Carillon (Volume 62, Issue 7)

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Climate protests have taken over the world. Regina has seen youth flock to the streets to fight against what they see as their future being mortgaged by morally corrupt business people. We resist the world burning.

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in other news

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Into the valley of death

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Ben Schnieder writes about fuster cluck that is the Canadian election cycle.

contributors

julia peterson, hammad ali, justine renee

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THE CARILLON BOARD OF DIRECTORS Erickka Patmore, Lindsay Holitzki, Maddie Ouelette, Dustin Smith. John Loeppky, Jacob Nelson, and Ethan Butterfield

Opinions expressed in the pages of the Carillon are expressly those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect those of The Carillon Newspaper Inc. Opinions expressed in advertisements appearing in the Carillon are those of the advertisers, and not necessarily of The Carillon Newspaper Inc. or its staff.

The Carillon is published no less than 11 times each semester during the fall and winter semesters and periodically throughout the summer. The Carillon is published by the Carillon Newspaper Inc., a non-profit organization.

Rams lose again

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Nothing like 1-4 to get the juices and anxiety going.

the manifesto

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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 buildlings was a beltower on the academic green. If you look out on the academic green today, the first thing you’ll notice is that it has absolutely nothing resembling a belltower.

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

The People’s Friend; the Tyrant’s Foe

Too young to be dumb

Hey professors, quit being creepy

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Last week we published an article that included a graphic of the rising sun flag with a line through it. The inclusion of this graphic was not the writer’s decision, but a result in a misstep communication.

Even with the line through the flag, I believe that it is important not to print imagery which is insensitive to others such as those whose families are affected by Japanese imperialism, and we apologize to Carillon readers for the way this image overall distracted from the argument of the article. The online edition has been edited to remove the image.

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Co-op program’s costs affecting students Job opportunities with a price tag

elisabeth sahlmueller staff writer In 1969, the University of Regina launched its co-operative education program, the first in western Canada. Despite an initial focus on engineering students, over the past 50 years the program has significantly expanded to include students from all faculties. Within the co-op program, students complete at least three work terms, each of which is generally three to four months long, with an employer, or company focused in their field of interest or studies. As a result, students not only gain a break from their academic course load, but also gain valuable and paid work experience.

Although the co-op program is similar to a practicum, or internship, it’s also different in three main ways. First, unlike both a practicum and internship, in which a wage is either rare, or non-existent, co-op students earn roughly $8,000 to $13,000 each work term according to statistics given by the university.

Second, in an internship or practicum, students obtain 12 to 16 months of experience with one employer or company. However, with a co-op placement, students gain the

same amount of work experience, but with two to four different employers. Third, while an internship or practicum is more of an independent endeavour, co-op students receive much more initial support, advice and guidance from an advisor. Each faculty has a designated advisor in the co-op education department, responsible for helping students of that faculty.

When asked what role he plays in a student’s overall coop experience, Science and Engineering Co-op Advisor, Carlo Palazzo, explained that he “helps students with their job search, works with them on their resume, so they can show their related skills to employers and conducts mock interviews.” In addition to helping co-op students, Palazzo also stated that co-op advisers also “market the program to outside employers and show the benefits of hiring a student.”

One former co-op student, a recent business administration graduate, said her decision to pursue the co-op program was based on personal preference and societal expectations. “Even before I started university, many of my family and friends, who were either existing university students or graduates, [recommend-

ed that I] join the program.

I thought it would be a great first stepping stone in my journey developing my professional career.”

In addition to its multiple benefits, there are also various important aspects to consider before signing up. A co-op placement will delay your expected graduation date by 12 to 16 months, but it is also not simply a job. Co-op students gain beneficial work experience, but not without a great deal of time and effort, both in and out of their job placements. At the end of their work term, students have to complete both a questionnaire and term report and must also be rated well by their employee in order to pass their co-op work placement.

Furthermore, it is important to realize that the co-op program is not free, but rather costs $920 for a four-month placement. Despite this high cost, Palazzo believes that “the benefits outweigh the costs,” since “all co-op placements give [students] paid full-time positions.” Palazzo also elaborated that the money covers, “staff salaries and benefits, travelling for marketing/recruitment, student/employer job site visits, plus everything else required to administer op-

erate [this] program.”

Students should also consider that relocating for their co-op term may be a possibility if there are no available work options within the city.

For example, one student had to move to another city in Saskatchewan and pay for his rent and food, which resulted in having much less money at the end of his term than he had initially anticipated.

Despite these important considerations and potential downsides, many students argue that the co-op program is beneficial, providing an opportunity to gain essential skills, knowledge and valuable experience otherwise not possible within their degree.

According to the business administration graduate, despite her later graduation date, she felt that both her “experience and time within the program was valuable.” Not only was she able to gain “tangible benefits, like receiving a paycheque, but also “intangible benefits, like connecting and building relationships, [which] is vital to being successful in finding employment, because [often] it’s not what you know, [but rather],who you know.”

Additionally, through the co-op program students are able to explore possible ca-

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reer options. From their work placement, students are able to learn what working in their field of interest is like and can narrow down potential future careers based on whether or not they enjoyed their work. In some situations, students enjoy their work placement and discover that this type of work is what they want to do within their future career. This reality is emphasized by Palazzo’s statement that “quite a few [former co-op] students return to a previous employer.”

For new students entering the co-op program, my friend offers some advice. “Ask questions when you are unsure about something and don’t be afraid to be wrong. Sometimes. . . the best learning experiences can come [from making] and learning from your mistakes.”

While the fall term application deadline has already passed, all interested students can visit the career centre located in the Riddell Centre for more information regarding the next work placement in Spring/Summer 2020.

“[The program] helps students with their job search, works with them on their resume, so they can show their related skills to employers and conducts mock interviews.” – Carlo Palazzo

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Election 2019: Blunder after blunder for Trudeau and Scheer

Chance to challenge two-party rule

ben schneider news writer What started off as a bit of snooze has quickly spiralled into an election campaign of scandal (Trudeau) and deceit (Scheer).

In the last 23 days of the Federal election campaign, Justin Trudeau has been revealed as a blackface-loving freak while Mr. Scheer can’t seem to keep up his façade as a fake insurance broker. May and Singh on the other hand have yet to make any headway in either of their campaigns.

As of Monday, Sept. 30, according to CBC’s poll tracker, the Conservatives hold a minute lead over the Liberals with the parties polling at 33.9 per cent and 33.5 per cent respectively. CBC’s Éric Grenier projects that, with these numbers, the most likely result would be a Liberal or Conservative-led minority government.

At the start of the campaign, the Liberals held a stronger lead over their Conservative counterparts. Some may attribute this levelling out in the polls to when the news broke on Sept. 18 of a photo of Trudeau at a 2001 Arabian

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Candidates fall short on climate

Nights (a problem within itself) themed gala that was hosted by a Vancouver private school where Trudeau was teaching at the time.

In the photo, Trudeau is dressed in costume as Aladdin with his body painted in dark makeup.

Naturally, the image stoked many criticisms of the Prime Minister with his opponents calling for Trudeau’s resignation. On the evening of the photo’s release (the word “release” here is used lightly as the photo was published in the school’s yearbook, meaning that it has been in print for nearly 20 years).

Trudeau delivered a brief statement from the Liberal aircraft and answered questions from the press. “I am deeply sorry” and “I should’ve known better” were the two main sentiments shared by the Prime Minister, leaving many Canadians profoundly disappointed and disgusted.

This story only developed further as it was discovered that there was not just one more, but in fact at least two other instances where the PM wore blackface.

On Sept. 19, Trudeau took

time from campaigning to answer questions. Unlike his statement the night prior, he expressed a deeper understanding of his wrong-doings and spoke to feelings of ignorance, embarrassment and disappointment in himself.

Now, two weeks later, many Canadians have moved on or all but forgotten the scandal, which caused only a slight dip in the polls, though many others will not soon forgive or forget the display of racism from their nation’s leader.

The Liberals are also facing criticism for their newly released climate action plan. In a tweet on Sept. 27, Trudeau said, “We’ll plant 2 billion trees over the next ten years. That’s it That’s the tweet.” (It actually wasn’t it. He proceeded to tweet three other messages about that initiative later in the day). The general message from the left is that we need to be focusing efforts to reduce emissions at quite a rapid rate.

The same day, Trudeau was seen at the Montréal Climate Strike, which many viewed as controversial. Greta Thunberg, who has inspired the global climate

strikes and was in attendance at the Montréal event is calling for zero emissions by the year 2030, a target that the Liberals are nowhere close to meeting.

Turning now to the Conservatives, CP leader Andrew Scheer is coming under fire for lying (for years) about being an insurance broker. The Globe and Mail reported on the weekend of Sept.

28 that they were not able to find record of Scheer’s official accreditation to practice as an insurance broker in Saskatchewan. By Monday, #ScheerNotAsAdvertised was trending in Canada.

In the past, Scheer has been reproached for his shifty stance on marriage equality and general lack of support for 2SLGBTQIA+ people.

One U of R student, Tom Abramovic, who is in his second year of religious studies, shared his opinions on the upcoming election and the various parties’ platforms.

“A really important thing is that we have to be compassionate to humans, and I think that the Liberal party, though they do that, I think it’s more of a ‘look at me being good!’ whereas the NDP are

a little more humble about it.

“When I hear Jagmeet Singh talking about adding eye-care under Medicare, that is really appealing to me because I’d like to get glasses but the idea of spending $700 is like . . . I could spend that on a class.

“With the Conservative Party, I’ve got some mixed feelings because the way that I look at the political spectrum is [that] you need a balance of left and right. The left is very focused on the human side of things: compassion toward fellow man whereas the Conservatives also bring things down to real point, but the way that they go about it oftentimes isn’t really the best, especially with the environment. I look at the Conservative Party’s stance on environmental issues and I go ‘oh no . . .’

“The NDP has an actual possibility of overthrowing this two-party system. We vote in the Liberals, we get mad at the Liberals and then we vote in the Conservatives and then we get mad at the Conservatives . . .”

“The NDP has an actual possibility of overthrowing this two-party-system. We vote in the Liberals, we get mad at the Liberals and then we vote in the Conservatives and then we get made at the Conservatives…” – Tom Abramovic

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Campus hosts career fair Less fun than actual fair

john loeppky editorin-chief On Sept. 23 the University of Regina hosted the annual Careers Day, welcoming a gym full of vendors (115 to be exact) to pedal their employment opportunities to students. The event, sponsored

by MNP, SaskTel, and SaskPower, is one of two events a year that elicit a deluge of resumes in Gym 3. Plus, tons of free pens.

One of the vendors there was the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC). Quance and Prince of Wales branch manager Jeremy Book said that the bank’s involvement was a continuation of their time on campus during the first week of the semester.

“We took part in the Welcome Week activities in the Riddell Centre a couple of weeks ago, so we did a lot of student activation: we gave advice, opened come accounts, booked some appointments. So, today we’re looking for potential candidates to come on and be part of the team.”

Book said that communicating effectively is one skill required of new RBC employees “Biggest thing is interpersonal skills, the ability to make a connection with a client in a short period of time. We don’t get a lot of opportunities to sit down with clients anymore, so what we get is a lot of short windows that are problem solving. So, it’s big to be able to communicate well with clients, make a connection, resolve an issue, and turn it into an opportunity.”

Those prospective team members included those within computer science as well as client representatives.

Sasha Macdonald from iQmetrix said the company was looking for students who are interested in working for the company during, or shortly after, school.

“We’re looking to find some co-op students. We know there’s a lot of value in trying to get somebody straight out of university, or who are still in university to come and experience iQmetrix and see if it’s a right fit for them culturally, but also to learn new things from there as well “ Macdonald said that perks like an honour system for days off due to sickness and beer on tap are two reasons to work for the point of sale system provider.

Another financial company there was Freedom 55 Financial.

Chris Hengen-Braun, Director of Practice Development, said that the company’s focus was on finding the best of the bunch.

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“We’re trying to find fulltime financial security advisors and we find that the University of Regina has great talent. We’ve hired a lot over the years. They’re some of our biggest star advisors across the province and the country, quite frankly.”

Hengen-Braun said Freedom 55 Financial’s hiring strategy focuses on three specific personality traits.

“Somebody that genuine-

ly cares would be number one.

Number two would be a solid work ethic because that’s a really tough thing to find from time to time, is people that have a good work ethic; and third, probably a really good, outgoing personality.

Somebody that really likes to converse and be out in the community making Regina a better place. “ Booths came at a cost of either $600 or $725 (depending on when payment was received),

with a cost of $275 for charitable organizations wanting to participate. The event promised “Access to over 10,000 University of Regina students and graduates” on the University of Regina’s website.

Get to work

“It’s big to be able to communicate well with clients, make a connection, resolve an issue, and turn it into an opportunity.” - Jeremy Book

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Snow doesn’t stop Nuit Blanche

Night-time festival reflects on relationship to the land benjamin schneider news writer Please note that the writer was part of the festival but that, sometimes in art, the best vantage point point is first person Nuit Blanche Regina celebrated its second festival on the evening of Sunday, September 29 as a part of Regina Culture Days.

Nuit Blanche is a festival that is held across the world but its origins date back to the early 1990s in Nantes, France with the invent of “Les Allumées” or “Things Alight”. Then, in October of 2002, the first Nuit Blanche took place in Paris, where contemporary art filled the night across the city with festivalgoers able to enter museums and galleries for free into the wee hours of the night.

Montréal was the first Canadian city to adopt the tradition of hosting Nuit Blanche in 2004 as part of a multi-day winter festival Montréal en lumière and is where artistic director of Nuit Blanche Regina, Michelle Harazny, first experienced the festival.

“I went to Nuit Blanche in Montréal every year I was there and so I knew that it was a fun festival. Then when I moved back here a couple of years ago, I thought there could be something like that started here! I was inspired by the local artists here in Regina and Saskatchewan and also [by] the community support when I mentioned this idea.”

Harazny says.

In French, a nuit blanche, which translates literally to “white night”, refers to a sleepless night.

This year’s Nuit Blanche Regina, which received funding from the Saskatchewan Arts Board, City of Regina and many other local businesses, seemed to fit both translations as bleak weather conditions looked as though they would impede festivalgoers.

Regina awoke to a snowy Sunday morning with the situation only worsening over the course of the day due to wind and dropping temperatures. However, several installations and performances which were to take place outdoors were moved inside last minute and those wanting to take in a magical night of free art were not intimidated by the unpredictable Saskatchewan weather.

This year’s artists included: Ricardo Bizafra (Brazil); Estelle Bonetto; Ian Campbell; Eric Hill; Holophon; Madhu Kumar; Anna-Leigh King and Guests; Listen

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to Dis; Cachene, Hernani and Lopez Lopez; Jeff Meldrum, Anastasia Pearce; Karen Rose; Belle Brown-McEwen and Ben Schneider; Zoë Schneider; Melanie Barnett & Blaire Trenaman and Sarah Cummings-Truszkowski.

Situated on the second floor of 1945 Scarth Street (Part of the strip of buildings that house popular establishments such as O’Hanlon’s and Copper Kettle) were several installations and performances.

Eric Hill’s “Garbage Vortex” used suspended pieces of aluminum trays and containers, projection, and a fan. The result has a low hum of the materials clanking together and spinning in a cyclone-like pattern. Hill took inspiration from Regina’s downtown and the pockets of wild wind that are created in the nest of the area’s tall buildings.

Jeff Meldrum’s “Infinite Horizons” offered a dizzying illusion with the mysterious orb as its anchor. Audience entered a dark room to find the orb floating in the centre of the room with pro-

jections of black and white grids centering on the sphere and creating a hologram-like effect.

Karen Rose’s collective of dancers presented “Tree Satyagrapha,” taking inspiration from the natural landscape of Victoria Park. The dancers performed linear sequences of rising and falling actions to the haunting music of a live cellist. The performance ebbed and flowed with dancers breaking their sequences for moments of abrupt intensity, inciting feelings of anguish in their audience.

When asked about how Regina’s festival compares to others of its kind, Harazny was quick to praise the festival’s current site.

“We have a great space downtown, where the City Square Plaza is and Victoria Park right beside it so I see the downtown as a great location. In other cities, [the festival] kind of takes over the city and there’ll be galleries and museums open all night in different neighbourhoods, but in Regina we had to start off small at first so we kept it concentrated just in the

downtown. Hopefully we can expand it to more areas as we grow as a festival.”

Even in only one year, Nuit Blanche Regina has found ways to expand and reach a wider audience.

“The first year, we had all local artists, and now in our second year we actually brought in an artist from Brazil – our first international artist. We were able to do that by partnering with Nuit Blanche Saskatoon and sharing that artist.”

The festival has also provided contributions to other local events during the year. Two projectionists from the first Nuit Blanche Regina in 2018 were able to showcase their art, as well as two artists who provided installations for the Cathedral Village Arts Festival in May

While the festival is still young, Harazny has plans to increase the scope of Nuit Blanche Regina’s reach.

“I would like to work more with businesses downtown – to partner with them and have them

as venues for artists. Places like restaurants, coffee shops, music venues . . . I think we could really work together and that would make the event grow and reach more people.” Harazny points to Nuit Blanche Winnipeg as an example.

“Winnipeg has a really successful Nuit Blanche and I’ve been talking to the organizer there and she said for the business, like the coffee shops in the neighbourhoods where they have the festival, it’s their biggest night of the whole year because there are so many people out.

“It’s really meant to be an accessible festival so everything is free, it’s in an accessible location and so people can get to it by public transit if they need to.” - Michelle Harazny

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Femmes across the (skate)board

Local project creating skate friendly spaces for LGBTQ+ folks holly worby a&c writer It’s funny how one person following through with their inspiration tends to spark the same drive in others. In Alejandra Cabrera’s case, it happened through an old acquaintance finding a new passion in skateboarding with a femme-friendly group in Vancouver.

Cabrera had skated in high school but dropped it soon after, and hearing about this group prompted some introspection.

Skateboarding is and always has been a very male-dominated sport. During an interview with Cabrera I asked her how she found the atmosphere at the skate park. “There’s no room for women to learn,” she said with exasperation. “You’re either there to watch your boyfriend or you’re already a pro.” There’s not space for people from this femme/non-binary demographic, and there’s even less space for femme LGBTQ+ individuals.

Inspired as she was, Cabrera put the idea out on social media in early spring of this year for a skateboarding group for women, femmes, and non-binary-identifying people to get together and learn in a safe and constructive environment. The interest shown both by friends and strangers was overwhelming, and she realized that in order to get a group going she had to take the first step.

“I can’t just put that out there and wait for someone else to do it,” she said with a laugh. Femmes Across the Board (FAB) started in May, and over the summer months there were upwards of twenty individuals ranging from six years old to people in their thirties who wanted to explore this new group’s potential and see what they had to offer.

Cabrera had asked around for boards and equipment so that people could try out the sport before investing in a set up, but unfortunately she found little local support initially. However, in the last several months through connections with Tiki Room and Vans, Femmes Across the Board has acquired both safety gear and boards so that those just wanting to try can experiment, and those unable to afford a set-up can participate. They were able to use this equipment and the connections to run a skateboarding workshop for YWCA’s Power of Being a Girl camp in July. Girls ages 8-14 had the opportunity to try some flatground riding with safety equipment and full instruction. Cabrera said that though there was initial

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hesitation from most of the group, they were all getting involved and cheering each other on by the end of the workshop.

“Who knows if they ever would’ve had that opportunity before,” she commented, as it’s not often that girls are encouraged to try “rough-and-tough” sports, but through this program they were introduced to a new passion and field of expression. Cabrera is excited for more like-opportunities in the future, and said she is “willing to take it anywhere” in order to make a difference for local youth and adults alike.

With the help of an organization called Rising Youth, she applied for and received a grant of $1,500. Rising Youth has a variety of grants up for grabs at any given time, and Cabrera said “...they made it possible that I could apply and do it successfully,” answering every question promptly and making the whole process smooth as could be. The grant itself is intended to be used by non-profits or donated, and FAB chose to put it into the community by having

shirts printed through Articulate Ink as a way to boost their current sense of community and to start conversations with people day-to-day who might be curious.

The shirts are designed to mimic biker-gang style, with the name of the group across the top, area codes 306 and 639 listed for location, andTreaty 4 land being acknowledged.

Femmes Across the Board has welcomed people from every walk of life and from many racial backgrounds, with a zero-tolerance policy for racism, sexism, and just about any other intolerant-”isms” out there (the group is a sisterhood, not a “cis-terhood”). In a city with few social events that don’t involve alcohol, the group also offers the option of a sober activity, free of charge, where you can learn a new skill and cash in on some free endorphins with the exercise and positive environment.

“If you don’t go out to the bar, where else to you meet people our age?” was a question Cabrera posed, and unfortunately in Regi-

na there’s not many options - especially for people in their teens and twenties with very little expendable income.

Another issue Cabrera brought to light was the lack of lighting in our public skate parks, and a gross shortage of indoor locations that our winters in this province necessitate. Sunset tends to happen around 7 p.m. in September which leaves very little time for groups like this to get sessions in after their participants get off work or out of school. They’re already having to cut meets short, and with permanent snow being mere weeks away (sorry for the reminder) they’re in search of a place to continue this group and the sense of community it provides. Cabrera sent an email to the property owners of the Wascana Skateboard Plaza where they meet for their sessions to inquire about getting lights put in and never received a response, but noticed new benches put in shortly after (isn’t that just making more space for ladies to watch their boyfriends skate instead of getting

radical doesn’t do this justice

involved? Who’s to say...).

On a high note, Cabrera said their presence has become much more welcome at the Plaza in the past few months, and they’ve welcomed many newcomers including girls who used to watch from the sidelines and a few guys who wanted a safe, constructive space to learn in. An unfortunate staple of skate culture is explosive anger when a maneuver can’t be mastered, which is intimidating in all the wrong ways. The folks at FAB, rather than focusing their decks, focus on constructive criticism and coaching that builds confidence as much as it builds skill.

“When someone finally lands that trick or makes it down that scary ramp, we’re all cheering.”

“When someone finally lands that trick or makes it down that scary ramp, we’re all cheering.” Alejandra Cabrera

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Said the Whale coming to Regina

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Don’t take it from the writer; take it from the whale

holly worby a&c writer In late September I had the privilege of interviewing Tyler Bancroft, one of the core members of Said the Whale, a JUNO-award winning band from Vancouver that’s come to be loved across the nation over the past decade.

They’re currently on their second tour of the year and will be swinging through Saskatoon at the Broadway Theatre on Oct. 7 before coming to the Artesian here in Regina on Oct. 9.

The group has been together for over a decade now, and it shows in the apparent chemistry and joy they have while playing live – this kind of bond isn’t something you can learn or teach, it’s something that’s grown organically within the group through years of dedication and discipline. Bancroft is one of the main songwriters alongside Ben Worcester; both play guitar and sing leads and harmonies. Jaycelyn Brown is the third member of the core group, mainly playing the keyboard but also chiming in with background vocals and harmonies that always compliment beautifully. Their cur-

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Musicians with motivation.

rent drummer Brad Connor has been with them for over two years and their bass player Lincoln Woo for roughly one.

Genre-wise, Said the Whale has always been a bit of an anomaly.

“We usually just say rock music to be simple, but it’s rock music with like folk and pop influences,” said Bancroft when I asked him what the group would consider themselves to be. “I think that one of the reasons that our band is interesting to me and for people who’ve listened to us for a long time is that we are very genre-fluid, and it’s probably one of the reasons we’re not internationally that successful. Bands are expected to be cohesive and stick to a category. You don’t see groups like Blink-182 testing different genres, they just find their thing and they do it, but for better of for worse we dabble everywhere.”

I might be a little biased seeing as how they’re one of my favourite groups ever, but I’d say their genre-fluidity is absolutely for the better. Their vocal harmonies range from choral-like arrangements to hauntingly beautiful ones, and it creates a shock-

ing level of depth in every song.

They’ve managed to keep this quality from their first record over a decade ago and it’s definitely a staple of their sound. “It’s fun to pull off live too,” Bancroft mentioned with a laugh during our talk, and the electric energy they give off when everything’s coming together on stage validates that without question.

“The more you dig into our music you can find the difference between my song writing and Ben’s,” Bancroft stated in reference to the variety of song types in their discography.

“Ben uses nature as characters in almost a traditional-style focus,” and has a gift for narrative-style writing that takes you through journeys both audibly and emotionally. Bancroft tends to draw from personal experiences when song writing which really shows in the vulnerability of his lyrics. He wrote a song called “Helpless Son” on their 2013 album hawaiii and said it’s “about my mom and the struggle that she’s gone through to stick around for me. That one I was absolutely sobbing while writing.” The latter sentiment was repeated when he referenced the

songs “Miscarriage” and “Level Best,” songs about the difficulties and heartache sometimes involved when trying to start a family and the overwhelming love and devotion felt for your children as you watch them grow.

On top of being incredible musicians, these folks have some of the biggest hearts around. Earlier this summer they brought out a new shirt design to add to their merch table; it’s a white tanktop with three rainbow-coloured douglas firs to show support for the LGBTQ+ community. Now on top of making the shirts to show solidarity, they have not and will not be keeping even a cent of the profits from these shirt sales.

Instead they will be donating the proceeds to three charities: The Trevor Project, OutMusic Foundation, and the Tegan and Sara Foundation.

“I always find it uncomfortable when bands and brands are profiting,” Bancroft stated. “We had absolutely no intention of making money from a community from which we have no ties other than wanting to support them.”

There’s still a few available on their website if you’d like to stand

alongside Said the Whale in supporting this community both financially and by wearing your pride loud and proud.

One thing that really sets this band apart is the fact that they never forget about the prairies when planning a tour. Many groups tend to as their fan bases grow, listing North American tours yet only coming to Ontario and British Columbia, but according to Bancroft “it’d be pure insanity to skip them over!” He was hesitant to even refer to their supporters as fans, saying with a laugh that “it’s short for fanatics which makes them sound mentally unstable, whereas I feel like the people who support our band are always so genuine, and we really appreciate them being there for us. The whole thing is a family – our band with the people who like the band. We’re super lucky to have such wonderful people carrying us along the way.”

Towards the end of the interview I’d asked Bancroft if he had any closing thoughts, to which he responded, “If you could just make it so that it’s not snowing when we get there, that’d be great!”

We usually just say rock music to be simple, but it’s rock music with like folk and pop influences.”

- Tyler Bancroft

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Enthusiastic honks for Untitled Goose Game A honking and hollering good time

marty grande-sherbert staff writer I will always remember my first humbling encounter with a malicious goose.

Being a chaos-loving fiveyear-old myself, I loved to go to Regina’s display ponds by the Conexus and taunt the birds with the food I brought until they chased me around, begging for scraps. But we all must be punished for our hubris, and one day I simply went too far. I laughed and mock-hissed in the face of one particular Canada goose for the last time before it reared up and bit my tiny finger – that was when I first internalized the attitude that I think every Reginian holds at heart: geese are assholes.

On that day in my youth, I think I might have deserved it a little bit. But we all know that there’s no shortage of evidence supporting the goose’s status as a troublemaker, particularly in this city where around Wascana you can see them crossing the street unbothered as if they own the place. The way the goose is utterly separate from the order and law of the human world is both a source of urban frustration and a strange kind of refreshing natural wonder.

But what if I told you that, as a citizen of Regina at the mercy of geese every summer, you didn’t

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A golden goose of a game.

have to spend your whole life viewing this eternal battle from only one side? That you could not only be victim to, but actively partake in, the chaos of the goose?

That you could even revel in the hedonism of goosery?

Well, it is possible. Australian game company House House unleashed that incredible power last week when their Untitled Goose Game hit the Nintendo Switch eShop. The game is also available on home computers and, according to the company’s website, will be coming out on Steam in the near future. The amazing thing about this game – besides, like, everything else – is that the concept started as a joke thread in House House’s group chat. “Let’s make a game about this,” somebody said, and posted a picture of a goose with no context. People played along with the concept until it actually became a game.

It begs the question: how good could art be if we started taking our joke ideas more seriously?

Making this one a reality was definitely not a mistake.

The premise of this game is simple, and stated outright: “it is a lovely morning in the village, and you are a horrible goose.”

You cause as many problems as possible in this town – by stealing items from townspeople, creating a mess in their places of business,

and honking incessantly – until you have reduced it to a veritable ruin. The goose is a white one, common to Australia and different than the grey-and-black variety we are used to fearing, but nonetheless the subject of the game hits close to home for Saskatchewan residents. And when you press Y, the honk (voiced proudly by a real goose introduced in the credits) certainly sounds familiar.

Do I recommend the goose game? Possibly more strongly than I have ever recommended a game before. The world’s reception for this masterpiece honestly speaks for itself, though; it came out on the same day as the new addition to Nintendo’s Legend of Zelda series, and people were so wild for that goose that it was almost like they didn’t care. In fact, the goose game topped Link’s Awakening on the eShop charts, according to Tacey Rychter at the NY Times – and the goose game cost less than half as much, to boot. Social media became instantly flooded with goose memes, gameplay videos, and tweets.

Searching the phrase “I want to be the goose” in twitter yields probably hundreds of results of users proclaiming such, including additional demands to be the goose in further games or to have the goose added as a fighter in Su-

per Smash Brothers.

Why does everyone love it so much? The running theory seems to be that it allows us to be cruel and mischievous in a way that we frankly can’t be as humans, even in video games. One review of the game by Carl Kinsella, titled “I was a good person until I played the goose game,” proclaims as much, and details his descent into sadism as the game progresses. House House say themselves in an interview with the NY Times that “it’s cathartic to be a goose,” but in fact the game was developed with an understanding that people tend to have a “difficult relationship” or a kind of “social awkwardness” around geese wherever they live.

So is this game a bold new take on the age-old artistic exploration of man versus nature? Arguably, I say, it is the best take yet, or at least the most entertaining. And it kind of makes you want to be on nature’s side.

There are reasons to buy the game, pricing at around 20 dollars, even beyond the sheer entertainment value, nice art style, and interactive music. The controls and text of the game both have some considerations for accessibility; there is the option for controls to be toggled rather than held, which minimizes the amount of button pressing, and

the cursive text can also be converted into a more readable print.

It is also the only game I have ever seen that contains a land acknowledgment in the credits.

The end of the credits, which are up on the website goose.game as well, read: “This game was made on the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. We pay respects to their elders, past and present. Sovereignty was never ceded.” This active decision to localize the game on the lands where it was made really left a lasting impression and gave me a sense of the heart that House House put into this project.

I have completed the main route of the goose game myself, but I still return to it post-credits to complete extra missions and just bask in the glory of being the goose. I encourage everyone to do the same – I think that this is the kind of game we all need, and is a sincere dip into the spirit of gaming as an artistic and experiential medium.

“The amazing thing about this game--besides, like, everything else--is that the concept started as a joke thread in House House’s group chat.” - Marty Grande-Sherbert

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Top reasons to love fall Please help me I’m fall-ing in love

elisabeth sahmueller staff writer It is now a little over a week and a half into the season of autumn, meaning that the heat, fun, and freedom that filled out summer days have faded into our memory. Although it was difficult at first to be back at school, we are now used to our schedules, classes, and the rhythm of being a student.

The temperature has drastically started to drop, the daylight hours have decreased, and all around us are falling leaves. While it is difficult to adjust to some of these negative aspects, especially the cooler weather, autumn is not just a transition into winter, as most people often perceive it. Instead, autumn is a unique season with multiple aspects to appreciate and enjoy.

1. Delicious fall flavours One of the clearest signs that autumn has arrived is the abundance of flavours like pumpkin spice, apple cinnamon, and caramel apple. No matter where we go, we are surrounded by these flavours in ice cream treats, hot and cold beverages, and pastries,

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including my all-time favourite: pumpkin pie. Although some of these special treats are available year-round, to me, they’re just not as enjoyable to consume at any other time. These flavours are not only essential to autumn, but can also creatively be added into a variety of ordinary foods including pancakes, bread, muffins, cookies and ice cream to create a sweet treat. So go out and enjoy these delicious fall flavours!

2. Beautiful, crisp leaves Leaves in various shades of yellow, orange, red, and green hanging from the trees make Autumn one of the most beautiful times of the year and a perfect background for photos. Unfortunately, this beauty is short-lived as the leaves soon fall, covering the ground and leaving the trees bare. Even though raking up the never-ending leaves can be a lot of work, there is no reason why we can’t enjoy the beauty and have some fun at the same time. As a kid in the fall, I always enjoyed walking on crisp leaves and jumping into the leaf piles my Mom

raked up (much to her annoyance and dismay) and although I like to think I have matured, that is unfortunately untrue. This autumn, I encourage everyone to go for a walk, take photos and enjoy the crunch of leaves underneath your feet. Don’t be embarrassed to release your inner child. Just make sure to check who you are near, or with – after all, you are a university student with an “expected” maturity level.

3. Thanksgiving and Hallowe’en Together, these two holidays make autumn a lot more exciting than it is usually perceived to be.

Thanksgiving is a great holiday to spend with your loved ones and reflect on your blessings. Additionally, you can’t go wrong with delicious food, most of which you can only enjoy twice a year and therefore, if you’re anything like me, likely have been looking forward to it ever since last year’s leftovers were finished. Similarly, Halloween is also great holiday. Although I do believe that trick-or-treating is quickly outgrown, dressing up,

carving a pumpkin, and roasting pumpkin seeds are activities you will never fully outgrow (or maybe that is just me).

4. A fresh new start Although January traditionally marks the beginning of a new year, I’ve always associated fall with the concept of a new start.

This may be related to the start of a new school year, since I have spent the last 18 years as a student.

However, to me, there is not only something refreshing about the season of fall (or this may just be the brisk morning air), but it also seems like a perfect time to distance yourself from your previous struggles and challenges and start fresh.

5. Cozy fall wardrobe I know that it can be upsetting to put away all the summer tops, shorts, skirts, and dresses we have gotten used to wearing these past few months, since it signifies that the hot weather has come and gone. However, the arrival of cooler weather allows us to once again wear all of the sweaters, bunnyhugs, scarves and berets which we

The leaves they are a-changing.

love, but had previously forgotten about. This autumn, don’t be disheartened by the cool weather as you pull out those essential fall clothing items from where they have been hibernating in the back of your closet, or the bottom of your drawer. Instead, enjoy their warmth and comfort, since damn are they cozy!

“autumn is a unique season, with multiple aspects to appreciate and enjoy.” - Elisabeth Sahmueller

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Another heartbreaker puts the Rams into survival mode The Rams come up one point short for the second time this season brian palaschuk sports writer The Rams played another solid game that was just a tiny bit short.

On Saturday, Sept.28, against the University of Manitoba Bisons, the final moments of the game were a carbon copy of week two’s nail biter against U of A, only inverted. With no time left on the clock and down 24-26, the Bisons got into field-goal range. From the Rams 39-yard line, kicker Matt Riley attempted his third field goal of the game and it was good.

The Bisons won 27-26. For QB Josh Donnelly, the heartbreaking result doesn’t take away from the team’s effort on the field.

“I think we did well. We competed hard the whole game. I am proud of the guys for not quitting and going all the way to the last second.”

The ending of the game wasn’t the only place where the script flipped. The first play of the game was also a far cry from the team’s previous slow starts.

The Rams scored not only on their first possession of the game, but their first play of the game.

Josh Donnelly tossed an absolute bomb to Kyle Moortgat for an 85-

yard reception and a touchdown.

Donnelly’s rookie season has been something to be witnessed. Coming back from a shoulder injury, the Rams starting quarterback passed for another 250 yards against the Bisons. This brings his season total to 1288, good for third in Canada West, despite only playing four games. Coming back from injury, Donnelly shows poise and experience.

“It’s frustrating not being able to play and being on the sidelines, but Seb did really well against Calgary and gave me time to get back to full speed.”

Notably, the Rams also have three of the league’s top six receivers with Mortgat, Stusek and Boersma. So, in short, the Rams are a top passing offence in Canada West with a defence that is oftentimes their better side of the ball, yet they are 1-4 so far in 2019. This is largely due to the young roster’s inconsistency this season, of which the game against the Bisons is a textbook example.

After opening the game with a touchdown on their first play, the Rams defence then allowed two quick touchdowns on their next two drives. After this the defence was great, allowing only one other major in the game.

In fact, they hardly allowed any

scoring drives. Unfortunately, the two others that they did came in the last four minutes, and one of those was the game winner.

The silver lining is that the team clearly wants to win and is able to bounce back from a tough start; this is something Donnelly can lean on.

“I think its huge, especially going forward to [the] playoffs where the games get harder and harder. If we get knocked down a little bit, we can take a step back and keep fighting.”

As with every other close game the Rams have came up short in this season, there were big bright spots. Semba Mbasela continues to impress in his first season as a starter, rushing for 64 yards on Saturday. Second-year

linebacker Ryder Varga has also been a revelation for the Rams this year, and he continued to make his mark on Saturday, leading the team with 9.5 tackles.

The Rams are truly in door-die mode now. If they want to make the playoffs, they will need to lean on their strong passing offence and polish out their inconsistencies. Any loss in their final three games will mark the end of their season. They begin this final push with a home game Friday, Oct. 4 at Mosaic Stadium.

They demolished the Thunderbirds 46-16 in their first game of the season and will look to have a momentum-building home game.

Despite this mounting pressure, for Donnelly, it’s going to be business as usual.

“I don’t think [the pressure matters] I think we’ve been approaching every game as a must win, and I think the focus and intensity levels are going to take another step forward.”

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Cougar Men’s Hockey opens 0-2 against powerhouse Calgary 1-8 is not the way you want to start a new season.

brian palaschuk sports writer The Cougar men’s hockey team opened their 2019 campaign this weekend against last year’s thirdplace team, the University of Calgary Dinos. U of R men’s hockey comes off of a strong pre-season, but it will be an uphill battle. Last season the team was 4-24 for last place in Canada West. The team has reloaded this year with some new faces and the core veteran group is only getting better, but in the opening weekend the Cougars got more of the same.

For second-year forward Connor Chaulk, the game was an imperfect opening for the new season.

“It was a tough start for us, it wasn’t the foot we wanted to get off on. I think that they are the best team in the league, but it shows us the level we need to play at to compete with the best teams in the league.”

In the first game on Friday, the score-line was ugly. The Dinos blew away the Cougars 8-1. The

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Cougars came out of the gate hot, getting the first shot of the game off a great rush by second-year centre Connor Chaulk. Dinos goaltender Matthew Greenfield was solid, as he would be all night long, and he stopped the forward in his tracks. After trading possession for the next few minutes, Calgary opened the scoring with a long shot through coverage.

The Dinos found the back of the net twice more near the end of the frame. One of these goals came at the hands of Luke Harrison off a beautiful feed from Jordan Xavier. Xavier got one of his own with seven seconds left to play. At the end of the first period, shots were only 14-9 in favour of Calgary and both teams were trading chances evenly. Things only really started to open up in the second.

The Dinos quickly broke the game open with two goals, and things started to devolve from there. The Cougars ended up allowing ten powerplays, two of

which resulted in goals for the visiting Dinos. Special teams need improvement on both sides of the ice, the Cougars failed to score on four powerplays of their own in a heavily penalized game and instead allowed Calgary to score a shorthanded goal.

“I think at times we did play very well, but the penalties were quite the issue. We spent the majority of the games in the penalty box, and you can’t give good teams the power play.”

In terms of how the special teams performed, Chaulk is more optimistic.

“I thought our penalty kill was really good, but the power play needed some work. I think its about getting into those game situations and building chemistry.”

Goaltending was also a weakness for the Cougars on opening night. Dawson MacAuley didn’t get enough help from the players in front of him, getting peppered with 37 shots throughout the night, but there were certainly

some goals he would like to have back, particularly a long one from far back at the beginning of the second period.

On Saturday, the story was much of the same. The game opened up evenly; the Dinos scored in the first period but the Cougars kept it close, tying it up with a goal of their own early in the second.

However, once again penalties sunk the Cougars. They allowed for another eight powerplay opportunities and the Dinos capitalized on two once again. The Cougars also failed to score on three of their own. For Chaulk, these penalties come down to emotional control.

“I think that’s an internal issue we need to look at, I think the retaliation penalties were big this weekend.”

Rookie goaltender Curtis Myden was in net for the Cougars in their second game, and he faced even more shots than MacAuley did on opening night, stopping 35 of 40.

That is a solid performance for

the rookie and should get him a few more looks early in the season.

The Cougars’ lone goals of the weekend came from Tate Coughlin and Ben Duperreault. Coughlin’s was his first of the year, pre-season included, and bodes well for the Cougars scoring depth going forward.

The team heads to Lethbridge next weekend to play two more against the 1-1 Pronghorns. Lethbridge was 9-19 last season in Canada West action and should prove to be a less dangerous team than the powerhouse Dinos. If the Cougars can come out of the gate strong again and stay out of the penalty box, they should have a good chance to bring their season back to .500. For Chaulk, they can only go up from here.

“I really like where we are, even though the results were the same as last year this weekend I think we have a really good group of guys and in the long run it will improve.”

“I think at times we did play very well, but the penalties were quite the issue. We spent the majority of the games in the penalty box, and you can’t give good teams the powerplay.”- Connor Chaulk

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The secret behind Olympic success

“Olympic dreams are built on a pile of shit”

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brian palaschuk sports writer It’s the Olympic year, the one time in the quadrennial where people pay attention to the low draw sports like athletics and speed swimming. We all turn our eyes to the television during these brief increments to see amazing displays of athleticism from household names such as Usain Bolt and Michael Phelps. However, the one thing that most people don’t realize is that Olympic dreams are often built on a pile of shit. Four years of it.

When I call it shit, I am not slandering the work that goes into these kinds of performances, I am talking about the massive amount of unending and physically testing and training that goes into an Olympic dream. As an elite swimmer, my training regimen is an exhausting combination of in-water workouts, weight training, and “dryland” which revolves around mobility and core routines. One of the interesting quirks about the sport is that because the activity is “low impact,” the volume

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of training that swimmers can do is pretty astronomical. I am a swimmer training for events that last between two to four minutes at a distance of 200-400 meters; in order to prepare for this, my average training session comes out to two hours and six-seven kilometres.

With these kinds of volumes, swimming training becomes quite different than training for most other sports. This is something that University of Regina strength trainer and former Regina Riot football player Carmen Agar can attest to.

“You get less specific with the different strokes in swimming compared to different positions in other sports. There is a lot more volume even for the sprinters. Because of this, we focus a lot more on technique and individual muscle groups.”

We don’t just do this once a day either. I am in the pool nine times a week, so I spend about eighteen hours and fifty kilometers in the water. Alongside these nine pool sessions are three weight sessions, focused on strength,

power and stability; all three of which are key when you are working in a weightless medium. Power is a tremendous advantage in swimming because you only have a few opportunities to generate speed from a solid surface per race, and each of these opportunities of peak speed can make the difference that usually amounts to tenths of a second. For Agar, the challenge is to get the same power out of swimmers, despite their unique backgrounds.

“In other sports athletes know how to shift their weight better.

In swimming there’s a lot of different body types; you get some very long wingspans, or very long torsos. Because of this, you need to spend more time working on technique to make sure everything is solid.”

Stability and core strength are also crucial. In a world where every force in one direction moves the body in another direction, minimizing resistance is the key to speed. For this reason, a swimmer must be able to propel themselves forward with the maximum volume of water,

without sacrificing resistance with unwanted movement throughout the body. In order to do this, core strength, particularly rotational core strength is one of the big differences between swimming and land-based sports. For Agar, this is probably the biggest difference between swimming and other sports.

“With the swimmers’ workouts, it’s about trying to incorporate as much core as humanly possible, even thinking within each exercise, ‘is it possible to add a core component?’”

Swimming is also an incredibly technical sport. Alongside the two biggest physiological aspects (lactate tolerance and aerobic capacity), technique is the foremost preoccupation in training.

There is a high level of mental discipline that goes into keeping the brain engaged for two hours of vigorous exercise, but performance demands it. As a medley swimmer, I need to be technically proficient in all four strokes, so all training is a game of give and take. No swimmer can be perfect in every element at the same time,

so the battle in the medley events is honing in on weaknesses and strengths in order to create the best composite result. For Agar, this competitive focus is one of the things that unite swimmers with other athletes.

“Swimmers want to lift as much as possible and be the best technically they can be. Depending on what it is, swimmers have their strengths in the pool as opposed to on land, but they still have a high level of focus and competitiveness in the gym.”

So why go through all of the trouble of spending 30 hours a week and fifty weeks of the year training? It’s simple. When you have chance to wear the maple leaf on the world’s biggest stage, what more motivation could you really need?

“[T]he one thing that most people don’t realize is that Olympic dreams are often built on a pile of shit. Four years of it.”- Brian Palaschuk

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Rules are for losers, so make up your own

marty grande-sherbert staff writer When the University of Regina’s English as a Second Language (ESL) program had a record 150 students in this summer’s program, my job as a cultural assistant (CA) involved a lot of improvisation. CAs, of which there were more this year than ever – many of them newly hired to accommodate our numbers – are meant to accompany ESL students to extra activities outside of their English classes that will introduce them to life in Regina and Canadian culture. With bigger groups (and they’re still growing, with the program this fall having around 300 students), CAs need to put their heads together more often to come up with engaging activities around the university.

It very often circles around to a way people have been socializing in groups for thousands of years: sports.

There’s just one problem with all of the sports nights, gym times, and sports tournaments, we had with these students, though: not everybody in the program is great at sports, including me.

There are some students from the

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participating countries – Mexico, Japan, Korea, and China – who are superstars in soccer, basketball or volleyball because of their club activities back home, but we also have no shortage of artists and musicians who spend very little time in gyms.

Frankly, I’m always happy to work with fellow non-athletes. I think it makes recreational sports the best they can be. In a room full of sporty people (and many of the CAs I work with are athletes too) it can be easy for people to totally forget to see whether you’re having any fun. Now listen, team games are great, but let’s admit that when a group of people who are really good at something get together, the people who aren’t so good at that thing become non-participants quickly. I have more than enough experience with coming to a “sports night” and spending about 3 hours standing totally still. If you’re doing competitive sports, this is necessary to get the best players, but when you’re playing sports for recreation, the worst thing you could do is discourage everybody from participating equally.

But we were lucky enough to avoid this problem, namely during

gym nights where we put up the nets to play a game of volleyball with the students in the gym. Our first few tries at this didn’t go so well – admittedly, I cannot hit a volleyball and several other students were in more or less the same boat. Getting that volley down is not only difficult, but terrifying. Volleyballs are heavy, hurtling towards you at maximum speed, and you’re supposed to just let your forearms take the brunt of that damage? We can’t all be that brave. Eventually after a series of games (if you can call them that) which basically ended after someone served, we realized we had to change our strategy.

The solution became an allnew version of volleyball that we experienced as not only easier, but more engaging and exciting for the group as a whole. We call it “Throw Rules.”

Throw Rules is simple to play.

It’s just like regular volleyball, but instead of the traditional volley, players just throw and catch the volleyball. One side can only throw it three times before having to throw it to the other side, in order to keep things interesting. Basically, nobody has to hit the ball, and since throwing and catching

was something everybody at the gym nights could do, it became an activity that was more open to engagement.

Talking to another CA at these gym nights, Bri Bailey, we agreed that changing the game to suit the group’s needs was overall a good idea. Bri noted that there was one downside: if you happened to already be really good at volleyball, you might find the game boring or unchallenging.

But this is definitely a small price to pay in order to let people in who otherwise wouldn’t be able to play or have any fun at all. Apart from those who really craved a challenge, Bri noted that students enjoyed the new edition of the game and things got a lot more exciting (for both students and CAs) when it became more open to everyone. Games got a lot longer, there was a lot more laughter, and the prospect of playing volleyball to pass the time got a lot less intimidating. “[Altering the game] helps newer players get accustomed to passing to their teammates,” said Bri. As time went on those who were able to hit the ball did, and it became a mixture of volleys and catching or throwing. The game

was a lot looser and didn’t have a whole lot of rules or competition – but because that wasn’t really the point of what we were doing, none of us seemed to mind very much, and we played volleyball (or whatever you’d call it) well into the night.

This was one of the only genuinely fun experiences I’ve had playing a sport, as someone who shies away from athletics. I felt less afraid that I was going to be “not good enough,” less intimidated by the motor skills I needed to have to participate, and as a result I felt like I was really part of the team instead of just a bystander. I think that athletes should look at this case of relaxed fun when doing sporty activities with their less sporty friends. People can’t enjoy something unless they feel like it’s available to them, so if you feel like some of your friends are too down on sports, think about whether you’re meeting them halfway. If you’re willing to make some changes to what might seem like sacred rules, you might end up having a better time.

“Being willing to make some changes to what might seem like sacred rules, you might end up having a better time.” – Marty Grande-Sherbert

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How Irving Roth’s story carries into modern day

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On the evening of Sept.18, anyone around the entrance to the Conexus Arts Centre would have noticed a queue of people all the way out the doors and to the sidewalk. One would be excused for thinking that people were waiting for some major performance, for they were; however, this was not a musical or a concert. The nearly 1500 strong audience was here to listen to Irving Roth.

Before hearing him speak, most of us would know Mr. Roth as a survivor of the Holocaust. And to be honest, that would have been enough. However, later that evening, as we made our way out of the venue, that aspect of his life had been balanced out by the other sides of the man.

Mr. Irving Roth is a gifted speaker, a professor, and researcher, a loving grandfather (and great grandfather). As Rabbi Avrohom Simmonds from Chabad of Regina mentioned in his introduction, he is also a veteran of the United States Army, where he chose to serve as his way of thanking the nation and army that had proven instrumental in his and his family’s surviving one of the darkest episodes of human history.

Having sat through my fair share of seminars and lectures, I have to concede, with a tinge of discomfort, that living an eventful life does not always make one a good speaker, and that there is little more difficult than to sit through a monotonous speech about what should otherwise have been a gripping account. As already mentioned though, Mr. Roth is a wonderful

speaker who held us all captive for nearly ninety minutes. We laughed at his jokes about his own childhood in Czechoslovakia and his first childhood crush.

We sat there in stunned silence as he spoke about being turned away from school one morning for the “horrid crime” of being a Jew, of friends who would no longer play with him, of a family friend betraying his father and taking away his business because, after all, Jews were not supposed to own any. We sighed once again in relief when he told of neighbours who helped him and his brother survive even in the concentration camp, because their human decency overcame any propaganda about who they were supposed to hate and oppress. We fought back tears when told of how a young Irving, after the war, met his parents once again.

That is where the story could have ended. After all, the Roths seem to have gotten their happy ending, despite the horror they lived through. But that would be unfair to the many families who never got their reunion, the many children who never came back from the camps, to those who never saw their loved ones again and never will. More importantly though, it would be a form of escapism.

As Mr. Roth pointed out, the Nazis wanted to solve the Jewish problem through ethnic cleansing. But hundreds of thousands of people first had to be convinced that that was the solution. Many of these people had to be enlisted to carry out the

holocaust. And many more took the opportunity to oppress their very neighbours and former friends, knowing that they would never be held accountable for these acts.

How was one to live in the very city, the very neighbourhoods, were they had been the victims of prejudice, persecution, and betrayal? And if the Jewish people could no longer live in the very towns that evoked for them nothing but memories of shame and fear, where were they to go?

These are tough questions, and while some answers were proposed, it is not really about the answers. Irving Roth said as much himself. He mentioned how, at 90 years old, he notices with grave misgivings some of the very same things he saw in the world in the 1920s and 1930s. While overt expressions of anti-Semitism are less welcome, it has arguably re-branded as anti-Zionism, the BDS movement, and other such more “acceptable” movements that seem to be growing popular.

As surveys by the B’nai Brith Canada show, the number of anti-Semitic hate crimes in Canada has been steadily on the rise. Nor is anti-Semitism the only problem.

Baseless hatred and prejudice of the other, of anyone who does not fit our mould, is rearing its ugly head. Recently, Dale Dewar, a Green Party candidate from Regina, has been criticized for suggesting that the Jewish people need to seek therapy to get over the Holocaust, hardly something commendable in an individual running for public office in a country that prides itself

in its diversity.

But this is not about one person, or one community. The world is becoming less tolerant, and we need to notice the signs and take actions before it is too late. To borrow a phrase from the Jewish people, we cannot forget the horrors of prejudice this world has seen already, and we cannot let such darkness return. Never again.

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“These are tough questions, and while some answers were proposed, it is not really about the answers.” - Hammad Ali

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Professors fucking students fucks everyone over Universities are, by their very nature, places that people go to learn things they didn’t already know. They are places you go to build a broader understanding of the world, and a deeper understanding of your subject. That said, there are a few fundamentals that everyone is expected to already have in mind before they set foot on campus. Be quiet in the library. Plagiarism is thievery. Admin is the enemy. Don’t prey on students.

Professors at the University of Manitoba have apparently failed to grasp this last part, so many so that U of M President David Barnard told CBC he couldn’t say how many professors had been fired over the past five years for sexual misconduct.

The university recently passed a ban on certain kinds of student/professor relationships – the sort of sexual and romantic relationships you wouldn’t think would need a formal ban, since everyone (should) know they’re wrong.

It’s ugly and it’s shameful, but it isn’t just a U of M issue. It’s an academia issue.

While the overwhelming majority of professors are not predators, the academy is an ideal hunting ground for those who are.

It’s not only because it puts the youthful and naïve in close proximity with the older, the more powerful, but because learning is both passionate and intimate. It is an exchange of the most vulnerable, most essential parts of ourselves – our thoughts and our ideas.

The acts of teaching and being taught mimic in many ways the acts of loving and being loved. Excellent teachers open our minds to possibilities we had never conceived of. They aren’t just standing at the lectern, listing facts, they are moving us, in profound and sometimes life-altering ways.

I’ve sat in lectures where I’ve felt the world shift beneath me, as though my eyes were being opened for the very first time. Those are professors for whom I have wanted to do my very best work. People for whom I have cancelled plans with friends so I could spend a few more hours, tightening and sharpening my arguments, making my words flow like water. I am not alone in having done this.

Professors are also our evaluators.

They guide us towards seeing the errors in our thinking, they point out flaws in our worldview. We give them our ideas and our interpretations of the way the world works, and sometimes they like them and sometimes they rip us to pieces, leaving us in a mess of tears and red ink. We are vulnerable to them in ways that mirror our vulnerability with those we love.

The relationship between teacher and taught, and the boundary between the educational and the illicit, so captures the public imagination that IMDb has an entire section on “Teacher/Student Affairs.” But the fact is that professors having sexual relationships with their students is not romantic. It is ugly and it is gross.

The relationship between professor and student – intense as it may sometimes be – is supposed to be entirely innocent. For it to be turned romantic and sexual is a twisted and unacceptable perversion, one that disgraces the professor and abuses the student. Though the acts of teaching and being taught may mimic the acts of loving and being loved, they are, critically, not the same.

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I say: the responsibility for maintaining the innocence of this relationship lies entirely with you. Entirely. With. You. It doesn’t matter if the student is 19 or 49. It doesn’t matter if they make the first move. Do not touch them. Do not seduce them. Do not destroy their university experience with weird and predatory lust. If you feel that the relationship is special enough that it should be a romantic one, and that they are old enough to reciprocate in the same way, then that means caring about that person enough that you will wait until they have graduated, or you will leave your position and take up another. Do not pursue your students. They are not yours for the taking.

And to students: your professors are supposed to teach you, and most – and for many of us, all – will do so generously and innocently. But some of us will encounter those who view the campus as a hunting ground, a place to collect trophies in the form of people who look up to them. Remember this: they are not supposed to touch you. They are not supposed to stand too close to you in a too small space, radiating panting want. They are not supposed to compliment your appearance or try to get you alone for a drink. And if they do, and if you fall for them, it is not your fault, and you don’t need to feel ashamed. It is a betrayal, and you deserve better from your teachers, and you deserve better from your institution, and you have every right to report it and have your report taken seriously, with the urgency and alarm such a betrayal warrants.

The academy is a special place, and the relationships that are built here, between students, between faculty, between students and faculty, are special relationships built on shared knowledge, on a passion for a deeper understanding of the world, and on appreciation for the obscure and the esoteric. They should also be built on trust, and that means not exploiting their intimacy for sexual purposes.

The U of M has decided to formally ban relationships between faculty and students. It’s shameful that they let things get so bad in the first place.

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“The fact is that professors having sexual relationships with their students is not romantic. It is ugly and it is gross.” -Sara Birrell

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Jeremy Davis

Whether you admit it or not, Greta Thunberg’s inspirational speech at the United Nations has created an international movement for climate change. People are leaving schools and staying outside despite the weather to join Greta Thunberg’s movement every Friday. Recently, she even got the key to the city of Montreal where one of the largest strikes happened last week.

Greta Thunberg is the voice of our generation speaking for change, to save our environment and to create a future for the next generations. She is such an inspiration for many people because she has proven that no matter how small we start, we can create a much larger impact.

She started her protest by sitting in front of the Swedish Parliament every Friday. She then spoke in front of many in a TED Talk about her journey, how she knew about climate change, and her efforts in trying to make sure that everyone is educated and later on spoke in front of the United Nations. She started a movement that many of us could not have even thought of; a movement wherein people are fighting for the climate because she has made everyone aware.

She has made everyone aware that we are in the beginning stages of the sixth mass

extinction. Greta’s Friday For Future movement has caused alarm within our society that has caused many students to leave school to protest, and many are making alterations in their diets with the hopes that maybe, even in the smallest way, we can help save our planet.

Now let me propose an idea that will help with our environment, our society and our economy. Why don’t we start making changes in our justice systems that can penalize those who hurt our environment?

Is it possible for our inmates, with smaller sentences, to lessen jail time if they are able to plant a certain number of trees? Should schools provide mandatory classes that will educate students about the environmental crises? Maybe we can make it so it’s mandatory for students to do something good for the environment to earn marks. The lack of education regarding climate change is extremely alarming considering that it affects every single living being on the planet.

The first time I heard about climate change was in fifth grade back in the Philippines which would have been roughly around 2008. My teacher back then showed a video in class called “A Letter From 2070.” This letter talked about life in that dystopian world wherein we have failed nature. Peo-

ple are starving, fighting for water, paying for clean air to breathe. It even talked about how trees are not a thing, that children in that day could only imagine what a tree would look like, it also talked about how the average life expectancy is 35.

If you come to think of it, the year 2070 is not far away, most of us should be in our seventies by then and should be spending time with our grandchildren. However, scientists nowadays are giving us until 2050 to change our ways, to let ourselves help prevent the earth from experiencing irreversible changes.

We have 30 years to reverse centuries of destruction. We are given warnings upon warnings, and we have enough knowledge on the subject on the internet, at the tip of our fingers and yet, here we are sitting in our first world countries acting unbothered.

We are acting like there are no poor countries that will suffer the first blows when the earth finally starts to fight back.

So why aren’t we starting now? Why are we not implementing changes in our daily lives? It shouldn’t have to take us all the ice melting and mass environmental destruction for us to realize that every second that we try to save the planet helps, and that every time we lessen our meat intake and our

use of plastic will count.

Even something as small as sharing things on our social media page will help create a movement: a panic within people – enough to empower a revolution.

justine renee contributor

“Scientists nowadays are giving us until 2050 to change our ways.” - Justine Renee

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I am a music lover, and anyone who knows me (or follows my Twitter account) definitely knows this. Even greater than my love of music however, is my adoration of concerts.

Taking music that has walked through your life with you and allowing it to unfold before you, live and raw, in a room filled with energized people who all feel the same way is unlike any other feeling.

As I gear up to plan more concerts in the future (they are my happy place after all), I’m reminded as to some of my concert pet peeves; some aspects of concerts can make the experience somewhat less than favourable. Some blame is to be pinned on other concert-goers, some on security and staff, and some on the entertainers and musicians themselves.

So, that is what this piece is going to be: me venting about my concert pet peeves for the next several hundred words. Come join in on the fun.

First things first: living in the Canadian prairies makes concert-going a challenge. If you’re a fan of a bigger and more popular act, the chances of them coming anywhere near Regina are slim to none. More often than not, it requires a music fan to save up for travel, hotel accommodations, and food, let alone the tickets themselves as well as travel to the venue.

Despite this, it is even more insulting when an act claims they are going on a “world tour” which just so happens to include Canadian dates. Most Sask. folks

know exactly what such a term means.

It means they’re going to either Toronto, Vancouver, or both. You know, two shows – one played on either side of the country. That totally makes it a Canadian tour right? Of course it does! Because going on a “Canadian tour” doesn’t mean you need to actively tour Canada, it just means you need to show up to two of their most populated cities. That’s all!

Now, for the next chunk of this article I’m going to complain about my fellow concert-goers; the people who have paid, give or take, as much money as you have to be here. Depending on the artist, this could mean they’ve paid a hefty amount of money to be present. So why, pray tell, are so many of them such heathens to be around?

First things first, let’s establish the classic types of concert-goers you’ll find at an average event. First off, you have the person who is always on their phone. Why they paid $300+ for floor set as only to spend the entire night not interested remotely in the act before them? Who knows. Even worse is how some people insist on attempting to take a phone call. Good luck with that.

Not only is having an audience member that isn’t interested discouraging – after all, someone who would’ve actually wanted to attend the show could be sitting in that seat – but it’s also a buzzkill for everyone around you. Part of the thrill of a concert is the energy that others give off – the energy that everyone else in the room can feel –

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and if the energy the person beside you is giving off is in the negatives, it’s draining for everyone around them as well.

Even worse can be parents who choose to bring their children to a show. Emphasis on the phrase “can be.” Not all parents and children are guaranteed to be a bad time, but the ones who insist on buying their short, young children floor seats to a show and then proceed to either A) encourage their children to stand in their seats, or B) place their children on their shoulders and obstruct the views of others are the ones I have problems with.

Look, I think bringing children to a concert is amazing. Some of the best memories I have from my childhood are connected to seeing live music shows, and I’m a strong believer in encouraging children to pour money into arts and music. However, does it not ruin the concert-experience for a child when they either can’t see the performer, or when their ability to see the performer causes other audience members to grow frustrated?

While I could also vent about stadium prices, (four dollars for a bottle of water in the middle of July? Really?) instead, I’m going to take this time to rant about the people who consume said pricey beverages.

If you’re attending a show and you routinely stand up to fetch drinks, get food, go to the bathroom, and do it so routinely that it’s constantly disrupting the others in your area, why are you even there?

If you spend the entirety of the show waiting in line for drinks, walking to a stand for drinks, waiting in line for the bathroom, going to the bathroom, or debating whether to disrupt the rest of your row to get another drink, I would argue that you’re attending a concert for the wrong reasons. Not only is it disrupting for everyone around you, but you aren’t actually enjoying the show because you’re so distracted by constantly being up and moving – also creating a disruptive distraction from those around you trying to enjoy the show.

I’m a believer that everyone is entitled to spend their money on whatever they wish, and that includes the insanely overpriced drinks at stadium venues. However, I would argue that if you are choosing to take the spot of someone at a concert who might actually want to be there, and you are instead using your presence at a venue to actively disrupt or take away from the enjoyment of those around you, you’re spending your money improperly.

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“living in the Canadian prairies makes concert-going a challenge. If you’re a fan of a bigger and more popular act, the chances of them coming anywhere near Regina are slim to none.” -Taylor Balfour

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