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Death still shaking campus Administration requests security review after student’s death

By Clare Clancy News Editor In the wake of Cameron Bruce’s tragic death, the Queen’s community is coming to grips with what happened while a police investigation continues.

According to Queen’s News Centre, Kingston Police believe Bruce, Sci ’14, died as a result from a fall from his sixth floor residence room window and that alcohol may have been a factor.

Constable Mike Menor, spokesperson for the Kingston Police, said detectives are attempting to create a timeline leading up to Bruce’s death.

“Everyone has been spoken to who interacted with him a day or so before,” he said, adding that the investigation is still ongoing.

“It does take time to conduct a thorough investigation,” he said. “The incident hasn’t been closed yet.”

Associate Vice-Principal and Dean of Student Affairs John Pierce said Queen’s will be performing a general security overview in order to prevent future accidents.

“We’re initiating a review of all aspects of campus safety and campus protocol,” he said.

“The sole goal of the review is to prevent something like this happening again.”

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The HIV/AIDS Regional Services AIDS Walk on Sept. 18 aimed to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS through performance.

Accessing awareness at Queen’s Bicycles obstruct ramp access for people with mobility limitations

By Labiba Haque Assistant News Editor

The construction near Bracken Health Sciences Library has raised questions of accessibility around campus.

Anne O’Riordan, occupational therapist, and Queen’s lecturer said she left Bracken Library last Tuesday after a meeting with a colleague of hers. The colleague, Bill Meyerman, was in a wheelchair and the ramp down to street level wasn’t available for him to use.

“It was a meeting for our steering committee [for the Office of Interprofessional Education and Practice (OIPEP)] and on that committee we have two patient representatives, as well as representatives from Please see The Simple on page 4 medicine, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, nursing and X-Ray Technology,” she said. “Bill and I came out of Bracken Library.

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“If you’re a wheelchair user, you must exit by the side entrance through a door with confusing signage … the first time I used it, I thought the fire alarm might go off,” she said. “When we got to the ramp there were bicycles chained to both sides of the ramp, making it potentially inaccessible. The railings are there to help people, not to be used as a bicycle rack.”

O’Riordan said she doubts that whoever locked their bike on the railing had any bad intentions.

“Oftentimes people act without really understanding the results of their actions, and this could apply to anyone, I doubt that people who had chained their bike to the ramp had meant any harm,” she said. “[Meyerman] didn’t seem fazed by it and seemed to shrug it off.

He sees these kinds of things all the time.”

O’Riordan said she knew if she ignored the situation it would happen again.

She said she immediately contacted Jeannette Parsons who was the last year’s on-campus Accessibility Coordinator.

“She suggested I call Fixit and

told me that the campus policy was to ensure accessibility and that the locks of any bicycles blocking ramps or limiting accessibility could be cut off,” she said.

O’Riordan said that the locks from the bikes were cut off, and stickers were put on the ramp to remind people not to block the ramp but that further action should be directed towards awareness initiatives.

“Cutting the bike locks might have really infuriated the students and not have had a positive effect.

I think awareness about the issue would be able to bring about a more positive change,” she said.

“If people were aware of the fact that this action could potentially prevent someone else’s accessibility I’m sure they would have found another place,” she said, adding that the day after the stickers were put up bikes were still

on the outside of the ramp but not on the inside.

O’Riordan she hopes that students will look at accessibility ramps and entrances in a new way and respect the reason they are there.

“Students are agents of change, if a student strongly believes in something, the change will occur much quicker,” she said “Accessibility is everyone’s right … it levels the playing field for everybody and it makes life easier for everyone,” she said.

Because Kingston is such an old city, it presents some unique challenges though. “We have a lot of beautiful limestone buildings here, but they’re old,” she said.

“These buildings, when they were built, weren’t built with accessibility in mind. It’s not just a problem on campus, I know some people who Please see The Right on page 5

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Combatting high tuition

Ontario tuition continues to rise, highest in canada

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Chris rudnicki, amS vice-president (university affairs) says financial aid should be available so there are no barriers to access university.

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Ontario universities have recently been found to have the most expensive tuition in Canada. average Ontario undergraduate tuition for the 2010/11 school year rose to $6,307, an increase of 5.4 per cent. rising tuition costs affect who is able to attend university, said alexi White, executive director of Ontario undergraduate student alliance (Ousa).

“Tuition impacts accessibility. High income students are twice as likely to attend university as low income students,” he said.

“The chief barrier to attending university is finance.”

White said high tuition costs cripple students by putting them in severe debt. “even if there is financial aid, many people don’t know about it. High tuition costs cause students to be in debt, which affects them when they are looking for a job, buying a house — it affects them throughout life,” he said. “and of course, many students don’t even attend university because of high tuition.”

White said both the problem and the solution come from the government.

“The government sets the limit of how high tuition can be, and universities go to the limit because they need the money,” White said. “We advocate directly with cabinet and premiere offices and are constantly in touch. students need to contact their local representatives and say, ‘This is a problem.’ ” It’s not a problem without a solution though.

a year, so the government is paying what students would have been paying in tuition,” he said. “However, the next three years are much more uncertain.”

Constant lobbying helped convince the Nova scotia government to invest in its universities to help lower tuition, he said.

“We were really active in lobbying our government. because of the small size of the province, it’s easy to access politicians.”

“Our view is that two thrids of the real cost of education should be paid for by government, and one third by students.”

—Chris Rudnicki, AMS vice-president (university affairs)

While both undergraduate and postgraduate student enrollment continues to rise in Nova scotia universities, Coffin said it’s not easy to imply causation between low tuition and high enrollment. “enrollment has increased, but we aren’t sure why. because of the recession people come to school to get more credentials anyways,” he said.

Not all universities in Nova scotia have been positively affected by government funding though. smaller universities, such as King’s College, are struggling with budgeting because of the way that the $30 million has been distributed, Coffin said.

Former King’s College student anne Goodman was not able to return to King’s this year because tuition was too high for out-of-province students.

“The government helps out students in “... many students don’t even Nova scotia, but it’s more expensive for out of province and international students attend university because of because there’s an added cost to tuition,” high tuition.” she said.

—Alexi White, King’s relies heavily on donors and due exectuive director of OUSA to the recession the school is struggling, since it didn’t receive as many donations “In Nova scotia universities had the in recent years, she said. There were also highest tuition, and now it’s the lowest,” fewer resources and more cut programs at White said. “With the government investing, King’s College as opposed to its sister school, dalhousie university. lowering tuition is possible.” rising tuition is a problem that also mark Coffin, the executive director of the alliance of Nova scotia student associations plagues Queen’s students.

Financial aid should be available so there said government funding replaces part of are no barriers to access university, Chris what students pay in tuition.

“We have an agreement where the rudnicki, ams vice-president (university government increases funding by $30 million affairs), said.

“Our view is that two thirds of the real cost of education should be paid for by government, and one third by students,” he said.

The Waterloo record reported this month that the government currently pays close to half the cost of an Ontario university education.

Only the government has the power to lower university tuition costs, but students can lobby their governments to implement change. “all tuition is regulated through government. We have constant links with government to try and get these ideas across,” rudnicki said, adding that the ams had a meeting with premier dalton mcGuinty last year to discuss rising tuition costs. university registrar Jo-anne brady told the Journal in an e-mail that while the government strives to fund universities and enrollment growth, the cost of delivering an education is constantly rising, and the government has competing priorities. she said the university has to balance funding from tuition and from outside sources.

“Tuition fees represent a revenue stream to universities and combined with government grant funding, represent almost the total revenue available for universities.”

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Heritage or hundreds of thousands?

City council committee wants Queen’s spend over $300,000 to restore 1920s chimney and windows on new arts centre

An artist’s rendering of Norwegian architectural firm Snohetta’s design for the proposed Isabel Bader Centre.

By Jake Edmiston Features Editor An 87-year-old chimney and wood-framed windows are hindering development of the already delayed $63 million Queen’s performing arts centre.

Plans for the new facility originated in 2007 after a $22 million donation from long-time Queen’s benefactors, Alfred and Isabel Bader. Queen’s staff responsible for the construction on the building say it would be nearing completion by now if not for a long approval process with Kingston’s city council.

Queen’s purchased the historic Stella Buck building three years ago with plans to renovate it into the performing arts centre, but designs for the renovation created by a prominent Norwegian architectural firm are being rebuked

by Kingston’s heritage committee.

The current building on King St. at Ellerbeck St. housed Morton’s Brewery during the 1800s and was converted into a military hospital during World War I. The Snohetta architectural firm’s current design requires a 1923 chimney and windows to be taken out in order to restore it to the brewery period.

City councillor Bill Glover sits on the heritage committee and the Stella Buck building is in his district. He said Queen’s approach to restoring the Stella Buck building to the brewery period isn’t the method advocated by heritage groups.

“Current best practices in heritage is not restoring to a certain period,” he said. “You have an historic site that has spanned a number of time periods ... It’s the whole building. The building has a life.”

Glover said upgrading the chimney to withstand an earthquake will cost around $262,000 and over $100,000 to keep the windows.

“The $262,000 represents about 0.4% of the total budget of that project,” he said. “The cost of keeping the chimney really cannot be a factor unless you’re saying the project is in serious financial trouble ... It’s peanuts.”

In addition to the $22 million dollar Bader donation, the provincial and federal governments have pledged $15 million each, Kingston has given $6 million and Queen’s raised $5 million internally. $40 million of the total budget is devoted to construction costs for restoring the current building. The remainder of the budget will cover project costs including furniture and architectural fees.

Acting Director of Queen’s Physical Plant Services Rick Carpenter said his predicted construction expenditure is currently $2 million over budget.

The Heritage Committee met yesterday to revisit their recommendation advising Queen’s plans to include the chimney and windows.

The committee will announce at tonight’s city council meeting that most of recommendation will stand.

New windows will be permitted on the third floor addition with the stipulation that the new installations be proportional to the existing windows on the first and second floor.

Queen’s will need a city-issued demolition permit to remove the chimney and Glover said it won’t be issued if demolition is in violation of a council decision.

The estimated cost for Queen’s to adhere to all Heritage Committee

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The Stella Buck building operated as a brewery in the 1800s and a military hospital during World War I.

recommendations, including the chimney, windows, stabilizing all walls and restoring stone and brick work, is $2.1 million.

“We don’t have much choice,” Carpenter said, adding that they have already accounted for spending on restoring the chimney and windows in the budget.

“The council tpically sides with the Heritage Committee.”

Carpenter said the cost of maintaining the chimney isn’t the main reason Queen’s is advocating the removal.

“It’s going to look odd,” he said.

“It doesn’t really go along with our design. It’s going to be orphaned.

It’s going to sit 20 feet away from the building.”

Carpenter said Queen’s has objected to restoring the existing windows because the wood frames will require constant painting and current window systems perform more efficiently.

Queen’s philosophy regarding the building’s restoration focuses on the period when it functioned as a brewery. A heritage structures report, completed by historian Craig Sims, allotted 23 pages to the discussion of the brewery period and three pages to all other periods in the Stella Buck building’s history.

“The majority of its life was a brewery,” Carpenter said.

Glover, on the other hand, didn’t think this was reason enough to tear down the chimney.

“The members of the heritage committee saw a certain irony here because there’s nothing from the brewery period except the actual building, so you don’t have to do anything,” he said, adding that the historic chimney on the Stella Buck building is one of only four still standing in Kingston.

“There’s four chimneys left from the old industrial period,” Glover said. “These four chimneys are an important part in reminding us that Kingston was a different place.”

On top of historical concerns, Glover said the environment also stands to benefit from the Heritage Committee’s recommendations.

“Everybody knows the green building is the existing building,” he said. “Repairing what’s there is really the best environmental practice.

“Those windows have lasted for close to 100 years and they’ll continue to last for another 100 years if they’re restored correctly.”

Glover said other concerns, aside from the heritage committee, have been voiced by members of the Kingston community.

Some, including Glover, feared programming at the new centre would overlap with local venues,

splitting revenue streams.

Margaret Walker, Director of the Queen’s School of Music said these concerns are unfounded because most performances at the centre will simply have moved from existing, but less impressive, on-campus facilities.

“To split the audience doesn’t help anyone. We don’t have any plans for a new series,” she said.

“The concert series from Queen’s that will go into [the Isabel Bader Centre] are already going on.”

Queen’s Performing Arts runs a series of professional performing artists annually at Grant Hall.

The music department also hosts their evaluation performances and student showcases at Grant. All will be moved to the Bader Centre upon the facility’s completion.

Walker said the Music department had to pay around $1,600 last year to move pianos and other large instruments from the department headquarters at Harrison-LeCaine Hall on Bader Lane to Grant Hall and that the opening of the Bader Centre would eliminate this cost in the future.

Walker said the Music department has been vocal about a need for a campus concert hall for several decades. In the mid1990s a group of McGill graduate students were commissioned to develop plans for a hall adjacent to Harrison-McLeCaine. The plans progressed as far as a cost study before being quashed.

The Film and Media department plans to move completely into the new centre, while Fine Art, Drama and Music will use the facility but still maintain other operational space on campus.

Drama department head Tim Fort said the new performing arts centre is the realization of a long-running dream among faculty members within the Queen’s creative arts community.

“My huge excitement is because of the integration of the arts departments,” he said. “The nature of all arts programs is collaborative ... Because we’re all in separate buildings, our students aren’t naturally in a place where they can all mingle.”

Fort said the Isabel Bader Centre is the first step in establishing a creative arts campus.

“The building isn’t going to be large enough to fully support all of us,” he said. “That would take an entire arts campus which is an idea that’s been floated around for at least six or seven years.”

Although no creative arts campus is currently in the works, a Kingston-Queen’s collaboration has been happening since even before the Bader Centre’s groundbreaking

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ceremony on Oct. 1 2009.

The J.K. Tett centre, located adjacent to the Isabel Bader site, is an arts facility to be operated by the city of Kingston.

Cynthia Beach, City Commissioner for Sustainability and Growth, is in charge of the J.K. Tett Centre. She said making Queen’s and Kingston neighbours with similar projects has potential to make a positive impact.

“It’s going to help build synergy within the arts community,” she said. “In the end it will strengthen the city’s relationship with Queen’s.”

Beech said there are plans of developing an arts council that will include representatives from the Tett and Bader centres as well as other local entertainment venues.

“There’s a willingness to work in a collaborative way so that it doesn’t end up being competitive,” she said. “The whole concept of this arts cluster is working together.”

All of this is contingent upon the project’s completion though, and Government funding for the Bader Centre carried the stipulation that the facility open by Sept. 2013.

Project manager Mike Finn said the site plan should receive city council approval this winter. After the site plan is approved, Finn can seek a building permit and begin construction.

Construction is projected to finish by June of 2013, which leaves several months allotted for acoustic adjustments to the concert hall.

Using a similar project in Atlanta as an example, Finn estimated that construction would take around two years.

Since Principal Daniel Woolf and the Baders presided over the groundbreaking last October, no construction on the site has occurred except for an archaeological excavation that found pottery remnants and old military chemicals in the soil.

Finn said the Stella Buck building, which Queen’s purchased from the city for $1.8 million, is currently derelict.

“There’s no better word for it,” he said. “It’s home to a mother and three foxes and some raccoons.”

Finn said he hopes the economic climate will work to help reduce what is currently a $2 million overdraft.

“Hopefully the economy will dictate the prices coming down in construction,” he said. “Sounds like that maybe where people are heading with all this infrastructure being completed. There’s a lot of work out there now and there’s not going to be much work [when we begin construction].”

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‘The simple word to describe it is shock’ Continued from page 1

Pierce said Kingston Police are leading the investigation into Bruce’s death.

“We’re leaving that to the police.

We’re letting them take the lead … to inform us about the details,” he said. “It’s worth keeping in mind as we do our review it will be conditioned by the police report.”

Queen’s has a student death protocol in place which requires a review be held after each death; however, the vice-principal (academic) may request a critical incident review “following a student death as circumstances warrant.”

of discomfort among students.”

Pierce said there has been a strong reaction from the entire university community.

“The simple word to describe it is shock,” he said. “From the students in residence to everyone who didn’t know him … it’s shock.”

“Counseling services has been working overtime to help students.”

—John Pierce, associate vice principal and dean of student affairs

Chaplain Brian Yealland said shortly after Bruce’s death, Queen’s faculty and staff were working to provide support for students.

“Behind the scenes of silence, we were all working together to take care of our own.”

Yealland said ongoing counseling has been provided for students affected by Bruce’s death.

“Last week, a number of us spent —Brian Yealland, a lot of time talking to students in university chaplain residence, in particular in Victoria Hall, and in particular the sixth Queen’s News Centre has floor, but not exclusively to those reported that in the case of Bruce’s students,” he said. “[We talked death a critical incident review will to] engineering students, FRECs, frosh … people who had spent take place.

Queen’s has been active in most of the days of orientation providing support to students who with Cameron.”

Yealland said the main support are grieving after Bruce’s death, offered to students has been Pierce said.

“Counseling Services has been grief counseling provided by working overtime to help students. Health Counseling and Disability Dons are trained to be alert to signs Services (HCDS) in conjunction

with support from dons and Residence Life.

“HCDS made counseling available for 24 hours a day,” he said. “This offer was made because we knew students would be having a terrible time. To have a happy, healthy 18-19 year-old one day and the next day they’re gone. It’s always a very strong reaction.

“A number of other people became involved, like the Dean of Engineering,” Yealland said. “Dr. Mike Condra, [director of HCDS],

and myself together with Residence Life and dons had two meetings with students on Monday and Tuesday night. Tuesday night we were joined by Cameron’s father, Iain Bruce.”

Residence Life declined to comment.

Yealland said Bruce’s death had an especially large impact because it occurred shortly after Frosh Week. “[This is the] first time I’m aware of it happening more or less a part of orientation,” he said, adding that

officially Bruce died on the first day of classes.

Queen’s is planning to hold a memorial service to honour him, Yealland said.

“We are in the initial stages of putting a memorial service together here in the next couple of weeks,” he said, adding that he’s looking for input from Bruce’s friends before taking any action.

“When we organize it we will let [students] know when and where,” he said.

“... we knew students would be having a terrible time. To have a happy, healthy 18-19 year-old one day and the next day they’re gone.

It’s always a very strong reaction.”

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Cameron Bruce, Sci ’14, was found dead below his sixth-floor residence window in Victoria Hall (pictured above) on Sept. 13.

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The right to accessibility Continued from page 1

aren’t able to use washrooms or even go into stores downtown because the buildings are not user-friendly for individuals with mobility aids.” Bill Meyerman said he’s fairly accustomed to this sort of thing.

“Kingston is an older city and you expect those kinds of problems. Moving from Toronto 21 years ago it’s like I’ve gone back in time, but that’s because the city is so old. And it’s the financial end of it that you have to realize at the end of the day,” he said. “Not all buildings are going to be accessible because it would be too expensive or some cannot be made accessible because the building is too old.”

He said he’s encountered a number of accessibility barriers and the incident last Tuesday isn’t one he took to heart.

“There was a time when we didn’t have ramps. It wouldn’t have been a huge issue if Anne hadn’t been there,” he said. “I would have barreled through the ramp and wrecked the bike, because that would have been the only way for me to cross it. Or I would have looked around to see if anyone was there for help.”

Meyerman said two days after the incident when he returned to Queen’s there were

stickers on the ramp saying, ‘no bikes.’

“48-hours is really quick turnaround point,” he said.

AMS Social Issues Commissioner [SIC] Daniella Dávila said the AMS is trying to raise awareness about accessibility.

“Within the Social Issues Commission, we have two committees that are focused on accessibility. They are about basically getting the student voice for disabilities out,” she said, adding that one of the committees, Accessibility Queen’s, receives funding at the beginning of the year, which the committee later allocates for capital projects around campus.

Dávila said the Accessibility Queen’s community also does different events during the school year to raise awareness about the lack of accessibility that exists on campus and how it affects students with disabilities.

“Able, the new [SIC] publication ... is essentially a publication that intends to publish students with disabilities in an attempt to address the experiences of students with disabilities at Queen’s,” she said.

“The onus is on the environment. It’s not that the student has a disability, it’s that the environment is disabling rather than inaccessible.”

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Ramps used for locking up bicycles can make campus inaccessible.

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QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY FOOD ADVISORY COMMITTEE CALL FOR MEMBERSHIP The vacancy is for a student Member-at-Large position, to be selected by the committee from those responding to this call for membership. Appointed members shall serve for a one-year renewable term. The committee is anxious to attain full representation.

While the time commitment is not substantial (the committee generally meets once per month for about one hour at noon), it is an essential part of the stakeholder feedback and consultation.

If you are interested in the student member-at-large position or if you wish further information, please contact Maureen Hamilton at 533-6000 extension 74553 by October 15, 2010.

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The current representatives of the committee are: Director, Housing and Hospitality Services; AMS; SGPS; Queen’s CUPE Local QUSA; QUFA; JDUC; MCRC; JRHC Vacant Member-at-Large (student) Vacant Member-at-Large (student) Vacant Member-at-Large (2 year student)

The Queen’s University Food Committee is mandated to advise the Director of Housing and Hospitality Services on matters pertaining to policies and directions of food services at Queen’s.

Outlets falling under the auspices of the committee include Residence Dining Halls, Residence Convenience Stores, Mackintosh-Corry, The Sidewalk Café, Botterell Hall Bistro, BioSciences Complex and the vending.

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Tuesday, September 21, 2010

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n an article published Sept. 18, the Globe and Mail considered the status of Queen’s University’s reputation as an academic institution. The piece, titled “Crackdown on partying at Queen’s threatens university’s raucus reputation” focuses on the university’s negotiation of alcohol-related issues.

Opening on Aberdeen St.—calling it the “party nexus of Canada’s party university”— the article describes a local landlord eyeing a number of luxury cars parked curbside, and quotes him calling Queen’s students “a bunch of spoiled rich kids who don’t want to be seen with a garbage bag.”

Car ownership is far from common among Queen’s students. Among those with said form of transportation, luxury cars are the exception—not the rule. This opening sets the tone which dominates the article—not a tone of hostility, but rather one in which the least-representative elements of the Queen’s community are implicitly set up to stand for the whole.

It isn’t that the Globe’s article makes baseless accusations. The real problem is that the piece fails to contextualize the facts.

It’s nearly impossible to argue that Aberdeen street is not the party nexus of Queen’s. Referring to Queen’s as the party university of Canada is a separate issue.

The article appears to be sensationalizing the party reputation it claims to be describing.

Though the Globe firmly states that the 2005 Homecoming street party gave Queen’s students’ reputation a “tinge of recklessness,” little mention is made of any recent problems on a similar scale. The article even points to the docile atmosphere in the student neighbourhood, describing students drinking at “a swift but polite pace.”

In fact, the Globe article focuses largely on the unsanctioned 2005 Aberdeen Street party, and the recent two-year cancellation of Queen’s official Homecoming festivities—a far cry from the vague “crackdown” mentioned in the headline. While the article refers to the university’s cancellation of Homecoming festivities—which it later mistakenly lists as lasting indefinitely—it fails to distinguish between the university-sanctioned Homecoming weekend, and the street party unaffiliated with the university.

These distinctions seem like splitting hairs to a Queen’s student or Kingston resident, but for someone with no knowledge of the university’s stance on the Aberdeen Street party, it sounds as if Queen’s itself condoned an event that left its “reputation in tatters.”

An aside that “the tipsy crowds still come” to the party in September completely overlooks the effective steps that Queen’s

and the city of Kingston took to combat the party last year, which saw a drastic reduction in attendees.

Reference to the familiar “Slosh the Frosh” style parties that occur following orientation week is equally vague. While mentioning that Queen’s senate officials plan to do away with these events—due to their promotion of binge-drinking—the article failed to indicate that these events are not university-sanctioned.

For those who have no familiarity with Queen’s or the Kingston community, an article like this effectively dictates their perception of the university—a perception long on hype and short on facts.

The Globe article sacrifices the best—and largest—parts of the Queen’s community for the sake of documenting the worst—and the smallest. A number of slovenly houses on Aberdeen St.—however offensive—do not represent the majority of student housing, nor is the average Queen’s student likely to glorify living in a pigsty.

As for the street party, Queen’s students aren’t the only ones in attendance. A large portion of those arrested have been from other schools in the area and across Ontario.

It’s odd that the Globe avoids directly acknowledging the reality that Queen’s Vice-Principal John Pierce indicates in the concluding paragraphs of the article—that alcohol-related issues are a problem that every university must deal with. While Queen’s may be a special case due to the density of its student housing—a vital part of what enables street partying in the first place—this is a unique symptom of a common problem.

One quoted student specifically disavows the raucous reputation suggested in the article.

Another expresses the same practical view as Vice-Principal Pierce, stating, “Students will drink no matter what you do.” Individuals don’t represent the Queen’s community as a whole. But why couldn’t the Globe find one student willing to act as poster-child for the so-called “party university”?

It’s tempting to react to the Globe’s article with hostility simply because it depicts Queen’s students as luxury-car driving snobs—or, more poetically, as “the blondes of Canada’s university community.” In fact, the real issue is that the headline promises a crackdown at a party university, and delivers neither the former nor the latter.

The faculty, students and alumni of Queen’s University don’t want to be associated with binge-drinking and buffoonery. By re-hashing events from five years in the past, the Globe article has simply ensured that it will take as long as possible for the memories of that distasteful evening to fade.

Fashion’s curve ball Alyssa Ashton

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’m sure I’m not alone in flipping through this month’s issue of Vogue with a feeling of excitement and relief at the article“VaVaBoom,”which explores the increasing number of runway shows that are using curvier models instead of teenage waifs.

I skimmed through the pages of perfect models, with their perfect faces, perfect hair and perfect bodies, unable to focus on the stories as I was so ready to see healthier models that look like me.

And then—after 600 pages—I reached the story, about how “bodacious Victoria’s Secret models are bringing their sexy curves to the catwalk.”

Wait. Victoria’s Secret models are supposed to be the new image of healthy women?

Arguably they are curvier than most models, but they are far from your average woman.

These women strut down the runway in sparkly lingerie with massive angel wings on their backs—clearly something most of the world can’t relate to.

I know this argument has been raised again and again, but how hard is it to get some models that look like the rest of the world? Modeling should emphasize what the rest of the population looks like, not what we dream of looking like.

The movement of designers like Marc Jacobs and Louis Vuitton to use curvier models is a step in the right direction, but it is also a reflection that the fashion world and society as a whole are still not accepting of truly curvy women.

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Take Christina Hendricks, the gorgeous star of Mad Men. She’s undoubtedly the definition of bodacious curves, but her size draws fire every time she goes out in public.

The worst occurred at this year’s Golden Globes when fashion critic for the New York Times, Cathy Horyn wrote “You don’t put a big girl in a big dress.”

To essentially call a woman with curves fat is only further causing women—and especially young women—to lose self-esteem as we fail to look like the skinny models on magazine covers.

My favourite recent fashion move is by Victoria Beckham, who on The View said “I just want to celebrate a woman’s curves.

Although, you’re right, I don’t have that many myself.”

Victoria: you don’t have any curves at all. There is something extremely off-putting about having a tiny fashion designer tell us she is celebrating curves. The implication is that she’s in a position of superiority and must help us lowly curvy women feel like we are beautiful.

Why can’t we all just practice what we preach? If fashion designers say that they want to celebrate curves and healthy women, maybe they should actually get models with real curves that look like real women. I doubt my fairytale world of real models will come true anytime soon, but at least Victoria’s Secret models are a small, albeit sparkly, step in the right direction.

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Long-gun not short on talk

On Wednesday, the House of Commons will vote to decide the future of the long-gun registry in Canada. The Queen’s University Liberal and Conservative Associations weigh in on the vote.

Chris Jackson, ArtSci ’12 The governing Conservatives argue the long-gun registry is a wasteful, billion dollar program that does nothing to stop crime.

Since when does “trimming the fat of government spending” involve endangering the lives of the men and women who protect our community? Or the citizens of Canada?

What happens if the Conservatives succeed in scrapping the registry?

In the past decade, 14 of 16 police officer deaths were the result of long-guns.

This government’s decision to scrap the registry is not a prudent choice.

A report by the RCMP in February, 2010 notes that the longgun program is “cost effective, efficient and an important tool for law enforcement.”

In addition to being instrumental in assisting police officers, the program operates at an annual cost of $1.1 million to $3.6 million per year, which is significantly less than the one billion dollar figure supposed by this government.

Many groups, especially those whose profession involves frontline experience, have reported the usefulness of the long-gun registry. 82 per cent of officers nationwide support the gun registry and the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, the Canadian Police Association and the Canadian Association of Police Boards all unanimously oppose the scrapping of the long-gun registry.

RCMP Chief Supt. Marty Cheliak, charged with heading the gun registry program, was recently sent to French training after advocating for the preservation of the registry.

To underscore the importance of this program, law enforcement officials around Canada use the registry 11,000 times daily to keep Canadians safe.

Furthermore, women’s groups and victims’ groups have urged the government to keep the registry.

In spousal homicides involving firearms, two-thirds of the murders

are committed with long-guns.

The Official Opposition wants to save the long-gun registry and is offering solutions to deal with some of the issues in the program.

The Liberal Party proposes that first-time failures to register firearms would be treated as a simple, noncriminal, ticketed offence.

Moreover, the Opposition proposes eliminating fees for new licenses, renewals and upgrades.

The idea is to build upon a system that keeps homes, communities and schools safe rather than destroying it because of a few problems.

The memories of the Montréal massacre two decades ago still scar Canadians and serve as a reminder to keep our communities safe.

On December 6, 1989, the shooting of 14 women at L’École Polytechnique de Montréal involved an unlisted, unregistered and uncontrolled long-gun.

The response to this horrendous act was the long-gun registry.

Recently, Suzanne LaplanteEdward, one of the victims’ mothers, insisted that the long-gun registry was the “one good thing that came out of the Montréal tragedy” and is a “monument to the memory of our daughters.”

This government’s decision to scrap the registry is not a prudent choice.

As with climate change, the census and local issues such as prison farms, the Conservative government is ruling by ideology instead of looking at the facts.

This government fails to realize that the gun registry is a valuable tool for justice.

The long-gun registry saves lives, helps in the apprehension of criminals and is supported by victims’ groups, E.R. doctors and police officers.

The cost of the registry is a small price to pay to keep not only the men and women who protect our neighbourhood safe, but also our friends, families and children.

This government fails to realize that the gun registry is a valuable tool for justice.

A majority of the Canadian public has already shown their support for the long-gun registry.

Will the government be responsive to its people?

Chris Jackson is director of policy for the Queen’s University Liberal Association

Dan Osborne, ArtSci ’12 The Opposition argues the longgun registry is a valuable tool for law enforcement that helps keep Canadians safe, and is well worth its price tag. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

Canadians are a compassionate people and it was with this compassion that the long-gun registry was introduced.

Jean Chrétien’s Liberal government claimed that the Canadian Firearm Registry would reduce murder and violent crime in Canada and prevent a repeat of the L’École Polytechnique de Montréal Massacre or the Concordia University Shooting.

Thousands of otherwise law abiding Canadians have been made criminals and had their privacy invaded.

It has failed on all counts.

Since the registry’s introduction, the murder rate has hardly changed and the Dawson College shooting occurred.

Guns do not create crime, and gun registries do not stop murder.

Socio-economic issues, mental health problems and the influence of drugs and/or alcohol have a more substantial influence on violent crime.

A number of international studies have shown that countries which have introduced gun registries have not seen a fall in the murder rate or the incidence of violent crime.

Until the introduction of the gun registry, the murder rate in Canada had been falling. It has now stagnated.

Since England and Wales banned handguns in 1996 the homicide rate has increased.

Jamaica and Ireland, which banned firearms completely in the early ’70s, have seen their murder rates increase four-fold and sixfold respectively in spite of their gun prohibitions.

The registry in Canada hasn’t affected the murder rate. It has merely changed the primary tools used in murder and violent crime.

Human ingenuity will always find new ways to commit acts of violence.

Instead of using a rifle or a shotgun, Canadians use knives or illegally purchased and smuggled handguns.

The registry has even failed at tracking weapons used in crimes.

Before the registry, a gun might have had a credit card number associated with it. Now it has a filed-down serial number.

On average, the registry was used less than 20 times a day for checking a registration certificate in 2009.

Proponents of the registry claim that it is accessed 11,000 times a day by law enforcement officials, but they won’t tell you that almost 8,000 of these are merely to check somebody’s name, and almost 3,000 are to check an address.

On average, the registry was used less than 20 times a day for checking a registration certificate in 2009.

In 1994, the government estimated a new long-gun registry would cost Canadian taxpayers a total of $2 million per year.

It is now predicted the registry will have cost $2 billion by 2012.

Appearing before the House of Commons Public Safety Committee, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation estimated the annual cost of the registry to be $106 million.

This money could be used for one of any number of government imperatives, from expanding social programs to cutting taxes.

Instead, it is being used to fund a program that gives bureaucrats and pencil-pushers in Ottawa something to do.

Re: “Iran should be allowed nukes” (September 17, 2010)

Dear Editors,

As an Iranian citizen, I enjoyed Yuchen Wang’s piece on the Iranian nuclear program.

Mr. Wang seems to have a good overall knowledge of the topic, explores the implications of attacking Iran from a number

of different angles and makes some very interesting points in his article.

However, I do have a couple of comments. The third paragraph reads: “As a country with extremely hostile relations with all its

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Do you think the long-gun registry should be scrapped or saved?

“I think it should be scrapped, it’s a waste of taxpayer money.”

Michael Kumpula, Sci ’11

“Now that we’ve paid for it, we might as well keep it.”

Stephen Tuffner, Sci ’14

“I think there are more pressing issues.”

Irfan Tahiri, ArtSci ’14

It is now predicted the registry will have cost $2 billion by 2012.

If that were not enough, thousands of otherwise law abiding Canadians have been made criminals and had their privacy invaded.

It’s time to stop picking on innocent Canadian hunters, farmers, and northern and Aboriginal communities, so we can target the real criminals in our country.

It’s time to abolish the wasteful and ineffective long-gun registry.

Dan Osborne is director of policy for the Queen’s University Conservative Association

LETTERS TO THE EDITORS Iranian relations

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neighbours, an Iranian nuclear weapon is a disturbing prospect.”

The first part of that sentence couldn’t be farther from the truth!

For example, Iran enjoys good relations with Russia because of Russia’s rivalry with the U.S. Iran

“It should be saved as it helps ensure public safety at minimal cost.”

Wesley Cohen, ArtSci ’13

“The registry could have saved 12 out of the last 15 police officers killed in the line of duty.”

Mitch Piper, ArtSci ’11

Have your say.

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has become closer with Turkey since the proIslamic government came to power there.

It is difficult to assess Iran’s relationship with Iraq because their government is currently unstable, but Iran has a very real influence on the Shiites in Iraq. Pakistan is on good terms with Iran because of Pakistan’s rivalry with India and is said to have transferred nuclear technology to Iran.

Turkmenistan and most central Asian countries have no major problems with Iran.

Iran is a close ally of Palestine, Lebanon and Syria, especially when it comes to the issue of Israel.

Although nationalistic Arab feelings and U.S. influence have strained Iran’s friendship with some Arab states, these relationship are overall neutral and by no means “hostile.” The only country in the Middle East with which Iran is on truly bad terms is Israel.

Perhaps Mr. Wang should do more research before making bold statements like that, and not just assume things based on his overall impression of Iran from the media.

Also, even if he was right in this matter (which he is not), it is good practice to avoid putting things in absolute terms (e.g. avoid using “all” in “extremely hostile relations with all its neighbours”), and instead use more careful words like “most of,” “the majority of,” etc.

It only takes one exception to make a general statement like that incorrect. Besides, not many things in this world are as clear-cut as that!

Reza Saiedi, MASc ’09

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Mr. Wang makes a supremely weak argument for allowing the Islamic Republic to go nuclear.

First of all, let me say explicitly that neither I nor, I think, most of my peers ever reacted with a phrase as obscene as “bomb the bastards” vis-a-vis the Iranian nuclear program.

Moreover, I find the argument that because Iran has a geographic advantage we should turn a blind eye to its nuclear ambitions illogical and ill-conceived.

Should it not concern us more that a regime that is killing its own people, consolidating power in the hands of a theocratic-conservative alliance of Mullahs and dictators, attacking NATO and coalition forces (yes, our troops as well) in Afghanistan and Iraq, funding Hamas in Palestine and Hezbollah in Lebanon, is looking to attain a nuclear weapon?

Perhaps Mr. Wang is fine with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Kim Jong-il or Bashar Assad having a nuclear weapon, but I for one am not.

Omer Aziz, ArtSci ’12

Ground Zeroes Re: “Palin’s mosque mess” (July 27, 2010) Dear Editors, Has anyone asked how many ‘Ground Zeroes’ the U.S. Army has created near Mosques in Muslim countries? Because I find that offensive.

Simon Amherst ArtSci ’88

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Journal photographer Christine Blais captured the tangible spirit of this year’s Lighting The Way Lantern Festival, following on the heels of the HIV/AIDS Regional Services’ AIDS Walk.

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Tuesday, September 21, 2010

A familiar flash of indie-folk

Montréal quintet Final Flash brought their love of retro 1970s bands and hypnotic waves to The Mansion on Saturday

By Caroline Garrod Contributor Final Flash, a self-described psychedelic-folk-rock band hailing from Montréal, performed at The Mansion’s Living Room on Sept. 18 with enthusiasm as contagious as their melodies.

Final Flash is composed of Joey Chaperon Cyr, Mathieu Bourret, Alexandre Girard, Andre Bendahan and Maxime Hebert, whose sartorial influences clearly reflect their musical ones.

“We like the retro 1960s and 1970s bands, ones with long shaggy hair,” Chaperon Cyr said, shaking his own long shaggy hair out of his eyes. The band agrees, adding they also take inspiration from what they consider the diversity present in modern music. Bendahan remarks that music in the U.S., Canada, and England is becoming mixed and it’s often difficult to tell where music comes from, which he likes, as it encourages a wide range of musical styles and sounds.

In the same vein, the band doesn’t feel that their sound is

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Final Flash are something of a time machine bringing the nostalgia of bands like Pink Floyd and Supertramp into a futuristic context with their engrossing psych-rock. a product of Montréal, but they consider the city an influence all the same. There’s a “Montréal way of doing things,” Girard said, who cites the number of bands who come through Montréal as a major influence on the musical culture of the city.

Saturday’s show was opened by three other performers: Justin Andre, From The Sun and The Pariahs. Justin Andre and The Pariahs were fairly standard-issue indie rock, but From The Sun were quite different. Their performance was undeniably unique, but any novelty to their sound wore off

within the first five minutes. The performance consisted of one long, synthesized, squealing instrumental wail that left this reviewer’s ears bleeding.

“If you can’t afford it, steal it online, and become a fan!”

—Andre Bendahan, bassist of Final Flash Watching From The Sun perform was something akin to watching a group of banshees front as a rock band. Although, to

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Final Flash is currently touring with their next destinations set as western Canada and Australia.

Despite more exotic locations they’ve played, the band agreed they always enjoy playing in Kingston at The Mansion.

“It’s a fun university town,” Hebert simply said.

Their next tour dates may be planned out, but their immediate direction is planned show-to-show.

While Chaperon Cyr said that it’s a “big blur of mystery,” he agrees with Bendahan about where the band is headed musically. Like anyone doing what they love, they want to keep on doing it—and well. They urge Queen’s students to help them by buying their album, or, “if you can’t afford it, steal it online, and become a fan!” Bendahan said with a laugh.

No matter how you hear it, I think you’ll become a fan. It’s not music that will change your life, but it’s authentic—and, really, in a world where the charts are dominated by Miley Cyrus’ brand of bland, computer manipulated pop (“Blegh!” Chaperon Cyr said), what more can you ask for?

their credit, several of the audience members were impressively able to overlook the steady deluge of shrill squeals and appeared to be enjoying themselves.

Final Flash began their performance at midnight, and the crowd was understandably beginning to thin by this point.

Despite this, the band was enthusiastic, and made use of a variety of instruments from a double-neck guitar to a harmonica.

The band’s howling voices and pounding beats succeeded in engaging the small crowd.

While their songs still sound stellar recorded, they were much better live with the instrumentals playing the clear starring role.

The band had a pulsating energy and their greatest strength lay in the cohesive nature of their performance. Although their voices vary occasionally (from howling to plaintive and back again), the feel is a continuously upbeat, rock vibe with moments that hearken back to the retro bands they’ve found inspiration from. Despite their fairly consistent sound, the songs are easily distinguishable supplied from one another, adding interest without interfering with their brand The band boasts an impressively adventurous of sound. library of instruments.

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Geneva CrĂŞpe CafĂŠ brings European family recipes to the hub.

GENEVA CRÊPE CAFÉ 297 Princess St. at Clergy St. Open Mon-Sat: 8:30 a.m. to 9 p.m., Sun: 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.

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This is the beginning of a series of local restaurant reviews that will run periodically in the Journal throughout the year. The intention is to provide information and critical reviews of the restaurant options in Kingston, with a particular emphasis on newer establishments that are not yet as well known as the tried and true Limestone city landmarks.

Geneva, a Europeanstyle crêperie, opened in a long-vacant storefront at Princess and Clergy in mid-August and with any luck will divert some lucky people away from the Tim Horton’s on the kitty-corner. When they pass the folk-art grease-pencil lettering on the front window they will find many appealing choices, wrapped up nicely in a tasty crêpe based on owner-chef Genevieve’s family recipe.

The restaurants decor is minimal, modern, and new, with yellow and red being the predominant colours. This matches the exterior yellow brick, and, combined with the floor-to-ceiling windows facing Clergy St, catching the sun all day long, the ambiance is bright, cheery and indicates an optimistic breakfast to begin your day.

The tables and chairs are a bit rigid, which suggests that one is not expected to linger too long; but then this arrangement also means that one not feel obliged to bring a partner, or feel out of place on their own.

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That doesn’t mean you should neglect the small tip jar next to the cashier.

The menu though is divided into savoury and sweet crĂŞpes and panini sandwiches. The Bombay curried chicken, served on a choice of crĂŞpe or naan ($10), sounded intriguing, as did the lox (smoked salmon) accented with chives ($12), but we decided to order from the sweet side and had the fruit blitz crĂŞpe ($9).

In short time arrived a well-filled crêpe pocket: we counted julienned Golden Delicious apples, strawberries, blueberries, banana and peaches, with slivered hazelnuts (also called filberts), a pouf of whipped cream, a dusting of confectioner’s sugar and just the right amount of caramel sauce (chocolate also available.)

...the ambiance is bright, cheery and indicates an optimistic breakfast to begin your day.

This was very well executed, the julienneing of the fruit being a labour intensive task that oxidizes brown in a short time—everything was fresh and crisp. There really isn’t anything that can be said against this dish. Their medium roast coffee we found fragrant and fresh, but the iced-cappucino was quite weak and milky. Our server, Rachel was excellent.

The Geneva CrĂŞpe CafĂŠ is the kind of place that really adds value to Princess Street and to Kingston, and while the fruit blitz crĂŞpe is twice as expensive as the yogurt & berries from the place across the street, you will get so much more from your visit here than there. It is the kind of comfortable and convivial establishment that rewards repeat visits.

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SIMA SUSHI 66 Princess St. at King Open Mon, Wed, Thurs and Sun: 11:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., Tues: Closed Fri and Sat: 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m., Cash and credit card accepted

By Sara MelVin ConTribuTor Any die-hard sushi lover in the general Kingston area knows better than to waste their time with Sushi-Q or Asha, or even Sakura’s all-you-can-eat menu out in the wastelands of Bath Road.

It’s all about Sima Sushi, located near the end of Princess Street just by the water. With an exposed stone-brick wall, high ceilings and attentive servers dressed in traditional Japanese attire, the atmosphere is nothing but chic and inviting.

As we sipped complimentary green tea, our table poured over the menu that covered all the necessities (plus some interesting quirky options, like shitake mushroom sushi pizza), without having the overwhelming Biblesized menu laden with too many choices. Staples included a large array of nigiri, sashimi, maki, udon soups, maki deluxe rolls and a surprisingly large selection of vegetarian options. The sizable Yam Dragon ($7.95), an avocado and cucumber roll wrapped in yam tempura and sprinkled with sesame seeds, is a notable choice.

Our table munched through some edamame and the most delectable sashimi appetizer I’ve ever encountered. The uni (sea urchin), butterfish, mackerel and the classic salmon were tender and fresh. Topped with a touch of wasabi, some soya and a thinly sliced ginger garnish, I feel the same excitement and sheer euphoria as the moment when Steve Aoki drops his Warp 1.9 remix at his

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Sima Sushi proves itself to be the top fish in the school of sushi restaurants found in downtown Kingston. a few four-star spots in Toronto, annual Stages show.

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Although Sima isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a complete yin and yang. And yes, it does measure up to its name. I loved it. bargain, you can still walk out Ryan Rodriguez, a fourth-year with a food baby for around $20. student who spent this past year There are various dinner specials abroad fanatically scoping out ranging from $14.95 to 18.95 that Londonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s snowballing sushi scene provide a combination of sashimi, said that, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The rockstar is maki large maki rolls, miso soup and a at its finest. Shrimp tempura and fresh garden salad with that unreal spicy salmon come together to orange dressing everyone could eat create something truly beautiful. sans lettuce.

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Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Affleck proves his talent isn’t gone baby gone Our TIFF correspondent shares the second installation of his experience, gauging if The Town delivers Oscar-worthy heat

By Parker Mott Contributor Movie: The Town Starring: Ben Affleck, Rebecca Halland and Jeremy Renner Director: Ben Affleck (Gone Baby Gone) Writers: Ben Affleck, Peter Craig and Aaron Stockard Duration: 123 minutes 3 S T A R S OU T O F 4 Looks like Beantown is the topical battleground these days for broken hearts and bullet wounds.

The Town, Ben Affleck’s second directorial appearance, adds to this array. And with the help of the studio that brought us the truly magnificent The Departed, Affleck should be licking his chops.

The Town carries an Affleck-ian edge—mannered in its subtleties, fearless to expose its motives

and held in check with a side of romance.

The brazen Doug MacCray (Ben Affleck) is a citizen of crimeridden Charleston, Boston, a neighbourhood as prone to bank robberies as their baseball team is to the World Series. He has three friends: James (Jeremy Renner, shining here), Albert (Slaine), and Desmond (Owen Burke). As for vocation, these guys rob banks.

As a set up, Affleck informs us: this is the bank robbery capital of America. All of these crimes happen within one square mile of each other. Talk about a tourist tagline.

The Town does something compelling, but expected. It takes its characters and makes them objects of their surroundings. They’re shaped into what they are due to what is given to them. Some sought an escape; others, they submit.

Affleck also makes us question our sympathies by first introducing the protagonists in a bank heist, with them as the culprits. After taking a woman named Claire (Rebecca Hall) as a hostage, she begins to complicate things. She sees James’s neck tattoo, creating apprehension.

Doug decides to spy on her, which ultimately snowballs into a love affair. Ho-hum.

The Town’s initial flaw is that it acts like an overtly taut, elementary and altered version of Michael Mann’s Heat. Heat’s genius was transcending the tenacious feud between Pacino and De Niro, where Affleck is concerned mostly with establishing relationships and palpitating the film’s energy through dazzlingly frenetic action scenes. They’re done well, but are more eclectic than meaningful.

Essentially The Town has a formulaic first-half, encumbered in

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The highly anticipated debut of The Town was achieved through Affleck’s emphasis on concept, rather than star power. familiar conflict and an abrasive style. When watching the first hour of the film, you’ll discover a rather transparent experience: there’s an officer (played by Mad Men’s Jon Hamm) pursuing the four looters, a love affair to concoct a scrupulous dilemma and a generalized objective, between the characters, of eluding the town and the fears that bog them down.

Affleck’s screenplay is his best friend and worst enemy. He portrays scenes through classic nuance for example: there’s a gruelingly tense scene involving Doug and Claire eating at a café.

James interrupts them, but ignorant of what he’s doing, he doesn’t leave but intrudes. Throughout the whole conversation, Doug maintains his focus on Claire, while also shielding the tattoo from her sight. These are characters who try to honour each other, but can rarely maintain that significant trust.

Fortunately, The Town starts to make sense around the three-quarter point. As most of these Boston true grit crime films turn out, we climax on carnage and a hint of absolution. Freedom comes with a price; some of course live, others do not. What may interrupt Affleck’s poignancy here is that, unlike Gone Baby Gone, The Town forgoes any moral answer. That isn’t necessarily a flaw

but it’s perplexing.

For a film that revolves around such a formulaic arc, it ends with only a subtle-symbolic hint alluding to the future rather than a complex-dramatized moral dilemma (which made Gone Baby Gone an ideological tragedy).

What does Affleck do terrifically here? His narrative is seamless; as much as The Town plots along, it adds up. Renner is also a notable supporting star, different from Affleck’s persona because he’s a blown fuse, caught up more on the questions of the past than the future. Affleck is soundly superior in the director’s chair than with his acting voice. As a director, he can control pace as it travels across every wavelength, he spares melodrama and he makes us ponder the characters’ inner realities (which widely vary from their external ones).

What it doesn’t necessarily have?

Well, there is one scene where Doug talks to his incarcerated father (Chris Cooper).

“Either you got the heat or you don’t,” his father asserts.

Without question, The Town has no Heat, but it develops some voracious Affleck-ian fire.

Please see Friday’s issue for Mott’s review of the TIFF film, The Conspirator.

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Students eat together in Ban Righ cafeteria. Eating at university is a largely social experience, students say.

For students, food is more social than savoury The transitions students face in university can influence eating habits, professor says

By Katherine Fernandez-Blance Assistant News Editor Before coming to Queen’s, Halla Imam, ArtSci ’13, was used to the homemade, well-balanced meals her mother prepared. Upon entering first year, however, she found it increasingly difficult to maintain portion control.

“At the caf I would try and make the most of my meal,” she said.

“Basic things that probably could have sufficed as an entire meal, like a salad for lunch, suddenly became a starter.”

Like many students, Imam was affected by the change in eating habits that often coincides with the transition from secondary to post-secondary studies.

Imam said first year turned eating into more of a social experience for her. Her eating habits so far in

second year have been noticeably improving, she added.

“In first year, even if I wasn’t that hungry, if everyone was going to dinner, I’d go along with them,” she said. “Now, I usually still eat with people, but my meals take less time, and I enjoy them more because of this, and because I know what is going into my food when I cook it myself.”

Elaine Power is a professor in the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies who specializes in the sociology of food, a discipline she defines as the study of how food systems are constructed and how this changes in varying conditions.

Power said a student’s transition from high school to university and from first year to upper years can influence a person’s eating habits.

“In high school teenagers have more restrictions of what they eat,

but in university they can have whatever they want whenever they want,” she said.

The availability of higher fat and higher calorie foods in university certainly influences a person’s eating habits, as these are the foods people turn to in stressful situations, Power said. The social aspect of food is also a major reasoning factor that permeates into the way students think about food.

“Food is a big part of socializing with friends. When students go out drinking, they come back and have the munchies,” she said. “In university, lots of eating goes on that doesn’t have the same sort of boundaries that we have at home with our parents.”

Robert Thom, ArtSci ’11, rowed for his first three years at Queen’s.

He said he enjoyed the quantity and quality of meals Queen’s cafeterias provided.

“I loved the caf. I went there two times a day and ate as much as I needed,” he said. “When I ate with my rowing friends, we would eat a ton of food together, but the caf was also a good place to hang out with my floor-mates and friends in first-year.”

Thom said because he enjoyed the food and the experience in the Queen’s cafeterias so much, he still eats most of his lunches there as a fourth-year student.

“Sometimes, it’s just nice to get a muffin and a coffee when studying,” he said. “It’s something else to do. Going over to a friend’s house for a dinner party is social; food is social.”

Power said the manner in which food is prepared also influences students’ approach to eating.

“When you’re cooking your own food, there’s a lot more appreciation for the amount of

work that goes into making meals.

If you expect to be served, you have a different approach to life and to food,” she said. “We need an approach that lets us think about what’s important.”

Power said while many cultures have entirely different orientations to food, with a focus more on flavour than calories, our society has now become obsessed with defining food primarily as a source of nutrition.

“Health has become a key way that we define ourselves and think about ourselves,” she said. “As a society we’re fixated on rules and rigidity, rather than enjoyment and pleasure. Thinking about food in this manner is a disservice we’ve done to ourselves.”

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The evolution of K-Town eateries

50 years ago, the city had only a fraction of the dine-out spots it has today

By Julia segal Contributor Every day, hundreds of Queen’s students make a difficult decision: Cambodiana or Cambodian Village? With a restaurant every 10 feet in Kingston, you can finish your entire undergrad without even scratching the culinary surface. The volume of gastronomic opportunities in Kingston, however, is a relatively new phenomenon.

During the 1950s, food options on Princess St. were meager at best. Just a few “lunch bars” dotted the busy street, offering burgers, hot dogs, soda and fries. Students could buy a meal plan for these cafés for a whopping $5.00 and eat cheap the whole year.

During this time, grocery stores and butchers greatly outnumbered restaurants and cafés. One of the only existing restaurants in Kingston during the 1950s was the enticingly named “Superior Restaurant,” which offered simple dinners of steak and potatoes for less than a dollar.

People who were hoping for a nice dinner during this time would often make the trip to Gananoque, or even across the American border in hopes of finding a decent restaurant.

The 1960s saw an emergence of grill style eateries, including Morrison’s, located on King St., which is still open today. By the 1970s, downtown restaurants had tripled, with pizzerias suddenly popping up on every street corner.

It was not until the beginning of the 1980’s

that sit-down, menu-based restaurants as we know them became popular. It was during this decade that the restaurant business exploded on and around Princess St. Some of today’s popular restaurants got their start around this time, including The Toucan, Chez Piggy, Stooley’s and The Pilot House. Kingston also saw a huge influx of our favorite late night snack foods: Burger King, ‘McDonald’s Family Restaurant’, and of course Bubba’s Pizzeria–although poutine was a later addition.

Since this time, the restaurant business has flourished tremendously, landing this small city with diverse and plentiful dining selections.

Tim Mahoney, general manager of the Grizzly Grill since its opening, said nowadays, restaurants sell more than just a meal.

“People look for more than just good food,” he said. “They look for an experience, which is everything from service, ambiance, music. It’s a full package.”

Kingston’s oldest existing restaurant has its own secret to longevity in the restaurant business. Aunt Lucy’s Dinner House, which opened in 1947 as a drive-in, swears by ‘good food, generous portions, and fresh rolls.’ They say it’s as simple as that.

Sixty years later, Kingston now boasts food from every corner of the globe, with restaurants serving anything from Portuguese and Italian to Indian, Cambodian, French, Tex-Mex and Vietnamese, as well as vegetarian, seafood and pub fare.

Mahoney said he thinks the wide assortment of food to be found in the city is

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Chez Piggy has been a staple on the Kingston food scene for almost 30 years. surprising to most.

“People are shocked when they come to Kingston to see the variety of restaurants, the quality of the food and that you can get food from just about any corner of the planet here” he said.

Chris Fountas, owner of Zappa’s, a new tapas lounge, has been in the restaurant business in Kingston for over 30 years. With dozens of restaurants opening and closing every year, there is definitely something to be said about success in the industry.

“You have to make changes and you have to be up with the times,” he said.

According to Fountas, people are eating differently now. Varieties of smaller portions are more popular now than heaping mounds of fried foods.

Fountas, Mahoney and many other local restaurant owners agree that fresh, local ingredients are becoming increasingly important to the public because people are more conscious than ever of what they put into their bodies, and of the environmental effects of the food industry.

Spend five minutes at the Wednesday Farmer’s Market on campus and you’ll see

that fresh, regional produce is a staple in the diet of many students. A lot of restaurants are making a conscious effort to buy locally, while others have been doing this from the start.

The Wolfe Island Bakery on Queen Street serves up an enormous bison burger with meat from Pykeview Meadows, located just a ferry ride away on Wolfe Island. King Street Sizzle offers a different fresh Kingston Market soup every day of the week and Luke’s Gastronomy is publicly committed to supporting farmers and food sources from within a hundred mile radius.

Nowadays, the restaurants lining Kingston’s downtown serve a number of purposes for students and the community.

For some, a certain dish offers comfort food away from home – a sweet potato and cheddar quesadilla from The Goat does it for me.

A restaurant with a good ambiance serves as a backdrop for great times with friends or a memorable first date. If you’re a genuine food nerd like me, you just can’t go very long without taste-tasting what Kingston has to offer.

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Cheddar Sweet Potato Quesadilla

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Do this: Chop sweet potato into pieces, boil them, mash them.

Put sweet potato, black beans and cheese on tortilla Put another tortilla on top Fry until cheese is melty Devour

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Eggs Cream

Do this: Put stuff in pie crust Mix 4 eggs and 2 cups of cream Pour on top

Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes Devour Lazy French Pasta

Buy this: Linguine Sour cream Bacon bits or onions Swiss Cheese

Do this: Boil pasta Drain water Put lots of sour cream, cheese and bacon/ onions in pot with pasta Heat and stir until it looks delicious Devour

Paella Deliciousness

Buy this: Rice Garlic Sausage/Chickpeas Chicken/vegetable broth Vegetables of your dreams (zucchini, beans, yams, tomatoes, potatoes!)

Paprika Do this: Chop vegetables

Put everything in a big deep pan Make sure there is a lot of liquid Simmer until meat and rice are cooked through, and a lot of liquid has evaporated. (aka looks delicious) Devour

My Mum’s “Pâté Chinois”

Buy this: Ground Beef or Lentils Can of creamed Corn Potatoes Milk

Do This: Boil potatoes, then mash them with milk Cook beef in pan Put a layer of beef/lentil, then a layer of corn, then mashed potatoes in casserole dish Bake at 350 degrees until the top is golden (like 20 minutes or less) Devour

Too many eggs? Make a frittata!

Buy this: 12 Eggs cup of Milk Cheese like parmesan or cheddar or feta Veggies and meat you find in your fridge

Do this: Mix eggs and milk Add other stuff Put in oven safe dish Bake for 20 minutes at 375 degrees Devour Gourmet Grilled Cheese à la Principal Woolf

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How to deal with diet restrictions Students with special diets may face challenges when looking for food on campus and in town

By Janina Enrile Contributor For many students at Queen’s, deciding where and when to eat can be as simple as dropping by the Lazy Scholar for the daily special or visiting Metro to pick up a roasted chicken.

It’s not this easy for everyone, though.

Naiha Shahzad, ArtSci ’13, is Muslim and follows Islamic law, eating only Halal foods.

“It’s a certain way you kill the animal,” she said. “It’s according to what the Dua’a said. It’s a verse out of the Qur’an.”

Shahzad said when she first came to Canada, she found there were many foods

she couldn’t eat, such as snacks that are made using rennet.

Rennet is an extract from the stomachs of pigs, cows or goats used in the making of certain cheeses. Shahzad said avoiding these foods was initially a challenge.

“But then you learn to live with it,” she said. “You get used to it.”

Shahzad is one of many students who face dietary restrictions due to religious, personal or food allergy-related reasons. Shahzad said adapting her eating habits to a student lifestyle was much simpler than she originally predicted, and was helped by the choices at Ban Righ dining hall where she ate most of her meals.

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“The good thing about here is that they have such a variety,” she said. “[If] I didn’t want to get something from the grill, I could always get pasta.”

Off campus, Shahzad said one of her favourite places to eat is Masala Foods on Princess St. “They have a section where you can get foods like samosas and veggies,” she said. “At the back there’s a butcher shop, if you cook.”

If you don’t feel like cooking, Shahzad

said she recommends Rahim’s on Princess St. or Mr. Donair on Division St. The latter serves poutine made with halal gravy and cheese.

Living out of residence this year, Shahzad is the only Halal-observer in her house. She said her housemates often consider her when preparing meals by adding seafood instead of meat.

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Talking about a food revolution Supplements editor Holly Tousignant tests out celebrtiy chef Jamie Oliver’s cookbook Jamie’s Food Revolution

By Holly Tousignant Supplements Editor Last week, against my better judgement, I decided to cook one recipe from Jamie Oliver’s cookbook Jamie’s Food Revolution every day for seven days.

When I told people about my project, the response I most often got was “Oh, like in that Julie and Julia movie?” To which I would reply, “No, nothing like in the movie,” the key difference being that food blogger Julie Powell could actually cook before beginning her project, while I seem to have inherited my dad’s talent for cooking a mean grilled cheese and not much else (sorry, dad).

The aim of the project was to serve as a possible inspiration for other wannabe foodies out there who, despite their best efforts, never quite got the hang of cooking. At the very least, I hoped my misadventures would prove entertaining to those who, unlike myself, don’t have any trouble cooking the most basic of meals.

I decided on Jamie’s Food Revolution simply because it was the most prominently displayed book in the cooking section. Other titles included those by fellow television chefs Gordon Ramsey and Rachel Ray, who have become an important part of contemporary pop culture, much like cooking show pioneer Julia Child.

Oliver’s book seemed at times a bit preachy, lamenting in the introduction the “rise of obesity,” and using the phrase “pass it on” at least a dozen times. It’s based on Oliver’s television show of the same name, which I’ve never seen but which I can imagine includes Oliver saying “pass it on” a lot.

The “pass it on” pledge involves learning a recipe from each chapter of the book and passing it on “to at least two people (preferably four).” I only learned seven recipes from three chapters, but I think passing it on to thousands of

people via the Journal has to count for something.

So without further ado, here are the results of my cookbook challenge. Warning: the following is not for the faint of heart (or stomach).

Day One Frozen fruit smoothies Most people would probably not consider smoothie-making to be actual cooking per se, but I thought I would start as simple as possible and go from there. The recipe called for a banana, quick cook oats, natural yogurt, mixed nuts, soy milk, fat free milk or apple juice and the frozen fruit of your choice.

The directions really only called for blending the ingredients together, so there was very little work to be done. The smoothies looked promising as I poured them into glasses, but after a few sips I noticed that the most overpowering taste was the nuts and oats rather the fruit. I used my dad as my guinea pig for this recipe, and he said the smoothies tasted “healthy,” which isn’t exactly a compliment, but he finished his own glass and mine so I’m assuming he must have liked it.

Day Two Fried eggs I decided again to go with something embarrassingly easy (or so I thought). The recipe called for me to drown a few eggs in the pan in a half inch of oil olive and add some salt and pepper. Not a single one of the four eggs I used retained its perfect fried egg shape for very long, and eventually they all sort of blended together to create one big egg blob. Directions on how not to create an egg blob would have been useful, but I’m guessing that’s a skill people either have or don’t have. My dad said the eggs tasted rubbery, but in a good way. I’m not sure the finished product could really be classified as fried eggs, but it was somewhat tasty (so long as

you didn’t look at it).

Day Three Classic Tomato Spaghetti This recipe was also pretty basic, calling for dried spaghetti, a fresh chilli, olive oil, fresh basil, a can of diced tomatoes, sea salt, freshly ground pepper and parmesan cheese. It was quite simple to make and actually tasted rather delicious.

My housemate was also a fan, eating a full bowl and then heating up the leftovers the next day for lunch. This is definitely one I’ll be making again.

Day Four Tomato and basil omelette I went into the preparations for my omelette full of confidence after the success of my spaghetti. Prep for the omelette was quick and simple, but as soon as the eggs hit the pan they started to sizzle and turn brown, prompting me to frantically stir them around, thus turning my omelette into scrambled eggs. I still maintain that this was the fault of our super cheap pan and not indicative of my bad cooking skills.

This theory is backed up by my housemate, who decided to try the recipe for herself and also ended up with slightly brownish scrambled eggs. We both agreed that this was another creation that tasted good despite looking rather inedible.

Day Five Cauliflower cheese soup I was looking forward to this seemingly simple recipe, which called for carrots, celery, onions, garlic, olive oil, chicken or vegetable broth, sea salt and freshly ground pepper, cheddar cheese, mustard and of course, cauliflower.

Everything seemed to be going great while making it, until I read one of the final directions: “Using an immersion blender or liquidizer, pulse the soup until silky smooth.”

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Photos by Christine Blais

Journal Supplements Editor Holly Tousignant prepared seven recipes from Jamie’s Food Revolution in seven days to varying degrees of success. This is her creation from day seven, Macaroni and Cauliflower Cheese Bake.

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“I can cook for myself now and it just makes things so much easier” Continued from page 15

their dinner preparation … because my [ingredients] are so hard to find,” she said, adding that she was pleasantly surprised by how accomodating they’ve been.

Vanessa Mecan, ArtSci ’13, also finds herself the only person in her house with a dietary restriction. She has Celiac disease, which prohibits her from eating any foods that contain gluten, a protein substance found in grain and wheat.

“I didn’t think [they’d] include me in their dinner preparation … because my [ingredients] are so hard to find,” —Naiha Shahzad, ArtSci ’13 Mecan said her eating habits have changed now that she’s in second year and doesn’t have to rely on the cafeteria for food.

“I can cook for myself now and it just makes things so much easier,” she said, adding that the grocery stores in Kingston also carry useful options for people who have Celiac disease.

“In the organic section of grocery stores, they have a whole gluten-free area,” she said. “[It’s] the same with Bulk Barn.

Instead of having wheat flour, it’s made with a substitute.”

Mecan said she thinks the Hospitality Services website (housing.queensu.ca/ hospitality_services) is a good resource for people with Celiac disease and other food restrictions.

“Before you eat, you [can] go on there and look up what ... doesn’t have wheat

and what your options are. And if nothing seems good, you can call [ahead] and they can make a meal for you,” she said. “If you don’t want to do that, [you can] just buy your own food.”

Hospitality Services offers appointments for students to discuss dietary needs and their website provides information about Kosher and Halal meals. Kosher food can be found in various downtown grocery shops such as Tara Natural Foods, Metro, Food Basics and Loblaws, though it isn’t always designated in a special section. Queen’s Hillel also offers occasional dinners.

Moonsun Jang, ArtSci ’13, has been vegetarian for about two years. In first year, her favourite place to eat was at Leonard Cafeteria because of all the options they offered.

“A lot of the vegetarian courses were really good,” Jang said, adding that she thought the salad section had a lot of choices.

Now living off-campus, she said she enjoys stir-frying frozen vegetables because they are quick and easy to prepare.

“It’s difficult because I don’t know many good vegetarian dishes,” she said.

The adjustment to student life in first year can be difficult at first, Jang said, but she advises vegetarian students to familiarize themselves with what they need to stay healthy.

“Being vegetarian, you need certain nutrients more than non-vegetarians,” she said, adding that vegetarians can expect more variety than a simple salad. “There are lots of choices out there.”

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Students with food restrictions may face extra challenges when grocery shopping and eating in the cafeterias.

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(which show the soup being blended), I would have realized that the blending was a crucial part of the soup-making process. A few hours later I was able to get a hold of a blender, but the finished, blended product was quite thick and greenish-brown, in contrast to the smooth, creamy yellow soup pictured in the book. It wasn’t entirely disgusting, but it wasn’t great either, and I decided against forcing any friends or family to taste-test this one.

Day Six Banana and cinnamon oatmeal Feeling dejected in the wake of my less than stellar soup, I decided to make oatmeal for day six, which I figured would be pretty fool-proof.

Oh, how wrong I was. The oatmeal was indeed quick and easy to make, calling for sliced bananas, poppy seeds and maple syrup to be added a couple minutes before the oatmeal was finished. The recipe also called for toasted sliced almonds, which I attempted to toast myself but accidentally forgot about and thus

burnt, but foolishly decided to add anyways. This gave the oatmeal a distinctive burnt flavour, which was really the only taste it had. I soon realized that I had forgotten to add cinnamon as the recipe dictated, but upon doing so the oatmeal went from bland to downright revolting.

The friend I had invited over to sample my creation thought I was exaggerating until I gave her a bite, which she promptly spat out.

Day Seven Macaroni and Cauliflower Cheese Bake Since my biggest success of the week so far had been with my spaghetti, I decided to go with another pasta dish for my final creation. The same friend that had been victim to my oatmeal asked to cook with me, probably to prevent a repeat of the inedible mess from the day before. The recipe called for cauliflower, cheddar cheese, parmesan cheese, fresh parsley, sea salt, dried macaroni and sour cream. The directions asked us to place the cheese and parsley in a heat-proof bowl to be placed

over the boiling water with the macaroni in it, which my friend and co-chef took to mean placing the bowl in the boiling water. I totally disagreed with this, based only on the pictures in the book and not on any personal knowledge of how such things are done. The cheese melted quickly (albeit a bit unevenly), and the finished meal tasty enough to prompt my friend to take seconds. We decided not to broil the pasta (due to a lack of a big enough casserole dish), so it was more of creamy pasta than a cheese bake, but by this point I had really given up being picky.

I can’t say I regret taking on the challenge, even if some of my results were less than desirable.

I was able to find about half of the ingredients at home or at my parents’ house, and spent about $50 buying the rest from the grocery store. It certainly didn’t revolutionize the way I cook and eat like Oliver may have intended, but I definitely plan to use the book again, and maybe even “pass it on” to a few friends.

Photo by Christine Blais

Oliver’s book shares its name with his Emmy-winning TV show.

Six surprisingly scrumptious study foods Food

Coffee

Chocolate

Tea

Yogurt

Berries

Soy milk

Benefits

Coffee is a great early morning energy-booster or late-night caffeine fix. The coffee bean is filled with rich antioxidants, amino acids, vitamins and minerals. Coffee has also been proven to help prevent mental diseases. To fully reap the benefits of coffee, it’s best to have it in its strongest form, like in espresso. It’s important to realize that although coffee does provide your brain with fuel, it’s only helpful with short-term memory performance. Coffee is best in moderation, as too much can alter your sleeping schedule, which is even more important in maintaining your energy levels.

Or more specifically, cacao beans. Minimally processed cacao beans are filled with antioxidants, flavinoids, catechins and other brain-enhancing elements. While it may be hard to find pure cacao beans on campus, a tasty alternative would be indulging in a brownie from Common Ground, where they have their brownies delivered from local bakeries which are less likely to have overly-processed cacao beans in their chocolate. Dark chocolate is also highly recommended as it contains more cacao and less sugar than milk chocolate.

Peppermint and green tea are especially beneficial. The scent of peppermint improves concentration, which is always useful when studying. Peppermint tea is also said to have healing properties for the common cold, nausea, headaches and other common illnesses and is naturally caffeine-free. Many claim green tea has long-term health benefits and it also contains a small amount of caffeine for a small energy boost.

Yogurt is a great source of lysine, which helps calm nerves. In addition to being a delicious de-stresser during exam period or the night before a major paper is due, yogurt is also an important source of calcium, protein and B vitamin. Look for the words “live” or “active” on the yogurt packaging, which means the bacteria (and therefore the yogurt’s healthy properties) hasn’t been killed to increase shelf-life.

Berries make a simple and delicious late-night snack option. Strawberries in particular are rich in Vitamin C, which helps ward off illness. They’re also relatively low in calories. Blueberries, cranberries, loganberries, currants, gooseberries, lingonberries and bilberries have similar nutritional benefits, and blueberries are also rich in antioxidants, which help to prevent damage to the brain. Fresh or frozen berries are highly preferable to unripe berries.

Soya contains isoflavones, natural plant oestrogens, which are said to improve verbal and non-verbal memory.

Soy milk contains the same amount of protein as cow’s milk, with less saturated fat and no cholesterol, and can easily be used in coffee, tea or cereal for first-timers who are unsure about replacing cow’s milk entirely.

Where to find it on campus

Common Ground, Tim Hortons, The Tea Room

Common Ground

Common Ground, the Tea Room

Mackintosh-Corry, the Lazy Scholar

Booster Juice, Common Ground, The Tea Room

Common Ground

— Labiba Haque and Holly Tousignant

Sports

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

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Queen’s 58, McGill 78

Queen’s 65, York 13

Bitter sweet celebration

Women’s rugby rolls to solid win

Women’s basketball falls to the McGill Martlets on CBC’s ‘Sports Day in Canada’

By Craig Draeger Opinions and Letters Editor The Gaels celebrated the 100th anniversary of women’s basketball at Queen’s with an exhibition game against the McGill Martlets on Saturday. As part of CBC’s Sports Day in Canada, the game was broadcast live on national television.

The Gaels trailed throughout the game and lost with a final score of 78-58.

The Martlets controlled the game from the very beginning, breaking down the Gaels’ defence to take a 40-31 lead at halftime.

“I was disappointed in the first half because I thought we were outhustled and outworked,” Gaels head coach Dave Wilson said.

The Gaels began to adapt to their opponent in the second half, but had a hard time containing Martlet starters Francoise Charest, A. Him-Lazarenko and Natalie Larocque, who combined for 54 points.

Wilson said his team is very young this year, and it will take them some time to adjust to university-level basketball.

“We now have a total of [five] years of experience on the team,” Wilson said. “The normal team would have somewhere in the neighbourhood of 20 years of experience, 20 to 25. So it’s tough ... it’s a new game for these kids.”

Wilson said his team will go back to the practice regimen they had been pursuing this summer, in preparation for the regular season.

“Now we can go back to our normal routine,” he said. “[We’re going to be] cleaning up some things offensively and then starting to build a defence.”

The Gaels were missing last year’s leading scorer, Brittany Moore, who is dealing with an injury. Fourth-year player Christine

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Happy home opener for Gaels over Lions

By Kate Bascom Sports Editor The women’s rugby team gained a dominating 65-13 victory over the York Lions on Saturday at Kingston Field. The team effort improved the Gaels’ record to 2-0, going into a difficult weekend against the McMaster Marauders.

A 24-0 season-opening victory over the Brock Badgers showed the Gaels’ defensive effort. This week head coach Beth Barz was happy to see her team put more points on the board. This was the most points the Gaels have scored in their history.

Their last 60 point effort was against the Trent Excalibur when they beat them 63-0 in 2003.

“I don’t think you’d ever get a coach to say that they played a perfect game. In fact, I always tell my girls there is no perfect game of rugby.”

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Women’s basketball ends ‘Sports Day in Canada’ with a 78-58 loss to the McGill Martlets.

Wallace exited the game with an injury after scoring seven points.

First-year players Gemma Bullard and Rachel Urosevic led scoring with 12 points and 11 points respectively. Returning player Hanna Koposhynska was named player of the game with 13 rebounds and nine points.

Bullard said the age factor may

have played a role in the defeat.

“Teams go on runs,” she said.

“You really need your leaders to step up and sort of relax everybody, and we have so many first-year players that we just didn’t have that today.”

She said the team was naturally unprepared, but they will improve as the season approaches.

Queen’s 15, Guelph 21

­—Beth Barz, women’s rugby head coach

“You can’t teach seven first-year players all the stuff [they need to “[There were] some extra points know] in the three weeks we’ve than we had last weekend,” she had to practice,” she said. “We’ll get said. “I think last weekend we could there, it’s just a matter of time.” have probably scored a few more.

That’s just where we were at since it was the first game, we weren’t quite The Gaels will start their there yet. Defensively we played season on Nov. 5 against extraordinarily well, which allowed Wilfred Laurier. us to go on the offensive a little more often than normal.”

The Gaels have started their season with two dominant performances with their season-opener coming against the Brock Badgers. Although Barz said Queen’s is on the right track, “There was lots of good effort,” she still believes there’s room for he said. “I thought that people really improvement on the squad.

“I don’t think you’d ever get tried. But ... in some instances, they a coach to say that they played a were trying a little too hard.”

Even with rookie Billy McPhee perfect game,” she said. “In fact, entering the game late in the third I always tell my girls there is no quarter and making an impressive perfect game of rugby.”

Facing the McMaster Marauders attempt at a comeback, starting quarterback Justin Chapdelaine’s on Saturday offers the Gaels their ability was not questioned by stiffest competition of the regular the coach. Sheahan remembers season. Queen’s lost to McMaster his second-year quarterback’s in both the regular season and impressive performance against the the playoffs last year in the OUA Windsor Lancers. bronze medal game. Barz wants “If you go back to last week, the team to execute their own Justin was terrific,” he said. “As a game plan without worrying about young player, there were a couple their opponent. instances [where] not all of it was “I think the focus right now is his fault. There were a couple drop on us,” she said. “It doesn’t do us balls that really could have made any good to look at the opposition a difference in the ballgame when because the opposition will do what Justin was in there.” the opposition will do. We’re going First-year quarterback McPhee to control what we can control and entered the game and threw the play our game.”

Guelph capitalizes on Queen’s blunders Chapdelaine and McPhee throw a combined four interceptions to cripple Saturday effort

By Kate Bascom Sports Editor

Supplied Photo by Jeff Chan

Gaels aim to clean up mistakes for game against Ottawa.

After losing 21-15 to the Guelph Gryphons on Saturday, the Gaels enter two challenging matchups with a disappointing 1-2 record.

This weekend they face off against the nationally ranked University of Ottawa Gee-Gees and the 3-1 Western Mustangs the following week.

Head coach Pat Sheahan said that the results were disappointing.

“We didn’t quite execute to the level that we’re capable of,” he said. “It was an unfortunate set of circumstances. I thought that the game was boiled down to a couple of plays and if we make them we win. Unfortunately we didn’t.”

Sheahan said there’s room for improvement and pointed to the team’s receiving ability as an area they will work on.

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QueeN’S 2, WeSTerN 1; QueeN’S 1, CoNCorDiA 4

A win and a loss for Gaels Gaels split exhibition games against ‘Stangs and Stingers

By PaUL BisHoP COntributOr The women’s hockey team participated in exhibition games this weekend at the Cataraqui Community Centre, facing off against the Western Mustangs and the Concordia Stingers. Despite a long period of stalemate, the Gaels overcame the greatly improved Western Mustangs and won 2-1.

The Stingers proved to be more of a challenge and Queen’s fell to Concordia 4-1.

Defenceman Shelby Aitcheson, who scored the game-winner against the Mustangs, said the goal added momentum to the team’s play in the final minutes and that the win is a great way to start the season.

“It’s really good for the team chemistry,” said Aitcheson. “It was our first win, so it does a lot for that.”

Head coach Matthew Holmberg had mixed emotions after the game.

“Without taking anything away from the girls, I think there is definitely room for improvement,” he said. “There is a lot of stuff that we can take away from this game.

But it’s the first exhibition game; a lot of these girls are just meeting each other. So overall, I am happy with the effort.”

With the score locked at 1-1 for much of the game after a goal from forward Kelsey Thomson, it looked as though either team could come out on top. Queen’s came close on a three-on-one early in the second period, but failed to capitalize.

The Gaels took the reins in the third period, and won off a late slap-shot goal from Aitcheson. Holmberg had a number of reasons for why the Gaels ultimately took charge including how Queen’s outshot Western 33-21.

“We had really good fore-checking, we were putting really good pressure on their defence,” he said. “We worked on getting [the puck] deep and getting shots on net.”

Holmberg was impressed with Western, a team that Queen’s had little trouble against last year when they won two of their three contests. The Western women’s team had a losing record last year, going 10-12-5, while the Gaels notched a stellar 19-5-3 season to finish second in the OUA. “We outshot them, and we had a lot of the play,” he said. “But they showed flashes of really good hockey.”

The head coach pointed to a number of changes that the Mustangs underwent over the summer.

“They have a new coach, some players,” he said. “I think they can be a very competitive team this year.”

Holmberg was enthusiastic about the Gaels’ game against the Concordia Stingers Sunday night. A non-OUA team, the Stingers rarely play against Queen’s.

“I think it will be great,” he said. “I really like the opportunity. They are a well-coached team. We’ve never played them, so it will be a chance to focus on what we do best, and hopefully that will be enough.”

The Stingers defeated the Gaels 4-1 Sunday night. Aitcheson provided the lone goal for the Gaels on a third period powerplay. As they had in their game against Western, goalies Mel Dodd-Moher and Karissa Savage shared duties between the pipes.

The Gaels will host the Burlington Baracudas of the provincial Women’s hockey League next Saturday at the Cataraqui Community Centre. The puck drops at 2:30 p.m.

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Lacrosse’s first win of the season came at home against the Trent excalibur.

QueeN’S 8, TreNT 6

Home-opener provides lacrosse first win Gaels ride strong third quarter, tight defence to pick up first win of the season By tim maCKay COntributOr The Queen’s men’s lacrosse team picked up their first win of the season on Saturday at Tindall Field, defeating the Trent Excalibur by a score of 8-6. The game was the Gaels’ home opener after dropping two straight to Carleton last weekend in Ottawa.

Coming off of their losses in Ottawa, head coach Don Tough was extremely happy with the way his team executed their strategy.

“We knew they had a short bench,” he said. “Our game plan going in was to slow down the pace on offence and execute our plays. We wanted to play with a lot of aggression and hold onto the ball as much as we could.”

The Gaels certainly followed through on Tough’s game plan, as the first half was a tight defensive battle with each team exchanging very few legitimate scoring chances. Trent jumped out to a 2-0 lead, only to have the Gaels respond with a strong offensive effort in the third quarter.

“Any coach would like to see more goals, but as we execute our plays better, the goals will come,” Tough said.

After some very sharp ball movement around the perimeter of the offensive zone, second-year attack Matt Eriksen made a quick cut to the middle, faked out the Trent goaltender, and scored a spectacular goal that put the Queen’s team ahead going into the final stanza.

In the fourth quarter, Queen’s continued to focus on ball control, limiting Trent’s opportunities to cut into their lead.

Fourth-year goalie, Dan Blackburn said he was impressed with his team’s ability to limit Trent’s scoring chances.

“Defensively, we played very well,” he said. “Alex [Ostojic] had a great game playing both long pole and long-stick (midfield) and this was a very important win for both the standings and team morale.”

Blackburn said he was also enthused with his team’s offensive output.

“Offensively, we improved tremendously … doubling our output from the weekend,” he said.

The team now looks ahead to next Saturday when they will take on the McGill Redmen in Montreal. After struggling to a 2-8 record last year, the Gaels have made a commitment to being better prepared in every facet of the game, beginning with an early training camp prior to official tryouts. “[Training camp] was huge,” Tough said.

“It put the 13 or 14 guys who came out … ahead of everyone else.”

“We wanted to play with a lot of aggression and hold onto the ball as much as we could.”

—Don Tough, men’s lacrosse head coach He said that instilling a culture of constant improvement will produce success.

“We’re doing a lot of things in practice and adding video sessions to improve on our mistakes,” he said. “As long as we continue to execute our set plays, and keep up our intensity, we’ll be fine. This is a very young team so we expect them to grow as players.”

Both Tough and Blackburn were hesitant to say that this win shows that the Queen’s team can compete with the best teams in the Canadian University Field Lacrosse Association, but were confident in the potential of their group.

“That’s something that only time will tell,” Blackburn said. “There’s always lots of room for improvement and we’ll take things one game at a time.”

Men’s lacrosse will play the McGill redmen and the Bishop’s Gaiters this weekend in Quebec.

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QueeN’S 3, oTTAWA 0; QueeN’S 6, rMC 2

Gibson’s recipe begins to simmer the men’s hockey team dusts off its offence in two exhibition wins

By LaUri KytÖmaa assistant spOrts editOr Although the offseason rust still lingers, this weekend’s two exhibition wins previewed a talented men’s hockey team. The Gaels only gave up two goals in their games against the University of Ottawa Gee-Gees and the Royal Military College Paladins while putting up nine of their own.

Friday’s game at the Cataraqui Community Centre was a fairly solid 3-0 victory over the Gee-Gees. The Saturday game provided a bit more flair as the Gaels faced off against their cross-town rival Paladins in the fifth annual Lou Jeffries Game, an event celebrating the considerable volunteer work of Lou Jeffries in the Gananoque community.

In the battle to honour Jeffries, the Gaels fell behind 1-0 early but managed to rally at the first period’s end with two quick goals.

With the score at 2-1, head coach Brett Gibson felt that the team was playing sloppy hockey.

“We are a high scoring team, but we really need to push the pace,” he said. “I honestly thought our first period was pretty awful and I told the guys that we had to push ourselves to go.”

With new found motivation the Gaels came out swinging in the second. They put up four more goals in the period to pull away to 6-1. The Paladins couldn’t muster anything more than a meaningless third period goal to fall 6-2. The four goal differential failed to fully describe the dominant edge that the Gaels took over RMC: by game’s end the shots were 57-25 respectively and the Paladins had been completely outworked.

Last year’s scoring leaders Jordan Mirwaldt and Payton Liske look to be picking up where they left off. Against RMC, Mirwaldt tallied three points while Liske contributed with one goal. Mirwaldt and Liske both finished with 40 points last season putting them in a tie for 10th most points in the OUA. Gibson feels that for the team to be successful both players must play to their maximum potential.

“The sky is the limit for them.

They are arguably two of the top 10 players in the league,” he said.

“They just can’t be complacent; they have to be the best players on the ice for us all the time. They’re both hungry and want it, so they are fun to coach.”

Both were integral cogs in last season’s strong offence and must continue to contribute at the same level for the Gaels to have playoff

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Gaels quarterbacks Justin Chapdelaine (left) and Bill Mcphee shared duties on Saturday against the Guelph Gryphons.

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is unfortunate due to his impressive We need to be able to score some points, lay much better on special play against Guelph.

“Chris’ injury is not as teams and slow them down a Gaels’ only touchdown of the game to receiver Chris Ioannides. He serious as we thought,” he said. little bit.”

Sheahan said that much of the finished 10-for-18 for 119 yards, “He’ll probably be out at least season’s difficulties have come with one touchdown and one two weeks.”

The nationally ranked University down to the huge turnover in the interception. of Ottawa Gee-Gees will be in Gaels’ roster.

“At any level you can’t “The reality is that we have a Kingston on Saturday to face off win games if you have against the Gaels. Sheahan said number of new players in new that along with the team being roles,” he said. “They’re learning four interceptions. You can’t be turning the ball the best in the OUA, they also those roles and have to perfect the to Richardson Stadium one technique and get better.” over and expect to win.” bring of best quarterbacks in the CIS, The Gaels face off against the —Pat Sheahan, fourth-year Bradley Sinopoli.

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“At any level you can’t win games if you have four interceptions,” Sheahan said. “You can’t be turning the ball over and expect to win.

Unfortunately that happened on the weekend.”

The Gaels were also thwarted by a missed call from the officials who later came over to apologize.

Although as Sheahan said there is little comfort in the apology.

“On Guelph’s touchdown run where the quarterback scored, they had 13 men on the field,” he said. “The referees have apologized for it. [It] doesn’t help us at all I’m afraid.”

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Gaels march on to McMaster Continued from page 19

The Gaels controlled the play of the game and maintained a fast and aggressive pace which left the Lions with little to do but watch.

Scrum-half Susan Heald, who scored 15 points on three tries said the key to winning was their strong defence that led to their control of the play.

“We focused hard on defence and from that we were able to secure a lot of possession in the game which led to such a high score,” Heald said. “We were able to execute which started with hard defence.”

With games that have shown both their offensive and defensive

prowess, Heald said that the Gaels can improve by bringing the two together for a complete team-effort.

“We just wanted to build on what we’ve created so far,” she said.

“Our defence was good against Brock and our offence was good against York so hopefully we can just keep building on that and bring it together, having good defence and good offence.”

The Gaels are currently ranked 10th in the CIS. The Gaels play the nationally ranked McMaster Marauders in Peterbourough next Saturday at noon.

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Women’s rugby battled Saturday against the York Lions winning a 65-13 decisive victory.

Queen’s faces the McMaster Marauders next weekend.

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dreams in the coming year.

Supplementing the team’s promising offensive abilities are two high quality goalies Steele DeFazio and David Aime. DeFazio took over last year at the midpoint in the season after he had dealt with eligibility issues. Putting up a .907 save percentage he provided the team with a reliable backstop to help support the team offence.

DeFazio also stepped up in the playoffs by posting a .925 save percentage although he was unable to save the Gaels from falling in the opening series to the Carleton Ravens. Aime is in his first year at Queen’s and could threaten DeFazio’s playing time.

A 6’5’’ goalie with experience in the Western Hockey League, Aime received the Goalie of the Year award last season in the Manitoba

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Junior Hockey League.

“I can’t ask for much better,” Gibson said. “It’s no one’s job right now, it’s up in the air, but Steele has the early lead on David [with the shutout on Friday]. I believe Dave is going to be there until the end.

Both goalies are capable of starting and it’s really a great problem to have.”

With a strong blueprint in place the Gael’s are brimming with confidence. Mirwaldt said the team is in a good place but still needs to become more cohesive.

“We need to work on our systems,” he said. “We’re still learning and we’ve had some good practices. We’ve added quite a few new players. Chemistry and timing are the two biggest things [to improve] right now.”

With the strong team play and promising roster, come inflating team hopes.

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“We obviously have pretty high expectations,” Mirawaldt said. “We feel we have a team that can compete right away for a championship. We want to finish top two in our division heading into the playoffs.”

Prior to the game, the Lou Jeffries scholarship was awarded to first-year defenceman Alexi Pianosi.

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Creating your own curriculum Unschooling, self-teaching or life learning—an educational philosophy where children don’t attend school but “learn through life”—is growing in popularity as an alternative to traditional blackboards and books

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Supporters of the unschooling movement say traditional school oppresses students’ needs and reduces their interest in learning.

By Kelly Loeper Postscript Editor It’s only been a week since the start of classes and universities, high schools and elementary schools are now buzzing with the routine that school brings.

Carlo Ricci’s daughter is currently engaged with this routine in the second grade; however, his youngest daughter is not.

“Both my children make the choice of whether they choose to attend school,” said Ricci, an associate professor at Nippissing University.

He’s one of many parents engaging in the “unschooling” education movement.

“Unschooling,” “deschooling,” “life learning,” “home-based education”—all describe the concept of learning without attending a formalized school.

Ricci, a member of the Ontario Federation of Teaching Parents (OFTP), said he was attracted to the learner-centred and democratic aspects of unschooling.

“Learners decide what they learn ... when they learn, how they learn, when to opt in and when to opt out,” he said, adding that he first learned about unschooling while reading the work of writer John Holt, an influential name in the unschooling movement.

“Learning is living,” he said to describe the unschooling philosophy.

Ricci was also attracted to unschooling because he said the structured school environment is oppressive, and unschooling allows children to explore their own interests and drives without an externally imposed curriculum.

“Children who are in school suffer—they always have adults supervising and intervening ... it’s a very artificial setting,” he said, adding that children often aren’t trusted with responsibility in school.

“If you want people to be social and responsible as adults you need to allow them to practice being responsible as young people,” he said. “You can’t confine

them to institutions and prevent them from taking responsibility for themselves.”

Wendy Priesnitz began the Canadian unschooling movement in the 1970s.

“I knew from the time I was a child in school in the 1950s that there must be a better way to learn,” she told the Journal via email.

Although she said she did well in school as a child, she was often bored and her self-esteem dropped in math and music subjects. She said she later became a teacher largely because of her family’s expectations and not her own desire to teach.

“I realized very quickly that neither I nor the grade five kids I was supposed to motivate to learn wanted to be there. Aside from the regimentation, I saw bullying (by kids and adults), systemic injustice and sexism, coercion, stress and much more with which I disagreed,” she said, adding that she eventually quit teaching to pursue research about how people learn.

“I began to articulate that learning is not generally difficult, but that school can make it an oppressive experience when children’s interests, motivation, and needs aren’t taken into account.”

Priesnitz said her two daughters grew up learning at home.

“Their dad and I watched them eagerly and relatively effortlessly learn how to walk, talk, identify numbers and letters, understand basic scientific principles, experiment, ask questions, pursue their curiosity—all without being taught or artificially motivated, but with our support.”

She soon began contacting and organizing with other like-minded unschoolers and writers to gain national and provincial support, she said.

The difference between homeschooling and unschooling is pretty significant, Priesnitz said.

Homeschooling involves a prepared curriculum, testing, marking, grading and everything else a structured school curriculum provides, Priesnitz said, adding that this style of learning has often been

popular among conservative or Christian families. On the other hand, unschooling is much freer and much more child-centric.

Homeschooling brings the curriculum into the home environment whereas unschooling does away with it all together and places the onus to learn on the individual.

“Although there are no definitions or rules, unschooled children are motivated to learn by interest and need—in the same way they learned to walk and talk,” she said, adding that children are more motivated to learn once an externally imposed environment is taken away.

“Virtually all real learning happens as a result of want, need or interest,” she said.

“That sort of learning is different than memorizing some aspect of a “subject” that is on a course of study, because a teacher requires a report on a topic, or because the information needs to be regurgitated on an exam.”

Unschoolers learn these basics through doing, playing, experimentation, manipulation and questioning the world around them, she said, adding that the Internet, mentors and books play a part in their learning as well.

As technology makes at-home learning more possible than ever before and the pace of change makes lifelong learning a necessity, the historically heated debate over whether or not to keep children out of school is getting even heavier.

Priesnitz said these criticisms about proper functioning in a university environment or in a career are often the result of misconceptions about how unschooling works, largely due to the term “unschooling” itself.

“The term means nothing more than the absence of school,” she said. “And since most people equate

schooling with being educated, they assume not attending school means not being educated.”

However, Priesnitz said this isn’t the case. “These kids grow up to be doctors, lawyers, artists, entrepreneurs, plumbers, mechanics, writers, gardeners, teachers … the whole spectrum of careers.

“Some choose to attend postsecondary institutions; some don’t ... but when they do attend, anecdotal reports are that they generally do well,” she said, adding that this is largely due to the fact that they grew up as active, independent learners.

Judy Arnall has unschooled all five of her children.

Her eldest son now attends Memorial University in Newfoundland for engineering. In order to make the transition from unschooling to a formal university environment he spent his grade 11 year in public school.

“In grade 11 he couldn’t get over how slow the pace was,” Arnall said. “You couldn’t go your own pace anymore.”

She said her son decided to do his final year of high school online so he could go at his own pace but still get the credits he would need to go on to post-secondary education.

“He’s always been a self-directed learner. He’s taught himself math, physics, chemistry ... pretty well everything.”

Arnall said the first few weeks at Memorial required some adjustment while her son got used to deadlines, schedules and exams.

The Ontario Federation of Teaching Parents (OFTP) provides an unofficial list of post-secondary schools who have accepted homeschooled or unschooled students.

Queen’s wasn’t on this list, which may explain why the admission

requirements for homeschooled or unschooled students are unclear and why Queen’s admissions officers seemed to know little about the subject when contacted by the Journal.

As a member of the OFTP, Ricci has worked on the Post-Secondary Admissions Project.

He said there are countless ways someone who didn’t attend traditional school can get into a post-secondary institution.

“There are all kinds of myths out there on how difficult it is,” he said.

Many open universities, such as Athabasca University, allow anyone to attend as long as they are 16 years old, he said, and from there, once people have a few credits, they can transfer to another school if they wish.

According to Ricci, many postsecondary institutions that accept students who haven’t followed a traditional high school curriculum require that students achieve the six core grade 12 credits to be considered for admission; some institutions also require a completion of standardized tests such as the SAT’s.

These credits can be achieved in a number of ways, such as going to traditional school or taking online courses, which are often offered for free through school boards, he said.

Once they get to university, they tend do perform very well.

“Those who go to schools traditionally—there’s a huge dropout rate for them. They’re used to being told what to do,” he said.

Homeschoolers and unschoolers have an advantage in this respect.

“They’re used to learning on their own,” he said.

Christine Bibic, the Kingston area representative for the OFTP, said she has homeschooled her two children and has started to look into post-secondary admissions policies for them.

“It varies from university to university,” she said, adding that her children want to go to Queen’s once they graduate high school “They’ve decided to go back into school going into grade 9,” she said.

She said that while an at-home education is great for inspiring learning, a traditional curriculum helps to make sure students are prepared for university.

Bibic said some aspects of traditional school will take her children some getting used to, such as test writing, but the transition should be relatively easy.

“I don’t think it’s as difficult as most people would think.”

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