Issue 04

the carillon The University of Regina Students’ Newspaper since 1962

Sept. 13 - 19, 2012 | Volume 55, Issue 4 | carillonregina.com

cover Welcome Week has come and gone (see page 10-11), and the Carillon hopes you had a fun week, filled with love and free ice cream. But now that is all over, and you will never smile again this year. Bob meant “once love”, as in, never again.

Have a wonderful semester, friends.

the staff editor-in-chief

dietrich neu editor@carillonregina.com business manager shaadie musleh business@carillonregina.com production manager julia dima production@carillonregina.com copy editor michelle jones copyeditor@carillonregina.com news editor taouba khelifa news@carillonregina.com a&c editor paul bogdan aandc@carillonregina.com sports editor autumn mcdowell sports@carillonregina.com op-ed editor edward dodd op-ed@carillonregina.com visual editor arthur ward graphics@carillonregina.com ad manager neil adams advertising@carillonregina.com technical coordinator jonathan hamelin technical@carillonregina.com news writer a&c writer sports writer photographers olivia mason jordan palmer marc messett

arts & culture

cuts like a knife 3 Projected cuts to the theatre department are beginning to see more concrete numbers, and the Fine Arts Department and FASA are concerned about the quality and survival of productions, and how to compensate for the budget losses.

30 years of awesome 6 Compiling 30 years worth of exhibits is a daunting task, but that hasn’t stopped the staff at the Neutral Ground from putting together the retrospective exhibition, NG30, in celebration of its thirtieth birthday. I hope the cake is made of post-modern theory.

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newbie 14 The cougar men’s hockey team has sucked in recent years. However, rookie coach Todd Johnson is looking to turn things around. Rumour has it the team may win more than a few games this year.

Can we make a coach do rookie duties? Chug that Mickey.

I WANT ICE CREAM 19 Quebec students have fought for their delicious ice cream (low tuition) rights, and have been called brats.

Saskatchewan students seem content to accept that we only get a bran muffin. Perhaps it is time we throw a temper tantrum and get in on that chocolate flavoured justice.

kristen mcewen sophie long kyle leitch braden dupuis

tenielle bogdan emily wright

contributors this week jake stinson colton hordichuk britton gray jhett folk kris klein todd blyth sebastian prost dustin christianson jordan palmer

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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 bell tower 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 bell tower.

The University never got a bell tower, 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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News Editor: Taouba Khelifa news@carillonregina.com the carillon | Sept. 13 - 19, 2012

Cultural Diversity Celebrated The second annual UR International Global Showcase gave students the opportunity to shine on Friday kristen mcewen news writer Students, families and friends roamed the halls outside of Gym 3 in the Kinesiology building, exploring the cultural student groups the university has to offer as the sounds of diverse languages, dialects and accents filled the air. The gym itself was packed, as people had an opportunity to taste food and entertainment from places that many students call home.

Business student, Forman Ali, performed a number of religious dances while dressed in bright formal attire from Bangladesh with a group of other students.

“We’re trying to show off our culture,” he said.

Ali is currently in his third year at the University of Regina.

He said he decided to start attending classes at the university to further his education, as well as to help with the process of immigrating to Canada. “[The event] is kind of a way for students ... to show off their home countries and how proud

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they are of their home countries, and for Canadian citizens to see where they’re coming from,” said Janelle Krieger who works in the administration office at UR International. “But it’s also for them to come and be part of [the] campus and see what the Canadian students do as well.”

Chinese business student, Iris Mi, is also in her second year at the university, but this was the first time she has attended the showcase.

“I like it very much, actually, because it’s a good way for international students ... [to] make them proud of their culture back-

ground,” she said. “For us, we just come here, we not only have to adapt [ourselves] to the western culture but I think in some way our culture [is] kind of devalued.

But from…this opportunity, we can just, like, celebrate our culture and be really proud of it. And we can make friends as well.”

According to director of UR International, Livia Castellanos, there are approximately 1,000 international undergraduates, 500 international graduate students and 400 students taking English as a Second Language programs at the university.

“I think that with the increase of international students we need to give them an avenue to showcase their culture, their traditions, to showcase their dances and the colours they bring to the University of Regina,” she said.

“On the other hand, this is a great opportunity for the University of Regina community and the community of Regina to come in and enjoy diversity that the students bring to campus.”

While the event that wrapped up the university’s Welcome Week was an invitation for international students to stand out, it

also served as a way for Canadian students to explore the world without leaving campus.

“I think the most important thing is to note how important this is for especially Canadian students ...,” Krieger said. “I think it’s important because we get students from small town Saskatchewan and they want to study abroad and they’ve never travelled before, never been on a plane before. So this is a whole new experience for them; kind of a way to travel without leaving is to see a little part of everywhere.”

While the event provided a way to see the world without actually going anywhere, Castellanos invited students to consider joining the 350 students from the university already studying abroad in places like India, New Zealand, Finland, Mexico or Brazil.

“I would like to invite students to come to the office to explore the world and let us assist them to study abroad,” Castellanos said. “It’s a wonderful experience, a wonderful opportunity; the world is getting very small and we have to get out and see it.”

These cuts will cut deep The U of R Theatre Department is anticipating extensive budget cuts kristen mcewen news writer According to University of Regina’s theatre department head, Kathleen Irwin, one of the things that will be affected by budget cuts this year is the free admission for students wanting to attend theatre productions on campus during the year.

Admission for non-U of R students costs $10, while adults pay $15.

“Ours shows are fully performed and designed by students,” Irwin said. “Lights, sound - often with original musical compositions - sets, costumes, elaborate projections when needed - the works.”

Irwin added the final productions are a collaboration between multiple faculties within the university.

When the department produced Eurydice during the 20102011 school year, computer science, engineering and music students helped out. In last year’s productions Much Ado About Nothing and Schoolhouse, visual art, media production and studies, and music students teamed up with theatre students.

“And our auditions were open to all students on campus,” Irwin said. “We had students from all over working with us ... We also worked with First Nations

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University to release a mini festival of new plays by First Nation playwrights.”

This year, the theatre department is producing two shows, Fear and Misery in the Third Reich at the Shu-box Theatre from October 31 to November 3 and November 8 to November 10, as well as The Birds at the University Theatre from March 13 to 16.

The Fine Arts Students’ Association will be holding a referendum later this month to ask students, “do you support the fee of $0.25 per student per semester

for free admission for students to attend all university theatre productions?"

Irwin said that if such a fee were to be collected, the money would go towards producing the shows.

“In order to produce quality work that offers a worthwhile training experience for student actors, designers, technicians, etcetera, our shows can cost up to $10,000 each,” she said. “In addition, we have to recover from box office returns, in total $6,000, to cover the cost of using

– essentially renting – the University Theatre.”

The theatre department hasn’t had free use of the University Theatre space since first moving from the old campus to the new one in 1998.

While the fee of one quarter per student per semester will mean the cost of admission for theatre productions will not be entirely free – some students don’t mind the price.

When asked, five out of five students said they would pay the fee.

“I would be in favour of it, but I would have to add that I don’t use the theatre department just because of my schedule and I’m off campus and all that ...,” said Colin Phillips, a fourth year envistudies student. ronmental “Twenty-five cents isn’t going to break anybody and I think it’s good for other people to be exposed to the arts.”

“I’d be willing to. Like, who wouldn’t be willing to pay 25 cents,” said Sam Kitzul, a first year education student.

“Oh most definitely, absolutely,” said Ian Bruce, a third year computer science student. “I go to the productions, so 25 cents for all of them is a pretty good deal, I think ... It’s a fairly small trade-off, that’s for sure.”

Irwin said the theatre department feels strongly about maintaining open access to its theatre productions on campus as it provides a low-cost way to see entertainment, gives students a chance to come together as a community, and gives international students a chance to experience a different culture.

“It provides an evening out and enriches their lives during the winter when it is sometimes difficult for them to go off campus,” she said. “Theatre represents who we are in so many ways!”

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Don’t Be That Guy Poster campaign raises awareness about sexual assault crimes sophie long news writer Over the summer, a poster campaign was launched in bathrooms at bars across Regina warning against sexual assault crimes.

The campaign, called “Don’t Be That Guy” consists of two posters that demonstrate the dangers for women under the influence of alcohol. The first poster pictures a young woman passed out on a couch that reads, “Just because she isn’t saying no… doesn’t meant she’s saying yes”. The second is an image of a young man helping a drunk woman into a cab, that warns “Just because you help her home… doesn’t mean you get to help yourself”. The posters both have the slogan “Don’t Be That Guy” written in bold beneath the images.

Dianna Graves, the executive director of the Saskatchewan Association of Sexual Assault Services (SASAS) explained what it means to be “that guy.”

“In a group of men… there’s almost always that guy who doesn’t really care, who knows what’s

ported incidents increases every summer, and suggests that “young people, who are out of school drinking and partying more” is the reason behind this.

“Don’t Be That Guy” was originally a campaign that was created in Edmonton due to the increased number of sexual assaults reported there. SASAS later picked up the campaign from the Edmonton police, hoping to raise awareness and educate citizens about sexual assault crimes, with an aim at encouraging young women to be aware of their rights and safety.

In her speech at the launch of the campaign in June, Graves said that “women have been told to be conscious of their clothing, their movements, and even where they look…. While it is positive to advocate self-responsible behaviour, most of the time these social messages tell the listener that it is their responsibility to avoid sexual assault and it’s their fault if it happens.” This notion of the ‘victim’s responsibility’ has a large impact on the safety of others, as Balfour points out.

“We estimate that only one in

“ University studies with Canadian college-aged males indicate that 60% of them would commit a sexual assault if they were absolutely certain they would not get caught.”

Dianna Graves right and wrong but he goes to the bar and takes a girl home at the end of the night and says ‘She’s really drunk, I’m going to sleep with her,” she explained.

This is the attitude that the posters hope to prevent, and Graves believes that peer pressure can be one of the things that prevent it.

“Friends will stop their friends from being that guy,” she said.

The posters were placed in bathrooms at bars across Regina in June, and there will be a campus-wide launch with the posters appearing on billboards and in bathrooms in the next few weeks.

Scott Crawley, the manager of security operations at Campus Security, insists that this is not a persistent problem at the University of Regina.

“We’ve not had any issues here, that’s not why we’re launching the posters,” he commented.

However, they are designed to appeal to young people.

Amy Balfour, a strategic research officer at Regina Police Service, gave some insight to the demographic the posters are aimed at. Balfour said that approximately 98% of sexual assaults have female victims and male offenders, with the victims being 24 years old and offenders around 30 years old, on average.

Like Crawley, Balfour insists that the campaign was not launched in Regina because there was a spike in sexual assaults. However, she admits that the number of re-

ten sexual assaults are reported,” she said, and believes many are not reported due to shame or guilt.

Graves agrees, commenting that “if you’re a woman at the bar, and you go home with a guy because you wanted a ride home or you thought he was cute, you are going to feel responsible. You’re going to feel like you asked for it.”

Graves hopes the campaign will reduce the number of sexual assaults in Regina, although she acknowledges that prevention cannot be measured.

Unfortunately, she pointed out, “one in four women in North America will be sexually assaulted at some point…University studies with Canadian collegeaged males indicate that 60 per cent of them would commit a sexual assault if they were absolutely certain they would not get caught.” For this reason, she hopes that the posters will encourage young men to know what consent really is. “Education for prevention is key,” Graves stressed.

While the campaign aims to inform women of the dangers of getting drunk, there has been some negative feedback.

“There are people who don’t like that the posters have drunk women, or that it looks like only men [assault] women,” Balfour said.

While the Regina Police does not deny that assaults can occur

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between any combination of men and women, the facts demonstrate that the majority of assaults are women being assaulted by men.

Similarly, more than half of reported assaults occur when at least one person is under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

What most people do not know, Balfour suspects, is that legally, one cannot consent to sex while impaired by alcohol or drugs. This law is in place to protect vulnerable men or women who are taken home from the bar without understanding what they are agreeing to. Similarly, many people believe that rape is the only form of sexual assault, however, any unwanted touching, verbal advances, or threats can be considered harassment or even assault. This is a key part of the campaign, as the aim is to educate young people on the laws around rape and sexual assault.

“People can become sexual offenders without realizing it,” Balfour said.

Over the next few weeks, the “Don’t Be That Guy” posters will begin to appear on campus. The campaign organizers hope that these will remind students that they need to be aware of their rights, aware of the law, and ensure that they are not making decisions while drunk that they might regret later.

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Islamophobia still alive and well American politicians play a dangerous angle with the impacts of 9/11 taouba khelifa news editor On September 11, 2001 the world watched as a series of attacks struck the United States, killing hundreds of thousands, and forever reshaping the world’s view of Islam and Muslims.

Eleven years after the attacks, and Islamophobia, the prejudice and irrational fear of Muslims is still going strong. As many analysts have pointed out, American politics are now using this to their advantage.

Dr. Faheem Younus is a clinical associate professor at the University of Maryland. He believes that Islamophobia in America is deeply entrenched into the political platform of American politics, and as a result, American’s are paying the price.

“Islamophobia in America is not innate. Rather, it's the fruit of a decade-long hysteria against Muslims generated by a largely Republican machine – a machine comprising of Republican pundits, conservative funders, media conglomerates and fiery politicians,” he said.

He goes on to explain that “by pundits, I mean the likes of Ann Coulter who boldly asked Muslims to ‘take a camel’ instead of flying on a plane, and Sean Hannity who compared Islam with Nazism. Others such as media personality Glenn Beck,

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Middle East Forum President Daniel Pipes, televangelist Pat Robertson, Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer, and activist Pamela Geller also mesmerized millions with their imagery of the Muslim terrorist next door.”

However, some experts believe that the problem is deeper than just the racialization of Muslims in American politics.

Nazneen Akbari, a freelance reporter for Thomson Reuters, insists that the cause of Islamophobia is deeply rooted in the role the media plays in ‘educating’ millions of viewers nationwide.

“Prejudice against Muslims in the West continues to mushroom under the umbrella of ignorance and stereotypes… [and] what’s troubling is that the West is cultivating ill feelings toward a community they do not know much about ,” she said.

To explain her point, Akbari used the example of the Norway massacre that happened in 2011.

Minutes after the shooting rampage at a summer camp on the Island of Utoya, Norway, “several news outlets reported the crime as an attack by ‘Islamist extremists’” she said.

“The New York Times highlighted ‘expert’ comments from Terrorism Analyst, Will McCants, who blamed the attack on a terror group, [called the] ‘Helpers of the Global Jihad’. Fox News tagged it as ‘some sort of al-Qaeda-related incident,’” she further explained.

However, reports later changed when Norwegian police arrested 32-year-old Anders Behring Breivik.

A 2009 CNN report titled “US Split on Muslim Allies” claimed that 53% of Americans don’t personally know a Muslim, and 55% lack the basic understanding of

Islam, yet according to a 2010 Gallup poll, 43% (4 in 10 Americans) admit to feeling some form of prejudice towards followers of Islam.

While these numbers highlight an imbalance in citizen engagement, Akbari sees the problem as being bigger than this.

“The problem is not usually with the stories being reported in media, it’s the unbalanced and sensationalist treatment of stories, within an anti- Muslim environment which stokes fear of a radical Islam among majority, who now believe their Muslim mates represent deceitful jihadists,” she said.

Thus, with Americans buying into these ideas and media outlets continuing to promote these messages, writer Safia Farole sees politics as the binding between these two gaps, further pushing the Islamophobic agenda , even after 11 years.

“As it currently stands, Muslims have become fodder for both political parties in the US. For the Democrats, any factor connecting Obama to Muslims is political kryptonite, especially given that this is an election year.

Meanwhile, the Republican Party establishment is becoming ever more co-opted by ultra-nationalist right wing personalities, who have benefited politically from engaging in Muslim bashing...

Extremist ideas are steadily morphing into acceptable political

dogma, with no end in sight,” she said.

With the 2012 American presidential election just a few weeks away, Islamophobia has only played a minor role in directing the presidential campaigns thus far. But, with the eleventh memorial for the September 11 attacks underway, and the last stage of election campaigning hitting full swing this month, Duke University Chaplin Abdullah Antepli speculates that Islamophobia will be the leading strategy to gain citizen votes.

“I am sure we will all witness similar scare tactics by the same group of people that did this during the 2008 presidential election.

They have everything they need in their hands: a fertile post-9/11 ground to scare people, a lot of money, and irresponsible and unwise media and public figures who are willing to be mouthpieces for their fabricated message,” he said.

However, he leaves the tactic speculations aside, ending with a question that perhaps many Americans want their candidates to answer: “when will enough be enough and when are we going to put an end to this nonsense, with common sense and civility directing our attention to more real and substantial issues in the face of a presidential election?”

This remains the question that is yet unanswered.

A new lease on life WUSC Regina helping refugees make a home in Canada dietrich neu editor-in-chief Four Burmese refugees have moved out of obscurity and towards stability. The University of Regina’s chapter of World University Service of Canada recently played a hand in giving the four women the gift of permanent residence in Canada along with the opportunity to study at the U of R. Each year WUSC’s national office helps to import student refugees from across the globe that seek refuge throughout Canada. WUSC Regina boasts one of the country’s strongest local programs and this year has doubled their refugee capacity from 2011.

WUSC Regina, operating with around 12 to 15 student committee members, has been consistently helping refugees gain access to Canada and the U of R since 2000. Applicants from various refugee camps around the world endure a lengthy application process involving exams to prove their capabilities as a student. After the application process is finished, WUSC uses money from their student levy to bring the students into Canada where they receive permanent residence and enrollment at the U of R. In previous years, WUSC simply helped refugees make the

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journey to Canada but would do little to stay in contact. The refugee would step foot on the U of R campus, they would receive financial help, and the rest was up to them. However, WUSC cochair, Kya Kokott, notes that over the past few years that mentality has changed.

“Now we have a actual club that they can join,” she said. “I think the impact of the club has been huge. In past years WUSC would just pay for the student,

sign their cheques, and move on.

And they lost a lot of students; we don’t know what many of them are doing with their lives or where they ended up.

“But now that we are having club meetings every week, they have a sense of community. If they have any questions about their classes or how to do something they now have a place to go for help. Now they have more of a chance because they have a family to help them with that.”

With the new commitment of sustaining an active community on campus, the members of WUSC now believe that they can truly begin to watch the benefits of the program unfold.

“Our saying is that education changes the world,” said Kokott.

“How is someone in a refugee camp supposed to change the world? How are they supposed to improve their situation when they have no resources? When they are [in the refugee camp] they have

nothing, so if there is any chance that we can save at least one human being, imagine the impact that could have. Now with our club we can take an active role in helping their development and watching them reach their full potential.”

With the success of the WUSC Regina seemingly at an all-time high, organizers are expecting that Regina’s local chapter will see growth in the future. With that growth, they are hoping to provide increased educational opportunities for student across the university, not simply refugees.

“WUSC does do a lot of stuff with the refugees,” said Matt Lensen, also a co-chair of WUSC Regina. “But there are a lot of opportunities for us to help with leadership development and skills training among all students at the U of R. I myself had never done any work with immigration until I joined 2 years ago. It definitely gives students some opportunities to acquire skills they might not otherwise have.”

“I think that working with people who come from places like refugee camps is something that everyone should do, ” Kokott added. “It is both a rewarding experience for the refugees and for the members of WUSC. They can learn from us, and we can learn from them.”

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Party like it’s your birthday The Neutral Ground Art Gallery celebrates 30 years with its retrospective exhibition, NG30

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paul bogdan arts editor Being a successful artist-run art gallery is reason for celebration, but being a successful artistrun art gallery for 30 years is really reason to party. Likewise, The Neutral Ground Art Gallery is putting on a retrospective exhibition, titled NG30, in celebration of the gallery’s thirtieth birthday.

“It’s our thirtieth anniversary, and we’re putting together an archival show, so it’ll be all of our documentation and kind of ephemeral stuff that we’ve collected from 30 years of operating.

There’ll be a bunch of slides, other still image documentation from digital cameras, and we have a bunch of videos of performances that’ll be on display in the gallery, and then a timeline of everything that’s happened,” said Joel Kovach, Program Assistant at the Neutral Ground.

The vast amount of documentation Kovach and the other gallery members have had to go through has led them on a treasure hunt through the gallery’s chronology.

“They had a tenth anniversary show, and one of the board members had catalogued everything and did the first ten years, and then we have 2000 - 2012 on our website,” Kovach said, pointing to a large stack of boxes in the corner of the room. “We’ve been really good at keeping our records up to date because it’s all digital, and it’s so easy. But, the 90s are all in those boxes.

“When people are documenting work or when they’re running an artist-run centre, it’s usually a really small staff, and ... the focus is bringing in new work and having shows and keep moving for-

ward, so things just get put places.”

However, with three decades worth of material, choosing what to display has become problematic for the staff at Neutral Ground. The staff has had to find a solution to selecting what they think is the best or most important to the gallery, and showing everything that the walls of the gallery have witnessed.

“We were talking about it and we were torn between picking highlights, which kind of rewrites the history a little bit; or showing everything, which is literally over 200 hours of video,” Kovach said.

“It’s been a process of walking that middle ground between only showing the really good stuff and trying to show absolutely everything that we can, because we just don’t have space.”

In going through the Neutral Ground’s chronology, Kovach has not only seen vast changes in art and works that come through the gallery, but different ways of recording them with the staggering changes to video technology in the past 30 years.

“I’m interested to see how it’s going to look because we’ve had so many format changes for documenting things. It goes from VHS to mini DV tapes to our HD camera that can shoot in the dark now,” Kovach said.

Furthermore, Kovach has run into problems with some of the technology used to document the happenings of the gallery in previous years.

“When you have a VHS cam, it doesn’t really shoot in the dark very well,” Kovach said. “You get all the sound and can hear what’s going on, and you can see lights, but it’s just this black room that’s really boring to watch. It’s a matter of trying to pick things that

would be interesting for people to see, but making sure we’re not sweeping things aside that maybe should be there too, especially since some of the artists will be in attendance.”

Needless to say, an art gallery that has been around for three decades is bound to have expansive history -- a history Kovach feels is often overlooked by the city’s residents.

“There’s been a really rich history here that a lot of people don’t know about.”

Moreover, 30 years worth of art exhibitions also say something about the culture of this city; a city where people often think that “nothing ever happens,” but which Kovach believes is “entirely not the case.”

“There’s this idea that there’s no culture in Saskatchewan whatsoever, particularly in Regina,” Kovach said. “Everybody thinks of Saskatoon, but we do have a lot of stuff here.”

While the Neutral Ground has never attracted as large an audience as an art gallery such as the Mackenzie, it has been a space for more controversial, provocative, or experimental works to be shown.

“It’s definitely been a space for artists to do work that’s maybe more experimental,” Kovach said.

“We have a really strong commitment to art and technology and new media, but also performance works that are something that the Mackenzie Art Gallery perhaps wouldn’t be able to show or program because of the nature of the work, or just things that are maybe more shocking and confrontational -- works that fall outside the norm. That’s kind of why artist-run centres started; groups of artists would get together because they couldn’t show at these

other places, so it’s like, ‘What do we do?’”

Additionally, the Neutral Ground staff has been contemplating the role of the gallery.

Being as artist-friendly as possible is generally the primary goal of an artist-run gallery, but being more accessible attracts a larger audience.

“We’ve been questioning what our role is. Whether our role is to bring in a ton of people and be super accessible to the public, whether we’re here to serve the public, or whether we’re here to serve artists and give them a space to show their work when their work is controversial and when it needs different kinds of technical requirements and stuff like that,” said Kovach.

Regardless of the more experimental nature surrounding the works being shown at the gallery and the smaller crowds these types of exhibitions are likely to attract, Kovach said the Neutral Ground has established a strong following, but attracting new people to the gallery proves difficult.

“We do have quite a strong following of people who will come all the time, but to get new

people to come in is more difficult -- partially because of the nature of the work, partially because of our location,” said Kovach.

“We’re definitely stable as an artist-run centre, which is something that’s a lot to be proud of because these galleries can start up and then fall back in on themselves. And because we’ve been around for 30 years, we definitely have precedence for a lot of funding, which is really helpful.”

Additionally, Kovach credits “a really strong community around the art in the city” as to the Neutral Ground’s success over the past 30 years, and expects Regina’s art community to continue the gallery’s success for another 30.

The exhibition runs from September 18 to October 19, and the reception is on September 22 at 8 p.m. at the Neutral Ground Art Gallery. Admission is free, and will feature emcee duties performed by Istvan Kantor, and performances by Homo Monstrous and DJ Guidewire.

“ There’s this idea that there’s no culture in Saskatchewan whatsoever, particularly in Regina.

Everybody thinks of Saskatoon, but we do have a lot of stuff here.”

Joel Kovach

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Talkin’ shit Local comedian Jayden Pfeifer watches movies, talks shit kyle leitch arts writer For Regina-born funny man Jayden Pfeifer, performing has always been second nature.

“Being a performer was the thing I was doing since I was fifteen or sixteen,” Pfeifer recalled fondly.

Since his departure from his roles co-ordinating the Sandbox Series and teaching at the Globe Theatre, Pfeifer seems not to have slowed down a bit. He hosts and performs in Combat Improv, hosts the monthly variety show Red Hot Riot, and can be seen fulfilling any other number of emcee duties. With a resume this extensive, it’s hard to imagine Pfeifer has much time to do anything else. Yet Mr. Pfeifer’s added a new show to his busy performing schedule that promises to be something completely different.

Talkies is the latest live venture that Jayden brings to the Queen City. It originated as a segment during Red Hot Riot, but, as Jayden described it, “it didn’t really fit the format [of Red Hot Riot]”.

The idea of Talkies is very simple: screen a particularly awful film and provide an improvised and scathing review of the Andrew Parry film much to the delight of those he’s very sentimental about how shitty movies are in attendance; it was definitely not an idea that Pfeifer could keep quiet. its execution on Pfeifer’s death joked. “The show is for anyone “I have always wanted to do row is M. Night Shyamalan’s who wants the catharsis of rantsomething like a movie com- Lady in the Water. ing about a bad movie.” mentary show, since seeing According to Pfeifer, the sucAlthough Pfeifer is the host Mystery Science Theater 3000 cess of Talkies was dependent of the show, he doesn’t expect when I was fifteen, and was on the venue. The idea of a ca- that the audience remain entirely thinking it was the funniest sual, intimate clip show didn’t silent. thing I’d ever seen in my life.” hold up well in a big, involved “I have encouraged the audiWhile Jayden Pfeifer’s production like Red Hot Riot; ence that, if they have something Talkies and Mystery Science however, it lent itself nicely to- funny they notice, they should Theater 3000 share some undeni- wards a venue like the Creative tell me. I’ve had audience memable similarities, it’s the differ- City Centre. bers make very poignant, funny ences that Pfeifer believes the “I had wanted another outlet observations... It is a very comaudience finds endearing. “I that was a little more casual and munal experience.” don’t write jokes in advance,” this movie idea was still in my To find the films to screen for Pfeifer explains. “I’m just react- mind, so I posed it to the people Talkies, Pfeifer once again relies ing to it in the moment along at the Creative City Centre, and heavily on audience participawith the audience.” they were excited to do it,” tion. Pfeifer acknowledges that Reacting is likely the best Pfeifer explained. he knew the films of perhaps the way to describe the events of Being a smaller, more inti- first two or three shows.

Talkies: Pfeifer hasn’t seen any mate venue, the Creative City “Then I asked the audience of the movies that he lambasts Centre certainly helps to recreate to recommend movies to me,” until the moment they are the theatre experience. For Pfeifer said. “The list of movies screened for the audience. “The Pfeifer, the feeling of the theatre I’ve been recommended since first time that will change will experience is an integral part of the show started, I could do for be for this one coming up in the magic of Talkies. the next two years.”

September,” Pfeifer admits. “I “Everyone has had the expeWhen asked if he had a parhave seen this movie one time rience of watching an ill-thought ticularly favourite bad film mobefore, and absolutely detested out film, and thinking, ‘Why did ment, Pfeifer groaned with a it.” The film currently awaiting this film get produced?’” Pfeifer pain that’s usually reserved ex-

clusively for knock-knock jokes.

Apparently it was the aforementioned Lady in the Water, which provided this memory.

“I went and saw it in the theatre, and paid like, twelve dollars or whatever to see it, and the people in the theatre were openly talking. Like, not about the movie, just openly talking to each other. People gave up the convention of being quiet and polite, and I didn’t even care. I’m the kind of person who wants quiet; I don’t even like loud popcorn crunching. I had lost all desire to see the film in any kind of format that was polite. I’ve never gone to a movie and left, and thought, ‘Why did I go see that?’ That is the experience I’m trying to re-create.”

With Jayden Pfeifer’s unique brand of comedy cutting through the worst of Hollywood’s offerings, the experience is sure not to disappoint. The latest edition of Talkies takes place Monday, September 17 at 8:00 p.m.. The show will be held in the Creative City Centre at 1843 Hamilton Street, above Loggie’s Shoes.

The cost for the show is $5 at the door.

“ Everyone has had the experience of watching an ill-thought out film, and thinking, ‘Why did this film get produced?’ The show is for anyone who wants the catharsis of ranting about a bad movie.”

Jayden Pfeifer

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Five things to do when Glenn Beck praises your band

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On September 9, Glenn Beck tweeted his praises for the latest Muse album. “New MUSE CD. Amazing. These guys are right on the money. Lyrics on target, talent off the charts.

They ‘get it’. Libertarian!” the tweet read. I’m pretty sure the despair one feels when Glenn Beck praises your band is unfathomable, but here are five things to do if for whatever strange and unfortunate reason Glenn Beck gives your album the thumbs up.

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It’s the first thing I’d do, and it would be many kleenex boxes later before I finished.

Just put the guitar down.

Maybe go finish your degree or something.

Perhaps you think quitting would be letting Glenn Beck win. But truthfully, everything since Muse has put out since Black Holes and Revelations has been really mediocre.

Maybe the band can use this as a wake-up call to realize their latest single, which sounds like a lovechild of Queen and Skrillex, and most of their recent material has been rather lackluster.

If this doesn’t make you want to rekindle your love affair with opiates, probably nothing will.

There’s really no returning from a situation like this, both as an artist and a person, so fuck it -- become the most right-wing libertarian band you can be. You’re clearly artistically lost if Glenn Beck is praising you, so at least now you’ll have some direction.

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Manafest Fighter BEC Recordings maybe he is bland and grey enough to camoflauge into the concrete?

Premium Rush David Koepp Joseph GordonLevitt If it’s one thing I can appreciate Hollywood for, it’s their frequent attempts to try to glamorize the workplace. They’ve been doing it for decades with buddy-cop films and war features. Even attempts to demonize a certain profession (I’m thinking of films like Waiting... and Office Space) inevitably make the job they are portraying seem a little more enticing. That being said, I long ago made peace with the fact that some professions, no matter how witty the dialogue, or thrilling the action scenes, cannot be glamorized. We’ll never see Eli Roth direct SNAK’D starring Chow Yun-Fat as a down-and-outplumber tasked to take down the evil toilet-clogging mogul Powell Schitz (played of course by John Goodman), nor will we ever see The Coen Brothers direct Steve Buscemi as Billy Babbitt, a BibleBelt Bible salesman from Mobile, Alabama, who has a bone to pick with Barack Obama. The thrust of this rather weak opening is that

Premium Rush sucked.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who by now has a leading-role ratio comparable to only the elitist male pornography stars, plays the ridiculously named “Wilee” one of 1,500 bicycle couriers in Manhattan that rides a bike with no brakes. And doesn’t it look like those bike couriers are having fun, endangering themselves and others, destroying private property, and whatnot? On this particular day, Wilee is given a package by his girlfriend’s roommate. This package contains $50,000 that, in the least complicated explanation possible, will pay for a boat ticket for someone in China to be smuggled to the States. This money, as money is likely to do, brings the corrupt cops out of the woodwork. Enter Michael Shannon, who really should have stuck to Boardwalk Empire, playing the equally ridiculously named “Bobby Monday.” Monday wants the money to pay off a gambling debt. Wilee wants the money because of some arbitrary commitment to a job that, honestly, no one would want to have. If someone that looked like Michael Shannon pointed a gun in my face, I would be handing over everything I was carrying immediately.

Premium Rush isn’t so much a character-driven narrative with thrilling action scenes, but rather, a movie about all the cool shit you can do on a bike that a story has the audacity to try to interrupt once in a while. If I wanted to watch the X-Games, I’d have stayed home and watched the bloody X-Games, and not paid $12 to see it in the theatre. I hope we can also all agree that Quentin Tarantino revolutionized nonchronological filmmaking, but because this style is popular, you can’t use it as a cop out. If you can’t tell a good story in order, telling it out of order doesn’t make the story any more exciting, it just makes the storyteller a pretentious cock.

As for writing, Premium Rush is nowhere near recuperating its estimated $35 million budget, and I hope it stays that way. If this movie were a commercial success, it might give other directors evil ideas. If Premium Rush were a success, we might soon see Oliver Stone direct the biopic of his certified public accountant, and I wouldn’t want to live in that world.

Known for mashing up hard rock with rap, Chris Greenwood, aka. Manafest, finds himself facing an identity crisis of releasing mainstream vs. non-mainstream music on his seventh studio album, Fighter.

See, when Manafest throws down electronic beats with heavy rock guitar riffs, and raps the ever-haunting lyrics, “Can't escape, I’m a wreck, I can't sleep/Can't stop drinking, haven't slept in 3 weeks” as demonstrated on Throw It Away, it’s quite clear that Manafest is in

his own unique musical world.

For myself, it was a great breath of relief to know that there’s still original music being released in 2012 - sadly, until Manafest decided to remove rap from his genre repertoire. To name a few, songs like Heart Attack and Human lack Manafest’s signature rap techniques, resulting in these songs blending in too easily with the modern hard rock that’s already released today, which gives a handful of the songs on Fighter a “been there; already heard that” feeling.

Essentially, Fighter is an energetic, loud release by Manafest, but it’s quite evident that Manafest’s bane comes when he steers clear of what he does best and tries to venture out into the world of mainstream, radio play hard rock.

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Leave it to The Asylum to keep my interest held in major releases. Founded in 1997, the privately owned company shoots “mockbusters”; films that capitalize on the releases of major studios that will often have a strikingly similar title and subject matter. You might recognize some of their classier “tie-ins:” 3 Musketeers, Snakes on a Train, Titanic II, and, of course, Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus.

These films are produced on a shoestring budget, and, since I think The Asylum is hilariously awful, I decided I’d watch Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies.

Bill Oberst stars as the troubled sixteenth president who is engaged in the midst of the American Civil War. While the battle for independence rages, Lincoln undertakes a far more important task: saving the Union from the Confederate undead while armed with a harvesting scythe.

None of the preceding sentence was a typo. There’s not much more to say than that, except that John Wilkes Booth shows up near the end of the film.

I honestly couldn’t even begin to describe the story, because I was far too preoccupied watching a man who looks freakishly like Honest Abe slaughter the undead. The make-up and special effects people actually did a surprisingly good job on the zombies here. Shoestring or not, the

so this is why he is one of history’s greatest badasses budget for this film had to be pretty high by Asylum standards.

Let me be clear by saying that this is a terrible film.

Besides Oberst, it is poorly acted, poorly written, and messes with what little semblance of historical accuracy it possessed by introducing J.W. Booth. But, it is an hour-anda-half escape of gory fun, and sometimes, that’s all you

need. It’s not like watching this film costs you anything on Netflix, so take a chance on Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies.

Or, if you’re sick of the zombie trend, find another Asylum film on Netflix. They’re not great, but they’re trying damn it. The effort, at least, is worth my money.

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JS: I think they should do more back-up vocals to hide the singer’s vocals.

PB: Play to your strengths. When they bury the vocals on the first song, I think it works.

JS: If you can’t do it, don’t try ... if you know you’re going to suck, why bother? I don’t go into marathons thinking, ‘I’ll kick everybody’s ass!’ No, I’m terrible at it.

7. “Something for Free” PB: I feel like this is a reprise of the last 60s sounding song. I like this one better though.

JS: This one has a little more to it.

PB: I bet a live show with these guys would be really good because you’d actually be dancing with someone.

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8. “All I Want” PB: Pretty all right ... Kinda that Weezer thing again.

9. “Rise Above” JS: It’s not bad, by any stretch. It’s a digestible album for sure.

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1. “Live My Life” PB: His voice is kind of weird ... but it’s really catchy, though.

JS: When he goes for the higher notes, he kind of underachieves ... It’s toe tapping for sure. I’d have a good time listening to this on a road trip.

2. “Side by Side” PB: I feel like if I were watching a music video for this song right now, it’d be someone skipping along a path, and there are leaves blowing about.

JS: The only drawback, and I don’t know if it’s really a drawback, is his voice a little thin.

PB: Yeah, but I think I’ve gotten over it by this song now.

JS: It’s not so bad that it takes away from the music.

PB: Listen to the drumbeat and tell me it wouldn’t be awesome if they broke into

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that song from those really old Labatt Blue commercials, because that’s where this song needs to go right now.

3. “Where Did We Go Wrong” PB: It was like that bass solo was going to go somewhere sweet, and then he was all, ‘Nah, I’m going to go play rhythm again’.

JS: It wasn’t really a bass solo, more of a ‘Hey! Look at me!’ He set it up perfectly to launch it to something amazing.

PB: It feels like really boring Weezer.

4. “Open Your Mind” PB: Feels kind of like some of the deeper album tracks off of the Black Keys’ Brothers.

5. “Stay” PB: Really 60s. Again, like there should be a music video of people riding barks through a park or playing frisbee. There’s a dog running in the background.

JS: This has a Yukon Blonde vibe, just with less potent melodies ... I like the back ground vocals. I was thinking in the first verse, ‘They should have somebody sing in the background with this guy’.

PB: It’s impossible to picture someone with a sad face with this song playing.

6. “Carry On” PB: All the ‘ah’ vowel sounds this guy does are awful.

10. “Night After Night” JS: Last song already? Well, it’s a forgettable album.

PB: Yeah, it’s disposable. You wouldn’t argue against someone putting it on, but you wouldn’t go out of your way to put it on.

JS: If this came on shuffle, you’d be like, ‘Alright’.

Last thoughts: JS: Pleasant, nothing spectacular.

PB: Pleasant but forgettable.

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WELCOME WEEK Highlights of the University of Regina’s 2012 Welcome Week Celebrations

first years toast to entering an institution of higher learning in the most appreopriate way possible: with energy drinks.

All photos were taken by the Carillon’s Arthur Ward, Tenielle Bogdan, and Sophie Long

The first day of school has been an important event since Kindergarten.

The first day of university is no different. Whether the reaction of going back to school is excitement or dread, it’s always one to remember. This year, the University of Regina’s Students’ Union and a variety of other student groups organized the 2012 Welcome Week activities. Here are some of the week’s highlights. sophie long news writer

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not really too sure who plays for them. I guess if Jordan Weal is back, he should get it, but if not, maybe they should just go with the standard choice and give it to a vet.

edward dodd, britton gray, braden dupuis, kris klein, colton hordichuk this weeks roundtable

Under the direction of newly acquired head coach Todd Johnson, will the Cougar men’s hockey team be able to end their playoff drought this season?

Hordichuk: Simply because I remember playing against Andrew Rieder back when I was about 6years-old, I’m going to nominate him as the next captain of the Regina Pats. It’s actually quite funny, as kids we used to call him ‘blue helmet’ because he played for the Hawks and sported a blue bucket. Years later, he’s still wearing a blue helmet!

Dodd: I sure hope so. I once had a Cougar men’s hockey player in my history class – man, was he attractive and just genuinely friendly. I’d hate for someone that good looking to not make the playoffs because of shitty coaching.

Dupuis: Me and TJ go way back.

It seems like just yesterday that I met him in an interview over the phone. We hit it off instantly.

Being such close, personal friends with people like TJ means you’re privy to all sorts of insider information. The Cougar men’s hockey team will make the playoffs this year. Book it.

Gray: A new coach is sometimes the remedy to a play-off drought, but these kinds of things can take some time. It can take a few years to turn a program around but as we’ve seen it in Saskatchewan before – with Kent Austin – sometimes all you need is a new culture and a little luck.

Hordichuk: Sometimes a coaching change is what a team needs.

Look at Autumn McDowell’s Penguins with Dan Bylsma. I mean, of course I’m comparing university hockey to the NHL, but it’s both competitive hockey, and a coaching change could easily turn a team around.

Klein: Woah, woah, wer’e talking playoffs? Lets just set some shortterm goals for the Cougars first, like, winning a game, having a leading scorer that has more than 17 points, or how about limiting the U of S Huskies to only 5 goals a game against them. If they complete these short-term goals then maybe we can start talking playoffs.

Midway through the season, Kory Sheets is the CFL’s leading rusher. Will he still be there after week 18?

Dodd: Judging from his past performance, I would say yes. A touchdown a game to start the season, and even after the awful performance the Riders had after the first three games and he’s still the CFL’s leading rusher? That kid’s going places. He can meet me between the sheets any time.

Dupuis: After several years of watching Wes Cates plunge straight up the middle for two yards on every carry, watching Sheets is like fresh-scented downy on a freshly washed set of sheets.

With his explosive lateral movement and big play capability, it’s

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very possible that Sheets will still be on top come November.

Gray: Kory Sheets has become one of the premier backs in the league in a very short period of time. With the passing game not always being consistent, Kory has proven he can be and I think he can continue his running dominance even though the riders may not always be consistent throwing it.

Hordichuk: If Sheets can be the CFL’s leading rusher despite the Riders recent five-game losing streak – which I do hate to remind people of – then he can absolutely hold onto the title until week 18 is over. It’s also a plus if the Riders can manage to put up some big numbers on offence.

Klein: Well with the way that Jon Cornish has been getting close to 200 rushing yards almost every game, its going to be tough for Sheets to catch up. But if he stays healthy and the Riders continue to give him the ball to make plays like he’s done, then he has an outside shot. Something else that will help is if Odell Willis or Brent Hawkins breaks Cornish’s femur next time they play which would be nice.

Georges St. Pierre has been medically cleared to return to the octagon. Will his performance be

affected by the long layoff?

Dodd: Well, I think a long layoff will affect anyone’s performance.

However, I am sure he’ll be eager to get back in there, and eagerness can go a long way. Really, it’s like riding a bicycle – you don’t forget the motions. That was a belabored sex metaphor, just fyi.

Dupuis: GSP! GSP! It’s hard to say what’s going to happen when Quebec’s favourite son steps back into the octagon. The guy is notorious for his relentless work ethic, so I can’t see conditioning or the long layoff being a problem, but with knee injuries you never really know. With UFC president Dana White starting to hype the long-awaited GSP-Silva superfight, let’s hope he at least holds out until then.

Gray: GSP is one of the top athletes in the world, and top athletes have to have the ability to perform no matter how long they have had off. GSP can do just that, and he will show why he is the top pound-for-pound fighter in the world. Now we begin to pray for Silva Vs. GSP. Hordichuk: He’s Canadian, hell no. I guess that’s my only reasoning that his performance won’t be affected by the long layoff.

Klein: He is going to have rust, but I’ll give it a round for that rust

to be knocked off. Look, this man’s a freak. He was placed on this Earth to turn men into boys and break faces. Plus, his return fight is in Montreal, so he is going to have the home crowd behind him. But, God forbid he loses, Montreal will riot and burn that town to the ground. And Montreal riots makes the Vancouver riot look like it was performed by toddlers.

The Regina Pats are back in action. Who should wear the C for the Blue and White this year?

Dodd: Well, knowing nothing about the Pats, I went to their website intending to select the most handsome player for captain. Aside from not having any pictures up yet, I realized they are all younger than my youngest brother, and I felt creepy and old.

I am the old, creepy man. I am sorry, Pats players.

Dupuis: To be honest, I can’t name very many Pats players off the top of my head. Is that bad?

I’m going to go ahead and say they should give the C to one of the older players who exhibits hard work and leadership qualities.

Gray: Not going to lie, wish I could say I follow the pats thoroughly but with football to keep track of and everything else, I’m

“ I once had a Cougar men’s hockey player in my history class – man, was he attractive and just genuinely friendly.

I’d hate for someone that good looking to not make the playoffs because of shitty coaching.”

Edward Dodd

Klein: Well depending if the NHL locks out and Jordan Weal comes back to Regina, its really up in the air. It will probably be a 20-yearold that will get it. Or they might throw us through a loop and give it to a 16- or 17-year-old, like Colorado did with handing the C to Gabriel Landeskog. I heard Crosby’s been crying non-stop because he isn’t the youngest captain in history anymore... Fucking Pussy.

Did the Colts make the right decision trading Peyton Manning?

Dodd: I think they did. It frees them up to go in a new direction offensively, and while Peyton led them to a SuperBowl victory in 2007, sometimes it’s best not to let nostalgia get in the way of meeting the current need of the team.

Plus, it frees up a spot for them to sign Eli Manning, who is by far the cuter Manning.

Dupuis: It’s entirely possible that the old man has one or two good seasons left in him. If the Broncos win the SuperBowl before Peyton retires, the Colts will look stupid for letting him go, but let’s be honest, shipping out a 36-year-old quarterback coming off a neck injury is not really that big of a gamble.

Gray: Yes, no question about it.

Andrew Luck was the best college QB in over a decade, and when you get a chance to draft someone like that, you do it. Peyton Manning had a good career but he’s not young anymore and who knows if his neck can handle contact again. The colts made the best choice for everyone.

Hordichuk: Ugh! Such a depressing question. As a Colts fan, I obviously loved having Manning on the Colts, but we now have Andrew Luck. Right decision?

No. But whether on the Colts or Broncos, or any other team, I’ll always be a Peyton Manning fan.

The guys got class, man!

Klein: I think they did. They might be God-awful for the next 3-4 years, but at least they have a young quarterback that can hopefully be the next Peyton Manning.

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The return of ramnation The Regina Rams were nothing short of dominant against UBC

Rams headlines While we are celebrating how badass the Rams are, let’s revisit some old Rams news.

After his two interceptions against the Thunderbirds, fifth year defensive back Jamir Walker is now ranked sixth in Canada West history with 16 career interceptions.

During the game, Walker also had a pass breakup and also ended up with three solo tackles and two assisted tackles. Walker was named the Canada West defensive player of the week after his strong performance against UBC.

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Would you look at the butt on that. Yeah, he must work out.

braden dupuis sports writer After dropping their season opener to the University of Calgary Dinos on Aug 31, the University of Regina Rams were looking to get back on the winning track at home against the UBC Thunderbirds on Sept 7.

Despite a shaky first half, the Rams pushed back hard in the second, racking up 42 unanswered points en route to a 49-20 sweet victory.

With the win, the Rams record improves to 1-1 during regular season competition.

“It feels good to get back in the win column,” said Rams quarterback Marc Mueller after the game. “I haven’t won a game as a starter since we beat Manitoba in 2010, so it feels nice to get back out here and get a victory, and hopefully we keep rolling next week in Alberta.”

Mueller completed 16 of 24 passes for 241 yards and threw three touchdown passes before being awarded the rest of the night off.

Second string QB Zach Oleynik, as well as third stringer Frankie Gray, saw action at signal caller before it was all said and done.

The Rams opened the scoring at 8 minutes 27 seconds of the first quarter when 3rd-year running back Dillon Dawson punched it in from six yards out, putting the finishing touches on a nine-play, 65-yard drive.

After that, the first half belonged to the Thunderbirds. UBC QB Billy Greene racked up a significant amount of passing yards against a Rams defence who couldn’t seem to find any answers.

Despite a huge disparity in first-half yards – UBC had 306 compared to the Rams 150 – Regina held the Thunderbirds to just two field goals and one TD in the first half, but still found them-

selves trailing 13-7 heading into the break.

It wouldn’t take long for the home team to reverse the trend, however, as it was a different Rams team that exploded out of the locker room for the second half.

The ground game got it started for the Rams quickly after the break, something that had been relatively absent in the first half. Second-year running back Michael Kiapway rumbled 41 yards to the endzone to put his team back on top 14-13 at 11 minutes 47 seconds of the third quarter.

The huge gain seemed to spark the defence, who then held UBC to a two-and-out multiple times during the rest of the evening.

The big turning point for both teams came when fifth-year defensive-lineman Benton Gieni intercepted the ball at the UBC two-yard line.

After defensive lineman Stefan Charles knocked Greene’s pass straight up into the air, Gieni found himself standing directly under it, surrounded by a clueless UBC offensive line.

“Stefan came through and knocked it straight up in the air, and I just looked up. It seemed to hang up there forever,” Gieni said with a smile after the game. “I tried to rumble in but it didn’t work so well.”

Gieni didn’t have to worry, as Kiapway punched it in on the next play for his second TD of the night.

Kiapway finished the night with a career-high 118 rushing yards and two touchdowns.

“We had a little rough patch in the first half, but we bounced back,” Kiapway said after the game. “[The running game] was tough at first. I’m suffering from a little turf toe, but I got through it and progressed.”

After another two-and-out for UBC, the Rams padded their lead with a 28-yard TD reception by

third-year slotback Landon Buch.

And it only got worse from there for the suddenly-flightless Thunderbirds.

A third-down UBC gamble led to an interception by fourth-year defensive back Daniel Knaus, and after the Rams offense stalled momentarily, veteran Chris Bodnar’s punt was recovered by first-year DB Joey Dwyer at the UBC 12yard line.

The third quarter mercifully came to an end for UBC, with the surging Rams in front 27-13.

But the unrelenting ass-kicking wasn’t over yet.

The first play of the fourth quarter led to a six-yard TD reception for third-year slotback Jared Janotta, and not long after, a hilariously inept punt from UBC kicker Thomas Moult sent the ball straight up into the air – putting the Rams on the UBC 45-yard line with the ball.

On the next play, Mueller dumped it off to fourth-year wide receiver Kolten Solomon, who ran it 45 yards for the major.

Solomon finished the game with a team-leading five catches and 86 receiving yards.

With the score now quickly growing to an embarrassing 4213 margin, Mueller took a welldeserved break while Oleynik and Gray closed out the game.

The Rams wrapped up their side of the scoring when fifth-year DB Jamir Walker intercepted the ball – his second pick of the night – and ran it in for the six-point insurance marker.

Walker’s two interceptions on Friday place him sixth in Canada West football history with 16 career interceptions.

The offensive landslide is huge for the Rams moving forward, who head into Edmonton next week to take on the 0-2 University of Alberta Golden Bears with momentum on their side.

“It’s a big deal,” said Mueller.

“Especially last week, we came out and we competed with Calgary, and I think if we played like we did tonight offensively we’d have a chance to beat them.

Hopefully we can get it going against a tough Alberta squad next weekend.”

“ I haven’t won a game as a starter since we beat Manitoba in 2010, so it feels nice to get back out here and get a victory, and hopefully we keep rolling next week in Alberta.”

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The Rams were unfortunately without fifth year wide receiver Mark McConkey on Friday night after he suffered a torn MCL in practice last week. It is possible McConkey will be back in time for a playoff run this season.

The Rams technically now boast a sevengame winning streak against the Thunderbirds, dating back to 2008. However, that streak includes two games last year that were originally counted as losses for the Rams, but UBC was forced to forfeit their victories when it was discovered they had been using an ineligible player all season.

Second-year running back Michael Kiapway came up big for the Rams in the Third quarter, rushing for 72 out of a career-high 118 yards. Kiapway also registered his first two majors of his CIS career during the third quarter.

Quarterback Marc Mueller is just 243 yards away from passing Mark Anderson for the No. 2 spot on the U of R’s all-time list and just one touchdown away from tying Darryl Lesson for the No. 3 spot in the Rams record books.

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Modern day miracle The men’s hockey team hopes to finally make the playoffs this season braden dupuis sports writer After missing the playoffs three years in a row, the University of Regina men’s hockey team is looking to have a turnaround season under newly acquired head coach, Todd Johnson.

Johnson was appointed to the position in April, following the retirement of former head coach, Blaine Sautner.

“It feels good,” Johnson said, of his new post. “It’s a little different scenario than what I was in last year, and it’s nice to be on the head coach’s side of the desk, and making the decisions.”

Johnson spent the last two years as an assistant coach with the Western Hockey League’s Kootenay Ice, where he helped guide the team to a WHL championship and an appearance in the 2011 Memorial Cup. The rookie head coach is confident the lessons he learned during his time in Kootenay won’t be lost in his transition to CIS hockey.

“I was very fortunate with the Kootenay Ice that our coaching staff actually worked as a staff,” Johnson said. “Obviously the head coach...the ultimate decision was theirs, but everyone had input, everyone ran certain aspects of the game. You learn from others that were there.”

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I try to use the term “ploff” whenever possible. Makes me feel like a hockey player One of the most important lessons Johnson took away from his time with Kootenay is that sometimes raw talent is no match for good old-fashioned work ethic.

“By no means did we have the best team in the WHL when we won the WHL, and a lot of that was that guys bought in, and guys worked for each other,” he said.

“It was just that work ethic day in and day out that really made that team a special team to work with.”

Johnson has wasted no time in relaying that lesson to his new team – and the response so far has been just what he is looking for.

“Even though we just started on [Sept 3], the guys’ attitudes seem to be very positive. They’re working hard,” he said. “I can’t see why we can’t make the playoffs. There’s a lot of returning players from last year and the last couple of years, and I don’t think that it sat well with them that they didn’t make the playoffs.

“I think the guys are hungry, and if I can bring out the best in them then I can’t see why we can’t make the playoffs.”

Before they can think about the playoffs, however, the team has a lot of work to do both on and off the ice.

Right now, it’s all about digging in under the age-old mantra of “practice makes perfect.”

“Whether in practice, whether in your studies, I think you have to work hard, and I really truly believe that how hard you work in practice is what’s going to transpire in a game,” Johnson said.

“If you take short cuts in practice, those shortcuts will come out, and usually will come out negatively in a game, so those are the things that we’re trying to address already.”

While on-ice training is no doubt important, building a winning hockey team takes more than

sharp skates and solid conditioning.

“I think the guys, because they’re all in different faculties, they’re not around each other quite as much as a junior hockey team,” Johnson said. “It’s important that when they do come to the rink, that they are close.”

The team will have a good opportunity for team building during the first week in October, when they head north to take on the University of Alaska in exhibition play.

“I just think it’s going to be a great experience,” Johnson said.

“We’re going to go play two games against the University of Anchorage and Alaska, Fairbanks.”

While Johnson has his work cut out for him as new head coach of the Cougars, he’s confident he can pave the way for a return to prominence in U of R men’s hockey.

“I want this program to be successful. It’s been quite a few years,” he said. “I think it was back when I played that they were really strong. I went to the University of Calgary, and I think we played the U of R in the league final, and that’s what I want.

Ideally, I would love to be in Saskatoon playing for a national title in the next couple years.”

Guess who’s back The Regina Pats have tough decisions to make before the regular season what the puck? autumn mcdowell sports editor Last season, the Regina Pats gave hockey fans in the Queen City something they hadn’t seen in three years – which is long enough to declare it legally dead the playoffs.

While the Pats were knocked out of the 2012 playoffs after a first round war by their infamous highway rivals, the Moose Jaw Warriors, the Pats and their fans are anxious to get back on the hockey horse.

If training camp was any indication, the Pats will undoubtedly be a force to be reckoned with in the Eastern conference this season, and in years to come.

When the ’96- and ’97-born players hit the ice for the first time at training camp – which ran from Aug 30 to Sept 3 – my immediate thought was, “I feel incredibly old and have done nothing with my life.”

After getting past the initial shock of how incredibly young these players are, I was able to sit back, relax, and truly enjoy the talented future of the Pats.

While it was clear that these young guns were green to the WHL style of play, a few managed to make an impression on everyone in attendance.

Six youngsters were signed to the club post-training camp as goaltender Patrick Gora, defencemen Griffin Mumby and Rob Fulton, as well as forwards Rylee Zimmer, Austin Wagner, and Bryar Ortynskiall all got one step closer toward their goal of playing with the oldest franchise in junior hockey.

Once the rookies stepped off the ice, it was the ’92-’95 players turn to strut their stuff at The Cooperators Centre.

There was barely any rink rust to shake off as the veterans quickly went back to work in what seemed like mid-season form for some. Morgan Klimchuk and Chandler Stephenson were the clear offensive standouts from camp – as predicted by anyone who has seen them play, ever.

The competitive level during camp was so high it almost looked like playoff hockey, especially when it came to the 20-year-olds.

I don’t even want to think of how many 20-year-olds they are going to have if there is indeed an NHL lockout, because it would simply be absurd.

In recent years, the Pats have had a habit of trading their 20year-old goaltenders. Fans will remember just last year when Damian Ketlo was given his shipping papers and sent packing. Or, how about back in 2009 when Linden Rowat was sent on a one-

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This kid thinks he’s Patrick Kane, chomping on his mouth guard like that. way bus ride to Lethbridge. This leaves Pats fans with one question: Will Matt Hewitt fall victim to the same fate as those before him?

While it would be difficult to see such a talented goaltender leave the squad, the blow would quickly be softened as last years backup, Adam Beukeboom,

looked stellar between the pipes at training camp.

Brandon Underwood will undoubtedly be back to anchor the Pats defence again this season, but who will capture the other overage spots?

Providing Jordan Weal, Martin Marincin and Colton Jobke take the next step in their hockey ca-

reers and turn pro this season -Jobke is the biggest question mark to turn pro, but for argument’s sake, let’s assume he does – as of press time that still leaves overage forwards Lane Sheidl and Andrew Rieder.

Both are forces around the net, but come with very different skill sets. Sheidl put on an offensive clinic at camp and made a strong case for his bid at one of the remaining 20-year-old spots.

And then, to add more fuel to the already blazing fire, there’s Regina product, Rieder. Fans didn’t get a chance to see the rightwinger during camp as he is still battling the effects of a lagging injury.

However, Rieder has proven for the last four years that he will go the extra mile if it means earning a win for his teammates.

After all of that taken into consideration, I honestly thank God that I don’t have to be the one to make those tough decisions.

Once the final 23-man roster is set, head coach Pat Conacher and the boys will officially begin work on Sept. 21 when they visit the Brandon Wheat Kings for their first taste of regular season action.

While every year people will boast that Regina hockey fans have a lot to be excited about, this time, I’m telling the truth.

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The coin toss NFL enthusiasts Britton Gray and Jhett Folk debate over Superbowl

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It’s September, the Superbowl isn’t until February. Someone should tell them… this is awkward.

jhett folk contributor It’s no secret that the NFL is one of the most competitive and difficult professional sports leagues in the world.

With endless surprises week to week and plenty of teams with major upsides this season, it is nearly impossible to decide who is going to be leaving as the recipients of the Lombardi trophy in 2013.

However, I possess a rather outgoing and sure mind, and so I feel it is necessary that I venture my prediction before too much football has even been played.

Sensible. Right? With that said, here are my picks to win the NFC and AFC championships this season.

NFC: Dallas Cowboys

My honest to goodness pick would be the San Francisco 49ers, but for simple conversation purposes I am going to go with my fellow writer’s favorite team instead.

The Dallas Cowboys are a phenomenally well-off team in the National Football Conference. Currently, the Cowboys hold the upper hand over their bitter rivals, the New York Giants, after earning a 24-17 victory against them in their season opener on Sept 5.

Also in the east division is a Philadelphia “dream team,” aka the Eagles, who at this point is beginning to look more like a nightmare.

The final “threat” in the NFC East is the Washington Redskins, who really came out of nowhere in week one. Even though they were able to register a 40-32 victory over the New Orleans Saints, they still have a lot of proving to do.

What the Cowboys have going for them is that they have talented players at key positions. Quarterback Tony Romo holds nearly a 65 per cent pass completions rate with 152 touchdowns and a QB rating of 97.3 over his career. Those stats provide a huge upside to a QB who has more critics than fans.

On the defensive side of things, DeMarcus Ware is a force to be reckoned with. Ware is a bit more self-explanatory, but for the sake of evidence, here are some

numbers: 485 tackles, 101.5 sacks and 2 interceptions over the course his seven-year NFL career.

To put it simply, the man is a freak. With his impressive athletic abilities, he alone can win games for the Cowboys. They have studs on their roster that can carry the team, and they finally managed to clean up that rag-tag secondary of theirs.

AFC: New England Patriots

If you try to tell me for a second that there is a better receiving core in the NFL than New England, I will shut you down in a second.

The Patriots are for real. Rob Gronkowski and Aaron Hernandez may be the deadliest one-two tight end punch the game of football has ever seen. Lest we forget, wide receiver Wes Welker is fresh-off being the best receiver in the NFL – as far as yards are concerned.

Last, but certainly not least, of course, is talented wide receiver and seasoned veteran, Deion Branch.

I feel like I’m missing a major point about the Pats though. It’s on the tip of my tongue but I can’t seem to think of it. Oh yes of course, Tom Brady.

The most cerebral quarterback in NFL history is still young, strong, and raring for another shot at the Super Bowl. Vengeance is in the minds of this motivated team.

Super Bowl Prediction: New England Patriots

It won’t even be close. The Patriots will walk in, execute, and walk out with Brady’s fourth Lombardi trophy. As much as it pains me to say it – as a Colts fan – these Patriots are poised for a big playoff push, and I don’t think there is a team in this league that can stop that. Sorry, Britt.

Superbowl XLVII Final Score: Patriots Over Cowboys 38-17

britton gray contributor With the NFL season officially underway, it seems like a good time for some early season Superbowl predictions.

It is never too early to begin thinking about the big game in February. With the NFL, anything can happen and it is tough to predict who will be in the Superbowl – especially this early in the season – but I think I’ve figured out which teams in both the National Football Conference and the American Football Conference will be able to perform, barring any injuries.

NFC: San Francisco 49ers

The NFC is probably the toughest Conference in the NFL and there are at least three other teams you could put at the top, but I believe the Niners have the least amount of question marks going into the season.

Alex Smith is back at quarterback this season and is still arguably the weakest link on the team, but he will be used as a game manager – a role that he is more than comfortable with.

San Fran’s defence will once again be solid. Expect Frank Gore to be one of the top five running backs in the league at that position.

The other two elements that will push the 49ers over the hump this season will be it’s coaching and receiving. Having another year under head coach Jim Harbaugh’s system, as well as an upgraded receiving corp, will automatically make them a top contender.

Veteran wide receiver Randy Moss, 35, will be a deep threat even at his age and sixth year tight end Vernon Davis will be back as one of the top receivers in the game right now as a TE. Another strength for the Niners is their kicker – that’s right, a kicker – David Akers. He is still one of the most accurate kickers in the league and you can’t argue that the guy is clutch. After losing in the NFC title game last year against the New York Giants, the Niners have a good chance to break through this year and make it back to the SuperBowl.

AFC: Houston Texans

They may not be your typical pick, but with Peyton Manning being traded to the west division, the south has gotten weaker, meaning that if the Texans can stay healthy they should be in the SuperBowl this year.

Last season, veteran Matt Schaub proved he could be an elite quarterback in the NFL – and when you are throwing to a guy like Andre Johnson, there should be no reason not to be.

Arian Foster will once again be the top running back in the league and will continue to tear up defences.

The only question mark about Houston is at defensive end. Although, they will be without Mario Williams, who was picked up by the Buffalo Bills as a free agent in the off-season, the Texans should still be able to get enough pressure on the opposing quarterback with JJ Watt returning at DE. Brian Cushing will also continue to develop at linebacker, and by the end of this year he will most likely be considered one of the top linebackers in the league.

As long as they can stay healthy this year, the Texans will be making their first trip to the SuperBowl.

SuperBowl Prediction: San Francisco 49ers

It will be feeling like the 80’s all over again with the Niners reigning supreme once again. The Texans defence won’t be able to handle a full dose of Gore and Davis. If Smith does his job well and retains possession and doesn’t force things in the pocket, he should easily get the ball into the hands of his receivers.

The Texans offence will be able to keep up with the Niners through the first half, but the Niners defence will catch on and be able to stop the Texans run game and force them to be a one-dimensional team.

Foster simply won’t be able to carry the load for Texans. In the end, the Niners get their sixth Superbowl championship in franchise history – we may be looking at the start of another 49er dynasty.

SuperBowl XLVII Final score: Niners Over Texans: 28-20

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Changing the lens Having a camera can open a world of opportunities.

The advancement of modern technology today has given anyone with a camera or any other accessory with that feature a reasonable excuse for being a photographer. With print no longer being the only medium to publish photos, one does not have to do much to have their images seen all over the world. As a result, people who intend to make a lucrative career in photography have to produce an image that is either controversial or contains a rare perspective to hit the magazine covers and headlines in order to receive a return on their investment. Although there is nothing entirely wrong with this concept, the photography industry has become more of a money-making machine than a self-educational tool over the years.

This can be seen as an insult to pioneers of photography such as the great Ansel Adams who spent most of his career developing a unique light metering system to aid in his photography. This system was used with his black & white film cameras which enabled him to produce famous photographs such as “Moonrise, New Mexico” (1941) and “Rose and Driftwood, San Francisco, California” (1932). Adams’ work allowed him to develop a great understanding of the outdoors and led him to get involved in wildlife conservation efforts. His approach to photography was to thoroughly educate himself about his subject while making a considerable effort to protect it.

Today, anyone with an inexpensive digital camera and an automatic setting can produce images that are comparable to Adams’. However the main difference is that Adams’ work changed him as an individual before they changed others.

The world of photography should be thought of as a library and a camera as a library card. The camera gains access to a large pool of resources in so many places that, if used correctly, can make its user very wealthy not in terms of dollars but in knowledge acquired. A photograph should be thought of as a book receipt that provides proof of the photographer’s access and application of knowledge about their subject and setting. Each receipt that one acquires should progressively increase in value. Knowledge gained from a previous photo should be used as a stepping stone for the next one to be taken. This method gives the photographer a greater appreciation of their environment and also builds a closer relationship with his or her subject.

Finding the ideal subject, angle, lighting and time of day for an assignment solely depends on the photographer’s commitment to the task in doing research and obtaining the appropriate background information before going into the field.

True photographers should think of themselves as the subject so that they can clearly and effectively portray the image to others.

However, the only way this can be done is if all stereotypes and prejudices are left behind while beginning the task with an open mind. Photographers have to be willing for their photograph to change themselves before they change the world.

As a result, the most notable photographers to date are those that have specialized in a certain discipline such as Ansel Adams in landscape photography and Steve McCurry in photojournalism. These photographers committed most of their lives to educating themselves to better understand their subjects, which gave more meaning to the photos they produced.

As the world continues to marvel at

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their work and will continue to do so for years to come, it is evident that the trait of a great photographer is not one that solely depends on the technology and a little luck to make a fortune. Great photographers ultimately become conservationists, scientists, or activists for a certain cause in their heart, and photographers who wield their photography to convey ideals in the most

simplistic form of communication known to mankind.

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A real advantage We should not have to pay to get an education.

To hear the Saskatchewan Party talk, our province is experiencing a boom unrivalled in its history and we should all thank Premier Brad Wall for this economic miracle. However, it is becoming noticeable that post-secondary education at our universities is not a priority for the government, even if they claim that it is. Since the Sask. Party constantly brags about how prosperous our province is right now, it only makes sense that we would at least consider eliminating tuition for students and making education more accessible for more people who might not normally be able to afford it.

The idea of free tuition has been tossed around, as far as I can tell, since the 1960s.

Contemporary Quebec students, despite sometimes mixing their messages and acting immaturely, are demanding the same thing from their government. We already have free elementary and secondary school.

So why is it such a radical notion that an undergraduate degree be free as well?

The old argument that if students pay for their education they will do better in school because they won’t want to waste their money is simply not true, either. If tuition was free, it is highly unlikely that grades would drop at all. If anything, they might increase as otherwise-distracted students can focus on their studies rather than having to hold full-time employment to

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pay for tuition, rent, food, transportation, and the various other everyday expenses students incur. Plus, any student that chooses to go to university would be there because they wanted to be there, not because they have to be there. Money does not determine how hard a student will work.

Free tuition is not an idea unique to Saskatchewan. Most states in Germany have free tuition, and the states that do

charge tuition charge almost nothing. The argument that providing free tuition to everyone would bankrupt even our supposedly super-wealthy province is straightup bullshit considering that Germany is single-handedly keeping the European Union afloat with its economic power. It works for Germany, why can’t it work here?

If we really have a “Saskatchewan Advantage” we have to examine what ex-

actly that advantage should look like.

Should it be selling out our province’s nonrenewable resources for pennies on the dollar? Should it be putting advanced education further and further out of the reach of young people and people less fortunate than us? Should our government’s commitment to making Saskatchewan better for everyone really end with road upgrades, a new roofless stadium, and tacky “Saskatchewan Advantage” signs? I don’t think so.

Moving to eliminate tuition should be a priority of our province. We can lead the country in this endeavour if we place some importance on it, and we can attract motivated people from across Canada to move here to study and eventually settle which will contribute to an even better, more diverse, and ultimately more prosperous Saskatchewan. Whether the current Sask.

Party government believes we are capable of doing truly great things that lead the nation forward is another question.

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Shut up and get out This past Friday, the Canadian Foreign Minister, John Baird, announced that Canada was closing its embassy in Iran and that all Iranian officials currently in Canada had five days to leave the country.

This rather rash decision seemed to come out of proverbial left-field and has seriously hurt the credibility of the Canadian Foreign Minister and the Canadian government, a government already lacking in the foreign policy department.

The official reasons provided by Minister Baird is that Iran is engaged in “racist anti-Semitic rhetoric and incitement to genocide,” as well as being the “most significant threat to global peace and security in the world today.”

Mr. Baird’s reasons are extremely poor -- not in that they may or may not be false, but in the fact that Iran’s anti-Israeli/antiSemitic rhetoric has been going on for years. There is absolutely nothing new about it. Calling Iran the most significant threat to global security is a far stretch, considering that the armed forces of Iran pose no serious threat to any western power that may wish to engage in combat with the Islamic Republic.

So the question that begs is, what other possible reasons could there be? A show of willpower and force is not likely it, though the Harper government enjoys showing itself off as being “tough”; tough on crime and tough on global “criminals”. The only thing the Harper government is really tough on is the wallet of the middle-class.

Perhaps the Harper government wishes to show its support for Israel, which has been chomping at the bit to lets its war ma-

chine loose on Iran. Canada has always been a pro-Israeli nation, a fact that can cause ‘tough’ governments to act blindly and rashly in support of Israel. But really, supporting Israel and being a friend to its citizens should also come with a duty to advise the so-called friend that their aggressive rhetoric may in fact be the greater threat to peace than the targeted “bad guy,” be it Syria, Lebanon, or Iran.

Of course, the Harper government could be attempting to cozy up to the Americans by joining the United States in its many attempts at isolating the “evil” Iranians. More than anything, this is likely the actual reason. Why the government feels a need to sleaze its way into the good books of the Americans in such a manner is rather incomprehensible. After all, our neighbours to the south are not likely to hate us as long as we have oil to give them.

And eventually even they will forget that we did not play ball on an issue or two. Yet, can Canadians really expect too much from Minister Baird or his boss Harper?

It is sad to see Canada’s reputation as a mediator and a nation of soft-diplomacy, with an occasional bite, be wasted by such foolishly and rashly made decisions. The diplomatic channels between nations should be the last item to be discarded. If communication is key in a relationship, then the Canadian-Iranian one is definitely headed for a very messy divorce.

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The show must go on

Before you grab your torches and pitch forks and march to the candidate forum on Sept 21, I would like to clarify a few points regarding the upcoming theatre referendum and address some concerns.

The University of Regina Students’ Union (URSU) will be holding a referendum that will be coinciding with the fall URSU by-election. In the winter 2012 semester, the petition to have a referendum was initiated by the Fine Arts Students Association (FASA) where they successfully collected the required amount of signatures. The question being asked is, “Do you support the fee of .25 cents per student per semester for free admission for students to attend all university theatre productions?” The key word in this question is “productions.” The question does not state “fine arts faculty” or “theatre department.”

If the referendum passes, the theatre admission fee will not go towards FASA nor the theatre department. The theatre admission levy would be distributed between a number of productions for the semester.

Usually, the theatre department produces four to five shows a year.

Many students are already asking why there needs to be a theatre admission fee when admission is already free for students. It is true that admission has been free for students for the past several years, but here is some background information that you may find interesting.

At first (around the 2002-03 school year) the theatre department discontinued charging U of R students. Unfortunately, times have changed as the theatre department and the fine arts faculty have been consistently been receiving funding cuts since the late 2000s. With the increasing costs of producing theatre productions (materials, equipment, tools, etc.) and the decrease of funding from the university, the theatre department has been desperate to find a way to make ends meet. The latest funding cut, or this case repayment, happened this last summer as every faculty (yes, even yours) had to give back approximately one-third of their faculty budget to the university The theatre department was originally

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going to charge students admission prices of $10-$15 per student per production back in winter semester 2011. This is when URSU stepped in. URSU, acting upon a request from the theatre department head Kathleen Irwin, agreed to cover the remainder of the semester’s productions as well as renew the agreement for the following semester (Fall 2011). However, the agreement was not renewed by the newly-elected URSU executive.

With no help from the new URSU, the theatre department came to the conclusion they really wanted to avoid, which was to charge students that see the production $10-$15 each per production. After much discussion, FASA decided that one option would be to petition students to hold a referendum to ask students the referendum question.

Some of you may blame the university administration and possibly the fine arts faculty, but both entities have been trying to come up with a reasonable resolution. I met with university president Dr. Vianne Timmons to discuss the issue. I was informed that the university board of governors distributes funds to the faculties based on enrollment numbers for each faculty.

Because of this, in the fine arts faculty, the smallest faculty at the U of R, each fine arts student is assigned a higher dollar amount than a student enrolled in a larger faculty.

This is the board of governors’ attempt to make the distribution of funds balanced and not to show favoritism towards certain faculties, contrary to the rumors of a bias towards the business school or the engineering faculty. They are trying to do their part in helping, but unfortunately it is not

enough. With the portion of faculty funds given to the theatre department, the department sets a percentage aside for the theatre productions for the year.

I would like to reiterate that, if the referendum passes, the student admission fee will be going towards the theatre productions the theatre department performs. It will not be paying the salaries of anyone in the theatre department, nor pay for implementing theatre classes that are used for the theatre production. Vote yes if you want this important student privilege to continue.

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No magic ice cream for you

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We shouldn’t battle like robots for ice cream, we should demand our own The average cost of university tuition across Canada is, at present, $5,366 for a single year of full-time studies. Within Saskatchewan, we pay a slightly higher rate ($5,601 on the average year) for our education, while students in Quebec pay – for the same study period – a whopping $2,519. Yet even though their education is already much more affordable than the national average, students in Quebec remain thoroughly adamant in demanding that tuition be lowered even further, advocating for what they want through widespread activism, protesting, and strike action.

There are likely a couple of reasons why students in Quebec have taken this action.

First, they are students like us and they are, by definition, increasingly cashstrapped. Their debt, in the eyes of a young adult, looks like an eternity of financial damnation. Second and more importantly, our comrades in Quebec, having taken to protesting and real activism, must be acutely aware of the fact that students and accessible education are both crucial foundations of good futures and thereby better for everyone.

Meanwhile across Canada, some are envious or otherwise put at unease by Quebec’s student activists and their willingness to strive for change.

Simultaneously, some are critical of – rather

than inspired by – the activism and energy with which Quebeckers are making inroads toward a better future while we seem content to remain somewhat apathetic and lethargic in our own, far more costly situation. If education is, for society, a fruitful tree of ice-cream, students in Quebec are obviously busied with vigorous gardening techniques and carefully tending to their magical plant. We in Saskatchewan, on the other hand, seem to have supposed our magical tree will simply find its own watering and then casually uproot itself to lumber over whatever distance and hand-deliver us the bowls of tasty icecream fruit that we desire up here on our breezy sunporch.

Here in the open plains of Saskatchewan, we seem to sometimes find ourselves simply swamped, overwhelmed in the sheer vastness of opportunity. Here, there is yet so much open space for voicing our concerns, for developing discussions and fruitful networks of communications, and plots are available for growing all sorts of magical trees. Here, we certainly have as much reason to be discontented – if not much more – since our education costs are currently two times more expensive than those found in Quebec. Not only that, ours our rising up to nine per cent per year in some faculties. Yet, Quebeckers are the ones we see projected in a negative light for effectively demanding the fulfillment of needs while we have chosen to spend perhaps a majority of our time in the spectator seats, watching through the eyes of the media and accordingly misunderstanding the truth of the events.

There appears to be at least three directions we can look toward from our own eyes with respect to the rising cost of our own tuition: First, we can further criticize students in Quebec for acting consciously in their own interest while we, comfortable in our armchairs, side lazily with interests which are not even our own. Second, we could promote that we, too, value accessible, affordable education and foster relevant communications between our student body, the university, and governmental bodies. Or, lastly, we can move ourselves into a strike/protest position as the students in Quebec have done to more vigorously affect change.

We need to think for ourselves in our own situation. We should always think critically about how events are portrayed in the media – not only Quebec’s student movement, but all events from our local sphere outward (including those presented in the Carillon). Meanwhile, we should strive to foster a healthy, robust discussion amongst ourselves and in doing so promote awareness to our own, most relevant concerns, continuously re-establishing a healthy conduit through which individuals can express their ideas and contribute their thoughts (and energy) to the matter. If we intend to simply scorn others for working hard to make the world a better place for everyone, then we might as well save a breath and shut the fuck up.

dustin christianson contributor

Judge not Before you pass judgment, consider your own shortfalls Humans are curious by nature.

Who hasn’t asked 15 times why something works the way it does, only to still be displeased with the answer they were given? This is often something kids can get away with day in and day out. However, as young adults, we are expected to think before asking those questions. That being said, how many of us think before we judge someone by his or her clothing or because of his or her attitude? This double standard is present in every aspect of our world.

When, at age 19, I ask my parents why the sky is black and night, but not white during the day, they quickly become annoyed and ask me to find out on my own.

However, when I ask why that man on the bench isn’t working like the rest of us, they are more likely to have an answer. Now, we might say that everyone has a story, but we know that isn’t the case.

The issue with our world is we are quick to judge and slow to think. As questions are thrown our way, we make snap decisions as to their importance to us. The colour of the sky does not affect my day nearly as much as how much I care to place judgment on that homeless, or what I perceive as homeless, man. This senseless thought process is something humanity needs to battle.

I would like to place a challenge in front of you. Next time you are in a position to

judge someone on his or her looks, status, age, race, gender, sexual orientation, or anything else, think of how many negative judgments you can place on yourself. I would wager that you will be able to place more negative judgment on yourself than you could have on the other person. Once that is done, do the reverse; see how many positive comments you can make about yourself. Guaranteed you are proud of your academic standing, your extracurricular success, the strong relationship with your parents or friends, or of your character and morals. Look down, now back up; do you know anything about the person you are about to judge? Doubtful. Maybe the Old Spice man actually was right about

something and not just which body wash to give your man.

The first step in making the right decision, Old Spice or not Old Spice, is looking down at yourself, then back up to the world. Please, next time you decide it is all right to pass your judgment on someone else, accept my challenge and make this world a better place.

todd blyth contributor

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the carillon | Sept. 13 - 19, 2012