The Queen`s Journal, Volume 142, Issue 9

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MUNICIPAL POLITICS

Mayoral candidates look to future Debate saw discussion of Kingston’s future, Sydenham realignment and more B y N atasa B ansagi Assistant News Editor

Opinion: Harper ineffective page 9

History of the rivalries page 14

Last night’s mayoral candidates’ debate at Artillery Park, hosted by the McBurney Park Neighbourhood Association and Friends of Kingston Inner Harbour, saw the candidates describe their visions for Kingston’s future.

Mayoral candidates Rick Downes, Scott Foster, Dorothy Hector, Michael J. M. Owen, Bryan Paterson and Brenda Slomka debated local issues ahead of the Oct. 27 municipal election.

One of the issues discussed was last year’s attempt to redraw electoral boundaries and dissolve Sydenham District. This would also have seen students no longer included in official population counts. Hector and Paterson both voted in favour of the motion, which was later struck down by the Ontario Municipal Board; Downes voted against it.

In their opening addresses, candidates described how they imagine Kingston might look in 50 or 100 years.

Downes said that in 2064, Kingston will be “different”, with the city’s investment in arts, culture and heritage making it “the envy of the world”.

He was later asked about housing in Williamsville District in light of enrolment expansion at Queen’s. He said he supports “responsible” development over development that is “invasive” to existing neighbourhoods.

“The developers have to follow the rules and if they do follow the rules, we will see development that fits, that’s suitable, that makes them good neighbours rather than adversaries,” he said.

Foster said in his opening statement that, while he wants to preserve Kingston’s

Residents gathered in the packed gym to watch the debate.

cultural artifacts, in the short term he wants to see a “change in attitude of people towards City Hall”.

In response to a question about affordable home ownership, Foster said he doesn’t support the municipal land transfer tax.

“The land transfer tax adds somewhere in the neighbourhood of about five to six thousand dollars on the average home in Kingston when you sell or buy that house,” he said.

“I don’t see any purpose in it.”

Hector’s vision was “a city that develops and celebrates its advantages”, which “protects and enhances its heritage, culture and natural environment and encourages economic development.”

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Owen switched gears by sharing what he doesn’t want to see in Kingston, including homelessness downtown, and said he supports the “fight” to save heritage buildings and green spaces.

He added that he’s not a politician, but a member of the community running mainly to “encourage people to vote.”

Paterson’s vision was to make Kingston Canada’s most sustainable city, based on four pillars: economic, cultural, environmental and social.

A question addressed to Paterson — “Do you think that as mayor you can represent the whole city when you clearly believe that not all of us deserve fair and equal

See Candidates on page 6

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FINANCES

Queen’s sees surplus in 2013-14 finances Second consecutive surplus results partially from increases in student enrolment and fees B y N atasa B ansagi Assistant News Editor Queen’s saw a $45.6 million surplus at the end of the 2013-14 fiscal year, as confirmed by audited financial statements approved by the Board of Trustees at its Sept. 19 meeting.

This is the second consecutive year Queen’s has posted a surplus. At the end of the 2012-13 fiscal year, beginning May 1 and ending April 30, the University saw a surplus of $22.6 million.

Revenues for the 2013-14 fiscal year amounted to $835.4 million, compared to $799.2 million the previous year. Expenses were $789.8 million and $776.6 million for each year, respectively.

This represents a 4.5 per cent increase in revenues, mainly due to increases in donations and student fees.

Caroline Davis, vice-principal of finance and administration, told the Journal via email that $18.5 million of the surplus represents investment income from the Pooled Endowment Fund, an investment pool containing donations to the University.

Another $15 million came from excess returns on the Pooled Investment Fund, which earns returns on money in reserve and unspent funds, and short-term investments.

These returns helped eliminate previous years’ operating deficits.

Davis added that the audited statements reflect the University’s recovery from the 2008 financial crisis. According to

2008-09 financial statements, the University saw a deficit of $64.9 million — a 569.1 per cent negative change from 2007-08. In 2009-10 statements, due to changes in accounting policy, this was restated to a loss of $51.2 million.

An increase in revenue from all fee sources of 5.5 per cent, attributed mainly to increases in enrolment and tuition fees, also contributed to the 2013-14 increase in revenue.

Davis said domestic undergraduate tuition fees were increased by three per cent from 2012-13 to 2013-14. This meets the average annual domestic fee increase cap dictated by a provincial tuition fee framework implemented in March 2013.

As long as the University’s average tuition fee increases don’t exceed three per cent per year, it can increase fees at an annual rate of five per cent for incoming graduate students and students enrolled in professional programs, and four per cent for students continuing in these programs. Professional programs include the Faculty of Education and the School of Nursing.

Before the framework was implemented, tuition fees could be increased by eight per cent in graduate and professional programs.

Between 2012-13 and 2013-14, increases in tuition fees for international students were between five and 11 per cent for undergraduate students, Davis said.

International student fees aren’t regulated by

C L A R I F I C AT I O N Kristyn Wallace, University communications officer, sent an email statement to the Journal on behalf of Stephanie Simpson, associate director of the Queen’s Human Rights Office.

Unclear information appeared in the September 26 edition of the Journal.

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Queen’s has posted two consecutive surpluses since 2012.

the provincial funding framework.

Increases in tuition fees for international graduate students were between zero and eight per cent, she added. This excludes the School of Business.

The increases varied based on program and “were implemented with due regard for student demand, market considerations, and academic quality,” Davis said.

International tuition fee increases represent 10 per cent of the $12.7 million in fee increases between 2012-13 and 2013-14.

Despite the surplus, Davis said the University faces some financial challenges, “which underscore the need for continued careful stewardship of university financial resources.”

The financial statements highlight uncertainty surrounding provincial government funding, low interest rates, deferred maintenance and a pension plan “that is not financially sustainable”.

Davis said the deficit of the provincial

government makes future grant funding uncertain.

“With limited provincial funding directed towards deferred maintenance, Queen’s, along with other Ontario Universities, has a significant deferred maintenance backlog,” Davis said.

In light of this, she added, the University has allocated additional funding to deferred maintenance in the operating budget for the current fiscal year.

As for the pension plan, Davis added that the University “continues to look at options to make the pension plan sustainable.” One option is the Jointly Sponsored Pension Plan, “where risks would be shared equally between the university and the employees.”

“The 2015-16 budget process, currently underway, will look carefully at how to fund special payments for the solvency deficit going forward,” she said.

Contributors of the month — September Lauren Luchenski

Darren Major

Ryan Pardy

Claudia Tsang

Lauren began writing for the Journal’s Arts section in March and never fails to make an event, exhibition or festival that she’s asked to cover — no matter how last-minute it might be. Her genuine passion for art comes through in the well-written, descriptive articles she produces. Lauren is devoted and reliable, as she’s always happy to cover stories for Arts, often going out of her way to do so. Her enthusiastic attitude led to her receiving the well-deserved title of staff writer. We’re excited to see what else Lauren has in store for Arts this year.

Darren’s efforts in contributing to the Opinions section for issue 7 showed his strong commitment to ensuring his piece turned out well. He approached the Opinions Editor on his own accord, with all his ideas fully formed. Darren was asked to make extra changes and additions to the piece at the last minute. He never once complained or hesitated. He was very open to suggestions and edits and maintained a great attitude despite having to finish the piece in a short span of time.

Ryan writes regularly for QJScience and has been an enthusiastic member of the Journal community. He initially contacted the Journal back in May and has since been proactive about generating story ideas, asking for feedback and accepting edits. He was a great help to the Lifestyle Launch event and his enthusiasm for his work shines through in his writing. Ryan has a way of making even complex scientific topics interesting and accessible to readers of all academic backgrounds.

Claudia has been with the Journal since the beginning of the Lifestyle section and has written for nearly every issue since.

Claudia is always on top of her deadlines and frequently takes the initiative to pitch her own story ideas and even take photos.

Her writing is funny and engaging, lending each piece she writes a unique perspective.

Claudia’s willingness to help went a long way to making the Lifestyle Launch event a success and her continued eagerness to write coupled with her lovely personality makes her one of our most valued contributors.

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FEATURE

PHOTOS BY ARWIN CHAN

Tricolour Outlet and Common Ground both hire students with no prior experience.

EMPLOYMENT

No experience required for the AMS AMS services don’t take previous experience into account when hiring staff B y laura russell Features Editor When Maggie Fisher applied to work at Common Ground in first year, she had no previous experience in the food industry.

Fisher, ArtSci ’15, worked at the student coffee shop as a barista during first and second year, and now works at the Tea Room in Beamish-Munro Hall. The only job she ever had before was as a camp counselor.

But since she was applying to an AMS service, that didn’t matter. AMS hiring policy dictates “where two or more applicants are evaluated equally for a position, the position will be granted to the candidate(s) with less prior experience as a full-time AMS employee”.

Fisher said she believes she wouldn’t have been hired without the no-experience-necessary policy.

“The policy is helpful because it gives the people who otherwise wouldn’t be able to get a job a chance at a position,” she said.

The experience of working at CoGro helped her find her job at the Tea Room and a summer job working at a food bank, she added.

To obtain a job in the “real world”, students need employment experience, Fisher said, but they can’t gain experience if no organization will hire them — which can turn into a vicious circle.

According to hiring policy, AMS services are only allowed to rehire 25 per cent of their employees from the previous year — meaning three quarters of each year’s staff will be new.

“The cap of 25 per cent is good, because it allows people to have that experience,” Fisher said, “but what it does is that it really damages the service, especially in September and October.”

From a customer’s perspective, Fisher said the cap could be very damaging to a service like TAPS, which comprises QP and the Underground.

“At the beginning [of the school year], they’re messing up your orders and the service takes forever because nobody knows what they’re doing yet,” she said.

She said that the 25 per cent cutoff forces many previous student employees to find work elsewhere.

“It’s frustrating because people want to be rehired and I know people who count on being rehired because they need a job on campus and they can’t get it, even if they were a great staff member,” she added.

“I think there’s a better way to balance experience and also having a good service.”

Justin Reekie, AMS vice-president of operations, said the 25 per cent cap exists to ensure there are accessible employment options at AMS services for every student.

“It’s the outgoing management team that hires and helps with the evaluation process,” he said.

“They could be hiring the same people that they’ve been working with and then you have zero new applicants.”

Where two or “more applicants are

evaluated equally for a position, the position will be granted to the candidate(s) with less prior experience as a full-time AMS employee.

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— AMS hiring policy

Reekie, ArtSci ’13, said the AMS’ no-experience policy helps service staff workers ascend to senior management positions, by attaining relevant skills for a higher-level job.

He started his path to vice-president of operations by working at CoGro as the service staff manager in 2011-12, before serving as CoGro’s facilities and events manager and as the AMS hospitality and services director in ensuing years.

The no-experience policy exists, Reekie said, to provide opportunities for personal growth to as many different students as possible.

Without the policy, he isn’t sure if he would have been initially hired at CoGro. “I don’t know what my fate would have been,” he said.

Although prior AMS experience isn’t required for service staff, Reekie said the AMS makes up for it with an emphasis on training.

“There are a lot of technical positions that you might not know anything about,” he said. “It’s through the transition process and the learning opportunity that you gain the skills.”

The AMS also encourages managers to critique their employees while they’re on shift to give the service staff constant feedback, Reekie said.

“It’s a constant update of the good and the areas of improvement for every employee to ensure that they’re at their best.”

When interviewing potential AMS service employees, Reekie said, the hiring committee rarely asks specific questions about the service.

“The questions are general enough that anyone would be

able to answer without visiting the service,” he said. “You always have to phrase the question to ensure that they’re open to draw on any experience that they have.”

Although experience isn’t taken into account when hiring AMS service employees, it’s considered when service managers are hired.

AMS Human Resources Officer Meg Monteith is in charge of developing hiring questions with individual service managers. She said it’s important to compose questions without prejudice against inexperienced students.

“All of the criteria that the managers are looking for in employees has to be approved so that they aren’t assuming any prior knowledge,” said Monteith, ArtSci ’15.

“All of the questions that we’re asking in an interview are based off the assumption that they don’t have any prior experience.”

If an applicant brings up past experience in their interview, the hiring committee will only look at what skills they’ve gained from the experience, Monteith said, rather than the experience itself.

The head managers of CoGro, the Publishing & Copy Centre (P&CC) and the AMS Information Technology (IT) Office didn’t have previous experience in their industry — but they did work for their service before becoming managers this year.

AMS IT Officer David Liu had no real experience in the IT field before he was hired as a service staffer in his first year at Queen’s.

Justin Reekie said the AMS’ no-experience policy provides opportunities to more students.

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Liu, CompSci ’16, provides the required training for incoming part-time staff in the AMS IT office.

“A large part of this training is hands on experience,” Liu told the Journal via email. “Meaning, having the staff actually explore the various systems our organization operates on.”

The cap of 25 per “cent is good, because it allows people to have that experience, but what it does is that it really damages the service.

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— Maggie Fisher, ArtSci ’15

Liu said that the most important quality his office looks for in hiring is someone who’s clearly interested in learning more about information technology.

“We also look for qualities in candidates that demonstrate strong interpersonal skills, as they will be communicating with staff on solving technical issues,” he said.

Liu said prior experience doesn’t matter in IT services.

“What’s more important to us is a willingness on the part of the student to learn more about the technology,” he said.

“The hope is that by the end of the work term, they can take away a tangible working experience that offers them a look into what Information Technology involves.”

Lee Shelson, the head manager of P&CC, said his staff is trained on both the technical aspects of the service and on customer-service practices.

“We train all staff as if they have no experience in the field, as the vast majority do not” Shelson told the Journal via email. “We work to train them all to have the necessary skills to be exemplary staff.”

When hiring, Shelson said he and his managers don’t look for a specific set of technical qualities, but a willingness to learn and eagerness in joining the service.

“We don’t expect staff to have past industry experience,” he said. “We just want friendly and outgoing individuals who we think would be a valuable addition to our team.”

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CRIME

Campus Security on lookout for suspicious male Suspect touched two female students without consent B y M ishal O mar Assistant News Editor On Monday, Campus Security and Emergency Services reported in an alert that they’re looking for a suspicious male.

The man allegedly approached two female students on two different instances and acted inappropriately by touching them without their consent. He hugged one of the women and placed his arm around the other.

While neither of these women filed reports with the Kingston Police Force (KPF), Const. Steve Koopman, media relations officer for KPF, said they’re in contact with Campus Security about both cases.

Koopman said it’s important to file police reports with KPF in the event of a similar occurrence.

“Even when someone may feel

that it’s not ‘police worthy’ or may be minor, or that they may not want to proceed formally in terms of ‘I don’t want a person charged with it’, we still would recommend they give us a call or contact us and file a report,” he said.

“Right now we’re not looking at egregious sexual assaults or extreme violence against these women, but they can still potentially constitute sexual assault or criminal harassment. We would want to make sure that that doesn’t occur and doesn’t increase in its nature.”

Koopman said one of the incidents occurred at the end of September, while the other occurred in the evening of Oct. 4, close to University Ave. and Union St. In the second occurrence, the suspicious person followed the woman for a period of time.

“If it is the same individual and he has the wherewithal to approach

strange females or females that he’s not associated to, and strike up conversations that become inappropriate in nature, and the fact that he continues to follow them some distance as they’re walking understandably causes concern,” Koopman said.

In one of the incidents of inappropriate touching, the man was reportedly carrying a guitar and playing music.

According to the alert put out

by Campus Security, the man may be of East Indian descent, is in his early 20s, has dark hair, a slim to medium build, wears thick-framed rectangular glasses and is approximately 5’8”.

The alert asks that anyone who has been engaged inappropriately by this person contact the Emergency Report Centre at 613-533-6111 or KPF at 613-549-4660.

PHILANTHROPY

School of Nursing receives $9 million shot

University Ave. and Union St., where one of the alleged incidents occurred.

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A. Britton Smith makes largest-ever gift to School of Nursing, citing appreciation for medical professionals B y J oshua M urney Contributor Kingston resident A. Britton Smith recently donated $10 million to Queen’s in thanks to a school that he said has greatly influenced his life.

Nine million dollars will go to the School of Nursing, the largest donation the school has ever received. The remaining $1 million will go towards the Richardson Stadium revitalization fund.

The money donated to the School of Nursing will be used to help establish the Smith Chair in Surgical Research, the Sally Smith Chair in Nursing and the Britton Smith Chair in Surgery. A portion of the gift will go towards a chair

in orthopaedic research and a nursing endowment.

Smith founded Homestead Land Holdings in 1954, which is now one of Canada’s largest landlords. Smith, a World War II veteran who won the Military Cross for bravery on the battlefield, graduated from the Royal Military College in 1940.

He’s previously backed the School of Business, Athletics and Recreation, the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts, Student Assistance and the Human Mobility Research Centre. He also donated funds to help construct the New Medical Building.

Although he didn’t go to Queen’s, the school has still been influential on his life, Smith

said. His three children and six grandchildren all went to Queen’s, and Smith received an honourary degree in 2009.

“I have great respect for what Queen’s does for the City of Kingston — it is the heart and soul of the city. I do a lot of business in cities with universities, and none of them compare to the spirit of Queen’s,” he said.

He said one reason for the donation was to give back to the students who rent from his company, he said. Homestead Land Holdings leases to about 1,000 students who pay at least $10,000 a year.

“I thought I would return a little bit of that as a rebate to keep the students coming, and hopefully

convince them to take it easy on my buildings,” he said with a laugh.

He added that his donation will inspire others to give gifts to Queen’s.

“They were using me as their decoy. I used to hunt ducks, so I would use decoys to bring other ducks within range to get shot.

“I figured if they showed one person giving a large donation, it would prop them up a bit for others to follow suit. But they still want to have a large donation. I said, ‘Why don’t we just have the picture?’,” Smith said, laughing.

The donation towards Richardson comes from his history with the old stadium on main campus, where Queen’s played until 1971.

“I thought it was a dreadful shame when it was abolished for a parking lot. Football inspires alumni to give money,” he said.

The donation to the School of Nursing comes from Smith’s appreciation of medical professionals.

“I have always been surrounded by nurses — army nurses, my family, my wife’s friends. They were good to my wife, Sally. I would say the nurses in this country are wonderful, almost as great as the lawyers,” he said.

Vice Principal of Advancement Tom Harris said he’s appreciative of Smith’s gift.

“There are very few Mr. Smiths in the world, very few people who are able to do two things: one, amass that kind of wealth, and two, have the disposition to share it,” Harris said.

The donation goes toward the overall goals of the Initiative Campaign, which began in 2006 as an effort to raise $500 million for the University over 10 years.

Donors contribute to one of 12 priorities, which include the Faculty of Health Sciences and Athletics and Recreation.

“The Dean [of Health Sciences] is happy because nursing doesn’t normally attract big resources,” Harris said.

There’s an emotional aspect to the gift for Smith.

“Having a chair in his wife’s name is very special,” Harris said, adding that philanthropy is a collective effort.

“There is a collective benefit and a collective satisfaction.”

— With files from Sebastian Leck

A. Britton Smith never attended Queen’s, but the school has had an impact on many areas of his life.

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News

FREEDOM OF SPEECH

Queen’s improves free speech grade AMS handling of Men’s Issues Awareness Society helped bring grade up B y J acob R osen Assistant News Editor The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) recently raised the “practicing” grade of the AMS from an F in 2013 to a C in the 2014 Campus Freedom Index.

The Campus Freedom Index measures the state of free speech at Canadian universities by grading the policy and practice of both the administration and the student government.

The recent report gave Queen’s administration a C and an F for their policy and practice respectively, which was the same in the 2013 report. The 2014 report also didn’t change the 2013 grade of student government policy, which was a D. The report specifically cites certain ambiguities in both administration and student union policies on the definition of discrimination in its justification of the low policy grades.

The report also cited the AMS’s decision to vote down a motion made by a member-at-large to de-ratify the Queen’s Men’s Issues Awareness Society (MIAS). The member-at-large said the motion was made because of “the manner in which [MIAS] members have chosen to publicly undermine feminism and anti-rape culture discourse on campus”.

Although it wasn’t popular with some Queen’s students, the AMS’s action in protecting the MIAS’s freedom of expression was one of the reasons for the rise in the AMS practicing grade in the 2014 index, the report said.

The AMS “Representation Policy” was also cited in the report. The policy states: “The AMS shall not take positions on governmental policy or political issues that do not directly relate to Queen’s University and its students, and commits itself to a general policy of political neutrality regarding such issues.”

Michael Kennedy, communications and development coordinator at JCCF, said the AMS Representation Policy was a “positive note” for the AMS, and he condemned other student unions for taking a “blanket” stance on political issues. “[Students] who disagree with them feel like they don’t have a voice in the union,” he said.

The report also cited an April 2, 2013 incident where, under instructions from University administration, Campus Security removed a free speech wall in the JDUC put up as part of a Queen’s Students for Liberty (QSFL) project. The project was co-sponsored by the JCCF. The 2013 report described the incident under the heading of “worst universities” and said the University took down the wall without citing any specific examples of “offensive content” on the wall.

The University said the wall promoted hate speech. Then-AMS President Doug

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Johnson said the Student Life Centre had identified several phrases on the wall that “denigrated individuals based on race or religion”.

Kennedy said the incident surrounding the Free Speech Wall was the primary reason for the 2013 practicing grade of F given to the University administration and the AMS in 2013.

“Both parties were involved in censoring that student display, which should not have been removed,” he said.

The AMS and the University were unable to comment prior to deadline.

Tyler Lively, QSFL president, said freedom of speech is an international issue. There are people worldwide who have been targeted for expressing their opinions, he said.

“It’s not just to bring attention to it here,” he said. “It’s to bring attention to it around the world.”

Lively said his opinions don’t necessarily reflect those of QSFL. He added that the policy of the AMS “seems to illustrate the importance of free speech but there needs to be more focus on their actions”.

“For the AMS administration and the University administration to put free speech over public relations — that’s what it all comes down to,” he said.

News in brief Policy Studies, has been inducted into the released on Oct. 1, and saw Queen’s receive a ranking in the 251-275th band.

Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.

The University of Toronto scored the Sinclair was the first non-MD to serve as Retired provincial court judge the a Dean of Medicine and Vice Principal of highest of any Canadian university, placing Honourable George E. Carter received an Health Sciences in Canada. He’s also served 20th. The University of Waterloo ranked honourary degree from Queen’s on Monday. as Vice Principal of Institutional Relations, alongside Queen’s in the 251-275th band.

In 2013-14, Queen’s ranked in the Judge Carter is the first Canada-born Vice Principal of Services and Dean of Arts black judge and graduated from Osgoode and Science at Queen’s. He currently teaches 226-250th band.

The data for an overall score for Hall Law School in 1948. He was appointed in the School of Policy Studies.

Sinclair is an international leader Queen’s, along with other schools, was a judge in 1979 after 31 years of practicing real estate, criminal and family law, and was in health care reform and helped create withheld because the differentials between appointed to the Order of Ontario earlier a redefined health system in Ontario as institutions after the top 50 schools become this year. Judge Carter, who is 93, still head of the governance subcommittee of narrow, according to the Times Higher the Steering Committee for Review of the Education website. practices law from a home office.

Judge Carter was instrumental in Public Hospitals Act in Ontario. He was developing Legal Aid Ontario, which also a member of the National Forum on allows low-income people to access Health, and was founding chair of Canada Health Infoway, an organization created to legal services.

He was originally supposed to receive aid the development of a national capacity his honourary degree at Spring 2014 for health information management.

He also helped create North America’s convocation, but was unable to attend first alternative funding program for the ceremony. academic medicine.

— Chloe Sobel — Chloe Sobel Professor emeritus Duncan Sinclair inducted Queen’s falls in international ranking into Canadian Medical Hall of Fame Queen’s awards honourary degree to one of Canada’s first black lawyers

Dr. Duncan Sinclair, a professor emeritus of physiology and a fellow in the School of

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2014-15 were

However, the rankings show some specific scores for Queen’s. According to the website, the scores are based on how often an institution is cited by scholars as being the best in their field. Harvard University was selected most often, and so all other institutions are expressed as a percentage of Harvard’s — which is set at 100.

Queen’s received scores of 37.3 for teaching, 55.4 for international outlook, 59 for industry income, 33.4 for research and 48.2 for citations.

— Mishal Omar

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Rick Downes.

Scott Foster.

Dorothy Hector.

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Michael J. M. Owen.

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Candidates apologize for Sydenham vote Continued from page 1

representation?” — sparked discussion and reaction from the crowd.

The same person asked whether Paterson would apologize for “attempting to dilute our votes and treat us as second-class citizens”.

One member of the public shouted out, “You were being anti-downtown!”

During the debate, both Paterson and Hector apologized for voting to dissolve Sydenham District.

Slomka said Queen’s plays an important role in the conversation about housing development.

“I think having a commitment that is clear — I know Queen’s is currently building — but to make sure that there is a good target based on best practices and policy,” she said.

“I think there are strategies that we could employ for looking at finding solutions to face a challenge.”

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DIALOGUE

Editorials — The Journal’s Perspective

“Christopher Columbus was a homicidal, ruthless tyrant who should be condemned for his brutality, rather than celebrated.”

JOURNALISM

Media monopoly a mixed blessing Postmedia’s purchase of all of Sun Media’s English-language papers will benefit smaller papers, but should be regarded with caution.

The $316-million deal includes 175 newspapers and digital publications, making Postmedia the largest consolidation of written media in the country.

In the last decade, many small-town newspapers across the country, such as the Kingston Whig-Standard, have experienced depletion in resources, resulting in less effective local news coverage.

This consolidation will help rejuvenate these smaller papers and make them more competitive, by providing them more of the resources they need.

While the sale is still pending the approval of the federal Competition Bureau, it’s important to consider Postmedia’s imminent monopoly with caution.

Newspapers have editorial autonomy, but the political stance of papers often mirrors their owners. As more conglomerates form, it’s important that diversity of news coverage remains intact moving forward.

INDIGENOUS

Name change, game change

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— Journal Editorial Board

Arwin Chan

Pirating the Ivy League China’s recent economic boom has resulted in the rise of several universities that seek to recreate the experience of prestigious western universities.

I hope potential students approach these schools cautiously.

Sticking with the country’s trend of making their megaprojects comparatively more insane

Editorial Board Editors in Chief

Nick Faris Vincent Ben Matak

Production Manager News Editor

Sam Koebrich Chloe Sobel

Assistant News Editor

Natasa Bansagi Mishal Omar Jacob Rosen

Features Editors

Sebastian Leck Laura Russell

Editorials Editor

Anisa Rawhani

Opinions Editor

Olivia Bowden

than their western equivalents, standard rather than the exception, designers are trying to create some it’s become increasingly more of the most elaborate campuses difficult for degrees to stand out. ever conceived.

But instead of pushing ourselves A fine arts academy in Hubei, to break conventions and to for example, resembles a jacked-up, differentiate ourselves, we’re Hogwarts-esque Gothic cathedral, spending our energy chasing and plans to feature a modern art institutional idols to gain status gallery equipped with four helipads. over others.

Holistically, it’s a pretty As a result, we’re helping to shallow approach to educational encourage elitism, rather than development. But before we propel innovation. disregard these projects, we need Queen’s isn’t doing too well to keep in mind that the type on this front. “Harvard of the of post-secondary education North” and “Canadian Ivy” are these schools are attempting to terms mostly thrown about in jest, emulate is the one many of us hold though beneath the sarcasm lies a dear — perhaps sans helipads. twisted self-proclamation that our Recessed in millions of minds school should be held with high is an image of educational nobility, regard. We take pride and tradition elite brands we carry as part of very seriously, but it’s not apparent our identity. what exactly we’re celebrating.

As this traditionally western The majority of the traditional view continues to grow globally, academic experience is the our attachment to these established consumption of information archetypes is destroying our ability followed by the occasional assessment of your retention skills. to think beyond them.

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Simply acquiring information makes you a machine, but being able to create something great out of that information is supposed to be the goal of learning.

Many students miss this point entirely because most universities don’t do a very good job encouraging unconventional thinking. If you’re going to try to quantify what makes a school great, look at how students handle free expression — not just academically, but also socially.

It’s hard to say how China’s new schools will turn out, but what they have is a real opportunity to start fresh and change the way people think about success. I sincerely hope that their students will reconsider what an education means, and prioritize their desires accordingly.

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The city of Seattle’s re-designation of Columbus Day as Indigenous People’s Day is a step in the right direction, but it can’t be the last step.

Christopher Columbus was a homicidal, ruthless tyrant who should be condemned for his brutality, rather than celebrated.

The majority of people may feel indifferent to this name change, but this week’s decision acts as an important validation of the suffering of Native Americans. Even though it’s considered simply symbolic, it’s an important step to take to remedy history, and indicates that these are changes worth making.

But this can’t simply be a name change. Now that this precedent has been set, it must be accompanied with education to set right the skewed perception of history that nationalism has caused.

Although this change is taking place in the United States, it has direct implications on Canada’s Indigenous community.

When the Europeans settled in North America, no distinction was made between Canadian and American Indigenous people. Both groups faced brutality, making this a victory for the Indigenous people of Canada, as well.

Indigenous issues are far more prominent in Canada than in the U.S. Canada doesn’t necessarily have an equivalent re-designation that could take place, but it’s important to reflect on this change and to see what changes our own nation can make, semantically or otherwise.

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... around campus PHOTOS BY OLIVIA BOWDEN

What are your plans for Thanksgiving weekend?

“I’m seeing my aunt in Toronto.

I’m originally from Mexico, so it will be a meal without a turkey.”

FOREIGN POLICY

Damaging decisions

Cristian Buzo Tingarov, ArtSci ’18

Stephen Harper’s behaviour on the global stage should be a concern Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced last Friday that Canada would be participating in airstrikes to combat ISIS.

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important. However, as outlined in in Parliament. ethnic-cleansing pursuits, but it a Sept. 25 article by the Canadian In a move that lacked won’t stop them — and it’ll kill far Press, David Morley — the transparency, Harper agreed to more innocent civilians than they “I’m heading back to Toronto, to eat properly.” president and CEO of UNICEF support the Americans in their could ever behead.

Canada — said it was neither the airstrike mission against ISIS after In fact, it’s not hard to believe Theresa Xie, Comm ’17 time nor place to discuss a topic receiving a letter from the Obama that military action may increase with a previously known solution. administration asking for Canada’s ISIS membership and support.

During each of the three times help. That’s all Harper would Another ineffective invasion by the Miriam Bart, ArtSci ’15 Harper has officially visited the UN, reveal about this letter, which he West will cause more grief than Stephen Harper’s Conservative he’s spent more time connecting could have made public. good in the Middle East.

The Conservative motion government has effectively with the corporate elite to raise Party leaders have been divided damaged Canada’s peacekeeping funding for his health initiative. to allow Canada’s military on the topic in the House of reputation by pulling the country When he decided to address the participation in the Middle East Commons, with Mulcair acting as General Assembly in September, was voted on in the House of the voice of reason. The Prime into another war.

The Prime Minister has it would have been much more Commons on Tuesday, with 157 Minister said after the vote that “we achieved this by distancing Canada pertinent to discuss complex issues votes in favour and 134 against. must do our part” to combat ISIS. NDP leader Thomas Mulcair Both Liberals and the NDP have “I’m going home to Pefferlaw, to from the United Nations (UN) and that require urgent attention and hang out with my family.” said Harper and his party lacked said that a focus on humanitarian making decisions without sufficient collaborative action.

You could tell by the lack of any sort of transparency regarding aid would be best in terms of understanding of how to represent Meg Shanks-Marshall, Canadians on a global level. With attendance to Harper’s address to this decision, noting that the Canadian involvement in this issue.

ArtSci ’16 With an election approaching in the campaign period for the 2015 the UN — as seen by the many Conservatives have refused to federal election fast approaching, empty seats in the audience — that clearly answer questions about 2015, it’s important to understand what kind of Canada we as citizens it’s important to dissect certain his voice as a world leader may not the mission.

In response to the motion, want to portray to the rest of events over Harper’s eight-plus be considered too important. His lack of participation, unfortunately, retired Senator and Military the world. years as prime minister.

A prime minister who disregards Harper’s recent approval reflects poorly on all of us General Romeo Dallaire said, “There’s no way you will destroy our place at the UN and who of an airstrike-based combat as Canadians.

On Sept. 24, Harper let slip that that enemy without boots on draws us into wars that we have mission against the Islamic State (ISIS) wasn’t properly justified he planned to do more in the battle the ground.” no place in isn’t the representative The war against ISIS isn’t Canadians deserve. to Parliament, nor did he give a against ISIS. He hadn’t previously proper reason to the population given this much information ours to fight. At best, an airstrike may temporarily Miriam Bart is a fourth-year on Canada’s involvement approach of Canada.

“I’m going to Toronto to see friends and family.”

As Canadians, we must decide if concerning ISIS, especially not distract the terrorists from their environmental science major. fighting ISIS via airstrikes over the Maddie Case, ArtSci ’15 next six months is truly a sound decision. Both the NDP and the Liberal Party opposed the motion to allow airstrikes last Friday.

Canada’s past military involvement in Afghanistan tells us that six months may not be the limit of our participation in Iraq and Syria if Harper is re-elected.

It’s clear he’s determined to keep Canada at war, since our last troops in Afghanistan only left this year.

“I’m going to see family I haven’t seen in over a year.”

Harper’s disillusionment with the UN and his consistent refusal Jasmine Lee, ArtSci ’17 to give sufficient details about the plan to combat ISIS makes him a poor leader, with a lack of understanding of how to Have an idea for represent Canada effectively on an international level.

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Harper spoke to the UN General Assembly for the first time in the Send them to past four years on Sept. 25 — a day when Western countries received a journal_letters@ams. direct threat from ISIS. That day, Harper spoke anti-climactically queensu.ca about his maternal health initiative.

SUPPLIED BY MATT JIGGINS Needless to say, child health is Thomas Mulcair, leader of the NDP, voted against a motion to use airstrikes against ISIS.

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Sexual assau

BY SEBASTIAN LECK Features Editor “He took off his clothes. He wouldn’t leave my room. I told him over and over to leave my room.

“I had a boyfriend at the time. I kept telling him to go to his room. His room was across the hall from me. He wouldn’t go. I said ‘I’m going to scream if you don’t go’, and he didn’t go, and I said ‘I’ll go sleep in your bed and you sleep in my bed’ and he wouldn’t let me leave even then. It’s weird to explain.

You don’t want to cause a situation. You just go with it.

“We ended up sleeping in my bed. He had a way of holding me so I couldn’t move. He stayed in there all night, and at one point he grabbed my hand, kissed it for whatever reason, and put it on his area, right against it.

I freaked out a little bit. I hit him. I told him to stop. And in the morning he got up and left, and I pretended to be asleep.”

This fourth-year student said she was sexually assaulted in September of her first year at Queen’s. Her alleged assailant lived on her residence floor — in the room across the hall.

He’d been aggressive earlier in the night, she said. They’d been sitting on a carpet in a residence room when he tried to kiss her.

“He wound up pushing me on my back and getting on top of me and he kept trying to kiss me and I was turning my head away,” she said. There were three or four other people in the room, she said, but nobody did anything.

The student said she reported the incident to her don, who told her to knock on his door if something happened again. Her alleged assailant remained on her floor for the rest of the year.

She’s one of many students who have experienced sexual assault in the areas surrounding Queen’s campus. Exact numbers are hard to find, since most survivors — like her — don’t report sexual assaults when they occur.

A 2004 Statistics Canada General Social Survey (GSS) found that approximately eight per cent of sexual assaults in Canada were reported to police.

The survey, which relied on self-reporting from a sample of 23,766 respondents, found that around 84 per cent of victims were female and 16 per cent were male. According to the reports, 91 per cent of the perpetrators were male.

The fourth-year student said she didn’t report her assault because she didn’t want to cause a situation on her floor.

“You don’t want people to think ‘she’s a chick who couldn’t handle her alcohol and then got pissed because this guy slept in her bed and that’s all he did’,” she said.

After the same male student looked through her phone messages that November, she said, she isolated herself in her room and went home for most weekends. She no longer felt safe on campus.

“Home was the place where I felt comfortable, where my friends were,” she said.

“I wasn’t making friends on my floor because I was afraid to come out of my room.”

The student said the reactions she received from other people were often negative.

Most of all, she said, she wishes people had believed her.

“In so many cases people dismiss it, they don’t believe it, or they belittle it, and you end up looking like the idiot,” she said.

Two years after the assault, the student

ran into her alleged assailant at a party.

“It was weird. He acted like we were best friends,” she said. Once again, she didn’t want to create a conflict, and mentioned nothing about that night in residence.

Several organizations in Kingston keep records of sexual assaults, with conflicting reports.

Even when survivors report a sexual assault, he said, many decide not to follow through with the court process required for a conviction.

“Sometimes we don’t see the need for the victim to go through the court process and the pre-trial and having to face the accused,” Benoit said, “knowing that there is a pretty good chance they won’t get a conviction because it’s his or her word against the accused.”

The University creates a new Complaint Board for each formal sexual harassment complaint it receives.

The board — comprised of one appointed chair or vice-chair and two selected members of Senate — gathers evidence and decides on appropriate action. Potential sanctions include a formal reprimand, a public report of the findings, suspension, dismissal or expulsion from the University. The policy was last updated in 2000.

A National College Health Assessment survey released in 2013 found that 11.4 per cent of Queen’s students reported sexual touching without their consent during the previous 12 months, and 2.1 per cent reported sexual penetration without their consent.

The data, which was collected by Health, Counselling, and Disability Services (HCDS), was based on a sample of 1,241 students.

The Kingston Police Force (KPF) recorded 21 sexual assaults from January to September 2014 in Zones 1 and 4. The zones contain the Queen’s campus and the University District, bordered by Princess St. to the east and north and Sir John A. Macdonald Blvd. in the west.

These assaults constituted 27.6 per cent of the total sexual assaults reported in Kingston. In the same nine-month period in 2013, 31 sexual assaults were recorded in Zones 1 and 4.

Detective Pat Benoit from the KPF Sexual Crimes Unit said it’s difficult to estimate the number of people who don’t report sexual assaults.

The University has no official disciplinary body for handling sexual assault cases.

Instead, sexual assault cases can be filed through the Human Rights Office (HRO) sexual harassment complaint process.

Under the University’s harassment and discrimination complaint policy, sexual harassment means “engaging in comment or conduct of a sexual nature which is known or ought reasonably to be known to be unwelcome”, according to Margot Coulter, the HRO’s sexual harassment prevention coordinator.

“It includes physical contact of a sexual nature (up to and including sexual assault as defined under the Criminal Code.),” Coulter told the Journal via email.

As a criminal offence, sexual assault is outside the HRO’s mandate, Coulter said.

“However, if someone does not wish to file a complaint with the police but wishes to make a sexual harassment complaint internally, they may seek the assistance of an Advisor in the Human Rights Office to address the sexual harassment elements of the complaint,” she said.

The Kingston General Hospital (KGH) Sexual Assault/Domestic Violence Program provides treatment to survivors. They also provide sexual assault kits to preserve evidence for a possible investigation.

Benoit said community services like KGH and the Kingston Sexual Assault Centre (SAC) coordinate with the police and offer victims the option of reporting a sexual assault. However, he added, none of them push survivors to report.

KGH declined to provide statistics on the number of people treated at the unit each year, citing its patient confidentiality policy.

HCDS was unable to provide statistics on yearly reports of sexual assault. According to HCDS Director Mike Condra, retrieving the information isn’t feasible because the service tracks reports in paper files rather than in a database.

Campus Security, meanwhile, hasn’t reported any sexual assaults in 2014 and reported one sexual assault in 2013. Four sexual assaults is the highest number they’ve recorded in any year since 1998.

Campus Security Director David Patterson

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ult at Queen’s To see the full story, go to qjlongform.com. said he couldn’t judge how many sexual assaults may go unreported.

“Those are stats based on the occurrences that are reported to us. I wouldn’t want to speculate on occurrences that aren’t reported,” he said.

every year.

The centre doesn’t keep records on what portion of their clients are students, but she said every SAC counselor has Queen’s students on their caseload.

For example, 21 of one counselor’s 81 new clients this year are in the 18-to 24-year-old age range — which doesn’t include clients already seeing the counselor at the SAC. Graham said survivors of sexual assault can be “re-victimized” by the process of reporting their assault, especially if their personal responsibility is brought into question.

“The questioning at the police station brings about guilt and shame in people,” Graham said.

In court, judges have said “some odd and disturbing things”, and more education is required for law enforcement officials, she added.

The best thing students can do to help survivors is listen to them, avoid assigning blame and provide suggestions without pressuring them, Graham said.

“Sometimes the victim doesn’t feel like they’re being believed, so the most important thing is to believe them,” she said. ***

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Campus Security doesn’t investigate sexual assaults, Patterson added, but it can help survivors find assistance from the KPF, KGH, HCDS or the Sexual Health Resource Centre (SHRC).

“Queen’s Campus Security and Emergency Services is not a criminal investigative unit, and takes direction from the Kingston Police in violations of the Criminal Code of Canada,” he told the Journal via email.

Around 90 per cent of clients at the Sexual Assault Centre (SAC) don’t report their assaults to the police, according to Kim Graham, the centre’s community education coordinator.

The centre has five counselors, including one young women’s outreach counselor and two first-response counselors. Graham said the centre’s crisis line is notably busier during Queen’s frosh week and the first week of January

Despite the pressure to remain silent, more students and university administrators have become aware of sexual assault on campuses in recent years.

Two players from the University of Ottawa Gee-Gees men’s hockey team were charged with sexually assaulting a young woman on a team road trip to Thunder Bay in February.

A series of sexual assaults occurred on the University of British Columbia campus in 2013, which police now believe were committed by a single perpetrator.

At Queen’s, some discussions of sexual assault have centered on victim blaming and free speech.

Former Arts and Science Undergraduate Society (ASUS) Representative Alexander Prescott was censured by the organization in March 2013 after he said in a Facebook comment: “It’s important to note … that some of the onus in these situations should lie with the victim.”

Professor Samantha King, who is cross-appointed to the gender studies department and the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, said strategies for combating rape culture are still under debate.

Some people argue deconstructing gender norms is necessary, she said, while others advocate changes to the way the legal system deals with rape.

“In terms of small steps, calling out our friends who make rape jokes or engage in other practices that normalize sexual violence is a great place to start,” she said.

The University of Windsor’s Bringing in the Bystander program is designed to teach students to take those steps by encouraging them to intervene in situations before sexual violence occurs. Dusty Johnstone, a teaching fellow in women’s studies at Windsor, currently runs the program.

“The idea is that when most instances of sexual violence occur, someone is around before or while it is happening who is in a position where they could have intervened or they could have done something,” Johnstone said.

She said there are three approaches to combating sexual violence: targeting the perpetrator, targeting the victim and targeting people in the community.

The majority of men don’t commit sexual violence, she said — instead, it’s a small number of men who commit such crimes repeatedly. Teaching perpetrators not to rape is good in theory, Johnstone added, but not effective in practice.

The second approach — telling victims to avoid assault by taking preventative measures — errs closely to victim blaming and is often ineffective, she said. On the other hand, the bystander approach shifts responsibility to the entire community, according to Johnstone.

Students in the Windsor program learn to identify situations that could lead to sexual violence and to intervene before they escalate — sometimes by removing an intoxicated person from a situation, she said, or by simply making it awkward.

Queen’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Working Group has contacted

the University of Windsor about a potential bystander initiative program at Queen’s, according to Arig al Shaibah, assistant dean of Student Affairs. al Shaibah is the chair of the working group. It includes members of Queen’s administration, the AMS, the KPF, the SAC, HCDS and Queen’s HRO. al Shaibah added that any further development depends on whether funding is available. *** It was the Halloween of her first year at Queen’s, said another fourth-year student, when she was raped in residence.

The student had recently broken up with her boyfriend when she went to a party in the University District with a group of friends from residence. She was living in Victoria Hall at the time.

“I had told one girl, who I thought was my friend, that we had broken up so she could keep an eye out for me because I was feeling really vulnerable,” she said, adding that she was upset and drank too much.

“There were these two guys that kept flirting with me and I was flirting back.”

When the party finished, the group headed back to Victoria Hall, she said, and everyone on her floor went back to their rooms.

The student then went to find her friend on another floor.

She said she was in a residence room with her friend and a group of people when the friend left with another male student.

Others starting leaving, she said, until she was left with one of the male students she met earlier at the party.

When the last girl left, she said, he closed and locked the door.

“He sat down on the bed and started kissing me,” she said. “I didn’t really want to, but I was at that point of being drunk where I was going in and out of consciousness and there are gaps in my memory.

“I remember that he was taking off my shirt and my bra and I just kept thinking, ‘this is what you’re supposed to be doing in university, it’s fine, it’s fun’, but I knew that I didn’t want to have sex. The next

thing, when we were kissing, he asked, ‘sex or a blowjob?’”

After performing oral sex, she was raped twice that night, she said.

She had been making friends with other students on her alleged rapist’s floor, but after the assault, she said, she gained a reputation for promiscuity and those friendships ended.

Seemingly mundane occurrences, like mentions of Halloween, can cause flashbacks, she said, and she has since suffered panic attacks.

“I can’t walk past my residence or anything. It makes it hard to be intimate with my current boyfriend and I get flashbacks sometimes, especially in certain positions,” she said. “I always have to be able to see his face.”

Rape jokes are also hard for her to handle — the word took on a new meaning after her experience, she said. She began seeing a therapist the summer before last, and has since told her boyfriend.

“It was good to speak to someone for the first time in years and just to have someone tell me that it wasn’t my fault,” she said.

She had trouble accepting that it was an assault until then — she had imagined a man in a dark alley, not someone she knew in residence.

For her, Queen’s will always be associated with her assault.

“It’s always been tainted because of what happened in my first eight weeks here.”

Telling her story has been difficult, she said, and she had only told the full story to her therapist before being interviewed for this article.

“The less people I tell, the less real it is, and I can forget it instead of letting it become a defining aspect of my identity,” she said.

It was the prospect of helping fellow survivors that made her break her silence.

“The silver lining is if I could use my story to prevent it from happening or to help someone else that it has happened to,” she said.

“If it had to have happened, I may as well stop pretending it didn’t happen, and put the best spin on it that I can.”

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ARTS Record collectors and music lovers sift through the large collection in Mac-Brown Hall at the Kingston Record Show on Sunday.

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A haven for the vintage music lover Kingston record collector and Zap Records store owner hosts vinyl record show and sale B y L uke K essaram Contributor With vinyl dealers from around Ontario filling the space with boxes upon boxes of records covering every genre imaginable, Mac-Brown Hall became home to the Kingston Record Show

on Sunday.

Local business owner Gary LaVallee has been doing the show off and on for 20 years. LaVallee, who runs Zap Records on Princess St., has held it at five different venues over the past couple of decades, but has only been able to utilize Mac-Brown for the last two

ConEd students take the stage at CoGro.

years thanks to his partnership with CFRC 101.9 FM. “We’re happy to be here,” LaVallee said. “CFRC has been a great partner and I’m really grateful for them.”

LaVallee likes using Mac-Brown as a venue because it has enabled him to cater more to students.

“I’ve had my eye on this particular building for years,” he said. “It’s a good spot for the show.”

CFRC was set up in one corner of the hall with a record player and some promotional material. As well as running advertising for the show, CFRC was responsible for booking the space.

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ConEd students congregrate at CoGro Students showcase creativity at this year’s first of two coffee house talent shows B y L auren L uchenski Staff Writer Welcoming Concurrent Education (ConEd) students to showcase their talents in front of their peers, Concurrent Education Students Association (CESA) held the first of their biannual openmicrophone coffee house events at Common Ground.

On Tuesday night, Common Ground was packed due to the diligent promotional efforts of CESA’s social

coordinators Kate Belmore and Emily Dyson, both ConEd ’16.

“Initially we had some bumps in the road, but we’ve done a lot of promo for it and I think it’s really helped,” Belmore said.

The performances ranged from singing and guitar playing, to spoken word and hula hooping.

“We try and encourage all kind of performances,” Belmore said.

The event serves as a reminder to ConEd students of the support they have for one another in their tight-knit community, said

CESA Internal Vice-President Elisabeth Beard.

“It’s a great way to remind us of the Con-Ed community when we all get together and support each other and our talents.” she said.

The fall coffee house also acts as a platform for CESA to advertise and raise money for the annual faculty formal in March.

Students are encouraged to donate to CESA as well as vote on the formal theme during the coffee house.

“It’s a great advertisement and

fundraiser for formal. This year we get to vote on the theme, which is a lot of fun,” Beard said.

Audience members and performers said they recognized the importance of attending the coffee house event to support their faculty and peers.

“It’s always an incredible experience to see your friends and other ConEd students doing such incredible things,” Katy McNally, ConEd ’17, said.

“I’m really happy and proud to be part of such a

“It’s the kind of community event that we’re really proud of,” Cameron Willis said. Willis is on staff at CFRC as the music resources manager. “It’s part of our mandate to bring together students and the community of Kingston,” he said.

Despite Sunday’s rain, the Kingston Record Show drew a steady crowd of about 200 people, according to LaVallee.

The show always attracts its regulars, but this year, some musicians showed up that were in town for the QPOP festival, which also occurred over the weekend.

“Both members of PS I Love You were here,” Willis said. The band performed at Clark Hall on Saturday night.

Vinyl enthusiast Ryan Parsons appreciated the diverse array of music available.

“There was something to suit any taste,” Parsons, ArtSci ’16, said.

“Like any time you go vinyl shopping, you definitely had to sift for gold.”

Parsons commended the vendors for being generally amiable. He also appreciated the opportunity to haggle.

For CFRC and LaVallee, making connections with vinyl listeners like Parsons is what it’s all about. If a successful show is one that fosters a sense of shared community between Kingstonians and Queen’s students, then Sunday’s event hit the mark. welcoming faculty.”

Taylor Katzel has played in the fall coffee house every year during his time at Queen’s.

“I think that ConEd is unbelievably talented in general,” Katzel, ConEd ‘16, said.

“Every year I’ve been here you see people that will blow your mind.”

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Moving words from Kingston’s creatives Poetry open-mic night occurs on the first Tuesday of every month at The Artel B y O livia L oncar -B artolini Arts Editor Poetry is a great way to provide social commentary and express creativity, and it often acts as a

therapeutic outlet.

The best thing about poetry is that it doesn’t discriminate. That was clear at The Artel on Tuesday as writers of all ages, genders and identities stood up at the podium to

share their touching work.

The Artel, a small artist’s hub on the corner of Queen and Sydenham Streets, has been home to the open poetry reading on the first Tuesday of every month since

2009. The event was organized by active literary community member Bruce Kauffman.

“We get a very eclectic age range, from 17 to 80 years old,” Kauffman said. “It’s important because we get a lot of really talented writers and poets looking for a place to share their work, and this is a great place to have it.”

The event is also important because it creates inspiration for other writers, Kauffman added.

By the time it started there were hardly any seats left. It was a full house.

After an introduction by Kauffman, Ron Chase was the first poet to take the stand.

“A lot of my stuff is a little darker and more twisted,” Chase said. “And then, of course, I write about the classics like love and death. I have a handful of [them], I write short poetry mostly. Right now I have a collection of 10 or 15 short poems.”

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confidence, jumping immediately into reciting his original work without missing a beat. The dramatic pauses and intonations in his voice brought life to the words.

Another poet, George Biro, took to reciting the work of other poets that he felt were “exceptional”.

“I’ll be sharing ‘Wash’ by Bryan Russell and ‘Canadae’ by Jeramy Dodds tonight,” Biro said. “Sometimes I read my own poems, of which there are few, but other times I try to find recently written poems that are important to our time and that I consider exceptional.”

As the fifth poet to take the podium, Biro stood up and recited his two chosen poems with both ease and style.

He recited lines such as: “Canada, you must sew shut the gaff-pole holes in the seal pups’ heads before the rich can be clothed” and “Scientists have cloned Robert Pickton to man our missing persons’ helplines, or Bernardo and Homolka have Tupperwared the all-you-can-eat buffet.”

This poem included both cutting humour and social commentary, keeping audience members engaged and on their toes. It was — as Biro suggested — exceptional.

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The Artel, pictured above, is a quaint artist hub at the corner of Queen and Sydenham Streets.

COMEDY

Russell Peters’ subpar show Famous comedian’s act met with mixed reactions B y K ashmala O mar Arts Editor Russell Peters brought his notorious humour to Kingston’s K-Rock Centre on Sunday to an impressive crowd of over 600 Kingston residents and students.

The event started off with Faisal Butt, a comedian nominated through a Kingston radio contest to open the show.

After Butt’s short and well-received act, a more experienced comedian, Gregg Rogell,tookthestage.Hisact,despite being humorous, was slightly trivial and frivolous but was nevertheless met with positive feedback from the crowd.

Finally after the two opening acts, the audience members were met with the much-anticipated Peters. He immediately settled into the stage and began the main portion of his act, which involved making jokes about audience members sitting directly in front of him.

His interactions with the audience, despite being improvised for the most part, were perhaps the most humorous part of his hour-long act. Peters’ natural humour came through and the crowd obviously enjoyed the moments between him and select people in the crowd.

Peters would pick a person, ask them a few questions and then make jokes based off of things like their hair, their children and jobs.

He also incorporated stereotypical race jokes into his commentary, true to his style of humour.

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Peters has been on the comedy scene since 2004.

Throughout the interactions with the audience, Peters would go through his rehearsed act, which wasn’t always as humorous as the improvised parts. Often he joked a little too extensively about senseless topics like masturbation, not being able to work a computer and not wanting to have any more children.

While these subjects were funny at first — especially as many comedians cover similar topics — his jokes didn’t always hit the mark, despite audience members laughing consistently.

One audience member, David McMillan, had a mixed, yet mostly positive, review for the comedian’s show.

“The show was really well put together,” he said. “For the most part it was funny, but it started to get dull as the show went on. He seemed to try and get the audience to set up his jokes, which got pretty stale quickly.”

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“Luckily, there were usually a few really good jokes that made me forget about the questionable parts of the show,” McMillan said. “I walked out of the show laughing, so I have to say it was a pretty good show.”

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CHARITY ENDEAVOURS — PART 2 OF 3

• Team initiatives

• Breast cancer

• “Puck Cancer”

Golden Gaels go pink

Personal connections help inspire cancer awareness campaign B y S ean S utherland Sports Editor For one month a year, another colour joins the Queen’s trifecta of red, blue and gold.

The Gaels football team dons pink apparel each October to raise breast cancer awareness. Over the past couple of years, it’s become an increasingly common practice for squads in both the collegiate and professional ranks to show their support.

Gaels head coach Pat Sheahan said his team has taken part for nearly a decade.

“I think it’s something that filtered down from the pros and our kids thought was sort of good civic responsibility to do the same thing,” he said. “It’s been a number of years — I’d say almost 10 — that they’ve been doing something fashionable for breast

cancer and its awareness here in October.”

The cause has extra meaning for Sheahan, as there are breast cancer survivors in his family.

“It had a real personal attachment for me,” he said.

“Knowing that however small, we could do something to assist in the research by raising funds and raising awareness is the least we can do, in my view.”

In addition to symbolic support from wearing pink equipment, the team also takes part in fundraising initiatives to benefit breast cancer charities. The Gaels raised over $3,000 in a fundraising campaign last year.

The sport’s larger role in raising awareness, whether it comes from the NFL, CFL or university teams, is something Sheahan said is a major benefit to helping fight the disease.

Breast cancer is the second-deadliest cancer among Canadian women, killing one of every 30 women in Canada.

“I think that to assist in the eradication of this killer, it’s a responsibility more people certainly recognize,” Sheahan said. “I think the efforts of the athletes — both ours and the broader base of athletes out there who are supporting this cause — will help bring more support, more awareness and perhaps a more acute attack on the disease.”

Anything that can be done to help fight breast cancer is a step in the right direction, Sheahan said, from increases in the amount of funding for research to the amount of awareness the cause receives.

In addition to his own personal The Gaels have worn pink apparel during October to

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support breast cancer awareness for nearly a decade.

HISTORY

Forgotten adversaries As one rivalry stays strong, two others fall to the wayside B y A dam L askaris Staff Writer

ATHLETE PROFILE

Running solo Jeff Archer breaks away for single season B y B rent M oore Assistant Sports Editor When Jeff Archer takes part in cross country events this year, it won’t be as a Gael.

With one year of eligibility remaining and two years of schooling to go, the 2013 OUA cross-country All-Star has chosen to save his final CIS season for next fall.

Archer spent the past four seasons running for Queen’s while finishing the first of two undergraduate degrees.

Two major factors influenced his decision.

The first was Archer’s desire to represent his country at an International University Sports Federation (FISU) meet.

“I’ve never gotten to compete at an international competition for Canada,” Archer said.

The event is held every two years and the Canadian team is made up of the top seven male and female university runners based on their results at the CIS championships. A pair of Gaels made it on the women’s side last year, but a 16th place finish at the championships kept Archer from cracking the national squad.

Archer also decided to save his final year of eligibility, he said, because next year’s Gaels men’s

team should be competitive enough to medal at the national level.

“We are looking to possibly have some guys come back and some of the younger guys will have some more time to develop,” he said.

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Ask around campus who Queen’s biggest rival is and you’re likely to hear a rousing chorus of “Wuck Festern”.

It’s no secret that Western and their sports teams, the Mustangs, rile up a sense of school pride and resentment. The schools share a great deal of similarities, each boasting long traditions of academic and athletic success.

Mix that with proud alumni and current students and it’s easy to see how a natural rivalry has formed.

“I’ve always said that we’re rivals, but we’re not enemies,” said Gaels football head coach Pat Sheahan.

Queen’s tough football season has taken away from the rivalry’s lustre this year. After a 7-1 showing in 2013 that ended with a Yates Cup defeat to the Mustangs,

Queen’s lost over 30 players and stumbled to an 0-5 start.

Their third loss of the year was a 43-12 defeat at Western’s hands on Sept. 13.

Despite the Gaels losing in each of the teams’ last three meetings, Sheahan said his team holds a winning record over Western since he came in as head coach in 2000.

“Not a lot of programs can say that,” he said. “Western’s always one of the top teams to beat.

There’s some great games when both programs are strong.”

With a new crop of players coming in each year, maintaining a strong program is a challenge in any university sport. Sheahan said that’s part of the reason why the rivals are courteous to one another.

“There’s a great respect between any of the [football] programs in the OUA,” he said. “The recruiting is very, very competitive in Ontario with 11 teams.

There’s obviously some animosity

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between the two programs but there’s still that respect because of the competitiveness.”

The rivalry between Queen’s and Western persists in football and other sports — especially men’s rugby and women’s hockey, where both schools are perennially among Ontario’s best.

That said, a few of Queen’s other traditional rivalries have all but dissolved over the past few decades.

Queen’s hosts the Toronto Varsity Blues on Saturday in a football game that may have been a contest to look forward to in the past — but it’s long been one-sided for the Gaels.

The decline of Toronto’s football program is one of the most intriguing cases in Canadian university sport.

National champions in 1993, the Varsity Blues haven’t recorded a winning season since.

“It’s a lost rivalry, and that’s unfortunate,” Sheahan said. “You can’t exactly pinpoint one reason as to why that is. You’d like for them to return to form [as a quality football program].”

Sheahan said the McGill Redmen is another team the football program had a deep history with, but the rivalry has disappeared due to changes in conference alignment.

“Back in the day, you could say those were the top two teams fighting for the Yates Cup and you wouldn’t be wrong,” he said.

The Redmen won three Yates Cups from 1960-70, while Queen’s won five as champions of the Senior Intercollegiate Football League.

Afterwards, the pair battled for the Dunsmore Cup as members of the Ontario-Quebec Intercollegiate Football Conference.

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WOMEN’S HOCKEY

Defensive dynamos

With a top-notch blueline, the Gaels remain title contenders B y S ean S utherland Sports Editor

Defencemen Mary Coughlin (above), Danielle Girard and Alisha Sealey have combined for 69 points since 2012.

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Even with the departures of their top scorer and top goalie, women’s hockey remains among the OUA’s best squads.

The Gaels fell one game shy of repeating as the province’s champions last year, losing to the Laurier Golden Hawks in the third game of the OUA finals.

While forward Morgan McHaffie — last year’s captain — and former starting goaltender Mel Dodd-Moher both graduated, taking away some of the Gaels’ experience, the rest of

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Breakthrough season

Strong recruiting class has men’s squad on cusp of a playoff run B y A dam L askaris Staff Writer Queen’s men’s hockey team is heading into the upcoming season with high expectations.

The Gaels are looking to build on one of their strongest seasons ever, where they tied a team record for wins in a season and were ranked multiple times among the country’s top 10.

The squad was bounced out in the second round of the OUA playoffs to the Carleton Ravens, but appear ready to enter this season as a championship contender.

Head coach Brett Gibson — the reigning CIS Coach of the Year — has developed a positive reputation for himself and the program. Off-season recruiting saw Gibson dip into several different junior leagues across Canada, highlighted by the pickups of four Ontario Hockey League (OHL) players, including two 30-goal scorers in forwards Darcy Greenaway and Eric Ming.

“We’ve got game-changing players now,” Gibson said. “In a close game, those guys can make all the difference.”

Close games were a staple of last year’s season. The Gaels were the

league’s premier defensive squad, giving up an OUA-low 54 goals, but often struggled to score, losing 2-0 to Carleton in the decisive game of their playoff series.

While Gibson has high hopes for the season, he said he’s aware that it’ll take time before his team performs how he wants them to.

“They have to learn to adapt to my systems,” he said. “We’re bringing in guys from 10 different hockey programs running 10 different systems, but they have to learn my systems because we’ve proven that those systems can match up with any team in the country.

“It’ll look good when they’re playing well and there’ll be some growing pains when they’re not.”

Despite the talent of his recruits, Gibson said the physicality of the OUA can be a learning curve for first-year players.

“They have to learn to play against men,” he said. “Most of these guys were playing against mostly 16- and 17-year-olds in junior and now they’re playing against 20- to 25-year-old players.”

Several first-year players played significant roles last year, including goaltenders Kevin Bailie, who was named OUA East MVP and CIS Rookie of the Year, and Chris

Clarke, who posted a .934 save percentage as Bailie’s backup.

“They’re the best goaltending tandem in the country and I wouldn’t trade them for anyone,” Gibson said. “They’ve been our two best players during the pre-season.”

Forwards Patrick McGillis, Tyler Moore and Kelly Jackson and defenceman Pat Downe have been named assistant captains for the upcoming year, with forward Corey Bureau entering his third year as captain.

Besides Queen’s, Gibson said Carleton, the UQTR Patriotes, the McGill Redmen and the 2013-14 league champion Windsor Lancers are the teams to beat in the OUA this year.

“You have to go through one of those teams if you want to win,” he said.

The Gaels open their regular season against McGill tomorrow at the Memorial Centre. They’ll look to avenge a pair of one-goal losses to the Redmen last season.

“McGill’s the pinnacle of the OUA and historically they’ve been our biggest rival,” Gibson said.

“Those are the games you look forward to — why not start off at home against them?”

Kevin Bailie was named the CIS Rookie of the Year and OUA East MVP after posting a 1.98 goals against average and a league-best .934 save percentage.

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the team’s core remains. Add in a talented recruiting class, and Queen’s is a front-runner for the provincial title this year.

Several forwards will have to step up to produce offence after McHaffie’s departure.

Newly-minted captain Shawna Griffin was tied for eighth in the OUA with 26 points, while fourth-year Taryn Pilon has posted consecutive 20-point campaigns.

Head coach Matt Holmberg said the experience Griffin — the only player left over from the Gaels’ 2011-12 championship squad — brings will help a Queen’s team made up of younger players. “[She’s] been a captain-in-waiting,” he said.

The 2014 playoff run gave the team’s second-year players the additional experience needed to make another attempt at the crown this season. One of the leaders of the team’s youth movement is forward Clare McKellar, whose 20 points were second-highest among all rookies last season and earned her a spot on the OUA’s All-Rookie team.

Incoming winger Addi Halladay will play a prominent role for the team offensively. Along with defenceman Amber Sealey, a first-year Gael should net a spot on the OUA All-Rookie team for the fifth time in six years.

The pair are half of a strong group of rookies, as first-year goaltenders Stephanie Pascal and Claire Warren provide the Gaels’ depth behind third-year netminder Caitlyn Lahonen.

“All four of the true rookies have integrated themselves well with the team,” Holmberg said. “Halladay and Sealey look like they’ve been playing in the league for years.”

The Gaels added one other new player over the off-season: former Laurier Golden Hawks captain Fiona Lester, a versatile fifth-year that can play up front and on the back end. While her two OUA All-Star appearances came

as a blueliner, she’s suiting up as a forward for the Gaels, due in part to Queen’s defensive depth.

The team possesses one of the OUA’s best defence corps.

Sealey’s older sister Alisha and fourth-years Mary Coughlin and Danielle Girard lead a group that held their opposition to 44 goals last season.

“I believe we have one of the best D cores,” Holmberg said.

“We’ve got excellent mobility and experience on defence. We’ve got the added bonus of being able to utilize Fiona Lester as well.”

Part of the reason Queen’s allows so few goals is Holmberg’s commitment to discipline.

The squad has been the OUA’s least-penalized team for the last two seasons, an important goal for the coach.

The final piece to guaranteeing the Gaels remain among Ontario’s best at keeping the puck out of their net is Lahonen. In limited playing time last season, the NCAA transfer posted a 1.38 goals against average and a .944 save percentage.

Queen’s kicks off their season this weekend when they host the Nipissing Lakers and the Laurentian Lady Vees. The Gaels swept the season series against both teams during the 2013-14 season.

In addition to Laurier, the Guelph Gryphons and the Western Mustangs should challenge the Gaels once for OUA supremacy in both the regular season and playoffs.

Holmberg isn’t as concerned with where the Gaels sit in the standings, noting the team has made three of the last four OUA finals without once sitting among the league’s top two teams at the end of the year.

“As long as you’re good to go when it counts, anything can happen,” he said. “If we can stay healthy, there’s no reason to believe we can’t be top four.”

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connection to the disease, Sheahan said a few of the Gaels’ players have also been affected.

“We’ve had a few of our players, there’s been stuff that’s happened that’s been quite personal,” he said.

“We’ve had a few mothers.”

Sheahan said the potential for Queen’s students to remain engaged in causes such as this is an integral part of the student experience.

“I would hope that, for the

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greater body of Queen’s students that are going to end up leaders in a variety of different areas, that they continue to maintain a leadership in the community for these causes,” he said.

“It’s just law of averages – some of us are going to be impacted by this disease by family members,” Sheahan added. “Whether it be mothers, grandmothers, sisters, daughters, it’s something that we recognize and we’re going to continue to support it.”

Gaels head coach Pat Sheahan’s personal connection to breast cancer plays a role in his team’ supporting the cause.

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joined the OUA in 2000.

While Queen’s change in football conferences may have all but ended the rivalry on the gridiron, the conflict remains on the ice. The Redmen hockey team still plays in the OUA, opening their season this Friday in Kingston against the Gaels.

Once referred to as “Kill McGill” games, the annual Redmen-Gaels tilts have lost their atmosphere in recent years. While more popular than other Memorial Centre clashes, the games only bring in slightly more than 100 spectators over the last few seasons.

University Historian Duncan McDowall said Queen’s initially

developed rivalries with McGill, Western and Toronto by competing against them so frequently.

“You’d generally play them at least twice a year in most sports, with football being the main one for the fall and hockey for the winter,” McDowall said. “Back in the day, there weren’t really a whole lot of universities in Ontario and Quebec — it was really these main four that you’d see competing every year.

“There was a small pool to draw from and you’d have these rivalries ingrained in school culture.”

McDowall likened the atmosphere to the Original Six teams in the NHL. The introduction of more university teams in the 1950s and 1960s, he said, was like

the NHL’s 1967 expansion, which doubled the league in size from six teams to 12.

McDowall said busloads of students embarked on organized road trips to Montreal, London and Toronto see the football team play, but interest has faded since, with more focus directed towards other sports and activities.

While the competition remains strong most years in the OUA, McDowall said the most passionate rivalries are a thing of the past.

“It’s diluted these days,” he said.

“New rivalries can form with teams if they’ve got a good football team or athletic program. But it’s really not the same as it once was.”

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ON DECK CIRCLE

Queen’s and McGill met on the gridiron for the first time on Oct. 8, 1898. The Redmen prevailed, topping the Gaels 3-2.

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Saturday, Oct. 11, 1 p.m.: Gaels (0-5) vs. Toronto Varsity Blues (1-5).

Saturday, Oct. 11, 3:15 p.m.: Gaels (7-2-4) vs. Ryerson Rams (10-1-0).

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WOMEN’S RUGBY Friday, Oct. 10, 5 p.m.: Gaels vs.

York Lions (OUA Quarterfinal).

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WOMEN’S HOCKEY MEN’S RUGBY Friday, Oct. 10, 7 p.m.: Gaels (4-1) @ Toronto Varsity Blues (0-5).

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represent Queen’s twice this fall while preserving the chance to run next year.

Archer won the Western International Invitational on Sept.

20, finishing the eight-kilometre race in 25:16. The Gaels finished fourth at the event, with four other men finishing in the top 50.

Last weekend in Pennsylvania, Archer won the Brown bracket of

Lehigh University’s eight-kilometre Paul Short Run with a time of 24:34.

The Brown race is one level below Division I NCAA status.

Archer was joined on the podium by teammate Alex Wilkie, who captured a bronze medal.

For the rest of the season, Archer won’t compete as a university athlete, but as a member of Physi-Cult, a Kingston-based club run by Gaels cross-country head

Friday, Oct. 10, 7:30 p.m.: Gaels vs. McGill Redmen.

Jeff Archer finished fifth at the OUA Championships last year, before finishing 16th at the CIS meet.

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coach Steve Boyd.

It’s thanks to a great off-season that Archer is faring so well this season.

“I had a pretty good indoor season last year and then just ran some good miles in the spring,” Archer said. “And I haven’t been hurt at all.”

A Kingston native, Archer spends his summers in the Limestone City.

“I train with people from the club and with Steve and do most of my workouts on my own,” he said.

Archer has several upcoming competitions and goals for the season, at both the provincial and national levels.

He’ll be running at the Athletics Ontario Cross Country Championships on Nov. 16 in Niagara Falls and the Canadian Cross Country Championships on Nov. 29 in Vancouver.

So far, the decision to take the year off from collegiate competition has had little effect on Archer’s training. He’s still a member of the Gaels team and has maintained a similar workout schedule to other seasons.

Archer said he’s also looking to compete in track events in the winter, mainly the 1500m and 3000m.

The OUA differentiates cross country races from track races, so Archer is hoping to don a Gaels uniform for two winter races, before finishing the season as an individual athlete.

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MENTAL ILLNESS AWARENESS WEEK

Queen’s faces of mental illness: Time to talk Rector Mike Young discusses the importance of creating mental health conversation on campus

B y M ike Y oung Contributor When writing this article, I was posed with the question: “What does mental health awareness mean to you?”

Though it’s difficult to properly qualify an accurate response to this question, I’ll attempt to illustrate what it means to me and to many others at Queen’s.

Let’s go back to high school, for a moment. I was the person amongst my group of friends who, for the most part, was perceived to have everything together.

I became someone who my friends became very comfortable talking to about their issues, even though I would never talk to anyone about what I would come to understand was a pretty significant personal ordeal.

People thought I had the perfect life and was thus someone they could always confide to. This was something I wore as a badge

of honour.

It was a great source of pride and something that I took with me to university.

When I got to Queen’s, I continued to be involved outside of the classroom. While my involvement got more and more intense, so did my personal issues.

Not even the people closest to me knew what was going on inside me.

I don’t feel it’s important to go into the nitty-gritty details here, but I did reach my tipping point.

I had to drop a class and I started attending counselling sessions at HCDS on a regular basis.

The years I had spent keeping up with the belief that I had everything together had taken me to the point where I couldn’t concentrate on fundamental day-to-day tasks.

Homework fell by the wayside, assignments didn’t get handed in and I went a span of three months where I went to sleep before 5 a.m. a total of four times.

I needed help and I needed it right away.

I was and am very lucky for a number of different reasons. My issues never manifested in suicidal thoughts. I never felt worthless.

I never felt like I didn’t want to exist anymore.

I just felt overwhelmed and like Peer Support Centre to the Mental Health Awareness Committee, a shadow of my old self.

I was especially lucky that I’m from embedded faculty counsellors not generally a very shy person. I and student-driven movements felt comfortable to reach out for like “Unleash the Noise” through help when I needed it. It wasn’t a Jack.org, to Dr. Mike Condra and hesitation or a tough decision — it his team at HCDS, Queen’s is ahead of the game in many respects. was merely what had to be done.

That being said, we still have It changed my life. I got back on my feet, maintained involvement a large hill to climb. We must not in things I was passionate about be complacent.

As more and more students and found myself in a better place come to Queen’s over the coming than I’ve ever been in before.

So what does mental health years, the infrastructure we have to awareness mean to me? What I’ve support Queen’s students and their shared with you is an incomplete mental health will be put to the test.

AMS Assembly recently passed version of a complicated and twisted engagement with life a list of recommendations that that had ill-effects on my mental students would like to see as a health. I don’t think this is an result of shared services budgeting.

Within these recommendations, uncommon story.

For me, mental health making students the primary point awareness means the saving of of consultation when it comes to revamping HCDS is a priority. This degrees, relationships and lives.

It means knowing that we all is of paramount importance.

So what does mental health have mental health. It’s knowing that it’s as important to keep a awareness mean to me?

I might not be able to pin it healthy mind as it is to keep a down with a sentence, but I know healthy heart.

It means having people know it’s bigger than me or you — bigger than our school. that it’s okay to not be okay.

We have the opportunity at Queen’s, by all or most accounts, is the national leader when it Queen’s to bring other institutions comes to mental health resources, with us into an age of commitment support and awareness. From the to combating stigma and supporting

All the information for this graphic was provided by the Provost’s Advisory Committee on Mental Health annual report released in June.

student health and wellness.

Silence isn’t an option.

As part of Mental Illness Awareness Week, Lifestyle featured personal stories from students each day this week. We’ll be continuing the initiative throughout the year with monthly stories. To submit a story, email journal_lifestyle @ams.queensu.ca.

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RESTAURANT

Musiikki: coffee house meets whiskey bar New Kingston café blends live music with traditional coffee shop fare and alcoholic beverages B y K yla C raig Contributor

I visited Musiikki for the first time a few weeks ago and was immediately intrigued by the quaint, rustic feel of the place, as well as the unique idea of being served mugs of espresso and glasses of whiskey simultaneously.

Eager to learn more about the origins and ambitions of the café, I sat down with owner Kris Clendining to hear the whole story.

At first glance, Musiikki Café isn’t immediately noticeable for its “hole-in-the-wall” appearance, but if you’re curious enough to venture in, you’ll be pleased with what you find.

Located just outside the hustle and bustle of downtown at 73 Brock St., Musiikki is a music-oriented café by day, whiskey bar by What made you want to open a place that is night. both a café and a whiskey bar?

Since opening in June of this year, Musiikki has attracted growing attention, Actually, what made me want to open the mainly owing to its variety of live music, place was more music driven — the idea stunning back patio and fine selection of of having a music venue and a place for whiskey and coffee. recording music. Generally, I wanted the

place to be based and revolve around music. venue and recording area, which is going to The whiskey bar idea came after that as an be a work-in-progress for a while but we’ll option for drinking while enjoying music have it open for people within the next week or playing music. I looked around Kingston or two. Up there will mostly be the music and noticed there wasn’t anything with a real aspect and downstairs will be more of the bar. good whiskey selection — well, there are And it was always kind of part of the plan to some decent places but I thought to myself have an outdoor music area so the patio is that it’d be nice to stand out in that respect. a bonus. In my opinion, we got one of the Then I was thinking of daytime options and best places we could’ve found for what we’re the coffee idea came after that. doing in Kingston. This strip of Brock St. is mainly locally-owned businesses and it’s nice Why did you choose the name “Musiikki”? to be a bit back from Princess Street.

It’s “music” in Finnish. My mother’s side is What kinds of live music do you usually Finnish so that’s where it popped up. I went perform here and how often? through a few different names trying to think of one that would suit the best and after It’s usually more of an acoustic style because talking to people for months and months, it kind of matches the ambience of the place.

“Musiikki” is the name that stood out in We’ve had a lot of folk, bluegrass, blues, everybody’s minds the most. In the end, it some jazz, some Latin-jazz fusion. We’ve had was the most catchy name and it looks neat some alternative stuff — its actually been a and it’s different. real good mixture, but it’s all keeping a softer, more acoustic feel. We have live music here Does Musiikki have a signature dish or drink almost every night. Right now we’re at five or six nights a week. that you would recommend?

Right now our specialty is a “Fall Breeze”, which is a bourbon-based drink. There’s a shot of bourbon, some cider and then wine to top it off. It’s got the different colours as you go up the glass, so some people drink it in its separate layers but you can also mix it up.

Have you been attracting a lot of students?

Musiikki features an outdoor patio, live music venue and signature drinks.

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Not right away — not with frosh week because I think everyone stays down in the hub a little more at that point. The curious ones start to venture out, it seems, and find new places so I’ve been noticing more students starting to come recently.

Why did you choose this location?

Having that back patio is half of what sold me on this place. It wasn’t originally part of the lease but once we got talking and negotiating it worked out to be the perfect space for what we were after. We have two separate spaces inside, downstairs and upstairs. The upstairs is going to be the music

Do you have any prior experience with cafés and/or whiskey bars?

I used to work in a little café out in B.C. It was a similar thing to what we have here but it was more café based, it didn’t have a bar. The owners would do live music once a week, or something like that. On the East Coast, in Newfoundland, I had some bartending experience.

How did you choose to decorate the place the way you have?

Well, I’ve done carpentry work for about eight years now and I’ve had the opportunity to see a lot of different decorating styles. In that time I’ve been able to choose things that I like. For Musiikki, I definitely decided to go for more of a rustic feel because it matched the whole concept of the place, with the exposed brick and whatnot.

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

FASHION

Some kind of bun-derful

The hairstyle trend that everyone’s talking about B y L uke K essaram Contributor

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with interest in man buns increasing roughly 63 per cent between mid-August and mid-September this year. What gives?

It’s time to break the silence: what’s up with The infamous man bun is defined on all the man buns?

Urban Dictionary as follows: “[noun]: A Don’t deny it, you’ve seen them too. This questionably sexy hairstyle in which a man past September has been witness to record with hair of the medium to long (and usually high numbers of man buns in the lecture greasy) variety secures said hair into a firmly halls and on the playing fields at Queen’s. rounded bun.”

They came back to campus with us when we Key words: questionably sexy. There returned from summer break and settled in appears to be some measure of disagreement our midst. among Queen’s students on the matter of That isn’t to say that the man bun is a the man bun. new phenomenon. In fact, the rise of the Nikki Clydesdale is a self-professed man bun over the course of the past year can lover of man buns, but laments at the high be tracked using a tool called Google Trends. prevalence of mediocre ones.

Interest in man buns is plotted on a “What makes a good man bun is the style graph and has been increasing steadily over accompanying the man bun,” Clydesdale, the years.

ArtSci ’16, said, adding the best kind of man But at the beginning of 2014, things bun sits on top of the head with a shaved start getting interesting. That’s when Jared back like a nape undercut.

Leto wore a man bun to the Golden Globes, Living near the ARC, Clydesdale has complete with a tux and a shaggy beard. witnessed first-hand the rise of the man-bun.

Save for the odd early adopter during the “You just see all these weird bros with their winter term last year, it seems to have taken hair in a bun walking around like they’re until last month for the trend to catch on the [bomb-dot-com],” she said. One of them in earnest. may have been James Alexander.

This is also reflected on Google Trends, See Man on page 19

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KingstonFest focuses on sustainability Sustainability festival promotes environmental responsibility and showcases local organizations B y J ake R amer Contributor It was a cold and rainy Saturday morning, but that didn’t deter the crowds from attending the first KingstonFest on Oct. 4.

Run by Sustainable Kingston, the event focused on showcasing the wide array of organizations that contribute to environmental responsibility in the Kingston community.

The event took place within St. Lawrence College, hosting a wide selection of activities ranging from workshops on health care in World War I to booths informing patrons on hydroponics, the process of growing plants without soil.

After purchasing a bag of peppermint chocolate, I listened to the live music played by local musical duo Kyra and Tully. Their poppy folk music contributed greatly to the fun grassroots feel of the event.

The area showcasing the booths from different organizations was buzzing with activity. I went to the Wintergreen Studios booth where I calculated my ecological footprint using an online survey.

According to the survey, if the rest of the world consumed to the extent that I do, we

would need 4.72 Earths to accommodate everyone’s lifestyle. My score wasn’t too bad, which made me feel a little less guilty.

Afterwards, I spoke to Michael Tkautz, who was there from GreenCity Initiatives presenting a hydroponics system that utilizes a rolling barrel to maximize plant growth.

Tkautz discussed the benefits of utilizing hydroponics in areas with dense populations.

“When you’re able to provide food internally, in the heart of any city, that drastically reduces the use of any fossil fuels for transportation,” he said.

John Johnson, executive director of Sustainable Kingston, said they designed the event to be as accessible as possible to community members.

“It’s free for anyone that wants to come.

We really aimed it at families and kids, but we’ve had a whole range of people here today,” Johnson said.

Variety seemed to be the prevalent theme of KingstonFest. The people, the organizations and the activities all made for an interesting and educational Saturday.

KingstonFest featured hands-on activities, workshops and entertainment.

As a Queen’s student, it felt good to leave the proverbial student bubble to learn more about the eclectic and exciting community around me.

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Man buns take over last frosh week,” Petersen, Sci ’16, said.

When it started getting longer, Petersen Alexander, ArtSci ’17, began growing realized its potential. He was sporting a man his hair out a year ago. His bun is a recent bun by August.

Petersen doesn’t have his sides shaved the addition, and it contradicts Clydesdale’s description of the perfect man bun with its way Clydesdale prefers, but he acknowledges the benefit of not having to deal with loose messy style.

“A lot of the time when you’ve got the man side hair.

“It just cleans it up,” he said. bun, facial hair is necessary,” he said.

Petersen also remarked that shaving the All else aside, the man bun serves primarily for Alexander to keep his hair out of his face. sides could also shorten the pre-bun growth Stephen Wu is also a fan of the man bun. period, resulting in a lack of commitment Like Alexander, Wu’s man bun just started out for some.

It’s clear that the man bun leaves a as an effort to keep hair out of his face, but lot of room to personal adaptation and it stuck.

His current man bun is his second interpretation. Perhaps it’s this factor of attempt at the style, after a brief hiatus for a flexibility that made the style catch on.

Although the trend has been brewing few months.

He first noticed the trend two months ago since January, it’s taken until September to become widespread. and aligns with Clydesdale’s description.

“I cut my own hair, so it’s not a problem,” The style seems to have all sprung from Wu, ConEd ’18, said, adding he likes the nowhere, but many of today’s man buns man bun hairstyle for its balance of comfort have been in the works for some time.

Google Trends even indicates that interest and style.

Lucas Petersen’s man bun wasn’t initially in the man bun is still rising.

The question remains: how far will it go? an intentional enterprise.

“I just haven’t cut it since I buzzed it after Continued from page 18

Man buns are an increasingly popular hairstyle trend on campus this year.

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Thinking about drinking Students get a bad rep for alcohol abuse but bar workers reveal the brighter side of nights out B y B lake C anning Contributor

seen much more than you would expect in the four short months he’s worked at the Grill.

“There’s been plenty of fights Most of us are familiar with the pain of a 2 p.m. awakening on this street — me and all the from what may feel like a other bouncers at all these other clubs have had to break up at least near-death experience.

A mouth drier than the Sahara one fight,” he said.

Luckily, bouncers tend to be in in the summer, a headache that feels like a monster truck rally fairly good shape.

“Most of us are athletes or just in your skull and, of course, the inevitable silent oath to regular guys,” he said.

“A lot of the bouncers at The Ale yourself that you will never, ever House are like fourth-year Queen’s drink again.

That’s assuming you remember students or recent grads. We’ve what stupid thing it was that you got a few ex-army guys working did this time, without having to around here too.”

I spent five minutes talking be told by a witness, or worse, a recorded video that may or may with Fox and already I had not have been posted on YouTube. learned two invaluable pieces The consequences of partying of information.

First of all, if you’re in line at and heavy drinking are something that we all (for the most part) The Ale House, tell the bouncer he understand and accept. But is there played great in his last game. It’s worth a shot at least. And second: a point when it goes too far?

Everyone loves going out and don’t try to get past a bouncer, having a good time, but what no matter how drunk you are. happens when you yourself You never know who you may be become “that one guy/girl” at picking a fight with.

“The non-violent ones are even the party?

As a community of alcohol worse though,” Fox added. “I once enthusiasts, we’d love to think that saw a girl fall down both the large drunken adventures are all in good flights of stairs inside.”

Surprisingly, she was fine and The majority of bartenders in Kingston are athletes, students or ex-military. fun, whether they be social, sexual, walked it off, no problem. financial or physical.

I suppose superhuman strength hostel furniture within 30 seconds of inequity. There is a small, blue But when it comes to this particular subject, there’s a fine is just one vote on the side of the of stumbling recklessness were and yellow neon light at the end of line between funny and damaging. pro-boozers, but what about that only a few stories told to me as I the tunnel.

“We all care for the patrons canvassed the area.

It’s about time to thicken the line loose tongue syndrome?

But I realized I could listen and because we are the patrons,” said “I’ve just heard a lot of drunk a bit, and I could think of no better place to find the best horror conversations from people coming record these stories for hours and Jillian Carter, a bartender at The stories Kingston has to offer than out of this place. Some of them get I would still end up with the same Ale House & Canteen. “We all problem: No one wants to have have a great time and everyone else our very own boulevard of booze: pretty wild.”

I could only imagine what their name on stories like this, and has a great time.”

Princess St. I honestly couldn’t believe how I couldn’t help but see why.

Who better to speak to than he’s heard.

Not only for personal reasons or highly Carter spoke of her job. Was In just one night of walking someone who deals with drunken patrons as part of their job? around The Ale House, Grizzly to save face, but we as a community there no lunch heaving or loud, Graham Fox, a bouncer at the Grill and Stages Nightclub, I heard of university students have a stigma inconsiderate name-calling? Not Grizzly Grill, has been called every countless stories from students attached to binge-drinking that no even on Tumbleweed Tuesday?

I asked if she at least experienced that ranged from the bizarre one wants to admit to. name in the book.

Do I think it’s fair? No. Do FOMO, the “fear of missing out,” “I’ve had plenty of death threats to the disgusting.

Girls passing out in club lineups, I think it’s accurate? Sometimes. while bartending to such a lively too,” Fox told me. These usually occur when he’s had to turn people roommates going to sleep naked Will it stop us from having a good crowd every night.

Another waitress said the in the wrong bed, housemates time? Definitely not. away for being too intoxicated.

But the area around the drinking thought of FOMO had never Currently in his second year defecating on floors and even the at St. Lawrence College, Fox has destruction of $10,000 worth of hub isn’t a complete and total den crossed her mind.

“I don’t personally get that feeling just because I’m always having a lot of fun anyway,” Carter said. “Working this job is like free partying without the hangover.”

She said most people don’t get too drunk when they come to Canteen anyways.

“Honestly, this is the kind of place where people come to share a big pitcher of beer with their friends — not fly off the handle,” she said.

Even the wait staff said they could hardly remember the last time they were forced to stop serving someone due to drunkenness.

The most recent memory was at the behest of someone who realized that her friend had drank enough for one night.

I was told that patrons at Canteen have a tendency to self-regulate quite well, and after speaking to the staff, I believed them.

“Ninety-five per cent of the people who work here went to Queen’s at one point,” Carter said. “I wanted to work here because I loved the atmosphere as a patron and coming here with Graham Fox, a bouncer, said drunken patrons have called him every name in the book. friends. I’ve even worked in the

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club and everyone is very polite and respectful.”

If I didn’t know any better, I would have thought Carter was running for her second term as Student Council president — a more Canadian answer couldn’t possibly have been presented to me.

It’s refreshing to see there was still a place near campus that one could go to be in a friendly, lively environment and not feel the need to lose all inhibitions.

As someone who enjoys going out every now and then, I’ll admit there are times when I’ve both embraced and rebuffed my “college kid” stereotype. While it may be a part of the university experience and who we are now, it doesn’t and shouldn’t define us.

The point persists, though.

There are a lot of stigmas attached to our age group and no one wants to be labeled as a binge-drinking student, which explains why no interviewees wanted to reveal their full names In the end, we’ve all had the opportunity to play the fool, but there’s one thing I noticed while reporting and from my own personal experiences: it’s our friends that keep us safe.

Each of us, I believe, has played both roles at least once, as the babysitter and the drunkard. What matters most is having a good group of drinking buddies that’ll always look out for and get you home safe, no matter what the circumstances may be.

According to the staff at Canteen, they’ve seen nothing but that attitude so far, and even Fox said that he’s never had to send someone home alone.

If you want to have a good time with your friends and be safe while doing it, simply respect your drinking buddies.

They’re the best safety net you have.