The Queen's Journal, Volume 142, Issue 17

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SEXUAL ASSAULT

Release of interim sexual assault policy imminent Working group to establish temporary policy developed with experts

Feature: New mayor, fresh start page 3

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B y J acob R osen Assistant News Editor Queen’s new interim protocol for sexual assault will be publicly released “any day now”, according to Arig al Shaibah, chair of the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Working Group.

According to al Shaibah, the protocol will clearly define sexual assault and consent, and provide a list of resources available to survivors for dealing with their assault. The protocol will also

include information about actions the University could take toward “alleged assailants” on campus.

“We have many really good resources available for survivors of sexual assault, so in this document it is an opportunity to consolidate services and resources,” she said.

The interim protocol has been under the supervision of a sub-committee of experienced policymakers and lawyers.

The sub-committee was established in early December, See AMS on page 5

Arts:

Innovative creativity page 8

30% of AMS executive candidates in the last five years have been female.

OBITUARY

OPINION

Remembering Tausif Female student In the time he was at Queen’s, Tausif Chowdhury was known for his focus, his sense of humour and his FIFA skill.

Chowdhury, 23, attended Queen’s as an engineering student during the 2013-14 academic year before transferring to Carleton University last fall.

Chowdhury’s body was found in Ottawa the morning of Nov. 27, and investigators found a hammer nearby. The Ottawa Police Service deemed his death a homicide, and two men were jointly charged with one count of manslaughter and one count of robbery. The accused, John Ruch and Stephen Kozielo, appeared in court by video on Dec. 20 and again on Jan. 8.

Because the case is currently before the court, the police

couldn’t comment.

Queen’s University Muslim Student Association Chair Reyhan Viceer, a friend of Chowdhury’s during his time at Queen’s, said Chowdhury was a “friendly, humble person” who didn’t talk much but was always funny, and knew his goals in life.

“He wouldn’t put his burden on anybody else or show it, at least, and I think that’s a noble quality of someone who doesn’t want to adversely affect someone or show too much — to show that he’s … trying to be more respectful of people,” said Viceer, Sci ’15.

Though Chowdhury attended university in Canada, his parents live in Saudi Arabia, and he was originally from Bangladesh. Viceer said they met when Chowdhury joined QUMSA and started coming

to socials. They were introduced by a mutual friend and became friends when they found out both sets of parents work in Saudi Arabia.

“We just met each other here and his parents were also in Saudi, so that’s just what got us talking to each other, and so with that he opened up more,” he said.

Chowdhury’s parents were contacted by the Ottawa Police after his death.

“I hope [his family] get the comfort that they deserve and that they know their son was an amazing person,” Viceer said.

“I can hardly imagine what the family’s going through, but I just pray that they get the comfort they deserve and that they get over this hard time, and that this difficult time passes by as smoothly as See Queen’s on page 5

leaders lacking

More women should pursue leadership opportunities at Queen’s T uba C hishti , A rt S ci ‘15 In 1884, Queen’s became the first university west of the Maritimes — and ahead of much of the world — to have female graduates.

Today, more than 55 per cent of the Queen’s undergraduate student body is female, and Senate enrolment reports tell us that each incoming class sees a higher composition of female students than the one before.

I strongly believe the amount of

student ownership and meaningful opportunities at Queen’s are second to none. Yet 130 years after women first came to Queen’s, we’ve yet to attain gender parity in leadership positions outside the classroom.

Female participation in higher student leadership roles continues to be a large issue. This may have to do with female hesitance to lead, the way we’re socialized through school or a lack of encouragement to get more involved.

The great thing about positions See Female on page 7

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AMS

AMS Executive Director departs Annette Paul left on Jan. 5, leaving AMS to redistribute duties and search for a new Executive Director B y N atasa B ansagi Assistant News Editor

since 2009.

Tuba Chishti, chair of the AMS Board of Directors, said the AMS Executive Director Annette organization is currently deciding Paul left the organization on on how to move forward with the Monday, after almost three years hiring process. There’s currently working at the AMS. no interim Executive Director.

Paul had previously worked She said hiring options with the AMS Board of Directors include using a recruiting as a Community Director, before firm — which would find a suitable becoming the AMS’s first Executive candidate based on specifications Director in May 2013. provided — and an open hiring The Executive Director serves process, which would involve as chief advisor to the AMS marketing a position and posting executive and as a staff resource to it online in order to attract student leaders, and is in charge of interested candidates. She added oversight of operation and that she hopes a decision for the strategic objectives. process will be reached by Monday, Citing a “personal family when the Board of Directors is matter”, Paul declined to provide scheduled to meet. any further comment to the Journal.

A standard hiring process Paul was hired as Executive was used when Paul was hired, Director after the 2012-13 AMS Chishti said. Since the change from executive and Board changed the General Manager, the Executive position from General Manager. Director position has been updated Annette Bergeron previously but not fundamentally changed. served as General Manager, but The AMS is trying to figure out if resigned in March 2013. any targeted marketing took place The Journal reported when at that time, however, and will Paul was hired that Bergeron weigh the costs of each approach resigned “in order to fulfill before selecting one. external commitments” after Once a process is chosen, hiring having served in the position could take at least a month, Chishti

said, with candidate selection alone expected to take at least two weeks.

In the interim, Paul’s former duties will predominately be redistributed between the AMS executive — budgeting and accounting tasks to Vice-President of Operations Justin Reekie, legal matters to President Allison Williams and clubs and insurance tasks to Vice-President of University Affairs Philip Lloyd — and a few additional duties will go to the “appropriate permanent staff” within the AMS. Some of the allocation is still being decided, however, because part of the Executive Director’s position involves looking over the long-term work of the AMS executive.

“We’re still figuring it out because all that stuff has always rested with the Executive Director, and obviously the other permanent staff, they each have their own portfolios to worry about,” Chishti said.

“So we’re going to figure it out based on everyone’s availabilities and what fits with them.”

Annette Paul was hired as Executive Director in May 2013.

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CAMPUS MEDIA

Tartan’s progress AMS kickstarts housing site up for debate Site seeks to make house hunting less frustrating for students MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS

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it’ll be a non-biased source of information for housing.

“We really wanted to create a website that had everything — all the information and resources that you needed throughout your housing experience, so from house hunting to in the house to leaving the house,” Aguilar said.

PadMapper’s algorithm allows listings on external sites to automatically appear on the housing map, although Aguilar said the program’s compatibility with PadLister — since PadMapper and PadLister were created by the same developer — means sublets or rentals posted on this site appear more quickly on the MAC housing map.

Aguilar said PadLister places listings based on location, whereas other sites like Kijiji and Craigslist

order ads based on when they’re posted online.

“You could have a really great place and a great location but it might be hidden underneath all these new classifieds,” he said.

“So the advantage of PadLister is it puts you in your location right away and it doesn’t organize it by timing.”

He said the response to the site from both students and landlords has been positive.

Website visits peaked around late November and at the beginning of this month, with a drop during exams in December. More than 1,800 people have accessed the website and there have been nearly 20,000 pageviews.

At the end of November, AMS Municipal Affairs Commissioner (MAC) Ariel Aguilar Gonzalez launched a new University District housing website, as part of the rebranding of the area.

The website features a housing guide, housing resources, videos, FAQs and a housing map, created in partnership with New York startup PadMapper.

The map aggregates local listings from classified websites like Kijiji and Craigslist — as well as the startup’s own listings website, PadLister — onto a Google Map. Users can adjust filters like rent range and number of bedrooms and bathrooms on the map.

The housing website can be accessed The site was also designed to be at http://housing.myams.org. visually appealing to students and “hopefully” make the house hunting experience more reassuring and less frustrating.

Aguilar, ArtSci '16, said the idea for the website had been in the works since February. It was launched with the help of the AMS IT office and a local web developer, following consultation with the IT office. He consulted with former MACs Catherine Wright and David Sinkinson, the latter having developed a previous version of the housing map.

The website revamp was done in part to fulfill the mandate of the Municipal Affairs Commission, Aguilar said, which is to educate students about housing issues and PHOTO BY ALEX PICKERING the market and help them move Tartan co-editor in chief Brendan Goodman said at into housing. He said he hopes ASUS Assembly that the publication will begin releasing articles next week.

Editor in chief says ASUS newspaper will begin publishing next week B y M ishal O mar Assistant News Editor The ASUS publication the Tartan was the subject of a tense debate at the society’s first winter assembly on Thursday night, with some members arguing the online publication has done little since current editors-in-chief Brendan Goodman and Scott Ramsay took office on May 1.

ASUS Board Director Peter Smolej began the inquiry on the Tartan’s progress, saying the editors’ goals, which included increasing content for the publication, haven’t yet been met.

The Tartan, which is a student-run publication managed by the society, hasn’t published any articles this year.

In response to questions of why the Tartan has failed to publish articles, Goodman, ArtSci ’16, said it wasn’t a matter of lacking material, but that they didn’t have media insurance from the AMS. Goodman added that although they received positive feedback in the first week of the fall semester, potential writers for the publication were put off when they were told their articles wouldn’t be published due to insurance issues.

The idea of possibly abandoning the publication was brought forward at a Feb. 2014 Assembly, but ASUS President Adam Grotsky said that as of now, ASUS has no plans to shut down the publication.

When asked if he envisioned the Tartan as a potential competitor for the Journal or whether its goal was to find its own niche in the market, Goodman said that the publications are similar in that they’re both student-sourced news publications.

He added that they differ in that the Tartan will only publish online and will focus more on students writing about their own interests.

The Tartan isn’t ASUS’s first newspaper. ASUS published weekly paper The Lictor from the early 1970s to 1989, and funded Surface from 1989-93, and again from 1994-2003.

Goodman said they were looking to release five or six “high quality” articles early next week.

Goodman said the Tartan’s goal now is to regain the momentum it had early in the fall, adding that the shortcomings it faced were due to extenuating circumstances like the lack of media insurance.

“I don’t think it’s been given the best opportunity to succeed as it could have,” he said.

“I think that perhaps getting the Tartan up and running and seeing actually what it looks like going full-speed ahead is the best time to be making a value judgment on the state of the publication and whether or not it should continue.”

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FEATURE TOWN-GOWN

New mayor brings fresh start Bryan Paterson promises open-door policy for town-gown relations B y L aura R ussell Features Editor As Kingston’s new mayor has familiarized with his role, town-gown relations have become a pressing issue.

Bryan Paterson said he has reached out to Queen’s administration and to student leaders since being elected in October.

“We’ve had great meetings to establish right from the outset a positive working relationship, wanting to reset things,” Paterson said.

Town-gown relations represent the relationship between the City of Kingston and the University.

Mark Gerretsen — the mayor of Kingston from 2010-14 — was said to have had issues within town-gown relations and disagreements with the University, according to Paterson.

In October 2013, during Queen’s first Homecoming weekend after a five-year ban, Gerretsen sparked controversy by sending a Tweet directed to Principal Daniel Woolf that read “I am standing at William and Aberdeen [Streets]. I have two words for you: NOT GOOD”.

In April 2013, Gerretsen and six councilors voted in support of changing electoral district boundaries, which would have excluded students from Kingston’s population count. Student and resident associations successfully appealed the new bylaw to the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) that November.

“I had heard [the relations] described as somewhat frosty,” Paterson said. “There were some issues that came up that created a strain on the relationship between the City and the student population.”

Paterson said he hopes to have a fresh start with the University and ensure that student issues are heard

by City Council.

“I’m hopeful that there will be good positive lines of communication,” he said. “If there’s a concern we can communicate it in a positive way right from the outset.

“I’m not going

to throw anything on Twitter that is going to slam anybody — that’s just not my style,” he continued.

“But you can expect from me a listening ear and an open door.”

Paterson said he wants to push for more residential development in the downtown area, create more pedestrian-friendly streets within the city and implement a youth employment strategy.

“We need to create more high-quality employment for Queen’s students interested in wanting to stay in Kingston,” he said, “and more opportunity for innovation and entrepreneurship — where projects and ideas that are being started on campus can have a link to spaces and resources in the city to get a business off the ground.”

He said he has also spoken with the AMS to add diagonal pedestrian crossing at the intersection of University Ave. and Union St. “We want to show that we want to be a student-friendly Council,” Paterson said. “We have one of the youngest Councils the city has ever had and so I think that we are naturally positioned to relate well to the student population.”

AMS Municipal Affairs Commissioner Ariel Aguilar Gonzalez said he has been in communication with Paterson since last semester — when Paterson was the city councilor for Trillium District — into when he was a candidate and now as mayor.

Aguilar, ArtSci ’16, advocates student interests at a municipal level, to facilitate opportunities for students to volunteer in Kingston

and to prepare students for moving into housing.

Aguilar also worked with Mayor Gerretsen throughout this summer on projects such as the ReUnion Street Festival, held on a segment of Union St. on the Saturday night of Homecoming weekend.

Gerretsen offered support and logistical advice, Aguilar said.

But there were moments when they didn’t see eye to eye.

“Town-gown relations is pretty encompassing, not just with the Mayor but with Council and City staff,” Aguilar said, “so there were moments where we really advanced forward and then there were areas when we had our disagreements, like the Ontario Municipal Board appeal.”

“I’m hopeful that there will be good positive lines of communication. If there’s a concern we can communicate it in a positive way right from the outset.”

— Bryan Paterson

Aguilar said town-gown relations have drastically improved over the last two or three City Council terms.

“The last council was the first one to implement the town-gown strategic plan, which is for the first time a gathering of all of the stakeholders to discuss,” he said.

The town-gown strategic plan was presented in Feb. 2011 and outlined goals to improve quality of life, engage students and spur economic development in Kingston, with collaboration between the City and Queen’s.

The new Council now has to maintain that momentum and establish positive relationships with the AMS, Aguilar said.

“We are going to work more closely with City staff and speak on issues at an earlier stage and develop a more comprehensive stance and have our research behind us,” he said. “We need to continue

things that were really good and the students need to engage in the process.

“Students should think of themselves as full citizens of Kingston,” he added. “If you don’t agree with something, go to the public meetings, tweet at the city or engage in any way.”

Political studies professor Jonathan Rose said students should expect to live in a safe environment that allows them to continue their learning, provides them employment opportunities and respects their rights as tenants.

From the perspective of the university, Rose said Queen’s should expect students to be respectful visitors.

“After all, they’re visitors of this city — and to abide by laws and to be respectful of permanent residents in places where those residents are minorities, so in the University District,” he said.

Rose, who has been teaching and living in Kingston since 1994, said students were irked by a few actions undertaken by Gerretsen when he was mayor, adding that there may have been some criticism aimed at Gerretsen that didn’t relate directly to his responsibilities.

He said it’s too early to see any changes implemented by Paterson, noting that “it’s important to remember that a mayor is only one person — what also matters is the Council and how favourable the Council is to student concerns and student issues.”

He said the most important value for town-gown relations is mutual respect.

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understanding of Queen’s students that this is not [just] their town,” Rose said. “And the citizens of Kingston need to understand that the students are an incredible resource and great asset to the city — not only financially, but the vibe that they bring to the city.”

According to Gerretsen, it’s essential that students and non-students find a way to co-exist in Kingston.

Gerretsen, who’s now running to be the federal Liberal Party candidate for Kingston and the Islands, said his relationships with students and the University had their ups and downs during his time as mayor.

“By and large, the relationships I was able to build with the AMS over the years were productive ones,” Gerretsen said. “There was always open communication. Even when we had our tough times, there was never a closed-door policy on either side.”

Gerretsen said he regrets some things he said and the way he came across in his communication with students — including the phrasing of his “NOT GOOD” Homecoming tweet to Woolf. “[What] I would have done differently would most likely have been the manner in which I communicated what I felt, the language I used and what I said specifically.”

He said he doesn’t regret the overall message of his tweet, adding that the activities taking place in the City were inappropriate.

“The manner that I delivered it could have been done differently, and if I had an opportunity to do it again, I would do that differently,” he said.

Mayor Paterson, Gerretsen said, isn’t as hotheaded as himself.

“The leaders of the student body can expect that he’ll sit down with them and have open and honest discussions with them when they need to have those,” he said.

“He’s also an individual that will represent what he feels are the interests of the entire community, which includes students and non-students.”

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AMS may join call for sexual assault policy Continued from page 1

following public criticism of the University’s sexual assault policy. The working group asked Principal Daniel Woolf to expedite the creation of a sub-committee of experts that would create interim policy.

“There certainly was a sense of urgency to get an interim protocol out there, because clearly there was some confusion about what was available on campus and where people could go,” al Shaibah said.

The working group has been discussing more comprehensive policy recommendations that will address prevention, education and support. Its official recommendations are scheduled to be released in April.

The group has also been planning a series of consultations that will include consultation with faculty, staff and other community members, on-campus as well as off-campus.

“There will be lots of opportunities for student groups and constituents to be providing

some input,” al Shaibah said.

The group has been working on recommendations since the beginning of September, but Emily Wong, the AMS Social Issues commissioner, said public attention has been significant in accelerating the process.

“It’s nice that the conversation happened because it’s obviously good to see things move along a bit faster,” said Wong, ArtSci ’15.

Wong is the AMS representative to the working group and will bring any AMS recommendations for the official policy.

Queen’s shows support Continued from page 1

possible for them.”

Viceer said interfaith chaplain

Kate Johnson and the Engineering and Applied Sciences department have reached out to Chowdhury’s friends. The department contacted

Tausif Chowdhury was known for his focus and his sense of humour.

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Viceer after Chowdhury’s death and told him they would help him with any problems.

“Overall, the community itself is really supportive. There’s always people reaching out to you, so it’s not like there’s no one here — even the [Kingston] Muslim community, just the Queen’s community as well, everyone’s been helpful and supportive,” he said. “We really appreciate that.”

Viceer emphasized the importance of remembering Chowdhury for who he was as a person, not for the manner of his death.

“I wanted him to be remembered for who he was — a respectful person and just someone who was — he was just someone to be fun around, hang around with, and he just brought that sense of calmness to everyone,” he said.

“We’ve learned a lot of good things from him — like I’ve learned to be more focused, relaxed, not freak out … he’d always comfort me.

“He’s just someone that I feel like nobody should forget.”

According to Wong, the main issue being discussed isn’t lack of resources, but rather the lack of a centralized body or organization that links all available resources together.

“Just advertising ‘this is what’s available’ is not necessarily the solution, because there is so much available,” she said.

“It’s got to be something a little more centralized.”

AMS Assembly has also recognized the lack of structure as a primary issue. At the final meeting prior to winter break, on Nov. 27, Assembly discussed potential additions to AMS policy regarding sexual assault.

“We are looking at what’s available — our resources, and making sure an appropriate group is dealing with [it],” AMS President Allison Williams told Assembly.

Williams, ArtSci ’14, reiterated her concern that there needs to be more research done before the AMS can make an official recommendation on policy change to the administration.

ASUS Representative Tamarra Wallace said it’s important for the AMS to take further action on the issue. Wallace drafted a report for Assembly outlining the current shortcomings of the sexual harassment policy for the basis of the Assembly discussion.

The report referenced earlier Journal articles, as well as an investigation into sexual assault at Canadian universities by the Toronto Star, in criticizing the ambiguity of the informal and formal processes of reporting a “sexual harassment” complaint according to current University policy.

Assembly discussed educational campaigns as potential actions they could take in response.

Policy recommendations, like better advertisement of resources and providing a clearer definition of sexual assault, were also discussed.

“I would like to see AMS take a stance, either in policy or a campaign,” Wallace told Assembly.

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News in brief Four Queen’s alumni appointed to Order of Canada

has conducted groundbreaking research on a rare cancer of children’s eyes, retinoblastoma.

In December, Governor General Dr. Norman Marcon, Meds David Johnston, Law ’66, LLD ’91, ’62, is a doctor and researcher at announced 95 new appointments St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto. to the Order of Canada, four of His work on gastrointestinal them Queen’s alumni. diseases and in promoting the latest The Order of Canada, advances in therapeutic endoscopy established in 1967, is a civilian is being honoured. honour that recognizes outstanding The new appointments will be achievement, dedication to honoured at a ceremony in Ottawa the community and service to later this year. the nation.

Peter Milliken, Arts ’68, LLD — Mishal Omar ’12, was appointed as an Officer, the second highest rank of the Baders give generous gifts to arts Order of Canada. He is the and Jewish Studies longest-serving Speaker of the House and was the longest-serving Funding to the Agnes Etherington MP for Kingston and the Islands.

Art Centre, the Jewish Studies He’s now a Fellow in the program and post-doctoral fellows Queen’s School of Policy Studies. at the University will increase Michael Macmillan, ArtSci ’78, thanks to a generous donation by is the founder of Atlantis Films. He Alfred Bader. co-authored the book Tragedy in Bader, Sci ’45, Arts ’46, MSc the Commons: Former Members ’47, LLD ’86, and his wife Isabel of Parliament Speak Out about Bader, LLD ’07, donated a total of Canada’s Failing Democracy and $5.5 million to the University. also founded Samara Canada, a The Baders were also behind non-profit organization that works the purchase of Herstmonceux to engage Canadians with politics.

Castle, which houses the Bader Dr. Brenda Gallie, Meds ’69, is International Study Centre, and the an ophthalmologist at the Hospital opening of the Isabel Bader Centre for Sick Children in Toronto who for the Performing Arts in the fall.

They were recently awarded the Alumni Achievement Award, the University’s highest honour, by the Queen’s University Alumni Association. $3 million of the donation will be allocated to the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, $1.5 million to the Jewish Studies program and $1 million for post-doctoral fellows working in humanities departments.

The funds for the Art Centre will be used for care and “interpretation” of the Bader Collection, which includes more than 200 paintings from the 16th to 18th centuries, and toward the Bader Curator of European Art’s new Bader Legacy Fund endowment.

The Jewish Studies program, which is currently experiencing a large demand for its courses and seminars, will see its teaching capacity increase as a result of the funding.

The donation will also fund a post-doctoral fellow in Jewish Studies who will teach, give public lectures, serve as a guest speaker in other courses and offer consultation for faculty and students.

— Natasa Bansagi

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EDUCATION

You aren’t your grades It’s time to rethink the meaning of grades and how they’re constructed.

The current Canadian post-secondary grading system is used to determine a student’s value and rank in the education system.

But because education tends to cater to certain learning styles, it fails to adequately reflect the actual learning abilities of many students, and as a result often punishes exploration and those who learn differently.

Despite this, grades are revered as the ultimate barometer of success, instilling in learners that their self-worth is tied to their grades.

This system isn’t inherently bad, but it needs to better reflect how well students have learned.

While tailoring evaluation methods to every individual student isn’t feasible, slight adjustments to course breakdowns is one way to accommodate diversity in learning styles. If the purpose of a course’s grades is to see how well students have learned the material, they should have at least one opportunity to prove their knowledge through a method they feel comfortable with.

Offering a greater variety of assignments is an example — for instance, auditory learners could have the option to give

DALHOUSIE

Safer policy needed New harassment policies and education are needed in the wake of recent events at Dalhousie University.

Thirteen male Dalhousie dentistry students were suspended indefinitely from clinical activities earlier this month after Facebook posts with violent sexual content were leaked.

Some comments contemplated sedating and raping specific female students in their program. The severity of such comments can’t be understated, as they consider taking advantage of a profession to harm others.

Many members of the Dalhousie community aren’t satisfied with the suspension and believe the male students should be expelled.

Half of the program’s male students were involved in the incident, a fact that didn’t surprise Dalhousie’s student union president, who said female dentistry students had previously complained of harassment and preferential treatment of men in the program.

This indicates a much more pervasive root issue, one that a simple expulsion won’t adequately address — although it shouldn’t be

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oral presentations.

Community-based learning should also be incorporated into assessment. Individual tasks are weighted heavily in mark breakdowns, but test-taking and memorization skills aren’t as valuable in the workplace

and real life as collaboration and communication.

A more collaborative environment can be fostered in several ways: through class discussions, group activities and student presentations, and through a classroom’s physical space.

This indicates a much more pervasive root issue, one that a simple expulsion won’t adequately address.

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Queen’s took steps towards the latter point by opening three active learning classrooms in Ellis Hall last January. Such renovations couldn’t feasibly be done in all classrooms, but professors can revamp their course breakdowns to encourage group interaction.

One-on-one learning and smaller class sizes are cited as the best way to improve personalized education, but due to financial constraints, it isn’t an immediate solution. The majority of Queen’s professors do offer ample office hours — a resource more students need to take advantage of.

Since professors can only do so much to better accommodate students, post-secondary institutions need to encourage the addition of new methods of assessment.

Alterations should be made to the student admittance process as well. Universities could consider personal statements, letters of reference, extracurricular participation and other factors to gain a clearer, comprehensive picture of a student’s abilities.

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taken off the table as a potential students. Under Dalhousie’s sexual punishment down the line. harassment policy, complainants Immediate expulsion doesn’t can’t remain confidential ensure that the individuals involved — meaning the accused is aware of are rehabilitated, so that they don’t who filed the complaint. continue holding and spreading Confidentiality needs to be ideas of criminal actions. possible in formal complaints These events need to catalyze to protect individuals from serious change at Dalhousie, perpetrators, and to increase the starting with educating students in likelihood individuals will feel safe gender issues from the moment of coming forward. their admission.

It’s to Dalhousie’s The formal complaint against administration’s credit that the male students was filed by they were meticulous in their four professors, rather than investigation, and that they

decided to delay dentistry exams to ensure students wouldn’t have to sit next to the individuals who made threatening comments against either them or their fellow classmates.

Such careful thought needs to continue throughout this investigation, and a better system for dealing with future incidents should be established.

games? Why do we follow these unwritten rules about dating and starting relationships?

You’re supposed to try to act coy, pretending that you have much better things to do Saturday night than see a movie with him, but let’s face it: you don’t.

We get so caught up in these stupid games and playing hard to get that we don’t even realize if we like the person.

You get to the bar and scan the room hoping to see his face, but once you do you turn away. You have to act like you didn’t see him and that you’re having an amazing time with your friends — and maybe even flirt with the closest guy there.

It’s just another game in a relationship where you can’t seem too eager or uninterested.

If we tossed out these “rules”, maybe we would meet a person that we genuinely like. Do we enjoy playing the games and having that rush, rather than enjoying the person for who they are?

With these rules, you only really start to know the person

once you get into a relationship, because once you put the label on, the games stop and the truth is revealed. Maybe that’s why a lot of relationships only last a few months.

Why can’t I just be upfront about everything and not laugh at his joke if I don’t find it funny? I know that you’re constantly on your phone, so why ignore my text for the next few hours if we can make plans now?

We’re a generation that has our phones attached to us at all times like life support. Don’t wait so that it seems like you were busy or to hold some form of power over the other person.

I’m not saying I’m innocent of doing this, because I’m definitely just another player in this game, but why do I follow the rules if I’m against it? We should drop the game, so that we can actually get to know people.

Laura Russell

Quit playing games I was once with my friend when I got a text from a guy I liked.

I went to respond, but she quickly stopped me. Apparently, I had to wait as long as or longer than it took it him to respond to my last text, so I did.

You’re supposed to wait it out, because then you somehow hold the power in the relationship.

Why do we play these

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Laura is one of the Journal’s Features Editors. She’s a fourth-year English major.

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Tuba Chishti ArtSci ’15

Tuba Chishti argues female students are often socialized to avoid risk, causing them not to pursue higher leadership roles.

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Female students need more encouragement By examining five years of on the results of Arts and Science, elections for executives in the AMS and Rector/Trustee elections only lasting one year, however, is AMS, ASUS, EngSoc, ComSoc, from 2009-14. that we can start to change those CESA, Residence Society (ResSoc) Only 40 per cent of candidates numbers. and Rector/Trustee races, I came to and 10 per cent of the elected Looking at student election realize the problem isn’t that we’re executive in Arts and Science results is the best way to identify unwilling to vote for female leaders. elections have been women, a lack of female participation. In According to data I’ve despite the faculty being well over elections, we each vote without accumulated, female candidates 60 per cent female. needing to tell others how we voted, are more likely to win than male The AMS and Rector/Trustee and it’s one of the few public areas candidates — but even with numbers aren’t much better, with of our student experience that we a majority female population, 30 to 35 per cent of candidates all have the option to partake in. women tend not to run, based and approximately 40 per cent of elected members being female.

These numbers match the overall average from student societies elections quite well.

The issue is females are a lot less likely to run than men. Over half of any volunteers or staff in our student governments, services and clubs are almost always |female — and the composition tends to be female by a larger majority than just half.

Yet the higher the positions, especially in elected cases, the quicker this trend reverses. For example, despite the 300-plus Queen’s Model Parliament delegates being almost 60 per cent female in the last few years, there has only been one female elected Party Leader.

After talking with female friends about running for elected positions, applying to more positions or continuing in academia, a very clear theme emerged: we all lacked confidence in ourselves. My friends didn’t think they were as qualified for leadership roles they positioned themselves in, or for medical school, or for awards they had rightfully won.

Having struggled with this very thing through my Queen’s

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journey, it shouldn’t have surprised The confidence I’m talking about me — and therein lies the looks much more like self-esteem root problem. than arrogance.

Ever since I noticed this, I see Many females fear being labelled it all the time. Several students as “bossy” or “too aggressive” recently came to talk to me about when pursuing leadership roles or running for different positions in speaking up confidently, as this is a upcoming elections. Apart from common experience. position specifics, there were very The first step is for women clear differences between the males to push ourselves beyond our and females. comfort levels and to go after the The women were generally things we want. concerned about not being good A 2013 study by the Women & enough for the positions and asked Politics Institute in DC called “Girls a lot about whether they would fit Just Wanna Not Run” revealed that well in that environment. Fewer while young women are less likely men asked me if I thought they to consider running for offices than would do well in their candidacies. young men, we respond to positive Many studies are now encouragement to get involved at looking at how boys and the same level as men. girls are socialized differently Men and women alike have without any real gender bias a duty towards each other, and involved — including “The especially to the women in our Confidence Gap”, a 2014 lives, to encourage them to take article in The Atlantic about more risks and to help them reverse confidence-level differences years of only being rewarded for between men and women. following the rules.

One argument that resonated Creating a more encouraging with me was about children in and supportive environment for the classroom and on playgrounds. women could greatly impact Since girls develop earlier than females who may be on the fence boys, they behave well sooner and about pursuing leadership. are praised for this very trait. Many The worst-case scenario of girls learn to avoid taking risks running for something is that and pushing limits, and this trait you’re right back where you were doesn’t help them much beyond all along, with more information a classroom. on how to close the gender gap.

A surprising review that came Best-case scenario — the next time out of a Hewlett-Packard internal Beyonce’s “Who Run the World” study revealed that women tended comes on, I don’t have to laugh at to apply for promotions only when the lyrics. they believed they met 100 per cent of the qualifications. Men Tuba Chishti is the chair of AMS Board would apply if they met even 60 of Directors and vice-president of per cent of the requirements. events with the Queen’s Student Confidence matters just as much Alumni Association. as competence outside a classroom.

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Dark expression

Profile of fine art student Morgan Campbell PHOTO BY ALEX PICKERING

Morgan Campbell with her art piece Screwed in Union Gallery.

B y O livia L oncar -B artolini Arts Editor For fourth-year fine arts student Morgan Campbell, making art has always come naturally.

“It’s just always been something that’s interested me as a kid and I guess being good at it helps, and

then the passion just happened at university,” Campbell said.

In the final year of completing her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, Campbell feels as though she’s found her direction and is delving deeper into discovering who she is as an artist.

When it comes to her work,

Campbell has a clear vision. She skips no detail in the imagery and themes or the construction of her artwork.

On display at Union Gallery is a collective show entitled Stuck Inside which features the creations of Campbell as well as two other fourth year fine arts students. From first-to-third-year Campbell spent much time experimenting with different mediums and themes to find her artistic style, and now in fourth-year, she feels as though she’s found her path.

In person, Campbell’s piece Screwed is so striking that it’s nearly impossible to look away. Spanning several feet across the gallery wall where it hangs, the fine detail and

texture that covers the entirety of the large canvas features striking and intense figure paintings that convey strong emotions through the realism of their depiction.

Working with both oil paints and pastels, mixing them together in her work, Campbell’s piece shows a mastery of her materials and a harmony in the use of different mediums.

“I’ve been doing mainly figurative work so the show on at the Union, Stuck Inside is my first group show and it’s focused on feminine sexuality and facing these ideals that we as women face,” said Campbell, discussing her work.

“It’s this kind of pressure

where there’s two polar opposites of females who embrace their sexuality and are very confident and very comfortable in their own skin, and then there’s also the other side where we’re kind of expected to be more reserved or respect our bodies and we have to balance these polarities.”

In a speech that Campbell gave at the reception of “Stuck Inside”, she delves even further into the dark and powerful symbolism behind her work.

“This particular piece attempts to present the personal psychic havoc wreaked when navigating these expectations of embracing sexuality and self-realization, which can sometimes feel to be mutually exclusive. As the title suggests, I feel as though I am screwed either way, damned if I do and damned if don’t,” Campbell said.

Ideally, Campbell wants the viewer to feel the overwhelming emotion and anxiety in her piece, which are feelings that we often try to mask and contain deep within us as we pass through our day-to-day lives.

The work is both disturbing and thought provoking, and that sense of unease and astonishment that the viewer feels when looking at it is just proof of how effectively Campbell manages to capture the dark side to the female image.

Campbell feels her program it’s a great fit for her.

“As a whole it’s definitely been a great experience. Everyone is really helpful and always there for you,” she said.

Campbell’s artwork “Screwed” will be on display at the Union Gallery until Jan. 23.

ART EXHIBIT

A diverse collection of works Studio 22 brings together the work of Kingston artists Douglas Copeland’s piece I Hope Humanity...

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ART EXHIBIT

Art and nature An assortment of ecological works B y K ashmala O mar Arts Editor Nestled within the walls of the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, “I Hope Humanity…” is a meaningful exhibition that makes a sobering point about humanity’s destructive impact on the global environment.

The collection includes abstract art pieces, oil paintings, and embroidered tapestry among other forms of visual art. Although the collection can at first be perceived as a somewhat random array of pieces, it comes together cohesively to demonstrate the consequences of human development on the world we live in.

“I Hope Humanity…” was developed by Elysia French, MA’15, under the supervision of Curator of Contemporary Art Sarah E.K. Smith. It includes work from artists Carol Conde, Karl Beveridge, Robert Fones, Eleanor Bond and Don Maynard.

The exhibition’s name is drawn from the main painting in the collection by artist Douglas Copeland. It features a black-and-white QR barcode with spontaneous bright squares of colour, primarily used for scanning in technology.

The simplicity of the painting caters to the overall theme, which drew me in immediately. The familiarity of the piece allowed me to come to the conclusion that it was a subtle reference to the advancement of technology playing a role in environmental destruction.

In contrast to this, the main oil painting in the exhibition,

by Eleanor Bond in 1948, titled Later, Some Industrial Refugees Form Communal Settlements in Logged Valley in B.C., depicts a striking landscape of deep, rich purple and blue hues that shows another, historical-based side to the environment’s struggle.

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B y L auren L uchenski Staff Writer Studio 22 Open Gallery always displays and encourages innovative and unusual artwork in their space on King Street East.

Since Dec. 6, the studio has been featuring the work of 29 artists in The Open Collection event.

An abstract piece among the collection.

The event leaves out no dimension of artistic mediums.

It displays oil and watercolour paintings, graphics, print, photography, sculptures and much more.

Many of the pieces are bright and loud, such as Holly Dean’s display of fantasy-like vintage Polaroids with calligraphy and colourful painting overlay.

The exhibit also displays large black and white photographs by Bernard Clark.

Clark’s photographs of old motel signs demand attention to his careful construction of the image and its modifications.

“If you really look, you’ll see the background behind the hotel is not a sky, it’s actually a photograph of See The on page 10

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The painting portrays the rise of settlements in the 1900s overlooking a vast expanse of water, a symbol that seemed to me as foreshadowing the impending takeover of the industrial world.

Next to the softness of the oil painting hangs a large mass of twisted copper and aluminum entitled Smoke #2, by Don Maynard. This piece serves as a harsh representation of the toll that has been taken on the environment through the human

extraction and exhaustion of the world’s natural resources.

Although “I Hope Humanity…” is somewhat overwhelming due to the extensive differences between each piece — it can be difficult to see it as a convincing, united whole because of this — each work sufficiently panders to the pointthathumanityiseffectivelydestroyingthe natural world. ”I Hope Humanity…” is held at the AEAC until April 2015.

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the hotel matted against the background of a corroded steal plate,” said Studio 22 owner Hersh Jacob.

Clark’s collection also includes photographs of tattooed men and women, which are similar to his work that has been displayed at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre as well as the Museum of Modern Art in New York. “[Clark] has got the real thing,” Jacob said.

However, amongst all of the attention-grabbing pieces that filled the gallery, Robert Blenderman’s oil paintings immediately appealed to me.

Blenderman’s paintings depict ordinary city objects, such as a parking meter and a gas main that would typically be ignored.

Blenderman has been a Kingston-based artist for 53 years and has artistically recorded all corners of the historical city over time. “[Blenderman] has preserved Kingston,” Jacob said.

Due to the artist’s experience with painting, he has employed all styles in his work, such as cityscape, still life, realism and abstract, to document Kingston’s buildings, houses and alleyways.

Blenderman’s medium sized oil-on-canvas paintings, displayed in The Open Collection, use realism to approach recognizable and seemingly mundane parts of Kingston — including parking meters and residential gas mains.

With a primarily grey colour palette, Blenderman’s paintings may not be as visually exciting to the viewer.

But what made them so enticing were the

intimacy of the subjects. Once the recognition had set in, it became impossible not to wonder why the artist chose to paint objects that people generally ignore.

Not many people find beauty in gas mains or parking meters, but seeing it as the subject of an artistic piece imbues it with something beyond the ordinary.

“So much of art is taking the mundane and making it exotic,” Jacob said. “A bowl of fruit is nothing except something to eat until an artist does a watercolour or an oil painting of it.”

That the ordinary subject matter has been regarded in an artistic manner and, therefore, has adopted a form of meaning, seems to Sculpture Iabove) and painting (below) in The Open Collection. provide it with beauty.

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ATHLETE PROFILE

Forward shift

Fiona Lester makes most of move to centre B y S ean S utherland Sports Editor Fiona Lester has gone through serious upheaval on the ice this year.

The fifth-year women’s hockey player not only transferred to the Gaels after four seasons with the Laurier Golden Hawks — she also made the shift to a new position.

A two-time OUA All-Star while patrolling the Golden Hawks’ blueline, Lester’s now taking faceoffs as Queen’s second-line centre.

Women’s hockey head coach Matt Holmberg was a Gaels assistant when they tried to recruit Lester out of high school. He said her previous experience playing forward in minor hockey helped spur the conversion.

“I remember her being a pretty decent forward,” Holmberg said.

“We tried her there for a few games in exhibition and her and [winger] Taryn Pilon, who had incidentally played together in Whitby, had some early chemistry and we’ve been going with that ever since.”

Playing Lester at forward helped the Gaels deal with the loss of Morgan McHaffie, the program’s second-highest all-time scorer.

The move to forward has paid off for both parties: Queen’s currently sits second in the OUA with a 10-2-2 record, while Lester has racked up 10 points. She’s also playing the point for the Gaels’ power play unit.

Lester brought a great deal of collegiate experience to a Gaels squad already full of it. She captured

two OUA titles with Laurier and served as their captain in 2012-13.

“She comes with a wealth of experience and is available to provide any insight or information that she thinks might help us along the way,” Holmberg said.

Lester said she had no problems being welcomed in the Gaels’ dressing room — despite coming from a team that has become Queen’s biggest on-ice rival.

“Queen’s has been amazing, my team’s been amazing in terms of welcoming me here,” Lester said.

“It’s not like ‘you’re at Laurier, now you’re at Queen’s, what are you doing?’ It’s been great.”

The Gaels and Lester gutted out a 5-4 overtime victory over the Golden Hawks in Waterloo on Nov. 22. While she was held off the scoresheet, Lester still enjoyed returning to her long-time stomping ground.

“I don’t think I had even been in that visitor dressing room before, but it was really nice to play in that rink again and see all the players that I played with and still play at Laurier,” she said. “It was a good experience and a good game.”

The one constant that has remained through Lester’s switch to Queen’s is her commitment to her academic pursuits. Part of her reason for transferring was her decision to pursue a Master’s degree in biostatistics, after completing undergraduate studies in mathematics and biology.

She was named an at-large Academic All-American twice while at Laurier and was the only athlete from a Canadian university to

SPORTS While she was with the Laurier Golden Hawks, Fiona Lester racked up two OUA All-Star appearances, a pair of OUA titles and was twice named an NCAA Academic All-American.

make the first team in 2012-13. She was also named the Outstanding Woman of Laurier in 2013 for her academic and athletic success and her community involvement.

“When you have to get down and do your work for academics, you just get down and do it, and same with athletics — if you have a commitment, if you have to work out, you have to do it and you have to get your work done around that,” she said. “I think having both, one is kind of a break from the other.”

Rick Osborne, Lester’s coach at Laurier, said he hasn’t seen a player able to manage their time as well as Lester. He also praised the work ethic she brought to the team.

“I’d be driving out of town some nights and I’d see her in the middle of winter, dark, on some humungous run through the city,” Osborne said. “She’ll do the tough stuff first because she knows how important it is for reaching her goals.”

Osborne said it was a privilege to coach Lester — but there’s a

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different goal when she suits up against her former team.

“We had four great years — there is so much respect there, mutual respect going on between her players, our players, myself and her,” he said. “But it’s like Matt will tell you: now the time is we’ve got to figure out how to beat her when we play her.”

MEN’S HOCKEY

Rough week back Gaels fall to Lakers and Ravens in first games of new semester B y A dam L askaris Staff Writer Ask men’s hockey head coach Brett Gibson what he thinks about his team dropping their first two games of 2015 and you’ll get a

short answer.

“I hate losing,” he said. “I’m never satisfied with losing.”

The Gaels dropped a pair of one-goal decisions to start the winter portion of their season, falling 4-3 to the Nipissing Lakers

Blair Wentworth recorded assists in both of the Gaels’ losses during the first week of 2015.

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last Friday and losing 2-1 to the Carleton Ravens on Tuesday.

The losses kept Queen’s (8-8-1) back of the top five teams in the OUA East division, including Nipissing (11-7-1) and Carleton (13-4-0).

His disdain for the results notwithstanding, Gibson said there were positives in the team’s losses.

“I can appreciate the effort we put forward — my guys competed real hard,” the coach said. “Carleton’s one of the best teams in the country and we went blow-for-blow with them.”

Gibson said although his team typically doesn’t play an overly physical game, there were certain moments on Tuesday where he was impressed with their tough play.

One such moment occurred in the third period, when Gaels forward Kelly Jackson slashed Carleton player Jeff Hayes who was visibly angered and retaliated.

Though Queen’s ended up shorthanded after the incident, Gibson was content with the outcome.

“He walks a fine line, he plays with fire,” Gibson said of Jackson, whose leadership has earned him a role as one of the team’s

Lester has tallied 10 points through her first 14 games with the Gaels, playing centre and patrolling the point on the power play.

alternate captains.

Besides the physical play, Jackson was Queen’s lone scorer in the game, and also netted a goal in the 4-3 defeat to Nipissing.

Forwards Tyler Moore and Eric Ming added the other tallies in the loss to the Lakers.

Goaltender Kevin Bailie was in net both games for Queen’s, making 23 saves against Nipissing before turning away 38 of 40 shots during a rare Tuesday matchup. Bailie’s save percentage is .934 and has been the

second-best mark in the OUA this season, though it’s translated to just a 6-9 record.

Although the results weren’t there for the Gaels this weekend, Gibson said he isn’t worried about the process.

“I hate our record, but I love this team,” he said. “I think this team is the most talented team that’s played at Queen’s, but winning’s hard. That’s my job to teach.”

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MID-SEASON REVIEW

New Year’s checkup Midway through the winter season, we look in on the Gaels B y B rent M oore and S ean S utherland Journal Staff Men’s basketball Starting the season with five straight losses doesn’t bode well for Queen’s post-season aspirations.

It wasn’t until their sixth game of the year that men’s basketball (2-5) earned their first victory — an 86-84 nail-biter over the York Lions (3-4).

It was at that time the group could breathe a collective sigh of relief, as they were able to keep pace with the Lions and the Toronto Varsity Blues (2-6) for the final two playoff spots in the OUA East.

Veteran Greg Faulkner has been a standout on the floor through the opening third of the season. He currently leads the OUA with 25.3 points per game, while averaging a team-high 9.1 rebounds per game.

Besides the stud guard, though, the Gaels have little else in the way of serious offensive threats — no other player averages more than 10 points per game.

This week the Gaels are in action against the Laurentian Voyageurs (2-5) and the Nipissing Lakers (0-7). This is an opportunity for the men to shake off the first half of the season, pad their record and look ahead to two more winnable games against York and Toronto.

Starting with a contest against the Ryerson Rams on Jan. 24 comes a string of six straight games against teams with winning records,

including home matchups against the CIS powerhouse Ottawa Gee-Gees and Carleton Ravens.

The Gaels’ final contest against Toronto on Feb. 21 could determine whether they make the playoffs. The new OUA post-season structure guarantees three spots to the East division.

— Brent Moore Women’s basketball A year after winning the OUA East and a spot in the CIS Championships, women’s basketball has fallen back to the middle of the pack.

The Gaels (4-3) are third in their division, with two games in hand over the second-place Toronto Varsity Blues (5-4). While a playoff spot is likely, they’ll be hard-pressed to repeat their 2014 success.

Part of the problem has come from injuries. Key contributor Gemma Bullard has yet to hit the court this year due to a concussion, and point guard Liz Boag has missed the team’s last three games.

Third-year guard Emily Hazlett has stepped up in their absence, starting five contests and averaging 10 points a game. Wing Jenny Wright leads the Gaels and sits among the OUA’s top 10 scorers at 14.7 points per game.

A defence that has allowed the third-fewest points per game in the OUA will have to continue its strong play if Bullard and Boag remain out of the lineup. Tonight’s

home matchup against the OUA’s newest team, the Nipissing Lakers, should keep the Gaels in position to gain ground on the East-leading Ryerson Rams (6-3).

The OUA’s top four teams will receive byes in the opening round of the playoffs.

The Laurier Golden Hawks and Windsor Lancers will likely take the top two positions, with several teams are battling for the final two byes. A solid push could net one for the Gaels, though a return trip to nationals is doubtful.

— Sean Sutherland Men’s hockey The team has seen neither hot nor cold streaks so far, alternating wins and losses en route to a .500 record.

Goaltender Kevin Bailie has been excellent again this season, posting a 2.23 goals against average and a .934 save percentage. The latter matches his number from 2013-14, when he was named provincial MVP and CIS Rookie of the Year.

Highlights of the season so far include a weird back-to-back series against the Lakehead Thunderwolves (6-9-2) in November. Queen’s pelted the Thunderwolves 6-0 one night, before losing 7-6 in overtime the next day.

Defenceman Spencer Abraham leads the squad with 18 points, while Darcy Greenaway and Patrick McGillis have both racked up 17.

Queen’s finished 17-6-5 last season, dropping every game that went to overtime. They beat the Ottawa Gee-Gees in the first round of the playoffs before losing to the Carleton Ravens in three games.

While the playoffs are a certainty, it remains to be seen how deep the Gaels will go this year.

They currently sit sixth in the OUA East with 17 points, well back of the conference’s top three teams.

The Gaels must buckle down with nine games left before the post-season. They’ll need to beat other middle-of-the-pack teams to distinguish themselves as a potential contender.

— Brent Moore Women’s hockey

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Greg Faulkner averages an OUA-leading 25.3 points per game and is men’s basketball only consistent offensive threat.

In what has become a constant sight during the winter semester, the Gaels are among the class of the OUA in women’s hockey.

Led by the league’s most explosive offence and a dominant defence, Queen’s (10-2-2) finds themselves in second place in the province and poised to play in the OUA finals for the fourth time in five years.

The Gaels beat the third-place Windsor Lancers (9-2-3) and top-ranked Western Mustangs (12-0-2) in their last games before the break. They also hold wins over the Laurier Golden Hawks and Toronto Varsity Blues.

The Gaels boast an unblemished record at the Memorial Centre this

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The Gaels sit tied with the Ottawa Gee-Gees in the OUA East playoff picture. Their 8-3 record places has the pair tied for third.

season, outscoring their opposition 33-7 on home ice. While the squad only has four home dates remaining, their offensive power has continued on the road; a 5-4 overtime victory over Laurier on Nov. 22 is one indication.

Winger Taryn Pilon sits second in the OUA in points, and Shawna Griffin, Clare McKellar and Addi Halladay are among the league’s top 20 scorers.

The trio of Alisha Sealey, Mary Coughlin and Danielle Girard highlights a defensive corps that has allowed the second-fewest goals in the province. Netminder Caitlyn Lahonen holds a save percentage of .935 and rookie backup Stephanie Pascal has looked solid in four starts.

Only five points separate the second- and sixth-place teams in Ontario, so the Gaels will need strong play the rest of the way to ensure themselves home-ice advantage through the first two rounds of the post-season.

— Sean Sutherland Men’s volleyball The Gaels are on track for a successful season coming off of the winter break.

The Gaels hold a 6-4 record at the halfway mark of their campaign, a slight improvement over last year’s mid-season mark of 4-6.

The first big game of the new semester takes place this Sunday against the York Lions (6-4). The squads have identical records and are holding on to the OUA’s final two playoff spots.

Queen’s opened the season at 0-3, including straight-set losses at the hands of the Western Mustangs (5-5) and the Ryerson Rams (8-3).

Their biggest win came against the third-place Guelph Gryphons (7-4) on Nov. 15. The Gaels crushed the first two sets 25-17 and 25-18 before closing out 25-23.

Queen’s has yet to play the OUA’s top team, the 9-1 McMaster Marauders. They’ll host the Marauders on Jan. 18 and travel to Hamilton on Feb. 6.

A win in either of those games would be a tremendous confidence

booster going into the playoffs.

At this point in the year, libero Ivo Dramov leads the OUA in digs, with 127 averaging 3.34 per set.

Outside hitter Mike Tomlinson leads the team with 133.5 points, followed by Philippe Goyer at 121.5 and Markus Trence at 117.5.

Last season, the men went 9-11 before losing to the Waterloo Warriors in the first round of the OUA playoffs.

This February, expect a better record and for the Gaels to move past the opening round of the playoffs.

— Brent Moore Women’s volleyball The Gaels aren’t losing to the teams behind them, but they aren’t beating the teams ahead of them either.

Queen’s (8-3) is tied for third with the Ottawa Gee-Gees (8-3) in a tightly-contested OUA East division. While the Gaels’ path to a playoff spot is likely, heading deep into the post-season may not be quite as easy.

The team’s three losses in 2014 came to Ottawa and the two squads ahead of them in the East — the Toronto Varsity Blues (9-0) and Ryerson Rams (8-2). Rematches with all three teams come in the middle of the Gaels’ remaining seven games, with the Toronto and Ryerson contests coming at home.

Wins in those matches could vault Queen’s into a home playoff date — if the Gaels continue to top the York Lions, RMC Paladins and Nipissing Lakers, and maintain their perfect record against OUA West foes.

No Gael ranks among the league’s top 10 in kills per set, and only Shannon Neville and Brett Hagarty are among the top 20. Defence has driven the team instead; Nikki Slikboer’s 44 blocks are Ontario’s best, while Hagarty and libero Becky Wilson are among the top five in digs.

Should they continue to hang with the East’s other top teams, playoff success could be there for the Gaels this year.

— Sean Sutherland

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SPORTS IN BRIEF Gaels face Canada’s best in exhibition play Men’s volleyball confronted tough western Canadian opposition over the holiday break.

The Gaels went 1-3 at an exhibition tournament in St. Petersburg, Florida last weekend, against three of the top 10 teams in Canada. They were swept by the Manitoba Bisons 25-19, 25-18 and 25-18 in their first match of the tournament, on New Year’s Day. Last Friday, the men came from behind to beat the Mount Royal Cougars in five sets. After losing the first two sets 18-25 and 21-25, the Gaels stormed back to win three straight by scores of 25-12, 25-15 and 15-11.

Mount Royal and Manitoba are currently tied for ninth place in the CIS rankings.

The third match was another straight-set loss — this time against

the third-best Canadian club, the Brandon Bobcats. The final scores were 25-18, 25-17 and 25-14.

In their fourth and final match of the tournament, Queen’s faced off against the Calgary Dinos — their only competition not ranked in the CIS top 10.

The Gaels were able to take one set, but lost 25-22, 18-25, 25-17 and 25-23.

— Brent Moore Mixed results in Concordia tournament Women’s basketball settled for a 1-2 record in exhibition play over the break in Montreal.

The Gaels took part in the Concordia-Reebok tournament from Dec. 28-30, taking on a pair of Quebec schools and one OUA opponent.

The Gaels beat the

Bishop’s Gaiters 64-56 in their tournament opener.

The teams appeared evenly matched in the first half. There were several lead changes and Queen’s went into the intermission up by two.

The Gaels broke away in the third quarter and built a 12-point lead that carried them to the final buzzer.

Veteran guard Liz Boag scored 18 points, while second-year guard Sarah Saftich had 12. Post Robyn Pearson gobbled up 13 rebounds.

Queen’s took on the host Concordia Stingers in their second match of the tournament.

Despite being down only one point at halftime, the women

eventually lost 66-47. The final quarter was marked by a 13-point scoring tear by Concordia.

Guard Emily Hazlett and wing Jenny Wright supplied 10 points apiece for the Gaels They wrapped up their exhibition play against the McMaster Marauders (6-2), the top team in the OUA Central division.

McMaster came out firing, building a 23-9 lead in the first quarter before going onto take it 75-47. Boag put up 20 points in the loss.

The Gaels are back in regular season action tonight, hosting the Nipissing Lakers (0-6) at 6 p.m. in the ARC. Tomorrow, they take on

York, Brock ahead Continued from page 11

and the rest of the leadership group are starting to evaluate the team’s position in the standings — they currently sit sixth in the OUA East.

Jackson said it isn’t a true reflection of the team’s potential.

“We did all the right things — we took strides in the right direction,” he said. “We’re definitely underachieving, but we look inside that room and know we’re a dangerous team. We’re

confident no matter who we play going into the playoffs.”

Jackson said he isn’t too fazed about the team’s prospects in road games against the York Lions tonight and the Brock Badgers tomorrow “Our focus is to stay positive for the two-game weekend this weekend,” he said. “We’re looking for four points. If we play smart, we’re all confident.”

Defenceman Spencer Abraham leads the Gaels with 18 points this season.

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the Laurentian Voyageurs (3-4).

— Brent Moore Women’s hockey winless in Montreal Like their basketball counterparts, women’s hockey struggled in a tournament hosted by Concordia.

The Gaels finished 0-2-1 at the Theresa Humes tournament from Jan. 2-4, dropping their final game of the tournament in a shootout.

Queen’s started off with a 7-3 loss to Team Quebec before falling to the Western Mustangs 4-1 in their second match. The loss to the Mustangs came just over a month after the Gaels bested them in a shootout on Nov. 30.

The tournament finished with the seventh-place consolation game against the Concordia Stingers.

Concordia’s Tracy-Ann Lavigne notched the shootout winner to send the Gaels home without a victory.

The break wasn’t completely negative for the Gaels, as five members of the roster were named to an OUA All-Star team that took on the Canadian Under-18 women’s team in a pair of exhibition clashes.

Forwards Shawna Griffin, Fiona Lester and Taryn Pilon were joined on the squad by defencemen Mary Coughlin and Danielle Girard.

Queen’s (10-2-2) takes on the Ryerson Rams (6-7-0) on the road tonight in regular season play, before facing off with the Toronto Varsity Blues (8-3-2) tomorrow.

— Sean Sutherland

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Classic style with a touch of kitsch Sitting down with one of Queen’s best-dressed men to talk about fashion as self-expression B y K ate M eagher Assistant Lifestyle Editor

just be who they are.

When it comes to fashion late in the term, Queen’s students have two options: throw on whatever’s on top of your laundry pile or wear an outfit.

Ryan Peng is decidedly in the second camp. In the worst of times, when most of us would recoil into sweats and cover our three-day-old hair with the nearest beanie, Peng, ArtSci ’16, always looks like he’s stepped right off the pages of some underground fashion ’zine you’ve never heard of.

Seeking some inspiration, I sat down with Peng to get his perspective of fashion at Queen’s.

The details of Peng’s outfit keep the look interesting.

How do you think the men’s fashion scene on campus differs from the women’s?

I don’t know if it’s just the overall trend, but I feel like men’s fashion, they’re not as colourful, whereas women’s fashion, they’re more out there. They’re more expressive, they have more cuts, more styles, whereas men’s you just have the basics and then you get your really graphic designs. So, I feel like women’s fashion is more prominent at Queen’s than the men’s, but I have to admit there are some really on-point outfits that I do spot here and there.

How do you create such pulled-together looks when

you’re running around from one thing to the next?

The outfits I have, they’re not that hard to pull together. It’s basically black skinnies and a kind of statement shirt with a cardi. So it’s not that hard to maintain and with shirts you can unbutton, button, so it’s the little details that make the outfits kind of pop, make it different from other guys’ outfits.

What’s the biggest risk you’ve taken with your style? Did it pay off?

Last year I decided to get this floral suit. Like, floral blazer, floral pants.

The sales associate encouraged me toward the whole thing together

What do you think Queen’s does well?

Because sneakers are back in, a lot of people have some really on-point sneakers. I really like the

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

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with black dress shoes and I did, to a wedding. I didn’t wear anything inside the blazer, so there was just the blazer and then there was my skin. And then there was my floral pants and my loafers. I got some compliments — I was the flower boy. I think that was quite risqué of me.

If you could change anything about the fashion culture on campus, what would it be?

I just wish that everyone could put themselves into the stuff they wear.

I feel like a lot of people, they wear the same style, or even the same outfit, to try to blend in. But I don’t think people should blend in — they should stand out and

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What to watch for in 2015 A look at the best of pop culture to come in the new year B y Z oe K elsey Staff Writer

bold colours with a simple outfit to go to the gym. I guess colours motivate me, so I feel like more colours would be great.

Apatow’s latest comedy Trainwreck Movie in July and a horror-style adaptation of Frankenstein in October.

I think if Hollywood was a perfect I don’t know if it’s because this Both films boast wildly place, every movie would have is the year I graduate or because impressive ensemble casts, Julianne Moore in it. Needless to I just like the way 2015 sounds, including heavy hitters like Tilda say, Still Alice, which comes out but something about this year is Swinton, among which Radcliffe Jan. 16, is something to look glittering with promise. may now comfortably reside. forward to.

Maybe it’s because there are so The film centres around Alice many amazing things happening Books Howland, played by Moore, as in the pop culture universe this she is diagnosed with early onset year. Here are a few to watch for If you can feel the ground shaking, Alzheimer’s disease. in 2015. it’s because of the many literary It looks both devastating and giants fee-fi-fo-fum-ing back onto deliciously realistic, and provides Actor the literary scene this year. a hard look at family, love, disease Pulitzer Prize finalist Jonathan and relationships.

Daniel Radcliffe crushed it in Franzen will see Purity, his In a year brimming with 2014. Through his work in two first novel since 2010, arrive in unnecessary sequels, reboots and films, a lauded Broadway play, bookstores in 2015, as will Nobel 50 Shades of Grey, Still Alice will a mini-series and a handful of Prize winner Toni Morrison with be a refreshing oasis of poignancy. surprising and delightful viral her latest, God Help the Child. videos, Radcliffe cemented his Canadian legend Margaret Musician position as a masterful and diversely Atwood bestows upon us The talented performer this year.

Heart Goes Last in September. In 2014, 18-year-old American Most importantly, he But most intriguingly, previously singer-songwriter Raury released triumphantly overcame his unpublished works — including an astonishingly good EP entitled moniker as “that Harry Potter a number of novels and short Indigo Child and received praise boy”. 2015’s dose of the charming stories — by Catcher in the Rye from the likes of Outkast, Kanye actor will no doubt even more author J.D. Salinger are rumoured West and Lorde. satisfying. to appear this year.

While this wunderkind may Radcliffe will appear in Judd make me feel a little insecure, his

A case for basic income A possible solution to fight poverty

B y J ustin M athews Staff Writer Today, a staggering 14 per cent of the Canadian population live in poverty.

On its own, this number is worrisome, but considering this was precisely the same percentage of Canadians who lived in poverty 40 years ago, it’s downright terrifying.

Not only does Canada score poorly in addressing poverty across the most advanced economies in the world, but it does even worse in addressing child poverty.

The most egregiously affected by poverty in Canada are vulnerable groups including single parents and recent immigrants, but none more than Aboriginal children. music makes me feel amazing.

Indigo Child is a beautiful blending and bending of genres, which makes sense when he cites influences as disparate as Freddie Mercury, Bon Iver and Kid Cudi.

Raury placed in the top five of the BBC “Sound of 2015” list,

If our record on child poverty wasn’t already concerning, consider that 50 per cent of Canadian Aboriginal children today live below the poverty line.

Add to this that that our government claws back welfare benefits as soon a member of a family on welfare gets a part-time job or attends post-secondary education — giving them little incentive to better themselves in the first place.

Our current welfare system not only fails to eradicate poverty, it effectively reproduces it.

Instead of addressing poverty head-on, we spend billions on programs to address substance abuse, family violence, housing and everything in between.

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a highly coveted spot, and has received a flurry of interviews and press since.

When asked in an interview with BBC News if we can expect an album from him in 2015, Raury replied, “Definitely”, which is definitely cause for excitement.

Expect big things from Daniel Radcliffe this year.

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EXCHANGE DIARIES

New Year’s Eve in London

Reflecting back on a fall semester exchange in the U.K.

B y S tyna T ao Staff Writer

I’m a resident and I have some local know-how.

Tower Bridge has even more special significance because it’s often mistakenly called “London Bridge” by outsiders, which is a different inconspicuous bridge downriver.

It’s knowing little details like that and sharing the local scorn for external ignorance that makes me feel like I belong.

After I rang in the New Year with the crowd, I took to the tube (or subway as we Canadians call it) with the rest of the party-goers and easily recalled the lines that I had to take and stops to get off.

One of the skills gained during these months that I’m most proud of is the ability to navigate public transportation systems, especially in different languages.

It’s crucial for inter-city navigation, and I’m always so pleased when I can walk confidently towards a platform knowing exactly where I’m going without consulting a map.

During these seven months I’ve lived for the most part in London and Edinburgh. These

two places had their individual charm. The variety of activities and architecture in London has made As the crowd chanted the New every weekend interesting, from Year’s Eve countdown, I looked all attending exhibitions to watching around me to take in the moment. football matches to strolling along I’m sitting on a railing on Tower South Bank.

Bridge, an iconic London landmark, I’m also fond of the hilly surrounded by old and new friends cobblestone streets of Edinburgh, staring at the fireworks peeking out as much as they’re detrimental from behind city buildings. to my footwear, and I’ll dearly My seven months in Europe miss the friends I made in my (and Africa for four days) was group projects. coming to an end and I’m sorry Edinburgh was a good place for to leave. studying, but also a gem to discover.

I’ve gained so many new The city looked like an old town experiences, discovered new come to life under the sun, and the cultures, learned history and art, perfect setting for ghost stories in and developed new friendships in the rain. these last few months.

During some weekends, I Like a true Londoner, I didn’t ventured into other parts of Europe, buy a ticket to see the fireworks. and while I may not have visited as This is the first the show has many cities as some, I strived to been ticketed, in effort to curb stay at least three days in each city the number of spectators from to get a feel for the atmosphere and 500,000 to 100,000. culture in each place.

Instead, I looked for places Some highlights include eating where I could watch fireworks honey from a hive in Ireland, without having to enter the viewing having picnics on the Nicoise zone. For me, this exemplified beach, sleeping under the stars the immersion of my time in the Moroccan desert, passing abroad — I’m not a tourist here, the Sagrada Familia every day in Barcelona, meeting the best travellers in Berlin and getting lost amongst the canals in Amsterdam.

I sleepily made my way to bed at 3 a.m. on Jan. 1, hardly believing that it’s already 2015. London is where I started my time abroad and this is where I’ll end my travels.

It’s given me a wonderful summer where I was both guide and tourist in the city, and a fantastic holiday season where I experienced English traditions like Christmas pantomimes and pudding.

When I board the plane to return to Canada, I know that I’m SUPPLIED BY STYNA TAO The London Eye lights up for New Year’s Eve. already planning my next trip back. ACROSS 1 Intimidate 4 Support 8 Harbor structure 12 Altar constellation 13 Ladd or Alda 14 Desire 15 Violin virtuoso Niccolo Continued from page 14 expensive healthcare at any was implemented in the 1970s and 17 Cashdrawer contents particular time, we don’t question seniors are still guaranteed today, 18 Solemn promise Youngster There’s a very simple solution the diet or lifestyles of those who for example, reduced poverty 19 Dress in to eradicating poverty in Canada: fall ill. among senior citizens in Ontario 21 22

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A craving for competition

Competitive student lifestyles in academics or athletics can make for sore losers

Individual competitiveness can hinder the success of all involved when it gets in the way of productive collaboration.

B y K ate M eagher Assistant Lifestyle Editor Whether we strive to be the smartest, the fastest or the beer pong champion, it can be a rare thing to find oneself in a social context completely devoid of any contest.

Most of us can’t even recall having been to a house party that didn’t at some point feature a chance to prove your superiority over your friends via some drinking game or other.

Beyond that, the nature of student activities, whether they’re in the classroom or not, often have us working with people we eventually have to compete against in some capacity.

It can be a tricky dynamic to run lines with someone on one day and audition for the same part the next, but most of us will find ourselves navigating similar situations this coming term.

For some students, it’s already a familiar position. You don’t need to look much further than athletics to see this dynamic in action.

Danielle Abusow, a rower for Queen’s varsity team, has had her share of races competing against her own teammates.

Although they train as a group in larger boats, regattas will sometimes allow for more than one single rower from the same school to row in the same race. It’s in situations like this that Abusow, ArtSci ’16, has found herself facing the same girls she’s been training with all season.

It sounds less than ideal, with all those hours of effort coming to a race against someone whose skill you can account for with some accuracy. Still, Abusow argues that there is some benefit to a known quantity.

“I would say it’s an advantage in the sense that it helps push you to become a better athlete,” Abusow said. “So if your friend who you’re always training with is beating you

then at practice, you can push on cultivating a competitive spirit, yourself more next to them and it can be a challenge to turn it off hopefully that will help make you in non-competitive environments, your own better athlete and help like at practice. But balancing reach personal bests.” individual desire for excellence That being said, these with a sense of team spirit has circumstances do come with its advantages. their challenges.

“Two things can motivate “I think it can be a little bit you,” Boyd said, referring to his discouraging at some points, runners’ mindsets. “One is that though, and it might create a little you have a certain amount of pride bit of tension depending on the invested and that you don’t want situation,” Abusow said. to lose to a teammate because Her advice for lessening the you’ve … decided that you’re tension is to maintain a healthy better than them. friendship by doing activities “The other side is that when you together outside the given actually get in a race, you want to competition — in particular, do better for your team, for the anything that might help you team result at the end, so there’s an remember the other person is more advantage there.” than just a potential opponent.

While it’s hardly surprising But these tips may be easier to find in sport, that tension in theory than in reality. Steve between collaboration and Boyd, head coach of Queen’s competition seems increasingly cross country team, can attest to prevalent in other aspects of the competitive spirits as a constant post-secondary experience. presence, even during training.

As a fourth-year life sciences “Athletes have a tendency student, Daniel Meyers has to compete against each other encountered this dynamic in workouts and sometimes frequently in his studies. The reality undermine the purpose of the is that most life sciences students workout, so we constantly try to are competing against one another deal with that and counter that a in some form. little bit,” Boyd said.

“Most students, I’d say probably As a “team of individuals”, as about 80 per cent of the people Boyd referred to the cross-country I know, want to go into medical runners, athletes train together, school and every single year but always compete as individual the application rates are going representatives of their school and higher and higher,” said Meyers, thus often race one another.

ArtSci ’15.

When so much energy is focused “So in order to gain entrance

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into these programs, you have to “I think it’s the uncertainty, to be be competitive and you have to honest with you. That whole, ‘I’m really care and be conscientious spending a whole bunch of money about your work.” on my education now, what’s going This implicit, ever-present to be there at the end of all this?’ competition has an impact And if that means that I’ve got to even in what might otherwise be better than the next person be collaborative endeavours. from Queen’s then I’m going to be Participation in group projects, for a little competitive,” Kissick said. instance, is sometimes motivated by Because students don’t always an understanding of the personal know what’s coming for them after impact that one’s performance will they graduate, it can feel like the have on their reputation. safest option to ensure employment “So if you’re in a group project is simply to come out looking and you don’t do anything … it’s a better than their classmates. The relatively small program so you’re driving force, then, is not a desire going to be known as that student among students to sabotage their who didn’t do anything in that peers, but a fear of the unknown. group project,” Meyers said.

If students are, in this way, In this instance, that competitive essentially a product of their spirit and desire for individual circumstances, is that uncertainty success can further cooperative furthering their education as they endeavours, and benefit the aspire to competitive programs whole group. Although students or limiting it? According to aren’t overtly hostile or aggressive, Kissick, it can actually prevent knowledge of what will and won’t valuable learning. help their own pursuits is never far “I think that learning comes from from their minds. occasionally going off on tangents “I don’t feel a competitiveness and digressions, and students don’t on a person-to-person basis, but like that as much as they once I’ll reiterate that there just is an might have,” Kissick said. “I guess inherent competitiveness to the the answer is, when students are program because of what the results-driven, if it’s not connected next step [is] and everyone’s to a mark, that’s an issue.” future goals,” Meyers said.

It’s the marks that indicate Peter Kissick, a professor with who wins in this constructed the Queen’s School of Business academic competition. Rarely who is cross-appointed in the are students concerned with Law School, also thinks that learning more than their the looming future motivates a classmates so much as appearing competitive dynamic. more knowledgeable.

When students are willing to cut others down or leech off of group members for impressive marks, they allow themselves to miss out on other kinds of meaningful learning. Not only are they misplacing their energy on the failure of others, they’re passing up the opportunity to build important cooperative skills.

“At the end of the day, you’re probably going to have to work collaboratively in the workplace anyway,” Kissick said. “The lone wolf doesn’t necessarily do very well in the workplace.”