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Corrections • In our previous issue, “Diefenbaker Centre hosts democracy week panel” includes quotes attributed to Eric Olauson which should be to attributed Zach Jeffries.

• In the same article, Michael Boda was stated as being Chief Electoral Officer since 2011 when he in fact began in 2012.

• In our Sept. 18 issue, the photo caption for “Keep on rockin’ in The Physical World” incorrectly identified Sebastien Grainger as Jesse Keller.

We apologize for these errors.

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Transit lockout continues to challenge U of S students ALEXANDER QUON The City of Saskatoon’s lockout of transit workers has entered its second week, bringing with it mounting frustration and no sign that buses will be returning to the road anytime soon.

After 11 months of bargaining between the city and members of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 615 resulted in only failed negotiations, city officials locked out approximately 330 of its bus drivers at 9 p.m. on Sept. 20. There has been no bus service since, with the exception of Access Transit.

One of the largest groups impacted by the lack of public transport is students at the University of Saskatchewan.

“We know that thousands and thousands of students use transit every day,” said U of S Students’ Union president Max FineDay. “There are students, waking up at six in the morning… to get to class on time. It’s been ridiculous the lengths students have had to go to because they aren’t being respected by city council.”

In response to the transit lockout the university has introduced alternatives in order to help minimize disruptions.

The UCommute program has allowed some students to organize rides with other individuals in their area, while increased capacity of parking lots as well as temporary parking permits have relieved some of the stress on the university infrastructure. However, some students are still struggling to attend class or go about their daily lives.

“It’s been a little frustrating,” said

Jessica Popp, who is in her first year of graduate studies in biology. “It’s increased my travel time by 20 minutes each way ­— so about a forty minute commute both ways. I’ve had to drive part of the way and then walk the rest.”

Travel has proved to be a particularly daunting task for Popp to overcome during her first year in Saskatoon.

“Not being from here, it makes it a totally different ballgame where you grow to rely on something and then suddenly it’s not there,” she said. “It’s a little hard getting around not knowing many people and not having as many people as connections to be able to go to or to get help from.”

It is not just individuals new to Saskatoon who have faced challenges, as even those who are familiar with the city have encountered issues getting to and from school.

Eugene Irwin is a fourth year Edwards School of Business student

who had a particularly shocking experience dealing with the transit issues.

“Monday morning I had to drive and I actually got hit… I got rear ended,” Irwin said. “With the amount of traffic I saw on Circle [Drive] and on College [Drive], it’s almost dangerous how many vehicles are there. I’m not even talking about convenience-wise, I’m talking about safety.”

While he waits for the full amount of what the transit lockout will cost him, Irwin reflects on how those who do not have other methods of transportation have been affected.

“I feel bad for the people that count on the transit to make a living… that try to get downtown or anywhere in Saskatoon where their job is because they can’t afford a car but they also need to work. We’re all entitled to that,” Irwin said.

As a second year arts and science student who is also trying to work part time, Nicole Pogoda is one of those individuals who has lost

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Buses have remained dormant since the transit lockout begain Sept. 20.

more than simply transportation to and from school. It has been hard for her to confidently say she could work a regular schedule.

“If I were to get a job I would have... to bus and if they were really far away, I can’t walk for two hours,” Pogoda said. “That would be impossible. So now I have to rely on people for rides.”

With students struggling to go about their daily lives, even FineDay recognizes the challenges that the university faces.

“Not everything is going to work best for students,” he said. “It’s just unrealistic that the UCommute program will work for everybody; it’s unrealistic to think that everybody is going to have a bike and a lock to be able to get to school that way; it’s unrealistic to think that people can pay for taxis every day to get to class. There’s a limited amount of options here… but the main solution here is that these bus drivers can get back to work.”

Irwin agrees with FineDay. “The ball really is in the court of the transit union and the city to come up with an agreement. We can only do what we can do and the university can only do what it can do. We’re very limited to what power we have in the grand scheme of things,” he said.

However, some students have been able to find a silver lining during the transit lockout.

“I mean it has had its positives where it has forced me to be outside and walk and enjoy the scenery,” Popp said. “But at the same time it is frustrating when time is of the essence and you don’t have that much time to put towards other things such as longer commutes.”

Preston Crossing expansion announced HENRYTYE GLAZEBROOK Senior News Editor With files from Taylor Borowetz.

A long-term lease has been signed for the phase five development of the Preston Crossing land owned by the University of Saskatchewan.

A new developer for the university Ronmore Developers Inc. has signed an agreement for the 8.8 acre area. Though no businesses have been announced as possible tenants on the land, construction is expected to begin in early 2015 with plans to finish by spring 2016.

"We are looking forward to working with [Ronmore] and know they bring the kind of expertise that people have come to expect with our retail developments," said Judy Yungwirth, director of corporate administration at the U of S, via press release.

According to Ronmore’s website, “plans are underway to include

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various amenities including green spaces, bike parking areas and pedestrian-friendly walkways.”

The land in question is located west of Old Navy and will nearly complete development at Preston Crossing. A final deal is currently in discussion for the area to the east of Sobeys, which is roughly three acres in size.

Yungworth said that $1.79 million in student scholarships are brought to the university annually through development at Preston Crossing. To date, a reported $12 million has been provided to undergraduate and graduate students through these earnings.

According to James Cook, manager of business opportunities for the U of S, the university will have to pay for costs associated with infrastructure before funds from phase five development can be used for other purposes. Cook said it is expected to take three to four years for such costs to be completely paid off.

It has not yet been determined what any net profit available will be put toward after initial costs have been dealt with.

Since it first welcomed shoppers

just over 10 years ago, Preston Crossing has expanded to include a variety of businesses including big box stores and restaurants.

An estimated 690,000 square feet of the 57 acres of land available is currently occupied.

Cook stressed that the university

is excited to continue working toward final construction at Preston Crossing.

The U of S is “very happy that the development will be expanding a little bit further. It’s been very successful for the university and the City of Saskatoon,” Cook said.

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U of S finds possible stroke, brain trauma treatment TAYLOR BOROWETZ Researcher and assistant professor Francisco Cayabyab and his team may have recently discovered a way to minimize the permanent brain damage caused by stroke or traumatic brain injury.

Cayabyab has been in the area of neuroscience for over a decade, and has created a large body of academic work, with the most recent study garnering welldeserved attention.

The publication Cayabyab and his team have worked on relates to how strokes — the blockage of blood vessels in the brain — result in delayed brain damage hours and even days after the initial event.

They were posed with a question that has been puzzling neuroscientists for decades. To answer it, they turned to an animal with a brain very similar in structure to a human: the rat.

In their experiments, the team induced a mild stroke by removing some of the small blood vessels located on the top-right-hand side of the brain. This method prevents nutrients and oxygen from reaching the cells that the blood vessel feeds.

Most stroke research states that all of the cells within the immediate site of damage are dead, but there is an area just around this ischemic core that have cells that could be rescued, Cayabyab said.

His research found that even a mild stroke on the surface of a rat’s brain can have an immediate impact on the whole brain.

“We think that it’s a landmark study because it represents a paradigm shift on how we normally view stroke damage occurs,” he said.

The learning and memory forming centres of the brain, called the hippocampus, are located in the medial temporal lobe. These areas are very sensitive to traumatic brain injuries. Cayabyab found that a stroke on one hemisphere of the brain can have an effect on the other as well.

Parts of the hippocampus are more vulnerable because they contain fewer calcium binding proteins

that lead to a flood of calcium ions into the cell. When they reach damaging levels, the cell undergoes programmed cell death. The ease of damaging these sensitive areas worsens the permanent deterioration generated by the trauma.

Cayabyab and his team performed a massive set of studies to show that heightened levels of adenosine in the brain are responsible for damage to the hippocampus days or even weeks after a stroke.

Adenosine signals sleep and waking cycles as well as patterns of alertness. Its levels fluctuate on a day-to-day basis as they accumulate during the day, causing fatigue, and are absorbed during sleep.

For over 40 years it has been believed that when an individual has a stroke or a traumatic brain injury, the major molecule released from neurons and supporting cells is glutamate, which is thought to produce the neurotoxicity that causes neural damage. There are certain glutamate receptors that are damaged when subject to diseases or strokes. Subsequently, calcium permeability can be affected, which can in turn affect

adenosine levels. Cayabyab said that adenosine signaling is likely the cause of the delayed neural cell death that occurs following a stroke.

Cayabyab points to valuable clinical data showing that patients who have had a tiny transient ischemic stroke in the brain see a massive surge in blood plasma concentrations of adenosine two-to-three days later.

He explained that when an individual has a stroke, the neurons are overexcited into releasing not only glutamate but also a substance called adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which provides cellular energy.

ATP doesn’t stay outside the cells long, but is rapidly broken down by enzymes that turn them into adenosine. This process of converting the excess ATP is part of the reason adenosine levels stay elevated after a stroke.

There are also transporters on the surface of the brain cells that start to malfunction, so that their intake cannot keep up with the increased adenosine levels, Cayabyab said.

“Accumulation of adenosine becomes a huge problem.”

Cayabyab and his team did not only identify the components of this problem: they have also developed a possible solution.

“We have a peptide called YD, which is basically a peptide that we designed based on what we discovered in our recent paper. There are certain molecular switches, if you will, that are turned on by prolonged adenosine receptor stimulation,” he said. “And one of these molecular switches, it turns out, can be inhibited by having this peptide administered or inserted into the cells.”

The term YD is a shorthand for the chemical buildup of the peptide, the full nature of which could not be disclosed due to a pending patent application.

In their preliminary studies, which are still ongoing, they injected the rats with the YD peptide before they induced the stroke. Cayabyab and his team found that there is extensive neuroprotection taking place in the hippocampus which decreases neurodegeneration.

To find out if they were successful,

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Francisco Cayabyab believes he and his associates made bounding steps toward better stroke treatments.

the team looked at long-term potentiation, a test used to see if learning occurs on in-vitro brain slices, and found it was greatly depressed when animals were subjected to the in vivo stroke model. When injected with the peptide before a stroke was induced, however, the animals retained normal long-term potentiation.

This result of normal long-term potentiation shows huge promise to the possibility of minimizing brain damage.

In these prior experiments the peptide was administered first as a preventative. The next step is to start injecting the peptide at two and three hours after the stroke has been induced, in order to mimic what would happen clinically.

Cayabyab’s recommendation is to rush individuals to the hospital immediately following a stroke so that a blood thinning agent can be administered. This process is called reperfusion, and allows blood flow to resume in the areas of the brain that were deprived of oxygen and nutrients following a stroke.

Although reperfusion is not actually a cure, it is a way to reduce damage. The possibility of reperfusion ischemic injury also exists, where the return of circulation can cause inflammation and oxidative damage such as cognitive deficit, paralysis and partial paralysis.

“If we can reduce the damage of the brain cells that control, for example, learning or brain cells that control movement, then I think we can do a lot more for stroke patients than we currently do now,” Cayabyab said.

He said that they are currently in the process of filing a patent for YD because it’s such a major discovery.

They are hoping to pair up with a pharmaceutical company that has the funds to help find small molecules that mimic the effect of this peptide, its neuroprotective effect and the reversal of memory loss. If this is achieved, the results could be tremendous.

“We looked at alternative ways to produce neuroprotection, and I think we have stumbled upon something that is quite novel,” Cayabyab said. “Nobody has really made the connection until now.”

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WUSC sponsors education for international students JOCELYN DUFRESNE When David Deng took his seat on his flight enroute to Canada from Kenya, he was presented with a plate of food he had never seen in his life. What turned out to be white beans was the first of many new things Deng would experience over the next four years as a sponsored student at the University of Saskatchewan.

Along with numerous other students, Deng has been sponsored through the U of S’ World University Service Canada Student Refugee Program. This program focuses specifically on empowerment through education.

WUSC is a Canadian non-profit organization that works towards education, empowerment and employment through partnering with several other non-government organizations around the world.

Its head office in Ottawa selects students from a refugee camp in Kenya and places them in local chapters across Canada.

Faculty advisor Gabriela Mangano explained that "the U of S is part of WUSC and WUSC is a fundamental component of our university. We should not forget that together with Carleton University, we are considered founders of the [Student Refugee Program], being the second university in Canada to open its doors."

WUSC provides the opportunity for sponsored students to become Canadian citizens, earn an education, bring their families to Canada or bring their new knowledge and skills back home to support their communities.

The Student Refugee Program’s goal is to provide education for refugees and an environment for Canadian students to “gain skills and build leadership qualities… which in turn enriches and develops the communities they’re living in, so there is a huge benefit on that side of things,” Jessica Brown, WUSC club president said. “It provides a really unique training program for university students to develop skills they maybe couldn’t elsewhere.”

Brown is confident that WUSC offers a unique combination of factors that make it so successful.

“WUSC is the only organization in the world that partners education with refugee sponsorship,” she said.

The U of S sponsors three students with tuition for 10 classes during their first year. The students come from countries such as South Sudan, Somalia, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

In addition to the university’s financial support, each undergraduate student pays $3.50 in their tuition to contribute to living expenses and necessities for the sponsored students.

Brown and the other executive club members — including

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student refugee program mentors Blanchard Kavakwa, Hassan Khalid and Mohamednoor Bain, treasurer Shafalta Basnyat and secretary Stephanie Deptuch — are responsible for facilitating mentorship for sponsored students, volunteer opportunities and a sense of community for the group as a whole.

WUSC has been present at the university since 1978 and in Canada since the 1920s. The U of S has sponsored over 75 students, some of whom have continued their education here on campus in many areas of study and have earned degrees in fields such as registered nursing and English. One student is currently in the process of publishing his first book, while another has studied petroleum engineering

at the University of Regina.

Students can contribute to WUSC by volunteering and attending weekly meetings, held at 5 p.m. every Thursday in the International Student and Study Abroad Centre training room.

“There are a wealth of things [students] can get involved in, depending on what their interests are. They could work with new and old sponsored students with things like helping them with their homework, helping them apply for student loans,” Brown said. “They could also help them deal with various issues with the university and the Government of Canada.”

The club hosts several community-building and fundraising events during the year, specifically

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The WUSC team is proud to help sponsor international students.

to welcome sponsored students and provide them with a Canadian experience. Students are encouraged to register in the upcoming Ride for Refuge event, a 25 kilometer cycling event to raise awareness and funds for WUSC on Oct. 4.

Another event, the Shine a Light gala and trivia night, will take place on Feb. 5 at Louis’ Pub, which is also a great opportunity for university students to volunteer. The focus of the night is to spread awareness on the disparity of educational opportunity between females and males and raise funds to provide females with the tools they need in refugee camps to earn the opportunity to come to Canada.

The club is also in the process of scheduling a trip during the fall semester to Regina to play trampoline dodgeball against the WUSC team from the U of R. All students are welcome to join and show their support.

Mangano said that “this year we have a really extraordinary local committee, completely devoted to our mission and full of enthusiasm.

Each of these U of S volunteer students contributes significantly to the program, and they have already done a magnificent job with the preparation and the welcoming of our three new students”.

Students can contact WUSC through their Facebook page (WUSC UofS), online at wusc.usask.ca or by emailing wusc.uofs@usask.ca.

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U of S researchers earn prestigious Fellowship RAINER KOCSIS Associate News Editor Two University of Saskatchewan researchers are amongst 90 Canadians to be named Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada this year.

Medical anthropologist Jim Waldram and chemical engineer Ajay Dalai were elected into the RSC on Sept. 9. The organization is Canada’s senior body for distinguished scholars and one of the country’s highest academic honours.

“I was thrilled,” Waldram said in an email to the Sheaf. “One dreams of being elected into the Royal Society.

It is like the final approval of a career well-done.”

Waldram, who holds a PhD in medical anthropology, started at the U of S in 1983 in the native studies department. In 1999, he transferred to the department of psychology and in 2009 he was appointed a joint member of the departments of archaeology and anthropology.

Over the past three decades, Waldram has become an international authority in the study of Aboriginal mental health issues and the cultural bases of healing and treatment. He has undertaken research all across northern Canada in remote Aboriginal communities, in urban areas, in medical clinics and in prisons.

His research has been widely funded by national funding agencies including the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. His current research involves patterns of traditional healing among

Maya peoples in Belize.

Waldram is a former president of the Canadian Anthropology Society and a current Fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology.

“You do not achieve this on your own, at least not in my case,” Waldram said. “I have had wonderful community and institutional partners over the years... it really feels like a team victory.”

Dalai has been a professor at the U of S since 1996 and holds a Canada Research Chair in Bioenergy and Environmentally Friendly Chemical Processing. In 2009, Dalai accepted the position of associate dean of research and partnerships for the College of Engineering, in addition to his professorship and supervisory role.

His research primarily involves the production of fuels and fuel additives from organic compounds, and has resulted in numerous patents.

Dalai is a life member of the Indian Institute of Engineers, the Indian Catalysis Society, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and is an active member of the American Chemical Society as well as the Chemical Institute of Canada.

The RSC was established in 1882 with the primary objective of promoting learning and research in the arts, the humanities and the natural and social sciences by recognizing distinguished scholars, artists and scientists. Today, over 3,700 Fellows have been inducted into the society.

In order to be selected for a Fellowship, individuals must be nominated

by a university president or a Fellow of the society. Nominators must also submit a package which includes letters of support from other scholars as well as a list of the nominee’s career achievements.

“In my case, former president Ilene Busch-Vishniac nominated me, using her presidential nominating powers,” Waldram said. “Jim Miller in history is a Fellow and he co-signed my nomination.”

Waldram says that the Fellowship is “a great testament to the value and importance of engaged, community-based scholarship, which is still undervalued in academia.”

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Jim Waldram was recently inducted into the Royal Society of Canada.

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Soccer teams experience decent weekend AUSTIN ARVAY Sports Editor Both University of Saskatchewan soccer teams played hard through two games this past weekend, but in the end the men’s team would come away with a win and a draw whereas the women would lose and draw one.

Sept. 27 saw the men’s Huskies play the first of two on the road games against the University of Lethbridge Pronghorns.

The Dogs entered the matches ranked as the fifth best team in the country, but their start sure didn’t show it. In the 23rd minute they allowed Lethbridge defender Connor Brady to open the scoring.

After the Huskies applied a ton of pressure, they finally broke through in the 73rd minute thanks to Garrett Peters’ goal off a pretty pass from David Brown. Then in the 88th, striker Brett Levis placed a perfect shot in top corner to give the Huskies a late 2–1 lead.

The lead however was shortlived as Stephen Primeau buried the equalizer past Huskie keeper Michael Bandula in injury time to even the score at two apiece.

That’s how the first game would end with each team picking up a single point in the standings after a 2–2 draw.

The following day, the Huskies started slow once again, allowing

Pronghorns forward Scott Slomp to open the scoring in just the 10th minute. The goal came after Bandula had to make a handful of saves in the early going, but just couldn’t keep out the fourth shot of the game he faced. The Huskies had a few late chances, but trailed 1–0 at the intermission.

Again, the Dogs would come out flying to begin the second half and wound up tying the game just two minutes into the new frame.

Brown would step up and nail home a penalty kick in the 47th minute to make the score 1–1.

The two teams would battle it

out for the rest of a tense second half before Levis was the hero in injury time. Levis notched his Canada West leading sixth goal of the campaign off a beautiful feed from Brown to secure the victory. Unable to amount any offensive pressure late, Lethbridge would be defeated by a final score of 2–1.

The Huskies now find themselves all alone atop the Prairie Division of the Canada West with a 5-0-1 record. They are one point ahead of the University of Alberta, who just happens to be in town on Oct. 3 and 5 to take

when she stopped Erica Hindmarsh on a breakaway.

On Sept. 28 Reif again would slam the door shut and keep the powerful Huskies offence off of the scoreboard. Although the Huskies dominated the Griffins in the first half, they had nothing to show for it as they went in to the break with a 0–0 tie.

It was much of the same in the second half as the Dogs once again controlled much of the play. However, in the 82nd minute MacEwan striker Kassandra Jajczay was the recipient of a perfect cross from Erika Vecchio and she would tap the ball into the open net to give the Griffins a huge 1–0 lead. It was the first and only goal scored on the weekend.

The Huskies outshot the Griffins 15–4 in the match but ended up with the loss, dropping their record to 3–2–3 on the season.

The record is good enough for 12 points and fourth place in the tight Prairie Division, but they sit a mere three points back of first place Calgary.

Next up is the 1–5–2 Lethbridge Pronghorns, who will make the trip to Saskatoon for the weekend doubleheader. The Huskies will need two big wins in hopes to stay near the top of the standings in the division.

On Oct. 3, the women’s team will play at 12 p.m. at Field 7 at PotashCorp Park and the men’s team will follow at 2:15 p.m. The teams will have Oct. 4 off before getting back on the field on Oct. 5 with the same game times and location.

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The women’s team had a tough weekend going 0-1-1 but the men’s squad picked up the slack and went 1-0-1.

Canada West Standings

Upcoming Games Men’s Hockey

Oct. 3 & 4 vs. UBC Thunderbirds @ 7 p.m.

Women’s Hockey

• Oct. 3 & 4 at UBC Thunderbirds @ 7 p.m.

Women’s soccer

Oct. 3 & 5 vs. Lethbridge Pronghorns @ 12 p.m.

men’s soccer

Oct. 3 & 5 vs. Alberta Golden Bears @ 2:15 p.m.

Men’s football

on the first-place Huskies.

Also playing in Alberta, the women’s team was in Edmonton on Sept. 27 to kick off its doubleheader with the MacEwan University Griffins.

It was an intense back-andforth affair with both teams having quality chances, but neither was able to solve the keepers. Cara Santaga of the Huskies and Rebecca Reif of the Griffins both recorded the clean sheets. The green and white outshot MacEwan 13–6 but Reif was stellar, and had her biggest save of the game in the 52nd minute

Oct. 4 vs. UBC Thunderbirds @ 7 p.m.

Cross country Oct. 4 Sled Dog Open @ 10 a.m.

men’s basketball

• Oct. 3 at MacEwan Griffins @ 12 p.m. (exhibition)

women’s basketball

• Oct. 3 at MacEwan Griffins @ 12 p.m. (exhibition)

men’s volleyball

• Oct. 3 at MacEwan Griffins @ 6:30 p.m. (U of R tournament) • Oct. 4 at Winnipeg Wesmen @ 12:30 p.m. (U of R tournament) • Oct. 5 at Brandon Bobcats @ 11:30 a.m. (U of R tournament)

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Women’s Soccer

Men’s Soccer Prairie Division 1. Saskatchewan 2. Alberta 3. MacEwan 4. Calgary 5. Winnipeg 6. Lethbridge 7. Mount Royal

W-L-T 5-0-1 4-1-3 3-3-2 3-3-0 2-5-1 1-3-2 1-4-1

Prairie Division 1. Calgary 2. Regina 3. MacEwan 4. Saskatchewan 5. Alberta 6. Manitoba 7. Mount Royal 8. Lethbridge

W-L-T 4-1-3 4-2-2 4-1-1 3-2-3 3-1-2 3-3-0 2-5-1 1-5-2

Pacific Division 1. UBC 2. Victoia 3. UBC Okanagan 4. UFV 5. Trinity Western 6. UNBC 7. Thompson Rivers

W-L-T 6-0-0 5-1-0 4-4-0 4-4-0 3-2-1 1-7-0 0-5-1

Pacific Division 1. UFV 2. Trinity Western 3. Victoria 4. UBC 5. UBC Okanagan 6. UNBC 7. Thompson Rivers

W-L-T 7-1-0 5-0-1 5-0-1 3-2-1 0-5-3 0-6-2 0-6-0

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

W-L 3-1 3-1 2-2 2-2 1-3 1-3

Men’s Hockey 1. Calgary 2. Mount Royal 3. Saskatchewan 4. UBC 5. Albeta 6. Regina 7. Lethbridge 8. Manitoba

W-L 2-0 2-0 2-0 1-1 1-1 0-2 0-2 0-2

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Huskies knock off Rams in provincial showdown AUSTIN ARVAY Sports Editor The University of Saskatchewan Huskies seem to have a flare for the dramatics. For the second time in three weeks they used a late touchdown to seal a victory — this time over the University of Regina Rams.

Quarterback Drew Burko was excellent once again as he engineered the late drive that would end up being the winning points in a hard fought 21–16 Dogs victory.

Burko was relied on heavily and he didn’t disappoint, as the Huskies couldn’t establish a running game all afternoon. Of his 46 passes, Burko completed 30 of them for 343 yards and two touchdowns. He has been the key to the Huskies offence thus far as he is second in the Canada West conference in passing yards and is tied for first in passing touchdowns.

Mitch Hillis opened the scoring on a five-yard touchdown pass from Burko, it was Hillis’ third touchdown of the year.

Then after a Denton Kolodzinski single stretched the Huskie lead

to eight, Rams leading receiver Addison Richards scored a nineyard touchdown to make the score 8–7 after one quarter of play.

In the second quarter, Rams kicker Andrew Fabian hit a pair of field goals — one from 29 and another from 21 yards out.

Kolodzinksi would answer for the green and white with a 35-yard field goal of his own to make the score 13–11 in favour of the Rams at halftime. The third quarter would also be a defensive affair as Fabian scored the lone points of the frame with

a 29-yard field goal to give the Rams a 16–11 cushion after 45 minutes of action.

Kolodzinski connected on a 33-yard field goal and then tacked on a single point to cut the Rams lead to just 16–15, setting the stage for Burko’s late heroics.

Burko guided them on a nineplay drive, 74-yard drive where he completed seven passes capped off with a five-yard touchdown by running back Shane Buchanan. Veteran linebacker Richard Zacharias would seal it with an interception on the very

next play for the Dogs.

Defensively, Geoff Hughes led the way with 6.5 tackles. Rookie defensive end Adam Morrison chipped in with a sack and defensive backs Chris Friesen and Keegan Arynek recorded interceptions. The Huskies defence was strong against the run, allowing just 59 yards along the ground. The secondary, however, gave up 355 passing yards to Noah Picton in his first ever Canadian Interuniversity Sport start. They used the “bend but don’t break” philosophy as they gave a substantial chunk of

Quaterback Drew Burko executed a perfect late game drive to score the game winning touchdown.

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yardage, but held the Rams to just 16 points — a season best for the Huskies.

In other Canada West action, the University of Calgary Dinos remained undefeated as they snuck past the University of Manitoba Bisons 42–41 and the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds picked up their first win of the season as they downed the visiting University of Alberta Golden Bears 49–13.

The U of S win and the Bisons loss means the Dogs take over sole possession of second place in the Canada West with a 3–1 record. Next week they are home to the 1–3 Thunderbirds and finish their season by playing the 1–3 Golden Bears and then a rematch with Manitoba.

If the Huskies close out their season like they should, they would likely finish at 6–1 and that would be good enough for second place and hosting a playoff game in the Canada West. A likely matchup would be with the third place Bisons, whom the Huskies disposed of 44–24 in week one.

There is a lot of football left to be played, but the Huskies have put themselves in a good position to compete for the Canada West championship.

The Huskies will host the University of Alberta Golden Bears on Oct. 4 at 7 p.m. in the annual Blackout Game.

Week 5 NFL Picks: Bucs pull off late upset AUSTIN ARVAY Sports Editor Oct. 2 Minnesota (2–2) at Green Bay (2–2) The Thursday nighter in week five should be a good one as both teams are coming off impressive wins. Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers looked virtually unstoppable last week and will look to keep it rolling at home again. Rookie quarterback Teddy Bridgewater looked composed in his first National Football League start but will have a tougher test against the Packers.

Take: Green Bay Oct. 5 Atlanta (2–2) at New York Giants (2–2) Tight end Larry Donnell stole the show last week as he hauled in three touchdowns in a big Giants win. Now they come home and get to play a poor road team — the Atlanta Falcons. Wide receiver Julio Jones and the Falcons offence should have a bounceback game against a weak Giants defence. Take: Atlanta Oct. 5 Chicago (2–2) at Carolina (2–2) The Bears were steamrolled at home by Green Bay and now have to go on the road and take on a strong Carolina team. Linebacker

Luke Kuechly and the Panthers have dropped two straight and were exposed last week. The Bears passing attack is even better than what the Panthers saw last week.

Take: Chicago Oct. 5 Houston (3–1) at Dallas (3–1) Houston is off to a very surprising start and are being led by their shutdown defence. Dallas looked excellent at home last week and running back DeMarco Murray is leading the NFL in rushing. We’re seeing a good offence against a good defence.

Take: Dallas Oct. 5 Buffalo (2–2) at Detroit (3–1) Quarterback E.J. Manuel is being replaced by Kyle Orton who gets to face a difficult Detroit defence.

Detroit’s stingy run defence means Orton will be relied on to move the ball. The Lions just simply overmatch the Bills on both sides of the ball.

Take: Detroit Oct. 5 Baltimore (3–1) at Indianapolis (3–1) This could potentially be the game of the week as both teams have looked scary good the past two weeks. Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck leads

the league in passing and will use the advantage of being at home this week.

Take: Indianapolis Oct. 5 Pittsburgh (2–2) at Jacksonville (0–4) The Steelers fell victim to the upset of the week as the winless Tampa Bay Buccaneers squeaked out a win. Still not having found the win column, the Jacksonville Jaguars aren’t expected to anytime soon.

Pittsburgh coach Mike Tomlin will not allow his team to be beaten by a weaker team again.

Take: Pittsburgh Oct. 5 Tampa Bay (1–3) at New Orleans (1–3) Surprisingly both of these teams are 1–3. The Bucs pulled out a stunner last week but now have to travel to New Orleans where the Saints haven’t lost in almost two years.

Quarterback Drew Brees could have a huge game. Take: New Orleans Oct. 5 Arizona (3–0) at Denver (2–1) The Arizona Cardinals are one of two unbeaten teams left in the NFL and coming off the bye get to face future hall of famer Peyton Manning. The Broncos are very tough to beat at home and it will come down to whether the Cards defence can slow down the highflying Denver

offence. Take: Denver Oct. 5 St. Louis (1–2) at Philadelphia (3–1) Philly lost a close one last week for their first defeat of the year.

Despite coming off a bye week, the Rams still don’t have a quarterback.

With the Eagles at home, it could get ugly.

Take: Philadelphia

Monday Night Football win, the Kansas City Chiefs now get a tough test travelling to San Francisco.

The 49ers were the first team to beat the Eagles this year and their defence was exceptional in the process. Chiefs running back Jamaal Charles is finally healthy, but he can’t win the game on his own. Take: San Francisco

Oct. 5 Cleveland (1–2) at Tennessee (1–3) Coming off the bye, the Cleveland Browns get a good matchup with the Tennessee Titans, who still could be without their starting quarterback. Whether it’s Jake Locker or Charlie Whitehurst under center for the Titans, the Browns should be able to control the game. Take: Cleveland

Oct. 5 Cincinnati (3–0) at New England (2–2) The Cincinnati Bengals are the other unbeaten team left and their defence has carried them to this point. Look for much of the same as the New England Patriots offence hasn’t been able to find its rhythm this season. Take: Cincinnati

Oct. 5 New York Jets (1–3) at San Diego (3–1) Quarterback Philip Rivers torched the Jaguars for three touchdowns and 300 yards last week and now gets the young and inexperienced Jets defence. In order to keep Rivers and the rest of the Chargers offence off the field, quarterback Geno Smith will need to be efficient on his own offence.Take: San Diego Oct. 5 Kansas City (2–2) at San Francisco (2–2) Coming in off of a dominant

Oct. 6 Seattle (2–1) at Washington (1–3) The Monday nighter could be another blowout as it features the reigning Super Bowl champions against a Washington team that was flat out embarrassed last week.

Young quarterback Kirk Cousins will have a tough an extremely tough test in his third career start. Take: Seattle Byes: Miami, Oakland Last Week: 7-6 Overall record: 34-27

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U of S students tear up the track AUSTIN ARVAY Sports Editor

Education student Chelsey Wilson sitting in her #13 Legends car.

Andrew Hardy posing with his #15 truck. He is in his second year of engineering.

Audra Cooper standing beside her Legends #20 car.

Five students from the University of Saskatchewan spend their free time in the summer pursing a unique hobby. Ryan Fredrickson, Matt Shirley, Andrew Hardy, Chelsey Wilson and Audra Cooper all race competitively at Auto Clearing Motor Speedway.

The racing season at Auto Clearing runs from late May until the end of September with races happening almost every week throughout.

While primarily racing for cash prizes, the U of S students also have the chance to qualify for bigger, more prestigious events.

Wilson is the driver of car #13 in the Legends series and her remarkable season has led her to qualify for the national competition in Las Vegas, Nev. on Oct. 16–18. How she pulled it off was even more impressive. She was involved in a crash early on in the race on Sept. 20 and found herself in 21st place, but managed to work her way back up the pack to finish in fourth, qualifying for nationals.

Wilson, who has a bachelor of education and is currently doing her internship in Spiritwood, Sask., grew up around the track.

“My dad raced street stock for over 30 years and when I was 12, I started to race go-karts… I raced go-karts around the world for eight years until I moved up the Legends division and this is now my fifth year in Legends,” Wilson said. “I just love racing, I love the close competition and the adrenaline rush.

There isn’t a race day that I don’t get butterflies.”

Legends series cars are 5/8th

scale versions of historic NASCAR models from the 1930s and 40s.

The championship in Las Vegas will feature 150 of the best drivers from all over North America. There will be the semi-pro, pro and masters divisions, each with their own champion to be crowned. Wilson will be racing in the pro division.

“I started in semi-pro and then won the semi-pro Saskatchewan championship in 2012 and moved up to pro. I’m just really excited,” Wilson said.

Shirley drives car #12 in the Sportsman series. Sportsman series cars closely resembles the cars in the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series which are similar to production cars.

Shirley said his season went way better than he had expected. He won the first and last feature races of the season to earn the championship for most points, as well as a trophy for the most feature wins this year. Following a tough day when a mechanical error caused him to finish near the bottom, Shirley bounced back for one of his favourite memories of the season.

“Whenever we face adversity our team thrives. The next race day we won the heat, the qualifier and the feature race. It was the first time I have ever swept an entire race day.

We also started a new tradition that day. I decided to give away the [checkered] flag to a little kid because it would mean so much to him,” he said. “So every feature we won after that we would stop by the finish line and give away our checkered flag.”

Shirley’s goal at the very beginning of the season as to finish in the top three in the Always Towing Windchill 100 — a very competitive race that features the sportsman division, the pro trucks as well as the street stock cars. The winner took home a prize of $5,000.

“Sadly, I was racing a veteran and he took it personally when I used the

bumper and wrecked us both with just four laps left. We were battling for second place at the time and both had a shot at the five grand.

Racing is racing though, and you will have some people who dish it out but can’t take it,” Shirley said.

Shirley also wanted to thank his sponsors because without them he wouldn’t be where he is today.

“Saskatoon Co-op, 92.9 the Bull, OK Tire, Cervus Collision, Shirley Service, Point Optical, Al Kraus, Hallmark Realty and Sharp Auto Trim all have helped my dream of becoming a race car driver a reality.”

It was an up and down season for Hardy, the driver of the #15 in the pro truck division. He tied for the most feature wins in the division with two, but those would be the only two races he finished all year.

“We had a lot of mechanical problems all season,” Hardy said.

“We blew up an engine, blew up a rear end, bad hubs, transmission, clutch, pretty much everything. We had some major changes this year and I guess our racecar didn’t really like it.”

Hardy had two other chances to win features but both times his truck failed him while he was leading late in the race. Racing since he was 14 years old, he started at the youngest you can possibly be to race at Auto Clearing Motor Speedway.

The second year engineering student wants to design racecars for a living.

“I’m in engineering to hopefully go to [Street Racing and Technology] and design Vipers for them, that’s my goal,” he said.

For most of the students the 2014 racing season is over, but all said they would be back next year to continue racing. Check them out at Auto Clearing Motor Speedway next summer; the majority of races take place on Saturday beginning in May and going right to the end of September.

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A crash in the pro truck series race was one of many exciting happeneings on race day at Auto Clearing.

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Hockey Dogs start the year unbeaten AUSTIN ARVAY Sports Editor The University of Saskatchewan Huskies men’s hockey team picked up right where they left off. After reaching the Canadian Interuniversity Sport national championship game, they started the 2014–15 season by grabbing a pair of wins over the University of Regina Cougars.

On Sept. 26, the Dogs had their home opener and did not disappoint the 541 spectators as they downed the visitors by a score of 2–0. Fifth year goaltender Ryan Holfeld stopped all 34 shots he faced for his seventh career CIS shutout.

Rookie forward Rhyse Dieno opened the scoring with 9:21 to go in the first period. The former Red Deer Rebel got in behind the defence and his backhander snuck past Cougar netminder Lucas Gore. Then with 5:39 left in the first frame, another rookie would tally to widen the Huskies lead to 2–0. Forward Michael Sofillas finished off a nifty passing play in front of the net for his first goal of the season.

Both teams would be held off the scoreboard for the remaining 40 minutes of play as the

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The following night in Regina, the Dogs picked up win number two as they rallied from a 2–1 deficit to take the second half of the home-and-home series 4–2.

The Huskies drew first blood again in this one as Sofillas scored a power play goal midway through the first period to

give the Dogs a 1–0 advantage.

The good feeling quickly dissipated when the green and white took three straight penalties to end the period.

The undisciplined play would cost them, as Cougars forward Tyler Penny buried a loose puck after a scramble in front to even the game at one. Less than a minute later, it appeared as if

the Huskies would take back the lead but Dieno’s shot rang off the crossbar and stayed out.

Shortly after that, John Sonntag would beat Huskie goalie Jordan Cooke up high and gave the home team a 2–1 lead. Just a couple minutes later with the Huskies on the power play, it was Cougars forward Christian Magnus who would get a

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glorious scoring chance on a breakaway, but Cooke was there to turn him aside.

On the same power play, second-year forward Jesse Ross would bang home a rebound to tie the game back up at 2–2, and that would be the score after two periods of play.

Fifth-year defenceman Matthew Delahey would score the eventual game-winning goal off a harmless shot from the point that beat the screened Gore and made the score 3–2 for the Dogs. Less than three minutes later on a two-man advantage, Ross snapped home a shot for his second of the game and that would be the final goal of the game.

Gore stopped only 15 of 19 shots while Cooke was busy, as he faced 33 shots and turned away 31 of them.

With a 2–0–0 record, the Huskies find themselves in a three-way tie for first place in the Canada West conference after the first weekend of action. The Dogs will now turn their attention to a two-game set with the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds. UBC split its first two games of the season and will look to knock the Huskies from the ranks of the undefeated.

The Huskies will host the UBC Thunderbirds on Oct. 3 and Oct. 4 with both games starting at 7 p.m. at Rutherford Rink.

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Can you ever really be “just friends?”

Defining the complicated lines between friendship and romance NAOMI ZUREVINSKI Opinions Editor When two people spend a lot of time together, we often speculate if friendship is really the only subject on their minds. While friendships can turn into relationships, they can also crumble because one person feels differently than the other. Still, some hold fast to the “just friends” claim no matter what. But is this a disguise for romantic feelings or is it legitimate to simply be “just friends” with someone?

University of Saskatchewan psychology professor Todd Morrison thinks that while we may not be conditioned to believe being “just friends” is doable, it isn’t proven to be impossible either.

“I’m not aware of any evidence to suggest that individuals cannot be friends or that one person is always hoping that it will evolve into something else. From a scientific standpoint, the answer is ‘of course,’” Morrison said.

But when it comes to romance, we rarely look at it from a scientific standpoint. More often than not, emotions get the upper hand and the success of friendships and relationships alike are largely dependent on the individuals, their personalities and the present circumstances. There is definitely no one-size-fits-all model that can be applied here and I’ve come to the somewhat unfortunate conclusion that having no answer to the question may be the best answer after all.

I spoke to five students at the U of S about whether or not they thought people could be “just friends.” I also asked the students what they self-identified their sexual orientation as because I wanted to see if it had any affect on how they viewed the question. Typically, the question that seems to dominate friendship and romantic discourses is, “Can men and women be friends?” — but to expand that category is beneficial because attraction can be a potential problem for people of any sexual orientation.

For students that said “yes,” their reasons varied

based on certain factors, but all students who thought two people could be “just friends” also reasoned that some sort of boundary must be in place to maintain the relationship.

First year arts and science student Jack Fotheringham — who self-identifies as straight — pointed out that feelings for a female friend may come and go with time.

“You have passing thoughts of romance or sexual involvement, but I think you just need to make a judicious decision as to whether you weigh the friendship more or if you value the possibility of having a successful romantic relationship. Even though it’s a passing thought occasionally, I think you just need to create boundaries,” Fotheringham said.

But what happens if these boundaries are crossed — intentionally or unintentionally? Crossing a physical boundary has obvious implications, but does crossing emotional boundaries guarantee attraction?

Third year mathematics and computer science student Mitchell Corbett — who self-identifies as a gay cis-gendered male — thinks that crossing these boundaries doesn’t guarantee attraction.

“I think it’s crossing intimate emotional boundaries that forms the strongest friendship bonds, but does not automatically create romantic feelings,” Corbett said. “The intimacy that close friends share can certainly be a factor in future romantic developments, but it’s not automatic.”

The idea behind being just friends typically seems to be sexually exclusive. However, it is assumed far more often that heterosexual males and females cannot remain in a friendship and at some point one of them will develop deeper feelings for the other.

But the idea that this concept is reserved for heterosexual friendships and not for a variety of sexual orientations is absurd — as Morrison points out in blatant terms.

“If we were to assume that individuals could never be friends and we were thinking heterosexually — men could never be friends with women, women could never be friends with men — that they always wanted more, then this would put bisexual individuals in a very difficult position,” Morrison said. “Logically, they couldn’t have any friends at all — they would always be attracted to someone.”

This raises an interesting point in who we are conditioned or taught to be friends with. Historically — and heterosexually speaking — adolescent men and women were not friends. Opposite gender relations were reserved for romance and outside of that, men and women did not spend time alone together.

While there may have been group gatherings where both genders were present, alone time with someone who was not or would not become a significant other was considered largely inappropriate.

Therefore, perhaps the reason many don’t think it’s possible to be just friends has to do with the fact that we are not conditioned to believe it could be possible.

The natural progression of major relationship events usually goes from friends to more, with the problem of always wanting more than we currently have.

“We’re really not taught to view the other sex — I’m speaking heterosexually — as friends. We’re taught to view them as prospective partners and so there’s always this idea that you might start off as friends, but that it will lead to more,” Morrison said.

It’s true — people are usually encouraged to have friends of the same gender, regardless of sexual orientation and there’s also a stereotype that a certain “stage series” exists for any given relationship. Perhaps things start off on a surface level, but invariably the relationship must become deeper, more meaningful and lead to attraction. This so-called “natural progression” holds true for all configurations of romantic and sexual orientation.

If we are accustomed to this format, it makes sense as to why friendships can become confusing. While it is true that any given friendship or relationship progresses naturally in some way as trust and comfort levels strengthen, third year psychology student Denae Pellerin thinks this is actually the very reason why two people cannot be friends. Pellerin self-identifies as cisgendered heterosexual.

“I think you can be superficial friends without feelings but I don’t think you can be best friends and not have some level of inevitable attraction or feelings. I guess once you do have those feelings you can choose to stay friends, but those feelings might still be there,” Pellerin said.

However, this attraction doesn’t always have to be romantic. Fourth year art student Elaine Nieman,

who self-identifies as pans that attraction is present relationships.

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If we’re at a disadvantage already, then is it possible at all? Are homosexual and bisexual friendships at the same disadvantage?

Of the five university students I spoke to, two females and one male said you could be “just friends” while one male and one female said you couldn’t. In some cases where they had gone from friends to more than friends, they claimed that you could still be “just friends” with someone. For Nieman, those feelings were something she could — and had to — overcome.

“I’m roomates with someone who I actually dated for a month last year and we’ve acknowledged that yes, we’re attracted to each other, but we just made a conscious decision to say, ‘This is what we can handle, so let’s do it,’” Nieman said.

It might not be possible for everyone to go from more than friends and then back into a friendship however. This is largely dependent on individual situations, but Corbett points out that once feelings are there, they can be difficult to overcome.

“I can’t be ‘just friends’ with someone if I have romantic feelings for them, because I find it consumes the friendship,” Corbett said.

True or not, the assumption also tends to persist that everything will be much better in a romantic relationship than in a friendship — but that’s not always the case. Fotheringham has crossed that line in the past with female friends and believes there’s no going back.

“I have gone from a friendship to something more than a friendship — but not necessarily a committed relationship — and it’s ended really badly. I regret it because I missed out on the opportunity to continue having that person as a friend,” Fotheringham said. “It’s a one-way street and if you cross the boundary and it doesn’t work out, it just has to be over because it’s too much. You would always be questioning where the other person was at and where you’re at — and that’s just too much strain to put on something as simple as a friendship.”

Friendships of all configurations hold value beyond the romantic. Providing support for life’s problems and a level of enjoyment and fun that is sometimes not even present in a relationship, friendships fill their own role in our lives. As humans, we need friendships — they are essential. And while it might be interesting to test the waters occasionally, choosing to be just

friends might actually be a benefit to both parties.

“I don’t think it’s bad to be friends with someone you have feelings for. It doesn’t mean that something has to happen,” Pellerin said.

Feelings come and go, even in strictly romantic relationships. Therefore when they come up, Pellerin is right — it doesn’t mean something will or has to happen. We are conditioned to believe that something “meaningful” will surely come from a friendship-turnedrelationship, but like these individuals pointed out, that is not necessarily the case.

“If it’s rendered invisible, then it isn’t very salient and we don’t think in those terms,” Morrison said. “But why couldn’t two people be supportive of each other and the ups and downs of life without worrying about whether or not it’s going to lead to attraction?”

Interestingly enough, the reviews across the board were mixed as to whether or not people should be friends before they date. Apparently, previous friendship can be both a blessing and a curse.

On one hand, becoming friends with someone first allows you to get to know them in a different way as people may be inclined to fully be themselves and show all sides of their personalities — the good, the bad and the ugly. This may lead some people to fall for the other person and form a solid foundation to base a romantic relationship on.

On the other hand, Pellerin spoke about how friendship might lessen your chance of attraction to the person and help you to realize that you could never be more than friends with that person.

“Sometimes when you know someone really well it’s good because you can see that you would never work with them in a relationship,” Pellerin said.

Nieman also finds it hard to turn a friendship into a romantic relationship.

“There’s exceptions to every rule but I find once I’ve come to view somebody as a friend, it’s hard to break out of that camp. I feel like if I were trying to date a friend, it would be more likely for me personally to not be able to make that change,” Nieman said.

Fotheringham also said no, but Kokott was on the fence because the relationship has the potential to end for better — but also for worse.

“It’s good because then you know the person, but once you break up then you might still end up hanging out with that person if you’re in the same group of friends. But dating someone after just going on a few dates is just as good — because then you have an entire relationship to get to know someone,” Kokott said. “Dating someone who is your friend can get complicated; at

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this age, dating your friends always end up messy.”

Corbett felt the exact opposite when asked if two people should be friends before they date.

“Yes, yes, yes. Your significant other needs to emotionally support you and you should enjoy spending time with them. Either of those are also qualities of good friends,” Corbett said.

Either way, having some level of friendship is important for a romantic relationship, whether it develops prior to or during the relationship.

“Is it essential? No. But does it help? I would say yes.

It’s beneficial for all couples,” Morrison said. “I think it’s surprising the number of couples that say ‘I love my partner, but I don’t necessarily like my partner.’”

Genuine friendships — like all relationships — require an appreciation of the other person. They have a specific purpose that is different from just simply filling in a hole while someone waits for a romantic partner to come along. They are valuable in themselves as an essential part of life. For Kokott, this appreciation of a male friend in a non-romantic way is both attainable and favorable.

“I think it’s possible to love a guy best friend platonically. There are so many people in our lives that we have that love for — like a cousin or brother,” Kokott said. “I think it’s possible to have that kind of relationship with a guy too where it becomes kind of brotherly.”

After all this, it seems to me that there is no clear answer to the question “Can two people be ‘just friends?’” Some people can, others cannot — what works for one person won’t work for another and sometimes with friendship, romance can either get in the way or be an added bonus.

The answer is just as varied as the different types of relationships in the world. From my conversations with these students, I don’t think sexual orientation plays a critical role in whether or not two people can be “just friends.” We are all the same and have the same struggles with both romance and friendship — that much was clear to me.

There’s no one-size-fits-all model, nor should there be. I’d say I ended up with more confusion than conclusion, but who’s to say that’s such a bad thing? Perhaps the complicated lines between friendship and romance can never truly be resolved — and shouldn’t be.

Everyone loves a little mystery, right?

of men stereotypically tend and activity-related,” Morhere’s an assumption that to be more meaningful. So disadvantage to be friends armed with the tools that

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2 October, 2014 - THESHEAF.COM 12 Culture Home-Brew: Saskatoon Brewery a boutique destination BRADEN HURSH Saskatoon Brewery — located in Saskatoon’s downtown core — prides itself on being small and diverse. The many varieties of Saskatoon Brewery’s beer were inspired by the travels of the brewers, which is obvious by their names: Grapefruit Hefeweizen, Premium Lager, Czech Pilsner, Classic Pale Ale, Saskatoon Berry Dark Ale, Double Chocolate Porter, Seasonal Pumpkin Spice and Belgium Peach.

The founders of Saskatoon Brewery identified a growing trend in the city and made a product to match it. As Saskatoon’s

population continued to grow and differ, so did the culture and tastes of people as they became more affluent in beer, liquor, wine and food.

“Craft beer is the fastest growing segment of the beer market in North America. We saw an opportunity to bring something new, unique and relevant to Saskatoon.

We all had traveled the world tasting amazing beer and found a new appreciation for brewing and taste,” said Chris Cole, brewer and general manager of Ingredients — a specialty liquor and food market on 2nd Avenue.

For many people, microbrewery beer — specifically beer of a darker complexion — tends to

scare them away. The assumption is that dark beer tends to be heavier or stronger than the typical lagers, pilsners and India Pale Ales, when in fact the opposite is true. Saskatoon Brewery’s most popular beer is the Saskatoon Berry Dark Ale, a beer that is extremely light in body yet dark in colour and finished with real Saskatoon berries.

Every recipe at Saskatoon Brewery is made up of fresh and wholesome ingredients which are often locally produced. For example, the Saskatoon Berry Dark is made from barley bought from Biggar, Sk., Saskatoon berries from outside the city limits and our excellent city water.

Saskatoon Brewery believes in real ingredients in food and beer.

“We do not use syrups, concentrates, preservatives or any other artificial flavorings in any way, shape or form in the brewing process,” Cole said. “Our commitment to our customer to provide artisanal, small batch, handcrafted beer is strong and we are exceptionally proud of what we do.”

In regards to finding which type of craft beer best suits your taste palette, Cole suggests you approach beer tasting as you would a wine testing.

“We say experience [beer] the way you would wine, with the same tasting methodology. Roll it around on your tongue, breathe in

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Saskatoon Brewery’s Premium Lager is a paws-itively delicious seasonal beer.

air and savor the flavor. Appreciate the stories behind the brewery, their craft and the small batch as batches can vary,” Cole said.

New beer needs to be approached without preconceived notions of what beer is supposed to taste like, especially because the current notion of what beer tastes like is so homogenous.

Jordan Evan, Saskatoon Brewery’s brew-master, is a Red Seal certified chef and puts knowledge of complex ingredients and recipes to work in creating excellent beer. The understanding of food chemistry and combinations is essential in achieving an intricate, layered beer out of wholesome ingredients.

The people behind Saskatoon Brewery’s beer happily embrace the label of being a small brewery not available at the Saskatchewan Liquor and Gaming Association as it separates them from the mass-producing companies that all seem to create the same beer.

The products at Saskatoon Brewery, although not available for retail purchase from anywhere other than Ingredients, can be bought in 12 local bars, pubs and restaurants in both pints and bottles.

Local craft beer is an industry that will only continue to grow in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and Canada as a whole. Just like with music and food, everyone has their own specific taste and comfort level. It takes a certain amount of courage to spend money on something you may or may not enjoy, but the risk is well worth the possible reward of finding the beer that suits you.

Next time you step into Ingredients, the SLGA, Prairie Sun Brewery, Paddock Wood Brewery or the pub, pick a beer you have never seen before — the worst case scenario is that you’ll have to try it all over again when your glass or bottle is empty. Cheers!

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Walking With Dinosaurs at SaskTel Centre

The Basement Paintings, AVE SOL and Autopilot at Vangelis

Arrogant Worms at the Broadway Theatre

Amon Amarth, Sabaton and Skeletonwitch at Louis’ Pub

Open Mic Night and Jam at Louis’ Loft

Pixies at TCU Place

West Coast Swing Dance at Louis’ Loft

The Wooden Sky at Amigos Cantina Joey Cape, Chris Cresswell, Brian Wahlstrom and Betty and the Boy at Vangelis Tavern James Steele, Dale Amyotte, and Austin Castle at the Bassment

Big Wreck at O’Brians Event Centre Little Criminals at the Bassment Kman and the 45s at Rock Bottom Drag 101 at Louis’ Pub

The Fjords, The Florals and The Foggy Notions at Amigos Cedar Sky at Rock Bottom Apollo Cruz at Bon Temps Cafe

Reasons To Be Pretty at the Refinery (last day) Hedda Gabler at the Persephone (last day)

Steve Patterson at the Broadway Oktoberfest at Prairie Theatre Sun Brewery

Grieves and SOL at Amigos Demi Lovato at the Sasktel Centre

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The Slim City Pickers are predictably rock-country ALEXANDER QUON After having played in the Regina area for the last two years, the country and alternative rock band Slim City Pickers have released a self-titled album unlike anything else.

A member of south Saskatchewan’s burgeoning country-rock scene, the Slim City Pickers are fairly well known in the Regina area.

The Slim City Pickers are a five-piece contingent made up of bass guitarist and vocalist Dick Yeates, electric and acoustic guitarists Orin Paquette and Andy Beisel, vocalist and pedal steel and acoustic guitarist Ian Cameron and drummer Tristan Helgason.

The five musicians bring together a variety of talents that make the band’s sound completely unique.

Composed of only 10 songs, Slim City Pickers is a fast paced jaunt through a mixture of vocal and instrumental tracks. The album conveys a sense of frantic urgency as Cameron’s pedal steel guitar sets an echoing but quick tune in many of the tracks.

The record opens with what is by far my favourite track of the entire album, “You Belong To Me.” It opens with the slow strumming of an acoustic guitar which picks up only to be joined by Cameron’s

steel guitar. As the two mix, in comes the soft crooning of the lyrics: “This town is deserted/ Haven’t seen anyone in a while/ I sit here waiting and I got a thing to fake a smile.” The band sings before the drums and bass kick in for the rest of the song. The mournful nature of the lyrics plays in perfect contrast to the upbeat tempo. It gives a taste of what is to come and more importantly it sets the mood for the songs which follow.

While overall the album is a non-stop ball of energy there are two low points that severely impact the quality of the album.

“Down the Hatch” and “Song for Paige” are the two instrumental tracks on the album and unlike the songs that feature vocals, they seem to have something missing.

The music itself is strong, but the lack of some sort of leading vocals just leaves the listener wanting more.

This is a particular shame as on every track the band’s quartet of vocalists are strong and offer a beautiful contrast with the pace of the band’s instrumentals.

“No Good Man” is another highlight of the album. It is one of the slower songs of the recording but that does not mean that it doesn’t carry with it a lot of energy. While the lyrics of the song are stereotypically country — “No good women/ To hold at night/ No good

women/ To treat me right” — the music carries with it numerous notes of rock and roll.

For fans of country, the Slim City Pickers’ self-titled album will be a breath of fresh air. Combining a mixture of country, alternative rock and psychedelic tones, it is a compelling but limited audio experience.

The Regina-based band is able to display a mature and

well-developed sound across its short but well put together album.

While the album’s strong country themes are its biggest strength, its most glaring weakness is the unfortunate fact that the limited nature of its sound may be unable to draw in any new fans to the genre.

Yet the biggest problem about this album is not that Slim City Pickers sticks to its country roots,

but that at only 10 songs, its weakest tracks leave such large holes that it reduces the overall quality of the album.

The fact that this otherwise strong debut is marred by such significant issues does not leave me disheartened about one of Regina’s most promising acts. I am instead hopeful that the problems will be fixed before an anticipated second album.

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Regina-based band Slim City Pickers sport a sound that reflects their Saskatchewan roots.

2 October, 2014 - THESHEAF.COM 14 Culture Light the Night floods Saskatoon with the glow of hope

MADISON TAYLOR Culture Editor Light the Night, an event organized by the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Canada, is perhaps one of the most inspiring and picturesque fundraising events of the year.

Light the Night is a five kilometre walk that begins and ends in Kiwanis Park. The walk takes place at twilight amidst the glow of hundreds of paper lanterns. While undoubtedly a beautiful backdrop for such a powerful event, the colours of the lanterns also hold a symbolic meaning — red for cancer supporters, white for survivors and gold for those walking in memory of a loved one.

This year the walk will take place on Oct. 5 and is expected to have an even greater attendance than the previous year’s total of 600 — which in turn means more money raised for blood cancer research.

“Our fundraising saw a huge jump. We went from $125,000 to $212,000 raised,” said Aviva Zack, Saskatoon’s Light the Night coordinator. “In Canada we won the distinction of the biggest year-to-year growth as far as participants and fundraising dollars go.”

Participants are encouraged to raise $100 each for the fundraiser. Walkers can take part in the event as an individual or as a team. Those who raise the minimum amount are called “Champions for Cures” and are given a complimentary t-shirt and an illuminated lantern. The money goes towards covering the cost of the event

and investing in future cancer research on both a city-wide and national scale.

“There’s one study that we just funded being done at the University of Saskatchewan which is really exciting,” Zack said.

“These dollars are staying in the community and then we provide support services with the money we raise.”

Companies and local businesses can also be a part of Light the Night by becoming sponsors for the event — which involves gathering donations, providing signage and offering product sampling during the walk. Volunteers are a vital part of the night as well as they

organize and plan the evening to ensure that it is successful and memorable.

In addition to being used for Saskatoon-based research and support, the money fundraised

by Light the Night has been valuable in the development of new cancer treatments and immunotherapies which respectively target and eliminate cancer cells and use the patient’s immune system to battle the disease.

“Some of the drugs funded through events like Light the Night have actually impacted other cancers like breast cancer,” Zack said. “And some of these drugs coming to market are helping prolong the lives of

other cancer” patients.

Light the Night is the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s largest and most unique event, taking place in 200 communities across North America annually.

The society also organizes small scale youth and team training programs to give support on a more intimate community level.

“Cancer impacts pretty much all of us,” Zack said. “Whether it’s your teacher, your neighbor [or] your family member, coming together as a community is really important.”

Each major city in Canada that hosts Light the Night has an Honoured Hero — a cancer survivor who speaks at the walk

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Light the Night participants proudly carry their illuminated lanterns in support of blood cancer research.

and acts as a source of inspiration for the event’s participants.

Jason Jacobson — Light the Night’s 2014 Honoured Hero and follicular lymphoma survivor — walks in memory of Bev Allen, Saskatoon’s Remembered Hero, with the group Poppa’s Pavement Pounders.

“Bev was a great support after my diagnosis. I was scared and had many questions. He had just been through the treatment I was about to experience and he eased much of my fear of the unknown,” Jacobson said.

Light the Night reminds those fighting against cancer that they are not alone. Being surrounded by people who have gone through or have watched others go through a similar journey is a powerful source of hope for the event’s participants, as is the fact that the walk raises money that is put towards finding a cure.

“Hang in there, things will get better,” Jacobson said. “Everyone’s case is unique [and] new treatments are being offered all the time. Remember to keep living your life.”

Promoting a feeling of togetherness and support is one of the central goals of Light the Night.

Through this event, those who have felt the impact of blood cancer in their own lives or in the lives of those close to them are able to provide one another with optimism and encouragement.

“Seeing a huge line of lanterns along the river bank’s night sky was amazing,” Jacobson said.

“Everyone is there for one reason — to beat blood cancer.

There is power in numbers and Saskatoon’s participation is impressive.”

Registration for Light the Night is open until Oct. 5 and is available online at www.lightthenight. org.

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Apollo Cruz standout addition to the Saskatoon music scene

TAB RAHMAN Copy Editor Part of the Sound and Silence Collective, Apollo Cruz has been making a splash in the local music scene for two and a half years.

Playing a variety of venues from the Sasktel Jazz Festival all the way to small town shows in Kindersley, Sask., it’s evident that they are zealous fans of music no matter where their stage happens to be.

Comprised of three very talented musicians — Nick Longpre on guitar, Brandon Ziola on bass, Aiden Currie on drums and all of them trading off on vocal duties — it’s obvious that what brought them together was their love of the blues, rock and Bud’s on Broadway “I started playing guitar at a very early age,” Longpre said. “I learned a lot of guitar theory, but I didn’t actually start playing until my second or third year of taking it. I went and bought my first electric guitar with my parents and went home and learned every AC/ DC riff there was.”

When asked why AC/DC was such a strong influence on his musical style, Longpre replied: “I don’t know what it is about them but I’ve always admired their solid rhythm and Angus Young’s guitar playing,” while his bandmates pointed out his AC/DC shirt.

Currie also started his musical career early, playing drums for his first show at Bud’s at 13 years old — and he hasn’t looked back since.

“I’ve always had music in my life,” Currie said. “My dad’s been a professional drummer for 45 years. My parents got me into conservatory piano at a young age and I did it for seven years, but I didn’t get anything out of it. After that my dad set up a snare drum and hi-hat and I would just mess around on that, getting my stick handling up.”

Ziola was also a classical

guitarist for most of his life, but being a part of Apollo Cruz was more important to him than the details of his instrumental ability.

“I saw [Longpre and Currie] playing with their previous band [and] I thought, ‘I would do anything to play with this band,’” Ziola said.

Fortunately for him, opportunity came in the form of a missing bassist during a live show and a $20 bass.

Longpre “comes up to me and says, ‘Hey, you play bass right?’

And I said, ‘Absolutely.’ [While] in my head I was like, ‘I do not!’

— I had no idea what I was doing,” confessed Ziola.

The risk paid off for him as well as Apollo Cruz. Since that show at Bud’s, they’ve been a solid creative trio that has produced some interesting sounds and amazing live shows. They have dubbed their particular style of bluesrock fusion “high-octane blues” and listening to them will give you the same nostalgic feeling as old school blues, while simultaneously wanting to get up and dance.

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Apollo Cruz’s guitarist Nick Lampre is a vital part of the musical trio — and a diehard AC/DC fan.

because we’ve literally played every night of the week,” Ziola said.

Watching Apollo Cruz perform gives you the sense that they are three pieces of the same puzzle. While lead singer and guitar player Longpre croons away into the mic, it’s clear that he is a talented musician who is able to play difficult two-part guitar pieces as well as sing.

“The way I think about it is that you wouldn’t want to have a band with two drum kits in it, or two bass guitars,” Longpre said.

“I should be able to play everything, both rhythm and lead, at the same time.”

And being multitalented isn’t just for Longpre. It seems the band’s philosophy is to be able to do multiple things between the three of them, whether it be sing, play keyboard or play multiple rhythms. It wouldn’t be a surprise if one of them decided to pull out a trumpet solo in the middle of their performance.

Whatever your preference for music is, you would be remissed as a music lover to not give Apollo Cruz a chance. They are undeniably a talented up-and-coming group and their creative ambitions and musical fusion will definitely help you explore new avenues of music.

“Music is a great opportunity to explore the world and expose yourself to new experiences, so I think we do a lot of that,” Ziola said.

Catch some high-octane blues at Bon Temps Café Oct. 4 at 9 p.m.

Art didn’t sleep at Saskatoon’s first Nuit Blanche ÉMILIE LOPEZ At Saskatoon’s premiere of the world-wide art festival Nuit Blanche — which took place on Sept. 27 along 20th Street — art came out when the sun went down.

This free nighttime event, a part of Saskatoon’s celebration of Saskatchewan Culture Days, was aimed at promoting contemporary art and culture in different varieties. Sound, image, light installations and human performances were displayed along the street and in different public buildings to pique the audience and captivate them.

Saskatoon adopted the event of Nuit Blanche from other cities like Paris, Madrid, Amsterdam, Kyoto, Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal. During the night, the street itself turned into an art gallery and a stage where the audience could freely watch, listen and even take part in art installations, add their own touch to paintings, or place their faces in the holes of Evgenia

Mikhaylova and Irene Francis Elliot’s piece “MOON.” The diversity of the artistic compositions presented at Nuit Blanche were the true richness of the event. Some performances themselves were mixes of different kinds of art, like “The Art of Movement” — created by the company Go Time, whose artists originate from Quebec and Ontario.

The 45-minute show was a mixture of free running, trial biking and fire spinning. The artists executed impressive and sometimes risky figures that represented human motion and the flow of the human body.

By simply moving along the street, spectators could also experience diversity and alliance of arts. For example — while watching Julie Oh’s colourful installation “Instant Rainbow,” the music of BackFlash Magazine’s “Sound Pollution” could be heard coming from the catwalk above PAVED Arts and AKA Gallery. Inside these two galleries, which are linked by the same entrance, viewers could enjoy a diverse artistic experience

including Alexa Hainsworth’s “Archaea” — which consisted of a series of red sequin hand-sewn bikini top triangles suspended and linked together with threads like a giant spider web — and Justin Pfefferle’s work “Is There Magic in Cinema?” Pfefferle’s piece showed the technical tricks of movie making in a short video within an independent installation.

The art installations and performances presented that night were the work of artists coming from all over Canada. This event was also an excellent way to promote the works of local artists who got their art degrees from the University of Saskatchewan or who are involved in the promotion of the arts in Saskatchewan like Hainsworth, Oh and Terry Billings.

Evie Ruddy — who leads workshops about digital storytelling across Saskatchewan — presented “The Power of Digital Storytelling” at the Roxy Theatre, where she showed some of the works her students created during these workshops.

Blacksmith Jim Gerlinsky

performed in front of a captivated audience the creation of the sculpture “Eden Sprouts”, sharing with the audience the art of smithing. The uniqueness of this piece was not in the final product but in the audience’s opportunity to see the creation of a piece of art from the beginning to the end. Watching every step from the stoking of the fire to the sculpting of the red hot metal, the public could learn the technique of blacksmithing

— a form of art that has since become a rarity.

Saskatoon’s Nuit Blanche was a successful event which gathered a lot of artists who shared their works with a crowded and enthusiastic audience. The evening festival was a chance for people to discover new artists and to learn about different forms of art. Hopefully the event will grow and flourish even more in its second year.

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Andrew Choptiany’s “Parallax” changes with the viewer’s perspective.

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Winston’s co-owner speaks out — for the worse ZACH TENNENT You’re probably familiar with Winston’s English Pub & Grill on 21st Street East, especially after the last two weeks. Traditionally, one might know Winston’s for its wide selection of draught beers or for being the place where you get punched in the face for your VLT winnings. But on Sept. 19, things took a turn for the worse as light was shed on a serious problem downtown — in a very degrading way — and attracted attention from media and customers alike.

The bar’s co-owner, Chris Beavis, posted a lengthy complaint on the Winston’s Facebook page concerning the issue of crime in downtown Saskatoon. He placed the blame squarely on the shoulders of the “unsavory folk” who linger around the Lighthouse Supported Living facility, a block away from the bar.

Beavis accused the Lighthouse of damaging downtown Saskatoon by “bringing an element of criminal activity that is being ignored by city council and the police department.”

He then went on to suggest a correlation between the presence of the Lighthouse and a recent drop in repeat business at the Senator Hotel, which houses Winston’s. When you want to combat diminishing business, the first thing you want to do is attack the homeless — right?

Internet response was understandably less than ideal for Beavis, with many people criticizing his argument, his means of getting it across and his association of criminal activity with the Lighthouse. One Facebook commenter questioned whom Beavis was specifically referring to as the source of the problem.

To clarify and remedy the whole misunderstanding, Beavis reiterated that his issue was not with the people at the Lighthouse, just the “parasites and pieces of crap that come downtown to hang around it.” Essentially, this reply exonerates the Lighthouse of any actual guilt or responsibility, while still allowing Beavis enough room to dig a deeper grave for himself. And he did just that, getting involved in a number of arguments in the post’s comment section.

Winston’s Facebook page has since been taken down, but screenshots of the original post as well as his follow up posts and comments are still circulating. Beavis eventually apologized for his remarks with a more or less “sorry, not sorry” attitude. He also said that he intends to get in contact with management at the Lighthouse so that they can work together towards solutions — I’m sure it will go over like a lead balloon given Beavis’ insights about the issues at hand.

Reading his initial post in its full form, it seems relatively clear that Beavis didn’t anticipate the kind of attention and backlash it received. If he had been expecting it, he might have taken the time to proofread it before posting. He doesn’t just get a pass because he didn’t expect people to disagree with him though. The backlash against him as a representative of the bar and personally is both fully warranted and justified.

But that’s not to say that he has gone undefended.

Plenty of commenters on the original post agreed with Beavis’ argument, criticizing downtown crime and blaming it on the

presence and residents of the Lighthouse. Global News Saskatoon even came to Beavis’ defence on Sept. 22 with an online article delightfully headlined “Downtown Saskatoon Pub Criticized on Facebook For Inciting Change.” The article has since been updated and the headline changed — go figure.

This support is what troubles me. While many people have read or heard about Beavis’ views and are making their outrage and lack of support for Winston’s vocal, there are also people who seem to look up to him for what he said. There are people who feel that he’s the one who finally has the guts to tell it like it is and take aim against the underprivileged. After all, they’ve had it too good for too long.

With that in mind, is all this press and attention ultimately going to be a good thing for Winston’s?

Allegedly no publicity is bad publicity. Although I hold my personal doubts about such a big claim, the amount of support the bar has been receiving in the wake of the controversy seems to suggest that Beavis has

effectively endeared himself and subsequently Winston’s, to a legion of narrow-minded patrons — and that’s no small feat.

Winston’s may see the loss of some regulars in the next few weeks but it’s also been getting veritable oodles of free publicity from this whole

calamity. Maybe that’ll help bring in a new clientele as well. Nothing is certain. But while we wait to see how this works out for Winston’s, at least we can take solace in knowing that Beavis — humanitarian of the year — is out there trying clean up our streets.

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Winston’s has been the subject of controversy of late.

A how-to on saving money in university ALANA HUCKABAY Debt is nothing new to the average university student, but it is a common issue both inside and outside of the university world.

Saving money is especially difficult

as expenses often outweigh money earned. With the ever-rising need to borrow money to cover tuition, fees and other school expenses, students are increasingly strapped for cash.

So how does one go about saving a little money for financial

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emergencies? The cost of living is not going to go down anytime soon, but there are ways to reduce your spending and control your debt.

The first thing that will help students is financial education, specifically on when and how to use credit cards. When first given a credit card, some students will initially listen to warnings on how a credit card is not free cash and must be paid off every month.

However — intentionally or unintentionally — things can get out of hand, especially when credit cards are relied on in excess.

It is very important to limit credit card usage and only spend what you can pay off. Unless there is an emergency, try to use cash on hand. If it is necessary to spend more than you can pay off make a plan to pay off a little bit at a time, to minimize the amount of interest that builds up. This accumulation of interest on credit cards is a major mistake many people will make when they do not consider the consequences of using credit cards to pay for everything. Using money you have available is a safe bet unless you are sure you can earn enough to pay off your credit card every month.

Speaking of cash, where you keep your cash matters. Most

banks offer student banking accounts that have unlimited transactions and no fees, which can save you money over time.

By depositing a portion of every paycheque, you can easily build up some savings.

If you have money coming in from a part-time job or from other sources, now is the time to learn how to budget. To avoid draining your precious savings as quickly as you earn them, try to track your expenses diligently. An easy tip to avoid ending up in debt at the end of the month is to spend less money than you have coming in. Estimate how much your necessities will cost and plan for those expenses. Leave a little for emergencies or extra interests — like that party that you just had to attend on the weekend.

This sounds simple enough, but it is a skill that many students lack and learning it will help you save money both in university and when you enter the “real world.”

A very large part of a student's budget is textbooks — but going to the bookstore is often an exercise in watching your bank account drain. Cheaper textbooks can be found online at Bookmob or Amazon. You can also save those hard earned dollars by buying used textbooks from other students on the Buy/Sell Used Textbooks from

the U of S Facebook page or from Books Unlimited.

Now that you have got the books, getting to class is the next financial hurdle. Make good use of your U-PASS, as using public transit is much cheaper than using a car. If you must travel by car, carpool with friends and split the cost of gas.

For holidays and weekends, if you would prefer to use Greyhound or Saskatchewan Transportation Company buses, take advantage of the student discount as this will save you a little money off the bus fare.

Living with roommates is another great way to share the burden of living expenses like groceries and rent. When you go shopping for groceries, go with your roommates and split the cost among yourselves. When an item is on sale, stock up on it to save money as sales don't last forever.

That discount on ramen noodles could be a lifesaver when it comes to finals week, you never know.

If an option, living with your parents or other family members can save you even more money. On top of home cooked meals, living with family can usually remove the burden of paying rent.

Saving money in college can be a challenge, but it can be conquered as long as you use the right skills.

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Feminism is the F-word of this generation KARA TASTAD To say that the word feminism has become the “dirty word” of this generation would be a grotesque understatement. It is almost understandable, given the stereotypes surrounding women who fight for women’s rights and equality. The word feminism is too often considered synonymous with man-hating and typically associated with double standards — but this too is a massive inequality in itself and a part of the problem.

Feminism is a word used to describe women being viewed as equal to men. Yet sometimes in the same breath these women become upset when “the guy does not pay for every date.” These stigmas have created taboo attitudes associated with the idea.

This is ironic given the fact that “man-hating” is the opposite of what feminism is supposed to represent.

If you believe in equality among the human race, you are undoubtedly a feminist. It may appear to be a foreign and uncomfortable concept, as by this definition, the majority of people in Canada — men and women alike — would qualify as feminists. However, in current society this type of identification is not present. The majority of Canadians do not see gender inequality having a direct effect on their everyday lives, when in actuality it affects everyone worldwide.

On Sept. 20, Emma Watson spoke to the United Nations to launch her HeForShe campaign as the UN Women Goodwill ambassador. The feminism-focused speech quickly went viral across social media. The main emphasis of Watson’s speech was bringing focus to the uncomfortable ideas associated with feminism in modern day society and to refocus the “taboo” word to its true definition of equality among men and women.

Watson spoke of the need for more “inadvertent feminists” — people who believe and model behaviour of equality, yet do not identify with feminism. However, the most radical topic Watson discussed was the need to have men involved in the conversation on feminism. Watson described how men are also greatly affected by gender inequalities and explained that excluding men from feminism will only prolong the problem.

The HeForShe campaign is about exactly that — recruiting men as feminists to raise awareness for gender inequality.

As a Canadian citizen living in Saskatoon it may be difficult to identify with the problems she discussed — at first glance they do not seem to be pressing issues in Canada. In fact, Saskatoon is one of the most progressive places in the world for women’s equality.

A 2012 study conducted by TrustLaw, a news service by the Thomason Reuters Foundation,

found that Canada was the best out of 20 countries worldwide for women’s equality. Furthermore, in another unrelated 2014 study — done by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Saskatoon ranked as second best in Canada for women’s equality, after Quebec City, Qc. Despite this high ranking in the world, gender equality of both men and women in Canada — including Saskatoon and Quebec — has not yet been achieved.

In Canada, women still face serious inequalities economically,

Emma Watson launches her HeForShe campaign and speaks to the UN.

pressures inflicted on males.

According to a report by Samaritans, a United Kingdom based suicide-prevention organization, "Suicide needs to be addressed as a health and gender inequality — an unavoidable difference in health and length of life that affects men more because of the way society expects them to behave.”

Watson also described seeing male friends suffer from mental illness and ended her speech urging men to become more involved in the conversation of feminism.

“If men don’t have to be aggressive in order to be accepted, women won’t feel compelled to be submissive. If men don’t have to control, women won’t have to be controlled. Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive.

Both men and women should feel free to be strong.”

It is with this belief she stated that if you believe in equality, you are a feminist. Although the word may still appear to be the dirty F-word of this generation, Watson pointed out that the word itself isn’t that important, it’s the idea and ambitions behind feminism that are key.

Inequality is an issue that affects every person on earth and needs to be discussed without the social stigma associated with it. Whether you are a man or a woman, the problem needs to be addressed and fixed as soon as possible — because it affects us all.

posted ranging from adorable cat videos to the dark realm of strange animation like “Shrek is Love, Shrek is Life.” Recently, there have be an abundance of social awareness videos in the form of pranks. One of the most controversial videos of late is called “Fake Hand Ass Prank” by

YouTuber Sam Pepper — and it shows a serious lack of respect all in the name of a few laughs.

In this video you see Pepper wearing a large hoodie with his arms tucked into the pockets. In reality, he has a fake arm in one sleeve and his real arm tucked behind him. He asks unsuspecting girls for directions and once he has distracted them, grabs their ass. You can see the girls are uncomfortable and confused as to what just occurred.

After the video was uploaded there was a burst of outrage all across the Internet from people who saw this as a form of sexual assault. The following day, Pepper posted another video of a woman groping men and then a third big reveal video explaining his motives for the videos. Pepper claimed that he was doing a social experiment to bring male sexual harassment to light.

Now, whether his claims are true or not are only known to him. I can understand that when it comes to sexual assault, most people ignore that it happens to males and only focus on females.

But sexual assault is a very serious crime that affects people of

Many of the women protest and demand he takes the cuffs off but Pepper just laughs it off like it’s nothing. He even goes as far as to tell a woman she must kiss him if she wants him to let her go. If this isn’t sexual assault then I do not know what is. Taking advantage of someone who is for whatever reason incapable of verbalizing his or her lack of comfort is what Pepper seems to enjoy.

I sincerely hope that those who suffered under Pepper’s harassment get the justice they deserve.

Sexual assault affects people on a daily basis, whether it is through unsolicited pats on the back or complete bodily harm.

There is no degree to which it can be defined, for everyone’s experiences are based on how the individual involved feels and is comfortable with.

Please be sure to respect everyone’s wishes and not assume that others are okay with what you are okay with. If someone says stop, do so. It lets them know you hear and understand them — something that should be a given right, but as made known by Pepper, it clearly is not.

which are often minimally discussed. Women are twice as likely to work a minimum wage job than men. In North America, when the average woman reaches 60 years old, she will have made $450,000 less than a male holding the same position.

However, it would be a form of gender inequality in itself to not address how men are also affected by gender inequalities and stereotypes. Suicide is four times greater in males than females — a fact that is often attributed to social

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Do it for the prank: Sam Pepper AYAN GULED In today’s world, the internet has become the number one source for entertainment and amongst the most visited of sites is YouTube.

A wide variety of videos are

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all genders, sexual orientations and ethnicities. It is never okay to harass someone or to overstep boundaries.

The problem with Pepper’s videos is that he violates people without consent. He says it’s all for the sake of bringing to light the afflictions men face while using women to do so. How is that beneficial? He would have done better to make a video of himself speaking to viewers about sexual assault. I’d truly like to know in what way he could have thought this was an acceptable video to make.

Nowadays, many young people follow in the footsteps of their idols — movie stars, singers, comedians, YouTubers — and what they think is cool. Many will see this video as an excuse to touch other people inappropriately and say it was for a prank.

The idea of doing anything for a few laughs has desensitized people from what is actually unacceptable behaviour.

In another video, Pepper is seen handcuffing himself to random women and refusing to let go. He tells these women that they are now his girlfriends.

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Sexual assault awareness is the first step to change SAMUEL RAFUSE While it is difficult to measure how successful change occurs by raising awareness alone, surely it remains our best strategy against the atrocity of sexual assault that still plagues the globe.

According to a 2008 study

by Statistics Canada, only eight per cent of sexual assaults are reported to the police, with females accounting for 92 per cent of victims. In a world where the rate of assault is higher than the six degrees of separation from our favourite celebrity, I would consider even the smallest gain in raising awareness to be a step forward.

Awareness alone, however, is not enough to provoke the necessary change needed. Last month has seen some of the worst open displays of sexual inequality that I have known — ranging from the scandalous celebrity nude leak to Sam Pepper’s YouTube video, “Fake Hand Ass Pinch” and numerous examples of sexism and racism in police forces.

I was 18 years old the first time I learned that a friend had been sexually assaulted but it still took me three years before I became a feminist. I can’t blame myself for simply being unaware, but it is for that reason why I believe raising awareness is a key factor in eliminating violence and prejudice.

Thanks to people like popular YouTuber Laci Green — who

started a successful petition that resulted in Pepper’s video being removed from YouTube — and others who voiced their disagreement with Pepper’s actions, we have taken large steps forward in creating a society of equality, but there is much left to do and we cannot do it alone. We will need everyone to understand not only what the problem is but how they can be a part of the solution. This all starts with awareness.

It pains me to recall times I have behaved inappropriately towards women. I now benefit from hindsight, but how close did I come to crossing the line?

Where would I be now if I had not encountered the people in my life who shaped my perspective for the better? If I can be that person for someone else and do my part to contribute, then I will be satisfied that we can accomplish something. If we don’t know when we are behaving wrongly, how can we even begin to behave correctly?

Events like Sexual Assault Awareness Week are of paramount importance in making the first step in a series towards a greater good that will benefit not only women in the world, but men as well. Everyone needs equal treatment; everyone will benefit from a society that doesn’t punish women for being women, men for standing up for women or for behaving in “traditionally feminine” ways, women

for behaving in “traditionally masculine” ways or anyone for defying any gender convention made up long ago and held up only by tradition and ignorance, willful or otherwise.

Ignorance is no longer an acceptable excuse, not in the world of the Internet, political activism and radical social change that we are living through. We have come very far in creating a society of equality — and yet we still have very far to go. No step forward has come without drawbacks and for each time that it appears we have succeeded, another scandal, another headline comes around to remind us how unjust our world still is.

Yet isn’t that the entire point of going to university? To learn things — not just that you didn’t know before — but that you didn’t know you didn’t know? Socrates must have been the most frustrating person on the planet — but he’s right — it’s really difficult to learn something you don’t know exists. I would wager that the majority of sexual assaults begin simply with ignorance and a lack of understanding, not with overt malicious intent — although exceptions are bound to occur.

It starts small, with a gap in knowledge, empathy or understanding. Walking through the Arts Tunnel last week I was so happy to see how enthusiastic everyone who volunteered at the sexual assault table was to get the word out and do their part.

After Sexual Assault Awareness Week, I think that the students of the University of Saskatchewan have come together in a bold way to promote better treatment of all individuals.

This weekend out with new faces at student events, I saw a generation of young men and women learning to cooperate

and to see one another as equal thinkers and of equal worth — and that is the most encouraging aspect of the campaign: that our efforts would not stop on campus but continue to spread to every facet of our lives is the fruition of what raising awareness is all about.

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Sexual Assault Week at the U of S is a great way to raise awareness.

The artificial game is just not the same FIFA Women’s World Cup to be held on artificial grass SOMA DALAI If anyone’s been following international soccer news lately, it’s been pretty obvious that FIFA is about as capable of governing international soccer as Hagrid would be of governing the CIA: “Forget it, Harry. I shouldn’t have said that. I should not have said that.” The recent scandals surrounding the proposed world cup in Qatar, evidence of bribery, cover-ups and rumours of corruption reaching all the way to the top is really just par for course.

It would be cliché of me to say that after all of this, FIFA’s decision to make artificial grass the playing surface for the upcoming Women’s World Cup has crossed some imaginary line — so I won’t.

As outrageous as this decision is, it’s not too surprising coming from FIFA — which has never exactly been a paragon of gender equality. What has crossed the line is the Canadian Soccer Association’s willingness to go along with FIFA’s foolish decision.

According to the 2014 Canadian

Youth Sports Report, in Canada soccer is now one of the most popular youth sports, surpassing enrollments in — gasp! — hockey and lacrosse, our unofficial and official national sports. It’s true that for youth competitions, artificial surfaces are widely used, but they are also widely considered to be inferior to playing on real grass.

For those not in the know, playing on real grass — a well-manicured and lush lawn — is considered the realm of the real athletes. No self-respecting professional club on any continent would maintain a surface of artificial grass. It would be like getting invited by a professional chef to dinner and eating no-name instant perogies — unthawed.

If you still don’t get what the big fuss is about and you consider eating unthawed perogies a delicious treat for a hot summer’s day, the following are just a few reasons why artificial turf just doesn’t cut it at a professional level.

Slide-tackling is a common move in soccer where a player slides to tackle the ball away from an opponent. On a synthetic field — which

is essentially composed of rubber — this move exposes the player to a degree of friction nonexistent on natural grass. This results in painful, bloody abrasions on exposed skin. Just look up the phrase “turf burn” on Google and then wonder if that’s anyone’s idea of a fun time.

In the summer, synthetic grass can be up to 10 degrees hotter than air temperature. If it’s already 30 C outside — not taking humidity into account — imagine standing on 40-degree turf for 90 minutes — you will literally run like your feet are on fire.

Plus, unlike natural grass, synthetic grass doesn’t have microbial systems to filter out bacteria. You know how you see soccer players spitting, bleeding and pouring sweat onto a field during a game?

If that’s natural grass, microorganisms will take care of it and prevent the field from becoming a swamp of infectious diseases. In artificial fields — not so much. The stuff just sits there and breeds.

For all those who have no problem sliding onto a burning rubber surface, discounting any bacterial infections that may result from a

turf burn — in full knowledge you probably wouldn’t have to do this if you were a man — join the Canadian Women’s soccer team! Maybe they’ll be looking for some extra recruits.

The hypocrisy of this entire situation is compounded with the fact that for the last two Men’s World Cups, Canada’s main entry into the competition was — natural grass!

In a CTV article about the Brazil World Cup titled “Pitch Perfect: Canadian grass fills in at World Cup,” reporter Josh Elliot goes into excruciating detail describing the process of what it takes to cover a field with natural grass: “Manitoba grass farmers supplied the grass covering the pitches in each of Brazil’s 12 World Cup soccer stadiums. The farmers spent two years developing their perennial ryegrass seed so it could hold up to the pounding of players at the FIFA soccer tournament.

Grass supplier DLF Pickseed says its brand of perennial ryegrass is designed to take a beating as players run, slide, dive and tumble across it,” Elliot said.

That’s right. We researched,

designed and intensively farmed natural grass to ship to both South Africa and Brazil to benefit players from other countries. Our own men’s team hasn’t set foot on a FIFA World Cup field, natural grass or otherwise, since their sole 1986 attempt, but somehow we can’t do the same within our own country for our much more successful women’s team.

CTV’s article even featured an interview with a Manitoban farmer, Evan Rasmussen, who said it was humbling to see his product on TV. “It’s probably one of the biggest sports tournaments in the world, so it’s definitely really cool to have a little connection to it,” Rasmussen said.

Well here’s some good news for Rasmussen: this coming year, he has the chance to see his grass on screen again, at another one of the “biggest sports tournaments in the world.” And this time, he won’t even have to ship his grass seeds to a different continent. But its time that the CSA takes the high road and gives the Women’s World Cup the treatment — and real grass — that they deserve.

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