The Queen's Journal, Issue 33

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German major cancelled

Week on women’s worth B y C hristiane Peric Staff Writer A third-year student has taken it upon herself to promote self-esteem on campus during Queen’s first Women’s Worth Week.

Designed as a series of events meant to raise awareness about violence against women and selfesteem issues, the week will feature panel discussions, workshops, a movie marathon and a self-esteem board where women can post photos of themselves holding signs with inspirational messages.

“I know that there are other groups that deal with women’s issues, but there was not hing specifically on self-esteem,” founder Kate McCord said.

The idea for the campaign began in September after discussions with the Arts and Science Undergraduate Society (ASUS) and the AMS. “It never sat well with me that there was never something like this on campus that included everybody,” McCord, ArtSci ’13, said.

Gaels fencer Matt Kaiser (right) faces Royal Military College in the bout for men’s team foil See Self-esteem on page 5

Grocer opens today A new grocery store in the Queen’s Centre is opening today after two months of construction.

Grocery Checkout Fresh Market is the first and only grocery store on campus.

“We’re very into fresh products,” Nathan Felder, CEO of Grocery Checkout Fresh Market, said. “We carry a lot less of the standard grocery products.”

The grocery store is 1,400 square feet, similar in size to the one that is currently located at Western University.

It features four fridges and multiple shelves that carry about 800 different products.

After plans for th new grocer were announced, students raised concerns about high prices.

Felder said they picked the products with the best value from over 25,000 suppliers.

“Some of the best features we have are the product selection and pricing,” he said. “The prices are about as competitive as you could find at any market or grocery store.”

Felder will be attending the first opening and said he expects a big crowd.

“I would predict that it will be a fairly busy spot based on the response we’ve gotten from students and faculty so far,” he said.

A second new service will open in the Queen’s Centre in the coming months. Drug Smart pharmacy is currently under construction and is set to open by March 1.

B y K atherine Fernandez -B lance News Editor

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bronze at the OUA championships this weekend held at the ARC. See page 14 for full story.

Sports

Fencing wins provincial title Men’s team beats Toronto in tiebreaker at the ARC B y S avoula S tylianou Assistant News Editor

The men’s fencing team won a dramatic second straight OUA title on Sunday, defeating the University of Toronto Varsity Blues in an improvised sudden-death tiebreaker at the ARC. After the individual championships on Saturday, the Gaels and the Varsity Blues finished Sunday’s team competition tied for first place — but since there’s no official tiebreaking rule in the OUA, team coaches and league representatives retired to the judges’ room to figure out a plan, leaving players and spectators in suspense for over 30 minutes.

The final decision was to have an individual fence-off in each fencing category — foil, sabre and épée. Gaels épée team captain Karl Gardner said his team was surprised by the verdict.

“It was a little bit of a surprise that we did the fence-off, it wasn’t in the rules,” he said. “It was just kind of ad hoc.”

The foil is the lightest fencing weapon, with players recording points if they hit their opponent’s chest and back. The sabre is heavier with points recorded when players — Catherine Owsik hit the opponents entire upper body,

excluding the hands. The épée is the the late drama made this weekend’s heaviest weapon and hits count if a win much sweeter. player connects with any part of his “This one means a bit more opponent’s body. because it was so close,” he said.

Gaels foil captain Dean Loubert “Last year everybody on the team lost his tiebreaker bout 5-0 before did well and we kind of ran away Gardner won the épée bout 5-4, with it … but this one was kind of — the teams were still tied heading tooth and nail.”

The deciding fence-off between into the sabre round.

In the last bout, Gaels Beaucage-Gauvreau and Toronto’s sabre captain François Geringas was a rematch of Beaucage-Gauvreau beat Varsity Saturday’s sabre gold medal game Blues fencer Gordon Geringas 5-3 in the individual sabre category.

Beaucage-Gauvreau said he to secure the OUA banner and set off a roar from the 100-strong was confident going into the crowd in the ARC upper gym. final tie breaking after having Gaels head coach Hugh Munby already defeated his opponent 24 threw his hat on the floor and hours earlier. jumped up and down.

“They only gave us 15 minutes Although the Gaels also won the to get ready, so I went and sat in OUA title last season, Gardner said See Gaels on page 14

Inside the vogue charity fashion show: part one

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Students will no longer be able to major in German beginning in September. The decision follows a reconfiguration of the department of languages, literatures and cultures.

The cancellation of the major option was passed at the Arts and Science Faculty Board on Friday.

Students will still be able to earn a medial or minor in German.

Acting Head of the department Donato Santeramo said the goal isn’t to cut courses but to offer different ones.

“It was not a financial cut, it was a purely cultural one,” Santeramo said. “The instructors in German and the curriculum committee believed we could service students better.”

Santeramo said German was targeted because of limited enrolment. Only three students are currently majoring in the program and they will be allowed to complete their degrees.

The languages, literatures and cultures program was formed in 2011, one year after the introduction of a world language studies minor option.

While German has seen a declining interest, Santeramo said he hopes the introduction of a Mohawk course will interest students.

“We are on Mohawk/Algonquin territory,” he said, adding that discussions about adding the course were done in conjunction with Four Directions Aboriginal Centre.

“I expect it to be very popular because it’s going to be a combination of both language and culture.”

Between 30 and 35 students will be able to enrol in the full-year one-level course.

“Language is something you can’t teach to numerous people [at once,]” Santeramo said.

Association Acting Head of the department of languages, literatures and cultures Jill Scott said adding this course is a logical step forward.

“If we’re going to put reconciliation on the page, we have to do more than pay lip service to have indigenous ways of knowing showing up in the curriculum,” Scott said.

Although courses are being restructured, Scott said no faculty members will lose their jobs as a result.

“Things come and go,” she said.

“I would imagine that there will be continual change in these units and these departments.”

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New AMS council hired

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Social Issues Commissioner Katie Conway

Media Services Director Terra-Ann Arnone

Nine commissioner and director positions filled B y vinCent M ataK and S avoula S tylianou Journal Staff Next year’s AMS council was hired on Sunday night by incoming AMS executive team JDL. Each of the six commissioners head a body of the student government which manages a specialized portfolio. They’re responsible for organizing activities, issuing publications and facilitating campus affairs.

The three directors are in charge of managing AMS services.

The hiring process spanned from Tuesday to Sunday.

“We had them split into different rooms and we gave them different situations,” vice-president-elect of university affairs Mira Dineen said.

“You get to see them work together and their personalities come out in a different way.”

Vice-president-elect of operations Tristan Lee said the team had a goal in mind during hiring this year.

“As important as they are in individuals, they have to operate as a council,” Lee said.

Academic Affairs Commissioner Isabelle Duchaine

Isabelle Duchaine, ArtSci ’13, served as deputy commissioner for the Academic Affairs Commission and said she plans to build off the changes made by past AMS councils while heading the commission next year.

“The next step is rebuilding internal strength and enhancing the volunteer opportunities represented within the commission,” she said.

Duchaine said her experience working with vice-president-elect of university affairs Mira Dineen, who held the role this year, encouraged her to apply for the position.

“I found her role to be the most interesting,” she said. “I’m grateful for the opportunities that the [AMS] has given me and I’m excited to give them to other students as well.”

Campus Activities Commissioner Claire Casher

Claire Casher, ArtSci ’13, said she hopes it was her passion for the Campus Activities Commission that led her hiring.

“I’ve had some of my most memorable experiences at Queen’s through the commission,” she said. “My experience and my passion made me a strong candidate during the interview process.”

Casher has served this year as a deputy commissioner, and also worked in the past for Exposure Arts Festival, Charity Ball and Queen’s Model United Nations.

She said she plans to continue to run events organized by the commission, while providing necessary tweaks.

“I want to make it a resource for any form of student-run activity on campus so we can add to the vibrancy that Queen’s community brings,” she said.

Environment and Sustainability Commissioner Ty Greene Katie Conway said applying for the social issues commissioner was a natural step.

“So far in the commission, I was on the Queen’s Feminist Review in my second year and this year I’m deputy of publications,” Conway, ArtSci ’13, said.

Conway said she wants to create a new deputy position under the commission.

Ty Greene, PheKin’13, said the Commission “I will be hiring a special projects deputy,” of the Environment and Sustainability that she said. “The Social Issues Commission started in 2011 needs to grow. has an amazing capacity to run educational “I want to start concrete projects that will campaigns and this would help with that.” benefit the student community through the Hospitality and Safety Services use of sustainable methods,” he said.

Director Greene said being hired for the position Keenan Randall shows the incoming AMS executive’s ability to hire “competent individuals.”

Greene served as the sustainability director on the Orientation Round Table as well deputy commissioner for the Campus Activities Commission.

He said being a kinesiology student brings a different perspective to AMS council.

“It’s probably one of the reasons why I got hired,” he said.

Keenan Randall, ArtSci ’13, began working Internal Affairs Commissioner for the AMS when he interned for the Liam Faught hospitality and safety services director in his first year, going on to work as a staff member at Common Ground then moving to become assistant manager this year.

He said his experience at Common Ground will prepare him for his position.

“As a manager I understand the daily challenges that staff and other managers face,” he said.

Liam Faught said he was nervous during his interview for the commissioner of internal affairs .

“I thought my first interview was terrible — I started applying for jobs as soon as I walked out of there,” Faught, ArtSci ’14, said.

Faught added that he’s prepared to deal with threats against the student-run non-academic discipline system.

“We’re going to evaluate the system and keep discussion open,” he said. “We’re still waiting on proposals from the administration so once those come out, we’ll go forward from there.”

Municipal Affairs Commissioner Troy Sherman

Troy Sherman will be staying put in the Municipal Affairs Commission. He was one of two deputy commissioners this year. He said the first thing he’s going to do in May is housekeeping.

“I’m going to clean the office. There are lots of old juice boxes in there,” he said.

Sherman started at the AMS as an intern in 2010.

“It’s always been welcoming for me, it’s always been somewhere I’ve felt I could grow and provide a contribution,” Sherman, ArtSci ’14, said, adding that he enjoyed writing the proposal for his application.

Terra-Ann Arnone, ArtSci ’13, has been involved with on campus media outlets since her first year and said she’s not afraid to be a transitional media services director.

“The way people are engaging with media is changing and that will affect small services like the ones on campus for next year,” she said.

Arnone is the current Journal Features Editor and spent last summer working for Yearbook Design Services.

“Having worked at the Journal I know its day-to-day functions,” she said. “I know how it feels to be a staff there.”

Retail Services Director Alvin Suen

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Incoming retail services director Alvin Suen said experience as head manager of the Yearbook and Design Services this year gave him necessary experience for the position.

“It’s definitely helped me understand different portfolios and budgets,” Suen, ArtSci ’12, said.

Suen said the first thing he wants to do when his term starts is hire a team.

“I’m looking for enthusiasm and passion and a willingness to get the job done.”

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Industry pros talk oil sands

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Looking at Alberta’s future as a top source of oil B y J ordan R ay Staff Writer Engineering student Craig Herring is working with a group of his peers to find ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from Alberta’s oil sands. “[Oil sands workers] are doing the best to provide for their families and create economic stimulus for the country,” Herring, Sci ’12, said.

Herring, who helped to organize the Oil and Gas Speakers Series at Queen’s, has spent the past two summers with an oil company in his hometown of Calgary.

“A lot of people out [West] recognize that and have a lot of respect for people working in the oil industry, but out East people don’t necessarily understand ... how important it is and formulate opinions without understanding it,” he said.

Last month, 133 students and professors attended the department of chemical engineering’s annual Oil and Gas Speaker series at Ban Righ Hall.

Started in 2009, the series aims to bring professionals together with students who are looking to break into the industry.

Over the span of two days, 18 speakers from across the country addressed a crowd of engineering, geology, commerce and law students. Among the speakers were industry notables Daniel O’Byrne and Mike Rose. O’Byrne is director and president of Calgary-based Charger Energy Company. Rose, a Queen’s alumnus, is the president and CEO of Tourmaline Oil Corporation.

Nine international companies sponsored the series, including Shell and Imperial Oil. Attendees mingled with representatives

Craig Herring, Sci ‘12, holds an oil deposit sample from the department of chemical engineering’s collection.

from both.

According to the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP), oil sands like the ones in Northern Alberta are a mixture of sand, water, clay and bitumen.

About 20 per cent is close enough to the surface to be mined, but the rest lies 200 metres or more below ground level — too deep to be accessed.

Bitumen is a mineral and the part of the oil sands that can be used for fuel, but in its natural state it’s too thick to be pumped up through the ground — it needs to be heated or diluted to be collected.

To do this, workers use a process called Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD). Steam is pumped down into the reservoir to heat the oil sands so they can be pumped to the surface.

Because SAGD is both energy and water intensive, Herring said, it gets criticized by environmentalists.

But it’s cleaner than people think, he said.

“Your power is always coming from natural gas, which as far as clean energies go, it’s about the best you can get,” Herring said.

The Alberta government mandates that companies have a 90 per cent water recycle rate for SAGD extraction. The other 10 per cent of the water is pulled from the Athabasca river

through underground saline reservoirs — water that Herring said isn’t safe to drink.

According to CAPP, oil sands divert less than three per cent of flow from the river.

Peter Hodson is a Queen’s environmental studies professor and worked for Environment Canada. He worked on a 2008 study of possible water contamination through oil sands digging.

The study concluded that the areas being used in the oil sands were being polluted at levels above government water-quality guidelines and were harmful to fish in the river.

The study came out after allegations that oil industry developments were potentially damaging to the health of Aboriginal communities in the region.

At the time, the Alberta government rejected the claims that water was being contaminated based on reports from the Regional Aquatics Monitoring Program (RAMP).

“The weakness of the RAMP program was that it’s industry-funded,” Hodson said. “The stakeholders are predominantly industry and government ... so we have a circumstance where the industry has got much greater influence

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on what's going on than anybody else, [like] the fox guarding the chickens.”

After the study’s publication, the federal and provincial governments both announced review panels to study the problem. They plan to add a secondary level of oversight to ensure oil companies are sticking to Canada’s water quality standards.

Earlier this month, the Alberta provincial government, in partnership with the federal government, announced a monitoring program for the oil sands. The program promises to be transparent and take a more comprehensive approach to the issue.

Another issue of environmental concern are tailings ponds. CAPP describes tailings as the water, sand, clay and residual oil that’s left over after the bitumen has been set aside to be processed.

Tailings ponds are constructed to hold these leftovers. Once the sand and clay settles, water can be recycled for use in the SAGD process.

Air cannons and laser systems keep birds off the toxic oil sands.

One of the major concerns with tailings ponds is that they’re multiplying too quickly.

“There’s a gap between the amount of oil sands development and the time it takes to reclaim land

Last month, students, alumni and industry professionals gathered to discuss the future of Alberta’s oil sands at the Oil and Gas Speaker Series.

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and clean up the tailings ponds,” Kingston and the Islands MP Ted Hsu said. “Because the oil sands are expanding so fast, the land that's being [used for] the tailings ponds is growing at an ever-faster rate, faster than we can keep up.”

There are international concerns to worry about as well, Hsu said.

“The perception of a lot of people around the world is that Canada is not doing what it should or could be doing and that diminishes our ability to be a leader in the world,” he said, adding that he doesn’t think that’s true.

“If I were the people of Alberta, I would say, “‘How could the oil sands best benefit my children and my grandchildren and their grandchildren?’” Hsu said. “If we don’t develop the oil sands so quickly, the oil is still going to be there. And it’s probably going to get cheaper and cheaper to extract, as we learn how to do it better and better.”

Greenhouse gas emissions per barrel of oil have decreased 29 per cent since 1990.

“There are a lot of new technologies that are really cool and really exciting that will be available from a couple years from now and will be a big part of exploiting the resource in the future,” Herring said.

The Canadian Energy Research Institute estimates that $2.1 trillion, generated by jobs and resources from the oil sands, will be contributed to the Canadian economy over the next 25 years. This includes $766 billion in royalties and taxes that will be paid to provincial and federal governments.

In addition the research institute estimates that 905,000 jobs will be created as well over the same period. These estimates are based on continued development of the projects in Northern Alberta, especially in the current economic downturn.

“The economic risk to Canada to shut things down altogether is enormous,” Herring, Sci ’12, said.

“The way that things like Kyoto and Copenhagen are written, they would completely crush the ability for new projects to get started.”

“The best way to do it, I think from everyone’s perspective, is to set regulations to make it challenging; to ask companies to do better but to reward them for doing better.”

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Tuesday, February 14, 2012

OUSA

Ontario tuition talks in progress OUSA lobbies provincial government to keep undergraduate tuition affordable for future years B y C atherine O wsik Assistant News Editor With Ontario’s tuition framework under review for the 2012-13 academic year, the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance (OUSA) has recommended that the government limit tuition to an affordable rate.

A new tuition framework will be passed by the provincial government before September 2012 and will remain in place for three years.

OUSA submitted their recommendations to the Government of Ontario in a document entitled “Tomorrow’s Tuition: A New Framework for Affordable Higher Education” on Feb. 7.

The group consists of 14 members including representatives from eight post-secondary institutions.

Mira Dineen, AMS academic affairs commissioner, has been an OUSA member since her position began in May 2011.

“It’s really important that education is accessible to students,” Dineen, ArtSci ’11, said. “We’d like to ensure that tuition is tied to inflation at the most.”

The current tuition framework was established in 2006 and allows for Ontario universities to increase domestic tuition by an average of five per cent annually. Professional programs, such as engineering, are able to increase the most, at a maximum of eight per cent.

Since 2006, the average Ontario university tuition has risen by 35 per cent — from below $5,000 to over $6,600 per year.

Dineen said the Ontario government’s new 30 per cent off tuition grant was a step forward in making education accessible, but there’s still progress to be made.

“We are concerned that the effort and success of the grant will be meaningless if tuition is allowed to dramatically increase,” Dineen said.

It can pose an access “barrier to students. ” — Mira Dineen, AMS academic affairs commissioner

OUSA is recommending that the government restrain tuition increases to a maximum that matches inflation, as measured by the Consumer Price Index. OUSA also wants greater flexibility of payment due dates.

Dineen said the new payment dates at Queen’s were problematic.

“At Queen’s undergraduate tuition is primarily due upfront all at once on Sept. 1,” Dineen said. “It can pose an access barrier to students that can’t put it all together before that date.”

OUSA recommends that the government regulate a fair payment due date applicable to all Ontario universities. Currently in Ontario, only McMaster University, Nipissing University and Queen’s University charge all tuition fees on Sept. 1.

Dineen said one possibility would be to change payments to a per-term basis so that students had less to pay in September — five

Ontario universities are currently under this framework including Wilfrid Laurier University.

Sean Madden, OUSA president and vice-president of university affairs at Laurier’s student union, said he’s optimistic about the government implementing OUSA’s recommendations.

“We’ve been submitting it during meetings with various government figures … Probably about 100 people have seen the document by now,” Madden said, adding that this included government officials.

“We’ve had some positive feedback.”

Since it formed in 1992, OUSA has written numerous documents to lobby the provincial government for undergraduate concerns.

In the 2010-11 year the government committed to creating an additional 60,000 spots in post-secondary institutions over five years to increase the availability of education.

More recently, OUSA recommended that the 30 per cent off tuition grant be extended past four years for students with disabilities. The government approved this change, Madden said.

He said many of the ideas within the Tomorrow’s Tuition document came from an OUSA General Assembly meeting in November and recommendations were jointly written by OUSA executive and members.

Before its release, there was much consultation with external officials, Madden said.

“We’ve been in discussion with the Premier’s office, as well as the Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities.”

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Study

End-of-life decisions aimed to become easier Queen’s professor and KGH physician recieves $250,000 grant to study treatment of elderly and terminally ill B y M eaghan Wray Assistant News Editor

families in making end-of-life the situation.”

A $250,000 grant from treatment decisions.

“We have to make decisions Canadian Institutes of Health A new Queen’s study hopes Research (CIHR) was given to about what kinds of treatments will be offered,” Heyland said. “We to improve communication Queen’s in early January.

Queen’s will share the money know from other research that that between doctors and elderly or terminally ill patients regarding with 11 other Canadian universities. conversation infrequently happens The grant will be used to or when it does happen it’s end-of-life decision-making.

Dr. Daren Heyland, Queen’s complete the collaborative study done poorly.”

One strategy that may be medical professor and staff DECIDE. Using surveys, it will physician at Kingston General identify barriers to communication effective, Heyland said, is to Hospital (KGH), is one of the and how they can best be resolved. implement a specific hospital role Questionnaires will be given to to lessen the physician’s workload. principle investigators in this study and the only one to come over 1,000 physicians and nurses A nurse or a social worker would from 12 hospitals across Canada, most likely take on the role, costing from Queen’s. approximately $100,000 for an Heyland said Canada’s starting in May. The survey looks to identify annual salary. health care system often “Someone that has specialty prevents physicians from acting barriers and solicit ideas to appropriately and effectively when improve the quality and quantity of training, specialty knowledge and access to a broad range of making end-of-life care decisions. the conversation.

“If we can identify with more Interviews and focus groups tools that can really help patients precision, what those barriers will also be conducted to collect and families work through the decision-making,” Heyland said. and facilitators are, we hope additional information.

Physicians often become to come up with some better Some physicians are responsible intervention … to improve for aiding patients and their emotionally exhausted due to the nature of the work, he said.

“Our health care professionals suffer a lot of moral distress and Want to write for news? compassion fatigue or caring fatigue because of the anxiety …

Email associated with communication and decision-making,” he said.

Normally, Heyland said, the journal_news@ams.queensu.ca decision-making process isn’t

effective because the discussion doesn’t happen in advance.

“The absence of decision-making with the patient means that when that patient gets really sick they’re more often than not incompetent or unable to participate in decisionmaking,” he said.

“If you’re a patient, your final days are full of stress and anxiety and poor decisions will have a very negative impact on your life, your quality of your remaining life, and the quality of your death experience,” Heyland said.

He added that the patient’s family also deals with a variety of stressors when it comes to end-of-life care.

Heyland said the study hopes to create paper- and video-based aids to give patients and families a visual representation of the discussion process.

ACCEPT, Heyland’s prior study, focused on collecting the perspectives of patients and families. The results of this study will be released on April 16 for the National Advance Care Planning Day. The study also aims to improve the mental well being of health care professionals and increase

their overall satisfaction at work.

Holly Watson, in-patient support nurse at Friends of Hospice Ottawa, said time is a significant barrier to proper end-of-life care. “[Physicians are] strapped for time as it is right now and they’re overburdened with patients … so they can’t take on any more roles,” Watson said.

Communication between family physicians and palliative care physicians is often fragmented, she said.

“If they have a family physician they may not be kept in the loop if they’ve developed cancer, if they have a specialist,” she said. “If they’re only seeing a specialist on period basis, the physician doesn’t have enough information about what’s going on to help them.”

It’s important to improve this communication to ensure patients and families understand the process of care after diagnosis, especially if these patients are independent at the time, Watson said.

“If I go out and see someone who is just been told they have lung cancer and they only have so long to live … they may not have any services in place and so there’s no preparation being done,” she said.

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Self-esteem a focus

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Women’s Worth Week founder Kate McCord says she hopes the week-long event will become an annual occurrence at Queen’s.

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Now McCord has a team of roughly 20 students to plan and co-ordinate events.

Leading up to this week, students have been invited to participate in the “I am distinctly beautiful because …” activity.

Participants are encouraged to make a list of 24 things that make them distinctly beautiful, and choose one statement to post as a photo on the group’s Facebook page.

“There are so many girls who don’t think that they’re beautiful, or smart and don’t feel confident in their abilities, whether they are academic, or otherwise … it’s a shame,” she said. “People should celebrate who they are as unique individuals, and it shouldn’t matter what gender you are or race you are.”

The ribbon campaign also places a heavy emphasis on getting men involved. One focus of the week is the White Ribbon Campaign, with Jeff Perera of White Ribbon Ryerson coming to deliver a keynote address and workshop.

This campaign aims to end men’s violence against women. Men wear a white ribbon to

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send the message that they won’t commit, condone or remain silent about violence against women.

“I really wanted to bring that campaign here because I think it has a very positive message about community and the role that men play in promoting gender equality,” McCord said.

She said she wants the campaign to promote dialogue in the Queen’s community.

“It is so easy to become anonymous here.

If you don’t go to class, often professors assume that it’s because you just don’t care, but in reality, you might have something awful going on in your life,” she said. “If we don’t talk about it, the issues become anonymous. If people aren’t able to define the issues, they will often put the blame on themselves.”

Looking ahead, McCord said she wants to see Women’s Worth Week become an annual event at Queen’s. She said she wants to start a local chapter of the White Ribbon Campaign.

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CFRC employees and volunteers are the ones who know the station’s operations best. They should ultimately decide CFRC’s future.

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years is to CFRC’s advantage.

CFRC is a part of Queen’s as well as the Kingston community at large. The station offers its student volunteers a unique experience and contributes positively to the Queen’s community. It would be a loss for everyone if the station suffered because of financial shortcomings.

The Board of Directors exists to liaise with media services, not to take control and impose changes.

CFRC and the Board need to work in tandem to repair the financial problems CFRC faces.

Financial viability is important for media services, but there’s no justification for a unilateral overhaul by the AMS.

FRC and the AMS comprise it. The station is budgeted Board of Directors are at to run a $10,000 deficit this year odds after a disagreement over the and needs a strategy to combat campus radio station’s management financial uncertainty. With 40 per structure. The situation shows cent of CFRC’s revenue coming the Board’s tendency to from a $4.93 mandatory AMS overstep its role without soliciting fee, the station is obligated to be financially sustainable. necessary input.

But CFRC employees and CFRC currently has three equal managerial positions volunteers are the ones who that are available to full-time or know the station’s operations best. part-time students. Currently, They should ultimately decide two non-students are working in CFRC’s future.

The Board’s proposal would managerial positions.

CFRC managers approached the Board with the hopes of altering the station’s structure to include a fourth management position.

Each position can be held for up to three years. Since 2008, CFRC has been exempt from standard AMS yearly turnover rates.

Instead of making the changes proposed by CFRC, the Board suggested the creation of a head manager position with three assistant positions. The Board is proposing to make the positions available only to full-time students for a one-year term.

On Thursday, Board passed a motion to table discussions on the matter until March 1.

Rather than proposing unilateral changes, the AMS needs to consult CFRC and the individuals who

bring CFRC in line with other campus media outlets but that’s not necessarily a good thing. Radio is a specialized medium that requires a diverse range of technical skills.

Running a 24-hour station is a significant time commitment and involves navigating both local concerns and national regulations.

The expertise and time required of a CFRC manager may not be conducive to a full-time student lifestyle. Allowing people to hold the same position for multiple

what is often a male-dominated customer base, how are these power relations reproduced in other aspects of society?

I can’t fathom the experience of the women who make a living off having their bodies ogled by an Jessica Fishbein audience. But some certain feminists argue we can’t label stripping as psychologically degrading.

Stripping could represent a sought-after moment of liberation and empowerment a g a i n s t conventional gender customs.

It’s not the act of stripping but t’s Women’s Worth Week at Queen’s, meaning that for the the economic profit associated with next three days events are held it that deserves critique.

By paying to see a woman to encourage men to think more critically about how they strip, you’re equating her body to a commodity. Her identity is treat women.

Kingston’s downtown strip reduced to that of an object that’s club is a popular attraction for solely useful for an audience’s students. It’s deeply troubling to viewing pleasure.

The apparent ethical detachment hear students I respect and admire support an industry that relies of strip club patrons should trouble on the inherent objectification everyone, not just zealous feminists.

Why do strip club patrons feel this of women.

Salary information company is an appropriate outlet for their Payscale reported in 2011 that an time and dollars?

I doubt they’d feel the same if average stripper can earn up to $82,000 annually. In professions it were their mother or sister being where they keep their clothes on, paid to undress.

People who go to strip clubs women struggle to earn that much.

There’s evidence to attest to aren’t inherently immoral, but are the point. In 2010, Time magazine rather willfully blind to the message reported that in the U.S., women their actions send.

Attendance at strip clubs needs earned $0.77 for every dollar to raise debate. earned by a man.

In today’s culture of The high pay for a woman’s where scantily-clad performance presents commodification a sickening solution of how women are turned into sexual interactions are women can narrow the economic objects, increasingly cheapened. gender gap.

Strip clubs are cheap, don’t This income disparity reinforces a misogynistic perspective of how buy in. women are valued in society. If women are paid more to cater to

Mental Health Research

Writers Emily Lowe Vincent Matak Peter Morrow Christiane Peric jordan Ray Peter Reimer Jerry Zheng

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ell Canada has pledged $1 million over the next five years to create a mental health and anti-stigma research chair at Queen’s.

The announcement was made on Feb. 7.

The $1 million is a generous donation from Bell, but it’s not likely to make a significant impact on mental wellness at Queen’s.

The University shouldn’t herald the donation as a triumph because it won’t impact front-line services.

The establishment of the research chair is useful for treating issues of mental health, but the priority should be on improving care. Attention needs to be given to Health, Counselling and Disability Services (HCDS) to provide more counselors for students seeking help. Bell’s donation could have helped to ameliorate this problem.

Heather Stuart, a professor of epidemiology and community health, will hold the research chair position until Bell’s funding expires.

Dr. Stuart’s fieldwork may yield important results, but there’s no guarantee that it will bring about tangible benefits. Research funding won’t harm Queen’s, but $1 million over five years could pay for a counsellor’s salary, with money to spare.

Bell should be commended for donating money to a worthwhile project like improving mental

health. The Let’s Talk campaign, which has promised a total of $50 million over five years to mental health-related programs, targets an often overlooked aspect of wellness.

Bell’s Chair of Board Thomas O’Neill said other corporations haven’t explored mental health initiatives, prompting Bell to choose it as a focus. Establishing Bell as a frontrunner in this particular strand of philanthropy is a wise move.

The publicity elicited from the Let’s Talk campaign will pay back in dividends, as the program has received ample media attention.

Research funded by corporations should be regarded cautiously, but it helps pay for studies that would otherwise go unfunded.

Queen’s has become the de facto centre of mental health concerns among post-secondary schools since a series of student deaths in 2010.

It’s important that the conversation be opened on issues of mental health, but immediate and substantive action needs to be taken as well.

The University needs to realize that Bell’s donation is a small step forward. Students are waiting to see substantive change — shorter wait times at HCDS would be a good start.

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The planning of the CAP should have commenced a long time ago and received the time, attention and funding it deserved.

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Perspectives from the Queen’s community

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Climate Change

Queen’s behind on climate action plan University has failed to meet conditions of important climate change pledge signed in 2010

E szter G ereb, A rt S ci ’14 Two years after signing an important climate change agreement, Queen’s has failed to meet certain conditions.

Queen’s was the second school in Ontario to sign the agreement, called the University and College President’s Climate Change Statement of Action for Canada. Now, 23 Canadian postsecondary institutions have signed the agreement.

The first part of the agreement was to create a planning body to set emission targets in accordance with each institution’s jurisdiction. This has been done with the Queen’s Sustainability Advisory Committee (QSAC), but the meeting times of the committee have started to dwindle.

The second action was to complete a comprehensive inventory of GHG emissions within one year. The results of this inventory not only proved useful from an economical standpoint but also brought recognition to Queen’s.

The University rated above average among all doctorate-granting universities on emissions per full-time equivalent students.

We also rated above average on emissions for every 1,000 square feet of floor space. This is in comparison to the average marks for institutions reporting GHG emissions under the American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment.

But the most crucial part of the agreement was the climate action plan (CAP), a roadmap for Queen’s to achieve its climate targets that was supposed to be completed within two years of signing the original agreement in 2010.

The planning of the CAP should have commenced a long time ago and received the time, attention and funding it deserved. After much deliberation, the University decided to hire a consultancy firm to help

According to renewable energy expert Joshua Pierce, Queen’s must be carbon neutral by 2050.

with the process. Six firms were considered for the position and on Jan. 30 — less than a month before the CAP deadline — the contract with Delphi Group was announced.

To ensure that the project wouldn’t fall completely into external hands, a 22-member advisory committee was selected.

Queen’s will be represented by four students, five faculty members and 13 staff. The administration and the Delphi Group are hoping for the CAP to be released this fall.

Two years ago, Queen’s responded to our responsibility as global citizens and signed this agreement.

But missing the CAP deadline is a step backwards.

The content of the CAP is of vital importance. It will outline the academic, research and operations climate action goals, including the target date for achievement. It will also include detailed strategies and actions to make climate change

a part of curriculum, expand University research on climate change and reduce GHG emissions.

Setting these goals will be the most important part of this agreement because it will reflect Queen’s commitment to the task at hand.

Many professors and students on campus share the belief that Queen’s must take real action on climate change.

In a fall 2009 referendum, 81 per cent of responding Queen’s students agreed that we should “take immediate action to reduce our global impact on climate change.”

Former Queen’s professor and renewable energy expert Joshua Pearce recommended Queen’s carbon-emission reduction targets should be 25 per cent by 2015, 65 per cent by 2020 and 85 per cent by 2030. According to Pierce, we must be carbon neutral by 2050.

It may seem like an ambitious goal, but with good planning, the appropriate resources and collaboration of the Queen’s community, it’s a feasible plan. The University of British Columbia and the University of Syracuse have

already set targets to become carbon neutral by 2050 or earlier.

In society today, with our great wealth of knowledge, resources, technology and manpower, people choose to turn a blind eye towards climate change.

There are multiple causes for it. For one, it’s easier to shrug, walk away and continue living an unsustainable lifestyle. Even if one isn’t convinced that the ways of the 21st century are contributing to changes in our climate, it’s irrefutable that resources will become scarcer and more expensive in the future.

We must consider the economic benefits of adopting more sustainable lifestyles, which would result in significant GHG emission reductions. Technology on the market is a start, but so much more can be done. Many new and innovative ideas still need to be explored.

We all know things will have to change in the future, but we shouldn’t wait for scientists to come up with the answers.

Two years ago, Queen’s responded to our responsibility as global citizens and signed this

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agreement. But missing the CAP deadline is a step backwards.

As students of this University, we cannot let this happen in the future.

All of us have a responsibility to contribute and we are equipped with enough knowledge and wit to make reasonable and ambitious goals for our CAP. Regardless if we’re one of the four students on the advisory committee or not, we can still attend town hall meetings and web interfaces to ensure that the best possible targets are set and the best ideas are put forth for the CAP. Let’s continue with the same vivacity and wit demonstrated by the student body two years ago here at Queen’s and make our University one of the leading institutions for carbon neutrality in the country.

The CAP has to be a priority, and will bring us to a more sustainable future.

Eszter Gereb is a member of Queen’s Backing Action on Climate Change.

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What are you doing for Valentine’s Day?

“Studying physics.”

Zach Smith, Sci ’15

“I’m selling candy grams.”

Fiona Emdin, ArtSci ’15

“Sperm research for my PhD.” Marvin Ferrer, PhD ’14

“I don’t do Valentine’s Day.” Zahia Hussain, ArtSci ’15

“Studying for midterms.”

Madison Barr, ArtSci ’13

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Brittany Brewster works on a sewing machine in her living room preparing pieces for her collection in this year’s Vogue charity fashion show.

Vogue Series

• Designer profile • Model profile • Backstage

Finding freedom The start of our Vogue three-part series looks into the inspiration for fourth-year designer Brittany Brewster Part 1 of 3 B y A lyssa A shton Arts Editor All she wanted was a caesar on the beach.

“It was in the middle of the summer, I was doing a course and I was working a full-time job and just like in that moment I couldn’t, I didn’t have the time to go sit on a patio deck and have a drink with a bunch of friends,” the fourth-year designer Brittany Brewster said of her collection for this year’s Vogue charity fashion show. “[In] some weird way it

expressed itself in the line. In just how your life can end up so structured and how do you find your own freedom.”

“My fight is kind of a conflict in my own self-control and my own freedom and where they meet and how they push each other back and forth,” Brewster said.

My fight is kind of a Brewster will express her fight through a transformative conflict in my own collection that starts off rigid and self-control and my ends flowing. own freedom.

“The whole line starts out really corsetry and a lot of nudes — Brittany Brewster, and blacks and very, very muted Myfanwy MacLeod’s The Fountainheads opens the Vogue designer tones,” she said. “Then as the line Agnes Etherington’s Discontinued Colours. progresses these really dark, bold Finding your freedom became lines and very structured garments Art Review the message of Brewster’s line, fade into really flowy pieces, lots perfectly aligning with this year’s and lots of colours and almost Vogue theme, VS. — What’s patterns that clash quite a bit.” your fight?

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Shades of humour

Charlie Brown Theatre series

• Director profile • Actor profile • Stage crew profile

Mature direction In her last year, student director Alysha Bernstein finds a balance between adulthood and play in Charlie Brown Part 1 of 3 B y C aitlin C hoi Assistant Arts Editor Compared to managing her professors, directing her peers comes easily for student Alysha Bernstein, who’s directing the upcoming You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown.

In addition to working on Blue Canoe’s end-of-year production, Bernstein is also working on two other productions including John

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Lazarus’ The Grandkid where she manages Queen’s drama department head and lighting designer Tim Fort.

“I’ve worked on other shows where I’ve been my professor’s boss,” she said. “Last year when I stage managed Candide, the drama department major, all my professors were working on it.

“After that, working with students [is] not intimidating at all.

It’s fun.”

You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown will be Bernstein’s

sophomore stint as a director at Queen’s. But she directed 40 to 50 plays during high school and as a drama instructor at Camp White Pine in Haliburton, Ont. “I’ve always been able to stare at a blank stage and see how actors move,” she said, adding that third-year directing classes have helped. “Also I really think it’s important, if you are a director, to know other sides of theatre.”

Since coming to Queen’s, Bernstein has worked on the See Playing on page 10

Agnes Etherington’s Discontinued Colours shows the relevance of art B y C aitlin C hoi Assistant Arts Editor And this is why art matters.

I was having a down day — one of those days drowning in self-pity — before going to see the Agnes Etherington Art Centre’s Discontinued Colours. Layered with radical political activism and complex social commentary, the collection is a blip of contemporary art genius.

But looking at the works of the six artists, I couldn’t help but laugh.

Upon entering the gallery, the curator’s blurb for artist Myfanwy MacLeod explains a lot. Macleod’s large fibreglass frog is a hybrid of the work of Hieronymus Bosch — a 15th century Dutch painter — and the violent images produced by mass media. The frog is symbolic of the “degradation of nature” and the bullet holes

that spew water translate “radical disenchantment with social ideals.”

But, amphibian semiotics aside, the piece is undeniably kitschy and funny. The artist’s humour is brought to life through her ironically warped use of animation.

Luis Jacob’s Anarchist Free School Minutes is a standout piece in the show. The artist draws the viewer into a “reading station,” complete with a chair in the shape of a hand and a small table.

I hesitated for several minutes, wondering whether I was supposed to sit in the open palm. Go figure, the piece is about anarchy, and I’m worried about gallery decorum.

On the table is an assortment of pamphlets supporting causes with “flexible social principles” — titles like SWAG: Sex Worker Action Group of Kingston and the Surrounding Area and What See Colour on page 9

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More than meat and potatoes Toronto quartet Jane’s Party plans a sophomore album with a more developed sound B y J oRDan R ay Staff Writer When you look at the Facebook page for indie-pop band Jane’s Party, everything is pretty much what you would expect from an up-and-coming group — except their only interest is Scrabble.

“We had a long tour out east to Newfoundland and back and we were all crammed into a van and I think [drummer] Zach [Sutton] happened to have his iPhone on him,” bassist Devon Richardson said. “We just downloaded the Scrabble app and we would just play it for hours and hours on end, just for the long, long drives.”

Clearly Jane’s Party isn’t your typical pop quartet, with Richardson describing the band’s sound as “honest pop.”

“There’s no goals, there’s no objectives, we just want to write pop music,” he said. “We just have a passion for it, so that’s what comes out whenever we write.”

Jane’s Party hopes to release a full length album in the fall that will build on some of what the group created in their September EP Jane’s Party.

“Just more sounds, a little more broader,” he said. “Not so straight meat and potatoes; guitar, bass and

drums. We’d like to experiment a little bit more than what we did on our EP, but still keep the pop, the indie-pop vibe going.”

While the band isn’t completely changing their sound, they’re on the hunt for a new instrument.

“We’ve been on the market, scouring Craigslist looking for the right synths to try and get some synths into our sound,” Richardson said. “Tastefully though, we’re not going to become some electro-pop band. Just a synth once and a while to add a bit of texture.”

Richardson said the creative process for Jane’s Party has been made easier by technology.

“If I’m coming up with an idea, I’ll record it on my laptop,” he said.

“Then I’ll email it to [guitarist] Tom [Ionescu] and be like, ‘Yo, what Jane’s Party caught the attention of New York bloggers Pretty Much Amazing, who called the band’s single do you think of this?’” he said. “Alone Together, “ off their self-titled EP, “absolutely contagious with a chorus that is impossible to forget.”

“Sometimes it’s a full song that I’ve The band won’t be playing written that I’m presenting to him, sometimes it’s just a chorus with the Mansion tomorrow night due no verses.” to a mix-up with dates, but they While technology is hope to be back in late March or making music more accessible, early April.

“We play Clark Hall all the Richardson said it’s also making it time,” he said, “And the bar staff more competitive.

“You have to be really good to there is super cool. People at Clark stand out from the pack, because Hall have always been amazing to anyone with a laptop and a $20 us, so how can we not want to go guitar can put out an album,” back there as often as possible?” he said.

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to do When You’ve Been Called Out: A Brief Guide set the tone of the work.

A small sign on the table reads, “Please browse the anarchist literature at this reading station and remove items that are of interest to you.” I grabbed If I Can’t Dance Is It Still My Revolution? and Exposing the Lie. Jacob delves into issues of accessibility and sexuality, among other typically stigmatized subjects.

If I Can’t Dance Is It Still My Revolution? cites activist Krystalline Kraus’ call to disabled people saying, “They say: ‘Stay Home.’

You say: ‘Fuck off!’”

Jacob, a renowned contemporary artist, helped found the Anarchist Free School

in Toronto, which applies DIY-style learning. Inspired by unconventional education, his hyperbolic humour extends beyond just headlines — some of the pamphlets are over 20 pages of text.

Many of the artists in the collaborative exhibit have strong roots set in Kingston: Jacob held an artist residency in Kingston in 2009; Dave Gordon, whose series of paintings from the early 2000s is on display, is a local artist and was a founding member of the artist-run centre Modern Fuel; and Adrian Göllner, whose work the exhibit was named after, is a Queen’s BFA alumnus.

Göllner, BFA ’87, was recently awarded with two commissions to create artwork for the new chancery building of the Canadian Embassy

in Moscow. His installation, Discontinued Colours, highlights his pseudo-Modernist approach.

The series of rectangular-shaped canvases are painted with various colours that have been discontinued — what looks like black to me is actually a now-discontinued “Charcoal Grey.” Each encased in a black frame, the bright swatches seem to lament the death of the colours.

Whether it’s a lesson in environmentalism or human rights, or simply a cause for a good laugh, art touches people. Despite worldwide social relevance, it connects closer to home than we might think.

Discontinued Colours is at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre until April 15.

Queen’s alumnus Adrian Göllner stands with his acrylic-on-canvas installation Discontinued Colours, the exhibition’s title work.

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technical and production sides of theatre for numerous productions, including her directorial debut in Vogt A’s The Badger and the Star last semester.

As she walks me through a day of rehearsal for You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, it’s clear the young director brings a hands-off approach to her role.

“I come [to rehearsal] with blocking notes prepared,” she said.

“But I never tell the actors what’s on that sheet until after we run it a few times. Then I offer suggestions and a few tweaks and changes. I let them make choices and decisions for themselves first.

“I am a big believer in the director as a facilitator or a communicator. I don’t think the director is at all the boss or the god of the show.”

You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, is a children’s theatre musical based off of Charles M. Schulz’s comic strip Peanuts. It may seem an odd choice for a fourth-year drama major. But Bernstein insists her vision draws on both old and new perspectives of the 1950s cartoon.

“They’re still those quintessential, archetypal Peanuts characters — Charlie’s still going to be wearing the yellow shirt with the black stripe,” she said. “I really wanted to bring children’s theatre to a more mature audience, change it from what it had originally been on Broadway and at Stratford, because those characters — they say they’re five years old but the way that they talk they could be 40.”

For Bernstein, one challenge has been working with the actors on finding a marriage between their 20-something selves and their inner five-year-olds.

“We sit in a circle and we talk about stories from when they were five,” she said. “Today I told them they had to have the name of their ‘girl character’ ready and a brief history of the first five years of their life.”

I don’t think the “director is at all the boss or the god of the show. ” — Alysha Bernstein, student director A girl character refers to an alternate personality each actor developed in addition to the Peanuts persona. You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown is a script that typically features three male and three female actors. For Blue Canoe’s production, Bernstein selected an all-female cast.

Rather than try and hide the obvious discretions, Bernstein encourages the actors to embrace their genders.

“They have two characters: they have their Charlie Brown Peanuts character and then they have their five-year-old girl character,” she said. “We’re developing those in rehearsal, that’s why they bring stories from when they were five and they bring their blankets in and they bring all of their stuff from their childhood — home videos and stuff like that. It’s so they get a chance to build and create a character of their own.”

Despite managing a cast and crew of over 20 people, Bernstein doesn’t separate herself from the

fun and games. She also shares stories from her childhood as inspiration — one involving stolen Jos. Louis and chocolate milk.

“I just want to play,” she said.

“And that’s what this show is and I tell that to my production team every time we have a production meeting. If they’re worried about buying wood or worried about getting shop time to build our set, I just go ‘This is fun, it doesn’t matter, we’re just going to have fun.’”

She said reviving the love people already have for Peanuts is what incited her to pick this piece — which will run at the end of the semester, leading up to exams.

“It’s not something that they have to really, really think about.

They don’t have to leave the theatre and think philosophically about life,” she said. “Hopefully the audience leaves thinking about those moments when they were five years old too.”

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Playing with Peanuts

You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown plays from March 30 until April 6 at the Baby Grand Theatre.

You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown director Alysha Bernstein said her dream production to direct is Stephen Sondheim’s musical Company.

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‘You are watching progress happen’ Continued from page 8

Brewster headed to a fabric store after our Sunday afternoon interview, looking for more material for her men’s and women’s collections. She said she’ll finish most of her pieces before reading week — excluding final fittings.

“I will start sewing at 11 p.m. until 5 a.m. because no one’s around,” she said.

“No one can distract you and you just kind of go, that’s when I get the most work done when it’s the middle of the night.”

Brewster does most of her sewing in her living room, spreading out the fabrics across furniture — making her housemate

very nervous.

“She’s paranoid about the pins,” Brewster said. “When you’re laying out patterns or when you’re cutting out fabric, it truly takes up the entire room, there’s just yards of fabric stretched across the room. And she’s just so good, she will ask ‘Can I move this?’”

While the designer is a self-described “coffee fiend,” she said stimulants aren’t what keep her going for all hours of the night.

“You are watching progress happen,” she said. “Every step of the way you’re getting closer to a finished project, it’s visible so you have a desire to keep going.”

Brewster got her start in design in Grade 6 when her mom took her to the fabric store

to make a pair of pyjama bottoms that were never finished. But in high school she took multiple fashion classes, making jackets, purses and pyjama bottoms.

“I finished all my projects early one year and my teacher’s like ‘Well you have to do another project, what do you want to do?’” she said. “When they were young, my mom and dad never wore the same bathing suit twice. They grew up on the beach together and so I was like ‘I want to be like that.’”

That began Brewster’s passion for swimsuit design. She designed swimwear lines for Vogue in 2009 and 2010.

The designer now has drawers full of bathing suits.

“In the summer, people will be like, ‘Want to go out on the boat?’ and I’ll be like ‘Give me two hours, I just need to make a bathing suit.’”

In her last year as part of Vogue, Brewster is going back to designing clothing, a decision she didn’t have control over.

“I just thought it would be interesting to sort of flip back to clothing and there’s quite a bit more freedom because there’s a

lot more that you can do with clothing than with swimsuits,” she said.

Brewster gets most of her fabric from Vancouver, but she finds inspiration all over.

But she isn’t a designer who carries around a sketch-book full of ideas.

“I’ll sketch something down, but rarely will I forget something in my head,” she said. “It kind of just goes from my head into a bunch of numbers into a pattern into a garment.”

Vogue will play from March 14 to 16 at 7 p.m. at the Grand Theatre.

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Costly loss Gaels now play top-ranked McGill in first round of playoffs B y Peter M orrow Staff Writer The men’s hockey team made it into the OUA playoffs with a 6-4 loss to the Nipissing Lakers in their regular season finale on Saturday night.

The team had officially secured a post-season spot when the Concordia Stingers lost 7-0 to the Carleton Ravens earlier in the day, but the Gaels blew a chance to move up to sixth place in the OUA East after losing to the Lakers at the Invista Centre.

As a result, the Gaels finish eighth in the OUA East and will have to play a best-of-three first-round playoff series against the McGill Redmen starting Wednesday at McGill.

We played a team “that travelled six hours [from North Bay] and we couldn’t even match their work ethic.

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— Brett Gibson, men’s hockey coach The Redmen ended the regular season top of the OUA East at 22-4-2 and are currently ranked

Gaels forward Kelly Jackson (left) is body-checked from behind during a 6-4 loss to the Nipissing Lakers on Saturday night.

“You really feel useless in the third in the country. They beat the win,” Gibson said. “We played a Gaels 3-2 on Nov. 11 and 6-0 on team that travelled six hours [from stands,” Derochie said. “I’m where North Bay] and we couldn’t even I need to be to help the team Nov. 19. out now.”

“We back-doored our way in [to match their work ethic.”

Derochie said the Gaels Assistant captain Joey Derochie the playoffs],” head coach Brett Gibson said. “Now we’ve got to played his first game since Nov. 5 won’t be intimidated by the play the best team in the country.” after recovering from a lower-body nationally-ranked Redmen on On Saturday night, Gibson injury and scored a second-period Wednesday night.

“They’re very beatable … we made a goaltending switch power-play goal.

Forwards Brandon Perry, Jordan know we can take them down,” halfway through the second period after starter Riley Whitlock Mirwaldt and Brendan Bureau also said Derochie.

The Gaels and the Redmen allowed four goals in 16 shots. scored for the Gaels. “[Derochie] was the best player start their best-of-three series on Backup goalie David Aime conceded a long-range goal on on the ice for us,” Gibson said. Wednesday night in Montreal the first shot he faced and the “What does that say when he’s been before returning to play in Kingston on Friday night at the Gaels trailed 5-2 heading into the out for [six] months?”

Derochie missed 20 straight Memorial Centre. Game three, if third period.

Early in the third, Nipissing games after breaking his leg in necessary, will take place on Sunday added another before the Gaels practice in late November. The in Montreal.

Journal reported he was out for scored two late consolation goals.

“We didn’t even attempt to the season.

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women’s basketball

Losses at home

Women’s basketball falls to Ottawa and Carleton at home B y J erry Z heng Staff Writer

Women’s hockey rides a three-game win streak into OUA playoff series against York

The women’s basketball team’s three-game win streak was stopped dead at the ARC this weekend.

The Gaels lost 83-46 to the first-place Ottawa Gee-Gees on Friday before falling 60-42 to the second-ranked Carleton Ravens on Saturday night. They never held the lead at any point over the weekend.

With the losses, the Gaels fall to 10-10 and sit fifth in the OUA with two regular season games remaining.

B y E mily L owe Staff Writer

It’s tough to think “that I’m going to be

woMEN’S hockey

Back to winning ways The women’s hockey team’s motto for the final weekend of the regular season was “finish strong.”

They did just that in Toronto, beating the Ryerson Rams 4-3 on Saturday and Toronto Varsity Blues 3-0 on Sunday to finish fourth in the OUA and earn home-ice advantage for a best-of-three first-round playoff matchup against the York Lions that starts on Wednesday night.

The Gaels have played the Lions twice this season, with both games going to overtime — the Gaels won 3-2 in Kingston on Dec. 3, but lost 2-1 in Toronto on Jan. 14.

Head coach Matt Holmberg said he expects the first-round series to be just as close.

“They work really hard ... they’ve got one line in particular that have had really good offensive snap this year,” he said, referring to the Lions’ trio of

Kristie Wilson, Katrina Tollis and Stephanie Dovaston.

On Saturday, the Gaels trailed the Rams 3-2 in the third period until forward Alexandria Biglieri tied it up halfway through the frame. Forward Alana Smith scored the winner with less than three minutes remaining in the game.

Forward Brittany McHaffie scored two goals on Saturday against the Varsity Blues, her first since returning from a knee injury on Jan. 28. Holmberg said McHaffie benefitted from intensive therapy work with the team’s trainers.

“Her knee is still bothering her a bit, but she’s pretty close to 100 per cent,” he said. “She’s ready to go for the playoffs.”

Brittany’s sister, Morgan McHaffie, posted an assist to finish the season at the top of the OUA scoring list, with 16 goals and 22 assists in 25 games.

The Gaels opened 2012 with Winger Alana Smith (pictured above) scored the See Two on page 15

game-winning goal against the Ryerson Rams on Saturday.

done, but they have been five very good years.

”

— Brittany Moore, women’s basketball guard

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Queen’s Athletics paid tribute to fifth-year players Brittany Moore and Christine Wallace in front of a 200-strong crowd at halftime during Saturday’s game.

Moore climbed to second on the OUA’s all-time scoring list during the fourth quarter against the Ravens. After the game, she praised head coach Dave Wilson for his mentorship.

“Every year has been completely different and unique. I’m just very lucky to have him as a coach.”

Moore said. “It’s tough to think that I’m going to be done, but they have been five very good years.”

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men’s basketball

Gaels lose twice by a combined 65 points Men’s basketball needs to win both games on the road next weekend to qualify for playoffs B y PEtEr r EimEr Staff Writer The men’s basketball team lost by its biggest margin of the season in front of 250 fans at the ARC on Saturday night.

QUOTED STEPHAN BARRIE Head coach

On his technical foul ...

“I was just making my opinion known about a few calls. That’s all part of the game. And I’ve certainly done that before and that’s not really been an issue.”

On Friday’s 32-point loss to Ottawa ...

“They executed what they wanted to do well. We executed what we wanted to do very poorly.”

On his team’s effort against Carleton ...

“Some guys were really good, in terms of how hard they played. So now it’s a matter of putting this one behind us and looking at York.”

On preparation ...

“We’re a team of routine.

We have very precise routines about everything we do.”

On Friday night against the Head coach Stephan Barrie, wake-up calls, then it’s not going to Queen’s fell to the Carleton Ravens 80-47 on the Gaels’ Gee-Gees, Ottawa’s Johnny who picked up a technical foul be the team we want to have here.”

Next weekend the Gaels play alumni day following a 93-61 Berhanemeskel — who scored on Friday night after debating loss to the Ottawa Gee-Gees on 31 points against the Gaels on a call with the referees, said the the York Lions and Laurentian Jan. 21 — scored eight points team wasn’t good enough against Voyageurs in their last games of Friday night. the regular season — wins in both Before Saturday’s game, on the Gee-Gees’ opening the Gee-Gees. “[Friday] was entirely games will ensure they overtake fourth-year forward Bernard three possessions.

Simpson and Matt Baker problematic on the defensive the Lions for the sixth and final Burgesson won the second annual Marco W. Alessio Memorial responded with seven points each side of the ball,” he said. “If they playoff spot in the OUA East.

Award for outstanding academic in the opening 10 minutes, helping need to play badly in order to get achievement and athletic excellence. the Gaels to a 23-18 lead after Alessio, ArtSci ’89, played for first quarter.

But the Gee-Gees used their the Gaels from 1986 to 1988. He died in a car crash in Madagascar pick-and-roll offence to start the second quarter on a 13-2 run and in February 2009.

Actor and former teammate led 48-34 at half.

Berhanemeskel finished the Tom Cavanagh, ArtSci ’87 and BEd ’88, presented the award to game with 34 points and 11 Burgesson and addressed the entire rebounds as the Gee-Gees won 93-61. team before the game.

When the game tipped off, the Gaels fell behind early to the If they need to play undefeated Ravens and trailed 18-7 badly in order to get after the first quarter. wake-up calls, then it’s The Ravens, who scored not going to be the 25 points in the third quarter team we want to alone, led 68-24 after three quarters. have here.

Guard Michael Farine led a fourth-quarter offensive surge, — Stephan Barrie, men’s basketball coach scoring 12 of his team-high 14 points as the Gaels outscored Simpson had 16 points and Carleton 23-12 in the final frame. nine rebounds for the Gaels while But they still lost by 33 points.

Mackenzie Simpson’s Farine chipped in with eight points nine-game double-digit point and four assists.

The Gaels repeatedly huddled streak ended after being held to eight points against the Ravens. in a circle during stoppages this Simpson and Farine each grabbed weekend. Simpson said it’s a new strategy for the team to keep six rebounds.

Burgesson said the Gaels did all its composure.

“It’s just to regroup, and if we they could do against the country’s have anything to say to each other, top-ranked team.

“Even at the half when we were we say it then,” he said. “The down quite a bit, we came back second our defence slips, our and didn’t give up,” he said. “[We] offence slips, so we’ve just got to tried to go for loose balls and just keep [playing] good defence to stay The Gaels led 23-18 after the first quarter but still lost photo by corey lablans with [teams].” stuck in there till the end.” by 32 points to the Ottawa Gee-Gees on Friday.

“

Guard Mackenzie Simpson scored eight points in the men’s basketball team’s 93-61 loss to the Ottawa Gee-Gees on Friday night.

”

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Gaels win second straight OUA title at the ARC Continued from page 1

the corner and decided the touches I would go for,” he said. “I based my decisions on [Saturday’s match] and I knew he would do the same things.”

Beaucage-Gauvreau also won the George Tully trophy for skill, style and sportsmanship for the second consecutive year.

“The coaches are the ones that vote for that award,” he said. “It’s nice to know that you’re appreciated in the fencing community at the OUAs.”

I based my decisions on “[saturday’s match] and I knew he would do the same things.

”

— François Beaucage-Gauvreau, men’s fencing sabre captain Nine schools came to Kingston for this weekend’s competition. The Gaels won two individual medals on Saturday, with Beaucage-Gauvreau earning the sabre competition gold and Gardner picking up a silver medal in the épée category after falling to the Ottawa Gee-Gees’ Marc-André Leblanc in the final.

On Sunday, the Gaels finished second in the team épée, third in the team foil and fourth in the team sabre competition.

Munby has been the fencing coach at Queen’s since 1985. He said the best part of his job is making the sport accessible to his athletes.

“When we go to Brock [for the women’s OUA tournament this weekend], the women’s team is 12 [athletes],” he said, “but I’m taking a bus of 26 because [other fencers] want to go and support them too.”

— With files from Gilbert Coyle

photos by siMona MarKoViK

Clockwise from top left: Queen’s fencers sign the championship banner. Gaels épée captain Karl Gardner (left) dodges his opponent. Gaels sabre captain François Beaucage-Gauvreau holds the men’s team trophy. Two fencers joust during Sunday’s tournament.

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Although Wallace is wrapping up her fifth season, she has an extra year of eligibility after suffering a season-ending injury during the first game of the 2010-11 season.

“It’s definitely an option that I have,” Wallace said. “Getting into teacher’s college here would definitely change the aspect of what I do next year.”

The Gaels suffered their biggest defeat of the season against the Gee-Gees on Friday, losing by 37 points. Ottawa opened the game on a 23-0 run to begin the game and led 26-8 after the first quarter.

allowing the visitors to pull away in the fourth quarter and win by 18.

But Wilson said it was much better than Queen’s last meeting with the Ravens, when they lost 59-27 in Ottawa on Jan. 20. “[Last time] we were bulldozed … today we were much better prepared for that,” Wilson said.

“We lost the ball game, but we competed.”

With the score close in the third quarter, Wilson threw his clipboard to the ground in frustration

after Ravens guard Kendall MacLeod stripped the ball away from Wallace.

Boag recorded 11 points on the night. Moore scored 12 points but shot three for 12 from the field while turning the ball over eight times against Carleton.

Next weekend, the Gaels hit the road to close out the regular season against the York Lions on Friday and the Laurentian Voyageurs on Saturday. Both games are at 6 p.m.

Getting into teacher’s “college here would definitely change the aspect of what I do next year.

”

— Christine Wallace, women’s basketball forward

“How we are starting games is actually my biggest concern right now,” coach Wilson said. “We haven’t [started] well for some time, even games we’ve won.”

The Gaels were out-rebounded 52-32 by a more physical Ottawa team. Gee-Gees forward Hannah Sunley-Paisley scored 26 points while collecting eight rebounds.

“They are bigger and stronger than we are with more veteran players than we have,” Wilson said.

Moore and guard Liz Boag were the only two Gaels to post double-digit point totals, with 12 and 10 respectively. The Gaels shot 28.6 per cent from the floor while the Gee-Gees shot 50 per cent.

On Saturday, the Gaels kept it close against the Ravens before

Gaels wing Christine Wallace goes up for a tip-off against the Carleton Ravens on Saturday night.

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Two power-play goals Continued from page 12

two wins in nine tries. But after losing 7-0 at home to the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks on Feb. 3, they’ve won three games to close out the regular season.

Holmberg said his team’s power

play and penalty kill have been crucial to the turnaround. On Sunday against the Varsity Blues, the Gaels scored two power-play goals and killed seven penalties.

Although goaltenders Karissa Savage and Mel Dodd-Moher have been splitting playing time

this season, Holmberg will pick a starter before Wednesday. He hasn’t announced his decision.

“Karissa held us in there against Ryerson. [They] had some jump and she was forced to make some key saves early,” he said.

“And [against Toronto], Mel was fantastic, the shutout says it all.”

Her knee is still “bothering her a bit but she’s pretty close to 100 per cent. ” — Matthew Holmberg, women’s hockey coach, on forward Brittany McHaffie

Gaels centre Kristin Smith finished the regular season with six goals and eight assists.

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Dodd-Moher, the starter during last year’s OUA title run, made 42 saves against the Varsity Blues on Sunday for her second straight shutout. Savage has a 2.38 goals against average and a .915 save percentage in 12 starts this season.

The Gaels and the Lions play at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday night at the Memorial Centre before moving to Toronto for game two on Friday night. Game three, if necessary, takes place at the Memorial Centre on Sunday night.

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Divine desserts for Valentine’s Day Strawberry cupcakes

B y M egan C ui Staff Writer Valentine’s Day celebrations often lack the wholesome recipes of other holidays. Plastic sprinkles and boxed chocolates don’t make the cut in our Valentine’s Day desserts.

These are carefully chosen recipes inspired by some of Cupid’s best handiwork.

Ingredients • ½ cup butter, unsalted • 1 1/3 cup all-purpose flour, sifted • 2/3 cup fresh or thawed frozen strawberries • ¼ cup milk, preferably at least 2 per cent •1 large egg, room temperature • 1 egg white • 1 cup sugar • 1 tsp baking powder • 1tsp vanilla extract • ½ tsp lemon zest • ¼ tsp salt

Spiced lava cake Ingredients • 1 cup bittersweet chocolate (chopped) • 6 tbsp all-purpose flour • 1 large egg • 6 tbsp granulated sugar • 1½ tbsp unsalted butter • ¼ tsp cinnamon • ¼ tsp chili powder or cayenne powder • Pinch of salt • Icing sugar for dusting Serves two Preparation Preheat oven to 205 C (400 F). Butter two ramekins or

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standard muffin tins and dust with granulated sugar; shake out excess.

Pour in prepared ramekins or muffin tins and bake for eight minutes.

Cream together butter and granulated sugar until fluffy.

Add egg and beat in flour and salt until just combined — don’t over-beat to foaminess. Melt chocolate in microwave for 40 seconds. Mix in chocolate until no streaks are left.

Remove ramekins from oven and let sit for 10 minutes. Turn cakes upside down on serving plate and dust with sifted icing sugar.

One decorating tip is to place cutout of paper heart on top of cakes before dusting with sugar.

Frosting • 1 cup cream cheese, chilled • 2 cups icing sugar • 2 tbsp strawberry puree • 2 tbsp vanilla extract • 5 tbsp butter, room temperature Makes a dozen cupcakes Cupcake preparation Preheat oven to 175 C (350 F). In food processor,

purée strawberries until smooth.

Cream butter with sugar until fluffy and combine egg and egg white, vanilla and lemon zest.

Beat until smooth.

In a separate bowl, combine milk and 1/3 cup of the strawberry purée. Save the rest for frosting. In another bowl, sift together flour, baking powder and salt. Beat flour mixture, milk mixture and butter mixture until a uniform consistency is achieved.

Divide equally into lined muffin tins or mini-cupcake tins and bake for 15 to 18 minutes until tops are dry but bouncy.

Cool completely before icing.

Icing preparation Cream together the cream cheese and butter until softened and fluffy. Slowly incorporate icing sugar and vanilla extract.

Add strawberry pureé last and combine until there are no streaks of colour. Use immediately or store in fridge.

Pink velvet soufflé Ingredients • 1/4 cups fresh or frozen raspberries, thawed • 2 tbsp sugar • 2 egg whites • Pinch of salt • Butter for greasing ramekins or muffin tins Makes two soufflés Preparation Purée raspberries until smooth and strain out seeds if necessary. photo by megan cui

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Preheat oven to 205 C (400 F) and butter the insides of two ramekins. Be sure to butter evenly to help soufflé rise well.

and cool metal bowl, beat the egg whites with pinch of salt until foamy.

Gradually incorporate the sugar while beating on high until mixture forms stiff, glossy peaks.

Add half of the egg whites to the raspberry purée and gently fold in. Continue with the rest of the egg whites until the mixture is uniformly coloured. Spoon the batter into ramekins or muffin tins, filling them almost to the top.

Bake for 10 minutes until tops have begun to turn golden brown. Dust with powdered sugar and serve immediately.

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