The Argosy, October 13, Vol. 146, Iss. 6

THE ARG OSY

NEWS

ARTS & CULTURE

SPORTS

OPINIONS

Breaking and entering in Sackville (Pg. 3)

Students on Thanksgiving traditions (Pg. 9)

Lacrose team perserveres after tough season (Pg. 5)

The case for reproductive rights in N.B. (Pg. 11)

Wasted and basted since 1872

Mount Allison’s Independent Student Newspaper

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October 13, 2016 Vol. 146, Iss. 6

02 NEWS Vogue threatened by This Week in financial deadline New Brunswick

EDITOR: CATHERINE TURNBULL & NAOMI GOLDBERG | OCTOBER 13, 2016 | ARGOSY@MTA.CA

CINEMA

Cinema owner faces imminent $25,000 payment

COMPILED BY KAVANA WA KILELE News Reporter FUNDING GAP HURTING FIRST NATIONS SCHOOLS In New Brunswick, the funding gap between the federal government’s provisions for education in band-run schools and provincial schools puts First Nations schools at a significant disadvantage. Every child who attends a school in the provincial education system receives more than $11,000, whereas those who attend band-run schools are allotted $5,600. Teachers in band-run schools are therefore paid less than those in provincial school. First Nations educators are waiting for equity on this issue.

POSSIBLE COURSE CUTS AT UNIVERSITÉ DE MONCTON Enrolment at UdeM has been declining and the university is considering revising 21 of the their programs. Included in these revisions is the possible removal of philosophy and geography majors and the creation of new graduate programs.The axing of philosophy and geography majors was recommended in a report. The programs will still be pursuable as minors. A report written last June laying out the university’s plan regarding the cuts was submitted to the university’s student council, which has until Oct. 14 to give its opinion. No final decisions have been made on cuts or additions to academic calendar.

SIX TRAPPED DOLPHINS FINALLY ENTER OPEN WATER

THE VOGUE ALSO RAN INTO FINANCIAL PROBLEMS IN 2015. ADRIAN KIVA/ARCHIVES

CATHERINE TURNBULL News Editor As the Vogue Cinema on Bridge Street prepares to celebrate its 70th anniversary, the Sackville landmark faces a pressing financial threat.

The Vogue Cinema was built in 1946 by local businessman M.E. Coates. Since then, the single-screen, art deco theatre has passed through the hands of seven different owners and has upheld its old-fashioned charm. Jeff Coates is the seventh and current owner of the Vogue. Coates began working at the Vogue in 1995 and purchased it in 2006.

In 2012, a nationwide conversion to digital film projection forced the Vogue to adapt. Coates was able to convert to digital projection through a loan from a private investor.

According to Coates, his private investor has recently requested to be paid in full and released from the commitment.

Coates said the conversion to digital caused him to nearly double the debt he had already incurred with the purchasing of the theatre. Though Coates has paid off much of his initial debt, he said he has gone into arrears with other bill payments in the wake of trying to pay off the private investor.

Coates has until Oct. 31 to secure funding before the investor would legally have the ability to seize the equipment.

“The business sustained itself before and it can sustain itself again,”

Coates said. “I just need to get over this hurdle.”

Coates said he tries not to consider a possible closure of the Vogue. “I’m booking events for November and December, I’m still planning stuff, I want to be here,” he said.

“The Vogue is a gathering place,” Coates said. “It’s a centre of the town, it serves a purpose. The last thing this town needs is to have another venue close down.”

Thaddeus Holownia, a professor of fine arts at Mount Allison, has been running the Sackville Film Society for 36 years. The Film Society shows 26 films per year on Thursdays at the Vogue. Except for a few years during which the Society met in the Crabtree auditorium, for most of its lifetime the Society has called the Vogue home.

Holownia said he doesn’t know what would happen were the Vogue to close or have its projection equipment seized. Holownia said the only other viable space in town might be the Crabtree auditorium, and the use of that room by the Film Society would require the purchase of a new projection system and screen.

“I think the Vogue is by-and-large an overlooked jewel of Sackville,” Holownia said. “In my mind, a movie theatre is a social place where people come, see the movie in a collective, and that’s what happens on Thursday nights. It’s a very different experience than having people sit in front of a TV or, even worse, a computer screen with headphones on. That experience,

and having that physical place, is so important to the community.”

Mt. A alum and former Film Society attendee Allison Grogan said she agrees that there is value in watching movies “the way they were meant to be seen.”

“What the partnership between the Film Society and the Vogue allows is the full experience of sitting down once a week with friends, seeing a movie that you might never otherwise have the chance to see, and then [having] that dialogue that continues after the credits roll,” Grogan said.

As for the future of the Vogue, Holownia sees necessary changes ahead. “I think you have to change with the times, and I think that running a movie theatre seven days a week, I don’t think that’s a good formula,” he said. Holownia suggested possibilities such as only showing films four nights per week and expanding external uses of the space.

Holownia and Grogan both stressed the importance of students supporting the Vogue. Holownia said in the first few years of Film Society, an average of 60 per cent of attendees were Mt. A students. Now, Holownia said the number is closer to 20 per cent.

Coates has created a “GoFundMe” online fundraiser with a goal of $25,000 to cover the funds he needs to pay off his debt for the digital equipment.

Six dolphins previously stranded in northeastern New Brunswick for nine days were herded out of the Lamèque Harbour last Friday morning by fishery officers and experts from the Marine Animal Response Society. The dolphins will continue to be monitored to see if they leave the Lamèque Harbour area.

The dolphins will be forced to swim through a kilometre-long, shallow channel to reach the open ocean.

PLASTIC BAGS WILL NOW COME WITH A FIVE-CENT CHARGE AT WALMART As of Oct. 17, Walmart’s Maritime locations will start charging customers five cents per plastic bag used. Walmart will also start using larger and stronger plastic bags in an attempt to reduce usage. New Brunswickers used more than 32 million plastic bags in 2015. It is hoped that Walmart’s decision will incite other corporations to take similar action.

FOREST INDUSTRY WORRIED ABOUT IMMINENT SPRUCE BUDWORM OUTBREAK The forestry industry is currently doing everything it can to prevent an imminent spruce budworm outbreak in New Brunswick. An outbreak could cause mass defoliation. Small areas in Québec where the budworms are currently wreaking havoc are being treated to prevent the possible epidemic. The forestry industry employs over 20,000 people in New Brunswick. An outbreak could potentially result in the loss of 2,000 jobs and a $4- to $6-billion effort to mitigate the potential epidemic.

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THEFT

CAREER

Students recount recent theft and break-in experiences

into the heart of the job market

Sackville RCMP investigate Jobs! Jobs! Jobs! rise in breaking and entering A terrifying journey LEO GERTLER News Reporter

STUDENTS HAVE BEEN SCRAMBLING TO FIND KEYS THEY’VE NEVER USED BEFORE. IZZY FRANCOLINI/ARGOSY

NAOMI GOLDBERG News Editor The recent influx of breaking and entering (B&E) incidents in Sackville has left community members worried. Since July, approximately 11 B&Es have been reported to the Sackville RCMP and more have occurred without being reported.

RCMP Sergeant Paul Gagné said most B&Es have occurred in a similar fashion, with a single perpetrator wandering through lawns searching for unlocked house or apartment doors, windows and patios. The perpetrator has been stealing items that are immediately visible, whether or not they are of value. Gagné added that the person or people responsible have been spending very brief amounts of time in the homes they break into.

As is common in Sackville, thirdyear student Marley Caddell and her roommates usually leave their door unlocked. At approximately 12:30 a.m. a few weeks ago, Caddell’s roommate heard scuffling at their door. When she yelled for one of her roommates to come investigate, she heard the front door close. Caddell herself heard a noise, but didn’t think much of it at the time, as she was halfasleep.

In the morning, Caddell was surprised to find that the house’s garbage can was missing. No other items were stolen. Caddell and her roommates have since acquired keys and now lock their door every night.

There have also been multiple

reported thefts from unlocked vehicles.

Fourth-year student Eric Maquignaz’s car was broken into while parked on Lansdowne Street in August. Although more valuable items, including a circular saw and approximately $40 in toonies, were lying in his car, the perpetrator stole only items of sentimental value, such

“I KNEW THERE WAS SOMEONE IN OUR HOUSE WHO SHOULDN’T BE THERE.” as a Mambo Number 5 CD. The RCMP has made an arrest linked to these particular vehicle incidents and is currently trying to determine if the same person is responsible for home B&Es. While students all over Sackville have been scrambling to find their keys and get their landlords to make them new one, a Home Hardware representative said that key demand has not increased significantly.

Other students have reported incidents of a more severe kind.

Fourth-year student Samantha Peña lives in the basement of an apartment on Landsdowne Street.

Two weeks ago, she awoke at 5 a.m. to a bright light. Upon opening her eyes, she saw a figure crouching in front of the window above her, shining a light

at her face.

“I stand up and I see this shape stand up and run,” she said.

Third-year student Sarah Fullerton woke up around 3 a.m. approximately three weeks ago to a figure standing in her bedroom doorway wearing a hat or a hoodie. Thinking it might be a friend, Fullerton repeatedly asked what was happening, but received no response.

“I knew there was someone in our house who shouldn’t be there, but I wasn’t sure what their intentions were or why they were there,” she said. The person then ducked into her bathroom to hide before exiting her house.

Fullerton later found out that someone, presumably the same person, had gone into her roommate’s room a few minutes before going into her own. Fullerton lives in a town house on King Street.

After Fullerton and her roommate reported the incident to the RCMP the next morning, experts took fingerprints from their bedroom doors as well as pictures of their apartment.

Gagné said the RCMP do not think the incident at Fullerton’s house is part of the same string of break-ins, as it is of a different nature than the other reported incidents.

Gagné urges students to report all B&E incidents to the RCMP, whether or not they appear minor.

“Go to school, get a job!”

This lesson, delivered by high school guidance counselors across the country, lingers in and haunts my unemployable-English-major psyche. Though I’m capable of completing the first half of the command, the second is sure to prove a problem. This is why I decided to go to Mount Allison’s career fair, to learn how I might best prepare myself for employment in the modern economy.

A group of bored, semi-formally dressed students sat outside the fair. Armed with pens and a sign-in sheet, they dutifully guarded the entrance to Tweedie Hall. This was my first step to achieving a successful future, and I thanked them for allowing me in.

The room was abuzz with students trying to convert their degrees into dollars, folding tables laid out in succession, fresh-pressed suits and uniforms, promotional materials covered in memes and recruiters all trying to lure students with candies and corporate swag. My head was spinning. It was becoming clear that I should have gone to the confidence-building tutorial that had been offered earlier that morning.

Front and centre in the career fair were recruiters from J.D. Irving and its subsidiaries. Cautiously, I approached them and asked what kinds of opportunities were available for recent graduates. They were kind and enthusiastic in their response, which brought my guard down.

Once I relaxed a bit, I told them I was there to write an article for the student newspaper. It was immediately apparent that this was a mistake. The recruiters stiffened and twitched a little, their eyes widening. After a long pause, one said that it was nice that I was involved in extracurriculars. Our exchanges became awkward so I thanked them for their time and moved on.

Hopeful that I hadn’t just ruined my chances for future employment, I began talking to a long-haired man in his late twenties. He was representing a government program for bilingualism and was much happier to speak to a student journalist, so much so that he repeated each piece of information three times: once without visual aid, again with printed material and once again with a tablet displaying the program’s website.

Like other recruiters I spoke to, he had been travelling a lot recently. Because, he said, there is always a whirlwind of career fairs at this time of the year, he has been visiting universities all around the province. He will be starting a high school circuit soon.

At about this time I heard the man across from him praising the cultural value and lucrativeness of spending a summer teaching English in China. This sounded good to me – something I could use an English degree for! I went to his table, where he handed me a pink tote bag. After boasting that the bag was made in China, which he called a remarkable country, he said enthusiastically that the job would allow me to start saving money.

Thus informed, I left to speak to a student in a three-piece suit waiting to talk to recruiters from a plumbing firm. He told me he was glad that Mt. A had a job fair but that the one held at UNB was better since more companies attended, thus exposing students to a greater number of career opportunities.

He added, however, that at least the recruiters at Mt. A’s fair had more time to talk to students individually.

I felt as though I had come a long way in expanding my career horizons that morning. I knew, however, that there was more to learn if I was going to selfactualize, synergize and economize. Fortunately for me, I could go and learn to cultivate a personal brand at the social media seminar the following evening.

“GO TO SCHOOL, GET A JOB!” JEFF MANNI/ARGOSY

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COMMUNITY

Lettuce Eat!

Community meal initiative entering second year at Mt. A

VOLUNTEERS SERVE FREE SOUP MADE WITH LOCAL VEGETABLES IN THE CHAPEL BASEMENT. RYAN MACRAE/ARGOSY

JILL MACINTYRE News Reporter Leadership, sustainability and free food were all ingredients incorporated into Sackville’s latest Lettuce Eat community meal. Lettuce Eat is an initiative led by Mount Allison-based sustainability group Eco-Action. At each meal, students and community members are invited to stop by the Manning Room in the basement of the campus chapel for a free vegetarian or vegan meal cooked by Eco-Action members.

Funded through the Mount Allison Students’ Union (MASU) and an initial donation from Leadership Mt. A, the group also accepts donations at their events.

Based on similar initiatives at

universities in Québec and Nova Scotia, four community meals were hosted last year, with an average turnout of between 80 and 100 people.

Caeleigh Marshall, secretary of Eco-Action, hopes Lettuce Eat will promote a larger conversation about environmentalism in Sackville.

“One of our goals is to foster a sense of community. We really want to create a space where people can come together, eat, meet new people, and also discuss food security, our carbon footprint and other environmental issues,” Marshall said.

Eco-Action takes steps to make the meal eco-friendly by buying local produce, reducing food waste and asking students to bring reusable dishware.

According to Marley Caddell, president of Eco-Action, the group’s focus is on “simple, tangible actions that don’t necessarily have a direct global impact but definitely make environmentalism more accessible to students of all disciplines.”

Anna Laurel Jamieson, environmental science student and vice-president of Eco-Action, said that all of the produce used in the community meal is purchased from Sackville farmers. Lettuce Eat also tries to buy “ugly produce,” edible produce that is bruised or strangely shaped that would otherwise be thrown out. “We want to bring awareness to the fact that even if produce isn’t the most attractive, it is still usable and doesn’t need to be thrown out,” Jamieson said.

Jamieson explained that Lettuce Eat contacts local farmers and collects the veggies, then gets together as a group to make soup to serve at the event on a first-come, first-served basis. “We really encourage people to bring their own Tupperware and cutlery so they can take it to go if they need to between classes.”

Reducing food waste in Sackville is one of Eco-Action’s goals. “We’ve been trying to work with local grocery stores to divert food waste but it’s been a bit difficult because they don’t really want to for liability reasons,” Marshall said. Eco-Action will continue to attempt to work with local grocery stores to reduce food waste in the future.

Eco-Action would also like to make Lettuce Eat a monthly event to

create a greater presence on campus and develop a more sustainable relationship with farmers.

The group runs a number of other community initiatives such as garbage cleanups, documentary screenings and Ethical Giving craft nights throughout the year. It also organizes Mt. A’s participation in the annual Campus Climate Challenge, an inter-university competition to reduce carbon emissions that occurs every winter.

The group plans to advocate for more reusable water bottle refill stations on campus and for a change to the local garbage system.

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Crossed, not cut

Mt. A lacrosse moves forward after tough 2015 season

ALUMNI FIELD OFFERS NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR LACROSSE TEAM. PAULA SCOTT/SUBMITTED

DAVID TAPLIN Sports and Health Editor The Mount Allison lacrosse team boasts the smallest roster in its league.

But last year a combination of injuries and bad luck threatened not only the season but the entire program.

“We had a hard time getting numbers out, and there were a lot of injuries as well,” fourth-year player Jerica Leblanc said. “I remember spending a half-hour at one of our practices just calling people.”

Nick Scott, a fourth-year player and last year’s player-coach, described the low point of the previous season – when the players questioned if they would continue struggling to keep

the team alive.

“We kind of took a vote one practice before a game. It was either ‘try and scramble up some guys and

“I REMEMBER SPENDING HALF OF ONE OF OUR PRACTICES JUST CALLING PEOPLE.” play a game,’ or ‘forfeit.’”

The club was eventually able to find enough players to field a team at the start of this season. Many of the

new players had no experience with lacrosse or had not played since they were children.

“We basically started the team from scratch,” Leblanc said.

On the field, the season was tough.

“We lost every game by at least 10 points,” Leblanc said. For the students who were a part of the team last season, however, it wasn’t about the results – it was about saving the program.

Because of their small roster, the lacrosse team routinely looks for students who might not normally get involved with the sport in a university setting. Though finding enough members to form a team has presented difficulties, it has also

brought team members together.

The importance of community within the lacrosse team is why Leblanc, currently the only woman playing in the league, got involved at the clubs and societies fair in her first year.

“I was at the women’s rugby table and I turned around and saw ‘Men’s Lacrosse Team,’” she said. Leblanc, who had played lacrosse in high school, did not realize Mt. A had a lacrosse team.

She approached the team, expressing enthusiasm for the sport and interest in watching their games. “I was wearing my team NB lacrosse jacket and one of the guys at the table said, ‘why don’t you come out to a practice?’”

“After one or two practices, I was hooked. I was sold.

All the guys were super nice,” Leblanc said. “I feel really fortunate at M t .

A because the guys do let me play.”

She referenced situations at UNB and St. FX where women, although not officially barred from playing, have been excluded by the teams. “ Y o u wouldn’t want to play with people who don’t want to play with you,” she said.

Going forward, the team looks to build from year to year and now has the means to do so because of their access to Alumni field. Alumni field replaces the undersized Lansdowne field, which was often reduced to mud and could not host

a full-sized lacrosse game.

Acquiring access to the new field has meant that the team is now the envy of other teams.

“We are the only ones with lacrosse lines. [On] a lot of other fields the lines are taped on or spraypainted,” Scott said.

Though it may not seem drastic, the new field gives the team – which lacks funding – the ability to attract players from the larger, funded teams at Dalhousie and St. FX. The lacrosse team is currently 0-6, but with a number of close games, they remain optimistic. “ T h e scores of our games don’t really reflect the quality of the games we play,” Leblanc said.

Scott said that the team’s goal is to “win a game. There is probably one game left that we can win. That is our last game, against Acadia.”

For a group of students who nearly lost their team, 2016 has proven to be more successful than the previous season. With a full roster and the best field in the league, the graduating players look to finish their careers with a win, in a season that is about so much more than lacrosse.

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EDITORS: MIRELLE NAUD MALLORY BURNSIDE-HOLMES OCTOBER 13, 2016 | ARGOSY@MTA.CA

THEATRE

“Going West” set in Maritimes

Mt. A graduate’s one act captures maritime life at Ducky’s

Gould attended “Going West.” As lifelong residents of small towns in New Brunswick, they praised the play for its originality and Maritime feel.

“I haven’t seen a Maritime-specific play [before], and I think that it’s wonderful to see a Sackville-set play.

And knowing that it’s been touring around is cool, to see that you’re bringing the community of Sackville to other cities,” Sherry said.

“I really liked the way they started the show. No one came up and did an announcement. It was breaking the conformity of theatre by making it super casual. I think that’s important because the show is super casual,” said Gould, a drama major.

Both Sherry and Gould found “Going West” relatable to and reflective of not just Maritime communities, but Sackville more specifically.

“I HAVEN’T HAD ANY FLACK YET ABOUT BEING AN OUTSIDER.”

KAYLIE MCGRAW (LEFT) AND ALEX MCGRATH (MIDDLE) LISTEN TO IAN MCMULLEN (RIGHT) DRUNKENLY RECOUNT TALES FROM THE BUSH. RYAN MACRAE/ARGOSY

CHELSEA DOHERTY Arts and Culture Reporter Writer and director Jake Planinc, a graduate of Mount Allison’s drama program from southern Ontario, accurately portrays working-class and student life in the Maritimes in his newest play “Going West.”

Last Monday and Tuesday evening, students and Sackville community members could catch the one-act

play at Ducky’s bar, giving the theatre performance a real Maritime charm.

The show appropriately addresses the timely dilemma of moving out west for work, one familiar to many Maritimers.

Planinc, currently living in Halifax with no plans to leave, said, “the Maritimes is much more about the people than Ontario is. It’s a lot friendlier.”

“Going West” tells the story of

Michael (played by Alex McGrath), a bar owner who still feels like an outsider in the small New Brunswick town he wants to call home. Michael pours drinks for Donny (Ian McMullen), a good-hearted local who loves to tell drunken hunting stories, while Donny’s wife Laura (Kaylie McGraw) waits for him at home, growing increasingly impatient.

When Michael’s former roommate Sam (Will Balser) shows up at the bar

on a mission to convince Michael to move out west with him, Michael finds that his heart clearly lies in the Maritimes.

“I haven’t had any flack yet about being an outsider and writing a play about the Maritimes, which is what I was afraid of,” Planinc said, referring to the positive reviews from audience members at both Ducky’s and the Atlantic Fringe Festival.

Students Annie Sherry and Xavier

“In terms of the text, there were many references to Sackville and it felt as if I was home. Every [character] on stage I was able to relate to someone in my life. I know those people,” Gould said.

Similarly, Sherry said, “I’m a really big fan of Ian McMullen. I thought his character in particular was done so well. The dialogue was really reflective of conversations you even hear here in Sackville. It felt like home to me.”

Planinc currently works with local theatre groups and production companies in Halifax and hopes to rework the show with older actors.

LGBTQA+

WGST brings Dean Spade to campus

Activitist and professor educates on trans politics and surviving mainstreaming CORINNA PAUMIER Arts and Culture Reporter For the second time last week – perhaps a record for many students outside of the music department – students trekked to the select Brunton auditorium to listen to Dean Spade discuss issues of mainstreaming trans politics and criminal justice reform.

Activist and professor at Seattle University School of Law, Spade provided a multifaceted lecture addressing both people immersed and educated in trans issues and those new to the conversation.

“We’re living in this terribly wild new moment where we have the mainstreaming of trans life, and you never know when these things are going to happen. I thought I could live forever and not ever see trans people

mainstream,” Spade said. “With mainstreaming, the trans community [gets] new forms of visibility, [and] conditional acceptance: ‘If you look like Caitlyn Jenner, sure, we like you’.”

Spade spoke about problems in criminal punishment reform with quip comments that clearly communicated to the audience the frustrations of dealing with such difficult issues.

“When you’re a part of movements and struggles that are trying to articulate a desire for change in community, the common story is you should change the law…[an idea] that comes from a deep myth in the United States,” Spade said. “This underlying myth that you change the law to change people’s lives, that with the law you can get legal

representation and inclusion and people will be okay…is not true.”

Spade spoke to how surviving mainstreaming and creating legitimate legal reform is a process that requires continual commitment to moving the conversation past the ineffective policy of Senate.

The underlying objective is to create an engaged and informed community and see beneath the ‘pretty rainbow blanket’ policy often lays over these issues.

Spade effectively moved the critical conversation beyond the academic realm, making it accessible to a wider audience.

“I was really interested in what Dean was saying in how we work on transformative justice and changing the ways we think about people who hurt us and how we hurt people and how it can be abolished,” said Katharyn Stevenson, a fourth-year student who helped bring Spade to campus.

“It was really great how he brought up the LGBTQ+ agenda and how the most visible issues are all that’s ever really known, but there is so much more beneath the surface,” Stevenson said.

Spade’s lecture provided new dimensions to the topics for those

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already familiar with the issues and allowed others to discover the building blocks of this movement and the facade behind which mainstreamed understanding hides.

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FILM

Struts screens Dark Horse Candidate

Autobiographical documentary unravels a family’s complicated history LEO GERTLER News Reporter “It’s okay to laugh,” filmmaker Liss Platt assured the audience before screening her documentary, Dark Horse Candidate. These reassuring words were important because, while extremely funny, the feature-length film offers an often uncomfortable and highly personal exploration of the relationship between Platt and her father.

Platt is working as the current artist-in-residence at Struts Gallery, where the film screening took place.

She is also a multimedia artist who teaches as an associate professor at McMaster University.

While the father-daughter relationship is the subject of the film, interviews with Platt’s father were arranged under the pretense of documenting his unofficial bid for presidency of the United States.

Dark Horse Candidate serves as an extension of the mail correspondence between Liss Platt and her father, which, until recently, had been their only mode of communication. Platt made use of interviews with her father and mother, original footage and a family film archive compiled by her uncle to present a particularly

complex intergenerational narrative.

The film examines aspects of sexuality, class, mental health and metaphor as facets of the personal histories between Platt and her father. Platt’s parents divorced when she was six months old, and her father was absent for most of her life growing up. Without resentment for her mother, Platt describes her youth as being “radically unparented.”

Platt’s past is reflected in the film itself. In piecing together her father Henry’s life story, Platt reframes her own life experience in a new context.

“The Dark Horse Candidate is I, L. Henry Platt, Jr.,” reads Henry Platt’s website, darkhorsecandidate.com. In Dark Horse Candidate, the audience learns of a man who was brought up in and later disenfranchised from the white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant elite of Connecticut.

The film depicts Henry Platt’s mother and father as distant and alienating parents. They pulled their son out of university because of their disapproval of his wife, cut him almost totally out of his inheritance and institutionalized him at the inadequate Yale-New Haven Psychiatric Hospital when he required treatment for his poor mental health.

Neglected financially and emotionally

LISS PLATT AND FATHER DISCUSS DIFFICULT FAMILY HISTORY. IZZY FRANCOLINI/ ARGOSY by his wealthy parents for almost his entire adult life, Henry has nothing left to hold onto but the right-wing values of his parents’ social class.

Henry Platt’s political views stand in stark contrast to his actual life circumstance. He worked a series of menial jobs as an adult before saving enough to buy a boarding house, which he now owns and operates. His ex-wife considers his impoverished tenants to be his “surrogate family.”

He can provide and care for his tenants, whereas he never had the

emotional capacity to do so with his own family.

All parties in the documentary, however, appear ultimately sympathetic to the complexities of Henry Platt’s life. Dark Horse Candidate is an exercise in mutual understanding and an attempt to repair a damaged relationship.

Platt’s earlier works, including both film and multimedia, can be viewed on her website at humanities.mcmaster.ca/~plattl/.

The Dish on Thanksgiving

Students share experiences and attitudes surrounding a colonial holiday

MARISSA CRUZ Arts and Culture Reporter This weekend students flooded their hometowns, cozying up to missed loved ones and indulging in the typical Thanksgiving rituals of overeating and sleeping in. However, not all students planned to obliterate multiple servings of mashed potatoes.

For second-year student Veronica Kerrigan, the holiday evokes a mixture of feelings.

“I am excited [to go home] for a few reasons: a comfortable bed, seeing friends and family...I made preserves over the summer and I can eat those.”

Kerrigan also expressed concern about the celebratory, religious aspect of Thanksgiving. At her Catholic school in Saint John, Thanksgiving

always related to an appreciation of God. “Being thankful for something was being thankful because God gave it you. It was never discussing, ‘Hey, [we] stole things from the people who used to have this land!’” Kerrigan said.

Ellice Evans, a British-born American student, does not celebrate the holiday. “It’s not a thing in England…[My family] doesn’t celebrate Thanksgiving. It has no significance to me.”

Evans resided in Montana for much of her life and was confused by the holiday’s customs. “People from Montana assumed we already knew what Thanksgiving was. My brother and I just sat at our friends’ house pretending – we knew nothing about Thanksgiving.”

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Emma Hassencahl, a fourth-year Maliseet student, explained that she experiences Thanksgiving in a traditional way: celebrating by social gathering. When she returns home to Tobique First Nation, her family uses the time to connect and eat dinner together. However, Hassencahl is still “conscious that Thanksgiving falls on Columbus Day. Seventeen major cities have already made Columbus day obsolete, as it should be.”

Third-year First Nations student Christopher Grant and their family celebrate a revised version of traditional Thanksgiving. “We treat it as an annual feast rather than Thanksgiving,” they said. The Grant family eats typical Thanksgiving sides, but instead of turkey, moose meat pies are the special dish.

Grant is infuriated that people overlook the devastation faced by Indigenous peoples and the issues that still exist today. “I fucking hate Thanksgiving because of what really happened…I dislike that people ignore the slaughtering of my ancestors because, ‘Yum, turkey.’”

“The practice in general is awful,” said second-year student Julia Campbell, highlighting that issues surrounding a lack of understanding reside within the education system, even at the elementary level. “We never learned about Thanksgiving from an Indigenous perspective at all.”

She recalled colouring cornucopias, making turkeys from construction paper and having teachers ask her

what she was thankful for. “It is all bullshit,” Campbell said.

Third-year student Saskia van Walsum planned a hike over the long weekend. “I have been planning for months to hike the Bay of Fundy because I find [that] during the school year I don’t get to be outside in nature enough.” van Walsum could have gone home to her step-family in Ottawa, but didn’t to avoid awkwardness.

“MAJOR CITIES HAVE ALREADY MADE COLUMBUS DAY OBSOLETE, AS IT SHOULD BE.” “It’s not so much a vacation, more so a ‘look at me, I am a good daughter’ [act].” Add to that the horror of her mother’s marshmallow sweet potato dish and van Waksum was eager to be Fundy-bound.

Now that Thanksgiving has come and gone, students are recovering from a weekend of indulgence.

As second-year student Braden Chetwynd commented, “It’s a gluttonous holiday. But I do love it.”

Foraging is an excellent way to inspire your holiday concoctions, not to mention a valuable and timeless skill. Even better, it provides a sense of independence and self-reliance that has all but disappeared in a society of supermarkets and fast-food restaurants. Exploring nature for apple trees, rose hips and wild herbs is much more enriching than falling into a stupor at the local grocery store.

Foraging requires increased attention and mindfulness, a headspace free of constant interruptions like messages, emails and assignments, making time to reflect on nature before winter storms come.

In a recent conversation with my father about foraging, he was all too excited to speak to me about the walnuts, hops, white lilacs and wild cherries that he collected near his family’s home in Poland. He pointed out that most of us don’t even recognize food when we see it – especially when a particular ingredient tastes delicious only once it gets infused in spirits, fermented and processed. In the specialized skill sets of today’s busy society, there isn’t room for foraging. And yet, foraging deserves to be valued as a noble way of eating: it liberates us from a food economy in which we have no control and grounds us in our environment.

In Sackville one of the most plentiful foodstuffs ready for picking in October is rose hip, the seed-filled fruit of rose bushes commonly found on campus and around Waterfowl Park. While their shell and tart taste make them difficult to eat raw and actually enjoy, rose hips offer a refreshing flavour for teas, jellies, marmalades, syrups and wine (if you have a few years to experiment).

While by far the easiest way to take advantage of this crop is to prepare a compote or syrup, another recipe deserves mention: the rose hip bourbon sour, my drink of choice this Thanksgiving.

Several rose bushes are located just outside of Flemington. Fill a ball cap’s worth of firm, bright-red fruit and take them home for a good cleaning.

Dump the rose hips in a pot and add enough water to cover the fruit – about 8 cups.

To make a syrup, boil the rose hips for at least 2 hours over low heat and let cool overnight so that they are mushy by morning. Strain and mash the pulp to extract as much of the (highly nutritious) compote as possible. Then make a simple syrup by boiling 1 cup of the liquid, ½ cup of water and 1½ cups of sugar until dissolved.

To make the cocktail, shake an egg white in a cocktail mixer until frothy.

Add ice, 2 oz of rose hip syrup, 2 oz of bourbon and the juice of half a lemon. Shake until creamy and serve in a chilled coupe or rocks glass.

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FINE ARTS

Society of Anonymous Drawers speaks out

Cyberspace offers anonymous platform to artists

MUSIC

Piano duo presents impressive program

Piano Fusion engages audience with an afternoon of diverse piano works ISAIAH YANKECH Contributor

WILL PELLETIER Contributor Equipped with concealing black masks and official membership cards, the mysterious Society of Anonymous Drawers (SAD) may send local conspiracy theorists into a tailspin of research and yarn-oncorkboard investigation. The society can aptly be described as a collection of artists with a specific goal: to break down the common paradigm of what it means to draw “well.” “[SAD] essentially exists so people don’t have to be scared about drawing badly. You can show it off without feeling like you have to draw perfectly,” said Patrick Allaby, president of SAD. To Allaby, the society is also about making drawing fun.

“When I was in high school, there were so many things drawing had to be – and there are so many rules that impose on the idea of what drawing is. They’re not real rules, but they’re things we have somehow made to exist in our minds,” Allaby said. “Because of these 12 years of schooling with all these weird rules about what drawing has to be, a lot of people feel like they can’t draw.”

Depending on whom you ask, the society was established by a secret enclave of revolutionary artists hundreds of years ago, or, more recently, by a small group of Mt. A fine arts alumni in 2014. The majority of the society’s membership consists of a fluid conglomerate of individuals who attend the society’s planned events to draw together.

The executive branch scans each drawing and posts them publicly in the group’s “archive,” a Facebook page updated daily. With over 700 submissions, the society is slowly but surely gaining popularity and making waves in the community. “[Anonymous drawing] comes from the hope that people would draw in the same way that they would dance,” said SAD organizer Laura Watson. “This allows them to draw without worrying about how good the result is, and [to] instead [focus] on enjoying it.”

These get-togethers draw a diverse group of people of all ages. Many parents bring their children to draw, but often eventually become involved themselves. “It’s really wonderful to watch their willpower deteriorate [as they] realize how much they want to be taking part,” Watson said.

Founding member Rachel Thornton elaborated on the society’s perspective on censorship and judgment. “There are no limitations about what a drawing is or what type of drawing can become a part of the archive – although if its content is really hateful, or something like that, then we might not publish it. We advocate for positivity and inclusivity,” Thornton said.

These execs are planning a summer road trip across the Maritimes.

Thornton explained that the duration of the trip will be spent “focusing on small, rural communities and places that aren’t typically seen as Canada’s major art centres.” The goal is to bring anonymous drawing to these places to spark interest in art.

The mysterious trio urges readers to check the SAD Facebook page to get updates on any upcoming SAD events, where they too can get a mask and membership card. Future society members can send electronic submissions to: societyofanonymousdrawers@gmail. com.

David Rogosin and Janet’s Hammock’s Piano Fusion tour made its fourth stop at Brunton’s second Mid-Week Music guest recital, presenting a thrilling afternoon of duo piano compositions. The well-rounded program presented classical, romantic, modern and newly composed pieces for four hands. Highly regarded piano duo pieces were contrasted by fresh compositions, giving the audience a variety of listening experiences.

A light-hearted and expressive performance of Mozart’s Andante and Variations opened the program.

The duo demonstrated superb musicality through its lyrical melodies. Clear voicing and delicate phrasing complemented the music’s well-arched ideas, while continuous momentum generated by shifting variations gave the performance life.

The program’s highlight came in a stunning rendition of the second piece, Schubert’s Fantasie in F Minor.

Rogosin and Hammock’s engaging interpretation resulted in a powerful live performance that could not be replicated.

The duo displayed “excellent synchronization,” second-year pianist Madeline Gaudette said.

“There was a really good physical, spiritual and musical connection between them.”

The mysterious tone of the opening theme captivated the audience with its beauty and intimacy that increased with every recurrence. Rogosin and Hammock built in stirring contrasts

and emphasized dramatic silences, creating climactic momentum and an atmosphere full of suspense.

The subsequent three works shifted the suspenseful mood.

Professors Kevin Morse of Mt. A and Richard Gibson of the Université de Moncton, who attended the concert, commissioned two works for the Piano Fusion tour.

Solo piano practice inspired Morse’s Alone/Together. Morse’s work explores how collaboration with another pianist alters how a solo pianist approaches the composition.

Alternating rising and falling phrases between the two simulated dialogue, a musical conversation between two pianists.

The concert ended with four movements from Debussy’s Six Épigraphes antiques, displaying the duo’s ability to incorporate different tones and colours within their playing. “You want to create an atmospheric wash of sound while making the layers relatively obvious to the listener,” said Dakota-Scott Digout, a fourth-year student wellacquainted with Debussy’s piano works. “[The performance was] very clean in this regard,” Digout said. “The duo [achieved] the goal of making the layers complement each other while still allowing them to maintain a certain independence.”

The final Mid-Week Music recital, Birds of a Feather, will present an afternoon of newly composed flute and piano music with flutists Michelle Cheramy and Mt. A’s Karin Aurell alongside pianist Kristina Szutor.

DAVID ROGOSIN AND JANET HAMMOCK OF PIANO FUSION. GARY TUCKER/ PHOTOGRAPHER

ART ACROSS THE MARSH: STUDIO TOUR THE 17TH ANNUAL ART ACROSS THE MARSH STUDIO TOUR IS SET TO TAKE PLACE ON OCT. 15 AND 16 IN THE TANTRAMAR REGION. The tour features over 30 artists at 20 different studios and galleries, from Middleton, N.B. to Amherst, N.S. This weekend is an excellent opportunity to get out and experience the fall colours and take in some of the finest art the region has to offer. Participation in the tour is free and all are welcome. Studios and galleries will be open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

VISIT WWW.ARTACROSSTHEMARSH.CA FOR MORE INFOMARTION AND A DOWNLOADABLE MAP OR STOP INTO THE SACKVILLE VISITORS INFORMATION CENTRE AT 24 MALLARD DRIVE TO PICK UP A BROCHURE.

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CLIMATE JUSTICE

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Stop the Pacific Northwest pipeline

PNW LNG pipeline incompatible with climate targets, infringes on rights

JAMIE DALGLEISH Contributor Despite ratifying the most recent United Nations agreement on climate change, which requires governments to adopt stronger and more extensive climate policies, the Canadian federal government has recently approved another major pipeline. Last month, the Pacific Northwest Liquefied Natural Gas (PNW LNG) pipeline was given the green light in Ottawa.

As a climate justice activist, I am alarmed to see the Canadian government approve a project that is simply incompatible with the energysector transformations that are necessary to mitigate climate change.

Any pipeline like the PNW LNG would gravely impair our national and regional abilities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In order to meet the goals set by the federal government, which seek to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to onethird of 2005 levels by 2030, projects like the PNW LNG must be stopped immediately.

In its operation, the PNW LNG would emit several million tonnes of carbon dioxide per year through the development and facilitation of the extraction, transportation and combustion of natural gas. While all of these components of the project are significant sources of greenhouse emissions and present a serious threat to our environment in their own right, we cannot ignore the social and cultural degradation that such a project would also cause.

The ugly realities of fossil fuel projects like the PNW LNG include the pollution of local water sources, the emission of toxic and carcinogenic chemicals and the violation of human rights. The PNW

LNG is slated to be built on the lands of the Skeena Corridor First Nations, who oppose the project. Like many other Indigenous peoples all over the world whose land, water and personal security are threatened by the fossil fuel industry, the Skeena believe that the project violates Indigenous land and water rights.

Regardless of the stated economic benefits, the environmental and social costs of the PNW LNG are too great to ignore. The pipeline would be yet another backward step for a nation that is disproportionately responsible for current global greenhouse gas emissions levels and whose track record on fighting climate change is disgraceful. The Canadian government consistently fails to take concrete steps to fight climate change due to the vested interest of corporations and those in positions of power.

True climate justice recognizes that not only are the world’s ecosystems at risk due to climate change, the rights of marginalized people everywhere are also jeopardized by projects like

PNW LNG. This projects does not just affect people in the wake of a pipeline, shipping route or tar sands operation. It has a global scope that threatens communities in areas prone to drought, flood, extreme weather, food insecurity and disease. These communities on the frontlines of climate change are often Indigenous communities, poor communities, communities of colour, people in the Global South and so on.

By approving this pipeline, the federal government has displayed not only a lack of leadership with respect to emissions reduction but also a willful ignorance of environmental racism and the system of violence that is linked to the fossil fuel industry.

Unless powerful governments – those in post-industrial countries that hold the largest responsibility for emissions – take a strong, concrete stance on ceasing these projects and shifting to sustainable energy, we will not meet our climate change targets and the material conditions of the most marginalized communities will worsen. We can and must do better.

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REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS

PHOTO EDITOR | Adrian Kiva

Keep your rosaries away from my ovaries

PHOTOGRAPHERS | Ryan MacRae, Savannah Harris ILLUSTRATION EDITOR | Jeff Mann ILLUSTRATORS | Andreas Fobes, Izzy Francolini

Safe and legal reprodutive health services must be accessible for everybody

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REPORTING staff NEWS REPORTERS | Leo Gertler, Kavana Wa Kilele, Jill MacIntryre POLITICS REPORTER | Nadiya Safonova SPORTS REPORTER | Hamza Munawar ARTS & CULTURE REPORTERS | Chelsea Doherty, Marissa Cruz, Corinna Paumier

OPERATIONS staff BUSINESS MANAGER | Tessa Dixon AD MANAGER | James Lantz CIRCULATIONS | Katharyn Stevenson

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CONTRIBUTORS Katharyn Sevenson, Jamie Dalgleish, Will Pelletier,

On Oct. 2, the Pro-Choice Moncton / Moncton Pro-Choix group organized a “Choice Chain” protest in response to the annual “Life Chain” demonstration put on by prolifers in Moncton. Approximately 15 Mount Allison students carpooled to Moncton and attended the pro-choice rally that Sunday afternoon, standing in solidarity with the Pro-Choice Moncton organizers and activists.

Although the protest was peaceful and relatively small – each side only had about 30 demonstrators – the impact and significance of attending the protest was not lost on any of us.

Over the past few years we have seen the war between pro-choice and pro-life advocates come to the forefront of the political arena in both Canada and the United States.

The reproductive justice movement in Canada is one of the most important battles we are currently facing, particularly here in the Maritimes. After the closing of the Morgentaler Clinic in Fredericton, New Brunswick, in July 2014, women in New Brunswick who needed access to abortion services were forced to abide by Regulation 84-20, which stated that “abortions need to be

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PRO-CHOICE ACTIVISTS ARE CHANGING ATTITUDES TOWARDS REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES IN NEW BRUNSWICK. SHANNON POWER/ARGOSY deemed ‘medically necessary’ by two different physicians in the province.”

Although Premier Brian Gallant and the Liberal Party amended this regulation, many obstacles still remain to accessing reproductive services in New Brunswick. While Clinic 554, a private clinic offering access to abortion services, has opened up in the same space that the Morgentaler Clinic once occupied, the New Brunswick government still refuses to cover the costs of abortions.

Clinic 554 is the only private clinic offering these services in all of New Brunswick.

The “anti-choice” culture and attitudes in New Brunswick, and much of the Maritime region, do not revolve solely around accessing abortion. Many physicians still refuse to prescribe contraception to patients, many individuals simply cannot afford birth control or emergency contraceptives such as Plan B and some folks do not have a family physician at all. The

barriers surrounding access to reproductive health care and services range from an individual’s financial situation, gender identity or sexual orientation to where they are located geographically. This is why the prochoice movement is so incredibly important.

Organizations such as Reproductive Justice New Brunswick are fighting every day to raise awareness and take action against the lack of access to these essential services. Circulating petitions, information pamphlets and zines, as well as remaining active in the discussions surrounding reproductive health care services and fighting to improve accessibility to these services across the board, are all crucial to the pro-choice movement.

Pro-choice activism is changing the attitudes towards reproductive health services in New Brunswick, the Maritimes and beyond. We must stand up and speak out against politicians and governments who use our bodies as political tools to sway

voters and win elections. Pro-choice activism works towards empowering us to make decisions about our bodies because it is OUR choice what we do with our bodies. Whether those choices are to have an abortion, go on birth control or simply educate ourselves on sexual health, it is crucial for us to be able to make these choices on our own terms without fear of judgment from those providing these essential services.

Whether we are a group of 15 students or a group of hundreds, we must collectively come together and fight for the eradication of these barriers and restrictions to reproductive health care across the country. We must ensure safe, legal and accessible reproductive health services for everyone. Our voices must be heard.

For more information about reproductive rights in Canada, visit the Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights website at http://www. sexualhealthandrights.ca.

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BANGERS

Seasonal playlist MARK CRUZ Humour Editor Ah! What is that in the air? A brisk wind? Hmm… Is that a whiff of apple cider? Fall has arrived. As the dog-days of summer finally wind down, we welcome the sweet melancholy of autumn’s approach. The editorial staff at the Argosy have curated the perfect soundtrack to your bonfire, evening stroll, and morning coffee.

Cozy up with some tea and enjoy!

1. Fleet Foxes – “White Winter Hymnal” 2. Arcade Fire – “Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)” 3. Bon Iver – “Skinny Love” 4. Neil Young – “Harvest Moon” 5. Drowning Pool – “Bodies (Let the Bodies Hit the Floor)” 6. Billy Talent – “Fallen Leaves” 7. Green Day – “Wake Me Up When September Ends” 8. Guns n’ Roses – “November Rain” 9. Radiohead – “Creep”

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10. Phil Collins – “In the Air Tonight”

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