The Queen's Journal, Issue 38

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Arts

Sports

Cultural celebration replaces Queen’s annual powwow.

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Reading the fine print and legalities of chance-based contests in Canadian businesses.

Interview with Queen’s Events creator Sarah Witiuk.

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Women’s hockey bench boss, Matt Holmberg, reflects on the year.

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Street Party

St. Patrick’s Day packs the streets Kingston Police served nearly 100 liquor law violations during last weekend’s celebrations A “busier than normal St. Last weekend’s St. Patrick’s Day celebrations kept local Patrick’s Day in 2012” meant law enforcement on their toes, planning was in place this year to deal with revelers, but police according to Kingston Police.

A large crowd gathered on were unprepared for dealing Aberdeen St. early on Sunday with the Aberdeen St. celebration, morning, which police said in a which at one point reached press release was “unanticipated over 1,000 people.

Last year, police deployed six and unsanctioned.”

In a tweet, Kingston Police noted additional officers and addressed that there “needs to [be] attitudinal 64 noise complaints, 157 tickets change & responsibility taken by issued and nine arrests for Photo by Andriana Hnatykiw students to stem this problem [of public intoxication throughout Around 400 people from across the country applied for the 200 delegate spots at the street parties]. We admit we can’t the city. summit, organizer Justin Scaini, above, says.

The area was contained until do it ourselves.”

The street party came as enough officers could be on Mental health a surprise as Aberdeen didn’t the scene, and the remaining draw such a significant crowd partyers were asked to leave by 6 p.m. last year.

As well, police executed a Police served 96 liquor law violations, eight arrests warrant on an illegal keg party for public intoxication and six where 8.5 kegs and $300 noise law violations throughout were seized.

Kingston Police answered more the city.

There were also two than 300 calls for service over the backbone of next year’s summit. could make it a national conference. highway traffic violations and weekend, and in total, 48 extra B y J oanna P lucinska The idea for the summit began We had the funding, we had the two criminal code occurrences officers were employed throughout Editorials Editor last year when Scaini and Windeler interest in the idea,” Scaini said. (impaired driving and breach of the city on Sunday. of According to Justin Scaini, talking had the idea to connect students “We shared the idea with mental officer-in-charge/breach — Holly Tousignant about mental health shouldn’t be from around the province to health professionals, who were court order) over the weekend. discuss mental health and stigma so pumped about students taking dull — it should be inspiring.

Unleash the Noise, a reduction. Their goal was to have ownership of this issue.”

With that support, Scaini student-run mental health a solely student-based conversation compiled a team of students at innovation summit, co-founded by on issues that affect young people.

“We continued to brainstorm the Queen’s to build on ideas and Scaini, was held this past weekend in Toronto. It looks to revolutionize idea, [and] the stars aligned so we See Summit on page 5 the way we discuss and deal with youth mental illness, organizers say.

“Many young people, including Film screening myself, [have] become numb to the common messages that are there for mental health,” Scaini, ArtSci ’13, said. “We need to push the envelope on how we think Photo by Christoph Buring about mental health.”

Over 1,000 students were gathered on Aberdeen The summit is rooted in the Jack St. at its peak on Sunday, according to Kingston Police.

Project, an organization started by Eric Windeler to promote mental health awareness among youth.

VanDyke joined freedom prisoners, who in turn helped Windeler lost his son Jack to suicide B y H olly Tousignant and screen his film, “Not Anymore: fighters in Libya after spending time VanDyke and others escape. He three years ago at Queen’s.

News Editor A Story of Revolution” about the in the region filming a motorcycle continued to fight in Libya, and At the summit, students had revolution in Syria. The event was adventure documentary and has since taken to documenting the the opportunity to brainstorm a After escaping from Libya’s hosted by Queen’s International making friends in the Middle East. current situation in Syria. mental health strategy that they notorious Abu Salim prison, Affairs Association.

After being captured by Gaddafi’s VanDyke was an inexperienced can take back to their communities. American freedom fighter Matthew Both part of the Arab Spring, men, he spent nearly six months in fighter before joining combat in the Using online facilitators, the VanDyke didn’t head home: he the Libyan Civil War resulted Abu Salim, enduring psychological Middle East, but so were the men students compiled their ideas in went straight back to the frontlines. in the ousting of leader Colonel torture and solitary confinement. he was fighting with. breakout groups of eight people.

VanDyke was at Queen’s on Moammar Gadhafi in 2011, while As the rebels expanded their “A friend of mine in America The information will be available Tuesday to talk about his experiences the fight to depose Syria’s Bashar territory in Tripoli, guards at the showed me how to shoot and then this summer and will form the fighting in the Libyan Revolution Assad continues.

See VanDyke on page 5 prison fled and freed some of the

Students organize a new way to talk about mental health Unleash the Noise brings together delegates to discuss ideas

A fight for freedom American Matthew VanDyke spoke at Queen’s about his experiences in the Syrian and Libyan revolutions

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Four Directions takes new approach New cultural event replaces Queen’s annual Powwow B y VincEnT M aTak Assistant News Editor In order to alleviate racism, you need to educate.

That was the focus of last week’s Celebration of Indigenous Art, Music and Dance hosted by Four Directions Aboriginal Centre (FDAC), according to Director Janice Hill.

“I guess what we’re trying to do is dispel any ignorance and myth around our cultures,” she said. “It’s to let people know how accessible our culture is … our people love to sing, dance and share food and share stories and have fun.”

For the past five years, FDAC held a fall powwow — consisting of traditional

dance, storytelling and musical performances — at Agnes-Benidickson Field in order to showcase Aboriginal cultures at Queen’s.

This year’s celebration, intended to replace the annual Fall event, aimed to increase awareness of First Nations, Métis and Inuit people on campus, through interactive education, something the previous event lacked.

The celebration, which took place on March 16 in the main ARC gymnasium, featured performance groups from Toronto and Ottawa, as well as food vendors, stone carvers and drum makers.

What made the event unique, though, according to Hill, was that visitors were given explanations for traditional regalia and rituals.

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“The [leaders] explained each of the dances and each of the separate regalia so people could get an understanding of why they are wearing elaborate feathers, because there’s meaning behind all of it and they were careful to explain it all out,” she said, adding that audience members were encouraged to participate with the performers.

“We also had the Inuit performers … and they demonstrated throat singing [and] they talked about the purpose of throat singing and they brought members of the audience up and encouraged them to do it.”

Hill, who has been involved with Four Directions since 2010, said a part of the

reason why FDAC opted for a different approach was to get more people to participate in the event.

“Looking at what our mandate is ... we didn’t feel like we were meeting the audience we were hoping to with the powwow and that’s why we decided to do something new this time,” she said.

In total, around 20 people participated in the event, which drew a crowd of 100 students and community members. Hill said the turnout was lower than expected. In the past, the powwows at Queen’s have drawn crowds of around 1,000, but the event in 2011 drew about half of that.

NEWS IN BRIEF

Woolf reappointed

Principal Daniel Woolf will remain principal and vice-chancellor of Queen’s for another five years.

At a meeting on March 15, the University’s Board of Trustees reappointed Woolf to serve a second term effective July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2019.

The decision was based on the recommendation from the Joint Board-Senate Committee chaired by Chancellor David Dodge. The committee reviewed more than 100 submissions from faculty, students, alumni, donors and key external stakeholders.

Woolf was appointed to his first five-year term in Sept. 2009 and announced he would be seeking reappointment in January of this year.

During his second term the Board will continue to assess Woolf’s progress against his eight objectives set during his first term, which are outlined online.

“I am very grateful for the opportunity to serve Queen’s for the second term as Principal,” Woolf told the Queen’s News Centre. “This is a time of great challenges for Canadian universities, and great opportunities for Queen’s to lead the way as one of the nation’s top institutions.”

— Styna Tao

QtV management restructured Queen’sTV recently underwent a management restructure in order to fulfill its goal of “moving towards a more news-oriented service,” incoming Executive Producer Travis Rhee told the Journal via email.

QTV Live will be replaced with humour videos that will be overseen by a single manager. News will be divided

into four segments — student life, arts and entertainment, politics/Kingston and sports — which will be managed by the news director. As well, the social media and marketing manager positions will be combined into one.New positions include the live stream associate producer, who will assist with Athletics and Recreation livestreams, and the communications manager, who will oversee the website and blog.

“This is a step towards making us a media network,” Rhee said of the latter position.

— Holly Tousignant

Poker club hosts tournament More than 70 students participated in a recent poker tournament fundraiser, hosted

by Queen’s Poker Club (QPC) and the Queen’s Federation of Charitable University Students (F.O.C.U.S.) The event, held last Friday in the JDUC, raised $400 for the Kingston Youth Shelter.

This was the second tournament hosted this year by the QPC. The first, held in January, also raised approximately $400 for Queen’s Project on International Development.

Eddie Kim, the QPC public relations officer, said he was pleased with the second tournament and felt that it had run even smoother than the first thanks to additional support from F.O.C.U.S. “It can be stressful running these tournaments but with the help of F.O.C.U.S. during our second tournament it was a lot smoother and easy going,” he told the Journal via e-mail.

The QPC is hoping to expand their club next year to involve more students who are interested in playing poker and fundraising for a good cause, Kim said.

— Shannon Hill

C o r r e C t I o N The School of Graduate Studies conducted a survey to engage with students about degree time limits.

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No purchase necessary for chance In order to avoid being classified as an illegal lottery by laws in Canada’s Criminal Code, companies that run chance-based contests are required to provide free entries for customers B y A lison S houldice Features Editor Reading the fine print could mean the difference between spending and saving money.

A close look at the rules shows that contestants don’t necessarily have to pay to obtain an entry for any chance-based contest.

Popular contests such as Tim Horton’s Roll Up the Rim and Coffee Time’s Flip to Win have to, by law, indicate that there’s “no purchase necessary” in order to enter their contest. But it may not be as easy as asking for an extra cup over the counter.

The same rule applies for entries into contests such as Pizza Nova’s Peel and Reveal and Budweiser’s Bud Camp.

Legally, all Canadian chance-based contests must abide by this rule in order to avoid being classified as an illegal lottery by the Criminal Code.

According to one Canadian lawyer, in absence of these regulations, chance-based contests are essentially the same as lotteries such as Lotto 649.

“They want to stop companies from saying ‘you want to buy our product in the hopes of winning something,’” said the lawyer,

who didn’t want to be identified due to the potential of a conflict of interest.

Unless companies obtain a specific permit to run a lottery, they must be willing to hand over a free entry to every person.

The lawyer said that contests usually require people to mail in a letter in order to get their free entry.

“Practically, a lot of people would rather [not] write a 50 word essay,” the lawyer said. “A lot of people don’t exercise that route.

That said, they have the option.”

Practically, a lot of “people would rather

[not] write a 50-word essay. A lot of people don’t exercise that route. That said, they have the option.

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— A Canadian lawyer

But once you’ve won the prize, the game may not necessarily be over. In some cases, chance-based contests require winners to answer a skill-testing question to claim their prize.

This regulation is also outlined in the Criminal Code, as every

your chances of winning a vehicle British Columbia: one in 5,831,840 (three winning cups in this region) Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Northwest Territories and the Yukon: one in 8,256,312 (five winning cups in this region) Ontario: one in 6,501,258 (20 winning cups in this region) Quebec: one in 8,030,160 (four winning cups in this region) Atlantic provinces: one in 4,641,227 (six winning cups in this region) USA: one in 6,094,800 (two winning cups in this region) — rolluptherimtowin.com

chance-based contest winner must be chosen, at least partially, by skill.

“The courts have said that math is [a] skill for Canadians,” the lawyer said. “So that’s why you will always see that Canadian residents are required to answer a mathematical skill testing question.”

The lawyers also noted that all businesses, large and small, who run chance-based contests, must abide by these rules.

When Anneke Van den Hof won a barbecue at the age of eight, her father was required to answer a skill-testing question.

“He was pretty skeptical that you had to answer a question to get the barbecue,” she said. “So he answered them all wrong on purpose and they still gave it to us.”

Van den Hof, ArtSci ’13, won the barbecue after her father had bought her a hot chocolate at a Tim Hortons in Nova Scotia.

Since she was a minor, her father had to claim her prize.

Although she hasn’t won any big prizes since, Van den Hof said she still plays Roll Up the Rim every year.

“Half the reason I’m buying the coffee is for the cup,” she said. “It’s just some very low-risk gambling.”

This year, Tim Hortons has almost 261 million Roll Up the Rim contest cups circulating and is giving away approximately $54 million worth of prizes.

But some of these claimed prizes haven’t been without conflict.

In 2006, there was a highly publicized dispute involving Roll Up the Rim. A 10-year-old girl from Quebec found a cup in the trash and asked an older child to help her roll up the rim.

Turns out that the cup was a winner — one of the few $30,000 car prizes. Both children’s parents claimed the prize, as well as the person who had initially thrown the cup away. In the end, Tim Hortons chose to give the car to the family of the younger child.

On a much smaller scale, Common Ground Coffeehouse also hosts its own chance-based contest. The annual Golden Ticket contest, which promotes the store’s second location in the JDUC, CoGro Express, runs a 12-day competition.

Each day, winning tickets are put into some premade wraps and sandwiches — prizes include items

such as gift certificates and iPods.

The odds of winning are one in seven and any customer is eligible to win.

It’s such a “small-scale contest

and the prizes aren’t massive things like cars and houses ... we can’t give a premade to anyone, but technically if someone asked, we would have to.

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— Mackenzie Goodwin, Common Ground head manager

Head Manager Mackenzie Goodwin estimates that business at the Express location this year has doubled during the contest. On its busiest day, the location tripled its usual business.

According to Queen’s Hospitality Services, this year the Tim Hortons outlet in the Queen’s Centre hasn’t seen an increase in business despite the recent Feb. 17 launch of Roll Up the Rim to Win. “Especially with that new Tim Hortons in the JDUC, it’s nice to have people coming up to Express

and realizing that [the location] does have potential to sustain those sales,” Goodwin, ArtSci ’13, said.

The timing of the Golden Ticket contest doesn’t purposely correlate to the Roll Up the Rim contest, she added.

“March is usually a busy month for us in terms of sales, so we thought it would be good for us to bring people over to Express so that the line wouldn’t be long at [the main location],” she said.

When people do find a winning ticket, they’re not required to answer a mathematical skill-testing question, and Goodwin said that it would be logistically difficult for them to abide by the “no purchase necessary” regulation.

“It’s such a small-scale contest and the prizes aren’t massive things like cars and houses and stuff,” she said. “We can’t give a premade to anyone, but technically if someone asked, we would have to.”

She added that the AMS doesn’t have any specific policy relating to contests such as this.

“We just have to clear it with our Director, they oversee any logistics that they’d see problems with, “ she said. “We’re really the only [AMS service] who has done a contest like this.”

Also found in the fine print - Prizes aren’t convertible to cash.

- If an error causes the production of more winning tabs than prizes, all claimants are entered into a draw for the remaining prizes.

- Although rare, if you roll up a blank tab, you can trade it in for a new contest cup.

- If a minor wins, their prize can be transferred to their parent or guardian.

- If someone without a drivers license wins a vehicle, they can transfer the prize to a spouse, parent, child, sibling or legal guardian with a license.

— rolluptherimtowin.com

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CAMPUS CALENDAR Friday, March 22 Canada’s Place in the World in the 21st Century Alan Bernstein, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Robert Sutherland Hall, Rm. 202 Noon to 1:15 p.m.

All are welcome Saturday, March 23 Anna Olson: My Culinary Journey Celebrity chef and alum Olson presented by the AMS and Queen’s Student Alumni Association Featuring a reception at 12:30 p.m. with samples of Olson’s recipes BioSci, Rm. 1101 1 to 2:30 p.m.

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Once Upon a Time at QueensU: Anti-oppression at Queen’s The Social Justice Committee displays a timeline of oppression Stauffer Library Runs until April 6

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Queen’s dominates marketing competiton

Sunday, March 24

Six students in the top 10 for Canada’s Next Top Ad Exec

GUTSY WALK to raise money for Crohn’s and Colitis Participants can walk, run, longboard or skip the 5 km course BBQ and events throughout the day Starts outside Stauffer Library 11 a.m.

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Heritage Day A Celebration of Indo-Canadian culture Duncan MacArthur auditorium Mingling and information at 1:30 p.m.

Show starts at 2:30 p.m.

“It’s a lot different than an assignment that you would do. It’s an extended assignment where there are a lot of different phases,” Six Queen’s students are vying to be Canada’s Holder, Comm ’13, said.

“It’s a shot in the dark because you Next Top Ad Exec.

The national competition is looking for don’t know what the feedback is going some of the country’s top business students, to be and you already have to work on with six of the top 10 in the country coming the next step without receiving the feedback yet.” from Queen’s.

Competitors go through three phases: the The competition asks the teams of two to create a marketing campaign for a new elevator pitch, the strategy document and the final presentation, which will occur on Chevrolet vehicle.

In teams of one or two, students Tuesday in Toronto.

The teams are always open to critiquing compete for prizes which include the top prize of over $30,000, along with one another and to receiving criticism, scholarships from Chevrolet Canada, he added.

Although not all teams work in this same internship positions and networking opportunities that all the competitors are fashion, they all agreed that they each have their own successful method. eligible for.

Ben Keefe, Brendon Holder, Carolyn The competition pushes students to Saunders, Nick Pateras, Alessia Vettese and use both their creativity and knowledge Lucy Zheng are finalists in the competition, of business to create a marketing pitch, all hoping to climb the corporate ladder to while receiving “feedback from various industry professionals,” Saunders, first place.

Most of the Queen’s contestants had Comm ’13, said. previously seen the Top Ad Exec booth in Goodes Hall and applied a year later. Last year, a Queen’s team took the second spot.

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Summit mostly student-run Continued from page 1

create the conference.

Since their launch in late November, the team members reached out to hundreds of high school, college and university students nationally to get involved with the summit.

“By the end of it all, we had about 400 applications for 200 spots for the delegates,” Scaini said.

“Once we looked at the analytics, we had students from every province in Canada in addition to Nunavut and Yukon who had applied.”

While all of the delegates had to fundraise at least $100 in order to attend the conference, most of their conference fees were paid for through sponsors.

Those sponsors included the Jack Project, Air Canada, Pricewaterhouse Coopers and MaRS. Delegate Mateya Dimnik,

ArtSci ’14, said she hopes to help students who have experienced similar struggles with mental health.

Her depression began at the end of her first year and became progressively worse as her second

year continued.

“It started with not going to my early morning classes, it then continued into not going to my classes at all, then it turned into not going out with my friends at all, and then not leaving my bedroom

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at all,” she said.

She eventually moved back home and took time off her degree to get better.

After reaching her lowest point — ending up in the hospital after a suicide attempt — she found help through counselors and medication and eventually returned to Queen’s.

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Upon coming back, however, she felt the stigma from friends about her illness. It was with the hopes of fighting this ingrained stigma that she chose to speak up at different events, including Unleash the Noise.

VanDyke spent months in confinement Cotinued from page 1

when I was filming the US military in Iraq and Afghanistan I would ask them to take me to a range and show me how all the guns were used,” he told the crowd.

“I wasn’t that out of place,” he added, noting that his fellow fighters typically also came from non-military backgrounds. “We all would’ve gotten our asses kicked

by Canadian or American military.”

Over 70 people showed up to see the film and VanDyke.

Framing

the Experience $6,000+ in prizes

A photography contest sponsored by The Change Foundation, Ontario’s independent healthcare think tank.

In the documentary, Syrian photojournalist and co-producer Nour Kelze talks about friends she’s lost, including a friend who was “like a brother” and died while saving a wounded man on the street.

The friend was wearing a mask when he was shot, and his identity wasn’t known until he was pulled off of the street.

“The film’s specifically designed to get people to cry, and then open their wallets,” VanDyke told the Journal.

Money is the best way people can help those in Syria, said VanDyke, who has a Master’s degree in Middle East security studies.

He added that he doesn’t recommend those without extensive knowledge of and experience in the area to join the fight on the ground.

Raising awareness, conversely, is only valuable if it leads to action, VanDyke said; in this case, raising funds for the rebels’ cause.

“The problem with activism is

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that it’s largely been reduced to sort of online activism where liking a post or re-tweeting, people think that that’s enough but it’s really not, you know? People need to be doing things that are tangible,” he said.

“Sending things to refugees in Syria, sending money to Syria, sending money to groups, doing fundraisers, things that translate into action on the ground.”

Deadline July 1, 2013.

Contest opens April 1.

Contest details www.changefoundation.ca/ framingtheexperience Contact asunnak@ changefoundation.com

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DIALOGUE

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GRADUATE

EDITORIALS — THE JOURNAL’S PERSPECTIVE

What’s most worrisome is the lack of flexibility inherent to these new limits.

Leniency for limits

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ith the latest time limits on receiving an extension would’ve graduate students, Queen’s been more reasonable. Hopefully, is putting itself in a more precarious as negotiations continue, the option of extensions will be on the situation than it may realize.

The administration has placed table to ease some of the burden a limit of two years on Master’s on students.

With these strict restrictions, students and four years on PhD students to graduate. These new the University is placing itself in a restrictions will constrict the ability situation where it will be publishing of graduate students to produce more rushed and therefore lower high-quality work, let alone finish quality research from its students.

This may reduce the standing of their degrees on time.

The problem isn’t only the Queen’s research in the long-run, shortening of degree times, it’s the harming its reputation.

It’s not just the University’s extent to which the restrictions have been imposed. PhD programs reputation that’s at stake here. take, on average, five to six years The lack of consultation or to complete, according to research consideration with students in this collected by U15, a group of 15 issue will hurt the administration’s research-intensive universities relationship with students.

Graduate student representatives in Canada.

What’s most worrisome is the have clearly demonstrated they’re lack of flexibility inherent to these unhappy with the decision — the new limits. Some students will administration should take this likely be forced to withdraw from into consideration.

One can only speculate that it their degree programs altogether due to their inability to complete comes in an effort to cut funds.

Dragging out graduate degrees their degree on time.

Especially when it comes to can cost departments time and research-based graduate degrees, money, especially in giving more these time limits can be far too funding to research initiatives and stringent. Sometimes studies go in forcing professors to give more awry or results are inconclusive. of their time to supervise students.

The cuts are still far too drastic Graduate students shouldn’t have to be punished for this — they and sudden to be justifiable. should be supported by their Consultation and flexible limits would’ve been more reasonable. university instead.

A three-year time limit for a — Journal Editorial Board Master’s program or five years for a PhD with the option of

NATIONAL NEWS

Overblown uproar

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he reaction to the Globe and Mail’s cover photo on March 18 was overblown and prudish.

The photo, which shows 17 year-old figure skater Kaetlyn Osmond, posing with one leg lifted in the air during a routine, alarmed many readers.

What most people seem to be uncomfortable with is the supposedly sexual nature of the photo. Her pose shows her crotch area, which many readers found too revealing and too sexual to have on the cover of a national newspaper, especially given her age.

It’s true that with the cropping

of the photo, it’s natural for the eye to be drawn to her crotch area. Exposure to that area of a body is still taboo in our society — it’s not something we discuss or display openly.

This can explain peoples’ initial discomfort with the image.

But discomfort is separate from blatant disapproval.

The degree of uproar is baffling and unwarranted.

Osmond was doing nothing unusual, given her sport. Her attire, which included opaque tights and full coverage of her bottom half, was standard for figure skating. Her

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Editors in Chief

Arts Editor

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LABIBA HAQUE

Production Manager

TRISTAN DIFRANCESCO

News Editor

TERENCE WONG

Assistant Arts Editor

PETER MORROW

Assistant Sports Editor

RACHEL HERSCOVICI VINCENT MATAK JULIA VRIEND

Postscript Editor

Features Editors

ROSIE HALES ALISON SHOULDICE

Editorials Editor

JOANNA PLUCINSKA

Editorial Illustrator

OLIVIA MERSEREAU

Photo Editor

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Valued work F

ine arts, as an academic discipline, is highly misunderstood and gravely undervalued by what seems to be a large portion of the academic world.

I’m writing to tell you that the commonly associated terms like “starving artist,” “bird course” and “unemployed” are so unbelievably incorrect that they border on ridiculous.

NICK FARIS JANINA ENRILE ALEX CHOI

Associate Photo Editor

TIFFANY LAM

Multimedia Editor

COLIN TOMCHICK

Web and Graphics Editor

ALI ZAHID

The most common response I get from people after revealing my area of study includes a self-satisfied smirk and a pretentious “so, what are you planning on doing with that?”

Well, a lot of things. The people who ask me this question forget that anything and everything that involves aesthetic appeal and design has been touched by a fine arts kid somewhere in its production process. Someone was paid to design your clothes, or the pattern on your bedsheets, or the poster hanging above your bed.

That someone was likely an art or design major.

And even if we do go on just to be practicing artists, there’s still a high likelihood that successful doctors, lawyers and engineers will buy our work for obscene amounts of money.

In a discussion with one of my classmates about the rigorous life of a fine arts student, she brought up the idea that, just like engineering

routine was neither provocative ‘too much’ skin. nor unorthodox — she was simply If the viewer sees something taking part in a regular figure sexual in the image, that’s not skating competition. the Globe and Mail’s fault nor is The uproar surrounding the it Osmond’s. photo indicates an oversensitivity Most importantly, the skater that’s unfortunately still inherent in herself approves of and likes our culture. It implies an underlying the photo. While she may not discomfort with the female be an adult, the publication of body — we still condemn those the photo shouldn’t put her in a who expose what is considered compromising position — she was

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Blogs Editor

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Web Developer

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is applied science, the bachelor of fine arts is applied arts.

I agree with her because a major aspect of my education that is overlooked by non-BFAs is the massive range and diversity of skills we acquire, not to mention the sheer amount of time we spend doing so.

In my two years as a fine arts student at Queen’s, I have learned how to use all manner of building materials and power tools, properly set up and display art or other objects, talk about art and art history, critique the world, stay in one room working with volatile chemicals for over 12 hours without food and, of course, make good art.

It’s because of these skills that fine arts as a field of study isn’t only practical, but integral to contemporary society.

Olivia is the Editorial Illustrator at the Journal. She’s a second-year BFA student.

merely doing what she does every day as a figure skater.

It’s time to reevaluate what our society finds inappropriate or, more importantly, overtly sexual. The uproar for this photo was ultimately unwarranted and undeserved.

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Motioning for a more global Queen’s Without concrete steps to globalize its education for the future, the University will fail to remain competitive

Omer Aziz ArtSci ’12 How will the world look in 2050? Questions such as this one occupy the daily lives of many international relations students and consultants, yet rarely does such forward-thinking shape the one area that will determine the Canadian economy of tomorrow: education.

“Globalization” — the omnipresent buzzword of our generation — has already transformed national economies and international politics, but within Canada, it has yet to fully impact higher education. As the globalization of education intensifies, Canada is being left behind in what has become a global pursuit of talent and innovation.

Without more universities and provincial governments investing in globalized education to create international opportunities for graduates, Canada won’t be able to keep pace with competitors decades down the road.

Take Queen’s as a microcosm.

Canada ranks a respectable 10th in global education rankings by The Economist Intelligence Unit and Queen’s undoubtedly fares better than its peers in annual Globe and Mail report cards.

However, Queen’s has merely a single exchange program in China and a single program in India.

There are a handful of courses on, say, Chinese history and the Middle East as regions with increasing clout.

Such a minimal presence in the regions that will shape the future and too little diversity in course offerings is a distressing trend that needs addressing.

Based on my conversations with students who have gone to

emerging countries for exchange or would like to, insufficient demand is hardly the reason for this lack of internationalism. A more plausible reason is that budgetary and strategic priorities at both the governmental and the administration level have been misplaced while long-term planning has been effectively jettisoned.

The current financial model is a central part of the problem.

Highly regulated fee-structures and policy inertia have led to an

native countries — a 57 per cent increase over the past decade. There are over 140 satellite campuses around the globe, up 43 per cent in just three years. Globalized education is a phenomenon already upon us, yet only 12 per cent of Canadian students receive international exposure during their undergraduate years, compared to 20 per cent of American students and 33 per cent of German students.

The evidence suggests Canada is

fund exchanges should be the ultimate goal.

Government alone can’t solve this problem, though it is the logical place to start.

Investing in globalized education means investing in Canadian students and in the Canadian economy. According to the Canadian Bureau for International Education, 91 per cent of employers said they value candidates with international exposure. Foreign students generate over 80,000

Twelve per cent of Canadian Students recieve international exposure during their undergraduate years, compared to 20 per cent of American students and 33 per cent of German students.

ossified system at a time when Canada needs policy innovation and flexibility. Professor Kim Richard Nossal of Queen’s told me in a recent exchange that entrenched interests ranging from governments and professors to students and parents wish to see the status-quo maintained for their own reasons, thereby hamstringing quality education policy to the detriment of students.

Canada will survive the budget cuts to the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade and Ontario may muddle through with a flawed education model.

Without more universities and provincial governments investing in globalized education to create international opportunities for graduates, Canada won’t be able to keep pace with competitors decades down the road.

Today, almost three million students study outside of their

falling behind. The country needs more scholarships for study abroad programs, more incentives to lure top foreign-students to come to our shores, and less bureaucracy for highly skilled students wishing to stay here. Twenty-five university presidents met with Canadian parliamentarians last year to discuss this very topic. Their message: we need more Canadaian students going on exchange and more international students coming here.

Partial solutions to such a systemic problem include deregulating fees, to be offset by greater bursaries and scholarships based on socioeconomic status; establishing research centers abroad; developing more partnerships in emerging economies; and funding more exchange programs. A nationwide program supported by businesses, governments, and universities to

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jobs in Canada and $8 billion in spending.

The long-term advantages are even greater as the 21st-century knowledge economy will require a 21st-century workforce.

Canada may become an energy superpower this century, but we should aim to become a knowledge superpower as well.

Other universities have a head start in this race for global talent. This year, Yale will open a college in collaboration with the National University of Singapore, placing itself at the heart of Asia’s most competitive economy.

New York University opened its much-heralded Abu Dhabi campus in 2010. Columbia has research centers in Jordan, China, India and France.

A combination of effective fundraising, support from host governments — themselves craving Western educational

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institutions — and gifts from donors have mitigated the financial impediments to global expansion for these universities.

Rana Sarkar, ArtSci ’93 and most recently President of the Canada India Business Council, told me that funding and network development are crucial to a targeted “going global” strategy.

These have been missing from Canada’s playbook in general and Queen’s in particular.

With going global, there also needs to be a strategy put in place to turn Canada into an international magnet for talent.

Let’s start by building more innovation hubs. America has the Silicon Valley-Stanford-Wall Street nexus of innovation, education, and financing.

Bangalore has become a regional hub for India’s IT sector. In January, the Brookings Institution in Washington published a paper advocating for the creation of 25 innovation hubs as the surest path to full employment in the US.

Today, almost three million students study outside of their native countries — a 57 per cent increase over the past decade. There are over 140 satellite campuses across the world, up 43 per cent in just three years.

Regional hubs at the intersection of business, government, and universities will help Canada out-compete and out-innovate other countries and will create an environment more favourable to innovative ideas and inventions.

So, to answer the question of how the world will look in 2050: very different than how it looks today, by every metric.

Considering how often students are lectured to “plan ahead,” perhaps our university presidents, business leaders and government officials should get planning.

Omer was a summer associate in the Global Public Sector division of Deloitte.

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Risky roads The Matinée lead singer Matt Layzell spills on the band’s adventurous tour stories B y S avoula S tylianou Arts Editor

stopped at the edge of town at a Canadian Tire Garden Centre,” he said. “We passed out there, and Matt Layzell from The Matinée were woken up at 7:30 in the and I compared our tattoos when morning when the staff called the we spoke last week. cops on us when they saw us [in the The lead singer said he and Garden Centre].” his bandmates all have really Through the crazy tour stories, interesting tattoos and some that the band has been playing together are a little obsessive. since they were young, growing up “We’re all Lord of the Rings within blocks of each other. fanatics and [guitarist] Geoff Drummer Peter Lemon’s [Petrie] had to take it one step mom taught each of them how further. He had Mordor on his arm to play music and as a band, and he got Gollum on his forearm,” Layzell said he would describe Layzell told me. “He’s been asking their live performances as being people if they want to kiss Gollum.” extremely energetic.

Layzell said the band’s even “We’ve been known to bust out gotten tattoos while on tour. all of the drums and percussion we “[Guitarist] Matt [Rose] and I can fit onto one stage and have a took an eight hour ferry ride off big jam,” he said. “We’ll bang sticks the coast of B.C. for a tour of the on anything that’ll resonate noise.” island and we were joking on the The band’s favourite song way over that if there’s a tattoo to play on their current tour is parlour on the island, we would get their newest single “Young one,” he said. and Lazy.”

“We found a woman there Layzell said the song is a play who brought us to her house and on his and bassist Mike Young’s supplied tattooed us in the basement.”

Lead singer Matt Layzell said The Matinée is excited to be returning to Kingston since the band does a lot of last names.

We talked about music as well.

“My nickname’s Layze, and their writing in his family cabin in Gananoque.

Currently, The Matinée’s Mike’s last name is Young. I thought opening for Electric Six on a tour it could be a bar name, but we were from Victoria to Montreal.

Queen’s events doing a writing session with Steve It’s been going relatively well, from Hot Hot Heat and he said it he said. would be a wicked song name.”

“First day of the tour, our tires Coming back to Kingston will got stuck in the snow and we had be great, Layzell said, since The to get towed. We ended up paying Matinée does a lot of their writing $1,400 for winter tires,” he said. at his family cabin in Gananoque.

The band’s past tours have “We’re just excited to get back also had a few mishaps, Layzell to Kingston and make sure we said, including one that resulted in walk over to Tir Nan Og for the cops being called on the band some poutine.” and has branched into Twitter and year so hopefully I’ll have time to for loitering.

B y A lex D ownham attend events after school.”

Facebook pages.

“On our way to Thunder Bay, The Matinée plays The Mansion on Assistant Arts Editor After recently reaching 100,000 our van caught on fire. So we Thursday at 9 p.m.

“I am the events girl, and yet, I hits on her website, Witiuk said she’s astounded by the results. haven’t been to one in so long.”

“Going from isolation to this; In her fifth year at Queen’s, student Sarah Witiuk has made it’s been a whirlwind adventure. her last year of school count Queen’s loves it,” she said.

Initially, this boom was almost with the improvement of student experiences that she herself didn’t overwhelming, as Witiuk was have. As the creator of Queen’s trying to keep track of events using Events, Witiuk said she thought ten different calendars, including there was a gap to fill in her own the Queen’s Academic Calendar.

But with the addition of three social life.

“I came here and something volunteers, Witiuk has become didn’t mesh. I wasn’t getting productive in promoting events involved in what I want[ed],” ranging from academics to arts.

However, these four individuals Witiuk, ArtSci ’12, said.

Referring to her lack of aren’t the only people adding to involvement during her first and a long list of events. Over 80 per second year, Witiuk said she faced cent of the time, it’s visitors of this same sense of isolation after the site that are posting events on returning from her international the website.

“It’s a community website where exchange in fourth year.

“People stopped inviting me to you become the promoter.”

Both Queen’s students and local events on Facebook because I was gone for a year,” Witiuk said. community members use the site to After experiencing this keep in touch with the local scene, predicament twice, Witiuk and help pull students out of what wondered why there wasn’t a Witiuk calls the “bubble,” which place that listed all events accessible confines many Queen’s students to campus. to students.

Ironically, Witiuk hasn’t Tired of feeling out of the loop, Witiuk decided to make attended a local event in a while queensevents.ca, a website to due to her busy task of keeping tabs promote events within walking on the community.

After buying tickets to see Stars distance of campus.

“I just want to get people in Kingston, Witiuk was excited involved, because we spend a lot to finally relax. The site had of time in class, the library or at also hosted a draw on the site parties, when there are other things for two lucky visitors to see the band. Witiuk sympathized with a you can do,” she said.

Created in March last year and runner-up and ended up giving her photo by sam koebrich launched in September, her site has ticket away.

Sarah Witiuk, ArtSci ‘12, said once she got back from her international exchange, she stopped “I’m staying in Kingston next getting invited to events happening in Kingston, so she wanted to post them in one easy-to-find place. gained popularity among students

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Website creator Sarah Witiuk says she wants to educate students about events happening outside the barriers of campus

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band was going for with their latest album Tiger Talk.

“The album was done right off When I saw Yukon Blonde at the floor because we wanted that the frosh concert in September, I old organic sound from the 70s,” thought, “Who’s the biker on bass?” he said. “We were really influenced But I was soon pulled into their by the late 70s and early 80s punk classic rock sound and started rock sound as well.” bobbing my head along to the The new and polished twist on guitar riffs of “Wind Blows.” the band’s familiar sound has been Guitarist Brandon Scott said recognized nation-wide. that old school vibe is what the In November, the band’s single,

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“My Girl,” off their last record, appeared as the background music in one of Canadian Tourism’s YouTube videos, promoting Canada’s scenic nature and multiculturalism.

“It was fun dealing with French translators and rewriting our lyrics in one of our national language,” Scott said. “We had to do it countless times because our French

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Art revIew

Collecting visions of primal art Exhibit displays themes of sexuality in the context of 20th century tribal communities in West and Central Africa B y Z aCK S PenCeR Contributor It’s sexuality in its primitive form.

Collecting Visions, housed inside the African Gallery of the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, is a historical and aesthetic exploration of tribes in West and Central Africa, including Ghana, Nicaragua and Mali.

Token ideas of male and female sexuality are taken from their 20th century tribal history.

The pieces showcase the story of their former homes, from the grass hats on the wood statues to the smooth stone surfaces of the figurines on the pedestals.

With each work portraying someone’s story from an African tribe, the gallery felt like a museum given how much I was learning.

By the windows in the art gallery, the wood carvings and statues had a distinct primal aesthetic, created without the Western conception of classically refined art in mind.

With the minimalism present in the works, they are clearly symbols of the everyday

life and rituals of the tribal cultures they come from.

I got the feeling that I was being told an account of someone’s personal feelings through their art, giving the exhibit as a whole an entirely new personal perspective.

Themes of individual stories jumped out at me while I was visiting the show.

The creators of the figures and sculptures used the tools available to them — from stones to leather to grass, all in an attempt to mold depictions of their ideas.

Specifically, the grass and straw used in certain pieces gave the natural and organic vibe to specific pieces that was exemplified in the exhibit as a whole.

Themes of sexuality are arguably one that have always existed and in modern art exhibits, we find that theme being displayed in figurative and metaphoric ways.

With Collecting Visions, however, the viewer is taken back to the primitive nature of the historic tribes in Africa to get a glimpse of how they dealt with these same themes.

“Nduda Figure,” a ritual stone-carved idol used to invoke the presence of spirits during cultural and religious ceremonies, displayed these primitive themes with multiple nails jutting from its body.

The exhibit’s pieces were beautiful in a visceral and almost terrifying way, and I

found myself more historically enlightened than artistically fulfilled.

That being said, the true value of the exhibit lay in its ability to shed light on a culture that is vastly different from our own.

For example, “The Maiden Spirit Mask” was a tribal mask that had uniquely human features and perfectly exhibited its original culture.

It was an object created to honour the concept of traditional feminine beauty as it was appreciated and adored in the African tribal societies of the time.

The mask is beautiful with its crown of carved wooden red and brown bodies sitting atop the female’s head.

The emphasis on the cultural significance of the collection has given it an intellectual depth that is hard not to appreciate.

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Collecting Visions contains pieces made of wood, leather and stone.

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is terrible, so it took us four or five tries.”

Beyond Canada, the band’s toured across Europe and made stops in places like Amsterdam, where Scott said one of his favourite shows took place.

“It was our first time in that city and there was a lot of hype about us being there,” Scott said. “Somehow we bypassed all the effects, played everything bare bones and it ended up being a really good show.”

In their home country, Yukon Blonde has received an acclaimed nomination for a Juno award.

a nice thing “toItbewas recognized for, especially for your loved one’s sake. ” — Yukon Blonde Guitarist Brandon Scott “It’s Canada’s biggest honour so we were so excited that morning — we’ll have to see what it does professionally, because the exposure is amazing since everyone knows the award.”

Scott said the band’s close Guitarist Brandon Scott says the band’s Juno nomination photo by tiffany lam ones were especially excited about this year was an especially great moment for the band’s loved ones. the announcement.

“We were flooded with emails made the band feel like what your life instead of saying and we had our families calling, so they’re doing is worthwhile, we have this many Twitter it was a nice thing to be recognized Scott said. followers or whatever.”

“It’s a moment where you for, especially for your loved ones’ realize that you’re actually Yukon Blonde plays The Grad Club on sake,” he said.

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Q&A

Cool behind the bench Head coach preaches unity, discipline B y N ick Faris and S ean S utherland Journal Staff Matt Holmberg has quickly become one of Queen’s most decorated bench bosses.

After joining the women’s hockey coaching staff in 2006, Holmberg capped off his fourth season as head coach with an OUA championship and a berth to CIS nationals.

Both milestones were his second with the Gaels, after claiming the league title and a national bronze medal in 2011.

This year’s championships bookended what Holmberg described as “the best and craziest week” of his life. Holmberg’s daughter — his first child — was born two days before puck drop at this year’s CIS tournament.

Her full name is Gwenyth Abbigael Holmberg — the middle name a fitting tribute to Holmberg’s current team.

“I had to throw it in there, somewhere,” he said, laughing.

Earlier this week, Holmberg sat down with the Journal to discuss his early championship success, his personal coaching style and the future of Gaels women’s hockey.

What’s been the highlight of your coaching career at Queen’s?

There’s been a bunch. The two OUA championships are probably tied for first. Winning that first one in 30-some years was very special, and it was almost as tough, if not tougher, to win the second one.

Before you were named head coach, Queen’s hadn’t won an OUA championship since 1979.

Now, you have two in three years.

How have you achieved this early success?

I give all the credit to the players.

Myself and the other coaches have a vision for what we want to accomplish with this group of players, but we need them to buy in in order to achieve that — and they

have, wholeheartedly.

I’ve been really blessed to have not only good talent on the ice, but they’re also good people off the ice.

To me, team unity and team chemistry is just as important as the Xs and Os on the ice. You have to have them both to be successful.

How would you describe your personal coaching style?

I’m not a yeller — I tend not to motivate through fear. I prefer to motivate the players through self-interest — wanting them to get better because they want to for themselves, for the team and for the school.

It seems like you’re always very composed behind the bench.

How do you maintain that poise?

Maybe it’s like a duck swimming in water — above water, it seems pretty calm, but underwater, the feet are going a mile a minute.

It’s something that I preach to the team, in terms of discipline and being able to bounce back from anything negative that happens.

There are a lot of opportunities in games to get frustrated, but at the end of the day, we can only control the things we can control.

We can control our effort and our own attitude.

You’ve had two of the top goaltenders in the OUA in Mel Dodd-Moher and Karissa Savage. How do you balance the workload between them?

That’s been one of the tougher things we’ve had to do in the last few years … you can only put in one goalie at a time.

[In regards to] both Karissa and Mel we’re very lucky, because they’re true team players and they both have a burning desire to be in. They support each other and they work hard — and without that, I don’t think we would have won another championship this year.

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First-year men’s squash player Mo Hamour was named OUA Rookie of the Year.

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Gaels head coach Matt Holmberg has led the women’s hockey team to two OUA championships in his first four seasons. Before Holmberg’s arrival, the Gaels’ last league title came in 1979.

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Underground pros Queen’s players set sights on pro success, OUA supremacy B y Peter M orrow Sports Editor Queen’s squash players are getting paid to play at the highest levels.

Erin Roberts coached and played in her fourth year with Queen’s team, competing in individual professional matches on the side for cash prizes. She’s currently competing in a $10,000 tournament in Toronto.

The OUA first-team All-Star is dabbling in the tournaments while she finishes school.

“There’s all the way up to $100,000 ones but I could never get into those — I only play in the lower ones,” Roberts said. “But it’s hard because it’s like you’ve got to be top 10 to make a living.

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“So you’ve got to get a job and do it on the side ... which a lot of people do, but it’s definitely tough.”

While she competes in pro tournaments, her squash rankings fluctuate. She’s currently ranked 179th in the world, 26th in Canada and 14th in Ontario.

As players all seek to climb the ranks, one collective goal is to have squash inducted into the Olympics.

After the bid for 2016 failed, Roberts said the squash world is rallying for the next Games in 2020.

“The bid’s pretty big — I know [Roger] Federer backed it,” Roberts said. “A lot of people play it but don’t realize there’s also the competitive aspect to it. There’s a whole other world out there — there’s a professional league.”

First-year men’s player Mo Hamour is part of the movement.

He’s also part of a select few who’s played squash competitively since he was 10.

“I think it’s a crime that it’s not in [the Olympics] right now,” Hamour said. “If you watch the pros on YouTube, these guys are the most in-shape people.

Their movement is so good that they don’t need to over-exert themselves.”

At 19, Hamour is having his rackets and apparel paid for by Black Knight, a squash racquet company. He currently sits 5th in the under-19 Ontario level and 11th in Canada.

His current challenge lies in the

OUA — dethroning the Western Mustangs squash team, the winners of 30 straight OUA men’s squash championships.

it’s a crime “thatI think it’s not in [the

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Olympics] right now.

— Mo Hamour, Queen’s squash player “As a team right now, they’re definitely not beatable. In the OUA, no one can touch them,” he said.

“But I want to be part of the team that beats them.”

The reigning OUA rookie of the year said he wants to eventually be the best in Ontario — bar none.

“I’m really amped up to just train really hard in the summer because there are not many players in the OUA who are better than me,” Hamour said. “I want to be the best — just kind of have that title.”

Inside Feature Fast-paced iteration of traditional rugby cracks the Olympic lineup.

Women’s Hockey Beat reporter Sean Sutherland gives the last word on Queen’s standout season.

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Panache on the pitch

Speed, confidence essential to shorter, faster game of rugby B y Peter M orrow Sports Editor Former 100m sprinter Carlin Isles abruptly made the switch from track to rugby sevens.

Isles’ sevens success rests on dazzling speed, but he recently told The Associated Press, “You’ve got to have that cool swagger about you.”

Sevens is played with seven aside in 14-minute games, unlike the more traditional “fifteens” rugby. More tries are scored at a

rapid pace.

Women’s rugby player Nadia Popov couldn’t agree more with Isles’ notion.

“Sometimes you need that confidence or that extra swagger in order to even appear confident,” said Popov, last fall’s OUA rookie of the year. “So if you do miss a tackle, you can get up and say, ‘come at me again.’”

Normally a fifteens player, Popov’s well aware of the differences. With fewer players,

one-on-one battles are fiercer than in “fifteens” rugby and the stakes are higher for missed tackles.

“It’s like in the wild,” she said.

“Animals, if they sense the fear, they’re going to come at you every time.”

Several Queen’s players have thrived at the “sevens” game — soon to be played on the Olympic stage. The men’s team recently travelled to Victoria, B.C. to compete against other CIS sevens teams.

Second-year Gaels forward Gill Pegg first played sevens this past summer with the Canadian FISU team — a melange of University rugby players competing against other countries.

Fit and speedy backs normally excel in sevens but Pegg was selected for the high-profile tournament as a forward. She said speed isn’t everything, although it can’t be overlooked.

“It’s a lot shorter, but it’s one of the most tiring sports ever because you’re sprinting the entire time,” she said. “Being on defence is the worst possible thing. You’ve sometimes got to chase back

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Fourth-year winger Graham Turner competed with Queen’s in Langford, B.C. earlier this month in the CIS University Sevens Tournament.

and forth.”

Pegg added that it makes for an entertaining show with the average viewer attracted to a simplified, fast-paced version of the sport. But she’s still uneasy with the decision to make sevens an Olympic sport over fifteens.

“Don’t get me wrong, I love sevens,” she said. “But in my opinion, fifteens is the older game of rugby and it’s the classic game of rugby — it’s more what rugby’s made to be.”

Men’s rugby winger Graham Turner said the decision to add sevens to the Olympics gives more countries an opportunity to compete and shine.

“If you look at the [sevens World Cup qualifiers], I think there are 16 teams who play in each tournament,” Turner said.

“And a lot of countries competing now aren’t ‘rugby countries’ but they have the chance to play in the Olympics.”

The wide open field is ready for the world’s fittest athletes to exploit, with somewhat less refined rugby-specific skills.

The most recent example is Isles — the sevens player Turner tabbed as “the fastest man in rugby.” Turner saw Isles play when he competed with an Ontario side in a Las Vegas annual sevens tournament.

“You see the YouTube videos, but you can’t really appreciate it until you see it in person — just how fast he is. He’s definitely a pretty good weapon,” Turner said.

“But time will tell if it’s a publicity stunt or if it’s for real.”

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Second OUA title in three years highlights 2012-13 season B y S ean S utherland Staff Writer It was all-around excellence that led the women’s hockey team to victory.

The Gaels’ 20-win regular season was the best in the program’s history. As a sequel to the amazing regular season, the Gaels went on a playoff run that ended with the team capturing their second OUA title in the last three years.

Though the season ended with the Gaels losing all three games at the CIS championship, that shouldn’t be what Queen’s season is remembered for. The

team’s legacy was its performance in the OUA — especially its postseason dominance.

The team consistently battled hard in both ends to help produce results. The OUA leader this season in goals against, the Gaels were a testament to their commitment in their own zone.

One of the major reasons for having the top defensive team in the league was the outstanding play of goaltending tandem Karissa Savage and Mel Dodd-Moher.

Splitting the workload this season, the duo allowed only 43 goals against with both goalies sitting in the top five in goals against average. That isn’t to say

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Queen’s defence collectively allowed 43 goals in 26 regular season games — best in the OUA.

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that the goalies were the only stars of the team.

Centre Morgan McHaffie was a second-team all-Canadian this season, posting 33 points while also playing a strong defensive game.

Joining McHaffie in the OUA top 10 for scoring was second-year winger Taryn Pilon, whose 27 points were good enough to tie her for seventh place.

A key to the success the Gaels had this year was offensive depth, as 10 other players put up double-digit numbers in points, including veterans Kristin Smith and Brittany McHaffie.

The team also generated offense through second-team All-Star Katie Duncan — second amongst OUA defenders in points with 22.

All-rookie team member Alisha Sealey led all first-year blueliners with 14 points.

The team’s OUA-leading power play — at 22.9 per cent — played an important role in keeping the Gaels in contention all year.

Although they only ranked ninth in the OUA on the penalty kill, the Gaels’ discipline stopped this from being a detriment, as they were the least penalized team in the league.

The road to a repeat will be difficult, with as many as 10 players off this year’s team set to graduate.

The team will need to get continued increased production from players such as Pilon, Sealey and centre Shawna Griffin next year.

With a deep roster, key returnees and a strong recruiting class, the Gaels could still contend for the championship.

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How do you see the team moving forward with the potential loss of several veteran players?

We’ve been through that sort of turnover before, and I think we’ve successfully come out of it.

Everyone that’s leaving is going to be impossible to replace — they’ve been here for a long time, veterans that have pushed this program forward in the last few years.

Recruiting has gone well.

I do believe that two or three players in their fourth year might decide to come back for their fifth year, which will certainly help to bring that experience along with them.

[Third-year centre] Shawna Griffin has won two championships in three years. Those sort of middle-year players now have a lot of experience to carry forward.

What are the challenges you face in a condensed tournament like nationals?

From experience now, we know that it’s over before you know it.

You really have to put your best foot forward right away.

Some teams try to go into a tournament like that and try

Holmberg and the Gaels swept the Western Mustangs to clinch this season’s OUA championship.

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to change their style. What we did — and I still have no regrets about it — was to play our game.

You can’t win three series in the OUA playing one style and suddenly switch it up at nationals.

We’ve learned to trust in the systems that got you there, work hard and enjoy the moment.

of mine — putting my time and energy into this team comes easy.

Now, with a newborn, it’s almost irrelevant what my other interests might be. I’m quite happy to put my non-hockey time and energy into my family and my daughter.

What do you like to do outside of hockey?

I’m really proud of what the team was able to accomplish this year.

They set out at the beginning of the year to win a championship and make nationals.

We put together a blueprint on how that was going to happen, and it meant they needed to work very, very hard. They legitimately earned that championship.

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Women of Queen’s

gender equality

Riding a growing wave

They had to stand up to traditional patriarchy to brave a man’s world. The following women have experienced Queen’s in very different times than today.

Women brave the world of men to reach for their choices, away from restrictions B y R achel H erscovici Assistant News Editor 147 years ago, Queen’s admitted its first female student — 35 years after it opened its doors to male students.

Although the gender gap has shrunk dramatically, Queen’s female population is still defining what it means to be a woman.

Today, women make up 62 per cent of undergraduates attending university, according to 2008 data from Statistics Canada.

It’s a number far off from 1968, when this number was closer to 35 per cent.

No longer expected to choose an education or a marriage, the myth of the ‘Mrs’ degree — that a woman may come to university to find their long-term partner — is eroding.

Today, trends show that slightly more women with a university degree are married than their less-educated counterparts.

Theresa Kosterman wasn’t looking for a husband when

she decided to attend Queen’s to get her education in Chemical Engineering.

“I was really looking forward to university but all throughout first year I wasn’t looking for a relationship — I didn’t think I had to have one,” she said Today, Kosterman, and her fiancee Andrew van Warmerdam, both Sci ’11, are engaged to be married in late August, four years after their first meeting at Clark Hall Pub’s Ritual.

Although the two fell into a serious relationship, the couple said they thought they gave each other enough space to succeed in their academics.

Both now work for engineering companies, but when the time comes, Kosterman said she would want to stay home to take care of the children.

“I kind of feel bad that women feel the pressure that they can’t just stay at home and be with their kids,” she said. “It’s not like my education will be wasted by staying at home because I can help

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Queen’s women have led the way through the second wave of feminism to fight towards gender equality at the university.

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Today, more women with a post-secondary education are married than their less-educated counterparts, according to StatsCan.

my kids do math and science and physics homework — I can get them excited about chemistry.

“I think that a lot of what I have learned in school can help me be a better mom.”

As graduation looms closer for many students, choosing between marriage or a career becomes more of a reality.

Victoria Porter, ArtSci ’15, plans on doing both when the time comes.

“I came to university so I could get an education and support myself,” she said. “I do want to support a family, maybe one day, but I don’t want it to be completely on the shoulders of my partner.”

Porter said she grew up in a home where her mother pursued her career and raised her family.

“The way I grew up in is that I saw women as self-sufficient,” she said.

Porter was actively encouraged to pursue her dreams and post-secondary education, but ultimately every woman has the right to pursue what feels right for them, she said.

“Girls, as they’re growing up, should be told that these opportunities are there for them but I also think that men should be told these opportunities are there for them because this opportunity is there for everyone,” she said.

Although both students are able to choose what path they’d like to follow in the upcoming years, this freedom was slow to come to other Queen’s students.

Historian Duncan McDowall, currently writing the third volume of Queen’s official history, said that until the second wave feminist movement in the early 1960s, women were typically seen

as homemakers.

This new movement focused on a larger discussion about legal inequalities, family, reproduction and sexuality rights.

Because Queen’s is such a traditional institution, McDowall said he believes that some old, anti-feminist values were embedded in the students.

In the 1960s, women started coming to university in growing numbers. They knew they needed an education to win the fight for complete equality, McDowall said, and to move away from a male-centric institution.

In 1967, the Levana Society, the official association of female students since 1888, was merged with ASUS and women began to associate themselves in the same faculties as men.

“A fight had to take place on campus to rule out these attitudes [about women] and the AMS was the crucible of it,” McDowall said.

“What I think is remarkable is that women started to play a crucial role within the AMS.” AMS events like Suzie-Q week, where women ask the men out as dates were brought to referendum in 1977 because of sexist concerns. It was voted to stay at the time, but by the early 1980s, sexism talk grew and it was soon abolished.

Although there’s still some work to be done McDowall believes Queen’s is more sensitive to these issues since they’ve become more widely recognized since the 1960s.

“Queen’s women have broken through that glass ceiling, they’ve worked their way up those professional ladders and now they’re on the top.”

Geraldine Rose Tepper, BA ’56, transferred from Toronto in her second year. When graduated from the Faculty of Law in 1960, the Kingston-Whig Standard captured a picture of her and husband with the caption: “Wife with an LLB.” In her program, Tepper said women made up a ninth of their class. “Women were a novelty then,” she said in an interview for the Queen’s Archives’ Oral History Project – History of Queen’s Women.

“Cookie” Cartwright, Arts ’62, Law ’65, was responsible for the return of the Gaels women’s hockey team in 1960. “I just wanted to make the NHL. ... you know, to hell with being a lawyer!” she said in an interview for the Oral History Project – History of Queen’s Women. “When I was about 12, I realized that I wasn’t going to make the NHL simply because I was female.”

Anne-Marie Gaston, BA ’63, PHE ’64, is now a dancer of the classical East Indian style. During her time at Queen’s, Gaston became interested in working in another country, driving her to move to India after graduation.

“My mother was always very keen on this, that I should be self-supporting, regardless of whether I got married,” she said in an interview for the Oral History Project – History of Queen’s Women.

Source: Queen’s University Archives

A female evolution 1967: Women’s association, the Levana Society disbands, merges with Arts and Science Undergraduate Society.

1974: Principal John Deutsch announced a task force on the status of women at Queen’s.

1973 - early 1990: Association of Women Teaching at Queen’s caucus created to advocate for women’s equality at the University — eventually led to the creation of Women’s Studies department.

1989: “No Means No” campaign is started by women to claim their sexual rights while first-year males parody this movement.

This shocks Queen’s into taking action on women’s equality.

1986: Law professor Sheila McIntey writes memo on inequality at Queen’s, creating a national wave of awareness.

2004: Karen Hitchcock is appointed Queen’s first female principal.

Source: Queen’s University Historian Duncan McDowall