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Vol. 143 Iss. 3

Music department instructors take the stage

The music department gala demonstrated faculty talents. This year’s event celebrated the acquisition of a new Yamaha CFX piano. (Nick Sleptov/Argosy)

Mount Allison’s annual Faculty Gala Concert showcased the unquestionable excellence and diversity of the university’s musical community on Friday, September 6, as students and staff alike gathered elegantly in Brunton Auditorium for an evening of musical selections performed by Mount Allison University’s talented and distinguished instructors.

In addition to serving as an

enjoyable evening of music, this event also provides an opportunity for music students to see their instructors in action and witness a sample of each faculty members’ preferred style and area of expertise. From romanticera piano etudes to evocative Italian opera and dissonant, experimental duets, Mount Allison’s music faculty collectively succeeded in taking their audience on a tour through a colourful variety of musical styles and moods.

This evening was also made special by the unveiling of the music faculty’s newly acquired Yamaha CFX Concert Grand Piano, an exquisite and prestigious instrument generously donated by Mount Allison alumni Heather and Ian Bourne to assist in the continued improvement of the university’s music program.

The concert therefore opened with

a piece specifically composed by Mount Allison’s own Kevin Morse to highlight the instrument’s dynamic abilities and warm tones. Performed by piano professor Stephen Runge, the piece imitates the tuning process of a piano by beginning with a single, repeated note, and steadily building complex chords around it as the piece progresses.

This would not be the last story that this beautiful new instrument would tell during the evening, however. In addition to serving as vocal accompaniment at the hands of Stephen Runge and Lynn Johnson, music theory and history professor Gary Tucker performed a Tobias Picker piece entitled “Old and Lost Rivers,” a flowing composition inspired by the convergence of Old River and Lost River in eastern Texas

and a bit of unintentional poetry provided by a nearby road sign.

While the impressive new piano received a sizable share of the limelight, the concert adequately featured a wide array of other instruments, including guitar, clarinet, cello, and flute.

One memorable performance was percussion instructor Joël Cormier’s solo rendition of the “Frère Ange” suite on marimba. Written by New Brunswick composer Christian Hébert and featured on Cormier’s 2012 percussion album entitled Les Voiles Blanches, “Frère Ange” is a mind-twistingly experimental piece that harnesses the ethereal tones and percussive complexity of the instrument to provocative effect. Another crowd favourite was opera instructor Monette Gould’s breathtaking performance of three

short songs from the 19th and early 20th century. Featuring works by French composers Berlioz, Fauré, and Poulenc, Gould’s enchanting soprano vocals and cheerful personality concluded the performances, quite literally ending the evening on a positive note.

As university students, it is easy to become thoroughly immersed in our chosen area of study and the balancing act of life, causing us to sometimes forget the immense amount of hard work that Mount Allison’s faculty continues to do both inside and outside the classroom. This event, therefore, begins the academic year with a reminder for both students and instructors that the benefits of education and the joys of musical performance are an ongoing, lifelong process.

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Pink Shirt Day supports LGTBQ students Students wear pink to fight homophobia at Mount Allison Taylor Losier

News Contributor The Mount Allison campus was a little rosier last Friday, as the school experienced its first Pink Day. Students and other members of the Mt. A community were encouraged to wear pink to show their support in the fight against homophobia, transphobia, and bullying.

Pink Day is a student-run initiative, started by Josh Carr, a fourth-year student. After he and his boyfriend were recently victims of homophobic harassment, he met with Melody Petlock, the Sexual Harassment Advisor and S.H.A.R.E. (Sexual Harassment and Assault Response and Education) Coordinator, and decided to initiate the event.

“Our goal with Pink Day is to show—in a very visible way—that everyone is welcome here, and that negative expressions and behaviour are not acceptable,” said Petlock “By

Preparation of Pink Day banners. (Justin Thomas/Get REAL) having everyone show up wearing pink on the same day, we can show anyone who is worried or afraid just how many people are here to support them and back them up.”

In order to further publicize Pink Day, banners were placed in the student centre and other locations, posters were passed around, Facebook events were shared,

Activist Eva Bartlett addresses CIS event

Palestine solidarity activist speaks at alma mater Tyler Stuart

News Contributor Mount Allison alumna Eva Bartlett (‘03) delivered a poignant presentation to a crowd of over seventy about her experience living in the Gaza Strip. Bartlett has spent a number of years in the occupied territory as a freelance journalist and activist with the International Solidarity Movement. The Monday event marked the first of the year hosted by the Centre for International Studies (CIS).

“An event like this is unique because you get a perspective from someone who has been on the ground in a location that most of us haven’t the chance to visit,” said Associate Professor Dave Thomas of the Department of Politics and International Relations.

At the event, Bartlett described her close encounters with Israeli military forces and the daily suffering of Palestinians. Bartlett urged Mt. A students to be well read in current events and to fight for justice.

“You may encounter people that don’t like your opinions, or slander you, but if you believe in justice, then it is critical to speak up,” Bartlett said.

Despite the manner in which Bartlett has contributed to the global community, her time at Mt. A was different. As a student, Bartlett, who studied music, said she was not aware of current global issues or events. CIS leadership aims to address this issue among current students.

“There is so much academic discussion on campus, and we kind of get stuck within that academic mentality,” said Natalie Brunet, a CIS

and members of the Get REAL campaign, another student group on campus, sold bright pink hats with the slogan “Get REAL” written on them on the Wednesday and Thursday prior to the event.

“Unfortunately, homophobia, transphobia, and other forms of bullying and harassment are still a thing on campus and it is just

co-coordinator.

According to its website, the CIS “is an organization designed to engage [Mt. A] students, faculty, and the wider community across disciplines in critical learning dialogue, and innovative, collaborative action on pressing global issues.”

The CIS started as a two-year pilot program through alumni donation in 2010. Once the funding ended, the CIS was forced to find new, consistent funding. Last year, MASU passed a referendum granting a five-dollar levy per fulltime student.

“If you are a member of the students’ union, you are a member of the CIS,” Becky Lockert, a CIS co-coordinator, said.

The slogan of the CIS is “Academics in Action,” claiming that the knowledge we acquire in classes is most valuable when put to use.

Thomas concurs.

“One of the real goals [at Mt. A] is that what you are learning in class has some impact on how you engage with the world,” he said.

Throughout the year, the CIS plans to host multiple events similar to Bartlett’s presentation as well as group discussions. It will also aid the creation of working groups for those who wish to act on specific issues.

“Being in university is extremely engaging, and makes you start to potentially realize what is happening in the world; however, it doesn’t necessarily give you a pathway on how to change what you see or how you act on what you see,” Brunet said. “The CIS hopes to offer those pathways.”

The CIS has also recently launched a new website at http://cistmta.ca, and a Twitter account, @CISMTA, which they encourage students to follow.

To follow Eva Bartlett’s work and activism, visit her blog, In Gaza, at http://ingaza. wordpress.com

unacceptable!” said Carr. “By wearing pink, staff and students are spreading awareness of this issue.

Nobody should feel as if they’re less of a person based on sexual orientation.”

Carr emphasized that Pink Day was not only about taking a stand, but also a means of letting students know that if they are victims of homophobia or bullying, or if they witness someone else being harassed, that there are resources to which they can turn.

“I’ve always said that bullying, harassment, homophobia, and transphobia can sometimes happen when people aren’t looking. With this information and greater awareness, Mt. A can only become a safer place for all students,” said Carr.

This year, Carr plans on working as a Peer Educator for the S.H.A.R.E. program, and in doing so will continue to talk to each residence about the issues of homophobia, transphobia, and bullying. While Mt. A is widely seen as a fairly accepting campus, initiatives such as Pink Day, and the presence of peer advocacy groups, remind students that some occurrences of discrimination do go undetected, here and elsewhere.

In 2008, Statistics Canada

issued survey results indicating that LGBTQ youth and adults experience violent victimization including sexual assault, robbery, physical assault, and discrimination at rates three times higher than that of heterosexuals. In addition, students who were harassed reported lower grades (twenty-four per cent), higher absentee rates (twenty-seven per cent), greater depression (fiftyfive per cent), and were more likely to make plans to commit suicide (thirty-five per cent) when compared to their heterosexual peers.

“Many [people] don’t realize how using negative or pejorative expressions or labels related to sexual orientation or gender identity can marginalize, harass, and ostracize others,” said Petlock. “Some students who have been harassed disengage academically and, sometimes, end up leaving university.”

Pink Day was only the first of various initiatives that are planned to be held by committees on campus, such as the Spot the Dot Campaign, Catalyst, and, as previously mentioned, the Get REAL Campaign. These groups, along with the various other support systems on campus, encourage all students to report any negative activities to SHARE at: share@mta.ca.

SMUSA president steps down St. Mary’s student union responds to pro-rape chant Cydney Procter The Journal

Chris Balcom News Editor

HALIFAX (CUP) AND SACKVILLE – Jared Perry, the Saint Mary’s University student under fire after the inappropriate frosh chant that has been causing a stir nation-wide, has resigned his post as president of the Saint Mary’s University Student Association (SMUSA). The announcement was made via press release.

Vice-President, Student Life Carrigan Desjardins also resigned her position. Desjardins was the SMUSA executive who was in charge of Orientation Week and the event at which over 80 leaders and 350 or more new students were singing an offensive chant.

A video was posted on Instagram of students chanting “Y is for your sister, O is for ‘oh so tight,’ U is for underage, N is for no consent, G is for ‘grab that ass,’—Saint Mary’s boys, we like ‘em young.”

The university has announced that disciplinary action has been called for against two student leaders involved with the frosh week chant. Their names have not been released, in line with SMU policy. The students will go before a disciplinary panel within the next ten days. Disciplinary action could range from fines to expulsion.

Any member of the SMU community— student, faculty or staff—can call for disciplinary action against another.

Perry announced his intention to run again in the by-election to fill his now-vacant position, and said he is “personally deeply committed to addressing the damage incurred this week by being part of a long-term change commitment.”

Desjardins could not be reached for comment.

With the resignations, SMUSA only has one remaining executive.

It is unknown who will fill the role of interim president; a decision will be made by the Board of Directors of SMUSA. The Ubyssey reported on September 6 that Orientation events at the University of British Columbia’s Sauder School of Business featured a nearly identical cheer to the one at SMU. The co-chairs of the Commerce Undergraduate Society’s orientation team have tendered their resignations.

Mount Allison Students’ Union President Melissa O’Rourke said that she would be very surprised if a similar event were to happen at Mt. A, highlighting the level of oversight for Orientation, and its status as a joint process between the student union and the university.

“We have a very thorough process to ensure that everything that goes through is approved … all the house chants and everything go through the university,” she said, continuing, “At SMU it’s basically the student association that organizes the events, and the university doesn’t have much to do with it.”

Ron Byrne, Vice-President, International and Student Affairs at Mt. A, also praised the university’s process to ensure that orientation is as inclusive as possible.

“The entire experience has to be welcoming,” Byrne said.

Byrne highlighted the collaborative nature of orientation planning at Mt. A and explained that there is a lot of feedback and discussion between all the groups involved in organizing.

O’Rourke and Byrne agreed that Mt. A has a good process in place to ensure that students feel safe and secure during their first weeks of school.

“They can definitely reflect upon this and continue to move forward,” O’Rourke said of SMUSA. “I think Jared did what’s best for his organization,” she added.

Byrne noted that while the cost of the incident is enormous, he is hopeful that it will create a learning opportunity far beyond Saint Mary’s.

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New Mt. A degree offered Multidisciplinary program has rich history Kevin Levangie

Political Beat Writer Mount Allison has recently announced a new arts degree: Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE). Mt. A is following in the footsteps of Oxford University, the first school to offer this broadly focused undergraduate degree.

The early years of the multidisciplinary program will require students to take a number of specific courses, giving all students in the program the same fundamental basis. The Mt. A press release states that taking the required courses in first and second year gives students “greater flexibility to tailor the curriculum to their specific interests during their third and fourth years.”

The United Kingdom’s prestigious Oxford University was the first to offer the PPE program. The idea was conceived in the 1920s as a modernization of an interdisciplinary

classics program, with an eye towards preparing students for the civil service.

While the idea of a PPE program is enormously popular in the UK, and to a lesser degree in the United States, Mt. A is only the third Canadian university to offer the program.

Wilfrid Laurier University has offered the program in the past, while the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus also offers the program. Mt. A will be the first Canadian university east of Ontario to offer students the PPE program.

As UBC Okanagan states on its website, the major is “recommended for students who wish to pursue a career in business or government or who intend to undertake studies in law, business, commerce, journalism, social work, education, or public administration.”

The major’s broad overview of ethics, logic, political institutions, and the sort of global trade that characterizes modern economics makes this degree ideal for any student wishing to get a stable footing in a number of disciplines.

Associate Professor Roopen Majithia of Mt. A’s philosophy department said, “the way we’re

looking at it is it’s a program that hopefully gives students three sets of lenses to look at the world,” adding that “any feature of the modern world requires that you come at it from a variety of points of view.”

However, in some cases, the emphasis on breadth of studies, instead of focusing on depth, is criticized as producing too many generalists, rather than increasing students’ expertise in any one particular field.

The suitability of the degree for work public office becomes apparent when looking at the breakdown of Oxford’s PPE alumni. In the UK, the program dominates the education history of public political figures, with Prime Minister David Cameron, Leader of the Opposition Ed Miliband, and several more members of the cabinet and shadow cabinet all having taken PPE majors at Oxford.

PPE joins the ranks of other interdisciplinary programs at Mt. A, such as International Relations, Canadian Studies, and Classics, which aim to produce informed and critically thinking students.

Former nursing professor concerned Health cuts have compromised patient care

This Week in the World Joanna Perkin

Sixty injured in the UK after 130 vehicles crash September 5 was a horrendous day in Kent, England, as 130 vehicles crashed on the Sheppey crossing. The fog was so thick that visibility was practically zero, and witnesses say that they could only hear cars crashing around them as they tried to stop safely. Eight people sustained serious injuries, thirty-five people needed hospital treatments, and another 200 were either treated for minor injuries or given advice should symptoms arrive later on. The accident caused the bridge to close for nine hours while emergency crews cleaned up the scene. The accident has also raised concerns about the lighting on the bridge in question.

Kenya MPs vote to withdraw from the ICC After an emergency debate, Kenyan MPs voted to withdraw from the International Criminal Court. The ICC recently charged President Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto with crimes against humanity.

The charges are due to the violence that erupted in Kenya after disrupted elections in 2007, causing the deaths of more than 1,000 people. A further 600,000 people fled their homes. Both the President and Deputy President have denied the charges, with President Kenyatta scheduled to go to trial in November.

It has been reported that the withdrawal from the ICC still has to pass one parliamentary hurdle which could take over a year to come into effect. The ICC has reported that even if this withdrawal goes through, it would have no effect on the cases against the two men. If President Kenyatta and Mr Ruto do not cooperate, the ICC will consider issuing arrest warrants against the individuals.

15 dead after two bombs explode in Somalia 15 people have been died after two explosions at a busy restaurant in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu. The restaurant was busy when a car bomb went off outside the restaurant, after which a suicide bomber posed as a first responder blew himself up among the gathering crowd. The restaurant was located near the presidential palace, and it has been reported that government workers often visit the restaurant for meals. Somalia has been unstable since 1991.

Malala Yousafzai awarded Children’s Peace Prize At the age of 11, Malala Yousafzai, a young Pakistani, began blogging about her love of learning, and Taliban oppression in her country, particularly regarding its ban on educating girls in her area. In 2012, a Taliban gunman shot and severely wounded the 16 year old Malala on a school bus, and she was sent to Britain to receive care and remain safe. It was three months later that she was able to leave the hospital, and has since remained in Britain with her family. Since she was shot, Malala has earned worldwide recognition for her actions, and has spoken at the United Nations Youth Assembly. Malala had been previously nominated for the International Children’s Peace Prize in 2011. This year, the organization refrained from nominating other children and awarded her the prize.

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Political Beat Writer A former nurse and University of New Brunswick nursing professor has declared that provincial healthcare cuts have compromised patient care. A twenty-sevenpage report recently submitted to Horizon Health Network, the New Brunswick Department of Health, and the New Brunswick Nurses Union outline Penny Ericson’s concerns.

Ericson’s husband, Carl, passed away earlier this year. Ericson spent a lot of time at the Dr. Chalmer’s Regional Hospital in Fredericton during his treatment. Her criticism was informed by this experience.

Ericson’s report stressed its purpose was to be used “as a learning/ teaching tool, not as evidence for litigation.” According to Ericson, staff are improperly trained and equipped to clean sufficiently.

In an interview with CBC, she said, “I put everything squarely on the shoulders of the board. The hospital has focused on saving money because the government has put them in that position.”

Horizon Health Network is the province’s anglophone health board, which covers central and southern New Brunswick, including the Sackville Memorial Hospital.

Vitalité Health Network covers northern New Brunswick, and the other predominantly francophone areas in the province. Both of these entities are funded by the New Brunswick Department of Health.

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Ex-soldier walking from Cape Breton to Ottawa

Sackville’s hospital is part of the Horizon Health network.

(Nick Sleptov/Argosy) Ericson’s criticism was not directed at staff, but at recent administrative cuts.

In April of this year, The Department of Health announced the Horizon Health Network would be losing 131 positions, saving nearly $6.7 million of $22 million in projected cuts in the 2013-2014 budgetary year.

The president of Horizon Health Network, John McGarry, stressed that it would not be frontline care providers being cut, but “administration and management, non-clinical positions across the board.”

While Horizon’s cuts seem steep, Vitalité is cutting nearly 400 positions over three years, with projected savings of $24 million.

Facilicorp NB, responsible for support services for New Brunswick hospitals, will lose fifty-seven jobs.

While Facilicorp provides a variety of services, it is their laundry services

that will be subjected to the cuts.

New Brunswick’s Department of Health operates with a $2.5 billion overall annual budget, with almost seventy-five per cent of that spent paying employees of the department and its subsidiaries. Recent cuts have amalgamated departments and fired a large number of administrators.

New Brunswick’s health care system, much like other provincial programs, suffers from a small tax base and low population density.

Official bilingualism also contributes to higher costs of healthcare delivery, because two sets of administrative structures are necessary.

Much like the recent amalgamation of New Brunswick school districts, the change in organizational structure from four English and four French health authorities to Horizon and Vitalité was done with an eye for reducing administrative costs.

Kate MacEachern, a 34 year old single mother, has started her 1,864 km trek from Cape Breton to Ottawa, her second charity walk for mentally injured soldiers.

In the summer of 2012, MacEachern raised $20,000 doing a similar walk, and requested that she do it again through the military. When her commanding officers gave her an ultimatum of either continuing with the walk or staying a soldier, she quit the military, and has recently started an independent trek across Canada for mentally injured veterans. The money she raises on her walk will go to the online organization Military Minds, which helps support veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). MacEachern has said she is already overwhelmed by the support, and hopes to reach Ottawa by October 18th.

The Corrections Richard Kent

Editor-in-Chief

Marc-Alexandre Chartrand’s obituary (“Remembering MarcAlexandre Chartrand,” page 4, September 5) was written by Simon Murray.

The photo of SappyForever (Centrefold, page 10, September 5) was submitted by SappyFest.

Sue Seaborn’s name was misspelled

in a photo credit (“Better Know a Mountie: Josh Blanchard,” page 16, September 5).

The Argosy regrets these and other errors.

If you wish to request a correction or to notify The Argosy of an error, please contact Editor-in-Chief Richard Kent by email at argosy@mta.ca.

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Black Duck closed, café’s future uncertain

Dispute over patio sparks closure of café Gavin Rea

News Contributor The Black Duck may shut down permanently due to a dispute with the town over a sidewalk patio.

On September 9, the Sackville Town Council voted six to two in favour of revoking the Black Duck’s permit to operate on the sidewalk.

On September 10, a sign on the café door read: “Dear Friends, on September 9 Sackville Town council voted to revoke the Black Duck’s sidewalk patio. Although this decision has little effect on our day to day operations, we have decided to close and re-evaluate running this business in Sackville.”

The Argosy received an emailed statement from the Black Duck’s address later Tuesday evening. The email accused town staff and all but two members of Sackville’s council of treating the restaurant’s proprietors “like children,” and called for change in what the authors called the town’s “authoritarian and punishing attitude.” A version of the release is available on the Black Duck’s website.

Alan Barbour, co-owner of the Black Duck with Sarah Evans, received the permit in March.

According to Barbour, they received

The Black Duck has closed while the owners consider their options. (Nick Sleptov/Argosy) a call from the Tantramar Planning District Commission in August, telling them that their patio was noncompliant because they did not have a rope.

Barbour claims to have always run a well-managed patio and kept chairs and tables within the allocated space.

“We had been operating through May, June and July without incident, so the idea seemed to us a little bit heavy-handed,” said Barbour.

“We put the rope out anyway after a number of conversations with the planning commission,” he said, “but

they continued to say that we weren’t compliant.”

Lori Bickford, director of the planning commission, addressed the town council on Monday, explaining that the Black Duck received six site visits and numerous conversations were had with the owners. According to Bickford, patio delineation was not compliant during site visits.

Barbour believes the planning commission misread the diagram and thought that the door leading to the apartments upstairs was the front door. The commission had requested that they put a bench under a window

that had a table and two chairs, and add a garbage can.

“But as you can see, there’s [a garbage can] right here,” he said, gesturing at the municipal garbage can outside. “Besides, we serve everything on plates and cups, and recycle. We don’t have any garbage.”

Barbour and Evans have been operating their business in Sackville for under a year.

“We’ve had so much red tape and problems that we’re actually considering closing down,” said Barbour. “We work seven days a week and don’t take any time off. We’ve

been out of town for four nights in the past two years. We’re now employing seven people, and we had plans to expand and hire something in the order for fourteen to twenty by operating in the evenings and putting in a full kitchen.”

Last week, the owners were notified by email that they would be given a final opportunity for inspection, but planning commissioners were unable to reach a conclusion because the patio was not set up.

“I feel like they were [resisting],” said Michael Tower, one of the councillors in favour of revoking the permit. “They wanted us to change to them. I think there was a little bit of an arrogance involved there.”

Tower said that the Black Duck had not been the only restaurant asked to delineate their sidewalk, and others, such as the nearby Downtown Diner, had done so without hesitation.

“It’s nice to see people on the sidewalk sitting there enjoying it, but I’ve also seen where there’ve been extra people at tables and seniors have had to walk off,” he said.

Bill Evans, one of two councillors left blameless in the Black Duck’s email, disagreed.

“I believe this could have been worked out,” said Councillor Evans, “and it’s really unfortunate that it wasn’t. My colleagues didn’t appreciate the distinction I was making. If someone refuses to comply, I would have no problem voting to revoke. I believe they are not refusing to comply, so I cannot vote to revoke them for that reason.”

New copyright laws will Diplomat strike worries students Walkouts source of be observed at Mt. A uncertainty for visa University copyright policy updated to comply with federal legislation

Taylor Losier

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While Mount Allison is going through obvious physical transformations, other adjustments are being made in the academic sphere. One of these changes is the alteration of Mt. A’s copyright policy, which has been edited in order to comply with a recent Supreme Court decision.

While the Copyright Act came into effect last year, this is the first update to university policy in over a decade. “… [S]uccessive governments tried to bring in new copyright legislation but on several occasions, the legislation died on the order papers when a new writ was dropped. The old copyright act was last changed in 1997,” explained Karen Grant, Provost and VicePresident of Academic Research, adding that “the digital landscape has changed a great many things, and the old copyright [laws] had not kept up with changing technologies.”

Grant said that the most notable of the various changes is the clarification of the principles of fair dealing and fair use, which reflects work undertaken by the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC).

According to Mt. A’s copyright act, there now exists a fair dealing exemption that allows student to reproduce a portion of a copyrighted work, “for one of the following eight purposes: research, private study, criticism, review, news reporting, education, satire, or parody”.

The fair dealing policy also “permits faculty members, instructors, and staff members to communicate and reproduce short excerpts of copyright-protected works for specified purposes without infringing copyright.” These exceptions are applicable, so long as the material copied constitutes a “short excerpt”: such as 10 per cent of a copyrighted work, one chapter of a book, or a single article from a periodical.

These clarifications describe how various copyrighted materials can be used, by a professor teaching a course or for research, and are in the process of being applied to all campuses that are a part of the AUCC. In order to raise awareness of the changes, messages were sent out to the members of the Mt. A community, in order to help both faculty and students understand the new copyright laws, and avoid the penalties of failing to comply. “...I was concerned about ongoing copyright legislation, and that the fair use principle would disappear,” said Professor Deborah Wills of the English department, “but it looks like it has been preserved, which means that we can still make readings available, as long as we follow limits about what percentage of a book we can copy. It does prevent people from relying too much on supplementation, although there is still the option of using course packs. I suspect that students won’t even notice a difference.”

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The ongoing Canadian Foreign Service strike was a source of stress for both international students and the University over the summer.

The federal government and the union representing Canadian diplomats and immigration officers abroad have been locked in a contract negotiation dispute for months.

The Professional Association of Foreign Service Officers (PAFSO) say they want pay equal to that of other Canadian civil servants who perform similar or identical work. They currently earn $3,000 to $14,000 less than other civil servants, while the government maintains the comparison is not valid.

The union has been taking a variety of job action measures, including walkouts at fifteen key visa application centres such as Beijing, Delhi, Sao Paolo, and Mexico City. While visas and study permits are still being issued, the processing times are longer and much less reliable.

Mitali Sharan, a fifth-year student from India, was among those affected. She left Canada last April and had to renew her visa from the Canadian High Commission in Delhi. She said there was very little information provided. “Once you applied, there was no timeline given to anyone on when you’d get it back,” she explained. Sharan added that once the application had been submitted it was

impossible to track its progress.

While Sharan received her visa within three weeks, she had rebooked her plane ticket to a later date due to the uncertainty, costing her family hundreds of dollars.

“It was a lot of stress,” she said.

Throughout the summer, the University monitored the strike closely, regularly sending out information to international students. The international centre and the admissions team were particularly involved, although “it was definitely a University-wide response to the word of the strike,” said Christa Maston, Mt. A’s International Advisor.

The situation caused much uncertainty for the International Centre and the Univeristy as a whole. Due to unreliable processing times, “even into August we weren’t really sure how many were going to be affected by it,” Maston explained.

Sharan was appreciative of the way the University handled the situation, “they [the University] were very on top of it,” she said.

Several first-year international students missed international orientation due to delays but have now arrived. According to Maston, less than five new and returning students are still waiting to come to Mt. A. Those students who are delayed have until September 13 to join this semester. If they are unable to arrive prior to that date they have been asked to defer until the winter term. In the meantime, all their fees and deposits would be refunded or applied to next term.

The impact on Mt. A was fairly minimal.

“We’re very happy with how little of the impact we actually felt,” Maston said. The number of students participating in international orientation was even up from last year by more than ten students.

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Samsung announces ‘smartwatch’

Wearable Android device to be released Martin Omes Science Writer

Samsung has jumped into the wearable tech market with the release of the Galaxy Gear, a ‘smartwatch’ that will be an accessory to the already popular Samsung Galaxy smartphones. The company plans to release the device at the end of the month and will be watched by many other rivals, such as Apple, who may be hoping to jump on the smartwatch wagon.

In order to get the most out of the Galaxy Gear, users will need to already have a Samsung smartphone.

The Galaxy Gear comes with a price tag of $299, though whether or not the price is too steep remains to be seen.

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gigabytes, so apps and footage will fill Via Bluetooth wireless, the Galaxy up that space quickly.

Gear can do a number of things. The Even with an 800 Mhz processer smartwatch gives notifications of inside with incoming calls 512MB of RAM, while allowing “In order to get the the Galaxy Gear the user to have hasn’t run as a conversation most out of the Galaxy smoothly as the through the Gear, users will need to price tag would built-in speaker suggest.

Early and microphones. already have a Samsung reviewers have One can also smartphone.” noticed a lag control the when navigating watch by voice Martin Omes around the commands, and Science Writer Android 4.3 Jelly the watch can be Bean OS and used to control when opening media playback apps. Apart from the power button, on a paired smartphone. The watch everything is done through a touch can also automatically lock a Samsung screen. The gadget does not come with phone if it is more than one and a an instruction manual, implying that half metres away, and will have the the gadget is user friendly. The biggest option to find the device should the question mark is the battery life. The phone be misplaced. Lastly, there are Galaxy Gear has a 315 mAh battery fitness apps, and of course, a built-in and uses low energy Bluetooth 4.0 so camera for when you just can’t get to we will not know how successful the your phone fast enough. The camera battery life will be until release. takes 1.9 megapixel photos and 720p video, but storage is limited to four

Kevin Russell

Global warming ‘hiatus’ due to Pacific Ocean playing role in absorbing excess heat Allison O’Reilly

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A recent ‘pause’ in global warming, shown through a fall in the rate at which global surface temperatures has risen over the past fifteen years, could be explained by the cooling seasurface temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean. This finding is a step forward in helping to understand why global surface temperatures have risen more slowly in the past fifteen years than previously.

Scientists have been exploring various explanations for the hiatus, such as a reduction in energy reaching Earth, a decline in the amount of heat-trapping water vapour in the stratosphere, and an increase in atmospheric levels of sunblocking particles produced by volcanoes and industries.

A new study then found that effects of one of the world’s biggest ocean circulator y

systems, the Pacific decadal oscillation, (a pattern of change in the Pacific Ocean’s climate) had led to waters in the eastern tropical regions of the Pacific to be cooler in recent years. According to scientists, the system is now in a ‘cooling phase,’ which could last for many years. The last phase lasted from the 1940s into the 1970s.

Using computer models, researchers compared their results with observations and found that annual global average temperatures are lower than they would be without the oscillation. In winter, the oscillation affects the Northern Hemisphere by depressing temperatures slightly.

In summer, the cooler waters have less of an impact. Observed higher summer temperatures in recent years show the true effects of global warming—effects that should not be ignored. Global average temperatures are taken over the whole year, which obscure the effect.

According to Scripps Institution of

Oceanography Professor of Environmental Science ShangPing Xie, the Pacific’s grip on the Northern Hemisphere loosens in the summer, allowing for increased greenhouse gases. These continue to raise temperatures and the effects of global warming, such as heat waves and retreating Arctic ice.

The ‘pause’ in global warming linked to the Pacific oscillation was found through a study conducted by the Scripps Institution, and was supported by the US government’s National Oceans and Atmospheric Administration.

The study was done in an effort to reconcile contradictory data about regional and global temperature trends. Climate change skeptics have used the ‘hiatus’ to discredit global warming, but according to professor Xie, the results of this study only bolster the link between greenhouse gases and climate change. It is unclear how long the Pacific will endure its ‘cool phase’, but Xie says that “the wake-up call is going to come some day when the Pacific Ocean decides to swing into a warmer state.”

Kevin Russell using a rotovap. (Allison O’Reilly/Argosy)

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Kevin Russell is a fourth-year chemistry honours student. He is working in chemistry professor Vicki Meli’s nanotechnology lab. Nanotechnology involves the manipulation of matter with at least one dimension sized from one to one hundred nanometres. To imagine just how small nanotechnology is, one nanometre is one billionth of a metre.

To put it on a comparable scale, if a marble were a nanometre, then one metre would be the size of the Earth!

Nanotechnology involves the ability to see and control individual atoms and molecules. Nanotechnology is sometimes referred to as generalpurpose technology, because it has significant impact on almost all industries and all areas of society.

Meli’s research, however, is focused on the self-assembly of nanoparticles into surface patterns. These surface patterns are useful in a variety of material applications. By synthesizing nanoparticles and mixing with molecular amphiphiles (an example of this would be biological lipids, such as fats and waxes), the aim is to illustrate a mechanism to predictably create nanoparticle arrangements at fluid interfaces (such as air-water and oil-water). The films generated are explored for potential use in applications such as catalysis, energy storage devices, surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy, and liquid crystal devices.

Meli’s research approach involves the use of surface and interfacial phenomena to drive the organization and assembly of nanoparticles.

Nanoparticles of gold have interesting catalytic and optical properties.

Depending on the particles’ size and shape, they can be synthesized in the lab and used for studies. This is done with the goal of applying the

assembly method to a wide variety of nanoparticles (such as nano-wires, tubes, or rods; and magnetic particles).

The assembly of the nanoparticles are studied as a function of pressure and temperature. To understand the properties of the synthesized films, scientists use structural characterization, using either atomic force microscopy or electron microscopy. The characterization is required prior to optimization of the films for a specific application.

Russell’s thesis is entitled “The effect of temperature on the interaction of alkanethiol capped gold nanoparticles at the air/water interface mixed with alcohols and fatty acids.” The applications of Russell’s research are biological sensors.

“To be used as sensors, you attach certain ligands (an ion or molecule that binds to an atom to form a coordination complex) to the gold nanoparticle which will interact with what you want to detect,” Russell explains.

“As the ligand and molecule you are detecting interact, changes to the electronic and optical properties of the nanoparticle occur which can be measured and translated into meaningful data.”

Other promising applications to Russell’s research include cell transfection (which is the process of introducing nucleic acids into cells) and drug delivery.

Russell has worked in Meli’s nanotechnology lab since May and enjoys the research he is performing.

“I’m fascinated by the concept and potential applications of nanotechnology, so it’s really cool to be able to do research in such a rapidly developing area,” he explains. He hails from Miramichi, New Brunswick, and has been interested in science since high school. After completion of his degree, Russell plans to attend Dalhousie Medical School.

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Ontario student finishes in top 12 in Halo 4 championship An exclusive interview with one of the world’s best Halo players Martin Omes Science Writer

Imagine a tournament where you are competing against the top 120 Halo players from around the world going for a prize pool of $300,000. From August 30 to September 1, players from Europe, North America, and Asia flew down to Seattle, Washington to compete for the title of best Halo 4 player in the world. These players competed in an eight-man free-for-all (FFA), where the top four players in each round would continue on until there were only four players remaining. The final four players would then play against each other one-on-one, until there was a single player remaining to take the $200,000 prize. When the dust settled, Aaron ‘Ace’ Elam took down Justin ‘IgotUrPistola’ Deese in the finals that went into sudden-death overtime.

Not lost in the whole matter was Kyle ‘Krizen’ Smithers, who, through every single round, managed to keep up with the professional players, and make it all the way to the semi-finals.

Smithers, who is a digital media arts student at Seneca College in Toronto, was not even considered to be among the elite class of players heading into the event.

“I’ve always been a very competitive person when it came to sports, video games, etc. … I started playing Halo as a hobby at first in 2004.

My friends and I would all meet up after school to play Halo 2 for hours. After months of doing this, I noticed that I was getting much better than most of my friends. This is when I decided to make an Xbox Live account and play online with people all over the world,” Smithers said.

Smithers started attending tournaments, and put to rest any doubts from his local circuit when he won multiple tournaments at Toronto’s LAN Centre. Smithers continued winning local

Kyle ‘Krizen’ Smithers playing Halo 4. (Martin Omes/Argosy) tournaments, but once he started to take his talents to the Major League Gaming (MLG) circuit, he continually fell just short of gaining a professional status.

It wasn’t easy to qualify for the invite-only event in Seattle. In his spare time, Smithers began playing in the first week on the online qualifiers where he was only able to play a couple of games due to his schoolwork. However, when week two rolled around, he had more time on his hands to compete. Smithers climbed his way

up the leaderboards to find himself ranked in the top twenty.

“This gave me the motivation to keep playing.

I continued to play as many games as I could, and by Saturday night I found myself ranked first place on the leaderboard,” Smithers told The Argosy.

“On Sunday, a few players began to pass me, however, by the end of the week, I still found myself in the top four and thus advancing to the finals!”

It was an exhausting process as Smithers went undefeated in online play for over eighty consecutive games in order to qualify.

When asked how this tournament compared to others, Smithers said, “Seattle was one of the best experiences of my life. I’ve been to a bunch of gaming tournaments, including a number of MLG events, and nothing compared to the Halo 4 Global Championship. 343 industries and Virgin Gaming did an amazing job with this event.”

By qualifying online, Kyle entered the top sixty-four in the tournament. However, in his first round on the Saturday, he was faced with some heavy hitters. Two of the more notable players were Deese and legendary player Tom ‘Tsquared’ Taylor.

“Going into the round I was fairly nervous, however when the game started I was ready to go ... Throughout the entire game I was in the lead and eventually went on to place first. Although I knew I was in a heat with solid FFA players, I was still a bit shocked that I had just won.”

The dream wouldn’t end there for Smithers, as the final thirty-two players played in the mainstage area in front of thousands of people cheering on their favourite gamers. The first heat Smithers played had one of the most intense finishes in the entire tournament. With one minute left, Smithers was battling for the fourth and final spot to advance with European proplayer Zyrus, the score was tied between them until five seconds left when he connected with a couple headshots to take the fourth spot by one kill. Smithers eliminated one of the favourites to make it to the final sixteen. He was still determined to make it to the finals.

Unfortunately for him, he came up a couple kills short, and finished sixth in his heat, giving him a top twelve finish.

When asked how it feels to be officially regarded as one of the best Halo 4 players in the world, he said that it is “truly amazing. Ever since I began to play Halo competitively, I’ve always wanted to be recognized as a good player.

After placing within the top sixteen at the Halo 4 Global Championship, I think I was able to achieve that goal.” To follow more updates on Kyle as he pursues more video gaming glory follow him on Twitter @Krizen.

Top scientists unable to identify mystery cocoon Web uploaded to internet unknown to all Clay Steell

Science Contributor Internet addicts and armchair naturalists, gather ‘round: a newly discovered mysterious structure from a South American rainforest has both the Internet community and academia astir. The bizarre animal-made web is unidentifiable by scientists, and social media sites have whipped up a storm of speculation concerning its nature. Since its original appearance on its discoverer’s Facebook, web commenters have attributed its source to everything from fungi to Martians.

The discovery was made in the remote Tambopata Research Center, deep in the rainforest of southern Peru. The centre was hosting a group of volunteer researchers with the Tambopata Macaw Project who were studying endemic parrots.

Volunteer Alexander Troy discovered the web- and cocoon-like objects near and inside the centre, but local scientists and workers were unable to identify their makers. Upon his return

home, Troy uploaded the photos to Facebook and the Reddit.com page “/r/whatisthisbug,” expecting a prompt response from the Internet’s limitless niche enthusiasts.

A ‘Redditor’ looking for a quick answer could never have expected what happened next. Not only were the creators of these micro-corrals unidentifiable, they were alien to scientists. Within minutes, the post had skyrocketed to the most viewed page on “/r/whatisthisbug,” attracting hundreds of commenters.

Within days, leading entomologists from such academic powerhouses as the Smithsonian Institute and the California Institute of Technology examined the images, but were unable to give any definitive answers.

Entomologists are baffled, unable to compare the structures to any known web or nest. Some attribute their source to the Bucculatricidae moth family, which is known for intricate cocoons, but nothing on this scale of complexity.

While moths, butterflies, and spiders are the most well-known silk-making invertebrates, nearly all varieties of insects are capable of producing silk. In several insect families, silken structures are critical to life history and reproduction, which makes narrowing down a potential species even less likely.

Though no further formal research is presently planned, ‘Redditors’ and researchers alike agree that thorough observation and genetic testing will be key in identifying the structures’ creators.

What kind of discovery will the mystery-web yield? Though most likely to be some sort of moth, butterfly, or spider, the potential for something truly unknown is exciting. Rainforests are hotbeds of biodiversity, and consistently yield new discoveries on a scale of significance. The discovery of new insect or invertebrate species closely related to known types is fairly common. But every so often, nature journals report sensational discoveries from the creepy-crawly world. It was only in April that the Tinkerbell fairyfly, one of the smallest yetdiscovered insects, made the rounds through scientific media.

This is not the first time that a tantalizing hint of some truly bizarre animal is discovered before the animal itself. Perhaps the most famous example comes from the discovery of the giant squid. Nineteenth century whalers frequently noted enormous scars on the heads of sperm whales, the squids’ natural predators, hinting at the existence of a huge deep sea monster. Will these structures reveal something even more incredible hiding in the Peruvian rainforest?

The unidentifiable cocoon. (Troy Alexander/Tambopata)

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OPINIONS The race for student housing The economics behind the yearly rush for a place to live Jeff Hicks

Opinions Contributor Sackville has many special and unique characteristics to offer students, from the small town yet youthful atmosphere to the hidden gem that is Silver Lake, to noble sandstone brick buildings, to European-style sandwiches. But it also has the dubious distinction of requiring students to search for housing twelve months in advance.

A full year. What the hell?

Now, not all off-campus houses get snatched up in September. But if you haven’t signed a lease by Christmas, your chances of finding a nice place to live rapidly deteriorate. I have heard many stories of students literally running to houses trying to sign leases. This leads to undue stress for many, especially for first year students who do not want to live in residence the following year. Trying to contact landlords and coordinate with your new friends (with whom you aren’t yet quite sure that you want to live), all while dealing with the stress of your first year of university, would be frustrating for anyone.

So why does it happen? It’s not a shortage of housing. If there weren’t enough places for students to live, the university would not have

A Mt. A student searches through housing options. (Nick Sleptov/Argosy) closed the satellite houses and Bigelow House.

The problem here is one that Robert Frank, a professor of economics at Cornell University, writes about in his book, The Darwin Economy: The problem is individuals pursuing their own self-interest which leads to outcomes that aren’t beneficial for the group.

Frank’s example from the animal world is the elk. Elk fight for mates using their antlers, and on average, the bigger antlers win. So it happens that the big-antlered elk get to spread their seed more than little-antlered elk. Over time, the average antler size becomes bigger. This happens from pursuing self-interest, but bigger antlers are not good for the group as a whole. It’s harder

to run through trees and away from wolves with a wider set of antlers.

The same thing happens with housing.

Students recognize that of all the houses available, some are much better than others.

It is in their self-interest to get that lease first, prompting them to start their housing search just a bit earlier than everyone else. We all know this, so we all have to start searching earlier, and thus begins the proverbial arms race of how early students begin looking for housing. We would all be better off as a group if we collectively agreed to wait until March before beginning the race. But there will always be someone who tries to start early. Thus, the race for student housing.

Dodo, rather than sponge university resources.

The fact of the matter is that students have the right to have the quality of their education maximized, given the massive amount of money it costs to obtain an undergraduate degree.

This move will allow the university to focus more attention on programs that have hundreds of students rather than programs that have a number that can be counted on one hand. In the words of Mister Spock, the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or of the one.

K e e p i n g progr ams alive that draw little or no interest is blatantly wasteful.

And in the current age of austerity, waste is the last thing that we need.

All around the globe countries are having to make difficult choices on what is most important and what needs to be cut from the public budget.

The government of Alberta announced in its spring budget that it would be cutting $147 million in funding for post-secondary education. This has left universities in Alberta scrambling to make up the shortfall. I am of the opinion that since the provincial government is forcing U of C to make cuts, the university should cut programs that will impact the least amount of students,

which it has.

The university is trying to play innocent, saying that the cuts are unconnected to budget concerns. The government of Alberta has made a foolish mistake in cutting its funding to postsecondary education, but U of C has taken this curveball smartly and is cutting programs that will be missed by few. The university needs to save its money and is doing so in a fashion that will not significantly affect the vast majority of its students.

It is good to allow things to die a natural death.

Rather than keeping these nineteen programs on life support as a token show of academic diversity, U of C has done the right thing, letting them slip into that good night. These moves also have the benefit of freeing up space for new programs to be created, programs that could be fresh, exciting, and appealing to larger numbers of students.

In reality, these cuts will not affect the quality of education at the school and could even improve it by releasing university resources to be used more effectively.

Students at the University of Calgary need not fear that the quality of their education will be impacted by these cuts. In the age of austerity, U of C has made the best of very limited options.

Making the best of limited options Cuts at the University of Calgary will not reduce quality John Trafford Opinions Editor

More is not always better.

This aphorism holds true for the decision by the University of Calgary (U of C) to cut nineteen programs from its roster. Arts students will have eleven fewer programs to choose from while their science counterparts will see a loss of seven areas of study. The faculty of kinesiology brings up the rear with the loss of one program.

It is easy to look at the rollback of university programs and see an institution that doesn’t care about its students and is looking only to save costs. But that is a flawed way to view the issue.

U of C has made the difficult decision to do away with programs with chronic low enrolment, a decision that will allow university resources to be spent in other, more important areas.

As reported by the Calgary Herald, Raphael Jacob, president of the U of C students’ union, recognizes the need for these cuts, but also said that having fewer options limits the quality of education one can receive. His position misses the fact that fewer but better programs are always preferable to a plethora of programs with low enrolment.

The programs in question have only had up to five students enrolled over the past five years.

This is an extremely low number of students even for a small university like Mount Allison. For a university with an enrolment close to 30,000, spending precious resources offering programs that less than one percent of students take is a waste of time and money.

Wasteful programs should go the way of the

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Ian Smith

Smith arguably the ‘busiest man on campus’ Alex Bates

Sports Editor It’s safe to say that Ian Smith is one of the busiest students on campus. Not only does he play for the Mount Allison Men’s Soccer team, but he is the current VicePresident, External Affairs for the Mt. A Students Union (MASU).

The roles are difficult to balance as a full-time student, let alone balance both of them with the schoolwork.

During an interview with The Argosy, Smith was asked about trying to balance the MASU with the Men’s Soccer team.

“Busy, very busy, both teams that I play on ... the MASU and the Men’s Soccer team have a lot of patience for me. And I’m very grateful to the boys on the field and with the MASU. They know that I have a big

commitment in soccer and that I’m not willing to give it up,” Smith said.

Smith has also contributed to many volunteer organizations. The list is as long as this article, but one of the favourites was working with Mounties in Motion. The group was started by former soccer Mountie Chris Vizena.

Athletes would volunteer at the hospital, and would participate with the patrons in activities like bingo.

“These individuals were pretty lonely, and it was nice for us to be the cause of their happiness for one day. It was nice to go from the most competitive people at Mt. A, to playing bingo and having a ball with seniors,” Smith said.

With all the try-outs that are currently happening at Mt. A, Smith was questioned about what it was like when he went to try-outs for the Men’s team.

“Very, very intimidating. The seniors didn’t take it easy on me, [but] the fact that they pushed me so hard made me realize how hard I would have to work for every practice, every soccer game,” said Smith. “The one word I would

describe it as would be intimidating.”

Smith’s finest moment on the pitch was when the squad beat the Saint Mary’s Huskies in a late October fixture. In what was one of Aaron Gagnon’s first games for the team, and he scored twice to beat the Huskies 2-0. This was a monumental victory for the Mounties, and was the highlight of the 2011 season.

“As a soccer player, my greatest moment was when we beat Saint Mary’s. It was my last game of second year. They are the biggest, baddest team in the league, and we were at home,” Smith said.

Having replaced his once trusty scooter with a shiny bicycle, Smith can be found in the MASU office, and on the soccer field. Smith hopes to do work with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police after graduation, before writing his LSATs.

Célina Boothby Sports Contributor

College life opens up many new and exciting freedoms for young adults.

You are finally on your own and you should be excited to start this new chapter! But let’s remember during this chaotic educational experience to stop and reflect on what our bodies are telling us.

“Dorm life” can shock your healthy routine and throw you into a downward spiral of bad food choices and lack of overall physical activity.

Meal plans force you to eat the food provided, you have limited space in those closet-sized dorms, and the roommate may not always appreciate with your early morning workout.

But fret not: the freshman fifteen

is an elective experience, if you so choose.

The American College of Sports Medicine found that both male and female college students eat approximately 500 additional calories between the hours of 8 pm and 4 am. That’s the time when our noses are pressed to our books, and we feel a study break should be rewarded by a quick chip or cookie pit stop.

Instead of reaching for salty and sugary options (that really only leave you feeling unfulfilled and craving more) we should snatch foods that are low in calories but contain an amino acid called tryptophan (that releases the feel-good hormone).

Things like bananas, oats, poultry, and honey all contain this magic amino acid that will get you through that Anthropology paper and on your way to catching some much needed sleep.

Try some of these super easy and nutritional snacks: 1/4 cup plain oatmeal (74 calories) with one extra small mashed banana (73 calories) = 147 calories 1 cup plain nonfat Greek yogurt

Bradley Joseph - Soccer

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Mount Allison’s second-year centre midfielder Charlotte Martin won Joey’s Athlete of the Week honours for her soccer efforts in two games over the weekend against Acadia (0-2) and UPEI (1-2).

Assisting on the Mounties’ lone goal against UPEI, Martin led her team with balanced attacking and defending efforts. She showed a strong presence up the middle with her tremendous foot skill and vision, creating scoring opportunities for her teammates in both games.

A 5’7” midfielder with the Soccer Mounties, Martin comes from Calgary, AB where she is a former player with William Aberhart High School and the Blizzard Lightning soccer clubs.

With hopes of a medical career down the road, Martin is currently enrolled in her second year Bachelor of Science program, and majors in biology.

Bradley Joseph of the Soccer Mounties has won Joey’s Athlete of the Week honours for his strong performances in a game against Acadia (1-3) and a victory over UPEI (2-0).

Playing a major part of the team’s offence, Joseph led his Mounties with one of two goals against UPEI, and created several scoring opportunities over the weekend’s games.

A resident of Soufriere, St. Lucia, Joseph is a past player with Soufriere Comprehensive Secondary High School, Sir Arthur Lewis Community College, and the Sackville Pickles soccer clubs. He is in his fifth year of Commerce, and is a 5’11” forward with the Soccer Mounties.

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Adjusting to ‘dorm life’ Some tips to a healthy lifestyle in residence

Atheletes of the Week Charlotte Martin - Soccer

Smith is the current MASU Vice-President, External Affairs. (Sue Seaborn/Mount Allison)

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(100 calories) sprinkled with 1/8 cup granola (60 calories) = 160 calories 1 slice whole-wheat toast (100 calories) topped with half an ounce shredded mozzarella cheese (36 calories) = 136 calories A small handful of unsalted, raw nuts (almonds, peanuts, even pumpkin seeds) for some good proteins.

As a rule, keep snacks before bedtime limited to around 150 calories or less. Carbohydrates will release that amino acid called tryptophan, which will give you a mood boost but still allow you to sleep when that holy time comes.

Try and choose whole grain options, as these will provide you with more fibre and vitamins. Also, remember to get up every once and awhile and take a brisk walk down the hall and back to get those endorphins rolling again and keep you awake! The body always appreciates physical activity.

Stay healthy folks!

Célina Boothby is Mount Allison’s Health Intern.

Football against X-Men; Lacrosse against Huskies

against the McGill Redmen. Former Mountie and CFL Hall of Fame member Eric Lapointe will have his number retired before kickoff.

-Benjamin Foster

Football Mounties lose season opener The Mounties took the field for their season opener against the Saint Francis Xavier (St. FX) X-Men. From the start the X-Men had control of the match.

The scoring began with ten minutes remaining in the first quarter as X kicker Jeremy Ford made it 3-0 on a 28-yard field goal. The X-Men would add a touchdown on a pass by quarterback Clay Masikewich that was caught by Devon Bailey.

In the second quarter, Mount Allison fought back with a field goal by the versatile Donovan Saunders, and a rushing touchdown by quarterback Brandon Leyh. The X-Men added ten more points in the second half to win 31-10.

X-Man Clay Masikewich led the game in passing with 323 yards, Mounties running back Jordan Botel had 169 yards on the ground.

The Mounties Homecoming game is Saturday September 14th

Mounties score in nine seconds It was a great start to the Mount Allison Lacrosse team’s season against the Saint Mary’s University Huskies, as Captain Ali Rehman won the face off and went down to score in only nine seconds. Despite an early two-goal lead, the Mounties trailed most of the game and eventually fell by a score of 20-10.

Defensive Captain Tyrell Giffin said “it was a tough game, we have some new players that really stepped up and we learned a lot as a team that can help us moving forward to our game next week.”

Overall, it was a positive game for the Mounties, as they only trailed by four goals at the start of the fourth quarter and played well throughout the game. You can catch the Mounties at home next week as they take on the Acadia University Laxmen on Saturday, September 14th at 11 am on Landsdowne Field.

-Owen Beamish

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Mt. A men’s soccer team battles UPEI in bad conditions, wins 2-0 Women’s team suffers two losses in weekend action Owen Beamish

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The Mount Allison Varsity Soccer season opened this weekend with a pair of games as the Mounties took on the Acadia University Axemen on the road, before travelling to the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI) on Sunday.

The men are hoping to improve on a three-win season last year which saw them ahead of only Memorial University in the Atlantic University Sport conference (AUS). It was an important matchup against Acadia, who only finished one place above Mt. A as the Mounties looked to get out of the gate with a jump.

Acadia was too strong for the Mounties this time as the men suffered a 3-1 loss. Acadia took a 1-0 lead into halftime before increasing it to two at the fifty-four minute mark.

Bradley Joseph was able to answer two minutes later with a goal of his own, but the Mounties could not find that equalizing goal and Acadia eventually sealed the win with a goal at the eighty-fourth minute mark.

In Sunday’s action, against the UPEI Panthers, the men emerged victorious 2-0. Great play from keeper Greg McGuire, as well as key goals from Connor McCumber and Jeffrey Owen propelled the men to their first victory of the season.

Now in his third year with the team, Aaron Gagnon said in an interview with The Argosy that

(Left) Marcus Greenlaw jostles for position. (Right) Connor McCumber scored in Sunday’s AUS match.(Paul McGuire/Submitted) club was definitely satisfied with the performance. “Hard battle until the end. We faced wind, rain, and cold weather and still came out with the win.”

Mt. A takes on the University of New Brunswick Varsity Reds (UNB) September 14th in a game at the University of New Brunswick (UNB) at 3:15pm.

The women also looked to get off to a quick start under new coach Kevin Johnson. Mt. A finished with

a 5-6-2 record last season, good enough to earn the last AUS playoff spot. The Mounties fell behind to the Axemen early as Acadia scored just eleven minutes into the game and again at the forty-three minute mark. It was a scoreless second half, as the Mounties could not overcome their first half deficit.

It was a game the Mounties should have been able to win, as Acadia was lowest in last year’s standings. Keeper

Remembering 1997 Argosy Sports goes back to Mt. A’s last Loney Bowl win Alex Bates

Sports Editor The year was 1997, and the Mount Allison Men’s Football Mounties finished second in the Atlantic University Football Conference with five wins and three losses. The Mounties finished the season eighth in the Canadian Interuniversity Athletic Union polls, but to become Loney Bowl champions, they would have to beat the Saint Francis Xavier X-Men, who were the top ranked team in the country by season’s end.

Rather than jump to the conclusion of the season though, let’s consider some of the fantastic events that happened during the early weeks of the fall semester.

The Mounties opened up the season with three consecutive victories, including a win over the X-Men on September 20.

The Mounties also had a plethora of spectacular individual performances during the 1997 season. Mounties kicker David Bradford notched four field goals in a win over the Saint Mary’s Huskies on September 27, the second most field goals made in one game in the country.

The Mounties’ Phillipe Girard was the runnerup for the President’s Trophy for defensive players, finishing behind Jason Van Geel of Waterloo University, and was also voted as a second team All-Canadian as defensive back.

It’s hard to avoid writing about ‘The Running Man,’ Mt. A’s own Eric Lapointe. Lapointe, who would be trying to replicate the 1996 season, where he rushed for 1619 yards in just eight games—a Canadian Interuniveristy Sport record that still stands. He was hindered by a broken arm and missed most of the 1997 season. In 1998, Lapointe returned to form, winning the Hec Crighton award as most outstanding Canadian football player in the CIS, for the second time in just three years.

The X-Men were heavily favoured to collect the Jewett trophy at home in their native Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Dominating their opponents, and not having lost in almost two full months, they ranked as the top team in the country. With just one quarter remaining, the Mounties trailed by ten points, down 17-7. After a Bradford field goal cut the Mounties deficit to one score, receiver Craig Fougere caught a twenty-six yard pass on third down to tie the game. A fortunate fumble recovery deep in X-Men territory let Bradford go to work. He booted a seventeen yard go-ahead field goal to give the Mounties the lead with just over two minutes remaining. The X-Men, who were probably battling the feeling of shock, could not recover, which put the 1997 Men’s Football Mounties into the history books forever.

The Mt. A faithful concluded their trip to Antigonish by changing the “Smile You’re at X!” sign to “Smile You Beat X” to make an iconic photo of the day’s events. The game still rests in the minds of Mount Allison Alumni as one of the greatest games in Mounties history, and was the last time the Mounties won the Loney Bowl.

Robin Bessemer was a bright point for the Mounties as she stopped 7 of the 9 shots she faced. Mt. A seemed to be suffering from a few early season jitters as they struggled getting used to a new system and a new coach.

In their own match-up against the UPEI Panthers, the women lost 2-1. A late goal from the Panthers in the 88” minute allowed the Panthers to take the victory.

Look for Mt. A to make a rebound as

they also take on UNB on September 14 in Fredericton at one pm.

Both teams showed elements of promise in a season that seems poised for improvement. It will be intriguing to see if the men can climb the standings and earn a playoff birth. It will be exciting to see if the women look to get back to the playoff standings.

Sex Bomb Jams to get you jiggy This week’s submission is all about finding out just what gives a song the sexual tension that makes it a good accompaniment to having sex, as well as providing some potential ‘go-to’s for your next endeavour. The right music can really liven up the experience.

For some people, it’s the attire; for others, it’s the right toys. Personally, it’s all about the music. The right music always turns things from lukewarm to hot and steamy.

In 2012, a music psychologist at Goldsmiths, University of London, Daniel Müllensiefen, analyzed results of a Spotify survey of 2000 music fans to find out what songs people liked to play during sex. “The tracks that get us in the mood all possess the same qualities including a greater dynamic range, more use of the high chest voice, more raspiness in the voice, and less use of vocal vibrato,” he said, adding that “these specific attributes are strongly evident in the Marvin Gaye tracks, ‘Sexual Healing’ and ‘Let’s Get It On.’” As Müllensiefen states, Marvin Gaye is always one of the best ways to create a sexual environment in the bedroom. It’s worth noting that the opening five seconds of “Let’s Get It On” is a Hollywood sex scene cliché. Simply playing that song will ignite the tension like pouring gasoline on a fire.

For a more recent choice, Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories creates an erotic atmosphere that not only is modern, but is rapidly turning

into a classic. Electronic music is a good choice because of the soundscapes it creates. The paucity of words in the songs make the electronically synthesized sounds open to interpretation when making love.

“Je T’aime Moi Non Plus” is sure to get your engines revving up. It is rumoured that the singers Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin actually had sexual congress in the studio during the recording. The song was actually banned in several countries because of its sexual content.

Given the lyrics, this is no surprise: “Je vas et je viens, entre tes reins.” For those that are not fluent in French, the rough translation is “I go and I come, between your loins.” Seductive!

A personal go-to when it comes to coitus is R. Kelly’s “Ignition (Remix).” Kelly put out one of the most seductive tunes in 2003, which was part of the soundtrack to the film Love Don’t Cost a Thing.

Another personal favourite is Kanye West’s “Slow Jamz” featuring Twista amd Jamie Foxx.

The song is a tribute to classic smooth soul artists and slow jam songs. The sexual and seductive flow and beat are similar to “Ignition.”

These two songs together provide a good start to the perfect modern hip-hop playlist when the time is ‘right’.

Hopefully this short list of seductive and erotic tracks will spice up your sex life and provide sexual tension for the eventual climax for your own dance without the pants.

10 SHINERAMA

September 12, 2013

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Clockwise, from top left: Shiners find their groups for the day; opening ceremonies at Jennings; Shiners pose at a Shine station in Amherst. (Michelle Hart/MASU; Richard Kent/Argosy)

A ‘shining’ history, from 1961 to 2013 Taylor Losier

Features Writer

In 1961, a few fresh-faced university students at Waterloo Lutheran University decided to rally together to change the world for the better.

They started small: grabbing brushes, shining shoes, and asking for

donations. And that is how, in the sixties, the Shinerama campaign slowly began.

This first group of young, enterprising adults were students at what became Wilfrid Laurier University. In their very first campaign, they raised a little over $1,000. The money didn’t go to cystic fibrosis then, but to a facility in Kitchener, Ontario called the Sunbeam Home for Retarded Children (now the Sunbeam Residential Development Centre).

It wasn’t until a few years later, in 1964, that the national Shinerama campaign for the Canadian Cystic

Fibrosis Foundation debuted. Eight universities and colleges joined the cause, and the funds raised by these students went to supporting cystic fibrosis research.

Shinerama’s website recounts its proudest moments from over the years: in 1971, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau has his shoes shined, and even Bobby Orr took the time to make sure his skates gleamed for a good cause.

In 1986, the first official ‘shine’ of the campaign was given to Cystic Fibrosis Canada’s then-Honorary Director, Mila Mulroney.

In 2004, students ‘shined’ a

Canadian Warship and broke all previous fundraising records.

Mt. A students have participated in Shinerama since 1970, when the campaign received $450 dollars from the Sackville contingent.

Today, fifty-two years later, Shinerama has grown well past its original size. Not only has it become the largest post-secondary school fundraiser in Canada, with over fifty universities and colleges participating, but since its creation, the campaign has raised more than $23.5 million for cystic fibrosis research.

While present day Shinerama campaigns don’t feature the

excitement of hippies (though maybe some do), just as in 1961, they aim to provide students with an opportunity to give back to their communities and, of course, shine shoes for a good cause.

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Clockwise, from top left: The Shine Day breakfast at Jennings; the highest grossing Shine squad pauses for a photo on their way to raising over $900; Shiners take a break from fundraising in front of a Canadian Tire; a Shine Squad gets ready to wash cars; Shiners put the finishing touches on a Shinecar. (Richard Kent/Argosy; Michelle Hart/MASU)

Local Shinerama campaign on track for success Richard Kent Editor-in-Chief

The morning of the first Saturday in September was chilly, but that didn’t stop several hundred students from getting up, throwing on their tightest and brightest apparel, heading to meal hall for an early breakfast, and

boarding buses bound for greater Moncton, Amherst and Aulac.

Of course, it was Shine Day. As the centrepiece of Shinerama’s fundraising for cystic fibrosis research, the event brought out about seven hundred students at Mount Allison September 8. In exchange for donations, they washed cars, barbecued, sung, danced, cheered, and, of course—shined shoes.

Graham Muise, who has participated in Shinerama at Mt. A for four years, won’t consider not doing Shine Day, and feels he owes his contribution to the community.

“It isn’t fair that some people

are healthy, and some people aren’t, due to a fluke of genetics,” Muise said, continuing, “with the amazing improvements we make each year, it is clear we’re making a difference. That’s why I do Shine Day, and why I help support Shinerama all year long.”

Mt. A’s Shinerama campaign Chair Caleb Stark said this year’s Shinerama campaign has already brought in approximately $39,000.

He expects Mt. A will achieve its $50,000 fundraising goal.

“Going into Shine Day, we were at roughly $20,000 from pre-Shine Day fundraising, and there’s a lot of stuff that comes in after the fact. I’m quite

optimistic that we’re going to make our $50,000 goal, and if we don’t, it’s going to be just under,” Stark told The Argosy. Stark said placed the Shine Day total at just over $19,000, and added that the official total from Mt. A’s campaign will be announced before the end of the month.

Approximately twenty students were active on the Shinerama campaign during the summer months.

Mt. A has not raised less than $14,000 for Shinerama in any year in the past decade. The campaigns from the past two years both raised over $50,000: $57,201 in 2011—a record at the school—and $52,151 in 2012.

From 2000 to 2008, Mt. A’s Shinerama totals hovered between $14,105 and $23,961, averaging just $17,757 per year. Funds raised annually increased dramatically between 2007 and 2009.

Stark believes that Shine Day benefits the students who participate as well as those with cystic fibrosis.

It is the first extracurricular activity most students participate in after arriving at Mt. A, and, according to Stark, allows students to develop their leadership skills while having fun for a good cause.

ARTS & LITERATURE

September 12, 2013

Struts gallery artist-in-residence ‘rocks the boat’

Chris Foster challenges ideas of progress

Creative Corner Emily Crozier Editor’s note: contains graphic content.

On Watching In A Movie Three Boys Beating A Woman Who Has A Penis For Five Hours Until She Dies

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Arts & Literature writer This month’s artist-in-residence at Struts Gallery is Chris Foster, a Toronto-born and Halifax-based artist whose exhibition, entitled Frontiers in Real Estate, offers a unique and intentionally discomforting look at our world and its current state of affairs. Part artist and part activist, Foster’s work is heavily concerned with confronting dark truths and realities that undergird both modern and historical human civilization.

The first of Foster’s projects includes a series of small models of old flatbed trucks with wooden houses built into their boxes, utilizing the very same architectural design that one would see in the residences of Halifax.

“I’ve been really affected by the working-class housing and traditional architectural styles in Halifax,” he says, conjuring up images of his neighbourhood around the streets of Creighton and Gottingen.

In addition to representing Foster’s own experiences with travel, these models cater to his interest in the idea of “escape and transience” and what this means to a generation of individuals who might consider the idea of ‘escaping’ as a preferable alternative to the complicated circumstances that our current society can present.

Unlike many artists, Foster’s work is frequently devoid of colours,

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in court, they clean up nice the suits are too big but their sympathizers will say, at least they tried did they try? really you’d think that after five hours, they would have succeeded maybe they did succeed maybe you no longer understand what that word means

Foster also exhibited Frontiers in Real Estate at The Eastern Edge Gallery in Saint John. His work will be on display at Struts Gallery through September. (Devon Crosby/chrisfoster.ca) instead operating predominantly in greyscale. In particular, his book New Civilizations is a collection of collages constructed by piecing together images of landscapes and historical photographs to form a new, seamless picture that subverts the viewer’s expectations. One of Foster’s collages consists of an oil refinery that has been photoshopped into a field next to a medieval castle. By fabricating a new “historical” black and white photograph using conflicting yet ideologically connected images, Foster aims to inflict “a little agitation” and force viewers to recognize and challenge humankind’s historical and current impact on our planet.

Foster cites his experiences with

forestry in Western Canada and its environmental impact as one source of his dissatisfaction with the “status quo” and as the inspiration for much of Frontiers in Real Estate. “[There is] a collective anxiety that has come up as our consciousness has expanded,” he explained, “and we don’t seem to be changing our dayto-day lives at all.” Despite his clear frustration with certain aspects of modern society, Foster envisions his own artwork as a medium by which he can “rock the boat a little bit” and push for meaningful change in the minds and actions of his audience.

As an artist who is purely independent in the promotion and exhibition of his work, Foster has

extensively advocated for the selfrepresentation of artists in media and print sources. To achieve this, Foster assisted in the publication of a Halifax-based art newspaper entitled The Periodical Project dedicated to promoting the city’s artists on their own terms. Although the project only produced seven quarterly issues, the last of which was released this summer, they remain in Foster’s collection as a testament to his commitment to giving aspiring artists a voice in the Halifax community.

Foster’s exhibit will be available to the viewing public from September 10 to 21, and he will additionally be co-hosting an art and poster sale on September 21 at the Black Duck.

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September 12, 2013

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The Argosy’s Weekly rundown: upcoming events in Sackville EVENTS M e d i t a t i o n Yo g a Thursday Sept. 12, 5:30pm Chapel Manning Room, Yo g a / m e d i t a t i o n c l a s s e s ( n o c h a r g e ) Tu & T h i n b a s e ment of the Chapel. All levels welcome. Drop-in beginning September 10 until November 28.

M A S U AG M Thursday Sept. 12, 7:00pm Crabree Auditorium, Mount Allison Student Union Annual General Meeting.

Sackville Film Society Thursday Sept. 12, 7:30pm Vo g u e C i n e m a , Fr ances Ha Fall Fair Dance Thursday Sept. 12, 9:00pm Legion DJ Mike Shea, 19+, all are welcome.

P h y s i c s R e u n i o n We e k e n d Ta l k s Fr iday S ept. 13, 2:30pm S i r J a m e s D u n n Wu C e n t r e , A l u m n i Ta l k s - C h r i s M i l burn (‘91), Dwayne Branch (‘92), Grant Williams (‘88).

Par t of the P hy sics Reunion happening during Homec o m i n g We e k e n d .

P h y s i c s R e u n i o n We e k e n d Ta l k s C o n t i n u e Saturday Sept. 14, 10:30am S i r J a m e s D u n n Wu C e n t r e Physics Keynote Speakers K a t e B r a e d l e y ( ‘ 0 7 ) - Po i n t A, B and my Life at Sea Ankit Kapur (‘08) - Pulsars to Pulses: the story of a physicist turned surgeon Par t of the P hy sics Reunion happening on Homecoming We e k e n d .

Celebrating Eric L a p o i n t e ’s C a r e e r Saturday Sept. 14, 11:00am Wa l l a c e M c C a i n S t u d e n t C e n t r e Tw e e d i H a l l A t t h i s y e a r ’s H o m e c o m ing football game Mt. A is honoured to have the opportunity to celebrate Eric L a p o i n t e ’s a c h i e v e m e n t s (including his induction i n t o t h e C a n ad i a n Fo o t ball Hall of Fame) with the first-time retiring of a M o u n t i e ’s n u m b e r E r i c ’s # 5 .

Physics Reunion Banquet Saturday Sept. 14, 6:00pm Wa l l a c e M c C a i n S t u d e n t C e n t r e Tw e e d i H a l l ,

A definite highlight of the Physics Reunion, featuring a t r i b u t e t o D r. B o b H a w k e s (‘72) who will be retiring at the end of the 2014 acad e m i c y e a r.

Physics Reunion Starry Sackville Saturday Sept. 14, 9:00pm S i r J a m e s D u n n Wu C e n t r e Graduation Preparation Series Intro Monday Sept. 16, 5:30pm Sir James Dunn Room 106, The Graduation Preparation Series (GPS) is a program intended for 3rd year international students to learn more about living and working in Canada after graduation. Presented by the International Centre and Career Ser vices, students will learn about the job hunt, immigration, resume writing & interview skills, networking & social media and much, much more.

Meeting of Senate Tu e s d a y S e p t . 1 7 , 2 : 3 0 p m Tw e e d i e H a l l Tr i - C o u n c i l G r a d u a t e Scholarship Session Tu e s d a y S e p t . 1 7 , 4 : 0 0 p m Avard Dixon Room 111 F e e d Yo u r B r a i n L e c t u r e Series We d n e s d a y S e p t . 1 8 , 11:30am L i b r a r y T h e a t r e , F e e d Yo u r Brain Lecture Series - An exciting new public lecture series devoted to Mount Allison University research.

C o l l o q u i u m - D r. S t e p h e n Runge We d n e s d a y S e p t . 1 8 , 4 : 0 0 p m Brunton Auditorium, D r. S t e p h e n R u n g e : “ Po p Culture Killing Classical Music”. All are welcome and admission is free.

C i n e m a Po l i t i c a We d n e s d a y S e p t . 1 8 , 7 : 0 0 p m S i r J a m e s D u n n M i n i Wu , Documentary film screening of Pink Ribbons, Inc.Check w w w. c i n e m a p o l i t i c a . o r g … for more details or email sackville@cinemapolitica. org A RT S & M U S I C Facult y Recital: Helen Pridmore Fr iday S ept. 13, 8:00pm Brunton Auditorium, All Alone: Recital of works

f o r S o l o Vo i c e . Wo r k s b y Robert Morin, Philippe L eroux, Lia Pas, Juan Mar ia Solare, and more! Ever yone is welcome.

G u e s t R e c i t a l - Tr i o Arkaède Sunday Sept. 15, 3:00pm Brunton Auditorium, To u r d e F r a n c e F l u t i s t K a r in Aurell, Violinist Isabelle Fo u r n i e r a n d p i a n i s t J u l i e n LeBlanc will bring you on a jour ne y around Fr ance at t h e t u r n o f t h e Tw e n t i e t h Century performing works

by Mel Bonis, Maurice Duruflé, Philippe Gaubert & Fr a n c i s Po u l e n c ! B r u n t o n Auditorium, 3 pm. Tickets are $10 adults, $5 for students/seniors, $25 for fami l y.

SPORTS Homecoming Golf Fr iday S ept. 13, 1:00pm Amherst Golf Club Mounties’ Alumnni Golf To u u r n a m e n t M e n’s R u g b y - H o m e G a m e Fr iday S ept. 13, 7:00pm and 9:00pm Mt. A vs. UNB Lacrosse - Home Game Saturday Sept. 14, 11:00am Mt. A vs. Acadia Fo o t b a l l - H o m e G a m e Saturday Sept. 14, 2:00pm Mt. A vs. McGill M e n’s S o c c e r - A w a y G a m e Saturday Sept. 14, 3:15pm Mt. A vs. UNB Wo m e n ’ s S o c c e r - A w a y Game Saturday Sept. 14, 1:00pm Mt. A vs. UNB Wo m e n ’ s R u g b y - A w a y Game Sunday Sept. 15, 2:00pm Mt. A vs. Dalhousie

M e n’s S o c c e r - H o m e G a m e Sunday Sept. 15, 3:15pm Mt. A vs. Dalhousie Wo m e n ’ s S o c c e r - H o m e Game Sunday Sept. 15, 1:00pm Mt. A vs. Dalhousie RELIGIOUS CALENDAR Short Series from the book of Acts Sunday Sept. 15, 6:00pm Chapel, Acts 4: 23 - 31, Confidence for the Future, The series explores issues o f j o u r n e y, c h a l l e n g e , a n d faith. Through late Octob e r a n d N o v e m b e r, t h e r e i s a short series highlighting Jesus’ encounters with wome n . T h e f o c u s o f Ve s p e r s i s q u i e t r e f l e c t i o n , i n p r a y e r, silence and sermon, as well a s m u s i c . Ve s p e r s w i l l h a p p e n e v e r y S u n d a y.

Yo m K i p p u r Saturday Sept. 14, the most sacred and solemn d a y o f t h e J e w i s h y e a r, t h i s brings the Days of Repentance at the head of the new year to a close.

Sukkot T h u r s d a y, S e p t . 1 9 We d n e s d a y S e p t . 2 5 a l s o k n ow n a s t h e Fe a s t o f Ta b e r n a c l e s , S u k k o t l a s t s seven days and commemorates with thanksgiving the provision of God for the ancient Jews during the years that they spent crossing the desert on their way to the Promised Land.

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- 19+, all welcome M i x e d D a r t s We d n e s day nights all welcome 7 o ’c l o c k , S t a r t i n g S e p t e m b e r 11.

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01 HEAVEN FOR REAL* Wanton (Self-Released)

02 WILD BELLE Isles (Columbia) 03 UPPERMOST Revolution (Uppwind) 04 PARQUET COURTS Light Up Gold (Dull Tools) 05 BEADY EYE BE (Columbia) 06 FIVER* Lost The Plot (Triple Crown) 07 COUSINS/CONSTRUCTION & DESTRUCTION* Split 12” (Noyes) 08 THE BICYCLES* Stop Thinking So Much (Aporia)

09 MONOMYTH* King, Does This Not Please You? (Self-Released) Louis Zatzman, our Spoken Word Director, in the CHMA Production Studio 10 MICHAEL FEUERSTACK* Tambourine Death Bed (Forward) 11 THE MOUTHBREATHERS* Stone Soup (Killer Haze) 12 SHOTGUN JIMMIE* Everything, Everything (You’ve Changed) 13 NICK FERRIO & HIS FEELINGS* Half The Time (Seventh Fire) 14 CHARLES BRADLEY Victim of Love (Self-Released) 15 COLD WARPS* Don’t Haunt Me, OK?/Stuck on an Island (Noyes)

16 ADAM MOWERY* Local Bands (Self-Released)

17 VAMPIRE WEEKEND Modern Vampires of the City (XL) 18 KURT VILE Wakin On A Pretty Daze (Matador) 19 THE CYCLIST Bones In Motion (Stones Throw) 20 SHE & HIM Volume 3 (Merge) 21 CAPITAL CITIES In a Tidal Wave of Mystery (Capitol) 22 MIKAL CRONIN MCII (Merge)

“Spoken word” in reference to radio can sound a bit intimidating, but quite simply, spoken word is everything focused around storytelling. Everything and everyone has a story and through interviews, news reports, and discussions, journalists and broadcasters share the story. Obviously, music broadcasting is an important part of radio, but it’s always a conscious goal of community radio to increase and improve the quality of spoken word on the airwaves.

Luckily at CHMA we have a Spoken Word Director that is specifically in charge of all things spoken. Louis Zatzman started off his carrer at CHMA as a music host in his first year of university, but gradually got more and more involved over the years. This summer he started in his new role as Spoken Word Director.

“Spoken word is important. When people want something more than just music, it’s radio that keeps you company and is sometimes a friend... and sometimes a lover,” says Zatzman, jokingly, but continues on to say that “Radio is a dialogue, not a monologue, especially when it’s about your own community.”

Boardwalk Radio is CHMA’s daily flagship

community news and events show. It focuses on interviews with community members both within the town and on campus to highlight what is going on in Sackville. It’s a great way to find out about upcoming events and concerts as well as general information.

One of Zatzman’s goals is to get more people involved within the Spoken Word department. “I want as many voices on air as possible, both interviewing and being interviewed. Instead of talking about events and clubs and societies around town as we’ve done in the past, I’d like to actually talk on air with people involved in those societies and find out what they have on the go.“ “Starting off was slow,” says Zatzman as he was taking over from others, and there were few volunteers but he says he really wants to get other people involved.

“It’s important to fill time on air, but it’s more important getting people involved. Teaching is important.”

If you’d like to find out more information about spoken word on CHMA, Boardwalk Radio or would like to get involved with the Spoken Word department, email Louis at chma_news@mta.ca to get the scoop!

23 DAFT PUNK Random Access Memories (Columbia)

24 THE WEEKND* Trilogy (Universal)

25 EMPIRE OF THE SUN Ice On The Dune (EMI) 26 STILL CORNERS Strange Pleasures (Sub Pop) 27 JUNIP Junip (Mute) 28 TYPHOON White Lighter (Roll Call) 29 THE REPLY* Downtown Soul (Self-Released) 30 BORED NOTHING Bored Nothing (Spunk)

31 LUCAS HICKS* The Coast // Bad News (Self Released)

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SPOTLIGHT ON #31: LUCAS HICKS The Coast//Bad News (Self-Released) Two fresh songs from Sackville’s kid. This hot new EP shares the same effortlessly catchy sound we’ve all come to know and love from Lucas Hicks. Recorded by Construction and Destruction in the The Quarantine studios, these tracks definitely share a similar aesthetic to a host of other low-fi Maritime rockers. Lucas will be going on tour to Pop Montreal and hitting up all the usual spots there and back again as well as playing a show in Halifax. Be sure to check out the music video for Bad News, made by Phil Mercier and featuring many old and young faces of the Sackville community.

UPCOMING EVENTS & CONCERTS JEALOUSY MOUNTAIN DUO & JFM & EL RON MALTAN THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2013 STRUTS GALLERY $8 - ALL AGES 8:00 PM

JON MCKIEL & HEAVEN FOR REAL TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2013 THE POND FREE 10:00 PM

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Mellotones treated to uncomfortable venue

Halifax’s The Mellotones play a high energy set of cover songs despite an unpleasant venue for First Class Bash on Tuesday September 3. (Nick Sleptov/Argosy)

Con Hall still a poor rock ‘n’ roll concert venue Cameron McIntyre Entertainment Writer

Last Tuesday, The Mellotones kicked off First Class Bash in lacklustre fashion. It was not the band’s fault, as they played a set of excellent covers ranging from Daft Punk to Bob Marley, but rather the environment

in

which they were situated.

Calling Convocation Hall a bad venue for a rock ‘n’ roll show is a tremendous understatement. The room is so large that none of the closeness of a crowd is felt; instead, the room, and those inside of it, feel empty and exposed. A rail placed an excessive two metres away from the stage inhibited any sense of intimacy and left little room for any substantial crowd to form. Even if a crowd had formed, the excitement would still have been diminished by the remaining seats that allowed those who were not in the mood to sit out and pass silent judgement on the dancers.

The Mellotones, who are described in their press release as “Halifax’s premier dance band,” played an accessible and varied set, but were clearly overtaxed with the two hours they had to perform, and were forced to divide their performance with an intermission. “Superstition,” “Ain’t No Love in the Heart of the City,” “This Is Love,” and “Get On Up” were some of the evening’s highlights. However, crowd engagement was minimal until The Mellotones played a beautiful rendition of Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky” at the end of the their first set—at which point the crowd finally began to abandon their inhibitions and dance,

SappyForever crowdfunding campaign proves successful Supporters small and large rally to exceed campaign goal Norman Nehmetallah Entertainment Editor

For a moment, it appeared as if $25,000 was too much to ask for 250 coffee table books filled with memories that most have already lived.

Luckily, the Internet, and even the province, is bigger than a small college town with a predictably low-income student population.

As of this Tuesday, it appears that SappyForever, the hardcover volume created to balance the books of the financially imperilled festival, can be considered a success in more ways than one. The project has raised enough money to cover its own production costs, as well as the shortfall in revenue from this summer’s otherwise successful SappyFest. Moreover, the festival’s ethos has been reinforced by their financial difficulty, most notably in the generosity of Picaroons, and the festival’s decision to use crowd-sourced fundraising.

SappyFest has maintained via their website that their financial troubles were due in part to “their aversion to corporate sponsorship,” an attitude that has proven viable in light of the decision by Picaroons Traditional Ales to match all contributions, up to a total of $5,000, made toward the SappyForever campaign in its final twelve days. Picaroons, a small brewery which operates out of Fredericton, has been the

festival’s “exclusive purveyor of quality beer and a strong supporter of [the festival] since 2007,” according to a post on SappyFest’s Facebook page. The brewery’s contribution incentive, which was made when the campaign was less than $10,000 from reaching its goal, is being considered “a testament to the merits of local partnerships” by the festival. This stands in stark opposition to the large corporate sponsorships that SappyFest has expressed a strong distaste for.

In addition to the financial contribution from Picaroons, the SappyForever campaign reached its goal due to small contributions from a variety of supporters, ranging from $5 to $1000 per individual contribution. Those who contributed $100 or more will receive a copy of the 160page archive of the last eight SappyFests.

Although raising $25,000 within the span of a month may have seemed to be a lofty goal for a small festival like SappyFest, the overwhelming support for the project was not necessarily a surprise.

While the festival has garnered international acclaim from artists and attendees throughout its eight years, it has also been integral to Sackville’s economic well-being. Various business owners recently commended the festival organizers for the “phenomenal [publicity]” and “financial and cultural boost to the community” that SappyFest provides, in an article published in the Sackville Tribune-Post shortly after the event.

What was initially a worrisome announcement concerning the future of one of Sackville’s staple events is quickly becoming a story of how a small town festival can survive while focusing on community, art, and its own principles.

demonstrating that the old jazz, R&B, and reggae classics had gone to waste.

This year marked at least the second consecutive time in which First Class Bash suffered from mediocrity, which may continue to be the case until Mount Allison gains a dedicated space for this kind of event. Last year’s concert, headlined by the popular band Dragonette, was also diminished by those Con Hall seats, which forced the dancing crowd into an uncomfortably tight space. Many reported that even breathing became difficult, while an already uncomfortable event was exacerbated when the option to stay in one’s seat and passively experience the

performance became most attractive.

In a town with its fair share of noted and appropriate venues, it is unfortunate that First Class Bash is consistently held in one that is clearly substandard. In previous years the event has been held outdoors, which produced great atmosphere and memorable performances, although this is not a practical choice considering the often unpredictable September weather. Perhaps the Purdy Crawford Centre for the Arts will fill this void with its promises of a theatre, although that space may suffer from the same tragic flaws that plague Con Hall as a rock ‘n’ roll venue.

Tuck and Roach play strange Black Duck show Halifax musicians bring memorable show to coffee house Cameron McIntyre Entertainment Writer

Saturday, Al Tuck and Gordie Roach played a show at the Black Duck—sort of.

It was less a show and more of prolonged interaction that left the ten or so people in attendance to stumble home afterward and contemplate what they had just witnessed.

In a way, a small, odd performance like Tuck’s was perfect for the venue, emphasizing the Black Duck Inn’s quirkiness and beauty, from its gold lacquered ceilings to the papier-mâché cat that keeps coming up in conversations.

Tuck’s homage to Stompin’ Tom Connors was reflected in the groan of the floorboards, and old country covers were played by the dim light of the counter to the hushed, attentive audience. Hank Williams’s country classic, “Your Cheatin’ Heart,” and “Ducktown,” which Tuck composed about our very own sleepy New Brunswick town and played here for the first time, stood out as highlights in an experience that worked in the oddest way imaginable.

As a venue, the Black Duck is inherently intimate, although this intimacy has to be handled correctly, and Tuck and Roach did achieve this at points, allowing for truly special moments to arise. “There Is a God,” a song off of Tuck’s new

album Stranger at the Wake, really hit home in this regard due to its intensely personal nature.

However, Al Tuck and his accomplice, Gordie Roach, were clearly uncomfortable with the intimacy of the event, brought on by the size of the show, and possibly the personal introspection it granted for the artists themselves. This was only heightened by the genre-meandering set, which resulted in the show feeling like a look into their influences and body of music, which may or may not have been their intent.

As an experience, the show was unique in that it offered its own brand of beauty, which was not produced through the more common forms of technical skill or purposefully induced emotional response; rather, the uncomfortable silence and ambiguous intentions of the artists culminated in a different sort of beauty in the two hours or so in which they played.

The show did suffer from a few notable issues. The event’s start time was changed from 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm shortly before the show was set to begin, though it did not begin until approximately 9:30 pm. Moreover, the set itself was drawn out, although this mostly worked well with the pace of the music being played. As the show progressed, it also became clear that Tuck and Roach were finished playing their prepared material but were carrying on with the set for the sake of the small crowd. The performance ultimately digressed into something far less enjoyable as the two played a few cover songs, marred by an apparent lack of communication between the two performers. After a dropped guitar and a poorly placed cover of “Blue Christmas,” Tuck finally reigned the set in with an original song, ending it as strongly as it began.

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The Conjuring is a new classic

Mixed Tape

Old horror tropes still frightening audiences Maddie Hicks

Entertainment Contributor

While the film industry’s ability to churn out movies marketed as ‘terrifying’ is not in doubt, the ability of these films to genuinely frighten an audience is another matter.

Despite some entertaining releases, contemporary horror has yet to instil fear with the same intensity as earlier films, such as The Exorcist and The Shining. I must say here that fear is triggered differently in every viewer, making the subjective experience of terror difficult to elicit unanimously in a crowd. However, it is widely acknowledged that there are some methods more successful than others. The staples of the horror genre focus primarily on atmosphere and character to elicit a reaction, a technique skillfully executed by James Wan in his recent film The Conjuring, which defied my personal expectations as well as the cultural pattern by which it was preceded.

The trend of late relies primarily on gore or jump scares to elicit a response from audiences, which is a marked shift from the tropes of the traditional horror canon. These traditional tropes function primarily through manipulation of atmosphere in order

to unnerve the spectators. Any modern releases that utilize these traditional methods are notable in the lingering apprehension they create. The downfall of gore is that it permits the viewer to look away in revulsion, while jump scares sever the delicate trust present between an audience and a film. That is not to say that both of these devices cannot be used effectively, but as with all things, they must be used in moderation. The characterizing feature of the past decade of horror has been excess, seen in movies such as the Saw and Final Destination franchises.

Directors have been exploring the extremes of fear in an attempt to revolutionize the genre, when, in fact, it is a return to the traditional that has yielded exceptionality.

One outstanding exercise in moderation of this sort is James Wan’s film The Conjuring. The plot appears under the guise of a traditional haunting: the Perron family’s recent tenancy of an old country house is met with strange occurrences, prompting the arrival of renowned paranormal investigators, Ed and Lorraine Warren. The film sets itself in a fictional microcosm within the 1970s, whereby demons and ghosts are real and rooted in the religious discrepancy between heaven and hell. The crossing of these conventionally distinct boundaries results in hauntings, such as the one that threatens the Perrons.

What I believe sets The Conjuring apart from others of the present era is its unwavering resolve.

Wan manages to both contrast and complement the harrowing

atmosphere with bold and acrobatic camerawork. The cinematography is replete with sweeping shots, crosssection pans, and roller coaster jerks.

The ambitious soundtrack guides the camerawork, as it oscillates between lively psychedelic rock tracks and ominous brassy drone themes. The dual framework of cinematography and sound manipulates the atmospheric tension of the entire piece, giving slack and pulling taut appropriately.

These core aspects serve as the foundational skeleton upon which the remainder of the film is constructed.

This is in stark antithesis to the usual tendency of the horror genre to impose them retrospectively as an afterthought.

Upon this groundwork, Wan erects a rewarding reciprocity of character in the interactions between the Perrons and the Warrens. The dialogue feels genuine, which gives way to emotional investment on the part of the audience.

Also, it is impressive in its ability to seamlessly incorporate a wide variety of horror tropes, ranging from birds and dolls, to demons and witches.

The Conjuring is one of the few horror films I would describe as beautiful. My mouth remained ajar during the entire film, fluctuating between shock and awe. It asserts itself as relevant from the moment the title card ascends the screen, and then subsequently proves its significance. The Conjuring stands its ground amidst the rehashed horror of the past decade, and earns its R rating not from the presence of violence, language, or nudity, but from its sheer ability to terrify.

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The 1980s Fetish Playlist - Vanessa Blackier Each week, the Argosy asks a member of the Sackville community to create a mixtape playlist on a theme or topic of their choosing.

“The Theory of Relativity” by Stars – The heavy synth and drum machine claps are a huge jump from Stars’ early sappy songs.

“Your Life, Your Call” by Junip – This song has been my summer music companion.

“Fantasize” by Hannah Georgas – If I were a musician, I would want to be Hannah Georgas.

“House of Commons Problems” by Silkken Laumann – Ottawa band writes dance track about legislature.

Why not?

“I Can Change” by LCD Soundsystem – Each time I hear this, I am sad that this band broke up.

“Say That” by Toro y Moi - Chaz Bundick is my biggest music crush at the moment. Amazing producer.

“Run My Heart” by Twin Shadow – I imagine a great choreographed breakup dance scene in the style of a 1980s music video recorded on VHS when I hear this song - deep emotions and deep lunges.

“Genesis” by Grimes – I think she’s freaky and I like her a lot.

“Forest” by Human Human – Dreamy underground Montreal indie rock with a slick 1980s aesthetic.

“Age of Consent” by New Order – Token 1980s band on the 1980s mixtape.

“Next of Kin (The River)” by Alvvays – I’m still raving about this band from SappyFest.

“Still Pleasures” by Berlin Lovers – This band started off with a 1960s-inspired sound, but went Back to the Future on this new album.

“Millions” by Eternal Summers – One of my favourite acts from SappyFest 7. Even one year later this band makes appearances on my radio shows.

“Somebody Who” by Au Revoir Simone – Three girls, three keyboards, what’s not to like?

“A Real Hero” by College feat.

Electric Youth – Did anyone ever really get enough of the Drive Soundtrack? I didn’t think so.

Vanessa Blackier is the Programming Director at CHMA.

Argosy’s Media Reviews As one could probably discern from its name, Sharknado is no masterpiece; in fact, its shoddy editing and special effects are typical of a made-for-TV movie. The plot follows Fin, played by Ian Ziering (yes, Sharknado’s main character is named Fin), a former champion surfer and bar owner living in Los Angeles who fights to save his family as the twister approaches. Honestly, the plot of this movie doesn’t matter. It’s when watching a shark attack victim screaming like he stubbed his toe when in reality he’s lost it, or hearing just about any of the frequently hammy dialogue, that this movie really shines. Sharknado is at its best when there are sharks dropping from the sky and comically bad oneliners leaving the characters’ mouths—and this movie is frequently at its best. For anyone who doesn’t mind turning their brain off for an hour and a half, Sharknado is stupid, sloppy fun. If you get a chance to see this, you won’t regret it.

- Sam Moore

Jeff Nichols ≈ MUD

Anthony C. Ferrante ≈ Sharknado

And here we have it: a showcase of Matthew McConaughey’s true acting potential. Here he inhabits his character, Mud, without an ounce of the pretension we’ve come to expect of his typecast.

Jeff Nichols’s Mud is at once a coming-of-age tale, a story of survival and trust, and an exercise in taut pacing. It’s also the film that solidifies Jeff Nichols’s place as one of the best American filmmakers working today. It is nearly flawless. Two adolescent boys living in Arkansas, Ellis (Tye Sheridan) and Neckbone ( Jacob Lofland), travel up the Mississippi River to a small island where Neckbone had found a small boat stuck in a tree. However, in exploring their newfound territory, they meet Mud (McConaughey), a fugitive who’s been living on the island. The boys strike up a deal with Mud, but I’ll say no more about the film’s plot because it unfolds so naturally that you’ll never be in the dark about the characters’ motives, or about what Nichols wants you to know about his film’s story.

- Austin Landry Atlanta-based Juicy Jay has played his cards well—the former Three 6 Mafia producer’s debut solo effort, Stay Trippy, was released smack-dab in the middle of what could be called a trap renaissance. Trap rap—an ornately produced, hedonistic offshoot of southern hip-hop—usually finds success in a balancing act between its dark subject matter and goofy monosyllabic southern twang. Juicy Jay’s spotty effort just barely finds this balance, and teeters dangerously close to either extreme. Juicy Jay is not a complex rapper, and many would deride him for it, but there exists a kind of Epicurean simplicity in tracks like the Wiz Khalifa-featured “Smoke a Nigga Up,” which contains lines such as “Peeling bank rolls, condo full of bad bitches/Lot of pills, lot of weed and a lot of liquor.” Unfortunately, over the course of a long-play album, this kind of simplicity often wears thin. Songs like “So Much Money,” “All I Blow is Loud,” and “Money a Do It [sic]” chronicle similar subjects to diminishing effect. Over all, Stay Trippy is effective on a trackby-track basis, but taken as a whole, the codeine-tinged medicine goes down too sickly sweet.

- Ian Malcolm

Juicy Jay

≈ Stay Trippy

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Dear Argosy readers: I really do hate to have to apologize to you lovely people, but be aware that my announcement here is not all doom and gloom——— The Argosy’s relationship with the syndicate company which normally provides us with licensed newspaper funnies has recently soured, leaving your humble humour editor in quite the bind.

As we no longer hold the rights to publish most syndicated newspaper strips, I was forced, in the throes of stressful agony, to make a last minute call to a publishing firm in the Democratic Peoples’ Republic of North Korea.

After talking to a friendly phone operator for several hours, I was pleased to learn that the DPRK’s state-run comic syndicate, “Juche Eternal Humour Corp.”, is, for a fraction of our previous cost, able to provide Mount Allison’s humble student newspaper with the whimsical fruits of their unpaid humour.

I­ ——being somewhat of a connoisseur of the graphic arts——was startled by the high level of artisanship and attention to detail that these fine works display. I hope that you too will “split your sides” upon reading our many hilarious offerings.

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