The Queen's Journal, Issue 19

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news Event educates students on patient safety.

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feature Investigating Kingston’s high stalking rates.

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Articling crisis affects students

Society that oversees province’s lawyers to vote on alternative path to articling

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Arts A review of Modern Fuel’s Smokin’ in the Boys’ Room.

B y H olly Tousignant News Editor

A proposed pilot project from the Law Society of Upper Canada sports could change the way lawyers in Ontario become licenced.

Soccer teams prepare for The new program would see prospective lawyers choose between the OUA Final Four. obtaining an articling position and pAGE 14 completing a combination legal practice program to fulfill their licencing requirements and be called photo by Tiffany lAM Vogt’s Anomalies has four one-act plays. One of the plays entitled Solace included a dance to the bar. Presently, all Ontario lawyers are required to partake element. See page 10 for the review. in articling within three years of writing their licencing exams.

Academics The proposal comes from a task force commissioned by the Law Society to look into the shortage of articling positions in the province.

“We’ve been monitoring the articling situation for more than a decade,” Roy Thomas, Law Society spokesperson, said.

“I don’t have to fight or ask the classroom. can restrict what constitutes as In 2008, he noted, about seven B y Vincent M atak them more than once and generally “Tying your ability to speak academic freedom and integrity,” or eight per cent of the graduating Assistant News Editor complaints have never been more in class to an academic grade See Clause on page 5 See Society on page 4 The AMS is raising questions over professionally addressed.”

Jacobson, who has been a civility clause for PSYC 300 which deducts marks for teaching at Queen’s since 2001, SPORTS said she derived the idea from bad behavior.

The clause stipulates a 10 per a number of different universities North America who cent deduction from a student’s in overall mark for distracting, impose similar clauses in discriminatory, threatening or their classrooms.

She received approval from the disruptive behavior in person or via email towards a professor, TA department’s undergraduate chair By Nick Faris and that I wanted to experience life that 12 years removed, it’s easy now. prior to including the clause in Peter Morrow or fellow student. way,” Reid said.

“But you didn’t see those first The penalty will be enforced the syllabus.

Journal Staff “I’m thankful I survived, but at three years.’” on the first violation, according to “Inappropriate language, the same time, [I was] just so angry the course’s syllabus, and students threatening, harassing behavior Stefanie Reid nearly lost her life that my life dream had to be taken *** who behave inappropriately and disruption, can really make a after a debilitating accident at from me.” in person will be removed situation quite uncomfortable for age 16.

That dream was to play Reid, who graduated from from the class. the other students and make it Struck by a propeller after international rugby but the accident Queen’s in 2006, started training This is the first year the full-year difficult for the other students to falling from a moving speedboat, forced her to take a new direction. with the Gaels track and field team course has included a civility clause learn,” she said. she almost died from blood Eleven years later, she’s won in 2002 — but her road to recovery in its syllabus.

Despite this, no students have loss. She was rushed three medals in track and field at multiple began a week after her accident.

The course’s professor, violated the clause since it was hours to the closest hospital for Paralympic Games, breaking Lying in a hospital bed, she Jill Jacobson, said she presented to her class in September, immediate surgery. two world records this summer was despondent to the point that created the clause to help she said.

An amputation below her right in London. she refused to eat or shower. One facilitate critical inquiry in a AMS Academic Affairs knee saved her life, but any vision “Sometimes I think people look morning, a nurse slammed down Commissioner Isabelle Duchaine of her future was in shambles. respectful manner. at me and go, ‘Oh gosh, it must be her breakfast tray and looked her “When I want to start the class, it said she thinks the clause “When I first became an really easy being an amputee,’” she in the eye. starts,” she said. violates a student’s freedom in amputee, I wasn’t even convinced said. “I just think, ‘Well, yeah, it’s See Change on page 13 pAGE 9

Prof deducts grades for bad behaviour Students warned they’ll lose 10 per cent of final mark for being disruptive in class

From agony to excellence

Queen’s grad and Paralympian Stefanie Reid shares her story

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Students identify hospital horrors Patient safety targeted by annual event B y r acHel H erscoVici Assistant News Editor

185,000 that result in an unintended patient injury, death or disability due to health care management mistakes.

“Communication is one of the biggest Students walked into what appeared to be a normal hospital setting — beds and issues. When things go wrong, quite often they surrounding curtains separated the patients go wrong around the way we communicate lying in bed, except these patients weren’t or what we fail to communicate,” McVeety real; they were simulations that coughed, said. “So by working with each other inter-professionally, we talked and breathed.

The dummies were used as part of the hope to kind of break down third annual “Room of Horrors” event held those barriers.”

The event is run through the QJBC in yesterday as part of the Canadian Patient partnership with the School of Nursing, Safety Awareness Week.

Groups were made up of health sciences the Canadian Patient Safety Institute and students from different faculties and Accreditation Canada.

Organizers believe the “Room of specialties and each team played a form of an “eye spy” game, noting all the possible Horrors,” which first took place in 2009, was the first event of its kind. Initially, mostly patient safety hazards in the room.

Their scores were later nursing students attended. Since then, event added up with the top teams organizers have shifted their focus to students from a wider variety of backgrounds and receiving prizes.

“The whole idea behind it was to bring schools.

Although issues of patient safety have to people’s [awareness] the ideas behind patient safety,” said Jan McVeety, patient started to be actively integrated into safety officer at Queen’s Joanna Briggs life sciences schools, the event offers an Collaboration (QJBC), a patient safety opportunity for students to gain a more hands on experience, McVeety said. advocacy organization.

“One of the big issues in patient safety and A study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal found that of certainly once people get out in the work the 2.5 billion annual hospital environment is the fact that they’re not only admissions in Canada there are working with fellow people in their own

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Students use a simulation dummy to educate themselves on dangers.

profession,” she said. “It’s important to be able to go out and work together to discover issues and I think that one of the things is also understanding that everybody brings something different to the patients’ bedside”.

Participant Kayla Wellum,

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MSc ’14 said that she enjoyed working with her partner, who came from another department.

“A lot of things I wouldn’t pick up on she did and I really learned a lot from her.”

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Sandy subdued Storm topples trees, brings less damage than expected B y J oanna P lucinka Editorials Editor

the wind caused much of the damage.

Power outages affected many parts of the Hurricane Sandy blew through Kingston City.

The Student Ghetto had a few scattered with more of a rattle than a bang.

The storm, which had caused extensive power outages, while other parts of Kingston damage along the East Coast of the US, were more strongly affected.

According to Joyce, a large branch broke ravaged parts of Ontario, killing one woman in Toronto and causing many branches and off and fell on one of the main circuit feeders, cutting off power to 2,500 customers for trees to fall on cars and houses.

Once it reached Ontario, it had been over two hours in the Northeast area of the downgraded from a hurricane to a post- City.

Other neighborhoods, such as tropical storm.

Kingston braced itself after warnings from those around the Canadian Forces Base Environment Canada and local politicians and the area between Conacher Dr. about the possibilities of flooding and power and Division St., experienced briefer power outages that affected only a few outages.

Local grocery stores reported a slight hundred customers.

Local damage included a few downed spike in business on Monday night, with Kingstonians stocking up mostly on bottled trees and a damaged lamppost at University water, candles and batteries to prepare for and Union Streets. The sign at Indigo the storm.

Bookstore on Princess St. also came down However, many of these emergency with the wind, damaging cars that sat below.

Utilities Kingston also had two teams measures weren’t necessary in the end, as the of two workers out during the night to predicted flooding didn’t occur.

Brad Joyce, director of hydro and help remedy problems surrounding the business services for Utilities Kingston, said city. They replaced three traffic signal the storm didn’t pass through Kingston heads that had blown off, while turning back 12 others that had been blown out completely unnoticed.

While the rain was sparse, of place.

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I think I was more concerned about him than I was about myself. I didn’t realize how severe it was until someone [told me].

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A 2004 Statistics Canada report found that nine per cent of women under the age of 25 were victims of stalking. This is higher than the 25-35 age group at six per cent.

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When stalking hits close to home This year, there have been almost 200 stalking incidents reported in the city of Kingston B y R osie H ales and A lison S houldice Journal Staff Kingston has one of the highest rates for stalking in Canada, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s an unsafe city, according to Kingston Police.

Steven Koopman, Constable and Media Relations Officer, said last year there were 145 incidents of reported stalking in Kingston.

This year, there have been 197 incidents reported to date in the city, which has a population of approximately 123,000. The Canadian average is 59 reported stalkers per 100,000 people, according to 2011 figures from Statistics Canada.

Koopman said Kingston Police Force (KPF) was unable to confirm any reasons for the rise in numbers of incidents for this year although

he believes the city is safe for students as stranger-on-stranger stalking is rare.

In 2011, there were only four instances of reported stranger-to-stranger stalking in the city. This is a decrease from 2010 when there were 11 and 2009 when there were 30.

“The statistics may also be indicating that our officers are well-educated on the issue, can properly identify and categorize a call as criminal harassment and take proper action, rather than simply dismissing it as a domestic incident or suspicious activity, he told the Journal via email.

He did note though that with the increasing internet usage, cyberstalking can sometimes develop into personal stalking outside of the online realm because of the expansion of social media.

“Most social media sites state they are free, but we pay for

Types of stalking Simple obsessional • Generally involved in a previous relationship the victim • Tendency to believe that the relationship isn’t over • Idea that “if I can’t have them then nobody else can” • Attempts at coercing victim back into the relationship

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Erotomanic • Convinced that their feelings would be reciprocated if it weren’t for some external influence • Usually victim is a person of a higher status i.e. their doctor, a church minister or a police officer that let them off a traffic ticket Love obsessional • Has an obsessional love for the victim without expecting it in return • Can be a part of an illness such as schizophrenia • Wants to win over love of victim Sexually deviant stalkers • Stalking aligns with sexually deviant fantasies i.e. pedophilia or rape — Source: Federal Provincial-Territorial Working Group on Criminal Harassment. “A Handbook for Police and Crown Prosecutors on Criminal Harassment” by Dept. of Justice Canada

this freedom with our personal information,” he said.

He added that geo-location based social media, like Foursquare, can help to determine a pattern of behaviour in a potential victim, like which coffee shops, bars or restaurants they like to frequent.

“I’ve seen on Foursquare [people who have] actually created at home addresses as a location that they can check into. Why would you make your address a place you can check into?” he said. “You are now telling every single person where you live.”

Stalking, also known as criminal harassment, is defined

by Section 264 of the Criminal Code as repeatedly following, communicating or watching another person in a way to make them fear for their safety.

In 2004, Statistics Canada published a report that found that nine per cent of women under 25 were victims of criminal harassment. For the 25-35 age group, this percentage is lower at six per cent.

One fourth-year Queen’s student in a small faculty, who wished to remain anonymous, has been experiencing stalking for the past two months but hasn’t reported it to the police.

Her stalker is an ex-boyfriend who’s also a fourth-year Queen’s student in the same faculty as her.

Ever since their mutual break-up in August, he’s been continually attempting to get in touch with her and track her whereabouts.

“It’s been better in the last week but it got pretty extreme … constant text messaging, constant phone calls, which I wouldn’t pick up,” she said. “He would write me a letter every single day in the mail and he gave me a pile of letters.

He would talk to a lot to my friends … and ask them out for coffee. He would try to track where I was.”

He’s also visited her houses in Kingston and Toronto without notice. This behaviour has been constant since the break-up and has only waned in the past week.

The female student said she didn’t realize she was being stalked

until a friend alerted her. She had told very little people in Kingston the extent of her situation.

“I was still really hesitant to share all of the conversation or everything that’s happened just because I think I was more concerned about him than I was about myself,” she said.

“I didn’t realize how severe it was until someone [told me].”

Although she’s chosen not to press criminal charges against him, she sees no prospect of remaining in contact with her ex.

Her case isn’t unique. Stalking among young people can take many forms — both online and in-person.

Kaleigh Gorka and two of her female friends were cyberstalked for over a year in high school via Facebook. Someone had created fake profiles of the three and was updating them actively.

Gorka, now a student at Ryerson, said the perpetrator’s profiles had photos of the three taken from their real profiles.

“We found this whole world, this parallel universe of somebody living our cyber life using our photos,” she said. “It wasn’t just a couple profile pictures. It was albums.”

Although she felt the information posted about her wasn’t harmful to her image, she said she was disturbed. Her and her friends contacted her parents, who then phoned the police.

It took more than a year from the time Gorka first found the profile to when the perpetrator was caught.

Like most criminal harassment victims, it turns out she had met her stalker before. Gorka had a gut instinct that turned out to be correct — the girl who had made the profile was at the same dance school as her. Although they were acquaintances, the two weren’t close.

She admitted to the police what she had done but Gorka believes the perpetrator was never formally charged with criminal harassment.

Although she deleted the girl as a Facebook friend after the incident, Gorka continued seeing her at the dance studio.

“It was really scary,” she said.

“The life you’ve lived out truthfully has been stolen and made something completely different.

You feel exploited.”

The incident has made Gorka rethink what she puts online.

Although there are measures that can be taken to avoid being stalked, she believes she could have done little to prevent her case from happening, as she was already connected online with her stalker.

“The profile is one thing, but who knows where that could have gone. The Internet offers a fake reality. What happens for her if it actually becomes a reality?” she said.

Jim Neill, city councillor for Williamsville, said cyberstalking might never include a physical threat, but it can be a frightening experience nonetheless.

In the physical sphere, Neill said stalking is an issue within a broader context of campus and city security.

“I really applaud the campus for the Walkhome programs and some of the other programs that are supported by the AMS and the University,” he said. “I think people should more willingly avail themselves to those opportunities.”

After an audit of the Queen’s area in the 1990s, better lighting was installed in parks and bushes that could hide potential predators were removed. Neill said that the audits were done by a consultant who then made specific recommendations to Queen’s and the City. He added that City Park was a focus of this audit, as well as side streets.

A similar AMS audit of the Student Ghetto has recently been scheduled to take place in the coming year.

Neill said the younger post-secondary demographic could make the area more susceptible to incidents of stalking.

“We do have a younger population with the colleges and universities here in town so I think there may be a higher level of awareness,” he said. “Hopefully [there’s] a greater willingness to report strangers who are following them.”

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Society has been looking into issue for over a decade income Ontarians shows that they quality of articling experiences and are finding it difficult to find legal he understands why alternatives class of law students in Ontario services that they can afford in must be considered.

“It’s difficult for the law society were unable to find an articling some areas of law, in particular position; currently, that figure is family law, criminal law [and] to regulate articling to ensure that it is all of the same quality considering between 12 and 15 per cent, with immigration law,” Thomas said.

“The typical articling program it’s in so many diverse settings; 200 to 300 articling candidates that’s offered from a large law small firms, big firms, government,” stuck without a placement.

“The first thing we did in 2008 firm usually doesn’t deal in family he said.

Queen’s Law Students’ Society was to survey the profession law, immigration law or criminal extensively,” Thomas said. “We law, so the new path that we’re President Robert Thompson, talked to virtually every law firm proposing should make it possible Law ’13, said the possibility of of any size in the province to get a for more licencing candidates to not finding an articling position is better understanding of why they do their experiential learning in always in the back of a student’s mind, but it’s not a major concern. were able and willing to create [those] areas.” “[Queen’s] has done such a good At Queen’s, only six students articling positions or not.”

The task force received from the last graduating class were job of placing everybody in an submissions from professionals unplaced, compared to seven articling position,” he said.

He said he’s concerned the and academics across the province, from the University of Toronto and 10 from Western University. drive to create more articling spots including Queen’s.

Through their research, they A handful of Queen’s students are has already led to a dip in quality identified over 400 firms that they placed in Kingston firms, while the for students.

While the pilot project, he fears, judged to be capable of providing majority — about 80 per new articling positions. They cent — go to mid- to large-sized will lead to some firms offering fewer articling positions. He also encouraged those firms to add firms in Toronto.

Dean of Law William Flanagan worries that some graduates will positions, but Thomas said not a said the University doesn’t currently be seen as better than others single new one was created.

A vote on whether to approve have a position on the proposed because they’ve gone through articling rather than the legal the new program by the Law pilot program.

Society’s governing body was “I think because we are just of practice program.

“Obviously, though, we are in deferred on Oct. 25 until Nov. 22. too many minds, there is diversity A favourable vote would result in the faculty,” he said. “The a tough situation with so many in the articling program remaining sense among the students is that unplaced students in articling at 10 months long, while the law they are supportive in retaining [positions] currently and I guess the Law Society does have to respond practice program path, including article positions.”

His personal opinion is that to that.” the co-op and a skills-training program, would take about eight while articling is an important — With files from method of training for students, months’ time.

Vincent Matak Both paths would include an there can be a lack of diversity in the assessment at the end to ensure learning objectives have been met.

“The goal of articling or other skills training is to make sure that lawyers are competent. That the public are served by professionals who actually understand the law and are prepared to provide them with a fully competent service,” Thomas said.

“The proposal is for a five-year pilot program, so if we haven’t got all of the exact details just right, then they’ll be refined.”

While the majority of the task force advocated the proposed pilot program, a minority of its members were in favour of doing away with articling entirely, Thomas added.

He said in addition to promoting accessibility for licencing candidates, the new program is also designed to make hiring a lawyer more photo by tiffany laM affordable for Ontarians in need. if the law Society of upper canada’s vote is successful, “Research that we’ve done in law students will be able to choose between articling and a new legal Ontario, particularly in the middle practice program to fulfill their licensing requirements.

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Post-secondary education leaders gathered on campus this week to discuss a global collaboration that commenced in 2010.

The seven institutions involved are all members of the Matariki Network of Universities, which was established to share ideas, learn international best practices and promote diversity within their schools.

Representatives of the schools came from around the globe, including the US, U.K., New Zealand, Germany, Australia and Sweden.

They met with Principal Daniel Woolf and other Queen’s

representatives over several days & Berlis LLP and the Women’s at the University to discuss their Law Association of Ontario. collaboration and its initiatives; Maria Nunez created the club topics of discussion included dual earlier this year to educate students degrees, mutual credit recognition about mental health and disability and international exchange, law within the faculty, as well as according to a press release. create a dialogue about diversity The visitors were also treated within the profession. to a tour of Innovation Park, and The group’s current projects specifically GreenCentre Canada, include establishing a scholarship which looks at ways to develop for students with disabilities and “green” chemistry solutions. a panel discussion on mental health and disability organized in — Holly Tousignant conjunction with Career Services.

Nunez received her award, which honours women in the Law student honoured legal community dedicated to the progress of equality, in a ceremony A new club at Queen’s recently in Toronto. earned its founder an award for provincial advocacy from the Aird — Holly Tousignant

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Clause violates freedom, commissioner says Continued from page 1

Duchaine, ArtSci ’13 said.

“It also actively discourages critical inquiry, which is the foundation for a quality undergraduate education.”

Punishing a student for inappropriate behavior isn’t up to the professor, she said, but the department and faculty.

She plans on meeting with members of the Faculty of Arts and Science in an effort to try and get them to rethink the necessity for the clause.

Heather Lawton, ArtSci ’14, is

in PSYC 300 and thinks students should be spoken to individually about their violation in order for the clause to be effective.

“She put this policy in place because she was trying to prevent people from lashing out against the TAs or the prof or other students,” she said.

“As long as she talks to people about it and she identifies the problem and lets the person know, I believe that’s how the policy [should] work.

CAMPUS CALENDAR Friday, Nov. 2

Tuesday, Nov. 6

14th Annual indigenous Symposium Respecting mother Earth: indigenous Perspectives on Environmental Justice Robert Sutherland Building, Rm. 202 friday at 3 p.m. to Saturday at 7 p.m. $20 for students

Alumna speaker Ann dowsett Johnston on the truth at the Bottom of the Glass - Alcohol: health and marketing Biosciences complex, Rm. 1102 6 to 7:30 p.m.

Monday, Nov. 5 international Exchange fair wallace hall, Jduc 5 to 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 7 Annual Archives lecture: “the news of our failure is almost in every child’s mouth” by cheryl mcwatters Robert Sutherland Building, Rm. 202 7 to 9 p.m.

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EDITORIALS — THE JOURNAL’S PERSPECTIVE

Our generation has taken advantage of free information for too long.

Inevitable payment C

anadian newspapers are following in the footsteps of many of their international counterparts.

The three major newspapers in Canada, The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star and the National Post, have or are planning to put up paywalls on their digital content.

From a business point of view, the paywalls are inevitable, even if many readers won’t be pleased with the pricetag.

Subscriptions for print newspapers have been decreasing, leaving them scrambling to find alternative sources of revenue to sustain their content.

According to a 2011 article in Marketing magazine, many newspapers’ sales are declining in Canada.

With a print subscription costing

just over $20 a month, The Globe and Mail is now trying to sell the same content online for effectively the same price.

We only have ourselves to blame — our generation has taken advantage of free information for too long without understanding the consequences.

There’s no way that newspapers can continue paying their journalists to produce high-quality content, especially in-depth investigative reports, without finding another source of revenue.

It’s also unlikely that the newspapers that put paywalls up will keep all of their readers, especially when many are unwilling to pay additional fees at all.

There are, of course, some readers who will be willing to give up the cash, but it’s unlikely that

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individuals will want to subscribe to more than one newspaper.

Newspapers will then have to compete more aggressively with one another to maintain their readership base.

This also means that readers will get a more biased perspective of the world. Readers, by not having access to multiple sources, will be less exposed to varied points of view.

It’s yet to be seen if this method will work. Hopefully, print sources will continue to innovate and find ways to profit from their content.

Paywalls are inevitable — we’ve been taking advantage of free high quality information for too long without giving print sources any viable source of income.

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CITIZENSHIP

Direct punishment H

ow far does one go to protect undertones of the bill.

Revoking the citizenship of their country?

A poll recently commissioned by someone who has committed Conservative MP Devinder Shory, a crime makes the point that found that eight of 10 people agree citizenship is a privilege — a point that those guilty of treason should that isn’t necessarily a bad one to make. lose their Canadian citizenship.

There are other ways to deal The poll was taken to gauge Canadians’ perspectives on the with those who commit treason, private member bill Shory put forth such as life in jail, exorbitant fines in May arguing for an amendment and general societal exile.

The way the concluding to the Citizenship Act. was reached is also Shory has emphasized that statistic this bill is specifically designed to problematic — the poll was done punish those who commit acts of over the phone and included only terror or war against their fellow 1,000 people.

Little information was given Canadian citizens. It only targets those that have joint citizenship as to what part of Canada these 1,000 citizens were from, how the with Canada.

The very premise is at risk questions were asked and what of being xenophobic, targeting demographic they represented.

Currently, the Bill hasn’t even people whose citizenship is from a country that may be suspected of made it to second reading and it’s rare for private members’ bills to harbouring terrorist activity.

This raises many questions make it through.

Canada doesn’t need a about the intentions of the Bill.

It clearly targets Canadian xenophobic law like this when immigrants — especially ones who there are already punitive measures could be profiled for committing in place to deal with perpetrators acts of terrorism. The fact that dual of treason.

Let’s hope the discussion citizenship is a necessity implies that local-born Canadians would ends here. be less likely to commit such acts, — Journal Editorial Board thus strengthening the xenophobic

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o bros and sistas, it’s time to rally.

Each November, men from around the world don moustaches in solidarity, eschewing general facial cleanliness in support of prostate cancer awareness and other men’s health initiatives.

Founded in Australia in 2003, the global Movember campaign has grown exponentially ever since, with over 850,000 registrants in 2011.

Each one of us has been directly affected by cancer, man’s greatest unrelenting opponent — and each of us can make an individual imprint on the face of men’s health.

Last year, my floormates and I held a post-Movember extravaganza called the Muzzies.

We suited up in formal attire, booked a common room and handed out awards to each participant, ranging from Most Valuable Moustache to more

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colourful offshoots. it’s a matter of life-or-death, and Not only did the Muzzies foster it’s our responsibility to protect competition among us to see who one another to the best of our could grow the largest, thickest financial capabilities. or most delightfully repugnant Donating to the Movember moustache, but it also provided Foundation itself is sound in both an incentive to harass our families, theory and practice. The Canadian friends and casual acquaintances campaign generated $41.9 million for monetary pledges. in donations last year — 89.6 per Just as we sought to one-up cent of which was allocated to our teammates, we worked men’s health programs. By giving in conjunction to boost our to Movember, millions of dollars fundraising efforts, totaling almost are funneled directly into the $900. Our “mo’s” served as a pervasive fight against cancer. personal rallying point for male This year, my friends and I will health initiatives — a cause that contribute to a fraction of that hinges on the grassroots efforts of total. We’re joining hundreds of its supporters. thousands of men and women The stakes are high. Prostate once again in the quest to eradicate cancer is the most common form of prostate cancer — one whisker cancer among Canadian men. One (and dollar) at a time. in every seven of us will develop This Movember, shelve the prostate cancer, and one in 28 will razor for the month. In the name die of it. of men’s health, support the ‘stache.

Without sufficient funding and research, cancer’s toll will Nick is the Assistant Sports Editor at never be alleviated. Put simply, the Journal.

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Panel — US Elections

Rounding off on Romney Our panelists examine the possible ramifications a Romney administration could have on social issues, economics and foreign policy Economics

SOCIAL ISSUES

Foreign Policy

Richard Brilli, ArtSci ’14

Alexander Rotman, ArtSci ‘13

On Nov. 6, there’s potential for monumental change in the US. If Mitt Romney gains the presidency, this could spell vast social change nationwide. Rights to abortion, contraception and same-sex marriage could all be subject to change.

Abortions are legal nation-wide as a result of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling in 1973. During his campaign for the Republican nomination, Romney made it very clear that he doesn’t agree with the decision reached in this ruling. Instead, he believes that abortion is a state issue and shouldn’t be legalized at a federal level. Romney describes himself as pro-life and this belief is echoed in the official Republican Party platform. Also potentially concerning for women is Romney’s stance on Planned Parenthood, which he’s vehemently opposed, suggesting on numerous occasions that he would remove its funding from the federal budget. The Republican platform calls for abstinence-only education for young adults, a direct contradiction to the works of Planned Parenthood today.

Currently, contraception is covered under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act but Romney argues that this infringes on the religious freedoms of those who don’t support it. The Republican Party platform calls for “protecting rights of conscience” which would allow any doctor, nurse, or pharmacist the right to refuse any medical treatment or referral that goes against their moral or religious beliefs. This could have devastating effects on women — any women in need of emergency contraceptives could be outright denied.

While Romney’s personal views may indirectly come into conflict with the views of many American women in particular, the views of the Republican Party he represents are much more forward in their assault on current American society.

The Republican platform lists a section entitled “Preserving and Protecting Traditional Marriage” in which it highlights the belief that marriage is inherently heterosexual and that same-sex marriages should not be

When Barack Obama walked into the Oval Office, he found the US government $10 trillion in debt. Today, the debt stands at just over $16 trillion. That’s about $50,000 for each American — to put that in perspective, last year the median income for American families was the exact same figure of $50,000. Though the President will protest, he did build this.

The unemployment rate in the US right now is 7.8 per cent, which, to be fair, is down from the 8.3 per cent during Obama’s first month of office. But, for most of his administration, unemployment has been above 9 per cent.

So, what are the prospects for the economy if Mitt Romney should win?

Romney has been campaigning on a cut to corporate tax rates. Currently, the US has a corporate tax rate of 35 per cent, the highest of G8 countries.

Romney would cut it to 25 per cent, a good start for encouraging economic growth, allowing US corporations to become more competitive.

Romney’s plan to institute a 20 per cent reduction in tax rates for all income levels will help free up capital to grow the economy. Americans (including the rich ones), will do one of two things with more money in their pockets: spend it or save it.

Both of these actions help grow the economy, allow banks to give more loans to businesses to help them expand and increase the incomes of other businesses.

The way to rebuild the economy is to promote more money in the private sector, rather than have it remain tied up in government bureaucracy.

Now one might object, “how would the debt ever be paid if we don’t increase taxes and use it to pay it off?” Well, the current administration hasn’t even made a dent in the debt, meanwhile the size of the government has expanded and unemployment is still up.

I foresee two options for the next four years. Either the US continues as they

Devin McDonald, ArtSci ’13

If one was to adhere to the images portrayed on the campaign trail, either by the blue or red team, it might appear as if a change to the inhabitants of the White House would bare great changes to all spheres of policy.

Though no doubt the election will have an impact on many policies, , there seems less of a case for marked changes in American foreign policy whether Obama or Romney take the winner’s podium.

As an example, the last of three presidential debates, was intended to be focused on foreign policy. Despite both candidates seemingly more keen to talk about multiple pointed economic plans, when they did cover foreign policy their positions were hard to distinguish from each other, even at times openly acknowledging the merit of each other’s positions. It might be noted that this isn’t due to a lack of policy creativity on the part of either camp, but rather because it really makes no electoral difference.

The American public pays, at best, scant attention to an administration’s foreign policy — few elections have been decided on the basis of the subject. Foreign policy in American elections is more of a campaign liability than a core tenet.

One of Romney’s talking points has been about getting tough with China, especially on currency manipulation. He claims that his first acts as President would be to label China a currency manipulator. It’s often suggested that Chinese exports have an unfair advantage against domestically produced goods due to the undervalued Renminbi currency driving China’s export-based economy.

Yet it’s not too certain whether the renminbi is all that undervalued. Early this year, China loosened controls on it, allowing it to float more during trading. If the currency was as artificially undervalued as Romney suggests, it would jump as soon as controls were removed. Yet the first day on the market , the value was little changed. This proves that Romney’s willingness to play hardball is more showmanship than realpolitick.

A key issue in US/Canadian relations has been the construction of the Keystone XL

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Talking heads ... around campus What do you think about newspapers starting paywalls?

“I’m all for freedom of information, but newspapers have to make money some how.”

Emma Pascue, ArtSci ’15

“I think we’ll see this with more and more newspapers.”

Charlie Tardif, Sci ’13

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“People shouldn’t have to pay to be informed.”

Alisson Rudnitski, ArtSci ’15

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recognized as equal to those of heterosexual couples. Same-sex marriages have recently been legalized in a few select states and popular support is growing thanks in part to the Obama administration. If Romney is elected, this progress may be undone and measures to restrict future progress could easily become a reality.

The current state of American society is truly unprecedented. Issues such as abortion, contraception and same-sex marriage have become very contested in public discourse. If Obama is re-elected, it’s safe to assume that these issues will continue to progress in the directions he’s taken them. Abortion will stay legal, contraception will be widely available through healthcare and same-sex marriage rights will continue to develop.

If Romney is elected, the future won’t be so clear. The state of American social issues could undergo only marginal adjustments or could endure a complete overhaul. A Romney election brings upon uncertainty that an Obama re-election would not. Under Romney, social changes aren’t guaranteed.

Only one thing is certain — change is coming, for better or worse.

have for the past four years with a rather stagnant economy and a growing debt crisis or we see the economy recovering and the debt being paid down (or at least not growing).

The latter option is more likely to occur if Romney wins; Obama’s had four years to change the course of the US, instead he dug in deeper.

Romney also plans on expanding free trade agreements, which will open new markets that the US can trade with. This will present new opportunities for increased economic growth.

When it comes to whom you can trust to manage the debt, there are clearly better odds with Romney.

The most important thing for the economy right now is restructuring tax incentives to ensure a competitive America and a president who will set a favourable climate to get the economy rolling again. Obama had a chance to prove himself; it’s time for a breath of fresh air.

pipeline. The pipeline would bring crude oil from the Albertan oil sands to the US to be refined. Obama has postponed any approval of the pipeline until 2013 in an effort to appease the concerns of environmental activists. Yet despite his delay, the pipeline brings immense economic boon and will be approved, whether by Obama or Romney.

The Middle East might be the sticking point against the idea that foreign policy is of little consequence to electoral politics. The common assumption that the War in Iraq was a right wing policy directive is tenuous.

Al Gore would have faced similar post-9/11 pressures to respond to an Iraq with ambiguous weapons of mass destruction capability.

Apathy regarding foreign policy issues and what I would characterize as a lack of effectiveness of the politics of personality in the international system ultimately limits the effect a change of office can have on foreign policy outcomes.

Richard Brilli is the chair for the research and outreach committee in the ASUS equity office.

Alexander Rotman is a fourth-year economics and political studies medial.

Devin McDonald is a fourth-year philosophy and political studies medial.

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Letters to the editor Doping culture Re: “Call for change” Dear Editors, I was disappointed in the way which you oversimplified the Lance Armstrong scandal and cycling’s current situation in regards to doping and I was also alarmed at the number of factual errors in the article. Firstly USADA launched the most extensive investigation it has ever undertaken in this case, it was not based on ‘research and testing’ especially

since the overwhelming majority of the evidence presented by the USADA is witness testimony, testimony of no fewer than 11 of Armstrong’s former teammates, for which they received reduced sanctions for their own confessed wrongdoings.

The statements within this piece that I take most offense to is the fact you identify this scandal as a “more troubling trend in cycling.” The sport has very much turned a corner from the age of cycling which the scandal relates to and certainly is no reflection of the current state of cycling. Cycling is a far cleaner sport than it was in Lance’s

Armstrong’s day. You also call for the UCI to commission tests for all of the other cyclists that “placed well in the Tour de France” ignoring the fact that in USADA’s report they reassert the fact 20 of the 21 riders on the podium in the Tour from 1999 through 2005 have been “directly tied to likely doping through admissions, sanctions, public investigations” and you also neglect to mention that all professional cyclists are tested regularly in and out of competition.

The UCI needs a change of governance, especially at the top, the same personnel

that lead the UCI through the darkest era in cycling are still there to this day and allegations still surrounded some of those individual’s conduct in regards to Armstrong. Cycling has come a long way since Lance Armstrong last stood on the top step of the podium along the Champs-Élysées.

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Social soul Ron Hawkins says his politics inspire his music and lyrics B y M ark L ouie Assistant Arts Editor

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Union Gallery has been open for 18 years and has never lost their student fee. The last time their fee went to referendum was in 2010.

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Union Gallery out in the cold Split student vote of 49.6 and 50.4 per cent leaves the Gallery without their fee B y S avoula S tylianou Arts Editor Union Gallery is going to look a lot different this year than it has in the past.

The Gallery lost its mandatory fee renewal in the Fall Referendum on Oct. 24 with a margin of 28 student votes.

The referendum statement asking voters if they agreed to the continuation of the three-year mandatory fee of $3.71. It was voted in favour by 49.6 per cent of students and against by 50.4 per cent.

Union Gallery director Jocelyn Purdie said she was “pretty devastated” when she heard the Gallery had lost their student fee by such a small margin.

“It’s unfortunate that when things are so close like that, there isn’t any kind of recourse available for groups,” she said.

An email was sent to all the groups involved in the referendum at 4 p.m. on Oct. 25 informing

them of the results. Purdie said that’s when the Union Gallery group first heard about the results.

The fee loss will come into effect in the 2013-14 school year, marking the first time in 18 years the free Gallery would be without a mandatory fee.

The Gallery, which has free entry, has always been located in Stauffer Library — directly accessible to students.

“We’re been operating successfully for those 18 years and it was such a huge blow when all of a sudden, we’re basically all out of funds,” Purdie said.

The student fee was responsible for approximately half of Union Gallery’s funding, Purdie said, adding that the Gallery is now at a loss for how to move forward.

“We’re definitely going to have to reduce our hours and our staffing — there’ll be less service essentially.”

Union Gallery is the only gallery in Kingston that showcases both professional artwork and

student artwork. The Gallery has professional artwork for the summer and first two months of the school year, and student artwork for the rest.

“We’re obliged to pay the professionals, and there’s also trying to get them to Kingston for an artist talk and get the artwork here and mounted, among other costs associated with the shows.

So we may not be able to continue doing that,” Purdie said.

The Gallery will still be able to help students by putting on their shows, although Purdie said the number of student shows will be reduced.

“The plan is to keep our space open with student shows because we don’t pay them professional fees, but a lot of the extra stuff we do, like the mentorship programs and off-site projects, may not be able to go on.”

Purdie said she felt there was a lack of visibility for students about the referendum in the days leading up to the vote.

“We have this referendum, but there’s no way to actually find out what the groups do. It’s just us putting up a banner and people can’t ask us questions,” she said.

“The concern for us was that there was no forum for us to tell students where their support is going and why it’s crucial.”

The last time the Gallery had a change to its student fee was in 2010 when they petitioned the General Assembly and had it increased.

Purdie said the fee can’t go to referendum again in the winter or to General Assembly next term, according to policy.

“All we can do is wait and try again.”

Undoubtedly, the world history of music has been governed by politics to some degree.

Ron Hawkins, former front man for The Lowest of the Low and a solo artist, views his career very much from a dual perspective, balancing elements of both politics and pure art.

Politics, as Hawkins describes, has played an extremely pivotal role through his career. In fact, it was this intellectual interest that gave birth to his beginnings as a musician.

“I got started kind of through politics, believe it or not. The first band I was in was a Marxist punk rock band and I came to it being a politically interested punk rock kid,” he said. “Before that, when I was a really little kid, I was a big Beatles fan, and it all came together when I was 16 or 17.”

Hawkins further explained his admiration for the Beatles in the context of his own interests.

“Part of the reason I liked [John] Lennon a lot was because he was a musical genius — a giant artistically — but toward the middle and the end of his career, he got politicized and radicalized,” he said.

Political socialization, unlike in the case of Lennon, was the early stages for Hawkins.

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A sight for sore ears Visual and auditory devices make for a rockin’ 80s homage exhibit B y Terence Wong Opinions Editor An art exhibit can sometimes assault your eyes, but not often assault your ears as well.

Christopher Arnoldin, Jo-Anne Balcaen and Matt Rogalsky’s exhibit Smokin’ in the Boys’ Room asked me to use all of my senses and not just my sight.

Rogalsky had 12 fender Stratocaster guitars hooked up to amps in the gallery emitting varied guitar strummed noises and portraying rock and roll in all its loud, timeless glory.

His series is called Discipline and it stole my attention right away.

The sounds echo off the walls and reverberated in different patterns

of sound.

Not being a particular proponent for the powers of rock and roll, this loud noise initially put me off, but the riffs of electric sound soon drew me back.

When I finally took my eyes and ears away from Rogalsky’s work, I noticed the painted works of Arnoldin, which took up spots on two walls facing each other.

The paintings all varied in shapes (or lack thereof), but most of them followed the same colour palettes and shapes of stills from a rock music video.

When viewing Arnoldin’s pieces, perhaps it’s best to start with the bottom of the piece than the centre. The pieces titled 0:22/3:52, 0:33/3:52, 0:21/3:52,

0:21/3:52 Alt version, 1:38/3:51 and Unknown/3:52 are all given a progress bar reminiscent of the all-pervasive YouTube setup of a video, relating the 80s-themed work back to the present.

The rock beats kept going as I made my way to J Balcaen’s two works in the exhibit. One was tucked into the corner of the Main Gallery with a mirror, a small light and a pair of Sony Studio Monitor headphones.

Called Drag, the piece at first appears like a visual prop but then I realized that there was sound emerging from the headphones.

When I put them on, it was hard to listen to the different thrums and random pops that were arranged on an audio track by

Matt Rogalsky’s portion of the exhibit involved setting up 12 Fender Stratocaster guitars.

Balcaen, primarily due to the sound of Rogalsky’s installation Discipline still echoing in the rest of the room.

There was something to be said for the subtlety in Balcaen’s work in contrast to Rogalsky’s more in-your-face musical approach, but both got the point across — an homage to the rock and roll of the 80s via Mötley Crüe’s unique style.

One doesn’t need to know much

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about rock and roll through the ages to admire the work on display, they just need to go and take it all in — Stratocasters, YouTube bars, audiotracks, picks and all.

Smokin’ in the Boys’ Room is on exhibit in the Main Gallery of Modern Fuel until Nov. 24.

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Anomalous Vogt Four unique plays bring four varied themes B y S avoula S tylianou Arts Editor

This year’s production of Vogt A featured four unique plays about a cannibalistic Italian woman, a British pink horse, a sad dance routine and a thwarted assassination attempt.

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‘There’s no down time’ Toronto rockers say having famous friends is sometimes fun

Poor Young Things guitarist Dave Grant says they moved to Toronto to get ahead in the music industry.

B y H olly Tousignant News Editor When you’re staying at a rock star’s house, people might think you’re one too.

Toronto rockers Poor Young Things have spent the past few years touring Canada and finding mentors in groups like The Trews and Arkells, even crashing at the family home of The Trews’ Colin and John-Angus MacDonald.

Guitarist Dave Grant said while the band was staying at the house recently, some fans asked them for a photograph thinking they were the members of the Trews.

Grant said the success his band has found after moving to Toronto is a “dream come true.”

“Sometimes I think ‘this can’t really be happening,’” he said.

The group made the move from their hometown of Thunder Bay two years ago, leaving to make a name for themselves in Toronto. “[Thunder Bay] is a great place to grow up learning how to play music because frankly, it’s really cold and it’s great to sit in a nice, warm house and learn to play your instrument,” he said.

“By the time we got down to Toronto, we had honed our skills and could really focus on being on the scene.”

Grant said moving to Toronto helped the band get a competitive start in the music industry.

“Toronto is the centre of the

music business in Canada and to get ahead, you kind of need to be down there and playing that scene all the time.”

Grant added that the city mirrors the energy the band tries to emulate in their live shows.

“Just walking in downtown Toronto is entertaining,” he said.

“You can do that at four in the morning on a Monday and it’ll be entertaining. There’s no down time — it’s always going.”

Grant and his band mates don’t get much down time themselves.

They signed with producer Jon Drew of Arkells within a year of arriving in Toronto and have since made a name for themselves with songs inspired by their adopted home.

Their shared experiences and varied musical tastes combine to form a sound that Grant himself has difficulty describing.

“I personally come from a blues-based background,” he said.

“I love Buddy Guy and Stevie Ray Vaughan and those guys, and I’ll take that approach when I’m writing my parts for the songs.”

Grant said the rest of his band mates bring their own influences to the recording studio as well.

“It just kind of cornucopia-morphs into our sound. And yes, cornucopia-morph is something I just made up.”

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Vogt A housed an eclectic and entertaining stage on Tuesday in its four plays — none of which connected.

This year’s Vogt A was aptly entitled Vogt’s Anomalies and anomalous was just the word to describe the night.

Leonarda Makes Cookies and Soap is about an Italian woman who is undeniably insane. Believing she’s cursed, Leonarda Cianciulli decides that human sacrifices are the only way to rid herself of the curse. So she lures women into her house and comedically “kills” them backstage with loud booms and clangs.

The character ends up in a criminal asylum and the audience is left in fits of giggles hearing Sara Chiodo’s Italian accent uttering swear words like “fook” and “sheet.” Chiodo was a very strong lead for a character who killed people and made their blood into bars of soap and baked goods, which made it funny instead of just plain crazy.

My Friend Penelope, the second play, centred around a schizophrenic person named Clark and his hallucination Penelope, a pink horse. They attend a counselling session with other mentally ill people, including Elliot Maxwell’s Scottish character Stanley, who thinks he’s in the middle of a warzone.

More accents were used with Mariah Horner as the imaginary pink horse — a character I could have watched on stage all night.

The actors used the space of the Vogt Studio to its full extent and

each character in their own neuroses helped to portray the theme that everyone is crazy — some of us are just better at hiding it.

The third play was called Solace and it was the most out of character of the four. The play was more of a dance performance than anything else and only one of the five dancers spoke.

Beck Lloyd as the character of “Madness” was a haunting narrator to the waspy dullness of the actors playing “Sadness” and “Hope.”

Lloyd was the only speaking actor and her rhyming lines gave me chills.

Because the play was abstract in its speech, the audience was left to interpret what they had seen — my interpretation circled around the play suggesting that yin-yang push of polar emotions in life.

The last play, entitled The Uncomfortably Damp Assassin, was an ironic comedy about an unfortunate encounter in an elevator between a female assassin and the man she doesn’t yet know she’s supposed to be targeting.

Gray Lucas as the businessman was a lovable oaf character whose facial expressions said a lot more than the words that came out of his mouth.

The shows left me feeling refreshed at the variety of different acts I had just seen.

I guess the title of the production is Vogt’s Anomalies for a reason.

Vogt’s Anomalies is at the Vogt Studio in Carruthers Hall tonight and tomorrow night at 6:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.

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Canadian connections Marta Pacek says she writes about heartbreak and boys B y M ark L ouie Assistant Arts Editor “I can’t multiply — numbers,” she tells me.

This lighthearted humour is hardly representative of the themes in Marta Pacek’s music, where she lyrically entwines stories of relationships and heartbreak.

Pacek was quite cheery when we spoke, but she said her music comes from a much more melancholic base.

“My music is alternative country — like darkish, moody, brooding, folky country,” she said.

Since moving to Canada in 2008, Pacek said the Canadian scene has affected how she writes.

“I guess I’m sort of a proud member of the roots-folk community in Toronto. I think there’s a Canadian style of writing that’s very confessional and poetic,” she said.

Pacek said it’s only natural she ended up in Canada to continue her music career.

“Sometimes when I play in

Australia people say, ‘You don’t even sound Australian,’” she said.

I asked about some of Pacek’s favourite performance venues. Her response, you might say, is evidence of her Canadian experience.

“I can tell you where I like to drink,” she said.

Pacek appears to be quite blessed with such a sincere enjoyment of the art form.

“When somebody has watched my show, bought my CD,

downloaded it or just listened to my music somehow and they’ve connected with it, it makes me feel good,” she said.

“It sounds so egotistical, but it’s me wanting to be a part of other peoples’ lives, and that’s the most rewarding part of it.”

Marta Pacek plays the Toucan on Monday at 8 p.m.

Marta Pacek moved to Canada from Australia four years ago.

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down the art end of it for me, but I never found a comfortable coexistence between the two,” he said. “As I started concentrating on it more as an art form, I was able to

invent the political messages in my lyrics just by writing about my life.”

Hawkins said, however, that this shift in his approach to theme reflects only one side of this development.

“It was done in a more

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Though the band has spent the last few years rubbing shoulders with Canada’s musical elite, Grant said he sees what they do as being actually quite similar to the pursuits

of the students they play for.

“We’re fighting just as hard trying to get ahead in the music scene as they are with their degrees,” he said. “We’re all broke, you know, we’re all looking for our next meal, and I think there’s

artistically pleasing way, not just spouting at people. Don’t get me wrong — I do lots of spouting at people, just not on stage,” he said.

According to Hawkins, the greatest significance of his political outlook with respect to music lies close to home.

“We see the victors of the capitalist system having their praises sung all the time, but I wanted to tell stories about working class people — the people I grew up with,” he said.

“And of course I say this from the privilege of a capitalist society,” he continued.

It seems music has given Hawkins the perfect outlet for both intellectual and artistic expression — a career that many would be envious of.

At one time though, Hawkins was in pursuit of a different type of employment.

“I was almost an NHL goalie.

I played hockey until I was about 18 and got a call up to the Marlies training camp — the Leafs’ farm team,” he said.

But as it turned out, Hawkins had other plans.

“I loved playing and I loved being a goalie, but I couldn’t really picture myself travelling around for the rest of my life in a van with a bunch of guys. So I joined a rock band.”

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Change of course Continued from page 1

“She said, ‘That is enough — I don’t care what you feel like, you need to suck it up and smile,’” Reid recalled.

The tough love sparked an abrupt attitude change. “[I remember thinking] that I’m going to walk the best I can and then eventually I’m going to run the best I can.”

Equally adept in school as she was on the rugby pitch, Reid enrolled at Queen’s for biochemistry and life sciences in 2002 after receiving the prestigious Chancellor’s Scholarship.

Initially planning to go to medical school, her athletic endeavours were kick-started by a chance encounter.

“There was a girl on my floor who was on the track team — she was a hurdler,” Reid recalled. “[The team] used to train on the field just outside where I was staying and I happened to see one of their practices one night as I was walking home.”

Reid had never competed as a track athlete but she got in touch with sprints head coach Wayne Bulak, who invited her to train with the team.

“My speed was always my greatest asset on the rugby field, so I’d always been quite fast,” she said.

“I used to [ask], ‘I wonder how fast I still am?’”

Out of training for a year since her accident and forced to adjust to a new running prosthesis, she initially struggled to keep pace with her varsity teammates.

“The first year pretty much involved a lot of me puking after [practices],” she said. “I was basically doing a lot of the grunt work and getting back into shape.”

Her training efforts paid off in second-year, when improved health and speed allowed her to compete in her first intercollegiate meets. *** In 2004, Reid embarked on a one-year exchange to the University of Windsor, determined to advance her burgeoning career.

“My parents were absolutely ready to kill me — how on earth can you leave Queen’s to go to Windsor?” she recalled. “I knew that if I wanted to run seriously, I needed to be at a place where we could sort out my running leg and my stride.”

The Windsor Lancers, winners of 24 national track and field championships since 1985, offered her the resources to excel.

Windsor’s program is renowned for developing amputee runners.

The exchange paid dividends when Reid returned to Queen’s for her fourth-year — the first year she was fast enough to travel with the Gaels to away meets.

Shortly before graduating, Reid was invited to compete in the International Paralympic Committee Athletics World Championships in the Netherlands.

Pegged to participate in track events and the long jump, she worked tirelessly with Queen’s jumps coach Ted Farndon over the summer to get up to speed.

Just four years after her first Queen’s practice, Reid qualified for the finals in each of her events, placing sixth in the long jump.

Having experienced her first brush of international success, she wanted more.

“I realized what the life of a competitive international athlete looks like,” she said. “It really is a dedication of your entire life.”

By 2007, she’d committed herself to that lifestyle. After spending eight months studying theology at Vancouver’s Regent College, she returned to Windsor to train full-time for the 2008 Paralympic Games.

“I knew in the back of my mind that I wanted to give getting to Beijing my full effort,” she said. *** One year later, Reid stood on the Paralympic podium, donning Canadian colours. She competed in three events in Beijing, winning a bronze medal in the 200m.

She fared even better in 2012, earning a silver medal in the long jump at the London Games.

This time, she represented Great

Britain — her parents’ homeland.

The decision to switch athletic allegiance in preparation for London was made for practical reasons, not personal ones.

“Any time a country hosts an Olympics and a Paralympics, they go out and invest in the infrastructure you need to develop a world-class program,” she said.

Competing for Great Britain also alleviated her equipment costs.

Prosthetic legs cost approximately $10,000 each and she rotates between three that need to be replaced annually.

“It came down to the reality that I wasn’t in a position to fund myself,” she said. “If I was going to give up medical school and commit my life to this, I needed to know I was going to come out of it the best I could possibly be.”

Reid currently lives in Dallas with her husband, Canadian wheelchair racer Brent Lakatos. She’s earning a master’s degree in nutrition at Texas Woman’s University.

Driven by the pursuit of excellence, she passes on the lessons she’s learned as an amputee athlete.

To this day, she’s guided by a simple philosophy she adopted 11 years ago in a hospital room.

“Attitude determines everything,” she said. “We’re always going to get hit with choices that we can’t control.

“Things can always get better, Queen’s grad Stefanie Reid competed at the PHOTOS Supplied By Stefanie Reid and they will get better.”

Beijing and London Paralympic Summer Games, winning a medal at both.

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What’s in store for the Final Four?

Queen’s soccer teams both advanced to the OUA semis with dramatic victories.

The Gaels women will aim for a repeat, while the men seek to prolong the magic

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B y Peter R eimer Staff Writer After a dramatic win in penalty kicks in the OUA quarter-finals, the men’s soccer team is in unfamiliar territory.

When the Gaels play the McMaster Marauders on Saturday, it’ll be a first for every Gaels player. Queen’s, who lost to the Laurentian Voyageurs in last year’s first round, hasn’t played in the OUA Final Four since 2007.

But just making it to the semi-finals was never the team’s goal.

“It’s definitely an honour, but nothing’s been accomplished yet,” said Gaels captain Joe Zupo.

“Hopefully we can come back to Queen’s with a medal and a trip to nationals.”

With a win over McMaster, the Gaels would advance to the OUA championship game and automatically qualify for nationals in Quebec City.

Although the Marauders are ranked two spots higher than the Gaels in the CIS national rankings, Zupo said he’s confident in his teammates.

“If we stick with what’s worked for us, I think we stand a chance against whoever we come up against — whether in Ontario or Canada.”

With the potential for a lot of pressure falling on the players,

Saturday Nov. 3, 1 p.m.: Gaels vs. Brock Badgers (OUA semi-final) WOMEN’S RUGBY Friday Nov. 2, 12:30 p.m.: Gaels vs. Concordia Stingers (CIS round robin in Antigonish, N.S.) MEN’S SOCCER Saturday Nov. 3, 11 a.m.: Gaels vs. McMaster Marauders (OUA semifinal in Toronto) WOMEN’S SOCCER

Head coach Chris Gencarelli says his starting lineup this weekend will be “based on [this] week of practice and how players are able to respond in high-pressure situations.”

staying focused on the task at hand will be vital.

“We’ve always talked about taking one game at a time,” said head coach Chris Gencarelli, who was named OUA East Coach of the Year on Wednesday. “We’ll treat it like any other weekend: three points at a time.”

Another key to the Gaels’ success will be their more experienced players. Patrick Zanetti, Adrian

Rochford and Nick Pateras, the team’s fifth-year players, will be instrumental in keeping younger players focused, as they’ve done all season.

Gencarelli said he plans to go with a balance of youth and experience in Saturday’s starting lineup.

“You choose your [starting] 11 based on that week of practice and how players are able to respond

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in high-pressure situations,” Gencarelli said. “I think a little bit of veteran presence is important.”

No matter who starts, the Gaels will be ready in their first Final Four showing under Gencarelli.

“We’re really looking forward to playing in a high-stakes game where everything’s on the line,” Gencarelli said. “We’ll learn a lot about who our team is on Saturday.”

WOMEN B y J ordan C athcart Staff Writer The Queen’s Gaels and Laurier Golden Hawks will experience a case of déjà vu when they square off in the OUA Final Four.

With the top-ranked Ottawa Gee-Gees and McMaster Marauders set to play in the other semi-final, the Final Four is comprised of the exact same teams as last year.

This marks the third straight year that the Gaels will meet the Golden Hawks in the OUA’s final playoff rounds.

“They’ll be out to get us based on the last two years,” said Gaels co-captain Riley Filion.

In 2010, Laurier took home the OUA title, but the Gaels

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played their best soccer in the CIS tournament and won the national championship.

Last season, the Gaels won both the OUA and national titles, beating Laurier in both championship tournaments.

This year, both teams boast a number of OUA All-Stars heading into Saturday. Five Gaels were named to the East Division team and four Golden Hawks were selected to the West teams.

Filion, one of Queen’s First-Team All-Stars, believes experience will be key to beat the Golden Hawks.

“They lost a bunch of starters from past years, but it seems like they’ve filled their team with talented rookies,” Filion said.

“It will be nice to have lots of experience on our side, as we have six fourth-year players.”

Not much has changed from past Queen’s-Laurier tilts. The returning players are familiar with their counterparts and both teams have kept the same coaches the past three years.

“We’re prepared for them to be really good at keeping possession, as that’s been their style of play in the past,” Filion said.

The Gaels are hoping to show the resiliency that got them to the Final Four after defeating the Toronto Varsity Blues in overtime

Saturday Nov. 3, 2 p.m.: Gaels @ Laurier Golden Hawks (OUA semi-final in Ottawa) ROWING Saturday Nov. 3, 9 a.m.: Gaels @ Canadian Univ.

Championships (Burnaby Lake, B.C.) MEN’S HOCKEY Friday Nov. 2, 7:30 p.m.: Gaels (2-2-1) vs. Brock Badgers (3-2-1) Saturday Nov. 3. 7:30 p.m.: Gaels vs. Nipissing Lakers (3-4-0) WOMEN’S HOCKEY Saturday Nov. 3, 3:30 p.m.: Gaels (7-0-1) vs.

Windsor Lancers (6-2-0) Sunday Nov. 4, 3:30 p.m.: Gaels vs. Western Mustangs (5-1-1) MEN’S VOLLEYBALL Saturday Nov. 3, 2 p.m.: Gaels (1-1) vs. Ryerson Rams (1-1) Sunday Nov. 4, 2 p.m.: Gaels vs. Toronto Varsity Blues (1-1) WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL

Midfielder and co-captain Riley Filion says experience will be key for the Gaels against a younger Laurier team.

in last Sunday’s OUA quarter-final.

Midfielder Alexis McKinty scored the game-tying and game-winning goals in Queen’s 3-1 win.

The Final Four begins on

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Saturday in Ottawa, with the Gaels taking on Laurier at 2 p.m. If the Gaels advance to the OUA final on Sunday, they’ll earn an automatic berth into the CIS championship.

Saturday Nov. 3, noon: Gaels (2-1) vs. Ryerson Rams (2-0) Sunday Nov. 4, noon: Gaels vs. Toronto Varsity Blues (2-1)

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B y J osh B urton Staff Writer The No. 1 St. Francis Xavier X-Women lived up to their hype, defeating the Queen’s Gaels 53-10 in the CIS Women’s Rugby Championship opener.

For a Gaels squad coming off a near-upset of powerhouse Guelph, yesterday’s blowout was unexpected. “[The game] was pretty ugly — it was a bit of a mulligan from our end,” said Gaels head coach Beth Barz. “We had a hard time going forward into tackles — we weren’t doing anything well that we are normally quite strong at,” she said.

“The game in general was certainly not how we envisioned.”

St. FX ran through and around the Gaels to take a 24-3 lead into halftime. The Gaels scored their only points of the half on a 25-yard penalty goal conversion from lock Bronwyn Corrigan.

The X-Women continued the second half where they left off, scoring five straight tries before the Gaels could muster any counterattack.

Queen’s did themselves no favours offensively, committing multiple knock-ons and dropping many catchable passes.

“When you work hard to gain possession, then give it back immediately … you’re always going to give the other team the advantage,” Barz said.

Queen’s gained a moral victory when prop Claragh Pegg rumbled into the end zone for a late try. It was the first try St. FX conceded in 2012.

The Gaels now face a must-win game against the Quebec champion Concordia Stingers today.

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If they win, they’ll likely play in the bronze-medal match on Sunday, while a loss would slot them in the fifth-place match.

Barz knows that with the national’s jitters out of the way, her team can focus on the challenge ahead.

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Now that November is here, men everywhere will grow facial hair to support Movember charity events in an effort to raise funds for prostate cancer research.

Aesthetics

A beard, a mustache and a bond Though facial hair has historically been seen as a sign of manliness, it still gets some flack today B y J anina E nrile Postscript Editor There’s no secret beard society on campus, but there might as well be.

Josh Wilson, who has been sporting some sort of facial hair since age 15, said he’ll often share a nod of recognition with other bearded men on campus.

“You see another guy with a beard. There’s always a sort of connection,” Wilson, ConEd ’12, said. “They appreciate what’s going on.”

His beard now spans 15 cm down his chest, long enough to keep his chest a different colour in the summer months.

“I got a huge sunburn on my chest, except where my beard was,” he said.

It seems that, with the coming onslaught of exam beards and mustaches groomed for the sake of prostate cancer charity event Movember, Wilson will stand out in a crowd.

“I came from a small school so I was worried about coming to Queen’s and getting lost in a sea of numbers,” he said. “I feel like I’ve peacocked.”

Wilson’s beard was a result of a long-standing bet with his mother.

“It was over Christmas holidays in grade 10 and my mother wanted to see if I could grow it,” he said. “And I just didn’t stop.”

Wilson, who maintains his beard with a shampoo and conditioner regimen, said people often don’t expect the care that goes into it.

“This is a multi-year investment,” he said. “It’s kind of like being in a long-term committed relationship.

“You have to put a lot in it to get a lot out of it.”

Despite steady interest in his facial hair, Wilson said people still wonder if it’s real, often asking if they can touch it.

“You see their eyes brighten with, ‘that’s amazing!’ or you see their eyes widen with the horror of, ‘oh god I’ve touched that.’”

Though his father sometimes warns him of making it in the teaching world with a beard, Wilson said he’s not worried.

“I’ve sometimes thought about that [but] my professional manner ... and what I speak about should outweigh any concerns that employees should have,” he said.

Intolerance against facial hair is an issue that’s tackled by organizations like the American Mustache Institute (AMI), a mustache advocacy group that was founded in 1965.

The group was founded to provide support to bearded and mustached men of America, a role which includes fighting against school expulsions and job firings as a result of unaccepted facial hair.

According to chairman Aaron Perlut, who has been sporting some form of facial hair since a young age, beards and mustaches in the workplace aren’t as taboo as they’ve been in past decades. “[There’s] far more advocacy about the appropriateness of facial hair in the last decade. You can see millennials have [begun] using facial hair as a means of expression,” he said. “Employers need to recognize that they need to cater to a new generation.”

It’s a subject that the AMI tackles with a tongue-in-cheek attitude.

“We’re trying to promote our agenda with a certain sense of humour and so we aim for the web platform to entertain more than anything else,” he said.

“There’s always a subtle message contained within any aspect of that entertainment.”

With celebrities like George Clooney and Brad Pitt sporting beards and mustaches, contemporary culture has shown a shift towards facial hair.

It’s something that, Perlut said, displays a “sense of rugged attractiveness.”

“We’re starting to see greater acceptance by women which is important to the acceptance of mustaches,” he said.

With the increasing popularity of facial hair through charity events like Movember, Perlut said recent years have been good for mustache lovers.

This past spring, the AMI held the Million Mustache March in support of The ’Stache Act, an effort that helped raise awareness about the benefits of mustache growth and care.

According to the bill proposal, mustached Americans help the economy through the financial efforts that go into maintaining their facial hair.

The Act sought out tax benefits for people with mustaches but, for every participant of the March,

money was raised to help benefit people who can’t easily access clean drinking water.

It’s all part of the AMI’s mandate.

“We’re a not-for-profit organization,” he said.

With 100,000 website hits per month, it seems the AMI’s readership reflects facial hair’s popularity.

But this hasn’t always been so consistent.

Over the past century, there’s been a cycle of shifting to and from accepting facial hair, according to Perlut.

Mid-1800s England was a clear point of mustache and beard popularity, according to a research paper by University of Hull professor Susan Walton.

With war against Russia looming, Victorian England faced a time where facial hair became an assertion of manliness and strength, chracteristics that became increasingly important in battle.

Civilians allegedly copied soldiers’ styles, perpetuating the trend.

On the other side of the ocean, Abraham Lincoln’s American presidency ushered in further acceptance of facial hair — a very different look from the cleanshaven one, as influenced by Puritan religions.

As the first president with distinct facial hair, Lincoln’s bushy beard was one of his most recognizable characteristics.

“Facial hair was incredibly popular in America until roughly just past the Depression era.

When you first started to see a discriminatory environment towards facial hair was post-World War II.” Soldiers were required to be clean-shaven in order to properly fit gas masks over their mouth.

With returning soldiers hailed as heroes, Perlut said the clean-shaven look came into fashion.

“You started to see a movement away from facial hair. Once you get into the 60s, people with facial hair were labeled as hippies and slackers,” he said.

Beginning in the late 60s, however, facial hair came back into fashion with many celebrities starting to sport the look.

One of these was Walter Cronkite, the famed CBS Evening News anchorman who had

a characteristic mustache, a thick but well-groomed fixture on his upper lip.

As the anchor for one of the most famous newscasts of the time, Perlut said Cronkite helped popularize the mustache again.

After his retirement in 1981, however, there was again a downturn in facial hair’s reputation, paired with trends in the clean-cut look of the time.

“I think it’s across popular

culture, moving away from facial hair into a clean cut cycle,” Perlut said.

Once grunge, an alternative music movement that brought together punk and metal, became popular in the mid-90s, there was a subtle change in how people felt about facial hair.

“That kind of slowly transitioned into this millennium,” he said. “Mustaches again became kind of cool.”

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Popularized by the porn stars of yesteryear, this hairy caterpillar is also known as the Magnum, P.I. or the Chevron.

The late surrealist painter Salvador Dali had the strangest of mustaches, perfect for whenever you’re feeling artsy.

The fu manchu

The chin curtain

Extending past the chin on either side of the mouth, this style is reminiscent of old kung fu movie villains.

Also known as the Lincolnic, you can get this look going for the upcoming presidential elections.

The Klingon

The hulihee

A style often seen in Star Trek reruns, the Klingon is pretty much a beard without the comforting line of a mustache.

A longer form of muttonchops.

Something to consider for history majors who want to look like the people they study.

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