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Do low tuition campaigns ignore the biggest barriers to educational access?

Jake Morrow

The Muse (Memorial) ST. JOHN’S (CUP) — The posters cover campus.

They scream in fluorescent blues and reds from between flyers advertising cheap essays and George Street drunk-ups. Their message is clear and agreeable.

Education is a right.

The slogan, provided by the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS), is for a campaign that advocates free post-secondary education and suggests that the high cost of tuition is in large part to blame for the lower rates of lowincome participation in higher education.

Studies have long shown that students from higher-income families are far more likely to attend university. The rising tuition levels, which the CFS estimates will surpass all other student expense combined within five years, do nothing to help.

But is the high sticker price of education really what’s holding so many back?

“The fight for public education in Canada is part of a global effort to maintain education as a basic right for all,” states the CFS’s site. “The reality is that fee increases are not about the rich paying more; they are about everyone paying more.”

According to the CFS, tuition rates are directly to blame for lesser rates of attendance by low-income students, but in reality they may not be the only reason for inequality at the post-secondary level.

High school performance is arguably the most direct factor in determining acceptance and more affluent students may be better positioned to achieve university entrance level grades.

A family’s ability to spend on educational materials or a private education may influence the quality of a child’s learning and leave those with less spending power behind.

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Canada study by Eleanor M. Thomas measured five-yearolds’ readiness to learn at school. Thomas found that by the time children entered kindergarten, an achievement gap might have already formed.

“Household income was a significant predictor of six of the eleven readiness to learn measures, with children from lower income households scoring lower than those from higher income level households in every case,” she wrote. “Significant differences were found between income levels in receptive vocabulary, communication skill, number knowledge, copying and symbol

use attention and cooperative play.”

Ainsworth Morgan, a middle school teacher in Canada’s oldest and largest social-housing project, Toronto’s Regent Park, doesn’t believe that lower achievement levels are due to lesser abilities, but more likely circumstance.

“There’s not a lack of intelligence, or greater intelligence, or less intelligence based on where you live,” Morgan said, “[But] it determines some of the available resources.”

Morgan said that, while he does not believe that his students see themselves as “underserved,” or “marginalized,” the ramifications of what he calls a one-size-fits-all approach to education can leave them frustrated and at an even greater disadvantage.

“Quite often you begin to notice it in other ways,” he said. “If somebody displays sort of negative behavior or becomes disengaged based on those challenges.

“If they’re not necessarily understanding or getting the material it becomes very difficult to show up day to day and be constantly reminded that you’re not really at level.”

Marc Frenette, a researcher with Statistics Canada who specializes in the economics of education, referenced a study of Baltimore students that may be indicative of how far behind economic disadvantage can take students outside the classroom, even if throughout the year their progression is on par with their more affluent peers.

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Though Frenette points out that the reason for the drop was not studied, it would appear that more affluent families may be able to continue educational stimulation outside the classroom possibly through tutoring or summer camps, or other forms of extracurricular education.

Another factor adding to the gap in access to resources, according to Darren Lund, a University of Calgary professor of education, is a school’s ability to fundraise.

Lund said that single events can raise up to $10,000, which can go toward purchasing the latest technology or educational materials that allow classrooms to improve educational opportunity for children.

—Elanor M. Thomas, “That’s simply not possible in Statistics Canada l o w e r - i n c o m e neig hb ou rho o d s ,” “The researchers administered Lund said. “When funding needs some very similar tests throughout by the province are inadequate, you the calendar year,” Frenette said. see public schools in affluent areas “They strategically placed these easily make up that deficit through tests throughout the school year as fundraising.”

More affluent parents are also well as before and after the summer months and what they found was able to remove their children from that students who were from lower underperforming schools, which income families and students from Lund says leaves those unable to higher income families tended to attend private or specialty schools progress at the same rate when to fend for themselves.

“These programs of choice as they were in school … but if you compared their test scores before they’re called really are providing and after the summer months, additional choice to parents who those from the lower income already have all kinds of choices,” he said. “[Which] creates a number families fell behind.”

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sures, with children from lower income households scoring lower...in every case.”

of alternative programs that stratify children according to their parents wealth, according to special sports interest, according to religion, or [according to] particular faith interest really seems to me the opposite of inclusion.

“It’s just another advantage for the privileged,” Lund said. “Those parents who, through economic circumstances or through their own financial situation, are regulated to schools that don’t enjoy the kind of affluence or financial support provided by affluent parents end up with, in some cases, inadequate programming.”

Instead, Lund said if all parents sent their children to public schools, money that might get unevenly spread out otherwise could benefit more children more equally. Public schools, he believes can also help children function in Canada’s diverse society.

“Public schools accept everyone in the community and they really are a model for how we work through pluralism,” Lund said. “In a democracy like ours where such a wide diversity of people live in one place together it seems like public schools can really perform a remarkable function in showing how we can live in that diversity and actually thrive.”

Frenette said that it’s possible students from lower income backgrounds may be dissuaded from pursuing a postsecondary education based on a misunderstanding of the benefits and costs of attending school.

In a literary review he prepared for the Social Research and Demonstration Corporation (SRDC), a Canadian not-for-profit social-research organization, Frenette found that when asked to compare average earnings of

university grads to college and high-school graduates, students vastly underestimated the wages of those with higher education.

If true, this could mean that students may be disinclined to enroll when facing university’s large sticker price — not because of cost, but because of a misunderstanding of the long-term financial benefit.

In another study that he participated in for the SRDC, Frenette said he saw possible evidence that, when given a directly beneficial incentive early on, students from low-income backgrounds may be motivated enough to achieve at a higher potential Students in the study were offered $8,000 in grade nine to be made available as a grant upon acceptance to a post-secondary program. According to Frenette, enrollment rates increased quite extensively.

“It sort of provides a certain level of certainty for them,” Frenette said. “The way that the system is set up right now … you actually find out how much you’re going to get around the time when you begin post secondary whereas in this intervention, from the very get go, [they] were told $8,000 of it … will be covered by us.”

Morgan believes in the public education system regardless, but believes a change in philosophy is in order.

“I think that keeping the assumption that equity is sort of an add on is something that needs to be challenged, he said. “It needs to be embedded in what we do.

Not just curriculum but in all the textbooks.

“In every aspect of learning, it should be embedded.”

ON THE COVER: Campus security is getting a review so people will feel more comfortable and campus security will be more accountable. See story page 6.

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I am not a puppy that you are trying to train to inform you when he has to go outside when he needs to do his business.

I’ll get to why I’m saying this in a minute or so, but I just wanted to get it out of the way early to set a tone.

I’m a relatively new Facebook user. I put off joining the social media scene until I realized I needed to know how to survive in that electronic world in order to effectively do my job (and subsequently survive in my withering industry).

I’m barely two years in, but I’ve already gained enough experience with people doing it wrong

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Do it.

Seriously.

about typos — I can tell when someone’s key-stroke just missed the target — but when people say things like “wut u doin 2day?” I want to hit them in the throat with a potato sack full of bricks.

As you can plainly see, this isn’t a numbered list of transgressions — a “Top Five List” if you will — because at any given time, these iniquitous lapses in judgement are more or less offensive.

In fact, the most recent one that came through my feed is likely my least favourite. But I digress…

Vague posts specifically designed to generate a question which will inevitably — at least the one typing it hopes — lead to a sympathetic ear or supporting encouragement of your situation are absurd.

“Well, that sucked,” gives me no information and really serves no purpose. I will not type “What sucked?” and be dragged into what is assuredly your overdramatic ramblings about how life isn’t fair.

You’re right. Life isn’t fair.

Don’t invite me to your timesuck games.

The fact you don’t know me well enough to uncheck my name (or whatever you have to do to not send me that invitation) makes me think we actually aren’t friends. I don’t have time to waste on such nonsense.

Finally, if you are expressing the same sentiment most of the times you sit down at your keyboard, you are seriously wasting everyone’s time, as well as squandering the power and possibility of this great application.

Whether it is you hate Mondays, love cats or are pissed off at Stephen Harper, if you told the world of Facebook this fact last week, I don’t need to hear it again this week.

As I said, I’m not a puppy you’re training to go relieve itself outside.

You don’t have to keep reminding me you work a desk job with regular Monday to Friday hours, you like your weekends and are sad to see them go.

I’m not an idiot who forgets things immediately after I read them.

It’s like you’re smacking me on the nose with a rolled up newspaper.

You don’t need to post every cute picture of a cat you find on the Internet that has a “funny” caption on it.

It’s like you’re smearing my nose in the accident on the carpet.

Except you’re the one who caused that coil to be there in the first place, so that isn’t fair.

Like life, I guess. editor@truomega.ca

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— at least as far as I’m concerned — that I feel I can share with you some of my personal irritations with this particular communication medium.

I generally don’t watch videos that come through my feed that say things like “You need to watch this!” and have no explanation as to what I’d be getting myself into by clicking on the link.

Maybe (some of ) those videos I really would enjoy, but I’ll never find out, because unless you tell me why I should, I’m just simply not pressing that button.

This is a minor irritation, however, when lined up next to some of the other offences committed on the platform in discussion here.

People who don’t use English annoy me.

Wait…I should rephrase that, because people who use languages other than English don’t annoy me, but the same cannot be said for people who are supposed to be (or think they are) using English and fail at it when they are clearly fully capable and just not even trying.

It may be because of what I do for a living, what I’m studying at this institution and my love of language, but I have a problem with people who don’t take the extra fraction of a second to write out words in full. I’m not talking

TRUe Thoughts Taylor Rocca Ω Copy/Web Editor I thought 2013 was off to a pretty darn good start here at TRU. On Jan. 7, Devan C. Tasa indicated TRU was the only university in B.C. to be without an official student- or university-run organization or representation for LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, queer or questioning) students.

Two weeks later, on Jan. 21, Justine Cleghorn reported detailed information about TRUSU’s steps towards finally creating a student collective to represent the LGBTQ community within the students union.

The home run came on Jan. 24 at the TRUSU annual general meeting when the 136 members in attendance voted unanimously for the creation of the LGBTQ collective, as reported by Devan Tasa.

Finally, TRU would have its longoverdue, though better-late-thannever, LGBTQ collective.

In the days that followed, campus felt different. I don’t know if it was just me, or if others felt the same increase in the positive and upbeat vibe around the school, but there

was a noticeable change in the mood around TRU. Unfortunately, mere days after unanimously approving representation for a community long-deserving, I witnessed that community attacked by the carving and shearing raze of the scythe known as homophobia.

My ears and my eyes witnessed this assault and the alienation and pain that it inflicts. What is conveyed is a message of intolerance and hate, a message unfit for the likes of an institution of higher education. My ears and my eyes deliver to me a pain that I know doesn’t compare to the pain felt by those who hurt most as a result of such ignorant actions.

The evidence of this horrific crime was written in the snow.

I left campus late on the evening of Monday, Jan. 28, having just completed production on that week’s edition of The Omega. I walked through a nearly-vacant parking lot where one lonely car sat. As I passed from one side of the car to the other, I was hit by what you see pictured at right.

It was a terrible scene. Such a crude word written in the peacefully fallen snow. The juxtaposition was appalling. After photographing the evidence, I quickly erased its existence, hoping I was the only one unfortunate enough to see such a bigoted display.

For some reason, words likes as this are still acceptable within our society. Racial slurs and sexist remarks evoke outcries but homophobic slurs are still thrown around casually without concern.

NoHomophobes.com, an undertaking of the University of Alberta’s Institute for Sexual Minority Studies, communicates this heinous observation and backs it up with a set

of disgusting numbers.

In the seven days since I first found it scribbled along the side of that one lonely car, the word faggot has been tweeted more than 280,000 times world-wide. To break it down a bit, that equates to that single homophobic slur being tweeted nearly 28 times a minute. And that is only on Twitter. What if someone were counting its usage on Facebook, how many times it’s been written in bathroom stalls or even used casually in regular conversation?

Worse yet, we are only talking about one commonly-used homophobic slur.

“No homo,” “so gay” and dyke have been tweeted a combined 195,000 times world-wide in that same span.

This vile group of four phrases and words has been spat in the face of Twitter users 470,000 times over the course of seven days.

These are the four slurs that NoHomophobes.com tracks usage of in the Twitterverse.

Combined, they result in 47 homophobic slurs per minute fired out into the world via Twitter alone.

That makes for 47 slurs per minute too many and again, we are still only addressing Twitter.

The sad thing about all of this is that some people don’t realize the true impact of their words.

Discriminatory and intolerant language inflicts wounds so deep they may never fully heal, regardless of whether the discrimina-

tion is racial, sex-based or homophobic.

With the creation of TRU’s LGBTQ collective, our student governance is finally moving forward.

I like to believe that means many students on campus were a defining factor in helping to achieve that, whether that be in actively demanding this representation or in the simple, but equally powerful act of dispelling homophobia when it leeches its way onto our campus.

The year 2013 should be a year of celebration for the greater TRU community and most importantly, TRU’s LGBTQ community. Let’s make sure that celebration isn’t cut down by the ignorant scythe of homophobia. copy@truomega.ca

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News HRSDC faces criticism for handling of student loan privacy breach Both bureaus offer credit monitoring services starting at $14.95 Ω Contributor per month.

“I can’t afford the $30 to $40 per Those affected by the student month in fees for credit monitorloan privacy breach announced ing packages from both bureaus,” on Jan. 11 are organizing and de- UBC grad Nick Hall said. “Those manding government accountabil- affected should not be out of pocket for the way the government has ity.

“Student loan borrowers affect- mishandled their information.”

Amanda Thoy started the Faceed by the hrsdc privacy breach,” a Facebook group of 2,459 borrow- book group on Jan. 12, hoping to provide a forum ers (as of 12:30 for those affected a.m. on Jan. 31), to voice concerns. has organized with The group grew more than 250 quickly and Thoy signing a letter restruggled to keep leased on Monday, up with memberJan. 28. ship demand.

The letter ex“My husband presses concerns logged into the over Human Regroup via our lapsources and Skills top and I accepted Development Canrequests via my ada’s (HRSDC) iPhone,” she said. latest solution to “We have now the breach, an ofbecome more of an fer of a free fraud awareness group alert flag provided speaking out by credit bureau against HRSDC,” Equifax, somesaid, assertthing HRSDC said —Nick Hall, Thoy ing the departnormally costs $5. dealings “What HRSDC UBC Grad and ment’s with the public purchased from not been honEquifax was a affected student had est. “Many Canaunique solution dians are still not that was designed aware this breach specifically for this particular incident,” said Aly- has happened.”

Wende Donaldson, a 2001 gradson Queen, HRSDC communications director. “It’s not the free uate of ICT Kikkawa College in service. This is added for six years. Toronto, paid the $5 fraud alert fee “We’re currently trying to work to Equifax before HRSDC’s anwith other authorized financial in- nouncement. Now she’s attempting to be reimbursed. stitutions,” Queen said.

“It’s the principle,” she said.

On Jan. 23, two days before HRSDC began offering fraud “Someone needs to be held acalerts through Equifax, Canada’s countable for this.”

Donaldson waited 76 hours for other national credit bureau, TransUnion, began charging $5 to en- a supervisor to call. She was told she’d receive a call within 24 to 48 able fraud alerts.

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“Those affected should not be out of pocket for the way the government has mishandled their information.”

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hours. When the supervisor finally contacted her, there was nothing he could do. By then, Donaldson said she was angry and asked the supervisor, “How would you feel if this was your information out there?”

Many borrowers are still awaiting promised correspondence from HRSDC containing information on credit protection services offered and further information about what to do next. When one Facebook group member asked the group if anyone had received a letter, not one of the 70 respondents had.

“The letters are going out for everyone for whom we have current contact information,” Queen said.

“The department stopped sending letters for a short period of time, just so that any future letters that

Enrolment at TRU-OL on the rise Karla Karcioglu Ω Contributor

TRU Open Learning (TRUOL) enrolment is up nine per cent, according to an announcement made on Jan. 30 by viceprovost of TRU-OL Gordon Tarzwell. B.C. enrolments have grown by seven per cent and Canadian enrolment outside of B.C. is up 15 per cent.

Tarzwell feels that the growth is being driven by the reputation of the institution.

“We’re more marketable,” he said.

“People are recognizing who we are.”

Donald Parker, the temporary manager of planning, metrics, and analyt ics -- Open Learning Business Intelligence, explained that TRU-OL’s academic year runs through the calendar year. Between Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 2012, TRU-OL had 22,293 course enrolments by 11,690 individuals, an increase from the 20,628 course enrolments by 11,017 individuals in 2011.

“This shows an eight per cent increase in enrolment and a six per cent increase in the number

the University of Victoria. This allows students to take courses from those universities that are offered through TRU-OL. The course credits for TRU students appear on transcripts as though you took the course directly at TRU. “We are working to expand that partnership,” said Tarzwell.

“We are in talks with TÉLUQ University.”

TÉLUQ University, part of the University of Quebec in Montreal, is a distance education institution similar to TRU-OL. This partnership would allow students to take courses in making —Gordon Tarzwell, TRU-OL vice provost French TRU-OL “truly bilingual,” Tarzare interested in. They are in- well said.

TRU-OL is working with the terested in that f lexibility that distance education provides that faculty of arts to re-introduce a you can’t get from face-to-face.” bachelor of arts in criminology According to Tarzwell, most by mid-February this year. StuTRU-OL students from outside dents would be required to take B.C. are from Alberta and On- online and on-campus courses to complete the program. tario.

TRU-OL is also working with Open Learning is associated with three B.C. universities, the school of business and ecoSimon Fraser University, Uni- nomics to provide graduate versity of British Columbia and students with a distance edu-

were being sent would have information on the credit protection.”

The department is missing current contact information for onethird of those affected, according to Queen.

Meanwhile, the federal government is facing four class-action lawsuits. Bob Buckingham Law in St. John’s, N.L. is among the firms filing.

“The government has 30 days to file a defence to my action and we have 90 days to file the motion to certify,” Buckingham said. “I hope to be quicker than that.”

On Nov. 5, 2012, an HRSDC employee discovered a hard drive containing the personal information of 583,000 student loan borrowers was missing. The public was notified 67 days later.

“The information was compiled for the purposes of a customer satisfaction survey,” Queen said.

“There are now going to be disciplinary measures in place if employees do not follow protocol,” Queen said, but could not comment on disciplinary measures over this incident.

The hard drive is still deemed missing, but at this point in HRSDC’s investigation, Queen reaffirmed there’s no reason to believe any fraudulent activity has occurred.

HRSDC is asking students to contact them to learn if they’re affected or to arrange credit protection services. Students can call 1-866-885-1866 from within North America or 1-416-572-1113 from outside.

of students,” said Parker. However, these numbers do not include cancellations or drop/delete records.

“There’re two important things,” Tarzwell said. “There’s growth within British Columbia.

But what’s more exciting is the fact that growth outside B.C. is much higher.

“Distance education is growing in Canada at a faster rate than face-to-face education.

This is a market that students

“People are recognizing who we are.”

TRU’s Open Learning building.

cation option for all masters of business administration (MBA) courses. This would be the first time Canadian students would be able to complete all MBA requirements online. TRU-OL is hoping to have at least some of the program running by September 2013.

Finally, TRU-OL is developing distance options in the educational leadership concentra-

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tion, from courses in the masters of education. This would allow students to complete a masters of education with a concentration in educational leadership solely through distance education.

For more information on program and course offerings from TRU-OL you can visit their website, http://www.tru.ca/distance/ or email AdvisorC@tru.ca

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News Briefs Idle No More info session Idle No More and Common Causes, a new umbrella group comprising other social causes, held an information session at the Smorgasbord Deli in downtown Kamloops between 6 and 8 p.m. on Jan. 28’s Global Day of Action.

Approximately 50 people attended the joint information session, which was chaired by Anita Strong and Michelle Good. Some of the topics discussed were omnibus bill C-45, the Navigation Protection Act, the aims of Idle No More, the goals of Common Causes, the need for a free press

and the importance of the democratic process.

A flash mob was held at the Interior Savings Centre during the Blazers Aboriginal Night at the same time drawing about 30 to 40 people according to Staff Sgt. Doug Aird from the T’Kumlups rural detachment.

Idle No More and Common Causes are planning a speaker’s series to begin on March 22, United Nations’ World Water Day. More information will be available at Idle No More Kamloops’ Facebook page and www.

CommonCauses.ca.

Senate electoral changes The process to elect student senators is about to become more complex.

In the past, four student senators have been elected by students online in the fall of each year to serve a term starting in January and ending in December. However, in last fall’s elections only two students ran.

Those two students, Leif Douglass and Stephen Eaglestone, were

acclaimed while two other senators elected last year, Dylan Robinson and Chrystie Stewart, will continue to serve until August.

To replace those senators in September, there will be another election held online within this semester. Those two senators will then serve until August 2014. The other two senators will be elected using the traditional timeline.

Fixed health/dental plan The students union had to spend an extra $1,000 in tech support fees from its health and dental plan fund, TRUSU executive director Nathan Lane told council on Jan. 29.

At the beginning of the academic year, TRUSU used new software to manage the health and dental plan. The software integrates the plan with students myTRU accounts to make opting

in and out more straightforward.

In October, the new system crashed and didn’t generate the correct files, leaving students’ accounts inactive.

The problem is now fixed.

Lane told council the extra money wouldn’t make much of a difference to the plan’s fund. For the 2012-2013 year, the student union budgeted $556,500 on the plan’s expenses.

Entrance scholarship policy changes emphasize leadership TRU’s senate has approved changes to its entrance scholarship policy to emphasize the recipient’s leadership ability as well as academics.

The policy, approved at its Jan. 28 meeting, adds at least 10 leadership entrance scholarships of $3,500 for those students that combined academic achievement with community service.

It also changes the wording of the ambassador entrance scholarships, which covers all tuition and fees for four years for at least six recipients, so that leadership

is mentioned first. It was this change that caused some concern for some senators.

“We really want to give this to the very best, who really want to keep it,” said Kevin O’Neil, a faculty of science senator.

Gordon Down, the manager of the financial aid and awards department, said the recipients normally have grades in the high-80 and low-90 per cent range.

“We’ve traditionally balanced excellence in academics with excellence in leadership and extracurricular activities,” he said.

Puzzle of the Week Puzzle of the Week #14 – Little, Green Apples There are some apples in a bowl. All of the apples are little, green, or both. There are twice as many little apples as green apples. There are exactly three apples that are both little and green.

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Racism in old German books, Chinese hackers get the NYT and a huge grant for Nokia Mark Hendricks Ω Contributor

New York Times victim of Chinese hackers The New York Times announced on Jan. 31 it has been the victim of Chinese hackers for the past four months.

One of the few remaining newspaper titans, the New York Times has been the victim of Chinese hackers that succeeded in obtaining passwords for their reporters and other employees.

The attacks started at the same time the New York Times aired an investigative story that stated the relatives of China’s premier, Wen Jiabao, had accumulated several billion dollars through business dealings since Wen took office.

An outside security firm was hired to block the attacks and found the method of hacking was consistent with previous Chinese hacking attempts.

The only information accessed were stories relating to Wen’s family.

The New York Times has stressed there is no evidence information relating to any customers was accessed.

Where you can find out more: www.nytimes.com European Union gives $1.36 billion grant for new material Nokia has received a $1.36-billion grant by the European Union for research and development of graphene, a material stronger than

diamonds, over the next 10 years.

Nokia is the primary member of the Graphene Flagship Consortium, which consists of 74 companies working towards the mass production and promotion of the material.

Graphene is a “two-dimensional” carbon-based material that is only one atom thick, is 300 times stronger than steel and is also the lightest material ever produced.

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It is more conductive than copper and also extremely flexible, able to be rolled out into a sheet.

Nokia began working with graphene in 2006.

“Since then, we have come to identify multiple areas where this material can be applied in modern computing environments,” said Henry Tirri, Nokia’s chief technol-

ogy officer, in a statement. “We’ve done some very promising work so far, but I believe the greatest innovations have yet to be discovered.”

Where you can find out more: news.cnet.com Germans debate racist language in old books Germany is questioning racist language as the country debates whether it should be removed from old children’s books.

The debate was sparked earlier in January when German publisher Thienemann announced they would be removing certain terms that used to be commonplace at the time but are considered racist today from the classic German children’s tale The Little Witch.

This sparked a controversy in Germany that has some calling for change and others claiming the whitewashing of history.

“Anyone in Germany today who uses the term Neger is a blockhead,” said Denis Sheck, a German literary critic, during his show Hot Off the Press. “But language is a living thing and children’s books are literature. Young children in particular should learn that the way language is used changes constantly.”

The changes the publisher is making are a result of angry letters offended readers have sent to the publishing house.

The letters were shown to Otfried Preussler, the author of The Little Witch, who then said that he wished to make the change.

Where you can find out more: www.newyorker.com

Waitlists not a major problem: review A review of the number of students on a waitlist ordered by the senate concludes the number of students waiting for courses is not a major issue.

“It’s not an overwhelming problem,” said Tom Dickinson, dean of science and one of the persons assigned to the review.

The faculty of arts saw 103

students on a waitlist, followed by the faculty of human, social and educational development at 59 and the faculty of science at 51.

Dickinson told the senate most of the students on a waitlist were trying to get into a course with a particular professor or time; or registering of first-year courses

that weren’t necessarily requirements.

An example was the 17 students waiting to get into an astronomy course or the 11 waiting for music, said Christine Adam, dean of students who was also involved in the review. Those courses aren’t needed to graduate in any program.

Students on waitlists by faculty, winter 2013 Services

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Human, Social and Educa>onal Development

4. the number of little apples that are not green.

What is the minimum number of apples that could be in the bowl?

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 next Wednesday to Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net>. Submissions by others are also welcome. The solution will be posted the Wednesday after that in the Math Centre (HL210A). Come visit: we are friendly.

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News

Campus security undergoing review Devan C. Tasa Ω News Editor

TRU is paying a consultant $600,000 to examine safety and security at its Kamloops and Williams Lake campuses.

A safety and security task force was created in summer 2012 to choose the consultant. Risk mitigation firm Canpro King-Reed Global was selected. It’s being paid for by carry-over funds left from the vice president finance and administration’s budget, said Christine Adam, the task force’s co-chair and dean of students.

The review isn’t happening because of any specific incident, Adam said. Rather, it’s something the university does approximately every five years.

“I think it’s always important for an institution to review how it’s operating,” she said.

Each year, the Globe and Mail conducts a survey examining how students feel about their university. In the 2012 survey, TRU scored an A+ in the personal security and safety category. The average score among small universities was an A. The comparable University of Northern B.C. also scored an A+.

“That’s good,” Adam said, “but it doesn’t mean that you should

thing that happened on campus, do not talk to us about safety and security,” he said.

The students union president wasn’t specific about the safety concerns TRUSU discussed with the focus group, besides mentioning the emergency phones TRU facilities began installing in August 2012.

“We are always working with the institution,” he said, “like when we worked with the institution to install the new safety phones on campus, to improve safety and security on campus.”

McIntyre said he thought students have been properly consulted in the review and LaLonde was listening to student concerns.

However, the student member of the task force, Leanne Katchmar, said via Facebook she wasn’t involved in it anymore. Adam said —Dustin McIntyre, TRUSU president she would examine the situation and make sure students were represented. terviews and focus groups.

“It’s important to have,” she TRUSU was involved in one of said. “As dean of students, that’s the focus groups two weeks ago.

“We met with the gentleman part of my role, so in the future (consultant Marc LaLonde) who’s we’ll ensure there’s a student on facilitating it and were able to there.”

Adam expects the review to be discuss safety and security at TRU,” said Dustin McIntyre, completed on schedule by March.

The university’s senior adminTRUSU president.

McIntyre said the students istration will then decide which union hasn’t heard many com- actions to take Any student that would like to plaints about security on campus.

“Safety is more of a reaction- contribute to the review can conary thing [rather] than proactive, tact LaLonde at mark.lalonde@ so students, unless there is some- ckrglobal.com. stop being sure that you’re on top of the situation on campus, that everybody feels safe and that you’re aware of what’s going on elsewhere that could be enhancing what you do for personal safety and security.”

The review will examine a range of safety and security issues, including lab procedures, protection of private data and emergency preparedness. It will include online surveys, examination of policies, campus tours, in-

“...students, unless there is

something that happened on campus, do not talk to us about safety and security.”

SFU’s Philosopher’s Café celebrates 15th anniversary Alison Roach The Peak (SFU)

BURNABY (CUP) — SFU’s Philosophers’ Cafe celebrates its 15th anniversary this Feb. 28, and has been awarded for Best Practices in Higher Education by the World Universities Forum. The Best Practices award recognizes the most significant higher education practices of the year, and may go to post-secondary institutions for accomplishments in research projects, student services and innovative curricula.

SFU Philosophers’ Cafe was founded in 1992 by Yosef Wosk, with the goal of bringing diverse groups of people for the Vancouver community together for stimulating conversations on a huge variety of topics ranging from social issues. Since then, over 70,000 people have attended Philosophers’ Cafe.

While philosophers’ cafes may seem archaic to some, Filimowicz has found plenty of support in the community.

“As much as people always talk about that we’re in this age of social media and online profiles and media-wikitweets — Tweet-leaks, leakytweets, whatever — there’s no substitute for talking face to face,” said Filimowicz. “People like this experience of having serious conversations or stimulating conversations in an actual space with other real people.”

The program is a part of SFU’s Continuing Studies program, and cafes take place throughout the Metro Vancouver area with talks in venues located in municipalities from downtown Vancouver out to Maple Ridge. Philosophers’ Cafe has even invaded cyberspace, with groups of over a thousand online participants coming together on online platform Second Life, hosted out of North Vancouver.

Cafes take place wherever there is room for a conversation, including churches, community centres, libraries,

and the traditional coffee shop. Current director Michael Filimowicz has been leading the program for the past two years. Filimowicz is a SFU lecturer in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology, specializing in media arts.

Philosophers’ Cafe also functions as part of SFU’s overall goal of engagement. “[Philosophers’ Cafe is] probably the university’s flagship program for community engagement, as part of the university’s overall goal of engaging Vancouver,” said Filimowicz. He went on to say that one way to better engage to community is to have more SFU faculty be part of the program.

In his time as director, Filimowicz has focused heavily on expanding the program by recruiting more SFU experts as moderators.

“When I started directing the program two years ago, most of the moderators were non-SFU, and now most of the moderators are SFU related people,” said Filimowicz.

SFU moderators include faculty, grad students, alumni or retired faculty. Since Filimowicz has been directing the program, somewhere around 60 new SFUrelated experts have come on board the program as moderators. Philosophers’ cafes are popular in cities around the world, but Filimowicz hailed his program as unique in that it’s backed by a post-secondary education in a way others cafes are not.

“There’s a very strong commitment at all levels — from the president’s commitment to community engagement, Jon Driver VPA’s commitment with getting faculty involved with community engagement, and supporting this as something that the university pays for,” said Filimowicz.

“Everyone recognizes that the program generates a lot of good will out in the community and is important in terms of the overall goal in engaging the general public. “There’s plenty of support.”

Poster board chaos still an issue Jessica Klymchuck Ω Contributor

The poster boards around campus are chaotic and crowded, seemingly defeating their purpose – yet the university has no plans to improve the situation.

The boards are meant to allow

the TRU community to advertise a variety of products, services and events but the layers upon layers of advertisements unsystematically tacked on to them prevent effective communication. Old Main in particular houses some of the worst.

The university has a policy meant to regulate the use of the

boards. Included are rules that states the organization placing the poster must be clearly identified, posters cannot be placed on walls and windows, only one of each poster shall be allowed on each board and for-profit businesses can’t use them.

All of these rules have been

Despite the frustration for everyone caused by the mess, campus poster boards will not be organized any time soon.

—PHOTO BY JESSICA KLYMCHUCK

violated. The most common violation is for-profit business posting, wrote Sarah Graham, assistant dean of students, in an email.

Nightclub Cactus Jacks has a large colour ad for an upcoming event on several boards.

The boards are monitored on a weekly basis and all postings are removed at the middle and end of each semester, wrote Graham.

“They do a poster board clean up twice or three times a year,” said Dustin McIntyre, TRUSU president. “After that they turn into the TRU Kijiji.”

The removal dates are Feb. 15, April 30, Oct. 30 and Dec. 30. The dates are advertised on a notice covered under a slew of papers, despite “please do not cover” written across the top.

Although there was a scheduled clean up on Dec. 30, a poster for the Winter Wonderland party on Dec. 6 remains up.

There is no action being taken to improve the system or improve regulation, Graham wrote.

The current system has made promotion for campus groups difficult because the boards become so overwhelming to read. Even the students union is facing problems when it tries to promote its services.

“We are trying to get the institution to limit poster board usage because that would allow us to help promotion,” said Jeromy Spence,

TRUSU vice president finance, at the annual general meeting on Jan. 24.

Last year TRUSU expressed interest in working with Student Services to improve the functionality of the poster boards but had not initiated anything.

“What we said is we would be willing to work with the university on it,” McIntyre said. “However, the university is not interested in doing anything with the poster boards and we are not interested in taking on the role of policing the poster boards.”

TRUSU has its own set of poster boards, one in each building, but finds it effective to also post on the general boards for more exposure.

“I am not aware of TRUSU bringing forward any questions in the past year regarding this policy,” wrote Graham. McIntyre said TRUSU is not currently doing anything to work with the institution on improving the poster boards.

Postings do not require a date stamp. Graham told The Omega last year the stamping system does not deter people from posting and the current system was providing members of the TRU community with effective access to poster board space.

“I think it would benefit students if there was a more regulated, better poster board system; however, I don’t have a solution,” McIntyre said.

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Life & Community Author promotes non-violent action for Middle East

Hafsa Lodi’s modern twist to Islamic fashion

Sean Brady

The Eyeopener (Ryerson)

Ω Contributor

Maxine Kaufman-Lacusta spoke to TRU students twice last week, revealing a history of nonviolent resistance to the Israeli occupation of Palestine.

Her book, Refusing to be Enemies, is a compilation of more than 100 interviews with people and organizations whose goals are to use non-violent resistance to end the occupation that began in 1967.

“I don’t so much bring a variety of perspectives so much as a variety of voices from one particular perspective,” Kaufman-Lacusta said.

Kaufman-Lacusta spoke to students twice last week, first in the Clock Tower Alumni Theatre on Jan. 28, and again as guest lecturer in POLI 3640, an introductory Middle East politics class instructed by professor Derek Cook.

“Last term we had an Israeli fundraiser, a member of the Israeli military intelligence at one point, he gave us his point of view,” Cook said.

“The university likes to sponsor a variety of points of view and that’s why we have sponsor-

militant politics, placed a bomb in a busy street which injured nine Israelis.”

Jeddah was captured and spent 13 years in prison, where he adopted non-violence as a way of resisting the occupation, Kaufman-Lacusta said.

“He told me that while he was in prison, he’d come to the conclusion that his main allies should be the actual Israelis themselves.

“He had also become a father,” she said. “He saw his children, the Palestinian children and the Israeli children as being psychologically destroyed by the occupation.”

Non-violent resistance is often overshadowed by the violence in the region, Kaufman-Lacusta said.

Nathan Shar p, who at—Maxime Kaufman-Lacusta tended the presentation as part of his POLI 3640 She told the story of Ali Jed- class, agreed.

“I don’t get that information dah, who was a high school student when the Israeli occupation that this is actually happening,“ he said. “I’m absolutely going to began in 1967.

“He was planning to become a get involved – as much as I can.”

Kaufman-Lacusta also dislawyer but he had to quit school and go to work because of the tributed a handout listing ways fallout from the occupation,” she students can get involved. More information can be found on her said.

“He got swept up in what he website at: http://refusingtobeenemiesthebook. described as a circle of violence at the time. He got involved in wordpress.com/ ship from the dean of arts, the dean of law, the Equity Committee of the Faculty Association, the Human Rights Committee and the Council of Canadians.”

In the presentation, KaufmanLacusta put forth a selection of stories of those she interviewed for her book.

“Some of my interviewees were former supporters, or even practitioners of armed struggle,” Kaufman-Lacusta said.

“He saw his children, the Palestinian children and Israeli children as being pshycologically destroyed”

Nicole Schmidt

TORONTO (CUP) — Hafsa Lodi began taking sewing lessons when she was nine years old.

At the time, she never imagined that one day she would have her own clothing label. But now, more than a decade later, Lodi has done just that.

As an international student currently enrolled in Ryerson’s journalism program, Lodi leads a double life. She flies into Toronto each September and immerses herself in the world of journalism.

Then, each April, she flies back home to Dubai and focuses on fashion design.

When she first started, she tried to do both at the same time. But managing a clothing line while taking on a full course load proved to be overwhelming.

“It would have been hard [to do both],” said Lodi. “During the school year, I sketched out stuff as I thought of it, but other than that, I wasn’t really doing anything else with it.”

Her designs are catered towards the Muslim population, inspired by the silhouette of an abaya — a loose-fitting, robe-like garment traditionally worn by Islamic women.

Lodi says she wanted to give Muslim women more options by creating pieces that balance modesty with style and incorporate international trends and colour.

“A typical Middle-Eastern dress is all black head-to-toe,” Lodi said. “But I’m trying to give [these women] more use to that image with colour and embellishments.”

As a result, her designs often include

floor-length dresses, jumpsuits, longsleeve shirts, and items that can be easily layered.

It all started during the summer of 2011. Lodi was experimenting with clothing design by creating pieces for friends and family.

“I just started buying fabrics and making clothes,” she said.

According to Lodi, her inspiration is eye-catching prints. Whenever she sees a cool fabric, she pictures its potential to be made into something different.

“By the end of summer, I made around 30 dresses and thought, ‘What do I do from here,’” she said.

But the positive feedback she was receiving from all of those who saw her designs pushed her forward.

Lodi began talking to store owners in Dubai to see if they would be interested in selling her clothing.

She was a hit right away. The first boutique she approached, OConcept, agreed to stock her first collection.

A launch event was held to introduce the Hafsa Lodi Label, and things began to pick up from there.

After designing her second collection, she wanted to expand her client base. She approached s*uce, another boutique with three different branches. They soon began to sell her clothing as well.

Since Lodi completed her last semester of school in December, she is now back in Dubai full-time. Her new spring/ summer collection, Bedouin Ballerina, will be released this month.

Now that Lodi has finished her new collection, she wants to focus on pursuing journalism.

“I’d love to try and do both,” she said.

What’s your colour?

Wildlife biologist explores garter snake colouration Mark Hendricks Ω Contributor

The colour of a garter snake impacts how it survives in its environment, a wildlife biologist told the audience at a Jan. 31 environmental science seminar – and humans are changing that environment.

Humans engineer the area around us to best suit our needs.

In the Okanagan we turn semi-arid landscapes into green vineyards.

While the destruction of animal habitats is often a subject of discussion, less often is the ability of those animals to survive afterward.

“How an animal looks in its environment very much has implications,” said Leigh Anne Isaac as she points to a picture of a rattlesnake and a vineyard. “Habitats are being converted and so the habitat in which a rattlesnake is used to being in looks much different now.”

Isaac, who received her PhD in biology from the University of Victoria, was the guest lecturer for the third seminar in the environmental science seminar series put on by TRU. Isaac spoke to a crowd of approximately 40 about her research into the impact of color variance on a species.

Isaac’s research was inspired by

a single question — why do garter snakes vary in colour? To answer this question, she set out to capture garter snakes that have two distinct colourations, light skinned and dark skinned. She would then measure differences in traits and behaviour.

“Seems straightforward but it isn’t, I guarantee you,” Isaac said.

Isaac’s work examined three areas: protection from predators, differences in behaviour and thermal differences.

The ability of a prey to avoid detection due to camouf lage, of which colour is a primary factor, is known as crypsis. Isaac examined the crypsis of garter snakes by capturing them as they were basking and taking samples from the immediately surrounding area.

Isaac took these samples and measured the type of light that bounced back to obtain a measurement. The findings determined that for the area the snakes came from there was no difference in the crypsis between the two colourations.

Although crypsis was the same, the behaviour between the two colourations varied significantly.

The light skinned snakes were quicker to f lee when they were detected; however, the dark skinned snakes were significantly faster once moving.

The light skinned snakes also tend to be found further away from the nearest hiding point than their dark skinned counterparts.

The dark-skinned snakes had a longer life expectancy, as the lighter-skinned snakes were more vulnerable to predators; however, the lighter-skinned snakes had larger litter sizes Temperature plays a large role in animals such as snakes and colour was found to play a strong role in temperature. Isaac found that the darker skinned snakes had higher average body temperatures.

Snakes are temperature sensitive and at higher body temperatures they are faster, have increased metabolic processes and enhanced digestion. This gives the darker skinned snakes a comparative advantage.

Isaac hopes her research will have more than merely academic impact. She hopes her research will have relevance to conservation efforts as we better understand the impact of changing an animal’s environment on its continued survival.

The environmental science seminar series is open to everyone and take place on Thursdays in room S203 in the science building. A full listing of dates along with abstracts of the presentations can be found on TRU’s website by searching “environmental seminar.”

Wildlife biologist Leigh Anne Isaac examines the way animals (particularly snakes) are coloured, and why, at the environmental science seminar series, which runs throughout the winter semester

—PHOTO BY MAR K HENDRICKS

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February 6, 2013

Life & Community Jian Ghomeshi conforms to stand out in 1982

Meghan O’Neil

The Aquinian (St. Thomas) FREDERICTON (CUP) — In 1982, Jian Ghomeshi put on pointy boots, picked up purple eyeliner and went through countless bottles of hair gel hoping to fit in with the cool kids.

Despite a fortunate change in Ghomeshi’s fashion sense, the host and co-creator of CBC’s cultural affairs show, Q said he hasn’t entirely escaped his teenage insecurities.

“If you take a position in favour of gay marriage, or against a war, or for funding to the arts, there’s going to be people who don’t like that,” said Ghomeshi over the phone from his Toronto office.

“Sometimes that can send me right back to the kid who wanted to fit it, but it doesn’t ever prevent me from making my case. So I think that’s always been in me.”

Ghomeshi’s “somewhat naive” 14-year-old voice takes readers through one pivotal year of his

teens in 1982, which hit bookstores in September.

Of Iranian descent, Ghomeshi was born in London, England before moving to Thornhill, Ont., a white-bread suburb of Toronto, when he was seven. He wanted nothing more than to be like his idol, David Bowie. This was seemingly impossible because of his olive skin and “industrialsized” nose.

He includes the word “nose” 18 times in 278 pages. They aren’t all references to his nose, but noses in general. An impossible-to-ignore, defining feature for a young immigrant.

“It was very obvious I was different from others, and there was this real desire for acceptance and wanting to fit it, but having said that, I’ve also, from a young age … I did have a critical mind.”

That inquisitive nature has helped earn him a national audience that’s spilled over the American border. Q is aired on CBC Radio One, shown on CBC Television, and was picked up by Public Radio International.

Q is the highest-rated show in the late morning time slot in CBC history and enjoys the largest national audience of any cultural affairs program. Ghomeshi’s smooth voice first greeted listeners over the airwaves on Q in 2007.

Since then, he has conducted a range of high-profile interviews from politicians like Al Gore, to musical icons like Paul McCartney and Leonard Cohen, not to mention an infamous on-air interview with Billy Bob Thornton.

“On a visceral level, music always affected me. I can listen to

some of that now, whether it’s The Clash, or Bowie, or Dépêche Mode, music of that period, it’ll set me back there right away. It’s such a trigger for me, and it’s been such an important part of my life and obviously continues to be.”

1982 is told in 12 tales, each appropriately titled with a song and musicians ranging from The Clash, Rush, Culture Club and of course, Bowie.

At the time, new wave was emerging, experimenting with electronic sounds. Ghomeshi tried desperately to be a new waver, which meant looking like you didn’t try. This proved difficult.

He hung around the theatre room at his high school, and eventually became part of its coveted theatre troupe. He also formed a few bands and was in the vocal group.

Despite his desire to fit in, he was constantly putting himself in situations to stand out.

Ghomeshi bought tickets to an alternative music festival outside Toronto, The Police Picnic.

This is where the book forms its spine.

“It’s a major coming-of-age moment. It all kind of comes to a head.”

Ghomeshi recounts discovering his new favourite band, Talking Heads, inviting a girl who looked like David Bowie and letting go of the one thing that was holding him to childhood — his red and blue adidas bag.

“Here I’m dealing with trying to impress this blonde cool girl — I’m younger than everyone else at this amazing music fes-

—PHOTO BY ARIANE COLENBR ANDER /FLICK R

tival that’s all about the music that’s such a trigger for me …

All of that’s happening on one day and it was pretty epic.”

His parents are still not used to their son on such a public platform and profile. In the book, his mother compares him to the white neighbour’s children; and his father never could understand the passion he had for music and theatre.

He dedicated the book to them and gave them a copy before publication.

“It can be really annoying and difficult for them, even though I think they are ultimately proud of me,” he said. “Given their druthers, they would prefer that there would be a book called ‘How I Became Successful in Medicine and Also Engineering,

by Jian Ghomeshi.’”

Do you like food?

Do you like inexpensive, really good food even more?

The Omega and CFBX are hosting a steak/chicken/ salmon dinner at Fox’n Hounds Pub on Feb. 24.

Tickets are only $10 and all proceeds go to supporting independent on-campus media.

Diane Schuetze, Jen Ju and Tracy Kocs played their final home game for the TRU WolfPack Feb. 1, at the TCC. The WolfPack will look to the three seniors to lead their charge in the Canada West post-season.

—PHOTO BY ADAM WILLIAMS

Contact Mike at editor@truomega. ca for tickets.

Life & Community Wellness Centre and respiratory therapy department receive provincial recognitions

Courtney Dickson Ω Roving Editor

TRU was the only post-secondary institution to receive the B.C. Champions for Tobacco-Free Living Award, presented Jan. 18. The B.C. Lung Association and the Heart and Stroke foundation recognized the TRU Wellness Centre and respiratory therapy program for their commitment to tobacco reduction on campus.

This is the first time the Champions for Tobacco-Free Living Award has been presented.

“We are often so focused on doing work that we don’t stand back and reflect on people doing good work,” said Jack Boomer, director of the Clean Air Coalition of B.C. “The leading cause of preventable death in B.C. is tobacco-related illness,” said Scott McDonald, CEO of the B.C. Lung Association.

“Thanks to champions like these we continue to make progress on this important issue.”

According to a press release from Jan. 18, B.C. “has some of the strongest tobacco-control legislation in Canada and the lowest smoking rate (14 per cent) of any province or territory.”

Janine Chan of the respiratory therapy program and Chelsea Corsi, wellness coordinator on campus, credit each other for their hard work and passion.

“It just so happens that we have an extraordinary wellness department that we’ve collaborated with,” Chan said. “It’s very natural for us to want to be focused on tobacco.”

Boomer considers TRU one of the “unsung heroes” of tobacco cessation and reduction.

“They have always been ex-

The Wellness Centre and the Respiratory Therapy department received the award Jan. 18 from the BC Lung Association and the Heart & Stroke Foundation for their efforts towards tobacco reduction and smoking cessation.

—PHOTO COURTESY TRU

tremely creative and innovative,” he said.

The Wellness Centre and respiratory therapy program have been receiving grants to assist them with educating staff and students about tobacco and supporting tobacco cessation.

In 2008 they received $15,000 from the Tobacco-Free Post-Secondary Initiative from the B.C. Healthy Living Alliance.

In 2011 the team received the CAN-ADAPTT (Canadian Action Network for the Advancement Dissemination and Adoption of Practice Informed Tobacco Treatment) grant for $5,000, which Chan said “really set the stage for us because then we didn’t have to worry about funding.”

Finally, this year, they received

For someone who has used tobacco for 10 or more years, a lifetime without tobacco may be hard to imagine. One day without tobacco may seem more attainable.

Next on the list for the Wellness Centre and respiratory therapy program is to start educating TRU’s international students about tobacco use.

“Our intent really is to get into every ESL class,” Chan said. “We really want to make the Canadian experience for these students a healthy one.”

“Tobacco is the only product that, when used as directed, will kill 50 per cent of users,” Boomer said.

“Tobacco use is a chronic disease, not a bad habit,” Corsi said.

TRU offers the only respiratory therapy training in the province.

Japanese Club excited for International Days

TRU Career Mentoring

Allison Declercq-Matthas

“It’s a great opportunity to ask questions about my studies and goals to professionals that have real life experience working in these fields”

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more than $2,800 from TRU’s Comprehensive University Enhancement Fund. This money has been used partly to develop a questionnaire that is being circulated through various groups on campus, asking about their tobacco use and beliefs.

“Knowing what we each had to offer and bring to the table and the infusion of the money,” Chan added, “we committed ourselves to grow certain parts of this initiative on campus.”

Currently, Chan and Corsi are promoting QuitNow’s TobaccoFree Tuesdays.

The idea is that if someone can successfully end tobacco use for 24 hours, it gives him or her the self-efficacy that he or she can do it for longer.

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With a number of events on their plate, TRUSU Japanese Club members have been working hard to prepare for International Days.

“Remember, though sometimes it may not seem like it, our booth is very popular,” club president Cheyanne Bradsley warned club members as she went over the schedule the evening of Friday, Feb. 1. The club was busy with an overview meeting and two dance meetings in one night.

For weeks they’ve been practicing the Soran Bushi, a famous traditional Japanese sea shanty and their signature contribution to the International Days showcase.

“It’s really common for high school students to learn the dance for school festivals,” Bradsley said. She first learned the steps to the dance in grade eight and nine when a Japanese exchange students studied at her school. When International Days came up during her first year as club president she introduced the song.

“It just kind of stuck and now we’ve been doing it for three years,” she said. Though Bradsley described the dance as simple, the dancers take breaks

Members of the TRU Japanese Club practice for International Days.

—PHOTO BY ALLISON DECLERCQ-MATTHAS

to relieve their leg and arm muscles.

“With all the practices, we do get really sore,” said Jenna Banman, vice president of the club and participant in the dance.

“It’s really hard on the thighs because the stances are mostly done in lunges.”

Last year the dancers wore happi, Japanese festival jackets, during the showcase. Made from cotton, many had Japanese lettering talking about the towns they’re from or the festivals they’re for.

Along with the International

Showcase dance, the club will be contributing to the International Tea Expo on Tuesday, Feb. 5. They’ll also host a dress-up booth Wednesday, Feb. 6, and Thursday, Feb. 7. With kimonos donated for the event from across campus, those who want to wear traditional Japanese clothing can visit the booth and have their photo taken by Chad Finlay, a member of the club.

“A whole mixture of people on campus let us borrow their traditional clothing,” said Bradsley.

An owner of two formal kimono and two yukata, or casual ki-

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February 6, 2013

Arts & Entertainment Album review: Beta Love

—IMAGE COURTESY BARSUK RECORDS

Travis Persaud Ω Contributor

Some say to dare to dream. In the case of Ra Ra Riot’s latest effort, Beta Love, dream they did.

This dream landed them in the distant future encaged by the clutches of a robot who proceeded to puke on the band and growl, “Dance, puppets.”

Signed to the well-regarded Canadian record label Arts & Crafts, Ra Ra Riot unabashedly explored new sounds, with this album taking them worlds away from previous works like “Can You Tell,” a single off of their first album, The Rhumb Line.

Beta Love marks Ra Ra Riot’s first outing as a four-piece band since the departure of vocalist and cellist Alexandra Lawn in February 2012. The tightened line-up paired with new inspiration from the works of cyberpunk novelist William Gibson and futurist

Ray Kurzweil ultimately led to the drastic sonic departure from their earlier works.

Wasting no time to introduce the album’s sound, the opening track “Dance With Me” throws the listener in the midst of overwhelming synth hooks. The electronic sounds ultimately match the cheap lyricism heard with the repetition of “I wanna be your toy.”

The track draws to a close long after it should.

“Binary Mind” follows with no respite from the cheesy electro hooks, instead adding a faux clap to the dilemma. Continuing on the future train, “Binary Mind” leads us to the title track where vocalist Wes Miles sings, “In this city of robot hearts, ours were made to be.” Crud, I hope guitars still exist in the future.

The strings and guitar riffs that once indicated a unity in Ra Ra Riot’s sound eventually make themselves known throughout the album. However, they are heavily overrun by computer-produced sounds, alluding to the dismal hopes of traditional instruments making it in Ra Ra Riot’s vision of a future dominated by synth pop.

Before the album draws to a close, “What I Do For U” comes pounding through with a distorted bass more suited to the vibrating trunk of a beat up Honda Civic driven by your generic, barely legal teenager with his “Swag” hat on backwards.

Perhaps Beta Love is a slow burner that will garner more respect and playability in time, but I won’t be sticking around to find out.

UVic student named first-ever Victoria youth poet laureate Jennifer Boychuk

The Martlet (University of Victoria) VICTORIA (CUP) — Whether or not she expected it, Aysia Law is Victoria’s first-ever youth poet laureate, as well as the first in Canada. “[It’s] terrifying, but it’s also a pretty big honour,” said Law, a second-year UVic creative writing student.

Law, who is already an active member of Victoria’s spoken word community, was selected from 32 applicants to serve as an ambassador for Victoria’s youth. The criteria Law was judged on included leadership, experience, innovative project ideas and, of course, the quality of her poetry.

Her task is to complete projects that will engage her peers through poetry.

She will also perform at city council and City of Victoria Youth Council meetings.

“I’m excited to actually start working on the ideas we have,” said Law. “There are two big ideas that I’d really like see happen — I can’t speak too much about

Kamloops entertainment previews: February

the first, but for the second project, I’m really hoping we can work on a diversity slam.”

Poetry slams are competitions in which poets perform their original work. Law hopes to make the diversity slam a regular event.

“I’m hoping it won’t be a one-time thing, but that it can be ongoing. I want to bring in lots of different marginalized voices — and not just youth, but especially youth to come and speak about what they see and what they think our community needs,” said Law. The word “poetry” has carried different meanings for Law. “If you’d asked me five years ago, I would’ve told you that poetry was everything to me. Now, thanks to school, poetry is a bit more businesslike. I’m trying to rediscover it, which is something I am trying to accomplish through this position,” said Law. “In high school, it was pretty much what kept me alive.”

Then, in 2009, her father passed away.

“I stopped writing, and I don’t really know why, because often writing is what helps people in emotional situations — but I just stopped,” said Law. “Then, when I was attending Douglas College in 2010, I decided to take an introduction to poetry class, and it got me writing again. It reinitiated everything. So now I’m still trying to figure out what I can do with [poetry] and what my limits are within it.”

Law said she applied for the youth poet laureate position on a whim and didn’t expect to be chosen.

“I guess the part of me that applied was sort of half hoping that it would

happen, but part of me was a lot more comfortable with thinking that I just wouldn’t get it,” she said.

One of Law’s biggest challenges will be to address and reverse some of the stereotypes attached to poetry.

“I think, at least when I was in high school, to youth, poetry was this boring, stuffy thing that you did in English class — but you didn’t want to be there and it just wasn’t fun. I’m hoping that, by being able to involve youth in poetry and spoken word performance poetry, maybe I can change their minds about that — that maybe they’ll realize poetry is actually fun and urban and cool and hip — all of these things that they don’t think it is.”

In her own poetry, Law strives to entertain and “get a message out.” She has found it particularly rewarding to work with Carla Funk, a poet and sessional instructor in UVic’s Writing Department. “[Funk] is an amazing poet and a really great professor. She makes poetry fun and interesting and everything that I want to make it for high school students. You can tell she loves [poetry] so much that she just wants to share it with everyone, and so seeing that sort of reinspired me,” said Law. Above all else, Law sees poetry as a vehicle for change.

“Youth are the next people in line, you know? And if we can open their minds now and teach them how to communicate with each other — and I think poetry is a really good way to do that — then we’ll have a generation of more open-minded and open-hearted people,” said Law.

Brendan Kergin

Ω Arts & Entertainment Editor

Canadian Music Corner Travis Persaud

Ω Resident Music Guy When Arts & Crafts scooped up Dan Mangan after the release of his sophomore album Nice, Nice, Very Nice, it made a very wise move. Mangan joined prominent Canadian folk artists, Feist and Jason Collett, among many other talented acts under the Arts & Crafts roof.

Since joining Arts & Crafts, Mangan has released Oh Fortune, his third fulllength album, in September 2011. Garnering him much earned recognition, Mangan collected a Juno for New Artist of the Year and Alternative Album of the Year for Oh Fortune.

Oh Fortune features deeply crafted layers weaved by the hands of Mangan’s backing band, The Crackling, who themselves are jazz musicians, whereas Nice, Nice, Very Nice features a simpler, more introspective sound.

Brendan Kergin

Ω Arts & Entertainment Editor One of the voices from My Little Pony (yes, the animated TV show) has a side project Canadian indie-pop music fans have come around to. In fact, Ashleigh Ball of Hey Ocean! has voiced a variety of kids cartoons, but lets focus on her singing and flute playing for now. As the lead singer front person for the up-andcoming Vancouver-based trio, she’s travelling the world hoping to make the jump from voice actor to rock star like Fergie (Stacey Ann Ferguson) of the Black Eyed Peas.

Okay, perhaps not exactly like that.

Ball, David Beckingham and David Ver-

Though Mangan’s first album, Postcards and Daydreaming, often flies under the radar, it’s not to be missed. While Mangan’s gravelly voice and purposeful lyricism carry through to his later efforts, the forcefulness and bleeding electric guitar heard on “Reasons to Think Aloud” do not. That being said, each album is a masterpiece in itself, revealing a progression in maturity and sounds.

Despite his extensive touring of the globe, Mangan gracefully delivers each and every show with the sincerity that one would come to expect from his records. At shows, Mangan makes a point of getting to know and meet fans, telling audiences that he hopes they know each other better upon heading their separate ways.

To define this authenticity he brings to every show, Mangan once wrote for The Guardian, “People can smell BS, and insincerity is the making of a lame band.”

Dan Mangan is the real deal. tesi have created a unique sound involving a hint of jazz into their early work.

While they drifted into a sunnier, upbeat sound with their latest album IS it’s still an incredibly catchy sound with more creativity not heard in the average pop act. While Ball often leads the vocals, Beckingham has his own time to shine, often on more mellow tracks. Live, this creates a great balance and variety.

Rampant travellers, they’re currently criss-crossing North America right now, hitting Whitehorse later this month and working their way down to Florida within 30 days. Unfortunately they hit Kamloops last year and don’t have any dates planned here soon, so in the mean time check out the song “Big Blue Wave” for a taste of the sound of Hey Ocean!

Amusia – Feb. 9 Pogue Mahones, doors at 9:30 p.m., $5 Vancouver rockers Amusia will be bringing some aggressive rock to Pogue Mahone’s stage. With a mix of progressive rock and metal, influenced by some of the great rock acts of the 1970s, they should draw a diverse crowd of rock fans representing a variety of genres.

The Harlem Globetrotters – Feb. 13 TCC, doors at 6 p.m., $28 Legends of the court, Harlem’s Globetrotters tend not to trot into town. It’s more of a sly jog. They’ll be bringing top-notch skills and a touch of comedy to the TCC. Timed perfectly to be one day before Valentine’s Day, this is a chance to get sports and slapstick humour in one big dose.

Heavy Metal Kings w/ Sick Steen, Abel, The Maggoteers and DJ Virtue – Feb. 20 Cactus Jacks, doors at 8 p.m., $15 advance, $20 at the door Cactus Jacks will be hosting a big night for the city’s rap fans. While some students will be travelling for reading week, this will entertain the rest. Heavy Metal Kings brings together two big names in underground hip hop. Founding member of Jedi Mind Tricks Vinnie Paz has teamed up with veteran Ill Bill, bringing more than 40 years of experience in from New York and Philadelphia to the Kamloops stage.

The Boom Booms – Feb. 26 The Art We Are, show at 8 p.m., $10 The Art We Are may not be the venue one would expect for a group called the Boom Booms. The Vancouver sextet will be bringing some warm summer vibes, with some fusion music not dissimilar to world/jazz masters Cat Empire. Runners-up in the 2011 Peak Performance Project, a B.C.-wide independent artist competition, they regularly rock bigger rooms, so a smaller venue could be a treat.

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The Omega · Volume 22, Issue 18

Arts & Entertainment Good girls never miss Church Eric Church tries to bring down the Interior Savings Centre

Album Review: BLack on BLonde

Courtney Dickson Ω Roving Editor

The ground was sticky, the air reeked heavily of beer, it was hot and sweaty on the floor and there is no other way his fans would have it.

On the third night of the Canadian leg of his tour, Grammy nominee and country bad-boy Eric Church brought an uncontrollable energy to a sold out show at the Interior Savings Centre.

A short 20-song set, Church opened with “Country Music Jesus,” a title that he embodied. The audience was immediately engaged, regardless of how many beers they’d consumed before arriving at the show.

Church’s concerts have a reputation for attracting a young, rowdy crowd and this one was no exception. There were, however, some more mature fans that balanced the unruly mob out. The older couples brought the country vibe to life as they showed up the youngsters when it came to two-steppin’.

Though the real show was watching an animated Church, the lights and pyrotechnics added to his energetic performance.

“Creepin’” especially benefited from all the bells and whistles when the green lights lit up the stage, eerily hitting the smoke and creating that Louisiana swamp feel. Every cell phone in the venue was out trying to snap a picture.

“I just want to say I’m havin’ a damn good time,” he said as he stood in the spotlight alone with his guitar and shifted gears to play the romantic “Like Jesus Does.”

There was still an edgy vibe lingering in the air and he seemed to tear through the three slower numbers.

—IMAGE COURTESY EMI MUSIC CANADA

Carli Berry

The Concordian (Concordia)

Church got right back up on the horse when he encouraged the already tipsy crowd to grab another drink and sang one of several songs about alcohol, “Drink in my Hand.”

The audience obliged, to say the least.

As the audience roared, Church said, “If I have anything to do with it, we will burn this son of a bitch to the ground.”

Church saved the best for last.

“Springsteen” evoked a sense of community among the crowd as they rose, almost as one. They were unable to control themselves as

—PHOTO BY COURTNEY DICKSON

they belted out the American Country Award-winning song. One fan in particular was so enthused she tossed what appeared to be her bra on stage.

The single shortcoming of the evening was that he didn’t play “Hell on the Heart” off his 2009 album Carolina, which made the top10 on the Billboard charts for U.S. country songs in 2009.

The party spilled into the streets following the show, and it’s safe to say that many had to forgo church Sunday morning to see Church on Saturday night.

Toronto-based hip-hop artist k-os is back with his first official album since 2010. Released on Jan. 29, BLack On BLonde is a massive album containing 20 tracks on two discs.

The first part is titled BLack and second is BLonde, hence the name BLack On BLonde. It features many well-known Canadian artists such as Emily Haines (from Metric), Sam Roberts and Corey Harte whom all do fantastic jobs contributing to the soulful mix that is the sound of k-os.

You may know his hits from previous albums, like “I Wish I Knew Natalie Portman” and “Crabbuckit” and be assured that this album contains the same k-os qualities.

The BLack side of the album focuses more on hip hop and contains more rap, while the BLonde side features the first release off

the album, “The Dog Is Mine” and contains more of a rock feeling with k-os laying down some licks on his guitar.

Well-known for his hip-hop/ rock style blend of music, k-os has decided to bring something new to the table with BLack On BLonde, an incorporation of pop.

One of the main hits, “NYCE 2 Know Ya” is almost cliché with its upbeat techno feel and lyrics telling the story of an ex-girlfriend. But it’s oh so catchy and it works with the pace of the album.

Ex-girlfriends are not the only things k-os discusses in the album. In “Put Down Your Phone” he places heavy emphasis on how cell phones have become an addiction in our society. At Rdio. com k-os wrote commentary about the tracks of BLack On BLonde, stating that the song “Surf’s Up” was written collaboratively with a friend and references the BP oil spill that occurred in 2010.

Overall, the album provides a fresh sound that incorporates many different genres. k-os continues to show his skills at refraining from typical hip hop and instead provides us with a unique blend of hip hop, rap, rock and a little pop.

He has come a long way from being barely recognised as an artist to a mainstream Canadian act whose album arrives at seventh on the iTunes charts.

The recognition is rightfully deserved; a solid four out of five stars for keeping the sound of BLack On BLonde original.

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Delhi 2 Dublin fuses Ireland and India into danceable world beat Brendan Kergin

Ω Arts & Entertainment Editor One of the biggest events of the 20th annual International Days is the Delhi 2 Dublin show Wednesday, Feb. 6.

The Vancouver-based group has travelled the world, playing shows from Dublin to Bali (ironically the group has never played together in Delhi, though a couple have had other shows there). This will only be their second time ever playing Kamloops and the night promises to be a huge cultural mishmash, which fits the week’s tone.

“I would say it’s a mash-up of mainly some Indian sounds, some Irish sounds, lots of electronics and then anything else we feel like throwing in there,” said Tarun Nayar, DJ and percussionist for the group. “It’s basically global party music.”

The mixture of fiddle, tabla (traditional Indian drums) and a heavy dose of Vancouver’s bass scene, Delhi 2 Dublin’s sound is a unique blend of old and new, with two distinct influences working together to bring a brand new sound.

“It’s a vibe that people on the West Coast relate to a lot more strongly than people on the East Coast,” Nayar said. “We’ve also seen that in Asia that people can really respond to it.

“So many Chinese people grow up with Bollywood movies and so many

people in Indonesia, Thailand, Burma, all through that region, they all watch Indian movies. So when they see us on stage they can really relate to a lot of the rhythms and melodies even though it’s not their culture.

They find it appealing and colourful.”

While the band is now a fulltime job – Nayar said they’re on the road about 200 days of the year – they almost never came together, simply because they never planned to. The first show they played was a one-off 15-minute set on a St. Patrick’s Day seven years ago.

In the crowd were a couple people looking to book shows and the group responded, but had to write a lot more music first.

—PHOTO BY JOSLI ROCK AFELLA

“We did things in reverse; we never sat down and wanted to make a band.

The band sort of made itself and we’ve just hung on since then,” Nayar said.

Now the band is touring the world, playing at a wide variety of shows, from folk events to jazz festivals to raves.

“When we’re on stage it’s a frickin’ party and there’s something really magical about watching all this different music come together live and work,” Nayar said. “And I think that’s really exciting on stage.”

Bhang a Gong: A Midweek Dance Party featuring Delhi 2 Dublin is Wednesday, Feb. 6 at the Culinary Arts Training Centre. Doors open at 7 p.m. and the show is at 9 p.m.

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February 6, 2013

The Wire Culling the best from Canadian campuses One night in a Toronto student sex party Kristine Wilson

The Ryersonian (Ryerson) TORONTO (CUP) — Everyone is naked.

As the DJ spins music on the first floor of Oasis Aqua Lounge in downtown Toronto, a few men in their 20s sprint from the pool to the hot tub without bathing suits.

One floor above them, two women — also naked — are perched on a sex swing. Across from them, a man — again, naked — is tethered to the wall in chains and leather binds.

These were just a few scenes from Jan. 21’s “epic student sex adventure”, an event organized by the University of Toronto Sexual Education Center (SEC). The party invited university students from across the Greater Toronto Area to visit Oasis, a water-themed sex

club a few steps north of Ryerson’s campus.

The sex party was one of the first of its kind at a Canadian university. Rather than talk about sex, the event encouraged students to push personal boundaries and explore their sexuality in a safe environment. That step — from theory to practice — sparked a media firestorm. The story drew hundreds of comments on the Toronto Star’s website and was shared more than 21,000 times on Facebook — making it the fifth most viewed story in the star.com’s history.

But would anyone show up to the sex party, or was the hype all talk?

I went to find out.

On Monday night, a sea of about 200 students formed a line outside Oasis. Protesters walked up and down the line, yelling things

said as she puffed ultra-thin cigarettes in her office.

“It was them that convinced us to have a student night, so many people were interested we started to do it every Monday and we have for the past eight months.”

At Steamworks, a gay bathhouse on Church Street near Wellesley Avenue, students are invited to realize their sexual desires.

“You can’t go in there, it’s men only!” shouted an onlooker as I tried to enter the bathhouse. I decided not to listen and pushed through the door. “You’re going to see a lot of things you don’t want to see!” he yelled after me.

I entered a dark corridor lit only by yellow lights.

A heavy-set man with a large beard passed by me. “You know this is a maleonly spa right? You can’t be in here.” I smiled and kept walking towards the front desk, where a well—Natalie Smith, protestor kept man stood behind a glass-enclosed desk.

The receptionist, Teymour Nadstocked bars and a DJ in the corner jafi, explained that students often blasted beats from a turntable.

On the third floor of the club, visit Steamworks. “About one in Ryerson student Kay Poli lounges five of our clientele is a student; as couples have sex around him. they are in here almost every day,” Pornography is playing on TVs he explained. “I think students on the walls. For him, the event is would still come even if we didn’t nothing new. “I’ve been here be- offer any student discounts. I think fore,” Poli said. “What I like about they find it good for self-discovthis sex club is that it’s open to all ery.”

Steamworks offers a free 90-day genders, all orientations.”

Poli is one member of a new gen- trial membership to students, plus eration of students who frequent $5 off locker rentals. Student hours Toronto sex clubs. In fact, Oasis run from Monday - Friday from 8 has hosted dozens of student- a.m. to 4 p.m. – all they need is a valid student card. friendly events before.

Despite the media hype, it’s According to Jana Matthews, the club’s co-owner, university clear sex clubs and bathhouses are students are a regular presence at nothing new to university students.

Oasis. “We did the same event with Toronto’s sex club scene isn’t huge, [SEC] last year and … everyone but it’s far less underground than that was here loved it,” Matthews one might imagine. like “God loves you!” They were Christian protesters from York University’s United Through Worship student group.

“I think it says something about where our society is going morally,” said Natalie Smith, a member of the group. “This is encouraging them to devalue themselves, whether its STDs or unwanted pregnancy.”

But SEC said they made sure to keep the event as safe and sexpositive as possible; condoms and packets of lube were piled in bowls across the club. The event had a laid-back vibe; students could grab a drink at one of the many well-

“I think it says something about where our society is going morally.”

—PHOTO BYJOH N MICHAEL BEN NETT/THE MUSE

Memorial University students draw ire of Westboro Baptist Church Laura Howells

The Muse (Memorial) ST. JOHN’S (CUP) — A local production of the Laramie Project recently received hate-messages from the Westboro Baptist Church.

The play was put on by a Memorial University (MUN) theatre class late last year.

The play tells the true story of Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old man who in 1998 was beaten and left to die for being gay. Shepard’s funeral was picketed by the notoriously homophobic Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), who delivered such provocative messages as “God hates fags,” among other similar hate-slogans.

The church, led by its pastor Fred Phelps has since gone on to picket the funerals of AIDS victims, American soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan and many other institutions or individuals who the WBC deems to be “nation-destroying filth.”

The St. John’s production of the Laramie Project was protested online by Fred Phelps’ son, Fred Phelps Jr. Phelps sent the Laramie Project NL hate-messages via Twitter such as “LSPU Hall are a group of fag enablers” and “You will burn in Hell for all of eternity.”

Jon Aylward was the lighting designer for the Laramie Project. He said that the messages from the WBC were “some of the most vile messages [he’d] ever seen typed on a screen.”

“The cast and crew turned a blind eye to the whole thing,” said Aylward.

“No matter what angle we took with it, Laramie was controversial before our involvement and will probably remain so for many decades to come. Our concern, first and foremost, was to tell the story.”

Aylward says that while the production was never about garnering a reaction from the WBC, it was certainly an invigorating experience.

“It was more exhilarating for us than anything else,” said Aylward. “[The WBC] are in the media all the time; they react to everything. But this time, ‘we’ were the ones that were creating that reaction! It was an empowering feeling for everyone.”

Aylward says that while the WBC’s reaction to the production certainly increased the project’s publicity, the play’s success was based solely on its own merit.

“Controversy helped to put people in the seats, but all the controversy in the world couldn’t have created those standing ovations.”

SFU found guilty of bargaining in bad faith with CUPE Alison Roach The Peak (SFU)

BURNABY (CUP) — The B.C. Labour Relations Board (LRB) has ruled that Simon Fraser University (SFU) is guilty of bargaining in bad faith with local union CUPE 3338.

The union includes clerical workers, support staff, library workers, cleaning staff and food and beverage service workers at Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS) services.

CUPE 3338 first filed the claim against SFU with the B.C. Labour Relations Board last fall.

Back in October of 2010, CUPE 3338 and SFU signed a protocol agreement which restricted the parties from putting any new proposals on the bargaining table from that time on. In the proposals exchanged after that agreement, neither party mentioned changes to the university pension plan. However, in November of last year during mediations, the university put proposed amendments to the pension plan on the table for bargaining.

Also problematic is the fact that the pension plan is not administered within CUPE 3338’s collective

agreement, but with a separate committee — the Employee’s Joint Pension Committee (EJPC) — that has a representative from each union and association on campus.

The Pension Plan itself is in financial crisis and is now reportedly more than $64.5 million in the red.

In an attempt to fix these issues, university representative Dario Nonis stated in an email to the EJPC that the university “would not be considering matters of compensation such as a salary increase in isolation from the pension issue.

The pension problem has to be addressed first.”

After receiving legal opinion, CUPE 3338 stated in a Dec. 6, 2012 letter to SFU president Andrew Petter that “the Union cannot unilaterally negotiate amendments to the pension plan, or withdraw its members from the pension plan, without the consent of the other bargaining agent members of the pension plan.”

This left the two parties at an impasse, with the university’s offers to CUPE 3338 all addressing changes to the pension plan, and CUPE 3338 unable to respond to these changes.

In their official decision, the LRB found the university’s attempt to keep the pension plan on the bargaining table a breach of the Labour Relations Code.

In an interview with The Peak, CUPE 3338 business agent John Bannister stated that the union is prepared to deal with the pension issue, but after bargaining issues have been resolved. Bannister went on to say that CUPE 3338 sent a final offer to the employer before the Christmas break that the union is hoping to get a response too now that the decision has been made by the LRB to find SFU guilty of bad faith bargaining.

“We’re anxious to get on with the settlement so we can get on to deal with the pension issues,” said Bannister. “That’s where our aim in this is.”

This sentiment was echoed by CUPE BC universities coordinator Tracy Mathieson, who said in a statement: “In light of this decision, we look forward to getting back to the bargaining table — this time for a contract. Our calendars are open and we are ready to meet.”

When contacted by The Peak, of-

—PHOTO BY MAR K BURNHAM/THE PEAK

ficials for the university declined to comment on the situation, given that no collective agreement has been reached.

However, a labour update on the official SFU website acknowledged the LRB’s judgment and stated: “The university is currently studying the decision to determine how best to respond.”

While the university did come to a tentative agreement with the

Teaching Support Staff Union (TSSU) at the close of last semester, CUPE 3338 has now gone nearing three years without an agreement.

The collective agreement currently in effect expired on Mar. 31, 2010.

Though many universities in the province were in bargaining with their respective unions this past fall, SFU is the only university in the that has had the ruling of bad faith bargaining charged against it.

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The Omega · Volume 22, Issue 18

Science & Technology High-intensity strength training helps in stroke recovery Tia Low

The Martlet (University of Victoria) VICTORIA (CUP) — Stroke patients affected by decreased strength on one side of their body can improve walking ability through high-intensity strength training on their unaffected side, according to new findings by University of Victoria researchers.

The cross-education effect — the idea that strength-training a muscle group on one side of the body can strengthen the same muscle group on the other side — was discovered in the 1800s. In a person without any neurological damage, the untrained side typically gains half the strength that the trained side gains.

At first, Paul Zehr, the director of UVic’s Centre for Biomedical Research, didn’t believe this phenomenon had any significant implications.

“If you asked, ‘Hey, do you have any ideas about how to get stronger? I want to get my arm stronger,’ and I said, ‘Okay, do all these elbow f lexions, but just do it with one arm and your other arm will get half as strong’ ... you would wonder why you don’t just train both arms so you get 100 per cent strength gains on both sides, and I would agree that’s a better idea,” saifd Zehr.

But what if you already have an asymmetry? What if you have one side of your body that’s already a lot weaker than the other side?

These were the two questions that caused Zehr to bring the crosseducation effect into his stroke

rehabilitation research lab.

Zehr’s research objective is to find ways to help people walk better after a stroke, which is the loss of brain function due to interrupted blood f low to the brain or the rupture of blood vessels in the brain.

He and fellow researcher Katie Dragert, a UVic PhD student, recruited 24 stroke survivors to complete six weeks of training on their unaffected lower legs. Training involved “basically a piece of wood with a right angle on it and some straps that you can just put onto your chair and pull on … like you’ve got your foot in a ski boot,” said Zehr.

Results revealed equal improvement in strength in both legs, about 30 per cent within the training period. These results are “very strange but really exciting,” said Zehr.

“Our wildest expectation was that it would be a smaller version of the effect we see in people who don’t have damage [to the nervous system], in terms of per cent changes. In fact, it was almost equivalent,” he said. “Not only did the cross-education effect work after a stroke; it works better.”

Zehr said cross-education is a result of small changes happening in many places, including the spinal cord, ref lex pathways that support the ability to contract muscles and parts of the brain that plan movement.

The sharing of information between the two halves of brain also plays an important role. Many people believe the left side of the

—PHOTO BY RICHAR D WONG/THE MARTLET

brain controls the right side of the body, and vice versa. But this is not completely true, said Zehr, who uses the example of f licking your right-hand fingers to illustrate.

“At the same time when the left side of your brain is active to move the right fingers, it is sending a message within your brain from the left side to the right side of your brain — which would control your left fingers — saying, ‘By the way, this is what [the right side of the body is] doing,’ ” he explained.

“It seems this sharing of information about what the right side of the body is doing might be carrying the message for this small change we’re talking about that normally goes on in cross-education,” Zehr said.

Why or how this small change is amplified in stroke patients is unknown, but Zehr suggests two possibilities. First, people who have suffered a stroke end up in a weakened state that might allow them to show more change when training. Second, a stroke could reveal connections between all

limbs and different sides of the body that exist but are partially hidden when the body is in a healthy state.

“It’s only when you’re in that damaged state that the phenomenon is really useful for recovery,” said Zehr.

Next, Zehr hopes to find out if this phenomenon works in the upper limbs as well. He predicts that, in the future, cross-education strengthening will be implemented as a module of a bigger rehabilitation program for stroke patients in his lab.

SFU study uncovers peculiar Volcanoes in the lab wasp mating strategy Shane Rockland Fowler The Brunswickan (UNB)

Kristina Charania The Peak (SFU)

BURNABY (CUP) — A lengthy study conducted at Simon Fraser University has unearthed an unusual wasp courting method. Particular parasitoid male wasps of the species Ooencyrtus kuvana — no longer in size than the thickness of a nickel at two millimetres long — build a harem of virgin females through a pheromoneantenna tagging system, which better propagate the male wasp’s genes into the next generation of his offspring.

“I assumed that [this tagging] was normal behaviour, or that I would see it in other insects and arthropods, but

I haven’t seen anything like this in any other species,” said graduate student Kelly Ablard, head of the research team looking at O. kuvanae.

This past December, Ablard defended her PhD thesis at SFU, where she has analyzed O. kuvanae for the last six-and-a half years as a component of her degree. This particular discovery, however, was not an intentional one. It took over three years to run appropriate and conclusive tests.

“My thesis was met with a lot of resistance,” said Ablard. “People were quite skeptical about it.” Her

mate-at-once strategy.

Ablard discovered that choice of tactic depends on rivalry posed by other male wasps, the distribution of females around him and the health of the wasp in question.

Wasps that employed harem gathering and guarding techniques tended to be faster than their mate-at-once counterparts and, as a result, are likely healthier.

By tagging virgin O. kuvanae females as permanently taken, harem gathering and guarding males can later revisit multiple tagged females and mate with them at his leisure without worries of competition from other wasps.

This allows the —Kelly Ablard, head of research team owner of a harem to pass his genes onto the next genfemale has been tagged, she will eration in a larger volume.

“Mate-at-once males will end only reproduce with the wasp that up passing on their genes, maybe tagged her: her mate.

“The males recognize their own not as much as a harem gatherer, individual pheromone, and the fe- but they can still coexist with this males that they tag recognize only type of male,” said Ablard.

Evolutionarily, harem gathering the male that marked them,” noted Ablard. “That in itself is amazing. and guarding is largely beneficial: It’s almost like giving your loved mate-at-once males lose out on the mating opportunities. one an engagement ring.”

A single mating takes one and a In non-competitive situations, the harem-gathering technique half minutes on average, and in a was not observed in Ablard’s larger group where males are vywasps. Instead, male wasps mated ing to mate with as many females with a female immediately upon as possible.

“Time is critical,” said Ablard. finding her, referred to as the current findings have been published in Behavioural Processes, New Scientist and Canadian Geographic.

The study examined the harem gathering and guarding technique of the male wasp in both competitive and lax environments. By tapping his left antenna to hers, a male wasp tags an unmated female with an individual-specific, signature pheromone that marks her as taken and allows him to relocate her for later mating. After a

“It’s almost like

giving your loved one an engagement ring.”

FREDERICTON (CUP) — How do you journey to the centre of the earth?

You, don’t — not to the actual centre, at least.

But with an overpowered minifurnace and a big piston, you can get several kilometers down, or at least simulate those conditions.

Pressure and heat are the tools used by professor Cliff Shaw, the department chair of earth sciences at UNB. With a furnace the size of a minifridge, he can blast rock samples to over 2,000 degrees, similar to the heat found many kilometers under our feet.

“I can melt just about anything,” said Shaw. “It never gets boring.”

The piston, which Shaw uses, is the other aspect of recreating the earth’s insides. It has the ability to place 150 tonnes of pressure on rock samples to bring them to what would be normal conditions for about 130 kilometers below the surface.

All this extreme heating and squeezing is designed to study how materials react and how they may potentially be a risk to millions of lives.

Shaw specializes in the study of potentially lethal volcanoes. He’s currently in charge of determining if a series of volcanoes in Germany are still active. With 100,000 people living under its shadow, it’s a genuine threat if it blows. Just a hundred kilometers away live another six million people.

Cologne, the country’s fourth-largest city, lies within the volcanoes radius.

“The last time it went off was 10,000 years ago,” said Shaw. “That might seem like a long time, but geologically, it’s really not.”

Predicting volcanic eruptions allows for governments and communi-

ties to prepare for the worst. Scientists like Shaw can map out how lava will flow, based on the material studies that they do in the lab. By analyzing the consistency of rock materials at extreme heat and pressure, the speed of lava and magma can be predicted, both above and below the earth’s surface.

While burning lava is extremely dangerous, the biggest impact from volcanoes such as these is the ash fallout which follows.

A sky full of volcanic ash can bring down an airplane in mid-flight. Once it gets into the engine, it destroys it from the inside-out. The Icelandic eruptions from two years ago shutdown air traffic in 20 European countries for almost a week, and cost the industry over a billion dollars. That eruption was considered a small one; a large one has the ability to bring a continent to a grinding halt. Really big ones are thought to have blocked out the sun and caused at least one of the planet’s five mass extinctions.

“By looking at past eruptions, we can better predict what is likely to happen later on,” said Shaw.

“I can build a timeline of an event that no one saw from 100,000 years ago — even over a million years ago — down to probably a few days.”

The nature of the research that Shaw does often requires him to use tools that don’t exist; so, he builds his own. In his workshop is a mechanical lathe, a tool that allows him to build tools.

The lathe is the same model used by the Ferrari Formula One racing team, and is not a standard piece of equipment in a geology lab.

“There was a steep learning curve; but it’s a skill that’s worth having now,” said Shaw. “I’ve gotten to the point where it gives me an edge for sure.”

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Men’s basketball falls short of playoffs Adam Williams Ω Sports Editor

They say you can’t win a basketball game in the first quarter, but you can certainly lose one.

After a 93-70 blowout loss to Trinity Western University (TWU) on Jan. 31, the Wolf Pack men’s basketball team was looking to bounce back Feb. 1 to keep playoff hopes alive.

Unfortunately, the end result wasn’t what the ‘Pack was looking for.

The Wolf Pack fell to TWU again on Feb. 1, by a score of 8375. It was one of the most exciting games of the basketball season, with the ‘Pack drawing even with the Spartans and taking the lead for the first time in the game with just four minutes left in the fourth quarter. The change in lead was short-lived however and gave the Spartans the scare required to finish off the Wolf Pack – TWU pulled ahead a short while later and never looked back.

The loss mathematically eliminated the Wolf Pack from playoff contention.

“I guess it was exciting, we made a bit of a comeback there, we just dug ourselves way too big of a hole in the first quarter,” said Kevin Pribilsky, who was playing in the final home game of his university basketball career. “We came out flat and had to fight back. You know it’s good that we did that, good that we had a bit of fight to us, but it was too little too late I guess.”

Pribilsky led the team on the court with 18 points in 36 minutes of play, capping off a strong weekend. He led the team Jan. 31

as well, with 17 points and four assists.

The crowd at the Tournament Capital Centre grew to impressive levels as the game progressed – as the Wolf Pack closed the gap on the Spartans, the cheers drew fans from the surrounding athletic facilities. Pribilsky smiled when asked about the energy his team was able to draw from the crowd.

“Any time that all the other athletes are here...it’s unbelievable to play in front of some of those people,” Pribilsky said. “I thought a lot of people turned out and it was awesome. It was great to play in front of a crowd like that, always is.”

The Wolf Pack will play three more games this season but the focus will no longer be on making the playoffs. Though this season ended in disappointment, head coach Scott Clark will look to build on it moving forward, especially with those players returning next season. There will be significant carry-over, the ‘Pack will lose only Pribilsky to graduation at the conclusion of the season.

Though without a doubt, it will be a significant loss.

“He is an unbelievable guy,” Clark said, in a press release from the athletics department. “He’s a hard worker and very diligent.

He’s the type of guy who, at the end, you would look at him and say, ‘What more could we milk out of this guy, in terms of his ability?’

He has done everything to utilize his skill on the basketball court.

He has become a student, he should be an Academic All-Canadian. He has been great in the community and being a leader. Each and every day has been fun with Kevin.”

Will Ondrik drives to the hoop Feb. 1 in a game against the TWU Spartans. The WolfPack lost 83-75.

—PHOTO BY ADAM WILLIAMS

Pierre Lafontaine named new CEO of CIS Robert Murray

troduced himself to members of the media and university sports fans across Canada.

“We need to be better at the SACKVILLE (CUP) — Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) CIS,” said Lafontaine at the press made a big splash by naming conference in Toronto on Jan. 31.

In recent months the debate has Swimming Canada’s CEO and national coach Pierre Lafontaine grown over what role the National Collegiate Athletic Association their new CEO. Alongside current CIS president (NCAA) and CIS play in compeLeo MacPherson and president- tition. Lafontaine noted the imelect Gord Grace, Lafontaine in- portance of building the brand of the CIS before considering any drastic moves regarding mixing the CIS and NCAA. He did however paid homage to the fact that several athletes have enjoyed success on both sides of the border.

MacPherson said during the conference that he thought, “Gord [Grace] and Pierre [Lafontaine] will make a heck of a tandem.” Both Grace and Lafontaine will take over an organization with fifty-four members in four different conferences from coast-to-coast.

L a f o n t a i n e brought up the role of para-sport and the contribution made by the CIS to the Canadian Olympic and Paralympic Committee. He re-iterated that he wanted to,

—PHOTO BY SAM BROOKS/CUP “”Create this pride

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that we haven’t seen everywhere.”

He brought up the potential of including para-sport within the CIS program for students with disabilities in university but said that such decision would come as soon as tomorrow and was in its early stages.

Gord Grace, who also serves as the current Athletic Director commented during the conference that, “It is a new era moving forward [for the CIS].”

This isn’t the first time Swimming Canada and the CIS have come together on a mutually beneficial relationship. Olympic bronze medalist and World Champion Brent Hayden is an alumni of the University of British Columbia, where he competed for many years. Richard Weinberger, a long distance swimmer who claimed bronze as well in London is a current student at the University of Victoria and member of the Vikes swimming team. On the other Canadian coast, Dalhousie swimming team member and Canada Games Gold medalist David Sharpe made his Olympic debut in London.

Lafontaine was a driving force behind getting Canadian swimmers more involved at the Summer Universiade in the early 2000s.

After a large quantity of podium finishes since then, and the next edition of the Summer Universiade taking place in Kazan, Russia this summer, Lafontaine will look to spread this success to other sports in the CIS program in the years to come.

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Cougars pounce on ‘Pack in men’s volleyball action Adam Williams Ω Sports Editor

The Wolf Pack men’s volleyball team learned a hard lesson Feb. 2 at the Tournament Capital Centre -- losing six of your last seven matches is not a recipe for making the playoffs.

The Wolf Pack fell 3-1 to the Mount Royal Cougars, losing the first two sets by scores of 25-21 and 25-17. The third set win by a score of 25-23 was followed by a 25-16 loss in the fourth.

“We started the first two sets with little life,” said head coach Pat Hennelly in an athletics press release. “They got off to big leads and we continued our quiet play.

It’s disappointing. I wondered what happened in the first two sets. It’s as quiet as we have been at home. This has been a very up-and-down second half of the year.”

Most of the players will return for the Wolf Pack next season, so

the team will have another crack at the playoffs. Hennelly emphasized the importance of learning from experiences like this one.

“Our guys look around for someone to make the next play, it’s something we have to work through,” Hennelly told athletics. “I told the guys that experience only counts if you make an adjustment. There’s no point in experiencing playing these tough matches when we are not adjusting to it. That’s what was nice about the third set tonight, it was the appropriate response after being down 2-0, we had a little energy and life. We know we can play some good volleyball.”

The Wolf Pack will host the University of Winnipeg next weekend, a team still fighting for its playoff lives. Winning the season’s last two games and playing spoiler to another team’s playoff hopes would be the ideal way for the team to wrap things up.

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