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So, these brave souls are spending five days and nights staying outside in the relative cold to fundraise for Carmichael Outreach.

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We could make a really immature joke about how smelly these folks are going to be after a week, but instead, we’re choosing to commend them for their work to raise awareness about the homeless epidemic in Regina.

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THE CARILLON BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Michael Chmielewski, Shaadie Musleh, Autumn McDowell, vacant, vacant, vacant, vacant

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S&M. page 8 A taste of Broadway comes to Regina in the form of Venus in Fur. Apparently, the show isn’t entirely about sex, either.

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“That’s a lot of fish.” page 4 The engineering students constructed a gigantic Godzilla for their Canstruction project. And to spite Matthew Broderick’s stupid face, they actually did donate quite a bit of fish to the food bank.

op-ed Cult of personality. page 18 I believe “fetishizing morons”is a pretty succinct blurb for the story on page 18.

the manifesto

In keeping with our reckless, devil-may-care image, our office has absolutely no concrete information on the Carillon’s formative years readily available. What follows is the story that’s been passed down from editor to editor for over forty years.

In the late 1950s, the University of Regina planned the construction of several new buildings on the campus grounds. One of these proposed buildings was a belltower on the academic green. If you look out on the academic green today, the first thing you’ll notice is that it has absolutely nothing resembling a belltower.

The University never got a belltower, but what it did get was the Carillon, a newspaper that serves as a symbolic bell tower on campus, a loud and clear voice belonging to each and every student.

illegitimi non carborundum.

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In other news: A Tuxford, SK man has turned to Facebook to reunite himself with a long lost hat.

On Wednesday, the man posted a picture of himself wearing the hat, which may be either a derby or a pork pie hat.

“I just really like the hat is all,”the man said.

“It was a great hat.”

Already, the man’s photo has been shared eleven times. He hopes that he will be reunited with his hat soon

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PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE’S ROUNDTABLE

Michael Chmielewski Even this was more exciting than the 2012 Presidential Debate.

alec salloum & michael chmielewski news editor & editor-in-chief The Carillon has interviewed the three candidates running for URSU president. The order of answering the questions was decided before hand by drawing numbers out of a hat. For the full interview, please visit carillonregina.com. The following does not necessarily represent the opinions of the Carillon, but rather, of the candidates interviewed.

1.Please explain your platform.

Devon: First off, the stuff that is going to affect students the most. Parking, we need to rethink our parking strategy. We’re losing 450 spots from the new residence we’re gaining 650 new students on campus. That’s a lot of new cars that’s a lot of lost spots. We need the Upass.

The Upass has already been in action a little bit, but we need to bring it to the forefront and have a referendum within a year.

Tuition, the province continues to underfund the university and the effect is that the administration continues to transfer the economic burden onto students. That needs to stop.

I think student apathy is also a problem; I’d really like to empower students, so I think training student societies in terms of good governance and how to put on good events would really revitalize and engage students.

Amir: Parking is a big issue; it’s no secret that parking is an issue. With the Upass, for example, the Upass is very great idea, there’s lots of effort towards it, but I believe that priority is getting better bus routes. Ask any person who takes the bus. To them the priority is not the Upass more than it is the bus routes.

When it comes to tuition, bringing affordable tuition again is a top priority, but I think there is even a greater priority which is greater transparency from URSU’s side and also from the university’s administration. If, for example, the university insists on raising tuition, or keeping it the way it is, at least the students have to know where their money is going, and that it’s not being used in an irresponsible way.

Annie: I’m running on a platform to represent and connect. The major problem here at the university is the fact that each student I talk to can’t name a service that the URSU can provide.

You cannot have a fully functioning and well-ordered student’s union when students don’t even know what you do. So, a complete revitalization of the URSU webpage is essential. I know in this campaign I’ve found finding information extremely difficult.

URSU also has to be ensured financial stability. By doing so, I’ll support the motion to charge off campus students URSU fees to create a better community here on campus and bring in some extra revenues that can

go to student clubs, athletics, and student societies. Again, parking and tuition are two major ones.

2. What makes you think you are the best candidate for president of URSU? Devin: So as you’ve heard from our answers here already, the platforms, the issues, that students really care about here, they’re pretty concentrated.

So, what I bring to the table is beyond the platform; I’ve been volunteering with the URSU for the past year and I’ve also been a volunteer, and a very active member of lobbying the student union and the university for the past four years that I’ve been here. And I think that, about the other candidates, I have the experience and the internal knowledge of the way URSU works, and the way the University works and the way the city works, and social connections that they can’t bring to the table. So, head and shoulders, that’s what my advantage is, I know to make changes, I know who to talk to when I have an issue with parking, when I have an issue with the bus routes, and I can go to those people much more easily than someone who has to spend the first six months of their term meeting everyone.

Amir: Although I’m at a younger age, I’m not, in a position where if I become URSU President I’ll be startled and I’ll be nervous and I don’t know who to contact and what to do. I have lots of experience with decision makers

and those who, you know, those who play pivotal roles in our society. And another I believe makes me most qualified is my dedication to be engaged with the students, my determination to be present with the students at all time, to eliminate this pyramid structure that URSU’s on the top and the students are on the bottom. I should be engaging, and approaching the students, not the other way around.

Annie: Well I’m a quick learner, that’s for sure. I think my major strengths, come from basically student and youth engagement, when it comes to governance and policies [it’s] something in my four years of university I’ve actively campaigned for: more student awareness, of what is going on in real issues, and I hope to bring that to the table by creating a more of a connection to the students. I want to see engagement, I want to talk to people, I want to hear their opinions and I have experience knowing that a wide variety of different views and opinions, for me it’s the best policy. That is how great policy is put forth and that is how great policy is implemented. So I want to hear from the students, I want to bring my experiences to the students union in that regard.

3. If you could sit down with each student individually, and speak to them, what would you would say to earn their vote?

Devon: Well I don’t need to sit down with every student; I’ve

been standing with them in the hallways for the last week and the 500 or so students I managed to talk to I asked them the question “What do you think we should do to make the university a better place?” And so, that’d be my question “what do you want me to do to make the university a better place?”

Amir: Your question asks about what would I tell them, I prefer not to speak, I’d rather listen to the students. We have lots of opportunities to speak as candidates. So, I prefer very much to sit down and listen to what the students want. They have so much to offer and so many legitimate concerns I think that is what earns you the vote – that you are genuinely there, interested, to know what they want.

Annie: What I’ve been doing is walking around the university, not standing in one place, I’ve been walking around to various spots of the university and I’ve just been talking to people.

I’ve been asking the question “Name one thing that the student union provides for you.”

I have yet to have one student give me an answer. Then my follow up question is “What do you think the student union can do to fix that problem?” and I’ve gotten a variety of different answers and really good ideas and I realize that students have no idea what the student union does and most don’t even know they pay for it every year.

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Godzilla crushes Canstruction Charity takes an intriguing form paige kreutzwieser staff writer

Ten by ten feet wide and eight feet tall - that is all the space the University of Regina faculty of engineering and applied science students had to win this years Regina Food Bank (RFB) “Canstruction” competition.

“Some of the ingenuity and imagination that goes into this is great,” said Todd McCauley, RFB’s Marketing and Special Events Manager.

In his first year coordinating the event, McCauley said the feedback has been encouraging.

“The best feedback that I’ve seen is simply watching the faces of the people walking in the malls as they pass by. So when you are coming down the escalator and suddenly there is a Godzilla made out of cans, it is going to turn some heads.”

This year’s competition boasted a MIR machine, an Olympic torch, and two video game entries - a Pokémon and Super Mario, and the University of Regina entry, Godzilla.

Fifth-year engineering student and team leader for the U of R Canstruction team, Arin Dolph, explains that he chose the science fiction monster because of his interest in the movie, but kept most of the design

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to himself.

“I was very secretive because the design looked terrible before it was done. “ Dolph’s design had Godzilla destroying Regina’s downtown Hill Towers. But his “terrible” creation secured his team Structural Ingenuity, Juror’s Choice, and People’s Choice.

“Structural Ingenuity is the one I am really proud of because it is the only engineering award.”

Other awards include Best Use

of Labels and Best Meal. “We donated 3,000 tuna cans and 3,000 chicken cans. I am sure [the RFB] appreciates it but it doesn’t make the best meal,” laughed Dolph.

The competition was created in New York in 1992 and now, 22 years later, takes place annually in 150 cities around the world.

McCauley said since 2013 the campaign has raised has raised over 21 million pounds.

This year the U of R team raised $9,000 and bought over 6,000 cans.

“We’ve been very fortunate that we get our food at whole sale prices more or less,” explained David deMontigny, U of R engineering faculty associate dean. “Our design this year cost $8,500 and if we were to buy the cans off the shelf it would probably be $14,000.”

Canstruction rules require one team member who is an

architect, engineer, graphic designer, art teacher or other designated design professional.

For the U of R team, deMontigny held that role. But the real creativity and leadership came from Dolph, who has been a part of the U of R team for three years now.

Dolph is thankful for the control deMontigny has allowed him because as a student it has given him a lot of practical knowledge. “It’s really good as a student because I learn a bunch of skills. I learned all of AutoCAD, but I also learned managerial skills being team leader, organizational skills that was definitely something I learned.” But the real purpose of Canstruction is charity.

“It’s larger than life,” explained McCauley. “It’s 10x10x8.

And the people get to see it.

They get to see all the food that is getting donated to the food bank. It puts the need for food in the conscious of the public and to do it in this eye catching way.”

For Dolph and the rest of the U of R team, they know their hard work in fundraising is going to a good cause.

“I donated [a lot of cans] all to the food bank. It’s very nice because it’s very altruistic thing for me to do. It’s a one of the good ways as an engineer I can give back to the community.”

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Howard Leeson and The Patriation Minutes liam fitz-gerald contributor Three decades ago, Federal and Provincial leaders met in Ottawa to discuss the patriation of the Canadian constitution from Great Britain. On the Federal side, Liberal prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, wary from the 1980 Quebec sovereignty referendum and a perception that the Provinces were growing too powerful, sought to create a constitution that would strengthen Ottawa, and include a Charter of Rights and Freedoms that would transcend regional identities. On the provincial side, eight provinces, including Quebec separatist premier Rene Levesque, opposed Trudeau’s attempt to create a stronger Federal government.

In November 1981, the first ministers of Canada met in Ottawa to discuss Patriation, with a last minute deal coming on the fourth day of the meeting. Dr. Howard Leeson was there.

The Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Regina was Deputy Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs in the Allan Blakeney’s NDP government during the Patriation talks. Leeson took detailed

minutes during the meeting, highlighting discussions over different patriation formulas, resources and charter rights, as well as the clash of personalities. His 2011 book, The Patriation Minutes, which captures these moments so succinctly, came out three decades after the aforementioned events.

“On the thirty-year mark, I was part of a conference that was coming up at the University of Alberta of people who were there [at the 1981 conference] and it seemed to me that it was time to give these minutes to the archives,” Leeson says, highlighting that there was misinformation floating around about the First Ministers conference and he was trying to correct the record.

“They simply felt that the interests of Canada as a whole were better served by coming to an agreement, and once they recognized that, they were drawn together,” Leeson says, pointing out that regional differences were initially a stumbling block.

Indeed, it took premier Alan Blakeney to bring together premiers like Peter Lougheed of Alberta and Bill Davis of Ontario, who, despite being Conservatives, were divided by regional differences.

Indeed, Leeson is critical of Trudeau’s role during the conference, pointing out that the Prime Minister seemed more interested in fighting with the Parti-Quebecois than negotiating the constitution. This was frustrating to the other premiers who came to come to an agreement.

“I think, fundamentally, he didn’t want an agreement. I think he had a [particular] view of Canada and Quebec and what was needed to fight separatism. He would have preferred to have a referendum over the constitution in Canada,” Leeson said.

Yet, when the English premiers reached an agreement on patriation, Quebec was outraged. On the third night of the meeting, the English First ministers and delegates came to an agreement on patriation, gave it to Trudeau the next day, and it was accepted. Quebec was not contacted, as it was felt that they would not agree to anything and they would get the package the next morning.

This event, known as “night of the long knives,” is premised on Quebec’s “betrayal” by English premiers siding with Trudeau against Quebec.

However, Leeson says that not talking to the PQ allowed an

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agreement to be reached and maintains it was a good decision to not talk to them during the night. With the PQ not present, the first ministers and their deputies quickly came to agreements and put a package together that evening.

“Quebec’s fundamental interest was to have no agreement, that was their goal.”

Leeson said, highlighting that Levesque planned to use either Trudeau’s unilateral actions

or the expected deadlock between the premiers to further his separatist agenda.

Leeson believes his experience in government sharpened him as an academic.

“For a University professor, this experience is incredible to have and I strongly urge people in academe to do both the practical and academic side of things,” he says, mentioning that he has drawn upon his own experiences for his lectures as a professor.

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Syria, a revolution forgotten

Despite attention being elsewhere, the revolution in Syria rages on

columbian.com Photo from initially peaceful protests.

eman bare news writer As the world watches protests unfold in Venezuela and Ukraine, the revolution in Syria is all but forgotten. That is how one Canadian woman feels, after following news reports on the actions of countries, in respect to Venezuela and Ukraine.

Sarah Ahmed is a Canadian of Syrian descent who says that Syria is being pushed to the side even though the situation is escalating.

“Ukraine is more on the radar for people, and North America is tied very closely to the Ukraine - if it’s not their homeland, then it’s somewhere they would consider visiting a lot more [than Syria], ” said Ahmed.

Also, Saskatchewan especially has high percent of Ukrainian descendants and his-

torically has been closely related to the nation.

In early March, after Russian intervention in Ukraine, countries including Canada, the United States, Italy, Japan and Germany have all agreed to boycott the G8 Summit to be held in Sochi, Russia this June.

Russia is also believed to have played a role in the current situation in Syria, by arming Bashar Al Assad, the current President, and his regime with weapons. There has been no boycott of Russia in respect to Syria.

Recently, the Saskatchewan government announced that it would be donating $60,000 in humanitarian aid to Ukraine.

Additionally, in a sign of support for the Ukrainian plight, a Ukrainian flag was raised outside the Legislature in Regina.

Although organizations within Saskatchewan have donated to

aei-ideas.org Free Syria fighter surveying the damaged apartments of Damascus.

Syria over the past three years, there is no mention of the Saskatchewan government providing Syria with humanitarian aid.

In 2013, after two years of civil war, the Canadian government assisted in the immigration of only nine Syrian refugees. Additionally, the federal government has committed to donating $203.5 million to Syria, since 2012, but with no end in sight, action is needed more than aid.

Ahmed said that the war in Syria has been going on for so long, and that people are beginning to loose interest in the situation as newer revolutions, such as Ukraine and Venezuela begin to unfold. The last time she was in Syria was three months before the war started. At the time, everything was peaceful - or so she thought.

“Nobody says anything back home. When it comes

to politics, I learned at a very young age that it’s not a joke in the Middle East. My parents really tore a strip off of me for defacing a postcard with the picture of the then current president when I was 13. They made me rip it up, put it in a bowl in the kitchen and if this was found even in the trash, they would take your family in the night and execute them all and you would be left alone. That is their tactic. I have never once discussed politics with my family.”

Ahmed explains that although there is a general dislike for Assad in Syria, particularly amongst the Sunni population, most businesses and homes place pictures of him or his father, the country’s former leader, on their windows.

“One of my family members had a business where there was a large billboard of the former president on the side.

And I guess that, in the night, someone had pulled the corner of this billboard ripping it. The next day, all hell broke loose.

(Government representatives) were interviewing everybody in a four-mile radius because it was seen as some bigger gesture against the government. For all you know, the wind could have ripped it.”

For a country that made political discussion a taboo, the peaceful protests that began three years ago explain the risks people were willing to take to bring change to their country.

The government’s response to the peaceful protests that began with the Arab Spring was met with the use of chemical weapons, bombs, and armed conflict. A nightmare Ahmed said she could have never imagined for her home country.

Imagery coming out of Syria shows pictures of children with

missing limbs, deformations and civilians that have been attacked by chemicals.

“The common-sense test says he is responsible for this.

He should be held to account,” said U.S White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough, in an interview with the CBC. Ahmed said that at this point, those fighting for democracy are not any better than Assad and his army.

“I’ve been confronted with this question a lot: ‘Who do you side with?’ Of course, I don’t side with Assad’s army, but then they point out that the rebels have done some atrocious things as well. Then, you end up with the rebels who really just want things to change for their children, and the rebels that want to get back at the army by doing equally as barbaric things. It started as a revolution, but it’s undeniable that it’s a civil war now.”

In countries that have been torn apart by civil war, such as Somalia, the long-term social effects of the conflict can be devastating.

“All of the younger members of the family haven’t been in school consistently for almost three years now. You have to try and continue a life because you don’t know when it’s going to end, but then you still live in fear.”

In Syria, the children don’t want to go to school because Assad has not ruled out schools as non-threatening. He has dropped barrel bombs on kindergarten classes.

For Syria, the lasting effects of the war will inevitably be seen in the country’s younger population. As children spend their years growing up in violence and are being robbed of their education, they are paying the highest price.

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Ukraine and Russia

Interwoven corruption and histories

blogs.ft.com Ukrainian police being attacked by protester’s fire bombs.

taylor rattray contributor For the last few months, headlines regarding protests in the Ukraine have dominated the news. Now, Russian military troops are occupying the Crimean peninsula of Ukraine.

Some believe this civil unrest could lead to a revolution or even a civil war in Ukraine. Dr. Martin Hewson, a political science professor at the University of Regina, explains how this all came to pass.

Hewson states, “The old Ukrainian government was just about to sign a deal with the European Union, but the government, at the last minute, decided to sign an agreement with Russia. In other words, the government decided to reach away from Europe and towards Russia.” The agreement, called the Association Agreement and Free Trade Agreement, was an act to seek closer economic ties with the European Union. But, Russia was willing to offer more money and cheaper gas prices to Ukraine, without any major regulation and law changes, and the agreement with the European Union was suspended.

Since late November when this agreement fell through, Ukrainians have been protesting against the government’s desire to seek closer relations with Russia. These demonstrations have erupted into protests against government corruption and unfair human rights in the Ukraine.

In February, revolutionaries were able to topple the old Ukrainian government, giving the opposition a majority and allowing parliament to impeach President Viktor Yanukovych. A new, pro-western government now leads the Ukraine.

Hewson says, “The Rus-

sians are outraged by this. They say this new government is not legal, that it was a coup, and refuse to recognize it...The Russians say that there was a signed agreement with the old government, and that that should be respected.”

This is what has led to Russian occupy of Ukrainian territory.

Crimea, the southeastern region of Ukraine, has been recently occupied by Russian military troops following the revolutionary protests. The area is governed by the Constitution of Crimea in accordance to the laws of the Ukraine. According to Hewson, “[Russian speakers] are particularly concentrated in Crimea; the majority of the people who live in Crimea are Russians. The Russians also have several big military bases in Crimea, and that’s what enabled the Russians to take over Crimea without a shot being fired.”

While the interim government of Ukraine classifies these events as an invasion of Ukraine, Crimean Prime Minister, Sergey Aksyonov, appealed to Russia for assistance on the peninsula. The interim government of Ukraine states the appointment of the Sergey Aksyonov is unconstitutional. As well, Viktor Yanukovich sent a letter to Russian President, Vladimir Putin, asking him to use military force in Ukraine to restore order. Later on, as the situation developed, the Crimean parliament sought to succeed from Ukraine by means of parliamentary vote. Whether or not this unilateral succession will be permitted has yet to be seen.

However, as it currently stands the Crimean peninsula is home to a majority Russian population that overwhelmingly has sought unification with Russia. Pro-Russian residents have stormed Ukrainian government offices on

the peninsula and have clashed with pro-Ukrainian groups.

European governments, as well as American and Canadians governments, have largely condemned Putin’s actions in Crimea, and recognize the new, pro-western government in Ukraine. But, there is only so much the west can do.

Hewson says, “The top priority for the west, of course, is not to do anything that will start any kind of war with Russia. That would be incredibly stupid.”

Additionally, Hewson adds that Russia gets most of its money from exporting oil and natural gas, which western countries still need.

“Ukraine is totally dependent on Russia for its natural gas [and]... until recently, they bought their natural gas at a discount [from Russia]. So they’ve

got to find a way to pay their bills.”

Hewson states western governments have “tried to make some promises to the new Ukrainian government [and] the Europeans are promising to give them some money. There’s not a lot else they can do.” This can largely be attributed to the vast majority of Russian gas pipelines being run through Ukraine. This also has the added implication of Ukraine possessing tremendous sway over Russian oil entering Europe, a massive market that Russia relies on. Also on the peninsula and surrounding areas there are large oil deposits and well sites. Most of which are Russian owned.

The G8, a forum for the governments of eight leading industrialized countries, including Canada, France, Germany,

businessinsider.com A photo from the Euromaidan protests in Kiev

Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, and the European Union, claims Russia’s membership in the forum is at risk.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper stated at an annual convention of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada that, “The situation in Ukraine remains extremely serious for global peace and security. Canada and its G7 partners have spoken with one voice in condemning President Putin’s military intervention in Ukraine.”

But, expulsion requires consensus among the seven other members of the G8, and Germany has expressed disagreement in ousting Russia from the forum. The summit, to be hosted in Sochi, will be a decisive moment in international As for the future of Ukraine, many in the west must simply wait and see what happens.

Hewson says, “I hope that the new Ukrainian government can step back from any provocations against Russia that will give Russians an excuse to take over more parts of the Ukraine.” He states, “There are other parts of the Ukraine where Russians live and have been demonstrating, and I think the new Ukrainian government has to be very careful not to provoke the Russians to take over.”

A Crimean referendum will occur on March 16, 2014, to determine whether Crimea will become reunited with Russia or remain part of the Ukraine.

Many governments, including Canada, Germany, and the United States, claim this referendum is illegal and will not recognize its results. Additionally, on May 25, 2014, elections will be held in Ukraine to determine a new president. Only time will tell where this situation will lead.

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Bring your young

The Exchange fosters Regina’s music scene CARILLON HIRING It’s the end of the semester, and the Carillon is doing its spring hiring! We’re accepting applications for all positions.

A complete application includes a cover letter, a resume, a writing sample, and a letter of reference if you have one.

Come join a vibrant student paper that is recognized nationally for its journalism. The Carillon is a great way to get writing and editing experience while you finish your degree.

Every current U of R student is available to apply, and we encourage that you do!

Applications are due on Monday, March 31st, 2014. Hiring will take place the next weekend.

Please send all applications to the Editor-in-Chief, Michael Chmielewski, at

carilloneic@ gmail.com.

Any question can be directed there as well.

Although you can apply to every position, the positions to the right are going to be vacant come April.

Every applicant can apply for a max of two positions.

Also see our ad on the back page.

Emily Wright The Exchange – a place to form an awesome community of artists.

dana morenstein contributor Some would say that the Saskatchewan Cultural Exchange Society (SCES) is a local legend.

Established in 1977 under the Societies Act, it began as a rented space on Broad Street and quickly became a popular spot for local artists to congregate and establish their roots.

In the ‘80s, SCES was a membership-only center where local arts enthusiasts and their families would gather to shoot pool and play music. Sadly, in 1990 a fire broke out as a result of an illegal fish farm in the building’s basement and a man was killed. Members managed to reach the organization’s safe, which they then used as a down payment on an old warehouse they secured for $120,000.

Today, SCES is a not-forprofit cultural organization that also does provincial programming. No longer do they require membership. Instead, the organization states that if you participate by performing or just being in the audience, you are already a member.

Mirtha Rivera reminisces about her days singing in a Latin group onstage at the old Broad Street location.

“It was a community centre and most of the people who went there were in the arts. It was pretty much like a family.

We could take our kids and it was a home away from home.”

Rivera echoes the same sentiments as Exchange employee Mike Brown.

“The Exchange is awesome.

It’s been my second home for as long as I can remember. Especially being in high school; sometimes you just didn’t have anywhere to go and you didn’t want to be at home for whatever reason. I wasn’t cool enough to go to a house party, I wasn’t cool enough to go out and get drunk—I came here. I saw my friends, I saw bands. It gave me something to look forward to every week.”

As an employee, Brown says, “It’s one of the coolest places to work. I’d be here even

if I wasn’t getting paid… It’s really cool to give back to the community that has given so much to me, even if in a small way.”

Dylan, another employee of the Exchange, agrees.

“I like it a lot. It’s a very important cultural institution, it’s non-profit…It’s one of the few places that’s left that isn’t concerned with making money so we can have a lot of different shows going on, from small shows to big shows. It’s an important part of our scene.”

Vocalist Dylan Nash, a member of unsigned punk band The Man and His Machine, says, “We’ve been playing here for the last couple years. It’s a really good place to be able to meet people and it has a good diversity of shows and music. When I think Regina, I usually think the Exchange as the best place to play.”

Derek Lutz, a local music fan who has been going to the Exchange for over ten years, says that the Exchange is “one of the only venues that supports an all-ages atmosphere.” He says that’s important because it means that young people have somewhere positive to go and be influenced to get involved with the local arts and music scene.

One of his earliest memories of the Exchange was seeing the band Kerosene play.

He would drive up from Lipton, SK with friends to watch. Along with other local artists, Lutz uses the building’s basement as a jam space.

The Cultural Exchange contributes to the arts and culture scene in many more ways than by just having punk and indie shows. They operate two different venues in the building as well as a small art gallery called the 8-Track. In addition, they hold workshops, fiddle camps, and have an outreach program.

“It’s very important for both local and touring artists to have a place to develop and grow as artists,” says Artistic Director Zandra Kas. “Our main goal is to help artists grow…We want to make sure they have a place to play; we help with all their marketing when they do play here.

We help as much as we can. [We want to] continue to see not just bands but theatre here as well.”

According to Kas, there is no general preference of which genre of music they showcase, and they welcome as much diversity as possible. There’s also live theatre that happens on occasion.

Recently, The Vagina Monologues was on stage.

One of Kas’ favourite memories of the Exchange is seeing one of her favourite bands from Europe, Katatonia, perform their last anniversary show stop at the Exchange.

“For me, that’s one of my most precious show memories but if you asked any other person, they would have a different story or event. There are so many great shows both local and touring that have stopped through here; it’s so hard to pick just one.”

Ramiro Sepulveda, a local Chilean musician who has had the opportunity to play in a variety of different venues across Canada, sees the Exchange Society as an extremely important contribution to the city’s live music scene.

As a music teacher, Sepulveda thinks it’s crucial that venues offer all-ages shows, so that young people have somewhere to go where they can experience a network of like-minded friends. He also believes that in order for the arts to continue to flourish, young people have to have an opportunity to get involved. The Exchange helps by providing music to all ages in a safe, inclusive atmosphere.

As a working musician, he encourages people to see music as not only a hobby, but as a trade that can be a viable career. Places like The Exchange support this vision not only by allowing artists to perform, but by overseeing a whole list of different cultural programs and opportunities.

Margaret Fry, Executive Director for the past 27 years, has a vision for the future that the organization will continue to empower artists to promote their creative work. One of her goals is to see other Saskatchewan communities, especially those in the far North of the province like Ile-a-la-Crosse, become empowered to present their own artistic experiences.

“We don’t have trials here, we have challenges,” Fry says.

“In the ‘80s, it received huge cuts and funding as did most of the art and sport organizations here in the province. It has faced the challenge of a fire and the flood. The reason we’re still here is because it’s an organization with a strong commitment from its membership, whether it be formal membership or not. It’s also a risk-taking organization, which prides itself on being flexible.”

A&C Editor: Duties include managing the section on a weekly basis, editing all the articles, delegating articles to writers and contributors, putting up with the production manager’s shit, and more! Writing and reporting on the arts scene at the U of R, Regina, and Canada.

A&C Writer: A job with a lot of creative latitude to report on the arts and culture scene at the U of R and Regina. This job guarantees lots of fun, and other exciting opportunities for arts-minded folks! Works closely (but not creepily) with the A&C Editor.

News Writer: Working in tandem with the news editor, you’ll be reporting on the big events on campus, in the city, and internationally. This is a great way to gain some serious writing chops if you’re planning on entering J-School.

Op-Ed Editor: Everybody’s got an opinion, especially U of R students. Manage the section weekly by writing pitches, hounding contributors, editing the articles, putting up with the production manager’s shit, and writing polemic. We like the display a wide range of opinions in the section, and the best place to start debate is in the Op-Ed section.

Sports Editor: As sports editor you will have some big shoes to fill. You’ll be responsible for putting together pitch lists, sending out roundtable questions, wrangling contributors, babysitting the sport writer, editing four pages of content, putting up with the production manager’s shit, and writing at least one article a week. It isn’t always an easy job, but if you have a passion for sports you will instantly be hooked.

Sports Writer: Writing two articles each week about sports at the U of R. Covering events, and working closely with the sports editor.

Staff Writer: The staff writer is a new position created last year. It’s a flexible writing position for the wellread and well-versed. You’ll be responsible for writing two articles every week for either the News, A&C, or Sports sections.

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We could all use Fur Venus in Fur comes to Regina paige kreutzwieser staff writer

With huge commercial success on Broadway, The Golden Apple Theatre brings one of the hottest plays of the 2013-2014 season to Regina.

“It is viable,” explains Amy Matysio, lead actress of Venus in Fur. “It should be seen, it has a proven success.”

The combination of a Tony-nominated script by David Ises, award-winning Canadian director Jim Guedo, and actors Daniel Arnold and Matysio make for a must see performance at The Artesian.

“That equation should just add up to wanting to see what we made,” says Matysio.

In a play that revolves around the German novella Venus in Furs (by an author whose name inspired the term Masochism), Matysio’s role as Vanda Jordan demanded much physical confidence from the Saskatchewan actress.

“The show is so physical and so energetic. The show just starts and it doesn’t stop. It’s 90 minutes and it’s just go, go, go.”

Her “blacks” also required much confidence to wear. The costume itself was not some-

Carey Shaw Photography Venus in Fur isn’t just about sex. Trust us.

thing Matysio was used to.

“I am a pretty shy, conservative person in my daily world as far as Amy. I’m always wearing a lot of layers... So, literally to go from that to a very minimal amount of clothing and a lot of leather is different for me.”

In finding the right costume, Matysio had to visit numerous sex shops.

“They assumed it was for pleasure at home. I said it was for a costume and most of them knew of the play, and they all had a lot of knowledge of S and M. A lot of them would give me stories. And openly give me stories that I’m not sure I was prepared to hear,” laughed Matysio.

Matysio, who is currently liv-

ing in Toronto, said the relationship between her and Arnold required a lot of light-heartedness and amusement.

“We had a lot of laughs to keep it light and funny. No one can make more jokes about what was going on up there than we did.”

But she admitted that at the end of the day it came down to

getting the work done.

“You have to go to those [intimate] places to give the best performance you can give and to give the audience the truest representation of the play.”

Guedo also provided a lot of support for both Matysio and Arnold.

“He is such a phenomenal director at making his actors feel confident and comfortable and giving them the tools they need to go out there and do the best work they can do. Even if they are fully clothed or not.”

The play, which runs from March 5-22, brings a new edge to a rather sophisticated Regina crowd, but Matysio knows Regina is ready for a show like Venus in Fur. “You’re still going to be blown away by the play, by the story, by these characters and it’s nothing that they aren’t seeing on television. My answer is Regina should want great theatre. And Regina is ready in that way that they are lucky to have [Venus in Fur].”

Tickets can be purchased for the play through The Golden Apple Theatre website, with shows running every night except Sundays and Mondays, starting at 8 p.m.

Non-fiction? Memoir?

Review of The Book of My Lives evan radford contributor

The Book of My Lives is Aleksandar Hemon’s fifth published book, released in early 2013, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. The book is sold in the biography section at most bookstores, and the publisher lists it as a memoir.

But, calling this work a memoir of Hemon’s life only begins to do it justice.

Hemon recounts his life from early childhood in Sarajevo through to present-day adulthood in Chicago with a series of essays. What’s more, he writes the essays with such depth, fluency, and brutal honesty that his essays read as fictional stories.

As Hemon says in the opening of his acknowledgements, “I write fiction because I cannot not do it, but I have to be pressed into writing nonfiction.”

This collection is arguably somewhere in the middle, situated at the meeting point of honest nonfiction and emotional, expansive narrative. He manages to merge the two genres with precise, perceptive, lucid prose.

Hemon begins the collection with a searing, revealing account of how, as a four-year-old, he failed to “exterminate” his newly born sister in an attempt to reclaim his mother’s undivided love and attention. The

young Hemon relinquishes the pressure on his infant sister’s trachea, realizing he “wanted her to live so I could love her more.”

But, the ordeal serves as sobering realization for him that “never again would my selfhood be a sovereign territory devoid of the presence of others.” An ominous foreshadow of the Bosnian war.

Hemon, now 50, takes readers through his childhood and teens years growing up in Sarajevo. He recounts touching, comical episodes, including work as a part time radio jockey, and organizing a counter-culture, mock-fascist evening social that lands him in handcuffs.

The humour and absurdity of Hemon’s early stories are balanced only by the impending Bosnian war, always in the background of Hemon’s consciousness and just beyond the horizon of his childhood stories.

As the war breaks out, Hemon and his family are forced to leave their beloved Sarajevo forever. The seemingly ordinary locations, people, and events of the city become cherished items that will forever be consumed by the fog of a useless, ethnic war. Hemon’s detailed account of what makes the perfect borscht is a tear-jerking allegory for cohesion among a family.

Hemon’s relationship with the family dog becomes just as important as that with the rest of his family. Suspense builds as

his family tries to arrange for the dog’s safe transport to Canada.

As his parents and sister settle in Hamilton, Hemon begins to make his home in Chicago. His childhood lives as a Bosnian intersect with the lives he tries to build as an immigrant in America. What his stories in Chicago lack in youth, they more than make for with wisdom, acceptance, and maturity. He convincingly narrates how and why football is, indeed, a beautiful game. He takes readers through the literal shit that ensues after a brutal divorce and putrid bachelor life.

Hemon ends the collection with a powerful piece about a death in his newly-formed family. His prose brings the story to life. The fact he experienced such an ordeal will weigh heavily on readers. The piece is aptly named “The Aquarium.”

As Hemon describes, “I had a strong physical sensation of being in an aquarium: I could see out, the people outside could see me [if they chose to pay attention], but we were living and breathing in entirely different environments.”

Readers who engage Hemon’s collection will not only be moved to tears of happiness and tragedy, they will be jolted into new understandings of what it means to be a child, a brother, a citizen, a friend, an immigrant, a husband, a father.

Evan Radford The blue creature scares me . . .

I had a strong physical sensation of being

in an aquarium: I could see out, the people outside could see me [if they chose to pay attention], but we were living and breathing in entirely different environments.

Aleksandar Hemon

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I LOL’d You will too robyn tocker a&c editor

It’s opening night for the University of Regina Theatre Department’s play LOL. Coming under the presumption acquiring tickets wouldn’t be an issue, I walk up to the box office and flash my student ID. Wait, what? You’re sold out? No way! People haven’t shown up to claim their tickets? Okay, I’ll wait.

That is how my night started on March 7. Luck prevailed and I managed to get in to see one of the funniest plays I have witnessed.

LOL, directed by Gerold Lenton-Young, is a play with three one-act comedies performed under one roof. Before witnessing the play, I sat down with one of the actresses, Laura Abramsen. Out of the three acts, she plays Eileen, the wife in the trio of late-arrivals in Audience, and Amanda Wingvalley, a southern belle with two difficult sons in For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls.

Abramsen says the play is great because, “it’s one of the rare times when more than one senior student really gets to show off what they’re made of.”

“It’s when everyone is feeding off each other’s energy and it really starts to bring about new energy,” she said.

Abramsen started acting in high school. In her second year of social work at the University of Saskatchewan, she decided she couldn’t resist the urge to

Gerald Lenton-Young (From left to right) Tyler Toppings, Jessie Grant, Robyn Sanderson, and Cydney Forbes on stage in The Actor’s Nightmare.

get back into theatre and came to the U of R to pursue her passion.

Abramsen refers to the acts as “three short doses of comedy,” which is as refreshing as it sounds.

Back to the play: Audience was first in line, and oh man did it get me laughing. At first it was awkward. The cast was in seats like ours and staring at us, just like we were staring at them.

Then they began to say things like “I wish they’d stop staring” and “What the hell are they thinking?” It wasn’t long before we were laughing at the antics of the theatre goers.

Very quickly you could see the “types” of audience members. You had someone who questioned everything, one who couldn’t stop coughing at one point, someone who fell asleep, a cell phone going off, and many more. By putting all these over-exaggerated antics together, you ended up with a hilarious play.

The Actor’s Nightmare takes the angle from actor George Spelvin, played by Tyler Toppings. He believes he is an accountant and has no idea what play they are doing. The stage manager, played by Jessie Grant, feeds him lines while

she pretends to be a maid on stage, but his bumbling over what play they are in, and the fact that the play switches between three completely different stories makes it even more hilarious.

For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls jumps right in to a play about a mother who just wants her sons to live normal lives. Lawrence, played by Andrew Ibacache, is a little… strange. When his brother Tom, played by Michael Kiapway, brings home Ginny in hopes of setting her up with Lawrence, things quickly go from bad to

worse.

Unlike the other plays, this one is more serious. The laughs are still there, but while watching I felt pity for Lawrence and Tom as well as a connection to the mother. Her dreamer qualities came through amazingly, even though Abramsen says this was the hardest character to play, since she is nothing like an old southern mama.

All in all, the play was a joy to see. I would recommend it to anyone looking to literally lol.

From March 12-15, you can see the play at 7:30 p.m. at the ShuBox Theatre.

this dress is perfect for any backyard barbeque.

Her embroidered long sleeve frock dress comes in either black or magenta. This one is perfect for a more formal occasion.

In her whole line, Polizzi has designed shirts the most.

Her tops are a mix of casual and business. Many are looser in all the right areas so if someone has a bigger chest that is not a problem.

At very affordable prices this is definitely a line to keep your eye on.

Back to the shore?

Snooki breaks into fashion kaitlynn nordal contributor

At only 4 ft. 8, Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi is a force to be reckoned with. She has come a long ways since her days on the Jersey Shore and has lots to show for it.

“As we all do, I have grown up from my old style. I used to wear skirts and dresses that went just to my thighs. But I realized sexy isn’t about showing a lot, it’s about not showing too much, which is exactly what my clothing line is all about,” Polizzi said on the Feb. 25 release date.

Having a variety of sunglasses from John Lennon style to aviators, your personal style is covered by Polizzi’s line. Although they are in limited colours, there is something for everyone.

Polizzi’s sandals come in a variety of flip flops, wedges, and gladiators. Coming in sizes from 5 to 10 -but no half sizesthe sandals appear to be comfortable. Her infamous slippers are the most sold item. Being 100 per cent polyester, they are very comfortable. All the slippers have a one-inch foam rub-

ber bottom. For anyone who is taller, keep this in mind when purchasing them. These come in either leopard or zebra print.

She also offers slippers that look like a pair of sneakers.

There are also a few pairs of boots in her line. Although they look like another version of any UGG boots you can buy, she puts her own spin on them with her love of animal print. Sizing can be a little confusing as they are sized by small, medium, and large. Being an animal lover, she has made sure none of her boots have real animal fur on them.

The long-sleeved, lace romper that Polizzi designed comes in only black or navy as of right now. It can be dressed up with jewellery to be worn more formally. It can also be worn more casually just by itself.

The striped leggings come in black, navy, or red, all being paired with white. Since there is so much going on with the leggings, they are better paired with a plain shirt.

Polizzi only has three dresses in her collection as of yet. Her sleeveless basic dress comes in

Tabercil Who put sunglasses on the troll?

burgundy, dark green, or blue.

When paired with the right shoes and jewellery this would be good for either a relaxed or more formal look.

For all of the plaid lovers out there, she designed an open-back flannel shirt dress.

Although it only comes in blue,

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The mini-Oscars

Living Skies Film Festival kicked butt destiny kaus a&c writer

What up U of R students? Did you know there was a film festival here this past weekend?

The Living Skies Student Film Festival has actually been going on here annually for the past 27 years, so surprise, surprise.

I took it upon myself to go to some of the festivities, and honestly, I have never been in the presence of so many film students at once. I loved it.

For all of you who are like, “what the heck is this film festival?” Let me explain. Living Skies notified about 100 film schools across the world regarding their upcoming festival.

Approximately 40-50 film submissions came in from schools worldwide, and Living Skies screened the 21 student films that were up for awards.

In addition to this, the festival held workshops by Emersen Ziffle and Lowell Dean from Wolfcop (Goodness gracious, some famous people from Wolfcop presented? Yep.) and Josh Strait from the esteemed Corner Gas series.

Jessica Gaube, a film student at the University of Regina and one of the organizers of the event, says that the overall purpose of the festival is “to get students to notice other students’ films from around the world.”

Sounds legit to me.

Gaube says “We got lots from Singapore, we got some from Australia, and we got lots from New York.”

Brian Stockton We have our own Oscars, guys! Sorta.

Heck, I went to the screenings and in films from Singapore, for example, there were even subtitles so that us little old Canadians could follow along.

But, seriously, I could not help but be amazed that students who are not professional Steven Spielbergs made these films.

I mean for goodness sake, there were animated films! I didn’t even know people outside of Hollywood, let alone students in a film school, could create these things! So cool.

Unfortunately, many students who submit these films from the far reaches of the earth don’t actually come to the festival here in Regina. I wonder why…

Nevertheless, Gaube says, “If lots of people win [awards] from out of town, we’re sending their awards to them and trying to get them to come in the future years.”

Isn’t that nice? And it’s a great way to promote this festival.

While submissions come from around the world, they

tend to lack from the University of Regina’s Film Department.

Lucas Frison, a University of Regina film student and another Living Skies organizer, says, “I would encourage more to just submit. It seems like a lot of the students are a little tentative, a little worried about having their stuff seen by an actual audience outside of the classrooms.”

Ah, yes, showing your work to an audience may seem intimidating. But, it really shouldn’t considering that your entire audience will either be film students, professors, or family and

friends of film students. Chances are no tomatoes will be thrown.

Frison actually directed the short narrative film Queen City Blues and submitted it in hopes of winning an award at the Film Gala.

“If it’s going to win an award or anything, you want it to just be because it’s deserving not just because it’s from here,” says Frison.

And, Queen City Blues did just that when the judges awarded it for “Best Cinematography” and when the audience voted it in for “Viewer’s Choice.” Atta be U of R talent.

Jason Rister and Jordan McKenzie, who are also film students at the University of Regina, picked up a total of 4 awards at the Film Gala (aka: the Mini Oscars) for their film Isaiah.

Ah, but did Isaiah clean house in the awards department just because it was from Regina? Heck no! The judges aren’t dumb. They picked it because it deserved those awards. There’s nothing else to it.

Clearly, these films, and the other 8 films by University of Regina students that were up for awards, stood up to the bigger schools in Singapore, New York, the Czech Republic, New Zealand, and Germany.

As Frison says, “Everyone that goes has a great time. It’s always very successful. The films are great, the food is good, and the drinks are fantastic.”

Mmmm, can’t get much better than that. See you next year, Living Skies Student Film Festival!

Going for broke

Connaught’s life is on the line destiny kaus a&c writer

The “Save Our Connaught” campaign hopes for a specific outcome from the school board meeting held on March 4: a second opinion and $20,000 to repair Connaught. Sound like a tall order? Not really. But the matter is much more complicated than it appears.

First off, the Save Our Connaught Committee (SOC) wants a second opinion on JC Kenyon’s engineering report regarding Connaught because it evidently has quite a few holes in it; for example, his measurement methods on the foundation’s movement are flawed.

Rene Dumont, the chairman of the SOC, says, “When you want to know when something is moving, what you do is you measure it, you come back in three months or six months and you measure it again.”

I don’t know a lot about buildings, but heck, even this explanation makes sense to me.

However, Dumont says that “in all the reports [JC Kenyon] has made for the school board there

have been no measurements done whatsoever.”

Judging from this information and the fact the Kenyon is the same engineer who has built two new schools for the board, is it too much to ask for a second engineer’s opinion?

The SOC hopes that the board will allow them, June Bodkin, a building conservation specialist, and her team of specialists to examine Connaught and form this second opinion.

Additionally, Dumont states that on March 4, “the School Community Council made a presentation to the board requesting that $20,000 be spent on the school so that the engineer Kenyon would sign his engineering certificate allowing the school to stay open for one more year.”

Otherwise, as saveourconnaught.ca says, the school board will “close it in June.” *and cue daunting music* “If the school board doesn’t want to pay $20,000,” states Dumont, “as a community, we wanted to get together and say ‘look we’ll collect $10,000 and [the school board] can match

our $10, 000.’”

Personally, this plan seems extremely reasonable to me because it shows that the SOC is willing to work together with the school board. It’s not like they’re asking the board for hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars.

Ultimately, though, the decision on whether or not to contribute to this $20,000 is completely up to the board. If they choose not to contribute, the only level of authority that can save Connaught is the government.

“At any time the government can say ‘Okay we’ll give $20,000 or let’s have another engineer come in and have another opinion,’” Dumont says. “But they haven’t yet.”

Dang. Well, at least Kate Smart, a mother of two, is doing her part to fundraise the community’s half of the $20,000.

According to the SOC’s Building Conservationist Release, Smart launched a fundraising campaign online on Feb. 23 in hopes to raise $10,000 by April 14 for Connaught’s repairs.

As of March 9, Smart has

Emily Wright As one of Saskatchewan’s heritage buildings, Connaught has a lot to offer the community.

raised $3,518. Hmmm…not going to lie, it looks like she has a long way to go, especially considering that the school board will meet on March 25 to decide whether or not to invest this $20,000 in repairing Connaught.

Time is a tickin’!

Robert Hubick, a Heritage Regina board member and the Heritage Regina representative on the SOC, also presented at the March 4 school board meeting.

Hubick says, “we’re telling them that ‘Okay well it’s only

$20,000 to get a one year life out of [Connaught].’ It’s going to cost them way more money in that whole year to bus kids. So even if you’re not into heritage, now you’re talking about tax payers dollars…it’s a no-brainer.”

Apparently it’s not a no -brainer, though, since the school board hasn’t figured this out yet...hopefully they will by the 25th, otherwise Regina could very likely lose the historical Connaught.

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Allan Hall Those shoes, and matching socks. It’s like Flubber threw up everywhere.

SPORTS OF THE ROUNDTABLE

taylor sockett, kyle leitch, matt wincherauk, brady lang knights of the roundtable

With Cougars sports winding down for the season, which team have you most enjoyed watching this year?

Sockett: Clearly the Carillon sports roundtable team. With the addition of veteran fuckgoof Kyle Leitch, the team soared to all new heights. The team will be looking to replace long-time roundtable serving villain sports editor McDeezy, who will be hanging up her angry keyboard at the end of the season.

Leitch: That’s easy: the full-contact chess team, which went undefeated in 1,492 regular season games before scaling Mount Everest, and defeating “Macho Man” Randy Savage at Wrestlemania XL. That’s the memory I submitted in lieu of going to any actual games.

Wincherauk: Definitely the women’s basketball team. Another fantastic year for these girls, and they’re just a fun team to watch play. Winning a lot helps too.

Lang: The women’s hockey team has been very entertaining to watch throughout the season and seeing them go in the fashion that they did was really tough to watch.

McDowell: Tough call. I would have to say men’s hockey, which is probably no surprise to most people. However, despite going to every home game, I have yet to win a hamper of delicious chips and it’s really starting to bother me.

The U of R is playing host to the CIS curling championships Mar 19-23. Do you plan on attending any of the games to support the Cougars?

Sockett: Sorry, I’m not nearly old enough to watch, let alone attend, a curling event. However, I imagine that my Grandma would be all over it.

Leitch: An acquaintance I met at the Owl recently put it best: curling is fine as a practical physics experiment, but why they would combine the experiment with the chore of sweeping, and perpetuate the experiment for fifty years is beyond me. So, pass.

Wincherauk: I don’t plan on attending. Essays are piling up.

Lang: The U of R has a curling team?

McDowell: Unfortunately, no. I have only watched curling once in my entire life and that was while I was forced to be playing it in Grade 6 gym class. Sorry to disappoint you, Paige Kreutzwieser.

Which team do you think was the winner of this year’s NHL

trade deadline?

Sockett: Anyone who says New York is a complete moron, not only did you give up a great captain in Ryan Callahan but they also gave up a first and second round draft pick. For what? A dinosaur who amazing is having a decent year, that will be retired sooner than later. Bad trade New York, quit going after hasbins.

Leitch: The Florida Panthers got a hell of a goalie in Roberto Luongo. Let’s see if they make use of him.

Wincherauk: I think the Canadiens were the late winners of the deadline by stealing away someone as talented as Thomas Vanek at the last minute. If they can get him to re-sign in Montreal, it will be a huge win.

Lang: The New York Rangers with their acquisition of Martin St. Louis were the obvious winners of the deadline. We will now see the emergence of Brad Richards again with help of St. Louis along with the power play getting some much needed help.

McDowell: I’m actually going to have to go with Tampa Bay on this one. And, I say that as a St. Louis fan. But the truth is, even though I will very much miss the on-ice chemistry between St. Louis and Stamkos, he is old.

I’m excited to see the younger Callahan suit up with the Bolts.

Miami Heat forward LeBron James recently scored 61 points in a single contest. Does this make him better than Michael Jordan?

Sockett: Michael Jordan will always be better than LBJ simply by virtue of the fact that Jordan learned this skill that James hasn’t quite been able to master, it’s called passing. That’s why Jordan is better, he was a team player.

Leitch: I think LeBron is better than MJ, simply by the virtue of not being involved with Space Jam. Wincherauk: No. One game does not make or break a player, and while 61 was a phenomenal performance, it doesn’t really affect his long-term legacy too much. If scoring in one game was the criteria, then Kobe Bryant would be the second greatest player of all time, and that is clearly not the case.

Lang: You can’t even compare the two until LeBron wins more rings. All about the championships.

McDowell: He definitely isn’t better. I don’t know, I’m just going to go on record and say that I hate Lebron. There, I said it, it feels good to get that one off my chest. Kobe forever.

Long-time CFL quarterback Buck Pierce has announced his

retirement. What was your favourite Bucky memory?

Sockett: He was a damn fine clipboard holder, and damn, could he rock that hat on the sidelines. But seriously he was an aggressively mediocre quarterback whose career was riddled with injuries. Isn’t their more worthwhile things we could be talking about.

Leitch: I will always have the memories of my dad, a proud BC native, screaming at Lions’ games at the top of his lungs, calling Buck Pierce a useless fucker. Good times.

Wincherauk: My favorite memory was going through him and the vaunted BC Lions team in 2007 en route to our first Grey Cup win in nearly 20 years. Beating up on Pierce is always a good memory in my book.

Lang: Considering his time in the CFL was spent mainly concussed or on the IR, my favourite memory of Pierce has to be his retirement. He had to look at his personal future rather than trying to limp out another injury filled season.

McDowell: The time that he got his head blown off. That was awesome, plus it was Saskatchewan that unleashed the blow, which was even more awesome.

When that helmet flew off, for one split second I thought I had just witnessed someone getting decapitated.

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The Cinderella story has ended in Regina Cougars go the distance against U of S

Cougars weekend highlights:

Katherine Fedoroff Meghan Sherven going to battle.

brady lang sports writer The women’s hockey team came within one goal of winning the Canada West championship on Mar. 2nd after a wild ride throughout the playoffs.

The Cougars finished the regular season under .500 and was definitely overlooked by teams with better records than them throughout the playoffs.

Yet, the Cougars ladies found a way to win during their three series’ in the playoffs this season. After a disappointing first round exit in 2012-13 to UBC, the girls were out for redemption this time around, beating Manitoba and Alberta,

but eventually being eliminated by their cross provincial rivals, the Saskatchewan Huskies.

But the ladies have nothing to hang their heads about.

After playing upwards of 280 minutes in the final series, the Cougars lost in the second overtime of game three – in the 17th period of action for the series. After three straight games that went into multiple overtimes, it definitely was an overwhelming feeling for the squad.

Games one and three both went to the second overtime while second-year Cougars forward Alexis Larson became the hero and ended game two in dramatic fashion in the fourth overtime.

It was a marathon and for

Cougars star goaltender Jennifer Schmidt, there’s no way to put it all into words, and something she won’t forget any time soon.

“I don’t think you could put a level [of exhaustion] to that game,” Schmidt said. “Between periods, we were really excited because we wanted to get back out there and win, especially because our life was on the line.

All of us started to feel the effects in the morning of the third game, but we were passed that [by game time] and having to go into overtime in the third game, it was a level none of us have ever felt before.”

As anyone could fully imagine, the locker room was quite

bleak after the devastating loss in Saskatoon last weekend, especially for forwards Kendra Finch, Katelyn Kennedy and Kaitlin Shervin, who officially played their final games in a Cougars uniform. Yet Schmidt said she was definitely proud of her girls for the level of sportsmanship they displayed.

“It was full of disappointment,” she said. “I don’t think anyone sees a team get happy silver medals. The loss was shocking for everyone. It was really sad when you think about our fifth years – playing in their final game in their career. Our team handled the loss with a lot of sportsmanship; even though we lost we still accepted the silver medals.”

When asked about what the Cougar ladies could gain from the loss, Schmidt believes gaining the experience of just getting to that position is all the experience that they need.

“It isn’t what we’re gaining from the loss,” said the thirdyear education student., “It’s what we’re gaining from the experience in itself. From winning, thus far we now know it takes a full team buy-in to win games and to compete at that level. I don’t think we did anything in particular to lose that game. I think someone had to win and someone had to lose, both teams were working hard and some of the bounces didn’t go our way. What we can take away from this loss is it’s a team game and with hard work we can get back to this point in the upcoming years.”

As the season comes to a screeching halt for the ladies, that drive for a Canada West Championship certainly will not.

These games just show how great this team is and how they will stop at nothing to get back to the point in which they were this season, one bounce away from being Canada West Champions.

The women’s basketball team did something that is incredibly unusual for them this weekend – they lost. In fact, it was a historic loss for they team; as for the first time ever they dropped their first game of the Canada West Final Four. The team then went on to lose in their consolation match, finishing in fourth place at the tournament, without a chance at the wild card position. This was the first time since 2008 that the Cougars were not in the Canada West finals and marks the final time that fifth-years Nicole Clarke and Megan Chamberlin will put on a Cougars jersey.

Men’s wrestling rookie Isaac Lubiak showed everyone how it’s done at the CIS championships. The firstyear took home a bronze medal at nationals, opening up everyone’s eyes to what this kid can accomplish in the years to come. The Cougars also had strong performances from Reza Mosallat, Lucas Hoffert and Matt Fedler who all placed fifth, respectively. On the women’s side, despite only sending four wrestlers competing, Danielle Anderson, Kristine Longeau and rookie Emily Foerster all took home fourth place for Regina.

Cougars track and field star Jeremy Eckert did what every athlete should aspire to do, going out on top. The fifth-year high jumper took home a CIS gold medal at nationals in his final time competing as a Cougar.

Fellow fifth-year high jumper Connor MacDonald also took home a medal at the championships, finishing third place, while fifth-year shot putter Chris Pickering also finished his career on the podium, with a silver medal around his neck. As for the women’s side, Joy Becker, who still has three years of CIS eligibility remaining, took home her first CIS medal after earning second place in long jump.

Congratulations to all of the Cougars athletes that competed this year, you have made the University of Regina very proud!

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Out on top

Cougars athletes finish strong in CIS championships paige kreutzwieser staff writer

The U of R track and field team headed to Edmonton for the CIS championships Mar. 6-8, and after their successful showing at the Canada West championships two weeks prior the team had big expectations.

In his final year as a Cougar, Jeremy Eckert was looking to continue on his high from his Canada West performance.

His competition going into CIS did not look too steep, but Eckert admitted in the last couple weeks a lot of the men were starting to climb the ranks.

However, breaking the 1979 Canada West record with a 2.16 jump and securing himself his fifth-consecutive Canada West gold in high jump, Eckert was feeling confident going into his final CIS meet.

“It’s bittersweet for sure,” he said. “But it’s exciting I had some really good jumps at Canada West.”

Teammate Connor MacDonald was sitting at third in high jump going into the CIS championships, and Eckert was tied in first place with Branden Wilhelm from University of Windsor.

“I am always a nervous jumper,” admitted Eckert. “Me and Branden have taken turns beating each other out at different meets, so it’ll be fun.”

In the end, Eckert was able to take his second consecutive gold medal with a 2.10 metre jump. Wilhelm placed second while MacDonald came in third with 2.07.

Arthur Ward Never was a big hurdler.

This year the men’s track and field team won their third Canada West banner in school’s program history.

Fellow Cougar Tait Nystuen also had a stellar Canada West performance during the 4x400 relay. With his team sitting in fourth place going into the anchor leg of the run, Nystuen admitted it was a nervous feeling.

“When you get the baton and the closest athlete in front of you is still quite a ways away its kind of hard not to panic,” he said.

But instead of overreacting Nystuen played it smart and used his speed to bring his team up two spots and secure them the silver.

The fourth-year athlete made his fourth-consecutive ap-

pearance at the CIS championships. He knows for some of the rookies and first-time CIS competitors it may be intimidating going and competing.

“People sometimes want to try harder but you just got to stick to your guns,” offered the former CIS bronze medalist.

Before the team headed off to Edmonton for the championships, Nystuen said a top six or seven place finish would be a good performance for the team.

“We’re going to play upset,” said Nystuen.

The men’s team ended with a sixth place finish.

On the women’s side, Joy Becker topped the U of R squad with a second place finish in the long jump and obtaining her first ever CIS medal. Merissa

Margetts placed eighth in the 60-metre hurdles, after falling in the Canada West finals.

Despite the fall, Margetts had a personal best at Canada West in the 60-metre dash with a time of 7.65 seconds, which captured her the bronze.

“It was kind of upsetting because I could have medaled there,” admitted Margetts, but she has kept a positive outlook on the experience. “I didn’t get hurt or anything. I did what I was suppose to do so I couldn’t be upset.”

At her fourth appearance in the CIS championships, Margetts had another successful individual showing, beating her school record with a 8.60 second run in the hurdle preliminaries.

Both Margetts and Nystuen

were excited about going to Edmonton for the championships.

“It feels like a hometown advantage. The atmosphere is great, it’s a really nice track,” said Margetts. “All of our athletes are totally comfortable with that track...it’s nice to go somewhere where you are comfortable with,” added Nystuen.

Head Coach Bruce McCannel was also excited for the Edmonton advantage.

“I think that is a really comforting thing going into a meet knowing you shouldn’t have any surprises, facility wise,” he said.

“Edmonton has a very fast track and it’s an excellent facility to compete at. It has been responsible for some really great performances from our team.”

McCannel was impressed with the level of excitement from his team going into the championship.

“When all the athletes are excited like that it’s great from my perspective as a coach because I want to see them excited and see them ready to go and then I look forward to them producing results,” McCannel said.

Fifth-year athlete Chris Pickering added a silver medal in his final competition as a Cougar with a 17.60 metre throw in the shot put. Both Ahmed Alkabary in long jump and Tevaughn Campbell in the 60-metre dashed placed fifth. And Nystuen and the 4x200 metre relay team placed seventh.

And with that, the Cougars will hang up their cleats as their summer begins now.

Breaking sport: bike polo

Act like an aristocrat even with an empty wallet garry balaganthan The Fulcrum

OTTAWA (CUP) — Polo is the sport of the aristocrats, but this new spin on it has a growing number of fans, teams, and players. Bike polo is an urban twist on the traditional game without the lavish costs.

Originally created by bike messengers in their downtime in the early 2000s in Seattle, Wash., bike polo has grown into a global sport played in more than 30 countries and 300 cities.

Ottawa Bike Polo, home of the Mallets of Mayhem, is the first and only hard-court bike polo club in Ottawa. A trio of local bike messengers brought the sport to Ottawa 10 years ago and has established it as a stronghold in the North American circuit.

Bike polo takes traditional urban hard-courts like tennis courts and repurposes the surface area to their needs. The sport is dominated by veterans at its highest level, and many players take several years to hone their craft. A hard-court

governing body oversees the development and growth of the game on the national scale.

“Every year there is a discussion to change the games with regards to its rules,” said Alexis Mills, a pioneer of the sport in North America.

Polo is a co-ed sport in which women are encouraged to play because of specific women-only tournaments that take place annually in North America and Europe.

“It was challenging at first but like everything else, if you put in the work it can be an extremely rewarding experience,” said Brianna Harris, a bike polo newbie.

“We assemble into two teams of three, hop on our bikes and wait at the opposite ends of the court. Once the ref yells ‘polo,’ we all race to the centre for possession of the ball,” said Mills.

Played three-on-three, tournament play is timed in intervals of 10 minutes. At the pickup level, it is played two teams with three players each. They control the game ball with a mallet while riding a bike. The object

leagueofbikepolo.com That actually makes this sport look pretty majestic.

of the game is to win by scoring five goals.

Mills said it started off as two traffic pylons six feet across, but these have evolved to a net that resembles a hockey nets.

The ball is a standard road hockey ball.

“It’s not explicitly a contact sport, but there is a lot of contact, jostling for position,” she

said.

Agility, dexterity and speed are valued in the sport while brute strength takes a bit of a backseat.

New players are always welcome and the next season is predicted to begin in late March. No fees are involved and any type of bike is acceptable for play.

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Take me out to the ball game

Sports writer Brady Lang makes MLB predictions

Saforrest You take back what you said about the Blue Jays.

brady lang sports writer As the winter begins to wind down, the most anticipated day for baseball fans keeps getting closer.

As an avid Boston Red Sox fan, this season really can’t come any sooner as last season’s “believe in the beard” World Series Championship is still extremely fresh in Red Sox fans minds.

Yet, as we get closer and closer – nine days and counting – here are a few loose predictions for the 2014 season: 1. The Jays will end up out of the post season for another year.

This one was the easiest and

safest prediction on the list.

The Jays just simply aren’t good enough to make it to the post season. Their offense has holes while their defence has even bigger holes – especially in the middle of the infield – and the team is extremely injury prone.

The Jays will finish in 4th in the AL East.

3. Pittsburgh will win the NL pennant.

2. The New York Yankees will be right with the Jays, Baltimore will earn a playoff berth.

After years of being the laughing stock of the Majors, the Pirates finally made the post season last year. But after being ousted in the National League Division Series against the eventual pennant winners, Pittsburgh is close and I believe they will be playing deep into November in 2014.

To continue talk on the AL East, the Yankees will finish in 5th in the division while the newly stocked up Orioles will end up in 2nd behind the Boston Red Sox. It will be a rough farewell for Derek Jeter, who will be retiring following this season.

4. Clayton Kershaw wins his third Cy Young award.

This wasn’t a hard prediction to make, Kershaw is the best pitcher in baseball and he will continue to hold that title in 2014.

In the American League, Anibal Sanchez of the Detroit Tigers

will end up with the award.

5. Detroit will be the biggest disappointment of the 2014 season.

After many years of being one of the best teams in the Majors, Detroit is due for a step back this season. I have a feeling injuries will hurt the squad and the loss of Prince Fielder will help a lot more than first expected.

Third in the AL West while the Cleveland Indians take the division.

6. Both Los Angeles teams will make the postseason.

The Angels have been struggling in the past, but this season just feels right in L.A.. The

Dodgers will continue their winning ways and win the NL West with the best record in the majors, yet they won’t be able to get to the World Series, losing in the National League Championship Series.

7. The Boston Red Sox will defend their World Series title and win their second consecutive Championship.

This was a no brainer in my opinion. The Sox kept their core around, for the most part, and their team chemistry is unmatched within the Majors.

So, my seven predictions will come true for the 2014 season.

Put your money on it and you won’t be disappointed, really.

Three’s a crowd

The hockey world is surrounded by tragedy what the puck? autumn mcdowell sports editor

While many hockey fans were focused on the trade deadline last week, three young hockey players were fighting for their lives.

Normally, I like to keep this column funny, and witty – or at least, that’s how I imagine it coming across -- but, I can’t be funny when tragedy has surrounded the hockey world.

On Feb. 28, the Western Hockey Leagues Kootenay Ice forward Tim Bozon scored his 30th goal of the season against the Saskatoon Blades, but the celebration post-lighting the lamp wouldn’t last long.

The day after the game, when the team was scheduled to head home to Kootenay, the 19-year-old did not join his team and was instead transported to the Royal University Hospital in Saskatoon. And just like that, Bozon was suddenly diagnosed with Neisseria meningitis and was said to be in critical condition.

The scary thing about this type of bacterial infection is that it is usually severe and could come with devastating side effects for the Montreal Canadiens prospect, which may include brain damage and learning disabilities.

In a recent update released by the Kootenay Ice, it was announced that Bozon’s parents had been flown in from Switzerland to be by their son’s side while doctors had decided to place Bozon in a medically induced coma in an effort to slow down the progression of the disease.

Everyone in the hockey community is hoping for full recovery for the young hockey player. Right now, it isn’t his career that people are worried about; it’s his life.

Unfortunately, Bozon’s medical situation is not the only one that has the hockey community worried.

Terry Trafford, a 20-year-old player with the Ontario Hockey League’s Saginaw Spirit has gone missing. Trafford, who was eligible for draft this year, was last seen in Michigan on Mar.

allaboutthehabs.ca I want to make the hashtag #staystrongtimmy happen.

3 leaving the team’s rink when he was believed to be driving to Toronto, but he hasn’t been heard from since.

A week has now come and gone, and although friends and family have reached out on social media in hopes that someone had seen him, or his truck, no one has received any tips on his whereabouts.

Finally, as if two tragic events weren’t enough, Calgary

Flames forward Matt Stajan had to live every parent’s nightmare.

Moments after Matt and his wife Katie gave birth to their son, Emerson, he passed away.

As a result, Stajan has taken a personal leave from the team while he has time to begin to grieve the loss.

They say bad things happen in threes, and that could not be truer in this situation.

Normally, I am complaining

about the latest happenings of Gary Bettman, or bizarre rule changes or hating the Maple Leafs but it is situations like this that make me realize that those little things don’t matter. These players’ stories have touched the lives of many people, pulled at our heartstrings and made us realize what’s important.

I hope to see all three of you back on the ice soon, where you belong.

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Confessions of a retail worker

Tom Harpel

Currently, I have three jobs, but I only really like one of them.

That’s probably because the other two are in retail.

Almost everyone has experienced the joys and miseries of a retail job at some point in their life; a job that you hold simply for the great discount, but have no intentions of making a career out of. Sound familiar?

The truth is that, if it weren’t for that discount, no one would want to work in retail because of what you have to put up with on a daily basis. Sure, every job has its downfalls, but besides work-

ing as a server in a restaurant, working in retail is the worst job that I have ever had.

For starters, the everyday happenings of a retail worker are generally awful -- easy, but awful. It begins when a customer comes in and, as a worker, it is my job to say “Hi,” and ask how your day was, because if I don’t do this within two minutes of you walking in the door, I will be in trouble. You think I’m lying, but I’m not.

And when I try to make conversation with you by asking you how your day was, most cus-

tomers say “good” under their breath as if they are annoyed by the question, and don’t bother to ask me how my day is going, despite that being the polite thing to do.

Others simply pretend that I don’t exist and assume that I am on commission and will activate my pushy salesperson button the moment they respond.

Then, there are the few exceptions that I am truly grateful for, the customers that actually engage in a conversation with me, that let me help them and that don’t give me a bitchy attitude

when we don’t have the product that they are looking for in a particular size and colour – because despite what you may think, I have no control over that.

But, it’s not just the customers. Retail workers, from my experience, are generally treated as disposable by their employers, and in most cases, that’s because they are. At one of my jobs, despite working a 5.5 hour shift, I don’t receive even one fifteen minute break. If I start walking to the back one minute before my shift is done I am told to get back on the sales floor,

but if I work 15 minutes of overtime helping a customer, do you think that I am compensated in the slightest for that extra time?

No. Obviously not.

But, I can’t say anything about this; I can’t demand for my basic labour laws to be filled because I know, and my employers know, that if they lose me, there will be another 16-year-old waiting to take my place. There are plenty more where I came from, so they can get away with it.

I understand that I am fortunate to have one job, let alone three. I know that some people are struggling for money and the things that I have to complain about are miniscule in the grand scheme of life, but there is a reason why retail turnover is among some of the highest in any occupation, and until employers and customers start treating these workers with respect, that won’t change.

So, the next time you go shopping and some poor and innocent retail worker smiles at you and asks how your day was, for the love of God, smile back and say “good, how about you?”

autumn mcdowell sports editor

There are things to do in Regina Ever hear someone say, “There’s never anything to do in Regina?” Or, how about, “We have nothing going on here and this city has absolutely no culture?”

Having lived in Regina for two decades and hearing such sentiments ad nauseam, I’ve gotten really damn tired of this attitude.

Regina is currently growing, in population and in culture, and with that there is a wealth of things to do in town. There are multiple concerts weekly at bars like O’Hanlon’s, McNally’s and Bushwakkers, typically showcasing local and provincial talent.

At Bushwakkers, Mondays and Wednesdays are respectively Jazz and Folk nights. Additionally, Tuesdays and Fridays are concerts at O’Hans. These nights are fairly popular, draw crowds, are fun and free.

There alone you have four nights of music and content without considering concerts and shows at any of the cities dedicated venues. This all exists alongside a healthy and local music scene, with local labels like Touchwood Studios and Harvest King Records boasting an impressive list of acts. In turn,

local shows and annual events like the Harvest King Christmas party or Mayday at The Exchange can show some pretty impressive Regina talent.

The Regina Public Library Film Theatre has weekly showings of obscure, classic, foreign and non-mainstream films. You can see films there that were released to the major theaters, so this often includes films originally aired at Sundance, SXSW or Nimes that didn’t get a wide release. Many of these are award winning or controversial, the best recent example would be The Act Killing by Joshua Oppenheimer. Also this month Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer is playing!

Regina also has a tonne of art galleries, most focusing on local and Saskatchewan artists.

Exhibits and events at galleries around Regina are frequent events with new works or exhibits drawing crowds.

The point of this is that, in town, there are bunch of things to do week to week without having to look very far.

So here’s the crux of this article – if you can’t find anything

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to do in Regina, or you think it’s a boring place to live, you aren’t fucking looking. And if you are, and you decide not to attend events, you are equally to blame. Apathy will foster nothing for a developing scene, so participate! If you’re not willing to show up to a free show, concert or exhibit, or willing to start

a band or do something creative, what gives you any right to whine or complain?

Regina has everything a big city has; you just don’t get stuck for hours in traffic or on public transit on your way around town. It’s also important to note that the above examples are by no means a comprehensive list

of Regina events. What wasn’t mentioned? What do you love about the city? And what events would you recommend?

alec salloum news editor

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Awareness to the arts The University of Regina’s new campaign to draw attention to the Arts is a decent idea and directly attacks frustrating, halfbaked criticisms leveled at the faculty. So why do I see fellow Arts majors criticizing the campaign on Facebook?

The intentions behind the videos are decent; while I think a more proactive change (in say, administrative policy or faculty funding) would be more helpful, I can appreciate the ad campaign’s sentiment. There is, however, a lot that I don’t appreciate.

The ad campaign is problematic for a laundry list of reasons, and perhaps the biggest reason is the ad’s reactionary nature. The ad is peppered with claims of Arts majors making money from their work (after which the ad paradoxical-

ly claims that money doesn’t matter) as well as implying that people without Arts educations lack a certain capacity to think critically. Maybe I’m just being arbitrary, but statements like these don’t advertise the merits or joys of an Arts degree. They seem more designed as reactionary attack against people who scoff at an Arts education.

I understand and appreciate that criticisms like these are being acknowledged and confronted, but I worry this campaign is measuring the Arts by the standards of other faculties or career paths by focusing on financial benefits and a singular definition of usefulness based on some “advantage” you get over others by selecting the Arts.

The campaign should spend more time celebrating Arts rather than defensively jus-

tifying them. Why not use these advertising resources to mention initiatives and events that showcase the strengths of the various Arts programs? Imagine how much good could be done if this advertising space were used to briefly showcase student-organized events which emphasize the values of Arts programs (say, the English Students Association’s Trash Talkin’ conference where students write academically about almost anything related to popular culture)?

Furthermore, the ad claims that “Many of our greatest and most successful minds are graduates of the Arts.” It doesn’t bother to mention any actual names, so I guess we’ll just take their word for it. This element is more perplexing because the University’s website actually

cites a number of public officials with Arts degrees (like Michael Fougere); why can’t the televised ad do the same?

Maybe it’s all because of the medium, as commercials don’t exactly allow for breadth. This ad doesn’t use its time wisely, though. How many people are going to be persuaded to pursue the Arts if they see the ad’s generalities and a “Trust us, this Arts thing is really, really useful” mentality? Is the purpose to get attention? In that sense it succeeded, but why not aim higher and set out to use this campaign to bring positive attention to the Arts faculty?

I don’t want to completely write off the new campaign because I do appreciate the fact that the University wants to bring awareness to the Arts faculty. I just hope the message

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becomes something more positive rather than reactionary.

ethan stein contributor

Less culture war, more economy

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The Liberals possess good fortune lately. A new poll from the Manning Centre found that 31% of a survey of 1,100 identified with the Liberals, 26% with the Conservatives and 18% with the NDP. What has further horrified Conservative pundits is that the

Grits and Tories are statistically tied on the issue of economic stewardship--an issue the Harper government has tried to monopolize over the years.

On other issues like healthcare and unemployment, the Liberals and New Democrats polled

ahead of the Conservatives.

That’s not all. The Liberal Party has been moving in support of several issues, which have been staples of the ‘culture wars;’ pot, prostitution and euthanasia. With support for legalizing pot at 57%, an October 2013 survey of 1,002 Canadians found that 68% of them favoured euthanasia. Prostitution still remains less clear, as one poll showed that 60% of men favoured its legalization, while only 38% of women approved of such actions. The Liberal Party convention recently approved a policy that would see a new debate on implementing rightto-die legislation, coming as the Supreme Court listens to a new case on assisted suicide.

However, where do ‘culture war’ issues fit on Canadians perceived priorities? The top issue for 15% of those who

responded to a Harris Decima poll was the economy, followed by healthcare at 11 percent, with the environment and employment issues following behind.

Out of this list of ten top issues for Canadians, pot, prostitution and euthanasia were not listed as priorities. Think the person working overtime on the oil rigs or the 9-to-5-professionals are going to lose sleep over euthanasia? The Liberals must focus on issues that trouble more Canadians than culture war issues if they want to unseat Stephen Harper in 2015.

Yet Trudeau has given some indication of where he stands on the economy and healthcare. Going off a recent report suggesting the middle class is stagnating in Canada, he has indicated that he will not increase taxes on earners in this group, nor on anyone in general. He

has indicated that he supports free trade and Keystone XL, two issues that the Tories can’t claim to be gatekeepers of.

The point is that the Liberals don’t have to grasp for straws.

They’re tied with the Tories on the economy and are seen as a better party to manage healthcare issues. What Trudeau should focus on is sharpening his economic positions and developing his health-care policy.

If they focus on issues like these over the next two years, they will be a redoubtable force for Harper and Thomas Mulcair.

That said, commentators should be less gung-ho on declaring early winners, as pollsters from Alberta and B.C. found recently.

people that we unnecessarily put on a pedestal here. What’s worse is that not only has this movement grown in popularity, but we now apply it to anybody and everybody who captures the collective’s attention for more than seven seconds.

More often than not, these cult celebrities have no real talent to speak of, and have nothing meaningful to contribute, and yet, are raised above the rest of us because of reasons.

I’m not saying that some people aren’t deserving of praise and attention, but there gets to be a point—I’d say right around the time someone is tattooing the Twilight cast on their shoulders and parents are dressing their kids up as the cast of Jersey Shore for Halloween—that these practices need to end. There is a distinct differ-

ence between respecting someone for their achievements and fetishizing morons. Tragically, the latter has become more and more prevalent which devalues the legitimate formers in that scenario.

Maybe I’m wrong when I call the premier an entitled little shit. Maybe I’m wrong when I taunt the McMorris brothers.

But to all the Gormleys and Petes of the world, I say: maybe you’re just as wrong as I am for coming so swiftly and vengefully to their defenses.

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Cult of we Because I write so rarely for the paper anymore, I try especially hard to have as much fun with it as I possibly can. I find particular enjoyment in getting a rise out of readers. Whether mocking a certain “gold medal prospect” or calling the Premier of Saskatchewan an entitled little shit, I must say that I’ve had a blast over the years.

In my seemingly never-ending quest to try to top myself, I thought I might try something daring, like chronicle my experience to start my own religion. However, in studying how I would go about doing that, I came across something even more curious. Put down your ceremonial film reels, my children of a lesser god: Bastardism will be a thing soon, just not this week.

Although it had already en-

tered the lexicon by this time, the term, “Cult of Personality” as we know it today was coined—ironically enough—by Karl Marx. Since the year 1877, the term has come to refer to any, usually political, charismatic authority. The obvious examples are of Joseph Stalin in Russia and Adolph Hitler in Germany.

Those aren’t the examples I’m here to talk about, though.

Do me a solid, will you? The next time you’re at an Apple Store, tell someone, anyone, that you don’t like the Beatles.

Gauge what kind of a reaction you get. I’ve gotten somewhere between contemptuous stare and murderous condemnation.

Only once have I ever found someone who said, “You know what? Me neither.” Try another one—engage an American historian or political science ma-

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jor, and try to criticize John F. Kennedy. I’m willing to bet that you’ll get some shit slung your way.

See, the Cult of Personality doesn’t just apply to totalitarian dictators looking to mobilize a nation. It also applies to the

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Dear world, why won’t you let me die?

I reveled in the fact that a mainstream political party in North America has finally had the guts to voice in favor of euthanasia under its establishment. Following the Liberal Party of Canada’s convention, its delegates have voted to legalize assisted suicide.

I don’t necessarily subscribe to most of the Liberal Party’s convictions and centrist ideologies and considering the interesting timing of this vote whereby the French speaking province of Quebec is set to pass a law that if passed would make Quebec the first province in Canada to legalize euthanasia. The fact that the Liberals were utterly decimated in Quebec during the previous general elections only leads me to speculate that, a move of this magnitude is fueled for political gains and not out of moral compassion. However, the fact that this taboo-riddled issue of euthanasia has finally been brought back after a 20-year absence in the national spotlight signifies a progressive healthy democracy.

Euthanasia to me is a personal one; I like many others did not realize the gravity of the moral conundrum surrounding this issue until my uncle lost his

battle with cancer in 2010. I can still remember the day like it was yesterday when I saw my once boisterous, exuberant, and flamboyant uncle powerless and in unbearable pain as he laid still, hooked on to various machines and medical paraphernalia. He had lost a lot of weight; he was losing his hair and could hardly speak. He communicated only through his eyes, and was depressed to see me in a state of shock. As tears rolled down his once puffy cheeks, I knew that he did not want anyone seeing him in that frail condition. He couldn’t stand the tormenting effects of his chemotherapy and the throbbing pain that followed; he wanted very much to be put of his misery and to die with dignity. He got the best treatment that money could buy, he was admitted into one of the best private hospitals in Singapore with state of the art facilities, and was being treated by a world-class team of oncologists with Ivy League credentials.

However, they could not alleviate his pain, nor fulfill his wishes, as the state of Singapore banned euthanasia. My uncle died a slow and painful death; he did not deserve it and

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I don’t think anyone should be subject to that kind of agony and suffering. I watched him die, and still to this day cannot fathom how letting a person die in intractable suffering is more humane than to alleviate the pain of a terminally ill patient.

I vehemently refuse to accept the moral religious argument that views euthanasia as a

form of murder and as or a form of suicide that goes against the meanings of many religions. I do accept the fact that religion can provide excellent moral values, but it is subjective in nature and is open to interpretation. Religions vary and cannot be used to influence laws in a secular liberal democracy.

I believe in the freedom of

choice, as we are given choices on how live our lives we should also be given the choice to die.

While the waterlogged Scuds appear to pose little threat to South Korea, or any other country for that matter, just the fact that North Korea is acting like this, once again, shows the extent the country will rattle its sabre in order to get some international attention. This, of course, comes one year after the infamous underground nuclear test and its potentially intercontinental multistage rocket a few months prior to that.

Obviously, a militarily-minded North Korea poses problems for quite a few nations. Understandably, South Korea would rather not become a smoldering crater in the ground. The United States, because of its ties to the area during the Cold War, also has a vested interest in seeing South Korea not becoming a smoldering crater in the ground. Even China, who, in the past, has been fairly supportive of the Kim family until recent

years as Kim Jong-un has figuratively poked every bear in the zoo, now becomes increasingly irritated with the country with a severe case of little dog syndrome. Swinging from all sides like some ill-managed boxer, North Korea has managed to alienate itself on a global stage, earning it the butt of many a joke, which, in turn, further adds fuel to the fire.

So, then why hasn’t North Korean government collapsed?

The country is already a colossal humanitarian disaster waiting to be fully exposed. Kim Jong-un, while only being supreme leader of the DPRK for just over two years, has already exposed his crazy side, which is unbelievably more pronounced than his father, Kim Jong-Il. The thing to understand with a potential collapse of the DPRK has to partially do with the question of whose problem it becomes. China has traditionally supported North Korea

because the country acts as a buffer zone between China and the United States. Should the North Korean regime collapse, that buffer zone disappears, and thousands of refugees pour into China, of which the economic strain cannot be fathomed as well as a stronger US presence in Eastern Asia. Therefore it is more in China’s favour to keep North Korea marginally maintained. If North Korea and South Korea were to reunite, we would see an economic disparity and financial burden much like we saw in the reunification of East and West Germany, but on a scale that is quite figuratively off the charts.

As it stands currently, the world watches with bated breath as North Korea hits headlines once more, waiting to see what the unruly nation does next. Part of the reason why North Korea is so frightening, especially in Western media, is because it is a nation so dangerously unpredictable. Jokes aside, while North Korea can’t possibly compare to military heavyweights such as the United States and China, it can still do some serious damage to places where it would hurt, particularly to its neighbor in the South.

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Korean blues According to various news outlets, North Korea (otherwise known as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, or DPRK for short) has been spotted launching four Scud missiles

into the sea. Speculation why North Korea did so was because the start of annual joint military exercises between South Korea and the United States which North Korea opposes.

The thing to understand with a

potential collapse of the DPRK has to partially do with the question of whose problem it becomes.

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the funny section Shit the Carillon says the staff, for better or for worse

From birth, Carillon staff members carry the weight of seriousness on their shoulders.

They are bolted to the office.

But staff members have only to sink beneath the funny section and they are free. Buoyed by Shit the Carillon Says, they can fly in any direction — up, down, sideways — by merely flapping their mouths. Under the funny section, the staff become archangels of hilarity.

We hope you enjoy another edition of Shit the Carillon Says and, remember, when you find yourself sinking, dive!

Staff Member #1: Look at this picture of Willie Nelson. It’s from twenty years ago.

Staff Member #2: It looks like him from 20 minutes ago!

Staff Member #1: I was born when this photo was taken.

You’re not straight edge! I was drinking beer with you last week.

Staff Member #1: When I took over this position, I read your

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emails from last year to learn about the job. You know, the weekly grind, and different issues.

Former staff member: What did you learn?

Staff Member #1: Well, a bunch of stuff, but mostly that your mom would always email you and you’d never reply. She’d say stuff like “You’re not answering your phone,” etc.

Former staff member: *falls out of chair laughing Die Hard is a Christmas movie for sure!

There’s phallic symbols throughout Top Gun, man.

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The only problem with having a light saber in the office is not having another one to battle with.

Staff Member #1: Now worship your lord and master…Satan!

Staff Member #2: Go Devil!

Staff Member #3: Where the fuck did that come from?

Lookit how short my pants are this week.

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Double-barrelled shit the Carillon says Staff Member #2: I’m trying to add 5 fucking numbers together! What do you think?

I feel like the smartest asshole in the room.

I’d like project work better if I was my own partner.

Staff Member #1: Is it just me, or is it warm in the office today?

Staff Member #2: It’s because our office is figuratively above the bowels of hell.

In case you’re confused, you should see my intelligent friend forever, CM Punk, to find out the definition between literally and figuratively.

If I don’t have the meat sweats by the end of this meal, someone is going to get a hurt real bad.

stuffjouralistslike.com This is it, folks.

the staff, for better or for worse In case you thought we were softening up on each other, we were surprised to find out that we were firing on all cylinders this week. So, here we present a

second helping of Shit the Carillon Says. Like a fine wine after a meal, it is dizzying, may cause nausea, and can lead to several poor decisions.

When I was in Scotland with my family, my mom got me to mule as much scotch as possible back.

Staff Member #1: Do you have a moment?

You’ve never seen the Heritage Minute of that? That’s where I learned about all my history of

Canada.

goda, but it’s really just Kyle.

Perhaps I can be the Carillon’s foreign body correspondent.

I want burger.

Staff Member #1: It is really hard to quit smoking while working in this office Staff Member #2: You’re more likely to pick it up here.

Staff Member #3: We’re just a room full of enablers.

Wow, you’re really working today.

I realized the other day I didn’t know the difference between Rihanna and Beyonce.

After watching some classic Gumby cartoons, I realized how fucked up my childhood was.

Staff Member #1: He’s married.

Staff Member #2: Does she know that?

You shitty sonovabitch. You know I mean that in the most endearing way.

Me mum’s Bulgarian!

She’s replaced me with the dog.

Makes sense: it’s more loyal, easier to feed...doesn’t poop in the back yard quite as much.

You’re the common denominator, here.

It’s not a debate, because I’m right. *Production Manager upon realising that the server has deleted several section’s worth of work* “...FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!” You’re a peer pressure whore, you know that?

Staff Member #1: You wouldn’t beileve how many things almost made it to print.

Staff Member #2: I just want to fucking get out of here, man.

If we go to the Owl real nice, and drop a thirty...I say that like it’s a real bill.

You would think this is Abe Vi-

With only two issues of the Carillon left this semester, the university needs laughter now more than ever!

Send your humorous material to: op-ed@carillonregina. com before Monday at noon!

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Kyle and Emily worked really hard on this. They wanted it to be in colour, too.