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THE VOL. 04 ISSUE 06 11.22.2011

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NEWS AND CULTURE FOR THE STUDENTS OF KWANTLEN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY

SURREYALISTS ARTS COLLECTIVE PUTS ON ANONYMOUS SHOW PAGE 8

OMG KSA SGM

BLOOD BAN

CHEF AT HOME

BAD BOOK?

SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING IN THE WORKS PAGE 4

NO MORE? PAGE 5

MICHAEL SMITH VISITS KWANTLEN PAGE 10

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Well, Kwantlen. We knew it was going to come to this. Providing students day after day with shoddy and unreliable internet service was bound to catch up with you sooner or later. So, what’s up? Forget to pay the Shaw cable bill? Oh, and what’s the deal with the dead zones on campus where wireless signals seem to disappear in to the great void? I was pretty choked when I was downloading pirated music the other day and my signal crapped out. Sort your shit out.

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CAMPUS NEWS

The Runner Roundup A brief run around the latest news from the world of Kwantlen and beyond.

Moving on up

Down but not out

Ken Hahn is the new board chair of the Kwantlen Polytechnic University Foundation. Hahn has been a member of the board since 2004. Hahn was first appointed to Kwantlen’s board of governors in 2001 and served a six-year term ending in 2008. Hahn was formerly a senior executive at Coast Capital Savings and at Richmond Savings Credit Union. Prior to that, he worked for the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce for more than 20 years.

Ball games Kwantlen students had a ball at Kwantlen’s annual Movember Dodgeball Tournament, Nov. 18. The event was hosted by Kwantlen Recreation and the KSA in the Surrey gymnasium, Friday afternoon. Movember was created to raise awareness and money for prostate cancer. All proceeds from the tournament were donated to Prostate Cancer Canada. To help out a good cause, attend the the Movember Gala in the GrassRoots Cafe Thursday, Nov. 25. All purchases made Nov. 25 by people with mustaches (real or fake) will be donated to the Movember fund to fight prostate cancer.

The Kwantlen Eagles men’s basketball team lost both games they played two weekends ago. But head coach Stefon Wilson was undeterred. “In Saturday’s game, I was proud of our defense, only giving up 81 points,” said Wilson. “But, there are two sides to the game of basketball, and it’s important that we get back into the gym and get extra shots up outside of our regular practice time this week.”

Criminal Intent

A 27-year-old Ontario man claimed that he was selling drugs to help pay off $40,000 worth of student loans. Jameson Fletcher, a commerce student at Laurentian University pleaded guilty to marijuana possession for the purpose of trafficking, according to a report from the North Bay Nugget. Ontario Court Justice Jean-Gilles Lebel sentenced Fletcher to six months of house arrest, saying that many other young people with student loans seem to manage without resorting to drug-dealing.

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KSA

Students attempt to oust KSA board Petition calls for the removal of 13 council members; Bassi dismisses it as a “petty attempt to throw mud.”

MATT DIMERA NEWS EDITOR

Students unhappy with the Kwantlen Student Association are taking action, calling for the impeachment of most of the KSA’s current board members. Kwantlen senate representative and non-voting council member Christopher Girodat presented a 277-signature petition to the KSA earlier this month requesting that a special general meeting (SGM) be held Nov. 30 to remove the five executives and eight other voting council members from office, and to install a new set of bylaws. “We have been reading about the questionable actions of this council and executive since their very first day in office and that’s why students have risen up and delivered this petition,” said Girodat. “Two weeks into their term, the executives raised their pay by 40 per cent. They voted in new regulations without letting council members see them. They spent more than $100,000 on a concert and hundreds of thousands of dollars more on legal and professional fees. They dismissed a lawsuit against former council members and staff, even after the media discovered repeated and direct conflicts of interest within the current board.” “Students have been frustrated and disgusted and have been asking what they can do,” said Girodat. “This petition for a special general meeting is the first step in holding this council responsible for its actions.” The petition proposes a special resolution to impeach council members Sean Bassi, Nipun Pandey, Nina Sandhu, Bobby Padda, Jaspinder Ghuman, Tarun Takhar, Shivinder Grewal, Money Dhaliwal, Gaven Pangley, Simmy Grewal, Kamalpreet Dha, Karamveer Dhillon, and Jagraj Hayre. One of the 13 council members named in the petition, Surrey representative Karamveer Dhillon, has since resigned. The petition claims that the named directors “have brought the Kwantlen Student Association into disrepute through reckless decision-making and the irresponsible use of student funds.”

It also proposes to place the 13 directors and 13 other current and former students in bad standing as members of the association. All students who take one or more credit classes at Kwantlen and pay fees become automatic members of the KSA. If the 26 people named are successfully placed in bad standing, they would be unable to run in future KSA elections. The petition was presented to the KSA’s current director of operations, Nipun Pandey, Nov. 8. In order for the impeachment to succeed, a minimum of 250 students must attend the special general meeting and 75 per cent of those attending must vote in favour. President and official KSA spokesperson Harman “Sean Birdman” Bassi refused to comment, when contacted by

email Nov. 17. However, in a report attached to the Nov. 18 executive board agenda, Bassi wrote that that “the group of students organizing the petition seem to have a strange and unjustified purpose for the meeting” and suggested that the petition would delay the scheduling of a by-election to fill current vacancies on council. “This seems to be a continuation of the type of behaviour this small group has taken over the past few months,” wrote Bassi. “The majority of students do not think an SGM at this time is beneficial, meaningful, or necessary. In fact, my discussions with some students who were misled into signing the petition has led me to believe that there were sleazy tactics used to obtain signatures.” “I am confident that when this petty at-

tempt to throw mud at hardworking civil servants through an SGM is over, once again this Council will prove that students are truly behind them. We urge the small group of disaffected members to consider more carefully their actions in the future so to prevent the membership from incurring further unnecessary costs.” The KSA’s director of academics, Jaspinder Ghuman, director of events, Tarun Takhar and newly-appointed Richmond campus director Simmy Grewal all declined to be interviewed. Director of finance Nina Sandhu, director of external affairs Bobby Padda, director of operations Nipun Pandey and Cloverdale director Shivinder Grewal also did not respond to requests for interviews before The Runner’s deadline. According to Girodat, the KSA has not cooperated since receiving the petition and had failed to post notice of the upcoming meeting as they were required to do by the KSA’s bylaws. Girodat says that the petition organizers posted the notices on all four campuses on their own instead and that the meeting will go ahead as planned. The special general meeting is open to all students and is scheduled to take place at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 30 on the Surrey campus in the Cedar building conference centre.

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SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011 @ 2 p.m. Cedar 1205 Surrey Conference Centre Kwantlen senator Christopher Girodat sits in the GrassRoots cafe. RUNNER FILE PHOTO

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MEDICINE

Canadian Blood Services considers changes to gay blood donation policy Vancouver Pride Society president says measures would be “too little too late.”

I BIANCA PENCZ

Men who have sex with other men, (or MSM), are currently not allowed to donate blood for transfusion to Canadian Blood Services (CBS). This policy may soon change, but some critics wonder how much change is enough. In September of this year, the board of directors of CBS, the national non-profit blood bank, passed a motion “committing the organization to re-examine” their policy regarding the donor status of MSM, according to a CBS website statement posted last month. The objective will be to reduce the lifetime exclusion on MSM donors to “no less than five years and no longer than 10 years,” says the web statement. In other words, if the objective is met, MSM who abstain from homosexual intercourse for five to 10 years—depending on the outcome of the policy review—will be allowed to donate blood for the first time in Canada. But despite this step towards change, some say it isn’t enough. “It’s definitely too little too late,” says Ken Coolen, president of the Vancouver Pride Society. Coolen considers the existing policy on MSM discriminatory and “a reaction” to HIV and other blood-related illnesses that stereotypically affect gay men. “This isn’t specifically a gay-related issue. Many other people are high risk, depending on their lifestyles or [habits],” he says. “Heterosexual people can get AIDS too, but they’re not being put under a microscope the way MSM are.” However, a spokesperson for CBS denies that the policy is discriminatory. “This is not a policy targeting ‘gay’ men, but rather ‘men who have sex with men’.” “Data suggests that an estimated 7 per cent of men in the U.S. have had sex with another man at least once, but only 44 per cent of these [men] identify as gay or bi-

sexual.” Furthermore, CBS cites evidence standards set out by the Canadian Safety Association and the Public Health Agency of Canada, which single out MSM as “high risk.” CBS stresses that they consider the social implications of its policy on MSM—the possibility that it might contribute to the cultural stigma still attached to homosexual sex. It’s why the organization “engages with members of affected communities” through an LGBTTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, two-spirited, queer, questioning) working group. Yet Coolen calls the stance on MSM “sad.” “In this day and age, [considering] the progress the LGBT community has made, giving into fear is unnecessary,” he says. Overall, Coolen is puzzled by the harshness of the restriction on MSM. He asks, “Why can’t they just screen the blood?” According to CBS, they use the best available technology to test every unit of blood—but these tests are “not infallible.” “No test is 100 per cent perfect,” says CBS. “In fact, there is a window period of one to two weeks in which a person infected with HIV will not [yet] test positive.” The organization says they have always been open to change. “But [our] first priority is to protect patients from potential harm. Ultimately it is the patient who bears 100 per cent of the risk of the blood system.” In the end, the proposed changes on MSM policy may not even come to pass. “The board of directors only approved the first step of a long process,” says Angela Poon, media contact for the B.C. branch of CBS. Consultations with Canada Health, as well as other medical officials, now have to happen. Poon says CBS would like to see some MSM donating in the future. “But how far are we to accepting blood from MSM? Not even close.”

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TECH

“Technological epidemic” affects child development Kwantlen instructor asks “how much technology is too much?”

LLIAM EASTERBROOK SENIOR FEATURES WRITER

Kwantlen’s interdisciplinary expressive arts guru Ross Laird held a seminar last Wednesday night at Kwantlen’s Surrey conference centre about the role of technology in our lives. The discussion caught the eyes and ears of about 100 parents, educators and students, and through the use of visuals, story and humour, Laird made the two-hour seminar light, informative and engaging. Laird maintained an air of optimism for the role of technology in our lives, but he cautioned that if its use continues unquestioned and unregulated, there is the potential for it to become a detriment to our lives. Before the seminar I caught up with Laird for a brief interview where we discussed the emerging problems with technology abuse. We talked about the rapid growth of, in particular, computer and handheld technologies, and their overarching use in our everyday life. I asked him about the implications of contemporary society’s constant need for technological stimulation. He said, “we’ve allowed technology to suffuse every part of our daily lives,” and added, “do we really want to be living in a society where everybody goes to bed with a technological device? Do we want to be in a situation where the social lives of kids are mediated by technology through texting? Where at the family dinner table, kids are gaming and parents are checking email? I think the answer is generally ‘no’ if you ask most people.” He said that these types of things are already happening, and we now have to figure out how we deal with it. Do we let our use of technology continue unchecked, or do we need to figure out a way to mediate these changes before they potentially reveal more serious consequences? Wednesday night’s presentation, geared toward parents and educators who struggle with kids who often have unregulated access to computers and cell phones, was informative and insightful. Laird revealed concepts that deal with the need for a discourse with children at various stages of development, and how to regulate screen time in a healthy way. He began by showing Katsushika Hoku-

sai’s famous woodblock print, The Great Wave, mentioning that the giant, foreboding wave (technology) looming over a small skiff (humanity) amidst a torrent of thrashing white water, is metaphorically similar to our current situation. Technology is here, now, to stay. It may, at times, seem overwhelming, but facing technology, by looking analytically at the implications of our technological world, are essential for establishing a rubric for a healthy synthesis of technology with our lives. Laird raised poignant questions; such as how are we to navigate through so much technology? How much technology is too much? How do we negotiate its use with our loved ones and ourselves? Do we allow technology to dictate the course of our lives, or do we learn to dictate its use and prevalence? How are we to do this? He maintained that when it comes to children’s use of technology, communication is paramount. And for both children and adults, self-regulation is the key to healthy technology use. Overall, less use means less abuse. Laird presented the hard facts regarding

technology and child development, what has essentially become a technological epidemic. Children aged 8-18 spend more time in front of computer, television, and game screens than any other activity except sleeping; approximately 30 per cent of children and teens are overweight and roughly 15 per cent are obese; and, screen time — even just two hours a day — has been shown to significantly increase the chances of hypertension and disorders like ADHD. The use of technology, if unregulated, can also affect teenagers and adults. Since we are social beings by nature, the ramifications of excessive technology use can isolate us, affecting our development and possibly dehumanizing us. It can become an addiction that is psychologically and physically detrimental. Technology addiction can be problematic for the same reason other addictions are problematic: it becomes a need and a necessity, not a tool and a privilege. Physiologically, most technology use involves little to no exercise, and that in and of itself is a problem that needs to be addressed. The key, Laird said, is learning self-regulation and then teaching children the ben-

efits of self-regulating their use of technology the moment they start using it. Since technology is an unavoidable part of our lives, learning how to use it is essential; but what’s more essential is learning how not to misuse it, and how to know when to turn it off. And when it’s turned off, there needs to be something stimulating and engaging for children to do so they won’t want to immediately go back to technology. He stressed the need for mentorship and experience in the lives of children instead of technology. Laird’s presentation did not focus solely on the negative aspects of technology. “Technology is great,” he said, “but there’s got to be a middle ground where we have a say in the extent to which technology becomes foundational to culture moving forward.” He seemed especially optimistic about the future role of technology in education. Since technology has the ability to transform the way we communicate and learn, it will undoubtedly shape the way we educate. With regards to technology in our everyday lives, “The key is balance,” Laird suggested.

Kwantlen instructor Ross Laird addressed the issue of technology on modern society in a seminar Nov. 16, 2011. LLIAM EASTERBROOK/THE RUNNER

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OPINION

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RANT

Testo’s coming out was desperately needed

Hipster shit

More gay professional athletes need to follow suit.

MYLES DOLPHIN THE CONCORDIAN (CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY)

MONTREAL (CUP) — Last week, ex-Montreal Impact player David Testo came out of the closet and expressed huge relief in doing so. His family, friends and teammates all knew about his sexual orientation. The rest of North American society was finally introduced to an openly gay professional athlete. We were ready for it. “I’m glad he [came out], because he’s in a position where he can inspire a lot of people to do the same,” current Impact captain Nevio Pizzolitto told the Montreal Gazette. “Even though we’re professional athletes, we’re also human beings, and maybe something like this will change the minds of those in the same position.” No male athlete in North American professional sports (the “big four” — hockey, baseball, football and basketball) has ever come out as being gay while in an active status, but that’s probably about to change. Testo’s revelation should have a ripple effect not only in his sport, but in the “big four,” too. Between January and May of this year, 27 athletes, coaches, journalists and executives had already come out, including American figure skater Johnny Weir and Phoenix Suns president Rick Welts. Testo initially remained silent because of the pressures he faced while playing for various organizations. Fearful of the backlash and scrutiny gay professional athletes may face from their teammates and once-adoring fans, many other athletes are keeping mum, too. “It’s like you’re carrying around a secret, you know, and carrying luggage and just never being allowed to be yourself,” Testo told Radio-Canada in an interview. It’s important to understand that there are openly gay professional athletes. They just don’t feel the need to tell you about it. Sometimes their teammates know, but the gay athlete in question feels like they can compartmentalize this for now and deal with it when their career is over. However, it looks like both society at large

and most professional athletes are ready to accept gay athletes of any stripe. Based on a 2006 Sports Illustrated study, “a sizable majority of professional athletes would welcome a gay teammate.” (By sport, it ranges from 57 per cent in the NFL to 80 per cent in the NHL.) A 2002 Witeck-Combs study found that 70 per cent of fans would not think negatively of their favourite athlete if he came out of the closet. These studies, although a few years old, are encouraging. I would suggest that those numbers would be even higher today, given the increasingly liberal nature of our society. Homophobia isn’t cool anymore and hasn’t been for quite some time now. When Kobe Bryant, one of the most marketable players on earth, can’t get away with making an anti-gay slur, it tells you something has changed. Even if only one superstar “big four” athlete player comes out of the closet, it will set a precedent and open the floodgates for all the others. Once that takes place, we’ll see how far we’ve come. Until then, we have to ask ourselves: how can we say sports are making any discernible progress when gay men can’t even express their sexual orientation publicly? Jackie Robinson ended racial segregation in professional baseball in 1947. Who is ready to end homophobia in the “big four”? The effects of a star athlete coming out will be widespread. He’ll be embraced – not only by his teammates, organization and the media — but by the larger culture. He’ll probably even land the cover of Time magazine. His team will be vilified if they even consider cutting or trading him. A few years ago, this would have been unthinkable. Now, it’s on the verge of happening. Gay-icon status was reserved for pop stars and actors, but that’s changing. Gay professional athletes, whether they’re superstars or not, deserve to come out when they’re ready. Even more fans, teammates and organizations need to start thinking about these men as people they know, respect and trust, not as abstractions or abominations.

JUSTGRIMES FLICKR

KRISTI ALEXANDRA CULTURE EDITOR

Before we dive headfirst into the rabbit hole, let’s get to the etymology of the word “hipster.” It wasn’t always a bad word. It first came up in the 1940s, used to describe white kids who were into culture — culture, at the time, being blues and jazz. In other words, white kids who were into typically “black” culture. Going into the ‘50s, the word came to represent the beat subculture led by poets like Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. As of late, or let’s at least say since around the time that Douglas Haddow’s article “Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization” came out in Adbusters magazine in 2008, “hipster” has been a term meant to slag the perceived “hip.” It’s usually a throw-around word for people in their 20s to bash other people in their 20s. It’s a way to show your distaste for someone in your peer group — someone with reasonable fashion sense, or a taste in popular music that doesn’t happen to be on the radio, or someone with facial hair etc; someone you want to make a point of not taking seriously. Let’s establish that most people label hipsters as people in their 20s. Now lets say hipsters are people with moustaches, who drink cheap beer and wear shitty clothes.

Well, no fucking duh. For one, people in their 20s don’t have any fucking money. Of course they drink cheap beer — it gets you drunk on a budget. What do you expect? They’d be drinking Veuve Cliquot and eating caviar? Second, this whole, “having a mustache is so hipster” thing. I’m going to assume that if your dad has a mustache, you’re probably not calling him a hipster. So you’re going to bash someone for growing a mustache, because they’re in their 20s, it makes them hipster. Because they didn’t do it before it was cool. Come on, that “hipster” has a mustache now — and didn’t 4 years ago — not because it’s suddenly become cool but because four years ago, that person was sixteen and lacked the ability to fucking grow facial hair. The most disheartening thing about the word hipster, I have to say, is its propensity to imply youth don’t take each other seriously. You occupied Vancouver? That’s fucking hipster shit. Shit Harper Did? Hipster shit. You’re growing a mustache for Movember? More hipster shit. In a time when youth should stand in more solidarity than ever, with the Occupy movements, in raising awareness for Movember, and overall just creating a sweet youth culture, we need to stop separating ourselves from each other and start separating ourselves from the man.

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ART SHOW

The Surreyalists’ Big Little Art Sh I

KRISTI ALEXANDRA CULTURE EDITOR

Since their solidification in Fall 2010, the Surreyalists have done a lot to boost exposure for student art. The group, which operates as the sole collective for Kwantlen fine arts students, started off with a meagre 13 members. After having put on a few small shows in the Kwantlen community, as well as the larger scale Psychologically There exhibition in Gastown in early June, the members have been multiplying. The Surreyalists’ newest exhibition, the Big Little Art Show, aims to gain even more exposure for the growing bunch, this time featuring over 60 pieces of art that will be displayed on 8x8 and 12x12 canvasses in the Arbutus Gallery on Surrey campus. Chelsea Lawrick, who co-chairs the

group alongside Andrés Salaz, says she got the concept for The Big Little Art Show from the North Vancouver Arts Council. “The North Van Arts Council does this thing every year called the Anonymous Art Show, and what they do is take 8x8 pieces and everyone makes their own piece. They line the walls and you can’t have your name shown,” she explains. “The whole idea is you buy this art and you don’t know who did it, but it’s all priced at the same price point.” The Anonymous Art Show’s price point is a solid $200 for each painting, with half of the money going to the arts council and the other half going to the artist. The Surreyalists’ prices are a tad more modest, starting at a minimum donation of $40 for the smaller canvasses and $60 for the larger ones. “I just like the visual impact of a show

We’re not just a school group, we’re going to do this in real life, too.”

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—Chelsea Lawrick

where everything is the same size, on the same grid but everything is so different,” says Lawrick. “I thought ‘hey, that would be cool for us to do as a fundraiser.’” In the past, bake sales have done just fine for the arts students — especially in helping with paying for the Psychologically There exhibition that was held offcampus. Lawrick laughs when considering she “didn’t know people wanted cookies so badly.” The off-campus show was a huge success in terms of exposure, and helped affirm the goals of the arts collective. “We had a lot of foot traffic. It’s [the Access Gallery, 206 Carrall Street] right in the middle of Gastown so it wasn’t just people who were invited and it wasn’t one of those things where you’d have to climb stairs to find, it was just people would see it and come in. The opening

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how steps outside the classroom was more successful than any of us could have imagined. I don’t think there was an official count but it was a crazy amount of people and we were all so happy to have people packed into our space and wanting to see art,” Lawrick beams. “It was cool to think we were just a school group and it was neat to see people out there and taking themselves seriously and really being like ‘we’re going to do this, we’re not just a school group, we’re going to do this in real life, too’ so it was neat to do the show off-campus. That was a huge deal for us.” Though the current exhibition will be focused on campus, The Surreyalists see stepping outside of the classroom to create art as a huge feat in itself. “I think it’s neat when people want to do work that’s outside of the classes,” Lawrick says of the upcoming Big Little

People are looking at it like they’re donating their time to the collective. ”

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—Chelsea Lawrick

Art Show, and the collective in general. “When you’re in school, I think sometimes you get stuck on the idea that ‘I’m just going to school,’ so I thought it would be neat for people to have the opportunity to do something outside of school and display it for something that’s outside of the classroom.” The only blip in an otherwise seamless art show and sale is convincing pennypinching students to cough up their cash. On the same token, it can be hard to convince an artist to give up their work for such a small pittance. But the collective is looking at it fairly positively. “We’ve had moments of ‘how do we approach that?’” Lawrick admits. “In a way, of course I don’t want to give something away $40 because in the end, 50 per cent goes to the collective and 50 per cent goes to the artist, so you’re not really mak-

ing any money. I think people are looking at it like they’re donating their time to the collective rather than making a profound art piece that they need to sell for $1000.” And for the frugal student, $40 isn’t really too much when put in perspective. “We’re looking at it as gift-buying opportunity as well. It’s personal,” she says. “It doesn’t need to be for your bedroom, it can be for your mom or your sister, you know what I mean? It aligns really well with the holidays.” You can purchase art from The Big Little Art Show from 1-4 on Nov. 21 to Nov. 25. The opening reception will be held at the Arbutus Gallery on Surrey campus from 1-4 on Monday, Nov. 21. There will be tea and cupcakes by donation.

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POP CULTURE

Culture Roundup Your bi-weekly revue of pop culture – from the amusing to the irreverent

Community to get canned? Say it ain’t so! NBC’s hit comedy Community is dangerously close to getting cut. The sitcom’s spot has tentatively been taken by Whitney, whoever that is. All I can really say here is that this Whitney person doesn’t deserve to take the spot of this precious community college comedy. I mean, just about every Kwantlen student should probably agree. Oh yeah, there’s been lots of support to keep the show via social media, along with a couple of propaganda spoof posters circulating the web. Follow the battle to save Community by checking out #SaveCommunity on Twitter. You should probably also look into #AnniesMove.

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Michael Smith visits Kwantlen

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As part of International Education Week, Sodexo invited celebity chef Michael Smith to Kwantlen for a book signing. His latest book of recipes, Chef Michael Smith’s Kitchen, sold for $30 at the Surrey campus cafeteria for those who didn’t have a copy. Appetizers of fresh tomato and basil bruscetta and garlic humous (both featured in the book) were served at the event, as well as the Chef at Home’s signature chicken stew being sold as the daily special. Funny enough, though, the audience wasn’t quite universityaged.

Sleepy Sun signs to The End Records

’s no secret that psychedelic stoner-rock has been hot for a while. San Francisco band Sleepy Sun is among the cream that rises to the top under that genre. The five-piece released its previous two albums, Embrace (2009) and Fever (2010) under UK-based label ATP Records, which were huge hits in North America. Finally, the band’s own continent decided to give the boys some love. New York-based label The End Records

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have signed Sleepy Sun, whose sound has been described as “a sexy acid romp,” on their third album, set to release in Spring 2012. It speaks horrible volumes about the state of the music industry that a country will only recognize its own talent three albums in, when, you know, pop-tarts like Rebecca Black get instant and ubiquitous fame. Then again, signing to the same label that Danzig’s on isn’t a bad start.

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LIVE

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Elliott Brood brings One Hundred Dollars to Vancouver Elliott Brood and One Hundred Dollars brought a rowdiness that recalled the Festival Express to the Commodore Ballroom on Nov. 9.

LLIAM EASTERBROOK SENIOR FEATURES EDITOR

It seemed like an old steam engine rolled into town last Wednesday night as One Hundred Dollars opened with a rollicking set before Elliott Brood took the audience through their death-country at the Commodore Ballroom. Both bands represent an alternative flavour of Toronto, harnessing country rhythms and folk flair, even if it’s under a dark and rolling sky. One Hundred Dollars singer Simone Schmidt looked and sounded like a young Janis Joplin on stage, her flowing blonde locks often covering her face as she sang.

Drawing from their limited but consistent catalogue of smooth country numbers, One Hundred Dollars revealed how well they could play, showcasing a pepper-crack of rock and roll. You could tell that Schmidt can let her voice go like Joplin could, but unfortunately, it never happened. Elliott Brood came on stage with singer/guitarist/banjoist Mark Sasso commenting on the historic Commodore Ballroom floor. He said they wanted to make it shake. And they did just that, pushing though tracks from 2008’s Mountain Meadows (which was shortlisted in 2009 for the Polaris Music Prize), and more recently their brand new LP, Days Into Years, like the rowdy Festival Express across the barren planes.

It wasn’t all dark country though as the crowd walloped and hooted and jigged to up-tempo numbers such as “Fingers and Tongues” and “Garden River.” By shows end, half the crowd was drunk as skunks — likely off whiskey and brew — or maybe that was just me and my pal. At one point, there were two men smoking stogies in the bathroom — or maybe that was just me and my pal. At any rate, the rafters were blanketed in perpetual yellow haze of toke smoke for almost the whole show, and Elliott Brood seemed to enjoy every minute of it. Sasso commented frequently, in his deep gravelly hombre vocal, that Vancouver was the best show of the tour.

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VINYL

Vinyl Dust-off: Bob Marley’s Catch A Fire I

LLIAM EASTERBROOK SENIOR FEATURES WRITER

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hat can be said about such a classic reggae album? Well, if you’re sober, nothing really. Ideally, you need to be in the right headspace to view an album like Bob Marley and the Wailers’ roots reggae opus Catch a Fire. I suppose Bob might suggest a toke or two—and that’s exactly what I did, entering that rarefied space through the plant sacred to Rastafarians worldwide. I can’t enter their space, of course, but I can enter the music’s, which I did, letting The Wailers’ soft melodies wash over me like the Caribbean sun, if I

can be shamelessly cliché for a moment. The Wailers’ debut album, Catch a Fire was released on 13 April, 1973 on Island Records. Traditional reggae for the most part relies on a subsidiary beat, with guitars typically emphasizing the off-beat also. This is called “skank,” and thus the term ‘skanky reggae.’ Musically, Marley and the gang cut the grooves deep on subsequent albums, some of the skankiest. But not on Catch a Fire, unfortunately. Upon completion, the original tapes were flown to England where the album was remixed and changed. American studio musicians were brought in, and many dynamics were altered. Essentially, what was removed in those remixes was the skanky flavour, which rendered the album an Anglicization of traditional black music.

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A political album if ever there was one, CAF was immediately successful, establishing Bob Marley and his band — in particular fellow vocalist Peter Tosh — as influential world-conscious songwriters. The album garnered acclaim for its politically libertarian lyrics that many deemed controversial at the time (and sadly many still do). What are essentially songs crafted as an amalgamation of Jamaican rhythm/ blues, ska, and calypso — a subsequent evolution of African music — CAF’s nine tracks predominantly focus around the lyrical themes of love over hate, freedom over oppression, and egalitarianism. On “400 Years,” Marley comments on the importance of youth posterity (“400 years, 400 years/ of the same philosophy/ and the people, they still can’t see/ Why do they fight against the youth of today?/ and without youths, you would be gone/ all gone astray”), criticizing the establishment for failing to recognize the importance of listening to its youth. “Concrete Jungle” is a lament about what Marley feels to be the dehumanizing aspect of urbanity: “no chains around my feet/ but I’m not free/ I know I am bound here in captivity/ . . . in this concrete jungle.” In an almost bittersweet way, unfortunately, these songs are timeless — just look at Occupy. Not just an album for the mind, though, Catch a Fire is an album for the body, for movement and energy. “Baby, we’ve got a date” sways like Caribbean life, slow and easy. “Stir it up,” their first successful song outside Jamaica, is a classic love song—it does the same thing to the ladies as Marvin Gaye or Barry White, and it’s actually (more than) listenable. These relatively simple (and obvious?) concepts Bob Marley and the Wailers (and many others) conveyed through their music, at that time, are struggles that many are still fighting to overcome today. You just have to pick up a newspaper to see that struggles for equality and protests to end flagrant social disparity are catching fire all over the world. And he’s just talking about love, people, love and freedom. This album is as important now as it was then. Play it loud. Play it proud.

Pinkunoizu’s Live at Loppen revives the mixtape

CHRIS YEE SENIOR CULTURE WRITER

To promote Copenhagen-based experimental pop band Pinkunoizu’s first EP, Peep, London-based label Full Time Hobby (of Fujiya and Miyagi and School of Seven Bells fame) have released a mixtape, Live At Loppen, which documents a February 2010 show at the Loppen club in Freetown Christiania, which is also in Copenhagen (of course!). Judging from their performance on Live At Loppen, Pinkunoizu isn’t bad - even if the resemblance to Kevin Drew’s oeuvre becomes a bit much to take at times. Loppen opener “Dairy Queen” starts out with a slight Krautrock flavour, then ends sounding positively Canadian, like You, You’re a History in Rust-era Do Make Say Think or Broken Social Scene circa, well, Broken Social Scene. The following song in Pinkunoizu’s set on Loppen, “Lacuna Island” bears even more resemblance to something Kevin Drew might make. “My Vacant Home” has an exultant opening with ironically vulgar chanting (or maybe it’s just me), while the vaguely Tom Waits-y “Perish in Hilton” has a slightly dopey title (guess why) with slightly less dopey lyrics and even less dopey atmospherics (more mopey than anything, actually). Following “Perish in Hilton” is a vaguely Afrobeat-tinged rendition of “Reprise”, which does in fact make a reprise at the end of the next song in Pinkunoizu’s set, “Somber Ground”. Finally, Loppen closes with “Time Is Like A Melody”, perhaps the best of Pinkunoizu’s set, with vocals and instrumentals emerging beautifully from what seems to be a protracted sound check, in a lush yet faithful rendition of the Peep version of this song. Even considering the concert recorded on Live at Loppen was almost an impromptu event, Pinkunoizu seems to be a hit-or-miss affair. “Dairy Queen” is a promising opener (even if it does lose a little direction toward the end) and “Time Is Like A Melody” is a wonderful closer, but the rest of the songs seem to be of mixed quality, with “Somber Ground” perhaps being the most boring one out of the bunch. Ultimately, though, Loppen shows a different band from the one on the Peep EP, one distinctly jazzier than the other.

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BOOKS

The Three Musketeers proves to be a snooze Parts of the revamped Three Musketeers scream for a sequel, but we’d rather not see it.

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If you’re looking for a way to get someone to fall dead asleep in under an hour, take them to the nearest cinema to see the Three Musketeers. Guaranteed they’ll not only have a long and peaceful sleep but may also plot your demise via very obviously choreographed swordplay and at least one over-designed airship. Starring Milla Jovovich as Milady and Orlando Bloom as the Duke of Buckingham, the Three Musketeers was developed by a small group of studios whose names were hitherto unknown in the industry and will hopefully remain so. Set in 17th Century France, the story follows the journey of D’Artagnon as he moves to Paris to become on the the King’s Musketeers, an elite group of French soldiers whose fighting skills call into question their true nationalities (as the French guards they do fight — who presumably have similar training — fall like shafts of wheat before these guys). Incidentally, the young D’Artagnon encounters the original three Musketeers Porthos, Athos

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and Aramis through a “comical” series of misadventures that end with a big battle with the Cardinal’s guards — because the movie had been playing for about a halfhour and the plot sure as hell wasn’t holding anyone’s attention anymore. Although the characters are so twodimensional they almost cause lacerations simply by watching them, the action in the film goes from swashbuckling fantasy to some mutant hybrid of Johnny English, Joan of Arc and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Milady has to traverse a razor tripwire (read: laser tripwire cliche from spy movies) system in order to steal the jewels, the Musketeers’ airship avoids the Cardinal’s Guards’ airship by hiding in a storm cloud and ambushing them (ripped right off from the Wrath of Khan) and the finale of the movie was an awkward and clumsy series of slightly comical mishaps that did nothing but conclude the film. But most damning of all is the brief epilogue showing Buckingham sailing to France with his personal armada of traditional ships and airships. Sequel, it screams; who else wants to see us make a sequel? No one wants that. This movie was a waste of both time, effort and money.

Maggie Goes on a Diet... but why? I SARINE GULERIAN

Something in society needs to change when children’s books begin to convey the message that being skinny will bring you happiness and popularity. According to the Indigo and Chapters website, the recommended audience for this book is six to 12, but it’s going to be hard to convince mothers to buy such a book for their children. The book, titled Maggie Goes on a Diet, by Paul Kramer, will be in stores on Oct. 16. The book is about Maggie, an overweight and insecure 14-year-old girl who goes on a diet and becomes the school’s soccer star. Of course, the title says it all, but the description on the Chapters website makes the book a bit easier to swallow. They wrote, “through time, exercise and hard work, Maggie becomes more and more confident and develops a positive self image.” But most aren’t buying the sugarcoated description. This book has sparked controversy all across Britain, Canada and the United States, but the most offended are mommy bloggers.

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The mommy blogs are in an uproar and agree that this book is outrageous. “It makes me sad that this book is being published. I can understand why mommy bloggers world wide have jumped on it. Our job is to protect our children and teach them not only right from wrong but how to feel better about themselves. Maggie Goes on a Diet does not convey that message, but rather caters to the notion that looking good on the outside will solve the problems we all face (with self-esteem) on the inside which just isn’t true and is an unhealthy message to send. I guess I’ll just come out and say it Paul you should be ashamed of yourself,” said Jodi Shaw in her article on rantsandrascals.com. Its message may include hard work and exercise, but it’s not okay to send children, particularly girls, the message that dieting and being skinny will automatically help you make friends and help you become a star. Because it won’t. Most women have a hard enough time after the age of 14 worrying about their calorie count and how many carbs they consume. In an interview during ABC’s Good Morning America, Kramer argued that his intentions have been misinterpreted. “My intentions were just to write a story, to entice and to have children feel better about themselves, discover a new way of eating, learn to do exercise,” he said. But instead of diets, we should be encouraging healthy eating habits, and our target audience shouldn’t be six to 12 year olds, it should be the parents who pack their children’s lunches and make them their dinner. The book’s message may have been misinterpreted, but if Kramer wants any good parent to buy this book for their children, he’s going to have to make some changes, including the title. He also needs to eliminate of message that being skinny bring friends and fame. Which means that, really, it’s not children who need to go on a diet and change their image, it’s the book, because according to its message, that’s the only way to find popularity.

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VIDEO GAMES

Stuff your dad likes: retro gaming

Cracking under stress?

Jacob Zinn can’t give you fatherly advice, but he can drink Schlitz and tell you to quit blocking the TV. TOPGOLD/FLICKR

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You have a midterm at nine in the morning tomorrow, but you’re in school until 2 p.m. and you’re working an eight hour shift until midnight tonight. The only logical solution to this classic time-crunch dilemma is to pull the notorious, all-nighter. This means you’ll attempt to stay up all night and cram your two months worth of notes into just 8 hours of studying. With the help of Red Bull and five-minute powernaps you might be able to do it. Suddenly, your 8 a.m. alarm starts to ring during your first powernap. You realize your nap turned into a sevenhour slumber and your exam starts in one hour. School is overwhelming, your part-time job won’t cover your bills and your social life is non-existent. Welcome to the life of a student. What do you do when it feels like 24 hours have compressed into 12 and you’re running out of time? “Get organized, be on top of things and have some priorities,” says Renu Seru, a counsellor at the Surrey campus at Kwantlen Polytechnic University who has 19 years of experience at this school. “Keep anxiety low, if anxiety is high, it becomes the source of the stress,” she says. Seru suggests that students need to avoid thinking about things they have no control over and instead focus on how they can change their attitude towards a situation. According to Seru, lack of organization skills, procrastination and bad time management are the three biggest mistakes students make. She recommended that students have a semester calendar, a weekly planner (which you can get for free at any KSA office) and a daily to-do list. Michael Ringland, a second-year psychology student, admits to bad time management skills. “I try to get it all done the day before,”

he says, “but I try to disperse it as much as possible throughout the day so I’ll try to do a little bit of everything.” Ringland manages his time by making to-do lists just to keep up with three classes, working full-time and rehearsing for a play, at Surrey Little Theater, 4 days a week. “I make myself a to-do list every night so I know exactly what I’m doing the next day. I don’t make timelines or write in journals because then I’ll procrastinate,” he says. Procrastination is another big issue students face. Seru pointed out that Facebook and video games are the worst distractions for students while studying. She said that the recommended studying time for students is two hours at home per one hour in class, in other words you should be studying double your lecture time. Lack of sleep is another issue that adds to the stress of a student. “Sleep is important,” said Seru. Students should get at least 6 to 8 hours of sleep per night, depending on their body. But don’t worry. Kwantlen has various resources for students to take advantage of when stressed or unsure of the future. All four campuses have at least one counsellor. The Richmond campus has three and Surrey has four. Each campus has a counseling office located in the building, which has a wall full of handouts with tips on managing time, procrastination and stress. You can book an appointment with a counsellor either at your campus or online using the Kwantlen website. They also offer counseling and career seminars about how to deal with stress, time management, presentation and anxiety. All seminars are free and are held at the Surrey Campus. Free stress seminar: You Must Be Choking: A New Take on Anxiety on Nov. 23, 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Cedar G1140

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Kids, start playing with your joysticks! Back in the ‘70s and early ‘80s, the joystick was the controller of choice before Nintendo introduced the directional pad with A and B buttons. It’s what your dad used to play, and if he still has any classic consoles kicking around, it’s what you might have used to play too. You and your dad may both like retro gaming, but that depends on your definition of retro. You fondly remember Mario Kart 64. Your dad fondly remembers Pong. Your dad may have been a teenager when gaming was getting its start in arcades, playing Pac-Man 25 cents at a time. Or maybe he preferred intergalactic games like Space Invaders or Asteroids on a wood-panel analog TV that got nine channels (and six of them were static). My dad and my uncle had an Atari 2600, back when it was bleeding edge technology. (The iPhone 4S has four mil-

lion times more RAM than the 2600.) My uncle got more use out of it than my dad, but that doesn’t mean your dad wasn’t pwning n00bs before you were born. Case in point: the 2007 documentary The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters. The film focused on Steve Wiebe, a Redmond, WA father of two after the buttonmashing glory of holding the world-record high score for Donkey Kong. Sitting in his garage at an original, authentic Donkey Kong arcade cabinet, Wiebe wasted hours jumping over barrels and racking points until he reached the inevitable “kill screen” (a stage in which the game crashes due to a programming error in the hardware because it wasn’t designed to remember such a high score). Advancements in technology over the last four decades have made access to retro titles as easy as Contra with the Konami Code. Emulators and ROMs are all you need to play a 16-bit Super Nintendo games on your 1080p high-definition monitor that cost more than your car. But maybe this year’s the year to dig out your dad’s ColecoVision or Magnavox Odyssey and experience gaming from five console generations ago. Authentic, Soviet Russian Tetris anyone?

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NATURE

Darkness I

I see ghosts, what do you see? I

MATT LAW MEDIA EDITOR

I step into nothing. The icy breath of a place void of light creeps under my clothes, into my lungs. I feel the damp cold of rock beneath my fingertips as I inch along a rusted and forgotten railway. The echoes of dripping water resonate from deep in the mountainside and I imagine all my worst nightmares waiting in the darkness. Black. Black so thick and consuming it envelopes me. My hands don’t exist anymore, just an afterthought of kinaesthetic sense as I feel my way deeper into the earth. This mineshaft, bored into the mountains over 60 years ago, has been forgotten; once a place where men, made tough by life and work, chased ribbons of quartz through rock in search of sparkling riches. They conquered the darkness with headlamps and electric generators, striking deep into the heart of the earth. Their lives, their stories, now gone – lost in the darkness. I turn and look back at a pinhole of light; outside is a valley rich with life governed by the sun. In here there is nothing, no sounds except a cold drip, drip, drip. We worship the sun. In the darkest months of winter our ancestors would light fires, dance and pay homage to the comforting, life-giving fiery star in hope that it would return. The darkness is another world, one that we fear and try to tame. Our cities have destroyed

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the night – forcing shadows to creep back into the darkest regions of mountains and forests. Our primal fear of darkness is comforted by the sickly florescent glow. I move forward, carefully feeling my way into the mine. I am afraid of the darkness, the unknown and unseen. I leave my light off and feel my heart thump with each step.

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It’s 3 a.m. and your bedroom is silent; slowly you hear a whisper come from the corner, and a second later another from underneath the bed. There are three now and the third is beside you. They aren’t friends or family, they’re people who’ve passed on. This may not be your typical night, but it is for CarolAnn Matthews. On the outside, Matthews seems like a typical housewife and kind-hearted grandmother of two. But what we don’t see are the things that she does. Matthews possesses the ability to see the deceased. “I believe that I see them at the age they passed,” she says. She doesn’t see them as gruesomely overexaggerated monsters that mainstream media has made them. Instead they are just the free forms of themselves; some stuck in repetition, and some gaining love and warmth. Matthews shares her belief that “the ones on the other side are living the life,” calling the ghosts she sees “visitors” because those on the other side are capable of visiting us. According to Matthews, the “visitors” aren’t here to scare us. “They don’t have anger or jealousy, they just have love.” She does mention that some have a hard time accepting what happened

to them, and although she hasn’t seen a bad spirit, just like in life, there are bad people in death as well. Having been a member of a Psychic Society, Matthews brings up the question of fakes by boldly stating, “it infuriates me that they prey upon weak, saddened hearts.” “I think the bad ones, the fakes, have ruined it up for the better ones,” Matthews says, believing that objects such as Ouija boards can act as an easy portal for bad energies. One can see that there are no real distinctions except for her open explanations which leads one to ask ‘why?’ “I used to be afraid of being judged,” she says. Nowadays Matthews is open with her gift with those who have faith in her abilities. “This is what I believe. It may not always be true, but it’s what I think,” she says. Matthews explains that there is no exact science to her talent. As with all things we don’t understand, we might see Matthews and other psychics as shams and fakes, but she doesn’t waste time trying to argue against the grain; instead she embraces her gift and lives her life. Matthews ends with a chilling quote, verbalizing her belief that there are visitors anywhere and everywhere: “something will follow you home, I can guarantee that.”

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STARS

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BATHROOM BEARS - CUP

SCORPIO Oct. 24 - Nov. 22

TAURUS April 20 - May 20

Have you changed your diet recently? It smells like it.

A sneeze will nearly cripple you tomorrow. CHILDREN’S STORIES BY ANDREW MCLACHLAN - THE PEAK

SAGITTARIUS Nov. 23 - Dec. 21

You will receive a phone call with an incredible offer about long distance. Take it!

CAPRICORN Dec. 22 - Jan. 20

GEMINI May 21 - June 20

SMART ZONE

You aren’t as attractive as your driver’s license indicates.

CANCER June 21 - july 23

You will inadvertently shoplift several times this week.

Romance is very deﬁnitely in the air...wait, that’s doughnuts.

AQUARIUS Jan. 21 - Feb 19

You need to spend some time thinking about your future. Succeeding at sucking is not really success.

LEO July 24 - Aug. 23

The hardest part is ahead. Stay home and rest.

(CUP) — Puzzles provided by BestCrosswords.com. Used with permission.

PISCES Feb. 20 - March 20 The planetary inﬂuences will irritate your bowels this week.

ARIES March 21 - April 19 You will be taken in by the glamour and glitz of online poker and develop carpal tunnel syndrome.

VIRGO Aug. 24 - Sept. 23

Across

You will come into a nice automobile. Make sure to clean up before the owner ﬁnds out.

LIBRA Sept. 24 - Oct. 23 You will discuss a matter of grave importance with someone you mistake for a coworker.

1- Fast ﬂiers; 5- Bedouin; 9- Orgs.; 14- _ the crack of dawn; 15- Bundle; 16- Religion founded in Iran; 17Able was _ ...; 18- Pulitzer winner James; 19- Build; 20- Vessel with two masts; 22- Currency unit in Nigeria; 23- Doo-wop syllable; 24- Arabian Sea vessel; 25“The dog ate my homework,” e.g.; 29- Ancient tongue; 32- Extend into subdivisions; 34- Annoy; 39- Extended family unit; 40- Ages; 42- “The Time Machine” race; 43- Native; 45- Banner; 47- Beat by a hair; 49- Confusion; 50- Evaluate; 54- Egg head?; 56- European wheat; 57- Calcium carbonate rock; 63- Low point; 64- Dies _ ; 65- Make _ for it; 66- Clear the board; 67- Chieftain, usually in Africa; 68- Gentlewoman; 69- Continue a subscription; 70- Lacking; 71- Zeno’s home.

Down 1- Diamonds, e.g.; 2- Gush; 3- Edible corm; 4- Flower part; 5- Disconcert; 6- Disheveled; 7- “Hard _ !” (sailor’s yell); 8- Ale, e.g.; 9- Eastern Algonquian language; 10It’s a wrap; 11- Arab chief; 12- Mother-of-pearl; 13- Lute of India; 21- Yeah, right!; 24- Curt; 25- Flatfoot’s lack; 26- Composer Schifrin; 27- Muslim elder and prayerleader; 28- Common hop; 30- _ Janeiro; 31- Directional ending; 33- Fenced areas; 35- New Age musician John; 36- Inter _ ; 37- Fast-food option; 38- Half of zwei; 41Hosp. readout; 44- Lie scattered over; 46- Sgts., e.g.; 48- Realm; 50- “Lou Grant” star; 51- Surplus; 52- Fourdoor; 53- Beethoven dedicatee; 55- Swerves; 57- Falsehoods; 58- “The Joy of Cooking” author Rombauer; 59- Account; 60- Like some history; 61- Unclothed; 62“Only Time” singer