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October 31, 2013

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Mt. A hosts assessment-themed AAU Teaching Showcase

Participants explore means of improving university assessment Chris Balcom’s Corpse

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University faculty from across the country gathered in Sackville on Saturday to participate in the Association of Atlantic Universities’ annual “teaching showcase,” hosted by Mount Allison University.

The theme of this year’s conference was “Assessment: Teaching, Learning, and Quality.”

“Fair, open, valid assessment is crucial to universities. Grades are given, degrees are granted, careers are affected by the assessment criteria we establish and apply,” conference organizer and Director of the Purdy Crawford Teaching and Learning Centre Eileen Herteis wrote in an email Monday.

While presentation topics could cover assessment of learning, teaching, programs, or other related topics, Herteis noted that the majority of the sessions dealt with “broadly speaking” with assessment of student learning.

Fourth-year student Nicole Mostofa was one of ten student volunteers who assisted with the conference. Mostofa said that the talks she

Cross, Wyeth, and Inglis take questions during the award winners’ plenary. (Chills Donovan /Argosy) enjoyed most dealt with “[…] putting students at a disadvantage by assessing them, because not everybody has the same kinds of abilities.

By assessing everyone in the same way, it’s advantageous to some, and disadvantageous to others.”

Mt. A faculty members Andrew Nurse and Owen Griffiths, of Canadian studies and history, respectively, collaborated on talk that dealt with the uses of student assessments of teaching.

“What I was interested in was whether or not we can use student evaluations of teaching, not necessarily to assess teachers, but to figure out what different kinds of learners are in the classroom,” said Nurse.

In an interview, Nurse said he believes the high attendance at the conference spoke to a broader concern among faculty regarding the postsecondary education system. “I think that this indicates that faculty are looking for a different way of approaching teaching.”

Nurse argued that while the university experience has changed dramatically, with greater emphasis placed upon extracurricular activity, exchanges, and so on, the system within which these changes are taking place has largely remained static.

“I think that there’s a desire to pause and think about whether this structure can carry the load that’s being placed upon it,” said Nurse.

Over 120 people attended the conference.

Forty-one sessions were held during the oneday event, and participants chose between a number of concurrent talks throughout the day.

Fifteen Mt. A faculty hosted sessions on their experience with assessment in the university context. Seven students also hosted or co-hosted sessions.

The conference also featured a performance

by Mt. A’s bilingual student theatre troupe Tintamarre. They preformed a play written specifically for the showcase entitled The Test.

According to the program the play deals with a study group made up of common “character types” one finds at university, such as “the perfectionist” and the “smug slacker.”

Fourth-year student Ryan Mitchell was an actor in The Test. He said that one of the central ideas they wanted to convey was that “education should move away from a one-size fits all assessment.”

Three professors from Atlantic universities received awards in recognition of their innovative teaching methods. The recipients delivered brief presentations on their work at a plenary. Bradley Cross, a historian at St. Thomas University, and Russell Wyeth, a biologist at St. Francis Xavier University both received “Distinguished Teaching Awards.” Stephanie Inglis, a linguist and professor of Mi’kmaq Studies at Cape Breton University received the 2013 Anne Marie Mackinnon Educational Leadership Award.

Cranewood Bakery now open NB senator resigns

Historic property converted into bakery

Close Harper ally denies decision owing to scandal

Miriam Namakill’ya

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Cranewood, the Mount Allison University president’s former residence is now home to the new Bakery at Cranewood. The bakery opened last Wednesday. The venture was launched by Head Baker Marsha Lemos and her assistant Jocelyn Pringle.

The property was purchased by managers Debbie and Malcolm Fisher. Debbie Fisher said that one end of the building will be “available [for] rental for receptions and meeting rooms,” while the rest of the building operates as a bakery.

The Bakery at Cranewood features a baking schedule that allows four different breads every day of the week, including gluten-free breads on Tuesdays. The bakery also offers two types of soups daily, including a vegan and gluten-free option.

Lemos said that in her experience she has realized “a great need for tailor-making” so people can “actually eat and be healthy and be comfortable.” Lemos added that she realized “our food industry was causing a crisis with people’s health.”

Pringle and Lemos said that the bakery has been busy since opening day. The bakery was only licensed Tuesday—just one day before it was ready for business.

Pringle has been very happy with the community’s response to the new bakery. The positive reception may not be surprising given that the minds behind the operation are not new names to Sackville’s culinary

New Brunswick Senator Carolyn Stewart Olsen has recently stepped down from the Senate’s “Internal Economic Subcommittee.” The committee has been monitoring the economic affairs of fellow Senators involved in the ongoing expenses scandal.

The Governor General appointed Sackville-born Stewart Olsen to the senate on Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s recommendation in 2009. Stewart Olsen is a longtime confidante of the Prime Minister, and has worked closely with the Prime Minister since 2002.

Stewart Olsen cited a busy schedule, and a desire to spend more time working on issues facing New Brunswick, as reasons for her decision.

Mario Levesque, a political scientist at Mount Allison University, expressed skepticism over Stewart Olsen’s stated rationale for stepping down.

“Politicians will say that they want to focus on other affairs, [or] spend time with family, which may be true to an extent. However, they are at a point where they have been pushed to where they have to resign to prevent information from coming out, or simply to get out of the limelight,” he said.

“It’s suspicious. [It] suggests there’s something there, but we don’t know.

Conducting an investigation now [on Stewart Olsen] is one way of finding out her full involvement in the matter.”

The decision came days after Mike

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The Bakery at Cranewood has opened for business. (Chills Donovan/Argosy) scene. Three years ago, Lemos was at the Cackling Goose, and then moved to 26 York Street as Aliper’s Hearth.

Both Lemos and Pringle agreed: “We love Sackville, there is so much going on,” adding that it is “such a vibrant arts community” which creates “a wonderful opportunity for business.”

This sentiment is shared by the owners of the new Sweet Shop that will adopt the space left vacant at 26 York by Aliper’s Hearth. The Sweet Shop is a result of a partnership between Edward Knuckles of Knuckles Truffles and The Crazy Cupcakes Ladies, Donna Laundry and Natalie Crossman. The Sweet Shop is set to open on Saturday. The partnership developed between the two groups because they have both been vendors at the farmers’ market.

Knuckles, a retiree from Toronto, started selling chocolates in Sackville about a year ago. Knuckles, who has been in the business of making truffles for over thirty years, had hoped to develop his clientele for over two years—but he was so well received by the community that he decided to open up shop early.

Knuckles said The Sweet Shop will offer high quality confections not limited to chocolates and cupcakes. He believes there is a niche for a business like his, though he recognizes that running a small business is difficult. The chocolatier mentioned that “some of the costs of rent can be absorbent” and he added that “you have to provide what people want [and] we are very cognizant of that fact.”

Duffy, a much-scrutinized Senator, publicly singled out members of the Senate subcommittee, claiming Stewart Olsen and Senator David Tkachuk were prepared to issue a press release calling Duffy “unfit” to represent his province of Prince Edward Island if he did not cooperate with plans for repayment. Duffy said that while he did not break any Senate rules, Harper ordered him to repay the money regardless, as he was worried about how the voting base of the Conservative party were responding to the scandal.

Duffy was given a $90,000 cheque by former PMO Chief of Staff Nigel Wright to cover improperly claimed housing expenses. Harper has denied any knowledge of that exchange.

Duffy’s revelations followed a threat by the Harper Government to suspend Senators Brazeau, Wallin, and Duffy due to “gross negligence.”

Stewart Olsen stated that Duffy’s comments regarding herself and the Senate controversy had no influence on her decision, maintaining that: “it was a very difficult process and I will welcome a change.” The Internal Economic Senate subcommittee was appointed in November of 2012 with the initial task of reviewing Senator Patrick Brazeau’s alleged outstanding housing expenses.

Along with Duffy and Brazeau, the Internal committee oversaw Senator Pamela Wallin’s auditors for expenses stemming from travel fees claimed from April 2011 to September 2012. Wallin was told to repay those charges upwards of $26,000 from “other travel” during the 2011 Federal election campaign.

Letters were sent out from the committee in May to Brazeau, giving the Senator thirty days to pay back the approximately $49,000 the senate says he owes in improper housing claims.

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County gets new trash rules

Rejected blue and green bags confuse residents

This Week in the World Joanna Lurkin

Complaints about asylum themed attraction

Gargoyle Rea On Monday, Recycle Southeast New Brunswick (SENB) implemented a new policy to reject trash bags that were non-compliant with the current green-blue regulations.

Noncompliant bags were left on the curb and tagged with a sticker citing their specific violation.

While most municipalities in the region, including Sackville, are adapting the change, the town council in Moncton received so many complaints from residents that they voted to suspend the program for three weeks while undertaking an information blitz to educate residents.

“There was certainly some confusion over the whole wet-dry program,” admitted Gena Alderson, community relations director at Recycle SENB. “Instead, we’ve replaced that with the simpler term green-blue, though the system is the same as before. Compostable organic material goes in the green bag, inorganic recyclables in the blue, and hazardous waste must be delivered separately.”

Residents’ bags are currently being rejected for the following reasons: the bag was non-transparent or contained a non-transparent bag (creating a safety hazard for workers, as it could contain hazardous waste); the bag was not blue or green; organic waste was found in the blue recyclables bag, contaminating it; glass/recyclables were found in the green bag, preventing it from being composted; the bag was too heavy/ bulky; the bag contained hazardous waste, which must be delivered to the plant separately.

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Thorpe Park’s annual Fright Nights in England has received complaints regarding their Asylum Maze, which has been a part of Fright Nights for the past eight years. A mental health and nursing student, Katie Sutton, heard of this maze—in which actors chase people around a fake asylum—and organized a petition to shut down the attraction. Sutton stated that the attraction was offensive by stigmatizing mental illness, while the theme park argues that it is not meant to portray a mental health institution accurately, simply trying to draw from classic horror films scenarios. In the area, several supermarket chains withdrew Halloween costumes such as the “Psycho Ward Patient” or “Mental Patient,” after being criticized for the stigmatization of mental illness.

Halloween zombie advertisement being investigated

Moncton waste collection is suspended for three weeks. (Chills Donovan/Argosy) SENB has no jurisdiction over commercial garbage. Nearly three times as much commercial waste goes into the landfill.

“The only control we have over commercial companies is the rate we charge for garbage collection,” Alderson said. “In the future, we may charge more for unsorted garbage.”

“The largest problem we have here at the plant,” Alderson said, “is that people put glass in their green bags. Glass always breaks before reaching the plant, and we end up with glass shards in our compost, which prevents us from selling it commercially. All we can do is use it to cover the top of the landfill.”

According to Alderson, even if glass is properly sorted into blue bags, the plant is unable to recycle the shards, and it still ends up in the landfill.

Recycle SENB was until recently known as the WestmorlandAlbert Solid Waste Corporation.

It continues to serve the counties of Westmorland and Albert (and provides a landfill to Kings and Kent counties). Approximately one-third

of New Brunswick residents rely on Recycle SENB for waste collection.

“I think this [green-blue system] is a better system than the old wetdry, but any time you change what you want people to do you have to educate them,” said Michael Fox, a geography professor at Mount Allison University. “We don’t educate new students about the system. We’re better than some other communities, but we can do a lot better.”

Fox also noted the sustainability plan proposed by the town of Sackville in 2013, which listed commercial apartment sorting as the town’s sole priority in waste disposal.

Garbage collected from commercial apartments in Sackville is not separated on the basis of compostable or organic material. “This has been delayed by the council because they are reluctant to raise taxes to fund the sorting, but the costs could also be downloaded onto landlords or renters,” Fox said. The town council plans to revisit waste sorting for apartments in 2014.

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) is looking into a bus advertisement featuring the face of a zombie after several complaints. The banner was advertising a Halloween attraction in Sussex, England with haunted houses and rides. The ASA said that there were complaints about the picture of the blood splattered zombie last year as well, although after the investigation, the advertisements were left on the buses. Stuart Beare, who helps to run the Halloween attraction, said the advertisements were not meant to offend anyone, and that they were no worse than images on television, newspapers and magazines.

Rana Plaza Victims still waiting for compensation

The charity Action Aid has reported that many victims of a major clothing factory collapse in Bangladesh are still awaiting compensation. Primark is the only company to date to have given financial support to those affected by the collapse, and is planning to pay wages to those affected for the next three months. Action Aid found that a high percentage of people are still facing severe financial difficulty. After investigating, Action Aid reported that ninety-four per cent of the people they talked to had received no financial benefits from their employers, and that ninety-two per cent had not gone back to work yet. The Rana Plaza collapse was the worst industrial disaster in Bangladesh’s history, killing more than 1,100 people.

Saudi women drive despite police ban

Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world where women are banned from driving. On Oct. 26, at least sixty women took part in protesting this ban by driving successfully without punishment. While there are no specific laws banning women from driving, licenses are not issued to women. Protests such as this tend to take place annually, although women who have been known to take part in recent years were followed this past Saturday, to ensure that that they did not drive. Activists behind the Oct. 26 driving campaign have said in recent interviews that they believe that public opinion towards women driving has changed. More Saudis, including men, are supporting the lifting of the driving ban.

Proposed speech regulations raise councillors’ ire Policy would restrict social media use of MASU councillors Killvin Levanpire

Political Beat Writer

A proposed operating procedure restricting the social media use of students’ union employees and councillors raised hackles during its presentation last week. Mount Allison Students’ Union (MASU) Vice-President, Communications Matt Ranson unveiled the policy Oct. 21, but councillor objections caused Ranson to withdraw it for revision before it could be moved. The policy would apply to “all MASU employees, including executives, part-time and full-time employees,” as well as “volunteers, commissioners, coordinators, and committee members.”

Ranson said in an Oct. 25 interview that the proposal aimed “to ensure that the mission, vision, and values of the organization are being upheld.”

The most controversial aspect of the document requires the students’ union’s

representatives and staff to identify themselves and their “relationship to the MASU … when posting comments or material related to [their responsibilities] with the MASU.” The proposed policy emphasized that it would become “unacceptable to assume an anonymous identity when initiating or responding to a topic related to the MASU.” The policy is comprehensive, asking representatives to not post outside of their “area of responsibility or expertise,” to present themselves professionally and to not release “sensitive” or “confidential” information.

The policy also states that representatives should not use personal social media accounts to comment on MASU affairs while in council, asking for “separation of personal and work accounts,” and establishing that “MASU social media accounts are property of the MASU.” The scope of the policy lead Councillor Nikki Bhatia to criticize it as “neither specific nor general.”

Councillors Bhatia and James Beirne were the most vocal at the council meeting in their opposition to the policy. During an Oct. 25 interview Beirne said he thought the policy “had good intentions,” and that while he did not “take issue with the majority of it,” he had serious reservations about restricting anonymous online speech.

Bhatia was concerned that the policy would curtail freedom of expression: “Some of the statements as they currently stand in the policy could be interpreted as an infringement on free speech. That may not have been the intention, but it reads that way.”

When Beirne defended the right of MASU employees and representatives to post anonymously should they feel uncomfortable speaking out, Ben Kropp, who is MASU’s ombudsperson, said that “social media isn’t really going to be the most appropriate avenue for that. If you have a question or concern about something that goes on in council, that’s where [the Ombudsperson comes in].”

In an Oct. 24 interview, MASU President Melissa O’Rourke argued that such organizational policies are commonplace, saying their use “is not limited to student organizations.”

O’Rourke said she believed online anonymous statements were unnecessary, saying, “I think that if councillors are doing their jobs effectively, they are going to voice their opposition in council.“ When asked about potential disciplinary action that could be taken if there were to be violations of such a policy, Ranson explained that such action would fall under the Human Resources policy, which is forthcoming under

Vice-President, Finance and Operations Josh Outerbridge’s portfolio.

During the council meeting, Ranson cited the “anonymous” MTApathy blog as an specific example of something the policy was trying to prevent. The blog appeared in January 2013.

While the blog does not explicitly reference its author’s name, the blog’s “About” page refers to its author as president in the context of Mount Allison student politics, while billing itself as: “In-depth Mount Allison Students’ Union election coverage, opinions and editorials on student politics, and various knick-knacks from an outgoing student executive.” For his part, then-MASU President Pat Joyce, who left office in April, was not shy about his authorship of the blog.

Ranson who objects to such projects, said, “MTApathy was done as an anonymous identity last year. Pretty obvious who it was, but it didn’t specifically say ‘Hello, this is Patrick Joyce.’ I find it inappropriate to do something like that, it’s inappropriate to badmouth the organization that you are working for.”

Bhatia and Ranson, in conjunction with the Operations Committee, will work together to try and amend the policy to the satisfaction of all councillors. A revised version of the policy is expected at council Nov. 4.

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October 31, 2013

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EIC Lunch & Learn - Big Hanna Composting

Thursday Oct. 31, 12:00pm W M S C T h e Po n d Join us for a slice of pizza at The Po n d f o r t h e fi r s t EI C L u n c h a n d L e a r n o f t h e a c a d e m i c y e a r.

Michelle Strain will lead the discussion about the composting of food waste on campus. The sess i o n w i l l b e g i n a t T h e Po n d w i t h an overview and then a short walk over to Jennings to visit Dirt and Ernie, the two Big Hanna in-vessel composting units.

St. FX B.Ed. Information Session

Thursday Oct. 31, 2:00pm WMSC Room 125 Students interested in a career in education are invited to the StFX Bachelor of Education Information Sessions. Drop in to chat with representatives about the program and admission requirements.

M e d i t a t i o n Yo g a

Thursday Oct. 31, 5:30pm Chapel Manning Room Yo g a / m e d i t a t i o n c l a s s e s ( n o c h a r g e ) Tu & T h 5 : 3 0 - 6 : 1 5 i n t h e basement of the Chapel. All levels welcome.

Sackville Film Society “Cr ystal Fair y ” Thursday Oct. 31, 7:30pm Vo g u e C i n e m a T h e a t e r

Researching Book Histor y & Print Culture

F r i d a y N o v. 1 , 4 : 0 0 p m Crabtree Room 316 P r e s e n t e r : D r. C h r i s t i n a I o n e s c u The talk will focus on the Random House Candide, the first book to bear the imprint of the publishing house which is now a household name. In the history of the interwar American book, this edition is particularly relevant for it showcases the transit i o n o f a b o o k f r o m c o l l e c t o r ’s item to mass and trade paperback.

Carefully designed and copiously illustrated by Rockwell Kent, at the time considered to be one of the most important commercial

illustrators in the United States, it left a permanent mark on the history of the American book and its illustration.

Halloween Swing Bash

F r i d a y N o v. 1 , 9 : 0 0 p m W M S C Tw e e d i e H a l l Come join the Swing Society for a one hour beginner lesson. Attendees are invited to wear costumes if they so desire!

AT L I S C o n f e r e n c e

S a t u r d a y N o v. 2 , 1 0 : 0 0 a m Avard Dixon Room 118 AT L I S M i n i - C o n f e r e n c e - a f r e e opportunity for students to get a flavour of what the full January AT L I S C o n f e r e n c e i s g o n g t o b e like. Students will be presenting on various topics, and there will be refreshments provided.

Haida Gwaii information session

We d n e s d a y N o v. 6 , 6 : 2 5 p m Avard Dixon Room 120 Wa n t t o l e a r n a b o u t t h e n a t u r a l environment while actually being i n t h e n a t u r a l e n v i r o n m e n t ? Wa n t to undertake experiential learning in a completely new environment?

Then A Haida Gwaii Higher Education society Semester may b e j u s t w h a t y o u n e e d ! Ta k e a f u l l 15 credit 3000 level course load while studying on Haida Gwaii.

A n y o n e c a n a p p l y. F o r m o r e i n formation come to a short info session.

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We d n e s d a y N o v. 6 , 7 : 0 0 p m S i r J a m e s D u n n M i n i Wu Documentary film screening of “United S tates of Africa”.

E-Gre Recital

F r i d a y N o v. 1 , 8 : 0 0 p m Conservatory of Music The winner of the 2013 E-Gre National Music Competition will be performing at Brunton Auditorium at 8pm. Tickets are available at the Music Department office or by calling 506-364-2374.

The Alex Colville Gift to Mount Allison

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S a t u r d a y N o v. 2 , 7 : 0 0 p m Owens Art Gallery The Alex Colville Gift to Mount A l l i s o n D r. R o b e r t C a m p b e l l , President and V ice-Chancellor o f M o u n t A l l i s o n U n i v e r s i t y, requests your presence at the unveiling of a major donation of artwork to Mount Allison by renowned Canadian artist, the late Alex Colville (‘42, LLD ‘68).

The gift is a precious resource for teaching, research, and for the enjoyment of present and future g e n e r a t i o n s . We h o p e y o u w i l l join us for this very special event.

RSVP to (506) 364-2303 or via email to meestabrooks@mta.ca by October 29, 2013.

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Cecilia String Quartet

F r i d a y N o v. 1 , 2 : 0 0 p m Mt. A vs. Acadia AUS Playoffs

S a t u r d a y N o v. 2 , 8 : 0 0 p m Conservatory of Music M o u n t A l l i s o n Pe r f o r m i n g A r t s Series presents the Cecilia String Quartet, a Debut Atlantic event.

Min-Jeong Koh, violin, Sarah Nematallah, violin, Caitlin Boyle, v i o l a , R a c h e l D e s o e r, c e l l o. T h e q u a r t e t ’s S a c k v i l l e p e r f o r m a n c e will include works by Haydn, We b e r n , a n d D e b u s s y, a n d a c o m pelling new piece by Canadian composer Abigail RichardsonSchulte. Single tickets are $28 for adults and $15 for students.

Full ser ies subscr iptions are $140 for adults, $65 for students ($35 for first-year students at Mount Allison University). Bring a child (age 4-18) for free with the purchase of an adult subscription or adult single ticket. Numbers are limited, so order early! Tickets c a n b e o b t a i n e d b y m a i l o r d e r, a t the Mount Allison Bookstore (62 Yo r k S t r e e t , l o w e r l e v e l ) , a n d a t t h e d o o r. Fo r a d d i t i o n a l i n f o r m a t i o n , v i s i t w w w. m t a . c a / d e p a r t m e n t s / Pe r f o r m i n g A r t s C o n t a c t : Margaret Ann Craig, 364-2662 (voice mail only), performarts@ mta.ca

The Business of Culture

M o n d a y, N o v. 4 , 4 : 3 0 p m Owens Art Gallery A conversation and Q&A with Shelley Ambrose (co-publisher of T h e Wa l r u s m a g a z i n e ) a n d D o u g las Knight (President, St. Joseph Media). Everyone welcome. Light re f re s h m e n t s . Fo r m o re i n f o r m a t i o n , c o n t a c t : D r . C h r i s t l Ve r d u y n

Student Composition Recital

M o n d a y, N o v. 4 , 8 : 0 0 p m Conservatory of Music New music by Mount Allison student composers, featuring performers from the Department of Music. Brunton Auditorium, 8 pm. Admission is free, all are we l c om e t o a t t e n d . Fo r m o re information please email music@ mta.ca or call 506-364-2374.

S P O RT S Wo m e n ’ s S o c c e r - H o m e

Fo o t b a l l - H o m e

S a t u r d a y N o v. 2 , 2 : 0 0 p m Mt. A vs. Acadia AUS Playoffs

Wo m e n ’ s R u g b y - A w a y S u n d a y N o v. 3 , 2 : 3 0 p m M t . A v s . D a l AC ACA A C h a m p i on s h i p

Swimming - Away

S a t u r d a y N o v. 2 , 1 2 : 0 0 p m Jack Scholz AUS Invitational Meet at Acadia

Wo m e n ’ s Vo l l e y b a l l - A w a y S a t u r d a y N o v. 2 , 2 : 0 0 p m Mt. A vs. St. Thomas

M e n’s B a s k e t b a l l - H o m e S u n d a y N o v. 3 , 2 : 0 0 p m Mt. A vs. MSVU

Wo m e n ’ s B a s k e t b a l l Home S u n d a y N o v. 3 , 1 2 : 0 0 p m Mt. A vs. MSVU

Swimming - Away

S u n d a y N o v. 3 , 1 0 : 0 0 a m Jack Scholz AUS Invitational Meet at Acadia

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Drone strikes constitute war crimes Innocents are dying in the name of fighting terorism

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Amnesty International has accused the United States’ government for violating international human rights laws by killing innocent civilians with drone strikes in Pakistan.

Amnesty International is right, drone strikes qualify as a war crime.

The United States uses advanced drone technology, known for its superior monitoring capacities and precision, supposedly limiting the collateral damage of the strikes.

However, while the attacks are intended to kill suspected militants and terrorists, civilians are often caught in the crosshairs. They are not collateral damage, they are human beings that should not be reduced to a consequence of a greater ploy.

While the U.S prioritizes the eradication of potential Al-Qaeda militants, the Pakistani people must live in constant fear of a foreign government killing many of them in the name of the war on terror.

While some drone strikes are legitimate, Amnesty International claims that “the USA appears to be exploiting the lawless and remote nature of the region to evade accountability for its violations.”

Mamana Bibi, a sixty eight year old grandmother of the Ghundi Kala village, was killed last year when she and her grandchildren were directly targeted by an American drone.

The children were seriously injured. The family had to sell its land to pay for their treatment.

They had been gathering food for dinner at the time of the attack.

There is no legitimate justification for the error made by the US government. The

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Drone strikes have killed hundreds of civilians. (USAF Photographic Archives/Wikimedia Commons) drones are programmed to pick up on patterns produced by groups of people that have been deemed suspicious, creating a wide margin of error that can only be eliminated by stopping drone strikes entirely.

Thousands of militants have settled into areas bordering Afghanistan, thereby camouflaging themselves among citizens, using them as hostages in their own homes for protection.

While the actions of these militants have wreaked havoc on society, it is important to question the means in which they are being handled.

No-one should have to distance themselve from groups of people to stay alive.

According to Pakistan’s Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, the United States is abusing Pakistan’s sovereignty. During a recent visit to Washington, Sharif requested, on account of his people’s desperation, that the drone strikes cease.

While the US may be overstepping their bounds, the Pakistani armed forces must also take responsibility for the effects of their strategies. During repeated strikes in North Waziristan, the military has had immense difficulty in differentiating between civilians and militants. They offer little pre-attack warnings

to the people for evacuation and use imprecise weaponry such as mortars and unguided air bombs. When they do offer warning, it is often in the dead of night, forcing families to navigate in the darkness in search of safety.

According to documents obtained by the Washington Post, the Pakistani government has been secretly allowing the US to execute drone strikes.

They routinely received classified briefings, including before-and-after photos of targeted compounds and casualty counts. The documents detail meetings between senior officials of both American and Pakistani intelligence, including Hillary Clinton, the former Deputy Director of the CIA , Michael J. Morell and Pakistani ambassador Husain Haqqani and the former president of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf.

While it is easy to place blame on either government, it is the combination of both the American and Pakistani governments that has truly inflicted devastation onto the Pakistani people. They have openly endangered innocent people to advance their own agendas, avoiding taking responsibility for the human lives—not collateral damage—they are affecting.

Please everybody, let’s calm the frack down Many facts about fracking are not well known Noah End-of-Days As you’ve probably noticed, the extraction of liquefied natural gas (LNG), through hydraulic fracturing has become an emotionally- and politically charged-issue. Environmentalists, conservationists, and concerned citizens have vocally opposed the process of fracking, which they fear will worsen global warming, contaminate groundwater, and even cause minor earthquakes. The picture presented has been almost unanimously negative, and occasionally apocalyptic. This has been reinforced by the passionate activists we have here at Mount Allison, who have taken up arms against shale gas exploration in New Brunswick. But how bad is fracking, really?

First, let’s start off with what we don’t know.

Contrary to what many would have you believe, we do not know that fracking causes groundwater contamination. Studies up to this point have not produced any conclusive findings. Strong correlation between fracking and groundwater contamination has been limited primarily to one fracking location in Pennsylvania. Given the role of local geology on the fracking process, possible contamination in one location does not imply that it would happen in all instances. Many hundreds of thousands of fracked wells have

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operated without incident, but you don’t hear about those ones in the news. The truth is, there is a lot of evidence and testimonial suggesting that the threat of contaminated aquifers is marginal at worst. Just because a thing can be botched doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be attempted in the first place.

Here’s the second big thing we do not know: Fracking is bad for the environment. And yes, I have heard of climate change, and yes, I definitely think it is happening. However, it is very likely that fracking won’t accelerate it noticeably. One thing that people seem to forget about our world is that there is an inflexible demand for energy, especially the cheap kind. The simple truth is that fossil fuels are going to keep getting burned for energy until a cheaper alternative presents itself. And right now, the alternative to cheap LNG from Canada’s shale deposits are either more fossil fuels from somewhere else, or coal. And burning coal, as you probably know, is filthy. Some argue that the proliferation of fracking and LNG has the potential to decrease coal usage and improve greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. Admittedly, there is still a lot of information yet to be gathered on this contentious topic, and there is no ironclad confirmation of this claim. But the mere fact that it is possible should have a sobering effect on the anti-fracking movement.

Another common argument made against fracking is that the production of LNG hamstrings the development of viable renewable energy options. However, at this point, no viable renewable energy alternative exists, and the demand for energy must be met, one way or

another. This means that there needs to be energy from another source, such as fossil fuels. The only question is where these fuels should come from.

Setting the national interest of Canada aside for a moment, consider where the profits from fossil fuel extraction will go in each situation.

The Canadian government is currently invested in research and development in the renewable energy sector, so at least some of the profits from fracking will go towards green initiatives.

However, if countries like Saudi Arabia were tasked with meeting energy global demands, the environmental impact would be roughly the same, and the profits would be far less likely to be reinvested into environmental protection.

Additionally, Canada is a relatively democratic country, where activism is more likely to produce increasingly favourable government policy in the future.

The environmental impacts, both local and global, of fracking are still unclear, although the majority of evidence points towards its safety and relatively low environmental impact when compared to the alternatives. I do not mean to suggest that fracking is harmless, or that it should proceed without regulation. However, I do think that the anti-fracking movement presents a very biased picture that misrepresents some facts about franking and totally ignores others. Obstructionism should be replaced by caution. Passion should be replaced with reason. And we should always be open to new information as it becomes available.

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Consumerism has a place in holidays Just as long as it doesn’t take over your life John Wrathford Opinions Editor

Halloween: a time of hastily put together costumes, dollar store candy, and one of the biggest party nights of the year at Mt. A. What do all of these things have in common? No, it isn’t cheap candy or costumes inspired by 1990s Tree house of Horror episodes.

It is plain old consumerism.

The same thing that drives St. Patrick’s Day, and Valentine’s Day, and characters like the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus. These are scourges of modern society, say many critics of consumer holidays. Critics often label these holidays as examples of the decay of modern society and the Western over-reliance on imported, cheaply made products.

But alas, the decay of modern Western society cannot be found in a Vietnamese made costume purchased at Wal-Mart. In fact, consumer holidays are not necessarily bad for our collective souls.

I say embrace consumerism come Oct. 31. The problem is not with consumerism itself but with how much stock we choose to place in material possessions. A few times a year it is fine to throw some money to the wind

There is a time and place for consumerism, and Halloween is one of those few times of the year. (Photo Illistration by Nick Cryptov/Argosy) and purchase frivolous items that have little lasting value and are used only to celebrate an artificial holiday. What is not good, however, is allowing those attitudes toward consumerism that have a place on days like Halloween take over your life 365 days a year.

Just about everything will do no harm as long as it is kept to moderation.

Consumerist attitudes are no different.

Letter to the Editor Eldon Hay I applaud Mitchell Gunn’s “Pride week should be every week” (The Argosy, Oct. 24) Mitchell references the Surrey B.C. man kicked, his assailant hurling homophobic slurs; he mentions the New Glasgow, NS man stabbed and injured, whose friends allege that he was attacked because he is gay.

Such events draw attention immediately: anti-gay behaviour is openly and violently expressed— homophobia by assault.

There is another kind of homophobia—less publicly manifested—no less toxic. I mean homophobia by exclusion.

Recently, Saint Thomas University student Colin Briggs was a volunteer in a youth program at Fredericton’s Crosspoint Wesleyan Church.

Coming out as homosexual, pastor Mark Brewer dismissed Briggs as a youth volunteer.

It is exemplified by Crandall University, the Atlantic Baptist Convention-sponsored university in Moncton. That institution, though receiving provincial and federal funds for capital expenditures, rejects overtly gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender persons from faculty or

staff employment.

In homophobic assault—we hate you, and beat you up.

In homophobic exclusion—we are better than you, we keep you out.

Crandall’s sponsor is heir to a noble tradition—its Anabaptist foreparents were the victims of hatred and persecution. It is ironic that Crandall is now the perpetrator of homophobic practice. Even more ironically, Crandall claims its exclusion is Biblically based.

Not all Convention congregants agree with the scriptural sanction.

Baptist Andrew Nurse, Canadian Studies professor at Mount Allison University, writes: “I am an evangelical Christian … and there is no good reason why equality should be denied GLBT Canadians—many bad things happen as a result of the denial of equality rights” Isn’t it high time that the Convention of Atlantic Baptist Churches re-examine both their biblical roots and their contemporary exclusionary policy?

Both homophobic assault and homophobic exclusion are unCanadian—can either be called Christian in contemporary society?

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Do not allow them to take over your life or govern your actions on a daily basis. No, you really don’t need the complete first season of True Blood, just because you saw it for ten bucks at Jean Coutu this past week. If you make an impulse buy like that every now and again, you’ll do little harm, but if you act like that on a regular basis, you will soon be extremely short on ten dollar

bills. A few times a year though, like at Halloween, spending that extra ten dollars is not a horrible idea.

And besides, every time you buy inexpensive consumer goods somebody else draws some kind of benefit. The cashier at the Dollar Store picks up an extra shift during the Halloween rush, or a mom and pop store gets a boost with greeting cards and chocolates

during the first two weeks of February.

Feel free to buy that extra bag of candy or that accessory for your costume this Halloween. When the holiday is done gone though, don’t let consumerism continue to be a large part of your life. Consumerism has a place, and Halloween is one of those places.

The NSA is not the only one spying Google also collects digital information en mass Mitchell Smoking-Gunn As Halloween approaches, it is always interesting to note how our societal fears have shifted in recent times. Since the tragic events of 9-11, terrorism has been an issue of huge importance to concerned citizens in our current scene of international instability.

However, in what is becoming a very interesting duality, many are also worried about the government agencies tasked with preventing terrorism.

Specifically, Edward Snowden’s massive leak of surveillance information from the United States’ National Security Agency (NSA) earlier this year provoked widespread anger both in the US and abroad, though the reasons for this anger were distinctly divided. Some have labeled Snowden a hero for blowing the whistle on a program that many believe violates the privacy of American citizens, while others contend that Snowden is no better than a terrorist himself.

To add fuel to a smouldering situation, it came to light this past week that the NSA has been tapping

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cell phone for more than a decade.

The German government is obviously less than pleased, and is sending intelligence officials to Washington to meet with the agency. Brazil, which has also been targeted by American spying, has joined Germany in bringing its concerns to the UN. All of this has not gone unnoticed

by Americans, however. On Saturday, thousands of protestors marched on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, to express their dissatisfaction. While dissent is not universal, it is clear that many people are, to put it lightly, not happy.

Far be it from me to disagree with them. The NSA’s surveillance programs are too far-reaching and too independent from various other judicial and investigative processes to be truly ethical, and wiretapping the cell phone of the leader of one of America’s foremost European allies is definitely a controversial move.

But why are we so upset over these particular instances of data aggregation? Around the world, there is one organization that gathers enormous volumes of information from everyone who uses its services, and it has an equally enormous user base: Google.

The world’s most popular search engine gathers information about your browsing habits with every search, and even mores if you use its other services like Gmail and YouTube. Mostly, this data is just used to improve predictive search functions and target ads to specific users, but it’s still a little

unnerving, to say the least.

On top of this, Google was recently accused of wiretapping itself. Between 2008 and 2010, Google Street View cars had allegedly been signing into unsecured Wi-Fi networks and monitoring other users’ browsing patterns and data as they drove around cities. A San Francisco court ruled this September that this practice can be classified as wiretapping—a decision that opens Google up to class-action lawsuits potentially worth billions of dollars in damages.

So why is it that nobody is out in the streets protesting against Google? Is it because their services are entirely voluntary, or because their data collection seems somehow less nefarious than that of the NSA? Perhaps it is because the NSA programs were secretive and only came to light through a leak, while Google’s policies are set out in publicly available—if rather confusing—terms and conditions documents.

After all, the NSA’s ostensible goal of preventing terrorism is decidedly nobler than Google’s goal of making money. It seems strange to hold a government organization on a tighter leash than a corporate entity.

As a society, we must decide whether surveillance like this is acceptable, and act on that decision consistently— whether the perpetrators are a corporation or a government, the same regulations should apply. Double standards, like the one seemingly in place now, simply cannot last.

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THE CHARTS ALVVAYS TO PLAY SACKVILLE FOR THE WEEK ENDING TUESDAY OCTOBER 29, 2013 RANK

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(LABEL)

01 JAY ARNER* Jay Arner ((Mint)

02 BOLIVIA* Giants (Self-Released) 03 TEEN DAZE* Glaciers (Lefse) 04 PAPER LIONS* My Friends (Fountain Pop) 05 CHVRCHES The Bone Of What You Belive (Glassnote) 06 LORDE Pure Heroine (Universal) 07 OWEN STEEL* Time Machine Blues (Self Released)

08 HEAVEN FOR REAL* Wanton

Lucas Hicks

(Self-Released)

09 BRAIDS* Flourish//Perish (Flemish Eye) 10 CONSTRUCTION & DESTRUCTION* Dark Lark (Headless Owl) 11 SHAD* Flying Colours (Black Box) 12 THE HIGHEST ORDER* If It’s Real (Idee Fixe) 13 A TRIBE CALLED RED* Nation II Nation (Tribal Spirit) 14 HOODED FANG* Gravez (Daps)

15 SAID THE WHALE* Hawaiii (Hidden Pony)

16 IMAGINARY CITIES* Fall of Romance (Hidden Pony) 17 THE MOUTHBREATHERS* Stone Soup (Killer Haze)

Photo by Colin Medley

SappyFest is pleased to bring you Toronto music legend Chad VanGaalen and features artists Alvvays live at the Royal Canadian the sweetest melodies that will get stuck in your Legion on Wednesday, November 6 at 9:00 head for days. pm.

These Sackville favourites will be stopping in before heading out on an extensive cross Canada tour supporting the west coast’s Said the Whale.

Joining Alvvays at the Legion will be DJ Bones and English Words. DJ Bones is the infamous host of Indie Pop Night and brings the party to any room he steps in, whileEnglish Words represent Prince Edward Island by bringing the freshest power-pop sounds. This eclectic evening offers something for everyone and is not to be missed.

Alvvays is a dream pop supergroup comprised of Molly Rankin, Alec O’Hanley (formerly of Two Hours Traffic), Kerri Maclellan, Brian For more information, contact SappyFest at 506-540-1327 or email mentalist@sappyfest.

Murphy and Phil MacIsaac. They are set to release their debut album this com. You can also visit the event on Facebook fall; however, they have had no shortage of attention. This group has supported acts such as Wintersleep, The Joy Formidable and Peter, Bjorn and John, to name a few. The debut album was recorder in Calgary with Canadian

18 SHOTGUN JIMMIE* Everything Everything (You’ve Changed)

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19 BASIA BULAT* Tall Tall Shadow (Secret City)

Alvvays (Self-Released)

20 AUSTRA*

The only music I picked up during this year’s Sappyfest was a little self-titled cassette tape put out by Toronto’s buzzworthy indie band Alvvays. From the first few notes of their set I was hooked, and just as soon as the applause died down, I raced back to the merch table to grab a copy of their album. Since then their tape has remained firmly in my cassette deck. The dreamy sweetness of Molly Rankin’s voice paired with the lo-fi surf pop guitars, keyboards and drums combine to create an aesthetic that is both nostalgic and fresh. It’s not often that music is both beautiful as well as fun, but Alvvays manages to strike this balance perfectly in their style. The entire tape is amazing from start to finish but some favourites are Archie, Marry Me, Next of Kin (The River), and The Agency Group. If you’re a fan of Best Coast, Real Estate, or Tennis, you’re going to love Alvvays, and if you miss their tour date in Sackville on November 6th, you might regret it indefinitely.

-Vanessa Blackier

Olympia (Paper Bag )

21 MOUNT KIMBIE* Cold Spring Fault Less (Youth Wrap) 22 TIM HECKER* Virgins (Paper Bag) 23 THE ARCADE FIRE* Reflector-single (Merge) 24 COUNTERPARTS* The Difference Between Hell & Home (Victory) 25 GIANNA LAUREN* On Personhood (Forward Music Group) 26 TEGAN AND SARA* Hearthrob (Warner) 27 GROUPLOVE Spreading Rumours (Atlantic) 28 THE PAPER KITES Young North (Nettwerk) 29 LITTLE BOOTS Satellite Remixes (Self-Released) 30 FULL OF HELL Calm the Fire (A389)

31 ALVVAYS*

UPCOMING EVENTS & CONCERTS

Alvvays (Self-Released)

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ENTERTAINMENT Sack Rock Deep Cuts - Lucifer Niles

At first the theme for this mix was going to be Sweet Songs of the East Coast, but that proved too challenging a list to narrow down.

Sack Rock Classics also proved too large and formidable a task, so here’s Sack Rock Deep Cuts, a highly biased look at the underbelly of the Sack Rock scene.

Sources say there is an EP floating around, but the current release by the Moany Jitchells extols everything that made/makes them an incredible live band: the songwriting, sublime vocal interplay, interminable groove, and the appealing sense of composedness with waves of feeling bubbling just below the surface, ready to blow.

Boy+Girl—Yellowteeth

“Big Hoss”—Golf War

Wall of noise, ghost sounds, bonechilling guitar wails, beautiful harmonies. Transcendent sonic experience for the body and the soul.

(The Golf War EP)

7—Astral Gunk

The Golf War EP is an instant classic, and this opening track is a Descendents-tinged ode to a bong.

Perfect for any riotous house party or afternoon buzzathon.

(Split EP)

“Aint’nuff ”—Faceless Babes (Rat King II) The one and only track released by the appropriately monikered mysterious hermits. Faceless Babes manage to be all at once deranged and detached, sloppy and suave, swaggery yet sincere. The song is a frustrated love freakout with an excellent and most soulful solo, and some great, great lines. A sexy Sack Rock deep cut.

Candy Coloured Clown— The Moany Jitchells

This is only a deep cut because it hasn’t been released yet. Coming soon in a split with CROSSS. Song’s really awesome, cool art work.

“Seven / seven people like my band / including me.”

Punk as Fuck—Kappa Chow This is not that much of a deep cut because everyone knows this song, but it is very hard to get a hold of. A badass, joyous live experience.

There are lots more Sack Rock Deep Cuts, but nobody likes to be overwhelmed.

Lucifer Niles is the lead singer of the Mouthbreathers.

(Rat King II)

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Vogue plays Rocky Horror

Mixed Tape Each week, The Argosy asks a member of the Sackville community to create a mixtape playlist on a theme or topic of their choosing.

October 31, 2013

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Experiencing the film in a theatre for the first time Morbid Sam Gore The theatre began to fill up and people in fishnets and gold shorts were walking up and down the aisle.

One came up to me and asked if I had seen the movie before; I said yes.

What I didn’t realize then was that she was really asking if I’d seen it live before, which I hadn’t. It was a few days before Halloween and I was at the annual screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and I had only a very small idea of what I was getting into.

Many consider The Rocky Horror Picture Show to be the original cult film. It stars Barry Bostwick and Susan Sarandon as Brad and Janet, a newly engaged couple who, after a flat tire in the middle of nowhere, wander to the castle of Dr. FrankN-Furter (Tim Curry). Originally released in 1975, the film did not do very well commercially, except in a few theatres, where the same people came back night after night to see the film. It was re-released in 1976 in New York on the midnight movie circuit and quickly spread to theatres all over the world, developing an ardent fan base. The film has been shown at various venues on a regular basis since then.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show event at the Vogue this weekend was a continuation of traditions that were established around thirty years ago, and have been consolidated every year since. People arrived in costume, dressed in anything from fishnet stockings to what looked like rolls of toilet paper. Those who admitted that they had never seen the movie before, live or otherwise, had bright red “V”s drawn on their foreheads.

Costumed crowds line up for Rocky Horror on Friday. (Chills Donovan/Argosy) The crowd was told, “No water and no throwing things at the screen,” and the lights dimmed. As the movie began, everyone sang along to the opening credits, adding words when it made sense.

The film opened at a wedding, and as the married couple exited the chapel, I felt a sprinkling on my head. I looked up and, suddenly, there was rice, uncooked, all over me and everyone around me. Looking around I saw the audience flinging rice all over the room and I began to realize just what this event is all about. The dialogue started and the audience erupted. It took me a few times to make out what people were screaming, but eventually I made out and even took part in the cries “Asshole” or “Slut” whenever someone onscreen says “Brad” or “Janet.”

The Criminologist comes on screen and someone yells, “That man has no neck,” and the crowd boos and

heckles until he goes off screen, with the audience having no idea what he said. People don party hats for the birthday scene; they wear newspaper on their heads during a rainy scene; when “The Time Warp” begins, half the audience gets out of their seats and heads to the front of the theatre to dance and sing along.

Going to see The Rocky Horror Picture Show was a blast. Amidst the torrent of toilet paper, toast, and rice, there I was, grinning like an idiot the whole time. The event is especially fun if you’ve already seen the film before, but if you haven’t, and I knew a few people there who hadn’t, you’re still in for one of the most profound, bewildering, and exciting moviegoing experiences anywhere—just don’t expect to hear a lot of the dialogue. This traditional Halloween event is something that everyone at Mt. A should attend at least once.

Black Bowser Comics hosts Halloween Comicsfest Store takes part in international comic event Norman Bates

Entertainment Editor On Saturday, Black Bowser Comics participated in its second annual Halloween Comicsfest. To celebrate the holiday that comics have so often been associated with, perhaps due in part to their preoccupation with the darkly supernatural and, inversely, their association with children, Black Bowser gave away free comics, hosted a costume contest, held a Magic: The Gathering demonstration, and sold many titles at reduced prices on October 26. The store participated as part of a larger international effort

by Diamond Comic Distributors, the world’s largest English comic

distributor.

Andrew Black and Tom Bowser, the co-owners of the store, participated in the event, and made their own unique additions, as an initiative to attract new readers. Although the distribution of free special edition comics is part of the international effort, the Magic: The Gathering demonstration, which included a free deck for all those who participated, was unique to Black Bowser. The pair hopes to see the already strong Magic community in Sackville grow with initiatives like this.

Although Black and Bowser started the shop with modest ambitions, Black said that the pair was “surprised at the success of the shop, not just monetarily, but with regard to the support they receive from both the town and the university.” Black Bowser is the fourth comic shop in Sackville’s history and has lasted the longest thus far. The owners have noticed an increased knowledge of comics in general, as

they shift from what was once a niche interest to the mainstream. The pair plans on expanding their business and interaction with the community, with initiatives such as their Graphic Novel Book Club, the inclusion of more toys, collectibles, and children’s programs.

Black and Bowser mentioned that Brian K. Vaughan’s Saga is currently one of their most popular sellers, along with Superior Spiderman, a title that Marvel launched a year ago, in the superhero department.

Additionally, many customers come in for trades, merchandise, and toys of titles like Robert Kirkman’s immensely popular Walking Dead, which has been adapted into a hit AMC series. The recent pop culture obsession with adapting comic books into television and film has certainly spurred this interest, and benefited long-time fans, new converts, and owners of shops like Black Bowser.

Black Bowser co-owner Andrew Black mans the counter. (Nick Cryptov/Argosy)

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Halifax Pop is still one of the best Canadian music festivals Pop Explosion caters to all kinds of music and media lovers Cameron Machiavellian

Entertainment Writer

Last week from Tuesday to Saturday, Halifax Pop Explosion dazzled the minds and deafened the ears of the audiences fortunate enough to make it to the Maritimes’ urban centre. And many did—the turnout was huge and lead straight through to the liveliest crowds, which were perfectly conducive to the live music. Perhaps this was surprising, given the jaw-dropping lineup that was so diverse it allowed the festival to feel centred on any genre, from punk rock to hip hop.

Wednesday night’s headliner Wavves brought about what was undoubtedly one of the week’s highlights, bringing their signature nihilistic and intensively jaded garage rock to the Olympic Community Centre in Halifax. The Southern California band, with their music a spliff of surf and punk, lit up the night, grinding the crowd in to a roiling mosh pit, laced with the abandonment of discontent. Separated only by quick microphone checks, (due to unfortunate technical issues with the sound), and a drug reference or two, the set was almost an hour of non-stop waves of crowd surfers, and the excretion of the grimy kind of jubilation that punk seems to bring out in everyone.

Kevin Brasier of The Mouthbreathers crowd surfs as his bandmates play a set. (Cameron Machiavellian/Argosy) Wednesday night culminated with the entire festival converging at Reflections, a gay bar in the centre of downtown Halifax.

BADBADNOTGOOD put the crowd to bed, capitalizing on the propensity for moshing that Wavves had undoubtedly whipped up.

Although they are almost a cover band, the trio’s technicality, musicianship, and blood-pumping stage presence more than account for that oddity. The label is applied loosely, as the songs they do cover tend to be hip hop or house beats recontextualized within the genre of free jazz,

whirling in and out of improvised regressions.

Standout covers included an electronic drum pad-infused, drop happy “Bugg’n,” originally composed by TNGHT, and a cover of Kanye West’s “Flashing Lights” powered by a dark and rolling bass line. The band also showed off some new original content from their album, which they are currently in the process of recording.

Lucky enough for all involved, this almost-cover band got to play another set, opening up for Killer Mike on Thursday.

Thursday night was destined to be punk rock

Folk music fills the Pond Under-attended show deserves bigger audience

Hometown heroes rock Halifax Pop Sackville bands favourites at Halifax festival

Austin Land-of-the-Dead-ry The atmosphere in Mount Allison’s campus pub was bright and cheery Friday night once all the musical performers had finished jockeying for stage space. They were Vancouver-based The River and The Road (TRaTR), Woodpigeon, and Sackville-based Michael Duguay.

Interviewing TRaTR’s drummer Cole George beforehand, The Argosy learned of a couple hiccups the band had run into along its first cross-nation tour, namely playing Toronto’s The Cameron House, whose stage was so small it could accommodate only half of George’s drum kit. Luckily, this was not the case at the relatively spacious Pond.

Woodpigeon, hailing from Calgary, was the night’s first act, and they soon took the stage. They began their set with a whispering cello that was present in almost all their songs, helping introduce harmonic layers as well as signalling crescendos toward the end of several tracks. I was reminded of Arcade Fire’s “Neighbourhood #4 (7 Kettles)” from their debut album, Funeral. Woodpigeon made ingenious use of mixing techniques during their performance, which helped them layer instruments that their three-member band would be otherwise incapable of. Mark Andrew Hamilton, on lead vocals, had a very capable range, and their final song of the set was announced

heaven with performances by Jerk Damaged, Fucked Up, the Mouthbreathers, Cousins, and then Fucked Up again, with a set that included the entirety of “Year of the Dragon,” their fifty-minute punk odyssey. The night included the main hip hop show, featuring Killer Mike’s southern rap and awe-inspiring stage presence along with a second performance

by BADBADNOTGOOD. However, Action Bronson’s last-minute cancellation for health reasons dampened the mood: It forced Halifax Pop to refund tickets, caused much confusion in the scheduling, and definitely added to the crowds of the other venues.

The unnerving choice of which shows to attend was at its most agonizing on Friday night, in which 2013 Polaris Prize nominees METZ, Young Galaxy, and Sackville’s Jon McKiel played at similar times, at what seemed to be opposite ends of the city.

The last night saw a huge turnout for Japandroids, in the process of playing their last set in Canada for this current tour. Before Japandroids’ set was METZ’s second performance of the festival, which did not quite live up to that of the previous night: the difference was the environment, with Reflections’ tight and packed atmosphere giving the crowd a rowdy energy that dissipated in the more spacious Olympic Community Centre.

That night, Reflections itself saw performances that lasted into the wee hours of the morning, a show that morphed from Halifax garage rock when it began, to straight up electronic when it finished, marking the end of the equally comprehensive festival.

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The River and The Road play their lively set to the Pond. (Chills Donovan/Argosy) by a constant strum as rhythm was punctuated again with the cello.

Next up was Mt. A student Michael Duguay, who took the stage and immediately requested dimmer lighting for want of a more intimate atmosphere. He had great rapport with the crowd and promised some folksy tunes, and boy, did he deliver.

His strength is in his vocals and in the freshness of his lyrics. He started his set off with a song about Canadian singer-songwriters and never looked back, moving into songs that recounted relatable, everyday anecdotes. His setlist, bolstered by his wonderfully self-aware lyrics and analyses of the average college-aged person and their exploits, paid keen attention to the scope of life: the funny and the melancholy, and how abruptly it can move from one to the other.

His third song, Duguay promised, was “about getting too drunk to fuck,” apt for a Friday night, and contained a few disarmingly clever lyrics, among them, “I was speaking in tongues.” Duguay also shared some new material with the welcoming

crowd, as well as the first song he wrote upon arriving in Sackville.

The evening’s final performers took more time to solidify their setup and didn’t begin their set until after midnight, but those who remained for The River and The Road didn’t regret it in the slightest. In Ottawa during their tour they met Caitlin Harnett, a singer from Australia, who began travelling and performing with the band. She was set to return to her homeland but made a last-minute decision to continue onward with the band. “It was only $60 to change my flight,” she said—well worth the price, in my opinion. The band’s harmonies were sublime throughout their set.

Having The River and The Road conclude the evening’s performances was the right choice, too. Their setlist slowly but surely gained raw energy, building to a sensational climax.

It wasn’t exactly a packed house, but it more than deserved to be.

Sackville’s music scene is one of its greatest strengths, and nights like this one are great reminders of that. They may just remind too few.

As has been the case for a few years now, the entirety of the Sackville music scene and its musical thrill seekers picked up and headed to the big city to bear witness to another iteration of Halifax Pop Explosion. The week saw performances by a couple of Sackville super groups in the Mouthbreathers and Jon McKiel’s band, along with other Sackville-influenced collectives such as Jerk Damaged and Al Tuck.

Sackville-infused Jerk Damaged kicked off a show on Thursday night at the Pavilion, which finished with the first of two Fucked Up sets that night. The venue, a graffiti-covered, low-ceilinged place on a skate park, was the perfect setting for a show that became progressively wilder as the night continued, and grounded the entire evening in a distinctly too ‘punk to give a fuck’ attitude.

The night then scattered the festival’s attendees across the city, with the main punk contingent following Fucked Up across the Commons to the Marquee Ballroom along with what seemed like the entirety of the usual Sackville crowd turning up for the Mouthbreathers’ and Cousins’ sets, giving Halifax a homey, small town Sackville feel. It was a very Hotel California moment, a ‘you can go to

Halifax any time you like, but you can never leave Sackville’ sort of deal.

The Mouthbreathers’ set went off without a hitch. The energy level was really kicked up a notch by a crowd that knew all the words to every song and was not afraid to sacrifice accessories to the mosh pit that reappeared without fail with every song. The band, unquestioned masters of the small venue set, took the same spirit to the bigger stage, giving off both the involvement of tiny venues and the sheer energy and momentum that big crowds give off, resulting in a great high note to lead into Cousins and Fucked Up. Both in turn would add to the number of lost items claimed by the mosh.

Jon McKiel got to show off his wonderful rural indie rock in the big city performing a midnight set in Gus’ Pub on Friday. The Pub, famous for good live music, was treated to the universally-enjoyed songcraft that Jon and company never fail to cook up every time.

All in all, the festival seemed to raise up everything Sackville produced with the favourite local acts moving on up toward headlining the big sets and toward the bigger prints on those festival posters that are always plastered all over town when a festival rolls in. The efforts of Sackville’s music industry are lifting up the local acts to national importance.

The small town heroes killed it on the biggest stage in the Maritimes, Sackville pride was in much abundance, and the festival would not have hit half as close to home without their upbeat punk music.

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Students produced their own handmade art at the assembly’s workshops (surrounding; Paschal Beverly Randolph/Submitted). Seripop observes “Something Out of Nothing” (centre; Chills Donovan/Argosy).

Montreal artists present in Sackville Seripop installs artwork at Struts, works with students Tyler Frankenstuart

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Members of the fine arts community gathered in the Owens Art Gallery to listen to artist duo Seripop, whose eccentric attire could only be matched by their art. The Wednesday artist talk was the first event of A Handmade Assembly.

The two members of Seripop, Yannick Desranleau and Chloe Lum, moved from experimental music to do-it-yourself (DIY) street posters to installations, which are designed to deteriorate over time.

“We kind of like the fact that things just get old and crappy,” Desranleau said with a chuckle.

In their presentation, Seripop reiterated its courting of entropy.

“That’s the state of everything; so rather than fighting against the inevitable, why not embrace it?” Lum said.

Lum said Seripop uses paper as a medium due to its structural instability.

“When you embrace change, you allow yourself to be surprised with the results,” Lum said. “I think it keeps things interesting. We don’t get bored.”

Seripop was also the first instalment of the Visiting Artist Program, for which Seripop installed two pieces entitled, “Certainty: Two Times Not Really.”

Rachel Thornton, a third-year fine arts student, helped Seripop install

their pieces in Struts Art Gallery.

Thornton said that she would not have put the methods together they way Seripop did.

“It was really interesting to hear them talk about how they use print as a means to make matter for sculptures,” Thornton said.

For A Handmade Assembly, Seripop conducted studio visits with fine arts students and community members.

Joe Chamandy, a fourth-year fine arts major, signed up for a studio visit with Seripop and helped with their installation in the week leading up to A Handmade Assembly. Chamandy, who is from Montreal, said he was a fan of Seripop’s music and art before he knew they were coming to Sackville.

“They know a lot about art, and because I feel like I’m coming from a similar vein of ideas, they were pretty

helpful,” he said.

Looking back, Desranleau said he wanted more experiences like the studio visits.

“As a student, that’s what I was dying to get: contact,” Desranleau said.

Fourth-year fine arts major Maggie Higgins said that her studio visit was positive and effective. Seripop encouraged her to produce more art, and work with the results.

“I was interested in how they deal with the gallery system as artists who are outside the box,” Higgins said.

Seripop flew back to Montreal on Saturday evening, after A Handmade Assembly wrapped up.

Both Desranleau and Lum said they enjoyed the event, and were impressed with the Mt. A fine arts students.

“You’ve got some talented peers,” Lum said.

Seripop’s Yannick Desranleau presents at Owen’s Art Gallery for the first event of the third annual A Handmade Assembly. (Chills Donovan/Argosy)

Sackville’s fine arts community assembles A Handmade Assembly brings new crafts to the table Taylor Ghostier Features Writer

Students and community members gathered at the Legion on Wednesday night to celebrate the opening of the third annual Handmade Assembly.

There, they talked, listened to music, and crocheted over a table covered in Christmas lights and yarn, setting the tone for the days to come.

“We usually do potlucks, whereas this year we opened it up more to the public,” said Jerry Ropson, who teaches fine arts at Mount Allison.

Organized by Struts Gallery, Faucet Media Arts Centre, and the Owens Arts Gallery, with the support of the Mt. A Department of Fine Arts, and Thunder and Lightning Ltd, A Handmade Assembly was held from last Wednesday to Saturday.

During this time, artists of different media gave presentations and workshops, introducing students and community members to the different aspects of the handmade. Among these were puppet animations and zines by Amy Lockhart, embroidery

by Anna Torma, bookbinding with Sarah Evans, and a workshop and talk by A Handmade Assembly’s online artist-in-residence Robyn Love, about various site-specific and participatory knitting projects.

“I think the Assembly is important because there aren’t a lot

of opportunities for artists to get together,” said Rachel Thornton, a third-year fine arts student. “It gives us an excuse to take a break during the week, go to workshops, and just make stuff.”

A gallery crawl took place Friday night, travelling from Yoko Homareda’s “Something Out of Nothing” display at the Owens Art Gallery, to Struts Gallery and Seripop’s “Certainty: Two Times Not Really.” The crawl ended at Thunder and Lightning Ltd, with “Believer” by Erik Edson.

“There was a period where the gallery was just filled with people, and then they all moved on to the next place,” said Katie Patterson, a volunteer at Struts Gallery.

Saturday was a chance for students and community members to show and sell their own handmade creations at a crafters market, the Heart & Pocket Revue, held at the Legion.

On Saturday night came the closing address, and an atmosphere similar to that of the opening: warm and intimate. Ropson and John Murchie, the [recently retired] co-coordinator of Struts Gallery, addressed the audience. Together and with the participation of the audience, they reflected on and tried to engender conversation regarding the handmade.

“Year after year we seem to be extending the boundary, the idea of handmade. It may not always be obvious that they are handmade,” Ropson said at the conclusion of the closing address. “But the conversation doesn’t have to end here; it can continue on until next year and next time.”

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Evening tour of handmade exhibits Gallery Crawl showcases worldclass art

Fine arts students observe Seripop’s installation in Struts Gallery during the Gallery Crawl (top left; Chills Donovan/Argosy). Gallery crawlers stop at Jazz Guys Pub to view art over drinks (centre; Chills Donovan/Argosy). Artist workshops included students, teachers, and local art enthusiasts (Paschal Beverly Randolph/Submitted). Students crochet at opening ceremony (Chills Donovan/Argosy).

Robyn Love creates a sort of World Wide Web

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Arts & Literature Writer In order to celebrate and highlight the exhibitions of A Handmade Assembly’s participants, the public was invited to a tour of the artwork of Yoko Hamareda, Seripop, and Erik Edson in various venues throughout Sackville. The Gallery Crawl provided an exploration of a diverse variety of handmade art as well as an opportunity to meet with the artists themselves.

The first stop on A Handmade Assembly’s Gallery Crawl was Mount Allison’s Owens Art Gallery, featuring the delicately constructed exhibit entitled “Something out of Nothing” by Yoko Homareda.

Originally born in Tokyo, Homareda has been living and working in Nantes, France since 2003, where she practices her style of art, which is defined by crafts, the home, and attention to detail.

Much of Homareda’s exhibit focuses on the theme of repetition and the creation of something meaningful and beautiful from a mosaic of tiny actions. Some of her pieces involve the use of short, parallel brushstrokes with acrylic paint to form the impression of a woven tapestry or a page of text. Another piece combines several of these into a larger ‘quilt’ of paintings that varies in colour and design. Finally, Homareda’s collection of porcelain figures exemplifies her distinctive technique of repetition.

Varying in shape, size, and colour, these tiny pyramids are made by slowly pouring layer after layer of coloured porcelain over a mould, and are arranged in Homareda’s exhibit to form a landscape of geometric hills and mountains.

Homareda’s exhibition will reside in the Owens for the pleasure of the viewing public until December 8.

Struts Gallery was the next stop

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Online artistin-residence explores personal relationships in the Gallery Crawl, where Yannick Desranleau and Chloe Lum, or ‘Seripop’, had recently installed their improvisational exhibit entitled, “Certainty: Two Times Not Really.”

Both artists studied at Concordia University, and although based in Montreal, their multimedia and multi-dimensional work has been featured across Canada.

Seripop’s artwork stands out in a room almost as much as their vibrant costumes do. By using the dimensions and features of a space such as Struts, their exhibits aim to re-texture, repaint, and re-envision the very room in a way that is unique and intrinsic to each gallery. In “Certainty: Two Times Not Really,” Desranleau and Lum coated the interior with multiple layers of colourful wallpaper, then littered the room with upright sheets of the same material, sometimes ripping up what they had already laid down as if to suggest that the colours themselves were springing to life from the floors and walls. The result is a visually disorienting yet mentally captivating concoction of patterns, images, and dimensional ambiguity with the viewer standing helplessly in the centre of it all. Not only is the entire exhibit handmade, but the wallpaper itself is designed and created by Seripop using their own giant printer.

Struts will house this artistic display of twisted reality until November 22,

2013.

The third and final exhibit in the Gallery Crawl was “Believer” by Erik Edson, housed in the cozy atmosphere of the newly opened Jazz Guys Pub. A Sackville resident, Edson’s work is just recently gaining momentum in the Canadian art community, particularly with his exhibit at Open Studio in Toronto.

The humble yet evocative exhibit combines the handmade aspect of textiles with Edson’s fascination with the depiction of animals. Often utilizing innovative elements, such as multiple interacting layers of fabric and scorch marks that form an ethereal outline of an object or figure, Edson’s exhibit draws the viewer in with an insinuation of conventional creativity before knocking them senseless with a twist of unanticipated depth and brilliance. In general, Edson works within the seemingly simple medium of fabric and thread to pioneer new methods of expression within the constraints of handmade criteria.

The importance of ‘homespun’ aspects to Sackville’s artistic community is fairly evident. Not only can one consider A Handmade Assembly an intrinsic product of Sackville’s small town character, but the participation of these world-class artists in this event demonstrates the significance of handmade elements to art as a broader cultural practice.

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Arts & Literature Editor We meet hundreds of people in our lifetime, but how many do we actually see? What do our interactions, large or small, online or in person, really mean to us? Robyn Love, A Handmade Assembly’s online artist-in-residence, set out to answer these questions with her project “Inter/Intra/Indra.”

Love’s work was conceived as a month-long project for A Handmade Assembly. Her progress was documented daily on her blog and shared with her virtual audience.

Love, a textile artist currently based in Newfoundland, works with materials generally associated with crafting traditions, notably knitting and crocheting. She creates site-specific installations that open dialogue with viewers, and break down the barriers between friend and stranger relationships. In much of Love’s work, her audience is intimately implicated in the creation of the final product.

Such is the case with her latest project for A Handmade Assembly, titled, “Inter/Intra/Indra.”

Love’s work is a small, web-like installation that draws upon the Buddhist metaphor of Indra’s Net to illustrate the interconnectivity of our daily interactions and personal relationships. According to the story,

Indra, the world’s creator, made the earth in the form of a web, connecting every knot he made with a pearl. Each pearl helps connect the entire web, and as Love explained, “the structure of the net is a manifestation of relationships – each one completely reflecting the whole.”

In her piece, Love gives a physical shape to this abstract idea by creating her own small corner of the net that documents each one of her personal relationships during a one-month period. From each of her, “real life” interactions, Love collected a small object or physical reminder of her conversation, and tacked it onto a wall in her studio. A second layer of the net, marked by a translucent fishing line and small notes, documents her online interactions. Over the course of one month, the two lines of contact crossed paths, intersected, and grew from one another until the web developed into a living, intimate diary and archive of the artist’s relationships. Her installation also plays on the concept of the Internet as an enormous technological ‘web’ by giving it an intensely personal, tangible form that wavers between the private and public spheres.

In a world based so strongly upon the idea of being constantly connected, Love reminds her audience of the value of considering who we connect with, how we do so, and what we get out of it. Each person we interact with, be it online or faceto-face, contributes something to our evolving webs of connectivity.

To see Love’s journey through her Handmade Assembly artist-inresidency program and become part of her web, visit her blog at http:// ahandmadeassembly.wordpress.com

SPORTS Sports in Brief Women’s Hockey split road games

The Mount Allison Women’s hockey team was on the road this weekend for a pair of games against the Dalhousie Tigers and the St. Thomas Tommies.

On Friday night in Halifax, they beat the Tigers 3-2 in a close game. Mt. A trailed 2-0 before scoring three unanswered goals to win their second straight Atlantic University Sport matchup. Emily van Diepen scored the winning goal with five minutes and thirty-nine seconds left; Lindsay James and Shelby Colten also scored.

The Mounties lost a close game on Sunday, 4-3 to the St. Thomas University Tommies. Despite outshooting them 27-17, they couldn’t stop the Tommies’ attack. Sarah Gagnier, Kristen Cooze, and Jennifer Dillon both scored for the Mounties.

The Mounties have two wins and two losses, and forward Courtney King is third in league, scoring with five points.

Huskies rain on Senior Mounties parade This week, the Men’s Soccer team received news from the Atlantic University Sport that the Université de Moncton (UdeM) will grant them an extra win last Friday. UdeM used an ineligible player for a match against the Mounties, which will now result in a 3-0 win for Mount Allison. They had hoped to get their third win of the season on Sunday, against the Saint Mary’s Huskies, which marks their final game of the season.

Almost all of the starters had ceremonies prior to the game, as most of them are potential graduates this year. The list included Adrian Crace, Bradley Joseph, Jonathan O’Keefe, Ian Smith, John Cooney, Jonas Hammar, Leland Spettigue, Sam Bliss, and Kevin Seely.

The Huskies scored twice on the Mounties in the first half, and the teams battled the muddy MacAulay Field for the remainder of the match. The Mounties were unable to get past the Huskies defence, and The Huskies won by a final score of two-nil.

Mt. A victorious in return to Field Hockey

The Mount Allison Women’s Field Hockey team opened up their season this past Saturday with two exhibition games in Saint John against the University of New Brunswick Saint John. Despite the freezing cold and a turf field, the Mounties won both games.

The score of the first game was 1-0 for Mt. A. The Mounties’ Katie Gordon scored the only goal in the first game.

The Mounties won the second game 3-1. Taylor McCuaig scored twice, and Caity Brown chipped in with the other goal.

It is the first year in recent memory that Mt. A has had a Women’s Field Hockey team as in past years, Mt. A had trouble finding enough players to compete.

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How much water does your body really need to stay healthy?

Eight glasses a day may not be the perfect fit for everyone Célina Booooooothby You may be hearing more and more about the ‘8 x 8’ fad or rule of thumb when it comes to ingesting enough water so that we don’t shrivel up into prunes. The ubiquitous idea that eight glasses with eight-ounce volumes of water should be our consumption is a rather arbitrary concept to me. Where did this concept originate? What is the true biological importance of water? And is water our only option?

Walk around campus, sit in on any lecture, relax in Gracie’s café, or study by the back window tables in the library, and you will notice a common occurrence. Water bottles are everywhere, and they are taking over every desk, table, and backpack.

Obviously, people are feeling the importance of getting in our eight daily glasses. But where did this number originate? Who was the almighty individual to cast this secret of life among us mere humans?

There appears to be very little documented evidence on where this number eight originated. The 1945 Food and Nutrition Board of the National Research Council protests that individuals should ingest one millilitre of fluid per calorie consumed. This has been debunked time and time again, and we are continuously sent back to the drawing board on that number eight.

In my research, I found that the 8 x 8 rule only applies to healthy adults in temperate conditions who exercise moderately. This appears to include most students here at Mount Allison.

However, we all differ greatly in body stature, weight, height, metabolism, medical issues, and overall health.

Naturally, a physiological breakdown will greatly assist in appreciating this concept. Our bodies are made up of fifty to seventy per cent fluid. More specifically, our blood is eighty-five per cent water, muscles are eighty per cent, the brain seventy-five percent, and bones are twenty-five per cent water. But every body is different and a random number like eight will not suffice for every body type or way of functioning.

Now, is water the only fix for this quench? No! I found evidence that milk, juice, coffee, tea, carbonated drinks, and even alcohol all count toward this magic number eight.

Moderation is key here, and more than half of this intake should be clean crisp H2O. Remember, beverages with high amounts of caffeine will perform the opposite affect and dehydrate you significantly.

If you exercise vigorously for more than one or two hours a day, physicians recommend a higher fluid intake, if not a ‘sports drink’ that contains electrolytes for optimal hydration restoration.

The most important thing to remember is to drink when you are thirsty. This does not necessarily mean you are already dehydrated, but it is your body letting you know some important information. Try adding lemon, lime, or cucumber if you struggle with water intake, as this will keep things tangy and will also detoxify. Even if this 8 x 8 rule is just a passing fad, I am very impressed with the amount of water intake around campus already. Water has always been an important aspect to human life for millennia.

Whether or not the 8 x 8 rule is here to stay or not, it is important to make drinking water an essential part of your daily routine. Keep it up and your body will thank you. Stay healthy, folks!

Célina Booooooothby is Mount Allison University’s Health Intern.

Four Intramural teams were crowned champions in their respective leagues this fall. The Windsor Coed team outlasted their opponents on the soccer field taking the championship (above). Nathan Garland, Ian Roberts, and Stephen Buckley pose with the Intramural golf title (left). Touch My Rodriguez took an exciting Intramural softball championship to claim the 2013 title (bottom-left). Hunton House reclaims their title on Spirit Night as a part of Mount Allison’s Orientation week (bottom right). (Janet O’Lantern Robinson/Mount Allison).

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Mounties stun all; will host AUS playoff game Football team finsishes second, will host playoff game Benjamin Frankenstein

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Just three weeks ago, the Mount Allison Mounties had slim chances of making the playoffs. They were last in the Atlantic University Sport (AUS) conference and things were not looking up. A dominating three-game winning streak improved their record to four wins and four losses, and the Mounties have fought their way to a playoff spot.

Mt. A did what they needed to do in their regular season finale Saturday against the Acadia Axemen, winning 23-14. The Mounties finished second in the AUS for the first time since 2010. Finishing second allows them to host a playoff game this weekend. They will play a rematch against Acadia in the AUS semifinal next Saturday, Nov. 2, at 2 pm. This is the Mounties’ fourth playoff appearance in the last six years.

“It was three weeks in a row that we needed to win a football game and now we have to try to do this again next week,” Mount Allison Athletic Director Pierre Arsenault said of the

The Mounties have stunned the AUS, and will now look to beat Acadia and move on to the Loney Bowl. (Chills Donovan/Argosy) team’s first three game winning streak since 1998 and the momentum the team is feeling.

After having lots of fans out in Halifax against Saint Mary’s for their game last week, MacAulay Field was packed all around and the faithful were cheering loudly. The field gave the Mounties a huge home field advantage, as it more resembled a dirt road than a football field.

“I really like the way our team plays

at home, just being here in front of our hometown crowd. Bringing this game to this campus is a great thing, and hopefully next Saturday will be a great day,” Arsenault said.

The Mounties came out as fast as they have all season. They set up to go for a third and three, but instead quarterback Brandon Leyh punted the ball down to the Acadia two-yard line where wide receiver Troy Trentham recovered it. This gave Mt. A an

Women’s Soccer to host AUS playoffs this weekend Mounties to make return to playoffs, await Axewomen Norman Bates Sports Editor

The Mount Allison Women’s Soccer Mounties ended the regular season with two draws against the Saint Mary’s Huskies (SMU). The second draw occurred last Sunday, Oct. 27. The women battled abysmal conditions on MacAulay Field to draw the Huskies 2-2. The rain coupled with the recent football game provided for treacherous conditions on the field. Amanda Volcko scored with just minutes remaining in what was a very dramatic match.

Before the game started, potential graduates Megan Entwistle and goalkeeper Robin Bessemer were given a ceremony for all of their hard work on the field. Entwistle showed her talents by scoring in the opening minutes of the match.

With a 1-0 lead, the Mounties looked to send their graduating teammates off with a bang, but SMU tried to spoil the party. With consecutive goals from Lindsay Millett Ventham and then Nicole Tibbets, the Huskies went into half time with a 2-1 lead.

Conditions on the playing surface were already poor before the match. The football game that had preceded the soccer game had tore up a large patch of MacAulay Field. The conditions

Fr iday October 25 Wo m e n s H o c k e y Mt.A 3 @ Dalhousie 2

began to worsen on MacAulay Field as the rain fell until half time. This created a much larger mud patch on the scoreboard side of the pitch.

Bessemer, who had played in said patch of mud for the first half, was covered from head-to-toe in the muck. Her play allowed for the Mounties to strike back with minutes remaining in the match.

Amanda Volcko paid back the Mounties’ Atlantic University Sport (AUS) foes back by scoring a heartbreaker of their own. So many times this year, the women have suffered late goals from opposing teams, which have cost the club key points, but Sunday was the their day to shine. Volcko took a scrambled ball in tight and potted it cleanly into the back of the Huskies’ net.

Final efforts from both sides proved useless.

The match ended in a draw. Looking back to their match against the University of Prince Edward Island Panthers on Oct. 19, they have played in three consecutive matches where they have been competitive, and put themselves into a winning position late. Because the Mounties are hosting the AUS Championships, they are guaranteed a spot in the playoffs. These final games have proved to the rest of the conference that the Mounties can compete. The Mounties still have a strong corps of players from last year’s team, who won their way into the playoffs for the first time ever.

The AUS playoffs will be hosted at an offcampus site in Moncton, at Rocky Stone Field.

The winner will be decided this weekend. Mt. A will face Acadia in their first matchup on Friday at 2 pm. The Axewomen have a record of seven wins, four losses, and two draws, and beat Mt. A 2-0 on Sept. 6 in AUS action.

Saturday October 26 Fo o t b a l l Acadia 14 @ Mt. A 23 Wo m e n ’ s F i e l d H o c k -

incredible field position. Running back Jordan Botel ran the ball in for his sixth touchdown of the season and made it 7-0 for the Mounties. Acadia stormed back right away and scored on a sixty-four yard drive what would be their only touchdown of the game.

The Axemen threatened to take the lead in the second quarter, but the pressure the Mounties defence was putting on Axemen quarterback Evan Brown forced him to throw a bad pass.

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Donovan Saunders intercepted and he brought the ball back fifty-nine yards. This was a turning point in the game, as the Mounties scored fifteen unanswered points to make the game 22-7. The touchdowns were caught by Kyle McLean and Matt Rose, both on passes from Leyh.

Mount Allison was able to close out the Axemen in the second half, and took the game by a final score of 2314.

“We had a lead and the coaches have trusted me to get the first downs we’ve needed,” said Botel after the game. His efforts in running the ball in the second half ate up a large chunk of the game clock, and prevented Acadia from excessive amounts of possessions.

The Mounties defence played well, causing three turnovers; all three were interceptions. Devonte Sampson and Te Nguyen each had one, bringing their season totals to four each.

Sampson also had seven-and-a-half tackles.

Leyh has gone ten quarters without turning the ball over, and Botel did not have a fumble all season. This means that the Mounties have a turnover advantage going into the playoffs.

Mt. A has beaten every other contender in the AUS this season. This is an accomplishment that all of their foes cannot claim. The Mounties play Acadia at MacAulay next week and advance to the Loney Bowl against the Saint Mary’s University Huskies for the AUS championship.

Sex Bomb Of course you can use your Halloween costume as a sex prop

Last weekend’s events on- and off-campus brought out a large assortment of Halloween costumes. You guys had some great ideas, but now you’re left wondering what you’re going to do with your costumes. The writers of the Sex Bomb are here to save the day. Why not use them to spice up the bedroom? There’s nothing like a little role play! You can spice up Halloween night with an assortment of costumes, including: The Cat A staple in the realm of feminine Halloween costumes, the cat is one of the easiest costumes to throw together in a flash. Every girl has her favourite pair of yoga pants and/or tights in her closet, and a black top completes the outfit.

Whiskers and a headband can really treat your partner on the special evening. After all, everybody needs a feline friend.

The Lumberjack Do you think you’re cut out to be a manly man?

This outfit will take your partner through the forests of love. A plaid shirt and a neon orange hunting hat might be enough to entice you to warm your apartment via wood furnace this winter. Chopping down a couple of timbers will get your partner going in no time. Don’t forget, hardwood is more desirable than softwood when building your campfire!

The Mermaid The Mermaid costume is easy. Blue tights or

a blue skirt, a white top, and sea shells glued on a headband and you’re ready to go. Creative use of make up can only enhance your real life Ariel experience. Red hair optional.

Sailor Jerry This costume is easily created. Have a couple of empty bottles of hard liquor laying around your dorm room? Tape two of them to your hands, put on your favourite sailing hat, and you’re ready to get anyone’s engines rumbling. You will have to keep in mind that your hands are useless, so make sure you aren’t going sailing with any kind of land-lover, in case things go downhill.

Silver Slugger You can be the star of Mount Allison’s fictional baseball team with this costume. You can be your partners pinch-hit home run hero tonight. Throw a baseball jersey and couple it with a pair of shorts, or tights, and you will feel your manager give you the nod to pinch-hit in the final at bat of your bedroom’s World Series. Apply two horizontal black lines under your eyes to turn your triple into a home run. Touch ‘em all with this pansexual get-up and make Halloween 2013 a night to remember!

Whether you spend Halloween night trying to beg for candy from Sackvillian residents, or try one of our foolproof costumes, our ideas are sure to make tonight a night to remember!

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October 31, 2013

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Chad Norman’s poetry recalls Maritime history Nova Scotia poet realeases new book of poetry Julia McKill’em

Arts & Literature Editor Anyone who has ever driven through rural Nova Scotia might be familiar with the Masstown area, notable for its infamous country market and campy roadside antique sales. While these sights are now memorable fixtures of the province’s highway landscape, Chad Norman remembers a different version of the area, which he describes in his latest collection of poetry, Masstown. The book is a tribute to Norman’s grandparents, Bert and Gladys, and an homage

to the disappearance of small dairy farms in the Atlantic region.

On Oct. 24, Norman brought his work to Mount Allison University, where he read a selection of his poetry to a small but enthusiastic audience in the Manning Room of the University Chapel. The English department’s Robert Lapp and the English Society organized the event.

During the reading, Norman shared poems that transported the audience into the intimate space of his old family farmhouse. He vividly re-constructed fragments of his childhood memory, recounting scenes like haircuts or “trims” in the kitchen, the process of canning preserves in the fall, and the quiet after-dinner hours spent with Bert and Gladys.

But Norman’s poetry is more than just a tender retrospect of his grandparents’ lives. His work also

recalls the now increasingly obsolete culture of family farming in the Maritimes.

“I was honouring a way of life which relied on a once thriving industry, the family-owned and operated dairy farm,” said Norman.

“In the beginning, the manuscript was titled Bert and Gladys, but I knew there was something larger than them and the farm history.”

From listening to Norman recite his work, it becomes clear that the meanings of his poems extend beyond the literal descriptions of his grandparents’ marriage. Each poem, written with a mix of fondness, nostalgia, and regional nuance, is imbued with a sense of rural history that many Canadians can relate to.

As I read his work—specifically the poem “Canning”—I was reminded of a distinct moment in rural Prince

Edward Island making jam in my own Grandmother’s kitchen. I can guess that many Canadian readers who pick up Norman’s book will be flooded with memories of their own that are rooted in a similarly rural aesthetic.

Norman’s plainly and sensitively expressed details breathe life and colour into his poems. His straightforward anecdotes about the flour on Gladys’s apron, or the liquor Bert smuggled away in the bathroom, lend a light-hearted, even comedic, element to his writing. His verses use unadorned and sparse language that creates brief, but vivid, pictures that emerge and disintegrate just like memories.

Although his poems are openly personal and sentimental, there is nothing self-indulgent about them.

The simplicity and subtlety of the

scenes Norman creates render his work accessible and relatable without being overly individualistic or melancholy—a welcome change from much autobiographically derived contemporary poetry.

Masstown is a valuable addition to the Canadian contemporary poetry repertoire. It captures the importance of keeping traditions alive and honouring our memories. Norman’s observations allow his readers to see where history and the present diverge, and where they intersect.

Norman resides in Truro, Nova Scotia, where he works at a manufacturing plant and continues to write poetry. Masstown is his fifteenth book of poetry throughout his twenty-five year long career. The collection was published by Black Moss Press in Windsor, Ontario.

Runge brings audiences ‘Back to Baroque’ Recital features Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms Julia McKill’em

Arts & Literature Editor Stephen Runge transported audiences back in time as he performed a program entitled “Back to Baroque” during his solo faculty recital, which featured a series of piano pieces inspired by the Baroque era from Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. The pieces Runge showcased combined the innermost expression of the Romantic era with the formulaic structure of Baroque music. The recital took place on Friday, Oct. 25 at the Brunton Auditorium.

Runge began the evening by delving directly into two pieces by Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach, without any formal address to the audience. He played with impressive precision and treated the most complex rhythms with a mixture of ease and authority.

While Runge’s delivery of Bach’s pieces was meticulous, and demonstrated incredible musicality and commitment to periodic character, the second half of the performance was more engaging and consistently dynamic. His final piece, “Variations and Fugue on a Theme

by Handel” by Johannes Brahms left the audience entranced and amazed by the calibre of his musicianship.

Filled with dissonant harmonies that resolved into tonal melodic structures, the piece featured opposing moods of tranquility and power that sustained interest in the long composition.

The diversity of the program added an element of interest and engagement to the performance. The Baroque elements in the Romantic pieces demonstrated to audience members how musical themes traverse periods, and how composers

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Stephen Runge performed a selection of Baroque inspired piano pieces from the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic periods during his facuty recital. (Nick Cryptov/Argosy) simultaneously react against and build upon past traditions.

Throughout the first half of the performance, Runge remained distant from the audience, preferring to immerse himself in the music. While he occasionally seemed disconnected from his listeners, his few interactions with the audience allowed the music to take centre stage, and speak for itself.

Before the second half of the program, Runge addressed his audience for the first time in an amiable and informative manner. He provided a bit of necessary context for

the second part of the performance, which featured works from Beethoven and Brahms, both composers from the Romantic and Classical periods.

Runge explained that early music and the rules of counterpoint heavily influenced the two composers.

Although Baroque music is filled with rhythmic counterpoint and rich polyphonic textures, the repetitive and formulaic compositional structures can sometimes make a piece feel like it has fallen flat. During Runge’s performance, there were moments in his second Bach piece, “Paritia No. 4,” where I had a sense that the music

plateaued for a short period of time.

Bach’s pieces were frequently devoid of dynamic marking, leaving modern day musicians to add their own dynamic preferences to the piece. I found that Runge’s rendition of the piece could have benefited from more dramatic dynamic interpretations.

However, his phrasing, which is left equally subjective, was sensitive, thoughtful, and acted as the perfect complement to the movements’ distinct moods.

Runge’s performance was met with a positive reception from audience members who appreciated both his

musicianship and his well thought out program.

“His program allowed the audience to experience both the change in style, and development of the instrument that occurred over a period of about 300 years,” said Dorian Baker, a fourth-year music student in Clarinet Performance. “As a musician, the choice of programming is an integral part to the success of a performance, and Runge delivered.”

The recital concluded with a standing ovation from the audience, reminding us all that it’s good to be brought back to the Baroque era.

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Live Bait presents murderous Halloween special Murder mystery dinner theatre at Marshlands Inn Daniel Macabre

Arts & Literature Writer Live Bait Theatre hosted a themed fundraiser last week in a festive fusion of dramatic arts and the Halloween season. The dinner theatre, entitled “Emma Tower’s Halloween Variety Show Murder Mystery,” took place Oct. 24 and 25, inviting the community to an evening of clever playwriting and a delicious meal prepared by Sackville’s own Marshlands Inn on Bridge Street.

The dimly-lit atmosphere of the restaurant served as a perfectly appropriate setting for such an occasion, and invited the audience to play along and immerse themselves as characters in the story. The production itself was written and directed by Ron Kelly-Spurles, a member of Live Bait’s board of directors, and the erstwhile Tourism Manager for the Town of Sackville.

Starring as Detective Thomas Foelery alongside a cast of community

Live Bait’s Halloween dinner theatre tricks and treats audiences during an interactive murder mystery. (Nick Cryptov/Argosy) members, including Mount Allison’s own Patricia Kelly-Spurles of the anthropology department, the production proceeded with the comical mystery of Emma Tower’s untimely murder. With each character possessing a different motive for the crime, the audience was invited to guess the identity of the murderer during a short dessert break.

The perfect blend of mysterious and humorous, the play was also cleverly self-aware and often drew attention to itself as a literary construction, demonstrating Ron Kelly-Spurles’s playwriting skills and ability to entertain on a number of levels. For example, while the character Emma Tower initially denied the possibility of any murder mystery during the

evening’s events, she ironically became a victim of this very crime.

Among the many highlights of the evening, Catherine Priemer delivered a spellbinding performance of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Telltale Heart” in accordance with the Halloween and murder mystery themes. The performance additionally provided a clue for the audience, as Priemer’s

character Janice was revealed as the perpetrator of the evening’s fictional crime. Priemer, who is a student at Tantramar Regional High School, has been heavily involved in the Sackville community’s drama and music scene, including the New Brunswick Provincial Music Festival held in Sackville in May 2013 and the production of the musical Annie! at Moncton High School this past June.

Live Bait once again demonstrated its unfailing ability to connect the Sackville community and Mount Allison through the mutual love of theatre. Although some Sackville residents have criticized Mt. A’s occasional failure to attract audiences from outside the university sphere, events like this one prove that Live Bait is dedicated to promoting the arts within all circles of Sackville’s diverse community.

The dinner theatre is one of several entertaining fundraising events that Live Bait has organized for the upcoming season. They will host “Lest We Forget” on Nov. 8 and 9 to commemorate Canadian soldiers in accordance with Remembrance Day, and “The Naughty List,” an annual Christmas-themed dinner theatre performed from November Nov. 30 to Dec. 14.

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Creative Corner Spooks McGuffin Four boys sat at a fire debating what frightened them most. They were in the woods behind the Walmart, woods that would be bulldozed before the fall ended. School started in a week.

They first discussed the obvious: serial killers, torture, drowning in feces, genocide. But the boys fell silent as they watched the fire. In the night quiet, the crackling flame, sounds of the distant highway, each followed his personal spoke to the axle of his fear.

“In her first week of university my cousin met this gay dude who wore the same black Converse hi-tops she did. They became close friends and got an apartment together. She went home for the summer, he stayed. In June he stopped texting. She’s had bad luck with friends so she thought he was shunning her or something, being a little shit. Sometimes his Facebook updated and she got angry. She’d message him, he wouldn’t answer.

She spent the summer planning what to say. When she arrived at the apartment, the radio and the lights were on but no one was in. One of his hi-tops sat on the cutting board in the kitchen.”

“There was a foot in it.”

“Did she stay in the apartment?”

“Bullshit.”

“Naw, she dropped out of school. But here’s the scary thing: she got a text message from his phone a month ago, asking her to pick up dish soap while she was out.”

The second boy sipped his Coors before speaking.

“My uncle sees reptile people wherever he looks. They fix their

yellow eyes on him and lick their yellow teeth with long black tongues.

He wakes up and sees them leaning over him while he sleeps. He was studying neurology when his brain miswired so on some level he knows the lizards are hallucinations. But they never leave the room. They always watch him. When he looks at you? Lizards.”

He crushed his beer can.

“He doesn’t talk, but there’s something in his eyes. Something not quite terror. Somehow softer.”

The fire spat and popped. The group nodded, thought of being that uncle.

The next one spoke.

“There were some Italian kids in the sixties who set up a radio post.

They recorded Russia trying to put people in space. The first guy in orbit was only the first guy to survive. At least one cosmonaut burnt up in the atmosphere. Picture it. Rocketing above the earth, continents sweeping below, two big countries with their bombs and politics and their fingers on the buttons, and you’re only tethered to that ball by a radio signal. But when you fall back down, something fucks up. You aren’t going to land. You feel heat, see fire. You have so far to fall and so much time to wait.”

“People suffocating, distress cries of off-course rockets, the fading SOS of a capsule drifting out to space. Those kids heard it,” he prodded coals with a half-burnt stick, “If the recordings aren’t a hoax. Which would be worse, in a way.”

It was well after midnight and soon they would have to head home. They

were tired and tipsy and at that point when most things don’t quite register but some things can strike with their sudden senselessness.

The fourth boy spoke half breathless.

“I found a YouTube channel with hundreds of videos by a kid who sits alone in a basement making deranged 3-D animated versions of the Simpsons. Homer a horrible blob; Marge with wiggling cucumber breasts; Bart naked in a heroin coma panting by buckets of shit and needles; Lisa totally apathetic to the fuckery around her, speaking in a robot voice.

She pulls out her own eyes and makes Bart play video games for thirteen hours. Their house is always dark.”

“There are hundreds of these videos.”

He tossed his empty Red Bull into the woods. “That’s it. That frightens me. Like I’m eight hiding under blankets because my brother forced me to watch Pokémon porn.”

He opened a beer.

Crickets.

Fire. Highway.

“I know what’s scary.”

“What?”

“Your mom’s pussy.”

“Throw some more wood on the fire.”

“Anyone want a beer?”

One boy texted his girlfriend some song lyrics he had come up with, two others passed a beer back and forth, watching the fire. The last one thought of work in the heat tomorrow, decapitating dandelions with a whipper-snipper. And stars were up there, and quasars sending signals to all the world’s radios as they spun.

Aryelle Morrison’s leopard print leggings, black converse and a cozy chic jacket make this look perfect for the Fall 2013 season. (Portrait of Dorian Baker/Argosy)

Leopard print a stylish fall staple on campus Portrait of Dorian Baker Spotlight on: Aryelle Morrison Q: I love this ensemble; do you follow any fashion trends right now?

A: I believe that having a personal sense of style is the most important

thing you can have in terms of ‘fashion.’ Trends come and go, but style will always remain.

Aryelle is a third-year Bachelor of Music student majoring in piano performance.

Originally from Moncton, she came here on a path to pursue her dreams of a career in performance. She will be competing in Mount Allison’s Concerto Competition this November with the famous Rhapsody in Blue. If you’re a fan, come listen to her play at 10:00 am on Monday, Nov. 18 in Brunton Auditorium.

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October 31, 2013

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Bishop’s professor delivers ‘Just the High Notes’

Talk at Mt. A gives overview of music psychology Richard Cadaver Editor-in-Chief

Does learning an instrument affect brain structure? Does classical music affect the buying habits of winedrinkers? Can listening to music boost pain tolerance?

According to a psychology department-sponsored talk delivered at Mount Allison last week, the answers are yes.

Students and faculty packed the mini-Wu Friday afternoon for an informal—and often humourous— lecture on the psychology of music delivered by Laura Mitchell, a professor of psychology at Bishop’s.

Mitchell presented because Mt. A’s psychology department wanted to offer students a chance to learn about a subdiscipline that is not taught here, Louise Wasylkiw told The Argosy in an interview Monday—but serendipity sealed the deal.

“Her area is something we don’t offer here at Mount Allison: psychology of music. There was [the Association of Atlantic Universities Teaching Showcase] this weekend.

And given her interest in teaching, I suspected that she would be attending this conference with some of her colleagues,” said Wasylkiw, the Mt. A psychology professor who introduced Mitchell. “[W]e had been in correspondence over the summer, and we thought, ‘wouldn’t it be great if we could combine the two events?’ So, in other words, have her offer a general lecture on the field that she’s an expert in, if she was coming for this conference. And so the timing turned out beautifully.”

Speaking in a fast-paced Scottish brogue, Mitchell guided the audience through her field in a lecture entitled “The Psychology of Music: The High Notes.”

“It’s kind of like a forty-five minute whistle-stop tour of a twelve-week course. I’ve just edited it down to what I think are the key findings from what are about forty-five years of psychology of music: the things that make me go ‘wow, that’s not what I would have thought,’” she told her audience, justifying the lecture’s subtitle.

“What we study in music psychology is a reciprocal relationship: not just the music, but between other cultural-social variables, so we need to know just as much about the listener,” explained Mitchell, who holds a Ph.D. in psychology from GlasgowCaledonian University in Scotland, “I could play any piece of music for all of you here today, but you won’t feel the same thing. You won’t all be feeling the same emotion when you listen to it,

and that’s because people are different.

The context is different: where you first heard something, who you were with when you heard it, the period of your life that you first heard it in.”

While the talk spanned decades of research, Mitchell was still able to include findings from her own work: A study she co-authored found that subjects who could choose what they listened to could endure pain longer than they otherwise could was printed by the Journal of Music Therapy in 2006.

Mitchell, who has been interested in the subdiscipline since her undergraduate days, has seen her field come a long way: collaboration between music psychologists and other researchers is on the rise, and health care providers are implementing the field’s findings in their practices, she wrote in an email Monday.

But there is still work yet to be done.

“Music psychology is certainly a well-established discipline now internationally, and especially

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in Canada where University of Montreal, McGill, McMaster and Ryerson (amongst others) house important and productive research labs,” Mitchell wrote. “But it does still feel new, and especially the more social and applied sides since the first developed branches were more in the psychoacoustics, perceptual and cognitive areas. There is so far for us still to go; and as technology changes, the way we use and appreciate music also changes. Because of my interest in music for health, my main hope is that we develop comprehensive evidence for how music can be used effectively to help us manage acute and chronic illnesses, and of course to maintain health and prevent illness.

But I also hope in the next decade to see even more collaboration with music educators, whether at school or university level, that can help us develop everyone’s musicality in the ways and to the level they wish to aim for.”

Honours Profile Thomas Williams

A bush fire near the town of Newman in Western Australia. (Mark Maupin/Flickr Creative Commons)

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Thomas Williams posing at Salem Elementary School, where he researches. (Malice-son O’Viley/Argosy) Last week, a series of major wildfires raged across the New South Wales region of Australia, destroying homes and marking an unusually early start to the country’s summer bush fire season.

Controversy began when the conversation in the media turned to a discussion of climate change and the impact of rising temperatures in recent decades.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said that the speed and ferocity of the fires had “nothing to do with climate change” in response to comments to the contrary from the United Nations climate chief Christiana Figueres.

Grey Hunt, environment minister in Australia, reportedly consulted Wikipedia to support his views that climate change and the recent bush fires are unrelated.

Abbott has denied climate change in the past. His recent election included a pledge to repeal Australia’s carbon tax. Additionally, in September, Abbott’s government shut down the Climate Commission, a government institution that focused on providing an accurate, apolitical public source of information about climate change in Australia.

The impacts of ignoring the climate are severe, not just severe for the environment, but also for those individuals in a region. Ecologist, and member of the dismantled Climate Commission, Lesley Hughes explained that “to deny the

influence of climate change on extreme fire weather, and not take appropriate action to prepare for these changed conditions, places people and property at unnecessarily high risk.”

Although scientists have not directly linked the increased bush fires to climate change, research clearly suggests that the record high temperatures can make the fires more destructive and frequent. Last summer was the hottest on record for the country, and this year, the warm temperatures and high winds have created ideal conditions for even larger fires.

Scientific research taking place over several years and studies suggests that Australia will feel the impact of global warming more severely than other areas of the planet.

The current debate in Australia raises some important questions about the issues of public knowledge of science and the impact dissuasive public voices can have in the debate. The rigour and accuracy of scientific research should be evaluated by experts in that field, hence the current peer-reviewed system for journal publication. Skepticism of accepted scientific theories becomes problematic when promoted by politicians with widespread influence but little knowledge of science itself. Contentious issues like climate change often focus the discussion on highlighting political differences rather than on the applicable scientific information.

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Thomas Williams is a fourth-year psychology honours student working with Gene Ouellette in the Mount Allison language literacy lab. Williams’s project focuses on literacy development in elementary school children.

Williams is taking a look at responses to intervention programs, such as the Linking Language to Learn (LINKS) program. LINKS is a literacy program designed for elementary school-aged children who are experiencing difficulty developing reading skills, which may be attributable to a learning disability. This program is active at Salem Elementary School in Sackville, and Williams has been involved with it since its inception in 2010.

The LINKS program uses volunteer tutors from Mount Allison.

“I am grateful for the Mount Allison and Sackville community, as a lot of my peers are helping with my research,” Williams said.

For Williams’s research, children complete the LINKS program over the course of a semester.

Testing is administered at the beginning of the program to evaluate literacy ability, and again after the program is completed to test the child’s

progress. The testing involves a series of tasks, such as sounds matching tasks (presenting a child with a picture, and having the child match the photo that matches it phonetically), elision tasks (for example, say ‘can’ without the C-sound), word classing (asking the child which two words go together the best), and spelling.

Literacy skills are paramount to academic success, regardless of subject. Williams explained, “if you struggle in the first grade with reading, without proper intervention, that struggle will carry on throughout their academic careers.”

Williams hopes that through his research, he will be able to make recommendations for this program and other programs like it to contribute to their success.

Williams had always been interested in pursuing speech language pathology after completion of his undergraduate degree, but following his experience with working for Ouellette, Williams has shifted his focus.

“I’ve been looking into graduate schools for developmental and educational psychology,” Williams said, “I’m looking for schools with a particular emphasis on learning disabilities and educational interventions.”

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Mind-controlled mice

Parasites shown to control mice behavior Sarah-Anne Creeps

Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley suggest that mind-altering parasites are not such a far-fetched idea.

The researchers set out to test the validity of claims concerning the parasite Toxoplasma gondii that could alter the natural instincts of rodents. Previous studies suggested that the parasite could only complete its life cycle from within a feline gut.

Researchers hypothesized that rodents affected with Toxoplasma gondii would lose their fear of feline

predators to complete the life cycle of the parasite.

The researchers tested this hypothesis using all three known strains of the parasite. In this study, the researchers found that the second strain was not a good example of the parasite. The surviving mice that were infected with the often-lethal strain were extremely ill as a result. Their movements were limited—something the study looked to measure.

For the experiment, a cage was set up with a bowl on one end that would contain either rabbit or bobcat urine.

The healthy mice had a strong aversion to the bobcat urine and spent the majority of their time during the study in what was called the ‘avoidance area’ at the opposite end of the cage. When placed in a cage with the rabbit urine, they freely roamed around. Like the healthy mice, the infected mice paid no a t t e n t i on to the rabbit urine.

However, when the infected mice were placed in a cage with the bobcat urine, they showed no aversion. This shows that the infected mice had lost their natural fear of feline urine.

There are three different strains of the Toxoplasma gondii. This experiment looked at the effects of specifically the first and third strain.

Those two strains caused the same loss of natural avoidance instinct in the mice. However, during the biopsy of the mice’s brains, the researchers found something interesting: in the mice that were infected with the third strain, they had found an elevated parasite level, while the mice that were infected with the first strain had no detectable parasite levels.

After further investigation, the scientists determined that the parasite levels in the first strain spike and then die off. Despite the parasites dying off, the effects are long lasting. This particular strain was shown to be able to permanently change the mind of its host.

Human skull shocks Skull found changes the way we view evolution Martin Tombs Science Writer

Current understandings of evolution have been turned on its head— literally—when a 1.8 million-yearold skull was found in Georgia. The study of the skull claims that early humans did come from Africa as seven species, but actually as a single ‘homo erectus’ with variations in its looks. The skull was discovered during an archaeological dig at the city of Dmanisi in Georgia, where stone tools were also found next to the remains, indicating that the species hunted large carnivorous prey.

The discovery ends a manhunt of eight years trying to piece together the skull, as the excavation began in 2005.

The remains were first discovered in 1991 by Georgian scientist, David Lordkipanidze, accompanied by an international team, which unearthed the remains over the years. It is believed that the skull is one of the most important fossil finds to date, as it is the only intact skull ever found of a human ancestor that lived in the early Pleistocene era (2,588,000 to 11,700 years ago). The skull has a tiny brain area—about a third of the size of a modern human; it also has protruding brows, jutting jaws, and other characteristics that had been found in prehistoric humans. The revelation came however when the

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skull was placed next to four other skulls that were discovered within the same area. They vary so much in appearance that they brought the current understanding of species variation into question.

Traditional theories accept a whole plethora of stand-alone species. With the new find, it is thought now that the five remains were all one, just with differences in the bone structure.

Christoph Zollikofer from the University of Zurich added weight to the new hypothesis, saying, “we know that these individuals came from the same location and the same geological time, so they could, in principle, represent a single population of a single species. The five Dmanisi individuals are conspicuously different from each other, but not more different than any five modern human individuals, or five chimpanzee individuals, from a given population.”

For decades, researchers would be separating all types of humans originating in Africa into sub-groups, such as Homo habilis and Homo rudolfensis. However, with the new hypothesis, all of these could just be Homo erectus, with the regular human variation in bone structure we witness currently with humans. It also challenges the idea that we needed a larger brain to be intelligent enough to use complex tools, hunt prey and migrate to distant continents.

However, challengers of the hypothesis believe that the skull may simply just belong to a new species of human, and not a variation. At the end of the day, a new form of human has been discovered, and it showcases that its life patterns are closely mimicked to what we see today in modern humans.

‘Mastering biology’ series introduced Polar regions discussed at Mt. A

Mt. A’s masters students share advice Clay Rusty-Steell-Knife

Two of Mount Allison’s oft unheard of masters students have started a new information program, called Mastering Biology, catered to helping undergraduates learn the ins-and-outs of Mt. A’s biology program.

“We have a working relationship with the profs here,” said Amy Brown, one of its organizers, “we felt we had a wealth of knowledge that wasn’t getting utilized, which could allow us to take on things that profs say students always have questions about.”

Amy Brown and Kami Harris are master of science candidates working with Vett Lloyd, and are themselves graduates of Mt. A’s Bachelor of Science program. Brown’s research involves fruit fly genetic imprinting; Harris’s involves epigenetics in cancer cells.

According to Brown, “The idea came to me in the middle of the night, and I brainstormed it with Dr. Lloyd and Kami. We brought it to the undergrads working in our labs, and they told us it was a really great idea.”

One of those undergrads was in the Bioscience Society and brought it to the group’s attention. “They all loved

it,” said Harris, “they organize the logistics, and [we] organize the masters students and plan the seminar.”

Mastering Biology had its first session on October 16, called “Tips and Tricks.” It was designed as a general introduction to the series, and included advice on labs, papers, and lectures. Their next planned event is a session on lab reports and presentations, and how different professors and lab instructors grade these. The date is to be announced, but it will be taking place in November.

They hope for a better turnout to this session, especially among first- and second-year students.

“It’s stuff we wish we knew in first year,” Brown said. For next semester, they are planning a session for thirdyear students about the process of completing an honours degree.

Both students believe there is potential in the series for more than just advice. “I see it as not only something for the undergraduates,” said Brown, “but as something for masters students as well, as a way to get involved.” She also noted that at Mt. A, graduate students tend not to teach, so this program is an opportunity for them to have teaching-related experience.

Because of its recent foundation, Brown and Harris have yet to explore the possibility of similar programs in other departments. “If we find success with it, we’ll definitely go to other departments with the idea.”

‘Antarctic2Arctic: Research at the Poles’ talk given by professors Martin Tombs Science Writer

The Polar Regions are changing, and when climate change is brought up, they are always used as an example.

This past Monday, the Geography and Environment Society hosted a talk at the Wu centre about the two most changing areas of Earth.

Geography and environment professor Ian Mauro and math and computer science professor Andrew Irwin had an interactive discussion about their ongoing research at the planet’s poles, from the Arctic to the Antarctic. President of the Geography and Environment Society Johnathan Carter thought, “It was a good way to teach the students and the community about Dr. Mauro’s Inuit knowledge regarding the impacts of the mining in the Arctic and Dr. Irwin’s expedition to study oceanography and modeling in Antarctica.”

Mauro won the coin flip which led to the discussion beginning in the Arctic regions. He is a renowned

filmmaker, as well as a researcher and professor at Mount Allison University, where he has developed films about the Inuit climate change. This film was the world’s first Inuktitut language film on that topic. He began his discussion showcasing the beauty of the Arctic regions with a video cartography project that included maps of locations such as Baffin Island that would show videos taken from different regions at that location. The main issue in the Inuit community is that the minister of foreign affairs in Canada is bringing up an idea of a mine at Baffin Island that would bring a lot of iron ore to the region. This would affect the region drastically as it would create more pollution as well as change the landscape due to the lack of transportation available to deliver the iron ore to different locations in the world.

An issue mostly brought up by people that do not live in the Arctic is that the Inuit still hunt animals for food. However, Inuit people take hunting seriously, as they have lots of respect for the nature and the world around them. It is their main access to food, as food is extremely expensive in the Arctic due to the costs of transporting food and drink to those regions. Mauro finished up his discussion by claiming that once climate change occurs, he would rather live up in the North because the Inuit have a knowledge and understanding

of how to live off of the land where people in the urban regions would struggle.

Irwin also began his discussion with scenery pictures, this time showcasing Antarctica and his experiences on the Peninsula. He currently oversees the Mount Allison Marine Macroecology and Biochemistry lab, where they are exploring applications that will improve our understanding of the consequences of climate change. His research consisted of putting cages overboard with cylinders, where it would take water samples at different depths to discover the distribution of microorganisms at different areas.

Microorganisms affect the food cycle, as it is at the bottom of the food chain.

If there are fewer microorganisms in the region, it would be challenging for animals going up the cycle as they would now have less food in the area to eat. Irwin was faced with many challenges, not only in his research but from Mother Nature as well, as he was met with very tough conditions between South America and Antarctica, but managed to prevail in the face of danger.

The discussion was met with a lot of praise from the community attending the event, with Carter summing it all up by saying, “That after hearing the talk, that the Polar Regions have not moved up on my list of the places I would want to visit most.”

HUMOUR ∆ CRYPTIC CLUES ∆ Use the hints below to find fifteen spooky words buried deep within the grid to your right ... or face certain doom! It’s your choice, really.

1. A ghost’s best friend, and only two letters apart.

9. Halloween night’s old-timey pagan cousin.

2. Linus’s erstwhile deity.

10. Originally a grinning turnip.

3. Stoker’s pale villain.

11. Goosebumps auteur.

4. Herzog’s continental take on the above.

12. Deters bird and Batman alike.

5. Sneaky opera-dweller.

13. If it weighs the same as a duck….

6. The fuzziest harbinger of bad luck.

14. Scaring kids straight since olden times.

7. Doorstop ultimatum, tasty outcome.

15. The sun-kissed sad uncle of ‘healthy’ treats.

8. Painful karmic reimbursement for candy gluttony.

October 31, 2013

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