The Fulcrum - Vol 76 Issue 8

VOL. 76 ISSUE 8

oct 15, 2015

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IN THIS ISSUE...

SFUO candidate interviews P.6 The Fulcrum interviews SFUO candidates Hook-up culture P.9 OIFF film shows the damage a casual fling can do Ottawa’s scary side P.12 How Ottawa’s history and haunted hotspots are entwined Loss in Laurier P.14 Football playoff chances fly away “Iced Capps” come to U of O P.19 Possible university coverup difficult to swallow Ice, ice baby P.20 Di tells you how to heat things up by staying cool

NEWS

NEWS EDITOR

Eric Davidson news@thefulcrum.ca (613) 695-0061 @Eric_Davidson93

Looking at Ottawa-Vanier’s federal election candidates

Eric Davidson & Nadia Drissi El-Bouzaidi News Editor & Editor-In-chief

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he Ottawa-Vanier riding, with its strong Franco-Ontarian heritage, includes the Beacon Hill-Cyrville, Rockcliffe, and Rideau-Vanier wards, and encompasses the University of Ottawa.

Incumbent Mauril Bélanger is seeking re-election following seven straight victories since 1995 in Liberal stronghold Ottawa-Vanier, a riding that has voted Liberal in every election since it’s creation in 1933.

Bélanger has won with comfortable margins of victory in each election, however, his margin of vicotry has gotten smaller and smaller each election. Last election, he finished only nine points ahead of the NDP candidate, Trevor Haché, meaning Ottawa—Vanier could be changing colours this election.

He faces Emilie Taman, a former federal prosecutor who is the NDP candidate, David Piccini, who works with Ed Fast, Canada’s Minister of International Trade, who is the Conservative candidate, and Nira Dookeran, a high school English as a Second Language teacher who is the Green candidate. to learn from Aboriginal Mauril Bélanger—Liberal Party people.”

Born in Mattawa, Mauril Bélanger Parks Canada. They are also promDookeran also said she studied at the University of Ottawa, ising to create 120,000 jobs using and the Green Party have a where he served as president of the $300-million. plan to make things easier Student Federation of the University Affordable housing is another one for students. of Ottawa (SFUO). of Bélanger’s key platform points.

“We don’t believe that He credits his time with the stu“We’ve committed to as a party a students should come out of dent union, as well as his mentor the $20-billion expenditure into social university completely burlate Jean-Luc Pépin, with teaching infrastructure,” he said, “we’ve also dened by student debt,” she him important skills he has put to use committed to reducing… the GST for said. “Our plan is to abolish in Parliament. “He told me, ‘Mauril if developers that will be building renttuition fees, and we propose you ever become an MP, you have to al units.” to do that within the next learn to deal with all parliamentarThe U of O is looking for developfive years.” ians no matter their colour,” said Bément opportunities, but faces opposi“Immediately what we langer. tion from those who want to preserve would do is abolish student The candidates Emilie Taman (left), David Piceini, and Nira Dookeran. Mauril Bélanger (not pictured) attended a debate The Liberals infrastructure plans Sandy Hill. Bélanger says he wants to debt over $10,000, and ex Photo: Eric Davidson are a key focus of their platform, facilitate university developments at that I act like the youngest.” tend the time that students Nira Dookeran—Green they’ve pledged to run “three modest Lees campus and St. Paul’s university.

“Young people have hope, have now to pay back a loan deficits” before balancing the books in The Liberals plan to raise the miniNira Dookeran was born don’t have the time for all they aren’t stuck in old ways interest-free from 1-2 years,” 2019. They plan to invest $125 billion mum income required before stuin St. Boniface, Manitoba, of this hyper partisan cloak of thinking,” she continued. she continued. in infrastructure projects over the dents have to pay back their loans to and studied philosophy at and dagger stuff that’s go“The future belongs to peo“You guys aren’t living next ten years. $25,000. the University of Winnipeg ing on, we need to work tople who can think outside in the same kind of no ceil“Right now the unemployment rate They’re also promising to increase and the University of Together.” of the boxes that a lot of our ing economy… it’s a differof the 18-24s is almost three times that the Canada grant figures from $2000 ronto.

A lot of Dookeran’s polileaders are stuck in.” ent landscape,” she said. “I’m of the average population of those oldto $3,000 for full-time students and Dookeran works as a high cies focus on students and Dookeran wants to get hearing that Canadian citier than 25,” said Bélanger.

“We need to $1,200 to $1,800 for part-time stuschool teacher of English as a young people. the local Aboriginal populazens are going to Germany address that, and we will.” dents, said Bélanger.

Second Language. This is her “I’m a teacher because I tion involved as well. “We and Norway, because they They plan to create 40,000 jobs for “I always encourage students 18-24 first time running for office. like young people,” she said. have the largest population can study free there, we’re young people, 5,000 of which would to vote, no matter who they’re voting Dookeran is open to work“I’m the oldest in my family of Aboriginal Canadians in going to lose a lot of stube “green jobs”, including jobs with for, I think its primordial that they do.” ing with other parties. “We of five but people often say the city… and we have a lot dents.”

David Piccini—Conservative

Emilie Taman—NDP Emilie Taman studied political science at McGill and Dalhousie before becoming a federal prosecutor with the Public Prosecution Service of Canada.

When it was ruled that she couldn’t take leave from her job as a prosecutor to run for office, she left her job to seek the NDP nomination.

Taman said she is prepared to respond to the needs of students in the riding.

Debt is just one aspect of student life Taman wants to improve. “We’re very alive to the growing student debt crisis,” she said. “Right now students are graduating with, basically, a mortgage and no house.”

“Over the course of the next seven years we’re going to phase out all interest com-

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pletely on student loans,” she continued.

“We’re going to have 74,000 new federal grants available to students, which should take some of the pressure off the cost of education.”

Taman also wants to focus on curbing youth unemployment.

“We want to look at providing quality, stable, long term jobs for young people,” she said.

“Especially for people with university degrees, we want to make sure that they can get the jobs out of school that actually move them towards their career.”

She also wants to invest in paid internships. “We want to make sure there are subsidies available, particularly in the

non-profit sector” Taman also touts her party’s youth mental health strategy.

The Canadian Mental Health Association states that 10-20% of Canadian youth are affected by mental illness, and suicide is the second most common cause of death among people aged 15-24.

Taman wants to reduce wait times and focus on “making sure that young people can have mental health interventions that they need.”

Another issue Taman wants to tackle is childcare costs with $15/ day daycare.

The NDP has also promised to increase funding for municipal infrastructure in cities by $1.5 billion by the end of their first term in government.

David Piccini was born in Port Hope, Ontario and went on to study political science at the University of Ottawa. He still coaches the U of O men’s soccer team.

Piccini wants to get students involved in this election.

“It’s about actually rolling up your sleeves and engaging students,” he said.

“The issues affecting students that I’m hearing are the same issues, by and large, that are affecting Canadians, namely the economy,” said Piccini. “students want to make sure they have jobs when they graduate.”

Ultimately with the economy, we need to make sure jobs are there,” he continued. “We have the best job creation rate in the G7.”

Since there are different ways and different time periods over which to evaluate this claim, this claim has been debated. But it is true that Canada has the best job creation rate when measured from the beginning of the recession in 2008.

Piccini also states that his party has been “leading the OECD” in investments in colleges and universities.

Piccini also believes that security is an important issue.

“Our government has a strong record when it comes to crime prevention,” he says.

“Our youth prevention fund for example.” The fund receives $7.5 million per year to provide money to organizations that intervene directly with at risk youth.

“We have a marginally increasing crime rate in Ottawa— Vanier while the citywide average goes down,” he said. “Young women predominantly do not feel safe walking in certain areas.”

Traffic safety is another issue Piccini wants to tackle, including truck congestion and unsafie intersections.

Piccini also wants to reach out to people who are less involved in the political process.

“We’re out there reaching out to people who are not politically engaged,” he said. “That’s what we need in Ottawa—Vanier.”

“We have one of the most diverse socioeconomic ridings in the country, and it requires someone with an active and engaged nature.”

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his October, the SFUO is holding a by-election to fill vacant positions in the Board of Governors, Board of Administration, and university senate. The election will also determine the new SFUO president, vice-president of services and communications, and vice-president of finance. The vice-president of services and communications was left unfilled after the previous SFUO election. Former president David Gakwerere resigned before the semester began, and former vice-president of finance Taylor Davidson resigned in September. Students can vote from Oct. 21-23 from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Vice-president finance Nicholas Robinson—Second-year, physics

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steadily rising. “The SFUO needs to make sure that it’s not adding to that burden,” he said.

This means using money effectively, he said. “No more spending $10,000 on fireworks.”

“This isn’t our money, this is students’ money,” he said.

“Well,” Robinson said when asked who he’d like to meet if he could meet anyone, “The guy that first comes to mind is Carl Sagan.”

“He’s been a huge influence on my life, reading his books pushed me towards going into physics, and I think there’s a lot we could talk about.”

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happy with how things were handled in the past, and wants to see a less adversarial approach. “We need to work with the university, not against them,” he said. “It’s just a matter of coming together, trying to make a consensus, and trying to make gains where we can.”

Robinson wants to make sure “It’s important that the SFUO spend students’ money responsibly,” he said. “It’s important that the SFUO keep a balanced budget and not go into debt.”

Robinson said good fiscal management will be key, especially with tuition fees

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Robinson wants to make the SFUO more accessible to the student body, by using the Internet more.

“This is the year 2015,” said Robinson. “There are a lot of possibilities we can use safely and effectively through the Internet to get our message across.”

One way he plans to do this is through promotion on social media, which Robinson calls “an underutilized platform.” He also suggests updating the website, including updating the clubs listing and adding online petitions.

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President Anne-Emilie Hebert—Fourth-year, science with specialization in psychology, minor in women’s studies

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Hebert wants to make a positive impact as president by making the campus more inclusive.

“We are not an accessible campus for those that are disabled in any form,” she said.

“I’ve broken a leg and had to go up three flights of stairs in Tabaret because the elevators were out of service that day.”

Hebert said she would change the way the SFUO deals with the university. “In the past they’ve been a bit aggressive, so for sure we won’t be taking that approach,” she said. “We’ll be having more discussions, discuss what are the

issues with the students, and to really try to get them to understand our point of view.”

One of Hebert’s main focuses will be the cafeteria. “First year students who are residents being forced to use the meal plan should be among the things we discuss,” she said. “Also how we lost student space, and how we should be able to sit in the cafeteria.”

Hebert said her main role as president will be to support the various vice-presidents in their endeavours. She wants to present a unified front. “The main goal is to be accessible,” said Hebert. “We need to have better

equality and inclusiveness on this campus, and that’s what I will be fighting for.”

“I just want to be there for the students, and be visible,” she said. “Hopefully the students will be more aware of what’s on campus and what we are offering, because they do pay money for our services and they should know the amazing things that are offered.”

“She’s really amazing, she’s a powerful woman who’s in charge of her life when asked which fictional character she’d most like to meet, Hebert selected Alecia Florrick from The Good Wife.

Camelia Touzany—fourth-year Human Kinetics

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Camelia Touzany says her goal is to see that what students want is reflected in the budget.

“My job will be to ensure a balanced budget that truly reflects the needs of students, and most importantly that the services and projects that students care about are prioritized,” she said.

“I’m going to make sure the budget is transparent, just like the previous VP finances have done,” she said. “I’ll also

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work closely with the VP social to see which events can be more accessible.”

She also wants to improve online procedures, including adding online clubs registration.

As for relations with the university, Touzany said she’s already noticed a change over the past few months. “They’ve done a phenomenal job re-establishing good relationships with different federated bodies, with the administration,

and clubs and services in general,” she said. “I’m going to continue to do that.”

“I think my role model would be Angelina Jolie,” Touzany said when asked who she would like to meet if she could meet anyone.

“She’s pretty badass, and I feel like she could educate me on a lot of things because she’s involved with a lot of charity work,” she said. “She’s definitely someone who could inspire me.”

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Vice-president of services and communications

CT LaRochelle—Fifth-year, political science and administration

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CT LaRochelle says he wants to be the vice-president of services and communications because he wants to implement a consistent communication strategy.

“The entire approach needs to be changed, and what I want to do is be more inclusive,” he said.

LaRochelle, who previously served as an executive of the Economics Student Association, said he hasn’t been too impressed at what he’s seen from our student representatives of late. One of

the first things he plans to introduce is a way to measure how effective SFUO services are. “Right now there’s no publicly available standards, statistics as to how goals are achieved,” he said.

Another key focus for LaRochelle is to re-introduce an online voting system, which was abandoned in 2010 after the U.S.-based company refused to work with the SFUO, following complications. “We’re living in a time where we have a plethora of tech companies that can

create a viable online voting system,” he said, which would vastly improve voter turnout.

LaRochelle said he supports the “yes” campaign on the health care referendum.

“Honestly I feel like it’s a nobrainer.”

“If I brushed up on my Latin, Cicero,” said LaRochelle, on who he’d like to meet if he could meet anyone. “He single handedly did so much for languages everywhere and political thought and all kinds of thought.”

the (university) administration too,” she said.

She also wants to make the SFUO more present in the lives of students.

“One of my goals is to improve accessibility of information,” she said. “Focusing on bilingualism and making sure everyone finds out about the information.”

Her proposed methods include a new events calendar on UoZone, promoting events on campus, and better communication between federated bodies at the university.

“Everyone is different, they find their information in different ways, and it would be great to reach out to different

kinds of students.

Malo also wants to use data from SFUO elections, General Assemblies, and other events, to gauge the SFUO’s performance. In addition, she wants to collect data on student opinions.

“I want to do a campuswide ‘what do I want?’ survey so students can tell me what they want improved,” she said.

“I would love to have dinner with Paul Walker,” said Malo when asked who she’d like to meet if she could meet anyone. “He was my role model for a long time, he was a humanist, an environmentalist … he was a genuine person people can look up to.”

Roméo Ahimakin—Third-year communications & anthropology

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Roméo Ahimakin, is running for the vice-president of services and communication position, after serving in the position as the interim, as well as the interim president.

“I know that students should vote for me as vice-president of services and communication because I’ve had, for the past six months, a wonderful opportunity to work in that capacity, and I’ve been able to do a lot of great work,” he said. “I’ve been able to build new and diverse ways of communicating with students.”

Ahimakin said he’s been

working on bringing information on the SFUO’s 13 services directly to students, as well as revamping the service’s logos.

Ahimakin said they’ve been utilizing different social media platforms, created a snapchat account, and sent mass emails to reach out to students. Alongside the other executives, he’s participated in weekly outreach.

If elected, Ahimakin plans to pursue the development of “an app for the student community” to help students interact with each other and the SFUO. He said he’s already put in the work to research student apps

at different campuses across the country. “Building that app would enable students all over campus to be aware of different activities that are happening.”

He’s also working on reaching out to students for the General Assembly, which is scheduled for later in the semester.

Ahimakin said if he could meet anyone, it would be the late French comedian Louis de Funès.

“He opened the door to so much when he started doing comedy, and also, he had a lot of strong opinions on how people should express themselves.”

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Melanie Malo says her experience working with the Faculty of Arts will help her as vice-president of services and communications. She served as the vice-president of communications for the Student Federation of the Faculty of Arts as well as vice-president social for the Translation Students Association.

“I’ve worked with the faculty on numbers of occasions over the past three years,” she said.

She also hopes this will help her deal effectively with the university. “I’ve developed a good relationship with my faculty, and would like to develop that relationship with

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Student health plan costs could go up by $35 Eric Davidson news editor

The Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO) is asking students to raise health plan costs by $35 in a referendum, in order to keep the coverage afloat.

“Do you agree to increase the Health and Dental Plan levy by $35, which includes an 8% mandatory retail sales tax, and authorize the SFUO Board of Administration to increase the fee up to 8% per year to enhance benefits as needed?” reads the referendum question.

“The health care referendum is something we’ve been working on since we started our mandate,” said Roméo Ahimakin, the interim president and vice-president of services and communications.

“We, as the full executive team, we want to ensure that the health plan is

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run in an efficient way that students can keep benefitting from the same package.”

The plan currently costs $80 for health coverage and $100 for dental.

According to the SFUO website, the plans cover prescription medication, professional services, vision care, medical items, emergency transportation, travel insurance, and basic and comprehensive dental services.

“When this current price was set… they didn’t have a ‘to be raised with Consumer price index’ clause, so it stayed the same price for many years now,” said Veronica Carpani, an engineering student representative on the Board of Administration (BOA).

“The actual cost of the health plan to the SFUO has increased, so they have had to supplement it out of the

general fund more and more,” she said. “So the $35 that they’re asking for is, right now, subsidized through the SFUO general fund, which isn’t really fair to students who don’t need a student health plan.”

“If it doesn’t pass the SFUO won’t be able to afford to continue to give the same level of health coverage that it does right now,” said Carpani, adding that antibiotics, anti-depressants, and birth control are the most commonly required prescriptions.

Ahimakin, who is also running in the election for the vice-president of communications position, did not wish to take a side in the referendum because of his work gathering information for it. “As an executive whose presenting the question… we don’t form an opinion on the referendum.”

However, previous SFUO executives have taken sides in past referendums. Former president Anne-Marie Roy supported the establishment of The University of Ottawa Student Emergency Response Team as an official SFUO service in a referendum last year.

Even with the $35 increase, U of O students would still have some of the cheapest health coverage in the country, according to Siavash Ghazvinian, a student who is part of the “Yes” committee. Students at Algoma, Brock, Lakehead, McMaster, OCAD, Queen’s, and Ryerson University all pay more than U of O students.

“We’ll be maintaining a health plan that people use and need, and students will still have the option to opt out,” he said. “Voting no would mean

that we either eliminate the health plan or we’re gutting the health plan.

We can’t keep the health plan we have now.”

“I just saw this need and I got involved because I saw that if we lose this health plan, it would affect so many people’s lives on this campus,” said Ghazvinian, who is also the president of the Science Student’s Association, a member of the SFUO Finance committee, and a student who uses the health plan. “Often people don’t value the health plan enough, until they actually need it.”

“I haven’t talked to a single student who I’ve explained this to who said, ‘oh no I don’t support it because of this, this and that reason’ because it’s a pretty common sense basic idea,” said Ghavinian.

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Harper’s proposed civil service niqab ban ricochets through campaign Trudeau, Mulcair call Conservative stance distraction tactic Canadian Press iPolitics

iPolitics (CUP)—Stephen Harper’s proposed ban on federal civil servants wearing niqabs ricocheted down the campaign trail Oct. 7, drawing condemnation from opponents and Muslim groups.

Harper says Conservatives are examining Quebec’s Bill 94, which requires Muslim women or others who wear face coverings to remove them if they want to work in the public sector—or do business with government officials.

He also told CBC’s Power and Politics on Tuesday that—if reelected—the Conservatives would look at their own federal ban. He made similar comments last week in the French-language debate hosted by TVA. Both Liberal leader Justin Trudeau and NDP leader Tom Mulcair condemned the proposal as an at-

tempt to distract voters from serious questions about Conservative management of the economy.

Trudeau said Wednesday that Harper’s divide-and-conquer approach “is unworthy of the office he holds and he needs to stop because no election win (is) worth pitting Canadians against Canadians.”

Harper’s proposed ban on niqabs in the civil service would affect an infinitesimally small number of bureaucrats. Statistics from 2011 show only 1.8 per cent of 257,000 federal employees are Muslim women, and only a small subset of them is likely to wear face coverings.

The National Council of Canadian Muslims says it’s upset Harper passed on a chance in the CBC interview to specifically con-

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demn recent assaults against Muslim women, who appear to have

been attacked simply because they wore head scarves.

The soundtrack to your dating life

Student develops Tinder-inspired app for music lovers with. Khawam said Scrute It will eventually sell tickets directly from the app as well, making it easy for users to connect with people and attend concerts with them.

While Khawam’s original idea was to create a music review app, they learned that having an app with messaging is “the best way to make an app explode,” and they started to change the direction of Scrute It. Khawam said it was important for her to be able to develop the idea for Scrute It without being afraid of making changes.

“It’s kind of like how Instagram had the idea to be like Foursquare, but then changed,” she said. “There are a lot of startups that do that, but they have to pivot. Some people think it’s a death sentence but it’s not—it’s going to save you.”

The co-founders incorporated Scrute It and raised money to bring in developers to create the app. Since its launch two months ago, Khawam said the number of users on Scrute It is growing steadily.

Scrute It made it to the top twelve in the Montreal Startup Challenge—a

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friend Matt Hennick, and together they launched Scrute It—an app that, Khawam explains, is like “Tinder for music.”

The app, which officially launched in August, allows users to swipe right or left to indicate if they are interested or not interested, respectively. It also gives them a chance to compare music tastes with potential matches.

Scrute It also allows users to post about music and artists they like, as well as chat with people they match

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Montreal (CUP)—In a somewhat cinematic fashion, Cloe Khawam’s concept for her business came to her in the middle of the night, while studying during the spring of 2014.

“I was just hit by a huge urge of inspiration,” said the John Molson School of Business marketing student.

She immediately reached out to her

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contest for startups started by students either enrolled or just graduated CÉGEP or university in the last two years.

“In Montreal, we’re over 200 users,” she said. “We have a pretty good, constant growth rate—but you don’t want that steady constant, you want that big explosion.”

Khawam said Scrute It is developing a campaign to give out free concert tickets to people who download the app and share it with their friends to try and get more users—which Khawam said is the company’s biggest challenge.

Another challenge, said Khawam, is finding more investors for the company. The cost of creating a new app can run up to $20,000 per platform—a large reason why Scrute It is only currently available on iOS. “There’s so many apps out there and you just need to find the right way to get the name out there,” she said. “Being in marketing, that’s always been my focus.”

With these challenges in mind, Khawam posted a video on Scrute It to Founderfox, an app where start-

ups can post a two-minute pitch of their business ideas to investors. Founderfox then contacted Scrute It and offered to send them to TechCrunch, a large technology conference in San Francisco, last month.

There, Khawam was able to network with technology giants including John McAfee, the developer of the first commercial anti-virus software.

Khawam was also excited to find people on the West Coast were using Scrute It. “This is the coolest thing ever,” she said. “People are using the app in other places.” She also said the app has picked up steam in Los Angeles and New York City.

While Khawam received some advice from other business owners in the tech industry, she said that she largely felt she didn’t know what exactly was going on.

“Most entrepreneurs will just think, ‘everything is going well so I’m just going to keep doing what I’m doing,” she said. “We wear many hats, but they’re covering your eyes most of the time.”

To learn more about Scrute It, visit their website at scruteit.com. The app is available in the App Store.

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A&C EDITOR Allegra Morgado arts@thefulcrum.ca

ARTS&CULTURE The darker side of hooking up (613) 695-0062 @allietate

Film showing at OIFF details damaging aspects of hookup culture Allegra morgado

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n the past few years, hookup culture has becoming a highly debated issue in the media.

Whether it’s Mel Robbins at CNN asking if Tinder has “replaced dating with hookup culture,” Karley Sciortino defending it in Vogue, or popular movies like Friends with Benefits and No Strings Attached—hookup culture is everywhere you look.

Cody Campanale, an Ottawa-based filmmaker, has jumped on the hookup culture bandwagon with his new film Jackie Boy. But rather than the happy, romantic comedy endings that come with films like Friends with Benefits, Jackie Boy explores the darker side of casual sex.

Campanale will be showing the film at the Cineplex Odeon Lansdowne and VIP movie theatre on Oct.

18 as part of the Ottawa International Film Festival (OIFF).

“It’s a revenge drama, it’s kind of a character piece as well. It deals with hookup culture, young people and the emotional disconnect around sexuality,” says Campanale.

The movie is based on a play called Fragile Minds that Campanale wrote while attending the University of Victoria and put on at the now defunct Ottawa School of Speech and Drama in 2008. The play was inspired

by Campanale’s own experiences as a student dealing with the hookup culture that surrounded him on campus.

“I was definitely seeing this in my world, in my life, and it was confusing, and it was complicated, and it was emotional, and there was a lot of feelings that were there, so I used the play as a way of me trying to find clarity in my own situation and what was happening around me.”

Most of mainstream media glam-

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orizes casual sex, and ignores the way it can lead to confusing and emotionally disconnected sexual situations.

In Jackie Boy, Campanale aimed to be neutral on the subject as a whole,

but gives the audience a chance to see that it can have its downsides.

“What’s unique about my film is that I’m not glamorizing it as much as I’m presenting it,” Campanale said. “I

wanted to come at it from a voyeuristic, watchful lens and just be an observer, and to show people.”

Being from Ottawa, he has always been thankful for the support he’s received from the local film community, including being awarded with the Best Director award in the Narrative category at the 2015 Ottawa Independent Video Award last April.

Campanale says he’s eager to see the reaction from the Ottawa community. “I think that we’re going to be having a lot of college kids and people who relate most to the content of the film at the screening, I’m very interested in seeing how they react,” he said.

So whether you are supportive of the Tinder-crazy college campuses, or prefer traditional dinner-and-amovie dating, Jackie Boy is sure to spark some conversations about the good, the bad, and the ugly of hookup culture.

U of O Press poetry collection garners second award this year Book wins Canadian Jewish Literary Award in Yiddish category maitland shaheen staff contributor

Earlier this year, The University of Ottawa Press received the prestigious Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers Award for publication in literature for The Collected Poems of Miriam Waddington.

Now, the volume is receiving its second award, the 2015 Canadian Jewish Literary Award, in the Yiddish category.

A Canadian born to Russian-Jewish parents, Miriam Waddington was a modernist poet and the first JewishCanadian woman to publish poetry in English. She studied at the University of Toronto, taught at York University, and was a prominent member of the arts scene in Montreal.

The collection includes both new translations of Waddington’s work as well as poems published for the first time.

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Ruth Panofsky, a professor at Ryerson University, edited the collection in collaboration with the U of O Press. She became interested in Waddington’s work during her M.A. in Canadian Literature, intrigued by Waddington’s revolutionary texts.

“Her poetry really spoke to me because she explored women’s experience at a time when that was new,” says Panofsky.

She says the collection combines her experience with Jewish-Canadian women writers, textual scholarship, and publishing history.

“As a Canadian, I’m most deeply moved by Canadian writing as a way to identify myself in the world. As a Jewish woman, I’m drawn to that material. It all came together through my various research interests.”

The publication began as part of a national project, Editing Modernism in Canada

(EMIC), and was selected for the project’s Canadian Literature Collection.

“It flowed naturally from the EMIC project to our series,” says Lara Mainville, the director of the U of O Press. “This is a really important contribution to Canadian literature, women studies, as well as Jewish studies.”

“She was a social worker by profession, and she brought that perspective to her writing. She wrote socially aware poetry,” says Panofsky.

Although Waddington, who passed away in 2004, won multiple poetry awards while alive, she is often forgotten as she wrote alongside well-known Canadian poets such as Louis Dudek and Irving Layton.

Much of her work, including her 1958 poetry collection The Season’s Lovers, focuses on the city life of Montreal and working as a social worker in the 1940-60s.

“The combination of somebody who was involved in the world brought an empathetic and compassionate perspective to her verse. She wrote as a woman in the world.”

Having only been published last year, Panofksy’s volume is already receiving well-deserved recognition with two national awards in a matter of months.

“Ruth has done an amazing job on gathering all of the poetry that Miriam Waddington has produced,” says Mainville.

“It wasn’t a question, of course we were going to publish this important work. We’re very proud of the series. It’s doing so well, and we’re making such an significant contribution to Canadian literature.”

The Collected Poems of Miriam Waddington is available in all bookstores and online retailers, as well as on the the U of O Press website http://www. press.uottawa.ca/the-collectedpoems-of-miriam-waddington.

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Kendrick Lamar • Section.80 | Top Dawg Entertainment

Why you haven’t heard it: The 2011 debut studio release from a fairly underground Compton rapper was not on the radar of many, barring devoted hip-hop heads. Most casual fans think that Lamar’s major label debut good kid, m.A.A.d. city was his first album, so Section.80 is often passed over. It had no hit singles and lacked big name features, but the people lucky enough to have discovered Lamar early will attest to its importance. The album was also only released digitally, making it a more limited release than his later albums.

Why it might be tough to get through: Section.80 is a concept album that follows the narrative of a generation of ‘80s babies’ and their societal and personal struggles. Many times Lamar isn’t rapping from a personal perspective, but rather those of various members of the community he finds himself a part of. In a

bold contrast to his personal values, there are vivid mentions of drug use, crime, prostitution, domestic abuse, and religion that may be a little shocking for some.

Why you should listen to it anyway: The album is a joy to listen to, as the production varies in style but also remains true to the core theme of the album. The content of the record is where it’s worth truly lies. It’s comparable to a reformation of the J.D. Salinger novel The Catcher in the Rye, focusing on the alienation and the painful phoniness of the adult world.

It is an exploration of those raised in the Ronald Reagan Era, tackling their skewed identity and fragmented moral compass.

Fun facts: Rapper/Producer J. Cole produced the song “HiiiPower.” Plans for a collaboration album were in the works before they both rose to hip-hop supremacy, and the pair

still intends to one day release an album together.

Lamar cited a visit from rapper Tupac Shakur in a dream as the inspiration to write the album.

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Best lines and songs: “Wicked as 80 reverends in a pool of fire with devils holding hands. From a distance, don’t know which one is a Christian… damn” from the song “Hol’ Up”.

“I used to want to see the penitentiary way after elementary. Thought it was cool to look the judge in the face when he sentenced me. Since my uncles was institutionalized. My intuition has said I was suited for family ties” from the song “Poe Man Dreams (His Vice)”.

“Keisha’s Song (Her Pain)” “Ronald Reagan Era (His Evils)”

The bare bones of the OAG’S newest exhibit U of O alumna receives rave reviews for new show into a diverse collection inspired by each individual piece.

“It feels to me like one body of work that I worked on over a very long period of time,” says Feldman-Kiss.

The exhibit spans two rooms. In the first is an array of multimedia pieces—photographs, videos, sculptures, and acquired objects. One installment, entitled Reliquarium, is a collection of ninety objects spanning from pressed flowers, to written excerpts, to blood samples.

The edited form of Reliquarium in Witness comes from “a database of images and text that include over five hundred pieces.”

While creating the other installments for Witness, Feldman-Kiss recognized that she was subconsciously working from Reliquarium, and continued to push that idea.

“I’ve always thought as the Reliquarium as a storyboard for subsequent investigations.”

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Human bones may seem like an odd material to use in an art exhibition, but for Nichola Feldman-Kiss’ show Witness, they were a vital com-

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ponent.

Witness, which opened last week at the Ottawa Art Gallery (OAG), is a multimedia production by Feldman-Kiss, a University of Ottawa alumna, former professor, and Ottawa-

based artist.

The show is a contextual study of the body and the psyche, and its relationship to the external world. The collection began years ago as single pieces of work, and evolved

In the first gallery, themes of the body, mind, emotions, and memory resonate. In the second room, these reappear, but in a wider, more global context.

Entitled Between Here and There, the final piece uses overhead speakers to play news recordings describing what sounds like war-like attacks and their casualties. Mechanical butterflies line the walls and flap their wings as people approach.

The most haunting aspect of the room, and the entire exhibit, is within a glass-covered cardboard box illuminated by overhead lights—a skeleton composed of human bones.

Between Here and There is frightening enough to force the audience to reflect on the piece and its possible meanings. Its sensory aspects are especially intimate, almost invading.

Feldman-Kiss’ interest in global affairs and travelling experiences undoubtedly inspire her works. She explains

that being a citizen of three countries—Canada, Germany, and Jamaica—inspired her to study the ideas of identity.

Many elements of Witness suggest a topic of memories, especially from childhood.

Feldman-Kiss describes the collection as part of a self-psychoanalysis. “I go back into my earliest memories of having an identity and what makes me have an identity… my ideas and feelings of myself.”

Feldman-Kiss describes Witness as about asking questions about herself as a woman in this time in history, and directly about her body. “What space does this body occupy in a political context? This is the person, how is the person political?”

The exhibit is a unique and intriguing experience, accomplishing exactly what contemporary art should do—make us think.

Witness is on display at the Ottawa Art Gallery, 2 Daly Avenue, until Feb. 7, 2016.

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ALBUM REVIEW: City and Colour • If I Should Go Before You | Dine Alone Records Lane Ripco

Staff Contributor In City and Colour’s latest release, If I Should Go Before You, Canadian singer-songwriter Dallas Green pours out even more of his dreary heart and soul for the enjoyment, or dismay, of his listeners.

This new album is a work of wavy, tantalizing strokes. The deep electronic sound against the percussion sounds as if Green’s own heartbeat were recorded.

The album is lead by long, echoing vocals that reach empty depths inside the body, specifically in the prologue of the album, “Woman,” which is filled with hues of darkness and heart-aching romance.

Although Green is best recognized for progressions in acoustic power chords, especially on his 2008 album Bring Me Your Love, his newest work shows a distinct change of pace in sound. Where there was once a soft linear flow of songs, there is now a forte

that speaks to the audience in a transformed, sharp, bluesy thundering of songs, that is still directed by lofty introspection from beginning to end.

The more polished tracks on If I Should Go Before You tend to rise and fall with melancholy and hope that is breathtaking and peaceful. “Mizzy C,” “Map Of The World,” and “Friends” are brutally honest stamps of critique on Green himself and his work as an artist, accompanied by the softness of his own vocals, with piercing riffs and harmonies.

“If I Should Go Before You,” the album’s title track, seems to express a love that is hindered by sorrow, imagined in a final slow dance of life, with flickering notes of electric guitar strings and chords depicting lightness and darkness.

Devotion and pain have always been a staple for Green, and he stays true to this in “Wasted Love” and “Lover Come Back.” The forcefulness

of electric feel is strengthened in “Runaway,” where there are distinct twangs of a steel guitar that ring throughout the song.

All that follows is a sense of comfort and retrospect, even in the sharpness of “Killing Time.” The track releases bluesy melodies, uplifting vocals, forceful riffs, and a strong bass that challenges the previous work of City and Colour.

Bolstered by lyrics infused with pure poetry, Green’s voice brings comfort to listeners from all walks of life. Concluding the album is “Blood,” a slow ballad stringed together with light female backup vocals that draw a chilling scene.

From the slow and soulful, to the electric, lively tracks, If I Should Go Before You shows off Green’s diverse talent as a vocalist and songwriter. It’s an album that escapes from time itself, best suited for solitary listening when one can fully appreciate all that it has to offer.

Ready, set, whoa: A Gee-Gees’ guide to France Ch. 3: Wine in Bordeaux

Raghad Sheikh-Khalil fulcrum Contributor

While the freshman in me would likely cringe, I’ve finally gone through the university rite of passage of becoming a wine-drinker.

Considering my ideal night involves an entire bottle of wine and “Netflix and chilling” solo, I’m clearly no expert on the intricacies of wine drinking. As such, I spent my weekend touring the city of Bordeaux—renowned as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the wine capital of the world—in an attempt to learn a bit more about what exactly goes into my glass.

Drunk in Love My tour group and I visited the Chateau Champion winery in St-Emilion, a 12th century family-owned winery in its 8th succession. We were greeted by Véronique Bourrigaud, a former hospitality student who told us of her love-affair with Bordeaux and how she married into the business.

“While working at the tourism office I fell in love with the wine… and eventually my husband as well,” she told us with a chuckle.

Sitting on a 15,000-acre vineyard, the Chateau Champion produces approximately 70,000 bottles of wine each year with only one permanent employee outside of the family. Her 80-year-old father-in-law continues to drive around the country in his truck selling his family wine at fairs.

How it’s made Bourrigaud carefully guided us through the lengthy two-year process that goes into the making of a bottle.

“It’s all about respect for the land,” she said. The vineyards are never irrigated. The conditions of the land and the climate in that particular year is what makes a vintage.

The grapes are picked after checking for the per-

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fect aromas, acidity, sugar, taste, and ripening of the seeds. They then undergo a year-long process during which the alcohol is fermented and pressed. Finally the wine is aged for a year in carefully selected oak barrels, and is finally bottled.

When asked about which mixes of grapes went into the wine, she was quick to correct us. “Never say mixes. We say blends. It indicates the tenderness and love that goes into the process.”

How to taste The process of wine tasting is almost as intricate as the wine itself.

“Pour your glass, but never fill it to the brim,” she began. I found myself already out of my element.

First, never pick up a glass from the top. Hold it from the stem so as not to leave prints and to keep the wine at an ideal temperature Next, observe the colour of the wine. You can tell the age of the wine from its colour and intensity.

Smell the wine. Put your glass down on the table and almost dip your head in. “Smell from your brain and not from your nose,” Veronique instructed, as though it were a routine act. Gently swirl the glass and smell it for a second time, as the smell should be more intense.

Finally you taste it. The first taste will wake your taste buds up. It will be strong and acidic. The second taste will be well-rounded.

We started with a 2011 cabernet sauvignon and followed with a rosé. After the fourth bottle, we stopped keeping track. There were about eight bottles in total. The bus ride home was a lot louder than the bus ride there, to say the least.

While I’m sad to have missed Thanksgiving back home, I can’t complain. I may not have over-indulged on turkey, but I think we can all agree that the wine was an adequate replacement.

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espite being Canada’s capital and fourth-largest city, Ottawa is often considered the place where things like culture and excitement go to die.

Ask anybody from out of town what they think of this sprawling metropolis, and they’ll probably tell you that Ottawa is a dull government town full of nothing but drab buildings and sanitized historical sites.

This sort of mentality has been largely internalized by the city’s citizens as well. Back in the 1960s, local journalist Allan Fotheringham dubbed the nation’s capital “the town that fun forgot” and this label has stuck with Ottawans ever since.

Even today it seems that the city can’t shake this dubious reputation, having recently been made a subject of mockery by comedian John Oliver and a locally produced documentary short.

But beneath this seemingly placid surface there lies as much more sinister veneer.

If you look in the right places, you’ll find that “the town that fun forgot” is actually home to its fair share of ghastly ghost stories and haunted hot spots that are anything but boring.

In fact, this gripping paranormal element is intrinsically linked with Ottawa’s history, so much so that it is almost impossible to talk about one without mentioning the other.

Ghoulishand andGrey Grey Ghoulish Students from the University of Ottawa don’t have to travel very far to see this spooky symbiotic relationship in action.

According to Michel Prévost—the university’s chief archivist—tales of the paranormal are directly tied to some of the school’s biggest historical landmarks and figures.

For example, in a story that he refers to as “the ghost of the old lady of Tabaret Hall”, Prévost recounts how the U of O’s most prestigious building burned to the ground in 1903, an unfortunate event that claimed the lives of three people, including an elderly maid.

“She was doing the cleaning here and instead of going outside she took the wrong way,” he said. “So she passed away, and I don’t understand why, but they never found her skeleton or anything.”

Without a proper burial, the soul of this woman allegedly wandered the halls of Tabaret when it was rebuilt in 1905.

“At this time the offices were rooms for students, and many students told us that they saw this old woman during the night.”

The sightings of this spirit came to a halt once Tabaret was converted into an office administrative building in 1965, reveals Prévost. Whether this spirit finally found peace or is still wandering the halls of this building at night is anyone’s guess.

However, the U of O’s link to the paranormal doesn’t stop there. In fact, these supernatural elements can be traced back to the founding of this school in the mid-nineteenth century.

Joseph-Bruno Guigues was the first catholic bishop of Bytown, and founded the College of Bytown, the future University of Ottawa, in 1848. According to Prévost, Guigues’ attachment to the school was more than simply administrative in nature.

“He was very proud of his college. He was looking carefully throughout the development of his college. So there is a close link between Guigues and the College of Bytown.”

Guigues’ bond with the school he founded was so strong that he didn’t want to leave it, even after his death in 1874. According to eyewitness testimony, his spirit can still be found hanging out on the top floor of the building that housed the Second College of Bytown on 373 Sussex drive.

“It’s very amazing because (he appears) at the same hour, always the same day,” said Prévost. “And it’s one time a year. It’s the last day of the year at the last hour.”

With his roots in academia, Prévost remains skeptical of the legitimacy of these stories, since they are generally based on oral accounts.

However, he is more than happy to talk about these creepy yarns with any student who is willing to listen.

“Most of our students, because we speak about ghosts, they will know that Joseph-Bruno Guigues is the builder of the university. So in that way I find it interesting because it’s a way to learn a little bit about our history.”

“It’s a side of history that you don’t know and (these stories) are a gateway to that hidden secret of Ottawa.”—Vincent Sabourin, Haunted Walk guide, U of O graduate.

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Kyle Darbyson Features Editor

The university isn’t the only part of Ottawa with a supernatural side. As it turns out, the rest of the city is full of dark secrets waiting to be told.

Nobody knows this better than recent U of O graduate Vincent Sabourin, who works hard to shed som light on the creepier parts of Ottawa’s past through his work as a guide for the Haunted Walk.

After working for this organization for two years, Sabourin is now privy to the idea that paranormal storie surround some of Ottawa’s most prominent cultural touchstones, including the Château Laurier, city hall, an the Canadian Museum of Nature.

However, Sabourin finds that the eerie events at the famous Ottawa Jail Hostel still produce the stronge reactions from people. This is mostly because of the site’s infamous reputation for inflicting inhumane trea ment on its inhabitants during its stint as a real prison from 1862 to 1972.

“When you go inside the jail it’s kind of guttural. You actually hear a first-hand account of (the hanging and people are like ‘Oh, this is how people lived? This is disgusting’.”

The former jail’s most high-profile tenant is Patrick J. Whelan, who was executed in 1869 for assassinatin Thomas D’Arcy McGee. Some historians believe that Whelan was wrongly accused of the crime, and he still haunts death row t terrify future generations for the legal and judicial failings of the past.

Sabourin’s co-workers are all too familiar with this claim.

“We used to have sleepovers in the hostel. We would all sleep in cell number four on death row,” he said. “The story goes that (my co-worker) couldn’t sleep one night… and the only way he could find peace and quiet was if he changed cells, so he went to the next cell over.”

“And the next day they we’re like ‘Where were you?’ and he was like ‘Oh, I couldn’t stay in that cell. Someone was hovering above me, telling me to go’.”

While a lot of tourists don’t normally associate these kinds of dark, gritty tales with Ottawa heritage sites, Caroline CoutureGillgrass—who is the communications manager for Ottawa Tourism—believes that this grimy element is inescapable because it’s etched into the city’s foundation.

Gillgrass notes that the story behind the construction of the Rideau Canal (a structure upon which the municipality of Bytown was founded in 1826) is littered with misery and misfortune.

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“There was a lot of malaria, it was a big bog, it was uncomfortable, there were tons of brawls. ” Unfortunately, these bodies have refused to stay buried, now that the Bytown Museum (located next to the channel locks on the Rideau Canal) is said to be haunted by these past canal workers.

Like Prévost, Sabourin finds that these stories serve a greater purpose than to simply dish out shallow seasonal scares.

“A lot of people don’t know that Ottawa or Bytown was known as the most dangerous city in Canada at one point. And it’s just really interesting to think about it that way because it’s a side of history that you don’t know and (these stories) are a gateway to that hidden secret of Ottawa.”

“The one thing I do find with Ottawa...a lot of people don’t like to talk about it. I’ve gone down to Kingston and I find people in Kingston they’ll be more open to speak about the paranormal activity that goes on everywhere.” — John Moore, founder/lead investigator of Ottawa Paranormal Research and Investigations. that it would be putting an end to its relationship with the Haunted Walk tours.

However, the company behind the hostel reversed its decision six days later, a turn of events that Ottawa city councillor Mathieu Fleury partly attributes to the passionate reactions of local citizens who have “had such great experiences over the years with Haunted Walks.”

Fleury goes even further, saying that this widespread embrace of the weird and macabre is emblematic of a

Scaring away away the theapathy apathy Scaring Of course, it’s easy for skeptics and non-believers to brush off these macabre stories altogether, believing them to be superstitious nonsense peddled to gullible idiots.

As the founder and lead investigator of Ottawa Paranormal Research and Investigations, John Moore is no stranger to this kind of attitude. However, he claims that people in the nation’s capital are particularly dismissive of the paranormal.

“The one thing I do find with Ottawa… a lot of people don’t like to talk about it,” he said. “I’ve gone down to Kingston and I find people in Kingston they’ll be more open to speak about the paranormal activity that goes on everywhere.”

In his experience, said Moore, this mentality is symptomatic of the safe, sanitized social environment that many Ottawans have taken to heart.

“It’s a government town. A lot of people work in the government or work in the political sector and they’re more concerned about (their preferences for the paranormal being known) and having some backlash from their employers.”

But even skeptics like Prévost recognize that you don’t need to believe in ghosts to get the most value out of this kind of hair-raising history. He attests to the idea that these narratives act as a great way to shake people out of their collective apathy and to get them to care about their local culture and community.

“I know because last year I organized a tour… about ghosts,” he said, describing how he took a group of U of O students on a tour of haunted sites like the Bytown Museum and the Château Laurier.

“When I’m doing (normal) historical tours I only have a few students. But (this time) I was so surprised. A lot of students came to my ghost tour and I was so surprised to see that so many students were interested.”

This same kind of enthusiasm for local horror stories was made clear in September, with the backlash that resulted when the Jail Hostel announced Illustrations: Kim Wiens

city that is ready to break out of its shell.

“I think it really compliments what’s happening across the city. It’s a complete change from being simply a government town to what we are today: a capital city.”

“You can see the bigger city kind of feel with the light rail, with Lansdowne, and other things that are coming into play. And when you see local arts and culture scenes, including the Haunted Walks and even the Jail Hostel, really being part of it, it just supplements the experience.”

more Morethan thanjust justcheap cheapscares scares With Halloween being right around the corner, it looks like Ottawans are getting ready to fully embrace the creepier side of their city.

While Moore says that, in his experience, the season doesn’t have any effect on the amount of local paranormal activity, he reveals that the amount of claims of paranormal activity he receives go through the roof.

“It might be just because people are watching horror movies. It’s in their head.

It’s the power of suggestion. Your subconscious starts to make things up and you see it.”

Meanwhile, Sabourin states that October is definitely the most profitable and active time of year for the Haunted Walk, with many people calling in as early as August to secure tickets for their special Halloween tours.

Hopefully these people take away more from these experiences than just cheap scares.

By embracing the creepy and the paranormal, they’ll be taking part in a tradition that is as much a part of Ottawa’s culture as political double -talk and Beavertails.

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Soccer finds offence in sweep of Toronto squads

Gee-Gees improve unbeaten record with dominant home wins the game with a more physical style of play.

“I thought there could have been several potential cards and even penalty kicks,” Gee-Gees head coach Steve Johnson told Sports Services.

“We knew that they played that way and we were prepared for it.”

Despite the physical nature of the match, the Gee-Gees maintained their relentless offence to score three goals in the second half, starting with a Delaney Rickert-Hall’s goal in the (67’), before Ellie Cowan (77’) and Hannah Landry (80’) solidified a strong performance from the Gees with their goals.

On Sunday, the Gees secured another resounding 4-1 victory over the Toronto Varsity Blues at Matt Anthony Field.

After a first half, with little offensive action, ended in a stalemate, the Gees’ pair of star strikers scored four goals to resign the Blues to their third consecutive loss.

Pilar Khoury started off the scoring with a 49th-minute strike to give the Gees the 1-0 lead. Julia Francki would take advantage of a penalty kick just two minutes later, after Khoury was brought down in the 18 yard box.

Francki added another in the 69th

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he Gee-Gees women’s soccer team was back in action at home this weekend and they couldn’t have asked for a better result, coming away with two impressive victories against Ryerson and the University of Toronto.

The wins mean the nationally second-ranked Gee-Gees have now collected points every game this year in the Ontario University Athletics (OUA) East division. The Gees are still undefeated in the 2015 season, topping the OUA East with an impressive 9-0-3 record.

The Gee-Gees started their weekend with an impressive win over the Ryerson Rams. The team overcame a disappointing first half to win 4-1.

The Gees set the pace with Vanessa El Asmar putting one on the scoreboard in the sixth minute, but Ryerson equalized 12 minutes later and defended valiantly in what was an uninspiring first half for the home team.

Ryerson came back into the second half looking to take control of

The nation’s no. 2 squad is well on their way to postseason success.

minute with a header from a corner kick, and Khoury would round off the scoring with a 75th-minute flick.

The Varsity Blues would deny Cynthia Leblanc, the Gees goalkeeper, any hope of a clean sheet with a

scrappy goal off a rebound in the 85th minute.

Overall, it was a great win and added to a remarkable weekend. The Gee-Gees must now prepare to host their cross-town rival at Matt Antho-

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ny Field on Oct. 17. Their last match against the Ravens ended in a 0-0 draw, but Ottawa’s offence is sure to seek a bigger impact this time around.

Kickoff for the rematch is scheduled for 1 p.m.

Football season hopeless following embarrassing loss

A 65-30 defeat dashes team’s playoff hopes, raises questions After a strong showing in the early part of the season, many thought the Gee-Gees could do serious damage in the playoffs—but after facing off against Laurier, they’ve only damaged their pride and any shot at contention.

Going into Friday night’s road game against Laurier, it was a classic ‘winand-you’re-in’ situation. Both teams sat at 2-3 on the year, but after this win Laurier has the chance to turn their season around and will likely claim the sixth and final playoff spot in the conference.

From the first quarter, the Golden Hawks offence was firing on all cylinders, taking advantage of gaping holes in the Gee-Gees defence. In a major blow to the Gees’ usual strategy, Laurier didn’t let quarterback Derek Wendel get any kind of rhythm in the first half.

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watched their playoff aspirations fly away with the Laurier Golden Hawks.

An embarrassing 35-point loss proves that the team is not what they appeared to be at the start of the year.

To top it off, Laurier’s superstar running back Dillon Campbell pounded the Gee-Gee defensive line and tallied a baffling 246 yards on 37 carries.

The Gees came out in the second half down 41-10 and seemed to play with a higher sense of urgency, but penalties and turnovers killed their will to fight back.

After a small ‘garbage time’ push, the Golden Hawks secured the 65-30 win and an all-but-guaranteed playoff berth. On the other hand, the GeeGees were sent back to Ottawa licking their wounds and surely reflecting on a failed season that is two games from its conclusion.

More than anything, the team is left with a handful of pressing questions. How did this happen? Where did the defence go? Where do they go from here?

Finding answers to these questions

will be difficult, as they have another two matchups against teams that are not likely to fold over to them.

Next on schedule for the Gees is the powerhouse Western Mustangs, a team sitting at 6-0 and averaging 64.2 points per game. After being slaughtered by a team like Laurier, it remains to be seen whether the Gees will even put up a fight.

Head coach Jamie Barresi will have to return to the drawing board. Luckily the Gees are still a young enough unit at their core that success for the team next year wouldn’t be shocking.

Some will blame the tough schedule, others will blame injuries—but at the end of the day, if this team wanted to be elite, they wouldn’t have games that looked as bad as this one.

Kickoff at Western is on Oct. 17 at 1 p.m. the game will be broadcasted live on OUA.tv

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Sensationalism in sports needs to be stopped Talking heads and pundits are pulling down the games we all know and love Spencer Murdock Sports Editor

Overreacting comes hand-andhand with sports—be it diving in soccer or dancing after touchdowns in football.

In-game exaggerations are to be expected and sometimes encouraged, but when it leaves the field of play it gets dangerous.

Sports media, love it or hate it, is a vital facet of the sports landscape.

Unfortunately, sensationalism sometimes overshadows what otherwise would be a fantastic medium of expression.

For one, overanalyzing minute details is something so common, it’s often overlooked by casual sports fans. Looking at professional sports and the way issues are reported on and examined, there is a fundamental issue present. The cavalier attitude that comes along with breaking down sports has much more significant undertones than what may be present.

An overall lack of hesitation to rip apart teams and players without allowing time for the situations to play themselves out is commonplace.

Over the last year, there were many cases where pundits collectively called for the end of a player or team’s dominance. Needless to say, these pretentious statements weren’t always as accurate as these pundits wanted you to believe.

Back in 2009, then Miami Dolphins wide receiver Brandon Marshall’s name was plastered across headlines

The 24/7 sports media cycle pulls attention from the game, causing distractions for all.

after multiple assault and domestic violence issues made their way to the media. The media was quick to paint the picture of another athlete full of rage, all the while Marshall was suffering from borderline personality disorder. The painted picture did not define Marshall as he rose up becoming the loudest voice discussing mental health issues in the NFL, while at the same time becoming one of the best players in the league.

The New England Patriots started last season 2-2, and endured a week of the media calling for the end of their dynasty—they went on to win the Super Bowl four months later.

Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez sat out the 2014 season after a steroid scandal, but in response to the media backlash he hit 33 home runs and drove in 86 runs this year.

In 2007, Greg Oden was picked first overall in the NBA draft. The media was calling him “the next Shaq” and chose to brush off his injury history.

Instead of becoming the league’s next top big-man, Oden’s knees gave out causing him to miss four seasons and only play in 105 games. The media played a huge role in building him up before the draft, and also tearing him down afterwards.

All these instances are indicative

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of the fact that we live in a ‘talking head’ culture—turn on any sports TV or radio show and you will hear someone propagating ideals to feed the beast of a 24-hour news cycle.

Talking heads are the driving force behind the trending headlines, and all it takes is a simple tweet to start the machine. No, not all athletes are perfect, but separating what defines them as a person and as a player is a crucial distinction.

Massive sports media institutions prioritize protecting their bottom line rather than the quality of reporting or opinions coming out of their on-air talent and voices. Across the media

landscape there are journalists and experts getting paid millions to have an opinion and as long as they don’t cross too many boundaries they have free reign to pick their shots.

Sensationalist talking heads can break down players, but when things get serious, the media giants are often the first to hide behind their bank accounts rather than protecting their important opinions and reporting.

Earlier this year, ESPN chose to not renew its contract with Bill Simmons, their most famous writer and podcaster. After 14 years at the media giant, Simmons was out of a job because he was critical of NFL commissioner Roger Goodell’s punishment policies.

ESPN chose their multi-million dollar deal with the NFL over the rightfully expressed opinions of a writer.

Freedom of the press is a valued fundamental principle in North America and when the press turns on its producers to protect their fiscal interests—there is a serious breakdown happening.

Sports should never be comparable to a gossip magazine—sports itself is an idealistic example of decisiveness, with every game having a victor and every season a champion. Putting an emphasis on the facts and analyzing the empirical evidence provided is of the utmost importance.

Ultimately, if it were decided to put time and effort into covering what happened on the field of play, instead of predicting the future, everyone would be much better off in the long run.

Gees volleyball restocks and refocuses for new season

Despite uncertain future, team looks to remain a force in OUA Spencer Murdock Sports Editor

Since 2010, the Gee-Gees women’s volleyball team has consistently been a playoff team contending on a national level.

During most of that run, the Gees had two bona fide stars in twin sisters Myriam and Kelsie English. The pair led the team to an Ontario University Athletics (OUA) championship in 2013, and appearances in the national championship tournament in the last three seasons.

The English sisters graduated after five years of service on the Gee-Gees squad, but with their departure comes questions for what the volleyball program can do going forward.

Luckily for the team, they return a majority of the con-

tributing pieces on the team including high-level players Kaly Soro, Alix Durivage, and Sabrina Roy. Head coach Lionel Woods is entering his 27th year with the Gee-Gees program. This year he is adding some serious young talent to the mix, hoping to ensure a strong future for his team.

The veteran coach, along with his recruiting team added a handful of big-time players from the Ottawa area, as well as across the nation.

Perhaps the biggest recruit of all was Sihame Doukkali of Morocco. After coming to Canada and attending CÉGEP in Gatineau, Doukkali continued to play for the Moroccan national team and has experience on the world stage.

Regenerating the team with a younger core of players is es-

“Regenerating the team with a younger core of players is essential for the future, but the Gee-Gees should still see the benefits in this season.” sential for the future, but the Gee-Gees should still see the benefits in this season.

Fans should be cautiously optimistic about the road ahead. The team has not fared well in preseason action due in part to illness and injury, but an early learning curve has also been a factor.

The team finished fourth in the Pre-Season Classic tournament hosted at Montpetit.

Typically the Gee-Gees fare much better. Last year the team was 5-0, winning the tournament.

Unlike last season, it seems the Gees are likely to drop more than three games in the regular season this year. It remains to be seen what this new line-up can achieve this year.

The team has one more exhibition test left before the regular season is underway.

The Dalhousie Tigers will make the trek from Halifax for a friendly on Oct. 18 at 7 p.m. A very talented Tigers team will prep the Gee-Gees for their home opener against Queen’s on Oct. 23.

Losing vital firepower will be tough to overcome, but this talented squad might be up for the challenge.

Photo: Rémi Yuan.

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FulcFit food series: Easy chia breakfast pudding Kim Wiens

visual Editor

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uring the school year, it’s all too easy to let your eating habits slip. To help fight this, the Fulcrum has some essential recipes to keep you full and fit all year long.

Even on a student’s schedule, there’s no excuse for not eating a nutritious breakfast with this easy make-ahead meal. Eating a sweet, protein-packed chia pudding will keep you full and energized through those early classes and long study sessions.

While the price of a bag of chia seeds may at first seem daunting, it can go a long way in terms of health benefits and value. You can use them in smoothies, on top of yogurt or cereal, and on salads.

All of the ingredients together should cost around $15, luckily you’ll get plenty of use out of each one.

This recipe makes one large serving or two smaller servings, and will keep fresh in the fridge for several days.

Ingredients: 1 cup unsweetened almond milk (soy or regular milk works too) 1/4 cup chia seeds 1 tablespoon maple syrup or honey Vanilla extract (optional) Seasonal fruit Step 1: Combine almond milk, chia seeds, maple syrup/honey, and a splash of vanilla extract in a re-sealable container. Stir well to combine.

Step 2: Store in the fridge overnight, or for several hours.

Step 3: Stir again before serving, and top with fresh fruit.

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Enjoy!

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No. 1 Women’s rugby asserts dominance in exhibition win over national champs On Oct. 9 the University of Ottawa women’s rugby team faced St. Francis Xavier University (StFX) in an exhibition match at Matt Anthony Field. In an incredible battle, the Gees pulled off a stunning comeback in the second half to beat the X-Women 24-19.

The StFX rugby team has four national championships to their name, the most recent coming last year. The match was a timely test for the two national powerhouses during their weeklong break from regular season action.

The sixth-ranked X-Women started sluggish, but clawed their way to a formidable 12-5 lead at the half, thanks in part to a mixture of tough tackling, quick tempo passing, and accurate kicking in adverse weather conditions.

Nevertheless, the seemingly indomitable Gees stormed back into the contest at the start of the second half with a try from Danielle Erdelyi due to a superb catch by Patricia Mandon. The X-Women quickly responded with a try of their own and threatened to continue the scoring throughout the second half, but the Gees’ sturdy defence stood strong, forcing several key interceptions and steals.

A burst in offence resulted in two more tries, confirming a hard-fought victory against their potential national championship contenders.

Although it was just an exhibition game, both teams looked to gain a psychological edge going

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The best team in Gee-Gee history finds that all-around effort leads a team to victory and even championships.

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into the playoffs during the high-tempo match.

The top-ranked and undefeated Gees look to finish off their perfect season in their next game against McGill.

The Gees’ final match begins at 3 p.m. on Oct. 18 at Matt Anthony Field.

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Should Canada have a minimum income

OPINIONS EDITOR David Campion-Smith

opinions@thefulcrum.ca (613) 695-0062 @davidcs96

Party has included in their platform a proposal to create a Guaranteed Livable Income for Canadians that would be ThepaidGreen out to all. Some call this the next best step in social welfare policies, others don’t support it.

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A minimum income will benefit all David Agbaire Proofreader

According the Green Party website a guaranteed liveable income program could be expected to cost $25 billion.

But before welaugh them off and return to our daily ritual of reciting the popularized words of Adam Smith, we should consider what the result would be if inhabitants of this country are given the means to lift themselves out of poverty.

In monetary terms the amount paid by federal and provincial gov-

ernments to income support programs is currently $185 billion, while the Green Party’s proposal will only cost $25 billion. According the Green Party website a third of all Canadians make less than $20,000 a year, the targets of the proposed program. This is a lower price than our current programs which aren’t working.

Unemployment is indeed structural and in some cases functional, poverty however, is not. The idea that we live in a society where everyone will have equal amounts of wealth or equal access to resources is an illusion.

Nonetheless, a significant reduc-

tion in the poverty rate is something our society should strive towards, since it improves the society as a whole. In purely economic terms, lowering poverty will save the government money in areas like healthcare, the justice system, and current social supports. When it comes to policy however, we must accept that there will be some level of income inequality.

The beauty of the concept of minimum income is that it doesn’t fall apart with these assumptions.

Prominent economists have argued that establishing a minimum income

would be effective in simplifying the welfare system in a free market society, including Milton Friedman in his book Capitalism and Freedom. In Canada, the most recent Statistics Canada numbers on nationwide income show that 9.7 per cent of individuals between the ages 18-64, are classified as low income after tax, that’s a rate of nearly 1 in 10 Canadians.

For too long, low-income individuals have been demonized as ‘the unwashed masses’, members of the population who don’t contribute much to society. We’ve stripped the humanity out of the social system and have

“Canada has a chance to be a pioneer in building a society based on principles of compassion, charity and humanity.”

created a society in which millions of people have been disenfranchised from the main population.

It would be foolhardy to believe that minimum income on its own would solve all of society’s ills.

However, it is undeniable that this will positively affect a significant proportion of the population. A minimum income will increase people’s ability to support themselves and from that reduce costs in other areas.

Canada has a chance to be a pioneer in building a society based on principles of compassion, charity and humanity.

Establishing minimum income adds bureaucratic red tape David Campion-Smith Opinions Editor

A minimum income is an idea that sounds good on paper. The concept is to give free money to citizens who really need it. In reality though this system is not free, and it is nowhere near perfect.

In the Green Party’s proposal the aim is for reach Canadian adult to have a $23,000 income, before any other living factors are calculated. The only people who will be receiving support are those who are receiving support from pre-existing social services like

welfare.

We already have systems in place to assist people who need help, so it remains unclear why we should add another. If existing social programs are not reaching as many people as they could be, then we are better served by improving these services, rather than overhauling the entire system.

If minimum income is implemented while other social programs remain in place as well, the cost to the Canadian government will reduce its ability to perform other important tasks. The money that the government would spend

on minimum income payments could be better used by being redirected towards lowering tuition fees, which has a longer lasting effect on the economy than social payments.

There will always be a divide between rich and poor in our society, no matter how hard we try to eliminate it, and no matter how we feel about such a division. We have to accept that reality and work towards strengthening the existing social support structure we have in this country, which would be more effective in lessening the disparity.

The Greens haven’t released specific details of their plans, so the impact on existing programs remains unclear. All of the bureaucratic work it will take to get a new system up and running will either cost the government more than it should, or will result in a lack of payments out to the people that need them as the system turns over.

We all want to do right by our fellow Canadians but a minimum income isn’t the way. Instead of throwing money around, let’s focus on making existing systems more efficient and creating jobs.

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Canadian citizenship is non-negotiable

Recent attacks on citizenship threatens to divide Canadians Nicholas Robinson Staff Contributor

As the Canadian election drags on, citizenship has suddenly become a point of focus.

This is in part due to the controversy over wearing niqabs at citizenship ceremonies, as well as the government’s move to strip convicted terrorists of their citizenship, and their decision to enforce restrictions on expat voting rights.

These debates have shown a more closed-off and xenophobic side of Canada.

Multiculturalism has always been a prominent Canadian value, since it was first adopted as a federal policy in the Trudeau era, and recognized in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Tied to this value is the idea that being Canadian doesn’t depend on your place of birth, the colour of your skin or the clothes you wear—instead, being Canadian is about being part of one of the most open,

peaceful and progressive societies on Earth.

Our government now needs to project that so-called Canadian value as a Canadian reality.

Citizenship is a legal recognition of Canadian identity, and grants people access to the rights and duties offered by our society. For that reason alone, the government should never take away Canadian citizenship.

Anyone convicted of a crime has a debt to repay to society, and taking away their citizenship simply absolves them of that responsibility. Furthermore, removing citizenship from a convicted dual citizen just projects the image that we want to avoid responsibility, and that we can’t solve our own problems.

We can’t deal with our problems by kicking them out of the country, we need to address the root causes of these issues, whether it’s gun

violence, sexualized crime, or terrorism. This approach will only create more problems by disenfranchising people and removing them from their support networks here, making them more likely to commit more crimes.

Being a part of our society doesn’t just mean abiding by our social contract—it also means helping others when they walk down the wrong path.

The rule of law demands that justice be blind, that everyone is equal before the law.

Laws that treat dual citizens differently than single citizens create different classes of citizenship. These laws will disproportionately affect people emigrating from Asia, including the Middle East, since that is where most Canadian immigrants are from, according to the 2011 National Household Survey.

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Because cyberbullying wasn’t easy enough Candide Uyanze Fulcrum Contributor

Imagine you suddenly receive a text message from an unknown number—it claims your ex created a profile for you on an app called Peeple, and the message encourages you to go check out what they have to say about you. You follow through and find you only have 48 hours to sort out the negative review with your ex, otherwise the comment is posted and stays on your undeletable profile for a year. Scary, right?

This is exactly what two women, Julia Cordray and Nicole McCullough, had originally conceived. Their proposed app was met with public scorn from the likes of the CBC and American model Chrissy Teigen when its concept went viral in late September of this year.

Dubbed the “Yelp for humans”, Peeple has since revised and revamped its application, which will remain in beta stages until November 2015.

It is now branding itself as a lovey-dovey, positivity app. In the words of the founders, they were “humbled to admit that previous versions of Peeple’s policies were ill conceived.”

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You don’t say. Really, who would’ve thought that a human rating app requiring no consent from the target of possible slander would be problematic? 7 per cent of internet users report they’ve been the victim of cyberbullying, with 11 per cent of social network site users reported to be victims of cyberbullying, according to Statistics Canada. People engage in cyberbullying for the same sense of power that people engage in physical bullying for, except with the added benefit of Internet anonymity.

Should Peeple’s new platform be welcomed with open arms? Perhaps there won’t be any more cyberbullying on this tool than other social sites, but it could easily become a cesspit of handpicked adulation, feeding into the perception that social media is a narcissist’s wet dream.

Not to worry though, as Cordray has promised that the app would now be 100 per cent optin, allowing users to approve or reject each review, and that they “always meant for Peeple to be all about positivity.”

However her YouTube video entitled “Peeple Watching Webisode 4—Founder’s Space”,

originally published in late August and later reuploaded by other users, seems to say otherwise. Around the 1:55 mark, she states that an app that was all positive would be pointless, and that she “wouldn’t want this app to just be positive.”

It seems, that Peeple didn’t want to acknowledge its own negative reviews as the administrators were accused of deleting comments from its Facebook page, a page that now, along with a Twitter account, most of the website’s content, and a webisode series, no longer exists. Peeple’s creators were eager to remove all incriminating material in order to start fresh—something which was, ironically, impossible to do on the first version of the app.

However, as archived screen captures of its website’s prior postings reveal, “Peeple app reserves the right to change any features in their app now and in the future.”

While the founders are putting in a huge effort in the redesign to give the app a positive spin, the apps imminent release raises an important question—will people give this besmirched tool a fresh start, much less remember its name?

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migrants feel like they’re not Canadian enough, when the government should be doing everything they can to make these groups feel welcomed.

As well, the rule of law demands the supremacy of the law, that government isn’t the law, but rather is subject to the law just like everyone else.

When the government decides that one ethnic group is subject to the law more than another, a dangerous precedent is set.

There’s another particularly noxious idea attached to the government’s stance on citizenship— that holding another country’s citizenship divides a

person’s loyalties and makes them less Canadian. As a dual citizen myself, this is insulting, as the pride I feel from being European will never make me any less of a Canadian.

Nicholas Robinson is also running in the SFUO by-election for the vice-president finance position.

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U of O Tim Hortons discovers iced capps Student foils deception—Tim Horton’s, U of O face conspiracy allegations d Holly Veale An de Savannah Aw

Fulcrum Contri butor and Managing Editor A U of O student has discovered the existence of a magical beverage that is now coming soon to the University of Ottawa campus. According to sources the beverage is known as an “iced cappuccino”, and is a cold, sweet, creamy drink that combines the caffeine kick of a coffee with the sweetness of a milkshake.

Gabriella Dormer, a firstyear health sciences student,

who was at the forefront of this discovery, uncovered a secret, redacted documentwhich dictates that “iced cappuccinos” should only be available at Ottawa establishments that students are unlikely to visit.

This includes Tim Hortons locations that are too far to be worth the walk during midterms, or that put personal safety at risk, such as the Rideau Street Tim Hortons.

This week the unsuspecting Marchand resident ventured out of the Food Services bubble on campus, and found

“The iced cappuccino is rumoured to be available at other Tim Hortons locations, according to one source, who asked not to be identified.”

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the next big thing in beverages after making a 15-minute walk and sacrificing the ability to use her meal plan money. ”It’s incredible!” said Gabriella Dormer, first-year health sciences student. “After my midterms this week, I found a spare hour to kill, and who knew I would uncover a phenomenal coffee drink to tell all my friends about.”

The discovery has stirred up controversy on campus, as students question what Tim Hortons’ motivation could possibly be for burying such a life-changing menu item.

Some also speculate that the University of Ottawa has played a role in depriving students of the sugary beverage for so long.

The “iced cappuccino” is rumoured to be available at other Tim Hortons locations, according to one source, who asked not to be identified. The source refused to comment on the reason behind the iced capp-muzzling.

In the wake of Dormer’s discovery, the department of public relations at Tim Hortons has created a social media campaign that targets students, informing them of the new beverage coming soon to campuses across Canada.

Dormer is skeptical of the timing of the campaign launch, which came approximately 12 hours after she first tasted the “iced cappuccino.”

It’s hard to be the one to bring these issues to light,” she explained. “It makes you wonder who you can really trust—could the school really be partnering with Timmie’s to deprive us of this drink?”

Lucky for the U of O and Tim Hortons, most students are less inclined to believe the conspiracy theories, and are just content to sit back and enjoy the endless Tim Hortons line-ups on campus. Because now, at the end of them, at least there’s a shot of leaving with a coveted “iced cappuccino.”

chaos ensues after residents cook turkey in microwave

Rez students left without microwave following holiday mishap

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David Campion-Smith Opinions Editor Several University of Ottawa students are counting their lucky stars after their Thanksgiving dinner plans

went awry.

The students were trying to capture the festive holiday spirit on campus, since many weren’t able to go home this year. Witnesses have speculated that if reading week had been attached to Thanksgiving then this aw-

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ful tragedy might have been avoided.

Putting their KD skills to use, the students decided to cook a full Thanksgiving meal in their communal kitchen, using the microwave to cook the turkey.

Turkey Cookers Association of Canada spokesman Spencer Cook released a statement earlier this month in hopes of preventing Thanksgivingrelated accidents on campuses across the nation.

“We are happy to see young people so eager to celebrate Thanksgiving.

The Association would like to tell the public that yes, it is possible to cook a turkey in a microwave, but only large ones with the special dimensions indicated in our chart. ” However, the students didn’t follow proper turkey-microwaving protocol, leading to a small explosion, which has resulted in almost $10,000 worth of damage.

Having access to only a small residence microwave, and plagued with a bad case of the munchies, the amateur chefs disregarded this warning and cooked the large bird for two hours on high, flipping and rotating every 15 minutes.

“The turkey wasn’t fitting very well in the microwave so we cooked it one end at a time, with one of us holding up the other end,” said Duncan Radan a first-year history student, one of the students on the floor where the accident occurred.

“By the end of the 15 minutes holding that bird my arms were pretty sore,” said another student on the floor, Stephanie Bennett. “I’m actually kind of surprised that the door to the microwave didn’t fall off, we had it pushed open for so long.”

Luckily no one was injured after the blast rocked the residence room.

“The burners and counters are cov-

ered with raw turkey. We found the wishbone lodged into the wall,” said Radan.

Students not involved in positioning the turkey into the common room appliance also made mashed potatoes, using plastic utensils that they had saved from previous shawarma poutine dinners to combine the ingredients. Bennett said, “The mashed potatoes were nice and creamy with just a hint of shawarma meat and gravy.

The group also had to use knives to open the cans of vegetables and cranberry sauce since none of them owned a can opener. “That took a lot longer than we thought it would. Who knew that cans were so hard to get into?” said Bennett.

The students agreed that they would not venture into the kitchen for quite sometime, opting to set up shop in the university’s 24/7 dining hall instead.

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FEATURES EDITOR Kyle Darbyson

features@thefulcrum.ca (613) 695-0062 @KyleDarbyson

Dear Di Dear Di,

Dear Di,

-Latex Quarrel

-The Quickster

Men are always complaining that condoms don’t feel as good as riding bareback. I thought it would be different if I was in a relationship, but now I’m feeling pressured by my boyfriend to have unprotected sex.

What do I do?

I was hooking up with this girl over the weekend and I thought the sex was good, but when we finished she said “Wow that was quick”. Needless to say, my ego got a little bruised. So I have to ask: how fast is too fast when it comes to a quickie?

Dear TQ,

Dear LQ, I know I say this every week, but it bears repeating: it’s never okay for your partner to pressure you into doing ANYTHING you’re not comfortable with.

If you’re uneasy about having unprotected sex with your partner, then they have no right to pressure you into it—even if you’re in a relationship. When it comes to the decisions that are made in the bedroom, they should be made as a mutual agreement. Both partners have to respect each other’s limits.

It can be difficult to negotiate with someone you are interested in, especially early on in the relationship, as you might be afraid of driving them away. But this shouldn’t stop you from voicing your concerns or discomforts.

If you’re not comfortable going under the sheets without protection, let your partner know that condoms are non-negotiable—no glove, no love.

If they continue to pressure you, communicate your feelings and re-assert your position. If this is not enough to make your partner understand or respect your feelings, you may want to seriously re-evaluate your relationship.

If you feel stuck in your situation there are a number of resources at the University of Ottawa that can provide some guidance. You can even speak to a health provider at U of O Health Services and request counselling sessions to discuss any relationship problems you might be having.

Love, Di

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When it comes to the wonderful world of sex, this may be the one time men shouldn’t aspire to finish first.

In reality, there is no ideal time limit for bumping uglies. However, women take substantially longer to get in the mood. According to Amy Levine, sex coach and founder of Ignite Your Pleasure, it may take up to 20 minutes of foreplay before your female partner is fully aroused.

To counteract this imbalance you can invest in some longer foreplay with your partner. Partake in more oral sex and hand stimulation. This will create a longer sexual experience overall, and may make the whole sexual encounter more satisfying for both parties.

But some guys will take the wrong route and think of unsexy things like sports to distract themselves, hoping to last longer before ejaculation. Unfortunately this may actually make you worse in bed since your full attention won’t be on your partner.

There are a number of things you can do to increase the quantity of time you have in bed, while not sacrificing the quality.For example, if you’re feeling like you’re about to cum, slow it down or stop and take a moment to regain control. Try and practice the “seven and nine” method, where you go hard for seven in/outs and then slow for nine.

But don’t go too deep. The strong stimulation of your penis can sometimes be too much for some guys to handle. Instead try shallow thrusts penetrating the lower part of the vagina. You can then alternate between shallow and deep. This will allow you to establish a good rhythm and maintain a very pleasurable technique for your lady lover.

If you’ve tried a number of these techniques and you’re still finding yourself not lasting long enough to get your female partner off, don’t worry. Every guy is different and, like I said before, there is no required elapse time for penile/vaginal sex.

Love, Di Sex position of the week for the solo woman: Icy hot

Getting off can get pretty steamy. It’s time to cool things down with some ice! Grab an ice cube the next time you’re feeling excited, and slide it over your nips and clit. As your body heats up the melting ice cube will run down your body creating a tingling sensation that will greatly enhance your orgasm ;)

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MUSIC arts Sports FUN Thinking

Friday, Oct. 16 Gee-Gees Women’s Hockey vs. Carleton, home opener, Minto Sports Complex—7 p.m.

WWE legend Mick Foley live, Yuk Yuk’s Comedy Club—7 p.m.

Ottawa RedBlacks vs. Winnipeg Blue Bombers, TD Place—7:30 p.m.

Kevin Hart, What Now? tour, Canadian Tire Centre—8 p.m.

Ottawa International Film Festival, opening night gala, The Bourbon Room—9 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 17 Metcalfe Farmers’ Market, Metcalfe Fairgrounds—8 a.m.

Gee-Gees Women’s Soccer vs. Carleton, Matt Anthony Field—1 p.m.

Paranormal Investigation at Watson’s Mill, Haunted Ottawa Paranormal

Society, Watson’s Mill, Manotick—3 p.m.

Ottawa Senators vs.

Nashville Predators, Canadian Tire Centre—7 p.m.

Deepak Chopra, lecture on higher health, National Arts Centre—7:30 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 18 Fall Poutine Fest, free admission, last day, Sparks Street—11 a.m.

Gee-Gees Women’s Rugby vs. McGill, Matt Anthony Field—3 p.m.

Ottawa Fury vs. San Antonio Scorpions, TD Place—3 p.m.

Pulp Fiction screening, boozy shakes and royale burgers with cheese will be served, The Hintonburg Public House—9:30 p.m.

Monday, Oct. 19 Godsmack, TD Place—7 p.m.

Apu Trilogy: The World of Apu, Bytowne Cinema—9:10 p.m.

Tuesday, Oct. 20 GOB, Mavericks—8 p.m.

The Zolas, House of Targ—9 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 21 The Death Penalty: Current Reflections, speaker series, free admission, Fauteux Hall—11:30 a.m.

30th Annual Ottawa Book Awards, opening day of Ottawa International Writers Festival, City Hall—5 p.m.

Painted Land: In Search of the Group of Seven (documentary), Ottawa premiere, Mayfair Theatre—p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 22 Ottawa Senators vs. New Jersey Devils, Canadian Tire Centre—7:30 p.m.

The Girl King, Inside Out Film Festival (LBGTQ+ film festival), opening night, Bytowne Cinema—9:15 p.m.

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Nicholas “Harper” Robinson Maitland “Martin” Shaheen Candice “Meighen” Uyanze Brittany “MacDonald” Maloney Raghad “Mackenzie King” SheikhKhalil Lane “Trudeau” Ripco Jennifer “Turner” Vo Amitesh “Mulroney” Malhotra Cover art Illustration: Reine Tejares Layout:Devin ORsini

VOL. 76 ISSUE 8

oct 15, 2015

Season of change?

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