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Fume hoods in Vett Lloyd’s Flemmington lab has been out of operation since August. (Nick Sleptov/Argosy)

Fume hoods in Flemington

A fume hood is a type of ventilation device that is designed to limit exposure to hazardous or toxic fumes and vapours. A fume hood is an essential device in an environment where one is exposed to such hazards.

A lack of access to functioning fume hoods has set a damper on research for Mount Allison biology students working in the Flemington building, as power to the fume hoods has been shut off since August.

Kami Harris and Amy Brown are masters students who work in a lab on Flemington’s third floor. They say the absence of ventilation hoods makes executing research and experiments difficult.

“I haven’t had to use strong [substances] yet,” Harris said, “but I will be using strong acids and bases to use [as buffers] in the future.”

“Whether or not we’re using it, we should have safe access to storage for our day to day activities,” Brown said.

Early in the semester, work on the fume hoods in Flemington revealed a potentially dangerous situation having to do with improper venting. As a result, all of the hoods in the building were shut down, and will remain closed off until testing of each one is complete.

“This is planned for the next few weeks,” said Margaret Beaton, a biology professor at Mt. A. Beaton sits on a committee that has been organized to discuss the fume hood issue.

“An equally important issue that is currently under study deals with overall ventilation requirements for teaching and research in this building.

Facilities Management has contracted an engineer to evaluate requirements and options for remediating building deficiencies,” Beaton said.

Beaton says the report from an engineer regarding the issue is expected in mid-December.

“The issue is with the setup,” according to Rob MacCormack, director of facilities management at Mt. A. “Codes are different now, the equipment is older, and the pumps are older too.”

Students whose labs are in Flemington said they are upset by the lack of communication. The reason being that no alternatives were given to them regarding where to store their chemicals. As well, students are frustrated by the lack of updates about fixing the issue with the vents.

“Keeping us up-to-date after committee meetings would be beneficial,” said Brown.

Ryan Pinkham, a fourth-year biology student, claims the university is not addressing the issue properly.

“The students are the ones primarily exposed to the chemicals, and the lack of solutions is upsetting,” says Pinkham.

“It is more than just a[n out-oforder] sign on a fume hood,” he said.

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“We were told by [Dean of Science] Jeff Ollerhead to not store anything in the fume hoods, but we were not told where to move them to. There’s no other place to put them.”

At this point, the only option for research students in Flemington is to go to the neighbouring Barclay building, but that too poses difficulties: Biology students do not have keys to Barclay. They also do not know when they can go into the labs to use their chemicals.

“It’s not practical to travel to Barclay carrying our [chemicals],” Harris said.

Arrangements have already been made for biology labs using formaldehyde to take place in Barclay, where there are functioning fume hoods, but the implication of this decision has students worried. They fear the issue might not be fixed until well into second semester. When asked if the fume hoods will be operational in the coming semester, MacCormack had no idea.

Implications of Education: different A conversation with Bands play George’s enrolment drop: Pg. 4 in Wente’s day: Pg. 6 MacKenzie Stone: Pg. 8 for Halloween: Pg. 14

Those willing to brave the terrible weather and extraordinarily long walk (at least by Sackville standards) got to indulge in a sweet Halloween treat at George’s Roadhouse. Kappa Chow, Best Fiends, and the Famines put together a garage-rock spectacle for the Fine Arts Society’s Halloween extravaganza. The bar was filled with the standard assortment of pop culture icons and their devilish counterbalance, while the stage was occupied with a less traditional holiday manifestation.

In front of a shifting, whirling kaleidoscope of colours that served as the backdrop to their musical exhibit, Kappa Chow delivered another great display of their unique punk music, that left no option but to dance along to the music. Their psychedelic set and the costumes of their onlookers produced a surreal environment of moving bodies and seventies and nineties-inspired punk. As the band’s set approached its conclusion, they ventured into the territory of noise music with a feedback-loop infused guitar solo that showed traces of progressive trends in the band’s sound.

The band had their much-anticipated new cassette in tow, meaning that Kappa Chow is now available for those willing to spend five dollars on these Sackville upstarts.

Best Fiends, the band with the perfect name for the circumstances, kept the ball rolling with their own brand of punk. With a mummy on lead guitar and vocals, these former ‘Sackvillains’ maintained the psychedelic punk trend of the night. Their music is reminiscent of California beach-rock, which has now become hugely influenced by punk, and an easily placed East Coast-indie influence. Their rolling, relentless pace and heavy distortion often gave way to

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Journalist, human rights activist speaks at Mt. A Sally Armstrong addresses issues facing women in conflict zones Angad Singh Dhillon Journalist, human rights activist, and author Sally Armstrong delivered the second talk of this year’s President’s Speaker Series to a crowded auditorium.

She was first chosen to speak at the Davidson Lecture by the Canadian Studies Department for this year.

As 2013-14 is the Year of Global Engagement at Mount Allison University, her activism and research focus coincided well with the theme of the Speakers Series. The event was organized collaboratively by Mt. A’s Canadian Studies Department and the President’s Speaker Series committee; it also served as the Davidson Lecture.

Armstrong spoke on Tuesday, Oct. 29 in the Crabtree auditorium to a full house. Her talk focused on

the experience of women in conflict zones. She used examples from her time in Bosnia, Congo, Kenya, Afghanistan, and Egypt to highlight the oppression and subjugation of women in these countries.

According to Frank Strain, the chair of the President’s Speaker Series committee, “Sally Armstrong was just an obvious choice, not just because of her engagement but also because she is a Canadian, she brings a Canadian angle to engagement [with international issues].”

One of Armstrong’s main arguments was that the age of electronic media, and Facebook specifically, have helped the cause of women. She mentioned how women’s groups like “Women Living Under Muslim Laws”, “Young Women for Change”, LEAF (Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund) had all formed a vast online presence and were helping educate and liberate women all over the world.

“The pendulum is surging towards emancipation away from oppression,” she said.

Armstrong used personal anecdotes from her years of activism to convey her message. She mentioned the story of Emily, an eleven-year-old Kenyan

girl she met, who was raped by her own grandfather because he thought his HIV could be cured by sleeping with a young girl. Misinformation, lack of education, and opportunistic actions by violent men has resulted in a large majority of women in conflict zones being raped or assaulted.

On a more positive note, Armstrong narrated the story of Anita Haidary, who started the Young Women for Change organization in Kabul.

Despite threats from the Taliban, this organization has gained support from men and women and has been campaigning for gender equality and the eradication of street harassment against women.

Sydney Logan, president of Mt. A’s “Because I am a Girl” club said, “her talk epitomized the reasons why I decided to start Because I am a Girl [at Mt. A]. I liked the way she talked about how important it is to get boys and men on board as well in order to achieve equality.”

Armstrong wrapped up her talk by emphasizing that it was not a conflict of men against women or, West against the East, but rather a fight for equal human rights.

Sally Armstrong speaks to a crowded auditorium. (Chris Donovan/Argosy)

Man arrested for exposing himself to students Man allegedly asked for directions whilst masturbating Gavin Rea Around 10:00 pm last Tuesday, the RCMP arrested a thirty-three yearold Nova Scotia man driving a red PT Cruiser. The man had allegedly exposed himself to several female Mount Allison University students.

Under the guise of stopping to ask for directions, the man would approach women walking alone, unzip and begin to masturbate.

None of the reported incidents involved the man getting out of his vehicle or physically harming any of the women.

The RCMP confirmed that the arrest was a joint effort between a student report, a report from Mt. A security staff, and an onsite police car.

Mt. A student Julie Kuklas called the police from 12 York St., where she had been watching a movie with her boyfriend. He spotted the PT Cruiser and the pair both ran out the door. While Kuklas grabbed her cellphone and dialled 911, her boyfriend stopped the car at a red light by running circles around it and flagging down a nearby police car.

“It was complete chaos for a minute and a half,” said Kuklas. “The police came around, and we backed off a bit and watched him get pulled over.”

“The creepy thing was that he was laughing,” said Kuklas. “Even though he was getting arrested, [a

A thirty-three year old Nova Scotian man in a red PT Cruiser was arrested near this intersection. (Chris Donovan/Argosy) moment] when most people would have been scared, he was just calm.”

The man has since been released on conditions, one of which is not to be within the boundaries of the Town of Sackville. He is scheduled to appear in Moncton Provincial Court in January 2014.

“Even though he’s not allowed to enter Sackville, I’m still a little concerned because wherever he’s from, there might still be problems,” Kuklas said. “The police wouldn’t release his town or name. This guy could be walking around in Sackville, but unless he’s in his car, no one’s going to know. The description they gave of ‘a man in his thirties with dark hair’ was very broad.”

Catherine Gosselin was the first Mount Allison student to report the incident to the police. Gosselin was

walking on Main Street by Swan around the turn before I could get Pond on Oct. 25 at 11:45 pm when his license plate.” the man pulled up beside her.

After discussing the matter with “I remember thinking it was a her friend, Gosselin decided to really cute car,” telephone the said Gosselin. “He police. pulled over and T h e “The creepy thing was asked me where the following Marshlands Inn that he was laughing, Monday, the was. We spoke for even though he was same thing about two minutes, happened to and started smiling getting arrested...” another friend at me and I thought of Gosselin’s, he was stalling for Julie Kuklas prompting her some reason. I was Mt. A student to post about gazing around, the incident not really looking on Facebook at him, but when and inform the he said goodbye I school. looked at him and he had everything “Afterwards, several people came out and was going at it. Before I even out and told me that they had the realized it he pulled away, and was same thing happen to them,” said

Gosselin. “I was the first one to call the police about it, but I don’t think I was the first to have it happen to me.”

Kuklas also believed that some girls were too scared to go to the police department by themselves.

“We responded as quickly as we could with an email informing everyone and asking them to notify the police if they saw the vehicle,” said Ron Byrne, Mt. A’s vice-president responsible for nonacademic student issues.

“Students had already taken action, and the community that was paying attention were able to help each other out,” he said. “We’ve never had a similar situation in my time here, but I think we handled it well.”

The official RCMP report of the incident filed on Oct. 30 stated that, “in one instance it’s alleged the man was committing an indecent act.” Sergeant James Graves later specified that the police had been notified of two incidents of indecent exposure. The alleged victims will be appearing as witnesses in court.

There were an additional three incidents where the man simply stopped to ask directions.

Graves praised the students involved for their actions. “Students were keen and observant enough to make the phone call, they did the right thing,” said Graves.

“Sad as it sounds to say, I’d rather it happen to college-aged women than to children in elementary school,” Kuklas said. Because the alleged victims of the exposures were all over sixteen, the man will be charged with a less serious, summary offence.

“I feel safer knowing he’s not allowed in Sackville anymore,” said Gosselin, “but I walk home earlier than I did before the incident.”

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NB tuition set to increase Three per cent increase in tuition for next three years

United States’ drone kills Taliban leader

Hakimullah Mehsud, the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, was killed by a United States’ drone on Nov. 1. He was killed only a day after government officials announced that they would be starting peace talks with the militants. A senior United States intelligence official confirmed the death, although the CIA and White House both declined to comment on the report. Mehsud is on the FBI’s most wanted terrorist list and has also been near the top of the CIA Counterterrorism Center’s most wanted list since 2009. The Associated Press notes that drone strikes are controversial, particularly in Pakistan, with critics pointing out that innocent civilians are often killed in the attacks. Many people also believe the drone strikes infringe upon Pakistani sovereignty.

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Protests in Kenya over gang rape Premier David Alward annouces rising tuition in NB. (Cherise Letson/CUP) There will be an election and we don’t know who will end up in office after that,” Joyce said. “How stable this announcement is remains to be seen.”

Joyce said that while having a tuition cap is a good thing, three per cent is too high.

In 2010, Alward pledged to make university funding predictable and less volatile. When asked in a media scrum following the press conference about why it took so long to live up to that promise, Alward said “hasn’t always been easy.”

St. Thomas University in Fredericton is exempt from the announced tuition cap, due to a recent agreement with the government.

In an effort to raise tuition to the provincial average at St. Thomas, the administration raised tuition $484 last year. This was well over the government cap of $150 a year. The

government has agreed to grant St. Thomas an extra $225,000, which gives students a $184 credit on their tuition. The university had planned to raise tuition over three years, but because of the government’s intervention, they will have to raise it over a five-year period.

St. Thomas will still receive the initial amount of $484 from students, and the government will pay for the increase.

The case raises concerns about what would prevent New Brunswick educational institutions have from surpassing the tuition cap. Even with the additional government funding, St. Thomas’ tuition increases remain over the cap. With tuition levels higher than ever before, the checks and balances that are in place to keep tuition fees low seem to be obsolete.

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MASU gives $10,000 donation Defunct Yellow Ribbon Society surplus passed to Relay for Life Kevin Levangie

Political Beat Writer A $10,000 donation by the students’ union to anti-cancer fundraiser Relay for Life raised some questions among students unaware of the origin of the fundraised money.

The Yellow Ribbon Society, a nowdefunct club and society dedicated to fundraising for cancer research, originally raised the funds.

The students who came forward with complaints were largely satisfied once they learned of the circumstances, said Mount Allison Students’ Union (MASU) President Melissa O’Rourke.

MASU Councillor Allie Morrison said of a student who approached her: “Knowing [the situation], they don’t have a concern about the donation.”

O’Rourke described the Yellow Ribbon Society as “a club that did a lot of fundraising for cancer research.

One of their primary areas that they would donate to every year was the Relay for Life.”

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Students in New Brunswick will continue to pay a premium to continue their education inside the province. The provincial government announced last Wednesday that tuition is set to increase by three per cent annually for the next three years.

“This is the first time government has provided a concrete funding commitment in advance of the yearly provincial budget announcement,” said Premier David Alward.

Alward said the tuition cap would help students better plan their education.

“Adopting a tuition policy means that institutions and students can better plan their respective budgets and investments,” he said.

Pat Joyce, executive director of the New Brunswick Students Alliance, was disappointed by the announcement. “Government has a responsibility to adequately fund universities in order to keep tuition affordable for students, but unfortunately, students are the ones absorbing the brunt of the university costs,” he said.

“One of the challenges we will face when it comes to this commitment is that fact that there will be a new legislative session starting next year.

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“The society became defunct in May, and they had $10,000 dollars in their bank account. We thought that it would be inappropriate to absorb the money into our own accounts, given that it was all raised by fundraising and through students, so we donated it,” she said.

O’Rourke explained that defunct clubs and societies usually have either a “small amount in their accounts, around $100, or a deficit.” In the case of the Yellow Ribbon Society, the figure was $10,421.79.

“There were a couple of students that were thinking that the students’ union had donated $10,000 of student money to Relay for Life, which is untrue, considering that it was money that was fundraised with the intent to be donated to cancer research,” the MASU president argued.

Section five of the MASU operating procedures, regarding student groups, outlines the way in which the Yellow Ribbon Society ceased to be a MASU sponsored organization: A club or society is “closed” if “there have been three consecutive years of inactivity.

Inactivity is defined as there being no deposits/withdrawals into their account and none of the original members being registered Mount Allison students.”

The operating procedures of MASU state that “Upon closing a club, all funds in their account will be

allocated within the SAC budget for that academic year at the discretion of the Vice-President, Finance and Operations, in consultation with the Executive Committee.”

Ryan Reid is a fifth-year Bachelor of Commerce student and the student chair for the SackvilleMount Allison Relay for Life team.

Relay for Life was pleased to receive the donation.

Reid said the funds that are raised stay local: “All fundraised money stays in the province. A lot of programs are awareness driven, or support programs.” For a comprehensive breakdown of the usage of funds, Reid recommended visiting the Canadian Cancer Society’s website.

This year marked the seventyfifth anniversary of Relay for Life.

According the Canadian Cancer Society website, in 2012 there were 17,265 Relay for Life rallies across Canada that raised about $51 million. The Relay for Life site states that Canadian fundraising is a part of “a global movement against cancer, taking place in twenty countries worldwide, including over 500 communities across Canada.”

O’Rourke said the donation meant that the money had found its way to the proper place, but that “it just came a few years later than expected.”

A sixteen-year-old girl in Kenya was gang raped, reportedly by six men, three of who have been identified. The girl, referred to as Liz to protect her identity, was thrown into a pit latrine unconscious after the raping, breaking her back.

She is now in a wheelchair. The three men who have been identified as her rapists were taken in to the police, where they were not prosecuted. Instead, as a punishment, they were ordered to cut grass around a police station, spurring journalists and activists to take up her cause. An online petition has been set up by one activist, and has gained international attention. Activists have been using hashtag #Justice4Liz on social media to bring attention to the case.

One death in Los Angeles airport shooting

On Nov. 1, three Transportation Security Administration (TSA) members at the Los Angeles International Airport were injured in a shooting, one fatally.

A gunman entered the airport Friday morning, pulled out an assault rifle and opened fire inside. Authorities tackled the gunman, Gerardo Hernandez, to the ground, discovering that he had over one-hundred rounds of ammunition with him. A number of people were injured trying to flee the scene of the shooting, but there was only one fatality, reportedly the first TSA officer, who died in the line of duty. The gunman reportedly approached people in the terminal and asked if they were TSA officers; if they said no, they were spared, as he moved on to the next potential victim.

EBay apologizes for Holocaust listings

Following an investigation by a UK newspaper, the Mail on Sunday, EBay has apologized and removed up to thirty items that were for sale on their website.

The removed items were Holocaust memorabilia from Nazi Germany. Among these items were pairs of shoes, a toothbrush, and Star of David armbands that were passed out among Jewish people, marking them for persecution. There was also the uniform of a Polish baker who died at Auschwitz, being sold for approximately $18,000. EBay asked the online auctioneer to take down the thirty items, and said the company has donated $40,000 to charity to express their regret.

Controversial Princess Diana film

Naomi Watts is playing the part of the late Princess of Wales, Diana Spencer, in a movie that has just come to theatres across North America. The movie focuses on the last two years of Spencer’s life, specifically on her relationship with a cardiac surgeon that ended just before her death in 1997. There are many critiques of the movie, saying that it is inaccurate. The cardiac surgeon, with whom Spencer had a relationship, Hasnat Khan, has said that the movie is a betrayal of their relationship. For the past sixteen years since her death, Spencer has been an icon around the world.

Two French journalists killed in Mali

Claude Verlon and Ghislaine Dupont were both kidnapped and shot dead in Mali on Saturday, Nov. 2. Radio France Internationale (RFI) reports that both reporters were on their second assignment in Mali, covering the ongoing presidential election. They were leaving a candidate’s home when they were abducted and driven away in a beige truck. Their bodies were later found, after having been shot several times, on a desert track, just metres away from the locked beige truck. France’s foreign minister has said that this was an assassination.

BBC reports say that there are many questions as to how the abduction could have taken place only five minutes from an international military base containing several hundred French and UN soldiers.

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“Live Bait presents murderous Halloween special” (Arts & Literature, page 15) incorrectly stated that Ron Kelly-Spurles was

a former tourism manager for the Town of Sackville; Kelly-Spurles is incumbent.

The Argosy regrets these and other errors. Errors requiring correction should be emailed to Editor-inChief Richard Kent at argosy@mta. ca.

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Enrolment decline hits university, students’ union Fewer students cause for financial concern Kevin Levangie

Political Beat Writer A decline in student enrolment is set to adversely affect students’ union and university finances in the coming year.

As of Oct. 1, Mount Allison University has approximately 180 fewer students enrolled for the academic year. The deficit in enrolment is nearly evenly split between fewer first-year and upperyear students.

The lower enrolment means approximately $1.3 million in lost tuition dollars for Mt. A. Tuition is the university’s primary source of revenue.

University Vice-President Finance and Administration David Stewart said the effects go beyond tuition revenues.

“Enrolment affects your government grant, too. However, only twenty-five per cent of the government grant is affected, and the impact is delayed one year and spread out over three.”

“Some of this reduction was anticipated […] approximately fifty per cent of it has to do with fewer new students this year then we had last year, about twenty-five per cent

Enrolment at Mount Allison University has fallen by approximately 180 students this year, costing the university $1.3 million in tuition fees. (Photo illustration by Nick Sleptov/Argosy) would be because we had a large class that just passed through the system, a class of 829 that graduated last year, and the rest is just comings and goings of people,” Stewart said.

Mount Allison Students’ Union (MASU) Vice-President Finance and Operations Josh Outerbridge outlined the financial effect this decline will have on the union, saying,

“Our primary source of income is student fees, so where enrolment numbers are down by about one hundred, and where we collect about $170 per student, it corresponds to a roughly $17,000 decrease in revenues.”

Mount Allison University VicePresident International and Student Affairs Ron Byrne cited population

ATLIS hosts mini-conference on geopolitics, voluntourism Students present at teaser for annual January conference Miriam Namakanda News Writer

Last Saturday, approximately twenty students gathered in Avard-Dixon 118 for a “miniconference” held by the Atlantic International Studies Organization.

ATLIS is a student-run organization that organizes an annual conference in January.

The conference is followed by a peer-reviewed academic journal—a publication open only to undergraduate students.

To encourage participation at the January conference, Saturday’s conference was held to pique the interests of students. Mount Allison University students Manaal Farooqi and Sarah McNeil gave presentations to attendees, who also enjoyed a light breakfast.

Farooqi’s presentation was entitled “Azerbaijan’s Geopolitical Importance.” Sarah McNeil presented “Beyond the Volunteer: A Proposed New Model for the Study of Youth-Oriented International Volunteerism.”

Farooqi first developed her interest in Azerbaijan during a simulation for a fourth-year international relations seminar, in which she acted as the Azerbaijani representative of The United Nations Security Council. She will be completing an independent study next semester on Azerbaijan’s relations with Iran, Russia and Israel. Farooqi’s research focuses on the political history of the country—particularly the effects of Soviet rule. In her conclusion, Farooqi spoke on the future of Azerbaijan and its move to take

on a more European identity.

McNeil is a third-year student of International Relations and Economics. This summer McNeil spent two months working as an intern for The Dejavato Foundation. This organization organizes volunteers in Indonesia.

McNeil’s experience was funded through Mt. A’s Mansbridge internship.

In her two months with the foundation, McNeil researched international volunteerism.

As part of her experiential learning experience, she wrote a literature review and is finishing a paper regarding this subject. McNeil spoke about the existing academic debate on international volunteering before concluding with a presentation of a new model of her own: a call for research around the oftenoverlooked stakeholders indirectly impacting international volunteering, such as host families and governments. The role of these groups has yet to be fully explored, McNeil said, as they remain ignored in most of the existing literature.

McNeil said she “gave some anecdotal examples of [the] experience” to illustrate how her travels added to the outcomes of her research.

The theme of this year’s ATLIS Conference is “‘Challenges to Future World Security: Food, Energy, and Privacy.” This theme was chosen because it is broad and can accommodate students from all disciplines, said Beth Cainen, who serves as an ATLIS vice-president.

Third-year French student Caroline Duda attended Saturday’s event. She found the conference “informative” and a “great opportunity for students to learn.”

The ATLIS executive is made up entirely of Mt. A students. The January conference attracts student presenters from universities across the Atlantic region.

January’s event will be the organization’s eleventh annual conference.

decline as one source of the decreased enrolment.

“The demographic in New Brunswick is on a steady decline, and that is certainly part of what is happening. The projections are continuing to be quite abysmal,” he said.

Byrne suggested some of the decline can be attributed to

experimenting with recruitment techniques, saying, “It’s important to try new things. You can’t remain static, but I don’t think those things came through in the way we had hoped.” Byrne also said schools of a comparable size in the area had improved their attempts to attract students, claiming, “Our competitors and comparators are increasing [their hold] in the recruiting market.”

Byrne said that Mt. A needs to continue to recruit locally, but look at expansion pragmatically. “While we are primarily recruiting, and continue to look to recruit primarily in the Maritimes, we now have to look west and internationally to find students, because the reality is our population is declining,” he said.

Though fewer students means lower expenditures for MASU, “[The budget] won’t be balanced without significant cuts or some sort of fee increase in my mind. In the past we have budgeted conservatively, but last year’s executive, the budget wasn’t as conservative as its been in the past.

The current budget as it stands does have built in cushions, so it shouldn’t be too bad,” Outerbridge said.

Outerbridge said that because of the deficit “there will probably be some sort of fee increase,” but that it would be “nothing too substantial.”

Aside from increasing fees, he said, there is little that MASU can do: “Whereas we don’t recruit our own members, we are very much at the mercy of the university and their advertising team.”

Big Hanna info session Lunch and Learn sheds light on campus environmental work Miriam Namakanda News Writer

Michelle Strain, the director of administrative services at Mount Allison University, led a small group of students through a lunch and learn focused on the Big Hanna Composting systems, Dirt and Ernie. This small group enjoyed a light lunch and an intimate discussion with Strain at The Pond, and received a tour of the composting system at Jennings.

While there were only five people in attendance at last week’s event, a similar event last year introducing the composting system drew a higher turnout. The event was organized

by Mt. A’s Environmental Issues Committee.

The composting system that Jennings Dining Hall uses involves a simple process that Strain explained in detail: First, the waste is scraped by students into large bins with magnetic tops, to avoid forks and knives being accidentally taken in with food waste. Before 2007, students used trays, and food was scraped by a Jennings employee.

“Having to look at what you’re scraping off your plate had a huge impact,” resulting in an “instant forty-four per cent reduction in food waste” Strain said.

The leftovers are then put through a pulper where they are ground up and dehydrated. The waste is then put into buckets and taken into the composting room. Four buckets of pulp at a time and a bucket of wooden pellets are put into each composter. The contents of each composter are slowly turned four times a day, and after

about six weeks compost is ready and used on university grounds.

Strain said this system has reduced Mt. A’s waste and environmental footprint, and has helped the administration to economize with up to $30-35,000 each year diminished from spending on waste transportation. This money will be redirected to buying more local foods for meal hall, she said.

There is “still work to be done” Strain said, noting that on average, each student wastes the equivalent of an apple daily. Though the composters have obvious benefits, there have been complaints about the smell, which Strain admitted gets worse when the seasons change.

The composting system is unlicensed because it is private, which exempts the university from biannual inspections that are usually required for public use of such systems.

Discussion of the university’s less successful projects also arose at the event. For example, to discourage the use of disposable cups, the university added ten cents to the price of every coffee bought on campus without a reusable mug. The university made $32,000 through this initiative. Some students suggested raising the price of disposable cups even higher, although the group realized afterwards that this would compromise the cafe’s ability to compete with local coffee shops.

Strain said the university has completed its biggest projects and will be looking to focus on what she called the “less sexy” improvements, such as lighting and roofing projects. Such projects would probably draw less attention than past projects like the composters and the Mt. A farm. Strain also told the Lunch and Learn group that there are plans for a shredder so that the university can produce its own alternative to wood chips from the cardboard used to package the food received at Jennings.

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Exams and essays not ideal, but are the best of limited options Mitchell Gunn

We have officially entered the month of November here at Mount Allison, meaning that the general student population will be less concerned with midterms in the coming weeks.

Unfortunately, attention will now be focused on final projects and exams looming on the horizon.

It is in this period of ominous dread that complaints about the university’s methods of student evaluation will start to pile up even faster than the assignments themselves. Some people are bad at writing exams. Some people are bad at writing papers. Some people are bad at giving presentations.

All of these are entirely valid observations that have plenty of anecdotal and statistical evidence backing them up. Simply put, different people have different academic strengths and weaknesses. As a personal example, I generally do better on essays than I do on exams.

Bearing this in mind, the current methods of evaluation are not ideal. The perfect approach

would be individually-designed evaluation plans that cater to each student’s strengths and enable them to convey their knowledge of a subject most effectively, thereby earning them the best grade they can possibly achieve.

The only real reason this model has not been implemented is its impracticality. Trying to organize individual evaluation schemes for each of the 2,500 students here at Mt. A would be next to impossible, to say nothing of attempting to do so on a larger scale.

But is this so-called perfect approach really all that perfect? Its perfection depends on how you look at the purpose of student evaluation, and even university as a whole.

As pleasant as the concept might seem, it would be an oversimplification to say that students attend university with the noble goal of pure learning. For many—if not all—students, a university education serves as preparation for a future career. Thus, the courses that we take here, along with the exams and essays they entail, are all serving a similar function: preparing us for the requirements of such a career.

In English courses, for example, the focus on writing essays, analyzing literature, and attaining mastery of spelling, grammar, and syntax prepare students for a field where these skills will be taken as a given. Science courses train students to perform calculations and answer questions quickly and accurately while coming to understand the key ideas of their area of study.

In a more universal sense, the high-pressure environments of exams and impending due

dates of assignments prepare students for a work place where they will not have unlimited time to complete their objectives. Introducing the critical and unforgiving concept of deadlines at a university level means it will not be a foreign concept on the job.

All of our university education—including our evaluations—serves a definite purpose.

Namely, that by the time a student graduates and starts their career in a given field, their occupational expectations will have become almost second nature.

A common phrase for critics of current student evaluation frameworks argues that one cannot effectively judge a fish’s aptitude by its ability to climb a tree. However, this analogy falls apart if the fish in question is seeking to become a professional tree-climber. It may seem matter-of-fact, but evaluation methods are more or less tailor-made to fit their academic and occupational fields. If somebody is not suited for the former, they likely are not suited for the latter.

So while it may seem ideal to let each student have their own individual process of evaluation, it is important to note that the workplace does not follow such a format. Our current methods of evaluation are designed not to provide instantaneous success, but rather continuing success that lasts beyond graduation and into students’ careers.

Given the choice between the two evaluation methods, I know which option I would pick.

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It is extremely disappointing to me as a proud Mount Allison student that more of our student body chooses to play war and wear orange armbands, than the number of students who choose to honour those affected by the realities of war and wear a poppy. This is clearly the sign of a population disconnected from the sacrifices made by their ancestors, as well as the sacrifices men and women continue to make in the service of their country every day. If this is a product of a belief that wearing a poppy somehow glorifies or promotes warfare, I urge you to visit the Royal Canadian Legion website and read about the poppy campaign. To wear a poppy is to acknowledge and reflect on the tragedy of war—the maiming and loss of life by civilians and service people alike. It honours those who have volunteered to make personal sacrifices on

behalf of their nation. Some funds raised during the poppy campaign go toward educating youth in hopes it will deter future wars. Much of the money raised goes to assist veterans, many who continue to struggle with the mental and physical scars left from their experiences. Make no mistake that every veteran has been scarred in some manner.

That sacrifice is why the notion of young adults playing war leading up to and including part of Veterans’ Week is so disappointing to me. War is not to be trivialized, particularly at this time of year. Don’t get me wrong—I believe that an escape from reality is a necessity of university life. But I also believe it is up to each generation to keep the act of remembrance alive, particularly as we lose more and more Second World War veterans and are faced with helping

those returning from Afghanistan (or any of the other thirteen current operations Canada is conducting abroad). While I realize that there is no disrespect intended, I would urge the organizers of next year’s Humans vs. Zombies event to consider changing the dates of the game so that it ends on Halloween.

Even more so, I urge every student to wear a poppy. Enjoy the extra days of studying due to the Nov. 11 weekend, but please make your way to a cenotaph or the university Remembrance Day ceremony on Monday to pause, reflect, and pay homage. Speak with and perhaps thank a veteran. It brightens their day, and it will brighten yours too. On Nov. 11, please refrain from playing war.

Jeff McRae

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November 7, 2013

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Will men and women ever be equal?

The double standard between men and women remains in society Tessa Dixon

We have all heard about the double standard between men and women.

Boys and men can do things that girls and women cannot. While it is easy to see the inequality of the situation, society is still pervaded by it. Teenagers, especially, amidst social pressures and forming identities, are deeply affected by it. Girls try to overcome this adversity for the injustices done against them

and they are being criticized for it.

And sometimes the gender bias goes to the extreme.

In August of 2012 in Steubenville, Ohio, two teenage boys raped a sixteen-year-old girl. The attack was filmed and shared through social media.

A CNN broadcast received backlash after the coverage sympathized with the two attackers, Ma’lik Richmond and Trenton Mays, for the loss of their “promising football careers.” The victim was blamed for being raped, because as a result, her attackers’ future in a sport was ruined. Many of Steubenville’s citizens refused to cooperate with investigators in attempts to protect Richmond and Mays.

Based on text messages sent during the trial in March, Richmond and May’s football coach, Reno Saccoccia, could potentially face charges of obstruction of justice and endangering a minor for being aware of the crime but not reporting it.

He told the boys that he “would make it go

away.”

Many teenagers like to drink and go to parties.

This unnamed girl was no different. However, memories of the party were not captured with fun pictures between friends, but rather, by two boys who raped her and showed the world.

She was criticized for bringing the attack upon herself by being too inebriated to protect herself.

The double standard strikes again. This sentiment insinuates that girls must act and dress in a certain way to avoid being raped.

In 2011, four boys from Nova Scotia raped a then-fifteen-year-old Rehtaeh Parsons. She was repeatedly harassed through social media, with both insults and requests for sex. According to her parents, she was shunned by her friends and the community, which prompted the family to relocate. In April 2013, Parsons attempted suicide and later died. Her father believes that the criticism and harassment she faced following the attack pushed her over the edge.

The Steubenville and Nova Scotia cases have

Education: Wente just doesn’t get it Will no one rid the Globe of its turbulent columnist?

‘I’m offended’ is a meaningless term ‘Politically correct’ is not always correct

Richard Kent Editor-in-Chief

This Halloween, The Globe and Mail’s Margaret Wente took the latest in her series of half-baked pot-shots at higher education. Her war: the academy. Her target: students. Her ammunition: today’s youth are a bunch of spoiled brats who just need to pull themselves up by the bootstraps, already!

According to Wente, there is no debt crisis. Not only are things not that bad, she says, but student debt builds the same kind of moral fibre that the Depression did for our grandparents.

No twenty-something has ever had it easy, but those malcontent millennials need to learn to appreciate their collective cake-walk.

Taken alone, Wente’s piece, entitled “Student debt crisis? No, expectations crisis,” gets some things right, and others wrong: It is probably true that many of my cohort could use some toughening up. But no “student debt crisis?” Let’s take a look at the numbers.

A Statistics Canada report from 2010 found that those with student debt were slightly less likely than nonindebted graduates to have started saving for retirement or own a home, and slightly more likely to have a mortgage. Chillingly, those between twenty and twenty-nine years of age who borrowed to pay for university had lower average net-worth than those who had paid up-front: $17,500 for those who had borrowed, and $61,000 for those who did not. This is significant, given that there are some 1.2 million students in Canadian degree programs—half of whom have or will have a loan by the time they graduate.

Student debt in Canada sits at roughly $23 billion, and that amount will not decrease anytime soon.

more in common than rape. The victims are persecuted not only for trying to find justice, but also for being raped. Whether it is bullying, taunting, shunning, or being ousted from their homes, victims and their families are treated horrifically, in favour of sympathizing with the perpetrators of the crimes.

Denial and defence are go-to attitudes in times of stress and fear. We use it as a means of protecting ourselves from the harsh reality surrounding us. However, in these cases, denial and defence was used at the expense of the lives of innocent victims. No one wants to believe that his or her friend or family member could have committed such a crime. However, the same feeling goes for the families and friends of rape survivors. There is no justification for heinously attacking a human being and violating his or her right for justice and safety—no matter how drunk they are.

Ashwini Manohar

Many students are being crushed by debt. (Photo Illustration by Nick Sleptov/Argosy) Universities are ever-more reliant on tuition fees to keep the lights on— and tuition increases are significantly ahead of inflation.

But maybe Wente has simply lost touch with what it’s like to be a student. Let’s contrast a Globe report on student debt in August 2012 and a Wente column from earlier this year with Wente’s piece from last week.

The Globe and Mail, 2012: “… [F] ifty-eight per cent of students said they expect to graduate with upwards of $20,000 in debt, and twenty-one per cent estimate they will owe more than $40,000.” And: “According to Canada Student Loan Program data, most students take nearly ten years to pay their loans. The average student debt upon graduation, according to the Canadian Federation of Students, is $27,000.”

Wente, April 9, 2013: “The real story among today’s twentysomethings isn’t unemployment.

It’s underemployment. An amazing number of university-educated offspring of the upper middle class are working as caterers, concierges and fitness instructors until something better comes along … Today’s young service class may be the most overqualified service class in history.

And now, new research from a trio of Canadian economists suggests this unhappy trend will be a fact of life for years to come.”

Wente, Oct. 31, 2013: “I graduated debt-free, thanks to low tuition, scholarships, family help and my incredible waitressing skills. But it was a long time before I stopped living like a student. My first job paid $5,000 a year (the equivalent of about $28,000 today) … But after six or seven jobs in six or seven years, I was finally able to move out of my rented attic and ditch my futon bed.”

She then cites a think-tank president who claims that university graduates start making the big bucks two or three years after leaving school, and that student loan interest is only about two per cent per annum in real terms.

Not only has the experience of paying for university changed significantly since Wente’s school days, the columnist cannot even decide whether or not there is a problem!

Of course, student debt probably does not matter much to Globe readers. After all, the target market of “Canada’s National Newspaper” are those earning more than $120,000 a year—in other words, not the sort of people whose kids qualify for student loans in the first place.

It is right to change one’s opinion in response to new information. It is indecent for a veteran journalist to denounce students as cry-babies for not being able to afford an education and a shot at a decent income.

Maybe it is just that I have grown up a bit and am now less oblivious than before, but it seems to me that the movement to be more politically correct has gained tremendous traction in recent years. It seems to have gotten to the point that everything said and done has to conform to some standard of non-offence so that the greatest number of people can be pleased.

While I completely understand and support the necessity to be sensitive and considerate (especially in public life), I cannot help but feel that there is sometimes a line, however arbitrary and subjective, between political correctness and just plain silliness.

I do support politically correct things that a lot of people find petty, like the campaign to restore the Canadian national anthem to gender neutral terms. If changing “in all thy sons command” to “in all of us command” is such a small issue, then there really shouldn’t be a problem in changing it, should there? You would think that an important emblem of our nationality should be sung in inclusive gender-neutral terms, and that most people would be okay with this. If we are talking about tradition, maybe we should consider that our national anthem was already created in genderneutral terms before it was changed to its current form in 1913.

What does get me, however, is the hyper-sensitivity that surrounds private discourse. The argument that the speaker has the onus to ensure that whatever they says does not

cause offence I find to be particularly troublesome. Offence is taken, not caused.

When Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses was published in 1988, it incited such a furor that the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran issued a fatwa ordering Muslims to kill him for allegedly insulting the Prophet Mohammed. Rushdie subsequently went into hiding for the better part of a decade, and about his ordeal he had one thing to say: “What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.”

Perhaps it is not the words themselves that one should take exception to, but the nature or intent in which they were spoken. In which case, it still makes no sense to be offended by a racist person who would probably either get defensive amidst the rush of self-righteous scolding, or simply laugh it off. Nor does it make sense to be offended by someone who never meant to cause offence.

If we want to change racist or misogynistic attitudes, even among people who say things that they are not aware are problematic—like ‘all of the black girls I’ve met are so sassy!’— being self-righteous and offended is an ineffective way of going about it.

Scolding someone for their ignorance is ridiculous—let’s just communicate our disagreement and leave it at that.

The most insidious (and annoying) form of this social limiting of freedom of speech, however, happens when someone says that they are offended and expects the other person to immediately apologize and retract their statement. It seems apt to end on the words of the wonderful Stephen Fry: “It’s now very common to hear people say ‘I’m rather offended by that’ as if that gives them certain rights. It’s actually … no more than a whine …

It has no meaning, it has no purpose, it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. ‘I am offended by that’—well, so fucking what?”

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S a i n t M a r y ’s U n i v e r s i t y MBA Prog ram

T h u r s d a y N o v. 7 , 4 : 0 0 p m WMSC Room 125 Representatives from SMU Sobey S c h o o l o f B u s i n e s s M BA Pro g r a m will be on campus from 12-4pm in the McCain Student Centre.

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T h u r s d a y N o v. 7 , 5 : 3 0 p m 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 .

Film Society

T h u r s d a y N o v. 7 , 7 : 3 0 p m Vo g u e C i n e m a Presenting “Blue Jasmine”.

Latin Dancing Society Practices

F r i d a y, N o v. 8 , 4 : 3 0 p m WMSC Multipurpose Room We e k l y L a t i n d a n c i n g p r a c t i c e s .

Remembrance Day - no classes M o n d a y N o v. 1 1

Remembrance Day Ser vice M o n d a y N o v. 1 1 , 1 0 : 0 0 a m Convocation Hall

Mid-term Day of Independent Study Tu e s d a y N o v. 1 2 No classes.

P r o v o s t ’s Fa c u l t y Development Series Lib

T h u r s d a y N o v. 1 4 , 1 1 : 3 0 a m Jennings Hall Banquet Room Space is limited. Registration is required. Contact mlsmith@mta. ca.

Bachelor of Education Info Session

T h u r s d a y N o v. 1 4 , 1 1 : 3 0 a m WMSC Multipurpose Room Representatives will discuss registration requirements and more.

International Centre Exam P r e p Wo r k s h o p T h u r s d a y N o v. 1 4 , 7 : 0 0 p m WMSC Room 125 Wo r k s h o p f o r i n t e r n a t i o n a l s t u dents providing tips and strategies for preparing for and taking exams.

Film Society

T h u r s d a y N o v. 1 4 , 7 : 3 0 p m Vo g u e C i n e m a Presenting “Cutie and the Boxer”.

Deadline for deposits for Winter term F r i d a y N o v. 1 5 Deadline for registration and residence deposits for students admitted for the Winter term.

AUCC Open Doors

Community Event

F r i d a y N o v. 1 5 , 1 0 : 0 0 a m Library Theatre T h i s y e a r ’s e v e n t w i l l f e a t u r e p r e s e n t a t i o n s f r o m f a c u l t y, s t a f f , a n d students who have created inspiring community outreach projects.

F e e d Yo u r B r a i n L e c t u r e D r. D e s m a r a i s

Tu e s d a y N o v. 1 9 , 1 1 : 3 0 a m Library Theatre D r. G e n e v i è v e D e s m a r a i s p r e s e n t s “Cardiovascular Health and Cogn i t i v e Pe r f o r m a n c e ” .

Mansbridge Internship Presentation

Tu e s d a y N o v. 1 9 , 1 2 : 0 0 p m Mansbridge Internship Presentation - learn more about the Mansbridge Internship and the two Mt. A students who shared the award in Summer 2013.

Dalhousie Corporate Residency MBA

We d n e s d a y N o v. 2 0 , 4 : 0 0 p m Avard Dixon Room 111 The Dalhousie Corporate Resid e n c y M BA p ro g r a m i s d e s i g n e d to immerse you quickly and intensely into the real business world. Refreshments provided.

I n t r o d u c t i o n t o M y Wo r l d Abroad

We d n e s d a y N o v. 2 0 , 5 : 3 0 p m Jame Dunn PC Lab 102 M y Wo r l d A b r o a d i s a n e x t e n s i v e online guide for students who are interested in working, living, volunteering, or studying abroad.

harpsichord and recorders.

Facult y Recital: K alyn/ Johnson

F r i d a y N o v. 1 5 , 8 : 0 0 p m Conservatory of Music “Gender Equality: Saxophone music by women alive and dead, men alive and dead, and a piece by a live man about a dead woma n” . J a m e s K a l y n , s a x o p h o n e , a n d Lynn Johnson, piano.

Guest Recital: David P o m e r o y, Te n o r

We d n e s d a y N o v. 2 0 , 8 : 0 0 p m Conservation of Music

S P O RT S Fo o t b a l l - Aw ay

S a t u r d a y N o v. 9 , 2 : 0 0 p m Huskies’ Field Mt. A vs. SMU AUS L oney Bowl

Wo m e n ’ s Vo l l e y b a l l Home S a t u r d a y N o v. 9 , 2 : 3 0 p m McCormack Gym Mt. A vs. UNBSJ

Wo m e n ’ s H o c k e y - H o m e S a t u r d a y N o v. 9 , 5 : 0 0 p m TVMCC Mt. A vs. Dalhousie

Wo m e n ’ s Vo l l e y b a l l - A w a y S u n d a y N o v. 1 0 , 2 : 3 0 p m

Canada Games Stadium Mt. A vs. UNBSJ

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. 1 0 , 2 : 0 0 p m McCormack Gym M t . A v s . U KC

Wo m e n ’ s H o c k e y - H o m e S u n d a y N o v. 1 0 , 2 : 0 0 p m TVMCC Mt. A vs. St. FX

PSA Live Bait Theatre Remembrance Day show

F r i d a y N o v. 8 , S a t u r d a y N o v. 9 , 7 : 3 0 p m ; S u n d a y N o v. 1 0 , 2 : 0 0 p m Sackville Legion, Lorne Street “ L e s t We F o r g e t ” , a h e a r t w a r m ing tribute in music and story to our Canadian soldiers and their families, featuring classic wartime songs, tales from the front,and other meaningful contributions. Ticket prices are $12 and $15, with children under 10 admitted free.

Remembrance Day Parade

M o n d a y N o v. 1 1 , 9 : 3 0 a m The parade will form in front of the Legion 15 Lorne St. and march to Convocation Hall for t h e s e r v i c e. Fo l l ow i n g t h e s e r v i c e they will march to the Cenotaph for laying of wreaths and return to the L egion for a stand to.

C i n e m a Po l i t i c a

We d n e s d a y N o v. 2 0 , 7 : 0 0 p m J a m e s D u n n M i n i Wu Documentary film screening of J e r m a n’s H o u s e C h e c k .

Tr a n s g e n d e r D a y o f Rememberance Ceremony

We d n e s d a y N o v. 2 0 , 7 : 0 0 p m Chapel Sanctuary A day to memorialize those who have been killed all over the world as a result of anti-transgender violence, and acts to bring attention to the continued violence endured by the transgender c o m m u n i t y.

A RT S & M U S I C Relational Aesthetics Brian Rush

F r i d a y, N o v. 8 , 4 : 3 0 p m Owens Art Gallery Canadian relational artist Brian Rush makes videos, performances, relational objects, and interactions that use humour and discomfort to investigate inhib i t i o n s , f r u i t f u l v u l n e r a b i l i t y, i n v i t a t i o n , a n d a u t h e n t i c i t y.

Canada Council Reading Miranda Hill

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ARTS & LITERATURE

November 7, 2013

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Performing Arts Series presents the Cecilia String Quartet

The Cecilia String Quartet performed a selection of classical pieces alongside traditional ceilidh tunes unique to the Atlantic Canada region. The concert was part of the Performing Arts Series. (Nick Sleptov/Argosy)

Mount Allison welcomes rising Ontario musicians Daniel Marcotte Arts & Literature Writer In this year’s second instalment of the annual Performing Arts Series at Mount Allison, the distinguished Cecilia String Quartet took to the Brunton stage for a concert in conjunction with the Debut Atlantic tour. Originally founded in 1979, Debut Atlantic is committed to bringing the talents of Canada’s rising musicians to the Atlantic region to both provide performing opportunities, and to promote education and appreciation for classical music. Students, staff, and community members gathered attentively in the auditorium on Saturday, Nov. 2, for an

enjoyable evening of music by some of history’s most inspiring and memorable composers.

The Cecilia String Quartet was formed at the University of Toronto while all four members were students there, and derives its name from Saint Cecilia, the Roman patroness of music.

With Min-Jeong Koh and Sarah Nematallah on violin, Caitlin Boyle on viola, and Rachel Desoer on cello, the quartet is a blend of unique personalities and backgrounds that come together in a brilliant and cohesive display of musical talent. The quartet has recently gained significant attention and acclaim, and are currently the Ensemble in Residence at the University of Toronto’s music department.

Through their performance of classical music for string quartets by Haydn and Mendelssohn, the group quickly and confidently demonstrated their adept understanding of subtlety and masterful ability to use a piece’s dynamics to harness its full emotional effect. The quartet continued with a an interpretation of Anton Webern’s “Langsamer Satz,” an evocative and

Creative Corner

Lying awake, clutching at fragments of instants Hoping they would still be there when The silent sun came knocking: Those inquisitive buttons on a half-sewn coat Wondering who they would envelop in an Obligatory embrace; Silken hands shaping silhouettes of feet that Contemplated the dark emptiness of their Abyssal interior; Trudging through the snow we wondered If winter ended and gave way to a summer Of realization or an eternity Of questions.

This long short day is an unruly cluster Of many long short years Clasped together with pieces of familiarity.

somewhat uncomfortable to witness an awkward incorporation of folk elements, like foot-tapping and whooping, into a piece that still lingered safely within the conventions of classical composition.

Some students were quick to voice their disappointment in the performance of this piece: “I wasn’t a fan of it,” remarked Heather Shilton, a third-year geography student and Toronto Symphony Orchestra enthusiast with a history of musical performance, “there was something about it that just didn’t fit.” Although attempts to merge the fancy with the folk have undoubtedly been successful in other instances, this piece simply does not appear to be one of them.

Despite a minor exception, the Cecilia String Quartet demonstrated their musical excellence and passionate dedication to a diverse array of styles and composers. Once again, Mt. A is fortunate enough to welcome world-class musicians to its stage through its Performing Arts Series, a trend that will continue with the Cadence vocal quartet on Friday, Nov. 22.

Artist Profile MacKenzie Stone

Daniel Marcotte That long short year showed me who I was But not who I wasn’t.

That long short year dictated how far My ability to grasp for identity could reach.

complex piece that was featured on the quartet’s second CD, entitled Amoroso, that was released in the spring of 2013. As Nematallah explains, the album was “inspired by passionate and devastating love stories” from the lives of the composers.

The concert also featured a performance of “Kitchen Ceilidh,” a more contemporary piece by Abigail Richardson-Schulte that was composed specifically for this tour of Atlantic Canada.

Inspired by the sounds of Cape Breton folk music and the personal playing style of Nova Scotian fiddle legend Natalie MacMaster, the piece attempts to infuse the classical quartet style with the sounds of Cape Breton and the casual atmosphere of a ceilidh, a traditional Gaelic gathering involving music and dancing that is still widely held in homes and festivals across the Atlantic provinces.

While the quartet’s performance of this piece was flawless and engaging, the composer’s choice to blend classical aspects with a traditional East Coast flavour left a disappointing taste. It was

Daniel Marcotte Arts & Literature Writer This summer, fourth-year music student MacKenzie Stone completed an interdisciplinary project that attempted to track and explore the various influences behind Claude Debussy’s “Fêtes Galantes,” a composition for voice and piano from 1904. In order to delve into the implications of this research, The Argosy did an interview with Stone that reveals that the fields of art, literature, and music are closely interconnected in ways we may not realize. With the support of the J.E.A. Crake Foundation and Gary Tucker of Mount Allison’s Music Department, Stone embarked on a historical journey to trace the origins of the “Fêtes Galantes” and their significance to Western music and culture.

During the 1700s, French painter Antoine Watteau created the fête galante genre to equate the French aristocratic court with the mythological Greek paradise of Arcadia, a concept that was later reflected in the symbolist poems of Paul Verlaine in the mid 1800s. This idea was picked up again by pianist Claude

Debussy at the turn of the century. Stone is most interested in this sequence of inheritance.

“I traced this chain of influence that connected these paintings to poetry, and then to music,” she explained, demonstrating an exceptional understanding of interdisciplinary studies. “You get a sense that all the arts are very intricately and intrinsically connected.”

Stone also identifies cultural values that gradually changed with each medium transfer, ultimately rejecting Greek decadence and idealism in favour of a bleak modernist realism. “They all had this underlying sense of melancholy,” she said, “but each artist draws it out even more as it was interpreted.”

Moreover, she believes that similar processes are at work in the musical and artistic world in a more contemporary context as well.

“Music saw a total breakdown that has carried to today in the art world,” she said, describing the deliberate avoidance of artistic conventions and traditions by contemporary musicians. “There was a time when you did something because someone before you did it similarly, but nowadays we’re much more into the individualistic.”

In general, Stone greatly enjoyed the opportunity to conduct her summer research, and

sees it as a sort of art form in itself.

“You can do anything in research as long as you have an idea,” she explained, specifically noting the program’s inherent ability to combine several interrelated academic spheres. “That’s why I enjoy music so much; it’s very much an intellectual and artistic experience. For me, the sweet spot is when I can combine them.”

Stone is currently pursuing a specialization in vocal performance in her studies at Mt. A, and plans to obtain her master’s degree in Montréal, Toronto, or Winnipeg, an ambitious and impressive jump for someone from the tiny town of Bath, New Brunswick. She is especially passionate about opera, and says that she would consider its potential as a research project in the future due to its incorporation of both musical and dramatic performance. Before Stone graduates this May, she will perform a final piano and vocal recital in the spring that will showcase a culmination of her musical education at Mt. A. In the future, Stone hopes to become an educator or professor of both the performance and scholarly aspects of music, and continue her concentration on the importance of interdisciplinary approaches to the arts.

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Alex Colville’s prints unveiled at the Owens University memorializes Canadian artist Julia McMillan

Arts & Literature Editor Mount Allison University is now the proud owner of thirty-five original prints by preeminent Canadian artist Alex Colville. The collection was donated in the spring of 2013, shortly before the artist’s death this July. The gift, arranged by Colville’s daughter and art dealer, Anne Kitz, was made in memory of his wife Rhoda (Wright) Colville, who passed away in December last year. The complete collection was unveiled at the Owens Art Gallery on Nov. 2, following a reception at Tweedie Hall that commemorated Colville’s artistic legacy.

Colville, now widely known as one of Canada’s foremost visual artists, began his career as a fine arts student at Mt. A. Four years after his graduation in 1942, Colville returned to the university as a professor, where he taught until 1963. Today, his connection with the university continues through the donation of his original prints.

The gift is a dream come true for a Canadian art gallery. It features the artist’s entire personal collection of serigraph prints, completed throughout the duration of his career.

The earliest print, “After Swimming”, was completed in 1955, while the latest, “Willow,” is from 2002. The collection in its entirety serves as a retrospect of the artist’s influential career as a

A reception honouring Colville’s career preceded the unveiling of his prints at Owens Art Gallery. His work is currently on display at the gallery. (Chris Donovan/Argosy) pioneering Canadian printmaker. The earliest prints show the hints of an artist in the process of mastering his medium: the lines are rougher, flatter planes dominate the design, and the figures are shadowy and gestural. As Colville’s career advances, his work becomes more precise and realistic.

The later prints depict vivid scenes of daily interactions in a way that showcase Colville’s virtuosic grasp of lighting and texture.

Throughout Colville’s development as a printmaker, his subject matter and the overall atmosphere of his pieces remain remarkably consistent. His work reflects his interest in the quiet intimacy of human relationships, the inherent goodness of animals, and the

grace of every day moments.

Colville’s wife, Rhoda, features prominently in much of his work. As Owens director Gemmy Kelly noted, Rhoda was not only his lifelong partner, but also his muse and his inspiration throughout the entirety of his career. It is fitting, therefore, that the collection of prints was donated in her memory. In a poetic, tender way, the couple’s relationship is documented through the series of prints, from their youth to their old age. Appropriately, the exhibition is chronologically bookended by two prints of the couple together.

The unveiling of Colville’s gift was as much a reunion of the artist’s friends and family as it was an exhibition of his

work. Among the three hundred-odd people in attendance were Colville’s close friends and relatives, including his three children, classmates, and former students.

One guest in attendance was Colville’s former student and renowned Canadian painter, Christopher Pratt.

Pratt, whose own work is strikingly reminiscent of Colville’s style, addressed the attendees of the event with fond and humorous recollections of his relationship with the artist. “[Alex Colville] was much a mentor as a professor,” Pratt said. “I consider him to be the greatest Canadian artist, and, in fact, I believe him to be one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century, anywhere.”

Colville’s gift to the university is a significant contribution to the artistic community in Sackville. University president Robert Campbell said that the donation from Colville, a “true Allisonian […] will provide a particular resource to the fine arts students, and will afford tremendous access to our entire community to view Colville’s work, and of course it will make an ongoing contribution to our fine arts collection.”

The “Alex Colville Gift to Mount Allison University” exhibition is currently on display at the Owens.

The gallery now houses Canada’s most complete collection of Colville’s work.

Mad Libs and musicals with FLiNT and Black Tie

Fundraiser combines comedy and musical theatre

Jean-Sébastien Comeau and Julia McMillan This Halloween weekend, FLiNT Improv treated their faithful audience to a unique collaboration between their troop and Black Tie Productions.

The event, a miscellany of musicals and Mad Libs, was a fundraiser for Black Tie’s production of Evil Dead, opening this March.

The spotlight was placed on members of Black Tie during the first half of the show. The actors performed recognizable cuts from the group’s favourite musicals, but with an added twist: audience members bombarded the performers with various noun and verb suggestions, which were then used to substitute the song’s original words. The performance was a musical game of Mad Libs. The ability of the crowd to instantly come up with absurd and comedic words played a significant role in creating an entirely new and often hilarious meaning to the song. The performers gave a solid performance, but the role of the participants was vital to the act. Black

Tie also revealed an exclusive preview of the group’s upcoming production of Evil Dead, leaving spectators intrigued and interested in the show.

Despite the spontaneous nature of Black Tie’s performance, the actors were able to think on their feet, and the story flowed seamlessly, despite the ridiculous narrative antics. It was entertaining to see the actors remain serious when performing such outrageous songs—the chemistry between them was palpable, and so was creativity.

After a first half dedicated to Black Tie, who delivered a well-received performance, it was time for FLiNT Improv to show what they were capable of. The team performed an improvised musical, a performance that bore the same core comedic antics as the previous performance and that proved to entertain the crowd time and time again.

Alaa Ratmi, a member of FliNT’s main cast, said the show was more of an “experimental show: a beta-test if you will”, noting that it was “the very first time [FLiNT] were doing a musical, which is a bit out of reach for what we usually do.” Ratmi continued by explaining that “Friday shows are basically a platform for us to try new stuff.”

When asked about whether the Friday events are a good way for individuals to get familiar with FLiNT, he said newcomers should

Black Tie and FLiNT Improv members teamed up to participate in a hilarious fundraiser for Black Tie’s upcoming production of Evil Dead, which opens this march. The groups performed improv musicals and Mad Libbed songs. (Nick SleptovIArgosy) attend the weekly Wednesday shows: “If you want to know what FLiNT is all about, Wednesday shows are the ones you have to attend.”

But according to Black Tie Productions President, Ricky Buchanan, the collaboration with FLiNT was a natural pairing, and one the groups had been working up to for quite some time.

“We have been talking about

having a musical Mad Libs event for a couple years now. It’s the kind of event that was right up our alley. […]

Flint had been in the talks of doing an improvised musical as well so this just seemed like the perfect opportunity for both of us.”

While the collaboration with Black Tie Production may have been a unique event, FLiNT organizes similar performances at The Pond

bi-weekly on Fridays, and weekly on Wednesdays. A night of improv with FLiNT is certainly an appropriate way of blowing off steam after a week’s worth of work.

Jean-Sébastien Comeau is a contributor to The Argosy.

Julia McMillan is The Argosy’s Arts & Literature Editor.

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S TA T I S T I C S The Mount Allison Football team will return to the Loney Bowl for the first time since 1998.

The Mounties’ QB Brandon Leyh led the AUS in passing yards per game with 171.3.

The Women’s Soccer team returned to the AUS playoffs under new coach Kevin Johnson.

Jordan Botel defended his AUS rushing title, leading the league with 758 rushing yards, 94.8 yards per game, and 6 rushing touchdowns.

Soccer Mountie Amanda Volcko and Sackville’s own and Mounties Safety Michael Bohan were nominated twice as Joey’s Athlete of the Week.

Te Nguyen and Devante Sampson were tied with two others with 4 interceptions in AUS football action.

Cross-Country rookie John Beninger won all 4 Men’s CrossCountry events. Beninger was named ACAA Men’s Champion.

The Women’s Rugby team finished 2nd in the ACAA, losing 22-17 to the Dalhousie Agricultural Campus Rams.

Soccer Mountie captain Adrian Crace was nominated AUS Second Team All-Star.

The Lacrosse team beat Saint Francis Xavier 11-8 for the first time ever on October 18.

The Mount Allison Golf team submitted a full team to all 3 ACAA tournaments.

Nathan Garland cracked the top 10 at the opening event at Mactaquac in Fredricton.

Lacrosse Mounties focus on small successes Team wins first game since 2011 Alex Bates & Taylor Losier Argosy Staff

The Mount Allison lacrosse team remains in a rut, but what they lack in wins, they make up for in character. The team is composed of many former hockey players who do

not have an outlet because of the lack of a men’s hockey team at Mt. A. Their talents are deeply buried in the Tantramar Veterans Memorial Civic Centre in 11 pm intramural hockey games.

The team plays on Lansdowne Field, Mt. A’s tertiary field. As part of the Athletics Department, they play club level lacrosse in the Maritime University Field Lacrosse League (MUFLL).

The team started out with the usual struggles. They battled hard

in their first several matches but came up short every time. It was not until Oct. 19, when they played the Saint Francis Xavier X-Men on Lansdowne Field, that they had their biggest game of the season. It was the team’s first win since Oct. 2, 2011, when they beat Acadia 13-11.

The Mounties held a 4-2 lead after the first half and looked to beat the X-Men for the first time ever. Mt. A outscored the X-Men 5-4 in the third quarter. This was enough to win by a final score of 11-8.

Men’s soccer ends frustrated Coach seeks to rebuild next year Tyler Stuart

Features Editor The Mount Allison Varsity Men’s soccer team had a disappointing season this year, placing second to last in the Atlantic University Sport (AUS). The men garnered a record of two wins, eight losses, and three ties.

Roy Chineh, head coach of the men’s soccer team, said that the results were not the only reflection of the team.

“To me performance is a more accurate measure of a team than results,” Chineh said.

“Don’t get me wrong; I would love to get results, but the performance of the team is as important.”

The Mounties opened the season with strong performances against Acadia and UPEI, though they fell 3-1 to Acadia.

Drew MacCormack, a first-year, said that while the team started off playing beautiful soccer, they failed to build on those

performances.

“We still played quality soccer. We just weren’t quite there,” MacCormack said.

Sam Bliss, a fifth-year who plays wing for the Mounties, said that injuries were detrimental to the team’s fitness and morale.

“When you have a lot of injured guys, it’s hard to keep going,” Bliss said, who blamed many of the injuries on the state of MacAulay Field.

“Look what we have to run around on. It’s mud.”

While injuries challenged the Mounties this year, next year’s team will have eleven empty spaces.

“Next year, I imagine, the team is going to have a lot of rookies because the lineup we have left is thin,” Bliss said.

Chineh said he will work hard to fill the gaps left by this year’s veteran squad.

“Recruiting, recruiting recruiting,” Chineh said. “I mean we have about five guys who would be a solid foundation to build around, but we would be looking for the right players to add to our core.”

MacCormack said he is looking forward to next year, despite its challenges.

“I think we’ll still be alright,” he said.

The Mounties played out the rest of the season to no avail, but they did get the victory that eluded them in the 2012 season. Their one victory is their season’s silver lining.

“We looked to score early, keep possession of the ball and slow down the game,” said Rehman “We have trouble when the other team gets a goal and gains momentum, and until [the game against St. Francis Xavier], I don’t think anyone really believed we could win.”

This will be the last year for

Mountie Ali Rehman, who has been a key player for the team.

“It’s been a fun four years playing for Mount Allison lacrosse,” said Rehman. “It’s tough to say how many recruits we’ll get next season, but we’ve got a good core group to keep it going.”

If David Carson and Blake Hamilton return to the club in 2014, look for them to try and get the Mounties back into the win column.

Cross country runs to title Beninger steals show in men’s event Alex Bates

Sports Editor First-year student John Beninger propelled the Mount Allison Men’s Cross Country team to success in 2013. Beninger took the Atlantic Collegiate Athletic Association (ACAA) by storm, winning all four men’s events this year.

His efforts proved enough to win ACAA Men’s Championship for 2013.

With strong efforts from Mt. A’s Jonathan Craig, Samuel Clements, Colin Rennie, and the rest of the team, the men were able to win the ACAA team event. The win is awarded to the team with the four highest finishing times.

Beninger and his teammates consistently finished in the top five, allowing them to take the team title at the ACAA championships.

The women’s team had similar success in the 2013 ACAA season. They had strong showings from Cassidy Langley, Claire Henderson-Hamilton, and Haruho Kubota

in all four events. But the team was unable to surpass Dalhousie Agricultural College’s Arielle Fitzgerald, who was crowned Women’s champion in 2013.

The women took the second, third, and fourth finishing positions at the ACAA Championship in Moncton’s Mapleton Park.

This was enough for the women to win the team event. The women’s success garnered two AllConference Award winners for Langley, who won a silver medal, and Henderson-Hamilton, who took bronze.

Mounties coach Macgregor Grant was awarded Coach of the Year of the ACAA. His work rendered success in both the men’s and women’s events every week.

The two squads are now in their off-season.

They will have a lot to look forward to, and a lot to prepare for when they try and defend their title in 2014.

Beninger will have ample opportunities to defend his title over the next three seasons. The women will continue to aim toward building a strong core to defend their championshipcalibre team.

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Hockey’s slippery start Mounties volleyball looks for Women’s hockey win two of five fresh start after two losses Women fight, drop two close opening games Benjamin Foster Sports Writer

This year’s team has a few new faces, including a new coach in Paul Settle. They lost their season with two games last weekend against the Mount Saint Vincent Mystics (MSVU), and the St. Thomas Tommies.

In their home opener at McCormack Gymnasium they faced

off against the defending ACAA champions MSVU, who had gone undefeated the year before.

Mt. A fought hard in the match, losing the second set 25-23 and winning the third set 25-23, but could not withstand MSVU, losing in four sets.

The Mounties traveled to Fredericton for their second game of the season against the Tommies, this time playing five sets. After losing two straight sets 25-23, the Mounties rallied to force a fifth. Mt. A lost the final set 15-9 and lost the game to St. Thomas.

Coach Settle was hired to take over from former coach Andrew Kennedy this off-season.

In addition to a new coach, there are

many freshman players on the roster: Freshmen Jasleen Singh and Madison Archibald will fight for the job as starting setter, as setter Allison Settle graduated after last season. Settle is now an assistant coach for the Mounties under coach Settle, who is also her father. Other first-year players include Shannon Harvie, Katia McKercher, and Maddie Melanson.

Mt. A will play their next game on Saturday Nov. 9 against the University of New Brunswick Saint John Seawolves. They will look to get their season on track, hoping to get their first win of the season at home in McCormack Gymnasium.

games to open Benjamin Foster

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The Mounties Women hockey team are looking to come back strong after a poor 2011-12 campaign that saw the team win just seven games and finish sixth in the Atlantic University Sport (AUS) conference. Most of the team members are returning players, including their leading scorers: Courtney King, Kristen Cooze, and Lindsey James.

The first five games of the young season have been a mixed bag for the Mounties. They had an exciting home opening win against Université de Moncton, winning on an overtime

goal by Shelby Colten with just ten seconds remaining. Kate O’Brien got the shutout in that game for the Mounties.

The win was one of two so far, with their only other win coming against the Dalhousie Tigers in Halifax last weekend. All three of the losses have come in the form of close games; never losing by more than three goals.

This past Saturday, the Mounties played the Saint Mary’s Huskies at the Tantramar Memorial Civic Centre and lost their first home game of the year 3-1. Courtney King scored the only goal for the Mounties in a game with very few chances for both teams. O’Brien faced only eight shots, letting in three of them.

Mt. A’s next game is next Saturday against Dalhousie at home. They will try to beat the Tigers for a second time this year and get their record to an even slate.

Mounties basketball take on Mount Saint Vincent Men hold on for a close opening win Sam Shury

Circulations Manager Men’s varsity basketball started their season on the right foot last Sunday, holding on for a 73-70 win over the Mount Saint Vincent University Mystics.

Already appearing in midseason form, the Mounties ran their offensive sets efficiently, shot the ball well, and made the Mystics defence look out-of-step. At half, the Mounties led 46-24.

Shortly after the Mounties stretched their lead to twenty-five points early in the third quarter, the Mystics began pressuring the young Mounties into costly turnovers and missed shots. After a 20-1 Mystics run, the Mounties led by just eight points at the end of the third quarter.

The Mystics chipped down the Mounties’ lead to just one point in the final minute, until Mounties’ guard Jordan Bedard hit a pair of free throws, with just 12.9 seconds left on the clock, to seal his team’s fate and salvage a 7370 win.

“The shots weren’t falling and our composure kind of left us at times, but we fought away and got a win,” said coach Duane Starratt.

Bedard is playing his third season at Mt. A, making him the team’s only player with more than one year’s experience in a Mounties uniform.

“We’re a young team,” said Bedard, “so it was good to get a win against a team like the Mount, a very established, consistently good team.”

The Mounties were led by their two starting forwards Alex Chisholm and Bradley Fuller, who scored 21 and 14 points respectively, shooting a combined 13-21 from the field.

The Mounties are in action again this Sunday, Nov. 10 at 4 pm, with the University of King’s College Blue Devils coming to town.

Women fight, fall in overtime Sam Shury

Circulations Manager The women’s basketball team opened their season with a tough loss to the Mount Saint Vincent University Mystics on Sunday. After forty minutes of back-and-forth basketball, in which neither team led by more than six points, the game was decided in overtime: The Mystics came out on top, 62-52.

The teams were tied at 27 at the half, and again tied at 49 to end regulation. Once overtime came around, the Mounties found themselves one step behind the Mystics, losing 13-3 in the extra frame for a final score of 6352.

Throughout the game, the Mounties used quick ball movement to attack the Mystics’ zone defence and keep the game close. The

Mounties were methodical when they worked the ball inside, but struggled shooting the ball from a distance, hitting just 1-15 from beyond the arc.

In the end, it was a meager three points in overtime that separated the Mounties from the Mystics.

“I think in overtime we were a little bit tired, and that kind of caught up to us,” Mackenzie Gray said.

The game was scrappy and hard-fought from beginning to end. At times it seemed every other possession ended with players wrestling for a loose ball or diving on the floor.

Forward Taylor-Rae Côté said that the team’s new head coach, Matt Gamblin, is all about “hustle, hustle, hustle.”

Gray led the way for the Mounties with 12 points and 7 rebounds, while the inside-outside threat Taylor-Rae Côté scored 12 points on 6-10 shooting.

The Mounties will play again at 2 pm on Sunday, Nov. 10, at home against the University of Kings College Blue Devils.

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November 7, 2013

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Mounties to take on Huskies in the Loney Bowl Mt. A wins record fourth game in a row, advance to AUS final

Benjamin Foster Sports Writer

“Four game winning streak? I think I am looking forward to a six or seven game winning streak,” Mount Allison President Robert Campbell said after the game.

The current Mounties football team is unlike any Mt. A has seen in a very long time.

Everyone seems convinced the Mounties are the real thing after they picked up their first playoff win in fifteen years Saturday against the two-time defending champion Acadia Axemen.

It seems like it was a different season just five weeks ago. The Mounties looked down and out of the playoff race in the Atlantic University Sport (AUS) Conference. Four straight victories has every Mounties fan and the rest of the country watching to see if this team can win their first Loney Bowl since the glory days of Éric Lapointe in Sackville.

MacAulay Field was in its worst shape for the Mounties first home playoff game since 2010.

Just two Mounties players, offensive lineman Alex Healy and receiver Nathan Zavarella remained from the team that lost a heartbreaker to Acadia in four overtimes. This time, it was a different story for Mt. A, winning 19-10 in a

Mt. A will face SMU for the AUS title Saturday, November 9 in Huskies Stadium. (Chris Donovan/Argosy) game full of penalties and stingy defensive play.

Wide receiver and kicker Kyle McLean was the best player on the field for the game, hitting all three of his field goals and punting for an outstanding 440 yards on just eleven punts.

“I can’t even explain it right now; it’s an incredible feeling. Everyone is just so happy right now. We are excited and confident for next week and I know our boys can do it.” McLean commented after the game Kick returner Michael Bohan stepped up in another crucial game for the Mounties.

He brought the ball back thirty-five yards on

the first kick-off of the game and that set up McLean to kick a thirty-two yard field goal to open up the scoring. Bohan would finish the game with eighty-eight yards returning the ball.

The rest of the first half was dominated by both defences: Two field goal attempts were blocked by the Mounties, the first by AllCanadian Jacob Leblanc, and Christian Plante got a hand on a second one late in the half. The game went into halftime with the Mounties holding a slim 9-0 lead.

Mt. A once again started handing the ball to running back Jordan Botel in the second half to

Women prove their tenacity in AUS playoff matchup against Acadia Mounties host AUS playoffs, lose 1-0

try to run as much time off the clock on short yardage plays as possible. This did not work as well as it did in last week’s battle against Acadia.

The Axemen took 10-9 lead early in the fourth quarter on a touchdown from running back Thomas Troop.

Mt. A retaliated with a field goal from McLean that gave the Mounties the lead, but there was still lots of time remaining. Acadia quarterback Evan Brown threw an off-balance pass that was intercepted by Kwame Adjei, and he brought the ball back forty yards for a touchdown that made it 19-10 Mounties with only three-and-a-half minutes to play.

The sideline and crowd erupted in joy, as they knew that the Mounties would head to the Loney Bowl. The team rushed the field when the game was over, and Mt. A’s campus was full of pride in their football team.

Turnovers and penalties played a huge role in the game as the Mounties scored ten points off of four turnovers while they only turned the ball over once. Quarterback Brandon Leyh has not thrown an interception in fourteen quarters.

There were a total of thirty-seven penalties in the game with twenty-one going to Acadia.

These were the main reason both offences had trouble getting anything going all game.

Mt. A will travel to Halifax to play the Saint Mary’s Huskies in the Subway AUS Loney Bowl. The Mounties have beaten the Huskies in both match-ups this season, including in Halifax in the second game of their four game winning streak 27-24. The winners will have the opportunity to host the Uteck Bowl on Rocky Stone Field in Moncton the following week.

Mt. A unable to defend ACAA title Women’s rugby fall 22-17 in ACAA title game

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Michelle Kidd

The Mount Allison Women’s Soccer team hosted the Atlantic University Sport (AUS) playoffs this past Friday.

In a spirited affair, the Women lost by a final score of one-nil to the Acadia Axewomen, who finished third in the AUS. The Women were on the field before the player of the game ceremonies had concluded in the prior match. They looked determined to play spoiler in the matchup. With nothing to lose in the match, the Mounties seemed to embrace the mentality of ‘why not us?’

Coach Kevin Johnson was instrumental in keeping the Axewomen scoreless in the first half.

Conditions on Rocky Stone field in Moncton neared tropical storm levels and Acadia held a wind advantage in the first half. The opening kick was booted toward goalkeeper Robin Bessemer, and she corralled the full force of the ball. Acadia kept on the attack for the majority of the first half. Coach Johnson was able to utilize a style of play that contained the Axewomen to a minimal amount of chances. The entire team focused on staying between the ball and their own net. This left Amanda Volcko and Cassie Suche to solve the Acadia back line.

In the second half, and with the

The Women’s Rugby team faced off against the Dalhousie Agricultural College (DalAC) Rams this past Sunday in Atlantic Collegiate Athletic Association (ACAA) championship rugby action. The match was a repeat of the 2012-13 seasons final matchup, where Mt. A took home gold in overtime.

The Mounties were tied with DalAC in the standings both with a record of 3-0-1. Home field advantage went to a points for and against differential, and the championship match was set in Truro.

The Mounties kicked off and held play in the Rams end for the better part of the first quarter. Off of a turnover, the Rams ran in the first try of the game. DalAC missed the conversion, leaving the score at 5-0.

The Mounties responded quickly as rookie Kelly Foran added five points to the score sheet. Before the end of the half, the Rams broke through Mt. A’s defensive line one more time, leaving the score at 10-5.

The second half brought more struggles for the Mounties: Whitney Callaghan was yellow carded, leaving Mt. A short a player for ten minutes. DalAC capitalized on the opportunity, and scored twice, adding a convert to bring the score to 22-5.

The Mounties came out fighting in

Mt. A lost 1-0 to Acadia in a memorable AUS playoff game. (Chris Donovan/Argosy) wind at their backs, the Mounties seemed to be playing downhill. They had half a dozen scoring chances within just the first fifteen minutes of the second half.

Acadia scored a goal on a scramble in the crease at the seventy-third minute mark. It was a devastating blow to the Mounties. They were able to put together a flurry of attacks in the final minutes, but were unsuccessful in an attempt to score the matching tally.

The Mt. A fans that had made the trek from Sackville loudly supported their team. Their positive reinforcement propelled the Mounties to a strong second half.

Even as massive underdogs, the

Mounties held their own against a strong Acadia side.

Third-year Frances McCurdy was content with the Women’s efforts in the game. “The whole team was really proud of what we did today.

Compared to the first game we played against them, we improved one hundred per cent.” The Mounties lost 2-0 to Acadia on Sept. 6.

Mt. A has now made the playoffs two seasons in a row. A majority of the players are in their second year of AUS eligibility. For a team that had yet to make the playoffs prior to last season, they should be able to continue to become more and more competitive with the experience they have gained on the pitch.

the last quarter. Keeping possession of the ball at nearly every breakdown, Mt. A pressed DalAC’s 22-yard line for ten minutes, keeping spectators and teammates on their toes. Sydney Mann ran the ball in and added a convert to make the score 22-12.

Minutes later, Foran received the ball on the wing and ran in her second try of the game for the Mounties, upping the score to 22-17, opening the possibility of a win for the Mounties.

Mt. A continued to pressure the Rams in the final minutes, with several close scoring opportunities. But it was not enough. When the whistle blew, the Mounties were left with a silver medal and the knowledge that they left everything on the field.

For fourth-year players Laura Windhorst and Whitney Callaghan, it was their last match sporting garnet and gold. Windhorst described the game as being bittersweet: “Joining the rugby team was the best decision ever, my only regret is that I didn’t join sooner,” she said.

“Overall we had a great season. We improved major aspects of our game and really came together as a team.

With only two graduating players the team should be set for another exciting season next fall.” Callaghan said about the outlook for next year.

Callaghan was one of five Mt. A players named to the All-Conference team. Other members selected from the Mounties include Anne Haley, Amanda Rundle, Sydney Mann, and Catherine Bannon. Anna Gores took home the ACAA Rookie of the year award.

Michelle Kidd is the rugby beat contributor for The Argosy.

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Shitty Friends play their first show at Pickles Pickles hosts an evening of music with local and touring bands Cameron McIntyre Entertainment Writer

Pickles European Deli hosted Esther Grey, an initially-solo Lucy Niles, and the short-but-sweet debut of Shitty Friends this past Friday. Though Halloween was already a thing of the past as of the small sandwich shop event, it got a bit of new life in the haunting atmosphere from Esther Grey’s chilling new EP. Accompanying the set was a preview of some new music being made in and around town.

The Mouthbreathers’ frontwoman Lucy Niles opened with a solo set that evolved into a twosome’s performance, when she invited her Mouthbreathers bandmate Josée Caron up to accompany her on the drums. The set featured a couple of new songs off a future LP that is still a work in progress, and songs from the Mouthbreathers’ latest EP, Stone Soup. Although it did

Shitty Friends, a band of Sackville music veterans, play to the audience at Pickles. (Nick Sleptov/Argosy) not involve nearly as much moshing as typical Mouthbreathers’ performances, the audience was still lively, especially considering the stripped down nature of the performance.

Esther Grey from Guelph, Ontario filled the ‘from out of town’ spot on the

bill. Their music came across as oddly festive. Forming a sinister harmony with the terrible wind outside and the dimly lit atmosphere, Esther Grey spooked the tiny deli venue. The band toured with a new fall 7”, released just six days before their appearance

at Pickles, the entirety of which they played. Its three songs are all heavily distorted, guitar-riff driven, and ominously toned with pings and pangs that are intentionally out of tune. The vocals provide lyrics of looming doom that send chills to the core, culminating

The many descendents of film noir reveal its great influence How a Depression-era genre’s influence goes beyond the 1950s Austin Landry It existed not only as a new genre, but also as a movement in the history of the movies, one whose influence is still being felt among films today.

Film noir began unofficially with the release of John Huston’s The Maltese Falcon in 1941, which starred Humphrey Bogart. Though based off a novel, Falcon set the stage for noirs to follow with its powerful use of shadows, the inclusion of the femme fatale, and with the cynicism evident in both the attitudes of its characters as well as its atmosphere. Carrying the most influence, though, was Bogart’s timeless portrayal of the hard-boiled anti-hero.

Film historians often attribute noir’s existence to the Depression and the cynicism that grew out of it. Noir’s golden age had nearly a twenty-year run that ended with Orson Welles’s Touch of Evil (1958). Its legacy includes Citizen Kane, Sunset Boulevard, and The Big Heat, to name just a few of my favourites.

Noir’s beauty lies in its particular archetypes, in the way its photography evokes a certain nightmarish mood, and in the frequent inclusion of insidious plot twists that keep audiences surprised and entertained.

Consider the ‘femme fatale’, a woman who would be as likely to kill you as to sleep with you.

Or the aforementioned ‘anti-hero,’ almost always the protagonist, who could be anyone from the ‘innocent man wrongly accused’, to an average citizen who finds himself resorting to bending or breaking the law—often for debatable and very circumstantial reasons. Something about films

noir that really struck a chord in audiences was that most of them led viewers to identify with the protagonist initially, but would later surprise them by introducing some plot twist which would cause said protagonist to act villainously.

Oblique camera angles and ominous use of shadows were common techniques among cinematographers working on noirs. German expressionism was the most evident inspiration of noir’s overarching visual style. A film noir is either shot in black and white, or it feels like it is.

Though ‘traditional’ films noir fizzled out of production after Touch of Evil, they represented a mindset of the American public so clearly and powerfully that many filmmakers continued forging new works bearing rich resemblance to films noir. The years that define eras of artistic work, as any student of history knows, are separated by very fuzzy lines. However, a movie can typically be referred to as a ‘neo-noir’ if it was released in the 1960s or later and contains one or more of the above-mentioned aspects of the classic noir. It was most likely the advent of the French New Wave, which began in 1959 with François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows, as well as the popularization of filming in colour, that caused the end of the classic noir. Filmmakers began experimenting with colour in the late 1930s, but colour cameras were generally reserved only for films with top-dollar budgets until the 1950s. By the 1960s, it was more common to film in colour than in black and white.

Still, film noir lives on today through the neonoir subgenre. Key examples include Chinatown, Taxi Driver, and Mulholland Drive. Knowing just how many different ways film noir has influenced neo-noirs is refreshing, because filmmakers are now integrating key aspects of noir into films of different genres, some very seamlessly.

You have probably seen more neo-noir films than you think, and it is worth it to check out their original film noir influences.

in a fantastically creepy holiday release.

Shitty Friends ended the night with their debut performance. Not adhering to their chosen adjective, the collective of individuals closely associated with the Sackville music scene—the band is Scott Royle, Dan Legere, Liz Kent, and Brendan Allison—played a sweet set that involved a lot of rotation between instruments. The rotation granted the music a wider range of sound, as the drummer, and with it the pace, switched three times throughout the set. They played a pop-punk set, fitting right into the general punk that most Sackville bands tend to fall into and Sackville audiences seem to identify with. The band even got a rare encore, but declined, having played all of their songs.

The show was another great instance of Pickles’, and more widely Sackville’s, ability to net enough local interest to make any band on their way to Halifax tempted to stop. It also functioned as a nice preview into what music is to come from within the Sackville-based bands. Some new songs from the Mouthbreathers, that promise to form a great end product expanding on the Stone Soup EP, and a debut performance that went over well, mean a promising future for Sackville music.

Mixed Tape Long Nights, Long Songs by Norman Nehmetallah Autumn does not last long, but it leaves its residue all over the place. Although sweater weather might not last more than a month or two, we still wear sweaters under our winter coats. Autumn dies quickly and we love it for that; Winter, on the other hand, descends slowly. In the interim, we’re not really anywhere. Nights get longer and things get uncertain. Autumn doesn’t last forever, but neither does winter. Below are some songs all more than six minutes in length. Listen to them when the lights get low and slow but you’re not quite ready to come inside.

“Montgomery Street”—Jesse DeNatale (Soul Parade) This song is all about the way things progress and move forward. At least, the music is; the lyrics, however, are about the way things get dizzy and fall over sideways. This one clocks in at 6:18.

“Lunar H”—Califone (All My Friends Are Funeral Singers) This track is a bonus track from the LP. Consider the lyrics: “call your shadow home.” It is a track that has movements and those movements make you feel a little bit uncomfortable. 14:59, this one’s a long one.

“The Battle of Hampton Roads”— Titus Andronicus (The Monitor) Autumn is not all about people crying into the sound holes of their acoustic guitars. Sometimes it’s about pretending you’re Bruce Springsteen.

Fourteen minutes of anthemic punk.

“Last Call”—Kanye West (College Dropout)

I’m not sure if people gather around the fire and tell each other stories after the crops have all been harvested, but this might be the modern equivalent. A couple of excellent verses followed by an intriguing spoken word section. Some of Kanye’s signature lines are on this song: “Oh my god, is that a black card? I prefer the term African American Express.” 12:41.

“Ithaca”—Tyler Lyle (Expatriates) Lyle confronts the kind of mythology we make of folk music and make folk music of. He refuses to deviate from the three chords he uses. He spits into his hand, runs it through his hair, and sticks his arm, elbows deep, into Greek mythology. He comes out with 12:02 of dying light, a sunset that lasts unsettlingly long.

“Marquee Moon”—Television (Marquee Moon) Dylan Thomas was thought to have said “rage against the dying of the light,” but this is a classic misattribution. Tom Verlaine said, “shake your goddamn shoulders into the dying of the light,” and all he said it with was six strings.

“Wakin on a Pretty Day”—Kurt Vile (Wakin on a Pretty Daze) This song does not have any movements. It rolls off the tongue and it rolls right along and then, before you know it, it is finished. 9:31—”Don’t worry about a thing, it’s only dying.”

“The Kids”—Lou Reed (Berlin) Lou Reed died the other day. Some things can’t be shook off like seasons. It doesn’t matter how long this song is.

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Sackville/Halifax’s Kappa Chow (left) and Montreal/Edmonton’s The Famines (right) play an energetic set to the costumed crowd at George’s Roadhouse on Halloween night. (Chris Donovan/Argosy)

Continued from cover light psych-rock flourishes.

The Famines, hailing from Montreal and

Edmonton, put on an upbeat, energetic spectacle with driving beats and an impressive amount of stage presence. As the members jumped from mic to mic, guitar riffs rolled out with a steady punk beat from the drum serving as their foundation.

With no unnecessary parts, the duo went back to the basics and gained an unusual coherency

in the process. They clearly put a high level of effort into their musical compositions and the result was a tightly woven, neat whole, which was punk through and through. However, they often fell victim to repetition as they moved from song to song, and were unable to maintain a distinct boundary between each song. The addition of a

bassist might have allowed the band to vary their sound.

Despite the weather, trek, and a hint of repetitiveness, the festivities at George’s Roadhouse were a satisfying way to spend the holiday and relax after a ransack of the town’s candy supply.

PEI pop band embark on farewell tour from Ontario to the Coast

scene for the last while, and was an inspiration for many aspiring musicians.”

McCallum says they started their group in 2009 after realizing what heights a group from the Maritimes could reach in the Canadian music scene.

“We saw that it could be done in the East Coast and we figured we had something to say and contribute,” says McCallum.

“There were a lot of other bands in town, so it both inspired us to get our songs organized and also created some healthy competition.”

Paper Lions, another musical group from Prince Edward Island who were influenced by Two Hours Traffic’s music, said they were sad when they heard the news, but not completely heartbroken for the members’ futures.

“Bands break up. Bands start up. They’ll never stop making music,” said Colin Buchanan, guitarist for Paper Lions. “They will continue in other projects, I’m sure.”

According to McCallum, the music scene in Prince Edward Island is very supportive. He also notes that it is surprisingly diverse, featuring traditional musicians along with a wave of modern independent bands.

“The community is rich with talent and very tight-knit. In Charlottetown, it’s almost harder to find someone who doesn’t perform in some capacity than someone who does.”

Buchanan said that there are plenty of new PEI bands willing to fill the void, and hopefully reach the same heights as Two Hours Traffic in the near future.

“There’s never a lack of great music in PEI,” he said.

Two Hours Traffic will be embarking upon a farewell tour throughout December. Their Ontario shows will include Toronto, Kingston, and Ottawa.

In the East Coast, they will stop in Fredericton on Dec. 18, Moncton on Dec. 19, Halifax on Dec. 20, and, finally, Charlottetown on Dec. 21.

Ghosts hits store shelves, Two Hours Traffic to disband aims to shake up genre gameplay. A significant change is that maps can now be altered or destroyed; for example, skyscrapers may fall in the middle of a battle, encouraging intense, close-quarter gameplay.

Additionally, “Capture the Flag” and “Hardpoint” are not featured in Ghosts’ multiplayer mode; instead, Infinity Ward has introduced seven new Martin Omes game modes. An example of a new game mode Science Writer is “Blitz,” in which a player needs to go to a portal located at the enemy’s spawn point while preventing opposing players from reaching theirs.

Just when gamers thought that they could get These portals are temporarily closed when they back to their schoolwork after finishing Grand are captured to prevent players from rushing.

Theft Auto V, another significant title was released For fans of the “Nazi Zombies” mode, there on Tuesday. Ghosts, part of the Call of Duty is now “Extinction Mode”, which was created franchise, was developed by Infinity Ward, whose for those who enjoy completing levels with last game was Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. exponentially increasing enemies. Similar to the Infinity Ward hopes that the game will revive previous games’ zombies, Ghosts features aliens. the ailing first-person However, unlike shooter genre. zombies, players are The Call of Duty games have not be able to survive Infinity Ward’s executive producer featured the following voice this mode alone. Each Mark Rubin said actors: Brandon Routh, Michael player has a special that the player plays ability to destroy the as a character dressed Keaton, Sam Worthington, Gary aliens faster. The Tank in a military ghost Oldman, Ed Harris, Ice Cube, has twenty-five per uniform, known cent more health, the and Jason Statham. only as Hesh. The Weapon Specialist trailer reveals that does twenty per cent the player is able to more damage, and assume control of an attack dog that can sneak each team needs a Medic, . For the many gamers into enemy bases and cause chaos during the who are likely to miss “Nazi Zombies” mode, campaign.

“Extinction” might be an adequate replacement.

Although the game was released only two days Ghosts will be released on both the current ago, numerous details have either been leaked generation and next-generation consoles. While or released about the game’s multiplayer mode. the Xbox One will be running at 720p, the The multiplayer in the Call of Duty games is the PlayStation 4 will have a higher quality, running most renowned in the first-person shooter (FPS) at 1080p. However, both will be running at sixty genre; Infinity Ward hopes to maintain their frames per second, allowing immersive gameplay, reputation with their latest instalment. However, and bringing some new life to the FPS genre, where the Call of Duty franchise has remained which has seen its formerly massive fan-base consistent with its core mechanics, most fans will dwindle. find that Ghosts is a step away from its normal

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Mike Roy After over a decade of producing music, Prince Edward Island pop band Two Hours Traffic is ending its journey on a high note. With the release of the group’s last studio album Foolish Blood earlier this year, the group has decided to amicably disband in order to pursue other musical aspirations.

In an announcement on their website, Two Hours Traffic said that “it is just the right time” to part ways, and thanked fans for the love and support they have received throughout their career. Along with this news, they have also announced a number of farewell shows in Ontario and the Maritimes.

A staple of Prince Edward Island’s pop music scene, the group has released four studio albums and three extended-plays together. Their sound has drawn on elements of 1960s pop and rock music, featuring complex instrumentals, romantic lyrics, and catchy hooks.

The band has strongly impacted the musical community of Prince Edward Island, where a steady increase in independent music has prospered over the past few years.

“I think Two Hours Traffic are somewhat responsible for the wave of pop-tinged indie-rock that Charlottetown has become known for over the last decade,” said Fraser McCallum, member of Charlottetown’s Racoon Bandit.

“Their sound showed local musicians that pop wasn’t a dirty word; that you can be a frontman of a band with an acoustic guitar and some earnest storytelling in your lyrics. The band was really the poster child for the Charlottetown pop

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01 The Arcade Fire* Reflektor (Merge)

02 PAT LEPOIDEVIN* American Fiction (Self-Released) 03 CHVRCHES The Bone Of What You Believe (Glassnote) 04 ALVVAYS* Alvvays (Self-Released) 05 SHAD* Flying Colours (Black Box) 06 BLUE HAWAII* Untogether (Arbutus) 07 RYAN HEMSWORTH * Guilt Trips (Last Gang) 08 TEGAN AND SARA* Hearthrob (Warner) 09 PAPER LIONS* My Friends (Fountain Pop) 10 BRAIDS* Flourish//Perish (Flemish Eye)

11 MONOMYTH* King, Does This Not Please You? (Self-Released)

12 OWEN STEEL* Time Machine Blues (Self Released) 13 THE HIGHEST ORDER* If It’s Real (Idee Fixe) 14 BASIA BULAT* Tall Tall Shadow (Secret City) 15 CONSTRUCTION & DESTRUCTION* Dark Lark (Headless Owl) 16 THE DARCYS* Warring (Arts & Crafts) 17 GIANNA LAUREN* On Personhood (Forward Music Group) 18 THE BICYCLES* Stop Thinking So Much (Aporia)

19 LIGHTNING DUST* Fantasy (Jagjaguwar)

20 SUUNS* Images Du Futur (Secret City) 21 DATA ROMANCE* Other (Dine Alone) 22 ALEX NEVSKY* Himalaya Mon Amour (Color Me) 23 ISLANDS* Ski Mask (Manque)

24 ROYAL CANOE*

By Vanessa Blackier Being loud in bed is one thing, but there’s nothing attractive about having to yell at your lover after a concert because you’re both experiencing temporary noise-induced hearing loss. They call it whispering sweet nothings for a reason.

Music lovers should take into account their hearing when attending loud concerts or even when listening to loud music through headphones. Hearing loss is gradual and cumulative, so while it might be fine to attend a loud rock concert, when paired with a noisy work environment, loud headphones and other excessive noises, it might be causing gradual and irreparable damage that is only noticeable years in the future.

Until recently, noise-induced hearing loss was generally thought to be caused by noisy workplace environments-think factory work, or raucous nightclubs; however, newer studies have shown that young adults may be experiencing permanent hearing loss from overexposure to noise from everyday activities. Deafness or tinnitus (constant ringing in the ears) are the severe consequences of this overexposure.

Any Psychology 101 student will already know a little bit about how hearing works. Hearing loss occurs when the tiny sensory hair cells inside the inner ear are damaged. At this time, there is no technology to repair this damage, which can be caused from exposure to loud noise. While an extreme noise event can cause immediate permanent damage (like hearing an shotgun fire at a close range), prolonged exposure to loud levels of noise can also damage hearing.

Hearing loss generally occurs in noisy situations above 85 decibels. To put that in perspective, a normal conversation is gauged around 65db, while a rock concert or listening to an

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mp3 player at full blast rings in at around 110db. Chainsaws are also measured at about 110db. For every 3 decibels over 85, the permissible exposure time before possible damage can occur is cut in half. After about 2 minutes at a raging concert, you might be damaging your hearing. Recent studies suggest that temporary deafness after a concert is not actually a sign of hearing loss; rather, it is a coping method of the inner ear, but researchers say that this is in regards to acute exposure, not chronic exposure. If you are continually listening to your headphones at full blast, or going to concerts frequently, you are still at risk.

Wearing earplugs at concerts will help. Many musicians invest in expensive professional earplugs, but wearing foam ones (available at any pharmacy) will also protect your hearing.

If your musical idols are thinking about their hearing, don’t you think you should, too? While at concerts, you should also avoid standing directly in front of speakers, and avoid others shouting in your ear to be heard. It might even be beneficial to take a short break outside or somewhere where it’s quiet at a concert for a few minutes to give your ears a quiet reprieve.

If you wear headphones, the volume is too loud if a person standing near you can hear the music. Generally people who wear earbuds will have a tendency to listen to music louder to cancel out external sounds. Listening through over or on-theear headphones might allow you to enjoy music fully and at a safer level.

If you love music, you’ll want to continue hearing it years into the future. Before heading to your next show grab some earplugs, share them with your lover, and bask in the postshow afterglow together.

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Modern-day musician, tired road warrior, heavy proponent of minivans and mother’s basement, B.A. Johnston proves with this eighth full-length release that he will not quit, will (probably) never retire his Hamilton Ti-Cats flag nor his rusty old CD player. Picking up where he left off with “Hi Dudes!”, this album will not likely surprise his long-time, hardcore fans and may just earn him a few more. Complaining about whitesnakes, Luke Skywalker, the lack of IHOP in heaven, and Tim Horton’s, while extolling the delights of drinking with aliens and GST cheques, he’s in full form here, accompanied by his trusty guitar and some classic keyboard presets. There are rumours that he’ll be playing Stereophonic 11 in January, so save the date already; his live performance rarely disappoints. Bonus points for sweet cover art by Paul Hammond (Yorodeo).

25 THE BESNARD LAKES* Until in Excess (Outside Music) 26 METZ* (Forward Music Group) 27 CONNOISSEURS OF PORN* Falling Down The Stairs (Self-Released) 28 LIFE CHAINS* Demo (Self-Released) 29 SAID THE WHALE* Hawaiii (Hidden Pony) 30 THE CARAVAN* The Caravan (Self-Released)

31 BA JOHNSTON* Mission Accomplished (Mammoth Cave)

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Synthetic blood trials show promising results

Scientists from Romania have positive results on artificial blood research Allison O’Reilly

Science Editor

There is an incredible demand for human blood.

2,000 units of blood are needed every day in hospitals in Canada alone. Despite this, only 3.6 per cent of Canadians donate blood annually. The demand for blood is obvious. However, the use of synthetic blood may change all of this.

A team of researchers at Babes-Bolyai

University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania has had surprisingly encouraging results from the first trials of using blood manufactured in a laboratory.

The team, led by professor Radu SilaghiDumitrescu, has been completing research to create the artificial blood for over six years.

The blood is made of expected ingredients like water, salt, and albumin (a globular protein), but it also contains protein from an unlikely source: the protein hemerythrin, which is extracted from marine worms. This protein helps make the artificial blood stress-resistant.

The first tests were performed on mice. The mice treated with the synthetic blood showed signs of ‘indifference’—a positive sign. The mice showed no reaction to the artificial blood, meaning that no display signs of inflammation or

disease occurred.

Previous attempts to create artificial blood have failed in the past, and this is due to researchers being unable to find the exact protein to keep the synthetic substance immune to stress factors. So far, hemerythrin has shown promise, as the tests on the mice did not generate toxicity as all other types of protein used thus far have produced.

Dumitrescu said that testing on mice will continue until it is proven that there are absolutely no toxic effects whatsoever before any attempt to use the synthetic blood in human subjects. It is expected that testing on mice will continue for at most two years before humans will be tested. Human trials “represent an enormous risk” according to Dumitrescu, and all safety concerns must be addressed beforehand. In

the meantime, the team behind this development hopes to publish its findings in medical journals and pursue a patent.

Earlier this year, a team of researchers based at the Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine in Edinburgh used stem cells to manufacture blood on an industrial scale, and were even granted a license to test the blood on humans.

Although this research could help overcome the recurring problem of shortages from donations, manufacturing the blood from stem cells thus far has been an expensive process, with a pint having a manufacturing cost of roughly $850.

If all goes according to plan, the synthetic blood made by the Romanian scientists could help solve the blood shortage crisis, with little cost associated.

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Colin Rennie in Jasper National Park. (Adam Cheeseman/Submitted)

When does tourism become a priority over conservation?

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Allison Sibley poses next to the container of liquid that enables the deposition of copper. (Allison O’Reilly/Argosy)

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Allison Sibley is a fourth-year physics honours student. She is completing her research under the supervision of Ralf Brüning, who specializes in x-ray scattering.

Her thesis is tentatively entitled, “Substrate dependence of cantilever stress measurements for electroless copper deposition.” Sibley’s research tests the stress of electroless copper deposited onto different base materials, called substrates. Electroless copper deposition plays a key role in the manufacturing process for technologies such as circuit boards, and any stress in the deposit may cause problems with the functionality of the device.

To test for this stress, Sibley has been using dual-legged test strips that have been made from different types of substrate materials: metal alloys and plastics.

The legs of each strip are treated to allow copper to deposit only on

opposite sides. The test strips are then placed in a container of liquid that enables the deposition of copper.

As the copper is depositing, the legs will spread apart because of the earlier treatment. Pictures are taken of the legs as they spread, and data is extracted from the images.

In industrial settings, electroless copper is deposited on metal substrates, yet the testing is completed using plastic. Sibley is comparing the results from the metal and plastic test strips to see if they yield consistent results. Preliminary results have shown consistencies, though there are features present on the plastic strips that are not present on the metal. It is good to know these differences, as the plastic and metal have different thermal expansion rates, which means that when the strips are cooled to room temperature, there is a jump toward compressive stress that is found on the plastic strips, but not in the metal.

Sibley has co-authored a paper on her research with Brüning and colleagues that is set for publication.

This will be Sibley’s second published

paper during her undergraduate career.

Sibley also presented her research at the Canadian Undergraduate Physics Conference that took place in October at McMaster University.

Her ten-minute oral presentation took second place overall in the category of engineering and applied physics.

Sibley wasn’t always keen on studying physics. After much convincing from her engineer father, Sibley took physics in high school, where her teacher sparked her passion for the subject.

“He was passionate about physics, and hilarious—he made physics fun,” Sibley said.

Sibley was drawn to Mount Allison when she came for a tour.

After meeting with faculty from the department, she knew Mt. A was the place for her.

“I love the way they do first-year physics here,” said Sibley, “When I visited, I knew that this was where I wanted to be.”

Colin Rennie, a student in the GENV 3701 course at Mount Allison is investigating issues surrounding a proposed hotel development along the pristine Maligne Lake, located in Jasper National Park. Maligne Lake, and surrounding valley, is an iconic destination for those visiting the park, having attracted thousands of tourists throughout its history. A tourism company working near Maligne Lake have put forth a proposal to construct a luxury resort near the lake in order to attract more tourists.

Rennie’s research attempts to evaluate potential environmental and social consequences associated with this proposed development.

A primary concern that has been expressed by many stakeholders associated with this development deals with ecological fragility in the area of the Maligne Lake.

“Maligne Lake is an important habitat for the already dwindling population of caribou in the Park,” Rennie said. “An increase in human traffic and ensuing pressures on the natural environment would not bode well for the species that call the area home.” As expected, caribou are not the only species that could be affected by this proposal.

Grizzly bears, bird species, and many

tree and plant species, all could be negatively impacted through habitat fragmentation and destruction.

Aside from the obvious ecological issues associated with the Maligne Lake development, Rennie is also investigating the social aspect of this issue. How does this type of construction fit into the Parks Canada policies and mandate? How will this proposal, if passed, set the precedent for Jasper National Park, and others like it in the future? These are all questions that are being teased apart and analyzed throughout the research process.

Interviews and fieldwork from within the park in late August have provided the primary information needed to initiate this study. Since this time, Rennie has continued to follow the proposed hotel development extensively.

“There is an open public consultation concerning the development later this coming week, and Parks Canada has finally released a lot of information pertaining to the proposal. With new research becoming available weekly since our return from Jasper, this research project has been an incredibly unique experience,” Rennie said.

As many parks in Canada continue to experience budget cuts and require other sources to fund access and services within parks, the need for this type of research continues to grow.

Ultimately, it is the goal of this research to be used as a framework that will govern future decision making relating to large-scale development in Jasper and all other Canadian national parks.

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Cassette tapes are no longer an obsolete approach Independent bands and labels are revisiting the medium Norman Nehmetallah Entertainment Editor

The resurgence of the vinyl record has been widespread and evident. Sales of vinyl records have been exponentially increasing; independent and major labels have been pressing vinyl for new releases, and seminal albums from the last twenty years have been reissued in droves.

Although audiophiles claim that vinyl simply sounds better, this statement only holds weight if the corresponding turntable, needle, and stereo system that the vinyl is being played on are of a high quality.

Regardless of the reasons behind vinyl’s resurgence, it is clear that the medium is being reevaluated, if not wholly embraced, by independent and major labels alike.

The same cannot be said for the cassette tape, though, the sales of which have been declining steadily since the early nineties. The tape, previously thought to be a largely obsolete medium, has been experiencing its own resurgence among independent bands and labels.

It is not difficult to find evidence of

Tapes, thought to be obsolete, are now surging in popularity due to their novelty. (Photo Illustration by Chris Donovon/Argosy) the increasing prevalence of cassette tapes in independent music; one need not look past the Sackville music scene. Within the last couple of years, the Mouthbreathers, Yellowteeth, and quite recently, Kappa Chow, have all released their albums on cassette, as well as a shocking majority of the touring bands that come through Sackville.

It’s not immediately clear why independent bands (in addition to cassette-only labels) have adopted cassette tapes. The tapes are inferior

in terms of audio quality, and require cassette players, which are often difficult to find. However, there are many reasons for the espousal of cassette tapes. Cassettes are cheap to purchase and even cheaper to produce.

Artists and bands can dub a tape, create artwork, and package the tape to sell in a very short amount of time, using very few materials.

Although the rise of the cassette tape has been more ubiquitous than that of the cassette player in independent music, recent cassette releases often

NSA tapped into data from Google, Yahoo NSA fed internal information from British counterpart Martin Omes

Science Writer

As the documents on former contractor Edward Snowden continue to be released, it has been shown that the National Security Agency (NSA) has tapped into the communications of e-mail giants Google and Yahoo. The two major companies were used to move huge amounts of e-mail and other user information among overseas data centres, but it is unclear at this time how exactly they used this data. According to the documents, the NSA collected 181 million data records, though it is unknown if any of it is from United States citizens.

The NSA was fed internal information from Google and Yahoo’s private networks by British counterpart GCHQ, which intercepts communications traveling between company centres in Britain.

An NSA spokesperson said in a statement that allegations that the agency relies on a presidential order on foreign intelligence gathering to skirt domestic restrictions imposed by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and other laws “is not true.”

“The assertion that we collect vast quantities of U.S. persons’ data from this type of collection is also not true,” the statement claimed. “NSA is a foreign intelligence agency. And we’re focused on discovering and developing intelligence about valid foreign intelligence targets only.”

However, the NSA already has access to Google and Yahoo user accounts through a court-approved program known as PRISM. How this system works is that it first accesses the Internet company data (from Google and Yahoo). It will then tap into the fibre-optic cables, where it can eavesdrop on phone calls and e-mails, and targeted spying can occur. Under PRISM, the NSA has gathered huge volumes of online communication records by legally compelling American technology companies, including Yahoo and Google, to turn over any data matching court-approved search terms. It seems that the NSA has used this opportunity to search even further, and gain access to personal information on e-mail accounts on Google and Yahoo.

Google’s chief legal officer David Drummond said that Google did not provide any government with access to its systems.

“We are outraged at the lengths to which the government seems to have gone to intercept data from our private fiber networks, and it underscores the need for urgent reform,” he said.

The head of United States intelligence has defended the monitoring of foreign leaders as a key goal of operations, but the United States is facing growing anger over reports it spied on its allies abroad. It has also been reported that the NSA monitored French diplomats in Washington and at the UN, and that it conducted surveillance on millions of French and Spanish telephone calls, among other operations against the United States’ allies.

If the large-scale collection of Internet content was performed on United States citizens, it would be considered illegal, but since it takes place overseas, the NSA is allowed. This is a continual battle, as documents continue to be released from the summer.

include a download code. The inclusion of a download code adds a physical, and thus collectible, element to the procurement of digital music, while being more reasonably priced than vinyl or CDs, and thus more accessible to creators and consumers alike.

Along with their thrift and materiality, the cassette tape evokes a culture of music sharing, sentimentality, and do-it-yourself ethos. The concept of the mixtape, painstakingly dubbed by radio bootlegs and eclectic sources, may be contemporarily inaccurate,

but the notion of putting effort into the creation and sharing of music remains. While some may view it as disingenuous, an independent band that releases cassettes may achieve a sense of closeness and authenticity in the eyes of their peers and audience.

John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats, who is known for having recorded an extensive catalogue on a Panasonic boom box, often cited the existence of tape hiss, a pervasive aspect of the cassette tape that detractors have cited as one of the medium’s most prominent flaws, akin to another instrument on the album.

Many bands and listeners alike have pointed to the imperfect quality of tapes as similar to ambient music or to the warm crackle of a vinyl record.

While the cassette tape’s prominence among independent bands has been similar to that of vinyl, this resurgence of the cassette has remained staunchly and dissimilarity limited to independent music. Many consider the use of cassette tapes to be esoteric and anachronistic. Regardless of one’s position on the matter, the cassette’s popularity in independent music circles has been difficult to deny; Sept. 7, 2013 marked the first Cassette Store Day, which was modeled after the internationally successful Record Store Day. It remains to be seen whether or not the cassette tape is an anachronistic medium or an attempt to make independent music more material and accessible to bands and consumers of music.

Environmental News Olivia White As concern mounts over the viability of traditional non-renewable energy sources, interest in alternative energy sources available to Canadians has increased. Slowly but surely, renewable energy projects (including wind turbines, solar power, and tidal energy) have been establishing themselves across Canada. Among these new energy sources is geothermal energy.

Geothermal energy captures the heat from naturally occurring steam and hot water trapped in reservoirs under the Earth’s surface. This is done by drilling one to three kilometres below the surface and injecting cold water into the hot, porous rocks below. Once forced to the surface, the resulting steam turns a turbine to generate electricity. Besides driving the steam-turbine generators, geothermal energy can also be used to heat hot water or air for space or water heating. What gives geothermal energy an edge over other renewable energy sources, like wind and solar, is the fact that it provides consistent power twenty-four hours a day. Its function as a base load power (the minimum amount of power required to prevent a blackout) is what makes it extremely valuable.

The potential for geothermal energy greatly depends of the geological aspects of a given region. Canada’s physical environment is certainly endowed with rich geothermal potential, (especially in the western and northern provinces) though development of these resources is slow, due to high start-up capital costs and weak federal and provincial government support.

Interest in the industry is mounting, and Canadian innovators have not let a lack of government support stop them. Canadians produce about twenty per cent of the world’s geothermal power generation, with twentyseven per cent of the United States’ geothermal

development being carried out by Canadianbased companies.

Despite the weak support from the Canadian government, industry developers appear determined to start building Canada’s first commercial geothermal plant. One of these innovators is Deep Earth Energy Production Corp. (DEEP), a Saskatoon-based start-up that is hoping to become Saskatchewan’s first geothermal power producer by establishing a plant near the city of Estevan. This project has received a $2-million commitment from provincial utility SaskPower and Natural Resources Canada, to help fund an engineering design study. This project is now preparing to drill its first well, with power generation happening as soon as 2015. The project has the potential to grow to as many as five different projects that could end up producing hundreds of megawatts of base load power.

As the DEEP Corp. project gets underway, impediments for the industry are still very present elsewhere. A regulatory regime conducive to development is not yet established, with British Columbia and the Northwest Territories being the only Canadian jurisdictions that issue permits for geothermal projects. As well, financing for development projects is hard to come by, with small companies like DEEP Corp. having difficulty raising equity or debt finance in initial drilling stages because investors feel the risk outweighs the return. In this sense, government assistance in aiding this infant industry during its initial phases of development could greatly ease the growing pains of geothermal energy development in Canada.

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