The Queen's Journal, Issue 26

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AMS elections

Three teams to vie for AMS executive Teams BGP, PDA and TNL officially launched their executive campaigns at midnight B y H olly Tousignant News Editor Candidates for this year’s AMS executive election were ratified last night at AMS Assembly, with three teams in the running.

Team BGP members include

presidential candidate Eril Berkok, CompSci ’12, vice-president of operations candidate Peter Green, ArtSci ’13, and vice-president of university affairs candidate TK Pritchard, ArtSci ’12.

Team PDA consists of Alexander Prescott, ArtSci ’14,

who is running for president, vice-president of operations candidate Craig Draeger, ArtSci ’13, and vice-president of university affairs candidate Lisa Acchione, ArtSci ’14.

Team TNL is made up of presidential candidate Troy

Sherman, ArtSci ’14, vicepresident of operations candidate Nicola Plummer, Comm ’13, and vice-president of university affairs candidate Liam Faught, ArtSci ’14.

The campaign period officially began at midnight and will continue until Jan. 28. The election dates are

Jan. 29 and 30. For full AMS and faculty election coverage, follow the Journal and queensjournal.ca in the upcoming weeks.

Fraternities

Policy advances

Frats amendment passes its first reading at Assembly

Left to Right: Eril Berkok, CompSci ’12, Alexander Prescott, ArtSci ’14, and Troy Sherman, ArtSci ’14, the AMS presidential candidates.

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Sexual Health

New condom dispensers on the way The Sexual Health Resource Centre plans to install the dispensers in the JDUC, Alfie’s B y R achel H erscovici Assistant News Editor The Sexual Health Resource Centre is installing new condom dispensers on campus in an effort to promote safer sex.

Dispensers will be placed in the washrooms in the Upper Celidh of the JDUC, just outside of the Queen’s Pub. The dispensers in the washrooms in Alfie’s Pub will also be replaced.

SHRC Director Amanda Judd said she got the idea during her time as publicity coordinator for

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SHRC last year, when she noticed that the current condom dispensers in Alfie’s washroom were beat up and were not being stocked.

“We thought this would be a great way to promote ourselves and promote safer sex,” Judd, ArtSci ’11 said.

Certain STIs, like chlamydia, are highest among Canadians aged 15 to 24, according to a 2011 study released by the Public Health Agency of Canada.

The SHRC dispenser will sell three kinds of Durex latex condoms, as well as Skyn non-latex condoms, which will cost between

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recognizable with decals containing contact information for the SHRC, prices and instructions for the machine.

A 2007 study on sexual health in Canada the Canadian Federation for Sexual Health noted that a feeling of embarrassment is a deterrent for purchasing condoms.

“Having condoms in washrooms, rather than walking up to a cashier, may help eliminate that barrier,” Judd said.

The costs involved for these new dispensers were out of range for the SHRC budget for special

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Twenty years in the House

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$0.25 and $0.75 per condom.

“The cost of condoms can be quite prohibitive to some people, and we’re hoping this will increase access,” Judd said.

Recently, a shortage of condoms has been reported across Canada since a major condom donator, Ansell Canada Inc., stopped their donation program which provided 500,000 free condoms to about 30 centres affiliated with the Canadian Federation for Sexual Health.

Places like the HIV/AIDS Regional Services in Kingston have also been experiencing a shortage.

Each dispenser will be

A motion to amend a section of the AMS Constitution on fraternities and sororities was passed last night in its first reading at AMS Assembly.

Before the changes are official it must go through a second reading, which will occur on Jan. 31.

The changes were made to section 7.01.03 of the Constitution which bans all fraternities and sororities and subjects members to penalty through appropriate tribunal. In its first reading, the amendment to the Constitution states that the AMS won’t recognize external affiliated organizations that are exclusive in membership, and any such organization won’t have access to the Society’s resources.

Mira Dineen, AMS vice-president of university affairs, said the revision brings the Constitution in line with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Ontario Human Rights Code, which prohibits discrimination.

“The [executive] went back to look at records from the 1930’s in order to see how they defined fraternities and sororities and their discussion helped our discussions on this,” she said.

Outdoor skating rinks are suffering this winter and a lack of cold weather may be the culprit.

The City of Kingston typically operates 17 outdoor rinks, but weather conditions have been a hindrance to the work of staff and volunteers who dedicate their time to maintaining the ice.

“It’s entirely weather dependent, unfortunately,” said Operations Manager of Public Works Troy Stubinski, who manages the

maintenance of the City’s outdoor rinks in the winter.

“It’s been a real challenge. We actually had a base on a lot of the rinks and lost it because of [recent weather], so we’re back to s quare one.”

Preparing the ice takes three to four consecutive nights of below freezing temperatures, and enough frost on the ground to hold the water and prevent it from seeping through.

“Last year we only had 20 ‘skateable’ days, between when we QMP returned to the House of Commons this week See Opened on page 14

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Oil sands pollution confirmed Professor’s study confirms suspicions about contamination of lakes B y H olly Tousignant News Editor

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government website, they’re one of the top 10 ‘nasties’ of chemicals.”

PAH is a pollutant derived from A Queen’s biology professor is oil and coal. It can also be caused gaining international attention for by human activity, such as through his work on a study that proves the smoking cigarettes or lighting a contaminating effects of Alberta’s match, which emit minimal levels of PAH. Cigarette smoke oil sands.

The study’s conclusion — contains numerous carcinogens, that pollutants can be found in including PAH. While the presence of PAH the lakes surrounding the oil sands operations — is a result may not come as a surprise to long-suspected by critics of the many familiar with the oil sands, defenders of oil industry practices industry.

The study, co-authored by previously claimed that the Queen’s John Smol, found minor levels of PAH in the surrounding pollution in six lakes 20 to 90 environment were natural and km away from the oil sands of not a result of oil sands activity, Smol said. northeastern Alberta.

The study, which Smol “The oil sands have been in operation since 1967 and many co-authored with an Environment of us have suspected that they’re Canada researcher, is the first to polluting, and frankly I don’t think prove the correlation between our results are that surprising, but the operation of the oil sands and increasing levels of contaminants. they had to be done,” he said.

“Two years ago there was a The oil sands are comprised of sand or consolidated sandstone study saying PAHs are higher in mixed with water and clay and snow near the oil sands operation,” steeped in bitumen, a thick form Smol said.

“There was a lot of pushback of petroleum.

Approximately 70 per cent of from this industry about this and the world’s bitumen’s reserves they’d say ‘yeah it’s high, but it’s are in Canada and most of the always been high, it would have country’s oil sands are located been high a thousand years ago.’”

The team was able to determine in northern Alberta’s three through paleolimnology — the major deposits.

Smol noted that one of the reconstruction of the history of contaminants found in Alberta, inland bodies of water — that the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons oil sands led to the increase of PAH levels. The levels are now as much (PAH), is a serious carcinogen.

“If you look at the US as 23 times higher than the levels of

1960, after beginning to increase in the 1970s.

The lake closest to the oil sands contains similar pollutants to an urban lake. Smol said despite the relatively low levels, the concern is that they will continue to rise as the oil industry expands.

“The industry itself is suggesting that within the next 15 years they’re going to expand 150 per cent,” he said, adding that such an expansion could lead to more serious problems.

A spokesperson for the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, Troy Davies, told the Calgary Herald that the study is being taken seriously, but stressed the current lack of impact on ecology.

“At the end of the day, I think this industry has to support good science and we’ve done that. We think transparency is important and we hope this is something that will reflect in the enhanced monitoring program that we support as well,” Davies told the Herald.

Smol said he’s hopeful the industry will address the issue his discoveries have brought attention to; he noted that among the many articles written about the discovery was a piece in an oil magazine, which admitted the veracity of the study.

“I think this paper is changing a lot of minds,” he said. “I think they can no longer say it’s natural.”

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Uncertain future for co-op Students interested in expansion of co-op and internship programs, but University has no firm plans for development B y A lison S houldice Features Editor Last spring, the University hired a new position to look into the potential of expanding experiential learning for Queen’s students.

According to Career Services, the program is still in its research stage and has yet to develop any firm plans.

“I don’t have a mandate to expand but at the same time I’m researching what we currently offer,” said Claire Lesage, who was hired last spring for the position of manager, employer and partner relations at the Career Services.

Lesage was hired over six months ago to begin researching any possibilities for expanding experiential learning programs, which can include models such as internships and co-operative education.

“We’re looking at many models,” she said. Lesage couldn’t offer any more details, except for the fact that she’s been conducting the process “intelligently.” She was also unable to confirm or deny if Career Services was considering co-op.

Compared to other Ontario schools, such as the University of Waterloo, where 60 per cent of students are enrolled in co-op, Queen’s offers very little experiential learning. There’s no school-wide co-op program and most placements offered through the Queen’s University Internship Program (QUIP) take place year-round and are geared towards more technical industries and not arts-related subjects.

“Ideally the intention is that we’re looking for programs that don’t affect the calendar in the way that co-op programs can,” she said, adding that any program chosen would have to fit with academic programming.

At Waterloo, campus must operate full-time, year-round in order to accommodate student co-op schedules. QUIP differs from this, as it offers longer placements (12 to 16 months) that students must take either after second or third-year.

Even though it’s unclear what direction the University is shifting in, the AMS has recently investigated the potential of implementing co-operative education at Queen’s.

Between 2010 and 2012, the AMS Teaching Issues Committee wrote a paper emphasizing the importance of co-op experience for students. Last March, AMS Assembly passed a motion that added a statement of support for co-op into AMS policy, based on the report from the Committee.

“We wanted to explore the idea of co-operative learning some more and see what is actually here, what there is room for,” said Misato Okutsu, co-chair of the 2011-12 Teaching Issues Committee.

Through their research, the committee found that there’s room for some form of experiential, co-operative education at Queen’s.

“There’s a huge need for it.

Especially as universities in Canada change, you can’t just stay stagnant,” she said. “Before, the AMS didn’t have a stance on it. So we kind of wanted them to have something to say about it officially.”

For Okutsu, Sci ’12, co-operative education can be more than just the traditional four-month work placement.

“It’s really important to keep in mind that’s its really discipline-specific,” she said. “You can’t just have the same thing for everyone.”

Isabelle Duchaine, AMS academic affairs commissioner, said there were some concerns when the report was originally presented

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to Assembly.

“There was actually quite a bit of very lively debate about it,” she said. “One of the concerns brought forward was that internships could kind of affect Queen’s in the sense that we have a very strong community. Commuting here and having students go back and forth between internships and campus could kind of disrupt that feeling of continuity.”

According to Duchaine, having this paper supported by Assembly means there’s room on campus for more innovation in experiential learning.

“It’s recognition that Queen’s hasn’t been as forward on this kind of enterprise as a lot of other universities, specifically Waterloo.

And that could be hurting us in terms of competitiveness in certain programs,” Duchaine, ArtSci ’13, said.

a huge need “forThere’s it. Especially as

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About 60 per cent of students at the University of Waterloo are enrolled in its co-operative education program.

a guarantee.

“We’re not in control of the market out there, so we try to make that really clear to students,” said Olaf Naese, an administrator with Co-operative Education and Career Action at the University of Waterloo. “It’s a really competitive environment.”

According to Naese, there are students who don’t find placements due to bad job markets, poor interviewing skills or little to no previous work experience.

There are also extra costs associated with having a fully operational campus year-round. “[It] requires professors to be teaching in the summer; [it] requires buildings to be air-conditioned, cleaning, the operation of residences and also a set of exams that have to be given in the summer term as well.”

In return, students get paid a salary by their respective employers, averaging about $600 per week.

Due to their placements, students in the Waterloo program also must take an extra year to get their degree.

Justin Lycklama, a fourth-year Computer Science co-op student at Waterloo, said thus far, he’s

had five co-op placements at three organizations: a ticketing company, a customer relationship management organization and a company that develops iOS software for hospital use.

His search for placements hasn’t always been a smooth process. Once, he didn’t find a placement until after the term had already started.

“It’s mandatory that you have to submit your grades,” he said. “My grades aren’t all that great. So sometimes it’s hard to get interviews. It all depends on the place.”

Even though he’s faced challenges in finding a placement, Lycklama’s overall experience with the co-op program has been positive.

“It’s always great to get used to the work environment,” he said. ”I like having the opportunity to go to these places, and learn about how these companies work.”

He said he had no problems continually shifting back and forth from his placement to campus.

“It’s like a constant break,” he said. “It keeps everything fresh.”

Career Services is investigating the potential to expand experiential learning.

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— Misato Okutsu, co-chair, 2011-12 Teaching Issues Committee At Waterloo, co-op placements in the form of four-month work terms are available for all faculties, which can take place during any term. Students often take a full course load during the summer months, which means that campus is bustling year-round.

But building an all-encompassing co-op program from scratch could take millions of dollars. The Waterloo co-op department currently employs 135 full time staff.

A complex online system is used for job postings and applications.

After interviews take place, students and employers rank each other based on preference.

Although Waterloo’s system helps create matches, the process can be independent for students, as finding a placement isn’t

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Low economic growth ahead for Kingston Kingston’s economy not thriving, but business professor forecasts favourable conditions for students B y h olly tousigNaNt News Editor

from the loosening of the local rental market.

“Kingston has over the past Kingston may “lag behind” most roughly seven to 10 years has had of the province economically, very little occupancy capability. For but a Queen’s business professor the most part, we’ve been running has forecasted relatively positive at pretty much full occupancy,” conditions for part-time or casual he said. “And I know that that’s created some issues from students workers who live in the area.

Gary Bissonette, assistant in terms of looking for housing.”

Due to a number of new professor in the School of Business, presented his projections for the residential projects that have national, provincial and local been proposed, Bissonette said he economies of 2013 at the School’s believes accessibility to housing will Business Forecast Luncheon improve somewhat.

Overall, however, he sees the held on Dec. 11 at the Four city experiencing a slow-down in Points Sheraton.

“We believe that there will be terms of residential and commercial a small drop in unemployment, construction, the exception being but we probably won’t recover the two new residence buildings at the same rate as the rest of to be constructed on main campus.

The global economy took a the province or Canada overall,” hit in 2008 in what some top Bissonette said.

Although his presentation economists claimed was the forecasted only minor job worst financial crisis since the growth and slightly lower levels depression of the 1930s. The crisis, of unemployment for 2013, the which lasted from late-2007 to City’s emphasis on part-time and mid-2008, was initially triggered casual employment and the stable by the bursting of the US housing growth of retail sales are good bubble, and many economies are news for students who wish to still recovering.

Kingston’s public administration work off-campus.

“I think that there will probably and government services-based be ample opportunity for students economy may have helped the city in terms of part-time casual weather the storm of the global financial crisis, but it’s that reliance employment,” Bissonette said.

He added that students can that could be detrimental going also look forward to benefitting forward, according to Bissonette.

His presentation noted that Kingston’s economy lacks “diversity and agility,” with 84 per cent of economic productivity lying in the service sector, compared to 76 per cent for Ontario and 70 per cent for Canada overall.

The strongest growth of the next year will come in the manufacturing sector, Bissonette predicts, but manufacturing will still remain the “smallest sector overall.” Although a yogurt factory set to be built in Kingston was stalled, Bissonette said he’s optimistic that manufacturing will be generated in Kingston.

This manufacturing could occur in the area of watercraft technology, he said.

Ontario’s reliance on manufacturing has contributed to an overall shift in the country’s economic growth movement from central to western Canada, Bissonette said.

This can be attributed to the province’s exports relationship with the financially-troubled US, and the genersl shift in manufacturing away from North America.

“If we take a look at the western provinces, which are much more natural resource-based, the demand for those economies has certainly accelerated globally.”

Bissonette said one of the greatest challenges for Kingston

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moving forward will be cultivating a stronger professional job market.

“Probably the larger concern for Kingston itself lies in its need to create a stronger professional base of … high-skilled positions, positions that pay well and will continue to allow for further economic growth and further job growth,” he said.

He advocates assisting student entrepreneurs, particularly those in the technology and energy sectors, with incubation and fund

money as well as “opportunities to link with skilled managers and seasoned advisors.”

“We have the intellectual capacity and the intellectual capital here,” Bissonette said. “We’ve got a lot of bright students, we have a lot of forward thinking research taking place, and so for us it’s simply an opportunity to leverage those skills and those competencies, which many other towns don’t have at their base.”

CAMPUS CALENDAR Tuesday, Jan. 22

Wednesday, Jan. 23

Summer Job Fair open to all students Athletics and recreation Centre 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Back From Abroad — Now What? re-entry session Queen’s university International Centre, JDuC 3 to 5 p.m.

Whole Foods Cooking for SMArtIES Ban righ Noon Hour Speaker Series Whole Foods expert Cecile Wehrell presents tips, tricks and recipes 32 Bader Lane 12 to 1 p.m.

Thursday, Jan. 24 trends in Income Inequality in Canada: Comparisons and Contributors Policy Studies Speaker Series — Charles Beach robert Sutherland Building 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m.

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Two decades in the House Conference heads to the House of Commons for the 20th year B y J ulia Vriend Assistant News Editor

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Affairs critic for the NPD, also spoke. She focused her time on the topics of youth and how they This year marks the 20th don’t vote.

Other speakers include Martha anniversary of Queen’s Model Parliament (QMP) being hosted Hall-Findley, who is running for in the House of Commons, and, Liberal Leadership, and MP Marc for the first time on record, a Garneau, the first Canadian man in speaker of Aboriginal descent is outer space.

Foerter said she believes that in attendance.

The nearly 60-year-old mock parliament conference, organized by co-chairs Britney Foerter and Christopher Fee, commenced on Tuesday.

“What we really want to do is facilitate a forum for students to get together and debate what is important to them in Canadian politics and society as a whole,” Continued from page 1 Foerter, ArtSci ’13 said.

The conference this year has projects, so Judd applied for an 308 student delegates, who debate Equity Grant. a bill each hour they’re in the The grant was eventually House over the three days. approved this summer by the AMS Part of Foerter’s job is to choose Council which covers about $1,700 and secure 20 speakers for the for installation and the machines conference. The speakers act as themselves. The SHRC will cover the Speaker of the House would the costs of the decals for the in Parliament, and at the end of dispensers, the stock and future the hour they get 10 minutes to maintenance while the grant will address the delegates on a topic of cover the delivery and installation. their choosing.

After multiple delays due to fall This year they’re hosting Betty Orientation Week preparations Ann Lavallée, who is the National and the University closing over the Chief of the Congress of Aboriginal winter break, the dispensers are Peoples (CAP). The CAP represents ready and waiting to be installed.

Aboriginal peoples who don’t live Judd said she hopes to see the on reserves. dispensers installed in late January Jean Crowder, Aboriginal or early February.

this three-day event is important for students because the younger age demographic doesn’t get involved with politics as much as previous generations.

“It’s interesting to see the bureaucratic things that go into the legislation because we are governed by this legislation every day.”

Condoms will be sold at cost Many colleges in the US have installed such dispensers since the 1990s, Judd said, in an effort to fight sexually transmitted diseases like HIV/AIDS. Currently, condoms can be found in various places on campus like Health, Counseling and Disability Services’ waiting rooms, various SHRC events and vending machines across campus, including Victoria Hall.

In the future, the SHRC may look into installing more dispensers like these.

“Over the next year or so we will evaluate their use and this project, and if it’s successful we would like to reach out to the Grad Club and Clark Hall Pub about doing something similar,” Judd said.

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News in brief Undergraduate Student Trustee candidates announced

innovation with an international focus.

The top six proposals will be presented to judges on Saturday. This year, the QEC will also feature keynote speakers such as the original founder, Meredith Van Binsbergen, who began the competition in 1988 and currently works as a brand manager for Proctor & Gamble.

The event is funded by sponsors with cash prizes of $15,000 for first place, $6,000 for second place and $2,000 for third, with $1,000 each for innovation and sustainability for two separate teams.

The candidates for Undergraduate Student Trustee were announced at last night’s AMS Assembly. Student Trustees, one of three student voters on the Board, are elected to a two-year term as a full-voting member on the Board of Trustees.

Three students are campaigning for the role: Andrew Aulthouse, ArtSci ’15, Leo Erlikhman, ArtSci ’14, and Nathan Utioh, ArtSci ’15.

— Vincent Matak The role of the Student Trustee is to Woolf considered contribute opinions on financial and non-academic business at the Board of for reappointment Trustees, which meets at least four times a year. Lauren Long, CompSci ’13, has held Daniel Woolf is being considered the position since 2011. for reappointment as Principal and Voting will take place on Jan. 29 and Vice-Chancellor at Queen’s.

30. For full coverage see the Journal and Woolf is the University’s 20th principal queensjournal.ca in the upcoming weeks. and has served in the role since 2009. He’ll complete his current term in June 2014.

— Julia Vriend An alumnus of Queen’s, Woolf has taught at Bishop’s University, Dalhousie University Entrepreneurs return and McMaster University, before serving as Dean of Arts at the University of Alberta. to Queen’s Since his appointment in 2009, one of his The Queen’s Entrepreneurs Competition focuses has been improving relations with (QEC) has returned to Goodes Hall to the City and alumni, following Principal Tom celebrate its 25th anniversary after hosting Williams’ decision to cancel Homecoming in the event in Toronto last year.

2008. Woolf’s reappointment will be decided The event began yesterday and will by the Joint Board/Senate Committee to run until Saturday. It features 18 business Review the Principalship, chaired by proposals from teams across North America Chancellor David Dodge.

The committee is seeking consultation and Asia which will be assessed by prominent from the community regarding the decision.

Canadian and American business figures.

In past years, the QEC has featured the Calls for submitting views about the future of CEO of the Calgary Flames, the President the University in relation to the Principalship of Loyalty One and the Managing Director are being accepted through email at principal.review@queensu.ca. of ONCAP. For the full story, see the Journal Proposals are judged on their originality, financials, overall viability and marketing. next week.

— Vincent Matak The event aims to emphasize on business

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The rules of dating have changed and become far more ambiguous.

Stricter Evolution no cause for serious concern sanction T

he baby boomer generation needs to calm down. Gen Y hasn’t killed off courtship; we’ve t’s time to crack down on the simply forced it to evolve to fit in abuse and misuse of blue lights with our modern day society.

In a recent article published in on campus.

Since 2008, the amount of the New York Times titled “The malicious or causeless blue light End of Courtship?,” writer Alex uses has gone up significantly. Williams overreacts to a cultural From 47 mischievous emergency change that is far more organic phone activations in 2008, the number has risen in recent years.

Even though the numbers have fallen since 2010, when 175 blue lights were activated without cause, we should aim to return to pre-2008 numbers.

The problem has been partially linked to the existence of some jacket bars, which involve shotgunning a beer at each blue light on campus.

When students are inebriated, especially well into accomplishing the blue light bar requirements, they are far more likely not to consider the consequences of their actions.

It’s this sort of thoughtlessness that needs to be discouraged.

The blue lights serve a very important purpose on campus — a purpose that students may often forget about.

With sexual assaults and violence against students, specifically women, occurring on Canadian university campuses, these blue lights serve as patrolling drunken students who a valuable safety checkpoint for all. don’t understand the value that the In trivializing the significance lights bring to students. of these blue lights by maliciously The problem still remains hitting the emergency button, though, raising questions about students are inevitably threatening taking further preventive action. the integrity of this campus resource.

While the AMS’s non-academic Blue lights should be on this discipline system places minimum campus to promote a safer space sanctions on those who are caught and environment for all. maliciously pushing blue lights, this By condoning drinking games is difficult to reinforce. and glancing over vandalism, There needs to be more done to Queen’s culture allows for the ensure that students who commit creation of a dangerous double such acts are caught and that standard. How can a blue light punitive action, such as having the be considered a beacon of safety student pay a fine, is taken. when there’s a group of inebriated While shifting away from a students surrounding it? culture normalizing these sorts of It’s unfortunate that Campus incidents is important in preventing Security has had to hire more the misuse of blue lights, it doesn’t security guards to patrol the blue seem to be enough at this point. lights for these malicious acts.

Queen’s campus needs to respect While Queen’s thankfully what these blue lights are meant to doesn’t experience the same degree do for us. Until then, maybe it’s of violence as other schools in the time to put some stronger measures country, these resources should be in place to prevent their misuse. put towards preventive measures — Journal Editorial Board on campus — not towards

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That’s why I was shocked to The bottom line is that cancer learn that somebody whose claim mutilates bodies from the inside to fame depends on having the out and that mutilation almost perfect figure was willing to trade always affects more than just the it in for a guaranteed life without patient. If there’s any way to avoid breast cancer. this then all precautions should be The New York Daily News taken if it’s possible. published an article detailing the To me, deciding to have your extensive measures that Alynn breasts removed when there’s no Rose, a contender for the Miss guarantee of actually contracting

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have changed and become far more ambiguous. This isn’t a bad thing. In fact, it can oftentimes lead to more honest connections, where romantic interactions are tailored to what each individual wants.

Williams isn’t wrong in pointing out that casual sex is more common nowadays. He is wrong however in painting this as a bad thing.

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than it is negative.

It’s true that courtship looked very different in the past. Men were expected to ask women out on dates involving expensive dinners and flowers. Courtships were more committed, more formal and often involved more romantic effort from the man’s side.

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We live in a generation where people are more willing to take the time to figure what they really want out of a romantic connection.

That doesn’t mean that individuals don’t put effort into building a romantic connection.

Not all women want to be wooed with expensive gifts and dinners out, and not all men should be expected to do so.

The gender roles in 20th century courtship have also been blurred.

Women can be the wooers too nowadays, especially given that the heteronormative standards applied to relationships have shifted.

“Gone with the Wind” type romances are waning, yes. But with the ever-changing role of women in society and with shifting gender expectations in general, maybe those romances simply don’t fit in with our modern day and age anymore.

Courtship as our parents’ generation knew it may be dead, but that doesn’t mean that today’s youth have killed it off completely.

It has simply changed and is better catered to the needs of what young people want and need out of a romantic connection today.

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the disease is an exceptionally brave move for somebody who could have a genetic predisposition.

Rose’s place in the public eye means a step has been taken in redefining what it means to be a woman. She’s placed a greater value on strength and courage than a body that so many women dream of.

My mum embodies the less public version of this redefinition.

When she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2001, she underwent a single mastectomy.

She no longer has her left breast, but to me she could not be a more perfect model of the woman that I hope to become.

Thanks to women like my mother and Alynn Rose, courage and strength are starting to remodel today’s definition of beauty — turning the emphasis from the outside in.

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Dismantling the culture of silence: Mental health and race In November 2012, the Principal’s Commission on Mental Health released its final report with 116 recommendations for a mental health strategy at Queen’s. Of these recommendations, only a small portion (section 3.7: Vulnerable populations) address those who are socially marginalized and have greater experiences of stress.

The report fails to mention the clearly identified “culture of whiteness” at Queen’s, meaning a culture dominated and shaped by the attitudes, beliefs, and values of white men, first highlighted in the Henry Report, which was presented to Senate in 2006.

The Report was commissioned to examine experiences of faculty members of colour at the University who consistently named the alienation, isolation and violence they experienced in a culture of whiteness. While the Commission’s report names certain vulnerable factors, such as race, sexual orientation, ability and class, as responsible for higher risk of stress among students, it fails to identify how the culture and environment specific to Queen’s contributes to this heightened risk.

Queen’s itself is responsible for many of the mental health struggles of students of colour, Aboriginal students, disabled students and LGBTQ students.

The Henry Report was written in response to the departure of six visible minority faculty members who cited racism as their reason for their leaving. While the Report was published almost seven years ago, issues of racism persist on campus and contribute to mental health issues for racialized students.

The Queen’s Coalition Against Racial and Ethnic Discrimination (QCRED) has regularly acted as a safe and inclusive space for students encountering racism in ways that prevents their experiences from being denied, silenced, or minimized. Specifically, QCRED holds Each One Teach One discussions, where students

who participate often speak about how their peers fail to understand or even dismiss their experiences.

QCRED members have recommended that students experiencing mental health issues seek professional support as well. However, these students continue to cite misunderstanding or difficulty in relating their experiences of racism when they seek support, especially when seeing white counselors or therapists. In effect this can exacerbate mental health issues, increasing the level of anxiety and dismissal, which promotes silencing.

University community.

At its inception, QCRED was working to create an Inclusive Space Program — a workshop series in anti-racism designed to equip faculty, staff and students to deal with racism in the Queen’s community. This project has never been fully pursued, largely because QCRED members are mostly full-time students who need to juggle academic demands while dealing with experiences of racism.

In effect, this is how the University consistently shirks the responsibility of supporting racialized students who do this kind of work.

Additionally, programs that The report fails to receive administrative support, mention what has been such as the Positive Space — funded through identified as the “culture Program the Human Rights Office at of whiteness” at Queen’s, Queen’s — are often limited and first highlighted in fail to offer resources for students the Henry Report, who experience the intersection which was presented of different types of discrimination. the Positive Space Program to Senate in 2006. Though does acknowledge sexual diversity, it makes no mention of race as an Formed in 2006, alongside important factor in determining the presentation of the Henry social and academic experiences Report, QCRED was created by at Queen’s.

It’s imperative that when the a coalition of students and faculty to address the presence of racism University discusses strategies for on campus and to create an moving forward they commit to anti-racist environment for supporting safe spaces in order historically marginalized members to create a dialogue between the University and students to address of the Queen’s Community.

In the past, QCRED has the culture of silencing around lobbied to hold the administration sensitive issues like racism, mental accountable for the implementation health and how they intersect.

Addressing mental health issues of their recommendations from the Henry Report and the requires a critical look at the Diversity and Equity Task Force. practices and covert racist relations QCRED has also sought meetings that ensue between students inside with Principal Woolf to discuss and outside of the classroom.

The Commission’s report does the work it does to support students of colour but has been have numerous recommendations that will benefit many marginalized repeatedly ignored.

The Commission’s report students who are struggling recommends the creation of with depression and anxiety. spaces across campus that are For example it encourages the safe, welcoming and inclusive University to consider student consistency and especially for marginalized workload students. Though these safe spaces, balancing of assignments. This like QCRED, CFRC Radio and is an important step that must OPIRG, exist, they rarely receive be supplemented by mutual acknowledgement from the responsibility from departments

and the administration in the design of courses so they reflect and integrate diverse experiences and perspectives.

Though the Positive Space Program does acknowledge sexual diversity, it makes no mention of race as an important factor in determining social and academic experiences at Queen’s.

The Henry Report notes that the student academic culture at Queen’s can be hostile to material taught by faculty of colour, especially when that material deals with racism. QCRED believes and affirms that student accountability and respect for others in the classroom, as highlighted in the Report should also be part of the reflexive intellectual training that Queen’s prides itself upon. Clearly, the success of the Commission’s recommendations require a joint effort between the University and its students.

The need for dialogue around racism and mental health can’t be overemphasized since people have been raising the intersection of these two issues at Queen’s for more than a decade.

If the mental health of all students is to be respected, then the administration needs to revisit the Henry Report recommendations and the recommendations of the Diversity and Equity Task Force. If it doesn’t, this will inevitably lead to another round of unimplemented policy recommendations at Queen’s that will fail to address the issues of mental health and the marginalization of racialized and Aboriginal students.

The Queen’s Coalition Against Racial and Ethnic Discrimination is a student-run organization that deals with anti-racism on campus.

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“It takes away from the blue light’s purpose and effectiveness.”

Howard Shaw, ArtSci ’14

“It’s inconsiderate to the school body.”

Jayevan Foster, ArtSci ’12

“I love blue lamp” Chloe VanLandSchoot, NURS ’16

“It’s a tradition gone overboard.”

Sarah Armstrong, KIN ’15

“Sounds like a good time.”

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Funny friends Turkey Turkey were three best friends before they made a band together B y S avoula S tylianou Arts Editor The members of campus band Turkey Turkey are close.

So close they know the number of chest hairs each of the others have.

While Riley Shaw said he doesn’t have any chest hairs yet, he knows his bandmates and housemates Tom Yeates and David Cronin have more going on in the chest area.

“Tom has four, and David’s got quite a few,” Shaw, Sci ’13, explained to me.

My interview with the campus band comprised of more laughter than serious questions. It’s clear that David, Tom and Riley are three best friends who just happen to make music together.

“David and I grew up on the same street and he and Riley went to school together, so we’ve been friends for a while,” Yeates, CompSci ’13, said. “Then

The three members of Turkey Turkey (from left to right: Riley Shaw, Tom Yeates and David Cronin) pose in the middle of University Ave. after coming up with the concept for this photo on their own.

we all discovered we played instruments that coordinated in a band formation.”

Drummer Shaw, guitarist Yeates and keyboard player Cronin first played music together in the tenth grade and since then have gone on to the same university.

“We all just happened to pick Queen’s, which was awesome.

And we’re all in sciences,” Yeates said.

Since then, the cover band went on to win last year’s Clark Hall Battle of the Bands competition.

“We had an advantage because we were the last band to play.

We played a cover of the Arthur

theme song and people seemed The three students were to like it — or they got drunk and totally in sync while we were forgot everybody else,” Cronin, talking — from finishing each Sci ’13, said. other’s sentences to picking up on Shaw said the trio’s motto is to the other’s music references. not take themselves too seriously Cronin, Shaw and Yeates said while performing. they all enjoy doing covers from “The whole thing is that we different decades of the past. want the audience to sing along “We have a diverse selection of and have fun, that way it’s more songs. Sometimes we play a 90s fun for everyone, including us.” hit, then we do a more recent one,” The guys don’t take themselves Shaw said. too seriously off stage either, which Yeates chimed in that they was evident when they were joking try to keep the songs they play about Cronin’s fear of the dark. somewhat current and relatable “I have six nightlights in for the audience. my room,” Cronin said, as “For example, we’ll do a his friends laughed.

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popular enough that most people would know who they are, but not everyone.”

Yeates said the band wouldn’t rule out playing together even after they all graduate this year.

“If we’re in the same area, we’ll keep it going. Hopefully, we’ll all end up in the same place.”

As the four of us finished talking and the guys left me with hugs, I felt more like I had just hung out with a group of friends instead of doing a formal interview.

Turkey Turkey returns to Clark Hall Pub tonight to defend their title in the Battle of the Bands at 9 p.m.

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Awake at The Drowsy Chaperone Blue Canoe Productions adapts Tony-award winning musical in the Baby Grand Theatre B y K atie G randin Contributor

brains of a Ken doll, along with animation reminiscent of a classic This is showcased in the his best man George, played by Disney villain, making him an comedically punctuated number James Gibson-Bray, demonstrated audience favourite right from As We Stumble Along, a “rousing anthem about alcoholism,” Hearing the words “I hate theatre,” a seemingly life-long knack for tap the start.

The talented women in the performed by Hayley Goldenberg isn’t something you’d expect dancing in their number Cold Feets.

Sébastien Darcel-Sinclair’s cast enforced the parodied style as title character The Chaperone. during the opening minutes of characterization of the romancing of the production through their Kyle Holleran’s performance a play. as Man in the Chair not only But when it happened, I Aldolpho carried a captivating humorous melodramatic acting. couldn’t help but think I might be in for a bumpy evening of performance theatre.

Nervously, I watched as the opening minutes of The Drowsy Chaperone continued.

Laden with irony, the main character of Man in Chair continues his monologue in his apartment on stage. He talks about the breaking of the fourth wall, all the while doing it himself.

This opening monologue sets the tone for the play which both parodies and mocks the absurd enthusiasm of the iconic genre of 1920s comedic musicals.

As the audience is welcomed into the Man’s apartment, they are also invited into his musings and recollections of The Drowsy Chaperone, as the characters of the musical arrive onstage.

I was surprised when the plot of the musical began to unfold in front of the Man to create a metatheatrical play within a play.

The plot of this particular musical is a love story between an oil connoisseur and a Broadway star, and a pilot and her Latin lover. photo by Tiffany Lam Scott Jackson playing Robert, Kyle Holleran plays the main character of Man in Chair in The Drowsy Chaperone with excellent a groom with both the looks and comedic timing to match his character’s disdain for the genre of musical theatre.

carries the production’s active momentum, but the majority of the comedic weight.

His interruptions to the musical and many ironic monologues about the theatre, such as a rant about cell phones in the audience, give way to an underlying appreciation of its joys.

I particularly enjoyed the three hilarious minutes he took to consume a granola bar in silence in lieu of an intermission.

The small studio space of the Baby Grand seemed unconventional for a musical, with the cast becoming slightly overpowered by the force of the live band. Eventually the marriage of the performers’ voices and the instrumentation creates intimacy in the production.

The Drowsy Chaperone does exactly what a musical is supposed to do — whisk you away and entertain you for an hour and a half.

Though the play begins with a hateful proclamation against theatre, this production will reveal its pleasures and ensure that if you weren’t a theatre fan before, you will become one soon enough.

Blue Canoe Productions’ The Drowsy Chaperone runs in the Baby Grand Theatre until Jan. 26.

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Jack Daniel’s, mischief and music Hisland returns to Kingston with stories of troublemaking B y A lex D ownham Assistant Arts Editor The members of Hisland have been on one or two epic benders.

Guitarist Mat Araujo and drummer Rob Corrigan recalled playing the South by Southwest Festival in 2011 and for them it was quite the few days.

“The memorable story from that was that we drank for 14 days straight,” Corrigan said as he chuckled.

That’s not the first time the band, which also includes vocalist Andrew Silvestro and bassist Dave Kaduk, has gotten themselves into trouble.

Corrigan told me about one occasion when their bassist broke 12 laws in one night.

“It all involved driving a moped.

It was in one instance — it was quite funny. That’s his claim to fame, I think,” Corrigan said.

All in a day’s work for rock stars.

This party attitude is seen in their live performances, where they often take a shot of Jack Daniel’s whisky before playing.

For fans of Cloud Nothings, Vampire Weekend and Deer Tick, this static style rock and roll band is worth checking out when they play Kingston on Friday.

Araujo said he’s excited to play because it’s the band’s first time doing a gig here.

In fact, Hisland’s performance

in town is overdue since they’ve already visited several times during the summer.

“It’s really cool that this is our first show here because our band name actually comes from our cottage in the Thousand Islands up there,” Araujo said.

When the rock group sat down to write the songs on their EP, Araujo and Corrigan both agreed that they don’t look for inspiration to write. Instead, it finds them.

“It all depends — certain songs are for the moment. One song on the EP you might write hungover one day, and the other songs might be more heartfelt. It’s very spontaneous.”

Although they love playing all of their songs, Araujo said he enjoys playing “Balloon Lungs” the most.

“Everyone seems to love it and it has this 50s rock feel to it. I think when we brought in that bass line and those harmonies in the back it just really brought the song together.”

Hisland, unlike other young Canadian rock bands, isn’t signed to a label. Corrigan said the situation isn’t ideal, but also has its upside.

“If you have any problems, you know who it came from. It’s not a long process of what’s happening.

Everyone’s very accountable for what’s going on.”

Despite difficulties like having less exposure than signed bands,

Araujo and Corrigan agree that keeping band decisions internal is worth it.

“It’s like having a little family,” Araujo said.

Hisland plays the Mansion tonight at 10 p.m.

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Despite the difficulties of being unsigned, Hisland guitarist Mat Araujo (left) and drummer Rob Corrigan (second left) agree it’s easier to hold only themselves responsible for whatever happens.

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Wild Domestic enjoys wild rides Guitarist Andrew Lennox discusses touring misadventures on the road as the band gets ready to go on tour

The band decided not to charge the audience ticket fees because they would rather have people come to the show just for the music, guitarist Andrew Lennox says.

B y S avoula S tylianou Arts Editor It’s a soundtrack of the road, so make sure your windows are rolled down.

The steadiness of Wild Domestic’s heavy drum beats gives off this incessant vibe.

Paired with melodiously droning guitar riffs, the band’s sound gives listeners a feeling of empowered relaxation fitting for the open highway.

Guitarist Andrew Lennox said Wild Domestic is often compared to other bands who resemble “throwback 70s jam bands.”

“The best we’ve gotten is Pink Floyd — that was an honour.”

Their band’s been together for over five years and now they’re back on tour with their latest EP. For Lennox, the job’s worthwhile because of the people he surrounds himself with.

“The people I love are on tour, the people I begin to love are the ones who come to the shows. They could be doing anything else, but they come to the shows.”

Having a bond with his bandmates comes in handy when unexpected situations happen on the road, Lennox said.

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He recalled one instance when the band took a U-Haul on tour and one of the tires popped off outside Montreal.

“We pulled over and instead of freaking out, we were just trying to make each other laugh,” he said. “It’s nice to know that we can handle situations like that without ripping each other’s heads off.”

When they make their stop in Kingston, Lennox said he’s going to be on the lookout for good coffee rather than good beer.

“I want to see the organic fair trade coffee shop [Coffeeco] since we don’t have one like that in London [Ont.].”

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Wild Domestic isn’t charging anything for their shows on this tour. Instead, the shows will be pay what you can at the door.

Lennox said this is because the band agreed they would rather have people come to the shows for the music, regardless of cost.

“A lot of people come because it’s a free show and then they end up spending their money on the CD or merchandise.”

Wild Domestic plays the Mansion on Sunday at 9 p.m.

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Victoria Park’s outdoor rink, one of 17 outdoor rinks in Kingston, has been out of service for the entire winter, due to mild weather conditions.

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Men’s hockey head coach Brett Gibson is long-time friends with equipment manager Jason Jones (above).

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opened on Jan. 15 and around mid-March,” Stubinski said, noting that previous years have seen over double that amount.

These seasonal changes caught the attention of a group of researchers at Wilfred Laurier University’s geography and environmental studies department.

They launched an online project called RinkWatch, which aims to track the usability of outdoor skating rinks across Canada.

Functioning as a typical crowd-sourcing website,

RinkWatch allows the public to update the state of their local rinks on an interactive map.

“Ideally, there would be hundreds of repeat users who input information each week,” said co-founder Robert McLeman, an associate professor at Laurier. “It’s definitely a long-term project.”

Research that inspired RinkWatch’s launch found that certain areas of Canada will have no outdoor rinks 50 years from now.

“It’s a personal connection because when we talk about climate change, we invoke images

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Bridging the player-coach gap Equipment manager Jason Jones, aka “Jonesy,” does more than sort equipment B y J osh B urton Staff Writer Jason Jones plays his part for the love of the game.

The men’s hockey equipment manager, nicknamed by the team as “Jonesy,” is instrumental in doing the dirty work — assuring the team’s prepared for every practice, home game and road trip.

He’s invaluable and a “go-between,” who’s able to have relationships with players on a

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more personal level, according to head coach Brett Gibson.

“It’s hard sometimes for players to talk about the everyday things that go on in life, and Jonesy’s the guy who [does that],” Gibson said.

“He’s a support valve.”

Former Gaels captain Jon Lawrance became an assistant coach this year, shifting his relationship with his former teammates.

“I’m still good friends with a lot of [the players], but there’s still a boundary,” Lawrance said, leaving Jonesy as the go-to for player support.

“As coaches, you don’t discuss things as openly with players as Jonesy might,” he said.

During games, Jones is upbeat behind the bench in contrast to the emotional Gibson. He stands next to the backup goaltender, offering encouraging one-liners: “C’mon boys, get hungry here.”

“I wouldn’t say [I’m a] psychiatrist, but I’m always there for the guys if they need to vent or whatever, because coaches have

better things to do sometimes,” Jones said.

In what’s been a turbulent year for the seventh-place Gaels, his positive influence and approachability have made him a favourite among the skaters.

As coaches, you “don’t discuss things as openly with players as Jonesy might. ”

— Jon Lawrance, men’s hockey assistant coach

He describes his entrance into the role as “a fluke.”

Jones was the equipment manager for the Junior B Gananoque Islanders during Gibson’s rookie season, where he worked for 12 years. He joined the Gaels in 2005 when Gibson became assistant coach.

“I came up one time with [Gibson] for a practice and we were sitting around talking after the practice was over,” Jones said.

“[Head coach] Kirk [Muller] approached me and asked if I’d be interested in joining the team and doing the equipment duties.

“I thought what the heck, why not.

It’s something different — move up a little bit, different calibre hockey, different age group.”

The former player hung up his skates after Pee Wee, maintaining his “hockey fix” through refereeing and other work until he found permanent work with Gibson.

Today, he plays winger on two men’s league teams, one in Kingston and one in Gananoque.

“Any chance I can get on the ice, I try to get out,” Jones said.

A construction worker by day, Jones is a volunteer and receives no pay for his work with the Gaels, but receives travel compensation.

“For the most part I do it because I enjoy being at the rink,” Jones said. “I’ve always loved hockey from day one and it’s just a way to stay involved in the game.”

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like ice caps and polar bears, which are more abstract to us,” McLeman said. “If you talk about changes in conditions in people’s backyards, they can immediately see the connection.”

While milder conditions diminish the lifespan of sports like outdoor hockey, it allows for other sports to endure year-round.

This year, Queen’s Athletics introduced outdoor soccer and touch football intramurals, to be played from January through March. Weather permits the usability of fields which were snow-covered in previous years.

The University bought snow removal equipment in case of a serious snowfall.

“We’re trying to make the most of the resources we have,” said Duane Parliament, Queen’s Intramurals Coordinator. “When we first got Tindall [Field], the usability was phenomenal and we realized we can run things 12 months of the year.”

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Jones joined the men’s hockey program in 2005.

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Scoring drought persists Gaels’ offense sputters again in loss to first-place carleton B y J osh B urton Staff Writer A couple key bounces cost a determined Gaels squad on Tuesday night.

The Carleton Ravens (14-5-2) moved into first place in the OUA East after topping Queen’s 3-1 at the Memorial Centre. The Gaels have dropped two straight games in regulation.

The Ravens capitalized on three defensive mistakes, coming away with a win despite allowing the Gaels to move the puck into the slot all game.

“If we score a couple goals in the first period on our scoring chances, this could be a different game,” head coach Brett Gibson said, “but we made three mistakes, they capitalized and that’s why they’re in first place now.”

Carleton owned a 3-0 lead before forward Jordan Soquila scored the Gaels’ lone goal on a third-period power play. The goal came one second after the first penalty expired in a Gaels 5-on-3.

“I thought Soquila tonight was going and I tried to get him on the ice as much as possible,” Gibson said.

Gaels goaltender Riley Whitlock made 39 saves and finished with a .929 save percentage in the loss.

He had no hope on the second and third goals, both coming off deflections.

The Gaels could have taken

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a scrum ensues near the Gaels’ bench in the third period.

the lead early had it not been for the stellar play of the opposing goaltender. Carleton’s Matthew Dopud made numerous quality saves, including stacking the pads on a breakaway against Gaels forward Steve Schmidt.

Dopud stopped 28 of the 29 shots he faced.

“We get a lot of scoring chances in every game we’ve played, but we just haven’t been able to put the puck in the net as much as we’ve wanted,” Gaels forward Joey Derochie said.

Frustrations at the lack of offense boiled over in a third-period scrum in front of the Gaels’ bench.

Gaels forward Kelly Jackson and Carleton’s Michael Folkes received offsetting double minors.

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“A couple of ... cheap plays by them might have caused us to lose our cool a bit, but that’s not an excuse,” Gaels captain Corey Bureau said. “We’re still trying to win a game, but definitely a lack of goals is getting us a little frustrated.”

With only nine games remaining in the regular season, the Gaels face a key road trip this weekend.

They’ll face the Nipissing Lakers and the Toronto Varsity Blues.

“The [only] way we’re going to score goals is if we stay positive and have confidence,” Bureau said. “We know we’re a great team — we’ve just got to show it.”

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wOMen’s

HOCKeY

The powerhouse women’s hockey team is the diamond in the rough of Queen’s Athletics.

The rough, of course, is the Memorial Centre: the moth-eaten antique of a hockey rink. Fans are a rarity, but the few who attend rarely leave disappointed. At 16-2-1, the Gaels are one point B y n ICK FArIs assistant Sports Editor

Men’s BasKetBaLL

Men’s basketball hasn’t exceeded all conceivable expectations this winter — they’ve destroyed them as emphatically as a Greg Faulkner dunk.

Queen’s sits at 9-3 just past the midway point, good for fourth in the loaded OUA East. After topping last year’s win total in

behind the Laurier Golden Hawks for the OUA lead.

Men’s basketball might be a Cinderella story in the making, but the women’s hockey team is out to redeem themselves.

Head coach Matt Holmberg last led the Gaels to an OUA gold medal in 2010, followed by last year’s playoff disappointment. A Katie Duncan leads Queen’s defence with 16 points.

the second weekend of the season, the youthful Gaels are far ahead of schedule.

The despondence of last season’s 2-20 finish has disappeared. By landing Faulkner, a third-year Carleton transfer, and assembling a fearless nine-man recruiting class, head coach Stephan Barrie has engineered a full-scale culture change.

Barrie’s earned rave reviews

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from Geoff Smith, the former Gaels’ bench boss and devoted superfan. Smith’s enthusiasm encapsulates the increased buzz surrounding this year’s team — something women’s hockey has failed to achieve.

The basketball program’s remarkable improvement starts top down, but it hinges largely on Faulkner.

The Kingston native escaped the

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wOMen’s VOLLeYBaLL

When your two best players leave, it’s easy to lose wind. But the women’s volleyball team just took it as another obstacle to overcome — one which has resulted in seamless success.

Last year, the team surprised everyone by wining their first-ever OUA championship. They suffered from the loss of Natalie Gray and

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depths of Carleton’s championship roster to emerge as a veritable franchise player at Queen’s. He’s third in the OUA in scoring, consistently pacing the Gaels’ offense and ferrying the young team through the grind of the league season.

Queen’s offense sits second in the OUA — an abrupt turnaround See Men’s Basketball on page 19

Becky Billings coming into this season, but their train isn’t slowing down anytime soon.

Even with the loss of veterans, the team’s shown the ability to adapt by welcoming a class of well-rounded recruits with setter Ali Shamie, middle blocker Shannon Neville, left side hitter Brett Hagarty and libero Becky Wilson.

Middle Katie Hagarty helped capture oUa gold last year.

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That’s 250 x more storage and that’s a win for students.

For the Environment A study of a medium-sized university1 found that hosting data on campus uses about 9,000,000 kWhrs of energy and that produces about 12,000,000 pounds of carbon.2 It would take approximately 4,000 acres of Douglas firs to absorb the resulting emissions.3

As a result of hosting student email in the cloud ITServices will retire 6 servers and students will be able to use more efficient devices. These are great steps in Queen’s commitment to living green.4 Microsoft® also has a commitment to living green and is working toward being carbon neutral.5

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from last year, when only the feckless RMC Paladins ranked lower in points.

Faulkner’s shooting prowess has been supplemented by the play of first-year guard Sukhpreet Singh, who has shown panache uncharacteristic of most rookies.

The remnants of last season’s team — particularly forwards Nikola Misljencevic and Mackenzie Simpson, as well as recently returned guard Ryan Golden — have embraced their roles as supporting actors in Barrie’s star-studded cast. The Gaels transformed their entire identity in a single offseason, making their immediate ascent all the more impressive.

The men’s basketball team is reaping the benefits of a change in team culture this year, having brought in 10 new players.

Compared to last year, they’re doing great.

But women’s volleyball already made that transformation last year, bringing in 12 new rookies after losing All-Stars Katie Matthews and Lorna Button. Now there’s nowhere to go but up.

Last year, the women capitalized on an early winning streak and were 6-3 by the December break.

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first-round loss to the fifth-place York Lions was a premature exit.

Sitting fifth in the weekly CIS rankings, they were ninth back in early October. Why they were ninth to begin with is anyone’s guess; their upward progression was no surprise to those familiar with this group.

It begins with the McHaffie twins. Fourth-year All-Star forwards Brittany and Morgan McHaffie provide scoring in bulk.

Morgan’s 28 points in 19 games keeps her in the hunt to defend her 2011-12 OUA scoring title. With 117 career points and counting, her scoring touch is invaluable.

Second-year Taryn Pilon is the skilled beneficiary of the second highest scoring forward line in the OUA, contributing 21 points of her own. First-year sniper Courtenay Jacklin’s 11 goals in 19 games extend scoring depth beyond the vaunted first trio.

Their upward progression was no surprise to those familiar with this group.

Katie Duncan’s her own machine. She plays defence with a forward’s mentality — with four tallies and 16 points, her offensive prowess makes her a rare breed.

Along with blossoming first year Alisha Sealey — first in OUA rookie defence scoring — the Gaels’ offensive threats are endless.

Netminders Karissa Savage and Mel Dodd-Moher provide any hockey team’s dream: reliability between the pipes. Savage and Dodd-Moher are first and second in goals against average in the OUA, while Savage’s .940 save percentage is a goal-scorer’s nightmare.

Recurrent division rival Laurier, ranked fourth in the CIS, is the sole obstacle to an OUA championship.

Coming off a disappointing 2011-12 campaign, expect a return to nationals.

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Greg Faulkner is third in OUA scoring.

Upcoming games against Carleton and Ottawa will determine the team’s playoff potential, as will a rematch with nationally ranked Ryerson, who barely outlasted the Gaels on Jan. 6 in double overtime.

At the very least, Queen’s won’t quit — and they’re set to challenge for OUA supremacy far into the future.

Unfettered hunger trumps sustained success. Women’s hockey could challenge for a championship, but 2013 will be remembered for the rise of men’s basketball.

Women’s volleyball already made their transformation.

Now there’s nowhere to go but up.

They’re similarly consistent this year, currently riding a sevengame winning streak to sit third in the OUA. It’s that same determination which will secure them a spot in the OUA playoffs. The Gaels will soon play a much-anticipated game against the second-place Ottawa Gee-Gees, which will determine the team’s fate.

Although the Gaels have yet to meet the Gee-Gees this year, their record against the team last regular season was 1-1, with the Gee-Gees coming up short against the Gaels in the OUA playoffs. The score will be tight, no doubt.

The Gaels have lost their top two scorers, while the Gee-Gees’ Karina Krueger Schwanke ranks third in points in the OUA, just above Gaels’ outside hitter Colleen Ogilvie.

But if the Gaels continue to take advantage of their winning streak, team depth and ability to come through in tight situations, they’ll be able to squeeze out a win against the Gee-Gees.

This could mean a spot in the OUA playoffs and the possibility of a national medal.

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According to the AMS clubs website, there are over 17 religiously-affiliated clubs on campus.

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Students keeping their faith in sight While religious students can face discrimination, clubs help create a like-minded community B y S avoula S tylianou Arts Editor

he said. “I’ve also then had in the Queen’s Chinese Catholic (QCCC) has students worried about class Community content and how it’s been been a gateway for her to continue practicing her faith away At Queen’s, toting your spirituality dismissive of their religion.”

But at a school with 17 from home. means more than getting the Despite her origins as a company of fellow religious different religiously-affiliated AMS students. It can end in clubs, it’s easy for religious “cradle Catholic” — the term for some discomfort in this students to gravitate towards someone who was raised in the one.

While like-minded faith — she doesn’t make her ever-secularized world.

“The majority of students students often socialize together, religious beliefs obvious.

“I don’t get in people’s do feel comfortable here, but I Yealland said there are both also do occasionally hear advantages and disadvantages faces and tell them I’m Catholic, but it’s not that I would deny from students who remind me to this.

“It’s a good thing to hang it,” Lee, ArtSci ’14, said. “I go that there are still issues to be dealt with,” Queen’s Chaplain out with people like you for to mass every Sunday and try to companionship, but it’s a do everything that’s involved Brian Yealland said.

In the Chaplain’s office, bad thing because university in my faith, like [going to] located in the JDUC, Yealland is where you get the chance confession because that’s a big part as well.” said he’s spoken to students who to cross boundaries,” he said.

So when Lee came to have been on the receiving For those in this close-knit end of offensive comments community, derisive issues can be Queen’s three years ago, she said finding some kind of Catholic or strange looks due to their less influential, Yealland said.

“If they’re spending most group on campus to join religious beliefs.

“I’ve had Muslim women of their time with similar was a priority for her.

“Joining a religious group come to me having felt derisive people, then they’re not going gives you a sense of family looks from people due to their to run into issues at all,” he said.

For Janice Lee, her membership because you know everyone choice to wear a head covering,” there shares the same perspective and challenges with expressing your faith on campus,” she said.

While Lee said none of her non-religious friends have ever judged her, she Any Queen’s student can join in on events held by religious groups on does tend to hang around Catholic friends. campus. Below are events held by on-campus clubs that represent the “I have Catholic values so most recognizable religions in the world.

I tend to converse with people who aren’t judgemental Queen’s Hillel of who I am and what my preferences are,” she Social programming: Shabbat dinners on Friday nights. said. “I hang out with a Religious programming: a club event to light Menorah candles for lot of Catholic friends because every night of Hanukkah. they’re amazing people.”

However, when discussing her most intimate personal Queen’s University Ismaili Students Association details, Lee said she would rather discuss it with her Social programming: sports night on Friday nights. friends who are also Catholic, Religious programming: traveling to mosque every day to pray. who she identifies with more easily.

“There’s just different levels of friendship,” she said.

This particular kind of Queen’s Chinese Catholic Community connection led to Khalif Savji’s place as the Chair of the Social programming: volunteer outreach with the men’s prison.

Queen’s Ismaili Muslin Students’ Religious programming: attending mass every Sunday.

Association (QUIMSA).

As someone who wanted to connect with people similar to him, Savji’s

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quoted “I’ve had Muslim women come to me having felt derisive looks from people due to their choice to wear a head covering. I’ve also then had students worried about class content and how it’s been dismissive of their religion.”

task was made easy because the former members of QUIMSA knew he was coming to Queen’s.

“Because the Ismaili community is so close-knit, a lot of people have big families in the big cities like Vancouver, Ottawa and Toronto and a lot is heard through word of mouth,” Savji, ArtSci ’14, said.

During the club’s registration this year, they estimated that there were 60 to 70 Ismaili students signed up on campus.

“We have about 45 in our club right now and a core group of 20 Ismailis that do come to all of our club events,” he said.

Savji’s been a practicing Ismaili Muslim his whole life and he said he always had a choice in his faith.

“I was raised into the religion, but at the same time, I wasn’t told that this is the way it is and that’s the way it has to be — we were encouraged to question,” he said.

In the classroom though, faith doesn’t have the same kind of place, according to religious studies professor William Morrow.

Morrow said even in the religious studies department, the individual faiths of the students in the seats isn’t something widely discussed.

“I think that the status of

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faith in the classroom isn’t something that’s usually explored, even in the School of Religion,” he said.

The reason for that lies in the School of Religion’s commitment to academic discourse, Morrow said, despite what people may perceive.

“There’s a sense in which it’s simply not appropriate to be demanding of students that they make some kind of reveal of their own relationships to some of the materials we might be discussing.”

Morrow said despite this some of the courses that he teaches might be intimidating to students.

“I teach Introduction to the Jewish Bible and I’m sure it must be quite threatening to some students to talk about events such as the Exodus as legendary rather than strictly factual.”

And in a world where institutions are becoming more and more secular, it makes sense — personal faith isn’t as widely acknowledged as it was 100 years ago.

“It’s not like there’s any kind of public policy that’s really ‘anti-religious,’” he said.

“The decision-making practices that people use don’t appeal to those belief systems in the public sphere.”

— With files from Janina Enrile