The Queen's Journal, Issue 17

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Senate decides to keep GPA system B y C atherine O wsik Assistant News Editor Queen’s Senator Jordan Morelli wants the University to rethink its grading structure.

At Monday’s Senate meeting, Morelli proposed a new grading system whereby students would receive both a percentage and

letter grade instead of a grade point average (GPA.) The motion failed, winning only two votes of support and two abstentions.

Morelli, an assistant professor in the department of physics, engineering physics and astronomy, said the GPA system is disadvantaging upper-year

students. Once translated from a per cent average to the GPA system, students’ averages are lower than they should be, Morelli said.

“Whether this passes or not I suggest we do need a strategy to remediate the negative effect we have had on our students,” Morelli told Senate.

“Thirty per cent of our

[fourth-year engineering physics] students are in the category where they’re at risk of having their GPAs put them below the dean’s list, whereas their cumulative averages before would’ve put them over the dean’s list,” Morelli told the Journal.

The honours dean’s list cut-off is See Plans on page 6

News

Electric truck joins Queen’s Parking department. page 4

Francis wins

ASUS Elections

Inside

Features

E-ballots re-sent B y K atherine Fernandez -B lance News Editor

Headstone resurfaces in Skeleton Park.

Electronic ballots for the Arts and Science Undergraduate Society’s (ASUS) fall election were re-sent to students after a system error.

The original voting went from Oct. 25 to 26, and Arts and Science students could cast votes for the society’s senators and representatives to the AMS. A vote was also held for a representative of the class of 2015. There was also a vote for an international student representative, if voters were international.

On Tuesday morning, some students received multiple ballots in their webmail inboxes, while others were given user names that Nick Francis, ArtSci ’13, celebrates Wednesday night after being elected Queen’s 33rd rector.

Dialogue

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Examining problems with the Engineering program at Queen’s.

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Francis won 52 per cent of the vote in the third round of preferential voting. See page 2 for full story.

Student life

Beer company gives out pumpkins James Ready continues campus advertising campaign with Halloween giveaway B y S avoula S tylianou Assistant News Editor An on-campus pumpkin giveaway, was held by beer company James Ready yesterday.

A sign posted on a telephone pole on University Avenue read “Barter 1 beer cap for 1 pumpkin.”

According to James Ready’s campus diplomats, this was an advertising mistake.

Diplomat Jared Huras said he didn’t expect anything in exchange for the pumpkins.

“The pumpkins were totally free. You didn’t need to have a beer cap, that was just a mess up,” Huras, Sci ’13, said.

The company also held another promotional event on Wednesday, promising one free coffee in exchange for a James Ready bottle cap.

“We did an event called ‘Barter caps for coffee’ and we thought that free coffee would make students study harder,” Huras said.

The pumpkin giveaway is part of a year-long campaign on campus that includes James Ready lawn signs in Student Ghetto houses.

Pumpkins for the free event, held at the corner of University

Avenue and Earl Street, were supplied by a farmer from Port Hope who drove in 130 pumpkins for the company.

Huras added that there’s also a Facebook competition run out of

the JR Helping Queen’s Facebook group, and James Ready staff will determine the winner of the best pumpkin carving.

“If you carve it and post a

Lawsuit filed against Queen’s A September court ruling against Loyalist College has led to a lawsuit against Queen’s.

Last month, an Ontario judge ruled that Loyalist College give monetary compensation to approximately 70 students who studied nursing starting in 1997 and 98.

According to December 2002 court records, two Loyalist nursing

students from different years of study each filed a class-action suit against the college.

The records for the case Hickey-Button v. Loyalist College of Applied Arts & Technology stated the college had allegedly promised nursing students the chance to obtain a nursing degree on Loyalist campus by taking courses from both the college and Queen’s over a four-year period.

This was not a program offered at Queen’s, and consequently, the students were unable to complete

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Sports

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Administration

B y K atherine Fernandez -B lance News Editor

PS I Love You returns to Kingston to work on their upcoming album.

their degrees in the allocated period of time.

Yesterday, the Whig Standard reported that Loyalist College claims Queen’s unilaterally withdrew from the partnership that would have allowed the nursing students to be granted degrees. Loyalist has filed a lawsuit against Queen’s.

Officials from both institutions declined to comment on the case because it is currently before the courts.

A sit-down with the five men’s volleyball veterans.

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Postscript

A look at six costume ideas for Halloween. page 20

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Friday, October 28, 2011

Rector elections

Rector Nick Francis takes office Mike Cannon, Asad Chishti and Robyn Laing tie for second place in preferential voting B y C atherine O wsik Assistant News Editor Nick Francis won the title of Queen’s rector with 52 per cent of the vote in the third round of preferential voting.

The six-candidate race for rector ended Wednesday night when the the elections team from the AMS and Society of Graduate and Professional Students (SGPS) visited Francis’ campaign party.

Francis, ArtSci ’13, said he’s ready to start work immediately.

“One of the things I’m excited to do is to start working on the Queen’s experience, in terms of revitalizing the spirit and the traditions,” Francis said after learning of his victory.

He said budget cuts are a pressing issue that he plans to address.

“First thing to do is to set up a meeting with the Provost and start looking at the plans he has this year,” he said.

This was Francis’ second time running for rector. In January 2010 he ran as a first-year student and lost to Nick Day. He said he felt more confident this time around.

“This year I felt more in control because I put in a lot of work,” Francis said, adding that his campaign team gave him strong support. “I got a lot of positive feedback about my campaign.”

He said the flash mob, held at the corner of University and Union Streets on Oct. 20, had a strong impact on students.

His competitors ran strong campaigns, Francis said.

“I know how hard it is to stand in front of all your peers, 22,000 students, and I commend them for coming out,” Francis said. “I hope it doesn’t discourage them from getting involved and running for

On Oct. 20 Nick Francis’ supporters performed a flash mob dance at the corner of University and Union as part of his election campaign.

anything else.”

Under the preferential voting system, candidates Mike Cannon, Asad Chishti and Robyn Laing tied for second place.

After learning about his loss, Cannon, ArtSci ’12, said he would fully support the winner.

“I do wish that the winner will come back and talk to the other candidates because I know we all have great ideas,” Cannon said.

“I think implementing or at least asking for help from some of us would go very far.”

He said he doesn’t know what’s next for him but he was inspired by the support he received during the 10-day campaign period.

“The emails from random people who I’d never met before telling me they had heard me speak ... that encouraged me along the way,” Cannon said.

Asad Chishti was at Common Ground on election night; taking

calls, using Facebook and talking with his core group of supporters.

Upon hearing the results Chishti, Sci ’14, said he felt relieved because he was worried about the responsibility of representing so many students at a high level.

He said he’s happy to remain a member-at-large.

“I hope that Nick Francis puts students first,” Chishti said.

Chishti said he regrets that he didn’t create a strong base of supporters.

“I didn’t feel like I consolidated my own group among engineers and second-years,” he said.

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

Robyn Laing said she was frustrated that her experience at Queen’s, as Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer of the Arts and Science Undergraduate Society,

didn’t result in a win.

“I found that some platforms were more substantial than others and it didn’t seem to really matter in this,” Laing, ArtSci ’11 and MES ’13, said.

“It’s frustrating that the campaign matters more.”

She said the large size of Francis’ team allowed him to be more visible on campus.

“My campaign team was three people large and Nick had a giant campaign team because he’s been gearing up for this for three years,” Laing said. “Essentially, it was just me running around and doing my posters and class talks.”

David Myers came in third place. He said he has has high hopes for the winner.

“I hope that the rector position will be more closely watched from now on,” Myers, ArtSci ’08 and JD ’13, said. “Hopefully the new

Photo by Justin Chin

rector will be the one Queen’s deserves.”

Even without the title of rector, Laura Stairs said she’ll continue to advocate for her platform points.

She finished in fourth-place.

Stairs, ArtSci ’12, said as director of the AMS Food Centre she’ll work to increase sustainability and will promote discussions on equity through the Social Issues Commission.

Stairs was eliminated in the first round of preferential voting.

“I would’ve been able to do a lot more had I been elected rector but I know that despite losing like I’m still committed to every single one of those things,” Stairs said.

— With files from Terra-Ann Arnone, Cole Davison, Mike Green,Vincent Matak, Jordan Ray, Savoula Stylianou and Meaghan Wray

Student life

Student represents Canada in Paris summit Belinda Stronach Foundation holds second-annual G(irls) 20 Summit to address women’s issues B y S avoula S tylianou Assistant News Editor Fourth-year Hanan Dhanani spent last week in Paris as the sole Canadian representative at a global summit for women’s issues.

The G(irls) 20 Summit 2011, organized by the Belinda Stronach Foundation, encourages G20 leaders to strengthen women’s global political and economic involvement.

In an all-expenses-paid trip from Oct. 15 to 21, one woman from each of the G20 countries, as well as a delegate from the African Union came together to participate in workshops and panels.

Delegates decided to focus on issues of health, education and training, gender-based violence and political economic representation, Dhanani said.

“In terms of education, gender roles have dictated over the past century that men are always ones who get educated … It’s proven

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Hanan Dhanani, ArtSci ’12, says she worked with 20 other delegates to prepare a written report on four issues facing women.

that women have more of an impact, because if you educate a woman she can educate her kids at home,” Dhanani, ArtSci ’12, said.

“People are already sending

their sons to school, therefore their daughters can be sent as well.

It’s not like you have to build an entirely new system to send girls to school.”

By the end of the summit, the delegates had collectively written a report to send to the G20. “[We] got together and came up with a communiqué where we said ‘These are what we think are the most pressing issues and what can be done about them,’ ” Dhanani said.

The report was presented to Consuelo Remmert, aid to France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy for the G20 Summit. The major summit will begin in Cannes on Nov. 3.

Dhanani said while in Paris, delegates visited Google’s headquarters — as it was one of the sponsors of the summit.

“They talked to us about how the increase of technology use in developing countries is a direct link to economic development. For example, when you train a woman in a village on how to use a cell phone, her reach automatically doubles,” she said.

“I feel that half of the population isn’t producing to its potential

output and I think there’s no reason for that other than just barriers that are put in place because women are seen as a lesser gender than men.”

that half of “theI feel population isn’t producing to its potential output.

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— Hanan Dhanani, ArtSci ’12 Dhanani said her passion for global development motivated her to apply for summit in April.

“It’s a brilliant way for us to all exchange ideas and exchange opinions,” she said, adding that being a part of the summit gave her a sense of validation.

“I feel like if I can represent Canada, then I can represent the women of the world,” she said.

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Skeleton Park earns its name

City continues plan to revitalize McBurney Park while maintaining history of former cemetery B y J anina E nrile Assistant Features Editor City officials are working on a long-term project to ensure the cemetery beneath McBurney Park stays underground.

In May, Alec Ross found a decrepit headstone near the park’s baseball diamond.

The former co-ordinator of the McBurney Park Neighbourhood Association was playing catch with his son when he spotted the gravestone of Mary McLeod — a 27-year-old Kingston resident who died in 1834.

McBurney Park, better known as Skeleton Park, started as the Upper Burial Ground in 1819.

“Seeing the stone revealed just kind of made history very real,” Ross said. “I’ve seen other stones in the park, and even some bones during construction years ago.

“You’ve heard about these things before, but actually seeing one and seeing a name on the stone ... made me very protective.”

Ross reburied the headstone himself.

“It kept on getting uncovered because kids started finding it,” he said, adding that community members took turns ensuring the headstone remained covered over the summer.

Ross said they affectionately referred to the headstone as Mary. “[It was] like she was a friend,” he said. “We just wanted to protect [the stone] from being wrecked.”

If a resident finds a headstone, they’re asked to call the City of Kingston’s customer service line. Public Works and an archaeologist are sent to conceal the marker with soil and turf.

This process is governed by Section 68 of the Cemetery Act of Ontario, which reads, “No person shall disturb or order the disturbance of a burial site or artifacts associated with human remains except on instruction by ... the coroner or pursuant to a site disposition agreement.”

According to city officials, when maintenance workers came later in the summer to investigate Ross’ find, the headstone was no longer visible.

The cemetery was Kingston’s primary burial ground until 1850, when Cataraqui Cemetery was built.

According to heritage consultant Carl Bray, there’s uncertainty about how many people are buried under the park.

“There would probably be several thousand buried there, but no one will probably ever know,” he said, blaming a lack of formal record-keeping.

Bray is the founder of Bray Heritage, a consulting firm that works with Kingston’s heritage group to manage historic sites in the city’s urban areas.

Bray Heritage drafted the

McBurney Park Landscape Renewal Plan in 2004. The study led to a 74-page document review of Skeleton Park’s history, current purpose and future.

The city commissioned the study with hopes of improving the park’s conditions.

Part of the project was to conduct archaeological investigations on the site.

“Basically the graves are unmarked,” Bray said.

“Archaeological investigations have shown that the graves are often multiple graves — four or five [bodies] stacked on top of each other.”

The cemetery was closed in 1864 after reaching capacity.

After the closure, there was no maintenance on the site and the area fell into disrepair. Livestock grazed on the grounds and locals vandalized gravestones.

According to Bray, there were rumours of grave-robbing. He said Queen’s medical students were often accused.

In the late 1880s, a growing residential area surrounding the old cemetery pressured the city into action. Officials decided to build a park on top of the cemetery.

“The various denominations [who had buried their dead on the grounds] started removing bodies but it became a very futile process,” Bray said, adding that exhumation was a grotesque process.

“Many of the bodies hadn’t decomposed.”

Kingston has shallow soil with a layer of bedrock beneath it, Bray said, so bodies were buried closer to the surface because of it.

The ground’s high level of water retention also prevented bodies from decaying properly.

Cholera, diphtheria and typhus

were rampant in the early 1800s and the diseases are the suspected cause of death for many buried in Skeleton Park.

Community members feared the viruses were contagious when the bodies were dug up.

They also didn’t want to disturb the graves, Bray said. “[The city] realized at the time that there was no way they could properly reinter the bodies,” he said. “They would essentially just have to leave it as a mass grave.”

That mass grave is now the base of Skeleton Park.

Seeing the stone “revealed just kind of made history very real. ” — Alec Ross, Kingston resident

“Gravestones will work their way to the surface,” Bray said, adding that two unreadable gravestones will often emerge on the west side of the park during spring thaw.

Rumours about the park have become a part of the neighbourhood folklore, he said.

“There are pretty apocryphal stories in the north end about people finding bones popping up through the surface,” Bray said.

The Whig Standard reported in 1992 that a femur bone was found beneath Alma Street.

Following the Landscape Renewal Plan in 2004, an archaeological investigation was commissioned to prepare for construction around McBurney Park.

According to the resulting report, “these investigations located

the former cemetery boundaries as being larger than the current Park boundary and, consequently, identified a number of burials under Alma Street.”

In 2007, Alma Street was converted into a one-lane road to accommodate the remains beneath it. “[The road width was reduced] in order to dignify the remains that were underneath there,” Bray said.

“It’s kind of a sad reflection of the morals and the ethics of the time, that people didn’t really care for the cemetery the way they should have.”

Kristine Hebert is the Parks and Open Space Planning Co-ordinator for the City of Kingston. She helped oversee the landscape renewal of Skeleton Park, beginning with the hiring of Bray Heritage to design a program that would marry the community’s hope for the park and reality of working with a gravesite.

The recommended design included repaving pathways through the park, installing new street lamps as well as expanding the basketball court and children’s playground.

According to Hebert, the city had approved the park’s phased budget plan. Noted on the renewal report, the overall cost for completion of Bray’s recommended design was $233,000.

Hebert said the figure is inaccurate.

“Because of the archaeological component [of the plan], we also have to add a lot of hidden costs of anything that goes in there,” she said, adding that the new cost is double the original estimate.

“Everything has to be hand-dug,” Hebert said. “You can’t go in with a backhoe. That adds hours and hours to the clearance

of areas.”

The project is city-funded.

Hebert said there are restrictions when working on a gravesite.

“The restrictions were that we couldn’t remove anything below the sod level unless we had an archaeologist on site,” she said.

“When we do any work in the park, the archaeologists would have to go and clear the areas first.”

According to Hebert, the city’s long-term strategy is to continue to raise the ground elevation for park features as they’re erected, like trees or new pathways.

“Ultimately we’d like to raise the elevation of the grassed area,” she said. “To protect what’s underneath it and ... make it easier for people to maintain it.”

Hebert said that there is no official end-date for the plan.

The city receives about one call a year from the media or a community member that another grave marker has become visible.

Hebert said that in the last five years, she’s only heard of two cases where a gravestone is found.

“Typically, it’s when it’s very dry out,” she said. “The grass starts to dry faster where the markers are closer to the surface.”

“They go in and put dirt and more grass seed or sod around,” she said, “There is a concern.”

Hebert said that the park has not been easy to work with.

“Because of the buried artifacts, the skeletons and what, it’s very difficult to dig down and do anything,” she said, “... but certainly we know there is a process and we know how to deal with it now.”

Exhumation of the cemetery in McBurney Park was abandoned in 1893 after the community learned that the buried bodies weren’t fully decomposed.

— With files from Terra-Ann Arnone

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Electric truck on campus

University pays $24,000 for vehicle for the Parking Department B y B enJaMin d eanS Assistant Sports Editor Queen’s Parking Department now owns a $24,000 low-speed electric truck to use when monitoring parking on main campus.

“It was intended as a greenhouse gas reduction strategy,” Sustainability Manager Aaron Ball said.

Two inventories on campus greenhouse gas emissions were conducted in 2008 and 2009.

The inventories determined that campus vehicles emit about 200 tonnes of carbon dioxide annually.

The use of one electric truck lowers emissions by four tonnes, Ball said.

Once purchased, the electric truck could be implemented immediately and reduce fuel costs, he said.

“You’re looking at anywhere from an 80 to 90 per cent reduction in yearly expenditure on fuel per vehicle switched,” he said.

The Greentruck EVR 1000 was purchased in August from the California-based electric vehicle company Vantage Vehicles.

The truck can operate at speeds up to 40 kilometres per hour and can drive 65 kilometres before needing to be recharged.

The entire battery has a lifetime of 50,000 kilometres.

Ball said there’s little legroom, but the truck sits five people. “[Drivers] were a bit sceptical at first because it looks physically

The Queen’s Parking Department’s truck can drive 65 kilometres before needing to be recharged.

different. It is a crew-cab truck, but a much smaller version,” Ball said.

Queen’s rented the truck to test for six weeks over the summer with the staff from Parking, Physical Plant Services and Campus Security.

Last year, the Parking Department and Campus Security had one vehicle each and Physical Plant Services had 25. The electric truck replaced an out-of-commission vehicle, bringing the vehicle count for the Parking Department to two.

Ball said the University doesn’t have a target for the number of electric trucks it will eventually purchase, but that he expects to see more on campus.

“There’s still a bit of a question mark in terms of the vehicle’s winter performance,” he said.

Ball said that if the truck’s tire grip and battery life hold up in the snow and the cold, Queen’s will

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consider replacing vehicles up for renewal on a case-by-case basis.

The truck is considered a low-speed vehicle under a Ministry of Transportation pilot project. It’s currently restricted from travelling more than 50 metres away from main campus.

“The general opinion within the electric vehicle industry is that the pilot project is going well so far,” Ball said. “It’s anticipated that either the pilot project will be expanded and allow greater movement of these things or they’ll just be accepted.”

Ball said the 50-metre distance restriction would prevent the trucks from being used by Campus Security.

“Because of the limiting factor … it wouldn’t be suitable for them until the pilot project is updated or changed,” he said.

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international

New student exchange Program studies maternal health using pregnant mice B y M eaGhan wray Assistant News Editor PhD students at Queen’s and the University of Campinas in Brazil are now able to participate in an exchange program that promotes global maternal health knowledge.

The federally-funded program is supported by International Trade Canada, a department which supports Canadians abroad. The department will provide each Canadian student participant with $10,000 for a six-month stay in Brazil beginning in Jan. 2012.

Five to 10 students from either country will participate in the exchange over two years. Queen’s PhD candidates abroad will perform pregnancy-oriented research on mice, which have placentas similar to the human structure.

Dr. Anne Croy, professor in the Queen’s department of biomedical and molecular sciences, collaborated with Dr. Aureo Yamada, the program’s lead correspondent in Brazil.

Pregnancy research “is something that is

underreported on in media ... and not really seen as a major health topic in public health discourse.

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— Rebecca Scott, PhD ’12

Many pharmaceutical companies cannot administer treatments to pregnant women because of risk factors, Croy said, adding that this means treatments must be tested on animals first.

“They don’t administer them to pregnant women because of the liability issues,” she Croy said. “Human pregnancy you can follow by ultrasound, but you can’t do the intervention to test anything; it all has to be worked out in animal models.”

The treatments will be tested by measuring

the blood pressure, heart rates and velocity of blood flow into the placenta of the mice.

Rebecca Scott, PhD ’12, will be the first sociologist involved in the program. She said her expertise rests in understanding the relationship between science and society.

Human pregnancy you can “follow by ultrasound, but you can’t do the intervention to test anything. ” — Dr. Anne Croy, department of biomedial and molecular sciences professor

Scott will be conducting surveys and questionnaires with Brazilian women to find out what they think about the possibility of their placentas being used for scientific research after the birth of their child.

“Some hospitals require written informed consent from women and some don’t require any consent at all,” Scott said. “There’s a huge diversity of practices around collecting the placenta, but not a lot is known about what women really think about this practice.”

Scott said this program is a promotional type of partnership, in that it hopes to raise awareness of the barriers that scientists face in Brazil.

Barriers include finding publicity, materials and financial support for scientific research, she said.

“It’s very important to be able to see how science is conducted in a country that’s quite a bit different than mine,” Scott said. “Brazil has a lot of Catholic religious influence and so that has actually a pretty significant impact on the conduct of pregnancy research in that country.”

Scott said maternal health and pregnancy complications aren’t typically seen as news worthy.

“Pregnancy research is something that is underreported on in media, sort of undervalued by funding bodies and not really seen as a major health topic in public health discourse.”

Kristiina Aasa, PhD ‘14, and Rich DiLena, MSc ‘12, observe a mouse ultrasound on a laboratory computer in Botterell Hall.

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Senator Jordan Morelli will put forth another motion at next Senate on Nov. 22 to change the GPA system.

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80 per cent which is equivalent to a 3.7 GPA. Students with an overall average between 80 and 85 per cent are at greatest risk of being unfairly below the cut-off line, Morelli said, even though numerically they should be considered honours students.

For example, if a student receives two grades of 85 and 76 per cent, the average would be 80.5 per cent. In a per centbased system this would qualify the student for honours.

But if the grades are converted to their GPA equivalents of 4.0 and 3.0 respectively, the student would have an average of 3.5 and would then fail to make the honours list.

Because his motion failed, Morelli said he will bring forth a new motion in the Nov. 22 Senate meeting. He will propose that faculties and schools review their students’ grades for the past three years and adjust them accordingly.

issue isn’t whether or “notThestudents were consulted, the issue is that the students who were consulted are generally not here anymore.

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— Mira Dineen, AMS academic affairs commissioner

“We are now at this time not requiring that faculties and schools do anything about the problem, we are just hoping that they do,” Morelli said. “I want to make sure that Senate takes responsibility and ensures that something happens.”

He said he emailed AMS President Morgan Campbell and Student Senate Caucus Chair Doug Johnson asking for their support on this new motion.

He said he will attempt to pass the motion regardless of the support he gets.

AMS Academic Affairs Commissioner Mira Dineen said a number of students are frustrated because the change to a GPA system came as a surprise.

Thirty per cent of our “[fourth-year engineering

physics] students are in the category where they’re at risk of having their GPAs put them below the dean’s list.

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— Jordan Morelli, Queen’s senator

“[The University] actually did really extensive consultation. The issue isn’t whether or not students were consulted, the issue is that the students who were consulted are generally not here anymore,” Dineen, ArtSci ’11, said.

A review of the Queen’s grading system began in fall 2008 and resulted in the implementation of the current 4.3 GPA scale in May 2011.

Dineen said the Registrar’s Office and faculties had concerns that graduating students would be disadvantaged by having marks outside of the GPA system.

“There were concerns that a student graduating from Queens would be applying to graduate schools and there would be no means for that admissions office to interpret those grades,” she said.

Dineen said the GPA system offers a chance for professors to rethink the grading culture at Queen’s.

“I would support the faculties and schools encouraging further training for professors in how to use the GPA system,” she said. “This won’t work if professors are still thinking in terms of percentages.”

CAMPUS CALENDAR Friday, Oct. 28

Monday, Oct. 31

Midnight Magic Rodeo Show The Grad Club, 162 Barrie St. 10 p.m. to Midnight

EQuIP Meeting JDUC Performance Lounge 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 29

Fort Henry Presents a Halloween Night at Fort Fright 6 to 10 p.m.

Third annual Kingston zine-fair The Artel, 205 Sydenham St. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 2 Make-A-Wish: Queen’s HAIR MASSACURE Cataraqui Town Centre Mall 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

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picture on our Facebook group, you can win $200.”

Huras said the James Ready campaign is planning for upcoming winter events.

“In the next two weeks we’re going to give out wool socks and canned soup,” he said.

Huras said the campaign is about advertising James Ready in a student-oriented manner.

“I know we are promoting James Ready, but we’re doing it in a manner that abides by the rules … we’re all students at Queen’s, people like to drink, but we’re all adults and we can make our own decisions,” he said.

James Ready representatives gave away 130 pumpkins in the promotional event yesterday.

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No additional cost for AMS ASUS voters list was sent late to VoteNet, Preston said. This year, didn’t match their Net IDs. the list had to denote a student’s The error resulted from a mistake international or domestic status, made by VoteNet Solutions, said and this extra process resulted in AMS Commissioner of Internal miscommunication, Preston said.

Affairs Mark Preston. The AMS It’s the first time the AMS is responsible for faculty elections has had an issue with VoteNet and hired VoteNet Solutions to Solutions, he said. conduct the online voting.

“I would say in the grand scheme Preston said the company was of things, it’s pretty minor. We lost provided with an excel file of the maybe 12 hours.”

ASUS voter list.

Preston said the error with the “For this election one major Net IDs didn’t risk students’ privacy. thing went wrong. The usernames “The only problem that it posed didn’t correspond with the was for instance if a fourth-year webmail [addresses,]” Preston, got a first-year student’s email, ArtSci ’11, said. they would be voting in a first-year The error occurred because the specific question,” he said.

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The error also didn’t mean an additional cost for the AMS. “Any costs we incurred with the sort of flawed ballot they put in they’ve covered and sort of taken off our books,” he said. “One thing that I can really appreciate is that they admitted a flaw and really put in a lot of resources into hammering out a solution.”

Votes cast on the original ballots were discounted and the new voting period began at midnight on Wednesday, running until 6 p.m. on Thursday.

The rector elections, which also began Tuesday, were unaffected by the error.

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NEWS IN BRIEF Queen’s ranked number one Queen’s took first place in the 2011 university report conducted by the Globe and Mail. The annual report, released this month, had Queen’s ranked first in five categories. There are a total of 19 indicators.

Queen’s achieved the most ‘A’ grades for small, medium, or large universities, receiving three ‘A’s, one ‘A+’ and two ‘A-’s.

The University placed first in categories including student satisfaction, reputation with employees, buildings and facilities, career preparation and libraries.

The Globe and Mail issues a survey of approximately 100 questions to compile their ranking.

33,000 current undergraduate students were surveyed this year.

This is the second consecutive year that Queen’s has ranked first in the survey.

— Savoula Stylianou

researchers get new funding Four Queen’s researchers have been awarded a combined total of $4.7 million in funding under the Canada Research Chairs program.

Colin Funk and Zongchao Jia of biomedical and molecular sciences, Guojun Liu of chemistry, and Wolfgang Rau of physics, engineering physics and astronomy, were given the chair titles.

The researchers are part of 2,000 chairs that are given funding under the federal government program.

With the funding, Funk and Liu are renewed as Tier 1 Chairs, each receiving $200,000 annually for the University over a seven-year period.

Jia has become a new Tier 1 Chair and Rau is renewed as a Tier 2 Chair, receiving $100,000 annually for Queen’s over a five-year period.

— Cole Davison

ethics course goes global Researchers across Canada are now using an online educational tool originally developed at Queen’s in 2006.

The ethics program comprises of eight modules and requires four hours to complete.

The Course on Research Ethics (CORE) teaches ethics to researchers whose work requires human participants.

It replaced the Course in Human Research Participant Protection (CHRPP.) The new course was created with the hope of deviating from traditional teaching methods.

The program now has over 10,000 users in 40 institutions across Canada.

— Cole Davison

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The University’s failure to provide an accessible entrance to the CFRC offices is shameful and should be remedied immediately.

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CFRC needs a lift

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FRC volunteer Louise Bark be found to pay for the lift. If has been unable to access implementing the lift means the radio station’s space, in the running a deficit, then so be it. This basement of Carruthers Hall. is an essential need that requires Bark uses a wheelchair and immediate attention.

The Queen’s Accessibility previously entered the offices with help from her colleagues, who Committee referred Bark to would help her down the stairs in Accessibility Queen’s, an AMS group, after the University a manual wheelchair.

In Nov. 2010, CFRC spoke to decided funding was unavailable.

Queen’s Accessibility Committee This decision signals a deflection about the building’s lack of of responsibility that shouldn’t accessibility and Bark was told that have happened.

Volunteers make significant her method of entering Carruthers Hall was a liability. Bark was told a contributions to the University and mechanical lift would be installed, to CFRC in particular. They need and even tested the device this to be appreciated for their service spring, but the project has been and accommodations should be made as needed. To promise action delayed indefinitely.

The University’s failure to and then do nothing is a poor provide an accessible entrance to showing from the University.

Given the historic nature of the CFRC offices is shameful and many campus buildings it’s likely should be remedied immediately.

Freedom from discrimination that accessibility is an issue in on the ground of disability is places other than the basement guaranteed in the Ontario Human of Carruthers Hall. The University Rights Code. By extension, this should conduct an audit of campus means the University has both buildings and proactively alter any a legal and moral obligation to spaces that are inaccessible for ensure that every campus building community members.

Accessibility is an issue that’s is fully accessible.

The proposed lift costs often championed, yet in this case approximately $16,000, it was ignored. A chance for the but Ann Browne, associate University to take significant action vice-principal of facilities, told the has turned into an embarrassment.

Journal via email that there isn’t The best course of action now is for Queen’s to step up and salvage enough funding.

With a multi-million dollar the image that administrators try so budget, $16,000 can surely hard to project.

Social Issues

Costume controversy A

s Halloween approaches, a campaign on campus is targeting culturally insensitive costumes. Each poster shows a student holding an image of a Halloween costume that is racially or culturally offensive.

For example, one poster depicts a Muslim student holding an image of a terrorist costume while another shows an Asian student holding a photo of a woman dressed as a Geisha.

The campaign — which carries the taglines “We’re a culture not a costume” and “This is not who I am, and this is not okay” — was started at Ohio University by a group called Student Teaching Against Racism. The AMS Social Issues Commission (SIC) brought the posters to Queen’s.

Social Issues Commissioner T.K. Pritchard said the poster program was adopted after many community members brought it to his attention. Pritchard said it was a proactive attempt to combat potentially offensive costumes this Halloween.

Reducing someone’s entire cultural identity into a caricature is offensive. There’s no reason to hurt others while dressing up, and trying to have fun.

Simple naïveté is part of the problem, and the campaign will be useful in helping to engender thoughtful consideration when choosing a Halloween costume.

While many people who wear costumes to parody a stereotype don’t have malicious intentions, the implications of these costumes are often overlooked. The nature of Halloween allows for characterization. Dressing as a character is acceptable, but portraying an ethnicity or culture isn’t.

Some argue that those who are offended by a Halloween costume need to build a thicker skin, but this point of view is flawed. It isn’t the responsibility of observers to try to ignore the way an offensive costume makes them feel.

The campaign has inherent problems because it’s difficult to draw a hard and fast line around what is offensive. For example, do police officers have the right to be offended on Halloween because their profession is often sexualized in costumes?

The best course of action is for each individual dressing up to stop and think before stepping into a costume. Consider what affect a costume could have.

The SIC’s mandate includes educating and creating discussion among the student body on social issues. Hopefully this poster campaign will make people think twice and force students to be creative on Halloween and not offensive.

Jessica Munshaw

Less than friends F

acebook allows us to reconnect with old friends, maintain long-distance relationships and post ridiculous comments on our roommates’ walls — even if they’re sitting only two feet away. It’s also a place where endless hours are wasted sifting through album after album of friends’ photos.

When you think about it, this behaviour is genuinely creepy, illustrating Facebook’s greatest flaw. It allows us to spend hours ogling the photos of people we hardly know.

It’s for this reason that we need to better qualify our friends.

In my eyes, there are two types of friends in this world: the kind you meet up with in real-world time to have real-world conversations with, and Facebook friends. Surprisingly few people fall into both categories.

According to Facebook, I have 594 friends. While I could flatter myself and accept this as true, my good sense says otherwise.

In reality, I talk to a fraction of those people regularly. I’m not even aware of the identities of many of my Facebook friends. It’s not necessary to have access to the photos of random acquaintances and even strangers.

There are several species of the Facebook friend, but this list isn’t exhaustive: there are the aforementioned real-world friends, the friends you met once at a party and bonded with as a side effect of alcohol and, my personal favourite, the random friends whose requests you accepted for no reason.

It’s puzzling when someone, who I’ve never talked to before but with whom I have some mutual friends, decides to add me on Facebook.

What sparked their interest?

Why me? Why now?

Maybe they heard about me and thought I sounded pretty great, or maybe they just wanted to creep my pictures. What’s unsettling is that more often than not, I think it’s the latter.

People’s popularity shouldn’t be measured according to the number of their Facebook friends, but in reality this is often the case. I’ll admit that upon noticing someone’s friend count resting in the 50 to 100 range I’ve cast some unreasonable judgements. You may not want to admit it, but you probably have too.

Taking action on this issue, I’ve decided to go through and purge my Facebook friends list. If you don’t make the cut, please don’t take it personally, you probably won’t even notice anyways.

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Perspectives from the Queen’s community

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Queen’s needs to rethink the way it delivers engineering education in order to pave the way for the rest of Canada.

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Should Queen’s use free open-access scholarly journals?

Queen’s Faculty of Applied Science needs to increase focus on design-based solutions in order to equip graduates for the job market

“Free journals might be of lesser quality than the paid ones Queen’s subscribes to.”

N icholas Wesley -J ames , S ci ’11, A rt S ci ’12 The spirit of any post-secondary Engineering program, Queen’s included, is design-based.

We’re told that as engineers, we’ll be required to find creative and innovative solutions to problems and that our education will help us gain the skills and knowledge necessary to succeed in the workforce.

In reality, the Engineering program fails to prepare students to become actual engineers.

Innovation is discouraged, as is creativity.

Design, a concept that is paramount in many engineering jobs, is barely touched on.

Instead, the faculty at Queen’s focuses almost solely on mathematical and technical proficiency.

After graduation, many students are only qualified for basic jobs that apply existing solutions.

These students lack the ability to design unique solutions to any type of problem. It seems ironic that a program meant to teach the design of creative solutions does the exact opposite.

It’s not just that creativity and innovation aren’t taught — these concepts are, in fact, systematically discouraged.

Students are tested rigorously and repeatedly on questions with only one possible answer.

There’s little, if any, room for a creative solution.

How often do Engineering students take risks to solve a problem? Virtually never. Ask those same students how many times they’ve memorized a step-by-step solution, though, and the answer is the opposite.

It’s a strange phenomenon.

We’re told to think outside the box, but the nature of our coursework requires us to think very much inside the box.

The process of design is, at least in my time at Queen’s, barely taught. Students learn the math behind an existing solution only to move onto a more complicated solution.

Rarely, if ever, are students asked to design their own solutions from scratch — a skill that is critical in any real-world engineering job.

Rebecca Clarke, ArtSci ’11

“It’s worth the money to subscribe.”

Elliott Rubin, ArtSci ’13

According to the Engineering and Applied Science website, the Integrated Learning Centre aims to “support new and exciting initiatives in undergraduate engineering.”

That being said, Queen’s Engineering students do have some opportunities to think creatively.

For example, there are various design teams and competitions available to Engineering students that allow for creativity and innovation.

The problem is that these extracurricular studies aren’t requirements to earn an Engineering degree.

Students should be given questions with more than one answer, and creativity should be rewarded, not punished.

Another design opportunity offered to Engineering students is a mandatory design project in fourth year. The potential of this exercise isn’t fully realized, however, as the focus tends to be simply the process of completing a project, not the actual design or creativity of the project itself.

Of course, there are valid reasons for not stressing the core principles of design and innovation in an Engineering program. First, proficient knowledge of math and sciences are important, and engineers are expected to be competent in these areas.

I agree that students should be taught these fundamental

skills — I just don’t think they should be the central end-goal of an engineering education.

Limited resources also factor in to the structure of the Engineering program. It’s much easier to mark a question that has a single correct answer compared to open-ended questions that encourage creative thinking.

Marking 30 different critical answers is significantly more difficult and time-consuming than marking 30 answers true or false.

In addition, the art of design is inherently a back-and-forth process that would require more faculty-to-student interaction. This is made difficult in a time of high student-to-faculty ratios.

Designing questions that test required material in creative ways also challenges instructors’ test-making abilities.

Despite these constraints on the Engineering program, we should expect more. The problem isn’t just at Queen’s — it’s Canada-wide.

In today’s dynamic globalized world, basic skills and technical competency will be purchased from the cheapest source, such as China and India.

Those are the skills that are currently being taught in engineering classrooms at Queen’s.

What is truly in demand, and where Queen’s should be placing its focus, is on original thinking and interdisciplinary problem-solving.

Photo by Justin Chin

The ideal engineering degree would be taught like a liberal arts degree. In the arts, students learn how to think critically and apply knowledge and information.

The process of design should be taught alongside applied science and mathematics, incorporating a back-and-forth process similar to that of writing an essay. Students should be given questions with more then one answer and creativity should be rewarded, not punished.

The implications for these faults at Queen’s — and in other Canadian engineering programs — are vast. If we don’t begin to teach graduates how to take technical proficiency in math and sciences and apply these skills to real-world situations — often where there are multiple solutions of varying complexity — we risk falling further behind programs in other countries.

Top-tier programs in the US, for example, have been able to teach their engineering students the design and creative skills necessary to become global leaders in a knowledge-based economy.

Queen’s needs to rethink the way it delivers engineering education in order to pave the way for the rest of Canada. If we don’t, our Engineering program is at risk of becoming irrelevant.

HAVE AN OPINION? Submit a letter to journal_letters@ams.queensu.ca

“With increasing class sizes, open access is just another hit to the quality at Queen’s.”

Joanna Plucinska, ArtSci ’12

“I require access to high-quality journals for my program.”

Malvika Dasani, ArtSci ’13

“Queen’s needs to come up with better alternatives than open-access journals.”

Kaiden Bogler, ArtSci ’15

Have your say.

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Festival Preview

Zine affair

Arts

The third-annual Zine Fair promotes independent press publications B y C aitlin C hoi Assistant Arts Editor The best way to get involved in zines is to make one, says the founder of the Kingston Zine Fair. Along with his passion, Bill Gillespie has invested his money into the event for three years.

He started the one-day showcase in 2009 to support the dwindling number of zine-makers in Kingston. Gillespie shifted his focus from creating his own zine to facilitating a place for other zinesters — makers, buyers and readers.

There’s a lot more “interest from zinesters

from out of town because they’re used to this kind of thing.

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— Bill Gillespie, founder of Kingston Zine Fair “The people who make [zines] don’t really have a place to put them,” Gillespie said. “They tend to leave town, so we lose that talent.”

According to Gillespie, there have been zines in Kingston since

Kingston Zine Fair founder Bill Gillespie (right) and Richard Tyo are two of four organizers of the annual event that will run at the Artel tomorrow.

he emigrated from Scotland in the late 1970s. He’s been to several major zine fairs across the province, including Canzine in Toronto and the Ottawa Small Press Fair, where he’s seen hundreds of different interpretations of the independent publishing method.

“There are some very political zines, there are some very apolitical zines,” he said.

Last year, the Levana Gender Advocacy Centre at Queen’s participated in Kingston’s Zine Fair for the first time — focusing on topics of sexual consent, queer identities, radical disability and rape culture. The gender advocacy organization bought another booth for this year’s fair. Full booths cost $10 and half booths are $6.

“There was a wide variety of materials that folks were promoting, ranging from political publications to comics, to collage, to poetry,” Levana co-ordinator

Vlada Bilyak told the Journal via email about last year’s fair.

Levana’s headquarters, located at the Grey House, house the only zine library on campus, with over 95 zines for sale or loan. Bilyak, ArtSci ’10, acknowledged that Kingston’s Zine Fair is small but said it serves a local interest in alternative forms of media.

Gillespie said turnout for the first Zine Fair was sparse. When it

launched in 2009, the fair hosted four vendors. This year, the event has 10 vendors from Kingston, Toronto and Ottawa. He said the event attracts around 100 viewers and customers each year.

“There’s a lot more interest from zinesters from out of town, because they’re used to this kind of thing,” Gillespie said, adding that events like Canzine and Montreal’s Expozine attract hundreds

What’s a zine?

photo by Justin Chin

of vendors annually. “There hasn’t been anything like this [in Kingston] … a lot of people still don’t know how to even pronounce ‘zine.’”

The DIY fair is held at the Artel, but the space isn’t big enough to accommodate the growing number of vendors participating in the event. Gillespie said they’ll likely need a larger venue for next year.

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The end product can vary in its look. A zine can be a handmade magazine — photocopied, hand-stitched, collaged or stapled together. It can also be a more elaborate small scale publication.

The key is to make the publication your own, Gillespie said.

Bill Gillespie said a zine is an independent publication with a DIY aesthetic. A zine-maker doesn’t have to answer to editors or advertisers and have complete control over their product.

Photo by justin chin

Interview

A nerve-wracking return PS I Love You is back in Kingston after a North American tour B y J anina E nrile Assistant Features Editor After touring North America for the last two months, you’d think PS I Love You would be happy to return home. But for Paul Saulnier and Benjamin Nelson Kingston is their hardest stop. “[Performances are] a little bit more stressful than on tour because

Next issue Behind the Artistic scenes A look at how an exhibit is put together in Union Gallery’s Main Space and Project Room.

Rock Poetry The Montreal-based folk singer Charlotte Cornfield is known for her emotionally raw lyrics, which she says are inspired by folk songs.

you have to play for your friends and family, which is kind of scary,” singer and guitarist Saulnier said.

Saulnier said this tour was emotionally exhausting, but it allowed the band to play tracks from Figure It Out, a recent collection of singles and EPs. Most notable on the August release is a duet, “Leftovers,” with pal Diamond Rings — the stage name of artist John O’Regan. Saulnier said he had written the music for the song, but was struggling with the lyrics.

“I couldn’t for the life of me come up with any lyrics, and I played it for [O’Regan] and he just sort of went with it,” Saulnier said.

“We kind of just sat together in Kingston and finished writing the song together.”

“Leftovers” was released digitally in February and physically in March. Most of the songs on Figure It Out are reworkings of past material.

“It’s actually not really anything new except for a couple of cover tunes,” Saulnier said. “We just wanted to have it out on one nice record for everyone to get while we went on tour.”

The band covers Madonna’s “Where’s the Party” and Rush’s “Subdivisions.” Other songs are from Saulnier’s time as a solo artist including “Facelove” and “Scattered.” The songs also appeared on the band’s 2010 release Meet Me at the Muster Station where Nelson’s drumming replaced Saulnier’s Casio drum machine from his solo days. The Figure It Out version of these songs premieres a less polished sound.

“Figure It Out sort of compiles a history of the band outside of our album,” Saulnier said. “It doesn’t really make a lot of sense when you compare it to our other releases.

“I’m leaving it up to the listener to figure things out for themselves.”

In time for Figure It Out’s release on Aug. 30, the band enlisted the help of friend Colin Medley to film the video for “Leftovers.” Medley travelled with PS I Love you on their tour this past spring.

“He documented a lot of that tour and he made a photo-book of his experiences too,” Saulnier said. “He also has tons of other footage ... I have no idea what he’s See Cooking on page 14

PS I Love You playing Wolfe Island Music Festival.

Photo By Corey Lablans

Interview

Clark’s crew The Ten O’Clock People are the new house band for Clark Hall Pub B y A lyssa A shton Arts Editor The Ten O’Clock People had only been a band for 10 days when they were named as the official house band of Clark Hall Pub. The band won the title in a Battle of the Bands competition last month. They’ve since played 10 shows at Clark. Clark’s marketing manager, Michaela Trelford,

said the idea for a house band came from the popularity of the pub’s Live Band Bingo event on Wednesdays. The pub’s bingo cards feature different actions the band can perform, which the audience marks off as they occur.

“We thought the addition would not only enhance the events we already hold, but allow us to offer a wider range of events to attract See Unexpected on page 13

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Art preview

Deceptively simple Annie Pootoogook’s exhibit, Kinngait Compositions, shows her view of an Inuit village

Kinngait Compositions displays a variety of images occurring within the Inuit home, including sexual and domestic moments.

B y M athieu S ly Contributor Annie Pootoogook’s Kinngait Compositions is adjacent to a Baroque Art exhibit in the Agnes Etherington Art Centre. Beside its neighbour, the collection of pencil crayon drawings can seem childish at first.

Intended as honest portrayals of her experience, the images are misleadingly simple. They speak of a dramatic change in the Inuit way of life, brought upon by western consumerism and culture.

Pootoogook is a contemporary Inuit

photo by jeff peters

artist from Kinngait, Nunavut. Kinngait Compositions, a series of drawings from 2001 to 2006, reflect Pootoogook’s Arctic community. The drawings show Kinngait through Pootoogook’s eyes — wildlife, Mounties, sex, happiness, tears and a rapidly westernizing Inuit community.

The scenes vary in emotion, switching from harsh realities to quaint moments at home. “Shooting a Mountie” depicts an Inuit man recoiling as his shotgun removes a fatal chunk of a police officer’s chest. “Erotic Scene — 4 Figures” is an orgy on the living See Arctic on page 14

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The Ten O’Clock people are James Gilbert (left), Colin Richards, Josh Wilson (standing centre), Sam Edwards and Alex Burnett (far right).

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Unexpected connections Coninued from page 10

a larger and more diverse crowd,” Trelford told the Journal via email.

She said the Ten O’Clock People’s broad range allows them to appeal to the diverse crowds at Clark.

“They can play a wide range of genres,” she said, “giving them the ability to play popular covers, which is what we need in an event like Live Band Bingo — yet they have their own sound that you can hear in their original songs.”

The band’s bassist, vocalist, guitarist and drummer, James Gilbert, said it wasn’t just the band’s talent that makes them a good fit for Clark.

“We’re drunk most of the time and so is the crowd,” he told the Journal via email.

Trelford said the band came with a loyal fan base when they started at Clark, but now the pub reaches capacity whenever the Ten

O’Clock People play.

“Clark patrons love coming out to see the Ten O’Clock People and the popularity of almost any event they play really shows that,” she said. “They really know how to draw a crowd and I think it’s because they love performing and the audience really responds to that.”

The band recently underwent a change when vocalist, guitarist and drummer Devin Clancy went on exchange to China for the semester, forcing the band to replace him with Colin Richards.

“Devin going on exchange was the best thing that ever happened to us,” Gilbert said. “Thank God he’s gone. No, it was very hard, we were really struggling to find someone to fill in for him on drums, and we went through a series of drummers before we found Colin through our mutual friend.

“It also sucked because Devin wrote great songs we would play,

but luckily Colin does too. The Ten O’Clock People could not exist without both of them.”

Gilbert said Clancy is welcome to rejoin the band when he returns next year.

“We miss him very much, and would really like him to play with us again,” he said. “If he doesn’t, we’ll beat him up and take his lunch money.”

In addition to Richards, the band has also added vocalist and bassist Josh Wilson and guitarist Alex Burnett. Gilbert said the band’s expansion led to an unexpected discovery.

“It turns out Colin and I are cousins,” he said. “We only found that out about a month ago, after we’d been playing for a few weeks already.”

The Ten O’Clock People play Clark Hall Pub every other Wednesday. They play the Mansion tonight at 9 p.m.

“I don’t think Kingston will ever be that big,” he said. “I’m hoping it’ll be something like the Ottawa Press Fair, something modest between 20 and 30 vendors.”

Gillespie and the Zine Board — the four-person council in charge of planning the fair — will apply for a grant from the Kingston Arts Council to finance next year’s event. For the last three fairs, Gillespie has covered all the expenses himself, including the cost of renting a venue and advertising.

Richard Tyo, the host of CFRC’s Free Radio, has handed out his zines at Zine Fair since the event’s inception. He said he sees it as a great opportunity to network with fellow zine lovers.

“It’s sort of a hub for people like that,” he said. “You get to share

your zines and you get to meet the people that actually get them.”

It takes him an average of a week to finish a zine — delicate palm-sized leaflets containing songs, poems and collages. Tyo often gets donations of around $5 for his work.

But he doesn’t do it for the money.

“It’s just my creative outlet,” he said. “The whole getting published in a magazine thing, I haven’t really tried per se, but it’s easier to just type it up on a type writer, print it out, and hand it to strangers.” “[The point of Zine Fair] is to give zine makers a place to show their zines to people who might want to read them,” Gillespie said.

The third annual Kingston Zine Fair will take place tomorrow at the Artel from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Richard Tyo makes collage zines of poetry, songs, stories and images.

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room carpet. The exhibit isn’t just reflecting Pootoogook’s life, but her perspective as an artist.

Pootoogook’s work has always focused on the Kinngait community. In 2006, she won the Sobey Award for Contemporary Canadian Art. The heart of the show is a documentary-style video by Annette Mangaard called “Riding Light into the World.” The movie follows the activities of the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative, now known as the Kinngait Co-op. The co-operative develops, produces and markets the fine art of its Inuit

artist-members.

On the website for the group’s Toronto marketing office, it says, “When artists work with other artists, the creative process is taken for granted. At the Kinngait Studios, this creativity has been channeled into the making of images that represent the Inuit way of life.

We Southerners call it art, but interestingly, there is no equivalent word in Inuktitut.”

According to the post, the word often used in Inuktitut for art is isumanivi, meaning “your own thoughts.”

In a way, the exhibit is organized along this very idea.

When you walk through the

gallery, you’re walking through Pootoogook’s thoughts.

“Pootoogook’s work risked being overlooked, dismissed as not-Inuit-enough,” Jan Allen, the Chief Curator/Curator of Contemporary Art at the Agnes, wrote in the exhibit’s catalogue.

But a deeper look at this artwork reveals the changing world of an Inuit artist.

Annie Pootoogook’s Kinngait Compositions is on display at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in the Contemporary Feature and Davies Foundation Galleries until Dec. 11.

Paul Saulnier is a fixture in Kingston having worked at the Sleepless Goat for seven years.

Photo By Corey Lablans

Cooking hangouts Continued from page 10

Before entering the exhibit there’s a warning sign telling audiences of the explicit content seen in the pictures, including nude drawings of men and women.

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going to do with it, and I’m scared of it.”

The video features Saulnier cooking a meal for Nelson and O’Regan.

“It was a simple, sort of fun night of all those friends hanging out,” he said. “[Medley] combined it with footage [from] about two dozen different concerts strung together of us playing that song every night.”

Now back in Kingston, Saulnier doesn’t have much reason to indulge in the vegetarian food that he calls his specialty. Instead he favours eating at the Sleepless Goat, where he did a co-op for

seven years.

“I used to make all the desserts there,” he said, “So that’s probably my favourite place.”

But returning home isn’t about comfort food and relaxation for the duo. The band is working on a new album.

“We’re about halfway done on another record, and the record will hopefully come out by the spring,” Saulnier said. “We’d like to take some time and just hang out in Kingston and record some songs.

“It all happens in Kingston.”

PS I Love You plays the Grad Club tomorrow night. Doors open at 9 p.m.

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From left to right: Men’s volleyball fifth-year players Michael Amoroso, Dan Rosenbaum, Bryan Fautley, Joren Zeeman and Niko Rukavina.

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Volleyball veterans want gold The Journal sits down with the five fifth-year players ahead of men’s volleyball’s season opener tonight B y G ilbert C oyle B enjamin D eans Sports Editors

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The national men’s volleyball championship at Queen’s will mark the end of an era for of five fifth-year players.

In 2007, head coach Brenda Willis brought in six recruits — setter Dan Rosenbaum, middles Michael Amoroso and Will Bulmer, and outside hitters Bryan Fautley, Niko Rukavina and Joren Zeeman. With the exception of Bulmer — who left after two seasons because of illness — they’ve been the team’s core players for the past three seasons.

The group peaked in the 2009-10 season, winning an OUA gold and earning a fifth-place finish at the CIS championship in British Columbia. But the 2010-11 squad couldn’t overcome injuries to Rosenbaum and Rukavina and fell to the McMaster Marauders in the OUA semifinal. Rosenbaum, Fautley and Rukavina are still dealing with long-term injuries, but are hoping to play at nationals next March.

By bringing in five rookies

this season, Willis is preparing for the next era of men’s volleyball at Queen’s. But right now, her focus is on her last shot with the current era.

The Journal’s Sports section sat down with the team’s fifth-year five — Amoroso, Fautley, Rosenbaum, Rukavina and Zeeman — to reflect on the past four seasons and look ahead to the fifth one.

How did you all decide to come back for a fifth-year?

Rukavina: There was a mindset for all of us coming into first-year that we were going to stay for five years.

Amoroso: As soon as we solidified that we were going to host nationals, it was pretty much set it in stone.

Fautley: I was on a four-year plan until halfway through third year. Then, I switched to a five-year plan once Brenda confirmed we had nationals.

What’s it like to spend five years with the same core group?

Rukavina: It’s a pretty ideal situation for a team to have five core guys who all play different positions. The line-up has been set for a while now. It’s nice for a team to build that way.

Rosenbaum: It’s fun to see the big class of rookies who are here right now. It makes us think back to when we showed up and what the older guys probably thought of us at the time.

Was it intimidating to come in as rookies?

Rosenbaum: I loved it. When I came in, there was a three-time all-Canadian setter [Devon Miller] in my position and I knew I’d be trying to fill those shoes. It was an awesome thing for me — trying to soak up everything I could from him.

Fautley: These rookies really haven’t come in with too much of an intimidation factor. They’re in the same boat as we were, eager

men’s soccer

Gaels fall in shootout Men’s soccer can’t score with extra man against Laurentian B y B enjamin D eans Assistant Sports Editor The men’s soccer team ended their season with a shootout loss to the Laurentian Voyageurs in the

first round of the OUA playoffs on Wednesday.

The Gaels tied both regular season games against the Voyageurs.

Wednesday’s game was tied 1-1 after 90 minutes, but the playoff

needed a winner.

After playing 30 scoreless minutes of overtime, the Voyageurs prevailed 5-4 in the shootout.

In the shootout, every penalty kick was converted until the

and ready to learn.

Rukavina: There’s so much you can gain from playing with guys at a higher level. When we were in first year, just watching some of the older guys play and talking to them helped so much. I’m sure that the younger guys on our team are doing the same thing.

Does this year’s group of rookies remind you of yourselves?

Amoroso: I’ll just have flashes of first year when we were in the same situation when you’re coming in wide-eyed. You don’t really know what’s going on but you think you [do]. They’re definitely a talented group. At the same time, the jump from high school to university is pretty big.

Fautley: The nice thing is that they seem to be pretty receptive.

They’re soaking it up and improving at a very quick rate.

They’ve developed a really cool rookie culture too.

How has coach Brenda Willis contributed to the team dynamic?

Rosenbaum: Brenda’s got a different style of coaching. From day one, the older guys said “Brenda’s not going to be the drill-sergeant type coach who’s going to run you if you make mistakes.” So that focus and that drive comes from within the team.

In that respect, it brings guys closer.

How does the annual trip over winter break affect the team?

Amoroso: Our first and second year, we were in Florida. In third year, we went to Holland and

Amoroso: Brenda recruits by eras. So this would be our era and when we came in there was an See Last on page 17

Voyageurs missed their fourth shot.

With the Gaels up 4-3, fifth-year captain Jordan Brooks missed the game-winning kick — the Voyageurs converted their last attempt to tie it 4-4.

In the sudden-death round, Gaels striker Eric Koskins’ hit the goal post and bounced wide. The Voyageurs scored on the next shot to oust the Gaels and advance to the quarter-final.

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Rukavina: It was probably ideal for us to do [the trip to Europe] in third year. We were more or less the older guys on the team and it was a really good bonding experience.

Fautley: Brenda’s the first person to advocate for a team trip or a team bonding session. Those sorts of experiences get us to come together and have a really strong team culture.

can’t die for a “fewWeminutes at a time during a game. ”

Goalkeeper Dylan Maxwell holds his head after the Gaels’ shootout loss to the Laurentian Voyageurs in an OUA playoff game on Wednesday.

Germany and last year, we were in British Columbia. This year we’re going back to BC to scrimmage with Trinity Western, who won nationals last year. That period has always been team time.

— Dylan Maxwell, men’s soccer goalkeeper

In regulation play, Voyageurs striker Davor Alisic opened the scoring midway through the second half. Two minutes later, Voyageurs defender Patrick Smoke was given See We on page 19

Inside Yates Cup Journal staff debate the OUA football playoffs. page 16

Volleyball preview Gilbert Coyle examines the women’s team’s chances. page 17

Title Quest Emily Lowe previews women’s soccer playoffs. page 18

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B y G ilBert C oyle Sports Editor

B y B enjamin d eans Assistant Sports Editor

B y j aKe e dmiston Editor in Chief

On Sept. 22, McMaster Athletics suspended Marauders’ quarterback and captain Kyle Quinlan for three games after he was charged with two counts of assault against a police officer and one count of assault for his part in a brawl at a campus bar.

With their best player sidelined, critics expected the Marauders to fold — instead, they haven’t stopped winning. McMaster beat three teams without Quinlan and then destroyed three more upon his return. They ended the regular season on a six-game winning streak, finishing the regular season 7-1 and clinching a first-round bye.

They currently sit third in Canada.

The Marauders’ offence can score however and whenever it wants.

Quinlan averaged over 341 yards per game to lead CIS quarterbacks, kicker Tyler Crapigna led the CIS with 18 field goals and receiver Gary Spearo returned kicks for a total of 137 yards and one touchdown in a 51-24 win over the Ottawa Gee-Gees on Saturday. If their defence shows up to play, the Marauders will outscore their opponents.

McMaster’s only hiccup was letting the Western Mustangs run for 330 yards in a 48-21 win. But since then, the Marauders have held opponents to less than 200 rushing yards in six straight games. They learned to win close games without Quinlan — now that he’s back, they’re crushing teams.

The Queen’s football team has everything it needs to win the OUA final on Nov. 12.

After an 0-2 start to the season, the Gaels have turned into a defensive juggernaut that doesn’t give up points. They’ve gone an entire season without allowing a rushing touchdown, posting two shutouts along the way. Head coach Pat Sheahan can count on his defence to allow less than 15 points against any offence.

To win playoff games, they’ll need quarterback Billy McPhee to avoid throwing interceptions and running back Ryan Granberg to reach 150 yards every game.

The Gaels have become better at executing that game plan of late — they haven’t turned the ball over in their last two games.

They’re on a six-game winning streak and all their key players are healthy.

As much as it grieves me as the owner of a Wuck Festern T-shirt — I’m taking the Mustangs.

Western’s a lock. They’ve consistently placed in the top two in this season’s national rankings and only dropped to third after losing to the Gaels last weekend. The Gaels’ late-season upset has sparked some undue debate on the top contender for the Yates Cup. It seems the CIS analysts controlling the national rankings weren’t aware that Western fielded their second stringers. Shrewd judgement from head coach Greg Marshall saw Western sit eight regular starters in the 37-0 loss.

They sacrificed a perfect season to rest key players and avoid major injuries.

If the Mustangs are healthy, they won’t lose. Their top players won seven straight games to clinch first place with a game to spare.

At full strength, the Mustangs have the strongest rush offence in the country, averaging over 291 yards per game. Running back Nathan Riva, has been a powerhouse for the last two seasons — and he’s not even their top guy. Rookie Tyler Varga leads the CIS with 15 rushing touchdowns and is running for 114 yards per game.

The Mustangs offence isn’t one-dimensional. When teams look to shut down the run, fourth-year quarterback Donnie Marshall can burn them — if he’s healthy. Marshall sprained his ankle earlier this month against the York Lions. But before the Oct. 1 injury, fourth-year Marshall proved himself as a leader who’s comfortable in the pocket.

they learned to win close games without Quinlan — now that he’s back, they’re crushing teams.

The Marauders will play Queen’s, Ottawa or Windsor when they host an OUA semifinal. They’ve already beaten all three teams on the road this season — including a 26-2 dismantling of the Gaels at Richardson Stadium on Sept. 5.

They’ll beat any of those teams again on home turf after a two-week break.

The Marauders will likely play an injured and struggling Western team in the Yates Cup. Even before eight starters sat out last week’s 37-0 loss in Kingston, a healthy Mustangs squad only beat the University of Toronto Varsity Blues 21-9 on Oct. 15 and relied on a last-minute interception to defeat the Guelph Gryphons 33-29 on Oct. 8. These Mustangs aren’t the same team that beat McMaster on Sept. 10.

The McMaster Marauders have already overcome adversity on and off the field this season. If they play to their potential, they’ll be lifting the Yates Cup on Nov. 12.

Sheahan can count on his defence to allow less than 15 points against any offence.

The team will host the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks in an OUA quarter-final at Richardson Stadium tomorrow. When Laurier visited on Sept. 17, the Gaels won 58-35.

They will easily beat the Golden Hawks again.

The Nov. 5 semifinal against the McMaster Marauders will be the team’s toughest matchup of the post-season. The Marauders beat the Gaels 26-2 at Richardson Stadium on Sept. 5. Quarterback Kyle Quinlan is back from suspension and their defence has averaged two interceptions a game.

And this time, they’ll be playing the Gaels in Hamilton.

But the Gaels will have momentum from a quarter-final win over the Golden Hawks. Top receiver Giovanni Aprile didn’t play against the Marauders in that Sept.

5 loss — with him in the line-up, their offence should overcome the Marauders’ defence.

After dispatching the Marauders, the Gaels won’t have a problem defeating Western in the OUA final. The Gaels’ defence is the best in Canada at stopping run-based offences like the Mustangs’.

The Mustangs were missing eight key starters when the Gaels blew them out 37-0 last weekend.

To beat the Gaels, the Mustangs will need all eight to be 100 per cent — that’s unlikely to happen.

The pieces are all coming together at the right time this season. The defensive line and running game are top-class, while the secondary and pass offence are hitting their stride at the right time. The Yates Cup is theirs for the taking.

At full strength, the Mustangs have the strongest offence in the country, averaging over 291 yards per game.

The McMaster Marauders are tied with the Mustangs for first place in the OUA and they’re Western’s only legitimate competition in the upcoming playoffs. But in the two teams’ last meeting, Western beat the Marauders 48-21 in Hamilton.

If Western’s competing, the Yates Cup will be hosted at TD Waterhouse Stadium in London.

The Mustangs haven’t lost at home since 2009. The Mustangs are a proven playoff team. They’ve been to every Yates Cup since 2007 and clinched a Vanier Cup berth last season.

I wouldn’t pick a racehorse because I liked the name. I’m picking one of the most reviled football franchises in the CIS because they’re going to win.

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Rookie season

Last shot Continued from page 15

entire era of fifth- and fourth-year guys who were there. The rookies are the next era.

What’s it like to start the season with injuries?

Women’s volleyball team preview

Rosenbaum: It’s strange. We all committed to this plan [to come back for a fifth year] and Last season, the women’s volleyball team we all expected to be on the floor together at finished third in the OUA East and lost in the end of the year. But it’s still a possibility. the first round of the playoffs. But without Amoroso: Before we came, none of us had veterans Katie Matthews, Colleen Ogilvie, Elyssa Heller and Lorna Button, it will be a ever had serious injuries. Coming in at 18, injuries never really crossed our minds. But rebuilding season in 2011-12.

Nine players from last season’s team Will [Bulmer] is a perfect example. It’s strange have left the squad and head coach Joely to have it all happen at once in this program.

Christian-MacFarlane has brought in 12 Zeeman: With the injuries, our newest rookies to fill the gaps. Leftside hitter Becky Billings is the team’s only fourth-year player. challenge is to integrate some of the younger The Gaels will look for leadership players into the line-up that’s on the floor. from Billings, libero Shannon Walsh and We had something going by third year. We’d setter Anna Pedjase. All three are first-time all learned the systems and started executing starters at their respective positions, so together. Now we’ve had to add in different Christian-Macfarlane will need younger personnel and that’s been a big challenge for players to contribute immediately. us. That’s what this year’s going to entail.

Rookies Shannon Hopkins, Aleesha Rong What’s it going to be like with nationals and Alexandra Heine are expected to already guaranteed? contribute immediately.

Christian-Macfarlane said she’s Fautley: Our team’s goal for this year is to been impressed by her younger players’ improvement rate through the do as well as we possibly can at nationals and pre-season. But she said she expects them to also to develop our rookies and our bench. have some early-season struggles as rookies When we lose possibly up to eight guys next year, we want to have a solid foundation adjust to the fast and physical OUA. There have already been growing to fall back on. With all the injuries, this is pains — the Gaels lost five straight games at the perfect opportunity to give them the the University of Montreal Invitational last exposure that they need so they can lead month. They dropped three of five at the next year.

University of Ottawa Invitational.

Rukavina: At the same time, we want to Christian-Mcfarlane said the team’s goal is to improve every game and to challenge earn our berth, not just have it be given to us. for a playoff spot. They’ll definitely improve We want to win OUAs. over the season — but a playoff berth is out Can you win nationals? of reach.

— Gilbert Coyle

Coach This is Christian-MacFarlane’s fifth season as the team’s head coach. This summer, she was an assistant coach with the women’s International University Sport Federation (FISU) team.

Key player Billings is the team’s oldest and most experienced player. Originally a libero, she’s quickly improving at leftside hitter.

Can’t-miss games Feb. 4 to 5 vs Western Mustangs and Windsor Lancers: If the Gaels are going to have a shot at the playoffs this season, it will come down to the last weekend of the season.

Rosenbaum: Brenda had a long-term plan for our class — to win an OUA championship in our third year, to win a first-round match at nationals in our fourth year and to medal in fifth year. We suffered a bit of a hiccup last year, but for the past few years our mindset has been “We need to have an opportunity to play for a medal at nationals.” That’s still a goal for the end of the season.

Amoroso: Teams [from Western Canada] have tough matches every week and they’re going to improve at a rapid rate, which is where our challenge comes in. Because [most OUA games] aren’t going to push us as much competitively as we would like them to, there’s going to need to be a lot more coming from practice from our own end to keep us competitive.

What do you want the legacy of your era to be?

Fautley: A national gold.

Coach This is Willis’ 25th season as Gaels’ head coach. She’s been named OUA coach of the year five times.

Key player Zeeman played in the International University Sport Federation (FISU) tournament this summer and plans to pursue a pro career in Europe.

Can’t-miss games

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Mar. 2 to 4 CIS tournament: Canada’s top eight teams will compete at the ARC for the national gold medal.

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Women’s soccer

Road back to nationals Women’s soccer starts playoff run against fourth-place Carleton Ravens on Sunday B y e mily l oWe Contributor The question of the 2011 season was whether the women’s soccer team could handle the pressure of being defending national champions. They responded by posting an OUA-best 13-1-2 regular season record.

The Gaels have a near-identical roster to last season. But they have an extra year of experience and several strong rookies this season.

On offence, the Gaels scored 46 goals in 16 games. Striker Jackie Tessier led the OUA with 12 goals. Captain Kelli Chamberlain broke into the league’s top 10 with eight.

OUA East MVP Riley Filion and rookie

striker Breanna Burton added six each on the season.

Fourth-year midfielder Angela Sullivan missed the entire season with a concussion but third-year Chantel McFetridge and OUA East rookie of the year Jessie De Boer have performed well in her absence.

The Gaels’ defence allowed 12 goals this season — only the second-place Ottawa Gee-Gees allowed fewer. Fifth-year goalkeeper Chantel Marson posted a league-high eight shutouts and 12 wins. Fourth-year defender Brienna Shaw — fully healed from the cracked ribs and separated shoulder she suffered in the FISU games this summer — played the last nine regular

OUA East MVP Riley Filion and the women’s soccer team host the Carleton Ravens in an OUA quarter-final on Sunday.

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‘We needed quicker play’ Continued from page 15

his second yellow card of the game for a handball and Laurentian was reduced to 10 men. Rookie striker Peter Christidis scored the ensuing penalty kick to tie the game.

The Gaels played the rest of regulation and the entire overtime with 11 players against Laurentian’s 10, but they couldn’t score. Goalkeeper Dylan Maxwell said Queen’s should have taken advantage of their extra man.

“We had 40 minutes of play with them down a man,” he said.

“You’ve got to put them away especially in extra time.”

Maxwell said the Gaels didn’t follow their game plan.

“We can’t die for a few minutes at a time during a game,” he said.

“It’s happened to us all season.”

The Gaels haven’t advanced to the OUA semifinal since 2007. But head coach Chris Gencarelli said the team has a bright future.

“We’re a young team and we have a lot of good young players,” he said. “We’re going to look to bring more quality players.”

— With files from Dylan Haber

a young team “andWe’re we have a lot of good players. ”

— Chris Gencarelli, men’s soccer head coach

“We needed quicker play, more one-touch and two-touch passing,” he said. “Guys were just holding onto the ball for way too long.”

In their final regular season game against Laurentian, the Gaels blew a two-goal lead late in the game. Maxwell said a lack of focus also led to the Voyageurs’ only goal First-year striker Peter Christidis scored the team’s on Wednesday. only goal against Laurentian on Wednesday.

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season games. The Gaels allowed only six goals when Shaw was an active member of the roster.

This season’s OUA playoffs will be more competitive than last season. The Wilfred Laurier Golden Hawks — who beat the Gaels in last season’s OUA final — won the OUA West with a 12-2-0 record.

The 12-3-1 Ottawa Gee-Gees finished only four points behind the Gaels and the third-place Toronto Varsity Blues are 1-0-1 against Queen’s this season.

All three teams are capable of ending the Gaels’ playoff run — but Queen’s will likely win their OUA semifinal to qualify for nationals without having to face any of them.

The first-place Gaels should only have to beat the 8-6-2 Carleton Ravens and the 8-5-1 McMaster Marauders to secure a spot at nationals in Montreal next month.

The women have been complacent several times this season, blowing a two-goal lead against the Toronto Varsity Blues on Sept. 25 and narrowly beating teams like the 1-13-2 Trent Excalibur and the seventh-place Royal Military College Paladins.

But an experienced squad with seven fourth and fifth-year players will step up for the big games.

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SPORTS IN BRIEF Women’s volleyball drops season opener The women’s volleyball team started their season with a 3-1 road loss to the Ottawa Gee-Gees on Thursday, falling 25-22, 17-25, 25-13 and 25-19.

The game was a rematch of last season’s OUA quarter-final, when the Gee-Gees knocked the Gaels out in straight sets.

The Gaels play the Royal Military College Paladins in their home opener tonight at 6 p.m. The Paladins are 1-1.

— Gilbert Coyle

The Gaels host the Carleton Ravens in an OUA quarter-final on Sunday at 1 p.m. on West Campus.

BIG GAMES tHIS WEEKEND Football quarter-final

Men’s rugby hosts Guelph

The football team hosts the The men’s rugby team finish Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks in the regular season against the an OUA quarter-final tomorrow Guelph Gryphons at Tindall at 1 p.m. at Richardson Stadium. field at noon on Saturday.

Women’s soccer starts playoffs

Volleyball home openers

The first-place women’s The volleyball teams host the soccer team host the Royal Military College Paladins at fourth-place Carleton Ravens in the ARC on Friday. The women’s an OUA quarter-final at 1 p.m. game starts at 6 p.m. and the on Sunday on West Campus. men’s game starts at 8 p.m.

Women’s rugby go for bronze

Men’s hockey at home

The women’s rugby team hosts the Brock Badgers in the OUA bronze medal match at Tindall field at 2 p.m. on Saturday.

The Gaels host the Ryerson Rams on Friday and the University of Toronto Varsity Blues on Saturday. Both games are at 7:30 p.m. at the Memorial Centre.

OUA rowing championship The men’s and women’s rowing teams compete for provincial titles in St. Catherines on Saturday.

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halloween

Pop culture costumes Find an alter ego with one of these six costumes from music and movies B y B rittany J ohnston Contributor It’s easy enough to throw together a conventional costume for Halloween and spend the night as a devil, zombie or witch. But those costumes lack the wit and that makes Halloween memorable.

Here are creative costume suggestions for those of you who find yourselves stumped.

Friday Though you can’t dress as a day of the week, Friday-inspired costumes are easy this year. To imitate Youtube star Rebecca Black, carry around a notebook with each day of the week written on it.

For added detail, list the mundane activities of your week. Black’s long, straight hair can be mimicked with a standard wig.

Katy Perry’s alter ego Kathy Beth Terry is another option.

Watch the video for “Last Friday Night” for inspiration. Crimped, 80s-style hair, a jean jumper and outrageous glasses are required.

Orthodontic headgear, made of tin foil glued to a coat hanger, will top off your costume.

Black Swan Captivate your peers as Natalie Portman’s Black Swan character Nina. For the base of this elegant but risqué costume you’ll need a black dance leotard, a black ballet skirt, white footed-tights and black ballet flats. Glue on feathers and a few jewels to the front of the leotard, and adorn your hair with a tiara. For makeup, use a white foundation. To replicate Nina’s haunting eyes, use black eyeliner to create a mask effect around the eyes. Add feather detailing with purple and green shimmer eye shadows.

LMFAO LMFAO was everywhere this year. To achieve their trademark look, wear a black or grey tank top and don a pair of animal print pants. For those too hot for clothes, whip off your snazzy pants to reveal a matching Speedo. If you have enough hair, tease it and style it like DJ Redfoo or invest in a wig.

For a group costume, get inspired by the “Party Rock Anthem” video. Wear black Keds, add some

bling and have one of the dance crew members wear a cardboard robot head.

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Lonely Island Nicki Minaj

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To complete the Lonely Island’s signature creep look, slick your hair to the side with gel, put on a pair of glasses, wear a grey suit with matching dress pants, a green tie and argyle socks. Then grow or draw John Waters’ pencil-thin moustache. For Nicki Minaj’s outfit, you can pick from a variety of her alter egos. Use a Lady wig, a pair of red glasses, candy-pink lipstick and a pink bow and you’re ready to “Get your knees flexin’ and your arms T-Rexin’ and do the creep.”

a quidditch team for the night.

Bridesmaids To channel specific characters, remember that round glasses and Become the hilarious Kristen a lightning bolt scar is key. Expose Wigg, Melissa McCarthy and the your inner nerd by frizzing your rest of the cast from Bridesmaids. hair for Hermione. All it takes Wear an over-the-top dress — to be a Weasley is red hair and a easily found at a thrift store — for deer-in-the-headlights expression. an authentic group costume. Have one friend dress as the bride.

Harry Potter This year marked the end of the Harry Potter film franchise.

But Potter nostalgia continues and stores are sure to be abundant with Harry Potter costumes. Get a group of friends together to wear the iconic black robes from Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw or Sytherin.

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Clockwise from top right: Pop star Nicki Minaj rocks pink hair, while ballerinas were featured in the film Black Swan. A disgruntled bridesmaid is a simple but hilarious costume choice.

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