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Cascade News • Friday November 20 th 2009

The Cascadeis hiringa News& Opinion Editor

An Apology SONJA SZLOVJCSAK ACTINGEDITORIN-CHIEF of this decision, innocent pilgrams ast week, the Cascadema(.]eamiswere killed. take. A big one. On the cover.

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Last week, (the November 13 issue) we published an article about the Amritsar memorial that the lndo-Canadian Centre hosted on November 3. There was nothing wrong with the actual article itself • the article was about the memol'ial • but the headllne on the covet·desbl'ibe the memorial as a "festival." '!he memorial was a remembrance of the killings which took place In 1984. ·rt\at year, 25 years ago, members of the Sikh faith were the targets of state-sanctioned violence in India twice.

In the June of 1984,, Prime Min• ister Indira Gandhi sent the Tndian army into Harmandir Sahib (which is commonly referred to as the Golden Temple). 'l11isis the ho!Jest Sikh temple. She sent the army in to kill one man: Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale. 'l11eattack on the temple left over 100 unarmed women and children dead. Prime Minister Gandhi cou.ld easily have laid seige to the temple and starved out Bhindrnnwale, but instead she sent in armed troops (some of whom were Sikh). As a result

31, the Prime Minister was killed by her bodyguards. The mcdin reported that her bodyguards were Sikh, which trigged four days of anti-Sikh riots.

During the riots, even more innocent Sikhs were killed, There is evidence that the Inc,lian government aided the mobs that perform1.:d the targeted killings.

To date, only thrc.:e pc.:ople were ever charged in relation to the four days of killing.

To make mutters worse, there arc people that have been accused of inciting the mobs to kill that have led prestigious political lives. In short, these people have been able to walk away from their crimes.

All of this makes the Cascade's mistake even worse. There arc survivors of these massacres living in Canada. These survivors have rt.:ceivcdno closure from the Indian goverr,men1, and the horror· of what took place in 1984 has not been widely reported in the media. It's sad that when it was reported in the Cascade, it is given the wrong headline.

So, to oil the survivors of 19811, I'm

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor,

students to accept a belief in God and creationism. But his Advertorial; The reason I'm writing this letter titled "Evolution's Biggest Problem,'' is because T feel that UFV faculty and attempts to do so by means of an intentionally misleading conclusion. staff have.:a responsibility to respond A charitable interpretation of Mr. to opinions in the med in that are misleading, such as Mr. Pcachey's Adver- Peachey's Advertorial is that it goes torials, even if the author has paid to something like this: Scie,,ce has not have them pllblished. When rc.:aders proven everything about c.:volution, allow misleading essays, advertisetherefore.: science wi II nc.:vcr prove ments, or Advertorinls to stand un- that evolution is true (and therefore.: challenged they show lacit agreement. creationism is true.:). But this logic It sends the signal to the media, the is as bad as if we were living in the creator of the item, and to Its readers late 1800's and said, "Science has not that· what has been presented is rea- created a machine capable of flying, sonable. In Mr. Peachey's case, the therefor scientists will never create a machine that can fly."Obviously, Just decision lo publish his Advertorials may be reasonable, but their content because science has not done something yet, it doesn't mean it will never is not.

I have found the past Advertorials do so in the future. Science has been written by Mr. Peachey to be primarprovli,g naysayers wrong for centuily faith-based, not fact-based. Anc,l ries.

T find his Advertorial in the Nc1V.13 By pointing out the shortfalls in Cascade somewhat disturbing. I un- the current scientific explanation of derstand that because he pays lo have evolution Mr. Peachey has not proven his opinions published in a school the existence of a creator. newspaper his comments are not under the control of the Cascade's edito• Respectfully, rial board. Mr. Peachey's agenda is, by Peter B. Raabe his own admission, to convince UFV Philosophy

Dear Editor: I'm writing to inform you and your readers of the UFV Theatre Depa rtment's production of Schoolhouse. lloly cowl I saw the play recently anc,l it was absolutely fantastic; it took rny head off. I've attended a number of UPV productions over the years and this one is right up th1.:re with the gems, spectacular. The acting was superb all around, the set was great, and the story was funny, touching, sad, and moving. I-latsoff to everyone involved, a very professional production. I would encourage all students to get out lo the Wack and catch this show. IL runs until November 29th.

For just over ten bucks, you simply ' can't buy better entertainment.

Ray de Kroon

NOTICE 'TI1e cover of the Novernber I3, 2009 issue of the Cascadeincorrectly referred to the Amritsar memorial as a festival. 'lhe spelling of Amritsar was also lncorrect.111eCascade apologizes for this error.

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Darwin's Favourite Evidence: Fraudulent!

During the 1994.95 school year, I took a twosemester course in molecular biology at UFV. The textbook for this course was the massive Molecular Biology of the Cell (3rd edition. New York: Garland Publishing, 1994), authored by a team of eminent scientists Including National Academy of Sciences president Bruce Alberts and Nobel laureate James Watson. Our instructor, Terry Starr, referred to this volume as the "bible" of molecular biology.

Now, within this "bible," on page 33, was a set of of vertebrate embryo drawings taken from an 1874 work by the "German Darwin," Ernst Haeckel. The caption below the drawings claimed (erroneously, as It now turns out) that the early stages of these embryos were very similar, and that they were drawn roughly to scale. But about two years after I completed my molecular biology course, an article appeared in the leading North American journal Science, exposing these drawings as utterly fraudulent. Here are the key portions of that article: "Generations of biology students may have been misled by a famous set of drawings of embryos published 123 years ago by the German biologist Ernst Haeckel. They show vertebrate embryos of different animals passing through identical stages of development. But the Impression they give, that the embryos are exactly alike, Is wrong, says Michael Richardson, an embryologist at St. George's Hospital Medical School in London. He hopes once and for all to discredit Haeckel's work, first found to be flawed more than a century ago.

"Richardson had long held doubts about Haeckel's drawings because they didn't square with his understanding of the rates at which fish, reptiles, birds, and mammals develop their distinctive features. So he and his colleagues did their own comparative study, reexamining and photographing embryos roughly matched by species and age with those Haeckel drew. Lo and behold, the embryos 'often looked surprisingly different,' Richardson reports in the August issue of Anatomy and Embryology [196:91-106] ....

"Not only did Haeckel add or omit features, Richardson and his colleagues report, but he also fudged the scale to exaggerate slmllarltles

among species, even when there were 10-fold differences In size. Haeckel further blurred differences by neglecting to name the species In most cases, as if one representative was accurate for an entire group of animals. In reality, Richardson and his colleagues note, even closely related embryos such as those of fish vary quite a bit in their appearance and developmental pathway.

'It looks llke It's turning out to be one of the most famous fakes In biology,' Richardson concludes.

"This news might not have been so shocking to Haeckel's peers in Germany a century ago: They got Haeckel to admit that he relied on memory and used artistic license in preparing his drawings, says Scott Gilbert, a developmental biologist at Swarthmore College In Pennsylvania.

But Haeckel's confession got lost after his drawings were subsequently used in a 1901 book called Darwin and After Darwin and reproduced widely in English-language biology texts" (Elizabeth Pennisi, "Haeckel's Embryos: Fraud Rediscovered."

Science 277:1435, 1997).

(To view a sampling of Richardson's photos together with Haeckel's drawings, go to

<http://creauon, com/fraud-redjscoyered>.)

Hal"llard evolutionist Stephen Jay Gould made it clear that he considered the widespread use of these fraudulent drawings in textbooks to be no trivial matter: "Haeckel's forceful, eminently comprehensible, If not always accurate, books appeared in all major languages and surely exerted more Influence than the works of any other scientist, including Darwin and Huxley (by Huxley's own frank admission), In convincing people throughout the world about the validity of evolution .... we do, I think, have the right to be both astonished and ashamed by the century of mindless recycling that has led to the persistence of these drawings In a large number, If not a majority, of modern textbooks!"

(Natural History 109(2]:42, 45, 2000).

Michael Behe, the "Intelligent Design" advocate and author of Darwin's Black Box, told this story: " ... the misleading drawings were used in biology texts for a hundred years because they were

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thought to support Darwinian evolution. In seventh grade in parochial school my wife's science class was shown Haeckel's drawings by their teacher, a Holy Cross brother. 'Evolution Is true,' the good Brother told them with a flourish, ·get used to it.'

He certainly thought he was giving his students the straight facts, and he wanted them to form their views in weighty matters based on those facts.

But, unknown to him, the facts were fraudulent" (In William A. Dernbski [ed.], Uncommondissent:

intellectuals who find Darwinism unconvincing.

WIimington, Delaware: ISi Books, 2004, p. 147).

The year after Richardson's detailed expose was published, his co-author James Hanken wrote: "To some a genius. to others a bigoted zealot and fraudulent scientist, Haeckel was arguably, next to Darwin, the dominant intellectual figure of his time .... He treated evolutionary biology almost as a religion and believed that just as one could apply the concept of natural selection to animals and plants, one could also determine which groups of humans were superior. Offering intellectual justification and 'scientific' support for racism, anti-Semitism, and eugenics, his ideas were later a major ideological influence on the National Socialist German Workers' Party, better known as the Nazis" (Natural History 107[10):56, 1998).

How Ironic (and disturbing), then, that Haeckel's "evidence" turns out to have been a favourite of Darwin's! "Hardly any point gave me so much satisfaction when I was at work on the Origin,

as the explanation of the wide difference In many classes between the embryo and the adult animal, and of the close resemblance of the embryos within the same class . ... Within late years several reviewers have given the whole credit to Fritz MOiier and [Ernst] H~ckel, who undoubtedly worked It out much more fully, and In some respects more correctly than I did" (Francis Darwin [ed.], The Autobiographyof Charles Darwin and Selected Letters. New York: Dover Publlcatlons, 1958 [original: 1892], p. 46).

Richard PeacheyIs UFV's first science graduate (BSc, Biology and Chemistry,1995); he serves as vice-presidentof the Creation ScienceAssociationof British Columbia.

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Cascade News· Friday November 20 th 2009

ews UFV celebrating International

EducationWeek PAUL BRAMMER "T had never interacted

with people STAFF WRITER from other eultu res until l attended university." rom November 16 to 20, UFV celOn November 17, UFV welcomed ebrated International Education renowned public speaker Dr. Clement Week. Andrew Crosby co-ordinated Apaak to the Abbotsford campus to the week'sevents for the International give a talk In BIOientitled, "An InterDepartment, and commented on the national Student in the 1\vcnty-firs( important issues being n1isedover the Century." According to the Canadian week. "111lsyear's theme Is 'Promot• High Schools Model UN web site ing Global Citizenship,' coinciding (cahsmun.org), Apaak ls "a known with :in increasing awareness of the human rights advocate, community part of institutions of higher educa- organizer, public speaker and an edu· tion in realizing the importance ofin- cator." Originally from Ghana, Apaak sti!Jingnot only a 'global knowledge,' was the first i11tern:itionalstudent but an intercultural sklll-set and to be elected to a university board competency into the campus body in British Columbia. He receieved and community." his Ph.D. from Simon Fraser Uni• 1he week is being celebrated by versity, and is a former SFU senator ~over85 countries worldwide,"as well and student government president. as by universities and colleges across Apaak is also the founder of Canadian Students for Darfur. Crosby has Canada.

Crosby also stated the importance described Dr.Apaak's visit to UFV as of raising awareness of different cul- "a real privilege," and described his tures and practices. "It is increasingly talk as "a discussion that stimulates important for today's youth to acquire thought surrounding the barriers that the necessary knowledge and experi• students still face today." ence as we attempt to move awayfrom UFV's internationalization Fund what seems like perpetual conflict had several speakers talk al the Facand war into an era of peace and co- ulty Forum on Wednesday, Nov. 18. operation.'' Acquiring an awareness Aleksandra ldzlor (Visual Arts), of global issues will "help to facilitate Cherie Enns (Global Development and foster understanding and respect Institute; Geography) and Belly-Joan across all cultures, ethnicities, lan• Traverse (Modern Languages) were guages, and borders." the guest speakers in Bl21. Crosby deThere were many dlffcrent events scribed the Internationalization Fund taking place at the Abbotsford cam- as "an innovative strategy aimed at pus between November 16-20. On internationalizing the curriculum, Monday, there was a ''World Culture recognized as one of the, If not the Cafe" at U-House from noon to 2 p.m. most, Important methods in facllitat• provided "Canadian and international ing a global knowledge Into the stustudents... the chance to interact with dent body.'' other cultures, something they may According to Crosby, another never have been previously exposed imoprtant factor in internationaliz· to." On a personal note, Crosby said ing the student experience ls "student

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mobility." UPV Internalional's Study Abroad Co-ordinator Sarah Nerrno gave an information session In Bl21 on "Study Abroad." The session ln• eluded "a panel of students who have either previously studied abroad, or who are currently studying abroad at UFV.'' Students who travelled to China this summer through UPV are among the guest speakers, as arc International stude1,tswho arc currently on exchange programs from other u niversitites.

Nenno explained that "Study Abroad is an excellentopportunity for Canadian students to become awareof different cultures. lt is important not only in the academic sense, but also in the way that It facilitates greater understanding between peoples and cultures, and helps us to learn about one another." l11eInternational Education Week concludes on Friday with a series of Global Citizenship Workshops. Crosby said that "student groups such as the International Development Student Club (!DSC), Students for Sus· tainability, an.d Oxfnm Youth;' arc hosting "interactive workshops surrounding important local, national, and International Issues, such as climate change, that link the local wlth the global, and thus have internation· al implications."

The week will close with two documentaries. ManufacturedLandscapes, directed by Jennifer Baichwal,follows the photographer Edward Burtynsky as he travels the world documenting the Impact Industry has had on the earth. TnvisibleChildren follows three filmmakers who travel to Uganda, documenting the realities of child soldiers.

Atheists, Skeptics

and Humanists Club Club OrAssociation OfTheWeek APRIL HODSONWell that's where humanism comes

CONrRIBUTOR in." Humanism is a system of thought with human-based morality rather eligion and personal beliefs can than spiritually based morality. Valbe a bit of a touchy subject, but ues, characteristics and behaviours the Atheists, Skeptic.:s11ndHuman- !hat lll'c best in humans are the ones ists (ASM)Club is a group of students that arc followedby humanists. who aren't afraid to step on a fewtoes.

Despite their atheism, Bayes ac1111sclub seeks to debate religion and knowledges the ASH club ''is acceptprovide a set of views and values alter- Ing of Pastaforians." Pastafarlans native to faith-based ones. 111eyhold are worshippers and followers of the relaxed meetings al Casey's every Flying Spaghetti Monster. The "reliFriday at noon where they share and gion" was created in response to the debate various points of view. concept of intelligent design which is TI1eASH club conducts friendly vague about who the designer is, leav· debate. Aaron Bayes, the club prcsi· ing it open to be anr,one or anything, dent, says,"Some of our best meetings even hovering pasta. Bynes advocates have been when someone with a dif- pasta worship while sporting a t-shirt ferent point of viewshowed up and we featuring a version the Creatior, of could debate with them." Therefore, Adam from the Slstene Chapel. God students who disagree with atheism has been replaced by a giant floating are welcome to join the club or par- mass of spaghetti that Adam J'eaches ticipate in meetings. toward.

But if you agree with atheism, 'fhis acceptance expands Into their skeptisrn and humanism then Bayes merchandise. The ASH club sells Dar• declares "This is a great way for like• win fish, procreation fish,T-rcxeating minded people to meet. In Abbots• a fish and Flying Spaghetti Monsters ford there are more churches then for 10 dollars. Proceeds go towards gas stations and it is good to have an the ASH club; so they <;anpfan events outlet for different points of viewi' lf and maybe get a guest speaker to there Is no one to debate with, then come on campus. They 11lsohope to Bayes jokes they "pat each other on plan a n1ovicnight next semester in the back" during the meeting. the U-house.

Students who want to purchase a When asked what his club is about Bayesexplained: "We are atheists be· fish or join the ASH club should stop cause we don't believe in God, Jesus by their meetings at Casey'sat noon on or the Tooth Fairy; skeptics because Fridays or visit their Facebook page, we ask questions about these things. UFY ASH Club. To keep informed And If you don't have God or religion about upcoming events or meetings to tell you how to act, how do you or for more Information about the know what's right and what's wrong? club, join the Pacebook group.

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UFV AngelTree ProgramHas November27 Deadline JOlLSMARt posted on trees across the UFY cam•

STAFF WRITER puses, each representing a child and Many UPV students strug1:1lcto support their families while further· ing their education. l11e UFV An• gel Tree program is designed to help ensure that the dependent children of lhese students are still able to celebrate during the holidays."It Isn't easy being a student, !1ndIt is even more challenging being both a student llnd a parent, especially lit Christmas," explains Student Life Program AS· slstant Sheila McKay.The program al· lows those better off to provide much needed gills for these children, who may be any age under sixteen. 'fhe UFV Angel Tree program, which began in 199'1as a joint effort between the Student Union Society and Student Life, finishes Its initial process of acccptins applications on November 20. McKay notes that "ap· plicants must be current UFV stu· dents, and the children musl be their dependents."

Christmas trees have been placed in the Alumni Hall at the Abbots• ford campus and in the Cafeteria at the Chilliwack campus. ''Angels a,·e

their gift wishes," says McKay. She added "Members from the UFV community adopt an angel and provide a,1unwrapped gift for the parent to wrap and give to their child for Christmas."

The process is simple: find the tree and select an angel. Each an1:1clhas a number that, oncechosen, must be registered by email· Ing Sheila.McKay@ ufv.ca. McKay points out that the deadline is approaching quickly.

"Unwrapped gifts are due no later than next Friday, November 27 to University House.''

The sooner gifts can be brought in lhc better.

Last year the Angel 'free program was very successful. "During the 2008 Christmas

season we were able to provide gifts for 118 children and food hampers for 49 families." McKay also recalled

how "everyone gllveso generously; in addition to girts, we have been able to provide families with a hamper full

of necessities, from soup to laundry soap." The hope is that support will be even greater this year.

Support can come in many forms, from donating a gift to donating money. "Opporlu• nities exist for dubs, associations, groups and individuals to adopt entire families, and/ ()r contribute $100 towards a food hamper for families."

Working with the Abbotsford Food 81\nk, the Student Life Departm.:nt is alst1 offering food hamper~ to childless stu· dents who may be struggling financially.

As well as staff and students, lo~albusinesses arc encouraged to contribute to the Angel "free program. McKay emphasizes whnt an Impact It can have on the life of a small child. She sincerely urges everyone who Is able to "help make n child's Christmas wish come true by sponsoring an angel!"

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Cascade News• Friday November 20th 2009

UPCOMING

LOCALEVENTS Schoolhouse The UFV TI1eatre department will celebrate its 30th anniversary season of theatre with an opening production of Schoolhouse,a new play by acclaimed Canadian playwright Leanna Brodie.

one, including himself -and to persuade the cautious and close-knit community to open its arms to this stranger in its midst.

Schoolhouseruns on the Chilliwack campus, from November 13 to 29 on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. Matinees are on Sunday, Nov 22 and 29 at 2 p.m.

Set in 1938, Schoolhouse takes place i.n S.S. #l Jericho School, a one-room schoolhouse in a farming area just outside the fictional village of Baker's Creek. There, a delightful but unmanage- 1---------------1 able group of children meets UCM Breakfast its match: Melita Unton, an 18-year-old teacher fresh out Pancakes every Thursof Normal School. Full of day from 8 to 10 a.m. in Uwarmth and poignant huI-Iouse. Courtesy of United mour, the play chronicles Christian Ministries Miss Linton's struggle to connect with a boy who has cut himself off from every-

Food

Bank

Challenge

Earlier this semester UFV Student Life worked with a social-work student to launch a food challenge for student groups.

"Altogether we collected almost 150 kg of food, nearly 600 items! Pretty good."

Student Life Coordinator Martjn Kelly said.

Running from now until November 30, there will be another drive for non-perishible food items that will be donated to Abbotsford Food Bank. Items include, chunky soups, canned vegetables, canned meat, pasta, powdered milk, peanut butter, and baby food and wipes.

Look out for collection boxes around campus and in University-House on the Abbotsford campus.

The Louden Singletree

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Writer M.G. Vassanji UFV

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UFV's student-run literary magazine, the Louden Award-winning author Singletree, is accepting M.G.Vassanji will be visiting submissions. This is a great UFV to read from his novel opportunity for writers and The Assassin's Song, which artists to get a publication has been short-listed for the credit. The Louden Singletree Giller Prize, the Governor General's Award and the accepts ori.ginal, unpublished poetry and prose (short Roger's Writers' Trust Fiction fiction, creative non-fiction Prize. This event is free. and non-academic essays) up to 3,000 words. All When: Friday, Nov 20 written work is accepted in Time: 4:00 p.m.

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Universities make idealtarget for spammers

Liberal leader tellsLiberal supporters CASA spearheads 'national' survey

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Universities acrossthe worldarefacinga slew Libera I leaderMichael lgnatleff tolda roomfull Anational survey beingconducted thismonthIs Anannualsurvey filledoutbyUniversity ofAl- ThaneHeins,president of Potential Difference ofphlshlng scams,withbothstudentsandstaff of NewBrunswick supporters lastweekthatthe hoping to generate harddatato aidstudentas· bertabusiness graduates hasrevealed an unex- Inc.,hasdedicated a majority ofthepastdecade fallingvictimto spammers whotrickthemInto newglobaleconomy meansCanadians needbe soclatlons' lobbying efforts, thoughItsscopewill pectedshiftInsalaries - withfemaleemployees to creating a generator thatwould eliminate the divulging personal Information, including uni• Innovative toadjusttoliving Ina "newworld." onlyreachfiveprovinces. exceeding theirmalecounterparts. needforoil.HewasInvited byRladh Habash of versity webmailusernamesandpasswords. ThefederalOpposition leaderspokeat the New TheCanadian Student Survey Isdesigned andrun Thevoluntary onlinesurveyIs sentout every theUniversity ofOttawa twoyearsagotocontln• SteveHIiiman, anInformation technology archi- Brunswick liberalBiennial Convention on the by studentorganizations, andIsthe firstsuch Augustto the school's bachelor of commerce ueworkontheproject Inoneoftheschool's labs, tectat Simon Fraser University, describes phish- eveningof Friday, Nov.13 In Fredericton, His projectIn thecountry.

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Cascade News • Friday November20th 2009

Holocaust scholar gives free lecture at UFV PAUL BRAMMER

al power." However, Hitler decided that he had to secure his domestic uesday, November 9 was the base first, by ''neutr1tli1.[lng!the enemy within." twentieth anniversary of the fall ofrhc Berlin Wall. '!his event signaled The Nazis' skewed vision of the lhe end of the Cold War, and lhe l,cJews contained a duality - Jews were glnnlng of the re-unification o( Gerviewed as both "lecherous and danrnany nftcr almost 50 years of partigerous" to women, yet "effeminate." 'they were both "inferior" and yet tion.

November 9 was also the seventy"guilty of launching a conspiracy to first anniversary or the Kristallnachl rule the world.'' pogrom. Puring Krlslallnacht, literin terms of addressing lhe qu..:sally translated as "Crystal night" but tion of the conduct of ordinary Ger• widely referred to as the "Night of formulating the "Pinal Solution." lhe mans durlt1g the Molocaust, Bergen Broken Glass," state sanctioned riots Romnn Empire accused Jews of"delsaid that, during the Kristallnacht, against Jewish people took place In clde" • that is, the murder of Christ. the orders Issued by Dr. Joscph Goeb• Nazi Germany.

TheNazis used mnny other hlstorl• bets were "unclearn; therefore, "people According to the United Stales cal examples, like the writings of the began to improvise, and "used the liHolocaust Memorial Museum, riot- Church fathers during the Enlight- cense of the pogrom to act out resenters "burned or destroyed 267 syna- enment, the Reformation, and so on. ments." gogues, vandalized or looted 7,500 In fact, Bergen revealed that the term 'lhe first anti-Semitic measure Jewish businesses, and killed al "anti-Semitism" was Invented in the passed after the "institutionalization" least 91 Jewish people." As a result nineteenth century by German jour- of anti-Semitism once Hitler became of Kristallnacht, "about 30,000 Jews nalist Wilhel.rnMarr.

Chancellor In 1933 was the order nonwere sent to Buchenwald, Dachau and There were three central questions Jewish Germans to boycott Jewish Sachsenhausen" concentration camp6 that were raised by .Bergen- what was businesses.

This measure was unsuccessful, the role of ordinary Germans In the in Germany.

Doris .Bergen, Chancellor Rose Holocaust? Where did the drive for due to the fact that It was difficult to and Professor of Holocaust Studies at radicalization come from, the centre discern what constituted a KJewish the University of Toronto, Ray Wolfe, (Berlin) or the periphery? Was the business." This also "inconvenienced Germans" who .Bergen stated were, gave a free lecture in Bl0l on Novem• Holocaust ideological or pragmatic?

One of the main reasons for the like all humans, "creatures of habit." ber 9th entitled, "Nazi Anti-Semitism: New Perspectives on an Old Debate." rise of anti-Semitism in Nazi Germa• 'lhe second anti-Semitic measure According to the UFV press re- ny was what the Israeli historian Saul passed by the Nazis was to remove lease, "Bergen's research focuses on Priedlander called, "redemptive anti- Jews from civil service jobs. Teach• issues of religion, gender and ethnic- Semitism," that ls, that the "Aryan Ing Jobs were defined as "civil service ity in the Holocaust and World War race" can only be saved from destruc- jobs" nt this time. 1his measure was successful because, not only did It not II and comparatively in other cases of tion by attacking the Jews.

'Ibis was coupled wlth anti-Semi- inconvenience non-Jewish Germans, extreme violence," Some of her books include War and Genocide:A Concise tism's "adhesive quality" In Nazi Ger- it was advantageous to non•Jews;Jobs History of the Holocaust (2003) and many. Jt "stuck together" all cidsting were opened up for non-Jewish Ger• TwistedCross:The German Christian forms of prejudice under the umbrella mans.

Bergen said that, as a result of Movement In the 11tlrdReich(1996). of anti-Semitism, and added "a ferBergen opened her talk with the vour and urgency... [as if] the clock this "people rushed to try to extend statement that her talk was both was ticking for the so-called Aryan the reach of the law to benefit them• "commemorative and historical," and race.'' For eJ1amplc,Christian groups selves.'' 'lhese measures ensured that that "in order to understand anti- in Germany "were not enthusiastic "self-interest dovetailed with antisemitism, we need 10 understand the about the racial nature of anti-Semi• semitism."

Aflcr lhis, there were "around 400 pcrpet rators.'' Bergen wenl on to say tism" but were "appealed to by N.11,i that there were numerous reasons for claims of purifying society." Bergen laws i,,troduccd" which governed anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany, and said that the Nazis, "linked a whole wh.1tJews couldn't do - Jews couldn't •·owna typewriter ... have a pet. .. have its physical manifestation in the Ho• range of prejudices."

In rliller's Melli Kan,pf,he claimed a driver's license [or a] library card." locaust. She explained that some of these reasons were political. religious, that, "When I attack the Jew,I am do- This form of ostracising Jews from cuhur.1I, social, economic, militaris- ing the work of God.'' Hitler blamed wider society was referred lo as ''suthe Jews for the German suuender In cial death." tic and even sexual.

The Nuremberg Laws of 1935 de• Bergen also conceded that the Na• World War I, and were among those fined what a Jew was according lo the ils were certainly not the first group dubbcd ''The November Criminals." .Bergen said that Hitler believed Nails - if three of your four grandto victimize the Jews; indeed, "Nazi ideologues drew on all history" when "only war could bring Germany glob- parents were Jewish, you were con,

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sidered Jewish. 'the Nuremberg Laws also outlawed Inter-racial marriage.

Due to thls climate of anti-Semi• tism, Bergen estimated that around "half l'he Jews left the country" of Germany between 1933 and 1939.

This meant that, at the outbreak of the Second World W.1r,only 0.5 per cent of the world's Jewish population (250,000) lived in Germany. Many of I hesc Jews were forced to leave their Kproperty, Jobs, homes and businesses" when they left; these were re• distributed "as rcwnrds to non-Jews.'' 'fhls system of rewarding Germans wlth Ill-gotten gains from Jews led to non-Jewish Germans having "a vested interest" in anti-Semitism. 'lhe proto• col of plundering goods for German benefit expanded as the Nazi empire expanded - Into Poland, France, Aus• tria, etc.

Bergen explained lhat the Nails did not only murder Jews; in fact, the first systematic mass-murder in Nazi Gerrnany was the "Euthanasia Program", Initiated in the summer of 1939.'lhis was the murder of disabled German children, and expanded to German adults soon after.

Bergen rhetorically asked the audience why the Nazis would choose to kill disabled children. She went on to explain that, while the Jews had to be separated from society before they could be murdered, disabled people were already "separate and completely vulnerable." Killing disabled people was "practice'' for the Nazis; It taught them "how to dispose with large numbers of bodies...how to recruit people wilJing to kill [and the issueI of secrecy.''

During this time, Hitler and Lhe Nazis convinced Germany that the murder of Jews was necessary for sev• eral reasons: military, security and as an act of self-defence.Bergen said that "[lhe] moral Justilkation ...gavc them a way to live with themselves aflcr lhe fact.'' Some Germans may have had iIIfeelings towards Jewish people, along with gypsie~, homosexuals, etc, and ''propaganda gave them the script.''

The institutionalisalion of anti• Setnilism made the Holocaust, "a dynamic process." By l942, 75 per cent of lhe six million dead had already been killed."

In 1943 In Poznan, Poland, Hein• rich Himmler• the Reich Minister of the Interior • gave a secret speech to SS Officers to encourage them ln the execution of the "Final Solution." In the speech, Himmler acknowledged lhc horrific nature of lhe exli:rmination of the Jewish people, but rallied his troops to nol give in. "Most of you here know what it means when 100 corpses lie next to each other, when there are 500 or when there arc 1,000.

To have endured this and at the same time lo have remained a decent person...has made us tough, and is a glorious chapter that has not and will not be spoken of.''

Bergen said that "antl•Semltlsm did not die in the bunker with Hitler, but it did lose its Institutionalisation.''

I For many people post-WWII, the Jews were "a physical reminder of failure."

1his became the "antl-Sc.:mitismof a bad conscience." lhis was not limited lo German people. flergen told the story of Ida Fink, a Jewish Pole who hid her identity, posed as a Gentile and lived throughout the war. She met an American soldier after the war, who declared his desire to marry Fink.

When Fink felt "safe'' with him, she told him, "You do know I'm Jewish?", to which the American soldier replied, "Come with me to America, and no-one will ever need know.''

In summation, Bergen said that, whlle ordinary people played their part In the Holocaust, the actions of the Nazi politicians, in institutionalIsing ar1tl-Semitism, "remind us that leadership was absolutely key."

In terms of whether the Holocaust was a directive from the centre of Nazi Germany or the periphery, Ber• gen said that it was "the two interact• ing". As for whether the Holocaust was pragmatic or ideological, Bergen confirmed that it was "both."

During the question and answer session after the end of the talk, Bergen went on to explain the Importance of studying the Holocaust, "Anti-Semitism is a reminder of the conneclednc.:ssof 1111 h11manhistory... the Holocaust is part of human history.'' She continued, "The study of history allows you tn bring back a sense of insight."

hunger within the Fraser Valley and found that UFV students, single parents and their children and the homeless benefit from the Food Bank.

Hoppener's research found that, "14.5 per cent of those whn use food banks are working, yet cannot afford to cut. Also, 42 per cent of Canadian food banks saw an increase of people using food banks. ln B.C. alone there was a 2.9 per cent increase.''

The Abbotsford Food bank Is in need non-perishable items, but specifically: canned meat, pasta, cRnncd vegetables, powdered milk, peanut butter, chunky soup, pasta sauce, juice,' boost/e1isure and lunch· box

Items. Currently the Abbotsford Food Bank is completely out of "canned meat, pasta, dried soup, rice and extras for kids' lunches."

She would like 10 encourage stu• d.:nts to work together and to donate to the food bank. "I made a stand to do something that we can do together," she explained. Students can find boxes to place dvnations in around both the Chilliwack and Abbotsford campuses. She challenges the UFV student body to help reach this year's goal. 'T d like to see students work together - these are your neighbours, classmates and friends."

UFV StudentOrganizesFood Drive becaine involved. Hoppener also went ANGELA OSTRIKOFF

STAFF WRITER around to Kinesiology classes and did short, five to 10 minute presentations FV student, Reiko Hoppener, is on the food drive. Jn total they collooking to make a difference this lected 100 cans.

This time around, Hoppener has holiday season. Hoppcner is studying social services at UFV and this Is her decided not to do class presentnlions, alt hough she commented, "if there is last semester before she graduates.

This Is the second food drive that time, maybe." She has pul posters up she has done, and she has bee11plan- around the school. as well as boxes to ning these food drives since the end of collect the incoming donations. She August. Hoppener has bee11working worked with the administration of with Student Life and Martin Kelly. myUFV to get an ad that will come For the first drive, she worked with up when students log ln, She has also Kelly, and UFV clubs and assocla• wrltten letters to the directors of 10 tlons. GUS(geography undergraduate businesses to sec if they would like studenls) and the Nurses Association - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - • - - - - - -

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She has focused on studying the occurance of hunger everywhere, from Abbotsford lo Canada and across the world. Hoppener said that she, "started thinking about how the local effects the global." She goes on to explain that during the holidays there are a lot of people who go hungry. At VFV alone, there are 150 students who use the Food Bank.

Hoppencr WI\S originally inter• ested In working with children internationally. She explained, "lf l can do anything in the world, l can do something her.c.:' She -began- to r88ea-rGh

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The Cascade would love to hear from you! If you hate the architecture at UFV, think that nobody understands the moral undertone of the Simpsons or wish the UFV swimming pool was easier to find, write about it. We accept opinion pieces from UFV students, staff and faculty.

Submissions must be a minimum of 400 words.

We reserve the right to edit for length and clarity. Submissions that are slanderous or make disparaging remarks based on gender, sexuality, religion or ethnicity will not be published. All submissions must include your ful] name, contact information, and student number (if applicable). Submissions should be sent to cascade. news@ufv.ca.

A Few Words in Defence of Canada JED MINORthe recent economic downturn. My PRODUCTION immediate family is not flush with capital right now. Without Medicare, anada: quiet, quaint, cold, re- my Mom, a former school bus-driver served. I used to feel that Canada and care-aid worker, would probably was simply the least of all evils; a more lose her home, and would eventually or less sensible northern socialist state be unable to pay for her life-saving medication - to say nothing of the along the lines of Norway-Lite.

I found It a little embarrassing that would-be expense of hospital visits, Canadians were perching on the high blood transfusions, and numerous ground and chiding our neighbours to trips to specialists.

While you may not have experl• the south for all their perceived moral indiscretions. Then my Mom got sick. enced a similar situation, as our parDon't get me wrong; I was never ents' generation ages, the chances are opposed to our universal health-care that you will. lhen you will undersystem. I dutifully paid my Medicare stand why I say that I have never been fees and hoped for the best. I heard, as fiercely proud of our country as I but never really believed, the apoc• am right now. We Canadians truly do ryphal story about the mid-western attempt to uphold the value of human American farmer who got cancer and life, by protecting human dignity and proceeded to blow his brains out In a helping our fellowhumans. ·n1e healthcare debate rages on in field to save his family the impending medical costs. However,the reality is the US, bringing with it much slander that until my mom developed a life of"Socialiicd Medicine."1hat Is to be threatening pre-leukemic condition, expected, 1believethe citizens of a deI never realized how important our mocracy deserve the government that they elect. But if opponents of u11lvcrhealth care system really is.

I come from a lower middle class s:1lhealthcare try to decry CaMda for famlly. My parents own their own actually trying to take care of its peohome but lillle else. My siblings, save ple, they can go straight to the fiery one, are all attending university at furnace of hell, because I loveCanada. the moment and my Dad, a contrac Canada is saving my Mom. tor, has had his business hit hard by

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enth day, of the eleventh month, the worst war that man had known ended. TI1emassiveguns and artillery fell silent, and those in the trenches breiithcd easy for the first tirnc in four years. The First World War had cost world nine million lives and left twenty million wounded. It was In this war that human rights were disregarded on a massive scale, and that the first examples of a modern genocide were committed by the Ottoman Turks. '!he world made a promise: never again would a war of such a great m11gnitudeever happen again.

Twenty-oneyears afkr the "war to end all wars" ended, a new war began with the invasion of Poland. For six long years war raged over Europe, leaving mlllions dead, many more homeless, and leading to one of the greatest crimes known to man: the Holocaust. It is estimated that over seventy-three million people died In World War 1\vo. Of those, twentyfour million were soldiers and the remainder were civilians. The end of the war saw the first ever trials of a country's military and civilian leaders for crimes against humanity. There was also the first use of the atomic bomb, on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Why l'm I telling you thisl We all know what happened 70 years ago.

We allknow what Remembrance Day is about, and that we should all hon• our those who died In the two worst conflicts in the history of the human race.

Yet we still have Incidents: the three young men who urinated on the national War Monument three years

the Tomb of the Unknown Soldlerby smcari11gthe tomb with human feces only a year ago and the recent attempted robbery of poppy donations arc all disrespectful acts against those who served our country. Though these are acts by individuals, it still reflects on our society.

What of our society?We still hold parades everyyear in Ottawa• and in every major Canadian city - where we honour those who gave their lives in the First, Second and Korean wars.as well as the numerous other wars and conflicts that dot our history. What we seem to forget is that our forgetting begins with individuals. ll begins with people to busy to spend just two minutes remembering those who died.

Now I've alwaysjoined the service in the Clark theatre. I was amazed when a good friend of mine told me that the District of Mission used to hold a parade, as well as a service, It was a parade that would shut down two blocks;a large parade, that would include Boy Scouts, the local Air Cadets, Pipers and the members of the local Legion.

Why has this changed?Why can we no longer be bothered to shut down a small part of the road to hold this pa• rade (that, as my friend told me, only lasted about half an hour) yet we can shut down all of I st Avenue for the Christmas Day Parade that lasts up to an hour and a half?

"At the going down of the sun and In the morning/we will remember them." Isn't that how the poem goes?

Yet it seems as though we are forget• ting, or at least we are no longer car• Ing. for, what those brave men and ;.,omen'~e'nt throJgh'. • I ' ' • ' '

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Video Games areanArtForm JOEL SMART performed by talented musicians. StoSTAFF WRITER ries in games are often written by prot is impossible to conclusively define what constitutes art. It is difficult to determine whether any form of creation counts, or if something only qualifies If the Intellectual elite give il the thumbs up. Brittanica Online presents one definition as "the use of skill and imagination In the creation of aesthetic objects, environments, or experiences that can be shared with others." Presenting a different approach, James Portnow, from Gama• sutra suggests that "art simply means givingsomething back, providing your audience with something that enriches their dally lives, even when they aren't interacting with your art."

A common slight against video games is that they are not art, that unlike books, film or music, they simply fail to live up to the criteria that works of art require. Curiously, though, video games are largely culminations of widely accepted art forms. Talented artists create elaborate pieces of concept art, often done in water color or as digital paintings, to set the mood for a game in development. Video game artists even create digital architecture and fashion design. Many games feature unique musical scores crafted and

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A free flash game later released for the PlayStatlon 3, flOw, challenges notions of what makes a game a fessional writers, some having written game, as it allows players to explore award-winning novels. Even the programmers and level designers perform life as an aquatic microorganism. The game often feels Incredibly peacecreative roles that could easily be seen as art. Certain games even allow the ful, featuring a soothing orches• player to be creative, whether through tral soundtrack and no game over screen. Another game by creator Jenodesigning their own levels and characters, or by creating their own story to va Chen, Flower,allows players to conshare with others. trol a flower petal blowing in the wind, Admittedly, most video games are a causing nature to flourish wherever it result of money-hungry producers usgoes. ing market research to craft what audiMachlnarlum, a hand-drawn adences are most likely to buy. lhis could venture game, allows players to solve be said of all entertainment media puzzles simply by clicking objects on though. Some games are not like this; the screen. The story is told without a they affect players, allowing them to single word; instead the game uses anexplore a different life, making them imated thought bubbles. The art style question their beliefs, or even giving is so unique that almost any single them a deeper perspective about the moment of the game could be framed, hung on a wall, and admired. world. !co, a critically acclaimed PlayStaPassage,a short, five minute game tion 2 title that sold poorly, developed with pixelated graphics, allows players a niche audience because of Its unique to take the role of a young man who design and atmosphere. Many would grows older as the game progresses. argue strongly that It qualifies as art Though few would define it as fon, Pasbecause of the emotional connection sageIs deep enough to allow a critical developed between the main characeye to find themes and symbolism the ter, a small boy, with a young princess way one would a well-written poem. he leads through a nearly abandoned Many have been moved by its ability to castle, with rarely a word spoken. The shed light on the briefness of life and game's sequel, Shadow of the Colossus, the effect of one's choices. has touched players in a similar way.

Misconceptions about video

games have been largely responsl• ble for the lack of respect the medium receives. The idea that the only purpose of a game is to be fun Is also troubling. We would not expect the same from film or from music. Though all

video games arc art in some capacity, it is their ability to make us think and grow that cements their place as a valued art form, and undoubtedly more games will do this in the future.

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eebok's first major ad campaign in two years is groundbreaking. It is the only instance in recent memory where a company has so thoroughly failed at selling sex to their target demographic. The magnificent failure in question is for Reebok's "revolutionary" new shoe, the EusyTone. The idea of the Eas}'Tonc is that merely by walking, I can work my calves and hamstrings up lo 11 per cent harder and tone my bull up lo 28 per cent more than if I were to walk in my common, inferior shoes.

Yeah, I know, who gives a fuck? The commercial features a beautiful woman wilh legs that arc already long and toned and with an ass that would make an atheist reconsider god. 1he problem ls that it also features a sex offender behind the camera and he zooms In on her ass every time she mentions llwhich, considering the product, is often. Is she offended when he does this?

Does she mace the pervert? No. She coughs politely and motions for the camera to film her face, saying, when the camera begrudgingly moves away from her ass, "I take it you agree?"

'There arc a couple fundamental problems with this method of trying to sell a product. First of all, treating your target demographic (women) as pieces of meat, whose sole purpose of Jiving is to look beautiful and be

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Secondly, knowing who you're marketing to is probably going lo be a big help In moving forward. I was watching this commercial with a female friend and she went from complacent to righteously furious in lhc span of the 30 second commercial while I went from mildly aroused to ... mildly nrouscd. 1'111 not a busi• ness major or anything, but I think if you make a product for a woman and in attempting to market It to a

woman, the woman begins to foam at the mouth • her eyes burning like the lidless eye ofSauron and her body paralyzed with rage • you've failed. n,e Eas}'Tone commercial seems like It is marketing to men, but logic would dictate that if you buy a shoe that will help tone your girlfriend's/ wifc's/fiancc's calves and ass, you're just begging to be dumped/divorced/a combination of dumped and divorced.

It would be akin to saying, "Yes, those pants do make your ass look flat, but I bought you some shoes that can remedy that."

However, there is a silver lining here. If you failed Marketing 101,Reebok will still hire you.

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STAFF WRITER be secure in my cultural identity sol could pass it on to my children." Since then, Shepherd has n Monday, November 9 UFV celebrated reconnected with family; she is even ''leading my Mctis culture for the tenth year at the Ab• dad In our culture". botsford campus. The celebration Included MePor me, Aboriginal art, music and history have tis music, dancing and food. Met!s dancer, Lisa always been an inspiration, since I was a little girl Shepherd, traveled in from Maple Ridge to dance r have been nearly moved to tears at these sorts at the event, and the musicians came in from Al- of c~iltural events. I think perhaps it is because dergrove and Langley. T11eevent was attended by I love culture in general, but students and faculty including, UFV's resident this is one that is so easily cider Terry Prest, who commented, "lhe event by-passed and forgotten. I was great, whenever we have our gatherings ev- especially was moved when erything seems to fall in place."

Shepherd shared the story of Rene Inkster, a Metis Hlstrorlan and Culher journey. tural Consultant attended the event and put on a "The generation raised in workshop about Metls weaving. Inkster is Mctis shame is coming to an end. herself, and Is h\ippy to sec that Aboriginal culWhen I am dancing I feel like ture is starting to be recognized. She shared that I am doing healing for my both her father and grandfather were veterans; in ancestors, I want to leave the order to fight for Canada, they had to deny their heallng here and eventually Aboriginal heritage to do so. dance In the Joy. In my son I 'this year, the Mctis people were honored see the connection between at Juno Beach with a monument of a Red River the past and the present.

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Q & A with Dayna Thomas PAUL BRAMMER about the same amount of rehearsal

STAFF WRITER time. Toe other two shows of the sea-

ayna 111omas is a fourth-year UFV student who is currently acting In the UrV production of the play Schoolhouse,written by Leanne Brodie.

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Hovo youenjoyed therehearsal process?

I have loved the rehearsal process.

Could yougivemea verybriefsynopsis of The cast is fantastic. Many are first and second years that l haven't had theploy?

It's January, 1938. 18year-old Miss Melita Linton goes to teach at S.S ltl Jericho School. There she encounters a challenging group of students. In September, a new pupil is added to the school- a transfer Frorna training school.

a chance to work with before and every time I am on stage with them I'm blown away by the tnlent around me.

The cn.:w is so supportive.:and the atmosphere backstage is elcctrifyii1g.

DoyouthinkSchoolhouse is a relevantplayformodern-day society and/or university students?

Could youdescribe formeyourcharacter? l play the teacher in the play, Miss

Melita Linton.

Howlonghostherehearsal process been forthisploy?Isit thesomeforeveryploy youperform alschool, ordoesiivaryfrom production toproduction?

We had our auditio11sand started the rehearsal process right in Seplember. Each of the main stage shows has

Odinilely. ·n1is play deals with a lot of different issues. 111erearc specifies like bullying and depression, but there are also broader issues like sacrifice, having faith in people and supportir1g others unconditionally.

It's about the value of other people. 1 love this play, and think that people of all different ages and backgrounds will find so111cthingthat they connect with in the story.

Whatkindof actingmethodsdid you study/implement whenrehearsing ond performing thisploy(e.g.Stanislavski, Bre· chi,Artaud, etc.)?

One of the biggest things I used when exploring my character was Michael Shurtleff's book Audition.

He talks about the 12 guideposts in a scene and I found it very helpful.

How doyouenjoystudying theatre/drama wllhUFV?

Whatareyourambitions afteryougraduhowdoesSchoolhouse rank ate?Howlongdo youhoveleftin your Finally, roles. l also was very privileged to act in the productions youhavebeeninvolvedin lnuk and the Sun which was nmai,studies at UFV? withat UFV? lng. 111ereIs something very special ·n1is will be the last year of my BA, and afterwards I would like to do some travelling and also see what sort of acting posslbllitles present them• selves.

FirstplayofUFV theatreseasonkicksoff that said troubled student has a heart SONJA SZLOVICZAK of gold. In the end, the student turns ACTINGEDITOR-IN-CHIEF he UFV theatre department began 30 years ago. Since then, then, the department has grown; there arc.:three major productions put on in a theatre season, as wdl as several smaller shows and a theatre festival which Includes plays from other universities. UFV student plays are shown at the l-Iarrlson Festival of the Arts. In short, UFV's theatre depart• ment has become a respectable outlet forthespians of the Fraser Valley.

This year, the season opens with the Canadian play Schooll,ouse. 1his is the Western Canadian premiere of the play.

The play is writlen by Leanna Brodie, a Canadian playwright and actress. The play was chosen to commemerate the United Nation's International Year of the Child, as well as to celebrate the theatre department's 30th anniversary.

'TI1eplay is set In a one-room , sd1oolhousc (hence the name) during 1938. The school is S.S. #l Jericho School, which is just outside of a fictional village called Baker's Creek, in rural Ontario. 'TI1eplay Is about Melita Linton (played by Dayna 'Jhomas), and her experiences with the first class she tcachc.:s.After settling down in her classroom, a young boy from training school named Ewart (played masterfully by Dylan Coulter) is assigned to her class.

Initially, the concept of this play seems very familiRr: a troubled student encounters rn enthusiastic and young teacher that manages to reveal

I have been able to do many different roles In various productions over the last two years. I've been a dresser, lighting operator and house manager and have learned a lot in all of these

about SchoolHouse though. For me, it has been a very emotionally powerful project to work on. It is definitely one of the highlights of my acting career so far.

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his or her life around, and becomes happy and somewhat successful. It's a fairly standard format.

However,Schoolhousedoesn't stick to the expected plot. '!here ls actually a scc.:nc.: where Miss Linton pokes fun at expected plots, but I won't go any further to avoid spoiling the play. lhe school children are played by young adults, but the actors imitate the mannerisms - the poor poster, awkwardness, aggressiveness and eagerness • of children so well that

it Js easy to imagine that thi.: characters are played by actual children.

A special mention must be given to Dylan Coulter for his performance of Ewa.rt. llis character could easily have.:come across asovc.:rlyemotional which would have made him diflkult to sympathize with. However,Coulter played his role very strongly, particularly during his monologues.

During a monologue, Ewiirt describes a French delicacy that is made by basically torturing a small bird, then cooking it and eating il whole.

Residents oft he town of Baker's Creek

AHumorous TakeonJaneAusten Classic find the delicacy enjoyable, but Ewart finds it abhorrent. In this one scene, Coulter managed to paint Ewart as an outsider, but not a victim of sm,1ll town mentality.

While the play does deal with serious issues, and has some heart• wrenching moments, there is also a great deal of humour in the play. In particular, when the students of S.S. It I Jericho put on a Christmas play. lt was during the Christmas play (the play within Schoolhouse)that Eli Funk really stood out. Funk played Milton, the awkward and nerdy student that was too book smart for his own good. It was easy to sec that F~1nkenjoyed stomping around and pretending to be a greedy business man. 111isbrief interlude is easily one or the most enjoyable moments in the play, because of Funk's Millon.

The music chosen for the play was interesting, even the music played during the intermission. In the past, J've attended plays (at UFV and elsewhere) that don't necessarily make the greatest use of music, it just doesn't quite fit well with the era or tone of the play.

In the playbill, A11drew Meadwell, the Sound Designer, explains that he looked up actual songs from l938.

'TI1emusic adds a n Ice dynam le to the play; it\ c11silyoverlooked, but it's worth paying attention to.

Overall, the play was very well done. It was entertaining, and worth the trek out to Chllllwack. '!he last show is on November 29, so there's still time to check ii Olll.

to the other and during thut the tableBRITTANY WIESNER

SPORTS & HEALTHEDITOR cloth h11dslipped almost off, so one of the actresses flx.edit and almost every riday November the 6th W86 open- woman in the audience applauded. ing night for Pride and Prejudice, The play was cast al most perfectly. presented by Gallery 7. It was the full• Each actor became their role. Mike est opening night performance since Klcmak was perfect as Mr. Darcy the production was 1I10vedto MEI au- and Jenni Fischer was a wonderful ditorium. The crowd was full of Jane Elizabeth Bennet. Personally I have Austen fans; lovers of theatre and always been a Mr. Singly fan and the people of each faction eagerly awaited actor who filled that role, Mark Ham• the stage adaptation of one of Austen's mer, was excellent. TI1eentire cast was most revered works. amazing including the normally over The adaptation, written by Tom looked and sometimes dull charncter Wood, is a very Interesting take on the of Mary Bennet, portrayed by Teagan novel; lt Is unique because It remains Plett. She did an outstanding Job and lrue to the story while shortening il. gave lhe character a whole new light.

All of the facets of As welI, Garrett Dathe stage producvis, who played Mr. Collins, the usually tion did a wonder The play was cast foI job bringing the evil and drab charplay, and the novel, almost perfectly. Each acter wns given tr> Iife. 'TI1c cosa hilarious make actor became their role tu mes were beautiover, and became ful and the set was funny and at time a fantastic and well wee bit creepy. crafted. It created a great atmosphere Since it was opening night, there and really brought the audience into were issues that needed lo be fixed 19th century England, even though and it will be running until the 21st, the accents were at times a bit shaky, which gives everyone plenty of time and some were hard to believe. to figure out the little glitches. Big Since it was opening night there fans of the Jane Austen novel may be a were mistakes, mostly when It came to little nervous about a new adaptation, lines. TI1iscan be chalked up to open- but Wood's take on an old classic was il1gnight jitters. 11ie play started out fresh and worked out perfectly. It had with laughs and ended with laughs, just the right amount of laughs mixed which was nice twist t~1the story. And with the love stories we all adore. The the comici1Iscenes made the extreme Old Tow1ic Bakery i.:ven provided Ic.:ngthof the play bc.:tirablc.:.

There was English thc.:mccltreats for an opcnini, even one point in the play where a nighl cckbration, over all it ~us an table with a table cloth on it was be- excellent evening. ing moved from one side of the slagc

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Albu, Review

Them CrookedVultures PAUL BRAMMERGroh! dropped

the hint in an in• terview with MoJo magazine In 2005 STAFF WRI11:R about a possible link-up between him, hem Crooked Vultures are un- Homme and Jones. This August, the like any other band. Sure, the world finally got the confirmation respective members pick up their re- that it needed - the band was indeed spective instruments, plug them in alive, and they were 1hcm Crooked and play. But this band Just happens Vultures. to be composed of three of the most Not only that, bt1t they'd recorded towering and exciting musicians op- an album. A big, shiny, bastard alerating today. bum, for your manky ears to devour On drums, Dave Groh!. On gui- and process in your rotting, squirrel's tars and lead vocals, Josh Homme. brain.

On bass, John Paul Jones. That's Foo When imagining the studio sesFighters/Nirvana on drums, Queens sions, when the three titans of modern of the Stone Age on guitars and vo• music dreamt up and created this LP, cals, and Led Zeppelin on bass.

1 wondered if there were any primaNow that you've popped your eyes donna hlssy fits, back in your heads and picked your"Well, when I was in this little sd f tip off the floor, allow me to pro- band called Led Zeppelin, we did it ceed. like this."

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"Well, it's not, like, the 1700s, you choad, so, uh, shut up? I was, like, Kurt Cobain's, like, BFF." "Stop, it stop it, you're killing each other!"

Actually, for a group that has a combined 817 years of rocking our collective brain, they all seem like nice guys; John Paul Jones was the only member of Led Zep who didn't seem liken total douchcr (Plant - egotistical tight-jean wearing arse; Page - introverted Hobbit-lover; Bonham - Insane and deceased). Groh!, by all accounts, was the butt of Kurt 'everybody, look al me! Arc you looking?

Okay- stop looking at me! KER-BLA· MO!' Cobain's jokes yet emerged from it as a lovely bloke, and a quiet genius on the side (the first three Foo Fighters albums knock anything Nirvana did into a cocked hat). And Homme?

Well, if you drew a pie chart of cool, he would be a large slice of pie.

The self-titled album has elements of the three musicians' back tures are not trying to rewrite the catalogues, yet the LP doesn't sound book, but that is largely down to the like old-timers treading through fact that they pretty much wrote it in hackneyed tricks. There is an almost the first place. Opener "No One Loves palpable breath of fresh air rippling Me & Neither Do 1" starts off with a through the songs - the band formed lazy, funky beat that sets toes a-tap• and recorded under relative secrecy, ping and heads a-bopping, before and there Is the sense that there Is no building into a pounding second-half, propelled by Jones' pressure on the th rec.

If you ever wondered titanic bass. The song what It would sound ends with a pulsing Them Crooked last twenty seconds like for three of your heroes to sit back and Vulturesare not that could have been kick out the Jams, here tryingto rewritethe ripped frorn Songsfor it is. book, but that is the Deuf 111efirst track that 1here arc songs largelydownto the on the album that we were allowed to hear was "New Fang", fact that they pretty arc more than happy which has a fabulous much wroteit in the In just rocking you silly - "Mind Eraser, guitar riff that never first place sounds like It's going No Chaser" and "Cato resolve, and tnldeligulove" both tick mark driving-yet-soulthat box. "Dead End ful percussion from Groh!. 'l11echo- rriends" rocks hard until the final act, rus sounds as if it could have come which introduces a beautifully under• from an curly QOTSA album, with stated guitar solo accompanied with extra mountains of funk, and there is a very nice sprinkling of keys from a bright touch to it that early QOTSA Jones, and album closer "Spinning was not aiming for. in Daffodils" has a great slow, fast riff Bright is the order of the day for that finally givesway to something re• most of the LP - 1 hem Crooked Vul- sembling California carnival music.

Undoubtedly, the mid-section of the album is where the brilliance of the band really hits home. "Scumbag Blues" has a funky keyboard line that sounds like late-sixties Stevie Won• der; "Elephants" has a psychedelic breakdown that captures the effortless cool and groove of the band, and ''Interlude with l.udcs'' is a beautiful, dreamy, trippy song that's vaguely about eating chemicals. lhe finest track on the album, slap bang in lhe middle of proceedings, is "Ban<lnlicrs"; interestingly enough, "Bandoliers" happer,s to be the most forthright and sincere track on the LP. It opens with a stripped, sparse guitar line from !Tomme,leading lo a pulsing chorus. As the song progresses, Jones brings in the texture of keys, and Grohl's drums take everything up a notch, imbuing the song with a sense of urgency and potency. All In all, "Bandolicrs" is a simple lesson in how layers and musicianship can create fabulous tones of meaning and power.

Like"Bandollers",every track finds Them Crooked Vultures with the cool and assured air that the trio's experl• ence should yield. Many supergroups' albums are top-heavy affairs, and more often than not sound half-thought-out and downright lazy.

Not so with Them Crooked Vultures, who play with a consummate air of professionalism, along with an case and joy that most bands couldn't conjure.

Let's face it, '!hem Crooked Vultures knew that they could put out any old crap and people would buy ii. Well, lucky for us that they decided to make n damn good album to go along with the star wall· age.

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Cascade News • Friday November 20th 2009

Alan Jackson Pc~rforms at the Abbotsford Entertainment & Sports (Jentre Bigcountry starcomes tosmalltownAbbotsford BRITTANY WIESNER SPORTS & HEALTH EDITOR n Friday November 13th thou• sands of country fans gathered to welcomethe first big country con· cert to the Abbotsford Entertainment and Sports Center. Headlining was country legend Alan Jackson, with Juno award winning George Canyon opening for him. A full stadium there to welcomethem. 'lhe concert surprisingly started promptly at 7:30pmwith George Can• yon. Ii Is set was short but cx.cellcnt.

I le preformed his most popular and recent songs, likc ''Drinkin' Thinkin'" and "Just like You".He even covered Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire"· and did an excellent job. Canadian artist GeorgeCanyon and he was very good at relating with the audience. During the break between his and Alan Jackson'sset he signed autographs at the merchandise table for those who bought his stuff. While at times he was hard to understand, he tugged at the audience's heart strings by tell• eos, to accompany the songs on other Ing a story about his son, and doing screens. a ~aluteto the Canadian military. He He was good at appeasing his started and ended his set on a high Canadian audience by adding "Ca• note, with upbeat nadian" into any songs. 1t should be line he could, it exciting to see him caused the crowd And when he came get his own head· to scream with Joy. lining tour in years on, it got even crazier He ended the con• cert with "Where l to come.

Come Prom" dur• '1here was a two minute countdown Ing which, Oil the before Alan Jackson came on stage screens he played video footage taken and during that time the crowd went from Abbotsford which was prclly wild. And when he came 011, it got cool. He does it with every city, (I even crazier. He and his large back• went to his concert in Vancouverand up band, the Stralthorns, started he did the same thing) but it was exwith "Gone Country" and played all citing to see footage of downtown Ab· his classics after that. lie used video botsford on the screen. Even our very aids extremely well; having himself own university was ~hown. on the big screen and then music vid· T-lls encore was "Mercury" and

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while his band played he signed auto· graphs for those in the front row (One girl even took her shirt off for it to be signed). While he was signing nu mer· ous girls were able LoJump on stage and get hugs• then they were escorted Immediately off stage. And what concert Isn't complete without a fight?

During the encore a nasty one broke out on the general admission floor, paramedics and an ambulance were rushed to the scene.

Over all, the concert was brilliant.

Alan Jackson is a veteran performer and has an amazing stage presence.

And even though there seemed to be no heat whatsoever in the entire building, and trying to leave was a night• mare, it was a great experience and it was even better that it happened right here, in our own little Abbotsford.

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I don't usually introducethese, it's just barn barn boom, U-F-V-shuffle.This week, I should note the overarching theme. Relaxationfrom the hustle bustle of these penultimateweeks of the semester is by now undoubtedly needed. Essays,deadlines and exams,oh my! Here aresongs with storms, waterand blood,that ultimatelyresolvein respite and somehow calm you to the core.

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Metric not fans of Halloween, bad acoustics Guitarist Jimmy Show talks halloween, venue types andgroup dynamics ANDREW BATESthere's obstructions all over the place,

CUPWESTERN BUREAU CHIEF and people can't Just move freely,"he ust havlng gotten through this year's Halloween season, don't feel bad If your costume was just a scrawled-on t-shirt or a pair of cat ears; Metric understands. When they played in Edmonton on All Hallows' Eve, they went the simple route.

"Right before the encore, we went offstage," Metric guitarist Jimmy Shaw explains. "All the guys changed into white t•shlrts with blood all over and then we came out and played Monster Hospital."

According to Shaw, the drive that pushes people to open their pocketbook and fire up their sewing machines for the holiday just doesn't exist in Metric. "I think most of us are not really into Halloween,"he says.

Metric - comprised of Shaw, Emily Haines, Josh Winstead and Joules Scott-Keyes- have been playing much of their current tour In all-seated theatres. "l11erearc some great [venues], Massey Hall in Toronto is a legendary room, it's a total honour to play and a total pleasure to play there," he says, "but It doesn't really feellike the typi• cal place that Metric would play."

Theatres have their ups and downs, Shaw says. "If you're going to put a thousand people on the floor with seats that they're not going to sit in,

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explains. "On the other side, it sounds amazing in these rooms, because they're rooms that are designed for sound. Big rock clubs like MacEwan Hall in Calgary or something like that, they sound terrible. Big concrete boxes."

A venue that does seem to tick all of the boxes is Metropolis, a concert hall in Montreal.

"It's this beautiful old theatre, the floor's all standing, it's got the old historic part of it where it's all wood," Shaw says. Metric released a DVD in 2008 of a concert that took place in Metropolis. ''It sounds great and it's organic, and yet it's like a rock club where everyone's there and people can drink, and there's this freedom."

It's that convergence of elements, according to Shaw, that really makes the difference. "1here's an element of sometimes you're In the worst venue of all time, and for whatever reason - the people, the night, the moon, the sctllst - everything combines to make complete magic," he says. "There's always, like, how good is the band feeling? How good is the crowd feeling?

How Is the room feeling? And then suddenly all three of those things are all wrong and still the magic happens."

Metric just finished an east-to-west tour through Canada before contlnu• ing south in the United States, but according to Shaw, he doesn't notice much traveling west other than having to change his clocks.

"I don't really find that there's a lot of difference,'' he admits. ''There

are natural difference~between bigger cities and smaller cities, more rural places are a little friendlier, you

know."

He noted that his eyes are blurred, though, because he spends so little time in each city. "We're in a city for 18 hours, and nine of that Is spent In a venue, playing, soundchecking, surrounded by our whole crew. Six hours is going to be spent sleeping in a hotel room," Shaw says. "The only time you actually get to interact is maybe If you go out for dinner."

Days off are often a wash, as well,just because of the band's torrid schedule. "I literally slept the entire day. I woke up, went out, had breakfast around 2 [p.m.], came back and then slept until this morning.'' I Jc says It's hard to get the sense of a city for the band unless they go there a lot. "I've had enough days off [In Portland, that if] you give me a bicycle.. . I know how to get around."

According to Shaw, all this touring has turned the band lnto a social unit that's not particularly common.

"I think that It's pretty standard In a band that's been together for seven to 10 years, that they're not all best friends, [but] this group of people are very friendly and close. Four out of five nights we

go out for dinner together before a show," he says. "This isn't friendship, and this isn't family, and this lsn't business, this is some other [thing), this is the band. The band has its own whole set of dynamics. Fortunately for us, the four of us in this set of dynamics work perfectly."

He also notes that that it's not com• parable to being roommates or family because of the music. "If we were just hanging out In the same neighbourhood, I'm sure we would be friends, but it that's not the point or why we arc together. It's the congregation, the idea of what we want to do musically, and th~t drives us to stick together."

As Metric have grown in popu• larity, their fans aren't just ind ie scenesters anymore - at the Kelowna Community Theatre, they have attracted a crowd that ranged from high-schoolers to construction workers. Shaw says that he's okay with that.

"I think It's kind of the point, In a sense. It's at least the point of why we do what we're doing. If we only ever meant music to relate to the people that we relate to personally, the music would not sound quite like this," he says."l think we're using music to try and say somethLngbroader to someone that we wouldn't actually have a conversation with."

Album Reviews ontheFly

I Bon Jovi - The Circle

The XX - The XX

Rod Stewart • Soulbook

Harper Simon • Harper Simon

Morrissey - Swords

Upon listening toTheXX,thedebutalbum (Rolling Stone)BonJoviore billingtheir ofBritish quartet, TheXX, it isimmediatelyRadStewart getsin touchwithsoulin his Worm Morrissey's statusas a legendo andbeautifully sung,thepremiere, Stephen 11thalbumaso bock-to-rock move, follow• clearthattheyoreundeserving ofthefe- latestalbumSoulbook.

Thisalbumismade self-litled albumofPoulSimon's sonshould modernmusichoslongbeencemented ingontheheelsof 2007'scountry-tinged verishhype1h01 hosbeenbuiltuparound up of coversongsand duetswithwell- notbemissed.

Although Harper Simon has eventhosewhocannotstandthesighto lost Highway, whichfeaturedduetswith themonbothsidesoftheAtlantic. inherited hisfather'sgentlesinging theman,orthesilkymoonofhisvoice, can Thisis known artistslikeStevie Wonder, Smokey clearly Music Citystars.It doesrock- ifyouridea notbecause theirmusicis bad,theirlow- Robinson, JenniferHudson and MaryJ. voice,his30minutealbumhasplentyof notdenyhisplaceinthegrandscheme o of rockis Aerosmith doingDioneWarren keyRn' Bbuiltaround delicate guitarlines Blige.

Though thisisa goodalbum,if you distinction.

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Thealbumdoesdojustice to thebestonthealbum,especially "Wisheswithanyalbumofthrown a Prayer"), he'smorecontemplative than thosewhodon1t mistake the disc is lacking in cohesion and flow, bu subtlety foro lock thesongsit covers andmanyRodStewart andStars"and"Shooting Star".Thonext I ever,turningout meditations like11Llve ofpassion.

They singsongsaboutloveand fanswillbe satisfied, however it isn1t os fourorealsogood,butlessmemorable.someofthesongsstandoutforenough 1 BeforeYouDie ' ("There'll comea day sex,butwiththought andreflection farbe- greatashisearlierwork.Afewofthecov- Thelosttwotracksflnishthealbumono makeupforthat.Thisselection willnotwi whenyouhoveto soyhellotogoodbye").yondtheirage(Allthebondmembers ore ersaretoosimilar to theoriginal version. strongnote,withthefinalsang"Berkeleyhimanyfans,butitwillnotturnawayon Ah,well,ot leastblue-collar anthems like 20yearsold).Sparseelectronic beatsand Alsoo fewoftheaMist whowereaccompa-Girl"leavingyouhumming alongto the ofthedie-hards, either.Althisstageinhi "Work fortheWorking Mon"meanwell. reverb-drenched synthsmakethemunsuit- nyinghimmanaged to outshine Stewart o tune- instant CQreer, I don'tthinkMorrissey'II mind. classic. edandtooabstract forthedancefloor,but bit,Stevie Wonder inparticular.

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Book Review

Eating the Dinosaur JORDAN PITCHER wasn't a

transcript of an episode of

CONTRIBUTORTwo and c, 1/c,lfMen; it had value in hen Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs was first published in 2003, 1 had never seen anything like it. It was a book of essays that reveled In the fact that It analyzed low culture (sec: pop culture) in a way that didn't involve a thorough knowledgeof media and communication theory to appreciate. ·n1e essays were written in an amusing, wry way,by an amusing, wry author. They were easily accessible and Infinitely entertaining, which is what made the book so great. It was pop culture writing, written for an audience that consumes pop culture. llowcver, it

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that Klosterman used these essays about pop culture minutiae to illustrate points about our society. For instance, Klosterman argues our obsession with The Real World can be seen as the advent of people developing one dimensional personalities and our voyeuristic perversity as a culture. Eating the Dinosaur takes what Chuck Klosterman started four years ago and adds to it in a more maturethough still amusing and wry-way.

Through a series of what, at first glance, seem to be wild non-sequiturs, Eating the Dino-

saur manages to combine essays on various aspects of popular culture.

He compares Kurt Cobain to David Koresh (think Waco) in a somewhat offensive yet somehow convincing way; and gives an analysis of time travel that ls way more in-depth and thought out than it needs to be. He also takes a critical look at the laugh tracks employed by sitcoms, and progressive football plays. He ties all these into the larger idea that through our idolization of cultural figures, we create a reality that Is far more comfortable. This fake reality is so pure a fantasy that when we encounter

fake reality comes in the final essay,named FAIL. Everyone prides themselves on being tough to influence, infinitely skeptical of how much they are affected by the treacherous "media,". But by quoting from Jerry Mander's book, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, Klosterman provides us with a revealing example of how much media we actually Internalize and how that internalization of Images makes il difficult for us to differentiate from the real and unreal.

In order lo illustrate this inability.

Mander asks people to imagine, "life in an Eskimo village,"the Old South," "a preoperallon conversation nmong doctors," ,ind "playing basketball." A simple enough task, to be sure. You probably already have the images In your head. '!hough you have experienced maybe one or two of these scenarios, you can picture them all with clarity, right? Mander says that the images conjured up are "either out

CHUCK KLOSTERMAN

EATING THE DINOSAUR

someone entirely truthful (Rivers Cuomo or Ralph Nader, 10 name a couple of Klostcrman's examples) we nrc hostile and disappointed.

One of the most interesting instances of this

of your own imagination or else they [are] from the media. Can you idenllfy which was which?"

Yes, some of the essays are hit (Ind miss-particularly the ones on basketball, football and ABBA. Yes, It's wrillen in Klostcrmnn's signature style, which some could argue is getting stale, but it is for and away Klostcnnan's most thought-provoking and mature work Lodate. Besides, (arguably) stale Klosterman is still (arguably)gre11tKlosterman.

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MovieReview

Abducts moviegoers hard earnedcash

The FourthKind SONJA SZLOVICZAK patients experience extreme terror.

ACTINGEDITOR-IN-CHIEF Eventually, Dr. Tyler begins to think that aliens have been visiting her patients (shockingly, these aliens speak Sumerian. Luckily, Dr. Tyler finds a specialist that can understand some of what these beings say). The name 1he Fo11rlhKind refers to the level

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actual events that arc being portrayed in a film actuaUy can improve the film, usually in films based on history, which include a short scene of old footage. Th is is 110t the case In The

here are plenty of really terrible movies that have been pumped out over the years (like almost any movie starring Nicholas Cage). EvFourthKind. ery now and then, however, a movie 'the film plays the "arch lved footcomes along that Is so bad and so age" alongside a dramatization of pointless thut the audience can the events in the footage. actually feel their sou Is being The two versions of events sucked away by the whole hokey arc shown side-by-side on There was a shockingamountof premise of the movie. ThePo11rth screen. It seems that the Kind is one of these movies; in people... amazed that these events director was trying to imfact, it could be considered the press the audience with haven'tbeen shownon the news most pointless movie of the dehow accurately the events cade. were portrayed. Instead, The movie Is about "actual the audience Is left to wonevents" which took place In Nome, of contact with aliens; there are four der, what is the fucking point of the Alaska, in 2002. TI1e story follows a kinds of contact a person can have dramatization of these events? There psychologist named Dr. Abigail Tyler with aliens, and the fourth kind Is ab- arc huge chunks of the film that runs as she Investigates why the people of duction. alongside the archived footage.

Nome have so much trouble sleepThe whole movie is allegedly based The archived footage is mostly po• ing. At first, all her patients describe on "archived footage." The movie belice videos and Dr. Tyler's videotapes waking up in the middle of the night gins with Milla Jovovich walking up of her hypnosis sessions with her paseeing an owl at their window. All the to the screen and explaining to the autients. If the creators of the film had patients have trouble describing the dience that the film Is based entirely wanted so save some money, they owl, but they seem to think the owl on documented events. She will be could have just shown the archived playing Dr. Abigail Tyler, the woman goes into their bedroom. footage rather than dramatization.

Under hypnosis, a few patients re- who provided all the "archived footTo make the film even more rialize that there was no owl. Instead, age" to the creators of the film. "Some diculous, the film cuts to an interview it's something that they are comof what you arc about to see may dis- with the "actual" Dr. Tyler at random pletely unable to describe because of turb you," Jovovich explains. intervals. She Is a pale, sickly woman some kind of mental block. All the There arc times when footage of with very sunken features. In the ar-

chived footage, she looks young and healthy, but It seems that the events of the film were so traumatizing that it nearly sucked the life out of her.

For the record, the archived footage Is not actually archived footage.

The woman portraying Dr. Abigail Tyler is an actress, not a traumatized psychologist from Alaska. Still, th~re

was a shocking amount of people coming out of the movie, amazed that these events haven't been shown on the news.

TI,eFourth Kind is terrible. It's not worth seeing, ever. Unfortunately, there will be enough gulllble people that will watch this movie and keep It from being a complete flop.

by Aubrey Plaza from Funny People.

Tom Haverford, played by Aziz Ansari, also from Funny People,gives the show Its over-the-top hilarity. Parks and Recreationairs 'fhursdays at 8:30.

future. The series stars Joseph Fiennes as FBI agent Mark Benford, who has a vision of himself investigating the case, and uses clues he saw to begin investing the case. Though the show has clear plotholes, the investigation Into the mysterious cause of the visions keeps the show captivating. Flash Furward airs Thursdays at 8PM.

Chanef Surflng

Television ShowsWorthWatching JOEL SMART STAFF WRITER show. The comedy often plays upon Dancing reality shows are the latest craze, and have taken a lot of the spotlight away from current high quallty scripted tclevlslpn. From comedy to science fiction, Fall 2009 has some surprisingly watchable television se• ries that are worth looking out for.

Bored To Death - An HBO series featuring Jason Schwartzman, known from his roles in I ~ Huckabees and lhe Darjeeling Limited, who plays the role of Jonathan Ames, a writer who moonlights as a private detective. lhe show follows Ames after his girlfric11d leaves him. Ames, inspired by his fa. vorite mystery novels, makes a Craig• slist advertisement claiming to be a private detective. Ted Danson, frorn Cheers and Becker, plays a hih1rious role as his boss, George Christopher.

Zach Galifianakis plays the role of Ray Hueston, Amcs's best friend. n1e show is characterized by a slightly awkward sense of humor that makes the characters feel real and lovable.

For a show about a private detective, there isn't much action, but it Is all part of the charm. Boredto Death airs on Sundays at 9:30 PM Modern Family- An ABC comedy that follows the lives of three related families. The show takes a mockumentary format, popularized by The Office,with the main characters being regularly Interviewed as though their lives are part of a reality television

established stereotypes, but with a satirical angle that gives the show a fresh feel. While one family features the elderly Ed O'Neill, known for his role on Married With Children, married to a much younger Columbian woman with a young son, the second family features a gay couple with a recently adopted Vietnamese Infant daughter. 1he third family is a basic nuclear family, but just as dysfunctional as the others.

The writing is clever and enjoyable, and may remind some of the classic show, Arrested Devel-

Parks and Recreation - Starring Amy Poehler, Parks and Recreation is an NBC comedy that follows the life of Leslie Kn ope, a Parks and Recreation Department employee, with

V - A rcimaging of the classic I983 miniseries, AliC's Vis about an alien Invasion where the 'visitors' play nice, rather than directly at• tacking. Starring Elizabeth Mitchell, known for her role in Lost, as FBI agent Erica Evans, the show is a sciencefiction mystery-thriller. V airs Tuesdays at 8PM.

opment. Modern Family airs Wednesdays at 9PM.

Community - Starring Joel McHale from The Soup as Jeff Winger, this NBC comedy follows the lives of a group of misfits at Greendale Community College.

Hilarious characters include Danny Pudi as Abed, Chevy Chase as the delusional Pierce, and Gillian Jacobs as the love interest, Britta. Community is incredibly goofy, but it has a heart at its center as well.

Community airs Thursdays at 8 PM.

Also

look

for

- Fringe, an amazing series similar to X-filcs from the creators of too much enthusiasm struggling tn make a difference. lier dream to create a park brings her closer to fellow employees. The characters arc outrageous, from the schemingly hateful boss Ron Swanson, to the completely apathetic intern April Ludgate, played

Lost.

Californlcalion, starring

Flash Forward- the ABC sciencefiction series based on the 1999 Canadian novel begins with the entire world going unconscious for 137 seconds and awaking with vivid memories of a 137 second pel'iod sl~months-lnto the

David Duchovny as a sex-craved writer.

Glee, an overly choreographed high school musical-drama.

Doi/house, starring .Eliza Dushku as a reprogrammable human-for·rent.

Cascade News • Friday November 20 th 2009

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The Fornication Conversation Porn

"Wave of the Dude- 100% Electronic" VIRGINIA SLIMS bless the Internet.

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Donot turndownanydrinking game,toke every opportunity togetlaidandre• member thatyou're incollege!

Aries: March 21- April 19 This week, a secret to your past will be revealed. This realization may make you more funny than the average person.

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Brush up on your insults this Well mydearones,thissemesterweek,in time you will to use them. isflying by.Remember thatthereis need Do not be afraid to onlya fewweeks left,somakeyour stoop very low.

e've all done It. I'm sure that if I went into all of your little laptops, I'd find some boobies. Oh, I'm S\1rc you've hidden them well, or cleared your Internet browshig history, but let's be hon• est with each other here.

As un Iversit y students, we are expected to use the In• tcrnct for four things. We use Facebook to spy on people from high school.

We waste hours playing games and browsing all sorts of irreverent media. Sometimes we do research for school projects. And last, but certainly not least, we watch people have dirty sex.

The Internet has revolutionized the way the average person gets off.

Ah, back in the day, you had to put a penny Into a slot to watch a peep show.

Then you had to work up the courage lo rent a video at your local establishment (1rndoh arc there some interest• ing titles in those mysterious rooms!).

When computers became a staple in our homes, and we connected to the Internet th rough the phone line, we spent hours downloading a single picture of some tittics, only to have the system crash at the nipples.

Oh, but now we h:we a whole uni• verse of pornography at our fingertips....for fucking free. The only catch

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Leo:July23-August 22 If you arc fighLingoff the flu this week, try ancient gypsy remedy: much whiskey and stealing a young child's bike. This will have you back to norm:il in no time!

Virgo: August 23- September 22 Virgo! We must talk, I have heard that you arc not living up to the name that the cosmos has ordained for you.

Keep your head on your shoulders and your hands where l can see them.

Scorpio: October 23- November 21 Read every issue of Cosmo from November 2005 - November 2008. '!here will be information Iha!'will be vital to you inside!

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Capricorn: December 22- January 19 Music will be comforting to your soul this week. Specifically, power ballads and songs from romantic dramas.

Aquarius: January 20- February 18 Although rest ls Important, do not overdo it. Livelife, don't sleep it away.

Libra: September 23- October 22 Oh Libra, how about I Just tell you when you're due for some sex? Sincerest apologies.

Pisces: February 19- March 20 This week you have encountered many hardships. Do not be discouraged friend, things will begin to brighten for you ... eventually.

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is that weeding through the shit videos to find something that fills the ol' college requirements of spankable and free, can sometlrnes be quite time consuming. But there is really no lack of websites offering abundant quanti• ties of nudie videos.

Sites like Red Tube offer an assload (hah!) of free porn that is categorized quite nicely into all the preferences you would want to search. There's even a "Wild and Crazy" category, which has the thumbnail of a girl shooting fire out of her ass. Which is pretty awesome. Of course, l couldn't resist clicking on this category. l kid you not, poppets, there is a vldco in which a girl In a sexy Santa costume gets it from behind by --are you ready for this?-Prosty the fucking Snowman.

I hope you all know how difficult it is for me to navigate away from this category and steer this article back in the direction of...oh my god, there's a video of a girl shoving a can of coke up her ass. Oh wait, it's Coke Light... not quite as impressive.

Anyways,the site also has live camera feeds and a dating service. Dating service? Corne on, Red Tube...a fucking service. You can even subscribe to the premium service and gel your porn In HD. Don't forget that you can also upload your own amateur videos, and become an instant porn star. God

For those of you who like to masturbate (and who doesn't?), but prefer to let your imagination do the work, I m lght suggest some erotic literature. With siles like Literotica, you can still chose your category and read

user-submitted erotic stories that provide some excellent launch points for those with active imaginations. You can nlsn browse audio and pictures also subrnitled by users. The site also has an erotic chat option, for those who like Interaction ln their internet erotica.

Now, many people of both the male and female persuasion enjoy a little porn now and again, but the trick sometimes Is reconciling this indulgence with a relationship. Porn is the single lover's best friend, but docs this need to change upon enter• Ing a relationship? Ideally,l'm sure we all would like to think that our lover only thinks of us when handling their goods. However, we all on some level realize that this isn't realistic, and that shouldn't be taken as any kind of insult or insinuation of inadequacy. As long as you remember never to make your partner feel as though they can• not satisfy you, I sec no reason to give up assisted autocrotica.

And If you're thinking about intro· ducing some porn Into your sc.xlife, make sure that you go about this In a way that is respectful to your partner.

You might be surprised what happens when you voice those lit1le fantasies that you're afraid to talk about. Perhaps your lover is thinking the same thing.

Watching porn with your lover can also be very educational. Don't sit there studiously and take notes or anything, but be aware of what your partner gets turned on by. If your lover tends to moan, or writhe whenever the onscreeners bite and scrntch, chances are it's something you should incorporate in your technique.

Porn can be quite a marvelous thing in moderation, of course. And if you're in the mood for a more comical approach to Internet sex, I highly sug• gest porn bloopers. There aren't many things in this world that are funnier than sexual slapstick.

Porn is not just for weird guys with mustaches who rent from the adult room at Rogers video on Sun• day morning. If you've got a computer, you've got access to more naked strangers than you can shake a dickerr, stick at.

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Ask Virginia and the Gypsy Dear Zora and Virginia,

What is the best way to break up with someone?

Signed,Antsyin Abby.

Ant,y, my poppet, Yours Is a complex qt1estlon, a lot depends on the drcunistan,c~ of your relationship. However, there arc, of course, certain guidelines to be f~I• lowed in terms of etiquette. First off, let me warn you that there is a special ring of Hell populated by those who text message break up. Don't do it. I do sympathize with your predica• ment though, my dear. It's hard to be on cilhcr end. Sure, nobody wants to be bJ'oken up with, but being the ass• hole who has to do it...man, I feelyour pain.

So, make sure that you talk in per~on, text, email, phone, and Facebook arc out of the question, Also, don't let the question linger in thc air all day.

In oth<?rwords, don't tell your significant other that the two of you have some serious talking to do later while (s)he's heading out the door on the way to work. That's just torture.

Once you've got your partner in front of you, explain yourself honestly. If I can tell you one thing, H's that there arc few things less frustrating than a spinelesslyvague reason. "I just want to focus on me right now" 'Tm just not good enough for you" and ''I'm just not ready for th is right now" arc not acceptable answers. I'll plead guilty to using that last one though.

Give your partner the real reason, without being mean. It may be hard to say, and hard to hear, but I'm sure we're all curious about the reasons we've been broken up with, right?

Remember, only tell your soon-tobe-ex that you still want to be friends If you actuall.y do. It's incredibly im-

porlant to cue any ambiguity out of If you are breaking up because of lhc c:qualion.Taking lhe ensy way out $Qmething that has happened, its ok and saying somcthing like ''J still love Lo admit to yourself and the cheatyou" or "Who knows what will hap- ing bastard that you've been hurt and pen in the future" is not a good idea. that you arc angry. Do not reward bad At this point you both need closure, behavior, it only leads tu more hurt and although it may be hard to draw and destruction. Sonictim.cs people that line, it needs to be done so that change, but be careful whom you give you can both move on. second chances to.

TI1ink about what the real re11so11 Lastly,my dear one, alwaysrememis that yol1want to break up, and give ber that no m11ttcrwhat reason you it to your partner straight. 'fhinking are leaving the one you're with, someIt through beforehand Is also a good one else will come along. Take time to way Lokeep yoursctr froni flying into heal, but don't dwell on It. When you an emotional ranl. Break ups work arc ready, the stars will align and you best when they are calm and rational. will once again be swept off your feet!

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Twitter gaming applications hit the In the last few weeks Microsoft mainstream news. has banned over a rnilliun Xbox 360s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, froni Xbox Live under suspicion of a first person shooter known for its being modded, or modified, to allow multiplaycr focus, sold 4.7 mllllon the play of pirated games. Microsoft Copies,and earned an estimated $310 says they will continue to ban mod• million in North America and Lhe dcd consoles in the future. In related United Kingdom in the first 21 hours news, a flood of madded Xbox 360s of its rclc:asc, according to 'internal has hit online auction websites, such Activision estimates'. If these sales as Cralgsllst and eBay. A statement figures hold true, it will become the from eBay recommends using Paylargest entertainmen.1 launch of all Pal if buying an Xbox 360 In case the time, speaking in terms of total reve- banned status of a console was not nue collected in that time period. ·n1e disclosed. Curiously, some people are PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions looking to purchase the now offiine-

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The Xbox 360's Project Natal, a camera that rune.lions ns a hands-free motion cuntrollcr, wa~ 11wardedby Time m11gazincas the fifth best invention of the year, ranking higher on lhe list of 50 than the AIDS vaccine and a microchip that could help blind people see.

On November 17th Microsoft re• leased an update allowing Xbox Live Gold subscribers to use Facebook, l'willer, and even Last.fm from the dashboard of their Xbox 360s. Despite the foct that PlayStation 3 owners can already access these services using the PlayStation 3 internet browser, many websitesarc reporting that Sony plans to release an integrated Facebook ap• plication In corning weeks to cou,~ler-

act the move by Microsoft. The changes mark un increased focus on socia.l networking by the two companies.

An online service called adhocPar• ty was recently announced for a No• vcmber release in North America.

'Ibis service will allow PSP owners to play cerr;iln offllnc multlplaycr g.imcs onlii1e using a PlayStation 3 console.

Sony noted that the recently released games Gra11 Turisrno and Monster liunter Freedom Unite will be the first to benefil. The service will also Lnclude other forms of interoperability between the PSP and the PlayStation 3, Including video and voice chat.

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n Octobcr 30, 2009, tragedy struck the Ontario Hockey League when El'ie Oller forward Michael Liambas delivered a crushing, but clc(ln hit to Kitchener Ranger defenseman Ben Fanelli. Fnnclli turned his buck to the hit at the last second which popped his helmet off and put him face lirsl ii1to the end boards.

Fanelli was left motionless lying on the Ice In a pool of his own blood with a fractured skull. He was rushed to local hospitRI and was placed In in• tensive care; he remained In critical, stable condition for almost a week.

On November 4, 2009 OHL Com• missioner David Hranch suspe11ded J:iricOtter forward Michael Linmbas for the remaiiHler ofhi~ junior career.

This is going to make it very <l111kult for Liambas to gel drafted by an NHL team. Many spot'ts analysts arc calling this punishment way too harsh for the crime. 'lhe extremity of this punishment is because of the result of the hit, not because the hit was dirty.

Fanelll regained consciousness and was sent home after roughly a week in hospital. Michael Llnmbas has sent a letter of apology to the Fanelli family.

Liambas released a statement follow• ing his suspension; "I would never have thought I had the power to do that to another human being, but I'm having trouble understanding what the lesson ls. But what's done is done. l just hope one day he and his family can forgive me."

I, and most hockey analysts, view this hit as clean with an unfortunate outcome. Another possibility of the severity of this suspension Is that Fanelli was only 16 and In his first

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year of junior hockey, whereas Liambas was 20 and in his last year of ju• nior hockey-Llambnsalso outweighed Fanelli by 25 pounds. Regardless of Branch's motifs for I he suspension, the punishment docs not fit the crime.

It seems as if commissioner Branch Is making an example of Llambas, maybe tying to send a message to the rest of the players in OHL. Headshots have been an issue over the past fewyears, not just In the NIIL, but all over th1:hockey world. 'lhe sad reality is that hilling is part of the game and hopefully it will stay that way.It is the responsibility of the player to protect himself, keep his head up and be aware of the other players on the ice. Sometimes you just get caught looking at your laces and that can lead to a tragic outcome. Concussions and head injuries have always been a big part of hockey- many star players have suffered from them. Keith Premcau, Bric Lindros and Pat Lafontain have all had their careers cut short because of head injuries. When you play a game on ice with sticks and 12 men all chasing a little black bullet with aspirations to fire it, accidents and injuries are bound to happen.

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he Canucks began a five game road trip on the fifth of Novem• ber, battling the Minnesota Wild. It was one of their most well-fought victories, with the Canucks winning 5-2.

Unfortunately the road trip was about to take a discouraging and frustrating turn. On the sixth of November the Canucks fell to the Dallas Stars in a 2-1 loss that could have been much worse If It was not for the exceptional play of goaltender Corey Schneider.

The last three games of the road trip would speak volumes about the cur• rent state of the Canucks, especially with all-star goaltender Roberto Luongo set to return from injury.

November lO - (L) The St. Louis Blues won 6-1 over the Canucks In a game that hurt to watch. 111eCanucks had four days to rest and pre• pare for the game, but failed to show any sign of effort. 111eBlues recorded four goals before the first half of the first period had begun. 1he Canucks' defense looked confused, and Andrew Raycroft was unimpressive as thc team's net minder. Luongo took over In the second period, making his debut after missing six games with a rib injury. Luongo allowed two subse• qucnl goals in a game he had intended to only watch as the backup. To make matters worse, the Canucks were held to just one goal for the second game in a row. No one expected the worst team in the Central Division to beat the well-rested Canucks so emphati-

first round of the playoffs by the Canucks last season. Nevertheless, fans of the Canucks were frustrated to see the lackadaisical effort put forth by their team.

November 12 - (L) 'Ihe Detroit Red Wings snuck a 3-1 win over the Canucks in Luongo's first start since his Injury. The effort by the Canucks was solid, but there was just no finish by the tearn's offense, scoring just one goal, now for the third game in a row.

The Red Wings scored first, finishing the first period up by a goal. When Mason Raymond tied the game up in the second period, it felt well deserved as they had spent the majority of the game controlling the play. Jimmy Howard, usually the backup for the Red Wings, made some spectacular saves, especially in the third, which made it even more frustrating for the Canucks when against the flowof play Henrik Zetterberg made an Incredible move to break past the defense and backhand the puck over the shoulder ofLuongo. An empty net goal seemed to sum up the theme of the night when the Canucks were pressing late with the extra attacker. The puck careened off the glass in a clearing attempt and slid its way into the net at the far end of the ice as the Canucks desperately chased after it.

November 14 - (W) The Colorado Avalanche was decimated 8-2 by a Canucks squad with something to prove. After scoring only three goals combined in their last three outings,

the Canucks deposited three quick goals by net minder Craig Anderson in the first period. The Northwest Division leaders replaced Anderson with backup Peter Budaj after sur• rendering a fourth goal in middle frame. 1he move seemed to spark the Avalanche, as they drastically outshot the Canucks early in the third and scored two goals to bring them within two. The Canucks were quick to rally, however. Buda; fact:d eight shots in the third period, and half of them found the back of the net. Henrik Sedin achieved his first career hat trick when he scored on the power-play in the third. Luongo looked phenomenal, making several quick, acrobatic saves to preserve the Canucks' lead.

The win was a product of hard work, and fans are hoping the game signals a change to a more consistently hardworking team.

It has been three games since the return of Luongo, and three entirely different teams have shown up to play for the Canucks. The incredibly different result of these games shows a team struggling to find Its identity. lt is no wonder, considering the injury problems the team has faced this season. However, as Luongo settles back into his role of number one goaltender, and team Captain, the Canucks should begin to play more consistently. Hopefully the team that shows up in the November 20 rematch against the Avalanche wtll be the same team seen in the last game, rather than the two before.

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t's been fifty years since Jacques Plante took an Andy Bathgate slap shot to the face and refused lo rdurn to the ice until he was given some sorl a facial protection. Plante had been using a home made mask in prnctice for a few years but Montreal coach Toe Blake refused to let him use it in regulation play. After the Bathgate slap shot, Plante wenl to the dressing room for stitches and refused to return unless coach Blakewould let him wear his practice mask. With no other goalie to turn to, Blake had no choice but to let Plante play wllh his praclice mask. After that Plante refused lo take the mask off until his nose and cul healed, in the meantime Planle look the !Iabs on an 18 game unbeaten streak. After the unbeaten streak cnded llnd lhe cut healed, nlakc asked Plante lo remove the mask for an im• portant game against the Red Wings.

'Ihe Canndians lost 3-0, the following game would mark the pcrmancnt return for Plante's mask. History was made. That year Planle took lhe Habs to their fifth straight Stanley Cup, it would be the last Cup Plante would ever win, Aftcr that monumental year for Plante, he started helping hockey equipment companies with the developments of their masks. Even thought Cllnt 13cnedlclwas the first goalie to weal' a mask in II regulation game, Plante WllSstill the first gonlie to wear it on a regular hasis.

Plante revolutionized the goalie mask and paved the way for other goalies lo wear masks. Masks became a goalies Identity; they came up with

Heat got into some serious trouble in JUSTIN ORLEWICZ

CONTRIBU roR the firsl period, digging themselves Iiwaukee dropped both games in their double•header against the Heat last month in Abbotsford.

Last Thursday, the two teams met for the third time this year; this lime it was on Milwaukee's home turf. Aller lwo tough losses against the Heat, It was sufc to assume that the Admirals were looking lo get some revenge on home ice. Milwaukee got off to a good start getting the early lead on a Dave Scatchard goal. The Heat bounced back with a Carsen Germyn goal but the Admirllls would eventually pull away and not look back.

They got a lead mid-way through the second and then added two more goals in the third to make It a 4-1 finalinfavoroflheAdmirals. 'l he Heat then headed to Peoria for a rumble with the Rivermcn. 'lhe Heat, 1,ow on a two-game losli\g streuk, needed a big perform:\nce from their stur players to gel oul of this mini slump, and did their big guns ever produce. Jason Jaffraystarted the scoring in the first period with his 8th goal of the season. Peter Vandcrmere added one more goal before lhe break. The I !cat then added one more goal in the second period and three more goals in the third period as they cruised to 6-0 victory over the Rivcrmen. Jason Jaffray linishcd the game with lwo goals and an assist.

After this road trip, Jaffray Is 14th in league scoring with 8 goals and 8 assists. Goaltender David Shantz got a shutout for the Heat. '!he last stop of the Heat's road trip was in Rockford for a rematch of their last double-header home stand. '111e

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different faceplate shapes to customize them. Gerry Cheevers started decorating his masks with stitches that the trainer would palnl on every time he was hit in the face with a puck. 'fhe painted on stitches 8ymbolized the real stitches he would have needed had not been wearing a goalie mask.

The goAlicmask soon evolved lnlo an art form. Masks would briefly evolve lnlo a helmet with a cage, before they turned into the masks we know today.

Today's goalie masks it allow goalies to decorate their masks with all variety of amazing concepts and team

designs. Goalie masks have become more personal than everbefore,goalies now pay artists to design their masks and to make them as unique as possible. It all started with a slap shot on November t, 1959at Madison Square Garden in New York City. It's amazing how much the mask has evolved since that historic night fifty years ago in New York, what's even more amazing is that it took more than fifty years for goalies to stnrt wearing masks. For lhe first 60 years of the NHL goalies did not wear masks, a piece of equip" ment that goalies could not play without today.

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Howgender stereotypes hinder fitness goals DAVEABBASS .-------------------------, ------------THEXAVERIAN WEEKLY 'TI1cre is a common misconception in the world of health and fitness - that women can't do pushups. For many women a'Jldgirls, from the first step into an elementary school gym class, they arc told, at least implicitly, that they arc not as strong as men.

Onc of the worst fitness Cl>ncepts I can think of, next to doing endless sltups lu lose belly fal, is the so-called ''girl pushup." While the young boys are struggling through the full pushups, being told lo "keep their ass down" and fncing potential humllialion if lhcy are unable lo complete the exercise, their female counterparts gel the "girl" pushup.

If n boy is unable to complete a pushup, It's because he isn't trying hard enough or he's weak. It's cmbar~ rassing, but something he can work through. For the female student, the message is clear and permanent; she just can't do a pushup because she is a girl.

Although it would be silly to say that men and women are designed identically, and It is true that women tend to carry more of thcl r muscle mass In their lower body rather than their upper body, the attitude that women can never hope to be as strong as men is a problem that can sabotage a woman's fitness efforts for life, Although the strongest woman In the world will never be as strong as the strongest man, there is no reason that a girl shouldn't be able to beat her brother in a pushup contest given lhc right level of motivation.

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Into a 4 I deficit. The Heat tried to battle back in the second period with goals from Van dcr Gullk and Negrin cutttr,g the deficit to one goal, but it just wasn't enough. The Ice I logs would answer back with two more goals in the third period to make it a

6-3 final. Once again Rockford goalie Joe Fallon was the difference, he turned away 27 of 30 shots in the win.

Mikael Backlund got the other goal for the Heat in the loss.

The Heat will now rcturn home for a week-longhome stand in which they will piny the Hamilton Bulldogs and the Bridgeport Sound Tigers. This Friday night's game llgainst Bridgeport will be the first UFV student night. Students can show their student ID at the box office and receive a discounted ticket. TI1Ispromotion allows students t.o catch ~Orneof the action next door at 'lhe Abbotsford Sports and Entertninment Center without breaking the bank. To get more information on this event you can visit the Heat's box officejust off campus at the stadium.111etwo losses on this road trip bump the Heat down lo fourth in the North Division and fifth in the Western Conference.

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strong enough lo work hard in the gym is compounded by the belief that lf they lift challenging weights, they will get big and bulky, which is the opposite of what they want. TI,c truth Is thal if that were the case, every guy in the gym would look like Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Many of the girls on varsity sports teams work extremely hard in the weight room improving their strength 11nd fitness. l have seen gl l'ls on a volleyball team do barbell squats with more weight than many male lifters would ever attempt. I dare somebody to tell one of those girls that they aren't strong enough to lift real weights.

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two-to-five pound dumbbells doing endless reps is pointless unless you gel some level of intrinsic enjoyment from wasting your time watching other people get fiLA good suggestion for rcal improvement is to put down the pink weights, pick up some actual iron or jump on a machine and use a weight that causes you to really push yourself to make it through the last two reps of an eight-to-twelve rep set.

Increasing muscle mass an<l losing body fat arc the only things that arc going to improve muscle tone, not waving around a plastic impersonation of a dumbbell 'til kingdom come.

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Cascade News• Friday November 20th 2009

Andre Agassi and that Sweet, Sweet Meth five years? Should we let the man get PAUL BRAMMER on STAFF WRITER with his job? ndre Agassl, the tennis legend whose achievements include eight Grand Slam singles tournaments and an Olympic gold medal, came clean In his new book, Open:An Autobiography.In the book, Agassl admits to snorting crystal meth and speed during his playing career.

Nul just thal, but Agassi lied about his use of crystal meth when he tested positive in an Association of Tennis Professinnals (ATP) random drug test. Agassi claimed that his then-assistant, "Slim", used to spikc sodas wilh crystal meth, and it was one of these barbed beverages that Agassl had unwittingly ingested. The ATP swallowed his lie whole, and Agassi escaped without any punishment.

The punishment that the ATP would have handed down for use of crystal meth would have been a mere three-month ban. This Is due, In part; to the fact that crystal meth is not a performance-enhancing drug. In light of Agassl's revelations, the ATP has claimed that they c11nnot,and will not, take retrospective action against Agassi, because the matter was already dealt with, or not, in 1997.

The media outcry has been mixed - David Walsh at The Sunday Times questioned the timing and motivation of Agassi's confession, stating that "his need for honesty has deadheated with his need to sell his book.

How coincidental.'' Simon Mundie, at The Sport Review,took a more lenient view of thll ex-athlete, ''I believe most people will feel no less affection for the eight-time Grand Slam winner."

Mundie also made the level-headed claim lhat, "The question about the use of recreational versus performance enhancing drug use.. .is an emotive issue to be left alone for now as different people will have different views."

However, here at 'The Cascade, we don't like to leave anything alone, so we're asking the question - is it okay for professional athletes to use drugs if they are not performance-enhanc• Ing? There are numerous examples for many different sports. For example, in soccer, one of the most high-pro• fllecases of a player falling from grace due to recreational drug useis the Ro• manlan striker Adrian Mutu.

Mutu was signed by Chelsea for around £16 million ($28 million) in August 2003. Mutu tested positive for cocaine in a drug test In September 2004, and he was sacked by his club the next month.

Since then, Mutu has served a seven-month ban from playing, and is now playing In Florence for Florentina, in Italy's Serie A. Iiowever, he has been ordered by the FIFA Dispute Resolution Chamber to pay former club Chelsea compensation to the tune of €17 million ($27 million) for breach of contract.

By Mutu's own admission, he was out of order during his time at Chelsea, "I was famous in London. I went everywhere and was treated like a king. l was naive, and I was a chicken."

However, does Mutu's behaviour justify paying a $30 million to a club (Chelsea) that is owned by a Russian billionaire whose net worth ls esti• mated at around $23.5 billion (according to Forbes)? Isn't It enough that Mutu has had his name and his career dragged through the mud for

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caine use. His explanation was that he had been kissing a woman In a Miami nightclub, and that woman had been

Al the other end of the scale, there are those who refuse to hold lheir hands up and admit their guilt. NASCAR driver Jeremy Mayfield tested positive for mcthamphetamine twice, and has since been suspended from racing.

Mayfield accuses NASCAR and its drug regulatory body of hanging him out to dry, "I w11s worth more to them as a failed drug test th:1n I am as a driver for my own team." He is still protesting his innocence; claimIng that the positive methamphctamine result is an effect of taking a prescription drug and Clarltin-D, an allergy treat• ment.

Richard Gasquet, a 23-year old tennis player, tested positive for co-

using cocaine during that lime. When their salivas mixed, the cocaine traces were passed into his bloodstream.

It cannot be argued that performance-enhancing drugs, such as anabolic steroids, affect an athlete's performance positively, and give an unfair advantage. One modern example is in Major League Baseball.Former player JoseCanseco allegedthat up lo 85%of players in the league use steroids. Canseco admit• led that he used steroids during his entire career. Canseco told 60 Minutes, "[steroids] ca1, make an average athlete a super athlete. It can make a super athlete incredible."

However, when drugs which can only be described as performance•decreasing arc used - if you've ever gollen stoned and tried to do anything remotely resembling physical exercise,you know what I'm on about - do we have a right to punish these

men and women? After all, it's only their bodies that they're punishing; as long as Agassi's not doing lines of meth off a 14-year old ball girl, can't we let athletes be?

There is also the argument that athletes arc looked up to by millions of children the world over, and, despile the protestations of cracked-out tennis players, they have an obliga• tion to live their lives in a certaiJl way whlle they arc in the public domain, fettered and wealthy.

The counler-argumcrlt Lo this is that young men and women shouldn't have so much pressure heaped on their shoulders, and that many of athletes' private problems stem frnm lhe intense scrutiny they come u11de1· day after day.

For now, at least, the debate shall go on unresolved. In the mean time, pass the crack pipe, Tiger..

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