The Sheaf 09/08/11 - Volume 103, Issue 4

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USSU

Introducing the executive

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9/11

Looking back

A personal recollection of the Twin Towers.

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Tech

Huskies

Reddit dances on the grave of Digg.

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The 2011-12 season and what to look forward to.

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A year after Digg

Rejected

Barrett shut out

Star basketball player denied spot on football team.

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Looking ahead

Music

Mother Mother

An interview with lead singer Ryan Guldemond Page 24

The University of Saskatchewan student newspaper since 1912

University operating illegal parking lottery Since ’05 U of S has used unlicensed lottery to allocate student parking Daryl Hofmann Associate News Editor For years the student parking lottery run by the University of Saskatchewan has been against the law.

On Aug. 29, the Sheaf received an email from Michelle Hogan, a student concerned after she went to apply for a parking space and discovered it costs $20 to activate a ballot.

In the email she explains, “I was rather offended by this and checked with the Saskatchewan Liquor and Gaming Authority. It appears that if the university is taking consideration for a chance to win something — even if what I win is a chance to pay for something else — this is a lottery and it needs to be licensed as such. At the present time, as far as I can tell, the U of S is running an illegal lottery with student money.”

According to the university’s website, students applying for a parking pass must have a valid Paws account, be registered in at least one class by Aug. 31 and pay a $20 non-refundable fee to enter an online ballot to the lottery.

On the ballot, applicants list the five lots — E, P, U, Y and the stadium parkade — in order of preference.

Ballots are selected at random by a computer, and the draw is held annually on Sept. 1. Once a ballot is chosen, the applicant receives a spot in his or her preferred lot until all lots are full.

Judy Wall, Parking and Transportation Services manager for the university, estimates that 2,500 ballots were entered this year, with roughly 1,800 spots available.

The 700 students whose ballot was not drawn lost their $20, meaning the university raked in $1,400 of students’ cash without providing a parking spot.

The 1,800 students who were allocated a spot paid an additional cost of between $155 and $305, depending on location and electrical outlets.

The U of S has beewn operating the online, ballot-based lottery for student parking since 2005. It has never been authorized by the SLGA. “Although our [parking] lottery has some aspects that would make it qualify as an official lottery, there were some aspects that did not, therefore [the SLGA was] unable to issue us a license,” said Wall.

The SLGA said they will not authorize the parking lottery because in order to be eligible for a gaming license in Canada, you must be a charitable organization, something the U of S Parking and Transportation Services is not.

After recently speaking with Parking and Transportation Services, Dave Peters, director of licensing and charitable gaming for the SLGA suggested “they should get a legal opinion, as it appears to meet the criteria of what would be constituted as gaming. “

Peters emphasized that the SLGA does not give legal advice on what is gaming, nor does it enforce illegal gambling. They simply regulate licensed gambling. It’s up to prosecutors and the police to charge gambling offenders.

“If you’re not a charity, or you’re not the government, then you can’t run gambling — not legally,” said Peters. “If they are confident what they are doing is not gaming, then they can run that at their own risk.”

Glen Luther, associate professor at the U of S College of Law and an experienced criminal lawyer, said prosecution of the law relating to lotteries is rare, and he doubts anyone will charge the university. But he finds it odd they are asking $20 for only a chance at a parking spot.

After flipping through criminal code 206 and 207, he confirmed that what the U of S is doing appears to be a game of chance, and is therefore considered a lottery.

“I hesitate to say that the university has any kind of criminal intent, but it seems to me there is a serious issue here as to whether what they are doing is legal,” said Luther.

“Especially if the SLGA will not license it, and the criminal code does not allow it.”

Parking and Transportation manager Wall said the $20 fee was implemented to deter students from applying and not following through with the actual purchase. She cited expenses like snow removal, grating

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and potholes, and suggested the majority of all revenue goes to the lots with a small profit margin.

After the Sheaf contacted her a second time to explain why the SLGA would not issue a license and outline the details of the criminal code, Wall responded via email.

“The student parking lottery is a fair and easy method for students to apply for parking and we would not

like to go back to a first come, first served stand-in-line process or even a time limited phone-in process,” she wrote.

“So with legal advice it is our hope that we can make some changes that would allow us to continue offering this convenient application process and become more compliant with the law.”

Meet and talk with the

Governor General The University of Saskatchewan is pleased to welcome His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada, to our campus on September 13. His Excellency will give a talk entitled ”Becoming a Smart and Caring Nation.”

Following the talk, the Governor General will answer questions from the audience and meet the public in Nobel Plaza.

Date Tuesday, September 13, 2011 Time and Place Doors open at 1:45 pm, seating is limited 2:15-2:45 pm – Talk and Q&A session Convocation Hall, College Building, 107 Administration Place 2:45-3 pm – Informal meet and greet Nobel Plaza, in front of the College Building

Everyone is welcome For more information please contact (306) 966-2501.

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Pixar artists to offer free lecture, seminar ISHMAEL N. DARO Editor-in-Chief One year ago, Brij Verma clipped an article out of the Sheaf that he still keeps in his office.

The article was about an animation workshop taught in Vancouver by two Pixar employees.

“Here’s a world-class organization. Here are these world-class animators. I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be really nice to get these guys here?’ ” Verma said.

Luckily, as director of research in science for the College of Arts and Science, Verma was just the person to make this a reality. Over the last four months, he has spent most of his time organizing a two-day seminar at Convocation Hall and a free public lecture at the Broadway Theatre.

Verma says that despite the difficulties of fundraising and organizing that come with an event like this, he would “put on five of

these a year if I could.”

The animation “masterclass” costs $450, but only $250 for students. Verma says that although the focus will be on animation, anyone in any field of storytelling would benefit from the workshop.

“Computer scientists can take part, computer science students can take part, artists can take part, novelists — you get this whole new area of people who would find [the seminar] interesting,” said Verma.

The speakers are Andrew Gordon, an animator, and Matthew Luhn, who works in storyboarding.

The two have over 30 years of experience at Pixar between them and have worked on such blockbusters as Toy Story, Finding Nemo and Up. Their trip to Saskatoon will mark the first time that Gordon and Luhn have given a free public lecture in addition to the regular sessions, which will help bring their experience off campus and into the

exercises he used to give students was to build a virtual chest of drawers that opens and closes with a click. Later he would ask which was harder, building a real chest or a virtual one. Almost everyone said the virtual chest of drawers was more difficult.

“It sure feels like magic when you’re sitting in the theatre but there’s a lot of work, a lot of thought, a lot of ideas that people are too busy producing the animation to tell you how to do it,” said Neufeld. He added that the animation seminar would be a rare opportunity to discuss those points with world-class artists.

Verma perhaps summed it up best: “Once you hear these guys, who work at arguably one of the finest animation companies on Earth, where do you go after that?

Where else are you going to meet people who are at their level?”

The animation seminar takes place Sept. 16 and 17 at Convocation Hall. Register at www.cs.usask.ca/masterclass.

The free public lecture takes place Sept. 17 at 7 p.m. at the Broadway Theatre. Tickets are available from the U of S Department of Computer Science.

wider community.

“There’s no business like show business,” said Eric Neufeld, head of the computer science department.

“People are fascinated by what goes on behind the scenes.”

This may be especially true in the case of Pixar, as the company has produced some of the most memorable films of the last two decades.

Pixar started as an animation group within George Lucas’s empire. After Apple co-founder Steve Jobs bought the company for $10 million and changed its focus, it started producing feature films, including 1995’s Toy Story, which was the first ever film made entirely with CGI. Since then, the company has churned out hit after hit, until it was finally purchased by Disney in a deal worth $7.4 billion — not a bad return on the initial investment.

Although Pixar makes the animation look effortless, there are countless hours of production that go into each frame.

Neufeld, who also teaches computer graphics, says some students will be familiar with the painstaking process of creating digital images. One of the first

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in brief College administrators

claim plagiarism increased in last decade

A majority of college presidents think plagiarism is a bigger problem now than it was a decade ago.

The results come from a new survey from the Pew Research Center, which surveyed 1,055 college presidents in the United States. Over half of respondents, 55 per cent, said plagiarism is worse today. Almost 90 per cent say that in instances of plagiarism, computers and the Internet played a role.

The administrators were not necessarily hostile to technology, however. More than half said that online learning is valuable; only 29 per cent of the public believe in the value of online learning.

McGill among top 20

universities in the world

McGill university is once again the top Canadian university, according to newly released rankings.

The Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings, an annual table of the top 600 universities in the world, places McGill at 17 — a two-point jump since 2010. The University of Toronto ranked 23rd and the

University of British Columbia landed at 51. This is a six-point improvement for Toronto since last year’s rankings while UBC has dropped seven points.

In total, 14 Canadian institutions cracked the rankings.

The University of Saskatchewan is not among them.

The top five universities in the world are all familiar and unsurprising names. In order: Cambridge, Harvard, MIT, Yale and Oxford.

The world rankings have been conducted since 2004 by education company QS. They are based on four criteria: research, teaching, employability and internationalization.

SIAST employees extend summer break

On what was supposed to be the first day back to school, SIAST instructors and service staff took job action, extending summer for more than 15,000 students across Saskatchewan.

With the help of a mediator, the Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology and the Saskatchewan Government and General Employees’ Union fought late into the night Sept. 5 at the Radisson Hotel, trying to come to an agreement. Again, no

consensus was reached.

The strike affects all four SIAST campuses: Saskatoon, Regina, Moose Jaw and and Prince Albert.

In January, the last time SIAST and the SGEU tried to ratify a deal, talks came to a halt when SIAST tabled its final offer which included a 5.5 per cent wage increase over three years and the union did not accept.

Undergrads are a bunch of whiners: professors University students “have a deep sense of entitlement,” according to Kenneth Coates and William Morrison, two Canadian university professors and coauthors of Campus Confidential.

The book lays out “100 startling things you don’t know about Canadian universities.” One of those “startling” facts is that today’s undergraduates expect deadline extensions and higher marks than they deserve, and are generally just lazy.

“Something new and nasty is going on with university students these days, and there’s more trouble in store,” the authors write.

Coates is arts dean at the University of Waterloo. Morrison is professor emeritus at the University of Northern British Columbia, but he has previously held the position of dean at the University of Saskatchewan.

Wikipedia needs your edits

Wikimedia Canada is offering $1,000 to post-secondary students willing to edit Wikipedia articles.

The scholarship will be awarded for the greatest improvement to a diseaserelated article on the free online encyclopedia.

As of August 2011, there are over 3.7 million English articles on Wikipedia, with 23,000 related to medicine. Maintaining the vast encyclopedia falls to thousands of volunteers around the world who contribute research, editing and money.

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales recently hinted that the site was having difficulty attracting new editors, partly due to the “convoluted” editing structure.

Previous studies have shown that the vast majority of edits are made by a small minority of Wikipedia users.

To find out more about the scholarship, search for “scholarship application” at wikimedia.ca.

Green Party leader Elizabeth May visits U of S Donning a bright green cardigan, Elizabeth May dropped by the University of Saskatchewan Sept. 6, greeting students in the Bowl and following up with a talk in the Arts Building.

She has been commander-inchief of the Green Party since 2006 and this year joined the ranks in Ottawa as the first Green elected to Parliament.

May said she came to boost support for the Greens before the provincial election on Nov. 7, but just hours before her visit, Saskatchewan Green Party leader Larissa Shasko announced her resignation.

Soon after, May got on Twitter welcoming Victor Lau, who evidently will be taking over the provincial Greens.

Lau is running for provincial office in the Regina Douglas Park electoral district.

Shasko told reporters she stands behind the party’s principles but has chosen to support Regina South NDP candidate Yens Pederson.

May speaks regularly about the decentralized nature of the Greens and the independence it gives its candidates, which is precisely one of the reasons Shasko cites for walking away from her role.

“It’s a grassroots party, very much growing, where many people make decisions and yet I end up at the end of the day with the ultimate responsibility,” Shasko said.

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thesheaf.com/news • the Sheaf • September 8, 2011

Meet your USSU Executive

Scott Hitchings USSU President Salary: $32,000 USSU president Scott Hitchings is an old hand at working for the executive; he served as vicepresident operations and finance for the two past years before running uncontested for the organization’s highest student position.

When asked why he wanted the position, Hitchings responded that he wants to “be the student voice when it matters.” The provincial election scheduled for Nov. 7, 2011 will give Hitchings a chance to speak for students, and he intends to take it.

“We want to be focusing on

VP Operations & Finance Reid Nystuen is taking over as vice-president of operations and finance, succeeding Scott Hitchings, who oversaw the USSU’s books for two years and is now president.

Nystuen just completed a

student debt,” he said of his plans to lobby politicians during the election. “Most students have debt, and debt is not a good thing. It shouldn’t take $40,000 of debt to get through school.”

Hitchings began his term over the summer by working with the rest of the executive to rewrite the USSU’s bylaws with the help of U of S political science professor Don Story, an expert in non-profit organization governance. This task is mostly complete, though there are a few revisions remaining.

“There are a few changes that

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finance degree from the Edwards School of Business, where he was a student council representative for three years. In the spring he ran his election campaign on a platform of stringent financial restraint.

The operations and finance job includes preparing the annual budget, arranging the

audit, dealing with campus clubs and responsibility of all union operations — for example, Louis’ and Place Riel. Additionally, with the elimination of the vicepresident external affairs position, transit and transportation issues have been transferred over to the operations and finance portfolio.

Nystuen said he is glad transit and transportation made their way to his desk, and sees room for improvements. Once in office it was one of the first big things he tackled.

He met with Saskatoon Transit managers and city councillors,

we’re taking to the student societies [of each college] to see how they feel about them,” Hitchings said.

“We want to take over the [member of student council] elections because the position is a USSU position, but the elections have been run by the student societies.”

Each college elects members to sit on University Students’ Council, which meets each week and oversees the actions of the USSU. Hitchings explained that since USC acts as the USSU executive’s board of directors, “it should be us running the elections, not the lobbying against shutting down buses at 10 p.m., a cost-cutting measure the city has pondered as part of a services review currently underway.

He has also informed the city of his own initiatives for transit, with three main ideas being a summer U-PASS system, GPS route tracking on buses — ­ similar to Regina’s Transit Live website — and renovations to the Place Riel bus mall.

He acknowledged these are long-term goals with significant costs, which realistically will not be completed by the end of the school year, but hopes to build a strong base for future vicepresidents to work from.

Early in the term, Nystuen also revised the online campus club ratification and funding request process.

“I want to improve accountability on clubs for when we give them money. In the past we would just write them a cheque and never see or hear from them again,” said Nystuen.

He said over the summer there was not much interacting with clubs, but as things pick up in September, groups will be required to provide receipts of purchases and attempt to use USSU services with funding as much as possible.

He explains, “If groups are going to have an event, we would like them to use Louis’ or Browsers, or, if they need posters printed, print them at XL. So we give them money and they take that and spend it back in our

student societies.”

In an effort to get students more involved in USSU activities, Hitchings plans to hold more events that will pique their interest.

He pointed to the annual “Does God Exist?” debates, which are organized by campus clubs and brought in an audience of several hundred last year.

“We want to be putting on events that are not necessarily religious like that,” he said, “but current events that students care about.”

Two events he cited are the upcoming talk Amira Hass will give and an expanded sustainability awareness week.

Hass is an Israeli journalist who will discuss the state of the IsraeliPalestinian relationship and conflict.

Hitchings said the focus on sustainability has not been fleshed out yet, but in light of the fact that the USSU already promotes environmental causes through “Green Yourself Week,” he suggested either a more intense effort there or a possible celebration of World Water Day. His main goal, though, will be to make the USSU more accessible and interesting to students.

Hitchings mentioned more than once his desire to get the USSU out of the habit of “setting up a table in the Arts Tunnel or putting up a poster and hoping people show up.”

organization.”

Nystuen noted that the Place Riel renovation is near completion, and that Treats and Harvey’s have officially opened for business, joining Mac’s, Umi Sushi, Le Crepe Bistro and Extreme Pita in the food court. He believes the success of these new tenants will be a crucial when it comes time to do the budget.

“We’ve been missing those for three years now, and that’s been a major gap [in the budget]. So having them back paying rent, plus we also get a percentage of sales, so the better they do, the better we do — we are really banking on that.”

Finally, Nystuen touched on what appears to be the overarching theme throughout this year’s executive: student engagement. He said the completion of Place Riel will not only free up money for the USSU, but also free up time, which will allow the executive to reach out and talk to students more frequently.

“We want students to know who we are and what we do.

Last spring the voter turnout was eight per cent, so we will start by using that as a benchmark,” he said. “One of the things students don’t know is that we are not volunteering. This is a job, we get paid and it’s full-time.”

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Alex Ferwerda VP student affairs Salary: $32,000 After capturing 41 per cent of the vote in March, Alex Ferwerda took over the reins as USSU vice-president of student affairs, picking up where Leon Thompson left off.

Ferwerda has been studying politics and religion as an undergraduate and spent a little time with the Arts and Science Students’ Union, but for the most part, this is his first stint as a student representative. He was elected utilizing a campaign equipped with QR codes, YouTube videos and T-shirts.

Ferwerda’s big election promise was centred on creating an easily approachable executive culture, and specifically, he proposed the idea of the “comment couch.”

The couch, he said, will change locations around campus every few weeks and serve as an open stage to speak with students about any issues that arise.

Apparently, the entire executive has embraced the idea and we can expect to see all four of them hanging out on the couch starting

Sept. 13. The first location is set for the lobby just outside the USSU offices, and will move to the Engineering Building after that.

During the summer, one of Ferwerda’s first initiatives was working with the office of sustainability to promote biking by purchasing a new bicycle repair station.

“We already had the bike tool rental service in place at the PAC, but the biggest hurdle was having to constantly advertise for it,” said Ferwerda. “With this in a high traffic area, it advertises itself.”

The station will consist of a variety of tools, including wrenches and screwdrivers, tethered with woven steel cables to a metal stanchion bolted to a concrete slab. Cyclists can hang their bikes on the stanchion, use the tools to make repairs and fill up their tires with air. The aim is to have it along the path between the Arts and Thorvaldson buildings where there is heavy bike use.

With social justice a burning issue on campus last year, Ferwerda intends to continue

Kelsey Topola VP Academic Salary: $32,000

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working with the Indigenous Students’ Council on promoting the Take A Stand Against Racism campaign.

Moreover, he plans to collaborate with the Women’s Centre in bringing back the White Ribbon Campaign which was introduced two years ago by former vice-president of Kelsey Topola was the only incumbent on the University of Saskatchewan Students’ Union executive to be re-elected in the same position. As such, she was able to jump into working on the several projects she had already undertaken.

This has been helpful for some of the larger goals Topola has set for herself, which include introducing an ombudsperson service for students and something she came up with last year that she has tentatively titled the “professor assessor.”

“It would essentially be ‘rate my professor’ for the U of S,” she explained. “But there were a lot of things to deal with, a lot of legal issues to go over first. So I’ve kind of been working on that one bit by bit.”

The ombudsperson would be intended to do some of what Topola and her counterpart at the Graduate Students’ Association currently do by dealing with academic grievances. But Topola envisions the new service dealing with larger, less run-of-the-mill issues.

“I’m thinking they would deal with discrimination or harassment, and other things like that,” she said. “And it would help to retain some institutional memory. Right now we have a solid [Confidential Student Support Officer] who will stay for a while, but turnover at the USSU and the GSA is really high.”

Along with the things she has already started looking into, Topola’s goals for the year include a number of big projects, from implementing a co-curricular record for students to expanding the powers of the CSSO. She says now is a good time to do this because the USSU is already re-

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student affairs Ben Fawcett. The White Ribbon Campaign is an international movement working to end violence against women.

Above all, though, Ferwerda said he wants to help students by getting the message out about the USSU and the added value it can bring to the university experience.

“As of right now student writing its bylaws and policies, making it easier to change things like a specific person’s role in the organization.

A co-curricular record is something “many universities have already implemented,” Topola said. It is an official record of a student’s extra-curricular activities, from involvement in student politics to on-campus volunteering. It will allow students to show graduate schools and future employers a more comprehensive picture of their interests and abilities.

Topola has also been updating the USSU blog along with the other executives.

engagement is our biggest focus,” said Ferwerda. “It’s important students know about the union and the services it provides — you know, coffee, beer and help centres.”

“My idealistic, pie-in-thesky idea is that maybe this will do something to affect student apathy,” Topola said with a wry smile.

It has been a long-running campaign promise for student politicians that they will find a way to make students care about the politics and governance on their campus. But in a school that routinely has voter turnout hovering near 12 per cent for student elections, this seems unlikely.

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Universities f lee Access Copyright In wake of proposed fee hike, schools find other approaches to copyright licensing TANNARA YELLAND Senior News Editor In the wake of a proposed fee increase, universities across Canada have opted to leave their contracts with once-popular copyright licenser Access Copyright.

Many schools, including York University, the University of British Columbia and almost every school in the prairie region have abandoned their contracts with Access Copyright in favour of steering the waters of copyright legislation on their own.

Established in 1988, the organization offers post-secondary institutions, businesses, schools and other groups advance permission to copy a variety of works, including books, newspapers and journals. Access Copyright collects royalties when licences are sold to universities and other organizations, and subsequently pays the authors, creators and

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The organization’s executive director, Maureen Cavan, says universities have misrepresented the shift in fees. Access

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“Universities are suggesting that [the proposed $45-per-student fee] is a fixed fee, and that it’s already been implemented,” she said. “This is not the case.”

While they have applied for a $45-perstudent fee, Cavan said this was the upper end of what they could expect, and that Access Copyright is not actually anticipating the Copyright Board to compel universities to pay this much.

But according to University of Saskatchewan copyright coordinator Jennifer Mainland, the fee hike was not the only factor in the school’s decision to part with Access Copyright.

She said the fee proposal was “the main reason,” but that “there were also a number of other requirements that Access Copyright had in their contract that said we have to give them access to our internal documents so that they can scrutinize how we’re using copyright materials.

“It’s just, quite frankly, none of their business,” she said.

With the explosion of digital media and Internet use changing the way people access material, wholesale copyright licences simply make less sense than they used to, said University of Ottawa law professor and Toronto Star columnist Michael Geist.

“If you take in open access materials, increasingly it’s apparent that Access Copyright doesn’t offer that much,” Geist explained. “Much of their use is covered through other mechanisms, as well as fair dealing.”

Mainland echoed this sentiment. Part of the reason the U of S was happy to leave Access Copyright was that the school already had to look outside its agreement for permission for some materials, she said.

“Campuses are now spending tens of millions of dollars every year on alternative licensing to cover hundreds or thousands of journals and millions of articles,” said Geist. “When Access Copyright goes to the Copyright Board and says costs should go up rather than down, the responsible thing for universities to do is to question that and Access Copyright’s role in copyright licensing.”

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Cavan argued that Access Copyright takes away a significant amount of work and stress that will now be placed on professors, administrators and even students.

“Individually, piece by piece, permissions need to be sought,” she said. “It’s not easy for, for instance, a professor of physics to become an expert on copyright law. So yes, it’s going to be a lot more work.”

The reason Access Copyright applied to the Copyright Board for a tariff was that, according to Cavan, universities “refused to come to the table and negotiate” a new agreement over digital use of copyrighted materials.

Normally, agreements are negotiated voluntarily between universities and Access Copyright.

Now that the U of S is no longer part of Access Copyright’s blanket licensing agreement, Mainland conceded that there will be more for students and staff to think about.

“It’s a matter of educating the staff and faculty and the members of campus as to the correct use of copyright materials,” she said.

“That’s an ongoing process.”

As for what changes students can expect to see this year, Mainland said “students will likely find that their instructors are providing them with a lot less paper. [Under fair dealing,] you’re permitted to make copies for your own private study, but you’re not allowed to make copies for teaching purposes.”

Fair dealing is an exception to the exclusive rights granted by copyright law. Another method universities have to access materials without the help of Access Copyright is open access licensing, which allows “all users a free, irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual right of access to, and a licence to copy” materials.

According to Geist, more and more academic works are being published under the open access licence.

As for the Access Copyright tariff, Cavan said the Copyright Board likely won’t make a decision until 2013 or 2014, leaving schools a few years at least to wade through copyright law on their own and discover new ways to access materials in the digital world.

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Canadian universities outgunned and outmatched by other countries ISHMAEL N. DARO Editor-in-Chief International students pay, on average, about three times the tuition that Canadian citizens pay and represent a huge source of revenue for Canadian universities.

In 2008, there were almost 180,000 international students who stayed in the country for at least six months, generating over $6.5 billion in Canada. But students from abroad are more than just cash cows; recruiting the best and brightest also bolsters universities’ reputations and leads to top-notch research being conducted here rather than elsewhere.

But successfully recruiting students from abroad is a challenge. Canadian schools often fight an uphill battle against other countries trying to recruit the same people.

Canada’s main competition comes from the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia. All three have national education policies focused on international students. The Canadian Constitution designates education as a provincial jurisdiction and, as a result, there is no federal body that has the necessary resources to aggressively recruit from around the world.

“That’s the crux of the problem,” said Dan Seneker, manager of student recruitment at the University of Saskatchewan.

Seneker points to EducationUSA, a U.S. State Department program, that has offices in over 170 countries and is very effective at recruitment. A prospective student in almost any country can walk into an EducationUSA office and get information on how to study in the States.

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“Canada, even though we have consulates and high commissions... not every consulate, embassy or high commission has [an officer] dedicated towards education,” said Seneker.

As a result, it is often up to individual universities to travel abroad and try to recruit new students to study in Canada. Indeed, U of S president Peter MacKinnon recently returned from a trip to China where he was promoting the university. But compare the resources of any individual university to those of the United Kingdom, for example, and it becomes clear why a federal program is needed.

Additionally, Canada suffers from a dearth of high-profile universities.

“We don’t have the cachet and the recognizable names that the Harvards and Princetons and Oxfords have. It really comes down to the Canadian Three: UBC, U of T and McGill,” said Seneker.

Those same three also place the highest in university rankings, with McGill among the top 20 schools in the world.

That doesn’t necessarily mean universities with less international renown are lightweights — Seneker points out that the U of S has the most Rhodes Scholars in Western Canada — but it can be hard getting that message out.

Governments across Canada have recognized this problem and are starting to work together.

Provincial and territorial governments have launched a new marketing scheme called “Education in/au Canada.” (Yes, clearly designed by committee, but it’s a start.) This initiative is a step toward a clear Canadian brand that can attract students from such competitive markets as India and China by promoting “a unique cultural experience in safe, diverse, and beautiful surroundings.”

Rob Norris, Saskatchewan’s minister of advanced education, says the provincial government has been pushing for closer cooperation across Canada.

“We’re actively participating in ways to build up a national presence, a national brand, a national strategy — Saskatchewan is contributing to that.”

International students contributed $100 million to the Saskatchewan economy in 2008, but Norris says the benefits go beyond money.

“There’s the dollar figure, then you have the cultural and intellectual setting that’s enriched,” he said.

Norris says international students “internationalize a campus and help internationalize the community,” and points to the new international students’ centre in Lower Place Riel as evidence that universities, and the U of S in particular, can provide welcoming environments.

There are many reasons why Canada would make for a great place to attend school, but Dan Seneker from U of S recruitment says he and his colleagues across the country have an unofficial slogan: “Canadian education — Harvard education, Wal-Mart prices.”

Ontario Tories seek to cut $30 million in international student funding LEE RICHARDSON CUP Ontario Bureau Chief TORONTO (CUP) — Funding for a program implemented to draw international PhD students to Ontario would be cut under a Progressive Conservative Ontario government, according to party leader Tim Hudak.

In a recent announcement, Hudak said that money designated for the Trillium Scholarship fund would be diverted to middle-class Ontario families. The program, set up by Dalton McGuinty's government last year, would be closed after its first year ends in September 2012.

"It certainly doesn't send a good message to students who would be interested in coming to study in Ontario," said Sandy Hudson, chairperson of the Canadian Federation of Students-Ontario. "There are opportunities around the world that are much better than the opportunities Ontario gives, in terms of financial assistance, and it sends a very strong message to students who'd be interested in coming to study in Ontario if that program is stopped in its first year."

The Trillium program has been developed to give 75 international PhD students with high academic standards $40,000 a year, for four years, to study at Ontario universities. For the first four years of the program, the Ontario government is investing $20 million, with another $10 million coming from the province's universities. The first batch of students receiving Trillium funding are beginning their studies in the approaching 2011–2012 academic year.

Leila Reyhani, an international master's student studying computer networks at Ryerson

University, said that international students could suffer without financial support. Current provincial rules prevent international students from working part-time while studying.

"The cost of living in Canada can be high, so it's hard," said Reyhani.

While neither Hudak nor a Progressive Conservative representative was available for comment, a press release states that after the Trillium program is closed, the $30 million would be redirected to middle-class families who currently have trouble accessing loans through the Ontario Student Assistance Program. The threshold of financial assistance through OSAP would be raised, meaning that more families could have more access to larger OSAP loans.

But although Ontario students would benefit, international students already receiving funding from the Trillium program could face problems, according to Hudson.

"It's going to be really difficult for the students who are coming this year if the program is stopped after the first year, because part of the program is based on financial needs," said Hudson, adding that overseas students bring over $2 billion to Ontario's economy.

"International students are a net benefit economically to the province, so the fact that we're stopping that opportunity doesn't really save as much money," said Hudson. "What it does do is it sends a message to international students that Ontario isn't interested in either them or in helping in financial aid, or assisting in the difficulties that many international students find themselves in."

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’90s-era Simpsons was so smrt – um, smart.

Before it became a gag reel, The Simpsons was the most important show on TV MICHAEL CUTHBERTSON Opinions Editor Before The Simpsons became a cheap Family Guy clone, it was perhaps the most significant show on television. During the 1990s, The Simpsons was not the gag-reel that it is today. Instead, the show was a scathing review of American society.

It came at a desperate time.

Back in the ’60s, pop culture and subversive politics were united, as the Beatles demonstrated. Come the ’90s, pop culture was thoughtless.

It's astonishing to think that goofysounding yellow caricatures were giving the masses their most needed teachings.

Growing up, my parents let me watch The Simpsons — but scorned the show's values. These creatures with overbites challenged their deepest beliefs: specifically, Christianity. As churchgoing parents, they didn't like hearing a fat drunk say "I work hard and I love my kids.

So why should I spend half my Sunday hearing about how I'm going to hell?"

But The Simpsons' take on Christianity was never cheap. To me, it revealed how narrow-sighted and hypocritical some Christians can be — like when Reverend Lovejoy calls another religion "nothing but a pack of weird rituals and chants, designed to take away the money of fools.”

Still, the writers were careful to remind people of "the Good Christian" — namely, Ned Flanders.

Ned is a guy who will "turn the other cheek" whether Homer steals his air conditioner, family photo albums or his roof.

Homer, on the other hand, is "not a good man, or even an adequate man."

Perhaps the show's biggest joke was that an alcoholic who dropped out of high-school would rise so high.

The Simpsons gather in front of the TV in one of hundreds of “couch gags.”

To uninitiated viewers, Homer was merely a slapstick comedian, the kind of guy who gets his head caught in a drawbridge.

Cartoonishness aside, the point to Homer was that deadbeat fathering — and all-day drinking — was acceptable, even relatable, to Americans. Marge tells Homer to have a "frank talk with Bart about girls," so Homer gets blackout drunk and gives the talk. Even Lisa's music practice must be stopped so he can drink beer and watch TV. Homer Simpsons were (and still are) ubiquitous to our society — a society that toasts "Alcohol! The cause of — and solution to — all of

life's problems."

In the ’90s, the writers seemed remarkably familiar with mainstream society, especially considering half of them graduated from Harvard, like Conan O’Brien. Apart from the brilliant writing (and constant jabs at Yale) one would hardly know the show was made by such well-to-do people.

Their writing depicts all too clearly the unenlightened America, the land of prejudice. Homer likes to remind Abe that "old people are useless,” while Lisa's wisdom is belittled because she is a kid. In Springfield, an Indian man who graduated at the top of a seven million student class

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can only find work at the KwikE-Mart. Homer freaks out when a really cool man he assumes to be straight turns out to be gay. To avoid confusion, Homer wants his "homosexuals fa-laaaming."

The Simpsons showed that all but one group of Americans faced some prejudice. Homer sums the point up well, saying, "I'm a white male aged 18-49. Everyone listens to me."

Clearly the Harvard grads took their social agenda seriously with The Simpsons. But they still weren't afraid to poke fun at serious issues.

They show the best stance a politician can take on abortion: "Abortions for some, miniature American flags for

others." Edgier still, a Duff beer ad shows two guys spraying feminist protesters with beer — transforming the women into bikini-wearing partygirls.

Perhaps the most biting argument of ’90s Simpsons was that America's greatest villains are the ones in charge. Mr. Burns, the richest man in Springfield, declares that family, religion and friendship are “the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business."

Then there's Mayor Quimby, who vacations the Bahamas when his town is struck by epidemic. Oddly enough, that episode came out before George W. Bush's "Katrina fishing trip" incident. Most of all, the writers are damning of the police. Cops are always shown as incompetent, corrupt and totally indifferent to public welfare.

The best example of this is when Chief Wiggum answers the phone with "Uh, no this is 912."

With all the bright colours and silly voice-acting, it was easy for people to miss the "college humour" in ’90s Simpsons. Sure the show is great when you're drunk and stoned, but it's also a work to be studied. University could have given me no better gift that this: a richer understanding of The Simpsons.

On the other hand, university has burdened my Simpsons viewings.

The critical thinking I have accrued reminds me how vulgar and trite The Simpsons became this century. And while I can't unlearn what university has taught me, I can always make use of it by turning on the TV — basking in it’s warm glowing, warming glow.

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A year after Digg’s demise, Reddit is thriving How the rise and fall of two websites foretells the future of new media BRYN BECKER Web Editor About a year ago, the world’s one-time premier social news site, Digg.com, buried itself under an avalanche of crippling mistakes. Following a calamitous and ill-conceived redesign, the site’s downfall caused quite a stir online.

Roughly 12 months later, the digital dust has almost settled. The citizens of the Internet have moved on, as they have repeatedly proven so willing to do.

If you look back, though, there’s much to be learned. This is because social news websites — places where people around the world can share ideas and discuss current events in real time — have become a critical component in the changing face of new media.

Digg launched Version 4.0 on Aug. 25, 2010. Prior to that, a number of Digg users (including myself) had been testing a trial version of the new site for a few weeks, hoping that some much-needed changes were on the horizon. They weren’t. It was clear from the outset that version four was a stark departure from previous, successful iterations of the site.

Instead of relying almost entirely on user-driven content submission, Digg version four allowed sponsors (most notably tech blogs like Mashable.com and TechCrunch. com) to automatically submit their content to the site. These stories were forced upon the users by way of a clumsy new homepage. Instead of being organized democratically based on the community’s input, Digg now functioned more like a Twitter or Facebook stream: users could “follow” certain people or companies and see only their corresponding content.

In essence, Digg neutered the creative, community-driven aspects of its platform, suppressing original “indie” content in favour of sponsored robotic spam. The backlash was immediate. Within days, reports were streaming in from statistics firms showing a dramatic loss in traffic (both to and from Digg).

Long-time users were abandoning ship. New users were turning away.

Following a user-organized “quit

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Digg day” (Aug. 30, 2010), a massive horde of Digg refugees felt compelled to find a replacement site to sate their social news cravings.

Many turned to what felt like the only real competitive alternative: Reddit.com.

Reddit was launched in early 2005, a few months after Digg. At its core, Reddit shares many similarities with Digg. Both are social news aggregators, both initially centered on strictly user-submitted and -rated content, and each compete for the other’s traffic. Yet for years Reddit lacked a certain level of widespread, mainstream popularity. It wasn’t until Digg version four launched that Reddit really emerged

from the shadow of its competitor, logo was seen with a shovel in becoming the successful and widely hand, welcoming ex-Diggers into visited site that it is today. the fold.

In fact, Reddit’s rise to the top of According to a recent blog post the online social news scene can be

by Reddit’s administrators, the site directly attributed to the downfall of has tripled in size within the last Digg — ubiquitous criss-crossing 15 months. Since last May, the site web traffic graphs vividly illustrate has grown “from 7 million monthly this point: as Digg’s traffic noseunique visitors to 21.5 million.” dives around Sept. 2010, Reddit’s To top it off, their page views have traffic correspondingly skyrockets. quadrupled, “to a staggering 1.6 The Reddit administrators obbillion pages served per month,” served this shift in power while it meaning that not only are there happened, some having predicted more people using Reddit, but it months beforehand, and reacted they’re also using it more often. accordingly. In a humourous jibe So, what sparked this masat their floundering competitor’s sive influx in readership and page expense, for a week following “quit views? Digg’s downfall certainly specs • Circulation • Student Digg day” Reddit’s trademark alienJudysset things in motion, but it isDiscount not the 4.5”x 3.5” #2

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One of the more popular section of the site based primarily on original user-created content is “Ask Me Anything,” where celebrities, public figures or anyone with a unique calling in life can take questions from an ever-expanding pool of users. Reddit has also become a potential spawning ground for comics, graphics, music, short films and occasionally even novels, serving as a jumping off point into a larger audience for aspiring artists.

It’s clear that Reddit’s success is directly tied to the laissez-faire flow of content. By fostering the creativity of its users and resisting any heavy-handed corporate sponsorship, the site has not only stolen Digg’s throne, but is on track to maintain its appeal for some time — barring any drastic interference by their corporate overlords Advanced Publications, a massive American media empire.

As the Internet becomes more privatized, corporatized and locked down, users will continually seek out relatively unrestricted spaces to congregate online. The rise of Reddit and the fall of Digg illustrates this: Digg sold out while Reddit stayed true to its roots and reaped the rewards. For now, this bodes well for social news. An open, creative platform has proven to be more successful than one forced to be structured on sponsorship and advertising.

The question remains, however, of whether or not Reddit’s approach will be sustainable five or 10 years down the road. As a website grows more popular, the cost of maintaining it shoots through the roof.

This is often followed by pressure from owners or investors to further monetize the site. While this can sometimes be done effectively, it’s an enormously difficult task, and online communities rarely receive these realities warmly — just look at what happened to Digg.

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Lighten up, feminists!

Acknowledge the flaws in all of us, including yourselves TANNARA YELLAND Senior News Editor Feminism has gone through many incarnations and has enjoyed various levels of popularity. As women have drawn closer and closer to achieving equality, from a shrinking pay gap to a far more open and pervasive discussion of women’s role in media, it has become something of a fad for girls and women to spurn the label as rigid and unpleasant.

I am one of those girls.

I have been parsing my reaction to what should, one would think, be a positive thing. I am certainly in favour of the things that feminism has achieved, and take full advantage of my equal (or nearequal status) with men.

I certainly wouldn’t go as far as some of my fellow nonfeminists and claim that feminists are a group of angry man-haters or uncomfortable lesbians, but I find myself alienated by a culture that delights in being confrontational, often just for its own sake.

Take, for instance, the aversion to popular grooming methods.

Women Against Non-essential Grooming is a blog that often highlights the kind of feminism that I find troubling. Do I think women should feel free to forgo shaving and dieting if they so choose? Yes,

I do. I welcome criticism of media portrayals of women, and in a sense I’m glad there are people who are far angrier about these issues than I am, and far more willing to make these things a part of their everyday lives.

But being a female who pretty much wholesale subscribes to traditional beauty standards, I feel judged when I read this website.

I feel like these women would consider me a traitor to my gender because I’m not comfortable politicizing my body, or worse, because I actually like wearing some mascara and having hairless legs.

Women, girls and femaleidentifying people of all descriptions who want to eschew similar practices should be welcome to. But by the same token, I should be allowed to embrace whatever aspects of our male-dominated culture I want. Especially if I do so as an informed, educated, empowered female who has thought about the options and, having thought about them, still wants to do what the all-powerful men in charge of cosmetics companies want me to do.

One of my biggest problems with modern feminism, even more than its apparent refusal to accept that some women are happy taking two minutes of their day to put makeup

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on, is its lack of humour about itself.

It’s important to laugh at the ridiculousness of life, and oftentimes that involves laughing at things people — including myself — hold dear. When you lose the ability to laugh at yourself you have almost definitely already lost the ability to hear and accept criticism, and that is dangerous.

It is especially so for a movement dedicated to improving the human condition, such as feminism.

Reformist movements are bound to be nearly as flawed as the systems they are attempting to change, because both are human by design. It can be tricky to navigate the spectrum of discussion and to decipher when comments are made in good faith and when they are of the “haha, women actually suck for real” school, but dismissing any critical or flippant remark as insensitive and unacceptable isn’t the answer.

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makeup thinking about why another woman might forgo even deodorant, or a sensitive feminist trying to see the humour in a bleak Louis C.K. joke, the answer lies in challenging each other to see and understand alternative points of view, even ones that we may find abhorrent or completely inappropriate.

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Why are we here?

SCOTT HITCHINGS Because it’s a place of learning.

As one of the many slogans of the university points out, this is a place “where great minds meet.” It is a place where many of the brightest academics in any given field come to pass on their knowledge to us, the next generation.

(Anyone get the Star Trek joke?

Anyone?)

On campus, students learn about the world from people who have lived through more world events than us. Our professors are people who understand why things work the way they do.

They can analyze them with clarity and precision. We as students need their perspectives because — to put it bluntly — a lot of shit is fucked up. And it is up to us to change it.

But before we can change things, we must first understand them. In essence, that is what we are here to do.

We are here to better understand the inner workings of our societies and the human condition, so that we can know

ERIC DAYTON It is once again the beginning of the school year and before diving into work it is important to reflect on why we are here and what it is most fundamentally important to be doing.

As a university professor I face tasks, expectations and demands coming from many directions — there is always more work than there is ever time to accomplish: administrative, collegial and professional requirements, unfolding research projects, and the day-to-day of teaching and student relations.

Recently, the aims of universities have grown more complicated. We are entering a period in which the priorities of universities are increasingly determined by Tri-Council funding and Industry Canada’s research objectives. But it’s important we remember another priority: undergradute teaching. After

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what brings the greatest happiness to the greatest number of people.

We are here to learn what works and what doesn’t; we are here to learn about ourselves and others; and we are here to change everything around us for the better — so that future generations won’t have to.

Campuses like ours allow us to study things we can’t neccessarily study on our own. Here, we can study soil development. We can create strains of crops that will not only grow anywhere, but actually enhance the fertility of the native soil. These strains are imperative to mitigating the effects of famine in places like the Horn of Africa Basically, we are here to better understand everything about everything, not just for the sake of knowledge in and of itself. We are also here to apply our knowledge to the real world and make it a better place.

Scott Hitchings is the president of the University of Saskatchewan Students’ Union

all it is our undergraduate students who will, in the long run, determine the cultural life in which we live.

This focus seems all the more important given the woeful preparation for the university experience our students receive from high school and the culture of immaturity in which they are immersed. It is undergraduate teaching which is for me, at least, the centrally important activity at university. So how is one to teach well and responsibly?

By “teaching” I do not, of course, mean the delivery of a product for students to consume on their way to a buying a ticket into a job.

It is true that an important part of it is offering training in a set of skills and a body of knowledge. Possessing these skills can aid students entry into professions as chemists or historians or philosophers. And there is no doubt that it is very satisfying, indeed quite

ISHMAEL N. DARO Because the alternatives are terrifying.

Think of yourself the day after you graduated from high school. You likely thought you had finally reached adulthood and that you were ready to take on the world.

How wrong you were. How wrong we all were.

The truth is that 17- and 18-year-olds don’t know much about anything, and the fact they don’t know how much they don’t know should keep us all awake at night. We should all constantly be in fear of how little everyone knows about the world, including ourselves.

Some say that money is the root of all evil; others say it is religion; a tiny minority say it is rock ’n’ roll music and the way Elvis shook his hips on TV. But the true root of all evil is ignorance.

Just imagine how senseless and cruel the world is when you have no concept of germs and disease. Your friends and loved ones die for seemingly no reason, and the only consolation you can draw is by burning a witch at the stake.

But introduce the germ theory of disease, and witch burnings lose their appeal. Learn about biology and evolution, and hatred of skin-deep differences ceases to make any sense. Learn about the cosmos, and there is no longer any need to fear the dark.

Even today’s great challenges — from hunger to disease to war — are ultimately a result of people not knowing better. The wonderful, to be able to help a student who is filled with a passion for a subject; to mould him or herself into a master of the discipline.

But such cases are easy pleasures. These students have already made the choices to follow that discipline and acquire allegiance to it.

Indeed, the heart of teaching lies deeper than passing on a skill-set. Our more fundamental task is to open up a space in which the life-structuring choices which our students will make about what to become can be made freely, passionately and intelligently.

University, ideally, is a protected space of freedom, a place for discovery and the self-construction of identity, unconstrained by the external world. In short, it is a place where students can explore their inner talents and desires and become more authentically themselves through free self-making.

All very grand, I admit. But also ordinary and hard, for teaching often involves dealing

solution to all these problems exists, but we have yet to discover them.

And how do the ignorant seek shelter from their own evil? The most effective way we have yet found is through education, and the more education you can get, the better.

Hence, why we are all here at the University of Saskatchewan — some for the first time and others returning to the halls of this fine institution.

There are, of course, numerous problems with the way higher education is structured, not least of which is the prohibitive cost for many in society who would most benefit from further education. Those of us who are lucky or indebted enough to enjoy the fruits of knowledge have an obligation to make the most of it.

University is more than just a degree mill. It is a chance to learn and to grow, and by doing so, contribute to the advancement of humanity.

There is a world of people, ideas and mistakes awaiting us inside these halls, each one more valuable than the last. As long as we are openminded and willing to change our beliefs based on evidence and experience, these four (or five, or seven) years of university will not have been a waste.

University is ultimately a chance to learn just how ignorant we are, and to never forget it. Because only once we realize our own limitations can we go beyond them.

Ishmael N. Daro is the editor-in-chief of the Sheaf. with students, perhaps the majority of them, who are less than free and lacking many of the intellectual, moral, and characterological skills they will need. They can still become the people they want to be in the future if only they are able to imagine themselves more authentically.

As teachers, we cannot dismiss our (admittedly partial but ongoing) responsibility for whatever minor effects we may have on the life structuring choices our students make. Indeed, facing our responcibility is neither a trivial matter nor an easy one. But there is at least this much truth to this image of the university: that it can become a larger, freer and more authentic space for self-creation if we give our heart to the task and do our best to help to make it so.

Eric Dayton is a philosophy professor and head of the Department of Philosophy

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9/11 a decade later ISHMAEL N. DARO Editor-in-Chief Ten years after the terrorist attacks that destroyed them, It’s still strange to see the New York skyline without the twin towers of the World Trade Center.

I visited New York with my family when I was eight years old.

It was 1996, only three years after a truck bomb had been detonated under the north tower with the aim of killing thousands of people as the concrete rained down on them.

Luckily, the attack had failed to cause such damage, so the twin towers were still standing during my visit.

My brother insisted that we go up a skyscraper while we were taking in the Big Apple. My mother took a lot of convincing, but ultimately relented.

It was a cloudy day, so the line to get to the observation area atop the building was relatively short. I don’t remember which of the two we went into, but what I remember most vividly was the elevator ride up to the top. At 110 floors, the towers were among the tallest buildings in the world, and the elevator took ages to climb its way up.

The security guard in the elevator was a black man in his late 20s. I only note this because black people were still a novelty to me at the time. In my mind, they all behaved like Eddie Murphy — which is, outrageous. This man, however, was stern. As soon as the 20 or so tourists had crammed into the elevator he forcefully shushed everyone until it was still. It was an uncomfortable silence, but people must have assumed it was for a good reason.

The elevator climbed up in dead silence for minutes. Each time someone made even the slightest of noises, the stern black man would put his finger to his lips and shush.

Then, at about floor 50, the silence was suddenly broken. Our guard burst into song, singing a joyful

show tune at the top of his lungs.

This good-natured gag made the rest of the elevator ride rather enjoyable, and funny, for the guard continued singing all the way to floor 107 as though he were oblivious to the dozens of foreigners gawking, snapping photos and giggling. He had proven to be a real black man after all — in the Eddie Murphy sense, that is.

I often think about that man. I wonder if he had taken the security job as a temporary gig or if he was there long-term. I wonder if he was inside the World Trade Center when jet planes flew into the buildings. I wonder if he made it out alive.

In the decade since the terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people, the memory of that September day has become tarnished. There was indeed a moment when the whole world felt like New Yorkers, but subsequent wars and hundreds of thousands of further deaths have made the initial attacks more of an afterthought.

The horrible events of that day were soon reduced to the glib marketing of “9/11” and used as a bludgeon to fight ideological battles for the rest of the decade.

Today, those numbers carry with them the weight of one of the ugliest periods in American history.

Questionable wars, island prison camps, CIA kidnappers, torture.

The mania and the thirst for revenge inspired by the 2001 attacks soon turned one of the greatest nations on Earth into a shadow of its former self. Today, the United States is broke, overstretched and in danger of erasing the remaining laws that once guaranteed Americans safety and privacy from their own government.

In the name of terrorism, many governments including Canada passed far-reaching laws that impinge ever more on the rights of citizens. Terrorists became an amorphous threat that could strike at any moment, so more and more

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rights were sacrificed in the name of security.

But whenever I start thinking this way, I remind myself of that New York elevator ride 15 years ago. Obviously the singing was a

practiced routine, but it was meant to get stuck in visitors’ heads. All these years later, it helps remind me of the human tragedy of the World Trade Center attacks.

And despite some of the awful

things that later happened in the name of the victims, we must still remember those victims and hope for a world in which there are more jovial singers than angry warriors.

Lost and found, in body and spirit NANCY YEE We all get lost sometimes.

Lost. This word connects us. We have all suffered loss and we’ve all been lost.

I remember going on a camping trip with my grade five class. I had never camped before. Being from a Chinese immigrant family, camping wasn’t a huge part of our ethnic tradition. I had seen pictures of campers and heard that people went camping, but I really didn’t know what the experience of camping was.

But it sounded like fun.

The first activity was called orientation, meant to teach you how to navigate in the woods. We were told to follow the map, record in our notebooks the markers specifically planted along the way and meet everyone back at camp in half an hour.

For the first few minutes, I was feeling good, seeing the markers I was supposed to see. One path had me going into the woods.

Unperturbed, I forged ahead. All of sudden, I was disoriented and couldn’t figure out where I was. I was surrounded by tall trees and thick bush.

Sudden panic set in. My throat constricted and my heart beat faster.

I started running, pushing aside branches that kept slapping me in my face. I felt the trees closing in. I was running blind but I didn’t care.

An irrational voice kept repeating in my head, “I’m going to die! I’m going to die! I’m going to die!”

Eventually I heard other people’s voices. I ran towards the sounds of people and life. I grabbed any root and branch I could get my hands on to haul me up the slope of a hill. I frantically pulled and climbed until I emerged from the trees and rejoined the others.

I hated that experience. That feeling of being lost was and still is overwhelming.

I now know that I wasn’t really lost. I was always close to camp and the area for orientation was not so

big that somebody wouldn’t have eventually found me. But, that is hindsight talking. At the time, I felt lost. And my emotional memories of that day overshadow all other feelings.

Even today, whenever I get that initial feeling of not knowing where I am or where I should be, I remember that moment as a 10-year-old girl in the woods and I go into panic mode. Sometimes I get a panicky lost feeling even in a civilized place, like a mall parking lot when I can’t find the car, or at a meeting when I don’t know anybody.

I’m sure new students reading this know what I’m talking about. It’s your first time on campus. You don’t know where anything is. You don’t know what building you’re in. You haven’t met anyone you care to be friends with.

I bet some of you are probably wondering why you’re even here.

You’re not alone. At some point, seniors, grad students even some faculty wonder the raison d'être of

being and working on campus.

We feel lost for many reasons.

One is because we don’t know where we are. We feel lost because our surroundings are unfamiliar. We don’t recognize the landmarks, the signs that say we’re home or we’re safe. This is true especially when we travel to new places, whether that be a foreign country or just in a strange part of the city. Unfamiliarity of our physical surroundings makes us feel lost.

Second, we feel lost because we don’t have a sense of direction. We know where we are, but we don’t know how to get where we need to go. Which way should I go? Should I go up? Down? North? South?

Left? Right? In? Out? Ignorance, lack of knowledge both contribute to our sense of lostness. If we knew which direction to take, I’m sure we’d take it. Often, tools are helpful in these situations, for example, a map, a GPS, a compass. But, to be directionless certainly feeds our sense of lostness.

Third, we feel lost when we don’t know where we’re going. We have no destination, no place to go. That can be scary or it can be freeing. It’s a matter of perspective or personality.

Or, we have a destination, but we wonder whether that destination is worth it. I remember planning a huge trip to Italy last year. I’ve always wanted to go to Italy and the possibility was always there for me. But, when possibility met with reality and decision to go, I started questioning would Italy be worth it. I sometimes doubted the time, money, energy it took to plan and prepare for the trip would yield great memories, experiences and stories.

I guess you just need to trust sometimes. Being lost is no fun.

Staying lost is deadlier.

Nancy Yee is the ecumenical chaplain. Her office is in the Memorial Union Building and she tweets @ChaplainNancy.

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Huskies 2011-12 Season Preview Kevin Menz Sports Editor

Men’s Soccer

The University of Saskatchewan Huskies compete in the Canada West Universities Athletic Association conference as part of Canadian Interuniversity Sport. In order to win a CIS championship, which is top honours in the country’s university athletics, teams must qualify and win their conference’s playoffs, and win the CIS playoffs — the only exception in qualifying for playoffs is that the host school automatically competes. Other conferences in the CIS include the Ontario University Athletics, the Réseau du sport étudiant du Québec and the Atlantic University Sport.

Coming off the 2010-11 season, the Huskies saw a few of their teams put up their strongest showings in history. This year, some teams have rosters in place to win conference championships and have some star players who could break national records. Other teams, of course, will finish at the bottom of their division as they have young rosters and are rebuilding for the future.

Josh Northey has represented the Huskies twice on team Canada.

Football

2010 regular season record: 6-2 2010 Canada West standing: 1st 2010 playoff finish: lost to Alberta Golden Bears in Canada West semi-final Next 2011 home game: Sept. 9 versus the Regina Rams

According to the Canada West preseason coaches’ poll, the Huskies are the third strongest team in the conference behind the Regina Rams and the Calgary Dinos. However, those rankings might have changed after week one.

Regina picked up a majority of the first place votes in the poll and were the heavy favourites for the conference’s Hardy Trophy going into the league’s opening night on Sept. 2. But with a potential season-ending shoulder injury to the Rams’ fifth-year starting quarterback Marc Mueller, the Canada West could now be won by any of its top three teams. Mueller is one of Canadian Interuniversity Sport’s top quarterbacks and signed with the Edmonton Eskimos as an undrafted free agent this summer before being released in early May. If Mueller’s injury is seasonending, the Hardy Trophy will likely be won or lost by Canada West’s young quarterbacks.

The Huskies and the Dinos both graduated two top CIS quarterbacks, Laurence Nixon and Erik Glavic respectively, last year.

The Huskies will look to Jahlani Gilbert-Knorren to lead the offence this season. He is a second year quarterback with tremendous foot speed, a good arm and could be a CIS all-star if he can remain composed in the pocket. He will be backed by Trent Peterson, a strong passer who is also expected to see a lot of playing time.

Running back Ben Coakwell and receiver Rory Kohlert — one of the CIS’s top receivers

who signed with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats last March before being released in July — will have to take some of the heat off Gilbert-Knorren this season, as the Dogs’ offensive line is young and inexperienced. Ben Heenan is expected step up his role on the line and replace former Huskie Patrick Neufeld, who now plays for the Saskatchewan Roughriders.

The Huskies are strong on defence and head coach Brian Towriss expects that the defence will have to carry the team through its first couple games until the offence can find a rhythm.

Zach Hart and Steve Kovach will lead one of the best defensive lines the Dogs have ever had.

Linebacker Peter Thiel is expected to shut down opposing offences in the middle of the field and safety Bryce McCall will lead the pass coverage. McCall needs six more interceptions to break the CIS record of 21 interceptions.

Kicker Stephen McDonald started out weak last season in terms of field goals but found his groove nearing the end of the year. He is expected to carry that consistency into this season.

Luke Thiel, linebacker Peter Thiel’s younger brother, is expected to be one of the league’s top punt returners this year.

The Dogs were ranked fifth in the CIS going into their season opener, but a Vanier Cup victory will be difficult considering the strong opponents out east — specifically Laval Rouge et Or, who have numerous returning veterans on offence.

2010 regular season record: 7-4-3 2010 Canada West standing: 4th 2010 playoff finish: loss to UBC Thunderbirds in Canada West final 2011 Season home opener: Sept. 10 versus the Calgary Dinos

This is the strongest men’s soccer team the University of Saskatchewan has ever had.

It is not unreasonable to expect them to win the Canada West final and qualify for the CIS playoffs — something the Huskies have yet to do.

Last year the Dogs lost 1-0 in the Canada West final to the University of British Columbia. It was their best-ever finish.

They come into this season only losing one player from last year’s squad — Myles Shedden — and have a strong group of fourth- and fifth-years including two-time

team Canada representatives at the World University Games, Josh Northey and Jerson BarandicaHamilton.

Northey, a midfielder from Saskatoon, was the Canada West player of the year last year. He is fourth on the conference’s most career points list with 33, and his 12 assists put him at second in career assists. He will be backed at midfield by Canada West second team all-star Eoin McFadden.

Barandica-Hamilton, a Mexican-born striker from Saskatoon, will lead the Dogs’ attackers. He holds numerous

Women’s Soccer 2010 regular season record: 7-6-1 2010 Canada West standing: 5th 2010 playoff finish: did not qualify for a playoff spot 2011 season home opener: Sept. 10 versus the Calgary Dinos

The Huskies women’s soccer team has never qualified for a playoff spot in the Canada West.

The only year they have competed in playoffs was in 1999 but that was only because they were hosting the tournament.

Last year’s team was only one win away from a playoff spot.

This season, if the team can fill the leadership roles lost after the departures of captain Maria Rogal and second all-time highest Huskies point-scorer Jamie LeMay, a playoff spot is possible.

However, that will be difficult with Elizabeth Hudon as the only fifth-year.

Hudon is a Canada West first team all-star and is unarguably the best Huskies soccer player in the program’s history. She is first in the team’s all-time points list (41),

all-time goals list (36), points per game list (.75) and goals per game list (.37). She has also played the most minutes and has recorded the most shots ever (92) in a Dogs jersey.

While it seems that she could win the Canada West on her own, she will need help from international-calibre midfielder Daniela Fuenzalida.

Fuenzalida has already established herself as a dominant player in the Canada West. The third-year from Saskatoon has played for the Chilean national team at the 2008 FIFA under-20 World Cup and spent this past summer competing for Canada at the World University Games in China.

Her .79 points per game average last year was third amongst all

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Canada West records including most career points with 38, and most goals in one season with 10.

His 29 career goals are only one away from tying the conference record.

On defence, fifth-year Abumere Okonofua from London, U.K. will lead a core that only gave up 18 goals in 14 conference games last season to finish fourth in goals against. He is joined by a conference second team all-star Jordian Farahani.

Fourth-year Mark Diakiw will sit between the pipes. His 63 saves last season were fourth in total saves amongst all Canada West keepers.

Notable rookies include strikers Brett Levis and Luigi Bekwayo and midfielder Bobbi Nicholat.

Canada West players and earned her a second team all-star spot.

Striker Lindsay Manz and last year’s Huskie Salute rookie of the year nominee Amy Byrne will also help Hudon.

Manz averages .25 assists per game and sits fifth on the Huskies’ all-time assists list with 6.

Byrne had 2 goals in 11 games in her rookie year and is expected to improve this year.

On defence, the squad is led

by Andrea Guebert and Brooklyn Leier. Both players sit in the top 15 for most minutes played amongst all Huskies soccer players and are expected to step up their veteran roles this year.

Marissa Wilford, whose 100 saves and 6.67 saves per game is the most in Dogs’ history, will be back in net this year.

Rookies expected to play an immediate role on the squad are Erica Parenteau and Gillian Pinder.

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Men’s Hockey 2010-11 regular season record: 17-11-0 2010-11 Canada West standing: 3rd 2010-11 playoff finish: lost to Calgary Dinos in Canada West semi-final 2011-12 season home opener: Oct. 15 versus Regina

After qualifying for the CIS playoffs four years in a row from 2005 to 2008, the Huskies men’s hockey team has not made the national tournament for the last three years.

It will be difficult to break that streak this season following the recent losses of Steve DaSilva and Zach Sim. According to the StarPhoenix, both players will not be back next season after making the choice to play in Saskatchewan’s senior hockey ranks.

DaSilva, regarded as the Huskies’ best recruit in recent years, has attended several National Hockey League training camps and was named CIS most outstanding rookie in his first year with the Dogs. He was the Huskies’ second-highest point-scorer behind Kyle Bortis last season.

Sim would have been the Huskies’ only defenceman who was not a first or second year player this season.

Regardless, with 22 players returning from last year, a first place finish in the Canada West and a CIS playoff spot are not unimaginable.

Bortis will return to the roster this season

and is expected to be the top scorer for Huskies once again.

He will be helped by fifth-year captain Kyle Ross and former Saskatoon Blade Derek Hulak.

Ross, along with former Kootenay Ice most valuable player Andrew Bailey, was named a Canada West second team all-star last season after putting up 23 points in 28 games. Bailey had 24 and is also returning for the Dogs.

Hulak played for the Saskatoon Blades from 2006 to 2010. He is expected to have a huge impact for the Huskies this year after an injury midway through last season cut his season short.

Defence might prove to be the only weakness as all the Dogs’ blueliners lack significant CIS experience.

Matt Delahey and Brett Ward are expected to step up and lead that group of young defencemen.

Third year goaltender David Reekie comes into this season with a .920 save percentage. He was the 2007-08 United States Hockey League goalie of the year.

Cross Country 2010 men’s CIS championship standing: 16th 2010 women’s CIS championship standing: 10th 2011 season opener: Oct. 1, U of S Open

The Huskies women’s cross country team will likely finish higher than last year’s team following the return of veteran Jodi Souter.

Souter did not compete last year but was the Canada West athlete of the year in the 2009-10 season. She finished seventh in the CIS that year with a run of 17:30.3 and was named a CIS first team all-Canadian.

She will be joined by another fifth-year, Caitlin Warkentin. Warkentin was the Canada West athlete of the year last year and finished fourth in the CIS with a time of 18:29.0. She was also a CIS first team all-Canadian.

Gabrielle Edwards will be the strongest rookie joining them this year. She was twice awarded

the Saskatchewan midget female track athlete of the year award in 2008 and 2009 and was chosen as Saskatchewan’s flag bearer at the 2011 Western Canada Summer Games where she competed in triathlon.

On the men’s side, the team will likely finish near the bottom of the CIS once again.

Fourth-year Samir Marin will lead the team along with second year Eric Mueller.

Marin finished 60th in the CIS last year with a run of 34:56.0 while Mueller finished 90th with a time 35:56.0.

In CIS cross country competition, the men run 10 kilometres while the women run 5 kilometres.

Peter Yee

2010-11 regular season record: 15-8-1 2010-11 Canada West standing: 4th 2010-11 playoff finish: lost to Alberta Pandas in Canada West semi-final round 2011-12 season home opener: Oct. 14 versus Regina Cougars

Typically, when a hockey team brings in seven rookies, it’s a rebuilding year.

However, with at least nine fourth- and fifth-year players this season, the Huskies will still be competitive in the Canada West.

They are led by the 2009-10 CIS most valuable player Breanne George and 201011 Canada West second team all-stars Kristen Bews and Cara Wooster.

George, a centre from Saskatoon, sits seventh on the Canada West’s all-time career points list with 126, and seventh on the conference’s all-time season points list with 46. Her 28 goals in the 2009-10 season are tied for the most goals in one season by any Canada West athlete.

Wooster spent two years playing in North Dakota before coming to the Huskies last year. She put up 40 points for the Dogs last season to share top-spot in the Canada West along with George and Hayley Wickenheiser — yes, that Hayley Wickenheiser.

On the blue line, team captain Bews will be joined by fifth-year Kelsey Fenton to shut down opposing offences.

Fourth-year Mackenzie Rizos will start in net for the Dogs and sports an impressive resume. While playing in Lethbridge, she was the Canada West nominee for the 2008-09 CIS Marion Hilliard award, which honours a student athlete who excels at academics and in the community. She was also an academic allCanadian and second team Canada West all-star in 2008-09.

As for rookies, head coach Steve Kook could not say who he expects to step up and take on a major role as he has yet to see them in game action.

Kook was the Canada West coach of the year in the 2009-10 season and expects the Huskies to land a national playoff spot this year. He said they will be helped by the fact that the playoffs are in Edmonton this year, meaning the Canada West conference can send two teams to compete.

Track & Field

Wrestling 2010-11 men’s team finish: 2nd in Canada West, 4th in CIS 2010-11 women’s team finish: 3rd in Canada West, 5th in CIS 2011-12 season opener: Oct. 22 in Calgary 2011-12 home opener: Nov. 26, Huskie Open

Losing the best varsity wrestler in Canada can’t possibly help the Huskies men’s wrestling team this year.

Daniel Olver won both the all-around male athlete and male athlete of the year awards at the Huskie Salute last year. After winning the Canada West and CIS championships in two different weight classes during his final two years as a Dog, he is now pursuing a path to Canada’s national team. Without him, the team is unquestionably weaker.

However, with the addition of two rookies in the heavyweight class, the men will still be competitive in the Canada West.

The Huskies have not had a natural heavyweight in a long time — most often, smaller wrestlers bulk up to compete in the class but still lack the natural size and strength of a born heavyweight. Navi Dulat and Donovan Dale will come in this year as first-years to fill that spot.

Dulat, from British Columbia, was the junior national champ at the 2009 Canada Games and Donovan Dale is a junior national silver medalist who also plays football for the Saskatoon Hilltops.

Theo Dow, who won silver in the Canada West

Cara Wooster tied for the most points in Canada West last year.

last year as a rookie, is also expected to have a great year.

In terms of veterans, conference and national champion Ryan Myrfield will take over as captain while Landon Squires, also a Canada West champion, will look to medal at the CIS level this year.

On the women’s side, the team will be strong.

While they graduated a captain and conference medalist Lindsay Olver — Daniel Olver’s wife — the women still have a group of experienced wrestlers who will be in contention for conference gold.

Canada West champion and CIS bronze medalist Natasha Kramble will take over as captain. She will look for a national gold medal along with Koren Pitkethly, who won silver at the CIS level last year, and Kathleen Kent, who won bronze.

Katie Dutchak comes in as one of the most notable rookies. The former captain of the Holy Cross High School wrestling team received a scholarship to compete at college level rodeos in the United States but chose instead to stay in Saskatchewan.

2010-11 men’s CIS championships finish: 7th 2010-11 women’s CIS championships finish: 8th 2011-12 season opener: Dec. 10, PR Athletics 1st chance meet

On the field, the Huskies will be much weaker this year after losing two international-calibre athletes and one Canada West record holder.

Andrew Smith and Taryn Suttie, who both competed in China this summer for Canada at the World University Games, are not returning.

Smith and Suttie are the current CIS record holders in men’s and women’s shot put, respectively. Suttie’s record throw is 15.72 metres and Smith’s is 18.48 metres.

In addition, Taylor Petrucha has completed his five years of eligibility. He is the Canada West record holder in the pole vault with a jump of 5.22 metres.

Nolan Machiskinic and Lane Britnell will lead this year’s field team.

Machiskinic finished third in the Canada West men’s shot put last year with a throw of 15.40 metres while Britnell

finished first in the pole vault with a jump 5.15 metres On the track, the team will be strong with the return of three former Huskies.

Jodi Souter, also a strong cross country athlete who took a year off last year, has come back to compete in the 1500m and 3000m runs in what will be her final year. Keegan Sharp, a pentathlon competitor, spent a term in Great Britain last year and will return this year to improve upon his fourth place finish in the 60 metre hurdles two years ago. And Julene Friesen, who also spent a term away from Saskatchewan last year in Australia, will return to help the women’s relay team win a Canada West gold — something she did in 2009.

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Door slams on Barrett’s football dreams

Huskies baller tests his skills with Towriss and crew DORIAN GEIGER University of Saskatchewan Huskies point guard Jamelle Barrett was the highest-scoring varsity basketball player in Canada last year.

But he has football on his mind.

If scoring a league-high 600 points in the CIS last season wasn’t enough of an accomplishment, the 22-year-old guard from Sacramento, Calif. now aspires to play Huskies football.

“It’s my favourite sport. It has always been my passion and number one love,” said Barrett.

Barrett grew up playing football, but after his grandmother passed away when he was in seventh grade, he chose to focus solely on basketball.

His grandmother, who raised him, had always been an advocate of him playing basketball as opposed to football.

“She never wanted me to play football. She hated the fact that there was a higher risk of me getting injured playing football,” said Barrett.

“When she died, it was a tribute that I would just pursue basketball more than football.”

Two days after her funeral, Barrett had a football game. He didn’t go.

This past summer, Barrett practiced and trained at Griffiths Stadium with members of the Huskies football team. He had hoped to lock down a receiver position.

However, Huskies basketball head coach Barry Rawlyk rejected Barrett’s bid to suit up with the football squad. Barrett had been under the impression that Huskies basketball had given him the go-ahead, but Rawlyk said nothing was ever set in stone.

“I never gave any green lights and I never

Schellenberg, the Dogs’ assistant coach, also has a football-basketball background.

However, Barrett’s scholarship and his status as a top player in Canada make him an exception.

“

I never gave any green lights and I never gave any red lights.”

Barry Rawlyk Huskies’ Basketball Head Coach

Jamelle Barrett’s puppy dog eyes are no match for Barry Rawlyk.

gave any red lights,” said Rawlyk. “What I said to him was I appreciate his passion for wanting to do different things… I can be an idealist when it comes to that but the pragmatic side has to prevail. I know what’s practical and what’s real.”

Huskies football head coach Brian Towriss is confident that Barrett would emerge as a dominant component of the team’s aerial attack.

“Would he help us? Absolutely,” said Towriss, who met Barrett during one of his football coaching classes on campus last year.

“He’s played the game at a level comparable to what we play. He certainly would be a difference-maker in our league. We would welcome him with open arms.”

Dorian Geiger

Towriss knows Barrett’s speed on the court could be translated onto the football field, but he doesn’t want to interfere with the Huskies’ basketball schedule.

Rawlyk, too, is aware of the damage Barrett could do on the football field, but “there’s only so many hours in the day.”

Playing one Huskies sport already provides enough distraction from the grind of academics.

In Rawlyk’s mind, two sports could wreak havoc on Barrett’s grades, rendering the fourth year veteran ineligible to participate in any sport.

Rawlyk used to coach both basketball and football at Holy Cross High School, where he often encouraged players to cross over. Nathan

Other Huskies have played both basketball and football in the past, including Chris Bodnar, currently a University of Regina Rams kicker who split his time between both sports at the U of S. “We’ve had players in the past try to balance that and, to be honest, they haven’t done it very successfully,” said Rawlyk.

For now, Barrett’s commitment will continue to be with the basketball team. He might not be suiting up for the Huskies football squad this season, but he’s still ready to take the CIS by storm — just in a different sport.

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sports in brief

thesheaf.com/sports • the Sheaf • September 8, 2011

Dogs win opener; Canada West to be televised KEVIN MENZ Sports Editor

Huskies win season opener against Golden Bears The Huskies defense did not allow a single point against the Alberta Golden Bears in the Dogs’ 38-7 home opening win on Sept. 2.

The Bears’ only points of the game came in the third quarter after Jeremy Bell recovered Huskies receiver Rory Kohlert’s fumble for a touchdown.

Led by a defensive line that only gave up 59 yards rushing all game, the Huskies held the Bears to just 7 first downs.

The secondary, which saw a stellar performance from defensive back Seamus Neary, was also strong.

Neary was named Canada West defensive player of the week for his 4.5 tackles and 60 yard interception return for a touchdown.

Jahlani Gilbert-Knorren got the start in quarterback and played strong in the first half. He rushed for 52 yards on nine carries, completed 15 of 22 pass attempts for 172 yards and threw one touchdown and two interceptions.

The third quarter, however, was more difficult for Gilbert-Knorren as the Bears brought a stronger blitz package that made the Dogs’

inexperienced offensive line falter.

Huskies head coach Brian Towriss put Trent Peterson in for the fourth quarter. He said it was just to give Peterson some reps and that GilbertKnorren would still start the next game.

Luke Thiel played a great game on special teams. His 62 yard punt return for a touchdown late in the third quarter stopped any momentum Alberta might have had going into the fourth quarter.

The Dogs also saw touchdowns from running back Ben Coakwell and receivers Braeden George and Jeffrey Moore.

The Huskies have not lost a season opener in the last nine years. Their next game is at home against the Regina Rams on Sept. 9.

Canada West signs online television contract

In partnership with Stretch Internet, the Canada West Universities Athletic Association has launched Canada West TV. The network will live broadcast a majority of Canada West games throughout the entire year at canadawest.tv. The site will show all basketball and volleyball games as well as select football, hockey and soccer games. The online streaming

Luke Thiel and the Huskies wore camouflage on Sept. 2 to honour the Canadian Forces.

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will also include a scoreboard and a live statistics feed. All games that are not broadcast will still feature the live stats and scoreboard.

“I cannot emphasize enough how thrilled we are to partner with Canada West,” said Stretch Internet President Ryan Ermeling in a press release.

“Fans will enjoy an incredibly userrich experience, with high-quality live and on-demand video along with integrated live stats and other features — on both desktop and mobile T:10"

platforms.”

Games will be available online, on Flash 10.1-enabled mobile devices and on iOS devices, including the iPhone, the iPad and the iPod Touch.

“It provides us with a unique opportunity as a conference and as individual schools to have our product seen by fans across Western Canada and around the world,” said Canada West vice president of marketing Ben Matchett.

The site also allows fans to

customize their experience. Fans can filter the homepage by sport and by school, can choose to watch live or archived games and can create a personalized events page.

The University of Saskatchewan Huskies will have three football games, all basketball games, all hockey games and nearly all volleyball games broadcast.

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Huskies 2011-12 Season Preview Women’s Volleyball

Men’s Volleyball

2010-11 regular season record: 2-16 2010-11 Canada West standing: 10th 2010-11 playoff finish: did not qualify for playoffs 2011-12 season home opener: Oct. 28 versus Trinity Western

The last time the Huskies women’s volleyball team earned a Canada West playoff spot was in the 2001-02 season. This year will likely be the same, as the team is rebuilding due to a coaching change.

Leslie Irie, the head coach for the past 13 years, decided to leave her post following the team’s last place finish in 2010-11.

Jason Grieve, a top provincial team, coach and athlete developer for Saskatchewan Volleyball was appointed interim head coach. He coached in the CIS from 2002 to 2006 at the University of Waterloo.

When he took over at Waterloo, they were the worst team in their conference. He rebuilt their program and improved Waterloo to a .500 winning team.

While he may be the fresh face needed to boost the Dogs’ volleyball program, players will need time to adjust to his coaching style. Chances are that this will not yet be the year they see success.

Fortunately, most of the squad is young. There are nine firstand second-year players on the

15-person roster including rookie Kayla Tycholiz from St. Mary’s high school in Prince Albert. She is expected to have an immediate impact in the middle blocker and outside hitter positions.

Along with this, the Huskies’ top players still have at least two years of eligibility left.

The top three returnees from last year are third-year outside hitter Candace Hueser, third-year setter Erin Foster and fourth-year middle blocker Laura Beadle.

Hueser finished third in the Canada West in kills per game with 3.33 and fourth in points per game with 3.75.

Beadle’s 0.90 blocks per game were ninth amongst all Canada West athletes.

Perhaps the Huskies’ biggest weapon this year will be new recruit Alex Van Dyke. She is a fourth-year, left-handed outside hitter who has transferred from Portland State.

The Huskies had no players named to the Canada West or the CIS all-star teams last year.

Women’s Basketball

Matt Busse digs deep for the Huskies.

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2010-11 regular season record: 3-15 2010-11 Canada West standing: 8th 2010-11 playoff finish: did not qualify for playoffs 2011-12 season home opener: Oct. 28 versus Trinity Western Spartans

Under head coach Brian Gavlas, the Huskies men’s volleyball team only missed the CIS playoffs once from 1996 to 2006, winning two national titles in that time.

Unfortunately, they have missed both the CIS and Canada West playoffs for the last four years.

Most of the players from last year’s squad are back this season, but with only one fifth-year on the roster and no Canada West or CIS all-stars, this still might not be the year they break the drought. It all depends on how well the Huskies’ top players mix with the new recruits.

year and CIS tournament allstar Katie Miyazaki to lead the squad. Miyazaki transferred to the U of S from Simon Fraser University before last season following SFU’s move to the NCAA. She won two national championships while there but despite her ability to win, the Huskies are likely too young and inexperienced this year to bring home any Canada West titles — even if Miyazaki can improve on the offencive side of the ball.

The only other players returning who had significant playing experience for the Dogs last season are Mary Hipperson and Amy Lackie.

Kabree Howard, last year’s Katie Miyazaki in action for Canada.

Freestyle Photography backup point guard, will likely start this year while second year Trisha Carriere has the daunting 2010-11 regular season record: 22-2 task of replacing Spindler in the 2010-11 Canada West standing: 1st 2010-11 playoff finish: lost to the University of Windsor Lancers in the key.

CIS final Kiera Lyons is one recruit 2011-12 season home opener: Nov. 18 versus Lethbridge Pronghorns who is expected to make an immediate impact. The guard Without question, this season gone including Canada West transferred to the Huskies will be a rebuilding year for the most valuable player Kim from the Augustana Vikings of Huskies women’s basketball Tulloch, CIS most outstanding the Alberta Colleges Athletic team. student-athlete Jill Humbert and Conference.

This year’s team is a CIS tournament all-star Jana Two-time CIS head coach of significantly different from the Spindler. the year Lisa Thomaidis will team that won last year’s CIS It will now be up to two-time lead the team again this season. silver medal. Four starters are CIS defensive player of the

Geoff Zerr is the lone fifth-year.

The middle blocker finished third in the Canada West last year with a .389 hit percentage — meaning he had 92 kills and 22 errors on 180 hit attempts.

Third years Matt Busse and Braden McLean will help Zerr in his leadership role.

Busse won the Huskies male rookie of the year award two years ago and will likely have his best year yet this season. He finished eighth in the Canada West in both kills per set (3.30) and points per set (3.82).

McLean will bring a wealth of

experience to the court this season as he spent this summer in Brazil competing for Canada at the world junior volleyball championships.

Two recruits who are expected to have an immediate impact are Andrew McWiggan and Phil Duffy.

McWiggan is a left-handed setter from Sale, Australia. Now 19, he was voted as one of the top players in Australia in 2007.

Duffy, who plays the libero position, is a transfer from the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference where he finished at the top of the conference in digs per game (3.05)

Men’s Basketball 2010-11 regular season record: 20-4 2010-11 Canada West standing: 3rd 2010-11 playoff finish: lost to UBC Thunderbirds in CIS bronze medal game 2011-12 season home opener: Nov. 18 versus Lethbridge Pronghorns

Expect the Huskies to make their third straight appearance in the CIS final eight this year.

Whether or not they win a championship will be up to last year’s Canada West most valuable player Jamelle Barrett and fifthyear forward Michael Lieffers.

Barrett, a second year guard from Sacramento, Calif., was a CIS first team all-Canadian. He had 600 points, 162 assists and 60 steals last season — all of which led the Canada West standings.

Lieffers spent some time this summer in China where he won a silver medal for Canada at the World University Games. He had the best field goal percentage in the Canada West last year, hitting 96 of 153 attempts for a .627 average.

His 8.9 rebounds per game ranked sixth amongst all players.

They will be backed by a core of fourth- and fifth-year veterans.

Duncan Jones was supposed to start as shooting guard for the Dogs last year, but after Canada

West second team all-star Raejen Chabot decided to return to the Huskies last season for his final year of eligibility, Jones had to split playing time. The fifth-year player will be ready to start this season.

Peter Lomuro, a fifth-year transfer from the Dogs’ conference opponents, the Winnipeg Wesmen, will have an immediate impact at the forward position.

On the defensive side of the ball, fourth-year forward Nolan Brudehl will lead the squad. He finished one spot behind Lieffers on the Canada West rebounding list by averaging 8.0 rebounds per game.

The most notable rookie this year is guard Nick Foth. The recent graduate of Centennial High School in Saskatoon was regarded as the province’s top prospect and has the ability to skip the Huskies’ red-shirt phase — essentially the practice roster — and crack the starting roster immediately.

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Huskie Athletics 2011-12 Calendar Canada West Conference Games

Football Non-Conference Game 7:00 pm

Fri Aug 26

Windsor

Canada West Conference Games 7:00 pm 7:00 pm 1:00 pm 7:00 pm 7:00 pm 7:00 pm 7:00 pm 1:00 pm

Fri Sept 2 Fri Sept 9 Sat Sept 17 Fri Sept 23 Fri Sept 30 Fri Oct 14 Sat Oct 22 Sat Oct 29

Alberta (Season Opener) Regina (Centennial) Manitoba Calgary UBC (Homecoming) Calgary Regina Alberta

Non-Conference Tournaments Thurs - Sat Oct 20 - 22 Graham Construction Shootout

Canada West Conference Games

Top 4@1

Fri - Sun Nov 4-6

CIS Championships Thurs - Sun Nov 4-6

CW Semifinal (4@1, 3@2) CW Final, Hardy Cup (Winner at highest rank) CIS Semifinal, Mitchell Bowl (CW @ Atlantic)

Montreal Home Games in Bold

Men’s Volleyball

Vanier Cup

Non-Conference Tournaments

Fri Nov 25

BC Place

Vancouver

Thurs - Sat Jan 5 - 7

Men’s Soccer Non-Conference Games/Tournaments Fri Aug 19 Sat Aug 20 Wed - Sun Aug 24-28 Fri - Sat Sept 2 -3

2:15 pm 2:15 pm

Lakeland Lakeland Toronto Winnipeg (Umbro Centennial Cup)

Canada West Conference Games Sat Sept 10 Sun Sept 11 Sat Sept 17 Sun Sept 18 Sat Sept 24 Sun Sept 25 Sat Oct 1/Sun Oct 2 Sat Oct 15 Sun Oct 16 Fri Oct 21 Sat Oct 22 Sat Oct 29 Sun Oct 30

2:15 pm 2:15 pm 2:15 pm 2:15 pm 2:15 pm 2:15 pm 2:15 pm 2:00 pm 2:15 pm 7:00 pm 7:15 pm 2:15 pm 2:15 pm

Calgary Lethbridge Fraser Valley Victoria UBC TWU Alberta Lethbridge Calgary TWU UBC Regina/Victoria Manitoba/UFV

Canada West Playoffs Fri - Sun Nov 4-6

Top 4@1

CIS Championships Thurs - Sun Nov 4-6

Victoria Home Games in Bold

Women’s Soccer Non-Conference Tournaments Mount Royal (Alberta Cup)

Fri - Sun Aug 26 - 28

Canada West Conference Games 12:00 pm 12:00 pm 12:00 pm

Calgary Lethbridge Fraser Valley

Fri Oct 28/Sat Oct 29 Thurs Nov 3 Sat Nov 5 Fri Nov 11/Sat Nov 12 Fri Nov 18 Sat Nov 19 Fri Dec 2/Sat Dec 3 Fri Jan 13/Sat Jan 14 Fri Jan 20/Sat Jan 21 Fri Jan 27 Sat Jan 28 Fri Feb 3/Sat Feb 4 Fri Feb 10/Sat Feb 11

8:00 pm 8:00 pm 8:00 pm 8:00 pm 8:00 pm 2:00 pm 7:45 pm 8:00 pm 8:00 pm 7:45 pm 6:45 pm 8:00 pm 8:00 pm

TWU Regina Regina Alberta UBC UBC Brandon Winnipeg Calgary Thompson Rivers Thompson Rivers UBC Okanagan Manitoba

Thurs - Sun Feb 16 - 19 Quarter-final (7@2, 6@3, 5@4, 1 has bye) Final Four (@ Highest Ranked Team) Fri - Sat Feb 24 - 25

CIS Championships Kingston Home Games in Bold

Women’s Volleyball Canada West Conference Games Fri Oct 28/Sat Oct 29 Thurs Nov 3 Sat Nov 5 Fri Nov 11/Sat Nov 12 Fri Nov 18 Sat Nov 19 Fri Dec 2/Sat Dec 3 Fri Jan 13/Sat Jan 14 Fri Jan 20/Sat Jan 21 Fri Jan 27 Sat Jan 28 Fri Feb 3/Sat Feb 4 Fri Feb 10/Sat Feb 11

6:00 pm 6:15 pm 6:00 pm 6:00 pm 6:00 pm 12:00 pm 6:00 pm 6:00 pm 6:00 pm 6:00 pm 5:00 pm 6:00 pm 6:00 pm

8:00 pm 8:00 pm 8:00 pm 8:00 pm 8:00 pm 8:00 pm 7:00 pm 8:00 pm 8:00 pm 8:00 pm 8:00 pm 8:00 pm 8:00 pm 8:00 pm

Regina Alberta Lethbridge Fraser Valley TWU Victoria UBC Calgary UBC Okanagan Thompson Rivers Brandon Winnipeg Manitoba Regina

Thurs - Sun Feb 23 - 26 Quarter-final (Division Crossover) Final Four (@ Highest Ranked Team) Fri - Sat Mar 2 - 3

CIS Championships Halifax Home Games in Bold

Fri - Sun Mar 9 - 11

Women’s Basketball Non-Conference Tournaments Thurs Oct 6 Fri - Sun Oct 14 - 16 Fri - Sun Oct 21 - 23 Tues-Sun Dec 27-Jan 1

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Canada West Conference Games

Canada West Playoffs

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Sat Nov 5 Fri Nov 11/Sat Nov 12 Fri Nov 18/Sat Nov 19 Fri Nov 25 Sat Nov 26 Fri Jan 6 Sat Jan 7 Fri Jan 13/Sat Jan 14 Fri Jan 20 Sat Jan 21 Fri Jan 27/Sat Jan 28 Fri Feb 3/Sat Feb 4 Fri Feb 10/Sat Feb 11 Sat Feb 18

Canada West Playoffs

Brian Mallard Invitational Tournament

Canada West Conference Games

Home Games in Bold

Sat Sept 10 Sun Sept 11 Sat Sept 17

Men’s Basketball

Victoria UBC TWU Alberta Lethbridge Calgary TWU UBC Regina/Victoria Manitoba/UFV

Canada West Playoffs

Canada West Playoffs Sat Nov 5 Sat Nov 12 Sat Nov 19

12:00 pm 12:00 pm 12:00 pm 12:00 pm 12:00 pm 12:00 pm 5:00 pm 5:00 pm 12:00 pm 12:00 pm

Sun Sept 18 Sat Sept 24 Sun Sept 25 Sat Oct 1/Sun Oct 2 Sat Oct 15 Sun Oct 16 Fri Oct 21 Sat Oct 22 Sat Oct 29 Sun Oct 30

Twu Regina Regina Alberta UBC UBC Brandon Winnipeg Calgary Thompson Rivers Thompson Rivers UBC Okanagan Manitoba

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6:15 pm 6:00 pm 6:15 pm 6:15 pm 6:15 pm 6:00 pm 5:00 pm 6:00 pm 6:15 pm 6:15 pm 6:15 pm 6:00 pm 6:15 pm 6:15 pm

Regina Alberta Lethbridge Fraser Valley TWU Victoria UBC Calgary UBC Okanagan Thompson Rivers Brandon Winnipeg Manitoba Regina

Canada West Playoffs Thurs - Sun Feb 23 - 26 Quarter-final (Division Crossover) Fri - Sat Mar 2 - 3

Women’s CIS Regionals Final Four (@ Highest Ranked Team)

Fri - Sun Mar 9 - 11

CIS Championships Fri - Sun Mar 16 - 18

Canada West Playoffs

Calgary

Home Games in Bold

Thurs - Sun Feb 16 - 19 Quarter-final (7@2, 6@3, 5@4, 1 has bye) Final Four (@ Highest Ranked Team) Fri - Sat Feb 24 - 25

CIS Championships Fri - Sun Mar 2 - 4

Kingston Home Games in Bold

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the sheaf • September 8, 2011 • thesheaf.com/sports Canada West Conference Games

Men’s Hockey

Fri Nov 18/Sat Nov 19 Fri Nov 25/Sat Nov 26 Thurs Dec 1 Sat Dec 3 Fri Jan 6.Sat Jan 7 Fri Jan 13/Sat Jan 14 Fri Jan 20/Sat Jan 21 Fri Feb 3/Sat Feb 4 Fri Feb 10/Sat Feb 11

Non-Conference Games/Tournaments Fri Sept 9 Sat Sept 10 Fri - Sun Sept 16 - 18 Fri - Sun Sept 23 - 24

TBD TBD Regina Tournament Alberta tournament

Canada West Conference Games Fri Spet 30/Sat Oct 1 Fri Oct 14 Sat Oct 15 Fri Oct 21/Sat Oct 22 Fri Oct 28/Sat Oct 29 Fri Nov 4/Sat Nov 5 Fri Nov 18/Sat Nov 19 Fri Nov 25/Sat Nov 26 Fri Dec 2/Sat Dec 3 Fri Jan 6/Sat Jan 7 Fri Jan 13/Sat Jan 14 Fri Jan 20/Sat Jan 21 Fri Feb 3/Sat Feb 4 Fri Feb 10/Sat Feb 11 Fri Feb 17 Sat Feb 18

7:00 pm 7:00 pm 7:00 pm 7:00 pm 7:00 pm 7:00 pm 7:00 pm 7:00 pm 7:00 pm 7:00 pm 7:00 pm 7:00 pm 7:00 pm 7:00 pm 7:00 pm 7:00 pm

Fri - Sun Feb 17 - 19 Fri - Sun Feb 24 - 26

Regina

Fri - Sat Feb 10 - 11

CIS Championships Thunder Bay

Fri - Sat Feb 24 - 25 Edmonton

Home Games in Bold

Cross Country Cougar Trot U of S Open Stewart Cup CIS and CW Championship

Sat Sept 17 Sat Oct 1 Sat Oct 29 Sat Nov 12

Regina Saskatoon Edmonton Laval

Home Games in Bold

Track & Field

Fredericton

Sat Dec 10 Sat Jan 7 Fri Jan 20/Sat Jan 21 Fri Jan 27/Sat Jan 28 Sat Feb 4 Fri Feb 10/Sat Feb 11

Women’s Hockey Non-Conference Games/Tournaments Swift Current Mount Royal 5:00 PM Regina Tournament Lloydminster

PR Athletics 1st Chance Meet U of R/ U of S Duel Golden Bear Open Sled Dog Open Bison Classic Queen City Kinsmen Indoor Games

Saskatoon Saskatoon Edmonton Saskatoon Winnipeg Regina

Canada West Playoffs Saskatoon

Fri - Sat Feb 24 - 25

CIS Championships

Canada West Conference Games 7:00 pm 7:00 pm 7:00 pm 7:00 pm 7:00 pm

Winnipeg Open

Calgary SFU Saskatoon Alberta Regina Winnipeg

Home Games in Bold

Home Games in Bold

Fri Oct 14 Sat Oct 15 Fri Oct 21/Sat Oct 22 Fri Oct 28/Sat Oct 29 Fri Nov 4/Sat Nov 5

SFU Clan Open Huskie Open

Canada West Playoffs

Semi-final (4@1, 3@2) Final (@ Highest Ranked Team)

Thurs - Sun Mar 8 - 11

CIS Championships

Sat Sept 10 Sat - Sun Sept 17 - 18 Fri - Sun Sept 23 - 25 Sat Oct 1

Sat Oct 22 Fri - Sat Nov 4 - 5 Sat Nov 26 Sat Jan 7 Sat Jan 14 Sat Jan 21

CIS Championships

Quarter-final (6@3, 5@4) Semi-final (Highest Rank @2, Lowest Rank @ 1) Final (@ Highest Ranked Team)

Thurs - Sun Mar 22 - 25

Wrestling

Calgary UBC Regina Regina Lethbridge Alberta Manitoba Calgary UBC

Canada West Playoffs

Lethbridge Regina Regina Lethbridge Alberta Manitoba Calgary UBC Regina Lethbridge Alberta Manitoba Calgary UBC Regina Regina

Canada West Playoffs Fri - Sun Feb 24-26 Fri - Sun Mar 2 - 4 Fri - Sun Mar 9 - 11

7:00 pm 7:00 pm 7:00 pm 7:00 pm 7:00 pm 7:00 pm 7:00 pm 7:00 pm 7:00 pm

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Thurs - Sat March 8 - 10

Regina Regina Lethbridge Alberta Manitoba

Home Games in Bold

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Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen) discusses sexual repression in David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method, out in November.

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A look at this fall’s biggest films As the Toronto International Film Festival begins on Sept. 8, we officially enter the Fall Movie Season when awards are on the radar of every studio. Here is a highlight of the biggest movies hitting theatres this fall.

Aren BErgstrom Arts Editor

September Sept. 9

Contagion

Directed by Steven Soderbergh Starring Matt Damon, Jude Law and Kate Winslet An ensemble thriller from the director of Traffic about an air-borne virus that turns into a worldwide epidemic.

Warrior

Directed by Gavin O’Connor Starring Tom Hardy, Joel Edgerton and Nick Nolte Two brothers (Hardy and Edgerton) from a downtrodden family compete against each other in a Mixed Marital Arts tournament.

Sept. 16 Drive

Directed by Nicolas WindingRefn Starring Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston and Albert Brooks A stuntman (Gosling) who is also a getaway driver discovers

a contract has been placed on his life and seeks out those who intend to kill him.

I Don’t Know How She Does It

Directed by Douglas McGrath Starring Sarah Jessica Parker, Pierce Brosnan, Christina Hendricks and Kelsey Grammar A comedy about Kate Reddy (Parker), an unbelievably successful businesswoman who is seemingly able to perfectly balance family and work.

Straw Dogs

Directed by Rod Lurie Starring James Marsden, Kate Bosworth and Alexander Skarsgård A remake of the Sam Peckinpah classic about a middle-class couple (Marsden and Bosworth) terrorized by locals when they relocate to the Deep South.

Sept. 23 Abduction

Killer Elite

Directed by Gary McKendry Starring Jason Statham, Clive Owen and Robert De Niro Jason Statham kicks ass in an attempt to rescue his mentor (De Niro) from a cunning villain (Owen).

Machine Gun Preacher

Directed by Marc Forster Starring Gerard Butler, Michelle Monaghan and Michael Shannon A born-again mercenary (Butler) dedicates his life to protecting Sudanese children from being turned into child soldiers.

Moneyball

old’s (Gordon-Levitt) struggle to overcome cancer.

robot boxing.

Dream House

Directed by David Wain Starring Jennifer Aniston, Paul Rudd and Malin Akerman

Directed by Jim Sheridan Starring Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz and Naomi Watts When a family moves into their ideal home, they soon discover terrible secrets about the house’s past.

What’s Your Number?

Directed by Mark Mylod Starring Anna Faris and Chris Evans A romantic comedy about a woman (Faris) who looks back on her past relationships to see if any of the men she dated could have been “the one.”

October Oct. 7 The Ides of March

Directed by Bennett Miller Starring Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Robin Wright and Philip Seymour Hoffman

Directed by George Clooney Starring Ryan Gosling, George Clooney and Philip Seymour Hoffman

The true story of how Oakland A’s manager Billy Beane (Pitt) changed the game of baseball by drafting his team using computergenerated analyses.

An aide (Gosling) for a presidential candidate (Clooney) discovers a scandalous secret about his boss and struggles with deciding whether to expose him or lay the secret to rest.

Directed by John Singleton Starring Taylor Lautner, Lily Collins and Alfred Molina

Sept. 30

An action thriller about a young man (Lautner) who seeks to understand the truth about his past after discovering that he was kidnapped as a child.

Directed by Jonathan Levine Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen and Anna Kendrick

50/50

A comedy about a 27-year-

Real Steel

Directed by Shawn Levy Starring Hugh Jackman and Evangeline Lilly A futuristic film about a downon-his-luck trainer (Jackman) who tries to make it in the world of

Wanderlust

A comedy about an urban couple (Aniston and Rudd) that moves to a hippie commune.

Oct. 14 The Big Year

Directed by David Frankel Starring Owen Wilson, Jack Black and Steve Martin A comedy about three bird watchers (Wilson, Black and Martin) competing in a prestigious birder contest.

Footloose

Directed by Craig Brewer Starring Kenny Wormald, Julianne Hough and Dennis Quaid A remake of the 1980s classic about a rebellious teenager (Wormald) who shakes things up in an ultraconservative small town where dancing is banned.

Texas Killing Fields

Directed by Ami Canaan Mann Starring Sam Worthington, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Jessica Chastain and Chloe Moretz A crime drama about two detectives (Worthington and Morgan) investigating a series of grisly murders in the Texan bayou.

The Thing

Directed by Matthijs van Heijiningen Jr Starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Joel Edgerton

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November Nov. 4

A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas

Directed by Todd StraussSchulson Starring Kal Penn, John Cho and Neil Patrick Harris Stoner-pals Harold (Cho) and Kumar (Penn) are back in this Christmas-themed third installment of the comedy series.

Puss in Boots

Directed by Chris Miller Starring Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek and Zach Galifianakis Two handsome men (Ryan Gosling and George Clooney) in one film: October’s The Ides of March.

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A spin-off of the Shrek series featuring Antonio Banderas as a feline swordsman.

Tower Heist

Directed by Brett Ratner Starring Eddie Murphy, Ben Stiller, Matthew Broderick and Alan Alda A group of working stiffs conspire to rob a businessman (Alda) whose Ponzi scheme they fell prey to.

Nov. 9 J. Edgar

Directed by Clint Eastwood Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Armie Hammer and Naomi Watts A biopic about the founder of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover (DiCaprio).

Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) chewing tobacco disgusts Peter Brand (Jonah Hill) in September’s Moneyball.

A remake/prequel to the 1980s classic about a shape-shifting alien terrorizing an Antarctic research base.

Trespass

Directed by Joel Schumacher Starring Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman During a home invasion a husband and wife (Cage and Kidman) are held for ransom, but as the situation escalates, a series of double-crosses begins to reveal the truth behind the situation.

Oct. 21 Margin Call

Directed by J.C. Chandor Starring Zachary Quinto, Stanley Tucci and Kevin Spacey A thriller about the members of an investment bank set during the first 24 hours of the recession.

Paranormal Activity 3

Directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman Starring Katie Featherston

A prequel to the 2009 hit, Paranormal Activity 3 explores the troubled past of Katie and

Kristi who were terrorized by a demon as children.

Red State

Directed by Kevin Smith Starring Michael Parks, Melissa Leo and John Goodman

In Time

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Directed by Andrew Niccol Starring Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried and Cillian Murphy

A horror film about a sinister sect of Christian fundamentalists, loosely based on the Westboro Baptist Church.

In a future where rich people don’t age and time is bought and sold, a poor young man (Timberlake) finds himself on the run when he acquires more time than he’s allotted.

The Three Musketeers

Johnny English Reborn

Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson Starring Logan Lerman, Matthew Macfadyen, Ray Stevenson and Luke Evans A 3D adventure from the director of Resident Evil about the popular literary heroes.

Oct. 28 Anonymous

Directed by Roland Emmerich Starring Rhys Ifans, Vanessa Redgrave and David Thewlis A political thriller from the director of Independence Day about who actually wrote the works of William Shakespeare.

Directed by Oliver Parker Starring Rowan Atkinson, Rosamund Pike and Dominic West The sequel to the 2003 comedy about a hapless British secret agent (Atkinson).

The Rum Diary

Directed by Bruce Robinson Starring Johnny Depp, Aaron Eckhart and Amber Heard Johnny Depp stars as another Hunter S. Thompson alter ego in this exploration of gonzo journalism in the Caribbean.

Nov. 11 Immortals

Directed by Tarsem Singh Starring Henry Cavill, Mickey Rourke and John Hurt A stylized action film about the Greek warrior Theseus (Cavill) as he battles the evil King Hyperion (Rourke) who seeks to unleash the Titans upon the Earth.

Jack and Jill

Directed by Dennis Dugan Starring Adam Sandler and Katie Holmes A comedy about a family man’s struggles with his obnoxious twin sister, with both siblings played by Adam Sandler.

Nov. 18 Breaking Dawn: Part 1

Directed by Bill Condon Starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner The first half of the final installment in the obscenely popular Twilight series detailing the wedding of Edward Cullen (Pattinson) and Bella Swan (Stewart).

Happy Feet Two

Directed by George Miller Starring Elijah Wood, Robin Williams and Hank Azaria A sequel to the 2006 animated musical hit about a group of singing, dancing penguins.

Nov. 23 The Artist

Directed by Michel Hazanavicius Starring Jean Dujardin Winner of Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival, Jean Dujardin plays a 1920s movie star in this black-and-white silent drama.

Arthur Christmas

Directed by Sarah Smith Starring James McAvoy, Jim Broadbent and Bill Nighy An animated film that follows the hapless son (McAvoy) of Santa Claus (Broadbent) as he tries to ensure Christmas goes off without a hitch.

The Descendants

Directed by Alexander Payne Starring George Clooney, Judy Greer and Matthew Lillard A wealthy land baron (Clooney) reconnects with his daughters and confronts the man (Lillard) who had an affair with his wife (Greer) before she fell into a coma.

Hugo

Directed by Martin Scorsese Starring Asa Butterfield, Chloe Moretz, Jude Law and Sacha Baron-Cohen.

A 3D adventure about an orphan (Butterfield) who lives in a train station and attempts to solve the mystery surrounding an automaton left to him by his father (Law).

The Muppets

Directed by James Bobin Starring Amy Adams, Jason Segel and Chris Cooper The Muppets struggle to save their studio from being purchased by a greedy oil tycoon (Cooper).

Piranha 3DD

Directed by John Gulager Starring Katrina Bowden, Danielle Panabaker and Christopher Lloyd A 3D sequel to the 2010 schlocky horror comedy about killer piranhas.

Nov. 25 A Dangerous Method

Directed by David Cronenberg Starring Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender and Vincent Cassel An exploration of the relationship between Sigmund Freud (Mortensen) and Carl Jung (Fassbender) and their dealings with a hysterical patient, Sabina Spielrein (Knightley).

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One on one with Mother Mother Talking to the band’s frontman Ryan Guldemond

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Bassist Jeremy Page, vocalist Molly Guldemond, drummer Ali Siadat and frontman Ryan Guldemond of Mother Mother rock it out on stage.

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When listening to Ryan Guldemond of Mother Mother speak about his band’s musical style — genre is too limiting a term — you immediately notice his immense love of words.

Guldemond never speaks to the point. His sentences often trail into each other. Nothing is distinct.

The Sheaf recently had the opportunity to catch up with Ryan Guldemond of Mother Mother. Based out of Vancouver, BC, the band is currently touring Canada and the U.S. with Europe on the agenda for later this fall.

Consisting of Guldemond, his sister Molly, keyboardist Jasmyn Parker, bassist Jeremy Page and drummer Ali Siadat, Mother Mother has been touring long and hard this year, making two appearances in Saskatoon over the months.

Guldemond describes the time between April and September as a “mercurial vortex.” The use of such an abstraction is typical of Guldemond and carries over to Mother Mother’s music.

The band belongs to no single genre and trying to pin them down musically is difficult, if not impossible.

“I guess I would say that there’s an element of strangeness. There’s an element of melodic-

ness,” said Guldemond with a laugh. “And yeah, it’s a very vocally driven thing. It’s vocal.

It’s melodic. It’s weird. It’s eclectic.”

Guldemond, who is “mostly in charge” of writing the songs, carefully chose his words, making sure not to misrepresent the band’s ideas about music.

“We do what we do in a natural way to express music diversely.”

This is apparent to anyone who has listened to the band’s latest record, Eureka. Songs such as “Getaway” are mellow and experimental, while “Problems” and “The Stand” are far more driven and alt-rock. In a strange and whimsical way, this diversity within the album pulls it together.

“It’s strange to discriminate from one genre to another. Sometimes music calls for changing genres from one song to the next,” he said.

This organic approach to creating music sets Mother Mother apart from so many other artists who never stray from their genre. Another trademark of the band is their melancholic sound, which isn’t necessarily depressing, but simply honest.

“It’s funny. I do gravitate towards slower, darker songs and sometimes I kind of feel like I need to remind myself to be positive. Happy

Happy songs irk me. I like cold, dense and realistic portraits of humanity.

Ryan Guldemond Mother Mother

songs irk me. I like cold, dense and realistic portraits of humanity, which inevitably I think are quite humourous.”

Since Mother Mother’s third album was released, the band has been getting more acclaim and, of course, a larger fan base. For a private person like Guldemond, it hasn’t necessarily been an easy transition to make.

“There’s something about that that’s scary. I like feeling anonymous in the world. The idea of being mobbed is fairly unappealing,” he said.

Even so, the band will definitely be receiving more public recognition after this tour. They have never toured in Europe and hope to make headway there.

Gaining a fan base “hasn’t been as speedy as [in] Canada, but then again we haven’t focused as much on other territories. The States is coming along quite nicely, and we’re heading over to Europe in October. Hopefully that ball will get rolling with more speed and momentum.”

As for future of the band, “a subsequent album is always looming.” The most important thing for Mother Mother is constantly moving forward.

“The cycles always finish up and it’s time again to record another album. I always try to remind myself of that impending time,” Guldemond said. “Hopefully we will take less of a hiatus than we did between O My Heart and Eureka.”

The band was asked whether they would ever want to tour with the Sheepdogs considering the local band’s recent exposure, but the idea didn’t sound too promising. However, knowing how much Mother Mother loves unconventionality, with them anything is possible.

Editor’s Pick of the Week Beirut The Rip Tide

The indie folkster Zach Condon is back with The Rip Tide, a mellow return to the subdued sound of his best record, 2007’s The Flying Club Cup. Again Condon and band combine Eastern European folk tunes with North American pop-rock sensibilities, creating an instantly identifiable sound that is uniquely their own. At a brief 33 minutes, the album hits all the right notes with no excess. The Rip Tide is streamlined folk-pop at its best.

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DFA and Untimely Demise playing together again

Local thrash metal bands hit up the Fez this September MICHAEL CUTHBERTSON Opinions Editor In Saskatoon, bands usually last one or two years. This is not the case for thrash acts Untimely Demise and DFA. A decade ago, I remember hearing my brothers Murray and Matt jamming in the basement.

Their band Untimely Demise started the same way their peers DFA did: as a group of highschool buddies playing punk music. Back then, venues like The Bassment and The Pit were ground zero for Saskatoon’s local speed-punk scene. And while both bands have gone on to tour the continent, they recall the old scene nostalgically.

Untimely Demise’s singer and lead guitarist Matt Cuthbertson recalls The Pit as a cool warehouse. “It had a greasy pool table, half-pipe and milk-crate stage. The Pit was all-ages and no rules, similar to Shredder's youth center in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie."

Untimely Demise recall first seeing DFA play when they

opened for AFI in 2000.

"We were impressed with the intensity, speed and passion.

That was a gateway for us to want to get involved in the local punk scene," said bassist Murray Cuthbertson.

DFA remember the early days differently.

"We wanted to see something new in the music industry.

Something we had never seen before. And one day it came to us: four white dudes in a band. We weren't the first, but we paved the way for a lot of other four white guys to find the courage to play music, I like to think," said Ryan Kramer, DFA’s guitarist.

Today, both bands have carved out their own distinct sounds.

Untimely Demise's latest record City of Steel is a brutal blend of thrash and death metal. Flying over the heaviness, the lead guitar gets a hell of a lot of melody and shredding done in a very short time. Not long after recording, the band was picked up by Sonic Unyon, one of the largest independent labels in Canada, who are re-releasing the album in

submitted

Untimely Demise towers over puny photographer people.

North America on Sept. 13.

DFA, has also found their musical niche. I would describe DFA as a sonic assault of thrashpunk, played at breakneck speed.

The band features dual-vocals that jump between spitfire lyrics and full-throated screams. Its drumming is relentless and the thrashy-guitars are always furious.

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The Pit was allages and no rules, similar to Shredder’s youth center in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Matt Cuthbertson Untimely Demise

Ryan Kramer says he thinks DFA play well with Untimely Demise because both bands focus on fast thrash, adding, "If you like

one of our bands but not the other, then you're a total asshole."

Murray explains that the “DFA or Untimely Demise crowd always comes to the show with having a good time in mind. They aren't afraid to cheer, mosh, drink a few beers.” Matt says Untimely Demise shows “are meant to be played on the threshold of our abilities. We never play on autopilot. As the crowd energy gets going that invokes our best performances."

Untimely Demise think that it’s their commitment to music, and obsession with making it, that has kept them going.

As Murray sees it, "If we play music that impresses us, that will translate live, listeners will feel that energy." The constant pushing of musical limits is also what led Untimely Demise to their unique thrash/death metal sound. Matt says he likes that metal audiences don't say, "Aww they're taking it too far."

And while the bands are better than ever, they have had to push through hard times. Kramer admits to this difficulty which is often shown through major lineup changes.

"Oh we have given up several times. Mike [Lefebvre] and I are the only constant members.

People basically hate us and can

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only stand us for short periods of time. And that's fine by us. Fuck you guys!"

In October and November, Untimely Demise will tour various cities across Eastern Canada in support of the rerelease of their LP. DFA will be keeping busy back home, preparing to record a new album.

DFA and Untimely Demise play at The Fez on Sept. 9 with guests Alphakill and Cease and Desist.

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The scoop on July’s Festival of Words Saskatchewan’s best kept secret revealed BLAIR WOYNARSKI

Robert J. Sawyer was thrilled to be there...

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Every July when the province is heading off to Craven, I deny the call of the jamboree and instead head to Moose Jaw for the annual Festival of Words.

The Festival of Words is simultaneously one of the most popular arts and culture events in Canada and, seemingly, Saskatchewan’s best-kept secret. Even though I grew up knowing about it and have been attending for the past seven years, whenever I bring it up in conversation, the response is, “Oh, what’s that?”

Its history is a peculiar one. Perhaps this expresses it best: “The Festival of Words should not exist. Located in the fourthlargest city (34,000) of a sparsely-populated hockey and bingo-loving province, a Festival that celebrates the imaginative uses of language would appear to have no raison d’etre.”

Those are the words of the late poet and English teacher Gary Hyland who had a vision for a national book festival, and then, in a stroke of brilliance or insanity, decided it should be located in the sleepy town of Moose Jaw. The Festival of Words was founded in July 1996 with the intention of being a literary festival focused exclusively on Canadian authors. Since then, the lineup has expanded to include songwriters, filmmakers, storytellers, journalists and illustrators. It is a cornucopia of creative minds, all from within Canada.

At this year’s festival, like in all years, the action happened within downtown Moose Jaw, which is different from downtown Saskatoon in that it is easily accessible, easily navigable and contains a reasonable amount of free parking. The home base is the Moose Jaw public library — the century old marble-columned building situated in scenic Crescent Park — with other locations utilized when necessary.

The setting provides a romantic atmosphere that wouldn’t be there if the conference was shoved into a boxy grey building.

Each year the Festival of Words starts off with a film of some literary note; this year Barney’s Version played. What follows is a “readception” that provides a preview of many of the festival’s presenters — and some delicious hors d’oeuvres.

Friday, Saturday and Sunday are devoted to an array of presentations, performances and discussions from the festival presenters that feature fiction, sci-fi, non-fiction, children’s literature, comics, drama, poetry and Aboriginal storytelling. The all-inclusive festival pass also gets you into two lunches and one night of entertainment.

This year’s headliner was best-selling science fiction author Robert J. Sawyer.

Sawyer has published 20 books, including FlashForward, which was recently made into a TV series. He also had the distinction of being the only person to be named writerin-residence at the synchrotron in Saskatoon.

While I was there, I had the opportunity to take in a workshop by Sawyer: “A Thematic Approach to Science Fiction.” He said that you can have an excellent idea for a science fiction story, but in order for it to be successful it has to be distilled down to an “elevator pitch” — a single, high-impact statement that gets across exactly what it is about.

Other topics included why Star Wars is not really science fiction, why no one talks about the Planet of the Apes reboot, why Jules Verne is never studied in university and why Sawyer hates the term “speculative fiction.”

While the festival has had some major headliners in the past like Yann Martel and Margaret Atwood, a great reason to come back to it year after year is precisely because of all the presenters without such namerecognition. The festival introduced me to Ryan Knighton, Ruhksana Khan and Angie Abdou, writers whose works I never would have noticed on a cursory glance at the bookstore before this year.

The festival is also not only hum-drum literary talk. Even a literary festival is not without drama. There were plenty of awkwardness when in the middle of a panel discussion Giller Prize-nominated author Kenneth J. Harvey bitterly announced his disgust with the publishing industry and his decision to quit the book business. The discussion then veered into a venomous heart-to-heart between him and historian Charlotte Gray.

The Festival of Words is a beloved event.

People return to it every year from all across the country and even cross oceans for it. It’s the kind of festival that makes presenters choose Moose Jaw over Toronto. It’s just that good.

If you have any interest in words, imagination or Canadian culture, you would be doing yourself a disservice not to check this festival out.

More information about the Festival of Words is available at www.festivalofwords. com.

Be sure to check the Arts Section next week for coverage straight from the 36th Toronto International Film Festival.

The Sheaf will have coverage of world premieres and red carpet galas featuring the world’s biggest movie stars.

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The top 10 podcasts you should be listening to Everything from film to comedy to intellectual discussion covered LAURA ALFORD

1. Filmspotting This is the most comprehensive film podcast hosted by “Art House” Adam Kempenaar and “Mainstream” Matty “Ballgame” Robinson. Each week you get film reviews and a very specific top five list such as “Top Five bad day movies” or “Top Five teen rebels movies.”

9. NPR: All Songs Considered

3. Start of the Week

2. In Our Time

4. Slate Culture Gabfest

Another BBC production, Start of the Week has three professionals from very different areas (for example, an architect, neuroscientist and poet) meet in a studio to discuss each others' most recent projects. The convergence of such different points of view broadens everyone's perspective.

A good introduction is the recent “40th Anniversary Special.”

For me, the Slate Culture Gabfest

You'll miss the cartoons, but you get a summary of the current issue as well as editor Blake Eskin in discussion with a New Yorker writer on their most recent piece. Episodes are short and might help you decide whether to seek out the current issue in print.

is the best podcast going right now. This weekly podcast from Slate magazine features intelligent engagements from highbrow to lowbrow. The three regular hosts — Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner and Dana Stevens — have a great rapport and guest journalists add fresh perspectives. Best episodes: "Eat, Pray, Vomit" and "How Does That Make You Feel?"

5. WTF with Marc Maron Marc Maron is lovable in a Grinch kind of way. Although he is a comedian, here he plays the journalist-therapist to guest comics like Demetri Martin, Carlos Mencia and Amy Poehler. Each conversation takes listeners pretty deep inside the minds and souls of the comedy set. My favourites: Gary Shandling and Conan O'Brien.

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This podcast gives you a playlist of new music every week. Although mostly catered to the indie-rock set, it reaches out to genres like electronica, jazz and world music as well. Themed shows like "Best Love Songs" or any of the "Best of (Year)" specials are a good entry point.

equivalent of a tweed suit and loafers. Each episode features three university professors in discussion with host Melvyn Bragg on various topics in literature, science and history. Don't be put off by the fact that most guests teach at Oxford and Cambridge — Bragg is the master at keeping discussions accessible but not dumbed down.

Favourite episodes: "The Frankfurt School" and "Swift's 'A Modest Proposal'."

The duo covers new releases and revisits older films through themed marathons like "70s ScienceFiction" and “Films of Ingmar Bergman." The podcast is good for filling out your film education and knowing what you want to see the next time you're at the theatre or the video store. Just to make it more enticing, Filmspotting has been called "a force for good in the universe" by Brick director Rian Johnson.

This BBC show is the audio

before the sound bite, this feels like retraining your political attention span.

communities.

You will tour state-of-the-art engineering facilities, explore innovative research programs, and

Favourites: Salman Rushdie on his life and career (including the fatwa) and Michael Pollan on his food writing.

7. Savage Love Dan Savage has become a leading gay-rights activist in recent years, thanks in part to this podcast where he found a platform and an audience. It's a phone-in sex advice column that plays on the tension between the callers' intimate questions and the fact that we're all listening. Also, each show opens with a political rant where Savage takes on the political right with the uncensored bombast of someone like Bill Maher. Each episode is as unpredictable as the listeners' questions and Savage's wit — and is intended to offend some listeners.

8. Great Speeches in History Yes, there's Winston Churchill, but you also get Malcolm X on "The Ballot or the Bullet," the original King's Speech and the Gettysburg Address recited by Colin Powell. From the days

What is a podcast?

Definition: pod•cast [pod-kast] noun.

1. a digital audio or video file that can be downloaded from the Internet to a multi-media player or computer. verb.

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A podcast is essentially a radio show that can be downloaded or streamed from the Internet to your computer or multi-media device.

In fact, the rise of podcasts has made radio all but obsolete, causing most radio shows to exist simultaneously in podcast form.

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Podcasts used to be referred to as webcasts, but the name changed with the rise of iTunes in the early 2000s. In fact, there was a debate in 2006 about whether podcasts fell under the legal jurisdiction of Apple since the term “pod” is an Apple trademark.

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CAMPUS CHAT

“Working on the farm.”

-Dustin Boyle

Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

“Settling down as a farmer’s wife.”

-Shannon Palmer

“In university.”

“Working on the farm.”

-Miranda Turnbull

-Ma and Pa

Fake News of the Week Parents are people, too A recent study has proven that parents were, in fact, people. And they were nasty.

Rick Sepalla, 54, is a parent of two teenaged children. When he was approached by researchers conducting the aforementioned study, he didn’t hesitate to sign up.

“My kids are idiots. Do they think I just blinked into existence as a parent? Hell no. When I was their age, I partied way more than they do now. I did things that would make them sick. Maybe now they’ll give me some credit.”

After completing a survey explicitly outlining the finer details of their youthful years, the parent’s uncensored answers were made available to their

children. Upon perusing his dad’s responses, Rick’s 16 year old son, Cody, says he was “totally impressed.”

“I have to give props to my dad. I didn’t think he had it in him. That guy got laid more than a Persian rug! He had ladies all across the country. And the things he did to them... What a filthy bastard! I mean, what would mom say—oh dear God.” At this point in the interview, Cody was forced to rush to the bathroom. His father attempted to sooth him through the door: “Son, your mother loved every minute of it. She still does. Every night.

And you wouldn’t be here if she didn’t! ”

Obama still black, despite racists’ wishes Almost three years into his presidency, Barack Obama continues to disappoint racists throughout America by being black.

“I really like him on foreign policy, and say what you will about his economic plan, but we needed to do something to get out of the recession,” said Eugene Conner, a self-described white supremacist in Bedford, Ohio. “I just wish he weren’t so damned black.”

In fact, a recent nationwide poll found that 83 per cent of people who disliked Obama based on race supported the majority of his policies. The Obama team says

that as the United States heads into another presidential election, converting those racists into Democratic voters will be the key to success.

Still, some say that no matter how much golf he plays and how much Kenny G he listens to, Obama will never be their first choice.

“Look, I had high hopes for the man,” admits one frustrated voter who wished to remain anonymous.

“I figured he’d grow into the job and, you know. I mean, it’s the White House for heaven’s sake!”

Fashionable man continually offered change

Drew Barker, a fashionable philosophy student at the University of Saskatchewan, continues to be offered pocket change almost every day by

strangers he passes on the street.

“I have cultivated and perfected a look that in Milan and Paris is known as Homeless Chic,” said Barker, whose carefully tousled hair gave him the appearance of having slept under a bridge. “I take it as a compliment. These torn chinos cost $300 and people seem to notice that.”

Barker says that just in the last week, he has made $18, mostly in petty change. Still, his newfound income has not come without its pitfalls. Barker says his sex life has taken a hit since he adopted his new look, as most women either cross the street to avoid him or simply pretend he doesn’t exist.

“Oh, and I totally got kicked out of Starbucks the other day when I went in without my laptop,” Barker said.

“I guess I probably shouldn’t have tried to brush my teeth in the bathroom,” he added.

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