The Argosy, November 29, Vol. 148, Iss. 6

NEWS Jesse Wente on conciliation (Pg. 4) Practising suffrajitsu since 1872

ARTS & CULTURE A first-timer reflect on a T&L show (Pg. 6)

SPORTS Women’s volleyball starts season strong (Pg. 14)

OPINIONS Rev. Perkin on spirituality in a secular age (Pg. 15)

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November 29, 2018 Vol. 148, Iss. 6

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EDITOR: MAIA HERRIOT & MINNOW HOLTZ-CARRIERE | NOVEMBER 29. 2018 | ARGOSY@MTA.CA

COMMUNITY

Students, community, Anti-Racism Team respond to racism at Mt. A Importance of anti-racism education and prevention highlighted in response to Halloween social media post by Mount Allison student

THURSDAY, NOV. 29 One Acts 7:30-9:30 p.m.

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FRIDAY, NOV. 30 Starry Sackville 7-8 p.m.

Dunn 106 Mount Allison Symphonic Band 7:30-9:30 p.m.

Convocation Hall Auditorium

MONDAY, DEC. 3 MWF, MW, Monday-only classes continue

TUESDAY, DEC. 4 Last day for MWF, MW and Mondayonly classes End of withdrawal period for fallterm courses Christmas Collegium 4-5 p.m.

Conservatory of Music Reception Room Senate 4-6 p.m.

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WEDNESDAY, DEC. 5 What is a course? Part II 4-5:30 p.m.

Avard Dixon 112

THURSDAY, DEC. 6 Exam period begins Quo Vadimus: University 4-5:30 p.m.

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Library/Crabtree Breezeway Montreal Massacre Memorial 6-8 p.m.

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THE ANTI-RACISM EDUCATION AND RESPONSE TEAM HANDLES CONCERNS AND COMPLAINTS OF RACISM THAT OCCUR ON CAMPUS OR AFFECT STUDENT LIFE OR UNIVERSITY OPERATIONS. MADELEINE HANSON/ARGOSY

Just after Halloween, dozens of small flyers accusing a Mount Allison student of racism and cultural appropriation were printed and distributed around campus.

The flyers featured a screenshot of an Instagram post depicting two individuals in Halloween costumes: one was dressed as a border patrol officer, as stated by the visible tagged location that read “US Border Patrol,” and held a toy gun to the second individual, who wore a straw hat and colourful, fringed shirt in a caricature of a Mexican migrant. The caption read “#BuildThatWall.”

The original poster’s Instagram handle was unobscured, and at the time the screenshot was taken 29 people had liked the post. Overlaid text on top of the screenshot read, “Definition of cultural appropriation.

It’s hard to see racism with all that privilege.”

Pamela Guerrero Monterubio and Natalia Liste Colomina, both thirdyear international relations students, took responsibility for the flyers.

“We just saw it as our right to protest,” said Colomina.

Colomina and Guerrero Monterubio said they saw the individuals in costume at an offcampus Halloween party they

attended on Oct. 27 and at the time believed the costume was inappropriate. Their flyers responded specifically to the Instagram post and its depiction of a violent interaction between a border patrol officer and Mexican person. “[The photo] is something he posted that was public. It doesn’t matter if he deleted it or not. There was an intent – there was a premeditation and intent and he posted a location and a hashtag and everything,” said Guerrero Monterubio.

“We thought the University wasn’t going to do anything so we decided to take it into our own hands,” she added.

Additionally, the two students filed an official complaint with the University.

“I told [Colomina], ‘Don’t drain yourself telling someone why it’s wrong.’ That’s why we eventually took it to Mount Allison,” said Guerrero Monterubio. “We know it’s wrong, Mount Allison knows it’s wrong, so we’ll let them handle it.”

Colomina and Guerrero Monterubio were not the only people to report the Instagram post to the University. Adam Christie, the director of student life, said he received numerous reports from students, faculty and staff regarding the post and flyers.

The post and the reaction it

received prompted a campus-wide email from Christie in the capacity of his role as chair of Mt. A’s AntiRacism Education and Response Team.

The Anti-Racism Education and Response Team handles disclosures and complaints of racism and racial harassment that occur on campus or have a direct negative impact on student life and University operations. Its definition of racism, which is rooted in human rights codes, is “any action or attitude that subordinates an individual or group on the basis of race. It can be enacted individually or institutionally, consciously or unconsciously.”

“The Anti-Racism Education and Response Team affirms the central importance of diversity, respect and understanding in building up a campus community where all members feel safe, valued and fully included,” read the email.

It confirmed that one of the individuals in the photo was a Mt. A student and that the Anti-Racism Team had been in contact with that individual in order to discuss next steps, with a focus on “awareness and education.”

The email from Christie also asked staff and students to contact the AntiRacism Team with any questions or concerns and urged respondents to engage in discussions of the incident in a constructive, positive and respectful manner.

The Anti-Racism Team was alerted about the post on Nov. 1 and met as early as possible on Nov. 2 to discuss it and next steps. The next weekend the team met with the Mt. A student in the post as well as number of people who had contacted the team with concerns. Resolution of the case is ongoing.

“Any time the team is made aware of a concern, a complaint, we meet to review it and discuss what we feel will be the best course of action for getting us to that place where we feel that the outcome is the best outcome for the people involved,” said Christie in an interview. “In this case we felt that an educative course of action was going to be the best, and in this case that meant going through a restorative justice process.”

Christie said that there are other options available to the team, but that an educational approach was the “best, most appropriate avenue under the circumstances.”

The role of anti-racism education is important to the Anti-Racism Team’s work, both as a preventative measure and as a response to incidents of racism.

“I think when emotions are high the temptation is to take a course of action that will be perceived as sufficiently severe to act as a deterrent, and that may or may not be

the case, but we’re also an educational institution, and we have an obligation as an educational institution to raise up more thoughtful, more socially aware people who will go on to make better-informed, better decisions in the future,” said Christie. “I feel that if we’re graduating students who haven’t reached that point then we’re falling short of one of our goals as an institution.”

“The main reason for this [Racism and Racial Harassment Prevention and Response] policy and for the team that we have is education,” said Maritza Fariña, a modern languages and literatures professor and member of the Anti-Racism Team. “We need education in order to improve, in order not to have this type of incident.”

Student life, human resources and the Anti-Racism Team are working together on workshops for staff and faculty about cultural awareness and cross-cultural competency for next semester, among other initiatives.

Colomina and Guerrero Monterubio also spoke about the importance of anti-racist education.

“I think from this issue people should move on from the fact that it was this person,” said Colomina.

“You should educate yourself.… We want people to be educated on this and why it’s so wrong to do this.…

People need to have the initiative of going out and doing research.”

Specifically regarding the Instagram post, Guerrero Monterubio said she would like to see the Mt. A student involved “maybe take a course in Spanish.” “Or Latin American history,” added Colomina.

Fariña also emphasized the importance of student-led antiracist initiatives. “Any conversation about racism, cultural awareness, et cetera doesn’t have to come from administration, the University, from the profs.… It can come from you guys, from the students,” she said.

“The role of students is crucial in any kind of change in this society.

You don’t have to have high marks, just be involved in the community that you are surrounded by in this moment. I think that students are the central persons in every single issue at this university or at any university, and that you have a responsibility.

Each of you have a responsibility, first with yourself and then with your immediate community, and to talk about racism is one of the key issues today in our society,” said Fariña.

If you have further thoughts about this issue, you can submit them to the Argosy as an opinions piece at argosy@mta.ca. The Anti-Racism Education and Response Team can be reached at antiracism@mta.ca with any concerns.

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STUDENT ACTIVISM

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Divest MTA meets with administration

Group asks for president Boudreau’s stance on Divest MTA, divestment on the investment committee agenda and an opportunity to present concerns to the Board of Regents

MAIA HERRIOT News Editor On the morning of Nov. 5, ten members of Divest MTA sat in the MASU conference room waiting for their first meeting with the new university president.

President Boudreau entered the room with the University’s vice president of finance and administration, the chair of the board of regents, the chair of the investment committee and the financial controller.

As Divest MTA organizer Hanna Longard said in her opening remarks at the meeting, “Divest MTA is a student-led political group asking our university to remove its investments from the top 200 publicly traded fossil fuel companies.”

Longard noted that her summary and much of their presentation was designed to get Boudreau “up to speed.” The other members of the University administration who were present have sat in meetings with Divest or witnessed their actions in previous years.

According to Longard, when members of Divest approached Boudreau at his installation celebration, the president “was resistant to even minimally engage with [them] in [that] setting.”

However, he did agree to a meeting with Divest, and the group then sent him an email which led to the meeting at hand.

The meeting was student-led, with Divest members presenting on topics like the history of the interactions between Divest MTA and the administration and what steps the group is specifically asking of the University this year.

While the group was careful to specify that what motivates their desire for divestment are moral and environmental factors, they presented possible economic benefits and strategies to appeal to the University.

Longard said that for years Divest MTA had heard, “It’s just not that simple, we can’t just divest, it’s more complicated than that,” from the University. In this meeting, they addressed that criticism: “We want to tell you that we see what you mean when you say it’s complicated – we’ve seen it all along – but we believe our role as students is to pressure you to find the route to divestment which does in fact exist.”

The University’s $180 million endowment is currently split amongst 11 to 14 mutual funds and investment managers. Longard said that an argument against divestment has previously been that “Since we are only giving each investment manager a portion of the endowment for a specific mutual fund, we are not giving each investment manager enough money to specify asks.”

Longard suggested that the University, while they are already facing restructuring as they enter financial crisis mode in response

to dropping enrolment, could “switch to a centralized investment manager. By doing this you would be able to negotiate a cheaper per cent to have the money managed and you would be able to acquire a more sophisticated portfolio that operates at the institutional level with the diversification you so highly emphasize in the endowment policy.”

Longard also mentioned that Divest had spoken with some investment managers about investment profiles with ethical mandates for this meeting.

Longard closed her pitch with the final potential benefit for the University: “Divesting would give you something to market, something to be proud of. You would be a public institution with complex fiduciary duty that is not just scraping by but is standing up for social and moral ideals.” Longard noted that this reputation could also increase enrolment.

Divest member Adrian Kiva then addressed Boudreau specifically, saying, “We’re here today because we inherited a mess from the people who came before us, in terms of the climate of this planet, and we are trying do what we can to mitigate and fix that. In some ways, you are here today because you inherited a bit of a mess from [past University presidents] who didn’t divest. We know that climate change is not going to go away – neither is Divest MTA.” In response to their presentation, Boudreau thanked the students for their engagement, saying “I think this stands well for the education we’re providing you.”

“I thank you for multiple years of engagement on this issue,” said Boudreau. “The University has also taken a lot of action, a lot of steps in recent years and I think it’s really important for me to say thank you to you for drawing our attention to a number of really important issues which this University has taken action on.… I think it’s important to acknowledge that your engagement has led to action on the part of the University. I don’t know if that’s been made clear before, so I wanted to make it clear today.”

After the meeting, Longard verified that this was the first time Divest’s influence on the University’s engagement with sustainability had been acknowledged and certainly the first time that they had been thanked.

To speak directly to the issue of divestment, Boudreau turned to Ron Outerbridge, the chair of the Board of Regents, saying, “This is ultimately about a governance issue right.… We have a board chair who is responsible for the governance of the board, just to segue.” At this point, Divest member Amelia MacDougallFleming interjected to clarify the group’s action items.

Divest’s action items for the University were as follows: They asked that Boudreau take a public stance on Divest MTA by the last day of classes

PRESIDENT BOUDREAU THANKED DIVEST MTA FOR “MULTIPLE YEARS OF ENGAGEMENT” AND FOR DRAWING THE UNIVERSITY’S ATTENTION TO “A NUMBER OF REALLY IMPORTANT ISSUES.” LOUIS SOBOL/ARGOSY this semester; that the investment committee put divestment on the agenda at the next investment committee meeting; that Divest MTA be allowed to give a presentation and to present a reconsidered stance on Divest to the Board of Regents at the open meeting in February; and that the board of regents commit to completely divesting from the top 200 publicly-traded fossil fuel companies within five years of their original commitment.

Outerbridge responded to the presentation, emphasizing that divestment is only one of many ways to address climate change, echoing an earlier statement from Boudreau where he referenced individual “behavioural changes” as something we can all do in response to climate change. Later in the meeting, Robert Inglis, the vice president finance and administration, also voiced his concern about necessary behavioural changes.

In response to the action items, Outerbridge said, “I think in the past putting an option in front and looking for immediate reaction is, for us, difficult because we have to go through a process and get the whole board involved with it as well, so my commitment after this meeting is … it will be brought up on the agenda at the next board meeting.”

Dan Nowlan, the investment committee chair, said that he and the committee agreed to fulfill Divest’s request to present at the

next investment committee meeting on Dec. 5. After the meeting, Longard noted that this was the first acknowledgement of the email Divest had sent the investment committee earlier in the semester with that request.

After several more comments from the administration about working on smaller projects in collaboration with Divest to make the University community more sustainable, Divest member Catherine Turnbull said, “All of us are very aware that there are many different ways to tackle the climate crisis and the reason that we’re here with Divest … is because we think this is a viable way for institutions to do something that individuals can’t do alone.”

Outerbridge said that he did not know how corporations would respond to divestment or if divestment was the best way to tackle climate change. “I know climate change is caused by emission and I wonder – even from a divest group we focus on production versus other industries that are maybe larger polluters – what’s the best way to attack this change,” Outerbridge said.

Inglis then asked the students whether they see divestment as the solution because of the “political response” or because they believe it will change the corporations.

Turnbull said both. “We know that divestment works to take the social license away from large industries or regimes.… It is a political and

social movement, but it is also a very tangible financial one. That’s what we saw with apartheid; that’s what we saw with the tobacco industry.”

Longard asked the administration if they had a response to her earlier proposal of transitioning to a centralized investment manager.

Inglis and Nowlan did not commit to any changes but Inglis noted his appreciation for the suggestions and ideas because he said it was the first time he had seen that.

Turnbull said that, while this may have been the first time that Divest had suggested this particular financial pathway, it was “frustrating that the students have to spend our time doing that when I think in fact it should be the job of the investment committee to look into options.… If we can make this the business of our next meeting with the investment committee that would be great.”

Longard closed the meeting by reiterating the group’s action items and reminding the University that Divest is coming to them because they believe that “It is not entirely on our generation to make these changes; we want institutions supporting us.”

Disclaimer: Catherine Turnbull and Amelia MacDougall-Fleming are currently employed by the Argosy.

Views expressed in this article are their own, and do not reflect the position of the Argosy.

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INDIGENOUS

What Canada needs is conciliation, not reconciliation Jesse Wente discusses the future relationship between Canada and its Indigenous peoples LAURA SKINNER News Reporter “If we truly want [conciliation] to succeed, keep in mind that we’re not doing this just for us. We don’t plant the tree expecting to enjoy the shade; we plant it so that others who you will never meet can enjoy the shade,” said Jesse Wente, an Indigenous activist and broadcaster for the CBC. On Nov. 19, Wente gave a talk on looking towards the future of Canada by going beyond reconciliation.

Wente was invited to speak at Mount Allison for the President’s Speakers Series.

The Crabtree auditorium was packed with people, many of whom were unable to find seats.

Wente discussed Canada’s need for conciliation, the importance of honouring the treaties, and not being afraid to give sovereignty back to Indigenous peoples.

Wente made it clear he was not going to talk about reconciliation. He also stated that the talk was not about moving on from the past. “This is not a lecture about Indigenous peoples ‘getting over it,’ as if centuries of ongoing colonialism can be reduced to a subject pronoun,” he said. “There can be a sense that looking to the future means moving beyond the past, but as you will see I believe you must truly understand the past in order to actually map a future.”

“One of my challenges with the word ‘reconciliation,’ just as a word, is that it suggests we’re repairing a oncefunctioning relationship. I’m not sure that’s what we’re really doing. I would suggest that we’ve never really had a functioning relationship so what we

need is conciliation, the building of that functioning relationship, not repairing what was there,” Wente said.

Sandy MacIver, director of the Jon Royce Centre for Business Studies and chair of the President’s Speaker Series, agreed with Wente’s point on the importance of relationships.

“Relationships are so fundamental to what we can learn from our Indigenous people,” he said.

Wente said that modern day treaties exist because Canada exists, but this was not true of the treaties made between Indigenous peoples and colonists. “These were our ancestors imagining what this place could look like, imagining what our relationship should be before Canada became a thing and got in the way of these relationships.… If we look to the spirit of those agreements … we see a very different portrait of a Canadian future than the one of the present we now live in,” he said.

Wente acknowledged that these treaties have never been honoured.

“The only ways [the treaties] are upheld is through Indigenous resistance.… It requires physical resistance to enforce treaty rights. If you think about that, does Canada require that of any other nations it enters into treaties with now? In order for us to keep up our end of the bargain that they must physically resist us? No, we do not; that’s how wars start,” he said.

Wente went on to discuss giving sovereignty back to Indigenous peoples. “I think that the uncomfortableness in these discussions is that discussing Indigenous sovereignty inherently

undermines Canadian sovereignty.…

[But] it actually reaffirms what the true identity of Canada would be if we had lived up to [these treaties],” he said.

Wente urged the audience not to be afraid of the possibility of change.

“Canada is very young and thus, because it’s still a baby, there’s ample time for it for mature, for us to guide it as it begins to take its first steps, as it begins to walk and gets prepared to run, and we shouldn’t be afraid of this. Were our ancestors afraid to sign these agreements? They weren’t.

Are we any less than they were? We are not, we are humans just like them. Humans, hopefully, with just a little bit more knowledge about what has happened so that we can make different choices as we move forward,” he said.

At the end of the talk, audience members were able to ask Wente questions. A faculty member asked him what he thinks Canada will look like if conciliation takes place.

Wente said that what Canada is truly reconciling is that people suffered. “People are still suffering so that others may be comfortable, so that others can speak their native language on lands where it is foreign.… Children suffered and died so that Canada could be. And children are still suffering and still dying so that Canada can remain,” he said.

“Comfort is an incredible thing and Canadians love comfort. There’s nothing better than a La-Z-Boy and a Tim Hortons Double-Double while watching the hockey game on the television. I appreciate it, I love all those things too, but what I also

WENTE IS A CBC BROADCASTER AND INDIGENOUS ACTIVIST. NSB.COM/SUBMITTED say to Canadians is that I also live in discomfort every single day. I think all First Nations and Indigenous people across Canada live in discomfort every day. That’s why we don’t need reconciliation – we’re already experts at it,” Wente said.

“I think if we had done this 150 years ago Canada doesn’t look anything like it does now, and if we do this work for 150 years it won’t look anything like this either,” Wente added.

Charlotte Roberts, a first-year international relations student, said she agreed with Wente’s vision for Canada’s future. “I think [the future] definitely comes with a lot more respect and that will come with time,” she said. “I think it comes with giving some power back to the people who were here before us.… Decisions

about Indigenous people and the way they live their lives shouldn’t be decided by people other than them. I think that that’s what we’ll see in the future.”

Roberts also said she was pleased by how many people attended the talk. “I think that shows something – not necessarily great progress, but it shows that people care,” she said.

Wente mentioned that he has travelled across Canada over the past two years giving similar speeches.

“What I hear from Canadians most often is, ‘I didn’t know about the residential schools. I didn’t know about the smallpox blankets. I didn’t know, I didn’t know,’ and of course, the truth is they didn’t want you to know and that’s why you don’t know.

But ignorance is only an excuse once and Canada has had its once,” he said.

EVENTS

Connection topic of interdisciplinary conversation Jesse Wente discusses the future relationship between Canada and its Indigenous peoples

POLITICS, SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE LANGUAGE OF MATHEMATICS WERE ALL TOPICS OF DISCUSSION. ASHLI GREEN/ARGOSY

AMELIA MACDOUGAL-FLEMING News Reporter This month’s interdisciplinary conversation was focused on the topic of connection. The featured speakers were Carolle de Ste-Croix, Geoff Cruttwell and Hudson Biko. They each spoke for 10 minutes in front of an audience of students, staff and community members, followed by a

conversation between the speakers and the audience.

The first speaker was Carolle de Ste-Croix, the coordinator for the alumni office. Ste-Croix spoke on the topic of intergenerational connection, and told a story from her childhood to illustrate its importance.

She described how when she was young she moved to an Anglophone neighbourhood and formed a

connection with an English woman who lived on her street. Later in her life, she used this connection to her advantage in politics, Ste-Croix said.

Drawing from this story, Ste-Croix spoke about how making connections has always been important to her. “Throughout my life, I have connected with people,” she said. “I have always made sure that I’m in some way reflecting who they were

so that I would be accepted.” She then explained how her talent of making connections has been useful in her role in the alumni office. “Generation connections are one of our greatest challenges, but the funnest part of our job,” said Ste-Croix.

Next, Hudson Biko, the Mt. A social media coordinator and thirdyear PPE student, spoke about blurring the lines between offline and online. Biko discussed the different ways that social media can bring people together or isolate them. He said that social media is often thought about in terms of connection and consumption: “We consume our experiences and we consume the experiences of other people.”

Biko also mentioned that social media has influenced how people interact in person. “When I’m here speaking in front of you and I can pull out my selfie stick, or when we’re with friends, or when we’re with family and we pull out that [phone] camera, are we connecting to share, or are we sharing to connect?” he said.

The final speaker was Dr. Geoff

Cruttwell, a math and computer science professor.

Cruttwell spoke about how mathematicians appropriate words to make theoretical connections. Cruttwell explained that in math, technical concepts are assigned English words to keep them organized: “It’s kind of hard to keep definitions and all of these ideas in our heads, so I think to help with this what people have done over time is assign specific English words to these mathematical concepts.”

Cruttwell finished by saying that this concept adds a creative side to mathematics, as people are able to assign their own words to concepts they invent. “When you focus on a concept which has some highly technical meaning, you want to find some kind of English word to sort of match it up to, and this is not an obvious, easy process,” he said.

The next interdisciplinary conversation will also centre around the topic of connection and will take place on Jan. 24 in the Owens Art Gallery.

BEN MAKSYM AND ALIX MAIN NOVEMBER 29, 2018 | ARGOSY@MTA.CA

POSTGRADUATE

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Heard through the grad school grapevine Music students applying to graduate schools juggle finals on top of everything else

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MAGGIE PITMAN Arts & Culture Reporter As this semester comes to a close, the student population’s stress levels rise with the impending deadlines of final exams. Christmas break seems like an unlikely dream in the far-off distance that will never come. On top of this end-of-semester stress, students in their final year have the added bonus of preparing for their future endeavours, whether they plan on going to graduate school or trying to find a job. This is, of course, true for students in all departments.

However, as application deadlines quickly approach, music students in particular are hard at work, on both their online applications and their audition repertoire.

Emily Steers, a fourth-year music student, was blown away by how much actually goes into an application for grad school. “It’s really very thorough,” said Steers. “They’re looking into every aspect of my competencies: pre-auditions, samples of academic writing, statements, reference letters, et cetera. They’re looking for the whole picture of who I am.”

Music students who are intending to pursue careers in performance must prepare auditions on top of everything else that is required for grad school programs. An added challenge with this is that many schools require different repertoires for their auditions. This leaves many students feeling hopeless while trying to polish off as many as six to eight

pieces for each school. Of course, this is on top of schoolwork and music for their current classes.

Starting early enough seems to be the thing that people struggle with the most. Procrastination is already a tendency for most students and it doesn’t stop with school assignments.

Because students have a lot of work to do earlier in the semester, these applications might fall by the wayside.

Music and psychology student Kaye Klapman knows very well that starting early is incredibly important.

Along with starting early, Klapman has created a list of other tips for music students, and even for students in other departments, who are planning to attend grad school. “The process is inaccessible because it’s very expensive. If that’s a challenge, be

very selective,” she said. Additionally, Klapman encourages students to visit the campuses that they’re interested in and contact the profs to arrange meetings, although both of these tips come with some financial constraints.

Students can be deterred from applying to grad school as it is a particularly costly thing to do.

Applying alone can be over $100.

There are also travel costs that should be factored in. Students pursuing degrees in performance may want to visit the school’s campus and take lessons from professors to see if that school will be a good match.

This is quite expensive too, as many professors at graduate schools charge over $100 for a single lesson.

On top of these expenses, students who are pursuing different careers

might find themselves having to take standardized tests like the Graduate Record Examination (GRE). This is particularly important if students are planning to attend school in the States. Some music students might even find themselves interested in taking the LSAT or the MCAT. These tests can cost over $500 excluding textbooks and preparatory courses.

Klapman is in her final semester of study at Mt. A, and compares the process of applying to graduate school with the workload of a parttime job. It will be time consuming and annoying to endure but she assures grad school applicants that it will be worth it, and concludes with the wisdom, “Take breaks and eat chocolate.”

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06 ARTS & CULTURE Thunder & Lightning gets rocked with 60s-infused concert

NOVEMBER 29, 2018 | ARGOSY@MTA.CA

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A fantastic local venue with a casual atmosphere hosts double bill of musical guests definitely hadn’t seen high school in a while. The normal Thunder and Lightning crowd, in other words.

Everyone fit nicely into the small, well-furnished, eccentrically decorated space – including the band, who set up in a corner. When the crowd got to its peak, the space bordered on tightly packed, but luckily navigating through the crowd remained easy throughout the night.

The whole event felt less like a rock concert and more like a speakeasy – not to trash rock shows, but they can definitely get grungy and chaotic.

An unspoken code to respect everyone’s space kept the night from getting out of hand. People mostly stood, or sat, pleasantly bopping their heads to the music.

When things did get chaotic, they did so in a careful, measured way, which kept comfort to the max.

The show was a double bill, with Carinae, the self-described psychedelic rock band from Hadley, Mass., starting the night. Their music felt as though it had be torn directly from the soul of Woodstock, with hippie vibes through and through.

I had a chance to talk with a band member after the show and found that this was a conscious inspiration.

They wanted to take the vibe of traditional psychedelic rock and compress the songs, creating a more

concise sound, given that psychedelic rock musicians typically favour long, languid, imprecise musicality. Their album Eta is available on Spotify, and a new album will be released in February.

The second band, Walrus, hailed from Halifax. Their music was slightly more mainstream than Carinae, channeling Bowie with an indie twist. Their discography contains songs that’ll make you thrash, or even approach moshing territory, while other songs will keep you pleasantly swaying back and forth. The intimacy of the venue really permitted the crowd and performers to be in sync with one another, meeting each other’s eyes and matching energies. You can find Walrus on Bandcamp.

After the concert, a DJ took over and began spinning tracks, transforming the concert space into a dance floor. Those who had extra energy now had free reign to spin and swing as much as they wanted to. Slowly, the crowd began to trickle away and soon enough, I imagine, the bar was closed for the night. The space that had been a venue for music slipped back into being a bar – for the time being, anyway. There’ll be another concert soon enough, and Carinae and Walrus will be back, too.

Venues where performers and entire audiences can lock eyes are few and far between – and worth holding onto.

“THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT MAKING

THINGS LIFESIZE THAT MAKES IT

CONFRONTATIONAL.”

CARINAE’S MELLOW PERFORMANCE CALLED BACK TO AN ERA OF PSYCH-ROCK. DEREK SHARP/ARGOSY

DEREK SHARP Arts & Culture Reporter It’s 1 a.m. The show is over. I’m walking through Sackville’s bitter cold to my apartment. I’ll probably just fall into bed and wake up the next morning with a concert hangover.

I enjoyed the music – I definitely did – but I can’t help but wonder

how much the venue contributed to the weird sense of nostalgia I already feel forming for a performance I just attended out of obligation.

This was my first concert at Thunder and Lightning. It was an undeniably intimate experience and, frankly, I never would’ve expected the bar to double as a music venue so well. But it does, and excellently.

All the typical Thunder and Lightning eccentricities were there.

The space didn’t change into a concert hall – what was available was just repurposed. The eclectic taxidermy collection hadn’t moved, and the strings of Christmas lights still gave the room a yellow glow.

The crowd was a mix of ages; a few looked like children, and a few

The 25th anniversary edition of 7 Mondays Journal is now accepting submissions!

7 Mondays is an annual journal for creative works by Mount Allison students. To learn more, check out our Facebook page or pick up last year’s journal at the library entrance!

Submit all written work (poetry, creative nonfiction, short stories, et cetera) to 7mondays@gmail.com in a Word document. Format the pieces as you want them to appear in the journal and make clear distinctions between pieces if you submit multiple. Please include a short one-line biography with your submission.

7 Mondays is now accepting fine art submissions of any kind (mixed media, textiles, line drawings, et cetera)!

Submissions should be submitted to the fine arts department office in the PCCA in the form of scans or photographs (if not hard copies, must be on disks or flash drives using 300 DPI .tiff format, 5X7). Again, please include a short one-line biography with your submission.

Submission deadline is Jan. 14, 2019.

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Picture maker, not picture taker

Artist talk prompts discussion about queerness and body image at Owens Art Gllery JULIANNA RUTLEDGE Arts & Culture Reporter

Prolific Canadian artist Evergon discussed themes of queerness, body image, gender and aging in his career of photography at the Owens Art Gallery last week. An engaging speaker, Evergon studied visual arts at Mount Allison before pursuing graduate studies at Rochester Institute of Technology and has since had a successful career in photography.

Although Evergon has used different cameras, a great deal of the work he showed to the crowd was taken with polaroids. “I became a Polaroid baby,” he explained. “I was really hooked on Polaroid. I loved the smell, I loved the addiction of instant imaging. It was just something about it that was so akin to painting or drawing.” He went on to describe his process as “building images.” Several of his projects have involved making small changes to the set up or using other tools to edit the pictures after they’ve been developed.

Evergon recounted the length of his career, starting with small size

polaroids and his eventual use of a larger stationary instant camera.

“It’s one of the things that gives the work power,” he said on his choice to display many of his works as life-size.

“When you’ve got something life-size, people can’t back up.

There’s something about making things life-size that makes it confrontational.”

His career has been marked by close collaborations with other artists as well as with the models in his work. Evergon explained how his photography is an exchange between himself and others, where he and his models work just as hard for the image they’re creating.

“Everyone [would] play in front of the cameras and so it’s always been collaborative,” said Evergon. “I’ve always thought of the camera as the seducer [and] I couldn’t make those [images] without my friends.”

Among a room full of art students sketching and taking notes in their sketchbooks, Izzy Francolini, a

recently graduated fine arts student, appreciated the opportunity to hear from a queer artist. “I really liked what he said at the end about how he was not going to allow the queerness or the gayness to be erased from history. I think that’s really powerful,” Francolini said. “Just very personal, very interesting, very different from some of the stuff you see.”

“THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT MAKING

THINGS LIFESIZE THAT MAKES IT

Chris Boyne, a photography lecturer in the arts department, has known Evergon for over a decade and assisted in setting up the talk at the Owens. “[Evergon] is always a generous person, especially when it comes to promoting and championing the work of young emerging artists and students,” Boyne explained. “I believe [his talk] was invaluable to the students.”

CONFRONTATIONAL.”

“I’M CONSTANTLY MAKING IMAGES, I’M NOT JUST DOCUMENTING AREAS,” SAID EVERGON ON HIS PHOTOGRAPHY AS HE SHOWED SOME OF HIS WORK TO THE AUDIENCE. GILLIAN HILL/ARGOSY

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Moonlight Mad Moonlight Madness is an annual event held by the Town of Sackville to support local businesses and kick off the Christmas season. Discounts are offered until late in the evening, local vendors set up outdoor booths, wagon rides are offered, and Santa Claus himself makes an appearance.

Residents should look forward to part two of this event on Friday, December 7.

dness in Sackville Mt. A International Center hosts annual World Bazaar during Moonlight Madness Dishes from cuisines around the world were prepared by Mount Allison’s international students MAISAA AL TAMKI News Reporter On Nov. 23, Mount Allison’s International Centre organized the annual World Bazaar, held at the United Church during the town of Sackville’s Moonlight Madness event.

In preparation for the World Bazaar, international students prepared dishes from their home countries. Mt. A students and Sackville locals came out to sample the food offered.

The World Bazaar, previously called the International Market, has been held since 2003.

The Bazaar housed tables with food like tabbouleh, chicken and potato stew, stuffed grape leaves, Japanese potato cakes and bruschetta from different countries such as Italy, China, Japan, Syria, Lebanon and Vietnam.

Christa Maston, the international student advisor, said, “The event provides an opportunity for international students to share their culture through food, not only with their student peers but also with the wider Sackville community.”

Maston explained that the event is held during Moonlight Madness to encourage that community engagement.

Sakurako Goto, a fourth-year international relations student,

Photos on left by Gill Hill Photos on right by Pengyi Huang

attended the World Bazaar on behalf of Mosaic. “As students, we wanted to introduce food from international cuisines to the local community here in Sackville,” Goto said.

The Bazaar was attended by at least a hundred visitors, some of whom brought their children and families.

Visitors tasted the food and spoke with the student vendors about the names of the dishes and how they were prepared.

“I received so many positive comments from those who attended,” said Maston. “Everyone was super impressed by the students’ culinary skills.”

Visitors bought tickets from international students at the entrance of the church and used the tickets to pay for the food. Profits made from the event went back to the student chefs.

Katrine Macfarlane, a Sackville resident, attended the bazaar with her family. “We used to live overseas and we traveled a lot, and now we live here in Sackville. We wanted to bring our kids and give them every opportunity we can to try the food.

We used to live in Oman, in the Middle East, and today I had the opportunity to try one of the Middle Eastern dishes – stuffed grape leaves,” Macfarlane said. “We can’t afford to travel – but we can afford to eat.”

“We can’t afford to travel, but we can afford to eat.”

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BARKER

Nothing says ‘I love you’ like some good old-fashioned DIY Students share their ideas on how to personalize your gift-giving experience this holiday season

Service of Lessons and Carols at the Mount Allison University Chapel, December 2 Once again, Christmas preparations begin with the Mount Allison University Chapel Advent service. The observance of the season, in many places, starts with a service of traditional scripture lessons and carols. This year, the Lessons and Carols service at the Chapel will take place at 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 2.

This afternoon service features the singing of the Elliott Chorale, a chamber choir directed by Dr. Gayle h. Martin, associate professor of music at Mount Allison. Dr. Martin is the university organist and teacher of organ performance and conducting; she is also director of the music department choral ensembles.

The service will focus on the traditional Advent lessons, which tell the good news of Christmas in the promises of the prophets and the announcements of the angels, as well as the familiar narratives from the gospels of Luke and Matthew telling of Jesus’ birth and the visits made by shepherds and wise men.

The featured choral music is a Magnificat, in a setting by Canadian composer Imant Raminsh. Familiar congregational carols will also be sung.

The service open to everyone, and the University community and public are invited to come and share in all the joy and wonder of the celebrations of the season in the Chapel. As has become tradition, donations for the local food bank are welcomed at the entrance to the Chapel. For additional information, contact the chaplain’s office at 506-364-2227 or chapel@mta.ca, or the department of music at 506-364-2374 or music@mta.ca.

JANE REMPEL Arts & Culture Reporter Being thrust into the craze of the holiday season can be overwhelming for students after coming out of a long exam-period hibernation, especially when navigating the tedious waters of gift-giving. Students may also feel reluctant at the thought of falling victim to the consumerist traps of the holidays, particularly when needing to be extra budget-conscious. Whatever the case, it is an uphill battle to find the perfect gift for someone that is personal, yet practical and realistic for the giver. I sought out some of Mt. A’s crafty students for do-it-yourself gift inspiration to get those warm and fuzzy holiday vibes flowing.

Last year, English student Abigail Spicer painted watercolour paintings for her family members. “I am not

a perfect artist, but they all seemed to love them and still put them on display in their homes,” she said.

“I believe that there is a more sentimental value in homemade or DIY gifts, rather than conventional store-bought presents,” Spicer said.

“However I don’t think this means that if you’re not crafty or you don’t have the time to dedicate to making hand-crafted gifts that your purchased gifts are any less special.”

For gift ideas that are under $20, Spicer suggested a hand-painted tree ornament, a “bookmark with a painted or drawn design or quote or saying,” or a personalized notebook or diary.

Kawama Kasutu, a second-year sociology student, also provided some thoughtful gift-giving ideas. “I like giving gifts that remind the person of a good moment or memory we

MADELEINE HANSEN/ARGOSY have shared.… Even a card telling the story, or a picture that is printed and decorated… It means a lot to get something with a bit of sentiment behind it,” Kasutu said.

Adam Firminger, a former Mt. A student, shared one of his unique gift ideas: “Last year I made a tree out of steel wire for my sister,” he said.

“If it’s purchased, it is something anybody could get you,” Firminger said on the value of choosing to explore DIY projects this holiday. “If you make something instead, it is one of a kind gift!”

So, there you have it. A few simple DIY ideas to have at the back of your mind as we approach the month of December. Spread the love, not the wealth. Unless, of course, you got a little too excited on Black Friday and threw all caution to the wind. I see you, and I forgive you.

Mount Allison Chamber Orchestra Performs Two Symphonies and a Concerto, Dec 1st Saturday, Dec. 1 at 7:30 p.m. in Brunton Auditorium, the 40-piece Mount Allison Chamber Orchestra will present symphonies by Joseph Haydn and William Boyce, along with Concerto for Four Violins by Antonio Vivaldi. Soloists for the concerto are Sannu Lawt, Vasi Vangjeli, Ian Richardson and Annabelle Kilham.

The Haydn Symphony No. 100, “The Military” – one of the composer’s 12 London Symphonies – includes novel use of percussion and trumpets; the Boyce symphonies are known for tuneful melodies and dance-like rhythms. Also on the program is music by Albinoni with woodwind soloists Lucie Bauby, Margaret Hancox and Keith Nicholson.

The Mount Allison Chamber Orchestra, directed by Gregory Burton, features top instrumental students from the department of music, as well as excellent musicians from across the University and the greater Sackville community. The concert is open to all and free of charge.

For additional information, call 506-364-2374 or e-mail music@mta.ca. To view the full schedule of music department events, visit www.mta.ca/music.

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The Canadian government’s climate policies are not enough ANDREW LINTON Contributor In the months following the release of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) special report, we observed a renewed sense of urgency and increased media attention around climate change and its impacts. The report highlighted the drastic projected effects of global warming of 1.5 degrees C above pre-industrial levels, the target set by the 2015 Paris Agreement. It also revealed a discrepancy between this target and the projected outcomes of existing national climate policies, which lay a pathway to devastating global warming of over 3 degrees C by 2100.

Three Canadian MPs recognized these findings as a call to action and demanded an emergency climate debate, which took place in the House of Commons on Oct. 15. During the debate, Elizabeth May, Green Party MP for Saanich-Gulf Islands, spoke passionately on the issue, saying, “We must go to the next climate negotiations as leaders in the world, with the target the scientists told us we must have, and then we must stand up and challenge the others.

Where’s your target? Where’s your goal? Because we are not prepared to tell our children we are a failed species.”

Through the urgency in her words, May delivered a message of hope: that it’s not yet too late. The session concluded with consensus that the Canadian government needs to do more, and yet it remained unclear how this was to be achieved. The Canadian government has pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 30 per cent from 2005 levels by 2030, but these targets will not allow Canada to meet the guidelines outlined in the IPCC report, which call for 45 per cent reductions by

2030.

In a Facebook Live conversation, Environment Minister Catherine McKenna reflected on the IPCC climate report with reference to context of a dangerous and fatal summer heat wave in central Canada, along with destructive forest fires in British Columbia.

“We are the first generation to feel the impacts of climate change and we are the last generation [who can] do anything about it,” she said.

Despite acknowledging the urgency and necessity of re-evaluating of the issue, McKenna said she plans to maintain implementation of the existing climate plan and delay more ambitious targets until these initial goals have been realized.

The Paris Equity Check project recently published a study analyzing the extent to which individual countries’ climate pledges align with the 2015 Paris agreement threshold of 1.5 to 2 degrees C of warming.

The scientifically peer-reviewed assessments carried out through the project found that Canada’s current greenhouse gas emission reduction targets, if adopted by all countries, would result in a catastrophic 5.1 degrees of warming by 2100.

The study also evaluated notions of equity, assessing each nation’s ambition to achieve fairness through their national climate pledges. Results revealed that the climate targets of many developed nations, including Canada, implicitly align with an unjust approach to effort-sharing, lacking consideration of historical contributions to climate change and the capacity of developing nations to engage in mitigation. It seems that without stronger climate targets, Canada will not be able to uphold its commitment to ensuring a just global transition away from fossil fuels, and toward a habitable future.

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STRESS

SHARE

The ins and outs of stress

16 Days of Activism to End Gender-Based Violence

JILLANE BURYN SHARE Intern

AS EXAM SEASON APPROACHES, MANY MOUNT ALLISON STUDENTS SUCCUMB TO THE STRESS ASSOCIATED WITH FINAL PAPERS AND OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES. LOUIS SOBOL/THE ARGOSY Remember to take time for self-care. eyes closed, with a hand on your HUNTER STEPHENS

Take the time to pause from studying stomach. Slowly inhale through your Contributor and enjoy activities that keep you nose, feeling the breath start in your from dwelling on academic pressures. abdomen and work its way to the Stress is a normal reaction to everyday This can significantly decrease your top of your head. Reverse the process academic and social demands, and is a stress levels. Maintaining a balance as you exhale through your mouth. very natural part of life. A reasonable between school and “REMEMBER TO TAKE TIME Repeat. You can also amount of stress can even have and making sure find helpful guided positive side effects. For example, if your basic needs FOR SELF-CARE. TAKE TIME TO videos for deep you have a big paper due or bills to are met are key breathing exercises pay, stress might be the factor that parts of coping with PAUSE FROM STUDYING AND on Youtube. pushes you to tackle those daily goals, stress. This includes Mount Allison according to the Canadian Mental getting enough ENJOY ACTIVITIES THAT KEEP provides many Health Association (CMHA). On the sleep, eating healthy services dedicated other hand, experiencing major or meals, exercising, YOU FROM DWELLING ON to helping students chronic stress can be detrimental to and enjoying some achieve a healthy one’s mental health or even trigger an personal down time.

ACADEMIC PRESSURES.” mental well-being. episode of mental illness. As students, So take a break, hang If you need help we constantly face an overwhelming out with friends, go for a walk, watch managing your stress, Mt. A health amount of stress, but this does not an episode of your favourite TV services can help you find long-term mean we cannot manage our stress. show, have a snack or take a nap! solutions.

As exams approach, many students Here is a trick to help you manage Remember, stressed spelled succumb to stress, so here are some and alleviate some of your stress. backwards is desserts! tips to manage it instead.

Take a five-minute break and focus on your breathing. Sit up straight,

The 16 Days of Activism to End Gender-Based Violence began on Nov. 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, and ends on Dec. 10, the International Human Rights Day. These 16 days are a national campaign to recognize the disproportionate violence faced by women and girls, as well as by other populations such as members of the LGBTQ2+ community, Indigenous peoples, people of colour and people with disabilities.

The theme for this year’s campaign is #MYActionsMatter. This theme serves to bring attention to the very real ways in which we as individuals can take action to reduce the violence that vulnerable populations experience. While it is absolutely imperative to consider the ways that we can challenge structures that facilitate gender-based violence, it is also important to think about what we can be doing on an individual level to effect change, and this is what this campaign is asking us to do.

In the year following the #MeToo movement, the importance of taking action within our personal circles has received more public attention than ever before. The #MYActionsMatter campaign challenges us to call out the people around us, question structures and patterns we take for granted, and speak up when we see injustices happening in our everyday lives. If we are committed to ending genderbased violence, we need to hold

ourselves accountable to take action.

The amount of violence that women and other vulnerable communities continue to face should not be normalized, but challenged.

This year for the 16 Days of Activism, SHARE and Mt. A are launching the Family Violence Recovery Project, which is sponsored by a grant from the Fergusson Foundation. This project aims to address the ways that family, sexual, and intimate partner violence continues to affect students. It will launch with a panel discussion featuring representatives from Mt. A and community members on Nov. 26 at 7 p.m. in the Crabtree Auditorium. The 16 Days of Activism will also include a candlelit vigil and memorial on Dec. 6, the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, which commemorates the Montreal Massacre. The vigil is at 5:30 p.m. in the library breezeway, and will be followed by a ceremony at the Owens Gallery at 6 p.m.

It is important to note that our actions matter beyond this campaign.

Let it serve as a reminder that we have to continue to take action to end gender-based violence on both an individual and an institutional level because the current levels of violence – any level of violence – are unacceptable. Speaking out against sexual violence directly when we see it and writing to SHARE@mta.ca to let them know of incidents or concerns are actions that we can take every day.

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WOMEN’S HOCKEY

MTA (H) 41 - MSVU (A) 75

MTA (H) 66 - MSVU (A) 78

DAL AC (H) 0 - MTA (A) 3

MTA (H) 1 - STU (A) 5

ACAA

MSVU St. Thomas Mount Allison Holland UKing’s College UNBSJ Crandall

GP 7 7 7 6 7 6 7

W 7 5 4 3 3 2 2

L 0 2 3 3 4 4 5

PTS 14 10 8 6 6 4 4

ACAA

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GP W 6 7 7 7 7 6 5

6 6 5 4 3 2 0

L 0 1 2 3 4 4 5

PTS 12 12 10 8 6 4 0

ACAA

MSVU Mount Allison Holland UNBSJ UKing’s College St. Thomas DAL AC

GP 9 9 8 8 8 9 8

W 9 7 5 5 3 3 1

L PTS 0 2 3 3 5 6 7

18 14 10 10 6 6 2

AUS

St. Thomas St. FX St. Mary’s UNB UPEI Moncton Dalhousie Mount Allison

GP W 14 14 14 14 13 15 15 13

12 9 8 7 7 6 4 3

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Mounties curling team looking to sweep the competition Despite lack of funding, the women’s curling team is prepared for AUS Championship

EMMA MACMILLAN Sports & Health Reporter

this year, Nix said, “We know that there’s going to be a number of very good teams there, but there won’t be Four years ago, four Mount Allison anyone there we haven’t played before students came together to create the and that we had success against.”

Mounties women’s curling team.

The athletes said they have a lot Last season, the team won the AUS of respect for their coach. “He is championship and ended fourth at very knowledgeable and he will give the U Sports National Championship. us positive affirmations when we Now, the five-woman team is looking are doing well, but he can also be forward to competing at this year’s constructive when we aren’t,” said AUS Championship in February.

Doak, who added that Nix keeps the Sarah Doak, Julia team calm during Hunter, Samantha “WE DON’T WANT TO LOSE, stressful games.

Crook, Molli Hunter, a thirdWard and Lauren AND I THINK PEOPLE ARE year commerce Whiteway have student, said that each been curling EXPECTING US TO DO WELL, there is pressure on for over eight years. the the team to come Their coach Jim Nix AND IF WE DON’T, WE ARE out strong at the has been coaching AUS championship curling for 30 years LETTING DOWN MORE this year: “We don’t and coached his first want to lose, and national-level team PEOPLE THAN JUST US.” I think people are in 1994. This is his expecting us to do fourth year with the Mounties curling well, and if we don’t we are letting team. down more people than just us.”

The team has yet to have an “There is a little added pressure too, official practice, and last year did not because U Sports is in Fredericton so formally practise at all. This is fairly it would be cool to play nationals in typical of a university-level curling our home province, and we are all team, Nix said, because there are no from New Brunswick,” said Doak, set leagues like other sports have. All who has been playing with the of the Mounties are playing on other Mounties since the team was created teams within the Sackville Curling four years ago.

Club, where they have opportunity to Though not practicing together, practice their skills. the girls have been doing a lot of team Going into the AUS championship bonding through their fundraising

MOUNTIES CURLING TEAM HOPES TO PLAY IN THE USPORTS NATIONALS NEXT MARCH WITH JULIA HUNTER (LEFT), SARAH DOAK (MIDDLE), AND SAMANTHA CROOK (RIGHT). MOUNTIE PRIDE/SUBMITTED events. Despite playing in the AUS, the curling team is a club sport and does not receive funding through the university. “That has really been a challenge – that the girls have had to work hard to get to where they are and to get the sport to where it is,” Nix said.

Last year, after the team qualified for nationals, Mt. A did contribute some funding to the team to

assist in the expenses of flying to Alberta. This year, the team must fly to Newfoundland for the AUS championship and the funds to do so must be gathered through fundraising and personal contributions.

Currently, the team is doing a fundraiser they call “Wine Survivor.”

Entry is $10 and a bottle of wine.

All the participants’ names will be entered into a draw and people will

be eliminated when their name is drawn, unless they have purchased an immunity for $5. The final five names win. The last name left will win 50% of the wine. The draw will be held Dec. 5. See the Mount Allison Curling Facebook page for more details.

The AUS Championship is in St. John’s from Feb. 7 to 10, and the U Sports Nationals Championship is in Fredericton from March 19 to 24.

HEALTH

Drinking socially or dependently?

When weekend fun becomes a day-to-day problem for university students

EMILIE COMFORT Health Intern

are in, as well as a variety of other reasons.

Most students, at some point University is a place of new during their time at university, will experiences, both academically and consume alcohol in large volumes. socially. Many students starting Some are more at risk of developing university have little a dependence to no knowledge on alcohol. around alcohol “UNDERSTANDING WHY “Dependence” is consumption. Most the state of needing university cultures YOU ARE DRINKING IS or being reliant may influence upon something or students to drink but IMPORTANT FOR YOUR someone for support it is important that in order to function students, from first OVERALL WELL-BEING.” or survive, according year to upper years, to the World Health be aware of the risks surrounding Organization. When applied to alcohol consumption as well as the alcohol, the term implies a need for reasons behind why they are drinking. repeated doses to feel good.

These reasons can be related to stress, Knowing what factors can put social norms or the environment you you at risk of developing an alcohol

dependence is important. According to the American Addiction Centers, being male, having a close relative with a diagnosis of alcohol dependence, and using tobacco or cannabis products are factors linked to a higher risk of developing a dependence on alcohol.

Understanding the reasons behind your own drinking is important for your overall well-being. Drinking alcohol in a social context is one thing, but finding yourself drinking when under stress or after a bad day might be a warning sign that there is a problem. Helpful coping mechanisms can include listening to music,

exercising, practicing yoga, doing breathing exercises and spending time with family and friends, all of which can have a positive effect on the body. In comparison, alcohol acts as a depressant to the brain and other nerve tissues, meaning that some parts of your brain that normally control judgment and instincts are being suppressed.

Alcohol consumption among university students has been normalized for many years and continues to be part of university culture. The Keep It Social campaign identifies many ways for students to reduce their risks during a night out.

Knowing what’s in your drink, having a plan, looking out for your friends, pacing yourself and setting limits are all things you can do to stay safe.

Overall, during a night out, it is important to pace yourself and not to pressure others into drinking. There is nothing wrong with going out with friend for a night and not consuming alcohol.

You can learn more about the Keep It Social campaign on the Mt. A student wellness web page, or email wellness@mta.ca about support for alcohol dependence and addiction.

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MOVEMBER

Saving Bros one Mo at a time

The unpredicted global awareness movement

and mental health of young men and women,” said Simon Cope, one of the group members. “It’s a really good cause and a great organization.”

In 2017, Movember helped raise $17.2 million in Canada alone. The foundation states this money went toward developments in prostate cancer, testicular cancer, mental health and suicide prevention.

Over the years, Movember has grown into an even bigger movement, supporting all sorts of mental and physical health initiatives. In 2006, the program dug deeper into men’s health issues and created “BeyondBlue,” the national depression and anxiety initiative. From there, the program

MANY MOUNT ALLISON STUDENTS PARTICIPATED IN MOVEMBER THIS YEAR TO RAISE AWARENESS FOR MEN’S HEALTH ISSUES. ADELLE ELWOOD/THE ARGOSY

NATASHA GOSSELIN Contributor Movember has become a world-wide phenomenon aimed at raising money and awareness for men’s health issues, including cancer and mental health. This non-profit movement was created in 2003 by a group of men in Australia. The men decided to “grow a Mo and save a Bro” by bringing back the popular mustache trend to raise awareness for men’s health. The term “Mo Bro” was then coined by this organization, referring to men who grew a moustache for Movember.

According to the official Movember website, there are five rules to follow in order to participate. Rule one states

that, once registered at Movember. and final rule states that each Mo com, each Mo Bro must begin Nov. Bro must conduct himself like a true 1 with a freshlygentleman. shaven face. The “WE DECIDED TO START In the program’s second rule is that first year, they raised each Mo Bro must RAISING FUNDS FOR almost $55,000 for grow and groom a the Prostate Cancer mustache for the MOVEMBER BECAUSE IT’S Foundation of entire month of Australia. In 2006, November.

Rule IMPORTANT TO RAISE the program gained three states that official charity status there cannot be AWARENESS FOR THE within Australia. In beards, goatees or 2014 the program fake mustaches. PHYSICAL AND MENTAL was ranked 72nd The fourth rule is in the top 500 that you must use HEALTH OF YOUNG MEN non-governmental the power of the organizations in mustache to create AND WOMEN.” the world, and conversation and ranked 42nd in raise funds for men’s health. The fifth 2017. The program now has over 20

participating countries, including Canada, the United States, Australia and Germany.

“In the first couple of years, Movember had huge success but we never envisioned we would create this global movement,” said Movember co-founder Adam Garone in a recent interview.

This year, a group of Mount Allison students raised $500 in support of Movember. They appealed to their audience by spreading their funding page through social media platforms like Instagram and accepting donations through a funding page on the Movember website.

“We decided to start raising funds for Movember because it’s important to raise awareness for the physical

“IN 2017, MOVEMBER HELPED RAISE $17.2 MILLION IN CANADA ALONE.” diversified to include women, or “Mo Sistas.” This new movement, called Move for Movember, encouraged women and men alike to get up and “move” to take control of their health.

You can show your support by donating to www.movember.com and helping the fight against men’s health issues.

VOLLEYBALL

Mounties set for approaching winter matches Winning seven of their nine matches, the Mount Allison women’s volleyball team stands in second place in the ACAA league JESSICA FIRMINGER Sports & Health Reporter The Mount Allison women’s volleyball team has had a strong start to their 2018-19 season, successfully winning seven of their nine games.

The Mounties currently stand second place in the Atlantic Collegiate Athletic Association (ACAA) league, with 77.8 per cent of their games resulting in a win. The Mounties are ranked directly under Mount Saint Vincent University, who they look to play twice more in the upcoming winter season.

Rachel Van Gestel, a fourth-year commerce student, has been a major contributor to the Mounties’ success as the team’s captain and power.

“This year’s strengths mainly stem from the team depth, closeness of the team and overall drive to play our best,” Van Gestel said. “The support from all members, be it on the court or on the bench, is making a huge difference for us this year.”

Out of the 16 players on the volleyball team, nine are returning members of last year’s team, while seven are new to the roster. “We have a pretty much even split between competitive rookies and dominant

returning girls,” Van Gestel said.

Brooke Gillespie, a third-year geography student, is playing her third year on the team as a middle.

“We have such a talented, but young, team this year,” Gillespie said. “I see this as a positive, as there is so much room to grow as a team.”

Among the new additions to the team are first-year biology student Jadyn Boyles, first-year science student Sophie Landry and firstyear science student Anna Manuel.

Boyles has been playing as a power and is currently the top leader in the ACAA league for service aces per set.

Landry is ranked second in the league for assists per set, and Manuel is third for hitting percentage.

Emily Burbidge, a fourth-year biology honours student, has been playing on the volleyball team throughout her fours years at Mt. A as a libero and power. “I would for sure say this is the strongest, most skilled team we have had since I began playing here four years ago,” Burbidge said.

The team has demonstrated adaptability this season, using diverse combinations of players to adjust to each game.

“Skills-wise, our bench is very deep

and anyone who is put on the court has the capability to perform at a high level,” Burbidge said. “Everyone contributes in their own way and I feel we are really connecting well with one another.”

“I feel like our team chemistry is better this season in comparison to last year,” Gillespie said, “which has helped create a positive atmosphere that has allowed us to win tough matches that we weren’t able to win

before.”

After their game against Holland College on in Charlottetown, P.E.I., on Nov. 30, the team looks forward to 11 regular season games in the 2019 winter term. Burbidge said that she’s looking forward to “getting a chance to show some of the strong teams that we are a force to be reckoned with.”

Van Gestel said she is also looking forward to the second half of the season. “We’ll be facing a lot of teams

for the second [or] third time, and it will be exciting to face teams gunning to take a win from us,” she said.

With their current record, the team looks optimistically to the rest of the year. “We have the goal of bringing home an ACAA banner this year, and with how we have been playing so far, I believe we have a great chance,” Gillespie said.

MOUNTIES WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL STAND IN SECOND PLACE IN THE ACAA. MOUNTIE PRIDE/SUBMITTED

EDITOR: OLIVIA WIGMORE | NOVEMBER 29, 2018 | ARGOSY@MTA.CA

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Exploring human spirituality for a better world How we can anchor our spirituality in organized religion and beyond

REV. JOHN C. PERKIN Columnist In our secular age, on a secular campus, a university chaplain often hears comments such as “I am not interested in organized religion,” “The church has nothing to offer me,” “My parents are religious but I prefer my own way,” and of course, “I’m not religious but I am spiritual.” At a Canadian university, the withdrawal by young adults from traditional religious practices, mostly from western monotheistic religious traditions, but also including those from those religious traditions are found in the east, is almost certainly no surprise. But even with statistics showing an increase in those identifying themselves as atheists, the larger number of young people still see themselves as holding an openness to

spirituality; they are just unsure about what form or direction that will take.

While many may quibble, I aver that we are naturally spiritual beings; there is a longing within the human consciousness (or unconsciousness) towards the transcendent and the things that ultimately matter. That longing may find expression in a variety of forms – some of them in traditional religions. The fulfilment of that longing is what provides for us a sense of satisfaction, or happiness, in life. Happiness, in this sense, is more than feeling glad, joyful or overwhelmed with good emotions. It is, as the Dalai Lama expresses it, a deep and abiding satisfaction with life.

This is not the superficial satisfaction that can be temporarily obtained through shopping at Walmart, with its ubiquitous smiley face price tags, or eating goldfish crackers, which also

have smiley faces on them, or even through special retreats or Carribean cruises. This is the happiness that emerges from a spiritual awareness and practice, and that finds expression, as Mark Kingwell describes it in his work The Pursuit of Happiness, in “the possession of virtuous character and the performance of virtuous action.”

How can we be spiritual and achieve the level of spirituality that leads us to “virtuous character” and “virtuous action”? While many have become disconnected from or have never found a place in traditional religions, the answer for some is still found in the elements of religious practice, without the organization, structure, hierarchies and obligations. Spirituality can still be nurtured through the living elements of faith traditions that provide an anchoring or a foundation point.

The danger is that spiritualities with no anchor will simply drift along, defining reality as it goes along, and real happiness may never be found other than in a most superficial or hedonistic way.

Those who have a sense of being anchored or based on something will have a starting point, a reference point, a measure to determine their development and on which to base their reality.

Some people will find this anchoring in the sacred and classic texts of faith.

Those who spend their lives reading the Qur’an or Bible or Upanishads or Torah, or reading the writings of great spiritual models find not only inspiration, but also direction.

Some people will find this anchoring in the practice of prayer, worship, meditation, in company with others or alone. For some, this mooring will be more in the community of others who believe than in the beliefs or rites. Others are anchored by a sense of place, and in a holy space find that their spirits are awakened to a greater reality and the possibility of change.

As I walk this campus, while I expect to hear expressions of the ongoing disillusionment of religion, in all its traditional forms, both eastern and western, I also hope to hear more expressions of those who seek true happiness, a sense of satisfaction that comes from striving to grow and develop as people and to make a difference in the world, a true spirituality based on word, on action, on people, or on tradition, that transforms individuals in lasting ways and shapes the world through justice and love. While we nurture our spirituality in a variety of forms, in the chapel and elsewhere, we work towards the common goals of a better world, which I can see through stained glass.

HOW CAN WE BE SPIRITUAL AND ACHIEVE THAT LEVEL OF SPIRITUALITY THAT LEADS US TO “VIRTUOUS CHARACTER” AND “VIRTUOUS ACTION”?

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The challenges of using personal technologies as tools SHEKHAR DEWAN Columnist Tools serve three kinds of purposes: physical (a hammer), social (correspondence, laws) or psychological (alcohol, a book). I am, of course, using the term “tool” rather broadly, to refer to any of the things we have developed to serve certain purposes. Looking at each of these categories, we can see that physical tools are the simplest to use and understand – either you need an axe for something or you don’t. Social tools are more complicated but their use is usually regulated by social rules, so while someone might wish to work all the time, we set working hours as a guideline. However, the last category of personal, psychological tools are the most difficult to use well because each of our situations is unique, and we address our psychological needs

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differently – for example, one person may eat to improve their mood, and another may clean their home.

Although no tool always neatly falls into only one of these categories, I believe that electronic devices are especially difficult to classify. These devices differ from most tools in at least three important respects. Firstly, they serve important psychological purposes as well as professional and social ones.

Secondly, they do so in an indefinite (and increasingly large) number of ways. Finally, they have been rapidly becoming more and more personal and private, making it more difficult for us to collectively find appropriate uses for these devices. For example, someone may value news, and so can spend all their time reading news without running out of it. Another person may want to entertain themselves, and so watch TV shows and play video games all day without running out

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of new content. Another person may work as an “Instagram celebrity,” and so need to be promoting their profile one way or another all the time. These are people with different values who use these technologies in radically different ways, and so it’s difficult to reach a consensus on what the right time is for its use, and what its purpose is.

Another difficulty in finding the sweet spot for the use of these technologies is that they are commercial goods that rely on capturing our attention for as long as possible, no matter what we are attending to. So, in addition to the difficulty in reaching a social consensus on limiting interaction with something that has indefinite possibility, these technologies are designed to egg us on and keep going rather than find a balance.

I said earlier that there is not much commonality in people’s use of electronic technology. This is true

at one level, yet at another, some commonalities are apparent. Our devices trap us all, isolate us, and open us up to an infinite and ever-growing world which we can scarcely hope to navigate or understand. It should hardly be surprising, then, that we have difficulty managing our behavior in the face of this – the situation is almost like if someone brought a child to the world’s biggest candy store and bought her all the candy they could eat for “free” (paid for in attention), encouraging her to try candy based on her entire eating history. And in this electronic candy story, we have no parents or friends, only contacts – contacts who don’t really know what we’re doing, and often lack time and means to find out. Electronic devices are unique and unprecedented kinds of tools. With them, we are caught in a sprawling and endlessly beckoning labyrinth, completely alone and without a guide. It is no wonder we have trouble navigating.

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EDITOR: TRILL WAVES | NOVEMBER 29, 2018 | ARGOSY@MTA.CA

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ACROSS 1. TLC warns against chasing them 11. Given out, as a task 19. Something even Meredith Gray can’t treat 20. People who follow this diet may make “cheese” out of nuts 21. One of the bones that make up a cage 23. Hit this when you just can’t get up yet 24. The quality of independence and self-governance 28. Elementary school class where the teacher wore a whistle 29. Corridor 30. He just wanted a phone 31. Review site 32. Garfield’s frenemy

TRILL WAVES Humour Editor/Alcoholic

hours, therefore I am capable of having 30 drinks on one night out, right? Makes sense to me. Basically, think of the highest number of drinks you’ve had in one go and try to get to that number as fast as humanly possible. You’ll never make it past your record if you pace yourself. This is a sprint, not a marathon! And do NOT drink water. There’s water in your booze so that’s gonna hydrate you real good.

Tip 2. Expect a hookup. As humans we’re motivated by one thing: banging. Everything I do in life is motivated by at least one of the following three things: Professional Experience, Booze and Women.

When you go out on the town, you really want to try to pick up, so make that the end goal for your night. Who wants to have fun with friends? Who even has friends? It’s 2018! Just be an aggressive asshole and, move down the list of your Tinder matches and Facebook friend recommendations as you get continually rejected.

Usually your night’s gonna end with you going home alone trying to fall asleep with the lights on because your room is spinning worse than a poorly

assembled tilt-a-whirl.

Tip 3. Puke in the sink. Your attempt to minimize your nausea by leaving your lights on has failed. Oh god, it’s coming. You aren’t gonna make it to the bathroom but the kitchen sink is just feet away from your bed in your shitty overpriced bachelor apartment. You hurriedly try to move the dirty dishes you’ve neglected for the past two weeks out of the way. Somehow you manage to get most of them out of the danger zone.

You spend the next half hour spilling your guts, knowing full well your nextdoor neighbours can hear you through your building’s criminally thin walls. “At least I got it all in the sink…” you think to yourself. You feel satisfied and much better. Thank god you bought that Pedialyte to help cope with the inevitable hangover.

You wake up five hours later and realize what you’ve done. You hate yourself for the next three days as you try to get the smell out of your apartment. You truly are your own worst enemy.

I hope you guys put these tips to good use! I know I usually follow this method and only hate myself a little bit more than usual the next day! I hope you all enjoy a break from school and seeing the Argosy.

Remember kids, as always, don’t read the Argosy.

-xoxo, Trill <3

:)

Well everyone, this is the last Argosy of the semester. We really did it.

We pushed out a whole semester’s worth of biased, leftist, gotcha journalism, and you all ate it up like the FOOLS you are. Ah, the Argosy, where we don’t publish things unless we can spin them into something controversial. I’m sure my bosses are gonna love that little digression lol.

Anyway, you’re probably expecting some tips on how to get through final papers and exams or whatever, but that’s not gonna happen. There is still lots of partying to do before we all go our separate ways this December.

Now if you’re anything like me, you’ve probably had a wide variety of experiences out on the town in here Sackville. I believe that I’ve learned from my experiences and have figured out the main components that make for a good night out. So here they are: My tips on how to have a good night out.

Tip 1. Don’t pace yourself. On Homecoming I had about 30 drinks over the course of about 19 to 20

33. A mistake, slangily 35. Video game format in which PuttPutt existed 36. Hormone that is implicated in puberty 37. Big complainer 40. Excrement, to a little kid 41. Dichromatic aquatic creature 43. Like the hall monitor for your residence 44. System that creates antibodies 46. Prefix pertaining to the sense of smell 47. Less distance 49. Light-loving insect 50. Grain loved by both horses and people 51. A louse egg 52. Suffix that can be paired with

commune, race, or sex 53. Not together 55. Pulled together, like a bunch of twigs 57. Be quiet!

58. Inventor of the Narnia universe 61. Live agent in bread dishes 63. Use one of these to propel your canoe 65. Ick! 67. This Russian leader was famously “terrible” 69. Food that is decadent 70. ___-L-Y you ain’t got no alibi 71. This is step one if you want to take your shoes off 73. Tangy, milk-like product 75. A Spanish smoulder 77. Ouchie 78. Brand with a Medusa-like character as the logo 79. Math process to find the difference 80. Speedy son of Mr. and Mrs. Incredible 82. “And the”, in French 83. Air circulation aid 84. Strong, passionate, vigorous 87. Type of talk that your prof might show you in class 88. Work of art, especially in music 91. Liberian online domain 92. Common Scandinavian female name 94. Badgal____ (this pop star’s Instagram handle) 95. Consume 96. Droops, likely from lack of water 97. What you choose to eat 98. 1972 musical about a young prince that was revived in 2013

Happy Finals Season Nerds, Trill

DOWN 1. When you _____ _____ a star (famous Disney song) 2. Nova Scotian farming valley 3. What a person uses to make a living 4. An electronic/online questionnaire to assess public opinion 5. Like Hunton, Harper, Bigelow, or Thornton 6. Industry that is legally protected, in accordance with free speech 7. Most commonly needed batteries 8. Not kg’s 9. Middle name of “Phantom of the Opera” creator 10. To cut off 12. The day before 13. Hawaiian souvenir 14 Eleven’s favourite food 15. Civil rights leader that went on hunger strikes to protest Britain 16. Prefix meaning ‘not for’ 17 You might be rushed to one of these if you get into a serious accident 18 Like guacamole, queso, sour cream 22. Member of the psychology faculty that conducts research with rats 25. Tesla founder and eccentric billionaire Musk 26 Unit to measure how fast you might be pedaling 27. Someone who bolsters you and agrees with your ideas, no matter what 34. Type of chemical bonding that involves transfer of electrons 35. A unit of a train 36. How churchgoers refer to a priest 38. To one-up 39. Vigorous assault or attack 42. You’re probably very quick if you

have these kind of reflexes 43. Daughter in “Gilmore Girls” 45. A word or phrase that is hard to say 48. This type of warning may lead to flooding 49. Pa’s partner 54. By the way…

55. What you graduate with if you major in biology 56. Therefore…

59. Mountain with the highest peak in the world 60. Measurement you can use to see if jeans will fit 62. What you’re doing before you pull the trigger 64. Obviously 66. If you’re at the end of these, it means something is very frustrating 68. Popular degree program at Mt. A 72. Someone on Tinder may ask you to send these 74. Send these to your cousin for your birthday instead of mailing them 76. To take over someone’s leadership position 79. Grain sometimes used in milkshakes or beer 81. Ask this to find out the process 83. Arch-rival 85. A small drink 86. Chinese currency 87. How you refer to a person you are with, in France 89. Never-ending number celebrated on March 14th 90. Safety organization based in Illinois 93. Type of program you would take if you were a try-hard in high school

From the Archives: Advice from 1974 13 WAYS TO SOLVE THE ENERGY CRISIS 1. Turn out the lights while making love.

2. Play a pedal steel guitar rather than an electric guitar.

3. Sleep in groups and save the electric blanket.

4. Shower with a friend.

5. Get your dentist to use a manual drill 6. Avoid electric shock therapy 7. Use your fingers instead of your vibrator.

8. Switch off grandpa’s kidney machine.

9. If contemplating suicide, turn gas up to low when sticking head in oven.

10. Form a snowmobile pool.

11. Unplug the computers.

12. Stop playing power politics.

13. Play your LP’s 20 RPM.