The Queen's Journal, Issue 4

Women’s soccer team dominates

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Bicycles go walking

Wolfe Island festival follow-up

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CHR is up to par AMS executive recaps promises

By Katherine Fernandez-Blance Assistant News Editor Since taking office in May, the new AMS Executive has been busy trying to put their plans from their promise-filled campaign into action.

President Safiah Chowdhury, Vice-President (Operations) Ben Hartley and Vice-President (University Affairs) Chris Rudnicki won the Feb. 4 election with a 54.5 per cent majority. The team garnered a lot of attention while campaigning, especially because of one of their campaign promises.

They promised to install solar panels on unused roof space around campus. Their goal is to get an agreement signed by the time they leave office next April.

Chowdhury, ArtSci ’11, said the Queen’s administration is moving forward with the project and will be issuing a Request for Proposals (RFP) shortly, after already issuing the preliminary Request for Information.

“The RFP is an invitation from firms and companies to submit proposals regarding on-campus solar panels, and will allow Queen’s to decide on the best firm to partner with on this project,” Chowdhury said.

The panels need to be up and running by the time the Ontario government’s current feed-in tariff rate of 80 cents per kilowatt hour expires in October 2012, Chowdhury added.

Rudnicki, ArtSci ’11, said that the university has realized it’s a huge financial opportunity.

“We’re hoping for fast deployment,” hesaid.“Construction will begin next summer.”

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A FREC gives an engineering frosh the traditional ‘Eng cut’ at Agnes Benidickson Field on Tuesday.

Fighting for mental health Eric Windeler raises awareness about mental illness in young adults

By Clare Clancy News Editor

Eric Windeler lost his son to suicide last March and is now on a crusade to promote mental health awareness at Queen’s.

His son Jack was in first year and suffered from depression.

Windeler, Comm ’82, is focusing on helping other young adults who are transitioning into university.

“You’re in a new environment.

You’re in the top of your class in high school and then getting to university you realize everyone is at the top of their class,” he said, adding that this is just one example of the kind of stresses emerging adults face in university.

In order to help others, Windeler set up the Jack Windeler Memorial Fund.

The Fund, which operates through the Kids Help Phone, has raised close to $300,000 in Please see Platform on Page 6 an effort to combat the mental health issues seen all too commonly at university.

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around mental health is important.

A quarter of people of this age are experiencing a mental health issue,” he said. “So many people struggle to get their mind around that.

That’s what we’re trying to change.

We want to raise awareness, to combat the stigma and show help is available.”

For the first time ever, Queen’s residence dons will be trained in Mental Health First Aid (MHFA), Windeler said. He helped accelerate the process initiated by Health, Counselling and Disability Services (HCDS). MHFA is a division of the Mental Health Commission of Canada.

“The Queen’s dons will be trained by staff members who have become trainers,” he said.

MHFA training will ensure that people are exposed to the warning signs associated with mental illnesses, he said.

“To give people training in Mental Health First Aid means you can recognize the signs in others that they might be experiencing a mental health issue.”

Windeler spoke to frosh leaders prior to Orientation Week and encouraged them to take the training.

Queen’s students can benefit greatly from frosh leaders who are aware of mental health issues and

resources on campus, he said.

Not everyone always has access to a frosh leader or a don so Windeler teamed up with Kids Help Phone to spread his message even further.

The Jack Windeler Memorial Fund is primarily focused on the creation of a website which will discuss mental health issues affecting young adults entering university.

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Board of Trustees goes to Parliament

Board aims to reduce seats from 44 to 25

By Labiba Haque Assistant News Editor The Queen’s Board of Trustees is trying to reduce the number of elected members from 44 to 25. To do so, they will require parliamentary approval.

The Board of Trustees is one of three governing bodies of the University along with the University Council and the Senate, all of which are assisted by the University Secretariat.

“The Board of Trustees is in charge of making financial decisions, appointing the principal, the viceprincipals and responsible for... overall fiduciary responsibilities,” said Board Chair Bill Young.

Young, Sci ’77, said decreasing the membership is meant to increase efficiency within the Board.

“We came to the number 25 as a result of an annual board survey that we have conducted every year, [starting] three years ago,” Young said, adding that the purpose of the survey is to grade how members feel the board is functioning and to identify how the board can improve.

“One of the things evident from the first survey was the sense within the board that too many people were in the room,” he said. “The feeling was that it was too big a group to have in-depth conversations about topics as it would overwhelm the agenda.”

Young said there was strong consensus on substantially reducing the size of the board, especially because it will be cheaper to operate.

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Where do all the stolen bikes go?

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Police have reports of 200 bike thefts this year and say they don’t expect to be able to return many to their owners

By Jake Edmiston Features Editor When Alex McIntyre left for work last month, he didn’t think he’d be walking. He’d locked his $300 bike outside his Barrie St. apartment the night before.

“I had one of those cord locks around it,” the fourth-year Arts and Science student said. “In the morning it was gone and the cord was there, cut in half.”

He’s a victim of one of 200 bike thefts reported to Kingston police so far this year. 40 bike thefts on campus have been reported to Queen’s Campus Security in 2010.

“I called the police about it and they never found anything,” McIntyre said, adding he was able to provide the officers with the bike’s serial number.

“They told me ‘we’ll do what we can but don’t get your hopes up’,” he said. “I still haven’t heard anything and I doubt I will.”

Police say they’re anticipating a surge in stolen bikes reports in the coming weeks. Kingston Police crime analyst Jason Key said the repopulated Queen’s campus is an attractive destination for bike thieves.

“Usually you see the number of cases spike in the first few weeks of September,” he said. “There’s more opportunity on campus ... There’s a higher percentage of people riding bikes so if someone wants to steal a bike that’s where they go.”

Key said bike theft cases get cold quick because most victims aren’t able to provide a serial number.

Without it, police can’t verify who a recovered bike belongs to.

“All they usually have is the colour and make,” analyst Jason Key said. “That’s why we have so many hanging around the station.”

There were 392 reported Kingston bike thefts in 2007, 270 in 2008 and 291 last year.

Key said anyone accused of bike theft is rarely charged. If police are equipped with a description and serial number of a stolen bike, they can confiscate it if they find someone with it.

But the person found riding the stolen bike can easily escape a charge.

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“I got offered a $450 bike for 20 bucks,” said bike mechanic Robin Parsons. “[He wanted] to buy himself two grams of weed.” usually says, ‘I got it from a friend’ and gets off with a warning,” he said.

Key is compiling theft reports to determine the most common places and times bikes are stolen.

He said the data will be used internally to ensure police increase patrols around high-risk areas for bike theft. The information will not be released to the public.

“We want to know the peak times and peak locations,” he said.

“We analyse this information so we can be effective with what we’re working on. If we were to release it to the public it would go against what we’re trying to do.”

The majority of bike thefts reported to Campus Security occur around the perimeter of campus.

Since June 2004, 29 bikes have been stolen from outside Stauffer library; the highest number for any on campus location. During that period there have been a total 399 cases reported on campus.

“People are looking for the easiest access into campus and for the quickest route out,” said David Patterson, Director of Campus Security. “These people coming onto campus are very organized ...

They come to campus very quickly and they tend to blend in.”

Security has increased lighting and patroling of the areas they found to have a higher rate of bike theft.

If anyone is spotted loitering

around campus bike racks, Campus Security will notify police and tail the suspect until officers arrive.

Patterson said arrests are made after police find incriminating tools, like bolt cutters, on the suspect’s person.

A local bicycle salesperson said numbers from Campus Security and Kingston Police aren’t indicative of the amount of bike theft in the city.

CyclePath sales associate Richard Hulton said he’s expecting to sell several replacement bikes and accessories to students who’ve had their bike stolen in the first half of September.

He said cheaper bikes and easily removable accessories like seats and wheels are frequently stolen, but aren’t reported.

Hulton recommended a u-shaped lock that sells for around $35 at most Kingston bike shops. He said most cable and chain locks can be cut discreetly in a matter of seconds.

“U-Locks are pretty much the only thing thieves don’t get through,” he said, adding most people with a poor quality bike rarely invest in effective theftprevention methods.

“Regardless of how much the bike costs, you’re still without a bike if it gets stolen,” he said. “I’ve seen junkers go missing; a guy had his unicycle stolen.

“If it’s locked up with a cable

lock, they will take anything.”

He said using a u-lock to secure the frame and a cable lock to secure the seat and wheels will deter most thieves.

Hulton said many customers visiting his store to replace lost property made the mistake of locking their bike in a secluded area overnight.

“If you have to have your bike locked up after dark, have it in a well-lit area with a lot of foot traffic,” he said. “Otherwise, it allows them to sit and work on a bike no matter what lock is on it.”

Hulton said students with expensive bikes should be weary of thieves willing to invest over a week to catalogue their schedule in an attempt to find a window of opportunity.

“If you have the same class every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, then lock your bike in a different spot every day,” he said.

“If someone knows your bike is in a certain spot for three hours then they can target you.”

Robin Parsons works as a bike mechanic at Yellow Bike Action, a local non-profit bike shop. He’s a homeless man who’s lived in Kingston shelters.

He said the bike thieves he’s encountered during his 10 years in Kingston use the stolen property for personal gain.

“In the shelter I got offered a $450 bike for 20 bucks,” Parsons

Highest theft areas on campus

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Above are the campus locations with the highest incidence of bike theft based on data compiled by Queen’s Security from June 2004 to August 2010. The corresponding numbers represent the amount of thefts at each location.

said. “The guy who was trying to sell it to me wanted to go buy himself two grams of weed.”

Parsons said the thieves he’s met aren’t usually looking for highcalibre equipment.

“The thieves are stealing the bicycles to get from point A to point B and when they get to point B they abandon them,” he said.

“Some of them will steal a cheaper looking bicycle simply because they figure the police won’t stop them.”

Greg Birtch, owner of BB’s Cycle on Division St., buys and refurbishes used bikes.

“Who in their right mind running a business would buy a stolen bike?” he said.

A sign on the door to his shop notifies all would-be used bike salespeople that photo identification is needed to conduct business inside.

He said anyone trying to unload stolen bikes is easy to spot.

“I had a couple in here about a month ago and they were both just wired,” Birtch said, adding that the man and woman were looking to sell a used bike in decent shape.

“As soon as I asked them to show photo I.D they started backpeddling.”

Birtch said he’ll suspect a bike is stolen if the person selling it isn’t concerned in a fair deal.

“If somebody is going to bring a brand new bike in and ask for $15 then it’s stolen,” he said. “They’re just looking to unload it.”

Police hold recovered bicycles in a storage facility for around a year. An owner needs to provide a serial number or distinguishing feature on the bike to reclaim their property. All unclaimed bikes are sold off at auction with proceeds benefitting the Boys and Girls Club of Kingston.

Crime Prevention Officer Mike Menor said the storage room is usually filled with around 100 bikes, with that number doubling in the summer months.

“I’ve seen bikes stacked two or three on top of each other.”

He said Birtch’s practice of requiring identification is standard amongst used bike dealers.

“I think the days of people pawning stolen bikes are gone,” Menor said.

Bike thefts can be reported to Kingston Police at 613-549-4660.

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Initiative to address international students’ needs New co-ordinator positions within SGPS created to advocate for graduate international students

charge for international students, unlike domestic students,” he said.

“This might help Queen’s in the short-term, but in the long-term I Ozgun Topack said he would be worry that it will turn Queen’s into thrilled to introduce his Canadian a university where only privileged friends to Turkish Raki (an anise students can attend, hindering academic excellence.” flavoured spirit.)

Topack said if tuition fees Topack, PhD’ 13, is one of 500 international graduate students keep increasing for international at Queen’s, but he is the only students, the University will no non-Canadian in his group of longer attract the very students who could positively contribute 40 colleagues.

Topack, originally from Turkey, to academic and cultural life came to Queen’s two years ago. at Queen’s.

“International students must be Living abroad definitely influenced his work as a sociology student in represented, as we are one of the a positive way, he told the Journal most vulnerable groups at Queen’s, and we lack a real voice in the via e-mail. planning process.”

“International students Topack said the Society of must be represented, Graduate and Professional Students (SGPS) is doing a great job in as we are one of the most vulnerable groups focusing on these issues, but students should be more active within the at Queen’s, and we SGPS and the University in general. lack a real voice in the He said SGPS engagement with planning process.” the international graduate student -Ozgun Topack PhD’ 13 population will improve with the creation of the new International Students Coordinators positions.

Two graduate students have While Topack has generally had a positive experience at Queen’s, filled these roles. Becky Pero, MA’ he said the University has not done 11, and Amir Nosrat, MSc’ 10, its best to ensure international started their positions Aug. 23.

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International Student Coordinators Amir Nosrat and Becky Pero want to increase the SGPS’s “All international students are “Part of our job is to communication and engagement with International students on campus. having problems, mostly about low lobby on behalf of Nosrat said that the creation students and that their needs are at the University and SGPS scholarships that we receive from international students, being met. The SGPS has historically level. Socializing problems that of the International Student the University,” he said. “External whether that be to the been proactive in trying to engage international students face by Coordinators positions fell under scholarships for international students and the challenges they domestic students can be very the SGPS equity team’s portfolio, students are extremely limited government, or to the and that it was the last concrete controversial,” Nosrat said. face,” Pero said. and Queen’s doesn’t provide university and SGPS Currently, international students initiative that needed to be Information regarding tuition, good internal scholarships at the itself.” the availability of awards and have to pay $800 to be granted taken in facilitating international same time.”

-Amir Nosrat, International housing are not always clearly The University Health Insurance students’ needs.

Principal Woolf mentioned in his Student Coordinator presented or available to Plan (UHIP), which domestic “The positions were created ‘Where Next?’ document that he international students, Pero said, students are automatically entitled before the document was published, wanted to attract and enroll more The positions aim to support adding that the Queens’s University to. Nosrat is planning on trying but a lot of the issues apply to this international students at Queen’s, but Topack said the motives behind international full-time graduate and International Centre (QUIC), to change this by having domestic role,” he said. “The University has this initiative won’t benefit the professional students at Queen’s in a main support network for students partially subsidize UHIP always had a parallel policy of wanting to increase international both academic and personal areas. international students, has received fees for international students.

University in the long run.

“Part of our job is to lobby students, while offering them less “In the new academic plan, Pero and Nosrat want to use their reduced funding in the past on behalf of international students, resources at the same time.” undergraduate international positions to advocate for these few years.

“We envision a point B where whether that be to the government, students are being regarded as students and the issues they face.

“We want to ensure that there’s there are a lot more policies that or to the university and SGPS financial resources, and there’s no limit on the amount that they can communication to international favour international students itself.”

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“Last December we appointed a task force to talk about the issue of the size of the Board [with] other universities and trustees. The task force surveyed trustees, past principals and chancellors,” he said. Universities like McGill and Dalhousie have both recently reduced the size of their boards, producing positive results.

Young said the fundamental responsibilities would remain unchanged, but that the Board should become more effective and efficient.

“Right now with 44 trustees, the board has nine different committees [and] a lot of detailed work is done by the committees.

However, when we bring issues into the board, because of its size it’s difficult to have cross-cutting conversations,” he said.

“Everyone voted for this because at the end of the day the trustees believe that this is the path that the University should move forward on.”

Young said the change will favour students, faculty and staff representation over alumni opinions. Currently the Board is made up of three exofficio members, 15 members elected by the Board of Trustees, six elected by the graduates, six elected by the University Council, seven elected by the benefactors, one representative for the Queen’s School of Religious Studies and two representatives each for students, faculty and the staff.

With the amendment the board hopes to phase out the graduates, benefactors and School of Religious Studies representatives as their terms expire. The Board of Trustees will also elect fewer members in the future.

“With our changes we will have a higher proportionate representation of students, faculty and staff on our board. Two out of 25 is far greater than two out of 44,” Young said adding that the board was also careful to maintain the current number of appointments for the University Council so that all six members can sit on the Board.

“[Going to parliament] should be relatively straightforward process; however there is some legal process necessary,” he said, adding that the lawyers are currently drafting the document which will be presented to Parliament in order to amend the charter.

University Secretary Georgina Moore said that there are certain parliamentary requirements which the legal council must follow when preparing the documents.

“We’re hoping that [the document] will be sufficiently prepared in the way that Parliament requires it to be, so it will not be delayed and sent back for corrections,” Moore said, adding that the document will be presented to the parliament by the legal counsel on behalf of the board.

“Depending on Parliament’s requirements; the principal may need to appear,” she said.

Moore said the reason that the Board must seek parliamentary approval when making amendments to the Queen’s Charter is due to historic circumstances.

“The charter was originally created in 1841, from Queen Victoria that established the structure of the University,” she said.

“Initially called Queen’s College, it’s a type of federal charter which can be amended by federal statutes.”

Queen’s University was first established by the Royal Charter of Queen Victoria, 26 years before the Canadian Confederation.

Due to this, exclusive jurisdiction is given to the legislation of the Parliament of Canada when ammendments are to be made to the charter.

The last time a change was made to the charter was in 1996 when the membership of the board increased as two representatives were each added for student, faculty and staff. The process took eight months.

“It’s a process of evolution over time. It’s important to make the point that this charter started in 1841, and we are working with a structure that is historic.”

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the year is to create halal and kosher food options at the Common Ground as well as implementing debit and credit card payment options there.

The debit and credit machines are now installed and ready to use and the executive is in the process of looking for suitable suppliers for kosher and halal food for the Common Ground. They hope to have this implemented before December exams.

In addition to the Common Ground, Hartley, ArtSci ’10, said Food Services will soon be providing a halal food option in the Lower Ceilidh of the JDUC next to Quiznos.

Creating new jobs on campus for students was another of team CHR’s initiatives. A part-time Employment Opportunities Coordinator will be hired to work over the fall and winter, Hartley said, adding that the AMS will create a database to advertise summer jobs in Kingston for students. Many positions will open in connection with the solar panel project, particularly positions for engineering and commerce students, Hartley said.

The team also promised to create jobs that would help

beautify the Queen’s Centre and would be funded through Physical Plant Services or the Work Study program.

“We’ve realized that there’s actually a lot more bureaucracy involved in this than we originally thought, but we will hopefully be able to offer these jobs before next summer,” Chowdhury said.

In addition to working on more tangible goals, the team wants sustainability to permeate everything the AMS does this year.

Rudnicki said that bringing speakers in for the Last Lecture on Earth Series, who are part of the environmental movement, is just one example of the many initiatives commissioners are working on in conjunction with the sustainability office.

“We’ve also developed community gardens by West Campus, a full field of 16 plots, which will be available to rent to students, faculty and the community at large, particularly in the summertime,” Rudnicki said, adding that people will be able to grow whatever they like on the rented plots.

Hartley said that along with sustainability, communication is another main pillar for his team.

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The AMS Executive team will use bi-monthly video blogs to update students on their progress. team realized that communication between the AMS and the student body can be shaky and proposed bi-monthly video blogs as one solution.

“We’ve successfully posted our first video blog. It’s an intro to the AMS,” Chowdhury said.

“We’re hoping to have the ‘What’s your Beef’ bulletin up before December exams.”

She added that the bulletin will allow students the opportunity to offer suggestions and constructive criticisms about AMS affairs.

The team has also been working to improve Town-Gown Relations.

“We’ve established municipal

voting booths on campus which will hopefully provide greater student engagement with municipal elections,” Chowdhury said.

During municipal elections, the executive plans to get in touch with each team and invite them to an on-campus mayoral debate, Rudnicki said.

In their campaign the team promised three things in regard to Homecoming. They promised to keep students informed, defend their rights in the face of the police presence and co-ordinate a wet, University sanctioned event during the traditional Homecoming weekend.

“We’re looking into having a possible Alfie’s night with the intention of creating other spaces on campus for students to go and feel safe that night,” Hartley said.

Chowdhury said the AMS cannot do much to bring back the event as it was.

“The decision doesn’t rest with the AMS, but with the principal,” she said. “We aim to have messaging around the time of fauxcoming, and we will let students know that there needs to be little to no activity on Aberdeen that weekend.”

The AMS will be distributing Know Your Rights cards so students know exactly what their rights and responsibilities are.

This will be part of a larger Know Your Rights campaign that will include the use of social media and web advertising.

“I’m not familiar with any similar past initiative done by the AMS. The campaign will really be spelling out what legal rights students have and we will also be giving students the tools and the knowledge to file an official complaint with the police in the event of any incident at fauxcoming,” Rudnicki said.

Even with so much going on, the three executive members said they’re glad students are finally coming back to campus.

“We’re really excited for the months ahead with students,” Chowdhury said. “The AMS offices have been a hub of activity and excitement, and we’ve experienced a lot of self growth and perspective in these four months.”

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other to learn about mental health issues.

“Kids are a lot more interested in the well-being of their peers than you might realize,” he said.

The website will address mental health issues associated with mood disorders and anxiety disorders but won’t be limited to these alone, Windeler said, adding that “It’s really a two-part story. mental illness is common in young adults Teach them as they leave high and often manifests itself early.

“Of all mental health issues, basically half school and as they arrive at of them are already present in people by the university so they know there time they’re 15. There are a wide range of are resources.” mental health issues,” he said. “Suicide is just −Eric Windeler, Comm ’82 the worst possible outcome.”

Windeler said his goal is to have the site launched before Orientation Week 2012.

“We view this school year as ‘finish the The research phase, which will continue throughout the year, will explore how 16 to research and get it started.’ Next year we can 20 year-olds can best engage with issues of direct people to the website.”

In order to better help students once they mental health, Windeler said. For example, get to university, Windeler is also speaking the website will employ a live chat feature.

“The research phase is about what to them in high school. He spoke at Jack’s youth like to read about and how they former high school, Ridley College on June interact,” he said. “But it will be supported 7 and plans to return there this fall. in the background by trained professional “It’s really a two part story,” he said. councillors. This is one of the special things “Teach them as they leave high school and as about Kids Help Phone.” they arrive at university so they know there Windeler said he hopes that eventually are resources.” the site will encourage peers to motivate each In addition to encouraging training and “It will really be targeted to issues youths face in university and high school. This will be geared towards the ‘emerging adult,’” he said, adding that the website doesn’t have an official name yet because it’s still in the research phase.

SYMPToMS oF DEPRESSIon a sad, despairing mood that: • is present most days and lasts most of the day • lasts for more than two weeks • impairs the person’s performance at work, at school or in social relationships. other symptoms: • changes in appetite and weight • sleep problems, fatigue • loss of interest in work, hobbies, people or sex

• withdrawal from family members and friends • feeling useless, hopeless, excessively guilty, pessimistic or low self-esteem • agitation, irritability or feeling slowed down • trouble concentrating, remembering and making decisions • crying easily, or feeling like crying but being not able to • thoughts of suicide Source: Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

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Jack Windeler, Comm ’82, talks to frosh leaders about mental health illness in university.

raising money, Windeler has produced a will take their frosh through the video and video in partnership with Queen’s and have a Q & A. [The video] has been received MHFA. The video urges people to educate as pretty powerful.” themselves about mental health issues and reach out for help when they need it.

In honour of World Suicide Preven“The video is for so many reasons: tion Day, please watch Eric Windeler’s awareness, decreasing stigma, [encouraging] video at http://bit.ly/jackwindeler training,” he said. “Two things we hope: one, if you’re a regular frosh, you’ll watch the video. And two, dons, after they’re trained,

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he bright and flashy packaging often used to wrap junk food and candy may soon be crossing borders to an unlikely new food item: baby carrots.

A group of carrot producers is launching an ad campaign that aims to make carrots into a “brand” item. These carrots will be sold in packaging similar to potato chip bags, and advertised as being edgy and desirable.

It’s difficult to assess this new approach to selling vegetables. As childhood obesity rates rise, any measure which encourages children to eat vegetables is a laudable one.

However, the attempt to sell more carrots by giving them a new image may be impractical. The type of advertising the carrot producers intend to use is more likely to influence children than adults. Children rarely take an active role in determining their diet, beyond refusing to eat certain foods.

If parents aren’t involved in encouraging their children to eat vegetables, those children are unlikely to develop a sudden interest in a less than popular childhood food. This problem is amplified by practical concerns; junk food is often cheaper than

fresh produce, a major factor in guiding the dietary decisions parents make.

The nature of the plan raises troubling questions about how we relate to the food we eat. Dietary decisions should be based on an informed understanding of the health benefits of eating certain foods, not influenced by whichever food product has the neatest advertising.

As good food attempts to masquerade as bad food and vice versa, making informed decisions may become significantly more difficult for the average consumer.

The possibly detrimental long-term effects of this process may be hinted at in a Twitter post made by the company, encouraging people to eat carrots “like there’s no tomorrow (maybe there won’t be) ...”. This is the same sort of devil-may-care advertising that once made cigarettes popular.

Ultimately, it’s difficult to say whether or not the carrot branding plan will prove to be a good or bad idea. In the meantime, it’s probably best that we continue to eat what’s good for us, and avoid what isn’t as much as possible—however edgy it may be.

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Manitoba associate chief justice is facing calls for her resignation in a controversy around a series of sexually explicit photographs that were posted online.

The pictures of Judge Lori Douglas were taken by her husband, lawyer Jack King, seven years ago. In July, Alexander Chapman filed a complaint with the Canadian Judicial Council, claiming King gave him the photos—and urged him to have sex with his wife—in 2003.

Chapman, a former client of King’s, went public last Tuesday. Public debate has become fiercely divided between those who believe that Judge Douglas must resign, and those who believe that her private life and her judicial career are wholly distinct.

While Judge Douglas made a risky decision by agreeing to take explicit pictures with her husband, calls that she resign—or be ousted by an act of Parliament, as required by law—are extreme. Judge Douglas has done nothing wrong: the photos her husband gave to Chapman depict activities conducted between consenting individuals.

Some individuals feel that Judge Douglas should resign simply for participating in the photos. Judges, they insist, must be held accountable to a different standard than the public.

However, judges are held to the same legal standards as a member of the public, and—as of yet—Judge Douglas appears to have broken no laws. Claims that her

actions reflect an inability to make sound decisions are equally unfounded. While Judge Douglas helped create the photos, she clearly appreciated the importance of keeping them from the public eye—her husband has since indicated he acted without her knowledge.

Others insist that Judge Douglas must resign because she can no longer command the respect necessary to do her job.

Judge Douglas’ ability to do her job has nothing to do with her reputation, and everything to do with her knowledge of the law and her ability to apply it. Those individuals over whom she exercises judgement do not have to respect her as a person—or approve of her private life—in order to be bound by her decisions.

Where Judge Douglas’ reputation counts most is exactly where it has been severely damaged; not in the public eye, but rather within the legal community and the eyes of Judge Douglas’ coworkers. The impact of this scandal on Judge Douglas’ professional reputation and career is as detrimental as being fired. Whether or not Judge Douglas is obliged to resign from her position permanently, this controversy is likely the end of any future advancement she may have been working towards.

Those individuals who believe that Judge Douglas needs to be reprimanded for her actions should acknowledge that she already has suffered—and will continue to suffer—a profound punishment.

Refuse back-to-school blues Holly Tousignant

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few weeks ago as I was preparing to move into a new apartment and begin the new school year, I went to Staples to stock up on school supplies. As a child, nothing excited me more than the prospect of humming and hawing with my dad about which pencil case would go best with my recently purchased binders.

Back-to-school time was just about the most exciting part of my year. It wasn’t just the new purchases that excited me; my excitement was almost entirely tied to my undying love for school itself.

My recent trip to Staples was considerably less enjoyable than trips past. I spent no more than 10 minutes in the store, quickly grabbing the cheapest supplies I could see and then rushing out, the panic in me already beginning to rise. While school supply shopping once evoked feelings of joy and anticipation, it’s now a stress-causing reminder that school is just around the corner.

That’s not to say that I’m dreading my classes, or that I don’t find my area of study interesting. It’s just that the stakes are a lot higher now (something that my nerves are quite aware of).

My generation is often painted as careless and carefree, but I think the real problem is not that we care too little, but that we care about too many things. In my experience, it’s rare to find a student who doesn’t have multiple extra-curricular obligations, a part-time job, athletics or all of the above on top of their busy course load. I’m certainly not alone in dealing with this problem, and I think

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it’s become expected for post-secondary students and even secondary students to feel tense at the thought of school. In the previous issue of the Journal I wrote about stress, and I find it hard to think of a student who wouldn’t benefit from the advice offered in the article.

It’s easy to suggest in the mellow days before classes start that what students really need to do is take a deep breath or something equally useless, but what I think students really need to do is put things in perspective.

I think back to the sleepless nights in high school that I spent powered by nothing but Red Bull and adrenaline, and I have to shake my head at my nearly driving myself into a state of panic over assignments that mattered little in the grand scheme of things. On top of that, I can look back at the work that I stayed up all night to finish and note that it likely would have been much better had it not been completed in a caffeinated frenzy. University assignments are obviously worth a great deal more than those in high school, but a single assignment rarely makes or breaks a student’s academic career, and the stress of worrying about such things usually does the most harm of all.

Everyone knows that university is challenging and sometimes tedious, but with the right attitude I think it can also be exciting and stimulating. I may not have adopted this attitude entirely yet, but I hope that as my studies go on I can gradually put my stress and fear at bay and learn to love school again.

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Fostering global citizenship The information age and an integrated global economy require a new mindset

Rachel Lam, Eng ‘11 In May of this year, Thomas Friedman wrote an opinion piece in the New York Times, in which he remarked that “in a world where our demand for Chinese-made sneakers produces pollution that melts South America’s glaciers, in a world where Greek tax-evasion can weaken the euro … our values and ethical systems eventually have to be harmonized as much as our markets.

To put it differently, as it becomes harder to shield yourself from the other guy’s irresponsibility, both he and you had better become more responsible.”

The concept of global citizenship revolves around the idea of developing an international culture that transcends national borders.

We live in an age of facilitated communication, where we have the ability to receive and send more information than we have the capacity to understand.

We are presented with endless possibilities for innovation, and at the same time we are given the chance to see the world as we have never seen it before.

We are not only exchanging facts and information through communication technologies – we are also empathizing, and in this way are ethically connected with people around the world.

To solve the problems of the world, we need the world to care.

Global citizenship is not just a result of the progression of globalization. It is a distinct identity we must choose to assume – do we remain cloistered on the receiving end of a vast global network, or do we take initiative and try to understand the strange dynamic in which our world functions? If we encounter something we see as injustice, do we try to change it?

The world we live in has been built on a tilted balance. Over 1 billion people around the world live under the poverty line, surviving without security in food

or healthcare on the equivalent of 1.25 USD per day.

Financial, social or cultural barriers mean 69 million children across the world cannot attend primary school and physical disability increases a child’s risk of dropping out of school more than two-fold.

Women in higher-level management and politics comprise less than 10 per cent of the total number of individuals involved.

Even in developed countries boasting gender parity, including Canada, only 30 per cent of higher-level positions are held by women.

More than 70 per cent of the 30 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere each year are the emissions of a privileged 18 per cent of the countries of the world.

Carbon dioxide emissions are also creating environmental havoc, causing global temperatures to increase and consequently melting the glacier systems and acidifying seawater worldwide.

And despite great advances in technology and healthcare in the last decade, information collected by the World Bank shows that more than 2.6 billion people worldwide have no access to basic sanitation.

Our advances in medicine do not change the fact that 8.8 million children under the age of five die each year of preventable illnesses.

In short, many of the problems we face today are as widespread as they are complex. The first step in solving them lies in the development of a collective social conscience. To solve the problems of the world, we need the world to care.

A story in the morning newspaper about a young Pakistani boy’s fatal resistance to bonded labour and child slavery prompted Craig Kielburger to found the children’s charity Free the Children in 1995.

The organisation has since grown to include over a million young people in more than 45 countries, the largest of its kind in the world. At the time, Kielburger was only 12 years old.

LetsStopAIDS, a national network of peer educators on HIV/AIDS, was founded

by Shamin Mohammed Jr. in 2004 when he was 15 years old; and STAND, a student-led,

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Craig Kielburger founded Free the Children at age 12 Canada-wide movement advocating against genocide, was started in 2005 by students at the University of Western Ontario – people not so different from us.

We need to understand that fear of failure should not stop us from standing up for a cause we believe in.

These organisations share a perspective that is well expressed by Free the Children in their mission, to free children around the world “from the notion that they are powerless to affect change.”

Problems can only be solved if people are determined to solve them. The most important mission of these organisations is not to raise money or to have petitions signed, but to show the people of the world, especially the youth of the world, that they are not helpless or voiceless and that their actions can have an impact on the world around them.

We need to understand that fear of failure should not stop us from standing up for a cause we believe in. Success, after all, is only a possibility once an attempt is made. Likewise, progress can only be made if we aspire to affect change.

The Canadian Criminal Code states that inaction while observing a crime against another human being makes the observer an

accessory to the offence.

Not preventing the act is no less wrong than the offence itself.

While social injustice, extreme poverty and global warming are not problems that can be solved by the decisions of a single person, each individual who commits to affect change becomes part of a larger movement driven by a common purpose.

We no longer have an excuse to be ignorant. Our access to information gives us glimpses of someone else’s experience without ever physically seeing or knowing them.

These short pieces of other’s life stories have inspired people to look beyond themselves and achieve things that they never would have believed possible.

If there is an issue that captures your heart and mind, that inspires or moves you, take initiative.

The success of young advocators like Mohammed and Kielburger prove that youth or fear of failure should by no means be reasons for inaction.

Finally, if you have the heart but are unsure of yourself and your cause, I would like to share with you famous words that inspired me when I first heard them: If not you, who? And if not now, when?

“Getting to bed after moshing.”

Anand Lakhani, Sci ‘14

“The Newts’ trip to Montréal.”

Derek Andrews, ArtSci ‘13

“Meeting people.”

Chelsey McCord, ArtSci ‘14

Rachel Lam is the vice president of the Queen’s chapter of Engineers Without Borders.

LETTERS TO THE EDITORS Challenging Islamophobia Re: Palin’s Mosque Mess (July 27, 2010) Dear Editors, Thank you for your stand on Islamophobia.

According to remarks made

last month by Newt Gingrich, a US Republican and former House of Representatives Speaker, the construction of the 13 story building mosque two blocks away from the former site of the World Trade Center is a symbol of ‘Muslim triumphalism’ and the equivalent of “putting a Nazi sign next to the Holocaust museum.”

To specifically target and slander a racial or religious group is abhorrent

for any sensible individual, let alone high profile politicians such as Mr. Gingrich and Mrs. Palin.

Islamophobia, the othering and irrational fear of Islamic culture, religion and values, remains rampant nine years after the September 11 attacks, and it’s on the rise. To have one’s 1300 year history and culture equated with a Nazi symbol is certainly not the most welcoming phenomenon one

can partake in.

It also provokes the systemic biases and antagonism that is evolving in European and North American communities.

The most underlying premise of antagonism to Islam and Muslims in the Western world is an arbitrary sense of ‘inherent violence and backwardness’ amongst Middle-Easterners.

When asked to elaborate,

“Making fun of ArtScis.”

Chris Barnes, Sci ‘14

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Muslims are ‘fine.’ It is Islam and the Quran that seem to be source of the problem.

Such remarks usually emanate from the same individuals who could not name even one Muslim poet, philosopher, or scientist.

While I am no longer an avid believer of the Shia Islamic faith, the vast cultural and historical significance of Islam still matters to me.

For me, Islam is not a simple book written over a thousand years ago; it is the evolution of thousands of different nations and peoples, including mine, over the centuries. It is what the ‘West’ is to white Canada.

To be told that my culture is inherently violent and backwards, to stumble upon placards stating that mosques are ‘monuments to terrorism’ or to be told that a mosque in downtown Manhattan is a stab in the heart for 9/11 victims is as offending and oppressive as I can imagine.

I do not see why I, or millions of Muslims across Europe and North America, have to live a life of abashment and apology for an action and ideology that we did not partake in or believe in.

To do so would be the equivalent of asking Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin to apologize for slavery, or the violent colonization of the Americas by Europeans, or the Christian Crusades that wrecked civil society in Islam.

If 9/11 had such a profound impact on the Western psyche, imagine what over a hundred years of sustained invasion did to Muslim society.

The next time someone talks about the inherent violence of Islamic culture, suggest picking up a book by Hafez or checking out Shahin Najafi’s latest hip hop album release.

Please, challenge Islamophobia.

Amir Nosrat, MSc ’10

True Christians are peacemakers Dear Editors, I am writing as a Christian to publicly voice my disagreement with the plan of Pastor Terry Jones and his congregation to burn Qur’ans on the upcoming anniversary of 9/11.

Jesus said, “Blessed are the peacemakers…”

Although I do not dispute the genuineness of their intent to be followers of Jesus, he and his congregants are not following Jesus’ instruction to be a peacemaker if they carry out their plan.

It is true that Jesus said some very incendiary things. He also said many things that made it clear that following him was of the utmost importance.

There is a real temptation to caricature Jesus as a teddy bear by overlooking these difficult dimensions of his message, or to distort him into an figure one finds palatable or useful.

There is a real danger, however, in overlooking the method Jesus used in presenting his message. Jesus practiced what he preached, he himself was a peacemaker.

In the Gospel accounts, one does not find Jesus assuming political power in order to communicate his message, nor do I think Jesus does anything analogous to burning Qur’ans.

His incendiary comments were always directed to those who shared the same religious tradition as him, and his stern pronouncements were never accompanied by “calling down fire from heaven.”

I hope Pastor Jones and his congregation will refrain from carrying out their plan. As my fellows who are also striving to follow in the way of Jesus, I hope they will follow Jesus in this way of peacemaking.

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Leaders of the 2010 Wolfe pack

Journal photo editor Christine Blais captured the spirit of this year’s Wolfe Island Music Festival.

(Clockwise from top left: DJ T-Lo, The Acorn, Shad, John K. Samson of The Weakerthans and Think About Life)

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Fancy footwork DJ Nate is his name, pitching, layering and triggering hip hop and pop samples is his game

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The Artel and the Wellington St. Theatre are two hidden Kingston treasures.

Light up the Limestone

A small sample of ways to break out of the campus bubble

By Ally Hall A&E Editor It shouldn’t be a shock that Kingston is home to a large population of art lovers, movers and shakers. It can be hard to hunt down art events while finding your footing in a new place. Tempting as it may be to herd with roommates, floormates and housemates to the same old spot week after week, venturing out of the campus realm will help you personalize your time here and find your niche.

Where: 205 Sydenham St., the-artel.ca, THE ARTEL 613-542-0969 What: A welcomed flight from the average Kingston venue, the Artel is many things to many people. The safe and open space is committed to nurturing artistic growth in a quaint and comfy house only a five to 10 minute walk from the Hub. A vast spread of mediums and opportunities are offered for the community to get involved. The Artel encourages discussion with emerging and established musicians, artists and curators and they do well balancing local and out-oftown bands with thought-provoking art installations.

A similar atmosphere can be found at the Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre.

When to go: Sept. 25—Shotgun Jimmy/Baby Eagle concert, Sept. 30—Noise Jam THE GRAD CLUB Where: 162 and 163 Barrie St., queensu.ca/gradclub, 613-546-3427 What: A cornerstone gem of Kingston’s entertainment scene, The Grad Club boasts good food, great music and endearingly creaky floors that breathe its history. Virginia Clark, an established local music promoter, has her ear to the ground and delivers memorable shows, from The Acorn to Jason Collett, to The Grad Club year after year.

Available for club meeting space, it’s a great place to meet or get to know colleagues and classmates over some deep fried delights.

When to go: Sept. 17—Wintergloves with Cherry Chapstick, Sept. 18—Forest City Lovers, Sept. 24—Queen’s Pride Project Welcome Back. Weekly Events—Tuesdays: 1/2 Price Nachos (with membership ID), Wednesdays: Open Mic, 8 p.m., Thursdays: Trivia Night, 9 p.m.

THE ISLAND GRILL Where: 1222 Main St., Wolfe Island, wolfeislandgrill.com, 613-385-2157 What: Overlooking a sun-kissed and sparkling Lake Ontario, there are few places more serene than the wooden patio of the Wolfe Island Grill. A quick 20 minute ferry ride from downtown Kingston gives an escape from the hustle and bustle of campus life. It’s already a hot spot for local island dwellers but the Grill continues to be an underrated

destination for Queen’s students outside of the Wolfe Island Music Festival. In recent years the grill has seen surprise gigs from artists like Feist and Dan Mangan. The intimate setting (not to mention delicious food) bodes well for acoustic-based performances, allowing for great story telling from the likes of Craig Cardiff.

When to go: Sept. 19—Wolfe Island Fiesta with Mariachi Tapatio Salvadoreno, 1:30 p.m.-5 p.m.

Ferry times (from Kingston): 12:30 p.m., 2 p.m., 3 p.m., 4 p.m.

K-ROCK CENTRE Where: 1 Barrack St., k-rockcentre.com, 613-650-5000 What: The closest thing you’ll find to a stadium venue in Kingston, The K-Rock Centre’s fare coincides with the city’s mainstream rock station that sponsors it.

Bob Dylan, Elton John, Bachman Turner Overdrive, Russell Peters, Metric and Jerry Seinfeld are a few of the acts that have drawn audiences young and old. You might have to shell out for acts like these, but it’s not every day the Rocket Man comes to town. Shows are mostly prompt and end before midnight, so plan your time accordingly. For sports lovers, keep tabs on the centre’s website to be in the loop on upcoming Frontenac games.

When to go: Nov. 27—Great Big Sea THE MANSION Where: 506 Princess St., themansionkingston. com, 613-531-0003 What: Resembling its namesake on Princess St. a block west of the Hub, a previous chain pub has transformed into the multi-level venue and music hotspot: The Mansion.

Whether swaying to cozy tunes in The Living Room on the third floor, playing some foosball with nachos and beer on the main floor or crowding into the eerie, candle-lined Wine Cellar, the Mansion always delights. The genres covered for live acts are boundless and are usually up and coming indie acts between $5 and $10.

For acts with more hardcore and screamo leanings, check out Time to Laugh Comedy Club at 394 Princess St. in the heart of the hub.

When to go: Sept. 17—Right by Midnight with The Flats, Sept. 18—Pat Temple with Steve Piticco, Sept. 19—These Three Cities, Sept. 24—Cherry Chapstick Where: 126 Wellington St., wellingtonst.net, WELLINGTON ST. THEATRE 613-542-0070 What: Focused on bringing performing arts opportunities to the masses, the Wellington Street Theatre is home to Theatre Kingston and is a crucial part of the community.

Supported by professionals from Toronto, Queen’s professors, Kingston high schools and local amateur troupes, shows are inexpensive and accessible to students. The elaborate ceiling makes for a beautiful space suited for musicals, concerts and varying types of plays.

When to go: Visit their website to stay in the loop for their upcoming season.

DJ Nate’s Hatas Our Motivation EP is the first commercially available documentation of Chicago’s nascent Footwork scene, an emergent strand of dance music with a rising international profile.

Footwork, itself a derivative of Juke and Chicago House, is built on fast, syncopated drum patterns, dubby bass swells and hypnotic vocal samples. Recorded to accompany “Footwurking,” a manic dance style that’s perhaps better Youtubed than explained, each track is a high-BPM firecracker.

Nate’s sound is defined by his use of samples. It’s unorthodox, even within the genre and will make or break the sound for most listeners. Nate lifts vocals from hip-hop and R&B and blasts them into abstraction, chopping and rebuilding them, pitching them up and down, looping, stacking and arranging them into unusual forms. They bounce freely around the tracks, rarely behaving as expected, often working against the pulse and clatter of Nate’s instrumentals.

Nate’s songs build and move unpredictably—it works precisely because it shouldn’t. The vocals grate against the drums and bass, and when they do align, it’s all the more satisfying.

“Hatas Our Motivation” is the first track, and it sets the tone with sci-fi synths, seething bass and a menacing vocal (“hate is our motivation”) that’s turned inside out as the song develops.

“Ima Burn Him” is a mellower cut. Nate eases you into the track with a bubbly bass line then lays an airy vocal over nimble drum patterns. It’s the EP’s deepest and most

fully realized groove, recalling mid-1990s UK garage.

“We Can Work This Out” has Nate toying with listener expectations. Two stuttering vocals play off each other, building up to a monster bass drop that never arrives.

Taken out of context, these songs (and the whole Footwork niche) can be a bit vexing.

They were made to score dance battles in Chicago basements, and it’s tricky to assess them outside that environment.

“Make Him Run” is relentless, an aggressive, distorted sound-bomb that’s so chaotic it verges on irritating. It’s not meant for headphone listening, and in this way resists critical interpretation. These tunes beg to be heard on their own terms, at gut-rumbling volumes. Within the context of a larger DJ set, the pace and energy of these songs could be irresistible. Nate’s making forceful, innovative dance music and it’s unlike anything being produced right now.

It recalls other genres and producers, but Nate’s style is unmistakably his own.

Championed by the influential UK label Planet Mu (they’ll release another collection of Nate’s work this fall) and exposed to an ever-expanding audience, it’ll be interesting to see where Nate’s sound goes from here.

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The aura of Dora artist in profile 1. Who are you?

Dora Alexander, a band based out of Toronto. [Our] bassist, Michael Succi, is a Queen’s CompSci ’08.

2. What do you do?

We try to write and perform engaging music that challenges the listener, while still remaining accessible. This is tough because every band member has their own individual influences and ideas of what they want to hear. So what

we do is try to reconcile and be sensitive to each other’s musical stylings and in the end create music that is representative of us all.

3. Where can people find you? twitter.com/doraalexander myspace.com/doraalexander facebook.com/doraalexandermusic 4. What inspires you?

Seeing shows. Playing shows.

Other musicians.

Friends.

Hangovers. Records. Camus.

Kafka. Other books. Toronto.

Delay pedals. Drum machines.

5. What do you feel your role is as musicians?

To try and push the envelope in terms of creating new and interesting music, and not just rehash what’s already out there. I think that being a musician carries with it the responsibility of any

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With their debut EP on the way, atmospheric rock band Dora Alexander will inspire you to explore their sonic smoothie. artist, in the sense that you try to create art that is sincere and conveys what’s in your head as best you can. We do this in hopes of producing music that people can not only relate to, but be challenged by as well.

6. How would you describe your music to someone who’s never heard it?

The delicious smoothie you get when you blend up some Mogwai,

Thom Yorke and Neil Young.

7. What’s the nicest and worst thing someone has said to you about your music?

The nicest words of encouragement came from Dan Wolovick of TwoWayMonologues. com, a popular Toronto music blog. He had very positive things to say about our live show at Rancho Relaxo (Toronto music venue), as well as saying that everyone at the blog was anticipating the release of our EP. The worst would have to be from our show in Toronto last week, where one of us overheard a girl calling us a ‘hipster’ band because we were playing a seven minute song with only two chords.

Now I won’t directly refute her statement, but I will rebut with the fact that those two chords went along so well together that the song didn’t need any other chords! Plus, near the end of that song we strum the guitar really fast, so it evens things out right?

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Caribou’s Swim. Microphone phasing. Oxford shirts. Chris’ 808.

9. When someone says Kingston, you say? $3.50 Toucan breakfasts. Gaels at the QP. Clark Hall Ritual. Frosh Week. The Grad Club. Swimming off the pier.

10. What are you working on now?

We’re working on getting everything together for our EP Release in October, and are planning to go into hibernation over the winter months to write and record a couple new tracks.

Dora Alexander play The Mansion tomorrow. Doors are at 9 p.m., tickets are $5.

—Alyssa Ashton

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Mad Tigers manifest mayhem at The Mansion The only thing rivaling peelander-Z’s extraterrestrial live show is their driving riffs and resonating drums smiles,” they insist their costumes are skin and that only kind-spirited people can see the elusive Peelander Pink. A fourth member, Peelander Blue no longer plays with the band as he was forced to journey back to Peelander to fulfill his role as king.

By Ally HAll A&E Editor I can say without a shadow of doubt, nothing could have prepared me for the band I encountered Sunday night at The Mansion.

Not even hearing them described (accurately I might add) as a “Japanese Action Comic Punk Band from NYC.” A large crowd was drawn and the gig started out familiarly with the raw energy of locals Agpak Mum and the always eclectic and intense Owl Farm. Thanks to the strong opening sets the audience was raring to go by the time Peelander-Z took the stage.

Piggy-backs and crowd-surfing had people losing their minds like in the mosh pit of a high school punk show—but one with a conga line.

As the story goes, Peelander-Z are aliens from the Z-area of the planet Peelander. I started to believe it when their bass player suddenly bopped through the crowd donning a huge tentacled squid-guitar costume they affectionately refer to as Red Akaika.

To say the members put on a complex stage show would be a huge understatement.

Hand-written cardboard signs, colour coordinated Power Rangers-esque costumes, human bowling and audience participation gave attendees no choice but to be immediately psyched. The audience packed to the front of the stage taking in the driving punk of the Japanese born, NYC based trio

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Japanese born, NYC dwelling Peelander-Z are a self-proclaimed action comic act who defy gravity and smash pre-conceived notions of what punk looks like. and people made eye contact with excited disbelief, mesmerized over what transpired.

The group has a mind blowing back-story and made waves this year with appearances at Bonnaroo, CMJ and SXSW. It makes sense that their aesthetic is so other-worldly.

As the story goes, Peelander-Z are aliens from the Z-area of the planet Peelander. I started to believe it when their bass player suddenly bopped through the crowd donning a huge tentacled squid-guitar costume they affectionately refer to as Red Akaika.

Guitarist Peelander Yellow (Kengo Hioki), bassist Peelander Red (Kotaro Tsukada) and drummer Peelander Green (Akihihiko “Cherry” Naruse) banded together in 1998 and boast a six album catalogue including their most recent, P-Pop-High School.

They were joined on stage, floor, tables,

ceiling and chairs by Peelander Pink (Yumi) a hype-girl, dance captain and dealer of pots, pans and drum sticks for audience members to join in on the garage jams.

The bizarre but entertaining stories and explanations accompanying the band know no bounds. On top of needing to “eat

The down to earth version? His upcoming marriage got in the way of the band’s increasingly grueling tour schedule.

Prompted by signs, the crowd chanted along, “medium rare!” to tracks like “S.T.E.A.K.” and the catchy standout track, “Mad Tiger”. Yelling, whistling and wall shattering dance moves prevailed, hitting a climax when the group held up signs splashed with “Drummer Needed” and “Bassist Needed,”and consequently turned over their instruments to audience members.

Piggy-backs and crowd-surfing had people losing their minds like in the mosh pit of a high school punk show—but one with a conga line.

One of the band’s DIY signs summed up the vibe of the show perfectly with a scrawled “Don’t Think, Feel.” Yes, outlandish props and quirky theatrical additions are a central component of the show, but Peelander-Z can bang out the tunes. On their website they gushed over their Canadian tour.

“We had such an amazing time there!

Thank you all who came out to our shows!

Hopefully we’ll be back to Canada next year!

We already miss you all!”

It’s safe to say we already miss them too.

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High hopes for fall Gaels As teams begin their seasons, the Journal predicts who will sink and who will swim

Champs open season with loss Gaels look to reverse fortune against the Lancers

By Kate Bascom Sports Editor

The fall’s Gaels look to repeat on the legendary 2009 season and raise their own banners to the rafters.

By Kate Bascom and _Lauri Kytömaa Journal Staff After legendary wins, heartbreaking losses and a long summer of training, the Gaels will be back to attempt to improve upon their records of last season.

The Journal staff looks at how each team improved in the offseason and their finishes last season to predict how the Gaels will fare this season.

Football Last year (grade, record): A+, 7-1 regular season, 4-0 Playoffs; Vanier Cup Champions.

Significant departures: Cornerback Jimmy Allin, Quarterback Danny Brannagan, Wide Reciever Scott

Valberg, and Defensive end Shomari Williams.

Following a championship season can be extremely difficult for any team. For the 2010 Gaels the challenge will be compounded by the loss of many key players on both offense and defence. With several positions in question and the transition to inexperienced quarterbacking, the 2010 season may contain more than its fair share of growing pains. Reaching the Yates Cup final could attain them top season marks despite the high standard set by last year’s squad.

Men’s rugby Last year: A+, 8-0 regular season, 2-0 Playoffs; Turner

Trophy Champions.

Significant departures: Wing Chris Barrett, Lock Ryan Kruyne, Flanker Patrick Richardson, and eight-man Tim Richardson.

Sharing a similar problem with the winning football team, the men’s rugby team must deal with the high standard of a perfect season and a championship banner.

Despite this, the team may have a good outlook for 2010 because it has not lost a substantial amount of key players. While winning another championship ring may be difficult the team should come very close to earning a top grade for the fall.

Womens rugby Last year: B+, 4-1 regular season, lost in the bronze medal game.

Photo by Justin Tang

Significant departures: Jocelyn Poirier.

Although the women’s rugby team lost in the semi-finals last season, their win over Trent saw them advance in the playoffs – something they hadn’t done in five years. Building on this achievement might prove difficult with the loss of several veteran members and a young team.

Men’s soccer

The women’s soccer team wasted no time making their presence known to the other OUA teams.

The Gaels opened their season against the Carleton Ravens in Ottawa winning 4-0. The team travelled back to Kingston for their home-opener and dominated the Trent Excalibur with a 9-1 win.

With the stress of training camp over and excitement building for the upcoming season, even veteran players have to remind themselves to focus on the task at hand. Rookie Melissa Jung committed herself to

defence and found the back of the net. Our keeper played solid and deserved the shutout.”

“It’s going to be a tough five days with three very tough teams.”

Head Coach Dave McDowell, Women’s Soccer With their home-opener against Trent, Jung said the excitement to play for Queen’s acted as a big motivation. The Gaels put on a show as they thrashed Trent 9-1. Forward Jacqueline Tessier dominated play on the field, scoring

— Justin Chapdelaine, Quarterback

five goals.

“Despite the team we’re playing, we always give 110 per cent,” Jung said. “Trent put up a really good effort but they couldn’t contain Jackie Tessier ... who had a fabulous game with five goals. We sustained a lot of pressure and we were able to find the back of the net often.”

Last season’s games against Trent yielded similar results. Queen’s defeated Trent by a combined score of 12-0 over two games.

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Last year: B+, 8-2-4 regular season, lost in the semifinals Significant departures: Goalkeeper Sean Martin-Courtright, captain Michael Zanetti.

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The women’s soccer team dominates in opening weekend the task and scored in her CIS debut against the Carleton Ravens.

Jung would add to this with one goal against Trent.

“When an opportunity arose, I was just able to put the ball in the back of the net,” she said. “I was definitely nervous for my first two games. I just focused and was able to settle down.”

With no shots on net, the Gaels controlled the play and kept it in the Carleton zone. Goalkeeper Elena Corry was able to maintain focus and grab the shutout.

“Carleton pressed hard throughout the game,” Jung said.

“We found ways to penetrate their

It’s also a chance to channel our anger from the loss against Mac, and to show the fans that this new Queen’s team is the real deal.”

“I feel from last year we do have to work a little bit harder,” he said.

“We do have a lot of guys missing.

The OUA is up in the air. We’ve just got to work hard on our grind.”

The ‘grind’ started at the end of finals for Chapdelaine last year.

He remained in Kingston for the summer in order to train and prove to the coaching staff that he was committed to taking over the quarterback position.

“I worked hard in the off-season,” he said. “A lot of the coaches were around and I think I proved to them that I can have a starting role on the team and be a leader.”

With a solid attempt at tying the game in the final minutes, Chapdelaine believed it was errors made throughout the game that forced themselves into a do-or-die moment.

“We just had a lot of mistake in crucial parts of the game which led us to eventually lose,” he said. “We came up really close at the end but it wasn’t good enough. We wanted to beat them by a lot.”

The loss should not raise alarms amongst Gaels fans. Chapdelaine managed one touchdown and 314 yards in his first full

Goals galore for Gaels

By Kate Bascom Sports Editor

Even in a loss to the McMaster Marauders, the Gaels proved they won’t be pushovers this season.

In Hamilton, Queen’s maintained constant pressure in their 23-18 loss which showcased second-year quarterback Justin Chapdelaine.

The turnover in Gaels football, with 13 players graduating last year, was the talk of the summer. The 2010 Gaels won’t be looking to the past and will set their own goals for this season.

Chapdelaine said the team’s goal had been to go undefeated and return to the Vanier Cup. Their loss to McMaster may have ruined their first goal, however Chapdelaine said their game plan for this weekend’s game against Windsor is simple.

“Eliminate mistakes,” he said.

“Be consistent in our game play and stay focused.”

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Pre-season ends on a high note at the Queen’s-dartmouth annual rugby Classic as men’s rugby prepares for their season opener against the Wilfred Laurier golden hawks

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This year’s Gaels dominate the McGill Redmen in pre-seaon action at Tindall Field on Sept. 5.

By tim mcKay contributor At Tindall Field on Sunday, the Queen’s rugby team comfortably defeated the McGill Redmen by a score of 31-0. The game capped off a series of exhibition games against McGill, Dartmouth College and Syracuse University as the Gaels prepare for their season opener against Wilfrid Laurier next Sunday.

Head coach Peter Huigenbos was pleased with his team’s effort heading into the regular season. “The guys were patient and we came out focused,� he said. “This is a hard-working group and I was happy with the way things went.�

He is confident that the team will be ready for next Sunday. “You’re only ready week to week, but we were strong fundamentally,� he said. “Each week is different, so it depends on the game day.�

The Gaels opened with an early lead thanks to a try from veteran winger David Slattery. After some hard work from the Queen’s forwards to retain ball possession, prop Burke MacDonald spun a sublime pass out to Slattery who put one down for the home team.

The Gaels showed why they had a perfect season last year, playing a balanced, fundamentally sound match. Queen’s dominated for the entire game with air-tight defense and strong, quick passing that kept McGill pinned in their own end for the majority of the game.

Fourth-year eight-man Russell Gray echoed his coach’s sentiments

with respect to the Gaels’ sound fundamentals. When asked what his team did well, he replied bluntly with one word: “Defence.� “We had a lot of new faces out there,� he said. “It was a great experience for us to get used to playing alongside each other.�

As the game progressed, Queen’s added four more tries scored by Gray, one from second-year winger Dan Moor, and two from thirdyear scrum half Andrew Kirk. Kirk, who is taking over the starting role at scrum half, showed creativity and confidence as he juked several McGill defenders.

After last year’s thrilling victory over Western in the OUA finals, the team is eager to defend their title.

Gray conveyed his excitement for the beginning of the season. “I thought training camp was good and tough, which is the way it should be,� Gray said. “It got everyone well-prepared physically and mentally for the season ahead.�

The spotlight now switches to the Gael’s match against Laurier this Sunday when the squad gets their first opportunity to prove they’re still the best team in Ontario university rugby. “We’re always building and trying to get better with each game,�

Gray said. “Hopefully we can take some things away from this win and be ready for Laurier.�

The Queen’s Gaels take on the Wilfred Laurier Golden Hawks in Waterloo next Sunday at 1 p.m.

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Tessier said Head Coach Dave McDowell preaches respect for all opponents in their pre-game talks. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Before every game, he says to respect every team and their talents no matter what,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You go out to the game and [play] the best way you can [and to] respect a team is to play your best the entire game.â&#x20AC;?

â&#x20AC;&#x153;You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to read too much into the early part of the season...weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re interested in what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing in late October and early November.â&#x20AC;?

Head Coach Dave McDowell, Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Soccer The Carleton game provided a confidence boost to the Gaels who had challenges against the talented team last year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We played with them in the quarterfinals,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;[We] had a little trouble with them last year so it was really great to have that good of a start against a tough team like that.

And the Trent game afterwards ... It was pretty incredible for a first weekend.â&#x20AC;?

The Gaels are coming back with a strong foundation of players. The graduation of talented striker RenĂŠee MacLellan will be difficult to replace although with Tessierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spectacular first weekend, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s willing to try. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to miss [MacLellan] a lot this year,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m doing my best to try and fill her shoes. We have basically the same starting line-up from last year and a good group of recruits ... The teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just been playing really well together.â&#x20AC;?

MacLellan was not just any player and the impact of her graduation could have an effect on such a young squad. She was not only the captain of the team, but last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s CIS Player of the Year. Second in the OUA in goals scored, head coach Dave McDowell and his staff wondered this summer if there was anyone on the young squad that could step-up. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been asking ourselves since the graduation of [MacLellan] from last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;where are our goals coming?â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The girls from the first two games have certainly answered that question.â&#x20AC;?

The Gaels shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get ahead of themselves with two dominating wins. Last season the Gaels had a 13-1-2 record and had not lost in 14 games coming into the playoffs.

However, the Gaels would fall to the York Lions in a shootout to come away with the silver medal in the OUA championship.

Photos by: Christine Blais â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was a good starting point for us to be in,â&#x20AC;? McDowell said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to read Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s soccer home-opener against the Trent Excalibur resulted in 9 goals too much into the early part of the season ... for the home side. The womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team is travelling to Toronto to take on the University of Toronto and Ryerson University this weekend. weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re interested in what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing in late October and early November.â&#x20AC;?

With their first two games over, the Gaels look ahead to their week on the road where the harsh realities of the regular season will set in. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have a tough week coming up in Toronto. .. and then [the University of] Ottawa on only two days rest,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be a tough five days with three very tough teams.â&#x20AC;?

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The loss of Zanetti and MartinCourtright will be eased by a stellar rookie class, memories of an excellent 2009 season and the return of head coach Chris Gencarelli. The soccer team is largely unchanged and should be able to make a strong push into the playoffs.

women’s soccer Last year: A, 13-1-2 regular season, 3-3 Playoffs; OUA silver, lost in CIS bronze medal game.

Significant departures: Forward Renee MacLellan.

Last season was a sign of good things to come for women’s soccer at Queen’s. With a squad filled with first and second-year students the women rattled off a 13-1-2 record which included a 14-game winning streak. The women lost the OUA banner in penalty kicks against the York Lions, and fell in a shootout to the eventual champion Trinity Western in the CIS semifinals. Earning top marks will require at least one new banner in the ARC rafters.

Field hockey Last year: C-, 2-10-2 regular season, missed the playoffs.

Significant departures: Emily Newton, Mary-Anne Reid.

The field hockey team may have finally found a home at Tindall field in 2009, but they failed to progress in the OUA standings. Reaching .500 will be a difficult task for the women, but is a must for a top grade.

Men’s rowing Last year: B, Third in OUA, seventh at CIS. Significant departures: Jamie Christian, Morgan Jarvis, Andrew Joyce, Ryan Meyers and Greg McNally.

Now two years removed from their OUA banner, the men’s rowing team still seeks to replace the athletes that it lost after 2008.

This year may be another step for a team in transition.

women’s rowing Last year: A, third in OUA, second in CIS. Significant departures: Charly Thivierge-Lortie, Sarah Marshall.

With strong performances this summer at the Royal Canadian Henley the women’s rowing team may be set for a breakout season.

Despite the loss of key rowers, the development of younger athletes has gone smoothly and top finishes can be expected in the years to come.

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Women’s golf

Last year: A-, second in OUA. Last year: C, 8-4 regular season, Significant losses: Kate Burnett. lost in the bronze medal game.

A 6-0 gold medal streak began Significant departures: the women’s team inaugural Nicole Walton.

The women’s lacrosse team faced tough competition last year and wasn’t able to respond. After four straight silver medals, they finished in fourth-place after falling to the University of Toronto in the bronze medal game. The Gaels need to reset and forget about last season.

Playing in the gold medal game will determine whether women’s lacrosse earns top marks.

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women’s cross country Last year: B, third in the OUA, 10th in the CIS. Significant departures: Elizabeth Miller, Carla Murphy.

Like the men’s team, women’s cross country has faced few changes over the summer. The women’s team significantly improved their ranking last year and they should expect to compete at the CIS championship with the likes of Patricia Roney and Leah Laroque back for another season.

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university football game. McMaster never pulled far from the reach of the Gaels as they continued to battle in the game.

“It was upsetting losing the last game,” he said. “Still, there was a feeling that we could have beat them, that we should have beat them and that if we see them again and prepare a bit better prior to the game, we can come up with the W.” The ‘W’ will hopefully come this weekend against the Windsor Lancers. Queen’s benefited from a bye week due to the suspension of the Waterloo football program during the summer. Chapdelaine said that the week was spent training, aiming to eliminate the errors made in their first game.

“We just prepared for Windsor,” he said.

“It wasn’t a slack week off. We had one day of rest.”

The season-opener won’t weigh on the football team even if it was their first season opening with a loss since 2005.

“Last game we did lose,” he said.

“However that won’t be on our minds.

What’s done is done. We’ll move on and go to the next game. It’s a big game. It’s also a chance to channel our anger from the loss

against Mac, and to show the fans that this new Queen’s team is the real deal.”

Even with a loss opening the season, the Gaels will have something to celebrate coming back to Richardson Stadium this Sunday. The captains of the 2009 squad quarterback Danny Brannagan and defensive lineman Osie Ukwuoma, will be returning to help raise the Vanier Cup banner.

The Gaels will then face off against the Windsor Lancers at 1:00 p.m. The Lancers are 1-1 after recording a win against the University of Toronto last weekend. The Lancers have a strong foundation with 16 returning players and second-year quarterback Sam Malian. Their two wins last season may delude opponents into mistaking the Lancers for pushovers, but Queen’s should be cautious not to rest on this perception. In what will be an exciting game with the return of the Vanier Cup and the kick-off to Gaels football in Kingston, Queen’s will be able to feed off this atmosphere and pull out a win for the crowd.

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With a disappointing season-opener against the Carleton Ravens, the men’s soccer team redeemed themselves with a strong showing against the Trent Excalibur on Sunday at Richardson Stadium, defeating them 4-1.

After suffering a season ending loss to the Carleton Ravens in a shootout last year, the Gaels hoped to bring their pre-season success to Ottawa. The Gaels instead went home empty-handed with a 2-0 loss.

“We came off a pretty disappointing loss yesterday,” said midfielder Gilbert Coyle.

“We didn’t play nearly as well as we had in the preseason or as we were expecting.”

The Gaels’ loss to Carleton prompted a change in their strategy against Trent. Coyle explained the team aimed to free up space and give their best players like midfielder The Queen’s Gaels are back at home Mike Arnold areas to score. this Sunday at 1p.m. to play the Wind“We switched the formation a bit today,” sor Lancers at Richardson Stadium. he said. “We had two guys sitting in the middle and we played really well [through the fiekd].”

Coyle took advantage of this change scoring two of the Gaels’ four goals in their win against Trent. Midfielder Michael Arnold and striker Patrick Zanetti scored the two other goals for the home team.

Trent, having won only three games last season, did not offer as much of a challenge as the Ravens. However, Coyle explains it wasn’t the different opponent that changed the play, but a tighter, more determined team on the field.

“We passed the ball a lot better [and] we played it on the ground from the back to the

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front,” he said.

Returning head coach Chris Gencarelli agreed with Coyle and said that the Gaels produced more opportunities with the open field against Trent.

“We definitely created more today than we did yesterday against Carleton,” he said.

“Guys [were] looking to shoot and basically being more creative in the attacking third.”

With a lively crowd on hand at the Gaels’ home-opener, Gencarelli attributed the win to the team’s energy and excitement before the game.

“I think it was a certain level of urgency that we didn’t have against Carleton that we showed today,” he said. “Maybe it was because it was the home-opener ... but the guys came out and were really ready to set the tone and play hard.”

With the graduation of Sean MartinCourtright, the position of goalkeeper is still up in the air. First-year Maxfield Materne has been in goal for the Gaels’ first two games.

“The two that we brought in have shown well so far but so have the returning keepers,” he said. “I’ve been pleased with their progress … It’s early on so we’ll see what happens.”

The Gaels are travelling to Toronto next weekend to face off against the University of Toronto Varsity Blues on Saturday and the Ryerson Rams on Sunday.

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Queen’s rowers compete internationally

The Score broadcasts 10th season of CIS football

Queen’s rower Sarah Pidgen joined Larissa Lagzdins, Lacey Crawley and Audra Vair on Team Canada at the FISU Championships held in Szeged, Hungary. The women placed fifth in the women’s four event, while fellow Gael Greg McNally and team finished third in the men’s four ‘B’ Final event.

—Jessica MacKay

The Score’s University Rush is scheduled to broadcast 10 CIS football games, three of which will feature the Queen’s Gaels.

Announcers Tim Micallef, Fred Sgambati and Mike Morreale will return to call the games. The broadcasts will include a 2009 Yates Cup rematch against the Western Mustangs on Oct. 2, the Guelph Gryphons on Sept. 18 and the Laurier Golden Hawks on Oct. 16.

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in St. Catherines at the 128th Royal Canadian Henley. Alexander Condello and Colin Sutherland won gold in the senior lightweight men’s pair event. Christie Campbell and Allegra Courtright won the senior women’s pair race, and took home the Henley Island Helpers Prestige Trophy. Emily Richardson and Alisha Campaigne won the under-23 lightweight women’s pair and were awarded the Lancaster Brooks and Welch 125th Anniversary Trophy. Alisha Jacqueline Tessier Campaigne and three Gaels, Emily Women’s Soccer Richardson, Amelia Wilkinson and Elizabeth Carter to win the silver medal in the women’s under-23 Jacqueline Tessier is having a dream lightweight event. start to her second season with the women’s soccer team. The Gaels —Jessica MacKay came away from the weekend with two dominating performances, winning 4-0 against the Carleton Ravens and 9-1 against the Trent Queen’s home to Excalibur. With six goals in her last rowing development two appearances, the coming year appears to hold much promise for centre the Winnipeg native.

The ‘Pond to Podium’ program, “It’s incredible to start off the a joint venture between Rowing season like that,” said Tessier, a Canada and Canadian Sport forward. “The whole team has been Centre Ontario has chosen Queen’s playing really well, both now and in University and the Kingston our exhibition games. Hopefully we Rowing Club as its Eastern Talent will keep up all the camaraderie and Development Centre. This program the positivity.”

Despite her individual exploits, supported by the Canadian Olympic Committee looks to Tessier was quick to point out that develop and nurture future rowers the Gaels’ promising 2-0 start was not all her own doing. for international competition.

“It takes a whole team to get the Rob Watering, who previously coached for Queen’s from 2001 ball up front,” she said. “Everyone to 2007, was named the Eastern has been playing really well.”

As a second-year student, Tessier Canadian Talent Development has been able to find the balance Centre Coach. between her soccer schedule and

—Kate Bascom her academics.

“I’m used to it,” the music major said. “It’s even more challenging now that I’m in university, but I Women’s basketball think I’m handling it pretty well.”

The lack of competition in continues winning in her home province pushed her to participate on teams from the local pre-season to the provincial level. This only The Gaels battled the Waynesburg sparked Tessier’s excitement to play Yellow Jackets to a 91-65 win over for a university squad.

“I probably played soccer every the weekend. Rookies Gemma Bullard and Lisa Minutillo added day,” she said. “Soccer was a huge to the team effort in controlling part of my life for 15 years … I’m the majority of play on the court. just really excited to be playing at The Yellow Jackets were unable to the university level.” capitalize while six individual Gaels Most Played Song on Your iPod? scored eight or more points.

The Gaels will continue their Hey Jude, by The Beatles. pre-season next weekend against McGill University, a game which Dream Job? will celebrate the 100th anniversary High school music teacher. of women’s basketball at Queen’s.

Favourite late-night food spot in

—Kate Bascom Kingston?

Bubba’s.

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Athlete you most admire?

Christine Sinclair.

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Favourite movie?

I Am Sam.

Justin Chapdelaine Football Filling the shoes of quarterback Danny Brannagan is no easy task, but Justin Chapdelaine appears to be well on his way. Despite a disappointing 23-18 opening loss to McMaster, the second-year quarterback had a career-high 314 passing yards and has high hopes for his team, the reigning Vanier Cup champions.

“I feel totally confident,” said the phys-d major, when asked of the Gaels’ chances. “We have a lot of good players … a lot of rookies playing good ball.”

The graduation of many standouts from last season’s squad has led many to doubt the Gaels’ chances against strong teams like Wilfrid Laurier, the University of Ottawa or Western. Still, the Abbotsford, B.C., native is hearing none of it.

“A lot of people are saying that this is a rebuilding year,” he said. “I say this is a repeat year!”

Chapdelaine has difficulty hiding his love of the game.

“I mean I love winning, I love football, I don’t think I can ever stop,” he said. “I hope that day never comes. When it does, I’ll probably bawl my eyes out.”

His father, Jacques Chapdelaine, is responsible for the quarterback’s enthusiasm. The ex-CFL player and current offensive co-ordinator with the BC Lions, is a source of motivation for his son.

“He inspires me to play football,” he said. “I would love to play for him someday.”

What is the most played song on your iPod? I am a big fan of the old school beats, so probably Return of the Mack by Mark Morrison.

What would be your dream job?

To play football professionally.

What is your favourite late-night food spot in Kingston?

I guess the Pita Pit. Which athlete do you most admire?

I like very inspirational people, so probably Lance Armstrong.

If you could play any sport other What is your favourite movie? than soccer, what would it be?

Toy Story 3.

Rugby.

If you could play any sport other Favourite TV show? than football, what would it be?

Glee.

Basketball.

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Favourite TV show?

Modern Family.

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Sprucing up your space Postscript explores the overwhelming task of transforming a small room into a unique, spacious sanctuary

BY KELLY LOEPER POSTSCRIPT EDITOR I still remember moving into my dorm room as a frosh two years ago as though it were yesterday.

After hauling all of my stuff up four flights of stairs, I spent the day setting up my new room. After I finished, I admired my organizational skills.

Tragically, these skills lasted approximately halfway through Frosh Week.

My funky green “reading” chair became a clothes rack, my desk a sanctuary for useless papers and my floor a danger zone due to my ever-expanding shoe collection.

I also realized I didn’t even have anything to spruce up my white walls.

After moving into a small bedroom in a house last summer, I was determined to change my ways. I once again had an organized space; I even had a Twilight poster up on my wall (which, after I realized I was no longer thirteen, was promptly removed).

This organization was once again short-lived, with my desk unusable, my closet crammed, and my floor—oh, just so many shoes!

I was annoyed at my lack of ability to make my room a fun hangout spot, a workspace or liveable in general.

I wondered—did I really lack the knack for design, or was I simply lazy? Whatever my problem, I decided it was time to consult the experts.

CREATING SPACE Janise Saikaley is the lead designer and owner of Uproar Design in Ottawa.

“If someone spends a lot of time in their room, organization is key,” she said.

One aspect of creating more space in a room is determining how much space to allow for

different activities. Saikaley said students should think realistically about how much space you need to work in, and to design your bed according to the size of your room.

“You don’t necessarily need a queen size bed in a room that carries only a double,” she said, adding that many places also sell extra-long single bed mattresses.

It’s also important to keep your bed area free of clutter, she said.

“You want to keep that space uncluttered so your head will be uncluttered,” she said. “Make sure your bed is your serenity.”

Another way to create more space is to create lots of storage areas.

One idea is to invest in storage boxes that can easily fit under your bed, Saikaley said. “Any storage under the bed is valuable.”

Many pieces in your room can also have multiple functions, which is another space-saver. For instance, if you have a minifridge you can use its surface, Saikaley said.

A small filing cabinet is also multifunctional as it creates storage and can act as furniture, she said.

“Get a cover for it and it can act as a side table.”

ACCENTING YOUR SPACE An important way to tie your room together is the wall colour (if you can paint it), Saikaley said.

“To me the colour is principle.

Put a colour in your room that you like, that you feel comfortable in.”

If you use your room to do lots of work, green is an excellent choice as it stimulates concentration, she said, and try to steer away from lots of red as it arouses anxiety.

In terms of bedding, she said, messy people should get some in a darker colour so stains and marks won’t show up as easily.

Another important accent to a room is lighting, especially task lights, she said.

“Have a really nice light in there, something that will be at your work space so your eyes don’t get tired.”

In terms of posters and wall hangings, “get one or two,” she said, so that your walls are not over cluttered.

KNOW YOUR RULES If you’re moving into offcampus housing for the first time, it can be tricky to know what your limitations are when decorating your space.

Joan Jones, coordinator of Queen’s Town Gown Relations, said landlords often have different rules for painting a room.

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Although figuring out how to make a small space interesting can be confusing, there have never been more options to get creative.

Many landlords have strict no-paint policies, others allow painting with their permission and some insist the walls be painted back to their original colour when the students move out, she said, adding that students should be careful to communicate with their landlords before painting.

Another popular issue is the wall and what students can do with it.

“Under Ontario law you’re not allowed to affix anything to the landlord’s property without their permission,” Jones said, adding that this includes wall anchors, closet organizers and anything that will peel off paint, damage the surface or change the structure of the walls.

Although students should be informed about what they can and can’t do, Jones said students today are lucky.

“There are so many more options available than somebody 30 years ago. People can get creative,” she said, adding that many stores now sell adhesives for posters, wall decals and peel on/ peel off graphics.

“They cause no damage whatsoever.”

Another simple, worry-free way to decorate is fabric choice. “If you get really cool curtains or bed linens that really makes a difference,” Jones said.

PREVENTING PROBLEMS While students tend to prioritize the aesthetic of a room, Jones said it’s important for them to also think about safety.

“Placement of things is really important,” she said. “Jamming too much stuff is an invitation to a fire hazard.”

Jones said students also need to be aware of any appliances in their

room that produce heat.

“A few years ago we had a couple of fires in student housing ... somebody had a humidifier in their room; the humidifier overheated and set fire,” she said. “[Another student] had a high heat halogen light bulb that fell onto a bed.”

Mould is another common problem for students, Jones said.

“Because these houses are so old and because they’re not so insulated ... If you push your bed up against an exterior wall, sometimes the air doesn’t circulate and condensation forms,” she said, adding that the moisture will then

get trapped inside and mould will begin to breed.

An easy way to prevent this is to pay attention to furniture placement, Jones said.

“Don’t jam everything against the wall, especially when it’s an exterior wall ... you will trap all the moisture inside, even if your house is brand new.”

Students should also always check that air is circulating properly in closets and behind beds, she said.

“You need to be really conscious.”

FUNCTIONAL FINDS According to Saikaley, these pieces are very useful for living in a dorm or small space.

•Full length mirror: Useful to hang on the back of a door.

•Dry erase/bulletin boards: Often sold as two-in-one.

•Essential oils: Great alternative to candles. A few drops are put into light bulb ring diffusers that fit onto a light bulb. The heat from the bulb transfers to the ring, which then diffuses the scent.

•Roller blinds: Great for light sleepers as they easily block out the sun.

•Rugs: Cheap ways to spruce up a room. Sheepskin rugs are also warm on feet.

•Large pillows: Useful to lean against for reading in bed.

•Air mattress: Useful when you have guests over, and can be easily stored when not in use.

•Laptop supports: Good for people who use their laptops in bed. They also prevent overheating and increase air flow underneath.

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