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A form of graffiti art not often depicted in popular media.

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We Needi Graffiti art show looks to change minds NICHOLAS KINDRACHUK Culture Editor

Annual celebration of graffiti art We Needi Graffiti has returned to Saskatoon Community Youth Arts Programming (SCYAP) gallery with the intent to show the merits of this urban art form in exhibit form.

The show is set to display a number of different graffiti styles to highlight a wide range of variety. Curated by local artist April Doepker, the exhibit is going into its fourth annual year — growing in variety of art each year.

With over 40 local pieces of art on display and two from Montreal, those who come to the gallery can view an art form that feels underrepresented in Saskatoon. Doepker has been able to make a lot of connections with graffiti artists over the years. She accomplished this by doing an open call over social networks and with public posters for people to submit their work for a chance to be included in a gallery.

Though she has gotten to know a lot of artists now that the show is well established, Doepker still offers the open call for those who are new to the scene and are looking to show off their talent. She’s even found local artists from wandering the Fringe Festival this year.

Doepker gathered a lot of inspiration from her time living in Montreal, where graffiti is a far more openly recognized art form and can be seen everywhere while walking the streets. She saw the urban landscape made far more vibrant and beautiful when it would otherwise be bland and gray. We Needi Graffiti hopes to show people unfamiliar with street art that it could help to brighten up Saskatoon’s alleyways and industrial areas.

The original idea for the event came from Doepker while working at SCYAP during a graffiti show. She wanted to display similar work, but from a variety of artists rather than just a specific core.

The pieces range from fever dream interpretations of people to flaming heads and Dragon Ball Z characters to classic stylized written words.

In hopes to move beyond the negative connotations associated with street art, Doepker is looking to celebrate the beauty that can be found in such unique work.

“Graffiti can actually be art — not just crappy tags on your garage,” she said.

The show is a major push to make the city more open about having graffiti, arguing that

it could give the city a fresh coat of paint.

Right now, Saskatoon graffiti offers only two walls: in the alley behind White Buffalo — where few people see it — and on Warman Road. Having more spaces available for artistic expression beyond these two would not only make the city more eye catching for commuters, but it would stop a lot of kids from practicing their art in illegal settings.

While tagging does give street art a bad reputation, graffiti at its roots is art and expression in a public medium.

In many cases, graffiti is used to express ideas through a word or polarizing image that is only out in public so as to increase visibility, rather than to blatantly deface property. But with a lack of options in the

The alley behind SCYAP gallery features graffiti as well.

city, many artists don’t have any choice but to work with whatever canvases are available — legal or otherwise.

The gallery will also include live music performances from local rap group, Unsatisfied Poets. Hip-hop and graffiti fit perfectly together with their shared influences from urban and pop cultures. With the live music guests, attendees should truly be able to get a taste of the culture behind the artform.

Check out We Needi Graffiti now and on Sept. 21 to watch as artist paint graffiti live on site in the alleyway behind SCYAP gallery.

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A pocket of the prairies in the middle of the mountains

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ANNA-LILJA DAWSON Senior News Editor In the center of the Montana prairies there is a little cluster of mountains made from the same type of rock as the Great Plains of Saskatchewan. The University of Saskatchewan’s geology 308 class spent a week in Montana for a field course, where they learned how to interpret and map sedimentary rocks.

Taught by professor Luis Buatois, the class also familiarizes students with igneous rocks.

Third-year student Mitchell Pezderic was a part of the class that went down to the Little Rocky Mountains, Montana. Students stayed with host families in the quaint town of Zortman — population about 70 — which is pocketed in the mountains.

Pezderic said the area “looked like you were in the mountains but you were really in the prairies.”

On the first day, Buatois and lab coordinator Tim Prokopiuk walked through the mountainous area, teaching the students how to identify different rock and land formations.

The following days were spent walking transects to map out their assigned sections, using GPS as part of their main assignment.

A unique aspect of the trip was that the students were mapping terrain that is identical to the Great Plains area surrounding Saskatoon. Because the Little Rocky Mountains have numerous layers of rock protruding from old magma plumes, it is easier for students to map geological layers there than it is on the Great Plains.

Pezderic said that because the diagnostic features are exposed, he and his classmates were able to map out features like dips and strikes — the angle of inclines and the direction of intersections with faults and horizontal plane respectively — to create a cross-section and map out what would be underground.

The students were marked on participation and were given a test where they had to identify, classify and locate the origins of rocks. By the end of the week they had to

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Geology students observe exposed layers of rock in the Little Rocky Mountains during the weeklong field course in central Montana. finish the mapping project and write a final report.

After an evening meal break, students regrouped in a trailer to prepare their final reports and ask the professor and the teaching assistants questions.

“Our maps overlapped with other groups, so we’d talk to them and compare in hopes that you have the same thing. It was a really involved project,” Pezderic said.

However, doing schoolwork for nearly 12 hours a day made for a highly intensive course.

There was “a lot of focus. I would say it’s the equivalent of two or three other classes,” Pezderic said. “It seemed like once you went out and did this week, that you learned so much. It was easily worth the three credits.”

Pezderic said the field course was extremely valuable for him and other geology majors to get experience that they may not otherwise get until after they finish their degrees.

“Most of us who haven’t had summer jobs yet, haven’t used a geological hammer before,” said Pezderic, who was not able to find work in his field for the last two summers.

Another skill that Pezderic and the other students learned was how to test different rocks with hydrochloric acid for their carbonaceous qualities. A trick that Pezderic picked up was splitting open rocks to find fossils that are indicative of the paleoenvironment and the different rock layers.

Above all, Pezderic rated the chance of getting to confirm his interest in geology first hand as the most rewarding aspect of the field course.

Going “out of the country and [paying] extra on top of tuition, you know at that point you care about it,” Pezderic said.

“It’s part of all the work that is interesting, the reinforcement of doing something you think you like, then finding out it actually is [enjoyable], is pretty valuable.”

Purge of ‘Canadian experience’ barrier brings hope to skilled immigrants DANILO BARBA — The Dialog (George Brown College)

TORONTO (CUP) — Canada was the first country in the world to adopt multiculturalism as an official policy in 1971. But more than 40 years later, international students and immigrants still turn to unpaid work such as volunteering, internships or low-skilled ‘survival jobs’ because they don’t meet the requirements for Canadian experience.

“Ontario attracts highly-skilled immigrants from all over the world,” said the Ontario Human Rights Commission’s chief commissioner Barbara Hall. “But if they have to meet a requirement for Canadian experience, they can’t get a job without Canadian experience and they can’t get experience without a job. In most cases, that is discrimination under Ontario’s Human Rights Code.”

After consulting with newcomers to Canada in the last 10 years, the OHRC found that many of them end up in jobs that do not correspond to their education, skills or experience. OHRC launched a new policy on July 15, stating that employers need to ask about a job applicant’s previous work.

However, which country they got their experience in should not matter.

Githin Mathew, a postgraduate student in international business management at George Brown College, has been facing this situation since he arrived from India in January.

“The biggest barrier I have faced is companies’ requirement for Canadian experience,” Mathew said. “We as students hope to get experience by working with a Canadian company, and the companies intend to employ students only if they have Canadian experience.”

Harmeet Singh Kohli, a professor at the GBC Centre for Business, said “if the experience acquired abroad is relevant to [the] domestic, political, economic and cultural environment, then there is no reason for the employer not to take it into account; but that it is still an employer’s decision.”

With the new policy, employers are advised to be more specific with their ads and job postings than just requiring Canadian experience. Examples include education, independent study, on-the-job training and volunteering. Meanwhile, there are positions where international experience on the resume can be looked upon favorably.

“It seems like discrimination to me,” said Geoff David Barr Watson, owner of creative agency The New Beat. “My line of work comprises international standard codes, procedures and software, so I would consider hiring skilled professionals independently of their country of origin in a selection.

“My opinion is that foreigners may actually aggregate fresh knowledge to the company, and I believe that a new policy can definitely address the Canadian experience issue,” he said.

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Githin Mathew said Canadian work experience has been the biggest barrier for him finding a job.

Bob Eichvald, manager of the career services centre, said that a lack of work experience can be a barrier for students when they are job searching.

“We encourage both domestic and international students to acquire work experience while completing their study programs,” said Eichvald.

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Campus news briefs Royal Society elects Aboriginal researchers Two University of Saskatchewan professors — Sakej Henderson and Marie Battiste — have been elected to the Royal Society of Canada.

The Royal Society of Canada promotes learning and research in the natural and social sciences, humanities and arts.

Henderson is the director of the U

of S Native Law Centre and has been acknowledged by the Indigenous Bar Association. He is from the Chickasaw Nation.

Battiste has dedicated her research to improving education for Indigenous youth and working with multiple knowledge systems.

Digital entertainment and technology magazine Connected Rogers has rated the iUsask app as the top university application in Canada.

“If schools were ranked based on the quality of their mobile apps, the University of Saskatchewan would hold top slot,” Connected Rogers wrote in the review.

The U of S app beat out competition from the University of British Columbia, Carleton University, Athabasca University and the

University of Toronto.

The app features maps of the U of S campus, live news updates, calendars and webcams of both the Bowl and the coffee line at the Murray Library Starbucks. App users can check their class times, exam schedule and the availability of computers in labs on campus.

The iUsask app is free to download and is available for iOS and Android.

iUsask app hottest in country

Open Studies to be dissolved Students at the University of Saskatchewan in Open Studies will see significant changes to its admission categories.

Currently, Open Studies incorporates two groups of students: casual students who take classes but do not commit to a degree program and students who are required to discontinue because of low marks.

University Council approved a proposal to disestablish Open Studies and move responsibility for those students to individual colleges. Colleges will be responsible for identifying at-risk students and giving them support to continue their studies.

The last academic year saw about 500 students categorized in Open Studies.

For his contributions to environmental science, University of Saskatchewan toxicologist John Giesy has been awarded a top honour from the Royal Society of Canada.

The Miroslaw Romanowski Medal is for significant contributions to the resolution of environmental problems. The bronze medal is awarded annually with a cash prize of $3,000.

Giesy’s team discovered perfluorinated chemicals. PFCs are used in everyday

items as water, oil and stain repellents and as additives to fire-fighting foams. Small concentrations of PFCs have been found in wildlife and in human blood.

Because of Giesy’s research, the U. S. and Canada led the global withdrawal of the most commonly used PFCs. The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency asked Giesy to create a test for hormone-disrupting chemicals that are found in the linings of tin cans and plastic bottles.

Toxicology professor receives national award

Campus crime report • 1 Use of cellphone while driving • 1 Failure to wear seat belt • 1 Disobey traffic sign • 1 Intoxication in a public space

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Education and prevention programs essential in light of recent chant controversy CHERISE LETSON CUP Atlantic Bureau Chief

FREDERICTON (CUP) — An Instagram video showing about 400 St. Mary’s University students chanting a sexist cheer is an example of a culture campuses need to change, says Jonathan Williams, the executive director of Nova Scotia students association advocacy group StudentsNS. The video, shot on Sept. 2, shows students of the Halifax university chanting “Y is for your sister, O is for ‘oh so tight,’ U is for underage, N is for no consent, G is for grab that ass — Saint Mary’s boys we like them young.”

“We’re shocked that this took place.

It’s very disappointing. It’s completely unacceptable to have this kind of thing occur on one of our campuses,” Williams said.

StudentsNS was not aware of the chant.

Williams said it was remarkable that the chant, which has been used for years according to some SMU students, could have carried on for so long. He said the incident is an example of a passive culture on campuses.

“I think it speaks to a culture where we don’t intervene when we hear things that are unacceptable which is a problem and that’s a culture that needs to change,” he said.

On Aug. 28, StudentsNS announced a $46,156 partnership with the Nova Scotia provincial government to help prevent sexual assault on campuses. The initiative will include two separate reviews of student union policies around alcohol and sexual assault prevention and will help student unions implement changes. There will also be an awareness campaign. Williams said the projects will help prevent such situations from happening again.

“That’s all about giving student unions expert advice on what they can do, to having activities that are safe as possible and promoting a healthy culture,” Williams said. To create “a culture on our campuses where people are looking to help each other out if they’re in danger or could be at risk and certainly this [chant] is not supportive of that.”

Nova Scotia isn’t the only province that’s been aiming to prevent sexual assault on campuses. The Fredericton Sexual Assault

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Crisis Centre also started a project on the University of New Brunswick, St. Thomas University and New Brunswick Community College campuses with the same goal. Project coordinator Maggie Crain said SMU’s chant is not an isolated incident.

“For me, it’s not about St. Mary’s University.

It’s about all universities and colleges. A lot of other colleges and universities have been reprimanded for similar things like this, unfortunately my first response to that was not surprised,” Crain said.

Though rape culture is existent on many campuses, Crain said the fact someone pointed the chant out this time around is a sign of change.

“We must be making some headway, some movement that if this chant has been around for so long that finally someone stepping up and saying, ‘This is not right. We need to change this and hold those accountable,’” she said.

In order to change the culture on campuses, Cain said there needs to be open dialogue that engages everyone.

“That’s part of what [we’re] doing on campus … we’ve been striving over the past year and will continue for this coming year to bring awareness to [campuses] about the issue and try to open discussion and break that silence and hopefully [bring] this issue out to light,” Crain said.

She said the incident at SMU is something campuses need to reflect on as they move forward.

“This isn’t about St. Mary’s University, this is about culture and how we look at this issue now from this perspective with this incident,” Crains said.

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Other reports:

Incidents at the University of Saskatchewan involving Campus Safety from Sept. 1 - 7, 2013.

Officers issued:

• 14 Minors in possession or consuming alcoholic beverage • 13 Consumption of alcohol in a public space • 4 Driving an unregistered vehicle • 4 Speeding • 3 Presence of alcohol in a motor vehicle • 1 Minor attempting to buy alcohol • 1 Unaccompanied learner driver • 1 Driving without appropriate driver’s licence

• Campus Safety responded to one medical call and two collisions.

• Four 24-hour driver licence suspensions were handed out by Campus Safety.

• Pepper spray was discharged at a party in Aspen Hall. There are no suspects.

• Two people were detained at the weir for possession of drug paraphernalia. The items in question were seized by Campus Safety.

• A fire extinguisher cabinet was damaged on the fifth floor of the Stadium Parkade.

• A poster depicting an offensive racial slur was posted on a door in the Administration Building.

• An individual was arrested under a criminal code warrant for failing to attend court on a hit and run charge. They were released to Saskatoon City Police.

• An outdoor sewage water pipe broke at McEown Park. Vehicles were towed out of the area to minimize damage.

• A fire extinguisher was set off in a student residence. The floor was evacuated and a large amount of damage was caused to the area.

Campus Safety is investigating the incident.

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College of Medicine to undergo massive renewal SCOTT DAVIDSON Associate News Editor On Sept. 4, the College of Medicine released its plan to restructure the college and address accreditation issues.

For the past 18 months, the College of Medicine has been developing a renewal plan after receiving a warning of probation from the Liaison Committee on Medical Education from the Committee on Accreditation of Canadian Medical Schools.

The College of Medicine was warned that if it did not resolve a number of issues surrounding its undergraduate program, it was in danger of losing its accreditation as a medical school. The University of Saskatchewan’s College of Medicine would be the first Canadian medical school to be put on probation twice if the issues remain unresolved.

The renewal plan, titled The Way Forward, was developed by the Dean’s Advisory Committee. The DAC was created in August 2012 to assist in the detailed implementation of the renewal plan.

The plan states “the College of Medicine has failed to keep pace with the changing landscape of medical education and research.” It also stated that “a fundamental realignment of the time and resources dedicated to teaching, research, and clinical service is necessary.”

The report identifies three primary objectives that address issues of critical importance to the College of Medicine: to realign faculty complement, re-conceptualize research and restructure college governance and partnerships.

Because the college’s faculty can derive a significant amount of income from clinical service, there is an imbalance within the college that favours service delivery over academic work. The DAC estimates that the majority of the College of Medicine faculty spend less than 20 per cent of their professional time on academic work despite receiving a full-time academic salary from the university.

The imbalance between clinical service and academic work has had a significant effect on the college’s undergraduate program. In 2011

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The College of Medicine will mandate an increase of over 200 new clinician-teachers who will allot no more than 20 per cent of their time to academic work.

and 2012, U of S students ranked last on the Medical Council of Canada Qualifying Exam, which is a standardized test given to all medical school graduates in Canada.

To rectify these problems, the DAC recommended increasing the number of clinician-teachers from 107 to a minimum of 350. Clinician-teachers are faculty members that teach but focus primarily on delivering clinical service.

The renewal plan mandates that clinicianteachers will dedicate a maximum of 20 per cent of their professional time to academic work. However, by increasing the number of available clinician-teachers, the college hopes to fulfill its commitment to undergraduate education.

The reconceptualized research objective

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focuses on increasing the productivity of medical research at the U of S. Currently, the U of S lags behind the other U15 universities — the top 15 research-intensive universities in Canada — in terms of research productivity.

To heighten its research profile, the DAC recommended that the College of Medicine recruit established medical clinicians and scientists in greater numbers. Additionally, the college will place greater emphasis on fostering internal research talent.

Currently, the U of S ranks 16th out of Canada’s 17 medical schools in research funding. Over the next four years, the College of Medicine will look to double external funding by diversifying its range of sources.

The final objective focuses on college governance and external partnerships. A report by Acting-Dean of Medicine Lou Qualtiere and Vice-Provost College of Medicine Organizational Restructuring Martin Phillipson asserted that the college operates on an outdated governance structure.

The December 2012 report suggested that the current structure relies too heavily on the dean.

As a result, the college has created three vice-dean positions, each of which will be dedicated to a specific area of interest.

The three areas are research, education and faculty engagement.

As of June 1, interim vice-deans had been appointed to all three positions.

The creation of three vice-deans will allow each to focus on the administration of their specific area. Specialized vice-deans are a common feature of the majority of Canadian medical schools.

Another major change to the College of Medicine’s governance structure affects the division of biomedical sciences. Currently, the division is divided into five separate departments: anatomy and cell biology, biochemistry, microbiology and immunology, pharmacology and physiology.

Under the new governance model, these departments will be combined into either one or two academic units. The college has not finalized its decision on this issue.

A final recommendation made by the DAC was to strengthen the relationship between the College of Medicine and its partners such as the provincial government and regional health authorities.

To accomplish this, the college will create a permanent advisory council similar to the DAC. The advisory council will serve as a forum between the college and its partners throughout the province.

Feedback on the renewal plan will be collected between Sept. 4 and Oct. 9. Town Hall meetings are scheduled for Sept. 10, Sept. 23 and Oct. 2. The finalized plan will be presented to University Council on Oct. 24.

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Huskies edge Bisons in final minutes KIMBERLEY HARTWIG Sports Editor

The Huskies picked up their second win of the season, edging the University of Manitoba Bisons 36-34 in a back-and-forth contest on Sept. 7 in Winnipeg, Man. The battle began when Manitoba offensive lineman, Matt Hallock, caught a one-yard pass in the first quarter for the game’s opening touchdown. After falling behind 0-7, the Huskies went on a 17-point run in the second quarter.

Running back Shane Buchanan started the Huskies offence with a 46-yard run into the end zone. Denton Kolodzinski kicked a 32-yard field goal and Garrett Burgess followed up with another touchdown after catching a 23-yard toss from quarterback Drew Burko.

The Bison offence finally hit back when Anthony Coombs ran 54-yards into the endzone for their second touchdown of the game. A single point, set up by a kick by fullback Bryan Giesbrecht, cut down the lead to 17-15 for the Dogs at the half.

The Huskies came out strong in the second half, putting another 10 points on the board in the opening six minutes. Kolodzinski kicked a 44-yard field goal and Mitch Stevens brought a 68-yard reception into the end zone.

The Bison’s scored next as Coombs landed a touchdown after a 16-yard run, keeping things

close at 27-22 for the visiting Huskies.

Kolodzinski continued his impressive performance for the night by completing a 37-yard field goal that pushed the Huskies lead ahead 30-22. The Bison’s responded with a field goal of their own and a safety in the opening minutes of the final quarter.

Kolodzinski put yet another kick through the uprights to edge the Huskies ahead of the Bisons 33-27. The Bisons responded quickly, striking back with a four play, 75-yard touchdown drive which ended when Nic Demski nabbed a twoyard toss from quarterback Jordan Yantz.

The Huskies were down 33-34.

From there it was a fight to the wire. The Huskies took the ball all the way down to the Bison goal line on their next position, but couldn’t convert on any of their chances. Burko tried to sneak into the endzone but was stopped by the Bison defence and the Huskies turned the ball over on downs. The Bisons took over at their own one-yard line but the strong Dog defense stopped them from going anywhere.

With under a minute left on the clock, the Huskies regained possession at Manitoba’s 30yard line off the punt. Kolodzinski came through for the Huskies once again with a successful 40yard field goal. With only 18 seconds left on the clock, the Huskies led 36-34.

In the final 18 seonds, the Bisons tried to make their way down the field as quickly as they could. Two completed passes left the home

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The University of Saskatchewan Huskies needed to use everything in their arsenal to fend off the University of Manitoba Bisons. team at the Saskatchewan 35-yard line, but they would get no further as the clock ran out and the Huskies had earned their second victory of the season.

Kolodzinski was awarded Canada West special teams player of the week after coming up big for the Huskies. Kolodzinski made all five of the field goals he attempted and put the game winning points on the board. Quarterback

Drew Burko also had a good night on the field, completing 22 passes out of 37 for 339 total yards and two touchdowns. Running back Shane Buchanan continued his impressive start to the year, recording his second consecutive 100-yard night off of 16 carries.

The Huskies take on the Calgary Dinos on Sept. 14 in Alberta.

Dog Watch: Michal Bandula KIMBERLEY HARTWIG Sports Editor

Instead of shying away from the pressure that comes with guarding the net, Michal Bandula relishes in being the deciding factor on the field.

“I like the fact that you can be that one person who can win the game or lose the game for the team. Everything rests on your shoulders,” he said.

Bandula is adjusting quickly to his new role as starting goalkeeper for the Huskies men’s soccer team. The engineering student took over net duties this year after the departure of former starter Mark Diakiw.

“I was back up for two years so I learned from the previous goalie how to prepare for the game and how to get yourself ready,” he said. “I feel like I’m finally ready to be the number one.”

Bandula started playing soccer when he was around five years old and moved into defending the net as soon as he could. It’s been his home ever since and he has enjoyed success in between the posts this year. In his first two games Bandula has allowed only one goal during his first two starts which has helped the Huskies remain undefeated early in the season.

“This past weekend we won our first

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two games. I recorded my first [Canadian Interuniversity Sport] shutout so that’s exciting,” Bandula said.

The Huskies are 2-0 on the season so far after posting wins over the Winnipeg Wesmen and the University of Northern British

Upcoming Games Men’s Football • Sept. 14 in Calgary vs. University of Calgary Dinos at 5 p.m.

Sept. 20 vs. University of Alberta Golden Bears at 7 p.m.

Men’s Soccer • Sept. 14 & 15 in Lethbridge vs.

University of Lethbridge Pronghorns at 2:15 p.m.

Sept. 21 & 22 vs. University of Calgary Dinos at 2:15 p.m.

Women’s Soccer Sept. 14 vs. University of Regina Cougars at 12 p.m.

Columbia. Bandula sees the experience possessed by this year’s team as critical to their success.

“Last year we had a lot of first years so that was our big turnover year. This year we have a lot of returning players who already have

some experience in CIS.” The season may have just gotten underway but Bandula and the Huskies are already looking towards the postseason.

“Playoffs is the end goal for the end of the season,” he said. “We have to take every game one by one because you never know which teams can upset you.”

The Huskies are coming off a strong performance in the 2012-2013 season which saw them finish second in the Prairie Division and Bandula thinks the team can challenge for top spot this year.

“I think this year we have a team that can finally get our first ever soccer Canada West title. We’ve been super close the past two out of three years,” he said. “A Canada West title and a trip to nationals would be the best thing for our team.”

As for personal goals, Bandula is focusing on being consistent in net and keeping the goals scored against the Huskies as low as he possibly can.

To get himself ready for the match Bandula has a pre-game ritual.

“Before every game I kick the back of each post with the back of my legs. Posts are the goalies best friends.”

Bandula will try to continue his supremacy in net when the Huskies take on University of Lethbridge Pronghorns on Sept. 15.

Canada West Standings Sept. 21 vs. Trinity Western University Spartans at 12 p.m.

Sept. 22 vs. University of British Columbia Thunderbirds at 12 p.m.

Women’s Hockey Sept. 14 vs. Red Deer College at 7 p.m.

Sept. 15 vs. Red Deer College at 2 p.m.

Cross Country • Sept. 14 in Regina Home Game

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Men’s Soccer

GP-W-L 1. Calgary 2-2-0 2. Saskatchewan 2-2-0 3. Manitoba 2-1-1 4. UBC 2-1-1 5. Alberta 2-0-2 6. Regina 2-0-2 *Top four teams qualify for playoffs

GP-W-L-T 1. Regina 2-2-0-0 2. Saskatchewan 2-2-0-0 2-1-0-1 3. Alberta 2-1-0-1 4. Calgary 1-1-0-0 5. UFV 1-1-0-0 6. Victoria 2-1-1-0 7. Mount Royal 1-0-0-1 8. Trinity Western 1-0-0-1 9. UBC 2-0-2-0 10. Lethbridge 2-0-2-0 11. Manitoba 2-0-2-0 12. UNBC 2-0-2-0 13. Winnipeg *Top six teams qualify for playoffs

Prairie Division 1. Calgary 2. Saskatchewan 3. Mount Royal 4. Alberta 5. Winnipeg 6. Lethbridge

GP-W-L-T 2-2-0-0 2-2-0-0 2-1-0-1 1-0-0-1 3-0-2-1 2-0-2-0

Pacific Division GP-W-L-T 1. Trinity Western 2-1-1-0 2. UBC 2-1-1-0 3. UFV 2-1-1-0 4. Victoria 2-1-1-0 5. UNBC 2-0-1-1 *Top three teams from each division qualify for playoffs

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Since more and more professional athletes have been taking to Twitter to share their thoughts in 140 characters or less, the twittersphere has become a battleground for the best athlete twitter account. What separates the good from the great is insight, whether that be an inside look into what it’s like to be an athlete, their personal life or their ability to make fun of themselves and those they play with. The best twitter accounts show fans a side of the game or the player they wouldn’t otherwise get to a chance to see.

On-court, Laura Robson is one of the rising stars on the women’s tennis association tour but off-court she’s known for her dry British wit. Her twitter account is an uncensored inside look at the not always glamorous life of a professional tennis player.

“Random guy at Panera sits down at my table and tells me how I need to be treating my wrist. #thanksbro.”

Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Brandon McCarthy is definitely one of the funniest athletes on twitter. Armed with a quick wit and a wife who doesn’t mind taking part in his jokes makes him a fun follow. McCarthy also interacts a lot with his twitter followers, making him one of the more relatable and accessible athletes.

“Apologies to the fans I continued to take aim at in my 2nd AB. In my defense, Zach Wheeler throws real hard and I’m not good at hitting” Top ranked tennis player Novak Djokovic is known as the “Djoker” on tour, and for good reason. The Serbian player is just as well known for his hilarious impersonations of players like Maria Sharapova, Andy Roddick and Rafael Nadal as he is for his tennis. Twitter gives Djokovic the chance to show off his good side and he does so any chance he gets.

“Working out and getting ready for my tomorrow’s match. Today’s office: beach :)” San Diego Chargers offensive guard Rich Ohrnberger’s twitter feed is consistently gut busting. Unlike McCarthy, Ohrnberger doesn’t exchange many tweets with others — but that’s okay, it makes it easier to read through his timeline.

“I signed with the Chargers!!

Unfortunately, just read the fine print.. freelance photography is strictly prohibited in the shower room #WTF?” For pure entertainment and ridiculousness, no one can touch JaVale McGee. From tweeting about buying a platypus (which he later admitted was a hoax) to tweeting pictures of suspicious babies, the Denver Nuggets center never has a dull moment. He is also the self proclaimed innovator of the self-retweet and of the finger stache.

“Just copped a pet platypus…#swag” Of course, athletes taking to Twitter has also spawned parody accounts which are often funnier than the real deal. From the biggest athletes to the most noticeable names in sports broadcasting, no one is safe from the farce.

Not Rafa Nadal is the fake account of the world number two Spanish tennis player.

Tweeting about always trying his best and how nice all the other tennis players are, he’s just really happy to be playing tennis.

“For sure I don’t know how I was able to get back to top form so fast after long stop.

Maybe my opponents suck, no?”

The GOAT (Greatest of all time) may have spawned the greatest fake account with Not Roger Federer. The always humble pseudo Federer tweets about firing his staff members and gives fans a feigned inside look into the match with courtside tweetings.

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“Preparing bag for My match. Vest, check. Pipe for break in between sets, check. Slippers, check. Lovely flask of hot chocolate, check.”

Emo Chris Bosh tweets about the true pains of being the third-best player in Miami. An emotionally distraught Bosh, whose musings sound like those of a 15-year-old, complains about being constantly told he resembles a dinosaur and always getting the short end of the stick.

“OMG LeBron had such a big game today. I told him he was MVP! He said I was MVP too, Most Valuable Pet. He laughed. I CRIED! “ With one of the most recognizable names in football, it was only a matter of time before someone created a parody John Madden account. The fake John Madden mostly focus on the National Football League, its teams and players but will occasionally make fun of the sports world in general.

“Adrian Peterson doing more damage to Detroit than the economy.”

ESPN is the biggest name in sports broadcasting and The Fake ESPN is one of the most popular sports spoof accounts. The Fake ESPN twists headlines that could show up on the real ESPN to make fun of any and all teams and athletes.

“Peyton Manning set a high bar this week.

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KATLYNN BALDERSTONE

This October, students at the U of S can learn how to live off more than ramen and takeout.

Start From Scratch is a free 10-week cooking class that teaches post-secondary students how to create simple home-cooked meals. Saskatoon-born food writer Dan Clapson began the program in Calgary in 2010, meeting immediate success and support from both media and restaurants. It was then expanded to Mount Royal University, and a U of S course was established in 2012.

Local chef Thomas Brown is teaching the Saskatoon class, which will be held on campus in the Thorvaldson building. Brown met Clapson through some mutual friends while the latter was traveling and was asked to be the Saskatoon area instructor immediately.

He is also the co-owner and chef of Wild Cuisine Catering, and has apprenticed under executive chef Michael Link.

The classes take place Tuesday evenings, in order to best accomodate most schedules.

During this time, students will be instructed on a wide range of dishes and cooking techniques. Topics range from preparing meals on a tight budget to family dinners and appetizers for parties. This year Brown also plans to bring in several guest speakers such as other chefs, farmers and food suppliers to help students understand just what the food scene in Saskatchewan is like.

There will be around 15 students in each class, which allows for hands-on instruction from the teachers and the creation of an engaging and fun learning space.

“This program is fundamentally important to help teach university students some basic

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cooking skills and give them confidence at home to cook and eat healthier,” Brown said.

“Even if the students only cook a couple times at home after taking the course, then I consider that a win. Eating healthier makes yourself feel better and learn better at school.”

Relying on cheap or fast food is very tempting for the busy university student, especially when class workloads build up later in the term, so having a course near the beginning of the school year gives students a foundation to work from and an idea of how to balance quality meals with class, a job and

Fourteen years ago, the animated sitcom Futurama took us 1,000 years into the future.

On Sept. 4, 2013, with the airing of its 140th episode, it became a thing of the past.

Comedy Central, the channel that gave Futurama both a second and third chance after Fox cancelled it in 2003, has announced that it will not be renewing the show for an eighth season. While some dedicated fans wish to believe that Futurama could be reincarnated yet again, most are convinced that this outcome is doubtful at best.

Matt Groening began work on Futurama in 1996. When it debuted three years later, it was seen as the younger sibling to Groening’s hit series, The Simpsons. It did not take long, however, for the rookie program to prove its own merits and establish its own devoted fan base.

Futurama’s initial four-season run on Fox, was met with much approval and high acclaim. The characters were witty, the storylines were engaging and it had the makings of a cult classic.

After several years of reruns, the show returned on Comedy Central with four directto-TV movies that were eventually split into 16 episodes to make up the show’s fifth season. When a sixth season was ordered by Comedy Central, things began to look up for the revived show.

The sixth season was perhaps the shakiest

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“It is so important for students to realize that eating habits are established at a young age and are carried through with you your entire life — good or bad habits.” Brown also stressed how diet is tied to health, and that positive eating habits can help prevent issues like obesity and diabetes.

If you can’t manage to cook anything more complicated than instant noodles, that’s not a problem. Start From Scratch accepts cooks of all skill levels. The previous year saw people who wanted to refine their skills as well as

people who just wanted to know how to make something other than macaroni and cheese.

The only requirement is to have a passion for food and to be willing to take the course seriously — with a small class size and only 10 sessions, every meal counts. But as long as applicants enjoy food and are willing to learn, anyone is welcome to apply and see what they can dish up.

The application deadline for Start From Scratch is Sept. 20, while the class itself begins on Tuesday, Oct.1. For more information on the program, visit startfromscratch.ca.

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of them all. Starting off far less organic than what viewers may have been used too, too many jokes seemed forced and several storylines felt patched together from old, unused material.

Viewers stuck it out, though. It didn’t take long for the writers to get back on track and season six still managed to deliver some of the show’s standout episodes, including the robot evolution in “A Clockwork Origin” and an unending supply of Bender’s in “Benderama.”

The triumphs of the sixth season, it seemed, were enough to outweigh its failings and carry it through to a seventh.

Despite all this, the show’s ratings had continued to decline from 2.6 million viewers in 2010 to 1.7 million in 2012, leading to the show’s second cancellation.

The show, although having its ups and downs, ended on a high note with the marriage of main characters Fry and Leela.

The duo weds in classic Futurama fashion by adding a ridiculous, but well thought out, time travel plot involving a button that takes the whole world back in time 10 seconds.

Now that the show is over, fans can be content at least that it ended on a high note.

While there may be more Fry, Leela and Bender stories to tell — the creator and producers still hold hope of seeing another revival — sometimes the past is better left to be admired rather than repeated.

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Men’s 2013 campaign off to a strong start as team remains undefeated The Huskies men’s soccer teams is looking to challenge for top spot in the Prairie Division this year.

The University of Saskatchewan Huskies men’s soccer team proved far too strong for the University of Northern British Columbia Timberwolves, coming away with a decisive 7-0 win. The Huskies are now 2-0 on the season after defeating the University of Winnipeg Wesmen 2-1 last week.

It didn’t take long for the Dogs’ offence to strike. Third year midfielder Luigi Bekwayo netted the first goal to put the squad ahead early. Bekwayo contributed an additional two goals in the first half, the first of which was off a penalty kick. Second year midfielder David Brown added the final goal of the opening half, putting the Huskies up 4-0 over the Timberwolves.

In the second half, the Huskies continued to put pressure on the Timberwolves. The effort paid dividends when Brown scored another goal at the 54-minute mark. Striker Brett Levis followed suit, banking another goal for the Huskies at 71 minutes. Fifth year midfielder Ryan Contenti rounded out the scoring effort, netting the seventh and final goal of the game off a penalty kick at 89 minutes.

The strong start to the season bodes well for the Huskies playoff chances.

After finishing second in the Prairie Division last year, the squad is looking to go one step further and bring home their first-ever Canada West banner.

“We have a group of players that are extremely determined to get back into the playoffs and fight for a Canada West Championship,” said head coach Bryce Chapman during the team’s preseason training camp.

The team will look to a core group of experienced returnees to lead the playoff charge.

After taking a year off, 2009 Canada West all-star midfielder Eoin McFadden is returning to the field and will be joined by fellow midfielders Mitch Bauche and 2013 captain Brandon Holmes.

Key returning defenders for the team will be second-years Carson MacDonald and Mathew Gillot.

Levis, who scored three goals in the Huskies first two matches, will look to bring his experience with the Vancouver Whitecaps to the field and continue to contribute to the Dog’s offence.

The hole left in the net by the departure of fifth-year goaltender Mark Diakiw will be filled by third-year Michal Bandula. Bandula has allowed only one goal in his first two starts of the season.

The Huskies also made key additions this year with striker Garrett Peters, defensemen Gabriel Michael and Kyle Moore and goalkeeper Greg Buckley joining the roster.

In the Canada West Men’s Soccer Coaches Poll, the Huskies were voted fifth out of the 11 teams. The 2012 Canadian Interuniversity Sport men’s soccer champions, University of British Columbia Thunderbirds, placed first in the poll. In the Prairie Division, only the University of Alberta ranked higher than the U of S, coming in second behind UBC. With many squads still waiting to play their first game, it is difficult to know just how the teams will measure up against one another but, with strong performances in their first two games, the Huskies are sure to be formidable foes.

“I think everyone is really excited about the season,” Chapman said.

“We were really proud of what we accomplished last season and we want to continue to be considered one of the top teams in our conference. This group now has playoff experience, is hardworking and motivated to get us there.”

The Huskies will hit the road again to take on the University of Lethbridge Pronghorns on Sept. 14 in Lethbridge.

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eing the postseason early PHOTOS BY RASIA PEZDERIC

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The University of Saskatchewan women’s soccer team opened their season with a 3-1 win over the Manitoba Bison this past weekend.

Both teams had scoring opportunities early but it was Manitoba who capitalized in the fifth minute when defender Gillian Sidon knocked a pass from forward Daniella Scerbo past Huskie goalkeeper Cara Santaga into the net.

Manitoba maintained their lead over the Huskies for much of the first half until defender Erica Parenteau was able to put a ball past the Bison’s goalkeeper to tie the game at 1-1.

The Huskies found their momentum in the second half. In the 54th minute, striker Jenelle Zapski hit a wide open net to put the Dogs in the lead for the first time in the match.

The Huskies would not relinquish the lead and continued to attack the net.

Kelly Cerkowniak took a shot that was blocked by the Bison goalkeeper but Ali Goodman was there to knock in the rebound in the 69th minute, extending the Huskies’ lead to 3-1.

The Dog’s would defend their lead until the end of the match and come away with their first win of the 2013 season.

Head coach Tom Lapointe praised the Goodman and Cerkowniak pair after the win.

“They both are dynamic, very quick players,” he said. “They both like to dribble and take people on, and that’s a combination that’s really hard to play one-on-one. They just add a spark.”

The day after defeating the Manitoba Bisons the Huskies, suited up to take on the Winnipeg Wesmen. After a scoreless opening half, the Dogs pulled away in the second to score three goals on the way to a 3-0 win.

Cerkowniak, Zapski and Nicholle Morrison all netted one goal each for the Huskies in the second half. Santaga recorded the shutout for the Huskies by turning away the only two Wesmen

shots that came her way.

After finishing fifth in the Canada West division last year and making it to the postseason for the first time in team history the squad is looking to go even further this year. With a solid mix of experienced returning players and eager youngsters, LaPointe sees good things for the team’s season.

“We are confident in the returning players we have and are excited about the additions. All of our new players have the capability to crack our lineup.

Competition for playing time is fierce and this bodes well for our season.”

Key returners include fifth-year midfielders and captains Daniela Fuenzalida and Leanne Mylymok. The pair will look to end their Canadian Interuniversity Sport careers on a high note and see the Huskies into the playoffs. Leading scorers Erica Hindmarsh and Zapski return to the field. The pair of strikers combined for 17 points last year.

There will be a battle for net supremacy between Santaga and rookie Kyleigh Vause. Santaga is the more experienced of the pair, having won two Canada West Championships and a CIS title with the Trinity Western University Spartans.

The Huskies added experienced newcomers Jennifer Miller, Jessica Bradford, Rebecca Weckworth and Jessica Morrow, all of whom were members of the U-18 Eastside Vortex.

The team won the Canadian National Club championship in 2012.

In the Canada West Women’s Soccer Coaches Poll, the Huskies were voted sixth out of the 13 teams. The 2012 CIS women’s soccer champions, the Trinity Western University Spartans, placed first in the poll.

The Huskies women’s soccer team will play their first home game on Sept.

14 against the University of Regina Cougars.

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Study tools, brought to you by the internet NICHOLAS KINDRACHUK Culture Editor

With a new school year underway, freshmen and veterans alike are already starting to feel overwhelmed with classes and the amount of knowledge expected to be absorbed in such short time. Luckily, there are a lot of handy and under used websites to help supplement learning.

The best tool for science classes is Khan Academy. While it is slowly branching out into humanities, its science courses are the most enriched. The site’s intended purpose is to create a website that provides nurturing education for free.

Each section contains videos that explain certain concepts to do with the chosen subject. The areas are extensive and may even go into more depth than a typical class.

Within each section of videos, there are opportunities to ask questions about the topic that are then answered by coach’s who act as the instructors of the website.

By going through courses and completing problems, you earn badges that help offer a satisfying motivation to keep learning even if you don’t necessarily need to know the information for school. It also tracks progress in what you’re learning and lets students set goals for themselves.

With all the work and passion that the creators of Khan Academy have put into the website, it manages to keep learning simple and fun.

If Khan Academy covers your course, it’s bound to clear up a great deal of confusion.

However, it does not cover all subjects at this time. Those in English or other language programs have to find other alternatives.

Duolingo is a site that takes a lot of cues from the formula that Khan Academy has been using, only it focuses purely on the

learning of languages. Anyone who has taken a university level language course knows how much is expected, and having assistance to practice is a huge asset.

To begin using Duolingo you either have to start with entrance level of your language of choice or take a short placement test. From here they will begin providing lessons on the basics or wherever your understanding level is.

The activities consist of image recognition, general understanding and translating to

English, all of which provide the repetition needed to nail down certain definitions while the interactivity keeps things interesting.

Like Khan Academy, students earn points and medals on Duolingo for completing sections to keep the process from being dragged down by tedium. To make it feel more like a game, each class has a certain amount of hearts tied to it. If you make an error, you will lose one; lose them all and you have to start over again.

Things are a little tougher for English

majors, as producing coverage for a vast array of books is not an easy task, but there are still good alternatives to the poorly designed Sparknotes. Even with its ridiculous name, Shmoop is a great place to read up on themes, character information and general summaries for a lot of classic books.

While not as modern or satisfying as Khan Academy or Duolingo, Shmoop is still a valuable tool that offers quizzes and flashcards to help study for tests.

The Way Way Back

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Duncan (Liam James) and Susanna (AnnaSophia Robb) begin their awkward romance.

KENDRA SCHREINER Two years after winning an Academy Award for their work on The Descendants screenplay, Jim Rash and Nat Faxon have teamed up once again to both write and direct another heartwarming film centred around family dysfunction.

The Way, Way Back is a classic summertime coming of age story complete with teenage angst, the girl-next-door and family feuds.

Though filled with brooding young adults, the comedy/drama manages to deliver a lot of laughs with well timed awkward humour.

Liam James stars as Duncan, an unhappy teenage boy who is forced to spend the summer at his mom’s boyfriend’s summer house. The boyfriend, Trent (Steve Carell) is malicious towards Duncan.

While his mom parties with Trent and his friends, Duncan is left on his own to face what appears to be the worst summer ever.

While on a solitary bike ride, Duncan stumbles upon Water Wizz, a water park run

by Owen (Sam Rockwell), an irresponsible yet comedic manager. Duncan finds acceptance and happiness amid the misfit park employees when Owen takes the boy under his wing and offers him a job.

AnnaSophia Robb plays Susanna, Duncan’s next door neighbour. She is also an outsider with family troubles, and the two soon find solace in one another. Their strange romance is the source of much of the film’s humour.

Though the story has been done before

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and is fairly predictable, solid acting makes the movie an enjoyable watch. Liam James portrays the introverted, angsty teenage boy to a tee. His unskilled attempts to converse with Susanna make the audience close its eyes and cringe at times and burst out laughing at others.

Jim Rash, best known for his role as Dean Pelton on Community, not only co-wrote and co-directed the film, but also plays an oddball worker at the water park. Although only seen in a couple of scenes, Rash delivers some of the most memorable and amusing lines While the actors themselves performed well, the character development left a little to be desired. There are too many characters to delve into any of them beyond the surface level and many backstories are insinuated but not explored, making the characters seem a little hollow at times.

Beyond the light-hearted humour, the theme of being oneself runs throughout the film. Each character hides behind a veneer to protect themselves and must come to terms with and embrace who they truly are. Though it may not be the most original motif, perhaps it is a message we all need to be reminded of from time to time.

While The Way, Way Back falls short of classic coming-of-age tales like Stand by Me, the quirky characters and their clumsy yet honest attempts to find themselves remain both humorous and heartwarming, solidifying it as a worthwhile and enjoyable way to spend an evening.

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The toxic pressure to be masculine SOPHIE ISBISTER — THE OTHER PRESS (DOUGLAS COLLEGE)

VANCOUVER (CUP) — Director and filmmaker Jennifer Siebel Newsom sees a “boy crisis” happening and, as the mother of a young boy, it concerns her.

She introduced her concerns in a fiveminute trailer for her upcoming kickstarted film, The Mask You Live In, by saying she is increasingly sensitive to the extremes of masculinity that will soon be imposed on her own son.

“Who will he become as an adult man?

A sensitive, caring and compassionate human being or a depressed, lonely and disconnected portrayal of masculinity, limited by cultural stereotypes?” she said.

Newsom is the director of the acclaimed documentary Miss Representation, which sheds light on the harmful ways in which the media portrays — or erases — women and their experiences.

What words do we normally associate with masculinity? Tough, strong, stoic, a leader who never cries and is able to “man up.” Men and boys who don’t follow these stereotypes are mocked and ridiculed, labelled with feminine terms like “pussy”.

The gender binary of male/female and the idea that men are tough and women are weak are concepts that are harmful to everyone — to boys and girls and to men and women.

To gather information for her documentary, Siebel Newsom reached out to sociologists and psychologists as well as boys and youth in American schools.

“Our kids get up every morning; they have to prepare their mask for how they’re going to walk to get to school. Hopefully they can take the mask off so they can focus on learning,” youth worker Ashanti Branch says in the trailer. “A lot of our students don’t know how to take it off. The mask sticks with them all the time.”

Reaching out to people in your community is an important first step to starting the discussion that college and university-aged people should already be having. This is a time in our lives when we are learning about ourselves and the way we present ourselves to the world.

Husain Vahanvaty is a Douglas College student seeking a degree in social work who is currently working with at-risk youth. He says that in his experience with youth, he has noticed the effects of masculinity.

“You can’t really be sad about your situation, you can’t be upset that you’re given a shitty lot in life,” he explains. “You have to be angry about it, you have to hustle, you have to deal drugs, you have to go get into fights [and] you have to do a lot of drinking.”

But Vahanvaty says that the documentary trailer fails to point out class intersectionality, which is a criticism

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The Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for The Mask You Live In. shared by Vancouver resident and activist David Miller. “A key point in the film is the experience of urban African-American youth who are asked what they hide. They mostly say it’s anger,” Miller said. “I obviously can’t speak for their experience, but I’m sure it is not just the performance of [the] masculine stereotype which serves patriarchy. What about class? What about racism? What about capitalism? What about the education system which attempts to mould them?”

In a society that is deeply stratified by gender and race, it isn’t useful to look at such things in a vacuum.

“Sure, it’s good to focus on one aspect.

But if you want to get to the root you need to look at all aspects of the forces that shape and determine us without our consent,” Miller said while also noting that the documentary doesn’t mention the patriarchy, which he describes as “a system of power and domination that for some reason we don’t want to acknowledge.” He implies that the absence of patriarchy might make the documentary more palatable to a wide audience.

Vahanvaty mentions patriarchy, but not by name. He notes the challenges of the quest set out in the documentary. “You’re working against thousands of years of culture,” he said. True, for thousands of years, women were systemically subjugated by men. Structurally, things are becoming more equal, but in terms of our socialization, there is still room for improvement. By divorcing the idea of toxic masculinity from the systems of oppression which uphold it, Newsom does her cause a disservice.

The type of assault on masculinity that Newsom brings to light in The Mask You Live In is a product of the patriarchal system under which we have all been raised. The fact that young boys are raised to play with trucks and girls are raised to play with dolls does not mean that men innately want to drive big machines and that women are innate caregivers; both sides of the gender

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binary have an equal capacity to want both things.

Miller notes that harmful ideas about masculinity are ingrained in this system.

“You can’t separate masculinity from patriarchy, so in order to end the latter you must destroy the former,” he says.

Madison Paradis-Woodman, Douglas Students’ Union College Relations Coordinator, agrees that the strict adherence to gender binary is harmful.

“I believe we are doing a disservice to boys by pressuring them to blindly adopt blanket masculinity at face value,” ParadisWoodman said, adding that the statistics in the documentary trailer — such as that boys under the age of 17 drink more than any other demographic — do not surprise him.

“We teach at a young age that expressing feminine emotions is inappropriate,” he says. “I believe that to facilitate men opening up more, we need to redefine what it means to be a man and express masculinity.”

He suggests some beneficial structural changes, such as media initiatives to rebrand masculinity to be more human and compassionate, and a national campaign educating youth.

Paradis-Woodman thinks the documentary is a step in the right direction, and that screening it on campuses would be a good idea.

“This documentary would spark a fulsome discussion around gender and expression, and it would also be informative and engaging,” he said.

It should be the responsibility of the academic cohort within colleges and universities to spearhead discussions on gender expectations. These discussions should be inclusive; there should be spaces made in which men can feel comfortable expressing feminine-associated emotions.

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Reading between the blurred lines JILLIAN BORROWMAN

There is nothing unclear about the amount of buzz surrounding the summer’s hit “Blurred Lines” by Robin Thicke, featuring Pharrel and T.I. — it’s sexist. If the lyrics don’t cause listeners to pause for a moment, the music video featuring topless women dancing around the (rather creepy) men certainly would.

Search “blurred lines parody” on Youtube and you will find a seemingly endless stream of spoofs — everything from videos about the cougar/cub relationship to the trials and tribulations of tan lines.

Superficial parodies aside, the grand majority of these spoofs are made by feminist groups attempting to narrow in on the bigger issue of sexism promoted by songs like “Blurred Lines.”

One such video, garnering nearly as much buzz as the original, is “Defined Lines.” It was created by three women called the Law Revue Girls from Auckland University. In the video, underwear-clad men are walked on leashes and receive whipped cream facials, shedding an illuminating light on the ridiculous nature of the objectification of women in Robin Thicke’s misguided attempt at fame.

“Defined Lines” brings to light the unfair

Would you go topless for a music video? sexual expectations of women and the subordinate role many men envision women to naturally assume. While I recommend taking the four minutes to watch the highly entertaining video, I can’t help but feel the internal sigh as I view one more incomplete feminist statement.

One of the things that troubles me the most about the discussions regarding the objectification of women in “Blurred Lines”

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is the disregard for something seemingly obvious: those girls willingly agreed to go topless in the video for a song which strongly promotes female submission — and they probably didn’t think twice about it.

As a strong and opinionated female, I find that the over-sexualization and objectification of women in today’s culture is disgusting. We do still live in a very chauvinistic world with a great deal of inherent sexual discrimination

and misogyny, after all. But, why is it that men are getting all the brunt for an issue that too many intelligent women are allowing to perpetuate?

Take for example Miley Cyrus’ performance with Robin Thicke at the Video Music Awards. Of her own free will, she danced around half-naked and took initiative to twerk on Thicke. This is the way she’s chosen to represent herself as a successful female performer. Whether we like it or not, young women look up to celebrities like Cyrus — so what will they learn from Cyrus’ own self image?

Viewing the women in Thicke’s video or Cyrus at the VMAS normalizes these sexist depictions in the minds of everyone. As women, we must refuse to self-objectify. Yes, men have sculpted a sexually discriminatory culture, but whenever a woman welcomes objectification it makes it easy for men to treat her as such. It’s a vicious cycle.

It’s unfortunate that male and female celebrities in pop culture more often than not produce objectified and highly sexualized images of women, setting expectations for all that perpetuate sexist ideas and expectations.

Sexism will only cease to exist if both women and men acknowledge their contributions to the problem and make efforts to change.

Confessions of a Med-School reject FATUMA ADAR

All aboard! Captain Obvious here, saying that universities are places where you learn things. So when we took our first steps on these campus grounds, what in the world made us think we knew exactly what we would want to achieve in four years or more?

College students can be grotesquely generalized into two groups: the people who are here and are not entirely sure of their direction, and the people who have a straight up non-negotiable plan. I was the latter.

I am not here to burst anyone’s bubble. I believe dreams should be taken with every meal, washed down with a cup of aspiration and all that motivational jazz. Yet, sometimes you have to realize and accept that what you once wanted isn’t what you truly want.

If this isn’t making any sense, I’ll put it in perspective. I was in medical school abroad.

Then I left. Then I tried to get in at our lovely institution. Didn’t happen. I tried abroad once more and I didn’t get in.

There are obvious reasons why I wanted to get into medicine. It’s a secure job, I’d be helping people, my mom would stop comparing me to my relatives’ much more successful children. I needn’t tell you all that a career in medicine isn’t for the faint of heart, but that goes for many careers.

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yourself up for disappointment. Hold your tomatoes, I’m not finished!

A huge reason why the majority of us are in the majors we’re in is because we feel like we’ve already invested so much. We put our blood, sweat, and tears into our futures — yes I’m talking about you microbiology final of 2012. You’ve already told people about your solid plan. So you can’t just change your mind now. I dare to ask, why the fuck not?

Like I was saying earlier, in college you learn beyond what is simply taught in the classroom. If you can go through a good chunk of your university experience without any battle-scars, be it on your psyche or your dreams, then I’m failing you. Yup. Didn’t think I could do that did you? No seriously, I could show you my PAWS right now; there’s an “F” right beside the subject “life”.

Before you think this is just a rejected student ranting about her catastrophe of a life, let me put it in perspective again. The recommendation letters that I needed to have

with my application to med-school would have been better received if they had been written by science professors. Instead I asked my favorite English professors to write them.

My interviewer said that my essay and appeal letter were the best she’d ever read.

However, I couldn’t justify my lower science marks, even though I was kicking ass at all my artsy classes. My entire attempted med-school career was trying to tell me that I didn’t want to go there. There were other things I thrived to do, but I was already three years in. I could taste my biology bachelor.

Then life smacked me in the face and I had to rethink it all.

Is this how terrified we are of starting over?

How is it that we are the most privileged people in the world and yet we can still feel trapped by life choices we made as freshmen?

The thing is, I could’ve fought for medschool. That’s what you do with your dreams; you fight for them. But the eleven-year-old me who once sat at her old computer typing

up stories asked “Is it my turn yet?”

I’m an English major now, and I don’t need to hear the arts jokes to know that it isn’t always secure — nor will my mother be laying off on the comparisons anytime soon.

It’s scary and I love it.

Don’t be afraid of changing your mind and giving something new that appeals to you a chance. If you think that you’ll be wasting all your previously invested time, think of how much of your life you’d be wasting by halfassing a career that you merely tolerate?

Your major should not be that bad relationship that you’re sticking out because you’re just too afraid to go out dating again.

Flirt with every piece of information you get, go to second base with subjects that interest you and maybe, just maybe, you’ll get lucky.

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Let’s talk about sex and dating TRAVIS HOMENUK Opinions Editor & ALEX WERENKA Love is in the air. You’re coming back to school looking toned, tanned and ready to flirt. And now it’s time to find love — or at least some fall fun.

Before venturing into the exciting worlds of love, sex and everything that goes with it, we want to first encourage sexual positivity.

As students, we are in a place where sex is a means of relieving stress and having fun. Making someone feel bad for their harmless sexual escapades is cruel, ignorant and exemplifies the hypocrisy of double standards. Don’t do it.

Part of dating culture involves being open to sexual experimentation while still being safe and level headed about what — or whom you are doing — so be smart about your encounters and use protection. Don’t forget that condoms are available free of charge in most USSU Centres on campus.

Consent is essential to any and every intimate encounter you may have. Remember: “yes” makes sex, sex.

Also, try not to fall into the trap of heteronormativity — not everyone is straight

and not everyone has a defined sexual preference. There are a plethora of new terms to become familiar with such as pansexual, monogamist and transgender. Be accepting at all costs.

In the same vein, be sure that you respect your housemates if you do bring a lover home — unless they are your parents. If that’s the case, don’t worry about it! Your folks have been having sex in your house since your conception. It’s time you got some action too, right?

Now that we’ve covered the precursory actions, it’s time to get down to the fun stuff: how to meet people.

As a student at the University of Saskatchewan campus, be aware that “Usask Confessions” and “Usask Secret Admirers” are going to be rampant with posts about cute people on campus. Sometimes there are success stories that pop up from those who connected as a result of these pages, but mostly it’s people calling out their friends or ranting.

Nonetheless, it’s a fun place to announce to the world your newest crush or attraction, so do it! If anyone says that they don’t want to stumble upon a post about themselves, they’re lying.

On the other hand, Kijiji is not something we would recommend checking out unless you are feeling particularly adventurous. There are posts on there for anyone and everyone, though many sound quite questionable. Be aware that if there is a dollar sign in the title or post, that means it’s for pay. We’ve heard of girls selling their own underwear on there as a way to supplement their incomes without full on selling their milkshakes. We know university is expensive, but we hope no

student is that desperate. Maybe reserve Kijiji for apartment hunting and couch shopping.

However, there are a few dating sites like Plenty of Fish or Match.com that are viable options. When you pay for an account it usually means you will meet people who are more serious about relationships. Make a profile and talk to some new people.

You never know until you try, right? Just don’t make your profile name anything too suggestive, and try to keep your online pictures appropriate.

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The nice thing about online dating is that you don’t have to talk to everyone; you can be selective and block people who you don’t have a connection with. We know numerous individuals who’ve fallen in love with their online dating matches, so relationships can be found. You can also find people who just want to hook up, if that’s what you’re looking for.

If you’re a smart phone user, there is a new app called Tinder which is used as a means for men and women to meet up.

Similar to Grindr, which is oriented towards male on male fun, Tinder connects you to people within a certain distance using your Facebook information. It’s seems like a good app, though there are not a lot of people from Saskatoon on it yet.

And, in case you’re an old fashioned romantic, one of the most surefire ways to meet new people and create a connection is to talk to them in person. Duh! The U of S hosts events like Usask Secret Admirers Live, which takes place on Sept. 17 at Louis.

While meeting people in person is more terrifying, it can also be the most rewarding.

Don’t hide behind the façade of the internet if you can help it! Talk to that cute person in your class, join a club and meet people with common interests, dance with the twerker at the club and be their twerkee, ask for a number or add them to Facebook. Flirt, be charming and, most of all, be you. There are thousands of single people on campus and in Saskatoon. One strikeout is not going to dash all of your future opportunities, so keep trying!

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MATTHEW CHILLIAK

Justin Trudeau recently revealed that he has smoked marijuana since becoming an MP in 2008, when his party guest offered him a “puff” of a joint.

As the federal party leader, Trudeau now endorses the full legalization of pot. This may sound great, but it also reveals Trudeau to be a hypocritical pandering politician.

Back in 2009, Trudeau was a rookie Liberal MP who voted in favour of the Conservative government’s Bill C-15, which introduced strict mandatory minimum prison sentences for pot possession. Even as recently as the 2012 Liberal convention, Trudeau was opposed to his party officially endorsing legalization (which they did anyways). So why the sudden change in heart, Trudeau?

While Trudeau wants us to believe that his views on the matter have evolved, I call bullshit. Instead it appears that Trudeau is making a political-electoral calculation in an attempt to draw out the usually absent youth vote, with whom pot legalization is a popular position.

But what does this revelation and policy reversal reveal about Trudeau? He appears,

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until his recent flip-flop, to have been practising the old “do as I say and not as I do” mantra, helping send ordinary folk to prison for smoking pot while enjoying the sanctuary of being a privileged elite — immune from the very laws he’s endorsing.

This is hypocrisy at its best.

After Trudeau’s public revelation, Conservatives were quick to jump on what they said was a “lack of judgement” in his decision to reveal he smoked pot. To them, breaking the law is always wrong, no matter how ill-conceived and unfair the law is.

However, this ignores the significant changes in society that have been made in the past as a result of breaking the law.

Does anyone remember the Conservative’s resistance to the now defunct national gun registry?

Instead of a lack of judgement in deciding to smoke pot, I believe that Trudeau’s real lack of judgement occurred where it mattered most: the House of Commons. His judgement failed not in smoking up, but in his previous decision to support criminalization and punishing those who do partake in the drug — except himself of course.

I am all for legalizing marijuana and I

hope that other political parties will follow the Liberal’s lead and support it. Public opinion in Canada indicates that it would be the democratic thing to do and, besides, if alcohol and strong prescription drugs are legal, why continue to outlaw the relatively harmless marijuana?

Our neighbours to the south are beginning to figure it out, as the U.S federal government has stated it won’t challenge Colorado or Washington State’s decision to fully legalize the recreational use of pot.

However, with our current Conservative government and their tough on drugs and tough on crime ideologies, don’t expect legalization under their power to happen anytime soon.

While it is refreshing to see a political party leader endorse full legalization, don’t take it for more than the political-electoral positioning that it is. Instead of praising Trudeau as some brave visionary against the failing war on drugs, realize that he is just another politician pandering for your vote.

Don’t forget that while Trudeau was getting high with a little help from his friends, Harper was imprisoning pot users with a little help from Trudeau.

cent nationally as of June — the federal government is looking to tackle getting more skilled trades persons into the workforce by possibly making companies give apprenticeship training when they bid for government contracts or by tax credits.

“The politicians… say we need more mould and tool makers, [which is] fine, maybe in the short run,” said Kulisek, adding further that “The colleges tend to draw from the local area but how many skilled tradesmen can be absorbed into the local area?”

So the question is where are the jobs and what should students be studying?

“It’s always been a challenge to coordinate the formation of graduates with the needs of the economy,” said Trudeau.

“With natural resources everything is dependant on the world market, a mine that is profitable now may not be six months later.”

St. Clair College journalism student Sean Previl is unfazed by the challenges of low employment facing his trade.

“It’s really going to be a matter of just choosing what suits me best and also how I can help them,” said Previl. “I don’t look at internships with regards to how they help me, I want to make sure I’m going to contribute to their network to the best of my ability.”

Unfortunately, at least in the U.S., data shows that unpaid internships have a 1.8 per cent higher rate of employment than those who never interned at all, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers.

“I plan to make sure I’m educated when doing [contract negotiating]. And since an average base appears to be around the $35,000 to $40,000 range, that may be what I ask for,” said Previl.

Is that degree getting you a job?

JAY VERSPEELT — The Lance (University of Windsor)

WINDSOR (CUP) — The future for upcoming graduates is bleak.

In March, during a CBC town hall meeting, University of Windsor President Alan Wildeman said that the purpose of university is higher education and not necessarily employment.

Unfortunate news for those hoping to get an edge on the competition, but a university education is not the ticket to prosperity that it once was.

“If you have more people with higher qualifications, they’re going to raise the entry level. No one is ever going to advertise a job anymore where they didn’t throw a BA in right away,” said University of Windsor coordinator of interdisciplinary programs Larry Kulisek.

The populace is more educated than ever before and still not educated enough.

“If you do an honours in psychology it doesn’t make you a psychiatrist, psychologist or even a counselor, because if you don’t do an MA or graduate work you’re an educated person but that doesn’t slot you in, and most professions are requiring more training,” said Kulisek.

Generation Y has been called narcissistic, entitled and lacking in work ethic, yet today many young workers find themselves in unpaid internships or underemployed doing the same work they used to do whilst in school. Can youth really be considered unrealistic for wanting decent pay instead of making lattes or dunking fries in scalding oil?

In July, employees at a Halifax Second Cup started trying to unionize — a move prompted by the lack of real fieldwork for its staff.

“Job security is basically gone,” said Christian Trudeau, University of Windsor professor of economics. “There’s more risk now when you start a career. The days of knowing you’re going to go into a job and work there for 30 to 40 years, those days are almost gone.”

Canada has fared better than many countries since the recession and natural resources have played a large factor in this. Australia has likewise maintained itself economically due to coal exports.

Individuals from all over have gone to Alberta to make a quick buck on an

oilrig. It’s high paying, manual labour, but hardly conducive to a higher education.

“There’s no reason we should have these jobs and no one else should. Sure it’s tough for these workers and for our economy but at the same time workers get worse but consumers are much better off,” said Trudeau. “It’s always been a challenge to coordinate the formation of graduates with the needs of the economy — especially now with everything changing so fast.

Everything is dependant on the world market.”

So what are grads to do these days? The education can’t be negated or just tossed aside carelessly. Instead everyone has to work harder, work longer, and work more efficiently while earning less with no job security.

Although unemployment is currently on the decline — 8.7 per cent in August of 2009 at its highest and now 7.1 per

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Campus Chat If you had to hide on campus, where would you go?

In STM with the good food.

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In the nook by the Health and Dental Plan office.

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In the female bathroom.

My dad’s office... because I have the keys.

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Fake News

New batch of freshmen proves least defective yet

During a press conference yesterday, University of Saskatchewan President Ilene Busch-Vishniac announced that the 2013 freshmen are proving to be less defective than any year thus far.

“We’re already seeing vast progress over first models in 2005,” Busch-Vishniac said. “There was a bug in the 2012 lineup, which caused students to shut down and fall asleep in the middle of class. This defection appears to be affecting nearly 12 per cent less of the 2013 launch. We’re also seeing a 25 per cent decrease in rolly backpacks and, although the numbers haven’t come in yet, we’re projecting an eight per cent increase in overall hygiene and cleanliness,” she said.

“If our calculations hold true, this school year may produce the least smelly freshmen the U of S has ever seen.”

With this year’s model finally in classrooms, Busch-Vishniac is already looking ahead and has major improvements planned for 2014.

“We’ve been working on a particularly annoying hiccup for years that we think we may have finally cracked,” she said. “I don’t want to make empty promises, but by this time next fall we plan to have far less first years putting their hands up and asking permission to leave for the restroom.”

Though production breakthroughs are already proving successful across the board, Busch-Vishniac remains worried that some improvements may be temporary in the long run.

“This isn’t the first time that we’ve thought we had successfully cut down on [student’s] drinking habits,” she said. “Every year, we yield a batch of well-rested, chipper and — above all — relatively sober frosh students, but come second year they still storm the beer gardens all the same.”

“At this point, we’re worried we’d have to go back to the drawing board if we wanted to eliminate that glitch.”

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