The Queen's Journal, Issue 23

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Bands members report assault B y C lare C lancy J ake E dmiston Editors in Chief

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An off-campus attack on a Queen’s Bands member was reported to Campus Security last week.

University officials say the incident was one of four “acts of intimidation” on Bands members since the Nov. 17 suspension of Bands performances for the remainder of the fall term.

Campus Security director David Patterson confirmed that the Kingston Police Major Crimes Unit is currently investigating the assault.

It was reported that the assault occurred at 2 a.m. last Friday.

Kingston Police media relations didn’t respond to interview requests from the Journal. Patterson didn’t provide further details on the assault.

The reported assault on the female Bands member is the only known instance of physical violence against Bands members.

The other three reported incidents were cited as verbal assault.

A member of the Queen’s Bands executive said the female student was hospitalized for head injuries and has physically recovered.

“Some of our membership have been afraid to leave their homes,” said the executive member who chose to remain anonymous for

safety reasons. “Queen’s Bands as a whole feels isolated and ostracized due to the reaction of the Administration, AMS and the media.”

The AMS and University administration suspended the Bands after uncovering materials

circulated by the Bands that were “The Banner,” was discontinued deemed offensive. The Journal in September. published a story on Nov. 18, The executive member told the quoting from an internal Bands Journal the assault victim wasn’t newsletter and the Queen’s wearing any clothing to indicate Bands Songbook. her affiliation with Queen’s Bands.

Bands executive members “Due to being one of the most said publishing of the newsletter, See No on page 7

Surface beauty

Vic Hall fire alarms decrease The number of fire alarms pulled in Victoria Hall residence has significantly decreased from last year.

In the fall term of 2010 there were a total of 26 fire alarms pulled from September to November. So far this term there has been one malicious fire alarm.

Bruce Griffiths, director of Queen’s Housing and Hospitality Services, said this decrease resulted from many new initiatives including the installation of video cameras in the Victoria Hall lobby and stairwells.

“Cameras are a useful tool along with safety education, additional locks in stairwells, the hiring of a Security Supervisor, the campus safety website, etc,” Griffiths told the Journal via email.

Last year, a malicious fire alarm meant Kingston Fire and Rescue was delayed from an emergency incident that led to a death.

Griffiths said an investigation into applying these methods to other buildings around campus will begin in the new year.

“A broader assessment [of] some of our initiatives, including cameras and lighting, will take place in the coming months,” he said.

— Catherine Owsik

The Ugly One, a one-act play by 5th Company Lane Productions, is the story of a man who has had plastic surgery and struggles to find himself. See review at queensjournal.ca/arts.

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Tea Room

Café produces zero consumer waste All products purchased from the Tea Room have recyclable or compostable packaging C atherine O wsik Assistant News Editor Tea Room officials say the campus coffee shop is now the only café in Canada with zero

consumer waste.

Head manager Andrew Dean said consumers can recycle all packaging or hand it back to the café to be composted.

The final step in achieving this

goal was implemented on Nov. 21 after the Tea Room found a compostable alternative to plastic wrap. Now the service uses a cellulose-based polymer sheet to wrap food. Dean said it took over

Features

Sports

Postscript

Socialist writer Richard Dufour speaks on the Occupy protests.

Men’s hockey struggles through November.

Three homemade recipes for the holidays.

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a year to find a California-based supplier of the product.

“It’s a very new technology that’s just kind of being rolled out, it’s definitely not main-stream yet,” Dean, Sci ’12, said. “It looks exactly the same as plastic wrap but it’s different in that it isn’t self-adhesive.”

The café has used compostable coffee cups since it opened in 2006. Since then, the Tea Room implemented compostable stir sticks and cutlery.

Any biodegradable material handed back to the Tea Room is either composted in vermicomposter bins, located on site at the Integrated Learning Centre, or taken to a local composting facility.

Dean said it takes several months for the worms to fully degrade See Green on page 7

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AMS to announce retailers in Queen’s Centre AMS to finalize retail spaces in the Queen’s Centre at Board of Trustees meeting on Friday B y S avoula S tylianou Assistant News Editor The AMS will finalize the two retailers to fill the empty spaces in the Queen’s Centre at a Board of Trustees meeting Friday.

Due to negotiations taking longer than expected, the new retailers will open in March 2012.

“Both contracts are for five-year terms with renewal clauses,” AMS President Morgan Campbell said.

On Sept. 16, the Journal reported that an agreement was finalized in August to put two new services in the spaces in the Student Life Centre in October and December.

The AMS took control of the Student Life Centre (SLC) buildings on May 1 after the Operations and Management agreement received approval from the Board of Trustees.

The SLC is comprised of the JDUC, Grey House, MacGillivray-Brown Hall and portions of the Queen’s Centre not including the Athletics and Recreation Centre.

The services will have no effect on the other food vendors currently offered to students, Campbell, ArtSci ’12 said.

“The Farmer’s Market and other food services will continue to operate as usual,” she said.

Campbell said the two new vendors will fit the mandate of the Queen’s Centre very well.

She declined to specify what kind of retailers will move into the Queen’s Centre.

“Both tenants are going to satisfy the AMS’s mission for supporting a healthy student lifestyle,” she said.

AMS vice president of operations Ashley Eagan said taking control of the SLC buildings has been a smooth process for the AMS. “Now that the AMS manages the space, we are able to actively program activities, performances, fundraisers and give back to students with ease,” Eagan, BFA ’11, said.

In September, the Journal reported that construction on MacGillivray-Brown Hall would be complete by mid-October.

Eagan said construction was actually completed during the first

week of November.

“Mid-October was our set timeline.

Generally during construction or renovation projects you can give or take a few weeks,” she said. “Prior to this year, the gymnasium floor was occupied by permanent cubicles from Student Affairs,” she said.

“In September, we had the cubicles demolished, the floor patched, and then a solid refinishing.”

Eagan said the total cost of renovations for MacGillivrayBrown Hall would come to around $30,000.

“I can confirm that the estimate for the fall term is $12,500 for the floor, $11,500 for the cubicle demolition and $3,200 for the installation of the door,” Eagan said.

Additional costs will be incurred in the winter term, but the project looks to be on par with the budget for the construction.

“The only cost that will be incurred next term for renovations will be $2,275 for the installation of a water fountain and possibly $800 for the renovation of the downstairs bathrooms.”

Eagan said the AMS will be completing the partnership with Athletics and Recreation in December and that the space will be shared come January.

“The gymnasium will be shared between the AMS and Athletics and Recreation to maximize the space to the most student groups possible,” she said.

Since the AMS has taken control of the SLC buildings, the JDUC has been “rejuvenated” at a total cost of $26,000, she said. Sixteen new pieces of lounge furniture in the lower ceilidh have also been added.

“Trees and plant life have been infused throughout the building and a new PA system has been installed, allowing the office to communicate to students throughout the building or [play] music throughout building hours.”

According to the Student Life Centre Constitution portion of the Operations and Management agreement, the Student Life Centre Council was mandated to meet a minimum of five times a year. Eagan said the council has

decided to meet more frequently.

“For this year, and I believe for the next two or three, it will be necessary for the SLC Council and the by-law and policy committees to meet once a month in order to ensure a smooth transition,” she said. “We needed to increase the meetings due to the volume of work that needs to be completed during this transitional year of the Student Life Centre from the management of Student Affairs to the AMS.” There are 16 members who sit on SLC Council, including the dean of student affairs, the AMS and SGPS presidents, an alumni representative and three undergraduate students at large.

At the Mar. 4 and 5 Board of Trustees meeting, it was decided that if the University and the AMS could not reach an agreement on the AMS’ capital contribution to the Queen’s Centre that their control over the SLC buildings would be revoked.

“It is very unlikely that this would happen,” Eagan said.

Eagan could not comment on the AMS’s capital contribution to the Queen’s Centre because resolution talks are still ongoing.

Construction on MacGillivray-Brown Hall included tearing out cubicles in the gym and refinishing the floor.

Photo by Justin Chin

Mental health

Visits increase this year Peer Support Centre has had 150 visits this semester B y S avoula S tylianou Assistant News Editor

specifically the sexual assault and using social media.”

The number of student domestic violence unit,” she said.

Yassa said as the centre has volunteers has also increased from expanded, there has been more Visits to the Queen’s Peer Support about 30 to 50 this year, she said.

Yassa said the awareness opportunity for different kinds Centre have drastically increased surrounding mental health issues of training. this year.

“This is the first year we’ve been This semester the Peer Support at Queen’s has been a positive step able to have training from Four Centre has seen 150 visits so far, forward for the university.

“All of the awareness about Directions and Learning Strategies. compared to 100 visits over the mental health issues on campus Last year was the first year that it entire 2010-11 academic year.

Evette Yassa, a marketing and can only foster an environment was even remotely fully functional,” outreach co-ordinator for the where people can ask for help if she said.

Yassa said she sees a wide variety centre, said in 2009-10 there were they need it.” only seven visits during the entire The centre is funded from the of people come in to use the centre.

“Sometimes we don’t necessarily year. The centre was created budget alloted by AMS Assembly need the information of what year in 2007. to the Social Issues Commission.

“A major factor has been the Yassa said the Peer Support they’re in. From what I’ve seen, increase in outreach this year. We Centre is a supplementary to I’ve had a various range of different distribute a lot of promotional professional care like Health, people come in,” she said.

Though the peer support centre materials,” Yassa, ArtSci ’11, said. Counselling and Disability is an AMS service, Yassa said there “To add to our outreach, we’re Services (HCDS).

“We are not trying nor could we are still programs specifically tailored to helping graduate and replace professional care.” contributors of the month The Peer Support Centre made professional students even though they don’t contribute fiscally to management changes this year.

“Part of what we did was to the centre.

“We’ve also had training create a permanent infrastructure, including the creation of from Society of Graduate and Professional Studies representatives management positions,” she said.

Yassa said everyone who works to train us about issues that at the centre must undergo a are specific to those students,” Yassa said. minimum of 27 hours of training.

The SGPS doesn’t financially “There’s been a huge difference to the Peer in the amount of training in terms contribute of hours and the kind of things Support Centre.

Simona Markovik Brittany Johnston Peter Morrow Mike Condra, director of we’re trained in,” she said.

Volunteers must go through HCDS, has also led mental health Simona demonstrates excellent Brittany not only wrote a nuanced Peter joined the sports team in understanding of the technical side review of Black Comedy, but she October without any experience. positive space training, equity and awareness and response training of photography and has artistic wrote it right after seeing the play. Just over a month later, he’s anti-oppression training from the for the volunteers.

“He does delve into specific abilities to compose an aesthetically She is always willing to take on new already published seven articles. Social Issues Commission, training appealing photograph. Keep Arts assignments and keeps her eyes Through his hockey knowledge from disability services and issues that are prevalent in the pushing the limits and producing on the art scene, suggesting stories and his hunger for the most training from the Four Directions Queen’s community,” Yassa said.

“He’s discussed anxiety, depression nice work. she thinks should be covered. interesting angle, he produced a Aboriginal Centre.

“We have also received training and eating disorders.” feature worthy of its spot. from [Kingston General Hospital],

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Increasingly, the state is taking on new powers to ... take measure against those who are protesting their policies.

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Occupy Kingston

Socialist writer speaks to students Richard Dufour discusses the Occupy movement with students and Kingston locals in Dunning Hall last week B y J anina E nrile Assistant Features Editor A representative for an international socialist group visited campus last week, dubbing the Occupy movement the new socialist struggle.

Signs in the auditorium read “Jobs for everyone!” and “For socialism!”

The event garnered the most attention a socialist club has seen on campus this year. The Queen’s chapter of the International Students for Social Equality (ISSE) hosted the public meeting called “Occupy Movement and Beyond” last week.

The meeting attracted 12 people to Dunning Hall to hear Richard Dufour’s address.

Dufour writes for the World Socialist Website, an online publication of the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI).

The ICFI was founded by Leon Trotsky in 1938. Sixty years later, the ICFI founded its website, soliciting Dufour to help with the launch.

The Kingston ISSE is one of 10 chapters of the Socialist Equality Party and ICFI. “The ISSE is a student movement of the ICFI. This organization traces its roots to the movement founded by Leon Trotsky ... expelled from the Third International and the Communist Party around the world after Stalin came to power,” ISSE executive Graham Beverley said.

“Subsequently, our political movement [the ICFI] and life was subjected to a campaign of physical violence that culminated in hundreds of thousands of killings in the USSR.” Beverley, ArtSci ‘12 wouldn’t disclose the exact number of group members, but estimated the figure to be “a couple dozen.”

“Our movement takes the security of its members very

seriously,” he said. “In that sense it doesn’t willingly provide a lot of organizational information.”

He said the group of six executive members will host 12 more meetings before the end of the school year.

“We go through specific historical and political issues,” he said, adding that they are hoping to facilitate discussion on issues through the public meeting structure.

Beverley helped ratify the Queen’s chapter of ISSE as an AMS club in 2009.

“Fundamentally, the political options that we have offered to students at Queen’s is insufficient and the ISSE is here to fill that political vacuum in the left,” he said, citing a lack of information regarding Marxist and socialist theory in the classroom.

“We wanted to propagate those ideas and form an organization to act on that perspective,” Beverley said.

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Obviously those who are involved in the Occupy movement, even in those smaller places like Kingston, have the right motivations to “ take action.

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— Richard Dufour, writer for the World Socialist Website ISSE meetings typically gather about six people. Beverley attributes increased attendance at the latest meeting to Dufour’s discussion of the Occupy protests.

After nearly two months of protest, a decision on the eviction of Occupy Kingston protesters in Confederation Park will be put to vote at city council on Dec. 6.

Eviction of groups in the worldwide movement began in mid-November.

According to Dufour, the

Occupy Wall Street movement is the beginning of a new socialist struggle.

“It raises very critical questions, in particular the question of massive growth of social inequality today,” Dufour told the audience at Dunning.

“The socialist movement is all about the struggle for social equality to the extent that social equality [is] carried out.”

He said the older, working class generations are important in the Occupy movement.

“Those who have perhaps gone through the experiences in the past ... will bring the lessons from those former struggles,” Dufour said, adding that energetic youth will play a central role in the new movement.

It’s this energy that can make or break the movement as its various chapters face eviction, he said.

Around 200 protesters in Zuccotti Park, New York, were evicted by city order on Nov. 15.

Dufour said that incidents like this, when the governing body seems to turn against its citizens, are related to events like the riots at the 2010 G20 summit in Toronto.

Police violence at the riots continues to be heavily criticized.

“Basic democratic rights were basically violated,” he said. “People were shocked to see things like that could happen in Canada.”

Dufour said “anti-democratic measures” are gaining prominence in society.

“A number of laws have been passed under the cover of the anti-terror struggle,” he said. “Laws have been passed to allow the state to drop eaves on conversations, on telephone conversations, emails and so on.

“Increasingly, the state is taking on new powers to ... take measure against those who are protesting their policies.”

In 2005, the American government extended their Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA)

Protesters occupied St. James Park in Toronto this month as part of a wider movement advocating for global equity.

Photo by Justin Chin

Graham Beverley helped ratify the Queen’s chapter of the International Students for Social Equality as an AMS club in 2009.

to apply to public broadband networks. CALEA allows the government to pursue lawful interception for the purpose of law enforcement and criminal investigation.

“All these measures taken together represent ... the turn of the ruling establishment away from key democratic principles,” Dufour said. “The problem with that approach is society is still divided into various classes with various interests ... One cannot evade the class issues and class struggles.”

A lack of clear leadership caused the Occupy protests to fizzle out, Dufour said, adding that it was misguided for protesters to focus on appealing to their government.

“There was no real attempt to go into working class neighbourhoods, workplaces, factories, offices where workers work, and try to appeal to those and raise the issues of inequality, of the anti-democratic measures and so on,” he said.

Dufour said the people who should have rightfully pursued this

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cause couldn’t afford to leave their jobs for the protest.

“Of course, it is a complex issue,” Dufour said. “But we do believe a new period is opening up where the working class will again come into struggle, notwithstanding the complexities and difficulties. “[They will] risk involvement in terms of jobs, but we do feel the spirit of self-sacrifice and solidarity will again re-emerge and play a dominant role in the outlook of everyday working people.”

Looming threats to Occupy Kingston are telling of an unsteady future, Dufour said, adding that smaller protests can add up.

“Obviously those who are involved in the Occupy movement, even in those smaller places like Kingston, have the right motivations to take action,” he said. “At the same time, we believe the movement or these issues go way beyond these small Occupy movements.

“The extent that they limit themselves to small protests [by] not looking outwards in particular to the general working population ... [means] connecting the issues of inequality with the everyday problems then becomes difficult.”

According to Dufour, socialism’s future will be marked by struggle.

He said he predicts a fight against international demands for less funding in healthcare, education and social programs. “[The class of] working people should develop its own social demands, its own advocates, its own rights — the right to a job, the right to healthcare, the right to education — their social rights,” he said.

“That’s why a political party is required to advocate those rights and fight for them and organize the struggle for them.”

— With files from Terra-Ann Arnone

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fundRaisinG

PhysEd students fundraise to save course An outdoor education course requires $20,000 of fundraising in order to remain an option B y m eaGhan wray Assistant News Editor Physical Education (PHE) students held a Camp Day fundraiser on Nov. 25 in an attempt to save a half-credit course.

PACT 338, nicknamed Camp School, lost full funding two years ago due to University budget cuts.

The course takes PHE students on a weeklong trip during Frosh Week to Camp Oconto.

In 2009, a Save the Camp committee raised the $20,000 necessary to keep the program in operation for two years. Now, the committee will need another $20,000 to ensure the course runs until at least 2013.

Steve Gillies, co-chair of the committee, said the committee sold T-shirts, baked goods and homemade bookmarks, raising approximately $400 at the Nov. 25 event.

“We set up a bunch of banners, played music, just tried to raise awareness about what Camp School was and why we’re trying to save it,” Gillies, PheKin ’13, said.

Gillies couldn’t provide an estimate of how much more needs to be raised.

“A lot. There’s $20,000… that we need to keep it going for the

next two years,” he said.

The program, once funded by the department, has PHE students participate in two days of basic camping training, learning skills like how to set up tarps and start campfires.

figured “that[Queen’s] it would be an

easy one to just cut and save some money and no one would really notice, but it’s a big part for the students that do get to take it.

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— Steve Gillies, PheKin ’13

Gillies said the loss in funding is similar to other course cuts, like the most recent admissions suspension to the Fine Arts program.

“They figured that it’d be an easy one to just cut and save some money and no one would really notice,” he said. “But it’s a big part for the students that do get to take it.”

The last five days of the trip includes a canoe trip, during which students travel in boats 20 kilometres for a day.

At the end of the trip, each student must complete a test and an essay based on their experience.

Alumni have been financially supportive of the fundraising committee, Gillies said, adding that the outdoor education course is a highlight for many alumni.

“We had a couple [of alumni] go by on Friday and they were kind of shocked that it was no longer [being funded] and they gave us some pretty big donations.”

The loss of PACT 338 could result in losing the connection with Camp Oconto, Gillies said. The loss would impact both Kinesiology and Physical Education students.

“Because they’re both kind of there, [Camp Oconto] knows that we … will be coming back every year,” he said. “Once we lose that, then it would be on campus.”

Cancelling the camp would negatively affect how Physical Education and Kinesiology students bond, Gillies said.

“It’s something that the students are passionate about,” he said. “We feel that strongly about it and we’re going to … make sure that future generations can keep having the same experience.”

SPARTAN HEALTH Realize Your Dreams SCIENCES UNIVERSITY Steve Gillies, PheKin ‘13, says the loss of the PACT 338 course would be detrimental to the ways in which Physical Education and Kinesiology students interact with each other.

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neWs in brief dancers win bronze

at the Kingston General Hospital and the Molecular Haemostasis Laboratory.

A team of 20 researchers working with Dr. Lillicrap have been trying to develop a cure, using gene therapy, for haemophilia.

Von Willebrand disease, Dr. James’ specialty, isn’t as well known as haemophilia but affects a greater number of people.

The research hopes to improve the identification process of people affected by either blood disorder.

Flow Dance Club placed third in the Nov. 26 Ontario University Competition for hip hop (OUCH).

Flow executive member Jamie Jia Shen said this is the first year the club — comprised of 16 performing members — has placed at OUCH. “Queen’s was never part of the competition until last year,” Shen, ArtSci ’12, said. “This year’s really the first time we knew what we were doing.”

-— Meaghan Wray Shen said she was surprised the group placed this year.

Residences save energy “We weren’t expecting any placement because it’s only our second time, so we’re pretty happy,” she said.

Harkness International Hall won this year’s The competition included 12 teams of annual Residence Energy Challenge (REC). college and university dance teams that The REC encourages students in residence performed routines in front of five judges. to decrease their energy use.

Durham College placed first followed Some green methods implemented

by Carleton University. The competition included turning off lights more often, taking provided no monetary awards. shorter showers and using drying racks for Shen has been involved with Flow since washed clothes. her second year at Queen’s and said the During a three-week period the energy group helps foster a hip-hop community consumption of each residence building is in Kingston. measured and then compared to last year’s “It’s not to win medals, it’s more for the three-week total. love of dancing, the love of community,” she Together all of the residences decreased said. “Flow is a family.” a total of 21,845 kilowatt hours during the competition.

— Katherine Fernandez-Blance Harkness decreased the most amount of energy use. The money saved will go towards installing sustainable features in the Profs win research award building.

Students living in Harkness also won The National Haemophilia Foundation recently awarded two Queen’s pathology free entry into a glow in the dark party and molecular medicine professors the title hosted by the Main Campus Residence Council (MCRC). of Researcher of the Year.

The competition aims to teach students Dr. David Lillicrap and Dr. Paula James have worked to improve the lives of patients about sustainable lifestyles. with bleeding disorders, such a haemophilia — Catherine Owsik and von Willebrand disease. Both disorders cause abnormal bleeding due to a lack of blood clotting.

Queen’s research has been conducted

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An era of ‘disappointment’ Event discusses Canada’s role in global human rights issues B y J ordan r ay Contributor

“You might argue that as a way criticizes Israel’s human rights record,” Neve said. “Sometimes human rights organization you we have been the only country to don’t want longevity,” Neve said.

Canada has been regressive with vote no, isolated even from our “But 50 years has been a time of considerable ups and downs within human rights in recent decades, traditional European allies.”

Neve said one of the challenges human rights activism.” says the Canadian Secretary Amnesty International was General for Amnesty International. Amnesty International currently Alex Neve spoke on campus at faces is motivating people to act on founded in 1961 after British lawyer Peter Benenson started an event hosted by the Queen’s important human rights issues.

“A hallmark of Amnesty’s a campaign in response to the chapter of Amnesty International activism always has been, and arrest of two Portuguese students on Nov. 27.

This year marks the 50th even in this era continues to be, advocating for freedom in Lisbon.

“He was confident that there anniversary of the human trying to make it as human and personal as possible,” he said. “It’s would be millions of people around rights organization.

Neve said Canada had earned crucial to come back to people with the world that would feel exactly that same sense of outrage [that a reputation as a human rights good news.”

Neve joined Amnesty he was feeling],” Neve said. “If champion by participating in peacekeeping missions and International in the mid-1980s you could gather up that collective ending the apartheid regime in while attending law school at outrage ... wouldn’t it become a Dalhousie University. He said tremendous and irresistible force South Africa.

Unfortunately after 50 years of human rights in Canada has for change and for justice?” progress there are still challenges changed over the years. that need to be addressed, he said.

“The laurels grow distant,” he told the crowd of over 25 people in Dunning Hall. “If the past has been an era of leadership, sadly I have to say that we have now moved into the era of, to say the least, disappointment.”

Neve said one example is Canada’s role in dealing with matters concerning the Middle East.

“For several years now we have photo by Justin Chin voted consistently against any and Alex Neve, Canadian Secretary General for Amnesty every UN resolution that in any International, spoke to students about Canadian human rights activism.

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prominent and visual student organizations on campus, our membership can be [and] has been identified without wearing bands clothing or discussing Queen’s Bands in public,” the executive member said.

“A number of members have been verbally assaulted both on and off campus … intimidation has come from students, employers, professors and community members.”

Following last Friday’s incident, members of the administration and the AMS met with the Bands executive on Friday. University Provost Allan Harrison was among the administrators who met with the Bands.

“We will not tolerate this,” Harrison said in an interview.

“We find it inappropriate and Campbell said that on Friday, two unbecoming of what we believe members from Queen’s Bands the Queen’s community should executive came to her to raise concerns about Bands members’ be about.”

The Provost said no perpetrators personal safety.

“We were dealing with it within had been identified as of Tuesday.

Harrison said incidents of verbal an hour,” she said. “There’s really aggression towards Band members no rationale or tolerance of that were indirectly reported to kind of action on campus so we took Campus Security through friends immediate action.”

Both the Provost and the of the effected individuals. He said anyone who has encountered AMS president sent emails to the aggression is encouraged to student body on Friday stating that report to Campus Security or instances of harassment towards Bands members weren’t acceptable.

Kingston Police.

“The real purpose of the message “We can only do as much as we are able to do with the information was to say ‘This is a community and while there is a lot of anger we have,” Harrison said.

Counselors from Queen’s circulating about the materials, the Health, Counselling and Disability conditions are imposed on the services have made themselves bands as a group was for their available to Bands members, actions as a group,’ ” she said.

Campbell said the AMS and he said.

AMS president Morgan University have collaborated in

all decisions regarding Queen’s Bands suspension and the subsequent fallout.

“No matter how the University and the AMS decided to act, it was going to be an uncomfortable situation but I think that we really did take a very middle-ground approach,” she said.

In addition to human rights and equity training, Bands members are

working on an action plan to be presented to the University.

Campus Security officials say that anyone with information pertaining to the assault case should contact Detective Clint Wills 613-549-4660 ext. 6266.

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the materials into fertilizer. Once this occurs, the Tea Room donates the fertilizer to local farmers or vendors at the Farmer’s Market.

He said it’s inherently more expensive for the Tea Room to be a green establishment — coffee cups cost two to three times as much as a non-biodegradable cups and direct trade coffee, meant to ensure farmers earn fair wages, costs about $3 more per pound.

Dean said sustainability has been one of the Tea Room’s mandates since it was established by the

Engineering Society in 2006.

“Our environmental mandate is a big differentiating factor for us,” he said. “It’s always been something we push for.”

The Tea Room’s current operating budget is about $200,000. For the past few years, the business has incurred a small annual loss due to the expansion of the Common Ground café, Dean said last year they had a net loss of $5,350. He added that currently the Team Room is up $14,000 in net income compared to this time last year.

Dean said the logical next step

Campus catchup Alcohol ban in residence An alcohol ban has been placed on a residence at St. Thomas University, a Catholic university located in Fredericton, NB. The ban took effect on Nov. 28 in co-ed residence Harrington Hall.

Macleans on Campus reported on Nov. 29 that several incidents led to the ban, such as broken glass in residences and washroom paper towels being set on fire.

Fire extinguishers had also been discharged, which constituted a health and safety risk.

The ban will continue indefinitely.

a global interfaith movement.

Blair said Canada is a perfect example of how different people with different beliefs come together to coexist.

— Savoula Stylianou

E-book partnership signed

for the Tea Room is to become fully waste-free, expanding green measures to the suppliers’ side.

“Right now we only produce about one grocery-bag worth of landfill waste per day,” Dean said, adding that this mostly included supplier’s packaging.

The Tea Room has four managers and 46 staff members.

Dean said the zero consumer waste goal was the work of the managers and a group of staff in charge of environmental innovations.

“We have to continually push the envelope to stay on top of green trends,” he said.

Adam DiSimine, the AMS commissioner of the environment and sustainability, said the AMS food services, Common Ground (CoGro) and the AMS Pub Services (TAPS), are also working to become more sustainable.

“The Tea Room is kind of leading the way in sustainability on campus with regards to student services,” DiSimine, ArtSci ’11, said.

Currently CoGro uses biodegradable cutlery and cups, which decompose faster than

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Queen’s Bands has been suspended for the semester by the AMS and University administration because of internal publications.

non-biodegradable varieties.

However, both CoGro and TAPS currently lack composting services.

DiSimine said the AMS has spoken to Housing and Hospitality Services about implementing compost at CoGro. “They compost in the cafeterias currently and they said we may be able to bring in those customized

[composting] bags,” he said.

The AMS implemented composting at CoGro two years ago, DiSimine said, adding that they encountered problems with the bags being too small and breaking with the amount of waste they were generating.

Canadian Campus Retail Associates (CCRA) has signed a new partnership agreement with Google eBookstore to provide digital copies of books to students.

The new initiative from Google books is available to almost 20 Canadian postsecondary institutions under the — Savoula Stylianou CCRA, a network of Canadian university and college stores, including Queen’s.

Blair speaks on Thirty per cent of the online faith issues eBooks are course reading materials, while 70 per cent of the eBooks Former British Prime Minister Tony are general books, reported the Blair attended a symposium at the Gateway, University of Alberta’s University of Toronto to discuss the student newspaper. role of faith in health issues.

Students can use their school University of Toronto’s ID or personal Google account to campus newspaper, The Varsity, purchase eBooks, which vary in reported that Blair spoke about price. They can then upload the creating an interfaith dialogue. He eBook to their laptop, smartphone said things that threaten people or electronic eReaders. all over the world, like illnesses, Queen’s uses the service can be worked on by people of along with Brock University and different backgrounds.

York University.

Blair also spoke about his foundation, the Tony Blair Faith — Savoula Stylianou Andrew Dean (second from right), head manager of the Tea Room, with other staff Foundation, which looks to create members (from left to right) Sarah Ferguson, Dorothy Yu and Allister Smith.

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It makes more sense to eliminate costs from the processes of the University rather than the product students pay for.

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Fine Arts

Suspension needs explanation

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ueen’s decision to suspend needs to be upfront. With the enrolling, meaning fewer students admissions to the Bachelor University’s financial woes, the to share collected wisdom.

AMS assembly struck a of Fine Arts program has left a future of Fine Arts is uncertain.

Meaghan Wray It’s unfair and inaccurate to say committee on Nov. 10 to significant number of questions unanswered. Students deserve a the administration is targeting Fine investigate the suspension of Fine thorough explanation that includes Arts. More should have been done Arts, comprised of ASUS executive, the administration’s plan for the to seek the program’s preservation. AMS executive and the Queen’s Donations should have been rector. They need to do more. program’s future.

While the committee brought Students weren’t consulted aggressively pursued to try to keep an initiative to Senate on Nov. 22 on the suspension. An email the program functioning.

Cutting costs is a necessary step that sought to create guidelines for appeared in their webmail inboxes on Nov. 9. It’s inexcusable. when there’s a deficit, but it makes the future suspension of programs, ince it reached Confederation Suspending admissions to an more sense to eliminate costs from it’s done little to deal with the clear Park on Oct. 15, I’ve continued established program warrants an the processes of the University problem at hand. to frequent Occupy Kingston.

Senate stalled the initiative, in-person meeting to effectively rather than the product students At first, I didn’t understand what stating that there wasn’t enough the occupation was for, or how my field questions and concerns. pay for.

Student-artists have been time to discuss it. This was life experience fit into the equation.

The administration mismanaged the situation, perpetuating unfairly dealt with, especially unacceptable. For an issue that After attending the first student frustration by issuing those in their first year of the Fine directly affects 107 Fine Arts official occupation and speaking students as well as the campus to a variety of attendees, I soon Arts program. vague statements.

Given the highly creative and population as a whole, time needs realized that this is a complex While the suspension was set for one year, there’s been no guarantee personal nature of the program, to be made. movement — it isn’t simply black Fine Arts students were the most and white. from the administration that the students are an excellent resource program will be brought back in to one another, trading tips and recent victims of University budget According to Trish Hennessy’s its current form. If the intent is techniques. The current class of cuts. The least they should be able Index at the Canadian Centre to transition into the program’s first years will be short-changed to expect is a little transparency. for Policy Alternatives, in 2009 cancellation, the administration because new students won’t be the average income for Canada’s top 100 best-paid CEOs was $6.6 million. This is compared to an average salary of $42,988 for full-time employees.

This is only one statistic that demonstrates the societal gap we face as Canadians. Capitalism assumes everyone can be successful if they choose to be ambitious.

But, not everyone is born with equal opportunity.

Class division is the product of a society where a small portion of the population owns the production and distribution of goods. The majority, at different levels of exploitation, sells labour in return for a salary.

Ambition has very little to do with monetary success. There are societal barriers and privileges, embedded in the capitalist structure, that prevent or allow individuals to work their way up the financial The Journal’s Editorial Illustrator, Janghan Hong, is a fourth-year BFA student. hierarchy. Becoming wealthy, or the prospect of it, isn’t a choice. This is something the Occupy movement Prince Arthur Herald seeks to demonstrate.

One of the strongest aspects of Occupy is that there’s no hierarchy.

Decisions are consensus-based.

Having a leader would defy the An opinion piece has every right very essence of the fight. n Nov. 18, the Prince Arthur important niche. It’s an entirely Occupy isn’t asking for specific Herald published an opinion student-run online paper based to be controversial, provided it’s enough changes. The movement piece called “Same sex adoption at McGill University that reports substantiated with fact.

“Same sex adoption is not a asks for a paradigm shift in is not a game.” The piece was campus news on a national scale.

It’s been criticized as having a game” simply didn’t meet this thought that can’t be remedied by highly critical of same-sex couples adopting children. The McGill conservative slant but given the standard. In making sweeping a changed law or a new politician.

Daily reported that the piece general liberal atmosphere on generalizations about homosexual We seem to forget that although this prompted the resignation of four university campuses, the Herald couples, the piece had an angry movement has shared feelings about tone that bordered on hate speech. corporations and governments, editors and 10 writers at the Herald. offers a much-needed viewpoint.

That said, publishing a radical It was also built on poor research, protesters have individual motives.

The author, Rick Fitzgibbons, There may not be a single director of Comprehensive argument is never appropriate citing a 1985 study to justify Counseling Services in West unless there’s solid evidence to the claim that homosexuals are answer, but that doesn’t mean the indelibly promiscuous. movement hasn’t been successful. It Conshoshocken, Pa. and a back it up.

Free speech is a guaranteed right, has shown the world that everyday In the Nov. 26 article from the psychiatrist of 35 years, referred to same-sex couple adoption as “a McGill Daily, a former member of but a newspaper is accountable for injustices, like inadequate health cruel social experiment.” the Herald said the paper’s business what they publish. Because of the care and inaccessibility to education, He stated that children suffer model included using controversy article’s basis in poor evidence and are no longer accepted norms. from having parents of a single to build a base of readership, but omission of contrary fact, it should Don’t assume occupiers are gender. The article’s evidence that this has come at the cost of be retracted from the Herald’s site. stereotypes (pothead, homeless et The Herald needs to re-evaluate cetera), go to Confederation Park was shaky and failed to address balance and integrity. He also arguments from the other side’s stated that he’d been instructed to its policies and process to try to and have a conversation with one perspective. It fell far below the remove articles with a liberal slant. repair the problems that saw 14 of them.

Herald’s principle of “hearing all There’s an argument to be made staff to resign. It’s a new paper Occupy, as seen from my angle, sides, cherishing intelligent and for changing an organization from with obvious growing pains. If the displays the importance of freedom within, but the editors and writers Herald takes the events of the past of expression and democracy. I well-informed dialogue.”

The Prince Arthur Herald who resigned were perfectly week in stride, it can emerge a hope Canada can keep proving stronger publication. occupies a unique and particularly justified in doing so. these trairs.

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Thursday, December 1, 2011

DIALOGUE

Perspectives from the Queen’s community

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Bands will return in January as a reinvigorated and recalibrated organization.

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Queen’s Bands

A statement from Queen’s Bands

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What do you think of recent social media startup Joysper?

Bands operations managers comment on recent suspension A ndrew L oucks and C helsea R andall Queen’s Bands reaffirms its sincere apologies to the Queen’s community. The Queen’s Bands executive takes full responsibility for its actions and the actions of previous Bands generations.

Queen’s Bands vows to institute organizational change in concert with the University administration and the Alma Mater Society.

Currently, Queen’s Bands is concerned with the conflation of content in the internal Bands publication, the “Banner,” and content in the songbook.

It must be known that the “Banner” was proactively banned by the Queen’s Bands executive on Sept. 9, 2011. It’s unfortunate that this has not been recognized in coverage of the situation to date, as the executive has been actively reforming the internal dynamics of the organization for several years.

Therefore, the Queen’s Bands executive regards any coverage which associates the now-defunct “Banner” with the actions of Queen’s Bands since Sept. 9 to be misleading.

Queen’s Bands’ vow to reform its practices must not be mistaken.

As an organization, we agree that the content of the songbook is inappropriate. To rectify this, Queen’s Bands will undertake the completion of conditions which have been imposed by the AMS and the University.

These conditions include, but are not limited to, mechanisms to ensure that such issues do not arise again.

We must reiterate: coverage of this issue has not reflected the process of reform within the organization which has been ongoing for some time, as demonstrated through the proactive discontinuation of the

“It has the potential to be the next big thing.”

Connie Lo, Comm ’15

“It might take the fun out of having a crush.”

BooHoo the Bear is the official mascot for Queen’s Bands.

“Banner” several months ago.

We’re concerned with this imbalanced coverage, as it has manifested into a hostile environment on campus which has compromised the health and safety of many Queen’s Bands members.

In the last week, various members of Queen’s Bands have endured physical and verbal assault. It’s resulted in some of our members seeking counselling, while forcing others into hospital.

We’re also concerned with the targeting of other Queen’s community members who have been falsely associated with our organization. We wish to work with the university administration, the AMS and the student body to ensure that campus remains a safe environment for everyone.

Queen’s Bands in its conception and mandate is an organization that represents the spirit and camaraderie that defines the Queen’s community. It’s been

doing so since 1905.

We represent Queen’s University at various parades across North America including, but not limited to the Toronto Santa Claus Parade, the Montreal St. Patrick’s Day Parade, the South Boston St. Patrick’s Day Parade and previous appearances with Mardi Gras in New Orleans and the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City.

We are the largest and oldest university marching band in Canada and the only one which maintains a pipe section and cheerleaders.

Queen’s Bands also performs at all Golden Gaels football games and many basketball and volleyball games in the winter semester.

Locally, Queen’s Bands can also be regularly seen at the Kingston, Bloomfield and Brockville Christmas parades.

Queen’s Bands is active in many other charitable endeavours including the recent Trick or Eat

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campaign, and free lessons for anyone interested in learning the bagpipes and highland dancing.

Queen’s Bands will return in January as a reinvigorated and recalibrated organization. We are actively implementing a series of reforms which will open a new chapter in our history, and enable Queen’s Bands to return as a positive, inclusive vanguard of your Queen’s traditions.

Queen’s Bands has represented this University for more than a century, we look forward to representing the University with pride in the new year.

Dear editors, Numerous students in the Queen’s Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) program are reasonably outraged by the process of administering the recent suspension of admissions to the program.

As a result, we’re rationally seeking as much information as possible about all issues related to this suspension and we’re garnering support from the Queen’s and Kingston community.

But why has this become a student issue at all? The administration is placing the onus on BFA faculty and students to solve their fiscal problem. This, being an administrative decision, should have come with a proposed solution for the future of Fine Arts at Queen’s.

There are numerous other issues and unanswered questions relating to the suspension of admissions.

Program graduates report that the BFA has been up for suspension at least two times in the last decade.

Some say the professor intending to retire has been considering so for quite some time. If both of these items are true, it leads us to ask: how truly sudden was this decision?

Some students also wonder about the so-called “disagreements” between faculty members. Many individuals within and outside the program can attest that our professors do not get along as a faculty unit, and have great difficulty in making decisions.

But is the faculty truly split down the middle on action items? Or, is it split top-down? Are the voices of our leaders truly reflecting the voices of all BFA staff and students,

“It furthers our reliance on technology rather than face-to-face interaction.”

Tom Pettigrew, Kin ’08

Andrew Loucks is Queen’s Bands operational and finance manager, Quartermaster and Pipe Sergeant.

Chelsea Randall is Queen’s Bands operational and finance manager and Drum Major.

“It’s inspiring that a student at Queen’s helped create it.”

Letters the to editor Bring back Fine Arts

Elizabeth Lightbody, ArtSci ’13

Nina Winwood, ArtSci ’12 or are they merely reflecting their own visions for the future of the BFA? Over the years, the administration has continuously deprived our program of resources, and they’ve withheld the information we seek time and time again. In the end, a lack of resources and information leaves students and faculty looking incompetent and foolish, even though it’s the administration that has shaped the situation.

BFA students are open to change, but we don’t want to see the quality of our program sacrificed as a result. The Queen’s BFA program is unique within Canada and therefore is deserving of preservation. Leaving the program in its current state of suspension creates irreversible damages, even if admissions are reopened in the future.

If Dean Alistair MacLean committed to temporarily hiring an adjunct professor for one year following the upcoming retirement, the program would have the time it deserves to regroup and plan for the future. Do not let Queen’s administration sacrifice this sought-after program for the cost of an adjunct professor!

We call on Principal Woolf, Dean MacLean, the Board of Trustees and the Faculty Board to give the program another year for consultation with the entirety of the BFA program.

As Kathleen Sellars said in her Journal article last week, “if we work together,” we see a bright future for the Fine Arts program.

Kaisa Moran Chair of Fine Arts Departmental Student Council

“It provides a way to connect more meaningfully.”

Grant Schelske, ArtSci ’11

Joysper uses Facebook to connect with those you’re interested in.

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Artwork stolen Matt Rogalsky’s new installation explores the electric guitar, but now that guitar has gone missing B y C aitlin C hoi Assistant Arts Editor A guitar secured in concrete was stolen from an outdoor art exhibit on Monday night. Jocelyn Purdie, curator for the Swamp Ward Window Project, said she woke Tuesday morning to discover the piece was gone from the gallery’s location on the front lawn of 448 Bagot St. The replica of a Gibson Flying V was the only piece in Kingston artist Matt Rogalsky’s exhibit Flying V Down. Buried in the ground at Swamp Ward Window, its concrete base weighed approximately 25 kilograms.

Swamp Ward Window exhibits artwork on the lawn and porch of Purdie’s house. Purdie has mounted over 20 exhibits since opening the space to artists in 2001. Since then, there has only been one other case of theft — Kathleen Sellar’s Point

in 2003.

Purdie said prior to the theft there were several attempts to move the guitar. She never saw the perpetrators, but noticed that there was damage done to the ground around the piece.

“You can tell because it was buried in the ground and the grass was covered up around it, it’s been exposed,” Purdie said. “That’s been off and on over the last three weeks or so but nobody’s ever actually been able to lift it out.”

Minimal security measures are in place on site.

“We did have signage up that said it was not a functioning guitar, but it’s kind of the nature of that sort of artwork,” Purdie said. “If you put it outside, you do run the risk of people coming along and for whatever reason damaging it or vandalizing it or, in this case, taking it.

“The venue is what it is and

Arts The guitar from Flying V Down was stolen along with its 25 kilogram cement base. It had been buried in the ground at 448 Bagot St.

people recognize that when they put in an application to put a piece there.”

Rogalsky’s guitar was put closer to the sidewalk than most of the site’s past exhibits. The guitar

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was grounded about 3 feet from the sidewalk.

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interview

Solo and stranded After a year of touring, Rob Moir is back on familiar ground B y C aitlin C hoi Assistant Arts Editor Rob Moir was stranded at a bus stop in St. Catherines until 1 a.m last week. Travel delays are a touring reality for the singer-songwriter and that’s how he likes it.

“It happens sometimes,” he said, adding that he doesn’t own a car and refuses to get one. “I guess in my mind it’s easier and cheaper, to take Greyhound and Via [Rail], and usually it is. But you never know when you’re going to

get surprises.”

He brushed off the travel debacle, putting a positive spin on his sometimes unreliable method of transportation.

“It’s definitely an open forum for people to discuss all the things you never want to know about their lives,” Moir said with a laugh.

“But it’s good.”

And this is what Moir does. He takes what seems unappealing and turns it into something enviable and romantic. He listed a woman’s unheated attic in Münster, Germany as one of his favourite

Literature

Short and fast The Artel’s Night of Dark Literary Arts will have a punk rock and heavy metal feel B y A lyssa A shton Arts Editor Black bras and broken glass create the atmosphere for Amphetamine Heart. Liz Worth’s new poetry collection explores the urgency of paranoia and self-harm and is appropriately dedicated to her “old friend insomnia.” “[It’s] kind of peeking into someone’s journal or getting a sense of things they dreamed of last night,” Worth said of the collection.

“I think that really is what poetry is, little flashes of someone’s life.

It comes out short and it comes out fast.”

Amphetamine Heart is Worth’s

second release, following 2010’s Treat Me Like Dirt: An Oral History of Punk in Toronto and Beyond.

Worth said she realizes that many people are turned off at the thought of reading poetry.

“I think sometimes people hear the word poetry and get a little scared off,” she said. “I think they think, ‘I don’t read poetry’ so it won’t apply to them or they won’t understand it. But with this I keep telling people ‘Think of it as punk or heavy metal that you read instead of listen to.’”

Worth will read her poetry tomorrow night at the Artel for the Night of Dark Literary Arts See Musical on page 17

shows he’s played so far.

“She decorated it with all this crazy taxidermy and lights and just all these interesting antiques.

It was cold and she made cider and everyone was just sitting around in blankets, drinking this cider,” Moir said.

The Toronto native returned from his European tour last month, where he spent five weeks playing every offbeat music hub that he could find. You’d be hard-pressed to find a venue that the alt-folk musician won’t play. As his own booking agent, he’s constantly on the lookout for alternative spaces.

“You know, it’s amazing what you can find on the internet,” Moir said. “I think the more interesting the space, the more likely you’re going to introduce your music and have an experience for the audience. It’s going to be a bit more memorable than just seeing a band in a big, half-empty club.”

Bands are like “relationships with

Playing in Toronto, Rob Moir is backed by The Great Lates, featuring former bandmate and Dead Letter Dept. drummer Mike Leblanc.

acoustic guitar.

The album may come as a shock anybody, they should for Moir fans, who spent five years only last as long as listening to him as the frontman they’re good. of Toronto alt-punk band Death Letter Dept. The musician split

— Rob Moir from the band in 2008.

“People kind of move on

After the January 2011release of and tastes change and writing his debut EP, This Is The Lie, Moir changes,” Moir said. “Bands are started a slew of tours, playing like relationships with anybody, in California, across Canada, they should only last as long as throughout Europe and back again. they’re good and everything has a This Is The Lie is Moir’s time limit.”

He said his musical transition first solo record. The album has sincerity and soul, from its came naturally — from Dead title track — a young-love, folk Letter Dept’s edgy pop-punk to tune — to the worldly outlook of his own folk style.

“I’ve always thought of myself “A Love With No Past.” Moir’s cool-and-casual voice floats over his as a musician that was constantly

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writing varied material,” he said.

“I don’t think it was so much an enormous change as much as it just sort of felt like the right time.”

Despite the pressures of headlining his own shows, whether in an attic in Münster or Toronto’s popular Horseshoe Tavern, Moir’s decided he prefers performing solo.

“It taught me how to even be a much better musician than I was before,” he said. “I like the idea of stepping out in front of a brand new audience by myself and knowing that I can’t suck or I won’t eat that next day.”

Rob Moir plays the Mansion on Dec. 2 at 9 p.m.

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Art review

Music between the leaves A review of what Flying V Down offered before the central piece was stolen B y B renna o wen Contributor

The guitar is filled with silicone to weatherproof it.

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To the exam-consumed passerby, a black Flying V electric guitar protruding from the ground at 448 Bagot St. could go unnoticed. The guitar, nestled amongst the fallen leaves, is a new art installation by the Swamp Ward Window project. Flying V Down is a tribute to the history and culture of the electric guitar and its musically groundbreaking sound — this guitar literally breaks the ground.

Flying V Down is a part of a larger series that Kingston-based artist and musician Matt Rogalsky is planning on creating. The Flying V Down series in its entirety would incorporate over 20 guitars.

The way the guitar pierces the ground is reminiscent of meteors falling from the sky, ending their descent deep in the earth. The stiff positioning of the guitar

screams that it is ready to be found and revered.

First released in 1958 by the Gibson Guitar Corporation, the Flying V model became iconic for its V-shaped body design. The model has been used by rock and roll legends including Jimi Hendrix, Keith Richards, Eddie Van Halen, Neil Young and Johnny Winter.

It’s telling that Rogalsky chose the recognizable Flying V for his installation. The guitar faces the street proudly and defiantly, as if showing its readiness to take on any guitarist, any song and any palpitating riff.

Rogalsky currently plays the electric guitar, bass and mandolin with Kingston-based band the Gertrudes.

The single fallen Flying V on Bagot Street seems to capture the essence of the electric guitar, whose sound revolutionized the music scene in the 1940s and 1950s.

Artist Matt Rogalsky says the guitar used in his exhibit is not an original Gibson Flying V but a replica.

Rogalsky’s installation calls to mind the musical fervor and moral panic caused by rock ‘n’ roll. The guitar’s V-shaped body juts up from a typical suburban front yard, with its stark black and white colouring emphasizing its foreign placement.

The iconography of the electric guitar is storied; it seems to comprise broadly the rock ‘n’ roll state of mind. Looking at Rogalsky’s piece, it isn’t hard to imagine being at the first concert where, to the outrage of devoted folk music fans, Bob

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ONLINE ONE-ACT PLAYS Online today the Journal gives its review of Fifth Company Lane’s A One Act Series.

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Timber Timbre’s self-titled album was hailed Album of the Year in a nationwide critics’ poll by Eye Weekly in 2009.

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Don’t be afraid to turn out the lights With the release of their album Creep on Creepin’ On, Timber Timbre talks about their European tour B y A lyssa A shton Arts Editor Folk trio Timber Timbre was on tour in Europe until two weeks ago, but their presence was still felt in Canada when their fourth album Creep on Creepin’ On was shortlisted for the 2011 Polaris Prize. Lead vocalist Taylor Kirk updated the Journal via email on band antics, including Movember attempts and skinny-dipping in Switzerland.

What’s the creepiest thing in the world?

Facebook.

Exclaim warned listeners to keep the lights on when listening to Creep on Creepin’ On, do you have any advice for listeners?

Don’t listen to Exclaim — turn the lights off.

You’ve said the inspiration for the album was “to make music we love and therefore embrace the risk of sounding like all the music we’ve ever loved at once.” What is the music you love?

Otis Redding, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Roy Orbison, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen, Nina Simone, Dolly Parton, John Coltrane, Miles

Davis, Chet Baker, Alice Coltrane, Morton Feldman, Bernard Herrmann, Ennio Morricone and Godspeed You Black Emperor.

Stuff like that.

That inevitably leads to the question, what is the music you hate?

Hmm, I don’t know.

Blues-rock.

Country-rock.

Folk-rock.

Roots-rock.

Indie-rock. Cock-rock.

You just recently wrapped your European tour, what will you miss most about Europe?

The bread and cheese.

What was your best and worst tour moment on any tour?

Best moment was skinny-dipping post-show in Düdingen, Switzerland behind the Bad Bonn club, in a river below a lemon grove and between two gothic castles. Worst tour moment … I don’t know — being seasick very early in the morning on a particularly rough ferry somewhere in the U.K. You and bandmate Simon Trottier participated in Movember this month. Who had the best moustache? Will you be happy to see the facial hair go?

Simon has the best moustache by far. I think he is responsible for most of the donations. Yeah, it’s a strong stache — it even has its own personality. As much as I like it, I’m looking forward to having the old Simon back. A moustache like that can change a man.

What is the first thing you think of when someone mentions Kingston?

Sarah Harmer.

Describe the band’s journey so far in three words?

It’s pronounced “Tamber.”

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Prairie cover premiere Despite winning a Rolling Stone cover, the Sheepdogs aren’t just an overnight success B y l aBiBa h aQUe Production Manager Few Saskatchewan bands make the cover of Rolling Stone. The Sheepdogs are an exception.

The band was announced as the winner of Rolling Stone’s Do You Wanna be a Rock and Roll Star contest in August, beating out 15 other unsigned musicians.

Their victory marked them as the first unsigned band to be on the magazine’s cover.

“It’s a big honour. I think the strangest thing about it is seeing yourself on the cover when you’re in a grocery store, or at an airport.

It’s a very strange feeling,” said bassist Ryan Gullen.

Gullen said he and his bandmates, lead singer and guitarist Ewan Currie, drummer Sam Corbett and guitarist Leot Hanson, started playing together in 2006.

“We went from people who could barely play instruments to writing songs. We toured the country and did it all on our own before the competition,” he said.

The Rolling Stone competition was held from February to August and included four rounds of eliminations before a winner was announced. More than 1.5 million votes were cast online.

The long process required serious commitment from the

band members.

“One morning I woke up at 9 a.m. and I got a call telling me that I needed to be in New York,” he said. “I got up right away, threw my clothes in a bag and was at the airport by noon.

“It was very stressful and you’re thrown into a fire a little bit, but [it’s] well worth it. By the end we were like, ‘Thank god it’s over, now we can just focus on playing music.’”

toured all “overWe’ve the country and

lost money for six and a half years.

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— Ryan Gullen

After the competition, the band was signed to Atlantic Records, performed on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and opened for Kings of Leon on their Canadian tour. But all this exposure doesn’t guarantee the band’s success.

“The biggest misconception that people have of us is that a lot of people think that we just started playing and are somewhat of an overnight success,” Gullen said.

“But that’s not true; we’ve toured all over the country and lost money for six and a half years.”

Prior to the Canadian leg of their tour, the Sheepdogs were

touring the U.S. “We’re from Saskatchewan so we’re used to travelling five or six hours one way to play a All three of the Sheepdogs’ full-length albums have appeared on show,” he said. “When we were Earshot’s national monthly top 200 chart. in Denver, we stayed in the same hotel because the three shows that we played were 30 minutes from one another.”

The band’s last album, Learn & Burn, was produced independently in 2010. Following their Rolling Stone cover win, the Sheepdogs collaborated with their new record label, Atlantic Records, to produce the EP Five Easy Pieces in four days.

“I think it was a progression between the two,” Gullen said.

“One was recorded over a long period of time while the other was trying to capture what we had in a limited amount of time.”

Their feel-good rock ‘n’ roll sound is often compared to likes of the Guess Who and the Libertines.

“We’re a big fan of old rock ‘n’ roll and that’s the kind of music we listen to and the kind of music we end up playing,” he said. “I think it’s hard for people to place us because we’re a little different than modem music and are a little obscure. So we don’t exactly fit into that mould.”

The Sheepdogs play Ale on Dec. 7 at 9 p.m.

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A year of albums worth reviewing Journal editors pick their favourite albums of 2011, both mainstream and indie B y A ndrew S tokes Editorials Editor

Major/Minor Thrice

Eureka Mother Mother

Dustin Kensrue isn’t content to sing about anything less than the big questions of life and the fervour with which he writes spills over into his singing. The drum lines are irregular and ensnaring — it’s heavy without getting messy.

Eureka is synth-heavy pop-rock that drives like a getaway car. Tracks range from toe-tapping sing-alongs to moody, dragging confessions. Incredible vocal work from the band’s front man Ryan Guldemond is almost dwarfed by the awe-inspiring pipes of the band’s newest member, Jasmin Parkin.

Simple Math Manchester Orchestra

They’ve defined their sound by creating highly personal songs around front man Andy Hull’s battles with bipolar disorder, alcoholism and physical abuse.

Simple Math is no different, with catchy guitar riffs that barely cover the rage and pain beneath the surface. Evocative lyrics like “I want to rip your lips off in my mouth” will send a shudder through your body.

James Blake James Blake

Helplessness Blues Fleet Foxes

Off-kilter time signatures provide the backdrop for the electronic meditations of James Blake’s self-titled album. Songs are melancholic, bitter and haunting. Tracks like “I Never Learnt To Share” build slowly from a single lyrical phrase into a digital breakdown.

Fleet Foxes’ flawless harmonies paint the background for a battle between idealism and acceptance of the paralyzing ambiguities of the adult world. This aurally lush album is beautiful from start to finish, despite reaching an uncertain answer to all its questions.

B y A lyssa A shton Arts Editor

Mischievous Moon Jill Barber

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Figure It Out Ps I Love You

Michigan Left Arkells

The Darcys The Darcys

Jill Barber’s ability to pull at my emotions in French — a language in which I can barely understand — speaks to the strength of Mischievous Moon. Each song offers a catharsis, whether it’s a release of pent-up aggravation in “Tell Me” or an outburst of hope in “A Wish Under My Pillow.”

She will most likely be on every Best of Music list this year and with good reason. In a top-40 world obsessed with creating sex symbols and catchy lyrics, Adele brought heart-stopping melodies and impassioned lyrics to the top of the charts — it was about time.

Having an up-and-coming, noise-rock band take on a cover of the Queen of Pop, Madonna’s,“Where’s The Party” was bound to create musical heaven. Add in an appearance by glamour pop singer Diamond Rings on “Leftovers” and you have a whole other side of PS I Love You.

Michigan Left is the reason the repeat button was invented.

Addictive beats and even more addictive lyrics in “Book Club” and “Where U Goin” get you dancing along. The music is so consuming that you find yourself uncontrollably pulling the worst dance moves — but that’s just where the music takes you.

It may have taken them years to make, but who can complain when they produce such an indescribable sound, truly representative of their live performance. “House Built Around Your Voice” puts you in a musical coma that you struggle to come out of.

Ta k e C a r e Drake

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Angles The Strokes

Ceremonials Florence and the Machine

Take Care shows a vulnerable and sensitive side to this hip-hop star. Even with the overdone theme that deals with the plight of sudden celebrity, Drake still elicits sympathy. But the R&B inspired Take Care isn’t just a solo effort — appearances by pop favourites Rihanna and Nicki Minaj give a refreshing female flavour to the work.

The release of Adele’s 21 saw the creation of a common public enemy through the damning portrait of her ex, in songs like “Rolling in the Deep” and “Someone Like You.” While lyrics should probably not be taken literally, her stunning vocals provide a backdrop to universal themes of devastation, heartbreak and rejection.

Any Strokes fan is well aware of the challenges the band has faced. But after a five-year hiatus, the band’s fourth release finally restores hope in their ability to be alternative-rock legends. Guitar riffs and Julian Casablanca’s snarling vocals are ever-present, recalling the brilliance of their game-changing debut, Is This It?

B y J essica F ishbein Postcript Editor

To r c h e s Foster the p e op l e

“Pumped Up Kicks” gained overwhelming popularity, but the rest of Foster the People’s debut album doesn’t disappoint.

Filled with MGMT-inspired electronica gems, Torches is a successful infusion of indie and dance-friendly beats.

You’d think it next-to-impossible for her to top the brilliance that was Florence and the Machine’s Lungs, but Florence Welch’s new release contains the combination of powerhouse vocals and melancholia we’ve come to expect.

With a slightly darker thematic tinge, Ceremonials confirms that Florence and the Machine’s not going anywhere.

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event. The event will feature a reading from Worth and a question and answer session with Liisa Ladouceur, who just published the Encyclopedia Gothica. Music will be provided by DJ Bill Gillespie.

“I think music is something that is really important for Liisa and I,” Worth said. “She has a book that is a gothic encyclopedia and that’s all about subculture. For that subculture music is a huge factor.

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The way the Good Lovelies originated is unclear; Sue Passmore remembers meeting during a limbo competition, Caroline Brooks recalls meeting at a chess tournament and Kerri Ough thinks it was during a bar fight.

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Limestone tribute On the Good Lovelies tour, fans can expect both original material and holiday classics B y C arolyn F lanaGan Assistant Blogs Editor Folk-country trio the Good Lovelies released their new album, Let The Rain Fall, in February with a special track entitled “Kingston.”

Caroline Brooks wrote the song when she way away touring with the band while her husband was living in Kingston.

“She was dreaming and thinking of Kingston, where her heart was, and this song was born,” said Kerri Ough, the band’s vocalist, guitarist, banjoist and bassist.

A video for the song has been recorded and should be released in the next few weeks.

In the meantime the band is preparing to embark on their Christmas Tour, with a stop in Kingston on Dec. 14.

The band released Under The Mistletoe in 2009, featuring holiday classics and three original songs.

“The first time we played together was in the month of December and people kept asking us if we would be recording them,” Ough said. “When we play Christmas shows people get a little bit more into that loving,

holiday spirit.”

But concert goers shouldn’t expect only Christmas carols at the Good Lovelies show.

Ough said the set list will also include original material from 2009’s Good Lovelies and Let the Rain Fall.

“We can’t help ourselves,” she said “We’re a band that writes our own music so we really want play some of those tunes as well.”

After a busy year with tours in the U.S., U.K. and their first tour in Australia, the band is happy to be back in Ontario.

“It’s great because we get to have a homecoming and thank everyone for supporting us while we’ve been away,” Ough said. “All the places we are stopping in Ontario have a special place in our hearts.”

The band will bring a full van to Kingston.

Ough, Brooks and Sue Passmore will rotate between acoustic and electric guitar, mandolin, percussion, banjo and keyboard.

Bassist Ben Whiteley, of New Country Rehab, will join them.

The Good Lovelies play Chalmers United Church on Dec. 14 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door.

Tempting artwork Continued from page 11

“The closer you get to the sidewalk, the easier it is for people to actually damage things,” Purdie said.

Rogalsky, who was notified of the theft Tuesday morning via email, speculated that the art object was stolen because it looked real. A Gibson Flying V is an iconic electric guitar. But the piece wasn’t a functioning guitar.

“It’s a tempting looking thing because it’s a real guitar, but I think if anyone stopped to really think about it, it’s not a playable instrument anymore,” he said.

To weatherproof the guitar, Rogalsky used chemicals to hold all the guitar’s controls and hardware in place and filled the cavities with silicone.

Rogalsky said he hasn’t notified the police because he doesn’t see it as a pressing issue.

But he does plan on reporting it to the

authorities this week.

“It’s attached to a big block of muddy cement, I think anyone who’s taken it might get tired of it really quickly,” Rogalsky said. “I think I stand a pretty good chance of getting it back, unless somebody completely trashes it or hides it forever.”

Rogalsky declined to disclose the material value of the piece, but said his selling price for the guitar would have been at least $1,000.

The object was never put up for sale.

Flying V Down at Swamp Ward Window was a study for a larger outdoor project, involving a couple dozen of the grounded guitars, which Rogalsky plans to organize over the next couple of years.

“One of the unfortunate things about losing it [is] I wanted to see how it weathered through the winter,” he said.

He has no plans to replace the Swamp Ward Window exhibit.

Instead of just doing a straight reading, I have a theremin, which is an electrinic instrument that kinds of makes really weird noises.

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— Liz Worth

“In terms of my own writing, music’s always played a big part. My first book is an oral history of punk in Toronto. Even though this time around I’m coming out with a poetry collection, that poetry collection is very influenced by punk rock and heavy metal.”

Despite Amphetamine Heart being a work of poetry, Worth’s reading tomorrow night will be set to music.

“Instead of just doing a straight reading I have a theremin, which is an electronic instrument that kind of makes

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really weird noises,” she said. “I set some pieces to that so there’s kind of an ambient sound happening.”

After her reading, Worth said she hopes to connect with some of the audience members.

“That’s really the most you can ask for in any kind of author event,” she said. “It’s a really good chance to get to talk to people face to face because when you’re an author you don’t always get, to see a lot of people.

It’s quiet work and its lonely work.”

A Night of Dark Literary Art at the Artel is tomorrow night and features Liz Worth, Liisa Ladouceur, Bill Gillespie and local poet Barry King.

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Nine-goal loss caps off a November to forget Men’s hockey goes 1-5-1, sees backup goalie Steele De Fazio quit and watches injury count rise to nine B y Peter M orrow Contributor

College Paladins. According to Brock Ouellet and Joey Derochie Gibson, the team is struggling to are missing. Defencemen Robert overcome injuries.

Stellick and Patrick McEachen “It’s not my grinders or — the team’s only two defencemen third-liners who are injured, it’s with Ontario Hockey League my top players,” Gibson said. (OHL) experience — are injured.

“Once they’re healthy, things will “We have guys playing positions get better.” they probably shouldn’t even be The Gaels’ top 10-point scorers playing right now,” Gibson said, from last season are all on this year’s adding that defenceman Keenan roster — but five are currently out Murray is currently playing of the lineup. on a forward line with captain Forwards Jordan Mirwaldt, Jon Lawrance.

Payton Liske, Jordan Soquila, “With the amount of guys we

have out of the lineup, we have to play near-perfect hockey.”

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Defenceman Alexi Pianosi — who led Gaels defencemen with 20 points last season — has been scoreless in 14 games this season, while Lawrance is on pace for only half of his 25-point total last season.

The goaltending position has also seen major changes from last season. Even though De Fazio and David Aime are both returning players, Gibson recruited Riley Whitlock — a first-year law student who played junior hockey in the

Last weekend, men’s hockey We’ve got a month ... head coach Brett Gibson tweeted, now and all I’ve got to “Whole month to stew over last think about is this night’s debacle! Recruiting starts 10-1 loss. today... to find guys that want to compete.”

Gibson’s tweet on Sunday — Brett Gibson, men’s hockey coach followed the Gaels’ 10-1 loss to the University of Quebec at Certain healthy players aren’t Trois-Rivières Patriotes on Saturday producing like they did last season. night at the Memorial Centre. see Three on page 22 The blowout loss capped off a disastrous November that saw the Gaels go 1-5-1. Backup goalie women’s basketball Steele De Fazio quit the team and the number of players on Queen’s injury list rose to nine.

Gibson was on a recruiting trip in Newmarket on Sunday.

“We’ve got a month now ... and all I’ve got to think about is this The Gaels will take on the Windsor on Saturday. Both games The Gaels gave up 34 turnovers, 10-1 loss,” he told the Journal. B y J erry Z heng Western Mustangs in London on are at 6 p.m.

“This job never ends because now Contributor while the Badgers gave up 23.

I’ve got to find players that are “Turn the ball over 34 times in Friday and the Windsor Lancers in willing to compete.”

The women’s basketball team a game [and it’s] very difficult to At the halfway point of the was one shot away from a win,” head coach Dave Wilson said.

OUA regular season, the Gaels are perfect weekend. “[But] if you look at the statistical ninth-place in the Eastern With the Gaels trailing 71-69 categories, we were better or equal conference with a 6-7-1 record, to the Brock Badgers in overtime in all categories with the exception ahead of only the Royal Military last Saturday, leading scorer that they took more shots.”

The loss to the Badgers came Brittany Moore needed to sink a three-pointer with 2.8 seconds left a day after the Gaels beat the McMaster Marauders 94-65 on the clock — but she missed.

Both the Gaels and the Badgers on Friday.

The Gaels led the Marauders traded leads throughout Saturday’s power rankings game. Wing Jenny Wright missed by over 30 points for most of a game-winning half-court shot in the game. They out-rebounded The Journal Sports Editors the last seconds of regulation. In the Marauders 40 to 25 and kept review the fall teams. overtime, Brock forward Nicole turnovers below 15.

Rosenkranz sealed the win, scoring Taylor Chiarot, the Marauders’ page 20 her team’s final three points. leading scorer and rebounder, Gaels post Sydney Kernahan posted only two points and recorded her first double-double zero rebounds in the first half, vanier cup recap of the season with 10 points and unable to overcome Gaels centre 12 rebounds. Moore led the Gaels Hanna Koposhynska’s strong Gord Randall comments with 21 points, making three of six defensive play. on Friday’s classic game Starting guard Liz Boag sat shots from three-point range. in Vancouver. “[Kernahan’s] really stepping out both games after sustaining up her game for us,” Moore said a concussion against the Wilfrid page 21 “There’s no way we would’ve been Laurier Golden Hawks on Nov. 18. photo by jeff peters in the game if it wasn’t for her Wilson said he’s trying to get her Guard Brittany Moore scored 21 points in Saturday’s ready to play next weekend. rebounding and put-backs.” loss to the Brock Badgers.

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Gaels still winless Men’s basketball is tied for last place in OUA after two home losses B y Peter r eIMer Contributor The men’s basketball team blew two early leads at the ARC last weekend, extending their losing streak to six games.

The Gaels led the McMaster Marauders 18-17 after the first quarter on Friday, but the Marauders went on a 12-0 run in the second quarter to end the half with a 13-point lead. The Gaels outscored McMaster 21-20 in the third quarter, but struggled to score in the fourth quarter and lost 89-62. Mackenzie Simpson and Nikola Misljencevic led the Gaels with 16 points each.

On Saturday night, the Gaels scored 14 unanswered points for a 34-28 halftime lead over the Brock Badgers. Despite another 16-point night from Misljencevic, the Gaels couldn’t break the Badgers’ zone defence in the second half, losing 69-60.

Misljencevic has averaged 20 points in the team’s last three games, but he said he doesn’t need to produce offensively.

“It’s just who’s scoring on any given night,” he said, adding that Gaels forward Bernard Burgesson and guard Ryan Golden are both capable of posting 25 points a game.

Burgesson and Golden combined for 26 points over the weekend.

The Gaels are tied for last place

in the OUA East with an 0-6 record.

“There’s no question we’re getting better,” head coach Stephan Barrie said. “We had fewer bad stretches than in some previous games.”

The Gaels hadn’t faced a zone defence this season until Saturday’s game against the Badgers.

“When teams play zone, you just have to be aggressive,” Barrie said. “For the first several minutes, we just weren’t attacking it. We have to be quicker in adjusting to that next time.”

This Friday, the Gaels play the

1-5 Western Mustangs in London.

Barrie coached the Western women’s team for five years before coming to Queen’s. He won an OUA Championship when he played for the Mustangs men’s team in 1999.

“I’m looking forward to … getting back in that environment and competing against my home team,” he said.

The Gaels close out 2011 on Saturday night against the Windsor Lancers. The Lancers (3-3) are ranked 10th in Canada.

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Shootout loss

Women’s hockey falls to Guelph at home B y e MILy L owe Staff Writer The women’s hockey team no longer has a perfect home record.

The team fell 4-3 to the Guelph Gryphons in a shootout last Saturday at the Memorial Centre.

Forward Shawna Griffin said it was her team’s most consistent effort so far this season.

“We’ve played a lot of one-period, two-period games,” she said. “But this was one where we had a lot of spark in all three periods.”

The Gaels entered the second period down 1-0, but responded with two quick goals. Winger Brittany McHaffie scored her seventh goal of the season and centre Kristin Smith scored on a breakaway just over a minute later.

The Gryphons added another goal to tie the game before heading into the third period.

Both teams added goals in the third, leaving the game tied 3-3 at the end of regulation.

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Women’s soccer tops varsity power rankings Sports Editors Gilbert Coyle and Benjamin Deans evaluate the Gaels’ performances this fall 1. Women’s soccer No one came close to the women’s soccer team this season.

The Gaels won their second consecutive national championship and lost only one game all year, finishing 19-1-2. They even improved on last season, when their record was 19-3.

This team was clutch. Three of its playoff wins went to penalty kicks, including both the provincial and national championship games. Goalkeeper Chantel Marson came through with crucial shootout saves and earned the CIS supplied by andrew dobrolskyj MVP award.

The women’s soccer team won provincial and national gold medals this season.

The team had depth too. When co-captain and defender Brienna With team Canada player Conor 4. Football Erin Snelgrove won the lightweight Shaw missed the first nine games Trainor and OUA MVP Mike single race and the lightweight of the season, OUA East rookie Penczak, the Mustangs were clearly eight also finished first. Snelgrove of the year Jessie De Boer filled the best team in the province. also won a silver medal in the the role. When co-captain Kelli lightweight double event with Sean Chamberlain sat out for the OUA — Gilbert Coyle Peterson. The lightweight four championship with a knee injury, and the heavyweight eight also rookie Breanna Burton filled in.

3. Cross country finished second.

Chamberlain, Marson and On the men’s side, the Shaw are all set to graduate, but Going into the season, the men lightweight four- and eight-person the Gaels still have OUA scoring were expected to challenge for the boats both won bronze medals but leader Jackie Tessier, OUA East national podium and the women the heavyweight boats all missed MVP Riley Filion and OUA were expected to rebuild. That’s the podium. all-star Melissa Jung. A three-peat pretty much how it ended up.

Even though the rowing is a possibility.

The men should be satisfied program underperformed this with a bronze medal at the OUA season, 16 of 20 men’s rowers — Benjamin Deans Championship and a fourthand 19 of 27 women’s rowers place finish at nationals. After an were first- or second-year students.

After being named as a training 2. Men’s rugby injury-plagued season, the team development centre for the saved its best race for when it journal file photo Canadian Olympic program this After last season’s bronze medal, counted, only missing out Quarterback Billy summer, the Gaels’ crews were the men’s rugby team brought on a national medal after a McPhee was injured for the playoffs. selected by coaches who work for back some old players to form a surprising performance from the much stronger lineup this season. Victoria Vikes.

They weren’t close to the Vanier the national program. With that Forwards Tim and Pat Richardson Transfer student Maxime Cup, but the Gaels improved from strategy in place, improvements are expected for next season. returned for graduate school Leboeuf, MA ’13, was the team’s last year. after a year away and flyhalf top runner, while second-year Their new starting quarterback — Gilbert Coyle Liam Underwood was back after Jeff Archer posted a surprising Billy McPhee guided the team to missing 2010 with an ankle injury. 10th-place finish at nationals. a 6-2 regular season finish. A rib With the emergence of George Rookie Dave Cashin showed injury prevented McPhee from 6. Women’s rugby Gleeson and Myles Dingwall as potential by leading the team at the starting in the playoffs, but Queen’s key players, the Gaels often looked Queen’s Invitational, while Clay still reached the OUA semifinal. as good as the 2009 OUA gold Patterson led at the Paul Short Run That’s a better ending than last and the Guelph Open. medal-winning team. season, when the Gaels lost to Captain Oliver Hatheway is the McMaster in a quarter-final.

A 13-7 loss to the Western Mustangs was the only blip in a 7-1 only key runner set to graduate, so The Gaels relied on defence regular season that included a 47-3 the men’s team is expected to reach all season and it worked for them blowout against the McMaster the podium in 2012. against mediocre teams. But to The women’s team earned a compete against the top teams in Marauders, the defending OUA champions. Underwood led surprising OUA bronze medal, but the OUA, the Gaels needed a more the OUA in total points, while came 10th at nationals. Captain powerful offence.

Dingwall, Gleeson, Matt Kelly and Steph Hulse was the team’s leading When McPhee was at his best, Dan Moor joined him on the OUA runner at every meet, while Alecia the team could rely on him to Kallos was the second-best runner pick up first downs and throw all-star team.

The Gaels beat the Marauders at the OUA and CIS meets. With the occasional long bomb for a for a second time at Tindall field Hulse, Kallos, Lauren Prufer and touchdown. Even though he had in the OUA semifinal, but they Colleen Wilson also set to return, turnover troubles against better couldn’t overcome the Mustangs in the women should be a better team defences, he has the potential to next season. the final, falling 21-15 in London. be a major OUA passing threat by journal file photo A silver medal was an next year.

Captain Susan — Gilbert Coyle appropriate result for the Gaels.

It’s not clear which veterans will Heald was an OUA all-star. return, but the loss of graduating lineman Osie Ukwuoma — the Only one game separated the Gaels best defensive player — will women’s rugby team that clinched hurt the team. If the offence can its first-ever national championship improve enough though, the team appearance last season from the should make it to the Yates Cup. team that won an OUA bronze medal this season.

— Benjamin Deans In 2010, the Gaels beat the McMaster Marauders in the 5. Rowing regular season to win the Russell division and earn an easy route Both the men’s and women’s to nationals. This season’s 5-3 teams failed to meet their own loss to the Marauders meant the expectations this fall. The women Gaels had to beat the Guelph aimed to repeat last season’s Gryphons — unbeaten against OUA title, while the men looked OUA opposition since 2007 — to improve on their bronze in the OUA semifinal to qualify medal. They finished second and for the CIS tournament. They third, respectively. lost 50-0. journal file photo Flanker Matt Kelly and the men’s rugby team went 8-2 in The women only narrowly But with head coach Beth Barz missed out on OUA gold. Rookie leaning on several young players, the OUA regular season and playoffs.

there was some silver lining this season. Second-year props Claragh Pegg and Taylor White were named to the OUA all-star team.

Second-year lock Bronwyn Corrigan was the team’s highest scorer with 20 points, second-year forward Kayla Roote scored a last-second try to beat the Trent Excalibur in the OUA quarter-final and rookie Lauren McEwen scored last-minute game-winning tries in two games this season.

As long as the Gryphons dynasty continues, the women’s rugby team’s only realistic goal will be second place in Ontario. But its young players are good enough to make it happen in 2012.

— Gilbert Coyle

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Rookie Peter Christidis was the team’s top scorer.

The men’s soccer team was supposed to have a rebuilding season. With six first- and second-year starters and injuries to veteran players, the team finished the regular season at 7-4-3, down from 8-5-1 last year.

The Gaels were wildly erratic.

They showed potential in their upset over the Carleton Ravens and the University of Toronto Varsity Blues — the OUA East’s two best teams. But they often looked like an inexperienced team, blowing late-game leads four times this season.

Early in the season, the Gaels beat the sixth-place Trent Excalibur 3-0 at home, but lost to them 1-0 in Peterborough the following week.

They were inconsistent when it counted most. They conceded late goals to the Laurentian Voyageurs in both regular season games. When the Gaels played the Voyageurs in the first round of the playoffs, they gave up a late goal again and ultimately watched their season end on penalty kicks.

But the future looks bright for the Gaels. Rookie midfielder Peter Christidis was the team’s leading scorer, rookie midfielder Henry Bloemen started almost every game this season and second-year captain Joe Zupo is already a two-time OUA all-star.

Despite the loss of fifth-years Andrew Colosimo and Jordan Brooks, the team should be better next year.

— Benjamin Deans

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McPhee can be as good as Quinlan Watching a classic Vanier Cup in Vancouver shows Queen’s can compete in the next few years

B y g orD r AnDALL CFRC commentator and former Queen’s football player VANCOUVER — Friday’s Vanier Cup between the Laval Rouge-et-Or and the McMaster Marauders was an instant classic.

The underdog Marauders flew out of the gates at B.C. Place, riding a virtuoso first-half performance from quarterback Kyle Quinlan to take a 23-0 halftime lead.

Quinlan — who finished with 588 all-purpose yards — picked apart the top-ranked Laval defence while the Marauders held Laval’s receiver Julian Feoli-Gudino and running back Sebastian Lévesque to a combined 75 first-half yards.

The second half was all Laval. A punt return touchdown from receiver Guillaume Rioux and an interception by safety Frédéric Plesius engineered a comeback that saw the Rouge-et-Or take a 24-23 lead in the fourth quarter.

Quinlan threw two interceptions in the third quarter, but responded with a seven-play, 69-yard scoring drive to put McMaster ahead 31-24 midway through the fourth. Laval answered three minutes later to tie the score 31-31. In the final play of regulation, Marauders kicker Tyler Crapigna missed a 30-yard field goal to set the stage for overtime.

The second-half fireworks paled in comparison to the overtime. The teams traded touchdowns on their first possessions to push the game into double overtime.

Rouge-et-Or quarterback Bruno Prud’homme was intercepted by Marauders defensive back Steven Ventresca on the first possession of

double overtime. A few plays later, Crapigna redeemed himself with a successful 20-yard field goal to give McMaster its first-ever Vanier Cup title.

As the Marauders celebrated in front of 24,953 fans at B.C. Place, I wondered where the Queen’s football team stood in Canadian Interuniversity Sport.

I covered every Gaels game this season for local radio station CFRC. Two resounding losses to the Marauders — a 26-2 season-opening defeat and a 40-13 OUA semifinal blowout — proved they weren’t ready to hang with the big boys this season.

But they were close.

In that Sept. 5 home loss to McMaster, Queen’s fielded a completely revamped young team against a veteran squad with the best quarterback in the country. On Nov. 5, they travelled to Hamilton without the services of emerging star quarterback Billy McPhee and were pummeled.

This season, McPhee proved himself as one of the better quarterbacks in the OUA — without him, the Gaels had little hope against a healthy Marauders team with Quinlan at the helm.

The 2009 Vanier Cup-winning Gaels and this season’s Marauders both proved that the OUA is a league where you must have experience at quarterback to be successful.

Two years ago, fifth-year quarterback Danny Brannagan led the Gaels to a national title and was named offensive MVP of the Vanier Cup. This season, fourth-year Quinlan did the exact same thing.

McPhee can be that good.

At times this season, McPhee was playing the best football in the OUA. As he continues to cut down on mistakes, there’s no reason why he can’t be as good as Quinlan or Brannagan by his fourth or fifth year.

But experience isn’t just important at quarterback. McMaster and Laval had a combined 28 fourth or fifth-year players on Friday night. Queen’s only played six veterans this season. While the Marauders and

McMaster quarterback Kyle Quinlan was named Vanier Cup offensive MVP.

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Rouge-et-Or used a combined 18 rookies for the Vanier Cup, the Gaels had 21 in the lineup for the Nov. 5 loss in Hamilton.

But the future looks bright for the Gaels.

With head coach Pat Sheahan having to replace only six graduating players over the

winter, Queen’s will be ready to improve on this year’s 7-3 season that ended at the hands of the national champions. Anything less than a Yates Cup appearance next November will be a disappointment.

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Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. Whitlock also played with the Ottawa Gee-Gees for the past three seasons.

Whitlock has started 13 of 14 games this season. Backup goalie De Fazio — who started in 20 games last season — played his only game for the Gaels this season against the Brock Badgers on Oct. 8.

“He’s decided to leave the team because he didn’t see himself as a backup goalie and he wanted to concentrate on school,” Gibson said. “If that’s the decision he made, than who am I to go against it?”

De Fazio declined to comment to the Journal.

Lawrance said the team was surprised that Whitlock started so many games.

“We thought maybe there would be a three-man rotation,” he said.

“We definitely did not expect things to work out like they have.”

Lawrance said it was tough to see De Fazio quit after having played with him since 2009.

“He’s pretty good friends with everyone and he’s been a great teammate,” he said.

In 13 starts this season, Whitlock has a .907 save percentage, a 3.43 goals against average and one shutout. “[Whitlock]’s given us stability back there,” Lawrance said. “We’ve hung him out to dry a couple times, but he’s been good, and whenever we’ve had to call on Aime, he’s been great too.”

Second-year backup Aime said his role has been reduced since Whitlock joined the Gaels.

“Last year, [De Fazio and I] split the games about 65-35,” Aime said. “This year, [Whitlock]’s playing really well, so it’s tough to get minutes.”

Whitlock was pulled after

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allowing five goals in the first De Fazio’s departure from the team. two periods of a 5-3 loss to the Even though the Gaels ended Ottawa Gee-Gees last Friday. Aime 2011 with three straight losses, they recorded a scoreless third period. have over a month until their next But when Whitlock allowed five game. When they play the Paladins goals against the Patriotes the next on Jan. 3, up to five injured players day, Aime let in five more when he should be back in the lineup. came in.

Gibson said his team won’t have Aime also declined to talk about any more excuses at that point.

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Pinkerton scored the only goal in the shootout.

“Guelph is a good team and [Savage] stood in there,” head coach Matthew Holmberg said. “[But] that was a heck of a move in the shootout.”

The loss bumps the Gaels’ record to 8-3-2, tied for third place in the OUA. “The girls played well enough to deserve a win,” he said. “You

can never be too happy with a loss, but […] there were stretches of that game where we outplayed them.”

With only one win in their last four games, the Gaels will look to head into winter break on a positive note this weekend.

They play the 10th-place University of Ontario Institute of Techology Ridgebacks and fifthplace York Lions this Friday and Saturday at the Memorial Centre.

Both games start at 7:30 p.m.

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Gaels forward Taryn Pilon controls the puck during her team’s shootout loss to Guelph at the Memorial Centre on Saturday.

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Homemade for the holidays Three easy holiday recipes appropriate for any festive occasion B y M egan C ui Contributor Homemade treats make memorable gifts, perfect for letting someone know you care. If you dread the mall crowds and long lineups, homemade desserts are a thoughtful alternative that even the glitziest store-bought gifts struggle to match in the charm department.

A parcel of baked goodies adorned with ribbon is the perfect solution for those with whom you are too acquainted to just get a card and not familiar enough to buy a gift.

Make sure to leave enough time to make and wrap your treats.

Find a recipe for holiday cookies in a jar online at queensjournal.ca/postscript.

Peppermint mocha macarons These little ganache-filled cookie sandwiches are perfect for someone who loves to eat with their eyes. Macarons might seem like an ambitious recipe, especially in a student kitchen, but it’s surprisingly easy. The particularly festive colour and flavour combination — green shells and mint chocolate ganache — will be perfect for sharing over tea and lattes this holiday season.

Ingredients For the macarons

Cake pops are not a difficult endeavour for a gift.

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Festive cake pops Cakes on a stick have been incredibly popular lately and for good reason. They’re conveniently bite-sized and visually appealing, making a perfecttreatforgifts.Ifyou’reshort on time, you can take advantage of premade or leftover cakes and cupcakes. Cake pops can be decorated and personalized, so don’t be afraid to show off your creativity.

Ingredients • A cake of your favourite recipe (red velvet, vanilla, etc) • 1 can buttercream icing or homemade recipe • Lollipop sticks • 12 ounces white chocolate • Colored icing, sprinkles and decorative trimmings of your choice Makes approximately 15 cake pops, depending on size.

Preparation Completely cool your cake.

Crumble cake finely with hands into a large mixing bowl. Mix in buttercream icing with electric mixer on medium until mixture is moist and easy to squish into balls.

Refrigerate for one hour. Take bits of cake mix to roll into smooth, ping-pong sized balls.

Place onto parchment lined baking sheet.

Coat lollipop sticks in a little extra icing (this will help them stick to the cake balls) and stick one into the end of each ball.

Place tray in freezer for half an hour or until firm.

Melt white chocolate in a microwave safe bowl or over boiling water (double boiler method). Remove cooled cake balls and dip into chocolate until covered. Decorate to your liking and stick into a block of Styrofoam to prevent flattening.

Wrap only when hardened.

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Peppermint mocha macarons will not disappoint the lucky recipient.

•¾ cup almond flour • 2 large egg whites • ½ tsp cream of tartar • 1 cup icing sugar • ¼ cup granulated sugar •Green food colouring •Piping bag or ziplock bag For the filling • ½ cup whipping cream • ½ cup semi-sweet chocolate • 1 tbsp unsalted butter at room temperature •Extract of peppermint •Piping bag or zip lock bag

Makes 40 macarons.

Preparation For the shells Preheat oven to 160 C (325 F).

Sift together almond flour and icing sugar. Mix until combined and sift mixture once more to remove lumps.

Whisk together egg whites until soft peaks are formed. On a high speed, add granulated sugar and whisk until stiff peaks form (for approximately five minutes).

Gently fold egg whites, along with flour mix and three or four drops of food colouring until the mixture looks uniform and shiny.

Transfer shell batter into a piping or zip lock bag with a ½ inch opening snipped into a corner.

Pipe the shells onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.

let it drop approximately one foot above countertop. This funny maneuver will help form the famous crinkly bottom of macaron shells.

Bake for five minutes and allow to cool untouched for five minutes on wire rack.

For the filling Heat up whipping cream in a saucepan without bringing to boil. Place chopped semi-sweet chocolate into bowl and pour heated cream. Allow mixture to sit for a minute before stirring in approximately two to four drops of peppermint extract. Stir until mixture forms a smooth ganache.

Allow ganache to cool for about a half hour in fridge. Stir in butter until well mixed.

Assembly Fill piping bag and put a loonie-sized dollop of ganache onto a shell. Sandwich with another shell. Refrigerate for at least two hours before wrapping.

Lift the baking sheet and

Gingerbread truffles Chocolate is versatile. When moulded into lumpy shapes, it can be used as a whimsical stocking stuffer. This recipe can also be a holiday classic by forming the truffles into balls instead of coal shapes.

Ingredients • ¾ cup whipping cream • 1 tbsp maple syrup • Salt • Ground cinnamon •1 ½ cup semi-sweet chocolate chips •½ cup finely crushed gingerbread cookies • 2 cup dark chocolate • Cocoa powder for dusting

Preparation Heat up whipping cream, with maple syrup, salt and cinnamon on medium to low heat (without bringing to boil) for approximately eight minutes.

Allow to cool for half an hour in fridge.

Place chopped semi-sweet chocolate chips in a microwave safe bowl and microwave for three minutes until melted, pausing every 30 seconds to stir. Add cooled cream mixture and crushed gingerbread cookies. Place back in fridge for 15 minutes.

Remove chocolate filling from fridge and spoon and mould a

ping-pong sized amount into coal shape with the help of a picture.

Use latex gloved hands to prevent body heat from warming up the chocolate.

Place moulded chocolates on a parchment lined baking sheet and place back into fridge to chill for one to two hours.

Heat dark chocolate with the microwave method.

Prepare a bowl of cocoa powder. Dip cooled chocolate shapes into melted chocolate and immediately roll in cocoa powder to coat. Place on baking sheet and let sit for at least one hour before wrapping.