Volume 45, Issue 5

For the week of Thursday, September 29 • Volume 45, Issue 5

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Janet Barriage Campus Reporter For more information on contributing to Campus Beat, please contact Janet Barriage, campus.beat@themeliorist.ca

What’s happening on

Running for the people you love

If you want to see your event posted in the “Beat,” please contact campus.beat@ themeliorist.ca for more information. Events must be submitted by Friday evening to appear in the following issue of the Meliorist.

Imagination and the Power of Language: a lecture by Mark Abley Sept. 29 7 p.m. in L1060 Journalist and editor at McGill-Queen’s, Mark Abley is a former editor of the Montreal Gazette and author of several books. He will be giving a lecture about his experiences in journalism.

TheatreXtra – R & J: An Original Performance Sept. 29 to Oct. 1 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. in the David Spinks Theatre The tragic tale of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is transformed by TheatreXtra in this play.

Economics and Freedom Sept. 30 3:30 p.m. in AH176 Join us for a seminar that will show how economic theories work in practice and the important implications they have for a free society. Free admission!

Studio Junction will speak in Architecture and Design Now Oct. 3 6:15 p.m. in room M1040 WestGrid C2C Series CAETL presents Dealing Professionally with Students – a graduate student workshop MFA candidate Collin Zipp speaks in Art Now Oct. 5 12 p.m. in the Recital Hall Oktoberfest Oct. 6 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Grove The ULSU is hosting an Oktoberfest party in the Grove. Admission is free and there will be beer gardens, outdoor games, a DJ, and as many lederhosen as we can find! For more information, contact su.internal@uleth.ca Mandy Espezel will speak in Art Now Oct. 7 12 p.m. in the Recital Hall Photographer Don Gill will speak in Art Now Oct. 7 12 p.m. in the Recital Hall

Luminares light the way for runners | Relay for Life

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On Friday, Sept. 30 from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. on Oct. 1, the Rotaract Club is hosting the second annual Youth Relay for Life at the 1st Choice Savings Centre for Sport and Wellness. They hope to get up to 15 teams, and teams can register up to the day of the event.

All registration can be done online at www.cancer.ca/relay. Teams of 10 people take turns walking or running around a track for 12 hours. Together, participants

celebrate survivors, honour those who we have lost, and pledge to fight back against cancer.

The Relay for Life is the largest annual fundraiser put on by the Canadian Cancer Society. This is the second annual Youth Relay for Life being held at the U of L, and last year’s event was the first of its kind in Western Canada.

Since our event there are now relays being held at U of C and U of A. This is a fundraising event with money going to the Canadian Cancer Society. Last year they had 100 participants and raised

over $21,000 for cancer research, prevention, and advocacy.

If running isn’t your thing, or you couldn’t get your friends together in time, there are still tons of ways that you can take part. The organizers will be set up outside the gym around 2 p.m. selling luminaries for $5. Individuals can purchase these in honour of someone who is currently fighting cancer, someone who has survived it, or they can purchase one in memory of someone who has lost their fight. These are lit at the luminary ceremony and light

the track for the night. They are also accepting any donations, and of course, encouraging students to pledge their friends who are participating. Finally, students can volunteer for the event, helping with set-up, takedown, or luminary sales in the early part of the evening. Contact Eva Gorny, the U of L Youth Relay for Life chair at (403) 360-3843 or eva. gorny2@uleth.ca if you have any questions.

So come on down to donate, help out, or just cheer on the runners!

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The Object Manipulation Club Janet Barriage Campus Beat

The Object Manipulation Club boasts over 100 members dedicated to learning and sharing knowledge about the art

of object manipulation.

Are you imagining Sheldon Cooper with a look of hard concentration on his face and his fingers on his temples trying to “will” an object to move? Well it’s not like that…

Many people will be familiar with this club by the old name of the Fire Spinning Club. This group takes part in events within the university and around Lethbridge to further promote this art. Typical

props used for object manipulation include hoops, staffs, poi, and

juggling equipment, but other objects can be used. Some of the more eclectic equipment includes buugeng, fans, sabres, flags, ropes, darts, etc.

The club is open to anyone within the community, young, old, new, or experienced. The membership fee is quite small at $2. To join or to experience this mesmerizing art form, come to a meeting in W480 at 10 p.m. on Tuesday or Thursday and speak with the president, Adam Borland, or the vice president, Matthew Harding.

I attended a meeting last year and it was a lot of fun! I definitely recommend going and checking it out!

The Object Manipulation Club was founded in 2009 and was originally small, but over the past two years they have expanded their membership and activities.

During the 2010 school year they introduced various workshops to

further help members improve their skills and to introduce new people to the art. They also began doing outside charitable performances. In March of 2011 they held the Collabaret Masquerave, a highly successful event that proved that the club is here to stay.

The club did a performance presentation for Word on the Street on Sept. 25. Some upcoming events include weekly prop workshops on Tuesdays and the Flaming Corn Maze (in coordination with PRIDE and the Improv club) on Oct. 14. They are hosting a cabaret event at the Zoo on Nov. 26, and their popular second annual Collabaret Masquerave on March 24, 2012.

So come on down to W480 and check out what these talented members have to show you, and maybe you will learn how to do it too!

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Where to eat Janet Barriage As university students, we must not forget our basic human needs during the stressful periods of each semester. Not only do we need to study and sleep (in that order), we also need to eat. Eating on campus is usually the most convenient option between classes or preparing for a long night in the library.

However, the options aren’t always the greatest, cheapest, or the healthiest. To save you the trouble of wading through the garbage that is (sometimes) our campus food, I have given you my personal review and recommendations of each food establishment on campus.

also dealing with a huge group of people trying to fit in a coffee 10 minutes before class in PE 250 – that’s a lot of people! They are open until 9 p.m. Monday to Thursday, but only until 7 p.m. on Fridays (8 p.m. on game days) and 5 p.m. on Saturdays.

Coffee Company: sticking true to their name, they offer a wide variety of coffees and tea. The coffee is really good and you are supporting a smaller company by getting your fix here, so I highly recommend it.

They now accept debit cards and you get a 10 per cent discount with your Friends of CKXU card. They don’t offer much in the realm of food other than some muffins and puffed wheat squares, but at this point coffee counts as a food group.

Tim Horton’s: Tim Horton’s opened a couple of years ago in the PE building and it was a long time coming. As all Canadians know, Timmy’s is the best place for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks. The one on campus has all the good stuff required for a functioning Timmy’s: sandwiches, bagels, a selection of fine doughnuts, and, of course, a massive line. If you try to hit Timmy’s before class, allow at least 20 minutes to get your food. The staff can be a bit slow, but they are

Juice Fare: this is one of the healthier spots on campus. They offer smoothies, much like Booster Juice but without the cool boosters.

The smoothies are delicious and big, which is really what matters here.

They also have wraps, pitas, and pizzas. They are all super tasty and you get to choose what goes on it. They accept debit but charge a fee, so try and bring cash. And they are hiring!

Tivoli and Hiroba: the same company as the Regent downtown owns

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these two. Tivoli is salad bar style, and you can build your own salad out of a pretty good selection. What is the real draw out of these two is Hiroba. They offer excellent Asian food and pretty good prices for the serving size. I personally love it.

The ginger beef and egg rolls are wonderful. They are also hiring.

Subway: another one of the big chains here on campus. When it comes to Subway, can you ever really be disappointed? The line can get a little wild around lunchtime, so expect to wait.

The staff are awesome though and the line moves pretty fast.

Icy’s: This is the frozen yogurt spot on campus and man is it good! I find it’s a bit too much on the dessert side for me, but I never ever regret it when I do go. They also offer hard and soft tacos, and while I’ve never tried them I have heard great things!

Rockerman’s Centre: This is a convenience store, but they have lots of drinks, ice cream, slushies, and snack food. Also, small items you may need like Band-Aids, deodorant and feminine products. They have microwaves too for those times when you bring your own food to school.

The Zoo: the Zoo went through a bit of a face-lift in the last year and it is pretty cool now. The food is really good and actually affordable with most of the options under $10.

I recommend coming here for their Open Mic Night which usually takes place once a month. It gets packed and you can watch the talented performers. Come on Fridays for the wonderful pulled pork sandwiches.

It also helps that they serve booze; I don’t know about you, but studying and a nice cold beer just seem to go well together. It also helps that you don’t get weird looks for having your schoolwork spread out on your table here. It’s a great place to have group meetings or to celebrate midterms being over after class. I recommend it for the concerts they have here because it’s an intimate environment and the tickets are always affordable. I also suggest it as a great location for a date!

Mr. Sub: this is the last of the

major food chains on campus. It is really good but the hours make it hard to get to. They are only open for lunchtime, so if you see it open jump on it because you may not see it again! They also serve the same soups and coffee as CJ’s as Sodexo runs them both.

Coulee Junction (CJ’s): this is the main campus cafeteria. Everyone has their personal opinion of CJ’s, especially students who have lived in res and have been forced to eat here for a full year. It has coffee, which is what most students use it for. They also have a grill for burgers and a different dinner and lunch menu every night. They now accept debit, which was new to CJ’s

last year. CJ’s menu recently went through an upgrade to give healthier and vegetarian options to students.

I’ll give them a couple months to iron out the details before rendering a final verdict on this one.

Fast Track Pizza: I haven’t seen this one open yet this year, which is really disappointing. They are another offshoot from Sodexo, but it is actually pretty good food. You could build a sandwich or wrap; mine was always the croissant as a bun, and man is it good! They also have pretty decent pizza (not great, but filling), juices, and coffee. It can get a little lined up but totally worth it for those wraps!

These are your options on campus.

Choose wisely!

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Timeline of events Sara Parkin News Editor

The Occupy Wall Street movement has continued to establish itself in the lower Manhattan cityscape over the last two weeks. They are readily becoming a fixture in NYC’s financial district, and they have vowed to stay a month or longer, waiting to see changes to a system where one per cent of the population holds the majority of the nation’s wealth. The participants are calling themselves “the 99 per cent” who are not going to stop until their voices are heard. The movement is gaining momentum.

Here is a look at some of the daily happenings and big events of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Sept. 17, 2011 Dubbed the “US day of rage,”

an homage to the day of rage that began the uprisings in Egypt this spring, a couple thousand protestors flocked to Wall Street to begin their occupation only to be met by a heavy police presence. The participants of Occupy Wall Street later made Zuccotti Park, dubbed Liberty Plaza, their centre of operations and home base. Participants set up camp with sleeping bags, instruments, protest signs and other amenities that would help them keep the occupation going for a month or longer.

Sept. 24, 2011 Approximately 80 arrests were made in relation to the Occupy Wall Street on Saturday. Arrests were mostly for blocking traffic, but other charges included disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and one participant was even charged with assaulting an officer. The protests reached a violent

climax on Saturday after days of peaceful demonstrations. A number of anecdotes of police brutality and unfair treatment of participants began to surface and gain widespread public recognition.

Sept. 26, 2011 A communiqué issued by Occupywallst.org stated: “This is the ninth communiqué from the 99 percent. We are occupying Wall Street. The police barricades that have been surrounding the Stock Exchange help.

“Sunday has been decreed, once again, a day of rest. We didn’t march.

We have made a new world, a new city within the city. We are working on a new sky for where the towers are now.

“Throughout the day our sisters and brothers arrested yesterday came back home to Liberty Plaza. They

What’s keeping the people of the occupation occupied?

greeted the new faces that have joined us here. They shared their stories of imprisonment, of medical care denied and delayed. We welcomed them and listened.”

The participants of the movement have general assembly meetings and a number of upcoming events planned and listed on the Occupywallst.org website months into the future. Representatives from the mass of protestors and organizers of the movement alike blog and update the public on their progress on a daily basis.

Finding information and a breakdown of the occupation’s events has been made difficult by a mainstream media blackout.

For the most up-to-date information visit occupywallst.org or adbusters. org/campaigns/occupywallstreet.

Despite a media blackout, the world is watching the actions of a group of activists who are occupying New York City’s financial district. What is it that participants of the movement are actually doing? Protestors’ activities over the course of the occupation have included the following: •

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Protestors have thus far proven to be organized, peaceful, and willing to stay for the long haul.

Only time will tell what effect these demonstrations, people, and the Occupy Wall Street campaign will Protestors wearing masks like the one above are among the groups of participants who are being arrested for breaking obscure laws.

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have on Wall Street, America, and NYPD have come under fire from the public and participants alike for police brutality and heavy-handed actions.

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the rest of the world.

Jump to Page 6 for more on the Wall Street Occupation!

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Student to file complaint with Quebec Human Rights Commission over frosh blackface incident HEC wants to turn “regrettable” incident into a “learning opportunity” Sarah Deshaies

CUP Quebec Bureau Chief

MONTREAL (CUP) — A McGill law student will be filing a complaint with the Quebec Human Rights Commission after witnessing and recording the use of blackface at a frosh activity on Sept. 15.

Anthony Morgan explained he was walking by the Université de Montréal campus when he passed a group of students dressed in Jamaican colours and “rasta” hats who were waving the Jamaican flag, chanting, “More weed, ya mon, ya mon!”

Morgan returned to film the incident and posted it on YouTube. He said that when he returned, someone pointed to him, saying, “We’ve got a real black person here.”

“I was just stunned. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing,” said Morgan, who is of Jamaican descent. “I felt ... it was very offensive.”

Blackface originated as a form of theatrical makeup in vaudeville to depict black characters, often propagating negative stereotypes.

The students were a group from HEC Montréal, the elite business school affiliated with Université de Montréal. According to a student representative, they were paying tribute to Jamaican sprinter Olym-

pian Usain Bolt.

HEC spokesman Michael Lartigau forwarded an email written by Frank Sciortino, a second-year student and a frosh organizer, to Canadian University Press. Sciortino explained that students had to choose an “ambassador” for an Olympicsthemed activity. The group depicted in Morgan’s video selected Bolt and “decided to costume themselves” as the sprinter. Sciortino wrote it was not a racist act.

Morgan does not agree. “That is the part of it that is the most violently racist,” he said in response. “[Being black] is not a costume that you put on.

“Regardless of what the students intended, that is the problem right there,” Morgan continued. “It is wrong, it is a symbol of hatred and denigration. It should not be used in the way that it was used.”

Meanwhile, HEC is looking to turn the incident into a “learning experience.”

“The [student association] and HEC Montréal have jointly decided to offer the organizers of the different student activities a chance to participate in a training program on intercultural issues, as a way of ensuring that future student activities respect the different values of our increasingly multicultural world,”

Average Canadian tuition rose by eight per cent in two years: StatsCan

Additional compulsory fees also on the rise Tannara Yelland

CUP Prairies & Northern Bureau Chief

SASKATOON (CUP) — As universities try to balance their budgets in the face of a sluggish economy, Canadian university students have seen their tuition go up by eight per cent in the last two years.

A four per cent increase for the 2010–11 year was followed by another 4.3 per cent hike this year, according to recent Statistics Canada study. The Canadian average for undergraduate tuition is now $5,366. Ontario students, who pay $6,640 on average, pay the highest tuition in the country while Quebec undergrads enjoy the lowest tuition in the nation, paying an average of $2,519. Students in Newfoundland and Labrador, where tuition fees have been frozen since 2003–04, are paying an average of $2,649.

In Alberta, tuition is nominally capped to the Consumer Price Index (CPI), meaning it increased by about two per cent for the 2011– 12 year. Average fees for full-time undergrads in that province sit at $5,662.

“However, that number is misleading,” said University of

Alberta Students’ Union vicepresident external Farid Iskandar.

“Alberta has the highest mandatory non-instructional fees levied on students in the country: they’re $1,399.”

While Alberta has the highest non-tuition fees, students in New Brunswick will have the largest increase over last year’s non-instructional fees for both graduates and undergraduates.

Compulsory non-tuition fees went up for undergraduates by 21.5 per cent over last year, rising to $430. For graduate students, noninstructional fees went up by 17.6 per cent.

The national average for compulsory fees went up 5.5 per cent for undergrads. Graduate students in Nova Scotia were the only students in the nation to see a decline in compulsory fees; they went down by 7.5 per cent.

While Canadian undergrads are paying more each year, they are still significantly better off than either their international student counterparts or graduate students.

International students, who represent a rapidly growing portion of the student population, pay an average of $17,571 in tuition — up 9.5 per cent from two years ago.

stated a release issued by the school, without explaining any further details.

HEC secretary-general Jacques Nantel has since formally apologized for the students’ behaviour, saying that what they did was racist, whether the intent to hurt was there or not.

One McGill professor believes that the both the student organizers and those who took part should be punished, suggesting they lose a semester or do community service.

Art history professor Charmaine Nelson’s focus is on race and representation, and she discussed the university’s actions with one of her classes.

“Definitely, [the students] should have to write an apology,” said Nelson. “They should acknowledge that harm was done, whether or not they intended to harm.”

She criticized HEC administration’s reaction as “really poor.”

“It shows me clearly they have no kind of concept of the harm and the potential for harm that was done by these students, and they’re not taking seriously the fact that the university is implicated,” she said.

“They should have shut this down.”

Morgan, meanwhile, does not think that the students should be punished. Saying that HEC has re-

sponded better than other Canadian campuses with blackface incidents, he suggested that HEC and its students work with community organization to implement anti-racism programs. A long-term solution, he said, would also involve the school reviewing its recruitment practices and curriculum to instill “meaningful deepening of diversity” at the school.

But Morgan, like Nelson, sees the incident as evidence of a larger problem, and a hint that racism is still prevalent in society.

“This is not just about a few bad apples,” said Morgan. “This is about a greater problem about what we think about, how we value, how we understand, how we discuss — if we discuss — black history, culture and contribution.”

Morgan himself worked on a case where a black man was thrown out of amusement park La Ronde for wearing a Bob Marley shirt with marijuana symbols on it. Bruno Moise was told his clothing did not respect the park’s “family values.”

The case was mediated with the Commission’s involvement.

Fo Niemi, director of Montreal’s Centre for Research-Action on Race Relations, suggested this type of activity would not be as likely to happen at an English school.

“We’re talking basically about two solitudes, in terms of each solitude’s understanding as to why this does or does not represent racially-offensive stereotypes,” said Niemi, talking about the difference between the anglophone and francophone communities in Quebec. “In the francophone culture, I don’t think we have the same degree of social or race awareness.”

He pointed to recent jokes and sketches in Quebec culture and entertainment as evidence, like the 2008 TV sketches depicting American president Barack Obama.

Advocacy group Black Coalition of Quebec has since called for a human rights inquiry into the “hateful incident.”

In fall 2010, a management students association at McGill University put a halt to a frosh activity when accusations of cultural insensitivity were raised around its tribal theme. A promotional video showed students in costume and face paint, representing four different tribes: the Zulu, Maasai, Inca and Maori.

The incident at HEC has since been covered up by news services around the world, including the UK’s Daily Mail.

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The occupation continues

NYC’s financial district still held by activists Sara Parkin

1. Stay together and KEEP MOVING!

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2. Don’t instigate cops or pedestrians with physical violence.|

Against all odds By the time this issue of the Meliorist goes to print, activists will have been occupying New York City’s financial district for 13 days. As I sit here writing this now, they are on their eleventh day of occupation of Liberty Plaza, a stone’s throw away from Wall Street. They have also been staging peaceful protests and marches near some of NYC’s most influential business landmarks; Wall Street, Union Square and Bowling Green Plaza, just to name a few.

Mainstream media just recently began covering the events of the Occupy Wall Street movement, after coming under fire from the public for propagating a media blackout. Much of the new coverage looks to paint the participants as educated, unemployed young people who are dissatisfied with the current system. However, the protestors identify themselves as “the 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%.” They are the young, the old, the unemployed and the employed alike. The 99% who are looking to change the corruption of Wall Street and see an end to the system that caused the global financial crisis.

The movement has been dubbed the “American Autumn” by the magazine Adbusters, the creators of the Occupy Wall Street campaign. The name is an homage to the Arab Spring, a wave of change in the Arab world that saw its climax with a series of uprisings in Egypt with Tahrir Square as their epicenter. The people behind the movement would like for it to ultimately spawn into global revolution.

Despite a mainstream media blackout in North America, the world is watching Wall Street. Massive international media outlets such as the Guardian have covered the events of the occupation. Websites have been set up as information hubs for the movement. Twitter and Facebook act as organizational tools for the activists and as a way of disseminating information to a worldwide audience. Donations of food, supplies, money, and reinforcements have been sent to NYC’s financial district to fortify the protestors of the occupation.

Indie media in Canada and some of the USA, mostly from prominent blogs, as well as University and College publications have provided meager, but ever important coverage of the efforts of the protestors in an attempt to pick up the slack for mainstream media.

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4. Empowered pace keeps at the front, back and middle of every march. These folks are empowered to make directional decisions and guide the march.

5. We respect diversity of tactics, but consider how our actions may affect the entire group.

Occupied Boston, Occupied San Francisco and Occupied Chicago are just a few examples of how the movement has begun to spread throughout America. Occupywallstreet.org has stated that at least 52 cities in America are occupied or organizing, and that the campaign has spread to span at least three continents.

Big names such as filmmaker Michael Moore, hacker collective and internet activist group Anonymous, and well-known linguist and activist Noam Chomsky have announced solidarity with Occupy Wall Street.

“Anyone with eyes open knows that the gangsterism of Wall Street -- financial institutions generally -- has caused severe damage to the people of the United States (and the world).

And should also know that it has been doing so increasingly for over 30 years, as their power in the economy has radically increased, and with it their political power. That has set in motion a vicious cycle that has concentrated immense wealth, and with it political power, in a tiny sector of the population, a fraction of 1%, while the rest increasingly

become what is sometimes called “a precariat” -- seeking to survive in a precarious existence. They also carry out these ugly activities with almost complete impunity -- not only too big to fail, but also “too big to jail.”

The courageous and honorable protests underway in Wall Street should serve to bring this calamity to public attention, and to lead to dedicated efforts to overcome it and set the society on a more healthy course.

Noam Chomsky” Despite corporately controlled media outlets portraying the efforts of the occupation as fizzling out, and in spite of having to contend with a constant and heavy-handed police presence, the people of the movement have expressed their desire to continue occupying Liberty Plaza and the bustling streets of NYC’s financial district for a month or more.

The movement, while having an unconventional beginning on social media sites and a predominant youth presence, is highly or-

ganized, with schedules posted on different websites, tactical briefings, and guidelines for marching.

The movement is gaining momentum, against all odds, and only time will tell what affect Occupy Wall Street will have on the face of America and the very face of Capitalism in our society and the rest of the world.

Is this what democracy looks like?

While demonstrations have remained peaceful, if a little disruptive, many participants involved with protests on Wall Street and those who are occupying Liberty Plaza have been met with heavy-handed police action. There has been a public outcry at the brutality that some participants are being met with, seemingly unprovoked.

Participants have made every effort to stay organized, cooperative, and peaceful. Occupywallst.org even posted guidelines for marching for their participants and the public in order to decrease tensions with the NYPD:

Despite staging peaceful demonstrations, things turned ugly on Wall Street when some protestors were met with violence from police.

Several incidents, run-ins between protestors and NYPD officers, have gained high profiles in the last few days. One incident in particular in which a group of female protestors were corralled using orange netting by NYPD officers and were subsequently pepper sprayed, before doubling over, screaming in agony. Some participants were able to film and take photographs of the incident and post them to the internet in hopes of revealing to the public the brutality protestors were facing from police.

Hacker collective Anonymous later posted the details of the police officer who was behind the pepper spraying of the protestors. Since the officers identity was published, new videos and evidence came to light supporting the conclusion that the officer had been behind a number of violent incidents with protestors. Cries of “shame” have become commonly heard from the crowds of protestors in reaction to heavy-handed police action.

Many participants have been arrested since the beginning of the occupation. With a lack of violence and aggression from the protestors, police began to rely on obscure laws to diffuse the crowds. A law banning the wearing of masks in public in groups of more than two people except for at a masquerade party has come into play to justify arrests since the protests began.

The actions of police, mainstream media, and different levels of government have come under fire for being unfair and undemocratic.

Participants have begun to adopt protest slogans that illustrate these complaints. “This is what democracy looks like” can be heard throughout NYC’s financial district, participants voicing their right to dissent.

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Matt Baird Features Editor For more information on contributing to Features, please contact Matt Baird, f.editor@themeliorist.ca

By the numbers Total size: 17,897 square metres Capacity: Main event- 5,600 – 6,000 Half house – 2,900 – 3,000 Hurricanes game – 4,369 New score clock: $1.8 Million

Renovations to the MAX

Total subsidized by the Hurricanes: 10 per cent of the total cost

Meet the new Enmax Centre Matt Baird

Features Editor

For those of you who regularly drive the scenic route through town, perhaps in a misguided attempt to steal the LCC mascot or whatever it is people do on the other side of the river bottom, you may have noticed the massive construction project occupying the Enmax Centre, Lethbridge’s local venue for WHL hockey and large concerts. First announced in March of 2008, the construction project has been in progress since 2009, adding more than 4,700 square metres of improvements and giving 1,600 square metres a much needed facelift. Well, for those of you living in the future at the time of printing, the Enmax Centre is open for business – and not a moment too soon, as Bachman Turner are taking the stage tonight! We here at the Meliorist were invited on a behind-the-scenes press touring of the construction site to see all the new improvements before it opened today, and hardhat-hair and minor dust inhalation aside, it was quite the tour.

A pleasant change was the full accessibility, including two new elevators and more ramps than a very boring skate park. Almost every facet of the Enmax Centre has received an upgrade. Crowded walkways have been widened, and standing viewing stations have been added around the entire contour.

Much like reserved seating, you and a group of friends can reserve these individual standing spaces, featuring hangers for jackets and a very reasonable view down onto the ice (or floor, depending on your event).

For you foodies out there, four self-contained concession stands with dedicated themes grace the entire contour, and they’ve done away with the pre-packaged corn dogs and pizza, exchanging those poor products for freshly cooked meals from two on-site kitchens.

That being said, the names Hot Dog Junction, Burger Depot, or Pizza Central Pizza will never leave my mouth while wearing a straight face. Healthier Choice Express and Burger Depot (heh) will both include vegetarian options, and all of your favourite kiosks such as mini doughnuts and Hawaiian shaved ice will be back in action.

For those of you who wouldn’t actually mind having a sit-down dining experience without juggling cutlery and jostling elbows down in the stadium seating, a new second story lounge, including a full bar

and menu, will be opening in March 2012. It is located adjacent to one of the new kitchens, and will feature both a view of the ice, and surrounding monitors linked to a live stream of the action. These monitors are being installed everywhere, by the way. I wouldn’t be surprised if you could go to the bathroom without missing a moment. Another new addition is 24 renovated deluxe suites, with leather chairs and full dining service. Imagine box seats, but with more leather and mini bars. The media centres have been moved from the top floor of the stadium to a third story catwalk overlooking the ice itself, and over 23 miles of wire have been routed throughout the centre to facilitate live reporting from 30-50 people.

Naturally, all the added space means more butts in seats and more traffic; a nightmare if you’ve ever tried to escape from the Centre after the end of a game. The former solution was to leave 20 minutes early, miss the winning goal or encore of a

concert, and make it out of the parking lot in time to write your final will and testament before collapsing of old age at the eternal red light on Mayor Magrath. These days, you could simply utilize the new, rather large, east parking lot. This will act as both a secure compound for loading and unloading equipment, supplies, actors and singers, groupies, and unruly fans, as well as a means to exit post-show without living the rest of your days screaming at the traffic in front of you.

In the words of our guide, these improvements “[set] this arena on the secondary market, advancing it for the next 30 years as a successful venue.” The problem for many university students is not the possibility of the Enmax Centre as a successful venue, but rather its relevance. Unless you adore WHL hockey or really crave to see a Bachman Turner reunion, stadium-size events tend not to resonate in the student population. Keeping this in mind, I chatted with Jordan Dekens, the sales exec-

utive for the Centre. He understood these concerns, mentioning such upcoming acts as Jerry Seinfeld on Oct. 14 and Fiddler on the Roof on Nov. 8. Not the hippest acts, but I’m not one to ask “what’s the deal with that?” “We’re placing a lot of bids right now, focusing on the younger crowd,” he said. “We can compete with anybody, and when promoters come here and see our venue and our turnout, that’s going to keep the ball rolling for bigger events.”

In other words, if you want big acts to come to the Centre, you need to support it. But with big ticket events rivalling student budgets, and cheaper local acts around town, the Enmax Centre needs both awesome events and cheap prices to garner our attention. Dekens understood the concern: “Student rating for our two day professional bull riding will be available,” he noted. “We are currently working with promoters to create affordable experiences for students, and seeing more concerts geared towards that crowd.”

Total cost of renovations: $33.722 million New elevators: 2 Jerry Seinfelds to appear: 1 Total bathrooms (male and female): 24 Cost of a bottle of gin (suite reservation): $50 Building rental (non-commercial): $3,100/day Concessions: 4 Poorly named concessions: 3 Total mini-donuts consumed: <∞ (approx.)

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Stuff goes fast, world panics ConCERNing neutrinos

Matt Baird

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Last Thursday evening, I was sitting in our local alcohol dispensary browsing the net when a rather sensationalist headline caught my eye:

Scientists Break Speed of Light. At first I simply blamed it on the alcohol; after all, the speed of light is less of a glass ceiling, and more of a concrete roof of velocity. But, lo and behold, CERN, the people that brought you the Large Hadron Col-

lider and the internet have seemingly done it again. But just like the sensationalist idiocy that was the concern over the LHC making earth-swallowing black holes and everything that the internet has ever brought us, this whole neutrino going faster than the speed of light thing probably falls into the category of “slow news day,” not “earth shattering scientific revelation.” Not that I’m opposed to the latter, it’s just that my dilithium crystals have yet to arrive in the mail, and my flux capacitor hasn’t been living up to the hype.

But let me explain. Over the course of three years, scientists in Italy have been using a 1300 metric-ton particle detector named Oscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus (or OPERA for short), to track neutrinos fired at them from CERN, over 730 kilometres away.

Roughly 16,000 neutrinos were tracked over the course of this time, all of them matching the same result: they arrived slightly faster than the speed of light. For those not in the know, neutrinos are very, very, very tiny particles that pass through matter, and they made the trip from CERN to OPERA in 2.34 milliseconds. About 60 nanoseconds faster than thought possible, with a 10 nanosecond range of error. Just so you know, a couple billion neutrinos just passed through the tip of your finger while you read that last sentence; they’re so small that it’s possible for one to go through a couple thousand miles of solid lead without hitting a single atom. That is why during the course of the experiment,

only 16,000 were tracked; they just so happened to hit the detector.

While the idea of breaking the speed of light is pretty neat, you may be thinking “Why the heck is it so damn important anyway?” Well, you obviously slept through your high school physics class, so here’s a refresher. You remember Einstein?

Smart guy, funny hair, your roommate probably has that one poster of him. Well, he postulated the idea of special relativity, which has two fundamental laws: the laws of physics are the same for all observers in uniform motion relative to one another, and the speed of light in a vacuum is the same for all observers, regardless of their relative motion or of the motion of the source of the light. You probably don’t care about that – what you do care about is that one equation, E=mc²; your roommate might have a poster of that one too. It states that any object has a certain energy, even while stationary, and that the faster an object travels, the more energy it gains; the closer to the speed of light it travels, the more mass it has.

Think about it this way. Say you hypothetically hooked up your dilithium crystals to the warp drive and told Scotty to make it go. The faster you get going, the more energy you are expending to go fast. As you get closer to the light speed barrier, E=mc² states that the mass of the object going that speed is equivalent to its total energy potential. So, your spaceship starts “gaining” mass (yeah, conservation of mass and all of that. I’m talking about dilithium crystals for god’s

sake, it’s just an example). As you go faster and faster, your spaceship, you, Scotty, and the crystals all start getting “massier,” requiring more energy, not only to stay at a constant speed, but to gain velocity.

Eventually you’re going to start getting negative returns on your speed; there will simply be too much mass to go any faster and break the light speed barrier. Unless you have an unlimited energy source, it isn’t going to happen.

So how did the neutrinos do it?

That’s a damn fine question, Jr. Science Cadet, and one that both the scientists conducting the experiment and most of the world’s scientific community have been trying to answer. So far, there are two leading possibilities.

1. The neutrinos used a shortcut, perhaps through another spacetime or dimension, and simply seemed like they were going faster than light, or 2. There was an error in the experiment, and they did not go faster than light.

The main culprit for option 2 is the device used for the timing of the experiment, which relied on GPS and apparatus accurate to tens of nanoseconds. But so far, the error has yet to be discovered. Remember, these aren’t hacks building paper mache volcanoes here, and some credit has to be given. Just don’t go down to your local bookie and bet your house on the results of these findings just yet. And for the love of God, don’t print anything about the speed of light being broken. You can’t break it. It’s a number, idiot.

Ameliorator and Douchebag Awards

Matt Baird

Features Editor

Ameliorator (from ameliorate): to make the world become better, more bearable, or more satisfactory.

Protesting is becoming less of a lost art and more of a constant theme in the world these days. From the Arab Spring to the current unrest in Libya and Syria, protests have been rocking the globe non-stop as citizens rise up against forces of oppression. While the concept may be used for evil (see the WBC two issues ago), the current trend stateside is to picket Wall Street. #Occupywallstreet, the movement centring around the so called 99 per cent of Americans who are at the mercy of the wealthy 1 per cent, has been a bit of a focus this week, and the protests will have been going on for 12 days as of printing. While the protests may seem schizophrenic at times, the general theme revolves around unrest with the bailed-out banks, massive financial institutions, and gangsterism surrounding Wall Street. And so, to those who are standing in that street, being abused by police officers, news media, and sometimes the lack of a unified idea, this one’s for you. Enjoy yourselves, and castrate that bull statue for me; biblical parallels aside, it might be your only chance to grab a part of Wall Street by the balls.

Douchebag: an individual who has an over-inflated sense of self-worth, compounded by a low level of intelligence, behaving ridiculously in front of colleagues with no sense of how moronic he appears.

Not all aspects of the protest have been peaceful. Over 80 protesters were arrested on Sunday alone, and naturally a couple of bad apples have been doing their damnedest to spoil the bushel on both sides. While many of the police officers on duty are simply trying to keep the peace, and are concerned for the safety of both the protesters and innocent civilians that may get caught up in the actions, there are other members of the NYPD who are taking advantage of the situation to abuse their power. One such man is Officer Anthony Bologna, a white collar supervisor who was videotaped pepper spraying two female protesters who were cordoned off, nearly hitting the surrounding crowd and the officers on scene. While I cannot comment on the supposed cover-up of these allegations, public video is on YouTube, as well as on occupywallst.org. The fact remains that Bologna needlessly used less than lethal force on two targets that posed no threat to anyone in the surrounding area, was caught on videotape doing so, and has yet to apologize or admit to these actions. Way to abuse your position and attack helpless people, douche.

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No ifs, ands or butts Just chalk it up as art

meaningful as we stumble from one howling abyss to the other.

This argument can’t be won either – what constitutes a depiction of a At first I was really excited to write genital again? At first I wondered if about the chalkboard on the eighth I could just submit an itemized list floor, and all the “oh edgy – I’m of objects on campus that make me playing at being a real reporter” feel insecure; but that would be too fun it would bring. But now that long, which really brings home the I’m actually sober I’ve realized my neurosis for me. What if we just ban field notes are illegible and that all shapes except cubes – after all, a it’s actually a boring game. I didn’t cube is just a box, for some reason even read the chalkboard when I inoffensive on its own. You don’t saw it. I did, however, have to be even notice all the cubes until you told about the cardinal rules of the see a looming rectangle. chalkboard – Thou shalt not depict I can’t even take the main stairway the penis, nor the vagina, nor the in the fine arts building anymore on butt, for they are icky. For anyone account of the worst offender in this who has missed out on the last few case. That’s right, the 30 ft. black years, there’s an ongoing argument phallus in the room – Moses, the between two groups of students ocean-parter. I can’t bear to look regarding whether or not there at it and hear the should be nudity jungle’s deafening in the eighth hum as the entire floor viewing Thou shalt not campus dances gallery. This same depict the penis, and whirls up the argument has been nor the vagina, nor spiralling staircase going on for almost the butt, for they in tribal worship; a year, possibly Jim Morrison longer depending are icky. screams oedipal on whenever rage and Conrad you personally Kurtz whispers final, mocking consider the start.

Every judgment. I vomit dazedly in the development since has been one side maintenance stairwell as I realize or the other flogging the dead horse, it; we are slaves now, slaves always perhaps hoping that the flailing, to the perverse magic of the genital. battered limbs of dead controversy Either we drunkenly revel in its might be mistaken for something Features Op-Ed

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or not because it might turn out I’m arguing with a 12 year old. As for the female nude, the problem is they’re so common in art you could fill an entire wing of a prestigious art museum (here’s looking at you, Metropolitan), and nobody would notice until somebody remarked that the empress was nude; all of a sudden you’re embarrassed because you’re in public standing in a room plastered entirely with pictures of naked women. They even have a fancy word for the cover charge: suggested donation.

So now that it’s been established that what constitutes a genital (or a butt) in art is wholly objective, and that telling someone not to draw genitals (or posteriors) on a surface is an effective way to make them stop, we notice that if you don’t say anything they’ll never stop doing it on their own; such is humanity’s craving for poorly rendered bits and bottoms. Remember, people power over us, or we cower and who draw penises on bathroom flee, pretending we are more than walls never get bored of it, and if the sum of our parents’ bits. they do, they simply start huffing But maybe what I take to be a the felt pen. We should move on to depiction of a genital, whether I how getting people notice it, and how to freak out over a that depiction penis, as opposed impacts me is I can’t bear to to the handful of somehow my own look at it and female nudes that personal baggage. hear the jungle’s were scattered about Last year I viewed deafening hum as campus, is in fact a painting, the entire campus the opposite of what while looking dances and whirls the artist intended. for subjects to up the spiralling Also, how it may include in a paper guaranteed about the art staircase in tribal have an A+ on a platter, controversy, which worship. which certainly isn’t was a brilliant the reason that a illustration of subsequent stream this principle: a of artists also depicted various graphic illustration of an ejaculating genitals (or bums) in the hope that penis with the penis removed, so while the A+ fairy had left, maybe only the outline remained. Then there was still a handful of B’s to I got closer and realized it was be had. When it comes down to it, a waterfall. I guess it was still a I think people that get upset over brilliant illustration, both of the depictions of genitals must really principle as well as the wholesome hate them. Or maybe we’ve been life lessons offered by pastoralist fooled by a Machiavellian conspiracy: painting. the two factions must secretly be Evidently I seem to have a hang friends helping each other out – the up regarding depictions of penises, knee-jerkers feign outrage to secure but that’s because I’m not really the artists’ good marks, and in return sure how to handle the public the artists produce racy art which, depictions of the other two: butts when you think about it, is the only and lady bits. When you put the good reason to visit an art gallery in phrase “no butts” on a chalkboard, the first place.

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Finally!

Kelti Boissonneault Editor-in-Chief

As of Sunday, September 25, the major media corporations of the world removed their blinders and broadcasted, blogged, and printed their stories about the Occupy Wall Street movement.

The media around the world are suddenly clued in to what could potentially become an iconic movement this decade.

Though they were a little late out of the gate, corporate-owned media is starting to catch up to its independent brothers (who broke the story a week ago) and give coverage of the numerous scenes of peaceful protest in the heart of downtown Manhattan.

Yes, the world is finally paying attention,

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out to our brothers in the media who have finally switched on the light: The New York Times ABC News Yahoo News Forbes Magazine The Toronto Star CTV News MSNBC News And many more who must be congratulated. Welcome to the story.

Drink of the Week: Doogie Howser’s Malpractice Punch A make-believe drink for a make-believe doctor Matt Baird

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Alright, I’ll be honest. Unless you lived through the early ‘80s or have an obsession with Neil Patrick Harris, this one may fly over your head. Let me explain: before NPH solidified his career as a brilliant womanizer with an obsession for both Harold and Kumar, he was a man with a fake PhD. No, not a PhD in horribleness, you nerd. A real fake PhD as everyone’s favourite child doctor, Doogie Howser. The comedy series ran for four seasons, and revolved around Dr. Howser, the youngest doctor in history, solving cases and getting into agerelated comedic situations. Case in point: in the pilot, while taking his driving test, he stops halfway through to help an injured man! Oh, the hilarity. As such, this one goes out to all you nursing students and

everyone out to get their doctorate.

Grab a syringe and get out your juice boxes, because it’s time to make like a Tijuana doctor and self-medicate!

Doogie Howser’s Malpractice Punch Ingredients: 1 juice box of your favourite sugarrich fruit cocktail 1 ½ oz of vodka An ice cube A clean syringe (optional) If you don’t have a syringe lying around, (and to be honest, I don’t know why most of you would), punch your straw in the juice box and drink a small amount. Remove the straw, and carefully cut the top off of your box. Add your vodka and the ice cube, and add your straw once again. It’s as simple as brain surgery!

If you do happen to have a syringe

lying around that you don’t mind throwing away, then grab a few friends, because it’s all in the presentation. Carefully inject your juice box at the top, and remove 50 cc of delicious fruity fluid. Dispose or consume, but for the love of god do not inject it into anything; especially a good friend/enemy. Proceed to add 45 cc of vodka to your juice box, and then cover the hole and shake well.

Utilizing your straw, make a careful incision into the pre-designated foil barrier, and consume.

Note: I have to give credit to my friend Owen Cormier for this one. I raise a juice box to you, good sir. Also, never practice medicine while under the influence of alcohol, and never ever inject alcohol directly into your blood stream. In fact, forget you read that last sentence lest it puts the idea into your malleable brain.

Medicate responsibly, everyone.

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Bibliophile The Help by Kathryn Stockett Features Bibliophile

Plenty has already been said about The Help, a sprawling novel told by three women living in Civil Rights-era Mississippi. NPR stated that “this could be one of the most important pieces of fiction since To Kill a Mockingbird” (which it is not), and according to the Huffington Post, it’s “the must-read choice of every book club in the country” (which it probably is). What the quotes do not get across is that it is not a true, oral history of Jackson, Miss. circa 1963, but an imagined history by the white author, Kathryn Stockett.

Just below the surface narration is an adoration and nostalgia for the Old South: a time of crisp linens, polished silver and polite conversation. However, there is also an underlying sense of deep shame for the persistent racism and oppression in 1960s Jackson, Miss.

This novel revolves around the relationships between Aibileen, a stoic, older black maid; Minny, a sharp-tongued, witty black maid; and Miss Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan, a young, ambitious white writer. After the death of her own 24-year-old son, Aibileen begins caring for Mae Mobley Leefolt, the daughter of Elizabeth Leefolt, one of Skeeter’s college classmates. Minny is Aibileen’s feisty friend who frequently says exactly what she thinks regardless of the consequences to her ongoing employment; as such, her most recent employer was Mrs. Walters, mother of Hilly Holbrook. Hilly Holbrook is the social leader of the community and head of the Junior League, as well as the nemesis of all three main characters. Skeeter is the daughter of a prominent white family of cotton farmers who employ many African-Americans in the field as well as in the household. Skeeter has just finished college and goes home with ambitions to write (and home to a mother

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determined to have her married); she also discovers that Constantine, the maid who raised her, has disappeared, with no one willing to explain why. During the weekly bridge club attended by Skeeter, Hilly, Mrs. Walters and Mrs. Leefolt, Hilly shares her belief that all homes in Jackson should have separate bathrooms for the coloured help.

This discussion leads Skeeter to realize that her friends’ maids are treated very differently from how white folks are treated. She becomes determined to expose the truth of lives of the “help” in the South.

The book is written in the first person from the perspective of the three main characters (Aibileen, Minny and Skeeter), and shares the struggles Skeeter experiences trying to communicate with and gain the trust of the maids. The stories of these three women interweave to show a place and time where race, class and societal norms are on the precipice of change. It reveals the issues of overcoming long-standing barriers of both customs and laws. The dangers of undertaking writing a

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book about African-Americans speaking out in the early ‘60s hang over the three women; Jim Crow laws ruled the South during the 1960s, many of them bizarre. The most threatening to Skeeter and her colleagues, for example: “Any person...who shall be guilty of printing, publishing or circulating printed, typewritten or written matter urging or presenting for public acceptance or general information, arguments or suggestions in favour of social equality or of intermarriage between whites and Negroes, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour and subject to fine not exceeding five thousand (5,000.00) dollars or imprisonment not exceeding six (6) months or both.”

The Help is not, despite some critic’s best efforts, the next To Kill a Mockingbird. The prose is enjoyable, and occasionally clever, but never stunning. Stockett does offer somewhat complex characters and conveys their societal obligations; the chapters narrated by Aibileen express a lifetime of hidden desires for things to be different, particularly in what she chooses not to say aloud. But ultimately it’s a story that wants to praise the value of the maids’ lives while subordinating them to Skeeter and her writing ambitions. Skeeter’s act of “daring” earns her a gift from a local black church congregation: “This one, this is for the white lady,” the reverend of that church says, “You tell her we love her, like she’s our own family.”

I must admit that I have a love-hate relationship with this book. Having read it two months ago, its themes stick with me. On the surface, The Help is an enjoyable read, and no more. It is full of rich characters, optimistic

prose, and is ultimately very readable. But the Jackson, Miss. of the 1960s was not as is portrayed in the book. While the murder of Medgar Evers and the importance of Martin Luther King, Jr. to the African-American community are touched on in The Help, they are not explored in any in deep way. This was a time of Jim Crow, lynching, church bombings, the Freedom Rides, the KKK, and full segregation in every aspect of daily life;

even schools for the blind were segregated.

It feels like opportunities were missed. If you are looking for a good read, this book will fit the bill, but if you are looking for a great book about the prejudice that existed in the south, crack open To Kill a Mockingbird.

The Help is available at all fine bookstores, including your University Bookstore. You can get 15 per cent off with your free membership.

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Four ways to show your heart some love... without the gym Nicole Meech Lifestyle Editor

Your heart is by far one of the most impressive organs in your body. In the time takes you to read this paragraph, it will have pushed about 5.5 litres of blood through 96,000 kilometres of blood vessels.

Yet despite all the impressive qualities your heart has, we rarely do what we need to make sure it stays healthy. Heart disease is among the top killers for women, but men should also be concerned for their health. The most important thing you can do for your ticker is exercise, but I would like to target the non-gym enthusiasts this time and list some life choices you can make to safeguard against heart disease and stroke.

Listed below are some habits you can start getting into to ensure your heart stays happy.

1. Strive for a calm mind This doesn’t necessarily mean you have to become the world’s greatest yogi, but stress and heart disease go hand in hand. The more stressed you are, the higher the levels of cortisol your body produces. The higher your cortisol levels, the higher your blood pressure and heart rate will be. Too much cortisol in your system damages arterial linings, which makes it harder for blood to deliver nutrients to your organs. So find a calming strategy that works for you. Even if it’s as simple as a few minutes of deep

breathing before bed each night, discover a way to calm that active university student mind down!

2. Have more sex Oh yeah baby, you heard me right. Every time you have sex you lower your blood pressure and reduce stress, which is directly linked to heart health. Even just being aroused can trigger your brain to release hormones which boost cardiac performance and function. No partner? Nothing wrong with taking matters into your own hands. Either way your heart will be thanking you!

3. Get your Z’s As students, we can all understand how it feels to be seriously deprived of sleep. Lack of sleep causes high blood pressure and eventually can lead to heart failure in extreme cases. By getting seven or eight hours of snooze time per night, you will be fully functional and energized from day to day.

4. Skip salt Most cardiologists will agree that salt should be avoided as much as possible. Extra salt in your system causes extra release of water into the blood, which makes your heart work harder than it should have to.

As hard as it is to pass up McD’s, taco Tuesdays, or any other fast food, you’ll benefit from holding back in the long run.

Interesting facts about the heart A kitchen faucet would need to be turned on all the way for at least 45 years to equal the amount of blood pumped by the heart in an average lifetime Every day, the heart creates

enough energy to drive a truck 32 kilometres. In a lifetime, that is equivalent to driving to the moon and back The heart supplies blood to every cell in your body except the corneas Early Egyptians believed that the heart and other major organs

had wills of their own and would move around inside the body A woman’s heart typically beats faster than a man’s.

The heart of an average man beats approximately 70 times a minute, whereas the average woman has a heart rate of 78 per minute.

Neat-o nutrient of the week Carbohydrates Nicole Meech Lifestyle Editor

Ah, carbs: a friend to some, an enemy to others. Many fad diets throughout time have told us that carbs are bad and should be avoided at all costs. I’m here to tell you that you should learn to love them and realize there’s a reason they are so damn satisfying. Carbohydrates are your body’s main source of energy, and they regulate your blood sugar levels. But they are not as simple as that.

There are “simple” carbs (aka simple sugar) and “complex” carbs (aka starches). This is based on the chemical structure of the food you’re consuming and reflects how quickly the sugar is digested and absorbed by your body. Simple carbs are foods such as pure sugar, syrups, candy, pop – these are the “bad” examples though. Simple

sugars can also be from sources like fruit and milk, which are much better for you because of the vitamins and fibre you’ll get from them versus the purer forms mentioned above.

Complex carbs are chemically made of three or more linked sugars, which make them take longer to digest. Sources include grains such as oatmeal, whole wheat bread, rice, pasta, as well as some veggies like broccoli, kidney beans or chickpeas. These are the carbs that most of your diet should consist of. These are the good guys that will keep your energy levels steady throughout the day, and will help deter “sugar crashes” that leave you craving a quick simple sugar fix.

So when it comes down to the amount you should have, of course too much is never a good thing.

Health Canada recommends that

your carbohydrate intake should be about 40-50 per cent of your caloric needs. This usually means about five to seven servings in a day for adults (one serving equals half a cup of cooked pasta or rice,

one slice of bread, half of a bagel, or half a pita). And of course, having a balanced diet loaded with fruits and veggies will help control the amount of carbs you will need in a day anyway.

Your carbohydrate intake should be about 40 - 50 % of your caloric needs.

That’s about 5 - 7 servings a day.

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Dressed to impress?

Hannah Forbes

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As I got ready for classes this morning, I was thinking to myself about how long it would take for me to stop caring about how I look and just start going to class. You know what I’m talking about. These first few days and weeks are usually distinguished by trying to dress a little nicer, trying to make sure your hair is in the right place (until the wind wrecks it, but at least you tried!), and making sure there’s a friendly approachable smile pasted on your face. But we all know it goes downhill from here. In the TLF section of the Sept. 8 issue of the Meliorist, a very well-written individual wrote “Enjoy these first few weeks boys, the will ladies stop dressing to impress after about a month.” Though this person’s sentence structure leaves a little to be desired, I think the message gets across. Enjoy the eye candy while you can boys, because they all go to hell in a hand basket from here.

As arrogant and grammatically incorrect as this statement is, it is true. Slowly we wear a little less make-up, wear sweat pants instead of jeans (or just flat out pyjamas)

and there’s that “don’t talk to me I haven’t had my coffee yet” snarl on our faces and in our eyes. Another thing I was thinking about is what do people think? You’d think that the student body would be forgiving of the fresh-out-of-bed look, considering a good chunk of them are sporting the “I’m still drunk from last night” look. But as firsthand experience can attest, that is not always the case!

Last year, on an unbecoming day for me (baggy pants, husband’s hoodie, messy pony-tail... you get the idea) I got that rare insight into what exactly people were thinking as I trudged my way home from classes. I noticed a guy ahead of me do a quick up-down as we approached each other. Heh – maybe the messy look was working for me today. Or not... Just after we passed each other, the guy leaned over to his friend and said, “Oh, that girl is totally a lesbian.” Cue the sound of a record coming to a screeching halt... My first thought was to turn around and punch the guy, stating most emphatically that I was married to a man and therefore not a lesbian. Then my second thought was kind of twofold. The first part was sort of along

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the lines of, well who the heck cares if I’m straight or not, it’s not like there’s something wrong with being a lesbian.

The second half was considering that it was probably my state of dress that drew him to this conclusion (as I was not wearing a flashing neon sign with that message), and finding that rather amusing.

Talk about judging a book by its cover! News flash people, not all lesbians dress like boys, or like they’re having a bad clothes day. Stereotyping not only hurts and frustrates the person you are labelling, but it totally makes you look like a jerk – and I’d like to think that any human being is far too complex to peg down in a twosecond glance over.

Now that we’re in university, we should be taking this opportunity to expand our horizons. Take classes we never thought we’d like, eat lunch with that “nerdy guy” from chemistry, or come to school in your pyjamas because you don’t have that popular chick judging your every move! Be yourself for crying out loud! You may find university to be a liberating and eye-opening experience that way.

Nicole Meech Lifestyles Editor

Are you a granola bar junkie but hate how they cost about a dollar each (if you divide by how many are in the box)? Well, good news! Here is a recipe that has been a must-have in my house for the past few years. You’ll spend about ten dollars to get all the ingredients, but that gets you almost 20 bars! Not only are these good for your wallet, but they’re also a whole lot better for your waistline than store-bought ones.

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Preheat the oven to 350 F. Lightly oil or coat an 8 x 8-in. baking pan with non-stick cooking spray and set aside.

Place the oats, cereal, walnuts, dried fruit, cinnamon, and salt in a food processor and pulse until the mixture is finely chopped (the dried fruit should be the size of a dried pea or lentil).

In a large bowl, whisk together the eggs, honey, and vanilla. Add the oatmeal mixture and chocolate chips and stir to combine. Transfer to the baking pan and flatten down gently with the back of a spoon or spatula to spread evenly.

Bake 12 to 16 minutes until the edges turn golden brown and the bars are done. Let bars cool completely in pan before slicing and serving.

Hint: I double the recipe and freeze them so that I have an easy go-to snack when on the run! They thaw within half an hour.

Ingredients

Nutrition facts

Makes 16 bars

1 bar:

1 cup oats, quick cooking or old fashioned

140 calories

1 cup shredded wheat cereal (or any other cereal

5g fat (1.5g saturated, 0.7g omega-3)

of choice)

85mg sodium

1 cup walnuts (or other nuts)

26g carbohydrate

1 ½ cups dried fruit (combination of your choice

3g fibre

of dried apricots, dried plums, dried cherries, dried cranberries, etc.)

1/2 tsp ground cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 large eggs 1/3 cup honey 1 tsp vanilla extract 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips (dark chocolate)

3g protein

Be yourself for crying out loud!

You may find university to be a liberating and eye-opening experience that way.

sports

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September 29, 2011 • 13

It must be rugby season!

Our women open the season by doing what they do best... dominating

Pronghorns give their opponents a run for their money | Canada West

Nicole Meech Sports Editor The no. 4 Lethbridge Pronghorns shut out the UBC Thunderbirds 33-0 to open the 2011 Canada West women’s rugby season in Vancouver.

The Pronghorns controlled the ball for most of the match and opened the scoring in the 12th minute.

Lethbridge moved the ball out of a scrum in the UBC half of the field and quickly got it to Kayla Moleschi who then passed the ball to winger Paula Woynarowsky who ran down the left side to score.

Seven minutes later, Cassandra Orr broke free from a scrum around the 22-metre line and easily took in Lethbridge’s second try of the game. Neither try was converted, leaving the Horns up 10-0. Then the Pronghorns’ Laura MurphyBurke put her stamp on the game.

She kicked a penalty goal in the 30th minute before pulling off a magnificent run for another try.

Murphy-Burke took one pass out of a scrum and faked out a UBC defender before finding enough room up the left side to score.

While UBC didn’t really threaten offensively, it held Lethbridge off the scoreboard for most of the second half before giving up a penalty goal, and two late, unconverted tries to make the final 33-0.

Horns finish BC sweep in style

University of Victoria Vikes hosted the weekend season opener of women’s rugby. The No. 4 nationally ranked Lethbridge Pronghorns scored less than a minute into the game, setting the stage for a 53-0 victory over the Vikes at Wallace Field.

Sophomore Kelsey Willoughby was unstoppable, leading the Pronghorns with three tries for 15 points, while rookie scrum-half Sarah Gordon had a try, two converts and a drop goal for 12 points. Senior fly-half Laura Murphy-Burke added

three converts for six points, and Juhee Thompson (Mountain View, Alta.), Cassandra Orr (Vulcan, Alta.), Kayla Moleschi (Williams Lake, B.C.) and Tiffany Wideen (Port Moody, B.C.) each scored one try for five points. With the victory, Lethbridge improves to 2-0, while the Vikes fall to 0-2 in Canada West play.

UVic’s head coach Bruce Howe said he was disappointed with the team’s overall defensive effort.

“Our defence was suspect, we have to get better there,” Howe said. “I think a lot of our defensive errors were made because we try to do too much, we lost position and form and we could not keep our shape and they have a really good backline and they exploited us.”

The Pronghorns scored less than a minute into the game when Moleschi dished to Orr who streaked in untouched, eluding a Vikes tackle, giving Lethbridge the 5-0 lead. Murphy-Burke’s convert attempt bounced off the upright – one of two on the day that struck

the iron with swirling winds making kicking a challenge.

Willoughby scored her first try of the day off a UVic turnover, making one UVic defender miss with a tackle attempt and then splitting two others with a nice run of about 65 yards for the score.

Murphy-Burke’s convert made it 12-0 midway through the first half.

Wideen scored on a run through the middle and Murphy-Burke again converted to stretch the lead to 19-0. Lethbridge made it 31-0 after another pair of scores from Willoughby – one a converted try and then an unconverted try before the end of the half. The Pronghorns led 31-0 at the break.

UVic played a strong start to the second half with improved tackling and tactical play, but in the second part of the period, following a missed penalty-goal attempt from Randi Hunter, the Pronghorns scored 22 more points on tries from Gordon, Moleschi and Thompson.

Gordon converted two of them, including her own, and added a

drop goal just seconds before the final whistle to make the final 53-0 for her Pronghorns squad.

The Horns will host the Alberta Pandas next Sunday at the University of Lethbridge Community Stadium.

Soccer update: Men and Women score first points of 2011 Women The women fought hard for their 1-1 tie with the visiting Fraser Valley Cascades. Coming off the team’s fifth consecutive loss, the Horns took their first lead of the season, but were not able to hold on in the second half to earn the victory.

The Horns will head out on the road next weekend, traveling to British Columbia to face the Cascades again before closing out the trip with a game against the Victoria Vikes.

Men After struggling offensively as the season neared the midway point, the Lethbridge Pronghorns exploded with three goals en route to earning their first win of the season 3-0 over the Fraser Valley Cascades. Prior to Sunday’s game, the Horns had only scored once in their previous five games.

With the win, the Horns improve to 1-5-0, while the Cascades fall to an identical 1-5-0 record.

Coming Up

Men reverse their struggles this season through the devine art of winning | Canada West

The Horns head out on the road next weekend, traveling to the West Coast to face the UBC Thunderbirds and Trinity Western Spartans. The Cascades will return home to host Victoria next Saturday in the front half of a home-and-home series with the Vikes.

On Air with CKXU Matt Baird

Meliorist: Who are you?

Aaron: My name is Aaron Trozzo, and I am station manager of CKXU 88.3 FM. M: How long have you had the job?

AT: I’ve had this job for about six months now, but I’ve been an employee for CKXU for over two years now.

M: What did you do before having this job?

AT: I was the program director.

M: What was the difference between that job and the job you have now?

AT: Well, the program director’s job is explicitly control the programming that you hear out in Radioland! To make sure that there is continuity in programming and that our DJs are following through on their DJ duties, and to report back to me to make sure that all of that is happening. So, that is my job now, I guess. Does that make sense?

M: So, how is the station run? Is there a hierarchy, or do DJs report to certain people, orAT:There is a bit of a hierarchy, we operate like any well rounded organization. We have a board of directors that kind of control the financial ends of things, and then we have an executive line, consisting of two part time officials and two... paid time, officials. Wait a second, paid timeM: I personally love being a paid time official.

AT: Exactly. There is also an array of coordinator positions that just kind of make the background tick.

Aaron Trozzo, the fearless leader of CKXU 88.3 | Kelti Boissonneault

“This doesn’t stop at terrestrial radio and this doesn’t stop at online listen feeds; it can be whatever we want, it can be as broad as our imaginations want it to be.” of funding coming from sources outside of students that we can use to make our space tick.

we are planning on destroying it! We’ve got some good tactics in mind that we’re going to

M: Its Nostalgic?

AT: (laughs) Yeah, nostalgic is a good way of putting it, because you get someone in their 40’s coming in and they’re like “Hey, I used that when I was a kid!” We have to be pretty careful with our equipment and cherish what we’ve got because its really all we’ve got at this time.

M: So, that being said, if you could have it, what would be the one station improvement that you want?

At: We’re doing it.

M: Oh, awesome.

M: You do receive funding from the SU for funding, a 5$ fee part of your tuition. How much of that subsidizes the actual cost of the station?

AT: Well that pays our executive wages; that essentially makes CKXU go round. It pays our music director wage, our programming directors wage, and my wage.

M: Where does the rest of the money come from?

AT: From fund-raising, largely, grants, in a lot of big ways... we’re currently undergoing renovations which are driven entirely by grants, mostly, in a lot of ways. We are doing essentially our entire on air and production space and giving the entire station a facelift.

We got an AGLC grant which was really great, because that will pay for all of our capital upgrades, which includes new CD players, turntables, new boards for the on-air and production booth, all of our production equipments, like telephones to do on-air call ins, off-campus broadcasting, and all sorts of really fun stuff. Recently, we applied for and got the Quality Initiative Grant from the SU, which is giving us New Paint, New desks, acoustic panelling to knock down the reflection factor in our space...so lots

a lot of a time there is a lot of stuff going on and it is really difficult- its like herding cats sometimes. I mean if you look at our equipment it’s well-

CKXU’s on air booth is currently in the lobby while they undergo renovations

M: Speaking of funding, every year you do Fundrive.

AT: Yeah!

throw out this year, and our volunteer base has been getting really reliable this year. It is starting on the 21st of October until the 28th.

M: What is Fundrive?

AT: Fundrive is the week long endeavour we go on searching for donations from essentially anyone. So we get donations from a lot of students from the university, a lot of community members from Lethbridge, but also from all over Alberta. People who’ve been part of CKXU in the past and moved on, we still see donations from all over the place.

This ear we’re really trying to put it into high gear and try to beat our goal of $12,000 which it has been set at for the past, and

M: Alright then, what is the easiest part of your job?

AT: Oh, easiest part of my job is showing up every day. The hardest part is to do a lot with nothing available to you. We have a specific chain of events that keeps us going from day to day, and we like to think that it is solid, but a lot of the time it is... not really solid.

We have to make sure we are keeping track of what is going on, from the time we get here, to keeping track of the DJs showing up, and making sure they’re doing their jobs;

AT: Yeah, we are currently lining up the production end of CKXU so that we will be able to produce compilations of music. We are going to change our lobby so it is not only a nice sitting space for people to chill out in, in the evenings when this place kind of clears out, we’re planning on bringing in bands and do live take recordings of them; we’re going to produce ourselves and put out CKXU compilations of live music! We’re going to start with the local music scene because we think that it deserves to be highlighted and there’s a lot of local talent out there, and there’s not a lot of good ways to get your music out there in lethbridge. So it’s been one of the big hurdles that bands deal with out here, and we’re going to see if we can nurture that part of Lethbridge and see if we can put a dent in it. We have connections to every other campus community radio station in Canada; that being said, if you put your band into a vehicle recorded by CKXU, chances of you getting out to those other radio stations are pretty high.

M: You’re not allowed to play stuff that’s on the Top 40 list. Has that ever become a bone of contention with DJs especially when they want to play a song they loveAT: Yes. DJs do sometimes slip, and there are a few loopholes that once you are a seasoned DJ you can figure out. But we try to stray away from Top 40 music cause those aren’t the bands we look to support.

But at the same rate we do have shows that showcase top 40 music; for example Bente Hansen’s History of Rock and Roll show. We have a little room to move for Top 40 content within our license through the CRTC; its not like we don’t want to play it. It’s written right into our license, we’re not allowed to play it.

But there is a little Top 40 we are allowed to play and we can use that for educational purposes. It was a perfect vehicle for Bente Hansen’s History of Rock show, because she can go through the ages and tell the kids what is important and why you should listen to it.

That is what History of Rock is all about, and we totally support it.

M: How are you trying to keep the relevance for the student population going, while at the same time trying to stay a competitive radio station?

AT: Oh, man. The student energy around the station is amazing. There are so many ways for students to get involved with CXKU and use it to their benefit. We offer a number of different opportunities for largely anyone across the playing field for majors or whatever have you. This style of media encompasses pretty much anything; if you’re an economics major, if you’re business management, if you’re new media, if you’re English, there’s a panel through CKXU you can use to your advantage. We try to support the clubs and groups around school as much as we possibly can; we tell them every year

M: Besides world domination, what is the future of CKXU? Unless it is just world domination.

AT: CKXU is aiming to be a more multifaceted form of media.... we’re looking to become more dynamic in the way we distribute media, music, and everything else we do around here.

Handmade CKXU kites

at rush that we’re here for you, whatever way you wanna use is. Supporting via PSA’s or whatever we are all for supporting the student population that way! This is as much my radio station as it anyone else’s; that’s

“

We’re really not afraid to do anything, so I think its going to be a very interesting year.

“

This week I sat down with Aaron Trozzo, the Station Manager of CKXU 88.3 (the oncampus radio station for all those who aren’t familiar with it), and we chatted about some of the wicked upgrades we can expect from the radio station, the philosophy of campus radio, and why you should be a part of it!

M: Yeah, perfect sense. So, what is CKXU? AT: CKXU is a campus community radio station based out of the University of Lethbridge. Our mandate is to showcase the cultural diversity of Southern Alberta, and I feel that we do a pretty good job of it!

of the people, and its your job if you have an issue to come in and make a difference.

A few people are too used to someone else doing things for them, but that’s the point of CKXU. We’re entirely run by people who are run by people who just believe in it.... It is what you make it.

M: Do you ever find yourselves competing with those other campus community radio stations, especially in Alberta?

AT: Sometimes people confuse CKXU for CKUA, but I’m sure that their mandate is the same as ours. We’re all fighting the same fight, we’re not commercial radio.

We support the arts, we support the local business scene, we support the people that wouldn’t normally have a voice in their community. So us, That’s what CKUA does, CJSW in Calgary, CJSR in Edmonton: we all have a different community, and a different markets to deal with, and this is the bed we’ve made for ourselves.

Features Editor

the beauty of campus radio. Anyone from the community can come in and do a radio show, or get involved in some way, shape ,or form. If they are not see something out of the radio station, they can come in and change it. That’s what’s nice thing about this, it is an open source type of radio. That’s the beauty of it.

M: So it’s not a the Tyranny of the Radio Station?

AT: It’s here because its a vehicle for the voice

CKXU’s Library contains some 40, 000 albums from independant artists around the world

“Radio just isn’t radio these days,” Aaron Trozzo

This year we’re looking at some pretty interesting ways to get the good word out there. So, keep your ears peeled because, like I said, I think “multifaceted”is our catchphrase of the year here.

M: Not to say that all your DJs have a face for radio, but are you going to think about pod-casting or incorporating more new media into the station?

AT: Absolutely. I think that’s the way to do it. I’m not against pod-casts or video feeds, more live documentation on events would be cool. Our renovations are definitely going to make that a lot easier. Sports shows would be really interested in going to pronghorns and all the teams that exist around here and make sure they are getting the coverage they deserve as well. We’re really not afraid to d o anything, so I

think its going to be a very interesting year.

If anyone has any specific talents in the New Media realm, we encourage them to come and get involved here, because this doesn’t stop at radio. This doesn’t stop at terrestrial radio and this doesn’t stop at online listen feeds; it can be whatever we want, it can be as broad as our imaginations want it to be.

Radio just isn’t radio these days.

M: Thanks very much.

On Air with CKXU Matt Baird

Meliorist: Who are you?

Aaron: My name is Aaron Trozzo, and I am station manager of CKXU 88.3 FM. M: How long have you had the job?

AT: I’ve had this job for about six months now, but I’ve been an employee for CKXU for over two years now.

M: What did you do before having this job?

AT: I was the program director.

M: What was the difference between that job and the job you have now?

AT: Well, the program director’s job is explicitly control the programming that you hear out in Radioland! To make sure that there is continuity in programming and that our DJs are following through on their DJ duties, and to report back to me to make sure that all of that is happening. So, that is my job now, I guess. Does that make sense?

M: So, how is the station run? Is there a hierarchy, or do DJs report to certain people, orAT:There is a bit of a hierarchy, we operate like any well rounded organization. We have a board of directors that kind of control the financial ends of things, and then we have an executive line, consisting of two part time officials and two... paid time, officials. Wait a second, paid timeM: I personally love being a paid time official.

AT: Exactly. There is also an array of coordinator positions that just kind of make the background tick.

Aaron Trozzo, the fearless leader of CKXU 88.3 | Kelti Boissonneault

“This doesn’t stop at terrestrial radio and this doesn’t stop at online listen feeds; it can be whatever we want, it can be as broad as our imaginations want it to be.” of funding coming from sources outside of students that we can use to make our space tick.

we are planning on destroying it! We’ve got some good tactics in mind that we’re going to

M: Its Nostalgic?

AT: (laughs) Yeah, nostalgic is a good way of putting it, because you get someone in their 40’s coming in and they’re like “Hey, I used that when I was a kid!” We have to be pretty careful with our equipment and cherish what we’ve got because its really all we’ve got at this time.

M: So, that being said, if you could have it, what would be the one station improvement that you want?

At: We’re doing it.

M: Oh, awesome.

M: You do receive funding from the SU for funding, a 5$ fee part of your tuition. How much of that subsidizes the actual cost of the station?

AT: Well that pays our executive wages; that essentially makes CKXU go round. It pays our music director wage, our programming directors wage, and my wage.

M: Where does the rest of the money come from?

AT: From fund-raising, largely, grants, in a lot of big ways... we’re currently undergoing renovations which are driven entirely by grants, mostly, in a lot of ways. We are doing essentially our entire on air and production space and giving the entire station a facelift.

We got an AGLC grant which was really great, because that will pay for all of our capital upgrades, which includes new CD players, turntables, new boards for the on-air and production booth, all of our production equipments, like telephones to do on-air call ins, off-campus broadcasting, and all sorts of really fun stuff. Recently, we applied for and got the Quality Initiative Grant from the SU, which is giving us New Paint, New desks, acoustic panelling to knock down the reflection factor in our space...so lots

a lot of a time there is a lot of stuff going on and it is really difficult- its like herding cats sometimes. I mean if you look at our equipment it’s well-

CKXU’s on air booth is currently in the lobby while they undergo renovations

M: Speaking of funding, every year you do Fundrive.

AT: Yeah!

throw out this year, and our volunteer base has been getting really reliable this year. It is starting on the 21st of October until the 28th.

M: What is Fundrive?

AT: Fundrive is the week long endeavour we go on searching for donations from essentially anyone. So we get donations from a lot of students from the university, a lot of community members from Lethbridge, but also from all over Alberta. People who’ve been part of CKXU in the past and moved on, we still see donations from all over the place.

This ear we’re really trying to put it into high gear and try to beat our goal of $12,000 which it has been set at for the past, and

M: Alright then, what is the easiest part of your job?

AT: Oh, easiest part of my job is showing up every day. The hardest part is to do a lot with nothing available to you. We have a specific chain of events that keeps us going from day to day, and we like to think that it is solid, but a lot of the time it is... not really solid.

We have to make sure we are keeping track of what is going on, from the time we get here, to keeping track of the DJs showing up, and making sure they’re doing their jobs;

AT: Yeah, we are currently lining up the production end of CKXU so that we will be able to produce compilations of music. We are going to change our lobby so it is not only a nice sitting space for people to chill out in, in the evenings when this place kind of clears out, we’re planning on bringing in bands and do live take recordings of them; we’re going to produce ourselves and put out CKXU compilations of live music! We’re going to start with the local music scene because we think that it deserves to be highlighted and there’s a lot of local talent out there, and there’s not a lot of good ways to get your music out there in lethbridge. So it’s been one of the big hurdles that bands deal with out here, and we’re going to see if we can nurture that part of Lethbridge and see if we can put a dent in it. We have connections to every other campus community radio station in Canada; that being said, if you put your band into a vehicle recorded by CKXU, chances of you getting out to those other radio stations are pretty high.

M: You’re not allowed to play stuff that’s on the Top 40 list. Has that ever become a bone of contention with DJs especially when they want to play a song they loveAT: Yes. DJs do sometimes slip, and there are a few loopholes that once you are a seasoned DJ you can figure out. But we try to stray away from Top 40 music cause those aren’t the bands we look to support.

But at the same rate we do have shows that showcase top 40 music; for example Bente Hansen’s History of Rock and Roll show. We have a little room to move for Top 40 content within our license through the CRTC; its not like we don’t want to play it. It’s written right into our license, we’re not allowed to play it.

But there is a little Top 40 we are allowed to play and we can use that for educational purposes. It was a perfect vehicle for Bente Hansen’s History of Rock show, because she can go through the ages and tell the kids what is important and why you should listen to it.

That is what History of Rock is all about, and we totally support it.

M: How are you trying to keep the relevance for the student population going, while at the same time trying to stay a competitive radio station?

AT: Oh, man. The student energy around the station is amazing. There are so many ways for students to get involved with CXKU and use it to their benefit. We offer a number of different opportunities for largely anyone across the playing field for majors or whatever have you. This style of media encompasses pretty much anything; if you’re an economics major, if you’re business management, if you’re new media, if you’re English, there’s a panel through CKXU you can use to your advantage. We try to support the clubs and groups around school as much as we possibly can; we tell them every year

M: Besides world domination, what is the future of CKXU? Unless it is just world domination.

AT: CKXU is aiming to be a more multifaceted form of media.... we’re looking to become more dynamic in the way we distribute media, music, and everything else we do around here.

Handmade CKXU kites

at rush that we’re here for you, whatever way you wanna use is. Supporting via PSA’s or whatever we are all for supporting the student population that way! This is as much my radio station as it anyone else’s; that’s

“

We’re really not afraid to do anything, so I think its going to be a very interesting year.

“

This week I sat down with Aaron Trozzo, the Station Manager of CKXU 88.3 (the oncampus radio station for all those who aren’t familiar with it), and we chatted about some of the wicked upgrades we can expect from the radio station, the philosophy of campus radio, and why you should be a part of it!

M: Yeah, perfect sense. So, what is CKXU? AT: CKXU is a campus community radio station based out of the University of Lethbridge. Our mandate is to showcase the cultural diversity of Southern Alberta, and I feel that we do a pretty good job of it!

of the people, and its your job if you have an issue to come in and make a difference.

A few people are too used to someone else doing things for them, but that’s the point of CKXU. We’re entirely run by people who are run by people who just believe in it.... It is what you make it.

M: Do you ever find yourselves competing with those other campus community radio stations, especially in Alberta?

AT: Sometimes people confuse CKXU for CKUA, but I’m sure that their mandate is the same as ours. We’re all fighting the same fight, we’re not commercial radio.

We support the arts, we support the local business scene, we support the people that wouldn’t normally have a voice in their community. So us, That’s what CKUA does, CJSW in Calgary, CJSR in Edmonton: we all have a different community, and a different markets to deal with, and this is the bed we’ve made for ourselves.

Features Editor

the beauty of campus radio. Anyone from the community can come in and do a radio show, or get involved in some way, shape ,or form. If they are not see something out of the radio station, they can come in and change it. That’s what’s nice thing about this, it is an open source type of radio. That’s the beauty of it.

M: So it’s not a the Tyranny of the Radio Station?

AT: It’s here because its a vehicle for the voice

CKXU’s Library contains some 40, 000 albums from independant artists around the world

“Radio just isn’t radio these days,” Aaron Trozzo

This year we’re looking at some pretty interesting ways to get the good word out there. So, keep your ears peeled because, like I said, I think “multifaceted”is our catchphrase of the year here.

M: Not to say that all your DJs have a face for radio, but are you going to think about pod-casting or incorporating more new media into the station?

AT: Absolutely. I think that’s the way to do it. I’m not against pod-casts or video feeds, more live documentation on events would be cool. Our renovations are definitely going to make that a lot easier. Sports shows would be really interested in going to pronghorns and all the teams that exist around here and make sure they are getting the coverage they deserve as well. We’re really not afraid to d o anything, so I

think its going to be a very interesting year.

If anyone has any specific talents in the New Media realm, we encourage them to come and get involved here, because this doesn’t stop at radio. This doesn’t stop at terrestrial radio and this doesn’t stop at online listen feeds; it can be whatever we want, it can be as broad as our imaginations want it to be.

Radio just isn’t radio these days.

M: Thanks very much.

entertainment

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September 29, 2011 • 16

Billy Davey

Entertainment Editor

For more information on contributing to Entertainment, please contact Billy Davey at e.editor@themeliorist.ca

Music on the street Billy Davey

Entertainment Editor

While the Word on the Street book & magazine festival flourished around the Lethbridge Public Library, the air was kept busy with music from an assortment of bands. The music, courteously, supplemented the various activities at the festival, which included poem and prose readings, opportunities to meet authors, children activities, and many different vendors. All the activities were surrounded by sweltering heat, which made the event feel like the middle of summer again.

An array of cultures displayed musical talent at the festival. On the main stage, Curt Young & Jamie Medicine Crane displayed some Native Canadian culture with music as well as dancing, and Young showing a more bluesy side.

Many country performers also hit the stage: John Wort Hannam entertained solo and busted out

a tenor guitar for a song, and the Shaela Miller Threesome presented a modern country sound that seemed to fit well with the general mood. While the Shaela Miller Threesome was beginning to set up, a spoken word poet, Sherri D Wilson, was still doing her performance. Paul Holden, on a double bass, was the first to set up and began playing a bass line under Wilson’s spoken poetry. Wilson, who sometimes seemed to talk like a 1950s’ jazz musician, with her round sunglasses and Holden’s smooth walking bass line, brought just one word to mind—groovy. It didn’t stop there, a jazz trio, HBO3, hit home with the crowd by showing their expertise instrumentally.

But it was Lethbridge’s own, The Necessities, that drew all the stragglers to watch the stage and fill the bleachers. The folk rock band attracted and held the audience for its duration on stage. The vocals rolling into a fluid melody accompanied by a guitar with a clear

and stinging tone, and percussion and bass that can bring a song’s feel up and down, is what made the gig.

The tent stage, which was just down Eighth Street from the main stage, had some not as loud music acts, as well as poets and authors speaking. Down fifth avenue was an even further assortment of culture at the patio entranceway to the library, starting with Sudanese Dancers and ending with Global Drums. The music from the dancers at the patio competed with the main stage at times, especially the NIA dance demonstrators who started to sap away crowed from around the festival.

This was the first time the Lethbridge Public Library has hosted the Word on the Street Festival. The festival was also held in Vancouver, Saskatoon, Kitchener, Toronto, and Halifax.

The Word on the Street calls itself “a national celebration of literacy and the written word.”

meliorist

Entertainment

the

September 29, 2011 • 17

Pearl Jam The Legacy

aspect underlying the music. PJ20 provides a great look into the band’s origins and hardships, and their dedication to the music. It is a great watch for anyone that’s just a fan of music or film, and especially entertaining for any diehard fan.

And for the diehards out there, no Pearl Jam film would be complete without the inclusion of Mookie Blaylock.

The concert

R.J. Balog

Entertainment Writer

Music is a part of life. It can inspire us, enlighten us, and even change the way we think. And every so often there comes a band that looks to do just that… inspire. Whether you were around when they debuted, or were talked into it by a friend, after you first really experience Pearl Jam, something clicks. Hailed as one of the most influential bands of the ‘90s, Pearl Jam is currently celebrating its 20th anniversary with not just another fan-pleasing tour, but also a documentary titled PJ20 to commemorate the band’s

journey. And whether it was by grace or just pure luck, I was given the opportunity to experience not just the documentary, but also the live concert in Calgary the very next night. So whether you’re a diehard fan and this is just a recap, or you’ve never been lucky enough to experience Pearl Jam, here’s a quick rundown on both the documentary and the concert.

The film Long-time friend and fan Cameron Crowe (Say Anything…, Almost Famous, and Vanilla Sky) looks to give fans a glimpse of the journey

the band went through to become Pearl Jam, and the struggle to maintain it for the 20 years to follow. PJ20 starts off in 1989 Seattle, Wash. when the earliest element of the band was known as Mother Love Bone, and it only had two of the remaining members (Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament).

From there you witness the loss of a lead singer, a band change, and the emergence of one of the most gifted singer/songwriters of the last few decades: the great Eddie Vedder. PJ20 is packed with original footage and home movietype clips showing some of the band’s first ever live performances

and even the creation of some of their most beloved songs. Scattered through the vintage footage are some really rare moments of history not seen anywhere else. Included among them is one that Crowe referred to as the “Holy Grail” that shows Eddie Vedder with Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain hugging and swaying backstage as Eric Clapton performs at the MTV VMAs. It’s through those old videos that you can really see Pearl Jam’s dedication to the music and what it means to them. Watching them write their songs and hearing them speak on the meanings, you can really get a sense of that deep emotional

It’s hard to explain the feeling you get from being at a Pearl Jam concert. I’ve seen Pearl Jam the last three times they’ve performed in Calgary, and they never disappoint.

Seeing PJ20 the night before couldn’t have made the experience better for me, knowing that Pearl Jam has a different set list every show (written the day of based on the feel of the band), and not knowing what to expect from the very first song. Pearl Jam is one of those rare bands that actually sound better live. It’s amazing to see too, watching in PJ20 one of their first performances singing “Alive” and then seeing them live 20 years later, and the song actually sounds as good as it was all those years ago. There’s an energy that the whole band gives to each other. It’s something that you truly have to experience and not just be told about.

Good music is still alive, and Pearl Jam is a band that’s held true to their beliefs, and they haven’t shied away from saying what they want or playing the music they wanted to hear. It’s a rare thing to see an entire stadium stand for a two and a half hour concert, but on Wednesday night in Calgary there was hardly a person that touched their seat.

There’s nothing quite like watching Eddie Vedder sit on a speaker, listening to a guitar solo as he enjoys his cigarette and customary bottle of wine. Pearl Jam should be remembered forever as one of the greatest bands ever to play. I know for me at least, they always will.

TheatreXtra opens with R & J Billy Davey

Entertainment Editor

The David Spinks Theatre will once again light up with a TheatreXtra production. Sean Guist has adapted the classic of classics, Romeo and Juliet, into a traditional and modern mixture. The curtains will lift from Sept. 29 to Oct. 1 at 8:00 P.M. and 2:00 P.M. on Oct. 1.

When reading or watching the original Romeo and Juliet, you have probably thought, “There just isn’t enough love and romance in this.”

Rest assured! The R & J adaptation follows three pairs of lovers, rather than the one. The different couples vary in time periods and circumstances: two lovers are from modern day, two others are a same sex couple in the Victorian era, and the last two lovers are located in 17th century France. The three couples will parallel each other along the Romeo and Juliet storyline at different angles and contexts.

The play began forming in mid August. Since that time, the performers have worked hard to fashion dances to musical numbers, with both the choreography and

music composition being originals.

The script and story line are, of course, from the original Romeo

and Juliet, Charles Gourd’s Romeo and Juliet opera, Baz Luhruman’s film adaptation of the play, and

Guist’s and the cast’s own work.

With these multiple sources, the play will be a conglomerate of

different contexts and perspective, much like the characters making up the three couples.

This will be Guist’s second time directing a TheatreXtra performance.

His first time was in 2006, directing, as an undergraduate, The Playground.

In the directing position is exactly where Guist would want to be, entering his second year in his master of fine arts program, spotlighting directing and performance creating.

TheatreXtra productions are entirely run by students. They create the script, direct, act, and occupy all the other positions necessary to bring a play to life. Some very talented individuals are usually involved, which have for some very fantastic performances in the past.

TheatreXtra hold four productions a year in the David Spinks Theatre.

The David Spinks theatre is much smaller than the main stage, which creates an intimate atmosphere and feels very engaging.

R & J tickets will be sold at the box office, at $7 for students and $11 for regulars. It is also warned that the play has mature content.

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The Roast of Charlie Sheen

Like taking candy from an invalid – except not quite as funny R.M. Schafer

Entertainment Writer

Roasting Charlie Sheen is just like playing t-ball – the ball is sitting right there and all you have to do is hit it! Then take that same wiffleball bat and beat a guy who has already done more damage to himself than anyone else ever could.

The “who the hell is that” of comedy came out Monday night to roast Charlie, which drew in a record 6.4 million viewers, making it the highest-rated roast thus far. As the former highest paid television actor on the tube, Charlie Sheen had undoubtedly been “winning” until the much-publicized meltdown and firing from Two and a Half Men after some anti-Semitic remarks and letting his tiger blood get the best of him.

As Sheen’s tirade of ridiculous interviews and Twitter posts became the punch line for every latenight pundit in the business, it is curious that those who came to roast Sheen where the bottom feeders of the stand-up community – or is it? Most of the self-respecting comedians passed on the roast because it was far too easy to take

cheap-shots at a guy whose personal life has been in the gutter for more than a year.

Seth MacFarlane served as roast master and was among one of the only comedians who was able to come up with a punch line which was clever and not simply easy, unimaginative and cheap. It does not take a clever person, let alone a professional comedian, to poke fun at a man who has abused his spouse, abused drugs and has lost both his custody battle and his job – it is just too easy. I guess that is why the roasters included Steve-O, Mike Tyson and Amy Schumer.

Amy Schumer? Who is that, you may ask? Amy Schumer was the fourth runner up on the fifth season of Last Comic Standing. Fourth runner up, doesn’t that really just mean losing? I mean that’s not even a bronze medal! Despite taking an uncalled-for shot at SteveO on the death of his friend Ryan Dunn, Schumer was actually one of the highlights of the roast. Schumer’s jokes were in fact quite clever and well-timed unlike Mike Tyson, whose jokes were not only terrible, but almost impossible to understand. Tyson attempted some ter-

rible poetry with the only funny party being listening to Tyson stumble over each word. Along with

Schumer, Jeffery Ross and Patrice O’Neal all did an excellent job at the roast – while William Shatner,

story that sucks you in and ensnares you. From the moment Prescott lands on your ship you learn that Marcus’s father is alive and trapped.

This sets the stage for an epic act where you take the fight from the boat to a “thrashball” (a football variant) stadium and out onto a bridge, all the while fighting for your life. The act culminates with a giant boss battle that you get to fight from two different perspectives. In short, the opening chapters of the game make you crave more, and the game is happy to oblige. You are taken from locale to locale, and you see a side of the planet of Sera that you have never really touched upon before: fortresses full of enemies

and friends alike, convoy battles where you are moving awesomely fast, and an underground tunnel where imulsion-infected humans will make you beg for mercy.

Yet in all these battles the game still manages to be a story of human survival. In one part you come to a city known as Char. 14 years prior, the C.O.G. had adopted a slash-andburn approach to dealing with the Locust horde. In a last ditch policy they activated a system of orbital satellite weaponry known as the Hammer of Dawn. Flash burning citizens of their own cities, you fight amongst the ash-formed corpses of people running away from the weapon’s destructive ray. It

Steve-O, Jon Lovitz, and even Kate Walsh (Private Practice) all performed well enough for it not to be embarrassing.

All in all, The Roast of Charlie Sheen was funny and entertaining, unlike the premiere of Two and a Half Men, which premiered shortly before the roast. Although the premiere of Two and a Half Men drew more than three times the viewers as the roast, both shows got record numbers for their respective programs. The Roast of Charlie Sheen was far more enjoyable than the premiere of Two and a Half Men, which was poorly written and brought Ashton Kutcher in to replace Sheen in a disappointingly below average story arc. The only question now is if Two and a Half Men will be able to retain its viewers this season, or if people merely tuned in to see how Sheen would be exiled from the show. The Roast of Charlie Sheen had close to half a million mentions on social media sites on Sept. 19, more than twice as much as the next closest shows Dancing With The Stars and Two and a Half Men – proving that even if you kill Charlie Sheen he will still be “winning.”

The Gears are turning Brandon Wilson

Entertainment Writer

From the moment you pick up your controller you know there is something different about this one.

Gears of War 3 takes you back to the forefront of the three-way battle between the C.O.G. (Coalition of Ordered Governments), the dreaded Locust horde, and the terrifying Lambent menace. Starting on a C.O.G. ship out in Lambent waters, the game shoves you into a world very different from the one you left.

It’s been two years since the sinking of Jacinto and the C.O.G. has been fragmented and is approaching hopelessness. Chairman Prescott

has cut and run, and your small army has been scattered across the world. The storyline quickly goes from bad to worse when the abovementioned chairman decides to pay your ship a visit. That kind of local celebrity makes the baddies a little angry, and you’re soon swimming in them. In the first hour you fight the kind of monsters that make your skin crawl: giant tentacles spewing glowing drudges with a bad attitude, mutations that will make you duck for cover, and one giant baddie that has the need to sink your already precarious ship. It’s run, duck, and shoot.

Yet in between the melee and firefights the game begins to weave a

manages to be touching, eerie, and slightly saddening at the same time.

Gears of War 3 does have a small issue with A.I. handling (my personal favourite is when during a boss battle he decided to get stuck on a beam) and the teammates can be downright frustrating. You can be downed and right in front of them, yet if there is one enemy onscreen they seem content with letting you bleed to death. Yet the flaws can be overlooked because of the smooth weapon balance, new bad guys, and touching story. In conclusion, this game kicks ass and is not afraid to let you know it.

Get closer

By Keith Urban (Hit Red/Capitol/EMI)

Echoes of the Atmosphere

By Hello Bella (DNA Music)

Nothing but the Beat

By David Guetta (EMI France)

Starting off with some relaxing modern country sounds and crunchy guitar solos in “You Gonna Fly,” Get Closer comes out of the gate looking good. But, with “All for You,” an insincere sounding song that desperately tries to be emotional, the album starts on an array of cheesy sounding love songs. Some good tunes shine through all the letdowns, such as “Long Hot Summer,” “Georgia Woods,” and “Big Promises.” However, every song falls short lyrically; most of the songs appear to be a copy of the last. The instrumental parts on the tracks make up for much of the, “My heart is yours, forever more” type lyrics.

A formidable guitar forces the lead vocals in “Stand” to share the spotlight. Then, in the next track, the bass makes itself a column with a gratifying line. Staying in the limits of alternative rock, the band still dips into some more electronic sounds. Songs like “Argentina and “All Eyes On” have a light sound that manages to feel heaver than it is by combining softer vocals and more intense guitar. Following are spaced out feeling tracks that float you through the albums mid section. Echoes of the Atmosphere ends much the same way it started, with a well rounded sound that the guitar pulls ahead on.

The first tracks, “Where them Girls at” and “Little Bad Girl,” will make you feel like driving to a club for some immediate dancing. Later featuring Snoop Dog and Usher, a softer ambiance is made, all the while keeping tempo at mostly the same level. The multitude of featuring artists, give the relatively same sounding electronic sounds an additional dynamic. Each song features a new artist, such as Akon, Timbaland, Dev, Jenifer Hudson, and many more. To the end, the album stays true to its genre, dance, by keeping the beats strong.

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Tunnel Vision fails to thrill Zoë Migicovsky

Entertainment Writer

From the synopsis, Tunnel Vision

by Susan Shaw sounds like it will be a very intense story: a teenage girl, Liza, pushes her way through a group of scary men one evening on her way home, only to have her mother shot dead a few seconds later, forcing Liza and her father into the witness protection program.

Unfortunately, the majority of the excitement in the novel happens at the very beginning and very end

of the book, leaving a whole lot of blank space in the middle where not much occurs so that, despite being less than three hundred pages, Tunnel Vision seems way too long.

Although I want to call the book a young adult thriller, there is in fact very little that is thrilling about Tunnel Vision, despite a constant atmosphere of danger and the regularity of Sopranos-esque events in Liza’s life. In reality, the writing with which the story is told feels quite dull and leaves the reader, even at the very last page, full of unanswered questions after the

book takes what seems like a full 180 from where it had been heading.

In addition, Liza’s voice just doesn’t feel genuine and she definitely sounds a lot younger than 16 years old. The only possible explanation I have is that the grief Liza feels makes her become childlike, but I think that’s pushing it.

Liza’s voice is unbelievable enough that the reader never forgets she is just a character, a fact that detracts a lot from the potential impact that Tunnel Vision could have had. It is pretty hard to fear for a fictional life, one belonging to a character

Niche Gallery:

Academic Re-education by Danielle McMorran

Andrea Kremenik Entertainment Writer

What is art? This is the ambiguous question that many artists have tried to interpret and solve for centuries. Offering her opinion is Danielle McMorran, a third year studio major at the University of Lethbridge who attempts to answer the question with her piece, “Academic Re-education,” which is currently being exhibited at the Niche Gallery and Fine Arts level 8 wall.

The piece begins at the Niche Gallery, showcasing a lonely golden

easel holding a canvas within the “traditional” white cube of the miniature gallery. It is as if to say, with a sting of irony, that this is art in its highest form. Leading out from the Niche Gallery is a black line that guides the viewer to the level 8 wall, which has been painted chalkboard black and left to become a collaborative endeavour for whomever chooses to participate by “vandalizing” the wall, mimicking the idea of a public place open to graffiti. Commenting on the uncertain definition and boundaries of art, specifically street art, the artist states, “many people in the

art community don’t consider [it] to be a ‘valid’ art form, and I often wonder why that is.” “Academic Reeducation” explores and attempts to alleviate the idea that in order for a piece to be art and an individual to be an artist you need some sort of formal training or precise statement and vision as validation.

McMorran removes the idea of an artist’s statement, attempting to discover and erase the perceived limitations surrounding art and the art world. She instead strives to discover who and what gets to decide on art’s definition.

you never really become invested in or learn much about (besides for her playing basketball, which didn’t particularly make me care about her as a person), especially when she is as whiny and annoying as Liza is; granted, she has a lot to complain about, but it’s still not fun to read.

Also, this may be a personal pet peeve, but there is a character called Jellyfish Carter. Jellyfish. At some point, quite late into Tunnel Vision, Shaw lets the reader know this is a nickname, but there is still no explanation for how a person could possibly have such a nickname, and

it is just jarring and out of place.

Although this novel was clearly not for me as a reader, its movielike (ie., completely outrageous) thriller plot may make it engaging for some readers, although likely of a middle grade rather than young adult audience. Ultimately, Tunnel Vision had a riveting premise, an exciting beginning and a shocking, although not ultimately rewarding, ending. But over two hundred pages of dull writing left me looking for a light at the end of tunnel... and not in a good way.

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such blatant censorship by world corporations are going to prevent our basic human rights and freedoms, then clearly something is wrong. The fact that the majority of the population, even once they hear about this scandal, are simply going to blow it off as “oh those hippies; look at those jobless freaks stirring the pot” worries me as a world citizen.

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anymore. They lay off thousands to help their bottom line, never mind the family homes that are being foreclosed due to an economic

recession caused by… what? Oh a person under law? Corporations yeah, greed. are conglomerates of business It seems that these multiideals and practices that don’t have billionaires are concerned more a consciousness (or a conscience, with making money than with real apparently). How do they get that live, thinking, kind of status? breathing human Oh wait, it must beings.

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So what gives them the right to So… does a corporation have a vote? abuse and misuse the masses in Because if that’s the case, then I fear this way? Well, in the United States for Obama’s bid to change the tax there is an actual law that makes a laws. Certainly, if a conglomerate corporation a person. of businesses has the same rights as Hold the phone. What? How can a person, it will never pass, leaving a corporation be considered a the real people of this world without person under law when we are still a leg to stand on. debating whether a human foetus is

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What little aspirations I had for becoming a journalist in the mainstream media are gone. If this is the way major newspapers, television stations, radio stations and internet service providers are going to treat a potentially worldchanging event, then I want nothing to do with them.

I refer, of course, to the “Occupy Wall Street” event that is currently sweeping major economic centres around the world, starting in the United States and expanding outward to include Canada, Britain, France, Japan, and other nations.

If I had the funds, I’d be in Toronto with a picket sign of my own. If you haven’t heard about this event yet then you haven’t been paying attention or, in the case of all major mainstream media providers, you’ve been pointedly staying away from the topic.

Reported last week in our fourth issue of this year’s Meliorist, the movement has been going on for over a week at the time this piece is written. Thousands of citizens the world over have moved into the main business centres of their respective countries (yes, this is even going on in Toronto) to protest capitalism and the unfair taxation laws that favour the wealthy and create an unbearable financial burden for the world’s middle and lower classes. That’s the movement in a nutshell: you’d think a protest this large would get noticed by the world’s media, but no; they have turned a blind eye to it. Why? Because they are owned and run by the mega-corps these people are protesting. Ouch. So wait, the definition of responsible journalism must have changed while I wasn’t looking… let’s see.

Oh yes. According to these media giants, the definition must now be e-mails that contained the Twitter “to report on only those things that occupy wall street website.They a) sell papers/services, b) make us have since fallen back on an look amazing, and c) don’t support explanation something along public thought.” the lines of, “it Looks like the New was a technical York Times and glitch, sorry,” every other major and claim that …the real people of newspaper in North the problem has America agree. The this world without a since been fixed most telling thing leg to stand on. but there may be about all the silence “some residual is that there literally difficulty.” Anyone is silence about this who buys that movement. story can put their heads back in It is time, therefore, for people to the sand. Despite more than 150 start asking why the world’s media separate hash tags on Twitter for have side-stepped this movement this event, and about a half-zillion when public outcry for change Facebook groups, almost nothing is such a rare occurrence. Does appears on the main pages and it possibly have something to do certainly nothing appears on with their parent companies being people’s walls. So much for these the ones under protest? This is, in services being “for the people.” most probability, the biggest case I think they confused us with of corporate censorship that the profits again. Oh well, that seems world has ever experienced. to happen a lot in this corporateWait? Corporate censorship? I centric world of ours. thought only governments censored Why does this one bother me so things! much on a personal level? Who Hells no! Yahoo e-mail service cares, right? Wrong. The Internet provider appears to have even is marketed to the public as a confiscated and refused to send free domain of expression, so if

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JOSHUA HAS IT RIGHT! Editor, Congratulations to the Meliorist (21 September 2011) for publishing more truth about 9/11 than has The New York Times! One of the most stunning indications of the CIA and the Mossad’s domination of the American press has been its utter failure to come to grips with evidence that demonstrates beyond any reasonable doubt that the US government has been misleading the world about those events, which Scholars for 9/11 Truth, a research society founded in 2005, have now demonstrated in spades (“20 reasons the ‘official account’ of 9/11 is wrong”, Veterans Today 10 September 2011).

To offer a few illustrations in support of Joshua Blakeney’s report, we have been told that the Twin Towers “collapsed”; but they are being blown apart from the top down, not collapsing, as anyone who takes a good look at what happened can see for themselves. The force of gravity exerts its force by drawing mass downward in one direction, while explosives blow mass in all

directions, as obviously took place. If the government and NIST can lie to us about such an obvious aspect of 9/11 there is no end to its deceit and deception.

The planes pose other apparent problems. Flights 11 and 77, which are alleged to have hit the North Tower and the Pentagon, were not even scheduled to fly that day. The planes corresponding to Flights 93 and 175, which allegedly crashed in Shanksville and hit the South Tower, were not de-registered by the FAA until 28 September 2005.

But how can planes that were never in the air have crashed and how can planes that crashed have still been in the air four years later? The 9/11 Commission Report doesn‘t ask and doesn’t tell, one more indication that we are being sold a mess of pottage.

Elias Davidsson, a very meticulous scholar, has demonstrated that the government has never proven that any of the hijackers were on board any of those planes. David Ray Griffin has shown that all of the phone calls from all four flights

were faked. Col. George Nelson, USAF (ret.), an air crash expert, has observed that, even though there were millions of uniquely identifiable component parts from those four planes, the government has yet to produce even one! And when an FBI official was asked why, for the first time in its history, the NTSB had not investigated any of the alleged crashes, he replied that it wasn’t necessary “because we saw it on television”.

But we didn’t see what happened in Shanksville on television. We did not see what hit the Pentagon on television. And what we did see on television about the North and the South Tower hits are chock full of anomalies (“Inside Job: More Proof of 9/11 Duplicity”, Veterans Today 11 July 2011). The plane shown in the South Tower hit, for example, is traveling at an impossible speed for a Boeing 767 and makes an entry into the building in violation of Newton’s laws. It even passes though its own length into the building in the same number of frames it passes through its own length in

air—which is impossible, unless a 500,000 ton building poses no more resistance to a plane’s trajectory than air! Something is wrong with these videos.

Philip Zelikow, Executive Director of The 9/11 Commission, had as his area of academic specialization the creation and maintenance of public myths! That is correct: public myths, which I was astonished to discover when I consulted his entry in Wikipedia, which I have archived on the Scholars web site at http://911scholars Go to “Articles”, then “General Articles”, and you will find it among the first on that page.

Zelikow had actually completed a draft of the report a year before he shared it with any members of his staff and, it would appear, without the benefit of an investigation. I guess, like the FBI, he didn’t think it was necessary, “because we saw it on television”.

James H. Fetzer, Ph.D. McKnight Professor Emeritus University of Minnesota Duluth Founder, Scholars for 9/11 Truth

I am appalled but cannot say I’m shocked that you printed an opinion piece by Joshua Blakeney that based on dubious premises, distortion, and “good” old-fashioned bigotry.

As a believer in personal liberties, I believe in his right to his own opinion and the freedom of press but I do not believe his opinion has the right to go unchallenged.

One of the things I noticed is that he gave us a lot of names but not many facts. What makes these people he cites experts, and how do I know he’s not using them because they conveniently reflect his own ideology? Simply put, I don’t.

However, what really put his “fact”

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into question is the intellectually lazy practice of using the United States and Israel as scapegoats.

Neither the USA nor Israel is a paragon of virtue—no nation on this planet is—but the usage of terms like “imperialism”, “Zionist”, and “globalization” undermines his argument because they are loaded terms, a huge logical fallacy. Though I’m not expert on Middle Eastern politics but my observation of the Jewish people are this: they are survivors. They survived centuries of dispersal, persecution, and genocide; Israel not only survived four wars against their neighbours but also won their right to exist over and over.

What have the Palestinians done

to build a state since that? Take their own mentally disabled to use as unwilling suicide bombers against security checkpoints and fire rockets at five-year-olds and the elderly and Sderot. With a population of eight million it is impossible for Israel to force hegemony amongst its neighbours (as Turkey and Iran aspire to accomplish); all it can do is defend itself against any attack because they are a highly intelligent and motivated nation. Unlike their neighbours, where women have fewer rights and religious minorities face extermination on a daily basis, the Israelis respect the inalienable human rights of their citizens, both Jewish and Arab.

I did some research on Mr. Blakeney myself and uncovered some YouTube videos of him haranguing Peter Mansbridge with his conspiracy theories last year, and of him harassing a reporter from the CBC. The irony of this is that he claims to be a champion of the oppressed but resorts to shouting down his opponents to drown them out. Such behaviour is unacceptable in a civilized discourse and only serves to damage what little credibility he has left.

Scepticism and dissent is healthy for every democracy but Mr. Blakeney would do well to remember that his perspective is not beyond reproach.

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Is sick of inhaling cigarette smoke everytime id rather not inhale smoke at any outdoor space around the university….:

I never would have noticed. Can I buy you a drink sometime to show my appreciation?

Who wears plaid? Lumberjacks. I am not a hipster. STOP calling me a hipster. I am a lumberjack.

Love Climbing? The UofL climbing club is starting up again and are having our first meeting on monday sept 26th at 7pm in anderson hall 117 Come check it out!

To the cute red head at the chapter house parties, keep flashing that sexy smile, we love having you around.

The K-Sig Boys.

To the curly-haired science-nerd natureloving boy with the boney knuckles… you’re a riot Thanks for asking me out a month ago.

The triplets arent french

Where is the penis/vagina artwork? Bring back the controversy art students!

Turn your music down on level 9 of the LINC center. It’s incredibly audible to those of us attempting to utilize this designated quiet area.

Props to the guy in the library who found it necessary to yawn at top-volume every 30 seconds. Strange. Please turn it down.

It’s modern in the lonely world.

Tip to the boy in my class: If I’m avoiding you by any means necessary, it means STOP HITTING ON ME. Hey, you know what would be awesome? If we could actually print PDFs at school without it being a total failure thanks to the assbackwards printing system.

Dear Meliorist\People: Stop writing about all this 9\11 conspiracy bullshit, it dishonours the victims of that day. Go and find a real hobby, or do something productive instead Unicorn hunting. Why is it so damn hard?

I wish there were an easier way to find one.

Meliorist needs to step up on their editing…!

Please tell me that the Uni isn’t getting rid of the couch-chairs in W – there’s already a lack of comfy spots to read/lounge between classes!

Fact: Nice guys are NOT always ugly, cute guys are NOT always mean, and nice and cute guys are NOT always gay.

Sincerely, Straight, Cute, and Nice guy.

Hello Canada! I’m on exchange in Belgium – learning there is seriously no place like home! Missin’ all of you but defs not the wind. Special love to K.K. and D.S. my Elkford loves!

Dear blue eyed, dark curly hair, bearded man in psych 2700-N, I want to have your blue eyed babies! sincerely, blue eyed girl behind you

open and holding it’s grand opening.

September 30th, 8pm, SU Ballrooms.

Cost? 2 dollars or a non-perishable food item. You should be there!

This years RAs need to get their $hit together. Almost October and no movie channel?? Boo . It,s usually up by move in date in sept! Not cool guys. Do your job.

“I’m always thinking one step ahead…

Like a carpenter who makes stairs.”

My couch pulls out, I dont.

To the couple in computer science 1000 MWF 2-250. Please keep your hands to yourself and above the table for the 50 minutes we are there, cause I do not appreciate PDA in class

From fat chick: gym lowers IQ too much, overly-populated with fellatrixes wearing too much makeup trying to get roidmonkeys to notice them

Now kids, much like how you can determine a tree’s age by its rings, you can also judge the level of “party” in a person by the length of the mullet. Write that down.

Dear Captain Sweatpants, its lulu lemon season until first midterms at the earliest, please make that fine behind available to use once again!Sincerely, all guys on campus

The best way to get over someone is to get under someone else.

R.I.P. the 2,976 American people that lost their lives on 9/11 and R.I.P. the 48,644 Afghan, 1,690,903 Iraqi people and 35000 pakistanis. That paid the ultimate price for a crime they did not commit.

Thinking about applying for the ULSU CRO position. Just to confirm it’s okay for me to be engaging in sexual intercourse with candidates right?

I met this guy last studio thursday but he doesn’t look as hot as he did with my beer goggles on

Academic Advising takes a lot of hate but I’d just like to thank them for helping me out. Stress levels are way down thanks to you :D

And the Flying Spaghetti cameth over to the poor, hungry university student and said to thee, “May you not go hungry, eat from my noodly appendages!” -FSM

I wish night classes ended ten minutes earlier. You choose between staying the full class or getting to the bus on time so you’re not stuck on the west side for an extra hour.

HONEY BADGER DONT GIVE A SH!T !!!

What is the CBC club? and why are their leaders so kinky?

FIST PUMPS! PUSH UPS!! CHAP STICK!!!

To the guy who told me about my low tire, turns out there was a nail in it and

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Keep calm and chive on.

Oh me oh my! The PRIDE Center is finally

Dude: the study center is NOT for listening to 1980s opera music on a speaker. They invent devices such as ear-phones.

Sincerely, someone trying to do actual work.

Blonde girl who drives a burgandy honda civic in lot n, please stop picking your nose and actually drive…

Who cares what you wear to the gym. A tuxedo shirt is fine. You’re not at the gym to look good, you are there to workout and sweat. Damn guidos

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Horoscopes Mackenzie King

The Cord (Wilfrid Laurier University)

Leo (July 23 to Aug. 22) You’re going to have a great weekend. Use protection. You’re going to want future classmates, just not so soon.

Virgo (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) Start acting a little more like Lil’ Wayne. He’s famous and you’re not; it just seems like a good idea. Take it easy on the codeine though, nobody wants you going all Amy Winehouse on us.

Libra (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) You will have a full week this week. Each day will last 24 hours, and there will be seven days total. When walking, you’ll probably be putting one foot in front of the other. This week you’ll find yourself drinking water each day. A full week indeed, but because of this

you’ll find yourself wanting to just lie down and sleep at least once each day.

Scorpio (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) Forget about filtering yourself. Always say exactly what comes to mind no matter what the consequence. Inevitably, you’ll find yourself in one of two possible scenarios: you go to jail for slander, or you land a spot on the new season of Jersey Shore Canada.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Be more reserved this next week. Like, I wasn’t going to say anything, but like, Kimmie is totally pissed about what you’ve been saying about her. Just like, chill, okay?

Capricorn (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) You’ve done a lot of great things in your lifetime; now its time to see some return.

Find everyone that you’ve once done a favour for and ask for compensation in dollars. Time isn’t free and who should have to suffer for

your good deeds? You? I don’t think so, sista.

Aquarius (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) Aspire to do great things this upcoming weekend — life-altering things. If that opportunity doesn’t present itself, settle for frightening one of your roommates.

Pisces (Feb. 19 to March 20) It’s called 1-800-GOT-JUNK, figure it out. If you want your roommates to stop threatening to start a university-themed Hoarders reality show you should use these people. Seriously, when was the last time you impressed someone by showing them your sixth-grade Hello Kitty collection?

Aries (March 21 to April 19) You will be full of social energy today: asking plenty of questions, striking conversation wherever you go. Try to watch out, that shit gets annoying after a while.

Taurus (April 20 to May 20) You’re the type of person that finds excitement wherever you go. This is probably because your personality is exciting. However it could be because your childhood was painfully drab. Remember this when you become ecstatic over cable TV. Or better yet, have a friend remind you.

Gemini (May 21 to June 20) You will encounter a somewhat noxious situation this month. This will be mere moments after you discover the definition for noxious. Hint: it’s not pleasant.

Cancer (June 21 to July 22) Have one less drink at the next kegger you go to. Make that three. No, more than that.

Avoid keggers entirely. On second thought, just join the Buffs — you’ll fit right in.

The ten class commandments Mercedes Mueller

What shalt thou do in class?

The Fulcrum

OTTAWA (CUP) — Are you tired of the same asinine antics in the classroom lecture after lecture?

Despite the many articles, blog posts and Facebook status updates I’ve seen bemoaning bad behavior — not to mention the number of dirty looks and eye rolls I’ve personally dished out to offenders — it seems like some students skipped Classroom Etiquette 101.

So, once and for all, I have taken it upon myself to codify a set of rules to govern the classroom — a timeless collection of “don’ts” to protect our institutions of higher learning from complete obliviousness and idiocy. And as for dealing with those select students who still think they are above the law, I’ve come up with some suggestions for all you legit learners out there who long to put them in their place.

Thou shalt not show up late for class You know the drill. Latey McLate-Late makes his excessively loud entrance into the classroom 15 minutes late every class. And even though everyone can count on his latecoming like clockwork, it’s impossible not to look up and stare, disrupting the flow of the lecture every time. Punctuality is a virtue in the world of academia.

Teach ’em a lesson by: With a small group of surrounding students, attempt to tie the tardy kid to his desk after class. You can’t be late for class when you live in the classroom.

Thou shalt not pack up five minutes early Did you know that if students start packing up five minutes early ever class almost two lectures per semester are lost? That’s a lot of potential information — especially when professors have the tendency to say the most important things in the last five minutes because of this trend.

Teach ’em a lesson by: When the student next to you starts packing up their stuff early, unpack their stuff. They shut their notebook, you open it. They start to stand up, you pull them right back down into their seat. Be aggressive!

Thou shalt not take calls in class Unless you are expecting a call from the president of the world, your phone should not be answered, nor should it ring, in class.

It’s called vibrate, people, and did you forget every room has a door you can use to exit the class to a hallway where you can take the call and not disrupt 100 other students?

Teach ’em a lesson by: Whether the scenario was forged or not, the Internet-famed Angry Professor had the right idea when he smashed a student’s cell phone for taking a call.

Thou shalt not correct the professor’s spelling mistakes — unless it’s an English professor Nothing is more obnoxious than trying to get through a lecture in microeconomic theory and having a student raise their hand in order to correct the professor’s spelling or grammar.

Honestly. We all know the professor meant to write “better than set,” not “better then set.” So unless you are the Oxford dean of homophones, shut up!

Repeat after me: Thou shalt ask questions when something is not understood — chances are half of your classmates are also confused.

Thou shalt answer questions when the professor asks them — because that awkward two-minute silence is painful for everyone.

Thou shalt raise relevant points that are pertinent to course material — these actually enhance the learning of your classmates, and make for interesting breaks in the lecture.

Thou shalt participate in class discussions — if you don’t, you are just encouraging the 10-minute monologues given by Sir Talks-a-Lot. Thou shalt enjoy every class — because university beats a big kid job, mortgage payments and the real world any day.

Teach ’em a lesson by: These students need a taste of their own medicine. Raise your hand and correct that student’s speech. Proceed to correct this student every time he or she talks in class. Believe me, it’s kids like these that are the most prone to destroying the English language.

Thou shalt not eat obnoxiously large and smelly meals in class Even if you are about to enter your thirdstraight class of the afternoon after skipping breakfast, your equally starving classmates should never have to watch you down an elaborate three-course hot meal you’ve been saving for dinner — complete with dessert and wet naps. It’s torturous, distracting and, for some reason, always unnecessarily loud and smelly.

Teach ’em a lesson by: You reserve the right to knock their food off the desk. That, or feel free to help yourself. Sharing is caring, after all!

Thou shalt not dominate class discussion I once had a professor for a fourth-year seminar class state that an “excellent” participation grade in his class required a student to “take care not to dominate class discussion.” This is the golden rule for class participation. If your seminar class is starting to feel like your own personal talk show, you are violating the rule. Proceed to shut your mouth and try to learn from someone else, including your professor, for a change.

Teach ’em a lesson by: Any time a student is dominating class discussion, get the class to perform a group shun. This involves waving your arm in a motion that creates an invisible shield between you and the student and saying, “Shun!” When the student gets the point, feel free to “Unshun” him or her a la Dwight Shrute. It truly is a slap of silence.

Thou shalt not kiss ass in class Everyone hates a kiss-ass know-it-all that’s always trying to impress the pants off the professor. For the last time, kids, that’s what office hours are for! What better place to discuss the intimate details of Wendt’s Social Theory of International Politics than in a comfortable office away from the students who can barely pronounce “mutually constitutive?”

Because, believe me, the rest of us dummies don’t want to hear it.

Teach ’em a lesson by: Bringing brown paint to class and making a point to smear it all over their already brown nose.

Thou shalt not ask ridiculous questions about course content Don’t waste the professor’s or your classmates’ time with frivolous questions the first class.

Examples of this include asking questions that are explicitly answered on the syllabus you were just handed; asking questions about an assignment when you are told you will be given more instructions in the following weeks; and any question, reformulated in any way, demanding to know what is on the final exam.

Teach ’em a lesson by: Always bring rotten tomatoes to the first class of the year. They won’t go to waste.

Thou shalt not ask ridiculous questions — ever Beyond asking your professor to rehash the course syllabus in your hands, it is also annoying to have pointless questions raised in class. This is not to say all questions are bad questions, however, there is such a thing as a bad question. These include questions you already know the answer to, questions your professor can’t possibly know the answer to, and questions no one gives a fuck as to what the answer is.

Teach ‘em a lesson by: You could resort to the rotten tomato gag above, but another idea involves a lasso, good aim and a strong arm.

Be creative.

Thou shalt not ask for notes when thou are never in class Everyone has to miss a class the odd time, but don’t be the student that skips every other class only to demand notes from a total stranger. It’s inconsiderate and, unfortunately, the hard-working student too often obliges the slacker in these requests.

Teach ’em a lesson by: Strategically alter your notes so the key information in the lecture notes is false. That, or just straight up tell them to fuck off.

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Magic Unicorn eye-spy game

Crossword

Meliorist Staff

Hey friends. Beth drew us this great picture of a Unicorn last week, and we thought it was so good, we should print it twice.

Here’s the thing though, the other magic unicorn is hidden somewhere deep within the pages of The Meliorist. If you have a sharp eye, and feel adventuresome we think you should go looking for it.

Hey if you find it, you should email us at info@themeliorist.ca, and we’ll put your name into a draw for a magical prize! Good hunting everyone.

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