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Education

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Politics

Former USSR leader says goodbye to nukes.

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Health

New study finds yclist live longer.

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Film

Ryan Gosling is handsome and telented.

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Football

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Food

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Child welfare needs revamp: prof Rylund Hunter gives back to KidSport Fourth-year linebacker helps Huskie Athletics’ charity efforts KEVIN MENZ Sports Editor

Caroline Tait with Emil Brandon of STR8-UP, who appears in Tait’s documentary.

Saskatchewan’s child welfare system hurts more than it helps TANNARA YELLAND Senior News Editor Research by a Native Studies professor and medical anthropologist at the University of Saskatchewan shows the province’s child welfare system is in dire shape.

Recent research by U of S professor Caroline Tait looks into the realities of the child welfare system in Saskatchewan, providing a sobering picture of a vital government program. The research resulted in a documentary on child welfare entitled Child Welfare: the State as Parent, which was launched at the U of S on Oct. 7.

Tait’s research started with a simple question: “If the state is the parent, what kind of parent is it?”

Seeking to answer it by looking at how ethical the government’s policies are, Tait and her team decided to focus on multiple foster home placements.

“What happens when you have a child who is moved 10 times between the ages of zero and 18?” she asked.

“Twenty times? We’ve had a child moved up to 70 times…. It’s not just that they’re removed from their biological families. It’s that they’re being bounced around, and how do they make any kind of connection to other people in society when they’re being bounced around like that?”

The way the state deals with the children in its care has vast implications for Saskatchewan society, according to Tait. Not only do these children have difficulty

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connecting to anyone and develop problems related to that dissociation, but “right now we have more First Nations and Métis children in state care in our province than we did at the height of the residential school system.”

Tait stressed the importance of rethinking the current child welfare system, saying that rather than intervening once a family reaches crisis, the focus should be on prevention. She added that there are reports going back 20 years that have included aboriginal people’s needs and opinons and come up with recommendations for changes to the child welfare system, but they are all too often ignored.

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Years after receiving funding from KidSport, Rylund Hunter is giving back to the charity.

The fourth-year Huskies linebacker is the president of the Huskie Athletics Council and has spearheaded a fundraising effort to raise money for KidSport Saskatoon.

The first annual Huskie Athletic calendar — a 16-month calendar highlighting numerous athletes from the University of Saskatchewan’s varsity teams — will see half of its profits go to KidSport and half go towards funding the HAC and athletic scholarships at the university.

“We wanted something to be the centrepiece of all the volunteering we do,” said Hunter. “If you’re playing university sport, you’re just a giant kid. We couldn’t have picked a charity more worthwhile.”

KidSport, founded in 1993, helps children whose families struggle with the costs of organized sport by removing some of the financial barriers preventing children from staying active.

“Everyone knows how much it costs to play hockey or football and stuff like that. KidSport willl take care of that so the obstacle is not paying for it. It’s just showing up and having fun,” said Hunter.

For him, KidSport is particularly important because it allowed him

opportunities that he would not have had if it were not for the charity.

“I played a lot of different sports and I was lucky that my parents could get me involved... but there were a lot of things we couldn’t do,” said Hunter. “Particularly, I remember going to wrestling nationals when I was in high school — which was way out of the scope of something I would have been able to do, not because of ability, but because of the finances. KidSport was able to come through for me there.”

He said that the charity specifically helped by paying for a portion of his travels to Fredericton, N.B., where the national competition took place that year.

Though Hunter still thinks back fondly to his wrestling days, ultimately his place was with the football team.

“For my birthday my dad would take me on the bus to watch Huskies’ playoff games, so I was a Huskies fan since I was old enough to hold a football,” said Hunter. “If you grew up in the city and you grew up playing team sports, I don’t know if there is a better team that you could be on. You’re instantly part of the family when you’re on the football team.”

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Breaking Bad is one of the greats With Season Four AMC’s drama has become one of the best TV shows ever made AREN BERGSTROM Arts Editor

When a television show has you literally shaking from the tension, you know you’re watching something good. Breaking Bad has caused the shakes more than any show in recent memory.

The show, which started out as a simple drama about a cancer-stricken high school chemistry teacher who turns to cooking meth to pay the bills, has evolved into so much more than an exploration of a good man gone bad. This past season of Breaking Bad, the fourth, with its slow boil storytelling, constant threat of death for the main characters and uncanny ability to pull all disparate narrative threads together

Jesse and Walt from Season Two, the good ol’ days.

into one overwhelming situation of helplessness has demonstrated that the show may just be the quintessential exploration of pride,

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moral degradation and crime on television.

When it started back in 2008, Breaking Bad was good and dark

but you had no idea that it would get from where it was to where it is today. When Bryan Cranston’s Walter White first graced the television screen, the memory of Cranston’s Hal on Malcolm in the Middle was still fresh and Walt still seemed like a variation on the television archetype of the suburban dad itching for change.

Now look at where Walt is. His pride and his need for a sense of control are omnipresent. There is still a hint of the former placid Walt in Cranston’s performance, mostly because narrative components like his family and his medical condition are still in play in Season Four, but for the most part Walt is a completely changed man. All his worst attributes — his intellectual arrogance, his

callousness, his hubris — are on full display. Showrunner Vince Gilligan made good on his promise to turn his sympathetic hero from Season One into a full-fledged villain. It’s not just that Walt’s negative attributes are now on display when previously they were hidden. After the Season Four finale, it’s that they seem to be the only attributes of Walt that are left.

The fact that the transition from cancer-stricken chemistry teacher to ruthless meth cook is so seamless and believable is a testament to just how good Breaking Bad is.

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NSERC refuses to publish identities of researchers guilty of misconduct TANNARA YELLAND Senior News Editor In the wake of a scathing editorial in one of the world’s leading science journals, Canadian handling of research misconduct has been called into question.

The journal Nature criticized the Natural Sciences and Energy Research Council of Canada for refusing to publicly identify researchers found guilty of misconduct in its Sept. 28 issue.

James Turk of the Canadian Association of University Teachers says his organization agrees with Nature and advocates a change.

“Research misconduct” includes a variety of inappropriate actions, from plagiarism to falsification of data and beyond.

According to Turk, the problems merely start with what Nature discussed, and multiply from there.

“The whole system is rather badly flawed,” Turk said. “Well-intended, but badly flawed.”

NSERC is one of three main granting councils in Canada that allot funding for research, along with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

Despite the fact that these three organizations hold the purse strings for research and have a policy on research misconduct, any investigation into misconduct is conducted by the university that researcher works for. There is no binding national policy on misconduct investigations, nor are there any guidelines schools must follow, save whatever they come up with themselves.

“We have this totally decentralized system,” Turk explained. “If I’m a researcher and I’m accused of misconduct, how it would get treated in one university could be entirely different from how it would be treated in another university.

“There’s no effective oversight or statutory authority for oversight on the part of the granting councils.”

Turk says there are two primary reasons NSERC’s refusal to publish the identities of those found guilty of misconduct is wrongheaded. One

is that it can lead to public mistrust of universities, a dangerous trend for institutions like universities that rely on the public for funding. The other reason is that if other researchers are unaware of misconduct in their community, the offending work might be used to back up other work, propagating results that may have been falsified or plagiarized.

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“When accusations are made,” Turk said, “you want to maintain confidentiality, because it could destroy somebody’s career if allegations get out…. But when there’s a proper, fair investigation and judgment that indeed there has been serious research misconduct, then I think it looks very bad in the eyes of the public to say, ‘Well, we can’t tell you who it is or anything about it.’ That just causes public distrust, which will really backfire on the academic world.”

Turk added that when everyone knows a researcher’s identity will not be made public, whistleblowers can grow frustrated and lean toward outing someone publicly rather than watching the investigation and punishment occur behind closed doors.

NSERC denied requests for an interview and sent the following comment by email: “NSERC has zero tolerance for research misconduct and for any misuse of taxpayers’ dollars. We are working with universities to strengthen our policies on research integrity.

Cases of scientific misconduct are extremely rare in Canada.”

In the increasingly competitive world of post-secondary education, where schools compete for students, funding and prestige, and a drop

in one can lead to a decrease in the others, there can be immense pressure to avoid the kind of black eye that research misconduct inevitably represents.

The University of Alberta hopes to be in the top 20 world universities by 2020; the University of Calgary recently made public its plan to be one of Canada’s top five research schools by 2016, in time for its 50th anniversary; the University of Ottawa recently cracked the top 200 universities in the world, and is looking at an even higher standing.

“Universities are in a very competitive mood these days,” Turk said. However, along with this competitive mood has come a desire to sweep certain unpleasant incidents under the rug.

One of the most dramatic examples of this happened at Memorial University of Newfoundland several years ago.

Ranjit Chandra, a member of the faculty of medicine, submitted a paper to the British Medical Journal claiming to have patented a multivitamin formula capable of reversing memory loss in seniors.

After the BMJ’s statistical expert determined that the results of Chandra’s study were impossible, MUN was asked to investigate the case.

When MUN asked Chandra to produce his data, he refused.

Chandra resigned in 2002, but his fraudulent paper had already been published in the Sept. 2001 issue of Nutrition. Memorial did not pursue its investigation after Chandra resigned.

“There were accusations that the university had dragged its feet in investigating,” Turk said of the case.

“One way to deal with misconduct is to let the person resign, and then nothing comes out.”

While this policy might suit schools looking to maintain a spotless reputation, it hardly furthers the field of scientific research.

According to Turk, “We need a consistent set of expectations of what constitutes research integrity. Those expectations should apply to academic researchers, to government researchers, to researchers in private industry.

And when there are allegations of misconduct, there should be a set of procedures that are followed to ensure fairness to the accused, and for the interests of the public.”

Brad Wall targets student vote DARYL HOFMANN Associate News Edtior Not 24 hours after the 2011 Saskatchewan provincial election officially got underway, Premier Brad Wall made his first campaign promise addressing the cost of post-secondary education.

Late Oct. 10, Wall made his formal visit to the Lieutenant-Governor asking him to dissolve legislature and issue the writ of election. By early Oct. 11, Wall had introduced the Saskatchewan Party’s plan to help potential postsecondary students, if re-elected.

Wall announced two new initiatives: the Saskatchewan Advantage Scholarship and the Saskatchewan Advantage Grant for Education Savings.

“Beginning in 2012, the Saskatchewan Advantage Scholarship will provide every new Saskatchewan high school graduate with up to $2,000 which can be applied to reduce tuition fees at any Saskatchewan postsecondary institution or any recognized training course in the province,” said a Sask. Party news release.

The second initiative, the Saskatchewan Advantage Grant for Education Savings, builds on the previously implemented Registered Education Savings Plan program. On top of the 20 per cent grant funded by the federal government, the Sask.

Party plans to “match 10 per cent of contributions to a child’s RESP account, to a maximum of $250 each year.”

However, the opposition NDP quickly fired back by late afternoon Oct. 11, pointing to the NDP-instituted tuition freeze that the Sask. Party allowed to expire when they took office in 2007. Since then, average full-time undergraduate tuition in Saskatchewan has gone up $568.

“Saskatchewan will be the best place in Canada to save for your education, the best place in Canada to receive your education and the best place in Canada to live and work after you complete your education,” Wall said.

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Facebook: a post-secondary complaint forum Social network allows instructors, students to vent frustrations and commiserate TANNARA YELLAND Senior News Editor The university teacher-student dynamic can be a strange one: on one hand, students are still learning, and should reasonably be expected to act accordingly, deferring to professors as superiors and as more knowledgeable.

On the other hand, students know they pay a good chunk of their professors’ salary, and this can sometimes lead to students feeling as though they deserve more equal footing with their instructors.

Professor June Madeley of the University of New Brunswick is one of a growing number of post-secondary instructors who has found a distinctly modern way to deal with the frustrations of an increasingly entitled student body.

“That’s PROFESSOR Uptight to you, Johnny” is a private Facebook group where professors meet to gripe about students and to support each other. Madeley, who joined two years ago when a colleague forwarded information about the group to her, says it fills an important void in professors’ professional lives.

“In public schools, in high schools, they have a staff room,” she said. “I’m sure they have conversations about frustrating things there.

“Profs don’t have that [in universities]. There isn’t a lot of room for commiserating.”

Madeley also explained that while professors share complaints about students and sometimes post hypothetical scathing responses to student emails to the group, it is more often a venue “for self-support.”

“It’s also very helpful to know that the kinds of things we’re facing, others are facing them too,” Madeley said. “It’s a morale thing.”

The private group, which has members from Canada, America and the U.K., has never been a source of trouble to a professor, as far as Madeley knows. This is very different from how a group of University of Calgary students were treated after joining a group to vent about a professor.

Brothers Keith and Steven Pridgen have been embroiled in a legal battle with their university since being placed on 24 months of academic probation for their membership in a Facebook group called, “I No Longer Fear Hell, I Took a Course with Aruna Mitra.”

The group was not private, Keith said, though “it was not intended to be for the public. The Facebook group’s creator, Tom Strangward, said that he did not really think about that aspect of it when he made the group.”

The Pridgens won their case against the U of C in late 2010,

Facebook can be an ideal place to vent. Just remember to check your privacy settings.

when Justice Jo-Ann Strekaf ruled that the university was required by the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to respect the Pridgens’ right to free speech.

In early 2010, the U of C announced its intention to appeal the ruling, claiming it was seeking “clarification.”

Pridgen said the appeal hearing “could reasonably be heard before the court by early November, although the date is not set in stone as of yet.”

When asked about the Pridgens’ case, Madeley said she hopes students exhaust every possible official option before turning to online complaining when faced with an unsatisfactory teacher.

“I think the fact that [the U of C group] was public was more of a problem,” she said. “Professors have contracts, they need to meet tenure; if review committees were looking at it, that would be inappropriate, in the same way that Rate My Professor is inappropriate” for assessing professors.

Pridgen said he and his brother had, in fact, already contacted the university through conventional channels, but to no avail.

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“We brought questions to to the professor during class,” he said. “Then we began to appeal our grades to the head of the program.”

After this led to many students receiving an even lower grade, Pridgen said they took their complaint to the associate dean of law. This led to higher grades for many students, but the Pridgens also found out that the head of their program, who had lowered their grades, was married to the professor they were upset with.

“It was only after all this that we decided to join a Facebook group intended only for fellow students to voice their concerns about the professor,” he said.

On the other side of this fraught relationship is Madeley, who said that it can be difficult to teach class upon class of students who expect more and more from professors in return for less and less work.

Teaching, she said, “really is such a demoralizing experience sometimes.”

Canada is a ‘hydro-climatic time bomb’ Water policy expert calls for changes to counteract damage NICOLE BARRINGTON Kirk Hall was filled to the brim on Oct. 7 with both students and professionals for a lecture regarding water policy reform.

The speaker was Rob Sandford, a member of the expert Forum for Leadership on Water.

His address focused on the implications of climate change and its economic cost in relation to Canadian water resources.

For FLOW, the key to solving the issue is involving both the geological and social sciences.

According to Sandford, the changing composition in the atmosphere is causing “hydro-climatic conditions.” These human-induced changes include “deeper, more persistent droughts and flooding.”

“The cost of ongoing damage makes it difficult to keep the ongoing prosperity,” Sandford said of the dire economic consequences of climate change.

“The insurance [companies] warn us of these concerns — the number of severe storms is affecting the industry. Half of the money being paid out [by these companies] is related to water damage.”

According to Sandford, this is the initial cost of climate change. Fluctuating temperatures are no longer within normal ranges, thus making it more difficult to prepare for eventslike floods. Sandford’s plans to diffuse the problem focus around better management of water and reformation of current water policies. Otherwise, it will be impossible to adapt to the changing climates, according to Sandford.

This is FLOW’s aim: government actions to protect water resources.

For towns and communities in the Northwest Territories, this is one of the greatest issues being faced. A combination of being

downstream of glacial melting and temperatures rising faster than anywhere else in Canada threatens the sustainability of life for the area.

Currently, the policies and strategies that the government implements regarding water usage do not apply to or include First Nations reserves. This has left many on reserves without access to clean drinking water.

Sandford says this is due in part to the failure of the 1987 Water Policy Act, which was “never implemented in a meaningful way.” As proof, he cited deregulation and privatization as problems.

“Water policy reform is inevitable. We need to create new allocation models, we need desperately to associate water with agriculture. The time for relevant reforms is here and now.”

After the lecture, a panel of correspondents including professor Patricia Gober from the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Policy and John Pomeroy, Canada Research Chair and director for the Centre for Hydrology, answered questions from the public.

According to Pomeroy, the situation in the Northwest Territories requires action sooner rather than later. He stressed the need to implement policies immediately.

“The changes [in climate] are making the landscape unrecognizable in the North,” Pomeroy said. He described the changes as “getting wetter,” meaning snowfall instead of rainfall.

Among places south of the Northwest Territories, Pomeroy listed the Rockies and prairies as affected zones. A “decline in the snow-covered periods of a month and a half” in the Rockies, and storms “greater in area, length and intensity” in the prairies.

Gober, who said FLOW’s purpose was not to respond to climate change but rather to adapt, stressed the need for better leadership in addressing climate change.

“Those who understood the long-term effects were in the business community,” she said. “They saw that their long-term opportunities would be hindered by water shortages… There is influence in the business community.”

Whether or not the power lies within the citizens of Canada, the government, or the business community, Sandford stressed the main objective is to simply find a solution, and fast.

“In Canada, climate change will soon affect us all. What we’ve collectively done over time has created a hydro-climatic time bomb. We need to figure out how to diffuse it.”

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Top physicists speak at U of S conference 150 Canadian students descend on campus for annual undergrad conference ISHMAEL N. DARO Editor-in-Chief The University of Saskatchewan will have 150 more physics students on campus from Oct. 13 to 16 as part of the Canadian Undergraduate Physics Conference.

This will be the 47th year of CUPC, hosted annually since 1965.

The U of S has only played host to the conference once before, in 1993.

“It is a big deal for all of campus because these are 150 students that are looking to start a graduate program somewhere,” said David Leacock, chair of the CUPC organizing group.

Leacock, who is in his final year of honours physics at the U of S, has been working with his team for months to secure sponsors, book hotels, organize tours and make sure that everyone gets fed. The conference will cost about $100,000.

CUPC is structured to allow physics students from across Canada to discuss and share the research they are involved in. There are 30 halfhour talks by students each day and a keynote presentation each night by a leading physicist.

“A lot of the time, it’s the first time the students have ever talked in public about their research,” said Leacock. “It gives them a chance to meet other students and see what kind of research is going on in Canada in

terms of physics.”

He says the conference will also be an opportunity to show that Saskatoon is at the cutting edge of physics research.

“Even amongst people on campus, they don’t realize we have the plasma laboratory and what goes on there, what goes on at the synchrotron, a lot of the atmospheric physics and space studies that go on on campus. These things have been there for a long time and most people just don’t realize it.”

Of the four keynote speakers, University of British Columbia professor Bill Unruh and U of S professor Michael Bradley will give their lectures in person.

The other keynotes, who will give their presentations remotely via teleconference, are Lee Smolin and Stephen Wolfram.

Smolin is a theoretical physicist who has held various positions at leading universities including Yale, Princeton, Oxford and Cambridge.

He is currently a professor at the University of Waterloo and researcher at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, also in Waterloo.

“You go to pretty much any bookstore in Canada and you’ll see one of Lee Smolin’s books in the science section,” said Leacock.

Stephen Wolfram is the creator of the Mathematica programming language and the website Wolfram Alpha, which is billed as a

Stephen Wolfram, creator of Wolfram Alpha, will be a keynote speaker at CUPC.

“computational knowledge engine.”

Although Wolfram Alpha looks like a search engine, its results are quite different.

Whereas a search for “cats” on Google returns nothing but cute photos and blogs, Wolfram Alpha will tell you the scientific name (Felis catus), the skeletal weight of an average cat (460 to 580 grams), their eyeball diameter (21 milimetres) and how many tastebuds they have (470), among other fascinating facts.

Of course, that’s what a newbie will come up with. For students in the sciences, Wolfram Alpha is an invaluable resource for crunching data and solving equations.

“It’s kind of taking a while but

I think Wolfram Alpha is going to do to the sciences what something like Wikipedia did to humanities,” Leacock said.

In addition to allowing conference attendees to learn from each other and from leading physicists, CUPC also has the advantage of being hosted at the only school in Canada with an engineering physics program.

“Usually you either get a physics degree or an engineering degree. Engineering physics is a really powerful program because students have a high level of physics understanding but also can apply” their skills, said Leacock.

He noted that a fourth-year student last year launched a research balloon

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into space for atmospheric studies — one example of physics and engineering coming together to lead to great research.

But as much as Leacock and other organizers want to boost the university’s reputation, he says he wants conference-goers to leave Saskatoon with renewed enthusiasm for physics and its possibilities.

“I want them to be excited about their discipline and where physics is heading, how much of an opportunity these students have to make an impact Canada-wide and globally.”

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The Liberals just missed out on securing a third consecutive majority on Oct. 6, winning 53 of the 54 ridings needed to form a majority. They will be Ontario’s first minority government since 1985.

“It’s time to move forward the Ontario way,” McGuinty said during his election night speech in

Ottawa. “It’s about being there for each other in the good times and in the not-so-good times.”

At the end of the night, the Liberals had won 37.6 per cent of the popular vote, with Tim Hudak’s Conseratives close behind at 35.4 per cent. The NDP won 22.7 per cent of the popular vote and the Greens trailed with 2.9 per cent.

Post-secondary education was a recurring theme over the course of the campaign as Andrea Horwath’s NDP proposed a tuition freeze and the McGuinty Liberals promised a 30 per cent rebate on tuition.

“We will move forward together

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to improve education, because education is one of the foundations of a prosperous economy in this extremely competitive world,” McGuinty told supporters on Oct. 6.

The Liberals will return to Queen’s Park with 19 fewer seats than they had before the election. They lost seats to both the Conseratives and to the NDP in Southwestern Ontario.

“It is very clear that the people of Ontario have put Dalton McGuinty on a much shorter leash,” Hudak said during his election night speech in Niagara Falls.

Voter turnout on Oct. 6 was 49.2 per cent, which is a record low for the province. In the last election in 2007, turnout was 52.8 per cent.

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Cycling commuters live longer Doctor touts benefits of cycling, calls for safer infrastructure DARYL HOFMANN Associate News Editor Local group Saskatoon Cycles claims that shifting from a car to bicycle for short trips can increase your lifespan by up to 14 months.

In a statement released Oct. 4, they say evidence is mounting that the benefits of urban cycling far outweigh the risks.

“An estimated three to 14 months of life was gained by an individual shifting from the car to the bicycle for short trips,” said the release.

Saskatoon Cycles is a non-partisan cycling advocacy group that formed in June 2010. They host cycling events year-round and often lobby and meet with city council.

According to Sean Shaw, the group’s president, membership is currently just shy of 1,300.

Membership is free and you can sign up online.

Shaw said the group’s objective is to “encourage both city administration and city council to do more when it comes to cycling infrastructure and safety.”

Recently, the City of Saskatoon has made efforts to accommodate cyclists, with shared traffic lanes, new routes and maps and a handful of exclusive traffic lanes. But Shaw says there are still sections of the city

where it is dangerous to share the road with a vehicle.

Shaw points to the fact that in 2011 Saskatoon spent only $75,000 on cycling, while the transportation budget for managing roadways was up near $100 million.

Other prairie cities, such as Calgary, Edmonton and Winnipeg, have recently committed between $20 and $30 million toward cycling infrastructure over the next five years.

“They are light-years ahead of where Saskatoon is,” said Shaw.

When city council draws up the 2012 budget in December, Shaw would like to see them dish out $500,000 per year, for the next five years, toward cycling infrastructure.

He hopes that in light of the health benefits, the city will be inspired to spend what it takes to provide safe and convenient cycling.

John Dosman, a local doctor, said Saskatoon could potentially see some serious health benefits from an increase in cyclist infrastructure.

“As a family physician, the major health challenges I address every day, and will in the future, are those chronic conditions we hear so much about — obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, coronary artery disease, depression and anxiety.”

Dosman said that evidence shows even 15 minutes of daily exercise

Urban cycling is a great way to stay healthy and fit, despite the attendant dangers.

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can prevent these conditions, yet he still struggles to find ways to get his patients active. He said that although he is a cyclist, the situation in Saskatoon is still not safe for everyone.

“Unfortunately I am not yet confident enough to wholeheartedly prescribe this approach to all of my patients, as the cycling infrastructure in Saskatoon still needs some work so that all ages and sexes can feel safe

biking on the streets.”

According to Saskatoon Cycles, studies show that when cycling feels safer, cycling rates rise. This is particularly the case with women, who tend to “prefer bike paths and cycle tracks that are physically separated from motor vehicle traffic.”

“I feel comfortable cycling in Saskatoon, but my wife, who would like to cycle more, does not. So until we get to the point where she feels

safe to come out with me, I don’t think we’ve accomplished what we need to get cycling as safe as it needs to be in the the city,” said Shaw.

Saskatoon Cycles held its annual general meeting Oct. 13 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the University of Saskatchewan Graduate Student Commons on College Drive.

USA still powerful, if less so Award-winning political scientist Stephen Clarkson at U of S ASHLEY HYSHKA One of Canada’s most distinguished political scientists, Stephen Clarkson, gave a lecture at the University of Saskatchewan Oct. 12 titled, “Why Is Canada so Important to the United States but so Impotent in Washington?”

The Sheaf got the chance to speak with him before his visit.

Clarkson’s knowledge of politics is extensive and he has published multiple books in the field, including one that won the Governor General’s Award for non-fiction. He is also a professor of political economy at the University of Toronto.

Of course, Canada’s neighbour to the South — the United States — came up. Clarkson said Canada’s economic policies cater significantly toward the U.S. and estimated that “the U.S. gets two to three per cent of its economic wealth from Canada and Mexico.”

He added that “Canada and Mexico play a huge role in building American economic strength.” For example, Mexican immigrants comprise one third of the agricultural labour force in America and Canada’s economic ties support eight million American jobs.

When asked if Canada should should look to shift its interests away from the United States,

Clarkson said that “Canada has been deliberately diminishing its own role in the world, having put its eggs pretty well entirely in the [American] basket with NAFTA,” as well as having poor foreign affairs policy in recent years.

He also mentioned that Canada “has already reduced its role in the developing world.” If Canada wants to invest more into other countries, Clarkson says that is fine, but he warned that we have to be realistic in shifting our interests.

Clarkson echoed the prevailing wisdom on the subject by saying he expects China to become one of the world’s superpowers in the coming years. But he disagrees with the assumption that India will become one of the world’s elite.

He also said that Brazil will not be a world-dominating superpower, but said, “Brazil is working hard to become the hegemon of South America.”

“We can’t leave out the Unites States” as the future superpower, said Clarkson, no matter how “crazy the politics [in Washington], and however selfdestructive their paranoia about terrorism, leading them to build barriers.

“Because they’re so deceptive and so isolationist, they’re clearly hurting their own international

legitimacy” as well as “reducing their own economic strength.”

However, he emphasized that despite America’s economic policies, it is still a major world player, in both economic and military terms.

“If they don’t like you, the president’s going to get you tomorrow morning.”

Canada still has a ways to go in growing its international clout and modernizing its economy, said Clarkson. In the past, Canada got rich by selling resources and exporting goods.

“Canadians know in their bones that we don’t invent, we don’t develop,” said Clarkson. “We’ve had a poor record regarding innovation, and it will be your generation that will have to change it around.”

Clarkson did not mince his words when discussing Prime Minister Stephen Harper. “I’m very disturbed,” he said. “I think Harper is… moving toward making Canada a fascist country with his disregard of Supreme Court judgements and attack on Parliament.”

In foreign policy, Clarkson says that Harper is similar to previous governments, and has “almost schizophrenic behaviour” in that he is very passive to the United States despite being forward with other nations.

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Global protests come to city First Occupy Wall Street, then Bay Street, now... Saskatoon?

ISHMAEL N. DARO Editor-in-Chief The Occupy Wall Street movement that has recently made headlines in New York is gaining traction across the globe. Similar protests have now been staged or are planned in dozens of cities including London, Boston, Seattle, Toronto — and now Saskatoon.

Inspired in part by democratic protests in the Middle East, known as the Arab Spring, the Occupy Wall Street movement is broadly focused on reducing economic inequality and corporate influence on politics.

An Occupy Saskatoon march is planned for Oct. 15, starting at the University of Saskatchewan Law Building and ending at River Landing. The march will take place at noon and the River Landing gathering at 1:00 p.m.

The Facebook event had over 300 people marked as attending the rally at press time.

“How it got started is a call was put out for solidarity with the occupation that’s happening in New York, and it’s been taken up globally,” said Graham Goff, one of the organizers of the Saskatoon event. “It’s by no means an isolated thing. There are demonstrations in cities across Canada and the entire world.”

Goff, who works with a non-profit organization in Saskatoon, says the march is meant to highlight local issues and is only inspired by the Wall Street protests.

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“It was Wall Street that started this, but the problems that are being addressed there are global and at the same time very local,” said Goff. “The corporatization of our democracy is the main focus of many of these events, and that’s a problem that is every bit as pertinent here as it is there.”

Goff pointed to the ongoing campaign by a group of U of S senators to highlight industry ties with

the university as one of the reasons to worry about corporate influence.

That group, known as USSWORD, will propose three new motions at a university senate meeting just hours before the march is set to happen.

Goff said the Occupy movement is largely non-ideological, with people from the left and right all coming together. “They’re all here and out in agreement that something is very wrong,” he said.

in brief What is in a “hookup?”

Researchers at the University of Montana have found a growing number of college students are “hooking up,” although it is not always clear what that is.

Amanda Holman, now with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Alan Sillars of the University of Montana collaborated on a study published in the journal Health Communications.

They said they had to come up with a precise definition to be sure everyone was talking about the same thing.

According to the study, “Hooking up is used to describe a sexual encounter (vaginal, anal or oral sex) between two people who are not in a dating or serious relationship and do not expect anything further.”

Additionally, it says that most students “describe hookups as spontaneous sexual encounters fueled by alcohol that usually unfold without communication about sexual health and consent or protection against sexually transmitted infections.”

The study consisted of 274 students who were willing to openly discuss their hookups.

54 per cent reported they had engaged in a single hookup throughout the school year and

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Asked why he thought the protest movement was only now beginning to take shape, three years after the 2008 financial crisis started, Goff said, “Because there’s no time left.”

“We’re heading to a deepening global crisis financially and especially ecologically. I feel many people are beginning to feel time is running out to alter the course of this sinking ship we are on.”

Goff said his biggest hope for

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33 per cent said they were involved in at least two. Sixtythree per cent of the hookups were reported by males, while 45 per cent were reported by females.

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In a video posted to the web, four contestants race to attempt to down the creamy white sauce out of a large, plastic container. The winner, a college student, drank the ranch in about 20 seconds.

Cheba Hut, a marijuana-themed franchise, held the contest in celebration of 4/20, the unofficial counterculture holiday for pot smokers.

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Cheba Hut was founded in 1998 by a student at Arizona State University, who felt there was a niche for healthy late-night food on campus.

Cheba Hut’s slogan: “Where the only thing fried is the occasional customer!”

“It’s not that we don’t have enough resources,” she said. “We’re using them in an ineffective way.”

Connected to the focus on intervention is a concentration on surveillance. There is a “huge amount” of surveillance directed toward parents on social assistance, Tait said. This is part of the reason why families living in poverty see their kids taken into foster care more frequently than their affluent counterparts.

“It turns out that aboriginal people are very vulnerable in that way,” Tait said. “But this is not an issue that’s just about aboriginal people; this is about poverty.”

Unfortunately, though, this is an issue that affects aboriginal children and families disproportionately.

While First Nations and Métis people make up just 9.2 per cent of Saskatchewan’s total population, they accounted for nearly 66 per cent of children in foster care in 2008-09.

Many of the cases Tait came across in her research were not children removed from their homes due to abuse, but because of “neglect,” an umbrella term so expansive as to be almost useless.

“That can be as simple as having a babysitter and going out for a couple of hours and that babysitter leaves,” Tait explained. “When you’re living in poverty, it’s hard to find reliable babysitters.”

Tait’s research found that the state’s intervention is often more

Occupy Saskatoon was to create a discussion about economic imbalances and to address those issues as a community in new ways.

Goff ended the interview with a parting thought.

“Democratic government derives its power from the people, and no true democracy is obtainable when the process is determined by economic power, which is the problem we face in Canada and the United States.” traumatic than leaving children in their homes would be.

“When the state takes a child in, it shouldn’t cause even more harm,” she said. “Taking kids into care is not [always] the right answer. The right answer is really preventing families from getting to that crisis.”

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We have more First Nations and Métis children in state care in our province than we did at the height of the residential school system.”

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Along with a focus on poverty and social marginalization, Tait advocates a move toward working with families as a whole and teaching mothers and fathers how to create and sustain healthier families.

She mentioned some of her own previous work in arguing this point.

“We know from that research that if you apprehend the children of a woman who is drinking when she’s pregnant or who has some substance abuse issues, we know that her rate of abuse will increase because there’s no support for her, because the mandate of child welfare is just the children.

It’s not the parents.”

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Mind-reading scientists propose wild advances Can they turn science-fiction into science fact?

MICHAEL CUTHBERTSON Opinions Editor Researchers at the University of California in Berkeley are developing technology that may one day read people’s minds.

Using fMRI scans, professor Jack Gallant recorded brain activity in three people while they watched hours of movie trailers.

The participants’ scans were then compared to a library containing 18 million seconds of YouTube clips.

The end result: a computer screen showing impressive re-creations of the videos people just watched.

So far the technology can’t read minds, per se. The computers simply duplicate what your eyes see. But according to scientist J.V. Haxby of Dartmouth College, future technologies could project mental pictures such as “imagining your mother’s face.” He also anticipates studies where participants “imagine whatever they want” and researchers use computers to guess what you imagined. If Haxby’s prediction is right, science will one day be capable of mind-reading.

Haxby’s idea sounds like science-fiction. Computers that reveal your inner thoughts would endow scientists with the ears of God. A machine that reads all your depraved thoughts would be a mighty weapon. I imagine it being used in interrogations, replacing timehonoured methods like drowning someone till they confess. I see no reason the machine couldn’t be used to arrest criminals for thought-crimes, or even future crimes as seen in Minority Report.

Currently, we can only “read” the visual systems in our brains. Many obstacles remain for scientists hoping to read the whole mind. But Jack Gallant believes “as researchers learn more about how the brain dreams, thinks or even feels emotions, other cognitive processes could be revealed

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by reading our brain signals.”

It sounds preposterous: machines that show our dreams, or measure how much we love someone — but it’s possible. Brains and computers both communicate via electrical activity. Now we just need to make the two communicate with each other.

Gallant’s vision is a lofty one.

Neuroscience knows far more about vision than other brain functions.

Perhaps the science will only show video of our dreams and thoughts.

Capturing the audio-feed in our heads could be far more difficult.

Still, Berekely imagines their research leading to communication tools for disabled people. They say computers could show “what goes on in the minds of people who cannot communicate verbally, such as stroke victims and coma patients.” The technology may even allow paralyzed people to guide computers with their minds. For example, a paralyzed person could move a prosthetic limb just by thinking about the movement.

Such advances would be monumental for our steadily aging

populace. As greater portions of humanity develop mental and physical impairments, we’ll need more tools that allow impaired persons to function at their fullest potential. Science that can slow or bypass the decay of our bodies is a timely pursuit.

But I wonder how far science can or should cheat the natural decay of people. I don’t doubt the humanity in science that helps disabled people communicate again (or maybe for the first time). Ultimately though, this research is fighting an inevitability.

Eventually, the brain and body have to deteriorate. Or do they?

On the Berkeley website, they say the technology could serve as “the computational heart of a neural prosthesis.” In layman’s terms, they are talking about creating an artificial human brain. At this point, I remembered that scientists are notorious for exaggerating their work’s potential. Largely because it can win them fame and research grants. Even I felt the need to publicize their research, simply

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because it sounds so wild.

In reality, this research probably won’t create cyborgs or PreCrime units a la Minority Report. But I’m certain mind-reading science will progress. It’s part of a larger trend that sees neuroscience replacing the very soft, man-made science of psychology past. Maybe one day, a computer will probe the subconscious far better than any psychiatrist could.

Research like this is turning the scientific world upside down. In the past, our subjective experience, or “qualia,” was considered immeasurable. The feeling of a headache or the taste of wine escaped scientific explanation.

Physicist Erwin Schrödinger argued a difference between: our “experience” of colour and the light-waves that hit

our eyes to produce colour. Mindreading science all but antiquates this idea. One day, there may be no experience we can’t “read out” on a computer.

There are some limitations to what this science could reveal. Human memory is notoriously bad. Human consciousness is often chaotic.

And really, I’m barely comfortable looking deep inside my head. Why would I want a stranger rummaging around in there?

But it’s too early to worry about this. For the time being, mind-reading science ranks between hypnosis and alcohol in its power to reveal our innermost thoughts. So I say put away your tin-foil hats, because no one can read your mind — yet.

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Just a white guy, nothing funny going on over here MATTHEW STEFANSON Production Manager The pursuit of a world free from racism and hatred has given us great things. Gigantic leaps have been made toward a world that is more reasonable, decent and intelligent.

The only people who would disagree that racial equality is a positive force and a worthy cause are awful, so it would be really cool if I wasn’t automatically grouped in with them because I happen to come from a coastal region in Scandinavia where humans have white skin.

For centuries bigots, idiots and jackasses lumped every visible minority into a homogeneous group of criminals and reprobates, utilizing all of the terrible little parts of their terrible little brains to be just allaround awful.

Thankfully, those people are now in the minority and it’s their turn to suffer some discrimination, but it’s important to be careful about just how

wide a net is cast to snare them. If you overshoot your mark, you’ll end up yelling at a 20-something college student about how he’s subjugating your race and destroying your culture.

If you are comfortable declaring anyone with pale skin a racist, assuming that anyone of a different race automatically considers yours to be less valuable, you’ve gone too far. You need to come back a little bit toward the middle. The obvious point to make here is that by giving in to the idea that all white people are evil, you’ve become the very thing you set out to destroy, but that’s a little too Twilight Zone for my taste. There isn’t a ready-made moral to this story; no one is going to step in and create a middle ground on which everyone can meet.

I understand that as a Caucasian, I have never had to overcome the issue of bigotry in any meaningful way. I will never truly understand what it’s like to be discriminated against based on my race or to have my culture

and history destroyed, dismantled and disrespected. At least I hope I won’t. I know that I’ve been part of a privileged race for a very long time.

I’m sorry, could you stop scowling at me now?

Is this like when the new kid in elementary school would have to take some beatings before being allowed to play tag? Am I being hazed to make sure I’m cool enough to fit into a post-racial world? Is someone going to pull me aside next week and tell me I made it in? Please?

Of course, bigotry is still very real.

Whatever progress has been made toward a world where people are simply considered to be people is tarnished by the existence of hatred, racism and inequality. As long as people still believe in the supremacy of their own race, we won’t be able to move past it entirely, but at the very least you and I should be able to agree that those people are assholes, right?

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Anonymity and privacy still have their place Don’t believe Mark Zuckerberg

Brianna Whitmore

ISHMAEL N. DARO Editor-in-Chief There was a time when most email addresses included references to princesses, sparkles or surfing. Perhaps you remember this time, when MSN Messenger was king and MySpace was still a pedophile’s best friend.

People’s online identities are no longer divorced from their offline lives. Our university NSIDs use our initials and it’s likely that the email on your resume is something that identifies you by name — something that surferpunk88@hotmail.com never quite did.

The trend toward real identities online has undoubtedly been bolstered by Facebook. The social network insists on people using their real names and founder Mark Zuckerberg is a well-known foe of anonymity.

“The days of you having a different image for your work friends or co-workers and for the other people you know are probably coming to an end pretty quickly,” he told David Kirkpatrick, author of The Facebook Effect. “Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of

integrity.”

Zuckerberg has financial and philosophical reasons for this position.

Each tidbit of personal data we feed into Facebook allows him to sell ever more targeted advertising on the site — which has helped make the Harvard dropout one of the youngest billionaires in the world.

But Zuckerberg also thinks anonymity leads to bad behaviour, letting people get away with things they would not otherwise say or do.

There’s some logic to this. Think of any website that allows anonymous comments and the level of discourse found there.

Trolls are, unfortunately, a part of the Internet and making people stand behind their words with their real identities helps to cut down on the stupidity.

When the technology blog TechCrunch switched over to only allowing comments tied to Facebook accounts, they noticed two things. First, it led to much more intelligent discussion. Second, the number of comments dropped by about half.

Therein lies the crux of the matter.

Making people put their names down may improve manners, but it can also lead to less participation. Free speech can be

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Jeff Jarvis, author of Public Parts, writes that the two forces at play are identity and reputation: “Our identities are the first-person expressions of ourselves. Our reputations are others’ third-person views of us. Thanks to our increasing publicness, the two are coming closer and sometimes into conflict.”

This holds true even offline. Your identity as a homosexual might be important to you, but a reputation as a homosexual could have potentially disastrous consequences for your career or your family relations.

People have a right to their secrets, as well as to the various parts of their personalities that they may share selectively with different people. It’s not a sign of “a lack of integrity,” as Zuckerberg suggests, but rather a sign of being human. If you truly act the same way around every person you know, you either don’t know many

people or you’re insane.

The centralization of all our personal data in the hands of a few powerful interests should worry us. No amount of browsing history truly represents your full personality, but it can reveal many embarrassing things. Your health records, in the wrong hands, could paint a very warped image of you. Your text messages may show you hopelessly addicted to sexting.

Your credit card company might think that all you do is watch Vietnamese porn.

Or consider the $1-billion security pact being worked out between Canada and the United States. The proposed deal could give American border agents a deep look into your personal information and bar you from travelling into the U.S. for trivial reasons.

Guarding our privacy becomes more difficult with each passing day. If everything we do gets tagged, uploaded and tweeted, we will lose our ability to make mistakes or keep our secrets. There is no need to be paranoid about this, but as information flows ever freer in a wired world, we may soon find unwanted bits of ourselves swimming in the digital stream.

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Fall fashion must-haves

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The story you won’t see on CNN ANDREW TRITES The Argosy (Mount Allison University)

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KIMBERLY HARTWIG As the temperature starts to fall, we find ourselves in that elusive season crammed right between summer and winter: autumn.

It’s easy to forget about this relatively short season but it is chock-full with some of the best the year has to offer. With fall come fallthemed treats, the soundtrack of crunching leaves and, of course, the return of fall fashion.

Just like pumpkin spice lattes are synonymous with fall, there are certain items that are essential to the season.

Scarves

Scarves are the ultimate meeting of fashion and function. Not only do they ward off the brisk fall breeze, they also look great doing it in any number of prints and colours.

And they have many functions (I hide behind mine during scary movies).

Boots

I am firmly of the mind that one can never own too many pairs of boots. This is especially true when living in Saskatchewan, which requires dealing with downpours of rain and snow. With so many different varieties to choose from — riding, combat, cowboy — it’s near impossible not to find one (or ten) you like. They are also the perfect footwear for leaf-crunching.

Jackets

Jackets are another definite necessity in the prairies and to deal with the everchanging climate in the university. Nothing is better than bundling up in a warm jacket and with a line-up of new styles for fall it’s easy to try something other than a North Face windbreaker.

Flannel

Nothing says fall like that perfectly broken-in flannel shirt — best in plaid, of course. Not only are they incredibly warm and comfortable, they’re also easy to “borrow” from a dad’s or boyfriend’s closet.

Now that we’ve covered the basics, let’s talk trends. The arrival of fall always brings with it the appearance of countless new trends, some crazy, some fantastic, but always interesting. Here are five of the best.

Tights and Leggings

The best way to bring some of your summer wardrobe favourites into fall? Tights and leggings. There’s only one rule: don’t wear them as pants.

SACKVILLE, N.B. (CUP) — Many have heard about the Occupy Wall Street protests, but thanks to major media’s mishandling of the story, few of us understand its trajectory.

Many protesters share the view that everything changed after the stock market crashed in 2008. Arguably, this year’s record poverty estimates (46.2 million Americans live below the poverty line) are linked with record bonuses for the bankers who were bailed out after the crash.

It was established that there was to be no violence of any kind. Still, before the protest, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security sent out grim warnings about the planned activities over the next few months. It also warned financial institutions of three planned “cyber attacks” and civil protests. The first attack, dubbed #OccupyWallStreet, was to take place on Sept. 17.

On that day, roughly 1,000 protesters showed up and a live stream was set up. That evening, more than 100 people spent the night. In the following days, estimates were consistent — between 100 to 300 protesters stayed through the night.

If one were to try finding any information during the early stages of this protest, sources would be limited to YouTube, Adbusters and maybe the odd blog. Four days after the protest began, Keith Olbermann, host of the commentary program Countdown on Current TV, reported on the protest.

“The protest called Occupy Wall Street is trying to underscore and ‘gum-up’ the financial industry’s influence on who is rich and who is not,” Olbermann said. “Why wouldn’t that get news coverage?”

He then went on to describe the minimal coverage by mainstream media as “limited to

one blurb in a free newspaper in Manhattan and a column in the Toronto Star.”

In a television interview, New York police commissioner Raymond Kelly described the protests as peaceful, with only a couple of “minor arrests.”

But another report on Sept. 25 focused on the arrests that Kelly so briefly mentioned.

The arrests came in several stages; first, a group of seven people on Sept. 20 followed by four more on Sept. 21. Sept. 25 saw more than 80 people arrested. This time the police were caught on video, spraying several women with pepper spray. They threw a male protester to the pavement. They grabbed a woman from behind a fence, dragged her into the street and arrested her.

The most recent event was the Brooklyn Bridge protest, where Occupy Wall Street protestors marched. Instead of blocking and preventing the protesters from going on the road, police let the protesters onto the road.

They waited until the protesters were on the bridge before arresting 700 of them. Later, the police stated that the arrests were for blocking traffic and disorderly conduct, despite having allowed the protesters onto the bridge in the first place.

Such police tactics and the force used against protesters have been questionable at best. The same could be said of mainstream media’s coverage of these events.

Why have the mainstream news media focused on the arrests rather than protests themselves? If police are meant to protect all individuals, why are they targeting protesters for minor offences and upsetting their right to peaceful assembly? If a protest and the individuals taking part are being mistreated by police and misrepresented in mainstream news media, should we share a collective concern?

We should all seek answers to these questions.

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Bright Pants

Jeans are great but it’s nice to switch it up every once in a while. An easy way to do so is a pair of coloured pants. As subdued or as technicolour as you want, it’s an easy way to add colour into an outfit.

Colour

Speaking of colour, just as the colour of the leaves are changing, so is the fashion palette. This fall features darker, richer colours like plum, dark teal, marigold and navy to name a few.

Prints

In addition to the ever-popular plaid, other favourites such as florals, polka dots and graphic prints are all rebooted for fall in darker colours and heavier fabrics.

Navajo

Bright and bold prints with textural intrigue bring this southwestern desert theme to the front of the trend list this season. Incorporated into jackets, dresses, accessories and most everything else, the Navajo textiles are the perfect antidote to dreary, overcast days.

Oversized sweaters

Sweaters are the perfect option for those long days spent studying in the library or for when going to class seems near impossible.

The relaxed and easy fit of oversized sweaters makes it feel like you never left the comfort and warmth of your couch while leaving the sweats and PJs behind. And, it’s another easy clothing item to “borrow.”

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A farewell to nuclear arms Gorbachev on the need for nuclear disarmament MIKHAIL GORBACHEV Project Syndicate MOSCOW — Twenty-five years ago this month, I sat across from Ronald Reagan in Reykjavik, Iceland to negotiate a deal that would have reduced, and could have ultimately eliminated by 2000, the fearsome arsenals of nuclear weapons held by the United States and the Soviet Union.

For all our differences, Reagan and I shared the strong conviction that civilized countries should not make such barbaric weapons the linchpin of their security. Even though we failed to achieve our highest aspirations in Reykjavik, the summit was nonetheless, in the words of my former counterpart, “a major turning point in the quest for a safer and secure world.”

The next few years may well determine if our shared dream of ridding the world of nuclear weapons will ever be realized.

Critics present nuclear disarmament as unrealistic at best, and a risky utopian dream at worst.

They point to the Cold War’s “long peace” as proof that nuclear deterrence is the only means of staving off a major war.

As someone who has commanded these weapons, I strongly disagree.

Nuclear deterrence has always been a hard and brittle guarantor of peace.

By failing to propose a compelling plan for nuclear disarmament, the U.S., Russia, and the remaining nuclear powers are promoting through inaction a future in which nuclear weapons will inevitably be used. That catastrophe must be forestalled.

As I, along with George P. Shultz, William J. Perry, Henry A. Kissinger, Sam Nunn, and others, pointed out five years ago, nuclear deterrence becomes less reliable and more risky as the number of nuclear-armed states increases.

Barring preemptive war (which has proven counterproductive) or effective sanctions (which have thus far proven insufficient), only sincere steps toward nuclear disarmament can furnish the mutual security needed to forge tough compromises on arms control and nonproliferation

Missiles like this have no place in a safe and secure world.

matters.

The trust and understanding built at Reykjavik paved the way for two historic treaties. The 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty destroyed the feared quick-strike missiles then threatening Europe’s peace. And, in 1991, the first Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I) cut the bloated U.S. and Soviet nuclear arsenals by 80 per cent over a decade.

But prospects for progress on arms control and nonproliferation are darkening in the absence of a credible push for nuclear disarmament. I learned during those two long days in Reykjavik that disarmament talks could be as constructive as they are arduous.

By linking an array of interrelated matters, Reagan and I built the

trust and understanding needed to moderate a nuclear-arms race of which we had lost control.

In retrospect, the Cold War’s end heralded the coming of a messier arrangement of global power and persuasion. The nuclear powers should adhere to the requirements of the 1968 Non-Proliferation Treaty and resume “good faith” negotiations for disarmament. This would augment the diplomatic and moral capital available to diplomats as they strive to restrain nuclear proliferation in a world where more countries than ever have the wherewithal to construct a nuclear bomb.

Only a serious program of universal nuclear disarmament can provide the reassurance and the credibility needed to build a global consensus that nuclear deterrence is a dead doctrine. We can no longer afford, politically or financially, the discriminatory nature of the current system of nuclear “haves” and “have-nots.”

Reykjavik proved that boldness is rewarded. Conditions were far from favorable for a disarmament deal in 1986. Before I became Soviet leader in 1985, relations between the Cold War superpowers had hit rock bottom. Reagan and I were nonetheless able to create a reservoir of constructive spirit through constant outreach and face-to-face interaction.

What seem to be lacking today are leaders with the boldness and vision to build the trust needed to reintroduce nuclear disarmament as the centerpiece of a peaceful global order. Economic constraints and the Chernobyl disaster helped spur us to action. Why has the Great Recession and the disastrous meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi in Japan not elicited a similar response today?

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A first step would be for the U.S. finally to ratify the 1996 Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). President Barack Obama has endorsed this treaty as a vital instrument to discourage proliferation and avert nuclear war.

It’s time for Obama to make good on commitments he made in Prague in 2009, take up Reagan’s mantle as Great Communicator, and persuade the U.S. Senate to formalize America’s adherence to the CTBT. This would compel the remaining holdouts — China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, North Korea, and Pakistan — to reconsider the CTBT as well. That would bring us closer to a global ban on nuclear tests in any environment — the atmosphere, undersea, in outer space or underground.

A second necessary step is for the U.S. and Russia to follow up on the New START agreement and begin deeper weapons cuts, especially tactical and reserve weapons, which serve no purpose, waste funds, and threaten security. This step must be related to limits on missile defense, one of the key issues that undermined the Reykjavik summit.

A fissile material cut-off treaty (FMCT), long stalled in multilateral talks in Geneva, and a successful second Nuclear Security Summit next year in Seoul, will help secure dangerous nuclear materials. This will also require that the 2002 Global Partnership, dedicated to securing and eliminating all weapons of mass destruction — nuclear, chemical and biological — is renewed and expanded when it convenes next year in the U.S. Our world remains too militarized.

In today’s economic climate, nuclear weapons have become loathsome money pits. If, as seems likely, economic troubles continue, the

U.S., Russia, and other nuclear powers should seize the moment to launch multilateral arms reductions through new or existing channels such as the UN Conference on Disarmament. These deliberations would yield greater security for less money.

But the buildup of conventional military forces — driven in large part by the enormous military might deployed globally by the U.S. — must be addressed as well.

As we engage in furthering our Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) agreement, we should seriously consider reducing the burden of military budgets and forces globally.

U.S. President John F. Kennedy once warned that “every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment.” For more than 50 years, humanity has warily eyed that lethal pendulum while statesmen debated how to mend its fraying cords. The example of Reykjavik should remind us that palliative measures are not enough.

Our efforts 25 years ago can be vindicated only when the Bomb ends up beside the slave trader’s manacles and the Great War’s mustard gas in the museum of bygone savagery.

Mikhail Gorbachev, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, was the last president of the USSR. Copyright: Project Syndicate, 2011. www.project-syndicate.org

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Huskies look to avenge loss to Calgary Dogs riding momentum from win against UBC, undefeated on home turf KEVIN MENZ Sports Editor The Huskies are hoping that their luck on home turf continues Oct. 14 when they line up against the leagueleading Calgary Dinos for their final home game of the season.

Saskatchewan has yet to lose at Griffiths Stadium this year, but they will be greatly tested by the undefeated Dinos — earlier this year, the Dinos beat the Dogs 38-24 in Calgary.

“Certainly they are the most wellrounded and experienced team in the conference,” said Huskies head coach Brian Towriss, but “we love playing at home and they don’t like coming here.”

In the previous meeting, Calgary’s offence totalled 523 yards while Saskatchewan only had 177 yards total. The Huskies’ lack of production on offence meant that Calgary’s offence had more time with the ball and more chances to beat the Huskies defence.

“Whether it was great defence on their part or that we just hung on to the ball too long, we made some mistakes on offence,” said Towriss.

“Hopefully now that we’ve got some film on them we can correct it.”

He said that the Huskies will need to limit Calgary’s offensive opportunities.

“We’ve got to keep the ball out of their hands because they’ve got good athletes everywhere on offence.”

“If you miss a coverage or miss a tackle, they’ll make you pay for it,” added Huskies defensive lineman Steve Kovach.

Dinos quarterback Eric Dzwilewski, receiver Chris Dobko and running back Steven Lumbala dominated the Huskies in their last meeting and all three currently sit atop the Canada West leaderboards.

Dzwilewski completed 20 of 28 passes for 255 yards and three touchdowns against the Dogs and

The Dinos defeated the Huskies 38-24 earlier this year.

is third in the conference with an average 206 yards passing per game.

Dobko’s 32 receptions are the most of any receiver in the Canada West this season and he is tied with Lumbala for the most touchdowns in the conference with six. He had 121 yards receiving and two touchdowns the last time he faced the Huskies.

Lumbala, who has six rushing touchdowns this season, is second on the conference’s rushing list with 123 average yards rushing per game.

He had 107 yards rushing and one touchdown against the Dogs.

“Calgary is just a really solid team all across the board,” said Kovach.

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Towriss believes the Huskies will play much better against Calgary this time around, as they are carrying a lot of momentum from their last game — a 36-33 win over the University of British Columbia — and have a few key defensive players back in the lineup.

“We were a lot better against BC in terms of our execution,” said Towriss. “We’re coming off a much better effort offensively [and] we’re coming back rested and a little bit healthier, so we’re going to take a step forward.”

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He said the return of linebackers Peter Thiel, Tony Michalchuk and Nico Higgs, along with defensive lineman David Rybinski — who all missed at least an entire half against Calgary last time — will allow the Huskies to improve their pressure on the Dinos offence.

“Personnel-wise, I think we’ll be a little bit better,” said Towriss.

“We’ve got to provide them with some pressure like we did with Billy Greene,” the quarterback of UBC. Against UBC, the return of running back Ben Coakwell, who had two touchdowns in the game, and a strong performance from the offensive line,

allowed the Huskies to total 311 yards rushing — their most all season.

Towriss said the offensive line will have to play much better than they did against Calgary if the Dogs want to have another strong running game.

“We’ll have to block their nose tackle this week, which is something we didn’t do all game against Calgary,” he said. “Those guys will have to be better.”

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David Dube’s influence as a top Huskies supporter goes well beyond the wallet KEVIN MENZ Sports Editor Despite the idea of private ownership constantly surrounding the University of Saskatchewan Huskies football team, Huskie Athletics says it is something that has never seriously been considered.

“One of the big debates is, should the program be part of student services, should it be part of the College of Kinesiology or do you move to this outside partnership to run it?” said Dogs head coach Brian Towriss. “There’s probably four or five guys that would partner and be part of an ownership group but right now I don’t think that’s part of anybody’s [agenda].

“It’s something that’s probably been tossed around but never seriously been sat down and discussed,” he said, adding, “I think the university wants to maintain control.”

The Huskies’ athletic director Basil Hughton echoed this statement.

“The model that we operate under works well.”

The Huskies football team is controlled by Huskie Athletics but relies heavily on donor support.

Huskie Athletics is a part of the College of Kinesiology and is a representative of the entire university.

This system does not allow the team to have an individual owner.

One of the only teams in Canadian Interuniversity Sport that follows a private-based form of ownership is

the Laval Rouge et Or, who have won five of the last eight Vanier Cups.

According to the Queen’s University student newspaper, The Queen’s Journal, “The Rouge et Or have the highest operating budget in Canadian University Sport” because their “13 varsity teams are treated as individual clubs that operate as autonomous units within the Athletics framework.

“Though the 13 clubs have a combined operating budget of about $5 million, only $500,000 comes from the Athletics department. Each club has its own president, board of directors and head of fundraising to seek out private sponsorship.”

Local businessman David Dube recently told Bridges, a weekly Saskatoon newspaper, that if the Huskies football team “was a business I would buy it in a second.”

He is one of the team’s top supporters and his donations, valuing over $1 million, have made Huskies home games the most electrifying in the team’s history and help draw in record crowds. These donations include the new stands at Griffiths Stadium, the equipment in the weight room of the team’s new clubhouse and the fireworks at every home game.

Some believe, however, that Dube’s involvement with the team’s game day operations — which have included public statements on behalf of the team — have overstepped the boundaries of a donor and have

Dube organized the “Support Our Troops” game on behalf of the Huskies.

perplexed the issue of who exactly represents the football team and the university.

Dube was unavailable to comment for this article.

At the Dogs’ home opening game this season, Dube organized what was termed the “Support Our Troops” game. The team welcomed Canadian Forces members to attend the game, thanking them for their service to the country by raising money for the Soldier On Fund — a fund that provides grants to injured or ill CF

members in order to assist in their rehabilitation.

The players wore specially designed jerseys that featured camouflage trim and nameplates that replaced the players’ names in favour of words associated with the ethos of the Canadian Forces: duty, integrity, courage, honour, loyalty, country and service.

Along with this, the forces displayed military equipment at the stadium gates.

Some in the university community

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had a problem with this display.

“Honouring veterans is wellmeaning, but the problem is that politics should not get mixed into sports,” said Robert Calder, a professor emeritus of English at the University of Saskatchewan who attends every Huskies football home game.

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Kohlert has CFL ambitions Veteran Huskies receiver brings wealth of experience to locker room

Kohlert is serious about cracking a CFL roster.

KEVIN MENZ Sports Editor Rory Kohlert is hoping the third time’s a charm when he tries to crack a CFL roster once again next season.

The 6-1, 203-pound receiver for the University of Saskatchewan Huskies signed with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the CFL this past March but was released in July prior to the 2011 season start. The year before that, he fractured his fibula at a CFL evaluation camp.

“Hopefully I get the opportunity again,” he said of becoming a professional football player in Canada.

Kohlert says his time spent in Hamilton taught him what he needs to improve upon.

“There was a lot to learn,” he said, listing route running and fending off defensive backs as the two areas of his game that improved the most while with the Tiger-Cats. “Defensive backs get their hands on you, so you have to be good with your hands. They were also really quick and that’s not what I’m used to. It was frustrating at times but I think I got progressively better at it. ” Kohlert has applied what he learned in Hamilton to his game with the Huskies, stepping up as the Dogs’ top receiver this year with 18 receptions for 282 yards in 5 games. He sits sixth in the Canada West conference with 56.4 receiving yards per game.

“I don’t really think about it,” said Kohlert when asked about being the number one receiver for quarterbacks Jahlani Gilbert-Knorren and Trent Peterson. “I think it’s just Jahlani and Trent finding me” open downfield.

He added that a lot of receivers have been doing well this year and that the “offence isn’t

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based on one guy.”

While this may be true, the fifth-year player does offer something that most — if not all — current Huskies veterans can’t offer: Vanier Cup experience.

Kohlert’s first year of eligibility in Canadian Interuniversity Sport was in 2006. He was with the Dogs for their Vanier Cup loss to Laval that year and still lists that game as the most memorable moment on his Huskie Athletics athlete profile.

“I was a good experience but you realize now how hard it is to get there,” said Kohlert, adding that he’d love to see the team return to the championship this year for his final season of eligibility.

Following the 2006 season, Kohlert chose to take a year off from university.

“I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do,” he said of the daunting task of choosing a major.

All Kohlert knew was that he needed to keep playing football.

Kohlert spent 2007 and 2008 playing with the Regina Thunder of the Canadian Junior Football League, where he acquired both all-star rookie and all-star offensive player honours.

In 2008, Kohlert attended the University of Regina but still played for the Thunder.

He decided to return to the Huskies in 2009 because he felt the University of Saskatchewan and its football program best served his academic and athletic needs.

Kohlert is now close to finishing a sociology degree and said that while he’ll still pursue the CFL, he eventually wants to work as a police officer.

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Calder is the author of Saskatchewan Roughriders: a first 100 years as well as a book about British writers in World War II propaganda. He was worried about the message sent by the display of weaponry at a football game.

“Canadians generally don’t know what kind of sacrifices soldiers make and people need to be reminded of that, but that is not parading around military hardware” at a football game.

Even the Huskies director was not happy to see the military equipment.

“I was all for the support, thanking and recognition of the people, but I would have wished that we didn’t have a gun outside the entrance,” said Hughton.

He clarified, however, that despite his opinion, Huskie Athletics and Dube were not making statements on behalf of

the university, its athletes or its students.

“That’s a personal opinion.

That’s not [me] representing Huskie Athletics,” he said. “I would not even begin to suggest that we are speaking on behalf of the university or all Huskie Athletics team members. We’re not speaking on behalf of anyone.”

This is where opinions within the university differ.

“Huskie Athletics represent an entire institution with plenty of diverse opinions on the matter,” said Univeristy of Saskatchewan Students’ Union president Scott Hitchings. “Some people are not offended with the pro-military stance in and of itself, but when it is unnecessarily mixed with Huskie Athletics, it can become offensive to people who otherwise wouldn’t be offended.”

Regardless of whether the game’s display was right or wrong and if politics should or should not be mixed with sport, however, it showed that Dube has the ability to make statements on behalf of the team.

When asked whether or not Dube takes too active a role in terms of how his donations are spent — especially in comparison to the football team’s other significant donor, Ron Graham, who is much less visible — Hughton replied, “I can see where that would be the perception and I think in some ways that’s true, but people are different and have different passions and investments in their donations.”

Graham’s approximate $4 million worth of donations built the Huskies clubhouse and paid for the recent clubhouse expansion.

Hughton said that without either of the donors, Huskie Athletics would not be as strong as it is today.

“The biggest thing, bar none, is the scholarships [from donors or contributed to by donors] that allow us the opportunity to give athletic awards to our athletes, that allow us to recruit good student-athletes and that allows us to compete at a very high level in the Canada West” and in Canadian Interuniversity Sport.

Dube, a local businessman and philanthropist who contributes to many of the school’s athletics

scholarships and also donates significantly to the Western College of Veterinary Medicine and the Nature Conservancy of Saskatchewan, was a receiver for the Huskies from 1982 to 1986.

Towriss is very thankful for Dube’s contributions to the team.

“We can’t thank him enough for everything that he’s done.... People love coming here on Friday nights and he’s made it really great for our players,” said Towriss.

He added that Dube is a major reason why the Huskies are one of the few teams, along with Laval, who successfully market themselves.

“One thing that Laval’s done more than anybody else is that they’ve proved that Canadian college football is marketable.

They’re getting 14 to 16 thousand fans per game,” said the coach.

“We’re getting close. We’re probably averaging 6,500 fans this year... [and] part of it is the game day operations that David’s pushed forward. I’m sure that’s helping to drive our crowds.”

Dube has his own brand of

Huskies’ football clothing that he sells separately from Huskie Athletics clothing. Merchandise with the “S” logo that the team occasionally wears and the alternative “U of S” logo featuring a sideways-facing Husky baring its teeth are sold by Dube. They are not available at Huskie Athletics’ stores.

“He thinks [the team] can be profitable,” said Towriss, emphasizing that despite this, Dube only has good intentions with the merchandise. “All the profits come back into our team.”

Hughton agreed that Dube has never done anything to infringe upon the athletic program’s best interest.

“We run an athletic program that is 15 teams strong but we can’t do it without our donor support. All of the sports have individual donors. It just so happens that this particular donor is far more public.”

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Although he doesn’t see a lot of playing time on the field, Hunter said he wouldn’t trade his time with the Huskies for anything.

“Football is a different game in that whether you are the most talented guy on the team or the biggest grinder on the team, everybody has to contribute something. Throughout the season, be it injuries or in practice, if you don’t have everyone committed just as equally, it’s going to come through as a weak spot on the team.”

This passion for sports is why Hunter, a student in the College of Arts and Science with plans to attend law school, has become the president of the HAC and volunteers a lot of his time coaching minor football and co-hosting the weekly web show Huskies Central alongside defensive back Bryce McCall.

The show not only updates fans on all the Huskies teams, it has also provided an opportunity for the athletes to become familiar with players not just on their own teams.

“The best feedback we’ve gotten, beyond the exposure [the show receives] outside of the Huskies circle, is that it has brought all the

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Hunter added that most of the athletes featured are really, really ridiculously goodlooking, but humbly excluded himself from that

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Canada West Standings *Due to Thanksgiving weekend, Canada West had yet to update its webpage. While the standings are current, the following soccer league leaders are not up to date.

FOOTBALL Standings 1. Calgary x 2. Saskatchewan 3. UBC 4. Manitoba 5. Regina 6. Alberta

5-0 3-2 3-2 2-3 2-3 0-5

x - clinched playoff spot

League Leaders Rushing 1. Adrian Charles - REG 2. Steven Lumbala - CGY 3. Ben Coakwell - SASK

GP 5 5 3

Att. 115 75 34

Passing 1. Billy Greene - UBC 2. K. Williams - MAN 3. Eric Dzwilewski - CGY

GP 5 5 5

Com-Att-Int 112-178-1 83-147-6 77-128-3

Receiving 1. Jordan Grieve - UBC 2. Chris Dobko - CGY 3. Jared Janotta - REG

GP 5 5 5

Rec. 29 32 23

Yards 689 616 259

Long 33 45 52

TD 2 6 3

Yards 1555 1196 1031

Long 72 90 61

Yards 559 389 340

Long 72 40 69

TD 4 6 3

TD 12 6 10

Scoring (TDs) 1. Steven Lumbala - CGY Chris Dobko - CGY 3. O. Sonuga - AB

GP 5 5 5

TD 6 6 5

Rush 6 0 5

Pass 0 6 0

Tackles 1. J. Hetherington - AB 2. T. Michalchuk - SASK 3. Sam Hurl - CGY

GP 5 5 5

Solo 38 28 22

Ast. 16 15 19

Total 46.0 35.5 31.5

Sacks 1. Serge Kaminsky - UBC 2. Duncan Morris - AB Linden Gaydosh - CGY

GP 5 5 5

Solo 5 4 4

Ast. 0 0 0

Total 5.0 4.0 4.0

Interceptions 1. Michael Lau - CGY 2. Mitch Friesen - SASK Brent Krawchuk - AB

GP 5 4 4

No. 3 2 2

Yards 39 0 0

Long 33 0 0

Pts. 36 36 30

Yards 30 44 28 TD 0 0 0

MEN’S HOCKEY Standings 1. Manitoba 2. Alberta 3. UBC 4. Calgary 5. Saskatchewan* 6. Lethbridge* 7. Regina

*The Saskatchewan at Lethbridge game on Oct. 1 — each team’s second of the season — was stopped after the second period due to ice resurfacing problems. It will be rescheduled at a later date.

2-0-0 2-0-0 1-0-1 1-3-0 1-0-0 0-1-0 0-2-0

League Leaders Points 1. Teigan Zahn - CGY 2. Taylor Stefishen - CGY Brennan Bosch - SASK

GP 4 2 2

Goals 0 4 3

Goals 1. Taylor Stefishen - CGY 2. Brennan Bosch - SASK 3. Derek Hulak - SASK

GP 2 2 2

No. 4 3 2

Ast. 6 0 1

Totals 6 4 4

P/G 1.5 2.0 2.0

MEN’S SOCCER Standings

Assists 1. Teigan Zahn - CGY 2. Kyle Bortis - SASK 3. Andrew Bailey - SASK

GP 4 2 2

Plus/Minus 1. Sean Ringrose - AB 2. Kyle Bortis - SASK M. Delahey - SASK

GP 2 2 2

Total +4 +3 +3

Penalty Minutes 1. Zak Stebner - SASK 2. Ian Barteaux - AB 3. Brenden Dowd - SASK

GP 1 2 2

Total 15 14 12

No. 6 4 3

WOMEN’S SOCCER Standings

1. UBC 2. TWU 3. Victoria 4. Calgary 5. Alberta 6. Saskatchewan 7. UFV 8. Lethbridge

5-0-3 4-2-2 4-2-2 4-3-1 3-2-3 3-3-2 1-6-1 1-7

1. TWU 2. UBC 3. Alberta 4. Calgary 5. Victoria 6. Saskatchewan 7. UFV 8. Manitoba 9. Lethbridge 10. Regina

League Leaders Points 1. J. B-Hamilton - SASK 2. Navid Mashinchi - UBC Craig Gorman - UVIC

GP 8 7 8

Goals 6 2 4

Ast. 4 4 2

Goals 1. J. B-Hamilton - SASK 2. Andrew Ravenhill - UVIC S. Schmidt - TWU

GP 8 6 7

No. 6 4 4

Avg. 0.75 0.67 0.57

Assists 1. Navid Mashinchi - UBC Cameron Schmidt - AB J. B-Hamilton - SASK

GP 7 8 8

No. 4 4 4

Avg. 0.57 0.50 0.50

Saves 1. Colin Pattison - LETH 2. Mark Diakiw - SASK 3. Elliot Mitrou - UVIC

GP 8 8 6

No. 52 45 35

Avg. 6.50 5.62 5.83

Total 10 6 6

8-1 7-1-1 6-2 4-2-2 4-4-2 4-3-1 3-5-2 2-6 0-7-1 0-7-1

League Leaders Points 1. Janine Frazao - UBC Elizabeth Hudon - SASK Heather Lund - AB

GP 7 8 8

Goals 7 5 7

Goals 1. Janine Frazao - UBC Heather Lund - AB T3. E. Hudon - SASK

GP 7 8 8

No. 7 7 5

Avg. 1.00 0.88 0.62

Assists 1. Kayla Michaels - AB 2. Jenna Di Nunzio - TWU D. Fuenzalida - SASK

GP 8 7 8

No. 5 4 4

Avg. 0.62 0.57 0.50

Saves 1. T. Willoughby - LETH 2. M. Wilford - SASK 3. Chloe Werle - MAN

GP 7 8 7

No. 51 49 44

Avg. 7.29 6.12 6.29

Ast. 1 3 1

Total 8 8 8

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Don’t beware The Ides of March

George Clooney’s film is a successful drama of political intrigue AREN BERGSTROM Arts Editor

Politics is a dirty game. While reiterating this unfortunate truism isn’t particularly enlightening, it does make for good entertainment.

The Ides of March is another installment in a long line of political films showing that there is no such thing as an honest politician. George Clooney’s fourth film as a director, The Ides of March is fast, smart and thrilling in a way similar to Moneyball and other confident dramas. The most obviously similar film may be Kevin McDonald’s State of Play from 2009, which is based on the excellent BBC series from 2003. Both of these films deftly explore the deficiencies of a seemingly upstanding politician — in State of Play it is Ben Affleck’s congressman Stephen Collins and in The Ides of March it is George Clooney’s presidential hopeful Mike Morris — and show that political maneuverings and backroom dealings amount to little less than blackmail and conspiracy.

The Ides of March follows an idealistic young press secretary named Stephen Myers (Ryan Gosling) who works for Pennsylvanian governor Morris’s presidential campaign. The time is the Ohio primary and the Democratic presidential race is down to progressive Morris and traditionalist Senator Pullman.

The endorsement of an influential senator (Jeffrey Wright) is key to winning the party nomination and so both campaigns vie against each other in order to win the senator’s endorsement.

Myers is a hotshot who gets himself into trouble when he accepts a meeting with the rival campaign and gets offered a job. Although Myers refuses, the decision to accept the meeting would damage Myers’s career if news of it got out. At the same time, Myers becomes sexually involved with an intern, Molly (Evan Rachel Wood). And in the midst of his shifting personal alliances and the heat of the primary battle, Myers inadvertently becomes privy to scandalous information about Morris.

In many ways, The Ides of March is a showcase for its marvelous cast. Ryan Gosling, George Clooney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, Jeffrey Wright, Evan Rachel Wood, Marisa Tomei — these are all wonderful actors and the film serves as a veritable who’s who of the best in the business.

Clooney is in typically strong form here and although the way he delivers some intense lines during the film’s climax seem all too familiar to deliveries in Syriana and Michael Clayton, his portrayal of an idealistic governer hits all the right notes of supposed political integrity and personal foibles. Hoffman and Giamatti are electric in their roles as duelling campaign managers. Why they haven’t starred in a film together before now is beyond me. Wright commands the screen in the little time he’s given. And Wood and Tomei are exceptional in their limited roles.

However, despite all these wonderful performances, The Ides of March really belongs to Gosling. This man seems to be in everything this year and each performance is uniquely intense.

Ryan Gosling: impeccable actor, snappy dresser and impossibly attractive man.

Some critics have criticized his casting in this film, saying that Gosling lacks the capacity to convincingly play sleaze and that his intense emotional focus works at cross-purposes to the character’s intentions. This criticism can be chalked up to little more than the inevitable Gosling backlash. Make no mistake, Gosling is a bona fide movie star and a serious actor, and his performance as Stephen Myers in The Ides of March is nothing short of terrific. In particular, the final shot of the film, a sustained close-up of Gosling’s face, speaks to his ability to emote without a single line of dialogue.

In The Ides of March, everything comes down to the individual. The film’s largest revelations are confined to personal flaws and its comments about the American political system as a whole reflect back on a lack of personal integrity on the part of those within the system. It’s as much the individual corrupting the system as the system corrupting the individual. While these points may not be anything revelatory, the larger implications regarding politics, both personal and professional, are both pointed and true.

Something has been made of the film’s fairly obvious comments regarding the Obama administration, mainly that Clooney and company are (supposedly) arguing that the Democrats’ failure as politicians corresponds to their inability

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to play dirty politics and that if Obama were only more like Morris, he would be a more effective, albeit personally flawed, president. These points seem miscalculated. While the fact that the film is dealing with Democrats and is tapping into the larger feeling of political disillusionment in the States does lend itself to interpretation regarding Obama’s presidency, the overall message of the film is too disparaging to be taken as anything less than a dismissal of all politics in general.

Simply put, the film does not tend to give any pointers on how to be an effective politician. It simply states that politics in general is corrupt and corrupting to those who wish to be effective.

The Ides of March exists within the lexicon of film that favours dialogue over action and intrigue over suspense. It’s thrilling but not because you think someone may blow up at any second. The thrills come from watching such excellent actors go head to head in intellectual duels, using every dirty trick they have up their sleeves to maintain the advantage.

The Ides of March is currently playing at Galaxy Cinemas.

Editor’s Pick of the Week Wilco The Whole Love

Is it any surprise that Wilco continues to produce excellent studio albums? It shouldn’t be anymore because after 17 years together, this country-influenced rock group has become one of the most consistent bands in the music industry. Wilco (The Album) was a surprising contender for album of the year back in 2009 and 2002’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot remains one of the best albums of the 2000s. Now with The Whole Love, Wilco has continued its impressive track record. There is no reinvention here because the fundamentals of Wilco’s music are still effective, but that doesn’t the mean the band isn’t evolving.

A band this good isn’t content to let its sound grow stale. Again the tunes seem superficially light and again Wilco undercuts the optimistic sound of their instrumentals

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with melancholy lyrics. The album’s first single, “I Might,” has already seen lots of radio play on CBC Radio 2 Drive and is about as good as you can hope for from a single. As a whole, The Whole Love may lack the brilliance of Wilco at their best, but it’s another solid entry in an impressive discography. It contains enough inspiration to show that this rock band still has plenty to offer music lovers.

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Newest Lights album is a terrific, bass-heavy sophomore effort THILINA BANDARA

It is a good time to be a fan of solo female pop artists. However, when a genre is saturated, standing out among your cohorts becomes all the more important.

Toronto’s Lights (Natalie Poxleitner) has done what most musicians strive to do: create a unique voice. Siberia is a step forward in this process and expands what Lights can contribute to pop music.

The follow-up to her 2009 debut The Listening, Siberia is a very different album. Gone are The Listening’s playful chirping instrumentals and melodies, replaced by the inclusion of wellproduced dark tones through the use of some dubstep elements. While such a change is ambitious and can be risky, it works out remarkably well on this album.

Considering the range of frequencies on the tracks — from the deep dubstep bass to her high-

trebled voice — the experience greatly benefits from its high production values. You would be missing half of the album by listening to it through poor headphones.

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Even at their darkest, her songs never make you feel like she’s wallowing in defeat, which seems to be everywhere else in pop music right now.

Bringing in other artists to contribute to her distinct sound, however, only works half the time on Siberia. Rapper Shad’s vocal contributions to the tracks

“Everybody Breaks a Glass” and “Flux and Flow” feel out of place, while the electronica group Holy Fuck complement her musical style well in “Everybody Breaks a Glass” (in terms of beats) and “Toes.”

Although Siberia is sonically a departure from

her last album, throughout both works is her ability to consistently craft feel-good music. Songs like the title track “Siberia,” “Toes” and “Peace Sign” are examples of this feel-good sound and represent what I’ve understood as idiosyncratically Lights-like pop. Even at their darkest, her songs never make you

feel like she’s wallowing in defeat, which seems to be everywhere else in pop music right now.

It is also a very dense album, and as such, it is best not to experience all the tracks in a row. It’s actually very rare that an album can stay consistently rewarding to me if

listened to in one sitting and Siberia is no exception.

In my time with the album so far, I appreciate the tracks most when they are peppered in a playlist amongst other artists.

Overall, Lights’s sophomore album does what a good sophomore album should: it progresses the musical capabilities of the artist while providing a dash of nostalgia. The supplied album is loud, bright, coy, soft, new and old — all at the same time.

So if you are a fan of lady pop and feel-good beats, pick it up and start saving your pennies for what she does next.

Hot new tunes, same old Sloan

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fast tracks like “Plain to See.” “Shadow of Love” is a fast but dance-y track. Its melody makes a nice re-appearance on the later track, “Beverly Terrace.”

Sloan continues to flaunt their

Sloan’s latest release The Double Cross marks the band’s 20th year together. You might expect Sloan to sound faded and weary of playing by now, but on Double Cross, Sloan sound as young and lively as their teenage selves.

Sloan are often labelled “power-pop,” which refers to pop bands that have loud guitars and vocal harmonies — basically anything that sounds like the Beatles. While everything on Double Cross is like that, two tracks stand out as classic power-pop: their radio single “Unkind”

and the 82-second “I’ve Gotta Know.” “Unkind” in particular strikes me as a lasting musicality on Double Cross. hit.

Like his predecessor McCartney, I heard Sloan play some Double Murphy makes some of the coolest, Cross material this past spring and, grooviest bass lines out there. Their like any good rock band, the tunes harmonies on this album and in sounded even better live. Likewise, concert are one-of-a-kind today. their records shine when played at Add in their dual-electric guitars a higher volume. and the Sloan sound can cover any There are speedy offerings on territory it chooses.

The Double Cross — “Shadow of “Your Daddy Will Do” is a Love” and “Plain to See,” most funky number, certainly indebted notably. Given that frontman Chris to ’70s disco. “Green Gardens, Murphy was into hardcore punk as Cold Montreal” is another sort of a teen, it’s no surprise to hear really referential song, sounding very

much made for the Canadian folk scene.

Despite the variety, The Double Cross has a cohesive feel to it. It’s one of Sloan’s harderrocking albums. At 34 minutes, it spends little time on guitar solos or noisy breakdowns — the latter being a Sloan hallmark.

Lyrically, it’s standard Sloan fare: sugary songs about being in love and angsty songs about trying to be in love. But I love that.

Sloan have always had their musical niche.

That is, Sloan do their own thing better than anyone else can. supplied Some fans may wish for a wild departure from this sound after 20 years, but I’m all too happy hearing the vintage-rock stylings of the band.

In Canada, they hold an integrity as purveyors of rock. Sadly, the Sloan brand of rock has waned in popularity. The mid-’90s were a more hospitable time for powerpop, while 2011 would wish Sloan more indie-sounding.

This could be why the band remains stifled in the U.S. market.

Maybe Canadians are more willing

to hold on to an older-sounding band. Based on their shows though, the band doesn’t need America.

Playing in their homeland, they still seem young.

They sound young, they look young and they continue to write with an immediacy that few 20-year-old bands can match.

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Rage plays it safe

Whatever happened to Street Fighter II?

The new shooter from id Software is good, unambitious entertainment

Video games are evolving.

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Post-apocalyptic games seem to have reached their peak in popularity recently with games such as Fallout 3 and Borderlands.

Now another post-apocalyptic shooter, Rage, enters the arena desperately trying to differentiate itself from the rest. How does it do that? Well, by doing almost nothing new at all.

Rage is the newest shooter from veteran developer id Software, known for classic games like Doom and Quake. Although Rage does not do anything new, that is not necessarily a bad thing; id Software has never really been much for innovation in the first place. Where id doesn’t succeed in originality of gameplay, it does a fantastic job of taking the core components of first-person shooters and making them feel very satisfying and fun.

Rage’s actual action feels very much like the Call Of Duty games, but a little heavier. For instance, you can really feel the weight of the guns when shooting them. Looking back at games like Doom, it is clear that id knows shooter gameplay better than most developers.

Rage seems to be set in an openworld environment, but all of its missions and action take place in separate areas that you get to by vehicle. Once you get to these objective areas the game turns into a completely linear, closecorridors shooter. The game has some light role-playing elements

Rage boasts beautiful graphics, ugly characters.

in the form of loot gathering and a bit of customization. However, it feels like a missed opportunity that you’re not given more options for customizing weapons, which would have made the action all the more interesting.

The driving in Rage has been heavily advertised and it is very well implemented. The controls for the vehicles are arcade-influenced, comparable to the driving in games like Twisted Metal. The vehicle is mostly used to traverse the main wasteland areas to get to your objectives. On the way, there is basic vehicle combat in which you encounter many bandits whom you can take down for money.

There are also races and time trials to do on the side in order to earn money and pay for more upgrades for your car. Although they are side missions, the races don’t feel tacked on and add variety to the game.

The story is the biggest weakness of Rage. It is completely unsurprising. All the characters’ intentions are clear from the getgo and there are no big twists or shake-ups to throw the player off balance. It’s a real shame because the world id created with Rage is absolutely stunning. This game is beyond drool-worthy — I actually lost track of what was coming out of my mouth while ogling the game’s visuals.

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As beautiful as this game is, there is an issue with the new engine id created for it. The game has a mean texture pop, meaning that the game loads details while you are playing instead of preloading it before a level. The result is that the graphical changes in the environment appear suddenly and can be a bit disorienting.

However, beyond that, the amount of detail in the characters is incredible and it is clear that they were all hand-animated. The voice acting is great with actors like John Goodman lending their voices. It’s just too bad that the characters are never given anything interesting to say.

The game lasts about 15 hours if you complete every available side mission. After a while it eventually does wear out its welcome, especially in the last area, but there are plenty of distractions in the towns that mainly consist of gambling mini-games. They are all surprisingly fun, especially the strikingly deep Magic: The Gathering-style card game.

Rage plays it safe, but it is executed exceptionally well. It’s just a shame to imagine the game it could have been if id were willing to take more risks. With that said, Rage is still an enjoyable piece of eye candy.

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Super Street Fighter II Turbo, in all its superlative glory, was released for Super Nintendo in 1994. I never personally owned a copy, nor did I ever follow the series into its later incarnations.

Yet that game made an indelible impression on me during long nights of my childhood I spent in my cozy basement.

The first gaming console I ever claimed any possession of was the SNES. It was a Christmas present in 1993. By then it was already approaching its autumn years, but to me, the wide-eyed four-year-old, it was something brand new and majestic. It was a glorious Christmas Day we spent embarking on the virtual landscape of Super Mario World for the first time. Or at least I assume it was. I really have no recollection of my first experience with the controller in my hands. I suppose that is not important.

If my math serves me correctly, there are some people glancing over this article who were born the same month my brother and I received our SNES, so I should explain that in the mid-90s, there was a different culture to gaming. I like to call it “the basement culture.” This brings me back to Super Street Fighter II Turbo. Every so often, a friend of my brother’s would come over, unveil his SSF2T cartridge and we would take a moment to marvel at this fantastic treasure. Together we would play it, for hours on end, in that basement.

I assume I lost most of the time, but that’s okay because I got to play as Dhalism and Blanka, and when you’re that age, you can’t ask for much more than spitting fireballs and electrocuting people.

And in those carefree days of our youth, that was how things went.

We would go down to the Video Network and rent a game, then we would go down to the basement and play the weekend away. Perhaps we didn’t get as much sun as we should have, but nonetheless those were happy times. Then the fateful day came in 1997 when my brother bought a Nintendo 64. That ushered in the pinnacle of the basement culture: a little game called GoldenEye. We hooked up our boomerangshaped N64 controllers, armed ourselves to the teeth and set out on a bloody free-for-all. Our 26-inch television screen was quartered into tiny personal sections, so we could hardly make out our pixelated foes at a distance, but we didn’t care.

It was the ultimate multiplayer experience — clean, simple and fun. And most of all, we were all there together.

The modern multiplayer culture can probably be traced back to 1999, with the creation of CounterStrike. Although it started out simply as a mod for Half-Life, it ended up revolutionizing the first-person shooter with its online multiplayer experience. It allowed

for massive numbers of people to play simultaneously and engage in a straightforward battle of terrorists versus counter-terrorists. The game got only more popular over the next five years. I remember many days in darkened computer labs over the lunch hour in high school, with a couple dozen people wrapped up in Counter-Strike, hoping a roving teacher did not happen upon us.

By this point, online multiplayer had become entrenched in video games. There was no more splitscreen to contend with; one was no longer restricted to a limited pool of gaming buddies and hundreds of people could throw down together, creating team and battle dynamics that had never been seen before.

This new multiplayer culture got a substantial boost from the Halo series, and, of course, the juggernaut that is the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare franchise.

But something happened. Online play got too big. It became the focus of everyone’s energies.

Games that had traditionally been strictly single-player, like the Grand Theft Auto series, got in on the action and suddenly there were legions of gamers everywhere willing to dismiss a release off-hand if they weren’t satisfied with the online multiplayer it offered. While GoldenEye stood alone on its strong single-player campaign, games like the Modern Warfare titles throw them in as little more than a mere formality.

On one hand, the new culture has allowed unprecedented interaction spanning continents, but on the other hand, it has leached away at the basement culture that was.

Increasingly, games only allow multiplayer experience online. The legendary co-op mode in Saints Row 2, for instance, cannot be enjoyed by two people in the same room, which is a shame.

The camaraderie that was once associated with the multiplayer experience has given way in large part to impersonal come-and-go teammates at best and rage-quits, insults and racist vitriol at worst.

While we once had to wait patiently on the sidelines for a shot at one of the two controllers, the culture now has become more frantic and impatient.

I don’t want to negatively characterize online gamers, nor do I want to take online gaming away from anyone. It just troubles me that the authentic multiplayer experience, between friends in close quarters, is rapidly becoming a thing of the past. Whenever I hear about the latest online multiplayer sensation, I can’t help but think back to my evenings with Street Fighter II and feel that something has been lost between then and now.

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The rise of The Walking Dead

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Recapping Season One of the popular zombie series

Beavis and Butt-head return to TV

Zombies: not your typical stars of Sunday night television entertainment.

KEEGAN ELLIOTT To my surprise, most people I talk to haven’t heard of The Walking Dead. Even worse, when I explain that it’s a post-apocalyptic zombie show, most people get turned off and are not interested in anything else I have to say.

The Walking Dead is about so much more than just zombies. It is a show about a family, nearly torn apart by unforeseen events and forced to protect themselves against the (in)human monsters of the night after civilization has collapsed.

The Walking Dead began as a graphic novel by Robert Kirkman and centres on the leader of some survivors, Rick Grimes, who was sheriff of a small southern town before the zombies appeared. When the apocalypse hits, Rick is in a coma from a bullet wound during a police shootout. His best friend and fellow cop Shane makes sure to get Rick’s wife Lori and son Carl to safety.

Rick is left behind in the hospital to die while Shane and Rick’s family escape to Atlanta, Ga., hoping for protection from the army. Rick wakes up a month later, having slept through the apocalypse. He spends many days wandering down the road to the

nearest city. Eventually he is reunited with his family in one of the most heart-wrenching scenes in graphic novel history.

That’s the graphic novel. The television show, created and directed

by Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption, The Mist), makes several creative changes to the narrative. The writers claim that since the show and the graphic novels differ slightly, then the audience of one form of The Walking Dead won’t know all of the twists and turns of the other form. This is an ingenious and creative way to make sure that there aren’t any spoilers. After all, what is the point of watching a television show if you already know what’s going to happen?

The first season was only six episodes long. This was done as a trial to see if The Walking Dead would actually succeed on television despite its graphic nature; after all, in the first scene a six-year-old girlturned-zombie is shot in the head, making it a difficult show for anyone to watch. Luckily for cable channel AMC, The Walking Dead was a runaway hit, with around five million viewers for its premiere. Like the graphic novel, the show centres on Rick Grimes and his family, featuring

many of the same characters from the graphic novel.

After traveling to the outskirts of Atlanta, Rick finds his family alive and well. They have joined a group of survivors who fled the zombie infested streets of Atlanta and are waiting for the help of the military.

Shane and Lori, believing Rick to be dead, have fallen in love. Upon Rick’s return the affair is promptly broken off, leaving Shane jealous of Rick. Tensions are high as supplies dwindle and the undead surround them each night.

After a zombie attack that thins the number of survivors, the remnants of the group head into the heart of Atlanta to try and make contact with the Center of Disease Control in hopes that a cure for the zombie virus has been found. The one remaining doctor living there informs them that there is no hope of a cure, and that the only thing the survivors can do is wait and hope that humanity can rise again. Depressed with his failure to help them, the doctor kills himself by detonating the entire facility, thus destroying every dangerous disease stored within the CDC itself as well.

Season One ends with the survivors heading out into the Georgia countryside, horrified and

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traumatized at the hopelessness of the situation, yet never giving up.

The show may take place amid a zombie apocalypse, but it is not about the zombie apocalypse. The show is about people from all walks of life coming and working together as a community to survive a traumatic event from which humanity might never recover.

It’s amazingly written, beautifully shot and makes for an incredible cinematic experience. The Walking Dead does the zombie genre a favour and turns it into a character drivenstory, unlike some zombie movies that rely solely on the gore factor to generate a fanbase.

The first season is very short, making it easily watchable in a couple of sittings. If you haven’t watched already, spend the next few days catching up before the second season starts and excellent zombie entertainment returns to your television screens.

Season Two of The Walking Dead premieres at 8:00 p.m. on Oct. 16 on AMC.

Almost 14 years after going off the air, Beavis and Butt-head is returning to television, airing new episodes starting Oct. 27.

The crudely-drawn cartoon was a staple of MTV’s ’90s lineup and even spawned a feature film, Beavis and Butt-head Do America. Creator Mike Judge, whose other works include King of the Hill and Office Space, voiced most characters on the show, including the two main characters.

The original run of the show produced 200 episodes, ending in 1997. In addition to the two boys’ misadventures in the fictional town of Highland, Texas, the show also featured the two sitting on their couch and riffing on music videos. The new episodes of Beavis and Butt-head will follow a similar formula but the mockery gets extended to viral videos, movies and television shows like Jersey Shore and 16 & Pregnant, according to an MTV announcement.

Judge recently said he stopped working on Beavis and Butt-head in 1997 because he “was getting a little burnt out.” However, after the cancellation of King of the Hill, he decided to take an MTV offer to restart the show.

“I felt like TV was getting too smart,” he said.

Misterfire to play Louis’ on Oct. 15

Misterfire isn’t your typical local band. Their unique infusion of ska, alternative rock and reggae is miles away from the indie-folk sound so typical of local acts. While they may not be on the marquee at the Odeon Events Centre yet, Misterfire continue to build up their fanbase by playing as many shows as they can. On Oct. 15 at Louis’ the band is headlining the party for the Canadian Undergraduate Physics Conference (see page 4).

There are few bands as earnest as Misterfire and $5 for a ticket is small change to see this unique group live before they hit it big.

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Breaking Bad cont. from

Cranston is peerless when it comes to acting on television, except perhaps by his co-star Aaron Paul. As Jesse Pinkman, Walt’s former student and meth partner, Paul has risen to the challenge of expanding a character that could easily have been a onenote drug dealer. Jesse started out as a typical yo-boy, with his baggy pants, street lingo and propensity to pepper sentences with the word “bitch.”

Now, Jesse is the tortured soul of Breaking Bad, its moral centre and its whipping boy.

If people think Walt’s luck is bad with his terminal cancer diagnosis and constant threat of death from one drug boss or another, they need to take a look at Jesse’s luck.

Everything goes wrong for him.

His luck is so bad that some fans of the show have begun to redub Murphy’s Law “Pinkman’s Law” when referring to the show. Most of Walt’s actions, cancer aside, were the result of conscious decisions and the responsibility for his circumstances lies squarely with him. Jesse, on the other hand, deserves nothing of what he is dealt and only in Season Four does he start to take control of his own destiny.

The interaction between Cranston and Paul is the greatest joy of the show. Like Michael Emerson and Terry O’Quinn on Lost, Cranston and Paul have amazing chemistry and any scene containing Walt and Jesse automatically becomes a highlight.

One such excruciatingly tense scene between Walt and Jesse is in

Disturbingly, you see more than a little of yourself in Walt and Jesse. It’s like looking into a shadowy mirror.

the penultimate episode of Season Four, “End Times,” and showcases more emotional twists and tension in five minutes than most shows can muster in an entire season.

What makes the scene so remarkable is that the actors make every radical emotional transition believable. From one beat to the next, they turn from desperation to helplessness to acceptance to anger, and because they’re so committed to the performance, the emotional energy transfers off the screen and

into the viewer.

However, Breaking Bad is not just a show that is carried by its performances. It may contain the two best actors on television, but the writing supplies them with the best material to work with. Breaking Bad never seems trite or boring or unrealistic. It may work slowly and have huge climaxes, but these are never forced through preposterous twists and narrative convenience.

Every action is borne out of the characters’ emotions, which are so

deftly explored that even improbable narrative twists are believable because they are the result of the characters’ poor decisions.

It will be interesting to see where the show is headed in Season Five and to find out how much lower Walt can morally sink. There are still 16 episodes to go in the series and a lot is bound to happen in them, but even without the knowledge of its complete run, Breaking Bad has established itself as one of the great dramas. It continues to surprise and

astound, and its characters will be given their rightful place in the hall of fame of antiheroes.

Breaking Bad belongs alongside shows like Lost, M*A*S*H and The Wire in the conversation regarding the best dramas to ever appear on television. Twenty years from now people will look back and say, “When Breaking Bad was on AMC, those were the golden days of television.”

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Strange new culinary creature, The Excalibur, unleashed at campus pub DORIAN GEIGER Pulling “the sword from the stone” has just become a reality for University of Saskatchewan students.

But instead of hardened rock, Louis’ Pub is challenging students to hoist the sword from two tender patties of moist beef.

Plain and simple, the Excalibur is an edible monstrosity that sits five inches high on the plate. Two half-pound patties, bacon, mushrooms, tomatoes, lettuce and — drum roll — two grilled cheese sandwiches as buns make up the daunting Excalibur.

Impaled on a mighty steak knife to embody “the sword in the stone,” the feast can only be finished by a select few.

Right from the get-go, it was clear the Excalibur was all about big numbers.

Upwards of 1,700 calories and 100 grams of fat were enveloped in this sandwich. At a whopping cost of $17.99, I planned on not eating — or moving — for several days.

After the hulking menu item was placed in front of me, the full scale of my dining challenge sank in. This thing was beyond gigantic. Would I be man enough to stomach the Excalibur? And if so, would I survive to tell the tale?

Louis’ food and beverage manager Jason Kovitch and assistant manager Daniel Smolinski brainstormed the Excalibur after attending food service conferences across Canada.

“Outrageous foods are really popular and romantic right now,” said Smolinski.

Although a fan of “outrageous food” shows like Man Vs. Food and the YouTube hit Epic Mealtime, Smolinski said his small-town restaurant instincts also played a part in concocting the sandwich.

“Large meals and who can eat them have always been a carnival sideshow of restaurants. It’s pretty important to have one in your own restaurant,” he said.

As lethargy was crippling my body and I thought I could eat no more, I was informed that if I finished the sandwich, I would be granted exclusive membership to the “Knights of The Excalibur.” A photo album on Louis’ Facebook page, the Knights of The Excalibur is dedicated to those who have stomached this massive sandwich.

“It’s something fun to eat and help promote our social media networking,” said Smolinski.

So far his strategy has proven to be successful.

“Every restaurant has a different idea on using Facebook and Twitter to a certain

Even the cooks keep their distance from the Excalibur sandwich.

effect. This was one way to get people on our Facebook page. They will look at themselves doing something outrageous and then their friends will see that and let it snowball out of there.”

Smolinski noted that 80 people have liked the Louis’ Facebook page in October alone. The Knights of The Excalibur online album currently shows about 20 patrons who have finished the dish to retrieve the steak knife sword.

As for me, David toppled Golliath in the end and after three heart bypass surgeries, my harrowing tale of conquering the Excalibur lives on.

Taking roughly an hour to devour, the Excalibur proved no easy task. This beast packed more fromage than the Bulk Cheese Warehouse. Considering my lusty relationship with cheese, the grilled cheese sandwich buns were a quirky, but fun addition.

The full one-pound burger at Fuddruckers is likely the closest thing you’ll find to the Excalibur in Saskatoon.

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Even then, The Excalibur makes the famous Fudd burger look like a wimpy baloney sandwich. Plus, you don’t have to cope with dozens of screaming children while dining at Louis’ — unless you decide to sample this feast on a Tuesday during Dollar Draft.

Casual snackers, vegetarians and nutrition freaks: the Excalibur is not up your alley. Do not try fighting it — you will surely lose in the end.

Louis’ remains undecided if the Excalibur will be a limited-time offer or if it will emerge as a staple of their menu, so try it today before your chance for glory disappears.

If the Excalibur has inspired you to come up with your own culinary creations, but you desperately lack the skills to make them a reality, have no fear.

The Sheaf is giving away a copy of Oh my gosh! I’m in College and I Never Learned to Cook by Hollis Ledbetter. This 200-page cookbook covers all the kitchen essentials none of us learned, from how to cook pasta to more advanced recipes like “ginger chicken in plum sauce.”

To win this cookbook, like The Sheaf Publishing Society on Facebook, then email editor@thesheaf.com with the subject line “I liked you on Facebook, now give me a cookbook!” The winner will be announced on our Facebook page Oct. 20.

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CAMPUS CHAT

IF YOUR HOUSE WERE BURNING DOWN, WHAT’S THE ONE THING YOU WOULD TAKE WITH YOU?

“Make-up.”

“Snowboard.”

“Laptop.”

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Fake News of the Week Man lies in bed, weighs pros and cons of getting up

Archeology student Josh Anderson was deeply conflicted this morning when his alarm went off.

“I hit the snooze, stared at the ceiling and searched in desperation for something, anything, that inspired me to haul my ass out of bed,” he wrote on his Facebook profile.

Anderson’s plight was made worse by his philosophy that “going to work, meeting people and generally participating in society, is not my cup of tea.”

Dan Steel, Anderson’s overachieving roommate, noted that “a lack of stimulant drugs in his system” probably exacerbated

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the burn-out’s morning surliness.

After an hour or so, Anderson found a raison d’être.

“The prospect of a warm shower reassured me. Then again, there’s always that moment where you step out of the shower and shiver before you get to the towel.

That makes me wish I never got up.”

Come afternoon, he found himself alert, ready to face the day’s biggest task: alphabetizing his record collection.

Theory of Evolution disproved

A recent study conducted by the Young-Earth Science Academy has formally disproved the theory of evolution.

“In the past, scientists used

carbon dating, fossils and rational thinking to support evolution.

But their whole methodology was wrong,” lead researcher Hank Jennings explained at a press conference.

YESA’s discovery was made using a state-of-the art tool only they possess, according to Jennings.

“Ancient scriptures provide us with incontrovertible evidence for a young earth.”

Jennings encouraged critics “not to get too hung up on the scriptures’ vague translations or the fact they were written by people who didn’t have plumbing, let alone carbon dating technology.”

In response to YESA’s discovery, textbooks will be

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rewritten, statues of Darwin defaced and natural history museums burnt to a crisp.

Jennings closed by saying, “We now live in a world free of the dogmatic thinking science subjected us to. We now realize that faith, not science, is the best discourse for studying the living earth.”

Following Jennings’ words, Darwin literally rolled over in his grave.

World’s Funniest Man realizes life is ‘no joking matter’ Joe Kerr, the funniest man alive, has quit comedy.

“While I’m telling jokes, bombs are going off, people are starving. Does that seem funny to you?” he barked at reporters during the press conference announcing his retirement.

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At his last show, Kerr wandered off stage during his “two minorities walk into a bar” joke — a notorious bit that earned him the title “America’s funniest bigot.”

Fellow funnyman Jerry Seinfeld responded to Kerr’s behavior, saying, “What’s the deal with that?” Unable to stay focused, Seinfeld added, “You ever lose a remote in couch cushions? What’s the deal with that?”

Kerr says he plans to give a series of talks on how unfunny and gloomy the world really is.

Strangely, Kerr will be performing the talks at comedy clubs and festivals. However, in order to let his audiences know there won’t be anything to laugh at, the opener on tour will be Jeff Foxworthy.

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