The Queen's Journal, Issue 21

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Bands banned for term

news AMS to create new health and safety policy.

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B y K atherine Fernandez -B lance News Editor Queen’s Bands was suspended yesterday after controversial material was brought to university administrators.

After the announcement, the Journal received three years of pamphlets entitled ‘The Banner’ which were distributed to band members.

The pamphlets contained phrases like “I will rape you with a lamp” and photos of band members as “people with dicks in their mouths.”

Front page titles over the past three years included: “Mouth raping your little sister since 1905,” “Sucking the nipple and biting the tit since 1905” and “Perpetuating racial stereotypes since 1905.”

The pamphlets described The Banner as “our dirty gossip rag.”

On Sept. 17 2010, an issue of it warned first years not to misplace a copy.

“We poke fun at people who we think can take it,” a letter inside that September issue stated.

Inside the pamphlets were images of genitalia and pictures of animals and slugs under the headline “Beastiality’s Best…?”

Some of the pamphlets included the lyrics of Queen’s Bands songs, which contained phrases like “chew me, screw me, suck me, fuck me, yaaay Queen’s.” There were also heckling suggestions for the annual RMC and Queen’s hockey game, the Carr Harris Cup like “we hope you can shoot the Taliban better than you shoot the puck!”

Yesterday afternoon the Queen’s Bands Executive sent an email to bands members ordering them to destroy all hard copy or digital versions of the Queen’s Bands Songbook.

“Failure to do so upon receipt of this email will result in your immediate expulsion from Queen’s Bands,” the email read. “There will not be any discussion on this matter.”

At 5:30 p.m., Queen’s Bands met with the AMS Executive and several members of the University including Vice-Provost and Dean See Mid-January on Page 8

A sitdown with Toronto band The Darcys.

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Queen’s Bands cheerleaders perform during halftime at the Queen’s football game against the Western Mustangs on Oct. 22 at Richardson Stadium.

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Bus service on the decline

Womens’ soccer team wins historic national title. page 20

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Tricolour Express has decreased in sales since Megabus expanded B y S avoula S tylianou Assistant News Editor In the past two years, Tricolour Express has seen a 30 per cent decline in ticket sales.

The bus service is part of the AMS’s Tricolour Outlet, and operates routes to cities including Toronto and Montreal.

Last year, Tricolour Express brought in about a third of Tricolour Outlet’s overall revenue.

AMS retail services director Jeff Heenan said the Express was successful until 2009, when Megabus entered the Ontario student travel space. It was this year that Megabus expanded to Toronto and Montreal.

Ridership on the Tricolour Express has declined from 17,409 students in 2009-10 to 12,728 in 2010-11.

“It’s kind of a bizarre situation where our biggest partner in all of this is also one of our biggest competitors in all of this,” said Heenan, ArtSci ‘10.

Megabus is operated by Coach Canada, a company that partners

with Tricolour Express.

Heenan said he’s looked into other Heenan said that Tricolour ways Tricolour Express can meet Express ridership was down by 29 students’ travel needs. per cent to Toronto, 58 per cent “Obviously, cutting the Express to Montreal and four per cent would change the way that to Ottawa.

Tricolour’s budget looks, and it “The four per cent is probably would have an effect on our bottom because Megabus doesn’t have a line,” he said. “But, it wouldn’t direct route to Ottawa.” be an insurmountable obstacle If ridership continues to decline, See Express on Page 9

Looking at the cheating culture on campus.

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Res citations increase

Statistics show rise in Frosh Week alcohol offences in residence B y Terra -A nn A rnone J essica F ishbein Journal Staff

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Residence officials gave out 63 citations for alcohol use in Frosh Week this year, compared to the 55 handed out during Frosh Week 2010.

According to statistics rendered by a Freedom of Information

request, “Excessive Consumption of Alcohol” citations dropped from 24 offences during last year’s Frosh Week to 13 this year.

Residence officials split last year’s “Alcohol in Residence” citation category into “Open Alcohol in Residence” and “Underage Alcohol Use and Beer Bottles.”

Nine citations for “Underage

Alcohol Use” were given out and one offence for “Alcohol Purchase” or “Provision for Underage Residents” was issued. Both offence categories aren’t distinguished in the 2010 statistics.

Queen’s implemented a new policy for this year, banning alcohol from residence during Frosh Week, even if residents are of legal age.

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“It’s difficult to draw any conclusions after only one year of implementation of the Alcohol-Free Residence policy,” Arig Girgrah, assistant dean of student affairs, told the Journal via email.

“We do read the increase in documented offences related to alcohol use as a potential reflection of the greater diligence on the part of Residence Life staff to identify and dispose of alcohol during Orientation Week this year, as per the new policy.”

Girgrah cited increased attendance at Frosh Week events as a possible indicator of the Frosh Week alcohol ban’s effects. No plans to continue the ban have been announced.

There are three options in Kingston for students who overdo it when they drink.

Over 200 people visited Kingston General Hospital’s (KGH) emergency room last year for alcohol-related issues. Of them, 26 were under 19 years of age.

Cathy Edwards, public health nurse and co-ordinator of the Safe and Sober Community Alliance, said alcohol-related visits to the emergency room spike in September, as part of what she calls Homecoming syndrome.

Before its cancellation, Homecoming weekend cost the KGH emergency room $25,000 in resources.

In 2008, the Journal reported that Homecoming weekend brought 56 people with severe intoxication and other injuries to the emergency room at KGH. Other injuries included sexual assault, severe facial and dental injuries and physical assaults.

Though Edwards couldn’t give specific numbers, she said late September still sees spikes in alcohol-related ER visits, despite the Homecoming hiatus.

The hospital’s emergency room isn’t the only place students can go after binge drinking.

If they’re not in need of medical attention, Kingston Police round up publicly intoxicated people for Hotel Dieu’s Detox Centre on Brock Street.

The centre’s director, Lisa

Dwyer said if an intoxicated person isn’t taken to jail, they’re brought to the Detox Centre to wait out the alcohol’s effects.

“The original idea was a detox centre was established to take people away from jail and put them in a safe place,” she said. “We’ve seen people as young as 14 and old as 98.”

People admitted to the Detox Centre must be ambulatory and coherent — able to walk alone or with little help and form responses to basic questions.

Dwyer, who also runs the Campus Observation Room (COR) said grunts will satisfy the coherency requirement.

She said there are some differences in the patients each facility sees.

students to “useWethewant services but we don’t want students to be drinking enough that they need to.

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— Kate Humphrys, co-ordinator of health education and promotion

“We don’t see the same level of intoxication at the Detox Centre that they see [at the COR],” she said. “Our folks are a little better at drinking, apparently.”

The Detox Centre accepts people on substances other than alcohol as well. A typical stay in the Centre is three to five days, Dwyer said, adding that people on opiate-based drugs will tend to stay longer.

Some people live in the 22-bed facility for long-term detox.

People at the COR, located in the basement of Victoria Hall, aren’t able to stay as long.

The COR opened in 1990 as a non-medical detox centre. It’s run by Health Counselling and Disability Services (HCDS) and has room for 12 students on an average night.

According to Kate Humphrys, co-ordinator of Health Education and Health Promotion at HCDS, most people admitted to the COR will spend the night being monitored instead of taking up space in KGH’s emergency room.

“On certain weekends we open a second room with 24 beds in total,” Humphrys said, adding that events like Halloween will call for two rooms.

The facility is available to current students. Humphrys said the COR’s busiest time is Frosh Week and the first few months of the school year.

The COR doesn’t operate for the full winter term because the demand isn’t there, she said.

Certain occasions will open COR doors, though. The first weekend of second semester and St. Patrick’s Day keep them busy, though Humphrys couldn’t disclose exact numbers.

There’s no wait to be admitted at the COR, Humphrys said.

In September, the COR is open from 8 p.m. to 7 a.m. In October, it’s open from 9 p.m. to 7 a.m. and for the rest of the semester, its hours are 10 p.m. to 7 a.m.

The COR takes calls from students concerned about a friend.

“We’ll get a phone call saying the person has passed out and the COR tells [the caller] to call Campus Security or call 9-1-1 themselves,” she said. “A common scenario is students pass out somewhere and the ambulance is just called there.”

If students can’t walk or form any type of response to basic questions, they are taken to KGH,

Humphrys said.

If they’re too intoxicated to walk, the COR will call for an ambulance, she said.

The COR calls Queen’s First Aid to give basic medical attention when necessary, but is quick to call the hospital if things get serious.

The injured student will be given a taxi coupon by COR staff or transported by ambulance, Humphrys said.

“We have people that come with suspected head injuries,” she said. “If there are any signs and symptoms, we err on the side of caution.

“We’re a non-medical detox centre. We’re very clear about that,” she said.

The COR also has one trained staff member from Hotel Dieu Hospital per 12 beds; they add another if the second room opens up for more people.

One to four student volunteers work in the COR. Humphrys said they won’t accept people on substances other than alcohol.

COR-trained volunteers check the breathing, temperature and the colour of patients’ skin every 20 minutes. Detox staff from Hotel Dieu supervise the student volunteers.

“It’s a more economical way than sending kids to the emergency room,” she said.

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A student’s personal information isn’t of concern to COR staff, Humphreys said, even if they’re found drinking underage.

“We don’t condone underage drinking … but we want students to watch out for their friends,” she said. “We keep someone out of the hospital that didn’t need to be there,” she said.

Most students are taken to the COR without putting up a fight.

“It’s not mandatory for them to stay overnight … but people are usually excited at the prospect of lying down,” she said. “When people have been drinking they’re not always the most reliable … but if someone is saying, ‘We don’t want to stay here,’ they’re not going to have to.”

The COR provides large buckets next to beds for vomit, and water is provided upon request.

Students get a wake-up call at 6:30 a.m.

“They’re assessed and fill out discharge forms before they go home,” she said.

Humphrys said the COR challenges attitudes about the University’s role in student safety.

“We want students to use the services, but we don’t want students to be drinking enough that they need to,” she said. “We don’t promote alcohol abstinence … we’re realistic.”

This year, the number of students seen by the COR hasn’t exceeded its capacity, she said. But if it did, students can refer to KGH or Hotel Dieu for help.

“Every student that needs help would get it at some point in Kingston,” she said.

Statistics released to the Journal yesterday show a rise in alcohol offences in residence during Frosh Week this year.

Students admitted to the Campus Observation Room must be able to walk alone or with little help from others as well as form semi-coherent answers to basic questions.

— With files from Jake Edmiston

Graphic by Corey Lablans

Photo by Corey Lablans

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Policy to review workplace safety Vice-president of operations Ashley Eagan said the policy will be presented in early January 2012 B y c atherine o WSiK Assistant News Editor The first AMS injury incident report of this academic year was presented to the Board of Directors on Nov. 3.

The report coincides with the creation of the AMS’s first official policy statement on health and safety, set to be finished in January.

AMS officials say details of the injury can’t be released according to the Occupational Health and Safety Act of Ontario but the incident occurred within the The AMS Pub Services (TAPS). Following Queen’s First Aid assistance, the employee returned to work the following day.

The current health and safety mandate within the AMS Operations, Financial and Administrative Manual hasn’t been updated since the 2007-08 academic year.

AMS vice-president of operations Ashley Eagan said the incident and new policy aren’t related.

“This year we plan on making a more formalized policy review schedule to make sure all policy manuals are reviewed on an annual basis rather than randomly,” Eagan said.

The new policy statement will enforce safety procedures, such as filing incident reports, and will put an emphasis on health and safety education.

Safety bulletins will be posted in

all AMS services informing about possible workplace hazards.

Eagan said the AMS began working on the new policy in May. It’s necessary for all AMS workers to file incident reports after an injury, to avoid legal repercussions, she said.

“Their first priority is to seek medical attention if they need it, and then to have their employer fill out the report with them,” Eagan said.

She said it’s problematic that the joint health and safety committee is responsible for creating and maintaining health and safety procedures for AMS services.

“The AMS as a whole needs to be a leader in [health and safety] and allow the health and safety committee to review the procedures in place rather than create them,” Eagan, ArtSci ’11, said, adding that the committee hasn’t changed any policies in recent years.

“Because of the fact that we turn over on an annual basis, unfortunately some things are overlooked.”

The health and safety committee is composed of one manager and one staff member from most AMS services, excluding media services. Eagan said she hoped to have media service representatives included in the committee.

“It’s important just in general to have everyone involved with safety, doesn’t matter which service you’re

working in,” she said.

The committee meets once a term and is responsible for investigating workplace injuries and inspections of AMS services.

Eagan said she’ll meet with the health and safety committee on Dec. 2 to discuss the policy’s logistics. It will be collaboratively written with a health and safety subcommittee and will be presented to the Board of Directors and AMS Assembly early January 2012.

“It’s our job as an employer to educate our staff on their rights to refuse unsafe work and this is something that AMS policy is silent on currently,” Eagan said.

After the incident was reported, the AMS considered implementing mandatory Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS) training for all AMS staff.

WHMIS is a national hazard communication standard that focuses on teaching the dangers and proper labels for hazardous commercial products.

Eagan said the AMS spoke to Dan Langham, director of environmental health and safety, and found that the AMS isn’t legally obligated to train employees because they don’t use any hazardous commercial materials.

She said Queen’s offers free WHMIS training, but that it didn’t fit in the AMS’s training schedule.

“Consumer products are

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AMS vice-president of operations Ashley Eagan said the AMS isn’t legally obligated to provide employees with WHMIS training.

exempted from WHMIS regulations,” Langham told the Journal via email, adding that they were mostly household cleaning products. “Different warning symbols and container labels is one of the biggest differences between the two systems.”

Langham said it was up to the AMS to decide what training and information is necessary to ensure their workers are safe.

“Household cleaning products tend to be toxic in larger quantities or corrosive,” he said.

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Two Faces of Mexico tour comes to Queen’s

Organization tries to bring awareness to poverty and economic woes in the Chiapas region of Mexico B y vincent M ataK Contributor A two-week tour, called The Two Faces of Mexico, addresses the protection of indigenous rights in the Chiapas region of Mexico.

On Nov. 15, María Estela Barco, head co-ordinator of Economic and Social Development of Indigenous Mexicans (DESMI), brought the tour to campus.

The group’s main focus is to develop the capacity for indigenous groups to respond to their own development and economic needs, while maintaining their cultural identity.

“It’s important to listen to the communities’ needs,” Barco said.

“There have been times where communities have refused government funding because they feel like their desires will be ignored and their cultures threatened,” she said.

DESMI holds workshops for community members to help individuals become better

farmers and profit more when selling their farm products.

Barco said the organization applies a methodology known as economic solidarity in determining how to develop the communities’ economies and strengthen individual potential. “[DESMI] acknowledges that different communities have different social and economic development needs,” she said.

According to the Horizons of Friendship website, 76 per cent of the Chiapas region population live below the poverty line. One third of indigenous men and one half of indigenous women in the area are illiterate.

Though the root cause of poverty and marginalization in indigenous communities is complex, Barcos said recent government initiatives are further threatening their culture and safety.

“President Felipe Calderon’s war on drugs constantly threatens the lives of civilians, including indigenous people,” she said. “This makes it hard for them to sustain economic

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María Estela Barco says communities in the Chiapas region of Mexico have sometimes refused government funding because they feel their cultures will be threatened.

progress in the community.”

The constant political and economic turmoil in Mexico makes DESMI’s work important for the preservation and livelihood of Chiapas peoples.

Barco said all indigenous people should

be involved in the development process.

“Many have received the message from the government that their indigenous cultures don’t have any value,” she said.

“That message should be reversed.”

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Prof evaluates tuberculosis testing in prisons

Study finds Canadian inmates have more latent tuberculosis infections than general population B y G ilBert c oyle Sports Editor There’s a more efficient way to treat tuberculosis in Canadian prisons, according to a review conducted by a Queen’s professor.

Dr. Wendy Wobeser, a medical professor and infectious diseases specialist, was invited

by Correctional Service Canada (CSC) to evaluate the effectiveness of Interferon Gamma Release Assays (IGRA) blood testing in identifying latent tuberculosis (TB) among inmates.

Correctional Services currently uses skin testing as the standard method to check for TB. According to Wobeser, nine per cent of Canadian inmates have latent TB infections, compared to three per cent of the general Canadian population.

People with latent TB aren’t infectious and don’t exhibit symptoms of the airborne disease.

If untreated, latent TB can develop into active TB over time. Symptoms of this typically include fatigue, chills and unexplained weight loss.

Wobeser said TB is an important concern in prison systems around the world.

“CSC already has a screening program in place for tuberculosis,” Wobeser said.

“But we wanted to see what the impact of using [IGRA blood tests] would be in terms of increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of the program.”

Wobeser said skin tests take 48 to 72 hours and require two separate appointments to complete. IGRA blood tests get taken directly to the laboratory in order to increase the odds of accuracy.

Skin tests are problematic because they

can’t always differentiate between a TB infection and Bacille Calmette Guerin (BCG), a vaccine used to prevent tuberculosis.

Results from Wobeser’s study show that the number of infected inmates is far less than the number indicated by the skin tests.

Wobeser worked with Paxton Back, MD ’13 and medical resident Ilan Schwartz to look at 100 inmates from Kingston’s Millhaven Institute, a maximum security prison for adult men. The 100 inmates had tested positive for latent tuberculosis infection through skin test methods.

They collectively determined that only 30 inmates tested positive under IGRA blood testing.

According to the findings, 70 of 100 inmates would have been put on twice-weekly treatment plan for nine months to cure infections they didn’t have.

Treatment requires visits to healthcare clinics.

Though skin tests involve putting the burden of treatment on people who might not even have TB, there’s a small chance that IGRA tests could miss someone who’s TB positive, Wobeser said.

IGRA tests have only been used to confirm infections found in skin tests, adding that it would require further study to “expand beyond that application.”

“In the future, there is potential that it will replace the skin test altogether,” she said.

“But I’m not advocating that at this time.”

Correctional Services director general of clinical services Kate Jackson said Wobeser’s review is just one of many factors CSC will take into account when determining its policy on TB. The CSC organized the Wobeser’s review with the aim of introducing the

IGRA test into their routine TB screening.

But Jackson said they can’t fully implement Wobeser’s findings because they aren’t definitive.

“We have to take into consideration more than just this one study,” she said. “Even

the results of the test don’t suggest that you only use IGRA.” Jackson said the CSC is also hesitant to integrate IGRA testing because it isn’t available everywhere in Canada and the CSC wants nation-wide consistency.

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Panel looks at veteran mental health Over 400 delegates attend forum at the Ambassador hotel Tuesday night B y c atherine h art Contributor

mental health care for veterans and their families. He said there’s a specific need to look at the Research on veteran mental health effects of Post-Traumatic Stress programs will save lives, according Disorder (PTSD).

PTSD symptoms include to Senator Romeo Dallaire.

Dallaire spoke at a panel on flashbacks, feelings of detachment mental health as part of the second and difficulty concentrating. annual Military and Veterans Health According to a recent article Research Forum that ran from published in the Toronto Star, between four and six per cent Monday to Wednesday. of Canadian Forces members Not all wounds are currently suffer from the disorder.

“Not all wounds are visible,” visible. Mental health Dallaire said in his address. “Mental at large, both garrison health at large, both garrison life life and operational and operational life ... is an injury life ... is an injury that that does not necessarily disappear with time.” does not necessarily Though his involvement disappear with time. in Rwanda ended 17 years ago, Dallaire still experiences PTSD and continues to take medication for it. Hearing things like his young — Senator Romeo Dallaire granddaughter crying can trigger The forum, held at the the effects of his disorder.

“As she started to cry [it] brought Ambassador Hotel, was hosted by the Canadian Institute for Military me back to the moment of seeing and Veterans Health Research, and listening to events of Rwanda,” an organization co-founded by he said.

Since the Second World Queen’s and the Royal Canadian War, Dallaire said the identity of Military College last year.

Dallaire was the UN’s soldiers has changed, referring to Commander of the Peacekeeping teenage female suicide bombers as Mission in Rwanda during the an example.

Because of this, the treatment of 1994 genocide. In 2005, he became veterans also has to adapt, he said. a Senator, representing Quebec.

“Is there a different angle to In his address to 425 delegates, Dallaire emphasized the importance meeting the female veteran? And of mental health research and the what about the family who has two need for appropriate long-term veterans,” he said.

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Though research on these topics is still in preliminary stages, Dallaire said it’s fundamental to saving veteran lives.

According to a Canadian Forces report, 16 per cent of their personnel have seriously considered suicide. The same document reports a Statistics Canada survey which found 2.2 per cent of men and 5.6 per cent of women in the Canadian Forces have attempted suicide.

that we “needWetobelieve pay more attention to what young people are telling us.

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— Peggy Shannon, chair of Ryerson University’s Theatre School

“Suicide is a reality,” he said.

“This injury can be terminal.”

Following Dallaire, Junaid Bhatti, from the McGill University Douglas Hospital Research Centre, spoke about increasing alcohol use in the Canadian Forces — 24 per cent of suicides by Canadian Forces members were alcohol-related.

Panelist Peggy Shannon, chair of Ryerson University’s Theatre School, spoke of the gendered use of Ancient Greek plays and poems to treat female veterans through drama therapy.

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Astronaut alumnus returns Drew Feustel’s second mission was the shuttle Endeavour’s last B y M eaGhan Wray Assistant News Editor

for that interest.” first launching was overwhelming.

Although Canada has a similar “It was about the time that they selection process, Feustel applied [counted] down back to 10 that Drew Feustel, PhD ’95, always to the U.S. space program at NASA. I realized someone was serious Feustel said it’s a standard about launching us into space,” dreamed that anyone could application process, requiring he said. “It’s something you really become an astronaut. never forget.”

“I always just had the dream credentials and advanced degrees.

“We typically have between Feustel hopes to contribute in that we would all be astronauts,” 3,000 and 5,000 applicants for some way to human life by being he said.

The first Queen’s alumnus in roughly 10 slots,” he said. “The an astronaut.

“It was important for me to get space shared his experiences as a reality is that your odds are better NASA astronaut to an audience becoming an astronaut than they involved to see if I could contribute to our existence in some way,” of more than 100 people in Grant are winning the lottery.”

In May 2009, Feustel worked as he said.

Hall last night.

In May, Feustel embarked on a member of the repair crew on the his second mission to space in Hubble space telescope. He said his the space shuttle Endeavour’s final flight.

Feustal earned a doctorate at Queen’s in Geological Sciences, with a specialization in seismology, the study of earthquakes.

As a gift to the school, Feustel brought back a Queen’s banner, which he took with him on his first mission in space.

The banner traveled 5.3 million miles and orbited the earth 197 times.

Feustel said as a Queen’s student, he’d hoped his degree in seismology would open up doors to working as an astronaut.

“I always had the notion in my mind that there might be some opportunities to do some mining on the moon,” he said. “The work that I did [at Queen’s] helped Queen’s alumnus Drew Feustel, PhD ‘95, gave the school PHOTO BY JusTin CHin provide some of the foundation a banner he brought to space with him on his first mission with NASA.

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Senator Romeo Dallaire speaks about mental health and the effects of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder on veterans.

“[It] represents an international opportunity to recognize and honour women’s service and for women to share their own unique stories,” Shannon said.

Patrizia Albanese, a sociology professor at Ryerson University, discussed how adolescents whose parents are deployed take on adult household responsibilities.

“We believe that we need to pay more attention to what young people are telling us,” she said, adding that the emotional

unavailability of some veteran parents can affect the mental health of children.

Rounding out the panel was Rohan Ganguli from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.

Ganguli said their provincially funded psychological trauma program doesn’t have involvement with the Canadian Forces, despite treating many of the same mental health issues veterans face.

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Mid-January deadline of inclusiveness,” Tierney said.

Human Rights and Equity of Student Affairs Anne Tierney to training will also be necessary steps discuss the situation and the next for the band to move forward, Tierney said, adding that the group steps for the group.

In an interview with the will meet with the University Journal Tierney said Queen’s mid-January to discuss the progress Bands material was brought to made on the action plan.

“We know how her desk early last week from an disappointing this is for them, it’s unknown source.

“It was material that included disappointing for us, the University, very offensive language, degrading it’s disappointing for the AMS,” and demeaning language and I’m she said. “Our hope and our whole goal is to put them on a pathway so not going to repeat it,” she said.

Tierney said after the material that we can continue the wonderful came to her attention, she met tradition of the bands participating with the bands executive, other in events at Queen’s.”

Queen’s Bands officials declined members of the administration and interview requests from the the AMS. “We then had told [the Journal yesterday.

In a statement issued last night bands executive] that we would have a letter out to them by by Queen’s Bands on the AMS Monday of the conditions and website, they said they “have consequences of what we saw taken responsibility for their and the results of that discussion,” prior actions.”

“We regretfully inform you she said.

Due to the suspension, Queen’s that our performances have been Bands won’t be appearing at events temporarily cancelled. Through for the remainder of the semester, this adversity, we expect to emerge including the John Orr dinner as a strong organization,” they said in the statement. occurring tomorrow night.

This isn’t the first time Queen’s “They’re going to be working on an action plan to ensure something Bands has received complaints like this doesn’t happen again and about their distributed content.

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that Queen’s Bands issued a letter of apology after flyers distributed for cheerleading tryouts contained lines like “Hotties wanted” and “Do you like this spread” in reference to a sexually suggestive photo.

AMS President Morgan Campbell said the decision to suspend Queen’s Bands was jointly made with the University administration.

“We also consulted with the Athletics and Recreation and the Advancement office because they’re the ones who invite the bands to represent Queen’s University at a lot of their events,” Campbell, ArtSci ’11, said.

“They were very supportive of the conditions that were placed upon the group.”

Campbell said the material was brought to the AMS’s attention by the office of student affairs.

“We were deeply concerned because one of the conditions for all groups who ratify with the AMS is that they buy into the AMS mission statement,” Campbell said.

The group will still receive funding from the AMS in full for the remainder of the academic year, Campbell said.

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Express makes up a third of Outlet’s revenue “We would pay Coach Canada and they would send us a commission,” Heenan said. “The profit from sales might increase.”

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to overcome.”

Heenan said the AMS’s three-year contract with Coach Canada expires in 2013.

“If we did move forward with something like that it probably wouldn’t happen for at least It’s kind of a bizzare another year, and probably two situation where our years, just based on our contract biggest partner in all of with Coach Canada,” he said. this is also one of our One option would be for biggest competitors in Tricolour Express to become a ticket agency, he said. all of this.

“You would still come into the store and get your tickets, but — Jeff Heenan, AMS retail instead of getting a Tricolour services director Express ticket, you would get a Greyhound or a Coach Canada or In April, the Journal reported a Megabus ticket,” he said.

If Queen’s were to adopt this that Tricolour Express planned to ticket-agency model, Heenan said, begin online ticket sales.

Heenan said this won’t be it would still be a priority to have happening in the near future. on-campus pickups.

Under the ticket agency model, Tricolour Express is the first agency Tricolour Express wouldn’t collect in North America to be using a new browser based portal brought revenue from ticket sales.

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in by Coach Canada.

“The new system is actually very similar to how you would buy tickets online, only it’s tweaked because you don’t put in your credit card information, you pay [Tricolour Express] in cash,” he said.

Tricolour Express was up by 5.8 per cent in revenue this September compared to last September’s revenue.

“Last year in September, it was $103,000. This year in September it was $109,000,” Heenan said.

The increase in ticket sales resulted from the new portal that allowed Tricolour Express to sell tickets further in advance, he said.

“In the past, we were only able to sell tickets a week before the departure date and now we can sell tickets 45 days before the departure date,” he said.

A Tricolour Express ticket to Toronto or Montreal is $40 and a ticket to Ottawa is $28.

Heenan added that students

probably bought tickets to go home for Thanksgiving in September. All Tricolour Express buses were sold out for the Thanksgiving weekend.

However, October and November have seen Tricolour Express sales decline.

“For the month of October, the bus was down about 10 per cent versus the month of October last year … I know that we’re down somewhat for the month of November,” Heenan said.

CAMPUS CALENDAR Friday, Nov. 18

Nighttime Santa Parade Princess St. 5 p.m.

Feminist Legal Studies Lecture: The Charter, Human Rights, Race, Sex and Immigration Macdonald Hall, room 202 1 to 2:30 p.m.

For more information visit: femlaw.queensu.ca

Queen’s LMFAO Party Rock Anthem Flash Mob Outside of Stauffer Library 3 to 4 p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 19

Tuesday, Nov. 22

Panel Discussion: Gadhafi and The Future of Libya Robert Sutherland Hall 3 to 6 p.m.

Workshop: Stress Management Gordon Hall, room 325A 4 to 5:30 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 20

Thursday, Nov. 24 Mental Health Issues: International Students at Queen’s and Queen’s Students Abroad Mackintosh-Corry Hall, room B176 9 a.m. to noon

NEWS IN BRIEF Walkhome raises money for charity Queen’s Walkhome held their semi-annual Walkathon on Thursday night.

For every walk called in from 8 p.m. to 3 a.m. a dollar was donated towards building a house in Honduras during Reading Week.

This is one of two charity Walkathons that Walkhome will hold during the school year.

Walkhome worked along with Queen’s Cares — a new organization in conjunction with Habitat for Humanity.

Walkhome staff could also

donate their pay checks for the night.

“This is an organization with a lot of heart, and we’d really like to see it grow,” Lorin Adams, head of Walkhome, said.

Adams, ArtSci ’11, said Walkhome’s goal was to reach their record of 350 walks and hope to accumulate $1500 in total.

— Cole Davison

Awesome Kingston winner announced Last night, the winner of Awesome Kingston’s inaugural grant was Orchestra Kingston, a community group that needed the $1,000

grant to make the deposit for a new timpani, or kettledrums.

Vaughn DiMarco, Sci ’11, was one of the top five applicants to make a 90-second pitch.

His “Project Chickpea” would involve food-delivery to Stauffer Library and would raise money for Kingston and Queen’s based mental health services.

DiMarco said he plans on going ahead with the project despite not winning the grant.

— Asad Chishti

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Retail services director Jeff Heenan says if ticket sales continue to decline, Tricolour Express could move to a ticket-agency model.

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The merit of Manley’s argument should have been attacked, instead of making him out to be an insufferable asshole.

Attack points, not person O

n Nov. 7, an editorial published in the Concordia Link criticized the charitable initiative of Movember.

The opinion piece, by Link copy editor Alex Manley, was based on unsubstantiated facts and demeaning rhetoric.

Manley received hundreds of virulent comments and the response was so overwhelmingly negative that both he and the Link issued separate apologies on Nov. 15.

Manley’s piece was indefensible, claiming prostate cancer is a hallmark of privilege, affecting men in developed countries significantly more than elsewhere. Manley even went so far as to say that it “isn’t much of a cancer” and if someone has prostate cancer they should simply “deal with it.”

The editorial creates a hierarchy of suffering, and makes prostate cancer out to be relatively

insignificant. It’s a position that has little ground to stand on. One death can’t be measured as worse than another because of its cause.

Manley’s arguments are so rife with problems that it would be easy to debunk his claims point by point, but an overwhelming number of comments were knee-jerk ad hominem attacks.

The merit of Manley’s argument should have been attacked, instead of making him out to be an insufferable asshole and tacking on veiled personal threats.

An informed discussion can’t happen when people let anger overcome logic, and a personal attack simply destroys the validity of the criticism.

Manley’s editorial brings up some interesting discussion points, but these were lost in the backlash.

Charities aren’t exempt from criticism. An organization that claims to work for the

public good has to be closely scrutinized. Charities need to be held accountable for how they spend donated funds. Criticizing Movember wasn’t Manley’s mistake but his delivery and argument were flawed.

Though issuing a personal apology is up to the author’s discretion, the Link shouldn’t have apologized for the editorial piece.

Instead, the Link should have issued a correction.

The facts, or lack thereof, in Manley’s piece needed to be addressed. To apologize for an opinion because it’s unpopular isn’t legitimate. Expressing an opinion isn’t shameful but publishing a piece so devoid of fact is.

An opinion piece has every right to stir up controversy and be unpopular, as long as it uses substantiated evidence.

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Police methods need inquiry M

ore than 100 riot police formed a human chain outside forcefully dispersed a the building.

Clashes with bicycle-mounted student protest at McGill police led to the intervention of University on Nov. 10.

A university campus is a place about 40 riot police who used where peaceful protests should pepper spray to push students back. happen without consequence, and Additional police reinforcements soon after, the the police intervention at McGill arrived was inappropriate and only Daily reported.

There were various reports of escalated the situation.

The McGill Daily reported that the police using excessive violence. students staged a sit-in on the fifth Even an associate professor, who floor of the James Administration stopped to observe the events, building in protest of the Quebec reported that he was clubbed in provincial government’s proposed the ribs, knocked over and pepper tuition hikes. sprayed as he tried to stand back up.

It would increase Quebec’s rate Those staging the sit-in were by $325 per year over a five-year threatened with charges and period. This would result in an non-academic probation for their average annual price tag of $3,793 protest. After negotiations with for tuition in 2017. While Quebec administrators, there were no would still have the cheapest tuition arrests, charges or disciplinary compared to any other province, action taken.

The fact that punitive action students have every right to protest was even proposed in the first against increases.

After reported violence against place is utterly ridiculous. Students the demonstrators on Nov. 10, a have the right to protest and group of more than 200 students shouldn’t have faced threats for

voicing dissent.

Introducing riot police into a peaceful protest was an inappropriate decision, and only stood to escalate the situation.

Riot police are a serious and frightening force, and their presence is likely to set a peaceful group on edge. As a step forward, an investigation was launched

by McGill’s administration to look at the Nov. 10 protest and ensuing violence.

It needs to determine whether or not the riot police’s use of force, tear gas and pepper spray were at all justified.

While the state has a monopoly of the legitimate use of force, any police intervention needs to be closely monitored. Discarding public peace and clubbing bystanders isn’t right.

The onus should be on the law enforcement to prove they weren’t out of line, and there needs to be consequences for those who overstepped.

Gilbert Coyle

Forget division

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he popularity of Quebec’s newest political party confirms that separatism is dead.

On Nov. 14, François Legault launched the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) party, calling for Quebecers to stop defining themselves as either sovereigntists or federalists and instead focus on more relevant provincial issues.

Legault wants to address the education and health care systems, increase wealth creation and, most importantly, protect French language and culture. But he wants to do it by ruling out separatism and ending the division between Quebecers.

It’s a good thing because separatism is the wrong way forward for Quebec. The province needs to preserve and strengthen its cultural and linguistic identity within a federalist framework.

An independent Quebec couldn’t and wouldn’t survive in an increasingly globalized community.

And Quebecers know it. Legault’s already the frontrunner to take power in a restless province — the CAQ only became an official party four days ago, but it has led in public opinion polls for months.

The CAQ surfaced at a time when popular support for separatism is lower than ever before. May’s federal election saw the New Democratic Party win 59 of Quebec’s 75 seats and the Bloc Québécois (BQ) lose official party status after winning only four.

The provincial version of the BQ, the Parti Québécois (PQ), is in turmoil and lacks direction after leader Pauline Marois was unable to overcome dissenters within the party. This summer, six provincial legislators left the PQ to sit as independents.

With Premier Jean Charest’s Quebec Liberal Party buried in ongoing corruption allegations, public opinion suggests that Legault could take power in the next provincial election.

He appeals to the province’s desire for change — for more than 40 years, Quebec obsessed over whether it should be a separate country instead of focusing on socioeconomic development, and the province floundered in the process.

The NDP’s success and the CAQ’s popularity are no flukes.

Both parties call for Quebec nationalism within a Canadian context — they’ve both connected with voters by advocating the importance of language politics instead of reigniting the tiresome separatism debate.

If Quebecers are serious about wanting realistic progress, it’s no surprise that separatism is dead.

Friday, November 18, 2011

DIALOGUE

Perspectives from the Queen’s community

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The current media coverage regarding the suspension of BFA admissions is not the publicity I had in mind.

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Program must make changes

Recent decision to suspend admissions to Queen’s Fine Arts program is result of inability to meet future staffing needs

My understanding is that [BFA students] believe the suspension of admissions will lead to the eventual closure of the program they hold dear.

BFA students are a tight-knit group who are very hard working and organized. This may be a direct result of teaching and learning in the BFA program, or it could be a side benefit from being part of a small program where needs often outweigh means.

BFA students successfully fundraise annually for the well-established North Adams

Talking heads ... around campus Photos By Brendan Monahan

How do you feel about NDP MP Pat Martin’s recent use of profanity on Twitter?

“It’s not appropriate. He should be professional.”

K athleen S ellars BFA P rogram D irector When I was appointed as director of the Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) program in April 2011, my priorities were to develop publicity and to raise the profile of the program.

The current media coverage regarding the suspension of BFA admissions for 2012-13 is not the publicity I had in mind.

The BFA program has faced many challenges in recent years.

Perhaps the pressures have been more acutely felt in such a small program. Although a continuing adjunct professor is a welcome addition this year, there are just six professors — three of which are part-time — to teach a four-year honors degree program.

It’s equivalent to just 4.3 full-time teaching positions.

Under the advisement of the administration in 2008, BFA faculty worked to develop new curriculum and a course-delivery model to reduce staffing needs The goal was to make the teaching load more equitable and to make the program more financially sustainable.

These program developments have been referred to as model examples and were implemented in the fall of 2009. However, in the same semester, an unexpected 50 per cent increase in first-year admissions created additional challenges and prohibited many of the planned changes.

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Michael Romani, ArtSci ’14

“If he felt strongly enough, maybe it’s warranted.”

Aimee Woo, Sci ’13

Fine Arts students work during the Nov. 16 open house at Ontario Hall.

Printmaking Trip.

It’s a work-and-study event for senior students to print wood blocks on the largest press in North America, organized by Professor Otis Tamasauskas.

They also raise money for the fourth-year Ontario Hall show, which is accompanied by a publication produced by fourth-year students.

BFA students are also involved in running the Union Gallery in Stauffer Library (BFA students hold most of the positions on the operating board), and organizing the main fundraising event “Cezanne’s Closet.”

BFA students can best represent themselves, but my understanding is that they believe the suspension of admissions will lead to the eventual closure of the program they hold dear.

Because of their strong feelings of attachment and belonging, they’re taking the news personally and feel undervalued.

It has been my position, in my daily contact with students, to reassure them that they’ll continue to be represented on

committees and be involved in new planning.

We all know that change is ongoing and not necessarily bad.

Everyone agrees the Queen’s BFA program costs more to deliver than some other Arts and Science programs, and that there’s room for improvement. The economy has negatively impacted the Faculty budget.

But given that the reason provided for the admission suspension is the Faculty’s inability to meet future BFA staffing needs, and the fact that there are other Arts and Science programs that will soon be in a similar position, it seems natural for colleagues to ask the question, “What program is next?”

While the suspension of Fine Arts admissions for the 2012-13 year will not necessarily lead to the closure of the program, we must take certain steps to ensure Fine Arts emerges stronger. That means finding ways to cut costs, but it also means promoting the value of the program both within the Faculty and to the Queen’s community.

Photo by Justin Chin

The Ontario Hall open house that ran this past Wednesday is indicative of the value students place on the work they do. It’s this student passion that will carry the program through the immense economic pressures it faces.

It seems natural for colleagues to ask the question, “What program is next?”

In my new role as Director, my priorities remain to continue working with BFA faculty and students to maintain depth of learning in art practice and facilitate programming that augments studio courses.

We’re also working to develop initiatives such as programming for the Art and Media Lab in the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts. If we work together, I see a bright future for the Fine Arts program.

Thank you for the many letters of support from colleagues and alumni across Canada.

HAVE AN OPINION?

Submit a letter to journal_letters@ams.queensu.ca

“It’s important for those with jobs in government to be appropriate in public forums.”

Alex Sutherland, ArtSci ’15

“Unless it’s hateful towards a certain group or race, he can do what he likes.”

Pieter Van der Borght, Comm ’12

“It’s their job to be professional and swearing goes against that.”

Courtney Lawton, Sci ’14

Pat Martin’s tweet: “This is a fucking disgrace ... there’s not a democracy in the world that would tolerate this jackboot shit.”

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In focus

Fall sports bid farewell As Queen’s fall sports come to an end, Journal photographers Justin Chin, Corey Lablans and Jeff Peters reflect on the season.

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interview

Defining Darcys With the release of their self-titled album, the Darcys say they’re experiencing a rebirth of the band B y A lyssa A shton Arts Editor With nowhere quiet to go, we ended up in a chair-filled stairwell in the basement of the Mansion.

The Darcys’ Jason Couse and Wes Marskell huddled in their coats during our interview last Friday night before their headlining show.

Couse and Marskell have been friends since they were 10 years old, playing music together in many different capacities before forming the Darcys with Mike le Riche and Dave Hurlow. It’s obvious the two are close.

“Does it look okay?,” Marskell asked about his hair, after Couse attempted to smooth a rogue strand. “I had a haircut last month.”

Art Forum

H’art artists H’art School of Smiles launches a forum for artists with disabilities B y C aitlin C hoi Assistant Arts Editor

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The band is touring in support of their new self-titled record which was released on Oct. 25.

It’s the band’s second LP, but has been years in the making after their lead singer left the band in January 2010. Marskell said this record in many ways feels like their debut.

You take a band like “Radiohead who we

grew up loving and someone compares you to them, you want to run away.

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— Wes Marskell, The Darcys drummer

“The way everything happened

with the band, it came together on this record,” he said. “We had line-up changes and it took forever.

It sort of felt like a rebirth.”

“We’ve kind of settled on the way we want to present ourselves,” Couse said.

This inevitably led to a question about how the Darcys want to project themselves. The two looked at each other before Marskell

The Darcys recently signed onto indie label Arts & Crafts who let them release their new self-titled album for free digital download on their website.

quipped, “You brought it up.”

“I’m not sure, we work really hard for each individual song to present them in a certain way

and then we sort of hope that when they get out there people can do what they want with it,” Marskell said.

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The Darcys’ sound is purposefully hard to define and Marskell noted that many people See Digging on page 18

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Soulful singing moments Wendy Luella Perkins is about to release her new album, inspired by 108 teachings of a Buddhist nun

H’art School of Smiles is launching B y S avoula S tylianou Kingston’s first forum on the Assistant News Editor work of professional artists with disabilities. But the non-profit At Wendy Luella Perkins’ home organization’s executive director near Skeleton Park, we discussed Katherine Porter said the City needs her new album This Very Moment: to do more.

Inspirational Chants for Singing, Able Artists is a one-day showcase Dancing and Meditation. of artist-talks and performances, Perkins and her husband, fellow featuring over a dozen artists and musician Charlie Walker, moved artist groups. to their current Kingston home Porter was hoping to get more in 2002. Perkins has hosted what financial support to operate the she calls “soulful singing sessions” event. Able Artists received a every Thursday night since arriving $15,000 project grant from the City in Kingston. of Kingston Art Fund (CKAF) in “I think of it as a kind of singing April 2010. But H’art School was meditation,” she said. “You can do found ineligible for an operations it by yourself or you can do it with grant to run Able Artists according a bunch of people.” to the CKAF guidelines.

Perkins explained that soulful The CKAF, founded in 2007 singing is unique because it’s not with the support of Kingston performance-oriented.

City Council, consists of funding “We’re not singing for anybody for project grants and operating else,” she said. “We’re singing grants — the former can for this very moment, that’s amount to up to $20,000 and what’s happening.” the latter between $10,000 and This Very Moment was made $70,000 annually. possible by a $7,000 grant from the A parameter in the application Ontario Arts Council. guideline specifies, “The applicant “Soulful singing is very unique,” organization mandate or mission she said. “No one else I know must focus on artistic endeavour does soulful singing. For a granting (either creation or presentation) agency, they might say that as the primary objective of it’s interesting.” the organization.”

The 45-year-old Halifax native “There’s this perception that started singing when she was a photo by jeff peters our artists aren’t working towards The Ontario Arts Council gave Wendy Luella Perkins a toddler, thanks to a little push from artists’ endeavours, which I disagree $7,000 grant which covered half the cost of making her new album, This Very her big brother.

“When I was three, my brother See Able on page 19 Moment: Inspirational Chants for Singing, Dancing and Meditation.

Tim brought me to show and tell,” she said. “He just said ‘Sing, Wendy’ and then I just sang in front of all these strangers. I was like my very own one person Glee.”

Despite singing from an early age, Perkins hasn’t always been confident in her voice.

“I knew I loved to sing but there was another place inside of me saying ‘Don’t shine’ or ‘You don’t sound very good’ or ‘Didn’t someone tell you you’re too loud?’”

Perkins feels that she has found her creative voice by becoming a part of a story-telling tradition.

“Years and years and years ago, stories were told by song and your history was told by song,” she said. “I feel like See Meditation on page 18

Next issue Like it or not The student-run Vagabond Theatre is bringing their newest production to the stage. As You Like It is an oft-quoted version of William Shakespeare’s comedy.

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‘Liquor, sincerity, insane work ethic’ White Cowbell Oklahoma returns to Kingston with their crazy stage antics including chainsaws and naked women B y C arolyn F lanagan Assistant Blogs Editor White Cowbell Oklahoma is predicting a tough Sunday for anyone comes to their show at the Mansion on Saturday.

“That’s what generally happens at a White Cowbell Oklahoma show, you wake up with a Sasquatch somewhere, feeling a little shameful,” said lead singer, guitarist and keyboardist Clem C. Clemsen.

The band’s live shows are famous for raucous and theatrical stage stunts, including antics with toilet paper, chainsaws, liquor and a little bit of voodoo.

Clemsen said the shows are driven to offer their audience an investment in their rock ‘n’ roll soul.

“We need to flatten the city unlike anyone else,” he said. “You don’t pay $20 to see some guy standing there in a scarf. No, you’re paying $20 to see a guy sawing up some crap and three guitars having a death battle of riffery.”

The band will be playing a fundraiser for the Kingston Roller Derby, which Clemsen describes as two “amazing things coming together. It’s like chocolate and peanut butter. I think it’s going to be astounding.”

Clemsen said the band is heavily

In a past blog post the band says one reason to attend a White Cowbell Oklahoma show is that everybody gets laid at or after the show.

involved with the local roller derby in Toronto and play shows for leagues across the country.

White Cowbell Oklahoma is

known for their onstage guests.

Clemsen said one of their more unforgettable shows was when their guest drummer was Johnny

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Fay from the Tragically Hip. Other frequent onstage guests include naked women.

Though White Cowbell

Oklahoma has seen as many as nine musicians on stage with them, on Saturday they will stick to their usual lineup of three guitarists and one drummer.

The band will play with their recently added guitarist Handsome Chuck, who has played four shows with the band so far.

After 10 years playing together, Clemsen said the band keeps its mojo going with a little bit of “liquor, sincerity, insane work ethic, shots of testosterone directly into the frontal lobe cortex, and bionic muscle replacements.”

“It’s just a freak of genetics that we all came together, probably at the call of the Sasquatch, for the common need of infamy in the name of WCO.” White Cowbell Oklahoma will play two shows next week in Newfoundland and then gear up for their annual X-Mess Xplosion show in Toronto.

The band is currently working on a new studio album which Clemsen said is coming along deliciously.

“We’ve widdled it down to the good stuff like a fine, well-reduced gravy,” he said. “There is even the potential of a separate instrumental album.”

White Cowbell Oklahoma plays the Mansion tomorrow at 9 p.m.

Theatre review

Puppets in progress Puppet Cabaret needs a lot of work before its premiere, but the cast and crew have the chemistry to pull it off B y C aitlin C hoi Assistant Arts Editor A man dressed as a goat sat on me in the oddest theatre experience I’ve ever had.

The impromptu lap dance was a comedic high point in the dress rehearsal of Gentle Wings Puppet Theatre’s newest show, Puppet Cabaret. It accomplished what the goat wanted — a temporary distraction from a haphazard show.

As I laughed at the rubber duck rising from a bubble bath atop an erect cardboard penis, I found myself dumbfounded.

Puppet Cabaret is meant to be a spectacular and racy tale of otherworld beings and circus acts, featuring puppets as well as their human counterparts. With obvious effort put into the larger props, it has potential to be a colourful show.

But, its under-rehearsed cast and unorganized set leaves the production looking more like a catastrophe than a cabaret. I’m not sure how the production will be ready for its premiere when two scenes could barely be strung together in rehearsal.

The thing about comedic puppetry is that when done well — consider Jim Henson’s the Muppets — it can bring to life genuine hilarity. Unfortunately, Puppet Cabaret misses the mark with small faceless dolls, whose limbs don’t move, and shaky shadow puppets that are hard to make out from behind the beige screen.

Several cast members were too busy figuring out their cues to fully commit to their characters. A half-confident man in fishnets is uncomfortable for everyone involved.

At times, the play’s material is enjoyably cheeky. But as I laughed at the rubber duck rising from a bubble bath atop an erect cardboard penis, I found myself

Puppet Cabaret features a scene of scantilly dressed angels singing about consumerism. The man wearing sunglasses and taking a bubble bath in the background went unexplained.

dumbfounded. I had absolutely no idea what the scene was about or how it fit into the plot.

By the time the opera-singing mermaid took the stage, I was lost. The sea-maiden’s aria was an impressive and unexpected delight.

Not only can she really sing, but the actress’s emotive face above a topless mermaid cutout is just the

right amount of ridiculous.

It was clear from the moment I was sat on by the goat-man that the cast and crew of Puppet Cabaret are full of fun and love for the play.

The three-man band supporting the show is astounding, injecting life into a less-than-perfect production.

Regrettably, with only two days until opening night, it looked like

Photo by Jeff Peters

the group still had a couple of long nights of rehearsal ahead.

Puppet Cabaret plays tonight and Saturday at St. Mary’s Parish Centre at 260 Brock St. at 7 and 9 p.m., with a 9:30 p.m. showing on Saturday.

Tickets are available for $7 at Novel Idea bookstore on Princess Street.

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Musical puberty Having only been together for two years, Hands and Teeth is enjoying their growth as a band

Hands and Teeth frequently convene over Jeff Pinto’s culinary creations which are usually healthy and spicy.

B y A lyssA A shton Arts Editor Being the only female in a rock ‘n’ roll band can be tough — just ask Natasha Pasternak of Toronto band Hands and Teeth.

“I certainly sometimes feel like the only girl,” the vocalist, violinist, guitarist and keyboardist said of her four male band mates, Derek Monson, Kevin Black, Adam Kolubinski and Jeff Pinto. “Sometimes I feel like I’m the only guy in the band. I’m like ‘Okay here, I am the girl, I’m supposed to be the fussy one.’”

Pasternak’s female perspective was very important in coming up with the band’s name. She said the band played their first show with a name they’ve all sworn to never reveal. Since the first show was a success they needed a new name, with the guys suggesting Hands and Teeth, the name of one of Pinto’s songs played during their set.

“I was totally against it,” Pasternak said.

“I was like ‘I don’t like it, it sounds really masculine, it sounds barbaric.’”

While sitting in Ronnie’s Local, one of the band’s favourite pubs in Toronto’s Kensington Market, Pasternak came up with a way of determining people’s response to the name, in what she described as “a lazy man’s research.”

“There’s a couple versions of the story but the real story is I texted every female in my phone to see what they’re response is,” she said. “So then everyone started doing it, not

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necessarily girls, just people in general.”

The feedback was split among Pasternak’s female friends, but she said it was more important that people were reacting in some way to the name. So Pasternak conceded to the name Hands and Teeth, with one stipulation.

“I was like ‘I’ll agree to the name, but I want the font to be nice,’” she said with a laugh.

Hands and Teeth has only been a band for two years, releasing their debut album Enjoy Your Lifestyle in October 2010. The band finished their sophomore album this spring, with a release date set for Jan. 17.

“The last one was us sort of tiptoeing into what we’re doing,” Pasternak said of Enjoy Your Lifestyle. “This one’s a little more reassured.

“We’re such a new band and because things are moving along, it’s a snapshot of where we were at this time as we’re sort of going through our musical puberty.”

Hands and Teeth’s sound is a mix of all the best parts of their influences, Pasternak explained — ranging for the Beach Boys to the Beatles.

“It’s all these different textures that puts together this interesting landscape of sound that I’ve yet to put my finger on exactly what it is,” she said. “Sometimes I think it’s better to let the music speak for itself.”

Hands and Teeth play the Merchant Tap House at 9 p.m. tonight with Jane’s Party.

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Upbeat emotions Despite their new album dealing with loss, Cuff the Duke’s Morning Comes is suprisingly happy B y A lyssA A shton Arts Editor

American release and the band’s love for Kingston.

Alt-country band Cuff The Duke released part one of a two-part album, Morning Comes. The band’s fifth album navigates the loss of a loved one. As the 10 tracks come to an end, there is a sense of closure — in preparation for the second part which embraces loss and new opportunities.

Wayne Petti, the band’s lead vocalist, guitarist, organist and pianist talks to the Journal over email about the album’s upcoming

1. What caused you to make your new release, Morning Comes, a two part-album?

We had a lot of songs. We thought about making a double record, but instead thought it would be more interesting if we made two records in a series. Double records can be a little overwhelming to both the band making it and the listener. We thought it would be See Double on page 17

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Resistance through art A three-day series of events will address art and activism, specifically the work of Karl Beveridge and Carole Condé B y s AvoulA s tyliAnou Assistant News Editor Art resistance is coming to Queen’s.

The Queen’s department of art history and cultural studies program, in collaboration with the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, the department of film and media studies and the graduate program in cultural studies, will screen the film Portrait of Resistance.

It’s a documentary about artists Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge, following their involvement in recent political movements, like protests at the 2010 G20 Summit in Toronto.

Condé and Beveridge will be on campus for a three-day event to speak about art activism.

Clive Robertson is a Queen’s professor of art history and cultural studies, who is co-ordinating the event.

“The theme of the film is to do with the current financial situation globally, which is not new,” he said.

Condé and Beveridge have been working together for more than 30 years. Their work is called political art because it reflects stories about people affected by political moments.

“Even though there are other artist couples, there aren’t that many who have worked that long and produced as much as they have,” Robertson said.

Condé and Beveridge have become active in several labour arts initiatives, like the Mayworks

Festival in Toronto, which is an event for working people and the arts.

Robertson said the duo is unique because their art is accessible.

“When everyone talks about art, The photo used for the event posters is titled “Liberty Lost” about they talk about elitism. [Condé and the 2010 G20 protests.

Beveridge] will show in galleries and museums, but also in workplaces,” he said.

Robertson added that there is a distinct difference between political art and the critical art of Condé and Beveridge.

“Political art goes out to create change while critical art can create change, but doesn’t have the same intention,” he said.

Portrait of Resistance will be shown at 7 p.m. on Nov. 22 in Ellis Auditorium.

Cuff The Duke’s new album, Morning Comes includes the song “Bound To Your Own Vices,” which the band describes on their website as an “eight-minute epic.”

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better for us to put out two records within a shorter period of time.

5. What inspired the amazing album art?

2. the album deals with so many emotional turns. Is it emotionally exhausting for you to sing the songs every night?

Paul Lowman, who of course plays bass in Cuff The Duke, drew the album artwork. I can’t say for sure what inspired it but we all certainly liked it when he showed it to us for the first time.

I guess it can be. It’s probably more physically exhausting than it is emotionally exhausting though.

3. How were you able to tie together ideas of loss with such an upbeat sound?

I’ve always enjoyed music that juxtaposed an upbeat song with dark or sad lyrics. When we were writing the record, the songs were turning out pretty upbeat but I knew that the words would not be so upbeat. I decided to embrace that.

4. Were there specific events that provided inspiration for the album?

There was no one moment that happened to inspire the music on this record, but there were a lot of little things. It was all the same things that happen to everybody which is why I felt the need to

6. What was it like having the album produced by Greg Keelor of Blue rodeo?

Working with Greg is a lot of fun. He’s really on the same page as us musically so the process of recording is very enjoyable. He’s also able to push us in ways that we could not push ourselves in order to get the end result. It’s safe to say that we all really look up to him as a musician and as a person. I think it’s important to work with someone you respect.

7. How are you feeling about the American release of the album on Feb. 28? Do you feel Canadian and American fan bases differ?

We’re excited about the U.S. release of the record. I don’t think that there is a difference between

U.S. fans and Canadian fans. People just want to be entertained.

8. How is the completion of the second part of the album going?

What are your hopes for the second album?

We will start recording the second record in the new year.

It’s all written. I hope that the second album will help complete the vision we had for this when we started recording the first album.

I’m confident that it will.

9. You tweeted on Nov. 15 that “exciting news is on the way.” Any hints on what that news is?

If I give you a hint then it will ruin the surprise. We can’t have that ...

10. You’re playing two Grad Club shows, does that mean you have double the love for Kingston?

Absolutely.

Cuff The Duke plays the Grad Club tonight and tomorrow with Hooded Fang. Doors open at 9 p.m. and the show starts at 10 p.m.

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From left to right: guitarist and vocalist Mike le Riche, bassist Dave Hurlow, drummer Wes Marskell and lead vocalist, guitarist and pianist Jason Couse.

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have been describing them as “moody.”

Their new album has been garnering them comparisons to Radiohead.

“You take a band like Radiohead who we grew up loving and someone compares you to them, you want to run away as fast as you can,” Marskell said. “Although it is a really kind comparison, as a band you want to carve out your own sort of thing.”

The band has extensively toured Canada over the last two years, including a stop in Kingston just last month. In March, the band played Clark Hall Pub, where they were introduced to a Queen’s favourite.

“All I recall is that we were introduced to Turbos,” Couse said of the Clark Hall specialty that mixes Smirnoff Ice and beer.

“So you guys have Turbos and no [fine] arts program,” Marskell said.

He and Couse compared stories on fights they’ve seen in Kingston — including a pancake keggar with purple people that weren’t figments of his imagination.

The band frequently comes to Kingston since much of Couse’s family lives here, including his sister who studies sociology at Queen’s.

“We’ll spot a couple uncles in the crowd at least,” Couse said of last Friday’s show at

the Mansion.

Marskell said it’s important for family to come out to shows so they can understand what being in a band means.

“You go to a Christmas dinner and you try to explain to your family that you’re in a rock band and they’re like ‘Do you play in your mom’s basement?,’” he said. “Then they come out to a show and ‘Oh it’s a real thing.’”

The band came to Kingston from Ottawa — a band favourite after a previous adventure that involved climbing onto the roof of the Chateau Laurier. Drinking may have been involved.

“Not safe,” Couse said. “I don’t recommend trying it.”

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“I basically sent out emails and talked to them at groups and asked them ‘What three I’m part of that kind of long line of that songs can’t you live without?’” she said. creative process.”

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“Personally, I love that song. It’s a message “I ended up writing a song for each of the that’s never stale for me because I tend to be meditations, so I have 108 songs based on a person that has a lot on the go.” that book,” she said. “I would say 75 per cent of the music on the album was inspired This Very Moment: Inspirational Chants for Singing, Dancing and Meditation will be officially by those teachings.”

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Able opportunities somebody with a disability into the world of being exceptional,” she said, adding with and have disagreed with and challenged that with an operating grant, H’art School for the last few years and will again this year,” could hire someone to work full-time on Porter said. additional initiatives.

Able Artists will feature Ottawa’s Alan “The [CKAF] I think needs to look at Shain, a comedian with cerebral palsy; the greater whole,” she said, adding that the Montreal’s Les Production des Pieds des Kingston community itself has consistently Mains, a ballet company that consists of been very supportive. professional dancers and dancers with Porter said the grant restrictions are physical disabilities; and Judith Snow, whose particularly limiting to amateur artists with collection of inclusion-inspired paintings disabilities working to be self-sufficient is currently being exhibited at the Royal through their craft.

Ontario Museum in Toronto. Queen’s “Indirectly, they, [the CKAF], are placing alumnus Barb McDougall, a local singer who a barrier on our artists, who need to be given was born without sight, was recently added the opportunity to perform and present to the lineup. their work,” she said. “You don’t just finish school and become a professional … Because you don’t have ballet schools that are totally [the CKAF], are placing geared to people with disabilities, we need to a barrier on our artists, integrate them so they can excel.” who need to be given the Ted Worth, grants director for the Kingston opportunity to perform and Arts Council grants department, said the present their work . basis of the Operating Grants program is that applicants are arts organizations.

“Many organizations would like to move — Katherine Porter, organizer of Able Artists into the operating grants program because of

the amount of money in there. But there’s a Porter decided to debut the event number of groups that don’t receive funding in Kingston after guest speaking at and that’s where they, [H’art School], are Toronto’s Creative Spirit Arts Festival last coming from,” he said. “I can explain to October — a conference dedicated to you the program, but that’s not my place advancing the creative power of people to explain to you why we turn down any specific grant.” with disabilities.

Worth said the council reviews the grant “We decided we needed to travel this collection of brilliant and talented artists program annually and they encourage across Canada,” Porter said of the artists she applicants and participants to voice their feedback. met at the festival.

Porter said the goal of Able Artists is to introduce Kingston to professional Able Artists will be held on Nov. 22 at Sydenham artists with disabilities and facilitate local Street United Church with artist talk sessions from 1 to 4 p.m. and performances starting at opportunities that currently don’t exist.

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Why women’s soccer wins trophies

B y E mily L owe Staff Writer This year’s women’s soccer team proved themselves as one of the best varsity teams in Queen’s history.

After Sunday’s shootout win in Montreal, the team joins the 1984 and 1985 men’s cross country team as the only Gaels squads to ever win back-to-back national titles.

In recent seasons, they’ve overcome career-ending injuries to veteran players and heartbreaking losses in high-stakes games on their way to success. They’ve experienced it all.

In the OUA final on Nov. 6, the Gaels went into overtime against the defending champions, the host Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks, in Waterloo without captain Kelli Chamberlain and top scorer

From left to right: Jessie De Boer, Mikyla Kay, Chantel Marson, Kelli Chamberlain, Chantal McFetridge and Riley Filion pose with the OUA and CIS trophies. The women’s soccer team won their second-straight national title in Montreal on Sunday.

Jackie Tessier — who were both sidelined with injuries. The Gaels won anyway.

When those two returned at nationals — Chamberlain with a bandaged knee and Tessier on an ankle so bruised she could barely walk — the team rallied around them. Tessier was named to the tournament all-star team while Chamberlain scored the last penalty kick in the final.

But this season’s team had assets beyond Chamberlain and Tessier.

Chantal Marson, Jackie Tessier, Riley Filion and Brienna Shaw were all named CIS Championship all-stars while Marson was also named tournament MVP. In the regular season, Filion was named OUA East MVP, rookie Jesse De Boer received OUA East Rookie of the Year honours, Tessier was the OUA’s leading scorer for

the second year in a row and six players earned OUA all-star status.

In a university system where turnover is a fact of life, the Gaels have been consistent. In the past three seasons, they’ve won an OUA Championship, two CIS gold medals, have made three straight national tournament appearances and have won three straight OUA East regular-season titles.

All this success is no

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accident — it’s been nearly five years in the making, with head coach Dave McDowell tweaking the roster each season to build this season’s championship team.

Chamberlain and Marson — the team’s only fifth-year players — said they remember their first two seasons as disappointing. They both joined the team in 2007.

The 2007 team struggled See Core on page 23

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Athletics signs streaming deal with QTV $4,000 agreement means Queen’s won’t use popular CIS webcasting company, Sports Streaming Network Canada B y B enjamin D eans Assistant Sports Editor Queen’s Athletics will webcast home games online for the first time this Saturday — but it won’t use the network that other schools use.

Twelve of the 19 schools in the OUA and 19 of the 52 schools in the CIS use Streaming Sports Network Canada. Those schools produce their own video and send a feed to SSN, who broadcasts it online.

SSN charges $95 a year for streaming only. Schools can pay an optional annual fee of $500 for technical support as well.

This week, Athletics signed a 20-game, $4,000 contract with Queen’s TV to film and stream home games. Athletics marketing manager Lana Unsworth said QTV was chosen because of previous videos produced for Athletics and because it’s a local service.

“They’re right on campus ... they’ve been great to work with in the past,” she said. “It’s all to build up to our [CIS] volleyball tournament.”

Queen’s will host the 2012 CIS men’s volleyball championship from March 2 to 4. Webcasting is one of the main criteria for hosting a CIS championship.

QTV will broadcast the men’s

and women’s volleyball games against the McMaster Marauders this Saturday. Unsworth said QTV will cover basketball and volleyball games leading up to the championship.

“We’ve picked several games between now and March to webcast so that by the time the tournament comes, we’re well-versed and ready to go,” she said.

Unsworth, who started her position last spring, said she

hasn’t spoken with SSN and couldn’t comment on previous discussions between Athletics and streaming companies.

Bengt Neathery is the president of iSi Global Webcasting, the company that owns SSN. He said it would be unnecessary and a missed opportunity for Queen’s to try to webcast home games independently.

“A school can’t market the way we can,” he said. “The audience is already used to coming to us.”

Neathery said SSN has a deal with the CIS that SSN broadcasts all CIS championships, adding that the network recorded 20,000 viewers for the men’s soccer championship from Nov. 10 to Nov. 13.

“The month of October is in around 570,000 impressions,” Neathery said. “Last March [CIS championship season], we were over a million.”

The appearance of an advertisement on a user’s screen counts as an impression.

“The only way to [succeed], from an advertising perspective, is to get critical mass,” he said.

“The only way you’re going to get critical mass is if you’re going to put out at least 20,000 to 100,000 viewers a month. We have [19] See Webcasting on page 23

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Gaels lose to Mustangs in OUA final in London B y B enjamin D eans Assistant Sports Editor

Queen’s TV will stream 20 games for Queen’s Athletics this year.

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299-52 and 310-41 respectively.

But the Mustangs beat the Gaels in London in regular season play The men’s rugby team played in on Oct. 2. the OUA final for the fourth time In Sunday’s OUA final, the in the last five seasons. They’ve lost Gaels were down only 18-15 with three of those four appearances less than two minutes left in the after a 21-15 defeat to the Western game. Moor said the final was Mustangs in London on Sunday. close and that he couldn’t think “We didn’t get the result we of a point where it looked like a wanted,” captain Dan Moor said. Western victory was imminent.

“But ... it really wasn’t for lack of In their last OUA final trying that we didn’t come out appearance in 2009, Queen’s on top.” beat Western 23-19. But only Western and Queen’s were by seven of the 22 Gaels in Sunday’s far the two best teams in the OUA starting lineup played in the all season, outscoring opponents See We on page 22

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Three-game losing streak Road games split The men’s hockey team missed an opportunity to beat the McGill Redmen, the top-ranked team in the OUA East.

“We were right there with arguably the best team in the country,” head coach Brett Gibson said after last Friday’s game.

“Disappointing is the only word.”

The loss extends the Gaels’ losing streak to three games. After starting the season with four wins in their first five games, the Gaels only have one win of their last five.

Two early penalties against the Gaels led to two power-play goals from Redmen forward Francis Verrault-Paul, the country’s leading scorer for the past two seasons.

“You just can’t give up two power-play goals and a shorthanded goal, and expect to win,” Gibson said. “We knew it was coming. When Verreault-Paul is on the ice, you can’t give him [scoring chances].”

The Gaels would have allowed more than two early goals if not for stellar goaltending from Riley Whitlock, who made 24 of his total 45 saves in the first period.

The Gaels fought back to tie

The McGill Redmen celebrate their game-winning goal in the third period on Friday.

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the game with goals from forward work ethic,” he said. “But the Jordan Soquila and defenceman work ethic has to match your Brendan Bureau. With the score mental attitude.”

The Gaels’ slump drops them to tied at 2-2 in the third period, captain Jon Lawrance hit the eighth in the OUA East. But captain Jon Lawrance said he’s not worried crossbar on a two-on-one rush.

Redmen captain Evan about his team’s current ranking.

“We were right there with a Vossen scored a shorthanded, [McGill] team that was 8-1-2,” he game-winning goal minutes later.

Gibson said mental errors let his said. “We just need to tighten up team down on Friday. a little bit defensively and it’s a “I will never question my team’s different game.”

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Gryphons take two golds Queen’s men finish fourth, women get tenth in Quebec City B y G ilBERT C oylE Sports Editor There weren’t any surprises at the national cross country championship in Quebec City last weekend — the Guelph Gryphons’ men’s and women’s teams took home gold medals for the sixth straight season.

On the men’s side, the Gryphons finished ahead of the Windsor Lancers and the University of Victoria Vikes on the podium.

The Gaels finished fourth.

On the women’s side, the Vikes finished second, the McMaster Marauders finished third and the Gaels finished tenth.

The Gryphons, who won both medals by a wide margin, also swept the OUA Championship on Oct. 29.

“They’re five to seven years ahead of every other program in the country,” Queen’s head coach Steve Boyd said. “They just continue to steamroll everybody.”

Boyd said although half of Canada’s top runners go to U.S. colleges, the top remaining athletes go to Guelph.

“When we recruit, we have to convince [athletes] why they shouldn’t go to Guelph,” he said.

“It’s a difficult argument to make.”

The Gryphons benefit from their connection with the Speed River Track Club. Boyd said the shared facilities allow Gryphons athletes to train with top-class runners throughout the year.

“They have everything from talented high school runners to former Olympians in that

program,” he said. “When they The men’s pre-season goal was all get together on a workout, to make the podium at nationals. it’s incredibly motivating for Boyd said his team performed well enough to do it, but Vikes university athletes.”

Although the Gaels aren’t at runners surprised everyone with an the Gryphons’ level, Boyd said exceptional performance, earning he was impressed with the men’s bronze and relegating the Gaels to fourth. accomplishments this season.

The women’s 10th-place finish “Our timing was perfect, we ran our best at [the OUA and means they met their pre-season CIS Championships],” he said. goal of finishing in the top ten “The second-best program is during a rebuilding season. Captain Windsor and we closed the gap on Steph Hulse was the Gaels’ top runner, finishing 39th out of 134 them significantly.”

Jeff Archer led the Gaels with runners. Boyd said he expects a 10th-place individual finish, more out of third-year Hulse.

“She’s leading the team ... but while Maxime Leboeuf battled through illness to finish 17th. Nick I still think there’s more there for McGraw, Oliver Hatheway, Clay her,” he said. “She came in as a Patterson, Jeff Costen and Dave top-ranked high school athlete and Cashin finished in the top 97 I think she has the ability to run top 10 [at nationals next year].” on Saturday.

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Perfect start Women’s basketball wins two straight B y j ERRy Z HEnG Contributor

three assists in the Gaels’ 57-44 win over the Thunderwolves.

“She’s going to be a great player The women’s basketball team is in this league,” head coach Dave riding a perfect start to the season Wilson said. after wins over the Lakehead Both teams suffered from Thunderwolves and the Guelph opening-game jitters, combining Gryphons at the ARC this weekend. for 19 turnovers in the first half.

On Friday, rookie and Kingston But guard Liz Boag scored eight native Jenny Wright made an straight points on three consecutive impressive Gaels debut. She posted possessions as the Gaels outscored a 60 per cent shooting average with the Thunderwolves 24-11 in the seven points, seven rebounds and See Moore on page 23

The women’s volleyball team was forced to play a fifth set in both games during last weekend’s road trip, returning home with a win and a loss.

The team led two sets to one against the Guelph Gryphons and the Brock Badgers. The Gryphons completed the comeback to win 15-25, 25-21, 25-18, 19-25, 13-15 on Friday night, but Queen’s held on to beat the Badgers 21-25, 25-19, 25-21, 18-25, 15-13 on Saturday.

Middle Katie Neville and outside hitter Becky Billings led the Gaels against Brock with 15 points each. Neville said the team didn’t want to return to Kingston with a pair of five-set losses.

“Everyone was just really determined not to lose another fifth set,” she said. “We learned a lot from the [Guelph] game to fight and push until the very end.”

Head coach Joely

Christian-Macfarlane said her team was inconsistent over the weekend.

“In both matches, we had the opportunity to win in four [sets],” she said. “We committed errors far too often in those situations to finish the match out.”

Christian-Macfarlane and the team will look to avoid momentum swings in their next games.

“It’s about learning to dominate,” Christian-Macfarlane said. “It’s about learning to not let [the opponent] back in.”

Queen’s now begins a five-game home stand that will have a large impact on their ability to make the playoffs.

“It’s probably the first year I’ve coached that … it’s not one or two teams that you have to beat,” she said. “But instead … there’s more balance across the board.”

The Gaels host the Toronto Varsity Blues tonight and the McMaster Marauders on Saturday at the ARC. Both games start at 6 p.m.

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Gaels keep losing

Men’s basketball drops two straight games at home to extend losing streak to 11 B y PETER R EimER Contributor Men’s basketball head coach Stephan Barrie opened his inaugural season with two losses last weekend. The Gaels lost 84-52 to the Lakehead Thunderwolves and 73-56 to the Guelph Gryphons at the ARC. The pair of losses extends the team’s nine-game losing streak that dates back to their Oct. 7 exhibition loss to the Bishop’s Gaiters.

The Gaels came out strong on Friday night and led 28-27 over Lakehead, the defending OUA champions. But a 12-0 Lakehead run to start the third quarter propelled the visitors to a win.

I’ve never been on a losing “team before, so I’m taking it kind of hard. ” — Mackenzie Simpson, men’s basketball guard

Co-captain Ryan Golden, who led the Gaels with 12 points, said Queen’s has to maintain its focus to avoid similar collapses in the future.

“When our energy is good and we play as a team, and everyone’s encouraging each other, you can see that translate on the court,” he said.

Barrie called the game “a tale of two halves, for both teams.

“They played well below their level in the first half, and we played pretty solid — especially defensively,” he said. “In the second half, they played very well and we went the other way.”

The Gaels fell behind early against the Gryphons on Saturday, trailing 45-25 at halftime. Rookie guard Ricky Parisien sparked a second-half surge with two three-pointers in the third quarter, but it wasn’t enough.

Barrie said this season will have a steep learning curve.

“You have to go through these kinds of situations to learn the hard way,” he said.

Guard Mackenzie Simpson posted eight points, seven rebounds and four steals against the Gryphons.

“I’ve never been on a losing team before, so I’m taking it kind of hard,” he said.

“Hopefully we’ll change that around.”

Simpson transferred to Queen’s from the St. Lawrence College Vikings over the summer.

The Gaels travel to Waterloo to take on the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks tonight and the Waterloo Warriors on Saturday. Simpson said he expects to win if his team prepares properly. The Gaels will be practicing twice a day all week.

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Gaels flyhalf and OUA leading scorer Liam Underwood couldn’t stop the Gaels from losing 21-15 to the Western Mustangs in the OUA final on Sunday.

‘We relied on him’ contusion. He wasn’t a starter with the team until this year, but he was named an OUA all-star along with four other Gaels this 2009 championship.

“The guys who won that [2009] final, season. Huigenbos said Gleeson was a they’d played in the two or three previous to breakout player this season. that,” Moor said. “When they did win that “Had you asked me at the end of last season one, they [already] knew the deal, they’d who I would miss the most if someone was been there before.” injured, I definitely would not have thought Head coach Peter Huigenbos said his [Gleeson] would be the guy,” he said. “But team didn’t physically match up well with that was the case. We relied on him all year Western on Sunday, something that was a and he had a great season.” trend this season.

Huigenbos said his team will be more “We were significantly undersized versus focused in the off-season after missing out on Guelph, McMaster and Western, but we had a championship. some strong wins against really good teams “After you drop one, you come back and very large players,” he said, adding that more focused,” he said. “You can ask those McMaster and Western players outweighed Western guys. They just went through it and his players by an average of 10 to 15 pounds. you could see how determined they were.”

The Gaels missed halfback George The Mustangs lost in the OUA final in Gleeson, who sat out in the final with a quad 2009 and 2010.

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Guard Mackenzie Simpson scored10 points and six rebounds in the season opener.

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The women’s hockey team returned from last The men’s volleyball team rebounded from a weekend’s road trip empty-handed, losing to dismal three-set loss to the Guelph Gryphons the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks and the on Friday to sweep the Waterloo Warriors Toronto Varsity Blues. The losses drop the and salvage their road trip on Saturday.

Gaels to 7-3-1.

In Guelph, the Gaels fell 25-13, 25-21 The undefeated Golden Hawks jumped and 25-14 to a surging Gryphons team that out to an early 2-0 lead in Waterloo last Friday. currently sits second in the OUA with a 5-1 The Gaels equalized in the second period record. Outside hitters Andrew Whitaker with goals from forwards Morgan McHaffie and Winston Rosser led the Gryphons with a and Shawna Griffin, but the Golden Hawks combined 28 kills. responded with three unanswered goals to Gaels outside hitter Joren Zeeman win 5-2. McHaffie leads the OUA in scoring recorded 18 kills the next day in Waterloo to with 10 goals and 11 assists. give his team its first win in four games. But Against the Varsity Blues on Saturday, the straight-set win was close, with the Gaels McHaffie opened the scoring and her sister only winning 25-21, 25-21 and 25-22.

Brittany McHaffie added a second, but the With the split, the Gaels move to 2-3 and Gaels trailed 3-2 late in the game until sixth in the OUA. They host the University forward Taryn Pilon scored to send the of Toronto Varsity Blues (1-5) on Friday and game into overtime. After a scoreless extra the McMaster Marauders (4-2) on Saturday. frame, the Gaels fell 1-0 in a shootout.

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through the regular season and lost to the lowly Royal Military College Paladins in the OUA quarter-finals.

Dave McDowell proceeded to overhaul the team, bringing in 14 rookies and naming second-year defender Sara Buckham as captain.

In 2008, he brought in an impressive rookie class that included Shaw, Summer Rybicki and Angela Sullivan. It also included Jennifer Hutchinson and Victoria

Gonzalez-Milroy, two starters from last season’s team who retired due to injuries.

In 2009, he added Tessier, Filion, Alexis McKinty, Chantal McFetridge and Mikyla Kay, all of whom started in Sunday’s final.

The 2009 Gaels won an OUA silver medal and were minutes away from an appearance in the CIS final before blowing a late lead and settling for fourth place.

But that failure fuelled the team’s success over the next two seasons.

The women’s soccer team is the first back-toback national champion at Queen’s since 1985.

The women’s soccer team keeps winning because team camaraderie is instilled in their makeup. The team has a tradition of giving each other written messages during the playoffs — Chamberlain still remembers the ones she got from former captain Kate McKenna when she was a rookie in 2007.

“I’ve kept some of the [messages] she wrote to me,” Chamberlain Striker Jackie Tessier was the OUA’s leading scorer for the said. “They really hit me deep and second straight season. She will be back next season. increased my confidence.”

The relationship between the veterans and younger players means this team still has a bright future. Several players — including Chamberlain, Marson and Shaw — will graduate but the Gaels are more than capable of defending their title next season.

Third-year players like Tessier, McKinty, Kay, Filion and McFetridge will fill those leadership roles, rookies De Boer and Breanna Burton will be more experienced and McDowell will almost certainly bring in some new talent.

The current team might be the best in Queen’s history — and they still have time to add to their legacy.

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universities on the network and we’re at between 500,000 and over one million impressions a month.

“Now, we’re starting to get a sniff from the advertisers,” he said, adding that both the men’s and women’s soccer CIS championships last weekend were sponsored

by Umbro.

Neathery has a specific vision for SSN in five years.

“I see every home and away game being played,” he said. “I see every school on.”

Neathery mentioned technical issues as reasons why Queen’s should join SSN.

“[Queen’s] can’t buy the bandwidth for what we’re offering it to the schools for,” he said.

“How are they planning to sustain a thousand concurrent viewers? …

Someone calls you and says ‘I can’t hear it,’ stuff like that. That’s where our value is.”

Cost would also be an issue for a school trying to webcast independently, Neathery said.

“This is just not a big enough country for each school to go at it alone,” he said. “If they’re planning on doing it anyways, then send it to us. There’s no extra cost.”

QTV executive producer Eugene Michasiw said he doesn’t see how Athletics would benefit

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third quarter.

The Gaels only scored five fourth quarter points, but were cushioned by a 22-point lead after the third quarter.

On Saturday, the Gaels beat the Gryphons 83-77 in overtime to improve to 2-0.

With the game tied 66-66 late in the fourth quarter, Boag missed a game-winning shot and the game went to overtime. But guard Brittany Moore scored 13 of the Gaels’ 17 points in the extra frame to seal the win. Moore only scored one point in the first half, but came alive in the second half and finished with a game-high 26 points.

The Gaels struggled to deal with Gryphons centre Jasmine Douglas, who posted 21 points and 13 rebounds.

“They can shoot the basketball and they can penetrate,” Wilson said. “That combination makes them tough to cover.”

Wilson said his team wore down the Thunderwolves and

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the Gryphons with a high-tempo offence and a tenacious defence.

He also said his backups performed well when his starters got into foul trouble.

The Gaels travel to Waterloo to play the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks tonight and the Waterloo Warriors on Saturday.

from partnering with SSN. “Basically, [SSN collects] a fee to stream all the content,” he said.

“They’re able to advertise on that.”

Michasiw said he’s excited to broadcast live games.

“We’re a small student operation.

We don’t have the resources to go out and buy this technology, so it was [Athletics’] support that put us in there,” he said. “They’ve been looking at competitors who were going to charge them basically $1,000 a game.”

Michasiw said the equipment QTV needed for live game webcasts cost about $16,000, but that QTV only paid about $14,000 after educational discounts. He said QTV was able to afford that through its contract with Athletics and other revenue sources this year.

“I worked with the service last year and I knew the financial side,” he said. “I didn’t think this would be anywhere near what we would be doing.”

Michasiw said he expects 50 to 100 people to be watching Saturday’s games at any given time, and 300 to 400 total viewers over the course of the event.

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Culture of cheating Study shows over half of university students have cheated on tests and essays B y K iran R ana Contributor With the end of fall term in sight, students face accumulating assignments, essays and final exams.

The sheer amount of work in the weeks ahead have left many under immense pressure — and searching for shortcuts to the seemingly endless work.

Rachel Naiman, ArtSci ’11, said students can feel pressured to take extreme measures to succeed.

“Students hear of other students doing things to get ahead such as taking expensive standardized test prep courses and feel that they will be at a disadvantage if they don’t do the same,” she said.

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Everyone knows [cheating] happens, even the instructors ...

But none of them seem to act accordingly to revise what’s assigned.

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— Ryan Seager, Comm ’13

A Kaplan group prep course for the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT) costs $1,400, while individual sessions cost $2,300.

Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) prep courses range from $2,100 to $8,000. The cost of writing the MCAT is $240 compared to $144 for the LSAT. But breaking your bank account for a mark won’t come as a surprise to many students though.

“I can definitely see that kind of thought process working for

other methods of getting ahead as well,” Naiman said in reference to cheating.

In a study published by the University of Guelph in 2006, nearly 15,000 undergraduate students were surveyed at 11 Canadian university campuses.

Statistics demonstrated that 53 per cent of undergraduates in Canada have admitted to serious cheating on written work. These methods included copying material without adequate paraphrasing or without acknowledging the source, turning in work done by someone else or copying large sections of another’s work and falsifying a bibliography.

Students in the study admitted to plagiarism tactics that ranged from improper citation to the use of smartphones and cheat sheets during midterms.

However, what constitutes cheating is debatable. The University of Guelph study defined serious test cheating as copying from another student’s test, helping another student to cheat on a test, or using crib notes.

Psychology professor Kate Harkness said there aren’t any merits to cheating in the long run.

“Do [students] think that once they get into med or law or grad school they’ll just be able to cheat their way through every test and assignment there too? What about when they graduate and get a job?” she said.

“You can’t cheat your way through open heart surgery, or closing arguments at a murder trial, or the defence of your doctoral thesis.”

Stress is a contributing factor to cheating, Harkness said.

The transition away from the

According to psychology professor Kate Harkness, university stress contributes to student cheating.

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Studies show that digital devices enable students to receive test answers electronically.

safety of home to independent living and a more demanding, self-directed learning environment are catalysts for stress among students, she said.

“University is a very stressful time,” she said.

But this stress can start long before university, Harkness said.

“There is likely too much focus in our society on university and post-graduate training when it is just not appropriate or desirable for everyone,” she said.

“There are many rewarding and productive careers that do not require a four-plus year university degree and people should be encouraged to pursue them.”

Students might also disregard the ethical implications of cheating.

The 2006 study revealed that many undergraduate students saw acts such as fabricating lab data or using false excuses to obtain extensions as “not cheating” or “trivial cheating.”

According to the study though, faculty members often still viewed these acts as moderate to serious offences.

Some students might question whether the submission of the same essay to different courses is a mode of academic dishonesty.

Ryan Seager, Comm ’13, said because instructors are aware that students often plagiarize older students’ work, the onus is professors to create new assignments annually.

“By definition cheating refers to acting dishonestly or unfairly to gain an advantage, but what if I ask an upper-year student for his own assignments? If, conveniently the current assignment is identical, then am I really the one to blame?” he said.

Seager said students often feel entitled to cheat if they’re struggling.

“Everyone knows [cheating] happens, even the instructors,” he said. “But none of them seem to act accordingly to revise what’s assigned.”

According to sociology professor Vincent Sacco, determining how to deal with academic dishonesty is complicated.

“I’m a big believer in preventing

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It’s easier for students to cheat a problem rather than punishment,” he said. “We should aim to create today than it was in the past, an environment that makes it more Sacco said.

“In the past cheating on a test difficult to cheat. or assignment involved knowing someone who took the same I’ve heard students course,” he said. “Technology and explain themselves by the Internet have changed this, you saying the course had can connect to people virtually nothing to do with anywhere, you can buy essays of their major or that the web.”

While the majority of cheating they were unable to results from ignorance, Sacco drop the course.

said, there are always those who

willfully conspire as well.

“It’s interesting how people

— Vincent Sacco, sociology professor are able to justify to themselves why they do things they know “I’d like to believe that we can they’re not supposed to do,” said take greater care in designing Sacco. “I’ve heard students explain assignments that make academic themselves by saying the course had nothing to do with their major dishonesty less common.”

Cheating is so commonplace or that they were unable to drop that it has meant a cultural shift, the course.”

Sacco said.

“You could say there’s a sense of tolerance for trespassing over limits.”

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Combating cheating This past September, 19-year-old Emory University student Sam Eshaghoff was arrested after fraudulently writing the SAT for six high school students.

Eshaghoff was paid $1,500 to $2,000 per student to write the standardized test required for entry into most American universities. Using fake driver’s licences, he impersonated at least six high school students, one of whom was a woman. The New York Times reported on Nov. 9 that 35 students from five schools are now being investigated for similar offences.

In a Sept. 27 news conference, district attorney Kathleen Rice said the victims of this case were Eshaghoff’s peers, who decided to play by the rules.

And it’s not just at the high school level.

According to New York

criminal lawyer Jeremy Saland’s blog, over two dozen investigations throughout the United States and Canada have focused on individuals suspected of either fraudulently taking postsecondary entry exams such as the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) and the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT), or paying another to do so. Investigations have revealed that students enrolled in schools including McGill Univeristy, Columbia University and UCLA have provided administrators with fake passports at exam centers, created fraudulent diplomas, recommendation letters, transcripts and other materials.