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Four Directions Aboriginal Student Centre space set to expand Construction on 144 Barrie Street projected to begin January SUPPLIED BY VANESSA MCCOURT

Students and staff in front of 144 and 146 Barrie Street.

Jasnit Pabla Assistant News Editor On October 11, Director of Indigenous Initiatives Janice Hill (Kanonhsyonni), revealed that Queen’s would be expanding the Four Directions Aboriginal Centre.

During the Gender Matters Speaker Series, Hill announced that the expansion of Four Directions would follow the recommendation set out by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in April.

“I’m feeling very upbeat and positive right now,” Hill said. “When we found out that Four Directions was going to be expanded, we were all ecstatic.”

The Four Directions Aboriginal Student Centre has served as a resource for Indigenous students on campus since 1996. Moving to 146 Barrie St. in 2000, it has since Maureen O’reilly News Editor On Wednesday, Maria Shuster posted a video on Facebook — which was removed hours later — of her professor displaying pornography in class.

While Shuster felt the explicit material was “uncomfortable,” her professor stands by the choice to include it.

The 300-level Gender Studies course, entitled “Masculinities: Cross Cultural Perspectives,” is taught by adjunct professor Reena Kukreja. According to the Gender Studies webpage, the course “considers the main themes in the history of masculinity and male sexuality, especially ‘dissident’ or subaltern masculinities internationally, and women’s roles in shaping ideologies of masculinity.”

In an interview with The Journal, Kukreja said the clip, which displayed a white man having sex with an Asian man, was “properly contextualized” and “didn’t come out of the blue.”

Kukreja’s Wednesday lesson was focused on how racial hierarchies within the gay masculine community often objectify certain racial groups.

The clip was meant to show

been used as a hub for learning our size is amazing.” about Indigenous culture through During the summer, Hill’s team cultural programming and consulted with students at Queen’s provides students with a safe and and members of the Indigenous inclusive place to study. community to understand how To effectively double their Four Directions could be improved. current space, the redevelopment “A vast majority would like to of the Four Directions Aboriginal see the centre more focused on Centre will also include the students only,” she said. renovation of the neighbouring In the past, the space had heritage house, 144 Barrie St. been utilized for meetings and, as The Division of Student Affairs Hill indicated, a “safe space” for at the University will provide the students of colour on campus majority of funding for the project. following the controversial “racist The expansion of Four party” held last year. Due to limited Directions was recommendation space in the centre following this 13 on the TRC’s final report. To event, Hill said students studied on continue to serve the community’s the floor of her office because Four needs, the Commission Directions was completely full. indicated the expansion of the Two Row Architect firm, based space and the number of staff in the Six Nations Ontario reserve, was necessary. was chosen by the administrative “We were bursting at the seams team to begin conceptual drawings there,” Hill remarked. “To know for the space. The firm is entirely that we’ve outgrown this space to native-owned and operated, the point where we’re doubling previously working on notable

projects such as the Seneca Nation of Indians administration building in Allegany, New York, and the Nishnawbe Homes Inc., multi-unit residential building located on Dundas Street in Toronto.

Hill added that because the houses on Barrie are heritage homes protected by the University against exterior reconstruction, the centre will be looking to utilize designs for the interior instead.

When the construction is completed, Hill hopes the houses operate in two capacities. Currently, the idea is to use one house for operational functions — with a kitchen for feasts and multi-purpose rooms for programming — while the other will incorporate dedicated study space for students as well as an accessible, first-floor library.

“The deadlines are still fluid because we’re waiting on the

ACADEMIC FREEDOM

Student objects to pornographic course material Professor says rejecting the material has “ramifications on academic freedom to discuss controversial issues” students how this racial othering pressure to stay stronger.” is perpetuated by the adult After showing the clip for a entertainment industry. few seconds, Kurkreja said she “I did warn the students. I scrolled down the webpage to began by saying, ‘what you’re show students some other clip going to be watching is titles, such as “White master, uncomfortable and it’s disturbing Asian slave.” Kukreja then led and if you feel like leaving feel a class discussion focusing on free to do so and you can come the specific use of language in back,’” Kukreja said. “It was these titles. not more than ten seconds.”

“I talked about the descriptors Kukreja added that the lesson rather than the porn itself,” plan was also available prior to Kukreja said. “When I showed and during class through lecture the clip it was to talk about notes posted on OnQ. the abject racialized body of However, Shuster, ArtSci ’18, the Asian man and how that is told The Journal via email that brought on from colonial-era despite being warned, she was orientalist constructions.” discouraged from leaving due to “It’s interesting how this the class size. “I think that because is considered inappropriate of the size of the classroom, if and disturbing whereas the anyone chose to leave, they pervasiveness of colonial-era would be singled out, making the racism and violence, which has a

continuing legacy in our everyday lives, is not brought up as a matter of concern,” she continued.

Department Head of Gender Studies Samantha King told The Journal that while pornographic material isn’t used “everyday” in class, it’s certainly not “unusual.” “[Porn is] so embedded in our society,” King said. “This idea that pornography is somehow outside of student culture or outside of the University is false. It’s everywhere, you can’t escape it even if you want to.”

Kukreja stands by her choice to include porn in her lessons, saying these “images have a visceral quality to convey more accurately what [she] was doing in class.”

King affirmed this point. “To me it’s very clear that this is part of a

estimates from the architects,” Hill said. “The plan right now is that we will be shovelling ground in January.” She added this would be following communication with construction companies and would remain dependent on the structural condition of the older house.

The current Four Directions location — 146 Barrie Street — will remain accessible to students and the community while construction begins on the neighbouring house. Their operations will then be moved next door to allow for renovations to be completed on the original location.

“There’s been so much uptake on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission,” Hill concluded. “It’s like everybody is doing something and I’m learning about so many things. It’s hard to stay on top of it — which is fantastic.” lecture on race and masculinity, and hierarchies in power, and that’s the point in showing this. If you don’t show the image, or you don’t discuss the material in its reality, then the students aren’t going to learn in the same way.”

Despite these reasonings, Shuster still says she felt “uncomfortable” watching pornography in a class setting.

“I feel like pornography is something that should be viewed privately, if the person wishes to,” Shuster wrote.

“I respect professors who challenge traditional ways of teaching, however I believe that there is a line, and this just begs the question of how far is too far,” Shuster continued.

In Shuster’s view, simply discussing “the concept of pornography in depth and power relations involved” would’ve been sufficient to her understanding.

She acknowledged that this is her personal opinion, open to “discussion and interpretation.”

“I chose to post a video to [Facebook] as I believe that the student body should be able to discuss this. I believe that students should have a voice and that it is important to speak on controversial issues such as these,” Shuster wrote.

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ONTARIO COLLEGES STRIKE

St. Lawrence College grapples with Ontario colleges’ strike Students out of class, missing work placement experiences cassandra littlewOOd Staff Writer After failing to reach an agreement between faculty and the Ontario Public Services Employees Union (OPSEU), Ontario colleges have gone on strike. As a result, more than 300,000 students across the province are wondering how their academic years will progress.

Just over two kilometers from the JDUC, Kingston’s St. Lawrence College (SLC) is one of 24 public Ontario colleges involved in the strike. According to The Globe and Mail, no talks between the College Employer Council — the body that represents the striking faculty — and the Ontario Public Services Employees Union (OPSEU) have been scheduled. raechel huizinga Staff Writer

St. Lawrence College campus.

The negotiation deals concern “wage increases, job security, part-time and $250 million. full-time employee ratios and academic At SLC, classes aren’t the only thing decision making processes,” according affected by the strike, with placements to Beth Insley, President and Executive and filed courses also on hold at this time.

Director of the St. Lawrence College According to Insley, SLC is concerned student association. about the length of the strike and With part-time college instructors what will happen for students when currently making up over 70 per cent classes reconvene. of all college faculty, The Globe and “It will require large-scale organizing and Mail reported OPSEU is asking for a planning from the College to ensure students reduction in the amount of are supported during the transition back to these workers. classes,” he said.

At this time, OPSEU is also Administration at SLC is well aware demanding better job security by basing of student unease. Glenn Vollebregt, the hiring on seniority and experience. President and CEO of SLC, told The However, the Employer Council Journal this strike is “heartbreaking is arguing these demands are too for students,” and he was expensive, estimating the costs at about “incredibly disappointed” over the

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failed negotiations.

Vollebregt noted that 12 strike votes and three official strikes have occurred in SLC’s 50-year history, but “no student ever has lost a semester or a year.” He stated they were going “to do their best” to ensure this case would be the same.

Insley hopes the strike won’t overly disrupt students’ studies. “A quick settlement will make it easier for students to be successful and finish their programs within the allotted time,” she said.

Unfortunately, he knows there’s no guarantee. “We can’t know the length of the strike, the longer it goes, the longer students are waiting for classes to return.”

Hospitality Services removes popular hot dog & sausage vendor from campus

After six years of business on campus, Queen’s University Hospitality Services removed Scott Hallman’s hot dog and sausage stand from the Queen’s Farmers Market.

Every Wednesday for the past nine years, the Market at Queen’s has featured various food vendors on the corner of University Avenue and Union Street from 10am until 4pm.

On Oct. 14, Hallman received an email from Queen’s Hospitality Services stating his application had been revoked from the farmers market because “his offerings no longer fit” the market’s purpose. The email didn’t state the definition of that purpose, nor how Hospitality Services came to the decision.

PHOTO BY NCIOLE LANGFIELD “I was very surprised by it,” Hallman told Scott Hallman at Confederation Park on Wednesday.

The Journal. “Doing it over email is wrong and doing it halfway through the market 2012. “All hot food vendors were banned, needs of both the campus community and “I’m more upset about not being a part season is wrong.” with the exception of myself,” he said. the vendors.” of the Queen’s community,” he said. “I truly Hallman attempted to contact Queen’s “Market attendance plummeted. Not “None of us market vendors have ever love Queen’s campus. It’s the highlight of Hospitality Services for three days, but his only did they [Hospitality Services] kick been invited [to meetings pertaining to the my week.” calls weren’t answered until Wednesday out these vendors, they increased their market],” Hallman said. “It’s completely A petition to reinstate Hallman to the morning. Finally Michel Bartkowiak — a vendor fees.” behind closed doors.” market has been launched by Teghan Sodexo food service professional — told In his email to the students, Griffiths In light of these changes, Hallman is most Nightengale, ArtSci ’17, on change.org, Hallman he was being removed from the reinforced that the market’s new purpose concerned about losing his connection to and as of Oct. 19 has garnered over market because he was no longer permitted doesn’t allow vendors to re-sell products, Queen’s students.

1,000 signatures. to re-sell products. Prior to this interaction, writing that they “must be hand-made by Hallman wasn’t told he couldn’t do this, the individual.” nor was he given the chance to update his Hallman purchases his ingredients from food selection. the Kingston community and by promoting “They never came to the market to talk to these products, he encourages customers to me about any concerns,” Hallman said. “It invest in the local economy. The new policy was just out of the blue.” developed by Hospitality Services doesn’t When he went to visit the market on allow him to continue this.

Wednesday morning, Hallman said there “No longer do I go to my Portuguese baker was one vendor who re-sold their products. once a week and get $40 worth of buns.

When Hallman asked Bartkowiak why There’s a ripple effect in them doing this to someone was permitted to participate me,” Hallman said. “It’s going to affect my in the market and he wasn’t, Bartkowiak local suppliers. It’s going to affect students fill a gap supposedly responded with, “well, that’s who needed a quick, cheap option of our decision.” something to eat.” in your program To express their concern about Hallman’s Queen’s University Hospitality Services removal from campus, Marina Galentovskaia, introduced this new market structure ArtSci ’17, and her peers emailed Director based on how another market in Kingston of Housing and Hospitality Services Bruce — with a different clientele — operates. “We Griffiths. In his response, Griffiths wrote to [Queen’s Hospitality Services] worked with Athabasca University has over 850 courses for you to choose from to meet your the students that a reviewal of the market members of the Memorial Centre market needs. Monthly start dates of undergraduate courses fit into your schedule so that you can work at your own pace. program had been caused by a decline of over the [2017] winter term,” Griffiths wrote, Fill the gap and save a semester. vendor participation. He said this was “due “to determine if we could regain vendor to vendors not realizing the sales they had interest and align our market with the hoped for.” principles of a true farmers market.” www.athabascau.ca/course Hallman believes that the market’s Griffiths wrote that the Queen’s Farmers decline began with changes made in Market had “to ensure it was meeting the

Scott Hallman dismissed from Queen’s Farmers Market after years of service

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Nursing student & Homecoming recap 2017 Police issue 330 tickets and 30 arrests professor support student research through joint venture Aberdeen St. on Homecoming.

Threads of Inquiry apparel sales launched this past Homecoming week-

Katie Goldie (left) and Alex Palmeri (right).

sarina grewal Assistant News Editor This past summer, two members of the Faculty of Nursing brought to life an idea to create a clothing company — one they hope will help fund the hiring of more research assistants within the faculty.

Threads of Inquiry is a self-funded project established

by Nursing Professor Katie Goldie and Nursing Science Society President Alex Palmeri, NSc ’18.

Goldie and Palmeri spoke to The Journal about the project and explained how the company aims to “support on-campus student research opportunities.”

With an official launch date of Oct. 13, Goldie and Palmeri — who came up with the idea during their summer as professor and researcher — saw a successful first two days of sales.

Alongside a group of dedicated volunteers, Palmeri and Goldie set up a pop-up stand by Clark Hall Pub. Here, they focused their efforts on engaging with the many Engineering alumni and students.

On Oct. 14, they “took to the streets” of the surrounding University District and spoke to many heading to Richardson Stadium for the annual Homecoming football game.

Threads of Inquiry finished their weekend by having a table at the ReUnion Street Festival.

With clothing featuring an aesthetic they describe as unique to the Queen’s community, Goldie and Palmeri sell each item at $16.99 apiece, no matter the size or style. The shirts are embellished with slogans like “Tricolour runs

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in the family,” names of various University District streets and one child’s onesie reads “Class of 2039.”

“We fill a void. There are other apparel outlets on campus but this one I think has a different look and vibe,” Goldie said. “We also feature a few children-inspired items — we’re targeting students, faculty and alumni, both in Kingston and outside.”

Palmeri’s time spent as a research assistant this past summer helped to inspire the initiative.

“Working in research, I’ve been able to really connect the dots and understand how nursing research translates to improved patient outcomes, quality of care, improved policy surrounding topics like mental health and patient safety,” Palmeri said. “When I originally thought about research before this [research assistant] position, I envisioned perhaps something more traditional.”

Once established, the fund will be available to students via an application process, whereby students will request funds to engage in research that interests them. Since it really depends on the student, Threads of Inquiry will support any area of research and isn’t limited to one particular subject.

Goldie and Palmeri both iterated that experience in research is invaluable to students and faculty alike.

“Research is way more than just that traditional view that you see on television or in movies,” Palmeri said. “It’s people going out with a question and the desire to solve a problem and improve care and figure out a way to do that.”

Jasnit Pabla Assistant News Editor A version of this article first appeared online on October 16.

Each year, Homecoming celebrations send the Kingston community into disarray — and this year was no exception.

Kingston Police made 33 arrests this Homecoming weekend and nearly doubled the amount of tickets issued in 2016, reaching a total of 330 tickets.

Chief Gilles Larochelle praised the Kingston Police staff for their efforts over the weekend in a media release on Monday.

“I am extremely proud of [the Kingston Police’s] efforts to ensure public safety and order, balanced with restraint and appropriate enforcement,” she wrote.

Arrests concerning public intoxication totalled 30 and reports of overcrowding hospital beds at Kingston General Hospital (KGH) generated concern in the community.

Albert Jin, a member of KGH responding staff, tweeted early Sunday morning, “#QueensHomecoming drunk kids still clogging up ER. Musical chairs with patients’ stretchers to find room to examine acute stroke patient.”

The Whig-Standard reported on

Monday that the KGH emergency department saw “the most patients it has ever seen” this past weekend and the “majority of patients were people suffering from overdrinking after attending street parties in the University District.”

According to The Whig, KGH admitted 241 patients on Saturday and 223 on Sunday, and had 95 ambulance arrivals on Saturday.

Members of the Kingston community chimed in on Twitter to reaffirm their disappointment with Queen’s students and praise the work of KGH staff. Among their concerns was broken glass on roads prohibiting emergency vehicle access.

Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant, professor in the Department of Political Studies, pointed out the increased open alcohol charges via Twitter. “Queen’s prof and resident of the neighbourhood. I’m sick of this. Disappointed, angry, ashamed.

The U and students must do better,” she tweeted.

Before Homecoming weekend, Principal Daniel Woolf released a statement to all Queen’s students writing, “Poor citizenship or irresponsible and unsafe behaviours can negatively affect peers and members of our Kingston community – so please consider the impact of your actions on others.”

He continued by encouraging

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students to refrain from blocking streets, taking up hospital spaces and diverting emergency services.

On the night of Homecoming, Woolf tweeted he was “deeply unimpressed by those (many not at Queen’s) whose irresponsible drinking has taken away hospital beds from seriously ill patients.”

In an interview with The Whig-Standard on Monday, Woolf expressed concern for the potential of Homecoming celebrations to turn fatal.

“All we can do is continue to take the best possible steps, but I do worry that sooner or later someone is going to die, either a student from overdrinking or somebody as a consequence of not being able to get the urgent care that they need,” he told The Whig.

Charges for Open Alcohol in line with the Liquor Licence Act amounted to 258 cases this year, a drastic increase from the 90 issued in 2016.

Kingston officers maintained their social media presences during the day by posting pictures of tickets being pre-filled and individual officer tallies concerning tickets given.

Alongside alcohol-related charges, Kingston Police received several calls concerning assaults, medical assistance and break-ins.

The Judicial Affairs Office investigates and prosecutes alleged violations of the Queen’s University Student Code of Conduct and presents these cases to the Judicial Committee. Sanctions will be imposed if students are found to be in violation of the Code of Conduct

To file a complaint, view the Code of Conduct, or for more information, visit: www.myAMS.org/NAM Alma Mater Society | Queen’s University |Room 038, JDUC Judicial Affairs Manager: judicial@ams.queensu.ca (613) 533-6000 ext. 77944

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

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after taking a break from their education.

We also offer many additional services to meet a variety of needs, including The Accessibility Queen’s Grant has but not limited to: emergency financial played an integral role in improving bursaries; free soup at lunch; referrals campus accessibility and inclusivity to other university and community since its establishment in 1988. The resources; advocacy for policy changes grant funds are distributed to initiatives that affect students; and an informal that improve physical, social, academic speaker series that fosters a climate and/or financial accessibility for of shared intellectual development. In students. Past projects include the addition to support, the Centre houses adaptive technology at Stauffer Library, many comfortable study spaces, and Gender-neutral bathrooms in the the social environment allows students JDUC, and American Sign Language and faculty to network and make lasting interpreters at student conferences. connections.

This grant is up for voting in the Fall Referendum this year. Without it, THE CENTRE FOR TEACHING AND campus accessibility and inclusion suffer, so please place your vote to keep LEARNING funding in place for the grant.

The Centre for Teaching and learning HIV/AIDS REGIONAL SERVICES is the academic service unit that promotes and supports quality teaching HIV/AIDS Regional Services (HARS) and builds teaching and educational is a non-profit, charitable organization leadership capacity in direct support of that has provided services to various Queen’s students’ learning experiences. communities within and around the Committed to implementing the four Kingston area for over 25 years. We interconnected strategic drivers of provide a number of confidential Queen’s 2014-2019 strategic framework, services for individuals infected with or we work with all Queen’s educators at high risk for HIV/AIDS: supportive to enhance teaching and students’ counselling, information, referrals, learning experiences by: • Partnering support groups, volunteer support, in and profiling efforts to investigate, practical assistance, advocacy, as well as experiment with and adopt new ways to a prison program. We provide extensive enhance student learning; • Contributing harm reduction services to the public to, promoting and supporting scholarly at large, including a needle exchange teaching practice and educational program, condom/lube distribution, a research; • Providing structures and comprehensive resource library and a support for ongoing dialogue about public speaker program, and development of teaching, learning The Queen’s student body is one and scholarship; • Facilitating and of the communities served and HARS supporting Departmental initiatives in has maintained collaborative, effective the development of programming that working relationships with several is pedagogically sound, intellectually campus groups over the years: Queen’s challenging and inspiring to our Medical Outreach, Queen’s School of students; • Researching, facilitating Nursing, AIDS Awareness Committees, and supporting evidence-based Queen’s Legal Aid Services, Queen’s integrations of technology in all learning Sidewalk Sale, Sexual Health Resource environments; • Working to ensure Centre, the International Centre, Don’s that campus learning spaces meet the Resource Fair, Women’s Studies, Black emerging learning needs of students.

History Month Kingston, Queen’s Human Rights Office, EQUIP, among ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS others.

Queen’s and HARS have mutually The Queen’s Chapter of Engineers benefited from the numerous student Without Borders (Q.EWB) is an volunteers and placement opportunities. organisation devoted to addressing Staff have assisted students doing HIV/ global developmental and social AID research and course work. Over inequalities. We strive to create the last 3 years, the bulk of student fees systemic change by investing in people, has contributed to the continuation of ventures, and ideas towards the goal of education, prevention and volunteer eliminating poverty. Q.EWB is now in its programs at HIV/AIDS Regional Services. tenth year of operation and is comprised Over the last few years we have had to of over 80 members, including students, increase programming around Food volunteers, and supporters. We seek to Security. Health Canada only partially leverage multidisciplinary collaboration, funds our education program, while the expanding our educations beyond the balance is funded through fundraising, curriculum to incorporate knowledge the provincial Ministry of Health, and of global realities and complexities of student fees. development aid. In doing this, Q.EWB Students benefit not only from strives to build awareness among all accessing comprehensive individual Queen’s students on the role they play support services related HIV/AIDS and as members of Queen’s, Canada, and Hep C, but also from quality HIV/AIDS the world. Most importantly we are education and prevention programs driven to translate this awareness into delivered through various campus venues throughout the academic year. meaningful, well-informed action.

We want to continue our partnership with Queen’s and urge you to give THE CAMPUS OBSERVATION ROOM (COR) the HARS fee referendum question a resounding “YES.” You know Queen’s needs COR when over 2,000 students have used our THE BAN RIGH CENTRE service since we opened our doors in 1990!

The Ban Righ Centre is a diverse The Campus Observation Room, and inclusive community located at fondly referred to as ‘the COR’, is an 32 Bader Lane. The Centre provides integral part of the Queen’s University mothers and other mature women initiative to reduce the negative students with the financial, social, and outcomes associated with excessive academic support that they may require alcohol use. A team of ~40 trained QUEEN`S ACCESSIBILITY FUND

student volunteers work alongside professional staff from Hotel Dieu Hospital in COR - a non-medical alcohol detox facility located in Victoria Hall Residence.

COR operates Friday and Saturday night in fall term, and St. Patrick’s Day. We are open late evening until 7am the following morning. Anyone can use COR: we are open to all Queen’s students, alumni and guests.

COR is respected by local emergency services and the Kingston General Hospital Emergency Department. For every intoxicated student who comes to COR instead of the hospital, there is an extra bed available in the ER for a critically ill patient.

Intoxicated students are assessed, given a bed, and monitored by professional Hotel Dieu Hospital Detox staff and trained student volunteers.

COR is completely confidential; we take a non-judgmental approach, offering assistance and support without preaching about alcohol use. We have strict criteria for admittance, and send students who require more care to the ER. COR also highlights the commitment of Queen’s University to a harm reduction approach to alcohol.

Volunteers promote COR and have honest conversations with their peers about how to help an intoxicated friend, and how to stay safe if they choose to drink.

COR operating expenses are funded through student fees and

by Queen’s Residences and Student Wellness Services. Student fees allow for the operation of COR: Paying our professional detox staff salaries, volunteer training and promoting COR need student fees.

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

residency within supportive housing.

For others, success may be improving one’s income and moving out into the community.

Dawn House provides expanded, individualized, client drive wellnessbased on-site supports and programming to women living at Dawn House, and where appropriate extends its services, including counselling and advocacy to women living in the vicinity of its West End location. Dawn House assists women with basic necessities including food, clothing and personal hygiene products. These services strive to enhance each woman’s quality of life while building healthy, inclusive relationships.

FOUR DIRECTIONS ABORIGINAL CENTRE

The Four Directions Aboriginal Student Centre is committed to enhancing the development and wellbeing of the Queen’s University Community. In keeping with the teachings of the Four Directions, the Centre strives to support Aboriginal students in balancing their academic, spiritual, physical and emotional development. We also support and encourage all students to develop an awareness and appreciation of the history and current experiences of Indigenous peoples in Canada.

The student fee we receive contributes to our bi-weekly feasts, monthly Frybread event, annual Indigenous Research Symposium and cultural programming offered at the Centre. All of our programming is open to the Queen’s community. Our cultural programming includes workshops such as moccasin making, leather mitten making, drum-making, beaded earrings, pottery, and basket-making. We organize cultural trips to conferences DAWN HOUSE and art galleries. In addition, we also hold weekly hand drumming classes, In early 2017, Dawn House changed traditional teachings, and many its name from Dawn House Women’s ceremonies throughout the year.

Shelter to Dawn House Services and The Indigenous Research Symposium Housing for Women, and in doing so, is held every October which is open to expanded its programs for women who the broader Queen’s community as well are homeless, vulnerably housed, or as to the wider Kingston community living in poverty within the Kingston and beyond. It is an opportunity for Community. Dawn House is a local both undergrad and graduate students, charity that has been supporting women as well as staff and faculty to speak to who are homeless and living in poverty topics in Indigenous Research. since 1986. The organization’s Vision is Our Cultural Counsellor is available for all women to live in safe, affordable to meet one on one with students who and accessible housing. Its Mission is may be struggling, conduct ceremonies, to support and empower homeless, provide teachings in lectures and vulnerably housed and marginalized openings for various events across women. campus. We have dedicated staff with Dawn House provides permanent varying expertise to assist you with your affordable supportive housing and research paper or if you want to talk short-term transitional housing and about Indigenous issues. gives priority to women who are living on the street, in homeless shelters, PROJECT RED or vulnerably housed. Dawn House provides these women with a place Project Red is a fully student-run they can call home in an environment organization at Queen’s University that is non-judgemental where they that promotes a healthy active lifestyle are treated with empathy, dignity and and raises awareness and funds for respect. Social isolation can interfere The Heart and Stroke Foundation of with one’s ability to sustain independent Canada. It is estimated that 1 in every living. By bringing women together, 3 Canadians will be affected by heart Dawn House strives to build a strong disease or stroke. Project Red’s ultimate community through peer support, goal is to bring awareness to the social events, common spaces within reality of heart disease and stroke and the building, leadership opportunities positively encourage university students and resident engagement in activities and the community to contribute to such as gardening and a community the cause and make the choices that kitchen. For many women an achievable will benefit their health now and in goal may be moving through intensive the future. Project Red hosts a variety case management supports focused of fundraising events throughout on recovery and achieving a successful the year including a 5km charity run,

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multiple fitness workshops, spin-a-thons and more! Our main fundraiser is the Annual Charity Fashion Show, which displays the creativity and passion of Queen’s students.

This outstanding production consists of talented student designers, dancers, models, photographers, videographers and technical crews.

Project Red prides itself on being one of most engaging clubs on campus. We aim to integrate fitness and the arts in a way that guides students to make better health decisions.

Our multi-faceted initiatives are appealing to students of different interests and backgrounds. We strive to not only raise funds for health research, but to also create a healthy and welcoming community on campus.

towards these major projects, allowing the team to pursue their outlined objectives of producing a highly competitive vehicle for the 2019 season.

QUEEN`S REFUGEE RELIEF

Queen’s Refugee Relief is an AMS ratified club at Queen’s University, founded in 2016 by a group of passionate students. QRR aims to educate the Queen’s and Kingston community on issues of refugee crises, resettlement, and integration through community outreach, advocacy and awareness campaigns.

We specifically wish to work towards the goal of welcoming the Kingston refugee community and making them feel at home. To this end, we are planning many community outreach activities in the hopes THE QUEEN`S FORMULA SAE of facilitating cultural exchange, including our second annual DESIGN AND RACE TEAM conference in the upcoming winter. In the past, we’ve held The Queen’s Formula SAE potlucks where Kingston Design and Race Team is a residents can connect with student run design team. The local refugees. We have also team designs and manufactures held bake sales and donation a formula style race car to drives to raise awareness compete in the Formula SAE and provide information to series, organized by the Society the Kingston community. We of Automotive Engineers (SAE). are open to answering any With over 500 schools and 9 questions from anyone and we official competitions, the FSAE encourage the sharing of ideas series is the largest student that can support our mission to engineering competition in the integrate all refugees into the world. Today, the team is built Kingston community. from 70 undergraduate and graduate students in Commerce, QUEEN`S DIABETES SOCIETY Arts and Science, and various streams of Engineering Queen’s Diabetes Society is including Mechanical, a support network for students Engineering Physics, Electrical with Type 1 Diabetes at and Computing, Applied Queen’s. We are a community Mathematics, and Engineering through which people can Chemistry. connect. Making the transition Operating like their racing from high school to university industry counterparts, team is hard enough, let alone having members are responsible to manage diabetes while doing for the project management, so. However, we believe there finances, safety, and external is no reason students with relations, in addition to the diabetes cannot live the life they vehicle engineering. Team have always envisioned despite members gain the advantage of having this condition. Whether kickstarting their professional they are just looking for a friend careers, while enrolled in to talk to with whom they school. Multinational industries share this unique commonality, recognise FSAE when or they are struggling with recruiting and actively look for their diabetes management, an team members to join their understanding group can be ranks. Countless alumni have both helpful and enriching. achieved positions in racing Our club is open to students and automotive companies who are newly diagnosed, such as Ford Performance, Audi students who have many Sport, NASCAR, FCA, Magna, years of experience, as well Tesla, and others. as students who do not have Student members of a diabetes and are eager to design team can immediately learn about the ins and outs apply the knowledge they gain of living with diabetes. We in class to real world problems, aim to have monthly club yielding a great academic meetings and events, but will opportunity. As engineering also offer informal meetings students, class room material for club members. Through is often taught in a theoretical various events such as dinners manner with little real-world downtown Kingston, board connection.

Knowledge game nights, trips to the Boiler retention and understanding Room or going to watch a can be improved when Kingston Frontenacs’ hockey immediately applying these game, our goal is to provide a concepts to practical problems. safe and social environment for Equally, students often learn students with diabetes to link topics from project related up with other peers who also research prior to classroom have the condition. instruction.

The team has taken on an REELOUT ARTS PROJECT SOCIETY ambitious two-year design cycle. Funds in these times Fees generated through are even more critical, as the the generosity of Queen’s team has bigger projects to University undergraduate take on leading to major one- students to the Reelout Arts time expenses being forecasted. Project benefits not only the Funds granted this year will go arts but also ensures a more

respectful community.

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

This festival held for 10-days in January/February each year showcases close to 100 films from Canada and around the world, all of which focus on issues surrounding gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, twospirit, queer persons.

These screenings are held on campus and at various other venues in the downtown core and include guest lectures, workshops and other audience engagements with visiting filmmakers.

The festival is programmed by, and carried out by over forty volunteers of whom the majority are Queen’s University students. We also hire 3 part-time Queen’s University students through the Queen’s University Fall/Winter workstudy program each year to assist in the operations of the festival. Our board of directors includes Queen’s University faculty, staff, and graduate students. This communitybuilding initiative all started as a grassroots movement run out of The Grey House (51 Bader Lane) until 2004 when Reelout incorporated at a notfor-profit and moved to our permanent office which is now a community lending library at 844A Princess St. Our library houses over 500 movies and books available for loan to the community.

Reelout also conducts community outreach screenings throughout the year including alt-frosh week and on Trans Day of Remembrance as well as our Reelout in Schools program wherein we engage with local-area high school students on bullying and homo/transphobia issues. AMS fees are integral to ensuring that these services are offered to the community by helping us with artist fees, library rent, resource materials and outreach expenses.

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of crises and events around the globe, UNICEF Canada’s initiatives, and how they can help.

THE QUEEN`S MEDICAL REVIEW

The Queen’s Medical Review (QMR) is a student-run Queen’s University community journal.

We publish news from within the School of Medicine as well as the Aesculapian Society, research projects, medical electives, debates on relevant healthcare issues, discussions on medicine and culture, and art submissions.

The student fee is used towards the significant cost of printing the magazine. Copies of the magazine are circulated among Queen’s medicine students and faculty, as well as placed in common spaces around Queen’s campus including but not limited to Undergraduate Medical Education Office, Queen’s Office of Global Health, John Deutsch University Centre, Queen’s Athletic Centre, Kingston General Hospital, and Hotel Dieu Hospital. In addition, the student fee also covers the cost of promoting new issues, developing ideas, and running workshops for the contributors.

THE QUEEN`S SPACE CONFERENCE

The Queen’s Space Conference (QSC) is one of the largest undergraduate student-run space conferences in Canada. The conference is centered around a series of exciting talks, innovative workshops, and networking opportunities. QSC is about sparking thought and ideageneration, raising awareness of the space industry, and piquing interest in space for the future generation. We strive to bring together industry professionals to provide delegates with the most informative, inspiring, and memorable experience possible. With talks from engaging speakers in varying fields, in addition to a case competition centered around a relevant problem, students UNICEF QUEEN`S can discover new perspectives and insights into space and all UNICEF Queen’s is the the opportunities it presents. campus chapter of UNICEF at Students can learn about the Queen’s University. UNICEF, the next big steps in space and United Nations International how they will revolutionize the Children’s Emergency Fund is a industry in Canada and around global, non-profit organization the world. QSC is holding its 6th that aims to build a world annual conference on January where the rights of every child 26th - 28th at the Four Points are realized. As the largest by Sheraton Hotel, and we child-focused humanitarian plan to continue our record of agency in the world, UNICEF’s bringing high-profile speakers programs address the full to Kingston, ON. The conference range of children’s rights: theme for this year is “Unearth: Health, Education, Equality, and The Exploration of Space,” Protection. Our purpose as the focusing on what milestones campus chapter is to empower have already been achieved in the Queen’s community to developing an understanding make a difference in children’s of space and in exploring the lives. Our mission is to help great unknown. We will discuss the world’s children in need where the future of space may through education, advocacy, take us, and what’s in store and fundraising. We aim to for the next generation of the do this through creating an Canadian space industry. Join educational and awareness us at QSC 2018 to unearth the raising environment here at answers! This promises to be a Queen’s University through our stellar experience, and the best various events held on campus space conference yet. and the Kingston community, such as UNICEF Week and our THE QUEEN`S MEDICAL REVIEW yearly conference. We provide a venue for Queen’s students to The ReUnion Street Festival get involved and become aware (RSF) is a diverse celebration

of Queen’s pride and tricolour spirit! It is an opportunity for Queen’s students, alumni, and friends to commemorate their Queen’s experiences through artistic and musical entertainment, celebratory food and drink, and interactive programming. The Festival is a safe and fun space on the Saturday night of Homecoming that allows for alumni and students to interact with one another in a festive and positive atmosphere. As past years have shown Saturday night to be a risk time frame that is detrimental to the University’s relationship with the City of Kingston, the Festival creates an alternative option. RSF provides both a licensed area and programming for students who are underage or who do not desire to drink but still want to enjoy their Homecoming experience.

The idea for RSF originally came from the empty gap of programming that existed on the Saturday night and now seeks to provide a fun, safe, tricolour-filled experience. RSF is the AMS’ main connection to Homecoming as a weekend and allows students to have a voice in creating a piece of history. The Festival is one of the most casual pieces of the weekend and as such creates an environment where students and alumni can connect and hear stories while history can be simultaneously shared and created. The Festival starts at a time that still allows for students and alumni to enjoy their daytime Homecoming celebrations while providing entertainment for later in the evening and more expressions of traditions as well as Queen’s spirit.

SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTRE KINGSTON For over thirty years, the Sexual Assault Centre Kingston has been providing support to survivors of sexual violence in our community. This support is offered through the 24 hour crisis and support line, first response program, individual long term counselling, group counselling, and accompaniments to hospitals, police stations or through the court system. As well as providing direct support, the centre also strives to end sexual violence through advocacy and community education. Our services are open to all – we serve all genders.

Over the past year the centre has worked with the community of Queens University in various capacities including providing counselling to students and staff who experienced sexual violence, training resident advisors and peer counsellors, speaking in several classes on the issues of sexual violence, providing meaningful volunteer opportunities to students as well as providing research and resource materials for various academic departments.

Our centre is committed to responding to the cultural, economic, linguistic and diverse backgrounds of those living in our communities.

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Since 1990, the students of Queens University have supported the Sexual Assault Centre of Kingston through a $1 student fee. This support makes it possible for survivors of sexual violence to begin their healing by accessing our free and confidential services.

THE SEXUAL HEALTH RESOURCE CENTRE The Sexual Health Resource Centre (SHRC) is a confidential, non-judgmental, feminist, prochoice, queer-positive, nonheterosexist, and sex positive information and referral service for matters related to sex, sexuality and sexual health.

We are located in Room 223

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of the John Deutsch University Centre and offer a number of services to both the Queen’s and Kingston communities. These include: providing information and referrals to clients, selling at cost safer sex products and sex toys (e.g. 20¢ condoms, $3 pregnancy tests) as well as a sexual health lending library. We also provide educational sexual health workshops (teach-ins) to campus residences and other community groups. Finally, we provide accompaniment services to the Women’s Clinic for clients seeking pregnancy termination services, as well as the Sexual Assault/Family Violence Unit for survivors of sexual assault. We are an active contributor to the community and a great resource for our

clients’ sexual health needs.

THE UNION GALLERY The Union Gallery opened in the Stauffer Library in 1994.

The gallery is unique because it is the University’s only student driven venue that provides three spaces for the display of contemporary art by student artists and curators. The main space shows work in all media while the smaller project space prioritizes new media, installation, time and soundbased works. In 2015 we added a third space; the Vitrine Project venue which is located just outside the gallery and provides opportunities for curated projects by students.

The gallery provides many

other opportunities for students interested in the arts through the gallery Board of Directors and on the many subcommittees.

We also extend our reach into the broader Kingston community collaborating with organizations to create opportunities for students. For example, this past spring we offered a mentorship for a student curator to coordinate an exhibition of student and young artists for the Juvenis Youth Arts Festival which took place at venues in the city and on campus in May 2017.

Students are encouraged to visit exhibits, serve on its committees, attend fundraising events, volunteer as gallery attendants, curate and submit work for exhibitions. These

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fantastic opportunities to engage with the arts AND the fact that we have been going strong for 23 years is a testament to our commitment to making the campus alive with art! The gallery is open 5 days a week and it is free - come and check us out.

The student fee of $4.00 (opt out) is critical in providing funds to run our facilitly so we can provide quality programming of shows and events and free admission to everyone.

The gallery strives to enrich and benefit all Queen’s University students, regardless of department or faculty. Please support the Union Gallery in the upcoming referendum by voting YES to our continued funding!

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Though providing pre-emptive resources for incoming students is a great step towards shedding light on the serious issue of mental health on campus, the efforts can’t stop there.

Incoming students to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) will be offered voluntary mental health screening in the form of an online survey starting this fall. According to an article from CNN, this voluntary questionnaire will be designed to screen new students for depression.

With mental health struggles being especially prevalent on university campuses, confronting it when students first step foot onto campus is a refreshing initiative.

As students, we accept a lot of mental health problems as

something normal because of the high-stress environment of university, when in fact they aren’t. The introduction of this survey opens up a lot of doors to reducing stigma and the isolation that comes with mental illness.

University students across North America who seek help for depression and other mental health issues currently face long wait times to see a counselor in person. Because of the barriers that exist in accessing mental health resources on campuses, the idea of having a survey that can do the work of directing students to online resources or in-person help is appealing.

This screening survey has the

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potential to validate many students’ having difficulty due to their mental health state. By asking students to take part, UCLA is acknowledging depression and other mental health issues as something they don’t simply need to accept as a part of getting a degree.

The UCLA survey will also be sent to students before they seek help for themselves, which can make a real difference for those unsure of whether or not to reach out.

That being said, judging how much and what kind of help someone needs from a “brief survey” is extremely complicated.

It’ll be difficult to discern someone’s genuine mental health state from a

standard set of questions.

The amount of support that follows the distribution of online resources will be more important to address. UCLA and all other universities taking notes, will still need to make tangible changes to their counseling system in order to support students struggling with their mental health beyond this survey.

Overall, the fact that UCLA is doing more than speaking to the issue of mental health is something to be applauded. The survey can show students that their university is concerned about their wellbeing, but they’ll need to do more to make a real impact on mental health on university campuses.

Since their conception in the Middle Ages, universities have been to the benefit of a particularly fortunate — and therefore limited — group. It’s time to reconsider the potential of postsecondary institutions in keeping our broader society well-informed.

As a student in Arts and Science, graduate school can be seen as inevitable rather than an option.

The biggest problem with this line of thinking is that the ideas and skills we learn at university often don’t escape the echo chamber of the system where they were born.

While literacy rates in Canada are estimated by The Globe and Mail to be around 97 per cent, only 47 per cent of Canadians have a postsecondary degree. Though more people are able to read than ever before, educational resources have continued to remain with the few.

The idea of research lying mostly idle can be discomforting to academics as well. Although there’s value in being approved and recognized by your fellow scholars, gratification can also come from communicating concepts in a more open and accessible way and as a result seeing your work active in the world.

Taking a first-year class at university can debase a lifetime of popularized misconceptions.

Education won’t dictate the opinions you have, but it gives you

the tools to think critically about them and ground them in fact.

Initiatives like the Public Knowledge Project started by UBC and Project Gutenberg — which has a Canadian branch — aim to make public the traditionally limited resources and work of university researchers by having them freely downloadable on the internet.

This is a great first step, but we also need to acknowledge that the average reader isn’t familiar with academic writing. There are still many more avenues publicizing university knowledge can take, particularly in converting academic language to something more digestible by the majority.

There’s power in being able to access knowledge directly from specialists in the field in order to inform yourself, instead of relying on politically-biased commentators on TV or hearsay from your friends and family.

The value that academic research provides is limited to a small number of people able and willing to pay attention. As a result, there’s an ever-widening disparity between academics and the majority. Universities should start taking more responsibility in the education of not just their own students, but society as a whole.

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Enough is enough Queen’s needs to look at their silencing of Indigenous voices on campus Lauren Winkler (left) and Tara McDonald (right).

LAUREN WINKLER,ARTSCI ’17 LAW ’20 & TARA MCDONALD ARTSCI ’17

consideration last November and it they turned down the idea of an wasn’t forgotten. Rather, it was put Indigenous Affairs Commission — on hold as the people involved had something multiple people told outside responsibilities. them was necessary.

As an Indigenous law student and Looking back, the blame Last year, I sat on eight different former Deputy Commissioner of has been placed. The people committees, all concerned with Indigenous Affairs for the AMS, I responsible for the article were Indigenous affairs. This just goes would like to speak to the overall confronted by the Queen’s to show how much more needs to silencing of Indigenous voices by community and their voices be done to support the Indigenous governing bodies at Queen’s. have been heard. The Journal community and to educate the has released a public apology non Indigenous community here The one where she explains and acknowledged why at Queen’s. it was wrong to leave out In response to this growing For those who know me, I Indigenous voices. interest, I started a rough plan for usually try to avoid Facebook for The Equity Commissioner for an Indigenous Affairs Commission anything other than memes. But ASUS, Laura Anderson, was also to help support the Indigenous on Oct. 5, I scrolled through my confronted and both acknowledged Affairs Deputy. Just a few weeks newsfeed and saw the headline and validated the voices of those later, I was informed by a friend “ASUS petitions for Indigenous land who have challenged her. Efforts that the current AMS executive recognition on Queen’s sign.” The will be put in place to make didn’t see how the Commission photo for the article featured a non- sure something like this doesn’t would benefit Indigenous students Indigenous student leaning over happen again.

— I mean, how does an Indigenous the Queen’s University sign. After Don’t get me wrong, not Affairs Commission benefit reading, I found out the only person being included in the article Indigenous students? interviewed for the article was that isn’t only frustrating as an It’s important to remember that same non-Indigenous student.

Indigenous student, it’s completely to be an effective ally, one needs I spent all day placing blame. unacceptable. As a community, to work with Indigenous students Honestly, considering how much my we’re still angry, but the anger and want to work with them — it’s hands were shaking, I’m surprised doesn’t solely lie with The Journal not something to simply check off the comment I made on the post and the Equity Commissioner. It of an equity checklist. If student came out so reserved. Let me tell also lies with the larger governing government is going to claim to be you why. bodies that continue to silence allies and pride themselves on what Part of my previous role as Indigenous voices on campus. they are doing for the Indigenous the Indigenous Affairs Deputy community, their actions must be involved working with a group of The one where she holds genuine and collaborative. students (both Indigenous and people accountable The AMS executive need to be allies) to discuss various ways to actively engaging in this process by create visibility for the Indigenous During the election period for speaking with and learning from community on campus. Last school AMS in January, I was approached Indigenous students. They need to year, myself along with a few by both running parties. They asked stand behind the decisions made other individuals (Taylor Bluhm, what the Indigenous students at by their Indigenous Affairs Deputy Tara Wilson, Mekena Groulx, Queen’s needed. and dedicate resources and time to Tara McDonald, Cameron Yung, During their entire campaign, Indigenous affairs initiatives.

Miguel Martinez and Alexandra JBP preached about their Doing advocacy work as an Palmeri) met to consider different commitment to the Indigenous Indigenous student is already projects we could bring forward to students at Queen’s. Pages 27-29 physically and emotionally the administration. of the AMS’ long form platform — exhausting, not to mention working One of these involved which is no longer online — made with people who say one thing but engraving the traditional land commitments that mirrored Truth whose actions reflect another. If acknowledgement, “Queen’s and Reconciliation Commission the current AMS executive is truly University sits on the traditional (TRC) recommendations. One of committed, then they need to lands of the Haudenosaunee these included the continuation demonstrate it. and Anishinaabe peoples,” on of Indigenizing student spaces.

The AMS doesn’t stand alone the Queen’s University stone at Despite their alleged commitment as the sole disappointment when University and Union. This was a to our Indigenous community, it comes to supporting Indigenous

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students and students of colour here at Queen’s. Faculty societies need to do more too. I’ve asked Tara McDonald, a former ASUS Equity Commissioner and Arts and Science Senator to speak to this.

The one where Tara lays it on the table

In recent years, top ASUS officials have made comments like, “colonialism is no longer a problem in Canada.” They’ve refused to cancel events that have been brought to their attention and deemed colonial by Indigenous students.

An ASUS senator once asked me if I thought “racism really existed in Canada?” In 2016, ASUS Assembly found the proposed ‘Anti-Racist Strategic Plan’ contentious and never picked it up again. This plan laid out recommendations on how to improve systemic racism and colonialism within the society.

Furthermore, after the happenings of the racist costume party of last year, most members of the student senate caucus felt that student senators shouldn’t speak up about it at the next senate meeting. I can imagine some people will be mad at me for sharing what I have and some will claim I didn’t provide enough context. It’s true that for every decision that was made, ASUS officials have had their reasons (I just can’t say I agree with them). I want to be clear that I’m in no way trying to suggest that ASUS is a racist or anti-Indigenous institution. My goal in highlighting some of my experiences is merely to show that improvement is needed and faculty societies need to do much more.

To quote the former Social Issues Commissioner, Alex Chung, “Just because you have a platform to speak doesn’t mean you should.”

One must directly consult the students who are being impacted

by the issues. Go to them. Learn from them. Ask them if you can do anything. Follow their direction.

Then speak. Please, don’t think that just because you are an elected representative or hold an ‘Equity’ title that your positionality in the matter is suddenly neutral.

Recognize your whiteness and centre Indigenous and POC voices when doing anti-racism advocacy work.

Along with the AMS and other faculty societies, ASUS must re-commit to dismantling racism and colonialism on campus as well as provide concrete steps on how they are going to do so.

I have so many regrets when I reflect upon my year as the Equity Commissioner for ASUS and a senator in my final year — both times I could’ve done more if I had listened and found the courage to speak up. Be better than all of us who have come before you.

It’s October, you’re about halfway through your term. Use the seven months you have left.

The one with constructive advice

Instead of dwelling on the situation that’s been acknowledged and apologized for, let’s work on moving forward with a positive relationship.

As an ally, you need to acknowledge that Indigenous voices are silenced because they are just that: Indigenous.

If you want Indigenous representation at your event, then you should be attending and supporting their events as well.

Reciprocity, people.

If you’re going to preach allyship and reconciliation, you need to hear from Indigenous peoples about what they need and respond accordingly.

If you’re a white ally, or an ally in a position of power, instead of speaking for Indigenous people or leaving them out of the conversation, you should use your privilege to uplift their voices.

If you’re an ally, you should work with Indigenous students and students of colour to make positive changes happen. These groups can’t carry the burden of fighting the system that works against them on their own. You need to uplift their voices, hear what they’re saying, and respect what they need.

Lauren Winkler is a firstyear law student and former AMS Deputy Commissioner of Indigenous Affairs. Tara McDonald graduated in May of 2017 and is a former ASUS Equity Commissioner.

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How do you deal with the stress of midterms?

“With an IV drip of caffeine.”

Jaycee Farmer Artsci ’20

“Just accepting it and trying to make it a valuable university experience.”

Jacob Neufang Commerce ’20

“In a constant state of emotional distress and inquiring how to become a stripper.”

Nina Li LifeSci ’19

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Ahead by a Century: remembering Gord Downie A tribute to Kingston’s frontman Nick Pearce Arts Editor

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ord Downie, the charismatic, fiercely lyrical front man of the Tragically Hip, who influenced a generation of Canadian musicians, passed away on Tuesday night.

“Gord knew this day was coming,” a note posted by his family on social media read. “[H]is response was to spend his time as he always had — making music, making memories and expressing gratitude to his family and friends for a life well lived, often sealing it with a kiss… on the lips.”

Downie’s cancer was announced on May 26, 2016 — the same day the band announced their final cross-country farewell tour. In a moment of national pride tinged with sadness as fans said goodbye, the Tragically Hip made their last stop in Kingston on Aug. 20, 2016.

Roughly a third of Canadians watched as Downie thanked the thousands of adoring fans that gathered in Kingston for the final performance. When the band hugged and left Downie alone on stage, he was left with the undeniable evidence and importance of what he called “the life.”

The Tragically Hip had returned home and left on their own terms — a rarity in rock music.

A vigil in Market Square Almost a year after their final show, Kingstonians returned to Market Square for a candlelit vigil Wednesday night to remember Downie. They laid bouquets, wrote their favourite lyrics on a roll of paper spread across the sqaure as passing busses displayed “Gord, We’ll Miss You” on their destination signs.

Some attendees brought guitars and played impromptu covers of “Ahead by a Century” while members of the crowd joined in to sing.

“It’s been a tough day for Kingston. But to see the outpouring of support and appreciation from the community has been pretty amazing,” Mayor Paterson told the The Journal. “And the fact that the centre of this makeshift memorial was the stone we put in the square to commemorate the last concert The Tragically Hip played here in Kingston — I think it’s a special moment.”

Mayor Paterson added the night was “a chance for people to share memories, to celebrate his legacy, to honour him and to say thank you for everything he did for the country and our city.”

Stephanie Hawkley went to high school with the band and was happy to see the turnout, despite the difficult situation.

“I feel lucky to be here and pay tribute,” she said.

However, the inevitability of the event weighed heavily in many of

the crowds’ conversations.

Gillian Webber was among them. She moved to Kingston eight months ago after coming to see the livestream of the band’s last concert in Springer Square. She saw the intense connection between the people and their city, inspiring her move.

Webber shared her thoughts on the band that brought her

Canada got to “say goodbye to Gord Downie.

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to Kingston.

“Because we had the year to prepare, in some ways we thought he would never go,” Webber said.

“We kind of mou rned him as a country but we still felt like we could get to keep him. We had so much time to come to grips with this that tonight can be a celebration.”

“Canada got to say goodbye to Gord Downie.”

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how to perform in front of students and locals alike in campus pubs and local dives. We saw early on how music has the power to move people and bring them together,” he said.

Downie the icon Meanwhile, as the band left the dive bars and campus mainstays for a promising future, Downie was maturing as a lyricist. Always a capable front man, the singer began to grow as a poet.

His lyrics were filled with images of Canadian wilderness and small towns; hockey heroes and true stories; national history and childhood memories.

They were just a part of a long list that explains why the Tragically Hip matters. Downie’s lyrics could fill a hockey arena or the syllabus of a Canadian literature class. He spoke to the range and complexity of the Canadian experience and it was noted.

A campus band Before the Tragically Hip was a Canadian band, it was a Kingston band. And even before that, they were campus band.

“Everywhere you go you seem to see the same bands,” said a young Gord Downie, to The Journal in 1985. After all, Queen’s campus could, “use an injection of something new and different.”

According to Downie, that meant “high energy dance music.”

The long-haired 20 yearolds that would later become national sensations started packing campus venues like Clark Hall Pub and Alfie’s (now the Underground), with spirited blues-rock numbers.

But eventually things changed for Kingston’s favourite sons. In 1989, the band skipped playing Queen’s Homecoming for the first time since they started in 1985, but for good reason. That year, they released their first majorlabel, full-length album Up to Here to strong critical and commercial reception, winning a Juno for Most Promising Artist.

When they returned to Kingston in 1990, The Journal reviewed their concert and noted, “The image of the Hip as a campus band only exists as a legend to most current students, and some are even unaware of the Queen’s connection.”

When the band received their honourary degrees from Queen’s in 2016, bass player Gord Sinclair remarked on the campus’ formative role in the Hip’s career.

“This place shaped who and what we’ve become. We learned

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As Downie profiled Canada, he became more than a musician. He took on more social causes, serving as a board member for Lake Ontario Water Keeper, supporting the environmental protection of the waterfront he grew up with.

However, Downie’s deepest social commitment was encapsulated in his final solo album, 2016’s The Secret Path.

Released with an accompanying graphic novel, the album told the story of Chanie Wenjack, a young Anishinaabe boy who died while escaping a residential school in 1966.

After receiving the Order of

Canada for his leadership on Indigenous issues this past June, Downie elaborated in a speech delivered on Parliament Hill on July 2.

“Now we begin a new 150 years.

We leave behind the first 150 years, the ones with one big problem — trying to wipe out our Indigenous peoples, to take their minds and hearts, to give them the choice [to] become white or get lost,” he said.

“It’s time to listen to the stories of the Indigenous [people], to hear stories about now. We are blessed as a young country to be able to look to the wisdom of a really, really old country.”

This was Downie’s final act. He was granted the rare opportunity to say goodbye and the country listened. It was a story that began and ended in Kingston, often returning there in between.

“I’d like to think the future is limitless. If we carved ourselves a niche, or put ourselves in a pocket, then I hope that pocket is expansive enough to move,” Downie told The Journal in 1990, when it was increasingly clear that the band was beyond a campus act. “The future is bright.”

— with files from Shivani Gonzalez

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GALLERY REVIEW

Modern Fuel unveils two fall exhibits Artists Amanda White and Carolyn Code re-evaluate modern life with new showings soPhie hiNtoN Staff Writer On display from Oct. 14 until Nov. 25, Infinite Silence by Amanda White and Spill

by Carolyn Code are two new exhibits at the Modern Fuel Art Centre that both work to address issues regarding our current way of life.

Displayed in the centre’s Main Gallery, White’s Infinite Silence is comprised of a dome-shaped installation and four framed pictures hung on the opposite wall. The white glowing dome called “A Breathing Room� resembles an igloo but instead of housing people, it contains plants, enough so to maintain someone’s breath over the span

of 24 hours.

The dome instillation is extremely small so visitors can enter one at a time. The exhibit comforts you as the smells of dill and sweet florals fills your nose and you can’t help but smile at the thought of eating dill pickle chips. Sitting in that aroma, you feel pleasantly disconnected, as the exhibit offers a quiet refuge from the constant distractions of daily life.

According to her artistic statement on the Modern Fuel website, White’s “A Breathing Room� is “a comment on the troubled ecological times we live in. Emphasizing the importance and the fragility of our most fundamental relationship, it is a reminder that breathing is not a singular act performed

THEATRE REVIEW

Les Belles-Soeurs brings a Quebecois revolution to the Baby Grand Classic play shows working-class women in Montreal claytoN tomliNsoN Assistant Arts Editor One kitchen in Kingston’s Baby Grand theatre is all playwright Michel Tremblay needs to show the daily struggles working-class French Canadian women faced in the 1960s.

This kitchen is the only set in the two acts of Tremblay’s Les Belles-Soeurs belonging to Germaine Lauzon, a Montreal housemaid who’s won a million stamps given out from a grocery store, used to fill out booklets she can trade in for household items.

In the first act, Germaine invites her friends over to help her put the stamps into the booklets, setting off a chain of events that satirizes Catholicism and the limited options working class Quebecois women had outside of marriage.

Many of the characters are related or close family friends to one another and yet the play’s plotline maps out their tendencies to place social standing above these familial ties.

Whether it’s getting pregnant out of wedlock, marrying the wrong man, drinking and going to a nightclub despite the Church forbidding it or even stealing, these women inevitably face a guilty conscience.

Premiering in 1968, Tremblay’s play was groundbreaking because it showed what life was like for women left behind in French Canadian society in the 60s.

A good example of this is represented by the character Rose, played by Cathy Griffin.

While superficially carefree, Rose also faces daily oppression. In a short monologue, she reveals that her husband uses her for sex twice each day, something she views as being his supposed duty as a husband and a man.

Being beholden to her husband this way makes her exhausted and dejected.

As Rose’s character reveals in the play, the social structures faced by the women limit what they can and can’t do and are subsequently blamed whenever something goes wrong.

A Breathing Room.

by an individual, but one of symbiosis with many participants.�

On the opposite wall of the room, the four framed pictures independently titled “Compositions� features what looks like star constellations but is revealed to be a compilation of plant movement over 46 hours in the sun.

The State of Flux Gallery room holds Carolyn Code’s Spill, an exhibition comprised of four collections that exaggerate the accumulation of material objects that tend to pile up over time in our personal spaces.

Upon entering the room, you’re first confronted by the collection titled “Morph� which displays pieces of a broken mirror on the ground that builds into a complete mirror over the course of four slowly improving stages.

To your left is Code’s piece “Ephemera�,which is a pile of empty charcoal-coloured baskets and containers, suggesting mismanaged overconsumption that remains as empty as the containers.

This leads your eye to the corner piece called “Swell� where white ceramic mugs lay piled on top of an overflowing cabinet. Lines of white string that attaches different mugs together give off a sense of order amongst the ever-continuing pile of mugs.

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Turning right once more to Code’s final collection of the exhibit, “Stack,� newspapers are sculpted into a small arch supported by steel rods in the middle of the room.

The newspaper arch-stack indicates a renewed life for what we assume to be one time-use objects.

According to her statement, Code is addressing how humans attempt to maintain or create order in the middle of the chaotic collection of material. Within that chaos, she wants to figure out how we give purpose and meaning to these objects that will exist after us. It’s about taking responsibility for our material lives.

While attending the new exhibits, I didn’t fully understand the meaning behind them — until I went outside and sat on the grass by the waterfront.

Away from the exhibit, one begins to consider plants as an essential part of all life here on earth. Without plant life, there would be the anxieties and disorder White and Code create and express in their exhibits.

Their work suggests consumerism is unsustainable and if we don’t change, life on this planet would cease to exist. It’s art with a purpose, drawing attention to the comfortable but ultimately dangerous aspects of contemporary culture.

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Griffin performed the best of the monologues and its emotional impact, alongside Tremblay’s juxtaposition with a dirty joke, made the second act really hit home.

Throughout the first act, the ladies helping Germaine fill her stamp books end up stealing some of the books for themselves. They justify the theft and argue that Germaine doesn’t deserve all the million stamps she won because she’s unworthy of them.

The characters claim to be more worthy themselves without explaining LOCAL INGREDIENTS FOR OUR FOOD - LOCAL CRAFT BEERS FROM OUR FRIENDS why exactly that is — no character is ENJOY ALL THE REGION’S LOCAL FLAVOURS RIGHT HERE. wholly likeable as a result.

As Tremblay shows, the female characters in the production are trapped in these competing power structures as they try to maintain purpose and live a meaningful life. This was the reality for many working-class women in Quebec at the time Les Belles-Soeurs premiered.

Some significant historical context to Tremblay’s work, and part of the reason the King’s Town Player’s decided to put on this production in the first place, is that Les Belles-Soeurs premiered a year after Canada’s centennial.

That anniversary saw similar debates over Canada’s history as this year’s 150 celebrations.

This play offers a more critical lens to view our more recent anniversary, analyzing the oppressive structures French Canadian women faced from a modern day standpoint.

It’s no surprise that it was revived for 150.

The flipside of this renewed production is that while many things have changed, it still remains deeply relevant. We see these people tear loved ones to shreds, disown them and even steal from them because they want to appear well-to-do.

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Baseball makes program history

Queen’s baseball beats Waterloo 8-3, experiences first podium finish in program history PHOTO SUPPLIED BY HUNG LE

The baseball program’s third-place finish is the best in its history.

Bryn evanS Staff Writer After an up and down year — with wins, losses and a no-hitter — the baseball team achieved another first. Seven years after having 11 players suspended following alcohol-related incidents, the baseball team captured their first OUA medal last weekend, finishing with a bronze.

Although it’s been a long journey — the team hasn’t placed higher than seventh in the OUA standings recently — the three game weekend in Ajax against the Western Mustangs, Laurier Golden Hawks and Waterloo Warriors will

be remembered by the program for years to come.

Looking back at his third year on the team, right fielder Curtis Smith said there was something different about this 2017 team compared to others. “Everyone understood that this year’s team was extremely special and something Queen’s baseball has never seen before,” he said.

After claiming the sixth and final playoff spot with their regular season, Queen’s made sure they weren’t ready to let the opportunity slip. “[We] were very determined to show the league that we were not a club to be taken lightly,” Smith said

of the Gaels’ mentality entering the playoff weekend. “Our ‘bend but don’t break’ mentality helped us in every game we played and allowed us to finish in the position that we did.”

Against Western in the quarterfinals, Queen’s — who had lost to the Mustangs during the regular season — were considered underdogs. Nevertheless, the Gaels came away with a 9-5 victory.

“The team was pumped,” Queen’s shortstop and second baseman Joey Stipec said about the game. “The fact that they beat us during the regular season made the win even nicer. From there, we knew we had a chance

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Kainoa Lloyd is in his fifth-year at Queen’s.

MEN’S RUGBY

Lloyd gets shot on international stage

Kainoa Lloyd recently joined Rugby Canada’s “A” development team in Uruguay Matt Scace Assistant Sports Editor While his Gaels were busy extending their perfect record, Kainoa Lloyd was spending his time in Uruguay making a name for himself.

In an extension of Canada’s men’s rugby program, Lloyd recently attended the Americas Pacific Challenge as he continued to build his international rugby

profile. This was Lloyd’s second appearance at the event and his fourth international appearance for Canada in the past 12 months.

“It’s always an honour playing for the team whether you win or lose,” Lloyd said a day after coming off a 24-hour travel day from Uruguay to Kingston.

With young players looking to join the national team every year, the Americas Pacific Challenge serves as a way for players to show

their skill on the international stage. The fifth-year wing was one of just 28 Canadian athletes selected to the event. Upon arriving, athletes spent the first week training under some of Canada’s best coaches.

Although the level of play was a significant shift for Lloyd, he found that he handled it with relative ease.

“This has only been a year of me playing at this level so it really

to beat anyone.”

With only one opponent keeping them from the gold medal game, Queen’s headed into their semi-final matchup with Laurier knowing they would be underdogs again. During the regular season, the Golden Hawks placed second in the OUA with 24 points; Queen’s, conversely, placed sixth — out of nine teams in the conference — with 14 points.

Although they would end up losing both the game and their chance at gold to Laurier with a 5-4 loss, Queen’s had one last chance to medal against Waterloo.

Breaking school history against the Warriors is something the baseball team has already accomplished this year. In late September, Will Langford threw the program’s first no-hitter in a close 1-0 game. In their rematch, the Gaels hoped to experience another feat never achieved by Queen’s baseball — a medal finish.

Although he said the team felt a lot of pressure surrounding this moment, Jordan Herbison showed no signs of it as the starting pitcher. In eight innings, he only allowed three hits and struck out nine batters.

“It was an important game for our program,” he noted, “so there is some inherent pressure in setting a new standard.”

When the final out was recorded, Queen’s came out victorious, winning 8-3.

Stipec commented on the state of the program, adding this season was “the most exciting yet.” He also said the medal is indicative of the team’s growth over the past few years.

“There was a great combo of returning [veterans] and a solid rookie class that made up a competitive roster, definitely the most talented that I’ve been a part of,” he said.

Head coach Jeff Skelhorne-Gross compared this season to those of years past, adding that “[I]n previous years we were left with a feeling of, ‘If we get just a bit better we could crash the playoff party,’” he said. “This year it [was] more like, ‘If we get just a bit better, we could win a title.’”

The head coach hopes this bronze medal will push the Gaels to keep improving into next season and beyond.

“I think this year, at just the right time, [the players] began to realize that having to overcome lots of obstacles could make them a tough, resilient club, and that they could use that toughness to win ball games,” he said.

Herbison said that the Gaels definitely felt the pressure of the game.

is a bit new to me…I just take it one step at a time and try to improve my game,” Lloyd said.

Despite this being his second time at the tournament, Lloyd didn’t change his mindset from other international competitions. He continued to focus on competing and learning as much as he could from those around him.

Despite the distance of the trip, Lloyd said he felt comfortable because of the familiar faces on the team. Lloyd was joined by former Gael Lucas Rumball, as well as other players he grew up playing with and against.

Since the trip took two weeks, Lloyd had to miss two games for Queen’s. The Gaels had no trouble with his absence though, as they extended their undefeated streak by a combined 148-15 score against the Brock Badgers and the University of Toronto.

“We brought a lot of depth on the team…so it’s not like they’re being thrown into a place they

haven’t been in before,” Lloyd said. He added that it’s never been easy to miss out on playing for Queen’s. “It kind of sucks to miss games…it’s really enjoyable and I don’t ever want to let the team down.”

With this being his fifth and final season at Queen’s, Lloyd is very clear on his goals as a player. While continuing his studies in Canada or abroad, Lloyd hopes to compete on the world stage in his time after Queen’s.

“The goal is to hopefully go to the World Cup. It’s in 2019 so it’s a while away,” Lloyd said.

To participate at the World Cup, Lloyd knows he will need more opportunities to impress nationally. It’s something he hopes continues as part of his development as a rugby player.

“I just really hope I get selected for more of these things and get a chance…it’s definitely worth it,” Lloyd said.

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Golf takes home two provincial medals Men’s and women’s teams win silver in Ottawa Men’s golf placed second at the OUA championships.

JoShua FinkleStein Staff Writer With both men’s and women’s teams picking up silver medals at the OUA Championships in Ottawa, it’s safe to say Queen’s golf had some success on the fairway this past weekend.

Over the course of the two-day tournament, Gael Robyn Campbell led the team with a second overall, +13 finish. For her strong individual play this weekend, she was named an OUA first-team All-Star. She wasn’t alone as an All-Star, as teammate Melissa Ramnauth was selected for the OUA second-team. Ramnauth finished in eighth-place, just eight strokes behind Campbell.

On the men’s side, Myles Killackey led the way for Queen’s with a second-team All-Star spot of

his own. He finished in sixth-place with a score of +4, a narrow six strokes off the category’s leader.

As a result of their strong podium finishes, both Gaels teams will be competing next at the national championships held in May at Chilliwack, British Columbia.

Ramnauth spoke about her all-star caliber tournament, describing how her first and second rounds couldn’t have differed more. Despite some struggles on the first day — where she still managed to shoot an impressive 80 — the second round didn’t quite go her way. Although she thought she played a lot better, Ramnauth admitted she struggled on the green and shot 85.

Despite shooting an equal 74 on both days, Killackey also found he played better in his second

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round. He believed the difference was in his ability to navigate the tough weather conditions.

Overall, both golfers were incredibly impressed with the program’s performance as a whole.

For the women, Ramnauth considers this season the team’s best year.

“In past years, we’ve always had trouble posting three good scores out of the four players, but this year, we were able to consistently post three, if not four great scores,” she said. Ramnauth said this consistency was key to medaling in every tournament this season.

Killackey agreed with the sentiments raised by Ramnauth.

“We have a really talented team, and everyone pushes each other to play better,” he said.

According to both athletes, these medals represent a stark

improvement in the team’s performances and expectations of themselves. Despite this being the fourth year running that the program has made it to the national level, they had never found themselves anticipating much of a result. This year, however, was different. “[I]t’s the first time I really see how much potential we have to win a banner,” Ramnauth said.

Ramnauth added that the preparations for nationals have already begun and will continue throughout the winter, with the hopes of both to win a medal in May. She hopes this momentum will lead them to winning the 2018 OUA title.

Specifically, the team has prepared for tournaments by spending time at both the Cataraqui Golf Club in Kingston and Loch March; where the

OUA championships were held. Considering the results from the weekend, Ramnauth and Killackey will certainly stick with the training to further improve.

“At the end of April, once school ends and golf courses reopen, I’m sure everyone will be doing everything they can to prepare on the course,” Ramnauth said.

Killackey concurred, adding, “I know if we prepare properly we’ll have a good week [at nationals].”

Looking back on her final nine holes of the tournament, Ramnauth heads to the offseason with a bitter taste. But this, she said, will only serve to inspire her further for success at the pending national championships.

“It’s [going to] motivate me to put in a lot of practice this winter,” she said.

FOOTBALL

Football clinging to playoff hopes Gaels riding on outcomes of other OUA games this weekend to secure postseason berth Sarina Grewal Assistant News Editor Queen’s football have their sights set on the playoffs — but they’ll need their fair share of luck along the way.

Going into this Saturday’s game on the road against the University of Toronto Varsity Blues, the Gaels are cautiously optimistic about their shot at the postseason.

“We’ve gotten backed into a corner early in the season,” head coach Pat Sheahan acknowledged in a mid-week press conference.

“There’s several other scenarios that have to happen. It’s not entirely contingent on our performance.”

After starting the season 0-4, Queen’s has climbed out of last place in the OUA with three straight wins. Even though they’re riding the high of this winning streak, their hopes of making the playoffs will depend on more than just a win this weekend.

The Carleton Ravens (3-4) hold the tiebreaker over the Gaels, so a Ravens win against the Guelph Gryphons (4-3) — who play this weekend in Ottawa — would remove Queen’s from their playoff spot. If the Gaels manage to win over the Blues and the Ravens suffer a loss, they would effectively ensure themselves a postseason berth.

“We will be listening to the scores as they come in, but not focused on them,” Sheahan said, adding the “coaches and players are focused on taking care of our own business.”

According to the head coach, if a few plays went the other way throughout the season, the Gaels would be playing in a different game this weekend. “The outcome of a season can be evaluated on three or four plays going the other way,” he said.

He cited their week one matchup against the Ravens, in which his team — leading for much of the game — conceded a last-minute touchdown to lose.

If the Gaels had won that game, they’d currently be holding the tiebreaker over Carleton.

Sheahan said Queen’s slow start to the campaign gave them problems early.

“We had some issues we had to deal with,” he commented, noting “protection on offense” and “establishing a consistent running game” were key areas which the team had been working to fix earlier on in the season.

Since turning it around after their four losses, Sheahan said the team is confident going forward. The Blues are a longtime rival, so he’s expecting a high-energy atmosphere on Saturday. He said his team is up to the challenge.

In terms of the team’s spirits thus far, Sheahan said that keeping motivated hasn’t been an issue for Queen’s. “[O]ur guys understood the gravity of the challenge,” he said on the Gaels’ healthy morale through their up-and-down season. “Every loss carries with it a great deal of weight, but our guys have been resilient, they have been persistent, and they have refused to quit,” he added.

Jake Puskas — who’s filled in for the injured Jonah Pataki since the starter suffered an injury in Week 5 — has been a boost to the Gaels’ offense as their new running back. For Sheahan, the incumbent starter “has been able to run the ball, and add something to our offense that’s pretty significant,” the coach said.

Speaking on his team’s performance thus far, Puskas said the Gaels had “realized the sense of urgency” in the outcome of their last few games, and especially in their upcoming final match of the regular season.

The team will play their very best on Saturday — everything beyond that isn’t up to them. That much, to Puskas, is clear.

“There’s only so many things we can control, so we’re looking at it, like, ‘We need to take care of our business and pray that the football gods will take care of the rest,’” Puskas said.

Gaels leading touchdown receiver Chris Osei-Kusi.

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LIFESTYLE

MUSIC

Demi Lovato’s Simply Complicated reveals story of struggle and success How Lovato has always been the ultimate role model SCREENSHOT FROM YOUTUBE

Demi Lovato recording her album, Tell Me You Love Me.

Shivani Gonzalez Lifestyle Editor In my mind, Demi Lovato has always been a role model.

I loved her when she was figuring out exactly where she was supposed to be in Camp Rock, I tried to emulate her fashion sense and hairstyles when she starred on Sonny with a Chance and I think I still have the special edition of PEOPLE magazine where they profiled her and Selena Gomez.

While early-success Demi was always an inspiration to me, it was when she started being open with the public about her struggles that she really showed us what a great role model she is.

Some of you may disagree with me on this. When she was a teenager in the limelight, Lovato was a cocaine, adderall and alcohol addict who, even after

treatment and the diagnosis of bipolar disorder, continued to use for years.

I still remember the day the news broke of Demi punching one of her backup dancers while on tour with the Jonas Brothers for Camp Rock 2. Considering she was in the squeaky clean Disney squad at the time, it’s safe to say it was a surprise.

Lovato discusses this and more in her new documentary Simply Complicated which premiered on YouTube on Oct. 17.

The documentary starts with Lovato setting up to start a lengthy interview — “the last time I did an interview this long I was on cocaine.” From that moment on, Lovato opens up about everything she’s had going against her in her rise to fame — from her substance abuse to her struggles with mental health.

Lovato takes us through her

years as a pageant girl, to starring on Barney and Friends, As the Bell Rings and her time spent on the Disney Channel, to her eventual breaking point.

Lovato talks in depth about her first time using drugs and the reasons behind her decision. She was 17 at the time and influenced by her father, Patrick Lovato, who died of cancer in 2013, being an addict himself.

Lovato isn’t the only teen who struggled with substance abuse.

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, 14.3 per cent of US 12th graders have used illicit drugs other than marijuana.

The documentary then turns to focus on how Lovato moved past these hardships. What finally convinced her to declare sobriety was when her manager came to her and told her, along with everyone else who worked with her, he was going to walk if she

continued using.

Lovato was 19 when she got sober.

Another struggle Lovato opens up about for the first time in Simply Complicated is her eating disorder. She explains she started binging and purging after a group of girls in her elementary school started a suicide petition — signed by her classmates — telling her to kill herself.

While Lovato has proudly stayed sober for five and a half years despite these tragic hardships, her documentary reveals her eating disorder is something she continues to struggle with to this day.

At one point Demi looks at the camera with a smile: “When I am comfortable in my own skin I am confident, when I feel confident I feel sexy, and when I feel sexy, watch out.”

For me, Lovato’s Simply

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Rose McGowan, Ashley Judd, Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow, Terry Crews and Courtney Love.

abbey DuDaS Staff Writer Sexual harassment is something that’s sadly been somewhat normalized in our culture — catcalling, sexist comments and inappropriate touching is engrained and often overlooked in society.

Over the past few weeks we’ve been shown just how prevalent this behaviour is, in Hollywood, and in our own lives.

The sexual harassment case against Harvey Weinstein seems to be growing exponentially, and has led to a wave of assault accusations.

While people are only speaking out now, stories of the Weinstein

CULTURE COMMENTARY

Is Harvey Weinstein the final straw for sexual harassment?

Lessons we’re learning from people coming forward Company founder calling young actresses into his hotel room where he badgered them to perform and engage in intimate acts have been surfacing for years.

According to The New Yorker, various publications have been trying to uncover this for years, but struggled with an initial lack of people willing to come forward and talk openly about

Weinstein because of his power in the industry.

The new investigation — that took 10 months to compile — was finally released in the New York Times on Oct. 5 documenting the several people who have recently come forward. Actresses like Ashely Judd, Angelina Jolie, and Gwyneth Paltrow have all spoken up about the open secret

Complicated affirms she is the ultimate role model — she’s been through so much and yet is willing to open up about her struggles and her journey to recovery to reassure people they’re not alone.

While she wasn’t always the most popular Disney character, Lovato was the one who ended up inspiring us the most.

Her fearlessness, honesty and accountability is something she’s maintained throughout her life.

Her documentary is a reminder that everyone has their own personal burdens and everyone has the ability to persevere through them.

Simply Complicated tells us what we already know about Lovato. She’s an extremely strong person whose struggles and perseverance make her such an important person in pop culture today.

in Hollywood.

This open secret has been alluded to in several jokes and comments that have been made at past award shows, TV shows and red carpet interviews. In 2005, Courtney Love gave the advice to young actresses that “if Harvey Weinstein invites you to a party at the Four Seasons, don’t go.” Seth MacFarlane joked at the 2013

Oscars, saying, “congratulations, you five women no longer need to pretend to be attracted to Harvey Weinstein.”

Rose McGowan is one of more than 30 women who have come forward accusing Weinstein of sexual harassment, assault or rape since the 1990s.

McGowan has been very vocal, calling out Ben Affleck for inertly knowing about Weinstein and James Corden for making jokes about the case. She accepted a settlement from Weinstein 21 years ago after she was allegedly raped, and declared she was threatened to be blacklisted if she spoke about it.

McGowan’s Charmed co-star See Weinstein page 15

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SELF-CARE

Embarking on a self-care pilgrimage The best four places in Kingston for some alone time Kaylee o’Meara Contributor

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With 2017’s rollercoaster of a summer finally over — which peaked in temperature around Sept. 20 — the crisp, invigorating autumn air has finally arrived.

This is prime time to do all those fall activities you’ve looked forward to all year including apple picking, baking and of course, going out with your housemates.

But amid midterm season, be sure to invest in self-care too by indulging in some much-needed alone time.

The following is a selection of my favourite solo activities to do around Kingston.

Walking

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Coffeeco.

Weinstein scandal opens doors to holding abusers Continued from Page 14

Alyssa Milano renewed the hashtag #MeToo on Oct. 15, tweeting, “If everyone who has ever been sexually assaulted or harassed posted #MeToo to Twitter we might get a sense of the magnitude of the problem.”

The hashtag quickly started trending and was used more than 500,000 times in the first 24 hours.

This case against Weinstein along with Milano’s tweet has encouraged other sexual assault and harassment allegations against people like Andy Signore from Defy Media.

After the release of the Harvey Weinstein cases, Emma Bowers came forward about Signore, tweeting, “So [yeah], it’s not just Weinstein. I wish I fought more, wish I’d screen-capped his messages, but I was young, scared, and dumb. So I didn’t.”

I think it’s important to learn from Bowers and understand the need to stand together so that people like Weinstein and Signore can no longer hide behind their power.

Additionally, Brooklyn Nine-Nine actor Terry Cruz has spoken about

a sexual harassment that he’s suffered and how he was afraid to come forward because of how it would look as a male. Allegations like this show the problem isn’t just restricted to women, and can happen to anyone.

Many have been asking why so few people have come forward until now, but we’ve seen time and time again that there’s strength and safety in numbers. How many times have we seen someone come forward about sexual harassment or assault, just to have people say they’re lying or doing it for attention? These allegations and the #MeToo campaign show us the numbers and magnitude of the problem. It gives us the chance to take the next step and hold people like Weinstein accountable for their actions.

This exact campaign was launched 10 years ago by activist Tanara Burke but unfortunately failed to gain momentum until taken on by Milano thanks to her large following on Twitter. Social media gives us the power to connect with others. It’s important that we don’t take this tool for granted and we don’t waste this opportunity to challenge and break down the status quo.

Seeing Harvey Weinstein, someone who was a major supporter for Hillary Clinton (who was extremely vocal about the need for consequences for sexual harassment) and someone who is incredibly powerful in Hollywood, be forced to take responsibility for his actions, is, I think, going to be the start of so much more.

With the help of social media and the support of such high profile figures, I think we, as a society, will start to understand that we’ve been normalizing these actions for far too long.

Although it’s so incredible that people are coming forward, still some are refraining from naming their perpetrators. The only way we’re going to truly make a difference is if we continue to support the victims and survivors and hold accountable those who perform these inexcusable actions.

With the progression of the #MeToo campaign, the many exposures and efforts of solidarity we’re currently seeing in the media, we’re hopefully getting closer to seeing the downfall of this system of abuse and the “Weinstein’s” of the world finally brought to justice.

Fall can make you want to curl up under your duvet and begin hibernating — but you have all winter for that. Before the weather takes an icy turn, layer up with your favourite fall apparel and get outside for a walk around the city. According to the Mayo Clinic, you really can “walk your way to fitness” and improve your mood and overall outlook simultaneously.

Kingston has many great walking routes including by the waterfront, downtown and Portsmouth Village. You can also go on mini excursions during the week by taking a different route to class.

Pro tip: don’t wear a bag on walks to improve posture and do some light stretching before and after.

Kingston Coffee House As an employee myself, I’m familiar with the magical atmosphere that is Cogro.

However, I also know you can’t visit Cogro without running into every possible person you’ve met during your time at Queen’s.

For this reason, visiting an offcampus café can be best for your alone time.

While Kingston has an abundance of cafes to choose from including Balzac’s and Small Batch, my favourite is Kingston Coffee House (formerly known as Coffeeco). Located at 322 King St. East, Coffeeco is in a masonic building across from Springer Market Square. The open concept architecture, exposed brick and bookshelves create a welcoming space for settling in with a cappuccino.

Pro tip: take advantage of their half-price hot drinks every weekday from 5-6 p.m.

The Agnes Etherington Art Centre If you haven’t been to the Agnes since Frosh Week, then you are long overdue for a visit.

Open six days a week and free to all patrons, the Agnes is Queen’s own research-intensive art museum offering year-round exhibitions. Founded in 1957, the gallery is comprised of Agnes Etherington’s Neo-Georgian mansion and a more recent modern edition. Enjoy the “old meets new” architecture and the gallery’s balance of classical and contemporary pieces.

Pro tip: get lost in the Bader Collection’s assortment of Rembrandt pieces including more than 200 paintings from the Dutch Golden Age. The Isabel Bader Centre for Performing Arts The Isabel is the pinnacle of your self-care pilgrimage. There are a mirage of ways to make your Isabel visit unique but my favourite sequence of events goes as follows; proceed off campus by walking — not bussing — to the Isabel on the shores of Lake Ontario, grab a latte and breakfast sandwich from Juniper Café in the Tett Centre next door, enjoy your goodies on Juniper’s patio, then head to the Isabel’s light-filled atrium for a seat by the front windows — inevitably take an Instagram story of the view — and finally get down to work on your day’s agenda.

The Isabel is great for both studying and working on personal projects such as writing, reading or filling out postcards to friends far away. Whatever you’re doing at the Isabel, you’re in for a productive and fulfilling day with a beautiful view.

You can easily make the Isabel into a day trip (depending on how many delectable treats you’re willing to buy from Juniper) or just spend an hour or two catching up on some alone time.

Pro tip: befriend a film and/or music student to enjoy their 24-hour VIP access via their coveted FOB keys.

While in a university setting, we’re often tempted to surround ourselves with our friends 24/7 but it’s important to make sure we’re taking time for ourselves every now and then and prioritizing self-care.

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Encepha-what? The aftermath of my brain virus Coping with illness at Queen’s Grace MacleoD Contributor 11 p.m., April 1, 2017 Loud. Bright. Cramped. I’m at the John Mayer concert in Montreal.

I’ve been waiting for this night for the past three months. So why am I not having fun?

I can’t see him. This doesn’t even feel real. Not in that “this is way too good to be true!” kind of way, but in an “I don’t feel like myself.”

The three raspberry mojitos I had with dinner are giving me a headache that reaches all the way down into my neck. The drunk teenagers behind us don’t know any of the songs and seem to find happiness in loudly declaring said fact. Can I just go to bed?

11 a.m., April 2, 2017 I’m driving back to Ottawa after having brunch with one of my best friends. The sun is bright today; my head is still hurting from those raspberry mojitos. I make a mental note to never order a sugary drink again.

11 p.m., April 2, 2017 “It’s just the Rub A535 I put on your shoulder,” my mom says, trying to explain why my right arm has gone numb.

I guess that would make sense?

My head hurts again — a lot. I can’t even watch Netflix without taking a break every minute because the screen seems so bright. I know that something isn’t right, but it’s not like I’m dying or anything. I’ll just try to go to bed.

Thirty minutes later I’m fumbling around my bedroom, trying to change into something

more hospital appropriate than the sea-turtle pyjama bottoms and tie dye shirt I’m currently wearing.

I can’t seem to stand up properly, failing miserably at my foot-in-pant-leg attempts. I’m preparing to go to the Ottawa General Hospital just to be safe.

Less than thrilled; worried that I wouldn’t get enough sleep to wake up ready for my 7 a.m. Greyhound ride back to Kingston.

An hour later I’m sitting in front of the ER nurse, unable to remember what the pen he’s holding up in front of me is called, unable to remember the name of my mother (or even that she is my mother) and unable to speak.

I’m definitely not going to make that bus.

I’ve been in the “ emergency room for

almost three days. I can finally remember the names of my parents, but I still can’t go to the bathroom by myself

”

11 a.m., April 5, 2017 I’ve been in the emergency room for almost three days. I can finally remember the names of my parents, but I still can’t go to the bathroom by myself (who knew you could forget how to flush a toilet?).

I can only remember a few things from the past three days: vomiting all over a million dollar MRI machine, my first lumbar puncture (which is quite an interesting experience when you can’t form the words to ask what is being stabbed into your ‘upper

butt’) and most perplexingly, the doctor asking me which school I was attending, to which I mumbled “Western.” Yeah, I don’t know why either.

It’s a Wednesday, and they finally find me a room on the neurology floor. I’m welcomed with a ginger ale and pack of crackers, which I promptly vomit up onto my bed. The next few days are filled with countless needles, tests, sleepless nights and insipid hospital meals.

After suspecting a stroke, migraine, teratoma and more, the doctors settle on the fact that I’ve fallen victim to viral encephalitis caused by an undetectable virus.

My entire brain had swelled causing the headaches, neck pain, aphasia, nausea, confusion and numbness I had been experiencing for the weeks and days leading up to this point. Turns out the raspberry mojitos weren’t at fault.

11 a.m., April 11, 2017 I’m finally being released from the hospital. Time for some real food and HGTV. The first few days I spent at home were pure bliss, but as time went by I began to feel more unlike myself than ever before.

My depression came back and I felt listless and purposeless. I had no job, most of my friends were still in school, and I spent my days alone in front of the TV. You could say HGTV had lost its charm.

As the months went on and the summer progressed, I began to feel like myself again. I had landed two great jobs, was spending my weekends with my friends and had finally finished my exams. I was completely ready to take on second year as though nothing

had happened.

For months I tried my hardest to deny that my encephalitis experience had changed me in any way.

When I was discharged from the hospital, the doctors told me things would go back to normal, so how could anything be wrong?

Now I’m coming to realize, without a doubt, that my experience changed me in many ways.

I’ve grown a much stronger appreciation for my friends, who showed me more support and love than I could ever imagine.

I’ve also never been more thankful for my parents, who stayed by my side for days as they listened to my laughable attempts at forming coherent sentences and spent night after night sleeping in office chairs beside my bed.

There’s not a day that goes by where I don’t think about the nurses who made me feel safe and cared for, whether they were giving me my showers (it’s surprisingly not as awkward as you would think), delivering my beloved doses of Tramadol or chatting with me about my cats as they took my blood, they helped me a lot.

All of these people made me realize how lucky I am to have such a great support system and I’ve never taken them for granted since. Friends from home visited me daily bringing pizza, flowers, stuffed animals and, most importantly, their company.

Floormates and teammates from Queen’s sent edible arrangements, which was extremely kind.

Before my encephalitis I didn’t doubt this support system was there, but it was incredibly eye opening to see people rally around me during my time of need. This will stay with me forever.

With all of that being said, I still find myself struggling with the negative effects of my experience.

I now face difficulties with concentration and reading.

In addition to those frustrating setbacks, my anxiety is at an all-time high. Painful and unanticipated panic attacks have become a weekly norm, striking at the worst possible times. I now find myself asking “Why did I change?” and “Why am I struggling with these things?” I still don’t know the answer to these questions and that discourages me.

More doctors appointments need to be made and therapy sessions need to be booked.

I recognize and appreciate how lucky I am to have made the recovery I did, but I’m not completely okay and that’s okay.

We’re all subjected to the pressure to be fine all the time.

Not only is this unrealistic, but it’s also harmful. I’ve experienced firsthand how being at Queen’s can both lift you up and drag you down.

This school provides you with countless opportunities to achieve excellence, but simultaneously makes you feel inadequate if you haven’t quite gotten there yet. I’ve learned through my experience that it’s okay to take a step back, slow down and take care of yourself first.

I hope that by sharing my experience, others will feel a bit more at peace with the obstacles they’ve encountered, no matter how big or small. When it feels like your world is crashing down around you, don’t worry, it can be rebuilt. The process may be long and hard, but all progress is good progress and I assure you people will be there to help along the way.