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Occupy Kingston

Dissent declines B y M eaghan Wray Assistant News Editor

engagement, student issues and his experience in politics so far.

Protesters with the Occupy Kingston movement dwindled from over 100 to five yesterday.

While most vacated Confederation Park after the first day of protest on Saturday, four camped overnight in a tent in the middle of the park.

The movement began Saturday afternoon in protest of student debt and the postgraduate job market.

More than 100 Kingston locals, Queen’s alumni, students, professors and politicians gathered in Confederation Park at 1 p.m.

The group chanted “occupy Wall Street, occupy our street” while marching along Princess Street.

Two police cars attempted to stop the march up Princess, but no known arrests were made and the march continued.

Occupy Kingston occurred in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement and other similar international protests, in countries like Spain, Belgium, Australia, Ireland and South Africa.

The movement came to Bay Street in Toronto on Saturday.

Throughout the day, numbers fluctuated between 2,000 and

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Queen’s exchange student Antonio Cillero of Spain was one of approximately 20 protesters who marched on Princess Street on Saturday as part of the Occupy Kingston movement.

Inside News Rector candidates talk platform points and campaign strategies. page 2

Dialogue Examining the impact of baby boomers on young voters.

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Arts Art on the Street encourages artists battling addiction and mental health issues. page 10

Sports Men’s vollebyball hosted the Coast-to-Coast Classic at the ARC this weekend.

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Postscript A look at the effects of art therapy on Kingston inmates. page 16

Photo by Jeff Peters

politics

Trudeau stops by Justin Trudeau speaks to crowd of over 150 at Wallace Hall B y Terra -A nn A rnone Features Editor Justin Trudeau concluded his Ontario university tour with a visit to Kingston on Friday.

Trudeau visited St. Lawrence College and Queen’s during his day-long tour with Kingston and the Islands’ Liberal Member of Parliament Ted Hsu. “It’s a great opportunity for students to get to know Canadian politics,” Hsu said at a lake-side photo shoot with Trudeau and the Kingston town crier on Friday morning.

Trudeau is the Liberal MP for Montreal’s Papineau riding as well as the Liberals’ critic for youth, post-secondary education and amateur sport. His campus tour covered seven universities this month.

During a stop at Wilfrid Laurier University on Oct. 12, Trudeau announced he wouldn’t seek the Liberal party leadership in the near future. The next Liberal Party convention is scheduled for January.

The son of late Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau addressed a full crowd of students, alumni and community members in Wallace Hall. He then headed to Dunning auditorium to deliver the keynote

address for the Queen’s Centre for Responsible Leadership’s seventh-annual summit.

His speeches at both events focused on student engagement in politics as well as advocating a shift from the Liberal Party’s ideology-based politics to a focus on issue-specific reform.

“Young people … have a reputation for being apathetic and cynical,” Trudeau told the 150-strong crowd in Wallace Hall.

“If we’re cynical, it’s because of our idealism.

“If we’re apathetic, sometimes it’s not because we don’t care about the world, but because we care so much that we’re frustrated that we don’t get to have our voices heard.”

During his presentation at the Responsible Leadership Summit, Trudeau echoed the sentiments of his earlier speech with added focus on Canada’s role in a global economy and greater utilization of the nation’s natural resources.

“The economy is a wholly-owned subsector of the environment,” he said. “We can’t imagine something being genuinely good for the economy but bad for the environment.”

The father-of-two sat down with the Journal before his speech at Wallace Hall to talk about citizen

Aberdeen Street

No double dip B y J ake E dmiston Editor in Chief

based on factors including a Queen’s home football game against the Waterloo Warriors Kingston Police added 10 extra and alumni returning for the 40th officers on Saturday night in anniversary of Clark Hall.

Around 500 people gathered anticipation of an Aberdeen Street on Aberdeen Street on Sept. 17. party, but no revelers showed up.

“What the police and the A second gathering had been [Queen’s] administration wants is rumoured on Facebook and Twitter.

“I knew there wouldn’t be much to keep on top of it,” said Sgt. Alex Forsyth, who was in charge going on when I heard there was of officers assigned to Aberdeen a low attendance at the football game,” Forsyth said, adding that Street supervision.

Parked cars lined either side of rain and wind were potential Aberdeen Street on Saturday night. deterrents keeping students and The additional police presence alumni off Aberdeen Street. wasn’t apparent, except for squad Just over 2,000 people cars patrolling the area. attended the game at Richardson Several signs on the street and Stadium — which has a capacity of at the intersection of Johnson over 10,000. and Aberdeen Streets warned Forsyth said his mentality students that the area was under regarding police interaction with camera surveillance.

Aberdeen revellers is “firm but fair.”

Forsyth said Kingston Police “Students have been excellent suspected Aberdeen gathering this year,” he said.

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Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Rector elections

Six candidates vie for rector role Rector candidates talk about presence on campus, political involvement and student input B y S avoula S tylianou Assistant News Editor The campaign period for a new rector started nearly two months after Nick Day resigned from the position.

At AMS Assembly on Oct. 13, six candidates were approved.

Mike Cannon, Asad Chishti, Nick Francis, Robyn Laing, David Myers and Laura Stairs.

Each candidate had to collect 800 signatures before the campaign period, amounting to approximately four per cent of the Queen’s student body.

Mike Cannon Cannon, ArtSci ’12, said he plans to engage students by being available on campus.

“Literally going out, walking through Mac-Corry, walking through the ARC, going out to BioSci, setting up a booth where everyone can see you,” he said.

Cannon said the rector’s job is to deal with internal politics and not advocate externally.

“There’s enough issues that this school needs to address before addressing any others,” he said.

Asad Chishti Chishti, Sci ’14, said he decided to run for rector because he noticed a growing gap between the administration and students.

“The only way you can know

anything is if you’re on the inside,” he said.

Chishti also said he’ll work to become a presence on campus.

“It’s okay if students don’t know who the rector is initially, as long as the rector gets to know the students,” he said.

Chishti is currently taking a leave of absence from his position as an assistant photo editor at the Journal until the end of the campaign.

Nick Francis Francis, ArtSci ’13, said he’s already been involved in student discussions surrounding issues like SOLUS. “I started a SOLUS group on Facebook called ‘Share Your SOLUS Experience’ and students shared their experiences in a thoughtful and credible way,” he said.

Francis added that one of his goals if he’s elected is to keep students updated with what’s going on around campus.

“It’s as simple as having a blog or a monthly email report that has bullet points on what the administration is doing and what the rector is doing,” he said.

Robyn Laing Laing, ArtSci ’11 and MES ’13, said she plans to be a resource for students.

“Going out to different groups and asking them what their

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Six rector candidates are currently campaigning. Front row: Laura Stairs (left), Asad Chishti, David Myers and Robyn Laing. Back row: Mike Cannon (left) and Nick Francis. Elections occur on Oct. 25 and 26.

priorities are … realizing your office is the campus, going out and speaking to these students,” last year’s ASUS vice-president said.

Laing said she plans to represent and advocate for the student body through the creation of groups to speak to students on campus.

“I would like to strike up committees that serve to gauge student opinion on a variety of issues.”

David Myers Myers, ArtSci ’08 and JD ’13, said he’s begun showing students what kind of rector he would be by running a transparent campaign.

“On the website, I’ve been throwing up receipts of

expenditures for the campaign in advance, even though stuff’s not due until the [Oct. 25],” he said.

Myers’ website and Twitter handle is Queen’s Rector. He said he chose the handle because it was easy to remember and grabbed attention.

“The responses I’ve gotten have been quite positive,” he said.

Laura Stairs Stairs, who has taken a leave of absence from her position as AMS Food Centre director, said one thing she hopes to accomplish is to make education more affordable for students.

“Something I’ve been working on with the AMS and the

administration is a two-semester payment system so that students aren’t forced to pay the large lumps of money up front,” Stairs, ArtSci ’12, said.

Stairs added that if elected, she would change the rector website so that students can access information faster.

“I’d want to include things about financial aid at our school, about mental health resources, about upcoming events and make it a hub of information,” she said.

Voting for the rector election will happen on Oct. 25 and 26.

— With files from Catherine Owsik, Jordan Ray and Meaghan Wray

Student Life

Clark Hall anniversary draws alumni Clark Hall Pub celebrated its 40th anniversary with a week of events including a Patio Ritual and live bands B y C atherine O wsik Assistant News Editor For the past 30 years Jim McDownall has annually returned to Clark Hall Pub. McDownall, Sci ’77, visited campus for the pub’s 40th anniversary celebrations last week. He said he noticed a marked difference in alumni presence on campus compared to previous years.

“There are fewer alumni here

this weekend,” McDownall told the Journal on Saturday night. “I think it’s because there was no real date set, nobody could organize anything.”

McDownall said the Radisson Hotel, where he stayed with two former housemates, had fewer alumni than he expected.

Nevertheless he said he’ll return next year.

“Clark is always on the list when we’re back in town; it’s where we collect. It’s like coming home,”

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Bruce Martin, Sci ’96 (left), Kevin Black, Sci ’96 (centre), and Clark staff Sarah Burton, Sci ’13, celebrate at Clark on Saturday night.

McDownall said. “Back when we were at Queen’s we went at least twice a week. We all waited for a lab to finish and then we’d go over.”

In the past McDownall has gone to the annual Aberdeen Street party, but he said this year poor weather was a deterrent.

“Homecoming started out as house parties that spilled out into the streets. Back then the police would block off the street for us,” McDownall said. “Last year we were walking down the street and the students lining the sidewalk started to cheer for us, the police didn’t really like that. The students went a bit crazy.”

Posters and table talkers displayed in Clark Hall Pub advised students to stay away from Aberdeen Street last weekend.

At midnight on Saturday — a night many assumed would be Fauxcoming — there were 88 attendees at Clark.

Erik Giles, the pub’s head manager, said Clark’s 40th anniversary was an opportunity to showcase the good times people have had at Clark.

“We are trying to stay open to keep people away from Aberdeen, although the real purpose of the event is obviously to give one last hurrah for Clark going into middle

age,” Giles said.

Clark was founded in 1971, Giles said, an anniversary celebration for the Engineering Society-run pub was long overdue. He said the last anniversary celebration he knew of was the pub’s 25th.

Events began on Wednesday Oct. 12 with live-band bingo and continued until Oct. 15. with live bands and a Patio Ritual.

Patio Ritual, which ran from noon to 6 p.m. on Friday, was at capacity for most of the day. The pub and patio have a combined capacity of 515 were open.

Giles estimated that about 1,000 people attended Ritual throughout the day with around 35 per cent of them being alumni.

He declined to disclose the

revenue of the event.

“One of the big priorities of Clark is we are trying not to profit off the backs of students,” he said, adding that the alumni attendance usually increases sales.

Students from all faculties attended the week-long events to interact with alumni and share stories — which Giles said is an important part of the Clark experience.

“You have a lot of people sharing stories from when they were at Clark, and there are a lot of really interesting people that you get to meet,” Giles said. “There are people that have had the time of their lives here, and they get to come back and relate to students and students can relate to them.”

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Statements from the rector candidates will be published in Friday’s issue of the Journal.

C o r r e c t i o n Kieran Slobodin is AMS vice-president of university affairs.

Incorrect information appeared in the Oct. 14 issue of the Journal.

The Journal regrets the error.

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The decisions we’re making right now will determine ... what kind of charges they get faced with if they get caught with a joint in their pocket.

Youth involvement a priority Continued from page 1

You made an announcement on Wednesday at Wilfrid Laurier University that seems to have surprised a lot of people. Why have you chosen not to seek Liberal leadership in 2013?

“I told my caucus members about it as soon as we came back from the summer. It’s something that I’ve been fairly open about but just pierced into the media [on Thursday]. It was a reflection mostly that the kind of leader I want to be requires me to be a good dad first. I like the idea of focusing on being part of a team that’s rebuilding the Liberal party, but right now I’m not focusing on trying to do it myself. For people who say: ‘It’ll all fall into place when we get a Trudeau at the head of the Liberal party again;’ I’m worried about them stepping back from the responsibilities needed if I do end up running. One of the things that’s obvious is that as long as we wait to be saved from above, we’re not going to do the work that we need to do.

It’s much more important to me that we be focused on rebuilding the party ... our capacity to do that doesn’t repose on picking the right leader, it has to do with doing the right work.”

Do you plan to run in the future?

“It’s obvious that a politician can make a bigger difference on the government side than on the opposition side, as a minister than as a backbencher and that you can make the biggest difference as Prime Minister ... Certainly I’m not going to turn my back on the potential roles of more importance and more impact, but I’m not focused on those as some sort of finish line.”

Can you describe the relationship between post-secondary students and politics?

don’t fund our education systems nearly enough. One of the issues we have — and I joke about this — is the fact that the seniors vote with 80 per cent turnout, which means we talk an awful lot about health care and pensions. If young people, instead of turning out 35 per cent between 18 and 25 [years old], turned out at 80 per cent, we’d talk an awful lot more about tuitions and there would be no more issues around them anymore.”

What balance do you think needs to be struck between relieving students of high tuition fees and ensuring universities are well-funded? Who needs to give? “ ... We have to realize that there’s a limited amount of money and even if we increase investment, we’ll always have to make choices in terms of how we spend the money.

It’s important to fund university but also important to make sure that the barriers to access education for young people are kept as low as they need to be. I don’t necessarily believe in reducing tuition fees for everyone as much as I believe in making sure the people who need help the most get it ... If you compare us to countries around the world, our tuition fees are fairly low, and for a number of people and families, the tuition is affordable. But for many others it’s still too high. It has to do with increasing the amount of grants, increasing debt repayment options and making sure the debt load that students are graduating with isn’t as terrifying as it can be right now.”

You said in a speech at University of Western Ontario that young people need to be more critical of politics. What specific issues do you think are most deserving of their critique?

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“Young people need to be aware of what’s going on in politics because the decisions we’re making right now will determine whether or not they can buy a house a few years from now, what kind of career they’re going to have and what kind of charges they get faced with if they get caught with a joint in their pocket. I mean, there are tremendous issues that young people are going to be impacted by that we’re deciding right now.

Their capacity to notice, to make themselves heard and to make their actions felt will be what determines the kind of decisions we make.”

I don’t need to tell you that voter turnout was abysmal this year.

Do you think these numbers are changeable?

“I absolutely do. I think we’re reaching a tipping point where young people will suddenly realize the power they have to affect change [and] to transform the political landscape of this country ... I do know that there is a moment that young people are getting closer to where we’re going to realize that we do hold all the cards and involvement in massive numbers in politics, not in a flash mob kind of way, but in a continual and engaged pressure kind of way that I think is going to be transformative.”

very much you can impact peoples’ lives. I was raised with an idea that politics can and must be a very powerful force for good in peoples’ eyes and in the determination of a country’s path. In my most recent incarnation of politics ... the best memories all have to do with, interestingly enough, things I do in my riding [and] the connection I establish with people who feel like they’re apart of and engaged with the political process. Seeing the impact on people’s lives on an individual level is something that’s, for me, the best part of the job.”

What are your impressions of Queen’s so far?

“Obviously there’s a traditional rivalry between McGill [Trudeau’s alma mater] and Queen’s that keeps everything fun. I think I’m proud of the fact that in Montreal, we don’t need to be allowed to party without having to call in

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the cops and shut things down, but that’s just a little jibe at some of the challenges Queen’s has had …. ” How do you reconcile the legacy of your father with your personal political views now?

“My values, my core ideas, are very much shaped by my father, my mother and the world I grew up in.

But how I articulate those values into policy, into concrete solutions, are very much my own. One of the things that keeps me grounded and focused and reassured that I’m doing the right kind of things is the time I spend talking to young people for whom associations with my father are historical and not emotional. Therefore, I get to demonstrate my own strength, my own capacity and my own persona in a way that’s very important.”

What is your favourite memory of politics?

“When I think of my memories of politics growing up, what I have most vivid memories of is the accumulated impact of so many people coming up to my father and telling him how much of a difference he made in their lives.

I had a very different awareness of politics than most kids my age did. They watched their parents grumbling about broken campaign promises, or taxes. I got to see how

“ ... Nobody’s responding to young people’s priorities. We’re stuck in a short-term electoral mode that doesn’t believe, by its own admission, in strong government to shape policy and make government stronger for communities and society. Young people voting will allow us to address longer-term issues like poverty — especially in our aboriginal communities — and climate change ... Are we going to have the same capacity to respond to these issues? I hope so. But that’ll depend a lot on people being able to tap into long-term responsibilities. For me, that requires us to get young people involved.”

What do you think are the largest issues facing Canadian universities right now?

“Universities are facing, you know, real challenges around funding. I think we as a society Trudeau spoke to 150 people at Wallace Hall on Friday.

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NEWS IN BRIEF engineering targets Aboriginal enrolment The faculty of Engineering is looking to increase its number of Aboriginal students through the new Aboriginal Access to Engineering Program.

Currently there are four self-identified Aboriginal students enrolled in the new program.

The program encourages Aboriginal youth and students to consider engineering as a career by promoting applications within Aboriginal communities.

A website designed for high school students provides information on engineering streams and career opportunities. The program also publishes an elementary-level workbook titled What Engineers Do to promote an early interest in science and math.

At Queen’s, the program is in the process of creating a summer job program for Aboriginal students to work with mining companies.

The faculty is looking to work with the University of Manitoba to design support programs for Aboriginal students at the universities.

— Catherine Owsik

paintings exhibited in Amsterdam Eight paintings donated to the Agnes Etherington Art Centre are currently part of an exhibition in Amsterdam.

One of the paintings is Head of an Old Man in a Cap by the classical Dutch painter Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Rijn. It was donated to Queen’s University in 2003 by long-time Queen’s benefactors Alfred and Isabel Bader.

The exhibition opened Oct. 1 and will run until January 2012 in the Rembrandt House Museum, where Rembrandt lived and worked for 19 years.

After the exhibit, the paintings will return to Queen’s.

The Bader family has promised to bequest the remainder of their vast art collection to the University.

— Catherine Owsik

Queen’s wins free concert Organizers of the Queen’s TD Canada Trust Pump it Up contest announced on Oct. 13 that Queen’s was one of three Canadian universities to win a free concert.

Queen’s won in the heavyweight division for large universities. Acadia University and Mohawk College also won the free concert.

B.o.B., Mother Mother and Team Canada DJs will perform at the event at Queen’s on Nov. 3. The location of the concert hasn’t yet been announced.

Two years ago, Queen’s won the contest, garnering performances from Girl Talk, K-Os and The Stills.

The Pump It Up contest called for Canadian post-secondary institutions to compete with others in their division.

The schools with the most online votes from their student populations were selected as winners.

Due to limited space at the concert, priority for tickets will be given to those who voted in the contest and customers of TD Canada Trust.

— Savoula Stylianou

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‘The system isn’t providing opportunities’ on Queen’s students’ future. His aim, he said, was to see change in Kingston City Council.

“I’m here because this is a popular international movement,” Hughes said. “I’d like to see a city council, which is supportive of people — and the marginalized particularly — and not business. This particular council is business.”

Jim Moriarty, ArtSci ’06, said he was concerned about the living standards for students in the future. He attended Occupy

Four protesters camped out under a tarp on Saturday night, while three stayed the next night.

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3,000 attendees but were significantly smaller

by Monday.

Many attendees said the Occupy movement isn’t one singular day, but a longer trending dissatisfaction with government and corporate greed.

Ethan Vos, who studied economics at Queen’s in 2008-09, said there’s a lot of frustration with the treatment of poorer students in the Queen’s community.

“I know a lot of people are rather upset with Queen’s and what some have called discrimination against its poorer students,” Vos said. “They’re struggling to find jobs once they graduate and that’s a big problem in Kingston. You kind of have to take what you can get.”

Students and alumni said the scarce job market is a concern for graduates, who often struggle to find work after school.

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degree isn’t paying off as it should, said Michelle Dorey, ArtSci ’77. She said student debt creates undue dependence on the Canadian employment system.

I’m here because this is “a popular international movement.

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— Ian Hughes, retired Queen’s professor “They become indentured servants, slaves to the system. They have to wait years to find a decent job,” she said. “You work hard in school and when you graduate, you should have the opportunity and the system isn’t providing opportunities.”

Ian Hughes, a retired Queen’s mathematics professor who started teaching 43 years ago, said he’s unsure what the effect of the Occupy movement will have

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Kingston in support of this generation of students.

“This is the first generation since the Industrial Revolution that will not have the ability to exceed the standard of living of your parents,” Morarity said. “It’s not going to happen for you. That’s why I’m here. I’m here for you.”

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AMS fall referendum statements The Journal provides this free space for parties on the ballot. All statements are unedited.

Queen’s red cross

Queen’s Red Cross is a student club at Queen’s University and it aims to raise awareness of current global humanitarian issues and/or crises by offering educational activities and campaigns on campus. We also provide social functions with the purpose of fundraising for the Canadian Red Cross and adding to the variety of university life. The activities of the club are carried with no intention of personal financial gain. All profits, grants and membership fees are used uniquely for carrying out the club’s objectives.

Queen’s Red Cross focuses on the promotion of humanitarian values and International Humanitarian Law through educational activities and campaigns on campus. Some topics include children and war, landmines, refugee issues, International Humanitarian Law and other local or global topics and issues. Members may also assist with special events and fundraising efforts for Canadian Red Cross appeals. Group members can also volunteer at their local Red Cross branch. All of the initiatives of Queen’s Red Cross thus promote awareness of international affairs as well as the students’ responsibility as members of the global community. Queen’s Red Cross will also provide students with the opportunity to have access to resources from a renowned international organization and contribute to the relief of several humanitarian grievances. We also aim to increase awareness about the role of the Canadian Red Cross as well as the Red Cross/Red Crescent movement as a whole, along with their seven values to which they abide by, which include: Humanity, Impartiality, Neutrality, Independence, Voluntary service, Unity and Universality. Our main mission is equivalent to that of the Canadian Red Cross, which is to improve the lives of vulnerable people by mobilizing the power of humanity in Canada and around the world. We look forward to another productive year by promoting the awareness of humanitarianism on Queen’s campus.

SHRC

Vote yes… yes… YES! (To the SHRC’s fee increase, that is.)

The Sexual Health Resource Centre (SHRC) is a confidential, non-judgmental, feminist, prochoice, queer-positive, nonheterosexist, sex positive information and referral service for all things regarding sex, sexuality and sexual health. We operate out of room 223 of the JDUC, providing safer sex products and sex toys at cost, lending books for a minimal deposit, and providing information and referrals. We also provide education outreach services to university residences, local schools, community groups, and anyone else who requests our education services. Additionally, we provide accompaniment services to the Women’s Clinic for clients accessing abortion services and accompaniment to the Sexual Assault/Domestic Violence Unit with clients who have been sexually assaulted. Through a partnership with HIV/AIDS Regional Services, we also provide condoms free of cost at local events.

We are a completely volunteerrun organization and have been serving the Kingston and Queen’s communities for forty years (formerly as the “Birth Control Centre”). During the school year, we are open 7 days a week. We have had an $0.85 mandatory fee since 2004. Our fee has allowed us to greatly improve the services and products that we offer students and the community. We are seeking an increase in our fee to $1.00 (a $0.15 increase) this year to improve future advertising efforts in the local community. The new funds from this fee increase would be allocated directly to advertising to Kingstonians. We’d like to make our services as well known in the community as they are on campus!

Please vote “yes” to the SHRC’s fee increase. Happy, healthy, sexy Kingstonians will thank you!

More information at www. shrckingston.org.

on the international stage and demonstrates our capabilities as a university. Producing most of the vehicle in-house, the vehicle demonstrates the university’s extensive machine shop and manufacturing abilities. However, not only demonstrating engineering, Queen’s Formula SAE represents all faculties, showcasing in design, cost and business presentations.

Working hard with the university and assisting in Kingston, the team also serves to help inspire the next generation of students, both at Queen’s and in the community.

Responsible for raising all funds required for the project, the team pursues sponsorship at the corporate level, but also depends on the continued support at the student level. With this in mind, we ask you for your assistance in supporting our initiative of both renewing and raising our optoutable fee by $0.25. Recently, the team has risen to the title Queen’s helping of Canadian champions, and is hoping to regain this position in hands association the future. With recent expansions The Queen’s Helping Hands and new competitions, this fee Association (QHHA) is a non- increase will serve to help the team specialist charity club that runs remain competitive in the Formula events and fundraisers for a broad SAE competition, and make this array of charities, thereby allowing opportunity more available to members to experience the students at Queen’s. satisfaction of supporting a variety of worthy causes. The main events Queen’s solar we hold each year include the Polar design team Bear Dip, 30 Hour Famine and Cuts for Cancer.

The Queen’s Solar Design Team The Polar Bear Dip collects is not only a multidisciplinary funds and clothing for the team of Engineering, Commerce Ryandale Shelter for the Homeless and Arts & Science students, but in Kingston. 30 Hour Famine raises also a part of a multi-institutional awareness of both poverty and initiative with Carleton University. hunger, with all the proceeds from Our mission is to educate the the event going to World Vision. public to demand more from the Finally, Cuts for Cancer strives to next generation of homes. raise money for cancer research Our most recent project is the and hair donations to make wigs Queen’s Solar Education Centre. It for those who have lost their is a prefabricated home that houses hair due to medical conditions or our research and technologies. treatments.

We have worked closely with Queen’s Helping Hands local companies and sustainable Association (QHHA) is requesting organizations such as Sustainable a renewal of its opt-outable $0.50 Kingston and Switch to make this student activity fee. Though an educational tool for Kingston QHHA is a volunteer-run club, it community. is with the support of the Queen’s Our vision is to create a starter community and our student fees family, net-zero home for our that we are able to hold our annual generation that can withstand campus-wide events. the Canadian climate. We For any inquiry about are submitting a bid to the U.S. the Queen’s Helping Hands Department of Energy’s 2013 Solar Association, please email us at: Decathlon, which is the Olympics cuts@qhha.ca of solar home building. We would have to design and build a home, disassemble it, and re-build it along Queen’s formula SAE the Washington National Mall. race team Basically, we would be competing With a long history on campus, against 19 other universities from the Queen’s Formula SAE Team around the world in ten different represents a dedicated and growing events, ranging from energy multidiscipline design team. As efficiency to affordability.

Your support goes towards a completely extra-curricular initiative, the team takes learning making net-zero homes a scalable outside the classroom through the reality and ensuring Queen’s medium of designing and building remains a leader in sustainability a race car and running an entire and innovative design. race team. With the ultimate goal of showcasing their vehicles and students offering proving their designs, hundreds of support, queen’s universities participate in several chapter international competitions that form the Formula SAE event. Here, RAISING MARKS, RAISING students are put to the test, validating MONEY, RAISING ROOFS. design decisions, justifying vehicle Queen’s SOS is a chapter of cost and team business plans, and, a national charitable organization most importantly, asked to prove that runs exam review sessions. theoretical vehicle performance on Our sessions are taught by upper the race track. year students who have previously Our team represents Queen’s taken the class, and coordinated

by a student currently taking the class to ensure up-to-date review material. We ask for a minimum $20 donation before the sessions, which consist of a 3 hour review, plus a comprehensive course package summarizing all course material relevant to the exam.

Because our sessions are run by volunteers, 100% of money that is collected goes directly to working with approved NGOs in South America on sustainable projects for communities in need. SOS also runs outreach trips in the summers, so that volunteers can see the full 360° of their efforts and make a hands-on contribution to ongoing projects.

Over the last two years, our club has expanded exponentially, allowing us to offer more examAIDs than ever, and making it possible to run two volunteer outreach trips last summer. We are asking that our fee remain at $0.25 so that we may continue to expand as a club, provide outreach opportunities for our dedicated volunteers, and help Queen’s students become involved in the global community.

For more information on SOS as a national charity, go to www.studentsofferingsupport.ca.

For information on the Queen’s chapter, go to www.queensSOS. com.

queen’s oxfam

Queen’s Oxfam is a humanitarian awareness group on campus. As a grass roots branch of Oxfam Canada, we work together with students and administration to raise awareness about global issues, fundraise for great local causes and offer a place to purchase fairly traded goods. As a campus branch of Oxfam Canada, we work through four main campaigns at Queen’s: Stop Harming, Start Helping (or Stop/Start) is a campaign that seeks to educate students and members of the Kingston community about the correlation between women’s rights in developing countries and climate change. We fundraise as well as work to make the larger community aware of the inequalities of the effects of climate change.

Oxfam’s new Grow campaign focuses on Global Food Security.

Global demand for food is increasing, food prices are rising, and climate change is undermining people’s ability to grow food for themselves and their communities.

This new campaign calls for a dramatic change in the way we produce and share food, so that everyone has enough to eat. Always.

Make Trade Fair works to draw attention to the fact that world trade rules have been developed by the rich and powerful, leaving developing countries and poor people worse off. This campaign works to provide awareness about these inequalities and draw attention to fair trade options that are available at Queen’s and in the Kingston community.

Queen’s Oxfam’s Fair Trade Co-op offers students a venue to purchase fair trade goods. Making no profit, we sell a variety of options where students can be sure their money is fairly being shared with the producers of the products.

As the largest campus division of

Tuesday, October 18, 2011 Oxfam Canada, Queen’s Oxfam is a great way for dedicated students to get involved with world issues and connect the work they do with the larger global community.

queen’s fuel cell team The Queen’s Fuel Cell Team (QFCT) is an interdisciplinary student run design team in the Faculty of Engineering.

We provide students with an opportunity to apply knowledge learned in the classroom through a hands-on learning environment.

The team is currently designing and building the world’s first fuel cell powered snowmobile. This is a multi-faceted design project, providing students with experience in electrical systems, fuel cell stacks, and mechanical systems.

Additionally, there are opportunities for students to develop business skills, in finance, sponsorship, and marketing. The team also hires students into full time summer positions whenever possible in order to provide them with further experience and financial support.

There are very few opportunities provided in class for students to gain the type of experience that the team provides. With the opt-out student fee of $0.25, the QFCT can provide these learning opportunities to students, as well as support the development of the fuel cell powered snowmobile.

four directions aboriginal student centre Mission Statement Four Directions Aboriginal Student Centre (FDASC) strives to enhance the development and well-being of the Queen’s University Aboriginal Community.

Four Directions welcomes and encourages all students to develop an awareness and appreciation of the Aboriginal experience in Canada. In keeping with the teachings of the Four Directions, the Centre strives to support individual Aboriginal students in balancing their academic, spiritual, physical, and emotional needs.

Cultural Awareness The FDASC staff as well as visiting Elders and Traditional people are available at all times to assist in building relationships and understanding between the Aboriginal community and all other students, staff and faculty of the Queen’s community. This is most obviously done through guest lectures as well as time for dialogue during events such as the weekly Three Sister’s Feast. Cultural Safety workshops are available through staff of FDASC primarily for those who will work in the health professions but may also be revised for other audiences.

Aboriginal Student Support Fee revenue received by FDASC is used to support all students who participate in events and programming offered through the Centre such as the Annual Educational Pow Wow, the annual Indigenous Studies Symposium and the weekly Three Sister’s Feast.

As well a portion of the revenue is used to support individual Aboriginal student participation in conferences, symposia, competitions and festivals at Queen’s and elsewhere through the Four Directions Bursary Fund.

FDASC also offers two admissions scholarships annually that are

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Inquire Publication to help create positive role models The below groups failed to for the children to learn from. shinerama submit the required written Student funding would help campaign for mitigate the transportation costs description of its activities cystic fibrosis of the program, and allow for new and the specific purpose(s) crafts and supplies for the children Cystic fibrosis is a disease passed for which its fee revenue is to to use on a weekly basis. down through families that affects be used. The following text For more information, call the lungs and digestive tract. It is is reprinted from when the Rosalind Malcolm, 613-549-2778, one of the most common chronic groups last went to referendum or email malcolmr@queensu.ca lung diseases in children and young in 2006 and 2009. These four adults. are specified below. project red The CF committee at Queen’s Project Red is a student-run, AMS helps raise money for the Canadian — Mark Preston, ratified organization that raises Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and Internal Affairs Commissioner funding and awareness for the raises awareness about the disease Heart & Stroke Foundation of on campus and in the Kingston Ontario. Heart disease is one of community. Help us give a fighting schizophrenia the leading causes of death in chance to those affected by this lifesociety of ontario, North America, which is why threatening disorder. queen’s university we at Project Red believe it is chapter (taken so important to educate ourselves inquire publication: about the risks, and support this from 2009) where activism highly deserving and respected takes route charity. The theme this year for The “Schizophrenia Society of Project Red is “Heart of Gold” Inquire is a social activist Ontario – Queen’s University which symbolizes healthy heart, interuniversity publication with a Chapter” is a club that has the healthy community. Our goal is to fourfold purpose: goal to promote awareness of the engage not only Queen’s students, 1) to foster discussion and prevalence of schizophrenia among but also the Kingston community debate about issues of importance the student population, reduce the at large, to raise awareness about 2) to combat ignorance stigma associated with individuals the risks of heart disease, and the 3) to reduce apathy diagnosed with this mental disorder, importance of leading a healthy 4) to mitigate dogmatism and to offer support, resources, lifestyle. We hope to create a strong Inquire aims to motivate its and skills training for those with consciousness surrounding the idea university communities (currently the mental disorder and those who of healthy living that is attainable Queen’s and McMaster) to speak know someone diagnosed. for everyone. For the past four out by facilitating voices of opinions What makes our club unique is years, Project Red has hosted a on issues of real importance. that we are one few clubs focusing fashion show taking place in March The concept behind Inquire is on mental health, particularly which features a variety of talented unlike any other known publication schizophrenia. We feel that with models, dancers, photographers, at Queen’s University, as it such a high prevalence among student designers, along with a resembles the letters section of a individuals in our age group, it is dedicated and passionate executive daily newspaper. Students, staff and important to promote awareness committee that help put the show other members of the community of accessible resources. Students together. Each year our proceeds are encouraged to respond to also need a place to discuss this have doubled, and we hope to questions regarding issues of area of mental health. continue this pattern for years to global and local importance. These Our club has three primary come. Project Red also hosts a responses cover a wide variety of objectives. Our first objective is to number of fundraisers and events perspectives, allowing the readers raise awareness about schizophrenia.

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Our second objective is to provide approximately 10 students who support groups and systems to are completely responsible for all students at Queen’s University, aspects of the project, from design who suffer from schizophrenia and prototyping to fundraising and or are personally affected by logistics. The Queen’s Aero Design schizophrenia. Our third objective Team has been the lone Canadian is to provide an opportunity entrant into this competition and for students to become actively continues to be so again this year. involved with progress towards All students, regardless of the solutions for mental disorders. faculty, are encouraged to join with Our objectives will be reached no previous experience necessary through many of our club in either engineering or aeronautics. initiatives. These include student We strive hard to ensure that all forums on schizophrenia as well members of the team are able as other mental health issues, to participate to the extent that mental health support groups they are able in the design and for students with schizophrenia construction of our competition or who are personally affected aircraft and the veteran members by schizophrenia and a monthly of the team eagerly pass on their phone-in radio show dedicated to skills to younger members. solving issues in an anonymous A prototype was constructed manner. One of our main initiatives, and successfully test flown in PROJECT SANTA allows students November allowing new members to easily provide support to people to acquire valuable experience in suffering from schizophrenia and construction techniques and to other severe mental disorders. experience first hand the design PLEASE VOTE “YES” FOR process. With the competition THE SCHIZOPHRENIA being held at the end of April, SOCIETY OF ONTARIO the Queen’s Aero Design Team – QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY is confident that it will be able to CHAPTER for the optional opt- field an aircraft capable of winning outable $1 student fee and help us the competition due to the first start the very first mental health hand experience we have already gained working with the rules of focused club at Queen’s. the current competition.

queen’s indian students’ association cultural dance team (taken from 2009)

The QISA cultural dance team has been a long-standing tradition at Queen’s for years. Proud of our Indian heritage, the QISA dance team aims to fuse together a rich variety of dances including traditional Indian, Bollywood and Hip Hop. The team competes annually at the SAA Culture Show held in Toronto, one of the largest national inter-university dance competitions in Canada. Battling rivals such as McGill, Western U of T and York, the dance team relies on funding from the AMS in order to put together an elaborate 10 minute performance. While other universities annually receive up to tens of thousands of dollars, Queen’s has traditionally been on the lower end of the spectrum in terms of funding. This fee, subject to individual opt-out, would go directly to the acquisition of costumes, props, sets, dance studios, and transportation methods. In the past, Queen’s has benefited greatly from this opt-out fee, placing 3rd in 2006. Spear-headed by some of the most dedicated coordinators and dancers, the dance team brings culture and diversity to Queen’s through on-campus performances, and permeates the community by working with the IndoCanadian Association of Kingston.

By supporting this optional fee, the QISA Cultural Dance Team will once again be able to put together performances that reflect the talents of diverse students at Queen’s.

queen’s aero design team (taken from 2006) Queen’s Aero Design Team (taken from 2006) The Queen’s Aero Design Team is a student-run team focused on the annual design and construction of an electric unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)’s annual Design/Build/Fly competition.

The team is composed of

international development conference committee (taken from 2006) The International Development Conference Committee (IDCC) is a club on campus which annually presents a student run, three day conference on selected issues of international development. The purpose of this conference is to bring together students, academics, professionals and community members to discuss relevant and imperative global issues. Our goal, by opening dialogue, is for each of the attendees to gain insights into other perspectives by holding the conference as an interdisciplinary campus event. The aim of this conference is to highlight our interconnectedness; from the Queen’s community to the global world at large. Only when we are open to new concepts, ideas and even new doctrines, do we have the opportunity to bring stability to our world and create a sustainable future. We need to be driven and dynamic, while at the same time we need a common goal. We need our impacts on the world to be positive, and they need to be made without infringing on the livelihoods of others or the human spirit as a whole. By providing a forum in which bright, young students can converse with the academicans and professionals who are leaders in their fields, we can bring a higher level of awareness to local and global issues.

Communication is paramount and it is through these interactions that we can begin to understand and participate effectively in the process of development. The introduction of an individual optout student activity fee will not only allow this conference but will also allow the committee to subsidize costs of the conference to ensure everyone has access to the event. It will also be used to attract the most influential speakers to discuss topics such as healthcare, technology, human rights, climate change, human trafficking, poverty, HIV/AIDS, the political economy, water, and sustainable living.

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Overlap between different campus groups doesn’t mean they can’t work towards the same goal.

Committee fails to act A

n AMS mental health committee established on April 7 was tasked by assembly to “evaluate how the AMS provides support to students on our campus and canvas other universities.”

Though the committee met six times over the summer, it has failed to enact any change.

Despite a mandate to communicate with other universities, the committee has failed to do so. With no results, the committee’s utility is questionable.

Committee chair TK Pritchard addressed AMS Assembly in September, stating that the group “discussed the mental health situation on campus and how we can ensure that student voices will be heard.” This vague summary gives no explanation of what’s been done.

Pritchard told the Journal in an interview last week that the committee has no budget, and

he’s unsure what it would do with funding. Without clear goals or measures in place to evaluate performance, the committee won’t succeed.

The committee’s intentions can’t be faulted -— tackling issues surrounding mental health on campus is important. Coming up short is unjustifiable.

Students aren’t happy with the state of mental health resources at Queen’s. That’s the crux of the issue, yet the committee hasn’t made any recommendations for change.

Health, Counseling and Disability Services are still understaffed, making appointments difficult to schedule.

Pritchard cited other mental health groups on campus, such as the University-run mental health working group, as reasons why the committee has had trouble setting itself apart. Overlap between different campus groups doesn’t mean they can’t work towards the same goal.

There’s a presumed connection between the culture on campus and the string of deaths that effected Queen’s last year, but it’s a link that hasn’t been established.

Silence on the issue lends itself to speculation, and it needs to be confirmed or dispelled.

The AMS committee has the unique benefit of being comprised solely of students. It has the chance to be a channel for the student voice — something that hasn’t been done. Being a voice for students requires action.

It means studying services at other universities, suggesting change and getting feedback.

Social media and town halls are just two ways this could be done.

For the committee to be effective, it requires a group of people who are able to give the necessary time and resources to the issue.

The mental health committee needs to re-evaluate its purpose to be of use to the student body.

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Names not treated the same T

hose with Anglophonesounding names are more likely to be granted interviews during the job hunt, according to a recent University of Toronto study.

An Oct. 14 article in the Globe and Mail reported on the research that sent out nearly 8,000 fabricated resumes to employers in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver.

The research found that in Toronto, applicants with Anglophone names like Greg Brown were 47 per cent more likely to get a call back from a potential employer compared to someone with a Greek-, Chineseor Indian-sounding name.

Canadian employeers need to realize there’s a subconscious bias surrounding certain names, and remove nominal identification from the selection process.

Research results were similar in other Canadian cities. Applicants with Anglophone names were 39 per cent more likely to be interviewed in Montreal and 20 per cent more likely in Vancouver.

Results showed that even when applications stated Canadian education and experience as well as a stated proficiency in English and French, employers were more likely to select an Anglophone name.

University of Toronto researcher Philip Oreopoulos led the study and said it’s likely a selection going on at the subconscious level.

Statistics from the Toronto Immigrant Employment Data Initiative corroborate the research, reported the Globe.

The unemployment rate as of September is 5.4 per cent for Canadian-born workers, 8.3 per cent for all immigrants and 13.4 per cent for recent immigrants who have been in Canada for fewer than five years.

Recent immigrants also earn 49 per cent less than native-born workers, even though immigrants typically have higher rates of education.

It’s only natural that human beings seek the familiar, but when potential employees are being

discriminated against because of their name, something needs to change.

To counteract this bias, employers should designate applications with a number and base the decision of whether or not to grant an interview on skills and experience alone.

Though the bias doesn’t appear to be malicious, this countermeasure will help to ensure that no one is treated unfairly.

Language and communication skills can’t be extrapolated from someone’s name alone, especially in a country as diverse as Canada.

Language skills need to be measured firsthand, not assumed because of their name.

As diversity continues to increase, this bias will likely diminish as all cultures reach a level of familiarity, but this process could take generations. Until that happens, employers need to be more mindful of their tendencies and work to avoid discrimination.

Terence Wong

Seven billion miracles T

he United Nations has reported that the Earth’s population will reach seven billion by the end of this month.

There are two differing opinions about this population increase. The first is that we need to intervene to protect ourselves from overpopulation and overconsumption using a tactic along the lines of China’s one-child policy.

The opposing view is that with more people, there is more potential to solve problems such as the proper distribution of resources to prevent global ecological problems. After all, if two heads are better than one, then seven billion heads must be better than six billion.

I’m not against natural family planning when it comes to a family’s socio-economic position, but I am against treating humans as animals whose breeding habits need to be controlled with scrutiny.

After all, when taking a look at individuals such as the late Steve Jobs, the Kielburger brothers and Mother Teresa, I’d like to think we have more potential and rationality than a bunch of rabbits.

In today’s world filled with numbers, we’re convinced by the adage attributed to Stalin, “One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.”

China’s now 30-year-old one-child policy is responsible for problems such as sterilization, abandonment, forced abortions and human trafficking — broadly labelled female “gendercide.”

There are 37 million more men in China today than females, primarily for this reason. Parents who birth a female often end up trying for a boy — a more desirable option.

This then leads me into the discussion about what the odds are of existing in this world full of numbers. How much are we ‘worth’ in a world of seven billion?

According to Dr. Ali Binazir, the odds of your existence are one in 102,685,000 — this takes into account the probability of each generation of your ancestors successfully meeting and reproducing.

Miracles are usually associated with divine intervention or a statistically unlikely but beneficial happenstance. If your birth and life is one in 102,685,000, then we shouldn’t need to initiate a limit on children in the future, nature already does it for us.

In this sense, you’re a miracle.

Live like one.

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If we keep teaching young voters that the issues they care about won’t be addressed, we can expect them to stay away.

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What do you think about the James Ready campaign?

Political favour leans towards the large and more influential baby boom generation, leaving youth voters disengaged and disinterested

I ain R eeve , P h D ’14

“It’s gimmicky but it works.”

Ontario’s Oct. 6 provincial election that saw Dalton McGuinty’s Liberals form a minority government had a voter turnout of 49 per cent — the lowest in the province’s history.

The result in Ontario is just the latest in a series of provincial elections around the country where the voter turnout has been unexpectedly low.

The Globe and Mail reported that record lows — or close to it — were experienced this fall in Manitoba at 56 per cent and Newfoundland and Labrador at 58 per cent. Even the 76 per cent turnout in Prince Edward Island on Oct. 3 was the lowest since 1966, when they started tracking the statistic.

This was mirrored in the federal election earlier this year, where a 61 per cent turnout was Canada’s second-lowest in history — better only than 2008’s 58 per cent.

Unfortunately, declining voter turnout isn’t a new trend. Much hand-wringing and panic over the issue has beset journalists, academics, politicians and other political elites ever since the trend became clear in the late ’90s.

The cause? A clear demographic analysis shows that every generation to vote for the first time after turning 18 does so in lower numbers than the generation before. The explanations of why are diverse, but can be illustrated with immaculate precision in the recent Ontario election.

Canada’s younger voters, in stark contrast to the baby boom generation that came before, are increasingly motivated by what many social scientists refer to as post-materialist values.

People who exhibit post-materialist values worry less about material wealth and accumulation and become more focused on issues such as justice, equality, tolerance, intellectual satisfaction and, more recently, environmentalism. These values rise in prominence in a society where most people can take their basic material needs for granted.

The problem for young voters is that post-materialist issues aren’t a significant area of focus in modern election campaigns.

Sydney Goodfellow, ArtSci ’12

“I think it’s a little weird.”

Heather Power, JD ’14 Supporters gather around the TV at John Gerretsen’s campaign office in Kingston on Oct. 6.

Consider the Ontario election.

Many have noted that the campaign seemed allergic to sweeping new ideas or risk. It was almost as if party leaders were competing to see whose vision of economic stability or pocket-book electioneering was more safe and boring.

Any attempt to put forward a more values-based vision — think, perhaps, of Dalton McGuinty’s meekly expressed penchants for green energy and education — was bombarded with claims from opposing parties that such movements would devastate our economy and move us into deeper recession.

So if isolated young people represent a massive, untapped pile of voters, why aren’t political parties snapping them up? The explanation is again a demographic one: young voters are outnumbered by a politically-mobilized, engaged and persuasive baby boom generation.

Due to their massive comparative size, political favour has always followed the baby boom generation. After benefiting in their youth from the most permissive social welfare state ever, the baby boomers moved into career employment and the years where most people’s dependence on government services declines.

The result was a gutting of the welfare state, lower taxes and a greater reliance on the private sector. Now, as boomers enter their golden years, the focus is on retirement interests: economic stability, retirement savings and heath care.

Meanwhile, the interests and

post-materialist focus of youth voters are left in the cold.

In an economic recession these problems are only exacerbated.

When baby boomers’ retirement plans are jeopardized, they freak out and take their fears to government.

Youth, on the other hand, lack the political mobilization or persuasion to register their claims with policymakers.

There’s a common wisdom in the study of elections that’s also worth considering: increased frequency of elections leads to lower voter turnouts in the form of voter fatigue. The logic is that calling too frequently on voters to focus their attention on political matters causes them to shy away from participating.

Certainly, Canadians from coast-to-coast have faced numerous elections at various levels of government over the last year.

That being said, the assumption that politics is inherently tiresome is a problematic one. Few people tire of an engaging TV show or a favourite sport, for example.

Election congestion is only problematic if elections repeatedly fail at engaging voters.

Voting behaviour is formed early and sticks with us for life. If we keep teaching young voters that the issues they care about won’t be addressed, we can expect them to stay away. Indeed, even a single election of change cannot be expected to have a long-lasting impact on turnout as these habits are heavily engrained.

No single politician in recent years has better represented this

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split than Rob Ford.

Ford’s successful campaign for mayor of Toronto in 2010 promised fiscal prudence and a better deal for the suburbs — the Shangri-La of materialist living — but, perhaps more importantly, it also took aggressive pot shots at the so-called artsy-fartsy post-materialist value set.

The result? A 53 per cent voter turnout, up from 35 per cent in Toronto’s last mayoral election in 2006.

Ford mobilized voters both for and against him by providing an unabashedly clear choice between these two value sets. A similar dynamic will likely exist in the next election when voters are asked to judge how his perspective has played out.

The problem young voters face is that, for the foreseeable future, the baby boomers will have a demographic advantage both in votes and in representation in the bodies of government.

Until the generational shift occurs, I see little hope for the mobilization of young voters. This means that those entering politics now are likely to be a sort of lost generation.

I patiently, but pessimistically, await any political party or leader at any level of government that is willing to prove me wrong.

Iain Reeve is a PhD candidate in the Queen’s department of political studies.

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Emma Nicholl, ArtSci ’11

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I, Claudia is a coming of age tale B y C aitlin C hoi Assistant Arts Editor I, Claudia is a window into preteen afflictions of puberty and social hierarchies, with added pressures like divorce and a father’s loathsome new girlfriend.

The one-woman show stars Michelle Polak, who plays all four characters in the production.

The Crow’s Theatre rendition of I, Claudia will run in Kingston this week.

Polak last took on the challenging multi-part role in 2010 for the Crow’s company in Prince George, B.C. “With every opportunity I have to perform it, I discover something new and deepen the authenticity of it,” Polak told the Journal via email.

“This is a human story.”

I, Claudia was originally written and performed by Kristen Thomson in Toronto in 2001. The play won several awards, including the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best New Play. Thomson also starred in a 2004 film adaptation of the script, winning a 2005 Gemini award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Program or Miniseries.

Polak said she asked for Thomson’s blessing before succeeding the role.

In the Crow’s Theatre production, she takes Thompson’s method of using full-face masks to identify each character.

“The roots of theatre stem from mask work,” Polak said. “We use mask, costume, sound, vocal shifts and physical embodiment to create the magic.”

I, Claudia runs from Oct. 18 to Oct. 22 at 7:30 p.m., with a matinee on Saturday at 2:30 p.m. at the Baby Grand Theatre. Tickets are $39.

Maggie Hogan has been working with Art on the Street for the last six years. The festival promotes artwork created by people with addiction and mental health issues.

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Art Festival

Creative wealth for mental health The fifth annual Art on the Street showcases a wide range of artwork including modern and unconventional pieces

By Caroline Garrod Staff Writer Art on the Street isn’t on the street. The annual art festival — that showcases work from people with addiction and mental health issues at Kingston Street Health Centre — will showcase over 20 artists at a donated space on Princess Street.

Art on the Street began as the brainchild of Kelly Sexsmith, a

Street Health counsellor who saw how mental health and addiction issues made it difficult for artists to showcase their work.

The show was devised to give artists a venue to show and sell their art. The festival is now in its fifth year and acts as an impetus for these artists to create.

Art on the Street finds space to use as a gallery by borrowing from local businesses. The show will run from Wednesday to Sunday at a Keystone Properties building

on Princess Street. A musical and spoken word performance is the main event at Music on the Street on Saturday night.

Organizer Maggie Hogan is a local artist who has volunteered with the show for six years.

“At first, people just came to support the artists, but now, they keep coming back because they’re interested in the art,” she said.

According to Hogan, anyone using the Street Health facilities or affiliated with someone

A romantic choosing Jill Barber says she travels to a world of beauty and whimsy to write her romantic lyrics

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Jill Barber is a true romantic, moving across the country from Halifax to Vancouver to be with her husband Grant Lawrence.

Jill Barber’s new single has two versions: one in English, one in French. “Tell Me” and “Dis-Moi” both appear on Barber’s new album Mischievous Moon, marking her first attempt at singing in French.

“Like a lot of Anglophone Canadians I just knew a little bit of French, but I couldn’t really have conversations or express myself,” Barber said.

Barber started the year in

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using them can participate in the festival. The artists range from amateurs to those who are professionally-trained.

“We have a whole variety of styles on display, from some that is quite modern and unconventional,” she said.

This year, the show will be captured on film for a documentary on the project.

“We hope to use it as a tool to show organizations what we’ve

Southern France to study French and hopes to return next year.

“French is definitely the original language of love,” she said. “I joke that I’m working really hard to learn the language of love and I’m sure it will be a lifelong pursuit.”

Barber said romance isn’t a topic she purposefully chooses, but it has become an overarching theme in her work.

“People ask me, ‘Why so many love songs? Why not write about See Whimsical on page 12

Headband Heaven Ezia Couture celebrates its first birthday with an expansion into rings and vintage-inspired necklaces.

Making Good Matthew Good is coming to Kingston, bringing alternative rock and political activism.

The Country Brood The alt-country trio Elliott Brood transitioned to a new label to release a new album, Days Into Years.

Centre stage The Journal reviews Crow’s Theatre’s production of I, Claudia.

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rOCK & rOLL rEPOrt CArD In Heaven TWin SiSTer

 Following the success of their second EP Color Your Life, Twin Sister has returned with their debut vinyl LP In Heaven.

Since 2008, this Long Island quintet has made it onto almost every indie short list, including Pitchfork’s 2010 tracks of the year poll.

However, In Heaven deviates from the band’s upbeat past, expanding on the more subtle grooves that weren’t fully realized on their previous release.

The opening track, “Daniel,” uses a xylophone as a slow introduction to the album, with the band gradually filling the aural landscape with an electronic haze on subsequent tracks.

The first single, “Bad Street,” is a brief interruption to this slow-paced smoothness. With a synth-infused opening reminiscent of a 1980s workout tape, “Bad Street” brings the funk.

“Bad Street” manages to shift gears from the mellow tracks preceding it, but it’s held back by a lack of direction. It comes across as gimmicky, outdone by the charm of the album’s other tracks.

It’s not until the seventh song that the album shows a uniqueness worth listening to. “Spain” barrels in, eliminating any hint of fatigue.

When paired with “Gene Ciampi,” the two songs electrify the album.

The album’s biggest highlight is “Saturday Sunday.” It touches all of the band’s strengths: bright guitar, synth accents and, of course, Andrea Estella’s breathy vocals.

While In Heaven drags slightly in the middle, its ending is polished, rescuing Twin Sister from getting lost in the current deluge of hipster bands. With its highs and lows, the album is worth listening to, if only to see the current trend towards indie-pop. The greatest function of this album is to introduce Twin Sister — a band in development, but worth paying attention to.

Higgs has the musical makings of an indie goldmine. But this record leaves something to be desired.

“Little Voice” makes its sophomore appearance, originally listed on her 2010 four-track EP Little Voice. It shouldn’t have made it onto Odd Fellowship. The under-produced track sounds more like a church choir melody than a pop song — it’s an unchanging piano ballad with no rhythmic variance.

Despite a catchier back-beat, the album’s second track, “Gosh Darn Damn,” maintains Odd Fellowship’s predictable pop. Repetition of the song’s title lyrics doesn’t help Higgs’ halfhearted lyrical endeavor.

The absence of risks leaves this song lacking.

The only standout is, “Youth and Beauty.” The strong harmony in the chorus makes this track the — Devin Clancy one to hear. It proves that taking risks is exactly what this young artist needs. The synthesizer mixes Odd Fellowship r e B e K a H H i G G S up Higg’s use of light keyboard and bells, giving the song a presence otherwise unheard on the record.

Higgs’ musical progression is best described by Odd Fellowship’s album art. Her image is faded on the cover. Her previous musical presence fades with this album.

Odd Fellowship works to advocate a return to Higgs’ edgier self-titled debut that hit shelves in 2006.  

In her fourth solo album, Rebekah Higgs uses muted memories of classic show tunes to weave a 10-song ode to simplicity. With a sound like the vocal lovechild of Kate Nash and Zooey Deschanel,

— Terra-Ann Arnone

See queensjournal.ca for a review of Youth Lagoon’s Year in Hibernation.

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other things?’ ” she said. “The matters on my brain I can talk out with friends … but matters of the heart come out in a more creative,

musical kind of way. It’s a theme that chooses me.”

Barber gained international acclaim with her 2008 record, Chances, an album inspired by the female greats of the 1950s, like Ella

Fitzgerald and Edith Piaf.

“In a way I feel like I found my job and my job is to write songs that bring back the romance a little bit,” Barber said, “to write songs today in a tradition of yesteryear where a lot of them were about love and romance and painted a rosy feature of the world.

“In the modern world we need that kind of escape into old records, into beauty and a whimsy kind of world, which is where I go when I write.”

Barber said she can’t access that whimsical world when she’s on tour. The singer-songwriter composed Chances during an artist residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Alberta.

“For me to work in Banff was a creative rehab. It was an opportunity for me to shut myself away for a few weeks and tune out the rest of the world and kind of go inwards,” she said. “I spend so much time on the road in my job, that the way that I work creatively, I don’t do a lot of writing on the road.”

Barber has been on tour in support of her new album since September. She’ll stop in Kingston tonight to play Sydenham Street United Church at 8:30 p.m.

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Organizer Maggie Hogan says both amateurs and professional artists participate in the annual festival.

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done and encourage them to do something similar,” Hogan said.

After the show, Art on the Street will launch a website designed

by Josh Lyon from the Kingston Arts Council.

Despite community support, Hogan said she doesn’t see many Queen’s students attend Art on the Street exhibits.

She said it’s a problem of awareness, as “usually Queen’s students only ever find out about the event after the fact.”

Hogan said it’s unfortunate, because she feels there’s a raw, edgy quality in the work that would appeal to many students.

Art on the Street usually has an attendance of 400 to 500 people over the five days of the festival.

“Of course, there’s always

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the issue of time and resources,” Hogan said. “It’s truly a positive thing for many people who would not otherwise have the resources to harness their artistic talents.”

Art on the Street begins tomorrow and runs until Sunday. More information on events can be found at artonthestreet.ca.

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Women’s soccer midfielder Angela Sullivan suffered a concussion in August and still experiences headaches.

Concussions

Head injuries go to House of Commons MP Glenn Thibeault proposes bill for concussion prevention that would affect Queen’s athletes B y G ilbert C oyle Sports Editor Angela Sullivan took an elbow to the head in August. The midfielder for the women’s soccer team still can’t focus in class, gets headaches while doing readings and can’t handle loud noises.

She doesn’t know when her concussion will heal.

Queen’s Athletics Therapy Services reported 48 concussions last season, an increase from the 28 reported in the 2009-10 season. Officials from the therapy centre say the rise in diagnosed concussions could be attributed to a raise in awareness.

The issue of concussions in amateur sport made it to Parliament Hill on Oct. 4, with a proposed bill calling for an amendment to Canada’s criminal

football

Warrior woes Gaels cruise to 53-0 win over Waterloo B y B enjamin D eans Assistant Sports Editor If it weren’t for a 2010 doping scandal, Gaels quarterback Billy McPhee would have been playing for the Waterloo Warriors at Richardson Stadium on Saturday.

Instead, the second-year quarterback completed eight of 14 passes for the Gaels, tallying 77 yards and one touchdown in Queen’s 53-0 victory over the winless Warriors. Running back Ryan Granberg picked up 240 yards and four touchdowns on 31 carries.

Gaels head coach Pat Sheahan started pursuing McPhee when he was in grade 11 at Notre Dame Secondary School in Burlington.

But in his fifth year at high school, McPhee committed to play for See They’re on page 15

code. The bill would make it illegal for coaches to allow athletes to return to play without meeting post-concussion criteria.

NDP MP Glenn Thibeault proposed Bill C-319 — National Strategy for Serious Injury Reduction in Amateur Sport Act — to the House of Commons earlier this month after meeting with representatives from Canadian Interuniversity Sport.

Thibeault said he also received endorsements from medical groups, health organizations and numerous sporting organizations before proposing the bill.

Bill C-319 calls for the federal government to assemble a conference involving provincial health ministers and members of the athletic, medical and health communities.

These delegates would then implement a strategy to create a national program that would focus on three goals: to collect data on concussions to amateur athletes, to establish training and education guidelines on concussions for amateur coaches and to implement incentivized funding to put these protocols in place.

Thibeault’s bill also calls for the

criminal code changes to include coaches who allow concussed athletes to play.

“You can’t eliminate the inherent risk in sport,” Thibeault told the Journal. “What you can do is create educational standards for those involved in all amateur sports ... so everyone makes sure they follow the procedures in place.”

Thibeault said he spoke with neurosurgeons from Toronto Western Hospital and the ThinkFirst National Injury Prevention Foundation specifically about how concussions can affect students’ academic performances.

Thibeault, MP for Sudbury since 2008, introduced Bill C-319 as a private member’s bill.

Private member’s bills are raised by individual MPs, separate from party platforms.

Thibeault said he’s already received support from numerous Conservative MPs and he’s confident Bill C-319 has “the clout necessary to make it as a private member’s bill.

“The way I’ve introduced this is clearly non-partisan,” he said.

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men’s volleyball

Golden Bears win, Gaels exit early Western teams dominate Coast-to-Coast Classic in Kingston while injured hosts struggle B y G ilbert C oyle Sports Editor Western Canadian teams dominated the Coast-to-Coast Classic at the ARC this weekend.

On Sunday, the Alberta Golden Bears came back from a two-set deficit to beat the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds 3-2 in the gold medal game, while the Calgary Dinos defeated the University of New Brunswick Varsity Reds 3-0 to clinch the bronze medal.

The Gaels were plagued by injuries to veteran players and finished seventh.

Queen’s Athletics organized the Coast-to-Coast Classic as a test run for the Canadian Interuniversity Sport championships they’ll host in March. Athletics director Leslie Dal Cin said it was the first time the school has hosted an indoor championship.

A team from the Canada West conference has won the national title every season since 1995 and is favoured to win again at nationals.

The Trinity Western Spartans, last year’s national champions, were representing Canada at the Club World Championship in Doha, Qatar last week and didn’t attend the Queen’s tournament.

Golden Bears coach Terry Danyluk said he was impressed with the way the Coast-to-Coast Classic was organized.

“Queen’s did a great job. It’s a great idea to do a trial run,” he said. “The venue was awesome and the guys really enjoyed playing in that gym.”

Tournament MVP Mitch Irvine of the Golden Bears said he expects his team to be back in Kingston for nationals in March.

The Gaels fell 3-1 to the Varsity Reds in the quarter-final on Friday, lost 3-0 to the Western Mustangs in the consolation semifinal on Saturday and beat the Montreal Carabins 3-1 in the seventh-place match on Sunday.

Four of the five fifth-year Gaels are currently injured. Setter Dan Rosenbaum and outside hitter Bryan Fautley are both out with long-term injuries, outside hitter Joren Zeeman missed the weekend with a sprained ankle and outside hitter Niko Rukavina played through an ankle injury. Middle hitter Michael Amoroso is the team’s only healthy fifth-year.

“We’re pretty beat up. We’re missing a lot of our key guys,” head coach Brenda Willis said.

“We’re really anxious to see some medical progress.”

The injuries meant rookies saw playing time. Willis said she was particularly impressed with first-year outside hitter Mike Tomlinson, who had 18 kills in the

quarter-finals to earn the team’s MVP award on Friday.

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Alberta Golden Bears outsider hitter Taylor Hunt attempts a kill during the gold medal game at the ARC on Sunday.

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women’s RuGby

Overtime win sends Gaels to semifinals Forward Kayla Roote scores last-second try to secure playoff win over Trent

B y a nanD s riVastaVa Staff Writer The Trent Excalibur almost ended the women’s rugby team’s season on Saturday. But Gaels forward Kayla Roote scored a try as time expired in overtime to give the Gaels a 14-10 win in their OUA

quarter-final match.

Pouring rain and heavy winds made for sloppy conditions at Tindall field. It was a physical battle with little flow due to numerous ball-handling errors from both teams.

The Gaels beat Trent 38-22 in their last meeting on Sept. 10, but

Queen’s coach Beth Barz said the poor conditions made for a closer competition on Saturday.

“Weather is the great equalizer,” she said.

The Gaels were awarded a penalty try to open the scoring, after Gaels winger Natalie Poirier was hit by an Excalibur player

outside of play.

“The call was quite questionable,” Barz said. “There probably should have been a card instead but we’ll take the points.”

It is really difficult to “execute a game plan when the referee is unpredictable.

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— Beth Barz, women’s rugby coach Trent responded with a try before halftime. After a scoreless second half, the teams headed into overtime tied 7-7. The Excalibur converted a penalty with five minutes remaining in the second overtime period, but the Gaels responded with a series of strong

Forward Kayla Roote barely crosses the line to score a try as time expires in overtime.

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men’s hoCkey

Three-game win streak Men’s hockey wins both games at Memorial Centre B y Peter m orroW Contributor The men’s hockey team is on an early winning streak after defeating the Ontario Institute of Technology Ridgebacks 7-2 and the York Lions 3-2 last weekend.

“When you sweep the West — that’s Brock, York and UOIT — in a three-game series, you’ve done something,” head coach Brett Gibson said.

The Gaels beat the Brock Badgers on Oct. 8 and lost to the University of Toronto Varsity Blues on Oct. 7 in their season opener. Queen’s is 3-1 this season,

sitting at third place in the OUA East division.

The Gaels were tied 2-2 after the first period against the Ridgebacks on Friday at the Memorial Centre, but they scored five unanswered goals to secure the win.

“The score didn’t really indicate the game,” Gibson said. “7-2 might be a little glorified. It was more of a 4-2 game.”

Gibson said he gave a speech in the dressing room after the first period on Friday.

“A little kick in the butt doesn’t hurt sometimes,” he said. “They responded and that’s all you want as a coach.”

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important, let’s grab this bill and move forward with it.’”

This season student trainers for Gaels varsity teams carried out baseline testing on all athletes. The testing involves a series of examinations to that develop profiles of each athlete’s normal condition to ensure the therapy centre can prepare for a possible concussion.

The evaluation process follows the Concussion in Sport Group’s Sports Concussion Assessment Tool, created by the world’s leading neurologists.

Queen’s Athletic Therapy co-ordinator Vicky Wiltshire said it’s important to promote concussion education. She said the higher number of reported concussions among Queen’s athletes might have to do with an increased awareness about the dangers of head injuries.

“It’s really hard to tell whether there are more concussions happening or we’re just seeing more because we’re better educated,” she said, adding that coaches don’t say “it’s just a bell-ringer” anymore.

“People are at least starting to open their eyes,” she said.

Athletic Therapy follows the Concussion in Sport Group guidelines to evaluate concussed athletes, concluding daily check-ups until symptoms clear up. If symptoms persist, athletes are referred to sports medicine physicians.

Wiltshire said most athletes recover within a week but some have suffered long-term effects.

“We have a very small number of athletes who, weeks later, can’t sit through a lecture without getting a headache,” she said. “It can be scary and really debilitating ... sometimes you don’t recover from it.”

The Gaels were up against the York Lions on Saturday at the Memorial Centre. The two teams were tied 2-2 at the end of regulation and the shootout went eight rounds before Queen’s forward David Chubb scored to win. Goaltender Riley Whitlock made 27 saves in the game and seven more during the shootout.

“Thank God we got the [win], because we deserved [it],” Gibson said.

The team’s key scorer, Payton Liske, didn’t play on the weekend.

Gibson said the forward is currently attending to a personal issue.

The Gaels will face the 2-2 Royal Military College Paladins at the Constantine Arena on Wednesday.

Sullivan is one of those athletes.

“I’ve been seeing lots of doctors and they say there’s not much they can do for me,” she said. “No one’s been able to tell me anything because it’s so different for every person.”

Sullivan said she supports Bill C-319 because it’s still unclear how to treat concussions and increased research efforts would help.

“Awareness is definitely picking up,” she said. “They’re really dangerous, it’s worth spending time and effort thinking about it.”

Sullivan’s had injuries before — but she said this one’s different because there’s no clear recovery process.

“It’s frustrating because there have been times where I’ve felt really good ... and then it’s almost like I’m taking a step back and I start to feel my symptoms again,” she said. “It’s such a day-to-day injury and it’s irrelevant what I do.”

runs deep in Excalibur territory to set up Roote’s game-winning try.

Barz said she was unimpressed with the quality of the officiating during the game.

“It is really difficult to execute a game plan when the referee is unpredictable,” she said. “We had a good discussion after the game and I’ll be sharing some film with [the referees] so they can have a chance to look at a few things.”

The Gaels will travel to play the Guelph Gryphons on Saturday for the OUA semifinals. The Gryphons are 5-0 this season and beat the Gaels 54-5 in last season’s OUA final. The winner advances to the OUA final and clinches a spot at nationals in Peterborough next month.

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Waterloo where his second cousin, Dennis McPhee, is head coach of the football program.

In June 2010, Waterloo announced it was suspending the football program for one year after nine Warriors players tested positive for doping violations on tests conducted that spring. After the announcement, McPhee called Sheahan and was enrolled at Queen’s within a month.

“He wanted to play as soon as possible and that’s what he’s doing,” McPhee’s second cousin said.

The sixth-year Warriors coach dressed 35 rookies in Saturday’s game against the Gaels. The Waterloo offence only picked up eight first downs on the day.

“The setback we’re suffering, we brought upon ourselves and we’re going to have to fight back,” the coach said. “It’s very difficult to keep kids motivated when they’re 0-7.”

Billy McPhee had a quiet afternoon Saturday, with the Gaels relying on their run game on account of the rain and wind. He was relieved by backup Ryan Mitchell in the fourth quarter with the Gaels at a 46-0 lead.

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Team China falls to Gaels Women’s hockey beats Chinese national team in front of 200 fans B y B enjamin D eans Assistant Sports Editor The Chinese women’s hockey team visited Kingston last Wednesday to play the Queen’s team as part of a 20-game tour across Canada to prepare for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

The Queen’s women’s team beat Team China 6-1 at the Invista Centre last Wednesday. Kingston and the Islands MP Ted Hsu was on the ice for the ceremonial puck drop. This was the eighth game

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the nation’s best teams when her top players are healthy.

“It’s going to be tough for us,” she said. “But our veterans [have] played at that level and are confident.”

Regardless of their success in the OUA playoffs, the Gaels will be entitled to an automatic advance to nationals as the host team.

The Gaels will fly to Calgary to play in the Dino Cup next weekend.

Willis said she hopes she’ll have some injured starters returning to the lineup to gain experience against the country’s top teams before nationals in March.

The Gaels will play the Alberta Golden Bears, the Calgary Dinos and the Regina Cougars during the round-robin in Calgary.

The medal round is scheduled for Saturday.

and seventh loss of Team China’s Canada tour. The tour started last month and will run until Nov. 16.

The Chinese team was one of eight teams that competed at the 2010 Winter Olympics, but was knocked out after losing all three games in the first round.

Captain Kristin Smith said the Chinese team was fast, but struggled to keep up with the Gaels’ physical play.

The team hired Mikhail Chekanov and brought in eight new players three months ago.

Chekanov doesn’t speak English or

Mandarin and uses a translator to coach his team.

Chekanov — a former coach with Spartak Moscow of the Russian Kontinental Hockey League — said the Queen’s team had a better understanding of the game.

He said his team’s level of play has fallen since its roster changes.

“The team needs to build the technical, mental and physical aspects of its game,” he told the Journal.

Sports in brief Men’s rugby wins

Tie and win for men’s soccer

Men’s rugby improved to a 5-1 record with a 29-5 win Men’s soccer tied the Laurentian over the Brock Badgers in Voyageurs 2-2 and beat the St. Catherines on Saturday. Nipissing Lakers 5-0 on their road Third-year flyhalf Liam trip over the weekend. Winger Underwood scored a try and kicked Andrew Colosimo and forward for three conversions to lead the Eric Koskins led the team with Gaels with 11 points. The Gaels two goals each in the two games. host the Wilfrid Laurier Golden The Gaels are now 6-4-2 and sit in Hawks at West Campus on Friday. fourth place in the OUA East.

— Gilbert Coyle

Women win league Women’s soccer clinched the OUA East title on the weekend, beating the Laurentian Voyageurs 2-1 and the Nipissing Lakers 3-0 in Northern Ontario. Captain Kelli Chamberlain led the team with two goals as the Gaels improved to 12-1-1. They play both teams again in Kingston this weekend.

— Benjamin Deans

— Benjamin Deans

Gaels crush Ridgebacks Women’s hockey beat the Ontario Institute of Technology Ridgebacks 10-2 in Peterborough on Sunday.

Taryn Pilon and Morgan McHaffie both scored hat tricks. The team improves to 2-1 and is tied for fourth in the OUA. — Benjamin Deans

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postscript psychology

Emotional access through art Art therapy has been used in Kingston prisons to help inmates access suppressed memories and emotions B y L abiba H aque Production Manager

Merriam was hired by Corrections Canada to work in the special needs unit after several Artwork can have more than just prisoners committed suicide in prison. an aesthetic effect.

Working at the prison was Art therapy is a form of psychotherapy that uses the Merriam’s first job after graduating creation of art to facilitate with her art therapy degree from self-exploration and understanding. the Toronto Art Therapy Institute, Participants use colours, shapes a private career college There are no professional and imagery to express their feelings on subjects they can’t art therapists on staff in Kingston prisons now, but verbally articulate.

Beth Merriam worked in the Correction Services Canada runs Local art therapist Sister Kay Morell often has clients use a landscape setting to illustrate how photo by corey lablans Kingston Prison for Women as an volunteer-based arts and crafts they see themselves. According to Morell, artistic talent is unnecessary for art therapy. art therapist from 1992 until the programs with inmates.

Grace who was diagnosed with and interest in inmates’ artwork Merriam said art therapy allows to work on. prison’s closure in 2000.

Merriam said something as a personality disorder. Merriam ultimately allowed her to connect According to Merriam, in verbal individuals to reconnect with therapy inmate’s words would their emotions in a safe way while simple as a patient’s choice of describes the inmate as violent and more with them.

“Someone was willing to sit with sometimes become jumbled as they she looks for themes in patients’ tool can indicate their thought self-destructive. Grace also assaulted artwork. Art therapy can reveal processes. For instance, women a staff member and attempted to them for an hour or so and listen spoke about experiences.

“A lot of them were suffering issues associated with trauma, with eating disorders often choose murder a fellow inmate, resulting to them and take interest in what from mental illnesses or they eating disorders and parents’ pencils, markers or other forms of in the patient’s placement they had to say,” she said, adding that she noticed small aesthetic restrictive art mediums to create in isolation. weren’t receiving adequate divorce, she said.

According to Merriam, prison improvements in inmates’ artwork straight lines. This demonstrates a treatments so they were isolation contributed to the over time. need for control, Merriam said. unable to participate in verbal Even in drawing Though many of her patients patient’s depression, despair and “Over the years I have observed therapy,” she said. images of the outside used art therapy for self-exploration a lot of art and it’s not the symbols anxiety about social contact.

While Merriam’s services were world, there would Although the patient was unable and understanding, Merriam said or images people draw, it’s the sometimes requested, often the be a window way people go about art,” she to recall any childhood memories several enjoyed creating art for prison’s nurses and psychologists with bars. said, adding that someone in verbal therapy, her artwork in art’s sake. Many inmates chose would tell her which inmates would with psychosis may create art therapy always had a childlike to keep the artwork they created likely benefit from art therapy. theme, suggesting a desire to return in prison. disorganized piece.

Her contract only required “It wasn’t always about a symbol Therapeutic value is found to simpler times, Merriam said. her to work a few hours a week, — Beth Merriam, art therapist at Kingston Group therapy sessions allow or the meaning of something. through informal conversation but as art therapy became more Prison for Women from between an art therapist and isolated inmates to be in a social You want to be able to bolster popular through word of mouth, 1992 to 2000 their confidence and not break it patient as the patient creates a setting, Merriam said. she worked up to 20 hours a week.

“This way art was able to sort of down and make it vulnerable as work, Merriam said.

Merriam said her job was “Often in a conversation people normalize the situation,” she said. it happens in therapy sometimes,” The use of colours like black initially overwhelming due to the share some lighter ... things that “It’s a different atmosphere. The she said. wide range of personal conflicts and red are indicators of anger.

Merriam said she saw the “A lot of them had experienced a is helpful therapeutically, so in a women there were quite isolated among inmates, issues stemming from mental illnesses, sexual and lot of anger,” said Merriam, adding following session we will talk about from the world, from each other.” benefits of art therapy for inmates.

“The goal was to increase their According to Merriam, the substance abuse, self-injury and that many inmates were mothers the theme as they are working,” and would draw happier times she said, adding that oftentimes the biggest misconceptions about level of functioning so they could suicidal thoughts. theme will appear in the patient’s conducting art therapy in a prison manage the day-to-day tasks in “Most women in prison had with their families. prison,” she said. “There were setting are safety-related.

“Even in drawing images of the creation. experienced a lot of trauma and “For the most part, I felt that the certain improvements in that aspect, In a 1998 article published in grief in their lifetime. It had piled up outside world, there would be a the Women and Therapy journal, inmates were excited to try it out … they became interested in things over the years so they had difficulty window with bars.”

Painting, drawing and clay Merriam reveals her memorable I never had an incident. I think they because art gave them feedback managing their emotions, so they valued art therapy and felt like they on their decisions and peaked would turn to using substances or sculpture can all be used in art interactions with inmates. their interest.”

Merriam writes about a were being heard,” she said. other things to escape from society,” therapy, and patients can choose Merriam said her attention what type of artwork they’d like 24-year-old woman named she said.

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A different kind of therapist Sister Kay Morrell is a licensed art therapist and currently practices at The Sisters of Providence of St. Vincent de Paul on Princess Street. She said though there’s a need for the profession, it doesn’t pay well and there aren’t a lot of jobs available.

When she first moved to Kingston in 2005, Morrell said she sent over 100 resumes out and had approximately 50 responses.

“They would say, ‘Oh we would love to have you, can you volunteer?’ So there weren’t a lot of fulltime opportunities,” she said,

adding her previous experience as a secretary, teacher and T’ai Chi Chih instructor helped her secure her first job at a hospital.

According to Morrell, art therapy offers a different kind of emotional outlet than verbal therapy.

“We are so used to using words that often they become a barrier in expressing oneself because we’ve built our own defense mechanism into our verbal presentation,” she said.

Art therapy allows patients to express their inner psyche on

paper or canvas, Morrell said, adding that people of any age can use the practice for recreational purposes or self-healing.

“Art therapy works well for people who don’t have artistic skills … the purpose is that you are using a different channel [than speaking],” she said. “They are not trying to make it look good or pretty, they are just letting it out on the page.”

Morrell’s clientele range from age 20 to 80, who come to her for everyday problems like anxiety and stress.

Morrell’s art therapy sessions last for 75 minutes each. There are different types of art therapy to choose from, she said.

The program Atop the Mountain asks clients to reflect on their life and make an artwork in a landscape setting as a metaphor of how they see themselves. As the artwork is created Morrell observes how the client creates their artwork and conducts a therapeutic conversation, she said.

“I like to connect with them through the art as opposed to words,” she said.

Because art therapists don’t receive government funding, patients have to pay for the service, Morrell said.

But since art therapy is growing in recognition and seen as a successful form of psychotherapy, this might change.

“The Ontario government has decided to regulate the profession,” she said. “In a couple of year’s time art therapists will have to be registered with the government.”