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Tuition going up, again

According to the Ministry of Education, these are the annual tuition fees for arts programs for full-time domestic students at the various institutions across B.C. TRU vice president of administration and finance Matt Milovick: “There isn’t an institution that isn’t taking the two per cent [tuition increase] allowable.”

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Budget Committee votes to raise tuition another two per cent next year Jessica Klymchuk Ω News Editor The Budget Committee of the Senate (BCOS) recently agreed to raise tuition and ancillary fees by two per cent for 2014/2015.

Provincial government policy limits tuition fee increases to two per cent annually.

Since 2005, tuition fees have increased by 193 per cent, according to TRUSU. Vice president of administration and finance Matt Milovick said TRU is looking at a $1.7 million to $2 million increase in costs next year, just from inf lation. He said the salary lift by increasing tuition by two per cent is only $600,000.

“That two per cent on tuition doesn’t cover the university’s

inf lation rate costs across the board,” he said at a BCOS meeting on March 11.

Liz Whiting, TRUSU Aboriginal representative, is a BCOS member and made sure to voice her opposition to the increase at the March 11 meeting. Whiting said the university is not holding up its end of the bargain to operate more efficiently. It’s running a deficit and still relying on tuition fee increases.

Revenue from student fees in 2010/2011 represented 34.9 per cent of total revenue, according to TRUSU. The student union has also reported that universities of the Research University Council of British Columbia generated an average of 25.1 percent of their total revenue from fees.

Out of the 25 publically funded post-secondary institutions in

B.C., TRUSU claims that TRU is the third most reliant on fee revenue.

“I’d like to highly speak against this,” Whiting said.

“Now that we are starting to look long term we’re going to see in reality that students aren’t going to be able to afford this.”

“That’s grocery money, gas money. That’s a trip home to my parents. That’s what that money is to me. To you it might be nothing but to me it is quite a bit,” Whiting told the committee.

“Your point is well taken about the university being more efficient with costs and we’re certainly trying to do that but, on the revenue side, I don’t want to put the university in a position where we have a structural deficit because we’re not taking the maximum allowable,” Milovick responded.

TRUSU president Dylan Robinson said although tuition fee increases are devastating to students, there has to be a focus on the underlying reason for them: lack of provincial funding.

Although TRU is still on the lower end of tuition fee costs, its provincial funding is also less than most institutions in B.C. and declining, which means fees are increasing every year.

Robinson said since TRU became a university in 2004/2005, its per student funding has decreased from $10,897 to $8,207 last year and is now at an all time low. He said TRU students receive 35 per cent less funding than the average Canadian student and $6,000 less per student than other B.C. universities with a similar mandate.

Milovick also cited provincial

grant funding as one of the main reasons for tuition hikes.

“If there’s lobbying to be done, it has to be done at the provincial level because our level of grant funding is considerably lower than other institutions in the province, so we’re not getting our equitable share, well, what we think is equitable share on a per student basis,” he said at the BCOS meeting.

Milovick said the government funding is historically based.

“We are sensitive to the fact that this increases costs to students, but on the f lip side we are publically funded and when the funding isn’t coming, to maintain our quality, we have to take the increases where we can,” he said.

“There isn’t an institution that isn’t taking the two per cent allowable.”

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March 12, 2014

Torn between countries A new generation of transnational students are rewriting the rules of citizenship Shannon Baldwin Ω The Eyeopener (Ryerson) TORONTO (CUP) —Her home could no longer be where she lived.

It could no longer be the country she was from. Everything from her life in Chile was either packed up or left behind. Nicole Castillo Guerrero, her mother and older brother were moving to Canada to make a better life for their family. But their first Canadian home was not large or glamorous.

They lived in a basement in their aunt’s home in Etobicoke in Greater Toronto.

When Castillo Guerrero, now a third-year social work student at Ryerson University in Toronto, moved to Canada 12 years ago, no one in her immediate family could speak English. Her mother had to work whatever odd job she could get through family connections to support them — often working two or three jobs a day. But she was determined to be self-sufficient and within a few months, they were able to move out of the basement and into an apartment of their own.

Moving out was the first accomplishment on their list of things to achieve as a family in Canada, but their longest running goal wouldn’t be achieved until August 2013 — her entire family received Canadian citizenships.

“It was a big deal, we were all so relieved and so happy because it’s a thing you’ve been working towards since you come to Canada,” Castillo Guerrero said. “Even though it’s a piece of paper, it represents that you accomplished one of the goals you had coming into the country.”

For an increasing number of Toronto students, becoming a Canadian citizen is high on their priority list. Coordinator of International Student Services Diana Ning says 80 to 90 per cent – depending on the year – of Ryerson’s international students are interested in becoming permanent residents and the number of people who become citizens increases annually. The majority of this 80 to 90 per cent will eventually apply for their citizenship.

“A lot of people see Canada as a place of opportunities and a representation of multiculturalism,” Ning says.

But while there are an increasing number of students applying to get and ready to get their Canadian citizenships, feeling Canadian may be the

harder process. It can take a long time to truly become a proud Canadian, Ning says. It took almost 15 years for Jack Everett, a third-year acting-program student attending George Brown College in Toronto, to feel this sense of Canadian identity.

“Deep down I’m American, which is crazy,” Everett says.

“It’s the memories that make it home, but if I were to go back to live in the States, I would say I’m Canadian.” Everett is still waiting to be sworn in but he says he “is ready to be a Canadian.”

Yet, Castillo Guerrero says she will never feel Canadian.

Even though she has no intention of going back to her country of origin or living anywhere other than Canada, Castillo Guerrero says she will continue to identify as Chilean.

“I think that for me it’s always going to be a thing where I identify so much with my background and identify so much with my experiences as an immigrant that it’s not important to identify as a Canadian,” Castillo Guerrero says.

“Many people do want to assimilate as quickly as possible,” sociology professor Camille Hernandez Ramdwar says. ”You learn to speak and act and move according to your context, but for me this is

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Nicole Castillo Guerrero, a Chilean-Canadian Ryerson student, says despite her citizenship, she’ll never feel truly Canadian.

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and that this inability to identify with one culture is common for many people.

Ning says that feeling a sense of Canadian pride does not mean forgetting your roots or feeling any less connected to them. Even Ning, who automatically lost her Chinese citizenship when she

I identify so much with my background ... that it’s not important to identify as a Canadian.”

—Nicole Castillo Guerrero, New Canadian citizen, Ryerson University student where we’re moving globally — increasingly into transnational people.”

Self-proclaimed transnational person, Hernandez-Ramdwar says that even she does not feel fully Canadian or fully connected to her Trinidad and Tobago roots

became Canadian, describes herself as a proud ChineseCanadian and encourages the increasing number of students interested in applying for their citizenship to go for it. Ramna Shahzad says she knew she wanted to apply for her Canadian

citizenship before even getting to Canada.

The third-year journalism student says she loves her Pakistani background and loved studying in the Middle East, but opportunities for post-secondary education were almost nonexistent for her if she stayed.

So, her family decided to move to Canada to provide better opportunities for her and her two older sisters.

“I got lucky with my Canadian citizenship,” Shahzad says. She applied for it immediately after her three-year probation period in Canada and got it almost exactly one year later. But her sisters haven’t had the same luck.

Although the three girls applied for their citizenship at the same time, when Shahzad got her confirmation of time to write the knowledge test, her sisters got a questionnaire that required further proof that they had created lives in Canada. Both of her sisters currently work at the Royal Bank of Canada. Shahzad says that getting her citizenship was exciting but also frustrating since “there was no particular reason given for why [her sisters] didn’t get it at the same time.”

Still, getting to celebrate Canada Day for the first time as a Canadian citizen was a special moment for Shahzad.

She says that while she watched fireworks and enjoyed time with her family, people kept coming up to her and congratulating

her on becoming Canadian and although it’s hard to define, she really did feel Canadian.

“Within a couple of years [living in Mississauga] I was at Ryerson and this is a really great place because there are so many immigrants and people from all over the world,” Shahzad says.

But even though Toronto is a mixing pot of cultural origins, Castillo Guerrero has never able to bridge the gap between feeling like an immigrant in Canada and feeling Canadian.

“I had different experiences growing up than my friends who were born in Canada, but that has to do a lot with the fact that we lived in a different class,” says Castillo Guerrero.

Even today Castillo Guerrero says the majority of her friends are immigrants who are from working class families because it’s easier for her to relate to them.

The surprising thing for Castillo Guerrero is that even though she feels like she can’t identify with being Canadian, when she goes back to Chile, her Chilean friends and family see her as Canadian.

The same thing has started to happen with Everett. When he goes to Florida to visit family, the mannerisms people use, which he once found normal, have become alien to him.

“Right when I hit Pearson Airport, when I see our city streets and I see downtown, I know I’m home.”

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Editor’s Note Mike Davies Ω Editor-in-Chief On March 17, 2014, the government of France imposed a driving ban on people who had license plates ending in an even number (because it was the 17th, so only odd-numbered plates were allowed on the road) to combat their sudden smog issue caused by temperature inversions and other climate and weather-caused issues. Odd numbered plates would have been banned the next day, obviously.

“With unseasonably warm days, cool nights and little wind,

pollutants had settled in high concentrations over Paris and about 30 other French cities, especially in northern France,” according to the New York Times article on the driving ban.

Drivers caught on the road with a license plate ending in an even number received a fine of about $30, and by 10:30 a.m. on the day the ban went into effect, approximately 3,000 drivers had already been stopped.

The driving ban came into effect four days into public transportation (including city bicycles, which normally are for rent) being free in an attempt to get people to drive less and curb the exhaust issue.

The weather is expected to play its part soon and the pollution will move off, at which point the government will lift its driving ban and public transportation will go back to its full cost to users.

My question is this: Why? They obviously realize that the pollution is due to excessive amounts of vehicle exhaust, but don’t see a problem with that situation normally, because it’s dissipating instead of hanging around.

Why not just leave that

Students need to vote Jesse Colautti The Fulcrum (U of Ottawa) HAMILTON (CUP) — In the 2011 Canadian federal election, the ages 18–24-year-old students came in with the lowest voter turnout rate. This age group only had 38.8 per cent voter turnout and is embarrassing for these Canadians.

University students, along with other young adults, should be lining up at the polling stations.

This is the mindset all Canadians should have. They should want to play an active role in this democratic and free country. This age category specifically is filled with university students, college students, high school students and recent high school graduates who entered directly into the workforce.

All of these different demographics of young voters are important for the country’s economy, making them an important asset to the government. The age group of 18– 24 are arguably the most affected citizens through government action plans and legislature. That being said, why don’t they care enough to go to the polling station?

Shouldn’t everyone want to have influence in what is being done at the parliamentary level?

In the recent federal budget there were many key points that affect young citizens, from fostering job creation, innovation and trade, as well as the government battling youth unemployment. These are many ways the government directly affects the 18-24 demographic, yet young people don’t care. Toronto’s

mayor is smoking crack, the Ontario budget deficit is through the roof and yet young people still don’t care. But that video of Rob Ford running into a camera has how many likes on Facebook?

The youth’s ideology of politics is inane; on Facebook everyone bashes the current senate filled with scandal, and then glorify Rob Ford, who recently went on Jimmy Kimmel Live.

One of the biggest reasons found proving a lack of voter turnout rate (regardless of the age category) is insufficient education and knowledge. Coming from a generation who lives on the computer, and never leaves home without their phone, shouldn’t we be the most educated on current events?

Seemingly, we should be the most educated on these topics because we’re the ones in the classrooms, spending their days at the libraries.

Therefore a Canadian university student has no excuse not knowing the candidates running for the positions.

It’s a day-to-day battle for the federal government to gain interest across all age demographics in a free nation like Canada. To gather up excitement for an election is not an easy task. In the last federal election young voters saw an increase in voter turnout rate through the movement behind Jack Layton of the NDP. It seems to be apparent that youth need to be voting for a personable leader rather than for the political party filled with old white guys.

restriction in place? If people want to pay a whole bunch of fines to be able to drive every day instead of taking public transit, then let their fines supplement the public transit coffers or something.

I mean, you’d have to figure out the economics of having a permanent, half time driving availability legislation (like how to charge for insurance when people effectively only get to use their vehicles half the time), but it couldn’t be that complicated. There are economists and math people out there, after all.

Why wait until you can’t breathe to do something about the air?

It reminds me of watering bans here in B.C. If I remember correctly, when I lived on Vancouver Island, you could only water your lawn on even days if your house address was an even number and on odd days if it’s an odd number.

But by my recollection, it was just during periods of drought or water shortages.

Pretty sure it’s the same here in the interior.

This just doesn’t make sense to me. If there’s a water shortage and you can just use half as much, then

Justin Trudeau seems to be gaining speed with the oncoming election.

There are many opposing arguments to why Canadians don’t vote. Ontario residents saw this through the option for political reform in the 2007 provincial referendum. The option given to the people was for electoral reform — how the citizens should elect members to the provincial legislature.

To this day Ontario uses a first past the post system, which is based on the election results of individual electoral ridings. The proposed change was to institute a mixed-member proportional electoral system. It resulted with 63 per cent of Ontario residents voting to keep it the same way, and only 37 percent to change it. Therefore, it is unlikely the electoral system is the reason for lack of political participation.

The overall federal government voter turnout rate has been in steady decline since 1984 — when it hit 75 per cent — with few exceptions until 2011, when it came in at 61 per cent.

Therefore it is pivotal for the overall outcome of Canada that university students need to start caring about the election process.

These students will be around for on average the next 60 plus years, that could translate into 12 federal elections or more. If they don’t care to vote, that is a lot of wasted political freedom.

The prime minister and elected members of parliament control how the country is run, don’t you want a say in it?

why did you need to use twice as much when there wasn’t?

Why do we wait until resources are scarce to start preserving them?

I’d personally be all for legislating driving to an every-other-day-percar type scenario to improve the air quality (not to mention the traffic issues) in Kamloops, why wouldn’t they want to do it in places that occasionally have to do it so that people can breathe.

Well, I’m theoretically in favour of such a scenario. They’d have to make some serious improvements to the Kamloops transit system for it to be feasible for people here, and have bus drivers that didn’t hate their lives and take it out on those who use the system, but that’s another column for another time.

This one’s about using less if and when you can.

Put fewer emissions into the air when you can. Use less water when you can. Waste less packaging when you can.

Maybe if we do that a little more often in general, we won’t run up against being forced to do it every now and then to recover from our indulgence. editor@truomega.ca

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Uganda to Kamloops An immigrant doctor’s frustrations to bring her important work to the people of her new home Karla Karcioglu Ω Roving Editor Jacinta Oyella grew up in Uganda where she worked as an HIV/AIDS specialist. She decided to work in medicine after watching her cousin, her childhood best friend, die from malaria in the 1980s. Oyella was devastated that there was nothing she or any of her family could do to help him.

“From that moment, my life changed,” Oyella said during her presentation on March 11 at this year’s TRU International Days. “I know I could do more than I ever thought.”

She vowed to make the world a better place for those who were suffering.

Oyella wanted to become a doctor because of what had happened to her cousin. She also credits her grandfather for distilling in her the spirit of giving and helping those in need. She decided she wanted to become a specialist so she could thoroughly understand the issues faced by people in her country.

During her presentation, she recounted a day that rebel forces came to her high school to abduct girls. She said the rebels had gone to the wrong school. They wanted the school for younger girls because they realized that most of the girls Oyella’s age already had HIV or AIDS. Oyella said in total, 42 girls were abducted, two were later killed and the rest were released.

Oyella explained that in primary schools in Uganda and across Africa, there are typically posters on HIV/ AIDS hanging in the schools and a learning curriculum in place to help educate students.

Uganda had a population of 36 million in 2012 according to the World Health Organization. At that time UNICEF estimated that 1.5 million people in Uganda were living with HIV. Oyella attended Makerere University in Uganda and achieved a bachelor’s degree in medicine and surgery. She then completed an internship with a local hospital and a master’s degree of internal medicine.

After a fellowship with the AIDS International Training Research program and a paper published by the AIDS Society, Oyella helped open an urban antiretroviral therapy clinic for migrant workers who are notable transmitters of the disease.

When she moved to Canada with her husband, Oyella knew the transition wouldn’t be easy. She would have to put her career on hold in order and prioritize her family.

She knew she would have to reestablish herself and her career, but she didn’t realize that none of her education and skills would be recognized in Canada.

It’s a problem faced by many immigrants according to Rajinder Lotay, a settlement and adaptation counsellor for Kamloops Immigrant Services.

HIV/AIDS affects the lives of millions in Uganda and across Africa.

Lotay said that she has dealt with many immigrants who struggle to find equivalent work in Canada despite the education and skills they have achieved in foreign countries.

She has seen many immigrants leave the country because they cannot afford to stay in Canada.

Oyella said that she understands the need to gain soft skills, such as language, as well as new skills to get certified in Canada, but that the process has been a very frustrating

struggle. “It’s tough because you have a balance of putting food on the table for your family and studying,” Oyella said.

She appreciates the support she has received from people within the Kamloops community, but feels that the government could do more to improve the process, especially since Canada has a limited number of health care professionals.

Oyella told the audience that it was very difficult for her to stand at

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TRU that day and talk about HIV/ AIDS while back home the Ugandan government had recently introduced a new anti-gay law, which has led several European nations to cut their funding to the country.

Oyella said she is concerned about what this will mean for HIV/ AIDS research and programs that are funded by international donors and believes it is a step in the wrong direction for eliminating the disease in Uganda.

The world’s most stigmatizing disease Philippines doctor wants to rekindle interest and research on leprosy Karla Karcioglu Ω Roving Editor Much of the world has neglected the discussion surrounding leprosy since the success of multi-drug therapy treatments in the 1980s, according to

Arturo Cunanan, a doctor specializing in leprosy. His TRU International Days talk was meant to re-ignite global discussions about the disease.

Cunanan, also a consultant for the World Health Organization (WHO) in South-Pacific Asia, sourced data from

the WHO which shows that globally, new cases of leprosy have remained static for the past 10 years. Cunanan said he believes the numbers will remain the same throughout the next decade.

He said that due to eradication in most first world countries, interest, research

and funding for the disease has declined.

He hopes to preserve not only the history of leprosy but also the continued research into the disease.

Cunanan called it the world’s most stigmatizing disease and that the Bible influenced false perceptions about it being sinful. The debilitating disfigurements caused by leprosy only increase the stigma. Cunanan called it a social and economic disease, rather than a public health concern.

After the second leprosy conference was held in Bergen, Norway in 1909, involuntary isolation and separation of parents and children was recommended and became the norm in many countries.

Cunanan said isolation was readily accepted because Norway had notable decline in the spread of the disease.

Many countries ceased isolation in the 1960s. Japan continued isolation until the 1990s.

Cunanan said there are still many false perceptions and misunderstandings about leprosy, globally. Cunanan explained that it is a mildly communicable disease and is spread through the respiratory system, from repeated contact with infected persons. The disease has an average incubation period of three to five years and is a curable disease with a high prognosis if it is detected early, and a low mortality rate.

Leprosy can be detected early by skin sores or lumps. Unfortunately due to the stigmatization of leprosy, most people do not seek treatment until disfigurement has begun. By that time, the disabling

disfigurement cannot be undone.

Many factors will influence the spread of leprosy from person to person, including the strength of the immune system, duration and proximity to infected persons and the amount of bacteria within a host. Cunanan said there are still unanswered question about possible genetic factors of susceptibility. He added that humans are naturally immune to the disease and approximately five to 10 per cent of those exposed are infected.

Since the discovery of the biological makeup of leprosy in 1897, scientists have not been able to grow the disease in a laboratory without a human hosts, Cunanan said. Leprosy is also carried by armadillos, found throughout parts of South America.

There is no vaccine against leprosy, something Cunanan hopes more researchers will become interested in.

Since leprosy and tuberculosis share a similar biological makeup, there has been some research into whether the vaccine for tuberculosis could lead to a vaccine for leprosy. Multi-drug therapies have led to some drug resistant leprosy.

Eradication of the disease altogether would require the eradication of human and animal hosts.

Cunanan said there is still a lot that is unknown about leprosy.

He hopes to influence research partnerships, build more experts in the field by increasing interest and shift the emphasis to prevention instead of treatment of leprosy.

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International Days

Genocide survivor inspires

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A survivor of a horrific war at a young age, Clemantine Wamariya was full of life and joy as she shared her story at TRU Karla Karcioglu Ω Roving Editor In April 1994, a genocide occurred in Rwanda. The Hutus, the majority local ethnic group, began a slaughter of the Tutsis, a minority local ethnic group, killing 800,000 men, women and children and any Hutus who opposed the killings.

Clemantine Wamariya, this year’s keynote speaker for TRU International Days, was only six years old when the fighting began.

Wamariya remembers much of her childhood spent playing in her mother’s beautiful garden, living in a fantasyland filled with imaginary delights.

“When I learned someone was coming to kill us I did not understand,” Wamariya said.

As a child she understood death as God calling people to heaven and didn’t understand how someone could force people to go to God. “I just remember I was so scared… I was scared of something that I didn’t know.”

Her parents decided to send Wamariya and her older sister Claire Mukundente, only 16 at the time, to their grandparent’s house. When her sister realized that her grandparent’s house wasn’t safe either, she decided to leave with Wamariya.

Wamariya explained how she and her sister walked and even crawled for days across Africa,

without food, water or shelter.

They would sometimes sleep inside a bag that she described as something like an Ikea bag.

“When I saw the horror later on, I thought people were sleeping,” Wamariya said. “That’s how my sister explained it to me.”

When they finally arrived at the first refugee camp in Burundi, Wamariya even didn’t know what a refugee camp was, or what it meant to be a refugee. Soon her sister realized that the camp was not safe. There were no laws to protect women, especially little girls, Wamariya said.

“No one cares.”

There are not a lot of rules at a refugee camp, but the biggest rule was once you’re inside you are not allowed to leave, she said.

Somehow her sister managed to get them out and they once again walked alone across Africa.

Wamariya explained that each place they would visit would have its own unique language and culture and that the two sisters would have to adapt themselves to blend in. They would change their hair, their clothes, their language and their story so that people wouldn’t know they were refugees.

In the camps, Wamariya said she would play a game and visit random tents to see if she could find her family members inside.

During this time, she viewed the world like her mother’s garden – that, like each unique plant, each unique person was just striving to live.

Eventually the two arrived in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a place they felt safe, and Wamariya got to sleep in a house for the first time in two years.

Mukundente married and had her first child, but when things became turbulent again, they got on a boat to Tanzania.

Eventually the two ended up in Mozambique, where they moved into a refugee camp that Wamariya called “fancy.”

This camp offered refugees pasta and spaghetti, but refugees that had been there a long time were sick of eating the pasta. Wamariya laughed as she explained how her sister would cleverly take people’s pasta and sell it in the city, call it exclusive and high end, and then bring the money back and divide it among the refugees. Eventually, the two saved enough money to leave.

They brief ly returned to the Democratic Republic of Congo just as war broke out, and quickly left for Mozambique. Wamariya called it a “miracle” and “absolute pure chance” that they survived.

Unknown to Wamariya, her sister Mukundente was pregnant with her second child.

When they arrived in Zambia they found an organization that resettles refugees. Both sisters and Mukundente’s two children ended up in Chicago.

were reunited with their family for the first time, including two new siblings they’d never met.

After her talk, Wamariya invited each audience member to consider their own personal story and how we are all connected somehow through our stories.

Wa m a r i y a said she initially struggled to tell her story because she didn’t know how to tell someone struggling in America that they have it better. She couldn’t imagine telling someone in the projects that they have it better.

She couldn’t stand watching someone throw away half of a perfectly good pizza.

With the —Clemantine Wamariya, encouragement of Rwandan genocide survivor, a school teacher, Wamariya began Keynote, TRU International Days to open up and share her personal journey, saying “It’s your path, “The rest is history,” Wamariya it’s your journey. Own it.” said. “Because of a lot of love When an audience member and support, I am standing here asked how people in Canada today.” could help people in other “That life is not a life I would countries facing similar wish on anybody.” situations.

Wamariya and Mukundente “If you are doing for your were featured on The Oprah neighbour, you are doing good Winfrey Show in 2006 where they for everyone,” she answered.

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If you are doing for your neighbour, you are doing good for everyone,”

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March 12, 2014

Ancient ecological knowledge The importance of cultural knowledge for conservation Mark Hendricks Ω Science & Tech Editor It’s often thought that newer is better. We tend to favour modern science over ancient traditions, assuming that modern knowledge is superior. However, there is growing acceptance within the scientific community of the scientific relevance of the ecological knowledge of those who live so closely with the environment.

On Wednesday, March 11, as part of the International Days festivities, guest lecturer Prasit Wangpakapattanawong from Chiang Mai University in Thailand spoke about his research into native ecological practices in Thailand and the importance of this knowledge.

“Ethnobotany is not new, but it is becoming much more scientifically accepted,” Wangpakapattanawong said.

“Anything to do with how local people use their plants, including food, medicine, fuel, construction and ceremony.”

Wangpakapattanawong is interested in native ecology because he thinks that it is possible to incorporate native ecological knowledge into

western conservation practices.

Throughout his lecture, Wangpakapattanawong made numerous references to the First Nations people of Canada, comparing their traditional ecological knowledge to the ethnic groups in Northern Thailand.

“It doesn’t matter where we are in the world,” said Wangpakapattanawong with regards to the First Nations of Canada. “If the people live so close to nature, they know how to utilize it.”

Wangpakapattanawong found that despite the different ethnic groups that make up northern Thailand, those living in the same ecological areas adopt very similar ecological practices despite their cultural differences.

The traditional groups in Northern Thailand use a large variety of plants. For example, the Hmong women use 79 plants for female health in a wide variety of categories such as abdominal pain and fertility.

Despite this knowledge, Wangpakapattanawong’s research found that many of the traditional practices are dying out. In his research he has found that each successive generation possesses less knowledge of the beneficial uses of local plants than the

previous generation.

Wa n g p a k a p a t t a n awo n g blames the decline in traditional ecological knowledge on the fact that young people are leaving the mountain villages.

Huge oceans under our feet, giant hairy elephants roaming free once again, and bone reconstruction using 3D printing? Ω Science & Tech Editor

Underground oceans A recent discovery by scientists from the University of Alberta suggests the possibility of vast underground oceans within the Earth.

The discovery, if proved accurate, is quite significant. The only evidence supporting the claim are water molecules found within crystals from the Earth’s transition layer, about 550 km below the Earth’s crust.

“That particular zone in the Earth, the transition zone, might have as much water as all the world’s oceans put together,” said Graham Pearson, the scientist who made the discovery.

The crystal the water was found in is called ringwoodite. Ringwoodite is the most common mineral found in the transition layer. If all ringwoodite possesses water like

the crystal that was found, it could be a remarkable breakthrough in the Earth’s water supplies.

“It’s so small, this inclusion, it’s extremely difficult to find, never mind work on,” Pearson said. “So it was a bit of a piece of luck, this discovery, as are many scientific discoveries.”

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Printing bone replacements Stephen Power has become one of the first men to have facial reconstruction surgery using 3D-printed material at every stage of the procedure.

Power was in a motorcycle accident that left him in the hospital for four months with extensive facial damage.

Doctors were able to do a CT scan of his face, and, using a 3D printer, print off a symmetrical copy of the

A newly discovered mammoth remain could hold the secret to cloning the long extinct animal.

(Photo courtesy Joe Goldberg/Flickr Commons)

“The kids from the mountain villages are moving to the city and doing the jobs that we think are hard, working at gas stations and such,” Wangpakapattanawong said.

Wangpakapattanawong’s research focused on northern Thailand, an area of great cultural diversity.

This week in science Mark Hendricks

According to the villagers Wangpakapattanawong spoke to, the young generations aren’t interested in learning the old ways and thus we’re seeing knowledge degradation over the generations.

bones in his face along with cutting lines.

This allowed the surgeons to use a much more accurate replication of Power’s face and reconstruct it in a manner that more closely resembles his original face.

“I think it’s incomparable, the results are in a different league from anything we’ve done before,” Adrian Sugar, one of the surgeons in the procedure, said to the BBC. “What this does is it allows us to be much more precise. Everybody now is starting to think in this way, guesswork is not good enough.”

Find out more: http://www.bbc.com

Cloned woolly mammoths Scientists have claimed that, thanks to a new mammoth sample, there is a strong possibility of being able to clone a woolly mammoth.

The team, which is composed of scientists from Russia, the UK, the US, South Korea and Denmark, owes this chance to an extremely well preserved woolly mammoth found in Siberia.

The team plans to take a fertile female Asian elephant and inject her egg with the genetic material of the woolly mammoth.

“The data we are about to receive will give us a high chance to clone the mammoth,” Radik Khayrullin, vice president of the Russian Association of Medical Anthropologists, told the Siberian Times. “We must have a reason to do this, as it is one thing to clone it for scientific purpose and another to clone for the sake of curiosity.”

Find out more: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk

(Mark Hendricks/ The Omaga)

Life & Community

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Writing their own story TRUSU Writers Club brings out the best in students’ work — and each other Tayla Scott Ω News Collective Intern Through sharing, discussion and feedback, the TRUSU Writers Club has helped students improve their writing. “[The club] helped me get over writer’s block, which I had for a long time,” Lachlan Gonzales said. Gonzales has been the president of the TRUSU Writers Club since late 2009.

Gonzales explained that the weekly meetings begin with a ten-minute writing exercise, which group members can share afterwards. Then, everyone gets a chance to read a piece of writing they are working on, whether it’s a poem, a short story or a screenplay. They then receive feedback from the group.

Gonzales explained that the club meetings are very informal, with no pressure to read.

“I was going to stop a man who had the blood of billions of the entire human race on his hands…”

Gonzales read an excerpt from his novel to the rest of the TRUSU Writers Club on Monday afternoon.

“Writing is important to TRU, because without it, there wouldn’t be much of a TRU left. Everything involves writing around here. It’s a fundamental cornerstone,” Gonzales said.

Jennifer Karpuk, who is currently the vice president of the club said, “I went from not thinking I was a writer at all, to being a very active member in the club.”

Karpuk is an engineering student, but she took a year off from engineering to take general arts courses and explore her writing, all because of the club.

“The world at sunset, as the sun hits the hills and the road that I drive, golden,” Karpuk read from a poem of hers at the club meeting.

Karpuk got involved in the club in January 2013 and said she will probably take over as president next year, since Gonzales is graduating.

“I definitely want to continue doing recruiting at the clubs days, and keep up the Facebook page. The club shouldn’t change too much,” Karpuk said.

Gonzales and Karpuk said the club is not just for English students. The club has a lawyer, a psychologist and once had a veterinarian.

“We would love to see international students come out and join us. Even if you don’t think your English is up to par, if you enjoy writing we’d love to see you here,” Karpuk said.

The TRUSU Writers Club meets Mondays at 4:30 p.m. in the Red Room in CAC.

Lachlan Gonzales (far right) and other members of the TRUSU Writers Club recruit potential authors in Old Main, explaining that you might not even know you can do it until the support is there to foster you.

(Photo courtesy Lachlan Gonzales)

A thing called FM TRU university radio station more relevant today than ever before John King Ω Contributor Kasahra Atkins found the 1978 musical retelling of H.G. Wells’ novel War of the Worlds at a garage sale in Kamloops.

The 18-year-old Thompson Rivers University arts student now owns the record, Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds, and plays it on a late Feb. 11 evening for her radio show Shirley’s Temple, which she says focuses on Canadian artists.

The show airs Tuesdays from the university radio station CFBX or

92.5 FM The X, which is located on campus.

Atkins says she didn’t have any albums to play for the record player she was given this past Christmas until she found the War of the Worlds record.

“I like to share my music,” the rookie disc jockey says. Later, she takes out a dry-cleaning record brush from its holster, which is similar to the kind that holds harmonicas, and slides the brush across a record next to her.

Atkins learned the trombone and trumpet growing up, which helped her gain an appreciation for music.

Eventually this appreciation brought her here, to CFBX, where she shares her latest find over the airwaves.

Losing the human element While nobody at CFBX will go out on a limb and say radio is in the midst of a revival, campus radio stations remain relevant in today’s digital marketplace because, according to CFBX station manager Brant Zwicker, technology is great until, well, it isn’t.

“It’s a two-sided sword,” Zwicker says, explaining

automation at radio stations takes away from the human element.

At one time, he explains, rookie DJs worked graveyard shifts to develop their shows. But today, he says most of radio’s night content is automated – including CFBX’s content.

But Zwicker is quick to point out only music from Kamloops artists gets played on CFBX airwaves through to dawn free of commercials.

He says campus radio stations are able to do things like this because they’re not under the same pressure as commercial radio stations.

Zwicker was hired in 1998 to help establish the radio station, and by 2000, CFBX was on closed-circuit television throughout the campus.

Zwicker says the radio station has gone through its fair share of digital improvements, with more on the way. The radio station streams its shows online, and now employees are figuring out how best to convert its music library, which consists of CDs and vinyl records, into digital format.

Everyone’s Gutenberg

Kasahra Atkins and her garage sale find she shares with the world.

( John King/ The Omega)

Steve Marlow, who is the CFBX programming coordinator, worries the human element sometimes gets lost in the fast-paced world of evolving technologies, but says what makes the campus radio station relevant in today’s changing world is that it provides a bridge between the community and university.

“Campus radio tends to advance slowly; it’s a little more organic,” Marlow says, adding radio stations that are 100 per cent automated, those such as 96.9 Jack FM in Vancouver, actually lack the human quality

driving campus radio stations.

“You don’t really feel any connection. There’s no human aspect,” Marlow adds.

In fact, Marlow likes to compare today’s environment, where people are able to use various social media and content management systems to publish online, with the western adoption of the printing press first used by Johannes Gutenberg.

“So basically everyone has the Gutenberg press now,” Marlow says.

Vinyl sounds better Atkins slides the brush across the record a final time before she looks up and smiles.

She’s finished cleaning the record.

She likes records because of the way they sound. She explains digital music may provide convenience in a fast-paced world, but vinyl still sounds better.

“I’m always trying to find new music, especially for people my age who haven’t heard it,” she says.

It’s near the end of her show, and the clock on the wall is pushing 10 p.m. The control room is located on the second storey of the remodeled house CFBX calls home.

When you walk into the place, the walls are littered with autographed photographs of bands that stopped by over the years. In the basement, there are shelves stacked full of CDs and vinyl records.

Upstairs, there is a microphone, and instead of an Internet connection, there’s some rickety old space-opera looking stuff, and a thing called FM – whatever that means.

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Finding Vivian Maier Kim Anderson Ω Contributor

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Finding Vivian Maier opens with a stark juxtaposition between analog photography and technological research and archiving methods.

Director John Maloof uses documentary-style filmmaking to explain how he discovered the immense, beautiful and previously entirely unseen work of late street photographer Vivian Maier at a storage unit auction.

Maloof discovers that Maier had hundreds of thousands of photographs along with boxes of undeveloped film.

Taking the audience through his arduous journey of uncovering Maier’s work, Maloof tries desperately to learn about the life she led, and successfully maintains a storyline that allows us to see as much of Maier’s life as he found it.

Maier was a classic street photographer who captured the tragic, the tender and the beautiful in the everyday human subject. Her photographs shown were captivating and inspiring. In one sense because of her great eye for the technical elements of a good photo, but also because these photos capture images in history that tell stories.

This film raises many questions.

For instance, are photographs are taken to be seen?

And, does great artwork primarily come from darkness and pain? The audience is left to answer those questions for themselves.

Finding Vivian Maier can ignite debate on photography as a practice, or the impact Maier has on the way we look at the usefulness of photo as a visual recording of time.

Maloof pairs stirring, emotional interviews with the now-adult families who Maier nannied, with video footage taken by Maier, in attempts to piece together her identity.

This proved to be a battle throughout the film.

Maloof aims to find out who Maier was, and while he doesn’t get a definitive answer, he discovers that she was a highly secretive, solitary, mysterious and an oftentimes strange individual. For these reasons, the documentary is raw and real, leaving out unnecessary speculation and only focusing on the conclusions Maloof has gathered.

The musical score fit perfectly with the subject matter – it is eerie, mysterious, and at times, dark.

Paring black and white photographs with haunting instrumental tracks, Maloof effectively conveys feelings of uneasiness and curiosity.

Finding Vivian Maier is for anyone who enjoys a clean and crisp documentary, a little mystery and has an interest in photography or history.

March 12, 2014

The Husband Carli Berry Ω Contributor Directed by Canadian Bruce McDonald, The Husband follows the unusual tale of Henry (Maxwell McCabe-Lokos) who is in the unfortunate circumstance of balancing a jailed wife (for sleeping with a 14-year-old boy) and caring for the couple’s infant son.

The beginning of the movie shows Henry facing car troubles on the highway, which sets the atmosphere of the movie – melancholy with a hint of humour.

The car troubles persist throughout the movie as Henry tries to pick up the pieces of

his broken life and it goes from bad to worse as the plot nears its climax.

McCabe-Lokos does a good job in portraying a depressed, confused, manic soul but at times went over the top. In certain scenes it seemed unusual that Henry refused to make eye contact with the other characters until half-way though the movie.

Although his exaggerated behaviour could be considered a part of the character development as Henry slowly comes out of his shell, it feels unnatural.

The movie had a good rhythm that was easy to follow, with cleverly-used f lashbacks to add depth to the few characters.

The 80-minute show time holds your attention for the

entire duration with changing viewpoints and scenes switching back and forth between Henry’s life before the incident, showing his family beforehand and him content with his life, and the present as a depressed, lonely individual.

The juxtaposition allows one to empathize with Henry even when he decides to make some not-sosmart decisions.

Overall The Husband does what a movie should, which is to entertain.

The cast is likeable, the story is unique and everything is cleanly packaged into the show time, not needing any more or any less for one to gain a full feel of the movie without it dragging on. Three out of five stars goes to The Husband.

No Clue Nathan Weissbock Ω Contributor No Clue features Canadian actor Brent Butt, star of the hit-comedy series Corner Gas, as Leo Falloon, who accidently stumbles into the position of a private eye for Kyra, a beautiful woman played by Amy Smart, to find her missing brother.

Although Leo is completely in over his head amidst murder, thieves and corporate takeovers, it is the new excitement in his otherwise boring life – the money and the dames – that keep pulling him back in.

Butt has a solid script with funny one-liners, sight gags and a good chunk of farce. With harmless jokes that are meant to be taken lightly, the film and its characters are likeable and suitable for audiences of all ages if they don’t mind the occasional profane word and mild sexuality.

The familiarity between Leo and his best friend Ernie, played

by David Koechner, is a joy to watch specifically their offensive greetings to each other. Ernie provides a very funny supporting character for the film.

However, with all this comedic infusion, the hilarity doesn’t take away from the mystery or story-line.

Through the whole film, the audience should remain as puzzled as Leo, as he tries to figure out the kidnapping, and other mysteries that unfold as the plot goes on. The movie includes a handful of action and suspense that should keep the audience engaged and on the edge of their seats.

Unfortunately, the ending of the film doesn’t maintain the great balance of comedy and mystery that engages the audience. Most action or mystery genres conclude with a memorable or breathtaking ending, but No Clue fails to deliver something special that people will remember.

While the ending is something I

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did not predict, it is not something I wanted to see either. The action at the end of the film was pretty weak, at best, and it seemed the villain made no effort to even fight off the good guys.

Any noir-style movie fan that enjoys comedy will surely enjoy this film. Brent Butt fans will also enjoy it, as he maintains a character similar to the one he played in Corner Gas.

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Marlys Klossner Ω Contributor

Gloria was filmed mostly in Santiago, Chile, but we don’t get to see much of the city’s views and landscapes. This seems like a missed opportunity, but the small amount we do see does make the film more internationally relatable.

Political issues in Chile appear brief ly in the background, but hold no bearing on the plot. This turmoil is barely acknowledged

by Gloria and seems unnecessary to the telling of Gloria’s story.

Funny and poignant, Gloria is a touching portrayal of a woman’s yearning for connection. The film is a case study in love, independence, strength and weakness. By the end of the film Gloria has realized her own power, and leaves the viewer satisfied and optimistic.

(Image courtesy Nephilim Producciones)

Gloria is a snapshot in the life of the title character, an adventurous, fiery woman who feels isolated romantically and by her children. After being divorced for over a decade, and having a string of meaningless shortterm relationships, Gloria meets recently divorced Rodolfo.

The two have an instant connection in a club which leads to a tumultuous relationship.

The comedy/drama is directed

by Chilean Sebastián Lelio and stars Paulina García as Gloria and Sergio Hernández as Rodolfo.

García’s performance is riveting and sincere, suiting the role of the main character. She shines

brighter as the film progresses, in tandem with her character.

Although Gloria and Rodolfo are the central characters, the relationships of the people in their lives are just as interesting. Gloria’s ex-husband fails to connect with his daughter, while Gloria’s son is raising a child on his own.

Rodolfo’s children and ex-wife are financially dependent on Rodolfo, stifling him with their neediness.

The variety of relationship issues ensures that every audience member can connect personally if Gloria’s life isn’t relatable.

Gloria has some graphic sex scenes which, while not exactly pleasant to watch, are tender and passionate. People over 40 are rarely shown in a sensual manner, so these scenes contribute to the honest quality of the film.

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With a near-perfect combination of great music, brilliant cinematography and a deeply moving storyline, The Broken Circle Breakdown left chills on my arms and tears in my eyes.

Director Felix van Groeningen brings a powerfully written drama to life, following a couple through the heart wrenching experience of losing a child, with a parallel story showing us the beginning of the couple’s relationship.

Actor Johan Heldenbergh does a fabulous performance as the male lead Didier, a farmer and musician in love with American bluegrass music and the cowboy culture, who falls madly and passionately in love with the eccentric fun loving tattoo artist Elise.

When Elise finds out she’s pregnant, both of their lives are changed for the better and the movie really becomes uplifting in the f lashback scenes.

Elise, played by Veerle Baetens, is a beautiful blonde, passionate religious realist that is enchanted by the music and mystery of Didier. She takes a dark turn near the end of the film as her reality is shaken with the loss of their seven-year-old daughter.

In one of the first scenes in the film, we are introduced to Maybelle, their daughter and the

part of their lives that brought them full-circle.

Maybelle is really what makes this drama stand out from other love stories. This deeper love – a trinity of parents and child – brings the audience to the heights and depths of this young family’s journey.

Spanning over a seven-year period, they jump back and forth from a painful present, with Maybelle fighting cancer, to the past love that brought them together.

Some films can make f lashbacks a confusing experience for the viewer, but that is not the case in this film.

The f lashbacks are seamless and really add to the emotion of the story.

They tell the parallel story of their first meeting, to help us experience the trials of their current circumstance.

The bluegrass band The Broken Circle Breakdown is featured throughout this film and gives a brilliant performance, making each powerful scene come to life.

To add to entertainment value, both Didier and Elise had chillingly beautiful musical performances throughout the film.

The Broken Circle Breakdown was a movie I would recommend to anyone who is willing to experience the depths of a love tragedy, and is open to the full spectrum of emotions that this film will take you through.

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Le Week-End That Burning Feeling Ashley Wadhwani Ω Arts & Entertainment Editor “It’s not love, it’s like being arrested.”

Le Week-End is a unique portrayal of an older couple’s love that has lost its rhythm and become bitter.

Deciding to visit Paris for their 30th anniversary to see what can be fixed, Meg, played by Lindsay Duncan, and Nick, played by Jim Broadbent, share a realistic portrayal of a marriage in need of rejuvenation.

The beautiful scenery of Paris, including a scene looking at the Eiffel Tower from the balcony of their very expensive hotel, was mesmerizing while also setting a contrast between the beautiful city and the comedic bitterness between Meg and Nick.

Meg is a youthful-at-heart, free spirited school teacher who wants more from life that she isn’t receiving from her regular routine. Nick is a traditional man and college professor with unfortunate anxiety when it comes to spending money.

Nick has a deep love for Meg, but while he has the troubles of communicating how much he loves and needs Meg, she has the troubles of knowing what she wants at this point in her life.

Directed by Roger Michell, the entire movie uses camera angles and scene decisions to complement the script instead of relying on a lot of speaking throughout the movie to move the plot along. This does not mean the script lacks richness or quality, but in fact allows for the reoccurring use of one-

liners to have their optimal impact.

It doesn’t take long to realize the problems Meg and Nick are trying to fix are being undermined and under exaggerated by Nick. This is clearly emphasized through the scene on the stairs in an apartment building, where they are going to a party being hosted by one of Nick’s old friends, Morgan, played by Jeff Goldblum.

After an argument, Meg says that “love dies,” with a quick response of, “only if you kill it,” from Nick.

This banter, sometimes witty and other times serious, shares irony because the audience can see they both love each other, but just do not know how to say it or see it.

Although Le Week-End is a tale of a demographic older than typical romantic dramadies, it’s still relatable in the sense that relationship problems are often ageless. The film shares the light-hearted theme that real love does not end, and explores how even though marriages can often become all routine, the love has not died.

Mason Buettner Ω Contributor That Burning Feeling stands for three things: “love, the thing you have always wanted to do but were too afraid to try, and that burning feeling down below,” director Jason James said while introducing the film at the 18th annual Kamloops Film Festival.

James accomplished the impossible in his feature film directorial debut.

He successfully made a romantic comedy about the least romantic thing imaginable: gonorrhea.

That Burning Feeling was a great choice for the closing film, as it left the crowd feeling inspired to get out into the world and take some risks. It also might have left them a little sore from laughing so hard for an hour and a half straight. This was not to be expected from a movie about a sexually transmitted infection.

This character-driven romantic comedy features stellar performances

by Paulo Costanzo as Adam Murphy, Tyler Labine as Frank Purdy and Ingrid Haas as Liv Ericksson.

John Cho, who was originally cast as the main character Adam before Costanzo took over the role, plays the film’s antagonist.

The film follows real estate genius Adam as his sexual escapades finally catch up with him bringing his life to a halt.

Adam is told he has contracted gonorrhea and has to get in contact with everyone he has slept with in the last 30 days – a grand total of 14 different women.

Adam fills a 31-day pill container with the numerous prescription drugs required to cure the STI, which brilliantly is how James moves the plot forward throughout the film.

Adam connects with his crazy Zach Galifianakis-esque neighbor, Frank Purdy, early in his treatment and the duo spend their days adventuring together in hilarious fashion.

The relationship between Adam

and Frank is a close second to the blossoming love story between Adam and Liv. Somehow these two end up together after many unexpected twists and turns, but it wouldn’t be a romantic comedy without a happy ending.

It is always nice seeing familiar places in films on the big screen and That Burning Feeling was full of

them for this B.C. resident. Filmed in Vancouver and Mission, the movie showcases the beauty of the two cities as well as the natural backdrop of British Columbia.

All in all That Burning Feeling is one of the better films I’ve seen in 2014, and in my opinion is a must see for any romantic comedy lover out there.

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ANTIGONISH (CUP) — The age old question of what defines art will never have a black and white answer; it’s subjective and can literally be any expression of skill or imagination.

Some artists take their expression and intent for emotional reaction to a whole new level. This movement of weird art can evoke feelings of appalling to brilliant, and everything in between.

Is there a point where its just not art anymore?

When a an artist crosses the line into disturbing the message can be lost behind the grotesque image or action.

For example, a woman named Millie Brown created her “art” by drinking coloured milk and barfing upon a canvas.

Brown – also known as The Vomit Artist – has mastered the art of regurgitation.

By the way, her spewed-on canvases have sold for thousands of dollars. In case you were asking if it could get any weirder, one of her works, titled “Nexus Vomitus,” was accompanied by acoustic music and the voices of opera singers.

A freelance artist named

Missmonster makes fetus sculptures you can buy as gifts for the friend with everything.

Nothing says happy birthday like a pig fetus. Her other work includes jewelry, figurines and skulls. Some of her figures are cute looking little monsters; others are what nightmares are made — and, worst of all, some are a mix of the two.

Japanese artist Ai Hasegawa was inspired by the looming fear that the world is becoming overpopulated and soon there will not be enough food for everyone.

Hasegawa came up with a foolproof solution to this problem — women should give birth to various animal species for eating.

From this idea, her artistic representation was born. In one of her pieces, she poses with a shark between her legs as if it was just birthed by her.

Hasegawa explains this idea as revolutionary because women will satisfy their desires for giving life while satisfying their nutritional needs. She also thinks if women gave birth to endangered species that it would save another population while we save our own human population.

Maybe this is just my opinion, but allowing any women to birth a creature just to have others eat it is completely appalling. I could

also see this taking a turn for the worst. This sounds like a futuristic sci-fi horror. Imagine the feeling of having a shark grow inside of you, or — even more terrifying — if people were forced against their will to have these creatures grow inside of them.

Do these creations equal art?

They are expressions, and they are creative. They usually draw a crowd, evoking emotions and reactions.

Sure, by definition, I would say this is art. Its hard to imagine anything created not to be art. Just because something isn’t visually pleasing or causes feelings that aren’t happy and content doesn’t make it less than art.

In a way, I get it — any press is good press. Surely these artists are receiving quite a lot of press.

Pretty art barely makes the cut these days and is found from book covers to hotel bathrooms. If you went to a gallery filled with scenes of flowers and gardens if would be visually satisfying, but I doubt you would run home and tell all your friends about it.

The shock value makes it more alive, and brings viewers through the door.

People watch horror movies for the same reason. It creates a feeling of being alive.

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Why is there this big empty spot here?

Because you didn’t write anything for us this week, that’s why.

Get in touch with Ashley (arts@truomega.ca) to write reviews of shows, films, books, etc. or Mike (editor@truomega.ca) if you have other ideas.

Book review: The Bone Season Sarah O’Connor The Silhouette (McMaster) HAMILTON (CUP) — I was unsure whether I would like The Bone Season or not. Shannon has often been tagged as the next J.K. Rowling, a claim that made me skeptical. Not many people can inspire an entire generation and truly change the world with a new pop culture phenomenon.

Do I think Shannon is the next J.K. Rowling?

No. Did I like The Bone Season?

No. I love it.

At least, I loved most of it, but we’ll get to that later.

The year is 2059 and many major world cities are under control of a security force known as Scion. This repressive government seeks to eliminate clairvoyants, people with special power and abilities, from society. There are many different types of clairvoyants, but Paige Mahoney is one of the most rare, a dreamwalker.

As a dreamwalker, Paige is able to momentarily escape her dreamscape and go into others, where she is able to hurt and kill enemies.

Proud of her clairvoyant heritage, Paige chooses to rebel and works in the criminal underworld of Scion dominated London, with a group of seven other rare clairvoyants, the Seven Seals.

One day, things go wrong and Paige is caught by Scion and imprisoned in Oxford for the 20th Bone Season, during which clairvoyants are kidnapped. Now Paige is a slave, trying desperately to find a way out of Oxford and save the hundreds of other trapped clairvoyants.

Shannon has great talent for creating such a high fantasy/science fiction world. Paige and many of the side and passing characters were well-rounded, and I adored the setting. While it was a bit difficult to understand the history at some points, I feel that is a problem with most high fantasy narratives.

This is, after all, the first book in a series of seven books, so there is still more time for Shannon’s world to further develop.

Shannon has an amazing writing style; I loved the slang introduced and used in the novel. In many ways it reminded me of A Clockwork Orange. Shannon even includes a handy glossary at the back of the book, something most copies of A Clockwork Orange don’t have (but maybe should).

While I did love the book, there were some glaring problems.

Does romance have to be present to show a heroine that she is important?

Why couldn’t she figure it out on her own? It seems to be a plague on heroines.

The fact that Paige was so oblivious to what was going to happen made me want to reach into the book and shake her. She had her fortune read, which basically told her who she would fall in love with and what was going to happen the rest of the book.

And yet Paige was still clueless and shocked when everything happened as predicted.

The fact that Paige’s love interest is an immortal hunky bad boy also made me cringe. It seems a trope of the genre, including Twilight, Beautiful Creatures, Shiver and Fallen. It just gets exhausting. It would be nice to read a novel where the hunky immortal bad boy is replaced by a gawky, goofy nerd — or really any other variety of person interest that can exist.

Even so, I enjoyed Paige as a character. And even though he’s kind of an ass, I liked Paige’s boss Jaxon a lot. He was the perfect blend of sarcastic and jerky. I think my favourite character was Liss, the card reader, and found it unfortunate she wasn’t in the book more.

Overall, The Bone Season really exceeded my expectations. I loved the first book, but I am nervous about the series.

But if this ends up being a seven book romance series, count me out.

Re-Calculating explores the reflections of a middle-aged man who has lives as a quadriplegic since experiencing a traumatic spinal cord injury at the age 19.

This one-man play was written by Lucas Foss and is performed by Dave Symington, both are from Vancouver. This play is one hour long and will be followed by a discussion period with the actor and writer, and a reception with snacks prepared by Educational and Skills Training program kitchen students. This is an interdisciplinaryproject between Human Service and Education And Skills Training program students.

We are working together to promote disability awareness and inclusion.

A special thanks to our sponsors: People in Motion, Best Western, Community Living British Columbia, Open Door Group, Thompson Community Services, Certified Prosthetics and Orthopedics, Thompson Rivers University, Disability Services.

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Rang De Basanti

March 12, 2014

(All photos by Jessica Klymchuk/ The Omega)

Festival of colours

Rang De Basanti draws high energy crowd for annual Holi celebration Jessica Klymchuk Ω News Editor On the tail end of International Days came one of the highest energy events known to TRU. It’s also the most colourful.

It’s blue, pink, yellow, white and orange. It’s in your eyes, hair, mouth and all through your clothes. And even though you can’t see through the coloured dust, you’ll still hear the laughter and the greetings. “Happy Holi!”

The TRUSU India Club hosts Rang De Basanti, “colours of spring,” each year in lieu of ancient spring festivals of India: Holi, Vaisakhi and Ram Navami.

Its f lagship event is becoming a campus favourite with upwards of 200 people attending.

Festivalgoers spent a highenergy afternoon playing with colours in the TRU gym, smearing the vibrant talcum powder on each other, dancing enthusiastically to Vancouver’s DJ Aftershock and enjoying some Indian cuisine. At TRU, the festival is much less a religious celebration and more a time of joy, friendship and love. This is the fifth year the TRUSU India club has hosted Rang De Basanti, with both the campus and community involvement growing every year.

“The pictures signify more than the words we can use to describe this event,” said TRUSU India Club president Divyaraj Singh Sisodia.

The central celebration is Holi, known as the festival of colours and falling on March 17 this year. The ancient religious and mythological origins have many different traditions, now spreading to many parts of the globe. The famous colour play has people throwing and smearing coloured powder and watercolours on each other while dancing, singing and hugging. Variations of the festival have reached England, South Africa, Belgium, North America and more.

“In India, it has various different significance,” Sisodia said.

The mythological tradition celebrates the triumph of good over evil. More practically, it signifies the changing of seasons, a time of particular significance in the agriculture-dominant country of India. Sisodia said the festival commemorates a new harvest and fresh crops, while the colour play itself has is rich in social and moral relevance.

“With the colours, it basically signifies that when everyone is coloured, we are all the same, so there is no difference between rich and poor,” Sisodia said.

For the students who are from India, it’s a reminder of home.

“It’s just a way of commemorating the same day together when you’re far away from your home country because

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well with other club and ISAP events because it’s cultural while also being very fun and interactive.

He agreed that introducing Holi to campus is a cultural experience

...when everyone is coloured, we are all the same.”

—Divyaraj Singh Sisodia, TRUSU India Club President

you miss your friends or your family,” Suhita Banerjee said.

“The basic purpose of celebrating Holi is to focus on the joys and prosperity that life has given you.”

Sisodia said this event works

for domestic students, not unlike the ones that international students experience while studying in Canada.

“We have Christmas and we have Halloween and that is an

experience for international students to come and get involved more,” he said, “but these events that we do are basically a different experience for the domestic students who can have a look and enjoy and feel how it is.”

Sheena Erhardt and Lucas Lara went over from TRU residence after hearing from other students who were planning to attend.

Both had never experienced Holi before.

“It’s just been such a great experience to see everybody together all the cultures and the East Indian culture. It’s just so amazing. They’re just so happy to be here and they’re happy to have us with them,” Lara said. “It’s so awesome, a great experience.”

Erhardt recently moved to Kamloops from Ontario and has only been at TRU one week.

She said she wanted to immerse herself in campus life, starting with the India Club event.

“It’s just amazing how inviting they are and how the whole event is and the nature behind it is great too,” she said. “I’ve heard of [Holi] but I’ve never participated so this is amazing.”

The India club has gained both campus and community support for this event, with sponsorship from TRUSU, CUEF, TRU World, CIBC, Kami Cabs, City Furniture and Elite Overseas Services.

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Puzzle of the week Puzzle of the Week #17 – Pi[e]!

It is Pi Day on Friday, March 14th (3.14)!

Mom baked a delicious raspberry pie.

Dad enjoyed a standard-size piece (1/6 of a pie).

Youngest son had one, too, and snuck another 1/2 piece.

Middle son did the same.

Oldest son had the average amount of pie among the four.

This left a small piece for Mom. The family kitten got into it and smeared half of that all over the kitchen counter.

How much of the pie got smeared?

This contest is sponsored by the Mathematics and Statistics department. The full-time student with the best score at the end of the year will win a prize. Please submit your solution (not just the answer but also why) by noon the secondto-next Wednesday to Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net>. Submissions by others are also welcome. The solution will be posted the Wednesday after that in my blog (http://genew.ca/) and in the Math Centre (in the HOL, fourth floor study area). Come visit: we are friendly.

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You thought you hated Justin Beiber before...

Just when you thought Justin Bieber couldn’t be more of a self-entitled, spoiled, stereotypical young-star-gonebad, his deposition video gets a public release on TMZ. The video clip was taken of the star as he gave an oral, outof-court witness testimony in

the presence of lawyers, which will be written out and used as evidence in court at a later date.

The statements were made in relation to a law suit filed by photographer Jeffrey Binion on June 5, 2013, in which he accused Bieber’s bodyguard, Hugo Hesny, of grabbing him by the throat and threatening him with a gun, while two other bodyguards destroyed his camera’s memory cards.

In the video, Bieber is seen swinging around in his chair, answering Binion’s lawyer’s questions with more questions, rolling his eyes and denying people like Usher were key to his career success.

“I was detrimental to my own career,” Bieber states in the video. I am assuming he was trying for the word “instrumental,” but instead came out with this far more

appropriate statement. The irony of this is not lost on me.

Other standout – and by standout I mean belligerent – moments of the video are when he questions the lawyer’s use of the term “film” in reference to CCTV footage of his bodyguard, and his reaction to being quizzed about his relationship with Selena Gomez. He shakes his finger at the camera and repeatedly warns the lawyer,

“Don’t ask me that again!”

This video marks the latest in a string of legal troubles for Bieber, who is set to appear in court for assaulting a photographer in Toronto. He’s also awaiting news of whether his drag racing charge will be taken to court, and a final decision over the criminal damage charge he may face after egging a neighbour’s house last year.

What a mess.

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Sports

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Lack of funding results in minimal drug tests at varsity level What’s stopping varsity athletes from using performance-enhancing drugs?

Erica Whyte The Ryersonian (Ryerson) TORONTO (CUP) — Lance Armstrong did it. Alex Rodriguez did it. Barry Bonds did it. What’s stopping varsity athletes from doing it?

Every Olympic year, major cutbacks are made to drug

testing at the varsity level because of the increased testing done on Canadian Olympians and Paralympians. This year, only about one per cent of varsity athletes will undergo drug testing, because of tight budgeting and the upcoming Sochi Olympics.

Michel Belanger, the manager

of communications for Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS), says that the Olympics put a strain on an already limited number of tests.

“Some years we have 100 (drug) tests, some years 350 tests,” said Belanger. “When it’s an Olympic year, we might not have that many tests available.”

(Photo courtesy kev-shine/Flickr Commons)

The battle against performance-enhancing drugs is monitored at the varsity level by CIS, the national governing body for sports at Canadian universities.

CIS manages 10,000 varsity athletes who are currently enrolled at 54 universities nationwide.

Among other things, the CIS is responsible for administration of, and education about, drug testing.

“The only reason we don’t do more testing is money. Money is the name of the game,” Belanger said. One drug tests can cost between $500 and $1,000.

Only a handful of Ryerson University’s varsity athletes have ever even been tested.

Cassandra McNichol, a women’s varsity hockey player, was one of those few athletes.

“When I was tested, it was through random pick,” she said.

“There was no warning for them to show up, it was a surprise.”

She says that she’s been told CIS does random drug-testing for teams that have a large group of people who perform well, “to ensure their performance is natural,” not drug-enhanced.

Tyler Nella, a Ryerson student

and former Canadian Olympian, says he was subject to multiple drug tests in the year leading up to his performance in the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

“They’ll come test you whenever they want, without notice,” he said. “You’ll have to fill out six months in advance of exactly where you’ll be and they’ll show up. One day they came to my house at six o’clock in the morning.” Nella and his Canadian teammates were all tested at least once.

“They would come to the gym [where Canadian Olympians trained] in Calgary and pick people like ‘you,’ ‘you,’ ‘you,’ ‘you.’ Every single person gets tested,” Nella recalled. “They were so intense about it.”

Stephanie White, the associate director of athletics at Ryerson, agrees that continual testing of Olympians is necessary, but perhaps alternate, less-costly drug testing should be explored on a varsity level.

“It would be great if we had other methods to keep a more consistent testing in university sports year over year, or even test more sports,” she said. “It’s obviously a funding issue.”

Ultramarathons: good for the soul Determination and endurance combine with nature and spirituality to provide multiple levels of benefit Philip Drost The Aquinian (St. Thomas) FREDERICTON (CUP) – A normal 42-kilometre marathon takes hard work, determination and endurance. An ultramarathon orders that as an appetizer.

An ultramarathon is anything that passes the 42-kilometre mark. They aren’t run on roads, but instead they take the runner through the twists and turns of nature.

Six days a week, St. Thomas University English professor Andrew Titus, of Fredericton, can be found running, rain or shine.

It all started two years ago when a friend told him three words — “Yes you can.”

“We were running on a very technical single track trail through the woods, and I happened to say to him, are there any races where we can race on things like this,” said Titus. “He said ‘Absolutely there are all kinds of them,’ and he said I should come run one …

I said, ‘I can’t do it,’ and he said, ‘Yes you can.’”

The perpetration, in theory, is simple. It takes practice, practice and more practice. Titus finds time to run, while still having time for his teaching, as well as his wife and kids. No matter what’s going on, the 43-year-old doesn’t stop running.

“That means running before the sun comes up in the morning, it means running after the sun goes down at night. It means running in the pouring rain, and in the blistering heat, and in the middle of the snow storm.

“No matter what, you just keep

going. Nothing stops me from running. Zero.”

Titus has run five ultramarathons, winning the first one he competed in. He doesn’t find the first part too difficult, as long as he doesn’t try to go to fast. That can result in burnout. For him, the hardest part is around the 40-km mark.

“You start to say to yourself, you’re never going to make it, what kind of fool are you, this is ridiculous, what kind of idiot runs all day long,” said Titus.

“As you push through those, that’s really the limit where you find that that’s what we’re doing in this thing. Life, as far as I’m concerned is an endurance test, and the ultramarathon is a ritualized form of that test.”

He thinks anyone can do it, it just takes determination. He remembers a time, during an ultramarathon when he was struggling, but was able to fight through. Titus still had 15 km left to go, but self-motivation pushed him through.

“I was like, I only have 15 [kilometres] left to go. Man, I run 15 K six times a week. Let’s just drop the hammer, and I actually ended up doing my last lap faster than I had done the one before it,” he said.

For Titus, this is a perfect example of how ultramarathons help him, not just physically, but spiritually.

“If I can go for six or seven hours, and all of a sudden find new reserves of energy, and new power supplies, then what does that tell me about the rest of my life? When I think that I’m at the end of my rope, I’m actually not.”

(Photo courtesy Peter Mooney/Flickr Commons)

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ELECTION NOTICE POLLING WILL TAKE PLACE ON: Wednesday, March 26th, 8:00AM-8:00PM & Thursday, March 27th, 8:00AM-4:00PM in the TRUSU Boardroom The following members were nominated for the vacant positions as listed below: President

International Students’ Representative

• Abalkhail, Abdullah | Independent • Robinson, Dylan | Your Vote = Your Voice

• Alanazi, Meshari | Your Vote = Your Voice

Vice President External • Chiduuro, Blessing | Independent • Douglass, Leif | Your Vote = Your Voice

Vice President Finance • Bahabri, Trad | Your Vote = Your Voice

Vice President Internal • Gordon, Melissa | Your Vote = Your Voice • Sijani, Pooyan | Independent

Aboriginal Representative • Whiting, Elizabeth | Your Vote = Your Voice

LGBTQ Representative • Zdunich, Nicolas | Your Vote = Your Voice

Women’s Representative • Bernard, Paige | Your Vote = Your Voice

Director-at-Large (4) • • • • • •

Clement, Kaitlin | Your Vote = Your Voice Coulibaly, Assetou | Independent Ghosh, Lahana | Your Vote = Your Voice Gluska, Taylor | Your Vote = Your Voice Shah, Feroz | Independent Staff, Cameron | Your Vote = Your Voice

Graduate Students’ Representative • Donnelly, Sabina | Your Vote = Your Voice • Shekhani, Mohsin | Independent

The campaign period begins at 8:00AM on Monday, March 17, 2014 and runs until 4:00PM on Thursday March 27, 2014.

The All Candidates Forum will be held on Tuesday, March 25, at 7:00PM in the TRUSU Lecture Hall.

If you have questions regarding the TRUSU General Election please contact the Electoral Committee at elections@trusu.ca or 250.828.5289.

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