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Academic plan raises new debate Discussion continues at town hall

“Everyone on the floor really loved him,” she said. “He was very outgoing.”

She said the floor nicknamed him the ‘token Queen’s kid’ because of his excitement for the University.

“He was so excited for his Eng Cut and was so excited to be here,” she said.

Cameron’s father said his enthusiasm applied across the board and that as an active participant of the Westport community and Staples high school, Cameron brought the same attitude to Queen’s that he brought to all parts of his life.

“He was very gregarious and very involved,” Bruce said. “He was a musician and a swimmer.”

Cameron was part of his high school band, orchestra and a jazz ensemble, playing the trumpet and violin.

Lord said she is concerned that by devoting resources to technological pursuits, the University will neglect more basic aspects of the learning experience. “[Even] arts students’ aren’t receiving writing instruction until third year,” she said, adding that many can barely write communicable essays until that point.

Jill Scott, member of the AWT and a professor in the German department, said the recommendations do focus on technology but they look at how it can aid traditional learning, not replace it.

“You can’t substitute a lecture through virtualization,” she said “Media supplements learning.”

She said that although it would be ideal to have also included recommendations about writing, the team only had so many pages and had to narrow their focus.

“Resources are limited, and there is no magic turnaround.” Scott said.

“We need to be smart. We need a plan, but a good plan.”

Principal Woolf said he agreed that in reality it’s impossible for the academic plan to include everything.

“We must make choices if we live in a world of constrained reality,” he said at the town hall meeting.

Woolf said he is prepared to be ambitious and make real changes–even if he’s unsure exactly what they’ll be.

“This is university, which is a place for stating bold ideas about where the institution should go,” Woolf said at the Sep. 15 meeting. “There is still going to have to be a lot more discussion, and it’s not going to be easy. The recommendations in the academic plan will require fundamental changes to how we do things,” he said, adding that he will have a much better idea of exactly what should be changed in 2011 when he writes his Academic Plan based off of the AWT recommendations and the feedback from them.

Lord said she hopes financial constraints don’t play too large of a role in Woolf’s final plan and that the money should be found to suit the University’s academic needs.

“We can’t say, ‘we’re not going to talk about this because we don’t

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The King’s Town Players set out to cover the complete works of Shakespeare within one play.

Tensions were high at Duncan McArthur Hall on Wednesday as students, faculty, staff and community members discussed 41 pages of academic recommendations.

The recommendations were written by the Academic Writing Team (AWT) in response to Principal Woolf’s ‘Where Next?’ document, which was released last January.

While many recommendations were praised, some Queen’s faculty and staff had concerns over others.

Susan Lord, professor of film and media and cultural studies, said she worries that virtual learning is being over-emphasized.

“My criticism is that the plan’s examples of the way forward are based on technology, and this is a problem,” she said.

Technology comes up continually in the plan. It is cited as a means to connect with other universities, keep track of alumni and take learning outside the classroom.

In memory of Cameron Bruce

Queen’s mourns loss of ‘happy’ and ‘outgoing’ first-year engineering student

By Clare Clancy News Editor Cameron Bruce will be deeply missed by all who knew him.

He will be remembered for his outgoing personality, commitment to his community and warm spirit.

The first-year engineering student was found dead outside his residence early Monday morning.

Kingston Police said foul play is not suspected in this tragic incident.

His father, Iain Bruce, said that Cameron was thrilled to be

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accepted into the Queen’s Faculty of Engineering upon his graduation from Staples High School in Westport, Connecticut earlier this year.

Bruce said he still has the text message Cameron sent him when he found out he was accepted into Queen’s.

“All upper-case and three exclamation marks,” he said. “It just said ‘I’M INTO QUEEN’S!!!’

I could feel his excitement through that text message.”

Bruce, Comm ’81, said both he and his wife came with Cameron to Queen’s to help him move into residence.

“I’ve never seen him get up willingly at four in the morning.

He was so wired and so excited,” he said. “I have never seen him as excited about anything in his life.”

Bruce said after dropping his son off at residence, he heard from Cameron that he was having an

amazing frosh week.

“He was so excited and the goodbyes weren’t long and tearful.

They were joyful,” he said. “He said he had the best week of his life.”

Bruce said Cameron had bonded with his floor during the eight days he was at Queen’s.

“He was so happy. The way orientation is done here is a special and powerful thing,” he said.

“He talked about how great his floor was.”

“He knew [Queen’s] was the right place for him,” he said. “He wanted to do everything, even before he got here. He wanted to be a FREC, do band, swimming.

It was comforting that despite this, he had made the right choice for himself.”

Meg King, ArtSci ’14 was a floormate of Cameron’s who said he would be remembered for his outgoing personality.

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Friday, September 17, 2010

Take Back the Night posponed, not cancelled

By Labiba Haque Assistant News Editor A little rain can’t stop women on a quest to reclaim the streets. Annie Chau, a community educator at the Sexual Assault Centre Kingston (SACK) helped organize this year’s Take Back the Night event.

She said that last night’s rally was rained out but that it’s been rescheduled for next Thursday, Sept. 23.

“When it’s raining like this and wet like this we thought it would be best to maximize all the efforts for this event for another time,” she said.

The event is a 30-year old rally where women and children take to the streets to escape violence and find their voice.

“There’s a stat out there that’s extremely shocking. It says four out of five women have been either sexually or physically abused,” Chau said, “Many of us live with this fear, this threat.”

“The idea is to finally have one night where you can walk freely and be safe. The threat of being free from violence has not been achieved yet. The key is collaboration and to get people engaged.”

Engagement is one of the main reasons Chau said they decided to postpone the event.

“Take Back the Night is important to people who usually know and participate in the event,” she said. “These participants will

always attend no matter what the weather is like. However, the event this year is different as we want to be as visible as we can, so we can engage new people into the issue.”

“We thought it would be difficult to control our presentation, [which] we are going to be projecting on to the buildings downtown,” Chau said, referring to the multimedia presentation and the speakers that were planned on being used for the rally.

“The lights and the music wouldn’t be as engaging during the night because of the weather. We really need to make sure that the efforts being put into this event are fully being optimized as best as it could be,” she said.

Take Back the Night is an annual event that takes place at the local and international level. Last year over 300 participants were involved in Kingston’s event.

“We are putting more effort into it this year. We are making it really big, really loud. We did a test run and people had noticed us on the street. So we’re hoping to make a big scene and that’s the point of it,” Chau said. “We want to reclaim the streets so they can feel safe again … at least for one moment in time and hopefully that will help engage more women.”

Chau said that the event started over 30 years ago in Belgium as a result of internal crimes against women.

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Australia and here in Canada. I think it’s sort of bigger here,” she said, adding that typically in Canada Sexual Assault Centres organize the event.

Participants are encouraged to bring noisemakers to the rally to help attract attention.

“We think pots and pans are very symbolic noise makers,” she said. “Particularly [in the case of] domestic violence, the wife economically depends on the husband. So the idea is, let’s take these pots and pans and make noise.”

Chau said the event is a great

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“In a lot of other communities the event does include men. At this time we ask men to cheer on the women during the rally. We want to ensure that the focus is on women and children,” she said, adding that men in the past have been very supportive and have respectfully remained as rally spectators.

Chau said the postponed event will not be any different from the one originally intended.

“Everything will be much more fine-tuned,” she said. “We’re just going to have to be much freer with our projection show and hopefully we’ll bring more people out because of the better weather.”

The event is scheduled to take place in Confederation Basin at City Hall, with the open-mic and rally starting at 7 p.m., followed by the march, ending the night with a concert from local artist Emily Fennell.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

FEATURE

Two months, two bikes and five provinces Students bike 4,600 km to research thesis, battle breast cancer

BY JAKE EDMISTON FEATURES EDITOR Environmental studies student Mike McHugh hit a railroad track and flipped over his handlebars on the first day of a twomonth cross-Canada bike tour.

His friend and fellow Queen’s student Jessica Kemp crashed into McHugh’s wreckage and injured her knee.

“Day one was the single worst day … everything else we were able to take on,” McHugh said, adding that the pair also popped two tires that day and the packs attached to McHugh’s bike repeatedly flew off into oncoming traffic, risking their recently purchased equipment.

This wasn’t just recreation though, the trip was McHugh’s method of gathering research for his master’s thesis.

The pair biked from Vancouver to Hamilton starting June 6 and arrived Aug. 4.

McHugh, 23, said he’s currently compiling the information he catalogued on the trip to create a recommendation for cities looking to create a cyclist-friendly roadway system.

Kemp, an education student, rode 4,600 km for a different reason. She was raising a dollar-per-km for breast cancer research in memory of her sister who lost her life to the disease at age 26.

As of last week, she had raised $5,245 – over $800 more than she had originally planned.

“There’s so much strength in memories,” Kemp said. “I always think about her struggles. I thought if she could go through that then I could [bike cross-country].”

McHugh said the two set a goal of covering 100 km a day carrying 90 lbs each of equipment and supplies.

“We found that was attainable,” he said. “We low-balled it so we wouldn’t be disappointed.”

They also had the same heavy-duty locks used by Toronto Couriers to ensure their $1,200 bicycles wouldn’t be stolen along the way.

They traveled an average of eight to 10 hours daily, stopping in four major Canadian cities so McHugh could conduct research on different realities for cyclists nationwide.

McHugh spent about a week biking around Vancouver, Calgary, Ottawa and Toronto, speaking with local cycle enthusiasts and cynics, as well as politicians.

He said the main issue is that each city lacked a complete network of bike lanes.

“Having bike lanes that

end happens in almost every city,” he said.

“Those are problems that cause injuries.

“If a person can’t get from point A to point B without feeling that they’re safe [in a bike lane], then they’re not going to get on their bike.”

McHugh said Vancouver’s cycle network was the best he’d encountered. It included a completely separated lane for cyclists and pedestrians on the city’s Burrard Bridge.

When McHugh and Kemp left Vancouver en route to Calgary they encountered a particularly tough stretch. “[Roger’s Pass] is excruciatingly painful,” he said. “You can’t do it in a day. It’s just up.

The incline is crazy.”

On the stretch of Rocky Mountain roadway, the pair of Queen’s students passed a man hauling empty beer cans on a small, two-speeder.

“You’re all suited up in gear and complaining and then you see this person with beer cans saving them to cash in at the depot,” McHugh said. “You think ‘oh God, I can’t complain, he’s got flip flops on.’”

McHugh and Kemp met the man again when they stopped at the only rest stop in over 100 km.

The two shared a room and a meal with the man, who they learned was homeless.

“The stove wouldn’t work because the change in pressure,” he said. “So we ended up eating dry macaroni and cheese that night.”

Once they reached Calgary, McHugh said he investigated the poorest cycling climate on his trip.

“I can understand why you don’t see a lot of citizens in Calgary biking,” he said.

“There’s so many aggressive drivers ... I refused to get on my bike afterwards.”

McHugh said he took issue with the treatment he received as a cyclist on Calgary’s light rail transit line.

“They don’t really encourage bikes on there,” he said. “When I was on there twice with my bike I was approached and told ‘get in that corner,’ “In any other city like Ottawa, Vancouver, Toronto and even Hamilton it was not problem.”

McHugh said regardless of where he and Kemp went, people found their attire inviting.

“When you’re wearing the gear and carrying bikes, it’s like a giant sign that says ‘talk to me’,” he said, adding that it sometimes worked in their favour.

One night in Suffield, Alberta the pair had planned to buy their dinner at the town’s

only convenience store but by the time they arrived, it was closed.

“We thought we were going to bed without food,” McHugh said.

“These people probably saw our defeated faces.”

A local couple brought McHugh and Kemp back their home and fed them fried chicken and beer. The students met the couple’s pet cat who, apparently, had 26 digits on four paws.

“People like that, you meet and you know you’ll never see again,” he said.

“But it’s the once in a life time meetings that just last.

“It makes you feel good about society, or at least Canada in general.”

The trip cost McHugh around $6,000 including his bike and airfare. He said the environmental studies program covered a majority of his costs.

“The way it works is our school funds us based on fellowships, teaching assistant jobs, grants and bursaries.”

The second-year master’s student said his unusual research method was fully supported by his department, especially his supervisor, Graham Whitelaw.

“The people [at environmental studies] have been so open- minded,” he said. “[Whitelaw] has been really encouraging of me to think outside the box.”

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‘He was very outgoing’ Continued from page 1

“Other than [at] Queen’s he was happiest when he was at music camp,� Bruce said, adding that Cameron attended New England Music Camp in Sidney, Maine, for four years. He also played in the Youth Band for the United Nations for two years where he travelled around New York with other musicians to play at UN events.

Cameron was also part of the Norwalk Youth Symphony for five

years, where he was the Assistant Principal Trumpet in 2009-10.

He shared his gift of music with the Westport community, playing Taps at Memorial and Veterans Day ceremonies and playing at the Field of Flags tribute at Saugatuck Congregational Church last June.

Bruce said his son was also an outstanding athlete and was a member of his high school varsity swim team during his entire high school career. He was team

CAMPUS CALENDAR Friday, Sept. 17

Tuesday, Sept. 21

Community Town Hall on report of the Academic Writing Team 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.

JDUC, Wallace Hall

Tips on applying for Scholarships and Fellowships 5:45 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Biosciences Complex, Room 1101

First Week of Class Patio Ritual Noon to 6 p.m.

Clarke Hall Pub 19+

Wednesday, Sept. 22

Saturday, Sept. 18 QUIC bus trip to Niagara Falls 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Tickets $60.

Contact the QUIC to purchase EQUIP Potluck Picnic and Sports in the Park 1 p.m.

Meet at Botterell Hall to walk over to City Park.

Fall-Term Exchange Networking Night 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

JDUC, QUIC Thursday, Sept. 23 QUIC English Conversation Group 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

JDUC, QUIC

captain in his senior year but still managed to find time to cheer on other sports.

Dan Woog, head coach for the Staples High School boys’ soccer program, said that although Cameron didn’t play soccer, he was one of the team’s biggest fans. “He loved the game and was friends with a lot of the players.

He liked supporting the school however he could,� he said, adding that Cameron was overall an exceptional person to be around. “Everyone at Staples High School knew him,� he said. “He was just a personality.�

Woog said Cameron had an unparalleled ability to inspire other students. “In a school of 1,800 students he really stood out for all the right reasons,� he said. “He was swim team captain, a musician, [an] AP student, and active in all those areas. His friendly, outgoing spirit crossed the grade line.�

Woog writes a blog about the community in Westport and has received an overwhelming response to Cameron’s death. “People he worked with at the Discovery Museum, swim teammates, [and] parents who talk about the influence Cameron had on their children have commented.

Taken together it paints a broad and deep picture of a young man who had a bright future.�

Woog said Cameron was known for his commitment to his high school and willingness to participate. “He’d volunteer for anything.

Cameron Bruce, ArtSci ’14, was an avid trumpet player.

His band teacher ‌ said whenever he needed a trumpeter for a community event, Cameron was the one to do it,� Woog said.

At the Staples Scholar Athlete dinner, Cameron was asked to play the American national anthem to open the dinner. “He loved doing it. He did it with a smile, grace, enthusiasm and he did it with talent.�

At Staples, Cameron was an AP Scholar with Distinction, a Commended 2010 National Merit Scholar, and he received the Staples Science Department Award for Outstanding Achievement

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Cameron leaves behind his loving parents Iain and Linda Bruce, his sister Margot Bruce and his grandmother Shirley Bruce.

A funeral will be held at Saugatuck Congregational Church in Westport tomorrow at 2 p.m.

Donations in Cameron’s memory may be made to the Cameron Bruce Scholarship for Trumpet at New England Music Camp, 8 Goldenrod Lane, Sidney, ME 04330, or for a grant which will be established in his memory, at Staples Tuition Grants, PO Box 5159, Westport, CT 06881-5159.

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have enough resources,’” she said at the town hall meeting. “We must include all objectives and values in the academic planning document in order to show the public and gather resources,” she said. “Financial issues constrained the imagination of the academic plan and are driving decisions of what is emphasized.”

Scott said quite the opposite is true.

“We didn’t hold back. We laid everything out on the table,” she said. “That being said, there are things we didn’t think of, because it’s impossible to think of everything.”

She said it was experience, not money,

which limited the recommendations. As staff and faculty members, Scott said the team was unable to think of everything students may need or want in their academic environment.

As such, they are invited to give their input now.

Students, faculty and staff are invited to give their input at the next town hall meeting on Friday, Sep. 17 at 12-1 p.m. in Wallace Hall in the JDUC or online at queensu.ca/principal/wherenext.html

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At Duncan McArthur Hall on Wednesday, academic recommendations are discussed by faculty, staff, students and community members.

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Friday, September 17, 2010

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the journal First aid for last call T

he British Red Cross is promoting a new campaign intended to teach children how to help those suffering asthma attacks, epileptic seizures and other injuries. The most interesting component of the campaign is its emphasis on dealing with alcohol-related issues.

The program, which teaches children resuscitation techniques and the recovery position, was prompted by a Red Cross survey which found that 14 per cent of youths between the ages of 11 and 16 had been involved in an alcohol-related emergency.

It’s hard to find fault with a program that is so in touch with the realities of youth, but it is important that such a program be properly applied and structured.

There is a reasonable concern that the training might create a false sense of security among youth. Young people are often overconfident about their ability to handle alcohol, and brief first-aid training might lead some to believe they are prepared for emergencies beyond the training program’s scope. As

with any emergency, seeking properly trained adult assistance is the best first step.

Fears that the program’s teachings might go misapplied and make a bad scenario worse are equally hard to disperse. In the case of alcohol-related emergencies, especially those involving head and neck injuries, minor decisions can make the difference between life and death.

For this reason, it’s probably best that the program be voluntary­­—but strongly encouraged­—so that only those who are interested in learning attend.

The concern that this sort of training might act as an enabling device—putting ideas about drinking into young minds—is hard to stomach. Drinking and alcohol poisoning are realities young people face in most cultures around the world, Britain being no exception.

While this program won’t solve every drinking-related problem young people face, it’s certainly a beneficial and common-sense solution.

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n a story printed in Tuesday’s Globe and Mail, Laura Blenkinsop considered the merits of various “nursing covers.” These apron-like garments allow a woman to nurse without exposing herself in public.

Nursing covers have become popular partly because of ongoing concerns about public breastfeeding. The article lists related incidents that have occurred in Canada over the last year, where breastfeeding women have been asked to move or cover up.

While it is easy to understand that some individuals might be uncomfortable seeing the breast or nipple of a stranger, it’s up to the individual to negotiate his or her discomfort.

Women are allowed to breastfeed in public across Canada, with Ontario being one of two provinces to have a specific law encoding this freedom.

Some believe that a woman exposing her breasts in public is in some way indecent or sexually explicit. These individuals must acknowledge that these are personal values which do not impact the decisions made by others. Women breastfeeding are not exposing their breasts as a sexually gratuitous act—and even if they were, going topless is not a crime.

Unfortunately, there is a great disparity between theory and reality. In theory, the public must respect a woman’s right to breastfeed in public. In practice, women who

do so will likely encounter problems at one point or another.

Some individuals insist that the nursing covers are easy to use, and that women should consider the feelings of those around them out of politeness. Many are quick to point out that they have an equal right to be made uncomfortable by a woman exposing her breasts in public. While discriminatory or hostile behaviour cannot be tolerated, signs of silent censure—pursed lips and looks of disapproval or shock—are an unfortunate reality.

The presence of designated breastfeeding areas in some spaces further complicates the issue, as opponents to public breastfeeding sometimes pressure—or harass—women into using these spaces, taking the “designated” status as obligatory. These spaces exist to accomodate a woman’s needs, not the delicate sensibilities of the public.

This uneasy situation means that women who breastfeed publically must weigh the strength of their convictions against the possibility of public backlash. Some will choose to avoid tension and disapproval.

Other will act upon the rights they possess, and face varying degrees of strife along the way. This is far from an ideal choice. For the moment, however, it is the most realistic one.

Upselling’s downside Kelly Loeper

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f you’ve ever gone shopping, I’m sure you’ve experienced something called the ‘upsell’: the wonderfully irritating efforts of sales clerks to offer you every useless bell and whistle imaginable at the checkout.

According to a recent article in the Globe and Mail, those harmless extras can really do a lot of damage to your expenses. The article points out how much money one can waste buying items such as a discount card at Chapters, a breakfast food with a morning coffee, an extra DVD rental for “only a dollar more” and of course those ever-popular “extended warranties” for every piece of technology in existence.

What’s the big deal with getting sucked into spending a couple of extra dollars here and there? I, for example, am a sales clerk’s dream customer: the mention of a muffin with my latte from the friendly Starbucks barista gets me every time and “a dollar more” for an extra item I don’t really need is basically something for nothing, right?

Don’t even get me started on extended warranties—besides having the technological knowledge of a carrot, I’m always worried I’ll do something stupid to my computer like step on it (guilty) or mysteriously cause the “blue screen of death” (also guilty).

Needless to say, I never hesitate to drop money on a warranty.

After looking through my bank statements each month, I’m always shocked to find out where my money goes—all those supposedly harmless add-ons add up!

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So why, exactly, do I have such a hard time saying no?

Maybe it’s because I realize that many sales clerks aren’t a bunch of secret schemers trying to steal all my money.

Trust me; I’ve been on the other side of the counter. Having worked in retail, I know what it’s like to receive an ominous glare from a manager when my sales pitch doesn’t work out. I’ve also experienced the equally ominous glare from customers clearly telling me to get out of their face. The memories of shamefully slinking away are all too fresh.

Despite being able to sympathize with sales clerks, there’s no way I can continue going through life falling for sales pitch after sales pitch. If you’re like me, how can we steer clear of careless spending?

Although it seems obvious, what really helps me is asking the question “do I really, really need this extra?” During my semi-annual trip to Chapters, should I drop 20 bucks on that 10% discount card? Probably not. When I buy a new iPod, should I shell out the cash for those gimmicky warranties?

Well, considering my history, probably.

It’s also often difficult for me to toe the line between assertive politeness and passive acceptance that gives sales clerks the green light to keep offering me stuff. Maybe I smile too much. Or maybe ... I just don’t say ‘no’ enough. What a novel concept!

There’s nothing wrong with niceness, as long as it doesn’t control your wallet.

By saying no, you’re doing yourself a favour at the end of the day.

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Iran should be allowed nukes

As history has shown, nuclear technology has been a moderating influece on tyrannical regimes

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Yuchen Wang, ArtSci ’13 Iran is a textbook oppressive, theocratic quasi-dictatorship that very likely fixed the last election to sustain power. Their regime is one that constantly threatens other countries in the Middle East and is getting closer and closer to developing a nuclear weapon that it may or may not use on our close allies.

They have been able to stay in the headlines for a long time thanks to their shady nuclear program, which has just recently begun the fuelling process at its primary reactor. Many experts suggest that the Iranians will soon have their own nuclear device.

As a country with extremely hostile relations with all its neighbours, an Iranian nuclear weapon is a disturbing prospect.

Let’s get something straight.

Like many Canadians, I support Israel. It’s a small country that cut its teeth against nearly insurmountable odds in several wars, with a swashbuckling attitude that we haven’t seen on the world stage since the Reagan years.

It’s also the most reliable ally we have in the region. So when Iran, with its stated objective of “wiping Israel off the map,” started their nuclear program, I was fearful.

When Iranian officials told the press that they are warming up their nuclear reactors for a peaceful civilian power project, I wasn’t exactly thrilled.

Like many of us who grew up in the ‘90s watching the History Channel, the first thought that popped into my head was something along the lines of “bomb the bastards.”

So why shouldn’t we in Canada support an air campaign against Iran’s nuclear facilities or even overthrow the Iranian regime?

In short, it’s because the costs far outweigh the potential benefits.

First of all, no one can be sure that a strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities can be successful, even with the participation of the United States. U.S. Secretary of Defence Robert Gates went so far as to suggest that an attack of this type will do nothing more than “buy some time.”

Not to mention Iran has numerous secret nuclear facilities

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tours nuclear facility. April 8 is a national nuclear holiday in Iran.

alongside the single primary facility.

These secret facilities are scattered throughout the country and hardened against potential attacks.

These facilities are simply too numerous, too well protected and in some cases, too well hidden to be taken out in one fell swoop. The Texas-based intelligence service STRATFOR estimates there were approximately 14 of these secret facilities in 2008.

While the insane and often comical rants of despots make for smashing propaganda, they by no means dictate national policies for these countries.

Another troubling fact is that Iran has their fingers on over 40 per cent of the world’s oil shipments with their effective control of the Strait of Hormuz.

Iranian leaders are well aware of this geographical advantage and have numerous measures to ensure a critical global shortage of oil should an assault on Iran take place.

These countermeasures include a contingent of mine-laying ships, submarines, aircrafts and missiles that can threaten not just civilian ships, but pose a serious threat to NATO naval vessels operating in the area.

A disruption of this magnitude in oil shipments, even for a short time, will completely shatter the already fragile, recovering global economy.

As it happens, Iran’s geographical advantages don’t stop there.

Iran borders Afghanistan and Iraq, both of which have large contingents of Western troops and both are critical to Western interests.

Iran certainly isn’t letting this advantage go to waste, and has been providing limited training and equipment to insurgencies in both neighbouring countries: their shape charges killed Coalition troops in Iraq and their MANPADS (ManPortable Air-Defence System) shot down NATO helicopters in Afghanistan.

While Iran has been fairly reserved about the assistance they provide to both insurgencies, they will not hesitate to use their resources in a less restrained manner should a war break out.

For an attack on Iran to succeed, the Iranian assets along the Strait of Hormuz must be completely suppressed or destroyed, along with a majority of the Iranian military.

It simply makes no sense for Iran to ever relinquish its current and rather cushy position in global politics.

The targeted nuclear facilities must all be completely destroyed, and an offensive against Iranian assets in the Middle East must also be launched.

All of these objectives must be achieved in quick succession for the operation to have a chance of success; the failure of a single element will have catastrophic consequences.

However, Iran was not the first nation to cause a panic in

the world by attempting to obtain nuclear weapons.

It was long feared the Soviet Union would launch its nuclear weapons at the first possible instance, China espoused radical rhetoric regarding nuclear weapons before obtaining them and North Korea has always threatened to take the South one way or another.

All of these countries failed to fulfill their doomsday plans.

The Soviet Union commenced a game of brinksmanship where a nuclear attack was always out of the question.

China settled down, made some friends and started talking to the US soon after.

North Korea toned down their rhetoric and didn’t annihilate Seoul as their previous statements suggested.

Simply put, dictators don’t become dictators by being insane.

To get where they are, they need to calculate risks and stay away from unnecessary dangers.

While the insane and often comical rants of despots make for smashing propaganda, they by no means dictate national policies for these countries.

In more cases than not, internal stability and security are the highest concerns of tyrannical regimes, and throwing it all away in a nuclear war with another power is not in their interest.

It simply makes no sense for Iran to ever relinquish its current and rather cushy position in global politics.

Likewise, it would be strategically and economically suicidal for the West to contemplate an attack on Iran.

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Sparking inspiration for change Much ado about it all

A community art performance in City Park gives attendees the opportunity to reflect, commemorate and support those who have died and those who are living with HIV/AIDS

All 38 of Shakespeare’s plays and other chronicles performed in one evening? Three local actors set out to prove it can be done.

By Alyssa Ashton Assistant A&E Editor

Through a directed choreography, The Lighting the Way Lantern Festival uses movement and light to connect friends and strangers alike in a human chain.

By Ally Hall A&E Editor Stop to reflect, ignite to commemorate and connect in support. By giving only a few minutes of your time to this year’s AIDS Walk and Lighting the Way Lantern Festival tomorrow evening, you’ll have the opportunity to align with local artists and support those who have died and those who are

currently living with HIV/AIDS. Along with the involvement of three community groups creating light installations around the theme of “spark” this Saturday in City Park, a number of professional artists will be creating works during the night between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. This year, the theme represents the light that starts the fire and the ability for one person’s actions to ignite a movement for change.

It’s not everyday one is invited to be a part of such a large-scale, interactive live artwork at sunset, let alone one for such an important and worthy cause. One of the organizers Julie Fiala explained how through a directed choreography, the community performance will set out to use movement and light to connect both friends and strangers in a human chain.

“There was a call for artists

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from HIV/AIDS Regional Services (HARS) to be involved in the Lantern Festival,” she said. “Kate Yüksel and I decided we wanted to create an aesthetic experience that would allow people to come together on a large scale to reflect on the condition and represent a sense of support for those living and those who have died of HIV/AIDS.” Please see HIV on page 12

A chromatic choral carriage Kat Burns of Forest City Lovers talks to the Journal about buried wit, Toronto and dendrophilia

By Jacob Morgan Contributor The Forest City Lovers are a band from Toronto who craft orchestrated, string-laden nuggets of indie pop. The group developed out of the solo act of singer-songwriter Kat Burns, a recent OCAD graduate. Today, the band is comprised of Burns as well as violinist Mika Posen, bassist Kyle Donnelly, keyboardist Timothy Burton and drummer Christian Ingelevics.

They are currently touring in support of their newest album, Carriage, and are playing in Kingston on Sept 18 at the Grad Club. The album is the band’s fourth and strongest effort to date.

“I think it’s a step forward,” Burns said. “I don’t know if it’s a departure in the sense that it doesn’t leave anything behind and builds on what already existed.”

The most immediately recognizable and popular song on

Carriage is “If I Were a Tree”, a melodic and sunny tune with some witty and coy lyrics. In the middle of the first verse, Burns sings, “If I were a tree I’d give you wood/Make you a dendrophiliac.”

A quick Google search and we learn that a dendrophiliac is a lover of trees.

Burns’ vocals are somewhere in between the sultry purr of Cat Power and the bouncy malleability of Feist.

Burns’ vocals are somewhere in between the sultry purr of Cat Power and the bouncy malleability of Feist. The sound puts her squarely in the post-millennial generation of female indie-pop singers. The style is a combination of twee innocence and urban maturity. Kat’s delivery allows her light-hearted voice to subtly belie a far more knowing persona. It’s as if the singing voice is performed with a wink of the eye

at the audience.

Burns describes her approach as one that can be appreciated on different levels.

“I like writing with layers, anything that I make is meant to be looked at or listened to a few times and speaks to the composition,

16 comedies, 10 histories, 12 tragedies and 154 sonnets made into a two hour production undertaken by three actors. This is what the King’s Town Players have created with their new play The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged). It’s a crazy whirlwind of Shakespeare’s beloved works that come together in one hilarious and educational play.

It may seem like an outlandish idea to take some of the most loved and arguably best written works in the English language and make them into a modern production that touches on all 38 of Shakespeare’s plays. However, it’s an idea that became hugely successful in the 1980s with the first ever Complete Works of William Shakespeare, which had a ten year run in London, England’s West End.

...the claim Romeo and Juliet is just about Romeo wanting to get into Juliet’s pants bring these 400 year old plays into a modern context that young audiences can relate to.

Each time the play is re-created it’s re-worked to fit the culture of its time. In this production there were many mentions of Lindsay Lohan’s drinking problems and the vomiting it inevitably leads to.

What’s so lovable about this play is its ability to take Shakespeare’s Please see Someone’s on page 15 work and give it that modern twist.

And when I say modern twist I don’t mean the cheesy chick-flick way that movies like She’s the Man and 10 Things I Hate About You have done.

The use of the Star Wars and Jaws soundtracks, actors in Converse sneakers and the claim that Romeo and Juliet is just about Romeo wanting to get into Juliet’s pants bring these 400 year old plays into a modern context that young audiences can relate to.

The play is brought to life by three extraordinary actors, Clayton Garrett, Zorba Dravillas and Steven Spencer. These Three Musketeers seem like an oddball grouping,

lyrics and wit that’s buried.” On first listen the tunes are sweet and breezy, while repeated listens reveal depth in the arrangements and lyrics.

The band is very much a product of Toronto and its music scene.

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Carriage marks a sonic advancement for Forest City Lovers.

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TIFF doesn’t cut short on quality Journal correspondent Parker Mott brings you an exclusive look at the films lighting up the Toronto International Film Festival’s red carpet, with the first of three film reviews beginning with action-adventure 127 Hours Movie: 127 Hours Starring: James Franco Director: Danny Boyle Writer: Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy

3 S TA R S O U T O F 4 There are movies that simply shouldn’t be made (Gus Van Sant’s remake of Psycho) and some, for their importance, demand to be (Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11).

The finicky element of Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours is that it draws a line between two of these categories.

A true story of one man’s survival while in such a painful and impossible scenario demands to not go unnoticed. But how does a director make the most out of a man, Aron Ralston, wedged between a rock for 127 hours (cinematic length: 93 minutes)?

Well, as Boyle stated to a vast student audience at the TIFF screening: “you make an action movie out of the [apparently]

inert.” He pulls it off—to the extent any great director could do with this project—barely.

Aron Ralston (James Franco) is an athlete, an explorer of the highest proportion. He’s too busy to answer his parents’ messages and too impatient to find his Swiss army knife when it’s right under his fingers.

The mountains are his immediate destination and he intends to get there. He treks to the canyons of Moab, Utah, where the sun beats down so hard it could discolour the rocks and crevices are so common you would think the mountains move. Ralston claims they do, “but hopefully not today.”

He meets up with two female backpackers (played by Kate Mara and Amber Tamblyn) and acts as their makeshift guide across the rocky landscape. They venture down a narrow cenote (a sinkhole) and we watch, as Boyle’s camera frenetically dives in behind them.

Ultimately, Ralston and the two

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backpackers depart for their own ways, leaving Ralston alone and reckless. He soon finds his right arm wedged in a boulder.

There’s the set up.

This story, possibly by coincidence, reflects Boyle’s fundamental narrative. He loves to begin with wonder, discovery and that little hint of loneliness (The Beach) and then suddenly he puts the characters in death-staring situations, leaving them alone, with only the audience to interact with (28 Days Later).

127 Hours, however, goes without diegesis; it’s a psychological experience, emphatically ensuing an emotional story—the only way 127 Hours could work.

Boyle’s camera personifies an unsteady mind. It’s gritty, with forced in close-ups, but sometimes on the contrary, it’s held back, distant, observant and saturated. Boyle puts us in Ralston’s mind, which is essential, because the only conflict within any square mile is the contest between man and nature.

What is frightening is that Ralston decides to accept his death. He thinks back on past memories and what could have been: him nestling close to his parents, drinking a cool bottle of Gatorade and going to the Scooby-Doo-themed party the two backpackers invited him to.

127 Hours is about life flashing before someone’s eyes. And it even taps into a mind slowly falling into madness.

There’s even one scene involving Franco, portraying a talk show host, himself, introducing a guest—also himself. Boyle uses Ralston’s video camera and his own dutch angle to separate the personalities. Boyle is a master of minds—he insinuates comedy in times of pure strife.

But 127 Hours carries reservations.

This is an emotional journey and solely that. Boyle, afraid to lose his audience, is very keen on finding a performer-audience connection. And he does. But the beauty and transcendence of Boyle’s greatest works (Millions, 28 Days Later, Slumdog Millionaire) were that these were emotional endeavours, but were also odysseys towards an answer—an enigmatic one. Some were about love, family and death.

127 Hours has an exuberant style, one that won’t cause you to lose your attention. But after witnessing it, as tonic and sentimentally skilled as it is, there’s no need to watch it again. We’ve met this character, felt for him and escaped with him. It’s an experience, Ralston I’m sure would agree, that one would prefer to be a one-time experience.

Boyle is still a master and a natural at controlling moods and creating films that develop into such versatile works. Like the passage of 28 Days, 127 Hours is about an amount of time taking its toll on one’s mind.

The film is haunting, surreal and definitely Boyle’s most audacious experience. It puts you in that rock, makes you believe you are Aron, and leaves you hopelessly watching as the world caves in on you.

One thing Ralston would have definitely agreed upon when bound in that rock is the iconic line from 28 Days Later, that “staying alive is as good as it gets.”

Keep an eye on A&E for the second and third installation of TIFF reviews of The Town and The Conspirator.

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Bundle it up, Winter is coming Montreal band Winter Gloves explore the awkward moments of adolescence with their new album All Red By chrIstIE DEhooP contributor

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Winter Gloves build on their base of synth pop and gritty beats while allowing for experimentation.

There are few things in life that send an intense rush of goose bumps racing through your body the same way that discovering a freshly released, purely original indie album does.

It’s the kind of music that radiates a wonderfully eccentric and infectious feeling, while maintaining an essential sense of originality that defines the genre.

An LP that masterfully embraces these characteristics is All Red, the latest song compilation of synth heavy beats and deep bass lines from Montreal quartet Winter Gloves.

On All Red, Winter Gloves stick to what they know best and infuse their soft indie rock sound with unexpected twists of glitzy pop and delicate vocals. The playlist is a mixed bag of tunes injected with quirky fun (“Plastic Slides�), spacey beats (“Glow In The Dark�), impressive rhythmic power (“Jump�) and grittier tracks (“Trap the Mouse�).

Emerging onto the music scene for the first time in 2008, little known Indie rockers Winter Gloves scored buzz regarding their

debut album About a Girl after band leader Charles F began tossing their demos into the crowd during shows. That led to the group inking a deal with Paper Bag Records, and soon they found themselves touring with big names like Tokyo Police Club.

Winter Gloves is fronted by Charles F on lead vocals, synthesizers and guitar; and laced together with percussionist Patrick Sayers, bassist/synth player Vincent Chaulifour and guitarist Nico Ormiston. Now the group returns to the shelves with All Red, an album heavily inspired by the progression from childhood to the awkward moments of surviving adolescence.

Most of the tracks illuminate the album with youthful radiance, while the more mature songs seem to spoil all the dance floor fun. One electrifying tune in particular is the poppy “Plastic Slides,� a carefree burst of pure sunshine. Another standout is “Glow In The Dark,� a synthesizer driven track woven with cool drumbeats. As the playlist progresses though, it dips into darker musical territory and reveals the band’s weaknesses.

While tunes like “Strange Love� and “Use Your Lips� offer the record jolts of dance infused fun, others such as “Trap The Mouse� mellow the mood of the playlist and dull the album.

Once those sugary pop confections evaporate from the playlist, the band seems to lose that effortless hippie-cool that’s captured in their catchiest tunes.

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That’s not to say that the group can’t pull off a darker sound, but they seem to feel more in their element with bouncier tracks.

Once those sugary pop confections evaporate from the playlist, the band seems to lose Please see Seeing on page 13

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‘HIV could be any face, anywhere, anytime’ Continued from page 8

Though the performance itself is an interactive art piece entitled, STOP IGNITE CONNECT, which will invite participants to perform a simple arm gesture to help move a beam of light in a circle formation.

Despite the grand nature of the piece, HARS Community Art Facilitator, Anna Elmberg Wright, told me not all involved would necessarily be artists. “They’re not artists and they’ve never exhibited art in a public

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Wright said separating into three community groups allowed the project to become more personalized. One group was an LGBTQ youth group, one was a womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s group with two demographics: women from the Cataraqui Native Friendship Centre and women who were pulled together from various places in the city. The third group was a PHA group (People Having AIDS). â&#x20AC;&#x153;Most of the participants were not under threat of HIV/AIDS except for the PHA group and they spoke to the issue of HIV/ AIDS in quite a diverse array,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Most of the participants have a lot of sensitivity around the importance of understanding, reducing stigma and improving pro-activity around the issue. Some were focused on esteem building, some were focused on human strength and resilience and some were focused on international issues surrounding HIV/AIDS.â&#x20AC;?

Personalizing the issue and ensuring people put the disease in perspective is crucial. Fiala told me reaching students on a personal level was one of the goals of this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s festival. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We really want to get students out, in a way it would allow them

to connect with communities they wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t necessarily usually interact with,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Lantern Festival follows the AIDS Walk For Life. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an opportunity to bring students together to have an active role in community life.â&#x20AC;?

A local member of HARS and a person living with HIV/AIDS, Daz, also saw the importance of bringing students out to the event. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the case of students, going to university is a time when theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re leaving their high schools and leaving their families and staying with other friends, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a place where they may drink and party a little harder than they ever did,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If precautions arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t taken, you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to wake up a year later and find out youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not well anymore.â&#x20AC;?

Daz said taking a couple minutes to properly educate yourself can help you dodge a bullet. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In my case, it changed my life.

The idea of peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s awareness, especially the students who are going to carry what they learn into the future is important,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The understanding to educate how it affects peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lives and to be a little more tolerant of situations, for example, if you meet a person who has HIV, they have much more of a chance of catching something from you than you are from them â&#x20AC;Ś you have to take two minutes out of your lifetime just to learn a little more about it. It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take much to learn the small details that will help you along.â&#x20AC;?

Becoming self-aware was a common talking point for Fiala,

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Wright and Daz as it is perhaps one of the best things that can be done in the fight against HIV/ AIDS due to the vast number of people affected. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everybody knows somebody, somewhere [with HIV/AIDS].â&#x20AC;?

Daz said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a very worthwhile subject to study and to be properly informed and not to be panicky.â&#x20AC;?

Wright had a similar sentiment when describing a piece involving silhouettes of local people representing the face of HIV/AIDS. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t spot it in a crowd and you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really spot the symptoms,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;HIV could be any face, anywhere, anytime.

This project is bringing the issue to our doorstep â&#x20AC;Ś itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a very moving experience for me. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really great to have a voice put out by people who typically wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be invited to participate in this kind of opportunity outside of the white cube of art galleries that are more traditional or orthodox spaces,â&#x20AC;? Wright said.

Daz said he was surprised by the direction his involvement in the piece took. â&#x20AC;&#x153;To tell you the truth, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not much of an activist, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a complete pacifist,â&#x20AC;? he said with a laugh. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They asked for some volunteer help with this project and I went from thinking I was just going to help someone, to actually being a part of something.â&#x20AC;?

Arriving at City Park early on Saturday is advisable. Though the performance begins promptly at 8 p.m., the full duration will be around five minutes long and attendees should aim to arrive at 7:30 p.m.

Fiala said organizers have hopes of attracting 250 people to participate in their action of solidarity. A fleeting, powerful moment of interconnection, hope and mutual awareness will undoubtedly be shared.

Be one of 250 people who will come together to create a circle of moving light around City Park tomorrow, Sept. 18, at 7:30 p.m.

Performance starts at 8 p.m. sharp and lasts only five minutes. Light sources will be provided.

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that effortless hippie-cool that’s captured in their catchiest tunes.

All Red dares to reach into the listener’s ears by embodying a sound that’s highly imaginative and creatively thriving. Perhaps the strongest aspect of Winter Glove’s music is its ability to drive the tracks with lyrical genius. Every song exudes quirky lyrics that compliment vocalist Charles F.’s airy croon and the bizarre sounds mixed into each song. These peculiar lyrics are showcased on “Trap The Mouse,” as he sings in a feather soft tone: “Cover up my ears / Come to the show / It’s far away / I’m standing upside down.” This creative journey is essentially the highlight of the record—the outlandish elements of

the album offer a unique twist on its electro-pop-dance hooks and funk infused grooves.

If you ignore the flaws that pepper All Red, you’re left with an album that flirts with daring lyrics and experiments with its sound.

It’s an intriguing collection of songs because it refuses to colour inside the lines. There’s something so fascinating about music that teases the listener the way All Red does.

Of course, they’re a relatively new name to the Indie music scene, but underrated Winter Gloves present themselves as a force of impressive musical talent and eccentric dynamite. When it all comes down to it, All Red is an album that screams pure fun—and let’s face it—who wants to miss out on that?

Winter Gloves play The Grad Club tonight with Cherry Chapstick. Doors open at 9 p.m. Tickets are $12 and are available at The Grad Club, Tricolour Outlet and www.ticketscene.ca

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Shakespeare show, a labour of love Other modern Shakespeare

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but each bring their own unique talents to the show.

Garrett acts as the older brother figure, often narrating, directing and comforting his counterparts. He is at his best in the re-creation of Hamlet when he plays Hamlet as an intense, emo and slightly tipsy young man, like something out of a soap opera.

Dravillas is the in-between man, often playing the partner in crime to both Garrett, the leader and Spencer, the follower. He often plays the male characters and shared narration roles with Garrett, turning them into sexually charged Prince characters (and I mean Prince the musician, not prince as in royalty).

shapeshifts • Get Over It (2001) A Midsummer Night’s Dream • She’s The Man (2006) Twelfth Night • 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) The Taming of the Shrew • Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo and Juliet (1996) Romeo and Juliet

While the play is over-the-top, it has many memorable moments of comedic genius in the way it brings each of the plays to life.

The real highlight is Spencer who plays the lovable, but idiotic best friend, who runs away at the thought of tackling his role in the infamous Hamlet and thinks Othello, the Moor of Venice is about a man on a boat (a blow-up raft in his case).

While the play is over-the-top, it finds many memorable moments of comedic genius in the way it brings each of the plays to life, such as rapping Othello, having an audience member be the balcony in Romeo and Juliet and turning the histories (like King John and Henry V) into a violent football game.

The best aspect of the production was the improvisation. A standout moment was when they dragged a poor female audience member onto the stage to play Ophelia and

• Shakespeare in Love (1998) Several adaptations including Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night • Chimes at Midnight (1967) An amalgamation of scenes from Richard II, Henry IV, Henry V and The Merry Wives of Windsor • Angoor (1982) A Bollywood adaptation of The Comedy of Errors • Iago (2009) Othello PHOTOS BY CHRISTINE BLAIS

Clayton Garrett (top left), Zorba Dravillas (not pictured) and Steven Spencer (top right) each bring unique talent to their roles in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. had parts of the audience help her get into three actors demanding Ophelia scream at character by playing her id, ego and superego, the top of her lungs. the culmination of which resulting in the Despite the fact that they criticized my section’s interpretation of the ego, I still laughed uncontrollably as I yelled, “Get thee to a nunnery!”

Director Krista Garrett describes the play best.

“It’s just really, really fun,” she said. “It will make you laugh.”

Laughter filled the theatre and while some moments were a bit predictable, the play was full of surprises. For example, Garrett announcing his new book entitled “I Love My Willy” and the cast’s proposition that

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all Shakespeare’s comedies could be distilled into one crazy play with orgies in the forest and three sets of identical twins who all cross-dress and fall in love because of some crazy fairies on a Midsummer’s night.

The play’s slogan says it best, “If you like Shakespeare, you’ll love this show. If you hate Shakespeare, you’ll love this show!”

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They seem to understand the importance of regional artistic communities in an era when so many people are connecting online. Burns explains that it’s “really important to have a physical scene [to] connect with people who have shared interests.”

The Forest City Lovers’ wider circle of musicians and friends includes The D’Urbervilles and The Evening Hymns, two Toronto bands with similar tastes. Burns said she sees her band’s musical environment as key to its continued success.

“All of our friends are in amazing bands … lots of talent flowing around,” she said. “Someone’s drinking the talent water.”

When asked, Burns listed her desert island, all-time, top-five albums as OK Computer by Radiohead, On The Beach by Neil Young, Hounds of Love by Kate Bush, Downward Spira by Nine Inch Nails and Get the Knack

by The Knack. The Forest City Lovers integrate all these eclectic influences into their own unique sound. However, perhaps the most apt amalgamation is Neil Young at his most acoustic and woodsy moments with the alternative romantic pop of Kate Bush.

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Kat Burns (second from right) turns up the heat with Forest City Lovers, effectively shedding their rep as the best band you’ve never heard of and solidifying their space in Canadian music with their latest release, Carriage.

Yet ultimately, The Forest City Lovers are a band of individuals with their own brand of baroque chamber-pop that is equal parts rustic and cosmopolitan. In fact, Burns said that she is “moving to Toronto Island and will be there for the winter. Hey, that’s sort of a combination of forest and city!”

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Canada Athletics at centrestage this weekend Queen’s celebrates Sports Day in Canada with a tribute to basketball’s 100th anniversary rugby set to take on U.S.

By Lauri Kytömaa Asisstant Sports Editor

This Saturday Kingston and the Queen’s campus will help host the nation’s first Sports Day in Canada. The ARC will host a variety of events throughout the day, including a Youth Basketball Clinic, a free one-day ARC membership, free swim, free fitness classes, a Gaels football viewing party and most significantly the 100-year anniversary celebration

By Anand Srivastava exhibition match between the Journal Staff women’s varsity basketball team and the McGill Redmen.

Men’s rugby is set to kick off this CBC will also be presenting weekend at Queen’s, however it the ITU Triathlon World won’t be the OUA-champion Championships and the 2010 Gaels taking the pitch. Richardson Stadium will play host to the Canada Wolverines as they compete against the U.S.A Tomahawks in the first annual Colonial Cup Sunday at 1 p.m.

The Canada Rugby League hosts its first annual match at Richardson Stadium

Men’s Rugby Canadian Championships, but the basketball game at 4 p.m. falls into the network’s primetime viewing slot.

Women’s head coach Dave Wilson said he’s impressed with the long culture of basketball at Queen’s.

“One thing that is really unique, that most people don’t realize is that in 1910 there was a women’s varsity basketball team,” he said.

“Most people don’t think that women played competitively back then but they did, and I think it’s a great tribute to enlighten people. Queen’s was a forerunner in women’s sport and I think that is a great accomplishment.”

In his 30 years’ tenure Wilson has seen a transformation in the importance of athletics in the students’ lives.

“How sport has been viewed as a part of the education package is probably what has changed the most. When I used to talk to athletes [coming] to Queen’s … basketball was very much a secondary thing,” he said. “[Now] if I have to say that we don’t really have a spot for [someone] they don’t come to Queen’s. They will go to another university where they can get that experience, that’s how valuable it has become in this generation of players.”

Although the game is just an

exhibition match, the Gaels are looking forward to playing McGill, the second oldest team in Canadian women’s basketball, on national television.

Fourth-year player Christine Wallace said she feels that the atmosphere should help get everyone pumped for the game.

“I am very excited; there is a lot of attention being paid to this game and this event,” she said. “We are all very excited and [the] nerves are getting in my head a little bit.”

The festivities are a celebration of athleticism and sport in Canada, all students are encouraged to attend, and admission is free for all events.

Perfection lost

“We picked Kingston as it was one of the first capitals of Canada and it was home to the first Prime Minister.”

—Eric Perez, Canadian Rugby League, director of development The Wolverines are Canada’s national team in the recently formed Canada Rugby League (CRL). The league, not to be confused with Rugby Union (as played by the Gaels), is played with two less players on the pitch and does not have mauls, rucks or line outs, making for a quicker, faster-paced game.

Eric Perez, Director of Development for the CRL, said that the Rugby League game promises to be very entertaining for fans.

Photo by justin tang “This is a game that has non-stop action,” Perez said. “It’s one of the The women’s soccer team suffered their first loss of the season against the University of Ottawa Gee-Gees this past Wednesday.

The Gaels lost 1-0 in Kingston in a midweek game. The Gaels are set to play the Trent Excalibur on Saturday in Peterborough. fastest and toughest team sports.”

“This is a game that has non-stop action. It’s one of the fastest and toughest team sports.”

Guelph provides another test for Gaels

Gaels need to show their mettle against the 2-0 Gryphons if they hope for success this season

—Eric Perez, By Lauri Kytömaa Canadian Rugby League, Asisstant Sports Editor director of development After sending representatives to the American National Rugby League’s (AMNRL) War at the Shore tournament last month, the Wolverines will play for the first time as a team on home soil at the Colonial Cup. “It’s going to be an annual one-game challenge between the Canadian and U.S national teams,” Perez said. “We picked Kingston as it was one of the first capitals [of Canada] and it was home to the first Prime Minister. It’s got a beautiful grass pitch, which is rare these days.

We also really want to focus this on the Queen’s students and make this a real big student event every year.”

Since joining the Rugby League International Federation (RLIF) earlier this year, Perez has worked to put Please see Rugby on Page 17

Despite the outright 40-7 shellacking of the Windsor Lancers last weekend, the Gaels football team of 2010 has much to accomplish. The Lancers may have a stronger squad than either Toronto or York but they still sit in the cellar of the OUA and don’t provide much of a measuring stick for a playoff-hopeful.

Entering this week 2-0, having just come off a bye week, the matchup with the Guelph Gryphons should provide a good test of the team’s ability before they run the gauntlet of the nationally ranked Ottawa and Western.

Following the Windsor game, Pat Sheahan commented on the advantage a bye week can provide this week’s opponent.

“Whenever you’re playing a team that has a week off, there’s

always a chance there could be a few wrinkles in there that you haven’t seen,” he said. “They’ve had more than enough time to polish up a couple new schemes for us, leaving us adjusting on game day.”

Still, the Gryphons have only played Toronto and York beating them 15-13, 26-2 respectively.

Historically Guelph has been a middle of the road team, and this season seems no different. While they may possess some upset capabilities, the Guelph Gryphons are a team that the Gaels will need to put away in order to make the most of the short eight-game season, especially since both the Gaels and the Gryphons appear to be at an uncertain point in the season.

The 1-1 Gaels lost to McMaster by a small margin and handily crushed Windsor while the Gryphons haven’t seen any top

calibre teams in the 2010 season.

With the graduation of their quarterback, Justin Dunk, the Guelph program is dawning on a new era. Sheahan could only praise Dunk’s playmaking abilities.

“Dunk was a big cog in their offense,” he said. “You’ll recall sometimes he was at his best when the whole thing broke down.

He’d run this way and run that way and find somebody open. A guy like Dunk makes everybody around him better.” Despite the losses to graduation on both sides, Sheahan feels the weekend game could still involve some fireworks.

“They’ve got some high powered offensive players. Jedd Gardner [is] one of the top receivers in the league, [he’s a] play maker with great breakaway speed. They’ve also got running back [Nick] FitzGibbon, a senior fifth-year guy [whose a] quality performer, [a] big play guy,”

Sheahan said. “We’ve had some wide-open affairs at Guelph, so we need to be ready for anything.”

To be successful this week the Gaels need to continue building around the offensive style of rookie quarterback, Justin Chapdelaine.

Unlike the pocket passing Danny Brannagan, Chapdelaine’s scrabbling ability is an asset that the offense must promote. Last week againstWindsorChapdelainerushed for 74 yards and a touchdown on only 10 carries while running back Jimmy Therrien rushed for 49 yards on 15 carries. The defence also needs to make sure that it remains sharp after it comes out of an arguably light week.

Last year the Gryphons exploded for 49 points only to lose on a last second field goal to the Vanier cup champions, 52-49. In an eight game season a lot is on the line by game three.

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Gaels drop two against Ravens Roadtrip to ottawa opens season with a pair of losses

By KatE BaSCOm sports editor The men’s lacrosse team opened their season against the Carleton Ravens last weekend in a home-and-home series in Ottawa. The Gaels lost both games this weekend by scores of 10-4 and 13-4.

The regular season came quickly for the Gaels who had only just completed their try-outs and were able to fit two full practices in before facing off against Ottawa. The losses could be chalked-up to a young team that’s still meshing with one another on the field. Defenceman Ryan Zoehner said that although the results were unfortunate, the games were learning experiences.

“Our first goal would be to make the playoffs. That all starts with a win on Saturday.”

—Ryan Zoehner, defenceman “We’re a young team and we’re just starting to come together,” he said. “There’s only about two weeks of practice under our belt ... A lot of younger guys have stepped into some roles ... It’s definitely something to build on and there’s positives going forward, not just for this year but the future.”

Their games against Carleton revealed both strengths and weaknesses that the Gaels took into account to try turn their second game around. “[In] the second game we definitely cracked down on some of our defensive weaknesses,” he said. “We worked hard in getting the correct matchups and improving our communication. For the future, we just need to continue improving more of that and getting everyone on the same page.”

Zoehner believes the men’s lacrosse team will make a push for the postseason.

SPORTS “Our first goal would be to make the playoffs,” he said. “That all starts with a win on Saturday.”

The Gaels welcome a very different looking Trent team this weekend to Kingston.

Preparing for their Saturday game, the Gaels could only look to improve upon their own strategy and skills.

“A lot of the older guys [at Trent] have left, a newer group has come in,” he said.

“So we prepared by working on our offence, getting everyone on the same page [and] fixing some of the technical problems that hurt us last weekend.”

Midfielder Braden Hergott said that the team is still adjusting to their new teammates and the strategies that their first-year head coach has implemented.

“Most important thing about the weekend was that our offence generally let us down,” he said. “[It’s] unfortunate because our offence is built with some of the older guys on the team. Scoring a couple goals would have helped us. It would have cut the games a little closer.”

The Gaels are excited for their home opener and are hoping to bring a win to Kingston.

“Hopefully we can get a good crowd coming out,” he said. “They lost a couple key players from last year so hopefully we’ll be able to capitalize on that and get a win under our belt.”

Head coach Don Tough explained that the losses let the Gaels see how the young team would react in a game situation.

“Carleton is a gifted team,” he told the Journal via e-mail. “The two games allowed us to progress defensively and showed where we needed to improve offensively.”

Tough showed more restraint than Zoehner in his predictions for the team but he said he knows the Gaels will be able to compete.

“Our expectations for this season are to improve on last year’s 2-8 season,” he said.

“Our goal is to get a win or two under our belt, developed during the midseason and end the season with a couple more wins ...

The players have the potential to do well.”

The Gaels will face off against the Trent Excalibur this Saturday at Tindall Field. Game time is at noon.

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together a strong team to represent Canada.

“Rugby League is new to Canada, so we’ve got most of our players from the top Rugby Union clubs,” he said. “We’ve selected players with Rugby League skill sets who are playing at the highest level of Rugby Union.

We also have ex-patriot Australians, who are now Canadians, who grew up playing Rugby League.”

“I really want the Queen’s students to understand that we chose Queen’s because of their enthusiasm. There wouldn’t be a better Canada crowd than at Queen’s.”

—Eric Perez, Canadian Rugby League, director of development Despite his best efforts, Perez said he understands that it will take time for the Wolverines to become a powerhouse on the international Rugby League scene.

“The Americans have had a League for 15 years and they’re ranked thirteenth in the world,” he said. “They have a semi-pro circuit. We’re the underdogs in this game.

They’ve got a lot of experience on their team, so it’ll be a tough one.”

The Colonial Cup will be used to launch the Wolverines in to more international competitions later in the year.

“This is the first of many; we’re already scheduled to play in the Atlantic Cup later in the year, which is a tournament against

Jamaica and the U.S.A.” As the official representatives of Canada, the Canada Wolverines are now looking to expand Rugby League at home by creating a domestic league and participating in tournaments around the world.

“As we’ve been accepted into the [RLIF], we have a lot of resources available to us now that would not have been there if we had not become a proper governing body,” he said. “We have a lot of fixtures planned for next year including the Caribana Cup against Jamaica … [And] we’ve got a couple of Pacific Rim tournaments that we’re planning on entering.”

With a promising future ahead, it will all start for the Wolverines this weekend.

“I really want the Queen’s students to understand that we chose Queen’s because of their enthusiasm,” he said. “There wouldn’t be a better Canada crowd than at Queen’s. We want everyone cheering for Canada, everyone wearing red and we want to come back year after year, getting bigger and bigger.”

The Canada Wolverines will kick off the Colonial Cup at 1 p.m. on Sunday at Richardson Stadium. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased at the Customer Service Desk at the ARC.

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Sports in Brief Soccer suffers first loss of the season The women’s soccer team suffered their first loss of the season on Wednesday against the Ottawa Gee-Gees. The 1-0 loss puts them at 4-1. Still atop the OUA east, this was the team’s first loss to Ottawa since 2008. The team was unable to generate any offense despite averaging 4.75 goals per game in their first four games. The Gaels will get a chance to put the loss behind them on Saturday when they face the Trent Excalibur, who they dismantled 9-1 earlier this season.

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ATHLETES OF THE WEEK Baseball Drops Both Double Headers The men’s baseball team was swept in both of its double headers over the weekend against Guelph and Brock. They lost 10-2 and 12-9 to Guelph and 8-4 and 11-0 to Brock.

Although they lost all of their games the team has shown improvement from the past season.

The highlight of the weekend was starting pitcher Stephen McDonald holding the Brock Badgers strong offense to just two runs over six innings, the later innings gave the team trouble however and they ended up losing that first game.

—Lauri Kytömaa

Men’s rugby opens season with a dominant performance The Gaels tore up the Wilfred Laurier Golden Hawks on Sunday, taking the game 54-8. Six different players put up points in an all-around team effort. Eight players were making their OUA debuts so the team enjoyed a fluid transition to a new athlete corps.

This was the fourth straight win against the Golden Hawks. Last season the score was a similarly lopsided 74-8.

—Lauri Kytömaa

Gael named OUA Football Player of the Week

—Lauri Kytömaa

Afterarecord-breakingperformance this weekend, kicker/punter Dan Village was named OUA Football Player of the Week for Special Teams. Village scored the winning point with 86 yard rouge which now stands as the longest punt in Gaels football history. It is also the 15th longest punt in CIS history.

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Pitcher Stephen McDonald’s heroics came in their game against the Brock Badgers when he held them to just two runs through six innings in the Gaels’ season-opening weekend.

Although they suffered two tough loses, the team showed great improvements from the previous season. With McDonald’s performance this weekend, he gained some much-deserved recognition as a leader and a valuable team asset Losses in both double headers to Guelph and Brock could leave a team reeling but McDonald said they’ll be looking to next weekend’s games against Western and McMaster in Kingston. “[We’re] moving forward,” he said. “We now have more of an idea of what it’s like to play with each other, keep building as a team, and hopefully get a win in the books.”

Music plays a large part in McDonald’s pre-game warm-up.

During the game, he’s able to stay energized by jogging in between innings.

“Lately I put on ‘Heart of a Lion’

by Kid Cudi and set it to repeat,” he said.

On a team of primarily young players, McDonald believes his greatest contribution as a teammate is his experience.

“On a young team, it’s tough to say how people will react,” he said.

“It’s a true test of character.”

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Samantha Trinier Rugby Rugby fell into third-year student’s Samantha Trinier’s lap. After her high school in Toronto started a women’s rugby program in her grade 9 year, her father and brothers encouraged her to get involved in the sport they loved.

“I got involved because my brothers played and my dad played so they really encouraged me,” she said. “It also just seemed like a lot of fun, it was the first year [my high school] had a team and I wanted to try it out. I really liked it and played it all the way through.”

Playing university rugby was not on her mind until she joined the U-17 rugby team.

“The coaches for that team are also the coaches for Queen’s ... so [they] definitely encouraged me to come and was one of the big reasons I played,” she said.

Trinier, who scored two tries in the 24-0 win over McMaster, said her position as fullback allows her to build on scoring opportunities that her teammates set up and that their win was a complete team effort.

“Everyone did a good job and pulled their own weight,” she said.

“I was the finisher where they set up a nice play and I would be the last person to get the ball and finish the run.”

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Literature gets a new look This year’s Kingston WritersFest features artists, poets, writers and fimmakers who are mixing media in new ways and attracting audience attention

By Kelly Loeper Postscript Editor Artistic expression today is definitely not what it used to be.

Books can be art, poetry can be a performance and music can be used in ways never before heard.

Many artists and writers are mixing these mediums up, and they’re coming to Kingston to show it off.

Writer and poet Jill Battson is hosting a spoken word poetry event, Vox Performa, at this year’s Kingston WritersFest.

She said people have some misconceptions about poetry, but that she’s determined to prove them wrong.

“They should come out and see spoken word ... if they had any idea that poetry is boring,” she said, adding that they could also take a page out of her book and try writing a bit of their own.

She said that she used to be a film producer but with months between gigs she needed something to fill her time.

“I’ve always written ever since I was a kid,” she said. “I started going to the venues in L.A. [to] read my work, and I got really good reactions from these poems that weren’t very good.”

The audience’s positive reaction inspired her to keep improving, she said. It also let her watch people take in her message.

“I think that’s one of the reasons I’m a poet who performs ... it’s very hard to get published in book form,” she said. “I wanted to get my work out.

“It’s a big thrill to actually hear people and see people engage with your work ... that’s the best thing for me.”

Now, years later, Battson has found her footing and refined her style.

“What I do as a spoken word artist is … work in collaboration with other artists,” she said, adding that her performance repertoire includes creating dance pieces,working with visual artists and writing music.

“Working with artists from other mediums ... is really challenging,” Battson said.

Nonetheless, it’s beneficial because it allows you to reach an audience that would otherwise not have seen your work, she said.

“For Vox Performa I think it’s a great opportunity for people to come out and see a wide range of people who are involved in spoken word,” she said.

C.R. Avery is a beatbox poet, musician, writer and one of the spoken word artists performing at Vox Performa.

He said that people often get bored really fast when watching artists but that performance art doesn’t have to be dull.

So what makes a

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KENK, profiling “the world’s most prolific bicycle thief,” is a graphic novel based on documentary footage shot by (from left) Jason Gilmore and Alex Jansen, written by Richard Poplack and illustrated by Nick Marinkovich. good performance?

“Something that doesn’t bore the shit out of people,” he said, adding that even with the pressure, sometimes it’s important to forget about performing and to focus on being an artist.

Nonetheless, when performance does come into account, artists should remember to keep the audience engaged, he said.

“Music is beautiful but sometimes you need a little more content,” he said. “No one wants to hear someone talk for an hour ... between the beat box and the songs and the poems, it’s just a good way to hold my attention span [and others’].”

In our television day and age, sometimes all the audience needs are a few visual cues to turn a true story into a riveting piece of art. When a Toronto man, Igor Kenk, was arrested in 2008 for bicycle theft, the world watched on the news. They watched police recover almost 3,000 bicycles from his bicycle repair shop and they watched newspapers decry him as the “world’s most prolific bicycle thief.”

Alex Jansen saw a piece of art waiting to happen.

Jansen, who attended Queen’s film studies in 1999, worked alongside three other artists to capture over 30 hours of Kenk’s life on film in the year before he was arrested.

Jansen and his team then used the footage to create a graphic novel, KENK, which will be appearing on Sept. 23 at WritersFest.

“KENK was always conceived as a graphic novel,” Jansen said, adding that its May debut marked the first release for Jansen’s new multimedia production company, Pop Sandbox.

He said that a graphic novel made sense as a first project.

“I was really attracted by the freedom that the graphic novel medium could afford, especially financially and creatively,” he said.

“The much less expensive graphic novel format allowed me to control not only production but also distribution plans.”

Taking from images and transcription from their documentary footage, Jansen said the book’s graphics are similar to the DIY and ’zine movement in Canada.

“It has a collage like feel and the images are treated with a very gritty photocopy type aesthetic,” he said.

While this may have once been seen as an imperfection, today it’s seen as an added layer of expression.

In terms of the documentary process, Jansen said once they turned the camera on, they began shooting day in and day out.

“You certainly got the sense that

things would come to a head one way or another,” he said.“The last day we shot him was six days before he was arrested.”

Kenk’s shady reputation was well-known around his area of west Queen Street West, Toronto, Jansen said.

“For that reason I completely avoided him the first three years I lived in the neighbourhood. Even the police would send you to him to look if your bike was stolen.”

Once he actually met Kenk, Jansen said he was surprised at his complexity.

“Here was this exceptionally bright former child prodigy who’d immigrated from Slovenia, where he worked as a police officer. His wife is a Juilliard graduate,” he said.“He was this radical environmentalist, capturing his shower water to feed his plants, decrying Western excess and preaching his own brand of communism, all the while acting capitalist in the most vicious sense.”

Although he was legally allowed to sell the bikes, Jansen said, “he’s buying $500 bikes for 50 bucks.”

This would be an ethical dilemma for many, however Kenk

argued that this didn’t differ much from North American exploitation of the Third World, Jansen said.

“You couldn’t ask for a more complex and compelling character,” he said, adding that most media outlets were treating him as a petty criminal or criminal mastermind.

“This is equally the story of the changing neighbourhood and the collision course they were on,” he said.

“In this case we’re looking at what stands to become one of the most significant periods in our generation’s history—the monumental year in which it takes place, leading to summer 2008—the year of Obama, of rising gas prices, increased environmental awareness and shift in consciousness, and pending economic collapse.”

Vox Performa will appear at Kingston WritersFest on Sept. 24 and KENK on Sept.

23. Rush seats are free for Queen’s students. For tickets, visit kingstonwritersfest.ca.

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