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Bige resigns from KSA executive

The Kwantlen Student Association (KSA) lost another executive last week. Melinda Bige resigned as the KSA’s director of student life Sept. 6, but will remain as the Aboriginal constituency representative on council.

“I don’t have enough [professional] support to do my job, and I don’t have enough emotional support to do my job, and because of that my mental health was really suffering,” says Bige.

She has been involved in the KSA since 2011, as an Aboriginal representative and she was elected by council as the director of student life last spring.

Bige says that she is sad to not have finished her full term as director of student life, but decided to leave in order to focus on her position as aboriginal constituency representative and her classes.

“This is where I need to be and the bureaucracy of the Kwantlen Student Association is always going to be there,”Bige says.

She plans to continue pushing for the creation of an indigenous studies program at Kwantlen, as well as bringing a voice to aboriginal issues on campus.

Her parting words to the KSA executive committee were, “Don’t be blind, and if you’re not healthy then the KSA cannot be healthy.” — Sarah Schuchard

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During the summer semester, Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) students may have noticed a lack of food available on the Surrey campus. KPU decided to close the Surrey campus Sodexo cafeteria to students during part of the summer semester.

According to Joanne Saunders, KPU director of marketing services, the university chose to close the cafeteria for the months of July and August due to a lack of traffic. She adds that the university probably thought that students could have access to the GrassRoots Café on campus, an establishment funded by the Kwantlen Student Association (KSA).

“People can’t be walking around all the time trying to get food across the street [and] missing class, and you don’t have a lot of time to go between class to get a cup of coffee,” says Arzo Ansary, KSA director of student services.

Erin Maclean, manager of Surrey campus Sodexo cafeteria, was unavailable for comment before deadline.

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Students chant about sexual assault

Saint Mary’s University students were filmed chanting against consent during their frosh week. According to coverage by CBC, a 15-second video, posted to Instagram on Sept. 2, depicted students on a football field chanting about sexually assaulting underage girls.

The specific lyrics of the chant were, “Y is for your sister, U is for underage, N is for no consent ... Saint Mary’s boys we like them young.”

The Halifax-based university is promising disciplinary actions against the students involved. and the frosh week leaders and the student association executive will be made to participate in sensitivity training. Additionally, Saint Mary’s student union executives will be sent to a conference to become educated on consent and sexual violence. — Sarah Schuchard

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Pro-rape sentiments blur lines for sexual consent on campuses Chanting Halifax students oblivious to the real message.

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Blurring the lines of consensual sex seems to be a popular thing in our current society. Popular media — music, and television — have helped sustain and normalize the existence of an apparent rape culture.

Take last week’s incident at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax. The Frosh week leaders — both male and female — are reported to have led a chant in front of hundreds of enthusiastic new students singing: “SMU boys we like them YOUNG! Y is for your sister. O is for oh so tight. U is for underage.

N is for no consent. G is for grab that ass.”

Sexist? Yes. Little bit rapey? Definitely, more than a little. Are people alarmed by that message? Heck yes!

What is even more disconcerting is that the 80 students organizing the event thought that

nothing was wrong and the chant had been part of opening activities for a number of years.

Okay, the university is embarrassed on behalf of the students and are sending said students to sensitivity training about assault and proper consent , but will they take anything away from it that will really help curtail the consequences of rape culture?

Apparently they’re “shocked and disappointed by their own behaviour” and show “a ton of remorse for their actions.” Jared Perry, president of SMU’s students’ association goes on to say, “it’s one of those things that you don’t realize after the fact.”

Is it? This isn’t an isolated incident. All across Canada and the United States and all western nations, the desensitization of rape and assault is prevalent to the point where speaking out against it makes you the outsider. The odd one.

In the end, attitudes arise such as this one: a second year psychology student from

SMU said in a CBC article, “It wasn’t a big victim, ready for abduction.” deal to me. I’m not a feminist kind of person.

People sing along because it’s popular It didn’t affect me personally.” and catchy and don’t understand the connotations of the lyrics. Or they do and they Allowing rape culture to persist in a soci- rationalize that Perry is popular and famous ety that strives for equality is damaging. and if she’s singing about wanting to be Many of us are still Y.O.U.N.G but should abducted than obviously there’s nothing wrong with a little bit of fun. know the danger in all these blurred Whether it’s kids singing along to lyrics lines. about getting taken advantage of, or chantWhen does it start to affect us? When the ing along to lyrics about no consent for your lyrics these university students are joking little sister, it’s all ingrained to the point that about turn into real actions? When someone it’s deemed socially acceptable. It’s only you know is the victim of an “N is for no when those concerned or outraged by the consent” anecdote. When it’s you? message speak up and make a stink that it’s When does it become assault? even dealt with.

Part of this issue arises from the laissezDismissing it as youth or innocent fun faire attitude towards sexual aggression or meaningless jokes is detrimental. Allowfound in popular forms of media. ing rape culture to persist in a society that Take Katy Perry and Kanye West’s popu- strives for equality is damaging. Many of lar song “E.T” where Perry belts out the lyr- us are still Y.O.U.N.G, but should know the ics: “Take me, ta-ta-take me, wanna be your danger in all these blurred lines.

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Students at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) have joined a movement to leave the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS), according to a press release issued early last week.

A Sept. 4 statement calls the effort a “mass defection” and claims that students at over 15 student associations across Canada have begun collecting signatures so they can hold referenda to end their membership with the CFS. The statement also claims that the action could leave the CFS without representation in British Columbia, Manitoba and Québec.

Created in 1981, the CFS is Canada’s largest student lobby group and claims to represent over 500,000 students from more than 80 students’ unions. The CFS is made up of three distinct legal entities: CFS national, the CFS provincial groups, and CFS-Services.

Other schools named in the release include Capilano University, the University of Toronto (U of T), York University and Ryerson University.

Political science student Alex McGowan

who is organizing the petition drive at KPU, hopes to collect the signatures of at least 20 per cent of all students by Friday, Sept. 13.

“We just want to give the students the choice to decide if they want to be part of the CFS,” says McGowan.

KPU students currently pay $0.95 per credit, up to a maximum of $8.52 per semester, to be members of CFS-BC and CFSnational. McGowan believes that the CFS doesn’t provide enough value for the money.

“... at the end of the day, a fractured student movement will hurt everyone.”

-Katie Marocchi, BC-CFS chairperson “I’ve known about the CFS and not been very happy with them over the last couple of years,” he elaborates. “The lobbying that they do has been ineffective. Demanding no tuition is not going to work.”

“This is nothing extraordinary.”

The chairperson of the CFS-BC, Katie Marocchi, says she is unfazed by the press release, but won’t comment on petitions at specific schools.

“To our knowledge, we have not re-

ceived any petitions. Until we receive a petition from a member local, I can’t really speak to that,” she says.

“This is nothing extraordinary. It’s well within the rights of individual members to do something like this. They’re simply exercising their rights.”

Marrochi argues that all post-secondary students benefit from the work of the CFS. “Our ability to work together for the last 30 years has allowed us to have a unified message, a unified voice, a unified front on issues and the ability to gain momentum on issues like grants, creating free [adult basic education], and emphasizing the importance of reducing tuition fees,” she says.

“These things are only possible under a collective banner.”

She questions the intentions of the organizers behind the press release.

“It just seems like a lot of noise to make a lot of noise,” she says. “I’m not sure who they’re representing, but at the end of the day a fractured student movement will hurt everyone.”

Brent Farrington, who works as the internal coordinator for the national CFS, says that losing members hurts their cause.

“When there are members who leave the

organization it does result in the remaining members having a harder time, because we don’t have quite as many voices behind us,” he explains.

“It undermines the work of all of the other members.”

The argument to leave Like Marocchi, Farrington also has questions for the petition organizers, calling their press release “misleading” and “confusing.”

“There’s a lot of allegations in the press release [about the CFS], but there are no cited examples,” he says. “Nor are the schools that are allegedly collecting signatures being named and that is becoming quite troublesome for us.”

He says the student associations at York, Ryerson and U of T were “quite dumbfounded” when they heard about the press release.

“They had no knowledge it was happening.”

According to Ashleigh Ingle, a graduate student at the U of T and one of the spokespeople named in the press release, some of the schools involved are in the early stages of their petition drives and aren’t ready to go public.

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experience the onslaught of CFS campaigners that tends happen in situations like this,” she explains.

“They were hoping for a little bit more time in building up their campaign before they had to deal with having that many CFS staff on their campus.”

Ingle says that the decision to try to leave the CFS was cemented after she attended several of their general meetings and realized just how resistant the organization was to change.

“I was being accused of being a secret right-winger who was there to destroy the student movement,” she claims. “That is their way of discounting any criticism.”

“I’m a dedicated student organizer. I care greatly about organizing at the provincial and national level and it’s because of my dedication to those things that I’ve come to the conclusion that we need to leave the CFS.” Farrington has a different perception of those meetings. “[Her delegation] served a variety of motions. Some of them were adopted some of them weren’t, but that’s the nature of democracy,” he says.

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involvement with the movement to leave the CFS, noting that she ran for CFS chairperson last fall and was very active during their meetings.

Ingle audibly scoffs at suggestions that she is angry about not being elected.

“It was pretty clear when I ran for national spokesperson last year I in no way expected to win that position,” she says. Ingle argues that it was her only opportunity to speak about the issues she wanted to raise without being interrupted or silenced by procedural tactics.

“If they really are that surprised that this is happening at all of these [schools’ across the country, it’s just one more piece of evidence that they’re out of touch with students – even the students at their AGMs,” she says.

The B.C. situation With 15 member schools, B.C. is second only to Ontario for most CFS representation.

Most of B.C.’s largest schools are not affiliated with the national CFS nor the CFS-BC, including the University of British Columbia (UBC), Simon Fraser University (SFU) and the University of Victoria (UVic). KPU is cur-

rently the CFS-BC’s biggest member.

The Simon Fraser Students’ Society (SFSS) voted to leave the CFS in the spring of 2008, however the CFS disputed whether the referendum was legitimate. The SFSS and the CFS eventually reached an out-of-court settlement in 2011 allowing their membership to be ended.

“... it’s just one more piece of evidence that they’re out of touch with students.

-Ashleigh Ingle, U of T grad student The University of Victoria Students’ Society voted to withdraw their membership in March of 2011 from the national branch of the CFS, and were eventually expelled by the CFS-BC in 2013.

Several other Canadian schools are still involved in litigation with the CFS over their membership.

When asked why so many B.C. students aren’t CFS members, Marocchi replies that some some student unions don’t agree that education should be accessible and affordable or that tuition fees are a barrier to accessibility.

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“They may feel that way, but generally speaking a movement is more successful when you are working with student unions all over the province,” she says.

“While CFS-BC doesn’t have some of the quote unquote larger institutions, we do have many student unions in all regions of the province.”

She also restates her concerns about the drive for a referendum.

“If students on campus are engaging in a discussion on the debate on membership rather than the real issues – which is reducing tuition fees and student debt ... this will do nothing but distract our ability to organize and win successes for our members.

“I’m not sure what the intent is, for me, I feel like it will have nothing but a negative effect for students ultimately.

McGowan disagrees with Marocchi’s take.

“Asking for open dialogue and debate can’t possibly take away from the real issues,” he says. “To say that open discussion takes away from their work that can’t be right.”

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The social politics of ‘slash shipping’ and fanfiction Do fangirls who ship male characters together fetishize homosexuality?

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This isn’t about mail. Shipping, in this context, is when fans of TV shows, movies and literature wish for certain characters to have a romantic relationship. Some fans think it’s harmless, but others say the social implications can be less than lovely.

In fandom world, “ship” is just a shorter form of “relationship.” Slash shipping is a term for non-conventional ships, such as homosexual ships. Websites like Tumblr, Livejournal, Fanfiction.net, and Archive of Our Own (AO3) serve as platforms for message board discussion, romantic fanfiction, and fanart for participants of all fandoms.

In the midst of all the fangirling and fanboying, conflicts inevitably arise within the different communities. Some of the more serious conflicts stem from sexism, misogyny and homophobia, and these can have reallife consequences.

The accusation has been made that female fans fetishize gay men through their depictions of gay relationships in their writ-

ing and fanart. The fact that many slash shippers are straight women is enough to fuel this dispute for many.

However, most shippers of any kind of pairing are women. Statistics on FF.net have found that 78 per cent of its members are female. As for the ships, currently the three most popular on AO3 are “Johnlock” (Sherlock Holmes/John Watson from Sherlock), “Destiel” (Dean Winchester/Castiel from Supernatural) and “Sterek” (Stiles/Derek from Teen Wolf). All of these are male/male ships — heterosexual and lesbian ships make their first appearances on the list at numbers 24 and 56, respectively.

Part of this may be due to an established male/male shipping culture that predated the internet. One of the earliest examples of slash shipping comes from Star Trek. The pairing of Captain Kirk and Spock made its debut way back in the 1960s in the form of fanfiction, which depicted them crossing the friendship threshold to varying levels of explicitness.

So how can shipping cross into fetishizing? According to Tumblr user Ghetto-astronauts, fans run the risk of fetishizing homosexuality when they start projecting on

to people in real life, or when a character’s sexuality is used solely for entertainment and amusement.

The author of Sci-Fi blog Loving the Alien has confessed that she used to be a huge slash fangirl, but now sees how problematic her behaviour could be. She writes in a post, “I was fetishizing men together, and I don’t necessarily mean sexually. I was romantically fetishizing them as well. I made them into objects of my fantasy, which dehumanized them completely.”

She adds that, “slash suggests that men can’t have meaningful relationships with other men without compromising their own sexuality.”

“Fanfiction [is] said to be created under the ‘female gaze,’ like how mainstream lesbian pornography is catered to the male gaze. Yet, catering to the female gaze may not be a bad thing.”

Often, fanfiction and fanart are said to be created under the “female gaze,” much like how mainstream lesbian pornography is catered to the male gaze. Yet, catering to

the female gaze may not necessarily be a bad thing. Criticism major and Tumblr user Rabidbehmoth says shipping communities can allow adolescent women to explore their own sexuality.

“It can be a safe space for teenage girls to explore their heterosexuality through the safe, unconventional lens of homosexuality, which can seem appealingly non-representative of their own sexuality,” she writes, “in a world that tends to deny women the right to express sexual feelings in general.”

Ultimately, it comes down to the fan.

What fans ship isn’t as important as how they ship it. There will always be people writing explicit Avengers fanfiction, but what matters is how the writers themselves depict the characters and their relationships.

Many fans who are members of the LGBT community don’t think people should stop slash shipping altogether. One such fan, Tumblr user Sherlocked, says that instead of ignoring the LGBT community, fans should take care as to how they depict gay men in their work, and treat them as normal people.

She writes, “We as queer people shouldn’t have to choose between fetishism and erasure.”

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Stream this mix @ 8tracks.com/runnermag /new-semester-blues 1. “Last of the Summer Wine” by Palma Violets It’s time to make a toast to the end of summer, and make room on your shelf for the autumn vodka.

2. “Money” by The Drums With tuition, textbooks, and transportation costs coming your way, you’ll relate to this sooner or later.

3. “Dead Quote Olympics” by The Hives “Yes, they were smart but they are dead / And you’re repeating all that they said.”

4. “I Don’t Want to Be Nice” by John Cooper Clarke After a few too many classes at eight in the morning, this will be your theme song.

5. “How to Disappear Completely” by Radiohead Sometimes, disassociation is the best way to avoid stress and all your responsibilities.

6. “We’re Going to Be Friends” by The White Stripes No back-to-school mix is complete without this classic.

7. “Personality Crisis” by New York Dolls Under the pressure of deciding what to do with the rest of your life, prepare yourself for one of these soon.

8. “Oxford Comma” by Vampire Weekend Whenever a pretentious English major corrects your grammar, think of this song.

9. “We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful” by Morrissey If you don’t agree at least a little bit, you must be a saint.

10. “Mile End” by Pulp For the students who’ve just moved out on their own. Your new apartment might be a rathole, but it’s your rathole.

11. “Birth, School, Work, Death” by The Godfathers You’re only on stage two, so there’s lots to look forward to. Oh... wait.

12. “I Live to Fall Asleep” by Manic Street Preachers During finals, expect to be napping at any time and on any surface you can find.

13. “The Gentle Hum of Anxiety” by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross Every student gets used to it eventually.

Volcano boarding: a new sport erupts onto the scene

A group of backpackers glad to be alive after a ride down the summit in Nicaragua.

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Teetering on the precipice of a 1,600-foot slope on one of the most active volcanoes in Central America, Holly Hrynyk can’t help but wonder how she got herself into this.

With just a small wooden board and an orange jumpsuit for protection, she sits pondering all the things that could go wrong. With barely any safety instructions given — just a rough and tumble guide on how to steer and brake — the undertaking seems suicidal.

“I think I was trying to block out all my thoughts and not scream or cry. The only thing that kept me going was that if I didn’t do it, I would have to hike back down,” Hrynyk says now.

All too soon, her guide gave her a mighty push that sent her over the edge and plummeting down the steep, black slope.

Hrynyk’s first reflex was to scream, but ash and grit began hitting her face, bouncing off her goggles and lodging themselves into any exposed crevice. Her pale skin turned a dusty

charcoal as she boarded down the steepest section at a 41 degree angle — seen by others as a rushing trajectory of volcanic dust.

Eventually, Hrynyk’s board slowed to a gentle stop amidst a tumble of rock and ash.

At that moment, she became another survivor of the world’s newest, gnarliest adventure sport, called “volcano boarding.”

This bit of daredevilry is presently unique to the slopes of Cerro Negro, located roughly 20 kilometres outside the city of León in northwestern Nicaragua.

“All too soon, her guide gave her a mighty push that sent her over the edge and plummeting down the steep, black slope.”

Cerro Negro, meaning “black hill,” is the youngest and one of the most active volcanoes in Central America. At just 163 years old, over 20 eruptions have been recorded to date.

The black behemoth stands at 728 metres. It’s technically a small volcano, but it’s still a daunting hike in the 40°C Nicara-

guan heat and with a heavy board and gear strapped to your back.

Sulfur rises with the blistering temperatures, and hot ash covering the slopes absorbs the sun and reflects it, making the 60-minute hike feel as if you’re climbing through a giant frying pan.

Fortunately, those undertaking the challenge are offered unobstructed views of the verdant Nicaraguan landscape. To one side of the crater rim, the horizon is dotted with the other consistently smoking, erupting members of the Maribios Volcanic Chain. To the other lies the sprawling colonial city of León, under a haze from extreme temperatures of Nicaragua’s hottest region.

It’s hard to believe that Hrynyk and other volcano boarders plunge down the sides of a dangerously active volcano for fun. Some reach speeds up to 90 kilometres an hour.

But as Hrynyk says, “Once I was midway down and I’d spat all the gravel out of my mouth, it was one of the most thrilling things I’ve ever done in my life.”

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Procrastination

The Runner

STR8TS

SUDOKU

No. 78

6

Medium

Previous solution - Easy

3 2 1 1 3 2 4 2 1 5 6 8 4 3 5 4 5 3 2 3 4 6 7 5 6 7 8 6 9 8 7 8 9

9 4 7

9 7

3 4

1 4 3 8 6

8

4 9

3

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6 7 4 2 8 5 9 3

5 9 6 5 8 8 9 7 6 9 6 7 8 1 4 2 3 1 4 2 2 3

No. 78

Very Hard

6

9 7

Previous solution - Tough

4 9 8 7 6 2 1 3 5

1

8 4 5 4

6 1 5 9 2 6

7 9 4 8 1 7 6

How to beat Str8ts – Like Sudoku, no single number can repeat in any row or column. But... rows and columns are divided by black squares into compartments. These need to be filled in with numbers that complete a ‘straight’. A straight is a set of numbers with no gaps but can be in any order, eg [4,2,3,5]. Clues in black cells remove that number as an option in that row and column, and are not part of any straight. Glance at the solution to The solutions will be published here in the next issue. see how ‘straights’ are formed.

4

7 2

5

2

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7 3 2 1 8 5 9 6 4

5 1 6 3 4 9 7 2 8

9 7 4 8 5 6 2 1 3

2 8 1 9 7 3 5 4 6

3 6 5 4 2 1 8 7 9

8 2 7 5 3 4 6 9 1

1 5 3 6 9 7 4 8 2

6 4 9 2 1 8 3 5 7

To complete Sudoku, fill the board by entering numbers 1 to 9 such that each row, column and 3x3 box contains every number uniquely.

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