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St. Patrick’s Day weekend wrap-up Male pedestrian hospitalized after being hit by Kingston Police squad car at Johnson and Division Streets B y C atherine O wsik Assistant News Editor St. Patrick’s Day weekend saw six additional police officers on duty and approximately 20 squad cars on patrol, said Constable Steve Koopman.

“We anticipated from last year’s St. Patrick’s Day that it would be busy enough that we did want other bodies,” Koopman said, adding that downtown bars were a focus for officers.

There were 64 noise complaints,

157 tickets issued and nine arrests for public intoxication throughout Kingston on Saturday.

“Most of the tickets were for minor infractions,” Koopman said. “I would imagine though that most of [the noise complaints]

were around the downtown area of Kingston.”

At around 1:30 a.m. on Sunday morning, a male pedestrian was hit by a police squad car at the corner of Johnson and Division Streets at 1:30 a.m. He was taken to hospital,

suffering from a fractured kneecap.

Koopman said he was unable to comment on the incident as it was being investigated by the Special Investigations Unit (SIU).

He patrolled the downtown and campus area from 6 p.m. on

Dragonette unleashed

Saturday until 6 a.m on Sunday morning. At 8 p.m. on Saturday he issued a ticket to a male Queen’s student drinking a bottle of beer at Barrie and Clergy Streets.

“He saw police coming and threw See It’s on page 7

Inside features

Athletics

Coming out on the court

An inside look at bylaw citations in the Student Ghetto. page 3

dialogue

Bryan Fautley shares his story about being gay on a varsity team B y G ilbert C oyle Sports Editor After Bryan Fautley quit the men’s Photo by Justin Chin volleyball team in April 2010, Dragonette performed at Ale House on Wednesday night. See page 10 for full story. head coach Brenda Willis told his teammates why.

But by his third season, the with people that use language Fautley had already revealed to because he was an elite athlete. He family and friends that he was gay. knew all about the homophobic casual homophobic language that that inadvertently completely But he hadn’t come out to the team. culture present in male team sports. his teammates used made volleyball discriminates against you,” he said.

“But they just didn’t know.”

“I’m an athlete and I’m gay? This nearly unbearable.

“I thought I knew that my Fautley had started to come “I still remember team huddles sexuality was going to be an can’t exist,’” he said. “It was the issue,” Fautley said. “It was not result of the general public’s belief where [players] would say ‘Let’s out in December 2008, gradually beat these faggots up’ or ‘We can telling certain friends and family an inclusive environment for a that gay men don’t play sports.”

After being recruited to the beat these guys because they’re a members. When he returned from gay guy to really feel comfortable, Queen’s men’s volleyball program bunch of faggots,’” Fautley said. the Europe tour in January 2010, especially to come out.”

Fautley was miserable on the in 2007, Fautley came to Kingston “It’s hard to get amped up for a he decided to tell his parents he was court. He wanted out, and he determined to stay in the closet for game when, right before you walk gay. The more people he told, the on the court, you hear something happier he felt — but he still wasn’t his entire university career. wasn’t planning to return. prepared to tell his teammates.

“I knew that sports were going like that.”

Joren Zeeman was the first to “I was finally so content and Fautley was close to a breaking find out that casual homophobic to be a big part of my life here,” he slurs had driven Faultley to quit said. “I knew that homosexuality point after a 12-day winter tour relieved with every other aspect of through Europe, where he ate, my life that volleyball just became the team. The two players met up and sport don’t mix.”

He spent his first two seasons slept, trained and travelled with that nuisance, that burden, that to chat — the first in a series of interactions that would catalyze a on the outskirts of the volleyball the team. Before the trip, he was chore that I had to go and do,” he team’s culture, rarely taking part in distant from his teammates — now said. “Basically all my anger was change in the team’s culture. directed towards volleyball.”

Earlier this month, Fautley team functions and not becoming he resented them.

Fautley was going through the “When someone says a concluded a five-year Gaels career particularly close with his with a fourth-place national finish teammates. During that time, he homophobic slur and you’re in motions in practice and playing hadn’t even considered revealing the closet, you have no grounds poorly in games. He was fed up. at the ARC. his sexuality to the volleyball team. to say anything, so you take it,” he *** “As a first-year player, there’s said. “Not only do you take it, but *** already so much intimidation to you remember it in your head, and Head coach Brenda Willis Fautley knew he was gay at 16 begin with,” he said. “I would have it compounds.

“It’s hard to create some sort suspected something was wrong. years old, but feelings of confusion been so self-conscious about it that of friendship or relationship and self-doubt were amplified I would have been miserable.”

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Queen’s professor’s opinions on the University’s push towards online learning.

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ARTS

Rich Aucoin brings his confetti guns back to Kingston. page 10

Sports

The Journal ranks the winter varsity teams. page 17

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Friday, March 23, 2012

activism

Politician pushes for student action Ralph Nader, former U.S. presidential candidate, spoke at Grant Hall on Wednesday to a crowd of over 300 B y J oanna P lucinska Contributor For Ralph Nader, power comes in numbers.

“If one person says, ‘Who am I? I have no influence,’ nothing will get done. But, if 20 million people say this to themselves, they are not powerless,” Nader said.

Nader, an environmental advocate and former U.S. presidential candidate, spoke at Grant Hall on Wednesday night in front of a 300-person crowd.

doing things “onThey’re campus that are exemplary for the environment ... It’s a natural place for movements to start.

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— Ralph Nader

His talk, titled “Going Green in a Corporate Climate,” touched on themes including youth empowerment, responsible citizenry, pollution and consumer protection.

The event was organized in collaboration with the School of Environmental Studies, the department of geography, the Faculty of Arts and Science and the Principal’s Office.

One resounding message was emphasized in his speech — the

individual must be proactive in making change. Nader made recommendations specifically for students on how to become activists.

“One thing is to go after something you don’t like. That starts with people’s sense of injustice,” Nader told the Journal after the event. “It starts with one of two people, and then it turns into six people.”

He said universities are important because they allow students to become activists.

“It’s like the engine, because it connects with their studies, their professors,” he said. “They’re doing things on campus that are exemplary for the environment and they have their own gathering places. It’s a natural place for movements to start.”

It was in the 1960s that Nader first began to inspire young activists.

His followers, named Nader’s Raiders by the media, included Ralph Nader spoke to students and faculty in Grant Hall on Wednesday night about green students and volunteers that were corporations and civilian responsibilities. actively fighting consumerism. themselves.

His 1965 book Unsafe at Any the government and citizens.

He ended his talk with a quote He discussed his vision of Speed criticized the automotive industry and contributed to new a “corporatized citizen” — an from the Roman philosopher safety legislation, such as the example is someone who goes to Cicero. malls more frequently than city “Freedom is participation in increased use of seatbelts.

Since then Nader has council meetings and courts of law. power.”

Nader argued that the most switched his focus to important work in society is done environmental concerns.

Nader’s speech to the Grant by citizens, not by governments Hall audience focused primarily on and corporations, and therefore interactions between corporations, citizens should strive for change

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Security team aims to reduce citations Campus Security officials warn students of bylaw infractions before contacting police B y J anina E nrile Assistant Features Editor Sixty noise complaints have been answered by an off-campus security response program since Sept. 5, 2011.

The program was developed in 2005 for Kingston bylaw officers to monitor the Student Ghetto after the City received a number of complaints from students’ full-time neighbours.

Community members can contact the response program’s office, open 24-hours, to investigate noise complaints.

The program employs 10 staff members each shift, including eight uniformed staff — none are licensed police officers.

Murray Skeggs is the case management co-ordinator for Campus Security and helps manage the off-campus security response program.

“Essentially we approach the residence, we ask to speak to a resident, we advise them on city bylaws, [we] try to provide an educational moment and advise them there’s been a complaint,” Skeggs said.

The response program acts as a warning system for students. “[Most] people are appreciative of the info we provide and that someone came by to talk to them before bylaw or the police came by and started giving them tickets,” he said.

The program’s authority is bound by campus borders, and the warnings act as an educational system since the staff can’t police students. If a student isn’t responsive to the warning, Skeggs said the program hands the case over to Kingston Police.

Steve Koopman, media relations

officer for Kingston Police, said he couldn’t say how many complaints have been passed on from the off-campus team this year.

He added that most calls they receive from the team concern property crimes and noise complaints.

“Sometimes we may get some criminal complaints in cases of mischief which could be some property damage,” he said.

According to Koopman, Campus Security will sometimes call Kingston Police or bylaw officers ahead of answering a noise complaint.

“Maybe it’s something like a really large house party,” he said.

“If we’re getting a call, it’s because things are getting out of hand and they want a stronger response.”

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[Bylaws are] not really against students.

Most of the time, they actually support students because they [concern] pretty serious issues.

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— David Sinkinson, municipal affairs commissioner He said Campus Security and Kingston Police have always maintained a good relationship.

“They’re proactive,” Koopman said. “They provide us with info and they share with us [and] we still obviously adhere to privacy laws.

“It helps us to solve crime and keep it down.”

Koopman said when Kingston Police accompany Campus Security on a house call, it sends a stronger message to students. He added

that Campus Security contacts the police once or twice a month.

“They don’t have that feeling of independence that it’s just themselves and the City of Kingston,” he said. “As a student, they’re representing a school and their institution.

“There might be repercussions from an academic standpoint.”

Kim Leonard, manager of licensing and enforcement for the City, is familiar with the process behind handling bylaw citations in the community.

Bylaw enforcement officers are dispatched by police. They work until 3 a.m. in order to remove some of the burden from Kingston police officers.

“Our staff has the time to explain to students the reasons why we’re there, the reasons for the bylaws,” Leonard said. “It’s a better PR [public relation] with students.

“It gives us time to talk to them, whereas police have more things that … demand their resources.”

Bylaw citations have three typical types of responses from the City — a warning, a provincial offence notice or a court summons.

It depends on the violator’s prior offenses, Leonard said, adding that the summons can be expensive and time consuming for a resident.

“They would probably appear in court two to three times [for a plea and a trial], so it’s a real inconvenience as well for them,” she said.

“If there are other avenues for us to educate, we’re certainly more open to that.”

The Municipal Affairs Commission (MAC) also regularly works with students to educate them on the bylaws that come with renting a house for the first time.

“We highlight the basics that Queen’s students need to be concerned about, some of which include: garbage, leaving [things] out on the yard [and] noise violations,” David Sinkinson, municipal affairs commissioner, said.

The MAC has a series of resource videos available online that will help students learn about bylaws and how they can potentially violate them.

According to Sinkinson, ArtSci ’11, the bylaw violations he sees the most in student houses concern yards and garbage.

“Usually, if it’s a noise violation it doesn’t really find its way to me because it could be handled … through the non-academic discipline system,” he said.

Another prevalent bylaw issue is structural damage to a house.

Mould in the ceiling can lead to a complicated situation for student tenants. According to Sinkinson, the mould can be caused by tenant neglect, or a previously existing issue with the house.

“If it wasn’t your fault, you could call the City of Kingston’s bylaw office and they would come inspect your house,” he said.

The City can then communicate with a tenant’s landlord to get the mould removed properly. “[Bylaws are] not really against students,” Sinkinson said. “Most of the time, they actually support students because they [concern] pretty serious issues.”

Sinkinson helps run the Student Property and Dwelling Education team (SPADE), a committee of students within MAC that are trained by the City of Kingston.

They inspect properties to look for bylaw violations. The group,

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formerly known as the Student Property Assessment Team (SPAT), has been in existence for over 15 years.

“It’s something that the City also really appreciates because it assists their sometimes too-busy bylaw office,” he said.

The committee inspects for mould, vermin, heat issues or other structural concerns at the request of students.

With students on the lookout for next year’s leases, Sinkinson said it’s important to take time to make sure there’s no risk for a bylaw violation on the property.

“When you’re going to the house as well, keep your eye tuned to things you want [or things] that would look unusual,” he said.

As a student, they’re “representing their

school and their institution. There might be repercussions from an academic standpoint.

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— Steve Koopman, Kingston Police media relations officer “It’s frustrating if we rush to find a house because first of all, there are tons of properties and second, when we rush to find a house it basically enable landlords to not bother improving some of their properties that are a little more questionable.

“Don’t settle because you don’t have to.”

According to Sinkinson, City bylaws can be daunting for student tenants.

Sometimes students don’t have the resources to avoid bylaw citations. For example, keeping an orderly yard is difficult for students who don’t own a lawnmower to cut the grass.

“That’s really where landlords need to support their tenants as well,” Sinkinson said.

“That could be problematic … if you have an absentee landlord or a landlord that’s too busy.”

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sTUDenT Fees

Student Constable fee increased to cover deficit Motion passed at the AMS Annual General Meeting to increase mandatory StuCon fee B y s aVoula s tylianou Assistant News Editor In an attempt to reduce the growing deficit of the Student Constables service, students will pay an additional $1.66 in fees each year.

The mandatory StuCon fee increase from $8.34 to $10 is the result of a motion passed almost unanimously at the AMS Annual General Meeting last Tuesday.

AMS Hospitality and Safety Services Director Gracie Goad said the StuCon budget this year projected a $25,000 deficit.

“The revenue didn’t cover the operational expenses, so we were facing a deficit,” she said.

There are 80 student constables that work at the AMS Pub Service (TAPS), which includes Queen’s Pub and Alfie’s, Clark Hall and other smaller events.

Goad said this isn’t the first year the service has been in the red.

“We faced it last year as well, and it was getting incrementally worse since Bill C-159 came into effect where all security guards had to be licensed through the Ministry of Ontario,” Goad, ArtSci ’11, said.

Bill C-159 was passed in 2005, but didn’t come into effect until December 2009.

It was within this four-year period that the StuCons started parting a deficit, Goad said.

“It costs $700 to license a Student Constable and $80 to re-license a returning Student Constable,” she said.

This year, 50 StuCons were newly licensed compared to 30 returning StuCons.

Goad said the way safety services, StuCons and Walkhome, develop their budget is different from other AMS services.

“What we do is budget for operational expenses compared to last year’s expenses,” she said. “We don’t factor in revenue, which is the best way to be fiscally responsible since we’re funded through student fees.”

Goad added that when creating the budget this summer, it became clear that StuCons would once again close the year with a deficit.

More students than expected though paid into the service, Goad said.

“We budgeted for 14,400 students, but it ended up being 15,000 students … more students came to Queen’s,” she said.

Goad added that this change in numbers along with cost-saving measures like reducing hours through stagger-start shifts — when some StuCons start at 8 p.m. and others join in at 10 p.m. — helped to reduce the service’s deficit from $25,000.

“That was great news, but there was still a deficit of $15,000.”

Goad said the increased StuCon fee of $10 isn’t a large jump when it’s compared to the other AMS safety service.

“To put it into perspective, the Walkhome student fee is over $18.”

Separate from the increase in the StuCon student fee, Goad said the AMS is planning to introduce an element of competition in the safety services budget with regards

to the $20,000 safety services grant given to the AMS from Student Affairs.

“The head managers of Walkhome and the Student Constables will come to Corporate Caucus with a presentation on what they want to spend money on that year,” she said. “Somehow the two services will end up splitting the grant from Student Affairs.”

Goad said StuCons provide an invaluable service for Queen’s.

“Student constables represent the AMS mandate of peers supervising and taking care of their peers. We believe no one is more capable of taking care of students than other students,” she said. “These individuals and this service is always there for us when we need them most.”

The motion to increase the Student Constables student fee was passed almost unanimously at the AMS Annual General Meeting.

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cFRc

Campus radio station looks to leave AMS CFRC in discussions to secede from student government before the station’s licence renewal in 2014 B y VinCent M atak Staff Writer The campus radio station is looking to break from the AMS. A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the AMS and CFRC’s licence holder Radio Queen’s University is in the works.

If passed, CFRC will no longer be affiliated with the AMS in 2014. The MOU was brought up at Tuesday’s AMS Corporate General Meeting.

Currently, 40 per cent of CFRC’s revenue comes from a $4.93 mandatory student fee.

Sixty per cent comes from non-AMS sources including grants while an additional 10 per cent is provided by the AMS in the form of deficit coverage.

CFRC is currently budgeted to run a $10,000 deficit, which is covered by the AMS. Once CFRC is autonomous, it won’t receive this coverage however, talks are ongoing as to whether CFRC will still receive a student fee after leaving the AMS. “There will be some transition period where there will be coverage of that deficit just to ensure that we’re not sending the service out in the cold,” Mitch Piper, chair of AMS Board of Directors, said. “It will give them time to adjust [while] the Board of Directors gets the ball rolling in trying to search out other sources of funding for the station, like advertising.”

Piper, ArtSci ’11, said the radio station will be granted full autonomy from the AMS by the station’s next licence renewal in 2014 if the MOU is signed.

Piper added that this will likely be done by the end of April.

“The primary reason is a new [Canadian Radio-Television Commission (CRTC)] requirement of ownership of management which does not allow those to be held by AMS,” Piper said at the meeting. “We need to work with CFRC advisory board to create a MOU that will outline the process

need to get another small increase in the looking at other financially autonomous of moving forward.” organizations on campus and other Since its inception in 1922, CFRC [student] fee,” she said.

She said the station is still determining campus-community radio stations as models. has operated through the University and what the fee increase will be.

“Almost every other station in the the AMS. “If we can get one penny for every year campus community sector in Canada is The decision to grant full autonomy to CFRC came after the CRTC passed we’ve existed, that will be enough to stabilize independent of the student government legislation in 2010 that mandates all our deficit,” she said. “The last time we and from that perspective we can look to campus-community radio stations operate increased our fee it was by $1.02, and if we those stations and model our independence,” their finances and management independently. increase by that much again it will put us in she said. “Here at the University we are “Primarily it’s a legal thing,” Piper told the shape. At the high end is a fee that matches looking at organizations which operate independently from the AMS which receive Journal. “It’s important to make sure we’re the fee that is received by the Journal.”

The Journal receives an annual mandatory student fees like the Union Gallery and the following the laws and from the perspectives campus bookstore.” of the Board of Directors to [avoid] student fee of $6.76.

The decision to raise the CFRC any risks.”

In October last year, Piper wrote a letter mandatory student fee will be voted on at to CFRC representatives stating that CFRC the March 2013 Annual General Meeting.

Clemens said CFRC representatives are would undergo a management restructure that would exclude non-students from applying for management positions.

On March 1, this plan was abandoned by the Board of Directors in favour of further discussions.

Piper said the AMS acknowledges the original plan could have been detrimental to both the station and the AMS. “The AMS recognizes … that sometimes we can’t do everything, we can’t be the best at everything, so to support those things sometimes you have to say we can’t control [them],” he said. “We hope for sure that CFRC gets another 90 years on campus and this will allow them to do that.”

According to Kristiana Clemens, CFRC’s operational officer, the MOU is still in discussion between CFRC representatives and the AMS. “AMS reps and CFRC reps are meeting together to make a lot of lists and sharing a lot of research and documentation on trying to figure out what needs to be incorporated Photo by Corey lablans in this agreement,” she said.

At the AMS Corporate General Meeting on Tuesday, plans were put in Clemens said the station’s main goal place to make CFRC independent of the student government. for the MOU is to find an alternative to the deficit coverage currently provided by the AMS. She added that this will most likely happen by increasing CFRC’s mandatory student fee.

“If we wanted to eliminate the deficit we

CAMPUS CALENDAR Friday, March 23 Principles of Project Management Mac-Corry Hall, room B176 All day Free Coercion, Sanctions and the Force of Law: Rehabilitating Bentham and Austin Macdonald Hall, room 515 1 to 2:30 p.m.

Saturday, March 24 An Afternoon with Comedian and Storyteller Alan Shain Kingston Frontenac Public Library 2 to 4 p.m.

By donation Monday, March 26 Climate Action Plan Community Forum JDUC, Wallace Hall Noon to 1 p.m.

Dynamic Fiduciary Duties: Andrew Gold Macdonald Hall, room 211 1 to 2:30 p.m.

Tuesday, March 27 Working within WebPublish Mac-Corry Hall, room B176 9:30 to 11 a.m.

To register contact educate@queensu.ca Free Wednesday, March 28 Life Science Research Poster Day Biosciences Atrium 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Ensuring the ethical treatment of research participants 11:55 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Centre for Applied Urological Research, 65 Barrie St. Free Town Hall discussing accessibility, inclusion, accommodation and the AODA Robert Sutherland Building, room 202 2 to 4 p.m.

Thursday, March 29 Speaker’s Corner: “Awareness” Stauffer Library 2 to 4 p.m.

QUIC English conversation group JDUC, QUIC 5 to 6:30 p.m.

QSL Spelling Bee The Grizzly Grill, 395 Princess St. 7:30 to 10:30 p.m.

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‘It’s gotten busier every year’ week, Phase 2 sold out of many green items. the bottle on the grass,” Koopman Phase 2 sells recycled said, adding that it wasn’t the man’s brand-name clothing. property and that could have been Sales Clerk Lorie Coventry said an additional infraction. “He was this year sales for St. Patrick’s Day charged with having alcohol in an items were on par with Halloween, open container … a $125 ticket.” one of their busiest days of the year.

This was the only ticket “The managers had to keep Koopman issued during his ordering new shipments [of green 12-hour shift.

T-shirts],” Coventry said. “Students “The lawn or house parties were cutting them up, tye-dying actually seemed to die down earlier them, just decorating them.” in the evening … because they Coventry has worked at Phase 2 obviously started early in the day,” for the past 15 years. She said that Koopman said. “That was sort of a it was five years ago when she first pleasant surprise.” noticed a growing student interest in St. Patrick’s Day. “It’s gotten busier every year,” The lawn or house she said. parties actually seemed AMS Municipal Affairs to die down earlier in Commissioner David Sinkinson the evening ... That worked with five other individuals was sort of a pleasant to clean up Aberdeen Street on Sunday. surprise.

“Even if you just tripped on Aberdeen Street when we first got there you could’ve cut yourself,” — Const. Steve Koopman, Kingston Police Sinkinson said. “It was definitely a higher concentration than we’ve Despite the amount of ever seen from such a short period infractions, Koopman said this of time.”

It started off as a trial to test new year’s St. Patrick’s Day wasn’t cleaning methods, but students wilder than last year’s.

While bars downtown living in the area ended up helping were busy for most of the day, out the group.

In addition to messy streets, other local businesses were also affected by St. Patrick’s computers and phones were unsuspecting casualties of Day festivities.

From Wednesday to Friday last the weekend.

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A pedestrian was hit by a police car around 1:30 a.m. Sunday, following St. Patrick’s Day.

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“We had three computers come in specifically for alcohol liquid damage,” said Jordan Pridham, owner of electronic device repair shop iService. iService, located on Alfred Street near campus, saw a significant spike in business over St. Patrick’s Day weekend.

“There were also numerous smashed iPhones,” Pridham said.

Pridham said a group of six girls entered his store, three of which were crying. He said one of the crying girls had spilled wine on her laptop.

“Every one of those computers we were able to fix,” Pridham said. “They felt super excited, one of the girls was yelling in the store because she was so happy.”

NEWS IN BRIEF Gutsy walk raises money

waste-reduction activities includes a variety of workshops on campuses. for students wishing to pursue Other entries came from careers in the fields of journalism or On Sunday, the Arts and Science American institutions, including public policy.

Undergraduate Society Crohn’s Notre Dame, Ohio State — Meaghan Wray and Colitis Committee will present and Purdue.

AMS Commissioner of the its first Gutsy Walk, part of the Environment and Sustainability national event. students raise money The Gutsy Walk has grown Adam DiSimine, ArtSci ’11, for breast cancer since it began in 1996 and now filmed the video submission has almost 80 communities in collaboration with the AMS, the Society of Graduate Two Queen’s students were recently participating across Canada.

Professional Students, recognized by the Canadian Breast The walk aims to raise awareness and about Inflammatory Bowel Queen’s Sustainability Office Cancer Foundation for their Disease (IBD) — which consists and volunteers. exemplary contributions.

The video is based on a of Crohn’s disease and ulcerative Last fall, university students colitis. Both are inflammatory commercial featuring popular competed in the national bowel conditions that include basketball icons Larry Bird and Post-Secondary Team Challenge, symptoms such as weight loss Michael Jordan. In the original which took place during the CIBC video, Bird and Jordan compete Run for the Cure. The event and anemia.

Walk co-chair Jen Donovan said in an exaggerated shooting strives to bring awareness and the committee has raised almost contest, which is spoofed in the funds for breast cancer research. video by replacing basketballs with $3,000 this year.

Poonam Batra, Med ’12, “The event is about raising water bottles. was one of the Queen’s The contest runs from March participants last year who raised funds for the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of Canada, and raising 19 to 26 and the winners are one of the largest amounts awareness about Crohn’s, Colitis determined by the number of likes for a post-secondary student. and IBD for members of the videos receive on YouTube.

For this contribution, she Queen’s community,” Donovan, received a CIBC Education Award.

— Meaghan Wray ArtSci ’13, said.

After being diagnosed with breast The five- kilometre walk begins cancer two years ago, Batra said she at 11 a.m. in front of Stauffer Library. students visit Queen’s was motivated to raise awareness.

Because of her motivation, Park for media Day “Team Purple — Queen’s — Asad Chishti Medicine and Friends” was Queen’s competes in The recent annual Media created and comprised of Day at Queen’s Park meant 18 family members, friends and video competition undergraduate and graduate colleagues in her department. students were able to meet The Queen’s men’s rugby Queen’s is the only Canadian journalists and politicians, including team also made significant university to qualify for the Premier Dalton McGuinty contributions and exceeded top 10 positions in the North Events included a VIP tour $30,000 in total as each team American Recyclemania of the press gallery at Queen’s member strived to raise $150 each. video contest.

Park and a live debate over public Colin Greenwood, Sci ’13, The contest asks institutions policy, which occurred that day received the Team Captain Leadership Award for organizing to showcase how their campus is for participants. environmentally friendly through The event was established in the rugby team’s contributions. the Spirit of Recycling contest. 2004 by the Queen’s Student — Meaghan Wray The contest aims to promote Alumni Association and also

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A group of armoured police gives any crowd a common enemy, and it’s even more pronounced among students.

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t. Patrick’s Day festivities included the usual blend of mirth and drinking last weekend, but at Fanshawe College in London, Ont., celebrations in the student neighborhood turned into a riot.

On March 17, revelers on Fleming Street, a student-dense area near the college, flipped a CTV news van and lit it on fire.

The 1,000-strong crowd fed the flame long into the night, ripping apart fences and uprooting trees.

When police attempted to break up the crowd, bottles, bricks and other debris were thrown at them.

The riot, which caused an estimated $100,000 in damage, according to a Mar. 19 CBC article, was a gross and destructive event.

But the riot shouldn’t be regarded as a permanent scar on Fanshawe or London’s reputation.

A riot like this can happen anywhere, and it has. Queen’s students themselves have been responsible for a frenzied crowd, demonstrated by years of Aberdeen Street parties on Homecoming.

When a large crowd, alcohol and police presence mixtogether, riots are the result. It’s time for the police to reconsider how they deal with crowds, and recognize that marching into an area with riot

gear isn’t the best course of action.

A group of armoured police gives any crowd a common enemy, and it’s even more pronounced among students, who have a strong culture and history of rebelling against the police. Removing that perceived enemy makes it harder for a crowd to rise up together and cause havoc.

Fanshawe President Howard Rundle has suggested that the long-term solution to problems like

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hirteen Queen’s law students be homeless.

Extra money to the Kingston lived outside from March 11 to 15 to take part in the national 5 Youth Shelter will repair beds and bathrooms, but it won’t affect Days for the Homeless campaign.

The participants raised homelessness’ root causes.

The campaign had good awareness about youth homelessness in Kingston and intentions, but it needs to make asked for donations to renovate changes if it takes place again. bedrooms and bathrooms at the Uniforms need to be dropped — homeless people aren’t a unified Kingston Youth Shelter.

While participating law group with matching outfits. students are to be commended Sleeping outside for five days needs for raising $8,690 for the shelter, to be rethought as well.

It shouldn’t be necessary to take it’s important to look at the part in a spectacle to raise money for campaign critically.

Sleeping outside and asking for a cause, and emulation shouldn’t be money isn’t a true emulation of a condition of empathy.

The Kingston Youth Shelter will homelessness. It’s patronizing to reduce homelessness to a stereotype benefit substantially from the 5 Days for the Homeless campaign and brushes over complex issues.

There’s no doubt that the and that in itself made the campaign funds raised will be put to good worthwhile. Homelessness though use, but the campaign may have is an ongoing issue that requires a added to the stigmatization of multi-pronged approach. Kingston requires better infrastructure, homeless people.

Dressing in an orange uniform including an increased number to solicit donations reduces of youth shelters in the city. homelessness to a spectacle, an Education and awareness of issues object of pity that needs to be rescued. surrounding homelessness are It ignores the multitude of causes also essential.

Charity campaigns often have that lead to homelessness, such as addiction, abuse, or a plethora of the best intentions and positive outcomes — something that proved other circumstances.

Asking for money at the corner true for 5 Days for the Homeless. of University Avenue and Union Nationally, more than $230,000 Street is an effective way to raise was raised in 2012. But unintended funds, but the 5 Days for the consequences need to be looked Homeless campaign didn’t make at and there’s always room an adequate attempt to educate for improvement. people on what it really means to

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the St. Patrick’s Day’s riot is to break up the Fanshawe Student Ghetto. The suggestion is troubling, and it would be best to encourage students to act responsibly rather than take away their community space.

Living in a neighborhood with a common culture is a memorable part of life at university. The student lifestyle though, is a privilege and not a right. Nearby families shouldn’t have to be afraid

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on St. Patrick’s Day, worrying their homes will be damaged or their property destroyed.

If students prove that they’re unable to live safely together, then integrating students housing into a larger city could improve the situation.

The Fanshawe riot was sad to watch but it doesn’t reflect on the majority of students. The college’s reputation is undoubtedly damaged, but calling for drastic changes after one isolated incident is questionable — it’s not time to break up Fanshawe’s Student Ghetto.

In lieu of Rice’s arrival on campus, extra police were stationed outside the auditorium where he was speaking — it was to ensure that a protest didn’t break out, like one that happened when National Post reporter Christie Blatchford spoke at Waterloo in 2010.

Savoula Stylianou Blatchford visited the university to speak about her book Helpless: Caledonia’s Nightmare of Fear and Anarchy but students disrupted her talk and managed to shut it down.

On Tuesday night, after Rice left the university, student groups held a silent vigil to show Waterloo’s administration their disapproval of the choice of speaker for the event.

While I’m completely in support of the freedom to protest, in this case hough university students I think it was unfounded.

The choice in speaker was very are often touted as some of the most tolerant individuals in much related to the topic of the society, recently students have lectures — Christianity. Rice was proven that they aren’t always open chosen to speak at the event because he’s an authority on natural law, the to contentious discussions.

This past Tuesday, the University subject of his prepared speech.

Even though students don’t of Waterloo asked former Notre Dame law professor Charles Rice to agree with his personal opinions, speak at an annual speaker series — they need to respect the fact that Pascal Lectures on Christianity. Rice everyone is entitled to their own is a Roman Catholic author and opinions, even when it’s not a scholar whose views include strong popular one. The protesters had stances against homosexuality as much right to demonstrate as and abortions — his opinions Charles Rice had to speak about proved controversial among his beliefs.

Waterloo students.

Disagreeing with someone’s Student groups expressed opinions isn’t grounds for telling dissatisfaction with the fact that them to be quiet. If students staged Charles Rice was allowed to come a protest every time they disagreed to the Waterloo campus because with an opinion, then discourse they believed what he had to say would fail and universities would become a breeding ground for riots. would be considered hate speech.

It’s most important to protect It’s interesting that people, especially university students, are freedom of speech when it’s an fervently in favour of free speech, opinion you disagree with — but only when they like what’s because those are the perspectives that add to your education. being said.

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Perspectives from the Queen’s community

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Online developments ... may well be the most significant game-changer in sight for modern universities.

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Online learning puts revenue first

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What do you think about Roll up the Rim?

Promotion of online learning for revenue generation may threaten academic quality and the distinctiveness of a Queen’s degree academically or financially insignificant.

They may well be the most significant game-changer in sight for modern universities.

A new proposal being M ark J ones considered by Ontario’s Ministry Professor, department of English of Training, Colleges and Universities suggests that three I recently submitted two questions out of five post-secondary credits for Provost Alan Harrison for the be earned online.

March 27 meeting of Senate. One is: And earlier, in the Throne why do we already have a financial Speech of March 2010 (when exploration, or “business case,” for our academic planning process expanding online learning, and not was beginning), the province a word on the subject in our new proposed to create an “Ontario Academic Plan? The other is: why Online Institute” (OOI) for won’t you let us see it? post-secondary education. A special I know the business case exists advisor to the Ministry unveiled because our 2011-12 Budget a plan for the OOI in April 2011, Report boasts about it: “As part of recommending that it be a “hub” its planning exercises (in the face connecting online resources at all of the need to balance the budget), Ontario post-secondary institutions.

Queen’s has been exploring That plan fits well with various revenue-generating ideas,” recommendations published by including, the report says, “the the Higher Educational Quality feasibility of offering Queen’s Council of Ontario in October degrees and certificates through 2010 under the title “The Benefits distance on-line learning.” of Greater Differentiation of The business case for online Ontario’s University Sector.” learning is also mentioned in a February 2011 memo from This is really a Continuing and Distance Studies question about (CDS) to Queen’s departments. whether Queen’s The memo states, “The Business future is to be Case will include an examination determined by business of what programs we can offer considerations or online, whether there is a market, what it will cost, and whether it will by academic planning. be profitable in terms of additional tuition revenue.”

Put simply, these proposals This is really a question would facilitate the cutting of about whether Queen’s future particular campus departments or is to be determined by business programs deemed to be redundant considerations or by academic or financially unattractive, for they planning. In launching our recent would enable students registered planning exercises, Principal Daniel at one Ontario university to earn Woolf promised that academic their credits online from any other considerations would set the Ontario university. (Improving priorities for financial decisions. the transfer-credit system is an “The academic planning process important part of both proposals.) that we will be embarking on in Such changes would, of course, the new year will help us prioritize significantly increase the proportion what we do and how we do it,” of credits that university students Woolf said in a November 2009 complete online. They could also financial update. threaten the distinctiveness of a “I think it’s very important Queen’s degree. that our academic values drive These provincial proposals and our financial decisions, including developments are not unknown on capital planning, budgets and campus. But Queen’s hasn’t been human resources strategies,” disposed to engage them critically he added. from the perspective of academic But the elusive business case quality. As Principal Woolf seems to reverse this priority by explained to the Board of Trustees putting the financial ahead of the this month, “it is important to academic. It’s curious that the bear in mind how the University’s Academic Plan recently approved decisions may fit with government

by Senate says nothing about the priorities in order to maximize promotion of blended and online leverage and support.” learning or about the financial That describes well what decisions the University has already Queen’s has in fact been doing in been making around them. its recent development of online The omission cannot be courses and programs. Since explained by saying that online February 2011, faculty members developments are either have received repeated invitations

“I buy coffee way more often now.”

Devon Stride, ArtSci ’14

Increasing class sizes have led the University to move course content online in recent years.

from CDS with titles like “New Initiatives in Online Learning.”

We’re told that CDS is developing entire online programs for degrees and certificates, and we’re offered financial “incentives” and “stipends” for assistance in development.

It is sometimes said that these online programs are designed only to attract distance students. But if “about 85 per cent of [CDS] enrolments are current on-campus Queen’s students” — as stated in the February 2011 CDS memo — that’s not the probable uptake. Queen’s has no provision to limit the number of online credits on-campus students can apply to their degrees.

Are online credits really the equivalents of those earned in the classroom? One difference is that while ordinary courses require approval by Faculty curriculum committees, their online versions do not require separate approval, since online-ness is regarded as being a difference only in the delivery vehicle. Yet an online course may in fact have little in common with the on-campus version beyond its title, its number and its credit value.

The omission of online learning from our Academic Plan is not an oversight but a matter of exclusion.

“Virtualization” was a bone of contention in the early stages of the planning process. When the Faculty of Arts and Science responded to the Principal’s Where Next? academic planning document, its first draft proposed “absorb[ing] increased undergraduate enrolments” by “virtualizing the classroom at the first- and second-year levels.”

Such recommendations inspired outrage in Faculty Board and elsewhere. Over 1,000 students and employees petitioned the Board of Trustees in May 2010. The

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student petition explicitly rejected planning proposals for “larger class sizes, virtualized teaching, and less contact with professors during the first and second years of undergraduate degrees.”

Moreover, as a member of the Senate Academic Planning Task Force (APTF), I personally submitted, before departing for sabbatical in July 2011, a detailed draft section for the Academic Plan concerning online learning at Queen’s. It was excluded from the plan as assembled by the APTF in September for reasons never stated.

An online course may in fact have little in common with the on-campus version beyond its title, its number and its credit value.

The excluded draft section does not support, and in fact argues against, developing blended and online learning as a so-called “revenue-generating idea.” Indeed, it presents in greater detail much of the case made here.

At its February meeting, Queen’s Senate passed a motion to strike a new Academic Planning Task Force to draft something on “virtualization and online learning.”

Its membership will come before Senate in May. This planning is important work, and it’s to be hoped that the Task Force is well staffed. But it will not report till May 2013, and our business case is already in place. Our development is already in motion.

Unfortunately, this new Task Force may be too little too late as decisions are being made today that will affect the academic future of the University.

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Dragonette in the spotlight photo by justin chin

Singer-songwriter Martina Sorbara of Dragonette performs at Ale House on Wednesday night.

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Ahead of their pre-gig ritual of eating Vietnamese food, the indie-pop band sat down with the Journal B y C aitlin C hoi Assistant Arts Editor We all laughed.

Mid-sentence at Ale Canteen on Wednesday night, Dragonette’s Dan Kurtz was interrupted by his band’s hit single “Hello” on the radio.

“And there it is again,” he joked during our interview.

“I paid them 20 bucks to do that,” Kurtz’s wife and the band’s singer-songwriter Martina Sorbara quipped in.

Released in 2010, “Hello” is a collaboration with DJ Martin Solveig that brought Dragonette out from the underground-pop scene and set them onto the mainstream current of Canadian music. Since then, fans have been greeting the Canadian-pop trio — Kurtz, Sorbara and drummer Joel Stouffer — from all over the world.

“My 70-year-old aunt in Brazil knows that song,” Kurtz said.

“Months later [she] put it together that it had something to do with us.”

Whether on YouTube or attached to a product, “Hello” has played millions of times worldwide. But Kurtz admits Dragonette remains somewhat below the radar.

“Martina isn’t in the video and so, it’s like Martina walks through life hearing her song come out of every second store and it’s like the best kept secret ever,” he said.

“Maybe that’s all going to change with the Junos.”

On April 1, Dragonette will get just under a minute of fame, according to Kurtz. The band will make their first on-stage appearance at the Canadian Juno Awards, performing with other nominees Alyssa Reid, Anjulie, JRDN and Mia Martina, as part of a “mixed tape” performance of the year’s top dance hits.

“What it is, is that we all are getting to play the Junos,” Kurtz said, laughing. “We’re just playing it for a very, very little amount of time … I think I heard that we’re playing for 52 seconds.”

Their song “Hello” is nominated for Dance Recording of the Year. This year’s ceremonies will mark Dragonette’s third nomination, their second in the Dance Recording category.

“Of course you want a Juno,” Kurtz said.

“No! ‘Cause I’m too scared,” Sorbara countered. “I’m so scared of going up on stage and speaking … I’ve realized that I will sing in front of anybody but speaking and addressing people in a microphone and talking, I turn into a blubbering idiot. I think a little bit like right now.”

Last year, the trio lost the Juno to Deadmau5’s Sofi Needs a Ladder. They’ll be up against the house music artist again this year.

“But he’s already got one,” Kurtz joked. “It’s very Canadian, they like to share around.”

“They’re just sympathetic to the fact that we’ve gone three times,” Sorbara adds. “That’s what I think.”

The couple have a naturally comic back-and-forth.

“Three strikes and, we’re … what happens then?”

Kurtz said. “Then we retire.”

But the band is nowhere near retiring. With the fast approaching release of their third full-length album and several notable bookings in 2012, the year is packed for Dragonette.

The band is expecting to release the new album in the fall. The still-unnamed record features already-released single “The Right Woman” and upcoming track “Let it Go,” which will preview online this month.

“The Right Woman” was

introduced earlier this month on Diane von Furstenberg’s International Women’s Day compilation Proud to be Woman Vol. 3.

“It fit the cause,” Sorbara said. “It was just something we submitted because it fit the bill of proud to be a woman for women’s sake.”

The song was recorded in collaboration with producer Felix Bloxsom, who’s worked with everyone from Empire Of The Sun to Jennifer Lopez.

Despite fitting “the cause,” Sorbara said she doesn’t write Dragonette’s lyrics with a political agenda.

“I think musically I’m almost offensively a-political,” she said, stopping to debate whether that was justifiably true. “No, I believe in everything that I sing and it’s often like a personal point that I’m making. I always have a bit of awe for people who, what’s the word I’m looking for, who effectively include politics into their music in a believable way and a convincing way.

“But it’s not really where I come from. Although, like one of my biggest influences when I was 13 years old was Ani Difranco, one of the most political musicians ever to live.”

Dragonette is coming hot off a performance at South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, Texas last week, where the band played Perez Hilton’s One Night in Austin Party for the second time.

“We played his first Perez One Night in Austin five years ago and it was 400 people there and we went on four hours late because the show was so disorganized,” Kurtz said. “But this is five years later and there was 4,000 people there and we were probably that much more of a better band.”

It was only the band’s third time

performing their new material, and, according to Sorbara, it felt like they ended it “rocking the house.”

Next on the bill for Dragonette is Coachella, where the band will make their debut alongside veterans like Feist, Bon Iver, Avicii and Dr. Dre, to name a few.

“I want to meet [U.S. singer] Santigold,” Sorbara started.

“I want to meet Santa,” Stouffer piped in.

“Is he coming to Coachella?”

Kurtz asked.

It’s clear the three are a family, bantering and jesting throughout the pre-show interview. After seven years together, through the easy ups — the band toured with Duran Duran within their first few months as a band — and downs, or what Kurtz calls a “trough” they hit early on, it’s looking like 2012 is the year for the charts to say “Hello” to Dragonette.

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Confetti pop Rich Aucoin’s dance electro shows feature confetti guns and musical guests B y A lly H all Staff Writer Rich Aucoin wants to make you sweat.

Fresh from the South by Southwest (SXSW) music festival in Texas, the Halifax native is gearing up for an appearance at the Grad Club tonight. The last time Aucoin brought his explosive live set to Kingston in August, Wolfe Island Music Festival attendees left euphoric — he’s one of the few indie-electro artists who can add confetti gun prep to his list of pre-gig rituals. “[It was] amazing. Wolfe Island was one of my favourite festival experiences,” Aucoin told the Journal via email.

Since his 2007 debut EP Public Publication, Aucoin’s project has been growing exponentially. He has garnered attention by bicycling and running from show to show to raise money for Childhood

Cancer Canada and the Canadian Cancer Society.

In the same vein Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of The Moon acts as an alternative soundtrack to The Wizard of Oz, Public Publication was composed to How the Grinch Stole Christmas. His impressive video projections that accompany each set have become highly anticipated. When asked about the significance of the multimedia visual aspects to his art, he explained he’s “always syncing movies and music, film soundtracks … they’re the inspiration.”

Experiencing Aucoin’s show is just that — an experience. It’s bewildering to imagine breaking down aspects of his writing process when faced with the full live set, but he explained it starts with the simple act of popping a movie in. “[I] put the movie up on a monitor and play chord progressions to its visuals and see See Smiles on page 14

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‘Rock requires groove’ After 12 years together the Junction feel their sound has grown from funk to rock ‘n’ roll B y B Rittany J ohnSton Staff Writer The Junction doesn’t go on stage angry.

“If for any reason things aren’t completely cool with us before hand, there is an urgency to work it out before we go on stage,” bassist Matt Jameson told the Journal via email.

“We’re not about to go up on stage and fake the fact that we’re having a good time.”

After 12 years together and three full-length albums, Jameson said the band’s sound now is much more rock ‘n’ roll.

“We started as much more of a funky-jazzy pop band that was into Dave Matthews Band and Jamiroquai, but slowly things started sounding more and more rock,” he said. “Today, I’d call us a rock band that hasn’t forgot that rock requires groove.”

The pop-rock trio is currently touring Ontario after releasing their new album Grievances at the start of the month.

The Junction delivered more than a good time at the first show of their CD release tour at the Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto on March 10. Fans were crowd surfing and Jameson’s younger brother asked him if he had an Adidas mark on his face from getting kicked.

The 12-year veterans have faced challenges in the past, separating from Universal Music

in 2007. Universal thought their 2007 self-titled debut album would be difficult to market, and shortly after its release, the band couldn’t get in contact with the label.

“We drove from Saskatoon straight to the label to let them know that we wanted out,” Jameson said. “A few months later we were able to get out of the contract and start working things on our own. I’m proud that we’ve stuck it out and made two more records since then.”

Despite breaking from a major record label, the band has still found success, including having their music featured on Degrassi and Hockey Night in Canada, which Jameson said scored them “major parent points.”

“There is a lot of bands out there that would have thrown in the towel after the whole Universal experience,” he said. “I think our independence and determination to be a working band help set us apart. One of our dreams is to have music pay the rent.”

While music isn’t paying the rent yet, the band is still busy touring their new record.

“We’ve got the record out now and we’re looking to play as much as we can,” Jameson said. “Let’s party this Saturday Kingston!”

The Junction plays the Mansion tomorrow night at 9 p.m.

After separating from Universal Music, the Junction started their own label, The Junction Inc.

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Friday, March 23, 2012 up as a full band,” he said, adding that with the new music they’re creating, the core rhythm of the songs has become more important.

“This time around, we wrote the drums, bass and rhythm guitar first,” he said. “We learned to make the song strong in a rhythmic sense and afterwards there’s time to dress it up.”

our last album, “weWith wanted to tackle tougher issues that weren’t just boy-girl love issues. This time around, we made a conscious effort to write just fun songs for the crowd.

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New bassist Nathan Gill was added to Two Hours Traffic’s lineup in December and hasn’t had a chance to take any promotional shots with the band yet. They played their first show together on St. Patrick’s Day in their hometown of Charlottetown, P.E.I.

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Switching traffic lanes Two Hours Traffic’s new setlist is ‘just fun songs for the crowd’ B y S avoula S tylianou Assistant News Editor With a new bassist and an album’s worth of new songs, the road ahead is clear for pop quartet Two Hours Traffic.

The band is scheduled to play a gig in Toronto this weekend as part of Canadian Music Week, but lead singer Liam Corcoran said when they heard about the opportunity to play in Kingston the night before, they couldn’t pass it up.

“Kingston has to be one of our

best cities with a consistent crowd coming to see us,” he said. “It should be a fun night for us.”

The band’s show at the Mansion on Friday night will be their second time performing with new bassist Nathan Gill after a performance in their hometown of Charlottetown, P.E.I. “We had our first gig in our hometown in a club called Baba’s Lounge, which is where we started out playing years ago,” he said.

But adding Gill to the trio’s dynamic was an easy decision.

“When you’re in a band that’s just trying to make your living at it, you need to find someone that is going to work musically, but almost as important is someone who’s willing to go out on the road and someone you’re gonna get along with,” Corcoran said. “In Nathan, we found all those things.”

Gill replaced band member Alec O’Hanley who now plays in the indie rock band the Danks.

Their lineup isn’t the only thing the band has switched up.

Corcoran said the band’s new

material is different from their last album Territory.

“With our last album, we wanted to tackle tougher issues that weren’t just boy-girl love issues,” he said. “This time around, we made a conscious effort to write just fun songs for the crowd. We wanted to write songs that we’d be excited to play every night.”

Corcoran said when the band first started in 2003, they thought of their music in a different way.

“In the beginning, we were taking folk songs and dressing them

— Liam Corcoran Even though the band has written enough material to create an album, Corcoran said they have no plans for a release date.

Music from Two Hours Traffic has been featured in CW shows including Gossip Girl and One Tree Hill. Corcoran said while it’s nice to be recognized in the American market, it’s not the group’s biggest priority.

“It’s a nice source of income for us, it’s a way to make money and keep some money in the bank account,” he said. “But I think we feel fulfilled playing in front of a packed house that wants to hear your tunes.”

Two Hours Traffic plays the Mansion tonight at 9 p.m.

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‘Don’t have to be hammered’ For the final installment of this year’s Players, the group talks University problems, crabs and that infamous video B y K atie P anousis Staff Writer ’Til Death Star Do Us Part is the final show of the 2012 Queen’s Players triad and in true Players style it doesn’t only entertain — it takes a stance. This show addresses a wide range of subject matter, from evil plans to tenured professors to the economical struggles of student life and the accompanying exploitation of universities as a whole. And, of course, crabs.

Co-director and co-scriptwriter Fletcher Planert defends his passionate position, which inspired him to write the script in the first place.

“Considering the University is so pressed for money these days, it seems odd that we have a position dedicated to keeping people forever who may need to be re-evaluated,” Planert said, in reference to tenured professors. “It’s not a Queen’s problem; it’s a university, academia problem.”

Never one to be shy from controversy, Players started addressing hot-button issues like these earlier in the year with their collection of YouTube videos.

Amongst them is the infamous viral video I Go To Queen’s, which captures a satirical look at university

life in a spoof of the Everest commercials. The video has over 117,000 views on Youtube.

From a multimedia perspective, this is only the first step in the evolution of Players.

“It can be tempting to recreate the success of [I Go To Queen’s] but ... the only way to really tap into people is not to try, it’s to do what you believe in and hopefully it catches on,” Daniel Gold, media and marketing manager of the QP executive board said.

This year has seen several major changes for Queen’s Players, and Death Star is the truly unique final product. Combining characters from world-famous franchises including Batman, Harry Potter and Star Wars, this year’s winter show had a pre-written script rather than one written by the group as a whole. Cast and crew agree that there are many advantages.

“The comedy in the show is smart and hilarious,” Players alumnus Shelby Marco said.

“It’s cohesive and put-together, whereas other scripts were more vignette-like.”

Indeed the entire feel of Players differs from all shows in recent memory because more focus is put on producing a show that can be enjoyed by the sober and

inebriated alike.

“I hope people take away from the show that you don’t actually have to drink,” rookie cast member Patrick Downes said. “It’s a fun show, it’s a hilarious show ... you Logan Richard as Austin Powers and Chelsea Coulter don’t have to be hammered off as Medusa. your face to enjoy it.”

Beyond the script and drinking alterations, one noticeable improvement is the quality of the music overall. Vocal director Edward Larocque delivers arrangements one might not expect from a Players show.

“We were really looking for a song that worked best for the singer,” he said. “For the group numbers, we had two vocal rehearsals a week, each two hours long.”

The extra work is obvious: audiences can look forward to a mind-blowing acapella performance that serves as a highlight of the show and a moment which showcases both the individual talent and the cohesion of the multifaceted cast.

Players’ ’Til Death Star Do Us Part will conclude its run tonight and tomorrow at 8 p.m. at Time to Laugh Comedy Club. Tickets are $13.

‘Til Death Star Do Us Part features “All Star,” “Lady Marmalade” and “I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll.”

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Jarring faces

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Intimate Theatre presents artwork mixing the playful with the haunting B y A lyssa A shton Arts Editor Spending the afternoon inside Agnes Etherington Art Centre added a sinister feel to an otherwise beautiful day.

The gallery’s exhibit Intimate Theatre brings together six contemporary artists who play with the boundary between the fantastical and the disturbing.

Study for Diary for K #3 isn’t the first piece you see upon entering the gallery, but it dominates the exhibit. Sophie Jodoin’s charcoal work depicts K, a dwarf. Despite K’s small stature, her large portrait makes it seem like she’s peering down at you — watching as you move through the gallery.

Equally jarring is Ron Giii’s Untitled, which depicts a human resembling a Mr. Potato Head, with mismatched hands, arms and head. The creature is holding a long needle. It’s unclear. But the expressionless eyes of the creature make me sure I don’t want it near me with a sharp object.

Giii’s second piece in the exhibit is Snow in Beirut, depicting a

Interruption by Shary Boyle was made in 2006 out of polymer clay, paper, gouache and thread.

faceless person, whose head is just a blur of black. Strings are attached to the hands and feet. But is the puppet an innocent child’s toy or a devious means of control?

The exhibit constantly probes the question of whether the artwork is depicting good or evil. I continuously had to go back and study pieces again, each time leaving with the assurance that the piece was innocent before becoming disturbed a few minutes later.

It’s most clear in Shary Boyle’s Interruption. The clay figurines, seem like a child’s school project, but as you stare deeper and become entranced in the vortex of the tree stump you start to wonder what you’re seeing. The figurine carrying the small child becomes less motherly and more sinister.

Marcel Dzama’s three untitled pieces were the most unnerving to face. Dzama is known for creating strange hybrid creatures, like his piece in the exhibit that shows

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a woman-bear hybrid who is holding four guns — one in each paw — shooting at eight heads floating above.

Eleanor Bond’s The Cloudy Spectre of Detroit Hangs over Winnipeg is the only piece in the exhibit without a human depicted — yet this piece is the most personal. Bond created the piece to show her frightening fantasy of what Winnipeg’s proposed stadium complex would look like if it was built. The swirls of black and muddled purple create a morose scene, where no object is visible amongst the blur of colours.

While all the pieces balance innocent imaginary with the disturbing, there still doesn’t seem like an over-arching theme connecting the works together. One faceless person doesn’t connect to a free-falling head.

Intimate Theatre is at Agnes Etherington Art Centre until May 27 in the Frances K. Smith Gallery.

what starts to happen,” he said. He then records the song “to the beats of the visuals and its tempo.”

With 2011 came Aucoin’s latest endeavor, his first full-length album We’re All Dying to Live. While touring and travelling, he recorded material with over 500 different artists including Becky Ninkovic of You Say Party, Rae Spoon, Jenn Grant and Sloan’s Jay Ferguson.

A seeming logistical nightmare, he started by making a version of the record as a working blueprint.

“I had people play over what I made,” he said. “Then let changes, and feel change, based on what I was given to work with.”

With raw synth-pop and dripping dance electro calling to Daft Punk and The Flaming Lips, the album’s release party at the 2011 Halifax Pop Explosion is that of legend. Aucoin brought over 80 musicians onstage — a uniquely fitting production for someone who said he sees his role as an artist as offering “new views on the world.”

Given the rambunctious nature of his shows, it’s surprising Aucoin said he rarely takes the live setting into account when writing. Often sporting all white, he displays an organic ease on stage, constantly calling to attendees for interaction.

One doesn’t watch Aucoin perform, as much as become a performer oneself.

The bridge of his track “Are You Experiencing?” invites audience members to chant along, “when you give it all up, you get it back.”

“I wrote it specifically to be referring to the little prince’s relationship to the rose in The Little Prince,” he said. “Those lines can mean a lot of things but basically, you get what you give.”

Speaking with Aucoin solidifies him as more than a feel-good party partner. Hoping folks will leave his show tonight with “smiles, sweat and confetti in their hair,” his work speaks to the cathartic powers of camaraderie through music.

Rich Aucoin plays the Grad Club tonight with Writer’s Strike at 10 p.m.

Tickets are $15.

Rich Aucoin says he tries to “sleep in as long as possible to be ready for staying up until 3 or 4 a.m.” in preparation for a show.

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Willis had been impressed with Fautley’s progress halfway into the 2009-10 season — he had become the team’s starting left side hitter, improving every week while posting career-high numbers. But she knew her player wasn’t happy.

“A number of times he told me ‘I can’t deal with these guys,’” Willis said. “I asked him to help me understand.”

When the two finally sat down for a meeting, Fautley had no intention of revealing he was gay.

But 90 minutes later, the secret was out.

“Eventually, I finally just kind of broke it down and told her,” Fautley said. “There was no judgment, just simply ‘How do we fix it?’”

Willis encouraged Fautley to come out to his teammates — she knew her team’s thoughtless language was bothering Fautley and she was certain that openness would smooth over the problems.

“She was always adamant that I should come out because it would not be an issue,” Fautley said. “But in my head, that wasn’t the case.

“I stayed in the closet for the rest of my third year on the team, with just Brenda knowing,” he said.

“She tried to basically police the culture as much as she could as a coach … but locker room talk is beyond the coach’s control, so it wasn’t a big change at all.”

Now that Willis knew Fautley’s problems, she started making sense of his behavior.

“He had his ways of coping. He separated himself, he didn’t engage in conversation, he would put on his headset on the bus and be in his own space,” Willis said. “He was a little bit socially isolated, but it appeared to be his choice … at least that’s how it was perceived by the other guys.”

That season, Fautley helped the Gaels to an OUA gold medal and a national championship appearance,

Sports In April 2010, Bryan Fautley was so angry that he quit the men’s volleyball team. But that changed after he came out to his teammates.

earning a spot on the national were told.”

Fautley still wasn’t planning tournament all-star team for his play. But he still quit the team at the on returning to the Gaels, but a combination of events helped end of the season.

Willis suggested that if he was sway him. First, he attended the going to leave the team, he should Canadian national tryouts with teammates Zeeman, Michael at least tell his teammates why.

“I said ‘Maybe if you come Amoroso and Jackson Dakin.

“It was like, oh, we’re all of a out, maybe if you give the guys a chance to know the real Bryan sudden friends,” he said. “This Fautley, you might find it’s not so cloth has been lifted, the curtain’s been drawn, now I actually have bad,’” Willis said.

Fautley deliberated for a few this ability to form a friendship days. But, eventually, he and Willis with these people because there agreed that the coach would tell isn’t that elephant in the room that they didn’t know about.” certain players on his behalf.

Other than the national Willis first told Joren Zeeman, who had been Fautley’s teammate team tryout, Fautley didn’t play on a junior team prior to coming volleyball all summer. He missed it. Before returning to Queen’s for to Queen’s.

“The first thing he said to his fourth year, Fautley decided to me was ‘I’m just so happy rejoin to team. that you’re at a point in your *** life where you feel comfortable enough to express this and I’m so sorry if I said or did anything that In September 2010, Fautley would make you feel that I don’t returned to a completely different support or respect that,’” Fautley culture. The team had not only said. “We had a great conversation accepted his sexuality, but took a about it, and that type of incident genuine interest in him being gay.

“A 180-degree change doesn’t happened with almost every single guy on the team, once they even describe it … not only were

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homophobic slurs not being used, but guys were engaging in conversation with me about it,” he said. “It was a matter of ‘oh, Fautley’s gay and we’re interested in knowing how his life is different than ours.’”

According to Fautley, nothing was awkward, and no subject was off limits.

“Just like any two guys would have a conversation about their relationships, they would have it with me,” he said. “It was a complete inclusion rather than just an acknowledgement.”

Willis said that even though the team cleaned up their language, the real change came from Fautley himself.

“Once Bryan came out and people started being accepting and welcoming, he kind of took the headset off, he engaged in conversation,” Willis said. “He joked with them and became himself.

“His reality [during his first three years] was that he felt unwelcome, he felt attacked … his perception was ‘I don’t belong here,’” she said. “But his perception became

After experimenting with rowing and basketball, Anti Wesley-James has his sights set on the football team

Anti Wesley-James is stronger than every player on the football team.

But he can’t find a permanent spot on any varsity roster — the second-year student quit rowing team after first year and was cut from the basketball team in second year.

On Saturday, Wesley-James, PheKin ’14, won the football team’s bench press contest after completing 22 repetitions of 225 pounds.

Wesley-James’s bench-press score is particularly impressive because he weighs about 210 pounds. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ Mason Foster — who led NFL rookies in tackles this season — also scored 22 on the bench press, but weighs 245 pounds.

But Wesley-James, who works

out six times a week, said he could have done better.

“The most I’ve ever repped 225 is 28 times, [but] over Reading

Week, I was lifting and I actually tore my deltoid,” he said. “I guess I was pleased to win the competition, but at the same time, it’s not a

Anti Wesley-James hopes to play for the football team next season.

‘I do belong here, I’m a valuable member of this team.’”

The Gaels had another gay athlete in Fautley’s fourth season — rookie outside hitter Anthony Galonski. Fautley said he was thrilled to see how different Galonski’s first-year experience was from his own.

“It really was cool to see somebody not have to go through what I went through and experience sport regardless of bias and regardless of sexuality because he was talented at playing volleyball.” ***

There isn’t one openly gay athlete playing for a major professional team in North America. At Queen’s, Fautley says he doesn’t know another openly gay team athlete currently competing. He calls the sports world one “of the last frontiers in terms of the acceptance of sexual diversity.

“It’s the culture of team sport, period,” he said. “There’s no way of insulting a man’s masculinity more than that, and in sport, where it’s obviously so important to be masculine, they’re going to come hand-in-hand, these derogatory terms.”

Fautley said his teammates weren’t ever homophobic — they were simply products of an environment they had been part of for their entire athletic careers.

“Before they knew me, I would be very hard-pressed to know if they even knew another gay guy, personal best.”

Wesley-James credits his strength let alone a gay athlete,” he said. “So to eating the required amount of when you don’t have something See Football on page 17 tangible to connect two different things, when you don’t have a gay friend, you are so easily able to use derogatory language because it doesn’t affect you.

“There is absolutely no blame from me to the rest of the guys for using homophobic language and making me feel uncomfortable,” Fautley said. “I can only applaud them and respect them for not only acknowledging my homosexuality as a teammate, but to support it.”

Even though Fautley was sidelined with a back injury for much of his final two seasons, he said they were still the most memorable ones with the team.

“It’s a better culture,” he said.

“I would hope that I catalyzed a change in culture that will stay forever.”

Strong man on campus B y B enjamin D eans Assistant Sports Editor

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High hopes Coach plans for a better team next season B y G iLBeRT C OyLe Sports Editor

Men’s basketball head coach Stephan Barrie is shaking his roster up this summer.

After going 2-20 in his first season with the Gaels, Barrie told the Journal that certain existing players aren’t in his plans for next season.

“That was made very clear [to current players] at the beginning of this season,” he said. “They were on a one-year tryout and they all know that we’re going to do what it takes to move this program forward.”

Even though all 14 members of the team still have remaining eligibility, Barrie said he could bring in as many as six recruits in the next few weeks, adding that next year’s team will definitely be younger than this year’s.

“We’re going out and aggressively recruiting, trying to improve our talent base,” he said. “We’ll be able to score better, which was our biggest problem this year.

“Finding top high school players who can score is a priority for us.”

Barrie said this year’s squad struggled to cope with the loss of key players in leadership positions.

Veteran guards Dan Bannister, Chris Barrett and Timothy Boyle all graduated after last season.

“Those [players] had things we couldn’t replicate,” Barrie said. “We had guys filling in — second-year players

Stephan Barrie’s team went 2-20 this season.

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“Things can happen very fast who hadn’t had responsibility on in basketball because, unlike some their shoulders in the past.”

But Barrie said young players sports, one or two players can like guard Ryan Golden and make an enormous impact very forward Nikola Misljencevic quickly,” he said. “I don’t have gained invaluable experience this the expectation that this will be season. With the addition of several a one- or two-year thing, but the high-profile recruits, the coach is improvement has to be there.

“If we just keep chipping away confident the Gaels will be better every year and getting better next season.

“Some of the guys, in terms of … we feel confident that in a four- or leadership, will be moving into a five-year cycle we can be at the better place next season than they upper echelon of our league.”

Last summer, Barrie came in were in season one, having gone through [the losing season] and too late to pursue his own recruits. having learned from it,” he said. Early in the season, two rookies “We should be able to do some quit the team, leaving Barrie to things on the floor next year that find players in the intramural league. But he said the Gaels will we were not capable of this year.”

Queen’s Athletics hired Barrie have more stability heading into last April after evaluating 38 next season.

“There will be a group of applicants for the job. He spent the previous five seasons coaching guys staying [in Kingston] for the Western Mustangs women’s the summer,” he said. “If we’re bringing in a talented group of basketball team.

He said the Gaels made freshmen, the pressure increases strides throughout the for everyone.

“If you don’t do what you need season — in their last eight games, they won twice and lost four games to do in the summer, you’ll fall by fewer than 10 points. Barrie behind, and there will be new and said the goal next season will be to better players.” keep improving.

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Women’s volleyball leads power rankings Sports Editors Gilbert Coyle and Benjamin Deans decide which winter varsity teams impressed this season The Gaels capped off a Head coach Matt Holmberg disastrous first half of the season didn’t name a starting goalie for with a 10-1 loss to the Université the second straight season, splitting du Québec à Trois-Rivières time between Karissa Savage Patriotes in November. They and Mel Dodd-Moher. Even opened 2012 with six wins in nine though Savage is undecided about games to get back into the playoff returning, Dodd-Moher will be race, but slumped late in the back next season. season and lost in the first round of With the exception of Savage, the playoffs. every skater is returning. With The Gaels will lose six players a more experienced team, the this summer — including veteran women’s hockey team has potential captain Jon Lawrance — but they to make the OUA final next season. have a strong returning group.

Rookie forwards Corey — Gilbert Coyle Bureau and Tyler Moore and second-year winger Kelly Jackson 6. Men’s basketball — who combined for 30 goals this season — are all back. Defencemen The men’s basketball team can’t be Stellick, Stephane Chabot and faulted for its efforts, but it simply Patrick McEachen will be returning, wasn’t good enough to compete while Riley Whitlock — OUA East in the OUA East. With a new Goaltender of the Year and a CIS coach and an inexperienced roster, All-Canadian — is around for one the Gaels went 2-20, only beating supplied more year. the winless Royal Military College The women’s volleyball team won their first-ever Ontario championship after beating the Ottawa Head coach Brett Gibson signed Paladins late in the season.

Gee-Gees in the OUA final. a five-year contract extension on But head coach Stephan March 15, but he still hasn’t won Barrie said his team improved 1. Women’s volleyball 3. Women’s basketball Sport medal. a playoff series. It needs to happen throughout the season and will With fifth-years Dan Rosenbaum The women’s volleyball team and Bryan Fautley sitting out with The women’s basketball team had next season. be more competitive next year. defied all expectations to win its chronic injuries, the Gaels started contrasting storylines this season.

His coaching staff is aggressively — Gilbert Coyle recruiting top high school talent first-ever Ontario championship the season slowly, going 5-4 in Although fifth-year guard Brittany this season. their first nine games. But they Moore established herself as one and plans to overhaul the roster.

After the Ottawa Gee-Gees turned it around after the holiday of Queen’s best-ever players by 5. Women’s hockey The current squad can ended the Gaels’ playoff hopes break, finishing the regular season climbing to second-place in the take some positives from the last season in the 2010-11 OUA with a five-game straight-set OUA all-time scoring chart, the One year removed from a season. Second-year guard and quarter-finals, the Gaels lost OUA winning streak that included team failed to win a playoff game memorable playoff run that ended co-captain Ryan Golden played a East All-Stars Katie Matthews and a win over the first-place for the fifth straight season. with an Ontario title and a national team-high 31 minutes per game Lorna Button and brought in 12 Western Mustangs. They ended The Gaels improved on last bronze medal, the women’s hockey and will be the team’s leader rookies. Going into the season, the the regular season third in the season’s 7-15 record by finishing team failed to impress in 2011-12. next season.

Forward Mackenzie Simpson, a Journal predicted that the Gaels OUA with a 12-6 record.

12-10, good for fourth place in After a promising start, the The Gaels won their first the OUA East. But they lost a Gaels suffered a two-month third-year transfer student from wouldn’t make the playoffs.

The Gaels opened their two playoff games and beat the home-court first-round game to collapse that ended in a first-round St. Lawrence College, led the Gaels in scoring with 12.7 points per regular season with a loss to the Mustangs again in the final to win the fifth-place Ryerson Rams, a playoff loss.

Gee-Gees, but won three straight an OUA championship and secure team they beat twice in the The Gaels went 10-3-2 during game, while second-year forward to go 3-1. The team was 6-3 by the fifth seed for the eight-team regular season. the first half of the season. But Nikola Misljencevic averaged CIS tournament at the ARC earlier Christmas break.

Moore capped off a brilliant the team lost seven of its final 11.4 points per game and shot The Gaels met the Gee-Gees this month. career by averaging 17.2 points 11 regular-season games, including 42 per cent from three-point land In the quarter-final, the Gaels per game to finish with 1,652 a 7-0 home loss to the Wilfrid this season. a second time at the ARC on If 6’7 rookie centre John Lenz Jan. 27. Queen’s fell behind 2-1, upset the fourth-place Alberta career points. She scored over Laurier Golden Hawks. but came back to win 3-2. Head Golden Bears, securing Queen’s 10 points in all but two games, Even though they had can adjust to the physical nature coach Joely Christian-Macfarlane first-ever trip to the final four. shot over 40 per cent and earned first-round home-ice advantage in of the OUA, the Gaels should said the win over Ottawa was when But the Gaels lost their last two OUA first-team all-star status for the playoffs, they fell in three games rebound better than they did she realized her team was a serious last games to finish fourth at the the fourth time in her career. to the York Lions, dropping both this season.

CIS tournament.

The team’s biggest weakness OUA championship contender.

But the Gaels will struggle to games at the Memorial Centre.

The final two losses capped off an replace her scoring — nobody The team secured a home Despite a poor season, the this season was scoring. Barrie said playoff game after finishing era for the Gaels. After contending else averaged more than 10 points team boasted plenty of individual that although his team executed the regular season at third in for a national championship this per game this season. success — forward Morgan the offence well, they couldn’t the OUA with a 13-5 record. The season, head coach Brenda Willis’ Rookie wing Jenny Wright looks McHaffie recorded a league-best shoot the ball.

But he plans to bring in some Gaels won two playoff games goal is to make the OUA playoffs like a future star, having earned 38 points and was named OUA to set up an OUA final against next season — the Gaels only a place on the OUA all-rookie Player of the Year, forward Brittany recruits who can sink shots. If a the Gee-Gees in Ottawa, which return three players from their team after leading all rookies with McHaffie had 10 goals and 15 strong rookie class can contribute they won 3-1 to secure Queen’s starting lineup.

106 rebounds, and averaging 6.9 assists, defender Katie Duncan immediately, the Gaels will be a first-ever women’s volleyball points per game. Head coach Dave was an OUA second-team all-star playoff contender.

— Benjamin Deans Wilson said Wright could be an and rookie winger Taryn Pilon OUA championship.

— Gilbert Coyle Although the Gaels All-Canadian later in her career. scored 21 points to make the OUA lost two straight games at Although the Gaels need to all-rookie team. nationals — including a first-round replace Moore’s scoring prowess loss to the national-champion next season, Wilson said his University of British Columbia team will improve. This season, Thunderbirds — they still achieved they won 20 games (including incredible results this year. exhibition games) for the first time Next year, the team loses since 2003, and Wilson expects fourth-year OUA All-Stars more victories in 2012-13.

Natalie Gray and Becky Billings, but they’ve already proven their — Gilbert Coyle ability to overcome the loss of key veterans.

4. Men’s hockey — Benjamin Deans

2. Men’s volleyball With eight veteran players and a national tournament in Kingston, the men’s volleyball team was poised to make history this season.

They wound up winning a sixth OUA championship and achieving a fourth-place finish at nationals, journal file photo but missed out on their long-term All-Canadian goal — a Canadian Interuniversity Joren Zeeman in action.

The men’s hockey team finished eighth-place and made a first-round playoff exit because they couldn’t overcome a season-long injury bug.

At one point, nine players were sidelined. Forwards Payton Liske, Joey Derochie, Brock Ouellet, Jordan Mirwaldt and defenceman Robert Stellick missed large parts of the season, while backup goalie Steele de Fazio quit the team in The women’s hockey team disappointed with a November for personal reasons. first-round playoff loss.

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Eyes on football team Wesley-James joined the Queen’s rowing team in August food. He’s famous at Ban Righ 2010, but he barely lasted the cafeteria for the Anti Special — a season. He suffers from a knee Golden Gael burger with tomatoes, condition that gives him soreness no bun and no sauce. Wesley-James from repeated motion, like rowing. said he ate about 10 Anti Specials He had surgery on both knees in his extra year of high school. per day in first year.

“I had the freedom plan,” he said.

If I could play special “No flex, no meal plan equivalencies, none of that, but I could access the teams, I would caf as many times as I wanted.” be happy with Wesley-James started lifting that outcome for an weights in Grade 9. Having played intial go-around. basketball since Grade 4, he started playing football and — Anti Wesley-James, rowing in Grade 10 at Guelph PheKin ’14 Collegiate Vocational Institute.

In Grade 11, he did off-season “[My knees] were good at the workouts with the Guelph Gryphons varsity football team. start, but as the season progressed, Wesley-James spent his final two then with the cold weather, I got years of high school as the captain more and more sore,” he said, adding that he thought he’d quit at of the football team.

When he was 18, Wesley-James the start of October.

Wesley-James quit varsity was rowing with 25-year-olds. In his extra year of high school, he rowing after the season to was in talks with U.S. schools like pursue his long-term goal of Northeastern University and the playing university basketball. But University of Washington. But he he was cut from the team in decided on Queen’s — both his September 2011.

“I’m not a fantastic shooter and father and his brother had rowed they were looking for a shooter,” varsity as Gaels.

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he said. “I gave basketball a pretty serious shot and it didn’t work out.”

A few days after getting cut, he emailed football head coach Pat Sheahan about trying to join the football team and started indoor training with the team in January.

Wesley-James said he hopes to be a linebacker or a defensive lineman, but believes his odds of seeing playing time could be small, considering there are already players slotted for those positions.

“If I could play special teams, I would be happy with that outcome for an initial go-around,” he said.

Wesley-James said his overall athletic experience at Queen’s hasn’t gone as anticipated.

“The dream was to row and play basketball,” he said.

“Rowing, due to knees, didn’t work out and basketball didn’t work out due to skill reasons, but I’ve moved on ... With football, I’ve demonstrated a commitment.

“I have a lot of experience dealing with adversity now so maybe I’m a mentally tougher person because of that.”

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Cicada B Y S ARAH R OBERT ArtSci ‘14 Neil was lying on his futon, covers kicked off to one side, socks dangling from his toes. It was a few hours past midnight. The window was wide open but the curtains lay flat and still. Bugs made noises at one another just beyond the screen, arguing. The air in the room clung to his skin, pushing down on him with sweaty palms. Upstairs, in the cupboard above the sink, was a bottle of red codeine syrup. Neil thought about lifting it to his lips and sipping from it.

He heard footsteps on the stairs; she went, stopping and starting.

Neil held himself very still. The footsteps got louder as they came closer to his bedroom.

He wondered where she’d chosen. His mother had always been fond of San Diego. Although, she hated the heat of this summer; had spent most of it within the 10-metre radius of the electrical fan in the living room, drinking homemade lemon iced tea and reading paperbacks. She could be headed north.

She reached the bottom of the stairs. Neil heard her set her bag down beside her. It must’ve been the old brown leather one her mother had given her. He tried to picture the contents of the suitcase: her blue dress, the worn copy of The Secret Garden, the bracelet his father had given her, and her passport.

Neil rolled onto his back. He wished ardently for a ceiling fan.

He kicked his socks completely off his feet, kicked them off the futon as far away from him as he could.

The front door creaked. She should have oiled the hinges. Next he heard her open and close the trunk of the car — the red sedan.

She got into the car, shut the door.

She started the car. “You should have got the muffler looked at,”

he would have told her. He would have known to do things like that.

It was loud. She stepped on the gas pedal. He could see the headlights through his curtains.

Neil got up. He walked to the front of the house. He opened the screen door and stepped out onto the front porch. The humidity was palpable. He put one hand against a support and watched as his mother drove away, staring at the red of her receding brake lights as if making eye contact.

When Neil got up his father was standing at the window. He was looking outside but not at anything in particular; his face was freshly shaved but his lips were chapped. His posture seemed better than usual.

Neil passed him and walked into the kitchen. On the table was a cup of black coffee. He bent over and pulled a black frying pan out of the cupboard. He turned on the stove element and scooped some margarine onto the pan. He tapped the eggs on the edge of the kitchen counter, opening them, egg whites spilling over his fingers. He made four fried eggs, poking the yolks with his spatula until they broke. The sizzling of the eggs reminded him of the sound of cicadas. Neil thought about how he always heard cicadas but he never saw them. He knew they were supposed to be big.

He put two eggs on one plate and two on another and then put them down at opposite ends of the table. Neil’s dad came into the kitchen.

“Thank you,” he said to Neil.

He was wearing a white button-up shirt and black slacks.

Neil looked up. Neil was wearing only a pair of plaid boxer shorts.

“Did your mother go out to get the newspaper?” asked Neil’s dad. His cup of coffee had stopped

steaming. He picked up the mug and held it. He didn’t look at Neil as he spoke.

“I don’t think so,” said Neil.

“Oh. Where did she go?”

“I don’t know,” said Neil. “I didn’t ask.”

Neil’s father went to work. Neil had a job as a dishwasher but he had the day off.

Neil went outside, intent on finding a cicada. He took his bicycle out of the garage and he rode it down the street to a dollar store. Neil really liked riding a bicycle because he could feel his energy being translated into mechanical energy beneath him and it felt good that things could be simple. He leant his bicycle against a parking meter. He lived in a town where bikes sometimes got stolen, but not enough to care to remember bike locks.

The sizzling of the eggs reminded him of the sounds of cicadas.

Neil thought about how he always heard cicadas but he never saw them.

Neil went into the store. He walked down some aisles until he found a butterfly net. It was red.

He also found a Mason jar.

Neil walked to the cash register; he recognized the girl working the cash register from his high school but he didn’t know what her name was. She had a stud in her nose.

After the person buying candy left Neil put the net up on the counter along with the jar. He pulled out the folded $5 bill he had nestled in his back pocket and unfolded it and handed it to the girl.

“Do you know what a cicada looks like?” asked Neil.

“I think that they’re big and

maybe black and green,” said the girl.

“Have you ever seen one anywhere around here?” asked Neil.

“No, but you should look in the forest,” said the girl.

“Okay,” said Neil. “That’s where I was going to start anyways.”

“You should have looked it up on the Internet,” said the girl.

Neil took the change that the girl was holding out.

“I wasn’t thinking about it,” said Neil. “It was spontaneous.”

Neil tucked the butterfly net under his arm and walked out of the store. His bike was still where he had left it, leaning against the meter. He picked it up. It was hard riding a bike with a butterfly net and a Mason jar and a couple of times he almost dropped one, or both, on his way to the forest.

Neil dismounted and propped his bicycle against a tree. There was a dirt trail leading in. He walked into the forest. Neil wandered around. He walked further and further into the trees. Occasionally he would rest a hand on one of their trunks.

He could hear insects and birds in the forest. He saw a blackbird and a bunch of mayflies but no cicadas. He also saw a stream with tadpoles swimming near the rocks.

He took his shoes off and stood in the middle of the stream for a few minutes. His feet were cool but the rest of his body revolted against the heat.

The sun started to get lower in the sky but still no cicadas. Neil was just starting to think he would quit when he found one, big as his fist, sitting on a tree. It seemed larger than Neil had conceived cicadas to be. Neil whipped down the net around the cicada. The cicada just sat on the tree. Neil pushed it off the tree with his net. The cicada sat in the bottom of the net. Neil reached his hand inside and pulled

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out the cicada. The cicada was still not moving much; it seemed alive but full of ennui.

Neil unscrewed the top of the Mason jar and deposited the cicada inside. He paused and then bent over, picking up a few leaves and twigs, placing them in.

He began to walk back in the direction he thought he had come in, looking out for the stream he had stood in. He held the jarred cicada out in front of him.

“My mother left last night,” Neil told the cicada. “My dad hasn’t realized it yet, I don’t think. He will soon, though. She’s left before — twice. Once she disappeared for two months and the other time it was about six months. She just walked back in the door. My dad likes her a lot. I’m okay when she leaves — I mean, after the first time — but it’s him I worry about.

He just shuts down. He’s a pretty quiet man as it is but when she’s gone he’s dead silent.”

Neil came to the stream he’d seen before and headed left. “I imagine she just goes to places she likes. And you can’t talk to her about it — you have to pretend she never left, or she’ll do the same shut down that dad does. … He’s just so grateful to see her back.”

Neil walked out of the forest.

His bike was still against the tree.

“I understand. It’s okay. I cook, I clean. I do my own laundry and dad’s laundry. And I know she’ll be back; she’ll just walk back in the door.”

Neil sighed. He looked up for the moon but it was somewhere he couldn’t see. Finally, it was just a little bit cooler. He tucked the butterfly net in his armpit and picked up the bicycle with one hand. His hands trembled slightly.

He got onto the bicycle and then scraped the back of his heel on the metal teeth of the pedal. Neil winced and rode to the side of the asphalt. He stopped to wait for a car to go by.

As he got ready to ride across the road, Neil dropped the jar. The jar shattered. The cicada, in a fit of pique, shook off the shards of glass with his wings and flew away.

The cicada made a noise that Neil could only describe as the sound of the sky meeting the highway at the horizon in the middle of August.

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FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2012