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THE BEACON
Volume 65 Issue 4
Wednesday, April 8th 2015
CSA Update Jonathan Schut
be busy all summer planning Welcome Week events and other special functions to take place throughout the 20152016 year. The job of the CSA is to represent the students to the university. With that purpose in mind, please do not hesitate to contact any one of the people named above with any questions or concerns you may have. We would love to hear from you about what you would like to see happening in the next year. I speak on behalf of the entire CSA when I say that we hope you have an amazing summer, and we look forward to seeing you all again in the fall. Pictured above is this year’s CSA who have Allyson Caldwell will be sitting as an Arts Senator, with worked hard to bring you many great events. If you see any Emily Weaver as the Education Senator. Curtis Hoyt is of these people walking around be sure to thank them for going to be representing the Science Department. The liaison their hard work. Hopefully we’ll be able to build on their positions will be filled by Angela Richard in Athletics and success in the new academic year. Sherry Hovey for the Chapel ministry. - Jonathan Schut, 2015-2016 CSA President This team is full of great ideas and enthusiasm about what next year will hold. As this year winds down, things are just getting started for next year’s CSA team. They will The votes are in, and it is with great excitement and anticipation that we can announce the students who you elected to represent you on the CSA for the upcoming academic year. The executive will be made up of the following members: Jonathan Schut – President Micah Knowles – VP External Christie MacPhee – VP Internal Kristen Reay – VP Student Services Jeff Bandy – VP Finance The Senate will be divided into a few different categories with Jasmine Wong, Sabryna Schurman, and Luca Stetson sitting as Social Science Senators.
In This Issue Exam Schedule | pg. 2 An Interview with Dr. Barry Smith | pg. 4 A Note from the Editor | pg. 8
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2015 Exam Schedule (Current as of January 29th 2015)
Date Saturday, April 11th
9:00 am to 12:00 noon CH1023 – MH240 FR1023 – SH252
Monday, April 13th
BI3203 – MH240 CO3613 – SH252 EN4863 – Take Home Due 10:00 am HI1123 (1-7) – Gym HI3223 – SH177 RS3123 - Gym CO/EN3933 – SH177 EN1023 (1-3) – Gym EN1023 (4) – SH177 PH/RS3813 – Take Home Due 10:00 am BI1023 - Gym BU1043 – Take Home Due 10:00 am BU2123 – Gym EN2023 – Gym MU1403 – Take Home Due 10:00 am SO1023 – SH177 BU1243 – SH177 EN3823 – Take Home Due 10:00 am SO4613 – Take Home Due 10:00 am
Tuesday, April 14th
Wednesday, April 15th
Thursday, April 16th
Friday, April 17th
1:30 pm to 4:30 pm BU3123 – Gym CO/LI2023 – Gym EC1023 – SH177 GG1023 – Gym SO2143 – Gym ED3453/PS2223 – SH177 ED/SO3033 - Gym HI3853 - Gym RS1033 - Gym
6:00 pm to 9:00 pm MT1233 (1-2) – Gym RS3853 – MH240
PS1023 – Gym RS3163 – Gym
ED3133 – Gym RS3343 – Gym
BI3123 – MH240 EN3423 - Gym HI3133 – Take Home Due 3:00 pm RS1003 – SH177 (1:30-3:30 pm)
BU3913 – SH177
BI2413 – SH177 HI3623 – Take Home Due 3:00 pm
BU3223 – Gym CO1033 – Gym FR1523 – MH240 HI/SO3943 - Gym
BI2213 – SH177 CO3463 – SH252 ID1623 - Take Home Due 10:00 am SO3753 – Take Home Due 10:00 am
Charger Athletics Nathaniel Burlock
Well it’s been a busy year in regards to a record breaking winter and an equally impressive year for athletic accomplishment. Crandall’s sports program has been fighting hard this year for growth and improvement. This can be seen in the sprouting of our boy’s hockey team who have shown great sportsmanship and compounding interest in the idea of having a more recognizable program in the future. Progress also being seen in our girls’ basketball team whom have shown exponential growth in just one year of recruitment and hard training. As we shut down this year’s festivities and part ways for summer we, the returning student body, can look forward to another great year of athletic entertainment and pride as a Charger fan base. For those who have not had enough chargers action for the year, and who are not losing hair because of exam stress yet, both the girls and the boys indoor soccer teams have game on Sunday April 12th, so go cheer them on! Also a group of vigilante students are looking to have a game of stress relieving2 dodgeball before exams start, so keep your ears open for details. At the end of things, best of luck during exams and as Robert Macdonald always says, “don’t freak out…yet!”
Life in Colburne House Danielle Reimer
We’re coming to the end of the semester again. Which means that everyone’s running out of brain power and you can tell, especially around dorm and the meal hall. Almost everyone is quieter out of sheer exhaustion. Around dorm there’s just sort of a general feeling that most people aren’t actually awake anymore. A lot different from the sort of bouncy, bubbly, it’s-so-nice-to-be-back feeling that was floating around at the beginning of the semester. Mostly everyone just looks like a bunch of zombies. Really stressed zombies. Apparently food intake increases by twenty percent as exams get closer. I imagine the amount of coffee intake increases even more. I’m pretty sure that some people walking around Crandall are hyped up on enough energy drinks to power a good portion of Moncton. Or perhaps they’ll just end up mutating into some sort of comic book superhero or super villain from all of the chemicals that are in those things. On the whole though, people just seem to cut everything out of their lives except eating, sleeping, and schoolwork. And maybe not even much of the first two. Quite a few students just look really disoriented when they emerge from their rooms or the library or wherever they’ve holed up to work. Classes get quieter and quieter and you’ll occasionally see people rushing down hallways with papers in hand, probably less than five minutes before the deadline. Honestly, I’m just surprised I haven’t seen anyone passed out in a chair in the library or somewhere yet. In all seriousness, quite a few people I know of have managed to do insane amounts of schoolwork in an extremely short time and there are probably a lot more that I don’t know about. And, of course, there are those who decide that it’s a really great time to watch the entirety of a new TV show and they still manage to get all of their work done. We applaud you and are also slightly scared of you. But regardless of whether or not you feel like sleeping for fifty years, or how many energy drinks you’ve downed to stay awake, or how much you feel like your brain has turned to mush and is now just sloshing around uselessly in your skull, well done. You’re almost there. And you’ve likely accomplished some pretty insane things over the past month or so. Be proud of yourself.
Crandall Poll Curtis Hoyt Poll Question: Which Crandall professor would you want as your roommate?
1.Keith Bodner 2.Stephen Dempster 3.Sam Reimer What makes the best roommate? Some may say cleanliness, others might say personality or a sense of humor is more important. This being said, there is no ’perfect’ roommate because everyone is different. (Except Zach Paget - he's the perfect roommate). So when asked which professor at Crandall would make the best roommate, it appears that Dr. Keith Bodner is the preferred professor. A close second is Dr. Stephen Dempster, and in third is Dr. Sam Reimer. Even though these were the top three, I think most would agree that Crandall has great professors that would probably all make good roommates. They are the perfect combination of friendly, helpful and considerate – that and they would be there to help you with your late night papers. So, if you don't know how great your professors are, maybe it's time to get to know them and see what would make them a great roommate! 3
An Interview with Dr. Barry Smith Kathy Holmes
Q: What is your middle name? A: Douglas. Q: Where did you grow up? A: In Burlington, Ontario. It’s part of the GTA now, but when I grew up it was just a town. Full of houses…but not much else. Q: What was your childhood dream? A: I didn’t have one. Maybe that’s terrible. But I didn’t have one. Q: How long have you been teaching here? A: It will be 27 years when this term is over. Q: What will you miss the most about Crandall? A: Chapels I guess. Can’t go to chapel in most jobs… Q: What was your strangest experience as a professor here? A: Okay, are you ready for this? It was on the old campus on Salisbury road in my first year here, before you were born. There was a student in January who was…demon possessed. We were in chapel Monday, and a speaker said he had a word from God that someone there was involved in the occult. There was a student who reacted to this and suddenly was no longer there. Like, he wasn’t himself anymore. Students in his dorm didn’t say anything, and they tried to remove these spirits, and they got a few out I guess but it wasn’t working anymore, so they finally told someone at the school. We, some of the professors, went to see him and he was lying on the bed, and these two demons were speaking around him. They called themselves Mormon (did she mean Mammon?) and Missionary. These things kept saying, “take ‘soand-so’ to the hospital—he needs help.” They knew that if he went to the hospital they wouldn’t be exorcised. We went home and I got a call that
night at 11:00 to sit with him for the first shift. The next day, someone who knew what they were doing took him to Brentwood building and exorcised him. He stopped coming but I’ve heard that he’s doing well. No one ever really talked about it after that. Q: If you were a dog, what breed would you be? A: I’ve thought about it, and I would be an Airedale Terrier. It just seems to be a cool dog— it’s not lazy.
Fundraising Initiative
Ed Statham
There aren’t many of you that have September 2015 in mind at this time of the year. Many will be glad to complete their studies for this academic year and enjoy the long summer to revitalize and rejuvenate the body and mind. There is, however, something taking place on the 5th of September at the concert site down the road, AC/DC and other unnamed groups will be taking the stage after 2 years of silence at Magnetic Hill. This will give “Crandall Athletics" an opportunity to raise some funds to support our soccer, basketball, and other sports teams. In 2012, when U2 came to Moncton, our basketball team was hosting an interuniversity tournament, our team got together, and we offered secure parking to the fans and we managed to raise approximately $14,000 towards this tournament; in fact, we had $12,000 in the bank before the first fan showed up. We have a chance to do even better, with student support and guidance the teams could sell water and food, receiving hours for their community practicum. Other ways to help would be sharing the charity event on Facebook and other social media. See your team coach for more details. God bless
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SHALLNOT Who We Are We pledge that: we shallnot withhold, we shallnot compromise, we shallnot surrender. In all that is done the main thrust of vision is that the artist remains true, our hearts pure and that the work that is started can come to its natural fulfillment in us. Shallnot to fulfill the vision as laid out will be a forum and an opportunity for students to express their ideas through all forms of prose and poetry. Works will be edited only through conversation with the artist. Censorship will be based only on brevity and vision. -Austin Reid J.
An Island Everything would be so much easier if I didn’t need people. They say ‘No man is an island.’ But people hurt. You’re always wondering if they’re okay Or if you did something. Or if they hate you. And of course you over-analyse everything because that’s how your brain works. And you’re so afraid they’re going to leave you. Or that they’re not okay. Because all of a sudden, You’ve realised that you’ve fallen into the trap. Because now you care. And your heart would break If all of a sudden they all dug canals And turned you into an island. - Theo
Search for Paradise The time was long that you and I had walked upon the road to find the perfect things in life beyond what this life showed. The path was filled with danger and the obstacles we faced endeavored to destroy us, tempt us from the sacred place. On this path, we would discover secret treasures hid within, And far along our journey our adventure would begin. When we believed we’d reached the land where nothing could be wrong, I reached to take your hand in mine and found that you were gone. - Kathy Holmes
White You lay there still as a windless ocean, as the piercing white light burns at your eyes. "Think!" you tell yourself as you search your memory. "What happened?" All around you there are sounds of busy people frantic in their work, yet you cannot see them. You try to see, yet the light blocks your gaze, demanding your attention. You hear a voice and your heart seems to stop.
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You do not feel pain, or feel fear, yet you feel a sense of absolute bliss. You question what is happening yet in the place of a response you are greeted with a calming smile and an extended hand which seems to radiate pure love. With not but a touch you understand all The light which moments ago had burned at your eyes now led you home, to a place of simple and pure happiness. You reach out a hand and allow yourself to leave your earthly body, basking in the glorious color white. - Kenny Dee
Red It is the passion in your eyes as you stare at the roses on her lips. It is the burning rage inside you as you watch her walk away. Loneliness and shame overtake you as you watch the fierce flames overtake all that holds her memory. As it rises to the sky the smoke fills your lungs staring at a picture of the past and remembrance of the lovely color red. - Kenny Dee
Friend – Analysis Complete it’s so much easier to see people as problems to solve or interesting puzzles with millions of nearly identical solutions and only one that’s actually right it’s much easier to see people as fascinating characters or an interesting plot twist to see them as a separate equation and all you have to do is solve for x
it’s a lot easier to see people as separate from you with no ties to hold you to them and no real similarities to see them as foreign and strange and nothing really to do with you it would be so much easier if you could see people’s problems as a series of incidents and situations and actions and patterns if you could remove yourselves from everyone else’s problems and if the only feeling you felt because of them was a calm and mild interest if you could remove yourself from the equation and break the ties and ropes and see strange creatures or puzzles rather than humans like you - Theo
Heart I wont hide it in a box Id never hid something so precious from the world I wont put it in a cage nothing deserves to be trapped I wont hang it from a chain too dangerous so I shall keep your heart Where it belongs Right next to mine - Catherine Jones
The Cost This the cost, the payment made Water rush the debt paid Over me forceful wash Deep reservoirs loosed and dams broke Grain gleamed and wind tossed Scattered from the promise land. 6
What careful hand, watchful eye Plucks seeds from thorns and birds in sky? Soft crust bare broken Crushed by dozen white horses That now stand still. In mindful pause thoughts Dwell dear. Doing that which mighty ear may hear.
Rain Rain Rain, rain, go away. Or better yet, why don't you stay and cleanse the world I live within? This tempest has returned again. For neither rain that from heaven falls nor winds that blow from east to all are cause of my sorrow today, nor will they help it fade away.
Fingers clenched. This is the cost. Blood spoiled and makes clean Sinner’s sinister souls. Shape takes Shape makes. Oh my life to thee. -Austin Reid J.
For My Weary Soul Hope is the thing with feathers Oh my weary soul. What depths are black What pits are deep that You don’t already know? I am covered with feathers Oh my weary soul And find your rest in the Shadow of the almighty. And yea though I walk through the valley Oh my weary soul Fear no longer. “Because he loves me” says the Lord “I will rescue him” For I am convinced Oh my weary soul That neither life nor death, Angels nor demons, present nor future Nor any powers in all creation Can separate you from the love of my God. -Austin Reid J.
So stay, and run your nature's course and let no sign of such remorse diminish teardrops from the sky. Instead, wash teardrops from my eyes. -Kathy Holmes
A Half Cento for Those Before Preface Hi, I would like to introduce you to centos. A cento is a work of writing made by stitching together already existing works. As you may have noticed in the title this is only a half cento. So half of this is stitched together from other sources while the other half is original. Hope you enjoy. A Half Cento In whitened halls with thoughts alone The midnight’s mid-moments seem to flow. Hours on hours go on to die. On the wall are pictures of those before. For ceaseless day my mind finds them bore. Until this night when I stop to stare. Each face, a soul. Each name drifts by. Their memory I bare. Each one looks at me and says: We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, 7
Loved and were loved, and now we lie Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep. -Alan Wick
A Note from the Editor I would like to thank everyone for their support this year. Thanks goes firstly to the fantastic poets and authors who bravely agreed to have their hard work published. Without these people none of this would be possible. Additional thanks go out to the editing team for the Shallnot and the Beacon. Without behind the scene members – both official and unofficial – the quality of the Beacon and the Shallnot would be noticeably lesser. Continued thanks goes out to the enduring readership. Thank you for taking the time to pick up your copy of the Beacon. Final thanks go to Crandall and the CSA for making the endeavor possible. Expect to see the Beacon again next year. - Austin Reid Jones
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