The Queen's Journal, Issue 5

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Nick Day

Rector resignation planned since April B y K atherine Fernandez -B lance News Editor Though Nick Day resigned from his post as rector on Sept. 1, the decision to resign was made with administrators in April.

A few weeks after he sent a controversial letter to Michael Ignatieff in March, Day said he received an email from University administrators. He said Principal Daniel Woolf emailed him on behalf of Chancellor David Dodge and Chair of the Board of Trustees Bill Young. “[Woolf] said, ‘I’ve had a meeting with these two guys, and I speak on behalf of them all in saying you should resign,’” Day, MA ’12, said.

Principal Woolf declined to comment to the Journal.

Day said during the aftermath of sending the letter to Ignatieff, Woolf forwarded him several emails which made reference to

the situation.

“University councilors and board members and wealthy alum, as [Woolf] put it, were emailing to demand what was being done about this ‘anti-Semite’ rector,” Day said.

Despite the vocal group who called for his resignation, Day said he had a growing number of supporters.

“There were [organizations] who had written and prepared all of these letters,” he said, adding that groups offered him their support to defend public discourse.

Day said this growing movement posed difficulty for those in the administration who were eager for his removal.

“These kind of actors don’t know what to do because they don’t work on principles, they work on the one principle of bureaucratic management,” Day said. “What you ended up with was the Principal, despite his earlier

bluster, became unwilling to take decisive action.”

Day said Woolf was under pressure from University Council and the Board of Trustees to remove Day from office. In April, Day said he met with Woolf and University Secretary Georgina Moore.

“Essentially, in the interest of not going to another round of national media back and forth, I said ‘You as an institution have no right to take

action on this,’” Day said.

The position of rector is elected by both graduate and undergraduate students.

Day said that in the meeting, Moore became flustered and told him he was in the wrong and would have to go.

Because of the administration’s outcry, Day said he had little choice but to leave Queen’s. “[I said] I’m moving on from here anyways, spare the fucking

circus and don’t make the mistake of trying to organize an oust, and this will go away eventually,” he said.

Day said Woolf accepted his offer to resign and set a mid-August deadline for Day’s resignation.

“He said ‘Given that you intend for your own reasons that you’re done with the job … I will tell the Board of Trustees and University Council simply that it’s dealt with,” See Day on page 2

Frosh Week

Security a focus Grease Pole event concentrates on safety B y C atherine O wsik Assistant News Editor

alumni donations if we stopped running the pole,” Chaudhry said, adding that such a loss couldn’t Evolving safety concerns with the be quantified.

A logistical change this year annual Grease Pole have meant changes in the logistics of the event. was that students did not have the “No specific safety concern option to drive themselves to the increased, our definition of safety off-campus site.

“Giving out parking passes, has just changed,” said Ross Chaudhry, director of professional giving people instructions to the development for the Engineering pole site and organizing parking at the location was very difficult,” he Society (EngSoc).

As of last year, the event is limited said. “We don’t have a parking lot to those in the Faculty of Engineering and the land itself is uneven.”

The event has evolved since and Applied Science.UpperPhoto by Justin Chin year students must go through it first began in 1956 but has Upper-year Engineering students dive into the pit to splash the frosh surrounding the pole. mandatory training if they want remained an important part of the Engineering Frosh Week, to attend.

“We were restricting the number Chaudhry said. of people that could come to the “[The Grease Pole] is one of the Grease Pole as a whole,” Chaudhry, things that the Engineering Society is fighting the hardest for,” he Sci ’12, said.

Limiting attendance was said.“The unity of the Engineering a collective safety decision faculty as a whole is solidified at the made in meetings with Queen’s Grease Pole.”

The last serious injury at the event administration and EngSoc. “If that means we can continue occurred in 2008 when a Sci ’12 having the Grease Pole next year student was treated in an ambulance Night in tackling The original then that’s a decision I support,” for dehydration. the life roller derby twilight “It inherently can be a dangerous he said.

Despite size limitations, alumni event, but it’s been planned really Features gets a glimpse Postscript enters the world Review of The Mystery of continue to return to the event well,” Chaudhry said, adding that into Kingston taxi driving. of roller derby.

Irma Vep. the most common injuries are each year. page 3 page 19 page 12 “I’m sure we would see less See EngSoc on page 4

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TechNoLoGy

Queen’s BlackBerry use inspires application Entrepreneurs develop new application to bridge the gap between social networking and BlackBerry Messenger B y M eaGhan wray Assistant News Editor Two entrepreneurs from Queen’s have partnered to create the Blackberry application Lynked.

Launched today, it combines social networking with Blackberry Messenger (BBM).

Michael La Fleur, Lynked creator, and Dhynanesh Chaudhari, MEng ’12, have spent the past four months spearheading the project.

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We’re not storing a lot of information of our users.

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—Michael la Fleur, creator of Lynked La Fleur said the development of the application has a local focus.

The team is using a strategy similar to Facebook, which started among Harvard students.

“We’re really focusing on Kingston and Queen’s for the app and trying to grow it here and seeing if it’ll take off in other areas of the world,” La Fleur said.

Lynked is free and can be found

c o r r e Aleen Pangka’s name was spelled the Journal.

The Journal regrets the error.

online with Blackberry App World. All we store is email, name and Once downloaded, it connects PINs,” Chaudhari said. “Anything with a user’s Facebook account. else is temporarily grabbed From here, the user can search for from Facebook.”

La Fleur, who was a part-time people based on email, location, gender and name. Similar to the student at Queen’s last year, came ‘People You May Know’ feature on up with this idea last summer Facebook, Lynked will offer users after recognizing the popularity suggestions on who to add to a of BlackBerry among Queen’s students. He contacted Computer BBM contact list.

La Fleur said one of the project’s downfalls is that it will depend on critical mass to be successful. In order for it to link two users, both must have installed the application. In the future, La Continued from page 1 Fleur said the team may look into a similar application for Android he said. “He wanted to make sure phones, but currently their main that I had tendered my intent to focus is the BlackBerry. resign early.”

“We have limited resources so Though Day resigned, he said we have to pick and choose our he felt bullied out of the position. battles,” La Fleur said.

“They were forced to use tactics Instead of notifying friends of intimidation, and just a level and contacts of a BBM PIN of harassment that only a nutcase change, users can simply change would want to stay,” he said. their PIN on Lynked, which will “Who wants to continue to work inform friends who also have the on committees … when a vocal application. To appeal to privacy minority of a thousand have tried issues, PINs are not made public. so hard to harass you.”

“We’re not storing a lot of Moore said Day wasn’t information of our users. We’re pressured out of his position. not storing anything we don’t need.

“He was elected to the position of rector, therefore it’s his c t i o N responsibility to either fulfill that incorrectly in the Sept. 9 issue of position or step down from it,” Moore said. “Those are the ground rules and that’s what happened.”

Moore confirmed that she met with Day and Woolf in April before

Science professors before finding Chaudhari and agreeing to partner together.

La Fleur cannot predict whether Lynked will go viral in a week or take months to become popular, he said, adding that there’s no sign of immediate financial gain. It cost the team $1,500 to create, but took hundreds of hours of labour.

“There may be some monetary value down the line but we’re not in this really to make a boatload of money,” La Fleur said. “We can just only hope people will use it and see value in the service we’re trying to provide.”

—With files from Katherine Fernandez-Blance

Day said he felt pushed out Day left for the summer.

“He talked about his position,” she said. “He felt that he probably could not continue.”

Moore said her understanding was that Day intended to resign.

She said she didn’t tell Day to resign in this meeting.

“My recollection is that he said, ‘I will find it very difficult to continue in this position,’ ” she said.

“So, a logical step from that would be ‘Well if you can’t do it then you have to step down.’ ” Moore said Day had wanted the conversation they had that day to remain private.

“It was not to be shared with others,” she said.

Following the meeting, Woolf told University Council and Board of Trustees that the situation “would be resolved in some way,” Moore said.

Though Moore said the

University received emails from people which questioned the follow-up to Day’s actions, she said she didn’t forward any of these emails to Day. Moore said it was understood that Day would resign in the summer, and that by August the University would expect to hear that he was stepping down.

“I got an email from the Principal saying that he’d accepted Nick’s resignation as of Aug. 31,” she said.

Moore said she didn’t know what would have happened if Day had decided to stay at the University.

“I don’t think [his resignation] was that much of a surprise, I mean it was his decision. Obviously he had to make a decision,” she said.

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Taxing nights behind the wheel Kingston taxi driver Mordeen Bondett opens up about her nights on the road B y Terra -A nn A rnone Features Editor Mordeen Bondett said her worst experience as a Kingston taxi driver was with a Queen’s student last year.

“He told me that I was just a servant,” the seven-year Amey’s taxi veteran said. “He told me that he judged a person by what they did for a living and what I did for a living wasn’t respectable.”

The mother of two teared up and turned away from me as she spoke.

“Maybe I shouldn’t talk about this,” she said. “All I’ll say is that at that time, two of our drivers had PhDs.” Bondett, who works the 4 p.m. to 4 a.m. shift, let me ride along with her on Saturday night.

Her car had a surveillance camera installed on the windshield five years ago after studies in Winnipeg and Chicago found that video surveillance was the most successful method for taxi driver protection.

you “haveOccasionally students who

forget we’re human beings too.

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—Mordeen Bondett, Kingston taxi driver

The cameras, which run about $1,700 each, take a picture of customers as they step in the cab and will record video if the driver touches an emergency button beside the steering wheel.

“I was personally against this in the beginning,” she said. “I didn’t want my children to see me attacked or killed on camera.”

Her outlook changed after a night-time encounter with two men.

Seventy per cent of Amey’s taxis have video cameras installed on the windshield.

“One was wearing a zip-up black sweater in the middle of summer and it tipped me off that something might be wrong,” she said.

Bondett watched in the rear-view mirror as the man unzipped his sweater and reached into the breast pocket.

Before she could turn the camera on, the other man said, “I don’t want to do anything that will land me back in jail.”

The customers asked Bondett to stop the car, paid their fare and left.

“Now I’m glad we have the cameras because our customers are aware of them and behave differently,” Bondett said.

When the emergency button is pressed and the surveillance camera is activated, a Global Positioning System (GPS) tracks the driver’s whereabouts and sends all available taxis to their aid.

She said people are often concerned about a woman driving alone at night.

“You can be afraid of the daylight too,” Bondett said.

In 2007, Amey’s driver David Krick was stabbed to death inside his cab at 7 a.m.

“I can’t begin to imagine,” she said. “I just have to keep myself strong and alert.”

Taxi fares are standardized by the Kingston Taxi Commission, with current rates at $2.85 for the first 77 metres of travel and $0.10 for every 77 metres after that.

Amey’s taxi owns 20 per cent of their fleet, with the remaining cars owned privately by drivers.

Bondett doesn’t own the cab she drives.

Drivers who don’t own their own cars make 42 per cent commission off fares. Cab owners bring 100 per cent of fare money home.

“Many students don’t realize that a good portion of our income depends on tips,” she said. “Some of the drivers resent the fact that students don’t tip as well.”

Bondett averages $2 to $5 in

Taxi driver Mordeen Bondett says that many students ask her and her co-workers if they’re ex-convicts.

photo by justin chin

tips per ride.

“I find that most students are friendly, polite and grateful,” she said. “But occasionally you have students who forget we’re human beings too.”

Bondett keeps plastic bags, bandaids, Kleenex and gum in her car for customers.

“I stock up on plastic bags during Frosh Week and Homecoming,” she said. “That’s when most people vomit.”

When someone vomits in a cab, a driver can clean it themselves and continue with their shift or send it in for cleaning and forego a night’s wages. Clean-up incurs an $80 charge for the passenger.

“I’m impressed with students who bring their own plastic bags,” Bondett said.

The Kleenex is mainly for students coming back from the train station after a holiday at home, Bondett said.

“I can go through a number of Kleenex boxes, especially after Thanksgiving,” she said. “That’s

when all the breakups happen.”

Bondett said she’s noticed differences between Queen’s students and students from Royal Military College and St. Lawrence College.

“I find the university students, maybe because they’re here longer, feel like the city is more their’s,” she said. “Whereas the college students are here for shorter periods and act more like guests.

“I always try to treat customers the way I would want my children treated,” she said.

Bondett is asked frequently if she is an ex-convict by students during Frosh Week.

“It’s a rumour that runs rampant,” she said. “There is no taxi driver in Kingston that is an ex-con.”

The Kingston Taxi Commission mandates that all drivers undergo a criminal record check through the Canadian Police Information Centre.

I always try to treat “customers the way I would want my children treated. ” —Mordeen Bondett, Kingston taxi driver

Bondett works a 12-hour shift five times a week.

“I do it so that I can eat,” she said. “But if you’re out here for 12 hours at a time, enjoying your job really helps — and I do.”

Having a bad night — usually one involving vomit, an unpaid fare or mistreatment — can take a toll on drivers, Bondett said.

“One bad customer takes two [good customers] to erase it from your mind,” she said. “One to show you that they’re not all bad and another to wash away the hurt.”

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EngSoc tradition protected Continued from page 1

scrapes, mud in ears and shortness of breath. All of these issues can be treated by Queen’s First Aid (QFA) members on site.

Student Constables, QFA Lifeguards, experienced engineering students that make up the Water Team, Kingston Police

and two ambulances are also on site.

Any Queen’s affiliated organizations at the event receive Grease Pole training sessions prior to the event.

During the Highland Games, a frosh event traditionally held the day before Grease Pole, first-year Engineering students

POLE POINTS • The pole is hand-greased with lanolin. It’s ingestible and very difficult to remove.

• The tam is nailed down onto the top of the pole.

• The current classified location of the event is reasonably permanent as far as the Engineering Society is concerned, said Ross Chaudry, EngSoc director of professional development. The field is owned and insured by Queen’s.

• Calling ‘break’ is one of the main safety features at the event. Once the word is yelled, the climb must stop as it means someone in the pit needs a rest or assistance.

• If participants or spectators need a break, there are two school busses on site designated as warming buses.

• Students may only climb the pole if there’s an ambulance present. With two on site, the climb may continue if one is needed to drive a participant to a hospital.

The climb: • Approximately 10 rings of students link arms around the base of the pole.

• Outer students push against these rings directly towards the pole. If they push off center, the rings will twist and break.

• The next two tiers are made by students who climb on top and link arms in rings.

• The fourth level is the Tam Frosh, usually standing on last year’s Tam Frosh.

attend a session where they learn what the event is and how to climb the pole.

“Frosh alone can’t climb it,” Chaudhry said. “After a certain amount of time, which varies from year to year, they let the upper-years in. And they let the upper-years in year by year.”

The shorter the climb time the safer the event is, Chaudhry said, adding that there have been discussions about the amount of time Frosh should be alone in the pit.

“We don’t want the pole climb to take too long,” he said. “As people get more fatigued there’s a higher chance of injury.”

Since the implemented changes, not only has the event become safer than in previous years but climb times have dropped.

On Sept. 10, the Applied Science and Engineering class of 2015 took two hours, nine minutes and six seconds to climb to the top of the pole and secure the tam. They beat last year’s record of two hours, 18 minutes and 2 9 seconds.

After climbing over three tiers of students, Mike Powell, Sci ’15, pulled down the tam on his first attempt.

Weighing 145 lbs with a height of 6’5, Powell said he was approached to be Tam Frosh during training.

“Of course I said yes because it’s a great honour,” he said. “I didn’t really do much, it was mostly the people below me holding me up. I stood on their faces a bit.”

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Queen’s ranked in top 150 universities

Three Queen’s PhD candidates are among Queen’s placed 144th out of 150 in the 2011 this year’s group of more than 150 Canadian QS World University ranking system. graduate students to be awarded a $50,000 The annual ranking surveys employers Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship. and academics.

The scholarships are awarded annually by Out of 200 universities worldwide, the federal government.

Queen’s is the sixth-ranked Canadian postDianna Lanteigne, PhD ’15, will use the secondary institution scholarship to continue her research on Queen’s scored high for reputation, adolescent emotional development. international faculty, social sciences and Krystle Maki, PhD ’14, will continue management offerings and citations her research on the relationship between per faculty. surveillance and Ontario Works, a social assistance program.

—Meaghan Wray Andreas Reichelt, who came from Vienna, Austria to work on her project, will continue investigating the intricacies of human New funding for interactions and social cues through Queen’s cancer research Cognition and Action Laboratory.

The winners were selected based on The Ontario Institute for Cancer Research leadership skills and scholastic achievement. recently announced a new $12.6 million High Impact Clinical Trials (HICT) —Darienne Lancaster program at Queen’s aimed at improving cancer treatments.

“The HICT program has been designed to evaluate innovative technologies that Professor becomes fellow will lead to more personalized, targeted Geography professor Audrey Kobayashi was medicines that are more effective and less given the title of fellow of the Royal Society toxic,” Dr. Janet Dancey, HICT program of Canada (RSC). director, said.

The RSC endorses Canadian culture, The program will primarily be counsels governments and organizations and investigating rare tumour treatments with supports research in the natural and social its Rare Tumour Clinical Trials Initiative, a sciences. Kobayashi studies racism, gender partnership between the Ontario Institute and spatial theory to look at how these for Cancer Research, pharmaceutical correlate with changes in homes, streets company Pfizer Canada and the and workplaces.

Queen’s-based National Cancer Institute of Also elected to the RSC were Queen’s Canada’s Clinical Trials Group. alumni Ian Dowbiggin, MA ’77 and James Rutka, Med ’81.

—Darienne Lancaster -—Meaghan Wray

QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY FOOD ADVISORY COMMITTEE CALL FOR MEMBERSHIP The vacancy is for a student Member-at-Large position, to be selected by the committee from those responding to this call for membership.

Appointed members shall serve for a one-year renewable term. The committee is anxious to attain full representation. While the time commitment is not substantial (the committee generally meets once per month for about one hour at noon), it is an essential part of the stakeholder feedback and consultation. If you are interested in the student member-at-large position or if you wish further information, please contact Maureen Hamilton at 533-6000 extension 74553 by October 3, 2011. __________________________________________________________ The current representatives of the committee are: Executive Director, Housing and Hospitality Services AMS SGPS Queen’s CUPE Local QUSA QUFA JDUC MCRC JRHC Vacant Member-at-Large (student) Vacant Member-at-Large (student) Vacant Member-at-Large (student) The Queen’s University Food Committee is mandated to advise the Executive Director of Housing and Hospitality Services on matters pertaining to policies and directions of food services at Queen’s.

Outlets falling under the auspices of the committee include Residence Dining Halls, Residence Convenience Stores, Mackintosh-Corry, The Sidewalk Café, Botterell Hall Bistro, Bio-Sciences Complex and the vending.

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Grey House

Poor housekeeping T

he safe space in the Grey House, a place that caters to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered and Questioning (LGBTQ) students, is at risk.

The impending evictions of the Levana Gender Advocacy Centre, Kingston Ontario Public Interest Research Group (OPIRG) and the Education on Queer Issues Project (EQuIP) are concerning. With no alternative options available for their operations, the groups should be allowed to stay.

Last year’s AMS executive enacted a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) at the end of their term in April 2011, identifying the Grey House groups’ unique place on campus. Sticking to official policy, the current members of the AMS’s Space Allocation Committee have directly contradicted this.

The situation speaks to an inherent problem of the single-year turnover of many AMS positions and the need to build upon the work of years prior. Policy needs to be applied with a soft hand, especially when guarantees have been made by former AMS executive members.

The Space Allocation Committee has suggested

that EQuIP, which is an AMS committee and therefore ineligible for Grey House space, be moved.

One possibility is the Social Issues Commission office but this fails to provide the atmosphere that the Grey House is known for.

Because the three Grey House groups often work so closely together, it stands to reason that they should maintain their proximity to one another.

It’s not solely the AMS’s fault.

Levana and OPIRG were informed

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The wise choice would be to keep the space for now and work to change the policy in“ the future.

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Mental matters A

Frosh Week focus on mental about mental health, including health isn’t something unique symptoms, causes and how to Queen’s, according to a Sept. 9 conditions are treated. Equipping them with this information will article from the Globe and Mail.

At the University of Western enable them to seek help should Ontario, former Barenaked Ladies the need ever arise.

Professional help needs to be front man Steven Page discussed the importance of on-campus made available to those who need it. support for mental health. The There’s a level of confidentiality and University of Alberta offered first skill that cannot be found outside years a tour of available mental a professional.

As it currently stands, Health, health services.

Queen’s has expanded mental Counselling and Disability Services health resources this fall, added the (HCDS) is underequipped to deal Peer Support Centre to the annual with the magnitude of students’ frosh tour of Kingston and has mental health needs. HCDS continued involvement with the deserves more funding and staff so that students don’t doubt the Jack Project.

Campus counseling services availability of resources.

While Frosh Week changes are reporting higher instances of depression, loneliness and anxiety mark small steps to ensure a each year, causing universities to act. healthy mental state for those Coming to university in on campus, it’s important to an unfamiliar town, leaving a keep in mind that the problem comfortable home and situation is ongoing.

The overwhelming anxiety can be a jarring experience. The effect can be detrimental for a experienced when an extension isn’t granted or penalties are student’s mental wellness.

Mental health is still a relatively applied to a grade is something university students new field and one that is commonly many misunderstood or stigmatized. One have experienced.

Sometimes students of the best ways to ameliorate professors have the situation is to maintain a and relationships. conversation on the subject and adversarial continue to push the boundary Transitioning to a relationship of mutual understanding rather than of understanding.

People need to talk about preserving the rigid rules in place their struggles with mental health would be a helpful step towards earnestly and without shame. improving the general stress It’s the only way the issue will on campus.

Mental health is impacting the be normalized.

In tandem with personal stories, lives of students more and more. students need to be exposed to It’s only appropriate the community effective and factual information be prepared.

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of the need to re-ratify as AMS Students (SGPS) and the University clubs in order to maintain their are the joint administrators of space but the groups have yet to the building. comply. The AMS even pushed That said, the lack of AMS back the deadline for re-ratification. consultation with the SGPS on the These groups don’t necessarily impending evictions is problematic. want to associate themselves with The space is not for the AMS to the AMS, but if they want to keep run alone. their spaces in the Grey House, The Grey House is an this will have to change. When a invaluable resource for those who simple re-ratification will solve the feel marginalized on campus and issue, the wise choice would be to in the community, so it needs to keep the space for now and work be preserved. Both sides need to to change the policy in the future. negotiate and do what’s best for After decades in the Grey students. Whether it’s through House, there seems to be a sense re-ratification or policy change, we of entitlement to the space, despite want to see Levana, OPIRG and the fact that the AMS, the Society EQuIP remain in the Grey House. of Graduate and Professional

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Good riddance Gosselin

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hen it was announced that Kate Gosselin’s reality show, Kate Plus 8, had finally been cancelled by TLC, I was relieved by the news. Gosselin turned this once lovable show about the chaos of raising twins and sextuplets into a 30-minute whine about her struggles as a single mother.

Quite frankly, the show needed to end because Gosselin doesn’t deserve the public’s attention or concern. She isn’t your average single mother and media attention on her is only serving to skew the hardships of real working moms.

The cover of People this week was a reminder that Gosselin hasn’t left the public eye quite yet. The headline read, “Kate’s Uncertain Future: Will Her Kids Be Okay.” In the article, Gosselin moans, “that she’s freaking out. Big time.”

My gut reaction to this was one of confusion — are we supposed to feel badly for Gosselin?

I understand that it can be scary facing the world without a job as a

single mother. But Gosselin is far from the norm. She’s been made wealthy by her television show and the intense media attention that’s sprung from it.

If Gosselin was like most single mothers, she would have been saving every penny she could to get through the inevitable rough times. She has faced rough times before when the sextuplets were born and her then-husband lost his job. Past struggles should have taught her to save.

But, she hasn’t been saving. She gets hair extensions that likely cost thousands of dollars. Her show gave her endless freebies, including a trip to Australia and New Zealand earlier this year.

To me, this doesn’t sound like a struggling single mom who deserves our sympathy.

She admits to People that she’s determined to continue to give her children the lavish lifestyle they’ve become accustomed to, including a $1 million mansion and private schools.

Yet they spend time at their father’s bachelor apartment, which he affords off a construction worker’s paycheque. They will adjust.

Gosselin isn’t worried about her kids; she’s worried about losing the lavish lifestyle she adores.

She wants our pity. How could TLC expect her to go back to nursing after being a star? But, in my opinion there are people more deserving of our concern, like the everyday single moms who are just making ends meet and could use a little help.

These are moms who deserve our respect and assistance, not a reality show drama queen who has overstayed her welcome.

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DIALOGUE

Perspectives from the Queen’s community

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Creating unnecessary fear weakens our defense against terrorist attacks as sparse financial resources are directed to projects that don’t necessarily increase our security.

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Are we safer after 9/11?

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How is your first day of class?

Significant improvements have been made in the past 10 years but efforts need to be focused on real threats

E lizabeth K ellett

A nthony S eaboyer Since the terrorist attacks committed on Sept. 11, 2001, our perception of security has changed in many ways.

Have the lessons we learned made us safer? When are we safe?

Safe from what?

Post-9/11, we’re accustomed to the risk of terror being constantly indicated on a multi-colour chart, with red high and green low — much like we are used to being informed of the fire risks in national parks.

The warning of potential terrorist attacks has become a daily part of life.

With the lessons learned since 9/11, if we define security as the absence of violence, we can say: “Yes, we are safer.” Implementing attacks like those committed on 9/11 is more difficult.

In Canada, interagency cooperation between the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), RCMP, local police and other security institutions has been improved following Air India Report recommendations and lessons learned in the past.

Cooperation with security institutions outside Canada also intensified.

Physical upgrades such as cockpit security and tight passenger controls in the Air Traffic industry have made the hijacking of passenger aircraft much more challenging. Border security measures have also tightened.

These significant improvements make us safer.

But safer from what? They

make us safer from the kinds of attacks we have seen so far and can therefore prepare for.

But as security forces adapt to new forms of terrorism, terrorists invent new forms of attacks. These are difficult to anticipate and they specifically aim at bypassing our security systems. Despite plans for further attacks, evident in Bin Laden’s documents, the survivors of 9/11 have mourned in peace.

We have reason to hope this demonstrates that Al Qaeda is weaker today.

But should the absence of violence include freedom from fear? It’s a question that we asked during the nuclear confrontation of the Cold War and stopped asking for about a decade.

If we should expect to be free of fear, we’re much less safe than before 9/11. We’re more aware of the risks, and the bombings in London and Madrid show that our concern is justified. Our security institutions deserve high praise for preventing more incidents than we will ever know, but the fear remains.

There have always been people with an interest in emphasizing our natural fears: sometimes politicians rallying to the flag, sometimes journalists looking for drama, sometimes those who benefit from the millions spent on security.

There will always be people to tell us how serious a threat we face.

But is our awareness of danger being raised unnecessarily by those with an interest in fear? Are risks being sold to us as threats?

Unfortunately, we have learned that not only aircraft can be hijacked. The concept of national security is vulnerable to hijacking.

Political and economic interests are served in the name of national security. These interests not only waste tax money but also leave us with a false sense of security, weaken our position and consequently make us less safe than we were before 9/11.

We need to differentiate between risks and threats. We cannot prevent every potential risk

“It’s great to be back.”

Sarah Pappas, ArtSci ’13

Increased airport security worldwide has contributed to longer lines at airports since the 9/11 attacks.

from materializing into an attack, and we don’t need to.

We need to concentrate on the existing threats. Creating unnecessary fear weakens our defense against terrorist attacks as sparse financial resources are directed to projects that don’t necessarily increase our security.

Constant terror threat warnings lose their effect as we take them less seriously. Those engaged in dramatizing the risks of terrorist attacks have made us less safe.

Contrary to our intentions, some of our strategies in the “war on terror” have also made us less safe. Torture, inhumane conditions and unfair detention in prisons like Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay have radicalized many ordinary citizens in the Muslim World.

We have contributed to a perception of the West that is fuelled by horrific experiences motivating revenge. In addition, a significantly increasing divide between the extremely poor and the wealthy and the many double standards in the international political system have increased the animosities.

What we may accept as necessary “collateral damage” in our wars sends ripples of shock through grieving families — far

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more families than are mourning at ground zero. Radicalization and terrorist recruitment are the byproducts of our bombs on villages where not everyone was an enemy. To reduce our casualties in distant wars, we may be sowing the seeds of hate in those who will attack our families in the future.

The latest budget cuts show us that our level of effort is unsustainable. How can we meet the challenge with decreasing budgets and high costs for natural catastrophes we see as the result of climate change, to maintain our level of security and adapt to new security challenges?

Yes, significant improvements have been introduced, but in order to really be safer we need to concentrate our efforts on the real threats to national security and avoid the political use of fear to follow hidden agendas.

Anthony Seaboyer is a researcher at the Queen’s Centre for International and Defence Policy (CIDP) and director of the Centre for Security, Armed Forces and Society (CSAFS) at the Royal Military College of Canada.

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Letters to the editors AMS perspectives on Grey House issue Re: “Grey House groups face removal” (September 9, 2011).

Dear Editors, I am writing to address multiple concerns regarding the present occupants of 51 Bader Lane (the Grey House), as detailed in Friday’s issue of the Journal. Specifically, I would like to dispel numerous misrepresentations from former AMS President Safiah Chowdhury.

Ms. Chowdhury commented

that AMS policy must be applied “with some flexibility,” but she simultaneously encourages stringent adherence to a document that was found to be illegitimate.

She seems to be confusing her administration’s failure to enforce longstanding policies as “flexibility.”

Chowdhury further expects the AMS to follow her example by extending an offer of unlimited and unconditional use of AMS space resources to the Ontario Public Interest Research Group (OPIRG), the Levana Gender Advocacy Centre, and “others.” If she had believed in the importance of this contract, she should have brought

it to the respective student-elected bodies and secured their support.

Instead, it was signed on Saturday, April 30, and the only elected officials aware of the contract were the signatories.

Her claim that the application of current policy is being used “against” the occupying groups and is not “in the best interest of students” is an irresponsible assumption of the Space Allocation Committee’s motives.

The committee is responsible for allocating space in Student Life Centre (SLC) buildings on the basis of demonstrable utilization.

However, due to the continued

refusal of OPIRG and the Levana made for these organizations Gender Advocacy Centre to ratify throughout the summer, including as AMS clubs and apply for space, emails, phone calls and personal it was never possible to consider visits by AMS staff members the organizations for an allocation imploring the groups to continue or a renewal of the space they had their association with the Society. been previously assigned.

We were told by the directors of In order to equitably apply policy, both organizations that they would the committee allocates space based need time to evaluate the merits solely on submitted proposals; to of AMS affiliation (though our exempt any organization from this records clearly show that OPIRG process would constitute an abuse has historically re-ratified as an of power.

AMS club without contest and in a Nonetheless, we understand timely fashion). Extensions to the that different organizations have ratification deadline were granted different needs, and have worked accordingly, but specific concerns to accommodate these however See about on page 8 possible. Accommodations were

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about the ratification process were never expressed by the groups. all aMs actions and correspondence relating to this issue have fulfilled the mission statement of serving and representing the diversity of students at Queen’s, and to contravene the policies set in place by student representatives would be an affront to this effort.

Craig Draeger AMS Clubs Manager Chair of the AMS Space Allocation Committee

re: “Fighting for Grey house” (september 9, 2011). dear editors, I am writing in response to Fraser MacPherson’s and Kym nacita’s opinion piece in Friday’s issue of the Journal.

First, it is a mischaracterisation to say that the ontario Public Interest research Group (oPIrG) and the Levana Gender advocacy Centre are being “evicted” from 51 Bader Lane. the Grey house is a University-owned building that is administered by the aMs, sGPs and University. oPIrG and the Levana Gender advocacy Centre have never owned the space, and have always operated there in agreement with those bodies.

When they chose to end their relationship with the aMs, the directors of those two organizations elected to relinquish their access to aMs resources, and made this decision on behalf of their members and those who use their

services. By refusing to affiliate with the aMs, they do not meet our eligibility requirements for occupancy in aMs space: exclusive, shared or joint. they have recently tried to resurrect a demonstrably invalid agreement, and then refused to recognize the basis of its invalidity. the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was not “rendered invalid by september,” but was invalid from its conception, as was clearly communicated to the organizations a number of months ago.

MacPherson and nacita accuse the aMs of lacking accountability, but the leadership of these organizations have failed to be accountable to their membership by making the unilateral decision to not re-ratify as aMs clubs. the aMs extended multiple deadlines in order to accommodate oPIrG’s and the Levana Gender advocacy Centre’s consensusbased decision-making models, but these deadlines were ignored by both organizations — an action which is in itself a dedicated refusal to re-ratify. the most recent extension was offered to oPIrG in order to accommodate their aGM on aug. 4. this meeting was rescheduled — something that was not communicated to the aMs—but they did inform us that the issue of maintaining this space was never even addressed at that meeting. the space allocation Committee and the aMs as a whole have dedicated an immense amount of time to seeking a resolution with these organizations. our efforts have been received poorly and if there are factors that have influenced the action of these

of the organizations within it — in fact, the education on Queer Issues Project (eQuIP), an aMs committee, is being moved to a physically accessible space so that it may better fulfill its mandate. any claims that this effort “shows a disregard for marginalized students,” deny the importance of queer resources to persons with (dis)abilities. this move comes after years of requests to create accessible space for eQuIP. I would also like to address the Mark Preston proposed correlation between the AMS Commissioner of historic nature of the building and Internal Affairs its ability to house “human rights” initiatives. the ontario Public Interest research Group (oPIrG) and the Levana Gender advocacy re: “Groups say space has Centre serve and work with student historic importance” (september communities, which are inherently transitional and subject to change 9, 2011). and evolution. this loss of space was dear editors, precipitated by the leadership of I would like to respond to some oPIrG and the Levana Gender views expressed in Friday’s issue advocacy Centre, and no one else. of the Journal. the individuals they were given every opportunity quoted seemed to presume that to maintain the space that they the current activities housed in 51 claim to cherish. I wonder: if the Bader Lane cannot be replicated space is so historically important, elsewhere due to the safe, queer why did these organizations end and historic nature of the their affiliation with the aMs, knowing that it would end their building itself.

First, the idea that 51 Bader occupancy of aMs space? Why Lane is the only space on campus didn’t these two organizations that is sufficiently safe to house re-ratify as aMs clubs? one reason that has been the activities therein denies the opportunity for radical, structural vaguely referred to is that these change within our campus two organizations serve groups community. this claim that the outside of the undergraduate building is the “only queer space student body. however, aMs on campus” is an insult to the affiliation does not handcuff a commendable efforts being made group to undergraduates. the throughout the University to create sexual health resource Centre safe and queer spaces and resources. and students for Literacy are only the building itself is not two examples of organizations that uniquely suited to serve the needs enjoy the benefits of aMs resources organizations that led them to end their affiliation with the aMs then those reasons have not been clearly communicated.

My hope is that this letter will add clarity to the on-going ‘Grey house’ issue. a resolution to this process is still attainable and will require both oPIrG and the Levana Gender advocacy Centre to work with the aMs on the issues of re-ratification and subsequent space allocation.

Tuesday, sepTember 13, 2011 while working far beyond the undergraduate student body. the “save the Grey house” website also references “consistently unclear” communication, but there are records of the aMs Clubs Manager describing the need to re-ratify, the specific benefits of re-ratification, the repercussions of a failure to re-ratify and the exact process to re-ratify. how is this unclear? there has never been any disagreement that oPIrG and the Levana Gender advocacy Centre are important on this campus. the leadership of these organizations could have demonstrated this importance by ratifying and applying for space. no ratification or space application was ever received by either group; therefore, the decision to relinquish space was made by the groups themselves, and not by space allocation Committee.

Gillian Shields AMS Student Centre Officer

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New frosh on the block Journal photographers Justin Chin, Asad Chishti and Corey Lablans were all over campus and Kingston to capture Frosh Week 2011

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Play Review

Lady Arts and a vamp The King’s Town Players bring to life a haunted manor B y J essica F ishbein Postscript Editor Resist the urge to whisper questions to your neighbour during The Mystery of Irma Vep, as constant confusion is as much a part of the production as humour and playfulness.

Despite the unexplained forays from Victorian mansions to ancient Egypt, the King’s Town Players’ production of The Mystery of Irma Vep has no shortage of laughs.

The Mystery of Irma Vep was the personal choice for director Amie Elizabeth Bello after another play fell through for the company.

She said she fell in love with the play 10 years ago and it was her mission to one day direct it.

Written by Charles Ludlam, the play originally premiered in New

In order to gain the rights to The Mystery of Irma Vep, King’s Town Players promised to use only two actors. The stipulation guarantees that the actors are cross-dressing.

York in 1984.

The two-act play chronicles the supernatural happenings at Lord Edgar’s manor. His deceased wife, Irma Vep, mysteriously died and now her presence at the mansion is tormenting Lord Edgar’s new wife, Lady Enid.

The play is solely carried by two male actors, Clayton Garrett and Steven Spencer, who play all seven characters, ranging from 19th century women to vampires.

The two actors show no fear of physical comedy, dueling with

fake flowers and morphing into werewolves without warning.

Garrett and Spencer need to be applauded for their courage in this production. It’s not surprising that each actor required two dressers to help them seamlessly slip from character to character in seconds.

Lady Enid’s stupefied expressions to the mischief around her are particularly amusing.

Spencer’s comedic timing when playing Enid is spot on.

To investigate what happened to Irma Vep, the characters take

unexpected detours into Egypt and the world of the supernatural to look for explanations. At moments all these plots twists are confusing and leave audience members wondering how they ended up in an Egyptian crypt. But ultimately over-the-top duels and impressive tricks with fire and blood distract from any plot chaos.

Convocation Hall serves as a personal setting. Even when performed as a run through just hours after moving into the space, it was extremely impressive. A wide

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array of props ranging from regal Victorian couches and bookcases to Egyptian mummies and tombs, help create a convincing series of sets. This travel from country to country occurs swiftly thanks to a hardworking crew of volunteers.

The Mystery of Irma Vep opens today until Saturday at 8 p.m. in Convocation Hall. Tickets are available at the Grand Theatre and are $20 for adults and $17 for students and seniors.

Art Preview

A tapestry tale Kingston artist Rebecca Soudant works through the nausea and joys of her pregnacy in A Tapestry of Birth B y C aitlin C hoi Assistant Arts Editor Most pregnant women spend the months leading up to their child’s birth decorating the nursery and getting extra sleep. Kingston artist Rebecca Soudant didn’t stop working. She documented everything from her morning sickness to her fears of a miscarriage on a 35-foot tapestry.

Soudant’s A Tapestry of Birth, on display at Union Gallery, records her pregnancy with her first child, Anna.

I was going to have “twins and one died, so I was set on a path of worry right from the start.

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—Rebecca Soudant, artist of A Tapestry of Birth

The turquoise background and red thread cursive detail give the tapestry an innocent feel. A witch on a broom lends to the childish appeal, while a rich floral pattern keeps the story flowing from one scene to the next.

Soudant normally works in oil paint and welding, but tapestry

allowed her to work without exposing her unborn child to toxins.

She sewed every stitch by hand — a Photo by Asad Chishti seven-month project starting when Rebecca Soudant’s husband created the metal-scrolling device that kept her tapestry intact.

Soudant was five months pregnant.

“My husband and stepson took photos of me and I took photos Interview of them, role-playing the scenes for my tapestry,” Soudant said. “You can only imagine how many laughs we had trying to re-enact emotions A new after the fact.

Peninsula “It was these photos Experimental-rock band that I worked from for the Bruce Peninsula bring their tapestry scenes.” anything-goes mentality to The most moving scene is Kingston on Sept. 22.

Soudant lying in a hospital bed after having a miscarriage.

“I was going to have twins and recruited their newest member B y A ndrew S tokes Skank with one died, so I was set on a path Jasmin Parker, after the band’s Editorials Editor the Smashers of worry right from the start,” keyboardist and backup vocalist she said.

Debra-Jean Creelman decided to Vancouver-based quintet Mother The Journal learns what to Soudant said images of burning Mother is coming to Kingston with leave the band in 2008. Before expect from the new album clocks symbolize going into labour a new roster and a new album. joining Mother Mother, Parker from the Planet Smashers. and her inability to keep track They’re playing a sold out show was Guldemond’s hair dresser. He The ska punk band has of her contractions. The scene tonight at the Mansion in support asked her to belt out some tunes been off the radar where she’s falling documents her of their newest album Eureka, and while giving him a trim. since 2007. father’s concerns about the baby then continuing across the country “I was blown away,” he said. “It being baptized. The most clear for a leg of their tour. was a real quiet day without anyone Guest Room scenes are of Soudant throwing The band is touring Canadian else in the salon, so nobody needed Next weekend the up into a bucket, while struggling universities including stops in to feel embarrassed or anything,” Screening Room introduces with extreme nausea in the Victoria, Guelph and a mystery he said. “At that point she’d been a new guest speaker first trimester. campus for TD’s Pump it cutting my hair for years, so we initiative. Wendy Huot Soudant said she uses images Up contest. were both pretty comfortable with gives an update on what of needles to recalls the H1N1 Guldemond sings, plays guitar, each other.” fans can expect. outbreak during her pregnancy. writes songs and even produced Guldemond said it was an See Nesting on page 14 the latest album. He personally See Pop on page 14

Coming up

Lyrical epiphanies

Mother Mother’s frontman Ryan Guldemond talks to the Journal about haircuts, animal inspiration and Oscar snubs

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The Dales beat From Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift hits to playing her own set, Julia Dales is beatboxing to the top B y l aBiBa h aQUe Production Manager Julia Dales music career has seen appearances on the Ellen DeGeneres show, MTV and CBC’s The National. She got her musical start making YouTube videos in her Victoria Hall residence room at Queen’s.

Dales will return to Kingston tomorrow to open for Jeremy Fisher at the Mansion.

“I’m really excited to come back and play. I actually wrote a song while I was at Queen’s,” she said.

She has never performed her own show as a Queen’s student. Her earlier performances featured beatboxing versions of popular songs by Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift and MC Hammer.

She said she started writing her own songs at Queen’s in her residence room.

“It was nice to kind of have my own place to write music,” she said.

After her first year at Queen’s in 2009, Dales decided to take a break from school to pursue her music career.

She spent her summer recording, but she has no definite plans for an album. Dales is giving out free live CDs during shows and providing free web downloads.

She’s steadily built up her set by adding a loop pedal, which allows her to beatbox and sing during her performances.

“Before this year I honestly didn’t ever play my own songs,” Dales said. “So with the loop pedal and me being able to beatbox and sing, it’s pretty much a new set this year.”

Dales’ live set usually features original songs, beatboxing and crowd requests.

“I like to make my shows more intimate and give the crowds a say in what they’ll hear.”

Julia Dales plays the Mansion tomorrow at 9 p.m., opening for Jeremy Fisher.

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easy decision to welcome her into the fold.

“I knew she had good work ethic and was punctual, because she was never late for the haircuts,” he added.

Guldemond shares singing duties with keyboardist and sister Molly.

“Molly has really evolved as a synth player, as a synthesist,” Guldemond said. “It’s brought a flanking keyboard quality to the band’s sound.”

On working together with his sister, he provided a balanced perspective.

that was my big “foray into Hollywood.

I was pretty much perfect for the part.”

—Ryan Guldemond, frontman of Mother Mother “We definitely have some tumultuous energies, but what pair of siblings doesn’t,” he said. “On the flip side there’s a lot of love and compatibility there.

“Now I just couldn’t imagine being in a band without her, it’s just really become the norm. It’s hard to know how to properly describe its rarity when in fact it feels so

The lead single on Eureka, “The Stand,” was written by Ryan Guldemond to pass the time while in transit.

common and natural to me.”

The band’s growth is felt on Eureka, where melodies are fleshed out by the extra key-work. On songs like “Chasing it Down,” the synthesist’s switching between a church organ and a sharp grand piano is indispensable.

It’s these powerful riffs that inspired the album’s cover, a roaring lion’s head bursting through a technicolor backdrop.

Animal heads proved to be a theme in Mother Mother’s album art. The first album Touch Up features a five-headed rooster.

Their sophomore album O My Heart has a fish, hooked through the lip. “[The rooster] is confident and zany, and also has barnyard connotations. Our earlier sound was very earthy and countrified in its eccentricities,” Guldemond said.

Each head signals a change in mood. “[The fish head] is a bit morose, and there’re some confessional

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elements to it, some ‘kill me now’ quality,” he said.

The band is checking out studios and writing material for a fourth LP. But, a busy tour and album plans haven’t kept Guldemond from exploring other artistic avenues.

Guldemond had a small role as a band member in the 2010 adult comedy Hot Tub Time Machine.

“That was my big foray into Hollywood. I was pretty much perfect for the part, so it was a no brainer,” he said.

While there was no Oscar nomination, Guldemond assuredly stated he was otherwise rewarded.

“I definitely won a Grammy,” he joked.

While they may not always tell the truth, Mother Mother can certainly be depended on for a distinctive edgy pop rock sound.

Mother Mother plays the Mansion tonight at 7 p.m.

“I was worried about the vaccine, taking the vaccine,” Soudant said.

“There was much more pressure but with little information.

“Many people asked if it was an heirloom and it was never meant to be that,” she said.

“Maybe,now, with the ending so positive, I’d consider it more of a family keepsake but still, not

really. It was always more meant to be informative. I’m more focused and happy with the outcome and a beautiful girl that we have then what the tapestry is.”

A Tapestry of Birth opens today in the Project Room of Union Gallery and will run until Oct. 28. A joint reception with Agnes McPhail’s CRYBABY will be held on Sept. 30 from 7 to 9 p.m.

Rebecca Soudant is now pregnant with her second child and is working on another embroidery.

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Still no touch downs Offence only scores six points in loss to Ottawa Gee-Gees B y B enjamin D eans Assistant Sports Editor The football team’s offensive drought continued in Ottawa on Saturday in a 19-6 loss to the Ottawa Gee-Gees.

The Gaels’ six points came from a field goal, a safety and a touchback. After two games this season, the team hasn’t scored photo by corey lablans a touchdown.

In his second start at quarterback, first-year quarterback Billy McPhee threw for 208 yards, an improvement on his 152-yard performance last weekend against the McMaster Marauders.

“I still haven’t put the ball in the end zone yet,” McPhee said, “but I’m definitely feeling more De Boer carried her play into comfortable every day.”

Sunday’s game against Trent. She scored the game-winning goal in There were a couple

sports Winger Riley Filion runs past an Ottawa Gee-Gees defender during the Gaels’ 1-0 win on Saturday.

women’s soccer

Gaels finally overcome Ottawa

The women’s soccer team beat rivals Ottawa University to kickstart a perfect weekend B y E mily L owe Contributor The women’s soccer team opened their first weekend at home in Richardson Staidum with a set of victories, beating the Ottawa Gee-Gees 1-0 on Saturday and the Trent Excalibur 2-1 on Sunday.

It was the Gaels’ first win against the Gee-Gees since 2009 and it came despite being outplayed in the first half. The visitors outshot the Gaels 6-2 in the opening 45 minutes, but goalkeeper Chantel Marson registered a shutout. Striker Jackie Tessier scored on a penalty in the second half to give the Gaels the win.

seamlessly for Shaw on Saturday, helping defense post a shutout against the Gee-Gees.

“It’s been a bit nerve-wracking,”

De Boer said of her debut this weekend. “The exhibition games definitely helped me get familiar with the position.”

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defence and we paid for it.

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—Stephen Laporte, linebacker

The game slipped away from the Gaels when the Gee-Gees scored two touchdowns in the second quarter to take a 16-4 lead into halftime.

Linebacker Stephen Laporte, who led the Gaels with eight tackles, said that the defence played well but was hurt by key mistakes.

“There were a couple blown coverages on defence and we paid for it,” he said.

The defence struggled to contain Ottawa’s rushing game, with Gee-Gees running back Brendan Gillanders posting 161 yards.

Head coach Pat Sheahan said the Gaels’ five offside penalties proved costly for the team and indicated a lack of focus.

It was a tough win, “Ottawa’s always a really tough team. ” —Jackie Tessier, women’s soccer forward Tessier said Marson’s play in net helped ease the team’s nerves.

“You can concentrate on fixing things on the field without having to be nervous about anything going on back there,” said Tessier.

Saturday’s match-up against the Gee-Gees was an early chance to see two OUA East teams renew last season’s rivalry. Ottawa finished three points behind Queen’s last season despite winning both games against the Gaels.

Tessier said last season’s losses to the Gee-Gees was motivation for Satruday’s game.

“It was a tough win, Ottawa’s always a really tough team,” Tessier said. “We obviously had trouble with them last year [...] but when we had an opportunity with that penalty shot, we put it away.”

The women’s team entered weekend play without a couple important players. Defender Brie Shaw damaged her quadricep the FISU games in August and Angela Sullivan is sitting out with a concussion. These injuries have forced head coach Dave McDowell to rely on depth players. Rookie defender Jessie De Boer filled in

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Inside Rookie Bronwyn Corrigan kicked for three conversions in the Gaels’ win.

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women’s rugby

Rugby wins with team effort A cohesive Gaels team cruised to victory over Trent University B y A nand S rivastava Staff Writer

Corrigan wasn’t the only young was absolutely perfect,” Barz said. player leading the Gaels’ attack. “Even in between some of the Wingers Sarah Pathak and Natalie non-scoring areas the phases Six different players scored tries in Poirier, both second-years, found looked really good. We’ve got a the women’s rugby team’s 38-22 the score sheet with a try each. few things to fix defensively but win over the Trent Excalibur on Head coach Beth Barz said she nothing that’s not fixable, which Saturday at Richardson Stadium. was pleased to see her team’s high is great.”

Rookie Bronwyn Corrigan led the level of teamwork and interplay so The Gaels had several team with six points by kicking for early in the season. fourth-year veterans graduate after three conversions.

“Everything was going right, it See Heald on page 18

vanier Cup QB returns Former Gael Danny Brannagan returned to the men’s football team for training camp last month. page 16

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Gaels blow out Blues The men’s rugby team opened their season with a 71-0 win on Saturday B y l ABiBA H AQUE Production Manager The men’s rugby team won their season opener with a dramatic margin, beating the University of Toronto Varsity Blues 71-0 on Saturday at Tindall Field. 11 different players scored tries in the game.

Captain and outside centre Dan Moor led the team with one try and seven conversions while 8-man Dylan McTavish scored two tries.

Garry Gilks is the Gaels’ interim coach while head coach Peter Huigenbos is in New Zealand as a Team Canada coach.

Gilks said the game shouldn’t be used to

Dan Moor runs with the ball during the Gaels’ win on Saturday.

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men’s soccer

Defence dulls Excalibur Men’s soccer posts a second straight shutout B y d ylAn H ABEr Contributor With only three returning defenders from 2010, there was uncertainty surrounding the men’s soccer team’s defence. But the back line posted a second consecutive shutout in the Gaels’ 3-0 win over the Trent Excalibur at Richardson Stadium on Sunday. Peter Christidis, Mac Ojiaku and Nick Pateras scored for the Gaels.

The Gaels have yet to allow a goal this season. On Wednesday, the Gaels opened their season with a 2-0 win over the Carleton Ravens. Injured defenders Matt Kenny and Robert Lannan weren’t available against the Excalibur, bumping rookie defender Marco d’Elia into his first OUA appearance.

“We’re so solid right now,” second-year defender David Tom said. “We looked pretty

good against Carleton and we looked pretty good today.”

The Gaels have been dedicating a portion of their practice time to defensive training, which focuses on keeping a solid positional shape. Tom said this training has helped the team perform well in their opening games.

“We spend a lot of time on it and it’s pretty boring,” said Tom. “But it really helps a lot in the game and no one is really getting through.”

Although the Gaels are undefeated to start the season, head coach Chris Gencarelli said there’s still room for improvement.

“I thought that we got too comfortable in the last 15 minutes,” Gencarelli said after Sunday’s game. “We can’t be too complacent.”

The Gaels play the 0-2 Royal Military College Paladins on Friday.

predict the Gaels’ success this season.

“We are looking forward to the next two weeks where we will be tested much harder,” he said. “That’s where I can assess where we are at and where we have to go.”

We are looking forward to “the next two weeks. ” —Garry Gilks, interim head coach Moor said Saturday’s game was just the first step of the season.

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QB looks sharper Continued from page 15

Sheahan, who is also the team’s offensive coordinator, said he thought McPhee showed improvement on Saturday.

He made more plays in week two than he did in week one,” Sheahan said. “There’s still some things to work on, but you have to understand that in your first time starting, there’s going to be a lot of first-time situations.”

The team plays the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks at home next weekend. Last year, the Golden Hawks went 4-4 and beat the Gaels 44-23 during the regular season.

“We’re a desperate team that needs a win,” Sheahan said.

“Winning is the only elixir that can sort of erase things and get you back on track.”

2009 Vanier Cup MVP Danny Brannagan worked with Billy McPhee.

The Gaels failed to register a touchdown against the Ottawa Gee-Gees on Saturday.

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CFL playing time in the fourth quarter of an Argonauts loss to the Montreal Alouettes in Nov. 2010.

Former quarterback Danny He was the first Canadian QB to Brannagan was back at Queen’s throw a pass in a regular season during training camp in August game in 14 years.

Brannagan said he hoped to as a guest coach, where he worked closely with Gaels’ starter earn the backup quarterback position for his second season with Billy McPhee.

“I learned more about how the Argos, but a wrist injury on his to have a professional attitude throwing arm during training camp towards football,” McPhee hurt his chances.

“I wasn’t able to practice and said. “[Brannagan]’s played at a professional level and that going into the [preseason], I wasn’t experience is very helpful to share 100 per cent,” he said.

The Burlington-native will with a young team.”

Brannagan was cut from the start work as an accountant Canadian Football League’s at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Toronto Argonauts in June Hamilton this fall — a job he following the team’s training camp. put on hold to pursue a pro The Argonauts signed Brannagan football career.

Brannagan said he’s thankful for in 2010 after the quarterback led the Gaels to a Vanier Cup victory the professional opportunity.

“I think it was a great learning in 2009. His 10,714 career passing yards are the second-most in experience,” Brannagan said. “I had some fun, I got to meet a lot CIS history.

McPhee said it’s important of nice people and have some good for current Gaels to remain memories that I’m taking away connected with players from that from it.”

While his professional career championship team.

“Being a guy who wasn’t there may be over, Brannagan said he for the Vanier Cup, it helps to hear hopes to keep football in his life.

“I think eventually I’d like to what it takes to get to the top,” get into coaching at some level,” McPhee said.

Until June, Brannagan was he said. “Maybe it’s high school, on the team’s practice squad as a maybe it’s university or maybe it’s third-string quarterback. He saw just little kids’ football.”

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Rookies score big goals Continued from page 15

the 2-1 win. Rookie striker Brianna Burton scored in a 2-1 win.

After falling behind early, Burton evened the score at the end of the first half. This was Burton’s first action of the season. She said she was thrilled with her contribution.

“The girls on this team are great and they always include us,” Burton said. “But to get an important goal makes us feel even more like a part of the team.”

McDowell said he wasn’t impressed with his team’s play this weekend. He said there were problems in both games that need to be addressed.

“We need to be more solid in terms of our focus for 90 minutes” he said. “It became very apparent this weekend that [our focus] is not quite good enough.”

The Gaels have a five-day break before playing the Royal Military College Paladins on Friday at Richardson Stadium. McDowell said practices this week will focus on basic skills.

“Defensively our ball winning has not been good,” he said. “Until we get it straight it’s difficult to On Saturday, Jackie Tessier scored the winning goal win games.” on a penalty shot at Richardson Stadium.

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last season but Barz said there was no drop in the team’s play with the younger lineup.

“We had every confidence in the players that were on the field today to execute like the ones who left,” she said. “They certainly filled the shoes very well.”

Captain and scrum-half Susan Heald said the main concern going into the season was how young players could adjust to contributing roles. She said she was happy to see the team come together as a unit so quickly.

Our team motto this “year is Never enough.”

— Susan Heald, captain

Winger Natalie Poirier takes down Trent Excalibur player Caleigh Harris during Saturday’s game.

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Heald said the team would take the win as a stepping-stone towards improving their results from last year, where they finished 2nd in the OUA and 5th at the CIS championships.

“Our motto this year is ‘Never enough,’” she said. “I think that we can all agree that even though we made it to nationals last year we want to do better.”

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successful preseason road trip to New Hampshire last week, where they beat Dartmouth College and Dartmouth University. Moor said the trip had off-field benefits.

“We decided to camp and cook meals together as a team for two nights,” Moor said. “It was definitely a bonding experience.”

Fans watch the men’s rugby team play at Tindall field on Saturday.

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Members of the Kingston Roller Derby Girls League practice in the Memorial Centre for their game last Friday.

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Full-contact feminism Over 50 women in Kingston head to the Memorial Centre twice a week for roller derby practice B y J essica F ishbein Postscript Editor

officially founded in 2010.

The league has two teams: the designated home team, Sinderollas, If I ever met an Emily Carr Crash, and designated away team, Scarlett O’Hurtya or Whore Crux the Disloyalists.

“In 2008, the interest was still on the street, I’d probably run the really keen,” Archibald-Cross other way.

In reality though, the members said, adding that by then, there of the Kingston Roller Derby Girls was information available about League are nothing like their alter insurance, venues and how to deal with injuries. egos suggest.

More experienced leagues Roller derby is more than just a unique form of skating. helped the Kingston Derby Girls It’s an active lifestyle based on get insurance with the Canadian Women’s Roller Derby Association camaraderie between women.

Kate Archibald-Cross, who (CWRDA) when they started, plays with the Derby Girls under Archibald-Cross said.

Initially, volunteer paramedics the pseudonym Skate at Home Mom, said the sport has had a were on hand for every practice but now that the team is more profound impact on her life.

“It doesn’t matter what you experienced, there’s an assigned look like or what your job is,” first aid skater to deal with Archibald-Cross said. “People any injuries.

While the league only needed have a different persona on the track. It’s a full contact sport that 20 girls to form a team, 66 joined.

“We just had these cheesy little celebrates femininity. It’s exciting flyers,” Archibald-Cross said. and empowering.”

Print advertising and word of Archibald-Cross heard about roller derby soon after the birth of mouth attracted the attention of women in Kingston, she said. her first child.

“The sport becomes an addiction “I read an article about derby pursued,” Archibaldin Texas around 2005,” she once said, adding that the presence of Cross said.

Roller derby demands an a strong female team dynamic intense time commitment of its initially grabbed her interest.

“People were really interested participants, who range from in having a league here, but stay-at-home moms to nurses it was a lot of work to get it and teachers. Two hour practices going – getting insurance, finding a run twice a week between March and September. place to practice.”

“My family is very understanding The Kingston league was

and supportive,” Archibald-Cross athletic background.

A 66 year-old skater — who said. “It’s like my third child.”

The Derby Girls use referees Archibald-Cross said is the oldest to closely monitor any action on player in Canada — continues to play with the Derby Girls. the rink.

Even though the Disloyalists lost While designated jammers knock or check players to pass 102-108 to the GTA Rollergirls on them and score points, violent Friday, Archibald-Cross said she’s actions like tripping and elbowing still proud of her team.

“We played hard and I’m happy result in players being sent to the about how well the team came penalty box.

“It is strictly regulated and we together,” she said. have a huge rulebook.

“You can’t just punch someone ules of in the face,” she said. “You’ll be penalized or kicked out.”

Players It’s not premeditated attacks • Two teams, each composed from opposing players that cause of five female players, battle injury in roller derby. It’s usually each other on an oval rink. falls on the track.

• Each team has one jammer Archibald-Cross said the worst who wears a helmet injury she ever witnessed was a player falling the wrong way and decorated with stars. She breaking their lower leg. scores a point for every Roller derby has origins tracing opposing player she passes. back to the 1930s and has since The goal is for a jammer to became a globally-recognized sport. score as many points “Earlier it was more of a spectacle. as possible.

It wasn’t as regulated,” Archibald• The other four players on Cross said, adding this meant it each team are blockers, who was dangerous but exciting.

Today, roller derby can block or check jammers to participants play under the rules stop them from scoring. The set by the Women’s Flat Track blocker with the striped helmet Derby Association. is the pivot and sets the pace of Archibald-Cross said the sport the pack.

is simple.

“It’s totally grassroots and do Structure it yourself,” she said, adding that • The game is played in two she and many other players in the league don’t come from an

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The Disloyalists have started preparations for their November game in Brantford.

Archibald-Cross said she continues to be impressed by what her team has to offer.

“I love how well the team came together. We’ve come a long way.”

The Kingston Derby Girls will take on the Belle City Roller Girls in Brantford on Nov. 12.

the game 30-minute periods and points are scored during two-minute jams. Blockers line up to form the pack and jammers stand behind them on the jammer line. After one whistle, the pack starts racing and after two whistles the jammers start racing.

• The first jammer to make it through the pack is in the lead and can stop the two-minute jam at any point by tapping her hands on her hips.

Penalties • Tripping, elbowing and shoving lead to penalties. Four minor penalties equal one major penalty, which causes the offending player to be sent to the penalty box.

Skating with the Derby Girls Hearing that roller derby is a fullcontact sport alarmed me. Clearly not yet ready for the ruthless competition of a game, I decided to participate in a practice with roller derby enthusiasts at the Memorial Centre.

In order to join a practice, I was required to sign a waiver that explicitly warned me of the serious impacts the sport

could have on my physical and mental health.

But really, who’d let the risk of serious injury or death get in the way of adventure?

Violence is banned but sass and aggression are not only condoned, they’re encouraged. I was surprised that when I looked around me at the women with multicoloured mouth guards and

helmets, I felt an undeniable sense of community.

I didn’t know these women. But Skate at Home Mom enthusiastically lent me a player’s gear who was on maternity leave — helmet, kneepads, elbow pads and immediately taught me how to fall properly to avoid injury.

I was told that learning how to stop isn’t

critical. All you need to do is skate into a wall.

Instead of behaving like the frightening alter egos suggested by their roller derby names, these women took me under their wing, encouraged me and most surprisingly, admired my technique.

But I can’t join the roller derby team any time soon. According to Archibald-Cross, roller derby

has a strict attendance policy.

Seventy-five per cent attendance is mandatory at all practices, making it difficult to adapt to a student’s lifestyle.

Zipping around the roller derby track uplifts your mood like nothing else. I can only imagine the surefire stress relief I’d have in a real game, taking any built-up rage out on the first Whore Crux that got in my way.

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