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THE ARG OSY

NEWS First new program in over a decade —maybe (Pg. 2)

ARTS & CULTURE Horror lit: reading can be horrifying (Pg. 6)

Paying ostentatious heat bills since 1872

SPORTS

Honours student discusses concussion awareness (Pg. 12)

OPINIONS Reflections from the Rev. on Christchurch (Pg. 15)

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ACADEMICS

New visual and material culture minors, if approved, to come fall 2019

Professors from a range of disciplines may bring the practice into our first new program in over a decade

THURSDAY, MARCH 21 Human Library 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Wallace McCain Student Centre Interdisciplinary Conversations 4:30 to 5:30 p.m.

Owens Art Gallery Foyer MLLC & MOSAIC present German Film Night 7 to 9 p.m.

Ralph Pickard Bell Library Theatre

FRIDAY, MARCH 22 Psychology Department Speaker: Dr. Lori Dithurbide 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.

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Guest

Student Recital: Graham Kidd and Hanna Wilson 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.

Brunton Auditorium

SATURDAY, MARCH 23 Student Recital: David Dunham and Jack Smith 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.

Brunton Auditorium

SUNDAY, MARCH 24 NB Youth Orchestra 2 to 4 p.m.

Convocation Hall Student Recital: Brooklyn Duffie 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.

Brunton Auditorium

MONDAY, MARCH 25 New Music @ Mount Allison 8 to 10 p.m.

Brunton Auditorium

TUESDAY, MARCH 26 Math CS Society Speaker Series 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Wu Centre

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 8 Collegium Musicum 4 to 5 p.m.

Brunton Auditorium Trinity School of Medicine Info Session 6 to 7:30 p.m.

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THE NEW PROGRAMS WILL ENCOMPASS FIELDS INCLUDING COMMUNICATIONS AND ARCHAEOLOGY. ASHLI GREEN/ARGOSY

MAIA HERRIOT News Editor Last October, Hispanic studies department head and professor Lauren Beck called a meeting of “everybody who [she] thought did research in and/or taught visual and material culture,” and “told them to invite anyone else they knew on campus.” By the time they were in room together Beck said the question was raised, “Should we be developing a program? Should we be finding better ways to synchronize our research and our teaching in ways that will benefit students and provide them with experiential learning opportunities and applied learning opportunities?”

Out of that meeting came the idea for a new material culture studies and visual culture studies program.

According to Beck, visual culture can refer to “anything that exists within the visual realm. The discipline is much less interested in the aesthetics of the image – whether it’s a good image or good painting.

It’s much more interested in what kind of information we can [gain] from looking at objects visually.”

According to the proposal that Beck and others brought to the Jan. 26 faculty council meeting, material culture “comprises processes, tools and media used to create objects.… It uses actual objects as primary sources but also includes objects described verbally or exhibited in visual media.”

Beck said that after that proposal “received support” at that meeting, a group of professors worked with the academic matters committee to develop the specifics of how the program would operate.

At last week’s Senate meeting, a visual culture certificate was approved and the material and visual culture program will be brought forward for approval at the next Senate meeting on April 2. The proposed program

is comprised of two minors: one in visual culture and one in material culture. “The minors themselves, once they’re approved at Senate, will be available to students, along with the new certificate, to enrol in. So, we’ll be able to start offering these programs as of fall 2019,” said Beck.

The two minors are distinct: “The material culture minor will have a series of streams, so you can choose how to specialize within it.” Beck noted that among the streams will be a “marketing the arts” stream where arts students will be given tools to translate their specialized skills into careers; a wellness stream where we think about the body, the commodification of the body and food and “all things related to wellness;” as well as an archeology stream and a spatial stream.

The visual culture minor is “more about breadth and less about specialization,” said Beck. This minor will cover a diversity of topics and create a diversity of opportunities.

Topics will range from Indigenous perspectives and use of visual culture to fine arts and history and “an array of other subjects.”

The visual literacy certificate, meanwhile, is more focused on keeping up with a world turning to online communication. “If you think about it, we live online. We have these avatars of ourselves, whether it’s on Facebook or Instagram or a projection of our voice in an email,” Beck said. “The online world is a visually structured place that involves images and text in creative and new ways. We increasingly need to increase our visual literacy to comprehend what we are seeing.”

She emphasized the importance of our ability to “look at an illustration or an image or a photograph and do more than describe the basic objects that you see and critically assess the components of that image, whether it’s race, gender, politics, age and the

impact, the accessibility of that image, the meaning of the image.”

That growing need for visual literacy is the basis for the creation of the certificate. “Next year, we’ll be offering the foundational course on visual culture. We hope to, in this way, provide students with a credential they can put on their resume that employers will be impressed by,” said Beck.

Beck considers diversity of voices and perspectives to be another justification for the new program’s creation. “Academia right now, and historically, has focused on the text, and that has ensured that primarily white men have been and remain sources of authority, not leaving a lot of room for women’s voices or Indigenous voices, African voices,” she said. “Visual and material sources of knowledge can provide incredible access to, for example, women’s daily lived experience in the medieval period. We can learn about that through material objects in ways that are quite hard through textual sources of information primarily authored by white men.”

Both Beck and Patricia Kelly Spurles, the anthropology department head, referenced the way that a material and visual culture program will allow professors opportunities to decentre text as the sole authority in the classroom.

Spurles will be teaching the other introductory course – Introduction to Material Culture – both semesters next year. Coming from an anthropological perspective, Spurles identifies material culture studies as a subfield of cultural anthropology.

On the difference between the disciplines, Spurles said that material culture studies “focuses more on how we interpret objects and how we understand culture and cultural difference through objects.”

Spurles will also be teaching Material Culture of Islam,

Documenting the Community, and Autoethnography next year, which fit into the new material culture program as well as Spurles’ background in anthropology.

After a year of no introductory anthropology courses being offered at Mount Allison and only 3000-level and 4000-levels courses remaining on the time table, the new material culture minor and introductory course may revive some aspects of the discipline currently inaccessible to Mt. A students.

Spurles said she is “encouraging anyone who has taken anthropology courses to ask for admissions to the course – it would be nice to see the students.” Spurles also wanted to clarify the program’s flexibility: “Because we’re starting off with some 2000 and 3000 courses right away in the first year, I really want to encourage students who are interested in the area to speak to me about special permission to enrol in the upper-level courses.”

What those involved seem to find most exciting about the new program is the opportunity for interdisciplinary interaction. There is potential for involvement from departments across campus.

Dr. Linda Pearse, associate professor of music at Mt. A, said, “I think the exciting part of [the potential program] is the interdisciplinarity that is so inherent in visual and material culture.”

From a music perspective, Pearse noted the visual culture potential in relation to the work done on the “visual aspects of opera and musical theatre.”

She also identified sound studies as an interdisciplinary pursuit within material culture. “Sound studies are often included along with material culture. Sound studies consider the environment, the sounds that the world makes … all sounds, not necessarily musical and not necessarily organized,” said Pearse.

“There’s potential for growth in sound studies and that’s something I’m very interested in – how we interact with sound, what does sound mean, what does sound tell us about culture. What can we learn from the sound of the world?”

Beck noted that the interdisciplinary aspect of the program, in addition to being exciting for professors and their research, will equally benefit students: “I think students need to become increasingly interdisciplinary because when you graduate from Mount Allison and enter the work-scape, who knows what you’ll be doing in 10 years, 20 years. You may change professions; you likely will have three or four different professions, so you need to be prepared with an array of skill sets, for example, by having interdisciplinary cross-faculty preparation [in your undergrad].”

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PSYCHOLOGY

The importance of motion in development

Jean-Paul Boudreau discusses how action and cognition interplay in developmental psych LAURA SKINNER News Reporter

On March 8, President Jean-Paul Boudreau gave a seminar on the insights he and his fellow researchers have gained from observing infants’ object exploration in the field of developmental psychology. The talk was a part of the Honours Psychology Research Seminars.

To begin the seminar, Boudreau quoted an inspiration of his, child psychologist Wilhelm Preyer. Preyer wrote that “Frequently repeated movements furnish the foundation for character.” Boudreau said that this is a beautiful concept to him: “It shows you that movement is interwoven with thought … [and] really the theme of my talk today is around how action and cognition interplay,” he said.

Boudreau said that in psychologist Jean Piaget’s model of developmental psychology, the first stage in his cognitive theory has sensory motor in it. “If you look at the model and you look at the theory you have this impression that we just need to get past the motor bit, get past sensory motor to get to the good stuff – i.e cognition, thought and representative ideas. And in a sense, motor becomes a little bit less important as you move through that theory,” said Boudreau, noting that he takes issue with this idea.

Boudreau said that his goal was to argue against the idea that sensorymotor is less important or interesting than cognition by discussing an array of studies that he has been a part of

that look at sensory-motor in infants.

One particular study is called the Sticky Mittens Study, which has been repeated by numerous psychologists.

The study looks at how training can “change or evolve what is already in place developmentally,” said Boudreau.

The study involved research students going to the parents’ houses and training them on how to use the sticky mittens with their three- to 3½month-old. The mittens are “sticky” in that when an infant touches an object with them, the object automatically sticks to their hand. “If you can train the infant how to do it, the idea is that you start seeing a more progressive, complex motor activity of the hand,” said Boudreau.

The study looked at active versus passive engagement. For passive engagement, researchers observed the infant just touching the object and seeing what happens. For active engagement, they got the parents involved. Their variables had to do with “some kind of behavioural measure, the amount of time spent touching, the amount of contact, the amount of pre-contact, the amount of time it takes to get the infant to initiate an action,” said Boudreau.

“We [broke] it down into a series of time-based components.”

They also looked at attention.

“Attention is a very important modulator in terms of development,” said Boudreau. “When I’m talking about attention I’m talking about the amount of either eye contact or the amount of face-to-face engagement between the infant and the parent or

BOUDREAU HOLDS A PHD IN EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY FROM TUFTS UNIVERSITY. PENGYI HUANG/ARGOSY the infant and the object.”

The data showed a bit of a jump in active engagement. There was “more visual engagement if the parent [was] guiding the activity with the infant,” said Boudreau.

At the end of the seminar Boudreau answered questions from both students and faculty.

One student asked, “In the Sticky Mittens Study, you said that you reduced the length of sampling to three, 3½ and five months [of age]. Is there a reason for the half-month and then a month-and-a-half gap?”

Boudreau answered that the reason for those age samplings was that they wanted to replicate the previous studies that had been done using those ages. “What you don’t realize is that for us a week or a month is nothing, but a month in the life of

an infant is worth a decade. So we’re sensitive to that,” said Boudreau.

Another student asked if they found it difficult to recruit subjects in that age group.

“Where did we get these amazing, beautiful participants who give their time, their energy, and their passion to science? We tried everything from newspaper ads to Kijiji...but a few years ago I fell into, kind of by accident, a gold mine of infants,” said Boudreau.

Boudreau’s “gold mine” of infants was the BabyTime Show, which takes place in Toronto a few times a year. “It’s where parents go to buy stuff for babies … the latest on carriage technology, the latest in breastfeeding technology, the latest in bedding, everything imaginable to do with children and infants,” said

Boudreau. “I happened to be there and all these parents were totally fascinated by buying stuff for their yet to be born children.… So I pursued a partnership with this group and we set up a booth.… We had a big banner – ‘Make Your Baby a Scientist’ – and it worked really well.”

As a part of his “final thoughts,” Boudreau said that he is excited about the relationship between action and cognition. “At the end of the day, we like to say that travel broadens the mind. I think travel, in this case, is movement – reaching, crawling, touching, standing, walking, eventually running – and the mind is cognition, attention and problemsolving,” said Boudreau, “and that happens very beautifully in all of our lives but it happens magically and amazingly in the first years of life.”

SENATE

New interdisciplinary programs and exchanges proposed at Senate MINNOW HOLTZ-CARRIERE News Editor

On March 12, Senate met to discuss a number of topics, among them new material and visual culture programs and a potential future exchange to the University of the Bahamas.

The motion to create a material and visual culture program was brought forward by the University Planning Committee.

Provost Jeff Ollerhead provided some context for the motion: “We have a lot of expertise in this area: we have a lot of faculty who can contribute to this particular program, we have the Owens – that’s the jewel in our community. There’s a lot of reasons to do this.”

Dr. Owen Griffiths asked how the visual and material culture programs might or might not intersect with the currently proposed museum studies minor. “There’s a lot of interesting convergence and overlap between the museum studies minor and the proposal for the visual cultures.

Would they be separate? Would they

work together?”

“Visual culture includes images in a more democratic sense,” said Dr. Christina Ionescu, one of the program planners. “In a way it’s beyond fine arts. We have been communicating with fine arts as well, and there is some overlap, as there always is with visual culture, but we are going to be discussing ways of collaborating.”

“When we designed the programs we had the vision that the visual and material culture element could complement programming in fine arts, not replace it,” said Dr. Lauren Beck, another of the program’s planners.

Ionescu also noted that the visual culture program will be “less specialized” than the fine arts program, and will be open to students in all programs of study.

The motion passed.

The Academic Matters Committee presented its recommendations for changes to the academic calendar, which included the new visual and material culture courses.

Senator Alex Fancy asked where

resources for the new courses would come from: “The courses which are proposed, the new courses, make me wonder whether there is a realignment of teaching resources, or new teaching resources?”

Ollerhead said that resources for the program would come from a variety of places, particularly the anthropology department as it is phased out. “Some of the teaching resources will come from reallocation of existing teaching – so that ties back to what will happen to anthropology content,” he said.

“Some of the teaching resource may be allocated as a new resource, at least in the short term, and some of the teaching allocation may come from redistribution of duties within the arts and humanities.”

However the exact specifics of where resources would come from were not available because the collective agreement process has not yet been completed.

All proposed changes were approved.

Next, the International Programs

Committee presented a proposed exchange program to the Bahamas and opened the topic up for discussion.

“Since I arrived in 2001, I’ve been repeatedly asking recruitment about why we don’t recruit in the Bahamas,” said Dr. Fiona Black. “The answer I was repeatedly given was that the standard of students coming from colleges in the Bahamas was not commensurable with the student population here. I know that times are changing in the recruiting world, but my knowledge of this institution would still lead me to a similar conclusion, which is that though it’s got some great new buildings.… The library facilities are quite scant, the digital infrastructure is poor. There are some issues I guess that would make me concerned about the quality of programming when we send our students there.”

Senator Kim Meade responded: “I think that the Bahamas is an excellent place for us to recruit students, whether it’s directly from the high schools in the Bahamas or whether it’s

between the College of the Bahamas, which is now fully accredited as the University of the Bahamas.”

Meade said that Mt. A has been recruiting in the Bahamas for the past “four to five years now” and has received increasing numbers of applications from students from the Bahamas. Meade said that this exchange will present the University with an “excellent opportunity to have a very visible profile” in the region. Black expressed that she still had some concerns about student safety: “Where it’s great to get a handshake and a promise from a provost … it’s also great to have some kind of assurances.” Meade said that a site visit would be planned to examine the facilities, safety and resources of the University of the Bahamas, as with any university that Mt. A has an exchange with.

The motion passed with three abstentions.

The next Senate meeting is Thursday, April 2, 2019. Senate meetings are open to all university faculty, staff and students.

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SCIENCE

Mt. A Breakfast Chat discusses fetal alcohol spectrum disorder

FASD IS OFTEN COMES WITH STIGMA, SO PROVIDING SUPPORT FREE OF JUDGEMENT IS IMPORTANT. ASHLI GREEN/ARGOSY

MAISAA AL TAMKI News Reporter On Saturday, March 16, Mount Allison hosted the fourth annual Breakfast Chat at the Marshlands Inn, moderated by Dr. Rima Azar.

The Breakfast Chat, which is funded by the Atlantic Chapter of the Royal Society of Canada, provides an opportunity for Mt. A students and the public to talk about issues in science and health in an informal setting.

Azar started by welcoming the attendees and inviting them to get to know each other over breakfast.

After the meal, Azar introduced the topic of the discussion, fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD),

and invited the program manager of the New Brunswick FASD Centre of Excellence, Annette Cormier, to speak.

Cormier gave some general information about FASD and its impact on the brain and the body, saying that it is a lifelong condition and can lead to “physical issues and problems in motor skills learning, memory, attention, communication, emotional regulation and social skills.”

She also emphasized the importance of supporting the families of children with FASD, “Because if the family is stable, the child will have a much easier transition.”

Cormier noted that around 61 per cent of all pregnancies are

unplanned, so many people consume alcohol during the early months of pregnancy, before knowing they are pregnant.

A diagnosis of FASD is often surrounded by stigma, sensitivity and shame; “This is one thing that we need to change, because we know that no mom would harm her baby intentionally,” said Cormier.

She explained that many kids with FASD have a hard time understanding concepts like rules, values and other abstract ideas. “We have to give them time to process new information,” said Cormier. “They need the right support and an early intervention to learn.”

Cormier concluded by saying, “It is not about changing the children,

but changing their environment and making life easier for them.”

The second to speak was Dr. Lori Vitale Cox, the founder and director of the Eastern Door Centre in Elsipogtog First Nation and adjunct professor of pediatric medicine at UBC. The Eastern Door Centre offers multi-disciplinary screening, diagnostic and intervention services for FASD, and incorporates medical and cultural practices.

Vitale Cox spoke about the centre’s work in Elsipogtog First Nation and the schools there.

“I have to point out that it is not only an Indigenous community problem,” Vitale Cox said.

“Indigenous women drink less than people in the mainstream, but their pattern of drinking is a binge pattern, which is harder on the baby.”

She emphasized the rights of FASD individuals and how we have to understand their needs. “We have to support them, and this will bring the change to the kid’s life,” she said.

Dr. Erin Atkinson, a licensed psychologist who works for the Anglophone South School District, talked about her interest in this field and the importance of understanding the many different aspects of this syndrome.

She focused on the importance of creating consistency between home and school. “We can support parents to implement the strategies we are working with at school,” Atkinson said. She mentioned some other ways of supporting FASD children, like providing them with a support person to help navigate social environments.

Atkinson also discussed the difficulties of asking parents about prenatal alcohol exposure: “We don’t want to make the mom feel judged,” she said. “It is important to be able to have an open conversation and address FASD without judgment.”

Françoise Corbin-Boucher, a mother from Moncton, spoke about her youngest child, who has some FASD-related physical issues and was diagnosed with speech delay.

“His first word was ‘Mom’ at nine [months], then at 18 months he was only able to say the same word,” Corbin-Boucher said.

She emphasized the importance of “the balance between how much we do and how much we expect,” explaining that parents have to think about what success means for FASD kids.

“It might not be a high school education,” she said. “Sometimes success is getting out of the door on time.… Sometimes it is getting dressed or passing a course.”

The last to speak was Dr. Nicole LeBlanc, medical chief of staff and medical director for the NB FASD Centre of Excellence.

LeBlanc talked about the process of FASD diagnosis, which has evolved from looking at FASD as a condition that could be seen in facial features, to considering it as a disease of the brain, and most recently to talking about it as a total-body condition.

At the end, attendees had the opportunity to ask the speakers questions and give feedback on the discussion.

ACCESSIBILITY

In pursuit of potty parity

Guest speaker Lezlie Lowe discusses historic and present inequality of public washrooms

LOWE SPOKE ABOUT INEQUALITY - PAST AND PRESENT - IN PUBLIC WASHROOMS. GILL HILL/ARGOSY

AMELIA MACDOUGALL FLEMING

News Reporter

On March 8, author Lezlie Lowe gave a presentation on her book No Place To Go: How Public Toilets Fail Our

Private Needs. Lowe, a journalism professor at King’s College in Halifax, was the guest speaker at Mt. A’s annual international women’s day event. She studied public bathrooms for 15 years for the book’s thesis.

Lowe’s book revolves around often-invisible bathroom privileges.

“Public toilets are something we all use, and we don’t spend a lot of time thinking about them or really seeing them for what they are,” she said.

“Public toilets are really this window into who matters in society and who doesn’t.” Lowe explained her own bathroom privileges: she is cisgender, white, healthy, able-bodied, housed, middle class, looks middle class and is not a caregiver. As an example of her bathroom privilege in regards to health, Lowe explained that she does not have Crohn’s disease or colitis and can get by without access to a public bathroom for an extended period of time. She then said, “There is one place where I lack bathroom privilege and it is because I am a woman.”

Lowe told the story of a public washroom in Camden, London, at the turn of the 19th century to illustrate the ways that women have historically been denied access to public washrooms. In that area, there

were two public washrooms for men and none for women. “Women have always had a duty to modesty, and when a woman goes into a public washroom, it is a private space and it is also a public space, and this means in part revealing your body. It was unseemly that a woman would go into this space and reveal her body,” she explained. “Women who used public washrooms were ‘public women,’ which was really code for ‘sex worker.’ ” Lowe then spoke about how “potty parity” is also absent in today’s architecture. Lowe talked about lines at women’s washrooms, saying that they are caused by women having extra clothing to remove, urinating more frequently, menstruating, and more frequently being caregivers.

“All of that tells us that women need about two to three times the provision of men in order to attain equality.

However, when we see side-by-side gendered bathrooms, they frequently have been built with equal floor space, and in that equal floor space, we make the three stalls in women’s and two stalls and four urinals in the men’s,” said Lowe.

“I really appreciated how Lezlie Lowe made really good connections between all different sorts of needs that people have,” said Leslie Kern, the head of the women’s and gender studies department. “Opening up that conversation and erasing some of the stigma around talking about bathroom needs and issues would go a long way, particularly for vulnerable members of the community. People experiencing homelessness, people with disabilities, and trans and non-binary people. There is still so much work that we need to do but it’s heartening to hear about the possibilities that are out there.”

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LITERATURE

Reading is horrifying

Mount Allison English students reflect on their spooky experiences with studying horror JANE REMPEL Arts and Culture Reporter As if the current state of the world isn’t scary enough, horror novels, TV shows and movies are highly sought-after forms of entertainment.

Watching a horror flick is a way of getting your adrenaline pumping in the safety of your own home. This begs the question: does horror as a genre tend to be labelled as merely a form of entertainment and not as something worthy of deeper analysis when studying literature?

Last semester, the Mt. A English department proved that the horror genre definitely warrants some attention in the literary community.

I was one of a handful of Mt. A students who had the opportunity to take the Studies in Literary Genre course taught by Dr. Geordie Miller this year. Each year, a different genre is chosen for further investigation, with some years having focused on autobiography, romance, utopia/ dystopia, and speculative fiction. The course is designed to look into how the genres emerged and their specific qualities and characteristics.

This time around, the genre of horror was chosen. The course looked at classic examples of horror like the film Halloween and the Stephen King novel Carrie, as well as other examples that may not be usually considered horror like Marie Clements’ The Unnatural and Accidental Women and the Netflix series Stranger Things.

So how did students take to an

educational experience that dabbled with some spooky themes that were completely out of their Jane Austen and William Blake comfort zones?

“WE HAVE TO CONTINUE TO READ WHEN OUR MINDS AND BODIES ARE TRYING TO REJECT THE SOURCE OF DANGER” English student Brydie Cavanaugh is an avid reader of horror short stories and watcher of horror TV shows. “The horror class opened my eyes to everyday, normalized, or slow horror,” she said, naming “systematic abuse, racism and domestic abuse” as examples.

“I never really saw these types of things as horror because my mind was limiting it to sensational, dramatic type narratives or films that shock with gore or extreme violence,” Cavanaugh said.

Although some may not consider reading horror to be complex enough for a university setting, Cavanaugh said, “It challenges us as readers because we have to continue to read when our minds and bodies are trying to reject the source of danger.”

Alexa Mutch, a fourth-year English and history student who typically avoids watching horror

HORROR LITERATURE CAN BE A SCREAM TO READ, BUT IS IT ALSO WORTHY OF LITERARY ANALYSIS? READER BEWARE, YOU’RE IN FOR A SCARE! MADELEINE HANSEN/ARGOSY movies, went way out of her comfort zone to take this course. “I realized how broad horror was,” she said of the course. “It was not just your stereotypical horror tropes but could range to overlap with other genres.”

“I think studying literary genres – especially popular ones – opens up the discussion to what people look for in reading a particular genre, and what is attractive about it,” said

Ainslie Campbell, a fourth-year English student. “I think that is an important discussion to have when we look at the literary canon and what gets represented there versus in popular culture.”

So there you have it. Once you move past the jump scares, poordecision making and chainsawwielding madmen, there is a lot more to horror than meets the eye.

Hopefully it isn’t too long before the English department offers this spooky selection again. Of course, if you are a scaredy cat, and don’t know where to begin with horror, I would recommend the book and TV series Goosebumps as a gentle introduction to the genre.

EVENTS

Thunder and Lightning hosts punk show featuring Papal Visit and Dizzy & The Kittens

They can’t all be winners DEREK SHARP Arts and Culture Reporter Thunder and Lightning (T&L) is an ideal venue for concerts: it’s intimate, has good acoustics and serves good drinks. What more can you ask for?

Unfortunately, a great setting does not a great concert make. While this past Friday’s punk show wasn’t bad by any definition of the word, it was definitely more forgettable than some T&L events.

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the opening act. Dizzy & The Kittens gave a subdued performance, which, unfortunately, does not mesh well with the energetic, frenetic nature of punk music. They needed a frontperson – a Freddie Mercury, a Bowie, a Donald Glover. They needed someone up there with the charisma to work the crowd. The only attention the crowd got was some halfenthused mutterings. And so, while their music was fine, their failure to engage the crowd undercut whatever energy it would’ve inspired. While they performed, I saw feet tapping half-heartedly, heads bobbing slightly and eyes wandering, investigating the lights above. All while a freaking rock show was going on! Dizzy & The Kittens barely acknowledged the crowd. It seemed like they were in another world. That’s not punk, man.

Things got better when Papal Visit took the stage. The five-man group had the vibe of a slightly post-punk dad band, and they rocked. They talked a bit with the audience, gave humorous intros to their songs, introduced the members, mentioned their own pasts in Sackville, and just

went off. About halfway into their set people were dancing and jumping around, and we all felt our inner punks come out.

The music itself was pretty consistent. Punk, Nirvana-esque guitar licks mixed with booming percussion, all tied together with angst-infused lyrics.

Papal Visit’s lead singer and frontman is Adam Mowery, who’s been a staple of the New Brunswick rock scene for a while. He frequently performs at Sappyfest and has lost count of his performances at T&L. He has an easy air about him. In conversation, it’s evident that he has a deep knowledge and understanding of rock music in general.

Although the band itself is a relatively new group, their collective experience as musicians is vast.

“We’ve been playing [separately] for many years, in a bunch of different bands,” said Mowery. “It’s kind of like an all-star of my friends from Saint John.”

How did these friends come to form the band? “It started out as a recording project,” Mowery said. He

would get sent musical arrangements from his bassist, add lyrics, and then send them back. Papal Visit doesn’t actually play live very often, but they did this show because T&L specifically asked them: “We love [T&L] and we love Sackville, so of course we came.”

The unorthodox method of musical production accounts for the apparent dissonance between their online work and their live work, as the stuff online is usually more complex than anything they do live. Online, there’s “more lo-fi stuff,” Mowery explained, while their live persona is that of a “a meat-and-potatoes punk rock band.”

During the show, Mowery mentioned they were making a megarecord. “We’ve got two records out now,” he said. “We’re working on our third right now. It’s a 28-song epic album. We want to make a really big one. Keep an eye on our Bandcamp.”

Their Bandcamp (papalvisit. bandcamp.com) has plenty of songs now. If you’ve got some punk in your soul, their music is great. I recommend it.

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Maintaining mental health in the music department

Music society organizes mental health week during the busiest month of the year MAGGIE PITMAN Arts and Culture Reporter As March continues and April approaches, stress levels continue to rise in the music conservatory.

Student recitals, jury season, final paper due dates and final exams are looming in the near future and the environment seems to get more frantic and chaotic every week. On top of their normal course load, music students are expected to practice between two and four hours per day, depending on their instrument of choice, which gives them less time for homework and other assignments.

“HAVING A WEEK LIKE THIS AS A REMINDER IS A GOOD EXCUSE TO BOND WITH OUR PEERS AND JUST HAVE FUN” The Mount Allison music society organizes a mental health week each year during the month of March to help in these stressful times. “Mental health week is important in trying to combat any tensions that we have, individually and as a group,” said Bryenton Innes, president of the music society. “It’s easy to forget to

take care of ourselves, especially in the music building, and I find it’s nice to have something to remind me of the resources that are available.” The mental health week, which ran from March 4 to 10, was filled with fun activities and mental health resources.

The week began with an arts and crafts day on Monday, with colouring pages and art supplies set up in the conservatory’s student lounge.

Students were able to come and go as they pleased or to just sit and de-stress from their day with some art. On Thursday evening, students gathered for a Bob Ross paint night, another activity using art as an outlet for relieving stress and anxiety. The week concluded with a conservatory movie night with The Road to El Dorado. Students gathered to share snacks and enjoy the film as a way to unwind at the end of the week.

As well as the art-focused events, the music society organized activities such as meditation, walk-in counselling and even a visit to a local farm. Maggie Brewer, the newest member of the Wellness Centre staff, was set up in the lobby of the conservatory on Friday to chat with students about resources at the Wellness Centre and the work she is doing as the mental health and harm reduction educator. Through workshops, campus events, awareness campaigns and educational outreach programming, Brewer is working to promote positive mental health and

wellness at Mount Allison.

“This week isn’t going to be an end-all solution, but it’s a small piece that we can offer,” said Innes. “I would like to see the music society continue to advocate for student health.”

“THIS WEEK ISN’T

“Having a week like this as a reminder is a good excuse to bond with our peers and just have fun,” said Graham Kidd, a third-year music student.

With initiatives like this, students can strive for a conservatory environment that is both physically and mentally healthy. It provides

an atmosphere that asserts the importance of taking breaks and encourages students to break out of their practice rooms and remember that music is fun.

GOING TO BE AN END-ALL SOLUTION, BUT IT’S A SMALL PIECE THAT WE CAN OFFER” Having this week also encourages students to let loose. It becomes easy to lock yourself in a practice room and work all day. You forget that music isn’t the only part of your life.

MUSIC MAY BE THERAPEUTIC, BUT STUDYING IT CAN SURE BE STRESSFUL! MT.A MUSIC SOCIETY/SUBMITTED

MUSIC

Conduct Becoming: fighting cancer through music From folk to funk, this year’s album has it all JULIANNA RUTLEDGE Arts and Culture Reporter Last week, I sat down with several members of Conduct Becoming to discuss their involvement with the society and their upcoming album launch. The society, which started in 2001, works together to create albums each year which are dedicated to the memory of Jason Abraham, a Mount Allison student who died of cancer. All proceeds go to the Canadian Cancer Society. “It started as a memorial project and it’s been going strong every year since,” said Clare Maguire, a third-year psychology student who worked as a co-producer of the album this year.

For third-year philosophy student Amy Ward, her involvement with Conduct Becoming has introduced her to a community of musicians on campus and helped her develop a song that she originally wrote in high school into something very different. “As a musician it’s fun to share my music and it’s nice to have a place where that’s accepted and that’s

casual and not judgemental,” she said.

Gill Hill, the president of Conduct Becoming and a third-year fine arts major, has participated with the society for three years in a row.

“We’re all university students that produce their own music, and all of the funds that we get from coffee houses and performances get donated to Canadian Cancer Society,” said Hill. “Conduct Becoming really gives students that opportunity to put their music out there and really go through that recording process and make a song that you maybe just wrote into an ideal picture.”

This year’s album has a range of genres from pop to musical theatre.

“Eclectic” is the word that Maguire used to describe it. “We’ve got some folky, more traditional singer/ songwriter stuff, we’ve got some pop/ soul, a killer funk tune … from folk to bluesy rock to electronic stuff. It’s a cool album and I’m very excited about it. It’s a smorgasbord.”

The society also hosts several open mic nights throughout the year to show off the work they’ve done.

Shaina Kennedy, a third-year science student who recently joined Conduct Becoming’s exec team as the VP of finance, stressed the importance of these events. “Conduct Becoming is for artists that want to show their capabilities,” she said. “I think that has a really big value in the Mt. Allison campus because Mt. A is very liberal and artsy and having this sort of [society] can show the music side as well.”

“IT’S A COOL ALBUM AND I’M VERY EXCITED ABOUT IT” Anna Hardie, a second-year economics student, called her experience with Conduct Becoming rewarding, noting the collaboration with other musicians and producers really helped her develop a song that she wrote last year into something new. She also discussed how varied this year’s album will be. “It’s going to be a very multicultural, diverse

“IT’S CREATED A SPACE WHERE I CAN SHARE MY MUSIC,” SAID A THIRD-YEAR PHILOSOPHY STUDENT AMY WARD OF HER EXPERIENCE WITH CONDUCT BECOMING. “IT’S BEEN REALLY ENCOURAGING.” LOUIS SOBOL/ARGOSY album,” said Hardie. “There’s a whole variety of music in this album.… It’s going to be really unique.”

Conduct Becoming’s album launch will be on Thursday, April 4, at 9 p.m. at Ducky’s. The album is available for pre-order through their

Facebook page or you can contact them at conductbecoming@mta.ca or conductbecomingmta@gmail.com for more info. If you’re interested in listening to music from previous years, you can find it on Spotify or Bandcamp.

Sackville schools participate in Global Climate Strike “You can’t stop the revolution, we are the climate solution.”

“I wish to live without worrying about my future. I wish to live without worrying about the future of the millions of innocent people who will suffer the most by the problems we create. I wish to watch someone be born into this world and not feel shame that I am leaving them with a disaster…”

-Quinn MacAskill

Photos by Gill Hill Layout by Morgan Bender and Ashli Green

AMELIA MACDOUGALL FLEMING

NEWS REPORTER

On Friday, over 200 students, from elementary school to university, gathered in Sackville to strike from school in an effort to protest climate change. The strike included students from Salem Elementary School, Marshview Middle School, Tantramar Regional High School and Mount Allison University.

The strike was inspired by Greta Thunberg, a 16-year-old Swedish environmental activist who has been skipping school every Friday since August in protest. Her argument is that policy makers do not listen to people who are educated about climate change, so completing school to become one of those people is a waste of time. “Some say I should be in school,” Thunberg has said. “But why should any young person be made to study for a future when no one is doing enough to save that future?”

The Sackville climate strike was collectively organized a week and a half in advance by students from Mt. A, Tantramar, Marshview, and Salem. Parents from these schools also helped with obtaining resources and notifying the public about the strike.

At 9 a.m., students from Sackville public schools walked out of their classes and met Mt. A students in Gracie’s Café, where we made posters and got ready for the day. As a group, we left the Student Centre to hold a rally in the academic quad. Students from each of the schools spoke and voiced their personal connections to the climate crisis.

“The secretary general of the United Nations said that we have until 2020 to alter the path of climate change,” said Andrew Linton, a Mt. A student and head of Eco-Action on campus. “That scares me. The sense of urgency around climate issues is constantly decreasing parallel to our scientific understanding. If all nations were to adopt Canada’s climate policies, we would be on track for upwards of five degrees of global warming. It’s embarrassing, and I know that we can do better.”

Later, students and community members walked down the hill from the library and took to the streets.

We blocked traffic and marched down to Town Hall, chanting, “You can’t stop the revolution! We are the climate solution!”

Once we reached Town Hall, we gathered outside and announced our demands for all levels of government. Hanna Longard, a Mt. A student and one of the strike organizers, invited people from the crowd to make their demands clear.

“While it is inspiring and incredibly heartwarming to see the passion and motivation with which youth in Sackville have mobilized and demanded necessary climate action at a political level, we must remember the cause of this education strike,” Longard said.

“Youth are terrified, and people around the world and people in Canada are being hurt by climate change and government that is not responding to the rights of people. This fight is not new. We are striking in solidarity with Indigenous peoples who have been defending land against exploitation before this so-called country of Canada was founded.”

At the sit-in, about a dozen students spoke about their concerns surrounding the climate crisis.

Many of the concerns revolved around fear of the future and fear for coming generations. Quinn MacAskill, an elementary school student, said, “I wish to live without worrying about my future. I wish to live without worrying about the future of the millions of innocent people who will suffer the most by the problems we create. I wish to watch someone be born into this world and not feel shame that I am leaving them with a disaster.”

Our first ask was for Mount Allison to divest from fossil fuels and to Indigenize its classrooms.

We then asked the provincial government to implement a carbon tax, to prevent fracking and to consistently update the public school curriculums with up-todate climate science findings. Tess Cameron, a Tantramar Regional High School student, made this announcement. “Unfortunately, few students are aware of humancaused environmental issues, such as fracking or oil spills, and what can be done about them on a global level,” said Cameron. “For the changing state of the climate to be accommodated, knowledge about global warming must be true and up to date. One of our requests today is that the school curriculum be updated every two years to keep up with the changing context of the climate.… As of now, what the New Brunswick school curriculum teaches is inefficient, and mainly depends on teachers’ previous knowledge and willingness to provide open and honest information.”

Students from the middle school

announced the asks for the Town of Sackville. “The Town of Sackville created a sustainability plan in 2010,” said MacAskill. “In nine years, things have changed. We are in the heart of a crisis and therefore require immediate, drastic changes if we wish to continue life as we know it. We ask that you update sustainability plans reflecting the emergency we are in right now.” The Town of Sackville was also asked to declare a climate emergency.

Finally, we asked the Government of Canada to implement a climate policy that seriously addresses the climate emergency. This would include recognition of Indigenous sovereignty and moving away from all fossil fuel projects by transitioning to renewable energy and sustainable jobs for people in this economy. The government would also have to follow the agreements outlined in the Paris Accord. Additionally, the new policy would include strong migrant rights to respond to the displacement of people resulting from natural disasters.

After we announced our asks at the sit-in, we went to the Sackville Commons, where lunch was provided by Lettuce Eat and community donors.

During lunch, I talked to middle school student Ailsa Keiser.

“People are always saying that the environment is a big deal but they’re never actually doing anything about it. I want to prove to everybody else that it is a big deal,” she said. “I took the day off of school to show people how I can care about the environment. Governments need to stop thinking that they’re the most important people in the world because they are not, we all are.”

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“Governments need to stop thinking that they’re the most important people in the world because they are not, we all are.”

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DRAMA

‘Saint Joan of the Stockyards’ review

Complexity and pessimism meet in this year’s faculty show

LITERATURE

Nationalism and naturalism intersect in Dr. Kerr’s talk

Examining ‘The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner’

HOW DOES NATURE RELATE TO THE NATION? SAVANNAH FORSEY/ARGOSY

JULIANNA RUTLEDGE Arts and Culture Reporter SAINT JOAN CONFRONTS CAPITALISM BY RETELLING AN OLD TALE WITH A “NEW” CONTEXT. PAUL DEL MOTTE/SUBMITTED

DEREK SHARP Arts and Culture Reporter Directed by Shelley Liebembuk and assistant directed by Rebecca Yeo, Saint Joan of the Stockyards is undeniably bold and charismatic, an impressive feat considering the script’s parentage. Written by Bertolt Brecht, one of the 20th century’s most influential playwrights, Saint Joan embodies his esoteric dream of epic theatre. The characters break the fourth wall, the actors break character, and the seemingly concrete rules of theatre – such as, ‘Hey, maybe don’t scream your lines incomprehensibly’ – are joyfully disregarded. While this sounds messy, it is done purposefully, and it largely succeeds in its didactic aspirations.

Moment to moment, Saint Joan’s biggest strength is its actors. It’s all centred around the bold and assertive Mauler, played with proud gusto

by Gabrielle Gagnon. Opposite Mauler is the compassionate Joan

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Dark, played earnestly by Loryn Losier. Mauler effectively runs the notoriously cruel and penny-pinching meat packing industry in Chicago.

Yet, after seeing a cow die first hand, he wishes to leave those cruel factories behind him. Unfortunately, his co-workers won’t let him leave until the ongoing butcher strike has been resolved. Opposite him is the titular Joan. She’s a young soupkitchen worker who loves widely and recklessly. She throws herself into the middle of the strike, attempting to please everyone, and wins Mauler’s attention in the process.

The narrative here is generally engaging. The broad strokes are usually clear enough: this is good for Mauler, this is bad for Joan, this is good for the soup kitchen, etc. But the details of the narrative tend to get lost in the overly long meat-packing discussions.

Additionally, the narrative is generally more concerned with theorizing and explicating capitalist oppression than it is with

providing compelling character arcs.

This is generally fine, but the play did occasionally feel a bit dry because of it.

Fortunately, the sheer complexity of the issue is compelling enough to bear the entire runtime. Joan gets bogged down trying to convince the capitalist owners to capitulate to the strike, but every second she that wastes worsens the situation for hundreds of thousands of starving workers. Is Joan right to try and change things at the top? Should we appease those in power? Or should the capitalists become victims of their own slaughterhouse? Saint Joan’s narrative begs this kind of critical engagement.

The set, designed by the MotyerFancy’s resident designer Nancy Perrin, was relatively sparse and industrial, but it worked. The two most notable parts were Mauler’s office, which was designed like a wrestling ring, and the hanging ropes that cast shadows over the stockyards. The former begs the question of violence, capitalism and performativity, while the latter tangles up the striking workers in an omnipresent, impossible-to-avoid net.

These set elements, paired with the thematically complex narrative and strong performances, gel well into an experience worthy of Brecht.

Everything comes to a head in a deeply pessimistic ending, one whose final moments are equal parts chilling and hilarious. Brecht’s eccentricities erupt and force you to reckon with the point of resentful endurance in a crushing and cruel system. It begs many questions: What’s the point of anything? Of this performance? Of any art at all? Can blessed ignorance be forgiven in a cruel world?

Last Thursday at the Owens Art Gallery, Dr. Jonathan Kerr of the English department gave on a talk on The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg, which he called a “weird and wonderful novel.” The talk was titled James Hogg’s Inorganic Scotland: Nature, Nation and Singularity.

Kerr, who now teaches at Mount Allison, recently completed his dissertation on human identity and its relationship with the natural and social sciences in Romantic literature at the University of Toronto. In his talk at the Owens he examined nationalism as it emerged in modernity and the ways in which it interacted with nature. “The idea of the nation has an awful lot to do with new ways in which nature is being perceived and, specifically, new ways in which the human being is seen as interacting with nature,” Kerr said.

“Nations conform through the unique interactions between people and their local nature.” He also looked at how nature is used in Romanticism to answer questions on human identity and human community.

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner was written by the Scottish author James Hogg and published anonymously in 1824.

In it, Hogg creates the character of the editor, who introduces a found document written by the fictional Robert Wringham Colwan in the late 17th to early 18th century, over a hundred years before the editor is writing. Without going into too much detail, the document is a memoir following Colwan’s life, from his childhood under the influence of Calvinism to his gradual decline into madness, potentially due to his association with Gil-Martin, who may or may not be the devil. It’s intense. The editor then explains how they found Colwan’s body and his memoir buried in the Scottish Highlands.

“While setting out with the hope of undercovering an earthly organic tradition within Scottish history, the editor happens upon a story that bears witness to turmoil, divisions, irreconcilable conflict within Scotland,” explained Kerr. “But equally important is that the language of the natural, the idea of the natural, is actually a way of sustaining these conflicts.”

Kerr then explained how the novel offers the reader a thought experiment about the how perceptions of the national and natural intersect. Unlike other thinkers of his time, Hogg’s work rejects the idea that natural development needs to be considered for nationalistic development. “He swims against the current of the premise that understanding a group identity like the nation requires thinking about how culture develops in a naturalistic kind of way,” Kerr said. “I want to propose that Hogg gives us what we might call a postnatural understanding of human identity and group identity.”

“I thought it was scholarly but also really accessible,” said Dr. Janine Rogers, head of the English department, about the talk. “I hadn’t read the book but I understood the idea of the way we maybe sloppily conflate nature and nation. I was curious to what extent we still see that pattern in contemporary culture.”

Ainslie Campbell, a fourthyear student double-majoring in English and history, also attended the presentation. “I thought the talk was very interesting, especially these concerns about the naturalisation of Scottish nationhood, especially where it had such a fraught relationship with England at this time,” she said.

“The picture of Scottish identity that Hogg gives us in this novel lacks harmony, lacks peace, lacks even the promise of future harmony,” said Kerr. “But it also creates space for acknowledging the conflicts marking all history and for the divided nature of all communities.”

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CURLING

Mounties rock U Sports-Curling Canada championships

The Mount Allison women’s curling team stand in sixth place at the U SPORTS National Championships

MOUNT ALLISON WOMEN’S CURLING TEAM SLID INTO SIXTH PLACE IN THE U SPORTS CURLING CHAMPIONSHIP. THE 2019 SEASON MARKS THE SECOND CONSECUTIVE YEAR THAT THE MOUNTIES PARTICIPATE IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP WEEKEND. MTA ATHLETICS

JESSICA FIRMINGER Sports & Health Reporter The Mount Allison women’s curling team participated at the U SportsCurling Canada championships from March 15 to 19 in Fredericton, N.B. They competed against seven other teams and stand in sixth place out of a seven-game championship.

Jim Nix has been the curling team’s head coach for four years. This is his second year in a row making it to the championships with the team.

Despite an unconventional start to their season – where they were sitting at 1-3 after four games in a five-game round robin – the team was able to make it to the Atlantic University Sport (AUS) playoffs.

During the playoffs, the team won the semifinal game leading them to finals, securing their spot at the U Sports championships. “They struggled for sure but were not deterred at all,” Nix said.

Nix discussed the challenges the team faces in making it to the events that they have to take part in throughout the year in order to make it to the championships. “[The competitions] require a great deal of time and commitment, so you can appreciate how difficult it is to do more [of them],” Nix said. “We are

very lucky to have most of our team competing at several of these events.”

Nix mentioned that in addition to being strong and supportive of each other, the women’s curling team has other assets that have helped them in the championships. “[We] have a wealth of experience at many levels, in the case of Sam and Julia,

“IT IS DIFFICULT TO ENSURE WINS ON THE ICE, BUT WE CAN GUARANTEE THAT WE PLAY HARD AND DO THE BEST WE CAN” which greatly helps when you are involved in tight games, as we expect all our games to be [during the championships,” Nix said.

Julia Hunter, a fourth-year commerce student, is playing her fourth year on the women’s curling team. She mentioned that in addition to the training done with the Mounties, some of the players trained together to get ready for the

U Sports championships. “Molli, Sam and I curl together outside of the University, so getting to keep that lineup when we play for [Mt. A] makes us that much stronger,” Hunter said.

This season is Molli Ward’s first season curling with the Mounties.

Ward, a second-year commerce student, also attributed some of the team’s solidity to training with the others members outside of Mt. A, as well as having returning members.

“We’ve been pretty consistent throughout the season,” she said, “and three members of our team have been to nationals before.”

Before the championships, the team members who had previously attended nationals made sure to reflect on previous events in addition to their physical training. “To mentally prepare ourselves, we think back on last year’s national event, how the competition was, and think about what we should expect from the other teams,” Hunter said. “This gives us an idea of what we need to bring to the table when we start playing.”

“It is difficult to ensure wins on the ice, but we can guarantee that we play hard and do the best we can,” Nix said.

NUTRITION

March 2019: Canada’s 30th Nutrition Month

Unlocking the potential of food

NATASHA GOSELIN Sports & Health Reporter March marks Nutrition Month for 2019, and with that comes new resources, fact sheets and featured recipes. Nutrition Month has been celebrated across Canada for over 30 years. It is one of the biggest public awareness campaigns advocating for proper diet and overall health.

What began as a small “nutrition week” campaign in the 1970s quickly turned into a month-long national event, aiming to provide all Canadians with accurate information about the benefits in the foods they are consuming. There are different themes each year, depending on the current health environment. This year’s theme – Unlock the Potential of Food – is all about possibilities.

Kosta Petrovic, a linebacker and second-year political science major, described nutrition as “one of the most important aspects of being a student-athlete.”

“It’s important to have enough energy to complete workouts and practices,” he added. “When you’re eating unhealthy, it’s almost impossible. Nutrition has to be one of your top priorities.”

The Nutrition Month campaign provides Canadians with tools to improve their overall health. On the Dietitians of Canada website, there are a variety of factsheets about finding the hidden potentials of nutrients in your food. These include tips for healthy snacks, cooking for kids and how to build a balanced diet.

With nutrition come professional opinions on food and health. This year marks the 10th year Canada will celebrate National Dietitians Day. March 20 will acknowledge “the healthcare professionals committed

to using their specialized knowledge and skills to translate the science of nutrition into terms everyone can understand,” according to the Dietitians of Canada website.

This year’s nutrition month focuses on the changes made to Canada’s national food guide in 2018, advising Canadians to aim for more whole-grain foods, meat alternatives, vegetables and fruits, and to choose water as their drink of choice.

“I think athletes can maintain the same level of nutrition with these changes, but it isn’t easy,” Petrovic said. “Most athletes don’t have much knowledge on meat and dairy alternatives so they stay away from it.”

The recipes the campaign provided reflected the changes in the new food guide, focusing more on the inclusion of meat substitutes like chickpeas, nuts and seeds. The recipes also favoured the switch to avocados as a source of fats and beets as a source of vitamins and nutrients.

Focusing on consuming more whole grains, fruits and vegetables may encourage some to transition to a vegetarian or vegan diet. “I grew up in rural New Brunswick on a farm, so eating those animals really became a problem for me,” said Toni Roberts, a sociology professor, on being a vegetarian. “People used to tell me that being a vegetarian meant I would be unhealthy and not get enough protein in my diet and that just isn’t the case. Nutrition is important and I want to be healthy, and that’s not an issue on a vegetarian diet.”

The Dietitians of Canada website claims that food has the “potential to fuel, to discover and to bring us together.” For more information on how you can unlock the potential of food, visit nutritionmonth2019.ca!

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EMAIL ARGOSY@MTA.CA WITH A RESUME, COVER LETTER, AND THREE SAMPLES OF YOUR WORK (WRITING, ILLUSTRATION, OR PHOTOGRAPHY) MARCH MARKS NUTRITION MONTH AND AIMS TO EDUCATE CANADIANS ON WHAT THEY ARE PUTTING INTO THEIR BODIES. ASHLI GREENL/THE ARGOSY

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RESEARCH

Honours student researches the consequences of concussions on student-athletes Mangold and supervisor Tomes stress the importance of awareness of symptoms, recovery, and long-term consequences NATASHA GOSSELIN Sports & Health Reporter Kiersten Mangold, a fourth-year psychology student, teamed up with psychology professor Dr. Jennifer Tomes to host a talk on concussions and issues surrounding head injuries.

Mangold is currently working on her honours thesis on sports-induced injuries in athletes and subsequent behaviors. Tomes’ research focuses on the long-term consequences concussions may have on memory and cognitive function. The talk focused on symptoms, treatment and research findings in the area.

A concussion is a mild traumatic brain injury “induced by biochemical forces affecting the brain, which can result in different patterns of symptoms,” Tomes explained.

“Concussions can cause profuse damage across the entire structure [of the brain] so you can get a number of varying symptoms.” A concussion may or may not implicate long-term consequences, though there is a risk of severe brain damage.

The types of symptoms experienced by those who suffer a concussion can be placed into three categories: physical, cognitive and emotional.

The physical repercussions can include loss of consciousness, which used to be in the actual definition of a

concussion. Now, medical definitions of concussion refer to an impaired state of consciousness. Cognitive manifestations can include memory loss and confusion, while emotional symptoms can include irritability and personality changes. Mangold explained that “Although the list of symptoms is long, some people may only experience a select few while others can experience a lot more.”

Several steps are taken to assess and treat sport-related concussions, Mangold explained. “The first step to assessing a concussion for athletes is to receive a sideline evaluation,” she said. “This is a quick way of assessing the severity of the concussion; however, it is only a screen for potential injury, and it should always be followed with a professional medical diagnosis.”

“I got all my concussions playing hockey,” said Maddy Koughan, a fourth-year psychology major. “I find my memory is not nearly as good as it was. I sometimes have post-concussion symptoms such as unsteady hands, headaches or light sensitivity.”

In terms of recovery time, Mangold said that most symptoms resolve themselves within seven to 10 days of the impact. However, that time range depends strongly on the severity of the concussion and the symptoms

being experienced. “In a recent study done with Mount Allison students, 25 per cent of people felt their symptoms were resolved between four to 11 days post-impact,” Mangold said.

“Another 23 per cent claimed they had not felt their symptoms were resolved until 12 days to one month post-impact.” Longer-term symptoms are referred to as “postconcussive syndrome,” which occurs when symptoms are prolonged past one to three months post-injury.

One of the most prominent issues facing student-athletes in regards to concussions is the lack of reporting of the injury. Mangold said it is very common for student-athletes to downplay their symptoms or even hide them entirely. “In another study, 33 per cent of students had hidden at least one concussion in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA),” she explained.

“Another 51 per cent did the same in high school over the course of one season.” At Mt. A. alone, Mangold claimed, “34 per cent of athletes with concussions hid their symptoms in practice and 51 per cent did so during a game.” Student athletes tend to do so in order to continue playing in the current game or to ensure they won’t miss out on practices or future events.

The rates of concussions are higher in rugby and football, and the number

STUDENT-ATHLETES OFTEN FACE THE RISK OF HEAD INJURY IN THEIR RESPECTIVE SPORTS, WHICH CAN TAKE DAYS, WEEKS OR MONTHS TO RECOVER FROM. LOUIS SOBOL/THE ARGOSY of students who hide their symptoms increases for the starting players and first-string athletes.

Attitudes need to change within teams in order to create a better culture surrounding concussion reportings, said Tomes on the importance of reporting concussions.

“Recognizing symptoms and encouraging athletes to report them is essential,” added Mangold.

To learn more about the impact of concussions and how Mt. A can help you get back on track postimpact, contact the Meighen Centre at health@mta.ca.

ATTENTION, CLOSET MUSICIANS! Do you play a wind instrument, like clarinet or trombone? A string instrument, like viola?

Do you play percussion? Do you like to sing?

Now is the time to dust off your instrument and join a Mount Allison music ensemble in fall 2019! Ensembles are open to all Mount Allison students, faculty and staff. Students receive credit. We are looking for new members for fall 2019, and now is a great time to introduce yourself and learn how to prepare and get involved.

ENSEMBLES INCLUDE: SYMPHONIC BAND, JAZZ ENSEMBLE, CHAMBER ORCHESTRA AND CHOIRS HOW TO FIND OUT MORE: VISIT WWW.MTA.CA/MUSIC AND LOOK FOR ENSEMBLES. BETTER STILL, COME AND HEAR FOR YOURSELF! WE HAVE A GREAT LINEUP OF CONCERTS THAT WILL SHOW YOU WHAT WE DO. INTRODUCE YOURSELF TO THE CONDUCTORS ONLINE OR IN PERSON.

UPCOMING CONCERTS: SYMPHONIC BAND — SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 7:30 P.M. — CONVOCATION HALL CHORAL SOCIETY AND ELLIOT CHORALE — SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 3 P.M. — BRUNTON AUDITORIUM JAZZ ENSEMBLE — TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 9 P.M. — GRACIE’S CAFÉ CHAMBER ORCHESTRA — SUNDAY, APRIL 7, 3 P.M. — BRUNTON AUDITORIUM

SEE YOU THERE!

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LIFESTYLE

Inclusive party planning

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How to actively make parties fun and safe for everyone

JILLANE BURYN SHARE Intern As the school year begins to wrap up, more parties will be happening both on and off campus, with this celebratory spirit continuing through the summer. These parties often have themes, large guest lists and

drinking. In order to ensure that everyone has a good time and stays safe at parties, there are a number of things that need to be considered.

Inclusion is proactive, not reactive; this means that the experiences of everyone who could potentially attend the party should be a factor in the party planning process. People

who experience various forms of hypersexualized environment where discrimination do so in all scenarios, consent is compromised. Exclusive therefore one needs to take these party themes can make potential experiences into account and centre guests feel not only unwelcome but the safety and unsafe.

Certain enjoyment of all themes, such as “AVOID SELECTING guests. hypersexualized The first THEMES THAT COULD ones, can even make consideration the event unsafe for should be the theme POTENTIALLY INVOLVE those who attend. and promotion of A n o t h e r the party. When COSTUMES THAT STEAL consideration is choosing a theme, the actual setup of ensure that you OR APPROPRIATE FROM A the party. What are not furthering measures are being discrimination or PARTICULAR CULTURE OR put in place to exclusion.

Avoid ensure the safety and selecting themes that inclusiveness of the RACIAL GROUP” could potentially involve costumes party? This step in the party planning that steal or appropriate from a process requires thinking about the particular culture or racial group. physical space of the event. The event Other themes to avoid include ones should be made physically accessible that promote a binary understanding if possible. If not, accommodations of gender and themes that promote a should be made to include any guests

with accessibility needs. Beyond accessibility, the event needs to made as safe as it possibly can. If there is alcohol being provided at the event, there should be someone responsible for ensuring guests are not overserved and that intoxicated guests are able to get home safely. Furthermore, if there is a dance floor, it is important to consider how to make this space one that is safe and one where consent is respected.

The protection and enjoyment of those who experience discrimination is necessary in order to truly make a party safe, inclusive and fun for everyone. Thinking critically about the theme and setup of the party allows for the creation of an environment that everyone can enjoy. For tips on safe and inclusive party planning, contact SHARE by email at share@mta.ca or by phone at 506-364-2613.

SHARE OFFERS SUPPORT AND ADVICE TO THOSE WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED SEXUAL VIOLENCE, GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE OR DISCRIMINATION BASED ON SEX, GENDER OR SEXUAL ORIENTATION.

TO CONTACT SHARE, YOU CAN CALL OR TEXT (506) 540-7427 OR EMAIL SHARE@MTA.CA FOOD

Is butter a carb? What you need to know about the keto diet

EMILIE COMFORT Health Intern The ketogenic diet, also referred to as the keto diet, is continuing to grow in popularity. Keto diets were initially created as a medical treatment to help regulate seizures in children with epilepsy. They have recently become popular as a means to lose weight. As with all diets, there are advantages and disadvantages that can greatly affect your health when following the keto diet. Understanding how it affects your body and brain is important when deciding whether or not this diet is safe for you.

A keto diet involves eating high amounts of fat and very low amounts of carbohydrates. This drastic change in diet causes your body to go into a metabolic state called “ketosis.” In ketosis, your body reduces your insulin levels, which in turn causes your fat to break down into ketones. When your body is in ketosis it burns ketones for energy instead of carbohydrates. This is due to the low amount of sugar in your body that is available to be used

as energy.

After beginning the keto diet, one might experience what is called a “keto flu.” Unlike other diets, this occurs as the body undergoes changes that it may not be used to. Your body is transitioning from a high-carbohydrate diet to a low-carbohydrate diet, meaning that you are going from using sugar as a source of energy to using fat instead. This transition lowers your blood sugar, which in turn can

YOUR BRAIN NEEDS CARBOHYDRATES IN ORDER TO FUNCTION

cause an array of symptoms similar your brain needs to carbohydrates in to the flu. These symptoms may order to function. When following include headache, fatigue, increased this diet, you can be restricting hunger, poor your brain from sleep, nausea and DUE TO THE SEVERELY functioning at its decreased physical highest potential. performance.

All LOW AMOUNT OF Sawyer King, a of these are due to fourth-year history the lack of nutrients CARBOHYDRATES major, is currently needed by your on the keto diet. body.

CONSUMED IN A DAY, “There are negative For some, the aspects to any diet,” keto diet can be YOU CAN DEVELOP A said King. “You have effective for weight to diet safely and loss.

However, DEFICIENCY IN NUTRIENTS correctly, or you will it is important end up doing more to recognize the SUCH AS POTASSIUM, harm than good to negative effects that your body.” this diet can have on MAGNESIUM AND Finally, it is your body. Everyday important to Health claims that SODIUM, THAT YOUR recognize that being on the keto each individual is diet puts stress on BODY NEEDS IN ORDER TO different and that your kidneys, which they should consult can result in kidney FUNCTION their doctor prior stones. The keto to starting a new diet can also lead to dehydration diet regime. Little research has been and loss of electrolytes in your body. done on keto diets for weight loss, as Due to the severely low amount of it is quite a new diet. As well, there as carbohydrates consumed in a day, you been almost no research done on the can develop a deficiency in nutrients, long-term effects of using this diet for such as potassium, magnesium and weight loss. Students who may feel sodium, that your body needs in like they should contact a doctor can order to function. Leading a lifestyle make an appointment at the Wellness based on the keto diet can also lead to Centre. The Wellness Centre can be high cholesterol due to the increased contacted by emailing wellness@mta. amounts of fat consumed. Finally, ca or calling 506-364-2163.

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COLUMN

Lessons from ‘The Vagina Monologues’: lean into your discomfort, you’ll grow from it

Leaning into discomfort often results in considerable personal growth

REBEKAH HOWLETT Contributor The first time I heard about The Vagina Monologues was three years ago when a friend brought me to the show. All she told me was that it was going to make me uncomfortable, but “good” uncomfortable. What followed was a transformative experience. Fellow students performed monologues that tackled issues ranging from pubic hair, to violence against trans women, to experiences of sexual assault. The show made me feel; it made me uncomfortable at times. By the end of the show, I decided that I wanted to take part in The Vagina Monologues.

The Vagina Monologues was written in the 1990s by Eve Ensler. The play consists of a series of monologues that have been developed as a result of a series of interviews with over 200 women. The play tackles issues of female sexuality in a point-blank fashion. Despite being written over 20 years ago, it remains relevant today and seeing the play is an important experience.

Now in my third year of university, I performed in this year’s production of The Vagina Monologues. I’m a relatively private person and talking about the issues addressed in the show in front of an audience pushed me outside of my comfort zone. It was an important experience for me and I can confidently say that I grew from the experience.

In addition to it being a really cool experience for the 10 cast

COMPRISED OF A COLLECTION OF COMEDIC AND DRAMATIC TRUE STORIES, THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES IS A CLASSIC PLAY THAT ENTERTAINS AND DISRUPTS. MADELEINE HANSEN / ARGOSY members involved, seeing the show is an important experience in itself. Even a mention of the show can make people uncomfortable at times. I could see the flash of uneasiness in people’s eyes when I told them that I was performing in The Vagina Monologues. Despite some of my

THE MONOLOGUES THAT

ADDRESS EXPERIENCES OF

friends’ hesitant acceptance, they all really enjoyed the show. Most of the people I talked to told me that the show made them uncomfortable at times, especially my male friends.

The monologues focus on topics that are considered taboo in public, and sometimes even in private, settings. One of my favourite monologues recounts the experience

of a women who had sex with a man who loved to look at vaginas. It’s hilarious. The collision of self-esteem issues with a positive (yet odd) sexual experience makes for an entertaining and uncomfortable monologue.

Addressing such private experiences in public makes us uncomfortable because it requires us to address issues and topics that we’d often prefer to go undiscussed, but it’s important to be uncomfortable sometimes. Pushing yourself outside your comfort zone is where you grow. It’s where you learn. Be uncomfortable. Lean into it. Embrace it. I’m not saying that you should live there, just that it is important to take the opportunity to get out a bit.

Some of the monologues that address experiences of sexual assault lead to uncomfortable silences with the audience, who were unsure of whether or not to clap. One of my male friends told me that he gained a better understanding of the effects of sexual assault by seeing the play.

He explained that several of the monologues gave him an increased awareness of how such a traumatic event bleeds into all areas of one’s life. He said that, although he could exercise empathy for victims of sexual assault, listening to the monologues allowed him to gain a better, more well-rounded insight on the effects of such trauma.

This experience pushed me outside of my comfort zone. If you came to see the show, I hope that you gained at least a fraction of the insight that Eve Ensler’s play gave me. If you have not yet seen the show, I highly encourage you go see it the next time the opportunity arises. I hope that it makes you uncomfortable in the best possible way. I hope that it pushes you outside of your comfort zone – and I hope that you grow from it.

SEXUAL ASSAULT LEAD TO

UNCOMFORTABLE SILENCES WITH THE AUDIENCE,

WHO WERE UNSURE OF

WHETHER OR NOT TO CLAP

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BIOLOGY

A biologist’s perspective on bodily connections Connections within the body create messy yet rewarding scientific work

EMILY POOLE Contributor We tend to hear a lot about the value of connection at a small school like Mt. A. In a close-knit community like Sackville, connections are fostered at every turn, between students, professors, community members, disciplines – the list goes on. But while we’re constantly told about the importance and benefits of connections, their downsides are often ignored.

In science, connections pose a big problem. As a biology student who is particularly interested in physiology, I am interested in how living things function. I spend a lot of time trying to navigate the tangled web of connections within living things. While much of the time I listen to the university community sing the praises of connection, the

complexities of connections make my own work (and that of many others) complicated and messy.

Take the human body, for example – the number of connections that our bodies house is almost unimaginable.

We’ve got connections that are physical, electrical, chemical; some that are so tiny that we need a microscope to see them, others that are much more obvious. All these connections make the study of anatomy and physiology extremely complex, intricate and annoying. A scientist’s job is to try to untangle and unwind some of these connections.

The point of this untangling is to try to better understand how things work in isolated areas or specific situations.

We try to tease things apart in order to get an idea of what’s going on with a process at one particular level so we can then change it or improve it.

One example of a process that’s full of connections, which has been the focus of my honours research this year, is the regulation of appetite.

There are many, many factors that influence whether or not you decide to eat: Is everyone else eating? Do you like what’s being served? Are you hungry? Sad? Bored? While there are countless personal, social and circumstantial elements that can connect and contribute to your personal choice to consume food, the same is true on a physiological level.

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EDITORIAL staff EDITOR IN CHIEF | Catherine Turnbull MANAGING EDITOR | Alix Main

FOOD CULTURE IS RIFE WITH BODILY CONNECTIONS. LOUIS SOBOL / ARGOSY

NEWS EDITORS | Maia Herriot, Minnow Holtz-Carriere ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR | Ben Maksym SPORTS & HEALTH EDITOR | Alyssa Donston

All of these factors become really important in disorders involving food and body weight, as we have to figure out which of the many processes involved could be targeted to make a sick person better. In order to have a chance of understanding anything about how our bodies regulate appetite, we need to try to separate these different elements, which is no easy task.

As annoying as they can be, connections are also what make the

study of the human body so exciting.

There is always something else to unwind, something else to figure out.

Connections mean our work is never finished: for every question we answer about a connection, several more pop up. Connections, troublesome as they are, also allow us to eat, speak, breathe, move and think. While they can – and do – cause endless challenges for people like me, there is no denying their importance.

OPINIONS EDITOR | Olivia Wigmore HUMOUR EDITOR | Trill Waves COPY EDITOR | Charlotte Savage

PRODUCTION staff

PRODUCTION MANAGER | Morgan Bender PHOTO EDITOR | Gillian Hill PHOTOGRAPHERS | Savannah Forsey, Emma Biberdorf ILLUSTRATIONS EDITOR | Ashli Green ILLUSTRATORS | Louis Sobol, Madeleine Hansen

REPORTING staff NEWS REPORTERS | Amelia MacDougall Fleming, Maisaa Al Tamki, Laura Skinner ARTS & CULTURE REPORTERS | Derek Sharp, Julianna Rutledge,

COLUMN

An attack on a place of faith is an attack on peace

Maggie Pitman, Jane Rempel SPORTS & HEALTH REPORTERS | Natasha Gosselin, Jessica Firminger

OPERATIONS staff

Why all who seek refuge in places of worship feel the effects of Christchurch

BUSINESS MANAGER | Mirelle Naud DISTRIBUTIONS MANAGER | Julia Campbell

REV. JOHN C. PERKIN Columnist A place of worship is intended to be a safe space, a place like no other, and – especially in our modern society – a place apart from the sometimesoverwhelming news of the world and its violence and hatred. Churches serve as sanctuaries, which is not technically upheld in law but is certainly upheld in practice: people inside holy places know they are safe and secure. This has been the case in recent times in places as far apart as Amsterdam, Shediac and Phoenix. Holy places – not just churches, but holy places in all faiths – are intended for prayer, for refuge, for knowing the sure presence of the holy one who is known by many names.

The holy places that open us to the holy presence come in many forms:

mosque, synagogue, church, temple, shrine. All are holy, and all serve as a refuge and a source of life and hope and healing in the face of the ills of the world.

It seems especially tragic when the ills and hatreds and violence of the world come to the holy places.

This happened last Friday when 50 people were killed in two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, while Muslim communities gathered for prayer. It happened in the United States, in October 2018, when an attack was made on members of the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, leaving 11 people dead.

In a church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015, a white supremacist killed nine AfricanAmericans gathering for Christian worship. In 2012, six people were

killed during a mass shooting at a Sikh temple just south of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. A bomb detonated at a Christian church in Indonesia, leaving dozens dead last year. We all remember the 2017 shooting at a mosque in Quebec City in an act of hatred against Islam and its followers.

Unfortunately, there have been numerous other examples around the world. In a sense, an attack on Christians in a church in Indonesia or Pakistan, an attack on Black Christians at prayer in the United States, an attack on Muslim worshippers in Quebec or Christchurch, an attack on Jews in Pennsylvania is an attack on us all.

As we reflect on the role of the mosque, church, synagogue and temple in the lives of people of faith, we call to mind that they serve as community centres, gathering points, as sacred places to hear the holy word and to encounter the holy presence.

They are intended to be refuges and retreats, anchor points of peace and security in a world that seems filled with chaos, with hatred, and with violence. That refuge, that peace, has been horribly broken once more.

As Christians who worship on Sunday, and as those who know the peace and calming spirit we find in the chapel, we know the holy presence we call God in the refuge of the Chapel. We know and understand

that many people find their way to the holy presence through different paths and different traditions, but one of the many things we share in common is that need for a refuge in a holy place, somewhere we can step away from the disorder of the world and find order, peace, hope, love in God – who is met in different names by people of different traditions. So, an attack on Muslims in Christchurch, New Zealand, feels like an attack on us – on all people of faith. We all feel that the refuge of a holy place has been violated, and we all feel the full tragedy of violence against a group of people targeted in hatred because of who they are and what they believe. And we stand in faith with them, offering our love and prayers.

The words “ut omnes unum sint” are engraved in stone in the narthex of the Chapel to remind us that “all may be one.” We may experience a oneness through worship and community, we may know the oneness of faith, and, beyond that, we all know a oneness with all humanity – Muslim and Hindu and Christian and European and Asian and African – and in that oneness of humanity, we stand as the many in solidarity with all who know the hatred of the few. The light of divine love shines on us all, whether in mosque or synagogue or shrine, or through stained glass.

HR REP | Allison MacNeill

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CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1. George with the cherry tree 11. What Dwight from The Office farms 16. One of these lives in a pod 17. Brighten up 18. Activity done by a woman and a ghost in a famous movie scene 20. Post-secondary institution near the famous falls 22.

Dismayed exclamation, poetically 26. A doctor specializing in kidney health 28. Type or kind 29. Mythical character with wax wings 32.

Having gumption and determination 33. Cosmetic company, Lauder

COMIC

36. Instrument that may help a doctor examine the tympanic membrane 38. Body part on which 36-Across is used 39. (Often unpaid) workers looking for experience 43. Loitering, sneaking 45. The speed at which one runs 46. Old West setting with swinging doors 49. Practical, true to life 51. Misspelled characteristic of a popular rice-based cereal 53. To hang fabric on something 55. Medical specialist that focuses on sinuses 56. Poisonous element on the periodic table 57. To hold onto something tightly

58. Bugs always wanted to know what was up with this person 59. Prenatal scan to detect cardiovascular abnormalities 61. Prefix that is one more that bi63. When to Don McLean drove to it in his Chevy, it was dry 64. This acronym is apt to describe how one who suffers from this illness might feel 65. A sibling to the sandwich 66. Indian flatbread made of atta and water 67. Organization that promotes technology developments in schools in the US 70. Plant in many beers that has a bitter taste 71. People with broken arms often must wear one of these 74. Royal attendant who ranked between a squire and a page 76. Benjamin Button’s Brad 77. Installment of a TV show (abbr.)

78. Special effects technique often used in sci-fi, action or superhero movies 79. Enclosed by, surrounded by 80. Footed outfit popular among babies and millennials 83. Organization that requires you to take off your shoes before you can get on a plane 84. Colloquial term for craniums 85. Symptom of the common cold DOWN 1. Christopher Robin’s best friend’s name 2. What 1-Across famously could not tell 3. Physical type of comedy

EDITOR: TRILL WAVES | MARCH 21, 2019 | ARGOSY@MTA.CA

associated with Charlie Chaplin, for example 4. Jackman who played Wolverine 5. Online business portal for insurance in the UK 6. Hybrid vehicle model from Kia 7. ___ & Zani (espresso maker company) 8. Lots of people eat one (or more) of these on Tuesday 9. Japanese action video game 10. NGO that helps families in need in Tasmania 11. Swampy area 12. Pas hiver 13. Basket-riding film character 14. Number of centimeters in a decameter 15. Of the older generation 18. What Brits fill their cars with 19. Type of novel that may appeal to people in their teen years 21. Test that involves sections on logic and reasoning 23. A single dimension 24. Category of elements in the first column of the periodic table, that includes lithium, sodium and potassium 25. Icelandic food that is technically a cheese 27. An event to celebrate a business’ inaugural day 30. To overthrow and take power from an authority 31. What we watch movies on 32. Stick this into a maple tree to collect sap for syrup 34. Full of pep, hyper 35. The sole example 37. Town in Quebec that was the site of a famous land dispute with the

Mohawk First Nation 40. Nail polish brand that is more affordable than OPI but less than Sally Hansen 41. e.g. Nicki Minaj, Drake, Lil Wayne 42. Therefore 44. This government fee costs an extra 15% at the register 45. Material similar to soil found in bogs 47. A strange finding 48. Online version of a conservative editorial magazine (abbr.)

50. Short bits of video or sound recordings 52. New Brunswick family, the third richest in Canada 54. These speak louder than words 60. Organic, bitter substance found in tea, pomegranate, berries, nuts 61. Speed slower than a canter 62. To be fascinated by and completely absorbed in something 63. How you respond to a joke, in a text 65. A scent, caught briefly 68. Kings of ____ 69. In business, this is a venture that is larger than micro, but is not large 72. Beefeater, London Dry, or Bombay Sapphire 73. An important part of a disguise, worn on one’s head 75. A mule 81. Government assistance program that allows people to be paid when not working 82. “Who __ it?”

A FUCKING LIST? WHAT IS THIS!? BUZZFEED!??

The Top 10 Places to Cry on Campus!

Is your favourite on here??

TRILL WAVES Humour Editor, Emotional Wreck

1.Alone in your twin-size bed in residence, listening to girlfriend roleplay ASMR 2. The white floor of the library 3. In your prof’s office while they tell you why you have a 25 per cent average in the course 4.In the fetal position on the floor of one of Harper’s communal showers 5. The front row of the class you haven’t been to since the first day of the semester 6. The steps outside of the Chapel at 3 a.m. while you ask God why he’s forsaken you 7. The Argosy office 8. The empty spot in Jennings where the soft-serve machine was supposed to be 9. The tunnels MADELEINE HANSEN

10. The Pond bathroom