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Concordia bursary fundraiser CFS still in court with its marches on despite minimal former Quebec student presence Annual event nears the $1,000,000 mark Trevor Smith Staff writer Over $40,000 was raised for student scholarship and bursary funds at the 21st annual Concordia Shuffle.

Each year volunteers gather pledges for the 6.5 kilometre walk from the downtown Sir George Williams campus to the Loyola campus in Notre-Dame-deGrâce. Around 80 participants reached out to between 400 and 500 friends, family and coworkers to sponsor

them in this year’s Shuffle.

Despite the large faculty and staff turnout, the student presence was minimal during the walk with only a handful of students participating in the walk. “We wish there were more students participating,” said university president Judith Woodsworth, commenting on the lack of student involvement in this year’s Shuffle. “We have created 387 bursaries for students, so it would have been nice if they would have shown up.”

Not including this year’s event, the Concordia Shuffle has raised over $900,000 in its history and organizers hope that next year they will be able to break the

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Four lawsuits related to the lobby groups are moving through courts Jacob Serebrin CUP Quebec Bureau Chief MONTREAL (CUP) — Canada’s largest student lobby group is still locked in a legal battle

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City in brief

Evan LePage and Sarah Deshaies

300 women march to “Take Back the Night”

Rainy weather didn’t prevent around 300 women from marching to denounce sexual violence in the annual Women Take Back the Night March last Friday night. Women of all ages put on their best rain gear to make the walk through downtown, cheering “La rue, la nuit, les femmes sans peur,” the Gazette reported. The march symbolically asserts the right of all women to walk through the streets at night without fearing sexual assault. The event originated in Philadelphia in 1975, and similar marches have been held across the globe ever since.

Raise a glass to Richler

Last Tuesday, a pub crawl was held to raise funds for the writer-in-residence program in Mordecai Richler’s name at McGill University. Canadian literary icon Richler, who wrote about growing up Jewish in Montreal, spoke of McGill’s former restrictive quota system for Jewish students. Richler instead attended Sir George Williams University, one of Concordia’s precursors, although he did not complete his degree. He received an honorary degree from McGill in 2000 shortly before he died. Richler pub crawlers shelled out either $50 or $150 to nosh and listen to some anecdotes about the renowned author.

The Economist ranks JMSB in top 100 MBA programs

Weekly British newsmagazine the Economist ranked the John Molson School of Business as one of the top 100 masters in business administration programs in the world. JMSB placed 96th in the rankings, which were included in a feature dubbed “Which MBA?” No other Quebec university cracked the list, but JMSB did fall behind three other Canadian business schools, notably York University’s Schulich School of Business which placed 10th overall. The list, which evaluates MBAs based on criteria like career opportunities, earnings and educational experience, was dominated

by American schools, which held the top four spots, and six in the top ten.

No food for thought

McGill students rallied last week over the closing of a favourite student-run café before the first senate meeting of the year, which was set for last Wednesday, the McGill Daily reported.

Over 300 students protested the closure of Architecture Café, one of the few student-run food providers at the university. The Architecture Students’ Association, which ran the café, has said that they “think” it was making money. Deputy provost Morton Mendelson contrarily stated that the café was indeed losing money, but has not made the business’ accounts public as of yet. A Sept. 7 memorandum addressed to Mendelson proposed that the café be reopened under joint management by ASA and the Engineering Undergraduate Society. McGill president Heather Munroe-Blum reportedly said while walking past the rally, “It’s just part of life in university.” What protests or lack of coffee?.

ENVIRONMENT

Faith in a cleaner future Jewish environmental group takes part in the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup Emily Brass Contributor From sea to shining sea, thousands of people headed to the nation’s waterfronts during the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup last week. In Montreal, hundreds hit the banks of the Lachine Canal and Lake Saint-Louis, united by a desire for a cleaner environment.

Sunday’s cleanup was organized by Teva Quebec, the province’s first and only Jewish coalition for the environment.

Spearheaded by Rabbi Schachar Orenstein three years ago, the group is committed to what they believe is a central responsibility of their faith: stewardship of the land.

“It’s a huge piece of Judaism that’s being rediscovered,” says Rabbi Orenstein. “In the Book of Genesis, God commanded Adam to serve and protect the garden.

Healing the land is one of our most important directives.”

Filling their garbage bags was an assortment of litter; the most pervasive items were cigarette butts, Styrofoam and food-related trash.

Anne-Claude Beaudry, who works at the Lachine Visitor Service Centre for Parks Canada, says the waterfront’s appearance has improved remarkably since the event began in 2007. “Now when volunteers come to clean, they don’t have to pick up years and years of accumulated waste.”

But Teva organizer Ilan Elbaz

Top: Sisters Alizee and Levana Znaty gingerly put an unsavory piece of trash in its place. Bottom: Andee Goldstein, a student at Miss Edgar’s and Miss Cramp’s School, scans the bank of the Lachine Canal for trash. Photos by writer thinks there’s more to it than that.

A McGill science grad, accredited by the Canada Green Building Council in Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, Elbaz tends to look at things from a scientific point

of view.

“When you’re in a clean environment, you want to keep it that way,” Elbaz said. “When you see trash everywhere, subconsciously it’s telling you that it’s fine to be-

have like that.”

He admits that for him, the cleanup is a bit of “an accidental sociological experiment.”

“It’s also an interesting way for less religious, more secular Jewish people to get involved with their roots and community,” Elbaz added. He did stress, however, that they are a Jewish environmental group, whose message can be appreciated by all.

“We’re in this together,” stated Elbaz. “Jewish, Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, and everything in between. We share the same planet.

The same amount of air molecules, and drops of water to breathe and drink.”

At the core of the cleanup crew were 20 high school students taking part in Teva’s brand new Jewish Environmental Leadership Training. The event was part one of a six-week program preparing the students for a bigger shoreline repair.

In November, these grade 9 and 10 students head to Louisiana to help out with the massive cleanup in the Gulf of Mexico.

“We hear so much about what happened there,” said Erin Silver, who goes to Bialik High School.

“We want to help.”

Rabbi Orenstein is encouraged by how many young people are attracted to the cause. “People are looking for meaningful ways to connect to their faith, and perhaps the older ways are more difficult.

This provides a way in for a lot of people.”

Rabbi Orenstein is encouraged by how many young people are attracted to the cause. “They say, ‘Wow! Environmentalism is Jewish,’ ” the rabbi, who’s also a musician and father of two, joked. “People are looking for meaningful ways to connect to their faith, and perhaps the older ways are more difficult.

This provides a way in for a lot of people.”

FUNDRAISER

Simple solutions: coin jar raises money for students in financial need Hospitality Concordia goes back to the basics for student fundraising Jacqueline Di Bartolomeo Contributor In an effort to raise funds for students in financial difficulty, Hospitality Concordia is soliciting donations with the help of a massive penny jar, which has been making the rounds at the Sir George Williams campus since mid-August.

Nancy Curran, event coordina-

tor for Hospitality Concordia, says the idea for the jar came about when a friendly JMSB student suddenly stopped visiting their office.

When she asked around, Curran discovered that the student had dropped out because of her financial struggles.

“We didn’t know that she was in that kind of desperate need,” Curran said. “Then we started to say, maybe there are a lot of students in the university that have these problems and aren’t speaking up.”

Curran noted that the project has generated a great deal of community enthusiasm. Many departments and businesses around campus have been supporting the penny jar, which is already over half full.

Last Thursday, however, when the jar sat in the EV building for

two hours, few students seemed to notice it.

Antonietta Martuccio, a compensation assistant in the human relations department who was at the nearby Shuffle table, said that the crate in which the jar had been placed is probably to blame: “Today they don’t really see it, because I find the box is covering up the pennies.” She added that she saw many people contribute two days earlier.

According to Laura Stanbra, director of Financial Aid and Awards, approximately 45 per cent of full-time students are eligible for financial help. Most of the $60 million distributed by the department comes from government aid, but the jar is just another method of raising funds.

Once the jar has been filled,

raffle tickets will be sold offering people a chance to guess the amount contained in the jar, with those funds also being put toward the cause. After it has been counted, Hospitality Concordia will then sit down with the Dean of Students and determine how to invest the money.

As of yet, there is no definite plan for the funds raised.

The bottom line, Curran said, is that “everybody wants to help the students,” from the distribution department, who has the task of transporting the jug, to the owners of Treats, a restaurant in the GuyConcordia metro.

The jar will be the in atrium of the EV building for the next little while and will continue to circulate around other buildings on campus.

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Shuffle has created 387 bursaries for Concordia students, but the event remains staff-driven $1 million mark.

Brad Skog, one of the organizers of and walkers in the Shuffle, hopes that in the future, the event will garner more student involvement. “We want to keep working on having more students participate,” said Skog. “In the past, students who have participated have really enjoyed it and we’ve really appreciated having them.”

During the walk, Shufflers were diverted across the street due to a fire in an unoccupied building on the corner of Prud’homme and Sherbrooke St. W. While most simply crossed the street and kept on walking towards their goal, some shufflers, like Bill Reimer of the Sociology and Anthropology department, chose to remain and watch. “It was worth missing part of the walk,” he said.

As an extra incentive this year, Shufflers names were automatically entered into raffles for the chance to win numerous prizes including airline tickets, overnight stays at hotels, an iPad and gift certificates. But most walkers, like Virginia Bahula, would have done the Shuffle either way. “It is just fun to do and you get to raise a bit of money for the students.” Bahula, from the office of the registrar, has done the walk many times in the past but this was the first year she brought her daughter along. Six-and-a-half-year-old Natasha Bahula said her favourite part was “the exercise.”

While some were content walking to Loyola, some veteran shufflers upped the challenge by jogging and running the 6.5 kilometres. Kevin Dobie‘s second year, Jonathan Levinson’s fourth year, and Ellie Hummel’s 12th year participating in the shuffle were spent running the distance. The trio took just over 50 minutes to reach the finish line where they, along with all participants, were welcomed with a complimentary barbecue buffet.

While estimates placed funds raised this year at over $40,000, a final tally will not be confirmed until later on this week, as many departments pledged to match what their faculty and staff raised.

Carnival de corruption?

Maclean’s comes under fire in Quebec

The latest issue of Maclean’s magazine has sparked anger among politicians in Quebec and organizers of the Quebec Winter Carnival whose mascot, Bonhomme Carnaval, was displayed on the cover holding a briefcase full of money along with the headline “The Most Corrupt Province in Canada.” The cover story uses examples like the federal sponsorship scandal and corruption in the construction industry to paint the picture of an extremely corrupt Quebec, something politicians in the province have since called “Quebec bashing.” The director of the Carnival has reportedly demanded an apology from Maclean’s, as have the province’s government officials. The magazine has thus far defended the article Photos by Matias Garabedian

Above: Warming up before the beginning of the shuffle. Left and right: Participants set off on the annual Concordia University Shuffle last Thursday, despite a fire along their route the event went off without a hitch.

Provost follows president in hosting public question and answer series

Evan LePage News editor Despite speaking as part of the Open to Question series, Concordia provost David Graham asked those in attendance Monday for an “exchange of ideas” rather than a question period following his introduction about the perceived role of the university in contemporary society.

In a short lecture titled “Knowledge Factory, Innovation Engine or Community of Scholars? (Re) defining Our Role in Today’s Society,” Graham highlighted the conflicting perceptions or “imaginations” of universities, which often translates into a focus on either teaching,

Nation in brief Evan Lepage

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Latest Open to Question discussion focused on conflicting perceptions on the role of universities

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research or services.

“Of these three, almost all of us would agree that teaching and research are the two foundational activities, those are the core of what we do in universities,” he said, adding that although services are important, they have more of an ancillary role.

Graham used examples to describe how various sectors of society measure the success of a university, in order to illustrate the long-standing tension between research and teaching within and outside of these institutions. He said that while teachers largely see the university’s role as to produce graduates who can “go out there, earn more and have a better life,” those in industry and students themselves may see the institution more for its role in producing a competent and productive workforce, more in line with what he called the “knowledgefactory metaphor of the university.”

“The question is, if we imagine ourselves as a mode of production, what are we producing?” Graham asked the audience. “It seems to me that we now take for granted that the university is a mode of production, that our job is to generate something, produce something for some purpose out there; no longer inward looking, no longer just for

ourselves.”

In Graham’s view, it was almost natural that the knowledge-factory metaphor has come to dominate people’s perception of these institutions.

“We spend about a million dollars a day of other people’s money, well that’s a pretty fair chunk of change,” he said. “So it seems to me that’s it’s not at all surprising that governments, students, their parents, the media, granting councils and industry expect some return on that investment.”

Not everyone saw this as a positive, however.

Arpi Hamalian, associate professor in the department of education, said that a common thread between the three models is the link between the the teacher and the learner, a link she said used to be the central to university. “I get the feeling now that because we are trying to respond to expectations of productivity we are losing the importance of focusing on that link and I think that that may really be the greatest challenge we are facing,” she continued.

Graham’s notion of the university as a knowledge factory, as opposed to a community of scholars or an innovation engine, also connected most to reality for Alex Oster, interim coordinator of student life

relations at the dean of students office and former Concordia Student Union VP. “To my mind, the knowledge factory is the model that’s kind of been reverted to across the board in North America and all of Western education,” Oster said, adding that this is partly the result of academia having limited resources in general.

Oster also pointed to the fact that more and more governing bodies at universities are turning to commerce and industry, rather than educational backgrounds, for their appointments.

Approximately 45 people attended the Monday lecture at Loyola, but only one or two of them were students.

While he said he was a little disappointed that so few students attended the discussion, Oster did acknowledge the many factors that may have contributed. He pointed, for example, to the fact that it was held at lunch time on a Monday and that the subject may have been a bit “esoteric” for many students.

Oster predicts much more participation at the next Open to Question on Oct. 6, however, when Concordia’s chief financial officer Patrick Kelley will discuss “Financing of Quebec universities: the basics and more...”

Pencils? Check. Eraser?

Check. iPad? ...Check!

An elementary school in Nova Scotia has modified their teaching approach with the help of ten iPads, The Next Web Canada has reported. Cape Breton’s Mount Carmel Elementary School purchased ten of Apple’s newest creation to be shared among students as hi-tech teaching tools. The buy set them back a whopping $10, 000 but much of the cost was covered by fundraising and money from the school board.

The importance of computer literacy in today’s society is reportedly one of the motivators for the purchase. Using apple products as teaching aids has seemingly become common place as of late, with schools in Australia and Nebraska making headlines for their use of iPads and iPods in the classroom.

Canadian television bureau bans assisted suicide ad

The Television Bureau of Canada may soon come under legal fire from an Australian organization after they banned a 45-second television advertisement for assisted suicide, according to CBC news. The Bureau reportedly refused to clear the ad because it promotes workshops that council people on assisted suicide, which is against the law in Canada. The Australian organization behind the ad, Exit International, will soon be giving Safe Exit Workshops in five North American cities, including Toronto and Vancouver.

In the commercial, a man lists choices he made in his life like marriage and his children, but he says he didn’t choose to be terminally ill. Australian officials have also banned the ad.

Lotto-winning farmers nearly miss the boat

Three Ontario farmers are 23-million dollars richer after winning the Lotto Max jackpot, but came dangerously close to missing out on the win of their lives. The men, all friends and ginseng farmers in southwestern Ontario, had worked together for more than a decade, playing the lottery for a large part of that time. On the week of their win, farmer Bob Poetz forgot whose turn it was to buy the ticket so he, luckily, went to the store and bought one right before closing time. It turns out it was another one of the farmers, Don Colcuc, week to buy the ticket, but he had forgotten all about it, meaning Poetz’s confusion is the only reason the three men, who all plan on continuing the farm work, cashed in on the big pay day. The win also fell on the one-year anniversary of the Lotto Max game.

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ACTIVISM

Evan LePage

Mexican mayors targeted by assassins

Five Mexican mayors have been killed in the last six weeks, the targets of armed assassins likely involved in the country’s ongoing drug war. The latest, Mayor of Tancítaro Gustavo Sánchez, was found in the back of a pickup truck with his hands bound and face hacked with a machete.

Just over a week earlier Prisciliano Rodríguez Salinas, mayor of Doctor Gonzalez, Nuevo León, was killed at his ranch home. He lived in the Monterrey region of Mexico, an area once deemed safe, but has this past year become a sought-after region by rival drug cartels, and consequently an area plagued by violence. The gunmen waited outside the house in a white car and ambushed the mayor when an employee arrived to pick up equipment, shooting him seven times. On his Twitter feed, Mexican President Felipe Calderón called the assassinations cowardly, adding “We must redouble our fight against these criminals.”

Iranian activist gets 6 years for BBC interview

Iranian human rights activist Emadeddin Baghi has been sentenced to six years in prison for an interview he conducted for the BBC, according to various media sources in the country. Baghi performed an interview with now-deceased reformist cleric Grand Ayatollah Hoseyn Ali Montazeri. The interview was broadcast on BBC’s Persian channel in December of 2009, after the Ayatollah’s death and subsequent anti-government demonstrations, prompting Baghi’s arrest days later. The official charge against Baghi, who is free on bail while an appeal is pending, was reportedly engaging in or spreading propaganda against the Islamic state. He has already spent over four years in jail over the last decade. Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was in New York for a UN meeting last week where he told reporters that the country’s judiciary was being unjustly criticized over arrests and sentencing of journalists and activists.

Cyclists in Montreal held a die-in on the annual STM-organized Car-Free Day last week. Around 100 bikers congregated at Phillips Square, covered themselves in corn syrup and bandages and marched along Cathcart Street all the way to the intersection of McGill Avenue and Ste-Catherine Street.

Everyone then “dropped dead,” laying in the middle of the street for 10 minutes. The die-in is considered street theatre, meant to bring awareness to the deaths of cyclists caused by cars. The event was put on by the collectif Montréal à Vélo, who decided to stage the event on Car-Free Day to give it a little extra significance. Photo by Cindy Lopez

CITY

Criminal and Civil Liability course offered in Montreal this October

Canada’s leading experts UK facing increasing threat from Irish terrorists discuss criminal British security officials warned last week that an Irish terrorist attack is a accountability “strong possibility” and the UK has raised the perceived threat level from “moderate” to “substantial.” The announcement was made by Home Secretary Theresa May and reinforced by director-general of MI5, Britain’s Secret Service, Jonathan Evans who said that terrorist activity from Republican dissidents in Northern Ireland has steadily risen as of late. There have been at least 30 attempted attacks by Republicans so far this year, ten more than the whole of 2009, prompting security officials to accept that an attack on British soil could be coming, and that the 2012 London Olympic Games will likely be a target. In the UK the threat level is ranked from low to moderate, substantial, severe and finally critical.

Museum noose nearly claims a tourist

A man from Arkansas got more than he opted for from a photo op at a wild west-themed museum in Kansas last week when he went unconscious with his head in a display noose. The 69-year-old museum visitor reportedly put his head in the “Hanging Tree” noose at Boot Hill Museum in Dodge City to take a picture when the pose got a little too real. The rope cut off the man’s oxygen supply, knocking him out cold. Nearby visitors helped lift him out of the noose, which should normally have been hanging 15 feet in the air, out of the reach of those in attendance. The man was taken to hospital where he was listed as stable, while the noose, which had been hanging in the museum since it opened 63 years ago, has been taken down.

RELIGION

Shereen Ahmed Rafea Contributor A new two-day course on international justice and human rights violations called “Criminal and Civil Liability for War Crimes, Genocide and Torture” will be offered at McGill University in conjunction with the Canadian Centre for International Justice on Oct. 1 and 2.

The pursuit of international justice requires not only appropriate domestic legislation for holding individuals liable for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide, but also the effective use of this legislation within the community, according to Sébastien Jodoin, a fellow with the CCIJ. “The primary purpose is to educate people in the legal community,” said Jayne Stoyles, executive director of the CCIJ and Ashoka Canada fellow. “Also, interested people outside of the community such as journalists, nongovernmental organizations, academics and others, about the issues of international justice, and what is happening particularly in Canadian law in relation to that.”

Students who attend the course, which was first offered in the summer of 2010 in Ottawa and Toronto, can benefit from hearing this information directly from academics and people practicing in the field.

“Sometimes we have people who have worked at some of the international courts and tribunals,” Stoyles said. “So if someone has experience

at the tribunal that was set up for Rwanda, then another instructor has experience at the tribunal for Cambodia.”

She explained that each speaker brings their own unique stories about their experiences, and about the issues that occur when mounting a defence for a war-crimes case.

Stoyles believes that it is important for people to know that good legislation exists in Canada. “There has been a conclusion of Canada’s first war-crimes trial before criminal course, which wrapped up in March of last year,” Stoyles said, “and it was related to someone implicated in the Rwanda genocide; his name was Désiré Munyaneza.”

Munyaneza, 42, was accused of rape, murder and the torture of civilians in southern Rwanda. He was later convicted and received a life sentence.

“That was the first use of the war-crimes law that Canada passed in 2000,” Stoyles said. “It was considered a very successful case, and really demonstrated that Canadian legal professions in courts are prepared to do these kinds of cases.”

“At the end of this introductory course, participants have a better understanding of different accountability mechanisms for human-rights atrocities in Canadian, international and foreign law,” Jodoin said. They will also have a greater capacity to engage with these different accountability mechanisms in terms of litigation and casework and a greater capacity to represent clients, provide advice and undertake other professional activities in the field of international justice, she explained.

The course will be offered by McGill’s faculty of law. The first day will be taught in English and the second will be taught in French.

Family issues a major topic at Montreal Muslim conference

Speakers discuss parental challenges faced

by Muslims in a non-Muslim city Renee Giblin Staff writer

Thousands of Muslims from around Montreal gathered at the Palais des congrès this weekend to discuss family and community issues their religion’s followers may face while living in North America.

“Unless we critique our traditions things will remain the same,” said Amadou Shakur, the founder of the United for Change committee.

The United for Change and Islamic Relief organizations created the conference two years ago to encourage the diverse Muslim communities to come together to discuss some of the conflicts their families encounter while living in a country where the majority of people have different beliefs then their own.

“We have to accept that we aren’t going home,” human-rights lawyer, and one of the main speakers at the event, Dr. Zainab Alwani said. “We need to adjust.”

Shakur said that the mission of the conference is to improve the conditions of Muslim families living in the Western world, adding that some families may face conflicts

when adjusting to the Canadian lifestyle, particularly in relation to parenting. He explained that some parents want to keep all the traditions from their native country while their children, who are born in Canada and grow up in this culture, may resist some of those traditions.

Shakur said that some of these problems are the result of a gap that exists between first-generation and second-generation muslims living in Canada. He added that many parents who moved to Canada work in the service area and may not be educated, while their children are educated and work in different sectors than their parents.

According to Alwani, for there to be change, there also needs to be mutual understanding between parents and children. Parents do need to listen to their children, but children also need to realize their parents have a wealth of experience from having lived in different countries. She emphasized that mutual support between families is the best way to solve these problems, rather than an internal power struggle.

Alwani also said that parents need to make the country they are living in their home. She adds that they need to learn the language and understand that adjusting to the culture does not mean they are losing their own.

“Are we trying our best to contribute to society?” Alwani asked.

“If we take it as our responsibility the world will be different.”

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Over $600,000 in student money on the line with its former Quebec branch, with over half a million dollars in student funds up for grabs.

The fight began in the summer of 2009, but its roots stretch back over several years. At issue is when the Canadian Federation of Students-Quebec, an incorporated not-for-profit company, stopped being recognized by the national CFS as its Quebec branch. On the line is over $600,000 in student fees.

But it could be a long time before either side can declare victory.

“We don’t know how long it’s going to take,” said Adrien Severyns, Concordia Student Union VP external and one of the directors of the Rassemblement des associations étudiantes — the group formerly known as CFS-Quebec.

“Legal cases can take a year, they can take three years, if not more.”

In May, CFS-Quebec directors agreed to stop using the CFS name

to settle a trademark lawsuit the federation had filed against the group.

The CFS is still seeking $50,000 in damages from RAE. While the CFS claims the Quebec company stopped being its official branch in the province in 2007, the Quebec group has maintained that because it was recognized by three of the four CFS members in Quebec it had official standing.

Between February 2008, when CFS-Quebec emerged from a bitter legal dispute over who would control the organization, which saw the organization’s assets frozen by court order, and July 2009, the group’s board of directors, registered with the Quebec government, was made up of student union representatives recognized by the CFS. None of the three student unions with appointed representatives to CFS-Quebec since last summer still consider themselves members of CFS. Concordia University’s undergraduate and graduate students’ union, and McGill’s postgraduate students’ society all held referendums last spring that saw students vote to leave the federa-

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tion.

None of those votes have been recognized by the CFS. According to Severyns, RAE now only exists to continue the litigation.

“The student money involved is quite significant,” he said. “Because it is student money we’re talking

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The student money involved is quite significant,” he said.“Because it is student money we’re talking about it would be outrageous to leave this case.

-Adrien Severyns, CSU VP RAE boardmember

about it would be outrageous to leave this case.”

RAE is seeking $400,000 in fees for membership in the provincial federation, which were paid to CFS national and which RAE claims should have been paid to CFSQuebec; membership fees for winter 2010 from Concordia’s undergraduate and graduate students’ unions and McGill’s post-graduate society — the fees are currently being held in trust by a court order; and membership fees from the Dawson College students’ union for the entire 2009-10 school year, which have been held by the union.

The two sides have until Sept.

30 to finalize their cases.

This is also not the only legal battle the two organizations are fighting: unpaid rent and salaries are also at stake.

The landlord of the former CFS-Quebec offices is suing both the CFS and RAE. Malbec Properties is seeking $23,895 in unpaid rent. Both groups claim the other is responsible for the bill and have asked a judge to decide who should pay. While the lease is with CFS

national, both the national federation and CFS-Quebec paid rent at different times and are using those cheques as evidence.

Quebec’s labour board is also suing RAE, seeking just under $15,000 in unpaid salary and penalties on behalf of former CFS-Quebec organizer Steven Rosenshein. RAE claims that Rosenshein, a former student politician at Concordia, failed to show up for work, despite repeated requests, and was deemed to have quit.

Rosenshein was paid an annual salary of over $49,000. In a sworn statement filed with the court as part of a separate lawsuit he described the position as managing the office, “making sure phones are answered and bills are paid.”

Rosenshein is suing health plan broker ASEQ, who provides student health plans at all Montreal universities as well as several other schools in Quebec, and the company’s director, Lev Bukhman for defamation. He is seeking $130,000 in damages.

No court date has been set in any of the cases.

Students saddled with record-high debt Canadian Council on Learning suggests ‘simplified, harmonized’ system to improve student loans in Canada Emma Godmere CUP Ottawa Bureau Chief OTTAWA (CUP) — A new report from a national education think-tank suggests students are shouldering higher debt loads than ever before, and are facing much greater financial disadvantages as graduates.

According to the results outlined in “Tallying the Costs of Post-

secondary Education: The Challenge of Managing Student Debt and Loan Repayment in Canada,” released on Sept. 22 by the Canadian Council on Learning, the average debt for graduates more than doubled between 1990 and 2000.

Additionally, in 2009, the average university graduate left school with $26,680 in debt, while their average college counterpart racked up $13,600.

Paul Cappon, president and CEO of CCL, explained there are specific courses of action governments can take to ease the financial burden on Canadian students.

“I think the main thing to achieve is to make it clear that the system needs to be simplified, that there needs to be a ‘one student, one loan’ system throughout Canada,” he said, noting that the ideal model would be “harmonized, coherent and co-operative with all levels of government.”

The CCL’s study, the third instalment in a four-part series entitled “Challenges in Canadian Postsecondary Education,” noted that little research has been conducted previously to examine the impact of debt on graduates of post-secondary institutions. Their report, for example, found that students who graduated with debt over $20,000 were less likely to own homes or save for retirement.

The report also detailed the CCL’s concern that potential students may feel discouraged from attending university and college because of the financial burdens associated with studies. Cappon pointed out that Canadian students need more information about higher education in advance of applying, in order to make informed decisions.

“What we would like the government to do is make it clear to students what the value of their money is,” he said. “Students deserve to

know what experience they can expect ... [they] need to know and deserve to know the experiences of people who have gone through those programs, and how they’ve done.

There’s [currently] no national data strategy for Canada.”

Cappon explained the intent of the report was less about pin-pointing levels of debt or tuition price tags that are acceptable, and more about bringing to light the reality of the situation in Canada and the lasting impact of debt on graduates.

He also hopes the report will encourage politicians and policymakers across the country to work on a national post-secondary education strategy.

“We want the government to set up a national forum on postsecondary education so that these issues would be discussed openly in a public forum — so that it isn’t just a closed discussion with people in government,” he said.

Ideally, according to Cappon, this forum would lead to the creation of national standards for quality and data collection in terms of higher education and eventually a cohesive, cross-country higher education strategy.

In fact, the CCL’s fourth and last report in the higher learning-focused series will be centred on the potential implementation of a national higher education plan.

“The last one in the series will be to respond to questions I get most from parliaments regarding this national agenda: How we do it and who does what,” he said. “[It will] spell out exactly how we think Canada could create a national postsecondary education strategy within the current constitutional framework we have.”

Cappon expects the report to be released at the end of the fall.

CITY

The Walrus and Mcgill team up for a night of debate Inaugural debate to take on the urban city at the Segal Centre Brennan Neill Managing editor The art of argument will be highlighted in Montreal on March 30, 2011. The Walrus, in conjunction with McGill University and the Segal Centre for Performing Arts, will be holding a one-night debate on civic engagement and city building. While the official question to ponder is not set in stone, Montreal provides a suitable backdrop for the

topic at hand.

“City building is on the table in most major Canadian cities,” said David Leonard, manager of events and special projects for The Walrus Foundation. “Montreal has a really unique identity, it’s a city that is very aware of itself, and I think that that conversation can take a lot of interesting directions.”

The Walrus, a national magazine launched in 2003, first began hosting debates in 2008, the latest of which was held in June at the National Art Gallery in Ottawa on the artistic merit of pop art. Leonard explained that the debate would follow the standard format and would feature a moderator with two prominent speakers taking either side, who were not named by Leonard.

The partnership between The Walrus, McGill University, and

the Segal Centre began with the magazine’s cover page story about Mordecai Richler and the release of Barney’s Version, a film based on the Richler novel. The feature story happened to coincide with the launch of the Mordecai Richler Writer-in-Residence Program at McGill University.

“It struck everyone as being in all three parties benefits,” explained Christopher Manfredi, McGill’s dean of arts. Leonard added that the partnership is also ideal for the magazine, “The Walrus wants to be in Montreal and we’ve wanted that for the last couple of years.”

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Don t let the bedbugs bite Students more likely to bring home the bloodsucking pests Kiera Toffelmire The Eyeopener (Ryerson University)

TORONTO (CUP) — Sarah cleans her apartment more than 15 times a week.

She dusts, sweeps, sprays, scrubs and vacuums the contents of her new two-bedroom apartment in Toronto’s west end with more force and vigour than a category five hurricane. While cleaning, the fourth-year business management student — whose last name was withheld for privacy — stops only to take a quick sip of water before returning to her merciless pursuit of maintaining a bedbug-free environment.

Sarah’s excessive cleaning habits developed after dealing with a bedbug infestation in her previous apartment that forced her to find a new place to live, fork over $400 for laundering services and deal with the paranoia that accompanies a bad encounter with the blood-sucking insects that are creeping their way across the country.

According to the New York Times, Google searches for “bedbugs” have shot up 80 per cent since last year, and in the past four weeks bedbug related searches have jumped 182 per cent.

While bedbugs have been an ongoing issue for decades, the Public Health Agency of Canada says that reports from the pest control industry and hotel and housing organizations suggest that bedbug infestations have increased dramatically over the past couple of years.

Students are one of the most at-risk groups for bedbug infestations, according to Ontario provincial legislative member Michael Colle.

“Students are very mobile. Often they can’t afford to live in expensive accommodations, so they take run-down places that are not the best in terms of hygiene and are often where bedbugs can be,” said Colle. “Students need to take the proper precautions because they are very vulnerable right now.”

While municipal public health units have yet to discover any long-term health effects of bedbugs, Colle believes there has not been substantial investigation into health issues associated with prolonged exposure to these bugs.

“Bedbugs have caused some serious mental anguish and anxiety amongst people who have had infestations. To me that’s a pretty serious health issue,” argued Colle. For Sarah, bedbugs triggered a bad case of paranoia that seeps into all aspects of her life and makes it harder to have peaceful sleeps.

“I felt disgusting, waking up with new bites and not knowing where the hell they were coming from,” said Sarah, who called her landlord immediately after discovering the telltale signs of

Graphics by Katie Brioux

How to avoid bedbug infestations 1.Before moving into a new place, check out the online registry — www.bedbugregistry.com — to see if any bedbug infestations have previously happened at this location.

2. Thoroughly examine your house.

Bedbugs, usually the shape and size of an apple seed, like to hide in cracks and crevices, behind the folds of curtains, chairs, couches and baseboards. Check your box spring and mattress for black spots that often resemble Sharpie stains. bedbugs, like black spots on her box spring and mattress.

Under Toronto’s Residential Tenancy Act, all rented properties must be kept free of pests and from conditions that may encourage pest infestations. If bedbugs infest a rented space, the landlord is required to comply with health and safety standards and pay for extermination, which can cost more than $900 depending on the size of the infested areas.

However, in some cases the landlord may try and put the blame on the tenant in which case he or she would have to take it to court. While Sarah’s landlord paid for in-house extermination, he refused to pay for the laundering of her clothes, which cost her $400.

Toronto exterminator Nagu Antony Sraj said for the past two months his company, Toronto Bed Bugs, has been swamped with calls of infestations.

“Every bedbug extermination company in the city has probably been crazy busy the past couple months,” said Sraj, who offers students a discounted price of $250 for a full extermination.

This includes hot steam to kill the eggs, a spray treatment for all cracks and crevices and the application of a powdered chemical to prevent future infestations. Depending on the size of the house, the process can take up to two hours.

According to Sraj, about one-third of people bitten by bedbugs do not react to bites and so the infestation spreads. An adult female bedbug can lay up to five eggs a day, a daunting number considering they feed on human blood.

Though they are less intimidating, bloodsucking bedbugs share a similar attack strategy

with Freddy Krueger, preying upon victims during their most vulnerable state of being — while they sleep.

Bedbugs are sneaky. They most commonly enter homes through multi-dwelling units, luggage and used furniture. And for many pennypinching students, used furniture is the only kind of furniture they can afford.

Katelyn Mudry, a fourth-year student at Ryerson University, has furnished her entire apartment with items found on the street — including the mattress she sleeps on. While Mudry’s furnishing choices have heightened her potential to attract bedbugs, she says free furniture is her only option.

“I understand the risk I’m taking, but I don’t really have a choice. I’m picky about the furniture I actually decide to take home,” said Mudry, scratching her wrist. “I guess I’ve been lucky so far.”

While Mudry has luck on her side, thousands don’t. Colle is organizing a Bed Bug Summit to be held on Sept. 29 at Queen’s Park, Ontario’s legislative buildings, to raise awareness about prevention and eradication of bedbugs.

“There’s never been a public campaign against bedbugs. Everyone keeps it quiet because there is a public stigmatism attached to the issue and they are ashamed to talk about it,” said Colle.

“But we can conquer this issue.”

3. If you have gone travelling, be sure to wash all your clothes immediately upon return, particularly if you have stayed in hostels or hotels. The heat from dryers kill bedbugs, so pop in as many of your clothes as you can.

4. Try not to bring things into your home that you’ve found on the streets. If you do, be sure to investigate thoroughly for signs of bedbugs. It may also be a good idea to steam clean or spray the items regardless of wether you have found signs of bedbugs on them.

5. If you notice small, red markings on your skin that resemble mosquito bites, do not hesitate to have a bedbug inspector visit. Bedbugs multiply fast.

6. Bedbugs can lie dormant for eight months, so before moving into a new place ask the former tenants and the neighbours if there have been bedbug issues in the past.

7. There are a number of bedbug and parasite sprays you can use on your furniture, rugs, carpets and clothing to prevent infestations. You can buy non-toxic sprays like Best Yet, an all-natural product that can be used to kill other insects, too, like fleas, ticks and mosquitoes.

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Getting involved while living off campus Making the most of university life while living at home with mom and dad Alyssa De Rosa Staff writer Living off campus can sometimes make it hard for students to get involved and can leave them feeling like they are missing out on the university experience.

Second-semester Concordia University student Sara Guerreiro lives at home in the east end with her parents. For her, 8:30 a.m. classes are out of the question as it typically takes her over an hour to get to school by public transportation. Majoring in psychology does not make her travel time any easier since her classes are at the Loyola Campus. With most of her day spent travelling, Guerreiro has not had the time to get as involved as she would like in campus activities.

“University life is pretty much routine for me.

I get up, go to school, and spend some time in the library and go back home. Travelling to campus is a drag too. Because it’s so far away, I barely have anytime for myself or let alone join a club.”

Whether you are in your third year or your first semester, you have probably found it hard to be a social butterfly when you are living at home with parents. There are chores to be done, parents to obey, and family dinners to attend. So the question is, how do you get out of all that and join campus life?

“Unless going to a football game counts as a Concordia activity, I honestly don’t know how I can get involved,” Guerreiro confessed. “I’m never aware of any activities that are taking place around campus.”

The first thing to do is push yourself to get involved and meet other students. One way to do this is to simply talk to your classmates.

Bring up last night’s Habs game or the upcoming exam. If you are shy or are in large classes where there is not much opportunity to meet people, take advantage of the programs, groups and services run by the Concordia Student Union.

One of the popular services the CSU offers is their 101 classes, courses offered outside of the classroom. Students pay between $25 and $60

to take anything from CPR and massage therapy lessons to photography or yoga.

101 coordinator Jenny Kim explains that these classes are a great way to meet new people.

“Instead of being in a class with 100 people, these classes have about 15-20 people so it’s a great opportunity to meet students with the same interests.”

While the events are well-advertised, Kim says the response comes mainly from students living on campus.

“It’s hard to reach out to those students who just go to class and go home,” explains Kim. While some students are like Guerreiro and spend little time engaging in campus life, there are some off-campus students that take advantage of living at home and still manage to feel connected.

Political science student Stefano Apostolakos has no problem living at home with mom and dad.

“To be honest, living at home is great. My parents are both European, so even if I wanted to move out of the house I’d break their heart,” says Apostolakos.

Apostolakos might not be ready to move out just yet, but he is making his stay at Concordia useful by combining school and business to enable him to further his career and meet new people in the process. He explains that getting involved in campus life was something he had to do in order to advertise his company, SMAN Productions, which markets DJs and promotes clubs in Montreal.

“My line of work is all about networking. All day, every day I meet new people and larger class sizes means more opportunities,” says Apostolakos. “More importantly, it’s all about meeting the right people.”

Not all students need to be as ambitious as Apostolakos to join in on the social side of university life. Almost every week, there are parties thrown on campus, you just have to keep your ears, eyes and Facebook pages open to find out about them.

Translation student Tania Schiliro lives in Rivière des Prairies and got used to assuming campus parties were too much of a hassle. But after being approached by Wonder Woman, things changed.

The woman in costume was advertising for the ASFA/CSU Spanish Cultural Night that happened earlier this month at the Hive. As part of Orientation Week, there was free paella and sangria. Schiliro had never been to a Concordia party before, but after running the idea by her friend, they agreed it would be fun to try something new. To their surprise, it appeared that

Concordia students party, and they party hard.

“Turned out to be a pretty crazy party for a Monday night and I definitely wouldn’t mind attending another one of these random night festivities,” Schiliro laughed. “The paella gets two thumbs up, and the bartenders were fun.”

Free events always draw a large student body since most students are on a budget, even if they’re living at home. People’s Potato and the Loyola Luncheon offer free vegetarian meals for students at both campuses and are a great place to meet fellow students. While there are a ton of restaurants around campus that can provide a quick and cheap meal, they will not help integrate you into campus as much; plus, after a while, even Tim Hortons coffee gets expensive.

Another problem off-campus students encounter is that reluctance to hit the town at night or stay late at the library because they have to worry about how they will get home.

While a cab is always an option, it can be quite

Graphics by Katie Brioux expensive when you are venturing into the suburbs alone. So rather than worry, visit www. bit.ly/d4pROz for the STM’s night bus routes.

Most late night buses even offer to drop women off between stops if you ask.

There are a lot of campus events that can help you live the university experience even while living at home. But it is up to you to take the first steps out of the house and into Concordia’s social scene.

- 101 Courses: Registration ends Oct. 1. For class schedules and sign up, visit www.101. csu.qc.ca.

- The Loyola Luncheon at the Hive is open everyday from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.

- The People’s Potato, located on the seventh floor of the Hall Building, is open for lunch from 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. daily.

FASHION

Montreal Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2011 preview

Savannah Sher Assistant life editor

Montreal Fashion Week is taking place this week at the Bonsecours Market where local designers will present their collections for Spring/Summer 2011. These shows are the best way for buyers and press to figure out what the new trends will be and what will ultimately show up on the pages of magazines and in stores.

Designers to keep your eye on:

Denis Gagnon, whose collaboration with Bedo is now in stores, will be the subject of an exposition at the Museum of Fine Arts in October.

Marie Saint Pierre is one of Canada’s fashion icons and has shown collections at both New York and Paris fashion weeks. Her avant-garde and feminine pieces are popular across the country.

Coccolily designer Naana Tennachie Yan-

key was born in Ghana and apprenticed with Marc Jacobs in New York.

Shows, tickets and live streaming There are still a limited amount of last minute tickets for many of the shows. If you can’t choose which one to attend or the show’s date has passed, go with the closing show on Sept. 30, which will feature the highlights of each designer’s collection. Tickets can be purchased for $25 each at www. admission.com (event name TENDANCES

SMM-19 PAR YSO).

Several designers are offering a free live stream of their presentations. They can be viewed at www.ustream.tv/channel/smm19.

Secong: Sept. 28 at 9 p.m.

Soia & Kyo: Sept. 29 at 9 p.m.

Barilà: Sept. 30 at 9:30 p.m.

Be sure to pick up next week’s Concordian for full trend reports and coverage of Montreal Fashion Week.

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MONTREAL

Pop art: more than music Presenting another facet of Pop Montreal

This exhibit will show images of Jon Rafman’s series on Google Street View along side Gabor Szilasi’s photos depicting urban environments starting in the 1950s.

The show combines these new and old forms of portraying urban, public spaces and seeks to create a dialogue on issues such as privacy, transparency, and representation of reality.

Max Blatherwick Contributor

Unspoken Isle by Emi Honda and Jordan McKenzie

The Art POP portion of the POP Montreal festival has some interesting events lined up for attendees this year. Art POP’s director Matt Goerzen shares his views on Art POP 2010.

Installation artists from Victoria who specialize in creating immersive environments filled with natural materials and found objects. The landscapes they create focus on the relationship between nature and human society. Their work takes on a dream-like quality as they add surreal elements to their manufactured ecosystem. The duo’s work raises questions about the way our current cultural and social environment interacts with the reality of the natural world around us.

Do you have any specific goals or expectations for for Art POP this year?

It’s an alternative to the music program. It’s there to compliment the music festival, introduce new artists and practices to a community that might not be exposed to this kind of thing in the past. This is my first year programming Art POP, and often it can be a difficult task to approach if it’s someone from outside the community. I want to present programming that’s challenging in a way that’s accessible to people outside the art community.

The Birth of Art at The Death of Vinyl An exhibition of rock poster artists from around North America. The poster designs cross the spectrum of rock music from heavy metal to folk to psychadelic. It will take place at the Death of Vinyl record store, naturally, and will feature artists Dominique Pétrin, Nomn Ryn, Dirty Donny, Day Gristle, Sweet Grognasse, Aimée Van Drimelen, Alan Forbes and Marielyne Tarabulsy.

Do the events have any correlation to each other or do they all stand alone in their work?

One overarching theme is that the art on display is tied in some way with how we engage with our community. Some shows focus on the online communities that exist out there like the Kool-aid man’s tour through second life. Some other shows such as “Birth of Art at the Death of Vinyl” are about bridging communities, likethe poster-art/music community. That event shows how poster art is a nice visual compliment to the street in a way, and since the music community in Montreal is probably the biggest artistic community in the city, it’s a nice way to express their community in a visual way. The ways in which the events are all similar is that they try to link everything in the community around objects and ideas.

What do you want the festival attendees to get out of Art POP this year?

I’m not sure what to expect, but I’m trying to promote events that are interesting to people. Obviously it’s geared towards music but I’m hoping people want to come with friends, have a beer, and engage with the art. All of the shows have something to offer and they’re all very different.

Some Art POP 2010 highlights include…

Par Chemin by OTHER & many others

Part 1: Technological strategies

Top: Par Chemin by OTHER & many others. Bottom: Screenshots from “Ethereal Self.”

Troy Lovegates who goes by the pseudonym OTHER is a Montreal-based “street” artist who has focused the majority of his work on painting outdoor murals and freight trains. He has traveled the world displaying his art on the street and much of what he does is inspired

by Hobo culture, having spent some time being homeless as well. His exhibition coincides with the release of his artist book.

Kool-Aid Man Tour Through Second Life by Jon Rafman Jon Rafman explores modern engagement

with consumer products in his work and in this piece specifically with the online computer game Second Life. He uses the old ad symbol of the Kool-Aid Man to take a virtual tour through the game. He describes it as “the ultimate tourist destination” and that it “reveals a lot about the present, in that it is totally constructed, groundless, no reference points.” Rafman critiques this social community through his avatar: “I hope it points to the condition in which we are trapped.”

Within Which All Things Exist and Move by Jon Rafman and Gabor Szilasi

The concept of this show deals with how people work with informationtechnologies like the Internet on a daily basis and the effects that this immersion may have on us within our own consciousness. The artists in this show view technology as a tool that can be utilized to make more sense of the world around us.

Installations include Harm Van Den Dorpel’s “Ethereal Self,” which invites you to a website where your image is transposed onto a digital gemstone through the use of your webcam.

Unknowingly, your video stream is also being reproduced in thegallery along with other unknowing viewers of the website. This type of work simultaneously gives us an interesting visual collage to look at, whilst critiquing the openness and voyeurism of the Internet.

Five Lost Masterpieces revealed This event does exactly what is promised from the title. Five paintings, whose whereabouts were thought to have been long gone, are reunited with the public and questions about their worth and significance are raised for debate.

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Puces POP brings DIY flair to Mile End Indie craft fair hosts 100 local vendors

Puces aux pouces: first-time tips Why not start your Puces with the free-ofcharge Fashion POP design competition/fashion show held at the Rialto on Sept. 29 at 8:30 p.m.? It will feature six designers competing for a $1,000 cash prize and a spot in WORN fashion journal.

The Puces POP bazaar is held Oct. 2 to 3 in the basement of Mile End’s St. Michael’s parish from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Entry to the Puces is free, and booths are mostly cash-only. Once inside, make your way around the aisles at least once before deciding on major purchases, but booth-shoppers beware: unlike in a mall, many items are one-of-a-kind, and sell in a flash.

Check out the zines and comics available at Puces POP: many come from Montreal’s own Drawn and Quarterly press.

Vinyl lovers, you’re a short walk to the simultaneous Puces POP record fair at the Exclaim! Venue in the Ukranian Federation Basement, featuring vinyl sales and swaps, instrument repairs, and international and Montreal-based indie labels.

When you’re all POP’d out, continue to support local business and head down to Café Olimpico or Le Club Social for a latte or an espresso to sip on as you look through your purchases. Happy Puces!

You can check out the above mentioned craftspeople here: www.markhedcrafts.com, www.zoobabies.ca and www.genevievesavard. com.

Rebecca Ugolini Contributor While independent music festival POP Montreal attracts music fans this weekend, its sister festival, Puces POP, will be luring out lovers of crafts.

The sixth annual Puces POP, designed to “celebrate all kinds of independent creation,” features booths from 100 local vendors boasting products from organic baby clothes to boozed-up cupcakes, a business seminar for DIY up-and-comers, and a record fair for vinyl enthusiasts.

Montrealers have responded to this one-onone Mile End shopping experience so well that the bazaar is now a thrice-yearly event. Puces POP isn’t all about customers, though. There’s plenty to be said about the experience from the other side of the booth.

Vendor’s perspective: Puces one-on-one Puces POP vendors praise the Puces POP for fostering immediate interaction with clients.

“I started my jewelry business [to] shorten the distance between designer and customer,” says Marie Khediguian, whose company, MarKhed crafts, features edgy sterling pieces such as an anatomically correct heart pendant.

“Puces POP allows me to have a live connection and feedback from local clients -- nothing beats having someone loving your work right in front of you.”

Geneviève Savard agrees: besides being able

Top left and bottom photos: MarKhed jewelry. Right: a design by Geneviève Savard. to offer better rates and service, “meeting the other sellers, networking and making friends” are advantages of the bazaar setting. Savard’s debut Wolfy line includes risque/classic combinations like a sheer black silk ‘inside dress’ and a sapphire silk ‘outside dress.’

Vanja Kragulj of Zoo Babies says that Canadians “are still skeptical about online

shopping,” and that her clientele, which often includes grandparents, “generally likes to [first] feel the product”. Her children’s clothing and handmade plushies, like Toshi, a striped, Godzilla-esque lizard, are made of organic fairtrade cotton.

Puces POP is taking place at St. Michael’s Parish, 5580 St-Urbain St., corner St-Viateur St., Oct. 2-3. The POP fashion show is turning heads at The Rialto, 5723 du Parc Ave. Stop by the record fair at the Ukrainian Federation, 5213 Hutchison St. Our suggested spots for bites to eat: Café Olimpico at 124 St-Viateur St. W. and Le Club Social at 180 St-Viateur St. W.

FESTIVAL

POP, now available daily in print Hot off a Risograph printer from Copies Concordia Sarah Deshaies Editor-in-chief Amid the swirl of posters, pamphlets and postcards awaiting the hordes that will descend on POP Montreal this week, one new paper project will beckon festival goers to pick it up.

Each day of the fest, a printer in a “little newsroom” in the basement of the DHC/ART gallery will be putting out copies of a POP Montreal newsletter.

It’s a daily printing party, and it’s a copresentation between Art POP and Palimpsest, a collective that produces an atypical magazine publication: a box filled with audio, print, etc. tied together with a theme.

Art POP director Matt Goerzen sounded enthused about the daily Art POP newsletter speaking about it last week: “I think it’ll be this very beautiful object that will attract people.”

While the publishing world seems to be phasing online, Goerzen points out that print has become an enticing niche for artists -- an “inverse reaction where people who are interested in print are exploring” different styles and methods.

The content will push and explore music journalism. Goerzen promised “responses to things going on in the festival” and concert reviews that employ data instead of words, like the number of people in attendance and decibel levels.

The title and the motto of the newsletter will change from day to day, pulling suggestions contributed to a hat. The project is inspired by a current DHC/ART exhibit featuring artist Jenny Holzer whose “practice is built around aphorisms.”

While the title changes, the newsletter’s look was not yet settled as of Thursday night. Goerzen reported it will be two tabloid-size sheets (about two inches shorter that the paper you’re holding right now). The newsletter will be printed in two colours, grey and gold, likely on coloured, lightweight paper. The methods for illustration were still being decided, but the print designer, Alan Woo, is on board.

Thanks to an ad trade, the Risograph printer is courtesy of Copies Concordia, the photocopy shop on de Maisonneuve Blvd. frequented by Concordia students and staff. Goerzen described

the old machine as “halfway between inkjet printers and lithography machines.”

Goerzen thinks the newsletter is pushing the boundaries of print. “I like the possibility of approaching something that has become a typical feature of the Montreal community from an unexpected perspective.”

But beyond trying something new, he said: “It’ll be a nice object for people to pick up and take around with them.”

You can check out the Risograph at work Sept. 29 to Oct. 3 from noon to 6 p.m. at DHC/ ART, 451 St-Jean St. in Old Montreal. The Holzer exhibit is until Nov. 14. Pick up a fresh copy of the newsletter at POP venues every afternoon during the festival.

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Chicago in Glass: fragile and strong Famed artist Judy Chicago shows she’ll be known for more than the “Dinner Party” Sarah Deshaies Editor-in-chief Judy Chicago struck feminist art gold when she created the “Dinner Party,” a famous, literal homage to women’s history laid out over a huge, triangular dinner table with 39 place settings for famous women, replete with vulva- and butterfly-like dinner plates.

But like any enterprising artist, Chicago has thrown herself into other disciplines.

“Chicago in Glass” is an exhibition showcasing her work in cast- and stained-glass work.

A petite woman outfitted in black sequins, dark lipstick, a choker necklace and rosetinted round glasses under a mop of fiery red hair, Chicago flitted from piece to piece with admirers last Wednesday at the vernissage for her show.

Chicago referenced the “Dinner Party” when speaking at the vernissage about her decision to work with glass: it’s “the only material that is both tangible and intangible simultaneously and it allows you to look below the surface, which I would say is something that is characteristic of my work; trying to see beyond accepted reality, like the idea, for example that, women have no history or that what we do is unimportant.”

The show is part of the Ville en Verre yearlong look at glass art in Montreal, which included the Tiffany lamp exhibit at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

Chicago has been working with glass since 2003, studying and working with Ruth and Norm Dobbins, glassmakers in Santa Fe, N.M. and the Lhotsky Glass Foundry in the Czech Republic. The work on display is

a study in appendages: melancholy busts, clenched fists and extended hands are glazed in tones of purple, bronze and blue.

One fist - about the size of one’s head - is engulfed in flames; another has golden tears flowing from its clenched fingers. Another piece, “Grand Hands of Choice,” features an outstretched hand next to an identical one pointing upwards. Glass, in Chicago’s words, is “both fragile and strong, and I think is an incredible metaphor for the human condition.”

The chef-d’oeuvre and ultimate call for universal peace is the huge triptych stained-glass piece “Rainbow Shabbat,” which depicts a centre panel with diners from all ethnicities and walks of life celebrating the Jewish Friday night. On either side is the following statement in both Yiddish and English encapsulated in a yellow Jewish star: “Heal those broken souls who have no peace and lead us from darkness into light.”

Interestingly enough, the show is housed in building that was a church in a previous life. “Rainbow Shabbat” is located towards the end of the building, right where the altar would be.

Being well-known for one piece, Chicago also addressed a concern she has about women artists’ work. “Well, I think one of the problems in not only my work but generally for women artists is that it’s been very difficult for us to have our whole body of art seen.”

It’s worth going to see this show as part of Chicago’s repertoire. It’s what she hopes for.

“People think of me only in terms of the “Dinner Party,” where it is my abiding hope that before I die the “Dinner Party” will come to be seen as one work in a large body of work.”

Chicago in Glass is at the Musée des maîtres et artisans du Québec, 615 Ste-Croix Ave. in Ville St-Laurent (Du College metro) until Jan. 9, 2011.

Judy Chicago speaks in front of “Rainbow Shabbat” at the Musée last week.

FILM

Living openly in tough times Two films explore being gay in unfriendly countries Valerie Cardinal Contributor City of Borders opens with Boody, a young gay Palestinian, climbing a fence to sneak into Israel.

“We’re not going to do bombs, we’re not going to do anything wrong,” he tells the camera. “We only go to have to have fun, live our life.”

Once over the fence, he and his friends go to Shushan, the only gay bar in Jerusalem. Adam, an atheist Israeli, soon joins him, as well as lesbian couple Samira, an Israeli Palestinian, and Ravit, a Jewish Israeli.

Shushan is a place where gay and straight, Arab and Israeli peacefully coexist for the purpose of having a good time. The acceptance of the bar has opened the eyes of many. One of the Israeli patrons explained that Shushan made him realize everything he thought was based on hate. “I kissed an Arab,” he exclaimed. “This place allowed that kiss to happen.”

“The moments when people come together are not really being reported,” said Yun Suh, director, producer and writer of City of Borders.

She hopes that people walk away from the film able to put human faces on an area wracked with conflict.

Jerusalem is a sacred place to all three major religions of the area: Christianity, Judaism and

Islam. Suh shows not only the happiness in Shushan, but also the struggle it must wage against the religions, which stand united in their hate for one another.

Despite the fundamentalists against him, Boody remains religiously observant. City of Borders shows him praying in his room, saying that he’s sure God hasn’t given up on him.

The Kuchus of Uganda, also screening this week, depicts another situation where religion prevents the LGBT community from living freely. The documentary focuses on Sexual Minorities Uganda, an organization that aims to decriminalize homosexuality by helping people understand it. Proposals have been put forth to make Kuchus, as they call themselves, subject to the death penalty. Unfortunately, Uganda’s overwhelming Christian majority makes it difficult for SMUG to get their point across.

During one of the pivotal scenes, members of SMUG go to Makerere University, Uganda’s oldest and biggest university, for a debate about homosexuality and are stunned when medical students use the Bible to oppose their lifestyles.

“I thought it would be a very objective debate because of the nature of the place and the people we were going to debate with,” explained SMUG member Victor J. Mukasa. “Once the debate started, it was different.” The debate wasn’t really one where people were interested in hearing SMUG’s point of view. It quickly devolved into a stunning madhouse of jeering and laughing.

Sa’ar, the owner of Shushan, knows what it is like to be ignored and persecuted by the religious. As the only gay city council member in Jerusalem, he had to endure taunts from religious council members behind the scenes.

He’s gotten so many death threats that receiving

an envelope containing a flour-like substance doesn’t even shake his calm.

Suh greatly admired Sa’ar’s bravery. “I always looked upon the bar owner and realized I had nothing to complain about.”

Suh hopes her film will make people want to talk about the issues it covers. “It’s most interesting when families want to share it to discuss,” she said.

The movie has also been an important milestone in the lives of the people involved,

especially Boody. “This film – he says it’s like his diary,” she said, adding that Boody recently got a tattoo inspired by the documentary. Suh also encourages viewers to get in touch with the documentary’s subjects via Facebook, stating that they always like to hear from viewers.

City of Borders and The Kuchus of Uganda will be playing Cinema Politica Oct. 4 at 7 p.m. in H-110. For more information, check out www.cinemapolitica.org.

City of Borders explores gay culture amid religious intolerance in Israel.

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THEATRE

Nothing to sniff at Kleenex puppets take the stage in Without Title Sarah Deshaies Editor-in-chief Last year, Pavla Mano and her husband Csaba Raduly were at a loss as how to convince their two-year-old son Philip to eat his meals.

Stumped, they resorted to creating figures out of Kleenex. “We were trying to be distracting so that he would forget that he doesn’t want to eat,” explained Mano.

The trick seemed to work, because Philip started munching.

And his parents noticed that the Kleenex figures had potential. Since Mano is a trained puppeteer and Raduly is an actor, the idea of entertaining someone with nothing more than a few Kleenex tissues soon evolved into their latest collaboration, a puppet show named Without Title - a name as blank as a fresh piece of tissue.

If the premise of a puppet show about Kleenex leaves you guessing, Mano admitted that the story is difficult to describe.

“There is not really a story. The way the performance is... everyone can get [the] story, but I can’t tell you this happens and that happens.” What she can reveal is the following about the main personage: “A creature that just starts being, starts existing, meets other creatures and they’re trying to communicate, they’re trying to overcome each other,” she said. ”It’s like a journey through [...] life.”

It took several months of improvisation and structuring for the ideas behind Without Title to percolate and fully form into a 45-minute long puppet piece for adults. Since the show’s premiere in March, the couple has brought to the show to an international pup-

Pavla Mano estimates she uses 30 tissues a performance for Without TItle - her total costs for props in this spare story is $25.

pet show in Jonquière, and they will soon be staging it in Barcelona.

Mano’s background with puppets goes back awhile. Her theatre company, Puzzle Theatre, was founded in Bulgaria in 1996, where she trained as puppeteer, and it made the jump to Montreal when she and her co-founders moved to Canada in 2004. Mano planned on coming with her boyfriend, but he backed out. She came anyway, and stayed: “I like this colourful city.”

Puzzle Theatre began running versions of the projects they had staged in Bulgaria, some of which were geared towards young children and families. Without Title, however

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is a conceived-in-Canada project for adults.

Note to penniless aspiring theatre acolytes: Mano estimates that with her props being one light, one table and one box of Kleenex (30 sheets for each of the four shows) for the whole Montreal run, her props budget totals at $25. In addition, her and Raduly considered themselves volunteer performers, and they put on the show without grants. (“It’s easier.”)

As for the anonymous moniker, Without Title, Mano likens it to artists’ untitled paintings. The idea behind the title stems from Mano wanting the audience to have a “virgin” mind: “It’s Without Title because we

didn’t want to give a direction to the audience what to think about.”

What we do know is that it features Kleenex. But Mano promises more.

“It’s about a lot of things. You have to see it, and you will find out.”

Without Title is being performed Sept. 30 to Oct. 3 at Studio-Theatre l’Illusion, at 783 de Bienville Rd., near Mont-Royal metro.

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BACKSTAGE PASS

How to survive POP Montreal 2010

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Tips and tricks to have fun without burning down your home, but definitely bringing down the roof.

Watch out for pigeons.

They don’t fear humans anymore and they shit with impunity.

Mavo in collaboration with Anna Phelan Contributors We are Mitz, Ryan, and Conor from this obscure Montreal band called Mavo. If you haven’t heard of us, you’re probably among the hundreds of people who never showed up to our secret gig.

For what it’s worth, here’s our best effort at guiding you through this year’s POP Montreal Festival. You can follow this guide whether you’re a band, like us, or just a music fan... who is most likely poor... like us. We know how you feel; we were students, too. We’ve been there: eating leftover pasta every day while watching HBO series online. But we have good news! You can use this formula as a way to successfully survive POP. Just replace pasta with alcohol and HBO with live music.

Here are a few more tips on how to navigate the mean streets of Montreal, all while avoiding bouncers, bad music and annoying hipsters. * If you are too poor to pay for shows, you can always volunteer and get a volunteer pass. This isn’t like the iPod you’ll never win after answering 500 online surveys. You can just volunteer and get a pass. That will get you into Any. Show. You. Like. That’s right. Except it’s probably too late to sign up this year. I guess you’ll just have to wait for next year to trade your benevolent spirit for swag. * Check the schedule at pop.montreal. com/en/festival, decide which bands you want to see and make an itinerary. Don’t do this while cooking, like Mitz did, or you’ll end up having to replace the oven hood and repaint around the stove from the fire this may cause. * Grease up that bike chain! Heck, tune up the whole machine. You may have to ride hard across town to cram in all the shows you want to see. (editor’s note: buy a ticket to any show

Mavo in their jam space. From left, Ryan Newman, Mitz Takahashi and Conor Prendergast.

Photo by Cora Ballou

and for $10 extra, get a POP Hoppers pass that lets you into any show that night). * If you end up going under the overpass on du Parc Avenue just north of Van Horne Avenue, watch out for pigeons. They don’t fear

humans anymore and they shit with impunity. I know. It makes us angry too that they don’t fear humans anymore. Now we know how God feels about us. Amen to that. * Don’t burn out on the first day or two.

Remember this is a five-day festival, so pace yourself like old people do on cruise ships. You don’t want to be like Aunt Gloria who went apeshit in Marseille and then spent the next four days throwing up in her cabin, missing out on Greece and Italy. * Eat whatever you want before the shows, just be sure to map out the venues that have good bathrooms, like Casa del Popolo. They have really nice facilities where you can poo in safety and comfort. * Make sure to buy a ticket for a band you really want to see. You’ll regret it if you don’t.

And if you’re female, don’t think you can use your feminine wiles to sneak into the show, because honestly, most of the front-of-house volunteers are girls. Good for us, bad for you. * If the weather is excellent, bring out your tank top but leave the Lululemon at home. This also goes under “Common Sense.” I mean, do you want to be liked or not? For the love of God, keep your overpriced yoga wear at home. * Finally, come see us play with Shonen Knife on Thursday. If you’re too young to know who Shonen Knife is, then just pretend you do.

That’s the only way you’re going to compete with the cool kids and music nerds.

Now go forth and prosper. And come to our show... seriously, please do!

Mavo will be playing Cabaret du Mile End (5240 du Parc Ave.) at 9:30 p.m. Sept. 30 for POP Montreal. Listen to them by checking out this week’s playlist: 8tracks.com/the_concordian/pop-montreal-taster.

INTERVIEW

Matt Stern: Don’t skip band practice A mixed bag of safe, homegrown entertainment was passed around at Sala Rosa last Sunday.

Colin Harris Contributor Montreal singer/songwriter Matt Stern released his EP with a performance that included professional dancing and ended with a remix of one of the new tracks.

“I’ve had a man crush on Matt since the moment I met him,” joked opener Duane Forrest, an R&B/pop singer that briefly warmed

up the crowd for Stern. Forrest played four soulful tunes with exuberant happiness and tight bluesy guitar. However, his jazz flute accompanist may have stolen the show a little with her colourful improvising.

After this modest introduction, Matt Stern and his band got up for their turn – which was more than a little disappointing. The group went right into a painfully predictable pop/reggae tune, and whether it was nerves or not, they barely pulled it off.

The band seemed to suffer from some kind of delusion that adding a djembe and backup singers automatically makes a performance better. Stern’s backup singers looked like the least interested people in the venue, and it was reflected in their vocal performance.

One of the biggest things holding this performance back was the cookie-cutter parts Stern’s backup band played throughout the night. Without a hint of individuality coming from any backing musician, there was a significant lack of energy in the room – which left the content crowd in their seats for the duration of the performance.

The pace was changed a little for two songs. A few minor sevenths and a fast blues groove showed another side of Stern, as did a number that imitated a brooding Bruce Springsteen. With this darker feel, the group managed a few great moments, but nothing they could hold on to.

A remix replaced the encore, but the track had me feeling nothing but confusion. I’m still not sure why all of a sudden we were listening to this uninspired chunk of electronic polyphony.

The EP has focus with its consistent pop production. In fact, title track ‘I’m Not the Only One’ is an enjoyable marriage of acoustic music and a drum machine. But unlike the recording, this concert felt like Stern was testing the waters of several pop variations instead of delivering his work with confidence.

It was decent for what it was, but as far as a professional performance outside of a ‘family and friends’ atmosphere goes, these guys need work.

Matt Stern poerforming at Sala Rossa. Photo

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IN-DEPTH

The Sheepdogs: shaggy heroes of rock n roll Saskatoon’s classic rock revival band scheduled to play POP Montreal.

Alona Mutsmakher Contributor In true fashion of the musical pioneers that came before them, the Sheepdogs sport shaggy hair and typically laid back attire, perhaps in reference to their name. But don’t let the ragged exterior fool you: they are music’s new heroes, here to resuscitate rock ’n’ roll.

Originally form Saskatoon, Sask., the band was formed in 2005 by a group of friends: Ewan Currie (lead vocals, guitar), Leot Hanson (guitar, backing vocals), Ryan Gullen (bass, backing vocals), and Sam Corbett (drums, backing vocals).

“We [were] all at a point in our lives where we wanted something different and new and I could play a little bit of guitar,” said Curry.

Corbett rented a drum kit and they immediately began to write and play originals, improving as musicians through the process.

“From day one we really took it seriously even though we never had like... musical talent at all. Even from our first jam we committed [to the band], maybe a bit foolishly, but it actually worked out really well.”

Often compared to great classics like Humble Pie, The Allman Brothers, and Free, The Sheepdogs’ music spills over to jazz, country, old soul and blues with influences like Curtis Mayfield and Derek And The Dominoes.

A couple of prairie boys about to take POP by stormhouse they used to rent. Photo by Shannon H. Myers They established a strong fan-base both in Saskatoon and Winnipeg, which Currie calls their second home. But who knew that the group of friends who could barely play their instruments would eventually be making waves all the way to Eastern Canada? Not only have they been nominated for Artist of the Year on XM radio’s The Verge, their second album Big Stand was nominated for a Western Canadian Music Award for Independent Album of the Year. They have also played events like Junofest, the Red Gorilla Festival in Austin, Texas and recently North

by Northeast, a large-scale industry music

and film festival in Toronto.

Playing in Toronto sparked a collaboration with music-video director and editor Frank Guidoccio, who introduced himself after one of their shows and expressed his willingness to direct their first video. The official music video “I Don’t Know” depicts two boys taking an automotive joyride of adolescent discovery. Aptly it has a Dazed and Confused vibe and a ‘70s wardrobe.

“We really like the video. We [shot] it in one afternoon and Frank did a really good job editing it together. We did it without any resources, just with Frank’s ingenuity. We’re

hoping to make another video with Frank ‘cause if this is what he can do with, you know, no resources imagine what he can do...[with them]” After their first two albums Trying To Grow (2007) and Big Stand (2008), they decided to take the production process into their own hands. Learn & Burn, which was released in early 2010, was recorded entirely on a computer, using Pro Tools and a microphone set.

The band is pleased with the direction their album has taken, and feels Learn & Burn is the closest they’ve ever come to an end product that resembles their initial goal of how it would sound.

Though their fan base mainly stretches throughout Western Canada, the Sheepdogs are no strangers to Montreal. This time around, they will be headlining a showcase at Montreal’s International Music Festival, POP Montreal, with Dog Day, Sister, and Dan Romano Oct. 1 at O Patro Vys. “We’re very excited about Pop. I just hope if there are people out there that dig rock ’n’ roll, guitar solos, harmonies, big choruses and just a nice groove, they’ll come down and rock out.”

If you believe true rock ’n’ roll was buried in the ‘80s, let the Sheepdogs be a brightly shining beacon of hope. They play catchy tunes, wear leather and headbands and sound like your parents’ dusty vinyls. And their nostalgic rock sound may very well revive your faith in rock ’n’ roll.

Catch the Sheepdogs at 1 a.m. Oct. 1 at O Patro Vys during Pop Montreal, or on Oct. 12 at Barfly. Listen to them by visiting this week’s 8tracks playlist of Pop Montreal artists: 8tracks.com/the_concordian/popmontreal-taster.

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Get to know a few of the artists that will be gracing stages around town this week; from fancy concert halls to dingy bars. To listen, visit http://8tracks.com/the_concordian/popmontreal-taster

Losers, 2006 11. “Doller Signs” - Snailhouse - Lies On The Prize, 2008 12. “Demon Host” - Timber Timbre - Timber Timbre, 2009

SIDE A: Locals 1. “h8 chrymes” - Mavo - Unreleased, 2010 2. “Surfing in Tofino” - Planet Smashers Life of the Party, 1999 3. “Guess What” - Radio Radio - Belmundo Regal, 2010 4. “Let’s Play Dead ” - Red Mass - The Red EP, 2010 5. “Dream Electrixra” - Blue Hawaii Blooming Summer, 2010 6. “Dors poupée dors” - Philémon Chante Les Sessions Cubaines, 2010 7. “Cha Cha” - Pom Pom War - Allez!

Prenez Leurs Armes, 2010 8. “T.R.O.U.B.L.E.” - We Are Wolves - NonStop je te plie en deux, 2005 9. “Drowning in the Dark” - Pop Winds The Turquoise, 2010 10. “I Fell Deep” - The Dears - Gang of

SIDE B: Out-of-towners 1. “Catfish 2 Boogie” - The Sheepdogs Learn And Burn, 2010 2. “Do The Doot Da Doot Do” - Hollerado Record in a Bag, 2010 3. “TAOS” - Menomena! - Mines, 2010 4. “Permanent Record” - Golden Dogs Coat of Arms, 2010 5. “The Tears and Music of Love” - Deerhoof - Offend Maggie, 2008 6. “Crystalised” - The XX - XX, 2009 7. “Drain Cosmetics” - Serena Maneesh Serena Maneesh, 2004 8. “P.I.G.S.” - Holy Fuck - Latin America, 2010 9. “Goodnight Everything” - Liars - Sisterworld, 2010 10. “Black Rice” - Women - Women, 2008

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Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010 REVIEW

Klaxons bring you into the void UK band perform their across-thepond sound for Montreal ears Cora Ballou Assistant music editor There is no better indicator of a band’s success than an audience member yelling a tipsy “thank you!” to the musicians on stage.

This is a much more uncommon occurrence than it seems at first, and it’s exactly what happened last Saturday when Klaxons played the packed Cabaret Juste Pour Rire. What<s more, this happened on two separate occasions -- which underlines the kind of fans Klaxons have garnered over the years.

Composed of every kind of music lover, right down to the pogo-ing underage hipster, the audience seemed to reflect the look and ethos of this London-based four piece. Even though Klaxons have by now developed a very specific electro-pop-meets-alternativerock sound, the band members themselves are a striking medley of every type of musician found in today’s indie rock scene. With the bearded, beer-swiging Jamie Reynolds flanked by the Robert Smith-inspired Simon Taylor-Davis and the baby-faced, slightly androgynous James Righton, Klaxons vocalists alone fit every stereotype and no stereotype at once.

(Left and right) The Klaxons unleashing their fervent and furious dance rock on Montreal. Photo by Shannon H. Myers

Coming on stage to Rondo Veneziano’s “La Serenissima,” an epic string instrumental, the band took no time to start into one of their new tracks, “Flashover.” This was met with instant enthusiasm from the crowd who were bopping and clapping to their set from song one. They followed this with a few more performances off their newest album Surfing the Void before breaking out into the betterknown “Gravity’s Rainbow” off Myths of the Near Future. The audience got rowdier as the

band delivered a constant string of dance-pop tracks with brief, but humble stage banter between each song. It’s obviously been a long year for Klaxons, who were definitely showing signs of wear and tear. This, however, did not affect the quality of the show, which is a rare occurrence for most party-happy bands these days. In fact, the musicians’ undying energy even while playing old hits was one of the most interesting aspects of the show.

Despite minimal lighting and visual props,

Quick Spins

Robert Plant - Band of Joy (Rounder Records; 2010) In Robert Plant’s new album Band of Joy, listeners are served an authentic slice of good ol’ Americana. Even though Plant remains in the same bluegrass realm as Raising Sand - his phenomenal collaborative album with Allison Krauss - he has now added elements of his signature classic rock sound to the mix. Although not as well-rounded as his previous releases, the rock and country melodies still mesh together to create a very solid overall sound. The track “You Can’t Buy My Love” was puzzling considering it resembles the Beatles song “You Can’t Buy Me Love” in many ways. As well, the choice to cover “I’m Falling In Love Again” by The Kelly Brothers was somewhat doubtful, as the lyrics are less than inspired and the melody fairly awful to begin with.

Yet, even with these slight problems, the general product isn’t greatly affected. In truth, it seems to add to the eccentricity of the album, which is an integral part of its charm.

Trial Track: “Central Two-O-Nine”

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Klaxons remained interesting and amusing for the duration of their hour-long set. The only hitch was Reynolds’ slightly croaky voice, which became especially apparent when coupled with Righton’s clear melodic singing.

But a live show is not a studio album, and slight deficiencies like this cannot take away the impressive stage energy and audience chemistry in the cozy St-Laurent venue last weekend.

Retro review

Meligrove Band - Shimmering Lights (Nevado Records; 2010)

Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest (4AD; 2010)

Screamin’ Jay Hawkins - I Put a Spell on You - The Best of (Memphis Industries; 2010)

It has been four years since Meligrove Band released Planets Conspire. Now after an excruciatingly long wait endured by both fans and band, their new LP is here. A word of caution to those who liked Planets Conspire: listening to Shimmering Lights with the expectation that it will sound like Planets Conspire will surely disappoint. This is the new Meligrove Band, whose updated sound will surely attract new fans while making longtime followers reminisce over the good old days. Shimmering Lights presents the band’s louder and more aggressive side, while also being more pop and mainstream than Planets Conspire. Unfortunately, the driving piano Meligrove Band is known for takes a backseat, while the drum set seems to take centre stage, with the exception of “White Like Lies” and “Bones Attack.” Also gone is the orchestral section à la “Grasshoppers in Honey,” substituted for power chords and a synth. In a reversal of roles, Shimmering Lights feels like Planets Conspire’s younger brother. While lacking in maturity, he’s got some angst.

Lead singer and guitarist Bradford Cox describes Halcyon Digest as a collection of fond memories, both real and imagined.

With this in mind, many of the songs can be seen as a commentary on how humanity writes, rewrites and edits its memories into a condensed version of what it wants to remember. This nostalgic approach to music has created a quieter, less psychedelic album compared to previous Deerhunter releases.

But for what it lacks in heaviness, it makes up in lush, layered musicality. Produced by Ben H. Allen (who worked on Animal Collective’s Merriweather Post Pavilion), there is more freedom for the melodies to evolve and manifest themselves while still retaining a strong pop aesthetic. Overall Halcyon Digest is possibly Deerhunter’s most accessible album yet. Though it takes steps in several new directions, it remains faithful to Deerhunter’s original sweeping psychedelic sound. With this fourth album, Deerhunter seems to have hit the right balance in keeping longtime fans happy while creating an opening for new admirers in the process.

Probably best known for his eccentric stage performances that included coffins and skulls as props, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins was ahead of his time as one of rock’s most theatrical performers kickin’ it in the 50s. This incredibly insane and humorous record is full of his baritone crooning, not to mention grunts and hacking that might make you think the guy had rabies. One of his most famous recordings, and also the title track of the album, “I Put a Spell on You” is one of rock’s greatest ballads, but one injected with heroin, sweat and cheap beer. Despite the bizarre gimmicks, the soul on each track of the Best-of album is obviously apparent, and you can’t help but sing along when he moans about brotherly love and “What’s Gonna Happen on the Eighth Day.” This is a much needed addition to any R&B/Soul fan’s collection, and despite the fact that Screamin’ Jay died in 2000, the bluesy sentiments he sang (or coughed) about are still relevant today.

Trial Track: “White Like Lies”

Trial Track: “Desire Lines”

7.0/10

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9.0/10

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Trial Track: “Little Bitty Pretty One”

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CONFERENCE

Rock em Sock em Politics

QPIRG welcomes two speakers on the topic of the relation between social change and sports.

Joel Balsam Contributor

“He scores! Henderson!!” The broadcast from Canada’s game-winning goal at the 1972 Summit Series sends chills down any Canadian sports fan’s spine. It has been dubbed the goal of the century, but what makes it such an amazing goal is the circumstances under which it was scored.

More bone-chilling moments, like AfricanAmerican athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos raising their fists for black power at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics or Billie Jean King beating Bobby Riggs in the 1973 “Battle of the Sexes,” are instances where the socio-political circumstances surrounding the sports events amplified their importance.

Sports may come with the baggage of racism, sexism, homophobia, nationalism, capitalism and the list goes on, but American journalist Dave Zirin knows that. It’s so easy to see that he does it for a living, he joked.

QPIRG Concordia invited Zirin to Montreal as a part of its annual disOrientation festivities to headline a talk called “The Politics of Sports” on Sept. 21. The talk focused on the problem of separating sports from politics, with the speakers arguing that society must learn to work with sports and combine the two.

Zirin is the author of several books, including his most recent, Bad Sports: How Owners are Ruining the Sports We Love, and runs his own radio show called Edge of Sports. The journalist and commentator has created a niche of his own in the large chasm that is sports broadcasting in America, having meshed his love for sports with

an investigative political framework.

“Sports is like fire. Sports can burn down your house or bring you food, it all depends on how you use it,” said Zirin.

Activists must wish that people got as passionate about politics as they did about sports.

Any anarchist would probably have drooled at the idea of uniting the crazed Habs fans to raid the mayor’s office instead of the SAQ on Ste-Catherine St. in last year’s National Hockey League playoffs. According to Zirin, sports fans are so passionate because “sports are the closest thing we have to a common language.”

Montrealers know quite well how sports and politics can become one. “The monument to debt” as Zirin called it, stands as a beacon in Montreal’s Hochelaga-Maisonneuve district to remind us just how sports come bearing an extreme financial and political burden on the city.

The “Big O[we]” or Olympic Stadium cost a total of $2.4 billion in debt and was finally paid off in 2006 -- 30 years after the 1976 Olympics.

“If you’re going to have an international sporting event, do it at the same site, where it’s at the same place every four years, so you don’t have the massive disruption into a city’s life, the accruing of debt and the obstruction of people’s civil liberties,” said Zirin.

Stadiums paid for by taxes are popping up everywhere and have “become a substitute for anything resembling an urban policy in the United States.” Tax money is going to support sports stadiums instead of repairing bridges, roads, hospitals, or revamping poor neighbourhoods.

Zirin spoke of an incident in Minnesota when a local bridge collapsed, killing 13 people, while the same day they were set to break ground on a new stadium worth $400 million of public money.

In Quebec City, there are talks about a new stadium costing the same amount, in addition to $145 million of Canadian taxpayer money that would be needed to bring the Nordiques back.

Yet, the team is likely to be bought by Quebecor, a company that has plans to bring conservative television content, or Fox News North, to

Canada.

Zirin speculates that Quebecor will use revenue from the Nordiques to finance their own business as many have done before, including the Los Angeles Lakers minority owner who funds his own neo-conservative magazine The Weekly Standard with income from the Lakers.

In response to this “corporate money laundering,” Zirin suggests using a public model like that of the Green Bay Packers, which puts ownership in the hands of the locals instead of a corporation, to bring back “Les Bleus.”

It is up to fans to speak out for the change they wish to see in society and, as history has shown, when there is social unrest, athletes respond. For example, Jackie Robinson and Mohammed Ali were outspoken about racial politics in the 1960s because of the social upheaval in the streets.

Recently, in an unprecedented fashion, the Phoenix Suns came out as a unit by sporting Los Suns jerseys to protest a controversial new law in Arizona in a May 5 NBA matchup. They were responding to widespread protests in the city and across America. The new law enacted this summer, Bill SB 1070, requires immigrants to provide police with their immigration status if they are suspected of being an illegal immigrant. Many have called the bill legalized racial profiling.

The MLB 2011 all-star game, which is to be held in Phoenix, is being targeted by a boycott if the law is not changed.

Mobilization against homophobia in sports has not proven to be as loud. Meg Hewings, the second speaker at the talk, blames the “machismo in sports” for why we don’t hear much about homosexuals and their struggles in sport.

Hockey is still “super white” and “super dudeily,” Hewings noted.

Hewings writes for a blog called hockeydykeincanada.ca and devotes her time to discussing racism, sexism and homophobia in hockey.

On the ice, hockey is macho and brutish.

That’s where the saying “I went to a boxing match and a hockey game broke out” comes from.

Off the ice, the hockey dressing room can be a place for homoerotic, and sometimes homophobic, male camaraderie.

“Calling someone a pussy or a fag in the dressing room just isn’t cool,” said Hewings.

She, like Zirin, wants to take the problems of sports head-on rather than just disregarding sports altogether as a distraction as critics like Noam Chomsky have suggested.

Some call on sports scandals as a reason to turn on the tube and stay home instead of heading to the local sports game. From Tiger Woods’ sex scandal and recent divorce, to Sean Avery chirping about “sloppy seconds,” sports broadcasters and fans eat up the controversy. Hewings calls it “gossip for men.”

She pointed out the recent criticism of the Canadian Women’s team celebration with beer at the Vancouver Winter Olympics as a perfect example of how the sports media is obsessed with scandal and is sexist.

If it had been men pulling out cigars and throwing back pitchers, as skeleton racer Jon Montgomery did in his gold medal celebration, “it would go down in the books as a legendary moment,” says Hewings.

In fact, the National Post called Montgomery’s celebration “an iconic Canadian thing to do for a freshly crowned Olympic champion.”

Women’s hockey has also come under fire as the International Olympic Committee threatened to eliminate women’s hockey from the Olympics if it does not get more competitive. Considering that Russia only has 300 women enrolled in hockey and it is the location of the next Winter Olympics, there may be reason for this exclusion.

Hewings stated, “I think we should hold mass protests if they don’t [get to play in 2014].”

Protests are not out of the question; no Olympic tournament or professional league for the 85,000 Canadian females registered in hockey is a recipe for outrage.

Evidently, political issues cannot be avoided in sports. As Zirin and Hewings proved in their talks, there are many problems that need to be addressed and many ways to tackle them.

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Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010 RUGBY

Concordia s mens and womens rugby teams shut out the competition Injury-riddled men’s team still puts up points Kelly Greig Staff writer The Concordia men’s rugby team flaunted their dominance by thrashing the Sherboorke Vert et Or 32-0 on Friday night.

It was an opportunity for many of the veterans to rest and for the young guns to get some action and prove themselves. “In our forward pack we had five reserves with some key guys out like David Biddle, Ted McGregor and Curtis McKinney but the boys really stepped up tonight,” said coach Shane Thomas. “We had a lot of key players missing and so we had some guys step up who wanted to prove something to themselves and to the coaches,” said interm captain Jimmy Bang.

Right off the bat the Stingers were on the board with a penalty kick by Xavier Birot. Concordia kept the pressure on with crushing hits by Adriano D’Angelo and Sean McDonough-Fraser.

“That was the biggest hit I’ve seen in Quebec Rugby, I’m surprised the other guy got up,” said Thomas about McDonough-Fraser’s punishing

tackle. Birot took a big hit from Sherbrooke, but landed in the try zone to make it 8-0.

The first half was marked by numerous penalties by Sherbrooke that strengthened the Stingers already strong field position. When David Walsh-Pickering stole a Sherbrooke line-out Bang used the opportunity to beat his man oneon-one and touch it down for a try. Birot made the conversion from 25 yards out to increase the lead to 15-0.

Bad kicking and strategy decisions plagued the Stingers as Sherbrooke pushed back. Concordia was deep in their own territory with Paul Bouet snagged a line-out that slipped through the fingers of two Vert et Or players and Jeremy Chung Lim broke the back line to run 15 yards.

Bouet shone again when he scored on an eight-man pick up off a stolen Sherbrooke scrum.

Birot hit the mark to widen the gap 20-0.

Although the Stingers had a dominating lead, their play at times did look messy and uncoordinated. “(The connection between forwards and backs) is not something we’ve quite got down in practice to the point that we want to execute it during the game,” said Bang, “I think a lot of it was ad-libbed and kind of off the fly so it did look messy at times.”

The whistle for halftime signalled the beginning of a downpour. Rain can often change the dynamic of a game; the ball is slippery and harder to catch and often the majority of the play

stays within the forwards.

Sherbrooke was looking desperate when they attempted a whopping 42-yard penalty kick to open the second half. The rain was a great equalizer; both teams were struggling with passing and rucking as the conditions became worse.

Concordia powered through the weather to make it to the Sherbrooke try line. The Vert et Or mounted their best defence of the game and repelled the Stinger onslaught at least seven times.

Concordia was trying everything they could think of, forwards, backs, blindside plays, attempting to push mauls, forcing line-out and scrums but to no avail.

When it seemed the tide had turned Concordia’s Gavin Drohan found a hole in the defence to score and take the wind out of Sherbrooke’s sails. Birot’s conversion attempt hit the upright and bounced wide.

The Stingers would seal the deal in the last five minutes of play when Theodore MeltzerGardner and the forward pack pushed the ball into the corner of the try zone to make it 32-0.

Meltzer-Gardner came onto the field in the last two minutes to wow the crowd with his try.

“Our defense tonight was spectacular, we didn’t concede a point,” said Thomas, “but we still have a long way to go if we want to win the championship.”

the score indicated,” he said, “We scored pretty quick and then we didn’t again for another 15-20 minutes, but we did a lot better in the second half.”

It was another opportunity to get some new faces out onto the field, and to re-visit some of the veterans. “Adara (Borys) was our player of the game, she really stepped up and this is a player who hasn’t played in three weeks.”

This impressive victory over Bishop’s only serves to show exactly how strong the Stingers squad is.

Concordia will have another easy week ahead of them as Sherbrooke comes to visit on Sunday at 1 p.m. Then it will be the team’s true test as they face archrivals Laval and McGill in the following weeks to round out the season in the quest for the championships.

The men move on to face Bishop’s Gaiters in Lennoxville on Oct. 1 at 8 p.m.

Offence no problem for women’s rugby

The Stingers were all over Sherbrooke on Friday. Photo by Cindy Lopez

The Concordia women’s rugby team clobbered the Bishop’s Gaiters 65-0 on Friday night in Lennoxville. They remain undefeated this season with only three games left to play.

Emma Gaudet-Reichelson scored three trys in the shutout with help from Jackie Tittley (one try, five conversions), Jessie Lapointe (two trys), Solange De Blois (one try), Adara Borys (one try), Cara Stuckey (one try), Jenna Giuliani (one try) and Taryn Gauley (one try).

The scoring frenzy was on and off, explained head coach Graeme McGravie. “The score flattered us. The first half was a lot harder than

The Vert et Or struggled to keep up with the Stingers. Photo by Cindy Lopez

BASEBALL BEEHIVE

You win some, you lose some Men’s hockey team split weekend exhibition games Kamila Hinkson Assistant sports editor The men’s hockey team travelled to London, Ont. last weekend for their first two games of the season. On Friday, a late third-period goal

by Daniel Michalsky broke a tie and gave the Stingers a 4-3 win against the Western Mustangs.

Scoring during the game went back and forth, with the Mustangs notching two goals in the first, the Stingers getting three in the second, including one goal scored in the first six seconds of a Stingers power play by Robert Mormina. Each team scored a goal apiece in the third, but with less than two minutes to go in the period, Michalsky put a loose puck up and over Western goalie Keyvan Hunt, and the Stingers won their first contest of the season. Goalie Maxime Joyal stopped 22 of 25 shots for the win.

The Stingers faced the Waterloo Warriors Saturday night. Unfortunately, there were no heroics to be had in that game. They lost

4-1. The Stingers have one more scheduled exhibition game against the UQTR Patriotes this week. The regular season begins Oct. 8 against the Ryerson Rams in Toronto. Their home opener will be Oct. 17 against Ottawa.

The ever-busy men’s baseball team was scheduled to be in action three days last week. Wednesday night, the Stingers won 3-1 against the McGill Redbirds, their first win against them for the season after dropping their first game 18-7. Medhi Djebbar got the start and win, allowing four hits in seven innings and retired six batters on the night.

Christian Jadah, who is batting a thousand on the year, contributed three hits and a RBI to the winning effort. Friday’s scheduled rematch got rained out. Saturday afternoon, the Stingers dropped both games of the doubleheader against the visiting Ottawa Gee Gees, by scores of 2-1 and 6-3. The team now has five wins and four losses on the season.

With ten points, they currently sit in third place and are three games behind McGill, the conference leaders.

The regular season wraps up for the Stingers next week. Three games against the John Abbott Islanders (2-6), and a doubleheader in Ottawa (4-4) next Sunday will close out the season. Semi-finals will begin soon after.

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FOOTBALL

Stingers death rolled by Gaiters Homecoming game slips out of reach in the last five minutes Stefano Mocella Contributor The Concordia Stingers will be looking back at this game as the one that got away. With the Stingers holding onto a 17-7 lead late in the game, the Bishop’s Gaiters offence came to life and snatched the game right out of Concordia’s grasp. The Gaiters scored 11 straight points in the last three minutes to take home the Shrine Bowl.

With just under five minutes remaining in the game, Concordia kicker Rene Paredes booted a 35-yard field goal to make it a two-possession game. Considering how well the Stingers defence had been playing all game, a win and a 3-1 record seemed to be in the books. Football just happens to be a 60-minute game, and this one proved it.

The Gaiters quickly took the ball and marched down the field. Bishop’s quarterback Jesse Andrews led his team in a hurry, completing a 33-yard pass to Geoff Coventry to move the ball to the Stingers’ 26-yard line. Three plays later, Andrews found David Haddrall in the back of the endzone to cut the lead to three.

A rouge off the ensuing kickoff brought the score to 17-15, putting the Gaiters within a field goal of the lead. A quick two-and-out by Concordia gave the Gaiters good field position. It took Bishop’s only four plays to march into field goal range. Kicker Josh Maveety was good from 22 yards out with 25 seconds left and, just like that, the Stingers had let the game slip away.

The Stingers were able to control this game for a long time but their inability to finish drives ultimately cost them. They were unable to find the endzone and the Gaiters hung in there.

Concordia settled for five field goals and a team safety as their only points. Bishop’s scored on just two field goals and a rouge before their lategame comeback.

Star quarterback Robert Mackay missed his third consecutive game. Terrance Morsink made his third straight start and managed the game very well. The young quarterback finished 25-of41 with 326 yards passing and one interception.

Morsink has earned the praise of his coaches

Clockwise from top: Sanchez Deschamps evades tacklers; Michael Harrington looks for open field. Photos by Faiz Iman. The two lines locked in a tight battle. Photo by Clovis-Alexandre Desvarieux as head coach Gerry McGrath continues to be impressed with the play of his inexperienced backup.

“Terrence has really been playing well,” said McGrath. “There are some things he can do better, but with the situation he’s in, he’s playing great for us.”

McGrath was also pleased with his team’s efforts. The inexperience of the team showed at times, but it was not for a lack of effort.

“I thought my team played their hearts out,” said McGrath. “There were some growing pains with young players, but I don’t think we could’ve played much better than we did.”

The effort was there and the Stingers played 55 minutes of excellent football. They should have been ahead by a lot more than 10 points, but they could not bury the resilient Gaiters.

Part of the problem was turnovers. The Stingers turned the ball over four times, fumbling three times and Morsink’s lone interception led to three points for Bishop’s early in the final quarter.

As it turned out, every point mattered in this 1817 loss. The Stingers now fall to 2-2 but McGrath was positive with where his team stands.

“If you had told me that we’d be 2-2 with having to play with our backup quarterback all this time, I would say I’d be pretty pleased.”

One thing’s for sure, the Stingers cannot afford to make any crucial mistakes next week. Next up for Concordia comes the giants of Quebec, the Laval Rouge et Or. It will be the Stingers’ toughest game on their schedule, having to go on the road in search of a massive upset. Having their starting quarterback in the lineup would help, but it will take a total team effort to pull it off. It should be a very tough test for the young Stingers.

Next game’s kickoff will be Oct. 3 at 1 p.m at the University of Laval.

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Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010 SOCCER

Stingers lose 5th straight in women s soccer action The team hasn’t scored a goal since the season opener Christopher Palma Alfaro Staff writer The visiting UQAM Citadins women’s soccer team hit early and never looked back in a 2-0 victory against the Stingers last Sunday.

UQAM started the first half with possession of the ball and wasted little time in taking advantage of it. Seconds into the contest, Stingers’ goalkeeper Andrea Davidson stopped a shot directed towards her. This would only be a preview of what the afternoon would be like. In the early stage of the match, Concordia tried to control the ball by making many passes and seeking to get through the opposition defence. However, this did not go according to plan and created very few offensive chances.

The game’s first goal came a little more than five minutes after the start. UQAM’s Lora Lehr made a brilliant pass to beat the offside trap

erected by Concordia’s defence, leaving her teammate Lisa-Marie Pelletier alone against the goaltender, where she finished with a kick that ended up behind the goal line.After the goal, the action mainly happened in the middle of the field, each team attempting to gain position over the other. This led to rough play on both parts and subsequently a yellow card for Concordia’s Sage Rinaldo for her tackle on Marie-Claude Beaulac.

This event appeared to give the Citadins more energy and vigorous attacks followed. At the 20th minute, Davidson made a fabulous save when she stretched to her right to save a wellplaced header and near goal by UQAM’s Olivia Sasseville. However, it was only a matter of time before the inevitable occurred.

At the 30th minute, Sasseville was able to redeem herself and scored a goal, due to the Citadins’ non-stop pressure in the offensive zone.

Concordia spent most of the time that was left in the half on their part of the field, defending their opponent’s attacks.

Concordia’s performance at the start of the second half was similar to the way they finished the first. In the first 15 minutes of the second half, the Stingers were able to withstand numerous attacks by the Citadins’ forwards who were on a mission to put the game away.

At the 68th minute, a foul was called in the box after a corner kick and a penalty shot was

Stinger’s Forward Emily Hubbard defends against a UQAM header. Photo by ClovisAlexandre Desvarieux given to UQAM. Yet again, Andrea Davidson was able to make the save and keep the hope of a comeback alive. Late in the game, Concordia made a push offensively, but was unable to construct any real threat. The Stingers were able to create opportunities in the last five minutes and during the stoppage time, but the corners

and free kicks were not on target. That valiant effort unfortunately came up short.With the loss, the Stingers’ record for the season is one tie and five losses.

The Stingers’ next match will be Oct. 1 at 6:30 p.m. against UQTR at Concordia Stadium.

SOCCER

Concordia s men soccer team tumbles against UQAM Citadins Fourth-place team proves to be too much for Stingers Christopher Palma Alfaro Staff writer Despite keeping it close in the first half, the Stingers crumbled in the second half Sunday in men’s soccer action, losing 4-1 to UQAM. The match started with a rampant pace; both teams were ready to play from the get-go.

However, at the fifth minute, after a nice save

by Concordia’s goalkeeper Nicholas Giannone, Bala Traoré of UQAM was able to take the loose ball next to the net and put it in.

Stunned by this early goal, the Stingers stood by as UQAM took the upper hand in the moments that followed. Soon after that, the Stingers were able to regain their composure and the play returned to a back-and-forth pace.

Stingers’ Matthijs Eppinga had a good chance to tie the score at the 20th minute, but was stopped by UQAM’s keeper Raphael Schott. Concordia’s Christian Auld, attempting to grab the potential return, ran into Schott and received a yellow card. Matthijs Eppinga continued his assertive play after this by trying to create scoring chances. Teammates Enos Osei and Michael Al Tork also started stepping up their game. After a couple of missed opportunities by Eppinga, the Stinger’s forward was able to tie the game with five minutes left at the half, finishing a beautiful passing play that included Osei and Al Tork. Finishing the first half in a weak manner, UQAM started the second half with dynamic attacks and by icreasing pressure on the Concordia defence.

This non-stop assault toward Concordia’s goal resulted in a hand ball by a Stinger and a penalty shot for UQAM. Manuel Chaffort scored on the penalty kick by placing the ball in the middle of the net while Giannone dove to his right. From that point on, everything went

south. Concordia opened up the playing style, desperately trying to even out the score. This led to a counterattack by UQAM’s Nicolas Bertrand, whose shot was blocked only to bounce back to teammate Maxime Bélanger, who chipped it in at 60th minute, making it 3-1. The Stingers continued to work hard, playing with a sense of urgency. Unfortunately, there was very little success to show for their efforts. This and some questionable calls by the referees fed the Stingers’ frustration, which began to show in their play.

On the other side, UQAM took advantage of being in the driver’s seat: waiting for an opportunity and capitalized again at the 77th minute when Sallim Dahman put home a strike that previously had hit the horizontal post, sealing the 4-1 win and annihilating any chance of a comeback.

The men’s soccer team will host UQTR Oct. 1 at 8:30 p.m.

Forward Matthijs Eppinga looks to make a play to a fellow Stinger against the Citadins.

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Write to the editor: opinions@theconcordian.com CAMPUS

Apathy doesn t pay in the long run Many reasons for lack of student involvement in current university culture As the total sum of funds raised for bursaries and scholarships by the Shuffle near the $1 million mark, how much of that amount has been raised by students? Judging by a slim student turnout last Friday, probably very little. University president Judith Woodsworth bluntly chastised students at the Shuffle, saying “it would have been nice if they would have turned up.”

The same sentiment can be extended to the first sessions of the “Open to Question” series featuring Woodsworth and University provost David Graham: only a handful of students gathered to voice their opinion to Concordia’s administration about topics facing the university. The student participation rate, or rather, absenteeism, evidenced by these recent events is a sad sign of the student body’s level of involvements.

The amount of students that vote in Concordia Student Union elections is just as disheartening. In the latest round of elections slightly less than 10 per cent of the student population bothered to vote for representatives that manage $1.75 million of our money and services.

It seems that Concordia’s student population doesn’t have a target for their apathy; it’s equally measured out and applied to everything.

This apathy doesn’t stem from a lack of relevant issues. Tuition always seems to be teetering on the edge of rising. The CFS maintains a death grip on what the CSU allegedly owes them. And there’s always a variety of fee levies

being proposed that gradually increase student fees. So why the indifferent attitude to everything Concordia?

Well, students are first and foremost students.

Classes tend to run the life of the average student and when not in class the many readings and endless writing take over. Then the part-time jobs that pay for tuition. How are students expected to take on a 6.5 kilometer walk when there are books to be cracked and tables to be bussed? We wish we could have showed up, Judith, but we were in class, or making lattes.

The academic lifespan of the typical student should be taken into account as well. Most students spend three to four years at Concordia and adopt a blitz-through-school attitude in order to finish as soon as humanly possible. Why care when you’ll be gone in a year or two?

It should also be noted that students are selfinterested and are reluctant to do or get involved in things that will not benefit them directly.

Fundraising for the Shuffle and then walking it does not have many direct implications for one student - but studying for an exam or making a work shift does.

Concordia has taken a step in the right direction by adding students’ volunteer work to their transcripts. While volunteering should be a selfless and generous activity, perhaps having it appear on your official transcript from your university will be the kick in the behind students need to get involved.

As it stands, Concordia functions as an educational limbo where students pay a fee and, when their time is up, they emerge with a degree. Woodsworth shouldn’t be surprised that students are not involved, they neither have the time nor the motivation to get involved. It’s a university culture that’s self-defeating; no one minds if nothing is done because it won’t affect

Graphic by Katie Brioux you for too long. At least, that’s the short term logic.

In the long run, it’s the students that let the administration slide and the apathetic culture dominate that will be paying taxes. And it’s those taxes that will go to pay for future universities’ costs. By not being involved now, we’ll be giving free reign to those who may not be making deci-

sions that best benefit the students.

While it may not seem to be possible now with workloads and readings, the slightest involvement can ensure that, at the very least, universities will still serve the future’s best interest.

Be it voting or voicing opinions to the president or provost, we need to make sure we won’t be paying for our apathy in the future.

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Long-gun registry should be long gone Rural-urban divide will make for interesting politics come election time Benjamin Woodman Contributor When Conservative Member of Parliament Candice Hoeppner put forth Bill C-391: An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Firearms Act, she sought to scrap the long-gun registry and all of its nuisances.

On Sept. 22, members of Parliament voted 153 to 151 to keep the registry. The issue of registering a shotgun or rifle and having one’s

name added to the database is one that is front and centre in communities in rural Canada, and many people there awaited the results of the vote with great interest.

It did go down to the wire, but in the end the Conservatives were the only party to fully support the scrapping of the registry. A coalition of the federal Liberal, Bloc and NDP members voted together to reject common sense and keep the registry, save for six NDP MPs who voted with the Conservatives to kill it.

Since its creation, the long-gun registry has had cost overruns totaling more than $2 billion. Each year, taxpayers must continue to contribute millions of dollars more to maintain and operate this registry. In the fallout of a recession, there are far more worthwhile issues and projects to invest in.

This also isn’t just about dollars and cents.

Simply put, the long-gun registry does not save lives or reduce crime in any way. It is

a cumbersome mess which alienates rural Canadians from the rest of Canada. A firearm can always be used improperly, whether it is registered or not.

It is presumptuous to think that law-abiding long-gun owners are more apt to commit crimes and thus must have tabs kept on them.

The amount of red tape law-abiding long-gun owners must go through for hunting or target shooting is appalling, and some feel that the whole process makes them out to be secondclass citizens.

It’s also foolhardy to think that criminals, the people who actually perpetrate gun crimes, will register their weapons in the first place.

Rather than harassing honest citizens, the money wasted on this registry could be of much greater use in preventing gun crime if it were spent putting more police officers on the street.

The long-gun registry amounts to yet

another imposition placed on rural Canadians, many of which are farmers and hunters.

Long-gun owners are not limited to rural areas, of course, but there are certainly more there than in urban centres and cities. Judging by the way they voted on Sept. 22, rural Canadians now appear to be mere afterthoughts to the federal Liberal, NDP and Bloc parties.

Over the years, Canada’s population has become increasingly urbanized, and the rural population has decreased accordingly.

Although the rural population may have declined, their importance as voters has not. The failure of the opposition parties to recognize that rural Canada is still relevant will likely not bode well for them come election time.

It’s expected that the governing Conservatives will continue to make efforts to eliminate the registry in the next session of Parliament, but for now we’re left at square one.

DEBATE

Banning bottled water at Concordia: a debate A

Boycott the bottle and enjoy tap water

round 53 billion gallons of bottled water are consumed worldwide annually. It is up to 10,000 times more expensive than tap water. Only 20 per cent of plastic water bottles are even recycled. Plastic can take thousands of years to degrade in a landfill.

On the other hand, our bodies are made up of 70 per cent water. It is recommended we drink eight cups of water daily. A person can go without food for about a month, but can only go a week without water.

Student lobbying group TAPthirst is calling for a Concordia where bottled water is not sold anywhere on campus, and that can come as soon as next semester. What do you think? Send your thoughts to the editor, at opinions@theconcordian.com

Kayla Morin Contributor Everyone drinks water. Bottling it, especially here in Canada where tap water is of great quality, makes no sense. Concordia would do well not to associate itself with this nasty industry.

The entire concept of taking a subsidized resource that is a human need and repackaging and selling it is unethical. No one should have to pay for water and you should refuse to.

Bottled water is not cleaner or healthier than tap water; this is a myth. In fact, more than a quarter of bottled water is simply filtered tap water, and some brands contain more bacteria than a bathroom sink. What’s more, the (already adequate) quality of tap water will only get better as more people join the cause and call for improvements.

Also, think about the energy and resources depleted in the name of a bottle of water: to create a plastic bottle, fill it with water, seal it, slap a label on it, put it in a cardboard box wrapped in plastic inside another cardboard box, transport it in a big truck or boat or train (deep breath) all so you can drink it weeks later as a ‘healthful’ alternative to the free stuff in your kitchen? Yeah, really clever. When you buy a bottle of water you are supporting massive amounts of pollution so that a few suits can make a lot of money.

The bottled water industry accounts for about 2.5 per cent of the world’s oil consumption and uses approximately 2.7 million tonnes of plastic every year. Most of this recyclable waste ends up in landfills, sometimes infecting ground water sources. This is all completely unnecessary.

If you don’t care about the environment enough to change your harmful habits, then you should consider your personal health. Chemicals from the plastic used to make bottles of water can seep into what you drink, especially when you reuse it.

Concordia needs to do the right thing here and banning bottled water is the only smart option. Remove bottled water from campus and work on improving the school’s water fountain system. The health of the earth and students should be higher on the university’s priority list than making a few extra bucks. Do your part and boycott the bottle!

When it comes to portability and convenience, plastic is fantastic Benjamin Woodman Contributor

Graphic by Katie Brioux

The banning of bottled water on any school campus is rooted with good intentions, but they are simply misguided.

Primarily, the issue raises questions of health concerns. No longer having bottled water for sale on campus means that one’s options for beverages at a vending machine or eatery are limited to cola, sports drinks or sugared “vitamin” water. All of these choices contain empty calories for the most part. Juice, while an excellent way to obtain a recommended serving of fruit, also contains more calories per serving than water and usually has added sugar.

My understanding is that juice is also not as readily available on campus as less-healthy alternatives. It may be on a small scale, but removing bottled water from campus will have an impact on student health.

Secondly, sometimes I want to be able to bring a bottle of water with me wherever I go, and have the convenience of being able to discard the bottle in one of the many recycling bins located around campus. A bottled water ban is going to limit one’s options. Carrying a reusable bottle doesn’t always match up with my day plan; if I want to grab a drink with friends somewhere after class I prefer to be encumbered by as few items as possible. Numerous water fountains are located all around campus, but as of now I am unable to bring them to class with me or carry them on the treadmill at Le Gym. If a person feels very strongly about the environmental concerns of bottled water, I wholeheartedly encourage them to bring their own reusable bottle to campus. I have nothing but respect for people who feel strongly about their beliefs and act upon them. However, I hope that the anti-bottled water activists on campus realize that not everybody shares their sentiments.

Forcing an entire student body to conform to the wishes of one interest group is an affront to personal choice, and as such the cause will not receive my support.

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Why tuition increases are a good thing for the province and students Despite the increase, Quebec remains among the least expensive provinces to get a university degree David Li Contributor Certain things in life are inevitable: death, taxes, the Leafs not winning the Cup, and what is seemingly becoming more and more the case, tuition hikes. The students will protest, the midterms will hit or the part-time jobs will preoccupy, and the issue will be forgotten for a year until the next time it comes around.

Thus goes the circle of life.

I do not mean to belittle the protesters’ efforts, but they themselves probably realize that their actions are largely symbolic. The rise in tuition prices will make the news, the camera will pan to the signs being wielded at a major university, and then reporters will interview some of the more vocal in the crowd.

In the end, the government will invariably keep its stance, so this whole dance really had but one purpose: to raise social awareness.

However, this may end up doing more harm to the demonstrators’ cause than good.

Consider this: the majority of citizens are not currently in university nor are they parents who are saddled with the bill, therefore why should they sympathize with the students for having to pay more? If anything, they’ll gladly take the cut to their taxes. And while their reasons may be selfish, there are several others that are rational and would justify higher tuition prices.

First of all, it has been shown that university students are much more likely to come from higher income households. Should they then graduate with a degree – often a fantastic return on investment – they end up making more on average than the students who only

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Ontario’s average fees are about twice as expensive as Quebec’s, yet Ontario boasts higher university participation rates

hold high school degrees. By itself, this is no incendiary statement, as those who stuck with the so-called “program” are rewarded.

But that is not the issue here. Rather, it is the students fighting the tuition hikes or proposing even lower rates; decreasing the fees would mean an increase in everyone’s taxes and as a result, those who decided not to pursue a post-secondary education would be further penalized. Consequently, the rich would get richer and the poor would get poorer.

Now, let us contemplate a common counter-argument. The oft-cited criticism of higher tuition prices can be summed up in two words: equal opportunity. People believe that

Graphic by Sean Kershaw

increased costs of higher education discourage students from continuing their studies after high school, but facts prove otherwise.

Ontario’s average fees are about twice as expensive as Quebec’s, yet Ontario boasts higher university participation rates.

So, lower tuition does not necessarily mean higher participation. Moreover, students who truly cannot afford the fees can already receive adequate financial support. Government should focus its spending on aiding those who genuinely need the assistance, not on helping to pay for everyone’s education– rich or poor,

which is what lower fees would entail. Money would also be more wisely spent on additional outreach programs or career advisors in high school if the goal were to increase postsecondary education participation rates.

As you are all depositing your checks at Birks Student Service Centre in the next few days, be glad the dollar amount is as low as it is. Considering the cost of an equivalent education elsewhere, we should feel privileged to be paying so little and should not be so quick to complain.

CANADA

Netflix finally comes to Canada

But like everything American that migrates north, it’s a lot less awesome Chris Hanna Opinions editor

Like Canadian Idol, Old Navy and Wal-Mart, Canada’s version of Netflix pales in comparison to the American. To start, the service, launched earlier last week, only allows Canadians to stream movies and television shows online and will not have a home delivery option for DVDs and Blu-Ray discs.

For $7.99 a month, the price is extremely reasonable considering you can stream an unlimited (depending on your agreement with your Internet service provider) number of movies and TV show episodes on your computer, Wii or Playstation 3. The streaming is YouTube-fast, if not speedier, with no ads or pop-ups.

There are hardly any new releases on the site, except for a few straight-to-video or less-known films and some television series.

I would not mind if the service was a little bit more expensive to make the selection on Netflix.ca more expansive.

The site Netflix.ca tries to make up for this: when searching for a movie that is not available, the service makes title suggestions that it thinks would interest you and that are available. There are five-star ratings you can give films you have already seen and that will generate suggested titles based on which movies you liked or hated. A note to Netflix: Goodfellas and The Godfather, not

available, are in a completely different league than Reservoir Dogs, available, and the latter should never be suggested when searching for the Scorsese or Coppola classics. This points to the site’s most important setback: you’ll still need your video store membership if you become a Netflix member because its selection is nowhere near complete.

The site does have an impressive selection of oldies (I’m talking pre-60s) and foreign films which, DVD hunters will tell you, are often very expensive, hard to find or simply unavailable in retail stores.

The site is easy to navigate, but browsing for movies isn’t ideal. There is the easy search feature and the titles are grouped

by category and subcategory of genres, but these become so specific, they are sometimes absurd (Wes Craven’s The People Under The Stairs, for example, is filed under “horror”).

The site also does not allow for users to bookmark movies they spot but want to watch later. Instead, you are forced to browse through the limited library with a pen and paper to make a list of the titles you want to watch.

While Netflix heads have promised that the service will only get better with time, wouldn’t it make sense for the company to launch it at its most awesome, with a more vast and complete selection of titles and more user features? While there is a one month free

trial currently being offered, many Canadians will probably be too put off by Netflix.ca’s shortcomings to remain paying members.

...you’ll still need your video store membership...

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Strombo fails to connect with a younger audience Re-launched latenight show is half the time and less fun Adam Avrashi CUP Arts Bureau Chief MONTREAL (CUP) — Many regard him as the CBC’s freshest host, but in the pilot episode of George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight, Strombo seemed off his game.

Slimming down the flagship late-night, youth-centered The Hour seemed like a pretty innocuous idea, a way to give the kids a snappy version of what they’d been watching for six years, without having to watch for a whole 60 minutes.

Unfortunately for the bigwigs that sought to outsmart the Twitter generation, George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight is The Hour in half the time with half the insight and fun.

But if anyone felt crunched for time, it seemed like Strombo himself, who rushed through the show at warp speed.

The show opened with Strombo standing at a glass desk, shuffling his papers. Jittery is a word I would use to describe him on a regular day. During the pilot episode, however, it seemed like George fell into a vat of Red Bull and only made his way out by drinking a gallon or two.

His opening monologue, if you could call it that, was thin at best. It included some topical jokes, but they were delivered with such a lack of enthusiasm or comedic timing — or even calm — that the audience rarely let out a chuckle.

“Hello you glorious nation, welcome to the program,” he said, licking his finger and brushing through his pile of papers, appeasing his nervous twitch. “I’m your boyfriend, George Stroumboulopoulos and you are watching Fox News North.”

In print, that line reads as pretty funny, making reference to SunTV News’ bid for a television license. But when Strombo said it, you could hear a pin drop. It was utter silence.

Strombo looked around his audience, grinning like the Cheshire Cat on LSD, then, when he noticed no one laughing, quickly dropped the grin.

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He attempts to fit in with his younger viewers, and at the age of 38, it comes off as strained showmanship.

“This is going to be a fight, isn’t it?” he said.

He followed up with a joke about the show’s shortened length.

“My summer was very busy. This was the summer where I decided to get in shape. Eat better, lots of exercise. I don’t know if you can tell, but I’ve lost 30 minutes.”

But Strombo couldn’t deliver the groaner, something David Letterman made into a career. The monologue abruptly came to an end and led to a brief description of the day’s top headlines.

Maybe an interview with a politician will do the trick?

For part two of the show, Liberal Party Leader Michael Ignatieff was interviewed via satellite feed in Ottawa. The interview was also rather disappointing. Strombo threw some real softballs — “What do you say to

Liberal MPs who don’t want to support the long-gun registry?” — and the setup was beyond weird, with Ignatieff appearing via a projection onto a translucent screen in front of Strombo.

Luckily Strombo had Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant join him for a decent interview on the now infamous red couches, an Hour staple. Without the interview, George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight would have been about as much fun as watching a twitchy Peter Mansbridge.

Actually, that might have been more entertaining.

The thing with Strombo is that sometimes he tries to force his hipness, so to speak. He attempts to fit in with his younger viewers, and at the age of 38, it comes off as strained showmanship.

The CBC’s definition of edgy program-

ming is far from reality. Yes, Strombo can be witty and he does have ear piercings, but that doesn’t mean that he’s in touch with the kids on the street. Where Jon Stewart, host of The Daily Show, mixes in humour and insight so seamlessly when he broadcasts his show nightly to a mostly collegial audience, Strombo struggles to connect. Is he trying to inform his audience of the day’s news or make them laugh? He certainly isn’t managing to do either.

With so much new talent emerging from Canada’s many journalism and communication programs, why is it so difficult to find someone youthful, with a bit more edge, who can actually sit still and connect with the audience? You can only be alternative and punk so long, and Strombo is pushing past his expiry date.

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Dictionary horoscopes Automn’s just started and it’s easy to get distracted by the changing colours of the leaves. Remember that it gets darker sooner now and the days will only get shorter. Don’t let your patience set with the sun.

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“Hey CW! I’m a male, between the ages of 1 and 99! Got anything I’d like?” - Seth MacFarlane, creator of Family Guy (@SethMacFarlane)

“Man... ninjas are kind of cool... I just don’t know any personally.” - Kanye West (@kanyewest)

“Reading other people’s Tweets, I think I’m getting the hang of it now. 9:23am: cleaning toenails.” - New Twitter user Steve Martin (@SteveMartinToGo)

Aries – March 21 to April 20 There is a fissure in your core, a deep fault that runs through the very centre of your being. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, or even that uncommon. Still, it means you should be careful. Try not to get too shaken up about anything this week.

Taurus – April 21 to May 21 A bright star is moving through the sky this week and will end up directly above your home very soon. Its light will radiate down through your roof and may even keep you awake at night. For you, this is an excellent time to lean back and contemplate the sky.

Gemini – May 22 to June 21 There is a new pattern emerging in your life based on the transit of Venus. There is no doubt that you are moving into a very sexual time in your life, but it is up to you to decide whether you’re going make anything of this or waste it on cheap flings.

Cancer – June 22 to July 23 Important dates are coming up, special events that you should have marked on your calendar but have not yet. You are on the right path. It’s time for you to let go of dates and schedules and start living for the present.

Leo – July 24 to August 23 Sometimes when you’re watching television on your couch in the middle of a sunny afternoon you can see your reflection in the darkness of the screen. You’re not actually on TV, it’s just an illusion. If you want to change that, you’ll have to get off your couch.

Virgo – August 24 to September 23 A task that you’ve set your mind to may turn out to be beyond your reach. Even though you are setting yourself up for failure, you should not give up. Think of this as an experience building endeavour, and power through anyway.

Libra – September 24 to October 23 The sun entered your birth sign on a cloudy day, which is pretty much like the sun not entering your birth sign at all. This is an omen that means you have not done right by yourself. Perhaps you should reconsider some of your recent decisions.

Scorpio – October 24 to November 23 It’s time to attack, attack and attack again. If there is a dirty dish in your sink, wash it. If there is a mouse in your house, kill it. If there is a evil spirit inhabiting your soul or the soul of someone close by, fight it with all your power.

Sagittarius – November 24 to December 21 If you were a recording artist, would you do covers or write your own material? I happen to think that you’re a cover artist, but each of us gets to make their own decisions. If you want to write a song, just do it.

Capricorn – December 22 to January 20 Take refuge in the serenity of sunlight, literally and figuratively. We all know that there’s not much left, the days are only getting shorter. Maybe even bring a friend along with you, you might just discover something.

Aquarius – January 21 to February 19 When you look beside a star, it actually seems brighter than when you look directly at it. I’ll bet you feel a little bit like that too right now. Don’t worry, I’ve been reading the stars and you shine brightest right in the middle.

Pisces – February 20 to March 20 Your patience is wearing thin with yourself and those around you. It may make you feel like lashing out irrationally. Don’t hesitate. Nothing impresses others more than someone who takes bold decisive action.

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