The Concordian - November 15th 2016

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VOLUME 34, ISSUE 12 | TUESDAY, NOV. 15, 2016

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"They couldn't break me" In an exclusive interview, Homa Hoodfar talks about her time in a notorious prison and her future plans News p. 2

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NEWS EDITORS /// news@theconcordian.com SAVANNA CRAIG & NELLY SERANDOUR-AMAR ( @savannacraig @nellsamar03)

CITY IN BRIEF VALERIA CORI-MANOCCHIO COPY EDITOR Westmount fire Sunday evening

COVER STORY

Homa Hoodfar shares her story

Concordia professor who was incarcerated for 112 days speaks out to the community

A fire broke out at 324 Victoria Street, in Westmount Sunday evening. The address corresponds to two of chef Antonio Park’s well-known restaurants Lavanderia Restaurant and Park, reports CTV News. The building also houses Victoria Park Gym. Robert Dubé of the Montreal fire department said the fire was on the roof.

The same article reports 100 firefighters tried to subside the flames at the scene for more than three hours, but the fire was only properly put out Monday morning. No one was injured.

The Yellow Door’s 50th anniversary The Yellow Door coffeehouse, located in the McGill Ghetto, celebrated its 50th anniversary this past Sunday. Originally founded in 1904, the small venue was a community organization promoting morality and religion at McGill University, reports CBC News. It became more secular and began hosting spoken word nights, musicians, jam sessions and comedy nights. The venue even helped Vietnam War draft dodgers from the U.S., according to CBC News. The coffeehouse seats 50 people in its microp h o n e -f r e e , v i r t u a l l y unrenovated space.

Former chief of staff testifies in Applebaum trial Hugo Tremblay, Michael Applebaum’s former chief of staff in the borough of Côtedes-Neiges/NDG, testified his ex-boss showed him illegal political financing methods.

Tr e m b l a y t e s t i f i e d a t Applebaum’s ongoing trial that the former interim mayor of Montreal showed him how anonymous cash donations were collected at fundraising events, how money was channeled into secret funds and how cheques with proxy names were used, reports CJAD. Applebaum is being tried for 14 charges including fraud, corruption and breach of trust in connection with two real estate projects in Côte-desNeiges/NDG between 2002 and 2012, according to CJAD.

1 NELLY SÉRANDOUR-AMAR CO-NEWS EDITOR Homa Hoodfar, a Concordia University professor and researcher, sat down with The Concordian to discuss her 112-day experience in Evin prison in Iran. The IranianCanadian anthropology professor was arrested while on a personal and research visit to Iran. The 65-year-old professor suffers from a rare neurological disease that causes severe muscle weakness.

She spent some time hospitalized before being brought back to her cell where she could barely walk or talk. Hoodfar has been back in Montreal since Sept. 26.

The Concordian: In an interview with CBC, you said the guards arrested you because they thought you were trying to meddle in an Iranian parliamentary election and bring your feminism work and research into politics. Can you expand on that?

Homa Hoodfar: In Iran, there’s less than three per cent women in the Parliament. When I was there, which was during this election, women in Iran were questioning why there were so few of them in the parliament. In an interview I held on an earlier trip there, I said that the question is not that there are too few women but too many men in the parliament. During this

trip to Iran, there were women who were organizing to change the face of the parliament and make it more female-oriented. Somehow the guards said I had something to do with that campaign. I knew of the campaign, but I didn’t know a single one of these women. Yet, for the government, feminism is a form of soft revolution which tends to change the Islamic culture. My argument to them was that any culture that doesn't change is a dead culture. Our culture has changed and women are trying to voice their opinions like any oppressed group, but the guards want to believe that these ideas are coming from outside of Iran. For them, I’m a self-declared feminist and it was enough for them to arrest me.

TC: Can you speak about the research you’ve done related to Middle Eastern countries?

Hoodfar: My academic work has implications into the contemporary situation in the Middle East. I don't only work on Iran’s situation. I’ve also been working on [research in] Egypt, Pakistan and even Indonesia.

Although, the guards weren’t interested in my work elsewhere, they were just interested in my work in Iran. I had been working on family laws, women reproductive rights and refugees. Also, in 2011, with one of my PhD students, we did write a book on the debate of women in

the parliament. Yet, this book doesn't even mention Iran and somehow they believed that I changed my field of research to interfere with the current elections.

TC: What came to your mind when they came to arrest you?

Hoodfar: They actually came to raid my apartment on the night before I was supposed to leave for Canada. They took my computer, my telephone, my iPad and a lot of books and folders with all my research. There were six big bags of everything that they took. They asked me to go to an interrogation the next day and to go to court within the next five days. At the time, there were no charges or files. Although, as a social scientist, we always say that social science is considered to be a criminal activity, because a lot of people who do research are called in by the police to investigate the research. If the government doesn’t like the results, the researcher usually will go to jail for five or six years. So I was not surprised when this happened to me, but I wasn't expecting to be put in jail. Usually they ban you from travelling and call you in for interrogations a few times.

TC: What do you remember from the Evin prison?

Hoodfar: I was in a very tiny cell which was about two meters by a metre and a half. There was nothing except a carpet and three military

3 blankets they give you. One you sleep on, one you use as a pillow and the other one to cover you. I was on my own for a few days, but then they moved me to a room with three other women because of a prison inspection and so I suppose they didn’t want me to be in a solitary cell. After that, they brought me back with another woman to stay in the tiny cell. There were no windows in this room, and lights were on all day and night. With the light, I was not able to sleep so they gave me sleeping pills. I would also receive my medication from my family, which was very important because my health wasn't very good. I would also demand that they give me newspapers or something to read because there was nothing to do besides going to the interrogations.

Until they brought the young woman to stay with me, there was also no one to talk to. Most of them were sex workers who were only 21 or 22 years old. I ended up chatting with them and collecting their life history. Then, I started to write on my wall with my toothbrush, treating it like field research, which made the time there easier. Whenever I would go to the interrogations, I would take mental notes and when I couldn't sleep at night, I would write on the wall. Young women thought I was crazy but just the action of writing helped my mind

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NATION IN BRIEF KATYA TEAGUE HEAD COPY EDITOR

Parliament working to remove anal sex ban An act to repeal a section of the Canadian Criminal Code banning the engagement of anal sex by persons under the age of 18 will be tabled in the House of Commons on Tuesday, reported The Huffington Post Canada. According to Section 159 of the code, anyone under the age of 18 who engages in an act of anal intercourse is liable to imprisonment for up to 10 years, with the exception ofheterosexualmarriedcouples.

According to The Huffington Post Canada, the advocacy organization Egale Canada called the ban unconstitutional and discriminatory to gay men, since the age of consent for sexual activity in Canada is 16.

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5 stay active. I collected the data and hopefully, when the time is right, I will start writing them down. I had at least 45 sessions of interrogations, some of which would last all day. I also would hear when the guards were interrogating or talking to other people. They used different methods for the sex workers than they used for me.

TC: Was there a method of interrogation they used which was difficult for you?

Hoodfar: I knew of their methods. They kept on telling me that I was nothing, but I knew it wasn't true. I also accepted the fact that I would stay in the prison for a long time and, because I did, there was nothing that they could do to really bring me down. What angered me the most was when they played the song used at my spouse’s funeral, which they found on my iPad. In contrast, young women were very frightened and cried a lot because they thought when the guards saw them crying, they might be more lenient towards them. Of course, for me, the interrogators were younger than me, which in the Iranian culture, it gave me an upper hand. Initially, they were playing on the fact that I was the old woman, but I took their method and reversed it and used it against them. I was thinking to myself that I lived for 65 years the way that I wanted and reached my

goals. Therefore, I told them it didn't matter if I had to stay in the Evin prison for the rest of my life. I had no regrets at all. I also told them that if the rest of my life has to be there, so be it. With all that being said to them, they didn't have anything to frighten me with. This is when they played the music and I asked them to stop it. Which they didn’t want to until I asked them if this was part of the Islamic human rights, because yes, our culture has different human rights. They did everything to make me cry and the fact that they couldn’t break me was a victory.

TC: How long were you in contact with your family?

Hoodfar: Before I was taken to Evin, I would go to interrogations but then would go home and I was able to chat, Skype, or go on Facebook.

The problem was that they were listening to the conversations I had on my phone, but at least I was in touch with my family. I was also very overwhelmed with the support that came with my release. The support came from a lot of scholars from the left or right wing, from Islamic scholars and also from people from very diverse backgrounds. I received letters of support from Indonesia, Hong Kong, Bangladesh, Turkey and many more countries. It was also very heartwarming to see all the support coming from Canada.

Iran wanted me to stop my research

6 but now more people know about my research than if they didn't arrested me.

TC: What was the process for them to release you?

Hoodfar: The day I was released was actually a very interesting one.

Two nights before the release, they took me where the interrogation took place and taped me for about five to six hours. They wanted me to say that I regret what I’ve done, to which I told them that I haven't done anything illegal and therefore I don't regret anything. Then they told me there were three conditions on which they could release me on diplomatic ground. I had to say that I regret what I’ve done, that I won't be doing networking in Iran and that I won’t do any research on women in politics anymore. I told them I don’t regret and, if I'm released, I will continue to do the same thing because I’m a researcher. I have never done networking in Iran anyway and doing research on women or women in politics is part of my work. I was very touched when I learned about the student campaign and the demonstration happening.

I only got to see the pictures when I got back to Montreal.

TC: After a terrifying and tireful experience, how are you feeling?

Hoodfar: Physically, my lungs are still not very well and I still get

(1, 2) Homa Hoodfarhas been back since Sept. 26. Photos

by Frédéric Muckle and Nelly Sérandour-Amar.

(3, 4, 5) Different student protestshappenedtopressure thereleaseofHoodfar.Photos

by Alex Hutchins.

(6) Hoodfar arrives at the Pierre-Elliott Trudeau airport on Sept. 26. Photo by Nelly Sérandour-Amar.

tired when I talk for a long time. I am hoping that, in a month or two, I get my energy back and start working more. Mentally, I still get upset about how the academic freedom is curtailed in Iran and how people can’t express themselves.

Overall, I think I’m good. It was great to know that so many people went out of their way to support me and secure my release—especially the Canadian government, my colleagues, the academic scholars and my students from many years ago.

I try to focus on the positive things rather than thinking negatively. I hope the situation in Iran changes.

There is a lot to be done, and I hope social science gets more space to be discussed.

I especially want to thank the students. I don't know everybody, but I appreciate what everyone did. I was very touched to see the videos and pictures from the demonstrations, which was a very nice surprise for me. Sometimes, when I get a little sad, I go on my computer and watch the Free Homa pictures and signs.

Students at Concordia did a lot, and I’m very thankful for them.

This interview was edited for length and clarity.

Be sure to check out our exclusive video interview with Hoodfar on theconcordian.com

Maple syrup heist conviction Three men were charged on Saturday in connection to the theft of $18.7 million worth of maple syrup from a warehouse used by the Federation of Quebec Maple Sy r up Producers, reported The Montreal Gazette. Richard Vallières, 38, was found guilty of the theft, fraud and trafficking of nearly 3,000 tonnes of maple syrup over a 12-month period in 2011 and 2012, according to the article. The 12-member jury in TroisRivières also convicted Étienne St-Pierre, 73, of fraud and trafficking and Vallières’ 62-year-old father, Raymond, of possession of stolen syrup, according to The Montreal Gazette.

An unofficial Tory leadership debate Nine of the 12 Conservative Party leadership candidates took the stage to answer questions from the public at a lunch event hosted by the C ar leton Cons er v at ive Association in Greely, Ont. on Sunday, reported CBC News. The event was open to any member of the public who bought a ticket and none of the open mic questions were set in advance, according to CBC News.

Although it was not one of the five official leadership race debates, CBC News said the “wide-open format” would give the public a sense of the candidates’ ability to think on their feet.

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WORLD IN BRIEF KATERINA GANG COPY EDITOR Earthquakes hit New Zealand Two earthquakes hit New Zealand this past Monday, leaving at least two dead.

According to CBC News, both earthquakes hit the country’s South Island. The first earthquake had a magnitude of 7.8 and the second had a magnitude of 6.2. The earthquakes caused landslides, a tsunami, fissures and roads to split open, according to CBC News. More than 1,000 tourists and residents remain stranded in the town of Kaikoura and some have sustained minor injuries. New Zeland will be sending military helicopters and a navy ship to help rescue those who have been stranded.

2016 poised to be hottest year Data collected over the first nine months of 2016 shows this year will likely surpass 2015 as the hottest year on record. According to BBC News, temperatures in the first nine months of 2016 were 1.2C above pre-industrial levels and 0.88C above the 1961-1990 average, which is the baseline usedbytheWorldMeteorological Organization. Temperatures in 2015 only came in at 0.77C above this average, and this was still a large increase over the previous year’s figures.

According to BBC News, these figures were announced early to help guide upcoming negotiations in Morocco on the Paris Climate Agreement. CO2 emissions continue to be the largest contributing factor behind this increase.

World’s saddest polar bear move Pizza, who has been called “the world’s saddest polar bear,” has beenremovedfromanaquarium in a Chinese mall receiving an upgrade. Three-year-old Pizza gained notoriety when Animal Asia posted a video of her suffering in her enclosure in July, reported The Guardian.

Pizza has been temporarily returned to the zoo where she was born in Tianjin. However, Humane Society International and three animal rights activists have called for the stay to become permanent, according to The Guardian. They believe a mall is not a suitable home for a polar bear, using evidence of mental decline in the online video to justify their position.

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SCIENCE

Exposing Montrealers to science

Concordia students present projects at Exposcience in Pointe-Claire

Medical biology student Muhammad Zayed at Exposcience. Photos by Alex Hutchins.

IAN DOWN STAFF WRITER People of all ages packed PointeClaire’s Stewart Hall for the 33rd annual Exposcience fair, where Concordia students enlightened and entertained visitors with a variety of interactive exhibits.

On Nov.12 and 13, guests flocked to the fair to try virtual reality headsets, watch a 3D printer in action and play with a tesla coil.

Held every year since 1983, the event is presented by volunteers from Concordia’s faculties of Arts and Science as well as Engineering and Computer Science, who are

given a great degree of creative freedom over their presentations.

An ice cream-making station was serving visitors in the Marie Curie chemistry room. At the psychology table, visitors could track and learn about the motion of their eyes by playing a game of “Where’s Waldo?”

The event showed the different ways children and adults relate to science. According to many presenters, adults were more interested in the practical side of science.

In the Charles Darwin biology room, children scrambled to reassemble medical biology student Muhammad Zayed's model of the human anatomy. “Kids usually ask

about what the kidney does in our body,” he said. “Parents usually ask about surgery and how they do surgery for the kidneys.”

In Concordia microbiology researcher Yun Zheng’s exhibit on vegetables, there was a section for children and a section for adults.

Children learned about where different vegetables come from, while the adults explored their nutritional content.

At the heart rate monitoring station, children asked about the many moving lines representing their heartbeat on screen, whereas their parents were interested to learn what these graphs meant for their health.

It was a learning experience for both children and adults. “I didn’t know there were different colors of blood—I thought there was only red,” said Sangeeta Patel, a visitor, referring to an exhibit on animal blood in the Darwin room.

Presenters made it easier for children to relate to and understand science. “You can relate [static electricity] to rubbing a balloon on their hair, or when they take off their

hat in the middle of the winter and there’s static electricity,” said physics student Amanda Dinitto.

While participating in such exhibitions can look good on a student's CV, most of this year's presenters were simply eager to take part and educate visitors. “It’s actually pretty cool just to show kids how science works,” said chemistry student Rejean Sivakumar, whose exhibit discussed fingerprints. “They’re at a young age, so they find it really interesting. It might even help their career choices eventually.”

“You feel happy when you are with kids and you deliver some new information,” said Zayed. “When you see their smile and you hear their questions, you feel happy and satisfied.”

CAMPUS

CSU’s announces town hall meeting

Councillors discuss the international student hike and look back on orientation NELLY SÉRANDOUR-AMAR CO-NEWS EDITOR During the Concordia Student U n i o n (C S U ) m e e t i n g o n Wednesday, it was announced a town hall meeting will be taking place on Nov. 16 from 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the Mezzanine of the Hall building, where students can learn about their new International Tuition Hike campaign.

The newly-created campaign was announced when the CSU posted an open letter on their website, saying the university was planning a tuition hike affecting students in deregulated programs.

“We want to reach out to everyone—this is a reason why the CSU exists,” said CSU vice president of external affairs and mobilization coordinator, Aloyse Muller. He said he was surprised with the Commerce and Administration Students A ssociation (C A SA), as they have not shown any interest in the campaign yet. “CASA has the biggest number of international students in the university,” he said.

Muller said the CSU has hired two international students, ​A li Sherra from the faculty of Arts and Science and Aida Sidibé, who studies at JMSB, to help with

CSU councillors meet for their regular council meeting. Photo by Nelly Sérandour-Amar.

the campaign. Muller said they will help inform and mobilize students, through general outreach towards student groups, flyering, postering, developing materials and event organizing, to name a few.

“The CSU is and will be campaigning against this hike—it’s our mission,” said Muller. “But the opposition needs to come and be led by the students themselves.”

He strongly suggested students follow the example of Samuel Miriello and Sepideh Zangeneh, two students who helped organize the campaign independently a few weeks ago, through creating a

Facebook group called “Concordia University Against international Tuition Hike.”

Following the tuition hikes discussion, student life coordinator Rachel Gauthier presented a document which detailed how the orientation events at the beginning of the Fall 2016 semester went. Gauthier said she is grateful for the hard work the CSU coordinators contributed to orientation.

According to the orientation budget Gauthier presented, the CSU only spent $117,388.45 of the original $160,000 budget, leaving them with a surplus of $42,611.55.

Gauthier said, overall, most of the orientation events were a success. The one exception was the OUMF comedy show, which lacked attendees. She said she believes the event was not well advertised and the fact that the show was on the second day of school didn’t leave the CSU enough time to promote the event. She ended her speech by saying she recommends the next team to take on orientation week only schedule a week of events, as the second week saw a dip in event attendance, since students began to focus on school more during the second week.

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PIPELINES

Mobilization against DAPL in Montreal

Three demonstrations have been held in Montreal in opposition of the DAPL

1 SAVANNA CRAIG CO-NEWS EDITOR The sound of drums and singing filled Phillips Square in downtown Montreal on Nov. 13 as participants held hands and walked in a crisscross formation along the square to raise awareness about the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL).

The gathering sought to shed light on the violence directed at protesters in the Standing Rock reserve in North and South Dakota and the threat the proposed DAPL project poses to the environmental state of the land.

This was the third event this week in downtown Montreal in opposition of the DAPL and the lack of human rights extended to protesters in Standing Rock. The previous events were held on Nov. 7 in Victoria Square in downtown Montreal and on Nov. 10 in the Hall building of Concordia’s downtown campus.

“It’s not just only in support of Standing Rock, but the first idea is to bring awareness,” said Jesse Achneepineskum, a participant at the event in Phillips Square. He said there has been a lack of media coverage in Standing Rock, a reoccurring trend for issues concerning indigenous communities.

“I first heard of it through Facebook only,” said Achneepineskum, referring to the treatment of protesters in

Standing Rock. “On Facebook it tends to be shared—news of native people amongst native people.”

He said the wave of organized protests in different cities is due to the constant sharing of information on social media platforms such as Facebook.

“People around here started organizing marches and protests to force CBC and CTV to send people to cover the events and to bring awareness to the general public,” said Achneepineskum, adding that in the U.S., the rising tensions in Standing Rock were not adequately covered by American media outlets such as CNN and MSNBC. Craig Blacksmith, a participant of the Montreal protest on Nov. 13 and member of the Dakota tribe, said if the Indian Act was abolished and indigenous people had control over their land, corporations would not be threatening their land with pipeline projects.

“If we focus on this Indian Act and we get it abolished, it’s going to open up a whole new dialogue,” said Blacksmith. He said this is because removing the Indian Act will enable Indigenous communities to have authority over their land, as opposed to the government. This would result in giving them the power to decide whether or not the pipelines will be allowed to go through their land.

Blacksmith is from Manitoba, however his Dakota tribe is one of

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the tribes which make up the Sioux Nation—many of whom reside in the Standing Rock reservation.

The Dakota tribe is spread across Manitoba, Saskatchewan, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Montana and Nebraska.

According to Jean-Philippe Warren, a Concordia professor from the department of sociology and anthropology, the DAPL has struck a strong reaction from Montrealers because it ties in with an issue close to home.

“The [DAPL] project is immediately conflated with the TransCanada's Energy East Pipeline,” said Warren.

Keystone XL is the official name for the pipeline proposal that includes the DAPL. “Opposing one is opposing the other.”

Warren said people in Quebec are more likely to be against the expanded use of crude oil, regardless of whether they use a car or not. “Quebecers are much more opposed [to] the oil energy because they believe that everything should be electric,” said Warren.

“Hydro-Quebec convinced them that hydro-electricity is the best source of energy.”

“In the case of the TransCanada's Energy East Pipeline, Alberta’s or the rest of Canada’s interests do not seem to serve Quebecers’ interests,” said Warren.

On Monday, Nov. 7, Concordia First Peoples studies professor

Louellyn White spoke out against the DAPL at a demonstration in Victoria Square, downtown Montreal.

The purpose of the demonstration was to encourage participants to close their accounts with RBC, TD or Scotiabank until these banks remove their investments in the DAPL. White said the DAPL raises the issue of sovereignty of the Standing Rock Sioux Nation, whose land the pipelines are proposed to run through. She added that, for centuries, their sovereignty has been ignored by governments, states and individuals.

White discussed the Fort Larry Treaty of 1851, an agreement between settlers and people of the Sioux Nation which gave settlers ownership of their land in exchange for protection, food and education for the Sioux people.

White said this treaty has repeatedly been broken. She said none of these promises to the Sioux people were kept. “That land was further and further diminished.”

A separate protest against the DAPL took place in Concordia’s Hall building on the downtown campus on the evening of Nov. 10.

Participants chanted “water is life” to express concern for the effects the DAPL will have on the environment, as well as the issues the DAPL pose to indigenous rights.

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studies professor Donna Goodleaf, the students in her elective class, “Haudenosaunee Peoples” and Concordia’s Indigenous Student Association.

The events on Nov. 7 and Nov. 10 informed people on how to help protesters involved in the Standing Rock protests. Students in the Indigenous Student Association and Goodleaf’s elective class handed out pamphlets on how you can financially aid protesters in this initiative.

Donations in aid towards the Standing Rock protesters are being accepted to the following address: Sacred Stone Camp, P.O. Box 1011, Fort Yates, N.D. 58538. These donations will be used for food, propane, water, blankets and other supplies.

Climate Justice Montreal shared forms which state the problems with banks investing in the DAPL. The forms indicate how people can close their accounts with their bank as a way to encourage them not to invest in the DAPL. (1, 2) Participants on the Nov. 13 demonstration walk in a criss-cross formation.

(3) First Peoples Studies and Concordia’s Indigenous Student Association protest DAPL in the Hall building on Nov. 10.

(4) Jesse Achneepineskum (center) marches towards the banks on Nov. 7. Photos by Savanna Craig.

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STUDENT FINANCES

Concordia responds to possible tuition hikes Clarification on the potential undergraduate international student fee increase

In response to recent student outrage over the university’s proposed tuition hikes for certain incoming international students, Concordia's president Alan Shepard and university's spokesperson Chris Mota spoke to The Concordian to explain the administration’s side of the story.

Students became concerned when the Concordia Student Union (CSU) made a post on their website about the university’s proposal to increase international students’ tuition and implement a cohort pricing system. The increases would apply to international undergraduate students in deregulated programs, which include engineering, computer science, business, mathematics and pure sciences.

Mota said the proposed increase would only affect incoming students in deregulated programs as of the 2017 fall semester-not current students. Cohort pricing is described as the model that will prohibit students already enrolled from facing a tuition hike, while if hikes are decided upon it will only apply to new students, said Mota.

“Cohort pricing is a guarantee for incoming students who are coming to Concordia for a three or four year program that their

tuition won’t rise for that period,” Mota explained to The Concordian.

She said deregulated programs do not receive funding from the government. As a result of the deregulation of these programs, Concordia has less funding available and is now looking into cohort pricing for these new students, Mota said. “The government gave us [permission] to charge whatever we wanted,” she said. “Concordia did nothing for one year, while other universities immediately started to raise their rates.”

Mota said the tuition increase would only come into effect if the Concordia Finance Committee finds that the proposal has merit. If the committee approves the proposal, it will then be sent to the Board of Governors, who will make the final decision.

“We haven’t decided what the tuition fees will be,” said Concordia president Alan Shepard. “It’s a matter before the Board of Governors.”

“As far as we know, they plan to approve this tuition increase without any prior student consultation, nor even sharing the proposal with the Concordia community before its approval,” said Aloyse Muller, the external affairs and mobilization coordinator for the CSU. However, Mota said there will be student input. “Once a proposal is brought to the board

all members of the board, student governors included, will vote on the proposal,” said Mota.

“Historically, we’ve been setting the tuition to be exactly identical to the tuition rise prescribed by the Quebec government for Quebec residents and the rest of canadian students, which is still regulated by the government,” said Shepard.

Shepard said for international undergraduates in deregulated programs the university receives zero dollars towards their education.

Samuel Miriello, a first-year human resource management student said there is a lack of transparency from the university and he is planning to meet with

administration next week. “The nature of our anger comes from the fact that the university needs to always consult the CSU and the [Graduate Student Association] before doing things like this,” he said.

Miriello is part of the Red Day team, which is composed of students who want to raise awareness about the potential hike, they have created a Facebook page and are asking students to wear the colour red on Nov. 24 to show their support for international students.

Mota said surveys and research conducted by the university and by international recruiters showed that incoming international students

would prefer to pay more for tuition—if for the duration of their program they wouldn’t see an increase.

“What I really regret it that it’s being played out in the press like we’re debating international tuition in the press before the governors can hear arguments for or against and make their decision,” said Shepard.

The vote will take place at the Board of Governor’s meet on at 4 p.m. on Dec. 16. Interested viewers can watch in the observer’s room in 633-1 of the Hall building.

With files from Gregory Todaro.

Red Day organizers hosted a meet-and-greet on Nov. 11. Photos by Ana Hernandez.

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TECHNOLOGY

The unbalanced world of technology

President of the Harvey Mudd College discusses women in tech programs and careers

The public event took place in Concordia’s EV building on Nov. 7 and was open to all. Photos by Alex Hutchins.

MEHANAZ YAKUB CONTRIBUTOR Concordia’s Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering invited -Maria Klawe, the president of Harvey Mudd College (HMC) to discuss the lack of women in the tech world, the progress that is already underway and what still needs to be done.

HMC is a private school, located in California, dedicated to the study of science, engineering and mathematics.

At the lecture on Nov. 7, Klawe discussed the lack of gender diversity in the tech industry and how HMC is finding innovative ways to change that.

According to a 2013 Atlantic article, “We Need More Women in Tech: The Data Proves It,” women’s participation in the tech industry has decreased over the last decade. Similarly, Klawe’s own research found that, more than any other STEM discipline (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), computer science programs in North America have seen women’s enrolment decline from mid-30 per cent in the 80s to approximately 15 per cent today.

In an effort to recruit more students, Concordia offers small amounts of award money to incite top students to enroll into technology programs.

Klawe said there needs to be improvement in the enrollment process for female undergraduate students in computer science and engineering programs worldwide.

That being said, she also believes the problem goes beyond school, and into the workforce. First, to successfully recruit female candidates, Klawe proposed that hiring committees be trained to avoid gender biases. “What we all need to accept about ourselves is that we grow up in a culture that makes us more likely to think that nurses are going to be female and engineering and computer scientists will be male,” said Klawe.

According to a 2010 research report from the National Center for Women and Information Technology, authors Catherine Ashcraft and Sarah Plithe found that 56 per cent of women working in the tech industry leave their organizations at the mid-level point of the careers, in other words, after 10 to 20 years. Klawe said this is because of women’s own perceptions

with computer science and engineering degrees is higher than Klawe has seen in her lifetime. The jobs within the computer science discipline are flexible and pay well, but Klawe said the most important reason more women are needed in tech careers is because they provide different backgrounds and perspectives. She thinks this would lead to more creativity and

that they lack the same advancement opportunities as their male colleagues.

Therefore, she said, there should be more effort made to keep these women in the tech industry.

“If we make learning and work environments interesting and supportive, build confidence and community among women and demystify success, women will come, thrive and stay [in tech careers],” said Klawe.

The demand for people graduating

better solutions to problems.

In addition to her work with HMC, Klawe is also the co-founder of the Computer Research Association (CRA), which was founded in 1991. CRA’s goal is to find ways to get more women in computer research institutions. The association also developed the Distributed Mentor Project (DMP), which allows female undergraduate students to conduct a research project in their field of interest with the guidance of a female mentor from a university faculty

different from their own.

“We need more women in academia because, from research, we know that it is important for young women to see role models, and, often the faculty that they are going to interact with are those role models,” Klawe explained.

Indeed, a 2015 Higher Education Statistics Agency report found that, globally, only 22 per cent of university professors are women.

HMC has increased its percentage of female computer science majors from 10 per cent to 40 per cent since Klawe’s arrival at the college in 2006.

The college’s department of computer science revamped its program in 2005, grouping students in computer science introductory classes depending on their prior experience and knowledge in the discipline. This initiative was created in an effort to make female and male students feel like they belong, and can work together on the same level, within the tech industry.

HMC also arranges for first-year undeclared major students to be taken to the annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference, where 90 per cent of attendees are women. The conference is the world’s largest annual gathering of women from the technology industry. Klawe said this conference is a good way to expose students to successful women from the industry. “[Students] will be inspired,” said Klawe, “and no matter what they major in later on, they will know that there are tons of technical women who have great experiences in their careers.”

While advocates like Klawe strive for more balance between women and men in the tech world, she emphasized that this is not a solo mission for women. “It is not the women that need to fix the imbalance,” she said. Ultimately, Klawe said entire communities need to decide if the representation of women in the tech world should be a priority.

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SCIENCE

Food isn't always good on the skin Some popular DIY face masks are actually doing more harm than good ARIANNE HANDELMAN CONTRIBUTOR Lemon juice treatments, baking soda masks, sugar scrubs—type “DIY acne treatment” into Google, and you are likely to find a slew of articles that praise these treatments and other common household items for their alleged pimple-fighting benefits.

But are these trending DIY ingredients truly effective in treating pesky skin ailments? The kind of skin-care advice found in many women’s magazines, as well as in online beauty and health articles, may actually be ruining your skin.

Let’s begin with the widely-acclaimed beauty blog miracle ingredient: lemon.

A health.com article titled “15 Home Remedies to Make a Pimple Vanish,” advises readers to “wipe lemon juice across your pimples with a cotton ball, and leave it on overnight.”

This common skin care treatment overlooks an important aspect of our skin’s chemical makeup: its acid mantle. The acid mantle is the skin’s barrier to bacteria, viruses and other potential contaminants—it is measured by pH. Through their research for Wake Forest University’s department of dermatology in North Carolina, Dr. Saba Ali and Dr. Gil Yosipovitch stressed the importance of the skin’s acid mantle.

Ali and Yosipovitch expressed in their research paper some concern over the disregard to acid mantle. They argued that skin’s acid mantle is vital, and that “recognizing factors that alter skin pH and selecting products that preserve the acid mantle is of prime importance” in treating skin.

Exogenous factors, like products that are too acidic (low pH) or too alkaline (high pH), cause damage to the skin’s barrier and lead to “compromised skin,” according to a research paper

by American dermatologist, James Del Rosso.

Lemon juice has a pH level of two, while human skin is roughly 5.5.

Therefore, Del Rosso explained, this

difference in pH levels means using lemon juice on your face can lead

to loss of skin elasticity, increased skin rigidity and acne.

According to a 2014 research paper by endocrinologist Dr. Stacey E Anderson and dermatologist Dr. Barbara Jean Meade, having compromised skin can make you more at risk to toxic chemicals that irritate and further

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damage the skin. This is because, if the skin’s pH is compromised, chemicals can get through the outer layer of the skin, and inside the body.

Another popular ingredient seen in amateur skin care articles is baking soda.

According to Doctor Oz’s website, “you don't need harsh chemicals to fight acne.

Try a mixture of baking soda and honey to help clear skin.”

Baking soda is an alkaline, with a pH of nine. Whether alkaline or acidic, Anderson and Meade’s research found that the pH of daily skin care products is very important to protect the skin barrier. Baking soda’s pH is, therefore, just too high for skin to handle.

However, some household items are proven to be good remedies. The aforementioned skin-clearing mixture of honey and baking soda, while best to be avoided, includes honey. In a research publication for the Iranian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences, dermatologists Tahereh Eteraf-Oskouei and Moslem Najafi explored honey’s benefits.

They argued that topical application of honey has healing effects for superficial skin burns and operation wounds, making honey a safe ingredient in DIY skin care treatments. Honey’s average pH is 3.9, but can range anywhere from 3.4 to 6.1.

While some websites may provide acne-sufferers faulty skin care advice, online communities exist to counteract the wave of careless information. Forums on Reddit, for example, pride themselves on circulating facts about skin care discovered in scientific journals.

FOOD

Feel like family at NDG’s Kokkino Café The relaxed, family-run spot serves up café classics, with a side of charm

GABRIELLE VENDETTE CONTRIBUTOR John Zampetoulakis, co-owner of Kokkino Café, calls on a customer by name. “Sarah, you want a grilled cheese?” She shakes her head no and he nods. He proceeds to butter her freshly popped toast and walk out from behind the counter to set her bowl of soup and toast in front of her. At Kokkino Café, table service is on the house.

Zampetoulakis and his wife, Angela Reichman, opened Kokkino Café over eight years ago. “I worked in a lot of restaurants, I made a lot of money and I said, you know what, no more. I want to do this for myself, for my kids, for my communit y,” said Zampetoulakis.

The spot is a family-run business- even Zampetoulakis and Reichman’s four kids

Kokkino offers salads, soup, sandwiches, wraps, desserts and coffee. The spot also offers vegan options.

participate in the action.

The concept of the café is a little different than the average grab-and-go coffee joint.

At Kokkino, the customer places their order at the counter, takes a seat and the food is brought to them.

Zampetoulakis said he decided to serve his customers this way because “it’s nice and it’s relaxed—it feels like home.” Similarly, customers only pay the bill when they’re ready to leave. “They pay me before they go, that way they have time to digest their food,” he said.

“When you’re done, whenever you’re done, you’ve had your experience and then you pay me.” “Relaxed” is a great way to describe the experience at Kokkino.

The café’s food is freshly made ever y

morning by the two owners and inspired The café is in the heart

by Zampetoulakis’ Greek origins. The of NDG, on Sherbrooke Street West. Photos by variety of the menu is impressive for Gabrielle Vendette. an operation run mainly by one couple.

Kokkino offers soups, salads, sandwiches, wraps and desserts. There is a wide selection of teas, and of course, an abundance of coffee. The spot also has a variety of vegan options.

At Kokkino, accommodation is the rule, not the exception. It’s not uncommon for someone to walk in and grab an order they texted Zampetoulakis that morning.

“I know everybody that comes in here. I know what they like, I know how they like it,” said Zampetoulakis.

He also custom-makes sandwiches ordered at his counter. There is an attention to detail in his work. Every interaction Zampetoulakis has with a cus- chill. That’s what I want.” tomer is genuine and shows his compassion.

When you go to Kokkino, prepare to be The owner’s vision for the café is treated like family. Just don’t forget to bring focused on creating a calm atmosphere your dishes to the counter before you leave. for people to enjoy their coffee and meal. öö The cafe is located at 5673 Sherbrooke He said he wanted to “create a place Street West. The spot opens at 9 a.m. where people just feel they can relax.” every day, and closes at 7 p.m. on Customers who walks into Kokkino Mondays and Tuesdays, 8 p.m. on are greeted with a warm hello from Wednesdays, 10 p.m. on Thursdays Zampetoulakis. Dogs are also allowed and Fridays, 6:30 p.m. on Saturdays inside, because, according to him, “it’s just and 6 p.m. on Sundays.

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DIVERSITY

My experience with name discrimination One Concordia’s student experience with microaggressions related to her “ethnic” name

JENNY MOURAD CONTRIBUTOR Last year, my roommate invited me to go back home with her to Vermont for the weekend.

As a Canadian citizen, I did not expect any problems at the border. When we got there, the border patrol agent took our passports in order to identify us.

The officer breezed through my roommate’s passport. He read her Western name aloud, calmly.

With my passport in his hand, he paused. His demeanour changed.

It is important to note that, although I identify with the name Jenny, my legal name is Jihan.

Ironically, Jenny is not a nickname to appeal to western preferences.

My mother and father had differing ideas of what they wanted to name me, so they compromised. One would be my legal name and one would be the name they would call me. Thus, although I have a traditional eastern name as well as a traditional western name, I did not choose either nor did I choose which one would I would identify with.

The agent looked at the name on my passport with what I can only describe as a hybrid look of disgust and frustration. Finally, he looked at me and asked, “What’s your name?” as if he would not even allow himself to say it aloud. Sheepishly, I replied

“Jihan… sorry.” He gave me one last look of distaste and stamped my passport.

As we drove off, my roommate was incredulous. She couldn’t believe how rude the agent had been, but she also couldn’t believe I had apologized.

Apologizing for my own name to that agent was the result of 21 years worth of microaggressions that I have had to silently endure as a minority raised in Canada.

more unpleasant reactions from people attempting to pronounce it.

When I was younger, I hated when a substitute teacher would come to class because I knew what would happen during attendance. This stranger would do what every other stranger did to my name: they would stumble on it and proceed to get frustrated or embarrassed.

To be clear, I don’t believe the prob-

That instance of discrimination was not the first, nor would it be the last. My name would go on to cause

lem lies in the mispronunciation of my name or any other non-Western name.

The problem occurs when my name is

perceived as an inconvenience to those unfamiliar with it.

In my experience, this feeling of inconvenience usually leads to a feeling of aversion.

It is in every face that is scrunched up, not in confusion but in frustration.

It is in every careless pronunciation of a name, butchered, with no apology.

It is in every shortening or changing of a non-Western name to make it sound more Western. For example, some people legally change their names because it is a commonly accepted fact that it will be easier for minorities to get a job this way.

These are all microaggressions that may not be noticeable to those doing it, but the “othering” that occurs through them has real impacts on the self esteem and self identification of those receiving them.

It is through these types of microaggressions that we see larger, more over t results of discrimination and racial stereotyping such as categorizing typical African American names, and thus the people with those names, as “ghetto”, or traditional Arab names (and people) as “dangerous”.

Unfortunately, this demonstrates that discrimination can occur in far more insidious ways than we actively know about.

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HEALTH

My experience with learning disabilities

One Concordia student’s experience dealing with dyslexia and learning disabilities

KATHERINE MILLINGTON CONTRIBUTOR It is without question that the greatest thing dyslexia has taught me is patience.

In elementary school, I didn't start out on the same even playing field as the rest

of the kids when it came to reading. It was obvious to everyone. As a kid, being dyslexic and having memory problems felt like I was trying to join in on a game that, not only did I not know the rules to, but that I wasn’t allowed to play. It was incredibly alienating.

While my friends were reading Magic Tree House books, I couldn't even read street signs. I knew I was different. At the time, the only logical conclusion I could come to was that I must not be very smart. When you’re nine years old and you think you’re dumb because you can’t read, spell, do math or really participate in school… well it almost shut me down.

Fortunately, I was lucky. My parents decided to remove me from the French immersion program I was in at the time, and transferred me to a school with a special education program. I know this was a delicate and serious decision for my parents to make. Transferring schools meant uprooting the entire social life of a child who was already dealing with severe emotional anxiety.

Obviously, I think they worried that I had trouble making friends. After all, I was a rash-covered, highly nervous little kid who spent the majority of the day in a separate special education class. I only recently found out that my dad was so worried about me during this time that, after dropping me off at school in the mornings, he would sometimes sit in the car and just cry before driving away to work.

I say that I am incredibly lucky because

I had a good support system and hard work on my part eventually made things easier. Also, lots of educational testing, being given the resources I needed in my special education program and having amazing teachers who were thoughtful, kind, passionate, patient and incredibly dedicated made a huge difference. I was given the time and opportunity to come into my own, in a protected bubble where my results on educational testing didn’t matter.

At Concordia, I am still benefiting from the same kinds of resources I had back in elementary school, thanks in large part to the Access Centre for Students with Disabilities and some of the amazing and accommodating professors I have had during my time at Concordia.

My only piece of advice for those with learning disabilities, or for their family members, is to be patient. It can be a very long road when you have a learning disability, so it’s important to celebrate the small victories and remain determined. This patience and hard work will hopefully bring you closer to your goals and to success in school and life, as it did for me.

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ARTS EDITOR /// arts@theconcordian.com JESSICA KINNARI & TIFFANY LAFLEUR

THEATRE

Welcome to your worst nightmares

Concordia’s theatre students bring their much-anticipated collective Underbelly to the One-Act Play Festival

JESSICA KINNARI CO-ARTS EDITOR Filled with strobe lights, choral speaking and aggressive physicality, Underbelly explores themes of animality and fear.

This one-act collective creation is the result of eight months worth of research.

The show was created by Camille Banville, Julian Duarte, Deborah Hartmann, Wilson Menary, Mariam Nazaryan, Lukas Reinsch, Madeline Smart, Sophie-Thérèse StoneRichards, Leyla Sutherland and Luisa Zap, a group of both Concordia theatre students and students from Erlangen, Germany. It is part of the exchange program offered to theatre students at Concordia. Students travel to Erlangen, Germany for four months to attend classes, and begin to work on a show. Afterwards, the German students do the same and come to Concordia for the following four months. At the end of the process, the group debuts their collective at Concordia’s One-Act Play Festival.

Underbelly focuses on monsters and hybrids (mythological creatures). The show explores people’s inner monsters and what they can become, through scenes of abuse and control. A particularly difficult scene to watch was one of abuse that features three couples who, in a synchronized sequence, appear to abuse their partners, both physically—by twisting their arms—as

well as psychologically and sexually. It ends with a somewhat long segment of erotic and suggestive movements, and the three victims smearing vaseline on a plexiglas board and licking it off. Difficult to watch, it also leaves the audience wondering what is happening, especially when watching three people lick vaseline. Although it is a powerful image, it is quite unpleasant to observe.

The show’s transitions often featured a strobe light and a group of actors walking across the stage posing in various positions.

Sometimes they engaged the audience with choral speaking, sometimes the transition was simply covered by music. Either way, it made for a more refreshing take on the typical transitions of a collective.

The show is mostly about audience interpretation, as not many of the scenes are explained and due to the strobe light it is sometimes diffiult to see what is happening. However, after attending a rehearsal of the show, it became clear that that was the point. If the audience is ques-

tioning what’s happening, and wondering if what was happening was real, then the actors seemed to be content. öö The One-Act Play Festival ran at Concordia’s D.B Clarke Theatre from November 9 to 13. It was composed of five student acted plays, some original some not. To see what performance is coming up next for Concordia theatre, be sure to check out the Fine Arts department calendar.

POETRY

you are running around in the dark & for my first workshop part 1 you are running around in the dark i am hungry but also not my therapist says “i know you hate confrontation” i haven’t really thought about it the clock on the kitchen stove is seven hours fast i walk all the way you are going to sleep to hide from a problem i am staying awake beside windows where dark presses in close like bodies in a room in the middle of the night

many strangers have been talking to me we all wake up early when the sun comes in will you sing me to sleep? will you still love me even when i go away? we stayed like that for months before i was swallowed up

In her poetry, Kara Bowers explores themes of womanhood, healing, and coming of age, to name a few. Bowers is in her fourth year at Concordia University, studying Creative Writing and Studio Arts. She is from Toronto.

i stayed in the mouth with an old woman she said “i used to look just like you -you remind me of my friend who died in the war”

i cross the street without looking i ask if you saw me watching you say no inside of you it is me i have pulled a muscle in my left thigh walking in the fresh my therapist says “anxiety is awareness” i repeat this in the new city in my urges to ravage my body and to destroy its natural shape something made me want to change you feel like the blue and the green out the window in my parent’s house i had so much more to say when i walked across that bridge every day

for my first workshop part 1 i will not prune myself for you i can’t sleep when i’m touching you in the mornings i wake up with you and i drink two cups of water i go right into the center and i bite the pit we move closer together i run into you on the way you shout whisper my name when you eat an apple do you eat the whole thing?

i turn into an eggshell i press my face into my knees the message she sends says: i care about you. i never stopped caring i wash my hair it is spilling out i call the angels. another crisis without your voice i sleep with the blinds open and i wake up every hour each day i wear red for the fire power there is so much more than just seeing your name. the plants sing a song to make us fall asleep i tell you about lying underneath the flower blanket i tell you about the book i’m reading i put my face into bowls of salt and water i will be safe with you a piece of wire breaks off my teeth and flies away

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EXHIBITION

Science as art, objects as organisms New exhibition at the FOFA Gallery looks at objects and how our relationship with them may change

TIFFANY LAFLEUR CO-ARTS EDITOR

D N A / T h e Fu t u re Life of Objects will be on display at the FOFA Gallery until Dec. 9. Photo courtesy of the FOFA gallery.

The Faculty of Fine Arts Gallery, located in the EV building, has been transformed into a ‘biological’ laboratory for its new exhibit.

DNA/ The Future Life of Objects is the culmination of three years of research from students and professors from Concordia and l’Université de Montreal. The project imagines a future in which artificial objects could possibly be encrypted with a genetic code—just like humans, plants and animals.

It is a research-creation project led by Martin Racine, an associate professor and graduate program director in the department of design and computation arts at Concordia.

According to Racine, DNA/The Future Life of Objects is a reflection on the world of material and artificial objects. He is interested in the environmental impact of design, the relationship that people have with the things that surround them and how, as a consumerist society, these objects are treated.

DNA/The Future Life of Objects includes a manifesto, containing six points that objects should follow in the future. According to this manifesto, in the future, objects will reveal their anatomy, declare their impacts, tell their stories, express their emotions, care for their descendants and communicate with each other.

“A manifesto is always a way to create some change. So it's a way to raise awareness, and then it’s an effort to change society ,in a way,” said Racine. “That's why the manifesto has both a provocative aspect, but also tries to sensitize the public with their relation with objects.”

This manifesto acts as a starting point

for the rest of the exhibition. Eight modules are on display in the main space of the FOFA Gallery, with six of them directly relating to one of the principles suggested in the manifesto.

Each contains different kinds of objects, such as flashlights and toasters, which evoke the feeling of being in a natural history museum and watching specimens on display. Each module has interactive elements, such as an X-ray machine with a knob that can be turned to ‘see’ the inside mechanisms of a flashlight.

This interactive element is a particularly strong part of the exhibition, as the audience becomes a participant as opposed to remaining a passive viewer.

“I think the expo becomes much more interesting when the visitor is called to touch, to feel, to hear, to manipulate—it makes the experience of the visitor much more compelling. So that was really the objective here,” said Racine.

In addition to the modules in the main gallery space, the exhibition also includes a video depicting an analysis of the material make-up of objects about to be thrown away, and how they could instead be recycled. Parts of the exhibition are on display in the York Corridor vitrines as well. Everyday, mundane objects, such as rulers and phones, are placed in jars containing colourful liquids, reminiscent of a scientist's’ collection of biological specimens.

As a whole, the exhibition challenges the viewer to try understanding objects in a different light. Instead of a mere commodity to be used at one’s convenience, technology and objects need to be understood as part of a greater picture, especially given their environmental and ecological impacts. The exhibition totally alters the FOFA Gallery space through lighting and sound, evoking the mood of a laboratory rather than an art gallery.

The FOFA Gallery is open Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free. DNA/The Future Life of Objects will be displayed in the gallery until Dec. 9 To learn more about DNA/The Future Life of Objects, visit metadna.ca.

While DNA/The Future Life of Objects takes up the space inside the FOFA Gallery, it is important to mention a second exposition happening simultaneously. Every year, in November, the Concordia Remembers exhibition returns with the aim of offering a vision of peace.

Crisis, displayed outside on the wall of the EV building, is a reflection on the Mexican currency crisis of 1994 and is created

by Victor Arroyo, a MexicanCanadian citizen. It is a photograph depicting a subjective reflection of the Mexican social crisis, and is Arroyo’s personal memorial to the crisis. Concordia Remembers will be on display until Nov. 30.

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FILM

2010 G20: A dark moment in Canadian history Protesters who were held hostage by the Toronto police share their story in new documentary ROMINA FLORENCIA ARRIETA STAFF WRITER The 2010 Toronto G20 summit will forever be remembered as a sad moment in Canadian history. According to the Toronto Star, the event marks the largest mass arrest in Canada, as over 1,100 people were detained.

The majority of these individuals were never charged, since there was no valid reason to warrant their arrests. It is a moment most Canadians would like to forget, as it projected an overwhelmingly negative image of our police force onto the international stage. At Cinema Politica’s latest screening, filmmaker Lucius Dechausay's short documentary, Kettle, showcases footage from the protest and interviews with people who were detained

by Toronto police.

What is shocking is how mundane the initial protest was. There were just a group of people standing in an intersection protesting the G20 summit. According to Terra Dafoe, one of the protestors, the atmosphere was quiet and rather calm. It was a spur-of-the-moment demonstration. After a couple of minutes of peaceful protesting, a large crowd of police officers advanced on the group, banging on their shields. What ensued was the kettling, a term used to describe the polices’ technique of boxing in a large group of people, both protesters and bystanders.

The documentary shows footage of those who were left standing in the heavy rain without proper clothes or shelter. Since the event took place in June, some protesters were wearing tank tops and flip-flops and were not given any blankets. Erin Macpherson, one of the

protesters interviewed in the film, joined the voluntary line-up for arrest, thinking she would at least be able to escape the cold weather by surrendering herself to the police. Instead, she was handcuffed and left standing in the rain for hours while waiting to be processed.

A lot of those who were held in the kettle were not involved in the protest. Some were only walking home from work, some were kids enjoying a day downtown or mothers running errands. They were people in the wrong place, at the wrong time. Some were detained for 24 hours, simply because they were standing on a public street.

One of the main reasons the situation got so out of hand was the clear miscommunication between protesters and police. There was no warning to disperse nor any use of crowd dispersing equipment. Law enforcement officers were waiting for instructions from Supt. Mark Fenton, who instructed his team to arrest every person caught in the kettle. Fenton latter publicly apologized for the mass arrest order, as it “demonstrated a lack of understanding to the right to protest.”

In 2015, The Toronto Star reported that Fenton was convicted on two counts of unlawful arrest and one count of discreditable conduct, relating to two incidents of kettling.

This documentary reminds us why we can’t allow ourselves to shove critical moments in our history under the rug. We owe it to those who were affected by the mass arrest at the G20 summit to determine why such an embarrassing situation was allowed to unfold. Even though Kettle is hard to watch, it conveys the shortcomings of our police system.

FILM

Marvel’s superhero ranks grow once more Doctor Strange brings another superpower to the Marvel cinematic universe: Magic

TIFFANY LAFLEUR CO-ARTS EDITOR The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) includes people gifted with incredible genius, raw power, cunning intelligence and the strength of gods. Now, it’s adding magic to the mix.

Directed by Scott Derrickson and starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Rachel McAdams, Doctor Strange is an interesting and worthy addition to

the Marvel franchise. It has the same core formula-reluctant hero, powerful item, final showdown-that Marvel has perfected, yet it also brings something new to the genre.

Dr. Stephen Strange (Cumberbatch) is a brilliant neurosurgeon whose intellect is surpassed only by his ego. His world collapses after his hands are shattered in a terrible car accident, in which his vehicle goes careening off the road one rainy night. Broken both inside and out,

Strange goes to great lengths to repair his hands—the tools that allow him to perform his life-saving miracles. When Western medicine fails him, a desperate Strange travels to Nepal to dabble in the mystic arts as a last resort. There, he meets the Ancient One (Tilda Swinton).

In a psychedelic montage that must have been inspired by some drug-induced trip, Strange gets a glimpse of this new world of mysticism: rushing lights, hands growing on fingers, mirror dimensions and endless universes. From there, Doctor Strange begins his tutelage in the arts of mysticism, where he learns to manipulate time, matter and space.

The cinematography of the film is incredible, featuring beautifully composed shots and incredible montages of a city folding and bending in on itself.

The depictions of magic and spells are interesting and creative.

Aficionados of the superhero genre will find a breath of fresh air with this atypical Marvel film. We might not have needed another superhero origin story, but we got one anyway-and it is an interesting direction to take the MCU in.

Unlike other Marvel movies, Doctor Strange doesn’t rely as much on explosions and grand finale battles. Rather,

the fights occur in different dimensions, where gravity is subjective and, in order to vanquish your opponent, you must bend space and time at your will. Think Inception meets The Avengers.

What’s interesting about Strange’s character is that he went searching for this power. Unlike Spider-Man, who was bitten, or Bruce Banner, who accidentally radiated himself, Strange goes out of his way to learn the mystic arts—but not under the guise of being a hero. His intentions, like his character, are self-centered. He wishes to heal his hands and become the surgeon he’s always been. Having worked on the cutting edge of science and medicine, he transitions to the harder-tograsp mystical arts, something none of his PhDs will help him understand.

Doctor Strange is yet another piece of the Marvel puzzle, and it will be interesting to see how they all fit together.

DOCTOR STRANGE

 Directed by Scott Derickson Starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rachel McAdams Released on November 4, 2016 Duration 115 min

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FEATURE

Outside of the museum: Part two

Montreal and public art, the final segment of a feature story published in two parts

1 LAURIANE DUVAL-BELAIR CONTRIBUTOR

Last week, part one of this story explained how public art was established in the city of Montreal and the province of Quebec.

When questioned about the importance of investments and the politics of public art, Pascal Beaudet, project manager at the Ministry of Culture and Communications, said it enables artists to create imposing works. It gives them unequalled experience, as they are offered a great amount of money to create enormous pieces of art. “You don’t start creating monumental 35-feet pieces of art for your backyard,” said Beaudet.

“It brings many things to many people,” said artist Linda Covit about public art. Public pieces make art accessible, because people don’t have to enter museums or galleries to see works of art. How many times have you been to the Montreal Contemporary Art Museum this year? Probably not that many times, especially when compared to the numbers of times you’ve walked by works of contemporary art in the city.

After the screening of the documentary À Tout Hasard, artists took the time to discuss with the public why public art mattered to them. Artist Jean-Robert Drouillard said, due to a lack of contracts last year, he had to spend six months working for artist Marc-Antoine Côté. Public art allows professional artists to work and contribute to the urban planning, said Laurent Vernet, the commissioner of the Montreal Public Art Bureau.

Public art can prompt positive reactions too. Covit said a citizen once wrote to her about one of her pieces in St-Bruno, expressing how happy he was to walk past it everyday. “It really touched me,” said Covit.

A school in Ville Saint-Laurent even used the name one of artist Michel Saulnier’s sculptures to rename the school. He said he still receives reactions about pieces, inspired by architecture, that have been installed for 25 years. “The work is living,” said Saulnier.

Public art aims to integrate into the landscape, giving an identity to the location and becoming part of people’s lives. It makes people think and ask questions. For Johanne

Sloan, an art history professor at Concordia University, public art makes art less elitist.

“It brings art closer to everyday life,” she said. With time, Vernet said, those works of art become intricately attached to their location, using the example of the Melvin Charley sculpture at the Émilie-Gamelin park. “We can’t imagine those places without those works that define them and that give them their identity,” said Vermet.

Covit, who also created a monumental piece for the MUHC, said it’s important not to forget that the money invested in public art doesn’t go all into the artists’ wallet. For her MUHC sculpture, Le Havre, she had engineers, technicians, manufacturers, painters, electricians and light creators working with her. Those collaborators, and the materials needed for the sculpture, were paid for through the projects building budget.

More than just public critics, some art historians also hold negative positions on the subject. Sloan criticized the one per cent decree because it can result in what she considers “bland art.” According to the professor, artists who want to please the public might create pieces that are not

upsetting, but that are not exciting either.

“The more the artwork is triggering conversation, the more successful it is as public art,” said Sloan. Vernet, on the other hand, believes works of public art usually follow the artist’s line of creation and are not created only to please the public.

For Sloan, permanent public art tends to become like a type of furniture in the landscape-always there, which results in people not paying attention to it. Sloan said that other directions could be taken to make the works more interesting to the public. She said temporary pieces of public art, which could trigger less anger because of their brief appearances, could encourage very interesting conversations.

Trafalgar Square in London, for example, had a project called The Fourth Plinth Project, which offered a space for artists to create temporary contemporary sculptures amongst traditional permanent statues.

“I think those projects are much more successful,” said Sloan.

To read the from beginning to end in its entirety visit theconcordian.com/ section/arts.

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(2) The Fourth Plinth Project in Trafalgar Square attempts to draw in more interest from the public with it’s temporary art. Photo from Flikr.

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Revenge, lust, love and loss: A night at the opera Don Giovanni brings the story of a womanizer’s crusade to Place des Arts TIFFANY LAFLEUR CO-ARTS EDITOR

Don Giovanni is a man hungry for what he wants most in the world: women. And he goes to great lengths to get what he wants. Photo courtesy of Yves Renaud.

Don Giovanni is no gentleman. He is a smooth-talking womanizer on a crusade to bed as many women as he can, be they young, old, married or even unwilling.

Written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Don Giovanni premiered in Prague at the National Theater in 1787. The opera is sung in Italian with English and French surtitles, and lasts three hours. It tells the story of a man obsessed with loving as many women as he can, unrepentant and unaware of the path of destruction he leaves behind.

The opera starts with Don Giovanni (Gordon Bintner) attempting to force himself on Donna Anna (Emily Dorn).

Desperate, Donna Anna cries for help. Her father, the Commendatore (Alain Coulombe) comes rushing in.

Drawing his sword, he challenges Don Giovanni, who pulls out a gun and shoots the Commendatore point blank in the chest, murdering him. Upon seeing her father’s body, Donna Anna swears to get revenge on her assailant.

This opening scene sets the tone for the rest of the opera. Don Giovanni is a ruthless womanizer, using his charm to get what he wants. He doesn’t care about class, weight, height or looks. So long as they are women, he is attracted to them. His assistant, Leporello (Daniel Okulitch), keeps a detailed notebook of his conquests: 1,003 women in Spain alone.

While Don Giovanni might like to bed women, he certainly doesn’t keep in touch.

While lounging around a café, he spies a woman angrily searching for the lover who scorned her. Sauntering over, he tells Leporello he wishes to ‘console’ her, to which Leporello scoffs. He’s clearly done this trick before. The woman, however, is Donna Elvira and the lover she is looking for is Don Giovanni. She reprimands him for leaving her broken-hearted and pregnant.

For the rest of the opera, Don Giovanni continues on his quest for conquests, instructing Leporello to keep the notebook handy—but ultimately, not even Don Giovanni can outrun his sins forever. While he is busy chasing every woman he meets, a group, led by Donna Anna, is plotting Giovanni’s downfall.

The opera is a cautionary tale, in that it warns sinners that eventually their crimes will catch up to them. After years of lying, cheating and abusing women, Don Giovanni’s injustices finally catch up with him, as the Commendatore comes back from the grave and asks him to repent. Upon Don Giovanni’s refusal, the Commendatore claims his soul and casts him into the depths of hell.

The opera deals with very real and serious topics: revenge, murder and sexual abuse.

The serious nature, however, is offset slightly

by Leporello and his interactions with other characters. His wit and innocent charm, as well as his dejected nature towards his master’s activities, counter-balance the heaviness of the rest of the opera. öö Don Giovanni will be performed at Place des Arts on Nov. 17 and 19 at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets start at just under $60 for the show and are available on the Place des Arts website.

The Concordian is hiring an

Arts Editor

for Winter 2017

Responsibilities

• Report on all kinds of arts and culture events in Montreal, • Edit the articles of writers, • Pitch weekly stories, • Be creative and collaborative • Have fun with our team!

Interested applicants can submit a CV, a brief cover letter and a few writing samples to editor@theconcordian.com

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Artists from Concordia featuring Olivia Mansveld

"I am a mixed media artist, with a background informed by fibre art and garment construction, tailoring, pattern making, and sewing.

Currently, my practice consists of explorations and new works in mixed media, adding paper collage, sound collecting, and drawing, in addition to fibre art. I can do a few stitches on the hem of a skirt or construct a dress and I instantly feel most at home. I find that creating things with my hands gives me an intriguing way to build tangible forms to match the human experience I have in my world, and to share that with others. Wearables and fabric allow me to communicate in sculptural hands-on ways which are closely connected to the human experience and the human body. I'm also interested in the rich history behind textiles as a creative medium."

"I was born in Nelson, British Columbia, and I studied at Concordia in Studio Arts and Psychology starting in 2014.

Previous to attending Concordia, I completed a diploma in Fibre Arts with Honours at the Kootenay School of the Arts at Selkirk College in Nelson, BC, in 2013. A few of my goals for the future involve continuing to produce my own weaving and garment/clothing line, and eventually to find a longer-term career practicing Art Therapy."

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MUSIC EDITOR /// music@theconcordian.com SANDRA HERCEGOVÁ

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The visionary realm of KyΔzMa Electronic-folk duo from Montreal launches new album, The Magician’s Mirror

Candid shot of Christina Enigma and William Moon. Photo by Kinga Michalska.

SANDRA HERCEGOVÁ MUSIC EDITOR Enter the visionary realm of KyΔzMa, an electronic-folk duo from Montreal that will bring magical ballads to your eardrums.

William Moon is the guitarist, electro beat producer and vocalist, and Christina Enigma does vocals and piano. They released their debut album, The Magician’s Mirror, on Oct. 27 at Casa Del Popolo.

The duo wanted their release party to combine multiple artists and art forms. “We thought of all our friends who do performance art of any sort and who have worked with us before on shows that we organize,” said Enigma. There were many musicians, as well as people, in theatre, puppetry and circus. “The show was very open and did not have much structure. We wanted it to have a more natural and dynamic appeal,” said Moon. “Oct 27 is the birthday of both our mothers, so it also was a gift to them” said Enigma.

Moon is originally from Ottawa and Enigma is from Brantford, Ont. They both moved to Montreal to pursue their careers in music. Moon graduated from Concordia University in 2013, with a degree in philosophy. “I worked on music independently since I moved to Montreal from Ottawa and spent more time doing electronic music than studying,” said Moon. Enigma graduated from Laurier University, majoring in kinesiology and psychology. The duo met as roommates in 2012. “We would jam and sing together at choirs with other musicians in the Mile End,” said Enigma. It was back then they decided to organize their first show together.

“We had to come up with a name for the show and we called it KyΔzMa. A month or two later, we started the band,” said Moon.

At first, they each had apprehensions about joining forces. “It was the electro component that I wasn’t certain about,” said Enigma.

Their band’s name, KyΔzMa, refers to the optic chiasma, which is the X-shaped structure formed at the point below the brain where two optic nerves cross over each other. “KyΔzMa refers to different concepts crossing paths together—bringing different ideas and forms of art to create an ultimate experience,” said Moon. Their mixture of electronic and classical music reinforces this theme. “It’s a mix of the future with the past—electro representing the future and classical instruments representing the past,” he said.

Their first show’s concept combined different features of art—they didn’t want it to be a simple band and audience performance. “We wanted less of ‘on the stage in the spotlight’ and more “Diagon Alley (Harry Potter) meets troll market down the rabbit hole in Wonderland,” said Enigma. There was no official line up other than KyΔzMa playing on stage, followed by a communal jam. “There were solo anti-performances of harp, accordion, beat boxing and a witchy loop extravaganza,” said Enigma. Ghostly Hounds, a local witch-folk band and the Fruiting Bodies, a local acappella trio of which two of their members are Concordia students, also joined in on the communal jam. All this lead up to a bondage performance that happened as KyΔzMa started playing, as well as guest dancers who jumped up on stage.

Moon did his thesis on collective cognition, which he said has had an influence on the band’s music. The song “Magician Man” is inspired by Plato’s Allegory of the Cave.

“Sometimes philosophy gets in the lyrics,” Moon said. Other influences come from music festivals, nature, exploring the forest and taking psychedelics, which drop people into deeper levels of consciousness, said Enigma.

In August 2015, the duo wanted to travel and go on tour on the West Coast. They spontaneously hit the road and tried to find gigs as they went along. “It was a difficult tour, but overall a good learning experience. We played shows in San Francisco, Reno and got to play three shows at the Burning Man music festival,” said Enigma.

Their new album, The Magician’s Mirror, reflects on facing fears and realizing there’s always an infinite amount of outlooks and perspectives. “The album is about love and fear—it’s about experiencing the light at the end of darkness,” said Moon. “The beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” Enigma said. “You can perceive it the way you want.” The album’s songs were largely written before the duo even started the band. “We did a lot of work through the recording process to work out melodies and harmonies, like the piano,” said Moon.

The Magician’s Mirror ballads take you to another world, one where your body dances in a trance. On their track “The Circle,” the melody is addictive—the acoustic guitar riffs, along with the electronic beats sound just right together. Overall, the album aims towards conscious evolution. “The lyrics are profound, experiential and emotive. It’s an experience to listen to them,” said Enigma. “The Circle” was released on Sept. 25 at Divan Orange for Pop Montreal. “We shot [The Circle’s] music video in one afternoon,” said Enigma.

Enigma said she enjoys being theatrical and wearing costumes during her performances. “Sometimes, when you put on a mask, you become more of your real self,” she said.

Whether it’s by wearing a creepy mask or using gizmos that make creepy sounds, Enigma loves to spread the magic around. KyΔzMa believes the more art during their performances, the better. “Live painting, tarot reading, anything that can get our audience to participate is key,” said Enigma. The duo would love to have their music bring them around the world. “I want to travel with our music and we want people to want our records,” said Moon. “We are also trying to learn how to make our performances closer to a DJ experience,” he said.

KyΔzMa’s words of advice for aspiring musicians: do music for yourself. “Don’t be doing it for others—they are going to want different things. It’s going to be hard to cover all these grounds if you are not true to yourself,” they said.

Stay tuned for their upcoming shows and check out their new music video for “The Circle.”

ALICIA KEYS

Here (RCA Records, 2016)

Here is where Alicia Keys sings her heart and soul out to the ones who need to hear it most. On this album, her signature R&B style evolves towards gospel and experimental. Keys keeps it simple with slow rhythms and voiceover tales—it’s as if you are having a conversation with her through her music. In her track “Kill Your Mama,” she sings as though she is speaking to you about life’s struggles.

She doesn’t specify which ones—her storytelling is rather about having hope.

In this track, she asks one important question: “Is there any changing us, even for the sake of love?” For the track “She Don’t Really Care,” Keys mixes elements of slow jazz and an instrumental excerpt from rapper Nas’ song “One Love,” which represents her hometown of New York City. My personal favourite song off the album is “Blended Family,” featuring A$AP Rocky, where her R&B-pop sound resurfaces. It’s the only song on the album that sounds like the Alicia Keys we used to know.

11 Trial Track: “Blended Family” ft. A$AP Rocky

6.5/10

—Sandra Hercegová, Music Editor

TALIB KWELI

Awful People Are Great at Parties (Javotti Media, 2016)

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Listen! Was Talib Kweli playing hide and seek? There are one too many featured artists in each song on this album, most of them I have never heard of. So much that, I couldn’t even tell wh1en Kweli took on the mic. His old-school storytelling and powerful hooks weren’t present. It doesn’t even sound like his album, since we barely hear him in any of the songs. Instead of keeping it real with his old-school lyrical genius charm, he seems to be trying to sound like a generic version of Jay-Z. The track that sounded most like the Talib Kweli we all know is “Every Ghetto Pt.2,” featuring Aloe Blacc and Problem. We only hear Kweli rapping for 10 seconds there, yet it is one of the only songs on this album that has flow. It’s disappointing, as Kweli was high up on my list of best rappers. Overall, an awful album that won’t sound great at a party.

11 Trial Track: “Every Ghetto Pt.2” Ft. Aloe Blacc & Problem

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—Sandra Hercegová, Music Editor

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Black America Again (Def Jam/UMG, 2016)

Hot damn, Black America Again! The album welcomes you with arms wide open on Common’s first track, “Pride &Joy,” featuring Bilal. This track commands us to “turn our light on” for joy and peace of mind. Common is a lyrical master—he is not only a rapper, but an intelligent poet and writer. Proof of this can be heard on his track “Home,” also featuring Bilal. He speaks about his personal experience of fame and how he wants to leave this world and go home to God. He also tells us not to get caught up in the vanity of our world’s insanity. The highlight track of the album is “Black America Again,” featuring Stevie Wonder. On this track, Common courageously rewrites black American history. “These are the things we gotta discuss. The new plantation, mass incarceration. Instead of educate, they’d rather convict the kids. As dirty as the water in Flint, the system is.” Black America Again is a powerful and educational album. The message is to remind everyone to stick together and fight for justice, no matter where you come from.

11 Trial track: “Black America Again” Ft. Stevie Wonder

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—Sandra Hercegová, Music Editor

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The Magician’s Mirror (AEON RADIX, 2016) KyΔzMa’s debut album, The Magician’s Mirror, brings forth an eclectic, fresh genre. Traditional instruments, such as the piano or guitar, are used to create a folksy feel, but overtop lies layers of haunting electronic sounds and deep, downtempo beats. Add to that the soft male and female harmonies of duo Christina Enigma and William Moon and you have the essence of The Magician’s Mirror. The electronic-folk mix creates a powerful, enchanting vibe on a lot of the tracks. Lyrically, the duo explores themes such as following your heart and overcoming your fears. Although the dissonant nature of the album is intriguing, by the midway point, the songs start to bleed into one. The singers stay mainly within the same vocal range throughout the record. The tempo also does not get tampered with much from track to track, adding to that repetitive nature. The Magician’s Mirror is surely experimental, but the melodic sameness makes the electronic-folk feel become stale.

11 Trial track: “Kia”

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— Cristina Sanza, Editor-in-Chief

Rust Eden’s journey to success

Alexander and David's love of music has turned into a five-piece rock band

Rust Eden is pictured performing at L’Escogriffe on St-Denis. Photo by Jean-Philippe Sansfacon.

EMILY VIDAL ASSISTANT MUSIC EDITOR

comes from putting a lot of pressure on themselves, but they say it can be a positive thing as well. "I think it's a good thing because we are [creating] so much music.

We are doing two or three songs a week," said Larin.

The band said that by focusing more on the creative process and less on gaining popularity through their music helps them build their confidence as well. It was around this time four years ago that

and with promotions," said Larin.

According to Bastien and Larin, as reserved people, it is hard to make contacts, At the heart of the Montreal rock band so they are thankful to have Chivy Chivy as Rust Eden are two long-time friends a record label. "We took a huge step with who have a deep and profound love for them just to promote our band. We have music. They are vocalist, guitarist and no contacts in Montreal, so they just know keyboardist Alexander Larin and bassist how to do it,” said Bastien. “We tried, but David Bastien. we're not good at it.”

These musicians met each other in Although they are both very happy Saint-Eustache a decade ago, where with how the album turned out, they're both of them grew up. ready to move on with Their shared passion and their new music. "We're drive made it natural for the kind of guys who them to combine their just... We're doing music music and start jamming and once it's released, we together right away. They say to ourselves: 'Okay, started off with the band what's the next thing?... name Gregon Ciel, which What's the next step? How involved a progressive can we make something music style. "We made a different?’” said Larin. lot of music before. Did Bastien and Larin have some recording, just the always been focused on two of us at my parent’s creating unique music house," said Larin. they’re proud of—someHowever, by only thing that will never making music alone in change throughout their Larin’s basement, they musical careers. "We just began building a bubble Rust Eden jamming at Studio B in 2015. Photo by Camille St-Jacques. wanted to make music around themselves. It from scratch,” said Larin. got to the point that they were afraid to go they decided to create the band Rust Eden. "We don't want to sound like anything else. out and share their music with the world.

They then grew their musical duo into The final goal is to [compose] original music."

Although they have built up their con- a five-piece band, with Marc-Antoine The band is now experimenting fidence over the years, the shyness still Sévégny on drums, Étienne Broué on with sound and adding more glam rock exists for both musicians. "It's still a big guitar and Benoît Parent on keyboards. influences to their upcoming EP. "It will deal,” said Larin. “It's better than it was, They also wanted to add more musicians have the groovy kind of stuff, because but there's mood swings in the process. to their band in order to bring a new dimension we've always been more down tempo, There's a lot of, 'Oh is it okay? Do I suck?'" to the sound of their live performances. "I kind of stoner type of music, but we're They believe that this lack of confidence think that playing with other musicians is trying to do more up-tempo and upper pretty cool because you're music," said Larin. playing with different mindBoth Larin and Bastien’s mindsets and sets,” said Larin. “I think it's points of view will be equally featured in really positive to hear other the upcoming EP. "In terms of lyrics, for the musician's ideas." next album it’s pretty 50/50," said Larin.

The band released their They are simply happy to be playing latest album, Apartment together and compose original music that Green, in May, and will be they are proud of. "That's the best high we releasing an EP in the upcom- can get. It’s just so much fun," said Larin. ing year. It was recorded in The most important thing for these two Parent's studio, Studio B. "It friends is to be true to themselves and to was a no-brainer to record their music. "We just try to keep the roots there because it's a good of two guys who are doing music and studio with expensive stuff," tripping and... trying to explore things and said Larin. just satisfy ourselves in that kind of trip. It's Studio B's label, Chivy really a trip for us,” said Larin.

Chivy, has also given them a lot of funding for their music. öö Rust Eden will be performing at Casa "They paid for radio tracking Del Popolo on Nov. 17. The show starts Lavin and Bastien performing at the M bar on St-André in in the States and Canada, and at 9 p.m. and tickets are $7 at the 2015. Photo by Camille St-Jacques. they helped us with money door.

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SPORTS EDITOR /// sports@theconcordian.com ALEXANDER COLE ( @AlexCole_80)

SOCCER

Recapping the Concordia soccer season A look back at how the Stingers men’s and women’s team did out on the pitch this season

NICHOLAS DI GIOVANNI STAFF WRITER The Concordia Stingers soccer teams suffered through disappointing and heartbreaking seasons. Both the men’s and women’s teams missed the playoffs for a fourth straight year. In case you missed all of the action, here is a recap of their seasons.

Men’s Soccer The men’s team missed an opportunity to qualify for their first playoffs since 2012 by only three points.

The team finished with a record of 4-6-2, just one win shy of the fourth and final playoff spot, which went to the Univers ité de Montréal Carabins.

Head coach Greg Sutton, said in an interview at the beginning of the season he would be disappointed if they did not make the playoffs. Even though they just missed their goal, the Stingers should have a lot of hope moving forward.

Their 14-point season total is a vast improvement from the past two seasons, in which they only earned a combined total of 14 points. In 2014, they went 0-7-5, followed by a record of 3-9-0 last year.

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1. The women’s team had a disappointing season, ending the year with two wins.

2.The men’s team just barely missed the playoffs this season.

Photos by Ana Hernandez.

The team also featured three Réseau du sports étudiant du Québec (RSEQ) all-stars.

Defender Olivier Georges was named to the first all-star team, while defender Amadou Lam and goalie Karl Gouabé were named to the second all-star team. The last time RSEQ named three Stingers to its all-star teams was in 2002.

All three players were instrumental in the team’s solid defence, although Lam was playing out of position in the left back role instead of in his natural midfield position. Lam tied with three others—strikers Sebastien Boucley

and Gabriel Quinn, and midfielder Abdallah Medouni—as the team’s leading scorers, with four goals this season.

The Stingers have the pieces in place to do damage next season. The majority of the team is in their first or second year, with only five third-year players. With a fantastic goalkeeper, a solid midfield, speedy wingers and prolific strikers, the Stingers could have the playoffs in their sight for next season.

Women’s Soccer The women’s team’s season was a disappointing one. The Stingers finished

with a record 2-10-2, 17 points out of the playoffs. The games in which they got a result—a win or a tie—were all against non-playoff teams.

Head coach Jorge Sanchez, said late in the season he was expecting the program to grow this season, but was upset his team is regressing from past seasons. Their past seasons include records of 5-9-0 in 2013, and 3-6-5 in 2014. Last year, they went 4-9-1 and missed the playoffs by only two points.

There isn’t much they are doing different statistically. They scored 14 goals and conceded 35 this year. In the 2015 season, they put up similar numbers, scoring 18 and allowing 31.

Yet, they finished last season with five more points.

The Stingers were unlucky that two of the top teams in the country play in the RSEQ. The Université de Laval Rouge et Or finished the regular season ranked as the number one team in U Sports, and the Carabins finished fifth.

Stingers captain and defender Alyssa Ruscio was named to the RSEQ all-star team. Forward Laura Lamontagne, who led the team with five goals and three assists, did not make the cut, however.

BASEBALL

The Stingers baseball team by the numbers

A statistical guide of how Concordia and its players did on the diamond this season With Concordia's 2016 baseball season in the books, it's time for one last look at a year that saw the Stingers come within one win of making the national finals. Given baseball's reputation as the "moneyball" sport, what would be more appropriate than a statistical retrospective?

The Stingers played 24 games this season in the Canadian Collegiate Baseball Association (CCBA), finishing second out of five teams in the Northern Division.

The Stingers were not an amazing power hitting team this year—they had only one home run in 2016. Their rivals from McGill, who finished first in the Northern division, had them beat in power at the plate.

Where the Stingers made up ground was by playing "small ball": getting on base a lot and stealing bases. Second baseman Roberto Zapata led the team in this regard, stealing almost one base per game.

To the right are the team’s on-base plus slugging (OPS) leaders. OPS is a general purpose statistic to measure how successful batters are at the plate—such as how often they reach the base.

Concordia's pitchers Sam BelisleSpringer and Dan Connerty had a slow start to the season, hampered by offseason rust and the pressures of becoming team leaders, as they said in last week’s article in The Concordian , “Saying farewell to Concordia’s pitching duo.” They bounced back by mid-October, but were unable to carry that success into the postseason.

The graph to the right shows the team's earned run average (ERA) as the season progressed. ERA is the average number of runs a pitcher himself allows over seven innings.

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Bouldering with Concordia University Going on an adventure to Val-David with some brave students

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If you’ve been watching football pre-game shows over the last couple of weeks, you’ve probably heard the panelists talk about the NFL’s declining TV ratings. Yes that’s right, one of America’s favourite sports is becoming less favourable among viewers.

According to NBC Sports, the Nov. 7 “Monday Night Football” game between the Buffalo Bills and the Seattle Seahawks suffered a four per cent drop in ratings compared to the “Monday Night Football” game that aired this time last year. According to ESPN, ratings for Sunday night games are down 24 per cent and Thursday night games are down 18 per cent.

With the drop in ratings, people are trying to figure out what in the world is going on.

Concordia students gear up to climb the big boulder. Photos by Gordon Pham-Nguyen.

MATTHEW LAPIERRE STAFF WRITER On a cool November morning, 15 Concordia students met at the McDonald’s next to Côte-Vertu metro. It’s a good place to meet, eat a heavy breakfast and drink plenty of coffee before heading out for a day of bouldering.

What is bouldering?

It may sound silly, but bouldering is the sport of climbing boulders. Unlike rock or mountain climbing, the goal is not just to get to the top, but to get there by solving a “problem,” by working through a series of moves on small, often overhanging holds.

In this sport, the emphasis is on difficulty.

Boulderers fall often and when they do, they fall on to crash pads—small mattress-type cushions that soften the impact.

For these Concordia students, bouldering is a fun way to spend a day in the woods with your friends, working on “problems.”

Five cars left the metro station and headed north that morning towards Val-David, Que., a picturesque, alpine-style village in the Laurentians.

Best known as a pit stop along the Petit-Train-du-Nord bike path, Val-David is a quaint tourist spot. The town is divided by two rivers. It has a church, dozens of small restaurants, cafés and bakeries, and is situated in a valley, surrounded by rolling hills that turn bright orange and red this time of year.

What many people do not know about Val-David is that it is the heartland of climbing in Quebec.

According to the Val-David guidebook, climbing legends like Paul Laperriere and Bernard Poisson cut their teeth on the cliffs near the town in the 50s and 60s.

Before long, those pioneers had revolutionized the sport in Quebec, pushing physical limits while exploring what seemed like a never-ending collection of walls, caverns and pinnacles.

The Val-David regional park has more than 500 climbing routes.

By the late 70s, it is fair to say that ValDavid climbing was well-established and well-known, at least within the Quebec climbing community, according to the ValDavid climbing guidebook. What was only beginning to become known was a new sport: bouldering.

Today, bouldering is taking the world by storm. According to the International Federation of Sport Climbing, seven thousand people attended the Bouldering World Cup finals in Paris, France earlier this year.

Thousands more watched the event online.

Why is it becoming so popular? The simplicity of the sport is to blame, according to Nick McCullagh, one of the executives of the Concordia Rock Climbing Association.

“It’s so simple and aesthetic: whether you succeed or not depends on

if you can do the moves to get to the top.

There’s no complicated rules,” he said.

Of course, it’s much more complex than that, as the students who went to Val-David discovered. The problems on the Val-David boulders are hard and physical, requiring impressive finger strength. Some students rose to the occasion, attempting difficult problems and sometimes “topping out”— finishing the problem by getting to the top of the boulder. Others stayed on the easier rocks and were introduced to the sport, learning the definitions of discipline-specific jargon like “gaston” and “figure-four,” both of which are just fancy names for moves that boulderers use to get up the walls.

The students also learned the definition of “sending-season.” It’s that time of year when it is so cold outside that skin-onrock friction is improved. It happens when temperatures drop to around 0 C and it’s when most professional boulderers finally “send their projects,” meaning they get to the top of boulders they’ve been trying to climb for a long time.

It was so cold on that November day that it snowed, but according to some, there’s nothing better than bouldering in the snow.

“If you fall and your friends don’t catch you on the crash pad, then you’ll land in the snow and that’s just as good,” said Matthew Packer, an experienced boulderer who was with Concordia at Val-David that day.

How do you finish off a day of wrestling with boulders, a day of defying gravity? The Concordia climbers ended up at Le Mouton Noir, one of Val-David's popular local restaurants, sharing stories, laughing, drinking and nursing injured fingers.

Time well spent in good company, each and every one of them ready to do it again.

Bouldering can be a dangerous and technical sport that requires a lot of patience and some skill.

Even Donald Trump got into the mix, saying the election campaign drove ratings down, according to an article in Business Insider. However, I think the problem is much simpler than a presidential election. When you really think about it, the NFL has been unbearable this year.

In past years, every weekend there were at least two or three exciting games that made you come back for more. This season, there has been nothing of the sort.

In fact, games have been sleep-inducing, as the action has become slower and the same teams keep winning.

Earlier in the season, the Seattle Seahawks and Arizona Cardinals tied each other 6-6 in a game that, in my opinion, was the worst of this decade. The game was slow, low-scoring and neither team looked like they even cared.

According to Oakland Raiders head coach Jack Del Rio, referees are calling more penalties, which has made the flow of the games slow and almost unwatchable. To add insult to injury, the NFL has taken the fun out of the game by awarding more and more players penalties for excessive celebration after touchdowns.

So now if you want to actually add some personality to the game—well you can’t because good old NFL commissioner Roger Goodell will be coming for you.

The NFL has devolved into a laughable mess this year and it has made fans want to skip ahead to the Super Bowl. But hey, maybe that will be a ratings disaster as well.

opinions OPINIONS EDITOR /// opinions@theconcordian.com DAVID EASEY

EDITORIAL

Students need to fight for what they believe in

A striking image of oil up close and personal. Photo courtesy of FHG Photo.

You probably thought we were going to run an editorial denouncing the results of the U.S. presidential elections. To be frank, we are exhausted and sick of talking about it. The dirty campaign feels like it lasted a decade and, at The Concordian, we thought it’d be best to focus on another issue.

On Thursday afternoon, our news team reported on a demonstration staged by a group of students and faculty in the mezzanine of the Hall building. Their intent was to protest the expanding of the Dakota Access Pipeline (also referred to as DAPL).

The group consisted of individuals from a First Peoples elective class, as well as the

Indigenous Student Association at Concordia.

If you haven’t heard about DAPL, then you need to get your head out of the sand and head right over to Google search. The situation is currently unfolding in North Dakota, where protesters are trying prevent the construction of a giant oil pipeline that would go straight through several indigenous territories and severely impact the environment in the regions.

This is why you probably saw a ton of people on social media checking in at Standing Rock, a Hunkpapa Lakota and Yanktonai Dakota reservation located in both North Dakota and South Dakota

in the United States. The pipeline runs through this indigenous reservation and threatens the region’s only water supply.

Protesters from around North America have gathered at Standing Rock, where they continue to challenge authorities as they wage a defiant fight to protect their rights and lands.

Local police units were using Facebook as a means of tracking and arresting protesters.

This triggered a social media movement across the world, where individuals checked in to Standing Rock in an attempt to thwart the authorities.

While we applaud social media users for

their efforts, checking in to a location with the click of a button is simply not enough.

More needs to be done to send a strong message that a major pipeline which can cause severe environmental repercussions is unacceptable and inhumane.

This is why The Concordian fully supports the efforts made by the First Peoples elective class and the Indigenous Student Association during their protest on Thursday at Concordia. We encourage the rest of the student body to emerge from their hibernating states of disillusionment and mobilize towards the cause.

We also applaud the efforts of the Concordia Student Union and Divest Concordia to push for the university's divestment from fossil fuel investments. If we are to stop pipelines from being built in the future, we need to move towards sustainable energies that won’t pollute our planet.

We know this week has been shocking and tough to say the least. But we cannot give up fighting for our rights, and the rights of others around the world. Even if you aren’t fully behind stopping DAPL or don’t really understand the situation, we encourage you to educate yourself and get behind a cause you believe in.

In the words of author Stephen King, “get busy living or get busy dying.”

SOCIETY

PC Culture: An Evolution of Politeness

Weighing in on political correctness and how it can be benefit our evolving society SANIA MALIK ASSISTANT OPINIONS EDITOR Growing up as a brown Muslim girl, I wish I’d had a shield to protect myself from racism. I wish I could have been invisible when kids at the back of the class would hurl expletive insults at me, screaming “AllahuAkbar!” as I entered the room.

I wish political correctness had been around when I was in elementary and high school. It would have saved me from a lot of self-confidence issues. Whenever I hear criticism of political correctness (PC) culture—in the media or even during class discussions—I can’t help but feel upset. People don’t understand that PC culture is a form of protection for minorities.

According to The Huffington Post, the Angus Reid Institute conducted an online survey in August 2016 that showed 76 per cent of Canadians believe political correctness has gone “too far.” A lot of people share this sentiment and feel they cannot express their opinions about issues affecting marginalized people—but what they don’t understand is those comments are hurtful and unnecessary.

In my opinion, political correctness is a way for minorities—whether they’re people of colour or members of the LGBTQ+ community—to have a justification for being offended when someone says an insensitive thing about who they are.

We’re living in a time when minorities have the chance to feel empowered in our

society. In the past, non-whites and other marginalized groups had no voice. They were not accepted as equals and, therefore, didn’t deserve the chance to defend themselves against dangerous expressions.

of ideas on university campuses across the continent.”

In that same article, I read more about Saad’s stance on political correctness, how it is negative and limits free speech. Then, I

In a way though, political correctness has existed for a long time—hosts at dinner parties didn’t expect their guests to insult their food, for example. It’s something you just don’t do.

It’s considered common courtesy.

Today, PC culture has just expanded on the idea of common courtesy. Now, the gesture extends to minority groups who have the right to not feel insulted for being who they are.

Recently, a CBC article featured Concordia marketing professor Gad Saad, who explained his views regarding political correctness. He stated that it is “limiting the free exchange

came across the professor’s satirical argument against condemning cultural appropriation, in the same article. He said: "Our African ancestors were the first to engage in breathing…By that logic I think by breathing today, we are engaging in cultural appropriation of the first Homo sapiens. And so the only way I will ask you to stop being racist is to suffocate—to stop breathing."

That’s when I realized, like most people who argue against PC culture and think it has gone “too far,” Saad doesn’t understand its importance—or if he does, he doesn’t care.

PC culture is understanding and being sensitive to issues that don’t directly involve you. It’s understanding that cultural appropriation genuinely offends some people—even if it doesn’t offend you.

Freedom of speech means you have the right to say whatever you want. It means you can argue that cultural appropriation is fine and so are other issues that affect minorities. But it also means that you can be challenged for your views and called out for promoting ignorance. While I do believe freedom of speech is a necessity, I also believe minorities must be protected from ignorant stereotypes.

PC culture frustrates some people, sure.

But it also protects a lot of other, more marginalized people from offensive comments and dangerous ideas. I don’t believe PC culture should censor people from discussing controversial things—it’s important to have a dialogue between people from different communities, even if the person expressing their views might be a bit ignorant when it comes to their choice of words.

PC culture is correcting those negative and uninformed ideas. It’s pushing people to understand that the world no longer revolves around straight white guys—it’s now about a world where politeness takes precedence over out-dated, harmful ideas.

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SUCCESS

Does hard work actually get you anywhere?

Exploring the science behind luck, success and hard work in North America LÉANDRE LAROUCHE STAFF WRITER There’s no way to achieve your financial goals without working hard. North Americans understand this fairly well—I think our economic systems reward the hardest of the hardest-working individuals, which is partly legitimate.

However, luck and privilege are too often left behind when thinking about financial success. This shows when people approve right-wing economic policies such as austerity and major investments in the corporate sector. It seems absurd to me that in an already competitive society full of social inequalities, we want to advantage privileged people even more. If we truly acknowledged external factors to financial success in Quebec, for instance, the Government of Quebec would not have invested billions of dollars in Bombardier while cutting in education. The year 2012 reminds us that protesting can turn things around. But the silent majority speaks volumes right now.

Although I am opposed to economic inequalities, I will define financial success, for the purpose of this piece, as earning significantly more money than the average North American. This is not an easy project for everyone to undertake. The reason I think hard work is not enough is because no one can truly control his or her financial future.

The American Dream, the term coined

by James Truslow Adams in 1931, proclaims:

“life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.” In this definition lies the tacit assumption that hard work can get anyone anywhere. However, whether it is in the US or in Canada, attending the right schools and having the right

An artistic testimonial of hard work.Photo courtesy of Deornelas4. friends, just to name a few, are likely to get someone further than just working hard.

What happens to those who also work hard but don’t have the same opportunities?

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They suffer from right-wing economic policies. With austerity and investment of tax money in the private sector, they end up living in world in which they cannot even afford basic necessities. Education and health services become market values, which increase already existing inequalities.

Social environment, education and the events that occur during our life—whether they’re positive and negative—shape how we manage our life. Additionally, many

people contribute to our personal development—teachers, parents and friends have an enormous impact on us. Thus it enables some to get where they want, while it disables others. This is not even considering the fact that what most people want to do with their lives just pays average, if not less.

Therefore, shaping our economic policies as if individuals were the sole determiners in their financial success is completely unfair.

It’s like giving all the credit to a chef for an extraordinary meal, never mentioning the farmer’s effort for delivering impeccably fresh produce. I believe we should take this into account when we position ourselves on the political spectrum.

We can afford to provide everyone who works hard with equal chances to be financially successful. Or at least we can make sure the lives of people who haven’t had great opportunities because of right-wing economic policies. Being a Canadian or American citizen is a privilege in itself. It is unreasonable that one can have succeeded financially without the help of anyone, whether it is speaking about economic situation, social environment, and so forth.

People who struggle in life cannot be the only ones responsible of their condition, just as the ones who are financially satisfied.

If we acknowledge privilege factors, by opposing right-wing policies that just make rich people richer, then we will enable more hard-workers to reach financial success.

Due to some dispute over the status of students pursuing Arts and Science minors within the Arts and Science faculty, I have withdrawn from the CSU Council elections. While I’m deeply disappointed by this verdict, there is a silver lining in that I can now wholeheartedly pursue the other campaigns upon which I built my platform. That being said, I still feel it necessary for the CSU to be an activist union, with a politically engaged council as well as executive. To that end, I may now, as an elector, voice my support for Rowan Gaudet. I believe he is the best equipped of the candidates to support and pursue meaningful, grassroots change at the institutional level. Though a fresh-faced Concordian, his work towards a more sustainable, ecologically sound university has been invaluable, and I am certain it will continue to be, regardless of the post he occupies.

I must stress that, as in the world south of our border, electoralism and politics are not the same thing. The most important work is still to be done, outside of the by-election. This work will continue to be done regardless of who sits on Council. However, having someone like Rowan’s support will make the difference between a protracted struggle and an expedient shift towards an accessible, socially accountable university.

To my knowledge, he has no designs on a position on the CSU Executive.

But Council has historically been an empowering experience for councillors, encouraging them to pursue Executive positions within the CSU. Thus, I cannot in good conscience stay silent in my support for Rowan Gaudet. He is, I feel, uniquely suited for this course, and should he choose to pursue a further career in Concordia politics next year, I would continue to offer my support.

Regardless, he is an exceptional candidate, of high character, surprising experience, and sound politics. On November 15th, I plan on voting for Rowan Gaudet, to continue the remarkable progress our university has made in the past few years.

- Eamon Toohey

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