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Shelter in limbo Dawn House facing review by the City B y R achel H erscovici Assistant News Editor The operators of Dawn House, a 10-bed shelter for high-risk women and children, fears the city is pushing for their closure.

“We’ve been a real staple in the community,” said Kathy Bauder, chair of the shelter’s board. “If anything [the City] should be looking at expanding us because we’re usually full.”

The City, however, says they simply wish to ensure funding Storm Patterson, one of the leaders of CrossFit Queen’s and second from left, and Badr Hefanwi, second from right, work out together at Photo by Alex Choi for the shelter is effectively spent. the ARC. Patterson and his fellow organizers have put group CrossFit workouts on hold until they can reach an agreement with Athletics and Recreation.

Giving $300,000 to Dawn House annually, the City provides sPORTS the majority of the funding the programming provided.

Both the shelter and the City shelter receives.

Through the AMS opt-out fee of agree that Dawn House has $0.85 and SGPS opt-out fee of $1, experienced multiple instabilities the Queen’s community provides with their management with over $15,000 in funds to Dawn various executive directors quitting due to the high-stress nature of House annually.

Following an operational the job. Since the City’s request review of Kingston’s shelters by for a closer review, a significant B y N ick Faris school year. They’ve organized basic functional movements with the City in 2011, certain issues number of board members have Assistant Sports Editor group workout sessions at the weight training. of concern were identified with also quit.

ARC, expanding the CrossFit The issue, according to the A recent status report on the CrossFit Queen’s is searching for a Queen’s Facebook group to over organizers, is Athletics and Dawn House in particular. The City ordered a report to be shelter, compiled by the City, permanent home.

550 members.

Recreation’s refusal to cooperate. compiled and presented to city was released on Tuesday to Callum Owen and Storm CrossFit is a comprehensive Owen, PheKin ’15, said ARC council reviewing the operations city council.

Patterson have been trying to workout program scalable to staff members have begun breaking If the shelter doesn’t meet establish a sanctioned CrossFit club any level of strength. It targets up their group workouts over the of the shelter, including its budget, management and the types of See Shelter on page 4 at Queen’s since the start of the overall fitness by combining past month, following a series of meetings with Athletics and Recreation management.

LGBTQ According to Owen, they took issue with the workouts’ instructional aspect.

Owen said he and Patterson sought to understand their restrictions, but weren’t given any guidelines.

“There’s no clear line written quite small because there were so “What we heard was that bar experience.

B y J ulia Vriend out for what the allowances are for many events overlapping. they wanted more social events,” “We want to show the students this style of thing,” Owen said.

Assistant News Editor Now that it’s spread out over she said. that there is no need to be afraid,” He and Patterson have This year they added a campus Strelbisky said. “We (the directors) been told continuing with This year’s Pride Week isn’t a week two weeks, students have more at all, but a two-week-long social time to plan out which events they sleepover, which will be hosted in want people to know that [this organized CrossFit workouts want to participate in, Sinclair said. the Red Room in Kingston Hall. week] is a celebration and we want could result in the loss of their and educational affair.

“The Pride Week in March was The details of the sleepover will be to promote who we are.”

ARC memberships.

Queen’s Pride Project directors Strelbisky mentioned that “It’s almost like CrossFit has Alexandra Strelbisky, ArtSci ’15, normally around exam time, so we available on their Facebook page.

The group also planned an students have been victimized at been labeled as this negative, and Jessica Sinclair, ArtSci ’13 have lost a lot of students to studying,” LGBTQ ”takeover,” which the larger bars because of who they intrusive thing at the ARC, when revamped the events for this year’s Strelbisky said.

To get a higher turn out this year, involved choosing a bar — in this dance with and can face constant in reality, it’s this incredibly positive Pride Week, the seventh annual the organizers asked students what case the Spot Nightclub — for all harassment over their sexuality. and beneficial thing,” he said. at Queen’s. those who want a more inclusive Strelbisky and Sinclair made they wanted out of the week.

See Events on page 5 See Hostile on page 13 quite a few changes this year, they said, to ensure that student turn out would be higher. This included moving Pride Week up to February, instead of March like in previous years.

“We hoped by moving it to February it [would allow] us to spread ourselves out,” Sinclair said.

Feature News Arts Postscript “And now it is spread out over two weeks, so people don’t feel A look at the history of Former minister of defence A review of the drama Exploring the lengths that so overwhelmed.”

Kingston’s St. talks global warming, department’s production of locks of hair will go to.

Last year, Pride Week at Queen’s Mary’s Cathedral. banking reform and UFOs. Blood Relations. was a week-long celebration with about four events a day. Sinclair Page 3 Page 4 Page 8 Page 16 said she believes the turn out was

CrossFit challenged Students seek approval for burgeoning fitness program

Pride Week undergoes expansion Seventh annual Week offers more social activities spread over a longer period

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Within stained glass Saint Mary’s Cathedral is just steps away from campus, and home to both a crypt and a popular urban myth B y A lison S houldice Features Editor There may be a tunnel under one of Kingston’s oldest churches, but no one can tell you for sure.

According to popular myth, an underground tunnel exists between St. Mary’s Cathedral on Johnson and Barrie Streets, and Hotel Dieu hospital, over a block away.

The gothic-style Cathedral was built in 1843 and, at the time, didn’t sport the high spire now familiar to the Kingston skyline.

The building where Hotel Dieu is housed now was a teaching college associated with the Cathedral, called Regiopolis College.

Rodney Carter, an archivist at the St. Joseph Region of the Religious Hospitallers, has heard the tunnel rumour twice now.

The Cathedral’s official website claims it to be true, but Carter isn’t so sure.

“I don’t know where exactly this rumour comes from,” he said. “It’s about two blocks away through solid limestone. I’ve never seen any evidence.”

Carter, whose office is located at Hotel Dieu Hospital, first heard of the possibility when contacted several years ago by a fact checker for The Walrus magazine, who was printing a poem that mentioned the tunnel.

“I’ve been in the basement of the Sydenham Wing [at Hotel Dieu] and I haven’t seen anywhere where there could have been a passageway,” he said.

Father Brian Price, an archdiocese archivist from the Kingston area, believes there could be some truth to the rumour.

“There was supposed to be [a tunnel], but I’ve never seen it,” he said. “There’s supposed to be an entry… in the east wall of the basement of the Cathedral.”

He does know that there was a passageway at one point in time that transported heating between the two buildings.

“That became closed years ago of course and I think some of it caved in at some point in time.”

Perhaps a more well-known story is of the body of the region’s sixth bishop and first archbishop,

Under the main floor of the Cathedral, in the crypt, the bodies of past bishops and religous leaders are buried.

1843: Construction begins.

Photo by tiffany Lam

James Cleary.

For years, it was thought that he was entombed in St James’ Chapel, which is adjacent to the cathedral and sits just off of Brock St. “He was buried in the chapel … facing the altar,” Price said. “Tradition said that’s where his body was located. But they did some work in the 1950s on the chapel and took up some of the flooring and couldn’t find the grave. So God knows where he’s gone.”

Today, bodies lie beneath the Cathedral’s main level. Tombs of early bishops and other religious figures are housed in the basement crypt, as well as parishioners who could afford to pay for their own tombs.

Upstairs, 16 white pillars run down the length of the nave and intricate stained glass windows line the exterior walls of the building.

The colourful windows were imported in the 1890s from England. In order to avoid paying tariffs, the bishop at the time, Cleary, appealed to the Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, to get a tax exemption. Macdonald tried to help Cleary, but the attempt was unfruitful.

“Tradition says that Sir John A. paid the tax himself, which was very kind of him. He was a Presbyterian,” Price said.

Although St. Mary’s may be one of the city’s most notable churches, it’s not the oldest.

“The oldest church still standing that we know about is 285 Queen St.,” said Jennifer McKendry, a local architectural historian “The building, though, has been refurbished and now stands as a banquet hall.”

As for the tunnel rumour, McKendry said its existence is unlikely. At the time, priests traveled between only three sites — the Hotel Dieu lot, the Cathedral and the Bishop’s House.

“I really doubt priests were so scared of the weather that they couldn’t walk from one to the other,” she said.

“You have to be very careful because tunnels are the stuff of mythology and urban legends,” she said. “Little red flags should wave every time you hear that.”

Photos by tiffany Lam

The gothic-style cathedral was first built in 1843.

Extensive renovations in the 1890s included the additon of the spire.

Who’s buried under the Cathedral?

Alexander Macdonell (1762-1840): Was the first bishop for Kingston. He owned the land where the church now sits, and commissioned its construction. He died before it was built, but his body was later taken and interred on site.

Remi Gaulin (1787-1857): Received the second bishopship of Kingston when Macdonnell died in 1840. Due to severe mental and physical disabilities, he was forced to resign as bishop in 1843. In 1857, he died in Lower Canada, but his body was transported to Kingston to be buried at St. Mary’s.

Patrick Phelan (1795-1857): Kingston’s third bishop.

He laid the church’s first cornerstone and helped consecrate the church in 1848. Died after contratcing a cold at Gaulin’s funeral.

James Cleary (1828-1898): The sixth bishop and first archbishop of the church. He’s said to be buried under St. James’ Chapel, but when construction happened in the 1950s, his body was nowhere to be found. It’s unclear what happened to him.

St. Mary’s since 1880 1888: A new tower and spire were built at the estimated costs of $76,760.

1890s: St. James’ Chapel was constructed on the Cathedral’s lot.

1846: Divine services 1880s: Extensive renovations took place, started taking place including the construction of the 242 ft church tower, the purchase of new in the building. confessionals and the installation of its stained glass windows.

Source: Dicitonary of Canadian Biography Onlinece:

2011: Canada Post featured the nativity scene from the church’s stained glass windows on their Christmas postage. stamps.

2010: A man smashes the Cathedral’s stained glass 1951: Monsignor windows, causing about $50,000 in damage.

Giovanni Battista Montini, later known as Pope Paul Source: The History of Saint Mary’s Cathedral of the VI, visited the Cathedral.

Immaculate Conception, Kingston, Ontario, 1843-1973, Louis J. Flynn.

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B y H olly Tousignant News Editor Former minister of national defence Paul Hellyer is calling for a mobilization.

Hellyer, who’ll be delivering a talk at Queen’s on Monday, believes the solution to global warming is already within our grasp. But it’s not a solution that can be found in a recycling bin or a hybrid car.

This solution, he claims, exists in extra-terrestrial technology, which he believes has been present on earth for years.

“I’m convinced that the technology exists to replace fossil fuels almost immediately,” said Hellyer, currently the longest serving member of the Privy Council.

“This is something I can’t prove, but in my opinion, the technology exists and it is controlled by the same small, elite group who control the oil industry and the banking industry.”

Hellyer’s talk is being hosted by the Queen’s Environmental Law Club. In it, he’ll delve into what he calls the “three most important issues facing humankind today”: global warming, the need for an overhaul of the banking system, and the presence of extraterrestrials and their technology.

“My main hope is that there will be some people who will catch a little bit of the urgency and try to do something as individuals that would help get governments to take all of these three major issues seriously,” he said.

A mobilization similar to the manufacturing efforts of World War II will solve global warming, Hellyer said.

“At that time, all of the An engineer by trade, he unified automobile plants and the factories the army, navy and air force during that made washing machines and his stint as minister of defence. refrigerators and so on were all Hellyer has been outspoken converted to the manufacture of about his views, gaining attention those things that were required to in 2010 after disagreeing with wage the war,” he said. famed physicist Stephen Hawking “And what I’m saying is that over the malevolent nature of we have to just do that in reverse. extra-terrestrials, and has gained Now we have to convert all of the recognition as one of the most arms makers, the ones who are prominent Canadian UFO theorists. making the weapons of destruction, Hellyer also believes the into plants that produce the new American government has put energy sources that we have to billions or trillions of dollars have to accomplish this absolutely into the reverse engineering stupendous project.” of alien technology, for the This concern is second in his purpose of creating what he calls mind only to the reform of the “diabolical weapons.” banking system, which he believes He cited the reticence towards is necessary to provide agencies acknowledging these issues as a with the financial flexibility to fund reason why governments have the change from fossil fuels into perhaps not better addressed them. “exotic or clean energy.”

“Until very recently at least, if Hellyer’s concerns about the you started talking about UFOs banking system go back to his people were likely to wind their childhood experiences during fingers around their ears or give the Great Depression, but his the impression that you had concerns over global warming and perhaps been smoking too much extra-terrestrials have only emerged of something or other, or said you over the last decade. were getting old and not thinking Since going public with his too clearly.” concerns over extra-terrestrials Hellyer was privy to information in 2005, Hellyer said he’s been about UFO sightings as defence “deluged with information from minister, but was “too busy to all over the world” in the form really be concerned about them” at of papers and books. He’s shared the time. his controversial views in his own What he currently hopes books and in his talks, which have to achieve, he said, is more been delivered at events such events government transparency so the as exopolitics — or, interplanetary public can make up their own politics — conferences. minds about how these matters His political career, which should be dealt with. began in the late 1940s, includes “I think we have to get some a bid for Liberal leadership, a bid disclosure before it’s too late.” for Conservative leadership and a return to the Liberals, followed Paul Hellyer will speak at Dunning by the founding of the left-leaning Hall on Monday night at 7 p.m.

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Shelter receives $300,000 “[The City’s] really not cutting us any slack,” Bauder said. “They’re certain recommendations and not really giving us time to build a expectations that the City good solid board or do the things has established, funding can that they’ve asked.”

The City has said they don’t be withheld.

These recommendations include wish to close down the shelter.

“We’re supportive of their submitting finance reports on time said Sheldon on a monthly basis and organizing operation,” new types of programming for the Laidman, director of the City’s housing department. “They shelter’s residents.

The City will be monitoring provide a service to a section of the shelter over the next year and the homeless population that’s extremely important and they’re reporting back to council by June.

“We need our funding, we need a long-standing operator in to stay open, we need to service the community.” these women because if we close, However, given that the City there’s no place for them to go,” does provide the shelter with a Bauder said. significant amount of money, they Dawn House is the only shelter wish to ensure that this funding is in Kingston that takes in high- used appropriately and effectively, risk women — those struggling Laidman said. with mental health issues or The City provides funding drug abuse. to the shelter using the same Due to the instability in model that other shelters in the management, fundraising efforts city have. have been minimal over the past But unlike some other shelters, few years, but the shelter looks to Dawn House is open during the focus more on these efforts in the day, and the City provides about $175,000 — included in the upcoming year, Bauder said.

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$300,000 — for their day time support services, funding which other shelters may not receive.

Laidman noted that the City doesn’t have control over whether shelters stay open or closed, only over the funding they contribute.

The City will continue to monitor Dawn House’s effectiveness, Laidman said, but they currently believe management is operative.

“The report that was at council [on Tuesday] was strictly informational,” he said.

“It included no recommendations, it only provided council with an update of the status of Dawn House as it relates to the operational review that the City has been undertaking for quite some time.”

The six city-funded shelters who wish to continue to receive funding for 2014 will be required to submit a proposal to city council at the end of this year.

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Sinclair pointed out that she wants students to realize that anyone can come to their events.

The events are free, except for the Reel Out films. Financial aid can be arranged for those who speak to the directors.

Strelbisky said they’ve

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faced difficulty in the past with advertising, and to combat this issue, the directors want to target first-year students to get more involved.

“We hope to do a lot of outreach for first year students because they are going to be here longer,” said Sinclair. “It is harder to find places to get involved in within the circles

you are [automatically] placed in.”

The co-chairs said their main goal for the “week” is to create a positive social scene for Queen’s and the community.

“I personally believe we are celebrating a diversity that is available here at Queen’s,” Strelbisky said.

NEWS IN BRIEF

writer’s handbook, refinement of press day logistics and the Janina Enrile and Alison Shouldice reinstatement of assistant photo have been elected as the incoming editor (video), as their three biggest editors in chief of the Journal. platform initiatives.

The team won by a 70 per cent “For the writer’s handbook we vote of confidence last night, with want to make things as easy as 14 votes in favour and six against. possible for contributing writers,” “It’s overwhelming and we’re Shouldice, ArtSci ’13, said. “One very happy to all the people who of the focuses we want to have decided to come out and vote,” is attracting contributors to Shouldice, ArtSci ’13, said. the Journal.

Enrile and Shouldice, who “We want to implement these in serve as the Journal’s Postscript order to make Journal life easier on and Features Editors respectively, staff and to make the experience highlighted the creation of a better for them and to enhance the

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experience in any way that we can in our role,” Enrile added.

The team began campaigning on Jan. 28, and held a question and answer session at the Grad Club on Wednesday, prior to the vote.

They said they chose to run together because of their ability to work in unison.

“We trust each other entirely,” Enrile added.

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DIALOGUE ADVERTISEMENT

Sex sells

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alm down, Twitterverse; Audi’s latest Superbowl commercial has caused far more uproar than warranted.

The commercial, which features a teenaged boy going to prom in his Dad’s new Audi sports car, aims to show how the car gives him the confidence to break out of his shell.

In the ad, this confidence manifests itself in him going up to the prom queen and kissing her.

Many tweeters have accused Audi of condoning sexual assault, arguing that the ad portrays the young boy kissing a girl without her consent.

This is a classic narrative that Audi used craftily to effectively sell their car.

But, it’s not the first time that an ad has capitalized on portraying an empowered underdog character.

The outcry is demonstrative of how individuals in today’s day and age can express their discontent so much more quickly thanks to social media, however brief and reactive their messages may be.

One thing that this public discontent with the ad does show is how much more easily our society is willing to critically discuss gender dynamics in the media.

Twenty years ago, this sort of narrative wouldn’t have raised many eyebrows.

Our culture should ask tougher questions about the gendered and sexualized messages our media conveys.

It’s time to look at broader trends in Superbowl advertising in general instead of centering attention on one ad.

Car commercials often try to pander to their male demographic by showing how women find men with expensive cars sexy. Sex sells — that’s undeniable.

If we’re going to take issue with one ad, we should take issue with the larger portrayal of women in Superbowl ads, advocating for messages that portray women as more than just sexual objects of desire.

It’s time for tweeters to take their focus away from one relatively harmless ad campaign and focus on the bigger picture.

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Students are using this drug with no awareness of the damage it may cause.

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here’s no easy way to getting better grades; students shouldn’t rely on a pill for a quick fix.

As CTV recently reported, the use of prescription medications designed to treat Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) has increased on university campuses.

Specifically, students undiagnosed with ADD are using them to focus and study more effectively without getting a prescription from their doctor. As the CTV article indicated, 11 per cent of students say that they have used these drugs as study aids.

The trend is troubling, especially given that students who get the drugs without a prescription from random sellers on campus rarely receive the warning about the side effects that one would receive from a doctor.

Adderall and Ritalin, two of the most common medications used by students to increase their ability to pay attention and study, is known to cause severe mood swings, irritability, nausea and decreased appetite, as the Wall Street Journal outlines.

Even with all of these side effects, CTV reported how easy it was to find such drugs. They sent a news intern into the UBC library

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The website allows users to create personalized boards designed to categorize the photos they “pin” on the site. Users are able to choose whatever images they like to add and pin to their boards.

Since 2011, the photosharing platform’s popularity has grown exponentially.

The most popular type of photos on Pinterest, according to a 2012 study, are home, arts and crafts, style/fashion and food.

This is worrisome to me, especially since women make up 68 per cent of the site’s users.

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to resort to medication to help them out?

The identification of this troubling trend should be a call for action from universities to educate and help students on the dangers they may face. Students shouldn’t see this as an easy way to better grades — the consequences are more complex than they may think.

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dangers of using these stimulants as study aids if one isn’t diagnosed with ADD. Hopefully, this trend will also cause universities in Canada to address not just this particular issue, but the larger root causes.

Why are students compelled to take these drugs? Are university environments too stressful and competitive for students, forcing them to believe that they have

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While it’s an innovative and — Journal Editorial Board successful platform, it’s used in too narrow of a way, specifically by the female target demographic.

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to hunt for these medications from students studying there. It took them a matter of minutes to access these drugs without a prescription.

It’s time for universities to not rely solely on doctors to educate people about these side effects.

Students are using this drug with little to no awareness of the damage it may cause them. Given this trend, universities should work to raise awareness about the

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I can understand why. I’ve spent time stumbling through the Internet, going through page after page of do-it-yourself ombre hair and places to satisfy my wanderlust.

I found myself hankering for a way to take note of all these places I’d visited online.

Then I realized that Pinterest, a website I’d been peer-pressured into joining months before because of its recent popularity, could do just that. I’ve even installed a little ‘Pin-it!’ button on my browser toolbar so I can pin without having to sign onto the website.

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Are you ready for the snowstorm?

President of MCRC counters critiques of residence rules

“I just can’t trust the weatherman.”

Irfan Tahiri, ArtSci ’14

Tuba Chishti, ArtSci ’14

People don’t fully understand what the ResRules do for the building of a community.

When I was in first year, I was documented for having a screaming contest on my floor with two other friends. I did it because our floor was too quiet and I know it sounds silly now, but it seemed like a good idea at the time. Three years later, I am still living happily in residence partly because of the rules — not in spite of them.

Lately, the campus community turns its attention to residences only to examine the ResRules.

Questions focus on quantitative aspects of the system and miss the opportunity to think about the bigger picture of why this system exists.

More than 90 per cent of first-years (nearly 4,000 students) choose to live in residence.

Although each Queen’s student has a unique experience, most of us share a common “residence experience.”

This is shaped by what the individuals in that community bring and expect from others, and it’s also strongly influenced by the upper year students who choose the rewarding but challenging jobs of helping new students through a huge transition phase.

They are the go-to people who support students’ health, wellness and success through the ups and downs of being in first year. ResRules are an integral part of that.

My residence experience has been the best part of my time at Queen’s and that’s why I care so much about this. The ResRules are designed to educate residents on their responsibilities, the

consequences of their actions and to allow residence to be a community that values mutual respect of each others’ rights, wellbeing and academic pursuits.

Fundamentally, that experience is what the ResRules exist for.

I don’t think enough Queen’s students understand why and how the system exists.

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and age, are these really our top interests? Without any guidelines in place, users gravitate towards domestic interests.

Of course, there’s nothing wrong with having these interests, but I believe women care about a wide variety of topics. Why can’t we broaden the types of images we share?

The National Post and NBC have attempted to share their photojournalism through the site.

While they have their own Pinterest boards, when I look at the site’s home page, I don’t see these photos.

Instead, I see wedding dresses and cookie recipes.

From this, companies that promote domestic lifestyles for

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Lately, the campus community turns its attention to residences only to examine the ResRules.

Questions focus on quantitative aspects of the system and miss the opportunity to think about the bigger picture of why this system exists.

Main Campus Residents’ Council and Jean Royce Hall Council work with Residence Life (ResLife) to administer the ResRules in a fair and consistent manner.

The Discipline Working Group (DGW), a subcommittee of Senate, is composed of representatives from these groups. The DWG regularly reviews ResRules and the student conduct system in residence.

For the conduct system, Dons, hired by ResLife, interact primarily by documenting any situations they observe which may violate the ResRules. Residence Facilitators, hired by the Residence Councils, investigate Level 1 and Level 2 alleged violations of the ResRules — things like noise women are benefiting.

Last year, Pinterest became the top referral site for both marthastewart.com and marthastewartweddings.com.

There’s nothing wrong with a woman looking and appreciating a wedding dress, but I hope those who do so on Pinterest understand the greater image they’re contributing to — one where women’s interests don’t go beyond food and fashion.

In another world, Pinterest could be a fantastic social media site. But it also might be portraying an unfairly narrow view of women’s interests.

Alison is one of the Features Editors at the Journal.

complaints, illegal entry, drinking games and many more They find responsibility and assign sanctions from a range of available educational, progressive and, where appropriate, restorative sanctions. Appeals are made to the Residence Conduct Board made up of upper year students while Level 3 ResRules infractions, for things like violence, possession of weapons, etc are dealt with by Residence Life administration.

There’s also a misconception of how many infractions really take place. 57 per cent of residents never come into contact with the conduct system and of the 43 per cent who do, 51 per cent of them only do so once. In 2011-12, there were 2,402 ResRules violations (1,692 Level 1, 618 Level 2 and 92 Level 3). From 2007-11, since the double cohort, ResRules violations ranged from 1,800 to 2,000 incidents a year, with Level 1 violations representing the vast majority of violations.

Reasons for changes in numbers should be considered thoughtfully as there are numerous factors at play, including: more students in residences, fewer upper-years in the mix, changes to ResRules violations and changes in social behaviours of post-secondary students.

Beyond the numbers, it’s important to remember why the ResRules exist. They are here to teach the 17-year-old girl I once was what community means and how important it is to respect everyone within it. Living closely together, as we do in residence, means that we get to form Continued from page 6

me. Now, when I get a bit of free time, I can fill it by planning my eventual world travels instead of watching the latest episode of Grey’s Anatomy.

Kudos to the creators; their novel idea has obviously been incredibly successful. Across the world pinners are organizing their surfing, which is quite possibly making them more productive than before, if they’re anything like me.

Pinning isn’t all whoopie pie recipes and marble nails, though.

Hashtags such as #thinterest and #thinspiration are said to be perpetuating eating disorders.

Having an online and constantly accessible collection of images that

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connections when we really need to make friends. It also means that when I blast my music at night, my floor mates not only get to judge my love for One Direction and Taylor Swift, but they are also not able to sleep, study or enjoy their own personal space.

The students who work in residence are some of the greatest people I’ve met during my time at Queen’s. ResLife employs 118 Residence Dons, a diverse group of students who provide peer helping, organize educational and community-building programs, and apply the community standards (ResRules).

There’s also a misconception of how many infractions really take place. 57 per cent of residents never come into contact with the conduct system and of the 43 per cent who do, 51 per cent of them only do so once.

The Residence Societies employ approximately 50 student leaders as Executives, House Presidents and Residence Facilitators. The Societies are responsible for representing residents’ concerns, providing a wide range of entertainment services, organizing events, developing new leaders and playing an important role in upholding community standards through the ResRules.

Next time you think of the residence conduct system, show men and women sporting the ‘perfect body’ could bolster unrealistic and dangerous goals when it comes to the health and fitness regimes of some pinners.

Despite this, the benefits still stand.

Pinners are always going to be looking for the next best thing for their pinboards, and that’s great but where do we draw the line?

In a society that’s becoming more reliant on what is online, Pinterest has a very important role to play as long as we see the line where the pinboards end and where real life begins.

Rosie is one of the Features Editors at the Journal.

“What snowstorm?”

Jennifer Nguyen, ArtSci ’16

“I am, but I’m not so sure the snowstorm’s ready for me.”

Ben Stern, ArtSci ’14

Significant snowfall of 15 to 25 cm was expected for Feb. 7-8.

remember that ResRules are part of a larger effort by committed and caring upper-years who work to create respectful and inclusive communities for all residents.

As for the next time you think of residence, I encourage you to think about the wonderful student staff who have always reminded me why we place so much trust in students at Queen’s. Think about a community that does its best to foster positive relationships for and between residents, and about the practices built into our residences that allow so many of us to proudly call it home.

Tuba Chishti is the President and CEO of the Main Campus Residents’ Council.

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From a small cast of seven, Beck Lloyd (left) and Chantel Martin (right) provide the two standout performances in the drama department’s production of Blood Relations.

play review

Bewitching blood

In Blood Relations, the story of Lizzie Borden is told through flashbacks attempting to answer the question “Did you Lizzie? Lizzie did you?”

B y S avoula S tylianou Arts Editor An axe murder will certainly keep you up at night.

With just enough discomfort and fright to supply my upcoming nightmares in Blood Relations, I won’t be able to forget the cast’s in a hurry.

The drama department’s production of the thrilling mystery sets the stage introducing the story of Lizzie Borden and flashes back to the brutal murders of her father and stepmother.

The psychological murder mystery had me completely enthralled from start to finish, thanks to the two lead actresses.

The story, which is set years after Borden is acquitted of her parents’ murders, retells the incident through a series of dialogue between Borden and her friend, and assumed lover, The Actress.

In real life, Lizzie Borden was acquitted of both her parents’ murders, but Blood Relations tells

a different tale.

The spark between Chantel Martin as Lizzie Borden and Beck Lloyd as The Actress was phenomenally intriguing.

From the onset of the play, my eyes couldn’t help darting solely to those two during every ensemble and solo scene.

The strength of the duo’s partnership came from a plot point that called for the actresses to switch roles during the flashbacks — Lloyd became Borden while Martin became the Borden family maid, Bridget.

The way both actresses managed to switch their roles so fluidly throughout the play was really astonishing.

One minute, I was certain Martin was frigid and heartless when she played killer Lizzie, yet she then garnered my sympathy when she played the kind maid.

Lloyd was also fascinating in how she managed to go back and forth from murdering stepdaughter to whimsical actress.

What made the two leads the

standout performances was how in sync they were.

Aided by the impressive handiwork presented in their matching bun hairstyles and similar time period clothing, the switch

was made completely seamless throughout the entire performance.

The false sense of security I got when the stepmother was killed off-stage first was soon turned to absolute shock when Lloyd raises the axe above her father’s head to the sound of children’s voices singing, “Lizzie Borden took an axe, gave her mother forty whacks, when she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one.”

While I knew the plot of the story before I walked into the theatre, I may still undergo a few sleepless nights. But the cast

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of Blood Relations has made it worth it.

It just may take a while for my mind to conquer the answer to, “Did you Lizzie? Lizzie, did you?”

Suffice to say, the production of Blood Relations was so eerily frightening that I had to look over my shoulder as I was walking home.

The Queen’s drama department Blood Relations plays in the Rotunda Theatre in Theological Hall on Saturday at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m., and Tuesday through Thursday at 8 p.m.

Sharon Pollock’s Blood Relations tells the story of Lizzie Borden and how she brutally murders her father (centre) and stepmother (left).

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CD RELEASE

Community listening CFRC funds production of Kingston musicians compilation CD B y A lex D ownham Assistant Arts Editor

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Queen’s student and musician Dorothea Paas says the Kingston music scene is so vibrant, you never know who has a secret talent.

in a controlled studio environment, Dorothea Paas definitely agrees.

Lochhead said they decided to She said she loves attending capture each song at live venues to local Kingston concerts because she Local music couldn’t be closer to reflect the environment. enjoys the give and take attitude of “So when you hear the songs, the scene. your fingertips.

With the release of CFRC’s new you hear a live performance with “If you want people to listen compilation album Civic Guilt, a crowd coming in at the end,” he to your stuff, you have to listen 13 local Kingston musicians are said. “It feels raw because you can to other people’s stuff, and it’s brought together on one recording. hear the mess ups — there’s a nice not even out of obligation,” Paas, The best part, according to human element to that.”

ArtSci ’13, said.

Apart from the funding given by organizer Neven Lochhead, is that She added that the wonderful CFRC, the additional costs were part of music is the surprises it it’s free.

“We wanted to produce a CD afforded by organizers Lochhead can bring straight from around we could distribute on campus and and Rogalsky. the corner.

“We paid for a local artist to do “You start to realize the person also send to campus community stations across the country the album artwork and paid a local that lives down the street from to show people what’s going print shop to produce the CD. The me has these awesome concepts on in Kingston,” Lochhead, ArtSci musicians generously donated their and is making this awesome stuff ’13, said. performances,” Lochhead said.

I want to hear and share with Funded through a grant from Lochhead said the release of other people.”

CFRC, the new live CD was mixed Civic Guilt is important to prove to With the Kingston music scene

by Queen’s professor and musician students how important the local specifically, Paas said, it’s a friendly, Matt Rogalsky, who’s been working music scene is in Kingston. tight-knit community where new “I think it’s important to realize musicians are always being inspired. on the project since the summer.

“Matt would bring his portable you don’t have to go to the Internet “Once you’re in the loop, you recording gear to shows and or other cities to find things can’t get out. We’re stuck.” record the live performances,” that will challenge, engage and touch you.”

Lochhead said.

The Civic Guilt release party is tonight Featured musician on the album at the Grad Club at 9 p.m.

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Bringing the blues Ben Caplan doesn’t plan on taking any breaks B y S avoula S tylianou Arts Editor If Ben Caplan’s tour bus caught fire, he knows exactly what he’d grab first.

“I’d get my guitar, then my keyboard, then my suit and then my yoga mat.”

He and backup band The Casual Smokers are currently on tour with dates set for all around southern Ontario.

Caplan said the band is then heading to Quebec to finish off the tour’s first leg.

They’ll soon head out east to play at the East Coast Music Awards in March.

Nominated for two awards for his Tom Waits style music, Caplan is self-described

as “a blend between folk and blues, with a heavy dose of Eastern European jazz.”

Caplan said he derives his musical inspiration from great songwriters.

“I think there’s songwriters like Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell whose lyrics are poetically informed — they have a universal approach to songwriting,” he said.

While writing his own lyrics, Caplan references his inspirations like Cohen, Dylan and Mitchell.

“Lyrics aren’t placeholders for melodies, those are much more important, but my songwriting comes from reading a lot of poetry as well.”

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Sapunov’s first show Imaginary Theatre Company’s first production brings a quirky and heartwarming musical to the Vogt Studio B y A lex D ownham Assistant Arts Editor Who doesn’t love it when the geek gets the girl?

For such an awkward individual, Valentin Sapunov seems to get all the attention.

Brand new group Imaginary Theatre Company presents the original musical The Ballad of Valentin Sapunov as its first production.

The musical follows kind, quirky scientist Valentin, played by Chris Wiens, and his heartwarming story as he finds his self-confidence.

Conflict arises when a fellow colleague, Natalya attempts to steal Valentin’s research grant given to him by the university he works at. Throughout the play, Valentin becomes a new man and fights for himself, his family and even falls in love.

The musical has an eccentric and unpredictable tone, reflected in the lead character’s costume, personality and entertaining Russian accent. Valentin’s sloppily tucked-in shirt and borderline electrified hair helped to create the perfect picture of a true geek.

Characters like Valentin, and his friends Bjorn and Erik, played

by Patrick Jang and Rahul Arora, become zanier by the minute.

The plot progressed smoothly, despite a minor side plot and an undeserving fate for the antagonist during the show.

The stage, usually set with minimal props that seemed bare at times, was recovered by the caricatured attitude of each actor.

The props used were intended mostly as the punch line of a joke, which added to the clumsy, yet charming nature of the musical.

At the beginning of the play, socially awkward and shy Valentin was often alienated from conversation and placed on the neglected side of the stage.

But as the musical progressed, Valentin becomes emotionally

closer with his fellow characters and the audience as well.

Although the vocal and piano music in the production was timely, the accompaniment had room to be bigger to match the odd personalities on stage. Still, the lyrics were wacky, and reflected the personality of the characters well.

This bumbling applies to Valentin, but fails to stick to Natalya in a scene where she almost raps. The frantic fragment in this song contradicts her otherwise belligerent personality in the rest

of the play.

The environment in the Vogt Studio space was colourful and the music had quirky lyrics to match the well-projected voices of the actors. The Ballad of Valentin Sapunov is a charming play about the triumph of the underdog.

The Imaginary Theatre Company presents The Ballad of Valentin Sapunov in the Vogt Studio tonight and tomorrow night at 8 p.m.

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Ben Caplan recalls one instance while touring when speeding down a German highway to get to a show got him and his band into trouble with the German police.

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Caplan said once his tour is finished, he’s going right back into the studio.

Pre-production starts at the end of the current tour, and he hopes to have his next album done by the end of the summer.

As the years of touring have accumulated, so has Caplan’s touring wisdom — for example, don’t speed down a German motorway.

Caplan recalls one European tour when the band was late for a show in Amsterdam and got lost on the way.

“We drove the wrong direction first,

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then we hit deadlock traffic on the German autobahn,” he said. “So we gunned it full speed down the shoulder lane.”

Caplan and the band ended up missing the show, and without any luck that day, the German police also pulled them over.

“The police officers were yelling at us in German and threatened to have us deported … I’ve learned a lot about touring since then, like you always want to leave a day early.”

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Kingston FC looks forward

Local pro soccer franchise keeps coach, promises progression in second season B y Peter M orrow Sports Editor

Women’s volleyball libero Shannon Walsh (left) and men’s hockey defenceman Robert Stellick are the co-presidents of the recently formed Varsity Leadership Council.

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interuniversity sport.

The Varsity Leadership Council (VLC) is a Gaels student-athlete-run committee formed last summer. Its objectives are to increase athlete’s roles within Kingston’s community, while developing a sense of fraternity amongst each other.

It’s a shift which signals that the top-down oversight from Athletics is becoming less necessary. “[Athletes are] the ones who

Kingston’s only professional sports team was forced to regroup after finishing 14th in the 16-team CSL in its inaugural season.

Several new players will join a relatively new coach in Muldoon, who replaced last year’s bench boss Jimmy Hamrouni in mid-July.

“I came in last year to a group of players that was just basically pulled together a week before the season,” Muldoon said, who’s already begun informal training sessions at Queen’s Physical Education Centre (PEC) every Sunday.

“Coaching is a continuous process. It comes with time, it comes with buy-in from the players, and it doesn’t happen overnight.”

Open try-outs are being held March 18-20 on Queen’s West Campus and Tindall turf fields, but club President Joe Scanlon suggested to hopefuls in a press release that “it won’t be easy.”

“Basically we’re going to give the opportunity, but we’re recruiting top-level players and that opens up everybody’s eyes,” Muldoon said.

Some current and former Gaels are expected to be signed and re-signed, with new

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Seven months ago, Colm Muldoon took over a team in turmoil.

Once the Canadian Soccer League (CSL) kicks off again in April, Muldoon promises it’ll be “chalk and cheese” for Kingston FC, compared to 2012.

Varsity Athletics

Athletes’ attitudes shifting Rookie parties, hazing rituals dissipate; athletes increase community involvement B y Peter M orrow Sports Editor Varsity athlete culture is undergoing a fundamental face-lift.

For years, Queen’s Athletics Manager of Interuniversity Sport, Janean Sergeant, took an educational approach to keep athletes out of trouble. She oversees each of the 13 varsity teams, monitoring athlete conduct.

Now the approach seeks

to protect Queen’s image by damaging it a little; creating public ramifications for athletes who act “inappropriately.”

A series of athlete suspensions — starting with the baseball team’s veterans who were suspended two years for hazing incidents in 2010 — was really just a case of Queen’s Athletics making sanctions more visible.

Suspensions have been handed out for years, but sanctions were

kept confidential prior to 2010.

“Reports and stuff and outcomes were not as visible as they are now,” Sergeant said. “In doing that, I don’t think we really helped our own cause. Some may have felt it doesn’t matter what you do — there are no outcomes.”

Rookie parties are no longer considered team-bonding rituals.

Rather than revolt, Queen’s varsity athletes are starting to get on board with the rise of professionalism in

‘Hostile territory’ Continued from page 1

Owen and Patterson initially approached Athletics and Recreation in September after being referred as a potential fitness club by the AMS. According to Owen, they were quickly rebuffed. “[Athletics and Recreation] couldn’t see how other students would want to participate in this, so they basically wiped it off the table,” Owen said. “We were just a little bit shocked that they were so dismissive of the idea.”

Owen and Patterson soon joined forces with two other Queen’s students — Alex Wilson and Cameron Catsburg. According to Owen, the four met with Athletics and Recreation coordinators again in October.

Owen said the group was taken aback by the counteroffer they received: running CrossFit as a for-profit Athletics and Recreation Fitness and Wellness program. “[Running] it that way would completely detract from our original vision,” Owen said. “We would have hoped that the centre of health and wellness on campus would be supportive of an initiative that puts the health and wellness of students first, and not their financial interests.”

Despite the lack of a formal

agreement, the four began spearheading organized CrossFit sessions at the start of January, performing most exercises in a hallway outside an ARC lifting zone.

As membership grew larger, Owen said ARC staff members started inhibiting the group sessions. According to Owen, the group was accused over email of endangering the health and safety of participants.

“It’s just become a hostile territory, not just for me personally, but for the other people wanting to do CrossFit,” Owen said. “Every time we go in the gym now, we’re being watched.”

After meeting again with Athletics and Recreation this past Tuesday, the group decided to put all organized training sessions on hold until they can secure permanent workout space.

They’ve begun pursuing other options in the meantime, including reopening talks with the AMS to become a sanctioned club.

According to Jeff Downie, Associate Director of Business Development and Facilities with Queen’s Athletics & Recreation, their initial concerns were related to facility management and the lack of regulations in place.

Storm Patterson (left) and Callum Owen have mobilized a regular corps of CrossFit participants, with over 550 group members on Facebook. They’re currently trying to become a sanctioned club.

Downie said CrossFit could likely function as either a recreation club or a Fitness and Wellness program under Athletics and Recreation.

“It could probably fit under either model,” he said. “The bottom line for either one is that there has to be appropriate processes and safety and risk management pieces involved.”

One such process would be to ensure all instructors are properly certified to teach CrossFit. According to Downie, Athletics and Recreation consults

applicable provincial or national sporting bodies for direction on the certification process in all sports.

Downie said ARC members aren’t allowed to provide formal instruction to others while working out — a common rule in many gyms due to liability reasons.

“We have a responsibility to our members,” Downie said.

“That responsibility extends to ensuring the instruction they’re receiving is coming through a qualified source.”

Though he hasn’t been involved in any formal talks with the CrossFit

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group, Downie said Athletics and Recreation regularly suggests the option of creating a formal Fitness and Wellness program for higher-risk activities. “[Let’s say] people come into our facility, they grab a corner of space, they say ‘I’m running a CrossFit class’ — and somebody drops, collapses,” Downie said. “We want to ensure that doesn’t happen.

“It shouldn’t be implied that the activity can’t take place — it just has to be done in the right way.”

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More Gaels could sign Continued from page 13

recruits flocking in from Europe and South America.

Muldoon was also an import: he’s an Ireland native who currently resides in Belleville.

He coached with the New York Red Bulls of Major League Soccer, before obtaining a Canadian work permit.

Muldoon’s here to stay, and Kingston FC’s the newest step in his blossoming coaching career.

“I’m going to ask my players to recognize

the soccer situation in front of them, and play an open brand of football that would be attractive to the eye and enjoyable to play in,” Muldoon said.

Kingston FC Chairman Lorne Abugov is also heavily involved in the off-season revamp.

With a new roster bolstered by a handful of international players, Abugov aims for a top-eight — possibly top-four — finish in 2013.

“We’re going to be twice as good on the field as we were last year, and our off-field operations will be twice as good as they were last season,” Abugov said.

ON DECK CIRCLE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

MEN’S HOCKEY

Friday Feb. 8, 6 p.m.: Gaels (6-12) @ Laurentian Lady Vees (5-12).

Friday Feb. 8, 7 p.m.: Gaels (10-106) @ Concordia Stingers (7-14-5).

Saturday Feb. 9, 6 p.m.: Gaels @ York Lions (3-14).

Saturday Feb. 9, 2 p.m.: Gaels @ UQTR Patriotes (19-6-1).

MEN’S BASKETBALL

WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL

Friday Feb. 8, 8 p.m.: Gaels (10-8) @ Laurentian Voyageurs (9-8).

Saturday Feb. 9, 1 p.m.: Gaels (124) @ Toronto Varsity Blues (9-7).

Saturday Feb. 9, 8 p.m.: Gaels @ York Lions (6-11).

Sunday Feb. 10, 2 p.m.: Gaels @ Ryerson Rams (12-4).

WOMEN’S HOCKEY

MEN’S VOLLEYBALL

Friday Feb. 8, 7:30 p.m.: Gaels (193-2) vs. Waterloo Warriors (9-12-3).

Saturday Feb. 9, 3 p.m.: Gaels (106) @ Toronto Varsity Blues (6-10).

Saturday Feb. 9, 7:30 p.m.: Gaels vs.

Laurier Golden Hawks (20-2-3).

Sunday Feb. 10, noon: Gaels @ Ryerson Rams (5-11).

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Current, former Gaels see incidents declining Continued from page 13

can take a major leadership role.

They’re the ones who can decide we want our team to be recognized, to be known, to be ambassadors or be in the headlines,” Sergeant said.

The VLC, which was formed after Queen’s Athletics approached current co-presidents Robert Stellick and Shannon Walsh about its inception, has gained traction since.

Stellick, a fourth-year men’s hockey player, said the VLC’s a channel through which athletes can actively volunteer as community role models.

“There are expectations with the opportunities we’re afforded,” Stellick said. “We’re athletes — we’re in a position of being a role model with kids in the Kingston community and that’s what we’re trying to provide.”

Representing the tricolour spirit now means more community involvement and less internal

shenanigans. Stellick thinks more publicity through Internet and news stories makes athletes more conscious of their actions.

“In the age of social media, posting things on the Internet immediately … things come out in a different way than they did 10, 15 years ago,” Stellick said.

“So I think those incidents are on a decline.”

in a position “ofWe’re being a role model

with kids in the Kingston community and that’s what we’re trying to provide.

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— Robert Stellick, Varsity Leadership Council co-president Across the board, Queen’s isn’t the only school cracking down.

Dalhousie University recently suspended its women’s hockey

Former Gaels men’s hockey captain Jon Lawrance thinks hazing incidents are on the decline in Canadian university sports.

team for the season for alleged inappropriate hazing incidents.

Stellick, who played in the Ontario Hockey League for the Belleville Bulls, claims hazing is noticeably less a part of junior hockey culture.

“People are conscious of bullying, people are conscious of those types of psychological

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effects,” Stellick said. “And it’s really just a no-tolerance policy across the board.”

Stellick’s former teammate and current men’s hockey assistant coach Jon Lawrance recalls wild stories from his days of playing junior hockey in Manitoba.

“Obviously you hear about people being sent to the hospital after rookie parties, they drank so much — just doing stupid stuff,” Lawrance said.

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Gaels captain said he was fortunate to never have been involved.

“Stuff like that doesn’t really achieve anything. [It] just shines a bad light on everyone that’s involved.”

Lawrance said the new hardline approach by administrators seems to be working.

“There’s stuff that’s still going on, but over the years it’s gotten more attention. It’s definitely decreased a lot more from back in the day.”

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Hair gets personal For people living with cancer, a visit to Kingston’s All Hair Alternatives leaves them with a new sense of confidence B y E mily M iller Contributor There are a lot of emotions in the salon chair, Beata Faraklas tells me as she clears her desk of auburn wigs, and shifts her attention from the plethora of catalogues before her.

For 20 years, Faraklas, hair specialist and owner of All Hair Alternatives, has been guiding people through the process of selecting a wig that’s right for them.

Most of her clientele are people living with cancer.

The experience of losing one’s hair can be utterly devastating, she said.

“If you’re fighting chemotherapy and living each day with cancer, hair loss is the last thing you want to be thinking about,” Faraklas said. “People laugh, people cry. There are many tears.”

Still, she insists that the best part of her job is ensuring those with cancer aren’t visibly defined by their condition.

“It’s about making people feel less scared, when they know they can look like everybody else,” Faraklas said.

With the windowsill of her office lined with countless wig catalogues, Faraklas describes her initial consultation with a client.

She’ll first ask what their natural hair is and immediately veer to the exact opposite of that.

“If your hair is short and blonde,

I instantly suggest we try long and dark,” Faraklas said as she laughed.

This inaugurates a feeling of light-heartedness as Faraklas strives to make the appointment as enjoyable as possible.

Sixty per cent of Faraklas’ customers want a wig that’s as closely matched to their natural hair as possible, while the remaining 40 per cent aren’t quite sure of their preference or want to, as Faraklas puts it, “go wild.”

A limited one to two per cent of her clients choose both options, selecting one wig that matches their real hair and one for when they’re feeling particularly bold.

Whether you’re ordering one or 10, it’s certain that the quality of wigs has improved exponentially during Faraklas’ two decades in the wig industry.

“The fibre … was that of a Santa Claus beard,” Faraklas said.

“Now, you can’t tell the difference between real and synthetic hair.”

All Hair Solutions offers synthetic, human hair and blended wigs with prices ranging from $600 to well over $1,000 for a single wig. The cost of human hair far exceeds that of synthetic.

The main difference is that human hair wigs are heat-resistant, but they come with more maintenance. Human hair wigs must be styled with every wear and, just like natural hair, fall prey to weather like rain or snow.

Thicker hair tends to be of higher quality. If it’s natural, it

often comes from India, a country known for high-quality locks.

Wigs of finer hair come with a higher price tag, as these must be handmade, while wigs of thicker hair can be entirely machine-produced.

Still, this wig expert finds a way to satisfy her clients’ needs each time.

“If people want a perfect match and it’s just a matter of colour, I can match it perfectly.” Faraklas said.

Familiar with the infinite range of options that exist, Faraklas advises against purchasing a wig online.

“As hair is such a personal thing, it should be dealt with professionally,” Faraklas said.

It’s about making “people feel less scared, when they know they can look like everybody else.

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— Beata Farklas, hair specialist and owner at All Hair Alternatives Faraklas doesn’t prescribe this advice unwittingly. She’s shaved her own hair twice now — most recently, last May. “You’re sitting in my chair, crying, losing your hair and I say I understand,” she said. “But you can’t understand unless you actually have no hair yourself, and I don’t wish for cancer, so I shave

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Emily Dawson, ArtSci ’13, cut 10 inches of hair for last year’s Queen’s Students for Wishes annual hair-raising event.

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Beata Faraklas, hair specialist and owner at All Hair Alternatives, spends time consulting each client on their wig of choice.

my head.”

Faraklas said she recommends investing in the highest quality wig one can afford.

“For more than a year, you won’t be going to a hair salon … you’re investing in your look by buying a good quality wig.”

The best wigs remain intact with elasticized and breathable linings, according to Faraklas.

Affording a top-of-the-line wig isn’t always feasible, though.

Faraklas often sources financial assistance for her clients to overcome this dilemma.

Hair donations go a long way in support of this cause, and annual events like the upcoming Students for Wishes HaiRaiser on Feb. 9, at the Cataraqui Centre, make significant contributions of highly-coveted natural locks.

“We want the hair we collect to go to women, men and children who deserve it and don’t have to worry about the cost, because wigs are very expensive,” Kalla Tonus-Burman, ArtSci ’13, said.

As President of Queen’s Students for Wishes and organizer of this year’s HaiRaiser, Tonus-Burman highlights the incredible impact one can make, with just one of the numerous haircuts one will receive in a lifetime.

“My hair is my security blanket, as it is for a lot of girls, but at the same time, it’s so nice for the women, children and men who are in those circumstances to receive real hair,” Tonus-Burman said. “I know if I was in those circumstances, I would want that too.”

Emily Dawson, ArtSci ’13, shared similar feelings about her own experience cutting ten inches of hair for last year’s Queen’s Students for Wishes annual hair-raising event.

“I knew it was something I wanted to do, so I set a goal for myself,” Dawson, who grew her hair for a year for the event, said.

“It’s just so nice to know that you’re helping someone by doing this really simple thing.”

After speaking on the perks of shorter hair, like basking in the glory of shorter showers, Dawson spoke of the fulfillment that accompanies a hair donation.

“It’s a more personal experience when you’re giving part of yourself away,” Dawson said. “I think that’s the best part of the experience — knowing that a part of you is out there, making someone’s life better, making their day better.”

For more information on Students for Wishes’ upcoming HaiRaiser, visit makeawisheo.ca/branch_ kingston.php

The world of wigs While choosing a wig can take a lot of thought and emotion, the process behind wig-making requires skill and a steady hand.

• It takes up to three ponytails of human hair to make a wig.

• In centuries past, wigs were made by sewing hair through a cap made of goatskin.

• Hair is sorted by texture, colour and length before it’s made into a wig.

• Wigs can be permanently dyed by the wig-maker.

• There are two types of wig foundations: wefted and net. Wefted wigs are machine-made, with hair sewn onto strips of material. Net foundations use mesh caps and are put together by hand.

• Monofilaments are used in most human hair wigs.

It’s a skin-like material to make the hair parting look more realistic.

• Human hair wigs need to be washed and conditioned regularly, like normal hair.

— Janina Enrile