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Queen’s criticized University violated academic freedom, report says B y H olly Tousignant Vincent M atak Journal Staff

The annual Take Back the Night event launches a new campaign targeted bystanders to prevent sexual assaults.

American countries who wanted to introduce the campaign and translate it into Spanish.”

The idea was sparked last summer in a big meeting with L’action Ontario and Ontario

The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) recently released their report on Queen’s investigation into a former professor’s conduct.

Michael Mason has sparked criticism in the 82-page report released by the CAUT on Thursday. The report alleges that the University’s investigation into the professor emeritus of history, violated his academic freedom and “acted callously and irresponsibly in how it handled complaints with respect to his teaching.”

As part of the report, CAUT recommends that Queen’s history department establish a yearly bursary of $4,000 in Mason’s name and deliver a formal apology to him. The University’s administration was also encouraged

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Where will you draw the line?

Almost 200 people marched through downtown Kingston rallying against sexual assault B y R achel H erscovici Assistant News Editor Thursday’s annual Take Back the Night march featured the launch of the new Draw the Line campaign — a provincial effort to target bystanders in sexual assault prevention.

“The Draw the Line Campaign looks at bystanders and asks them through a series of posters — when you see something where do you ‘draw the line?” Kim Graham, community education coordinator at the Sexual Assault Centre Kingston and an organizer of the event told the Journal.

The campaign’s goal is to dispel common myths, open a dialogue and educate Ontarians about sexual violence.

The campaign is designed to be catchy and broad enough to

include people from every walk of life, no matter their gender or sexual orientation.

The campaign’s signs, which were featured in the march, provide onlookers with statements like: “Your wasted friend staggers

out of the bar with some guy … where do you draw the line?”

“I hope it creates a discussion amongst people,” Graham said.

“Most people have really positive feedback on the campaign ... there have been some calls from South

Student affairs

AMS releases discipline memo Executive and University come to a non-academic discipline agreement B y Vincent M atak Assistant News Editor A new Non-Academic Discipline (NAD) system at Queen’s will see more emphasis on peer enforced

sanctions against student offenders.

NAD is a peer-judicial system that enforces sanctions for students who commit offences such as theft, illegal possession or consumption of alcohol, perjury and

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Discussions about the possible return of Homecoming in 2013

Interview with Toronto band FIRExFIRE before their gig at Brandee’s

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public disturbances.

An agreement between the AMS executive team and Principal Daniel Woolf was signed on Sept.

11 to revamp the system after 18 months of discussion between the AMS and the University’s Senate Committee on Non-Academic Discipline (SONAD).

Changes to the system will have to be voted on during Senate on Tuesday.

A large part of the discussion process consisted of the AMS regaining judiciary control of NAD from Student Affairs, which had dealt with most non-academic discipline infractions since Skinner’s review was put forward to Queen’s administration.

“We were able to come to an agreement with the University and it was a long and very time consuming process so I would

say that we’re relieved that the system maintains the core feature of a peer judicial system,” said Mira Dineen, AMS vice president of university affairs.

The decision to review the system started after Coroner Roger Skinner recommended a review of Queen’s alcohol policies in 2011 following several student deaths on campus.

Changes include establishing minimum sanctions for malicious blue light activation and rooftop and alcohol-related cases, with progressive sanctions for recurring offenders.

NAD also plans to increase expediency of cases by establishing a 60-day deadline from the time a case is received to being closed.

Sanctions include fines of up to $1,000, community service of up See New on page 6

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Gauging Homecoming’s possible return Ambiguity over Fauxcoming’s date means watching the months ahead in terms of parties, woolf says B y h olly tousignant J ulia vRiend Journal staff

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Students and alumni may only have to wait a few more months to hear Principal Daniel Woolf ’s decision about the reinstatement of a fall reunion.

Following last Saturday’s quiet “Fauxcoming” celebrations, Woolf said the weekend’s events will have an impact on the future of fall reunions.

“It was a successful weekend,” he said. “There were general overall improvements … Obviously zero people would be best, but the numbers were fewer.”

Woolf said prior to last weekend, he was hopeful but not confident that things would go smoothly.

Homecoming was officially cancelled after the fall 2008 event, which saw over 120 arrests for public intoxication. This year, only 12 people received the same charge.

The original cancellation of Homecoming was slated for two years, but was extended an additional three years until 2014.

In May, the University Council voted in favour of Woolf bringing Homecoming back a year early, a decision he said he would consider.

Because of the ambiguity of when this year’s “Fauxcoming” was set to take place, Woolf said he wants to see how the months ahead fare in terms of street parties. “[We need to] remind people

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woolf says he is also in consultation with alumni about a possible fall reunion.

we have several weekends to go and we have to look at the whole term.”

The structure of a possible future reunion is currently being discussed and devised by multiple consultation groups, which include Rector Nick Francis and AMS President Doug Johnson as members. Woolf said he’s also spoken to alumni about the issue.

“This is clearly an issue of great importance,” he said.

A decision could be made by the end of the term or the end of the football season, Woolf said.

“At the very latest, the beginning

of winter term … when the weather is a little colder.”

Woolf said he thinks the shift to a quieter weekend was the result of four years of no official events.

[We need to] remind “people we have several weekends to go and we have to look at the whole term.

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— Daniel Woolf, Principal

said. “At the end of the day, the students and alumni need to have a safe celebration.”

Johnson, ArtSci ’12, said the AMS is working collaboratively with student groups and the Municipal Affairs Commission to ensure that Homecoming comes back next year.

“The AMS fully supports the return of a fall reunion in 2013 and now it’s just a matter of what it looks like,” he said.

“There has been less of a focus on a particular weekend,” he

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Town Gown

Bottles for change A glimpse into bottle collecting and the poverty that persists in areas near the Student Ghetto B y K atherine Fernandez -B lance A lison S houldice Journal Staff

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For every six-pack of beer, 60 cents goes back into the pocket of the bottle collector.

It’s a small profit that can require hours of picking before accumulating a few dollars, but for some, it’s a way to make ends meet.

Areas surrounding the downtown core are popular for bottle collection, said one man Thursday afternoon as he stood on a porch on University Avenue.

“I’ve already collected about three or four dollars worth,” said the man, who asked not to be named. In his hand were two grocery bags full of beer bottles.

After he’s collected about $15-20 worth of bottles, he’ll bring them to the Beer Store on Princess St..

It’s a small amount for hours spent digging through recycling bins and patrolling streets, but for him, it’s an easy job.

“I just had some time to spare today so I thought I’d come out and kill an hour,” he said.

The Beer Store first started exchanging cash for beer bottles and cans in 1927. It wasn’t until four years ago, though, that it began accepting wine and spirit containers for deposit return.

Each one litre can or small bottle can be exchanged for ten cents, while bottles over 630 ml or cans over one litre can be exchanged for 20 cents each.

Kingston’s Beer Stores were unavailable for comment, but in a 12-month span, 2.06 billion cans and bottles were collected provincially, which represents 91 per cent of alcohol beverage containers sold in Ontario that year.

Throughout his time collecting bottles, the downtown collector said he’s encountered little negativity from the students whose

bins he roots through.

“Actually, some of them even say ‘hey I have some in my house, wait a minute,’” he said.

Ivan Stoiljkovic, a member of the Kingston Coalition Against Poverty, lives a few blocks north of Princess St., over the notorious dividing line between Kingston’s differing socioeconomic classes.

Over the years, his area has become increasingly gentrified with Queen’s students and professors moving further north — something that has driven the cost of housing up, he said.

“You see who’s moving in, you see the cars, and you also see the people collecting bottles,” he said.

“The students at this point are a super privileged bunch at Queen’s.”

Around 40 per cent of those living north of Princess St. are classified as low-income.

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These people are so “close to us, you could

even say our extended neighbours, and they’re coming back to take the bottles we no longer want.

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— Cara McQuaid, co-chair of Students Against Poverty Stoiljkovic has lived in the same place for four years and said that bottle collectors are a common sight around his Chatham St. neighbourhood.

The homeless and the low-income, who he said make up the majority of bottle collectors, bring in bottles for cash because they simply need the money.

The high student population surrounding Queen’s, St. Lawrence College and the Royal Military College means the city’s vacany rate of one per cent, is one of the lowest in the province. The houses that Kingston does have are often priced higher because of the

Poverty In Kingston by the numbers • There are 14, 580 children in Kingston living in poverty • 20 per cent of Kingston renters spend at least half their income on housing • Between 2007-11, food bank use increased by 20 per cent • 54 per cent of food bank users recieve government aid • Between 2000 and 2005, Kingston residents earning more than $90,000 a year increased, while those earning less than $30,000 decreased.

—Source: Community Foundation for Kingston and Area, Kingston Frontenac Leeds and Addington United Way

Kingston’s one per cent vacancy rate is among the lowest in the province.

competitive market. In 2010, the average rent for a three-bedroom apartment in the city was $1,217.

With 15.4 per cent of its residents living below the low income line, Kingston’s poverty rate is slightly higher than the provincial average and higher than the 13 other counties in Eastern Ontario. Stoiljkovic, who’s an immigrant from Yugoslavia, said he wasn’t born into wealth and has experienced the struggle of poverty in Kingston.

For the past eight years, he‘s been a member of the Kingston Coalition Against Poverty — a loosely-based organization that holds rallies, offers social assistance and holds meetings about poverty eradication.

Stoiljkovic, MA ’01 was also at Queen’s for five years but stopped just short of completing his PhD as it was too expensive to complete his degree.

Now, he considers himself to be a product of both worlds — Queen’s and the rest of Kingston. Most students are oblivious to the fact that there is poverty in Kingston, he thinks.

“I find that most Queen’s students never cross the line that is Princess St.,” he said. “I find that most students are completely unaware of the existence of poverty in Kingston.”

Bottle collectors roaming through the university area offer a glimpse into the poverty that is prevalent in Kingston, according to Students Against Poverty, a club under the AMS’s Social

Issues Commission.

According to a 2011 report by the Kingston Community Roundtable on Poverty Reduction, there are almost 35,000 working Kingstonians who have yearly earnings below the annualized equivalent of minimum wage.

You see who’s “moving in, you see the

cars, and you also see the people collecting bottles ... The students at this point are a super priviledged bunch at Queen’s.

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— Ivan Stoiljkovic, member of Kingston Coalition Against Poverty

“Poverty is unfortunately not something that people talk about on campus,” said Cara McQuaid, the group’s co-chair. “Queen’s is a bubble.”

But McQuaid herself has noticed bottle collectors throughout the student area.

When she first moved into her house last year, McQuaid had a ton of bottles that she needed to get rid of. She didn’t have a car, and planned to recycle them.

Outside the house, a woman came by looking for bottles to collect.

“We brought out so many for her. And she was so happy. And my housemates and I were so happy to get them off our hands,” she said.

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“These people are so close to us, you could even say our extended neighbours, and they’re coming back to take the bottles we no longer want.”

Yet, unfortunately stigma towards poverty still exists among students, she said.

“You hear a lot of people throwing around the word ‘townie’ in a very negative way, basically implying that students and locals shouldn’t be mixing.”

But Ronda Candy, the managing director at Martha’s Table, an organization that offers free meals to community members who may not be able to afford to feed themselves, said the organization’s student volunteers approach poverty in a sensible way.

“I know in previous generations there weren’t problems getting a job. If you were motivated, you could get a job. But things are changing,” she said. “Their attitudes may be ‘gee I wonder what happened in this person’s life,’ instead of [thinking] they must be lazy.”

One male guest uses bottle collecting as a way to give back.

Over the past three years, he’s donated approximately $450 to the organization from money he has received from bottle collecting.

Candy suspects the man, who often comes in for a meal, donates because he knows the benefit of the service. Most guests, she said, want to give back in some way.

“This man needs the money as much as anybody in Kingston needs money.”

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HeaLtHcare

Eye spy early diagnosis Free viewing test can predict ADhD, Alzheimer’s B y R osie h ales Assistant News Editor A new Queen’s-developed eye test aims to make predicting neurological disorders as easy as watching television. The test involves tracking a participant’s eye movements while they watch a series of video clips.

“We’re looking for biomarkers to predict who is on the trajectory for different neurological diseases,” Douglas Munoz, lead researcher on the study and professor of biomedical and molecular sciences at Queen’s, said.

He added that the study could predict disorders such as fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) in children, and Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease in the elderly. The test is designed to be sensitive enough to detect disease before individuals have hit a level for diagnosis but more experiments must be done to confirm this, Munoz said in an email to the Journal. Autism and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) are also detectable through the test.

The free viewing tests have been used to classify Parkinson’s disease and ADHD with 89.6 per cent accuracy and ADHD versus FASD with 77.3 per cent accuracy versus control groups.

“We need to have the tools to try and identify that as early as possible,” Munoz said.

In the test, video clips change every one to four seconds, called a jump cut.

What the eye moves to after these jump cuts is what can predict neurological disorders.

“The key is, when the jump happens we’re in control, and it takes you about one second as the viewer to regain control of where you’re going to send your eye,”

Munoz said, adding that when the viewer regains control another jump cut is added.

The test has been in development since 2006, and is now ready to use. The equipment was designed to be portable.

Currently, there is a free-viewing task lab set up at Hotel Dieu.

Munoz and his team started testing the free viewing task on young college undergrads from Queen’s and University of Southern California.“In the eye movement system that’s when the brain is the best and we can start to see how it deteriorates,” he said. “The peak performance of the ability of the brain to optimally control the behaviour 20-25.”

Once Munoz and his team had established results of the test for people not affected by neurological disorders, they began to use the test on patient groups of young children and the elderly.

“Certain patients deviate from what’s normal in that behaviour, and that’s when we can pull out a computer algorithm and detect when something is not the way it should be,” he said.

Munoz and his team also want to use the same test to find those who may develop neurodegenerative disorders in old age.

“If we can identify who is at risk early using these kinds of techniques then that helps society.”

If neurological disorders were predicted earlier, then measures could be taken sooner to stop or slow the progression of the disorder.

Munoz hopes the test will become part of a routine screening given to five-yearold children before they start kindergarten, much the same as their vision and hearing is tested now.

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CAUT asks for apology Continued from page 1

to develop appropriate policies and mechanisms to respond to student complaints.

“When there’s an allegation of a violation of academic freedom, we will set up a committee of inquiry to investigate the matter, to determine whether or not there was anything inappropriately done,” CAUT Executive Director James Turk said.

CAUT is the “national voice for academic staff,” according to their website and represents 68,000 academic staff across Canada.

In Oct. 2011, Mason was accused of making sexist and racist comments in his HIST 283 lecture.

Students complained to the department about Mason’s use of the term “towelhead,” “rag head,” “japs,” and “little yellow bastard” while teaching about post-imperialist subject matter.

The University formally expressed its concern in a letter addressed to Mason from James Carson, chair of the department of history, after receiving complaints from students, the report stated.

Since then, Mason has been on an indefinite leave of absence from his teaching position at Queen’s.

According to the report, Mason was not advised in writing about the allegation two days prior to discussing it with University administrators according to Article 20.3.4 of the Collective Agreement.

The agreement is held between Queen’s University and the Queen’s University Faculty Association (QUFA) and outlines rules

pertaining to harassment, disability, privacy and employment equity for Faculty Association members .

Mason was also not advised of his right to seek advice or respond to the allegations altogether as outlined in the Collective Agreement, the report added.

Turk said the administration refused to meet with CAUT to discuss the report.

“If we can get the matter remedied, we often don’t even publish the report,” he said.

“We’re just disappointed that they’ve chosen to refuse to meet to discuss that.”

Turk said he found the University’s unwillingness to discuss the recommendations unusual.

“I can’t imagine that in a similar situation at most universities it would have been handled this way,” he said, adding that Woolf has been sent a copy of the report.

“The next step is widespread dissemination of this and secondly we’re hoping that even if the admin at Queen’s isn’t prepared to talk to us, they will be prepared to talk to QUFA to find new policies and new approaches to ensure this doesn’t happen again.”

Queen’s Provost Alan Harrison said the University doesn’t have an opinion of the report.

“The author of the report, CAUT, has no jurisdiction in this matter,” he said. “The jurisdiction is held by the QUFA ...[they] have representation rights for the academic staff and that’s who we deal with for matters like this.”

He added that he would speak with members from QUFA if the investigation is to be re-opened.

“My unwillingness to offer any comments in respect to this report does not imply that I’m unwilling to speak to someone who has jurisdiction in this matter,” he said.

“The individual about whom this report was written took a leave of absence and as a consequence of that no further action was taken.”

Mason couldn’t be reached for comment.

— With files from Katherine Fernandez-Blance

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Former professor emeritus Michael Mason took an indefinite leave of absence in November after accusations of sexist and racist comments in his second-year history class.

News in brief New class explores everyday technology A newly-devised class conducted jointly by the school of computing and the department of mathematics and statistics is allowing students to explore how everyday tools of technology work.

Looking Behind the Screen: The Mathematics of Information Technology, is being offered in winter 2013 under the codes Math 437/837, CISC 490 and CISC 850, meaning both math and computing students and undergraduates and graduates can enrol. It will be taught by Selim Akl and Ram Murty, the director of computing

and head of mathematics and statistics respectively.

The course aims to cover “coding theory and data compression, error correcting codes, public key cryptography, Markov chains and search engines, GPS and spherical geometry, fractals and image compression, and the DNA computer.”

The class’ only prerequisites are 100-level math and computing courses. ­— Holly Tousignant

Student research published Research by Queen’s PhD student is contributing to the growing

knowledge about vegetation change in the Arctic.

Tara Zamin[H1]’s research explores the roots of the changing vegetation, and required her to spend three summers working on the ground in the Arctic.

Her work compared how greenhouse-covered plants grew in comparison to non-covered plants.

The research she conducted was published in Environmental Research Letters, a journal of environmental science research and editorials.

— Holly Tousignant

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New system 18 months in the making Continued from page 1

to 50 hours, and written letters of apology.

Mandatory alcohol workshops offered through Health, Counselling and Disability Services (HCDS) will be a new sanction introduced as part of the review.

“Over the summer we were able to refocus the process on making genuine

improvements to the system and we feel comfortable with the end result,” Dineen said.

Students offenders will be billed for sanctioned fines by NAD on SOLUS, allowing for greater efficiency when dealing with cases.

Over the 2012-13 academic year, SONAD plans to implement a jointly-administered

online database for offenders that will be accessible to all judiciary systems.

The AMS also plans to increase communications to the Kingston and Queen’s community about how to use the system.

“We made a lot of, I would say, administrative changes that will increase the consistency and the effectiveness and the transparency of the system,” Dineen said.

After the NAD review committee met throughout last year, a report was submitted to the provost, and then left to the University to act on, she added.

She also said there had been extensive conflict between SONAD and the AMS

over what changes should be included in the review.

“We have disagreed throughout the course of discussions,” she said. “However, we were very pleased and appreciative that the University and us were able to come to an agreement.”

Principal Daniel Woolf said the revamped system reflects the importance of Non-Academic Discipline at Queen’s.

“We know how important this policy and the tradition of peer non-academic discipline is to students at Queen’s,” he said.

“The agreement reflects the administration’s ongoing support for the system and all parties’ commitment to improving it.”

Under the new non-academic discipline policy, blue light infractions will have minimum sanctions imposed.

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Coalition of Rape Crisis Centres (OCRCC) involving approximately 100 people in Toronto.

One out of every two Canadian women experience sexual and or physical violence in their life, she added.

Less than six per cent of sexual assaults are reported to the police and currently 95 women are on the waiting list for long term counseling by SACK. “Get involved by taking a stand,” Graham said. “When you hear a rape joke, stand up and say it’s not okay. When you see something happen at a bar, step in. When you read something in the paper, write. I think bystanders’ actions can have a huge impact on making a change.”

This year’s event saw around 200 people come out to march and featured a large puppet of a woman put together by all those

who came out to the event.

“It’s like a giant women taking back the night,” Graham said.

Take Back the Night held its first event in 1975, in Philadelphia, after a young women was stabbed by a stranger while walking alone just a block from her home. TBTN’s international headquarters were established in 2001 by the 18-year-old Katie Koestner when she spoke out against sexual assault after her own date rape.

At the event, face painting and poster making were available along with ‘I need feminism because …’ postcards that participants were encouraged to fill out.

“The idea that there’s any sort of shame involved with sexual assault is so common but so ridiculous and [the event] is kind of taking back that shame,” attendee Steph Molzard, ArtSci ’13, said.

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Less than six per cent of sexual assaults are reported to the police, says Kim Graham, community education coordinator at the Sexual Assault Centre Kingston.

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Baseball

It’s time f0r a change T

he homophobic slurs on Yunel Escobar’s eyeblacks are indicative of a larger problem with sports culture — something that needs to be addressed rather than simply shouldering blame to the Blue Jays and Escobar himself.

The controversy arose when Escobar, the shortstop for the Jays, wrote “You are a faggot” in Spanish on his eye blacks, which are worn by baseball players to shield their eyes from the sun. The incident displayed a clear lack of judgment on the part of Escobar and his teammates.

After all, how could they not have known that he was going out on the field with a homophobic slur clearly displayed on his face?

The fact that there has been such a public uproar about Escobar’s actions is one of the only positive things to result from the situation.

Escobar has been suspended for three games and has signed up

to partake in outreach activities promoting sensitivity and tolerance on these issues. His salary for the missed games will also be donated to causes combatting homophobia.

While this is something, it’s nowhere near enough.

Escobar will likely be off the field for less than a week. Players have been suspended longer for lesser offences.

His light punishment shows how little importance this issue has in the sphere of sports — an issue that points to larger problems in sports culture.

Just last year, the pitching coach for the Atlanta Braves, Roger McDowell, was suspended

by Major League Baseball after making lewd gestures perceived to be homophobic.

This intolerance is further exemplified on a regular basis through hazing, initiation activities and locker room banter.

mental health

With this culture remaining intact, it’s evident why few professional sports players “come out” on the field, let alone express support of the gay community.

While the rest of society is moving in a direction where homophobia and other forms of discrimination are ostracized, these attitudes are still commonplace within sports culture.

This issue requires leadership. Someone in the field, whether it’s hockey, baseball or basketball, needs to take a stand and say that the culture of homophobia in sports is not ok.

Ultimately, it’ll take far more than just some donations and a brief suspension to fix the problem — a larger conversation needs to be started in the professional sports community.

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More than folders T

he new mental health initiative, Green Folders, is a good step forward, but will hopefully be followed by more ambitious and effective projects.

The folders, which offer a four-sided page of resources on warning signs for a variety of mental health issues, definitely help to increase awareness about mental healthcare on campus.

Most professors and TAs have little to no knowledge on these issues, so it gives them a gateway to recognize and address problems that are clearly visible in their classes.

That being said, a folder still only provides very limited resources — four pages doesn’t encompass all of the stressors and

difficulties that students may face.

On top of that, mental health issues are unfortunately not always clearly on display in class.

A folder won’t teach professors how to build closer, more caring relationships with their students — that would require a larger cultural shift in teaching on campus.

The school could easily take further steps towards helping train faculty and staff to deal with these sorts of issues more effectively.

For example, with accessibility issues at Queen’s, an online training was set up to give people resources on how to cater to someone with specific accessibility needs.

While the online aspect of it

lanning on buying the iPhone 5? I suggest holding onto your wallet instead.

It has already sold $2 million in the first week of pre-sales. To me, this seems a little absurd.

The price, which cashes in at around $700 without a plan, is steep, but the consumers are only paying for the label. Take a look around you; are those Hunter boots, or Lululemon yoga pants really worth the money you paid for them?

Why is this mentality so addictive?

It seems that the companies are taking advantage of these fads and pricing their products accordingly.

Like with UGGs, it’s inevitable that in a short period of time, the hype for this product will have almost vanished and therefore the price will begin to drop.

Speaking as someone who has had the newest versions of the iPhone since its original release in 2008, I haven’t seen much of a change with each new model.

I decided to consult my father, the person I always bring my questions to. He has the original iPhone 3G from Apple. His phone, because of its age, has baffled tech services every time he has gone into the store. They claim the only reason it’s still running — lagging but surly — was the fact that he hadn’t updated it in the past five years that he had it.

The updates are specifically designed to be incompatible with older versions — a trap for consumers, forcing them to buy the latest version.

If we are pouring hundreds and hundreds of dollars into these companies, they should return the favour by putting backwards compatibility in their technology.

Just be cautious when approaching this new iPhone; with no new pivotal new technology, you’ll find you’re paying for the hype.

can lead people to engage less actively with the material they’re supposed to learn, the intention of implementing a training model is a positive one.

Julia Vriend is the Assistant Blogs Enrolling each professor and Editor at the Journal.

TA into a special seminar or course offered by the university to help them understand and pinpoint These folders are a positive mental health issues, while also step forward, but, at the end of teaching them to reach out to the day, offer only a quick Bandstudents and create a safe space, Aid solution to the larger, more would be a good next step. complex problem.

One thing is undeniable — it’ll be Professors and TAs need more far more constructive than simply than just a folder — they need handing them a four-page folder of constructive and effective training information. A folder doesn’t make and to change the way they a mentor or a confidant out of a approach teaching. professor — it only gives them a basic understanding of the issues — Journal Editorial Board they might encounter.

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OPINIONS — YOUR PERSPECTIVE

FEDERAL POLITICS

Two sides of Motion 312— the abortion debate With parliament set to vote on Motion 312 on Sept. 26, our writers weigh in on the bill that could restart the debate

RACHEL HELFERTY

MARVIN FERRER

The question of when human life begins isn’t a religious or moral question — it’s a scientific question. Canada’s definition of when a child becomes a human being is outdated, and in this 21st century — dishonest.

There’s an obvious need for this issue to be brought before Parliament and discussed.

Some may argue Motion 312 is simply an attempt by pro-lifers to bring up the issue of abortion again — an issue that was decided on by the Supreme Court of Canada in 1988 in R v. Morgentaler. However, the remarks of former Justice Bertha Wilson, who took part in the decision, indicate a simple obligation.

Justice Bertha Wilson said during her 1988 closing remarks that ,“The precise point in the development of the foetus at which the state’s interest in its protection becomes ‘compelling’, I leave to the informed judgment of the legislature which is in a position to receive guidance on the subject from all the relevant disciplines.”

Wilson played an important role in abolishing Canada’s abortion law, yet she supported the idea of some protection for the human fetus before complete birth. In her closing remarks, former Justice Wilson stated her belief that protection should be given to fetuses sometime in the second trimester.

Motion 312 wants to ask medical science for evidence that answers the question of whether or not a fetus only becomes a “human being” after birth. This is a malicious and misleading motion that aims to restrict reproductive choice to millions of Canadian women and must be defeated.

The first reason that this motion must be defeated is that the answer to the question of whether or not a fetus is a human being is not a medical one. It is painfully obvious to anyone that a fetus is indeed biologically “human,” a member of our species containing human genes and tissue.

What Motion 312 and it’s author Member of Parliament Mr. Stephen Woodworth is really asking is whether or not a fetus deserves moral consideration and if so, how much. Medicine can (and should) inform debates about morality and ethics.

However, while medicine can surely answer questions about which brain cells have formed at various time points during pregnancy, it cannot answer when or whether those brain cells or the fetus containing them deserve moral consideration. Medical science definitely cannot determine whether the rights of a pregnant woman to control her body are overridden by any rights anyone would assign to a fetus.

The question of when human life begins isn’t a religious or moral question — it’s a scientific question.

Canada’s definition of when a child becomes a human being is outdated, and in this 21st century — dishonest.

Following along with Wilson’s recommendation that the legislature be informed by the relevant disciplines, one may ask, “What does the science say?”

Drs. Keith Moore and T. Persaud’s embryology textbook used by medical students at the University of British Columbia defines zygote as the following: “This cell results from the union of an oocyte and a sperm during fertilization. A zygote or embryo is the beginning of a new human being.”

Also, here at Queen’s, the Thomas Sadler medical embryology textbook used in the fourth-year anatomy class ANAT417 describes the zygote as human.

These modern scientific texts refer to the zygote as both human and undergoing development. The law that Motion 312 seeks to review states, on the contrary, that “A child becomes a human being … when it has completely proceeded, in a living state, from the body of its mother, whether or not: it has breathed; it has an independent circulation; or the naval string is severed.”

That statement can be found in Canada’s Criminal Code, Subsection 223(1), and is based on the Institutes of the Laws of England, first published around 1644.

That statement is a clear example of something both outdated and not based in scientific fact.

A discussion about the medically relevant See evidence on page 9

[W]hile medicine can surely answer questions about which brain cells have formed at various timepoints during prenancy, it cannot answer when or whether those brain cells or the fetus containing them deserve moral consideration.

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I want my friends to be able to decide that because I value them more than I value their pregnancies.

Any parliamentary hearing resulting from this motion, therefore, will be informed not by medical experts but by ideologies. Since we have a Conservative majority government, the makeup of the parliamentary committee will be stacked with anti-choice members of the Conservative party.

Most importantly, they will be speaking to committee members like Mr. Woodworth, who stated on April 26, 2012 during parliamentary debate that he has “concluded that the point of complete birth is not a rational or a reasonable point at which a child suddenly transforms from a non-human into a human being,” before any hearing has even taken place! This hearing will be a a cover for anti-choice members of the government to restrict women’s reproductive choices under the cover of medical science.

Let’s assume Mr. Woodworth’s question can be answered by medical science (it cannot). Given this government’s dismissive attitude toward science regarding climate change, fisheries, environmental review, etc that does not fit their agenda, is it reasonable to believe they will similarly reject science that does not fit their anti-choice position? The answer is a resounding “yes.”

If I am ever proven wrong on this point, I See hope on page 9

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evidence and its consistency, or rather discord with the Canadian Criminal Code is all Motion 312 is asking.

Considering the obvious differences between today’s scientific knowledge and our current law derived from the 17th century, the possible legal impact and consequences of Motion 312 can’t be ignored.

If Motion 312 were to pass, and based on the scientific evidence, it may be that the motion’s committee would suggest to Parliament that the Criminal Code be amended.

If this were to occur, it’s possible that a debate regarding the rights of pre-born children could follow. However, Motion 312 doesn’t necessarily provoke this debate.

Motion 312 is simply asking for an update on an old definition.

Canadians wouldn’t be upset even if this debate were to occur. A nationwide survey commissioned by Postmedia News and Global TV in June, found that 60 per cent of Canadians would be in favour of a law protecting pre-born children at some point before complete birth.

Perhaps even

more would be in favour of such a law if they knew that a fetus’ heart is usually developed and beating by the end of two months.

It doesn’t matter if you’re pro-choice or pro-life, what matters is that you’re pro-dialogue.

Society progresses because of civil discourse, not because people are afraid to embrace the facts.

A dishonest definition of what a human being is doesn’t further anyone’s cause and it should be an embarrassment if it does.

Canadians have access to a plethora of scientific information from various medical fields to answer what Motion 312 proposes.

Let’s use this information responsibly and update our 400-year-old definition of what a human being is.

Embryology texts tell us that a zygote is a human being — are you willing to discuss that?

We owe this discussion to everyone who calls themselves a human being.

Rachel Helferty is the president of Queen’s Alive.

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hope Canadian scientists take note and relate their climate, fisheries and environmental research to the well-being of fetuses to get the government to notice them.

Not only is Mr. Woodworth’s motion misleading, but more importantly, it is malicious. Mr Woodworth seems so concerned about fetuses, yet his motion contains literally zero mention of the pregnant women sustaining them. Yet they will be affected tremendously if Mr .Woodworth gets his way and a fetus is given moral consideration equal to the woman sustaining it.

Statistics Canada notes that there was an average of almost 100,000 induced abortions per year in Canada over the past decade. If Mr. Woodworth gets his way, each of those women could have been forced to carry a pregnancy to term against her will under threat of criminal sanction.

Put more plainly, under threat of criminal sanction, women would be coerced to grow a fetus, balloon in size over 9 months, and then expel it out of their vaginas. I am sure that we are all very thankful that we have a Charter of Rights and Freedoms that will keep Mr Woodworth in check.

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No one with pro-choice views wants abortions to happen simply for the sake of abortions happening and abortion-related topics are only a part of the things the SHRC does. No pro-choice service provider, including the Sexual Health Resource Centre (SHRC), would ever deny a client anything offered service because of a client’s views.

However, Mr. Woodworth’s motion is a step towards restricting an important service provided at the Women’s Clinic in Kingston General Hospital.

SHRC volunteers accompany clients there who wish to have an abortion with a supportive person present.

I wrote this opinion piece motivated to preserve best interests of all of our clients.

It is unfortunate that we are having this discussion again, decades after the Morgentaler decision of the Supreme Court of Canada that first decriminalized induced abortions and recognized a woman’s right to security of the person regarding her reproductive choices. This motion needs to be defeated so future generations can enjoy the freedoms women enjoy today.

Marvin Ferrer is the director of the Sexual Health Resource Centre.

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Arts

Fired up for Limestone City FIRExFIRE take the stage at Brandee’s this weekend B y S avoula S tylianou Arts Editor

FIRExFIRE released their first solo album Signals earlier this year.

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Touring is a science — all you need is a place to crash and get food after midnight.

Upon hearing FIRExFIRE guitarist Chris Graham’s tour necessities, I suggested he try Bubba’s; because who doesn’t love a place open until 3 a.m. that serves pizza subs?

Graham said the band was up for pizza subs and any other greasy spoon eatery item after midnight, but poutine was always the favoured option.

“While we were on tour in Fredericton, we had a shawarma poutine. It was delicious in theory and delicious when we ate it, but not so delicious the morning after,” he said.

The group consists of Chris Graham, Jon Fedorsen, Scott Winter and Brynn Winter, a former Queen’s graduate.

Chris, Jon and Scott previously played together in The Framework, however the departure of their bassist caused what seemed an inevitable dissolution — perhaps things had run their course.

But just as the late stages of the band seemed to draw near, a particular email redirected the band’s efforts.

“Friends of ours who played in YouTube sensation band Atomic Tom, emailed me and asked if I knew any bands [that] could open for their Toronto show,” Graham said. “We didn’t want to pass up

the chance to play that show, so the three of us got together and knew what needed to be done.”

In an attempt to describe the band’s music, Graham says they’re “probably similar to modern music,” with similarities drawing from bands like The Strokes and Phoenix.

we had a gig “in When Charlottetown, we

played at 1 a.m. and it was on a Monday night, but we still had people who partied with us until 4 a.m.

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— Chris Graham of FIRExFIRE The band is currently on tour with their debut album Signals and making stops this month in

Guelph, Kingston, Toronto and Peterborough after playing the North by Northeast Festival in June. Graham, who’s no stranger to touring, said seeing the crowds are the best part.

The band is definitely a group of night owls, and not only for latenight food pit stops.

“When we had a gig in Charlottetown, we played at 1 a.m. on a Monday night, but we still had people who partied with us until 4 a.m.,” Graham said.

The good nature of the band members was apparent through our whole conversation, especially at the end.

“We’re looking forward to rocking Kingston. Wait, that’s pretty cheesy. Let me think of something else to say ... Brynn says ‘Go Gaels Go!’” FIRExFIRE plays Brandee’s on Saturday at 11 p.m.

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Dream dimensions

Exhibit demonstrates intersection between geometry and art B y M ark L ouie Assistant Arts Editor Vivid crispness of colour, and a suspended mid-air feel to each work facilitate a rush of surrealism.

Disorienting yet engaging, the surroundings call to a sense of dream-like captivation.

The theme of this main space exhibit is a list of works by Eliza

Au and Ying-Yueh Chuang, which infuses the concept of dissymmetry within symmetry.

The artist’s statement highlights the difference between the two, explaining how dissymmetry is in essence — Variations on Symmetry — as opposed to its antithesis.

As I walked around the gallery, taking in the view, it was hard to miss

Ying-Yueh Chuang’s Cross Series #3 is made of plexiglass.

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the particular piece sprawled across the center of the floor. Chuang’s fragile, complex work Cross Series #3 is a neatly organized army of completely hand-blown, individual colored glass pieces that rise out of a cross-shaped baseboard.

While the layout is fully symmetrical, each of the figures are different from the one next to them, keeping with the theme of dissymmetry.

The pieces were so miniature that I was tempted to pick them up, but upon further thought, I decided against it.

Observable in the sea of glass pieces, the use of peacock blues, daffodil yellows and mint greens speckle over the pink foundation, providing thoughtful ornamentation. This creates what appeared to be, if you will, an intricate illustration modeling sea life, or perhaps more accurately, some variety of vegetation.

One might think the strict organization of the naturally inspired glass figurines alludes to genetic engineering; is it possible

Flower Series #1 features ceramic flowers atop a floral-patterned backdrop.

that Au and Chuang intend to assert an ordered pattern of man’s determination upon the fabric of nature?

Let us consider the fabric of a second piece. After moving beyond the hypnotic lull of Cross Series #3, I was then absorbed by the back wall of the gallery. I noticed how the white surface has been made colourful with a scene-stealing image fashioned of cloth and porcelain flowers.

The piece by Chuang is called Flower Series #1. From afar, it looks like a simple piece of cloth, as the symmetry is so perfect. Yet when an off-centered perspective is taken, depth emerges, allowing

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the viewer to fully appreciate the dimension created by the bulbous formations.

This transition of focus from the initial striking beauty of the gallery to the carefully orchestrated details that enable the whole — a transition from the macro to the micro — is generally representative of the gallery’s offerings.

Variations on Symmetry challenges its viewers to sift past the superficial to uncover the richness the exhibit carries.

Variations on Symmetry will be in the main space of Modern Fuel until Sept. 29.

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Friday, September 21, 2012

literature

A process of writing Michael Oondatje, Teju Cole and Nancy Richler all coming for event B y J anina E nrile Postscript Editor Nancy Richler had to rewrite over half of her latest novel before knowing it was ready for print.

The recent Giller Prize nominee will be reading and discussing the taxing process behind The Imposter Bride this Sunday at the seventh annual Kingston WritersFest.

With 60 writers spearheading over 45 events in four days, the festival is meant to share ideas on the process of writing as well as showcase Kingston’s literary scene.

Having lived just outside of Kingston many years ago, Richler told me she hopes to catch a glimpse of what the city’s literary culture has become.

“I don’t really know the scene,” she said. “That’s one of the nice things about going to the festival.”

Richler currently resides in Montreal, though she considers Vancouver her home. She left the coastal city to take care of her elderly parents, a decision that’s mirrored in the author’s family-centric books.

The Imposter Bride is a novel about Lily Azerov, a fictional

young woman who migrated from Through various writer Poland to post-war Montreal. The workshops, talks and readings, the story was inspired by a family Kingston WritersFest is set to see event — Richler’s grandmother’s about 5,000 people this year. move to Montreal as a young It’s also the first year that the Jewish woman. festival will feature playwrights, As writers typically do, Richler with Judith Thompson and former said, it took her a long time to find Queen’s Playwright in Residence the right voice for the story.

Christopher Morris.

After tearing out half of the Both will be hosting writer’s finished draft, Richler said she studios, which are workshops for took a long walk in the mountains writers focusing on a specific part in Vancouver. of their craft, like humour writing Her novel’s saving grace, a or fantasy writing. narrative voice in the form of One of the most anticipated Lily’s daughter, Ruth, arrived the events is a reading and next morning. discussion by Nigerian/American “I was just sitting there over a author Teju Cole and Pulitzer coffee and the first sentence of the Prize-winning poet and novelist new voice came to me,” she said. Michael Ondaatje, who graduated “It was just there.” from Queen’s in the late 1960s.

It’s a struggle that comes with The two are part of an event called every writer’s creative process, “International Marquee” that will Richler said. It’s something she feature an on-stage conversation said she hopes to address at with poet and novelist Dionne WritersFest when speaking to new Brand. The event, which takes budding writers. place Wednesday evening at the “It’s important to talk about it. Grand Theatre, has yet to sell out.

People can get discouraged and I don’t think people realize that The Kingston WritersFest runs that’s part of the deal — feeling from Sept. 26 to 30. discouraged, hitting a wall and getting beyond it.”

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Nancy Richler’s book The Imposter Bride has been nominated for the 2012 Scotiabank Giller Prize.

The seventh annual Kingston WritersFest will feature playwrights for the first time. They will be giving workshops on different kinds of writing styles.

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Arts in brief Queen’s alumni nominated for book prize A Queen’s university graduate has been longlisted for the prestigious Scotiabank Giller Prize.

Robert Hough, ArtSci ’85, has been nominated in the 19th annual competition for his fiction work Dr. Brinkley’s Tower. The novel was selected from a pool of 142 other Canadian fiction works.

The jury consists of New York Times writer Roddy Doyle, novelist Gary Shteyngart and founder of Key Porter Books, Anna Porter.

The winner will receive a

whopping $50,000 prize, while all the finalists will be $5,000 richer.

Past winners include distinguishable authors such as 2011 winner Esi Edugyan, who visited Queen’s in the spring, and 2010 winner Joanna Skibsrud.

The winner will be announced on Oct. 1 at a news conference in Toronto.

— Mark Louie

Kingston libraries to hold book competition On the last day of the Kingston WritersFest, Battle of the Books

will allow book lovers to defend and attack the ten shortlisted submissions for this year’s Ontario Library Associations Evergreen Award.

The debate will be moderated

by CBC broadcaster Eric Friesen and audience members can participate by voting for their favourites. Voting will close on Oct. 1 at all Kingston Frontenac Public Library branches.

Titles that will be discussed include Mennonites Don’t Dance, Under an Afghan Sky, and They Fight like Soldiers, They Die like Children.

— Mark Louie

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Sports Cheerleading

A strong base Male cheerleaders combine muscle and athleticism to bolster Queen’s team B y N ick Faris Assistant Sports Editor

After a hard-fought game, visiting rugby teams are treated to a meal by their hosts.

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Gentlemen’s gesture Men’s rugby hosts visiting teams as part of sporting tradition B y Peter M orrow Sports Editor

Mike Wilton’s first encounter with the intensity of cheerleading came during his first-year tryout for Queen’s.

“They tested our max bench press, made us squat 200 pounds 10 times, clean and jerk [a certain] amount of weight,” he said. “I was like, ‘All this for cheerleading?’”

Eleven of the 35 members of Queen’s cheerleading team are men. They come from a varied athletic background, but few had any cheerleading experience before picking it up in university.

Wilton, a fifth-year engineering student who’s competed with Queen’s since first-year, credits a thorough training program for getting himself and his teammates up to speed.

“I came here not knowing how to do a cartwheel,” he said. “Now, I can do a running tumbling line and a backflip.”

Wilton played several sports in high school, including football.

Although he’s now cheering on his counterparts on the gridiron, he’s still confronted by the rigors of any competitive sport. “[Cheerleading’s] really physically demanding, in different ways than I’d ever experienced in other sports,” Wilton said. “It’s low impact, but you have to be very controlled in all your movements.

It’s more finesse, rather than running and hitting someone as hard as you can.”

Male cheerleaders must be athletic enough to perform basic

team does,” Charette said, referring Western on Saturday.

“From my experience, after to the slew of rugby players which 80 minutes of just beating each collectively form seven rugby teams.

Charette added that beer-ups “What happens on the pitch, stays other up and you’re tired, the last thing you want to do is continue it happen just about everywhere else, on the pitch.” whenever Queen’s teams are on This rugby philosophy-turned- afterwards,” he said.

Queen’s players buy the the road. reality was reiterated by fourth-year Opposing rugby teams share the customary lasagna, Caesar salad men’s rugby player Matt Kelly.

He’s been playing the and garlic bread dinners at the same space on the field and at the sport, otherwise known as “the Brass for members of the York pub, and their attitudes shift from gentleman’s game,” for eight years team. Sometimes a player offers one setting to the next. Unlike a pint to the opposing player who other contact sports such as hockey and running. or football, the post-game tradition Two teams duke it out on the plays the same position.

In most rugby circles, each is unique to the sport itself. field, with the intention of inflicting The gentlemen’s game, indeed. pain — not injury. After the game, team selects a player of the game win or lose, both teams socialize from the opposing team. The over a meal and sometimes a two MVP’s then have a chug-off, face-to-face, in front of both teams. few pints.

Kelly said most drinking At Queen’s, the rugby tradition takes place at The Brass Pub on traditions are more common in Princess St., where the Gaels play recreational club rugby than at the university level. host to their visiting opposition.

“The beer part isn’t mandatory “It’s an unwritten rule in rugby,” Kelly said. “The same type of thing by any means. There’s a lot of guys who’d rather not even drink.” happens across the board.”

All those under-age and other The gentlemen’s game, born in Warwickshire, England, in the non-drinkers chosen as players of mid-nineteenth century, is in no the game will choose to pass on the way a gentle game. It’s better position to someone else.

For the Queen’s varsity described as a hooligan’s game team, Kelly said the main goal is played by gentlemen. getting the meal and replenishing It’s an unwritten rule their systems.

“The drinking part is in no way a in rugby. foundation of what we do after the — Matt Kelly, game,” Kelly said. “We might buy men’s rugby player the guy a pint or something, but for us it’s right back to work once the Post-game socials happen at game ends.”

Rugby games are played on all levels, including international play, which provide the sport’s Saturday, and the varsity follows up with a yoga session the next fiercest battles.

On Sunday, the Gaels morning, a Monday fitness session third-string team beat the York and on-field work up until Friday.

The post-game social might as Lions first squad 70-0 in an exhibition game, as neither team is well be penciled in the schedule registered in an official league. The along with weight training and final whistle blew and both squads team practice.

Mark Charette was one of hit the Brass.

Kelly was there, playing with several players attending the Brass the thirds team as a tune-up for after the Sunday win over York.

“It’s something every Queen’s Eleven members of the Queen’s cheerleading team are males. the upcoming varsity game versus

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gymnastic exercises and strong enough to lift, throw and catch their female teammates.

Cheerleaders are divided into one of two positions: bases and tops. The labels are taken quite literally — bases, including each male member of the Queen’s team, form the foundation of all stunts, coordinating the toss of the female cheerleaders at the top.

[Cheerleading’s] really “physically demanding, in different ways than I’d ever experienced.

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— Mike Wilton, Queen’s cheerleader Each year, the team holds an open practice to demonstrate the routine they perform in competitions to friends and family.

“From there, they gain a lot more respect for what we do,” Wilton said.

While he receives the occasional ribbing from his friends at home, Wilton is quick to point out the benefits of being on the team.

“I get to hang out with gorgeous women all day.”

Wilton and his teammates also gain exposure by performing at each home football game. They follow every Gaels score by performing an equivalent number of pushups, which can reach excessive heights against Queen’s lesser opponents. “[Football games] are ideal for the performance aspect — when See Performing on page 15

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Saturday’s a rugby day for Gaels Queen’s rugby teams will face the only opponents that defeated them during last regular season.

The men host Western, while the women travel to McMaster — with massive implications all around

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The men’s team has allowed just 12 points against in two games.

B y a DriaN s MitH Contributor The Gaels are facing Western this Saturday, after 11 months to ponder last year’s devastating 21-15 loss in the OUA final.

This season’s matchup will feature the two best defences in the OUA. Queen’s has allowed the fewest points with 12, while Western trails close behind with 15.

Queen’s is hoping to deal the Mustangs their second loss in as many games, after Western fell 12-5 to Guelph last Friday.

The last time the Mustangs lost two games in one season was in 2008, when they finished with a record of 4-2-1.

Queen’s has played exceptionally sharp on the defensive end in their first two games of the season, boding well for another deep run into the playoffs.

After a 33-12 season-opening victory against McMaster, a team that placed third in last year’s OUA championship, the Gaels have maintained their defensive prowess.

Western has started the season at 1-1, and is looking to leave the Gaels with a familiar bitter taste. The Mustangs started the season with a decimating 40-3 win against Waterloo, but fell short to Guelph a week later.

Saturday’s game will be a clash between some of the biggest names in the OUA.

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Queen’s boasted five OUA All-Stars in 2011: Gaels captain Dan Moor, centre George Gleeson, flanker Matt Kelly, lock Myles Dingwall and fly-half Liam Underwood, who led the OUA in points last season.

The Mustangs featured six All-Stars in Gareth Dyer, Andrew Crow, Dave Jacks, Rory Tomlinson, Spencer Barret and Mike Penczak.

Although Dyer and Crow have departed, the Mustangs remain an undeniable threat in the OUA with the core they have intact.

Due to commitments with the Ontario Blues, Underwood won’t play on Saturday.

The Mustangs could benefit, but only slightly.

The Queen’s program consists of seven teams and around 100 players, all hoping to fill necessary voids.

The club, under head coach Peter Huigenbos, is the deepest in the OUA and the least likely to suffer from roster rotations.

Having played the first two games at fly half, fifth-year Brendan McGovern is the likely replacement for Underwood.

Though it may be too early in the season for this game to draw any significant conclusions, both teams relish the opportunity to make their own statement. The winner will have the inside track on home field advantage throughout the OUA playoffs.

First-year centre Nadia Popov and third-year lock Bronwyn Corrigan are currently tied for second in OUA scoring, The Queen’s women’s rugby team is with 34 points apiece.

Corrigan and Popov will need to preparing for the biggest game of the 2012 continue their stellar play against McMaster, regular season.

On Saturday, the Gaels will take on with two of the Gaels’ key players sidelined.

Outside centre Mel Judges and second the McMaster Marauders in a game that will likely decide both teams’ chances of row player Gillian Pegg are both likely to qualifying for the national championships miss the rest of the season, meaning bench players will have to step up to fill the void. in November.

Based on the teams’ history, a The nationally fifth-ranked Gaels team enters the match at 3-0, including a shutout low-scoring and evenly matched game can of the Brock Badgers in the season opener. be expected. Queen’s defeated McMaster Ninth-ranked McMaster owns a 2-1 15-14 in 2010, clinching first place in the record after a 53-8 loss to the powerhouse Russell Division and eventually reaching the OUA final.

Guelph Gryphons.

Queen’s should look to score early and Despite the Gaels’ superior record, the game is truly a do-or-die affair. Both carry the play in the first half. With Queen’s and McMaster are extremely both the previous years’ contest being unlikely to lose any of their remaining low-scoring affairs, it’s safe to assume this year will be no different. Relying on a late regular season matches.

Based on the OUA’s tiebreak rules, the game rally cannot be an option. winner of Saturday’s game will almost certainly win the Russell (East) Division.

Guelph, winners of the last four OUA championships, is likely to win the Shields (West) Division. The Gaels are perhaps stronger than they were last year, but their best chance to qualify for the CIS championships is to avoid playing the Gryphons until the OUA final. Both teams in the final automatically qualify for nationals.

Last season was a prime example of the importance of beating McMaster and winning the division. After losing 5-3 to the Marauders and finishing second in the East, Queen’s drew Guelph in the conference semi-finals.

The results weren’t pretty for the Gaels, who were shut out 50-0.

The Gaels will be out for revenge this year. They own one of the top offenses in PHOTO BY TIFFANY LAM the country, having posted 135 points in The women rank second in the OUA with 135 points scored. three games.

Men Vs. western

wOMen Vs. MaC

• The scene: Nov. 13, 2011. London, ON. OUA championship game.

• The scene: Oct. 1, 2011. Kingston, ON. Gaels (3-0) vs. Marauders (3-0).

• The result: Western defeated Queen’s 21-15 after leading from start to finish.

• The result: McMaster won 5-3 in a game where only one try was scored.

• The consequence: The Mustangs clinched the ninth OUA championship in school history, after losing in the 2009 and 2010 finals.

• The consequence: The Marauders won the East Division at 5-0, while the Gaels came second. Queen’s lost to Guelph in the OUA semi-final.

• The scene: Nov. 14, 2009. London, ON. OUA championship game.

• The scene: Sep. 25, 2010. Hamilton, ON. Gaels (2-0) at Marauders (2-0).

• The result: Queen’s topped Western 23-19 to cap off an undefeated season.

• The result: Queen’s eked out a 15-14 win on a score with five minutes left.

• The consequence: Queen’s won the program’s 18th conference title, as well as their first since 2001.

• The consequence: The Gaels finished 5-0, reached the OUA final and clinched a berth to nationals.

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ON DECK CIRCLE FOOTBALL

WOMEN’S SOCCER

ROWING

Saturday Sept. 22, 1 p.m.: Gaels (3-0) at McMaster Marauders (3-0)

Saturday Sept. 22, noon: Gaels (3-1-2) vs. Nipissing Lakers (0-4-2)

Sunday Sept. 23, 9 a.m.: Head of the Rideau

MEN’S SOCCER

Sunday Sept. 23, noon: Gaels vs. Laurentian Lady Vees (4-1-1)

Saturday Sept. 22, 2:15 p.m.: Gaels (4-0-1) vs. Nipissing Lakers (2-1-2) Sunday Sept. 23, 2:15 p.m.: Gaels vs. Laurentian Voyageurs (1-4-0)

WOMEN’S RUGBY Saturday Sept. 22, 2 p.m.: Gaels (3-0) at McMaster Marauders (2-1)

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BASEBALL Saturday Sept. 22, 1 p.m.: Gaels (2-6) vs. McMaster Marauders (2-6) Saturday Sept. 22, 3:30 p.m.: Gaels vs. McMaster

MEN’S RUGBY

CROSS COUNTRY

Sunday Sept. 23, 1 p.m.: Gaels vs. Toronto Varsity Blues (3-5)

Saturday Sept. 22, 1 p.m.: Gaels (2-0) vs. Western Mustangs (1-1)

Saturday Sept. 22, 11 a.m.: Western Invitational

Sunday Sept. 23, 3:30 p.m.: Gaels vs. Toronto

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you’re going out and performing in front of a crowd,” said Kevin Pat Fong, Queen’s head coach.

The fall football season serves as a tune-up for major cheerleading competitions in the winter.

Queen’s will attend three events this season, including the national championships on Dec. 1.

For the past few decades, Queen’s most significant competition has been the school’s traditional rival.

Western has won every collegiate national championship since 1985 — except for 2007, when Queen’s pulled off an historic upset.

The competitive nature of

intercollegiate cheerleading is what separates Fong’s team from related organizations on campus, such as the Dance Pack.

“We’re geared more toward the sporting aspect,” Fong said. “We had a big talk with Athletics at the start of the season, and they view us as a competitive sport. The Dance Pack is more recreational, to add atmosphere [at the games].”

Besides an overarching disdain for Western, the football and cheerleading teams share another common trait: the ability to mask discomfort in the midst of competition.

“You need to make [competing] look easy — even if you’re in pain, or something’s broken,” Fong said.

“You just have to smile.”

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postscript Hasina Daya, ArtSci ‘14, got a tattoo (left) in remembrance of her late father. Students can get their tattoos done at nearby Lovesick Tattoos (right).

body art

A canvas of skin The art of tattooing has been around since the time of the ancient Greeks B y S avoula S tylianou Arts Editor With grip and needle in hand, the tattoo artist sets ink to skin.

Three hours later, an old tattoo is covered with new and vibrant colours. It might seem like a lengthy process, but it’s nothing out of the ordinary. According to Cynthia Deveau, owner of Lovesick Tattoos, some tattoos may take up to 10 hours.

In most places, it’s likely you’ll see an array of tattoos pass as you walk down the street, ranging from YOLO to the more meaningful.

Throughout history, tattoo art has carried a multitude of purposes — ranging from the branding of criminals to serving as rites of passage.

To some, getting a tattoo is like buying a painting.

“It’s the permanency of it that I enjoy nowadays,” Deveau said. “What somebody can do with a tattoo machine is absolutely beautiful.”

Deveau got started with tattooing 18 years ago and with it,

she’s found her home at a tattoo parlour on the corner of Division and Princess Streets.

“When I first started getting tattooed, it was one of those things where I thought I would only get tattooed when it meant something to me,” she said. “Now I just find an artist I really like and I’ll either get them to draw something or I’ll draw it myself.”

Deveau admitted that some can be put off by the permanency of body art.

Her first tattoo was a 16th birthday present from her father.

“He took me to this house on Princess St. that never carded anybody. It was my own design of a tribal piece around my naval,” she said.

Deveau remembers the experience as being like “a four-year-old drawing on my stomach,” adding that it was done by a old biker named Scully.

Even though she doesn’t like it now, she said she’s never covered it up because of the memories it brings back.

Having always been interested

Tattoo artists use a needle, grip and ink to apply a tattoo.

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in art, Deveau said tattooing is a unique experience.

“It’s completely different than picking up a pencil,” she said.

“You’re basically teaching yourself how to draw again purely for the fact that you do have something vibrating in your hand.”

When she was 17, Deveau got involved with the art of tattooing after hanging out at a tattoo parlour.

She started teaching herself when she was 25.

“I became good friends with the artist and asked a lot of questions. She was really willing to help me and she knew what she was doing.”

Forty-something tattoos later, Deveau has gotten the chance to travel all around Canada with her craft and meet other well-known tattoo artists.

“I’ve been doing this for a while and I got to give my friends and family tattoos as well,” Deveau said. “I even got to tattoo my mom.

I did a little butterfly for her.”

After making the tattoo rounds in Toronto and Kingston, Deveau celebrated the one-year anniversary of Lovesick Tattoos in June.

“I said I would never open a shop in Kingston because there are seven other shops and it’s so saturated here, but there’s so many people getting tattooed that there’s more than enough work to go around,” she said.

After being in the business for so long, Deveau said she no longer gets nervous during a tattoo appointment.

“If it’s a super detailed piece, things get kind of quiet in the room. A while ago, someone came to me with the Rembrandt windmill and I said ‘Okay, for the next three hours, please don’t talk to me,’ but now I can chat it up,” she said.

Looking at Deveau’s catalogue, there’s everything from Latin sayings and Irish leprechauns to intricate floral patterns and inked wedding rings.

“Some of my favourites to do are big cartoony girls,” she said. “I find that a lot of people are into that right now, both guys and girls, and the more colour I can pack into it, the better.”

One thing Deveau still stays away from is tattooing someone’s hands or necks.

“Unless you’re heavily tattooed, I won’t do hands or necks because it can be a job stopper,” she said.

“Things are evolving and people are a little more accepting of tattoos in the workplace now, but I don’t want to be the person that wrecks

photos by terence wong (left) and tiffany lam (right)

If you could have any tattoo, what would it be?

Photos By Janina Enrile

“Something on my arm that says ‘Every man is the engineer of his own fortune.’”

“My one teammate and I were going to get OFSAA tattoos if we won. We got third.”

Mitch Huneault, Sci ’13

Connor Rowe, Sci ’15

“My grandfather’s date of birth.”

“The Japanese symbol for judo.”

Meg McCarthy, ConEd ’14

Sean Braley, CompSci ’15

“It would be cool to have a tattoo of the world map.”

Laura Gibson, ArtSci ’13 someone else’s life.”

Walking through campus, it’s clear that body art can be found everywhere. For Hasina Daya, her tattoo serves as an important reminder.

“My dad passed away when I was nine and he was blind in one eye, so I got the Eye of Horus tattooed on my back, Daya, ArtSci ’14, said. “It’s a sign of protection.”

She got the tattoo in the summer after first year. Located on her right shoulder blade, it’s about the size of a fist.

When she first got it, she was met with mixed reactions.

“Even my friends at mosque notice it,” she said. “People don’t expect it from me.”

Daya’s first tattoo of the Eye of Horus traces back historically to ancient Egypt, though tattoos originally began in Eurasia.

“A flower with all the colours of [my] family birthstones.”

Shauna Hogan, Comm ’15 According to Mary-Ann Pouls Wegner, a professor of Egyptian archaeology at the University of Toronto, ancient Egyptian mummies hold the precursors to today’s tattoos.

“Some of the skin is well enough that you can still see the patterning,” Wegner said.

Tattoos were associated with social identity in those times, Pouls Wegner said.

“They seemed to be associated with women who were in the priesthood of Hathor, who is the goddess of happiness, drunkenness and sexuality.”

Tattoos have been social signifiers in other cultures as well.

“For the Romans, tattoos were more for the lower social orders,” she said. “In ancient Greece, they were protective tattoos for higher class people.”