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THE VOL. 04 ISSUE 12 03.06.2012 NEWS AND CULTURE FOR THE STUDENTS OF KWANTLEN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY

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

Ousted KSA directors hired private investigator to follow critics The recently-ousted Kwantlen Student Association (KSA) executive board hired a local private investigation firm to secretly investigate several previous board members and a Runner editor.

Invoices show that the student association paid BCS Group Business Services for an investigation into several previous board members and associates, including surveillance of primary suspects, intelligence gathering on targets, cyber monitoring, and surveillance and attendance to primary targets’ residences and places of work.

Though the invoices suggest that there was more than one target, it is unknown exactly how many people the KSA had under surveillance. An email was sent Aug. 9 to BCS, identifying Reena Bali, Harj Dhesi, Nathan Griffiths, Laura Anderson and John O’Brian, as well as Runner news editor Matthew DiMera as targets. That email detailed their home addresses, vehicle makes and models and licence plate numbers.

Bali, Dhesi, Anderson and Griffiths are all former KSA board members, though

Dhesi was on the board at the time. Anderson and Griffiths are also former KSA employees. O’Brian still works for the KSA. According to their website, BCS Investigations is a West Vancouver private investigations and security consulting firm.

Bobby Padda, Jaspinder Ghuman, and Nina Sandhu of the then-KSA executive board signed the out-of-meeting motion to hire BCS Aug. 8.

A letter of engagement with BCS Investigations, dated Aug. 6, was signed by the former director of external affairs, Bobby Padda.

According to that letter, BCS was contracted to “perform an investigation of allegations and other confidential matters regarding the Kwantlen Student Association and some of its Executive Board members.

The investigation may include forensic analysis of material and intelligence to date, due diligence and profiling and surveillance.”

The KSA paid out a total of $11,862.92 to BCS Group Business Services between Aug. 8 and Oct. 20, 2011.

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Meghan Darcy Melnyk, former Mount Royal University student president (left), has been charged with bank robbery after she allegedly ripped off a Calgary credit union.

After being spotted driving away in a PT Cruiser, a police helicopter aided in her arrest, where she was found with her dog in possession of a knife. A month ago, Melnyk resigned as president of the student union after a periodic review found “several potential anomalies and policy compliance issues for which council was unable to receive a satisfactory explanation within a reasonable time

frame,” according to a press release. Melnyk faces charges of possession of a prohibited weapon and being disguised to commit an indictable offence. Melnyk has outstanding warrants aginst her for fraud, uttering forged documents and breach of probation.

The Mount Royal student newspaper, the Reflector, reported on the controversy surrounding Melnyk’s departure on Feb. 29.

Kyle MacQuarrie, who ran against Melnyk in the 2011 election, is quoted as saying, “this screams cover-up to me.”

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EDUCATION

Re-evaluating My Role as Educator Kwantlen biology lab instructor and creative writing student Lee Beavington reflects on the education process and his role as an educator. years for me to embrace this new paradigm.

I needed to learn five key lessons.

Provide a safe container.

Students need a voice. Some will be readily vocal, others hide behind a shell. A safe container is one in which students feel respected and able to contribute.

Building this container takes time and trust. Start on day one. Learn student names.

Invite questions. Avoid long lectures with little interaction. Check in with their progress. I reinforce this reciprocal foundation every week. Within this open and inviting

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entire class, follow the basic fundamentals of good communication. Always face learners. Make eye contact. Use their names. Listen as well as you speak. Too often, these simple necessities are overlooked. At all times, be approachable.

To ensure the classroom is engaging, open up a dialogue as often as possible.

Act as a fellow participant rather than an authority figure. The parcels of information we present to students is secondary to the process by which they are received, discussed, and disseminated. At the end of the day, choose purposeful conversation over static content.

To ensure the classroom is engaging, open up a dialogue as often as possible. Act as a fellow participant rather than an authority figure.

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Something wonderful happened in the biology lab this past semester. Stressed students began to laugh. The shy felt comfortable asking questions. They sometimes challenged my explanations. This spurred curious debate and conversation, and a willingness for us both to explore beyond the lesson plan. I shifted from a teacher of content to a facilitator of learning.

Post-secondary teachers are trained to be experts in their field. Yet how do we provide a suitable framework for learning?

Many instructors, including myself, are put before students with scant preparation, our

only model the example by which we were taught. Knowing the photosynthetic chloroplast mechanism in intimate detail may be important; understanding the best method for engaging students with this complex organelle is vital.

Students complain that their classes are boring, that teachers teach from the book, that they are overwhelmed by essays and exams. They complain because they are not inspired. The central role of the educator is to provide an enriching — and perhaps transformative — learning experience.

I am fortunate to work in an open-lab environment, which maximizes one-on-one time with students. Even so, it took nine

environment, students begin to trust themselves. They feel empowered and rely on their own questions. As they come alive to the process, they are no longer content to sit back and listen.

When I started nine years ago, I was the nice teacher. Now I readily challenge students. And they challenge me, without fear of judgement. The tone set and container provided permeates all levels of learning in the classroom (or in my case, the lab). If we want students to participate — and let’s face it, their participation is just as important, if not greater than, our own — we must open the door for their involvement.

Be present. Engage.

The act of being present is the single most important identity of the educator. To be present is to involve and inspire students.

Proceed with passion. My level of enthusiasm often influences a student’s level of interest and commitment to a topic.

A two-hour lecture, offered in the same manner semester after semester, serves the student no better than a Powerpoint presentation uploaded to the course website.

Engage with the student, not the content.

Whether working with one individual or an

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Be transparent.

Standing in front of the classroom, with students facing you in rows, immediately sets the stage: they are to listen, and you are to be heard. Tear down this fabricated and pedantic barrier to learning. Move around the classroom. Better yet, sit in a circle. This can be daunting for both student and teacher, but it encourages direct involvement and interaction.

I try not to hide my fallibility. If I am transparent in what I say and do, students are more inclined to be open. They speak to uncertainties, voice difficult concerns, and are confident enough to make mistakes.

And it is these mistakes from which we best learn.

“I don’t know.”

It took me years to say this without discomfort when a student asked a question whose answer, well, I did not know. Rather than act defensive, I now take this as an opportunity to explore. We have a conversation. By this example, students focus less on right and wrong, and more on the journey toward discernment and comprehension.

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EDUCATION

Second-year genetics and cell biology students Kamille Manuel (left) and Alex Nguyen speak with their lab instructor Lee Beavington in the greenhouse at Kwantlen Polytechnic University’s Surrey campus. Matt Law/The Runner

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Let the student lead.

Students are the captains of their education.

We are merely guides, or occasional mentors.

As a teacher, my primary responsibility is not to impart information, but to inspire learning. I may want to be in charge, and have control over the learning process, because shouldn’t I know best?

Weekly quizzes may keep students on task, but they may also build resentment.

Students are not paying enormous tuition to have us implant concepts and definitions.

(This bears repeating: students are paying us for a service, therefore we are obliged to provide an educational experience that they enjoy.) They want to be inspired.

Consider oral presentations over essays.

Let students have input into project topics and class discussions. The path may deviate from the lesson plan. Resist the temptation

to pull them back to the main track. Instead, look for the points of intersection. Allow for cross-pollination by connecting a diverse range of ideas. Unity of variety is fundamental to both science and creativity.

This past semester, two cell biology students created a crossover of the light reactions of photosynthesis and Super Mario Brothers. Sunlight was a power-up, electrons were mushrooms, and Bowser powered the proton pump. They had a safe place to explore this metaphorical project and were excited to bounce ideas off one another in order to bring this abstract concept to light.

This student-led experience cemented their understanding of thylakoid membranes and electron transport chains. My role was to encourage from a distance.

Studies show that the more a student is involved, the more they retain. Creativity, movement and opportunities to speak (remember, having a voice is vital) are not only beneficial to the learning process, they are essential to student empowerment. A lone teacher standing at the podium does not in-

spire involvement. The more I sacrifice control, the more students take ownership of their education.

Be mindful in your expectations.

Every student is unique. Some are auditory learners, others visual. Some need structure, others thrive in self-guided projects. To expect students to perceive, interpret and express ideas one particular way is like wearing blinders in a snowstorm. Learners, by the very nature of learning, invariably surprise me. A facilitator — I prefer this word to teacher — adapts to the needs and wants of the students at hand.

Students provide us with ample opportunity for frustration. They mix up words, give ambiguous half-answers, take shortcuts, and, at first glance, otherwise appear incompetent and unprepared. Yet such hasty conclusions are unfair and damaging toward any relationship.

I remember doing an evaluation where I pointed to a model of the kidney and asked

for the name of a specific structure. “Penis,” was the student’s response. Not what I expected. I could laugh, now or later, with my colleagues over this penile faux-pas. However, my mandate is not to ridicule but to help bridge the gap in a student’s understanding.

Why did he mistake kidney tubules for a penis? Well, the model’s oversized nephron does bear a vague resemblance to the male sex organ. Plus, the urethra is included on the model, which, of course, passes through the penis, at least in those of us with Y chromosomes. In this way, the student’s confusion and potential source of embarrassment becomes a dialogue.

Expectation is the seed of disappointment.

Be mindful to the path the student provides.

Explore the unpredictable, and find alternate paths to assimilation. As an educator and facilitator, I am constantly learning from and evolving alongside my students. The change I see in them is reflected back at me.

Forget the way you were taught. Teach the way students learn best: engaging, experiential, and open to possibility.

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South Asian Students’ Society plans Holi event the Gregorian calendar), Holi lasts two I days in most places, but goes on for up

Music masters at Kwantlen

CHRIS YEE SENIOR CULTURE WRITER

The newly established South Asian Students’ Society (SA^2), in partnership with WOOW (Women Organizing Opportunities for Women), will be hosting Kwantlen’s first-ever Holi event March 8.

Holi, also known as the Festival of Colours, is both a celebration of the coming of spring, and a reflection of Hindu mythology.

Bonfires are lit to commemorate what the legendary escape of Prahlad, the young son of a demon king called Hiranyakashipu, who resented Prahlad’s worship of the Hindu god Vishnu and forced him to sit on a pyre with his purportedly fireproof aunt Holika.

Astonishingly, as the legend goes, Prahlad’s worship of Vishnu saved him from the flames while Holika, for whom the festival of Holi is named, was burned.

On a less morbid note, Holi also commemorates the divine love between Vishnu and the goddess Radha.

According to legend, Vishnu complained to his mother about how his dark skin contrasted with Radha’s light skin and so Vishnu’s mother applied colours to Radha’s face.

Held at the end of the winter season on the Indian lunar month Phalguna (corresponding to late February or March on

to 16 days in the Northern Indian cities of Vrindavan and Mathura, places said to be Vishnu’s childhood homes.

Revellers, according to the festival’s Wikipedia entry, “go absolutely crazy,” throwing coloured powders at each other, engaging in rambunctious parades, eating lots of snacks and drinking thandai (a traditional drink containing almonds, pistachios, rose petals — and sometimes bhang, made from the leaves and buds of the Cannabis indica plant.)

Of course, Kwantlen’s version of the event will be somewhat pared down from this revelry — squished down to one day and involving none of the libations - but it will involve free food and South Asian dance performances by students.

Still, what Holi celebration is complete without the traditional playing with colours?

As the event’s Facebook page advises on account of this part of Holi, the dress code for this event is “traditionally white, but anything that you guys are comfortable with and can get dirty.”

Kwantlen’s Holi celebrations will take place on March 8, from 11:30 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. in the Surrey Main Courtyard.

For more information, check out the Facebook event page at facebook.com/ events/278134995591312/.

World renowned acoustic guitarist Celso Machado, who makes his home in Vancouver, taught a guitar master class on the Langley Campus on Feb. 24 as part of the Internationally Known, Home Grown Fraser Valley Acoustic Guitar Festival. C.H. JASSMANN/THE RUNNER.

STREETER

What do you think of the new Cariboo brand of beer at Grassroots?

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JADE ANDERSON “I’ve had it a few times. I haven’t really had the chance to drink it super frequently because I usually drink Granville Island Brewery Beer. But yeah, I like Cariboo Beer. I would definitely choose Cariboo over Sleemans.”

MARK BARTON

DANIEL BACYK

“It’s fucking beer. If I can drink it and I get drunk, thumbs the fucks up. Get Guinness on tap then, then you’ll have me jumping and skipping.”

“Honestly, I can’t say I’ve tried any beer from Grassroots. But I mean any kind of beer; new beer might be attractive to some people.”

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SATIRE

Tell us off The Vancouver Police Department’s use of police dogs and the “bite and hold” maneuver is putting the public at risk. With new weapons and uniforms, police dogs should be much more easily identified.

In your Feb. 22 article (“CFS takes credit for WTF?! campaign”), a confused student alleges that we took credit for a Valentine’s Day press conference at the legislature.

We didn’t take credit for the dozen students who held a press conference at the back door of the legislature. However, we are encouraged that the policy goals of our Education Shouldn’t be a Debt Sentence campaign (lowering the interest on student loans, increasing core funding, and reestablishing a grants program) are resonating with the students’ unions mentioned in your story. By re-packaging our campaign and re-creating our Valentine’s Day event from 2011, these student activists should be commended for following the CFS-BC’s lead to take action for affordable public education.

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ZACHARY CRISPIN CHAIRPERSON – CANADIAN FEDERATION OF STUDENTS-BRITISH COLUMBIAT ILLUSTRATION BY TYLER HUGHES/THE CAPILANO COURIER

OPINION I was shocked and appalled to see your fashion columnist writing about adding textures to your wardrobe in the last issue.

While I generally agree and appreciate what Ms. Collins has to say in her column, I was disgusted to see that she would recommend texture, of all things.

The only thing texture in fashion is good for is wiping up the inevitable vomit that will spew forth from some unsuspecting passerby as ill-informed fashionistas walk down the street.

Texture is for your grandmother or sanding down coarse wooden furniture that you fashioned with your manly hands after dragging freshly cut timber out of the woods while wearing hiking boots and flannel.

IANONYMOUS

We f*cked up In the last issue, we tagged the link to Kalvonix’s YouTube account incorrectly. The link is: youtube.com/kalvonixoftrapboyz

To student reps: make senate, board of governors relevant The elections for student representatives on the Kwantlen senate and board of governors are underway. Here’s a challenge to those running: make those bodies relevant to the rest of the student body. The board of governors and senate are hugely important facets of the Kwantlen structure. Here lies the challenge: most students don’t care about either of them.

That’s not to say that they shouldn’t, because they most definitely should care.

The senate is the highest academic body on campus, making decisions about degrees and other academic issues. The board of governors deals with the overarching business operations of the university But the responsibility to engage falls biggest on the shoulders of those elected from the student body – to speaking up for students at the highest levels in the institution.

The chance to serve is not a resumé booster. It is not a networking exercise. It is not an arena for kissing the hands of the respected members of the Kwantlen administration. First and foremost, it is a forum for standing up and advocating for students’ needs and rights.

Students deserve to have their voices heard, but we can’t do this on our own. We have full-time class schedules and part-time jobs to focus on, most of us for four years.

We need strong leaders on senate and the board of governors who hold an adversarial attitude toward the Kwantlen administration. Kwantlen students should be actively heard in as many aspects of Kwantlen’s decision-making processes as possible. The university’s reason to exist lies in our wellrounded education, after all. Our education does not end when we leave the classroom

— it is not confined to one-and-a-half hours, twice a week.

So why is it that we accept little more than a stiff formality — mere tolerance of the student voice on the part of Kwantlen administrators during these meetings. Are the officials to blame? Not entirely.

Kwantlen students have become accustomed to lacklustre leadership from our student reps, both in the KSA and on senate and the board of governors, despite earnest and honourable efforts from certain members. Institutional memory is a powerful thing.

This election, do your research. If you find yourself talking with a candidate for either body, ask them tough questions.

After the election, ask them even tougher questions. We can start to be heard.

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OFFICIAL SENATE AND BOARD OF GOVERNORS ELECTION GUIDE The races for the Kwantlen senate and board of governors (BOG) are heating up, with eight students vying for seats. The Runner’s editorial team has done some of the legwork to help you pick the best people for the jobs.

All five of the candidates who participated in our gruelling interview process are running in both races, for one of two seats on the BOG and for one of four on the senate.

Though the final grades ranged from As to Cs, each and every one of the candidates were eloquent, well-prepared and more than capable of representing students.

We asked them the same set of questions and gave them a grade out of 100. They were evaluated in four categories: qualifications & commitment, knowledge of the issues, advocating for students and campaign promises. For brevity’s sake, we were unable to include all of their answers in our print edition, but you can find their detailed scores on our website next Friday.

There were no right or wrong answers to most of our questions. We simply wanted to see how informed the candidates were about the issues and what sort of representatives they would be. Here are the questions we asked, and the real reasons why we chose them.

QUALIFICATIONS & COMMITMENT (26 per cent) • What extra-curricular involvement have you had at Kwantlen and in the community? Do they have the needed experience to be effective and are they connected to the Kwantlen community?

• Why are you running for office? Are they interested in making a difference or just in padding their resume?

• What role do the senate and the BOG have with the KSA? Will you be taking your voting seat on the KSA if you are elected to the senate? The first was a trick question to see if they understood that the university and KSA are separate

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organizations. The second was to see if they were going to help rebuild the KSA. Have you attended any BOG or senate meetings? Do they know what they’re getting in to? Have they shown some initiative?

KNOWLEDGE OF THE ISSUES (29 per cent) • What is the most important issue facing students and how would you deal with it?

• Who are the current chairs and student reps?

• What are your positions on (1) the amalgamation of the social sciences and humanities faculties?; (2) an extended reading break?; and (3) Bill 18?

How connected are you to actual students?

Have you done any homework on the current board and on the relevant issues, and do you have any real ideas or solutions?

STUDENT ADVOCACY (25 per cent) • What is your position on childcare on campus? How can education be made more affordable? If you are elected, will you represent students or the university? How do you intend to speak your mind, if the board is required to speak with “one voice?” Too many students reps on the senate and the BOG in the past have not been strong voices for student issues, so we wanted to know what kind of advocates they would be. We also wanted to know if they would be more likely to side with student interests or with the university when pushed.

PROMISES (20 per cent) • What are you promising students, if you are elected? Politicians are infamous for making promises and then not keeping them. We judged their promises and their platforms on their honesty, their ideas, their practicality and their ambition. We also intend to hold the winners accountable to their promises.

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CHRIS GIRODAT

Iman Ghahremani, a fourth-year criminology and sociology student, scores high marks for his involvement with multiple university committees and the faculty council for social sciences. He has also recently joined several KSA committees, in an effort to help rebuild their organization.

He is campaigning on a platform for extended library hours, or if that is too expensive, he would also settle for extended open hours for another building on campus. He feels that students need a safe place to study on the weekends.

He has done some research on the potential costs of his ideas.

He also will push for on-campus daycare. He acknowledges that these projectss might not happen immediately, but he promises that progress will be made.

Ghahremani also criticizes the current board representatives for not being more visible on campus and promises to be more available and transparent if elected.

He loses points for not having attended any senate or board meeting before deciding to run. However, he does have a firm grasp of most of the issues currently facing the senate.

In our opinion, Ghahremani would be a strong addition to the university senate.

Chris Girodat, a second-year policy studies student, says he first ran because the university wasn’t doing a good job of communicating to students. In his current senate term, he has taken a strong stance for students.

He believes that the most important issue for students is finances: tuition, student fees, loans and textbooks. He says the university needs to change the way they write their budget and questions why money is being spent on furniture for administrators when other departments are facing cutbacks.

He helped oust the previous KSA board and hopes to continue reforming the student association.

If re-elected, he promises to hold monthly townhall meetings with students so that they can be more involved with the bodies that control the university. He also wants to include more students within the university’s committees and not just the students who have been handpicked by faculty or administrators.

Of all the candidates, Girodat has the strongest understanding of the relevant issues and thus receives our highest grade.

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Qualifications/Commitment 20/26 Knowledge of the Issues 20/29 Student Advocacy 18.5/25 Promises 17/20

75.5/100

Qualifications/Commitment 20.5/26 Knowledge of the Issues 27/29 Student Advocacy 21.5/25 Promises 15/20

85/100

GOVERNORS ELECTION

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KARI MICHAELS

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JARED PENLAND

KERI VAN GERVEN

Kari Michaels, a third-year philosophy student, has been a welcome change to the senate in her first term, compared to some of the more passive student representatives in the recent past. She has openly questioned decisions made by the university and repeatedly brought student issues back to the table.

Michaels received our highest grade for student advocacy and we hope that all of the students who are elected take her example to heart.

She believes that the key to making education more affordable is to cut administrative costs and not student programs.

Michaels sits on one of the university’s Foundations of Excellence committees and is involved in multiple university clubs, including the Animal Rights Collective, the Grey Matters Philosophy Club, and Women Organizing Opportunities for Women. She also volunteers for Kwantlen Positive Space.

Michaels loses points for not having attended any board of governors meetings.

If re-elected she promises to create a student caucus, so that more students are represented at the decision-making table.

Jared Penland, a third-year philosophy and political science student, is involved with the university and within the community. He participates in Rotary and sits on one of the university’s Foundations of Excellence committees.

Penland has an extremely high grasp of senate and board of governor issues, scoring second-highest in that category. He identified high parking fees and daycare as issues of concern to students.

He promises to do his best to extend library hours and to be vocal about student issues. He has also done some research into the costs of keeping buildings open over the weekend.

He is critical of current senators Robert Mumford and Nikki Pearce for not being vocal enough about student issues. He compliments Kari Michaels for being vocal, but criticizes her for being abrasive.

Penland loses marks for not having attended any senate or board of governors meetings. Although some of his answers left us with the impression that he would be more likely to side with the university over student interests, we believe that he would be a vocal student representative on senate.

Keri Van Gerven, a third-year political science, psychology and philosophy student, scores the lowest of all of our candidates.

She is heavily involved within the university’s president’s ambassadorial team, but lacks some of the experience of the other candidates on governing bodies and committees.

She believes that senate members should stay out of student association politics and concentrate on academic issues.

She is critical of some current student representatives for not showing sufficient respect for the history and the seriousness of the senate and the board.

When it comes to finances, she believes that students are getting good value for their money, since Kwantlen tuition is cheaper than UBC or SFU, but still wouldn’t vote to increase tuition this year.

She loses marks for not having attended any senate or board of governors meetings.

She receives half marks for committing to attend all meetings, and for her honesty in not making promises she can’t or won’t keep. Her lack of new ideas or priorities hurts her final score.

Even though she scores the lowest on our test, Van Gerven would still make an able senate or board representative.

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Qualifications/Commitment 20/26 Knowledge of the Issues 21/29 Student Advocacy 22.5/25 Promises 16/20

79.5/100

Qualifications/Commitment 15/26 Knowledge of the Issues 22.5/29 Student Advocacy 15.5/25 Promises 15/20

67.5/100

Qualifications/Commitment 12/26 Knowledge of the Issues 20/29 Student Advocacy 14/25 Promises 12/20

58/100

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THE OTHERS There are three other candidates who are not featured in this year’s election guide.

Robert Mumford and Deborah MacLellan are running together for senate and the board of governors, while Mark Thomas is just running for the board. They did not respond to e-mailed requests for interviews and are thus out of the running for an official endorsement.

Especially in light of the controversy that embroiled the KSA over the past year, we believe that all students running for public office owe it to the Kwantlen community to make themselves and their platforms available for public scrutiny.

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ENDORSED Senate • Iman Ghahremani • Chris Girodat • Kari Michaels • Jared Penland Board of Governors • Chris Girodat • Kari Michaels

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ARTS

Surrey Urban Screen changes the landscape of arts Liane Davison, manager of visual community and arts in Surrey, explains how digital technology has changed how we share and experience images.

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KRISTI ALEXANDRA CULTURE EDITOR

Looking east between the Gateway and Surrey Central Skytrain stations stands the Chuck Bailey Recreation Centre, a venue for activities, culture and art.

Its innovative, modern design reflects the daily spirit of the Surrey arts community, but its most emphatic feature won’t even be noticed until sundown. That’s when the Surrey Urban Screen — Canada’s largest, non-commercial art projection screen — lights up on the east side of the building, showcasing exhibitions from interactive installations to moving images, in conjunction with the Surrey Art Gallery.

Liane Davison, manager of visual and community arts and director of the Surrey Art Gallery, says that presenting digital images in a public setting is just part of the dialogue in how digital technology is changing how we experience art.

“What kind of space do we experience art in?” Davison muses. “In 2008, when we started on the [Surrey Urban Screen] project, that was around the time when we were saying ‘let’s envision not presenting the photographs we might create using digital technology in the old way — like printing them out, framing them

and putting them on a wall — let’s think about the idea of presenting them on a screen, outside. Let’s talk about screening them outside in the public realm.’”

Davison likens the idea of taking photography outside of the gallery, from its traditional venue to an urban screen, to the phenomena of online photo sharing.

“Artists were looking at photography now, and the idea of what photographs are, because they’re not just single images. They’re also these phenomena of the databases, like Flickr. The idea of hundred of thousands of photographs being posted and shared on a daily basis — on an hourly basis even. So what is that? What are we doing? What are we learning? How are we changing our awareness of the world? How is that connecting us, when I think of the sunrise in Surrey versus the experience of a sunrise in Borneo? Artists are really interested in how they communicate those ideas and experiences, they do it through making art but they’re also really interested in the actual venue,” she says.

That’s why she and the artists made the proposal that the east wall of the Chuck Bailey Centre be considered a projection venue.

Since its inception, the venue has been host to exhibitions like Fiction Façade, a tribute to the

Top: Urban Visuals (Konstantinos Mavromichalis & Nathan Whitford), Fiction Façade (2011), installation image.

Courtesy of the artists, photographed by Brian Giebelhaus. Bottom: Flicker Art Media (Aleksandra Dulic & Kenneth Newby), Transience (2010), installation image. Courtesy of the artists, photographed by Sharon Doucette.

phenomena of arcade games and online gaming, which responds to a person’s presence by triggering artwork and creating on-the-fly compositions from stock sounds of vintage arcade games. It also hosted the Rewrite The Year project, an interactive installation that allowed participants to change headlines from the past year’s news that were projected on the screen to fit with an ideal concept of news. The screen’s most recent exhibition, Electric Speed, is a comment on media critic Marshall McLuhan’s legacy.

The Surrey Urban Screen continues to push

the envelope in how we experience art and media, and Davison is adamant that the space should be kept commercial-free.

“Surrey Urban Screen is generally recognized as the largest, and it might be completely the only non-commercial, urban screen in Canada — maybe even North America. That’s a big deal. The negotiation of that public space and what that space is for — you know, who owns that space? We are so inundated with advertising that have an agenda for a particular kind of consumption, and this offers an alternative to that,” she says.

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CITY

Illustrated Vancouver project draws on the city I

CHRIS YEE SENIOR CULTURE WRITER

Jason Vanderhill, self-described eclectic collector, is the curator of the image blog Illustrated Vancouver. He started the blog in 2010 to “document 1,000 works of art depicting Vancouver, British Columbia — past, present, and future.”

Over the past year and a half, Vanderhill has collected a diverse array of images: paintings, political cartoons, architectural drawings of buildings both built and unbuilt, and illustrations on brochures.

But Vanderhill does more than simply collect pictures, he describes where each piece comes from with a curator’s sense of detail — sometimes being on the verge of miniature local history lessons.

The Runner‘s Chris Yee chatted with the creator of Illustrated Vancouver: Chris Yee: Who are you?

Jason Vanderhill: I am a relatively new resident of B.C.; I’ve been here for about six years, and I’ve always been somewhat of an eclectic collector. [It] started with matchbooks, business cards, Hot Wheels, comic books and now fine art.

CY: Where were you from originally?

JV: I’m a Canadian; born in London, Ontario. Both my parents are Dutch, so I feel a bit patriotic to the Netherlands, even though I’ve only been there for one week.

CY: What sort of art do you collect?

JV: Actually, I should clarify. It’s not so much fine art that I’m interested in or compelled by. I like a lot of commercial art, comic art — street art as well. Essentially, work that is done by the hand of the artist. And, in fact, most of the work that I do appreciate is fairly representational … so it might be described as nostalgic, or old fashioned. However, I think that’s short sighted, as classical representation is in my mind, timeless.

CY: I guess you also have something of an interest in place, too, and how it is represented?

JV: Absolutely. I find the psychology of place

fascinating, and it can really be rendered magnificently in art, as opposed to a conventional photograph.

CY: What is your background in art?

JV: Ironically, I have a background in photography, but a new-found respect for traditional techniques, from sketching, drawing, [and] painting. I am not really formally taught in art but for a few university-level classes; most of my training came first from browsing auction catalogs in second-hand stores, later to browsing those same catalogs online.

I should also add: I made the Eastside Culture Crawl one of my annual pilgrimages, so that had a big influence on my localcentric interest in art.

CY: So, the meat of the matter: what is your image blog project, Illustrated Vancouver about?

JV: As the bio says, it’s an online project to document 1,000 works of art depicting Vancouver, British Columbia — past, present, and future. At least, that was the original goal I set for myself. I’ve already surpassed 500 posts, so I’m well on my way. Last year was a big year, with Vancouver125 celebrations all around, and I wanted to participate in some small way. I figured I could make this my own personal Vancouver125 project, and so I aimed to post an image a day.

It was pretty rigorous to keep up the pace, so I’ve slowed down somewhat, depending on how much time I have in a given week, or how much art I come across …

CY: How did it get started? Was it just on an internet-fuelled whim, or is there a story behind it?

JV: There are a lot of influences converging, but I think the real mechanism that makes it happen is the Internet itself. I make a point to include as much attribution I can find for a given work, from title, artist, year, medium and subject matter. That’s where doing background research on the web can lead to a snowballing amount of fascinating anecdotes, often leading me to more and more future posts.

I also think the local landscape is underappreciated in its hometown, so I took it

This painting of Nelson and Granville Street is just one of 1,000 images that Vanderhill will share with followers of Illustrated Vancouver. Painting of Nelson & Granville 2009, by Taralee Guild. (Used with permission)

upon myself to take on this challenge as my own personal internet meme.

CY: Yeah, I’ve noticed more and more historical posts on the Illustrated Vancouver blog, and not just images — just lots of stuff from Past Tense Vancouver [a Vancouver history blog] and such. What’s your connection to the Vancouver historical community?

JV: Past Tense Vancouver is a real inspiration.

I’m constantly amazed at his work, and I’m really proud we’ve been able to share a few stories back and forth. I’ve not yet met him in person, but I’m sure I will get that opportunity one day. I am closely connected to the Vancouver Historical Society, and when I first came to Vancouver, I went on all the JohnAtkin.com walking tours [as] I possibly could. It was an amazing education of the city. I also had the opportunity to work on the City Reflections film project in 2007, so I got to work alongside [the late] Chuck Davis [a Vancouver historian, known for The Greater Vancouver Book (1997)], among all the other great committee members!

CY: What do you plan to do with the 1,000 works of art once you’ve got them all up on the blog? Make a book? And while we’re on it, what do you think of your work (and

others’) in terms of Chuck Davis’s legacy?

JV: I’m quite proud that I was able to show Chuck the very beginnings of my site before he passed away, as he was indeed one of the early inspirations.

To answer your question: I plan to leave the 1,000 works online, for the most part.

Actually, quite often, I don’t even see the original work; either I come across an artist’s website, or a picture in a magazine. My goal was to create a visual archive of this genre, partly as historical research for my own interests and projects, but also to inspire the artists today to see their work in a historical context.

I do try and feature vintage work alongside contemporary, as well as commercial art alongside fine art.

That was also one of the goals of the project: to collect art without actually collecting the artifact, and to break down barriers that exist within traditional art galleries themselves. Digital curation is somewhat of an emerging hobby, and I was impressed by Chuck’s own ability to embrace the internet.

From the site he created, to crowdsourcing the history from your own community and the world beyond. He was really enthusiastic about the web. I agree. The internet is an amazing place for historical research.

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VINYL

Vinyl Dust-off: Lanegan’s Blues Funeral I

LLIAM EASTERBROOK SENIOR FEATURES WRITER

4/5 RECORDS

Mark Lanegan is one of the only relics of the grunge age with an untarnished image.

Chris Cornell fell into the stinky pop lacuna via Timbaland, Scott Weiland had his horrendous Christmas album, and Billy Corgan is now just an insane megalomaniac — a Skeletor-meets-fetus looking man who dates dingbats like Jessica Simpson and goes through musicians like Hitler blitzkrieged his way through European countries.

Somehow the big two of the alternative era — Eddie Vedder and Kurt Cobain — managed to thwart idiocracy respectively: Vedder through timely reclusiveness and Cobain through a self-inflicted shotgun blast to the chops.

That leaves Lanegan, the man in the corner, smoking, watching.

Lanegan, ex-shaman of Seattle’s psychedelically grunged The Screaming Trees and part-time growler for Josh Homme’s Queens of the Stone Age, has never had a funk. The man just broods, where happiness is a funk to be shaken from the head like nightmares. If depression is the essence of art, Lanegan has the blues worse than a breathing man stuck inside a nailed coffin.

Seven solo albums in — not to mention collaborations with Greg Dulli of the Afghan Wigs, Scottish singer Isobel Campbell and Britain’s electronica outfit Soulsavers — Lanegan is producing his best work yet.

Released this February, Blues Funeral is another stone in the Mark Lanegan cobblework, an alleyway crowded by dark eyes, vermilion cigarette embers, breaking glass, whores, thieves and broken relationships — all transfixed by a metaphysical scape blossomed from mythical symbol and imagery.

Here guitars are mostly subdued, sparse and layered behind synths and drum machines. (I never expected Lanegan would ever use a drum machine — but here, it works).

Jack Irons — formerly of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Pearl Jam — conjures the beats on BF, so I guess that’s why it refrains from sounding like (c)rap.

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The opening track (and lead single), “the Gravedigger’s Song”, begins with a throbbing bass line and scruffy guitars.

Lanegan sings, “with piranha teeth/I’ve been dreaming of you.” A hint of the twisted lyrical incantations about to come from his rough chords.

Synths gradually slide in, eerie waves layering the album’s best song.

“St. Louis Elegy” is one of the most spare and hauntingly beautiful songs Lanegan has ever done.

A simple beat and loose instrumentation give the song openness, an atmosphere of its own.

“I hear the winter will cut you quick/ if tears were liquor I’d have drunk myself sick,” Lanegan croons before the swirling vocal chorus with guest collaborator Greg Dulli.

“Riot in my House” is a rocker a la Queens of the Stone Age, with Homme wailing on guitar as Lanegan reflects on coming down off drugs — “strung out in metal cages/ see technicolour pour/ from every laceration/

I realize that I’m slowly coming down with you.”

Lanegan’s voice has always been a gothic pillar, smoother and less bombastic than Tom Waits while gritting more bravado than Leonard Cohen.

His voice seethes a coarseness that seemingly comes from many lonely nights with a bottle and a pack of Marlboros.

There’s a delicate wisdom in there, it’s a voice that evokes the tried and true wisdom of the Lone Wolf.

The man’s dealt with addiction and death his whole life (he was friends with Cobain and Layne Staley — dead addicts both), so ruminating about the dark underbelly is familiar and honest.

That being said, a few critics squawk that Lanegan is bordering on cliché.

“He’s been the dark brooding artist for 20 years,” they say, or that lyrical references to anything mythological or abstract (a la the Lizard King) are laughable at best.

This is when you know a critic belongs in a dimpled leather armchair with a pair of

slippers instead of a grimy bar where goers are doing cocaine off toilet seats and guzzling beer like Hells Angels at a bike show in 1965.

I mean if I heard Lanegan born-again or happy, I’d think the world was fucking ending, and that anvils were about to drop from the sky like a throng of locusts.

He finds solace in the dark, and if the critics are tired of that dark they should go dig the Beach Boys or Journey or Toto or Lamb Chop.

Lanegan isn’t like Edgar Allen Poe: his art is not a façade.

When he’s singing “a diamond headed serpent climbs a vine/ see all the children lose their minds,” he’s probably just referencing a trip to the zoo — that or an event of biblical proportion he’s witnessed in some outer realm.

Either way, Blues Funeral is his best work yet.

Play it loud. Play it proud.

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MUSIC

Symphony X gets more epic: there are no plans to change I

JACOB ZINN CONTRIBUTOR

Ranked #91 on Guitar World’s 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Guitarists of All Time, Michael Romeo has accomplished a lot in 18 years since starting the progressive metal group Symphony X. The 43-year-old New Yorker boasts 10 studio albums with the band (the most recent being 2011’s Iconoclast) and remains one of only two static members within the world-touring group.

He tells The Runner’s Jacob Zinn about the band’s double-billed North American trek with Iced Earth, recording their new album in his basement and mankind’s dependence on technology – but not robots taking over the world or anything like that.

Jacob Zinn: Symphony X is one of the more well-known neo-classical metal bands out there. When you founded the band in 1994, did you foresee the progression and evolution of the genre reaching its mainstream popularity today?

Michael Romeo: You always kind of hope that more people will embrace what you do, but honestly, I never really thought too much about that. It was always just about doing what we like to do. That’s really all it was in the beginning, but it’s good to see where it’s at today.

Jacob Zinn: Feb. 14 was Symphony X’s first performance in Vancouver. How was your debut performance in our city?

Michael Romeo: Any place for the first time that we’re at is definitely a cool experience.

We hadn’t ever been there and it was a good show. The fans were really cool, everybody was really cool. It’s always a good thing to get to a new place you haven’t been, get to see the fans, do the show.

Jacob Zinn: You performed at the Commodore on Valentine’s Day. Did the band discuss playing any symphonic power ballads?

Michael Romeo: Nah. [Laughs] We didn’t want to do something cheesy, y’know, some silly love song that has no place there. There were a couple couples there that we talked to after the show and they said, “My boyfriend brought me to the show for Valentine’s Day,” so that was cool enough for us.

Jacob Zinn: Warbringer is opening for you on this tour and you’re co-headlining with Iced Earth. How have they been as supporting acts?

Michael Romeo: Everything’s been really great.

We’ve met [Iced Earth] in the past, but this is the first time we’ve been on a tour with them and we get along great, man, good times.

Same with the Warbringer guys. The tour as a package is definitely cool too because we’re all metal bands but we’re different enough that each band offers something.

Jacob Zinn: You’ve been trading off on the headlining spot with Iced Earth. Does your set change depending on when you take the stage?

Michael Romeo: They do 90 minutes, we do 90 minutes, it doesn’t matter who’s in what slot.

No stress, no worries.

Jacob Zinn: After this tour, you’re playing a few festivals in Europe. What do North American fans need to do to get these amazing metal festivals on this side of the Atlantic?

Michael Romeo: I really don’t know. Somebody would have to kind of step up and put one together and really organize something like that. We did the Gigantour years back, and actually that was really cool. I think that did a lot for us here. But it’s not like Europe where all summer long, there’s festivals every time you turn around. The more of these that there are, the better, and we would love to play all of them.

Jacob Zinn: The new album, Iconoclast, has a theme of technology taking over the world.

How did this idea come about as inspiration for the album?

Michael Romeo: With every album we do, we try to find some kind of a theme or an idea, something to kind of guide the lyrics and the music a little bit without maybe telling a story or getting too complicated. One day, I was just in my studio hanging out, listening to some different music. I like a lot of film music – all the big orchestral, Star Wars stuff, Lord of the Rings – the big epic stuff. I think it was The Matrix soundtrack I had playing and it kind of sparked the idea, “what if it was

this man and machine and technology kind of thing?” And the next day or two, I just started banging out a couple ideas and some riffs.

More textures within the music that kind of had that technology vibe or a sci-fi thing. That’s pretty much where it started.

Jacob Zinn: This album, as well as your previous two, was recorded at your home studio named The Dungeon. Where did the name come from and can you describe the atmosphere within it?

Michael Romeo: Where the hell did that come from? It was probably my family, the wife and kids.

“Where’s Dad?” “Oh, he’s down in his Dungeon.” I guess that kind of stuck. It’s in my basement and it’s a good atmosphere for us to work.

I have some really good gear and the rooms sound good. We definitely do take our time with these records and it works well that we can have a place where we can just kind of hang out and experiment a little without freaking out about Symphony X guitarist Michael Romeo gave the crowd chills at the the time and losing money. There’s band’s Feb. 14 show at The Commodore Ballroom. JACOB ZINN/THE no real schedule, we’ll just go until RUNNER. we need to sleep.

Jacob Zinn: Recently, you’ve been playing a lot of new songs in your set lists. How have the crowds responded to your latest work?

Michael Romeo: Really good. When the album came out, all the press that we saw was really positive, and like with every album, we really put a lot into it. There was just so much music that we had, it turned out to be a double record. A lot of times, the fans want to hear some older material or whatever, and we try to get some stuff in there, but usually that first tour right after the release of a new record, we just want to get the new stuff out there. Sometimes we’ll take it to an older song that some of the older fans that have been with us for a while, they love it, they go crazy.

Jacob Zinn: You’re known for some lengthy orchestral songs like “The Divine Wings of Tragedy” (20:43) and “The Odyssey” (24:14). I take it you don’t release your albums on vinyl?

Michael Romeo: The last two [Iconoclast and Paradise Lost] have been on vinyl, and honestly, I don’t even have a record player. I have them at the house and I still haven’t even listened to them. I really haven’t had a chance to go out and find a turntable. I wouldn’t even know where the hell to look.

Jacob Zinn: Do you perform those marathon songs live often, and if so, how have crowds responded to them?

Michael Romeo: There’s been times in the past where we’ve done “Divine Wings”, and “The Odyssey” we’ve done a pretty good amount.

We were in Greece for the first time a couple months back and we just thought that would be the right place, if we were going to play “The Odyssey”, to do it in Greece. We actually pulled that out that night. We were even talking about the next album what we could do and maybe this time we’ll bring back a long, epic kind of thing.

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Back in 1996, when Eve Ensler wrote The Vagina Monologues, V-Day was pretty much shorthand for Valentine’s Day, in the same way that Xmas stands for Christmas.

Sixteen years, 48 translations and countless performances in over 140 countries later, V-Day now signifies a whole myriad of things: hope, pride, and an uproarious celebration of vaginas worldwide.

From Feb. 14 to 18, UBC held performances of The Vagina Monologues and its companion piece A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer as part of V-Day, a global movement to end violence against women and girls.

This year marked the 12th anniversary of UBC’s V-Day, which is run entirely by volunteers who donate proceeds to various charities and beneficiaries, including UBC’s Sexual Assault Support Centre, PACE (“a sex worker led and driven organization offering low-barrier programming, support and safe respite for sex workers in Vancouver”) and V-Day International.

This year, the production was led by Winnie Sun and Fernanda Fukamati and featured a cast of at least 30 performers.

“Working with the cast was phenomenal,” said Fernanda.

“After spending so much time together in a supportive, creative, activist environment, everyone grew very close. It was beautiful to see how loving the cast was towards each other; always helping each other out, encouraging one another, and having fun together. The backstage vibe was characterized by lots of (loving) vagina jokes, piano playing, and laughter.”

The show contained many well-acted monologues, most filled with joy and levity, such as “The Moans”, which boasted a triple-orgasm lasting at least as many minutes (crowd laughter and all), as well as several moving performances that left the audience in hushed reverence for the material.

Celine Grainger, who performed as a trans woman in The Vagina Monologues piece “They Beat The Girl Out Of My Boy…Or So They Tried,” and as a young African woman who almost became the victim of rape in the MMRP piece “Banana Beer Bath,” called the entire production, from September to February, “a fantastic experience.”

“The cast has become like a family to me, and I have been amazed at all of their talent and dedication throughout this process.”

“I now consider myself a feminist, and I’m not sure that I would have been able to do that before I was in The Vagina Monologues. I’ve learned that it is something I can be proud of,” said Grainger.

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GREAT BEING A SKELETON - DINGER.CA

VIRGO Aug. 24 - Sept. 23

PISCES Feb. 20 - March 20 Don’t let others slow you down. Slice their Achilles tendon and leave them to die.

Don’t pay for someone else’s spatula. Unless it is shaped like Darth Vader’s head.

ARIES March 21 - April 19 Don’t hang out with a Pisces for a little while. They have some rage issues to deal with.

TAURUS April 20 - May 20

LIBRA Sept. 24 - Oct. 23

SMART ZONE

It’s best to not pay for sex this week, give that rash some time to heal.

SCORPIO Oct. 24 - Nov. 22

Giving someone else control will cause an argument ... and nobody likes to argue in bed.

Having scorpion claws would be really cool, don’t you think. You could just pincer things all day.

Pincer pincer pincer pincer.

GEMINI May 21 - June 20

SAGITTARIUS Nov. 23 - Dec. 21

Trust your judgment Gemini. TRUST IT. Don’t get caught in sticky situations. Such as a vat of honey - although that would be awesome, especially if there are girls in bikinis, or bees.

(CUP) — Puzzles provided by BestCrosswords.com.

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CANCER June 21 - July 23

CAPRICORN Dec. 22 - Jan. 20

You will learn a valuable lesson this week. Ummm ... don’t run with ... sausages?

LEO July 24 - Aug. 23

Take heed of the criticism you are given. Then smack the bitch silly who gave it to you.

You must protect your possessions from evil mustachioed men. Never trust a cookie duster.

AQUARIUS Jan. 21 - Feb 19

This is the dawning of the age of you. Age of you.

You! You!

Across 1- Acclaim; 6- _ well...; 10- _ avis; 14- Olds model; 15- Coil; 16- Not much; 17- Extent; 18- Art Deco designer; 19- E-mail command; 20- Ashtabula’s lake; 21- Office of a bishop; 23- Pedantic; 25- Shudder; 26- Ref’s decision; 27- Gave a hoot; 29- Eagle’s home; 32- Descendant of Cain; 33- Fish eggs; 36_ -a-brac; 37- Christmas song; 38- Voting-pattern predictor; 39- Actress Merkel; 40- Brief appearance; 41- Small change; 42- Head lock; 43- Flight formation; 44- Refrain; 47- Cloths; 51- Entertainment; 54Burn the midnight oil, studying; 55- The King _ ; 56- Tabula _ ; 57- Jewelled crown worn by women; 58- Worry; 59- K-6; 60- Computer key; 61- Sardine containers; 62- _ -deucey; 63- Discharge;

Down 1- Having auricular protuberances; 2- Mild cigar; 3- Russian revolutionary leader; 4- Containing divalent silver; 5- Digit of the foot; 6- Beth preceder; 7- Actress Petty; 8- A great deal; 9- Ghostly; 10- Uttered gratingly; 11- First-stringers; 12- Cost; 13- European viper; 21- That, in Tijuana; 22- Hurler Hershiser; 24- Tina’s ex; 27- Heals; 28- Peek follower; 29- “Aladdin” monkey; 30- Directional ending; 31- Narrow inlet; 32- Packs tight; 33- CD- _ ; 34Cheer for Manolete; 35- Golfer Ernie; 37- Roman capital of Palestine; 38- Shrill; 40- Essence; 41- Ball belle; 42- Characteristics; 43- Covered vehicle; 44Skill; 45- Artist Rousseau; 46- Ancient; 47- Frothy; 48- Angry; 49- Feels for; 50- Stylish; 52- Apply powder to oneself; 53- Aha!; 57- Driver’s aid;

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