Argosy September 18th, 2014

Mount Allison’s

THE Septmeber 18, 2014

ARGOSY Independent Student Newspaper

Throwin’ dashes since 1872

Vol. 144 Iss. 3

Mounties crash homecoming at St. FX

The Mounties have now been ranked eighth in the CIS top-ten after an unbelievable comeback against the X-Men on Sept. 13 at Antigonish. The Mounties face the Huskies Sept. 20. (Erica Roberts/St.FX Athletics)

Mt. A stuns X scoring twice in final two minutes Benjamin Foster Sports Reporter

The Mount Allison Mounties football team faced a crowd of 2,000 X-Men supporters and a tough St. FX team to pull off a dramatic comeback victory on Saturday at Oland Stadium in Antigonish. The game was played on Sept. 13 as part of St. FX’s homecoming weekend, and for most of the game it looked as if the X-Men would give their students and alumni what they wanted.

Early in the fourth quarter, Mt. A

News

receiver Dakota Brush took a big hit that put him down on the field for a long period of time. He was taken off the field by EMS with a neck injury.

The shocked Mounties had to finish the game with Brush’s injury in their minds.

“I was laying in the hospital bed and the trainer was giving me [a] play-by-play. When I found out [that we won?] I was pretty surprised, to be honest. But when it all settled in, all I could think [of ] was the hard days in training camp and the fight our team continues to show,” said Brush.

The X-Men were in control over the first fifty-seven minutes of the game, but in the final three minutes, after Dakota Brush was taken out of the game after a vicious hit, it was all Mt. A. “It definitely lit a fire under us.

In the post-game we said we won

Opinions

it for [Brush]. Most of it was finally executing, which we had not been doing all game, but it was the push we needed to finish the game,” said captain Jon Graves.

Mounties quarterback Brandon Leyh led the team on a ninety-four yard drive with just over a minute remaining to get the team within one score. The drive was capped off by a twelve-yard touchdown throw to senior Josh Blanchard.

A successful onside kick recovered

by Mt. A sent the Mounties’ sideline into a frenzy, the Mounties took advantage of their luck. Leyh ducked an X defensive lineman à la Eli Manning as he broke two X-Men tackles and launched a pass towards the end zone that Blanchard brought down for his third touchdown of the game.

“After the winning touchdown,

Sports

all I could think was, ‘let’s get out of here before the officials change their minds,’” head coach Kelly Jeffrey said of the win.

“The last two minutes of the game were intense. The onside kick was huge and we could not have executed it any better. Catching that third touchdown was amazing. Leyh did a great job staying on his feet and gave the defender little chance of knocking it down or intercepting it, which made my job easy,” Blanchard said.

Mountie Kiel Ambursley sealed the win with an interception of X-Men quarterback Tivon Cook. When the clock hit zero, the Mounties won 2725 and are were the only team left undefeated in the AUS. St. FX fell to 1-1 with the loss.

“Josh has had a number of clutch catches throughout his career here and just keeps making big plays when he

Arts & Culture

gets the opportunity. The stage doesn’t really matter to him, he comes up big in any situation,” Jeffrey said.

After the game, Brush’s diagnosis came with a sense of relief.

“The doctor described it as a ‘neck stinger.’ I got x-rays and I was cleared of any spinal injuries as well as a concussion. I have full intentions to practice and play homecoming this weekend,” said Brush.

Leyh finished the game with 279 yards passing and three touchdown passes. Blanchard also had 200 yards on twelve catches. Cook had 287 yards passing for the X-Men, while running back Ashton Dickson had 208 yards on the ground.

Mt. A will take on the Saint Mary’s Huskies next Saturday at 2 p.m. during Mt. A’s own homecoming weekend.

Inside...

News Opinions Sports Centrefold Arts & Culture Science Ship’s Log Humour

MASU holds first AGM: Pg. 2

Carelton students shock: Pg. 4

Young Mounties impress: Pg. 7

Sackville favourites return: Pg. 10

2 4 6 8 10 12 13 14

Pg. 9

NEWS

September 18, 2014

argosy@mta.ca

MASU calls for students’ feedback at first AGM

Current exec, former President address students Willa McCaffrey-Noviss Politics Reporter

The Mount Allison Students’ Union kicked off the new school year with their first annual general meeting.

On Thursday, Sept. 11, MASU provided an opportunity for students to hear from this year’s executive on their plans for the year and participate in smaller focus group discussions concerning issues of mental health services, elections, and more. There were approximately 60 people in attendance, most of whom were students, including many firstyears.

MASU President Heather Webster spoke first, reviewing last year, and offering some prospective areas for improvement this year.

Calling it “a year of firsts,” Webster referenced the many “wins” of last year including the the long-awaited launch of the bike co-op.

Webster pointed out the numerous partnerships made by MASU, such as those with the Princeton Review to offer mock LSATs and MCATs. Webster also addressed MASU’s reaction to last year’s strike, which some students saw as problematic.

“It is no secret that some students did

MASU President Heather Webster delivers her assessment of the union’s performance last year. (Chris Donovan/Argosy) not react well to the way in which the student union executive approached the strike,” Webster said.

Despite this, Webster stands by the way MASU handled the issue.

“We continued fighting to just get students back in classrooms, rather than choosing to support faculty or administration.”

Webster concluded by saying that the event “kicks off the year of the student union review,” during which the executive will gather information with an eye towards reforming the organization in the future.

Following Webster, the four other executives spoke about their plans for the year. Josh Outerbridge, the vicepresident of finance and operations, focused on MASU’s provision of health and dental insurance.

Outerbridge highlighted the plan’s reduction of ambulance fees, which can be as much as $650 for uninsured out-of-province students.

Outerbridge also said the changes to the insurance plan’s model paid off. “Since going self-funded about three years ago, [the insurance plan] saved $100,000 in student money that would otherwise go to the profits of insurance companies,” said Outerbridge.

Kyle Nimmrichter, MASU vicepresident academic, said he would work on developing the Academic Experience Survey to develop “quantitative feedback” for MASU. He also spoke of a referendum planned for this winter to approve MASU’s prospective emergency bursary program for students in

need.

Annie Sherry, who oversees the union’s lobbying efforts as the vicepresident of external affairs, spoke about Mount Allison’s relationship with the New Brunswick Student Association (NBSA). Sherry said the NBSA was successful in influencing NB’s political parties to consider their agenda for post-secondary education, as some of the parties used NBSA proposals as platform points.

She encouraged students to vote in the upcoming provincial election.

“This is your money, your education, and your future,” said Sherry.

“Students’ current access to mental health services are sub par,” said Andrew Johnston, the vice-president of campus life. He committed himself to improving services and to

boosting awareness of mental health issues this year.

While he gave credit to the university for bringing in a psychologist for half a day every month, Johnston said, “At the end of the day, it’s just not enough.”

Johnston then outlined an upcoming campaign in November with partnerships with Change Your Mind, the Wellness Centre, and other organizations that promote good mental health.

The keynote speaker was Pat Joyce, the executive director of NBSA, who shared anecdotes from his two terms as MASU president. Joyce called upon the students to get involved and said, “If you want this organization to be student-driven, it takes driven students.”

Undergraduates show-off summer research results Small student body works on big research Jean-Sébastien Comeau News Reporter

47 students got to show off how they spent their summer at Mount Allison’s annual Summer Undergraduate Research Fair.

In three-minute presentations, undergraduates raced through the research they had spent months working on at the Sept. 12 event.

“The amount of research done on campus is something that makes Mount Allison very unique […]

SURF really showcases the broad diversity of things going on at the university,” said Brynne Langford, one of three members in this year’s SURF executive along with Ian Nason and Adele Doucet.

A wide sampling of Mt. A’s student researchers presented snapshots of their summer work. (Sarah Richardson/Argosy) Several students praised the research opportunities available to them because of Mt. A’s small, primarily undergraduate student bodies.

“It’s a lot of experience that you couldn’t really get at any bigger universities; it opened a lot of doors that I didn’t expect to open that early in my university career,” said Gregory

MacNeil, a third year Chemistry student. “I approached [Dr. Vicki Meli] looking for a reference letter, who ended up asking me to work for her.”

MacNeil’s work involved the removal of defects in gold atoms, something that could prove to be very useful in optics and small electronic devices.

Established over a decade ago, SURF tries to draw from the broad scope of the research done by students.

While MacNeil’s – and, in fact, most science students’ – work involved mandatory laboratory hours during the week, students working within the arts and the social sciences departments had a much more flexible work schedule.

Cora MacDonald, a fourthyear Sociology student conducted research that could take place at all hours of the day.

MacDonald spent the summer gathering data on youth relations with Sackville’s RCMP detachment

and on the impact of a “positive ticketing” pilot project. Her work brought her to Sackville’s skate park, where she got to work hand-in-hand with community members. “[Research] has allowed me to a have a learning that can only happen outside of the classroom […] With doing field research, I’m really prepared for graduate studies if I do end up taking that route,” said MacDonald.

A panel made up of members from the Mt. A community judged the participants’ presentations.

The best poster presentation went to Ryan Baker, and the best threeminute thesis presentation went to Jamie Patterson, who each received $100. The runners-up, Erin Lapp and Brendan Phillips, received $50 apiece.

The panel strictly enforced the three-minute time limit. With only one slide allowed, student presentations relied on spoken word to convey a basic understanding of their research.

New Brunswick is at a crossroad. Which road? The road to broken promises.

Or the Green Road to a healthy future: For us, our children, the Province.

Our communities can’t wait. Vote Green.

Le Nouveau-Brunswick est à la croisée des chemins. Quel chemin?

La route à des promesses non tenues. Ou la route Verte vers un avenir sain: Pour nous, nos enfants et La Province.

www.meganmitton.ca

Nos communautés n’attendent plus. Votez Vert.

Meet Megan Mitton

The Argosy

www.argosy.ca

NEWS

Candidates stick to party platforms Debate covers key issues for coming election

Rob Ford drops out of mayoral race

News Editor

Annie Sherry addresses attendees of the on-campus candidates debate on Sept.

11. (Ryan Harley/MASU) also highlighted plans for boosting retention and increased mental health services on campus.

Mitton said that while the longterm goal of the Green Party was free post secondary education, the Greens had a number of short-term goals. “In our platform is to make all provincial student loans interest free, to lower the student loan debt cap to $20,000 from $26,000, and to extend the grace period from six months to a year … And also to remove the parental and spousal contribution for the loan calculation,” said Mitton.

LeBlanc pledged to reverse a change in loan policy made by the current government, as well as freeing tuition for students for the length of their degrees. “We will definitely eliminate the parental and spousal contribution, that is a done deal if we are elected […]

We will also be giving stability and predictability in student rates, and requiring the university to set tuition fees for the [four years] of the degree,” said LeBlanc.

No candidate strayed far from their party’s platforms, but the evening allowed for an increased focus on issues of education and environment.

It also allowed for the candidates to interact and interrogate each other’s platforms.

The crowd received Mitton’s responses regarding environmental policy, particularly fracking, very well, drawing the largest applause of the evening. LeBlanc’s suggestion that those who think fracking is safe “should have the first well in their backyard” also played well with the crowd.

One of the most striking exchanges of the evening took place between Boudreau and Olscamp after Boudreau outlined the NDP plan to consolidate cabinet positions, cutting them from 17 to 10. The NDP platform says this would save $25 million a year for the province.

The proposal, out of character for NDP, was met with skepticism from Olscamp. The defense of the current size of cabinet by the PCs, who have been cutting government spending and size of departments over their last four years in government, also sticks out.

Close to 80 people attended, the majority of whom were nonstudent members of the Sackville community. Though the event was originally intended for students only, a deal with the Sackville chamber of commerce made it open to the general public.

The sections on education, the environment and the economy each had the same format. The first 10 minutes had each of candidates respond to two to four pre-selected questions, Levesque limiting the replies to 90 seconds. The next 10 minutes opened the debate questions from the floor. Students could also submit questions via Twitter and have them read to the candidates.

After that, there was five minutes of open discussion where the candidates could form responses to previous comments made or questions posed by other candidates.

The election is set for Sept. 22.

Anyone who has been an official resident of New Brunswick for more than 40 days is eligible to vote.

Mt. A’s farm reopened with student cash ENACTUS uses MASU money to get farm growing Willa McCaffrey-Noviss Politics Reporter

After student intervention and investment, Sackville once again has access to local, Mount Allison grown vegetables. Located just a few blocks west of campus is the 1.5 acres Mount Allison farm. Students have been growing and harvesting vegetables to bring to Jennings Meal Hall, Sackville’s Saturday morning farmer’s market, and a new student and staff vegetable box program which every Tuesday subscribers can pick up their freshly harvested bag for only $10 a piece.

The university farm fell into inactivity during the 2013-2014

This Week in the World Compiled by Joanna Perkin

Kevin Levangie

Moderated by Mario Levesque, a professor in Mount Allison’s political science department, candidates of the Memramcook-Tantramar riding presented their parties’ positions on the broad themes of education and social policy, the economy, and the environment to students and community member. Levesque and Annie Sherry, the Mount Allison Students’ Union vice-president for external affairs, chose the themes for their relevance to student concerns.

All four candidates in the riding were in attendance. Mike Olscamp of the Progressive Conservatives, Megan Mitton of the Green Party, Helene Boudreau of the NDP, and Bernard LeBlanc of the Liberals took to the stage to answer questions submitted by the public.

Many of the questions asked that evening were variations on the first question of the education system: “How would the parties help to lower the cost of tuition?”

Olscamp pointed to existing funding in place and said, “Our plan is to continue supporting students to the extent that our financial ability will allow us […] Mount Allison gets $21 million in grants from the province each year, and, not unlike every other university in the province, does not pay property tax, and that amounts to $2 million a year [in savings].”

Boudreau’s education comments focused on the NDP’s debt reduction initiatives. “We’d like to introduce our ‘free in eight’ program so that every graduate can afford to pay their own loan in right years or get help when they need to make those payments,” said Boudreau.

Through the program, the provincial government would help students pay off their debt within eight years after graduation. Boudreau

3

academic year because of a shortage of funds due to low student enrolment.

But student-run club ENACTUS brought the farm back to life with funds obtained by applying to the Green Investment Fund appointing students to work on the land.

“The overall goal is to make it sustainable,” said Erin Porter, ENACTUS’s president and the farm’s manager. Porter was one of two students employed at the farm this past summer.

The GIF’s selection committee allocated $10,552 of their $24,350 budget to the farm last year. The committee reviews the requests of local project in want of capital investment.

“The number one criteria is that the projects reduce carbon in some way,” said Lauren Latour, MASU’s sustainability coordinator.

The ENACTUS application for GIF funding for the farm estimated a reduction of 75-80 kilogram carbon emissions per hectar range in

comparison to other farms. The main reductions came from not using herbicides, pesticides, or machinery and reducing the amount of food that Jennings needed to source from farther away.

The farm project had estimated costs at over $30,000. Of roughly $10,000 granted by the students’ union, $8,500 went towards capital expenditures, mostly for purchasing supplies necessary for running the farm such as seeds and potting soil.

The other $2,052 was put towards salaries and compensation for workers on the farm.

“Obviously the farm wanted to get up and running again,” said Latour, ”but in the past it had been an issue generating enough revenue to propel the project further year after year […] They asked us to step in and give them a push to get back on track.”

Shortly after a tumour was discovered in his abdomen, Toronto’s mayor Rob Ford has dropped out of the upcoming mayoral election. Months of abdominal pain preceded Ford’s admission to the hospital Sept. 10. Ford has decided to run for city council in his old constituency to retain a political presence in Toronto. Ford’s brother Doug, who is currently a councillor in Toronto, has replaced him on the ballot in the race for mayor. Rob Ford has received many calls to step down after admitting that he smoked crack cocaine while in office.

Cuba sending doctors to Ebola areas Cuba plans to send over 150 health workers to West Africa to help tackle the Ebola outbreak. These health workers will travel to Sierra Leone in October and will stay for six months. Sierra Leone is among the West African countries with the highest death toll from the recent Ebola outbreak. In some countries affected by Ebola, there are not enough doctors available to fight the disease. Cuba, famous for its well educated nurses and doctors, has sent aid to a wide range of countries in need.

Gambia President asked to reject anti-gay law Human rights groups have asked Gambian President Yahya Jammeh to reject oppressive new anti-gay legislation. While homosexual acts are already illegal in The Gambia, the recent bill would impose life sentences for “aggravated homosexuality.” BBC News reports that President Jammeh is known for his opposition to gay rights and once threatened to behead homosexuals. Current laws in The Gambia punish homosexual acts by up to 14 years in prison. Jammeh has 30 days from the date the bill was passed to either sign it into a law or reject it.

Youszafzai shooting suspects arrested Pakistan’s army reported that the militants who are suspected of shooting Malala Yousafzai have been arrested. At the age of 15, Youszafzai survived after being shot in the head by Taliban gunmen. Her campaign for girls’ education motivated the Oct. 2012 attack. The gunmen boarded her school bus and opened fire, shooting her in the head, and wounding two other students.

Since the attack, Youszafzai has recovered to become a prominent advocate for the education of girls and has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

An army spokesperson reported that 10 members of the Pakistani Taliban have been arrested in a joint operation between Pakistan’s army, police and intelligence services, and that these men will appear in an anti-terrorism court.

Pistorius found guilty of culpable homicide South African double amputee athlete Oscar Pistorius has been found guilty of culpable homicide. South African judge Thokozile Masipa ruled Sept. 12 that he had killed his girlfriend by mistake. In February 2013, Pistorius fired shots through a bathroom door thinking there was an intruder. The decision came after the state failed to prove that he intended to kill his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

Pistorius denied murdering Steenkamp, saying that he shot her by mistake.

The judge said that the accused acted too hastily and with too much force, making it clear that his actions were negligent. He will be sentenced Oct. 13.

NFL Player arrested for child abuse Adrian Peterson, a running back for the NFL’s Minnesota Vikings, was arrested in Texas for allegedly hitting his child with a tree branch. Peterson turned himself in this past Saturday. He has been charged with reckless or negligent injury to his child. Peterson’s attorney said while talking to BBC that his client regrets the incident and that he never wanted to harm the child, but that Peterson used his judgement as a parent to discipline his son. The Minnesota Vikings have said that Peterson would not be playing in their next game.The incident came only days after another NFL player, Ray Rice, had his contract terminated for hitting his wife.

Corrections Last week’s cover story, “New arts centre opens despite delays,” misspelled the name of the Motyer-Fancy theatre. The theatre is named for alumni and professors emiriti Alex Fancy and Arthur Motyer. In addition to the factual error, the story also appeared without a byline. It was written by News Editor Kevin Levangie.

Last week’s centrefold was written and compiled primarily by Senior News Editor Cameron McIntyre. He was assisted by Kevin Levangie.

The story “Comet chasing satellite ends decades-long journey” by Clay Steell contained an error in its headline. The satellite launched tens years ago.

This was accurately reported in the article.

The Argosy apologizes for these and any other errors.

Suspected errors and requests for correction can be brought to the attention of Editor-in-Chief Richard Kent.

OPINIONS THE ARGOSY w w w. a r g o s y. c a

Independent Student Newspaper of Mount Allison University Thursday, September 18, 2014 volume 144 issue 3 Since 1872 Circulation 1,700

62 York Street W. McCain Student Centre Mount Allison University Sackville, New Brunswick E4L 1E2

506 364 2236

Email argosy@mta.ca

THE ARGOSY is published by Argosy Publications, Inc., a student run, autonomous, apolitical not-for-profit organization operated in accordance with the province of New Brunswick.

THE ARGOSY is a member of the Canadian University Press, a national co-operative of student newspapers.

ISSN 0837-1024

The Underbridge Press is a student-run publishing organization at Mount Allison University.

editorialstaff EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Richard Kent

OPINIONS EDITOR Tessa Dixon

MANAGING EDITOR Vacant

SPORTS EDITOR Alex Bates

SENIOR NEWS EDITOR Cameron MacIntyre

HUMOUR EDITOR Taylor Losier

­­­NEWS EDITOR

ONLINE EDITOR Sam Moore

Kevin Levangie

ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR Daniel Marcotte

productionstaff PRODUCTION MANAGER Brandon Williams PHOTO EDITOR Sarah Richardson COPY EDITOR Rachelle Tan

reportingstaff

­­­

SCIENCE EDITOR Vacant

PRODUCTION ASSISTANT Chris Donovan PHOTOGRAPHER Chris Donovan ILLUSTRATOR Vacant

NEWS REPORTERS Jean-Sébastian Comeau Tyler Stuart

ARTS REPORTERS Amanda Cormier Michael Dover

POLITICS REPORTER Willa McCaffrey-Noviss

SCIENCE REPORTER Clay Steell

SPORTS REPORTER Benjamin Foster

operationsstaff

BUSINESS MANAGER Gil Murdock

IT MANAGER Vacant

OFFICE MANAGER Alex Lepianka

CIRCULATIONS Vacant

contributors

Gabrielle Zimbalatti, Chad Morash, Jennifer McKelvay, Adam Boyd, Nic Sunderland-Baker, Patrick Allaby, Allison Grogan, Grace Power, Joanna Perkin, John C. Perkin, Madalon Burnett, Erica Roberts,

publicationboard

Dave Thomas (Chair), Mike Fox, Charlotte Henderson, John Trafford

disclaimers and copyright The Argosy is the official independent student journal of news, opinion, and the arts, written, edited and funded by the students of Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick. The opinions expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of The Argosy’s staff or its Board of Directors. The Argosy is published weekly throughout the academic year by Argosy Publications Inc. Student contributions in the form of letters, articles, photography, graphic design and comics are welcome. The Argosy reserves the right to edit or refuse all materials deemed sexist, racist, homophobic, or otherwise unfit for print, as determined by the Editor-in-Chief. Articles or other contributions can be sent to argosy@mta.ca or directly to a section editor. The Argosy will print unsolicited materials at its own discretion. Letters to the editor must be signed, though names may be withheld at the sender’s request and at The Argosy’s discretion. Anonymous letters will not be printed.

Comments , concerns, or complaints about The Argosy’s content or operations should be first sent to the Editor-in-Chief at the address above. If the Editor-in-Chief is unable to resolve a complaint, it may be taken to the Argosy Publications, Inc. Board of Directors. The chairs of the Board of Directors can be reached at the address above.

All materials appearing in The Argosy bear the copyright of Argosy Publications, Inc. Material cannot be reprinted without the consent of the Editor-in-Chief.

September 18, 2014

argosy@mta.ca

Through stained glass A chaplain’s advice on the value of enjoying and preserving nature Rev. John C. Perkin Last Friday evening, I drove out towards the edge of the marsh on High Marsh Road with my wife and my mother-in-law, just as the sun was setting. The sun set in the northwest and the twilight lingered on for an hour in varying shades of yellow, orange, blue and white. As the twilight diminished, we could see more and more stars, including the full display of the Milky Way stretching from south to north. Finally, the Northern Lights made their appearance just above the horizon in the north, and, for almost an hour we watched the light stretching up into the sky and shrinking back, shimmering and changing colour.

In our weekly chapel services, I currently offer a series of reflections on the seven days of creation as

described in the first book of the Bible, Genesis. The text for this week – the second day of creation – simply and tersely describes the creation of the sky. In the old King James Version, this is the firmament: the sky, the dome that sits over the world in ancient cosmology. If the earth was understood to be like a plate, the sky was like a bowl turned over it. The poetry of creation, likely written by Israelites in exile in Babylon in the sixth century B.C., speaks not only of the sky, but of air and atmosphere, and suggests meaning for those who live below it.

This scripture suggests that God is present in creation in all its forms.

Canadians would be among the most religious people on the face of the earth if we grasp that God is present in changing weather patterns; certainly the sky is also a part of the wonder of God’s creation, one that should cause us to stop and be amazed.

As we read of the sky, a dome being put in place, we realize that there are limits being established.

Our culture tends to react against limits. Whether in disregard for speed limits, consuming fossil fuels without bounds and demonstrate a

willingness to plunge into the earth to take resources at whim seems to have no limits. While it is good to reach beyond ourselves and strive to be better, it is important to reflect that limits suggested by the creation story should be understood not simply personally, but also ecologically, culturally, environmentally and politically.

Ultimately, it has to do with understanding the limits that exist and being able to work within those limits to preserve what is most important. Now more than ever before, we need to stop as a culture and find the beauty and pleasure of living within nature’s limits, if not for personal enjoyment than for the sake of the fragile planet on which we live. We must limit our consumption to a rate that does not exceed nature’s ability to regenerate. We must participate in the cycles of nature, taking care to make sure that the things we throw back into the earth are fully integrated into the cycle of life. It is about making choices that respect the limits of the earth to keep it in sustainable balance.

Author and psychotherapist Thomas More suggests that the malady of our world is the loss of

soul which reappears in addictions, obsessions, violence and the loss of meaning. As Carl Jung suggested earlier in the twentieth century, deep down every psychological problem is a religious problem, a lack of meaning and spiritual security. It has to do with the lack of respect for the limits that life itself imposes. Crossing these boundaries leads not only to the destruction of nature but of our souls. Curbing addictions, finding joy, celebrating presence and living for others move us to rejoice in the life we live within our boundaries, in which we respect the earth on which we live.

Our beliefs have consequences for the way we live. It is time to stop and look up and around, and see that what we believe can be shaped by the world in which we live, by the timeframe of our existence, and by the hopes that we wish for the earth to last beyond ourselves. Only if we are to learn to live within the limits of life and earth can we truly hope that others beyond us will enjoy a world without end.

John Perkin is chaplain of Mount Allison University.

Carleton students offend with crude shirts Suggestive t-shirts shock Carleton campus Chad Morash Imagine yourself as a first-year student walking through downtown Ottawa and enjoying acquainting yourself with the city after the orientation festivities have ended. Now, imagine seeing some of your orientation leaders coming toward you, their once warm and inviting orientation shirts replaced by something shocking and alarming.

This past week, orientation facilitators exchanged their bright and welcoming shirts for ones that read “FUCK SAFE SPACE” on the front, which served as an opening act for an equally obscene message on the back of their t-shirts that read “OR ME.” Leslie Robertson, a local lawyer, took photos of the students and tweeted them.

Carleton University’s Safe Space program has been in effect for a decade. Their primary mission is to reduce the presence of homophobia on campus. Safe Space has also been extended to include sexual harassment and assault prevention.

According to the students, they wore the alternative shirts to criticize the university’s program, but to what end?

Carleton’s independent student paper, the Charlatan, reached out to

Carleton students traded in orientation shirts for more crudely designed shirts. (Leslie Robertson/Screengrab from CTV News) one of the students – whose name has yet to be released – photographed wearing the shirt. This individual said that the shirts were designed to challenge what the orientation facilitators saw as the “coddling” of first year students. Specifically, the facilitator revealed that the main purpose of the shirts was to question the rule stating that facilitators should not swear in front of first year students.

There is an obvious gap between the message the facilitators intended and the message that was portrayed and perceived. In light of the recent charges brought up against a Carleton student who was found to have sexually assaulted three women working on campus, the shirts and their message offended quite a few people. It is the combination of these charges and the ambiguous message of the “FUCK SAFE SPACE” shirts that has led many students and local activists to speak out against the facilitators involved.

The back of the shirts is even more alarming than the message on the front. Having “OR ME” on the back does not support the students’ justification for wearing the shirts.

While they argue that they were referencing the perceived coddling of first year students, it is easy for anyone who wasn’t involved in the creation of this slogan to connect this message with sexual assault. In association with “FUCK SAFE SPACE,” “OR ME” is an overt sexual reference. While speaking to a reporter, Robertson summed up what would surely be the reaction of the vast majority of those who saw the shirts: “you don’t really need context when you’re walking down the street and see that shirt; it makes you feel unsafe.”

Carleton’s administration quickly started an investigation into the origin of the shirts.This investigation, as well as its impending sanctions, was spurred by a demonstration that included at least 50 male and female students on the university

campus. As a result, the facilitators have since written and submitted a public apology in which the shirts were recognized as “without a doubt inappropriate, inconsiderate, offensive and disgraceful.”

While the letter of apology made by the students is a good start to make amends, Carleton administrators should use this unfortunate event as a foundation for opening an ongoing dialogue about the importance of having a safe space on campus.

Many constructive programs and initiatives could be implemented to educate students on the importance of establishing a safe environment for students. Students should be aware of the impacts of misguided activism – as with the shirts – that can have a serious effect on university culture.

Chad Morash is a third-year student from Windsor, Nova Scotia. He is majoring in psychology and minoring in sociology.

The Argosy

www.argosy.ca

OPINIONS

5

Letters to the editor Candidate shares environmental concerns and hopes for voters Will your voice be heard in this election?

I sure hope so, because we’re facing many problems and in order to find the best solutions, we need every voice to be heard. New Brunswick has economic, environmental and social challenges ahead of us and in order to successfully address these challenges, we need new political leadership.

Climate change is here and we can only expect its impacts to get worse, and the “Big Three” parties are refusing to take it seriously. This global issue requires local solutions. Not only do we need to prepare and adapt to the changes we’re already experiencing, like – unpredictable weather events and the Swan Pond not freezing over enough to skate – but we need to stop contributing to climate change.

In the face of a catastrophic climate crisis, the only responsible thing to do is make evidence-based policy based on the science. Scientists are telling

us that we need to turn things around, immediately. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has stated that it is critical that we dramatically reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The International Energy Agency has stated that no new fossil fuel infrastructure should be built, because this infrastructure will be used as long as it is profitable to do so, which will definitely be longer than we have to curb our GHG emissions in time to avoid disaster. We also need to maintain as much natural habitat, including trees, wetlands and forests, which help maintain biodiversity and capture carbon.

The Green Party is the only party with responsible policy because we are the only party that is opposed to the Energy East Pipeline, would scrap the current Forestry Strategy, and is calling for a permanent ban on unconventional shale gas exploration and exploitation. Even if these ideas were good for the economy, which they are not, they would be bad for our environment and climate.

Without those two things, we cannot have an economy, let alone anything else.

We need more long-term thinking in politics, rather than short-term deals that benefit only a

few. I share a vision of the future with New Brunswickers, which includes creating more jobs than would be possible in oil and gas production by investing in renewable energy, such as solar, wind and geothermal, in energy– efficient buildings and in strong local food systems that produce food for consumption in New Brunswick and are accessible to everyone, not just the wealthiest among us. Imagine a strong democracy where decisions that impact our communities are made locally, and where citizens feel represented. This is all within our grasp, if we work together, stand up for what we truly believe in and vote for what we want.

There are already many people in our communities working on this vision, and I invite you to join us. It is so inspiring to see students working for a more self-sufficient campus by producing food on the Mount Allison Farm. There are students working to help Mount Allison University divest from fossil fuels. There were students who travelled to Fredericton this past weekend to see Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party of Canada and David Coon, leader of the Green Party of New Brunswick, speak about the possibility of making history by electing Green MLAs in our province

in this election, by participating in our democracy through voting, and spreading the word about what is possible. Some students are also travelling to New York City for the People’s Climate March, the biggest climate march in our history this Sunday, to demand action from governments on our climate crisis.

If you are unable to make it to New York, please join me and many others in the Fall Fair Parade on Saturday, Sept. 20, as we march for causes we are passionate about: saying no to shale gas, saying yes to reproductive rights, and having our own Sackville version of the Climate March! (We will gather around 12 p.m. at the Drew Nursing Home, and the parade starts at 1 p.m.).

The student vote is going to decide the election in this riding. Imagine if all the students who are eligible took their right and responsibility to vote seriously and voted by the thousands.

What a difference your ballots would make in the outcome of this election.

You could make history!

I encourage you to vote at the Returning Office (53 Main Street) now through Saturday or at the Civic Centre on Monday, Sept. 22. I hope you’ll vote for a greener future and elect me as the first Green MLA in

Trigger warnings have no place in universities Warnings will do more harm than good Tessa Dixon

Opinions Editor

This past spring, the student senate at the University of California Santa Barbara passed a motion to include trigger warnings on class syllabi. Initially, trigger warnings were used on blog posts to highlight potentially provocative content. In universities, they would serve as cautionary messages to students who are vulnerable to stress or anxiety that could be induced by class content.

The presence of racism, sexual abuse, mental illness, homophobia and sexism are among the qualifiers for a trigger warning on a syllabus. In the effort to be considerate of students’ sensitivities, universities are coming close to breaching the thin line between compassion and censorship.

It is the most difficult and challenging of things that are of the most importance to discuss. If we are unable to do so in the context of higher learning, then in what context are we to safely and effectively discuss matters of extreme pertinence?

Instead of avoiding the discussion racism or sexism, efforts and energies should be directed toward creating safe and open classrooms, filled with students who are supportive of each other. While this may seem idealistic, it is more realistic than establishing a false sense of what the world is really like. Often etched with oversexualized imagery, there are no trigger warnings on magazines or on the billboards that plaster the sides of

Trigger warnings would alert readers to alarming content in books. (Sarah Richardson/Argosy) highways.

Should a warning to readers preface every article produced by the Argosy?

My lack of support for trigger warnings should not be confused with a lack of sympathy for those affected by trauma and a lack of anger and frustration that they continue to happen. This is not to say that class content should be awash with crude and provocative language or content; rather, it is to say that having trigger warnings is not a proactive way of confronting major societal issues.

If universities are to value communication, transparency and the preparation of their students for the “real world,” then they should certainly be careful in drawing the line between caring for their students and sheltering them. If sexual assault occurs on university campuses, but we do not acknowledge this fact in class, then we are in no way giving it the much needed attention the problem needs.

Education, in general, could be one of the greatest combatants of

the themes and traumas that qualify as trigger warnings - if it’s allowed to be. Great literary works discuss matters of racism, death, assault and homophobia. Their ability to dive into what is terrible and challenging is what makes them valuable. They open the door for discussion, and, therefore, for learning. If The Great Gatsby or To Kill a Mockingbird – staples in most high school English courses – are eliminated from reading lists because they confront what is both true and terrible about the world in which we live, then educators are failing their students. If we are to limit literature on this basis, then we are limiting language and the expression of the things that are most necessary to be aware of.

According to James Turk, the executive director of the Canadian Association of University Teachers, trigger warnings are “well-intentioned but ludicrous.” What is traumatizing to some is not a matter of sensitivity for others. The average person is going to have something that bothers

them, and if every student had a trigger warning designed for them, then there would be nothing left to discuss in class or worse – faced with triggers, perhaps no-one would show up. By qualifying some traumas as triggers, you are making an unofficial hierarchy of pain, thereby excluding or disqualifying an individual’s feelings.

Not every person has the same trigger.

While discussing the trauma might affect some, others may be triggered by a smell or sound. The application of singular and generalized rules to trauma disregards the complexity of individual responses.

It is a shameful reality that trigger warnings are even up for debate.

We live in a society in which we are willing to alter course content and literature to protect students from the panic caused by a trauma they have experienced. It is with great kindness that people support trigger warnings, but it certainly doesn’t make the problem go away. It only ignites a fear of words.

New Brunswick. But no matter how you decide to cast your ballot, I hope you’ll vote. This is about our present and our future. Your voice matters.

Your vote matters.

Megan Mitton Sackville, N.B. Mitton is the Green Party Candidate for MLA in Memramcook-Tantramar.

Concern over the future of New Brunswick politics We have a history of political complacency in this province. Until the last election, every government since the Confederation had served at least two terms. Our complacency came to an end in 2010, when Shawn Graham’s Liberal government was soundly defeated after one term because of his many unpopular policies including the proposed sale of NB Power, the self-sufficiency agenda, and the elimination of early French immersion. We are now on the verge of another provincial election and it looks like the current Conservative government will also be defeated after one term, primarily for its blind path towards risky shale gas development and other unpopular natural resource development policies.

In a post-complacency New Brunswick, what’s next?

The traditional back-and-forth between red and blue parties has not served us well. New Brunswick has the worst economic performance of all the provinces. Our young people are moving out West at an alarming rate. Health care costs are spiralling out of control because our population is aging and, on average, we weigh more, smoke more, and drink more than the national average. Over half of New Brunswick adults don’t have the literacy levels or workplace skills they need to find jobs.

Previous and current governments have tried to fix this dire predicament using conventional thinking. The problem is that it’s conventional thinking that got us here in the first place.

We need to change the way we think about our province and our untapped potential. We need to be able to see the forest and its trees. We, the voters, need to have the courage to vote differently.

Why? Because if we change, everything changes.

Raissa Marks Riverview, N.B.

To submit a letter to the editor, please e-mail Tessa Dixon at tzdixon@ mta.ca.

SPORTS

September 18, 2014

argosy@mta.ca

Defence pushes Mounties into contention Men’s team has been impressive in inititial four games

Alex Bates

Sports Editor After a three-nil loss to Dalhousie to open the season, the Mount Allison Men’s soccer team have now established a strong defence in three consecutive performances.

Makenzie Hill has now started three consecutive games for the Mounties in nets, and has allowed, on average, one goal per game. Hill has been busy in the net, stopping seven shots in a win over St. FX, eight shots in a loss to UPEI, and ten shots in a draw against SMU. Hill’s play was influential in a draw against SMU on Sunday. The rookie has been able to keep opposing teams within one strike for the Mounties offence, and this has been crucial for Mt. A to steal points from opposing teams. This was once again the case in the Mounties’ tie with SMU on Sunday.

Despite conceding a goal to the Huskies’ Will Trifos in the thirtysixth minute of the match, Mt. A’s consistent defensive play allowed them to go into the half down one-

Despite fielding a team largely comprised of first-years, the Men’s Soccer team is in the mix to potentially sneak into the AUS playoffs this year. (Sarah Richardson/Argosy) nil.

In the second half, Federico Mora was given an opportunity from the spot to tie the game in the fiftyeighth minute. Mora was successful in his attempt, and the Mounties tied the game 1-1.

The Mounties outshot the winless Huskies in the second half five shots to four, but were unable to put a second tally past Christian Oxner,

the Huskies goalkeeper, securing one point.

The Mounties also engaged the UPEI Panthers on Friday night.

James Mallard put an early tally on the board for the Panthers in the thirteenth minute. The assist was awarded to Kieren Dutton. This was the only strike in the game, and the Panthers went on to take the three points by a score of one-nil.

Just how good are bananas for you?

Are bananas actually radioactivity?

What is BED? Madalon Burnett With over one billion are consumed every year, bananas are the fourthmost common foods grown in the world. Everyone knows you have to get to meal hall at precisely 7:45 a.m. to obtain a banana before they run out, but apart from being a tasty start to your day, what’s so great about bananas anyway? Eating bananas can provide some serious benefits to your health.

Bananas are high in calories, but low in fat, so they are an excellent source of energy to start your day.

The high magnesium and potassium content helps maintain a healthy blood pressure while promoting calcium retention to keep your bones healthy. Bananas are also high in fibre to help with digestion. This superfruit is also high in vitamin B6, an important vitamin that is often missing in vegetarian and vegan diets.

The vitamins and minerals in bananas are comparable to those found in commercial sport drinks.

They also have several compounds not found in sport drinks that benefit athletes such as antioxidants and fibre. More importantly, they lack refined sugars. This makes consuming bananas a healthier way for athletes to replenish their bodies during events.

Interestingly, bananas have different health benefits depending on how ripe they are. Yellow bananas with dark patches contain an enzyme that causes the death of tumour cells called Tumour Necrosis Factor (TNF). Riper bananas contain more antioxidants that help prevent cancer.

Ironically, the high potassium content in bananas has a slight amount of radioactivity. Potassium-40 is one common isotopes on earth that emits radiation, along with uranium-238 and thorium-232.

The tiny portion of potassium-40 in bananas technically emits a very small amount of radiation. This has caused some problems at US border security system’s radiation detectors with large shipments of bananas.

This small amount of radiation has caused the introduction of an informal measure of radiation called the Banana Equivalent Dose (BED), which is the amount of radiation

you receive from one banana. To put that in perspective, a CT scan delivers 70 000 BED. You would have to eat twenty-seven bananas every day for 100 years to increase your risk of cancer by one percent due to radiation. The anticancer properties outweigh the risks due to radiation, so don’t let the risk of radiation cause you to forgo your morning banana..

Another thing to consider is to store your bananas properly. Bananas are temperature-sensitive, and if you put them in the fridge, the cold interrupts the ripening process. Even returning the bananas to room temperature won’t speed ripening back up. This means you won’t be getting the anticancer benefits that are associated with ripe bananas. You can, however, freeze ripe bananas, and use them later for up to two months. Frozen bananas are especially delicious when blended with other fruits to make ice cream, or when thawed and mixed with oats to be baked into breakfast cookies.

Madalon Burnett is the health intern for Mount Allison University,

The Panthers outplayed the Mounties for the majority of the match, outshooting the visitors twenty-five to six. The Mounties were able to keep the Panthers in reach for the entirety of the match, proving that Mt. A does possess abilities to go up against a top squad.

This week the Mounties will play against Université de Moncton Aigles Bleus on MacAulay Field

Friday night, and then visit the Cape Breton University Capers on Sunday afternoon.

U de M is currently tied with Mt. A in the AUS standings with four points but the Panthers have a game at hand over the Mounties. CBU sits one point behind Mt. A in the standings.

Argosy Sports is looking for contributors!

Enjoy writing about sports?

Looking for an opportunity to get involved on campus?

Willing to contribute a few hours per week covering games and writing?

Contact Alex at argosy@mta.ca

The Argosy

www.argosy.ca

SPORTS

Women stage their own comeback against SMU

7

The Women’s team were able to beat opposing Saint Mary’s goalkeeper Jackie Blank twice in the final thirty minutes of their game Sunday. The Mounties tied the Huskies 2-2. (Sarah Richardson/Argosy)

Martin scores in the dying minutes to tie SMU Alex Bates

Sports Editor It wasn’t just the football team that staged a spectacular comeback this weekend. The

Mount Allison Women’s Soccer team scored twice in the final thirty minutes of their match against Saint Mary’s University to tie with the opposing Huskies.

After falling behind twonil in their match on Sunday afternoon, the Mounties rallied in the final third of the match to tie the game.

Kristyn Visser scored in the sixty-third minute to bring the game within one goal, and Charlotte Martin scored the tying goal in the eighty-ninth

minute, sending the Mt. A supporters into a frenzy. The game ended 2-2, and gave the Mounties their first tie of the season.

On Friday, the Mounties were able to outplay UPEI when they went to visit the Panthers, but they were unable to top the high-flying Panthers offence. Mt. A outshot the Panthers 11-7, but the Panthers goalkeeper Ashley McKenna stopped five of six shots.

Amanda Volcko scored Mt. A’s only goal in the match in

the sixty-fifth minute. The goal came just a few minutes after the Panthers’ Maria Scichilone put UPEI up 2-0, her second goal of the match. Volcko was able to bring the Mounties back within one goal, but UPEI was just too much for the visitors with Panther Katherine Drake scoring two minutes later. Scichilone was dominant in the match, scoring two goals and adding an assist on Drake’s goal. UPEI won the game 3-1.

Goals in the final half-dozen minutes can make or break a

team’s playoff chances. Martin’s goal salvaged a rough weekend for the team, and allowed them to add one point to their season total. The Mounties are tied with Dalhousie for sixth in the AUS standings.

The Mounties’ next two tasks are interesting: first, they will play last place Université de Moncton, and then they will take on the Cape Breton University Capers, perennially one of the best teams in the AUS. U de M has scored just one

goal in three games, but has given up an AUS worst fifteen tallies, averaging five goalsagainst per game.

Cape Breton on the other hand, leads the AUS with twelve goals scored, but has just come off their first loss in almost three years when they lost 3-2 to the University New Brunswick Varsity Reds.

You can catch the Women’s Soccer Mounties this Sept. 19 on MacAulay Field. The game will start at 5 p.m.

Better Know a Mountie: Federico Mora Benjamin Foster Sports Reporter

A native of Colombia, Federico Mora was born to be a dominant player on the pitch for the Mount Allison Men’s Soccer team.

Mora’s family left Colombia when he was very young, but soccer stayed with the Bachelor of Science student all his life. His family moved to Canada when his dad received a scholarship to the University of Calgary. Mora has only spent one summer playing soccer in Colombia since.

Mora got into soccer because that’s what his brother, his biggest role model was playing. “My older brother put me into it. We used to play outside a bunch before I started playing organized soccer,” said Mora.

After his early years playing in Calgary, his family moved to Fredericton. This is where Mora had his best soccer memories. Mora played competitive soccer for the Fredericton District Soccer Association while competing at the U-14 and U-18 level.

“The best three years in Fredericton was when we went undefeated and three-peated as the New Brunswick provincial champions. We never finished better than sixth at nationals, but it was an amazing time” said Mora.

After finishing his days in the FDSA, he spent three seasons playing

Mora (left), has been key to Mt. A’s success. This Friday night will be his thirtieth start for Mt. A. (Sarah Richardson/Argosy) for a team in the United Soccer League, a league made up of the best soccer players in North America.

Mora was a starting midfielder for the Atlantic Football Club. “It was a great experience. There was some crazy travelling over the full seasons for the club.”

When it came time for Mora to think about post-secondary education, a friend suggested he give Mt. A a chance. “I looked into it and I liked their soccer program. I heard really good things about Coach Roy Chineh.” Mora also got a surprise when he was awarded the Soccer New

Brunswick Bursary in 2011.

Mora did not play on the squad until his second season at Mt. A, but when he did, he was a starter from the beginning. “My first two seasons have been great. Every year I feel like I get pushed back defensively. It’s been weird for me since I was always

too skinny to play defence growing up. The only unfortunate thing is all the injuries we’ve had. We could have pushed for the playoffs both seasons if our team had stayed healthy.”

This season Mora is playing centreback for the first time in his career. “It is certainly different for me, but with the players we have it makes sense. Growing up, I always tried to play like my favorite player, Zinedine Zidane, because he was an attacking player like me.”

The fourth-year computer science and math major is planning to spend one more semester as a Mountie next year and play another season of soccer. After Mora completes his undergraduate degree, he plans to continue his studies in computer science and get his master’s degree.

Even after Mt. A, Mora will surely still be involved in the sport. “I love coaching as well. This summer I coached Sackville’s Youth Soccer program as the summer coordinator, which is for kids aged four to ten. I also was involved in Mounties in Motion last year, so I really enjoy helping out.”

With more exciting victories like the Mounties’ 1-0 win over St. FX last weekend, it should be exciting to watch Mora and his teammates this season.

Better Know a Mountie is presented by the Connors Group and ScotiaMcLeod.

8

FARMERS’ MARKET

September 18, 2014

argosy@mta.ca

The economics of Sackvi

A new study suggests the Sackville Farmers’ Market has a positiv Every Saturday morning from May to October, pedestrians forego the sidewalks of one of downtown’s busiest blocks to stock up on local groceries and crafts, grab a bite from a specialty food vendor, and catch up with friends. This is the Sackville farmers’ market.

A recent study conducted by Norma Jean Worden-Rogers attempts to measure the market’s impact on Sackville’s economy.

Worden-Rogers, who graduated in May from Mount Allison University with a degree in environmental science, has sold community garden produce at the market for the past three years. This summer, she conducted research on the market over three weeks through verbal and written surveys.

“I think it puts numbers to all of the things we see on a regular Saturday,” she said.

Economy The study suggests that around 59 percent of market-goers spend between $11 and $40 each week.

That amounts to average weekly gross spending of $11,073 during the peak season between July and August.

By drawing crowds downtown, the market may also support nearby permanent businesses, helping to bring in $7,326 of revenue for these on Saturdays over those two months.

Farmers’ markets across Canada have similar numbers. According to a 2008 study by Farmers’ Markets Canada, customers at a comparable markets spend an average of $36 per visit. The same study indicated the impact of farmers’ markets on the Canadian economy was $3.1 billion.

The Sackville farmers’ market is growing. About half of the vendors included in Worden-Rogers’ study have only set up at the market in the past two years. Ruth Coates, a vendor for Nature’s Route Farm, said that she has noticed a significant change in the market’s size and reception in recent years.

“For the first few years I felt like I knew everyone who came to the market, and now I feel like I don’t know a fraction of them,” she said.

After looking at the study, Mt. A economics professor Frank Strain said that the market’s growth can be seen as a positive feedback loop.

More vendors at the market will attract more consumers, which will attract more vendors, and so on.

“If something is vibrant and growing, people will say, ‘Oh, I want to be there,’” said Strain.

Farmers Market Canada considers any market with more than 40 vendors a “large market.” During the peak season, the Sackville market falls under this category, though it drops to a “medium market” during the winter, with around 25 vendors.

Strain said that although the study does not account for important factors such as diverted spending from businesses like the Co-op and SaveEasy, it suggests a positive impact on the town of Sackville.

“Just looking at the data, there is evidence there of a real positive impact,” Strain said, “and it’s largely in people’s time.”

According to the study, over 57 percent of market-goers spend over thirty minutes at the market.

Around 62 percent of those polled said they come to the market on a weekly basis, and 57 percent said they visit the market all year round.

“If you’re staying an hour or two, you’re not just shopping,” Strain said.

“This is a community meeting place.”

Community Perhaps even more significant than the economic impact of the farmers’ market on Sackville is its cultural benefits.

According to the study, marketgoers attend to support local businesses, buy quality food, and congregate with friends and colleagues. All products sold at the market must be produced within 150 km of the town.

“They like the sense of community,” Worden-Rogers said.

“In a way, the market is almost like a new church.”

Pauline Richard, a vendor for Les Jardins Anicha, started vending at the market in April. While she said she did not yet feel a part of the market community, she could sense its presence.

Graham May, a fourthyear international relations and environmental studies double major, said that the relationships he forms at the market are unique and important to him.

“To be able to connect directly with the farmers and producers of my food is pretty special,” May said.

“Buying local food is not usually a money-saving practice; often we’re paying more for what we’d get in a grocery store, but there are other intangibles that we like.”

When asked what they valued most about the farmers market, many customers said the familyfriendly environment. Jessi Fogan, the second-longest participating vendor at the Sackville farmers’ market, sells greeting cards in the Bridge Street Café. She said she often looks after children as their parents shop.

“It’s the quintessential small-town friendly experience,” she said. “There is not anything remotely like it in the area.”

Location Although most customers and vendors said they thought the market was a good use of public space, the province has pressured Sackville to change its location because Bridge Street forms part of a provincial highway. This Saturday, Sept. 20, the Sackville farmers’ market will be set up at the Bill Johnstone Memorial Park for a one-week trial.

Fogan said she likes the outdoor aspect of the market, and that while she is a little nervous about the move

to the park, she remains optimistic.

“I certainly think it’s worth giving it a shot,” she said.

But others are more concerned with the change. Worden-Rogers said that the move would pose several problems for vendors, including lack of vehicle access and limited indoor space. Another option is to move the market to the indoor Civic Centre on Main Street, a fifteen minute walk from downtown.

“It would be really detrimental to this downtown sector if it moved up there,” Worden-Rogers said.

The economic and cultural impacts of a change in location are unclear, but if regular customers continue to support the market, its future seems secure. Three weeks ago, the

Sackville exit sign on the TransCanada Highway was changed from Thaddeus Holownia’s iconic hay bale photo to one of the farmers’ market.

“It makes Sackville a more attractive place for people to live and spend their money in other regards,” May said. “It’s certainly more than what’s just bought and sold here; it’s also how it makes people feel about their home.”

Tyler Stuart is a news reporter for the Argosy.

Photos: Shoppers and vendors gather on Bridge Street to buy and sell fresh local food and catch up with one another. Founded in 1978, the market has grown over time. (Chris Donovan/Argosy)

The Argosy

www.argosy.ca

ille’s Saturday mornings

ve economic and social impact on the town. Tyler Stuart reports.

FARMERS’ MARKET

9

ARTS & CULTURE Alvvays sells out Sackville stage

September 18, 2014

argosy@mta.ca

Toronto-based indie group entrances Legion Michael Dover

Arts & Culture Reporter

Alvvays bade a sweet and sweaty farewell to the Maritimes Saturday night with a sold-out show at Sackville’s Royal Canadian Legion.

Together with an opening set from the Mouthbreathers, the evening was a double-helping of high-energy indie rock.

The Sept. 12 show was Alvvays’ final stop in Atlantic Canada before heading off across Canada, parts of the U.S., and Europe.

The concert felt fast-paced and charged with energy despite the group’s decidedly chilledout melodies. The audience was enthusiastic and regularly broke out in an extraordinarily friendly mosh pit as fans vied for time before the stage. Alvvays seemed to feed off this energy, quickly transitioning from a dreamy, feel good, nineties-style tunes like “Adult Diversion” to haunting, slower melodies with “Party Police.”

Arguably the band’s best known song, “Archie, Marry Me,” was a clear audience favourite, eliciting cheers and fist pumps from around the hall. Over the summer, the song rose to number one on the U.S. college charts, and has been endorsed on the CBC Radio One show Q

Sackville supergroup The Mouthbreathers performed an energetic opening set for a welcoming audience on the Legion’s classic stage. (Jennifer McKelvay/Argosy)

by Stars singer Torquil Campbell.

Like most of the group’s tracks, the song hides wistful, enticingly fuzzy vocals behind a powerful bass line and a steady drum beat. The result is a subtly balanced love ballad that expresses tender feelings of longing amid lyrics that slyly mock our jaded generation’s notoriously laissez-faire attitude toward relationships. The song opens with the lines “You’ve expressed explicitly your contempt for matrimony/You’ve student loans to pay and will not risk the alimony” before launching into the pleading,

yet casually detached refrain, “Hey, hey, marry me Archie.”

Ultimately, Alvvays’ ability to express contradiction is what makes the band such a worthwhile listen.

Molly Rankin’s vocals are imbued with emotion and passion despite their casual, almost spontaneous delivery. The band’s songs have an upbeat, pop-inspired, feel-good quality that is simultaneously isolating and melancholic. Their lyrics express feelings of isolation and insecurity, and yet the overall mood of their songs remain soothing and relaxed.

And, perhaps most importantly, the band is always ready to mix serious themes with clever wordplay and astute humour, as is evidenced in the chorus of “Adult Diversion”: “If I should fall, act as though it never happened/I will retreat, and then go back to university.”

Alvvays is an exciting, up-andcoming band with a lot of promise.

With fresh new sounds, their live concert lived up to the hype surrounding their new album. The band gave it all they had and the audience was duly appreciative. The

performance was not to be missed, and well worth the twelve-dollar cover charge.

Alvvays (pronounced ‘always’) is a five-member group composed of vocalist Molly Rankin, keyboardist Kerri MacLellan, guitarist Alec O’Hanley, bassist Brian Murphy, and drummer Phil MacIsaac. The group is based in Toronto, but has roots in the Maritimes: a part of their debut self-titled album was recorded in a farmhouse in rural Prince Edward Island.

Inuk throat singer gives traditional music new life A review of Tanya Tagaq’s Animism Allison Grogan Record stores or iTunes might try to categorize her music under folk, vocal, or the catch-all “world music,” but acclaimed Canadian throat singer Tanya Tagaq certainly isn’t tied down by labels. While you won’t find her on the MuchMusic Video Countdown, Tagaq has more than broken free of the space normally given to Aboriginal artists in Canada.

Since releasing Animism in May 2014, she has been shortlisted for the Polaris Music Prize alongside popular Canadian artists such as Drake and Arcade Fire. Born in Cambridge Bay in Nunavut, Tagaq manages to bring Inuit throat singing out of the Arctic without losing the meaningful cultural context that gives her music so much life.

While the majority of the album lacks lyrics, Animism’s focus on the natural world is apparent throughout every track. The title of the album refers to the belief that humans, plants, animals, and inanimate objects all have souls or spiritual essence.

Many of the tracks reflect this

Animism’s cover highlights the album’s natural themes. (Six Shooter Records) unifying theme, as many of the titles are animal names, in either English or Inuktitut. In an interview with Jian Ghomeshi for the CBC radio program Q, Tagaq spoke to this belief and its relation to her album: “It’s us that belongs to the earth, not the other way around.”

Listeners unfamiliar with throat singing will be gently guided into the experience on the first track on the album “Caribou.” A cover of the 2004 single from American alt-rock

group The Pixies, Tagaq combines the melody and lyrics of the original song while incorporating throat singing into the piece. Tagaq’s overlay of violins, guitars, and synthesized instrumentals with a traditionally a cappella performance is what makes her music truly unique.

Another standout track on the record is “Umingmak.” Inuktitut for “muskox,” this track blends electronic sounds with Tagaq’s entrancing vocals, making it clear why her music is

often called ‘Inuk Punk.’ Six Shooter Records used this track for the album trailer accompanied by visuals that depict a chase between animals in the snowy Arctic landscape. Flashing between Tagaq as a muskox, her “human form,” and then as a seal, the 90-second trailer encompasses Tagaq’s vision of the fluidity and interconnectedness of human and non-human entities.

Though throat singing is a practice found in many cultures around the world, Inuit throat singing is unique in that it is traditionally done in pairs. Unlike Tuvan or Tibetan throat singing, the Inuit tradition utilizes short bursts from deep in the throat, and is often performed as a duet or a contest between two singers. Though this practice has been around for many generations, Tagaq did not grow up throat-singing; rather, it was something she started after moving away from Nunavut, looking for something to make her feel closer to home.

In addition to the album’s musical depth and complexity, Tagaq’s presence in the Canadian music scene is incredibly important during a time when representations of Inuit culture are often misconstrued by stereotypes and traditional Aboriginal land continues to be viewed as a resource to be exploited. Dr. Marilyn Walker, a professor in Mount Allison’s Department of Anthropology, has

conducted research that has taken her to Northern Canada where she has worked with Inuit peoples. In an interview, Walker noted Tagaq’s cultural relevance to Canadian music: “[Tagaq’s] work is important because it takes a traditional Inuit practice into the contemporary context.”

Walker also said that Tagaq has been able to take her music out of the exclusively Aboriginal category and into the broader Canadian or even global context, by mixing orchestral instruments with the traditional vocal style. In this way, Tagaq’s music combines a strong political statement and an assertion of Inuit culture with a unique style of music that all Canadians can enjoy.

Tagaq’s contributions to Canadian cultural discourse are not just limited to her work as a throat singer. Sparked

by Ellen DeGeneres’ donation to the Humane Society in opposition to seal hunting in Northern Canada, Tagaq participated in the resulting ‘#Sealfie’ movement in an attempt to debunk myths and misunderstandings regarding Inuit seal hunting and defend them as environmentally sustainable and essential to Inuit cultural identity.

Tagaq has recently announced dates for her upcoming Canada-wide tour this fall, including an appearance at the Halifax Pop Explosion festival on Oct. 25.

The Argosy

www.argosy.ca

ARTS & CULTURE

11

Six second-year students share START show Local gallery houses unique art collection Grace Power Tucked in the back Struts, START Gallery’s first show of the year imposes an atmosphere of mystery and memory.

Composed of contributions by six second-year fine arts students, the artists explore their exhibition’s titular theme through a variety of forms including photography, paint, drawing, sculpture and mixed media.

“Recollection” features contributions by Chris Donovan, Jack Kinnie, Phil Mercier, Ali Louwagie, Robert McDermott and Kevin Melanson. Each brings a unique perspective to the exploration of memory, while addressing its universal aspects with themes such as fragmentation and change.

Having been originally set

Ali Louwagie’s feather sculpture Down is spotlighted in the centre of the gallery. (Richard Kent/Argosy) to premiere at the end of last year, many of the pieces were rendered in the artists’ first year at Mount Allison.

A motif of fragmentation is present in much of Melanson’s work, particularly in the mixed media piece Mommy, Daddy Looks Like a Monster, which captures the nature of

early childhood memory. The piece consists of a shattered glass image of a man over a cloth background, in which the cloth has been stitched together between each shard.

The faded face of the man seen through jagged, brightly coloured lines is reminiscent of the incapacitating and often

irrational terror that can seep in through darkness, filling the active imaginations of children in the night. We often see our childhood memories filtered through this dissolving yet exaggerated tunnel of vision, an idea which Melanson portrayed quite beautifully.

Louwagie’s sculpture

Down, which resembled a torso made of feathers, was displayed on a podium in the centre of the gallery and had a curious placement amongst the other pieces. According to Louwagie, the sculpture was inspired by her interest in the relationship between the artifacts in museums and the artifacts from our own childhood that we carry with us. “It represents … how we sort of shut things away and shine a light on them,” she said.

Reminiscent of taxidermy, it brings to mind an object gathering dust, displayed in perpetual darkness and preserved like an object saved from childhood.

On the wall behind Down, Kinnie’s ink-and-paper piece Untitled is interesting and, like Louwagie’s piece, difficult to interpret.

According to Kinnie, the piece is a representation of the suburb in which he grew up: houses upon houses crowded together in a monotonous grid. The houses were drawn with both intentional carelessness and uniformity, as if to represent

artificiality and sameness.

A carefully depicted blue armored truck is also present outside the suburb, which appears to represent a place of freedom and a break in the monotony. This piece is interesting because it shows a more contemporary and concrete aspect of memory.

One crowd favourite was Chris Donovan’s Estranged, one of his three photographic diptychs displayed.

The photographs portray a feeling of fragmentation through careful use of light and perspective, an effect which is similar to Melanson’s work, though more subtle. Both pictures had an ethereal feel, with grainy tones that illustrate feelings of warmth and separation. The scenes seemed lonely, detached and nostalgic, appearing to comment on the truly personal nature of memory.

“Recollection” opened Sept.

12 and will be on display in START Gallery until Sept.

23.

Faculty recital honours Beckwith Lockwood’s newest An evening of Canadian compositions Amanda Cormier

Arts & Culture Reporter Experimentation and cuttingedge creativity are some of the hallmarks of contemporary Canadian music, and Victoriaborn composer John Beckwith handles these themes comfortably and skillfully.

Last Saturday, Mount Allison University’s faculty members helped push the limits of musical expression by presenting an acoustic recital that showcased intriguing new works by Beckwith and other contemporary Canadian composers.

The recital featured some of Beckwith’s newest pieces, including his first solo guitar composition, “Ut re mi fa sol la,” written in 2013. The title is a reference to the solf ège, a musical interval derived from an eleventh-century Latin hymn that survives today as the iconic scale ‘do-re-mifa-so-la-ti-do.’

Beckwith’s piece returns to the origins of this instructional method by exploring six “hexachord fantasies,” which the program describes as “instrumental pieces in which a six-note scale appears as a ‘ground.’”

Beckwith himself was present at the recital, and was acknowledged several times throughout the evening by the performers. Beckwith was also invited on stage

Peter Higham utilized innovative guitar techniques; here he is shown using a crystal goblet as a slide. (Chris Donovan/Argosy) later in the evening to receive audience recognition for his compositions.

The evening’s program exclusively featured instructors from Mt. A’s Department of Music. The performers were Peter Higham, guitar; Helen Pridmore, voice; Danise Ferguson, cello; James Kalyn, clarinet; and Gary Tucker, acting as the narrator in the final piece of the evening. They played six pieces in total: some were composed by Beckwith, and the rest by Canadian composers W. L. Altman, Omar Daniel, Michael Parker and Kevin Morse, who also teaches composition at Mount Allison.

The recital opened with a performance of Morse’s “Before the sun rises,” written in 2012 for bass clarinet and guitar. As Morse noted, the piece explored and presented “some of the conflicting feelings that comes with the approaching end of a journey or of life.” The piece took the

audience on an emotional journey, guiding them through varying levels of intensity, tempos, and moods, and finally ending with quiet peace. This particular performance was dedicated to the late Ron Boorne, a professor emeritus at Mount Allison who passed away last June.

W. L. Altman’s “The Whole is enough to drive you crazy” was a dramatic and theatrical performance, and the piece itself is a musical extrapolation of the poem of the same name

by Marilyn Lerch, Sackville’s poet laureate. Lerch recited the poem immediately prior to the performance, ensuring that the audience understood the context of the piece. The piece featured female voice, guitar, cello, and the faint sound of wind chimes. Pridmore provided the voice in the piece not just with singing, but with other various vocalizations, like stuttering and animallike sounds, to narrate the mood of the poem. Both the

poem and the performance made reference to psychiatric hospitals, and the different vocal and string techniques helped to illustrate this theme of “madness” throughout.

The evening concluded with a performance of Michael Parker’s “The Grey Islands,” inspired by John Steffler’s prose and lyrical works.

Narrated by Gary Tucker and once again featuring the voice of Helen Pridmore, the piece tells the story of a man who leaves the mainland to retreat to a deserted island off the Newfoundland coast.

Alternating between narration and vocal performance, Tucker and Pridmore were accompanied by clarinet and guitar as they iterated evocative lyrics: “I thought I was headed for silence/the unfamiliarity of the sounds of the sea/in this space and solitude.”The intensity of the piece shifted with the mood of the words being spoken. At some points, the music and narration were solemn and dramatic, only to be immediately followed by a comedic section and whimsical, cheery background music.

Beckwith has created more than 150 compositions, including orchestral, choral, chamber, and solo pieces. He began teaching at U of T in 1952, was Dean of Faculty from 1970-1977, and was the founding director of the Institute for Canadian Music in 1985 at U of T. Beckwith was made a Member of the Order of Canada in 1987.

poetry collection Feminism, sex and metaphor collide and coexist Philip Gordon The Navigator

Nanaimo, BC (CUP) ­— There’s a good reason Patricia Lockwood has been hailed as Poet Laureate of the Internet.

“Rape Joke,” the prose poem that shot her to fame, is a powerful mix of personal and political, and her tweets regularly blur a surrealist poetic bent together with conversational language and contemporary attention to trend-savvy topics.

Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals is Lockwood’s second and most recent full length collection.

Metaphor is an important topic in this collection; aside from the titular genderpronounification of the notion of country and belonging, almost every poem in Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals feels like Lockwood is completing a tribute to the metaphysical poets, as each poem visibly carries the conceit of its metaphor. Poems like “The Whole World Gets Together and Gangbangs a Deer” are a thinly-veiled critique of the pornography industry, and maybe the act of desire in the

first place. “The Feeling of Needing a Pen” takes the urge to create, and drives it like a nail into a board covered in analogous descriptions: “like a urine but even more gold/… that spot on a dog that causes its leg to kick.” “The Descent of the Dunk” details the tribulations of a young girl growing up to the resounding slam of a ball through a hoop, wrapping up the conquest of women’s rights and identity as a woman into a neat, sports-themed package, and delivering it with a mimicking impact right at the moment of triumph.

It is important to note that Lockwood is a cut-fromthe-cloth feminist. Gender identity drips from her poetry, and imbues much of it with an innate power. At one point, Lockwood swaps the genders of two of America’s most notable poets, Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson, then barrages the reader with fantasies about their various gender-identifying features.

Pieces of anatomy at times serve as stand-ins for conceits like poetic ability, public acclaim, and other, more elusive subjects. As Lockwood reminds us in the middle of the collection, “What I am TRYING to say is that metaphors are dangerous!” By that logic, perhaps this book is a bomb of metonymy, and we’re meant to let it explode in our hands, one piece at a time.

Read the full review at www.thenav.ca.

SCIENCE

September 18, 2014

argosy@mta.ca

Flemington finally gets ventilation overhaul Teaching and research labs receive upgrades Clay Steell

Science Reporter

Ventilation in the Flemington Building. (Chris Donovan/Argosy)

Mount Allison has committed funds to fix long-standing issues with the fume hood and ventilation systems in the Flemington Building. This year’s university budget set aside approximately $1-million for the installation of spot-ventilation and for the replacement of a faulty fume hood in the building.

Renovations began Aug. 1 and are expected to be complete by Jan. 1, in time for winter labs and classes.

“Some of the ugly stuff has already been done … the ripping out stage is done,” said Dean of Science Jeff Ollerhead.

Biology classes and labs often involve dangerous substances requiring

ventilation.

Most dissection labs were previously held in ventilated spaces in Barclay, but were restricted to the winter semester, when the chemistry and biochemistry department could accommodate shared lab space.

“This has restricted our ability to move some courses forward,” said Dr. Margaret Beaton, who was acting biology department head until July.

“I’m glad it’s being done,” she said of the installations. “The health and safety of students, faculty, and staff is paramount.”

Laura Kaplan, a fourth-year student who studied toxic fungus over the summer in Dr. Vett Lloyd’s lab, was one of those who had to retreat to Barclay to use the fume hoods there.

“I had to use [ventilation] for my metabolite extractions because I used chloroform,” she said. “I had to carry everything over… I was running between the buildings quite a bit,” she said.

Gay Hansen, a biology instructor, is pleased that the work had begun,

despite its continuation during the term. “We are living in a construction zone,” she said, “[but] we are all just so happy that this has started, and I definitely think that it’s going to be worth it to have the labs redone and to have a constant supply of fresh air.”

Hansen said the ventilation in Flemington’s teaching labs has been an issue since she started working here almost 35 years ago.

“It was disappointing because for so many years we asked, and we asked, and we asked, and we kept being told it couldn’t be done for one reason or another,” she said.

Robert Inglis, Mt. A’s vice-president administration, said the delay was caused by too little cash for too many projects.

“At any time, we have numerous projects that can be done, and we always have more projects than we have funds to do them, so it’s always a process of what goal comes next … that planning process is iterative, constant and ongoing,” he said.

New branch of modern Life found below 800 m of ice animal life discovered Lake home to Genus doesn’t belong in any known phylum Clay Steell

Science Reporter The discovery of 14 frail, gelatinous animals announced last week may dramatically broaden scientific understanding of animal life. The specimens can’t be placed into any known phylum, the highest division in the Animal Kingdom, but their basic body plan suggests they may belong to animal groups thought to be extinct for hundreds of millions of years.

The discovery of new species is regular in deep-sea science, but it is very rare to discover an animal that doesn’t fit anywhere in the tree of life.

The study’s authors cite only three comparable examples in the last twenty years.

The animals were placed in a new genus, named Dendrogramma after the dendrogram trees biologists use to visualize the relationships between groups of life. They lack bilateralism, a body plan symmetrically reflected on two sides, possibly linking them to Cnidarians or Ctenophores – phyla that include jellyfish, corals, anemones, and comb-jellies. Dendrogramma clearly displays some form of symmetry, so they must be placed be above the Porifera phylum, which includes the sponges, commonly considered to be the most basal animal group.

Dendrogramma most closely resemble Cnidarians and Ctenophores among living animal groups, but significant differences in body plan and morphology to these phyla make inclusion unlikely. Dendrogramma may belong to the Medusoids, a primitve fossil group from the

Ediacarian biota, an assemblage of primitive fossil specimens that lived from 600- to 541-million years ago. The Medusoids bear a striking resemblance to the disk portion of Dendrogramma’s body. The study’s authors suggest that Dendrogramma may in fact be living Medusoids, and that the group has been alive since the Ediacarian era. As nearly all modern animal phyla are thought to have their origins in the Cambrian Explosion that occurred after the Ediacarian era, this would affect current thinking on evolutionary history.

Scientists from the Natural History Museum of Denmark published Dendrogramma’s discovery in the journal PLOS One. A large-scale deep-sea study originally collected the specimens with a benthic sled that collected animals living in ocean sediments in 1984. The animals came from the floor of the Tasman Sea. According to Jean Just, one of the study’s authors, Dendrogramma’s significance was recognized upon its discovery, but the publication of the discovery was delayed due to its profound implications to animal diversity. The authors unsuccessfully attempted to find more specimens in 1988.

Upon discovery, the Dendrogramma specimens were stored in formaldehyde, which rendered them unsuitable for genetic testing. Every animal’s genes determine which phyla it belongs, which can sometimes be used to classify animals that can’t be visual identification. The priority is now connecting Dendrogramma to the rest of the animal kingdom, requiring live specimens that can be tested genetically.

thousands of microbe species Gabrielle Zimbalatti

An international team of scientists has discovered microbial life in harvested water and sediment samples from the subglacial Lake Whillans in Antarctica.

Since the discovery, more testing has revealed over 4,000 species of microbes capable of surviving under 800 metres of ice without sunlight for 120,000 years.

Chemoautotrophs are a first step in the food chain of the complex ecosystem. Unlike autotrophs at the surface which transform sunlight and carbon dioxide into energy necessary for growth, these organisms derive energy from the breakdown of minerals present in the water. These minerals include nitrites, iron, and sulfur compounds. The chemoautotrophs, on the other hand, provide an energy source for microbes on the next tier of the lake’s food chain, and so on, forming a complex web of life that can exist without access to sunlight.

Lake Whillans is one of many subglacial lakes in Antarctica. Eight hundred metres under the ice, the lake measures approximately 60 square kilometres in area and two metres in depth. Below the Antarctic ice, the combination of geothermal heat, pressure and insulation maintains an extensive network of liquid water.

The lake itself presents an exciting area of discovery despite the challenges of reaching its remote location. After years of planning, the Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling (WISSARD), funded by the National Science Foundation, succeeded in collecting uncontaminated samples from Lake Whillans using a hot water drill. The

risk of contamination hindered the efforts of British scientists working at a different subglacial lake, making the WISSARD team the first to uncover the secrets held below the Antarctic ice sheets.

The hot water drill used to collect uncontaminated samples from the subglacial lakes is a feat of engineering, given the harsh climate conditions of Lake Whillans, located less than 640 kilometres from the South Pole. The drill uses a water filtration system that incorporates super-fine filters and ultraviolet light, followed by a system that heats the water to roughly

90 degrees Celsius. The hot water is the driving force that allows the drill to bore through roughly 800 metres of ice. A specialized canister is then lowered down to the lake in order to collect samples.

The striking similarities between Lake Whillans and the environment of extraterrestrial bodies make this discovery especially significant to the search for life beyond Earth. For example, Europa, an ice-covered moon of Jupiter, may also contain subglacial water reserves capable of supporting thriving ecosystems.

The Argosy is hiring a Science Editor!

Editors are responsible for: Assigning stories, reporting, and editing for the Science section; Familiarizing themselves with journalistic styles and standards; and Conducting research, interviews, and attending events pertaining to the sciences in Sackville and at Mount Allison.

To apply, submit application, resume, and writing samples to argosy@mta.ca

The Argosy

www.argosy.ca A RT S & M U S I C

EVENTS Canada Graduate Scholarship Info Session T h u r s d a y, S e p t e m b e r 1 8 2:30 – 4pm

view Middle School to w a t c h . ( r a i n d a t e S a t u r d a y, September 20th, 8:30 pm)

nothing less than a vintage Garrett special. Should be a great night with our local heroes and we hope lots of you will come, including our out of town friends.

Bud Donaster Memorial A g r i c u l t u r a l F i e l d D a y, S a t u r d a y, S e p t e m b e r 2 0 t h , 9:00 am - 5:00 pm, 173 Main Street

Sir James Dunn Room 106

S a c k v i l l e ’s Fa i r Fa i r

All are welcome! This event i s p a r t o f t h e Sa c k v i l l e Fa l l Fa i r.

1 4 t h A n n u a l Sa c k v i l l e Fa l l Fa i r

Fa l l Fa i r Pa r a d e , s t a r t i n g from Drew Nursing Home, 165 Main Street, 1:00 pm

T h u r s d a y, S e p t e m b e r 1 8 t h - S u n d a y, S e p t e m b e r , 2 1 s t .

A l l D a y.

Ray Legere & Garrett Mason Band at the Fall Fair Te n t

T h e Fa i r In c l u d e s :

S a t u r d a y, S e p t e m b e r 2 0 t h , 2014, 7:00 pm.

H i n c h e y ’s R i d e s & A m u s e ments will be located at the corner of King Street and Main Street from T h u r s d a y, S e p t e m b e r 1 8 t h , 6:00 pm - 11:00 pm, Frid a y, S e p t e m b e r 1 9 t h , 4 : 0 0 p m - 1 1 : 0 0 p m , S a t u r d a y, September 20th, 12:00 noon - 11:00 pm (hours are weather dependent) S a c k v i l l e F a r m e r ’s M a r k e t will be held at the Bill Jo h n s t o n e Me m o r i a l Pa rk , 70 Main Street (demonstrations from various local groups) Fireworks will be held at the Lorne Street Field,9:00 p m , F r i d a y, S e p t e m b e r 19th, bring a blanket/chair and find a spot at Marsh-

Helicopter Rides S a t u r d a y, S e p t e m b e r 2 0 t h , 2014, 9:00 am–5:00 pm.

Sackville Visitors Centre

T h e Ta n t r a m a r s h B l u e s Society in conjunction w i t h t h e To w n o f S a c k v i l l e , p r e s e n t s R a y L e g e r e ’s K i t c h e n Pa r t y f o l l owe d by theGarrett Mason Band at t h e F a l l F a i r Te n t , S a t u r d a y, S e p t e m b e r 2 0 t h , 7 : 0 0 pm. Admission is free for all ages and there will be an area cordoned off bar o n s i t e . R a y, o n e o f S a c k v i l l e ’s v e r y o w n , i s o n e o f the finest fiddlers in the Maritimes. He is putting together a variety show for us that will include Celtic, jazz, bluegrass and c o u n t r y. G a r r e t t i s c o m i n g to town with a new band that he has been testing on the road for the last few months. Reports suggest that we should expect

See Sackville from the sky (weather permitting). Cost $60 per person. The helicopter will be located at the Sackville Visitor Information Centre, 34 Mallard Drive.

SHIP’S LOG

Yo g a / M e d i t a t i o n T h u r s d a y, S e p t e m b e r 1 8 , 5 – 6 pm.

Chapel Manning Room (Basement of the Chapel) I A M Yo g a / M e d i t a t i o n d r o p - i n c l a s s e s Tu & T h 5:00-5:45 in the downstairs room of the Chapel.

Open to everyone, complete beginners or advanced (no charge). This is the fourth year it has been offered to students, f a c u l t y, s t a f f o r c o m m u n i t y members and is a practice transmitted byAmma and t a u g h t i n t e r n a t i o n a l l y.

S P O RT S

Fr i d a y Se p t e m b e r 1 9 WOMEN’S SOCCER 5:00 PM Moncton vs. Mount Allison Macaulay Field

Fr i d a y Se p t e m b e r 1 9 MEN’S SOCCER 7:15 PM Moncton vs. Mount Allison Macaulay Field

S a t u r d a y, S e p t e m b e r 2 0 FOOTBALL 2:00 PM S a i n t M a r y ’s v s . M o u n t A l lison Macaulay Field T h i s i s M o u n t A l l i s o n’s a n nual Homecoming game.

M o u n t A l l i s o n Pe r f o r m i n g Arts Series S a t u r d a y, S e p t e m b e r 2 0 , 2014, 8:00 pm.

Brunton Auditorium Constantinople: early music ensemble, Mount Allis o n Pe r f o r m i n g A r t s S e r i e s , S a t u r d a y, S e p t e m b e r 2 0 , 2014, 8:00 pm, in Brunt o n A u d i t o r i u m , M . Y. B .

Conser vator y of Music, 134 Main Street, A Debut Atlantic performance Drawing inspiration from t h e a n c i e n t c i t y, C o n s t a n tinople presents music f r o m E a s t e r n a n d We s t e r n cultures, featuring the music of Baroque composers a l o n g s i d e t h e e n s e m b l e ’s signature improvisations.

S u n d a y, S e p t e m b e r 2 1 WOMEN’S SOCCER 1:00 PM Mount Allison at Cape Breton

S u n d a y, S e p t e m b e r 2 1 MEN’S SOCCER 3:15 PM Mount Allison at Cape Breton

We’re Hiring!

We’ve looking for dedicated, motivated, and team-oriented students to join our team for the 2014-2015 year.

We’re hiring for the following positions: Managing Editor Science Editor Copy Editor Arts & Culture Reporter Photographer Illustrator Assistant Production Manager Circulations Manager IT Manager Advertising Manager

For details, check out Argosy.ca/jobs.

To apply, e-mail a cover letter and resume to argosy@mta.ca by midnight Saturday, September 20th.

HUMOUR

September 18, 2014

Overall Experience: -4 stars.

Potential Hospital Visit: 6 hours.

Still better than meal hall pizza: Yes.

1. Which Canadian

1. What kind of tree

widely distributed book in

capital city is often called

produces prunes?

history?

‘The Queen’s Capital?’

2. How many years was

2. What are the most

2. Who was the first

Robinson Crusoe stranded

common ingredients for

Disney character to fart in on an island?

garlic finger sauce?

a movie?

3. Alfred Nobel is credited

3. What is Dr. Seuss’s real

3. How many different

with the invention of

name?

actors have played James

what?

4. In what year did the

Bond in film?

4. What was Superman’s

Canadian Confederation

4. What are the three

name when he was on

occur?

oldest teams in the NHL?

Krypton?

5. At what angle does the

5. Where is the Sea of

5. How many U.S. states

Tower of Pisa currently

Tranquility located?

end with the letter ‘O?’

lean?

Answers:

Cost: 5 stars.

1. What is the most

Answers:

Taste: 1 star.

Round 3:

Answers:

If you are like me - an off-campus student who has no money, no culinary skills, and can barely keep up with readings due to Netflix - the struggle of finding an acceptable meal is very real.

Let’s face it: nutrition isn’t a priority here; priorities are how quickly I can shove it in my face, with the least effort necessary. So let this article be a guide to help [you?] locate the staples of a functional (loose-term) university diet in your local Save Easy or Co-op.

I like pizza; who doesn’t? But I also need money for liquor and books, and the balance of money and pizza supplies are always at odds. But look no further than the frozen hallows of Save-Easy to find President’s Choice Thin & Crispy Pepperoni Pizza. Yes, as boring as it sounds, it fits the budget at $2.99.

Round 2:

1. The Bible 2. Condensed Milk, White Vinegar, Garlic Powder 3. Dr. Theodor Seuss Geisel 4. 1867 5. 3.99 degrees

Adam Boyd

Round 1:

1. Plum trees 2. 28 years 3. Dynamite 4. Kal-El 5. 4: Ohio, Idaho, New Mexico, Colorado

For the broke, lazy, and culinaryimpaired

The first thing I noticed upon opening the pizza packaging is how small it is.

It is a single serving for a university student with a large appetite for pizza.

Actually, scratch that, more like a 1/3 serving considering that on a Friday night at A1’s (Goya’s? whatever), a large pizza barely satisfies. Directions were simple: pop it in the oven and don’t fall asleep.

The first bite tasted of pepperoni, with the essence of bland cheese and tomato sauce on top of a crisp piece of cardboard. It actually made me question the whole idea of “all pizza is good pizza.” However, my hunger could not be resolved so I ate the whole thing in five minutes. As I write this, there is an internal war between my stomach and this pepperoni-flavoured cardboard. This is a shameless meal; this is a desperate and low place to be, so if you lost your shame already at the Pond or at Larry’s, go ahead.

No-phones, death match trivia

1. Regina 2. Pumbaa in The Lion King 3. 7 4. Montreal Canadiens, Toronto Maple Leafs, Boston Bruins 5. The Moon

Off-campus cuisine

argosy@mta.ca

(CUP) - Puzzles provided by BestCrosswords.com. Used with permission.

Across 1- Jeopardy; 6- Away from port; 10- Nicholas II was the last Russian one; 14- Eat away; 15- Traditional passed-down knowledge; 16- Tear apart; 17- Whoopi’s role in “The Color Purple”; 18- Big do; 19- ___ Three Lives; 20- Unit of power; 22- ___ public; 24- Boy or man; 25- Skill; 2 6- Spreads out; 29- I smell ___!; 30- Artist Mondrian; 31- Arrangement; 37- Diarist Nin; 39- Lyric work; 40- Pet ___; 41- House of the owner of a ranch; 44- Manitoba native; 45- Freeway access; 46- Be present; 48- Bow and arrow skill; 52- Switch ending; 53- Protects; 54- Specialist in religious law; 58- Sacramento’s ___ Arena; 59- Sentry’s shout; 61- Fungal infection; 62- Makes lace; 63- Fencing sword; 64- In base 8; 65- New Haven students; 66- Midday; 67- ___ Mio;

Down 1- Quarter bushel; 2- ...___ saw Elba; 3- Drum sound; 4- Like phrase book entries; 5- Extra time; 6- Having wings; 7- Like a pillow; 8- Drift, make a mistake; 9- Eternal; 10- Hackneyed; 11- Eliot’s Marner; 12- States; 13- Color anew; 21- Furthermore; 23- Available; 25- Cooks in fat; 26- Box; 27- ___ colada; 28- The Tower of Pisa does this; 29- Make sense; 32- Spacious; 33- Constructive arts; 34- Able was ___...; 35- Cooking appliance; 36- Can’t do without; 38- Cut into small pieces; 42- Increase in unpleasantness; 43- Deserve; 47- Tastelessly affected; 48- Playing marble; 49- Countrified; 50- Desert bloomers; 51- ___ Perot; 52- Consumed; 54- 1963 role for Liz; 55- A big fan of; 56- Marine mammal, secure something; 57- Account; 60- Mil. address;

The Argosy

www.argosy.ca

HUMOUR

15

COLOUR

Patrick Allaby

Party hats make everything better Illustration: Nic Sunderland-Baker Text: Taylor Losier

Anatomy of a stick figure Taylor Losier Humour Editor

Mt. A ponderings

Taylor Losier Humour Editor

The Town of Sackville and the Tantramarsh Blues Society Present

#SJEHF 4USFFU 5FOU t "MM BHFT FWFOU #BS BSFB PO TJUF GPS BHFT

XJUI $ZSJM .BD1IFF

#SJEHF 4USFFU 5FOU t "MM BHFT FWFOU #BS BSFB PO TJUF GPS BHFT

Sat, Sept. 20th, Bridge Street Tent, Sackville NB.

FREE