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NEWS Mt. A article alarms conservative media (Pg. 4) Shaving by choice since 1872

ARTS & CULTURE Colville: Canadian art finds home in Sackville (Pg. 7)

SPORTS Varsity hockey excited for new players (Pg. 12)

OPINIONS Campus Freedom Index: not what you think (Pg. 13)

Mount Allison’s Independent Student Newspaper

COVER: MARISSA CRUZ, WHY DO YOU THINK, 2017.

November 2, 2017 Vol. 147, Iss. 8

02 NEWS TUESDAY, NOV. 7 Tea on Tuesday Chapel, 3-4:30 p.m.

Young At Heart (games night) Dufferin Den, 7-9 p.m.

Safe Harbour (play) 69 Main st. Tues-Sun 8 p.m. $20/12 Staying in Sackville over the break?

Break up your studying with some community goodness on and off campus.. There is always endless and wholesome fun to be had in Sackville.

THURSDAY, NOV. 2 Quo Vadimus Sir James Dunn 101, 4-5:30 p.m.

1917: Mud, Mayhem and Miracles Motyer-Fancy Theatre, 8-9 p.m.

FRIDAY, NOV. 3 Flu Clinics at Mt. A Wellness Centre, 9 a.m.-12 p.m.

Christmas Craft Show Curling Club, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. Sat Lunch Skates Tantramar Veterans Memorial Civic Centre, 12-1:30 p.m.

Ukulele Group Bill Johnstone Memorial Park, 1:30-3 p.m.

Recreational Pickleball Returns!

Athletics Centre, 1:30-3 p.m.

Star Wars Trivia The Pond, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.

Concert featuring Gianna Lauren / Skye Wallace / Dom Fricot Thunder & Lightning, 8:30 p.m.-12 a.m. $8/PWYC 19+

FRIDAY, NOV. 10 Communal Meal and Performance Lecture with Lisa Hirmer Third Space Gallery, 7-9 p.m.

Observance of Remembrance Day Registrar’s Office, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. (university offices closed) Women’s Ice Hockey vs. St. FX Tantramar Veterans Memorial Civic Centre, 7-9 p.m.

SATURDAY, NOV. 11

1917: Mud, Mayhem and Miracles Motyer-Fancy Theatre, 3-4 p.m.

SUNDAY, NOV. 5 Women’s Volleyball vs.

Holland Athletic Centre, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

Honour Band Convocation Hall, 1-2:30 p.m.

Basketball vs. UNBSJ Athletic Centre Main Gym, men 2-4 p.m. women 4-6 p.m.

Faculty council debates if the University should release a statement on freedom of expression for its students

THURSDAY, NOV. 9

SATURDAY, NOV. 4

Sackville Stories Sackville Legion, 7 p.m.

No quorum no problem

Quaker Worship Chapel, 12-1 p.m.

Going Critical: ArtsLink NB Forum Owens Art Gallery, 4-9 p.m.

Going Critical: ArtsLink NB Forum Purdy Crawford and Commons, 9 a.m.-9 p.m.

COUNCIL

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 8

Women’s Basketball vs. UKC Athletic Centre Main Gym, women 1-3 p.m. men 3-5 p.m.

Women’s Ice Hockey vs. STU Tantramar Veterans Memorial Civic Centre, 5-7 p.m.

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Women’s Volleyball vs. USA Athletic Centre Main Gym, 6-8 p.m.

SUNDAY, NOV. 12 Observation of Rememberance Day University offices closed Make Something Sunday: Map Book Owens Art Gallery Foyer, 2-4 p.m.

MONDAY, NOV. 13

Fung Loy Kok Taoist Tai Chi St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, 7-9 p.m.

Deadline for registration and residence deposits for students admitted for the winter term

TUESDAY, NOV. 14

Common Vision Concert University Chapel, 3-4:30 p.m.

Senate meeting Tweedie Hall, 4-5 p.m.

MONDAY, NOV. 6

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 15

Fung Loy Kok Taoist Tai Chi St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, 7-9 p.m.

Collegium Musicum Brunton Auditorium, 4-5 p.m.

STUDENTS ARE PERMITTED TO ATTEND FACULTY COUNCIL BUT NOT PERMITTED TO SPEAK. JACLYN SALERNO/CONTRIBUTED

EMMA BUSH News Editor On Oct. 24, faculty council met to address academic issues. There were not 25 faculty members present, which meant that quorum was not achieved and no motions could be passed. However, constructive discussion still took place. Around 10 students, including members of Divest MTA, were also present.

The meeting opened with Jeff Ollerhead, provost and vicepresident of academic and research, and Elizabeth Wells, professor and dean of arts, discussing future teacher training. Wells mentioned that, this year, department heads had only received two months training after they had commenced their duties, which she deemed insufficient.

After this, the conversation turned to the topic of freedom of expression.

Ollerhead brought up the potential need for an official statement, as “eventually something will happen.…

[We] don’t want to deal with [the] aftermath,” he said. “This is just a starting point; this is what other schools are doing.”

Robert Hiscock, director of marketing and communications, had drafted an example statement, based off of other universities’, regarding expression of freedom. This was distributed as a possible version.

Professor Patricia Kelly Spurles, head of the anthropology department, spoke out immediately, saying that any statement made would seem more like a limitation of expression than a freedom. She expressed her preference for deference to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms instead of creating a university statement.

Librarian Laura Snyder was quick to agree with Kelly Spurles. “[The drafted example is] very broad, very general, very open to interpretation,” she said, explaining her distaste for the model provided. She expressed her fear that this would be developed into further policy, which Ollerhead was quick to correct by clarifying that there was no intention of creating a policy, just a statement.

Discussion then developed concerning what was necessary to include in a statement. Some faculty members were in support of creating one, but there was heated debate as to why it was important. As more comments were made, Snyder again

“THE MORE DETAILED A STATEMENT BECOMES, THE DEVIL STARTS TO REAR ITS HEAD” presented her discomfort with the idea. “The more detailed a statement becomes, the devil starts to rear its head in [interpretation],” she explained.

Professor James Devine, head of politics and international relations, agreed and expressed concern that a statement would shape behaviour and potentially lead to the creation of a form of policy. To him, this could be nothing but problematic.

At this time, Kelly Spurles acknowledged the Divest presence in the room. In faculty council meetings, students are not permitted to speak. She specifically noted that no matter what the University

does, they should be providing a “resounding endorsement of freedom of student expression,” clearly in reference to recent Divest actions, the kind of student activism that could be impacted by a potential policy change or statement.

Ollerhead agreed with this point, saying that we should have freedom of speech, experience and inquiry, an example being the hanging red dresses on campus.

Snyder then changed the direction of the conversation, speaking on the importance of media training over that of an official statement. “It’s something that you should know how to do,” she said to Ollerhead.

“That’s why you get the big bucks.”

This comment was met with laughter by many, albeit reservedly from Ollerhead.

Eventually a straw poll made clear that there was no need for a statement of policy to be made at this time, and Ollerhead said that “maybe what we need is an educational discussion [moving forward].”

The meeting continued on a more lighthearted note as general announcements were mad e, including Kelly Spurles mentioning a personal art project and Kim Meade remarking that the REDress Project was taking place the following day.

The meeting ended in uproarious laughter as it was announced that a young male pet rat named Mango had gone missing on campus and was likely in or around the library, as he had escaped from a student’s pocket while they were studying there.

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Centre for International Studies hosts ‘Allyship and Anti-Oppression Training’

CORINNA PAUMIER Contributor

This past Thursday, Oct. 26, the Centre for International Studies (CIS) hosted an off-campus workshop at the Sackville Commons. The event concentrated on anti-oppression frameworks and tackled reflective tools to move past performative allyship.

CIS is a student- and faculty-run initiative that, according to coordinator Tina Oh, aims to “fill in the gaps that we’re seeing [that] are quite bare, especially where the university is not filling the gaps, [nor] even the students’ union.” Oh and Shannon Power are the current student coordinators for CIS. Carmella Farahbakhsh, a queer, non-binary, mixed-race, Bahá’í, Iranian person from South House Sexual and Gender Resource Centre, and Louise Lyman, a queer, white femme from HeartWood Centre, are both activists based out of Halifax who were invited to Sackville to facilitate the event.

The workshop opened with a community check-in as a way to introduce people’s names and pronouns. This was followed by group guidelines that shaped how everyone

interacted throughout the session. It was important that these guidelines were developed collectively to create a space where everyone could engage in ways that were safe and made sense to them. Over the course of two hours, the facilitators centred the workshop around decolonizing communication, active listening,

“WE’RE TRYING TO DEVELOP AND TEACH GENUINE INTENTIONS SO WE ARE NOT JUST SHARING AN ARTICLE ON FACEBOOK” navigating trust in power imbalances, gaslighting and allyship.

When asked to loosely define what the workshop was about, Power said, “Very generally, it’s a framework that aims to be incorporated into your life in all kinds of different aspects, that fights against any kind of system of oppression, whether it be racism, sexism, ableism or transphobia.

It’s not just a set of things that you know, facts, or a checklist of things to do or not to do; it’s a framework for understanding how to go about doing things and engage with other people.”

Jill MacIntyre, a fourth-year student who attended the event, described the workshop as a largely reflective learning experience that avoided just “talking at” participants for the duration of the event.

MacIntyre said the experience “focused more on pre-formative allyship, so [the workshop] was trying to develop and teach genuine intentions so we are not just sharing an article on Facebook and never acting on it in real life.… I think it’s really good because it will validate people’s experiences and make them recognize their own privileges in ways in which they can grow from and become a better ally.”

“We need these workshops to learn how we are oppressive in our everyday lives and the ways that we can correct that,” MacIntyre added.

The event was free and open to all members of the community, as an attempt to break down barriers that not only exist between the town and the University but across socioeconomic and hierarchical access

inequities. Oh noted that this was intentional and vital in the planning process: “It was important for us to make sure that the community was invited, not just for this particular event, but all events. We wanted to make a space that is not so universitycentric.”

Community member and town council member Megan Mitton attended the event after recognizing the gap the community has yet to

“IT WAS IMPORTANT TO US THAT COMMUNITY WAS INVITED” fill. “I attended because I feel that since I have been out of university I have had less opportunities to engage in these kinds of frameworks,” she said. “It can be harder to access this type of workshop. These types of conversations unfortunately aren’t really happening out in the community.”

On a wider scale, Power acknowledged that the application of anti-oppression is important, no matter what you engage in. “We

all do so many different things and [are] engaged with so many different people, so I think it’s important that people understand how to apply that framework to everything they do in this community,” she said. “You don’t need to be engaged with social justice to be able to use this framework. For me, it’s something that I try to do on a daily basis.”

As a community member, Mitton believes that “to move forward there are going to be some uncomfortable conversations and a lot of this [antioppression learning] isn’t going to be very formal. I think that’s something we need to recognize, because it isn’t always a parade or a workshop: It’s the one-on-one interactions that we’re having with people by being aware of our assumptions and reactions.”

With hopes of future engagement, Oh closed by saying, “We’re seeing at other universities students are taking initiatives, especially students’ unions, by making mandatory workshops for clubs’ and societies’ executives….So hopefully we are setting a precedent by starting up this first anti-oppression workshop into something that is consistently free and more mandatory for certain groups.”

COMMUNITY

Organizers ask the town for financial support Sackville festivals and trusts make their case for why town council should fund them this year AMELIA MACDOUGALL FLEMING News Reporter

inspired by all this growth and all the things we’ve been able to do.”

Karen Valanne then presented on the importance of the Tantramar Limited funds may mean tough Heritage Trust, explaining that choices for the Sackville town council the organization owns Sackville’s in the upcoming year. On Tuesday, Boultenhouse and Carriage Oct. 24, the town council listened to Factory museums. It also organizes suggestions from the public about community events such as the annual where they should prioritize funding Heritage Day breakfast and the annual in the 2018 budget. The meeting Strawberry Social. Valanne explained focused on organizational grants, that much of the trust’s budget comes where $81,000 was allocated to from donations at these events, and community groups in 2017. that the trust is looking for continued Shawn Bostick, representing the financial support from the Town of Sackville Festival Sackville budget in of Early Music, “FUNDING COMMUNITY addition to these was the first to ORGANIZATIONS HELPS donations. present to council.

The Live Bait He explained MAKE SACKVILLE A Theatre then spoke that the festival briefly before the presents medieval, WONDERFUL COMUNITY council. Treasurer Renaissance and Cynthia Spurles TO LIVE IN” baroque music to said, “Our mandate seniors and school-aged children is enhancing cultural life of the central through outreach programs in the Maritime region, telling entertaining, senior college, the Drew Nursing thought-provoking stories with an Home and public schools. In previous emphasis on the Canadian script.” years, all of the funds provided by The theatre would use funds from the town were allocated to such council to continue to bring cultural programs, and Bostick encouraged events to town. the town to invest in the 2018 festival Following this, chair Kate Bredin as well. “We’ve been pleased with the presented on behalf of Renaissance growth of the outreach program in all Sackville, a group that the town its capacities,” said Bostick. “I don’t has given funds to in the past. This know yet what sort of twists and organization funds programs in the turns we’ll have for the next festival non-profit sector, and is often one of in 2018, but the board is excited and the only sources of funding for small

groups, such as Perpetual Motion Dance Studio and Bagtown Brewery.

“Funding community organizations helps make Sackville a wonderful community to live in and a great place to visit,” said Bredin. Renaissance Sackville asked for ongoing financial support from the town so that the program can continue fostering Sackville’s economic development in 2018.

The final presentation was the

Tantramar Outdoor Club. This presentation was delivered by Ross Thomas, the club’s vice-president, who made suggestions regarding a pedway connecting the Tantramar Wetlands Centre and Waterfowl Park trails. “It would be remarkable if you could see people with great incentive to use the trail system,” Thomas said. He also urged the council to allocate money for building gates to prevent ATV usage in the wetland

environments: “When ATVs are on that trail, then people don’t want to walk on it because they don’t feel safe, and gates are not all that expensive.”

At the end of the presentations, council thanked the participants and motioned to adjourn the meeting. While council did not make any decisions that evening, they encouraged Sackvillians to stay tuned to see how the budget is used in 2018.

WHICH PROJECTS THE TOWN OF SACKVILLE WILL BE FUNDING THIS YEAR REMAINS TO BE SEEN. SARAH NOONAN/ARGOSY

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SOCIAL JUSTICE

Indigenous deaths not receiving justice

Lorise Simon hosts open discussion of Canada’s missing and murdered Indigenous people

THE RED DRESS CAMPAIGN HANGS RED DRESSES TO HONOUR AND GAIN VISIBILITY FOR INDIGENOUS WOMEN LOST. KAWAMA KASUTU/SUBMITTED

MAIA HERRIOT News Editor Indigenous women are 2.7 times more likely to fall victim to violence than their non-indigenous counterparts.

Between between 2001 and 2015, almost six times more Indigenous women were murdered than nonIndigenous women.

On Wednesday Oct. 25, red dresses were hung from trees around the Mount Allison campus as visual reminders of the racialized and endemic violence against Canada’s Indigenous women. That afternoon, students and faculty members gathered in Mawita’mkw,

a designated place of Indigenous gathering on campus, to hear social worker and Mt. A graduate, Lorise Simon, speak about the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women.

Doreen Richard, the University’s first indigenous affairs co-ordinator and fellow Mt. A grad introduced Simon. Richard dedicated the event to Gladys Simon, Lorise Simon’s sister who was declared missing in 2004 and Chris Metallic, a Mt. A student who went missing on campus in 2012 and still has not been found.

Simon opened her talk by asking everyone in the room to say their name and why they came to this event.

She then outlined the history of Indigenous oppression in Canada, beginning with the residential schools that attempted to culturally assimilate over 150,000 Indigenous children. She noted that the effects of residential schools can still be clearly seen in the communities they targeted – some people are still trying to find lost family members and many are still trying to recover from the layered abuses they suffered.

Simon then spoke about the second wave of attempted cultural genocide by the Canadian government, the Sixties Scoop. In the 1960s, many Indigenous homes were declared “unfit” and their children were forcibly taken from their families and adopted into white families. “Some children were sent away as far as Australia,” said Simon.

Toward the end of her presentation, Simon talked about how the colonial introduction of the patriarchy forced women out of leadership roles and devalued the female gender both within their communities and greater Canadian society. Simon said that although female empowerment is on the rise, “[Indigenous communities] need more women leaders, positive leaders.”

In 1876 the Canadian government wrote the Indian Act in which they stated that an Indigenous woman would be stripped of her official “Indian Status” if she married a white man, consequently erasing her identity. The act also stated that if an Indigenous woman married a man from a different band than her, she and her descendants would automatically be of his band. The act was official policy written by the Canadian government that robbed Indigenous women of any individual power or worth. Those portions of the act were not amended until 1985.

Simon, Richard and several other

women spoke during the discussion period about the Indigenous people they know whose deaths had possible foul play but were written off by police as “just another drunk Indian falling in the river” and not investigated. The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women movement is a call to action, both for the police and for Canadian people. Indigenous deaths and disappearances too often go undocumented and uninvestigated.

Simon closed her talk with the sentiments that in a world where “it’s all about me and not about we anymore” it is important to remember that “people are medicine

“NO INDIGENOUS PERSON IS UNAFFECTED BY MISSING AND MURDERED INDIGENOUS WOMEN OR RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS” for other people, everybody is” and we must lean on each other.

In the discussion period following Simon’s talk, Paulette Steeves, assistant professor at Mt. A and Indigenous anthropologist/ archeologist said, “I think it’s important for everyone here to realize that we have a responsibility to talk about this because that’s how we get to places where it stops happening.”

Regarding the full room, Steeves said, “I’m so happy to see that you all are here and are interested and you

can take your piece of it and move forward from here.”

The discussion also covered topics of corruption within the RCMP. Steeves said, “There are some very great departments and great people, but there is also a lot of toxicity too.”

Another attendee who specified that she had been married to an RCMP officer called the RCMP a “scary organization” and wondered how activists get their voices heard while people like that are in power. Steeves replied that education is key, “the more groups that put pressure on [the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous people], the more people who are aware of it, the better it will be.”

Richards told a story about an RCMP officer who started flashing lights behind her on an empty road.

She did not feel safe pulling over in such a secluded area so she waited until she could pull into a well-lit mall parking lot with other people around. When the officer asked her why she didn’t pull over earlier she replied, “I’m an Indigenous woman, just because you’re the RCMP doesn’t mean that I should feel safe.” The officer told her he was just doing a routine spot check. He had followed her for over 50 miles.

Mt. A student, Ashley Cummings said, “There is so much fear. No Indigenous person is unaffected by missing and murdered Indigenous women or residential schools, all these issues – they’re ongoing.

Anytime I have to walk home alone at night all I hear in my head is that I’m three times more likely than most of my friends to go missing and seven times more likely to be murdered than most of my friends. It’s a fear that will loom in my mind forever.”

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MEDIA

White fragility article incites right-wing outrage

Politics professor and former student’s work gets picked up by U.S. right-wing media LILY FALK News Reporter When Prof. Dave Thomas and former Mount Allison student Zoe Luba published their article in the Canadian Journal of Development Studies, they did not expect a large reaction.

On Sept. 25, their article, White Fragility and the White Student Abroad: Using Critical Race Theory to Analyse International Experiential Learning was released. Within a day, Thomas was contacted by Campus Reform for an interview. Campus Reform is an American conservative news site that focuses on higher education. The news site is run by the Leadership Institute, whose tagline is Training Conservatives Since 1979.

“I had never heard of the group before, so I Googled them to take a

look and as soon as I saw what they were up to, I just emailed them back and said, ‘Sorry, I don’t want to talk to you about this,’ ” said Thomas.

Luba and Thomas’s article came out of Luba’s honours thesis where she used critical race theory, specifically white fragility, to assess whether participants in international experiential learning were aware of issues of racism and whiteness while living in a non-white majority country. After Luba graduated, they continued to work on condensing the thesis into a journal article.

Campus Reform published an article about Luba and Thomas’s research on Sept. 27. The Campus Reform article incorrectly stated that Zoe Luba was a professor at Mt. A. The news article has currently been shared 742 times.

The day after the Campus Reform

article was published, Thomas was contacted by Fox News and again refused to comment. Fox News published an article similar to Campus Reform’s on Sept. 28.

The commenters on both articles expressed their outrage over Luba

“THIS IS A VICIOUSLY RACIST PROPOSAL. UNBELIEVABLE . . .

IT’S GETTING SCARY” and Thomas’s proposition to provide pre-departure training on whiteness and racism. “This is a viciously racist proposal. Unbelievable. How long are we supposed to entertain these ‘intersectionalist,’ neo-Marxist ideas?” said one commenter. “It’s

no longer funny – it’s getting scary. The people behind this movement are pushing society into tightly constrained identity boxes, segregating us from one another. We need to push back.”

“I didn’t really see it coming,” said Luba, “but it makes sense that there would be pushback… It’s a textbook reaction and it fits right in with what the theory says when white people react when their world view is questioned at all.”

Thomas received a phone call, a few tweets and an email from those who wanted to voice their opposition to his and Luba’s work. “I feel unsettled,” said Thomas. “Just in the sense that that’s the kind of reception that this work is getting in a lot of quarters in the United States, and Canada, to a lesser extent.”

He emphasized that in comparison

to the racism people of colour face, this experience was non-threatening.

“The discomfort that I would feel, or Zoe would feel, from this reaction is nothing compared to the nature of the problem of racism and white supremacy that people of colour feel and experience on a daily basis,” said Thomas. “So I don’t try to make it about me being upset because I’m not really that upset, and even if I was a little upset by the reactions, it pales in comparison to the actual problems of racism that people experience on a daily basis.”

In response to the inflammatory reaction, Luba feels an even greater passion for the work. “It just encourages me to fight even harder, to keep pushing my ideas forward with more intensity,” she said.

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MASU gives overview of Honours student research profiles the 2017-18 school year AGM summarizes projects and services of MASU EMMA BUSH News Editor Students learned more about their rights and their student government’s plan for rest of the 2017-18 academic year at MASU’s Annual General Meeting on Oct. 24 in the Pond.

The meeting started off with guest presenter Rob Burroughs, from the New Brunswick Student Alliance (NBSA/AENB), speaking on the role that NBSA/AENB plays in lobbying for students. “It’s to the credit of the students that we have this,” he explained.

He described the process of their work as “we hear from you, make notes, do research [and then] go to the government” for the purpose of bettering student life.

One of the largest projects that the organisation has worked on recently is the Free Tuition Program. Mt. A students each contribute $4.92 as part of their standard fees to the University, which goes toward allowing 273 students in need to attend Mt. A tuition-free. This Tuition Access Bursary was instituted by the New Brunswick government to be implemented for the 2016-17 year.

New policies that the NBSA/AENB will be working toward in the near future include funding for sexual violence support services on top of SHARE, sexual violence legislation and policy on campus, Indigenous cultural education training, funding for mental health intervention programs, a New Brunswick debt relief program and an experiential learning program providing funding for non-STEM students.

Following Burroughs’s

presentation, the MASU executive members all gave short presentations detailing their roles and plans for the future.

President Sara Camus informed attendees of her daily responsibilities and the boards that she sits on, including, but not limited to, the board of regents, council and the NBSA, of which she is the chair. She also addressed that this is President Robert Campbell’s last year in his position and briefly referenced the role that the MASU performs in hiring a new president. Camus said that she will keep students in the loop as much as possible and that candidates are currently being reviewed and will be interviewed soon.

Most presidential search

“MASU OPERATES AS A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION TO GET THE MOST FOR STUDENTS THAT IT CAN ” information will remain confidential in order to protect applicants, but the ideal start date for the new president would be June 1, 2018. Students will be provided with more details in the winter semester when more developments have taken place.

Next to speak was Rachel Howlett, the vice-president of academic affairs. Her role is largely composed of sitting in senate and advocating for the academic success of students.

THE MASU HELD THE AGM IN PART TO PUBLICLY DEFINE THEIR ROLES. LOUIS SOBOL/ARGOSY

In regard to senate, she noted that Arts Senator Kiera Stel had recently passed a motion to make the November reading week permanent.

She also said, “We will be bringing forth a de-stress den in the room next to the girl’s bathroom on the red floor [of the R.P. Bell Library].”

They are hoping to open up the current office space in this section, making it into a conference room with dividers.

Danica Garner, vice-president of external affairs, discussed her role as an advocate for students, including off-campus students, and her role with the NBSA/AENB. She listed housing-related issues and improvement of the MASU airport shuttle services as examples. “I do have a new model I have in mind … so please stay tuned,” she said of the shuttle.

Emma Miller, vice-president of student life, talked about her work on the nationwide Keep It Social alcohol awareness campaign that is present on campus, as well as her willingness to hear about any nonacademic issues that students may have. She also addressed her interest in increasing study spaces for students, mental health workshops in residence and accessibility on campus. One way that she wishes to address the problem of accessibility on campus is by holding an Accessibility Coffee House. This event would include residence and off-campus acts, in order to hopefully raise funds to construct ramps for both the Athletic Centre and Convocation Hall.

Cole Cadorette, vice-president of finance and operations, turned the talk to money. His role is internal.

“MASU operates as a non-profit organization to get the most for students that it can,” he explained, before providing brief explanations of his responsibilities in managing money and co-chairing the HR committee.

Finally, Emelyana Titarenko, vice-president of communications, spoke on the topic of yearbooks, press releases and her presence on the MASU social media platforms and website, as well as on CHMA on Mondays at 9 p.m.

The meeting was followed by the opportunity to network and win door prizes. All executive members expressed their wish to be approached at any time if anyone had any questions, either that evening or throughout the year. In closing, Titarenko specifically said that if anyone had any questions, she was in her office a lot and to “please stop by there.”

TAYLOR CROSBY IS A FOURTH-YEAR HONOURS STUDENT STUDYING IN THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

“I am an environmental science student minoring in political science.

I love to play outside and am interested in human impacts on the environment. My honours project looks at microplastics and their export into New Brunswick rivers under the supervision of Dr. Joshua Kurek. Microplastics are tiny plastics that come from a variety of sources and have negative consequences that work through the food web. I’m excited about my work because it has enabled me to learn new skills both in the field and the lab and will hopefully affect how microplastics are managed in wastewater treatment facilities!”

COLIN ROBERTSON IS A FOURTH-YEAR HONOURS STUDENT IN THE HISTORY DEPARTMENT.

“For my research this year I am working with Dr. Lundell to examine the way two talented Christian exegetes understood Paul’s Letter to the Romans. Martin Luther and Erasmus of Rotterdam were the two most influential thinkers of the early 16th century, but they came from different backgrounds and reached radically different conclusions about Christian doctrine. Luther was a nominalist-trained reformer with an extremely sharp mind who delivered a series of lectures on Romans in 1515 and 1516. Erasmus, a reform-minded humanist known for his unsurpassed eloquence and philological skills, published his Paraphrase of Romans in 1517. I am very excited to be working on these two men who had such a profound effect on the history of Christianity, especially on the 500th anniversary of the start of the Reformation.”

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MUSIC

Bragg family unveils $1 million donation

Music department to fund new and exciting programs with generous gift

ATTENDEES TAKE IN THE WONDERFUL NEWS. THE BRAGG WOMEN MUSIC OPPORTUNITIES FUND WILL CREATE MANY OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS STUDYING MUSIC AT MT. A. GILLIAN HILL./THE ARGOSY

MAX CHAPMAN Arts & Culture Reporter Mount Allison’s music department called a surprise meeting to announce some excellent news. The meeting took place Friday Oct. 27 in the Music Conservatory lobby. The room was full as a hush fell over the audience.

A brass quintet played on the second floor of the atrium, signaling the beginning of the afternoon. Mt. A President Robert Campbell followed the quintet with the announcement of a $1 million endowment from John Bragg, a former Mt. A chancellor.

The Bragg Women Music Opportunities Fund will take effect this year, courtesy of the Bragg family. The name of the fund is in honour of five of the Bragg women: Zillah, Kathleen, Carolyn, Sylvia

and Lorraine, who have all been impacted by music in some way. The department, and particularly Prof.

Kevin Morse, describes this as an “incredible gift.”

“This endowment will expand experiential learning for Mount Allison University’s music students,” said Campbell. There will be three parts to this fund. The first gives students a better opportunity to obtain grants to travel, attend master classes and tour their music, giving what Morse calls “[the] real life, practical experience of being a musician.”

Morgan Reid and Sarah Sharpe, who attended programs like this in Italy and Halifax this summer, had the opportunity to perform in multiple full-scale opera productions. “These programs open

doors for young singers… but most importantly these programs give us real life experiences,” said Sharpe.

Applications for summer funding will begin being collected mid-November, although Morse hinted that there have already been some turned in by especially eager students.

The second part of this endowment is going to fund an artist-in-residence.

“If you could choose anyone in the world to come to Mt. A, who would it be?” This is the way Morse wants to imagine this; he wants his students and faculty to think internationally when it comes to the ideal candidate for these funds.

When asked if the department had

anyone in mind already, Morse confirmed there was, but could not give any more details. Morse expressed confidence that an artist will arrive on campus soon. They are expected to teach students in master classes, interact with the students and hold concerts where all can gather and learn from internationallyrecognized musicians.

The third and final part of the endowment’s purpose is to acquire new equipment for the music lab in the basement of the Conservatory. “Some of the things we are getting are new softwares that let musicians interact with acoustics in real time... Also, we’ll be getting some recording equipment to let

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students hear what they can create,” said Morse. He is currently looking into the best place for these funds.

Urgency seems to be on topic for this department, as faculty and students alike want to see it in full force as soon as possible.

This incredible gift is creating an excited buzz around the department.

Students are preparing to take a shot at using this funding to better their education. Second-year music student Graham Kidd was shocked at the generosity of the donation.

“It’s huge... It opens up more opportunities for everyone,” he said.

Kidd, along with many others, seem ecstatic over this endowment, and plan on taking full advantage of it.

INDIGENOUS ACTION

Truth & ReconciliACTION Film Series

Weekly screenings of thought-provoking documentaries highlight Indigenous communities RYAN KARIMI Contributor Every Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 p.m., tucked away in the library theatre, a group of ten-odd students and a handful of community members watch a short documentary on Indigenous issues as part of the University’s Year of Indigenous Action.

The event has consisted of showings of the episodic CBC documentary 8th Fire for the last four weeks. The title of the documentary is a reference to an Anishinaabe prophecy predicting peace and coexistence in Canada.

When asked why she brought this series to the University, librarian Elizabeth Stregger said, “It’s partly about building relationships, getting to the point where people aren’t afraid to approach each other and talk to each other.”

At 2:30 p.m., we jumped into the third episode of 8th Fire,

which focused on land conflicts. It introduced challenges around how Indigenous communities negotiate equitable business deals with companies who wish to extract their natural resources. It showed viewers how inequitable deals can lead to poverty-like conditions on reserves, and showed the pros and cons of running Indigenous communities like businesses in the first place.

Intrigued by the unique problems faced by Indigenous communities, I returned the following week to watch the final episode on the topic of solutions and the future of reconciliation. It spoke to the importance of bringing education to reserves as a means of social mobility. In the episode, Penny Smoke, a student of First Nations University in Manitoba said, “Today, education is our buffalo,” referencing how education has become an invaluable commodity in Indigenous communities.

Wab Kinew, the host of 8th Fire, said, “Youth play a large role in making things better, they’re more open and confident than ever.” The documentary further discussed the need for young Indigenous students to have role models who have pursued higher education.

I caught up with Indigenous affairs coordinator Doreen Richard after the final film and asked her what the future of reconciliation will look like on campus. She expressed that we should not rush the process, stating the importance of “going slow enough that it works.” She paused for a moment and continued, “If you go too fast and you make mistakes, it’s like going backwards.”

This film series is an excellent first step. Regardless of one’s personal opinion on reconciliation, it is a topic with which our generation will have to contend. Therefore, it’s essential to understand the true scope of the problem, its sources and

LOUIS SOBOL/THE ARGOSY its effects on Canadian society. The library has access to a whole host of documentaries on Indigenous issues.

The series will continue to run every Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. in the library theatre.

“We can only start with what we have here,” Richard further

elaborated. “You have to start with self. And here at the University, people need to learn about what reconciliation is and what it’s supposed to look like. So we have to start with spreading the word here.

We have to start decolonizing our university.”

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Finding Alex Colville: studio exhibit unveiled The Colville House connects national art history to small-town Sackville

TENEA WELSH Contributor As an interdisciplinary student, the Alex Colville studio exhibit at the Owens Art Gallery was a great place for me to begin exploring the world of Atlantic Canadian art. Being from Western Canada, I know little about the influential artists of the East Coast, so there was something so surreal about immersing myself in an artistic environment of which I know little. This opening featured the Colville House as well as an exhibit at Tweedie Hall.

The Colville House was restructured in memory and honour of Alex Colville, an iconic artist who was born in Toronto, moved to Atlantic Canada and lived in towns Sackville and Amherst before spending his final years in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. I was taken on a tour of his former house by guide and Owens Gallery student assistant Savannah Harris who pointed out curiosities such as an easel that Colville custommade to fit his height. There were also collections of geometric mapping and preliminary sketches that allowed Colville to paint in realistic proportions. One fun fact Harris told me was about the mural in Tweedie

Hall: “He made that. It’s called the History of Mount Allison.”

There is much to see in Colville’s art; to some it is intertwined with their lives. In fact, our own Rev. John Perkin personally knew Colville and his work. He recalled having various Colville reproductions throughout his childhood home, and also had the opportunity to view one of Colville’s pieces in progress at the studio.

In an email, Perkin said Colville’s work is “significant in Canadian art history and will one day, if not already, be mentioned with the Group of Seven and Emily Carr as defining works.” One aspect of Colville’s art that Perkin admires is the feeling of tension and the artistic juxtapositions in Colville’s paintings.

In the triptych Past, Present and Future: Athletes, for example, the athletes are all painted at the peak of tension – “the swimmer committed to diving in, but still on the starter’s block; the high jumper at the peak of his jump just before the descent, with the javelin about to be thrown behind him; the runner just at the tape, almost complete, but not yet,” Perkin explained. This type of tension, in my opinion, is what draws people in to take a closer look and see the beautiful complexity of his art.

The Colville House visit was followed by a reception at the Owens Art Gallery. Brenna MacMillan, the event MC, and Owens Director/ Curator Gemey Kelly opened and concluded speeches by President Campbell and Graham Colville, Alex Colville’s son. Graham Colville humorously shared several vignettes of his life growing up in Sackville and the significant memories he still holds onto today.

After the speeches, Colville shared with me the significance of some of the materials included in the exhibits at Mt. A and the impact they may have on prospective students: “To have the actual real correspondence handwritten by my father and signed by him is huge.… It will bring people to Mt. A to consult [the exhibit as] an archive.” Colville believes that the Colville House and Owens Art Gallery exhibit will allow anyone to “tap into the … realities of who [Alex Colville] was and what he was like.”

For anyone interested in Canadian history or art, or simply wanting to learn a little bit of Canadian culture, the Colville House and Owens Art Gallery exhibit are the places to visit.

The Colville House is open in July and Aug. from 1 to 5 p.m. daily, and the Owens Art Gallery is open from 10 a.m.

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Mt. A given the opportunity to invest in

renewable energy

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LEFT (L2R): ROCHELLE RUMNEY (DIRECTOR OF PROJECT PLANNING AT PROWIND), MEGAN MITTON (SACKVILLE TOWN COUNCILLOR) AND DAVID COON (MLA, FREDERICTON SOUTH & LEADER OF THE GREEN PARTY OF NB) RIGHT: MAP DEPICTING THE PROPOSED LOCATION FOR THE PROJECT HEATHER SHILTON/SUBMITTED. THE AMHERST WIND FARM CONSISTS OF 15 TURBINES TOTALLING TO 31.5 MW OF WIND POWER. UNDER POWER NB’S LORESS PROGRAM, LOCAL ENTITIES CAN PROPOSE WIND FARM PROJECTS THAT PUT UP TO 40 MW IN THE NB POWER GRID. LIANG CHAOYI/ARGOSY

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Two different companies are proposing to work with Mount Allison on wind farm projects At least two different companies have proposed to work with Mount Allison on wind farm projects that could partly or completely offset Mt. A’s carbon emissions.

The University is currently considering proposals from Prowind Canada Inc. and Natural Forces Technologies Inc., but has yet to release details about its selection process.

In partnership with Beauséjour Renewable Energy Cooperative (BRE), Prowind has proposed to erect six wind turbines in the Sackville area that would power 7,000 homes.

If approved by NB Power, the Sugar Brook Community Farm – the name Prowind and BRE have given to their proposed wind farm – would be located west of Sackville, toward Moncton.

Prowind currently owns 49 per cent of the Sugar Brook Community Farm, but they are “more than willing” to decrease their share, said Heather Shilton, Prowind’s communications manager and Mt. A alumna. They are looking to find an Indigenous partner, and they have also proposed to partner with Mt. A. Shilton and Prowind president Helmut Schneider recently met with Mt. A administrators to discuss the possibility of the University becoming a partner in the wind farm project. “They had a good dialogue with us, and we’re certainly interested in engaging with them,” Shilton said.

Based on preliminary estimates of the amount of energy used annually by the University, Shilton said that Mt. A would have to make an 18 to 20 per cent investment in the project in order to claim that they are completely powered by renewable energy.

The wind turbines would produce approximately 16,500 megawatt hours (MWh) of renewable energy annually, which would go into the general New Brunswick grid. Mt. A uses approximately 11,000 MWh annually.

Fourth-year student Jill MacIntyre approves of Prowind’s high level of engagement with the community.

“I think it’s wonderful that they want to form genuine partnerships with local organizations and receive feedback from Sackville residents,” she wrote in a Facebook comment. “…[E]nergy corporations (even the renewable ones) often have a reputation for imposing themselves on communities without consultation or consideration for how it impacts residents and ecosystems.”

MacIntyre added that her hometown of Summerside, P.E.I., has the first municipally owned wind farm in Canada, and said that “it’s been a huge source of job creation and pride in the community.”

Another company, Natural Forces Technologies Inc., made a similar proposition to Mt. A about two years ago.

Natural Forces has worked on several other wind farm projects in the Maritimes, including one at Cape Breton University.

The Sackville and Mt. A community members the Argosy talked to were not aware of the Natural Forces proposal.

In an email, geography professor and active Sackville community member, Michael Fox wrote that he was “completely in the dark on this other group and their proposal.”

Fox wrote NB Power a letter of support for the Prowind project after Shilton and Schneider met with him and Perry Eldridge, chair of EOS Eco Energy and Mt. A technical services manager, as part of Prowind’s community consultation process. They discussed partnerships for education and sustainability planning for the community, wrote Fox. Robert Inglis, vice-president of finance and administration, wrote in an email, “I do not have

information I can share with you concerning Natural Forces’ proposal, as the proposal process is a competitive process involving a number of submissions by different organizations and consequently the information is private.”

The Argosy has contacted Natural Forces, but has yet to conduct an interview with the company.

Environmental science student Lauren Latour was skeptical that the University would work with Natural Forces over Prowind: “This is the first I’ve ever heard of the Natural Forces one. Maybe this is just a testament to my Mt. A experience, but I’m really skeptical of administration throwing this project at you [without community consultation].”

Prowind and Natural Forces both applied to NB Power’s Locally Owned Renewable Energy Projects that are Small Scale (LORESS) Program. Under the LORESS Program, what NB Power calls “local entities” (municipalities, cooperatives and non-profit organizations) can propose projects that cumulatively put up to 40 Megawatts (MW) of renewable energy into the New Brunswick power grid. A single project cannot propose to put more than 20 MW into the grid.

The LORESS Program requires that at least 51 per cent of any proposed project be community-owned.

Prowind and Natural Forces will hear back from NB Power at the same time.

Inglis is waiting to hear if either or both of the projects will be approved by NB Power before making any decisions. “[Natural Forces] has been talking with us for a couple years, and Natural Forces has submitted, along with us, a proposal to the government under the NB Power process,” Inglis said. “So we’re in the process, as are all the other developers, to wait and see what happens with that.”

“Talking to my colleagues from Cape Breton University, it’s complicated, but it looks quite intriguing. The rate of return on these projects is very good, and it would be nice to know that we’re supporting NB Power’s attempt to use more renewable energy,” Inglis said.

He said that Mt. A is not legally committed to choosing Natural Forces over Prowind, but that they “would have to figure out all the details.”

Any decision made by Inglis would have to go through Mt. A’s Board of Regents before it is officially approved.

Fourth-year PPE student Tina Oh would like to see the University invest in Prowind and BRE’s project.

“As a student, I think it’s a great opportunity for the University to invest in the community, especially since it’s in renewable energy, and Prowind seems to be a company that values community initiatives and also makes sure that they’re doing it in the most ethical way possible. It’s heartening to see that they’re prioritizing First Nations involvement in the project,” she said.

Oh is also an organizer with Divest MTA, a movement that has been campaigning for five years to get Mt. A to take the portion of the endowment fund that is currently invested in fossil fuels out of that industry.

“We hadn’t gotten to the point in our [divestment] campaign where we can talk about reinvestment, but this is a great opportunity from which to start that conversation,” Oh said, referring to the possibility of investing in a wind farm project.

An answer from NB Power could come as soon as November, but Shilton said they do not expect an answer before the spring of 2018.

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Small Town, Big Mystery Chapter 4: Whispers in the Weeds

WORKSHOP

Theatre NB’s Ryan Griffith on failure and finding ‘Fortune of Wolves’ JENA MCLEAN Arts & Culture Reporter

MARIA DIME Columnist Ms. Fannon lifted her china cup from its saucer and quietly slurped orange pekoe tea, which was still too hot to properly sip. She sat on a wicker chair in her back sunroom (a modern addition to her old Victorian home, built some 10 years prior) as she always did around noon. The room’s wood-paneled walls were painted white, and large windows on three sides offered a delectable view of her impressive flower garden. It was midJune, and her lilac bushes, which sat directly below the windows and had grown tall enough to fill the bottom quarter of each, were in perfect bloom. A few of the windows were open, and that sweet aroma drifted in, easing Ms. Fannon into an unusual state of relaxation.

That pleasant mindset was shortlived and, glancing up at the clock, Ms. Fannon noticed it was ten minutes past noon. Late, as usual.

She continued like this, grumbling to herself about her brother, until after a few minutes she heard his

unmistakable tromp on her front steps and the tinkle of chimes as the front door swung open.

“You’re late,” she said without turning around to look at him through the kitchen and front hall.

“Forgive me, dear sister,” Archie said with obvious derision. “The funeral ran late.”

“What funeral?”

“What do you mean, ‘What funeral?’ For Herr Hansel, of course.”

“Oh, yes.”

Archie, having removed his blazer and slip-on dress shoes, made his way to the sunroom and sat on the sofa across from Ms. Fannon, facing back into the house.

“It wasn’t much of a funeral,” he said.

Ms. Fannon didn’t respond.

Something had clearly caught her attention in the backyard and Archie twisted around automatically. They beheld an unusual sight: Ms. Fannon’s gardner, Landon, stood at the back fence, engaged in a conversation with Sir Ipswich, whose house backed on to Ms. Fannon’s. Sir Ipswich was a local baron of sorts who owned

SYLVAN HAMBURGER/THE ARGOSY acres of land around Lincolnshire, which he rented out to hay and wheat farmers. Landon was young, only 14 years old, but had dropped out of school to support his father and four younger brothers. His mother had passed away and the family had few resources.

Ms. Fannon stepped across the room to sit beside Archie, and leaned over the back of the sofa to get her ear as close to the window as possible.

“Shhh!” she said. “Quiet your breathing – I can’t hear them.”

They spoke in low tones, but Ms. Fannon’s hearing was sharp and she managed to pick up the conversation.

“Ten thousand dollars! Do you take me for an idiot? Take my offer, boy, or I promise you’ll regret it.”

“I’ll take ten thousand, sir, and not a penny less. Deny me, and I’ll ruin you.”

“You conniving bastard! We had an agreement.”

“Herr Hansel is dead. Our little scheme can’t go on without his connections. Deliver the money by tonight, or you’re done.”

MOVIE REVIEWS

Sharp Reviews: ‘Look Who’s Back’ DEREK SHARP Columnist What would happen if Adolf Hitler woke up in modern 2014 (so preTrump) Berlin? What would he do?

How would the German people react?

Look Who’s Back, a ground-breaking German-made dramedy, seeks to explore and answer these questions.

Initially, Look Who’s Back is as uncomfortable as you would think, a fact of which the film is very aware.

It does its best to ease the audience into the world with slapstick comedy that embraces the absurdity of its premise. An early joke, which still has me chuckling as I write this, has Hitler ask a woman, who is pushing

a stroller, for the time, only for her to become horrified at the sight of him (he is Hitler, after all) and pepper spray him in the eyes. In these opening minutes, Hitler, played by the magnetic Oliver Masucci, is silly, which defuses the tension that comes from seeing the story through his eyes.

It is worth noting that Look Who’s Back, in some cases, has its actors interact with real people so that they can get their genuine reactions to Hitler on film. An early example has Masucci in costume, and in character as Hitler, actually walk to the Brandenburg Gate and talk with real tourists while being filmed from a distance. You can then laugh or cry

since real people, some of whom do the Nazi salute, ask to take selfies with him. There are several scenes that are obviously filmed the same way, but I’m unsure how often the technique is used as there are many scenes where it could be possible. Regardless, the technique adds an eerie layer of authenticity to the film’s events.

A majority of the narrative follows Hitler as he regains his bearings in 2014 and reasserts himself as a political force. It’s definitely strange seeing him do things that you’d expect any good politician to do: he tours the country, interviews Germans and asks them what they feel is wrong with their country. He goes on morning talk shows and

Ryan Griffith, Theatre New Brunswick’s playwright-in-residence, presented a workshop last Saturday on how to use anthropological methods such as ethnography and data-surfing in writing.

“These workshops are an opportunity for students to learn from working professionals in a specific field that often differs from that of our faculty,” wrote Colton O’Shea in an email. O’Shea is the president of the Drama Studies Society, which organized the workshop. He added that these workshops “provide skills that hiring theatre practitioners may find appealing.”

This sentiment was echoed by Kylie Fox, one of the students who attended the workshop.

She wrote in an email, “Workshops in drama are great ways to share creative processes and learn what works for others, and what could be used in our own processes.”

“I was reading novels and stuff by, like, the age of six,” Ryan Griffith began, explaining that his grandmother urged her family to start reading “as soon as they humanly could.” This is “one of the biggest actual reasons why I’m able to write anything at all.”

Originally from Woodstock, he attended St. Thomas University (STU) to study criminology but was eventually kicked out. While this was disheartening at the time, Griffith now values this experience.

“I fail a lot and failing is always a good thing,” he said. During a year off, he began to focus on writing again. Ilkay Silk, the director of Theatre St. Thomas at the time, “let me cast and direct this show that I had written.”

This production was followed by: his graduation from STU, a teaching internship on Vancouver Island, the winning of the Notable Acts Theatre Festival, a cross-Canada VIA Rail journey that inspired Fortune of

makes small talk. You almost come to like his character, but then he spouts something horribly racist, and you’re forced to check your own priorities.

That is the point, after all.

Needless to say, Look Who’s Back is a deeply relevant, politically charged movie. Its main ideas have become still more relevant since its release with the election of Donald Trump in the United States. It has lots to say about political ignorance, nationalism, the media, xenophobia, cult of personality, racism, exploitation, historical revisionism and much more. There is so much going on in this movie that I am bursting at the seams trying to take it apart. It is all capped off with a resounding, clear

Wolves, his acceptance into National Theatre School’s exclusive playwriting program, a return to Fredericton and the founding of Next Folding Theatre.

He runs this company “more like a rugby team.”

“His success seemed like something that could be possible for us as well,” said Fox. “It’s really important that we see artists from the East Coast thriving, especially when they’ve chosen to locate themselves in the East Coast.”

Griffith then led students in exercises he uses to develop a script, which he defines as a “blueprint for an alternate physical reality.” The playwright explained that to create a foolproof script, it is important to focus on three steps: listening, collecting and gathering, and performing.

“I don’t believe in writer’s block,” he said, before leading students through listening exercises in automatic writing. For a minute, students documented their thoughts, emotions, physical response or spiritual ponderings. This process is important to Griffith because “sometimes, to represent reality, you have to let go of planning and go with it.”

“You should never complain about not having an idea,” he said, handing out Canadian newspapers to students.

He then discussed anthropology in writing, specifically highlighting ethnography to study environment and data-surfing to gain inspiration.

After an exercise in automatic writing from a perspective found in a newspaper, workshop participants read their work aloud for errors.

“Performing is a very essential skill to troubleshooting these plays,” Griffith explained.

This process stuck with attendees, especially Fox. She wrote, “He stressed how there are so many things to write about and gave us some tools for collecting ideas when we aren’t feeling particularly inspired.”

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ending that is disturbing, regardless of your political beliefs.

Look Who’s Back is a product of Germany, and was screened here at Mt. A for German film night. This makes it an inherently self-reflective piece of art. It goes beyond saying “Racism is bad,” (it does say that, however) and forces the audience to question how our actions and beliefs complement or contradict one another, and whether this dissonance makes the 21st century ripe for another dictator like Hitler. It is funny, scary and sad, all while being intelligent and entertaining. Look Who’s Back is essential viewing.

‘Look Who’s Back’ is available on Netflix.

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Motyer-Fancy hosts final tour performance of Theatre New Brunswick play JENA MCLEAN Arts & Culture Reporter “This archive is classified and restricted to personnel below level seven clearance,” warned a robotic voice in the dark. “Penalties for personnel accessing archived materials above their clearance level include dismemberment and/ or death.”

Acting as the beginning to Ryan Griffith’s Fortune of Wolves, this pre-show announcement set the tone for Theatre New Brunswick’s (TNB) final performance on Monday night.

The play follows Lowell, a young man obsessed with sound and recording those around him as he travels from Nova Scotia to Ontario amidst the apocalypse.

Lowell’s stops along the way were determined by a roll of the dice before the show. Griffith’s full script runs around nine hours total, but each audience is only shown three hours of material. Miramichi’s audience saw a monologue about Sackville’s penchant for duck-themed names.

Sackville’s crowd heard from a paramedic in Amherst.

These varying monologues and characters are directed beautifully

by Thomas Morgan Jones, TNB’s artistic director. Fortune utilized minimal blackouts, effective transitions and enough ensemble movement to support monologues without distracting from them.

This ensemble moved in harmony

throughout the performance, each taking on the character of Lowell at some point. Carlos Gonzalez-Vio spent the most time as the hoodieclad, hand-wringing lead, but every actor had their chance in his shoes.

Graham Percy also terrified the audience as a conspiracy theorist, Kimwun Perehinec enthralled as Lowell’s love interest and Michaela Washburn shone as an oddly peppy park ranger.

For a script filled with supernatural elements, such as disappearing humans and aliens, Griffith’s writing is incredibly human.

Fear permeated every interview but the characters also repeated themselves and went off on tangents.

There were also many moments of humour to allow the audience to breathe. This comedy emphasized the true horror of the situation.

Much of this horror is curated through Deanna Choi’s sound design. “It’s about sound,” Lowell explained to the audience partway through the show. Understated at first, Choi’s design mirrored Lowell’s obsession with sound, growing frantic as the world fell apart. Buzzes of static marked monologue changes, and contributed wonderfully to a show that moved Mt. A students and Sackvillians alike.

“I think it was really cool that Mt. A was able to host a professional show,” said Sierra Belong, a thirdyear drama student, after the show.

“I LOVED THE

ABSTRACTNESS OF IT AND THE EPISODIC

NATURE OF THE PLAY”

“I loved the abstractness of it and the episodic nature of the play and I thought that was really cool. It’s not just your standard play.”

Gabrielle Gagnon, a third-year PPE student, echoed Belong’s sentiment: “I thought it was really cool. That’s the only record we have of that world, is those tapes,” Gagnon said after the performance. She added: “It was really cool how it was very minimalistic but so effective.”

In the play’s final monologue, Lowell explains that “imagination gives you strength.” If his words are true, then Fortune of Wolves, as an incredibly imaginative and strong play, is one that Sackville was lucky to see.

TOP: THE FULL CAST OF FORTUNE OF WOLVES. BOTTOM: CARLOS GONZALEZ-VIO DELIVERS A MONOLOGUE AS LOWELL. MAT CARTER/THEATRE NEW BRUNSWICK

Every audition is an opportunity Samantha Wilson-Tyrell on the power of ignoring self-doubt and seeing the auditioning process as merely “a chance to act” REBECCA BUTLER Contributor “Auditioning is a chance to act and nothing more.” Samantha WilsonTyrell, drama studies Crake Fellow, began her audition workshop last Friday by sharing this simple quote from actor Bryan Cranston.

Throughout the two hours that followed, Wilson-Tyrell hammered home this sentiment in an attempt to remove the fear and intimidation that often accompanies the audition process.

During her workshop, WilsonTyrell drew on her wide range of professional experience to share the key to nailing a theatre audition with participants. With extensive experience as both actor and director, Wilson-Tyrell was able to provide insight from both sides of the audition table. During the first hour of the workshop, WilsonTyrell covered such topics as audition etiquette and dress, the selection and

preparation of audition material and details surrounding the business of the theatre world.

In the hour that followed, Wilson-Tyrell invited students to participate in mock auditions in front of the group. This interactive process allowed students to step into a controlled scenario to work out nerves and receive feedback.

Wilson-Tyrell stressed that the audition process is simply a matter of finding something you enjoy doing, executing it to the best of your ability and letting it go once you leave the audition room. She emphasized that an actor auditioning is only ever in competition with themselves. Wilson-Tyrell dissuaded workshop participants from bending over backwards to fit the expectations of audition panels. Participants were encouraged to find the power that exists in owning the audition as simply a time to share a performance with a captive audience.

“THE WORKSHOP

HELPED ME REALIZE THAT IT WAS JUST A CHANCE TO PERFORM.”

Third-year drama minor Gabrielle Gagnon said, “[The workshop] provided a new perspective on auditioning – something that’s usually a source of stress.” She shared that “it was a little unnerving to audition in front of my peers, but in the end, the workshop helped me realize that it was just a chance to perform.”

Fourth-year drama major Colton O’Shea said, “The insight from Samantha’s workshop was really great, especially because it’s applicable to both auditioning at Mt. A and out in the professional world. It’s really cool to have a working professional engaged in the theatre community here to give us insight into what things will look like for us after we leave Mt. A.” This workshop comes just three weeks before Wilson-Tyrell sits behind the audition table herself on Nov. 16 to cast the roles for her production of Really Really – going up in the Motyer-Fancy Theatre in March of 2018.

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Varsity hockey confidently builds new roster A busy off-season of recruitment leads to new faces on the ice KEIFER BELL Sports Reporter With nine rookies on the roster, the women’s varsity hockey team is a different-looking group this season.

Last year’s team was filled with seniors, who graduated following the end of the season. This meant that recruitment was key for the Mounties to build a promising team for the future. It is an exciting time to watch the women’s hockey team rebuild the program with new players.

Gabrielle Vautour, one of the team captains, commented on the impact of a rookie presence on this year’s team: “We knew this year would lead to a lot of rookies. We’re very young.

I think it’s good in a way, because it’s easier to develop the younger players in the program. They’ve really stepped up and filled their roles.”

The Mounties are not expected to be at the top of the league standings, but are still hoping to be competitive this year. “We might not be the biggest team, or the most skilled, but I would vouch that we definitely have the most heart in the league, and that’s something that you can’t take away from a team,” said captain Heather Richards.

Jessica Campbell, an alternate captain, commented on the team’s expectations for the season: “We’re

definitely concentrating on shortterm success. Last year we didn’t make the playoffs, so this year we’re taking it week by week and seeing what we can do to improve our game.

Mt. A has always been one of the underdog teams in the league, that’s no secret. We’re looking at what we can improve week by week instead of looking at the end of the season goal.”

It can be difficult for the players to make the time commitment to hockey since the season lasts from September to March. The team typically practices four days a week, with games each weekend. “You have class all day, and then practice at night. You need to put your social life last and concentrate on school, then hockey,” said Vautour.

“It’s a matter of managing your time and knowing your responsibilities.

Often the commitment shocks a lot of first-years. It’s important to prioritize your schedule.”

On a more positive note, third alternate captain EmmaRae Murphy said, “University hockey is basically the highest level of hockey for a girl to play before the national level. It was always a goal [of mine] to play in this league growing up.”

The team plays at home over reading week on Friday, Nov. 10 against St. FX and Sunday, Nov. 12 against Saint Mary’s.

THE HOCKEY TEAM IS NOW SIX GAMES INTO THEIR REGULAR SEASON, WHICH ENDS IN FEBRUARY. BOTTOM: THIRD-YEAR PLAYER ASHLEY MURPHY FACES OFF AGAINST THE MONCTON AIGLES BLEU. CHUCK LINNEY/SUBMITTED

SOCCER

High hopes for future of women’s varsity soccer

Varsity women almost all eligible to return next season KEIFER BELL Sports Reporter As the 2017 soccer season came to a finish last weekend, the varsity women’s team finished with a disappointing placement in the standings: one win and 11 losses.

Despite their record, the team had many close games to prove that the standings don’t demonstrate the true skillset of their players.

Third-year player Lindsey Gallant said, “The results of our season could have been a bit better. Only having

one win is a bit frustrating, but every game we played was a hard-fought battle. Next year I hope that we become better as a unit.”

RECRUITING A STRONG GOALIE WILL BE AN ESSENTIAL PART OF NEXT YEAR’S SUCCESS With only three seniors on the team, almost the entire roster is

eligible to return and continue growing together. Taryn MacMillan, a third-year player, commented on the future of the Mounties team: “Next season I expect us to come out a lot stronger and improve game by game. We’re not expecting to beat the teams who are the best year after year, but if we can keep the scores closer against the other teams it would be a success.”

“Recruiting a strong goalie will be an essential part of next year’s success since we’re losing both of ours,” said MacMillan. Claire West

THE WOMEN’S SOCCER TEAM REMAINS TIGHT-KNIT AFTER A LONG HAUL AND A TOUGH SEASON PAUL LYNCH/SUBMITTED

and Jill Edwards are both seniors and currently the only two goalies on the roster. The good news is the entire midfield and forward positions are expected to play another season together. Pascale Haidar, another one of the third-years on the team, said, “Hopefully next year we can keep the team we have right now and build from it to do better than this year.”

All three girls talked about how playing AUS soccer was something that they had always considered before coming to university, but which had never been a definite

plan. “You’re guaranteed to make a large group of friends, which makes it easier to ease into university as a first-year student,” Haidar said on the impact of playing a varsity sport. “It makes for a good contrast from being at school and studying when you have soccer on the side.”

If all the players return next season, the Mounties will have a total of nine seniors on their roster. With the team playing together for so long, there are high hopes for a successful and competitive year with better results in the league standings.

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Dust in the wind?

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Remember to enjoy the present as you look on to your future

THE REV. JOHN C. PERKIN Columnist My second-floor office in the student centre (just below the Argosy office) affords me an excellent view of the ongoing renovations of the former Gairdner Fine Arts Building. It is incredible to me, how quickly the site changes and how rapidly the work is progressing toward completion.

Perhaps this perceived pace is connected to my stage of life, where

everything seems to happen far too quickly: students arrive, and only four or five short years later they are gone, and it seems no time at all has elapsed.

Perhaps I think too much in biblical terms, which have a much slower pace. The institution of the Sabbath rest was designed to give a focus to the cycle of time, to slow it down and give pause for refreshment, reflection, renewal. The Israelites wandered in the wilderness for forty years, a

full generation, before they reached the Promised Land. The massive renovation of the Jewish temple, begun under King Herod before Jesus was born, was only nearing completion when Jesus reached the culmination of his ministry in Jerusalem, also forty years later.

It seems too often we not only anticipate the future, but live in it.

We enter university and begin to think about when we will graduate; we enter the workforce and start planning for early retirement.

I live in the worlds of education and ministry, and try to adopt a longer, slower approach. It is not just the question of what can I accomplish today, or this week – the hectic demands of academia mean the days go by far too quickly – but rather what I am accomplishing over time. As a pastoral care provider and educator, I have to realize that I am planting seeds, and some will germinate and grow quickly and others will take years to mature and bear fruit. While at some times my work is immediate, in crisis intervention and response,

the better part of the work is much longer in duration; the results may not be known for years, and may not be known by me at all. Years from now, I trust, the ideas I have taught and the care and counsel I have offered will still remain with former students as they make informed choices, participate in the world working for its improvement, as they care for the world and its people.

When I was an undergraduate student, the Kansas song Dust in the Wind was high in the charts; based on a biblical motif, it was a reminder that time moves quickly, and that we may not have much to show for it. The task, then, is to approach life from the perspective of what French historians call “la longue durée” (the long term) at how we invest our lives, and how we can best live in this present moment. This present life is what poet-musician Bruce Springsteen calls our “kingdom of days.” It is my aim to make my present a kingdom of days a realm of significance where I live not only for this moment, but for the generations which are to come.

Campus Freedom Index rating reveals questionable motives

“Mount Allison University has received two Cs, a D, and an F on this year’s Campus Freedom Index rating.” When I initially saw the article being shared around my circle of Facebook friends, I was concerned.

Is the school that I have come to call my home really this restrictive of its students’ freedom of expression? I was prepared to drop everything and protest the unjust treatment of Mt. A’s student body.

Then I clicked on the link.

As it turns out, the Campus Freedom Index (CFI), run by legal non-profit Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF), is not the crusader for justice and freedom that it claims to be. Rather, it is yet another politically motivated attempt to preach hypocritical values and defend only conservative ideals.

While there is nothing wrong with an organization that promotes a particular viewpoint, couching their agenda in a supposedly neutral framework is reprehensible.

What caused Mt. A to earn a D rating? According to the Campus Freedom Index’s website, the

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University’s rating is based on both its Sexual Violence Prevention and Response policy, which bans sexual harassment, and its Racism and Racial Harassment Prevention and Response policy, which bans discrimination, slurs and physical violence. According to the CFI, both of these policies constitute violations of free speech.

Mt. A’s F grade comes from its Student Union Policies rating. The Campus Freedom Index condemns the MASU for following the aforementioned racism policy, and for its election policies. The MASU’s discretion to disqualify candidates for inappropriate conduct was presented as a heinous violation of students’ freedom, rather than a choice not to spend its own money on funding campaigns based on attack ads or slander.

The JCCF was founded by conservative lawyer John Carpay, who, in June 2017, wrote an opinion piece for the National Post. In this piece, Carpay criticized students at McMaster University for protesting in a “noisy” and “disruptive” group outside a talk held by Prof. Jordan Peterson, who earlier that year stated that he refuses to address people using their preferred, gender-neutral pronouns.

Carpay then claimed that the characterization of the protests by McMaster’s president as “peaceful” was “more worrisome than the noisy mob,” pointing to the protests as an example of the silencing of unpopular speech. He also posited that universities are “far too tolerant” of such protests, and

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that it is disingenuous to consider obstructionist protests an exercise of free expression.

Indeed, few reasonable proponents of free speech believe that all speech should be free from consequences; if someone calls in a bomb threat or publishes libel, they are still responsible for their actions. The same naturally applies to both sexual harassment and racism, both of which constitute tangible harm to others and interfere with the academic environment that the JCCF claims to support. Threatening the safety of students through sexual harassment and racist conduct does not promote learning; rather, it hampers it.

The JCCF clearly understands that some forms of expression are potentially detrimental to the purpose

of a university, as per Carpay’s article.

Even so, the only expressions of speech that are defended by the JCCF are those promoting conservative views, and the nonprofit’s most prolific cases have all been in defence of conservative speech. The irony of a free speech crusader banning opposing viewpoints is tangible.

Of course, none of this is to say that the question of free speech at Mt. A is of no concern. As students, we must remain vigilant of potential violations of our freedom, and fight back if, and when, such violations do occur.

However, the CFI should not be taken as a legitimate measure of any university’s freedom of expression.

For now, I would rather Mt. A take measures to avoid an environment of sexual harassment and racism.

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ACADEMICS

Anthropology must be protected

Indigenous studies program can be developed without sacrificing anthropology department

SARAH MURPHY & BRAD WALTERS Contributors A proposal to close the anthropology department and eliminate anthropology programs at Mount Allison is now under consideration by the University.

Budgetary considerations are clearly an important factor. Another suggestion is that the termination of the anthropology department could enable development of Indigenous studies at Mt. A. However, we believe the situation is more complex because the loss of anthropology will weaken efforts to advance Indigenous studies and cause lasting damage to the larger academic mission of the University.

Interdisciplinary academic programs are flourishing at Mt. A and both of us champion interdisciplinary teaching and learning – one of us (Walters) has long served as the coordinator of such a program (environmental studies) and the other (Murphy) was the course intern for the pilot introductory Indigenous studies course. We thus wholeheartedly support the development of an interdisciplinary program in Indigenous studies.

However, we also believe that suggesting the development of a new interdisciplinary program in Indigenous studies at the deliberate expense of a core discipline like anthropology is academically reckless and harmful to students’ overall cultural competence.

Indigenous content is central to several courses that have been offered by the anthropology department

over the years. Professors have encouraged students to take on research projects that cover topics ranging from Indigenous medicines to relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities.

While Indigenous studies do figure prominently, the scope of anthropology’s subject matter encompasses infinite linguistic, cultural, physical and archeological investigations. In short, anthropology is a foundational, scholarly discipline that seeks to understand humanity, its diversity and its origins. More than any of the other social sciences, anthropology is committed to fieldbased research of people, cultures and societies in every part of the world.

In fact, many of the world’s current, pressing challenges are linked to issues that have long been of central concern to anthropology, including issues of social and economic marginalization and injustice, cultural adaptation and conflict, and human-environment relationships. Students are aware of these persistent problems and thus it should come as no surprise that the demand for anthropology courses at Mt. A remains strong.

Among Mt. A’s smaller departments, anthropology held 25 majors in the 2016 academic year, contrasted with only 13 in religion, 18 in classics and 20 in philosophy. In its prime in 2011 with four faculty members, the anthropology department held 35 majors, while the largest that any of the other small departments has had since 2010 is philosophy with 24 majors. Additionally, Mt. A’s most recent Rhodes Scholar was an anthropology graduate.

The department of history was

THE SUSPENSION OF ENROLMENT TO THE ANTHROPOLOGY PROGRAM WAS ANNOUNCED IN JANUARY 2017. IT HAS BEEN SUGGESTED THAT CUTTING THE DEPARTMENT WOULD MAKE ROOM FOR AN INDIGENOUS STUDIES PROGRAM. CASEY DOUCET/SUBMITTED not closed down to make way for Canadian studies. International relations did not displace political science. Women’s and gender studies did not spell the end of sociology.

Geography was not tossed aside to create space for environmental studies and environmental science.

Neither chemistry nor biology were terminated so that biochemistry could live on. To the contrary, these various interdisciplinary programs were created and now thrive precisely because they draw from the strong foundations established in core

academic departments and programs.

These programs now enrich the departments from which they grew.

Given this institutional precedent, does the University now feel a need to view the future of the anthropology and Indigenous studies departments any differently?

We see a solution to this complex problem. We see a superb platform off of which the University can revitalize anthropology and develop a new program in Indigenous studies. We must acknowledge the obvious synergies and necessary

divergences between anthropology and Indigenous studies and work toward two programs that can work in tandem like so many of the interdisciplinary programs that already thrive at Mt. A. We need to reframe this conversation with a positive vision for both anthropology and Indigenous studies at Mt. A. Brad Walters is a professor of geography and environment and coordinator of environmental studies.

Sarah Murphy is a recent graduate (’17) of honours anthropology.

DISCUSSION CORNER

“How do you feel about the distribution credit system?”

Members of the Mount Allison community share their thoughts on this week’s topic

LOU VAN AARDT

“For transferring students (like me and my roommate), some of the credits we took previously didn’t count towards distribution and we ended up needing to take extra courses to make up for Mt. A’s distribution requirements, and since they were outside our fields, and we didn’t enjoy or understand them, they ended up bringing our overall GPA down. I’m an English major because I’m good at it and love it; taking GENV courses for distribution was just a hindrance, stress, and annoying.”

LILIAN DART

“I am so happy Mt. A enforces taking a wide range of classes.

Although I haven’t enjoyed some of the classes, I feel I am going to graduate with a broader world view than my friends at other universities. I actually ended up minoring in one of the disciplines I took a distribution class in. I wouldn’t have found this class without the distribution system.”

MACKENZIE GORDON

“It can be hard to include them into your schedule of other mandatory classes, but I love that it encourages a change in perspective and opens up cross-disciplinary thinking.”

JASMIN ANDERSON

“It’s incredibly hard to take a course I’m interested in because of my schedule. I end up having to take courses I do not enjoy.”

HANNAH TUCK

“The idea behind them is great, but I can’t say I’m not a little jealous of the music and fine arts students not having to do them.”

Call for the discussion corner: Is reading week an effective mental health break? Tweet us your opinions @The_Argosy, or contact Allison MacNeill to appear in next week’s paper.

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ACROSS 1. The ____ Hip 8. ____ropy, or donating to charity 13. Queue 14. Work spaces 17. Tom Cruise movie with the famous volleyball scene 19. Gynecological exam 21. Collusion country 22. Taylor Swift song that mentions screen doors 26. His Holiness 27. Spooky clown

28. Russian emperors 30. That’s so gross!

31. To not pay any attention to 33. Secret Service, pluralized 35. Abbreviation for one of the most visited sites on the internet 36. Thursday night, at Joey’s 38. Very annoying 42. You might have to replace this in a photocopier 44. Herb that flavors pickles 45. What people in Britain call their subways

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50. Courage or bravery 52. 1,3,5,7,9… (e.g.)

53. Better than super 54. I’m so ____ (XD :P Rawr!)

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67. When doubled, a tasty tropical fish 68. Acid 70. Before ens 72. Mule 73. Have a break, have “_______” (3 wds) 75. Citation format for psychology 76. Taught 77. Somewhat see-through DOWN 1. Blocky 80s video game 2. European mountain range 3. Small jobs for bands 4. First Nations of the Arctic 5. Pro wrestler John, pluralized 6. Piece of land that people can build on 7. Sup dude?

8. American Chinese food chain ___ Changs 9. Quick greeting 10. Icon 11. French article (grammar) 12. Type of poisonous snake 15. This might precede the main part of a book 16. A fencing sword 18. Someone who does not belong 19. Resident of the 100 Acre Wood, known for saying “Oh Bother” 20. Possible abbreviation for apartment 22. A song from a movie might be a part of this (Acronym) 23. Type of dance or playground equipment 24. The one in possession of

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69. New Brunswick university in Fredericton 71. Donald Trump’s favourite burn OR forlorn 74. Represents kinetic energy in physics Find last week’s answers on The Argosy Twitter feed!

You won’t believe this celeb’s drunken adventure Shocking eyewitness account reveals the truth

“TAKING A COLD SHOWER IN AN ORANGE“ “JUST ANOTHER HART HALL GHOST” Contributors TRILL WAVES Columnist Holy shit did I ever have a fucked Halloweekend. I woke up today realizing that, yet again, I had not written some excessively helpful tips for you all, my adoring fans. I suppose it’s somewhat fitting that this week’s set of tips is about extending deadlines.

My good friend and buddy Cammy asked me about this, and since it’s a situation I have a lot of experience with, I figured I should let you all in on some excellent ways of subverting deadlines. Let’s crack into it.

Tip 1: Do the assignment ahead of time so you don’t have to ask for an extension. Haha, just kidding – what kind of a fool would do that?

Lol. Nope, the first tip is actually a classic: Tell your prof that a dog ate it. This should buy you at least until the end of the day to finish whatever assignment you forgot to do, or, should I say, to “print another copy off.” Pretty clever, right? Now, I understand that this probably won’t buy you as much time as you need, which is why there are two more tips.

Tip 2: Call in a bomb threat. This is one of the best ways to get out of handing things in on time, and it actually helps more than one person. In all the excitement of the bomb threat,

your prof may even forget about the assignment entirely. This could give you one to three extra days to work on the assignment, maybe more if you get arrested for calling in a bomb threat. Then, just say you couldn’t finish the assignment because you were in jail. Alternatively, you could just actually blow up the building that you have class in. Then you probably could get a couple extra weeks.

Tip 3: Acquire a highly contagious disease. There are a couple ways you can do this. The first is to break into one of the labs in Flemington and stick your tongue in the first petri dish you find. That’ll probably give you something pretty ~narsty~ but isn’t 100 per cent guaranteed. A better way is to make out with someone who for sure has a disease, like strep throat or mono. I’m so lucky to know people with both. It’s always good to have someone sick on retainer! If you’re so sick it’s almost guaranteed that you’ll give the disease to someone else, you can probably score an extra week or two on the assignment.

OK gang, hope you all enjoyed these tips and found them helpful. Remember to like, comment and subscribe, and send your questions to Trilliam Waves on Facebook. Catch you after reading week, Trill out.

Coming off of Halloween, we have an extremely pressing true story to share with you, our dear readers. Usually we have all the answers for you, but after what happened we only have questions. We were approached by an anonymous source about their funky, strange experience this past weekend. This is their story *cue twilight zone theme*: “I was walking home from a pretty weak party (like any other party in Sackville, but at least this one was Halloween-themed). I had just exited Snack Shop with a stomach full of garlic fingers *cough* best in town. Goya’s doesn’t even compare *cough*. The moon was shrouded in clouds, but high in the sky, and the only sounds I could hear were my feet on the pavement and the group of drunk people on the other side of the street who were loudly arguing about whether pepperoni belongs on top of or below the cheese on pizza. (Side note: Your intrepid authors are still debating over this topic.) As I turned onto Main Street, I could feel someone (or something) watching me. I knew that if anything were to happen, I would be unable to run away due to my horrifyingly rapid consumption of three boxes of garlic fingers.

“I didn’t think much about cutting through Waterfowl; I do it all the time! Sometimes there are even

ducks. (Fun fact: ducks don’t actually get wet. They have a protective wax coating on their body. Wish I had had something to protect me that night…)

But something strange happened. I’m no stranger to Waterfowl, but before long, I couldn’t figure out where I was going. I was lost in the middle of the swamp. I thought jokingly to myself, What if I get attacked by Shrek?!

Little did I know that there was a much worse fate in store for me…

“In order to combat the uneasy feeling that I was not alone, I took out my headphones and started listening to my favourite song in the whole world, Run For Cover by The Killers (10/10 song, would totally recommend giving it a listen).

As the music ramped up, I felt the boardwalk begin to shake, at first a little, then a lot. I turned around to find that my fear was valid. Out of the marshes, a dark and threatening figure had emerged. It was like the alien from that movie, you know?

Alien. Except this thing was a whole lot worse. It was coming after me, and let me tell you, it was a fast boi.

As I started moving faster, still listening to the song, I felt the beat, and the words ‘you gotta run for cover,’ resonate within me. I was in the zone (no, not the one that the non-aging android Carlos still hosts on YTV).

I don’t mean to brag, but I too am a fast runner, and this thing was gaining on me like a bullet toward an un-

fortunate zoo gorilla (wrong place, wrong time, RIP Harambe). I don’t know how long I ran, but I definitely burned off all of those garlic fingers.

“Then I could see it: the exit, just up ahead of me. I tripped and my phone flew from my hand, falling straight into the marsh. My friends are gonna kill me for losing that Snapchat streak, I thought. Unless this thing kills me first. Face down in the dirt, I could hear it coming closer.

As I scrambled to my feet, I caught a glimpse of my bright red shirt and thought to myself, This is a bad omen. No one in Star Trek wears red and lives. Whatever it was that’d been chasing me, it hadn’t quite caught up to me.

Then I was out of that park, moving as fast as I could manage; you could say I’m a fast boi myself.

“As I walked out into the street, the sun started to come up. Looking over my shoulder at the hill behind me, I could see my tormentor. It was an image that’s been giving me nightmares ever since. It was ya boi, Trill, in shredded clothes looking hungover AF. He was holding something.

I’m not sure what it was, but I swear I could hear the words Run for Cover coming from the top of that hill.”

Stay safe, sheeple, and remember – nothing is ever as it seems.

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CHMA'S INDIE AFTERNOONS MATTHYS VAN STAALDUINEN & EATHAN FRENCH

ROONIE ROADSHOW

THE MASSIE HOUR

BRIANN SCOVIL & HALIE QUIGLEY

6

CONNOR MCDONALD

TBD

THE ARTIST ARCHIVE

7

BRIDGET MELNYK & SASKIA VAN WALSUM

CHMA'S FAVOURITE INDIE ROCK

CHMA'S FAVOURITE INDIE ROCK

8

CHMA'S FAVOURITE INDIE ROCK

CHMA'S FAVOURITE INDIE ROCK

EMELYANA TITARENKO

CHMA'S FAVOURITE INDIE ROCK

TBD

WHAT’S NEW AT THE MASU?

SAM SMEDLEY

JACK KEDDY

BANZAI!

BRIGHT YOUNG TUNES SETH WINWARD

THE BACK SHELF

JACOB BURNLEY

SACKVILLE SUNDOWN

CHMA'S INDIE AFTERNOONS

2

CHMA'S INDIE AFTERNOONS

CHMA'S FOLK & ALT. COUNTRY

CHMA'S INDIE AFTERNOONS

3

CHMA'S INDIE AFTERNOONS

CHMA'S FOLK & ALT. COUNTRY

OBEDIAH ANDERSON & DASHIEL EDSON

PUNK ROCK RADIO HOUR

4

CHMA'S INDIE AFTERNOONS

5

CHMA'S FAVOURITE INDIE ROCK

THE BLUEGRASS JAM

CHMA'S FAVOURITE INDIE ROCK

6

CHMA'S FAVOURITE INDIE ROCK

CHMA'S WEEKEND DANCE MIX

CHMA'S FAVOURITE INDIE ROCK

7

CHMA'S FAVOURITE INDIE ROCK

CHMA'S WEEKEND DANCE MIX

CHMA'S FAVOURITE INDIE ROCK

8

CHMA'S WEEKEND DANCE MIX

JOHN DALE & GRAEME ZINCK

SLEEPY SATURDAYS

CHMA'S FAVOURITE INDIE ROCK

9

CHMA'S WEEKEND DANCE MIX

CHMA'S FAVOURITE INDIE ROCK

10

TODD FRASER & JEFF MANN

NATALIE HAUPTMAN

RDP

11

CHMA'S FAVOURITE INDIE ROCK

12

WILSON MOORE

10

NOTHING TO SEE HERE

11

CHMA'S FAVOURITE INDIE ROCK

SARGENT UNO & GENERAL KITTY

12

CHMA'S FAVOURITE INDIE ROCK

CHMA'S FAVOURITE INDIE ROCK

CHMA'S FAVOURITE INDIE ROCK

CHMA'S FAVOURITE INDIE ROCK

1

CHMA'S FAVOURITE HIP-HOP

CHMA'S FAVOURITE HIP-HOP

CHMA'S FAVOURITE HIP-HOP

CITY SLANG

CHMA'S FAVOURITE HIP-HOP

RADIO GOETHE

CHMA'S FAVOURITE HIP-HOP

2

CHMA'S FAVOURITE HIP-HOP

CHMA'S FAVOURITE HIP-HOP

CHMA'S FAVOURITE HIP-HOP

CHMA'S FAVOURITE HIP-HOP

CHMA'S FAVOURITE HIP-HOP

CHMA'S FAVOURITE HIP-HOP

CHMA'S FAVOURITE HIP-HOP

CHMA'S FAVOURITE INDIE MUSIC

CHMA'S FAVOURITE INDIE MUSIC

CHMA'S FAVOURITE INDIE MUSIC

CHMA'S FAVOURITE INDIE MUSIC

CHMA'S FAVOURITE INDIE MUSIC

CHMA'S FAVOURITE INDIE MUSIC

CHMA'S FAVOURITE INDIE MUSIC

CHMA'S FAVOURITE BLUEGRASS

CHMA'S FAVOURITE BLUEGRASS

CHMA'S FAVOURITE BLUEGRASS

CHMA'S FAVOURITE BLUEGRASS

CHMA'S FAVOURITE BLUEGRASS

CHMA'S FAVOURITE BLUEGRASS

CHMA'S FAVOURITE BLUEGRASS

3 4 5 6

CHMA'S FAVOURITE INDIE ROCK

SPORTS SCRAMBLE

DANIEL BELL & JULIA DUNN

BEN CURRIE & ALISON SIMBANEGAVI

KEIFER BELL

REAL KILLA HOURS

1

TBD

CHMA'S FAVOURITE BLUEGRASS CHMA'S FAVOURITE INDIE ROCK

10

CHMA'S FOLK & ALT. COUNTRY

EMILY SHAW

DEMOCRACY NOW CHMA'S FAVOURITE INDIE ROCK

9

CHMA'S FAVOURITE WORLD

CANCON WITH BETAKIT

CANADALAND

2

SUN

6

DEMOCRACY NOW

12 1

SAT

CHMA'S FAVOURITE BLUEGRASS CHMA'S FAVOURITE WORLD

10

FRI

JACOB DEMERS THE EVENING WAVELENGTH EXPERIENCE

AMPLIFIED RADIO LINDA RAE DORNAN

OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT

JEFF & TODD ANA FORLIN & THOMAS FORLIN THE UNPREDICTABLE REVERBERATING JUXTAPOSITION

CHMA'S WEEKEND DANCE MIX

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