saturday after a tight game against the Lakehead Thunderwolves.

Post Jill Wheat and guards Brittany Moore and Meaghan MacDougall were all double digit scorers for the Gaels in the 64-62 loss.

The Gaels look to turn their luck around at home this weekend against the Windsor Lancers and the Western Mustangs. Both games are at the ARC. Tipoff is at 6 p.m.

—Kate Bascom

stat OF tHe weeK Although the women’s hockey team currently holds a losing record, in their two games against the 12-1 Laurier golden hawks they have only lost by an average of 1.5 goals. the golden hawks have a goal differential of 51-14.

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Although the injuries are unfortunate, they have given some of the Gaels’ younger players a chance to gain some valuable experience.

“It’s really given our younger guys an opportunity to step up and play some of their best games,”

Fautley said. “[Will Sidgwick] has been playing amazingly and Matt Taylor … really performed this weekend. [Jacob Glantz] is playing great. Everybody really stepped up their game.”

Head coach Brenda Willis said she was proud of her team this weekend.

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The Golden Hawks would tally again just two minutes later on a power play to solidify the win.

However, the Gaels persisted to get a consolation goal with five minutes remaining to end the game 3-1.

Gaels goaltender Mel Dodd-Moher, who stopped 39 of 42 shots, said the game came down to chances.

“I’m proud of the team because we stood with them,” she said.

“Obviously they are a really good team and we were right with them the whole game. Unfortunately they got a couple of lucky bounces at the end there. In the end I’m happy because we stuck with them and we’ll beat them when it counts.”

The close game with Laurier may signal that the Gaels are ready

to turn their slow start around.

They currently hold a record of 5-6-3, their nine losses exceeding the team’s total losses from last season when they finished 19-5-3, placing second in the OUA. But Dodd-Moher said the team’s confidence is returning after the weekend’s action.

“I think in the dressing room we have more positive energy,” she said. “I think we are more excited to play now. No one likes losing so you get a couple of wins and you get more confidence and everyone is more happy and excited to play.

The momentum is going in our favour.” the Gaels will be back in action at the Memorial Centre on Dec. 3 against the windsor lancers at 8:30 p.m.

“I thought, in both games, we did a good job of fighting,” Willis said. “Whether we were up or we were down, [we] continued to compete and fight and I was really happy with that.”

Willis echoed Fautley’s concern with the team’s serving.

“I thought we made too many serving errors and particularly some untimely ones,” she said. “We can’t [win games] if we miss 25 serves.

That’s handing the game over to the other team.”

Willis said she was also frustrated with the OUA’s failure to schedule equal rest time for the Marauders, who had 24 hours’ rest before Sunday’s game, and the Gaels, who only had 18 hours. This error, along with their home court advantage, gave the Marauders a leg up on Sunday.

“We made some errors at the wrong times,” Willis said of Sunday’s game. “We fought back from being down 2-1 and losing pretty badly in the third [set], so that showed a lot of character.”

The team’s focus is on this weekend’s home games against the Western Mustangs and the Windsor Lancers. Western is a major rival as well as the only team ahead of the Gaels in the OUA, while the Lancers are close to the Gaels at fourth.

“The [two teams] are very much in the same realm as us,” Willis said. “[Western has] weapons in every position and they don’t rely on any one guy to win the games for them … I’m hoping we’ll get a really good crowd; it’s like having an extra player on the floor.” the men’s volleyball team will play the western Mustangs saturday at 1 p.m and the windsor lancers sunday at 2 p.m. at the aRC.

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defensive team. Also, we hit well; we just kept attacking the ball and being aggressive.”

Gray echoed her coach’s words, adding that the entire team contributed to the victory.

“Everyone played great,” Gray said. “It’s always nice to win in three, obviously. We had some good blocking up front and some nice kills from [Natalie Fisher]. It was just a good game all around. It’s always great to beat Ottawa, it’s the best feeling ever.”

Since opening at the beginning of the calendar year, the ARC has been extremely welcoming to the women’s volleyball team. The Gaels have only dropped one match at home.

“Playing at the ARC is the best,” Gray said. “Obviously, we’re 11-1 now. It’s just a fun a time and we seem to do well.”

Queen’s now sits 6-1 with 12 points heading in to the winter break, tied with York for first place in the OUA East.

“We’ve definitely been playing really well,” Gray said. “We can’t be unhappy with that kind of a record.

We’re just going to have to practice hard and get a rest over Christmas and then carry that into the second half of the season.”

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Bryan Fautley Men’s Volleyball Fourth-year setter Bryan Fautley led the Gaels last weekend as they beat the Guelph Gryphons 3-2 and nearly overcame the McMaster Marauders in a close 3-2 match.

Fautley was a force on the court, ending the weekend with totals of 36 kills and 14 digs.

“I was pretty happy with some of my defence in the back court,” Fautley said. “Offensively, I had a pretty good weekend.”

Fautley, eager to improve, said he’s also thinking about the 12 serve errors that he committed.

“I had a pretty bad serving weekend,” he said.

Overall, Fautley guided the team well considering he was the Gaels’ lone veteran with three of the team’s other fourth-years injured.

“We performed very well given the conditions that we were in,” he said. “Everybody really stepped up their game and got a great win against Guelph and really competed against [McMaster] and I think we had it at some points.”

Right now, Fautley said he’s focused on finishing the first half of the season strong.

The Gaels face the Western Mustangs, the only team ahead of the Gaels in the OUA, and the Windsor Lancers this weekend.

“We have our biggest game right before the break,” he said. “We focus day-by-day, week-by-week, match-by-match, how we’ve been taught to take the season.”

With Queen’s hosting the 2012 CIS championship, Fautley said the veteran Gaels are planning to participate.

“The plan right now is all five of us that are in fourth-year are going to return for a fifth year, when we’re hosting nationals,” he said.

“Basically, we’ve all been playing together for four years or more at this point. By our fifth year, we have each other’s patterns down …

Hopefully, that works this season as well and next season, we can carry it over.”

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Morgan McHaffie Women’s Hockey After a second place OUA finish last year, a slow start to the 2010-11 season for the women’s hockey team was unexpected. A five-game losing streak left the Gaels frustrated, but a win against the Waterloo Warriors broke their slump. Second-year forward Morgan McHaffie scored the game winner Friday night for her second goal of the night.

“We needed a fresh start to try to get something going.”

—Morgan McHaffie “It was kind of a turnaround weekend for us,” she said.

“Although we lost to Laurier on Saturday, it was just different, we had a different atmosphere ... We came out hard. I think that was the biggest thing.”

McHaffie, who was on a line with her sister, Brittany, and Kelsey Thomson, said the team tried different lineups this weekend to spark some change.

“We needed a fresh start to try to get something going,” she said.

“We started with a different line.

I think a lot of it had to with [my linemates]. They set me up ... and it just found the back of the net.

It was almost a relief to get those goals and get that win ... It was very frustrating but to get back on track like that, it was a big boost for our team.”

McHaffie, who started her Gaels career as a highly-touted prospect, said her first year was spent learning from the veterans on the team and building up confidence.

“I guess just going into second year, you have a little bit more confidence with yourself,” she said. “Going into first-year, your confidence is a little low and you build it up. I felt I had earned my role last year, this year I just hopefully step above that.”

—Kate Bascom

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Can you handle the heat?

Bikram yoga asks you to contort your body and test your limits at 105 degrees Fahrenheit

By Pamela Mullins Contributor It’s 9:30 in the morning. I’m in a room set to 105 degrees Fahrenheit with humidity of 40 per cent and I’m twisting into shapes and stretches unfamiliar to my body. It’s my first day of Bikram yoga—otherwise known as hot yoga—that includes 26 postures and two breathing exercises.

Approximately 20 people are in the room with me and all of them have apparently been practicing yoga for much longer than I have.

I notice the older lady behind me; I can tell she’s in deep concentration and is moving her body with considerably more ease than I’d expect.

Our instructor, Tanya Harrington of Feel Yoga Kingston, uses analogies to influence the depth of our poses. During one pose, she tells us to extend our hands in front of us like we are “shooting arrows into the sky.”

Thankfully, the second half of the class has us positioned on the floor, stretching and releasing tension in our spine and chest. Better yet, in the last few minutes we perform breathing exercises to relax our bodies and minds.

Throughout the class, Harrington relates our movements in the studio with the benefits to our everyday lives. Although we may not realize it, the ability to totally relax our bodies in stressful situations is a good tactic to overcome trauma, she said.

The poses of regular yoga and hot yoga are similar, but with different effects. She said the hot studio allows the muscles to stretch more deeply while detoxifying the body.

When she first started yoga in her 30s, Harrington said her body felt more like that of a 70 year old. After years of heavy athleticism, she had multiple surgeries that left scar tissue, and she was beginning to see signs of arthritis.

“Once yoga was incorporated into my life, I felt like my body did in my early 20s,” she said. “I

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Doing yoga in a heated room allows the muscles to stretch more deeply and the heart to pump blood faster through the body. sort of felt like I got my life back a little bit.”

She said hot yoga can heal the mind, as well as the body.

“It’s the connection that you have with your mind to the body that creates a metabolic cleansing to get rid of toxic emotions and thoughts, and allows your mind to be in your body at peace,” she said.

In terms of the body, the skin is an important organ for removing toxic waste, which is helped through sweat. Being in the hot studio allows the skin to convert various fatty toxins into water-soluble compounds that we can sweat out, she said.

“Because of the heat … the heart has to pump the blood so much faster,” she said. “It accelerates everything.”

Harrington said she wouldn’t recommend someone practice Bikram yoga in a non-heated room, though.

“Some people are less tolerant of

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the heat,” she said. “[But] we don’t advise people to [practice without the heat] because the postures are such that you might find your body would get sore.”

Harrington said some other benefits of regular practice are enhanced sleep, decreased signs of anxiety and depression, promotion of memory, concentration and physical strength, while encouraging a holistic balance of the body. She said the routine of yoga practice may contribute to its healing potential.

The concept of routine can also compare to going on a diet for a certain amount of time—you can eventually feel the results, she said, adding that many students report feeling “addicted” to the practice.

While many studios offer hot yoga classes, not all will necessarily teach the Bikram tradition, Harrington said.

“Other studios in Kingston have hot yoga—they do any kind of yoga in a hot room,” she said. “They’re not doing something that’s from an intelligence out of India.”

Many types of yoga today are designed and practiced as a form of exercise, she said, which ignores the aspect of Bikram yoga that focuses on the mind, body and spirit connection.

Harrington said the yoga we practice today is very different than it was when it was conceived thousands of years ago.

When yoga first came about, people would sit and morph their bodies into positions that weren’t normally possible, she said.

“Basically what I feel has happened is they’ve had to make yoga so that North Americans and people in developed countries [could do it],” she said. “It couldn’t

look so crazy.”

“They’ve had to really dilute it,” she said. “If you saw that in Canada [you would think] ‘those people need to be put away.’ ” The reason yoga was developed with lots of impossible positions, she said, was to experience an altered state of mind.

“They believed they were getting all the neurological benefits in the ultimate state of consciousness.”

The popularity of yoga in North America has evolved slowly, she said—it has trickled in, person by person. One influence that brought yoga to North America was WWII. “Doctors and nurses started practicing,” Harrington said, when they would travel to the East to serve, and would then bring what they knew back.

Other influences include yogis who have come to settle in North America, she said. Bikram Choudhury, the founder of Bikram yoga, was invited to the US by President Nixon after seeing reports in Japan about his abilities.

Although one of the most popular areas in India to practice yoga are secluded centres, she said it’s slowly changing.

“It’s starting to come up in major cities,” she said, adding that in the cities yoga is starting to be practiced more along North American lines.

Yoga has also become an area of interest in the academic sphere.

Queen’s department of religion offers a course called Yoga in India and the West, a popular program run once every other year.

The professor, Ellen Goldberg from the religious studies department, has been teaching university students—and yoga instructors—since the late 80s.

A peace sign mat welcomes me to her dimly lit office, along with a framed picture of Buddha above her desk.

Goldberg said in her class, yoga practice is considered field research. Students are to practice yoga and keep a journal of their experience. They must then relate a case study of a particular tradition to the history and philosophy of yoga.

“No pun intended,” she said with a smile, “but it’s a hot yoga course!”

Goldberg said the earliest forms of yoga were practiced in India. “[They were] originally translated orally from guru to disciple,” she said, and it started as a simple seated position, possibly with the feet folded up.

Since then, it has evolved into hundreds of poses.

“To understand yoga is to understand the history of Hinduism and Buddhism in many ways,” she said. “We are looking at over 2,500 years of religious history that has spread all over the globe … we are just latecomers to this development in the West.”

The practice of yoga involves more than a series of poses; it also combines the strength of your body with your mind, Goldberg said.

“Postures are really just a preliminary. There is an inner world that is not really celebrated, shall we say, in our culture,” she said. “But for yogis, this is a very important part of being human. They recognize that there is an internal world as well as an external world, and they have the techniques to get in tune with that consciousness.”

—With files from Kelly Loeper