The Queen's Journal, Issue 36

SOLUS under discussion

intervening in libya

candide

swordsmen strike gold

it’s all about me

The AMS holds a town hall to hear student opinons. page 5

The argument in favour of international action. page 12

Drama produces their second musical ever. page 16

Men’s fencing raises OUA banner to the roof. page 17

Exploring the ‘Generation Me’ stereotype. page 23

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Student Life

Checking out birth control B y C raig D raeger Dialogue Editor Yasmin and Yaz, two popular oral contraceptives, have become the target of a lawsuit alleging they cause serious health side effects in women.

Matthew Baer, a lawyer at London, ON firm Siskinds LLP, is heading the class action lawsuit against Bayer Inc.—the producer of Yasmin and Yaz birth control.

Baer said hundreds of women contacted his firm, claiming the products caused side effects like stroke, blood clots, heart issues and gallbladder issues.

“When we got our first few calls,

AMS Sustainability Coordinator Jodi Rempel, ArtSci ’11, says the movement to ban bottled water sales on campus has been student led.

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sustainability

Banning bottled water on campus

By Katherine Fernandez-Blance Assistant News Editor In September 2012, all sales of bottled water on campus will come to an end, as a ban comes into effect.

The details of the decision, formally announced by Principal Woolf last January, have been under development since the creation of a policy document in December 2010, outlining the logistical aspects of the ban. Queen’s is the

10th university in Canada to ban bottled water sales on campus.

Physical Plant Services Sustainability Coordinator Aaron Ball said his office was involved with drafting the implementation plan for the logistical elements of the ban and helped perform an audit of the water fountains last summer.

“There are over 170 water fountains on campus right now, which is a pretty good amount,” Ball said, adding that the bottled water ban won’t increase the amount

of water fountains on campus by much and that Physical Plant Services will instead be retrofitting some of the existing fountains with spigots, essentially taps that allow you to pour water easily into your reusable water bottle.

“Part of the policy statement for Queen’s would include mandatory water fountains as a new building standard,” Ball said, adding that the 2010 audit looked at building use and occupation.

He said that buildings like residences and small labs or offices

not accessible to the general public generally lack water fountains because they have their own kitchens in place. High traffic areas like Mac-Corry and the Queen’s Centre have 12 and 15 water fountains respectively.

Due to the profitless nature of water fountains, Ball said the University would definitely lose some revenue when the ban comes into effect but that it’s important to remember why the University is going forward with the ban.

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obituary

Reflecting on the life of Robert Nason

By Labiba Haque Assistant News Editor Robert Nason was the type of person who always gave his friends someone to lean on.

“He was probably the most caring and loyal person I knew,” Robert’s childhood friend Mark Cornett said. “He never thought

of himself before anyone. I don’t know … he was just my best friend.”

The pair spent their high school years planning their grad trip to Europe and working at Starbucks to pay for it.

“We spent hours and hours pouring over maps, what to do, where to go. People would ask

us where we would be going and when we told them they said ‘that’s crazy,’ but it was never crazy to us,” he said.

The two trekked through numerous countries in Europe for two months, spending time in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Morocco.

Cornett said it was during this trip when Robert made the biggest impact on his life.

“I can’t think of anyone who has changed me for the better like Rob has,” he said.

At Queen’s Robert, ArtSci ’12, became involved with the Departmental Student Council for See I can’t on page 8

See Getting on page 3

inside skating back through time Queen’s professor explores the history of gender in figure skating. page 4

child rights National intitiative aims to inform children of their human rights. page 7

criminal justice panel Suggestions to improve the prison system. page 11

striking sounds The Halifax quartet are bringing their resonating pop to Clark Hall. page 13

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He must have been calling hotels all over the city. And even more interesting, he had to have figured out that I was in another student’s room.

Laverty addresses Queen’s graduates at the 1970 Convocation ceremony in Grant Hall.

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Beloved chaplain dies at 99 Dr. A Marshall “Padre” Laverty supported Queen’s students for over 35 years B y Terra -A nn A rnone Web and Blogs Editor When Doug Stanley’s mother passed away during his first year at Queen’s, chaplain Marshall “Padre” Laverty broke the news.

Stanley, Comm ’63, left campus for a weekend trip to Toronto without telling his family. With no one able to contact him with news of his mother’s death, Laverty tracked Stanley down in another student’s room at the King Edward hotel.

“I’m going to have to tell you that your mother died,” Laverty said to Stanley over the phone, “that’s why it’s important for you to call home.”

Laverty, who served as Queen’s first chaplain from 1947 to 1983, died over Reading Week, on Feb. 20 in Ottawa at 99 years old. Queen’s Alumni who knew Laverty during his 36 years all had similar stories about the chaplain.

“He must have been calling hotels all over the city,” Stanley said, reflecting on Laverty’s diligence in delivering the news. “And even

more interesting, he had to have figured out that I was in another student’s room somewhere.”

Stanley made it home in time to attend his mother’s funeral, despite a North American Aerospace Defence Command freeze on air traffic.

“Somehow, [Laverty] arranged the air flight. It was the last one that left for 24 hours,” he said.

“It’s intriguing that he took on that job in handling the search.”

During his time at Queen’s, Laverty was known as Padre.

The term refers to chaplains in the armed forces, where Marshall Laverty began his career with the Third Canadian Infantry during World War II. The nickname stuck when Laverty left the military for University life.

“One of the reasons for hiring him was that there were a number of veterans coming back to Canada, wanting to enroll at Queen’s for their degree,” Queen’s current chaplain Brian Yealland said. “It was one of his major roles, helping army veterans make the move back to civilian life.

What does a chaplain do?

• Offer religious support to students and staff of all faiths • Provide advice and counseling to students and faculty • Perform wedding and memorial services on campus and for alumni abroad • Speak with students and family in times of loss and grief • Assist the University in interacting with various religious groups and their members, especially during holy days and events The chaplain’s office is in room 142B of the JDUC. Current chaplain Brian Yealland can be reached by phone at (613) 533-2186 or by email at yealland@queensu.ca.

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Laverty (left) jokes with former Queen’s philosophy professor and department head A.R.C Duncan.

“[His] ability to help generations spanning from World War II to the 1980s and still be popular with students is an indication of his incredible ability,” Yealland said.

When Yealland first took over the role of chaplain from Laverty in the ’80s, alumni came to his office during Homecoming weekends looking for the “Padre.”

“They were standing in the doorway with a stunned look on their face staring at me. They kept asking ‘where’s Padre?’” Yealland said, adding that alumni continue to inquire about the chaplain almost 30 years after Laverty leaving.

“Everywhere I go, someone pulls me aside and speaks about the fact that Padre helped them in a way nobody else could,” he said.

Laverty acted as Queen’s ambassador in Kingston and across Canada before roles like High School Liason and Alumni Affairs were created, Yealland said.

Laverty worked to strengthen the role of chaplains in universities across the country, and forged his own unique role at Queen’s. It’s not typical for a university chaplain to be paid by an academic institution;

the role is mostly filled by contract.

“During the time that Padre was chaplain for Queen’s, most other universities who had a chaplain were dispensing of or minimizing the role in some way,” Yealland said.

The house was “always full of students

and people. The phone rang, and if someone needed something he was out the door immediately.

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—Lea Rutherford, Marshall Laverty’s daughter Laverty reported directly to then-Principal Wallace, a position Yealland said made him the unofficial “Dean of Students” during that time.

Laverty balanced the needs of University administration with that of all students.

About eight years ago, Laverty was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and admitted to hospital

care in Ottawa, Yealland said.

“People talk about him as a Canadian institution,” he said. “It wasn’t a role, and he wasn’t just a person, he was an institution at Queen’s.”

Yealland said that people shouldn’t be fooled by the photographs of Padre with white hair and mustache.

“It didn’t take students very long to realize that behind that regal-looking guy, there was a funny, warm-spirited and incredible man,” Yealland said. “He had his fingers on the pulse of Queen’s students.”

Laverty’s daughter, Lea Rutherford, said she always expected Queen’s students over on Sundays for dinner when she was growing up.

“Every Sunday, my mother would cook a rump roast and at least four students would sit for dinner with us,” Rutherford, ArtSci ’70, said, adding that her father was a “prodigious letter-writer” and kept in contact with the masses of people he helped.

“Queen’s was everything, second to his family. The house was always full of students and people.

The phone rang, and if someone needed something he was out the door immediately,” she said.

Laverty was widely known for his incredible memory.

“He never forgot anybody’s name, and it’s a gift [my sister] and I wish we had inherited from him,” Rutherford said.

Carolyn Jones, Nurs ’79, said she’s always been impressed by the chaplain’s knack for names.

“Once he met you, he literally locked your name and face together,” she said. “I was drawn to him like a magnet.”

Years after graduating, Carolyn called upon Padre for another favour. She was engaged to marry her husband Rob, and hoped he would perform the service.

“The Padre came to Bracebridge to marry Rob and I,” she said. “It was just around Christmas time, and he cleared his schedule to perform the ceremony.”

Padre also took the Jones’ to his cottage on Manitoulin Island, where he and his wife Frances gave them a small course in married life.

“He went over and above the extra mile,” Jones said.

Laverty’s daughter Mary Ann deChastelain said Queen’s reaction to her father’s death surprised her family.

“When the flags were lowered at Queen’s, my mother couldn’t believe he was still so important there,” deChastelain, ArtSci ’62, said.

The final lines of Laverty’s obituary quote, written by friend and Queen’s alumni W.E. McNeill, read: “I’m not a Queen’s man born nor a Queen’s man bred, but when I die, there’ll be a Queen’s man dead.”

The memorial service for Laverty will be held at Chalmers United Church, 212 Barrie St. on Saturday, April 30. Donations can be made to the Padre and Frances Laverty Bursary, supporting Queen’s students in third and fourth year in financial need.

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International Women’s Day on campus In celebration of its 100th anniversary, various events were held to reflect on current issues facing women

By Jessica Fishbein Assistant News Editor Students may be surprised to learn of the inequalities women still face, according to Queen’s law professor Kathleen Lahey.

While women have practically doubled their labour force participation rate since the 1960s, their market income, which includes any income and benefits from the private sphere, has remained low.

“Right now women receive 36.2 per cent of all marketing incomes in Canada. The shocking thing about this figure is that it has barely changed since 1998. It’s been 36 per cent since 1998, and in 2008 it ‘jumped’ to 36.2,” she said.

Lahey said this in reference to the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, which happened on Tuesday.

Lahey said working women with university degrees in the 1980s would’ve faced a smaller gender wage gap than the one that existed in 2008.

“In 2008, on average a woman with a university degree earned $68.30 for every $100 a man with a university degree earned. In the late 1980s, she would have earned at least $69.60 for every $100 a man

with a university degree made,” she said, adding that most people are not aware of this income inequality because of the discrepancy between available statistics.

“People assumed that women gained equality in Canada, but there is such a lag between time statistics are gathered and when they are published. By the time figures are published, the world has changed,” Lahey said, adding that her most recent statistics are from 2008. “We are living in an unknown present tense.”

Historically, International Women’s Day began as a celebration of the women’s labour movement. The movement led to an increase in the number of women in the paid workforce beginning in the 1860s and 1870s—a few decades before the first international women’s day in 1911.

Lahey said that International Women’s Day creates a focus in the public sphere to help people remember what types of barriers still exist for women.

“It affirms the fact that there’s been a historically long women’s movement, and it provides an opportunity to take another look at what people mean by equality and see how equality is genuinely

achieved,” Lahey said.

Michelle LaMarche, education and communications coordinator of Kingston Interval house, was part of the organizing committee that planned the Picture an End to Violence event.

The Tuesday event was in celebration of International Women’s Day. It featured an exhibition of different portraits of men who are opposed to violence against women. Photos include Liberal MPP John Gerretsen, Kingston City Councilor Ed Smith and Gaels men’s hockey coach Brett Gibson.

The Picture to End Violence event aimed to both raise awareness and get people talking about issues relating to inequality and women, LaMarche said.

“Violence against women isn’t this sexy issue … people need to understand how issues facing women are all connected to inequality,” she said.

“There is a growing recognition that men need to be a part of this work, speak to other men and act as a voice and say ‘this is not okay,” LaMarche said, adding that inequality is the base of any issue that affects women.

“There will continue to be violence against women as long

Photo by Katie Pearce

The Picture to End Violence exhibit held last Tuesday at Zappas featured various portraits of men opposed to violence against women.

as there’s inequality,” she said, adding that patriarchy, politics and globalization are some factors that help perpetrate inequality and the issues facing women.

According to LaMarche, Canada’s current federal government has not done a lot in terms of empowering women.

“The fact that we don’t have universal childcare is appalling and means a woman can’t get out and work,” she said.

“They can’t make it on their own and are economically dependant on a system that doesn’t work.”

International

Queen’s administration travels down under Principal Daniel Woolf looks to create strong international ties with other universities partners,” he said. “I saw a number of experimental classrooms, and meeting with alumni is always a highlight.”

The set-up of many Australian universities can also be considered unconventional.

A trip to Melbourne University revealed experimental classrooms, which contrasted with how Queen’s classrooms are currently set up. According to Woolf, many of Melbourne University classrooms have tables for four or five students, with a space the instructor in the centre of the room rather than the front. In addition, instead of blackboards or whiteboards, many classrooms have brightly coloured Supplied glass boards.

(Left to right) David Skegg (University of Otago), Berndt Engler During the Network’s board (University of Tübinigen), Carol Holt (Dartmouth College), Anders meeting, Woolf was acclaimed as Hallberg (Uppsala University), Chris Higgins (Durham University), Alan chair of the Network.

Robson (University of Western Autralia) and Principal Daniel Woolf.

“For the next year and a half Queen’s alumni.

I’ll be chair,” Woolf said, adding B y J essica F ishbein The MNU is an international that his duties as chair will include Assistant News Editor network of universities that leading and facilitating discussions Principal Daniel Woolf recently focuses on strong links between and Network initiatives.

Queen’s and six other traveled down under to discuss undergraduate teaching and global issues facing universities, research. They aim to engage in universities from around the world, including Queen’s. activities such as enhanced student including Dartmouth College While in Australia, he said he exchange, joint postgraduate and The University of Western tried kangaroo meat for the first programs, social responsibility Australia, founded the Network time and engaged in the Oil Thigh. projects, research collaboration, last year.

The trip took place from Feb. 5 conferences and workshops, “Being a part of this network to 19. Woolf said it was the second visiting fellowships, faculty and allows us to leverage connections annual board meeting of the staff exchange and sharing of with six other like-minded Matariki Network of Universities cultural and sporting activities. institutions. All of them are socially (MNU) that brought him and More was on the agenda than aware and aspire to make the Vice-Provost (International) John just meetings with members of the world a better place,” he said.

Dixon to Australia. The series network, Woolf said.

How universities are funded of meetings began on Feb. 9 “You don’t just fly to Australia was also discussed during the and took place in Perth, where for a two-day meeting … we MNU meetings.

Woolf also met with groups of visited with many other university According to Woolf, both

Canada and Germany have a strong provincial or state involvement in the funding of post-secondary education. The U.S. remains unique in having a private and public, or state system, for post secondary education.

Post secondary institutions in the United Kingdom are moving from government support supplemented by tuition to a system of incomecontingent loans, with tuition capped at $9,000 annually.

Woolf said understanding how university funding in other countries works is important.

“It’s always helpful to know, just as there are different practices in different provinces, what is going on in other jurisdictions, as government occasionally asks for advice and it’s good to be in a position to be able to tell them what happens elsewhere,” Woolf told the Journal via email.

Unlike Australia, Canada receives a lot of funding from private and philanthropic sources, he said.

Woolf said he observed differences in how Australia and Canada approach internationalization.

According to Woolf, there are more international students at nearly every university he visited than there are at Queen’s, more students participating in exchanges and more internationalized curricula.

During the trip a visit to Curtin University demonstrated how internationalized Australian schools are—it has 47,000

students in total, with one third being international students.

Currently, Queen’s has 1,424 international students in degree programs and on exchange, representing 5.2 per cent of undergraduate full-time students, from 69 countries and 17.7 per cent of graduate full-time students, from 73 countries.

Woolf said that the frequency of the Network’s board meetings, which are business oriented, will be decreasing over time.

“They will be on a less than annual basis. The next meeting won’t be for about 16 to 17 months,” he said, adding that the next meeting will be hosted at Dartmouth College.

While there will not be a board meeting in the near future, another workshop is coming up, Woolf said.

The main criteria for a research workshop under the Matariki ‘brand’ are that they be oriented to pressing social problems, be interdisciplinary, draw on strengths at most or a majority of the member universities and generate some concrete outcomes in publications and research applications, Woolf said.

While Queen’s held the first research workshop from Nov. 5-7 2010, the next research workshop will likely be hosted in Tubingen, Germany and will focus on bioethics and policy issues. The workshop will involve undergraduate and graduate students as well as faculty.

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stance on Israeli Apartheid Week.

Day then posted this as a public note on his Facebook page and on the website Rabble.ca.

In his letter, Day said that Ignatieff’s statement demonstrated a lack of intellectual integrity and understanding and he accused Ignatieff of helping mobilize frenzy, stifle debate and insulate Israel by making his public address. Day’s letter also called the situation in Palestine the “biggest human rights tragedy of my generation.’’

“Israeli Apartheid Week seeks to raise awareness about a system of separateness and dominance as well as its policies and violence.

It is a critique of the policies and practices of a state, it is not a critique of Jewish people,” Day wrote. “I was elected to represent the approximately 20,000 students of Queen’s University. If I ever used the influence of my office and the power of my public voice, as you have, to insulate from criticism the perpetrator of mass-slaughter, I would have a very difficult time sleeping at night.”

Day’s letter was written in response to Michael Ignatieff’s statement on March 7 that condemned Israeli Apartheid Week.

In his statement Ignatieff equated the week with anti-Semitism and intolerance and said that the organizers and supporters of Israeli Apartheid Week tarnish freedom of speech. “[It] is an attack on the mutual respect that holds our society together … I urge all Canadians

to join with us in once again a statement.

“I made a public statement based condemning Israeli Apartheid Week here in Canada and around on principles and ideas that I think the world,” Ignatieff said in are extremely important, speaking as myself and not claiming to speak his statement.

Israeli Apartheid Week was for every student. It’s the Principal’s formed seven years ago, beginning right to clarify that the University in Toronto. The event’s official doesn’t share my opinion,” website said that the week’s aim is Day said.

While Day said he regrets to educate people about the nature signing the letter off as ‘Rector,’ he of Israel as an apartheid system.

Conflicts between Israel and said that he doesn’t regret writing Palestine have been ongoing for or sending the letter to Ignatieff.

“I love that letter, I think that it’s centuries and according to the BBC, stem from a claim to land which an extremely important thing to be lies between the eastern shores of said … it’s angered a lot of people the Mediterranean Sea and the and that’s not contestable, but I think that that pales as an issue …

Jordan river.

Principal Daniel Woolf met with in comparison to the necessity to Day yesterday afternoon to express have that public debate … I regret his concerns about the letter. Later that it’s upset a lot of people,” in the afternoon, Woolf released Day said.

Day has been criticized publically a letter online to the Queen’s community to state the University’s in the past for voicing his political views in his position of power at position on the matter.

“The views in the letter are not the University, as had occured after the issue—agree or disagree, he is his Remembrance Day Address in entitled to them—it’s the context the fall term.

“In order to truly honour the in which he communicated his personal opinion,” Woolf said in sacrifices of those who fought his statement. “The University’s for justice, we are now required position is that this was to speak about new forms of inappropriate … Mr. Day’s views injustice,” Day said in his Nov. 11 do not and should not be seen as address. Day was censured by AMS being representative of those of the Assembly following a debate about the appropriateness of his speech.

University or Queen’s students.

Day said that he is proud of “In our conversation, I asked Rector Day to consider the impact delivering that Remembrance of his actions … I am hopeful he Day speech because he felt like he was advocating for something will do so immediately.”

Day said that he was unaware important. When he ran for rector of the content of the Principal’s in January 2010, one of his key letter until presented with it later platform promises was to create in the day, although he was aware meaningful activism on current that the Principal would be issuing issues for students.

The role of rector is to support and mentor student representation,

to voice student concerns and promote educational excellence, according to the rector’s office website. Day said that to him the role means one of student representation and advocacy on the important issues that arise on campus or matter to students and to people within the community.

“It can involve taking action on campus politics and administrative policies and issues, such as the academic plan … it can also just as appropriately involve speaking up on issues on a more general side … it’s a role of advocacy,” Day said, adding that during his time as rector, he has been involved with groups such as the Queen’s Coalition of Racial and Ethnic Diversity (QCRED) and the Ontario Public Interest Research Group (OPIRG).

Day said that speaking out on issues in a public form is important to the advocacy he is involved in.

“I’ve explicitly made reference to making campus more aware of social justice issues. In that sense people’s frustration is understandable when they feel that their views aren’t being represented,” Day said.

Day chose not to attend AMS Assembly last night when the motion was debated and passed.

He sent out an email to Assembly to explain why he wasn’t attending.

“What happened at the Nov. 11 assembly was really unsafe for me,” Day said, adding that he had expected a lot of discussion to come out of his letter but feels that the backlash that has resulted wasn’t what he’d hoped for.

“These ideas that are critical of Israel should be voiced and should

be publically voiced. They should always be welcome in public forums and they should be engaged with on the levels of content and on an ethical level,” Day said.

At the time of print, Day had not made a decision about whether or not he will issue a public apology or take further action.

“I have a need to publically talk about Israeli Apartheid Week. I think that the letter receiving any more attention about what the rector is doing is detracting about what we should be talking about,” Day said.

Because the rector isn’t an AMS officer, the AMS does not currently have a policy on a procedure to impeach him.

Students will vote on March 22 and 23 to decide whether or not to impeach Nick Day as Rector.

Calum Macbeth, commissioner of internal affairs and ArtSci ’11, said at Assembly that for the next 10 days students should take it upon themselves to become educated with the issue.

If the results are in favour of Day’s removal, the AMS will make a recommendation to the University Council that he be removed from his position as rector. The University Council is a body made up of the Board of Trustees, Senators and an equal number of elected graduates.

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was announced at the Board’s meeting last weekend.

In terms of preparing for the position, Harrison said he’s meeting with Queen’s administrators and staff.

“I certainly have already had a lot of conversations with the principal and current acting Provost [Robert] Silverman,” he said, adding that he has also met with Queen’s deans and vice-principals. “Obviously I will be trying to meet as many people as I can in advance of my arrival ... to understand

what’s happening there and what’s going to starting the new position at Queen’s. need my attention when I get there.”

“Naturally I’ve made a lot of friends here Harrison said issues faced at Queen’s are in five years ... I’ll miss the people. That said ones that are across Canada. ... to be the provost at Queen’s is a wonderful “Pretty much every university in Canada opportunity [and] not something that comes is struggling with budget issues ... [there’s] along every day.” always a challenge between ensuring Harrison’s current position in Calgary access and providing funding [to ensure] comes to an end on June 30 so he will the quality of university education students, be moving to Kingston sometime in July. appropriately, demand. There are probably a number of other issues ... but I need time to become acquainted to them in detail.”

Harrison said he’ll miss working at University Calgary but is excited to be

Before working in Calgary, Harrison was provost and vice-president (academic) at Carleton University. He has also worked at McMaster University where he was dean of social sciences and chair of the department of economics. He earned his PhD from the University of Essex in England.

Campus calendar Friday, March 11

Tuesday, March 15

Culture Show 2011 Duncan McArthur Hall 7 p.m.

QUIC International Photo Contest Gala and Exhibition JDUC, QUIC 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Sunday, March 13

Wednesday, March 16

CFRC Kickin’ Grass Grant Hall 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. $7/person

Workshop: Introduction to WebPublish Mackintosh-Corry Hall, room B176 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Free

Monday, March 14 Winter Term Exchange Networking Night JDUC, QUIC 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Thursday, March 17 Spanish Film Night: Habana Blues Kingston Hall, room 201

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Hymowitz also points to “geek,” “emo” and “hipster” personality types as defensive measures adopted by men.

Typeface and cyberspace

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rom a 2007 documentary on Helvetica to a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship for typeface design, fonts and typefaces have recently gained popularity and prestige in the public eye.

A Globe and Mail article published March 5 links this spike in visibility to the advent of technology. Where handwriting was once a vital skill—with students spending hours a day in practice—learning cursive is increasingly marginalized in the classroom, supplanted largely by time allotted to keyboarding.

There are two sides to the debate. One suggests that handwriting is a key element of the expressive process and that computers have a stifling effect on creativity.

However, the Globe article

credits typing—and typefaces—as a handy defence for those who struggle with bad handwriting.

Furthermore, some argue that an increasingly broad range of available fonts allows typists a level of personal expression that one wouldn’t normally associate with typed text.

In an age where most communication occurs electronically, it’s undoubtedly more practical for students to be taught typing at an early age.

Typing is also more efficient than handwriting—it isn’t hard to learn to type faster than one can write.

At the same time, the importance of handwriting for creative endeavours can’t be overstated. Where typing might be fast, handwriting often helps one internalize information on the

fly, instead of simply transcribing mass amounts of information in one sitting. In addition, while handwriting might become less important, neat writing will always be a useful skill. Until assessments are conducted electronically, those with poor penmanship will always run the risk of incomprehensibility.

Regardless of which side of the debate one endorses, practical considerations apply on both sides.

Handwriting and typing are both forms of expression, and the content matters most. Getting this material across is a top priority, but typists need to recognize that the ease and speed of typing also makes it easier to overlook mistakes.

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Emasculated adulthood

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tudents graduating from with mediocrity drives many men high school may be happy to embrace a state of “primal to leave the trappings of masculinity,” where they model adolescence behind.

But themselves after the frat guy they shouldn’t be too quick stereotype, drinking beer, playing to claim to have entered video games and revelling in all that “adulthood”—at least, not is crass and juvenile.

Hymowitz also points to “geek,” according to Manhattan Institute “emo” and “hipster” personality senior fellow Kay Hymowitz.

Hymowitz has published a types as defensive measures new book, entitled “Manning adopted by men to distance Up: How the Rise of Women themselves from women.

There is hope, however far Has Turned Men Into Boys,” in which she outlines a stage of life off, as Hymowitz indicates that most “child-men” will grow out of called “preadulthood.”

Preadulthood lasts through preadulthood in their 30s—or at one’s 20s and 30s, and generally worst, their 40s. describes the period between Hymowitz—or at least, her exiting the education system and interview—advances a staggering of cut-and-dried “settling down.” Hymowitz claims number that this stage is unique, because it’s assumptions. Some are simply a stage where women become the outdated, or at best, mis-applied. “first sex,” out-performing men in Many of her conclusions appear to be based on informal feedback and more areas than ever before.

Men are no longer sure how anecdotal evidence.

Suggesting that many socially to be masculine, undermined by conflicting expectations of how to introverted personality types behave, as women “expect equality are simply disguises for bruised in the workplace but old-fashioned egos is a dismissive assertion, and one that fails to take into chivalry in their romantic lives.”

Hymowitz said that frustration account how many people might

refer to themselves as a “geek” or “hipster”—or both. Hymowitz’s connection of female “dominance” in preadulthood to a devaluation of the father seems a little too simple and direct.

Other suggestions are outright offensive. Hymowitz’s emphasis on the need for new “scripts” for behaviour overlooks the ability of individuals to navigate their lives without resorting to stock gender roles and media tropes.

Her articulation of these “scripts” seems linked to her suggestion that feminism is responsible for the priority men place on fatherhood—a remark that devalues the genuine love and care bestowed by a male parent.

The statement that “Women and men are interdependent and it will always be that way and should be that way” is not only exclusive, but embodies the sort of stereotypes targeted by the feminist movement, especially given her suggestion that without women as helpless objects needing protection and shelter, men essentially lose a sense of purpose.

Jessica Fishbein

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here is so much happening in the world right now, notably the historic revolutions which have been sweeping Northern Africa for months.

But there is one mind-boggling, continually evolving and arguably also historic event that has entirely consumed the attention of the general public.

What is going on in the mind of Charlie Sheen?

Here is a classic example of a celebrity meltdown, and it’s of epic proportions.

I attribute Charlie’s ridiculousness to three possible motives. One: he naturally defies social conventions and graces and is now under some misguided perception that his personality is completely acceptable to share with the world. Two: he willfully seeks worldwide media attention (which has disturbingly yet predictably obliged him) by aiming to defy said social conventions and graces in the most outlandish, bizarre and just nonsensical way possible.

Three: he has a mental illness. If the answer is number three, Charlie’s antics make me wonder if it’s ethical for us to find amusement in what many consider to be clear signs of serious psychiatric issues, instead of encouraging him to seek professional help.

We are all bearing witness to a now-fallen star publicly losing both his sanity and dignity, and all we can do is laugh at his clear descent into madness? I don’t want to discuss my interpretations of Sheen’s bizarre, coded ramblings—I think its safe to say at this point that fire breathing fists, goddesses, tiger blood, winning, etc. are all beyond my and the general public’s comprehension. Yet despite my inability to understand him, I remain intrigued.

He claims it’s not an act. He has somehow managed to (shockingly) pass drug tests. So what provokes these tiger blood musings and goddess-praising rants? I will not worship the fallen or bow down to anyone having a meltdown, and neither should anyone else. However, the media’s incessant coverage and the unquenchable interest of the public have clearly proven that we are both unable and unwilling to look away.

His tirades are endlessly fascinating because they are so mystifying, and as society we collectively struggle in our attempts to decipher the meaning or motivation behind them.

I guess this is all pretty harmless, but it’s important to remember that just because somebody is publicized does not mean they should be idolized—no matter how endlessly fascinating they may be.

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Perspectives from the Queen’s community

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Point-counterpoint

A discussion 0n Israeli Apartheid Week

What are your plans for St. Patrick’s Day?

Cities across the country are marking this week as a time of discussion about the Israel-Palestine dispute. Two students look at the historical situation in the region.

Israeli history Arab Empire. the West Bank. However, Israel’s Egypt refused to integrate government maintains that it won Palestinian refugees, and instead this land in a defensive war, and kept them in camps in Gaza. they serve security purposes.

Jordan did the same thing in the Also, some settlements are West Bank. merely the rebuilding of Jewish The idea was that Israel would neighbourhoods that had existed A lex R otman , A rt S ci ’13 not last long, and these Arabs in the British Mandate but were would return to their homes destroyed or evacuated in the 1948 war. Despite the question In 1947, UN Resolution 181 was in Palestine.

In 1967, another major of legality, the settlements are not adopted, approving partition of the British Mandate into Jewish conflict between Israel and its a barrier to peace as there is no and Arab states. The Jews accepted neighbors occurred. The Soviet reason that a Palestinian state could it; the Arabs of the British Mandate Union provided Syria with not annex these settlements and rejected it; civil war followed. false information about Israel maintain a small Israeli minority.

UN Resolution 446 is often On May 14, 1948, the State mobilizing its troops for an attack. of Israel, in accordance with UN Syria reached out to Egypt cited as a reason why the Resolution 181, was declared. and invoked their defence pact. settlements are illegal, but Israel While Israel rejoiced, its neighbors Israel warned Egyptian President has proven that it will abide by prepared for war. 24 hours after Gamal Abdel Nasser that closing UN Resolution 242—which calls its birth, Israel was fighting for the Straits of Tiran would be an act for the return of disputed land— its existence against seven of its of war. On May 22, Egypt closed dismantle its settlements and give neighbors who wanted to conquer the straits, and on May 30, Egypt back land in exchange for peace.

It did this in Sinai for peace the country and divide up its land. and Jordan signed a defence pact.

To the dismay of Arab leadership, On June 5, Israel attacked with Egypt, yet was met with a they failed. Israel annexed the land Egypt, crippling its air force. In terror state when it withdrew it won in its defence, and Egypt response, Jordan struck at Israel’s from Gaza, and the genocide-bent and Jordan absorbed the land that eastern flank. The result: Israel Hamas regime. was to become another Arab state. gained Gaza and the Sinai from No country with comparable The gravest error made by Egypt, and the West Bank and East troubles has acted with such regard Arab leadership was viewing Israel Jerusalem from Jordan. for human life. Before Operation as a temporary issue that would Israel is criticized for the Cast Lead—the 2008 campaign to crumble under the weight of the settlements being constructed in end Hamas rocket fire into Israel—

Israel made calls, sent emails and dropped pamphlets warning the people of Gaza to get out of harm’s way.

Though not perfect, Israel is always correcting itself, and freedom of speech is respected.

Israel should be celebrated for these accomplishments, not condemned.

With the decline of terrorism, the checkpoints and roadblocks are slowly being removed; and the West Bank is beginning to flourish.

When peace is made, settlements will be dismantled, except a few crucial to security.

This peace won’t arrive until the Palestinian people have one banner, and the civil war between Hamas and Fatah is resolved.

If the Palestinians crave peace like their Israeli neighbours, then I encourage them to join Israel at the table with a unified voice.

You have the power to unshackle your chains and drag yourself out of the hopeless swamps to which your leadership has left you for dead.

“Thankfully, the linguistics game night was rescheduled, so I’m free to go to Tir Na Nog.” Maddie Alexrod, ArtSci ’11

“I need a break from drinking, but I’m going to drink anyway.”

Niv Yahel, ArtSci ’13

Alexander Rotman is a member of Queen’s Israel on Campus (IOC)

“When is St. Patrick’s Day?” Megan Hunse, ArtSci ’11

An Israeli soldier inspects munitions. The Israeli Apartheid Week debate stems largely from Israeli miltary presence and settlement building outside Israel’s 1967 borders.

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Palestinian history and at 63 years now, this is also easily the most protracted refugee situation in modern history.

The United Nations High Council for Refugees makes both of these claims, and these are facts that are not open to interpretation K amal R eilly, A rt S ci ’10 by any party, especially those seeking to legitimize Israeli In 1948, Israel was quite literally ethnic cleansing. Since Dec. 11, created on the ruins of Palestine. 1948, the UN has affirmed the From 1947-1948, militias that right of these refugees to return to would later form the Israeli military their homes, and to compensate destroyed hundreds of Palestinian those who choose not to. villages, and at least 750,000 Up to the present, Israel has Palestinians were expelled. refused to grant this right to even a This ethnic cleansing facilitated single Palestinian refugee, nor has a demographic majority of Jews any compensation been delivered. within Israel’s borders, allowing for The fact that a majority of the creation of a self-proclaimed Palestinians have lived in exile “Jewish State” called Israel. Since since 1948 is absolutely central to then, Israel has expanded the reach any discussion of the legitimacy of of its rule, and the expulsion of Israel as a “Jewish State.”

Palestinians from their homeland A minority of Palestinians has continued without cessation. have remained in their homeland, Palestinians are by far the largest living under Israeli rule. Israel refugee population in the world, took control of the West Bank

and the Gaza Strip in 1967, In addition, a heavily militarized extending Israeli control over all of barrier has been erected by Israel historic Palestine. around the majority of these Israel placed these newly settlements, annexing territory acquired territories under military and carving up the West Bank into rule, and 44 years later, these separate, disconnected entities. territories are still under illegal The International Court of military occupation, as declared Justice has also declared this to by the UN and the international be illegal. community. This represents the Using this as a basis for longest military occupation in discussion, it’s impossible to avoid modern history. the conclusion that Israel violates In the mid-1970s, Israel began both international law and the constructing settlements on these human rights of Palestinians illegally occupied territories, and with impunity.

Palestinian civil society has civilian settlers moved in. To settle civilians in a territory under military called upon the international occupation is illegal, and thus the community to enact a boycott of International Court of Justice, the the State of Israel until this behavior UN, and the vast majority of the ceases, which is an effective, noninternational community have violent way for Canadians to take an ethical stand in solidarity with declared these settlements illegal.

Construction of these the Palestinian people. settlements has accelerated over time, and there are currently over Kamal Reilly is a member of Queen’s half a million settlers illegally living Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR) on occupied Palestinian territory.

“Working for the March Break Camp.”

Rachel Sinclair, ArtSci ’11

“Watching all the drunk people in the JDUC.” Amy Martin, ArtSci ’11

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A breach of trust: Nick Day must resign as rector ‘Nick Day should apologize and resign, or Queen’s students should immediately seek his removal.’

Day is free to present his views Any community features a diversity of opinion. Indeed, such plurality is once he departs his role, speaking essential for a university community. as an independent citizen. However, However, a student representative by signing his letter as rector, Day’s must consult widely and faithfully conduct trespassed the bounds of to best discern the views of her his office.

Moreover, Day attributed or his constituency. Moreover, a G rant B ishop, representative must limit the views these opinions to the students he A rt S ci ’04, ’07 that she or he expresses under the represents. He did so with the mantle of elected office to those knowledge that these views did not reflect any consensus amongst As a former rector of Queen’s within the office’s purview.

In absence of a clear consensus, his constituents.

University, I write to condemn the Being rector imparts the recent conduct of Nick Day. In a representative should lead with his piece, “A response to Michael good judgment, but must do so privilege to speak on students’ Ignatieff on his statement about within the limits of his or her office. behalf. To knowingly misrepresent your constituents’ views is a Israeli Apartheid Week,” published Wednesday on Rabble.ca, Day When elected, betrayal of their trust and a breach expresses his views in his capacity students did not give of a rector’s foremost duty. rectorship is not a soapbox. as rector, the elected representative him a mandate to TheThe role is not to be flaunted to of all Queen’s students. pronounce on Middle grab media attention. Without his Whatever my personal opinion Eastern politics. title, Day’s remarks would have on his subject, Day misused his been largely ignored. By signing title and attributed his personal For instance, when voting on as Rector, Day got noticed. But beliefs to the student body. These are grave abuses of the office tuition increases, the rector seeks to with that signature comes the best reflect the interests of Queen’s responsibility to speak faithfully on of rector.

As the third officer of Queen’s students. Not every student will behalf of Queen’s students.

Instead, Day deliberately University, the rector is to serve agree with a rector’s position. Yet, as the students’ voice within to vote on this matter is an explicit exploited his title to publicize his personal political opinions. the university administration. function of the office.

Of course, the Palestinian-Israeli Day’s recent pronouncements The rector’s primary duty is to accurately communicate students’ not only exceed any assigned duty conflict is a legitimate subject perspectives and interests to of the rector, but also misrepresent for debate within the academy. university administrators and his own views as those of A university must afford wide freedom to vigorously discuss governance bodies. As do all his constituency.

The rector’s role is about the such issues. However, serving as a student representatives, a rector inherits Queen’s students’ trust that governance of Queen’s University. student representative constrains an they will express their constituents’ No aspect of his rectorship individual’s latitude to pronounce requires writing missives to federal on such matters. consensus on a given issue.

Statements from the pulpit of Admittedly, one cannot always politicians, pronouncing on an elected office convey the heft identify a clear student consensus. foreign affairs.

of your constituency, particularly should be deliberated in classrooms when your title is explicitly and campus cafés with the mutual attached. Indeed, Day specifically respect that is the hallmark of invoked his constituency in his academic inquiry. letter, claiming “to represent the Yet, when an issue is clearly approximately 20,000 students of controversial and far outside Queen’s University.” any function for which the When you speak as rector, you representative was elected, it is must speak with fidelity to the unacceptable for a representative community you serve, believing to announce her or his view as that that your statements truly reflect of the community. the community’s views and Day’s conduct is unworthy of interests. If Day honestly believed the office of rector. In place of his statements reflected a consensus his duties, he acted self-servingly. amongst Queen’s students, his Similarly, he and others may judgment is dangerously unsound. attempt to appropriate future If Day knowingly misrepresented proceedings, claiming Day to be his views as those of his constituents, persecuted for his beliefs. he abused his office.

However, this is simply While this indictment of Day’s distracting and self-aggrandizing. conduct is indirectly triggered When elected, students did not give by the subject of his letter, my him a mandate to pronounce on personal opinion on the topic is Middle Eastern politics. He forfeits irrelevant. What matters is that the his office not because of his beliefs Israeli-Palestinian conflict is deeply but because he misused his position. divisive for the Queen’s community.

We elect the rector to On this subject, there is represent Queen’s students no consensus view. Day’s on matters relating to the pronouncements are not abusive governance and administration of because of their subject. Rather, Queen’s University. he pretended to speak for his By abusing his title, he betrayed constituents under the mantle this trust. Nick Day should of Rector, and instead, advanced apologize and resign, or Queen’s his personal views on a highly students should immediately seek contentious subject, unrelated to his removal. his office. That is an abuse.

It would be similarly egregious Grant Bishop was Rector of Queen’s if a rector had advocated, as rector, University from 2004 until 2006. for the invasion of Iraq in 2003 or taken a side in the recent Sri Lankan conflict. These issues

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LeTTeRS TO THe eDITORS Rector responses Dear editors, some people just don’t learn a lesson. Nick Day is one of them. as if his rememberance Day rant didn’t do enough to call into question his impartiality in serving the institution and students of Queen’s, Day has decided on a round two, this time attacking the ‘genocidal’ state of israel in a letter to Michael ignatieff.

Day’s use of his title as Queen’s rector in such an emotionally charged and slanted opinion piece is absolutely despicable. rarely does anybody representing diverse interests and cultures, like those found in a university, take such a pointed stand on such a controversial issue; in this instance, it was undoubtedly erroneous to do so. Day should be harshly reprimanded for his abuse of title. to respond to some of Day’s message: just because an israeli apartheid march doesn’t contain any outwardly anti-Jewish remarks, it does not mean it isn’t anti-semitic.

People who focus a disproportionate amount of attention on the faults of the Jewish state (many as there may be) are anti-semitic if they simultaneously fail to devote any of their rhetoric and/or action to oppressive regimes where dissent or difference are met with force, and often murder, as they are in Libya, rwanda and iran. and a United Nations body in which iran is granted a seat at the table of the Commission on the status of Women (56th session) is not a body

that can make an objective, honest accusation of crime against israel. someone, please get Nick Day out of there already!

Dan Braverman, artsci ’08 Dear editors, My son, a Queen’s student, sent me a copy of a letter that rector Nick Day sent to the honorouble Michael ignatieff, leader of the opposition Liberal Party. as a Queen’s parent, i feel i must comment on rector Day. i’m not condemning him for his opinions, since everyone is entitled to his own. i’m not even condemning him for publicizing these opinions. this is a free and democratic society and a university is supposed to be a bastion of free thought and opinion. there would be no sense in debating Mr. Day regarding his opinions—it would be a waste of breath, both his and mine, since we would never agree, in spite of the facts. if Mr. Day were writing this letter as head of israeli apartheid Week, the student Muslim association or Queers against israeli apartheid, i would understand. he did not, though. he wrote his letter as rector of Queen’s University. this gives his opinions tacit approval by the University and i find this abhorrent. this is not the first time Mr. Day has made rants as rector. i recall a similar vitriol during his remembrance Day address. he crosses the line when he uses

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probably don’t care, because it does other student at this school who not conform to their preconceived disagrees with you. i ask you to do the responsible notions of the Middle east.

My mentor richard goldstone, thing now and resign from your his official title to spew his the former chief prosecutor for position. you have betrayed the personal opinions. i would call upon the student war crimes in yugoslavia, rwanda trust of Queen’s students by body and the aMs to demand and gaza, has explicitly stated pursuing a path of self-glorification Mr. Day’s resignation so that his that israel is not an apartheid state over honest representation. opinions can be voiced as a private and that boycotting, sanctioning omer aziz, artsci ’12 student and not as a representative and divesting from israel would for the student body of your have little if any impact. But those behind iaW probably don’t care fine institution.

Dear editors, about Mr. goldstone’s opinion Dr. Bruce rubin, unless it echoes what they already as a Queen’s alumnus and Queen’s Parent believe in. of Queen’s With that said, as former israeli past-President Prime Ministers ehud Barak and hillel—the Jewish students ehud olmert have argued, the association—i’m deeply displeased Dear editors, status-quo within the occupied that Nick Day has chosen to abuse i was appalled at the rector’s letter territories is not tenable. i would his position as rector to make condemning Michael ignatieff’s go further and call it a human unfounded, libellous claims against statement on israeli apartheid tragedy, which should top the list the state of israel. in doing so, Week, particularly the conclusion, of every statesman’s foreign policy. he has put his personal politics however, something like israeli above representing the students of with his official position as rector apartheid Week is not conducive to Queen’s University. explicitly signed. the middle-east conflict is a israeli apartheid Week is a a peaceful settlement and actually demonstration that equates the silences discussion. it’s a roadblock topic with plenty of room for south african regime—up until to progress and destructive to frank, debate. however, iaW does not 1993—with the israeli regime intelligent discussion on one of the concern itself with debate, dialogue today. Within the pre-1967 borders, most important political situations or discussion. it’s a toxic, vitriolic, one-sided affair whose only israel proper is a democratic state of our age.

Moreover, it’s not Mr. Day’s outcome is to make Jewish and in which arabs vote and serve in the Knesset, use their freedom of opinions on Palestine which non-Jewish students who support speech to criticize the country’s trouble me but his constant use israel feel unwelcome on their policies, and have military of his office as a megaphone to air campus. Day’s sentiments have only exasperated this feeling. protection during their worship at those opinions. the role of the rector, as i how many more times will Mr. the haram al-sharif. israel allows vitriolic criticism Day use the power vested in him understand it, is to be a unifying of its own policies by human rights by Queen’s students to overstep figure who speaks for the interests organizations like B’tselem and his mandate and bring negative of Queen’s students. Day was not elected on a platform of Middlenewspapers like haaretz which are attention to our school?

Mr. Day, you and i can have a east issues, and it’s entirely much more critical than North american rights organizations discussion on Palestine or Kurdistan inappropriate for him to abuse his or rwanda or sudan or Bosnia or position in such a manner. and newspapers. the existence of critical Chechnya or Kashmir. however, Daniel stober, independent bodies within israel for you to post your political views artsci ’08, Mir ’09 has been praised even by the likes and then sign your letter as the of Norman Finkelstein, but those representative of Queen’s students behind israeli apartheid Week is a personal insult to me and every

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Photos by Jess lancaster

Wild textures, materials and vivid colours are staples in many ravers’ wardrobes, students say.

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Rave culture and style

The Journal profiles the fashion sense of seven Kingston rave scene regulars

B y S ara m elVin Staff Writer Justafewshortyearsago,theconcept of an international headlining DJ passing through Kingston on tour was unheard of. Intense dancing to dubstep or drum&base would have been regarded as alternative chaos. Thankfully, Kingston’s electro-party-raving scene has expanded well beyond Steve Aoki’s overplayed annual show. European

DJs like Avicii and Skrillex, Canadian DJs like Designer Drugs and Zed’s Dead, and an explosion of student DJs such as Alfie’s Wednesday’s iKilledKenny have dominated the party scene this year. Too bad their set doesn’t extend into the fateful hours of the after party.

With thousands of students attending rave-based shows where water is the new vodka-cran, there’s a noticeable and dynamic shift in

in & out 2011 fashion trends have moved from abstract and messy to natural and clean. Spring trends are easy and classy, a touch more feminine and vintage than 2010 looks. If you can’t afford Urban Outfitters, just take a look through grandma’s attic; 2011 fashion borrows from the ’50s and ’60s!

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Aviators

Nerd glasses

Nude Lipstick

Red Lipstick

Baggy Knit Hats

High Top Shorts

Plaid Tops

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violence, free love and music.

Wearing clothing that you can’t dress in at work or in a lecture can be a liberating experience, just like losing your mind and body in the throngs of pulsing and blasting beatz. Is rave style anti-‘the man?’

Or is it just a fun way to express your personal look? Below are profiles of a few Queen’s student rave-goers, so see for yourself!

Greg Hovanessian, ArtSci ’12 and Kalina Sutaroski, ArtSci ’12 are a ‘dance-till-your-dead’ power couple that have hit up almost every show this year, and start a dance circle wherever they go.

Although both Havanessian and Sutaroski practice a wide variety of dances, such as hip hop and break dancing, they contend that raving has its own genre of dance and style of expression.

Hovanessian describes his look as grimy and raw, and likes to make a statement.

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The hottest trends for spring/summer and where you can find them.

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Fedora (or Trilby) Hat

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the fashion style of partygoers.

Nowhere in site are preppy girls in low-rise jeans sipping beer from red plastic cups and bopping around to Journey. Club cultures are transient, ‘ad hoc’ communities that define themselves through shared tastes in music. Raver’s sport lively and unique outfits that parallel the symbolic and embodied experience of the electronic music they love. Vibrant neon colours, vintage sunglasses, costume apparel, accessories like pacifiers or slinky’s, and edgy textures like mesh, sequins, ripped denim and lace-up boots are ever-present.

Although rave culture has significantly transformed since it’s underground emergence in abandoned British warehouses, the style still carries a similar message of youth-subculture resistance.

North American ravers have been compared to the hippies of the 1960s and the new-waves of the 80s due to their interest in non-

Students and fashion experts discuss the influence trends have on students’ style.

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Kalina Sutaroski and Greg Hovanessian, both ArtSci ’12, are among the many students developing rave culture in Kingston.

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Arts and Crafts

Style yourself with DIY projects Journal staff writer Jessica Munshaw outlines the steps for three simple and stylish do-it-yourself pieces With two months left of school, many of us are feeling the pressure of an endless pile of assignments, midterms and exams coming up. While some people resort to unhealthy lifestyles like foregoing meals and basic hygiene, I suggest another option: taking the occasional break from the monotonous pile of work to relax your mind and do something you enjoy. Maybe it’s tossing the football, maybe it’s reading or maybe you want to really get your creative juices flowing and just make something. If do-it-yourself sounds like your kind of thing, then go ahead and give some of these fun, cute and easy to make projects a go.

Magazine Paper Beads These beads are artsy, simple, take about 5 minutes to make and look great.

Materials you will need:

• colourful pages from magazines • scissors • various beads of choice • some sort of string (fishing line, hemp etc …)

• glue • clear nail polish (optional) • toothpicks

How to make them:

Step 1: Cut strips (approx. 1 inch by 8 inches long) from a colourful page in the magazine. I found that four strips make enough beads for a bracelet. Then cut the strips diagonally, so you have eight diagonal strips total.

Step 2: Place the large end of one of the strips against a toothpick and roll it around once, glue the rolled paper and continue to roll the rest of the strip around the toothpick, gluing as necessary.

Step 3: Slide the bead off the toothpick once completed and let the glue dry for a bit. This next step is optional, but is important if you want your beads to be relatively water-proof: paint the beads with some clear nail polish to make a seal.

Repeat steps 2 and 3 for the rest of the magazine strips.

Step 4: Arrange your magazine beads and any other beads you’ve assembled onto the string to make a bracelet, necklace, anklet or whatever else you fancy. Voila, you’re done!

Duct Tape Wallet Yes, these were all the rage in grade 8, but lately I’ve been noticing more and more people whipping these duct tape wonders out of their back pockets. Why not? They’re cheap, durable and easy to customize.

Materials you will need:

• duct tape • scissors or an Exactoknife (although scissors worked just fine for me) • optional: decorations (buttons, patches, or pictures, oh my!)

How to make it:

Step 1: Cut three 10 inch (you can just eyeball it) strips of duct tape and lay them down side by side horizontally (sticky side up), overlapping them about 1 cm over each other.

Step 2: Cover them with 3 more strips of tape, face down so you have a solid rectangle. Trim any remaining sticky edges.

Step 3: Fold the rectangle in half horizontally and then fold the new thinner rectangle in half vertically (basically forming a small wallet-sized square). Tape the two side edges, so any money you put in doesn’t fall out. You should now have something that looks like a pocket-less wallet.

Step 4: To make the pockets, cut two strips of duct tape just longer than a student card and place one face down on the other. Then tape the sides and bottom of the small square onto the wallet.

Repeat step 4 for as many pockets as you would like, piling them on top of each other leaving a small gap between the top of one pocket and the pocket on top of it.

Step 5: Now that you’ve made a basic wallet, you can decorate it as you please. I decided to make a Queen’s themed wallet because really, who doesn’t need more Queen’s gear?

Cut-out Shirt You can wear this top to class (depending on where you made the cut-outs or how scandalous you are feeling that day), Stages and maybe to go an exam if you want a little extra confidence.

Materials you will need

• a shirt (I used a tank top, but you can use a t-shirt or even a sweater) • scissors • sheer material (I used a sheer scarf, but you can use any semi-transparent material you can get your hands on) • needle and thread (in the same colour as your shirt) • safety pins

How to make it

Step 1: Turn your shirt inside out, draw out the shapes you want the sheer material to appear through and cut them out.

Step 2: Cut out sections of the sheer material big enough to fit over the shapes and pin them over the holes.

Step 3: Sew (or suck up to someone who can sew) the material onto the shirt, sewing along the edges of the shapes.

Step 4: Trim away the excess sheer material about 1/2 cm from where it was sewn, turn the shirt right side out, and admire your completed cut out shirt!

Photos by Jerome James

Source: theseams.blogspot.com/2009/01/diy-tutorial-wang-spring-09.html

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Spring and summer style watch Colour

This season is big, bold and all over the map when it comes to colour. Designers and fashionistas alike are forecasting bright fluorescent colours. Think hot pink, lemon yellow, fierce fuchsia and bold blues. For the less adventurous, romantic inspired dressing brings peach tones into the mix, and always a classic, crisp white makes a return as a popular choice this summer.

Where to find it: American Apparel Unisex Highlighter Thermal Long Sleeve; $16.00

Graeme Melcher, ArtSci ’12, said he doesn’t look to trends to influence his personal style.

Photo by Mike Kravchyna

Style

Trending topics

Students and fashion experts look at the influence runway trends have on our everyday fashion choices.

B y C aroline G arrod Staff Writer Trends, from the ubiquitous (skinny jeans, big scarves, knock-off Ray-Ban sunglasses, plaid shirts) to the more ‘unique’ (harem pants, crocheted headbands, Breton-striped shirts), they’re inescapable. Student style is dominated by concerns over cost, comfort and weather, but trends are a huge influence over what’s available in stores, and what students see their peers wearing.

According to Fallon Collett, ArtSci ’13, the Creative Director of Muse Magazine, most fashion trends originate in haute couture, and then trickle down through ready-to-wear designer lines and eventually end up in mass clothing retailers.

“It takes a while for people to adopt trends,” she said. “People like to see their peers wearing something before they’ll start wearing it.”

Collett is skeptical about the average student’s ability to avoid trends.

“People aren’t necessarily choosing what they’re wearing,” she said. “It’s what’s there, and what’s available to you – what you see your peers wearing instantly becomes more appealing to you.”

Collet said the Queen’s community has an interesting fashion sense because a lot of what students wear are “big city trends that are a few months old.”

“People go home and pick them up and bring them back here,” she said, adding that while the typical Queen’s girl uniform— Uggs, flannel shirt, leggings, Canada Goose jacket, Longchamp bag—will probably exist in some incarnation, what other people wear will change in ways they won’t expect because of the influence of trends.

Fashion houses subscribe to

trend forecasting companies, who help them determine upcoming trends. Gail McInnis, a Toronto-based fashion marketer said the forecasters look to street fashion to make their predictions. “[Trend forecasters] scout the streets of the major cities around the world, sourcing innovative ideas, which range not just from fashion, but also other design areas, including architecture, interior and packaging design as well as trends in economics, politics and the environment,” she said.

When asked if she consciously follows trends, Jayne Wang, ArtSci

of what you “seeSoinmuch haute couture is impossible to wear in everyday life

”

— Rebecca Schidlowsky, Ezia Couture CEO

’12, shrugged and said that she does and she doesn’t.

“I guess you could call me a hipster,” she said with a laugh.

Wang said there are definitely trends she likes and follows, but she doesn’t do so religiously.

She said she usually finds most of her style inspiration in blogs and music. She said she particularly likes the style of singers Jenny Lewis and Zooey Deschanel, adding that their girly, vintage-inspired aesthetic is the one that she usually tries to evoke. She also reads blogs such as A Dress A Day, which she said she finds more inspirational than fashion magazines, because she can see how people actually wear their clothes in everyday life.

Graeme Melcher, ArtSci ’12, is more hesitant.

“If I found a trend I liked, sure, I would follow it—I just haven’t found one yet.”

He said he doesn’t like current

fashion trends, remarking that he looks ridiculous in skinny jeans.

“I never really saw the point in having to sell [my] entire wardrobe every two years and buy new clothing,” he said.

In his two and a half years at Queen’s, Melcher said he has been mistaken for a biker, a convict and a homeless man. He attributes this to his multiple tattoos and ear piercings, as well as the fact that he doesn’t dress like the average Queen’s student. Melcher said punk bands are the dominant influence on his personal style.

“Everyone wants to look as much like their influences as they can,” he said.

For Melcher, this has meant maintaining a Mohawk of varying colours, wearing a patched denim vest and having leopard print hair.

Rebecca Schidlowsky, CEO & Co-Founder of Ezia Couture, said runway trends are more about fashion as performance.

“So much of what you see in haute couture is impossible to wear in everyday life,” she said. “Instead, it’s about taking inspiration and translating it into what you wear every day.”

When designing, Schidlowsky said she looks to both magazines and popular retailers. “I’m very influenced by BCBG, Juicy Couture and Betsey Johnson,” she said. “I like to look at my favourite designers and if I like what they’re doing, I incorporate it in my designs.”

She said she also takes note of what her peers are wearing, and that if she sees that a material or colour is really popular, she tries to design headbands that complement that trend.

“For instance, I’ve noticed a real surge in crocheted headbands, so Ezia is looking to expand into that, and we wouldn’t be doing that if it wasn’t for what my peers are wearing.”

Boho/’70s

Abba haters beware: this season is a flashback to the 1970s.

Spring/Summer 2011 will bring those ponchos out of the closet.

Patchwork, crochet and fringe are all expected to make a return. Even flares and long maxi dresses are forecasted to grace the summer streets yet again.

Where to find it: The Gap Printed Maxi Dress; $59.00

Romance

The romantics out there and those who feel like the Victorian era was more their century should rejoice, because romantic-inspired clothing is all the rage this season. Girly laces, floral prints, pastels and silks are appearing as well as bustiers and other bedroom inspired attire.

Where to find it: Old Navy Women’s Floral-Print Chiffon Top; $24.50

Urban Safari

Whether you’re wrangling your way through a Brazilian rainforest or just exploring the ins and outs of that new summer job, you better look the part. Think utilitarian bags, loud Amazon prints, flat sandals, gold and wooden jewellery, leathers, tans and camels.

Where to find it: Urban Outfitters Urban Renewal Soft Shoulder Gauze Dress; $59.00 — Samantha Sexton

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Homemade beauty remedies

Photos by Asad ChisHti

Natural remedies like olive oil, oatmeal and eggs can do wonders for dry skin and dull hair.

Let’s face it: by now, winter is beginning to really take its toll on the majority of us. The lack of sun, bitter cold and dry, dry air is not only taxing on our minds, but also our bodies. Dry skin, lacklustre complexions, chapped lips and dull hair getting you down? Here are some homemade remedies to get your bodies in prime shape come spring.

Problem areas

The remedy

Directions

Mix half the juice of one orange in a bowl alongside ¼ cup granulated sugar and ¼ cup olive oil. Rub the exposed half of the orange over dry heels, knees and elbows. Next, rub in the sugar mixture. Rinse with warm water and pat to dry. The fruit acid will remove dead skin cells and the olive oil will moisturize leaving those winter rough spots soft and supple.

Dry Heels, Knees and Elbows

Oranges

Dry, Irritated Complexion

Oatmeal

Flat, Dull Hair

Beer

Damaged, Weak Hair

Eggs

Pimples

Aspirin

Crush two aspirins in a small bowl with a little water to make a paste. Spread the paste on the pimple. The salicylic acid in the Aspirin will dry out the pore and kill the bacteria, minimizing those unwanted zits.

Dull Nails

Lemon Juice

Soak your finger or toenails in a bowl of lemon juice to whiten those tips instantly. No need for a French manicure when your nails are looking this white!

Dry Hands

Olive Oil

Tired, Puffy Eyes

Cucumbers

Chapped Lips

Honey and Vaseline

Place a handful of oats in a clean face cloth and secure it with a rubber band. Immerse it in a sink of warm water and squeeze it four or five times until the sink is cloudy. Splash some of the oatmeal water on your face and air dry. The oatmeal is a soothing anti-inflammatory that contains beta glucan, which will create a thin moisture retaining film on the surface of the skin. This will quench your dry, weathered face leaving you with soft, youthful cheeks for the sun to kiss when it finally arrives.

After shampooing your hair, pour a bottle of beer over your head while in the shower. Rinse briefly with water to ensure you get the benefits of the ale without smelling like you just stumbled out of the bar. The yeast in the beer will help to swell the hair shaft and plump the cuticle, adding volume while the acidity of the beer will remove residue, leaving hair shiny.

Whisk together one egg with two tablespoons of coconut oil and two tablespoons sesame oil. Apply the mixture to dry hair and wrap with a warm, moist towel. Leave for five to 10 minutes and then massage in a handful of shampoo without wetting the hair. Rinse and condition. Rubbing raw eggs in your hair may seem a little unusual, but the high protein content will restore resilience and shine to tired, wintry locks and the oils will add even more moisture.

Fill a bowl with lukewarm water and add four tablespoons of olive oil. Soak your hands in the bowl for ten to fifteen minutes and rinse with tepid water. Let your hands dry and apply your regular hand lotion for added moisture.

Simply place thinly sliced cucumbers over your eyes or even cheeks. Cucumbers contain a mild astringent, which can help refresh those sleep-deprived eyes. They’re also an anti-inflammatory so they keep the puffiness down. Regular treatments will keep you looking refreshed from now until spring.

Apply a bit of honey to the lips and let dry, then apply a thin layer of Vaseline on top of it and let dry for fifteen minutes. Remove the coating using a cotton swab soaked in hot water. Honey is one of nature’s best moisturizers. That’s why it’s no surprise it’s used in many of today’s most popular lip balms. Repeat this treatment for four to five days to see your lips transform from dry to divine. Always ensure you coat your lips with your favourite balm before going outside to protect your kissers from the cold.

— Samantha Sexton

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Vogue brings in speaker to discuss body image Ben Barry, Founder and CEO of Ben Barry Agency, spoke to a crowd in Goodes Hall on Thurs. night about changing beauty standards in the fashion industry B y H olly Tousignant Supplements Editor With Vogue Charity Fashion Show just weeks away, organizers took the opportunity this past week to create some buzz for the show and raise dialogue about body image.

I AM VOGUE WEEK was the second of such weeks this school year, with the previous one held in the fall.

The week’s events included a bake sale and flash mob, culminating with a talk by guest speaker Ben Barry on Thursday. Barry is the CEO of the Ben Barry Agency, a modeling agency that is known for its use of models of diverse body types, skin colour and age.

“We represent models of all ages, sizes, background and ability for fashion and beauty brands. We are the first model agency in the world to represent such a diverse cross section of models,” Barry told the Journal. “We have over 100 models that we represent. They work for brands including the Bay, Dove, L’Oreal.”

According to the Agency’s website, its dedication to diverse representation is a reaction to the staid ideas of beauty portrayed in the media.

“Models reflect a singular ideal of beauty—thin, tall and young—dramatically different from the average female consumer,” the website reads. “Studies have provided mounting evidence of the negative influence on the self-image of millions of women.

Fueled by such harmful impact, governments, advocacy groups and women themselves are calling on the advertising industry to diversify the models that wallpaper the world.”

Barry said he thinks advertisers are missing an economic opportunity by not File Photos using models that reflect the appearance I AM VOGUE WEEK was created to foster discussion on body image. of consumers. He also hopes to inform people that it is not just those within the speak who is living proof that it can be up. And about a third of our models were fashion industry that have the power to successful and it is a positive change, that it is hired who didn’t end up wearing a bathing change beauty standards, pointing to social a reality that we can actually achieve within suit to their audition,” she said, adding that they’ve also opened up one dance scene and media and street fashion blogs as examples our society.”

Emmet said she is personally invested in one model scene to the entire cast. “We have where average people can engage and see the quest to improve dialogue on body image people from exec members, interns, creative themselves reflected respectively. designers, dancers and models doing each “You see the role of social networking. in fashion.

“We’re doing what we’re doing this of them. So it’s going to be an all-cast dance Now consumers can lend their voice to critique ads or compliment them,” he said. year for many different reasons,” she said, scene, which will be disco. And then we have “The consumer is very empowered today. adding that many people close to her have the all cast lingerie. And there’s 43 people in the lingerie.”

They don’t just have to absorb these experienced negative body image issues.

Emmet said response to the week’s events “It’s hard to say that someone’s never images they see. They can have an been through any sort of body image issue. have been mixed. active role in engaging these brands.”

“You’re never going to please everyone,” They can see that the fashion industry is Whether it’s been taken to an extreme or not she said. “There are people that just still not just made up of tall, thin, able-bodied is where everyone differs.”

The positive body image encouraged by don’t believe that we have good intentions. white women, that there is a really strong movement to include a variety of women I AM VOGUE WEEK is echoed by changes People that will still come out and say that made to the fashion show itself, Emmet said. we’re not actually being true with what and men.”

Vogue co-president Nicole Emmet, ArtSci She cited the requirement in past years for all we’re doing. But there are people that are ’11 said the week was created around Barry’s models to don a bathing suit for auditions, coming out and they’re saying that this is inspiring them.” talk, with a goal of creating positive dialogue which was done away with this year.

“As a result, our audition numbers went on campus.

“People don’t talk about changing the fashion industry for positive body image, they don’t talk about the idea of older, Student Life plus size models on the runway,” she said.

“Having someone like Ben Berry come to

From classroom to boardroom

In the workforce, first impressions can be everything. Learn how to transition your wardrobe from school to work to leave a positive impression that lasts L abiba H aque Assistant News Editor First impressions are important, especially in the workplace.

Studies show that it takes 10 or 11 additional meetings to change someone’s mind about a first impression. That means making that first impression on a future boss is more important than you think.

Justin Lum, ArtSci ’10, said that after graduating from Queen’s last year, he began looking for jobs in the marketing field.

“I don’t think it was necessarily that difficult to transition into work attire, but it was definitely an adjustment,” he said, adding that before entering the workforce he used to dress casually in sweatpants and t-shirts. When he started to look for a job, he began to put in more effort.

Lum said taking a different approach to dressing doesn’t necessarily have to mean a substantial change, but rather taking the effort to care about the little details such as ironing your pants or polishing your shoes.

“Dressing appropriately shows that you care and it gives you a cleaner look overall,” he said.

Such attire can unfortunately take a hit on the wallet, which is why he suggests students try to find pieces with multiple uses.

“Nowadays I don’t buy anything if I can’t use it in more than one context. I try to buy versatile pieces,” he said.

For example, a dress shirt can be dressed

up at work and dressed down when going out with friends, making buying clothes more of an investment than a purchase.

Paul Bowman, manager of Career Education and Counseling at Queen’s Career Services, echoed the idea that first impressions are most important when applying for a job, adding that different workplaces might be looking for different things.

“It always depends on the nature of the job or the employer,” he said.

Bowman said even today, Canada is quite a conservative place when it comes to business attire. Therefore, your best bet is to wear business attire if your workplace is a permanent and professional place of work.

Bowman advizes women to dress in skirts, blouses, dress pants and blazers; for men, collared shirts, dress pants, ties and suit jackets are always a good idea.

“Regardless of what you are wearing, either business or casual wear, what’s really important is grooming,” he said.

Bowman added that one of the biggest mistakes interviewees make is having on excessive amounts of perfume or cologne.

Another common mistake made by students is wearing white socks with dark pants.

Bowman suggests incorporating basic pieces such as a blouse with a casual blazer and personalizing the outfit by wearing a unique belt. He said every student should already have pieces such as a basic black pant, a blazer and a dress shirt.

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Style

Fashion-forward outfits for under $35

Who says you can’t find fierce fashion on a budget? Second-hand shops like Value Village or Phase Two are a great place to find big fashion for small prices. Here are a few pieces we picked up at Value Village On Daniel: Sweater: $7.99 Button up shirt: $9.99 Jeans: $7.99 Outfit total: $25.97

On Mikaila: Dress: $12.99 Denim Jacket: $12.99 Tights: $3.99 Bracelet: $2.99 Earrings: $1.99 Outfit total: $34.99

On Daniel: Cardigan: $9.99 T-shirt: $5.99 Khakis: $9.99 Outfit total: $25.97

On Mikaila: Dress: $12.99 Tights: $3.99 Bracelets: $3.99 Earrings: $1.99 Outfit total: $22.96

Photos by Justin Tang

For those without these basic Continued from the previous page

staples, Bowman suggests shopping in second hand stores such as Phase Two or looking through the clearance section of formal wear stores. A handy tip to ensure you’re dressing in accordance to the company’s work attire is to check their website to see how the employees in the pictures dress.

Image consultant Catherine Bell runs the consulting company Prime Impressions. For a professional office work setting such as a law office or a bank, Bell suggests getting tailored clothing that doesn’t hang too tightly to the body.

“Having a good blazer is important as it could coordinate a lot with many of the pieces you own in your own wardrobe,” she said.

Bell said depending on the type of work, it’s important to recognize whether the company you work with maintains a professional business attire policy or business casual.

Distinguishing the two is important. Business attire always requires being in full professional attire, with men in suits and tailored pants and women in pants and tailored jackets. When the work environment is more casual, you can take the formality of the outfit down a notch by switching up one

piece of formal clothing with a work appropriate piece from your everyday wardrobe.

“A top that is quite tight to the body or is knitted would have to be coupled with something else.

Pair with another jacket, or get a camisole,” she said, adding that males can choose to leave out one formal piece of attire, like a tie, for a more casual look.

For jobs like daycare work, Bell emphasized the importance of comfort and functionality.

“Make sure that [you] are fully covered, because people will be bending over,” she said. “Sometimes what happens is that pants tend to be low-rise so they tend to show tattoos or underwear.”

Bell said creative workplaces, like ad agencies, tend to allow more flexibility when it comes to wardrobe choices.

Comfort is ultimately everything, Bell said, so whether it comes to matching your lightweight t-shirt with a blazer for work or donning a full business suit, you want to make sure that you are relaxed and able to work long hours in it.

“You want to make sure garments aren’t too tight and that you are able to [work] with ease.

Choices in clothing always will affect the person’s personal brand.”

Photo by Justin Tang

Having a nice blazer is a good place to start when building your work wardrobe, image consultant Catherine Bell says.

‘You gotta wear something steazy, you know?’

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“You almost want to come off kind of intimidating, but intriguing and the right amount of approachable.”

He also said being colourful is essential, but to the point where it’s not overdone.

“My favourite show was LA Riots at Joy in second year. I wore black skinny jeans with these high tops, a long chain necklace, my Raybans, and I had finger cutoff leather gloves,” he said. “The energy in the club just says it all really.”

Sutaroski likes wearing anything that gets a reaction out of people.

If someone asks, “why are you wearing that?” she said she knows it’s a good outfit.

“Every time I get dressed, I don’t ask for my housemates advice,” she said. “They normally give me weird looks.”

She describes her style as dirty royalty.

“You gotta wear something steazy, you know? I like bringing my style of dance to raves. And I like to bring more of the classy aspects to rave, like sassiness,” she said.

And the badass hair that turns heads everywhere she goes?

“I feel like my hair emulates the whole rave look in itself. It brings back the whole punk look from the 80s. I love my Mohawk.” Sutaroski said.

Moving over to the more playful, hippie ravegirl look, I met Hadley Taylor, ArtSci ’11 and Julia Jones, ArtSci ’12 at the Zed’s Dead show during Frost Week.

Toronto’s dubstep-based DJs set up their show in a church just north of Princess. Hadley wore black high waisted pants, a crop top and one feather earring. It was an intimate and unique venue. Raving in between pews and with Jesus

hovering over the mosh of dancers was a paradox in itself!

Taylor says she always tries to look a bit silly because raves are not a place to take yourself seriously at.

“I’m always wearing fun textures, like fur, sequins, silk, lace, velvet, and shoes to be able to rock out in. Heels do not belong at raves.

Lipstick always. And really bright nail polish. At least one thing that glows in the dark, should there be a black light. You need something noticeable so your friends can find you in the dark!”

Cynthia Oh, ArtSci ’12 and the wesavetherave.com photographer said there are no words to describe her style. She said she gets looks

Style is definitely “more about

individuality and how I’m feeling so when I dress for a show, my outfit is based on my mood that day and the songs I’ve listened to while dressing.

”

— Keith Niine, Student and raver

from electro music blogs, and is inspired by designers like Vivienne Westwood, Jeremy Scott and Korean designers like Kuho.

“I just mix everything.

Sometimes I try to be edgy and sometimes I try to be retro, or vintage-y. I just be myself and love to dance,” she said.

Cynthia said she thinks the Queen’s rave scene is still in its infancy.

“I don’t think that people know about a lot of DJ’s or artists, but they just go to have fun and party with their friends,” she said.

“Queen’s kids need to study more about the scene, but I do think its

getting big and improving day by day.”

Syd Senecal-Tremblay, ArtSci ’12, describes his grungy look as monochromatic.

Unlike his fellow ravers who stock up on sunglasses at Urban Outfitters bi-weekly, he said, “pretensions arise out impracticality so I won’t ever wear sunglasses inside or anything like that. But letting my 13.5” of pure lion mane down can be rad.”

Keith Niine, ArtSci ’12 and a born-Burhmese-gone-rave-kid describes his style as ‘homeless comfort chic.’ Since music at raves is fluid and continuous, accessories for a more sensual and dynamic experience are necessary. Niine said his essential accessory for any night is his pack of ciggys and his blackberry, not to mention sailor hats, stress rings, long necklaces and white freezies.

“Style is definitely more about individuality and how I’m feeling so when I dress for a show, my outfit is based on my mood that day and the songs I’ve listened to while dressing,” he said. “Either that or I just throw on the most random assortment of shit I see in my closet and run out the house.”

When asked about how he feels about Queen’s rave culture and emerging style, Niine said, “It’s actually a bottom up approach in terms of the culture and emerging style. When I first came to Queen’s I didn’t really see a lot of great street fashion or style but four years later with the increase of shows each term, I’m starting to see a lot more personal style trickling out of the shows. I think it’s a symbiotic relationship and that’s great!”

So head over to Value Village for some wild pieces, Dollarama for glowsticks and American Apparel for your basic neon. Then you’ll be ready to pop, drop and roll.

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film review

Bustling bodies

Arts

Fourth-year BFA students Laura Stewart, Katie Strang & Bronwyn Loucks bring their Body of Work to Union Gallery B y M eaghan Wray Contributor

The Union Gallery, a room nestled subtly within Stauffer Library is a hidden gem that I had not yet discovered until viewing the Body of Work exhibit. To be frank, I had no previous knowledge of the gallery, the artist or their work.

Walking into the gallery with no preconceptions of how it would be laid out, I had little to start with; a fresh slate. The Union Gallery looks like a lot of other galleries I have been to: a neutral coloured, garage-esque open space, with nothing to distract from the artwork.

I began my exploration with a walk around the room, getting a sense of the layout and my first impressions of each piece. The first piece, an oil on canvas titled “Learning to Breath” by Bronwyn Loucks, a combination of warm pastel colours and deep reds, blues and purples. The first thing I noticed was Loucks’ attention to physiological detail: the highlighted body muscles and ribcage, and her accurate proportions that could possibly be inspired by figure drawing. The way in which the colour suddenly goes dark at the bottom makes it appear as though this has been painted on top of something else, stressing Loucks’ focus on physical presence in reality versus a dream state.

Perhaps the most eerily disturbing piece I encountered was Laura Stewart’s “Dead Noise,” an oil and mixed media on panel piece.

A group of deer heads are in the foreground, one bright yellow with its eyes a distant black and tongue hanging out. The stairs in the background imply these deer heads are hidden in a dark basement, secluded from everyday life. This becomes a reoccurring theme in Stewart’s later pieces. While we See Figures on page 22

next issue digital strain Check out an interview with Alex Moskos of Drainolith in light of his gig at The Grad Club next Thursday.

vagabond territory Vagabond Theatre Company is putting their unique spin on Much Ado About Nothing.

Premiere year Another Year is a study of sorts, telling the story of needy and melancholic people making sense of their lives B y P arker M ott Staff Writer Movie: Another Year Starring: Lesley Manville, Jim Broadbent and Ruth Sheen Writer/Director: Mike Leigh (Naked, Topsy-Turvy) Duration: 129 mins.

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When he first started playing music, Philadelphia native Kurt Vile’s father got him a banjo instead of a guitar.

He said it didn’t take him long to embrace the open tuning and strum the five strings as though they were six.

Q&A: Kurt vile

The name’s Vile, Kurt Vile Kurt Vile is coming to town armed with The Violators and tunes from his sophomore record, Smoke Ring for My Halo B y A lly H all Arts Editor

shows with them.

How has it been since Smoke Ring for My Halo was officially released?

Damien from Fucked Up is the Kurt Vile makes grandiose, host of The Wedge now, have you It’s been busy, it’s starting to get large-scope psychedelic folk been on it yet? real busy. But it’s my sophomore rock anthems with an intimately No I’m a little disappointed I album so I’m just taking it very personal vibe. From his releases Constant Hitmaker, Childish haven’t received the call. I’m going zen-like, I’m not stressing myself Prodigy and Smoke Ring for My to be up in Toronto—what the too much.

Halo one might assume him to heck? I mean Damien man, we’re You’ve said with second records, have an air of narcissism, but buddies, what the heck? “this really should be the album to talking to the Journal on the phone say it. If you want to go out there from his home in Philadelphia, any You should show up and crash it. and supply something unique, this preconceived notions of ego were I’ll just punch him when I would be the time to do it.” Did smashed. Down-to-earth, earnest you go into making the new record and self-deprecating at times, Vile see him. with a certain mindset or goal? gave fascinating answers folding into themselves, often driving How do Canadian fans compare I definitely went in with a questions into unexpected territory. to other countries you’ve visited? certain mindset. I went in there, I Well, Canadian fans are pretty was demo-ing the songs at least for You’re playing in New York awesome, I love playing Canada. myself, I knew I wanted it to be tomorrow, are you there now?

I’ve played in Kingston twice, once concise. The way I work is, it’s not I’m in Philly, I was in New York was opening for Dinosaur Jr. and like every song will end up fitting actually yesterday, I played three the second time was me and my but I have a lot of material I’ve in-stores. It was the end of a little buddy, as a duo, it was real small, recorded that’s not on the record in-store tour to promote the record. but the kids who put it on, we as well.

Once I started honing in on, I’m at home right now but we’re stayed at their house and they were I guess the two songs that like going to load up the van today and super nice.

And Toronto, I love Montreal, round the album out, for me in the leave for up-state New York.

Vancouver, all the way on the other beginning it was “On Tour” and Then to Toronto for Canadian side, all really enthusiastic and “Ghost Town” ... nice. It’s funny ‘cause you forget Music Week? … you’re hanging out with people Oh totally. Yeah, I’m playing who are allowed in bars when Please see with J Mascis and I’m totally stoked they’re 18 and you’re hanging out queensjournal. on that obviously. Got some band with these people and you realize ca friends there, I’m friends with the they’re a decade younger than you. for the full Q&A Fucked Up kids, I really like The with Vile.

Sadies as well, I’ve played a few

Another Year is about happy people and then some sad ones. About some delightful seasons, and then some gloomier ones. Very little happens in Another Year but it conveys so much. This is a story about humans, not “characters,” with emotions that are natural not contrived to fit the story.

Another Year directly implies that there is nothing special about this moment. These characters (I’d rather say people) react and treat each other how they have their entire lives. There is a husband, Tom Hepple (Jim Broadbent), and wife, Gerri Hepple (Ruth Sheen), who reside in a comfy, established house with a fertile garden in the back. Tom “digs holes” for a living as a geologist, and is married happily to his wife. They have a 30 year-old son, Joe (Oliver Maltman), who is content but single.

It is Mary (Lesley Manville) who disturbs the peace. She visits the Hepple’s with superficial giddiness and after a few bottles of wine, is soused and practically begging for therapy. In a darkly humorous scene, she asks Gerri if she has anything difficult to talk about, which is really Mary just talking to herself.

Mary is a woman who has nothing going for her: she smokes, is single, does not cook and looks old for her age. She pretends to be happy, but that just exposes her desperation.

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Tom (Jim Broadbent) and Gerri Hepple (Ruth Sheen) grapple with life as a happily married couple amongst their mostly dejected friends.

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Changing lives with creativity Keep A Child Alive ignited Wallace Hall with their fourth annual charity art show and auction for AIDS B y B rAnDon P ASternAk Staff Writer A great cause, and the chance to showcase local talent; what more could you want?

From noon until 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Keep A Child Alive (KACA) hosted their fourth annual charity art auction. As a not-for-profit AIDS charity group, KACA’s fundraiser would provide AIDS patients with lifesaving Antiretroviral drugs and fund clinics and orphanages in Sub-Saharan Africa and India. With the event raising over $1000 in donations last year, I headed over to Wallace Hall to see what the buzz was about.

After a warm welcome I headed into the auction, met by an overture of music as I took a look at the pieces on display.

Art forms from photography and paintings to jewelry and fashion were represented, conveying a variety of messages.

One of the creations that stood out to me, a piece by M. Foster using plastic, fabric and spray paint, seemed to portray the global harms of pollution.

Tania Burr, a third-year bio-chemistry student at the show, described her amazement at the diversity of artistic talent.

“I had no idea what to expect,” she said. “It was nice to see art brought in from all around.”

Some of the photos adorning the walls captured the intricacy and wonder of architecture, while others were shots of grandiose yet solemn giants of nature, such as one of a spectacular waterfall. After stopping to watch a slideshow of pictures from the orphanages and clinics sponsored by KACA, I was captivated by a table presenting a showy and sophisticated jewelry collection by Rita D. Inc. In addition to featuring artists like Jordan Clarke and Che

Kothari from Toronto, I enjoyed hearing much of the art was the product of local creativity. The original idea for the auction was birthed as a way to give students the opportunity to show work who normally wouldn’t be able to.

KACA members Paige Harlock, a second-year religious studies student and Elizabeth Tran, a fourth-year bio-chemistry student, said they had a desire to get more people involved.

“This gives students the chance

to participate without necessarily having to join the organization.”

Although I would’ve liked to have seen a bit more information about the cause itself displayed alongside the art, the auction presented a thought-provoking array of pieces revealing a message of not only hope, but encouraging students that their creativity can change lives in a real and profound way.

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Life episodes trump pulled heartstrings to pull any heartstrings, but tell his film through little episodes on life. We encounter a funeral of as friendly discussions.

Gerri is a health councillor Tom’s brother Ronnie’s (David and reads depression and angst Bradley) wife. This third part professionally. But since she leads of the film is more focused on such a blissful marriage with Tom, Mary’s indulging despondence as the two of them don’t know how she confides in Ronnie, who is to deal with their dejected friends. stone-faced with grief.

Another Year, I will remind you, They also have a male chum named Ken (Peter Wight), who is overweight and just as needy The script is as Mary. He makes a pass on her, long-winded, but but Mary rejects him because he must be because these represents too much of her: the disconcerted people desperate part. have much to say Mary is caught in an emotional warp. When she hugs her friends, about themselves. she can barely let go. She imposes on family affairs and flirts pitiably with is ideally a slow film, but not for the son, Joe. Joe gets a girlfriend a frame are you bored. Leigh’s named Katie (Karina Fernandez) script is too sharp and does not and Mary is envious. Katie is happy, rely on pauses, but interruptions a free spirit, young and normal. and snappy dialogue to push Mary is the opposite of all those the scenes forward. The script is things. She loses her identification long-winded, but must be because with Joe’s loneliness and her life is these disconcerted people have much to say about themselves. drenched in unalloyed sorrow.

Mike Leigh is a great director, When each scene reaches an cessation, Leigh who, like in Happy-Go-Lucky, awkward centres on a very content person cuts. No one likes an awkward or group of people who do not silence—bleak emotions are too pose any drama for the camera. exposed then.

Every moment of Another Leigh is not making a “movie” but a story about life. Life has Year is enriching. I never felt for a happiness, sadness and mixed second Leigh was embellishing his feelings. The Hepples are in pure story because he is not interested elation and as the film goes on in plot; he loves the stasis. Life, and the wintry seasons arise, Leigh for Leigh, can be optimistic or shifts the central character to cynical—the option is ours.

His script has a behaviour of its Mary. He ought to; she represents own: rapid and rueful in the first winter weather.

There is one bit of tragedy in half; ponderous and disconsolate in Another Year, but it doesn’t play the remainder. The camera barely out like so. Leigh is not looking moves, but when it does (at the Continued from page 18

end) it moves with perfect grace to one final static shot that transcends the story to its pivotal focus. The last shot left me stranded in wonder.

I was amazed by Lesley Manville’s performance. Her presence snatches the screen from the other characters. I have friends and relatives who remind me of Mary, but that is not an insult to them. I’m sure some would see a little Mary in me. Mary is a haunting, but touching character because she reveals the vulnerability within human nature and that fear Peter Wight and Lesley Manville’s characters Tom and Mary speak to of being alone. No one likes to sit the vulnerability of human nature and the fear of being alone. in the darkness, especially solo.

But that’s where Another Year succeeds so well. I didn’t revere the film for its plot, huge laughs, grimness, or a magnificent payoff.

Payoffs do not belong in Mike Leigh films.

I was admiring these people, these humans, and how much we are like them. When they speak their words, there is so much banter going on, we don’t catch what they say. That is not important: it’s how they say it.

Another Year is made especially brilliant by its performances. Leigh is waving his cinematic wand silently here, but it is the actors who make this a film fascinated about body language. Whenever I am in conversation with someone, I respond to how they gesture more than what they say. That’s the art of human interaction.

Another Year begins at The Screening Room tonight.

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Figuring real and imagined worlds

In their collaborative exhibition at Union Gallery Body of Work, Laura Stewart blurs the line between nature and its distorted forms with bright paintings, Bronwyn Loucks grapples with the body’s presence in real and imagined space in her abstract and ethereal works, while Katie Strang investigates the language of human form using life-like wire sculptures.

by Bronwyn Loucks, which, similar to her first piece, used arching assume these deer are dead, the human figures. However, they one in front has a sort of life-like were significantly less defined. I quality as indicated by its colour. noticed immediately the unfinished This piece is followed by “I felt limbs of both figures and began to it just then—or was it a memory” make connections between both

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a haired figure and one appearing more like a figment.

As stated in the pamphlet, Loucks interests lie in the idea that the body can be present in reality, or in an imagined world.

Her thoughts are illustrated

through this work, which, from my perspective, showcases a woman’s body disconnecting from its soul, but also stressing that they are, also, connected through the blue drip line trailing towards the black.

All of Stewart’s pieces focus

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on animals or hybrids, featuring distorted human qualities that appear more animalistic. Her last piece “The Sleeper,” however, makes a clear distinction between animals and humans, both of which were provided with detailed features that clearly identify them as one or the other. What is particularly interesting about this piece is the blanket of fish lying over the sleeping man. This perhaps insinuates that both reality and dream-like worlds can coexist.

While the layout was relatively simple, the way in which the pieces were ordered appeared to follow some sort of pattern. The figures in each work progressively became clearer, becoming more human-like, rather than sporadic limbs cut off by an explosion of solid colour. Placed in the centre of the gallery are three wire and mixed media designs, “coil 1, 2 and 3” by Katie Strang. This trio of pieces depict human bodies in different positions, one more drastic than the others. Upon close examination, you can see spinal cords and brains intricately molded onto or inside of the human frames.

While the bodies are abstract, part of Strang’s intention is to show how body movement can be expressive despite a lack of facial emotion.

Body of Work provides the Queen’s campus with a colourful and disturbing array of mixed media and oil works that illicit questioning of the distinction between reality and imagination.

I can confidently say that this exhibit is worth more than an informal glance.

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I don’t even believe in three period hockey anymore. They’ve got to be at least five.

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Women’s hockey

Banner in the bag, nationals next Gaels advance to the CIS championship for the first time in Queen’s women’s hockey history B y L auri Kytömaa Assistant Sports Editor After five straight overtime victories in the playoffs, the women’s hockey team will head to their first ever CIS berth. The OUA champion Gaels are currently riding an 11 game winning streak extended from the regular season and could be one of the hotter teams entering the tournament ranked as the fourth

seed of six.

The University of Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks are hosting the tournament in Waterloo this weekend. The teams involved, in seeding order, are the McGill Martlets, the St. Francis Xavier X-Women, the Manitoba Bison, the Queen’s Gaels, the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks and the Alberta Pandas.

The number one nationally

ranked Martlets certainly look to be the favourite coming into action with their 20-0-0 regular season record and 87-22 goals for-goals against. The number two X-Women haven’t lost a game this season either; touting a 24-0-0 record in the Atlantic University Sport league and bloated 114-32 goals for-goals against, they have plenty of confidence to build on.

Yet neither of these top teams seem to have really been tested over the course of the season and could be in for a surprise faced up against the best in the CIS. The Gaels have seen plenty of close games in their playoff runs and have proven themselves to have outstanding resilience when it

counts. They have trailed in every postseason game.

The key has been the clutch play of several players when the Gaels needed to get back in. Second-year forward Morgan McHaffie led the OUA in scoring during the playoffs with three goals and five assists in five games. No goal was bigger than her sixth overtime tally against the Guelph Gryphons in the first round of the OUA finals. She also forced overtime with a goal in the third period of game two in the OUA finals to help the Gaels win the banner.

Her twin sister, Brittany McHaffie, has also been a major contributor particularly against the

Champs Czech-ed out of Turkey

The CIS champion curling team return from World University Games

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The Queen’s curling team travelled to Turkey after winning the CIS championships last year.

The Queen’s curling team was in Erzurum, Turkey last month, representing Canada in the World University Games. The team, despite a valiant effort, came up short, getting knocked out by the Czech Republic in a tiebreaker.

The team opened the tournament in style, defeating

wrestling Kellie Heney placed sixth in the CIS Championship hosted by Lakehead University in Thunder Bay.

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Great Britain in a convincing 7-4 win. They then dropped their next two contests, 7-6 to Switzerland and 7-4 to the Czech Republic. On the blog he kept in Turkey, Chadd Vandermade described the team’s maddening loss to the Czechs. “[The game] was extremely frustrating because we were clearly the better team but we just dıdn’t execute at the same level we have ın See Curling on page 26

Gaels

on the road Women’s hockey The Gaels are travelling to Waterloo to take on national competition at the CIS Championship hosted

by Wilfrid Laurier.

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Track & Field Queen’s will compete in the CIS Championship this weekend at the University of Sherbrooke in Quebec.

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Lone Gael in Lakehead Kellie Heney places sixth at CIS Championship

By Emily Lowe Staff Writer Kellie Heney of the Queen’s wrestling team traveled to Thunder Bay for the CIS Championship, earning a sixth place finish.

Heney competed in the 59 kg weight class at the tournament hosted Feb. 25 and 26 by Lakehead University.

Head coach Gianni Vecchio said he was impressed with how well Heney matched up with the top contenders. By working with Vecchio on a game plan that suited Heney’s strengths, she became a legitimate contender at the championship.

“The girls she was fighting were the first and third seeds, they were a lot closer matches than they [had been] in the past,” he said. “She’s a thrower, she can defend quite well and [we wanted] to work on using that to her advantage.”

Vecchio says that he has seen constant improvement from Heney over the year.

“Her matches were a lot further apart at the start of the year but more recently they have been much closer” he said “She was a good wrestler last year but this year she has shown a lot more improvement.”

After suffering a concussion last year that shortened her season, the third-year student said she wasn’t expecting success at the CIS Championship.

“I didn’t have huge expectations,” she said. “It was more for experience but then I realized I [could] actually do well.”

Heney said she was pleased with her performance and surprised by how well it went.

“I was really happy with how I did; everything sort of clicked and went very well,” she said.

Heney credits her extensive training this

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year to helping her recover from her injury.

She said that Vecchio played a large role in her success.

“He has really helped me,” she said.

“Coming off a concussion last year, I wanted to do well this year and his coaching has really helped with my success.”

When Heney first came to Queen’s, she saw joining the team as not only a way to continue her involvement in the sport but also as a way to integrate herself into the school.

“It was a great opportunity to make friends with guys and girls of all ages,” she said.

I didn’t have huge “expectations ... but then I

realized I [could] actually do well.

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—Kellie Heney

However, finding the balance between school and wrestling wasn’t easy.

“I had to get really good at time management, in first year especially,” she said. “We had two practices a day so it was a lot to manage but I did pretty well, it was a learning experience.”

Heney’s involvement in wrestling dates back to a very young age, when she started Judo at the age of four.

Heney credits her high school coach, Paul Gowans, in helping her switch over from Judo.

“He helped me get rid of the bad habits I [carried over] from Judo, he really helped me progress [into wrestling],” she said.

Along with her sixth place finish at the CIS Championship, Heney won the bronze medal at the Queen’s Open in November.

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Laurier Golden Hawks in the second round of the OUA playoffs where she scored the second overtime game winners in both tilts.

The Gaels’ regular season point leader, Kelsey Thomson, has made some noise offensively by scoring the gamewinning goal against the Windsor Lancers in second overtime and scoring a big momentum-swing goal in the second game of the OUA final as the Gaels trailed 2-0 to the Gryphons.

Other notable offensive contributors have been Becky Conroy, who scored a goal with five seconds remaining in regulation to

send game one of the OUA finals to a sixth overtime, and Liz Kench whose nifty passing has accounted for three assists and many more missed opportunities.

Perhaps no player has been more central to the team’s playoff run as second-year goaltender Mel Dodd-Moher. Through the team’s five playoff games she has stopped 201 of 207 shots for a .971 save percentage and a .75 goals-against-average over 477 minutes of play.

For the Gaels to succeed at this tournament they will need to keep their never-give-up formula in place. As long as the attack remains as balanced as it has with players contributing throughout the

line up, other teams will have difficulties finding exactly which players to shut down.

Dodd-Moher will have to keep her magic going in Waterloo if the Gaels want a shot at the CIS championship.

Whatever the outcome, this is the first CIS berth in team history and first OUA banner in 32 years; the Gaels have already hit their goals, anything else is just icing on the cake.

The team will play its first game on Friday at 4 p.m. against the loser of the Thursday Alberta-McGill game.

The tournament will run in a round-robin format until all teams have played two games. These two games will determine the fifth place, bronze medal and championship games to be played on Sunday.

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stat oF the WeeK To raise money for the James Fund charity, the Queen’s rowing team has organized their annual erg-a-thon. Both the men’s and women’s team will be taking shifts on indoor rowing machines from 4 p.m. Thursday to 3 p.m.

Friday. In total, the team should pull about 1,250,000 metres over the course of 23 hours.

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The curling team travelled to Turkey for the World University Games representing Canada. The team was knocked out of the tournament by the Czech Republic in a tiebreaker game.

Curling team out at FISU Contined from page 23

our first two games,” he said. “They played extremely defensively, which at times frustrated us.”

The Canadians then hit their stride in the remainder of the round robin, winning five straight and dropping just one, finishing with a solid 6-3 record. This left them on par with the Czech Republic, whom they met again in a tiebreaker. Like in their first matchup with the Czech team, the Canadians fell short, losing 11-7. Vandermade was upset with his team’s inability to play to its potential when it mattered.

“Once again, we didn’t play our best against this Czech team and I have no idea why that is,” he wrote.

In a later interview, Vandermade said he felt that their opponents’ different style of play was one of the reasons the Gaels had

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trouble winning.

“It was very different. We are used to the Canadian style of play,” he said. “The international teams, I don’t think they were any better than us, but they have a different style. Some teams just hit whatever we threw in … that really frustrated us, it made it difficult for us to get going.”

to have that Maple “Leaf on your back is really a unique experience. ” —Scott Chadwick, curler

Vandermade was positive about the trip to Turkey as a whole.

“It was really quite an experience,” he said. “Wearing those Canadian colours is pretty special, not many people get to do that, especially in a place like Turkey.”

Being in Erzurum, a city some 10,000 kilometres from Kingston was an unforgettable cultural experience for Vandermade and his teammates.

“It was pretty exciting,” he said.

“There were a lot of things to get used to, such as the Call to Prayer

that came at 5:30 a.m.”

Vandermade said he was impressed by the warmth and hospitality of Turkish people.

“They were really nice and really excited to host the Games,” he said.

“They were really accommodating and made us feel at home in such a foreign place.”

Still, Vandermade could not mask his regret.

“Whenever you’re representing Canada, and you come home without a medal, it’s always disappointing,” he said. “I don’t think we can say we’re satisfied when we come home without a medal.”

Vandermade’s teammate, Scott Chadwick, said he was dissatisfied with the results as well.

“It’s definitely disappointing when you don’t win gold,” he said.

Chadwick put the team’s early exit down to their poor start.

“We struggled early on,” he said.

“We had chances in our earlier games, but we couldn’t capitalize.

It was frustrating.”

But like Vandermade, Chadwick was able to see a silver lining. “[The tournament] was great for all four of us,” he said. “To have that Maple Leaf on your back is really a unique experience.”

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since 2006-07.

With one more overtime period to play, forward Kelsey Thomson said there was the risk of playing too carefully.

“Everyone plays a little more cautious but also we know that one shot could be the goal,” she said. “Just like [the winning goal], she shot the puck from the [centre-ice] side of the red line and it went in. The goalie thought the period was over.

“It was a fluky goal but we’ve worked so hard and we haven’t had a bounce go our way all year.”

The first game of the OUA Finals series went to an historic six overtimes; the game, which the Gaels won 2-1, is the longest game played in NCAA or CIS history.

With Guelph scoring midway through the third, the Gaels battled until the end and forward Beck Conroy scored with five seconds to go in regulation.

Goaltender Mel Dodd-Moher faced 47 shots throughout the six overtime periods. She shut down the Gryphons’ offence, who had scored eight goals throughout their playoff run.

“When you have a goalie like Mel you don’t get too worked up,” Thomson said. “When they’re on a breakaway against her you’re kind of calm because she’s such a great goaltender.”

The OUA Championship was the Gaels’ first since the 1978-79 season. Thomson said the win was biggest for the veterans.

believed “inWeeachjustother ... We

weren’t going to take no for an answer. We weren’t leaving here without a victory.

”

—Liz Kench, forward “Tonight was a big win,” Thomson said. “It took five years for some of us to achieve it and here we are.”

The Gaels had surrendered the first goal in each game of the playoffs. With the Gaels down 2-0 midway through the second period, Thomson said the team came together after a talk from their coach Matt Holmberg.

“Our coach brought us in and told us ‘we’re going to come back from these two goals and we’re going to win this game,’ ” Thomson said. “We just did, we rallied around

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gaels named to All-star teams Several Gaels have been named to all-star teams in their respective sports over the past month. In women’s basketball fourth-year guard, Brittany Moore, received first team all-star honours. On the men’s side fourth-year guard Dan Bannister was named to the second All-Star team while rookie forward Nikola Misljencevic was named to the All-Rookie team.

In women’s volleyball, third-year Natalie Gray and fourth-year Katie Matthews were named to the East First-Team All-Stars.

Men’s fourth-year outside hitter Joren Zeeman was named to the Second Team All-Star team for the third consecutive year.

each other and we got one goal and the momentum started going our way.”

Thomson converted on a pass at the end of the second from forward Liz Kench who battled through the neutral zone against two Guelph defenders to put the score at 2-1. Off a shot on net

by Kench, the Gaels’ tying goal came midway through the third from forward Morgan McHaffie who snuck a loose puck past the Guelph goaltender.

“We were prepared for war tonight,” Kench said. “After the last game we knew they were going to —Lauri Kytömaa come out strong. We just knew we had to be one step ahead of them. track and Field This is the most resilient team I’ve coach retires ever play on. We came back every single game and it just goes to show how much heart and dedication Melody Torcolacci is retiring at the end of the 2010-11 season after we have.” serving as head coach of the track tonight was a big and field team for 23 years. She has win. It took five years coached 39 athletes to CIS medals in track and field. for some of us to She took over as head coach of achieve it and here we both the track and field and cross are. country teams in 1988. She moved in to an assistant role with the cross —Kelsey Thomson, country team in 1996.

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forward

Dodd-Moher had an impressive playoffs with a save percentage of 0.971; the best of the OUA postseason. She has faced 207 shots and only allowed six goals.

Dodd-Moher has kept her team in the playoff run after being down in each game with stellar focus which has seen her block breakaways and aggressive play as her team looked for every opportunity to capitalize in front.

“She stood on her head this whole year basically,” Kench said.

“She came out to play in the playoffs. We let her down a few times. She was there to help us out.

We couldn’t have done this without her for sure.”

The Gaels have been the underdogs through their playoff run. They have swept two nationally ranked teams, Laurier and Guelph.

Laurier had won seven straight OUA titles before being ousted

by Queen’s.

“We just believed in each other,” Kench said. “We have a lot of fifth-year players on the team. We weren’t going to take no for an answer. We weren’t leaving here without a victory.”

—Kate Bascom

—With files from Lauri Kytömaa

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Friday, March 11, 2011

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Short fiction contest

When the bough breaks The third-place entry in Postscript’s Short Fiction Contest, by Lauren Sampson, ArtSci ’12

By Lauren Sampson Contributor There are some things I will tell everyone. Little things that mean nothing really. Someone will ask the time and I will say “10:43 a.m.” and they will thank me and then it’s over. Insignificant. But the time is something people need, so I always wear a watch.

Before, when a stranger would ask me how I was, I’d say “I’m feeling rather confused right now; I’ve realized that the world is not as simple as I once thought it was—people will say things and not mean them in the least bit” or “I’ve just remembered that I left my workbook at home, which makes me exhausted at the thought of running back to get it, and disappointed in myself for leaving it there” because I thought I was answering the question to the best of my ability. Mother explained it to me so now I understand and just say “Fine, thank you.”

There are many things that only Mother knows. Late at night, she will slip into my bed and say “Tell me what you’re thinking.” I open my mouth and all my insides come spilling out.

Lyra knows my secrets. I can tell her anything, though I do not.

She listens to my words, nods her head, and then whispers into my ear which boys are the best kissers.

I laugh. Lyra shouldn’t be kissing boys, but I know she will laugh along with me.

And then there are things I cannot tell anyone. These are the thoughts that live in my head, the things that are mine. Last week, I was walking down the road when I saw something motionless lying in my path. A dead pigeon. How fascinating it was, splayed there with glassy eyes and not a feather ruffled. It went in my bag and I took it home. Mother only needs look under my bed to find it, but every night I go to sleep knowing

the broken bird is undiscovered and that makes me smile a bit.

Death cannot be changed.

And I think that’s wonderful.

Under, over, under, over, intricate weaving with bony fingers and mother is doing my hair. Each morning I am awake before the sun, eating two eggs and flossing my teeth. It takes exactly 12 minutes to reach school and 34 minutes to get ready for it. I wake up early so Mother can braid my hair. As she shapes me, Mother speaks—telling stories about the old her, the notMother, and giving me advice. It is interesting but I seldom listen. I try to focus on untying my mind and letting it float about instead.

It never works. I am tethered to the idea of being a kitten. And there are no other cats in the litter, so Mother licks my fur until it is matted and stiff, and I bring her rats from the cupboard every day.

Over, under, over, under, she has done my braids too tight this time.

Lyra is not at school again. It is the third time this week. I am not worried though, and during lunch I sit at the green table in the corner twisting my braids around a finger until it goes numb. Lyra knows what she’s doing. Lyra can be alone. Mr. Daniels walks by, and I fold into myself, trying to go unnoticed. It works, thankfully. I know he will ask me to think about the special guidance sessions and I won’t be able to refuse him.

We live in a bone white house on top of the sea. One day, it will tiptoe right off our cliff and then I will dissolve into the waves.

Sometimes I wonder why it never rains but then I realize Mother has painted over the windows. * I know what people want; I

give it to them. Painted bodies lie broken on the floor crying, why?

Why? Why? Why do you weep?

Only I see them, and it baffles me that they do not understand.

People do not want what is best for them, don’t want kindred spirits or beautiful souls. People want what is easy.

I have many dolls, in different shapes and sizes, some with ruby lips, some made of wood. Dead bodies look like human dolls, I think.

Lyra comes up the cliff that night, maybe wanting to give herself to the waves, but she knocks on my door first. Her mascara is smudged and shuddering and I have never seen her this small. She opens her mouth to speak, but I am already leading her into the house and shutting the door. Mother is out and I am alone. We go up to my room and I finally ask, “What’s happened? What has he done?”

She only folds in on herself.

Lyra has been staying with her father and there are red marks on her arms. I begin to understand.

I try to be the mother cat, but all I can do is pat her awkwardly on the shoulder.

Finally, Lyra chokes out, “Spilled beer and … he hit me. I … I tried to get away but … chair … tied to the chair … fucking bastard!”

We sit in silence, the words stinging us both.

I say … I say … nothing.

And then “It hurts. But that can be stopped …”

Undid those braids on the way to school, and my hair hung in limp curls.

There is a pause and then—“Do you want it to stop?”

Lyra looks up with hollow eyes and maybe if I squint, I can see my dollhouse right through her. I think, she is already halfway there—where are the strings holding her on?

She moves her head left and

right, the tiniest of nods, and … yes, this is something I can do. She has been such a good friend to me, and I have never, never been able to make things all right.

Rock-a-bye baby, in the treetop, when the wind blows the cradle will rock …

Rock Lyra in my arms, and poke poke poke in the heart—she is gone. No more rats in the cupboard. The body falls on me then and I topple onto my bed. The weight of what I’ve done grinds me into the mattress as her eyes glaze over.

And I smile then, because she is all mine: the best doll in my collection.

Check out next week’s issue of the Journal to read the second-place entry in Postscript’s Annual Short Fiction Contest.

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