The Queen's Journal, Issue 22

Feature

dialogue

arts

sports

postscript

Kingston Transit is looking to expand its routes through campus.

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Letters to the editor on the suspension of Queen’s Bands.

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Union Gallery presents The Sins of Our Fathers.

A morning with the Queen’s figure skating team.

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Exploring the world of puppetry.

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the journal Queen’s University — Since 1873

Occupy Kingston

Eviction decision pending B y M eaghan Wray Assistant News Editor

year-long English course for first-year students.

During the Sept. 27 Senate meeting, the task force was given approximately two months to present a finalized plan.

“Realistically, they just ran out of time,” Morelli said.

Morelli, an assistant professor in the department of physics, engineering physics and astronomy, drafted an amendment to the

Approximately 25 Occupy Kingston protesters gathered in Confederation Park on Wednesday to discuss possible eviction.

On Dec. 6, Kingston city council members will put the eviction decision to a vote, which will determine Occupy Kingston’s next move.

Protesters have occupied the park since Oct. 15. Fewer than five protesters have slept in the structure erected in the park since the movement began.

According to a city bylaw, the current set-up in the park is illegal.

Councillor for the Loyalist-Carataqui District Kevin George spearheaded the motion that will come to council.

Part of the motion reads: “Be it resolved that the Occupy Kingston protesters be requested to cease camping and to remove all shelters, tents, equipment and debris from Confederation Park by no later than 12:01 a.m. on Thursday, December 8, 2011 and to refrain from carrying out any of those activities in other city parks and municipally owned public spaces.”

“That does not mean that they cannot continue to protest by sitting in the park, holding up signs,” George said in an interview.

“Constitutional rights allows for that.”

City council is sympathetic to the issues being addressed by the Occupy movement, he said.

“We, as a council, understand what it is that … many of the 99 per cent face,” he said. “We’ve all been there at one time or another.”

Although Kingston bylaw officers have received negative phone calls regarding the protesters, George said, council has asked officials not to act yet.

“We want this as peaceful as we possibly can, and that’s what we want to do,” he said. “The last thing that I would like to see is these individuals have their future records tarnished by being arrested.”

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See Occupiers on page 5

Fine Arts students congregrate outside the Robert Sutherland building on Tuesday to protest the recent decision to suspend admissions to the Fine Arts program.

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Senate stalls initiative on suspensions Motion looked to create guidelines on future academic program suspensions B y S avoula S tylianou Assistant News Editor

sure that in the future, there are specific guidelines for the process of suspending admissions to a program.

“The motion we brought up was a Senate-specific issue. The suspension of the program, in our opinion, was a faculty board issue,” Francis, ArtSci ’13, said.

On Tuesday, Queen’s Senate tabled an initiative that called for guidelines for future program suspensions.

The motion was tabled after a Senate vote. It was brought to Senate on the same day that 30 Fine Arts students protested the admissions suspension outside the Academics meeting. They held personal works of art to draw attention to the issue.

On Nov. 9, Fine Arts students were told via email that admissions to the program were suspended.

On Nov. 10, a motion passed at AMS Assembly that led to B y C atherine O wsik the creation of a committee that Assistant News Editor includes the AMS executive, the ASUS executive and the Queen’s The Academic Plan that will direct rector. This committee presented the University’s academic future the motion to Senate. was unanimously approved at The Senate motion called Tuesday’s Senate meeting. for a policy document outlining The current plan includes 22 formal procedures for suspending specific recommendations, eight academic programs or general university standards program admissions. and six guiding points for the Rector Nick Francis said the planning process. motion was written to make This is a significant reduction

Francis said the motion was tabled because senators felt there hadn’t been enough time to discuss the issue.

“They said they needed to discuss it when there were non-reactive responses,” he said.

A committee to discuss the future of the Fine Arts program

was created by the administration under the leadership of Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences Gordon Smith.

Kaisa Moran, the Fine Arts departmental student council (DSC) chair, said the first meeting was held on Tuesday.

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Academic Plan gets go-ahead

Unanimous Senate support for revised recommendations from the 89 recommendations that were initially presented to Senate by the Academic Planning Task Force (APTF) on Sept. 27.

During the September meeting senators voiced concerns around the over-specificity and financial motives of the plan. “[The APTF] took anything objectionable out of the Academic Plan,” Senator Jordan Morelli said, referencing points included in the September plan like a mandatory

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Fundraisers planned for Sleepless Goat Over $100 a day in funding needed to prevent closure of workers’ co-operative B y M eaghan Wray Assistant News Editor The Sleepless Goat, a local destination for fair trade coffee and homemade food, is planning multiple fundraisers to address the business’s current financial challenges.

On Nov. 21, The Sleepless Goat released a formal statement online addressing current issues faced by the Workers’ Co-operative.

“The Sleepless Goat Cafe and Workers’ Co-op is facing an especially challenging time,” the Nov. 21 statement said. “We are currently taking drastic actions to solve our dilemma, beginning with this very letter.”

A co-operative is an establishment that has no hierarchy or manager, and all decisions are consensus-based.

Regardless of how long individuals have worked there, they all have equal say in the decision-making process.

Sleepless Goat staff member Chris Oldfield said factors such as local competition from Starbucks and David’s Tea, as well as the economic downturn, have contributed to the current situation.

“Coffee as much as people want to tell themselves, it’s not a necessary component of everyone’s daily life,” he said. “When there’s an economic crunch, people start to cut off things that they don’t need.”

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E d i t o r s ’ n o t e A bank deposit bag containing approximately $800 of funds donated during the Queen’s LovesU campaign was recovered in the Journal offices late last month.

The Queen’s LovesU campaign looked to raise awareness of mental health issues. During the April 7 event, students were able to provide donations in jars positioned around Queen’s campus. The donations were put into the deposit bag following the event.

Kevin Imrie, former Business Manager of the Journal and organizer of the event, was in custody of the bag and brought it to the Journal’s business office in May. It was kept in the office until an AMS official removed the bag in late October.

Imrie resigned from his position as Journal Business Manager yesterday.

The funds were donated in April for Queen’s Health, Counselling and Disability Services. The AMS processed the donated funds into a cheque and delivered it to HCDS this week.

The Journal’s Editors in Chief Clare Clancy and Jake Edmiston were notified of the situation on Tuesday.

Over the past two years, Oldfield said the Goat has had staffing problems. All workers get paid minimum wage.

“The problem we’ve encountered is over the years … we’ve just had a harder and harder time keeping staff members,” he said.

The Goat has dealt with financial issues in the past, Oldfield said.

“Last year, we had twice as much debt but we had a lot of dedicated staff members, so we were able to deal with it,” he said.

To manage their current situation, two music events have been planned as fundraisers on Nov. 30 at the Artel and on Dec. 6 at the Mansion.

Goat workers are also making personal contributions.

“All the money that goes into the tip jar, staff can opt out of their tips Chris Oldfield, a Sleepless Goat staff member, says the Photo by Asad Chishti and we’re donating those,” he said. co-operative has struggled with competition like Starbucks and David’s Tea. “The biggest things we’re doing, just the letter, letting the public know.” the world, if we still don’t have of a cultural staple within the Oldfield said he thinks closure is enough staff members we still can’t Kingston community, Oldfield said.

“It might be one of those things function,” he said. “We’re just a possibility.

“We’re in this tight spot where trying to get enough money to sort where you don’t know how important something is until it’s we have this problem at the worst of cover our debt.”

As far as relocation, Oldfield gone,” he said. “It’d be a shame, time of the year,” he said. “I think it certainly could close, I think said the Goat has played with none of us want it to close.” the idea of moving to a building that’s realistic.”

Oldfield said remaining in at the corner of Brock and CORRECTIO N business would require revenue of Wellington Streets.

“If we were in an ideal situation Rachel Naiman was incorrectly attributed in the Nov. 18 issue of the $100 to $200 a day, which would help pay for their $6,000 monthly right now, it’d be something we’d Journal. In her interview with the Journal she didn’t comment on cheating. rent, one of the highest costs the consider, just because it’d be nice to buy our own building,” he said. The Journal regrets the error. business incurs.

Closure would mean the loss “If we had all the money in

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Christine Brazeau drives Routes 2 and 6 for Kingston Transit, taking student commuters from west campus to main campus daily.

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Students in transit In 2013, a new express route will accommodate growing ridership B y J anina E nrile Assistant Features Editor Jonathan Wall is moving from Jean Royce Hall to Leonard Hall today. He requested a room switch because he was fed up with the commute from west campus to main campus.

“I have to wake up 30 minutes earlier than anyone else on main to get to classes,” Wall, ArtSci ’15, said, adding that he’s been left behind by buses filled to capacity.

“It happens,” Wall said. “You just wait by the bus stop and hope for the best.”

According to a representative from Kingston Transit, it’s a rare occurrence.

Christine Brazeau has driven the west to main campus bus route for more than a year.

She pulls up to the Union Street stop in front of west campus every morning at 8:15 a.m. Over 40 students rely on her to make their 8:30 a.m. classes on main campus.

There has been a three per cent increase in ridership per year over the past five years. In response to this growth, Kingston Transit is planning to add an express route in 2013 for student passengers. Ten buses will be added to the route and Kingston Transit will lengthen service hours.

The route will take students directly from campus to amenities like the Cataraqui Town Centre.

The addition was voted for unanimously by Kingston city council in September after a transit review in 2010 showed room for improvement.

From Sept. 19 to 25, there were 3,478 trips from west campus to stops throughout Kingston.

Queen’s added an extra bus to their transit line-up in the mid-1990s after ridership increased in west campus to main campus travel. Passengers traveling between west campus and main campus board on buses as part of Routes 2 or 6, which travel from St. Lawrence to Queen’s and through the downtown core.

The buses, with a capacity of approximately 40 people, couldn’t fit all of the waiting patrons during peak hours in the morning, after lunch and in the evening after classes end. Commuters, including students, would sometimes be

left behind.

According to Brazeau, 85 to 90 per cent of morning commuters on her route are students.

“There’s a lot more you have to watch out for,” Brazeau said during our ride-along. “Like the last stop on Bader Lane, there was a young lady that ... got off and walked right in front of the bus.”

Brazeau said students sometimes forget basic safety in the mornings. “[Driving is] very hairy with the bikes and the long boards and the rollerblades and the people,” she said.

“Quite often, my main problem is at intersections ... [Students are] not aware of what they’re doing because they’re so distracted.”

Working on the west to main campus route means Brazeau meets mostly first-year students.

Queen’s rented 16 city buses for the Kingston-by-Bus tour in Frosh Week — an attempt to introduce new students to the city transit system.

Brazeau doesn’t only pick up students at designated bus stops.

She said she often stops to pick up students who seem lost or disoriented. She’s even picked up strays after service hours.

“All our drivers are like that,” she said. “Our job is to get you from point A to point B as pleasantly as possible.”

She recalled dropping off partygoers directly to their destination, even though it was off the regular route.

“I radio dispatched the supervisor to ask if I could get these ladies where they had to go,” she said. “The supervisor said [it was] no problem, and we got the two people there without incident.”

In her first year with Kingston Transit, Brazeau drove the Queen’s evening shuttle route — an additional route that’s been operating since the late ‘90s.

From 10 p.m. to 2 a.m., the evening shuttle connects main and west campus to Kingston’s downtown core.

“When I did the evenings last year, people didn’t really know that that run was going, or what times

it went,” Brazeau said. “By the end of the time I was doing it, I was getting more and more people out all the time.”

According to Kingston Transit project manager Jeremy DaCosta, the additional evening shuttle was completely AMS-funded. “[It’s] more about providing a safe means of allowing students to move between locations,” he said.

DaCosta said the AMS will usually consult him on transit decisions that influence student riders.

He helped negotiate Route 18 last year. The addition provides service directly from west and main campus to the Kingston bus terminal on John Counter Blvd. and Kingston’s Via Rail train station.

“The introduction last year of the new train station route ... was a direct result of a request from the AMS to add that service,” he said.

Typically, four buses run between St. Lawrence College, Queen’s west campus and main campus every hour. Another is added during peak hours in the morning.

“This is probably the busiest time of day because there’s a combination of Queen’s students, St. Lawrence students and regular business commuters,” he said.

A bus usually arrives every 15 minutes. When extra buses are

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added to the corridor, they arrive every 10 minutes, DaCosta said.

He said extra buses run before holidays when students are funneling to bus and train stations to travel home. There are additional buses during exams as well.

“When you see that concentration at exam time and midterm time as well ... we change the way the buses run the corridor,” DaCosta said. “We stack the buses up on Union Street and have them ready to move everybody for that 9 a.m. exam.”

Sometimes a fellow driver will radio the entire fleet about a large group of commuters that were left behind. During our morning ride, the bus took a detour to pick up a group of about 20 passengers at a downtown stop, deviating from the usual Queen’s to St. Lawrence College route.

The extra bus doesn’t operate on a fixed schedule, DaCosta said.

Adjustments are made according to what passengers need.

“The extra bus is really a flexible bus depending on what we see happening on campus,” he said. “As we get going through September, [student ridership] starts to level off and we start ... to understand what’s happening every day of the week.”

The City’s Report to Environment, Infrastructure & Transportation Policies Committee described express routes as “typically designed with a less frequent stop spacing (900m to 1200m) to allow for faster travel times and more direct travel.”

“What it’ll mean is we’re separating commuter from student,” DaCosta said.

Students aren’t the only ones expressing concerns about commuting in Kingston, DaCosta said.

“The complaint we probably get most often at the beginning of the year is actually from parents,” he said, adding that he spoke to at least two parents after first-year residence assignments were doled out last summer.

“They’ll often call us and ask what [living on west campus] means and how do they get to campus,” he said. “We talk about the service [and] the late night shuttle ... as a means of providing a reliable, safe means of getting from west campus to main campus. “[We focus on] being able to get them back to west campus safely so they can be part of the main campus activities, but continue to live at west.”

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Missed connnections Website uses Facebook to foster relationships between students B y M iChael g reen Contributor A relationship website that uses Facebook to assist missed connections on campus has launched at Queen’s.

Joysper uses an “I’m curious” feature that allows users interested in each other to connect.

The online program was founded by Thomas Lee, Comm ‘14, and Daniel Li a student at both the University of Waterloo and Wilfred Laurier University.

“The pain of not knowing if your feelings are shared is really tough, so we hope Joysper will help people going through that early stage before dating,” Lee said.

Lee said students from Queen’s, Waterloo and Wilfred Laurier can log into the site using their school email address, but that users can only interact with students from their own school.

Individuals search for people they’re interested in and view profiles the same way they appear on Facebook.

“Most real life relationships start with a third party which lets the individuals know their attraction or interest is reciprocated,” Lee said. “Joysper aims to be that third person in the online social media world.”

Lee said dating websites like eHarmony focus too extensively on the idea of locating a compatible

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Thomas Lee, Comm ’14, says Joysper hopes to be the third person for fostering relationships through social media.

soul mate and fail to address the interest students already have in the individuals they see around campus.

“You don’t go to an auditorium looking for a date and think about each of the thousand students’ interests and goals,” he said. “eHarmony and other sites do and that’s not a proper structure for finding relationships online.”

Joysper is a self-funded project that took one month to create.

Lee declined to comment on how much the initiative cost.

Within three hours of its 7 p.m. release on Nov. 21, more than 200 Queen’s students were registered on Joysper, Lee said. As of Nov. 23,

the site had more than 300 users.

Since Joysper connects with users’ personal Facebook profiles, the service is more legitimate than dating sites that allow users to create fake profiles, Lee said.

“For many students, Facebook’s online identities raise the comfort zone associated with using the internet as a tool to create connections,” Lee said.

He said in the future he wants to add to the website.

“We want to start a trending people section. If a lot of guys are looking at your profile because they think you’re really cute, then you would be in the top people trending,” he said.

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Occupiers discuss resistance and relocation Continued from page 1

If there’s resistance, George said it will be up to Kingston bylaw officers to decide what happens.

“I don’t think they would forcibly remove them but they would obviously have to attend the site and convince them that there is a law that says you must remove yourselves, or we’ll have to fine you or have you arrested,” he said. “I’m just hoping it doesn’t get to that point in time.”

Roughly one month after the Occupy

movement began in Kingston, eviction notices were distributed to groups all across North America, including Toronto and London, Ont. George said the City has been watching the reactions of other municipalities.

“Some of them we haven’t been overly pleased [with] because of the violence that’s occurred and the animosity,” he said. “We want to just wait and see what the occupiers themselves may choose to do based on what was happening in other communities.”

Matt Thornton, a Kingston occupier, said

A motion to be discussed at Kingston city council on Dec. 6 proposes the eviction of occupiers in Confederation Park.

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NEWS IN BRIEF student struck by van on campus

anti-bullying program granted federal funds

A female student was hit by a van around 5:30 p.m. on Nov. 23 while crossing University Avenue near Ontario Hall.

The student was placed on a gurney and taken away in an ambulance.

Kingston Police couldn’t be reached for details on the incident but said that the student was fine.

Four Campus Security officers were on scene, as well as three police officers and emergency vehicles.

Police cruisers blocked off the area between University Avenue and Stuart Street following the accident. The section was re-opened by 6:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Campus Security declined to comment.

A Queen’s anti-bullying initiative has received $4.8 million in funding from the federal government.

The Promoting Relationships and Eliminating Violence (PREVnet) initiative aims to inform Canadian youth of their rights under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and focuses on bullying and its debilitating effects on both victims and perpetrators.

The funding, doled out over four years, will be used to develop 10 projects that aim to promote social change in Canadian communities.

PREVnet was launched in 2006 and now involves Canadian researchers and students from 25 universities and 50 youth organizations across the country.

— Katherine Fernandez-Blance and Savoula Stylianou

televisions riskier than computers for health Queen’s health researchers have found that children who frequently watch television are at higher cardio-metabolic risk compared to those who frequently use computers.

The research, published in the journal BMC Public Health, suggested this could be due to the low amount of energy used during TV watching.

Children spend more energy working on a computer in comparison to watching television, during which other unwholesome habits occur, like snacking.

— Meaghan Wray

— Brenna Owen

fine arts grad wins $20,000 prize Kingston-based artist Mike Bayne, BFA ’01, has won the nation-wide Kingston Prize for Canadian Portraiture.

The competition is held bi-annually and garners a $20,000 prize for the winner.

Bayne’s 4 x 6 inch painting Orange Grandma is a photo-realist, oil on wood panel portrait of an elderly woman.

Along with the 30 finalists in the competition, the portrait is currently on display at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto.

— Brenna Owen

there are plans in place in case the protesters and it’s right inside [a] park,” he said. are evicted.

Yellow Bike Action is a bike collective that “If worse comes to worse, resistance is takes in and refurbishes old bikes and sells or definitely an option,” he said at the Occupy rents them to the public at a low cost. meeting on Wednesday Occupier Matt Shultz, MSc ’12, said Thornton said eviction resistance would the public doesn’t understand why the begin by organizing occupiers into colour movement has no leadership roles. categories that signify their willingness “There’s always someone in charge, there’s to be arrested. This organization would always someone who’s making the plans … happen internally and wouldn’t include any [The media has] a hard time adjusting to a external identification. movement that doesn’t have that,” he said.

Occupiers identified in the red category “Of course it’s one of the main strengths of are willing to be arrested, while the green the movement.” category resembles someone who cannot A big myth being circulated is that be, but will act as a support system to occupiers aren’t doing anything productive, those incarcerated.

Shultz said.

Another option, Thornton said, is finding “If you actually look at the dynamics of a building to occupy. He said one next the Occupy … they’re remarkably creative, to Yellow Bike Action on Carlisle Street is hard-working people,” he said. “When they a possibility. get hit they come up with an idea and “It’s this giant empty building and it’s this implement it quickly.” workspace, but we could possibly take that,

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Friday, November 25, 2011

Twenty-two points to outline academic future Continued from page 1

motion that carried on Nov. 22.

As a result, the Academic Plan will be updated on a yearly basis with specific recommendations made to Senate. In the fall of 2012, issues of faculty renewal and online learning will be discussed.

The amendment states the University must use the Academic Plan as the first of many documents in the planning process and that year-long task forces will be responsible for leading the changes instead of the Provost.

Each fall, a new task force consisting of students, faculty and staff will be voted in by Senate to research and recommend changes for the plan regarding specific issues. Each task force will recommend issues for their successors to work on.

Morelli said this year’s task force will be created in either January or February to present their findings on faculty renewal and online learning in the fall term.

He said this was the most effective way they could democratically decide what was in the best academic interests of the University. “[The Provost] is in a bit of a conflicting graphic by Justin Chin position being someone whose first loyalty lies with the Board of Trustees,” Morelli The Academic Plan was shortened from 89 specific recommendations in the Sept. 27 draft to 22 recommendations. These are some points that said. “I hope that, as recommended, were cut out before the final Plan was passed at Senate on Nov. 22. the administration will consider the academic implications not just the 631 verified signatures from the Queen’s compromise made but it was a compromise conversation now has to go.”

He said during the year-long work on the community including professors and students. that the majority of people found some merit financial implications.”

He withdrew the motion after his in,” Morelli said. “The people signing the Academic Plan there were many issues that Morelli also presented an alternative petition felt we need to specify the process divided the task force and community. motion to the plan, calling for Senate to amendment passed.

The APTF included eight members and Morelli said during the Nov. 19 weekend going forward and not just leave it up to reject the current plan and consider each continually met with and took advice from he worked with Senator Petra Fachinger, who another committee or the Provost.” point in the September draft one-by-one.

APTF Chair Peter Taylor said if he the Queen’s community and Senate.

The motion was endorsed by the Queen’s sat on the APTF, to draft the amendment At the end of the Tuesday Senate meeting Undergraduate Faculty Association and as a compromise between the APTF and had more time he would have included recommendations regarding resource scarcity. the APTF was dissolved. the department of art. An online petition the community.

“Everyone left feeling fairly good about “There are many members of the “The fact that the [Academic Plan] carried urging Senate to support Morelli’s motion was opened and since Oct. 20 it received unanimously indicates that there was a community who feel the plan should the future of academic planning and that’s have focused more on what are essentially quite possibly worth a lot,” Taylor said. financial issues, which we didn’t,” Taylor said.

“That’s actually what people wanted to talk about, and I think that’s where the

The plan’s points

Student learning experience • Prioritize the teaching of fundamental academic skills such as writing, critical thinking and inquiry • Develop a model for an expanded Queen’s Learning Commons, including the Writing Centre and Learning Strategies Development • Fund pilot projects that develop fundamental academic skills Disciplinarity/interdisciplinarity • Value medials and dual-concentration interdisciplinary learning

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• Remove administrative, financial and structural barriers to cross-listing of courses and team-teaching by professors in different disciplines Reaching beyond: globalism, diversity and inclusion at Queen’s • Create an Aboriginal Studies Certificate, which could develop into an Indigenous Studies Program, and make the Aboriginal Council part of the Queen’s decision making process • Attract and engage female students in science and Engineering • Promote the importance of foreign language as an academic and employment skill Health, wellness and community • Ensure there is well-promoted academic, health, wellness and financial support to help students get through persistent issues and difficult periods • Implement a University-wide equity plan and in addition encourage all departments and faculties to develop their own equity committees and plans — These are excerpts from the 22-point Academic Plan.

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‘They didn’t expect it to be a big deal — but it is’ Continued from page 1

“The committee is comprised of two members of [the Fine Arts department], two members of administration and two DSC members,” Moran, BFA ’12, said.

Moran said students were first notified of the creation of the committee on Monday at a meeting with Dean of Arts and

Sciences Alistair MacLean and questioning would go on for more.”

Associate Dean Smith.

Moran added that because of “All BFA faculty and students the size of the program, it’s easier were invited, but not all were for the administration to put their able to attend,” she said. plans into action.

Moran said students walked out “For a small program, we’re only of the meeting without having all 107 students with a few faculty their questions answered. members, they didn’t expect it to “We were limited to an hour, be a big deal – but it is.” which was an issue,” she said.

“They should have known that

CAMPUS CALENDAR Friday, Nov. 25 Don Information Session Stauffer Library, room 121 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.

Nursing Charity Fashion Show Monkey Bar 7 to 9:00 p.m. $12 at the door Sunday, Nov. 27 Alex Neve - Amnesty International at 50 Dunning Hall, room 14 2 to 3 p.m.

UNICEF Queen’s Presents: Home Alone!

Dunning Hall, ASUS Theatre Room 7 to 11 p.m.

Food and beverages available for purchase Co Gro Open Mic Night Common Ground 9 to 11 p.m.

Tuesday, Nov. 29 Workshop: Interviewing for academia, industry, government and business Gordon Hall, Career

Services workshop room 325A 4 to 5:30 p.m.

Free Wednesday, Nov. 30 Chinese Film Night Kingston Hall, room 200 7:30 to 10 p.m.

Free December Exam Prep Session for First Years Stirling Auditorium D 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.

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Fine Arts students carry their artwork to participate in the Tuesday afternoon protest in front of a Queen’s Senate meeting.

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The Bands executive’s decision to decline comment to the media has left a gap in the story — one that can’t be laid to rest until both sides are told.

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he suspension of Queen’s Bands on Nov. 17 was a necessary decision made by the University administration and the AMS. Bands is prevented from performing for the remainder of the fall term after controversial material, circulated amongst Bands members, was brought to the attention of the University and the AMS. The Bands songbook features vulgar and sexist songs and issues of the “The Banner” were rife with offensive material. Past front page titles from the past three years of this Bands-published pamphlet include “Mouth raping your little sister since 1905” and “Perpetuating racial stereotypes since 1905.”

Calling something a joke doesn’t make it harmless or acceptable.

Rape is a topic that’s never appropriate to joke about; just as making light of racial stereotypes is never okay. Arguing “The Banner” was all in good fun fails to take into account the seriousness of the situation. The suspension of Bands isn’t an example of the politically correct run amok — the recourse taken by the University was justified.

The fact is that Bands is partially funded by a mandatory student fee and the members represent Queen’s across Canada.

Bands has been a proud tradition at Queen’s for more than a century, but this doesn’t make the organization immune to criticism.

We don’t want to be represented by the Bands’ songs and traditions if they are offensive.

This isn’t to say that every Bands member is equally accountable for circulated materials. As a group, Bands is composed of dedicated and talented individuals who shouldn’t be painted as insensitive, sexist or racist. Being in Bands is an immense commitment and requires a large amount of work. While we respect Bands members for their enthusiasm and performances, the apparent subculture is simply not okay.

It’s likely that many individuals in Bands were uncomfortable with the songs they were expected to sing. Their songbook contains a disclaimer that only “lame people don’t sing,” so some people were probably pressured into participating. With a suspension for the remainder of the term and human rights and equity training, hopefully it will be clear to Bands members that the group’s subculture is unacceptable.

The administration’s openness when handling the ban was the right choice. Though the decision garnered national media attention and cast Queen’s in an unfavourable light, it’s preferable to keeping the story under wraps.

The Journal’s decision to publish the songbook and quote from “The Banner” allowed for a more thorough understanding of the decision to ban Bands. The materials provided examples of the “explicit, disrespectful and degrading language” that the administration

cited in their decision.

The way in which the University delivered its judgment could have been better. It’s too often that administrative decisions carry a parental tone.

Rather than making the human rights training mandatory, administration and the AMS should have made it clear that in order to represent Queen’s University, Bands needs to change.

They should have given members the chance to right their wrong independently, without being told what to do.

The Bands executive’s decision to decline comment to the media has left a gap in the story — one that can’t be laid to rest until both sides are told. Until then, speculation will continue. The short statement issued through the Queen’s news

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Running ragged G

ossip Girl character Blair Waldorf once said, “Sleep is for the weak.” Two weeks ago, I would have agreed with that statement. However after a series of all-nighters and a recent visit to the doctor’s office, I would say sleep is for the enlightened.

There’s a myth that Napoleon Bonaparte and Leonardo da Vinci slept for less than five hours per day. If that’s true, these people were able to accomplish various feats at great risk to their health. They are the exception.

According to a 1997 study done

by Stanford University, the average university student should get approximately eight hours of sleep a night. If you ask me, that number

centre and AMS website does little to explain the situation from a Bands perspective.

A balanced perspective can’t be provided until they have a chance to explain themselves. Bands needs to openly admit their mistakes and state how they will endeavor to make changes.

Queen’s and the Bands’ reputation has been momentarily tarnished, but both will recover from the bad publicity. The organization will bounce back if they reform their ways.

The imposed measures won’t destroy the group, they will improve it. This suspension provides Bands the chance to emerge stronger and more inclusive.

The Bands’ recently publicized indiscretions provide clubs and teams the chance to reconsider the

norms and traditions they maintain.

Doubtless there are other groups who wouldn’t want all the jokes they tell, the stories they share or the traditions they follow to end up in national newspapers. Now is the time to reflect on why that is and adhere to the standards that students expect.

It’s important that Bands was given the chance to reconcile their behaviour, and it’s also necessary for them to be banned in the interim.

As long as Bands is affiliated with this sort of behaviour, they shouldn’t be allowed to represent Queen’s. It’s the same standard set for every group — it’s a standard for a reason.

should be around six or seven.

It’s not that I’m against sleep, but if it’s a choice between spending extra time on an essay or getting much-needed shuteye, I’m going to pick the former. This type of logic is exactly what leads people to prioritize success over their health.

The unfortunate reality is that people today are busier than in previous generations. Although time management is essential to maintain one’s health and success, people often opt to cut down on sleep to fit everything into their busy schedules.

According to a 2005 StatsCan report, students spend approximately 9.2 hours during the week on school work as well as paid and non-paid work. On average a university student has 20 to 25 hours of class a week with additional time spent on tasks like personal care, commuting, leisure and socializing.

The survey also reports that over 16 per cent of students consider themselves workaholics, 64 per cent forgo sleep to complete other tasks and approximately 39 per cent of students feel that they are under constant pressure to handle more than they are able to.

As someone who is a midnight caffeine-boost enthusiast and

does more than the occasional all-nighter, I know what it’s like to feel overwhelmed.

These types of pressures often lead to unhealthy lifestyle decisions like frequent caffeine dependency, smoking and binge eating to ward off stress.

While I understand the concern about the long-term effects of caffeine addiction and sleep deprivation, sometimes there just aren’t enough hours in the day to complete daily tasks.

Juggling a full course load, running daily errands, part-time jobs, extracurricular activities and maintaining a social life can be a handful. During busy weeks, activities like going to the gym and getting a proper night’s rest are often neglected. Healthy lifestyle choices can be seen as a chore.

The root of the problem isn’t a lack of understanding. Rather, it’s the competitive nature of today’s society which makes it impractical for individuals to adequately lead healthy lifestyles.

Students, myself included, need to resist this tendency to run themselves ragged. It’s not easy to change bad habits but don’t wait for a bad personal health experience to learn to take better care of yourself.

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Having an unelected legislator’s position with equal power to that of an elected MP undermines the entire framework for electing officials.

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Perspectives from the Queen’s community

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The case for Senate reform Recently-tabled legislation would limit terms to eight years and require new senators to be democratically elected

H ugh S egal Imagine you’re a graduate student in international relations at Queen’s assessing a recently emerged African democracy.

You learn that while two-thirds of the legislators are elected, there’s a second house, without which no law could be passed or amended, no budget approved or treaty ratified — and that this second chamber is made up of non-elected people.

You ask your professor, “Were these folks in the second house appointed by local provinces or tribal chiefs so as to be a regional and local constraint on the elected house’s power?”

Your professor, with a wry smile, looks you in the eye and says: “These second house folks, with the full and equal power of those in the elected house, well, actually, they’re appointed by the president. As long as they’re over 30 years old, own a little property and have a positive net worth, he can appoint whomever he wants!”

They might as well be talking about our beloved Canada.

Put yourself in the shoes of the recently elected (with loads of help from Queen’s) MP for Kingston and the Islands, Ted Hsu. Hsu worked hard to get elected.

He won a tough campaign in which his party came third nationally.

But when he arrives in Ottawa he finds out the local senator for Kingston-Frontenac-Leeds has the same legislative power he has — even though the Senator wasn’t elected to Ottawa by

local voters.

This is undemocratic and this is why I support Senate reform.

The approach put forward by the Government of Canada, which I strongly support, consists of two bills that do two important things.

The first bill limits how long a person can sit in the Senate. Before Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson in the 1960s, Senators could serve until they died. Pearson brought in a law to limit the age of service to 75.

Pearson’s term limit was a step in the right direction, but it still meant that a senator appointed at the age of 32 could serve 43 years. The minimum age for appointment is 30 — surely another anti-democratic, ageist violation.

In any democracy, having an unelected legislator’s position with equal power to that of an elected MP — and for a period equal to 10 parliamentary terms — undermines the entire framework for electing officials.

The Canadian government’s proposal that the term be limited to eight years seems far more reasonable.

The second bill brought in by the Conservative government would make it clear that any vacancy, in any province, could be filled by holding a provincial election where Canadian voters would get to choose their own senators.

The Prime Minister, under the existing constitutional provisions, would still appoint the winner of the election so his constitutional power isn’t diminished or changed.

And the bill makes it clear that rather than choose a crony or partisan ally, he would be obligated to respect the elected choice of Canadians.

Once one Prime Minister made a series of appointments in

Existing constitutional provisions mean the Prime Minister would still formally appopint any democratically elected senator.

this democratic way, it would be impossible for a subsequent Prime Minister to roll back the clock.

Those who argue that this kind of change requires a full constitutional amendment — usually Liberal Party supporters — are either oblivious to, or cleverly obscuring, the reality that there is zero chance of a constitutional agreement to achieve this kind of change. In fact, it’s been tried 19 times since Confederation and has failed each time.

Our NDP friends argue for the Senate’s abolition because it’s profoundly anti-democratic. This is a rational proposal except for one thing: under our Constitution, abolition requires total unanimity of the House of Commons, the Senate and all 10 provincial legislatures. They must all agree to abolition. The chances of that are slim to none.

On three occasions (October,

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2007; November, 2008 and March, 2009) I brought a resolution to the Senate floor for a referendum where Canadians could choose to reform the Senate, keep it the same or abolish it.

On the basis of such a Canada-wide vote (wherein the people are being consulted before the backroom negotiations begin, as opposed to after — quite a radical idea!), negotiations between the provinces and Ottawa could begin to be driven by the decision Canadians reach in the ballot box.

That referendum would still be my fallback position should the present legislation fail to pass.

I’ll add that both opposition and government members in the Senate adjourned my motion to keep it from coming to a vote!

Present Senate reform ideas are rational and fair. They deserve every opportunity to be passed and tried before we face the issue of

abolition — the likely next stage should the opposition parties coalesce to delay these bills, through whatever procedural tactics are available.

These are legitimate and profoundly democratic initiatives put forward by the Prime Minister to right a clear and unsustainable wrong.

Prime Minister Harper has advocated Senate reform for more than 15 years. It’s a position I took when seeking the national Progressive Conservative leadership in 1998, and it’s one being echoed now as we continue to debate the issue.

the target audience (members of Queen’s Bands) had managed to procure a copy, or several copies, and found it offensive.

The main fault I find in the response of the AMS and the administration was the universality with which they acted. Here, the administration is condemning the entirety of the Queen’s Bands simply by association — it contends that all Queen’s Bands members require human rights and equity training — as if all of them perpetuate stereotypes and whatever else the content of “The Banner” might suggest.

Worst still, once the Queen’s Bands members are released, they will cite the success of the training — for, yes, it’s easy to train a person not to be intolerant if they’re already not intolerant.

And it will not do any good for

those with real prejudices; all they’ll be taught to do is keep their voices quieter in these types of instances, and to never put pen onto paper wherein they could be apprehended — something they’ve already learned over the course of their lives.

It would be unfair to leave the AMS with just my criticism, but believe me when I say that I criticize the AMS because I expect more from them. This is because the AMS represents the students, and I expect a lot from my fellow students. However, the AMS has obviously has its own take on the recent fiasco with “The Banner,” and while I may call their reaction to the publication a mistake, an even greater mistake would be to not let the students have their say on the matter.

Senator Hugh Segal was appointed to the Senate by Liberal Prime Minister Paul Martin in 2005 to represent Kingston-Frontenac-Leeds. He is a life-long Red Tory and sits in the Conservative Caucus.

Letters the to editor Responses to Queen’s Bands suspension Dear editors, I was incredibly shocked and disappointed to hear of the suspension of the Queen’s Bands performances for the duration of this year. In my opinion, the Bands embodies the spirit of Queen’s unlike any other organization on campus.

In fact, it is one of the oldest groups at Queen’s, with traditions dating back to its conception in 1905 — some of which tie to the very subculture the Bands is being persecuted for promoting.

And if you want to know the reason these traditions exist, it’s probably best to ask the alumni who continue to support the Bands

that they were a part of during their time at Queen’s.

If some of these traditions violate the university’s mission and standards, then it’s time for a change, because they certainly do not represent the core of the Bands’ values.

But instead of unilaterally imposing a ban on performances, this change is an opportunity to work collaboratively with the Bands to realign the goals of the University and Band members.

The Bands is about being part of a family and part of an amazing university.

If you truly recognize the special place the Bands holds in the Queen’s community, don’t suspend their performances.

Victoria Osborne BSc ’10

Dear editors, The recent decision for the AMS to ban the Bands for the rest of the semester represents a disgusting repression of one part of the student body’s rights to free speech, and to present themselves in manner in which they see fit — even if it’s a manner which the AMS would not approve of, or fund.

It should be obvious that no Queen’s Bands members were offended — or, more appropriately, offended enough to bring [Bands publication] “The Banner” to the eyes of the AMS. It would have only taken a single unknown — or rather, anonymous — individual to bring the material under the eyes of the AMS for the administration to deal its lightning fast brand of so-called “justice.” What I imagine happened was that someone outside

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We must remember that the AMS manages the money of the students, and represent the interests of the students. And while the AMS should deal with offensive material quickly, it’s in cases of publications like “The Banner” that do not have the widely-known context of publications like Golden Words, where there is a possible doubt that perhaps people are not all intolerant hate machines, where it’s the AMS’ job to release the offending documents. Here, we must let the publicans defend their works, and let the students decide what’s offensive and what isn’t offensive.

Anthony Wong ArtSci ’14 Dear editors, I want to commend you for posting the Queen’s Bands songbook under Katherine Fernandez-Blance’s article (“Bands banned for term,” Nov. 18, 2011). That took guts, but it was absolutely the right thing to do in the circumstances. A newspaper must deliver the news, and since the songbook is part of the story, your readers need to have access to it.

I suppose that you are hearing criticism of your decision. Don’t let the bastards get you down! You did the right thing as journalists and scholars, and you should be proud.

Ms. Fernandez-Blance’s article, by the way, is very good. Much more informative than the article in the Globe and Mail, which alerted me to the story.

The next brave thing to do is to give voice to the members of Bands.

Mark Mercer Department of Philosophy Saint Mary’s University Halifax, NS Dear editors, The Journal has done a massive disservice to members of the Bands by referring to material from “The Banner,” a defunct publication that current members were unfamiliar with. Further to that, the offensive “lamp quote” was printed out of context (even in context, this very quote was being condemned as offensive!). The Journal acted irresponsibly and without integrity.

While it should certainly not be covering-up problems, neither should the Journal be repeating slanderous and unsubstantiated claims, such as those made by [Dean of Student Affairs] Ann Tierney.

One of the real tragedies about the way this story was reported is that any attempt to ask people to consider the many fine young people in the Bands (who are opposed to rape and racism), has been immediately seen as somehow tolerating rape and racism. The problems of misogyny and racism are serious but the outright dismissal as invalid of views that differ from one’s own seems to me to be the greater problem.

I am completely aware that my argument will probably cost me the respect of some of my colleagues,

people I admire for their tireless advocacy for the rights of those who have been oppressed. They may see my perspective as equivocating, as complicit in perpetuation of a culture of misogyny, as someone who does not appreciate the power of privilege to oppress.

I am not defending the offensive material in the songs; I am criticizing the way valid concern over these songs was handled, first by officialdom and now by members of the Queen’s community — from current students to alumni.

I sympathize with Ms. Tierney. Asking that traditions be re-evaluated is never going to be an easy sell. I believe the administration is completely correct to object to the use of the logo and name of the Queen’s Bands on the songbook.

We have a long way to go before we can be confident that ours is a completely welcoming community that feels safe for everyone. We all have a role to play and, therefore, I argue that condemning one another because “they” don’t see the situation the way “we” do, is not helpful. I am deeply concerned to read the comment [on queensjournal.ca] from one student who says she feels threatened by the Bands. Is this because of what she has experienced or because of the claims made in this article?

To repeat then, I am not writing to defend song lyrics. I am writing to question the creation of an atmosphere of discomfort, for those who feel that their safety is threatened by the Bands as well as for the Bands members who now feel vilified and the subjects of the suspicion and contempt of their peers. As an alumna, I want all Queen’s students to be treated with respect.

well with the student population.

These actions indicate a level of malice. Other clubs at Queen’s have been guilty of similar infractions and have always been allowed to deal with it privately.

It warrants serious analysis and concern that Tierney went ahead with making this issue a public spectacle, further hurting Queen’s standing and shaming a much-loved group within the University, despite personally feeling that it would endanger students. Furthermore, as part of the complaint, she relies on materials that the 80 per cent female-dominated Bands executive already banned before this issue came up.

That means this entire hoopla is over some dirty songs sung by university students, in private, which Tierney has decided she has special authority to find offensive.

Offensive enough to require publicly shaming and endangering the very women of Queen’s Bands she thinks are so at risk as to require her protection.

I wonder if people would be so approving of Tierney’s enforcement of norms to further the liberation of women if she were trying to ban the Hijab because she thinks it’s a mode of oppression and therefore should be allowed to force its removal. Who is Tierney to tell others what oppresses them?

I have the personal privilege of knowing women who are part of Queen’s Bands. They are not now, nor have they ever been victims, and that’s despite Tierney’s best efforts to turn them into exactly that. These women can’t be kept down, and I know they’ll be back.

David Myers JD ’13

Anne Johnson M. Ed 09

Don’t ditch Fine Arts

Queen’s Bands was once a completely male-dominated entity.

Currently, some 80 per cent of the Bands executive is composed of women. Women have been in charge of internal writing and material distribution for years.

These women have taken something that was once seen as the domain of men and turned it into something that is purely their own. They are not delicate flowers seeking approval from others, but rather strong and confident people who do as they want.

The offensive Bands publication, “The Banner” was an internal humour publication much like the campus-wide Golden Words and is both banned by Bands and is also out of print, meaning it wasn’t an issue when the story broke. The songs in the songbook are what’s left of a collection that was started some 100 years ago, with songs being cut from the list over the years as internal complaints arose.

Are we to condemn a group for singing sexually explicit songs, in private, amongst themselves, in their spare time?

At least one university administrator, Ann Tierney, decided that this issue needed to be huge and public. This new black eye to the university was something Tierney knew would not go over

Dear editors,

As a design and development specialist with some 33 years international experience followed by over 20 years as an adjunct associate professor in the Chemical Engineering Department, I am quite disappointed in the decision to curtail the Fine Arts program.

Design is the quintessential aspect that defines engineers of all disciplines. Fine Arts is also defined by design, and in my profound opinion the two disciplines are closely related. Successful design involves a large measure of creativity and innovation.

If we in Canada want to improve our rather poor level of productivity as a nation we must foster creativity and innovation in all our students.

Several years ago I invited a colleague of mine from the Ontario School of Art to bring some examples of students’ work to show to the students in our multidisciplinary project course at Queen’s. It was an interesting exercise. Although some of the students were not able to make the connection, there was no question that a great number did. John Gordon of the School of Business was involved in this exercise and he could see the validity of the point that design is an important human endeavor and creative design is not limited to engineering.

Dear editors,

Subsequent to this meeting with my colleague from Toronto, our Technology Engineering and Management (TEAM) program, a fourth-year multidisciplinary project course involving teams of engineers, law students and commerce students who carry out a project for a client, worked on projects with the Fine Arts department on more than one occasion.

I sincerely hope the University will reconsider this short-sighted decision and reinstate the Fine Arts program as a full member of the Queen’s community. There is no question that if we are prepared to spend some time on this matter there are likely more opportunities for collaboration between the Faculty of Engineering and Fine Arts.

Talking heads ... around campus Photos By Brendan Monahan

What do you think about the Queen’s Bands suspension?

“Because they receive funding, they should be accountable.”

Jill Lindsay, ArtSci ’12

Barrie Jackson Faculty of Engineering professor

Use of profanity unprofessional Dear editors, I was disappointed to find two instances of profanity in recent editorials (“Attack points, not person” Journal editorial, Nov. 18, 2011 and “Other guys” by Jake Edmiston, Editor in Chief, September 30, 2011). I am not particularly offended by the foul language, but I do believe it’s unprofessional and unnecessary to print such language outside of direct quotes in news stories.

The English language is vast and rich. Why not explore it deeply rather than reaching quickly for blunt, blue words? I can see that perhaps in these two instances the words were chosen because they seemed to fit the context in a clever way (Edmiston echoing the language used by the offending students in question; the Journal staff choosing a profane noun that relates to prostate exams).

But I would argue this type of “cleverness” is rather low-brow and better suited for a humour publication than a serious newspaper.

The Journal staff has produced some excellent writing and reporting this year. Students who wish to continue in the field of print journalism will use some of these articles in their writing portfolios.

I highly recommend excluding any writing that contains profanity from these portfolios. No serious print newspaper in North America allows profanity outside of direct quotes in their news sections. If the Journal wishes to be considered a serious publication, refraining from using profanity is a small step in that direction.

Sean McGrady ArtSci ’03 Queen’s Journal Editor in Chief, Vol. 130

“I think it’s unfair that they’re being suspended.”

Andrew Kusters, Sci ’15

“The Bands shouldn’t have published that material, even if it was a joke.”

Christina Witzel, ArtSci ’12

“The punishment is fair if they crossed a line.”

Justin Daley, ArtSci ’12

“The AMS and administration were right to suspend the Bands.”

Brendan Creighton, Sci ’12

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Rural reality

Sound stripped down

The Sins of Our Fathers explores images of early 19th century Canada

Matthew Barber recorded his self-titled album in his basement

B y C aitlin C hoi Assistant Arts Editor

B y A ri H erberman Contributor

Lianne Suggitt and Emily Turner are very different artists.

But in The Sins of Our Fathers at Union Gallery, they revive history together.

Suggitt’s painting and multimedia works are displayed alongside Turner’s arrangements of photographic prints. Suggitt and Turner, both fourth-year BFA students at Queen’s, focus on 18th and 19th century rural Canada.

They recreate the past in different ways, but are both aware of the present in their work.

Though Turner opens the exhibit, Suggitt’s Fox Twins is the immediate draw. Two fox masks float above white dresses, with the ghost-like sculptures hanging eerily still. Farmhouses, church bells, animal masks — the odd assembling of country elements makes for a provocative pair of works.

Matthew Barber’s self-titled album was nominated for the Canadian Folk Music Award’s (CFMA) Contemporary Singer of the Year last month. The singer-songwriter didn’t even submit his record for the awards.

“It was a surprise,” Barber said. “I didn’t even know they existed. I guess my record label had submitted me for it without me knowing, but it’s always nice to be acknowledged.”

The nomination is especially impressive considering Barber’s new album was recorded in his basement, using an analog eight-track recorder.

“I always like to record on tape and I’ve always done a lot of home recording over the years,” he said.

“I have never really had the guts to release any of that stuff as an official album, but I think I’ve been getting better at recording as I’ve been going along.

“I wanted to make an album for zero budget basically and have it be a real solo project and work at home.”

The new album is Barber’s sixth.

His recording style is influenced

by Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards. Barber was reading Richards’ biography, Life, while recording Matthew Barber. “[Richards] kind of confirmed my recording approach of doing it on eight-tracks and keeping everything stripped down.”

Barber’s enthusiasm for the music of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s is evident on his latest record.

Despite his love for music eras past, he insists on the value of the present.

“I think you have to embrace the time that you’re in because it’s a recipe for disappointment if you’re yearning for other times,” he said.

“The fact that people all over the world can listen to your music for free at the click of a button is pretty mind-blowing.”

Barber is currently touring

I have used “photographs as well as text to create a body of work that spans landscapes and people across the country.

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— Emily Turner, artist statement

Next to Fox Twins is Suggitt’s Lingering — the oil painting mimics the dream-like sculptures in many ways. In Lingering, the figure of a girl in a white dress overlaps a

Arts Fourth year BFA student Lianne Suggitt looks at double-exposure photography and generations past as inspiration for her multimedia sculpture Fox Twins.

barren rural landscape.

The layering of images gives depth to the painting, drawing you into an out-of-body experience.

You become the ghostly figure and feel like you can hear the bells in Fox Twins. The parallels in Suggitt’s work round out a definite mood in the collection.

“My work is mainly inspired by rural life and double exposure photography,” Suggitt said in her artist statement. She adds that she tries to explore the relationship between forgotten generations of rural life and modern traditions.

Turner’s ink-prints are equally moving, although it’s less obvious how to engage. Where Suggitt literally inserts an onlooker into the work, Turner uses photographs and texts to form an intimate

connection with the viewer.

In the New Country, a selection of Turner’s prints are arranged to look somewhat like a dissassembled puzzle; each segment of land and lake marks a place, and each face and phrase belongs to a story. The prints are mounted unframed with clear tacks, creating a sort of mosaic of old images.

Using early 19th century-style photographs — including portraits and images of gothic architecture and maps — Turner revives memories. The candid images of everyday activities, like men milking cows and sisters at play, provoke a strong sense of nostalgia.

She uses lithography — the process of copying photographic negatives with photosensitive emulsion — and waterless

Photo by jeff peters

lithography, the same process, but using waterproof silicone, to incorporate photographs and texts into her work.

“I have used photographs as well as text to create a body of work that spans landscapes and people across the country,” Turner said in her artist statement.

Through a mix of mediums and perspectives, Suggitt and Turner find something enviable about rural life — the simplicity and the structure. Regardless, The Sins of Our Fathers gives reason to think about generations past, which always manages to shed some light on the present.

The Sins of Our Fathers is at Union Gallery until Dec. 6.

theatre review

Love, not just comedy Vagabond Theatre recreates William Shakespeare’s comedy As You Like It B y C laire P ierce Contributor There’s lots of love in Vagabond Theatre’s quirky and exuberant version of Shakespeare’s As You Like It. The show runs at the Rotunda Theatre in Theological Hall. It’s like being in the Globe Theatre — the audience sits on all sides of the action.

The set design is minimalist to an extreme — a rock is often the only object on stage. It anchors the performance without distracting from the actors. Instead, the play uses imaginative lighting and few props to accompany the acting.

Director Adrian Young said he was drawn to the fun spirit of

As You Like It and felt that the Rotunda was the only venue that could capture the play’s intimacy.

He said the set design allows the audience to become the ultimate prop for the actors.

As You Like It follows the exiled Rosalind, her cousin Celia and the foolish Touchstone. The three leave the court of Celia’s tyrannical father to go on a gender-bending romp through the Forest of Arden.

The minimalist set puts pressure on the student cast. But the actors rise to the occasion, bringing palpable energy to the performance.

At the play’s climax, Rosalind transforms from a submissive girl

As You Like It follows the story of Rosalind, the niece See All on page 13 of a duke who’s been exiled by her uncle.

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Next issue Staff Picks Journal staff pick their favourite albums of the year ranging from top 40 hits to indie darlings.

The Dark Arts

photo by simona Markovik

Next week the Artel will premiere A Night of Dark Literary Arts. The literary night will offer punk-rock poetry and a goth culture Q&A session.

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New Writer in Residence Diane Schoemperlen talks to the Journal about her own creative writing and the challenges of teaching B y C aitlin C hoi Assistant Arts Editor Diane Schoemperlen is the new Writer in Residence at Queen’s.

She’s one of the most acclaimed authors to take the position.

Schoemperlen published her first book, Double Exposures, in 1984 and has since published 10 more short story collections and novels. She was nominated for the Governor General’s Award for fiction in 1990 for her fourth collection of short stories Man of My Dreams and went on to win the award in 1998 for her short story collection Forms of Devotion.

The Queen’s English department has hired a Writer in Residence every year since the program started in 2006. For one term, the Canadian author comes to the university to mentor and advise students and community members interested in creative writing.

Canada Council and Queen’s each fund $10,000 to the program.

The money goes directly to the author. In the past, authors from out of town have been allowed around five per cent of the grant for transportation. Schoemperlen, who lives in Kingston, can use the program’s grant at her discretion.

“It’s a great opportunity for emerging writers as well as more established authors and I really encourage people to take advantage of it,” said English professor Carolyn Smart.

Smart, co-ordinator of the Writer in Residence program, said she hopes Schoemperlen’s unique approach to literature will elicit more engagement among the school and community. “[Schoemperlen] has her very individual style, at the moment she’s mixing visual art with the written word, and I thought that would be an interesting draw among the characters at Queen’s,” Smart said.

“She’s a brilliant short story writer and is also very personable.”

Before Schoemperlen officially steps into the job in January, she talked to the Journal via email about her new role.

1. What prompted you to accept the position of Writer in residence at Queen’s?

I’ve always been interested in being a Writer in Residence somewhere. Many of my writer friends have done it and enjoyed it immensely. But I’ve never been in a position where I wanted to leave home for three or four months at a time: my son, my pets, my general dislike of being away from home.

So I was delighted when Queen’s began the Writer in Residence program and I’m thrilled to have been chosen to take the position this year.

2. You’ve taught creative writing at other institutions, such as st. Lawrence College and the Kingston school of Writing. What challenges are there in teaching creative writing?

There are some general challenges involved. I don’t think

that creativity can actually be taught.

It can be encouraged, directed and/or fostered. I can provide instruction on the mechanics of writing, I can give my thoughts on what works and what doesn’t, I can offer suggestions for reading and so on.

Some teaching experiences are more difficult than others. Many years ago when I was teaching at St. Lawrence College, I had a student tell me that the only reason she took the course was because it was on Tuesday nights and that was the only night she could get a babysitter! She had never written anything and she wasn’t much of a reader either. A group with such diverse levels of interest and experience are very challenging.

3. You’ve been acclaimed for writing everyday stories in unconventional narratives. You use the 100 stimulus words of the standard psychological Word Association test to tell the story of your first novel, In the Language of Love (1994). What inspires your writing?

That’s a hard question! Anything and everything. I am a great observer of people, and sometimes a very good eavesdropper. I get inspiration from other people’s stories. Also from reading which I do constantly with no particular plan, just letting my interests lead me from one book to the next in a random way that often finds me reading exactly the right book at the right time.

If I’m writing short stories, I read a lot of short story collections. If I’m feeling stuck, I return to books that have inspired and encouraged me in the past. I have often said that the highest compliment I can pay to a book is that it makes me want to sit down and write.

4. Growing up in thunder Bay, what attracted you to settle down in Kingston? How does the area/ community influence your writing?

After graduating from Lakehead University in Thunder Bay in 1976, I went to the Banff Centre for their summer writing program. I then moved to Alberta and lived in Canmore for 10 years. My son was born there. In 1986 I came to Kingston to teach at the Kingston School of Writing. I then decided to move to Kingston and I’ve been here ever since.

Back in Canmore I was the only writer. Here in Kingston I found a community of writers — that was

what attracted me in the first place.

5. At the Banff Centre you studied under Canadian writers like W.O. Mitchell (Who Has Seen the Wind) and Alice Munro (Runaway).

What did you take from those experiences?

Alice Munro had been my favourite writer for some time before I studied with her. What I learned from her was how to be humble. There are a lot of very large egos in the writing business and I have never wanted to be one of them.

6. You published your first book in 1984, and have since published 10 more, including the short story collection Forms of Devotion (1998), which won the Governor General’s Award for fiction. Are you still learning?

Absolutely yes. Each book presents its own set of challenges.

Whatever I may feel I have mastered in the previous book does not necessarily apply to the next one. A successful book, sadly, does not come with a guarantee that you will be able to do it again … and again.

7. You’re most recent book, At a Loss For Words: A Post-Romantic Novel (2008), is about a successful writer who gets caught at a crossroads between language, love and imagination. I have to ask, is it autobiographical?

Ha! I get asked that question a lot, not only about this last book but about all of them. The answer is both yes and no. Oftentimes a lot of the details in my writing are autobiographical although the general story is not. In the case of At A Loss For Words, certainly the writer’s block parts are autobiographical enough.

My usual answer to this question of autobiography is: Some parts are and some parts aren’t and I’m not going to tell you which is which!

(But I will say that no, I have never seen the Virgin Mary!

[Schoemperlen’s second novel, Our Lady of the Lost and Found (2001), is about an encounter between a middle-aged writer and the Virgin Mary.])

8. What do you hope to accomplish as Writer in residence?

I hope to share my experience and ideas with as many people as want to bring me their work. I

QUOteD “I also like to offer this quote from the American writer Jayne Anne Phillips ...

‘Characters and voices in these stories began in what is real, but became, in fact, dreams.’”

— Diane Schoemperlen, on her books as autobiographies

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Kingston native, author Diane Schoemperlen, has studied under writers like W.O. Mitchell and Alice Munro. She’s since taught creative writing at St. Lawrence College and the Kingston School of Writing.

hope to encourage them and foster their literary growth as we go along through the semester. I hope they will feel comfortable enough with me to share their work in an open

and hopeful way.

This interview has been condensed and edited for space.

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Green in the scene Sunparlour Players released their third album Us Little Devils B y A sad C hishti Assistant Photo Editor Sunparlour Players’ newest album features the band’s typical farm references with electronic and punk touches.

Lead singer Andrew Penner grew up on a tomato farm in Southern Ontario. His roots inspired multiple references to agriculture in the band’s debut album Hymn for the Happy. Last month, Sunparlour Players put out their third album, Us Little Devils.

Penner said although he hasn’t thought about it much, the band has grown a lot since releasing their debut in 2007.

“You know, we’ve toured a lot and you’re always trying to change stuff, change up things, figure out new ways of approaching things and try not to stop doing things that work,” he said.

On the band’s sophomore album, Wave North, they experimented and collaborated with a choir. Moving forward, Penner said they’re sticking with the core group — Penner, Dennis Van Dine and

Michael Rosenthal.

“To me, I like listening to records that kind of push and pull and don’t necessarily do the same thing each track,” he said.

Their new release uses 11 different instruments, ranging from a banjo and organ pedal, to a glockenspiel and clarinet.

Though they’ve grown, their dynamic has stayed the same.

“It changes from song to song. We’re pretty good together,” Penner said.

He said he doesn’t foresee major changes in the band’s future.

“The idea of where we’re going hasn’t changed all that much, more of doing exactly what we’re doing.”

The new album showcases a variety of sounds, which Penner said he leaves to the listener to figure out.

“I get pretty excited by new sounds and new ideas all the time, we really don’t lock anything up when we make our records,” he said.

The band will head to Kingston on Dec. 1 as part of their Ontario tour. Penner

Sunparlour Players’ lead singer and founder Andrew Penner (right) had his first musical experience singing in a choir at a Mennonite church.

admits they’ve experienced good and bad days on the road.

“Sometimes it’s not because it sounds bad, it’s just what happens when you get together with an audience or with each other. Every gig is different,” Penner said. “It’s really

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Sunparlour Players plays Zappas Lounge on Dec. 1 with the Sadies.

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Vagabond Theatre’s all-student cast re-enact William Shakespeare’s famous comedy As You Like It. Just like it was done at the Globe Theatre in Shakespeare’s day, the audience is given a 360 view of the stage.

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into a scheming manipulator. Queen’s drama student Nicolette Pearse succeeds in the role.

Ross Somerville gives one of the strongest performances in his role as Orlando — Rosalind’s love-struck admirer.

His fury and infatuation are genuine and the audience finds themselves rooting for the unlucky suitor. His relationship with his servant Adam is tender, with Ray Jacildo shining in the poignant role.

Matt McFetridge provides the laughs with his masterful use of the staging — bounding across the stage and thrusting his pelvis.

The lack of lengthy soliloquies serves only to highlight the strength of the cast, particularly the exceptional supporting members. Deanna Choi played violin in addition to her role as Amiens.

As You Like It is incredibly accessible and genuinely funny from the start. From the physical comedy to the touching themes of love and acceptance, the performance delights.

As You Like It plays at the Rotunda Theatre in Theological Hall tonight at 8 p.m. and Saturday at 2 p.m. Tickets are $12 at Tricolour Outlet.

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Ontario, playing shows from Peterborough to Toronto. He said he looks for a balance between touring and recording.

[Keith richards] kind of “confirmed my recording approach of doing it on eight-tracks and keeping everything stripped down.

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— Matthew Barber, on recording his self-titled album “It’s nice to be able to go back and forth between the two because you can get a little burned out playing shows and it’s nice to put your creative forces into a different thing,” he said. “I love them both, but touring is pretty tough to beat, traveling around and playing shows.”

Barber said his ideal touring partner would be Joni Mitchell.

“I like touring with women because they’re a nice balance on the road,” he said.

“I would just like to be mesmerized by her music every night. It seems like it would be pretty amazing. And she seems like she’d like to have a good time.”

Music wasn’t always Barber’s main passion. He said he was around 15 when he transitioned from being obsessed with sports to being more involved in his music. But his childhood obsession with sports didn’t fade completely.

“I’m a hockey player. I’ve been doing it my whole life; it’s kind of in my blood,” he said. “I’m a [Maple] Leafs fan, so I take my share of punishment, but there are occasional glimpses of hope [for the team].”

Matthew Barber plays the Grad Club tonight.

Doors open at 9 p.m. and the show starts at 10 p.m.

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Barber was nominated for a 2011 Canadian Folk Music Award on Oct. 19.

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women’s basketball

Blown lead

Injury on court

B y B enjamin D eans Assistant Sports Editor

B y J erry Z heng Contributor

Men’s volleyball loses ninth straight to Mac

The men’s volleyball team was on track for a winning weekend when it led the McMaster Marauders 2-0 last Saturday. But McMaster came roaring back, winning the last three sets 25-22, 26-24 and 15-11.

Five of the last seven games between the two teams have been decided in five sets. But the Gaels have lost all seven, including an OUA semifinal last season.

We relied way too “much on Joren ... and that’s not fair to him.

Fifth-years Joren Zeeman and Mike Amoroso sat on the Gaels’ bench after the game at the ARC, looking at the ground.

“We started off well and didn’t execute at the end,” Zeeman said.

Zeeman and Amoroso are the team’s two highest scorers. After going ahead 2-0 on Saturday, the team looked to the two of them to put the game away.

two wins Women’s volleyball moves to second in OUA. page 16

back on track Women’s hockey beats Ryerson to end losing skid. page 16

losing woes Men’s basketball drops to 0-4 after two losses. page 16

mixed results Men’s hockey beats Carleton, loses to McGill. page 17

Next week fall review The Journal’s sports team evaluates the Gaels’ performances this term.

The women’s basketball team returned from Waterloo with a win and a loss — but lost their starting point guard along the way.

Second-year guard Liz Boag sustained a mild concussion in Friday’s 80-60 loss to the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks and sat out for her team’s 83-52 win over the Waterloo Warriors on Saturday.

“At first glance, it doesn’t appear to be that severe,” head coach Dave Wilson said. “But the fact that she still has issues [on Monday] is very concerning.”

The Golden Hawks won Friday’s game with their rebounding — they recovered 17 more rebounds than Queen’s.

Laurier guard Felicia Mazerolle recorded 10 assists — three more than the Gaels’ combined total. photo by corey lablans Fifth-year Niko Rukavina has been playing as a libero to avoid jumping on his injured ankle.

They also converted 56 per cent of their three-pointers, compared to “We got predictable on offence,” in the first two sets. Amoroso mistakes. Even Zeeman served into 33 per cent from the Gaels. head coach Brenda Willis said. dominated the Marauders at the the net at a crucial moment in the “We came out of the gates really flat,” Wilson said. “I didn’t think we “We relied way too much on net and Zeeman was unstoppable fifth set.

“We got tentative,” Willis said. were mentally sharp and mentally Joren … and that’s not fair to him.” from the outside. But the Gaels The team was aggressive lost momentum and made sloppy See Gaels on page 19 See Tied on page 19

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— Brenda Willis, men’s volleyball coach

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Point guard suffers concussion on Friday

Figure Skating

‘It’s a sport, but it’s also an art’ Spending an early morning with the figure skating team B y A lyssa A shton Arts Editor

competitive program,” MacDonald “It’s a sport, but it’s also an said. “[But] the university program art,” co-captain Emily Young is much more collaborative and said. “Figure skating is athletic self-driven. We get more of a say in and beautiful.” our choreography.”

Although the skaters are given Because of the artistic element, control of their routines, Queen’s figure skating is the only sport Athletics chooses the outfits. The at Queen’s that offers such a skaters wear short, blue dresses. creative outlet.

“I find it actually kind of fun

There weren’t many fans at the Memorial Centre at 6 a.m. on Wednesday — but the Queen’s figure skating team wasn’t expecting much of a turnout.

“We know a boyfriend of the girl on the team is very serious if he ever comes to a practice,” co-captain Charlotte MacDonald said. “That’s a very good sign.”

On Wednesday morning, the team was preparing for today’s Queen’s Invitational at the Cataraqui Community Centre.

The skaters took turns playing their music and practicing their individual routines. The same section of Paul Anka’s cover of “Wonderwall” played at least 10 times.

The team practiced for two hours, working on solos, pairs, fours and synchronized group performances. Unlike in the competitive youth figure skating environment, most of the routines on display Wednesday morning were choreographed by the skaters themselves.

“You’re often working with a choreographer throughout your Emily Young and Gwendolyn Eadie practice their pairs routine.

because it isn’t really an out-there kind of dress, it’s a uniform,” Young said. “So I feel more varsity athlete than figure skater.”

In the past four seasons, the figure skating team has earned one silver and two bronze medals at the OUA Championship but See No on page 18

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Hot streak continues Women’s volleyball wins twice at home to improve to 6-2 and move to second place in the OUA B y A nand S rivastava Staff Writer

On Friday, the Gaels beat Billings said said she was pleased the Varsity Blues 25-18, 25-11, with the straight-set wins after 25-17 before earning another blowing a lead and losing to the The women’s volleyball team straight-set win — 25-21, 25-13, Guelph Gryphons on Nov. 11. continued their scorching start 25-11 — over the Marauders “We didn’t let [McMaster or to the season, sweeping both the on Saturday.

Toronto] in when we were up Toronto Varsity Blues and the In keeping with a trend this two [sets],” she said, “We came off McMaster Marauders at home season, outside hitters led the Gaels. last weekend disappointed in our last weekend to improve to a Natalie Gray totaled 21 kills over loss … and I think it showed in 6-2 record. The team now sits at the weekend and Becky Billings led [this week].” second in the OUA. the team with 25 digs and 13 kills.

Head coach Joely Christian-Macfarlane said the team women’s hockey has consistently improved their play on the court every week.

“It’s actually the consistency of performance, the tough serving, the strong defence that we have been training for,” she said. “[It’s] what came out in the matches.”

In previous years, Queen’s Morgan McHaffie, Shawna has run its offence primarily B y E mily L owe Staff Writer Griffin and defender Katie Duncan through the middle. But with the scored three unanswered goals to emergence of Gray and Billings, The women’s volleyball team beat the McMaster The women’s hockey team got clinch the win. Homberg said the the current team relies more on its Marauders on straight sets on Saturday night. back on track with a 6-2 victory third-period display proved the outside hitters.

“Our outside hitters were over the Ryerson Rams in Toronto Gaels can perform when it counts. on Saturday. The win came after “Once the game got pretty tight phenomenal this weekend,” consecutive road losses to the in the third period, I thought our Christian-Macfarlane said. “Our Wilfred Laurier Golden Hawks and players ... kicked it into another middle really has to be a part of the offence so that we improve and get the Toronto Varsity Blues. gear,” Holmberg said.

Head coach Matthew Holmberg With a goal and two assists, them to be a bigger threat down said although it’s early in the season, Morgan McHaffie extended her the road.” the win was important in keeping point total to 24 and continues to the Gaels competitive in the lead the OUA this season.

It’s actually the OUA standings.

“She came through with a big consistency of “The league is very tight,” he goal to make it 4-2,” Holmberg performance, the said. “Going into the game we said. “That’s what we expect out of tough serving, the were only four points up on the our leaders.” strong defence that The Gaels will look to protect ninth-place [team].”

The Gaels sit in third a 4-0 home record when they host we have been place in the OUA behind the the Guelph Gryphons on women’s training for. first-place Golden Hawks and the minor hockey appreciation day in second-place Guelph Gryphons.

Kingston on Saturday. It will be — Joely Christian-Macfarlane, a rematch of last season’s OUA women’s volleyball coach final that saw the Gaels win a The league is provincial title. very tight.

“We’ve certainly developed a The wins mark the beginning pretty good rivalry with [them] of a five-game home stand for the — Matthew Holmberg, women’s hockey coach over the past few years,” Holmberg team. The Gaels now have a week off before finishing the first half of said. “It’s a pretty big day for us.”

The Gryphons are three their season against the Ryerson Saturday’s game was closer than the 6-2 score indicated. The points ahead of the Gaels for Rams at home on Dec. 2.

Gaels only led 3-2 halfway through second- place in the OUA. the third period until forwards

Third-period rally Women’s hockey beats Ryerson 6-2

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Men’s Basketball

First win still elusive

The men’s basketball team loses twice in Waterloo, now at 0-4 B y Peter R eimer Contributor

It was never close against the Barrie said the team was 10th-ranked Golden Hawks on better in Saturday night’s game Friday night. The Gaels started against Waterloo.

“All the stats for that game The men’s basketball team slowly and trailed 43-22 at halftime. extended its regular season record Guard Mackenzie Simpson led the indicated improvement,” he said. to 0-4 after two losses on the Gaels’ 40-point second-half surge, “We were pretty sharp, we just road last weekend. The Gaels but the team couldn’t contain the didn’t make a few shots.”

The Gaels led 41-40 at halftime haven’t won a game since Oct. 3 Golden Hawks offence. thanks to a 10-0 run at the end of when they beat the Royal Military College Paladins 76-60 in an They’re not losing the second quarter. Barrie called exhibition game. for a full court press with 2:31 sight of the fact that The Gaels lost 88-62 to the remaining in the half when the we’re not trying to Gaels were down 40-31.

Wilfred Laurier Golden Hawks turn this around But Waterloo returned from on Friday and lost 79-70 to the in a week. halftime for a strong third quarter, Waterloo Warriors. Gaels forward Nikola Misljencevic posted 28 outscoring the Gaels 22-11 and points in the loss to Waterloo.

— Stephan Barrie, sealing the win. men’s basketball coach Head coach Stephan Barrie The Gaels are back at home this said his team knows there will be weekend to host the McMaster growing pains this season.

“They’re very explosive,” Barrie Marauders tonight and the Brock “They’re not losing sight of the said. “We had some things that Badgers on Saturday. Both games fact that we’re not trying to turn went well … but you really have start at 8 p.m. this around in a week,” he said. to play perfectly, and we’re not at “This is going to take the year to do.” that point.”

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Can’t beat McGill Men’s hockey beats Carleton 1-0 at the Memorial Centre but falls 6-0 in Montreal B y Peter M orrow Contributor After grinding out a 1-0 win over the Carleton Ravens on Friday, the undermanned Gaels were flattened 6-0 by the McGill Redmen in Montreal on Saturday.

The Gaels ended a three-game losing streak with a win over the Ravens at the Memorial Centre. Gaels goaltender Riley Whitlock earned his first shutout of the season, stopping 36 shots.

“Absolutely huge win,” head coach Brett Gibson said of the win over Carleton. “We beat a team that’s probably one of the top teams in the country, and that gives us confidence.”

In the four years I’ve been “with the team, we haven’t been able to beat McGill.

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— Brett Gibson, men’s hockey coach Gibson had his team playing a specific system on Friday, where players moved the puck deep into the Ravens’ zone and threw big hits to apply pressure. Forward Jordan Soquila ended the second period with a devastating body check on Carleton’s Michael Folkes.

“We were the more physical of the two teams, which might have been the first time this year,” Gibson said.

Gibson’s system paid off in the third period when relentless forward pressure

caused Ravens goalie Matthew Dopud to lose the puck behind the Carleton net.

Forward Kelly Jackson recovered the puck and scored before Dopud could return to his crease.

“Christmas came early,” Jackson said of his game-winning goal. “A gift doesn’t come that easy.”

The Gaels fell to the McGill Redmen in a 6-0 decision Saturday night, extending their losing record against the Redmen to eight games.

“In the four years I’ve been with the team, we haven’t been able to beat McGill,” assistant captain Scott Kenway said.

A combined total of 96 penalty minutes were handed out Saturday.

“Things really started to get rough by the end of the game,” Kenway said. “We were definitely showing signs of frustration throughout the whole game.”

The Gaels’ injury crisis worsened last week. Forward Joey Derochie broke his leg in practice, adding another name to an The men’s hockey team celebrates forward Kelly Jackson’s winning goal injured list that includes defenceman Robert during the third period against the Carleton Ravens on Friday.

Stellick and forward Jordan Mirwaldt.

Forward Payton Liske is also out indefinitely for personal reasons.

Last weekend’s results mean the Gaels remain eighth in the OUA with 13 points.

The Gaels host the fifth-place Ottawa Gee-Gees tonight and the second-place University of Quebec at Trois-Rivières Patriotes tomorrow at the Memorial Centre.

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Send us an email at journal_sports@ams.queensu.ca

Injury status After breaking his leg in practice last week, forward Joey Derochie joins a growing list of injured men’s hockey players.

OUT UNTIL JANUARY 1 • Defenceman Robert Stellick — lower-body • Defenceman Patrick McEachen — upper-body • Defenceman Jordan Soquila — lower-body • Forward Jordan Mirwaldt — lower-body OUT FOR THE SEASON • Forward Joey Derochie — lower-body • Forward Brock Ouellet — lower-body • Forward David Fitzpatrick — undisclosed

big games this weekend Basketball teams at home

Women’s hockey hosts Guelph

The men’s and women’s basketball teams play the McMaster Marauders tonight and the Brock Badgers tomorrow. All games are at the ARC. The men’s game against the Badgers will be streamed live on www.gogaelsgo.com.

The women’s hockey team takes on the Guelph Gryphons at 3:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Memorial Centre.

Men’s hockey play two in Kingston

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Queen’s Invitational today The figure skating teams hosts the Queen’s Invitational at the Cataraqui Community Centre today.

The men’s hockey team hosts the Ottawa Gee-Gees tonight and the UQTR Water polo OUA Championship in Ottawa Patriotes tomorrow. The Gee-Gees are eighth while the Patriotes are second in The water polo teams travel to Carleton the OUA East. Both games are 7:30 p.m. for tomorrow’s OUA Championship. The at the Memorial Centre. medal round takes place on Sunday.

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looks different from what the average fan would expect.

“There are no lifts or throws that would make us look like a man and women,” she said. “[It] adds a different element that no one with a competitive figure skating background has ever done before.”

The skaters still have to meet regulations set by Skate Canada in terms of required moves, music and rhythms. Aaron Springford,

hasn’t received much attention for it. MacDonald said it’s hard for friends to remember she’s on the figure skating team because her training occurs before they wake up.

“People remember that you’re on the team eventually,” she said.

“But they never register how much time you’re putting into it because it’s time that they don’t even count in their life because they’re not awake.”

MacDonald and Young said each of the skaters has their own way of preparing for morning practices.

“I [have] like a four-minute getting ready process,” MacDonald said. “The alarm goes off at 5:30 a.m. and I’m out the door by 5:36 a.m., I have it timed to the minute.”

Young said her alarm is set for 5:15 a.m. but that she “hits snooze a couple times.”

Both captains are in the Queen’s School of Business and often have night-time group meetings — meaning they can’t get to bed before midnight.

“I’ve just become a master napper,” MacDonald said, recalling how she’s used to taking 20-minute naps in between classes.

Only two of 20 skaters are male and they both compete in the male singles event. All pairs and fours routines are performed by the female skaters. MacDonald said a pairs routine with two females Teal MacKintosh pulls off a spin.

one of the team’s head coaches, said his job is to be an advisor. He often stepped in on Wednesday to correct a skater’s movement or to advise a pair on whether their routine looked awkward.

“We’re facilitators ... the skaters know what they need to do,” Springford said. “We’re just there to be a second set of eyes, lend some expertise when we can.”

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“We didn’t put the nails in the coffin when we had the opportunity.”

The loss came after some hiccups in the Gaels’ 3-1 win over the Toronto Varsity Blues last Friday.

The Gaels were ahead 2-0, but dropped the third set 25-21 when Willis played her rookies.

Willis said she wanted to rest Zeeman and Amoroso for Saturday, since neither has fully recovered from nagging injuries sustained in pre-season tournaments. “[Zeeman’s] probably 85 [per cent], maybe even a bit more,” she said, “but he still has to go to therapy every day.”

You don’t stop “Joren.

You try to control him.

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— Dave Preston, Marauders head coach

The Gaels didn’t take advantage of an incomplete Marauders team on Saturday. McMaster’s leading scorer — outside Jeremy Groenveld — missed the game with a lower body injury.

McMaster head coach Dave Preston said he expects the Gaels to improve during the season. “[Queen’s is] a good team,” he said. “They’re better than their record … They’re dealing with issues just like everyone else is dealing with their team’s issues.”

Preston said his team needed to work on defence, but that it handled Zeeman well.

“You don’t stop Joren,” he said.

“You try to control him.”

The Gaels are tied for fifth in the OUA with a 3-4 record. The Marauders are second in the OUA at 6-2.

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Fourth-year libero Alex Oneid goes for a dig during the men’s volleyball team’s 3-1 win over the Toronto Varsity Blues.

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ready to play.”

Guard Paige Robinson joined the Gaels’ starting lineup on Saturday against the Warriors to replace Boag, with shooting guard Brittany Moore taking over point guard duties.

“Our roster is quite deep and we have players that can step in and pick up the slack,” Wilson said.

Moore scored 26 points

and added three assists in only 20 minutes of play against the Warriors. Guard Lisa Minutillo relieved Moore in the second half, posting 12 points.

The Gaels are 3-1, tied for first with the Toronto Varsity Blues in the OUA East standings. They host the Brock Badgers tonight and the McMaster Marauders tomorrow.

Both games start at 6 p.m. at the ARC.

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postscript Professional puppeteer Annie Milne performs with marionettes, puppets controlled from above by strings, at the Upper Canada Academy of Performing Arts in Kingston.

photos by corey lablans

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Power of puppets Presence of puppetry in popular culture can be traced back thousands of years B y J essica F ishbein Postscript Editor Contrary to what you might think, Kermit the Frog descends from an ancient artistic tradition.

Queen’s drama professor Natalie Rewa says puppetry brings inanimate objects to life as a means of storytelling.

In Canada, there’s a strong tradition of puppetry in rituals and theatrical performances.

“The First Nations had different kinds of puppets and performing objects,” Rewa said. “The idea of animating something that might look like a human or animal has been around forever.”

The use of puppets as a storytelling technique can be traced back to ancient societies.

Marionette puppets, controlled from above using wires or strings, were even found in Egyptian tombs, and both Plato and Aristotle’s work reference the use of puppets.

In the modern world, the Muppets are perhaps the most famous example of puppets, with the ubiquitous Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy appearing in film and television programs.

This week saw a Hollywood revival of Kermit and friends with the release of the film The Muppets, starring Jason Segel and Amy Adams.

However, according to Rewa, the Muppets have garnered debate among puppeteers.

“Many puppeteers think the Muppets are the demise of real puppetry,” Rewa said. “They simplify everything. Part of puppetry was the artist making the puppet and the tricks that the puppeteer could do with the puppet.”

The Muppets were created by American puppeteer Jim Henson in 1954. The name for his unique characters is thought to come from a combination of the words “marionette” and “puppet.”

“With the Muppets it became fuzzy, small and not too complicated in manipulation,” Rewa said.

The Muppets are a variation of conventional rod puppets, controlled with wooden or wire rods.

While the Muppets are presented as independent of the puppeteer, this isn’t the case with all puppetry. Whether or not the puppeteer chooses to remain

hidden is a personal choice among performers.

Despite controversy in the puppetry community, Rewa said the Muppets brought the public’s attention to the art of puppetry.

“What Jim Henson did was bring it back into the limelight.

People realized you could have puppets that engendered emotion,” she said. “We began to love them.”

The Muppets included prominent puppets such as Bert and Ernie from the children’s television program, Sesame Street. They have characteristics typical of Henson’s puppets, including protruding eyes and wide mouths.

One beneficial outcome of the Muppet’s for prospective puppeteers was economic support, Rewa said.

“Puppeteers were employed.

There wasn’t much of a call for puppeteers on a large scale before this … [The Muppets] were an important phenomenon economically.”

However, puppets don’t just cater to an audience of children.

Ronnie Burkett is a Canadian puppeteer whose work appeals to an adult audience. Of all working puppeteers, Rewa cites Burkett as her favourite.

Many puppeteers “think the Muppets

are the demise of real puppetry ... They simplify everything.

”

— Natalie Rewa, drama professor

She said Burkett’s known for politically-charged puppet shows, with shows including Tinka’s New Dress which chronicles the struggles of artists in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia.

Like many puppeteers, Burkett’s talents are multifaceted, Rewa said.

He writes, designs and performs his

puppet shows — which can take years to build. “[It] depends on the show … there is the development of the script, and creation of the figures who will be used to perform, also there is work with a composer to develop music for the production,” Rewa said.

Burkett uses marionettes which present additional physical challenges to the puppeteer, Rewa said.

“You’re dealing with gravity — you have to go against gravity with the puppet that you’re pulling up. You have to have a strong back,” she said.

Marionettes are a common form of puppetry in Western societies, but styles of puppetry vary depending on the cultural context.

For example, Bunraku, or Japanese puppet theatre, requires three puppeteers for the operation of one puppet while Vietnamese water puppetry features puppeteers

who are semi-submerged in a waist-deep pool.

Shadow puppetry, found places like Indonesia, India and China, requires that a puppet is manipulated from behind a screen to create a silhouette.

While some people consider a ventriloquist to be a type of puppeteer, Rewa said, ventriloquism is a distinct art in itself.

Ventriloquism involves a unique kind of voice manipulation.

“Ventroloquist dummies are a form of puppetry but we have not explored it in class … one year there was a student who worked on this form and found it to be very complex,” she said.

Ultimately, Rewa said any type of puppetry has effects on both the audience and puppeteer.

“The puppeteer builds emotional bond with puppet, and the audience bonds with the puppet in emotional way.”

Educating student puppeteers Queen’s drama professor Natalie Rewa incorporates the creation and dramatization of puppets into her classes.

Rewa said her students often find certain elements of the class, Storytelling and Puppetry, difficult.

“It was hard to build a story and build objects to tell that story,” she said. “It was a lot of reusing materials and salvaging.”

An element of Rewa’s class involves students dramatizing news stories with puppets. She said one example explores the conflicts regarding land of the First Nations and of farmers near Sharbot Lake, a community north of Kingston.

“Students used puppets to explore the uranium mining issue in Sharbot Lake,” she said.

“Students had to do research on the issue and see how it could be dramatized.”

In 2008, Frontenac Ventures was granted legal permission to mine uranium in Aboriginal land.

Transcripts of meetings and newspaper clippings were the basis of scripts for puppet shows, Rewa said.

“Students learned a whole speech from Four Directions [Aboriginal Student Centre] and had to translate it … they learned of the response from the First Nations and reenacted it with puppets,” she said, adding that students used materials including a rake and broken machinery to build the puppets.

Rewa said her students don’t impose limits on what they could use to build puppets.

“They made marionettes out of pop cans. They began to see world around them as material for puppetry,” she said.

The students’ self-made puppet shows were ultimately believable, Rewa said.

“They reduced each motion … to express what they felt was necessary. When they did that with conviction, it was believable,” she said. “It created a new kind

of energy.”

After designing and performing with puppets, Rewa said some of her students express interest in pursuing puppetry as a career.

“One student who graduated will become a puppeteer,” she said.

“He’s quick between developing the relationship between language and movement.”

Not all students who have taken her puppetry classes are in drama, though. Rewa said she had students in her puppetry classes from the Cultural Studies and German departments.

A puppeteer’s indifference results in a poor puppet, Rewa said.

“When a puppeteer said, ‘I don’t really care about puppets’ or ‘This is a stupid exercise’ then it created a bad puppet,” she said. “Some students didn’t take it seriously. You get that in every course.

However, students often didn’t require her assistance when creating puppets, she said.

“Students could tell each other ‘That’s boring’ or ‘That needs work,’” she said. “It was active learning … the idea of making something that you’ve imagined is difficult. They were hard on themselves and could tell if they didn’t create a good puppet.”

Rewa has used puppetry as an educational tool for students of a wide variety of ages.

In the early '80s, Rewa used paper-bag glove puppets to help Grade 2 students learn to read in Toronto.

According to Rewa, puppets were instrumental in the children’s learning.

“If a student holds a puppet in their hands they can dissociate it from something that is similar to them,” she said. “Students would use the puppet and then correct the puppet when they read.”

Rewa’s class, DRAM 439, Storytelling and Puppetry, will run in the winter term.