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ateway February 6th, 2013
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Issue No. 20
Volume 103
TH E O F F IC IA L STUDE NT NE WS PA P E R AT TH E UN I V ER S I T Y OF A LBERTA
“I heard the screams and saw what happened — it was just a pause and then action.”
Campus Courage Harry Du
citizen’s arrest
theatre preview
Grad student tackles Studio Theatre debuts world an alleged hospital premiere of Missionary Position washroom voyeur Katelyn Hoffart
staff reporter @katelynhoffart Tackling a man to the ground after he was allegedly discovered trying to film a woman under a bathroom stall at the U of A hospital was the last thing Danny Aceytuno expected to do last Tuesday morning when he left to go pick up a mail package. The U of A Biochemistry Medical Sciences PhD student was making a routine trip back home from the hospital where he spends much of his time for his program and volunteering. He was leaving the lab from Medical Sciences towards the 112 St. entrance when he heard a scream come from the washroom he was passing by. When a male flew out of the women’s washroom and bolted towards the doors, Aceytuno knew immediately that something wasn’t right and made the split-second decision to sprint after the suspect.
“I heard the screams and saw what happened — it was just a pause and then action. There was no thought process, there (was) no ration or reason,” he said. “It’s kind of just immediate action, and it’s kind of bizarre — it’s almost as though you leave your body and it does its own thing.” The man was slowed down when he reached the two sets of doors needed to exit the building out onto the street. “He had a bit of a lead on me, but he hit the first door and it was one of those automatic sensor doors … that slowed him down and he kept going,” Aceytuno said. “When he hit the second door, I was able to finally catch up to him.” Although he noted it went by in a blur, the PhD student was able to grab the backpack of the suspect and take him down to the ground in a tumble.
PLEASE SEE vigilante PAGE 5
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Annie Pumphrey
Arts & culture staff @apumphrey After three long years of writing, rewriting, rehearsing and collaboration, the world premiere of Studio Theatre’s production of The Missionary Position is finally ready for the stage. The 2013 BFA acting class has been hard at work creating a play that
examines the controversial matter of foreign aid, questioning false versus genuine intention and ethnocentric attitudes. Directed by U of A drama professor Jan Selman, the play follows a group of 10 Canadian missionaries who are, in their opinion, “rescuing” displaced children after a tsunami in Central America. Sound familiar? That’s
because playwright-in-residence Greg MacArthur drew from an incident following the Haitian earthquake where a group of American missionaries were put on trial for unlawfully taking children out of Haiti under the belief they were helping them. “(The play) talks about the Western, and largely Caucasian, perspective on a developing nation’s tragedies and challenges, and how it’s hard for us to see what a community or what an individual can really need … (The missionaries) ignore their immediate surroundings and the problems they have in their immediate life, and instead go elsewhere without actually addressing what’s wrong with themselves, or with their relationships or their lifestyles,” explains BFA actor Ben Gorodetsky, who plays the role of a missionary — also named Ben.
PLEASE SEE missionary PAGE 19
“All of these Cialis commercials are really making me reconsider every nice thing my parents have ever done for me.”
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