The Queen's Journal, Volume 142, Issue 14

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67.9 per cent in favour of increasing the Bus-It fee

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67.4 per cent in favour unsuccessful fees of increasing the 0 COR fee 94.3 per cent in favour of continuing the 57.1 per cent in favour ReUnion Street Festival of establishing a fee for the Union Gallery AMS

All referendum fees successful As 22 proposals pass, fall referendum sees highest voter turnout since 1995

B y N atasa B ansagi Assistant News Editor The 2014 AMS fall referendum, which took place on Tuesday and Wednesday, saw the highest voter turnout since 1995, according to figures from AMS Information & Policy Officer Greg McKellar.

5,478 students voted in the referendum and voter turnout was at 34.1 per cent.

Dating back to and including 1996, the highest voter turnout was 32 per cent in 2007.

In 2013, voter turnout for the fall referendum was 15.8 per cent; in 2012, it was 26.33 per cent and in 2011, 29 per cent.

All fee proposals in this fall’s referendum — seven of which were mandatory and fifteen subject to individual opt-out — were successful.

Students were given the option to select “yes”, “no” or to abstain from voting, although abstentions weren’t counted in final percentages.

94.3 per cent of participating students answered “yes” to a plebiscite question

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asking if they wished to see the ReUnion Street Festival established as an annual Homecoming event.

Vice-President of University Affairs Philip Lloyd told the Journal via email that the AMS is “thrilled to see such overwhelming support from the student body for the continuation of the ReUnion Street Festival.”

“With this strong sentiment from students, we will continue to work with the Festival Oversight and Planning Committee, comprised of the AMS executive and university stakeholders, on how best to institutionalize the Festival for future homecomings,” said Lloyd, ConEd ’13.

AMS Commissioner of Internal Affairs Claire Cathro said it’s generally more difficult to spur student interest and involvement in the fall referendum compared to the executive election. She added that she didn’t expect turnout to be as high as it was.

Cathro, ArtSci ’15, said part of the increase could be attributed to this year’s new voting software, Simply Voting, which allowed students to vote using their Net ID and password rather than having to copy

usernames and passwords e-mailed to them.

Using the new software, the AMS can also determine who is voting, enabling them to conduct tailored marketing strategies towards certain groups. “[W]e can kind of determine where we’re not having a great voter turnout from certain subsets of the population and potentially trying to say, okay, what issues or what fees are very important to specifically engineering students or commerce students or ArtSci students,” Cathro said.

“So how can we better target those voters that may not have a lot of information about what they’re voting for, may not really see how it affects them?”

She added that many of the groups on this year’s ballot were important to students, citing Bus-It and SHRC as examples.

“It was things that students were interested in and wanted to get behind,” she said.

On the first day of the referendum, the AMS set up three stationary polling booths for students to cast their vote using an iPad. On Wednesday, members of the election team walked around with iPads to

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encourage voting.

Cathro said there are plans to continue these practices for the winter referendum and election, “targeting different locations where we would have these stationary polling booths or where we would send students to try and get people to vote.”

This was the first year that abstention was an option since the AMS moved to online voting in 2009. AMS policy allows for students to spoil or reject their ballot, but when the referendum moved online there was no mechanism in place to enable it.

“We felt it was important to give students that option this year based on feedback we received from students at the end of last year and to be in accordance with our current policy,” Cathro told the Journal later via email.

The Union Gallery saw a $4 opt-out fee approved in the referendum, with 57.1 per cent voting “yes”, 42.9 per cent voting “no” and 16.6 per cent abstaining.

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HISTORY

Sir John A. a divisive figure

Kingstonians debate Prime Minister’s legacy in lead-up to bicentennial B y N atasa B ansagi Assistant News Editor The legacy of Canada’s first Prime Minister is being debated in the lead-up to Sir John A. Macdonald’s bicentennial.

The 16th annual symposium on Indigenous research, organized by the Four Directions Aboriginal Student Centre (FDASC), will take place Friday and Saturday at Sutherland Hall and will discuss “the violent exclusions,

repressions and impositions of the Canadian nation building project” during Macdonald’s time as Prime Minister.

“Critical Indigenous reflections on Sir John A. Macdonald” comes less than two months before the bicentennial of Macdonald’s birth, with other bicentennial-related events set to occur in Kingston in January.

Themes at the symposium include “‘Indian’ policies and treaty making”, Louis Riel, the making

A puppet of Sir John A. Macdonald at City Hall on Canada Day.

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of a racial settler state and “state repression and the working class, relative to Indigenous populations”.

Erin Sutherland, a co-organizer of the symposium, said Macdonald’s influence can still be seen in politics today.

“Especially through the way that Prime Minister Harper talks about celebrating John A. Macdonald and celebrating the War of 1812 … he’s really connecting today’s Conservative Party and the government today to kind of Canada in the 1800s,” said Sutherland, a PhD candidate in the department of Cultural Studies.

Arthur Milnes, the Sir John A. Macdonald Bicentennial Ambassador for the City of Kingston, said he’s “thrilled” that the symposium’s taking place, adding that Macdonald would have supported these discussions.

“What a great chance in this case for the Aboriginal community to shed light and study some of Canada’s earliest actions as a nation that have impacted Aboriginal peoples,” Milnes said.

He added that Macdonald, like other leaders, are “products of their times”, so discussions must be contextualized.

“Show me a Prime Minister that’s perfect or an Aboriginal Chief that’s perfect, and I’ll show you someone who hasn’t been a Chief or Prime Minister,” he said.

In January, former Premier of Ontario Bob Rae and Canada’s Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Christopher Alexander will debate ‘Sir John A. Macdonald, Canada’s greatest Prime Minister?’ as part of the City’s bicentennial programming.

“This is a commemoration and celebration that we all can be proud of,” Milnes said.

“In our own small way, I think

Kingstonians, by being so inclusive, are showing other communities how to cooperatively discuss Canadian history and how to learn from it and how to move forward.”

Paul Dyck, artistic associate at SALON Theatre Productions — which will run Macdonald Week from Jan. 6-11 in Kingston — said that while the City refers to bicentennial events as a “celebration”, SALON Theatre prefers to “mark” the events.

“We’re choosing not to use a word like that because that implies that people want to celebrate, and not everybody wants to celebrate Sir John A. Macdonald,” he said.

SALON Theatre aims to remain neutral and create a “bicentennial conversation”, Dyck said, adding that the organization supports the symposium because it brings a critical perspective to the discussion. “[Macdonald] is one of the most complex individuals of our past and influential, for better or for worse,” Dyck said.

“To understand him fully and appreciate him fully, I think you have to look at all sides of him.”

Laura Murray, a professor in the department of cultural studies, will present at the symposium alongside fellow City of Kingston Municipal Heritage Committee member Paul Carl. “[A] huge amount of attention” is paid to Macdonald in Kingston, according to Murray.

“In a way, by just looking at Sir John A. Macdonald, we forget other aspects of the City’s history,”

she said.

Murray and Carl are interested in underexplored and underrepresented areas of Kingston’s history, with a focus on Indigenous history.

She said “mock plaques” will be presented at the symposium “of the kinds of things that we would like to see marked in Kingston streets.”

She added that this is the beginning of a project that could potentially lead to collaboration with artists or community members, or simply using the plaques as “a way of thinking”.

“We’ve tried to imagine how Kingston could do a better job thinking about its Indigenous history,” Murray said.

Greg Tilson, a member of Kingston music collective The Gertrudes, said the group will create a song that will bring “critical perspective” to the symposium and the bicentennial events in January.

The project will be undertaken alongside Indigenous filmmaker Amanda Strong and Kingston writer Sadiqa Khan.

The primary goal of the song, he said, is to widen the conversation, although he added that he doesn’t want this to be a divisive topic.

“It has the potential to be divisive in Kingston just because we, for better or for worse, we associate so much of the city’s identity with the home of the first prime minister,” Tilson said.

However, Tilson said he has noticed movement toward a “more inclusive conversation”.

“I think it’s important to note that there are many Kingstonians and many Canadians, such as the Aboriginal community, that, you know, don’t really have a reason to celebrate or glorify this particular person and this part of our history,” he said.

POLITICS

Queen’s clubs expand the definition of genocide

First annual Genocide Awareness Week begins Monday B y C hloe S obel News Editor

There will also be a film just how all genocides follow the screening on Thursday of Shake same pattern … if you look at Hands With the Devil, which is all that has gone on in the 20th Queen’s Amnesty International about the Rwandan genocide. century, they all follow the same (QAI) will spend next week QAI worked with Queen’s pattern more or less,” Butterfield, redefining genocide through STAND, which works to bring ArtSci ’15, said.

Queen’s first Genocide awareness to and prevent genocide, “It’s just very easy to predict Awareness Week. and Not For Sale Queen’s, which when it’s going to happen, and The week will include a speaker works to combat human trafficking, it’s preventable.” series on Tuesday, featuring Major in developing the week and its She said there are currently Brent Beardsley, who was present in events. Queen’s International nine genocides going on around Rwanda during the 1994 genocide Justice Mission, a Christian the world, including ISIL’s ethnic as part of a UN peacekeeping organization that fights sex cleansing of minority groups in force; Ayub Nuri, a Kurdish Iraqi trafficking and sexual violence in Iraq and violence in Myanmar journalist and member of PEN Canada, is also lending volunteers against the Rohingya and other Canada; and Brendan de Caires, to the week’s events. ethnic minorities. programs and communications Alex Butterfield, QAI president, Butterfield said most people coordinator for PEN Canada. said she became interested in the outside politics, or who don’t do Beardsley, Nuri and de Caires topic of genocide when she visited research into genocide, are unaware will speak about how they’ve been Rwanda this summer. of what counts as genocide — for affected by genocide and how “Just kind of learning about instance, they may not know that to tell when genocide is going genocide and learning through killing political opponents, forced to happen. my politics classes and travelling starvation or taking children from

A Sir John A. Macdonald impersonator at City Hall on Canada Day.

their families are forms of genocide.

“I think that Queen’s students overall do care about these issues and they are passionate about them and they do want to help, they’re just not given the information,” she said.

“When you’re told a whole bunch of people are being killed, it’s hard to be like, ‘well, what can I do?’ It’s very much that fact of like — small fish in a big pond.”

QAI, like the wider Amnesty International organization, conducts mass letter-writing campaigns, and Butterfield said government officials respond differently to receiving five letters than to receiving 50,000 — if there’s mass pressure with a flood of letters, they’re more likely to capitulate to the campaign’s request, like getting someone off death row or freeing them from

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prison entirely.

She added that one in 10 campaigns are successful, including one on an environmental bill brought to Parliament that would have affected Aboriginal lands and have “damaging effects”.

Amnesty International conducted a campaign asking for the bill to be revised.

“Because so many Canadians wrote in, the bill has now been taken off the table and they are making changes to it,” she said.

Ultimately, QAI is looking to educate students, she added.

“We want to just spread awareness around the Queen’s campus,” Butterfield said.

“If there’s any way you can prevent another genocide from happening — I think that’s very important.”

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FEATURE EMPLOYMENT

Unions and admin adopt adversarial approach As Queen’s lays off custodial staff amid union complaints, the Journal looks back on unions at Queen’s B y S ebastian L eck Features Editor As Queen’s faces a $456 million pension solvency deficit, many full-time jobs at the University have been reduced to part-time positions, according to the president of the local Canadian Union for Public Employees (CUPE).

CUPE 229, a branch of the nationwide union, represents approximately 260 full-time employees directly employed by Queen’s, 85-95 full-time Sodexo employees and 200-250 part-time Sodexo workers.

In April, the University laid off 17 custodial employees and reduced the hours for six other employees, from 37.5 to 20 hours per week.

The layoffs were part of “casualization” occurring at the University, where part-time workers replace laid-off full-time employees, said CUPE 229 President Pat Cummings.

“Basically, they earn quite a bit less money. They only work odd hours. They don’t get enough to support their families,” Cummings said. “In the 14 years I’ve been doing this, this is unique.”

Historically, Queen’s has had friendly relations with local labour organizations, according to Cummings — but the relationship has become more formal as more unions have formed.

Queen’s Human Resources Office has expanded greatly since the early 2000s, he added, and the union has more difficulty sitting down with the University than in the past.

“When I was sitting across the table in years gone by, you’d be sitting across from Human Resources people who didn’t have law degrees, as opposed to now,” he said.

CUPE’s collective agreement with Queen’s states that employees must undergo a “trial” period before falling under CUPE’s jurisdiction.

This period is three months for regular employees and six months for students, according to Cummings.

According to the agreement, which was signed in 2010, custodial employees should receive $23.31 per hour, as well as benefits such as paid vacation days and a dental plan after a year of employment.

In the past year, Cummings said, the University has hired part-time employees and let them go for two weeks before re-hiring them, which restarts the trial process.

“They consider that a break in service. We have grievances about what’s taking place,” he said.

As a result of layoffs, garbage pick-up has changed at the University, Cummings said, noting that office employees are now responsible for taking their waste to a central repository instead of having employees pick it up.

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A timeline of labour relations at Queen’s.

Custodial employees at the recently opened Isabel Bader Centre are contracted workers from a private Toronto firm, he added, so no employees represented by CUPE are working at the centre.

Cummings said this should be a safety concern, since part-time workers may not receive adequate support and training to provide services like cleaning and snow shoveling to the University.

Casual employees don’t have ownership of the work or commitment to their jobs in the same way that full-time workers do, he added, and the hourly wage of $12 an hour part-time workers receive is inadequate to meet basic needs.

“With the casualization of employees, you’re forcing people into food banks at lower wages,” he said.

Cummings said he hasn’t heard any response from the University on the issue, other than a statement from Physical Plant Services Engineering and Operations Director John Witjes in April, which noted that layoffs were done to prevent Physical Plant Services from running into a deficit.

University administration was unavailable to respond to requests for comment by deadline.

CUPE 229 is one of several labour organizations on campus.

Two other CUPE organizations, CUPE 254 and CUPE 1302, also represent Queen’s support staff.

The Queen’s University Faculty Association (QUFA) represents University faculty, such as professors and archives and library staff, while Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) 901 represents post-doctoral students, teaching assistants and teaching fellows.

The United Steelworkers Local 2010 (USW),meanwhile,represents over 1,100 Queen’s staff, including secretaries, clerks, academic assistants, nurses and support staff.

The USW signed its collective agreement with the University in 2013.

Collective agreements set standards for work conditions, compensation, benefits and other work-related procedures for

union members.

Queen’s has never experienced a faculty strike, although it came close in 2011, according to University Historian Duncan McDowall.

While local CUPE branches have initiated strikes before, McDowall said, the current bargaining system is new to Queen’s faculty.

Prior to QUFA’s collective agreement with the University, signed in 1995, QUFA had a more collegial relationship with the administration, McDowall said.

“We’ve come a long way from the sense of collegiality in the 1960s, where they quickly arranged what they’re being paid, to the present, which is a pretty adversarial relationship,” he said.

McDowall said universities were “immune” to strikes at the faculty level in the 1950s and 1960s, since faculty members saw themselves as independent professionals rather than employees for a single employer.

QUFA was established in 1951, when it was a non-unionized organization designed to protect the collective rights of faculty. The organization now represents 1,200 faculty members.

QUFA originally had a friendly relationship with the administration, according to McDowall, and faculty members casually met with administration to discuss wages and hours.

“The Principal was always the annual invited speaker at [QUFA’s] Christmas dinner,” McDowall said. “You can’t imagine the auto workers having the president of General Motors at their annual dinner.”

Conditions changed after a financial downturn in the 1970s.

Universities received less funding from the Ontario government, which suffered due to the international oil crisis and a worldwide economic recession.

Queen’s administration initially attempted to maintain the friendly relationship by arguing that Queen’s was unique among Ontario universities, McDowall said.

“They talked in terms of

Queen’s spirit. It’s a good place, it’s a quality place,” he said. “Yeah, the folks at York may be getting two per cent more than you, but you’re at Queen’s.”

However, McDowall said, then-Principal Ronald Watts eventually created a system to discuss work conditions. In 1973, Watts formed a consultative group with five administrators and five faculty members to reach agreements on annual work conditions.

“In most years, the group came to a consensus. The faculty would go back to the group, say ‘we got nine per cent, we could have done better, but this seems as good as we can do’,” he said.

However, the group’s decisions weren’t binding, and the Principal had the power to impose a decision on faculty.

This system broke down in the 1990s after two decades of financial difficulties for the University, McDowall said, leading to the current system of negotiation.

“The University’s fiscal situation never got back to where it was in the 1960s,” he said, adding that premier Bob Rae’s provincial government made sweeping budget cuts in the early 1990s, which reduced wages at Queen’s.

“You took ‘Rae days’, where you didn’t get paid at all for a day and stayed away from work.”

Faculty decided they needed a more comprehensive agreement after those cuts, McDowall added, since the consultative group wasn’t effective at preventing cuts to wages.

QUFA and the University reached a collective agreement in 1995, with a bargaining process that involved formal negotiations between the faculty and the administration.

Queen’s faculty has never gone on strike, but came close in 2011, when the Ministry of Labour passed a “No Board” report on July 29, which ended a conciliation period.

A No Board report signifies that there was a failure to resolve differences through “conciliation”, where a government conciliation

officer facilitated negotiations between Queen’s and the faculty members.

After the deadline, Queen’s and QUFA had 16 days to reach an agreement before a strike or lockout was legally possible.

QUFA came to an agreement with Queen’s at 4:40 a.m. on Aug. 15 — almost five hours after the 16-day period had passed.

Other universities in Ontario have experienced strikes and protracted negotiations in recent years. In 2008, York University faced an 85-day strike by its local CUPE branch, which included contract professors, teaching assistants and graduate students.

Dalhousie University also narrowly avoided a strike in 2012 when a tentative agreement was struck with the Dalhousie Faculty Association (DFA).

QUFA President Diane Beauchemin said it’s hard to say what conditions will lead to a possible strike.

“In 2011, QUFA members were brought to the verge of a strike because the Administration simply refused to negotiate until the 11th hour,” Beauchemin told the Journal via email.

She said the association has experienced an increased workload for faculty since unionization in 1995, as well as a less cooperative relationship with the university.

“As faculty and librarian concerns have turned more and more to working conditions, quality of education and questions of equity, the Administration’s focus has narrowed in on money issues even while the proportion of the University’s budget spent on faculty salaries has been in steady decline,” Beauchemin said.

She said the reduction of support staff, regular faculty, changing technology and “downloading of administrative duties”, where administrative tasks are given to faculty, have contributed to a larger workload.

“This divergence in interests has meant that negotiations are more adversarial and less cooperative in spirit,” she said.

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ALUMNI

Sunjay Nath returns to inspire Sci ‘97 alum preaches the “10-80-10” principle B y J acob R osen Assistant News Editor

“You! You think you’re funny. You will fill in for him.”

Those were the first words of encouragement that led Sunjay Nath, then a second-year engineering student, to pursue a career in inspirational speaking.

At the time, he was part of the planning committee for a one-day student leadership event for Kingston high school students.

When a speaker bailed last minute, Nath was forced to fill in.

Almost 20 years after that first speech, Nath has spoken in front of approximately 2,000 audiences and one million students and business professionals. Thursday night’s alumni speaker event in Sir John A. Macdonald Hall, put on by the Queen’s Student Alumni Association, was one of over a dozen times that Nath has returned to speak to Queen’s students.

“Everything about [professional speaking] fits my personality,” said Nath, Sci ’97.

“If I had a 9-to-5 job I would have gone crazier, longer ago. I like how every day is different … the entrepreneurial aspect fits who I am personally. In terms of impact, over the years, the letters and emails that I’ve got back saying this that and the other.

It’s amazing.”

Following his initial speech as a fill-in for the high school leadership event, Nath was approached by one of the teachers in

the crowd, who asked if he could speak at another school event.

This cycle of recognition continued to the point that schools were offering to pay him to come speak. By the time he reached his last year at Queen’s, he was doing all his schoolwork during the week so that on the weekends he could drive to local schools in Ontario to speak.

After graduating in mechanical engineering, Nath found a part-time job so he’d have something consistent on the side as he continued to find speaking opportunities. Eventually, he quit to focus solely on speaking.

“I think what everyone wants in a career is, they want to do something they like and something they enjoy and have an impact that helps people to be better around them. In terms of that, I’ve been extremely fortunate,” he said.

Nath’s trademarked “10-80-10” principle is based on the idea that when individuals pursue careers in areas of their strength and interest, their work is more efficient than those doing jobs they don’t enjoy. Nath also stresses the idea that being a victim of bad luck in life is based on individual perspectives.

“The very things, at one point in our lives, that serve as obstacles, with a better understanding, with more maturity, more development, more smarts, will be stepping stones as others.”

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RESEARCH

In the cancer trenches

Four researchers receive grants; Queen’s announces new clinical trial B y C hloe S obel News Editor

announcement, four cancer researchers at Queen’s have each received grants from the Cancer Research Society.

Madhuri Koti, a researcher in the department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, and Bruce Elliott, Peter Greer and Lois Mulligan, all in the department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, each received $120,000.

Their projects all deal with basic cancer research, and their labs involve an “extensive population” of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, according to Mulligan.

“I think we’re all funded in projects that have a relationship to the spread of cancer and metastasis of cancer, so each of the projects is separate,” Mulligan said. “The overall theme of all of them is looking at how cancer spreads and a portion of that comes out of the fact that [Queen’s] is a very good spot to be doing a translational and a transdisciplinary research project.”

Mulligan, Greer and Elliott all spoke of the importance of basic research, with Mulligan saying that the Cancer Research Society is one of just a few remaining Canadian agencies that funds basic research nationally.

“The funding that they give out is not large and it’s not extended, but it’s extremely valuable,” she said.

“It’s the starting point for many, many of these important research projects. Queen’s has been very successful this year with CRS funding and I think that’s a good recognition of the quality of research that’s gone on and the potential impact of the research

that is peer-reviewed by scientists across the country.”

She added that even though what funding the Society does give out is valuable, cancer researchers can “always do more with more”.

The ideas and information developed in basic research — for example, the mechanisms associated with the development and spread of cancer — form the basis for development by the pharmaceutical industry, often with much larger sums of money than basic research receives, Greer said.

“That’s getting into the trenches, really, of cancer biology, and pharmaceutical companies don’t do that, they wait for us to do that,” Greer said.

“And then we bang our heads on the wall for, sometimes, a whole career, and if we’re lucky we find a few things that may get ultimately translated into a novel therapeutic.”

He said thanks to belt-tightening, there’s an increasing emphasis on the most high-impact research, pushing scientists to pick “low-hanging fruit”.

“If we just put all of our emphasis on trying to — to use another bad metaphor, pick the low-hanging fruit, then what’ll happen is in another five, 10, 15 years, that’s it, there is no more low-hanging fruit,” he said.

“And the infrastructure, the people that have the knowledge to do this sort of thing or train the next generation of people who have the knowledge to do that — it will have been depleted.”

With a new clinical trial for lung cancer patients set to begin and four separate grants received by cancer researchers, Queen’s is looking to improve the outlook for cancer patients.

The NCIC Clinical Trials Group (NCIC CTG) announced Monday that it’s developed and will lead an international clinical trial for patients with non-small cell lung cancer who have already undergone surgery and chemotherapy.

Non-small cell lung cancer makes up 80 to 85 per cent of all lung cancer cases.

The drug being tested, MEDI4736, was developed by AstraZeneca as part of a class of drugs that improves the immune system’s ability to recognize and fight cancer cells. The trial is open to 1,100 patients.

Dr. Janet Dancey, director of the NCIC CTG, said the time period from the trial idea being suggested by investigators to putting together a regulatory package for Health Canada was about three and a half to four months, adding that this was “incredibly fast”.

“Just trying to have collaborations, not just with AstraZeneca but with all of these different countries and groups and the investigators in these different countries, all of that had to mesh as well,” she said.

“But it’s the excitement being generated about testing this agent in lung cancer patients that just pulled everybody together.”

She said the trial is built around figuring out whether the — With files from Jacob Rosen new treatment will improve the long-term survival of lung cancer patients, who she said “desperately” need better treatments.

“Currently, too many people who are diagnosed with lung cancer still unfortunately aren’t cured, so this is really an opportunity to try to improve the outcomes for those patients — first in the context of a trial like this, and, if it’s successful, then it will become standard of care,” she said.

“We have an opportunity to do that, to really impact our patients’ lives.”

PHOTO BY CHLOE SOBEL In addition to the trial The new clinical trial was announced Monday.

ASUS

Grades plebiscite passes

ASUS receives student approval to move forward with grades issue B y M ishal O mar Assistant News Editor

are Toros Canturk and Hadiya a plebiscite that asked whether Ma, respectively. students wanted ASUS to ASUS President Adam Grotsky pursue placing a mode of The results of the ASUS fall said voter turnout for this year’s comparison — course averages, by-elections have been released, by-elections went up to 31 percent, medians, or percentiles — on and ASUS has introduced seven in comparison to last year’s official academic transcripts or not. new members to Assembly.

17 percent.

The plebiscite saw a majority The at-large ASUS Grotsky, ArtSci ’15, said ASUS “yes” vote with 67 per cent, while representatives to the AMS tried new things this year to get 33 per cent of students voted “no”. are Jason Verbeek and Forrest students to vote — creating an Grotsky said that from here, Donaldson. The first year ASUS elections Facebook page to give ASUS will try to figure out why so rep to the AMS is Liam Dowling. more direct attention to the many students voted no.

The 2016 year society President elections, as well as creating an “Yes, it was a majority, but it was and Vice-President are Nicole ASUS app purely for elections that also a bit surprising that 33 percent Raymer and Chelsea Wilson, allowed students to vote directly did say no,” he said. respectively. The 2018 year society through the app.

“I want to make sure that we do See Grotsky on page 7 President and Vice-President The by-election also included

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INDIGENOUS ISSUES

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Parliament voted unanimously to federal government sees that they support Kiwala’s private member’s have motions brought forward by motion, which called on assembly all provinces and territories, that Liberal MPP Sophie Kiwala spoke to support the National Aboriginal they will be much more inclined to a Queen’s Religious Studies Organization’s call for a national to do this.” class Wednesday about issues of public inquiry into missing Anne Reid, who attended violence facing Aboriginal women Aboriginal women and girls.

Kiwala’s presentation, said the in Canada unaddressed by the When she spoke to the Journal presentation was sincere and federal government. after her speech, Kiwala said this informed, adding that the issue is Kiwala, who was elected as motion won’t result in a provincial in dire need of attention.

MPP for Kingston and the Islands investigation, but she hopes it “The issue of the missing in June, is fighting to create will garner attention from other aboriginal women has far too long awareness surrounding these issues, provinces so they can collectively been placed on the back-burner at specifically for the disproportionate push the federal government to the federal level,” Reid, ArtSci ’16, amount of violence that Aboriginal start an inquiry. told the Journal via email. women face, in the hopes of “It wasn’t related to Ontario Reid said she was personally creating effective change. provincial government doing an inspired to create change by the She spoke to RELS 227, inquiry — we have a few separate recent rape and attempted murder “Religions of Native Peoples”, on initiatives that we’ve taken part in of Rinelle Harper in Winnipeg.

Wednesday afternoon. but we’re still asking for the federal “If students who have been She said Canadians have government to have a national informed of the historical consistently failed to close the inquiry,” she said. significance of such an issue as well gap between Indigenous and “The next step now for me is as the personal anguish of those non-Indigenous people in areas to ask the other provinces and involved can help in any way — we such as health care, education and territories to bring forward a similar will,” she said. quality of life. motion, and the hope is that if the Kiwala said the homicide rate for Aboriginal women and girls in Canada is almost seven times higher than it is for non-Aboriginal women and girls. Additionally, Aboriginal women and girls are three times more likely to be killed by a stranger than their non-Aboriginal counterparts.

Kiwala gave several reasons as to why this is the case. Legacies of colonialism — specifically residential schools to which Aboriginal children were forcibly taken and at which they were unable to speak their native languages and were often the victims of sexual and physical abuse — have resulted in an ongoing pattern of poverty, violence and drug and alcohol abuse in these communities, she said.

She said Aboriginal people live in some of the most impoverished areas in Canada, some of which don’t even have adequate access to clean water.

Many Aboriginal women make attempts to escape these often dire living conditions, and are murdered or go missing in the process.

Kiwala also spoke of the steps the government is taking to address some of these issues.

On Oct. 23, the provincial Kiwala, in front of a display of dolls that represent missing women.

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Commerce student receives royal treatment

Three and a half years of hard work for Erin Tomie culminates in a brief meeting with Princess Anne B y J enna Z ucker Contributor After three and a half years of hard work, Erin Tomie was presented with the Duke of Edinburgh’s prestigious Gold Award by Princess

Tomie and the princess.

Anne on Monday evening.

The Duke of Edinburgh Award is a non-competitive program for which participants set personal goals pertaining to new skills, advancement in fitness, community service and undertaking an

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adventurous journey. and congratulations during the On average, each award takes 90-minute ceremony held at the one year to complete with the historic Fairmont Château Laurier Gold award taking a minimum in Ottawa. of 78 weeks. During the process “To have the event with someone of completing the award, Tomie, as regal as Princess Anne made the Comm ’17, continued her studies in whole thing feel so much more piano, was a member of her school’s special, especially because a lot of cross country and ski teams and people just get their certificate in volunteered at Sault Ste. Marie’s ski the mail,” she said. club and musical theatre classes at “We saw Princess Anne for the Korah Collegiate. first time and the first thing that In addition to completing the came to mind was, ‘Wow, she looks award, the Duke of Edinburgh so much like Queen Elizabeth!’ A society requires a tremendous younger version, of course.” amount of paperwork to be Each participant had 30 seconds completed in order to verify the of private face time with the level of activity and serve as proof Princess, during which she asked of her work. each person a different question.

“I was getting reviews from the “My time with Princess Anne is different mentors I was working all a blur, I was so excited,” Tomie with,” Tomie said. said. “She asked what was up next Princess Anne presented the 90 for me and said she hoped I got Gold award winners from across some fun out of it. the country with a pin, a certificate “Most people receive the award

from the Governor General, so I was really lucky to meet Princess Anne as well.”

This award is the culmination of its participants hard work and dedication to their communities, and this ceremony “makes everything worth it,” Tomie said.

Because the royal family has many responsibilities, the Gold award winners had to wait two years until Princess Anne was available to host the ceremony.

“Having someone that important and busy take time out of their schedule to not just meet everyone, but also shake their hand, and ask each person a different question,” she said.

“She had something new to say to everyone, which just made it all the more special.”

Nath says he’s not motivational, but inspirational Continued from page 4

Nath gave this example: in fourth year, his application to be a residence don was rejected. This allowed him to look at himself and ask why he was rejected and how he could improve, something he preaches to people now when he gives lectures.

“I’ve often been called a motivational speaker and I don’t fight it, but I don’t consider myself a motivational speaker,” he said.

“Motivation is pushing someone

to do something they don’t want to do … an inspirational speaker is someone who helps awaken the genius within yourself so you’re inspired to take action.”

As a student, Nath was involved in the Engineering Society and other clubs. He originally planned on going into business but, due to family pressure, he pursued engineering.

He said he wasn’t happy with recent discussions of changing certain student traditions.

“I understand you want to get

rid of some of the hazing, where people are being targeted and inappropriate behavior, but to take away the fun, poking sarcastic gabbing between Engineer and Commerce students, I think it’s too far,” he said.

Nath currently lives in Oakville with his wife and three children but still travels frequently, doing 70 to 80 speeches a year.

“Do I get nervous? No. Do I get the butterflies? Almost every time,” he said.

Grotsky will reach out to students “If that happens, it will require a much larger campaign to make have strong student support for everybody aware that this is going this, and that’s where we’re going to happen, and if it does, ensure to do a bit more to reach out to that every society and perhaps even those students and see, the ones the AMS is getting involved too.” who voted no why they voted no, He added that he was and see what we can do to ease pleased with this year’s election their concerns.” overall, especially the fact that it Grotsky said the cost and was competitive. feasibility of placing a mode of “We’re very happy that we had comparison on academic transcripts competitive elections this year, will need to be identified, and that which we haven’t had much out of this might become the standard previous years,” he said.

University-wide.

“That speaks volumes to the “Due to a change about five engagement levels we’re seeing years ago to standardized with the University as a whole this transcripts, it may come down to year — I think people are taking every faculty needing to make this more steps to get involved in the change alongside Arts and Science,” democratic process.” he said.

Continued from page 5

Sunjay Nath spoke to students in Sir John A. Macdonald Hall Thursday night.

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Union Gallery excited for fee Continued from page 1

having been in place since 1994.

Union Gallery Director Jocelyn Purdie said the passing of the fee will allow the gallery to “build back to what we had before”, adding that she was surprised by the number of abstentions.

“I don’t know how we’d figure it out, but does it mean there are people that just don’t know about us, or don’t know enough about

us and is there a way that we can kind of increase awareness around the gallery, which is something we’re in the process of looking at,” Purdie said.

Lindsey Wilson, president of the Union Gallery’s Board of Directors, said it’s difficult to compare this vote to previous ones regarding the gallery, given that this vote was for an opt-out fee, while previous proposals were for mandatory fees.

By consulting with the AMS

and elected representatives, Wilson, ArtSci ’15, said she thinks they’ve learned what must be done so that “students are engaged and supportive of the gallery”. “[The Union Gallery] provides really amazing learning opportunities for students,” she said, “and I’m really excited that we’re going to be able to expand on that and get more students in and learning about the arts.”

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DIALOGUE

Editorials — The Journal’s perspective

ENGINEERING

Consult with Drink or EngSoc, Faculty Chloë Grande

don’t: it’s your choice

For a first-year teetotaler, abstaining from alcohol was an isolating decision.

Going into university as a non-drinker, my high school friends joked that I would have trouble fitting in. Yet I remained optimistic that there would be plenty of others like me at Queen’s, and that my choice to be sober would surely be respected.

That wasn’t necessarily the case.

Frosh Week came and went and I witnessed the excessive university drinking scene first-hand. People seemed to drink with the intent of becoming blackout drunk, making out with strangers and wearing the least amount of clothing in cold weather.

Social invitations become increasingly limited when you take alcohol out of the picture.

Stating the obvious — I don’t drink, period — was too daunting and intimidating of a task for an introvert.

Instead, I found myself fabricating excuses for not drinking: I claimed to be too tired, feeling sick or behind on readings.

In reality, I just had no interest.

Your decision to consume or not consume alcohol doesn’t need to be justified to anyone. It doesn’t matter whether you have moral objections or religious or medical reasons; it’s no one’s business but your own and you shouldn’t be judged based on that singular fact.

According to the 2013 National College Health Assessment survey, which included approximately 1,200 Queen’s students, 72.3 per cent of first-year students consume alcohol. This means more than a quarter of first-years don’t drink.

Evidently, I wasn’t as alone as I imagined.

Yet I still felt as though I didn’t fit the Queen’s mold. We were supposed to work hard and party

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The Faculty of Engineering and Engineering students have Applied Science’s attempts to continued to attempt “Beers on the discourage alcohol-related jacket Pier” despite the police presence. bars have been poorly executed.

The Faculty’s actions have increased The Faculty has implemented the potential risk, because instead two measures to prevent students of attempting the bar as a group, from attempting the “Beers on the students now reportedly go to the Pier” bar. The first was working pier alone at odd hours. with the Kingston Police Force to Consultation with EngSoc have officers patrol the pier where is desperately needed before the students typically attempt the bar.

Faculty does anything else. Setting The second measure was up police surveillance and banning to strongly recommend that certain bars from FRECs’ jackets FRECs — Engineering Society are two steps that were undertaken (EngSoc) orientation leaders without the Society’s input, even — discourage “any bars that are though EngSoc likely has a much related to or associated with unsafe, greater influence on the social risky or unprofessional behaviour”, behaviour of Engineering students according to Faculty Dean than the Faculty.

Kimberly Woodhouse.

It’s critical that EngSoc In terms of its public image, engages itself in the conversation the Faculty is completely justified and that the Society establishes in wanting to disassociate from a clear public stance on alcohol — but although Woodhouse the issue. has cited safety concerns as the The AMS’s campaign against reason for the changes, little has malicious Blue Light activations been done to improve safety. in 2012 was an example of promoting honest discussions and effectively addressing safety issues. hard. In a social setting where it It wouldn’t have made sense to seems that nearly everyone binge post police officers at every blue drinks, non-drinkers can sometimes light, just as posting officers at feel like outsiders.

Looking back, I realize you have to actively seek out UNEMPLOYMENT like-minded individuals.

Immerse yourself in friendships with people who accept your personal decisions and make you feel comfortable being yourself.

Religious groups, clubs and sports Stephen Poloz’s recent comments teams are all good starting places, about unpaid work were valid especially when you feel trapped in but ill-advised.

The Bank of Canada governor your residence environment.

Nowadays, I enjoy a few drinks said last week that when youth ask as much as anyone else. But I also him for career advice, he advises don’t mind staying in some nights them to seek out unpaid work if to cook a meal, watch Netflix or that’s all that’s available.

“If your parents are letting you Skype with old friends. I still prefer being a homebody because it’s live in the basement, you might what feels the most true to myself. as well go out and do something Like most things in life, there’s a for free to put the experience on balance. It’s okay to let loose every your CV,” Poloz said in a press so often and it’s also okay to hole conference last Monday.

With Canada’s youth up inside your dorm room with a unemployment rate currently bowl of popcorn.

Abstinence doesn’t make you sitting at 13.5 per cent — the overall rate is 6.8 per cent — Poloz’s any less of a Queen’s student. comments disregard the barriers youth face within the workforce, Chloë is the Journal’s Lifestyle Editor. as well as the inequity present in She’s a fourth-year English major.

the pier is doing little to promote safety.

Establishing a similar awareness

campaign could benefit the Faculty and its students, so that the potential consequences of alcohol-related bars are properly explained.

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unpaid internships.

Unpaid internships provide skills, network connections and experience. But these benefits aren’t a substitute for monetary compensation. Under Canadian labour law, interns are entitled to receive minimum wage at the very least, unless they’re receiving a school credit.

Poloz’s “basement” reference belittled the difficulties youth face by equating unemployment with laziness. The job market is limited, and companies continue to exploit loopholes in labour laws to employ unpaid workers.

Poloz’s comments did speak to a greater issue of entitlement that persists within Generation Y. No one is guaranteed a job in their

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Unpaid work shouldn’t be the alternative, though. If companies can’t afford to pay interns, they should offer paid part-time internships rather than unpaid full-time positions.

Companies aren’t obligated to create jobs, of course, and until stronger federal labour regulations are implemented, unpaid positions will persist.

As the Governor of the Bank of Canada, Poloz is in a position to help reframe the role of large companies in alleviating unemployment.

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Opinions — Your perspective

CAMPUS

Neutral washrooms needed The implementation of gender-neutral washrooms is a human rights issue

Talking heads ... around campus PHOTOS BY EMILIE RABEAU

What does Remembrance Day mean to you?

“Remembering all my family members who have served.”

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Dan Vena WARNING: This piece talks about gender-based violence and may be triggering for some readers.

There’s a strong cultural anxiety surrounding gender-neutral washrooms.

The topic seems to hit hard at the core belief that individuals can and should be easily identifiable and labeled into distinct sexes: female and male.

Research suggests that this binary is dreadfully inadequate to accommodate the plethora of sex and gender identities that exist, yet we remain devoted to a two-sex system — so much so that we allow this to be mirrored within the architecture of the institutions we navigate.

The washroom is a prime example of how a social idea can be transformed into a tangible and dangerous reality, particularly for individuals who have transitioned genders or present themselves in a gender-ambiguous manner.

In 2012, Queen’s University adopted a policy to provide individuals with washroom and changing facilities that don’t require users to disclose their gender identity. The first steps to make this policy a reality are underway, and include changing the signage of single-stall washrooms on campus to denote a gender-neutral facility.

Using the washroom without fear of persecution isn’t a privilege — it’s a right that all persons must have. It’s time for us to pressure our university to create safer spaces.

For many trans* people — this is an umbrella term that denotes not only transgender and transsexual individuals, but also gender non-conforming folks as well — and for persons who are identified as “queer”, marked often by their non-conformance to normative expectations of gender, entering a washroom can become a remarkably stressful event that carries with it the potential for violent confrontation.

Trans* and/or queer(ed) individuals are often labeled as “devious” or “perverted” by society.

These individuals are often seen

Kole Renwick, ArtSci ’17

as corrupting the sanctity of the increase of gender-based violence physically safe environment. gendered washroom; they’re against women.

What the gender-neutral perceived to be infiltrating a space The unfortunate reality is that washroom debate ultimately boils that’s not exclusively reserved for gender-segregated spaces don’t down to is a cultural belief that their use. ensure or even guarantee safety. there are indeed only two sexes, They’re therefore viewed as a This contention also reiterates and that a person’s body inherently social or physical threat to others, the myth that sexual violence is reveals what sex they are in a and are branded as trespassers. exclusively a male-on-female visible manner.

Washrooms, it seems, are act, excluding all other forms of What we need is a cultural only meant for individuals who violence done by and done to revolution that respects and “A chance to remember how lucky we are.” present in normatively gendered people of all genders. celebrates the infinite number and sexualized ways. These are A violent aggressor won’t be of sex and gender identities that often individuals who are easily stopped or swayed because of a exist, and in turn understands the Caitlin Ledingham, ArtSci ’15 read or coded as female or male, sign on a door. It’s an arbitrary sex-binary as archaic and oppressive. and, as such, don’t challenge boundary that can easily be crossed. This new way of thinking will the established authority of the It doesn’t afford protection. That’s ultimately change the very physical washroom sign. unfortunately the grim reality we surroundings we traverse.

Those who don’t or can’t live in.

For Queen’s, this means making conform to socially sanctioned Implementing gender-neutral their 2012 policy a reality by not gender expectations become washrooms could be a way only creating more gender-neutral targets of violence because they’re to prevent violence of all kinds facilities, but also continuing to perceived to be out of place. by providing individuals with a emphasize their commitment The concern for safety in single-stall option that only allows to building a safer campus for relation to the washroom isn’t one person to enter at a time. all students.

“All of Canada coming together to remember the people who have exclusively an issue that pertains Gender-neutral washrooms fought for our freedom.” to trans* and/or queer persons. are also often designed to be Dan Vena is a PhD student in the Some people express concern over fully accessible washrooms for Cultural Studies Program and the a washroom that invites men and individuals with different abilities, co-founder of the on-campus group Madison Mauro, ArtSci ’18 women to share the same space and therefore provide those with Men Who Like Feminism. because it may contribute to an mobility needs a comfortable and

“Thanking everyone who has served our country and will serve in the future.”

Elyse O’Brien, ArtSci ’18

“Respecting our past and those who sacrificed everything to protect our rights.”

Kyle Gonci, ArtSci ’18

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Art with a mission Profile of fine art student Cindy Kwong

ARTS Cindy Kwong pictured above with her artwork.

B y O livia L oncar -B artolini Arts Editor Editor’s note: This is the first in a series featuring fine art students

at Queen’s.

Combining a passion for fine art, psychology and mental health awareness, Queen’s fine art student

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Cindy Kwong knows exactly what she wants to do with her degree.

As a fifth-year student, Kwong discovered early in first-year that the fine arts program was the best

fit for her.

“I went to an arts high school, and I actually came in to Queen’s last minute for politics and economics,” Kwong, ArtSci ’15, said regarding her decision to switch programs. “So I did my first year and I liked the papers and I liked learning but I was like, ‘I just want to go into art.’”

This year Kwong is working on a project that highlights her own personal artistic aesthetic, as well as focuses on raising awareness about mental illness.

Hanging in her Ontario Hall studio are several study paintings that she’s working on in preparation to complete her final project that will be both graded and put on display in the winter term.

“The size is going to be two eight-by-four planks of wood that I’m going to paint on — because I really like painting on wood — so what I’m doing is what’s going to be an eight-layer painting. I’m going to be cutting canvas with mylar and spacing it with velcro,” she said, referring to the structural plans for her project.

There’s no second-guessing what the inspiration and meaning behind her works of art are. Kwong has a clear vision in her mind of what she wants to create.

In her prints and paintings, Kwong said she attributes much of her work to mental health issues and mental awareness.

“What I’m planning to do for this project is a scene painting of separate images which when you put it together is meant to have a disconnected feeling but all together it’s going to form a scene,” she said.

“It’s basically going to be like a snapshot of a person living with depression. A lot of people ask ‘How do you stay in your room for two weeks at a time and not leave?’

So with that idea in mind it’s going to be a three-figured painting

where there’s a living room and bedroom setting.”

Beyond mental illness awareness, Kwong also uses her own personal identity as an important symbolic element in her work.

Pointing to a large figure painting she has hung up on her studio wall of a woman donning a silky salmon-pink traditional garment, she explains its meaning.

“I’m part Korean, and I grew up in a Korean household, so that dress represents how back in the day that’s what they wore, and it represents femininity and royalty.

It’s the pinnacle of what a woman should be,” she said.

“A lot of what I want to include in this assignment is also how as a second-generation immigrant, my parents tried to really instill these ideas of femininity and Korean values, while we’re in Canada.”

Believing art is more than just a vessel for expression, Kwong also sees it as a tool that can be used therapeutically to help both herself and others.

Bringing together both her fine arts and psychology education, she plans to use her talents to help teach and heal others.

After completing her minor in psychology, she plans to apply for her Master’s to do art therapy for children. She expressed that she wants to work with kids with mental and learning disabilities and kids involved in trauma.

“I feel like — it’s so cheesy — but art has a really helped me a lot through things as a person mentally,” she said.

Kwong said she wants to do her doctorate and hopefully open up her own clinical practice one day.

“I have this obsession with paintbrushes and paint,” she said, with a huge grin. “I’d be okay with flowers, but if a guy brought me a bouquet of paint brushes that would be 10 times better.”

CULTURE

Sacred Aboriginal tradition Four Directions provides spiritual space for students B y L auren L uchenski Staff Writer The Four Directions Aboriginal Student Centre offers emotional and cultural support for Indigenous students through hand drumming circles.

Also offering academic tutoring, cultural programming and an Indigenous-oriented library, the centre creates a welcoming environment for all students.

Hand drumming is part of the cultural programming to encourage cultural participation on campus, as well as in the Kingston community.

Music, especially drumming, has always been an important aspect of Canadian Aboriginal culture.

Brought to campus by Four Directions Aboriginal Advisor Vanessa McCourt, hand drumming workshops are led by Aboriginal hand drum expert, Kelly Maracle, every Thursday at the centre.

The purpose of hand drumming is to sing and engage

with traditional songs and stories, in order to remind participants to take care of the earth.

“The hand drum is significant because it represents the heartbeat of mother Earth,” McCourt said.

“So when music is played on the drum, it reminds us of our responsibility to Earth.”

Further, hand drumming invites active and spiritual engagement with Indigenous traditions.

“The stories we share around the songs and hearing the drumbeat is very powerful and spiritual,” McCourt said.

The Ojibway-styled drums and songs used during hand drumming circles are typically played and sung in social gatherings.

“We mostly sing Ojibway songs, which are social songs,” McCourt said.

Social songs are traditionally played and sung for any occasion or gathering.

Through the social implications of unity within the songs, hand

drumming circles create a sense of community. When they come together as a collective, there’s a community feel, she added.

Hand drumming isn’t only seen as a way to bring students together, but also as a way to allow individual voices to be heard in a positive space.

“We try to create a comfortable safe space so you can try it out without fear of ridicule,” McCourt said.

The centre is widely focused on creating informed mindsets on Queen’s campus about Aboriginal traditions.

“Our bigger goal and mandate is to create awareness and appreciation of Indigenous cultures and histories in the Queen’s community,” McCourt said.

In order to create awareness of native practices, Four Directions aims to educate the student population on Indigenous culture to create familiarities between cultures.

Hand drumming is offered every week at the Four Directions Aboriginal Student Centre.

“Educating the wider community enables [Indigenous] students to feel safer here,” she said.

Four Directions believes in allowing students to experience Indigenous culture for themselves, in order to truly understand and connect with the culture.

“We welcome people to come

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in and experience the culture and spirituality to get a better understanding another’s cultural beliefs,” McCourt said.

The centre welcomes students to join the hand-drumming circle every Thursday from 3-4 p.m.

Arts

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PERFORMANCE ART

Improvisational media Decomposing Pianos stuns at Modern Fuel with “Regression” B y K ashmala O mar Arts Editor Decomposing Pianos performed their ethereal experimental musical set “Regression” in an ambient venue at Modern Fuel.

The duo put on the partiallyimprovised show on Monday night to an intimate gathering of people — the atmosphere was relaxed with the presence of an open bar and nonchalantly strewn seating areas.

The Decomposing Pianos officially formed in 2009 and consist of Kingston-based artists Julia Krolik and Owen Fernley.

Their music is self-identified as both experimental and improvisational.

The duo based their name off of a literal decomposing piano that they’d kept in a yard, which they twined together with a harp.

Elements of both instruments come through in their music.

The duo’s performance this week at Modern Fuel wasn’t their first, but with the new move to the Tett Centre, it would be their last show at its current location.

“We’ve played a lot of shows at Modern Fuel, so playing a show like that knowing they’ll move to the Tett Centre is almost nostalgic,” Fernley said. “There was a lot of emotional geography in that room and it was really nice to play because we know it so well — for us it was sort of the end of an era with that space.”

The artists have an authentically different process of music-making in comparison to many other artists today.

“[Our music] is improvisational, except it’s within a structured system,” Fernley said. “The idea is rather than just flat out improvising, which is messy and noisy, we set up boundaries before we start, so it’s collected in there and we experiment freely within those boundaries.”

The boundaries they set are very strict, based on the equipment they decide to use for a show, he added.

Once they decide on those, they give themselves as much freedom

as possible after that.

The artists incorporate projected backdrops in their shows. At Modern Fuel, the backdrops were images of whimsical black cityscape against grainy white backgrounds, which helped set the mellow atmosphere for the show.

“We’ve evolved now to use interactive visuals, so that’s where we’re going now,” Krolik said.

“The theme is the imagery we provide and how the instruments interact with the imagery. Even

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with “Regression”, we had some ideas of where we wanted to end and begin — it was pretty free-flowing in how it evolved.”

The main aim of the night was to hit all the check-pointed themes that they had set prior to the show, Krolik said. In “Regression”, the audience members were shown glimpses of the themes of electricity and decay within the piano instrumentals and were then introduced to the harp.

The duo have been successful thus far with their musical endeavours, having won the Canadian Urbanism Award at the Toronto Urban Film Festival in 2014.

By incorporating home-made audio into their music to scatter over the main instrumentals, the duo paint an authentic picture and

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experience with each show.

“The majority of the audio we use is all in-house,” Krolik said.

“For the “Regression” show I used full messages from my phone to support the imagery of cityscapes and personal touches you get with everyday dialogue.”

Performing in Kingston allows for even more experimental opportunities for the duo.

“The thing about Kingston, is that it’s rich in experimental musicians and there’s an audience for that, which is a gift in itself, and to be a part of that is an ever bigger gift,” Krolik said. “Audiences are understanding and we can be riskier with our music because of that.”

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The artists performing at Modern Fuel.

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Student artists gather once again to present talents B y L uke K essaram Staff Writer As I walked up the stairs towards CoGro on Tuesday evening, the rhythm of my footsteps were replaced with the sweet sounds of creative expression.

My ears were greeted by the voice of the brave young poet who was concluding her piece on stage.

The coffeehouse event was hosted by the Undergraduate Review. The poet exited the stage and I joined the queue for my drink, but the show wasn’t stopping for anyone. Next up was the Caledonias A Cappella Group — stylishly dressed in all black and adorned with patriotic poppies.

Their rendition of Ingrid Michaelson’s The Chain was heavenly and uplifting, but the girls truly demonstrated their great range, both tonally and in terms of repertoire, with their second piece, a medley of Destiny Child’s Say My Name and Survivor. It was sassy, foxy and classy, and the accompanying beat boxing deserved an A+, in my books.

Indeed, great creative range seemed to be a theme of the coffeehouse. Performances included short story readings, diverse offerings of poetry, musical duos and duets, and even some original hip-hop.

According to Laura Bossy, editor-in-chief of the Undergraduate Review and event emcee, it wasn’t only students that participated in the event this time around.

“This year we extended our reach to the Kingston community too,” Bossy said. “[Community is] definitely something we want to draw upon for our launch event this year as well,” said Bossy, ArtSci ’16.

The publication goes live in March.

For now, it’s events like this Coffeehouse that keep the creative scene thriving, and the community is a vital part of that.

The connections the organisers worked with included Queen’s Poetry Slam and The Artel, a local artist-run collective that forms a core part of Kingston’s arts scene.

Bossy added that this year’s event has definitely been more successful.

To me, it seemed that the venue was part of that success. With CoGro being such a key part of the student community, what better way to bring arts into the mix than to place it in the heart of this comfortable and communal space?

There were students buried in their books right at the foot of the stage, but the beautiful sounds of the performances permeated the room and often even grasped the attention of those at the far end of the space.

Notwithstanding the sometimes-disruptive din of activity, and the occasional blender, for those three hours it seemed that art and academia had found harmony.

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The Gaels won their 21st overall Ontario title — and third in a row — with a 32-23 victory over the Guelph Gryphons on Saturday.

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Gaels end on top once again Repeat Men’s rugby reels off six straight wins after loss to McMaster on the way to OUA title B y S ean S utherland Sports Editor It was a loss that sparked men’s rugby’s run to their third straight OUA title.

The Gaels suffered defeat at the hands of the McMaster Marauders on Sept. 28, losing 18-13 and falling to 3-1 on the regular season.

Forward Brendan Sloan said the loss proved to be a turning point.

The Gaels reeled off six straight wins after that game, including a 61-0 win over McMaster in the OUA semi-final on Nov. 1.

Last Saturday, Queen’s came back from a 16-point deficit against the Guelph Gryphons, prevailing 32-23 at Nixon Field to capture another provincial championship.

“Honestly, I think losing to Mac was a key moment for us,” Sloan said. “It showed us what we needed to work on and when things went wrong we had to build on those.”

Sloan said Queen’s veteran experience was a crucial aspect in repeating as champions. Six Gaels were named to the OUA All-Star team — five of whom, including Sloan, featured on the team’s 2012 and 2013 championship rosters.

“[We had] really good coaching. We had a really large veteran presence this year on the team,” Sloan said. “Every guy was dedicated to the same goal of winning another gold medal and going back-to-back-to-back.”

Despite losing a match for the first time since September 2012, the Gaels were still among the dominant teams in the OUA. They conceded a league-low 65 points during the regular season and scored over 47 points a game.

The team clinched home-field

advantage for the playoffs with a 33-17 win over Guelph on Oct. 4. Three of Queen’s seven regular-season wins were shutouts, including a 113-0 romp over the Toronto Varsity Blues on Oct. 10.

Several players had successful seasons on an individual front.

Forward Jacob Rumball was named OUA MVP and was joined by five teammates on the provincial All-Star team: Sloan, forwards Tommy Kirkham and James Dent and backs Kainoa Lloyd and David Worsley.

Worsley’s 78 points were fourth most in the OUA, while Lloyd also ranked among the league’s top 10 scorers. Kirkham tallied two tries in the championship game against Guelph, earning Man of the Match honours.

The team will lose a large chunk of their core next season; every All-Star but Lloyd is set to graduate.

Sloan said the Gaels should still rank among the province’s best next season.

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Slow season opener Subpar shooting sinks basketball against Thunderwolves B y B rent M oore Assistant Sports Editor

strong defence by both teams defensive success. caused the lead to change “We just couldn’t get enough hands several times before the offence, unfortunately,” Barrie said.

The Gaels kept things close, but Lakehead Thunderwolves beat “I think it was a combination of dropped their season opener Queen’s 54-51. tough defence and good offence last Friday.

Head coach Stephan that didn’t end up being rewarded.”

In a low-scoring affair, Barrie commended the Gaels’ Queen’s struggled to connect on their shots, sinking just 20 of 62 field goal attempts. Still, Barrie said the poor shooting wasn’t cause for concern.

“There’s going to be nights when you don’t shoot as well and the reality is you have to have your defence set on those nights and we did,” he said. “We almost pulled off that game.”

The first quarter ended with the score knotted at 10-10, and the Gaels kept it close by halftime, trailing by only one point.

Queen’s outshot Lakehead in the fourth quarter and very nearly finished ahead, but couldn’t come back from the 46-37 deficit they faced heading into that frame.

“We went down nine at some point and in a low scoring game, that’s a big deficit,” Barrie said.

“But we fought back to tie it and then we just weren’t able to get over the hump.”

Guard Greg Faulkner earned a double-double, putting up 15 points and 10 rebounds in 36 minutes of floor time.

Post Mike Shoveller added 12 points and six rebounds. Guards Dan Thompson and Cy Samuels PHOTO BY EMILIE RABEAU The Gaels came back from a 16-0 first-half deficit in the championship game against Guelph, contributed eight and seven scoring 29 consecutive points to seal their third straight banner. points, respectively.

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Women duplicate 2013 CIS result B y S ean S utherland Sports Editor Julie-Anne Staehli’s silver-medal run led Queen’s women to their second straight national bronze medal last Saturday.

While she couldn’t repeat as the Canadian champion, the third-year’s performance helped the Gaels net medals on both the individual and team fronts at the CIS cross country championships in St. John’s.

Staehli finished the six-kilometre race in 22:50.3, eight seconds back of the gold medalist, the Guelph Gryphons’ Carise Thompson.

At the same event one year ago, Thompson finished 17 seconds behind Staehli.

Gaels head coach Steve Boyd said Staehli was still dealing with some nagging injuries that affected her for most of the season.

“She was injured for maybe a third to a half of the season,” Boyd said. “She just went out and ran her usual brilliant poised race and managed to grab the silver.”

Joining Staehli as an All-Canadian was first-year Claire Sumner, who finished sixth for Queen’s. The Gaels finished with 132 points overall, 27 points back of the second-place Trinity Western Spartans in cross country’s low-scoring system.

The Gryphons captured the See Bronze on page 14

There was a disparity in free throw opportunities as Lakehead went to the foul line 30 times — 17 more than the Gaels.

The Thunderwolves scored 16 points from the line, while Queen’s connected on less than 50 per cent of their chances.

“Both teams were aggressive so it’s not like we look back and say ‘well, we should’ve tried this to get on the line more,’” Barrie said.

Lakehead was also able to capitalize on second-chance opportunities — they earned 13 second-chance points while the Gaels didn’t tally any.

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Shut out, then blowout Men’s pucksters go off for 14 goals in game against RMC B y A dam L askaris Staff Writer

a little run for us offensively.” effort. I’m not a guy that believes in The rout was apparent from the moral victories, but I think we took beginning as the Gaels tallied six a turn in the right direction.”

After getting blanked last Friday, goals in the opening period. They Gaels goaltender Kevin Bailie men’s hockey rebounded in jumped out to a 10-0 lead before stopped 32 shots, but it was the spectacular fashion in a blowout the Paladins could net any offence. lone goal by Carleton’s Michael win the following night.

Goaltender Chris Clarke made McNamee that proved to be Queen’s exploded for a 14-4 28 saves on 32 shots for the the difference. win over the RMC Paladins at Gaels, earning his second victory Coming up next, the Gaels take home on Saturday, one night after of the season in as many starts. a weekend trip to Toronto where losing 1-0 to the Carleton Ravens Wentworth said it was nice to make they’ll play against two Western in Ottawa. the job easier for Clarke. division opponents: the Ryerson The Gaels’ (5-4-0) dominant “We rely on our goalies a lot, so Rams (6-3-1) on Friday and the performance over the Paladins for us to put that many pucks in the Toronto Varsity Blues (4-6-0) (0-10-0) was keyed by forward net, it’s a big confidence booster,” on Saturday.

Blair Wentworth, who scored two he said.

“Ryerson’s a great team, goals in the first period before Gaels head coach Brett Gibson especially playing in Maple Leaf completing his hat trick in the third. said that while it was nice to get Gardens you have to be excited,” “It’s nice to put the pucks in the victory over RMC, injuries on Gibson said. “U of T’s always tough the net,” said Gaels captain Corey the goaltending front have forced at home. Hopefully we’ll come PHOTO BY CHLOE SOBEL Bureau, who potted a goal and the Paladins to start inexperienced back with two wins.”

Gaels captain Corey Bureau tallied a goal and three three assists against RMC. “It’ll first-year netminder Paul Mazzolin, assists in the Gaels’ 14-4 victory over the RMC Paladins on Saturday. help us get the confidence up who was clearly overmatched. moving forward.”

“You feel really bad, that’s all Forwards Yannick Laflamme, you really do as a coach,” Gibson WOMEN’S HOCKEY Patrick McGillis and Darcy said. “I respect their program a Greenaway all had two goals each lot — it sucks.” for the Gaels, who boasted nine In addition to the strong different goal scorers on the night. showing against RMC, Gibson Defenceman Spencer Abraham was pleased with his team’s game contributed four assists, bringing against the Ravens (8-2-0). Despite his season total to 12 points in losing 1-0, Gibson said it was the nine games. best game Queen’s had played “We obviously buried our all year.

B y S ean S utherland advantage of a defensive miscue While the score was tied 1-1 chances when we could,” “I think it’s going to be the Sports Editor just over five minutes into the after the opening frame, Holmberg Wentworth said. “For us to get that turning point of our season,” he contest and scored the game’s said Queen’s had their strongest many goals, hopefully it jumpstarts said. “I was real excited about the Women’s hockey suffered defeat only goal. opening to a game this season. in regulation for the first time this Queen’s played from behind After the Badgers took the lead season last weekend. from that point on. While the Gaels midway through the second period WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL Facing the Guelph Gryphons had chances to even up the score, on a power play goal, the Gaels on the road last Saturday, the Gaels Holmberg said they just weren’t went off for three goals in an couldn’t muster up any offence in a able to beat Nehring. eight-minute span.

1-0 loss. They rebounded the next “I think we had some good Forwards Addi Halladay and day, defeating the Brock Badgers opportunities to get a point or two, Shawna Griffin and defenceman 4-3 on the heels of a second period but we just couldn’t find the back Amber Sealey all scored, with scoring burst. of the net,” he said.

Halladay and Griffin’s goals coming Head coach Matt Holmberg The Gaels’ fortunes were on the power play. Brock managed said the Gaels (6-1-2) went into reversed the next night when another goal in the third period, B y B rent M oore Gee-Gees for several minutes and the Guelph (5-1-1) game expecting they topped winless Brock (0-5- but couldn’t net the equalizer.

Assistant Sports Editor were up 9-8 at one point. Ottawa it to be close, noting that the team 2). Holmberg said the team was “The players didn’t lose then scored five straight points to ran into a strong goalie in the confident they could bounce back confidence or hope and kept The Gaels played two games last begin pulling away.

Gryphons’ Stephanie Nehring. from three straight losses. battling,” Holmberg said. “And weekend and found themselves on The Gaels were competitive “Their goalie is a fourth-year vet “Before the game we reflected they were able to get the win.” both sides of a lopsided result. early once again in the second, and is consistently one of the top that after the Guelph game, that Third-string goaltender Claire Last Friday, Queen’s (3-3) put trailing just 10-9 before the goalies in the league,” Holmberg was a third of our season and we Warren saw her first action with the boot to the RMC Paladins (0-7) Gee-Gees ratcheted up the pressure said. “She made some great saves were 5-1-2, which was a pretty the Gaels against Brock, stopping in three quick sets, winning 25-8, to eventually take the set. to preserve the shutout.” good record,” he said. “So I think 30 of the 33 shots that came her 25-18 and 25-15.

Gaels outside hitter Shannon The Gaels fell behind early, as we came into the Brock game way. The first-year was pressed It was a different story in Neville recorded a team-high 10 Guelph’s Brittany St. James took feeling fairly confident.” into service after Caitlyn Lahonen Sunday’s matchup with the See Blocking on page 15 and Stephanie Pascal went down Ottawa Gee-Gees (3-2). Ottawa with illnesses. led comfortably the entire “That’s why we carry three match, sweeping it 25-17, 25-19 goalies. Claire had her equipment and 25-21. with her and she started the game,” Fifth-year middle blocker Katie Holmberg said. “For her first CIS Hagarty said she thought the experience, particularly on short Ottawa match was going to be a notice, we thought she did a more competitive affair. great job.”

“That wasn’t what we expected The Gaels currently sit second going into it,” Hagarty said. in the tightly contested OUA just “Thought it would be more of over a third of the way through the a game.” season, with five points separating Queen’s was dominated at the the top eight teams. Queen’s leads net in Sunday’s game. While both the league in both goals for and teams earned two solo blocks, the against per game, as they enter a Gaels combined for only four stretch of the season that will see assisted blocks — well below them face tough competition.

Ottawa’s 18.

They host the UOIT Ridgebacks “They’re a big team,” Hagarty (5-3-1) tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. said. “They’ve always been a Holmberg said the Gaels need to big blocking team and that’s not play their style of game to come exactly our strong suit. out on top.

“With more practice, we’ll get “I think the key for us is to there,” she added. “We have tall focus on our game and how we players and we’re pretty dynamic, want to play,” he said. “Keep I think we just need to click a bit skating through any physical play better and it’ll happen.” and hopefully the ref will call PHOTO BY MITCHELL GLEASON Queen’s committed 10 errors in After beating RMC and losing to Ottawa on the weekend, women’s volleyball sits fifth in them so we can capitalize on the the first set, but kept pace with the the OUA East with a 3-3 record. power play.”

Split on weekend trip Gaels blanked by Guelph, beat Badgers in close contest

Series of sweeps Weekend results in straight set win, loss

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Offensive execution Urgency issues Second-year setter shows cosistency in standout performance Lack of focus steals victory in first game B y B rent M oore Assistant Sports Editor

After a shaky start to the season, the Gaels got back on their feet with a win last weekend in Waterloo.

The men stormed the Waterloo Warriors (3-4) last Saturday, winning the match in straight sets. A little extra motivation was present for the Gaels (2-3), since the Warriors bounced Queen’s from last year’s OUA playoffs last year.

Head coach Brenda Willis saw no low points in the Gaels’ performance.

“Every single guy did their primary job very well,” Willis said. “It just shows what we’re capable of and I think everybody is encouraged now that we’re on the right path.”

Everything seemed to click for Queen’s, both on offence and defence. The Gaels won all three sets handily: 25-15, 25-20 and 25-15.

Willis credited the team’s smooth execution of their

offensive system.

“It opened things up for both [outside hitters] Phil Goyer and Markus Trence to come out of the back row and it upped our percentage on the outside,” she said. “They just didn’t know where to block.”

The system was implemented earlier in the fall and the team saw success with it during the pre-season. That success, however, hasn’t wholly translated to regular season games.

Queen’s went 1-3 over the first two weekends of the season, losing twice in straight sets and eking out their first win of the year in five sets against the Toronto Varsity Blues on Nov. 1.

The Waterloo match was never as close.

“It’s the first time it really connected the way it’s supposed to,” Willis said.

“As a coach you kind of start thinking ‘I wonder if I’m trying to run more than we can handle’ but I guess it just took time.”

Part of the winning equation

The Gaels conceded the fewest regular-season points in the league and scored the second-most.

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was the quality play of second-year setter Jamie Wright, who put up 37 assists.

Goyer, a fifth-year outside hitter, racked up 17 kills, while Trence added seven kills and four digs.

Fourth-year outside hitter Mike Tomlinson returned after sitting out last week’s games due to a shoulder injury, adding 11 kills and nine digs.

The win, although early in the season, was important for the Gaels.

“I felt we really needed to win to keep our confidence and our aspirations to be a final four team alive,” Willis said.

Maintaining a healthy squad is imperative to Queen’s playoff hopes. Second-year middle blocker Will Hoey may return this weekend after sitting out the start of the season.

“We’ve kind of settled into using the middles that we have,” Willis said. “Hopefully in the next week or two our full roster will be active.”

The men return to the ARC this weekend, hosting the Guelph Gryphons (6-1) on Saturday and meeting Waterloo again on Sunday.

Willis is confident despite Guelph’s solid record.

“They do have some tendencies that we’ll be able to adjust our defense around,” Willis said. “[There are] some deficiencies in their block pattern I think we can go after.”

Willis suggested that the Gryphons’ record isn’t as impressive as it looks.

“There’s so much parity in the league,” she said. “The last few losses we had were us just not doing what we needed to do.”

Willis added that she’s looking forward to a strong turnout this weekend.

“Hopefully come away from this weekend with two more wins,” she said.

B y S ean S utherland Sports Editor A shocking upset in their season opener spoiled women’s basketball’s northern road trip.

The nationally eighth-ranked Gaels fell to the Lakehead Thunderwolves 82-76 last Friday, losing in Thunder Bay for the first time since 2010.

Head coach Dave Wilson said other than a stretch to start the second half, Queen’s struggled to play at a high level.

“We only played eight minutes of really good basketball in [the game],” Wilson said. “That was a period of time when we went from 15 down to tied. Aside from that, I thought we were pretty sketchy in terms of what we were doing both defensively and offensively.”

Wilson said he couldn’t pinpoint an exact reason for the Gaels’ loss, but added that the team faced some nerves due to their success last season. Queen’s captured the OUA East title in 2013-14 on the way to a CIS tournament appearance.

“If I had the absolute answers [for the loss], I’d be making a lot more money,” he said. “I think there was anxiety going into the game. One being the first league game, two being ranked. This is the first time for most of the kids on our team to be ranked in the top 10. So there were a fair number of distractions and pressures created from that.”

The Gaels fell victim to Thunderwolves guard Jylisa Williams, who torched them for 42 points, eight rebounds and five steals.

Queen’s was outscored 40-27 in the opening half, before cutting the lead in the remaining two quarters. They stayed within two to four points for the majority of

the second half before turning to intentional fouls near the end of the game, increasing the final deficit to six.

Wilson said it’s become a trend for his team to need an extra boost to get going offensively, adding that the Gaels need to find a sense of urgency earlier in contests.

“Ultimately, I think it’s our ability to focus and our ability to start the basketball game. We need to learn to manage distractions much better,” he said. “With that hopefully will come a sharper start to the basketball game.”

Guard Liz Boag racked up 19 points for the Gaels, tied for highest on the team. Fellow guard Emily Hazlett also posted 19 points and added six steals starting in place of the injured Gemma Bullard.

“I thought they did a good job of creating that spark that we needed to get things going,” Wilson said. “We just need to have a little more balanced support around them to ensure we can beat very good teams.”

The team has been plagued by injuries early in the year. Bullard and post Gia Spiropoulos are both out with concussions; Wilson said he hopes Spiropoulos will be able to return later this month, while he’s more doubtful about Bullard returning imminently.

The Gaels return to Kingston this weekend for their home opener, where they’ll face the Waterloo Warriors and the Laurier Golden Hawks. Laurier joined Queen’s at last year’s CIS tournament and should prove to be a difficult test.

“We have the ability to control our own destiny,” Wilson said. “If we can get our focus back onto our things and control the things we can control, then I think we have a very good chance of being successful this weekend.”

Six OUA Bronze and 10th All-Stars

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2014 served as a rebuilding year overall title once again, winning for the Gaels’ men, who featured Continued from page 12 their 10th consecutive CIS a rookie-heavy squad this season. championship with 34 total points. Jeff Archer, their top finisher from that all the young players that are Boyd said the women’s team last year, sat out the season to going to be starting next year have met the expectations they had maintain his eligibility for the learned from some of the really for themselves heading into the 2015 championships. good players,” he said. national competition.

Boyd said the men’s goal “You can’t consider us underdogs “We thought we had a shot at was just to make the national for that reason. I mean, we’ve second on the women’s side, but championships, though they could dominated the league for three it would have been really tough to have done slightly better. straight years now,” Sloan added. knock off Trinity Western,” he said.

“We knew we were rebuilding “They’re going to have the skills “Getting third, double podium this year,” he said. “We knew we’d next year to fill our shoes hopefully finish from the team last year was a be in tough, but we made it there, and win some games as well.” great accomplishment on our side. which was the goal on the men’s Lloyd and fellow second-year And we did with only one runner side. We hoped maybe we could Lucas Rumball are two of the common to both teams. Only finish seventh or eighth and we younger players who will continue Julie-Anne scored this year and last ended up finishing 10th. A little off, to play important roles in the future year, which is a testament to our but that would have been gravy.” of the program. team depth.”

Boyd said both teams have the Sloan said that while the team The Gaels men’s team finished chance to improve on their 2014 didn’t attain their goal of a perfect in 10th place overall, buoyed by performances next year. season, the championship was all All-Canadian Alex Wilkie, who “We return everybody on the the Gaels needed. ended up 10th himself. women’s side and we return “I’m really glad we could end in The Gryphons completed their everyone on this year’s men’s team, the way we did — with another win sweep of the gold medals, winning plus we add Jeff Archer back in on Nixon Field,” he said. the team competition on the men’s and David Cashin,” he said. “I side and claiming an individual win think we’re definitely a podium Continued from page 12

Alex Wilkie was Queen’s top male performer at the CIS championships in St. John’s, finishing 10th overall.

team next year on the men’s side and then we continue to be on the women’s side.”

Boyd added that the team is looking to have podium finishes on the men’s and women’s sides of next year’s event at both the team and individual

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levels — something the program has never accomplished.

“Those are realistic goals,” he said. “Things would have to go right for us, but I think that’s definitely something we have to look forward to.”

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Hagarty had four kills, 10 digs and five total blocks over the two games. kills against Ottawa and registered seven digs.

“I was kind of frustrated with my attacking Libero Becky Wilson added a further 12 digs. game,” she said. “I felt like I could’ve Hagarty said the Gee-Gees’ match will be contributed more to the team in that regard. a teaching moment for the Gaels this year.

I think my serving was pretty good, though.”

“I think we’re going to take that and The Gaels are on the road today to take learn from it and bring it into this weekend,” on the Waterloo Warriors (1-6). she said.

“They have really good outside hitters,” Two days before the Ottawa game, the Hagarty said. “They know how to score so women blew through RMC. we’re just going to key in on them, try and The Gaels came out strong, limiting block them, dig them, get them frustrated the Paladins to eight points in the opening and play it that way.” set. The stranglehold never let up in the In her fifth year with the team, Hagarty is straight-set victory. familiar with the older Warriors.

Outside hitter Shannon Hopkins drove in “They’re fighters — they’re very scrappy,” 15 kills and added 12 digs, while libero Alexa she said. “They’ll go for things that you Scarcello contributed 10 digs. don’t expect. But so are we, so I think we Setter Danielle Blumentrath saw the court can handle it.” well, racking up 30 assists.

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rebounds than we did. We got some second-possession points but it wasn’t a critical factor in terms of our overall offence,” Barrie said.

The Gaels host the Waterloo Warriors (0-2) tonight in their home opener at the ARC. The men lost to the Warriors 74-70 during pre-season play. Last year’s regular season tilt went to the Gaels, who edged out the Warriors 61-57 in Waterloo.

The Laurier Golden Hawks (1-1) are in town tomorrow. For Queen’s to get the win in both contests, Barrie said the team will have to up the game’s tempo and, with it, the score.

“We’re going to look to push the ball more and get the flow of the game higher so we have more opportunities,” Barrie said. “I PHOTO BY MITCHELL GLEASON thought there was too few possessions overall Katie Hagarty in the game up in Thunder Bay.” recorded 10 digs in two games this weekend.

Gaels golden for third straight season For the third year in a row, men’s rugby claimed provincial supremacy at Nixon Field.

Queen’s topped the visiting Guelph Gryphons 32-23 on the heels of a blistering comeback Saturday, winning their third consecutive OUA championship.

“The boys earned it today. They played their guts out,” said Gaels head coach Gary Gilks. “There will be a big celebration tonight about the three-peat. That’s pretty awesome.”

A string of 29 unanswered points rallied the Gaels from an early 16-0 hole. Third-year fly half Adam McQueen tacked on a late penalty goal to finalize the scoring, giving Queen’s all the advantage they needed.

It wasn’t easy, at first. Several miscues allowed Guelph to string together sustained bouts of possession; the Gryphons raced to a 16-0 lead on two penalty goals and a pair of tries.

Gilks said the Gaels knew they might trail early and planned their game around that possibility.

“We chose to go against the wind in the first half for that reason,” he said. “If we were behind, we would be able to use the wind to our advantage in the second half.

And that’s exactly what we did.”

After a try from eight-man Lucas Rumball and a McQueen conversion cut the Guelph lead to nine, fifth-year forward Tommy Kirkham rumbled 30 yards down the sideline on the final play of the first half, scoring the first of his two tries on the day.

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“I just looked up and they weren’t there, so I called to McQueen and did my best to put it down in the corner there,” Kirkham said. “I wasn’t aware that it was the last play of the half and it turned out to be a big momentum change. The boys just kept on rolling.”

Minutes into the second half, forward James Dent blocked a Guelph kick and dove on the ball for the go-ahead try. Wing Jeffrey MacDonald later added a try of his own, before Kirkham put down another to make the score 29-16.

Kirkham said the key to Queen’s comeback was keeping the team’s focus strong.

“We kept with it, kept our nose to the grindstone and just had faith in each other and faith our fitness,” he said. “And just got the job done.”

Guelph brought the match back within a possession with 15 minutes to go, but couldn’t manage to equalize. McQueen booted the ball out of bounds as the final whistle sounded, and the Gaels’ veteran core finished their time at Queen’s with another title.

“I wanted to go out on top and all the other last-year players wanted to as well,” Kirkham said. “It just feels great, ending off in perfect fashion.”

The Gaels beat Guelph 33-17 in their regular-season matchup on Oct. 4, and eventually clinched home-field advantage for the entirety of the OUA playoffs.

Wing Kainoa Lloyd said hosting the final on Nixon Field gave the Gaels a little added motivation.

“I think it’s really great having the home crowd. Hearing people cheer you on just gives you that extra fire in your belly, take the extra metre or so,” he said. “I really appreciated having them out there.”

All of Queen’s three consecutive championship wins came on the Gaels’ home turf. Forward Brendan Sloan — a veteran of all three rosters — said this year’s win was the most exciting.

“To make it a tight game like that definitely makes it a little more exciting, but it just feels great to go three in a row,” Sloan said.

“It’s an unbelievable feeling — I can’t even describe it. No words right now, just big smiles on everybody’s face. It’s an unreal way to end this career. It’s been great.”

— Sean Sutherland

The Gaels had only six total blocks in their loss to the Ottawa Gee-Gees, 14 less than their opponents.

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Flu season and the savvy student Navigating the truth and misinformation surrounding the seasonal vaccine B y E llen A very Contributor Overwhelmed lecture halls, communal living spaces and high amounts of social activity make university campuses a perfect breeding ground for the seasonal flu virus.

Despite the increased exposure associated with student life, the United States Centre for Disease Control (CDC) estimated only about 13 per cent of post-secondary students are electing to get their vaccine every year.

Troy Day, an evolutionary biology professor at Queen’s specializing in mathematical modeling of disease and virology, said students should be getting their vaccines for two different reasons. Not only does the shot provide potential benefits to their own health, but it also benefits the health of the community as a whole.

“Even if I am not terribly vulnerable to adverse effects, if I can weather it out and I’m not worried about dying, by being infected I help spread the virus in the community and there are people in the community that are more susceptible, of different age groups and different health groups,” Day said.

Many Queen’s students volunteer their time in hospitals, schools or elsewhere in the community where they make contact with groups who have an increased risk of complications from the flu virus, he added.

“Students are a group of people who have a very high level of social contact in the community, so they’re a group that tends to contribute a lot to the spread of disease,” he said. “In that sense I would say they’re an important group to be vaccinated, even if they aren’t going to be hit as hard by the flu as someone that is 95.”

Day also dispelled the misconception that higher vaccination rates could transform the flu into a more virulent and infectious pathogen.

“In the case of flu, by just looking at how it tends to evolve from season-to-season, it’s what we would call antigenic evolution,” he said.

“It’s the evolution of the virus to be less recognizable by the body, rather than increased replication and faster replication rates, which is what would lead to higher mortality.”

On the contrary, Kingston-based naturopathic doctor Sonya Nobbe said students should consider the effectiveness of the vaccine and

the health of their own immune system when deciding whether or not to be vaccinated.

“Improving your own immune systems capacity to fight these things is far more effective [than the vaccine],” Nobbe said. “For example, according to a recent report from Statistics Canada, only about 35 per cent of Canadians are getting adequate levels of vitamin D and we know that if your vitamin D levels are up and running, you’re far more likely to respond better to the flu, you’re far more likely to prevent complications from a cold or flu and it could possibly prevent you from even getting it in the first place.”

Nobbe also pointed out that recent estimates put the flu vaccine at about 60-70 per cent efficacy, so it’s by no means a guarantee.

Though she doesn’t definitively midst of reading week this year. advise against getting the vaccine, With the stress of midterms and she warns against the false sense term papers, combined with high of security that vaccination may levels of interaction on campus, be providing. many students are likely to be “High stress is a risk factor to spending the week at home in bed. being more susceptible to the cold Rates of flu vaccination among or flu or having a complication college students suggest that related to the cold or flu, so it students may perceive the vaccine should shift the risk-balance as unimportant, thinking they analysis for you,” she said. can handle the symptoms of the “If you know you’ll be under a virus without suffering any serious lot of stress for long period of time health risks. and you’re concerned about being But considering the amount of shut down, maybe you want to get interaction between students and vaccinated, as long as you realize it higher-risk groups in the Kingston still might not protect you — there community, the decision to forego still may be some side effects and the vaccine may be short-sighted. you shouldn’t use it as a false sense While the flu vaccine doesn’t of security.” guarantee students’ immunity to The CDC reports that the flu the virus, their vaccination plays a hits within two days of Feb. 17 critical role in the overall health of almost every year — right in the the community.

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YouTube meets print Vloggers with book deals are gaining popularity B y Z oe K elsey Staff Writer

Kitchen, a chatty, colourful YouTube is unquestionably a cookbook was released this past cult of personality — a celebration August, and spent weeks on the of individuals who are narcissistic I like to picture the publishing bestseller lists and Urban Outfitters enough to comfortably promote industry as a middle-school girl just display tables across North America. themselves online, entertaining on the periphery of the cool kids.

And there are more coming. enough to hold our attention for a She’s very ambitious, lovely and Zoe Sugg, or lifestyle vlogger whopping two and a half minutes, intelligent, but infinitely dependent Zoella, will release her first novel and accessible enough to imagine on her cooler counterparts.

Girl Online this month, vlogging ourselves as their siblings, BFFs or Her most recent bid to win the actress Carrie Hope Fletcher’s significant others. hearts of her often disinterested advice book based on her blog of The illusion of intimacy with classmates comes in the form the same name, “All I Know Now”, YouTubers creates our imagined of a liaison with the new kid at comes out this April, and Mamrie relationships with them, and school: YouTube.

Hart’s boozy memoir, You Deserve connotes a sense of loyalty to them YouTube has been growing stars a Drink hits stores summer 2015. and their creative projects. with massive, bankable audiences The phenomenon is a win for So though I’m really not in the for years and the publishing a desperate industry. YouTube market for advice on how to be industry is attempting to seize those audiences are becoming less niche a grownup — Google is free and audiences, mainly by hurling deals and more visible through the I’ve got parents who grew up in at successful YouTubers. continued efforts of YouTubers to the ’60s and ’70s — I might buy The latest of those stars is promote their own brands through Grace’s book.

Grace Helbig, otherwise known merchandise and diverse platforms I like Grace. I like her videos. as “it’sGrace” on YouTube, who like movies, short films, fashion And the desire to somehow involve topped the New York Times lines, music, radio and television. myself in her story and success in a Best Seller list in the category of The books are marketed so tangible way is strong.

“Advice, How-To & Miscellaneous” heavily via their channels and social I want to see her succeed, and with her non-fiction advice media that Grace’s Guide and Girl the publishers, praying silently to memoir Grace’s Guide: The Art Online were best-sellers before one day sit with the cool kids, are of Pretending to Be a Grownup. they even emerged from their banking on it too.

Recently, Helbig beat out Oprah’s pre-sale cocoons.

(Oprah’s!) latest installment What I Know For Sure, and the book is also in the top five for both “Humour” and “Relationships”.

Grace’s Guide is just one in a long and diverse list of recent literary offerings from online personalities. This October alone saw the release of Alfie Deyes’, of Pointless Blog fame, Pointless Book, beauty guru Michelle Phan’s Make Up: Your Life Guide to Beauty, Style and Success — Online and Off, as well as Helbig’s book.

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Me, myself and I

Solo travelling and dining isn’t as boring or unpleasant as it’s made out to be B y N atasa B ansagi Assistant News Editor

another reason to enjoy lone meals. is increasing in bustling cities Brendon Dawson witnesses and high-density countries, such these types of individuals on a as Japan.

At 16, I left home to pursue my regular basis.

Most pop-ups are usually open love for dance. At 18, I flew Dawson, ArtSci ’15, has worked for three or four days a week and overseas, from England, by myself extensively in the fine dining don’t have wifi, van Goor added. and at 19, I spent a summer industry and is now in his third And while most guests don’t in Mongolia — all alone. year working at Casa Domenico, use electronic devices, Eenmaal While these experiences have an Italian restaurant downtown. offers newspapers, magazines, physically displaced me from the He said he sees at least one sketchbooks and pencils instead. people I used to spend time with, person dining alone during every She hopes to open a permanent by and large, I do enjoy doing shift, if not more. location in Amsterdam in things alone.

More often than using their the future.

Spending two years at the electronic devices, he said, solo Though it’s the first restaurant Quinte Ballet School of Canada diners will read the paper, a book for solo diners, Eenmaal isn’t the in Belleville, Ontario, where I or nothing at all while eating. only one to cater to individuals. lived with a host family, I passed “Bringing entertainment is Solo diners can go to Moomin my summers dancing in Belleville, usually commonplace,” he said.

Café in Tokyo, for example, where Toronto, Quebec City and New Dawson said he enjoys serving accompanied by a large stuffed York City, where I often knew solo diners because he gets to animal in the seat opposite them, no one. know them better than most they aren’t forced to stare at an While studying in southeast customers. In fact, some of his empty chair.

England, I took a five-hour train most entertaining customers are Alex Bradbeer, who calls himself ride to Bristol alone. those who dine alone. “a guy that travels and blogs about it”, has been travelling solo for the past two years.

Currently in Albania and planning to travel to Kosovo, Macedonia and maybe Bulgaria or Serbia afterwards, Bradbeer documents his experiences on his blog, “Finding the Freedom”.

He thinks solo travelers are more approachable and that people are welcoming and willing to offer help and advice to them, citing in particular his travels to India.

“Especially in India, I’ve got a lot of business cards, saying if you need anything, please don’t hesitate to call me,” Bradbeer said via FaceTime.

He certainly recognizes the SUPPLIED BY EENMAAL Eenmaal caters specifically to solo diners. awkwardness of dining alone, especially while others dine with at When I worked in Tobermory, I “They’re very open, oh absolutely, least one other person. took a weekend trip to Manitoulin if not more so because they’re not “[Y]ou wonder if other people Island by myself, which included occupied with the conversation are maybe judging you wondering riding the ferry, dining out, with their dinner partner,” he said. why you’re by yourself,” he said. sightseeing and staying in a motel.

In regards to whether there’s “But then, I just think what I That same summer, not only a stigma associated with dining would feel if somebody was by did I dine out alone multiple times alone, Dawson said it’s a themselves. You know, I wouldn’t but in one case, I was also the sole self-imposed stigma. think anything negative or judge diner in the entire restaurant.

“Just go try it out, see if it’s really them for it, so it’s something you In a similar fashion, I visited the that bad — it’s not.” got to get over.” theatre by myself this year. And the The first pop-up restaurant for When solo dining at a restaurant list goes on. solo diners, where each table seats with wifi, Bradbeer said he’s Why do people do things alone? only one person, makes clear that definitely on his phone, like most Here’s my take on it. dining alone is gaining steam. It also people in this day and age.

Seeking to multitask to the negates the solo diner’s potential “It might break the monotony max, we dine alone even if all that worry of occupying a table meant of sitting by yourself, not speaking means is getting two pages ahead for two in a busy restaurant. to anybody, waiting for food. It’s of finishing a course reading or According to its website, something to pass the time.” sending an e-mail that we won’t Eenmaal, which launched in While most of his time is spent have to do later.

2013 in Amsterdam, is “the first travelling solo, Bradbeer will I’ll admit that my productivity one-person restaurant in the occasionally team up with other may not be as high when my world and an attractive place for travelers, although he said a benefit stomach grumbles for that gourmet temporary disconnection.” to travelling alone is being able to burger or decadent dessert before Restaurants in Amsterdam and do what you want without being me. But at least I’m slightly more in Antwerp, Belgium, are scheduled tied to somebody else’s schedule. ahead of the game than if I hadn’t to pop up this month and next, “And, even if you have partnered set out to work while eating a meal. respectively. Future pop-ups in up with somebody, if you disagree Even if school or work Brooklyn, London and Melbourne or you’d like to go your separate constraints suggest the need for are also in the works. ways, that’s an option,” Bradbeer no breaks, dining or travelling Marina van Goor, a Dutch said. “It’s about being free and alone can provide a new working designer and former corporate being solo is part of that.” environment that in itself is lawyer, is the creator of Eenmaal.

Being solitary also opens up very refreshing.

She told the Journal via email the door to unique experiences.

Doing things alone enables us that in virtually all cultures, For instance, Bradbeer recently met to work on our own time without eating dinner together may be someone from his hometown of the stress of fitting to someone “one of the most extreme forms Ottawa at a gym he visited alone in else’s schedule. of togetherness.”

Tirana, Albania.

Others have listed reasons for “So the tabu [sic] that surrounds Following their conversation, in dining alone, such as the pleasure of having dinner in public in your which the man gave Bradbeer his not rushing to finish a meal if your own company is very recognizable,” card should he require anything eating speed is highly divergent van Goor said. while in the country, he then from fellow diners. Spending Differences exist between offered him his beach house in time in solitude after a busy day countries, she said, noting that the southern Albania next summer. replete with extensive interaction is need for temporary disconnection When he asked why this man

had approached him, Bradbeer was told it was because he was alone.

Had Bradbeer been accompanied by a friend to the gym that day, he likely wouldn’t have been approached.

Emily Gong also understands the benefits of travelling alone.

In the summer after her second year, Gong, ArtSci ’15, went to Italy for the Queen’s-Blyth program and also studied at the University of Cambridge for two months. Most recently, she completed a research fellowship in Tibet to study cave complexes in the Gobi Desert.

While in Europe, she travelled alone to Venice and Paris and also went on weekend trips alone to places like Amsterdam and Prague.

There were many art venues she wanted to visit, she said. For her, galleries and festivals are a personal experience.

“I feel like looking at art is like, if you’re trying to share it with a friend, it’s kind of like trying to share a book,” she said. “It’s not doable.”

When you’re alone and focusing on your surroundings, you care

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less about what other people are thinking.

“I think as long as you’re fine with it yourself, it doesn’t matter what you think others think of you.”

In comparison to European countries, where she said it was more accepted and understandable to do things alone, in Tibet it wasn’t possible for her to travel alone, given that she doesn’t hold Chinese citizenship.

“To get into Tibet, you need a permit, you need an entrance permit and so you have to first apply for that entrance permit and then afterwards, you need to apply for a group to go with, in order to enter in,” Gong said.

Her final verdict?

Gong said travelling alone, rather than with a friend with similar interests, makes you more observative. “[Y]ou’ll be more prone to stick to her or him when you’re approaching new things than if you were alone and then observing and seeing everything for just yourself,” she said.

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