The Queen`s Journal, Volume 142, Issue 13

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One win away

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Rugby single game from title three-peat B y S ean S utherland Sports Editor

Principal Daniel Woolf spoke at Stauffer Library on Tuesday, thanking the Joyce Foundation for a $5 million gift.

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ADMINISTRATION

Queen’s to release internal sexual assault response report

If men’s rugby triumphs in tomorrow’s OUA final, Andrew Carr and his teammates will once again experience the emotion of a league championship.

The Gaels prevailed over the Western Mustangs in each of the last two provincial title matches, with both wins coming on Nixon Field.

Now, the team needs to get by the Guelph Gryphons at home tomorrow. They’re one win away from bringing home gold, and inspiring what Carr called “the best feeling in the world.”

“To cap off a three-peat, just

Campus Security received seven assault reports from Sept. 2009 to April 2014 B y C hloe S obel News Editor The University is set to release an internal report on policies, procedures and support programs that address sexual assault involving students.

According to information obtained through a Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act request filed in September, the Audit Committee of the Board of Trustees authorized the publication of the report at a September meeting. The

information received through the FIPPA request stated that the report is expected to be posted on the Queen’s website “shortly”.

No exact date for its release was given.

Through the FIPPA request, the university stated that “[sexual assault] is foremost of mind with Queen’s University Administrators” and that “Queen’s also has a robust internal non-academic discipline system to address allegations of sexual assault, while respecting respondents’ right to education and the legal presumption

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of innocence.”

While on-campus sexual assault is dealt with under the University’s non-academic discipline policy, no formal policy dedicated to sexual assault currently exists.

The information given to the Journal also detailed an anonymized summary of seven sexual assaults reported to Campus Security between Sept. 1, 2009 and Apr. 30, 2014 and how the University responded to them.

In fall 2009, two incidents of sexual assault were reported See One on page 5

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SEXUAL ASSAULT

Un-Blurred Lines addresses consent Role of alcohol in sexual assault examined at community event hosted at Robert Sutherland Hall

B y M ishal O mar Assistant News Editor Experts examined the role of alcohol in sexual assault and addressed the role of men in preventing violence against women at Un-Blurred Lines on Wednesday evening.

The event was hosted by Queen’s and the Safe and Sober Community Alliance, and took place in a full room in Robert

Sutherland Hall, with roughly 100 male teenagers at a party. people in attendance.

He said his daughter It featured speeches from Glen experienced a culture of Canning, a writer and the father “victim-blaming” first-hand. He of Rehtaeh Parsons; Jeff Perera, said she was rejected and bullied by community engagement manager her peers and community, and was for the White Ribbon Campaign; blamed for her own assault because Queen’s psychology professor she was under the influence of Caroline Pukall and Crown alcohol at the time it occurred.

Attorney Gerard Laarhuis.

After the event, Canning said Canning’s speech focused on talking about healthy relationships what his daughter went through and consent in high school is after allegedly being raped by four important in reducing violence against women.

“In Nova Scotia, they teach you about putting condoms on bananas, but they don’t talk about what rape is,” he said.

“I think that if we taught it from a younger age, like grade eight and nine, I think we would have a huge impact on the statistics of sexual assault in Canada.”

Perera spoke of what he called “toxic masculinity”, where men define “masculine” as anything that is “unlike women” and therefore assert dominance over women. He encouraged the male audience to

redefine masculinity and work to end violence against women.

Perera later discussed men’s role in ending violence against women with the Journal, saying men have to embrace that they’re “part of the situation”.

“I think it’s those conversations, about why we do what we do as men, and recognizing how we can change those things,” he said.

“The traditions that we have on campuses are ones that we uphold in the community, and we can help shift them. If we collectively choose a new tradition, a new way of doing things, we can make that happen.”

Pukall spoke on the psychological effects of sexual assault and defining consent, which she described as an ongoing process. She said that people should proceed with nothing but “enthusiastic consent” from their partners when looking to be intimate, adding that consent can’t be given if someone is underage or under the influence.

From left: Jeff Perera, Glen Canning and Caroline Pukall.

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Laarhuis spoke about legal aspects of sexual assault cases. He said that in part, the low rate of convictions for people charged with sexual assault is due to the fact that people who are under the influence when they’re assaulted are considered “unreliable witnesses” in court, based on the assumption that their memory of the assault may not be complete.

There was a brief question and answer period at the end of the speeches, at which point Deputy Provost Laeeque Daneshmend said in his 20 years teaching at Queen’s, he’s noticed that the drinking culture worsens each year. He said the AMS has done little to address the issue.

AMS Social Issues Commissioner Emily Wong denied the accusation of lack of action, and said the AMS is aware of the issues surrounding drinking culture on campus and is taking steps to address it.

Nilijah Reaney, an exchange student from Trinidad, said she felt the event was important because these are “conversations we need to have”.

“This is a lived reality for people that experience sexual assault,” she said.

“What was important to me is the fact that men have such an integral role to play in the fight against sexual violence and sexual assault against women. I think men being a partner and being people that can support and help to end sexual assault is important.”

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Hillel’s Holocaust Education Week to run Nov. 10-13 B y N atasa B ansagi Assistant News Editor This year’s Holocaust Education Week, organized by Queen’s Hillel, aims to show the connections between past, present and future.

Two speakers and a walk-through exhibit in the JDUC, featuring the “different stages” of the Holocaust and current remembrance initiatives both in Kingston and throughout the world, will comprise this year’s events. The events will run from Monday to Thursday next week.

On Monday evening, Alexander Schelischansky, an intern at the Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre in Toronto, will speak about the rise of fascism and national socialism in Europe.

Keynote speaker Hedy Bohm, a Holocaust survivor, will present her story on Wednesday evening in Wallace Hall.

Lia Baird and Zoey Katz are part of the Holocaust Education Week 2014 Committee.

The exhibit in the JDUC will include an interactive component where visitors can post their answers to a question related to the week’s theme. Baird said she hopes to have a world map to illustrate how people were affected by

the Holocaust.

“You could pin on a map, for example, where your family was originally, be it your family was affected by it because they were taken out of their homes and show where they were from,” said Baird, ArtSci ’15.

She said the goal of the exhibit wasn’t to make sure that everyone who passes the exhibit is interested and walks through it, “[but] if they walk by and they see something and later … they’re interested again and they want to learn themselves, that’s a success in itself, too,” she said.

Throughout her time at Queen’s, Katz said, there’s never been a speaker like Schelischansky. Rather than providing a personal account, Schelischansky will discuss the government situation around the time of the Holocaust and how the events of the Holocaust began.

Katz said this could establish a connection for people who might not otherwise participate in the week’s events.

“Everyone understands what a dictatorship is. Everyone understands, you know, how politics have an effect on the citizens’ everyday lives,” said Katz, Nurs ’16.

“Even if you’re a history student

or a politics student and don’t necessarily care too much about any other event that we’re doing, or care to go through the exhibit, this event I think can tailor to a lot of people to form another connection to something that we’re going to be speaking about.”

Attending the events, Katz said, shows “a concern for the world itself” and a sense of not only caring about the past, but the future.

“That’s a really important piece for us because we realize that it’s not some event that can’t happen again,” she said.

“The world is not a healthy place, the world has not necessarily learned from all its mistakes.”

Katz said that Bohm, who she has previously met, is very “inspirational”, adding that hundreds of people attended last year’s Holocaust survivor speech.

She added that it’s important for everyone to find their own connections to the events of the Holocaust, “because no one’s going to learn from it if they don’t find it relevant to their lives”.

“Otherwise, it’s just another page in their history textbook, and that’s what we’re trying to avoid,” she said.

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FEATURE ALCOHOL

Queen’s cracks down on jacket bars Engineering faculty and police introduce patrols to end the Beers on the Pier challenge B y S ebastian L eck Features Editor The Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science is discouraging students from pursuing jacket bars involving alcohol this year, starting with the “Beers on the Pier” challenge.

Since the first week of September, Kingston Police Force (KPF) officers have been patrolling the pier near Collingwood St. and King St. West on Thursday nights to watch for students attempting Beers on the Pier.

Beers on the Pier — one of the many bars engineering students can sew onto their leather Queen’s jackets — requires students to drink a can of beer before jumping off the pier into Lake Ontario.

Members of the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science met with Kingston police this summer to discuss concerns about pier safety, according to Kimberly Woodhouse, the Faculty dean.

“We discussed measures that could be put into place to help students make wise choices about Beers on the Pier, with the assumption that jumping off the pier when you’ve had alcohol is not a good idea,” Woodhouse said.

Some jacket bars contain information like a student’s program and year, symbols like a country’s national flag or phrases that represent the completion of specific challenges.

To earn the “Beers on the Pier” bar, a student must drink a beer and jump off the pier every Thursday during the first semester of classes.

Woodhouse said the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science implemented two safety measures for the pier. The first was having the police monitor the pier area.

The second measure was asking Engineering Society (ENGSOC) FRECs — the Society’s orientation leaders — to discourage the bar, she said.

Frosh Regulation Enforcement

Committee (FREC) leaders run orientation events for first-year engineering students during the first week of September.

“One of the things that I stressed was to the FRECs, that they should think about actively discouraging this bar, because it was unsafe,” Woodhouse said.

“The FRECs, who are positive role models for the students, can discourage beers on the pier themselves. And that’s what I asked. I didn’t tell, I didn’t lecture.”

According to Woodhouse, the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science actively tries to discourage “any bars that are related to or associated with unsafe, risky or unprofessional behaviour”, such as the high consumption of alcohol.

Woodhouse said the Blue Lights bar — which requires students to shotgun a beer at every campus Blue Light — is another jacket bar that encourages risky behaviour.

Blue Lights, which are placed throughout campus, indicate places where students can press a button to receive immediate assistance from Campus Security. In January 2013, Campus Security reported a spike in false alarms, which the University attributed to students pressing the buttons for the Blue Light challenge.

“If you would be embarrassed to explain [a jacket bar] to a future employer, it would probably be inappropriate,” Woodhouse said.

The faculty may take their stance on jacket bars further by introducing a dress policy for engineering students at interuniversity competitions or conferences, according to Woodhouse.

She said this policy may ban some bars from being worn at conferences and competitions.

However, the policy is currently under discussion, she said, and any specific details would be decided after consultation with students.

Inappropriate jacket bars don’t provide a positive image for

A sign by the pier near the Queen’s campus.

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The Beers on the Pier jacket bar.

students or the university, Woodhouse said.

“We are exploring ways to ensure how the positive image can be portrayed,” she said. “[The issue] is the tradition of inappropriate bars that do not reflect the values of the faculty or the majority of students in this faculty.”

She said there’s no particular reason why the Faculty decided this year to introduce these measures.

“We said ‘how can we continue to improve communication and where’s an area of really big concern?’” she said. “It’s my job as a dean to keep students safe.”

Traditions associated with engineering students can change over time, she added.

“I would challenge the presumption that trying to manage or get people to stop wearing inappropriate bars is challenging the tradition of this faculty,” she said.

“The grease pole is not the same thing it was in 1959. It’s changed.

We have to make sure that the bar tradition continues the tradition of pride and respect and not a tradition of negative images and unsafe behaviour.”

Carolyn Fisher, the president of ENGSOC, said the student society doesn’t support the pursuit of any jacket bars.

“The Engineering Society does not actively condone or support any jacket bars and we believe that all students should be able to make choices about what is appropriate behaviour,” she told the Journal via email.

Fisher, Sci ’16, said ENGSOC was consulted by the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science for a student perspective on Beers on the Pier, but they weren’t made aware of details coming from the Faculty’s meetings with the KPF. They also haven’t been involved

in active discussions about the bars, although they were “made aware of bars that the Faculty feels were a concern” in the last year, Fisher said.

Fisher didn’t specify why the Society doesn’t condone jacket bars or which bars were discussed at their meetings with the Faculty, and told the Journal that ENGSOC was unavailable to respond to follow-up questions by deadline.

Const. Steve Koopman, KPF media relations officer, said the police had a larger presence at the pier during frosh week in September, and will continue to station officers there.

He said the pier has been “an issue” this year, although that hasn’t been related specifically to Beers on the Pier or engineering students, he added, but Queen’s as a whole.

“There’s nothing wrong with hanging out on the pier as long as no alcohol is involved, and we just don’t want to see any dangerous activities occur from that,” Koopman said.

The Queen’s bookstore doesn’t sell jacket bars that represent high alcohol consumption, but students often order unsanctioned bars from a UPS Store on Princess St. QTradition, which is located at the UPS Store, offers customized orders of bars and popular individual bars, according to the company’s website.

The website states that its founders are students that “have encountered the obstacles currently present in acquiring bars and patches.” The slogan “Preserving Tradition” is featured prominently on the website’s home page.

A second-year engineering student, who requested that his name be omitted from this story, said it’s common knowledge among engineering students that police are patroling the pier area.

After being interviewed, the

student requested anonymity due to concerns that his comments would put his job in a campus organization at risk.

Many of his friends attempted Beers on the Pier in their first year at Queen’s, he said, adding that he would prefer if a lifeguard or another safety professional was stationed at the pier rather than police officers.

“You know kids are going to do it, but it would be great to have someone there who is trained to help them if they get hurt,” the student said.

Matthew Tereposky, Sci ’18, said his FRECs warned first-year students that police would be at the pier on Thursdays and told him that ENGSOC had forbidden them from visibly displaying Beers on the Pier bars during Orientation Week.

He didn’t believe the FRECs were being serious, he said, until students headed to the pier on the Thursday of frosh week.

“Everyone headed down and sure enough, there was a police officer there and everyone was really surprised,” Tereposky said.

Students should be more educated about the risks of jacket bar challenges and alcohol, Tereposky said, such as through workshops or seminars.

Now that the police monitor the pier, students still try the Beers on the Pier challenge, he said, but they go alone at 2 a.m. on different days instead of going with a group on Thursdays.

Tereposky said he’d prefer that Queen’s station a lifeguard at the pier, adding that police surveillance isn’t working.

“I think that the Beers on the Pier is the tip of the iceberg,” he said. “It’s the beginning. They will try to intervene a lot more on our traditions.”

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PHILANTHROPY

Queen’s receives $5 million

Joyce Foundation’s donation will go to bursaries for local students

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Hannah Smith spoke at Stauffer Library to thank the Joyce Foundation for the $5 million gift.

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Principal Daniel Woolf announced a $5 million donation for student bursaries that Queen’s received from the Joyce Foundation at Stauffer Library on Tuesday.

Thirty-two students from Kingston and the surrounding area that demonstrate financial need will be able to benefit from the gift.

Up to $5,000 will be awarded to these students for each of their four years of undergraduate study.

Ron Joyce, co-founder of the Tim Horton’s doughnut chain and founder of the Joyce Foundation, received an honourary degree from Queen’s in 1999 for his commitment to Canadian philanthropy and entrepreneurship.

Representatives of the Joyce Foundation and Ron Joyce’s sons, Grant and Steve Joyce, were welcomed into the library foyer by Principal Woolf, students with “Thank You” signs and the Queen’s Bands playing traditional marching tunes.

Woolf thanked the Joyce Foundation for the donation,

noting that only approximately four per cent of Queen’s students actually come from the Kingston area.

Woolf said Queen’s has a reputation of being “inaccessible and expensive”, especially for many potential students from working class families in the Kingston area.

“Without this support, attending Queen’s would probably be unimaginable for some of these students,” Woolf said.

Queen’s was one of the first universities to recognize Ron Joyce’s outstanding work, Grant Joyce said, which his father greatly appreciated, especially since he came from a working class family.

“To get recognition from someone that is outside of [the] direct sphere of influence is a terrific thing and in appreciation of that consideration I’m here today to announce the gift of $5 million,” Joyce said in his address to the crowd.

Queen’s currently provides approximately $10 million in need-based financial aid for approximately 2,800 undergraduate students.

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“Access to post-secondary education is crucial to ensure that young Canadians continue to excel and can compete in a global market place,” Joyce said.

“Hopefully this gift, combined with the many other generous gifts that have been given to Queen’s over the years, can continue to ensure that financial hardship is no longer a barrier to post-secondary education here at Queen’s.”

Hannah Smith, Sci ’16, also spoke at the event, expressing her thanks to the Joyce Foundation, having experienced the benefits of Queen’s bursaries herself.

“The largest gift that financial aid and bursaries from Queen’s has given me is that of peace of mind,” Smith said in her address, adding that bursaries have allowed her to focus on her academics and extracurriculars instead of worrying about paying bills.

The event ended with a crowd-wide Oil Thigh initiated

by Bands.

The gift of bursaries “mean more than you can possibly imagine,” Smith said.

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Grad students raise concerns

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HCDS comes under student scrutiny at open review meetings B y N atasa B ansagi Assistant News Editor

was still in Gordon Hall. to service the approximately 4,500 Debbie Bruckner, SU Wellness graduate students at Queen’s.

Centre director at the University The reviewers also met with An SGPS student advisor proposed of Calgary, and David McMurray, the AMS, SGPS, the Rector, changes to the location of their vice-president of Student Affairs students, faculty and staff, as graduate counsellor among at Wilfrid Laurier University, well as “members of existing administrative offices at an open conducted the two-day review that health and wellness committees review of Health, Counselling and included this open meeting. … and community health and Disability Services (HCDS) held A second meeting to gather wellness experts”. last Wednesday. feedback from the Queen’s The University expects to receive At the open meeting, part of community was held last Tuesday the reviewers’ recommendations a larger review of HCDS, Becky and covered links between the in December.

Pero suggested that the office of adaptive technology centre, Vice-Provost and Dean of the School of Graduate Studies’ disability services office and athletic Student Affairs Ann Tierney, graduate counsellor be moved therapy in the ARC as well as whose office initiated the review, from Gordon Hall, where it’s connections between HCDS and told the Journal via email that the currently located. local hospitals. review’s purpose was to “facilitate Pero said the location wasn’t An anonymous online consultation with the campus and ideal, since there are many questionnaire remained open until broader communities”. administrative offices for deans Sunday, Nov. 2.

“This review follows a and assistant deans on the same Another issue raised at the recommendation of the Principal’s floor, and students going to see Wednesday meeting was a new Commission on Mental Health,” the counsellor might have to pass building for HCDS and what that she said, “but periodic reviews the same people they’re raising building would ideally look like. of units on campus are standard complaints against.

One suggestion from an attendee good practice.”

She added that the situation was was that there be more general In 2012, the Commission stated better when the counsellor’s office practitioners. Others included a that the review would facilitate “an was on a different floor than that of more centralized location and the in-depth consideration of [HCDS’s] See Next on page 5 the administrators’, even though it incorporation of a family counsellor

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One assault saw a conviction was issued barring access to a specific residence building and to Campus Security. Two were prohibiting the accused from reported in 2010, two in 2012 and consuming any alcohol pending one in 2013. the outcome of an investigation.

Of these, all but one took place In that incident, the individual in residence or on-campus. Only who’d been sexually assaulted three incidents were reported hadn’t filed a report with the police. to the police. One, reported in However, based on information 2010, resulted in a conviction. given by the individual and The second, reported in 2012, is witnesses who spoke with Campus awaiting trial. The third, which Security, the University identified occurred in 2013, didn’t say the respondent and Residence Life whether there were charges laid. initiated an investigation.

Conversely, during the full The investigation ended in a year of 2009, 25 sexual assaults sanction involving mandatory sex were reported in Kingston Police education, a bar on all interaction Force (KPF) zones 1 and 4, which with the complainant and anyone encompass the University District. else involved in the hearing and In 2010, there were 30 reports of a complete bar from entering a assault. In 2011, there were 28; in particular residence building.

2012, there were 37; and in 2013, Arig al Shaibah, assistant dean there were 42. of Student Affairs, said there Sexual assaults in zones 1 and are a number of protocols and 4 are 33.9 per cent of all “sex procedures that Residence Life occurrences” in Kingston minus implements when a student reports seniors or children, according a sexual assault. to KPF. Most of the time, al Shaibah Three of the incidents reported said, the assault is reported directly to Campus Security saw Notices of to a don. Dons receive “extensive Prohibition issued by the University training” around being nonor by Campus Security, barring judgmental and appropriate ways respondents from varying places. In to listen, she added. one incident in 2012, a prohibition “We also inform dons that these are the issues that have to be actually escalated to Residence Life as part of our protocol,” she said.

Residence Life will talk to students about resources like the Sexual Assault/Domestic Violence Program at Kingston General Hospital and counselling services.

“We don’t pressure students whatsoever — this is all about their just becoming aware of what’s available, and the fact that if they’ve experienced sexual assault, assault is a crime and they have the right to report to the police if they wish,” al Shaibah said.

If a student chooses to make Continued from page 4 a report to Campus Security and follow up with the police, present state and future prospects”, Residence Life will step back in its strategic plan, successes and order not to interfere with the challenges of the organization, investigation, she said. its performance to expectations “If the individual is choosing to and human, financial and press charges, we have to respect physical resources. the criminal process and wait out While operations, structures, that process. Any kind of steps resources, services and collaborations were among the areas put forth in the review for possible discussion, Tierney said the Office of the Vice-Provost and Dean of Student Affairs “look forward to receiving recommendations on any area that the reviewers feel are appropriate.”

Tierney said she expects the reviewers will use all the information they’ve obtained when creating recommendations. After receiving these recommendations, she intends to discuss an implementation plan with HCDS and “committees with broad representation”, including the Provost’s Advisory Committee on Mental Health as well as the Health and Wellness Steering Committee.

The implementation plan will include “short-term and long-term priorities for action,” she added.

Despite sparse attendance at the two open meetings, Tierney said, “dozens of people” have provided online feedback and taken part in the smaller meetings.

“The more opinions and ideas the reviewers receive, the better!” she said.

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that we take could compromise the investigation and the outcome, so we’re very mindful of that,” she said.

However, if the student chooses not to go to the police, or if they do but feel there’s an immediate safety issue, Residence Life can impose temporary no-contact orders on both parties in order to limit stress and anxiety. al Shaibah said Residence Life doesn’t “adjudicate” whether someone is responsible for an assault.

“What we do do is, we can at times look at other complicating behaviors surrounding that, so in some instances, it may be that an individual, if we do some information collection or investigation, we find that there was some inappropriate behavior,” she said.

“We may not call it sexual assault, but there’s some inappropriate behavior. We may then think that that is appropriate to go through our discipline system, and appropriate sanctioning and opportunities for appeals and all of that will kick in as well.”

Residence Life can pursue hearings over “inappropriate behavior”, a Level Three offence according to Residence rules. These go to the administration, typically the director of Residence Life.

Inappropriate behavior is defined as “inappropriate or disruptive conduct, whether in person or via other media … that may have a negative impact on an individual or community” and can include harassment.

“Violence” is also considered a Level Three offence, defined as “any action that results in an individual being compromised” and including physical assaults and threats of violence.

“We don’t have the same burdens as a court of law because we’re not finding responsibility for sexual assault, we’re finding responsibility for some inappropriate behavior,” al Shaibah said.

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AMS fall referendum statements The Journal provides this free space for parties on the ballot.

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ACCESSIBILITY QUEEN’S Accessibility Queen’s (AQ) has worked for well over two decades to improve accessibility on campus for students with disabilities. There are three components to the mandate for the AMS Accessibility Fund: i) To make recommendations regarding the allocation of funding derived from the AMS Accessibility Fund student activity fee to campus projects and initiatives designed to enhance accessibility and to assist those students with special needs. ii) To act as a forum for the discussion of disability issues and to raise awareness and understanding of issues and difficulties faced by students with special needs. iii) To act as an advocate for students on relevant University bodies Funded entirely by a mandatory $3.00 student activity fee paid by both AMS and SGPS members, AQ implements new and continuing initiatives designed to improve physical, academic and social accessibility for Queen’s students across campus.

Examples of past capital projects initiated by AQ include the renovation of two ground floor washrooms in Dupuis Hall making them barrier free and wheelchair accessible; providing a lift to the stage in Grant Hall; the installation of four power door openers around campus; providing an accessible entrance to the AMS Food Centre; installing a wheelchair lift in Mac-Corry; making the Grey House accessible; fixing a ramp outside the JDUC; and funding an accessible computer station in the JDUC near the elevator. AQ has also addressed academic accessibility by purchasing equipment for the Adaptive Technology Lab in Stauffer Library; providing the exam centre in Mac-Corry with ergonomic work stations; and by advocating for special exam arrangements for students with disabilities.

Previous years have also seen AQ purchase resource guides to help students with disabilities access resources in the Kingston community and subsidize the cost of sign language course to make them more affordable for the average student. In 2005-2006, AQ established a $100,000 endowment fund to provide students with disabilities bursary money to cover expenses endured because of their disability (i.e. adaptive technologies, transportation subsidies etc).

AQ continues to serve as the main peer support network for students with disabilities, and provides a voice for ALL students concerned with accessibility issues. The continuation of this fee remains central to the functionality of AQ’s diverse projects and programs, and works to ensure that all students are able to access the resources this University has to offer.

BAN RIGH CENTRE MATURE STUDENT BURSARY FUND Chances are a student in your class has kids, or has come to Queen’s from low-paid work or social assistance to improve her life prospects through education – or she may be a new Canadian who must re-qualify to work in Canada.

These are some of the mature women students who need Ban Righ Centre bursaries.

Chances are her clothes aren’t the trendiest she stretches her inadequate budget to manage the costs of childcare, diapers, and other family necessities.

Chances are in addition to being your classmate and looking after family, she has a parttime job - yet, her debt is likely to be twice that of most undergraduates.

Chances are you’ve admired her courage, sympathized with her situation, and wondered “Can I do anything to help? YES. Please Vote “YES” to the continuation of a $1.00 Student Interest Fee for Ban Righ Centre Mature Student Bursaries. Your “YES”, your one dollar, will provide significant bursary support for many student families.

The Centre helps mature women students tackle the challenges encountered as they make

the move back to University; some women delayed university to raise children; some left dead-end jobs; some were laid off; and some want to put social assistance behind them. ALL came to Queen’s because, like you, they know that education leads to a better life. Your “YES” will improve their chances of overcoming the barriers they face when returning to education after an absence.

The Ban Righ Centre provides an encouraging environment and an opportunity to meet other students. Though it supports mature women students, it is open to and welcomes all students.

Many student groups use the Centre, including the Healthy Cooking Club, Coming Out and Living After, and the Mental Health Peer Support Group to name a few.

BUS-IT The Bus-It program provides full-time students with unlimited access to Kingston Transit bus services for a full twelve months, from September to the following summer. 100% of the student fee goes to Kingston Transit for the Bus-It contracted signed between the City of Kingston and the AMS. This program with Kingston Transit provides additional bus service between Queen’s University, VIA Rail Train Station and Coach Canada Bus Depot. It also includes a late evening service between Queen’s West Campus and Queen’s Main Campus until 2 am on weekdays and Saturdays, and until 11:30pm on Sundays.

Starting September 2015, the Bus-It program will be introducing the Isabel/Tett Centre Bus. This bus will operate from 8:30am to 5:30pm, Monday to Friday from September to April.

(Excluding Reading Week and the Holiday Break.)

The Bus-It program will also introduce an additional 50 hours per contract year of bus service outside the hours of the Isabel/Tett Centre bus. These 50 hours can be used at the AMS’ discretion for events such as safe transportation to a late night event at the Isabel Bader Centre.

The Bus-It program provides a great deal for Queen’s students. The monthly pass for an adult Kingston patron is currently $72, and therefore $864 a year. This program will help you save $797.75 on your annual Bus pass of $66.25.

Compared to other Universities, we are only the lowest. McMaster’s 8 month student pass is $121.80, Waterloo’s 8 month student pass is $144.46, Windsor’s student pass is $60/ month, Brock University’s 8 month student pass is $186.14 and University of Guelph’s 4 month student pass is $97.17.

THE CAMPUS OBSERVATION ROOM (C.O.R.) You know Queen’s needs COR when over 2,000 students have used our service since we opened our doors in 1990!

The Campus Observation Room, fondly referred to as the COR, is an integral part of the Queen’s University initiative to reduce the negative outcomes associated with excessive alcohol use. A team of 40 trained student volunteers work with professional detox staff from Hotel Dieu Hospital in COR - a non-medical alcohol detox facility located in the basement of Victoria Hall Residence.

COR has expanded its operations to include every Friday and Saturday night throughout the fall term, as well as a few weekends during the winter semester. We are open from late evening until 7am the following morning. Anyone can bring in an intoxicated individual, or can call for assistance, as COR is open to all Queen’s students, alumni and guests.

Intoxicated students are assessed, given a bed, and monitored by professional Hotel Dieu Hospital Detox staff and trained student volunteers. COR is completely confidential, and voluntary, and all staff and volunteers take a non-judgmental approach, offering assistance and support without preaching about not drinking.

Students who require more specialized care are sent to the KGH Emergency Department.

COR operating expenses are funded through a student interest fee with additional support from Queen’s Residences and Health, Counselling and

Disability Services.

Student fees are used directly for the operation of COR: Detox staff salaries, volunteer training, and promoting COR to students. This modest increase in the COR fee, the first since 2005, will support the ongoing increases in our operating costs (e.g. staff salaries) over the past nine years.

This is where you come in! Vote yes to a safe, warm place for you or your friends to spend the night when you need us!

CENTRE FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING Up for review is the AMS fee going towards the Queen’s Centre for Teaching and Learning (CTL). In 1988 an AMS report from The AMS Taskforce on Teaching was influential in the establishment of the ‘Instructional Development Center’, now known as the Centre for Teaching and Learning. This legacy of student support for good teaching lives on in the important work the Centre does. From hosting workshops on teaching, assisting in program and course design to designing and conducting educational research, the Centre is dedicated to collaborating with all instructors who are members of the Queen’s community – teaching assistants, teaching fellows, postdocs and faculty - to provide students with exceptional learning experiences.

In addition to supporting the work of the CTL, and in keeping with the AMS’ ‘double bottom line’ philosophy, the AMS fee ensures that the Centre benefits from students’ perspectives on teaching and learning. The generous support of the assembly enables the Centre to hire four student Educational Developer Associates (EDA) each year. EDAs work alongside Educational Developers on a variety of initiatives, including individual consultations, TA training sessions, and Teaching Development Day. Through these mentoring relationships EDAs gain valuable skills and knowledge while having direct impact on the student learning experience at Queen’s. Without this AMS funding, these mutually beneficial opportunities would no longer be possible.

DAWN HOUSE WOMEN’S SHELTER Dawn House Women’s Shelter is a community based charitable organization that has provided ten beds for homeless women in the Kingston Community since December 1986. Located close to Queen’s Campus, it provides temporary shelter for women ages 16 and older. On average, 30% of the women served fall between the ages of 16 and 24. It is the only shelter in KFL&A Counties that provides services specific to homeless women.

Each woman who stays at the Shelter has a unique set of circumstances that brings her to Dawn House. The women are mothers, daughters, sisters, and grandmothers. They are students, employees, and the unemployed who for different reasons have found themselves homeless. Some suffer from poor mental health while others struggle with substance abuse. Some have both. Others are victims of domestic abuse.

Some have lost jobs and been unable to find another. A number of residents are supported by a Dawn House Women’s Shelter disability pension. Dawn House is committed to providing a safe, comfortable and supportive environment for these women.

The Shelter provides food and other basic necessities to both residents and to women in the community who may need assistance. Over the years, the funds received from student fees have helped the Shelter to continue to operate and serve homeless women. Although Dawn House Women’s Shelter receives funding from all levels of government, the funding falls short of the amount needed to provide quality service to residents and those calling on the crisis line.

Since 1998, Dawn House has received much needed financial support through Queen’s student activity fees. We depend greatly on the generosity of Queen’s students and other groups in the community to balance our budget and help pay for costs associated with providing the basic necessities to the women who reside in the Shelter.

AMS FOOD BANK The AMS Food Bank provides immediate food assistance to all students and members of the Queen’s community. In addition to being a confidential and non-judgmental service, Food Bank volunteers also explore the issues of food security and student poverty on campus and in the Kingston community. The Food Bank provides a reliable and confidential service to ensure that Queen’s students can be healthy and productive as they pursue academic achievement.

The operations of the Food Bank are made possible through a student fee. The fee contributes to covering all costs including space and administration, in addition to food costs, advertising, and volunteer appreciation. Students can come in on days the Food Bank is open to obtain access to its supply of non-perishable and perishable grocery items.

We are a non-profit organization which aims to provide our clients with food services in the most comfortable environment possible. We operate mainly on donations as well as an optoutable student fee from both the AMS and the Society for Graduate and Professional Students (SGPS). Our funds are put towards the upkeep of the Food Bank itself in the purchasing of fruits, vegetables, milk and other fresh grocery items on a weekly basis.

SAE FORMULA RACE TEAM The Queen’s University Formula SAE Design and Race Team (Queen’s Formula SAE, the Formula SAE Team) is an entirely student-run project that designs, builds, and races a small Formula-style racecar at four international competitions per year. Our team has students from all faculties in order to support the diverse needs of this extensive project. Founded in 1991, we have developed into a fair-sized organization with a significant budget. As an organization, we constantly strive to increase the international exposure of Queen’s University as a reputable institution of Canada with unrivaled spirit and sense of community.

Formula SAE and Formula Student, combined, are the largest and most prestigious student engineering design competitions in the world. SAE stands for the Society of Automotive Engineers, a prominent organization with a global body of professionals aiming to better society through aerospace and automotive engineering. The competition runs eight events in North America, Europe, and Australia and over 500 institutions enter vehicles each year. Our team is grateful for the opportunity to represent Queen’s exceptional performance on the international stage.

We strive to design a vehicle that continuously surpasses the limits already exceeded in the previous year, utilizing advanced technologies such as automatic paddle shifting and carbon fiber aerodynamics packages. Our team supports the Queen’s sense of community by allowing new members to learn design, technical, and business skills from experienced senior students.

Since 2000, we have used the proceeds of the AMS opt-out fees to develop the best possible vehicle each year, purchase safety equipment, make investments for long-term success, and attend competitions to showcase who Queen’s is, in an exceptional environment.

We greatly appreciate your continued support as the Queen’s community, and ask you to vote YES for our opt-out fee increase to $0.69, knowing that you are a part of our passion.

FOUR DIRECTIONS ABORIGINAL STUDENT CENTRE The Four Directions Aboriginal Student Centre is committed to enhancing the development and wellbeing of the Queen’s University Community. In keeping with the teachings of the Four Directions, the Centre strives to support Aboriginal students in balancing their academic, spiritual, physical and emotional development.

We also support and encourage all students to develop an awareness and appreciation of the history and current experiences of Aboriginal peoples in Canada.

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Our annual events include a one and a half day “helping hand” in support of worthy causes. The Indigenous Research Symposium in November student fee helps cover QHHA operational costs. which is open to the whole Queen’s community Since 2002, we have established two annual as well as to the wider Kingston community and events: the Polar Bear Dip and Cuts for Cancer. beyond. It is an opportunity for both undergrad The Polar Bear Dip is held in mid-November and graduate students, as well as staff and faculty on the shore of Lake Ontario near Breakwater to speak to topics in Indigenous Research. Our Park. This event is a fun way to raise money day-long Celebration of Indigenous Arts, Culture and awareness for the Ryandale Shelter for the and Dance in March is also open to the Queen’s Homeless. Student fees allow us to advertise and and Kingston communities and is an opportunity provide refreshments for participants who brave to engage with and learn about Indigenous the cold waters. cultures in this part of Canada. It is intended as an Cuts for Cancer is a two-day event in March educational event but is also lots of fun. that brings the Queen’s University and Kingston The student fee we receive contributes to our communities together and raises awareness for feasts and cultural programming offered at the the Canadian Cancer Society. The Canadian Centre. All of our programming is open to the Cancer Society is the largest charitable funder Queen’s community. Our cultural programming of cancer research in Canada. Your personal includes workshops such as moccasin making, donations will help fund cancer research and leather mitten making, drum-making, beaded improve the lives of Canadians living with cancer earrings, pottery, and basket-making. We organize by providing information and support services. cultural trips to conferences and art galleries. In The student fees are used to advertise, set-up and addition, we also hold weekly hand drumming run the Cuts for Cancer hair donation services classes, traditional teachings, Full Moon on campus. You can donate 10 inches, shave Ceremonies, twice monthly “Three Sisters’ Feasts” your head or get a trim by local stylists. The hair and our monthly “Frybread Fryday” event. collected on campus is ultimately used to make wigs for cancer patients in need. Overall, Cuts FRIDAY FRIENDS for Cancer has raised over $100,000 for the Canadian Cancer Society, and this year, we hope Friday Friends is an informal group mentorship to reach and exceed our goal of $10,000. program that seeks to facilitate the social and In addition to our annual events, QHHA personal development of young adults with strives to host innovative events in support of intellectual disabilities outside the usual settings the Canadian Mental Health Association, Breast of classroom and home through interaction with Cancer Action Kingston, Sexual Health Resource students from the Queen’s community. Volunteers Centre, Cystic Fibrosis and other charities that are and participants meet on Fridays from 7-9pm for important to committee members. a variety of social activities including movie nights, baking, bowling, crafts, board games and sports.

INQUIRE PUBLICATION Queen’s students volunteer in these activities and make many bonds and friendships over the Inquire Publication is a social activist year. Our current student fee helps provide these interuniversity publication featuring a wide activities free of charge as well as expose the range of topical local, national, and global issues. participants and volunteers to new and engaging Affiliated with the University of Toronto and activities. If the fee is approved these activities will McMaster, Inquire was formally launched at continue and the club will be able to accept more Queen’s University on September 1, 2008. participants from the community.

The purpose of Inquire is fourfold: - to foster discussion and debate about HELEN TUFTS CHILD STUDENT issues of importance; OUTREACH PROGRAM - to combat ignorance; - to reduce apathy; For 45 years, Queen’s students have been - to mitigate dogmatism. offering academic help and friendship to about The concept behind Inquire is unlike any other 50 children from disadvantaged Kingston families known publication. In addition to providing a through the Helen Tufts Child Outreach Program. platform for students to write about issues they This program matches Queen’s students one- are concerned or passionate about, it aims to on-one with a child between six and twelve motivate the Queen’s, McMaster, and University for an evening of fun and learning Mondays or of Toronto communities to speak out and engage Thursdays throughout the academic year. The in an open dialogue on issues of real importance, children, most of whom have difficulties in school, both in the university community and around often related to learning disabilities or problematic the world. home circumstances, benefit greatly from the The student bodies of the universities are individual attention and encouragement, and encouraged to respond to the articles featured in often form long-term bonds with their buddies. the publication by commenting on Facebook or The program is co-ordinated and organized in the comments section of the website. These as a community outreach project by volunteers responses present divergent perspectives thereby from two downtown churches – First Baptist giving readers a deeper understanding of the and Sydenham Street United. These include the complexities of the issues at hand. program co-ordinator, a family liaison officer who The money we receive mainly go towards visits all families and has appropriate permission printing physical copies of the publication. forms signed, drivers who transport the children Sometimes, the student fee of $0.30 per student to and from the churches, telephoners who is not enough so we try and hold fundraisers to contact the families every week, and individuals raise money for future issues and events. who contribute goodies for Christmas parties.

Each year, roughly 75 percent of the money The evening schedule includes time for goes towards production costs, which includes children and their buddies to read and talk printing, and shipping fees for two issues of our together, as well as an activity, outing or game that newspaper. The circulation is around 1000. Due is planned and organized by the group supervisors to the pre-established partnership we have with – Queen’s students who have been buddies with McMasters and University of Toronto, we must the program for a year or more. Some recent also send copies of our newspaper to them after examples are Safari Night, an excursion to the they are printed. The rest of the money goes Firehall, and having a visitor from the Humane towards some of our major events such as our Society. Also popular are parties for Halloween, winter and spring launch parties to promote the Christmas, Valentine’s Day, and “graduation.” launch of a new issue of our publication which The student fee contribution which the group is usually held at Ale House. A small portion has been receiving has largely paid for the rental (around 10 percent) also goes towards marketing of a school bus and driver to transport the needs such as posters and banners to promote children to and from the downtown church halls ticket sales. For major events, any profit we make where the program runs, as most of the families goes towards a local charity; we donated over live in Kingston’s north end. $300 to Martha’s Table last year.

HELPING HANDS Queen’s Helping Hands Association is a student-directed club, that volunteers and promotes awareness for a variety of diverse humanitarian charities through the club’s activities, fundraisers and events. In co-operation with other community outreach groups, we aim to lend a

PROJECT RED Project Red is a fully student run organization at Queen’s University that promotes healthy living while raising funds for the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada. Considering the appalling statistics in Canada surrounding heart disease and stroke, we feel compelled to raise funds and

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awareness for the cause. We aim to positively influence university students to better their health now and in the future. Thanks to the contributions from student fees, Project Red was able to use the money for the following expenses: For advertising and promotional purposes, maintaining our website costs $100 and printing out posters for events are another $100. Regarding expenses for the Annual Charity Fashion Show, the rental fee for the venue which is Grant Hall is $744, bar services rented from Queen’s cost $1600, printing tickets and programs are around $250, stage and set up including the lights, sound system, and headsets is $5500. Money spent on decorations for the chairs, mini decoration pieces and materials such as fabric, spray paint, and big bristol boards are $600. Every year, Project red collaborates with Lime Stone Records to set up the venue, due to this, we provide them a parking pass for set up and take down which is $100.

Materials for model hair and makeup are $100.

Furthermore, there are costs associated with running our fundraising events such as buying supplies for our annual 5K run and Cardiograms, which is about $100. We also provide our 5 student designers with $20 to buy fabric for their clothing lines, therefore, they need at least $100.

Lastly, we provide our Executive Committee with tank tops. The approximate cost for tank tops for the entire team is $1000. Each year we strive to raise more money than the last, and thanks to the student fees we are able minimize the costs of running our organization and dedicate the majority of profits from Project Red’s initiatives to the Heart and Stroke Foundation.

QUEEN’S MEDICAL REVIEW The Queen’s Medical Review (QMR) is a student-run Queen’s University community newsletter. We publish news from within the School of Medicine as well as the Aesculapian Society, research projects, medical electives, debates on relevant healthcare issues, discussions on medicine and culture, and art submissions.

The QMR also runs open workshops to foster participant skills in writing, editing, and publishing. The workshops running each semester 2014-2015 year are briefly described below: 1) Brainstorming Workshop: a faculty expert presents background and introduction of the upcoming theme 2) Writing Workshop: a writing consult presents general rules and tips for writing magazine articles.

3) Creative Workshop: participants learn the basics of magazine layout and art/photography 4) Editing Workshop: a writing consult presents basic principles of editing magazine articles The student fee is used towards launch events and the significant cost of printing the magazine at Queen’s printing services. Copies of the magazine are circulated among Queen’s medicine students and faculty, as well as placed in common spaces around Queen’s campus including but not limited to Undergraduate Medical Education Office, Queen’s Office of Global Health, John Deutsch University Centre, Queen’s Athletic Centre, Kingston General Hospital and Hotel Dieu Hospital. We also have all issues available on our website, qmr.qmed.ca – this fee helps pay the small associated monthly cost. In addition, the student fees covers the costs of promotional events, including hosting speakers relevant to the latest issue’s theme.

QUEEN’S SOLAR DESIGN TEAM The Queen’s Solar Design Team (QSDT) is a multidisciplinary team of primarily engineering and business students that work to design and build affordable, net-positive energy homes.

Our mandate is to redesign the unsustainable technologies of yesterday, educate the public on how we can change our way of living, and to supply the world with green leaders of tomorrow. After successfully competing in the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2013, we are now focusing our attentions closer to home by working to make the Queen’s Solar Educational Centre (QSEC) fully autonomous. Located on West Campus, the QSEC provides students with the opportunity for real world learning, as they design, build and monitor the home’s systems. It also provides a platform for the team to educate the public about how they too can make their

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homes more energy-efficient and eco-friendly.

In past years, funds have helped with the purchase of the QSEC, as well as materials used to modify and enhance it (i.e. lumber, insulation, electrical wiring, mechanical parts, etc.). Funds from this year and future years will continue to go towards the purchasing of materials used to design, build, implement and monitor systems installed in the QSEC.

REELOUT Fees generated through the generosity of Queen’s University undergraduate students to the Reelout Arts Project benefits not only the arts but also ensures a more respectful community.

These fees are used to enable Reelout to carry out one of Canada’s largest film festivals of its kind- the Reelout Queer Film + Video Festival.

This festival held for 10-days in January/February each year showcases close to 100 films from Canada and around the world, all of which focus on issues surrounding gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, two-spirit, queer persons. These screenings are held on campus and at various other venues in the downtown core and include guest lectures, workshops and other audience engagements with visiting filmmakers.

The festival is programmed by, and carried out by over forty volunteers of whom the majority are Queen’s University students. We also hire 3 part-time Queen’s University students through the Queen’s University Fall/Winter work-study program each year to assist in the operations of the festival. Our board of directors includes Queen’s University faculty, staff, and graduate students. This community-building initiative all started as working group of Kingston OPIRG and was run out of The Grey House (51 Bader Lane) until 2004 when Reelout incorporated at a not-for-profit and moved to our permanent office which is now a community lending library at Sydenham Street United Church. Our library houses over 500 movies and books available for loan to the community. Reelout also conducts community outreach screenings throughout the year including alt-frosh week and on Trans Day of Remembrance as well as our Reelout in Schools program wherein we engage with local-area high school students on bullying and homo/transphobia issues. AMS fees are integral to ensuring that these services are offered to the community by helping us with artist fees, library rent, resource materials and outreach expenses.

SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTRE KINGSTON The Sexual Assault Centre Kingston is a non-profit, charitable organization that has been providing counselling, support and advocacy services to survivors of sexual assault, childhood sexual abuse and other forms of sexual violence. This support is offered through the 24 hour crisis and support line, first response program, individual and group counselling, and accompaniments to hospitals, police and court.

As well as providing direct support, the centre also strives to end sexual violence through advocacy and community education.

We have operated in the Kingston community for over thirty five years. Since 1990, the students of Queens University have supported the Sexual Assault Centre of Kingston through a $1 student fee. This support makes it possible for us to manage the ongoing demand for services without having a waitlist.

All proceeds from Queens go directly into our counselling program. It is used to cover a portion of a Counsellor salary as well as costs associated with running psycho-educational/therapy groups.

There are no rent, occupancy or administrative costs allotted to Queens funding; all of the proceeds are used for direct service delivery.

While this issue affects us all, it is particularly relevant for students. In this past year alone, over one third of our clients that we supported were aged 24 years and under. All of our services are free and confidential.

QUEEN’S SEXUAL HEALTH RESOURCE CENTRE Vote yes… yes… YES! (to the continuation of the SHRC’s fee, that is) The Sexual Health Resource Centre (SHRC) is a confidential, non-judgmental, feminist, pro choice, queer-

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Additionally, we provide accompaniment services to the Women’s Clinic for clients accessing abortion services and the Sexual Assault/Domestic Violence Unit for clients who have been sexually assaulted. We are an active contributor to the community and truly a one-stop shop for all your sex and sexual health needs!

The SHRC is a completely volunteer-run and not-for-profit organization, and has been serving Queen’s and the surrounding community for forty years. We have had a mandatory fee since 2004 which has helped us to greatly improve the quality and accessibility of our services. The mandatory fee allows us to train volunteers, maintain condom dispensers, provide teach-ins for thousands of participants, and expand our product selection and service offerings. We are seeking continued financial support from the Queen’s community this year, and urge you to vote YES in favour of maintaining our $1.00 fee.

Sexy Gaels and Kingstonians alike are grateful for your support!

QUEEN’S STUDENT HEALTH EVENING CLINIC The subsidy provided by the AMS to Queen’s Student Health (QSH), is required primarily to provide staffing for operating evening medical clinics twice weekly. There are other miscellaneous costs for materials and supplies but the costs of these, while increasing, are relatively incidental compared to rising staffing costs. Since the initiation of this subsidy and our evening clinics in 2010, collective agreements have dictated wage and benefit increases for QSH staff which are not accounted for at the current level of subsidy. Evening clinics provide those students with very full daytime class schedules, the opportunity to make evening appointments

to receive care, which should be accessible to all students, regardless of their program or class schedule. The evening clinics are operated during the fall/winter terms and require an administrative staff member and a clinic nurse working along with physicians, in order to operate efficiently.

UNICEF UNICEF Queen’s is an on-campus student initiative supporting the work of UNICEF Canada, through both fundraising activities and awarenessraising events here at Queen’s University. Over the past 6 years, UNICEF Queen’s has held many different campaigns to raise awareness and spread UNICEF’s mission, to inspire the student population and to take effort to begin and make a difference through knowledge and involvement. UNICEF Queen’s success is determined by the effort our chapter makes as a team and by the amount of money we raise from the event we hold over the course of the year. Thus, UNICEF Queen’s is seeking a student fee in order to provide a means of covering the expenses involved in its fundraising events. These fundraising events include: A UNICEF social, a Stages event, a Beaver Tails fundraiser, bi-weekly bake sales, a yoga fundraiser, general meetings, and a UNICEF speaker’s conference. In 20132014, the student activity fee of $0.75 resulted in approximately $7,00 in income. The student fee would also be used for such factors as promotions and expenses to ensure that as much awareness is created and all proceeds are delivered from our fundraising. In the past some activities were movie nights, which were held in which fact-filled stores and films about serious international problems were presented, after which a group discussion would be held to debate different views of the situation presented. Soccer tournaments were also held to demonstrate the importance of teamwork, communication, and problem-solving and other character building skills. Through these measures, we are proud to say that we are on a steady increase in terms of our effectiveness and impact on the Queen’s community and we hope that all such events connect the student body to the outside world so it will broaden many individual’s perspective on the real world.

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Union Gallery. Located in Stauffer Library this long-established student -focused venue was the recipient of a mandatory fee for 18 years, until 2012. As recommended by the AMS, this year the gallery is seeking to establish a student fee, subject to individual opt-out as opposed to mandatory.

This will allow us to continue to provide students at Queen’s with high quality, engaging, contemporary visual arts exhibitions by student and professional artists, as well as to expand upon the volunteer, work, and experiential learning opportunities. The establishment of the project room in 2006, a space within the gallery dedicated to installation and time-based media, has allowed the gallery to provide further exhibition opportunities to student artists.

The establishment of a $4.00 student fee, subject to individual opt-out, would allow the gallery to be open year round, free to all students for an increased amount of time, fund student art exhibitions, and events, and allow us to expand on opportunities for more student engagement with the gallery’s programs and activities. It will also help staff to facilitate student work opportunities

(SWEP and work study), volunteer opportunities, and mentoring and internship programs for students, providing them with experience in gallery management, art presentation, curating, and arts administration. In addition the funds would allow the gallery to continue to collaborate with other groups at Queen’s and in the Kingston community to hold events for Queen’s audiences.

Student art shows, experiential learning and job opportunities, advertising and outreach require the establishment of a student fee in order to continue to be offered at the gallery. The establishment of a student fee will allow us to continue to strive to enrich and benefit all Queen’s students, regardless of department.

Please vote yes, on November 11 and 12th!

The following plebiscite question will also be on the fall referendum ballot: “Do you wish to see this year’s ReUnion Street Festival established as an annual event for future Homecomings?”

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DIALOGUE

Editorials — The Journal’s Perspective “Grades can’t be divorced from context; otherwise, they’re floating in the air without anything to ground them.”

EDUCATION

Sex ed revamp overdue

Ontario’s current sexual education and health curriculum — established in 1998 — is alarmingly outdated.

After a proposed revision was shelved in 2010, the Ministry of Education is looking to implement an updated curriculum by next September.

Around 4,000 parents, one from each elementary school in Ontario, will have the opportunity to take an online survey to offer their opinion on the province’s new curriculum.

Seventeen years is far too long to go without an updated curriculum in any area of study, especially an ever-changing field like health. The province’s current curriculum lacks focus on topics that desperately require attention, such as mental health, LGBT relations, STIs and cyber-bullying.

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Context needed The Arts and Science Undergraduate Society (ASUS) should be applauded for their proactive efforts to have class averages or medians included on transcripts.

The 2012-13 Arts and Science grades report — which was released in April — found major discrepancies in grades between

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Nick Faris Vincent Ben Matak

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Sam Koebrich Chloe Sobel

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academic departments.

This discrepancy needs to be addressed in a thorough review the grading practices of all Arts and Science departments. Until then, the inclusion of class medians on transcripts is a much-needed step.

Averages and medians contextualize a student’s grades.

They provide a holistic explanation of where a student stands within their program, and where their department fits within the faculty as a whole.

Grades can’t be divorced from context; otherwise, they’re floating in the air without anything to ground them.

With this context included Olivia Loncar-Bartolini Kashmala Omar

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While parents should be included in the discussion, their input shouldn’t result in the omission of certain content from the curriculum. This would form a system that’s value-based, rather than one objectively formulated by the assessment of experts.

Health education is just as important as any other subject students learn; it should be mandatory for any school that receives public funding.

All students need to learn about consent and safety, so they can recognize unhealthy interactions and understand what constitutes abuse.

Students can’t be removed from the curriculum’s development.

They know of issues — sexting, for instance — that adults may not have heard of and never experienced during their youth.

Olivia Bowden

Emilie Rabeau

Michaella Fortune

As this curriculum is critical to the health of students, educators with proper qualifications need to be teaching this course.

Teachers need to disseminate comprehensive and accurate information, to counter misinformation students may encounter elsewhere. They need to be trained, as with any subject, so they’re equipped with an in-depth knowledge of the material, rather than simply reading off a prescribed handout.

Based on the recommendations of experts, teachers need to know exactly what they should and shouldn’t say, to ensure information is given objectively in a way that doesn’t encourage or shame any particular behaviour or act.

Christine Ellis

It’s not about you

name of protecting my country, nor lost someone I loved to such an end.

I quickly realized that this was a problem — not just for me, but for the many Canadians who reacted to last month’s atrocities by appropriating grief that’s not necessarily ours to bear.

We need to differentiate between autobiographical memory and collective memory.

Collective memories are memories of events not personally experienced but passed on through cultural conventions like monuments, public ceremonies and other commemorative practices for honouring the dead.

We acquire our beliefs and attitudes towards war through such memories, which are too often idealized and softened in order to console those suffering from loss.

Such practices make it clear that collective memory can be problematic.

Not only do they mask the real horrors of war, but by allowing us to lay claim to memories that aren’t always ours, these conventions dishonour the men and women who sacrifice themselves to make this country a safer place.

Collective memory makes it possible and permissible for civilians to impose their own emotions, beliefs and values on events they didn’t experience — and to overlook those of the soldiers who did.

The tragedies that took place should inspire sympathy in those of us who’ve never experienced a loss related to war or the military.

However, we should all make an effort on Remembrance Day to listen and absorb the stories we hear, rather than to react to them selfishly and without restraint.

This Nov. 11, it seems we have more reasons than usual to remember the fallen.

With 2014 marking the centenary of the outbreak of World War I, Remembrance Day ceremonies already promised to garner special attention in Canada.

Add to that recent events in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, and Ottawa — where two members of the Canadian Forces were killed in October — and — Journal Editorial Board it seems more pertinent than ever to consider what exactly we’re commemorating.

When I heard that Cpl. Nathan Cirillo, a soldier from my hometown of Hamilton, had been fatally shot in front of Ottawa’s National War Memorial, part of me wanted to feel sorry for myself.

My social networking pages were flooded with personal posts of Cirillo’s homecoming by friends and family back in Hamilton, which hit me harder than any media coverage. I felt entitled to mourn his death more than all of my peers.

Other than a shared hometown, though, Cirillo and I don’t have much in common. I’ve never experienced the rigours of military training or shared in ILLUSTRATION BY MICHAELLA FORTUNE the camaraderie of an infantry regiment like the Argyll and Christine is one of the Journal’s Copy on transcripts, students who feel Sutherland Highlanders.

Editors. She’s a fourth-year inclined to drop their major or Most importantly, I’ve never English major. minor in pursuit of a competitive sacrificed my own safety in the graduate program might feel more comfortable continuing in a degree program they feel passionate about. a better picture of the general discrepancy is an issue that affects The University should allocate tendency of the class, while mean all Queen’s faculties. Other societies funds to a computerized system calculations can be skewed by a few — beyond ASUS — need to be where median grades can be major divergences. engaged in the push for the inclusion transferred from SOLUS to The Senate has the final say in of medians. transcripts. Significant grade this matter, rather than the Faculty Until then, the 2012-13 grades discrepancies can sabotage students or the Dean of Arts and Science. report needs to be better advertised, from gaining admittance into ASUS must focus on lobbying the so that graduating students know certain graduate programs and Senate in order for the inclusion they have the option to attach internships, which should be a of medians on transcripts to it alongside their transcripts subject of concern for Queen’s. be actualized. in applications.

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Opinions — Your perspective

CAMPUS

JDUC vital to Queen’s

The building’s continued maintenance and revitalization should be a priority for the community

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view the JDUC, and consider it come to view it as a fundamental a key part of our past, present component of my student and future. experience in the five years to come, The $1.2 million JDUC what I saw that day was an empty revitalization fund has been building in need of a furniture viewed by student leaders as both upgrade and a face-lift. a waste of money being sunk into Prior to the earliest Allison Williams, ArtSci ’14 a building that should instead be conversations about the Queen’s demolished, and as a silver bullet Centre development, the JDUC Four years after its construction solution to the problems left by the was an active gathering space was halted, the incomplete Queen’s Queen’s Centre project. for members of the Queen’s Centre project continues to have a This has left the JDUC much community. In the early 2000s, lasting impact on the John Deutsch worse off than it was before, the student population began to University Centre (JDUC) and its and has made the path towards grow, which necessitated a review ability to enhance student life. revitalization a difficult one. of the complement of space The long-standing resistance Despite years of neglect through available across campus. on the part of students and the a lack of funding for repairs or Ambitious plans for a university to recognize the renovations, the building remains three-phase Queen’s Centre began building’s potential has consistently in good structural shape, and it to materialize. This included inhibited attempts to improve would be possible to transform plans for expanded student life the space. the space for a much lower cost and athletic spaces, as well as an This neglect has manifested to the university than building a objective to replace the JDUC. itself in years of under-spending new structure.

In the end, the Queen’s to improve the JDUC’s basic The JDUC could once again Centre project was never finished. infrastructure.

Because of become a central hub for student Construction was halted in 2010 divergent student opinions, life on campus. The Queen’s when funding dried up, and $1.2M in funding — set aside to community should view its the AMS negotiated with the revitalize the tired space — has revitalization as an important University to scale back students’ remained unspent very near its opportunity to introduce a original contribution. usage deadline of April 2015. multitude of much-needed The terms of the AMS’s If we’re to appreciably improve gathering spaces to Queen’s. negotiations included a the insufficient student life space The JDUC was the first $1.2 million fund set aside to available to us at Queen’s, we must building I entered during my first “revitalize” the ailing JDUC. When fundamentally alter the way we visit to Queen’s. While I would viewed in isolation, though, this relatively modest investment can do little to improve the space.

When the decision was made to replace the JDUC with the Queen’s Centre, maintenance in the JDUC came to a virtual halt.

The Queen’s community was left with a third of the building it wanted, as well as an aging structure that no one wanted.

Because the $1.2M was set aside specifically for “revitalization”, the terms of the funding don’t allow any portion of it to be employed as a solution to the building’s growing disrepair.

In the absence of a long-term plan, a singular construction project wouldn’t overcome the uncertainty around the building’s use and future.

The AMS has taken steps toward creating a long-term plan for the JDUC, to be contained within a more general plan for student life space at Queen’s.

The plan will undergo thorough consultation with students over the course of the coming year.

That said, the broad community consultation required to finalize these plans can’t occur prior to the April 2015 deadline by which the $1.2 million must be allocated.

Recognizing the time constraints associated with the funding, the AMS has selected five options that fall within the pre-determined price range JOURNAL FILE PHOTO and fulfill the fund’s mandate Potential JDUC revitilization plans were presented at an open house on Oct. 20. to revitalize the central

building infrastructure.

A survey and open house have been conducted as a means of kick-starting the consultative process around these specific areas of the plan. Moving forward, the AMS will be modifying its survey methods to ensure all results are received through a verified and unique Queen’s student number.

While the ranking of potential projects couldn’t be accommodated through a referendum question, every effort will be made to ensure students’ voices are heard.

This is particularly important if the funding is to be a first step in the process to change the tone of the discussion around the future of the JDUC. The discourse around the revitalization fund is an

opportunity to create an optimistic vision for the JDUC as a renewed hub for student life.

My hope is that the suggested projects will contribute to students’ vision of the building as a space with incredible history and potential, rather than a consolation prize for an incomplete Queen’s Centre.

Our campus has no deficit of involvement, engagement or community. Long-term planning around the JDUC and student life space in general will make it possible to create the permanent physical home for these activities that students have sought for so many years.

Allison Williams is the president and CEO of the AMS.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor,

the sexualized manner in which I was being viewed. I remember My story is one that is extremely feeling vulnerable, trying so terribly personal to me, one that I have to hide my fear. This led to a not shared with many individuals spiral of events that consecutively as I felt that I would be judged and followed, where I went into my no one would believe me. When male friend’s room looking to I first told my story, that’s what confront him. He stormed into happened. No one believed me. the room and we argued; he went Most people don’t realize that from screaming obscenities at me 73 per cent of sexual assaults are and throwing things around the perpetrated by someone that the room threateningly, to grabbing my person already knows. This was wrists and slamming me repetitively the case for me. A male friend and I against the wall, and then eventually were extremely good friends, lived violating me by kissing my forehead on the same floor, directly across with me screaming and sobbing the hall from one another. and hyperventilating the entire He was extremely charismatic time. He had left me with bruised and got along well with practically wrists, a pounding migraine, and everyone on my floor, but he had a undeniable humiliation. None of terrible temper. I recall an incident my floormates came to help me. from first-year regarding a female Someone being your friend friend in common of ours who does not give them the right to he was also unofficially seeing at manipulate your feelings and the time. emotionally abuse you. If you feel I remember this friend telling that you are struggling, try your me that she had just hooked up best to reach out to someone that with another guy that night, then you trust or to counselling services. my male friend storming into my I know it’s difficult, but I can unlocked room, grabbing her by promise that you will see results in her shoulder, and pulling her into healing yourself as a person. his room. I didn’t know what to Because yes means yes, only do. He had locked his door and when you say yes. Because the only I could hear her sobbing and my thing that causes rape are rapists, male friend screaming and things no external factors. Because you smashing around in his room, but don’t deserve to be told that it I simply couldn’t move. was your fault for what you were I recall sitting in my room wearing, for being out at night, for studying for a test and opening having your hair in a ponytail, for up my door one day to “whore” being intoxicated, for being taken written on my door in duct-tape, advantage of, for trusting your done as a “joke” by my male friend friend. Because you deserve better. and him saying obscene things that his friend wanted to do to me and Payal Majithia laughing in my face about it and ArtSci ’16 running away down the hall.

I felt objectified and used, like This letter has been there was nothing I could do about condensed for clarity.

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CAMPUS ART

Union Gallery takes a stand Campus studio recovers after losing essential student fee B y K ashmala O mar Arts Editor The Union Gallery has launched an awareness campaign and created validation reports to regain their mandatory student fee.

The fee loss came into effect this school year after being cut in the Nov. 2012 AMS referendum by a margin of 28 votes. For the last 18 years, the Gallery received a mandatory fee to support operations, and this year the Gallery’s board decided to pursue the fee again, but in the opt-out category.

The proposal was re-established last month under advisement of the AMS executive, and they were successful in gathering 800 signatures, which led to the submission of a validation report to the chief returning officer.

The Gallery gained approval through AMS Assembly earlier this year, and are now in the midst of campaigning for the referendum vote on Nov. 11-12 of this year.

When the Gallery requested support to bring their last fee question to Assembly’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) in March, it was ultimately unsuccessful. After this, the gallery posed a peaceful protest as a way to appeal the

Assembly’s decision, which took place outside the AGM. The protest was well-attended and received support from both students and community artists.

Following the protest, the gallery was able to launch an awareness campaign in the form of letters to a variety of stakeholders within the community and alumni in order to rally support for the circumstances surrounding the Gallery.

As a result of the fee loss, the gallery had to shift from being open five days a week to three, and stall plans for future programs — such as ‘Visual Bites in Context’, in which students from other disciplines would be invited to speak about their research alongside the artists in the exhibits — that were going to be implemented had the fee been reinstated.

Jocelyn Purdie, the Gallery’s director, said the transition has been difficult.

“As a public gallery we want to provide our audiences, both on and off campus, with access to our programs and activities,” she told the Journal via e-mail.

“When hours are reduced people get upset and don’t understand all the reasons why this has happened.”

When reducing hours and

Suns of Stone officially came together as band in 2012.

staff capacity, the gallery has to be careful about not compromising the quality of the program, which is difficult with reduced resources, she said.

She said it’s a challenge because while they’re operating at reduced capacity, the expectations of students, visitors and funders remain the same as when the Gallery operated at their previous levels.

The budget cut has primarily affected the student population that visit the gallery, student artists and other artists that contribute their work in exhibits, she added.

This year, the gallery has continued with reduced operations and programming, including displays, exhibits and mentorship programs.

These reductions have negatively affected the student populations who visit the gallery to see the work and participate in events because there are now fewer activities and shows.

“Student artists and others who exhibit or volunteer on the Gallery Board, and various committees, are affected because there are fewer opportunities for them to gain the hands-on learning experience that the Gallery values,” Purdie said.

Despite the issues that have

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BAND PREVIEW

Suns of Stone makes debut Ottawa-based rock band showcases new music in Kingston B y O livia L oncar -B artolini Arts Editor Putting their own distinctive twist on traditional 70s rock, four-piece Ottawa based band Suns of Stone is just beginning to make a name for themselves in the Canadian music scene.

The band — which consists of lead singer Alan Charlton, guitarist Jimmy King, bassist Andrew Erlandson and drummer Alex Scott — is staying focused on performing and producing new music.

Although Suns of Stone didn’t start out together originally, they found each other while performing in the same music scene and

eventually decided to join forces as a collaborative effort in 2012.

“Maybe four or five years ago some of us played in different bands,” lead vocalist Alan Charlton said. “After time went by we decided to re-form and then start work on some new projects and we put this thing together and back in 2012 we played our first show.”

Emerging on the Ottawa music scene two years ago, Suns of Stone spent their time playing dive bars and small gigs. After the release of their self-titled album Suns of Stone in 2013, the band began to play several Canadian cities including Kingston.

“We’ve played in Kingston a couple of times. We played there

last year at the Mansion and The Merchant earlier this year. We’re familiar enough with Kingston but we are from Ottawa so we do obviously know Ottawa a bit better,” Charlton said.

“It was kind of a mixed crowd the last show we played. To be honest, I don’t know how many were Queen’s students or not but it was pretty packed. It was a good crowd.”

With a new album in the works, the band plans to debut mostly new material at their upcoming Mansion performance.

“We recorded something over the summer so our next album is in the mix, it’s still being put together,” Charlton said. “But we’re playing a

ARTS The gallery will launch campaigns in favour of the fee.

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arisen from the fee cut, the gallery hopes to re-evaluate the circumstances and make the best of the situation by planning for a more economically feasible future.

“The student fee is a crucial part of this, but the nature of student fee funding, which does need to be reviewed and voted on tri-annually, means we need to look at other possible avenues for support,” Purdie said. “There hasn’t been any significant change to our funding situation this year.”

The Gallery has a regimented plan for what it’s going to provide for students this year, and if the fee is reinstated, it’ll allow the Gallery board to implement these plans comprehensively.

If the fee is reinstated, the Gallery should be able to return to regular hours and continue to develop the programs that they already have in place. They’ll also reinstate other programs that have been on hold due to funding constraints, including mentoring, work study positions and internships.

The Gallery is currently undergoing a review process, which involves a combination of focus group sessions with graduate and undergraduate students, community and faculty supporters and a cross-campus survey for input on the gallery’s situation.

The AMS and SGPS will circulate information around campus and the review project team will issue a survey within the next few months. The gallery will receive the results at the end of April.

They also plan to develop a strategic plan to see if there

are ways to better engage with students on campus more broadly, Purdie said.

They’ve also increased their social media plan to give the gallery more of a presence within the student population.

Even though the fee cut has caused numerous issues, the director and Gallery board remain hopeful of regaining the fee.

“I’m hopeful that with our increased efforts, students will come to see the value of supporting the arts and their fellow students through the referendum vote,” Purdie said. “Because they play a vital role in the cultural landscape of any university.

“I’d like to see the gallery become a place where more people can feel comfortable visiting and participating, and where students from across campus come to the gallery to enjoy, learn and experience exciting, high quality art work and other programs that engage the imagination and sparks creative inquiry,” she added.

The Gallery has received support from the AMS executive thus far, she said, who has guided student Board members through the referendum process.

“The funds would allow the gallery to continue to collaborate with other groups at Queen’s and in the Kingston community to hold events for Queen’s audiences,” Purdie said. “These activities of student art shows, experiential learning and job opportunities, and outreach all require the support of a student fee in order to continue to be offered by the gallery.”

couple songs we’ve had for a while now but there’s a lot of new songs that we’re recording and we’ve only played some of them live.”

Playing in the style of 70s rock, Suns of Stone writes and creates all their original music in a style that references rock gods like Led Zeppelin and Lynyrd Skynyrd, while still maintaining a modern edge, giving it a distinctive flavour.

What makes Suns of Stone different is that they’re a relatively new band, and yet their music has a cohesiveness and togetherness that sets them apart from the thousands of other rock bands.

What they lack in experience

they make up for in delivering a powerful energy and emotionally charged sound in all of the songs on their debut album Suns of Stone.

When it comes to how the band chose their name, Suns of Stone, the deliberation process was both simple and drawn out.

“The name Suns of Stone is something we came upon after probably tons of bad suggestions.

We had to find a name that wasn’t already taken,” Charlton said.

Suns of Stone perform tonight at The Mansion.

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FILM

Film dives into a world of water controversy Watermark: Trajectories explores the issues that stem from human interference in water processes B y D iana A nton Contributor Out of all the forces in the world, water is the most coveted and awe-inspiring of them all.

It’s the relationship between mankind and water that the aesthetically stunning 2013 documentary Watermark: Trajectories explores.

The documentary, directed by Canadian Edward Burtynsky and Jennifer Baichwal, was held at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre (AEAC) on Thursday.

This visual masterpiece explores our multifaceted relationship to this force of nature and the reciprocal nature of the connection between human beings and water.

Delving into this connection, the film reveals that there’s an interplay between technology and nature, in the fact that while nature and water shape our lives, we in turn shape water.

This interplay has generated consequences both good and bad.

Travelling across the globe, the film brings together different stories from the floating abalone farms off China’s Fujian coast where water has become known as a scarce resource.

This was compared to the construction site of the biggest arch dam in the world, the Xiluodu, where mankind has shown their prowess in shaping and disrupting the natural cycle of nature in order to bring about technological marvels.

ARTS CALENDAR Friday, Nov. 7

Wednesday, Nov. 12

“Awakening” Rotunda Theatre 8 - 9 p.m.

Basia Bulat (performer) The Isabel Bader Centre 7:30 -11 p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 8

Thursday, Nov. 13

Rememberance For Peace: Talk and Discussion Sydenham St. United Church 2 - 4 p.m.

ArtDocs: Portrait of Resistance AEAC 7- 8:20 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 9

Zones + Mimico + Golden Golden The Artel 8 -11 p.m.

Happy Dane’s “Hamlet” The Grand Theatre 8 -10 p.m.

Monday, Nov. 10 Decomposing Pianos: Regression Modern Fuel 10 p.m.

Tuesday, Nov. 11 Free Marimba Lessons The H’Art Schools 8 - 9 p.m.

Friday, Nov. 14

Saturday, Nov. 15 Brad Paisley The K-Rock Centre 7:30 -11 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 16 The Planet Smashers + Sofa King Addicted + Alpha Jabs The Mansion 9 p.m -2 a.m.

In Colorado, we’re shown the desert delta where the Colorado River has dried up and has resulted in a barren wasteland.

Using a juxtaposition of utopian and dystopian images, the documentary highlights the beauty and majesty of nature and water before people interfered and tried to alter the natural cycles.

A contrast is then made with images of technological marvels such as dams, artificial water fronts and tannery factories that release chemicals and toxins into the water, changing the very nature of water and what it’s meant to be used for.

The film demonstrates that for the first time since mankind began, we’re now in a position where we’re no longer just passive observers of nature.

Instead, we now have the capacities and abilities to interfere with its natural cycle and harness its power for our own purposes.

The documentary subtly cautions us that the negative aftereffects we’re facing today are a result of human interference in the natural water processes.

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Poise from experience Continued from page 1

continue the success would be amazing,” he said.

Queen’s advanced to the OUA championship after rumbling through the McMaster Marauders 61-0 at home last Saturday.

A third-year fly half, Carr said the Gaels are facing pressure to win another banner, but aren’t focusing on the magnitude of the game.

“We try to approach the game as we would any other week,” he said. “But it’s definitely there in the back of our minds. Some of the younger guys, definitely you can tell that they’re nervous about it, but for some of the older vets, we’ve been there, we know how to approach and how to deal with it.”

Carr said the presence of experienced coaches helps keep things calm at practices. The Gaels’ coaching staff has preached treating the final as any other game.

Sticking to what works, Carr

added, will propel the squad to the championship.

“Just exploit their weakness and pull on our strengths,” he said.

“We’ll come out on top if we do it all right.”

Tomorrow’s title clash will prove definitively whether Queen’s or Guelph is the province’s best team. While the Gryphons sat atop the OUA in points scored with 414, Queen’s held their opponents to a league-low 65 points.

Each team sat second in the statistic they didn’t lead the league in. Queen’s boasted three of the top 11 scorers in the OUA, while Guelph had four of the top 15.

The Gaels won 33-17 when the two teams met on Oct. 4 at Nixon Field, overtaking the Gryphons for first place in the OUA and netting home-field advantage for the final.

Gaels head coach Gary Gilks said his team’s experience will end up making a difference in the match.

WOMEN’S HOCKEY

Shootout woes Gaels lose for first time in 2014-15 season B y S ean S utherland Sports Editor After 130 minutes of action, women’s hockey came away with only two points from their northern road trip.

Playing the Nipissing Lakers (3-4-1) and Laurentian Lady Vees (1-5-2), the Gaels lost a pair of shootouts: 3-2 and 2-1, respectively. The score lines marked Queen’s (5-0-2) first losses of the 2014-15 campaign.

Despite the results, head coach Matt Holmberg saw some positives in the games.

“When you look back at it, five of the six periods we played — not counting the overtime and shootout — were pretty good,” Holmberg said. “And we only allowed three goals all weekend, so defensively, we still did pretty well.”

The lone weak period was the Gaels’ first of the weekend. The team came out flat last Saturday in the opening period against Nipissing, allowing the Lakers to notch a pair of goals.

“I’ll be blunt and say the first period was one of our worst periods of the year, which was both disappointing and surprising,” Holmberg said.

“I know we were on the road and we were facing a tough team in Nipissing — and certainly give them credit for coming out hungry — but based on everything we’d done prior to the game I thought the team would come out firing. And they didn’t.”

Holmberg said the Gaels talked during the first intermission to try and correct the mistakes that were made early in the game.

Second-year forwards Clare McKellar and Megan Farrell scored 48 seconds apart in the period to knot things up at 2-2.

After neither team could find the back of the net in overtime, Nipissing succeeded in the shootout.

“I’m disappointed that we had a bad period, I’m disappointed that we didn’t get two points,” Holmberg said. “But I am proud of how the team reacted after that first period and worked hard to earn one point at least.”

Queen’s came out firing on Sunday against the Lady Vees, peppering Laurentian goaltender Emily Toffoli with 19 shots in the first period alone. Despite all the chances, the Gaels couldn’t beat Toffoli, as the game remained scoreless.

Holmberg said the Gaels were determined to avoid the slow start that plagued them against the Lakers the day before.

“I think there was still a little bit of disappointment as to how we had started against Nipissing,” See No on page 16

“It’s going to be huge because we actually have quite a few players who will be playing in their third championship in a row,” Gilks said.

“We’ve got a lot of experience on our side. Guelph does not. It’s been a while since they’ve been to an OUA final and it’s just compounded by the fact that they have to travel and play here in Kingston.”

Queen’s is undefeated in their last 15 games at Nixon Field. Their last home loss was a 22-20 defeat at the hands of the Western Mustangs on Sept. 22, 2012.

“For us playing at home, the fans are such a huge part of it,” Gilks said. “Our boys get a good night’s rest the night before and we just love playing at home.”

Guelph holds a size advantage over the Gaels, Gilks said, but the Gaels have plans to counteract this.

“Our philosophy is put the ball in their end and use the territory,” he said. “And then on defence — which has always been the strongest part of our game — we’ll just keep the pressure.

“Even though we don’t have the ball, as long as we play in their end, keep up the defensive pressure and look for them to make mistakes … and we’ll capitalize on trying to convert those into points.”

During the regular season, teams are rewarded with an additional

SPORTS PHOTO BY ALEX PICKERING Fifth-year forward Tommy Kirkham is one of several Gaels with a chance to win a third straight OUA title tomorrow.

point in the standings if they record four tries in the match.

In the final, though, the only thing on the line is the championship.

“The philosophy of the game changes a bit as opposed to the regular season, simply because it doesn’t matter now how much you win by in the final,” Gilks said.

“Saturday, it doesn’t matter if we win by one or if we win by 20.”

Gilks added one final message about his team’s year.

“I’m proud of how our players have worked both on and off the field. I think they’ve deserved to host the final,” he said. “I think they’re going to put on a pretty good show on Saturday.”

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Third-years take charge Early injury troubles mean third-years will carry playoff hopes B y B rent M oore Assistant Sports Editor After being stuck behind the Carleton Ravens and Ottawa Gee-Gees in the OUA East, men’s basketball finally has a chance to break out.

In the past, the Gaels were firmly back of the Ravens and Gee-Gees, perennially two of Canada’s top teams.

The OUA went through divisional realignment prior

to this season, splitting Queen’s from Carleton and Ottawa. Now, the Gaels will contend with the Ryerson Rams, York Lions and Toronto Varsity Blues for Eastern supremacy.

After facing the Lakehead Thunderwolves on the road tonight, the Gaels’ home opener is on Nov. 14 against the Waterloo Warriors.

To win the division, they’ll have to battle through a rash of injuries they’ve suffered in the pre-season.

Forward Mackenzie Simpson was one of three players from the Gaels’ 2013-14 roster to depart due to graduation. Fellow forward Nikola Misljencevic also graduated.

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“We’ve had some significant injuries across the board which has put people in positions and roles ahead of where maybe they were ready for,” said Gaels head coach Stephan Barrie.

Guards Greg Faulkner, Cy Samuels and Patrick Street and forward Ryall Stroud all missed time during exhibition play, but are ready to go for the regular season.

Not as lucky are third-year guards Andrew Mavety and Sukhpreet Singh. Mavety will miss the entire year, while Singh likely won’t make his return to the lineup until January.

With Singh injured, last year’s bench players will need to embrace bigger roles.

“Pretty much all the guys going into their third year, they all need to step up,” Barrie said. “We’re going to need a couple freshmen to have big years.”

In addition to the hurt players, Queen’s lost a pair of key veterans to graduation.

Forward Mackenzie Simpson put up 10.4 points and 6.5 rebounds per game last season, his final one as a Gael. Fellow forward Nikola Misljencevic averaged 11.8 points.

“Mackenzie was long and athletic and we have some new guys that can fit the bill,” Barrie said. “Nik was an inside out player and we have some guys who can do that … It’s more their senior experience. That’s harder to replicate.”

Guard Roshane Roberts is also no longer with the team. He scored 12.4 points per game for the Gaels See Shifted on page 17

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Firing at full strength Gaels’ top seven scorers return for run at repeat OUA success B y S ean S utherland Sports Editor

Women’s basketball captured the OUA East title last year, defeating the Carleton Ravens in the title game 62-58.

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MEN’S HOCKEY

Dramatic thirds

Final frame leads to agony, joy for Gaels B y A dam L askaris Staff Writer Men’s hockey found themselves on both sides of comeback wins this weekend.

The Gaels led 3-1 against the UQTR Patriotes on Friday before giving up four goals in the third period to fall 5-3 on the road. A power play goal by UQTR forward Billy Lacasse with 62 seconds left capped off the late collapse.

Queen’s fared better on Saturday, rallying from an early 2-0 deficit to beat the Concordia Stingers 4-2.

Penalties were an issue in the Gaels’ (4-3-0) loss to UQTR (7-1-0), as they were shorthanded nine separate times in the contest.

In addition to the winning goal, the Patriotes added a power play tally in the second period.

Gaels head coach Brett Gibson said the lack of discipline was uncharacteristic of his team, and isn’t a cause for long-term concern.

“Coming in, we’re one of the least penalized teams in the league,” Gibson said. “There were some questionable calls, it’s unfortunate when that happens but you still have to kill off the penalties.”

The Gaels gave up 48 shots against UQTR, but didn’t appear overmatched against the

sixth-ranked team in the CIS. Much of the discrepancy in shot totals can be attributed to the Gaels’ time shorthanded.

Goaltender Kevin Bailie made 43 saves on 47 shots in the loss, with the other goal coming with an empty net.

“It was a great effort by us,” Gibson said. “I’d say we were the better team for much of the night.”

Saturday’s game against Concordia (3-7-0) was a different situation. After falling behind early in the second period, the Gaels battled back to tie the match.

First-year forward Darcy Greenaway was integral to the comeback, scoring Queen’s first goal and setting up forward Corey Bureau for the equalizer.

Brett Foy added a power play goal late in the second period, completing a rush of three goals in just over six minutes.

“Going down 2-0 on two nice goals by Concordia, we didn’t give up,” Gibson said. “We faced the adversity and we came through.”

Greenaway, who joined Queen’s this off-season after a stint with the Kingston Frontenacs, praised his linemates Bureau and Patrick McGillis for helping him adapt to the OUA. The trio has been one of the Gael’s most effective offensive units, especially on the power play,

Men’s hockey’s three losses this season have come by a combined five goals.

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Off the heels of an OUA East title in 2013-14, a returning core has women’s basketball primed to thrive once again.

The Gaels finished second overall in the province last season, bowing out to the Windsor Lancers in the OUA final, before dropping both of their games at the CIS championships.

Queen’s 2014-15 campaign tips off tonight, with a road game against the Lakehead Thunderwolves.

“We’re a very solid group, returning from last year,” said Gaels head coach Dave Wilson.

“We have goals to see if we can get a little higher and a little further into the nationals.”

The Gaels’ top seven scorers from last season are all back. Chief among the returnees is Liz Boag, a fifth-year point guard that led the team with 3.5 assists per game in 2013-14, while adding 12 points per game.

Three other double-digit scorers are also back: post Robyn Pearson and wings Jenny Wright and Gemma Bullard, who gave the Gaels depth last year. Queen’s was the only OUA school other than Windsor with a quartet of players that put up 10 or more points a game.

“We’ve picked off where we left off, which is not that common when you have to bring in more newer players,” Wilson said.

The one new wrinkle to the Gaels’ season will be the OUA’s realignment of its basketball conferences. Once a member of the eight-team OUA East, Queen’s is now in a smaller division alongside the Ryerson Rams, Toronto Varsity Blues and York Lions.

Additionally, the playoff which was the source of Bureau’s goal on Saturday.

“We’ve been working well together in practice,” Greenaway said. “We’re working to develop our chemistry, especially at getting a strong entry into the offensive zone every time we’ve got the puck.”

Goaltender Chris Clarke earned his first victory of the season against Concordia, stopping 27 of 29 shots.

The Gaels now sit seventh in the OUA East. Greenaway said that while it’s early in the season, it’s important not to making losing a habit.

“You can’t look into the standings too much early on,” he said. “Most of the teams ahead of us that have played more games so they’ve got more points. But at the same time, you’ve still got to go out and win games to move up in the standings.”

Tomorrow, Queen’s will face one of its biggest rivals in a tough Carleton Ravens (6-2-0) team on the road. The Ravens knocked the Gaels out of the playoffs in each of the last two seasons.

The Gaels will then host the RMC Paladins (0-8-0) on Saturday.

In the last meeting between the two squads, RMC captured the Carr-Harris Cup last February with a 2-1 upset victory.

structure has evolved. The 12 best teams in the province will make the playoffs, regardless of their division.

“It’s reduced our game schedule a little bit, so that’s one thing.

I don’t know if it’s reduced our travel much,” Wilson said. “I think the biggest impact is probably going to come at playoff time when we see how the matchups on the re-seeding of the whole province.”

Wilson said any success this year will come from building on what they produced in the second half of last season. The Gaels ripped off seven straight wins to end the regular season, then won twice in the playoffs before losing the OUA final.

The team needs to learn how to play with a target on their backs

from other teams, Wilson added, and they’ll change their mindset to deal with that.

“We’re trying to focus on our execution instead of our outcome to keep us grounded and humble in a sense,” he said.

With a high-powered offence already in place, Queen’s goal for this year will be to improve on the defensive side. The Gaels allowed 56.8 points per game, tied for the fifth-best mark in Ontario.

Wilson said with such a strong offence, improving the defence even more is the way to push the team to the next level.

“Because the composition of our team isn’t significantly different than it was in the past, if we’re going make leaps, it’s going to be on defence,” he said.

JOURNAL FILE PHOTO Point guard Liz Boag averaged 12 points a game last season. She was one of four Gaels to record double-digit averages.

MEN’S VOLLEYBALL

Win far from impressive Men go 1-1 opening weekend in Toronto B y B rent M oore Assistant Sports Editor An ugly win and a shutout loss were the results of men’s volleyball’s Toronto road trip last weekend.

The Gaels (1-3) lost in three quick sets to the Ryerson Rams (3-1), before taking on the Toronto Varsity Blues (1-2) on Saturday.

Queen’s won that match in five sets after starting slowly.

“It was an ugly win,” said Gaels head coach Brenda Willis. “I’m not happy with where we’re at and we have lots of things to improve on.”

Queen’s took the first set of the Toronto game 25-20, but dropped the next two by matching scores of 25-23.

The Gaels regained momentum late in the third set, and while they

were unable to steal, the charge did carry over into the fourth and fifth frames.

“We really connected at the level that we should in the fourth [set], and it was pretty decisive,” Willis said.

The second and third sets were a different story.

“They were really, really close,” Willis said. “But man-for-man, I think we shouldn’t be that close with Toronto.”

One explanation for the substandard performance was the absence of fourth-year outside hitter Mike Tomlinson, who sat out with a shoulder injury.

Tomlinson has only played two matches this season, registering 33 kills in that span.

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ROWING

Slight slide in stature Gold for Davenport Huyer, women fourth and men seventh B y B rent M oore Assistant Sports Editor The rowing teams returned from the Canadian University Rowing Championships (CURC) with medals in two events, but without an overall podium finish.

Queen’s women’s finished one spot away from the podium, while men’s team took seventh place at the national event.

Larkin Davenport Huyer won gold in the women’s single race, while the women’s lightweight four crew picked up a bronze medal.

Head coach John Armitage said he was impressed by his team’s results. The competition marked the end of the coach’s 38-year tenure at the helm of the Gaels program.

“Of course the highlight was Larkin Davenport Huyer winning the single,” Armitage said. “That was the first time in the 18 years of the event that Queen’s has ever won that event.”

Armitage said that both the men’s and women’s boats performed to their potential.

“We’ve got a lot of rowers competing at this level for the first time in their lives and I’m really pleased with the performance of both teams,” he said.

The women’s lightweight double and eight crews both finished fifth in their events, marking the eight’s best result of the season.

“In a sport like ours where you can’t control how fast your

competitors are going, if you’ve done your very best in your last race, then you’ve done a good job,” Armitage said.

On the men’s side, the lightweight double placed fourth and the lightweight four finished fifth in their respective heats.

The Gaels brought home five medals at last year’s national meet.

The women had two silver and two bronze-medal finishes, ending up in third place overall.

The men earned a single medal in 2013 — silver in the lightweight four — and finished fifth in Canada.

A silver medalist in the women’s single last year, Davenport Huyer said she enjoyed this year’s race more.

“The single performance was a ton of fun,” she said. “Really good race results made it more fun.”

She was also impressed by the women in her heavyweight eight boat.

“It was the best race we’ve ever had,” Davenport Huyer said. “There was nothing but positive outcomes.”

Having rowed under Armitage for three years, Davenport Huyer said the coach’s final races were an emotional affair.

“We cried together,” she said.

“He will be greatly missed.”

Matt Christie, who won gold at last month’s Ontario championships, raced in the men’s lightweight double and four at the CURCs. “Races were a lot closer

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he said. “We were bound and determined not to let that happen again.”

The Gaels broke through in the second period, as defenceman Alisha Sealey put the team in front with her second tally of the season.

Forwards Chelsey Verbeek and Nadia Larocca added assists on the goal.

Laurentian’s Julie Hebert tied the game just under five minutes into the third frame. Once again, the game went into a shootout and the Gaels had to settle for only a single point.

“We definitely earned a point, but give Laurentian some credit [for] taking it from us in the end,”

Holmberg said.

Rookie goalie Stephanie Pascal stood tall in net for Queen’s, making 30 saves.

Queen’s next games come on the road, on Saturday against the Guelph Gryphons (3-1-1) and Sunday against the Brock Badgers (0-3-2).

The Gaels ended the Gryphons’ playoff run in 2013-14. Holmberg said the game between the two rivals will likely be close.

“Regardless of the result [against Guelph], coming off what will probably be a close-fought and emotional game on Saturday, we have to make sure we’re getting ourselves back up to compete against Brock on Sunday,” he said.

than I thought they would be,” Christie said.

At the start of the double, Christie’s partner fumbled a few strokes and the Gaels found themselves almost 90 metres behind the pack.

The men rallied, caught the pack and moved into third place.

“In the last six strokes, my partner passed out,” Christie said.

“Completely blacked out and the [fourth-place] boat caught us.

“It was a lot of fun,” Christie said. “He was fine afterwards.”

With the season over, Christie said the off-season is the time for future medal chasers to distinguish themselves.

“A common saying is medals are won in the summer but earned in The men’s rowing team finished seventh at the Canadian JOURNAL FILE PHOTO the winter,” he said.

University Rowing Championships, while the women finished in fourth.

WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL

Winless on Toronto trip Women’s volleyball dropped by Ryerson and Varsity Blues B y S ean S utherland Sports Editor After kicking off their year with a pair of wins, women’s volleyball dropped two matches in their first taste of road action this season.

The Gaels (2-2) lost in straight sets to the Ryerson Rams (4-0) last Friday. One night later, they lost again, this time taking one set against the Toronto Varsity Blues (4-0).

In the opening set against the Rams, Queen’s held tight through the first 18 points, trailing by only two. After that point, it was all Ryerson in the frame, as they reeled off six of the next seven points and eventually won 25-17.

Queen’s stormed out of the gate in the next set, taking a 5-2 lead.

The Rams rallied to take nine of the next 10 points en route to a 25-15 victory.

The third frame was the only

time in the match in which the Gaels stayed with Ryerson late in the set. Trailing 10-3, Queen’s came back to tie it up at 18-18, before eventually losing the set — and with it, the match — 25-22.

Brett Hagarty led all Gaels in the match with seven kills, while Shannon Neville contributed a team-high nine digs.

Against Toronto, Queen’s took advantage of 13 Varsity Blues errors in the opening set to capture it 25-18.

The set was the only one Queen’s took on the weekend, with Toronto using the momentum from a dominant second set to complete a swift comeback.

The Gaels lost the second set 25-11, before dropping the next two 25-21 and 25-16. Failure to capitalize offensively cost the Gaels the third set, as they recorded kills on only 13 of their 71 attacks.

Neville was the sole Queen’s player to put up a double-digit total in kills, tallying 18. Hagarty and Becky Wilson played strong on the defensive end, racking up 24 and 18 digs, respectively.

Rookie setter Danielle Blumentrath recorded 14 digs and 27 assists in only her fourth match with the Gaels.

The losses put Queen’s slightly back of the pack in the highly contested OUA East. While it’s only four games into the year, the losses to division rivals mean the Gaels will have to make up ground to stay among the leaders in the seven-team East.

They’ll have a chance to do that this weekend when they host the two teams below them in the standings. The RMC Paladins (0-5) visit the ARC tomorrow, while the Gaels host the Ottawa Gee-Gees (1-2) on Sunday.

JOURNAL FILE PHOTO Shootout losses to the Nipissing Lakers and Laurentian Lady Vees were women’s hockey’s first defeats of the season.

The Gaels converted on 13 of 71 attacks in the third set of their match with Toronto last Saturday.

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and connected on 40.2 per cent of his three-point shots in 2013-14.

Barrie said Dan Thompson will help fill the leadership void created by the departures of Simpson and Misljencevic. The guard transferred from the Guelph Gryphons, where he averaged 4.9 points per game during the 2012-13 season.

Last year the squad went 10-12 before losing to the Ryerson Rams in the first round of the playoffs.

Faulkner was the principal scorer, averaging 16 points and 4.4 rebounds. The team will lean on him again this year for his consistent offensive touch.

Singh, meanwhile, averaged 12.1 points, 3.6 assists and 4.8 rebounds per game.

Going further, the men should set their sights on the Rams. In three meetings last year, the Gaels were outscored by 238-198 by the Rams.

The second half of the Gaels’ regular season schedule is stacked with strong opponents, including both meetings with Ryerson.

“I think we just have to get off to a good start,” Barrie said.

“The month of November is going to be really key … to gain some momentum.”

Guard Greg Faulkner (above) led Queen’s with 16 points per game last season.

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“It’s definitely a different look with Mike Tomlinson out of the lineup,” Willis said. “The block has to worry so much about him because he is such an offensive threat.”

Tomlinson aggravated his shoulder during the Gaels’ match with the Western Mustangs on Oct. 25. It’s unclear at this point how long he’ll be out for.

“It was pretty tough on our power hitters because we were a pretty one-dimensional offence for a good chunk of [the Toronto match],” Willis said.

Second-year outside hitter Matt Golas stepped in for Tomlinson, while fourth-year middle blocker Tyler Scheerhorn was rotated into the back row. “[Golas] did a reasonable job, but he can’t score at the level that Mike does,” Willis said.

One of the success stories from the Toronto game was second-year setter Jamie Wright, who came off the bench and appeared to stabilize the offence.

Like last year, Wright continues to battle with fellow sophomore

Thomas Ellison for playing time.

“I thought Thomas Ellison had made huge strides from last season to this season,” Willis said. “But we still seem to find a better rhythm with Jamie.”

Willis described their setting position as a “revolving door”, with no one player able to hold down the fort.

Without a consistent setter, irregular offensive output could continue.

In Saturday’s game against Ryerson, the men were dropped in three sets: 25-17, 25-19 and 26-24.

The Gaels faced Ryerson twice in the 2013-14 regular season, losing the first match 3-2 before sweeping the Rams in the season’s second-last game.

The Gaels travel this weekend to face the Waterloo Warriors (3-2), the same team that knocked them out of last year’s post-season.

Willis said her team knows the Warriors pretty well after playing two close matches against them during the pre-season.

“I think they’re a beatable team, but we have to take care of our side of the net,” she said.

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Rugby mauls McMaster, advances to OUA final B y S ean S utherland Sports Editor After cruising through their semi-final match, men’s rugby is one win away from a third straight OUA title.

The Gaels dominated the McMaster Marauders on Nixon Field today, avenging a narrow regular season loss with a 61-0 blowout victory.

With the win, Queen’s will host the Guelph Gryphons in tomorrow’s OUA final.

It marks the third year in a row that they’ve been the home team in the provincial title match. The Gaels beat the Western Mustangs

to clinch championships in 2012 and 2013.

Head coach Gary Gilks said Queen’s performance against McMaster was “the best game you can play.”

“Obviously the score reflects how we played,” Gilks said. “We spent a lot of this week training especially for this game and we wanted to execute all of our structure, and I think right from the start we showed it.”

The Gaels kept the ball firmly positioned inside the Marauders’ half of the field for most of the match, not allowing McMaster the time or space to generate any offence. Queen’s built a

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substantial 40-0 advantage by the end of the opening half.

Gilks said the Gaels maintained their playing style after taking a near-insurmountable halftime lead.

“The game plan never changes. With top teams, you have to stick to your game plan or else it can result in injuries,” he said. “It’s not the way we would play against any other team at any other point. We stick to our plan, and if we score points, we score points.”

Queen’s added a trio of tries in the final 40 minutes, highlighted by a brilliant play from Kainoa Lloyd, in which the wing snagged a short kick from teammate Mark Charette and sprinted past multiple defenders for the score.

The Gaels assured themselves home-field advantage throughout the OUA playoffs by finishing first in the league this season.

With a championship three-peat in sight, Gilks said playing tomorrow’s final at Nixon Field could prove to be important.

“Having the edge of playing at home is huge, in front of the fans and not having to worry about travel,” he said. “We’re happy about that.”

Outside hitter Phillippe Goyer recorded 10 kills during two games over the weekend.

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ON DECK CIRCLE MEN’S RUGBY Saturday, Nov. 8, 1 p.m.: Gaels vs. Guelph Gryphons (OUA Final).

WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL Friday, Nov. 7, 6 p.m.: Gaels (2-2) vs. RMC Paladins (0-5).

Sunday, Nov. 9, 1 p.m.: Gaels vs. Ottawa Gee-Gees (1-2).

MEN’S VOLLEYBALL Saturday, Nov. 8, 8 p.m.: Gaels (1-3) @ Waterloo Warriors (3-2).

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Friday, Nov. 7, 6 p.m.: Gaels @ Lakehead Thunderwolves.

MEN’S BASKETBALL Friday, Nov. 7, 8 p.m.: Gaels @

Lakehead Thunderwolves.

WOMEN’S HOCKEY Saturday, Nov. 8, 2 p.m.: Gaels (5-0-2) @ Guelph Gryphons (3-1-1).

Sunday, Nov. 8, 2:15 p.m.: Gaels vs. Brock Badgers (0-3-2).

MEN’S HOCKEY Friday, Nov. 7, 7 p.m.: Gaels (4-3-0) @ Carleton Ravens (6-2-0).

Saturday, Nov. 8, 7:30 p.m.: Gaels vs. RMC Paladins (0-8-0) CROSS COUNTRY Saturday, Nov. 8, noon: Gaels @ CIS Championships (St. John’s, NL).

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LIFESTYLE FASHION

Student designers make a splash Indie fashion lines are multiplying in the Queen’s community

B y K ate M eagher Assistant Lifestyle Editor Lines of clothing headed by Queen’s students pursuing careers in fashion design alongside their degrees seem to be rising in numbers.

A perfect example is Ohneka, a fashion line started by Madison Tyrell and her mother.

Tyrell, BFA ’17, has always loved the potential in altering second-hand clothing and, alongside her mom, has turned her hobby of altering thrift store finds into a line of denim wear that has quickly expanded.

Now the duo makes t-shirts, sweaters, hats and more, in addition to their signature denim jackets and cut-off shorts.

Though Tyrell is a Queen’s student, Ohneka remains based out of British Columbia, an obstacle to the line’s turnover.

“It is really hard because I’m from Vancouver, so we can really get the majority of our clothing done whenever I’m home,” Tyrell said.

“It is difficult in the way that we can’t really be constantly producing clothes while I’m away.”

But Tyrell’s field of study provides constant inspiration for her work on Ohneka while in Kingston.

“We just started print-making … a couple weeks ago and it’s my jam. I have all these things to print, I’m like, ‘I can put this on everything,’” said Tyrell.

Although it’s frustrated the process of production somewhat, relocating to Queen’s has had its benefits.

“The fact that I have my friends now supporting us and wanting to wear our clothes around campus — we had our first pop-up sale at Queen’s officially just this … frosh week — [is] awesome,” Tyrell said.

“It’s been really cool to see things we’ve made pop up around campus.”

The biggest impact, Tyrell said, has come from the weather.

“I’d say the weather has been the biggest influencer in the way that I can create a completely

Local Goods Ltd. is already taking off on campus.

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Kingston’s cooler climate has created a new demand for winter wear from Ohneka.

different line for the weather in the winter here because people need things like hats and warmer jackets … at home, it’s much warmer you know on the west coast, so it’s not that necessary,” she said.

“So it’s definitely affected the range of what we’re making. Just having a different demand for a separate sort of product with the weather I’d say.”

Hoping to find as much success as Ohneka has had in Kingston is the newly formed Local Goods Ltd. Founded by Adrian Caldarola in the early months of this term, Local Goods Ltd. is a line of street wear seeking to integrate itself into the Queen’s community.

“Being around Queen’s and in this community, you would understand the kind of people that I want wearing my clothes,” said Caldarola, ArtSci ’17.

Caldarola claims his work with Local Goods Ltd. and his passion for Queen’s students as the ideal

demographic for his brand has helped him integrate himself more into the Queen’s community.

“I feel like it’s definitely made it a lot better in terms of, I feel like I’m branching out more than I would have before,” Caldarola said.

He hopes Local Goods Ltd. will ultimately benefit the community as a whole, beyond just providing students with nice t-shirts.

“I kind of want it to be a local brand and branch out from there, so I’m trying to do things with local music, get some musicians from Queen’s University, we’re going to start doing blogs and stuff like that to get their name out there as well,” Caldarola said.

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WINE TASTING

Wining and dining

Finding the right wine for your student budget and tastes B y B rendon D awson and E katerina M anoilenko Contributors Often associated with dinners, galas and other pomp activities, wine is typically left on the rack during Friday afternoon LCBO visits.

Brendon has been working in a restaurant since high school and developed an affinity for fine grapes shortly after completing his SmartServe.

Ekaterina has loved wine since a young age — there are different rules in Russia — and had the opportunity to explore many vineyards in Cape Town this past summer.

The best to way to get into wine is to simply start drinking it. This shouldn’t be as intimidating an exercise as students make it out to be; wines are labelled to describe

their flavours, after all.

Wine is beautiful because it’s a constant and enjoyable learning process — new grape varietals, locations and methods are continuously complementing ancient techniques.

We’ve done the work for you and given reviews of three bottles, all available at the LCBO for under $13. This weekend, consider adding a touch of class to your next flip cup tournament.

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smooth impression and the light oak dances across the PHOTOS BY BRENDON DAWSON palette. Although refreshing, this Good wines don’t have to be expensive. nourishing grape leaves you warm and ready for another sip. is new to the wine world. A mix of Although this one requires a bottle This bottle isn’t only great both fun and tradition, this bottle opener, it doesn’t disappoint. This value, but also great flavour. South is the product of many vineyards medium-bodied red is hard to get a Eastern Australia is ripe with and displays the complementary hold of, as it comes from the high regional characteristics and this tones of creativity and class. The slopes of the Italian Alps. bottle certainly does not disappoint. smoothness makes the drinkability Fleshy with a light minerality, Enjoy with berries or soft cheeses at enjoyable, especially for those this structured red takes time to your next pre. beginning their journey with reds; reveal its plummy and angular however, you won’t be robbed notes. By far the most complex on Revolution Red Blend, of complexity. our list today, the Barbera grape California ($10.95) The Grocery Checkout’s leaves the drinker satisfied and chocolate-covered almonds would craving red meats or hard cheeses.

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D’Asti DOCG 2012, Northern of European Reds is best saved The modern label shouldn’t be Italy ($12.95) for dates and get-togethers — just avoided, as this innovative varietal don’t forget about the cork.

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B y S tyna T ao Staff Writer Week six of my term at the University of Edinburgh was a week for Honours Business students to take seminars and work on their graduation dissertation.

But as an exchange student, I didn’t have the obligation to do a dissertation and because lectures were cancelled, I essentially had a SUPPLIED BY STYNA TAO mid-semester reading week.

Nice is a seafood lover’s dream come true.

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Regardless of the length of stay, boardwalk named after the English Like almost everyone, I the city just feels so relaxing and vacationers — to find your perfect have some bucket-list places indulgent. If you love old towns spot for lunch. that I planned to visit while on like I do, the narrow cobblestone The sun shines all day long on exchange, but Nice wasn’t one of streets lined with shops and the pebble beach so you can work them. However, I absolutely adore restaurants will delight you. on your tan after you eat while France — I haven’t visited a French All the architecture looks like listening to the waves crash. city that I haven’t liked — and the Mediterranean beach houses, with For dinner, seafood lovers will idea of escaping to the warmth of cream or yellow walls, orange happily rejoice. A variety of mussels, the French Riviera as the cold sets roofs and decorated balconies with oysters and fish dishes are served at in Edinburgh made the decision an colourful flowers. most restaurants. easy one.

What makes Nice even A three-course dinner of savory I arrived in Nice on a Monday more perfect is the number of crepes, mussels in white wine sauce afternoon. The plane flew over the markets that can be found, the and apple tart can be had for under ocean, giving me a glimpse of the main one being the Marché des 20 euros. Enjoy it with local wine towns on the coast. I was jittery Fleurs (Flower Market) in the on a patio set in an old town square, with excitement.

Cours Saleya. listening to serenading musicians.

When we landed, my outfit Whether you’re looking for You won’t believe it’s real life. of jeans, a long-sleeve shirt and vegetables, flowers, lavender soap, To explore the Riviera, you can a leather jacket was seriously olives, bread or cheese, you can take a train for around three euros incompatible with the 25 degree find them in abundance. and arrive in an hour or less to any sunshine shining.

After you’ve bought your of the nearby coast towns where Thankfully, I did pack for the obligatory French lunch consisting more sunshine, beaches and sweet weather with a variety of shorts, of bread, cheese, dried sausage and crepes await. tank tops and dresses — all of olives, you can head straight to The worst thing about Nice was leaving, as I reluctantly put my jeans back on and boarded STUDENT LIFE the plane with my jacket in hand, knowing that I’ll need it when I land.

Until next time, beautiful French Riviera.

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Bring back basic

There’s nothing wrong with being “basic” B y C laudia T sang Staff Writer Standing in the Starbucks line, I’m mentally preparing myself to order my pumpkin spice latte.

I can’t help but feel self-conscious because it’s so overdone, so mainstream — it’s so basic. And being dubbed those five little letters makes me almost feel ashamed of myself. But why should I be embarrassed?

Why has it become not okay to like heirloom pumpkin candles, enjoy my salted caramel everything, wear thick knits in “sweater weather” and love essentially everything that’s good in this world?

We throw the term “basic” around so casually now that the condescension that seeps through every pore of that word is easily overlooked.

“Basic”, in its most quintessential simplicity, is no longer indicative of classic goodness. Instead we’ve made it so we’ve become equated with being predictable, unsophisticated, uninteresting.

We’re boring.

And with the increasing pressure to be radical and hipster, liking easily lovable things just isn’t a show of good tastes anymore.

Being “basic” has always referred to liking popular things,

Being “basic” is synonymous with Starbucks and fall.

liking normal things — essentially liking “white” things. It’s sad that everything autumn has become defined as “basic”. I love autumn.

But as a Canadian-born Chinese person, my skin colour in itself creates a separation from these “basic”, “normal” activities that almost makes my enjoyment seem like a double offence. And it also annoys me that even this act of admitting that I like something “mainstream” is considered “refreshing”.

Why can’t I just enjoy the things that I like? Why should I even have to learn to embrace this?

Because it’s not about liking white things and it’s not about embracing this conforming “Canadian” part of me. I definitely can’t tell you what it’s like trying to reclaim this idea of “basic”.

But I can tell you that I

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love Starbucks a lot. And I can say that I like lighting my apple-scented candles and that I just took my millionth picture of the changing leaves.

Canadian fall only lasts about six short weeks. It’s the only time where grey skies are acceptable because unlike snow, leaves are dry.

So click the “like” button on that picture of the foggy pumpkin patch on your Instagram feed. Wear all the flannel and plaid you like and drink butternut squash soup until your pee turns an unnatural shade of orange. Eat some pumpkin pie because it’s delicious and be that poser who takes a photo between corn stalks.

Because guess what — those people calling you basic love the taste of pumpkin too.

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Friday, November 7, 2014

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Reflections on vanity

One student’s challenge to go barefaced and mirrorless for 48 hours B y A lex W att Contributor

bedroom mirror.

I realized that, instinctively, the first thing I always wanted to do I’ve always been fascinated in the morning was look at myself. by vanity.

After avoiding the mirror, getting As a girl growing up with on with my morning routine felt two brothers, I was perpetually very odd. ridiculed for any superficiality I couldn’t check for dark circles and overt fashion or makeup under my eyes or confirm that I choices I made throughout my didn’t fall asleep with pen marks adolescent life. on my face, which I genuinely There was the Goth phase, the worried about for the rest of preppy phase, the au naturel phase, the day. the “I-don’t-care-what-peopleI couldn’t apply my usual daily think-even-though-I-do” rebellious make-up, so instead, I washed my phase and other experimental face and I brushed my hair blindly phases in which make-up would hoping that it had turned out be applied to suit the vibe of relatively normal-looking. the occasion.

As I left the house, I immediately Like many others, I’ve fallen ran into multiple people I knew, victim to the seductive powers and although nothing was overtly of Instagram. said about my appearance, I I’m guilty of taking selfies, was definitely looked at slightly trying out various filters, coating differently than normal. on some bronzer to make it look That morning I got two “you like I was in Mexico over the look tired” greetings I could have weekend — you know the drill. done without and a double-take But why do we do it? Why do from a friend of mine. I immediately we waste time and energy deciding began to feel more self-conscious. between the Lo-Fi or Mayfair filter?

As the day went on, a feeling of Is it so that others can express their paranoia grew heavier and heavier PHOTOS BY CHLOE SOBEL approval with a ‘like’? as I encountered more students Going without make-up for two days proved to be more challenging than expected.

Let’s cut to the chase here. on campus.

Instagram is an application with Did I really look that different? show people you are usually you’re checking your teeth for someone is most attractive when the sole purpose of bettering our Did I look worse? Maybe I looked wearing a mask.” food or even just glancing at your they are comfortable, and that goes appearance through designated better? I definitely looked tired.

Though Bird believes it’s reflection for a brief moment for both clothes and make-up,” filters, lighting, and editing. It’s They said I looked tired. important to go barefaced every before going on with your day. she said. clearly not a reflection of how we I felt disappointed in myself as once in a while, make-up has also I hadn’t realized how often we There may be an evolutionary truly appear.

I became steadily more conscious done a lot for her confidence. do this until it became taboo. reason to why we wear make-up.

All this got me thinking that I cared a lot more about my “I struggled a lot with acne Day two of my experiment was In a June Psychology Today article about make-up. appearance than I had thought. growing up, so for me make-up surprisingly easier than the first. by Concordia Marketing Professor Doesn’t make-up do the same Prior to this experiment, I helped me get out of bed and into Although I had now gone 24 hours Gad Saad, he explains that we thing — better our appearance believed that this would be easy, social situations. I have recently without any idea of how I looked, use sex-specific products, such as through a filter? Why do some of that I was confident enough to go tried going barefaced whenever I had started to care less. cosmetics, as sexual signals. us feel a need to wear make-up without any make-up and that I possible,” she said.

That morning I received the A study indicates that make-up every morning and alter our likely wouldn’t succumb to feelings “I must admit though it depends exact same looks from my peers, creates greater facial contrast, natural selves? What would it feel of insecurity. I have to admit I on my skin,” she said. which I now perceived as entirely which affects how masculine or like to bare all and show our naked was wrong.

Bird said she only feels the need ordinary and that I must have feminine someone’s face looks. faces to the world?

Jess Bird, a professional to wear make-up when she has overreacted to the day before.

In general, female faces have I decided to find out. I make-up artist working in Kingston, issues with the way her skin looks, I no longer felt an itch to fix greater facial contrast than male conducted a social experiment in said make-up can provide us but is very open to going natural if my hair, a desire to look in mirrors faces. Thus, the application which I wouldn’t wear make-up or with a certain confidence for she’s comfortable enough to do it. or glimpse at my reflection in of make-up highlights the sex look in any mirrors for 48 hours. various reasons.

Not only was going without a passing windows. differences in facial features.

Though I thought it “I’m very interested in our ‘mask’ a little nerve-wracking for When I was discussing the Whether we’re aware of it or would be a fun and liberating obsession with beauty and youth, me, but not being able to look at experiment with my housemates not, there’s evidence that evolution experience, it proved to be I think girls learn from a young myself in mirrors only increased later that night, they claimed may play a part in why we choose much more challenging than I age that beauty is important in our feelings of insecurity. I had never not to have even noticed that I to beautify our faces. originally anticipated. culture,” Bird said. wanted to look at myself in hadn’t been wearing make-up for Though at times make-up Waking up in the morning “If you hide your flaws and mirrors more. two days. can make us feel more assured and struggling to get up for enhance your features, you can I realized there was a comfort I now felt a bit ridiculous about or confident and cover up what my 8:30 class, I caught myself change how the world sees you. that comes with looking in a mirror having been so uncomfortable we perceive to be our flaws and immediately stumbling towards my Going out without makeup can every once and a while, whether the day before and it showed me imperfections, it can also obstruct how influential our egocentric one’s sense of self-confidence and reflections are in affecting how we ability to just be ourselves. feel about ourselves.

At the end of the day, the I had thought I looked radically idea of beauty comes down to opposite to the made-up face I individual perspectives. normally put on, when realistically, I learned from this experiment no one was scrutinizing my that the way I carried myself in appearance or cared nearly as social situations made me feel a much as I assumed. lot better about myself than the Julie James, ArtSci ’15, rarely amount of make-up I chose to wears make-up except for wear everyday. special occasions.

Once I became independent of She said she views make-up not and impartial to people’s opinions only as a tool to beautify, but also of my appearance, it didn’t as a way to hide one’s true beauty. matter how much make-up I did “I have better things to do with or didn’t wear. What did matter my time than spend an hour in was how comfortable I felt with front of a mirror obsessing over my appearance. parts of myself that I want to hide I’ll still wear make-up at times, or change,” James said. take the occasional selfie and “My most attractive quality isn’t falter between Instagram filters. I at surface level and can’t be seen, have my insecurities too, just like so I don’t feel like I need to cover everyone else. anything up.”

We’re human and there’s no She agrees that confidence is the harm in a little vanity, just so long most attractive quality in a person. as we recognize it when we look in According to one professor, the desire to wear make-up stems from an evolutional standpoint.

“I’m a big believer that the mirror.