The Queen's Journal, Issue 16

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Cycling

Town-gown

City bans smoking in parks

Bikes to get lanes City looks at adding downtown designated lanes

Bylaw passes in City Council 10-2

B y H olly Tousignant News Editor

B y Vincent M atak Assistant News Editor

The City of Kingston will discuss whether new designated cycling lanes should be implemented at a meeting Tuesday, with Queen’s campus at the heart of some of these proposed additions.

At City Council on Oct. 16, a motion to add designated cycling lanes to four Kingston roads was deferred to a Special City Council Meeting set to occur tonight.

Kingston already has designated lanes on streets including Bath Rd., Union St. and Centennial Dr., City engineer Dan Franco said, but creating new ones can pose a challenge.

“We have about 40-50 km worth See Kingston on page 4

Wintersleep headlined a show with Elliott BROOD last night at Ale House.

Buttery said B.C. Aboriginal communities, who will be heavily affected by the proposed pipeline, aren’t being fully consulted.

Protestors across the country have cited the lack of consultation as a problem with the project, and Canadian Imperial Bank of Canada vice-chairman Jim Prentice, a former minister in Stephen Harper’s cabinet, claimed in a Globe and Mail article that the pipelines could have negative

Changes to the smoking bylaw in Kingston has prohibited smoking in parks, playgrounds and select bus stops.

The City joins a growing list of Ontario cities, including Barrie and Toronto, to amend their smoking bylaw since 2010. A final draft of the amended bylaw was passed on Oct. 16 at City Council with 10-2 in favour of the amendments.

The new changes were first recommended by Dr. Ian Gemmill of Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox & Addington (KFL&A) Public Health to City Council in early March. A report was then provided by the City of Kingston’s Administrative Policies Committee on June 16.

The city held an online survey asking for public feedback, which received positive response to the amendments, according to City officials.

Gemmill said changes were proposed in order to deter young children in parks and in playgrounds from emulating adult smokers.

“When children are out playing and being physically active they see adults smoking, and they see their coach smoking,” he said. “What it does is that it sets the community standard now for not smoking where children are likely to be congregating.”

A smoke-free bylaw was first introduced in Kingston in 2002 and banned smoking in public buildings and within nine meters of

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Activism

Students protest against pipeline

Protestors gathered in front of the JDUC on Monday to oppose Northern Gateway project B y R achel H erscovici J ulia Vriend Journal Staff

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Last night around 80 protestors gathered in front of the JDUC to voice their opinions about the Northern Gateway Pipeline that’s

set to transport an estimated 525,000 barrels of oil from Alberta’s oil sands to B.C.’s West Coast per day.

Jessica Buttery, ArtSci ’14, started planning the hour-long protest on her own about two weeks ago after she became aware

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of the issue through one of her classes in environmental science.

Passing cars honked and their passengers cheered in support of the protestors, while students and local Kingstonians stood outside holding signs that said “Defend our democracy” and “Defend our coast.”

This was part of a nation-wide protest — one was also held at the B.C. legislature earlier in the day and saw thousands of people come out for the cause.

Student Life

AMS revisits fraternity ban

News

Dialogue

Islamic History Month from a local perspective.

Commissioner writes about mental health on campus.

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arts

postscript

An interview with Rural Alberta Advantage.

A look at the history and how-to of beer brewing.

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Online student feedback form, the first step in the review process B y A lison S houldice Features Editor The AMS is seeking legal consultation regarding the 78-year-old ban on its members becoming part of fraternities or sororities.

The public review process began last week in response to concerns about whether the ban reflects the wishes of students and whether it’s enforceable.

“A part of [the] process is seeking a definitive legal opinion on the clause in our constitution and how it intersects with different aspects of the society,” said AMS

Vice President of University Affairs, Mira Dineen.

In 1934, AMS members were banned from being a member of a fraternity or a sorority, regardless of its affiliation with Queen’s or

any other university because of concerns regarding how it would affect the school community.

The ban was written into the Society’s constitution, where it See Longstanding on page 3

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Religion

Raising awareness about Islam a joint effort Islamic History Month brings Kingstonians and Queen’s students together to educate community B y H olly Tousignant News Editor When Mohamed Bayoumi was planning this year’s Islamic History Month in Kingston, he once again turned to Queen’s students to make the events possible.

“I have a leg in the community and a leg at Queen’s, so it was very, very easy to get students involved,” said Bayoumi, professor emeritus and planning committee coordinator for the month. “You can’t really do it without students.

Students are, you can say, the backbone of what we are doing.”

The Queen’s University Muslim Students’ Association (QUMSA) provided many of the informational materials available to visitors at Sunday’s open house, held at the Islamic Centre of Kingston. A second open house was held on Monday for local elementary and high school students.

Displays at the open house included a 3D model of Al-Masjid al-Haram, the mosque that surrounds the Muslim holy place of Kaaba, which was created by fourth-year PhD students Mahmoud Quiqut and Abdallah Alma’Atiah. They stayed up all night last year to surprise the Centre with the model, and reconstructed it to display again this year.

Kingston has proclaimed October Islamic History Month since 2007, making them the first city in Ontario to do so.

Bayoumi said the purpose of the month is to “try to find some shared values between Muslims and non-Muslims.”

The Centre’s origins go back to 1982, when the growing Kingston Muslim community led to the registration of the Islamic Society of Kingston as an official non-profit organization.

Community members also noticed a need for a central place of worship and gathering.

“At the time, our activities were all over, at the [Queen’s University] International Centre, St. Lawrence College, public schools, homes,”

he said.

This led to a 16-year process which included buying land in 1987 with the money they had, and fundraising to design and build the centre which opened its doors in 1996 and was officially completed in 1998.

Since then, the centre has provided space for prayer, social events, lectures and inter-faith events for a number of Muslim and non-Muslim Kingstonians, including many members of the Queen’s community. Kingston is currently home to around 300 Muslim families, many of whom have ties to Queen’s, according to the Islamic Society of Kingston.

In 2010, the Centre hired Imam Sikander Hashmi.

In September, Hashmi wrote an opinion piece for the Kingston Whig-Standard on violence in Muslim countries and its separation from the Islamic belief system. In the piece, he mentioned a Kingston Muslim mother who was handed a comic strip mocking Muslims at her son’s hockey game earlier this year.

can’t really do “itYou without students.

Students are, you can say, the backbone of what we are doing.

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— Mohamed Bayoumi, Queen’s professor emeritus and Islamic History Month coordinator

Awareness of Islamic history and beliefs has a long way to go in the community, according to PhD student and QUMSA President Mustafa Mohamad.

“I think we definitely need to work harder. I don’t think everybody is aware or is understanding,” he said.

Mohamad said QUMSA has about 20 official members, with additional students showing up for the observation of the five daily prayers.

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Kingston’s Islamic Centre held an open house on Sunday, which was well attended by community members. Another open house on Monday was open to high school and elementary students.

Opportunities to learn more about Islam in Kingston aren’t exclusive to October; each Wednesday and Thursday, QUMSA leaves an informational booth in the JDUC beside the AMS offices, for anyone who is interested.

He said QUMSA promoted Islamic History Month events on campus in an attempt to encourage students to attend.

“It’s a way for Muslim students and the Muslim community in general to reach to other members

of the Kingston community through education,” he said. “One of the main goals is just to interact with others and let others know what we believe in and what our values are.”

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Men take on misogyny Graduate students create Men Who Like Feminism group at Queen’s B y R achel H escovici Assistant News Editor When Dan Vena came to do his Masters in Gender Studies at Queen’s last year, he was shocked by what he described as a hyper-masculine campus culture.

Vena approached one of his fellow classmates, Colin Hastings, also MA ’14, and together they created the idea for a new campus group, Men Who Like Feminism.

The group is currently in the process of applying for official club status. It hopes to create a conversation about masculinity and gender constructs for any member of the Queen’s community who

identify as masculine or wants to get involved.

Their first official meeting will be held tonight at 6 p.m. in Macintosh-Corry Hall B205.

Vena said the idea for the project started when he noticed an organization was putting up posters on campus that presented the term “reverse sexism,” something Vena doesn’t think exists. In another example, Vena said he was acting as a teaching assistant for a course on trans identities at Queen’s when he heard about students in another section who presented a project that was trans-phobic and offensive to members of the class.

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Masters students Colin Hasting and Dan Vena created Men Who Like Feminism in response to attitudes about gender on campus.

“They made an argument [I believe was] to the effect to that ‘transgendered men and women are never going to be real men and women,’” he said. “I recognized instantaneously that this campus is not super trans-friendly.”

He said the new group aims to be an open space for dialogue and critical thinking about these issues and bring the dialogue closer to students’ lives to make it more accessible.

“Queen’s has a very explicit history of men not investigating their own set of privileges and wanting to just backlash at whatever female campaign is out or what they assume to be just a female campaign,” Vena said.

He noted that in 1989 a “No Means No Campaign” was met with opposition from male students who hung signs with phrases like “no means yes,” “no means harder” and “no means more beer” outside their residence windows.

“The group is to be inclusive of any masculine identified person ... to come in and talk about masculinity with the acknowledgment that this conversation can’t happen without feminism,” Vena said.

Vena said the group will look to work in tangent with feminists groups that already exist on campus.

“We fully support [feminists groups] and our presence is in no way to co-opt their voice,” Vena said. “We’re not trying to stomp in front of them.”

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remains today.

The policy stipulates that “no member of the Society shall be an active member of any fraternity or sorority, that is, any organization composed of students and former students which has a secret oath, constitution or pledge or which has a sign of identification such as a pin or Greek letters, or which is affiliated with any organization outside of the University.”

An AMS member is any undergraduate, MBA or medical student who has paid their full slate of student fees.

The constitution also states that any violation of the rule will lead to prosecution by the AMS. Two-thirds of the universities recognized by the Association of Universities and Colleges in Canada don’t have a university-affiliated fraternity or sorority.

While Queen’s is one of these universities, some Queen’s students do belong to fraternities.

Currently there’s at least one fraternity in the city that operates as Kingston-affiliated.

This organization has active members considered a part of the AMS student body.

This discrepancy in policy has raised concerns regarding the enforceability of the ban and whether it reflects the wishes of the student population.

“The concerns have been raised at different points,” Dineen, ArtSci ’12, said. “Questions have been raised as to whether the ban is enforceable and whether it reflects the current student body’s wishes. So we are really looking forward to the opportunity to talk to students about this and find out what students think.”

The AMS is currently in a consultative phase in its review.

Although there has been legal consultation regarding the ban, Dineen said she’s unable to speak about it until a “definitive legal opinion” has been reached.

Last Thursday, the AMS executive announced they were starting a process to receive student feedback regarding the ban.

Dineen said concerns about the policy were looked into in 2010

by AMS executive team CHR, who were conducting research regarding the ban. The first step in the process is a feedback form located on the AMS’s website.

So far, 105 forms have been submitted using the form on the AMS blog. The Society has also received 50 separate emails on the issue.

The AMS plans to expand dialogue through other forums, which could include town hall meetings and more intensive surveys.

Dineen, along with other AMS staff, will take the feedback received from students, compile it into a report and present it to AMS Assembly. According to Dineen,

this is unlikely to happen before next semester.

The one known active fraternity with AMS members is Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi).

In 2010, the existence of AEPi was brought to the attention of the AMS executive.

The fraternity isn’t affiliated with Queen’s and accepts members who aren’t from the University.

Questions have been “raised as to whether the ban is enforceable and whether it reflects the current student body’s wishes.

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— Mira Dineen, AMS vice president of university affairs “At the time, it was an agreement that as long as we stay off campus and essentially don’t do anything that would be considered stupid to both our international fraternity and the school, then we would be essentially left alone,” Dylan Glancy, AEPi president, said.

Since then, AEPi hasn’t had any contact with the AMS or the University administration about the status of their fraternity.

Glancy said the fraternity is more than happy to remain a Kingston group and stay unaffiliated with Queen’s or the AMS. “We see no reason to open up the debate again.”

AEPi is a culturally Jewish fraternity but will admit non-Jewish students who agree to espouse the values of the culture.

Glancy said AEPi tries to shed the image of the typical fraternity portrayed in movies, such as 1978’s Animal House.

“We make the distinction between frat and fraternity men,”

he said.

This is shown through the community work and philanthrophy that the group does, he said. Members are involved in fundraising on local, national and international levels.

The fraternity bans any form of hazing.

In 1934, when the ban at Queen’s was first constituted, there were concerns that fraternities weren’t conducive to the Queen’s spirit and traditions. Although there were several fraternities affiliated with the University, Queen’s never had any sororities.

“My well-considered fear is that fraternities on the campus would tend to set up a caste system that in the long run would injure the democratic tradition of Queen’s,” wrote J. Alex Edmison, Arts ’26 in the Alumni Review at the time.

The summer after the ban was instated, a group of medical students created a chapter of Nu Sigma Nu, an international fraternity, in the hopes theirs would be overlooked.

But the AMS didn’t overlook its existence, and in October of 1934, a group of 24 students were prosecuted by the AMS Court (now known as the Judicial Committee) for going against the constitution.

A public trial took place on campus with over 800 students in attendance. The students were found guilty, meaning they were unable to participate in athletic or social events on campus. Of the 24, four were star football players who were barred from playing due to the decisions. After the football season was over, the suspension was overturned.

The house never got fully shut down, though. The medical group is still around today, albeit in quite different form. It’s no longer a fraternity, but a non-University

The house at 116 Bagot St. was the Medical House until the 1940s.

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affiliated residence on King Street for 13 medical students called Meds House.

Other than parties it throws for medical students, the house doesn’t host any public events or fundraisers.

House President, Dylan Hoare said his experience has allowed for a smoother integration into the medical school community.

“You have 12 immediate friends in medical school,” Hoare, Meds ’15, said. “It’s nice to complain together about the course load [and] you can help each other get assignments done.”

Incoming residents are still told stories from its past, Hoare said.

Outside of this history, the AMS’s recent review of the fraternity ban has garnered a mixed response.

Based on her personal experience, Sarah Robert, ArtSci ’14, is opposed to bringing fraternities and sororities to campus.

She’s currently on exchange at the State University of New York (SUNY) in Plattsburgh, NY. Robert has noticed that a large part of the culture at SUNY is based on fraternities and sororities.

“I find the atmosphere is very different,” she said. “It’s not worse per se, it’s just a very different culture at the school.”

Robert believes introducing fraternities and sororities at Queen’s would change the atmosphere in the Ghetto with rowdier parties.

In addition, the neighbourhood would be full of frat houses.

“I think there would be more town-gown relationship problems,” she said.

At SUNY Plattsburgh, most student extracurricular activities are centered on fraternities and sororities.

“I just think a lot of clubs would disappear because people’s time would become devoted to frats and sororities because they have less time,” she said.

For some, like Brigitte Taylor, being a part of a sorority encouraged involvement on campus.

The fourth-year student at Wilfrid Laurier Univeristy joined the Alpha Phi sorority at Laurier when she was in second year.

Currently, there are three fraternities and three sororities at Laurier.

“We’re given skills through the sororities to start our own clubs,” she said. “We’re encouraged to be leaders. Many of us have taken leadership positions at school.”

One of the sorority’s values is to encourage its members to get involved in the overall community of the school. Most members, she said, have social circles outside the sorority.

“I think every school should have the opportunity to be a part of it.”

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of designated cycling lanes … and we’re looking forward to expanding our network in the next two years by at least another 40 km,” he said.

The challenge comes, he said, in making the older parts of the city more bike-friendly.

Drivers, walkers and cyclists all have to share spaces that also must accommodate room for patios and storefronts. “[There’s] a lot of competing interest there,” he said. “In the [downtown] core, we are trying to promote [and] educate that we all have to get along and we have to share the road.”

On Johnson and Brock Streets, ‘sharrows’ — painted arrows denoting a lane meant to be shared between cars and cyclists — caused confusion among residents, Franco said.

“We got a lot of feedback that was mixed.

Some people want to get rid of the parked cars and [add] more cycling lanes, working closely with the transportation folks to relocate parking,” he said.

The continuation of the Williamsville sharrows was lost on a tie vote at Oct. 16’s City Council meeting.

The proposed new lanes would be added to Union St. between King St. West and Sir John A. Macdonald Blvd., Montreal St. between Rideau and Ordnance Streets, Days Rd. between Front and Castell Roads and Bayridge Dr. between Front Rd. and Coverdale Dr. The motion also asks for on-street parking to be removed to accommodate designated cycling lanes on stretches of Union, Montreal and Division Streets.

Cycling lanes on Johnson and Brock Streets from Sir John A. Macdonald Blvd. to Division St. have also been proposed through the motion on the condition that on-street

parking in that area is removed.

Franco said cycling lane-related projects through to 2014 have already been planned for Kingston and approved by the City.

“In 2011, engineers received approval for a four-year capital multi-year plan,” he said.

The projects include a recreational cycling loop in the City’s north end on Montreal St. He said costs for bike lane additions can vary widely, because they depend on the structure of the existing streets and wasn’t able to offer a price range for the projects.

Because of the costs, reconstruction on older streets is usually planned to coincide with existing construction projects, Franco said.

“You can say that cycling lanes are, on average, the same cost as a new sidewalk,” Franco said.

As someone who has both driven and bicycled in Kingston, student Lianna Grice said she likes the idea of relocating parking on streets like Brock and Johnson to accommodate cycling lanes.

With the current shared lanes, she said,

cars “don’t have to move over for you and there isn’t really anywhere for them to go, especially in high traffic.”

She said between the shared space and obstructions like potholes, she’s had a few close calls on her bicycle.

“There’s so many potholes in Kingston that if you’re downtown you really have to be careful about where you’re riding, because you don’t know what you might run into,” Grice, PheKin ’14, said.

“A lot of drivers in Kingston are not happy about cyclists, not willing to give you space on the road to ride your bike.”

Grice said people on bicycles trying to be both cyclist and pedestrian at the same time are also part of the problem. Until infrastructure changes come, she advocates a simple approach to avoiding close calls.

“Being a cyclist and a driver, I think one of the biggest ways people could get along ... would be to just follow the rules,” she said. “It makes things so much easier.”

— With files from Vincent Matak

Bylaw applies to parks, playgrounds, bus stops Continued from page 1

Johnson and Brock Streets are among those that could get designated cycling lanes, unlike the shared car and bicycle lanes that are there now.

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building entranceways.

Though there’s a maximum penalty of $5,000 for infringing on the bylaw — the same fine as before — the intentions behind the changes weren’t meant to be punitive, Gemmill said.

“It’s really intended to be a way of indicating to the community that smoking in public places is not okay,” he said. “That’s shown through our public consultations with City health and everyone who came out spoke in favour of it.”

He added that signs will be put up in public parks and bus transfers to inform people of the change. The City is also working on public education initiatives with KFL&A Public Health.

“We’re still debating about the most effective way to do it,” he said. “We might do it in the form of advertisements, flyers or online information.”

Anne Dunsford, ArtSci ’14, said although

she understands the rationale behind the bylaw change, she thinks the restrictions won’t help to deter kids from smoking.

“The Internet is just as much or more a public space as a park,” she said. “If I uploaded a video of myself smoking on YouTube, kids would be more exposed to that than me smoking in a park.”

“If you were to stretch the bill further, you’d have to ban Humphrey Bogard movies because there’s already a pop culture surrounding smoking.”

Dunsford, who’s been smoking since she was 14, said the bylaw won’t affect how she feels about smoking.

“I’m as educated about the dangers of smoking as any other person. Of course I feel guilty about it already,” she said. “I seriously doubt that my profound, deep love of parks is going to stop me.”

— With files from Rosie Hales

News in brief Sexier Campuses Campaign comes to Queen’s Last week marked the first annual Sexual Violence on Campus Awareness week at Queen’s, hosted by campus group Sexy Queen’s U. Sexy Queen’s U is the Queen’s chapter of the Sexier Campuses Campaign, and is also known as the Sexual Violence on Campus Awareness Committee — the first of its kind at Queen’s.

The Sexier Campuses Campaign was founded at Queen’s by Jessica Weiss Sinclair, ArtSci ’13.

The campaign is directed at students on campus to combat sexual violence, rape culture and the negative connotation surrounding victims of sexual violence as well as defining terms like sexual violence, harassment and consent, Weiss Sinclair said.

“We’re very much going with the ‘consent is sexy’ theme.”

The campaign will provide resources and forums for discussion, education and peer-to-peer support.

The awareness week featured posters and flyers to bring people’s attention to the new campaign on campus concluding with an all-ages event at the Mansion to help raise

money to fund future initiatives.

The organization is also looking to have many workshops throughout the year, including a residence program which will involve communication with residence dons and floor talks to educate first-year students about what consent means.

— Rachel Herscovici

Queen’s gets gold in workplace wellness Queen’s was recently the recipient of the Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington (KFL&A) Public Health gold award for workplace wellness.

The honour is designed to recognize the University’s dedication to the health and wellness of staff at the University. To this end, Queen’s Athletics and Recreation offers lunchtime fitness programs and a walking club, as well as “Lunch and Learn” educational sessions.

KFL&A noted the University’s sun safety initiative, as well as the Athletics and Recreation programs offered.

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repercussions for First Nations relations in the province.

“The federal government hasn’t been fulfilling their consultation responsibilities with those groups so there [are] … so many voices being ignored,” Buttery said.

There are also environmental concerns over the projects; Buttery said, noting that tar sands oil produces 20 per cent more greenhouse gases than other energy sources because of the process used to extract it from the sands.

“People don’t think we can have a solid economic system without degrading the environment but we can totally have both,” she said.

Enbridge, the company behind the pipeline, claims that the new project will create approximately 3,000 construction jobs at the peak of construction.

Buttery said she disagrees with this sentiment.

“This pipeline in particular is going to the coast so that they can ship the oil to be refined by other companies, so this project is largely benefiting other countries and foreign oil industries and Canada is stuck with the

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mess,” she said.

Buttery said her and other volunteers collected letters and videos to send to Christy Clark, premiere of B.C. Although most protested alongside Buttery, some attended in support of the pipeline.

“I believe that the Northern Gateway Pipeline, or pipelines in general, are important to ensure that Canada can develop its economy and protect our self from an increasing weak economy,” Kevin Weiner, JD ’15, said. “The pipeline was necessary and safe to ensure we can develop our oil sands.”

Attendee Robert Kiley, president and CEO of the Kingston Green Party, offered a middle ground idea for the pipeline plans.

Kiley supported the idea to eliminate the pipeline that is looking to run out west, but proposed that a pipeline could run east to be refined with Canadian companies.

“We can become energy secure in the long run,” he said. “Keeping oil in the country, by finding energy security we can chose to reduce emissions, and if we can have control of that we are ready to make the transition [to greener energy sources].”

Students protested the Northern Gateway pipeline outside the JDUC yesterday.

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EDITORIALS — THE JOURNAL’S PERSPECTIVE

Every Canadian should understand and respect their country’s history.

EDUCATION

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But, there are also many he history of Canada, with all its facets and things to be ashamed of. The complexities, should become country’s history with residential a mandatory part of every high schools for Aboriginal peoples and internment camps for school student’s curriculum.

In a recent visit to a west coast Japanese migrants shouldn’t high school, Heritage Minister be forgotten.

The Canadian identity and James Moore took a positive step towards encouraging all Canadians history is also not fixed — after to better understand and respect all, Canada’s often noted for the the country’s history. In a talk given cultural mosaic its people form. to students and faculty, Moore While our history is closely tied with argued that Canadian history Britain and France, the identities classes should be a requirement of the countless immigrants from for every Canadian high other countries shouldn’t be overlooked. These aspects should school student.

Currently, only four provinces be taught to ensure the most require a Canadian history balanced perspective is offered course to receive a high school to students.

The provinces where this diploma — Nova Scotia, Ontario, course isn’t mandatory took an Quebec and Manitoba.

The numbers are surprising. important part in the formation History’s an important part of any of this history. There’s no reason, country’s identity and should be then, that students living there known by all of its citizens. After all, shouldn’t be learning about their if the students attending Canadian country’s history.

These classes should also aim high schools are supposed to be the future of the country, how can to engage students in a dynamic they expect to steer it in the right fashion — they shouldn’t just learn direction without understanding history from a textbook. Interactive lesson plans and real-life stories its past?

The country’s history is should be incorporated into the inevitably complex, leaving curriculum to help students absorb administrators with the challenge the material.

Every Canadian should of deciding what should be taught understand and respect their in this curriculum.

Canada has much to be proud country’s history. In instituting a of; victories during the War of 1812 mandatory Canadian history class, and the Great Wars have shaped the government will be one step our country today and should be closer to achieving this goal. remembered and respected by all — Journal Editorial Board Canadian citizens.

traditions of the University during Orientation Week.

Having arrived at Queen’s as a frosh, I was bombarded with Queen’s paraphernalia and up-beat cheers — all methods of welcoming a new class to the University.

Orientation Week can be a great resource, helping students transition into the University.

But many of these events don’t create much space for students to think critically about Queen’s. They also don’t give students a chance to think about what they want from their own university experience.

Although all Orientation

Week events are optional, telling me how to act or feel. I there’s an underlying culture of came to Queen’s to develop my conformity — something own voice — not have it drowned problematic, especially when out by others. new students are insecure in an University should be a place of unfamiliar place. social and intellectual growth. It While steps have been made to shouldn’t be about slapping on make the week more welcoming in a happy face around your peers recent years, more efforts could be while screaming in Gaelic.

Students need time to find made to foster a space for critical their footing within the University. reflection during the week.

Asking, “frosh, how do They need the freedom to you feel?” and having students critically analyze it as a social respond, “I feel so good, oh, I feel community. The school should so good, oh!” doesn’t change the take further steps to allow for this fact that they might feel isolated focus to be integrated into future orientation weeks. or vulnerable.

I didn’t enjoy most of my frosh events because I felt uncomfortable Vincent is one of the Assistant News with the idea of random people Editors at the Journal.

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rivacy on the Internet as long as a search warrant is issued.

By monitoring the usage of should be a priority, even in every single worker constantly the workplace.

With a recent ruling made by however, employers set a the Supreme Court of Canada, destructive standard of mistrust, the importance of respecting where every employee is suspected all employees’ privacy is now of questionable Internet activities.

Staff should be using the entrenched into Canadian law.

Today, it’s easier to track Internet mostly for work-related any individual’s activity online. purposes while on the clock.

But there’s a significant grey When linked to a given network, employers and even other area as to whether certain types employees can have access to their of Internet usage are public or coworkers’ browsing history and private. Social media and search engines can often be used for personal information.

Personal email accounts, professional purposes, not just for Facebook messages and tweets procrastinating. This can result in it should remain personal. being hard to distinguish between Establishing a monitoring system work and play.

While the ruling is a positive could automatically allow employers to fish through these activities without any concern for the employee’s privacy.

This is unfair and disrespectful — something the Supreme Court has rightfully taken note of.

While certain information, such as login details for bank accounts, remains private regardless, it’s INCENT ATAK unfair for employers to have the ability to track these sorts of activities while they remain unmonitored.

There are certain concerns that are raised when computer usage at work isn’t monitored — ones that the Supreme Court addressed in ueen’s has a celebrated school their ruling. spirit, but few take time to With serious abuses, such as child think about its implications. pornography, the Internet use of a Every year, newly admitted given worker can be investigated, students are thrust into the

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Mental Health

Supporting the marginalized Writer examines the Queen’s discussion paper on mental health and lack of concrete steps to build an inclusive community

Katie Conway, ArtSci ’13 In September of 2011, Principal Daniel Woolf established the Principal’s Commission on Mental Health and tasked it to create a discussion paper of recommendations addressing mental health issues at Queen’s.

The Commission should be commended for its approach to mental health but it lacks actionable items regarding social identity and exclusion.

The draft report of the Commission, Towards a Mental Health Strategy for Queen’s, is as broad and far-reaching as the complex issue it seeks to address.

When addressing mental health, it’s not enough to solely consider mental health services without examining the environmental factors which are causing more

and more students to require said services.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), mental health is “a state of well-being in which an individual realizes his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and is able to make a contribution to his or her community.”

University students are in a precarious position when it comes to mental health as we’re facing situations which compromise our ability to cope with everyday stressors. During university life, students are faced with multiple transitions. From doing your own laundry to managing your own bills and academics, students face a transition ‘shock.’

In the context of Queen’s, the majority of us have left our social support systems of family and high school friends in our hometown, leaving us to build a new support system in an entirely new environment while dealing with persistent lifestyle and work pressures.

Principal Daniel Woolf established the Principal’s Commission on Mental Health last year and their discussion paper was released this June.

These are all factors which the discussion paper understands thoroughly. The paper’s strength is in its academic suggestions, such as improving on academic support services, implementing a universal accommodations policy for tests and exams and implementing staff mental health training.

The Commission is particularly dedicated to supporting transitional periods for undergraduate students by providing additional programming.

Though it does recommend concrete and implementable solutions in the realms of academics and transitions, the paper falls short in providing clear initiatives which address social exclusion based on identity which contribute to mental

Letters to the editor Assisting professors Re: “Policy in the works for undergrad TAs” Dear Editors, The absence of a “distinctive policy” governing undergraduate Teaching Assistants (TAs) is worrying, but should come as no surprise. This is symptomatic of the same conditions that led graduate TAs to vote for unionization in 2009.

On the rare but inevitable occasion that undergrad TAs have issues regarding hiring, compensation, and training, they can’t refer to a legally-binding

collective agreement that provides base workplace standards that undergrad TAs can expect and depend upon. Nor, it seems, can they consult an up-to-date undergrad TA policy.

These concerns would have already been addressed if undergraduate TAs had their own democratic organization, such as a union or association, capable of advocating on their behalf.

Such an organization would have a greater opportunity to shape how undergrad TA policies are developed and implemented.

It is unclear whether or not undergraduate TAs have been consulted in the new policy that Provost and

Vice-Principal (Academic) Alan Harrison claims is being drafted.

In the meantime, undergraduate TAs are welcome to contact or visit the PSAC 901 office about any questions or concerns they have.

Just because undergraduate TAs are not unionized, it does not mean that PSAC 901 isn’t willing to help out where we can. We are, after all, the Queen’s experts on Teaching Assistant working conditions.

Doug Nesbitt President, PSAC 901 Queen’s University Teaching Assistants, Teaching Fellows, and Post-Doctoral Fellows

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health problems.

The WHO has identified gender discrimination, human rights violations and social exclusion to be factors associated with poor mental health. Marginalized students face particular challenges on campus. It can be incredibly difficult to build a support system when your community is fraught with ideologies and actions which deny your dignity and value as a person (such as sexism, racism, homophobia, etc).

The commission should be commended for its approach to mental health, but it lacks actionable items regarding social identity and exclusion.

It can be challenging to trust your peers enough to confide in them when they’ve shown derision to your religion, your ethnicity, your race or any other fundamental aspect of your identity. Monthly, weekly and even daily encounters with oppression and prejudice result in a persistent message across campus: “you’re different, you’re the other, you don’t belong here.”

Many students who drop by the Social Issues Commission (SIC) have expressed feeling isolated and alienated from the Queen’s community due to persistent experiences with oppressive behaviour in our community. Too often, our discussion on mental health lacks an understanding of the importance of anti-oppression and equity in developing a healthy

environment for mental health.

While the Principal’s Commission does recognize the importance of a “safe, welcoming and inclusive environment,” it doesn’t offer any concrete actions for the Queen’s community beyond increasing intercultural awareness training for staff and faculty.

Many programs which are targeted at creating a safe space on campus already exist — like the Positive Space program which has been in place since 1999 to establish safe spaces for queer students. Many offices and student groups at Queen’s participate in anti-oppression workshops dedicated to combating prejudice in our university community.

Many groups on campus also exist to create communities for marginalized individuals on campus — for example, the Education on Queer Issues Project.

Moving forward with the discussion paper, the University needs to consider how to support already existing initiatives and offices on campus, such as the Human Rights Office and the Equity Office, which are dedicated to creating a safe space on campus.

Mental health strategies can’t be complete without a demonstrated understanding of the importance of anti-oppression in creating an inclusive community. This understanding aids university students in adapting to a new environment and coping with stressors.

Katie Conway is the Social Issues Commissioner in the AMS.

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Two of the paintings in Anna Elmberg Wright’s Consensus Series deal with society’s voyeurism using TLC’s hit TV show Here Comes Honey Boo Boo as an example.

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Circling the crosshairs of entertainment Queen’s BFA grad’s exhibit uses oil paintings to convey messages regarding reality television B y C arling S pinney Copy Editor Anna Elmberg Wright’s new exhibit Consensus Series is, in a word, lacklustre.

I had done a little reading on Wright, BFA ’08, beforehand and was fully prepared to be captivated and intrigued by her work.

Unfortunately, all I was left with was a sunken feeling of disappointment.

The exhibit consists of 11 large

oil canvas paintings, all of which pictured a circle with a cross inside.

The pieces differed from one another in colour inside the cross — varying from hues of green, red, blue, orange, yellow and purple.

The nine paintings are titled numerically ranging from Consensus 1.1 to Consensus 1.9.

The two others that follow were the odd ones out, the artist opting to name them Honey Boo Boo is U 2 and U 2 is Honey Boo

Boo, respectively.

After reading Wright’s artist statement, I saw how the circles in the Consensus 1.1-9 paintings symbolized the “consensus” aspect to her work — the “oneness with all.”

Wright’s inherent beliefs on “secular surveillance values” showed in her work, the concept of video cameras or computers watching us seemed plausible.

But it was when she tried to link “self-help paradigms,” medicine

Interview

Long road from Alberta Rural Alberta Advantage take their show from Coachella to SXSW

Rural Alberta Advantage keyboardist Amy Cole says if bands don’t fight over music, they don’t care enough.

B y S avoula S tylianou Arts Editor One-third of Rural Alberta Advantage can get you out of jail.

Keyboardist Amy Cole said being rock stars isn’t Rural Alberta Advantage’s main pursuit — they all have day jobs.

Drummer Paul Banwatt is a lawyer, while guitarist and vocalist Nils Edenloff is a software engineer and Cole is an animation TV writer.

She said sometimes leading double lives comes the band’s everyday lives to clash with their musical pursuits.

“Paul passed the bar this summer and it was a big deal because he’s been in law school for nine years, the whole time I’ve known him, because he always takes breaks because of touring,” she said. “He got engaged this summer too!

Sorry, ladies.”

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fall with Dan Mangan and Cole said they’re looking forward to being on the road again, fully equipped with a van they got from friends in the band, The Wooden Sky. “They needed a bigger van. So it’s our first big tour with the new, old van.”

Cole said the band has no intentions of marking the van with the band name on it, for safety reasons.

wheels and social networking to the series that I was astounded. I was left with the feeling that Wright was grasping at straws with her painting series.

Her attempts to connect far too many concepts to her work results in the overall meaning of the works becoming jumbled.

The end result was a show that fell short of its original potential.

While I appreciated Wright’s homage to TLC’s Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and its allusion to present-day voyeurism, it seemed oddly specific.

The artist appears to be pointing to the fact that by watching and celebrating Honey Boo Boo, we are part of the majority of society as indicated by the “U 2” in the paintings’ titles.

I agree with Wright in her thinking that society will watch anything so long as it’s entertaining; however, it seems arbitrary that Consensus 1.10 and Consensus 1.11 were taken aside from the rest of the series when they didn’t have any distinguishing qualities.

There were some redeeming qualities to the exhibit though.

The sculptural components to her work, concaved and uneven canvases beneath her oil paints, added intrigue to what was otherwise a geometrically repetitive show.

Her use of complementary colours in the painting keeps the viewer stimulated and by moving the location of the circle and cross around the canvas in each painting, she keeps the viewer’s interest piqued.

Despite Wright’s attempts to make connections with everyday life through concepts of “social networks” and contemporary pop culture references, her exhibit didn’t quite resonate with me — the ideas behind the artwork were better than the actual pieces themselves.

I may have misinterpreted, but it was clear that I wasn’t a part of the “consensus.”

“If you advertise on your van that there’s a band in there, then your gear gets stolen immediately.

We’re lucky enough to not have had stuff stolen, but it’s a big problem when you’re touring,” she said.

Mangan and Rural Alberta Advantage will be playing at Sydenham United Church tomorrow night, a venue Cole said the band really enjoys due to the balance churches bring.

“It’s not a theatre show where the audience is in padded seats just staring at you and it’s not a rock show where people are jumping up and down screaming,” she said.

“We played a church show in Austin, Texas for South by Southwest and the next day Pitchfork reviewed our show,” she said. “We got signed a few days after because of that church gig.”

Since then, the Toronto trio has gotten to play with City and Colour for the 2010 Olympics and even took the stage at the

Coachella music festival in 2011.

Cole said many have a tough time categorizing the band.

“We were once called ‘spazz rockers’ and we thought it was hilarious. I like to leave it up to the listener, but we once heard ‘percussive folk’ and I guess that’s the closest thing that makes sense,” she said.

Cole said she and her band mates Paul and Nils fight “a ton” before they make it to the studio to record.

“If you’re not fighting super hard for the songs, then you’re not passionate about the music and it’s probably not that good.”

“We like to try to work off the songs from tour when we play so by the time we get in the studio, we know the song and the parts we’re happy with and there’s no huge fights.”

Anna Elmberg Wright’s show is on exhibit in the Wilson Room of the Kingston Frontenac Public Library central branch until Oct. 31.

Rural Alberta Advantage plays Sydenham United Church tomorrow night at 8 p.m.

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Cue the orchestra

Dan Mangan says he gets inspiration from real-world events B y E d D unsworth Contributor

Folk rocker Dan Mangan says he and his band have played close to 200 shows together in the past year.

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Shotgun sound Toronto quartet The Wooden Sky hit the Grad Club tonight B y M ark L ouie Assistant Arts Editor The last thing a rock band wants is to sound like a soundtrack to a Disney film.

The Wooden Sky frontman Gavin Gardiner said when the band goes into the studio to record, they play the music first and think about it later.

“Sometimes you think, ‘Hey, this feels a little too Walt Disney-ey with all those overdubs,’ so you take it back a bit and work on it more,” he said.

Lead singer and guitarist Gardiner is on tour with his band and their latest album Every Child a Daughter, Every Moon a Sun. The band recently played a show in Toronto and next up, they’ll be heading to a farm in Quebec to record their upcoming album.

“The beauty and intensity I

suppose is that you can [record] anywhere and it’s not dependent on the space. It just needs to be completely professional and isolated — it’s really liberating to be able to create anywhere.”

That kind of impromptu decision making doesn’t always work out for the best though, Gardiner said.

“It can be a little dangerous because you can end up recording a lot of different parts. We took a bit of a shotgun approach, recording different stuff and putting it together.”

Gardiner first got started with music after he wrote songs for his writing program at Ryerson University in 2007.

“I got started playing guitar, but really I fell in love with early rock and roll when I was really young … it all seemed very romantic,” he said.

He’s not sure if all that rock

Dan Mangan’s goal in life is to get as many goosebumps as possible.

To that end, it’s a good thing he’s a Juno-award winning musician who’s privy to this kind of feeling on a nightly basis, playing to crowds of thousands regularly.

“That’s one way of doing it,” he said.

The Vancouver folk rocker is having a good year. His album Oh Fortune picked up three Western Canadian Music Awards and two Junos, snatching the ‘alternative album of the year.’

Mangan and his band have been touring city-to-city and, in the short span of a year, have been through three continents.

“This last year’s been great and touring’s been good — we’ve done close to 200 shows, which was crazy,” he said.

After five years of non-stop writing, recording and touring, it would only be natural for him to take a break.

But he’s insistent on

pushing himself.

“It’s less about ‘well, these people paid to come here, so they deserve a good show’ so much as it is ‘holy shit, look at all these people who came to our show — wouldn’t it be a horrible waste of everybody’s time to not do everything we can to make it great?’”

With Oh Fortune, Mangan has produced an album of beautifully dark lyrics and yearning vocals, like with his opening track “About As Helpful As You Can Get Without Being Any Help At All.” Musically, Mangan has entered a brave new world, bridging out from a more conventional folk rock sound and adding in orchestral arrangements — thumping percussion and rich, overlapping layers of electric guitar.

The inspiration for this darker album is based on real-world events, Mangan said.

“I spend a lot of time reading articles, wandering around the Internet and flipping through papers,” he said. “There are times when I think, ‘Man, we’re fucked,’ and there are other times when

The Wooden Sky plays the Grad Club tonight at 9 p.m.

The Wooden Sky frontman Gavin Gardiner first got started writing music when he was studying at Ryerson University in Toronto.

‘Drunk times are always the best’ Vancouver female duo The Pack A.D. are currently on a cross-country tour with Topanga

Becky Black perused the aisles of Value Village in Charlottetown as she told me how she came to name her band.

The singer and guitarist of garage rock band The Pack A.D. remembered a strange fight with a college frat.

“We wanted to have a simple name, so Maya [Miller] suggested we call ourselves ‘the pack’ because the definition of a pack is two or more,” Black said. “The reason we added the A.D. at the end was because there was a college frat in California that got us booted off

MySpace for taking their name.”

The female duo is currently on a cross-country tour with the boys from Toronto-based band

Dan Mangan plays Sydenham United Church tomorrow night at 8:30 p.m.

and roll has infiltrated the music he makes with his band currently.

“I don’t know if it’s a direct influence on my songwriting right now, but the great thing about being a musician and a music lover is that I can listen to all kinds of different new music and let it influence my style,” he said.

“I go through phases and just listen to a lot of, I don’t know, Tom Petty or someone else — there’s so much out there, you know?”

The Wooden Sky is known for their gruff vocals and unique brand of country folk sound, but Gardiner said describing the band’s sound depends on the terms.

“Personally, if we’re using words to describe it, I’d describe it with ‘colour.’ It sounds like synesthesia come to life.”

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I read a headline and think, ‘No, maybe we’re not.’”

Tomorrow night’s show will be Mangan’s third performance at Sydenham United Church but it’s his first time playing in the city with Toronto band Rural Alberta Advantage.

“I’ve known them for years — they’re all total sweethearts and really good, fun people. I’m looking forward to being able to hang with them every night.”

Mangan’s live performance, virtuously crafted, is one few can create.

“When you go see a show and it looks like the band is mailing it in, the audience can sense that, the band can sense that and everybody knows they don’t care,” he said.

“It’s not always easy to find a balance, but that’s the thing — if it was easy, it wouldn’t be as great when it works.”

Topanga and they’re planting roots in Kingston Thursday night.

Black said they’ll be playing a mix from their four studio

The Pack A.D. nearly stole their name from a college fraternity.

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albums and incorporating crowd favourites.

“My favourite part about playing songs is playing songs that people recognize,” she said. “At the same time, you go through a whole set and after every song the audience shouts ‘Sirens! Sirens!’ and it’s like ‘Come on, give the other songs a chance.’”

This happened at the band’s last gig at the Mansion.

“If we played every single song, it would be never-ending.

Not to mention I would probably collapse,” she said.

But one thing she’s never tired of is celebrating Halloween. Her costume choice for this year was

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a vampire. A scary vampire, not a sparkly one, she said.

She found the costume she was looking for in P.E.I., but Black said the touring allows her to experience new things in different cities.

“We get to eat in different places around the world. Like yesterday, we had a lobster dinner because we were in the Maritimes and that’s not something we would be able to do just sitting around at home.”

It doesn’t usually take lobsters to make her nights “memorable” though. Sometimes a few beers and her band mate do the trick.

“Drunk times are always the best. I don’t remember them, but I’m sure something did happen the night before because I always wake up the next morning and ask ‘Where am I?’” The Pack A.D. plays the Mansion on Thursday at 9 p.m.

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Running back Ryan Granberg rushed for 98 yards against Toronto, but was injured late in the game.

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Football

Milestone mishap

Saturday’s 36-27 win over Waterloo sent Queen’s to nationals for the second time in three years.

Granberg injured in final seconds of season-ending victory B y N ick Faris Assistant Sports Editor Queen’s final regular season win may have come with severe repercussions.

The Gaels topped the Toronto Varsity Blues 35-7 at home on Saturday, but saw running back Ryan Granberg go down on the second-last play of the game after suffering a vicious hit to the head.

He finished the game 34 rushing yards short of 1,000 on the season.

Head coach Pat Sheahan said the personal milestone motivated his decision to keep Granberg on the field late in the game.

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“It’s one of those things where there’s no second-guessing — we decided to do it [and] everyone was in agreement,” Sheahan said. “If he misses next week, then I’ll regret doing it.”

There was no immediate update on Granberg’s condition, but he could be the latest addition to an extensive Gaels injury list.

They faced Toronto without eight starters and reserve offensive lineman Nicholas Romanchuk, who sprained his ankle at practice on Wednesday night.

Rookie Erick Lessard made his first career start at left tackle in place of Romanchuk,

Home quarter-final match upcoming B y Peter R eimer Staff Writer The men’s soccer team closed out their 11-1-2 season with a dominant 4-1 win over the Trent Excalibur on Sunday.

Queen’s will now host an OUA quarter-final on Oct. 28 against the East Division’s lowest remaining seed.

First-year midfielder Andrew Martin opened the scoring against Trent in the 14th minute, finishing into an open net after Nathan Klemencic’s pass beat the outstretched goalkeeper.

Martin also added an assist in his inaugural start as a Gael.

Head coach Chris Gencarelli said Martin was phenomenal.

“He was really receptive to our feedback through the entire week to prepare himself for today. I’m very impressed with him,” he said.

Trent responded seven minutes

Women’s Rugby

On to nationals

alongside two other backups on the offensive line.

“The decision of who to start at left tackle was made Thursday, after one practice,” Sheahan said.

“We had a bit of concern with B y J osh B urton protection, [but] fortunately, it was Staff Writer not an issue.”

The Gaels have qualified for the CIS If [Granberg] misses Women’s Rugby Championship for the second time in team history. next week, then I’ll The sidelines erupted as the regret doing it. final whistle blew in Queen’s 36-27 semi-final victory over the Waterloo — Pat Sheahan, football Warriors. Although they remain head coach undefeated this season, Saturday’s The absence of certain starters game was by far the Gaels’ biggest didn’t hinder the Gaels against challenge so far.

Toronto. Quarterback Billy McPhee “We had a good first half completed 14 of 18 passes for 162 and a crappy second half,” said yards and two touchdowns, while head coach Beth Barz. “[Our Granberg added his 10th rushing play] was choppy. There were score of the season. some really, really great plays Receiver Chris Patrician and just some times where it just returned a punt 83 yards for a wasn’t happening.” touchdown in the fourth quarter.

The Gaels dominated play “I got some great blocks,” said early on. Third-year lock Bronwyn Patrician, the only player in the Corrigan scored two tries and after Martin’s tally with one of their CIS with multiple punt return three conversions in the first half, own, when Dylan Tobey capitalized touchdowns in 2012. “I had some leading Queen’s to a 31-5 lead at on a costly rebound, chipping Gaels guys running with me [down field]. the midway point.

Once I got in the end zone, it was backup goalkeeper Max Materne.

Gaels winger Sarah Pathak The game dynamic changed in See Home on page 17 scored a quick try minutes into the second half to extend the lead.

See Lobo on page 18 Waterloo then staged a semi-comeback, scoring 22 unanswered points before the Gaels shut them down defensively and burned the rest of the clock.

“We scored right at the start of the second half and I think [the girls] just thought they were going to score again quickly,” Barz said.

“When it didn’t happen, they had to reset and move into a different phase of our attack.”

“They didn’t want to be patient — they just wanted some points.”

With the win, Queen’s secured one of the OUA’s two berths to the CIS national championships, to be Photo By Ali Zahid held at St. Francis Xavier from Nov. The Gaels have held their opponents to one goal or less 2 to 4. in every regular season game.

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Gaels set for final meeting with Guelph

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They last qualified for the CIS championships in 2010, placing fifth in the country.

Captain Claragh Pegg believes her team has the mentality needed to succeed at the national level.

“In past years I think we’ve struggled a little bit with confidence,” she said. “This year’s different because I know that we know we deserve to be at nationals.

“We’re ready to show that we’re one of the top teams in Canada, not just Ontario.”

Lost in the excitement of the win is Saturday’s upcoming OUA title game against the undefeated Guelph Gryphons. The reigning CIS champions eliminated the Gaels in the 2011 OUA semi-finals and beat them in the final in 2010.

First-year centre Nadia Popov believes her team will be ready for the challenge. “[A title game] is really something that you can’t prepare for in one week,” she said. “It’s something we’ve all been preparing for all season long — and for the girls that were here last year, all off-season.”

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Women’s Soccer Critical tie with Ottawa to end regular season.

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Defending the crown OUA champions take the court with new leadership casts

MEN B y Peter M orrow Sports Editor From arbitration to community

Head coach Brenda Willis said it last March, and her opinion hasn’t wavered since: the goal for this year’s men’s volleyball program is simply to make the playoffs.

For a team lacking veteran players, an OUA title repeat is far-sighted. But making the post-season gives them a shot — something Willis has accomplished in 25 of her 26 years as head coach.

“Once you make playoffs, anything can happen,” Willis said.

“We’re still a very young group in terms of CIS experience.”

Fifth-year setter Jackson Dakin is the only returning starter. Filling the other roles is a work in progress.

“We’re settled in for the most part but we haven’t set roles definitively,” Willis said. “We’re deep in every position and it’s a really nice problem to have for a coach.”

Among the program’s graduated players are OUA player of the year and CIS All-Canadian Joren Zeeman, OUA libero of the year Niko Rukavina and fellow OUA All-Star Mike Amoroso.

Now, an increased workload is in store for several returnees, who contributed in bursts to last year’s success. Third-year libero Jacob Glantz returns with much-needed playoff experience. “[Glantz] saw minimal action last year, but critical action.”

Willis said. “We’ll be looking to him and Jackson for some on-court leadership.”

If the young and inexperienced Gaels are helped by anything else, it’s their height. Two middle hitters are 6’7, and first-year middle Will Hoey stands at 6’11.

“I think in a long match particularly, they don’t have to work as hard to play high as the smaller guys,” Willis said. “Size takes its toll on the smaller guys who have to get themselves up there on every single ball.”

With the departure of high-scoring hitters Zeeman and Amoroso, second-year Mike Tomlinson is among the players expected to chip in with kills.

Tomlinson led the Gaels with 14 kills, two blocks, two digs and three aces in their final pre-season game, a 3-0 sweep over the Montreal Carabins.

“You know you’ve got big shoes to fill with Joren Zeeman, and I don’t expect [Tomlinson] to be player of the year, but he’s been great so far,” Willis said.

While the starting roster remains unconfirmed, returning hitters Philippe Goyer and Stephen Holmes will likely play key roles.

“It was clear cut who our top six or seven were in the last couple years, and everyone else had a role to fill within that,” Willis said. “In some cases, their role was just to get better and get ready to take over down the road.”

For a couple of those guys, that time has come.”

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Nine players have departed from last year’s Gaels team, which finished fourth at the CIS championships.

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WOMEN B y N ick Faris Assistant Sports Editor Last season, the women’s volleyball team turned a rebuilding period into a conference championship.

This year’s team is striving to do the same.

The Gaels defied all expectations to claim last year’s OUA title, prevailing with a roster that featured 12 rookies. Their title defence will be incumbent on a new cast of leaders stepping up once again.

Libero Shannon Walsh and middle Katie Neville, both in their fourth season, will serve as team captains, while hitter Colleen Ogilvie returns for her fifth and final collegiate season.

Fourth-year setter Anna Pedjase was named to the tournament All-Star team at the preseason Queen’s Invitational, alongside second-year hitter

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Rookie left side Brett Hagarty leads the Gaels’ recruiting class in 2012-13.

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Queen’s leadership core will be tasked with replacing departed veterans Becky Billings and Natalie Gray — both of whom were named OUA All-Stars during the Gaels’ championship run.

Despite the loss of two decorated leaders, head coach Joely Christian-Macfarlane doesn’t expect her team to coast on their previous accomplishments.

“Last year’s team won a banner, so this year’s team needs to step up and hope that they can win a banner for themselves,” said Christian-Macfarlane, who’s entering her sixth season with the Gaels. “We need to get better with every match.”

The Gaels finished 6-7 overall in pre-season play, competing in exhibition tournaments at Ryerson, Winnipeg and Queen’s.

They squeezed out a five-set victory in their regular season opener on Saturday, squandering a 2-0 lead over the Lakehead Thunderwolves before securing the win in the final frame.

“I don’t think we played the [Lakehead] match with any real intensity,” Christian-Macfarlane said. “We had spurts of energy, but there was never a point where we controlled the match emotionally and physically.”

Queen’s top competition in 2012-13 will be the Ottawa Gee-Gees and the York Lions. The Gaels topped Ottawa 3-1 in last year’s OUA championship game, while York is looking to rebound after forfeiting last year’s quarterfinal for using an ineligible player.

The Gaels’ most critical stretch will come on Jan. 27 and Feb. 2, when they’ll face Ottawa and York consecutively.

Christian-Macfarlane doesn’t foresee the Gaels suffering from any form of championship hangover.

“Every team we play wants to prove something,” she said. “We’ve spent five years being the underdogs in the OUA, and suddenly, you’re a winner.”

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Difference makers Bench players step up, lead Gaels in home win B y a drian s mith Contributor The undermanned Gaels overpowered the Brock Badgers 55-10 on Saturday.

The victory pushes them to 6-1, second in the OUA behind Guelph (7-0).

Canadian national team players Liam Underwood and Jacob Rumball were missing in action, but Queen’s bench provided more than adequate alternatives.

Rookie fly half Adam McQueen stepped up again to fill Underwood’s spot with 15 points — one drop goal in the fourth minute followed by six conversion kicks.

Taking Rumball’s spot was third-year James Dent — another player who’s worked

his way up from the Gaels’ seven-team club system. “[Dent’s] a guy who’s put in hours on the field, in the gym, in the summer to get to where he is so he could have a game like that,” said fourth-year forward Matt Kelly.

“It’s great to see and I was really happy for him.”

Dent stepped into Rumball’s position at lock, playing through injury to earn a try in the 58th minute of play. “[Dent] was unreal under the high balls off the kick offs — he returned everything he got,” Kelly said. “He took a knock on his leg at the end of the game and still kept playing through it.”

Scrum half Brendan McGovern, flanker Tim Richardson, prop Dave Merrithew and

Queen’s will face Guelph on Oct. 26 to determine first place in the OUA.

centre Jeffery McDonald scored second half tries — each followed by conversions from McQueen.

Kelly said the team’s still not over-confident, with the playoffs yet to begin.

“We’re just going to keep putting in the same work, day in and day out. We’re going to keep getting better and better, and just build on this every day.”

Next Friday’s road game against Guelph will decide the Gaels’ playoff position. A win with four tries scored is ideal, but the

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Gryphons boast a win over the Western Mustangs in their record to date.

Head coach Peter Huigenbos said Guelph’s always been a tough opponent.

“They’re well coached and they have some Junior Canadian players,” he said.

Underwood and Rumball will return to the line-up this week, which puts Queen’s in a good position to end the season on a strong note.

— With files from Peter Morrow

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B y J ordan c athcart Staff Writer A draw felt like a win for the Gaels over the weekend.

Queen’s managed to keep pace with the nationally top-ranked Ottawa Gee-Gees on Friday night, tying 0-0.

The rematch came six weeks after Queen’s conceded a 3-0 loss to Ottawa at home.

The Gee-Gees have yet to lose, and this was only their second draw this season.

They outshot the Gaels 8-3, but Madison Tyrell stopped all eight shots to preserve the shutout.

Even without the three points, head coach Dave McDowell was pleased with his team’s performance.

“It was a battle, that’s for sure, and I thought we did really well,” he said.

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Back end boost Defence packs scoring punch in weekend wins B y S ean S utherland Contributor Queen’s overcame some scares at home to keep their early winning streak alive.

The Gaels beat the Brock Badgers 5-2 on Friday and pulled off a 5-4 victory over the Guelph Gryphons on Saturday. The two wins give Queen’s a 5-0-1 record and top spot in the OUA. The Gaels received production from a large number of players, including a defence that combined for five goals and three assists in the two games.

“We do have some pretty mobile defence, so they have the green light in the appropriate time to jump in,” head coach Matt Holmberg said. “We want our [defence] to get involved and make good plays.”

Queen’s got on the board early in the first period against Brock when centre Shawna Griffin scored 1:56 into the game. Defender Mary Coughlin doubled the lead with a shorthanded goal three minutes later.

Brock cut the lead to 2-1 with an early second-period goal, but the Gaels took control of the game afterwards. Forwards Chantal Morais, Courtenay Jacklin and Morgan McHaffie each scored, while goaltender Mel Dodd-Maher stopped 15 shots.

Coughlin and defender Katie Duncan each scored twice in Saturday’s win over Guelph, erasing a pair of early deficits.

Late in the second period, Queen’s netted three goals in under two minutes, with Coughlin and Duncan scoring on separate power plays. Morais scored 47 seconds after Duncan to extend the Gaels’ lead to 5-2.

Queen’s gave up two goals in the third period, but prevented the Gryphons from tying the game. Goaltender Karissa Savage

made 31 saves to claim the win.

Holmberg thought there was definite improvement between the two games.

“We weren’t on our game [against Brock], and I thought the team came back against a really strong opponent and played pretty well,” he said.

Coughlin was an unlikely offensive contributor with three goals over the two games — her first regular season markers for the Gaels.

“I’m glad to be contributing, especially in these past two games where they’ve been a little closer,” she said. “That’s a big step in the right direction for me.”

The Gaels will look to extend their winning streak on the road next weekend against the Laurier Golden Hawks and Waterloo Warriors.

The winner of Saturday’s game against the Golden Hawks will take sole possession of first place in the OUA.

Queen’s sits in first place in the OUA with a 5-0-1 record.

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Home against Hawks Continued from page 12

because of them.”

Toronto managed just three points on 18 offensive drives. They punted 12 times, conceded two safeties and committed three turnovers, including an interception by Gaels defensive back Christoph Smith.

Queen’s defence held the Blues to 165 total yards, sacking quarterback Simon Nassar three times.

“We have to get some stability on [offense] to compete with a program like Queen’s,” said Toronto head coach Greg Gary. “We’re a developing program and we performed like a developing program.”

With a third-place finish in the OUA, the Gaels will host the Laurier Golden Hawks on Oct. 27 in the conference quarter-final.

Laurier finished 3-5 this season, clinching the OUA’s final playoff seed despite losing 43-0 to McMaster on Saturday.

Queen’s defeated the Golden Hawks Photo by Alex Choi 42-16 in their regular season match-up Queen’s limited Toronto to on Sept. 8. three offensive points on Saturday.

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Lobo tallies another pair Continued from page 12

the 27th minute, when Excalibur defender Hamish McPherson was sent off with a straight red card for taking Klemencic down on a breakaway.

When Martin had an opportunity to put the Gaels ahead on a breakaway, his chip-shot beat the Trent goalkeeper but hit the crossbar.

After Joe Zupo’s header hit the post on a corner, David Tom eventually put the Gaels up 2-1, burying the rebound into the bottom-right corner.

Gencarelli commended Trent for their play in the first half.

“They were well prepared,” he said. “They didn’t have much to play for, but they came out really strong.”

The second half was all Queen’s, with Lucas Lobo scoring two left-footed goals into the topleft and bottom-right corners of the net.

“We had a much better second half,” Gencarelli said. “They were down to 10 men, but I was pleased we were able to capitalize on our scoring opportunities.”

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Queen’s capitalized on Sunday after Trent was reduced to 10 men.

With the final game of the regular season under their belts, the Gaels will face either Toronto, Nipissing or Laurentian in the quarter-final.

First round rest Continued from page 15

It’s been a common sentiment for the season — especially considering the team’s health.

“The number of injuries we have had are more than we have ever experienced here,” McDowell said. “I think they’ve done great.”

Although injuries have plagued the Gaels all season, captain Chantal McFetridge made her way back into the lineup for the first time in a month.

CIS tournament all-star Melissa Jung made her first appearance all year.

McFetridge was also pleased with the tie and believes the team’s success will continue.

“We know what it takes to make a deep playoff run. It will just be a matter of bringing it all together when the time comes,” McFetridge said. “We’re all very positive and excited for it to begin.”

The Gaels finished the weekend with a blowout 6-0 win over the Trent Excalibur on Sunday. This game may have been their best offensive performance of the year, as the Gaels outshot the Excalibur 33-5.

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No matter who they’re up against, Gencarelli said the team will be ready come Sunday.

“The guys know that it’s a new season starting Tuesday in training,” he said. “Ultimately, we’ve achieved our season goal [of securing a first-round bye], but our long-term goal is making sure we get to that final-four championship.”

“We’ve got to win that first home playoff game.”

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First-year striker Brittany Almeida continued to show her scoring prowess as she netted a hat-trick in the victory. Sabrina Carew and Rachel Burton split goalkeeping duties to earn the shutout.

The Gaels (11-2-3) enter the post-season as the second seed in the OUA East and earn a bye past the first round of the playoffs.

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postscript beer

Brewed basics Home brewers use age-old knowledge to produce their own custom beers B y J anina E nrile Postscript Editor Marc-André Blier could either be a crazy scientist, or just a guy who really likes beer.

Blier, ArtSci ’13, has been home brewing for just over a year. That is to say, he’s housed a seemingly complex setup of giant bottles and home brew kegs in his kitchen and basement for a while now.

From what I can see, it looks like the process is just a lot of measuring, mixing and waiting for the finished product. And with luck, it’ll turn into something tasty. “[You] throw everything into a [sealed] bucket and hope for the best,” he said.

The project began with a Groupon from Homecraft Brew & Wine on Princess St., Blier said.

“They have a starter kit,” he said. “They gave me the bucket, siphon [and] a bunch of bottles.”

In addition to these basics, all still used today, Blier uses what’s called an extract kit. They cost around $25 to $30 and include malt extract, liquid or dry yeast and hops, which are the seed cones from hop plants.

After the malt extract, hops and 20 L of water are mixed in a bucket, Blier sprinkles yeast from a freeze-dried packet on top. He brings the mixture to the basement, where it will be covered by a t-shirt.

This stops any sunlight exposure that could “skunk” the beer, or trigger chemical reactions that ruin the brew’s taste.

It takes Blier about three

weeks for the beer to ferment but, between himself and his friends, a 20 L, or 42 pint batch can be gone in less than a month.

“It depends on how fast people drink,” he said.

Thankfully for Blier, there’s no legal limit on home brewing as long as it’s only free distribution from a generous brewer in a private residence. Blier, who’s brewed a total of around 300 L, or 634 pints, of beer, is one of these — he lets me sample several brews before the night is over.

I try four different types — a stout ale, a lemonade, a cream ale and a cranberry cider. They taste surprisingly good.

“If you want more, just help yourself,” he says.

It’s not hard to drink beer in this house. The kegs are conveniently stored in a mini fridge with two taps protruding from the top. As Blier later tells me, this makes it easy for people to get a drink while making dinner.

“There’s the novelty of people pouring it out the taps,” he said.

The novelty is part of the reason Blier began making his own beer.

Domestic brewing dates back to the Middle Ages, when beer was consumed because it was often safer to drink than water.

After the Reinheitsgebot, a 1516 German beer purity law, brewing was limited to using water, barley and hops as ingredients. It was introduced to prevent use of wheat and rye needed for baking bread. Nowadays, Germany can produce non-Reinheitsgebot brews,

Marc-André Blier, ArtSci ’13, has brewed over 15 batches of beer since last year.

though they’re not allowed to call it beer.

When yeast fermentation was discovered in the mid-1800s, the bacterium was added to the list of substances that could be used in a beer brew.

Most of these principles still hold today, whether in a home brew or in a big company brew.

When added in, the yeast breaks down sugar to make carbon dioxide and ethanol. The two components produce the fizziness of the drink and the alcoholic content, respectively. “[Yeast] makes the magic happen,” Blier said.

The types of ingredients will vary depending on the type of beer being made. Along with that, some brews use additional ingredients for flavour.

Blier said a future batch, for example, will include a small amount of cocoa to make a chocolate beer.

It’s a process that Blier diligently records in a large blue notebook.

He shows me his notes for each batch — 15 so far — that feature their own names, like “Blithering Idiot Red Ale,” among

a series of calculations.

“It’s like a science project,” he said. “I try and change something every time and see what happens.”

The hit of the night is the lemonade, a simple combination of yeast, sugar, water and lemon concentrate — costing a total of $6 for a 20 L batch.

Blier and his housemates, however, call it “Thunderdrunk” for obvious reasons. It’s a drink that, he says, falls between 10 to 15 per cent alcoholic content.

“Someone will always underestimate the lemonade,” he said.

Other breweries have started from a similar curiosity about the process.

Steam Whistle Brewery, based in Toronto, was founded in the late 1990s by three friends who had recently been fired from a brewery after it closed down. They began selling beer in early 2000.

While other companies make several types of beer, the microbrewery only makes lagers, producing about 88,000 bottles each day.

No matter how the beer is made, the beer-making process

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all comes down to a brewmaster, spokesperson Sybil Taylor said.

“Our brewmaster is like a chef ... there’s some science and chemistry but it’s a lot of artisanal [skill].”

A mix of terms Jargon that’ll lead the way to a future in beer connoisseurship.

Ale: Beer that is fermented using the yeast strain S. cerevisiae. It ferments more effectively at warmer temperatures, making ale the preferred beer for home brewing. The finished product has a fruitier taste.

Lager: This ferments using the yeast species S. uvarum.

Because the yeast performs better at cooler temperatures, brewers must refrigerate their batch for weeks at a time while the brew ferments.

Lager has a crisper taste than ale.

Head: The foam that is produced at the top of a beer when poured. It can indicate carbonation, hops and malt of the brew.

Hops: An herb that adds aroma or flavour to the brew.

A batch of ale can take up to three weeks to make. Each brew costs between $25 and $30, with over $100 put towards equipment.

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Stout ale: A darker beer. It’s full-bodied and rich in flavour.

A brew how-to 1. Sanitize equipment using a powdered cleanser like PBW, or diluted bleach. Rinse well.

2. Follow the kit’s instructions to determine when to add specific ingredients and at what temperature. At the appropriate temperatures, mix the malt extract, hops and desired amount of water (20 to 23 L) in a large

bucket, called the primary. Mix. 3. Once the mixture is at room temperature, add yeast. Seal the bucket and affix an airlock to the top. Bring to a dark room and cover with a blanket to prevent sunlight exposure. The airlock should begin bubbling within 24 hours.

4. After about a week, the airlock’s movement will slow down. This means it’s time to move the brew to a medium-sized bottle, called a secondary.

5. Using a sanitized siphon, transfer the mixture from the primary to the secondary. Be careful in making sure that

Malt extract: A syrup that’s made from evaporating water from wort.

none of the waste products at the bottom of the bucket (protein and dead yeast cells) are transferred over. Move the bottle back into a dark room.

6. After about another week stored at room temperature, the beer is ready for serving.

— Source: Wikihow.com

Wort: Sweet liquid that comes from mixing barley with water. It’s the basis of all beers.

Yeast: A micro-organism that triggers the brew fermentation process.

— Sources: BeerBooks.com; Beeradvocate.com

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