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Feature: Abortion access in Ontario

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Festival a welcome addition to weekend

Major stakeholders deem Homecoming a success B y J acob R osen Journal Staff

Postscript: The stigma of introversion

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Despite a rise in arrests and tickets, various stakeholders in Homecoming said they consider this year’s event to have been a success, owing in part to the inaugural ReUnion Street Festival that took place Saturday night.

Statistics released by the Kingston Police Force (KPF) show that officers laid 163 tickets in total over the weekend and made 24 Homecoming-related arrests.

Most tickets were related to Liquor Licence Act violations, in addition to noise bylaw and Highway Traffic Act offences.

Most of the arrests were also in relation to the Liquor Licence Act — specifically public intoxication. Officers also made an impaired driving arrest and at least one breach of the peace arrest.

Over the first Homecoming weekend in

2013, 133 tickets were laid and 16 arrests were made. During the second weekend, 20 tickets were laid and four arrests were made.

The 2013 Homecoming weekends — which took place over Oct. 4-5 and Oct. 18-19 — were the first since 2008.

That year, after a weekend in which officers made 138 arrests, the University chose to self-impose a two-year ban on Homecoming, which was extended again for what was supposed to be three years in 2010.

Principal Daniel Woolf said although the weekend was “generally successful”, thanks in part to the festival, Homecoming is still only back on a conditional basis.

“I am reasonably confident based on the student performance, which is about equal to last year, that it will be back next year, but no further decisions will be taken until we get all the data in,” Woolf said.

Woolf said he was concerned that there

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The entrance of the Women’s Clinic at the Kingston General Hospital.

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Barriers to abortion persist Access to abortion services limited by a lack of information and inadequate medical training B y O livia B owden Opinions Editor After finding out she was pregnant, a Queen’s student decided to terminate her pregnancy — but waited over a month for an abortion appointment.

The former student, who requested to remain anonymous, found out she was pregnant through a pregnancy test while attending Queen’s. After an appointment with a doctor and nurse at Health, Counselling and Disability Services (HCDS), she was referred to Kingston General Hospital (KGH) for an abortion.

Between her HCDS appointment and the date of the procedure at the KGH Women’s Clinic, five and a half weeks passed.

In the weeks before her abortion, the student said she had to deal with symptoms of pregnancy and the knowledge that she was no longer in control of her body.

“Being pregnant is the absolute worst thing that has ever happened to me in my life. It turns out as soon as you’re pregnant that your body is no longer your own,” she said. “And that is not something that I could emotionally and physically handle.”

In 1988, the Supreme Court of Canada struck down legal restrictions surrounding abortion, deeming the restrictions unconstitutional under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Including KGH, 17 per cent of Ontario hospitals provide abortion services, compared to 15.9 per cent of hospitals nationwide.

Eight freestanding clinics operate within Ontario, all of which are situated in Toronto and Ottawa.

KGH told the Journal in an email statement that the Women’s Clinic provides services that include miscarriage management and abortion, and that it also serves as a resource to inform women about pregnancy and termination.

Located on the east side of KGH’s ground floor, the Women’s Clinic provides abortions up to a 12-week gestation period. Nurses, family physicians and social workers comprise the staff at the clinic.

A woman whose pregnancy is further along than 12 weeks must seek services from another clinic or hospital. KGH can’t provide abortions past that period, the hospital said, because of the increased risk of bleeding, KGH told the Journal they couldn’t

disclose how many abortions they’ve performed this year or the amount of staff that work in the Women’s Clinic due to privacy concerns.

A social worker and physicians discuss the abortion procedure and associated risks with women beforehand, the hospital said, and counselors are made available before, after and on the day of the procedure.

The former student said because she chose abortion over carrying her pregnancy to term, she didn’t receive enough information about self-care during pregnancy.

“If you have been wanting to have a baby … you’re getting pre-natal vitamins and [doctors] talk about how to deal with nausea and what to do, how to take care of you and what’s okay,” she said.

“Because you’re getting an abortion, there is none of that.”

The former student said she asked a doctor at HCDS for further information about what to expect on the day of her procedure, adding that she was then handed a booklet, which didn’t provide the information.

“It turns out as soon as you’re pregnant that your body is no longer your own.

And that is not something that I could emotionally and physically handle.”

— Former Queen’s student

At the time, she only told her partner that she was pregnant. Due to the stigma surrounding abortion procedures, she hid her pregnancy from other people, she said.

The lack of discussion and knowledge surrounding abortion — including personal stories from others — is problematic, she added.

“How do you make an informed decision about what you want in your life without this information?” she said.

In 2012, 27,386 abortions were performed in Ontario, about 31 per cent of which were performed on women between the ages of 20-24.

While Kingston has the Women’s

Clinic and Ottawa has three abortion providers, only one hospital provides abortion services north of the Trans-Canada highway.

The Canada Health Act (CHA) — which sets out regulations that provinces and territories must follow to receive funding for health insurance — doesn’t contain requirements for the locations or number of abortion clinics.

The Ontario government doesn’t mandate that there be a minimum number of clinics within the province — nor is there a provincial regulation concerning the gestational limit that some hospitals impose.

The CHA states that provinces must fund healthcare deemed “medically necessary”, which isn’t defined within the act.

Doulton Wiltshire, director of Queen’s Sexual Health Resource Centre (SHRC), said she’s personally accompanied 38 Queen’s students to their abortion appointments at KGH. Wiltshire said that although KGH usually gets students in on time for their abortion, the 12-week limit is a concern.

“The issue becomes when people don’t know they’re pregnant right away, or aren’t starting that timeline soon enough,” Wiltshire said. “If you are 11 weeks pregnant and then decide that termination is the best course of action, it’s a crunch time.”

If a student has to leave Kingston to seek abortion services, she added, that can be a huge barrier to access.

“You’re talking about having to travel several hours, and having to compete in large cities for resources. If you’re adding another couple of weeks to that, that can be hugely problematic,” she said.

She said a trip to Toronto or Ottawa can also be costly and difficult to hide from families at home if it involves a bus, train or a night in a hotel.

“We’re actually very lucky in Kingston to have a clinic. We’re the only clinic between Ottawa and Toronto,” she said.

A study published last year in the Women’s International Study Forum — a bi-monthly journal on feminist research — found the cost and time it took to travel to an abortion clinic or hospital poses a barrier to access to abortion services in Canada.

Christabelle Sethna, an associate professor at the University of Ottawa, co-authored the study. Seventeen out of 26 freestanding abortion clinics in the

country participated.

“What we’re seeing here in Canada is that abortion doesn’t have to be illegal in order for abortion services to be inaccessible to many women,” Sethna said.

Sethna said major urban centres, such as Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver, are well equipped to deal with abortion care.

Travelling to those centres from other locations, though, takes time and involves extra costs, she added. The study showed 18.1 per cent of women who participated nationally had to travel more than 100 km to reach their appointment.

This process can also involve more than one appointment, Sethna said, usually for an ultrasound or consultation before the abortion procedure.

She added that even when a nearby hospital performs abortions, women don’t always feel comfortable seeking services there.

“We found in the study that a lot of women bypassed the hospital closest to them, because they didn’t feel they were being respected over the telephone or they got misinformation,” she said.

“Or they may not want to go to the nearest hospital or clinic because they would be known. There would be an issue around confidentiality and anonymity.”

According to Sethna, women who leave their home province to attend school can face additional challenges, such as having to pay for an abortion up front.

“Let’s say the hospital says, ‘we’re not going to do [an abortion] at five months, but she can go to another hospital.’ Well, that hospital might be in another province,” Sethna said.

Through the Reciprocal Billing Agreement — which applies to every province and territory except for Quebec — Ontario residents usually don’t have to pay out of pocket for health care in other provinces, as health care portability is guaranteed under the CHA. Abortion, however, is de-listed under this agreement, meaning residents who receive abortion services outside their home province are billed directly.

Abortions that aren’t automatically covered by a provincial health care plan can cost hundreds of dollars, according to Sethna’s study. The study also found that 60.5 per cent of participants who had abortions made $30,000 or less a year.

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NAF, a professional association of abortion providers in North America, works to improve care in Canada through advocacy and supporting medical education.

“If you became pregnant and decided…you wanted an abortion, and went to one of the facilities in Vancouver and presented your Ontario health card, they’ll say, ‘I’m sorry, we don’t have interprovincial billing,’” Fowler said.

This can pose a problem for students who have left their home province for school, Fowler added.

“You can fly back home to Ontario and get your abortion there. But you have to come back to British Columbia to continue your studies,” she said.

Fowler said NAF is working to put abortion on the Reciprocal Billing Agreement through advocacy. Abortion has never been included in the agreement, which was signed in 1988.

“It’s not justified by having it excluded from the billing agreement,” she said. “[Abortion] is the only time-sensitive, women-specific item that’s on the [exceptions] list.”

Julie Lalonde, a board member of the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada (ARCC), said women in Canada face barriers to access beyond financial constraints.

The ARCC focuses on providing better access through advocacy and working to de-stigmatize abortion.

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Abortion doesn’t have to be illegal in order for abortion services to be inaccessible to many women.

— Christabelle Sethna, associate professor at the University of Ottawa

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Misleading information purported by crisis pregnancy centres can be an issue, Lalonde said, as information about abortion isn’t commonly known to begin with.

“Just finding out where to go and not being duped by crisis pregnancy centres, which are anti-choice organizations, in which there are significantly more than there are actual providers of abortion services,”

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Lalonde said.

Whether doctors and nurses are willing to perform abortions and a lack of knowledge about reproductive health among medical professionals can also block access, she added.

The Kingston Pregnancy Crisis Centre (KPCC) aims to provide information to women who are seeking support during an unwanted pregnancy, according to Donna Bell, director of the KPCC. Although the organization is Christian faith-based, they have no desire to sway a woman’s choice concerning unwanted pregnancy, Bell said, adding that the KPCC aims to ensure information is given on three choices: adoption, abortion and having a child. “[The KPCC] is all about informed decisions. There’s no judgment, no pressure, no sense of this is what you should do,

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because a woman has the legal right to choose,” she said.

Suzanne Billing, the medical director at HCDS, said doctors at Queen’s offer information and options concerning abortion to students based on their wants and needs.

“We try to offer the options open to them in an unbiased manner so that the choice someone makes is not based on a coercive approach,” Billing told the Journal via email.

“Some come in saying they are interested in ‘x’ option,” she added, “[and] others present in tears with a positive pregnancy test, saying little.”

Physicians that are well informed about women’s reproductive health continues to be an issue, according to a 2005 study published in the McGill Journal of Medicine.

The study found that almost 40 per cent of Canadian medical schools don’t teach

abortion procedures to students before they’re placed in hospitals and clinics for clerkships.

Medical Students for Choice (MSFC), an organization that has chapters across Canada and the United States, aims to increase the education of physicians and nurses concerning abortion and reproductive health.

Ten of 17 Canadian medical schools have a MSFC chapter. The Queen’s chapter currently isn’t fully active yet.

Alida Pokoradi, MD ’16, became “co-leader” of Queen’s MSFC chapter this year. She said the chapter is gaining members at the moment, and hopes to be fully functional by November. They currently have a few members, she said.

In her experience so far as a third-year Queen’s medical student, the curriculum requires only a surface understanding of abortion, Pokoradi said.

“In the classroom there isn’t any emphasis put on abortion because there are so many other things to cover in reference to obstetrics and gynecology,” she said.

You can fly back home to “Ontario and get your abortion there. But you have to come back to British Columbia to continue your studies.

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During medical students’ clerkship years — which they complete in their third and fourth years by working at KGH or within the Kingston community — students have the option to spend one day at the KGH Women’s Clinic, Pokoradi said, but students can opt out for personal or religious reasons.

“So they could essentially finish their undergraduate medical education without having had any exposure to abortion.”

According to Jolanta Scott-Parker, executive director of the Canadian Federation for Sexual Health (CFSH), the fundamental issue is a lack of accurate information .

She said several improvements must be made in Canada so access to abortion services can be more transparent and available.

“Increasing the openness, accessing information and challenging issues around abortion stigma,” she said, “and just normalizing the reality that this is a choice that many women make.”

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Queen’s students caught in Ottawa uncertainty Former student spent Wednesday in Centre Block lockdown B y C hloe S obel News Editor

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The shootings at the National War Memorial in Ottawa and inside Parliament on Wednesday that left a soldier and the shooter dead saw a former Queen’s student deal with the uncertainty from inside Centre Block, and a current student stuck in a train station instead of going to a job interview.

A former Queen’s student and current political staffer, who requested to remain anonymous due to media rules of his job, said he was in lockdown for 12 hours and didn’t leave Centre Block until after 10 p.m.

He said he initially heard about the shooting at the Memorial through a misreported story passed on by another staffer. Moments later, while alone in the office, he heard a House of Commons security guard running down the hall, calling to everyone to get inside and lock the doors, he said, adding that this seemed to have happened moments before the gunman entered Centre Block.

“I was two floors above it and still could hear it. I did not actually know what it was, since there is a lot of construction and blasting going on every day at West Block and I mistook it for that,” he told the Journal via Facebook.

“I was supposed to be huddled and hiding but really I wasn’t as concerned as I should have been, even after I could see assault rifle wielding police outside,” he added.

“After that, I remembered that CC existed on the TV and just watched it muted while I answered emails from different places and passed off media requests.”

He said the proper hiding spot was a reinforced doorway between the two halves of the office, and he ran over to it whenever he heard sound outside, which turned out to always have been security or police.

A few hours later, he said, the police began clearing the floor through a door-by-door search.

When the police found staff, they brought them to a protected room in a cleared hallway — at first the men’s washroom, and later an office.

“The searches were not gentle, a fair bit of heritage doors and materials are smashed. But that’s the price you pay. An old door isn’t worth a life when the police can’t be sure what’s on the other side,” he said.

Alongside the staffer in the protected room were a number of diabetics using sugar packets, a Hill courier working his last day before retirement and a toddler, he said.

He said some people got information about what was going on through social media.

“I mostly just talked to friends and family that I was safe,” he said.

Cole Meagher, a first-year law student, was in Ottawa for a job interview at an office near the Memorial, but was unable to leave the downtown train station due to the shooting.

“No one knew what was going on,” Meagher said. “Everyone was saying contradicting things.”

Still, he added, social media was useful in keeping people connected and aware of what was going on.

“It’s useful, because even if there’s the minute things, like there was a shooting and this is where it was … that’s another way of getting information faster,” he said.

Vincent Mosco, professor emeritus of sociology at Queen’s and former Canada Research Chair in Communication and Society, said social media’s ideal role is to provide information that people can’t get from traditional media like television or radio, and let people reach out to those who are worried about them.

“It can provide information, it can connect people — so, for example, I’ve used social media, I’m sitting here in downtown Ottawa and I’m letting my family and friends know that my wife and I are fine,” Mosco said.

“That’s an important function of social media.”

He added that social media can hinder security in some situations, but the presence of trained reporters at Parliament meant that it helped in this one.

“One of the most problematic things about social media is that it’s often inaccurate — you get the event wrong, the number of shooters wrong, the number of people shot wrong, locations of shootings wrong, and that’s consistent across those social media events where there are few reporters around,” Mosco said.

Most of what he saw throughout Wednesday, though, was accurate, he said.

“In this case, because there were trained journalists on the scene, social media did a much better job than it’s done in other situations like this, and that’s an important distinction to be made,” he said.

“It’s not just the nature of social media — it’s who’s doing the communicating, and trained people on the scene are much better able to provide an informed and accurate description.”

Top: A broken door in Parliament. Bottom: Police outside Centre Block on Wednesday.

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MUNICIPAL POLITICS

Mayoral race begins to draw to a close Candidates discuss opening a new book on town-gown relations at AMS-hosted debate

Top, from left: Rick Downes, Scott Foster, Dorothy Hector, Bryan Paterson and Brenda Slomka. The sixth candidate, Michael J. M. Owen, was absent.

B y N atasa B ansagi Assistant News Editor Five of Kingston’s six mayoral candidates discussed talent retention, town-gown relations and housing development during a forum on Tuesday night, held in Wallace Hall and hosted by the AMS. AMS Municipal Affairs Commissioner Ariel Aguilar moderated the forum, which he said was “part of a larger strategy for the AMS to engage students and promote voting in the municipal election,” which will take place on Oct. 27.

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Rick Downes.

Scott Foster.

Wallace Hall.

Downes, Scott Foster, Dorothy Hector, Bryan Paterson and Brenda Slomka each began with a three-minute introduction before answering three predetermined questions posed by Aguilar.

Michael J. M. Owen wasn’t present at the forum.

Last year’s district boundary redistribution discussion, which would have seen Sydenham District dissolved, was raised by candidates in response to a question asking them to assess current town-gown relations and discuss their contribution to related initiatives or efforts.

Slomka said considering students as part of the

community — regardless of how long they’re in Kingston — should be a “core value”.

“I really don’t care what every municipality, how they count people, when there’s an opportunity for us to say: we’re going to set a standard, we’re going to say that this is the way that we see our students and this is the way we’re going to count them,” Slomka said.

“We’re going to set a standard so other municipalities can say, ‘hey, look what Kingston just did’.”

Downes said democracy is a “great leveler,” adding that he thinks this is a foundation of his campaign.

“I strongly believe if we cultivate a sense of looking out at every single person who lives in Kingston as our equals … that’s an important step in moving forward to cultivating a relationship between town-gown, university, other institutions, as one that’s based on respect,” he said.

Instead of making partnerships with Queen’s or Queen’s students, Foster said, students should be respected as fellow citizens and residents of Kingston.

“You don’t change a university just by turning around and changing the street signs to read ‘University District’. That to me is cheap,” he said.

“It’s time to change the attitude and pop the bubble between Queen’s and the community.”

Paterson and Hector both took issue with the argument that students shouldn’t be counted because “they don’t vote”.

“The issue is equity, and when the boundary issue came to Council, at no time did I argue anything at Council other than the issues of equity,” Hector said.

Paterson said one of the issues in discussing redistribution of boundaries was fairness, pointing to the presence of other temporary residents in Kingston, such as members of the military.

“It became an issue that some of us were struggling with to say, ‘well, if we choose to treat students differently but we’re not treating these other temporary residents in the same way, then is that being equal as well?’” Paterson said.

Support for Kingston’s LGBTQ community, the 663 Princess St. fire, daycare and real estate

were question topics posed to all candidates by audience members during the second half of the forum.

The only questions addressed to a single candidate were posed to Paterson, in regards to the Third Day Worship Centre in Kingston and videos of Paterson preaching that have recently been circulated online.

“Are you a pastor at the Third Day Worship Centre and if so, does that mean that you believe it’s your mission to raise the standard of righteousness in Canada?” one person asked.

Paterson said he isn’t a pastor

Dorothy Hector.

Bryan Paterson.

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at the Worship Centre, adding that he preferred not to comment on his theology due to his belief in the separation of church and state.

“I think that people should be judged based on their policies, on their vision, and what their role and how they’re going to lead the City,” he said.

In regards to the videos, Paterson said he didn’t “put them up” or “take them down,” adding, “You’ll have to ask the organization that did.”

“But I would guess that, like most churches, they probably want to stay out of politics,” he added.

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Walking the talk Psychology professor shows that gait has an effect on mood

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B y N atasa B ansagi Assistant News Editor A recent study from Queen’s professor Nikolaus Troje aims to contribute to the treatment of depression by manipulating mood through movement.

Originally from Germany, Troje set up the BioMotionLab at Ruhr University in 1999, which, according to its website, looks at “questions involving the processing of sensory information, perception, cognition and communication”.

He came to Queen’s as a Canada Research Chair in Vision and Behavioural Sciences in 2003.

Troje’s work focuses on perception and the idea that what people perceive is the end result of a complex machinery, which runs from sensory experience — eyes, ears and touch — to nerve cells and then to the brain, where a direct perception of the sensory experience is formed.

He said facial expression is one means through which people derive information from others.

“We look at people’s faces and we are very aware that we recognize people that way and attribute things like gender and age to people that we do not know,” Troje said.

People are much less aware of how they derive information from movement, he added.

“There’s lots of information in the way people move, and our visual system can retrieve it.”

He noted three features — chiefly posture- and motion-based — that signal whether people are depressed or happy.

Someone who’s depressed will keep their shoulders and head “a little more forward”. The range of arm swing is reduced and there’s less vertical motion.

“If you’re more happy, you bounce much more and there’s much more vertical motion with every step, as compared to if you’re less happy,” Troje said.

Rather than examining how mood affects walking style, however, the study focused on the effect walking style has on someone’s mood.

“It’s not surprising that the way you feel affects the way you walk,” Troje said. “But we were asking whether the way you walk and the way you keep your body can affect the way you feel.”

Study participants, mainly Queen’s students, were instructed to walk on a treadmill. Their walking style was manipulated by researchers so that they’d move more as if they were happy or sad.

Before this, the researchers had showed the subjects a list of 40 words, including both positive and negative words, and asked the subjects to say whether the words described them well.

“But the real reason to present those words was to later, after the experiment, ask them to recall as many as they could,” Troje said.

The study found subjects who were told to walk more sadly remembered more sad words than those induced to walk more happily.

Troje said this finding links back

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to combating depression.

Depression is “characterized by a vicious cycle, a self-perpetuating mechanism that locks depression in place,” he said, in that depression tends to lead to remembering more negative events, recalling negative events leads to more depression and so on.

“Breaking that cycle, or if there [are] ways to break that cycle, we might have an interesting tool to intervene and break open that vicious cycle that locks depression in place,” Troje said.

“What we need to do now, the next step, is to take the experiment into the clinic and work with people who are really depressed, and see whether we can make a difference.”

Troje compared research funding in Canada to what he received while in Germany, saying that Canada, in comparison to the United States and European countries, emphasizes applied research, which will impact the Canadian economy or wellbeing,

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more than “basic research.”

“It means that we can’t follow really deep questions anymore, we can’t do the big questions. We have to think much more short-term,” Troje said.

He later added via email that when he first started doing research on perception of biological motion, he was driven by the general question of how brains turn raw sensory data into meaning.

“I had [no] intention to contribute to something that translates into daily life, economic growth, or human well-being,” he said.

“But the insights and the tools that I developed back then now turn out to be used by many other researchers and often in much more applied contexts. The current study that aims to eventually contribute to the treatment of depression is just one example.”

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Reminding locals of global impact Queen’s Amnesty International hosts photos showing negative side to Canadian mining corporations B y C hloe S obel News Editor The negative impact that Canadian mining corporations have had on rural Central American communities is documented in a series of 28 photographs currently displayed in the JDUC. The photographs, taken by documentary photographer James Rodríguez, are part of a partnership between Queen’s Amnesty International, the Kingston Central American Solidarity Committee and Kingston Amnesty International to host “Canadian Mining in Central America: A

Week of Action”.

The week began with a showing of “El Oro o La Vida/Gold for Life: Recolonization and Resistance in Central America” at the Screening Room on Sunday.

From Monday through Friday, the JDUC has played host to Rodríguez’s photographs, and Rodríguez conducted a Skype discussion on Wednesday night.

Rodríguez first went to Guatemala in June 2004 as part of Peace Brigades International, and has been based there since 2006.

When he arrived, the 36-year Guatemalan Civil War had ended eight years before.

The exhibition of his work depicts the impact of Canadian mining companies on Central American communities, particularly indigenous groups in rural areas.

Corporate actors in Central America include Goldcorp; Tahoe Resources, now based in Nevada; HudBay Minerals, which is currently involved in a lawsuit over the 2009 killing of Mayan community leader Adolfo Ich Chamán, alleged to have been carried out by a private security guard employed by Hudbay; and the partnership of Radius Gold Inc. and Kappes Cassiday and Associates.

Alexandra Pedersen, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Geography, said she first got involved with mining issues in Guatemala in 2010, when she went to the country with a university-led delegation from the University of Northern British Columbia.

“The community members came forward and told us about violent evictions as well as instances of rape of the women in the community, and when they told us and explained that it was a Canadian company that owned this particular mine site, it really resonated with me and I wanted to do something about it,” she said.

She changed topics for her master’s to look at indigenous Mayan perspectives on development.

“I never actually asked them specifically about mining, but every conversation ended up talking about mining,” she said.

Pedersen’s research site is the Guatemalan community of La Puya, which has used peaceful resistance to stop Canadian and American mines from accessing their land.

She said there’s been good feedback on the exhibition of Rodríguez’s photographs.

“I think that’s probably one of our most well-attended events — people can do it at their own time or leisure and they don’t have class conflicts, or maybe they didn’t know where the Screening Room was downtown,” she said.

“We’ve had phenomenal feedback from the people that have participated in it, and … interest in how they can become involved as well as how they are related to issues that are happening in Central America as Canadians.”

Pedersen said she doesn’t know if Queen’s has connections to mining companies in Guatemala, but added that she thinks it’s likely that Queen’s is “heavily invested” in Canadian mining companies.

The University was unable to confirm by deadline regarding any investments in mining companies.

“I think, as Canadian citizens and Canadian institutions, that we should be looking very critically at what type of ethical investments we can be making,” Pedersen said.

“If Queen’s would be so forward as to divest from any particular companies that do have a track record of human rights abuses, I think that that would make a more progressive university.”

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James Rodríguez’s photos of mining impact on Central American communities, displayed in the JDUC.

News in brief QBridge extended to full-year program The QBridge Pathway English program will expand in 2015 from an eight-week intensive English for Academic Purpose program to a full-year program.

International students who meet Queen’s academic qualifications but fall short of the University’s English requirements will be able to spend a full year at Queen’s transitioning to a new language, prior to starting undergraduate studies.

Students in the program will have 22.5 hours of classroom instruction per week, working on vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar and academic writing.

“Increasing the pathways and options for academically qualified students will encourage students who might not otherwise have considered Queen’s as an option for their undergraduate degree,” Chris Coupland, director of international undergraduate enrolment, told the Journal via email.

to pursue science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) to receive the award, for a total of 40 recipients in Canada.

The scholarship is given to individuals who exemplify at least two of the following criteria: outstanding community, business or entrepreneurial leadership, academic excellence or financial need. It was created to encourage youth to embrace STEM disciplines in their future careers.

Recipients pursuing science, — Jacob Rosen — Jacob Rosen — Jacob Rosen technology or mathematics will receive $60,000 and those Free flu shots at BioSci Grad supervisors acknowledged Queen’s selects Schulich recipients pursuing engineering will receive $80,000.

Recipients of the 2014 Award for Students who haven’t had a flu The scholarship is also associated Excellence in Graduate Student shot yet this season can get one Two future Queen’s students, Supervision have been announced, at a free clinic open to the general Elise Hewat of Kaslo, B.C., with five Israeli institutions because and will receive their awards at this public on Monday, Oct. 27, at the and Tayyaba Ashfaq Bhatti of of the belief of its founder, Seymour Saskatoon, SK, have been selected Schulich, that Canada and Israel’s BioSciences Complex. fall’s Convocation.

The clinic will be open from as recipients of the 2014 Schulich shared future is dependent on Two awards are presented leadership in STEM fields. annually to faculty members who 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. No appointments Leader Scholarship.

The Schulich Scholarship have been nominated by graduate are necessary. The clinic will be — Jacob Rosen students for their guidance and run in partnership with Kingston, is associated with 20 Canadian mentorship. One award is for Frontenac, Lennox and Addington universities, which each select two secondary students who plan faculty in the Social Sciences (KFL&A) Health Unit.

The focus on international pathways stems from Principal Woolf ’s goal of raising international undergrad admission to 10 per cent of the total undergraduate population.

Along with the new developments in the QBridge Pathway, Yang Yuliang, the President of Fudan University, recently visited Queen’s as part of the University’s initiative to broaden its international collaborations.

and Humanities, and one in Life Sciences, Natural Sciences and Engineering.

This year, the award will be presented to Dr. Nancy Hutchinson (Education) and Dr. Peter Hodson (Emeritus, Biology and Environmental Studies).

Dr. Jean Côté of the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies will also receive the award. He won last year, but missed the ceremony because he was on sabbatical.

KFL&A’s website said seasonal influenza disease typically peaks in January or February. They encourage everyone to get vaccinated before the virus begins to spread, because it can take roughly two weeks for the vaccination to start developing antibodies to protect against influenza.

Flu shots are also available for students and faculty by appointment through Health, Counselling and Disability Services.

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Police cautiously optimistic Continued from page 1

were still too many people on Aberdeen St., but on the whole he was “quite pleased” with the weekend, adding that he hopes the ReUnion Street Festival will become a new Homecoming tradition.

“There’s been a lot more attention to organization of events so people don’t feel they need to, have to go to Aberdeen St. to have fun,” he said.

“I think most people appreciate that the event is back, but will only stay back as long as it remains safe and respectful.”

Const. Steve Koopman, KPF media relations officer, said KPF is cautiously optimistic about the result of Homecoming.

“I think we’re seeing a stabilization of partygoers or revelers, and the police response to that, but at the end of the day the statistics reveal only one portion of the entire weekend,” Koopman said.

He said the KPF’s priority isn’t arrests or tickets, but making the area a safe environment for everyone and keeping the peace.

“At the same time too, it’s that unspoken aspect of how everyone feels the relationships were as well, and in that I think it feels more successful in that I was anecdotally hearing some of the officers coming back, and they felt that the majority of Queen’s students, alumni and other attendees … was one of respect,” he said.

Throughout Saturday evening, the KPF maintained a presence on Twitter, answering questions and updating followers on arrests.

Koopman said part of what helped the shift away from a

confrontational attitude between officers and students was working in conjunction with various partners, including the mayor’s office, the City, the University administration and the AMS. Mayor Mark Gerretsen, who sparked controversy and memes with a tweet last year deeming the first Homecoming weekend “not good”, echoed a point made

by Koopman about the success of the festival in keeping the weekend calm. “[The festival was] more successful than anything I’ve witnessed in my lifetime that has tried to combat the problems associated with Homecoming and street parties,” Gerretsen said.

Though parties on Aberdeen St. saw fewer crowds thanks to the festival, he said he doesn’t foresee policing costs changing.

“There was a time where [the city] was spending nearly $300,000 a year [on Homecoming policing costs],” Gerretsen said. “I don’t think we will see a significant cost reduction.”

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Williams said Monday that the AMS hasn’t yet done a formal debriefing with the University, the City, local residents, students and alumni. The debriefing would go over partners’ metrics for success, including a risk register and success measures document.

“From there we’ll have a pretty good idea of the full picture and how we want to proceed,” said Williams, ArtSci ’14.

She added that the AMS was “very happy” with the festival and student behaviour.

According to AMS Vice-President of University Affairs Philip Lloyd, the festival saw roughly 5,000-6,000 people over the course of the night. Events included a performance by The Sheepdogs, jugglers and archived sports footage.

Lloyd, ConEd ’13, said the cost of putting on the festival was roughly $250,000.

“The hope is that it will continue … [and] that it can become solidified as Homecoming tradition,” he said.

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Downes endorsed unanimously RICK DOWNES City-student relations, it’s critical The Journal’s Editorial Board has that students seize the opportunity unanimously agreed to endorse to vote to cement their presence as Rick Downes for Kingston Kingston residents.

Downes’ experience, equitable mayor, with 17 votes for and views, sincerity and approachable no abstentions.

Downes is by far the most demeanor make him the best well-rounded and genuine candidate to represent the City. of Kingston’s six mayoral SCOTT FOSTER candidates, which include Scott Foster, Dorothy Hector, Michael Throughout the electoral period, J.M. Owen, Bryan Paterson and Foster has demonstrated a dedication and practicality that Brenda Slomka.

Downes’ platform is founded rivals his fellow candidates.

Foster drafted a 13-page by-law on concrete and tangible plans to clean up the City’s Brownfields, to address poor housing standards implement an effective snow in the University District, based on removal system and to improve an SGPS report on student housing transit linking Kingston to other and existing by-laws in London cities. His past contributions to and North Bay. The proposed by-law is well the implementation of bike lanes, speed-limit signs and no-smoking researched, comprehensive and by-laws within the city demonstrate demonstrates a willingness on Foster’s part to put in the work. his political capability.

Due to his lack of experience His extensive City Council experience can’t be discounted. and following, Foster’s chances of He’s served as a councilor for two being elected are slim. Despite this, separate districts over 16 years, City Council would benefit from which speaks to his ability to build his intelligence, dedication and bridges — a quality needed for innovative thinking.

It would great to see him town-gown relations in Kingston.

Downes’ objection involved in municipal politics to the Kingston district in some capacity in the future, realignment — which would potentially as a city councilor. have dissolved Sydenham DOROTHY HECTOR District and discounted students from the population Compared to some candidates, Hector has an exceptional amount tally — speaks volumes.

Over the years, he has of experience and an unyielding demonstrated a genuine concern approach that could make her for student issues, equitably an effective leader and a good viewing students as a part of the advocate for Kingston.

However, while her whole of Kingston, but also as their own part. With such an approach, straightforwardness and honesty is town-gown relations under in some ways refreshing in municipal Downes should be improved politics, her uncooperative manner from the aggravated state Mark wouldn’t be ideal in interactions with stakeholders, specifically in Gerretsen will leave them in.

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Paterson has offered no concrete As mayor, Hector would need to light. plans to rectify the situation or to consider and listen to all of BRYAN PATERSON to improve town-gown relations the Kingston community. Her actions in the OMB appeal relay Paterson would represent the in general. It’s critical that a a disregard of students, but more City as a whole quite well. His mayor concerns his or herself importantly, they demonstrate educational background and with the unification of their city’s a lack of independent and experience as a city councilor give population. Paterson’s actions have him a vital advantage over many of only further widened the divide. innovative thinking. the other candidates.

MICHAEL J.M. OWEN BRENDA SLOMKA His economic plans for the City are innovative and demonstrate a Slomka’s presence on City Council Not much can be said of Owen.

He holds no political experience, practicality that, if implemented, would introduce a measure of doesn’t have a campaign budget could viably retain and attract energy and innovative thinking.

She’s sincere, personable and and has said that he knows his business to Kingston.

But his disregard for a sixth charismatic, and emphasizes chances are slim.

Yet his short-lived campaign of Kingston’s population is where cooperation in her work.

Of all the candidates, Slomka should be appreciated for its Paterson’s effectiveness as a leader has done the most to interact contributions to the municipal falls short.

Paterson has been inconsistent with students, and has voiced conversation. The Third Crossing over Cataraqui River and the and disingenuous in responding her disapproval of electoral potential casino in Kingston are to student issues. He’s actively boundary redistribution.

While she does demonstrate topics that have dominated debates opposed the right to effective and media coverage of the election. representation, but has stated that a sense of innovation, her His presence has highlighted he doesn’t wish to look at the platform’s vision and principles issues that need more reverence redrawing of district boundaries as lack practicality.

A lack of experience and paid to them, such as improving divisive — despite its fundamentally sufficiently concrete ideas should accessibility to commercial divisive nature.

At no time has Paterson preclude her from the position of establishments for peoples with disabilities and the promotion apologized for promoting the mayor, but like Foster, she would of local farm food, among dissolution of Sydenham District. be ideal fit for a councilor position.

His inconsistent statements hinge in the future. other issues.

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CULTURE

Inappropriate appropriation The fad of cultural appropriation should be recognized as insensitive

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The former bases itself on disrespect, mean different things for different while the latter is about respect groups of Indigenous peoples. and truly wanting to understand a Often, it’s considered a sacred culture other than your own. piece of headwear that must Appropriating a culture is to be earned. wear those symbols without having Both these celebrities faced any understanding of its history or backlash online for their choice in the people to which the culture clothing. Instagram users posted Tania Nguyen, ArtSci ’18 belongs, in order to turn it into a comments on Hudgens’ account, including “loveanddream112”, Cultural appropriation — and what consumable trend.

Culture isn’t a trend. Culture who said, “No piece of it looks like — is a good thing to be cognizant of before dressing up isn’t a costume. It contains symbols, religion should be used as a this Halloween. metaphors, religions and stories fashion statement”.

Victoria’s Secret and Kloss, Cultural appropriation is the act that are meant to be personal meanwhile, apologized for the of thieving specific aspects from and sacred. other cultures and framing them as Unfortunately, some celebrities outfit after online criticism. your own. This trend has become have caused cultural appropriation pervasive within our society, to become an everyday occurrence Culture isn’t a trend. and takes its form particularly by constantly using culture to add Culture isn’t a costume.

It contains symbols, within clothing. to their fashion sense.

Although some celebrities feel Examples of these celebrity metaphors, religions and the need to wear clothing with offenders of cultural appropriation stories that are meant to symbols that have strict religious include actress Vanessa Hudgens, be personal and sacred. meaning, or clothing that trivializes who posted pictures of herself at a violent history of oppression this year’s Coachella festival on This sporting of bindis, Native and discrimination, we don’t her Instagram in an Indigenous American headdresses and “tribal” need to submit ourselves to the headdress and a bindi. Supermodel prints for reasons other than same behaviour.

Karlie Kloss wore a headdress cultural ones would fall under the The grey area between cultural in the 2012 Victoria’s Secret category of cultural appropriation. appropriation and cultural fashion show.

It’s inappropriate to wear these appreciation must be addressed.

Indigenous headdresses can articles for the mere purposes of being perceived as cool or “boho”.

Doing so undermines the history of oppression that many people of colour have faced — oppression community resources they may RE: Queen’s has failed sexual that often stemmed from the choose. In some circumstances, refusal to renounce their culture. assault survivors again at the request of the survivor, For example, Indigenous Queen’s takes the issue of sexual direct access and liaison to peoples in Canada have been assault extremely seriously and community services is offered and stripped of their rights since foreign works to broadly educate members accompaniment provided. settlers arrived on their land.

When a sexual assault risk is of our community on this topic, to Historically, the Canadian government has used horrific prevent its occurrence, to respond identified, a threat assessment methods to coerce Indigenous effectively to reported incidents process is undertaken to determine peoples to assimilate to “Canadian” and to support those who have how best to protect the safety of the survivor and other members culture. In the residential schools experienced sexual assault. of the 19th and 20th centuries, The university offers a wide of the Queen’s community.

I would like to acknowledge children were punished if they range of support services, including showed the slightest hint of the Human Rights Office (HRO), and convey my appreciation to Campus Security and Emergency the many trained staff, students, Indigenous cultural knowledge.

The Indigenous community as Services, Student Affairs and and faculty members at Queen’s, a whole was also punished for Health, Counselling and Disability including the members of the embracing their culture. The Services. We strongly encourage Sexual Assault Prevention and Canadian government forbade survivors to seek the advice and Response Working Group, who them from wearing cultural assistance of the experienced staff work tirelessly to continually educate our community, enhance garments and conducting cultural in these offices. rituals, such as the Potlatch What the Journal’s editorial our existing resources and failed to take into account is that processes and offer support to ceremony. They struggled for the right to retain their culture and the each instance of sexual assault is survivors of sexual assault.

When it comes to responding right to survive. Some Indigenous personal and highly sensitive, with people died to defend this identity. each survivor having unique needs. to a sexual assault, Queen’s is European colonists were First and foremost, the university committed to individualizing the respects these needs and the support requested by survivors. the ones responsible for the colonization and assimilation of importance of not removing or This is the most appropriate indigenous populations and of constraining survivors’ personal way to respond compassionately numerous other groups within decisions regarding how to and effectively.

North and South America. proceed. The university provides Daniel Woolf, Principal and In the 21st century, though, survivors with information to Vice-Chancellor their descendants walk out of their empower them to make their own homes decked in the clothes of the decisions, with the assistance and support of whichever university or

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people they oppressed — because they have the privilege to do so.

This sporting of bindis, Native American headdresses and “tribal” prints for reason other than cultural ones would fall under the category of cultural appropriation.

People of all backgrounds, of course, have the ability to appropriate culture. In the end, it comes down to this: don’t steal history.

Cultural appreciation is a different story. Learning another peoples’ language, history and traditions would fall under this category. This allows a true understanding of a culture without minimizing its significance or erasing the history of a people.

This Halloween, don’t take another culture’s history and make it your own. You shouldn’t place yourself within that culture because you want to look fashionable.

Having knowledge of a culture doesn’t mean you can take whatever you like from it. It’s wrong to make a spectacle out of what’s meant to be sacred for the sake of looking pretty.

Before you think of dressing up like an Aztec warrior or Hindu god this Halloween, remember the definition of cultural appropriation.

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Oxfam is an organization that fundraises for global issues.

SHOW REVIEW

Oxfam throws an Oxjam Local musicians gathered for global fundraising cause B y Z oe K elsey Staff Writer Midterm season is like a terrible gluten-free cookie. Someone told you there were chocolate chips in there that would make up for the late nights and long days but they seem rare.

Wednesday night, Oct. 22, was one of those chocolate chips; a bright and brilliant reprieve hosted

by Oxfam at the Brooklyn.

The event, “Oxjam”, was the third annual fundraising concert in support of the international charity. Oxjam is an official event of Oxfam, created in 2006 in the U.K. to unite global causes with the local music scene.

Since 2006, Oxjam has raised over £2.3 million for Oxfam, and over 1.2 million people have attended the various concerts.

This Oxjam was in support of the Global Refugee Crises, particularly for those refugees fleeing Syria.

Far from Syria, guests filtered

into the Brooklyn slowly at first, with doors opening at 9 p.m.

Cheery Oxfam club members greeted patrons at the door and soon the Brooklyn was full of happy students bobbing along to the music and drinking the excellent variety of craft beers, ales and ciders available at the bar.

The club’s hard work, which began almost immediately after frosh week, was readily apparent.

The turnout was great, a raffle prize was presented and the performers were diverse and talented.

Before each act took the stage they were briefly introduced by the groups’ co-chairs, Erin Colwell and Brad Hart, who made a special point of pursuing a genre-diverse group of musicians, saying, “We really wanted a variety: pop, punk, rap!”

The first performer was hip hop artist theO, a member of the True North Collective, a “creative group and culture brand that aims to connect and expose a unique

breed of independent artists that are breaking new ground in their respective fields”, according to the True North Collective website. theO easily warmed up the crowd with his unique style and stage presence.

Next on stage was the funk/jazz/ blues band Beartongue. The group played a number of memorable originals with a Red Hot Chilli Peppers vibe, and finished with a rousing rendition of Steppenwolf’s “Magic Carpet Ride”.

Broadening the scope of the eclectic mix of the night was the punk band The Tenenbaums.

The Tenenbaums were there to put on a show, and that they did.

Bearded, energetic and excited, The Tenenbaums, as their Twitter description reads, were 99 per cent punk rock.

The last performer of the evening wasn’t the advertised Smitty, but rather Jonas Lewis Anthony, who performs as “Wendigo Jo”. The transition was

MUSIC FESTIVAL

Modern Fuel hosts coldwave concert to kick off Tone Deaf festival

Modern Fuel Artist Run Centre turns its space into an ultra-punk underground coldwave music concert for the 13th annual Tone Deaf Festival of Adventurous Sound Performance, which kicked off Thursday night.

The festival, which started in 2001, runs until Oct. 29 and features performances from four subgenres of alternative music: coldwave, electroacoustic, ambient, and reverberation. It also includes a poster art exhibit. Each night features one different subgenre, and the poster exhibit runs for three extra days.

The festival was created in order

to each other play in the true spirit of comradery.

The event was a clear success for the performers, as well as for Oxfam, raising over $1,000 for the cause. Hart and Colwell noted that this amount is at least $200 over what was raised last year, and they look forward to the event’s continued growth every year.

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Carlyn Bezic playing the bass.

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smooth, and Anthony, who has played Oxjam events before in the U.K., was my favourite act of the night. A little bit Bob Dylan and a little bit Billy Joel, complete with a harmonica around his neck, Anthony sang passionately to the bustling Brooklyn.

Charmingly, each of the performers stuck around to listen

to celebrate and share underground experimental music with the Kingston community, and bring these new genres to an audience which may not have otherwise discovered them.

Modern Fuel’s gallery space on 21 Queen St. bustled with artists, performers and music enthusiasts.

Covered in a glow of purpled flood lighting, gallery-goers mulled over the poster exhibition and listened to blaring tunes. The poster exhibition featured promotional material from the past 13 Tone Deaf festivals.

Excited for the first night of the six day festival, organizer Kristiana Clemens is optimistic about this year’s turnout.

“The audience changes from

year to year, usually we get from about 59 to 70 people,” Clemens said.

“Last year we had a great year.

We collaborated with Kingston Art Council and had over 100 people which was a lot.”

“This year we should be expecting around 50 people per night,” added participant Daniel Darch.

Strolling through the gallery, attendees could be seen pondering over and discussing the displayed posters on the far wall of the gallery.

One attendee, Ben Cook came out to support his friends in the coldwave musical group Ice Cream.

“Kingston seems to have an interesting outsider art and music scene,” Cook said.

“Everything I’ve ever known from Kingston has been pretty forward and good, maybe it’s because of the small town vibes and because people have time to focus and there’s not too much going on.”

Meanwhile, bassist and backup vocalist of coldwave group Ice Cream, Carlyn Bezic — who graduated from Queen’s fine arts program in 2010 — was preparing for her set.

“Its molecular pop, but we try mostly not to describe our music.

Other people have said it’s fun

but scary,” said Bezic. Ice Cream’s performance was an industrial post-punk with a 90s underground music scene vibe. Even the audience was dressed for the occasion, donning black leather jackets, long floral dresses, and lots of black.

The band’s performance, although well-presented, weren’t the most accessible to the everyday listener. Although this kind of music was a very love it or hate it type of sound, the dreamy purple lighting and mellow vibes provided an enjoyable experience nonetheless.

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Bellfonix puts a new spin on classic tunes Kingston-based cover band appreciates performing for hometown crowds B y K ashmala O mar Arts Editor Cover bands are rare nowadays, but Kingston-native band Bellfonix have proved they’re just as relevant as bands that produce original music.

The band, which incorporates their signature pop-rock sound into their covers, are fairly new to the local music scene. After forming in 2012, they quickly landed shows at the Mansion, the Toucan and the

Merchant Tap House.

The main lineup consists of Heather Bell on lead vocals, Matt Kirby on guitar, Winston Vinh on bass guitar and Daniel Chalmers on drums. Supportive musicians to the band include guitarists Van Sheen, Aidan Campbell and Justin Andre.

Being in a cover band is definitely different than performing in regular bands, said lead singer Bell.

“Being in a cover band, I take every song and try to make it my

Bellfonix is a newer band, having formed in 2012.

own,” Bell said. “I try to have an emotional connection to a song either way — I always pick songs that I feel something for.”

Bell writes original music on the side as well, she said, but being in the cover band is one of her main focuses.

Covering artists such as The Temptations, Queens of the Stone Age, Led Zeppelin, Adele, Amy Winehouse, Bruno Mars and No Doubt, among others, the band puts an original pop-rock spin on

each song they cover.

Bell said Kingston is a great place to be a musician. The support that every artist in the community has for each other is overwhelming.

“We love playing in Kingston — it’s home to us,” she said. “It’s just a strong community of musicians. Everyone’s just so supportive of each other, and are so willing to help each other out.”

The venues they perform at are amazing, which is part of the experience, Bell added.

The singer also attributes a lot of the band’s success to other, more experienced Kingston-based musicians like Chris Koster and Emily Fennel.

The artists are something like role models to Bellfonix, she said.

“They’re my idols — their music is amazing,” Bell said. “They’re very mentoring and it’s just a great

environment to be in.”

She went on to add that Fennel taught her voice lessons and helped her get into the music scene. The musicians are open minded, full of knowledge and she feels lucky to be friends with them, Bell said.

She added the band plans on producing more original music to accompany the covers. The music they choose to play will reflect the mood of the crowd, and will be more of an even mix of covers and original tunes.

“I love writing original stuff.

I’ll always be doing that,” she said.

“We have quite a few gigs and we’re just going to go with the flow and see where it takes us.”

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ATHLETE PROFILE

SPORTS

Standout stopper Women’s soccer keeper continues to shine in big chances B y S ean S utherland Sports Editor Madison Tyrell’s match-winning save on Wednesday wasn’t the first tight situation she’s faced.

The third-year Gaels keeper has made 11 OUA playoff appearances — seven of which have gone to penalty kicks, with another one being won in extra time.

Tyrell has been front and centre during these moments, turning away opposing shooters to push Queen’s farther into the playoffs.

Two days ago, she saved the decisive penalty kick in the Gaels’ 1-0 first-round playoff victory over the Carleton Ravens.

“It’s stressful at times, but sometimes I enjoy that situation in the way that I know that I can hopefully contribute in a result,” Tyrell said.

Performing in penalty shootouts is just a part of the game, she added — one where she can make her mark on the match.

“There’s just so many things that can happen in a penalty shootout when the girls have worked through

overtime. When the games are so long and everyone’s so tired,” Tyrell said. “The shootout gives me a direct chance to influence the outcome.”

The ability to influence games has been a mainstay of her tenure at Queen’s. As a rookie in 2012, she was in net as the Gaels faced the McMaster Marauders in the OUA bronze medal match, with a berth to the CIS championships on the line.

Tied at 1-1 after 120 minutes, Tyrell made several key saves in the ensuing eight-round shootout, including a fingertip save to prolong her team’s season. The Gaels eventually prevailed, giving Tyrell her first-ever shootout victory at Queen’s.

While the Gaels eventually fell short in the CIS final — losing in penalties to the Trinity Western Spartans — Tyrell said the experience played a major role in her development as a keeper.

“The group of girls we went to nationals with were seasoned vets and had so much to teach us, the whole first-year class coming in,” she said. “That playoff run was so

much fun, and there were so many lessons learned and experiences gained. It was more than I could ever ask for as a first-year heading into university.”

After the excitement of her initial season with the Gaels, Tyrell suffered several injuries over the course of 2013, limiting her to only 10 games last year.

“It seemed to be one unlucky injury after the next,” she said.

“There was a lot of time to focus over the summer, just to really focus in on what I wanted to get from the season and how I could contribute.”

The injuries also sparked a continued desire to seize the opportunities given to her.

“A lot of it is not taking any game for granted or any opportunity,” she said. “Understanding an injury can happen at any time but when you get to be healthy enough to play, it’s really important that you appreciate that opportunity, so that’s what I’ve been trying to do this year.”

Tyrell started all 16 of the Gaels’ regular season games this year, allowing 12 goals and posting six

Madison Tyrell served as the Gaels goalkeeper on the way to a CIS silver medal in 2012.

clean sheets as Queen’s finished fourth in the OUA East.

The Gaels can play a maximum of six more games this season, starting with Sunday’s quarterfinal match against the Ottawa Gee-Gees. When the two teams faced off in the same situation last season, Tyrell was once again called upon to hold the line in a shootout.

She topped three of five Ottawa shots, as the Gaels moved on to the

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OUA Final Four.

While there’s no way to tell if penalties will be needed this year, Tyrell is certain of one thing.

“I just hope I can do the best I can on any given day,” she said.

“Just staying healthy and staying focused and enjoying it. From last year, I’ve just been really focused on enjoying the play and enjoying the competitive atmosphere.”

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Shootout heroics Gaels prevail in penalties over Carleton B y S ean S utherland Sports Editor

Tyrell recorded six clean sheets in 16 appearances for the Gaels this season.

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MEN’S SOCCER

Late goal sinks Lakers Nipissing downed at home, Varsity Blues up next on the road B y K ylee P edersen Staff Writer A brilliant 30-yard strike from Chris Wellsman pushed men’s soccer into the second round of the OUA playoffs.

The second-year midfielder’s 105th-minute shot found the top corner of the Nipissing Lakers’ net, proving to be the game-winner at Miklas-McCarney Field on Wednesday night.

From that mark onwards, the Gaels’ defence was impenetrable, finishing the game with vigour to take the nail-biting win.

“It comes back down to which team really wanted it more and

I really felt that the gentlemen in the Queen’s uniforms wanted to win this game a lot more than the Nipissing guys,” said Gaels head coach Christian Hoefler.

“It was a terrific finish by Wellsman, but I give credit to all the players that were on the pitch in that they maintained composure and stayed organized.”

Although the Gaels came out with tenacity, regular time saw some familiar patterns. Nipissing put the first score on the board on a dangerous counterattack in the ninth minute. Striker Brandon TeBrake smacked a shot into the top right corner of the goal off a scrambled play in the 18-yard box.

Hoefler said that while the Gaels maintained possession for the majority of the 90 minutes, the Lakers’ pace caught them off-guard.

“It came down to us just having a little bit of a lack in focus for a split second and they countered on us,” he said.

The Gaels weren’t to be quieted.

After a few narrowly missed chances, third-year midfielder Andrew Martin skillfully put away an equalizing tally from the 20-yard mark in the 23rd minute.

Despite promising combination plays, Queen’s was unable to seal the deal in regular time. Thirty See Semi-finals on page 19

Four straight successful penalty kicks sent women’s soccer to the OUA quarterfinals.

The Gaels squeaked out a win over the Carleton Ravens at Miklas-McCarney Field on Wednesday, topping them 4-2 in penalties after 120 minutes of scoreless action. Second-year striker Tara Bartram netted the decisive kick, stepping up after keeper Madison Tyrell turned aside Carleton’s fourth shooter.

The result was nothing new for the Gaels. Their past four playoff games have been decided in kicks, including a pair of scoreless battles in last year’s post-season.

Despite the win, head coach Dave McDowell said his team could have played better.

“It was a real grind-it-out result.

I didn’t think we were great to be honest,” McDowell said. “In the end, you try to grind it out and get the result one way or another.”

The scoreless 120 minutes came in part due to the Gaels’ lack of finishing. Their players were able to break in to the Ravens’ zone several times late in the second half and in extra time, but any shot attempts sailed well wide of the net

or were turned aside by Ravens keeper Elizabeth MacDougall.

Just the same, the Gaels were kept in the game by Tyrell’s play in net. The keeper tipped a Carleton shot just over the net in the final minutes of extra time — the second time in the match the Ravens came tantalizingly close to a go-ahead goal.

Twelve minutes into extra time, a Carleton shot hammered off the woodwork and bounced in front of the net before being cleared away.

McDowell said the team talked about garnering offensive opportunities in the extra time.

“Going into the overtime, we just thought we’d create some chances,” he said. “Just wanted to be a little more efficient in finishing.”

After the period was up, each of the shooters stepped up to the penalty spot.

One by one, Laura Callender, Melissa Jung and Brittany Almeida beat MacDougall. Two Carleton shooters scored — including MacDougall — but their second shooter’s attempt carried over the net, striking the football upright above it.

Tyrell shut down the fourth Ravens shooter, diving to her right See Gee-Gees on page 19

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Friday, September 12, 2014

MEN’S VOLLEYBALL

Banner year Veteran Gaels in the hunt for OUA gold B y B rent M oore Assistant Sports Editor

regular season.

“I don’t think we’ve dropped in calibre,” Willis said. “We’re one of Brenda Willis and the men’s the bigger, stronger teams in the volleyball team have lofty ambitions OUA. Our physicality should be the difference.” this season.

Key returning players include After finishing in sixth place last season, the Gaels fell in four outside hitter Mike Tomlinson and sets to the Waterloo Warriors in middle blockers Scott Brunet and the opening round of the OUA Tyler Scheerhoorn.

Tomlinson was a second-team playoffs. This year, the team is OUA All-Star last season, registering aiming for a vast improvement.

“Our goal is to qualify for the the second-most kills per set in the CIS championships,” said Willis, league. He’s recovered from a torn who’s entering her 28th season as ACL that kept him out of the first seven games in 2013.

Queen’s head coach.

Along with these three If the team reaches the national tournament, it’ll be their best result fourth-year returnees, Willis since the 2011-12 season, when has been impressed by the of another they captured the OUA title and improvement finished fourth while hosting the outside hitter.

“The guy who has stepped up CIS tournament.

To occupy one of the the most is [third-year] Marcus province’s top spots — alongside Trence,” she said. “We’re pretty upper-echelon programs such as happy with him right now.”

Middle blocker Darren Edwards the McMaster Marauders or York JOURNAL FILE PHOTO Lions — the men will likely need and libero Jacob Glantz have Outside hitter Markus Trence (2) recorded 55 kills and 34 digs in 32 sets played last year. at least 15 wins in 20 games, a both graduated. Willis brought in a quartet of rookies, some of Montreal Carabins on Oct. 18, on their momentum from near the twice last season, winning both number Willis said is obtainable.

The Gaels lost minimal players whom found floor time during while setter Joraver Sangha saw end of last season. Having lost to games 3-2.

“Windsor will try to get a lot playing time against Montreal Toronto and the Ryerson Rams over the off-season, and hope to the pre-season.

Outside hitter Ben Harper and the Toronto Varsity Blues in last November, they rebounded of balls to the middle,” Willis begin where they left off at the in February to beat both squads in said. “We need to stop their end of last year, when they won was named MVP of the Gaels’ pre-season tournaments.

Queen’s will be looking to build straight sets, punching their ticket middle attack.” three straight games to close the exhibition clash with the Western beat the Gaels twice to the post-season.

The pair of wins showed in 2013-14, but have since lost a WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL improvement and the ability number of veteran players.

“Everyone thought Western to remain poised and finish off would be rebuilding, but they tough opponents.

The Gaels open their regular upset McMaster last weekend,” season tonight with a game Willis said.

“We’ll see what happens,” she against the Windsor Lancers, before playing the Western added. “[These are] two real key games for us.”

Mustangs tomorrow.

The Gaels met the Lancers departures of kills leader Kelsey Gryphons and York Lions, but were B y B rent M oore and Bishop and starting setter blanked by the host Marauders.

S ean S utherland The match against Guelph Shannon Walsh.

Journal Staff The Gaels will call on OUA East didn’t go smoothly, but the Gaels After a one-year hiatus from the All-Rookie team member Gabrielle came out on top in five sets.

“We ended coming out really OUA playoffs, women’s volleyball Down to step up in place of Walsh. will be in a battle to return to Down averaged 6.49 assists per set soft in the first two sets, and then slowly chipped away,” Ling said. last year, appearing in 11 games. the post-season.

“That is a positive for us — a Ling’s first pre-season trip Last season, the top five teams in the OUA all shifted to the newly with the team took him to his come-from-behind win.”

The Gaels kick off their season created OUA East, leaving Queen’s old stomping grounds. The the odd team out come playoff time. women faced five teams at the at home tonight when they host the The Gaels went 10-9, finishing fifth University of Regina Invitational Windsor Lancers, before taking on in late September, including Ling’s the Western Mustangs tomorrow in the highly competitive division. at 6 p.m.

Queen’s enters 2014-15 with former squad.

“They’re both very scrappy “I use that tournament as a bar a new head coach. Former bench boss Joely Christian-Macfarlane setter, just to figure out where the teams,” Ling said. “Our goal is stepped down in April after seven Queen’s athletes fit in terms of to put together a good fight and seasons, eventually taking over the where my experiences come from,” to challenge these two teams and JOURNAL FILE PHOTOS come away with a win.”

Ling said. helm at RMC. Despite finishing above .500 for the sixth straight year, The women won three games Ex-Alberta Pandas assistant women’s volleyball failed to make the OUA playoffs.

Michael Ling was tabbed as her before being shut out by Alberta replacement and has taken over and the Calgary Dinos.

“Calgary and Alberta brought a squad with a mix of youth us down to earth again,” Ling said. and experience.

“I have lots of options,” Ling “There were valuable lessons that said. “It’s nice to see that I do [we] learned from two of the top teams in the country.” have options.”

Queen’s 3-1 win over Regina Captain and 2012-13 OUA second-team All-Star Katie midway through the tournament Hagarty is the sole returning fifth- excited coach Ling.

“I felt Regina was probably our year, while Shannon Hopkins and Emilie Normand are also veterans best outing out of all the three of the Gaels’ 2011-12 OUA weekends in the pre-season,” he said. “It was gritty, it was motivated.” championship squad.

The tournament was also an Also back this year and expected to continue her strong play is opportunity to shake off early third-year Brett Hagarty. A fall jitters.

“For a first tournament, I think second-team OUA East All-Star last year, the younger Hagarty sister there was a lot of energy,” Ling said.

Two weeks later, the women led the team with 302 digs and finished fifth in the league with traveled to Hamilton for the McMaster Thanksgiving Classic, 220 kills.

The team was hit by the where they beat the Guelph

New coach settles in Women’s volleyball looks to get back to post-season form

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Semi-finals loom Continued from page 16

minutes of extra time saw very combative bits of play, especially from the Nipissing side.

“They had nothing to lose, really — you could see that in their attitude when they were coming into tackles or distributing from the back to the attacking players,” Hoefler said.

After Wellsman’s ambitious blast, the Lakers had a chance to tie the game in the dying minutes of extra time with a set piece from 25 yards out. They were shut down

by Gaels goalkeeper Max Materne, who made a skillful save to clinch the victory.

“Overtime does get a bit nerve-wracking, but we remained composed, stuck to our strategy and we ended up with the result,” Hoefler said.

“It’s about being consistent for the entire 90- or 120-minute match, and ensuring we follow our plan.”

The Gaels will now prepare for their next challenge — the OUA East quarterfinal match against the Toronto Varsity Blues on Sunday in Toronto. The last time the two teams faced off, the game ended in a 0-0 draw.

“Toronto is a respectable team — they definitely have some talent, and so we need to make sure we stick to our strategy and our plan,” Hoefler said.

Seven of the last 11 women’s soccer post-season games have gone to a penalty shootout.

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Gee-Gees up ahead Continued from page 16

to deny the penalty. The save set up Bartram’s attempt, which sent the Gaels into the quarterfinals.

McDowell said he sent out the players he did based on who wanted the opportunity.

“With the penalties, we spent a fair bit of time working through it,” he said. “Just trying to make sure the players who were going to take them were ones who wanted to take them and we made it very clear: just do things confidently.”

With the win, the Gaels head on the road Sunday to face the OUA East’s top seed, the Ottawa Gee-Gees. The Gee-Gees boast the East’s most potent offence and its stingiest defence, netting 67 goals this year while conceding just nine.

In their only meeting this season,

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Andrew Martin’s goal in the 23rd minute tied the Gaels’ match at 1-1.

Sunday, Oct. 25, 1 p.m.: Gaels @ Western Mustangs (OUA Championship).

MEN’S RUGBY

(OUA Quarterfinals).

Sunday, Oct. 26, 3:15 p.m.: Gaels @ Toronto Varsity Blues (OUA Quarterfinals).

WOMEN’S HOCKEY

FOOTBALL

Saturday, Oct. 25, 3:30 p.m.: Gaels (3-0) vs. Toronto Varsity Blues (3-0).

Sunday, Oct. 26, 2:30 p.m.: Gaels vs. York Lions (2-2).

WOMEN’S SOCCER MEN’S HOCKEY Sunday, Oct. 26, 1 p.m.: Gaels @ Ottawa Gee Gees

Guelph

MEN’S SOCCER

Saturday, Oct. 24, 1 p.m.: Gaels (6-1) vs. Western Mustangs (4-2-1)

Saturday, Oct. 25, 1 p.m.: Gaels (2-5) vs Carleton Ravens (4-3).

Gaels (2-1) vs.

Gryphons (2-3-1).

Friday, Oct. 24, 7:30 p.m.:

Saturday, Oct. 25, 7:30 p.m.: Gaels vs. Western Mustangs (3-1).

CROSS COUNTRY Saturday, Oct. 25, 11 a.m.: Gaels @ OUA Championship (Fort Henry).

ROWING Saturday, Oct. 25, 9 a.m.: Gaels @ OUA Championships (St. Catharines).

the Gaels fell 3-0 at home on Oct. 15. The match marks the second consecutive year the teams have squared off in the OUA quarterfinal, as Queen’s upset Ottawa in 2013, once again winning a scoreless match that went to penalties.

McDowell said the Gaels will learn from the mistakes they made against Carleton and put forth a more complete performance.

“I think we’ll learn from this game that this was our worst playoff effort and we’ll be better in the next one,” he said. “It’s been a tough week with mid-terms and players not having full groups to train. We’re hoping that over the next little bit and then going away that it will allow us to focus a little more on what we’re doing as a group.”

OUA Men’s

OUA Women’s

Soccer Quarterfinal

Soccer Quarterfinal

Match-Ups

Match-Ups

EAST

EAST

1. Ryerson Rams vs.

5. UOIT Ridgebacks: Sunday Oct. 26, 2 p.m.

1. Ottawa Gee-Gees vs. 4. Queen’s Gaels: Sunday Oct. 26, 1 p.m.

2. Toronto Varsity Blues vs. 3. Queen’s Gaels: Sunday Oct. 26, 3:15 p.m.

2. UOIT Ridgebacks vs. 3. Toronto Varsity Blues: Sunday Oct. 26, 4 p.m.

WEST

WEST

1. York Lions vs. 6.

Laurier Golden Hawks: Sunday Oct. 26, 4 p.m.

ON DECK CIRCLE WOMEN’S RUGBY

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2. McMaster Marauders vs.

4. Western Mustangs: Sunday Oct. 26, 7 p.m.

1. Western Mustangs vs. 5. Guelph Gryphons: Sunday Oct. 26, 1 p.m.

2. Laurier Golden Hawks vs. 3. York Lions: Sunday Oct. 26, 1 p.m.

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LIFESTYLE STUDENT LIFE

Where, oh where is our fall reading week?

Exploring why Queen’s is one of the only universities in Ontario without a fall reading week

B y M egan H endry Contributor When I began studying at Queen’s, fall reading week was something given only to the magical lands of Laurentian and the University of Ottawa, and well, they seemed really far away, so it was understandable.

Yet, when I started hearing about friends at University of Toronto and McMaster getting four-day weekends in lieu of an actual week, I started to feel royally ticked off.

And now that close to every school in Ontario (Waterloo is the only notable exception) has a full week, or at the very least two extra days off, I’m left with one

Most universities have implemented fall reading weeks or extended Thanksgiving weekends to combat stress and mental health issues.

question — how can Queen’s have nothing?

At first, the notion seemed silly.

There has never been a reading

RECIPE

Ultimate fully loaded baked potato soup Bacon, potatoes and cheese make this dish a savoury one

PHOTO BY ARWIN CHAN

week in the fall, so why should it a student, Queen’s had a record start now? number of six student deaths occur, Yet during a conversation with three of which were reported my housemate, Roisin Donohue, as suicides.

ArtSci ’15, she raised the really In response, there was important point: “Do I somehow speculation Queen’s would have less work in first semester implement another reading week. than second?”

And yet somehow, four years If you were a Queen’s English later, nothing has been done. student when Professor Elizabeth I do commend the strong Hanson first started teaching thirty surge of mental health awareness years ago, you might have had a initiatives that have cropped up on lighter course load in the fall. campus in my time here, such as As Hanson told our class, The Jack Project, the Pet Therapy “The course work used to not Res Program, the Mental Health be symmetrical.

Lived Experience Anti-Stigma She explained that when Workshop and the Mental Health she`first started teaching, all the Awareness Committee. courses she taught were year-long.

But the lack of any clear This meant there weren’t any tangible change to try and December exams and only one relieve student pressure and fall paper. stress at an institutional level is All of the big assessments came absolutely unacceptable. in March and April of second Do I feel that having those extra semester, making a reading week days or a reading week would then a necessity. have been the magical solution And yet as our course system to prevent these deaths from adapted — the majority of occurring? Probably not. second- to fourth-year courses are But it certainly couldn’t hurt now only half-year — somehow to consider implementing a fall our system did not change to reading week or long Thanksgiving match up. weekend to help prevent other And students are suffering for it. students from suffering the same When I asked Facebook friends tragic fate. their opinion on the addition of a reading week or a longer Thanksgiving weekend, the overwhelming majority said even ostscript those few extra days would ease stress levels considerably.

[W]hen you’re Someone even commented on the student morale and mental trying to sort health benefits a break would allow. people into Sure, for people living being wholly an in the GTA, it’s not really a problem — heading home for a introvert or an weekend is not unheard of. extrovert you’re But for a school that boasts 95 really taking away per cent of its student population coming from outside of Kingston, the possibility it’s a real issue. for people to For students travelling back be unique and to London, much less Alberta or have overlapping British Columbia, the travel time is so long it’s almost not worth interests it, given the time we’re allotted and qualities. for Thanksgiving.

For many students, it’s a choice between skipping three or four class — Megan Hendry, days to make the trip worthwhile, or not making it home at all. fourth-year There are also the financial and English student time burdens to consider. But it’s not just the distance — mental PAGE 24 health is a concern too.

The year before I began here as

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This hearty soup is the perfect comfort food for a cold, rainy day in Kingston.

B y L auren W ininger Contributor If you go to Queen’s, you’re well aware of the drop in temperature we are currently experiencing. In preparation for the looming winter vortex, this soup will keep you nice and warm and your taste buds happy.

Making soup after a cold day on campus can be extremely comforting and can have so many variations. Don’t like potatoes? Try carrots or cauliflower. Like your soup a little thicker?

Don’t add as much milk. With so many choices, you’ll be making soup until the cold lets up. This hearty soup, in particular, is a personal favourite of mine.

Ingredients: 2 tbsp. butter 3 cups diced potato ½ cup onion 2-3 strips of bacon 1 spoonful of flour 10 oz. chicken stock ½ cup milk ½ cup cheddar or marble cheese 1 spoonful sour cream Salt and pepper to taste Directions: 1. Start by putting potatoes into a bowl with 1 tablespoon of water. Place potatoes in the microwave and heat for three to four minutes or until potatoes are soft.

2. In a large pot, melt butter on medium heat. Then add the onions and potatoes. Let them cook until soft.

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3. When soft, pour in the chicken stock. Turn the heat down low and cover with lid.

4. While the vegetables are simmering, cut the bacon into small pieces and cook. Once the bacon is done, remove it from the pan and add equal parts flour to the bacon grease.

Whisk the two together until combined, and then add to the vegetables and stock. This adds a lot of flavour!

5. Blend the contents of the pot together until smooth. Add milk and blend again. Add salt and pepper to taste.

6. Mix in bacon bits and cheese until melted.

7. Serve with a big scoop of sour cream and any leftover bacon bits and cheese to garnish.

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HOMECOMING

Treasured tales

The importance of the stories our graduates tell B y K ate M eagher Assistant Lifestyle Editor At 4 p.m. last Saturday, I opened my door to five eager faces, all of which were attached to women sporting shirts that read “Aberdeen Alumni”. I had just met the former tenants of my house.

Excitedly, they rushed in and took my housemates and I on a tour of our own house, explaining how our kitchen used to be a bedroom and where the balcony had been.

None of us could stop laughing. This wasn’t the first time we’d been paid a visit by a former resident on Homecoming.

As the group of Aberdeen alumni made their way out, we joked that in a few years we’d come back and do the same for the new tenants.

As students, we’re only ever a few short years away from being alumni. Every conversation we have with alumni on Homecoming asks us to look both into their past and our own future.

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COLUMNS — QJ HEALTH

The flaw in #fitspo

The fitness trend that both motivates and misleads B y C aela F enton Contributor

for women that specifically want are shots of herself in a sports a flat stomach, toned arms and bra and shorts, showing off her svelte inner thighs. Believe it or not, toned stomach. What strikes me There’s a fitness phenomenon these traits are actually listed as the most about these posts is that the program aims on her website. she chooses not to include her face taking place at the Queen’s ARC. As a frequent exerciser and She also currently has 1,508,429 in the shots.

This sends the message to over a avid people watcher, I love the followers on Instagram, where gym — or at least most things she provides “fitspo” — fitness million followers that she is defined by her body. about the gym. I dislike thinking inspiration.

Many of her other posts feature I’m all for anything that about the amount of sweat that has been absorbed by the mat that I’m encourages people to get active ‘transformations’ — women and improve their health. Itsine’s who’ve sent in ‘progress photos’ using and I’ll never enjoy burpees.

Yet this year there seems to be an promotion of working out with of themselves at the beginning and inordinate number of girls on those friends fosters exercise as a form of end of the training program.

From a marketing perspective, positive social interaction. mats doing burpees.

On her social media, Itsine this is brilliant. From a health I’m completely supportive of having more girls at the gym and offers daily denotations of positivity perspective, not so much.

Most of the women featured particularly in the weight rooms and motivation, such as “Food is that are often viewed as ‘guys not the enemy, self hate is.” She in the transformations go from only’ zones. But I’ve noticed that encourages healthy eating and average bodies to extremely thin a significant number of these girls claims to believe that beauty comes and toned bodies. The viewer has no idea how many photos may are using the Kayla Itsine Bikini in all shapes.

But the guide is called the Bikini have been filtered through in order Body Guide.

This is something I have Body Guide, which to me, makes to select that specific one.

They may assume that their it pretty clear that the emphasis extremely mixed feelings about.

Itsine is a 23-year-old personal is on physical appearance rather body should look similar with a bit of exercise and healthy eating. trainer from Australia that has than health. developed a training program The majority of Itsine’s posts It sets a precedent that’s unrealistic and can foster self-loathing.

The concept of ‘documented pleasure’ — the satisfaction one feels from documenting the progress of his or her activity — is taken a step further on social media outlets such as Instagram and Facebook, when one can put his or her progress out there for other people to approve of through ‘likes’ and comments.

This control of what other people see allows us to create a ‘performing self’, a perfect version of our less-than-perfect self, for example, choosing to post number 17 of 32 selfies.

The ‘performing self ’ is a personality cultivated through emphasis on display, appearance and management of impressions.

In the case of the Bikini Body Guide, it isn’t about being healthy — it’s about being desirable.

We ought to exercise because it makes us feel good and not so that someone can evaluate our bodies SUPPLIED BY KAYLA ITSINE on a screen.

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Stories worth sharing Continued from page 22

This Homecoming, we’re all surely inundated with tales of Queen’s past: the good, the bad and the downright strange. We heard about wild nights, bizarre profs and what were clearly the most oft-recounted years of people’s lives.

Hearing about someone’s first date 30 years ago at your favourite park or the late night they spent studying for the stats course you’re currently taking can be an important reminder about how connected we truly are to our alumni network.

But more importantly, listening to stories like these help us to understand how valuable Queen’s continues to be to alumni years after they’ve left.

These individuals still miss their days as students and, while it might not seem like much to us, telling us

about those days is an important part of being alumni.

The exchange of these stories from one generation to the next helps us appreciate the school’s legacy — a subject much spoken of, but rarely understood.

Particularly on a weekend like Homecoming, when the opportunities for misbehaviour abound, it’s important to keep in mind that our school has a rich history of tradition, of passing stories from one class to another.

Acting in a way that puts the tradition at risk jeopardizes our ability to do the same for future Queen’s students. It’s good to take the opportunity to have fun, but don’t forget that the point of Homecoming is to make meaningful connections, not drunken mistakes.

Think back to the alumni you encountered last weekend.

Whether their stories were short or

long, slightly embellished or glaring fiction, what’s consistent among them all is a love for Queen’s and those the school touches.

As individuals on the brink of joining the prestigious ranks of Queen’s alumni, take the chance to listen closely to all the tales coming your way, as well as to cultivate a few of your own.

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The stigma of the silent Being an introvert in a university setting that promotes social interaction can be challenging for some B y C handra E rickson Copy Editor I’ll confess: I enjoy being alone. I like to recharge in my room — my sanctuary, my haven — and snuggle right into that cotton cocoon I call my bed with a book or two.

Despite this feature that goes to the very core of who I am, I’m typically described as outgoing and sociable.

I still remember in grade school, at those meet-the-teacher events, my parents would receive praise for my “bubbly” character.

I can conclude that I’m not anti-social or aloof. Instead, I’m slightly more introverted than extroverted. I require solitude and I embrace my cerebral nature.

Introversion and extraversion are personality types: two complementary ways of operating in the world.

Psychologists have, for a long time, debated whether human beings fall into ideal types or along a continuum.

According to Cynthia Fekken, associate vice-principal (Research) and psychology professor, most psychologists would argue that there isn’t a specific typology or “two bins.”

“I offer the analogy with these traits like being left-handed or right-handed,” Fekken said. “If I’m going to brush my teeth, I’m going to use my right hand, if I’m going to throw a ball I’m going to use my right hand, but when I tie my shoes I’m going to use both hands.”

Essentially, we’re all ambidextrous. And despite our preference of being right-handed or left-handed, however, the majority is comfortable operating with both.

Thus, a lot of us undulate between both personality traits, meaning introverts and extroverts can do the opposite of what they’re familiar with.

They can be more or less outgoing, respectively. They’re not strictly limited either to the inner world or the outer world.

However, Fekken notes that working with your opposite hand requires greater mental effort.

“Naturally we go to the thing that’s easier for us. The extrovert may accept your invitation to watch Netflix, but that may be harder for him or her than going to the club,” she said.

This is a result of both situational influences on how extroverted or introverted people behave and individual differences where some people feel more comfortable acting a certain way.

Bias, therefore, erupts when we attempt to characterize a person; it reduces our very organic complexity.

Humans are obviously complex beings — our personalities are comprised of various traits — and we simply pass judgment by misunderstanding these terms as being fixed, rather than fluid.

According to Megan Hendry, a fourth-year English major, there are issues involved with classification. “[W]hen you’re trying to sort people into being wholly an introvert or an extrovert, you’re

really taking away the possibility for people to be unique and have overlapping interests and qualities,” Hendry said.

In accordance, she classifies herself as an “outgoing introvert” to merge her introverted and extraverted qualities.

“I like to go out for a night, have a good time with my friends, then need to come home at the end of the day, recharge, and I can do it again,” she said.

“I just become a miserable person when I don’t have the time to be quiet and draw back into myself.”

What’s most interesting are the ways in which slightly more introverted or extroverted people think and perform — especially the different perspectives and personalities they take into PHOTOS BY ARWIN CHAN different situations and the According to Susan Cain’s book, one-third to one-half of us are introverts. different types of energy they seek in order to recharge.

University may, in result, seem into a lot of extrovert positions. We establishing contacts, enhancing “In my eyes, it’s not that I networking skills, joining various like a minefield for introverts get to write a lot of our own papers, don’t like any of those [activities] club and being involved. by providing them with generate our own ideas, we’re not individually, it’s when you “For extroverts, this is much the ultimatum: join or suffer put into a lot of groups.” throw them all together into a more natural to do,” Kim said. the consequences.

Sometimes, for example, there two-day-long marathon that I just If you couldn’t balance are seminars where you don’t They tend to love meeting new can’t compete with it,” she said. people and being in large groups of parties, volunteer work, student know what to expect — anything’s “That’s not who I am … I’m not people, and feel energized being in government clubs and befriending fair game. someone who can rally well. So I those environments. everyone on your floor, you might But introverts like to be as find if I ever really try to push my “Whereas for introverts, we as well curl up at home with a prepared as humanly possible. extroversion it just goes downhill, have to force ourselves out of our laptop and a bowl of popcorn.

Hazelton always e-mails her like a train without breaks.”

However, Kim recognizes the TA requesting for a “heads up” comfort zone to do those things As described in Susain Cain’s and oftentimes we don’t quite value in stepping outside your by asking questions regarding book Quiet: The Power of enjoy ourselves,” he said. comfort zone. what to focus on or think Introverts in a World that Won’t “There’s definitely merit in being about while trucking through The extrovert’s main interest Stop Talking, the ideal self is “bold, is the external world of people involved in those kinds of things mandatory readings. gregarious, and comfortable in and things, while the introvert is and putting yourself out there, but “Otherwise I won’t say anything,” the spotlight.” more involved in the inner world there’s only a certain limit to how she said.

We like to think that we value of thought and feeling. much we can do that.”

Additionally, being introverted individuality, but mostly we admire Kim admits to preferring inclined her to choose to live individuals who are comfortable lectures over seminars because he alone for her first two years at putting themselves out there. doesn’t feel obligated to actively Queen’s, in a single residence room Steve Kim, a self-identifying engage. Instead, he can hide and by herself off-campus the introverted history student who amongst the rows of students following year. atteneded Queen’s for two in lecture.

“I’d tell people when they’d years before transferring to the “[Seminars] force me to actually ask where I’d be living next year, University of Ottawa, believes participate ... with people who I ‘I’m living … alone, up there’. a pressure exists in society to don’t necessarily know, which is They’d say, ‘Oh, I’m sorry,’ and be be extraverted. often a scary thing,” Kim said. dumbfounded,” Hazelton said.

This stems partly from “But I think it really cultivates “Or when I would live there, the fact that people interact your skills as someone who people would ask to sleep over with others in the public can think quicker on your feet, all the time, because I live near sphere, which is where develop critical thinking and the clubs. I would say no … I live extroverts are cultivated reading skills.” alone for a reason — I need you to to shine.

Being introverted was one leave now.”

For example, there of the reasons why Samantha According to Cain’s book, seems to be an emphasis Hazelton chose sociology as one-third to one-half of us are on being social her major. introverts. That’s one out of every in university.

“Even choosing that two or three people you know.

W e ’ r e program was based on that But you’d never know, would encouraged to because you get to pretty you? That’s because introverts constantly much write yourself learn from an early age to act m a k e out,” Hazelton, like extroverts. friends, ArtsSci ’15, Many introverts feel there’s said. something wrong with them “ We and try to pass as extroverts. But don’t whenever you try to pretend to be g e t something you’re not, you lose a p u t part of yourself along the way.

It’s not that introverts are inferior to extroverts, or vice versa.

Simply put, they operate differently, bringing diverse perceptions to the table.

Everyone knows deep down how to be comfortable in his or her own skin.

By exploring your own temperament or simply using that other hand, everyone can find their own niche within this diverse world.