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The BoG brings back former president Frederick Lowy

Concordia s new interim president Sarah Deshaies Editor-in-chief Frederick Lowy, who started out as Concordia’s rector in 1995 and stepped down as president and vice-chancellor in 2005, will likely serve as acting president for Concordia while the Board of Governors seeks out a permanent candidate over the course of the next year.

“The Executive Committee of the Board completed its review of the 21 candidates suggested, and has recommended our distinguished former President and Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Frederick H. Lowy, as Interim President,” stated BoG chair Peter Kruyt, who made the announcement in an “update” to the university Monday evening.

“In December, I agreed to consult the internal members of the Board of Governors before bringing the question of an Interim President to the full Board. Accordingly, we met this morning and had constructive discussions on the selection of Dr. Lowy,” the statement read.

Now, the interim committee will submit his candidacy to the rest of the BoG, and he will be in office by the end of the month. “[Lowy] brings experience, deep knowledge about Concordia’s mission, values and strategic

initiatives, and personal qualities that will help ensure a continuity of vision and leadership,” read the statement.

Lowy moved to Montreal from Austria at the age of 13, and studied psychiatry. He gave up his practice when he came to Concordia after a period at University of Toronto. Lowy started under the cloud of the 1992 Fabrikant shootings.

His period in power oversaw the 1992 Netanyahu riots and the start of a construction boom at the university.

CSU president and BoG member Heather Lucas sat on the committee that selected Lowy, and said the BoG is so far receptive. ”The committee appeared to be in agreement in selecting him, because a lot of members at the table felt that he was more than capable of being the interim.”

The announcement will likely not quell the heavy criticism the BoG has come under since Judith Woodsworth’s removal from office Dec. 22, 2010.

Numerous statements have been issued by university members in the intervening weeks decrying the decision, lamenting a lack of transparency, and the appearance of growing corporatism and outside interests on the BoG.

Journalism professor Mike Gasher, who circulated a letter signed by almost 200 faculty and staff in regards to Woodsworth last week, and attended the session, was not confident about the decision. “I really don’t know what to think of it. He’s a previous president, well-respected, I believe, and approachable. I’m just not sure what he can be expected to do as an interim president, especially when we’re calling for an overhaul of the Board of Governors,” he wrote in an email.

CUFA, CUPFA, CSU, ASFA and the history department have called for Kruyt’s resignation, sometimes with part or whole of the BoG. While the BoG met Monday morning, the Concordia University Faculty Association, one of the first groups to make a statement, met in H-110 to discuss potential action. They voted to call for the BoG chair and vice-chairs to step down, and a committee be struck by senate to investigate governance at Concordia.

Other groups to add their voices this week included the arts and science chairs, who condemned the BoG and filed a motion of non-confidence, and the three alumni associations, who were favourable to Woodsworth’s departure, to the criticisms of some alumni members.

Stance on BoG divides student representatives Evan LePage News editor

At both the Concordia Student Union and Arts and Science Federation of Associations council meetings last week student representatives passed motions regarding the departure of Judith Woodsworth which condemned the lack of transparency shown by the Board of Governors.

But the motions may have done more to highlight the internal strife within these stu-

dent organizations than to present a unified front on the issue.

After long and heated discussions at both meetings on how to respond, the two motions had one important difference: only the ASFA councillors called on all external BoG members to resign.

The CSU councillors voted against an initial motion proposed by independent councillor Ethan Cox that would have seen them request the resignation of all external members of the board, which he felt was more in line

with the stance of numerous faculty bodies and department heads within the university.

“As so often happens, the CSU has managed to drop the ball on a complete nobrainer of a motion that should have been passed within two seconds of deliberation,” Cox said. “It makes absolute sense that we support the calls that have been made by all the other unions and internal organizations... and we chose not to.”

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City in brief Jacques Gallant

Bottled water saga continues

At last Wednesday's CSU council meeting, VP sustainability and promotions Morgan Pudwell stated that CSU representatives will be meeting with other interested groups as early as this week regarding a bottled water free campus.

She also indicated that she would like to see a referendum on the question, and said a campaign to educate the student population in regards to bottled water is still being planned out. The CSU has added three new water dispensers at their offices and at Hojo.

Support for shoes

Calls to boycott shoe store Le Marcheur due to its sale of Israelimade products had local politicians visiting the St. Denis St. business over the weekend. NDG's Liberal MP Marlene Jennings indicated that she was showing her support for the store's owners and that the boycott fuels anti-democratic movements. ADQ MNA François Bonnardel drove in from Granby to pick up a pair of shoes for himself. He also lashed out at Québec Solidaire MNA Amir Khadir for supporting calls for the boycott, which began last fall after activists advocating for pro-Palestinian rights started picketing Le Marcheur for selling Israeli-made BeautiFeel shoes.

Music > sex?

At least that's what scientists are saying. A team from the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital found that the pleasurable experience of listening to music releases dopamine, which is more commonly associated with more tangible pleasures, such as food, drugs, and sex. In order to measure the dopamine release, researchers studied the body's reaction to music, such as breathing, heartbeat, temperature, and “chills.” The study also found that the anticipation of listening to music induces the release of dopamine.

Concordia student first 2011 homicide Jason Peagram, an economics student at Concordia University, became Montreal’s first murder victim of 2011 after an argument with another man turned violent last Wednesday. According to police the 22-year-old student was arguing with the man inside his apartment building. When the fight was brought outdoors the as-ofyet unknown assailant reportedly pulled a gun and fired, striking Peagram three times including one fatal wound to his neck.

MEDIA

Montreal hosts first bilingual conference for student media A ‘collage’ of speakers give hopeful journalists insight on the business Brennan Neill Managing editor Student journalists from across the country gathered this past week in Montreal for the 73rd Canadian University Press national conference, the first bilingual conference in the event’s history.

“We worked from the very beginning, even with the bid last January, that this conference was not going to be an English conference and a French conference but one conference where people who speak both languages can interact,” said Will Vanderbilt, conference coco-ordinator.

This year’s conference, themed “collage,” was organized by the McGill Daily and Le Délit, McGill’s only francophone newspaper.

Vanderbilt explained that collage was not only about the many skills journalists must have today but also about bringing different people together.

“Collage is a theme we chose

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Wilf Dinninick, co-founder of OpenFile, addressed industry change as the final keynote. due to the bilingual nature of the conference,” said Vanderbilt. “One goal was to bring people who speak English or French together and to have them interact and learn about each other. Collage, in that sense, was about bringing things together.”

Approximately 370 delegates, the largest number of attendees in recent editions, arrived for the conference last Wednesday to take in about 50 speakers over the course of five days.

Vanderbilt noted the difficulty in hosting a fully bilingual conference because of the cost

associated with the simultaneous translation of sessions, but thought it “worked out.”

Collage featured keynote speeches from Marie-Maude Denis, a reporter for Radio-Canada’s investigative news show Enquête who broke the story of Quebec’s construction scandal, Ken Silverstein, a former editor for Harper’s Magazine and noted undercover reporter, Josée Boileau, the editor-in-chief of Le Devoir, and Wilf Dinnick, co-founder of OpenFile and former Middle East correspondent for ABC and CNN. In order to promote bilingualism two of the

four keynotes were delivered in French.

The organization also held plenary during the event. James Michael McDonald, editor-inchief of the Muse from Memorial University of Newfounland, was elected as CUP’s next president and Emma Godmere, from the Fulcrum of the University of Ottawa, was elected as CUP’s next national bureau chief. A vote by member papers decided the next national conference would be held in Victoria, B.C. by newspapers the Nexus of Camosun College and the Martlet of the University of Victoria.

LEGAL

Accused Concordia student exhausts legal avenues Jacob Serebrin Quebec bureau chief (CUP)

A former Concordia student who once filed a $15 million lawsuit against the university, is suing the school again.

Ashraf Azar, who was expelled from Concordia in December 2004, is asking the Quebec Superior Court to order Concordia to grant him a new disciplinary hearing on the plagiarism charges that got him kicked out.

Azar first tried to sue the university in 2007 when he asked the courts to review his expulsion and grant him over $15 million in damages.

Superior Court Justice Israel Mass dismissed his request for judicial review, ruling that Azar had waited too long to file suit, 15 months instead of the standard 30 days. Azar

attempted to appeal the decision but was denied by both the Quebec Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada.

In a separate May 2009 ruling, Superior Court Judge A. Derek Guthrie dismissed Azar’s monetary claims because he failed to file documents with the court on time and was considered to have abandoned the case.

An attempt to appeal that decision also failed, with a three-judge panel ruling that Azar failed to show “any error that the presiding judge would have committed.”

In documents filed with the court this winter, Azar claims that the dismissal of his previous suits was illegal and “procedurally biased,” accusing several justices of making errors and “illogical” decisions.

He also called on the appeals court to reprimand Justice Mass for

“transgression of his jurisdiction bounds with respect to his conduct and absurd decision render (sic) in Mr. Ashraf Azar’s case.” The court refused.

Throughout the proceedings Azar has represented himself without legal counsel. Azar has claimed that he is unable to afford a lawyer and that while he qualifies for legal aid, no legal aid lawyer was willing to take his case and that this had contributed to the delay in suing.

However, Justice Mass ruled that there was no evidence Azar had sought legal aid “I would dare say that it would be very basic that if one is refused legal aid and one is going to use that as an argument one would ask legal aid for a formal refusal in writing which one could produce,” he said, according to a court transcript.

Azar, along with his sister Layla

Azar, was accused of plagiarism in March 2004. In his statement of claim, Azar writes that he was suspended from the university at the time, “due to what can only be seen as discriminatory motivated ‘errors’ [emphasis in the original] committed by his professors with respect to his grades” and was not registered in the class in question.

Azar claims that a universityappointed advocate “coerced” him into falsely admitting to the plagiarism charges in order to secure leniency for him and his sister.

He claims that the university’s hearing panel was biased against him and that the chair of the university’s Board of Governors improperly denied him permission to appeal his case to the Board.

Concordia has yet to file a response, the two sides will appear before a judge on Jan. 20.

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Diversity needs imagination: Clarkson

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Nation in brief Evan LePage

The monarchy is just a very sentimental tie. I don’t see any need to phase it out.

C: How did you envision the role of governor general outside the political spectrum?

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Adrienne Clarkson said lowering the voting age could help improve student apathy.

Former governor general talks of overcoming differences in Canada's diverse society Jacques Gallant Assistant news editor ''Once we close down our imaginations, no one belongs in our country. Not even us.''

These words of wisdom come courtesy of Adrienne Clarkson as she communicated what she has always felt about Canada: in a country that is a mosaic of cultural, religious, and ideological differences, “imagination allows us to be a part of it all because we can assume the existence of others whom we will never know.”

The former governor general spoke last Thursday evening about the power to overcome our differences and grow more accepting and tolerant of others.

In front of over 250 people in the Hall auditorium, Clarkson praised the nation's diverse society in slowly breaking down the barriers that so clearly divided us in the past. ''Imagination also counts because we can think of the other as someone outside ourselves,'' she said. ''And therefore, if we develop the right attitude that our history is leading us towards, we will say that it doesn't matter that the other is Inuit, or a Croatian. Those origins lose their electricity, because the imagination should be enough to complement all the people.''

For Clarkson, there exists no other society in the world like Canadian society, where people hail from over 100 different countries, some having been here for generations, while others only a few years. But for her, what really helped bring people closer together, especially during the

post-World War II immigration boom, was the inherent need for human beings to look after each other. ''I don't believe that people only care about themselves,'' she stated. ''And [our intuitive reactions] eventually overcame structural indifference and fear which had guided our government in immigration policies in the past.''

During her hour-long presentation, Clarkson highlighted the importance of starting the process of integration as soon as immigrants arrive in Canada and ensuring that they know that the history of Canada is also their history, something that her Institute for Canadian Citizenship has worked on since she left the governor generalship. ''We cannot wait a generation, even 20 years, for new Canadians to be part [of the country], to be political fighters, to be given an advantage,'' she urged. ''We don’t have that time, we don’t have that luxury. We have maybe 10 years to help people become citizens. If we can’t help them, then we’re going to have trouble.''

But there is one people who have been in the country for thousands of years that Clarkson said need to be better understood in order for Canada to finally overcome difference. She stated that Canada’s Aboriginals, one of the country’s three founding people, have yet to attain their rightful place in society. ''I believe we cannot continue to deal with difference in our country without dealing with the original promise with the Aboriginal peoples,'' she noted. ''As students, with your lives in front of you, you must promise to yourselves that you will look into this and try to understand it.''

Clarkson was this year’s first speaker in the CSU’s Speaker Series. Adrien Severyns, the CSU’s VP External and Projects, found that Clarkson’s presentation addressed many taboos and

was also impressed with her plea for students to get more involved in their society. ''I especially liked her analysis of the Canadian identity being a mindset, rather than a physical creation,'' he said. ''The message that the CSU wanted to communicate to students, and something very well encouraged by our lecturer, was that as university students, it is our duty to advocate for a more vibrant civil society.''

A sit-down with former Adrienne The Concordian: It’s no secret that a lot of Canadians have trouble identifying their head of state and understanding their system of government. Do you have a solution to this?

Adrienne Clarkson: I think the government could make it clearer, really. But if you look at the way we evolved, it’s so typically Canadian that we evolved very peacefully and very slowly. All the powers that the Crown possessed were transferred to the governor general in 1947. And I always had a very good relationship with the Queen, but we never discussed anything to do with politics and no papers ever passed between Canada and Britain. We are an independent country.

C: Then does the monarchy have any relevance in Canadian society today?

AC: I would say to a great extent it is certainly meaningful to older people who fought in the Second World War or the Korean War, because that was the flag then and that is something that is part of our history. You don’t want to deny your history, it’s very bad when you cut if off. So Canada having become fully independent was done very clearly, but people just haven’t put it all together yet.

AC: The important thing outside of the political role is that you represent Canadians, and you represent Canadians to other Canadians.

You get the advantage of seeing the country wonderfully, and see how terrifically were doing, allowing us to compare with abroad.

We’ve got this huge burgeoning of things in Canada, and I’d like to think that I’ve played a part in this. We’re creating the world we are inhabiting now. And to have a Canadian governor general who understands that is very important.

C: We often hear that youth apathy is at an all-time high, but do you think there is anything that can be done about it?

AC: I believe that the voting age should be lowered to 16. I found that the most intelligent and committed people to public affairs were 16-year-olds because they were still living at home and had yet to think about where their lives were going. I think the people I’ve met at 16 are more involved than those who are much older. So why shouldn’t they have a say? Then you hear that young people are not responsible, or things like that, but that’s so 19th century.

C: In light of recent funding cuts to the arts, what would you say to encourage young artists to pursue their careers?

AC: Artists are very resilient, and to encourage young artists I think we have many different infrastructures to help bring the art out. If artists can’t make it as a painter, they might turn to film. If you’re a poet, you might turn to theatre.

I believe the artistic creation will always manifest itself, no matter the medium.

C: As a promoter of bilingualism as being part of Canadian culture, do you feel that official bilingualism has now been finally embraced nation-wide?

AC: I think it has been, in fact I think people are almost taking it for granted. There are of course still tensions, but people will fight over almost anything. I’m very optimistic about the country, though.

We’ve come so far so quickly.

When I was a child, we turned away Jewish children during the [second world] war. There may still be people who don’t like Jews today, but you can’t put that into public policy anymore. And that’s all I care about.

This interview was edited for length.

Cities restrict tanning

Victoria, B.C. and a few surrounding areas officially banned minors using commercial tanning beds last week. The regional politicians voted 18-1 in favour of the ban following a meeting of over four hours where more than 40 citizens presented both positive and negative views of tanning beds. Only two other regions in Canada have also banned the fake and bake for their teens: Nova Scotia in December, and New Brunswick all the way back in 1992, although they recently reduced the ban to a voluntary measure. We can only assume the new bans have something to do with Jersey Shore.

Bus driver suspended after unplanned stop A bus driver in Newfoundland has been suspended after he got students to help him push the bus up a hill after it got stuck in the snow. The driver was transporting students home in a snowstorm last Thursday when the vehicle got stuck, the CBC reported. Instead of calling for assistance, the driver asked some of the high school students on board to help him push, reportedly breaking protocol. More questionable than his decision: how he expected feeble teenagers to push a bus.

More Ontario students applying to uni The Ontario Universities’ Application Centre released statistics Monday that showed that the number of high school students applying to universities grew by 2.4 per cent this year -- the seventh year in a row that the figure has increased.

This year, 88,626 students applied to universities across the province by the Jan. 12 deadline, and while the jump from last year may not seem significant, it represents a 49 per cent increase since 2000.

The stats came one day after the Ontario government announced it would be investing in a number of measures to facilitate transfers for post-secondary students.

45-metre long beer vats reach Toronto After 11 hard days, six enormous beer vats have made the trip from Hamilton, Ont. to Toronto, undoubtedly to the pleasure of most university students in Canada’s biggest city. The vats, each 45 metres long and seven metres wide, started the trip on Jan. 7, the CBC reported. They were supposed to arrive at a Molson Coors brewery four days later, but due to their size the trip took longer than expected, since crews had to remove 250 traffic lights and 1,600 hydro wires to get them to their destination. The company paid $24 million for the vats, which are capable of holding six million bottles worth of beer in total. Worth every penny.

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World in brief Evan Lepage

Grant cuts threaten university attendance?

Students in England are not only facing large tuition hikes, but college principals are now speaking out against the government’s abolition of the student support grant, the EMA, saying it may prevent many students from even getting to school the BBC has reported. Despite research cited by the Department of Education which showed students would attend classes whether or not they received grants, a survey of members of the Association of Colleges found a strong majority of officials believe poorer students and those in rural areas, who are already facing a rise in travel costs, may not be able to afford the travel expenses to attend their schools. The EMA offers English students between the ages of 16 and 18 between £10 and £30 if they live in households that bring in less than £30,800 a year.

Student pays tuition in $1 bills To make a statement about the high costs of education, a Colorado University student paid his entire tuition, over $14,000, in $1 bills. Sophomore Nic Ramos said the 33-pounds of bills took over an hour for officials at the university to count. While the stunt may not affect the status of tuition costs, Ramos walked around Colorado with $14,000 on him, earning himself a permanent title ‘balla.’

Trees reveal rise and fall of civilizations Want a history lesson? Check the trees. Research published in the journal Science this past week found, through the study of 9,000 wooden artifacts from Europe spanning 2,500 years, that shifts in Europe’s climate may be linked to the rise and fall of major civilizations.

Analysis of the tree rings on the wood allowed scientists to essentially map out the weather patterns throughout the period, and then compare that to historical events.

The data indicated that warm and wet climatic periods generally coincided with prosperity for societies, like the Roman Empire for example.

Colder climates contrarily coincided with great migrations and socioeconomic instability and change.

In Belarus, fox shoots you A Belarusian hunter tangled with what may be the most dangerous fox on the planet last week, leaving him with a gunshot wound to his leg. The hunter had wounded the fox from a distance but made the mistake of trying to kill it with the butt end of the rifle, Reuters reported. As the man approached the fox it was able to struggle and ultimately (reportedly by accident but I wouldn’t be so sure) hit the trigger of the weapon, striking his ioe. The fox escaped in the end.

ENVIRONMENT

Arctic undergoing dramatic changes: expert Ponds vanishing, but new vegetation forming Renee Giblin Staff writer Canada’s North is changing rapidly, and according to an arctic expert, not only has the warming climate resulted in the disappearance of ponds, but new vegetation is forming and animals are appearing where they have never been seen before.

“The Inuktitut language doesn’t have a word for robin,” said Marianne Douglas, director of the Canadian Circumpolar Institute at the University of Alberta, said, citing one example of the change in the animal distribution.

Speaking at McGill’s Redpath Museum last week, Douglas described how every summer for the past 26 years she has hauled out her gumboots and made her way to various northern islands in the Arctic to collect data. Her research has brought her to lakes and ponds that have been left untouched by humans.

At her research camp Douglas measures diatoms, tiny plant-like organisms, that she collects in vials of sediments found in these various bodies of water. The measurements

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Ponds that are not close to melting glaciers are evaporating due to hotter temperatures. have allowed her to understand the life cycle and activity found in the areas over the span of millenniums, and draw conclusions on how this environment has changed.

“Over the last century there has been a complete species changeover,” Douglas said.

Due to the increase in temperature and the decrease in ice coverage, Douglas found that the composition of water system is changing, noting a higher concentration of heavy

metals such as arsenic and mercury in the ponds and lakes. She also said her data is being affected by the increase of seabirds in the area.

Douglas admitted that Arctic measurements cannot go back millions of years. It is still a fairly new study, she added, since many scientists did not have access to the Arctic in the past and therefore little data to which it can be compared.

However, there is no denying

that the permafrost is melting, infrastructures are being destroyed and native people living in the area are noticing how the Arctic warming is changing their environment, hunting and fishing patterns according to Douglas. Also, ponds that are not close to melting glaciers are drying up due to the warmer climate.

“There is evidence that there is warming,” Douglas said, and one needs to only look at the ponds for proof.

TRANSPORTATION

Student advocating for reduced bus fare “surprised” by CSU’s lack of response CSU dropped talks with STM when project was ruled unfeasible: VP Khoriaty Sarah Deshaies Editor-in-chief All full-time students, no matter their age, should receive reduced fare transit passes. In Desea Trujillo’s ideal world, that last sentence would be true.

The 40-year-old undergraduate Concordia student is in her third-year studying early childhood education at Concordia University.

She does not qualify for the Societe de transport de Montreal reduced fare pass, since it does not apply to full-time students over the age of 25. Instead of paying $41 a month to use public transit, Trujillo, who is a parent, pays $72.75.

“I was pissed off for so long about the fact that I had to pay full fair for the bus even though I was a full-time student,” said Trujillo.

“It’s a hefty price, but it’s not so much the price, it’s the principle

of it - that students should have access to reduced bus fair and I don’t. I think that’s totally unfair and should be changed.”

With this in mind, Trujillo wrote a letter to STM chairperson Michel Labrecque last week in an attempt to rectify the situation. She has yet to receive an official response.

Since her story was published in the Montreal Gazette on Jan. 13, Trujillo has been contacted by the Concordia Graduate Student Association, a former GSA VP and a McGill group looking to resurrect and help her in her fight.

Even Triple5, the company whose coat she was wearing in a Gazette photo, has offered to send her some winter clothing. One group that hasn’t offered to help however is the Concordia Student Union.

When contacted Monday, VP clubs and budget Ramy Khoriaty was unaware of Trujillo’s story. She said she sent emails to VP external Adrien Severyns, whose mandate includes campaigns, but has yet to hear from him. She said she was “surprised” to not hear back from the CSU yet.

The CSU has the transit fare age

limit listed as one of its campaign goals on its website, but the page has not been updated since July 2010, and a connecting petition lists its deadline as February 2010.

Khoriaty, who is handling the CSU’s campaign, said the union sat down in last September with Concordia University, student fee levy group Sustainable Concordia and the STM to hammer out a deal that would see all of Concordia’s fulltime students receive the reduced fare in a universal pass, or U-Pass, similar to a recent project launched British Columbia.

The total cost to the parties involved would be over a $1 million, said Khoriaty, an amount ruled to be too costly because 49 per cent of undergraduate students are over the age limit. The plans were scrapped and the details of this meeting were apparently not publicized at the time.

Allison Reid, program director of Allégo, a division of Sustainable Concordia that focuses on transit, said that the talks were stalled because the STM’s goal is to have more people using public transit.

As 95 per cent of undergraduates

already use the STM at least once a month, this group was not ripe for expansion.

Montreal city councillor for Snowdon and STM vice-chairperson Marvin Rotrand said the STM is open to making a change and working with students, but the choice comes down to funds.

“While the STM compares very well with the policies elsewhere in Quebec and through Canada, and certainly has most full time students eligible for reduced fares, covering everyone is a question of dollars and cents,” said Rotrand.

“That is a societal choice and the additional costs would have to be defrayed from somewhere.”

Trujillo agrees that the dillema is a “societal issue” but is not buying the argument that universities need to help fund such an initiative.

“It’s absolutely out of the question that a university could ever take on that kind of responsability.

A million dollars is nothing for the city of Montreal, for the amount of users that are using the STM every day, that million dollars is nothing. How much is the new metro costing?”

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CAMPUS Continued from cover Multiple external board members have exceeded the maximum two concurrent terms of three years allowed by the board regulations. Michaela Manson attributed this to the ability of certain executives to abuse “one of the provisions of th Board of Governors which states they can remain in their seats in extenuating circumstances.”

While Cox did vote in favour of the later motion passed in the CSU, which called only on the external members who have exceeded their term limits to resign, for him this missed the point.

The disagreement among student representatives was especially clear in the backand-forth commentary of Cox and former CSU president and current student representative on the BoG Amine Dabchy who said he was asked to attend the meeting.

While Dabchy ultimately agreed that external members who have exceeded their terms should resign, he remained firm on the fact that the Board members do care about

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Former CSU President Amine Dabchy sits on the BoG as a student representative.

students’ interests, and were acting for them in their actions with Woodsworth.

He also maintained that “my loyalty is to the students and I always put the students interests at heart,” and stated that he is not working for the board in any way.

But Cox said “I think that the CSU, at the urging of Amine Dabchy who, rather than represent the students he was elected to represent is running cover for his buddies on the Board and its executive committee, decided to duck for cover.” For Cox the actions of the CSU councillors at the meeting could largely be attributed to the sway Amine holds within the student union and “the fact that he chose that it was more important to defend the board and to defend their representation than to represent the interests of the students.”

Manson also felt the CSU’s actions were influenced by Dabchy’s presence at the meeting. “A large reason I think as to why Ethan Cox’s original motion failed had to do a lot with the presence of two BoG student representatives who sat there and told us that the BoG really does care about us, they really do want to help students,” Manson said. “Basically I think they misrepresented the BoG to students.”

Cox, Manson and three other CSU councillors dissatisfied with the CSU’s stand on the issue have released a statement today. They state that the signatories “regretfully express our lack of confidence in the Board of Governors of Concordia University, and in the majority of our own student union representatives and our representatives to the Board, particularly Amine Dabchy.” They go on to explain the multiple reasons they have lost confidence in those groups and ultimately

call for Dabchy and the external board members to resign.

They also requested that the provincial government remove those members that refused to resign, that they increase the number of internal board members significantly and that they ensure the community at large Board representatives “be drawn representatively from the community and not its boardrooms.”

While the ASFA representatives were more firm in their demands, and included in their motion a demand that the BoG’s hiring process be amended to promote transparency, the organization didn’t escape some internal criticism.

Manson pointed to the fact that ASFA President Aaron Green and another ASFA executive who, like her, sit on the CSU council voted against Cox’s original motion and abstained on the second successful motion.

“Now if they were in tune with their constituents, they would have foreseen that this is in fact something that the body they’re supposed to represent would have demanded and that was made evident by the ASFA council meeting voting in favour of the proposed motion,” Manson said.

Green acknowledged his abstention, but said he changed his mind after seeing the faculty association vote no-confidence in the Board of Governors. “I abstained on that motion simply because I felt that it was kind of like throwing gasoline on a burning fire.

Now I feel a bit differently about it,” he said. “We’re in solidarity now with virtually everybody at the university whether it be a faulty based body or a student association.”

The university senate will likely address the situation and all of the statements by faculty and student groups known at a meeting Jan. 21.

The CSU knew Student BoG reps pushed for Woodsworth’s resignation Evan LePage News editor While many Concordia students still have no idea about what led to the resignation of Judith Woodsworth, it became clear last week that their student representatives were always in the know, and may even have helped it happen.

At the CSU council meeting last Wednesday, former CSU president Amine Dabchy said that not only were he and the three other student representatives on the Board of Governors aware that Woodsworth would be asked to resign, but they actually encouraged the board to do so.

“On Dec. 1 we expressed our views to the chair of the board and we told him why we felt that she wasn’t the greatest president for various reasons, you know, the departure of the vicepresidents, the internal auditor scandal, her position on tuition and the fact that she didn’t want to meet with the students on several times,” Dabchy said. “For all these reasons we demanded that the chair of the board act immediately asking for significant changes.”

The other student representatives on the board are Stephanie Siriwardhana, CSU councillor Abdullah Husen and CSU president Heather Lucas.

Lucas said she signed the document because of Woodsworth’s call for the American model of tuition and because she “felt that there was not much support for us to attain a water bottle free campus with the renewal of the

Pepsico contract.”

Many CSU councillors complained at a council meeting last week that they were kept in the dark about details surrounding Woodsworth’s departure. Councillor Michaela Manson also said that the reasons given by Dabchy and Lucas for supporting the board were questionable. “They say it’s because Judith Woodsworth was not representing students or, you know, not listening to students. I don’t agree with that position,” she said. “I do think she failed to acknowledge what students need and want but I don’t think that’s a basis for why the CSU should be supporting the Board of Governors’ decision.”

Lucas admitted she was surprised by how soon the resignation occurred.

“I didn't know the exact time as to when she would be asked to resign as I supported the document in late November. There was nothing that prevented me from telling councillors about the reason she was asked to resign.

The timing of how it happened was sooner than I anticipated.”

Despite having signed a document requesting it, Dabchy said he “didn’t know” if the student representatives played a big role in Woodsworth’s departure, but he thought it was unlikely.

Despite criticism from CSU councillors that he and the other representatives defended the interests of the Board over students, Dabchy said he believes that they made the right decision.

“I think now the situation is not that the Concordia community is regretting Judith Woodsworth or were big fans of her. I think the situation was the process, the process of how it was handled.

The way the situation was handled is what is shocking the Concordia community.”

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QPIRG events show a different side of Concordia “New Year’s Revolution” aims to educate students about social and environmental issues on campus Nick Mathewson Contributor While many see New Year’s as another opportunity to go drinking or dancing, QPIRG Concordia has taken a different approach to ringing in 2011. This week is the group’s “New Year’s Revolution,” five events over four days ranging from a “Radical Walking Tour” of Concordia’s SGW campus to a panel discussing

the University’s history of social justice battles. The events are designed to inform students about past and current social and environmental issues in and around Concordia.

“QPIRG takes a lot of time and effort to give an opportunity for curious or involved people to see what’s out there and make activism accessible,” says Jaggi Singh, Working Groups and Programming Coordinator for QPIRG. Today, the walking tour will take people to select areas on campus which have been sites of significance to social and environmental justice issues. One of these is the Concordia archives, where tour-goers will be able to learn about the ‘computer centre incident’ of 1969, during which

hundreds of students occupied the University’s computer centre in protest of the administration’s handling of accusations of racism.

A main theme of the tour is the management of space on campus. “Areas like the mezzanine are important,” says Singh.

“Students need a space where they have some level of control, and an opportunity for spontaneity. We can’t let these turn into spaces geared to consumers.”

The tour will also focus on food politics, with stops at Frigo Vert and the People’s Potato.

QPIRG will also be hosting a panel Wednesday entitled “The Real History of Concordia.” The panelists presenting are David Bernans, a longtime Concordia activist and author, former CSU

Aftermath of the 1969 Computer Riot at Concordia. president Sabine Friesinger, as well as Montreal historian David Austin. They will be discussing

Concordia’s history of activism and students’ different struggles for their vision of the university.

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Scan this QR code to check out Epic Meal Time’s latest video along with their TurBaconEpic episode and the pizza that started it all.

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Epic Meal Time co-creator Harley Morenstein and his Montreal crew tackle thousands of calories in meat each week in their YouTube videos.

A food journey of epic proportions How a few local guys turned a fast-food topped pizza into Epic Meal Time, a Youtube channel with over 12 million views Julia Horowitz Contributor

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our regular everyday meals probably lack the grandeur, taste and calorie count of a five-pound French Canadian sandwich, a quail in a hen in a chicken in a duck in a turkey stuffed in a pig or of a giant egg roll, but for the guys of Epic Meal Time, a fast-paced online cooking show, their meals are just that and more.

Each week these Montreal locals attempt the impossible and often the frightening, by combining every ingredient from bacon and ham to Four Loko and Jalapeno chips, in an attempt to create an epic alternative to an ordinary meal.

What began as a fun activity between friends, has transformed to an online phenomenon. Their first episode, launched in mid-October, was a pizza topped with fast food's greatest hits and covered in cheese. But the 5210 calories and 286 grams of fat seems like a light snack when we compare it to the dishes that have made them so successful.

Their channel sky-rocketed when they

released The Angry French Canadian, a French-Canadian inspired French toast sandwich filled with poutine, maple syrup and steamed hotdogs. Further frenzy ensued with the release of the 79,000calorie TurBaconEpic, an over-stuffed pig for their Thanksgiving special, as it was shared over every social network imaginable.

Harley Morenstein, the co-creator and narrator of Epic Meal Time, said it was their love of food that made them launch this tremendously viewed Youtube sensation: “We’re foodies, all of us.

We always have crazy ideas, we only decided to film them and let everyone watch recently.”

Aside from Morenstein, the group includes Alex Perrault, or as Morenstein likes to call him, Muscles Glasses, a personal trainer and Concordia student known for wearing reflective aviators and using a paddle instead of a fork in the videos. There is also Concordia student Tyler Lemco, as well as David Heuff, Josh Elkin and Ameer Atari. With the help of Sterling Toth, who films each episode, these 20-somethings have created an online phenomenon complete with war-themed music from inside their family homes.

"Bacon strips and bacon strips, and bacon strips,” is a phrase coined by Morenstein to describe their favourite Epic Meal Time ingredient: bacon. It has become a symbol of recognition in the videos and has been used in almost every possible form. From now on, people everywhere will bow their heads in shame if they do not use bacon to

build a fortress, weave a plate, form a cup, cover the roof of a 90,000 calorie gingerbread meat house or use it to roll together the 800 grams of fat in their hand-made meat sushi.

Their Youtube channel has become an instant fan favourite, with their videos receiving over 12 million views in the last three months. Their genuine epicness and heavy fanbase made up of Youtube subscribers, Facebook friends and viewers worldwide have placed the Epic Meal Time sensation as the #2 most viewed channel in Canada this month and the #26 most subscribed Canadian channel of all time.

What speaks even more than the numbers, is the feedback Morenstein has received. “Someone said, 'I would give you my first born child to experiment with for an Epic Meal.’”

Despite the millions of viewers, their rise to Internet fame has not come without a few haters. Morenstein has managed “to keep these haters out” by addressing them numerous times in their videos and by building a nearly 19,000 calorie bacon-piled breakfast fortress.

“We don’t really respond to people that take it too seriously, it is what it is," said Morenstein. "When people take it really seriously, we feel like they’re missing the point.”

And, in a further attempt to respond to harsh criticism of their use of meat, and sexism towards women in their videos, he addresses his haters once again. “'Hater’s gunna hate. Hating hurts the haters more than the hated.' This is a quote, I don’t know who said it though,

you can quote me on that.”

With new episodes airing every Tuesday, creations such as the “next level meat-cage cooking apparatus,” or an epic-sized corn dog, mean that fans who love the meat-sweats will never be disappointed.

The guys of Epic Meal Time have been nominated for a Shorty Award in the food category, an award that recognizes social media and Twitter fan-favorites. Currently they are in the lead, putting them ahead of shows like the Food Network's Bitchin’Kitchen and Twitter phenomenon Ruth Bourdain.

“We didn’t know what they were, and then we started getting nominated by them, and we were like, let’s win,” said Morenstein. "But whether or not we’re winning, we’re giving them a run for their money now, and we’re just dudes.”

Their hopes are high for this cooking show without cooks, and understandably so. Things have snowballed rather quickly for these Montreal locals who are hoping things will get even more epic.

“Epic Meal Time Imax 3D, directed by James Cameron," said Morenstein. "That is where I see it going.”

Quoting the epic narrator himself: “Next time, we eat Concordia.”

You can find Epic Meal Time at www. epicmealtime.com. Catch a new episode every Tuesday morning on their Youtube channel.

To vote for them in this year's Shorty Awards, visit www.shortyawards.com/ EpicMealTime

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FASHION

Dressing for interview success

Photos by writer and Emily White

Dressing for a job interview can be stressful, but pairing a classic white blouse or shirt with a blazer or cardigan is an outfit that will always impress employers.

What to wear to job interviews so that you stand out Adey Farah Contributor

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ou have spent hours researching jobs, filling out applications, sending out your resume and finally you get that coveted interview call back. All seems great, until you start to wrack your mind for what you will be wearing and how exactly you will ‘dress to impress.' While most might simply think of age-old rules such as a white shirt and skirt or trouser combination, it is important to go beyond those classic rules and show your character while still maintaining professionalism.

Etiquette specialist Julie Blais Comeau had many helpful tips for students as they begin the hunt for summer placements and graduate into the workforce. “You have seven seconds to make a good first impression,” said Blais Comeau, meaning that how you look says a lot about you before you even go over your credentials.

Know the dress code Blais Comeau's most important tip was to know the dress code. She explained how you can even call the company's human relations department and enquire if you are unsure. Once you have established the dress code, follow it strictly. Your clothing should adapt

to the position you are applying for and also to your age. It is important to remember you are dressing for your clients and your clothing should make sense to them.

There are three categories of potential jobs that require different interview outfits: creative, corporate and fashion.

The creative field includes publishing, design, marketing, music or anything of the sort where you want your creative vision to shine. By incorporating a professional piece, such as a blazer, it anchors the rest of your outfit. Try including simple prints and jewelry that shows your eye for design and creative accessories, be it your shoes or bag.

In the corporate field, professionalism is certainly key. Here the fit of your pieces are crucial, not too baggy nor too tight, you want to look polished. Invest in quality shirts and suit sets, with simple yet understated jewelry and proper shoes in a classic neutral palette. Lastly, fashion is the field where the boundaries are less strict. Here you want to incorporate trends while still remaining true to your personal fashion sense.

Keep it clean In regard to the work attire, Blais Comeau suggested that firstly, clothing should always be clean, in good condition, pressed and adjusted. She advised that your biggest investment should be in a full-length mirror, making sure to look at the complete 360 degrees before you leave. That salt stain on the cuff on your pants could be speaking much louder than you are.

Show your personality As students, the range of creativity in our clothing runs the gamut, but once in the work field we tend to tame it down a little. Still, that does not mean that you cannot inject flair or creativity into your clothing, perhaps in a white blouse with a bow or even an architecturally structured bangle or ring. Blais Comeau advised that the best way to show creativity was in accessories, but to never go beyond 12. While that might seem like a lot, these accessories can include your nail polish, bright makeup, rings, necklaces, cufflinks and hair colour.

“Every element you have on outside of your clothes can distract," explained Blais Comeau. "What you want is for them to listen to what you have to say.”

Tips for guys It is commonly assumed that only women fuss over what to wear to a job interview, but when Blais Comeau provided a “Dress for Success” workshop at the University of Ottawa for students this past November, it was the men who had more questions. They wanted to know about fabrics, sizing, styles and even details like how long the cuff of their shirt should be and if it needs to be longer than their suit jacket.

With guys just as concerned about making a positive impression, Blais Comeau suggested men use the K.I.S.S. rule: keep it simple and stylish. That means guys should keep their attire simple, while still remaining professional. Items like a well thought-out classic tie, with either diagonals or a small plaid print can balance out what might seem

like a bland white shirt, although she advised no funky prints.

Today, most (if not all) mass market retailers carry a good selection of professional yet stylish clothing, from more high-end stores such as Club Monaco, to H&M and even more budget-friendly ones like Joe Fresh, where all of the classic pieces needed for work can be found.

With a winning attitude, clothes that sparkle and of course your polished resume, your job hunting will be a cinch.

Five key pieces Whether searching for a temporary job or permanent one, Blais Comeau advised that both girls and guys should own the following: GIRLS 1. A well-fitting suit jacket and pants or a well-tailored pencil skirt 2. A long sleeved blouse 3. A classic white shirt 4. A straight-legged trouser 5. A classic cardigan GUYS 1. A proper well-fitting suit jacket and pants. Blais Comeau recommended a navy or a charcoal grey palette because black is a colour associated with authority, and in an interview, you want to avoid coming off too strong 2. A dress shirt and tie 3. Like girls, a classic white shirt is a necessity 4. Casual pants like khakis 5. A casual blazer or cardigan For more etiquette tips visit www. julieblaiscomeau.com

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TRAVEL

CUBA: lost in time

In celebration of her “quinceañera,” a rite of passage from childhood to womanhood, this girl and her family paraded through Holguìn.

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Guardalavaca was deserted probably due to the cold weather and high winds.

Concordia student wandered beyond the walled comforts of a resort to take in the Cuban cities of Guardalavaca and Holguìn. After meeting some locals and getting to know more about their lives, Sarah Volstad, a first-year undergraduate student in journalism, proves a trip can be much more rewarding when one takes the time to venture into the nearby communities.

Photos by Sarah Volstad

As we sped by, these men > who were having a drink in the back of a three-wheel pickup smiled and waved.

< This little boy never took his eyes off us as he rode by in a crate on the back of his father’s bike.

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This cross at the top of the Loma de la Cruz hill overlooks the city of Holguìn and can be reached by ascending 458 steps or, like my family, by taking a taxi.

< This woman traveled for two hours to pick up a duffel bag filled with clothes and toys we told her we had brought along with us, we offered it to her as a thank you for giving us directions the day before.

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As we travelled through the countryside we noticed that this means of transportation was very common.

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Theatre company could be in trouble Tableau D’Hôte Theatre gains support from Montreal English arts community Valerie Cardinal Artrs editor In a city where French is dominant, running an English-language theatre company can be difficult. Mathieu Perron should know. He is one of the founders of Tableau D’Hôte Theatre, a six-year-old company that has been running into financial roadblocks.

Tableau D’Hôte was started in 2005, when Perron and co-founder Mike Payette were in their first year in Concordia’s theatre program. Their first show only ran for two nights and cost $500, an amount they doubled during its run. “Before you know it, there were a lot of members of the professional community who wanted to work with us, had faith in the company and started proposing things to us, so the company grew very fast,” said Perron.

Now, Tableau D’Hôte’s shows cost anywhere between $30,000 and $60,000.

Throughout the six years of its existence, Tableau D’Hôte has been sustained by investments from Perron and Payette’s own pockets. “We calculate that over the past six years, we’ve at least invested close to $100,000 to $110,000 from our personal funds into our company,” shared Perron.

“This entire time, something that I don’t

Photo by Laura D Alessandro

Tableau D’Hôte’s 2010 production of A Line in The Sand won three Montreal English Critics Circle Awards, including best actor and best actress. think people have been very cognizant of is that the company is entirely self-financed.”

The company lost $19,000 on their last show in November, Dark Owl, a “vintage Acadian bilingual play” at the MainLine Theatre. However, failure to draw a crowd won’t cause Tableau D’Hôte to change its mandate, which is to produce original Canadian content never performed in Montreal. “Maybe we could try to get the C.S.I. crowd to come see the shows but that’s not our mandate,” remarked Perron.

Perron is surprised by the media attention Tableau D’Hôte has been getting because many other established companies are dealing with similar situations where

they are denied grants from the Canada Council. Perron said he thinks the stinginess of grants are the main reason English theatre is faltering.

In addition to the lack of funding and grants, English theatre in Montreal is hindered by being in a minority language. “In the same way that French companies in Toronto have it pretty rough, English companies in Montreal do too,” he said. “We’re playing to a much smaller public.”

Perron could just bump up ticket prices, but that’s not a road he’s willing to take.

He envisions a system where theatre-goers pay as much money as they are able to.

“Nobody should not be allowed to see it

because they don’t have the money,” he said. Even then, ticket sales only cover up to 30 or 40 per cent of operating costs. “So what do you do? Produce less? Produce once every couple of years instead of multiple shows a year?”

Tableau D’Hôte has been turning towards different strategies to raise money, including setting up campaigns on fundraising website Indiegogo. Their last campaign surpassed their goal of $3,000 by $270.

Much to Perron’s surprise, donations were made by members of Montreal’s arts community such as Roy Surette, artistic director of the Centaur Theatre and Jeremy Hechtman, artistic director at MainLine.

“Because we’ve been so open to collaborations with other artists, other artists have been in turn very open to promoting us and supporting us and fighting for us as the little theatre that can,” said Perron.

However, Perron considers himself lucky that Tableau D’Hôte has made it this far.

“Usually companies have a shelf life of two years, and then they’re done,” he explained. The longest-running English theatre companies in Montreal include Persephone Theatre, which has lasted 10 years, and the MainLine theatre with five.

Although Payette has been successful on his own in theatre and Perron has found another job away from the arts community, Perron hopes the company won’t be forced to take a year off. “The best way to keep going is to keep going,” he said.

To donate, check out www.indiegogo. com/a-human-design

THEATRE

The Lieutenant of Inishmore comes to Segal Theatre Play an “emotional rollercoaster’’ for actors and audience alike Stephanie Mercier Voyer Contributor The sign posted right before the entrance of the Segal Theatre reads "WARNING: Live gunshots will be used. No animals were harmed during this production.” The Lieutenant of Inishmore, written by Martin McDonagh and directed by Kate Bligh, sends the audience on a gruesome yet hilarious journey. The plays starts off with the discovery of Wee Thomas’ half-decapitated body. Wee Thomas is a black cat, but most importantly, he was Padraic’s only friend for 15 years. Padraic is a brutal member of the Irish National Liberation Army, a terrorist splinter group from the Irish Republican Army. Throughout the play, he seeks revenge for the death of his beloved cat.

“In most plays somebody dies or suffers a horrible end,” said Bligh. “This play is very

honest about the fact that this is one of the things that happens in theatre.” Gunshots, blood, dismembered human bodies, blown up-cats and irrational love are all part of McDonagh’s gory Lieutenant. “I kind of appreciate the honesty and the ‘in your faceness’ of the play," said Bligh. She saw the play for the first time five years ago in New York and instantly knew she wanted to direct it. “It just jumped out at me as a very exciting piece of theatre,” she said. “[McDonagh] is a very intelligent playwright who has a pretty cynical and yet insightful view of human behavior,” Bligh said. Lieutenant is a satire of Irish extremist nationalism, as Padraic is part of the INLA. According to Jon Verrall, who plays a drug dealer tortured by Padraic, “the play is there to let the audience reflect on politics as opposed to cramming something down their throats." He said they “just want to show the really dark comedic aspect of how stupid terrorism can be.” The technical side of Lieutenant was the biggest challenge Bligh encountered. “It get surprisingly technical very quickly,” she said. Almost every character in the play carries a gun.

Photo by Alain Décarie

Thomas Preece (left) and Jon Verrall (right) get a chance to hang out.

Last spring, with that in mind, the entire cast drove down to Vermont and spent the day in a gun club. “Even though we’re all dealing with a play which is anti-violence and treats of how awful guns can be, it was very interesting to know how seductive the power that those kinds of weapons carry with them can be,” noted Bligh. Verrall enjoyed the experience, but “as fun as it was to shoot at a target, I would never ever want

to carry one in real life, never,” he said.

Every gunshot makes you jump off your seat and every line that follows makes you burst out laughing at the irony of the play.

“It’s an emotional roller coaster for the actors as well as the audience,” said Verrall.

The Lieutenant of Inishmore runs until Jan. 23 at the Segal Centre for Performing Arts, 5170 Côte-Ste-Catherine.

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SPOILER ALERT

Another season of The Bachelor makes dreams come true Jessica Wei Staff writer

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an, I love feminism.

But as a strong, independent woman who is studying something that will hopefully lead to a successful career, even I can admit that sometimes it gets lonely. Sometimes, I roll over in my Disney Princess twin bed late at night and reach for a loving prince who just isn't there. How many nights have I spent singing Destiny's Child into a hairbrush microphone by myself, eased only by the sweet intoxicating warmth of Jack Daniel’s? Too many, I tell you. Don't judge me: we all have our dreams.

And, whatever, okay? Mine just happens to be that I might wake

CLASSIC MOVIE

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan Daniel Spinali Contributor

I have been a Trekkie from a very young age. My parents watched Star Trek during its original run and I was brought up on Star Trek: The Next Generation. Because of this, it made sense to cover what is considered the best Star Trek film to date: The Wrath of Khan.

The crew of the starship Reliant is on a mission to find a planet devoid of life in order to test the recently developed Genesis Device, a machine that could terraform an entire planet in a matter of hours. The captain and his first officer beam down onto a planet to verify that it is indeed lifeless and find a man and his crew who were marooned 16 years earlier

by James T. Kirk. That man is Khan Noonien Singh, who commandeers the Reliant and steals the Genesis Device as a ruse to get his revenge on Kirk.

What follows is a battle of wits between Kirk and Khan with the sole purpose being survival. While Khan utilises a brash approach, Kirk takes advantage of the fact that Khan does not know Starfleet regulations. This is a movie so good that I own three copies of it.

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan Directed by Nicholas Meyer, 1982 Starring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Ricardo Montalbán and Kirstie Alley Check out the arts section online for the full synopsis: www.theconcordian.com/arts

up in a mansion in L.A. with a tall blond Texan man on one side, a camera crew on the other and 29 other women glaring daggers at me in front. For this week's Spoiler Alert, I watched the season premiere of The Bachelor so you don't have to --- but let's be honest, you were going to watch it anyways.

Promoted as the “most controversial season ever,” it focuses on Brad Womack, a repeat Bachelor who, after turning down two women the first time around and spending three years in therapy, has come back to choose a wife.

F'sho, not f'play this time. And he's got a fine selection to choose from...I think. After the first 45 minutes the white teeth, blonde hair and tacky Fairweather prom

dresses kind of blend into each other, but I'm sure each girl is special on the inside. We just haven't gotten there yet, as the first half hour is all just shots of Womack shirtless and crying in the rain over his own emotional incapability to find love, the second is composed of brief looks at four women and their personal lives, and the rest is basically a blur of potential wives and their “fuck me” eyes (to him) and “fuck you” glares (to everyone else).

Don't get me wrong, though, some of these chicks actually look like they might possess a hint of personality, like Raichel, the “manscaper,” who works at a beauty salon specializing primarily in waxing hair off the balls of some presumably pretty sadistic

dudes. And Shawntel, a funeral director/licensed embalmer who dreams of ending up in a mausoleum beside Womack. The rest of the girls have equally dubious professions – Keltie the Radio City Rockette, Madison, a model who's so obsessed with vampires she has permanent fucking fangs (my first choice for “Crazy Reality TV Bitch”), and Meghan, a “fashion marketer” who drops some Petrarch-esque goodies like, “I think meeting the man of my dreams would be the perfect accessory, for sure” (priorities, anyone?).

I mean, they say this stuff, and all I can think is “porn porn porn porn porn.” But that's just me.

Anyway, as exciting as it is to see who gets a coveted rose (to let them know they're still in the

running), the best part is watching the mascara run down the raccoon eyes of the girls who have to pack up and hit the nearest bar, drink themselves into oblivion and bang the nearest stranger. After all, rejection is a pill that works faster than a roofie.

But remember, girls: nothing is sexier than self-esteem. So when Ashley the “nanny” (yeah, right) got her rose, it wasn't because of her positive outlook on life and her love of kids, it was because she respected herself enough to cake on a full pot of face powder and join a group of 30 other women to throw herself at some hot stranger with a bad reputation with the ferocity of a jungle lion.

Cue the Seal music.

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Showing the feminine through dance New dance company features nine female dancers Amanda Dafniotis Staff writer Dance is a universal language. Painters use paint, writers use words and dancers use their bodies as a medium of communication. Linda Marchand epitomizes the definition of a dancer. At the surprising height of just five foot one, the classically trained dancer continues to contribute to the world of dance. Marchand is no dance rookie: she danced for Ballet Ouest de Montreal for many years, studied contemporary dance with a full scholarship at the North Carolina School of the Arts, and concentrated on the Graham Technique at the School of the Toronto Dance Theatre.

In 2000, she took over the direction of L’Academie de Danse Classique, a dance school in Lachine that Marchand now owns. “I wanted to present my choreography on a larger scale with a company of professional dancers,” said Marchand.

“Following a great deal of encouragement from friends and colleagues, I thought ‘why not?’” This eagerness to more profoundly share and express her creativity and artistry led her to found La Compagnie de Danse Pourquoi Pas this past September. It is composed of nine female dancers, including Marchand.

Working with eight other women can be challenging, but for Marchand, it is an incredibly rewarding experience. The new dance company’s first show, Femmes, is

Photo by Wendy Longlade

With Femmes, Marchand hopes to show that dance remains a relevant artform. made up of four pieces, including one with live music. “I fully respect and admire the marriage of multiple mediums, such as film into a dance piece, but the true challenge for me lies in the ability to derive meaning and emotion using only the human body,” explained Marchand.

Picture this: nine female dancers exploring two extremes, how pure, organic and sensual a woman can be, while also showing the darker, more controlling side of women. This was the scene of the rehearsal for Femmes. This interesting dynamic was

refreshing, as there was a sense of unity and a collective flow amongst nine dancers with different backgrounds and styles.

“As a choreographer I've really enjoyed creating to music by my brother Keith, for my piece ‘Etiquette 101,’” said Marchand.

“He will be playing live in the show, and this will be the first time we've collaborated.” Marchand spends a great deal of time selecting the music for a piece because she says that it deeply affects how her choreography will play out. She enjoys the concept of art being subjective and allowing the au-

dience to interpret and internalize the piece however they want. There is no right or wrong answer. As long as you react to her pieces, Marchand is satisfied. This philosophy also applies to her dancers. Rather than spelling out where she seeks inspiration or what the choreography is about, Marchand allows her dancers to find their own meanings in the piece and to connect with it in different ways.

One of the members of La Compagnie de Danse Pourquoi Pas is 21-year-old Concordia student Alessandra Giuliano. Giuliano began ballet when she was three, and has been dancing with Marchand since 1998. The women in the company are of all ages and all have different schedules.

Kristine Doucet is a mother; Katia Lacelle is a freelance dancer and also teaches at L’Academie de Danse Classique. Both Julia Rossi and Sophie Breton are also freelance dancers, while member Michelle Mayo is a buyer for Aldo. Just like Giuliano, Suzanne de Bellefeuille, Rossi and Julia Lipari-Couture must also balance school with their love for dance. There is an obvious sense of admiration and respect for Marchand who, in addition to being a mentor and teacher to these eight girls, is a friend. This closeness and comfort amongst the members of Montreal’s newest dance company is also a positive quality that sets La Compagnie de Danse Pourquoi Pas apart.

La Compagnie de Danse Pourquoi Pas has allowed Marchand to bring her choreography to a new level, and she hopes that she can show the importance of dance as an art form.

Femmes comes to the D.B Clarke Theatre on Jan. 21at 8 p.m.

VISUAL ARTS

Annie Briard finds the space in between at Joyce Yahouda Gallery Artist combines disciplines in work Amanda Dafniotis Staff writer Videos, check. Sculptures, check. Paintings, check. Drawings, check. Stopmotion animation, check. All of these media are explored in a two room exhibit entitled the space in between by interdisciplinary artist Annie Briard at the Joyce Yahouda Gallery.

Briard describes her work as “interdisciplinary with a surreal tinge, and all about consciousness; making the real bleed with the imagined.” She credits critique and feedback for helping navigate her work to where it is today, while also remaining true to the personal style that she developed early on.

Briard’s show is divided in two rooms.

One immerses you in a dream-like world, which explores isolation and the fear of the unknown. The other is far more gritty, twisted and horror film-like. “The show expresses themes of consciousness and its disconnection,” said Briard.

“More specifically, the concept of the mind being caged by the fear of an inability to achieve one’s dreams, as well as the self being confronted by just-outof-reach freedom.”

In the first room, you are presented with stop-motion animation of a con-

Photo by Annie Briard

Much of Annie Briard’s work, such as Inside You, feature trees and forests. stantly crying redhead stuck in a room.

She looks out of the window and seems to be longing for freedom. Her tears fall to the ground and earth begins to form, out of which crow beaks are growing.

That is when things get interesting certain elements that are presented in the animation can be found in the same room. For instance, in addition to being on screen, the crow beaks growing from the earth can be seen on the left side of the room. This unusual feature challenges your expectations of a typical art exhibit. It also creates unity and a sense of connectivity in Briard’s work.

“I'm probably most inspired by forests, dreams, horror films and philosophy,” said Briard. In the first room, the presence of birds, mythical creatures, and forests are apparent; while in the second, horror freak show would be more like it.

The second room is substantially smaller and only features two works: a painting and a video. The video is enticing; it is unexpected, confusing, and experimental.

Briard’s last video animation, A Plant Wedding, is currently touring China with a show called Canadian Cameras at Work, organized by Travis Joern. “I’m

working with him on bringing Canadian artists to China to create a bridge between our two countries and crosspollinate inspiration,” said Briard. “I also work with artist-run centre Studio XX to support and showcase women artists working with technology.”

The artist, who graduated from Concordia in 2008 with a bachelor of fine arts in Media Art, defined art as “open communication, exploration and education.’’

“The great thing about Concordia was the community, the amount of exchange you could have with the other students and how that could shape your experience into something extraordinary,” said Briard. “One person that has been invaluable for my process is Leila Sujir, a video artist and professor I had at Concordia.

We've kept in touch and regularly meet to discuss our work, and she has given me a lot of support and guidance on how to take my creating and career to the next level.”

Briard has other projects lined up on top of the current exhibit. She is participating in a festival in February with a giant tree sculpture and video, and plans to start a master’s degree in Europe while continuing to work on her artistry.

The space in between runs until Feb. 12 at Joyce Yahouda Gallery, 372 rue Sainte Catherine Ouest Suite 516.

For more information, visit joyceyahoudagallery.com

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RADIO

Americana on Canadian airwaves Some say it’s not Canuck enough, but Ira’s cool by us Daniel Chen Contributor Chicago Public Radio’s popular series This American Life has made its way onto CBC Radio One. Through the use of field reporting, essays, interviews and the occasional short fiction, the radio program travels the United States telling of stories hidden in the nooks and crannies of Americana and reveals the hopes, fears and lives of Americans.

As is generally the case with any radio related announcement, the news of the show airing on CBC has been met with little fanfare. However, the announcement does bring to light the role of public radio in Canada.

The show possesses many of the essential paradoxes of great public radio; shamelessly humble, fascinatingly mundane, precisely meandering and topically obscure while thematically universal.

Together with excellent reporting and subtle tongue-in cheek humor, the show is both critically acclaimed, winning almost every prize for radio, and holds the title of the most listened-to show in the United States. Host Ira Glass has also been named best host in radio by Time magazine.

Quite popular among Canadians with 25,000 podcasts downloaded every week, the show appears rather American for Radio One, a network whose mandate is to produce “predominantly and distinctly Canadian content,” and “contribute to the shared national identity and consciousness of Canada,” as stated in the 1991 Broadcasting Act of Canada. Not only does This American Life cultivate a culture that is not Canadian and hence does not pay for the CBC, it cultivates American culture - the culture the CBC is trying to escape.

Radio One’s incorporation of This

In Ira we trust: he’s a cooler, Yank version of Canadian TAL contributor Jonathan Goldstein.

American Life is definitely not part of the irreversible aftereffects of Richard Stursberg’s controversial tenure as head of the CBC. Stursberg wanted to make the CBC “less elite” and bring in a younger audience by reconfiguring the news and placing television programming at the mercy of ratings.

Contrary to the issues of dwindling market shares and revenue issues that plague CBC television, Radio One is free of advertising to begin with and hence does not have the burden of increasing their listeners to gain ad funding. Furthermore, as humbly boasted on occasion, Radio One has a higher percentage of Canadians listening than ever before.

That being said, the primary purpose of public radio according to The Broad-

casting Act is to “inform, enlighten and entertain” with a particular stress on that order. Contrary to the decisions of Stursberg, Radio One has increased listeners without debasing itself and sticking to that order. Meanwhile, the show continues with the tradition of informing, enlightening and entertaining as well as “[contributing] to the flow … of cultural expression,” as stated in the Broadcasting Act. Not to mention, it “reflect[s] the multicultural nature of Canada” in the roughly 10,000 American Expatriates that arrive every year.

The show fits nicely into the CBC’s narrative tradition. The CBC already has a roster of similar Canadian shows such as the coast to coast nationalization of small town legends in Stewart

Graphic by Katie Brioux

McLean’s Vinyl Café and the neurotic and hilarious musings of This American Life contributor Jonathan Goldstein on life in Montreal on his show Wiretap. If anything, This American Life complements those shows, as grappling with the cultural behemoth to the south is inevitably part of Canadian culture.

Radio One, as those insomniacs among us already know, airs foreign content in the form of BBC news during the night. With increased listenership through the use of providing good content, perhaps the content that is primarily informative is more harmful than that of cute and quaint Americana.

If This American Life was bad radio, the apprehension towards it would be understandable.

CINEMA POLITICA

Film adaptation of Living Downstream examines link between cancer and pollution ‘Our environment is within us,’ says author Corey Pool Contributor “With the right to know comes the duty to inquire,” explained Dr. Sandra Steingraber, author of the book Living Downstream, and now, the main character in the book’s film adaptation.

Steingraber is an ecologist, author, poet and cancer survivor. Living Downstream is the documentary film adaptation of her critically acclaimed book by the same name. The book was published in 1997, but for the past five years Chanda Chevannes and her team at The People’s Picture Company in Toronto have been labouring to bring the book to life. “I was just out of high school when I first read

Sandra's book,” said Chevannes. “As I read the first few pages, I thought, ‘This is written so cinematically, someone will turn this book into a film’ […] But it took many years before I realized that I was that someone.”

Living Downstream uses thought-provoking footage, contrasting beautiful North American landscapes with harsh industrial wastelands and eerie, almost mechanical agricultural sites. The film follows Steingraber in her personal and professional endeavours to spread the word of her life’s work, combined with intimate vignettes of her lifelong struggle as a cancer survivor.

Living Downstream packs a punch both in what it tells the viewer and how. It addresses the topic of cancer and the environment as a multi-layered problem, involving many issues and many people. The film looks at agricultural water run-offs, tests on frogs and Beluga whales harmed by pesti-

cide use, and tap water chock full of toxic chemicals. It stresses the harm that comes from chemical emissions that seep into our environment, and consequently, into our bodies. “[Chemicals] don’t disappear once they are released into the environment, they move from one medium to another, and eventually into our bodies,” said Chevannes. “There is no barrier between our environment and our bodies.”

The film conveys other messages as well, including the effect that a cancer diagnosis can have on a person, and the importance of looking at cancer as a human rights issue. It also attempts to communicate hope. “I was most focused on the message about the beauty of our world,” explained Chevannes. “Like in [Steingraber’s] writing, we wanted to encourage people to see why our environment is worth protecting.”

The film treats the issue of cancer and its link to the environment as an obvious

human rights violation. It can be seen as a type of activism, but done in a nonconfrontational way, Chevannes noted. “[Steingraber] has a very gentle style, and I wanted to reflect that style too.” In the film, Steingraber said, “My intent is not to scare people or alarm people. My intent is to enact this idea that knowledge is power, and the people have the right to know what’s going on with their environment and what might be effecting their health.”

Since the film’s release in March 2010, Chevannes has been working on outreach for the film. This work has included the creation of two educational DVDs for teachers and activists, written guides that help to accompany the DVD, a very new and interactive website as well as screenings across North America.

Though she admits the goals for this project are big, Chevannes ultimately wants “to affect the conversation around environmental health and synthetic chemicals. I hope it is doing that.”

Living Downstream screens Jan. 24 at Cinema Politica, room H-110, at 7 p.m.

For more info, check out cinemapolitica.org

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BACKSTAGE PASS

In the shadow of rock giants The Concordian gets an inside look at the hidden world of the arena rock roadie

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This roadie went on the road with The Rolling Stones during their Big Bang tour in 2007.

Cora Ballou Staff writer Here’s a question: how many people walk out of a concert congratulating the soundman for his excellent work? Never. In fact, spectators rarely think of the people commonly known as “roadies.” Though we may get cursory reminders of them in the form of unassuming men scurrying on stage to change a guitar or pick up an item, for the most part they occupy little space in our concert-minded brains. Yet without these people, none of us would be at the show in the first place! Especially today with bands consistently giving bigger and more complex performances, the perfect execution of all aspects of the show has be comeprimordial. But what is life in the shadows of these rock monsters like? Though working for bands like Motley Crüe or Iron Maiden might create some cachet for those back at home, life on the road can be quite tedious at times.

Even if these roadies may be at the top of their industry, being part of the invisible backdrop to the world’s biggest bands isn’t as glorious as you might think. The Concordian sat down with a retired roadie (who would rather remain anonymous) who, in his 10 years of experience, has worked for such iconic bands as AC/DC and The Rolling Stones. Here is your backstage pass to the world of arena rock.

A Day in the Life Even though roadie life may seem glamorous, the daily grind can get quite repetitive. “Usually we wake up in a hotel room

or on the bus,” he said. “Once you get to the venue you usually work from say, nine to five in the afternoon. Then you either eat at the venue or, if you have extra time, you can go to a restaurant. Once the show starts you work like crazy until anywhere between midnight and four in the morning. Then you get back on the bus and it’s the same thing the next day.”

This can be a disillusioning experience for those imagining a rock n’ roll atmosphere as pictured in the movies. Even though a lot of partying is done on tour, the stereotype of drugs and girls is not as prevalent as many would imagine. “Roadies like to drink and have fun. But I think it’s more out of boredom than anything. You’re done for the day and you’ll want to see what people are up to.[…] You’ll then end up having a pint at lunch and next thing you know it’s four in the afternoon and you’re hammered.”

Surprisingly, this can have some benefits. In one case, when the AC/DC crew was in the band’s native Australia, one bar closed their doors to all but the touring party. Sometimes living in the shadows isn’t so bad after all.

Welcome to the Jungle There are many types of roadies. Big production tours require a large crew of light, sound, merchandise and management teams. Then there are the carpenters, electricians and bus drivers that make the moving and (re)building of the stage possible. On top of that there are runners, interns and usually a large entourage who makes sure the band has

everything they need.

As with most jobs in the music field, knowing somebody is one of the best ways to get your first gig. But not all roadies get helped out by friends. Especially in the fields that require technical skills, many future roadies begin on a local level before being picked up by a company that is later hired by an artist. Often, the more skilled individuals will be highly sought after. It is not uncommon for an artist to ask for a specific person to do sound or lights. But for the most part, roadies work their way up beginning with smaller bands before hitting the big time.

Highway to Hell To help alleviate the boredom, high-end production tours give roadies the best amenities. This includes luxury hotels, a full catering menu (think salad and coffee bar, rotating choice of meals, vegetarian options and desserts spread) and a shared bus stocked with food and beer. “The bus is a bit like your second home,” he said. “There’s a lot of unspoken rules on cleanliness, food usage and loudness. So overall it can be pretty quiet.” Often, the production staff will have meals ready after the gigs which are sometimes themed to the city. “You walk after the gig and there’s always a ton of food waiting for you. In Montreal we got Schwartz’s sandwiches and in Chicago it was pizza.”

Keep on Rockin’ in the Free World One of the biggest perks of touring is that it allows you to travel around the

world.Unfortunately the key word here is “travel.” Because most large venues are in the outskirts of town, the chances of actually visiting the city are pretty slim. “Once in a while you get a day off, but most of the time you only get to see the suburbs.

You basically get off the bus, check into your hotel room, work and then wake up in time to get back on the bus.”

One thing roadies do get to know is the crowds. Depending on the band and the country, different nationalities will react on a spectrum of crazy to passed-out-onthe-sidewalk-peeing-into-the-merchandisestands drunk. “I really enjoy the crowds in Italy and Spain. They always have a great energy but they don’t get totally wasted. The UK crowds are also really into the shows but by the end of the night they’re complete wrecks. You’ll see guys throwing up or girls getting into crazy drunken brawls. People pay good money to see these shows, so they definitely take advantage of them.” But the hardest crowds to handle are the Danes. “They just get so drunk that it becomes kind of sad and pathetic. They’re great people, but in a concert setting they’re really difficult to deal with.”

Being a roadie can be a difficult and tiring job. With endless working hours and constant travel, many have trouble leading regular lives back at home. But overall, those who choose this profession do it because they love it. A job is a job no matter which way you look at it. Fortunately in the case of roadies, through their hard labour and dedication, they are able to be part of one small slice of music history.

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PROFILE

Braids are ready to take on the world The band discusses the release of their debut LP, out today Colin Harris Staff writer Austin Tufts and Raphaelle Standell-Preston of Braids are clearly excited to have completed what they spent the better part of a year perfecting.

Drummer Tufts fuses several influences to create a playing style that resembles something like Animal Collective’s “My Girls,” only he does it with a full kit. StandellPreston’s free flowing vocals inhabit the foreground, ranging from delicate trails to the occasional scream. Today, the art-pop quartet release Native Speaker, their selfproduced full-length. On Thursday, Braids kick off their North American tour with a show at La Sala Rossa.

“At times it was very grueling because we were pushing the limitations of what we were capable of,” said Standell-Preston about the recording process. “Sometimes we’d do 300 vocal takes. We were pushing ourselves to record what was in our heads.”

Capturing their expansive live sound was a challenge for the band since they had never before produced a record. Braids found their production legs in bassist and guitarist Taylor Smith’s garage, where they spent months experimenting with sound.

“That’s something we battled with big

Photo by Marc Rimmer

From left to right: Austin Tufts, Raphaelle Standell-Preoton, Katie Lee and Taylor Smith of Braids. time,” said Tufts. “We ended up laying down the beds and then overdubbed everything except the drums. One of the hardest things when you’re doing overdubbing is to make it really groove and to lock, to keep that live energy.”

“We were very worried about the magic almost being gone because the energy of the four of us playing [live] has a certain feel to it,” added Standell-Preston. “We were trying all these different ways to get it back in, and I feel we succeeded.”

The amount of time spent crafting their intertwined sound is evident on Native Speaker, a dreamy, layered record with an average track length of over six minutes.

Tuft explores unorthodox rhythms, employing all parts of his kit to beef up the band’s rhythmic component.

“When I first started listening to Animal Collective I thought they went for a really nice timbre with the sound of the rims that I had never heard before,” said Tufts. “I started exploring that in a different direction with Latin rhythms.”

“Definitely my biggest inspiration for my drum parts are the melodies in the song,” he continued. “All my favourite drummers are very melodic. Christopher Bear from Grizzly Bear does some really nice stuff.

“Two Weeks” is a really good example of how melodic drums can be.”

Quick Spins

Cage the Elephant – Thank You, Happy Birthday (Relentless; 2011) Anyone who has seen this Kentucky quintet’s energetic live performance knows that there is a much more dynamic band hiding behind their harmless radio-rock reputation.

Thank You, Happy Birthday meshes the pop sensibilities that make them radio-friendly with their rowdy funk-punk live energy.The presence most felt on this album (for better or for worse) is that of vocalist Matt Shultz, whose often bizarre vocal style falls somewhere between the realms of Iggy Pop and Frank Black.

The loud-to-quiet dynamic of the record is what really makes it an enjoyable listen.

Catchy tracks like “Shake Me Down” and “Right Before My Eyes” punctuate the unintelligible wailing and general sense of chaos felt in songs like “Sell Yourself” and “Japanese Buffalo.” With Thank You, Happy Birthday, Cage The Elephant continues to grow into one of rock’s more exciting young bands.

Trial Track: “Aberdeen”

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- Robert Flis

Tufts has drawn influence from contemporary artists’ use of electronic percussion as well.

“A lot of my favourite musicians these days are electronic artists,” he said. “The main focus is the drums in a lot of German instrumental music, and a couple friends of mine from Calgary doing really great electronic stuff, like Morgan Greenwood.

It’s exactly the kind of style I want to figure out on the drum set.”

Braids have begun incorporating electronic texture into their sound. The band uses contact microphones, equipment that will capture Tufts’ playing as electronic impulses for bandmates to control.

“We’re starting to get into using contact microphones on the drum set and running them to different members of the band, having them manipulate my drums while I’m playing,” said Tufts. “You can create really cool drum glitches and delays.”

Even when experimenting with new tools, everything is subordinated to the overall atmosphere of the song. Braids compose intricately subtle soundscapes housing dynamics and melody.

“Our music provides an environment to be emotional in,” said Tufts. Whichever emotion is evoked - go for it. Don’t be afraid because that emotion is you.”

Catch Braids’ album launch show on Jan. 20 at La Sala Rossa where they will play with Pop Winds and Long Long Long.

Retro review

Tennis- Cape Dory (Fat Possum Records; 2011)

Braids- Native Speaker (Flemish Eye; 2011)

Manu Chao- Clandestino (Virgin Records; 1998)

Denver husband and wife Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley of Tennis have been making a huge splash in the indie music community and are now set to release their debut fulllength album, Cape Dory.

The album is named after the couple’s sailboat, in which they sailed for seven months and covered 2,500 nautical miles along the North Atlantic coastline. Having left their respective jobs and lives behind to follow their dreams, Cape Dory undeniably bears the mark of this idealistic journey of two young lovers. Songs like “Marathon” and “Seafarer” are filled with catchy hooks and sweet harmonies that are sure to coast you through the long winter months ahead.

These sun-soaked, retro-pop tunes will certainly please fans of Best Coast and She & Him, in addition to offering a nostalgic voyage to a place where catchy guitar riffs float through the sea breeze and simplicity is the only beacon. Ahoy!

Trial Track: “Bimini Bay”

Braids debut LP Native Speaker is a dreamy, emotionally intense album that will carry you off to a distant land within your own imagination. With its shortest track, “Plath Heart,” clocking it at just over four minutes and its longest, “Native Speaker,” stretching almost eight-and-a-half minutes, each song is quite long. While this can sometimes work against a band, it works perfectly for Braids’ sound. This is because each song, though fairly low-key, is an unconventional sensate adventure that could not be successfully completed in a few short minutes.

Braids manage to challenge traditional song structure and length while avoiding repetition and dullness. The layered, echoing vocals are at times haunting, sweet or anguished, and most tracks contain a complex combination of all three. Starting with their upbeat first single “Lemonade,” the album slowly tapers out into a more reflective, detached lullaby, ending with an instrumental tune by the name of “Little Hand.”

Trial Track: “Glass Deers”

After travelling extensively throughout South and Central America, Clandestino was released in 1998 as Manu Chao’s first solo album. Although presented as a solo effort, the album is anything but. Over the course of his travels, Chao collaborated with bandmates from his former group Mano Negra and his then-present band Radio Beba Sound System, as well as with Mexican, Brazilian and Argentinian groups, recording music as he moved around. The result is an album that captures various Latin sounds, with songs sung in many languages including French, English, Spanish and Portuguese. Chao’s intention was to replicate the sounds of street buskers and bar performers, so the album differed greatly from the poppy alternative music he made with Mano Negra. Although not as successful in English-speaking countries, it has received a slow and steady stream of attention in Europe and South America. Interestingly, Chao will write different lyrics for the same melody and present them as different songs, such as “Bongo Bong” and “Je Ne T’aime Plus.” Nevertheless, Clandestino is widely accessible and every track is a gem.

Trial Track: “Luna Y Sol”

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- Paul Traunero

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FEATURE

Once upon a record label, in a place known only as the Mile End...

Arbutus records aims to strengthen a community through friendship and a love of music Adrian Sousa Contributor While enjoying breakfast on Beaubien Street in Montreal, most don’t expect the conversation to turn to the enslavement of the musical world. That, however, is exactly what tops the list of aspirations of Sebastian Cowan, cofounder of Montreal’s Arbutus Records.

“It’s definitely about world domination,” he says jokingly as he sips his coffee, a sly grin breaking across his face. “We’re very happy in our little Mile End box-community, but we are always thinking about how we can grow.”

To say that Cowan, at only 24 years of age, has his priorities straight and his game plan organized would be an understatement. After his graduation from the Gateway School of Recording in Kingston Hill, England, Sony Entertainment came knocking at Cowan’s door with hopes of signing the Saltspring Island native as the newest addition to their music and sound design team.

“That was a substantial contract that would have built a career for me with the Rock Band video game franchise,” says Cowan, showing no remorse. “I just didn’t want to do that though. I wanted to do my own thing.”

Lab Synthèse (The Lab) was Cowan’s first endeavour upon arriving in Montreal. He found an apartment in the Mile End region, moved in, and for two years, he and his flatmates would host loft parties in which they would invite friends and budding Montreal artists to play live music.

“Lots of my friends played their first shows at The Lab. We would take a meagre percent-

age of the admission price, but that wasn’t even enough to pay our rent,” says Cowan, speaking of the tribulations of trying to turn his home into a music venue. “Eventually, weird shit started to happen and I was dealing with more and more crap, so that spelled the end of The Lab’s two year life.”

With the death of The Lab came the birth of Arbutus Records. Cowan’s reasoning for starting the label was simple: create a music scene within his own Mile End community, and help him with the recent bout of musical boredom he was suffering from.

“This thing happened to me some time after I moved to Montreal: I stopped listening to music,” says Cowan between bites of his breakfast. “When you flip through a hundred records and don’t want to listen to any of them, there’s a problem. So the only music I listened to was music my friends made.”

Using the skills he acquired at Gateway School of Recording, Cowan began the recording process with a few of his artist friends.

Many acts that had played their debut shows at The Lab were added to Arbutus’s lineup, and this gave a family-esque vibe to the label.

“All of the bands on the label may not sound the same, but it works because we are all friends,” says Cowan. “We all live in the same neighbourhood, we hang out and we help each other.”

At this point Sean Nicholas Savage – one of the artists on the Arbutus label – takes a break from eating his toast to pipe in.

“If I make a great record, there’s natural feelings from the others to get jealous and work harder on their next song,” he says. “We feed each other new ideas, inspire each other, and give feedback. [It helps] when everybody lives in the same community.”

Savage was attracted to Arbutus Records due to the do-it-your-way approach that the label permitted.

“When I was little, I had enough of an imagination to create my own action figures,” he

REVIEW

Sunday can't be a club night, right?

Tokyo Police Club and Two Door Cinema Club beg to differ Adrian Sousa Contributor The end-of-weekend blues were cured as Newmarket, Ontario's Tokyo Police Club passed through Montreal's Club Soda Sunday night, bouncing a raucous crowd into a frenzy with their danceable hooks and rock edges.

Alternative duo PS I Love You kicked the night off, getting heads bobbing and feet stomping with their riff-heavy jams. Multi-instrumentalist Paul Saulnier let the music do the talking by rarely leaving his post to man the microphone, guitar and pedal-bass all at once.

Next on the bill was Irish

quintet Two Door Cinema Club. The band, whose sound ranges from electronica, to dance, to indie pop, picked up where PS I Love You left off, turning head bobbing into full fledged dancing and thrashing throughout their 14-song set. Two Door Cinema Club are no strangers to Montreal, having played for the city on three separate occasions in the past year. Prior to their final song, lead singer Alex Trimble told the crowd to get ready for Tokyo Police Club to “show [them] how it's done,” before sending the packed Club Soda crowd into raptures with their hit “I Can Talk.”

These words couldn't have rang any more true.

Tokyo Police Club exploded onto the stage with the song “Favourite Colour” off of their second album, Champ (2010).

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Photo by Emily Kai Bock

Arbutus Records founders Sebastian Cowan and Sean Savage pose with members of the Arbutus crew, all of whom are friends. said. “I could put fake blood on them, rip their arms off in battle, and I didn’t have to worry about only buying what was carried in stores.

That same ideal transgressed into music, and I began to make my own as I got older.”

“Listening to other music is very enjoyable, but I’m not going to spend all day helping and promoting people I don’t know,” adds Cowan.

“Very regularly I get emails from aspiring artists who want to be part of the label; a lot of it is good, but it goes against our policy and how we are doing things that are very specific to our scene.”

So what’s next for the label whose pulse is nestled in the heart of the Mile End community?

“We’re always thinking about breaking out

of our box, even though it’s quite comfortable,” says Cowan. “The box is just where we live, but we want to work everywhere else now. We are thinking about going down to New York and eventually getting international distribution for our artists.”

With bands such as Blue Hawaii, Grimes, Braids and the Silly Kissers -- who were chosen as one of Spin Magazine’s top five indie acts from Montreal -- under the Arbutus Records label, don’t be surprised to see Cowan’s team of artists set the globe alight in pursuit of global prestige. No need to fear, however. If they stick to their guns, you can rest assured that they will take the most family-friendly approach.

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Back in the swing of things Andrew Guilbert

Sultans of swing censored

The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council has decided that the Dire Straits song “Money for Nothing” is no longer fit to air in its original form. The decision was made after a single complaint from a listener in Newfoundland regarding the song’s use of the word “faggot.”

The word is sung three times in the song’s second verse: “The little faggot with the earring and the makeup / Yeah, buddy, that’s his own hair / That little faggot’s got his own jet airplane / That little faggot, he’s a millionaire.” According to the CBSC, broadcasting the song would be in violation of their code of ethics. This decision came a quarter of a century after the song’s initial release in 1985.

Dave Grohl is a Godlike Genius

Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl is to be named “Godlike Genius” at this year’s NME awards ceremony on Feb. 23. The award is given out to commemorate artists who have consistently proven their worth over the span of their careers. Grohl said of his new title: “I just think it’s funny. I don’t think I’m Godlike or a genius. I kind of think I’m pretty much a fucking idiot most of the time. It’s flattering. It’s a nice thing to be acknowledged for doing something you love to do, but in truth I don’t consider it a body of work because I don’t consider it work.” Previous winners of the Godlike Genius award include Massive Attack, U2, New Order and Joy Division.

Adam Yauch retains his “License to Ill”

Reports of Beastie Boy Adam Yauch’s victory over salivary gland cancer last week may have been a little premature. Late last Friday, Yauch’s publicist released a statement saying: “While I’m grateful for all the positive energy people are sending my way, reports of my being totally cancer free are exaggerated. I’m continuing treatment, staying optimistic and hoping to be cancer free in the near future.”

Not-so-beautiful day for Spiderman musical

U2’s long-anticipated musical, SpiderMan: Turn Off the Dark has been postponed once again. The reason for the latest delay is to give the cast time to rehearse a new ending. This is only the latest postponement in a long series of setbacks to the show; so far there have been four cases of actors injured on set, including lead actress Natalie Mendoza who pulled out of the show due to an injury sustained earlier this month.

Originally slated to open on February 7th, the show is now projected to open sometime in March 2011.

Olivia Dumas Staff writer

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oing back to school after the holidays is usually brutal, to say the least. Getting projects started and fighting the oncoming deluge of work whilst fighting the urge to procrastinate can be a challenge. This mix illustrates the extremes of these feelings: the excitement of starting new things and looking ahead, and the dread we can sometimes feel when getting back in the swing of things.

To listen, go to: www.8tracks.com/ the_concordian/back-in-the-swing-ofthings

Side A: Procrastination 1. “Slow to Learn”- SebadohThe Freed Man- 1989 2. “Back on the Chain Gang”-

The PretendersLearning to Crawl- 1984 3. “Boredom”- The BuzzcocksSpiral Scratch- 1977 4. “Sub-Zero Fun”- Autolux- Future Perfect- 2004 5. “Leaving It Up to Me”- The Folk Implosion-The New Folk Implosion- 2003 6. “Revolution Come and Gone”- Beat HappeningDreamy- 1991 7. “Hard Times”- Blakroc- Blakroc- 2009 8. “Slice of Life”- BauhausBurning From the Inside- 1983 9. “Sooner Than You Think”New Order- Low-Life- 1985 10. “Tomorrow’s World”- Killing Joke- Killing Joke- 1980 Side B: Action 11. “Start!”- The Jam- Compact

Snap- 1983 12. “Ready For The Floor”- Hot Chip- Made In The Dark- 2008 13. “Dawn of the Age of Tomorrow”- Black Lips- We Did Not Know the Forest Spirit Made the Flowers Grow- 2004 14. “Brand New Game”- Elliott Smith- The Moon Is A Lightbulb Breaking- (year unknown) 15. “Do It Now”- Mos DefBlack on Both Sides- 1999 16. “Time Is Coming”- Bongwater- The Power Of Pussy- 1990 17. “It’s Alright (Baby)”- David Cowan- Unreleased Demos- 2008 18. “Show The World”- The Apples In Stereo- Fun Trick Noisemaker- 1995 19. “Another Sunny Day”- Belle & Sebastian- The Life Pursuit2006 20.”Les Professionnels”- AirPremiers Symptômes- 1997

Tokyo Police Club cap off night Continued from p.15 So began a set filled with start-stop guitars, heavy synth, tambourine tossing and awkward-yet-endearing interjections by front man Dave Monks.

“This is fun, that's all I can think to say,” said Monks, taking a break to sip from his water. But Monks reminded the crowd not to get too carried away, saying "[you] can jump all you want, I just don't want to see any pushing."

The 17-song set featured a sampling of tunes from both full-length albums and a few hits from their debut EP A Lesson in Crime (2006) sprinkled into the fray, along with new song “Top Five.” They closed their set with crowd favourite “Your English is Good,” only to retake the stage for a two song encore.

“Remember 2001?” Monks asked.

“That was 10 years ago.”

With that, Two Door Cinema Club joined them onstage to play a rough and tumble version of The Strokes' “Last Nite,” bringing a close to a night of dancing, hand claps and of course, clubs.

To see more photos, check out our online slideshow at www.theconcordian.com/ music

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1: Two door Cinema Club joined Tokyo Police Club onstage for an encore. 2: Dave Monks of TPC raises his harm to the crowd. 3: TPC had the crowd dancing, clapping and crowd surfing.

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Write to the editor: sports@theconcordian.com HOCKEY

Stingers hold on for shootout victory Concordia goalkeeper Audrey Doyon-Lessard stops 44 shots to help team overcome Carleton Michael Lemieux Staff writer In a game where the home team was out shot by more than 2-1, Concordia goalie Audrey Doyon-Lessard stopped 44 out of 46 shots to win the game for the Stingers 3-2 in a shootout.

“I think we had a great start, we lost focus in the last 10 minutes, and the other team got some good goals,” said head coach Les Lawton after the game.

Lost focus indeed; both of Carleton’s goals came in the last six minutes of play.

The Stingers started off strong. Carleton received the first penalty of the game for cross-checking, and on the ensuing powerplay Concordia’s Catherine Rancourt got the first scoring chance when she got a takeaway and had a clear path to the net. Ravens goalie Victoria Powers however, buried Rancourt’s wrist shot.

With two and a half minutes left in the first, the Stingers managed to get the puck to the net. The Ravens keeper, unable to cover up, let the first goal of the game in when Moira Frier slammed it home, putting Concordia up 1-0 going in to the second.

Photo by Cindy Lopez

The women’s hockey team is 3-3 in games at their home arena this season.

Encouraged by the goal, Concordia came into the second period ready for another. Just over three minutes in, they found it after a quick pass to Stinger Mallory Lawton led to a shot from the blue line that slipped through Powers legs, and the Stingers were up 2-0.

Carleton had a good chance when three quick penalties led to a four-on-three for the Ravens. However, goalie Audrey DoyonLessard and the Stingers’ penalty-killing line stopped them from coming back just as the buzzer sounded for the second.

The third came around with the Stingers still up 2-0. After a couple of shots and saves and with less than six minutes in the game, Concordia found themselves on the fending off the Ravens, who were on a five-on-three

powerplay; the result of high-sticking and hooking penalties to Mary-Jane Roper and Maggie MacNeil, respectively. Thankful for the gift, Carleton scored to make it 2-1 when Kristen Marson fired one from the blue line that beat Doyon-Lessard.

After another few minutes, Carleton did what any sensible team would – they pulled their goalie. With 1:25 left, the Ravens went for the tie. However they could make nothing of their man advantage when after an offside call, they put her back in.

With eight seconds left, a timeout was called and after both teams went over their strategies, Carleton pulled their goalie again.

Then, during on a six-on-five play, Raven Sadie Wegner stretched Doyon-Lessard out,

netting it in the top right corner, with only two seconds left. The game would go into overtime.

The visitors were invigorated during the overtime period. Carleton came on hard one minute in and during a two-on-one rush the Ravens looked to end it, but Doyon-Lessard would have none of it and slapped the puck out of reach.

Three minutes later, another Raven, Kristen MacDonald got a breakaway on the Concordia net, but an undaunted Doyon-Lessard buried the puck, and the game went into a shootout.

First up for Concordia, Erin Lally put the home team up by one with a beautiful forehand-to-backhand deke that caught the Ravens keeper looking the other way.

After four more fruitless shots by both teams which tested both goalies, Stinger Emilie Boccia was up. Grabbing the puck, she drifted in and sniped one in past Powers’ glove, winning the game for the home team 3-2.

“They were a strong team, they put up good pressure,” said Stinger Alynn Dorion, “but we picked ourselves up and changed the momentum of the game.”

Sunday’s game was the conclusion of a winning weekend for the Stingers, who beat Montréal 4-3 last Friday night. They will try to repeat the win against the Carabins, with whom they are now tied for second place, this Friday at CEPSUM starting at 7 p.m. They will then take on the Ottawa Gee Gees at the Ed Meagher Arena on Saturday afternoon at 2:30 p.m.

BASKETBALL

Rookie Kaylah Barrett gives solid effort in loss Concordia trailed McGill all game, couldn’t turn it around Kalli Ringelberg Staff writer On Thursday, Jan. 13, the women’s basketball team went head-to-head with McGill.

But on McGill’s turf, the Stingers suffered an 11-point loss.

McGill held a strong lead from the beginning, and within the first four minutes it was already 10-4. The Stingers fought back with two free throws by Kaylah Barrett and another basket by Nekeita Lee. McGill’s Valerie L’Écuyer sank another and with three minutes left Lee grabbed two more points.

After a Concordia time-out, Martlet Marie-Ève Martin, former Stinger Sebastien Martin’s little sister, gave McGill a five-point lead at 15-10. Stinger Andréanne GrégoireBoudreau got two more and Tina Mpondani with a rebound got the ball to teammate Magalie Beaulieu, who effortlessly sank

two more, leaving them trailing by only one point. It wasn’t enough for the Stingers, who finished the first quarter trailing by two points at 18-16.

Barrett started the second quarter with two more baskets, but it didn’t prove to be enough to keep the Martlets down, who along with the support of their crowd, kept lighting up the scoreboard. The game was so emotional that even the bench got involved, which the extremely unhappy and debatably unfair referees granted more than one technical foul to.

With five minutes left in the first half of the game, Lee was knocked down after a turnover before given the chance to make the basket. Luckily, her efforts still allowed them to maintain possession. Another foul on Anne-Marie Prophete gave them the opportunity for two more free throws, which she made. Prophete took a great pass from Beaulieu but she took a hit and made two more free throws. The somewhat violent first half ended at a disappointing 35-28 for McGill.

In the third quarter, after two minutes

McGill, netted a three-pointer and Martlet Jessica Eng scored another two points.

Stingers Barrett and Beaulieu sank a basket each, Beaulieu’s being the third-pointer she had been aiming for from the start, her hard work and persistence finally paying off.

She added two more points on the board with the score then at 48-33. By the end of the third quarter, Concordia was trailing by twenty points at 60-40.

Two early fouls on Barrett and a basket from Lee gave the Stingers a chance to score another six points before McGill scored again. Barrett scored again with seven minutes left and Concordia called a time out.

When play resumed, Martlet Frances GroutBrown and Martin both scored a threepointer and Beaulieu matched them, but a foul against Concordia before the basket annulled it. Kendra Carrie finished the game with two free-throws and a three-pointer at the buzzer, but the game ended at 72-61 for the Martlets.

The Stingers played Bishop’s on Saturday night and won 57-51. Check out a recap

Photo by Saskia Nowicki

Anne-Marie Prophete made all four free throws she was awarded on Thursday night. She has made 21-of35 shots from the line this season. on www.theconcordian.com/sports.

The Martlets will visit the Concordia Gym for a rematch of last week’s game this Friday, Jan. 21. Tip-off is at 8 p.m.

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BASKETBALL

Concordia loses key player in loss to McGill Evens Laroche is fourth-highest scorer, averages 10.5 points per game Kalli Ringelberg Staff writer After a sad defeat for the women’s basketball team, the men’s team suffered the same fate on the unlucky day in McGill’s house, losing by only six points, with a final score of 70-64.

Stinger Evens Laroche started the game with two points. A good pass from McGill’s forward Nicholas Nishikawa to Simon Bibeau matched the score. McGill’s Winn Clark got the basket that gave his team the first lead. Zach Brisebois suffered a hard hit and sank both of his free-throws, bringing the game to the first of many ties. A foul on Bibeau was then matched by Kyle Desmarais’ basket. Morgan Tajfel netted one more and Jean-Andre Moussignac got a three-pointer right before McGill called a time-out.

Concordia’s strong defence ran the clock and they gained possession, but it didn’t hold when Bibeau got a three-pointer and Clark got two more tying up the game at 11-11. Desmarais then saw an opportunity when Laroche cut under the basket and with another basket by Decee Krah the Stingers took the lead again. McGill scored six more points, taking the lead back.

Within a minute, both Bibeau and Olivier Bouchard netted three-pointers and ended the first half of the game at 31-24 for McGill.

Stingers guard Krah began the second half with an impressive three points and Desmarais followed his teammates lead with another basket. With his first basket of the game, forward James Clark brought

the Stingers closer to the lead but unfortunately the Stingers two-point baskets were no match to the abundance of three-pointers that came from the Redmen.

Laroche suffered an injury to his ankle and was taken out of the game. In his spot, Frank Fiola came in off the bench with a new energy. He netted two more, but they slowly started to trail behind, point by point.

Brisebois fought for possession and got the ball to Tajfel who took a foul. An aggressive game was offset by both teams’ skills in shooting from the free throw line.

With two minutes left, the Stingers trailed by two points. Clark, in a display of his defensive skill, stole the ball out of a Redmen player’s hands without drawing a foul, which was a feat on its own considering the questionable refereeing. McGill’s Greg Gause finished the third quarter with two more points.

The final quarter began with Tajfel paying back Desmarais for his good passes and rewarding the Stingers with two more points. The fouls continued, giving one to both benches on separate occasions. Taylor Garner with an abundance of fight and energy netted four points. With three minutes left in the game, McGill tried to run down the defensive clock but Krah managed to make a basket, which left the Stingers trailing by seven points. A kickball gave Concordia possession and Desmarais took the ball to the basket. McGill’s Gause finished off a breakaway with a slam dunk and Moussignac made three more points. But there wasn’t enough fight left in the Stingers and when the final buzzer sounded, they were six points short of a victory.

Desmarais said that the game was “frustrating” and they “didn’t play hard enough” but he vowed that wouldn’t be the case for the game next Friday.

Photo by Faiz Imam

Decee Krah powers past a McGill player as teammate Taylor Garner looks on.

The 0-8 Bishop’s Gaiters were in town last Saturday for a game against the Stingers. If you missed out on the action, head over to the sports page on the Concordian website, www.theconcordian.com/sports,

to find out how they did. Concordia will get a chance to redeem themselves Friday, Jan. 21 when McGill stops in at the Concordia Gym. Game time is 6 p.m.

HOCKEY

Stingers split weekend games, snap seven-game slide

Concordia loses against Carleton but rebounds against Ottawa the next day Simon Tousignant Staff writer

The Stingers dropped their seventh game in a row when they lost 3-2 in overtime against the Carleton Ravens Saturday afternoon at Ed Meagher Arena. However, they made up for it on Sunday with a 5-3 win over the University of Ottawa Gee-Gees in the capital city.

Saturday, the Stingers faced hard opposition from the fourth-ranked Ravens. The first period was ably disputed as both teams played tight defence. Carleton dominated with 15 shots compared to Concordia’s five but neither team could score.

The Ravens opened the scoring just under a minute into the second frame while Kyle Van Wieren served a double-minor for spearing.

Carleton’s Brandon MacLean was able to push the puck past goaltender Maxime Joyal after a nice passing play with teammates Joey Manley and Graham Klassen.

The Stingers came right back in the game at 6:03 courtesy of defenseman Jesse Goodsell.

After Carleton’s Tyler Taylor was sent to the penalty box for hooking, Goodsell buried the puck on a rebound after George Lovatsis shot

Photo by Faiz Imam

Raven Jeff Hayes gets his stick up on Stinger Alexandre Monahan as he reaches for the puck. Carleton goalie Ryan Dube stopped 45 shots in the win. towards the net. Marc-Andre Element also picked up an assist on the play.

Concordia’s Kiefer Orsini was then awarded a five-minute major for slashing. The Ravens were stopped by a dominant Joyal before Hayes was called for hooking, therefore cutting the Carleton man-advantage short.

Concordia grabbed the lead at 11:53 when newcomer Mike Stinziani beat Carleton goaltender Ryan Dube on a breakaway for a shorthanded goal. The speedy forward cut a pass at his blue line during the penalty to Orsini before fooling Dube with a spectacular move and a perfect shot.

The special teams battle continued in the

third as the Ravens tied the game with a shorthanded goal of their own just 1:35 in.

While Jordan Deagle was serving a penalty for slashing, Jeff Hayes was sent on a partial breakaway by teammate Brandon MacLean and pulled a move not much different from Stinziani’s the period before to beat Joyal.

Kyle Kelly gave the Ravens a golden opportunity to win the game when he was awarded a 10-minute misconduct for hitting from behind with just over six minutes remaining in the game. However, Carleton was not able to capitalize during the two-minute man advantage as Joyal put on a spectacular performance.

The game remained tied 2-2 after 60 minutes and overtime was needed to declare a winner. Carleton took home the win when Brad Good scored the game-winning goal at 2:54 of the extra frame. Coming off the rush, Good received a crisp pass from teammate Brad Albert before sniping the puck past Joyal from the top of the face-off circle. Joey Manley picked up the secondary assist on the play.

The Stingers deserved this fate as their undisciplined play dictated the pace of the game.

Joyal faced an impressive total of 51 shots, stopping 48 in a great display of goaltending for the losing side.

Concordia was able to stop its losing streak on Sunday when they bested the Ottawa Gee Gees 5-3. Goodsell kept his hot streak going with a three-point performance, while Element, Lovatsis and Stinziani picked up a goal and an assist each. Returning from injury, Stingers’ leading scorer Charles-Antoine Messier also made his presence felt with a goal.

Raffaele D’Orso was the starting goaltender for the Stingers. He stopped 41 of the GeeGees’ 44 shots. His opponent, Harrison May, faced only 20 shots in the loss.

The Stingers now stand in sixth place of the OUA East Conference with a 10-9-1 record.

They will play their next game this Wednesday as they host the UQTR Patriotes at Ed Meagher arena; the puck drops at 8 p.m.

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BROADCAST

Webcasting aims to boost Stingers profile Concordia is one of six universities to join the Streaming Sports Network this year Kamila Hinkson Sports editor Chances are you have, at some point or another, been a pseudo-sports broadcaster.

Whether it is providing play-by-play while watching a sibling’s football game, or doing the colour commentary with friends while watching hockey at home, almost everyone who likes sports has been an armchair announcer.

Michael Toushan got his start doing commentary for the video games he used to play growing up.

He is now the colour man alongside Bryan Charleau, who does the play-by-play for the Stingers’ webcasts on the Streaming Sports Network.

Charleau played football for the Stingers for four years (he was out this year with an injury) and helps out around the athletics complex. When looking for someone to lead the SSN team, he came highly recommended to Catherine Grace, sports information coordinator for the Stingers and supervisor of the webcasts.

The team is rounded out by Michael Shrider who takes care of the sound, and Andrew Marchand-Boddy, the cameraman.

Already friends before they were hired, Charleau and Toushan try to bring some of their chemistry into the broadcasts. “[We make] jokes about each other, about the game, anything to make it enjoyable for the people at home, that’s our goal,” said Charleau.

New to Concordia this school year, SSN sells the athletics department the equipment and bandwidth they need to broadcast Stingers football, men’s hockey and playoff or championship games during the season.

Photo by Cindy Lopez

On game days, look up above the crowd to find Bryan Charleau, Michael Toushan and the rest of the SSN team.

The Instructional and Information Technology Services at Concordia used to webcast six to eight Stingers games a year. But Grace explained their needs grew beyond what IITS could provide, so they turned to SSN. Football and men’s hockey games drew the highest number of web viewers, so they are the only two teams being broadcast for now.

Concordia is one of six universities that were added to the network this year, bringing their running total to 20 schools. The Canadian Interuniversity Sport association counts 51 member schools, which means SSN now provides the tools for just over

40 per cent of the country’s universities to broadcast their games.

“The name of the game is accessibility and trying to promote Canadian athletics,” said Bengt Neathery, the company’s president.

The network is an offshoot of ISI Global Webcasting, but is working to become independent.

Neathery sees the venture not only as a way for people to keep up with teams across the country, but also as a marketing tool for their athletics departments, and Grace has bought into that vision.

“I hope it raises our profile and that parents and potential Stingers can come in and see the quality product and the quality young people that go out and wear our name. [We] hope to get a little more of that reputation out there.”

The network had over 350,000 viewers last year, and is on pace to break 450,000 to 500,000 views this year. They broadcasted 13,000 live games last year.

“I was watching Hockey Night in Canada and they had a double header. The CBC was all, ‘Oh we have a double header today,’ pretty excited about that, and we had 34 live games that day. In one day,” Neathery pointed out.

SSN is looking to create a foundation where five per cent of advertising revenue would be given back to schools and athletes.

Neathery also sees the network as an avenue for students to hone their broadcast skills.

“We want to foster this environment where students and people who [have no experience] can get involved in this sort of thing. A grassroots effort, you know?”

On game days, Charleau and his team work for about three hours at the arena, not including the research they do in preparation for the broadcast. Before the games, Charleau and Toushan meet and discuss the salient statistics they will bring up on air. They also set up the equipment and do sound checks. They make a point to ask players, if they see them around at the complex or the gym, for updates on the team.

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13,000 CIS games broadcasted last year Needless to say, they put in much more than the 15 hours per week required of them.

Toushan is currently completing his fourth year in political science, and Charleau is studying human relations. Though what they are studying has nothing to do with broadcasting, their interest has been piqued. Now, they are not ruling anything out.

“Not a single minute of it really feels like work,” Toushan said. “We’re just kind of doing what we’d be doing anyway . . .

We’re just goofing around, that’s basically all we do. We get to watch hockey, and get paid for it.”

“After a couple of webcasts, the nerves leave and all of a sudden it’s like, ‘this is a lot of fun,’” Charleau added. “Looking at the future, if you can get a job like that, why not take the opportunity if it comes?”

The Stingers website, www.stingers.ca, posts information and a link to access the hockey games broadcasted on SSN. The SSN website has archives of all the past broadcasts from across the country.

Check them out at www.ssncanada.ca.

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We need fresh faces all around The BoG isn’t the only group that needs a reboot, it’s also CSU council

The recent scandal that is the Woodsworth resignation (or Woodsworthgate?) has unveiled an unstable structure of power struggles and human resource mismanagement at Concordia University.

In addition to this upheaval, it’s also exposed the world to the uneven and mercurial world of student politics on this campus.

Now, we know that people don’t always get along. But the very least that they could do is to get their story straight. You would expect the student politicians on campus to formulate and take their stand on an issue like Judith Woodsworth’s departure in a timely manner. Granted, the press release was announced Dec. 22, a day before the school shut down for the holidays, not leaving much time to prepare a statement. But this is the Internet age. When the CSU needed to campaign for a fee levy increase for their proposed student centre, the website was updated almost immediately. It was not an impossible task for them to come up with a quick message directed to the students they represent some time over Winter break, either on their website, Facebook page or Twitter feed.

But the Free Education Montreal lobby group had a release up Dec. 26, and the full-time faculty released a damning statement by the time we were settled comfortably in our classrooms on Jan. 4.

Various other statements by the history department, part-time faculty and the

“Mike Gasher letter” were circulated before ASFA and CSU’s regular scheduled meetings allowed them to meet up and peruse their options. Heck, the fulltimers at CUFA even scheduled a special meeting on Jan. 17 days before ASFA and CSU met to chew the fat.

While we’re in an uproar, this is not a controversial issue that is dividing our campus. Groups do need to be reasonable and well-spoken, but making up your mind about something like this is not brain science or a debatable issue.

Woodsworth is departing with a huge severance package, a school that doesn’t need bad press is getting more of it, and all the communications from our benevolent leader and BoG chair Peter Kruyt have been carefully scripted press releases leaked to the Montreal Gazette hours before actual students get a peek at them.

Aside from a couple of lukewarm statements from the BoG and the alumni associations ranking this dismissal as a great piece of news, overall opinion on this matter has been uproarious and sour. The faculty doesn’t like it, the media doesn’t like it. So why can’t our student politicians get their story on the Woodsworth issue straight? Faculty and librarians, and supposedly even alumni, have had their say. Why aren’t our student representatives saying anything worthwhile?

The former and current CSU presidents, Amine Dabchy and Heather Lucas, respectively, are presenting different sides to the story, and crawling out of the woodwork weeks after the first announcement to say it was their suggestion to turf Woodsworth in the first place.

You think that they would use their

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positions on BoG to prepare their members and accord statements, but it’s like they’ve been sleeping at the wheel.

The supposed overall antidote to Concordia’s administrative woes is supposedly to have either the entirety of the BoG resign, or at the very least, the expired members vacate their spots.

This is the solution being suggested with various campus groups, who feel that the BoG has failed to represent their interests or communicate their messages properly.

Since student politicians are doing a terrible job of both representing our interests and sending out a clear message, should we call on them to resign, as well? Well, no. But they need to get their act together, and quick! We’ve had enough of politicians up and clearing out their offices before their terms are com-

plete and unelected students stepping in or already overburdened executive members picking up their slack.

Students also don’t have the luxury of time that the BoG has. The interim president is due to be officially named a month after Woodsworth’s resignation, and the search for a new president will likely take another year. The delivery of a brand new Concordia president is now T minus January 2012.

Student executive members and councillors, meanwhile, have practically under a year to fulfill their short mandates, and they’re leaving in case of lack of confidence on the part of the electorate would waste time and money.

They should use their time productively by using their venue and platform to accurately publicize how students feel about the issues that are affecting us.

association regarding the crisis unfolding at Concordia, I take even greater issue with the fact that a statement was issued at all, for two reasons.

First, every single statement, press release, interview, event or other newsworthy piece of information that comes to light regarding this story provides journalists additional reasons to maintain this specific news item in the headlines, to prolong its news cycle, that much longer.

By releasing this statement the Alumni Association has effectively provided fodder for journalists, thereby increasing the coverage of this situation. Every piece of negative press Concordia receives has the effect of devaluing my degree. It is in direct opposition to the mandate and interests of the Alumni Association to be doing so.

Second, by taking a stand on this issue the Alumni Association will create further divisions within the community of Concordia Alumni in Canada and across the world. It is simply not the place of the

Alumni Association to be taking sides. It appears obvious that the Alumni Association should be directing its efforts towards bridging divisions between former Concordia students and faculty, not by fostering such divisions as it does by engaging in internal bureaucratic politics of the university. Neutrality has a time and a place, and if ever a time and a place existed, it is now.

I implore you to retract your statement immediately. I resent strongly the current executive of the Alumni Association having directly and personally involved me in this dispute; not in my name!

LETTERS

Re: Woodsworth resigned: BoG chair As an alumnus of Concordia, I am appalled by the draconian measures by which the executive committee of the Board of Governors continues to usurp my alma mater.

BoG chair Mr. Kruyt and his henchmen have been ferociously attacking academic freedom and pushing towards the corporatization of Concordia for far too long. Seeking out puppet presidents and dismissing them at will. Throwing students’ lives away just for someone's severance pay.

Power to the faculty, staff, and students who have seized the moment to call out BoG for their misguided heavy-handed influence in university governance. A perfect storm is brewing for a momentous shift of philosophy and direction at Concordia University.

Concordia is, at its core, a progressive institution of learning that is built on principles of harmony and equality. It is refreshing to

see the community at large step up to take back their school. Now is the time for all faculty, staff, and student unions and associations to call for the immediate resignation of Mr. Kruyt and his entire executive committee.

One can only hope that the Concordia Student Union executive will embark on a true momentum shift and stop protecting the corporate CEOs that control the BoG and start defending the interest of the members they were elected to represent.

Mathieu Murphy-Perron CSU, VP Loyola & Sustainability, 2007-2008 FASA, VP, 2004-2007

Alumni must maintain neutrality While I emphatically disagree with the support and general message conveyed in the recent statement issued by the alumni

Greg Johannson Former University Senator, 2009-2010 Former Arts and Science Faculty Councillor, 2007-2010 Former Political Science Department Councillor, 2007-2009

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Euthanasia laws in Quebec: a debate

Looking at both sides of what could change the way medicine is practiced in the province

Doctor-assisted suicide should not be a crime for those who are terminally ill Sara Pelletier Contributor Euthanasia is a legalized practice in Belgium, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. Nevertheless, our “progressive” Western governments have rejected the efforts to change their policies regarding assisted suicide.

In my opinion, individuals who are considered terminally ill should have the right to choose when to end their lives as their illnesses become increasingly unbearable and agonizing. They deserve to be able to keep their dignity as their lives are quickly deteriorating. It is beyond me that we still live in a society where government policies seem to be influenced by religion. Consider why same-sex marriages are still banned in many places today.

Why is it that even animals can be put to sleep while humans are not treated with the same respect? Dying is a hard enough issue to have to deal with in the first place, without having to add the unnecessary snags regarding how one dies and the weeks or months of suffering before that day comes.

Dr. Jack Kevorkian, an American pathologist known to many as Dr. Death, served eight years of his 10-to 25-year prison sentence for second-degree murder. Kevorkian claims he helped around 130 of his patients die, and was famously quoted as saying “dying is not a crime.” He remains a right-to-die activist, but has been advised not to counsel people on the subject since his release from prison in 2007.

In a country with a Charter of Rights and Freedoms, I strongly believe it is hypocritical to limit terminally ill patients’ will and freedom of dying by criminalizing euthanasia.

What does that say about our society and the world we live in today? People often talk about how much we have evolved, but have we really? I consider progress to be a time where incurably sick human beings will be granted the same rights as non-human animals and where we will truly have a say in the way we die.

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uthanasia, or assisted suicide, has been highly controversial and contested for decades, with the famous cases of Robert Latimer and Dr. Jack Kevorkian making it a hot-button issue. Strong points are made on either side of the argument. Some say people should have the right to choose when to end their lives if they are terminally ill, and others say the system could be abused. Since September, hearings have been held across Quebec to gauge public opinion on the issue, and they are set to resume shortly. What do you think?

Send your thoughts to the editor at opinions@theconcordian.com

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Doctor-assisted suicide would require the consent of the patient, which would in many cases be hard to verify, considering the impaired condition of many likely candidates.

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In a country with a Charter of Rights and Freedoms, I strongly believe it is hypocritical to limit terminally ill patients’ will and freedom of dying by criminalizing euthanasia.

Legalizing euthanasia or assisted suicide will be problematic in the long run Alex Woznica Staff writer The organizers of the hearings on euthanasia are careful to separate the idea of dying with dignity, which they characterize as dying painlessly and surrounded by loved ones, from euthanasia, which most often manifests itself in the form of doctor-assisted suicide. Although it is a great idea to create a more concrete picture of Quebecers’ views on dying with dignity, and to create legislation to reflect those views, the legalization of doctor-assisted suicide in Quebec or Canada would be a grave mistake at this juncture.

Legalizing euthanasia would be a mistake both because it is unnecessary, and because of the potential moral and legal problems that are likely to result from it. Even without doctor-assisted suicide, there are many ways in which a dying person can die with dignity. Already, forms of “sort of” euthanasia occur in Canada. It is not uncommon for doctors to hasten death through medical means, such as increasing dosages of narcotics. As well, all Canadians have the right to end their lives through voluntary stopping of eating and drinking, or simply by refusing treatment. As such, it would appear that Canadians at this point already have ways of dying with dignity without legalizing euthanasia.

Not only does legalizing euthanasia appears to be to a certain extent unnecessary, it would likely cause a number of moral and legal problems. Doctor-assisted suicide would require the consent of the patient, which would in many cases be hard to verify, considering the impaired condition of many likely candidates. As well, euthanasia would likely still be caught in a moral and legal grey area even if it were legalized, which would result in a situation in which many doctors would be unwilling to perform it.

The Select Committee on Dying with Dignity is performing a valuable service. All Canadians should have the right and opportunity to die with dignity. At least in the context of Quebec, there is a great need to clarify both the public views and the legal situation of dying with dignity. That being said, it would be unfortunate if the hearings turned into a call for the legalizing of euthanasia, as that development would be both unnecessary and morally and legally problematic.

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Free online encyclopedia has facilitated access to information Alex Woznica Staff writer

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hile Wikipedia has frequently been accused of inaccuracy and bias, the Internet encyclopedia’s creators should be commended for their contributions to the democratization of both the dissemination of, and access to, information in the last 10 years.

For some time, Wikipedia has been an important source of information for many of the world’s almost 2 billion Internet users.

It distinguishes itself from other information sources in that almost anyone can contribute to it. While other forms of disseminating information require one to have a certain amount of money, university degrees, or popularity, contributing content to Wikipedia requires only a computer with Internet access. This has allowed people from a wide array of diverse backgrounds and situations to make contributions to communal knowledge, of the sort that have in the past been restricted to the wealthy, the well-educated, and the popular.

Wikipedia has not just contributed to democratizing the dissemination of information, but also to easing access to it. As many students at Concordia can attest, finding information in a library or archives can be a quite daunting task, even for someone involved in academia. Wikipedia offers a level of accessibility to information that simply cannot be matched by more traditional institutions. Accessing information on Wikipedia can be done without encountering many of the challenges found at libraries or archives, and from the comfort of your own home.

In this way, it has democratized not just the dissemination of information, but access to it as well.

The fact that absolutely anyone can edit a Wikipedia entry is one of the main arguments the site’s detractors point to, but like everything on the web, cautious and wary users can make sure to take everything on there with a grain of salt and check the sources of the information.

Graphic by Sean Kershaw

WIKIFACTS: Wikipedia is available in over 250 different languages There are over 3.5 million articles in English on Wikipedia, 17 million in total

50 per cent of search engine traffic to Wikipedia As of 2008, 30 per cent of all entries were about culture and the arts Wikipedia is an ad-free website that is kept running by donations from its users

Wikipedia estimates there are over 325 million readers, averaging out to 21 readers per article

Over 80 per cent WikiEditors are male

There have been over 1 billion edits to date, and growing

Wiki is Hawaiian for quick

Google searches are responsible for

70 per cent of WikiEditors are single

* Courtesy of Wikipedia’s Wikipedia entry and ItPro.co.uk

Bell and CRTC limiting access to web out of greed Setting restrictions on how much people can surf is irresponsible Andre-Joseph Cordeiro Staff writer Bell and the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission have collectively come up with a way to screw small Internet service providers.

The CRTC has allowed for Bell to charge extra usage fees for bandwidth used by resellers, such as Primus and TekSavvy.

On top of the fees of maintaining, renting, and buying bandwidth infrastructure, these companies are now being charged an arbitrary fee, set by Bell, which is being passed on to consumers in their monthly bills. Former unlimited plan account-holders are receiving letters of termination on those contracts, and receiving new documentation to form new packages.

What does this mean for you and me?

A larger, controlled monopoly on something as vital as the Internet in today’s society and a more hefty bill from your

ISP, among other things.

The Internet is our generation’s printing press. It allows us to communicate freely and openly with one another.

This is the age of information, but large monopolies like Bell are suppressing our freedom to it. The mechanics of the socalled “free and open” net are being held back by the draconian rules made up by big companies like Bell, and allowed to be implemented by the CRTC. With everything moving online (our smartphones, gaming consoles, films, music, file sharing), this decision is a huge jump in the wrong direction, just as more people are gaining access to the Internet and its endless stream of information.

What’s worse is that when one looks at the costs of actually running the telecommunications systems, they have dropped consistently over the last 10 years.

Meanwhile, companies have repeatedly increased rates and lowered service.

Monopolies in the technology world work to stifle competition, but they also stifle another key factor of the industry: innovation. Take for example the case of Netflix. While its launch in Canada has been less than stellar, due in no small part to the low content available through the service, the company has also suffered simply because bandwidth isn’t cost-effective. In the United States, the Comcast bandwidth cap caused a storm of protest online and offline, yet their cap was 250 gigabytes on a standard package. Good luck finding the same kind of deal with Bell, Rogers, or any of the other major players in the field.

Thankfully, some are standing up to the CRTC. The City of Vancouver passed a motion disagreeing with the CRTC’s decision to allow usage-based billing. An online petition has been started to ban the practice. But it takes many voices to change our country for the better.

Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011

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The Etcetera Page

Comedian and actress Whitney Cummings (@ WhitneyCummings) says she is “dead inside” on her Twitter page, but her tweets are anything but. She really hates stupid people.

Q: To what extent do you use Wikipedia for schoolrelated projects?

- The dumber and more useless you are, the better you are at taking pictures of yourself.

- If you manage to look like a slut in your 1 x 1 centimeter Twitter photo, you should probably have your tubes tied.

- If you’re on twitter you basically have to give up the ability to use the excuse that you’re too busy to do something.

Alina Turcu - second year art history "I'm not really allowed to use Wikipedia because I'm in arts, so all the papers I write have to be properly cited and researched, but if there is something that I really, really don't know about, I'll make up a general outline from Wikipedia and then I'll start my paper."

Chelsea Blake Willett fourth year theatre "I don't really use it that often. I will if I am presented with a topic that I know nothing about as sort of a base and I'll jump from that.

It's really just a jumping point."

Oussama Atali - first year mechanical engineering "I don't use it at all. I have no papers in math."

Complied by Eva Kratochvil

Montreal s Centaur Theatre lit up on a cold winter night. Photo by Matias Garabedian

Graphic by Jonathan Woods, bartonflats.wordpress.com

Horoscopes Humankind has never been as shaken up and shocked about something in the news as it has been late last week, when astronomers in Minnesota discovered that the changes in the Earth’s magnetic fields had made the creation of a 13th zodiac sign inevitable. We know the question on all your minds: how can you be born one sign and expect to change your personality and attitude overnight? You can’t. So have a look at your old and new sign and decide which you fit in with best. And if you can’t do that, it will be clear that you take astrology too seriously.

Aries: April 18 - May 13 Watch what you say this week. You’re hanging around new people and may unknowingly offend someone you hardly know.

Taurus: May 13 - June 21 You’ll get an unexpected break this week.

Take the time to unwind and slow down.

Gemini: June 21 - July 20 An opportunity will arise mid-week to catch up with an old friend after months of no communication.

Scorpio: Nov. 23 - Nov. 29 Don’t let people bring you down. You know what you’re doing is fine, and they’re just raining on your parade.

Cancer: July 20 - Aug. 10 Don’t make mountains out of mole hills.

Pick your battles. Let some things go.

Ophiuchus: Nov. 29 - Dec. 17 You need to remember the promises you make so you can keep them. No one likes a reneger.

Leo: Aug. 10 - Sept. 16 You’ll be asked to help a friend out this week. Do it, and they’ll surely return the favor soon.

Virgo: Sept. 16 - Oct. 30 You’re trying new things this week, and liking things you never thought you would.

Libra: Oct. 30 - Nov. 23 You’re so productive this week. It’s shocking you and those around you, too. But don’t stop, or your streak will disappear.

Sagittarius: Dec. 17 - Jan. 20 You’re finding it difficult to adjust, but all you need is a new plan, not a new life.

Capricorn: Jan. 20 - Feb. 16 Things are getting real busy really quickly. Take the time to plan ahead so you don’t end up falling behind.

Aquarius: Feb. 16 - March 11 You’re a little more energetic than usual, so take the extra time to do something meaningful.

Pisces: March 11- April 18 You’ve picked up a new habit recently and it seems you are a natural at it.

Take the time to teach a friend your new trick.

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