The Silhouette - November 22

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Thursday, November 22, 2012

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UTS releases details of Wi-Fi upgrade Anqi Shen

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It’s all been building toward this. After dealing a crushing defeat to the number-one ranked offence of the Calgary Dinos, the McMaster Marauders are returning to the Vanier Cup for a rematch with the Laval Rouge et Or on Friday at Rogers Centre. See B1

Laying down the law on rental units Debate over potential licensing by-law continues How do rates stack up?

Following an earlier announcement of a $100,000 pilot project by UTS to improve wireless internet service on campus, the MSU has released a list of facilities that will receive wireless upgrades or expanded service. The Wi-Fi expansion will prioritize classrooms, lounges, meeting and conference rooms.

Feedback gathered in a student survey played a significant role in the decisionmaking process, said Huzaifa Saeed, VP (Education) of the MSU. The survey garnered about 900 votes when the Wi-Fi working group met to discuss funding allocations, and has since reached more than 1,200 responses.

Notable service upgrades will take place in the basement and first level of BSB along with several rooms in TSH. The entire Student Centre is also expected to receive wireless internet connection.The working group comprised members from UTS, CLL, the University Library, Facility Services and the Registrar.

Originally, rooms 264 and 376 in the John Hodgins Engineering Building (JHE) were not included in the project despite many student survey-takers identifying JHE as needing Wi-Fi. The building will now be considered in the pilot project.

Ken Coley, associate dean of Engineering, explained that the faculty had spent a portion of their budget upgrading Wi-Fi throughout JHE in the past two years, so the faculty was not interested in allocating their own funds for further Wi-Fi enhancements in the building. However, the faculty has clarified that they will not impose restrictions on the pilot project.

“Wi-Fi in classrooms has not been a priority for Engineering but we are not going to stand in the way of UTS putting in upgrades in JHE,” said Coley.

Saeed said there will be extra funds freed up from the $100,000 pot if the MUSC Board of Management agrees to cover WiFi in the Student Centre with the $1.1 million surplus in student fees collected for the building in 2010. That motion will be presented at the Board’s next meeting the second week of December.

Ron McKelvie, director of UTS, said final approval for the project will occur in December. It has not yet been confirmed when updates will be complete.

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On Nov. 27, the City of Hamilton will be releasing its recommendations for a new housing by-law.

While the housing rental by-law is not specifically aimed at targeting students, potential changes include the introduction of a $150 licensing fee, a property standards checklist and a six-person occupancy limit.

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These recommendations come after months of consultation between City officials, landlords and the McMaster Students Union.

Councilor Brian McHattie spoke to The Silhouette in September and reiterated that the introduction of a licensing fee would guarantee higher property standards and hold landlords accountable to providing safe housing.

“The focus is safe housing. We have unsafe and unpalatable housing across the city,”

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said McHattie.

However, landlord associations, such as the Hamilton and District Apartment Association (HDAA), have spoken out against the rental licensing costs.

Arun Pathak, President of HDAA, told The Hamilton Spectator on Nov. 7 that the City is not using all of its current tools to crack down on substandard rental units.

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PRESIDENT’S PAGE Jeff Wyngaarden VP (Finance)

Huzaifa Saeed VP (Education)

Siobhan Stewart President

David Campbell VP (Administration)

SUPPORT FOR GREEN ROOF GROWING Siobhan discusses needing student input for establishing a prominent green space on campus

Siobhan Stewart President president@msu.mcmaster.ca ext. 23885

As some of you may recall, one of my platform points in my election campaign for MSU President was to implement “The Green Roofs Initiative” which was a project initially proposed by a group of students from OPIRG. The Green Roofs Initiative primarily aimed to establish a green space on the third floor balcony of the McMaster University Student Centre (MUSC), adjacent to CIBC Hall.

One of the biggest challenges facing our campus is space. This is no secret. That being said, the creation of new buildings and/or spaces doesn’t happen every day. It is this particular issue on which I often field questions,

so I thought that it might be good to discuss it in more depth. The idea behind the Green Roofs Initiative is to examine the spaces we already have on campus, along with how best to utilize those spaces.

During the course of the summer, a great deal of work and research was done in exploring the best practices and procedures for implementing a green space in the Student Centre. Taking a further look into this concept, Melanie Fox-Chen, who was an intern in the Office of Sustainability worked closely with me to look at the research that was available on green roofs, as well as to consult stakeholders and gain community feedback. Melanie looked at the best practices in other urban green space initiatives across the country. Her research was used to develop a report on the Five Best Practices on Urban Green Space, as well as providing the basis for the creation of a survey which garnered feedback from the McMaster community about potential green roof features for MUSC. The survey was

posted in the summer and ran through early fall. Over 600 people answered our questions and some of the key findings from the survey show the following: 67% of respondents would use the green roof for relaxing and would appreciate a calm, soothing environment.

62% of respondents would like plants native to southern Ontario to be incorporated into the green roof.

78% of respondents would like edible plants to be grown on the roof.

92% of respondents would like this area to be non-smoking.

We have now moved into the stage where we are working closely with the University’s Facility Services department and have selected an engineering firm that will draft visual representations of potential MUSC green space designs. It is imperative that

we continue to consult with additional stakeholders, such as the Office of Sustainability, the administration of MUSC, MacGreen, OPIRG and other interested parties, to ensure that this project reflects collective interests and input. Upon the engineering firm providing suitable drafts of different options, we plan to circulate the drawings via a survey to gather student impressions as to which choice is most popular. Once we establish a student preference, we will take the necessary measures to advocate for the successful completion of this project. I am particularly fond of this project, not only because this was a campaign promise I made, but also for the evolution of our Student Centre. Students who came before us worked collectively to build a Student Centre, which opened 10 years ago. Now, we as students of today are working collaboratively with each other and with our campus partners to improve and enhance that space for the benefit of not only ourselves, but for the students who will come after us.

THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN - AND THEY WANT A FALL BREAK!

Siobhan Stewart President president@msu.mcmaster.ca ext. 23885

The data is in, and it clearly demonstrates that McMaster students are in favour of a fall break. With almost 90% of students voting for a fall break of some kind, it is quite clearly time to move forward on the issue.

In terms of what students would be willing to give up, the most popular option among responses was the assignment of specific classrooms in order to facilitate a change in the exam schedule. Basically, if the University is able to allocate more space for writing exams, it would be possible to more efficiently assign examination schedules. The ultimate goal of this is to decrease the overall length of the examination period in the fall semester, freeing time for a fall break.

When asked about the idea of a reflective week in the first semester taking the place of a fall break, the majority of students said “maybe” or that “more information was required.”

This illustrates the need for greater discussion and information on the topic, as many students might be amenable to the idea of a reflective week as first mentioned by the Student Experience Task Force of Forward with Integrity.

This could represent a very important point of common ground upon which progress could be made in talks with the University.

Overall, voters were well-informed, with only about 5% of people not knowing about options for the break.

This indicates a clear interest in the topic of discussion and the MSU looks forward to further student involvement and response as we move forward.

From the preliminary interpretation of the results, it is also possible to derive the desired form of the break. While many students said that a one day break would be acceptable, a clear majority of those who participated in the survey indicated interest in a fall reading week.

This could mean that 2013 could see a one to two day break, at some point in the fall term as we work towards the potential long term goal of more time.

Additional analysis of the results of this survey is needed, along with further consultation with students and specific student groups/faculties. Expect to hear and see more about #MAKEaBREAK in the near future.

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Booster Juice location scheduled to open Foot traffic expected to increase significantly in already limited space Julia Redmond Assistant News Editor

In mid-winter when there is a load of work and a lack of sunlight, students can always use a little vitamin boost. And come January, they’ll have the opportunity to get this from smoothies when a new location of Booster Juice is slated to come to the McMaster University Student Centre.

After the closing of Scoops, a smoothie and ice cream vendor that occupied a small kiosk next to Tim Horton’s, McMaster Hospitality Services (MHS) explored different options for new businesses for the space .The deal between MHS and Booster Juice was announced in December of last year.

Lori Diamond, Director of MUSC, noted that students are happy with the deal.

“Feedback from students … was overwhelmingly positive when our proposal came forward,” she said.

Despite the excitement of students and administrators, there has been no noticeable progress on a storefront in the student centre.

And at this point, the construction details are still unclear.

“Nothing is confirmed,” explained Albert Ng, Director of

MHS. The University held a meeting with the contractor and construction project team on Nov. 19 in order to work out these details, but Ng emphasized the fact that no strict timeline had been set.

“Three groups are trying to establish what would be a conservable and doable schedule,” he said, noting that the coordination between these groups was not always easy.

MHS has some control over the construction, as the electrical work is run through McMaster, but the equipment for the store comes from Booster Juice, and the contractor is from an external company.

“From my understanding, most of the kiosk itself is constructed offsite, then put in place and hooked up with electrical, plumbing and equipment,” Diamond explained.

MUSC administration said that the proposal suggested construction would start the week of Nov. 26, with the opening scheduled for Jan. 2. And despite the lack of confirmation for the plans, Ng said, “we’re still hopeful that we can get it done for the New Year.”

The kiosk will occupy the same place as the previous smoothie bar, though it “will have a larger footprint.”

The choice of location has raised some concerns about traffic

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MUSC recently added 48 seats, but a new Booster Juice may re-configure the space or cause traffic issues.

flow and available space in the student centre, which is already often overcrowded. And MUSC, which replaced Hamilton Hall as the student centre when it opened in 2002, was built at a time when the student population was approximately 14,000 full-time students.

Diamond noted, “we did … consider [the impact on space], as did Hospitality Services in bringing forward the proposal.”

She said that the addition of the kiosk would not require a removal

of seating, but that the existing food court area will be reconfigured to accommodate it.

MUSC added 48 seats to the area last year in order to accommodate the “rising demand,” but during the day the space is almost always full.

And the new storefront could pose more of a problem than rearranged seating; like the Tim Horton’s, Booster Juice will have to have a lineup for its customers.

Diamond claimed that “it will

be configured to corral the line-up away from the main traffic corridor.”

But it remains to be seen whether the convenience of campus smoothies will come at the cost of a busier student centre.

Before the plan for a campus location, the nearest Booster Juice was a few minutes from campus, located at Main Street and Thorndale. It has since been closed. Booster Juice was unavailable for comment on whether or not this is related to McMaster’s new store.

Liberal leadership candidate makes stop in Westdale to speak with students

ANQI SHEN ONLINE NEWS EDITOR

Kathleen Wynne sits down at My Dog Joe Coffeehouse in Westdale to discuss her bid for Leader of the Ontario Liberals and to speak about her platform and strategic priorities.

Anqi Shen

Online News Editor

Kathleen Wynne, an MPP who recently entered the Ontario Liberal leadership bid, met with members of the McMaster Young Liberals at My Dog Joe in Westdale on Nov. 20.

At the small gathering, Wynne addressed topics including affordable housing, healthcare, economic growth, and a struggling post-secondary sector.

Wynne said she would keep Premier McGuinty’s 30 per cent off

tuition grant in place and work toward increased access to Ontario’s post-secondary education.

In response to a Ministry discussion paper on education reform in September, Wynne expressed support for online learning as a tool, but said it should not replace traditional modes of learning.

“In some parts of the province we need more online courses. I don’t think we necessarily need a new online institution,” she said.

Wynne also said she does not think three-year degrees are the way to go.

“In some parts of the province we need some more online courses. I don’t think we necessarily need a new online institution.”

Kathleen Wynne Former Liberal MPP

Wynne identified economic

growth as a priority, saying she would work to balance the budget and ensure the Province stays on target fiscally for 2017-2018.

“We need to develop new, innovative industries, but we also have resources and a mining boom in the North,” said Wynne. “We need to find our place in the supply chain.”

Wynne, former education minister and minister of transportation, recently garnered the support of Ted McMeekin, MPP for Ancaster-Dundas-Flamborough-

Westdale and minister of agriculture.

Since Dalton McGuinty’s announcement in October that he would step down as Premier and prorogue Parliament, six Liberal MPPs have resigned from their posts to enter the leadership race.

The other candidates are Gerard Kennedy (Toronto), Glen Murray (Toronto), Sandra Pupatello (Windsor), Charles Sousa (Mississauga) and Eric Hoskins (Toronto).

The race is to be determined in late January.

First years absent from Welcome Week Review Aissa Boodhoo-Leegsma Senior News Editor

Welcome Week has the potential to make or break a first year’s experience at McMaster. But it’s difficult to say what this year’s batch of first year students thought about their Welcome Week.

The Student Success Centre (SSC) had originally scheduled Welcome Week focus groups for Nov. 21 and Nov. 22 in which first-year students are invited to voice their opinions on their Welcome Week.

In the past, the SSC has attracted approximately 15 students per focus group. This year, no students signed up.

According to Rachel Nelson, SSC Events Coordinator, the Centre is currently looking into why this occurred. Students were notified of the sessions via a mass email notification sent to their McMaster emails.

The MSU already conducted Welcome Week focus groups in early October. These groups mostly consisted of SRA members who had held a variety of positions in Welcome Week.

The groups looked at the purpose of Welcome Week, scheduling, levy fees, and Welcome Week representatives.

While the MSU coordinates some of the larger events such as the

PJ Parade and Faculty Day/Night, the SSC is responsible for organizing move-in, distributing MacPasses and co-ordinating MACademics sessions.

MACademics are the schooloriented sessions run during Welcome Week in order to prepare first year students for the realities they will face in university.

This year some sessions attracted up to 100 participants. For the first time, SSC also offered sessions tailored specifically for artsbased students and science-based students.

However, questions have been raised as to whether Welcome Week should have such a heavy academic

focus.

MSU Executives David Campbell and Huzaifa Saeed have put together a proposal to recommend an “Academic-focused Welcome Week” occurring the week after Welcome Week.

David Campbell, VP Administration noted that it is worth expanding MACademics due to its clear value to students.

But he stated that, “Welcome Week should focus on social networking and getting your roots settled … which research shows is essential to academic success and retention.”

The MSU proposal would also aim to involve faculty societies and

get more faculty-focused academic support for first year students. However, Campbell noted that this requires a significant amount of planning and resources.

With possible changes looming, it remains unclear what exactly first years think about their Welcome Week experiences.

The SSC distributed a First Year Transition Survey earlier in November to ask new students about their overall experience so far.

1,000 students responded to this survey.

With plans for Welcome Week hanging in the balance, the time for first year students to speak up is running out.

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Rental by-law could mean extra fee for students FROM A1 In particular, Pathak highlighted Project Compliance, which has seen municipal by-law enforcement officers cracking down on illegal rental units since 2010.

Project Compliance is a pilot project that targeted specific wards, including Ward 1, which includes Westdale.

The MSU issued a press release to alert students to these changes on Nov. 20.

Additionally, they have created an online survey for students to list their preferences when it comes to cost of rent, quality of rental property and number of occupants in the rental property.

One third-year Social Sciences student has already been impacted by the controversy surrounding the proposed changes.

This student had been in communication with their landlord and was made aware that a licensing fee was potentially being introduced.

The landlord told the student that she would be taking locks off

the doors in the rental property and trying to put all the tenants on one lease for the next year, so that the rental property could be classified as a “family dwelling unit” and therefore not be subject to the licensing fee by-law.

In response to this, the student told the Silhouette that he strongly favoured the City licensing and more careful regulation of landlords and rental properties. He has also been in contact with Councillor McHattie’s Office.

While property standards are one part of the controversy, students could also incur additional costs.

Currently, the City appears to be setting the fee at $150 per year.

The concern is that this cost could be downloaded to students.

Huzaifa Saeed, MSU VP Education, spoke to the Sil in September, stating, “From one angle…this is a good deal for students. This would avoid horror stories with absentee lanlords. From an economic standpoint…what would this do for affordability of rental housing?”

While Hamilton appears to be

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Students renting houses may face a licensing fee of $150 to cover the cost of higher property standards.

pursuing the $150 fee, other cities, such as North Bay and Oshawa, have set prohibitively high fees of $300 and $500 respectively.

Both North Bay and Oshawa have also come under fire from the

Ontario Human Rights Commission for targeting students in their by-laws and therefore discriminating specifically against student rentals.

Councillor McHattie told The

Spectator that he is committed to keeping licensing fees low.

The MSU has also continued to be involved in consultations with the City in order to advocate for student interests.

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Over a hundred protesters gathered outside of the Federal Building in downtown Hamilton on Nov. 18 to call for an end to Israel’s siege of the Gaza Strip. The conflict has claimed the lives of over 100 Palestinians with an additional 850 wounded as Israeli airstrikes hammer Gaza.

Demonstrators walked a picket line, holding signs and chanting various slogans, including “from the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free,” and “Gaza, Gaza, don’t you cry – Palestine will never die.”

The location was chosen to protest the Harper government’s support for Israel, both diplomatic and military.

Demonstrators drove this point home with the chant “Harper, war monger, Prime Minster no longer.”

Events proceeded peacefully and police presence was minimal.

Demonstrators were treated to speeches from various leaders in the anti-war activist community, including representatives of the Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War, the Palestinian Association of Hamilton, and Independent Jewish Voices.

“The massacre in Gaza did not start a few days ago,” said Salah Abdelrahman, a third-year engineering student at McMaster. “It started in 2006 when Israel decided to enforce an inhumane siege on Gaza … The sad part is that people have to see children lying on the ground dead before they take action.”

McMaster students also attended the demonstrations at the Israeli Consulate on Nov. 13. The Hamilton rally followed other demonstrations across the country against the renewed attacked on Gaza.

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More work, less play New study shows that Canadian quality of life on the decline

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The report shows that Canadians are cutting down on leisure time.

Connor Thorpe The Capilano Courier

NORTH VANCOUVER (CUP) — Despite Canada’s relatively graceful recovery from the worldwide economic meltdown of 2008, the quality of life Canadians experience is on the decline.

According to the Canadian Index of Wellbeing (CIW), a study conducted in conjunction with the University of Waterloo, Canadians’ quality of life plummeted by 24 per cent between 2008 and 2010.

Based on CIW findings, the culprit is an excessive focus on the economy and issues related to it.

“In a society that is preoccupied with the economy and working hard, among the first casualties are those things that ironically matter to us the most,” said Bryan Smale, director of the CIW. “We forget to protect time for family and friends, and to enjoy those pursuits that bring meaning to our lives.

“We want to bring some balance to the conversation by reminding people that a good life includes those things that too many people regard as being less important than work and making money.”

The correlation between wellbeing and economics has been demonstrated by earlier CIW studies. From 1994 to 2008, Canadian wellbeing — as measured by the CIW — rose by 7.5 per cent. In the aftermath of the economic crisis, and Canada’s subsequent recovery, that number dropped by 5.7 per cent in just a two-year period.

“The concern then, and even more so now, was that policy was being driven primarily by a concern with the economy and little else,” Smale went on to say. “Our concern was that Canadians’ wellbeing was suffering because we were not attending to other aspects of our lives that contributed to quality of life. Certainly, the economy matters, but [not] to the exclusion of everything else that makes our lives worthwhile.”

Canadian quality of life has primarily taken a hit in the broader areas of environment, time use, leisure and culture, though Smale explains that the CIW is based on 64 specific indicators.

“Among the indicators that showed the greatest declines were such things as: fewer social contacts, worsening green gas emissions, a larger ecological footprint, an increase in the percentage of people with diabetes, continuing declines in visitation to our national parks and historic sites,” Smale said.

“Less volunteering for culture and recreation organizations, less time spent

in social leisure, reduced economic security, increased long-term unemployment, longer commute times, and perhaps most troubling, [a] growing income gap between rich and poor.”

In Smale’s opinion, that income gap and reduction of the middle class is where the problem lies.

“The growth in an economy is not necessarily a bad thing, but the increasing income disparity, with those at the lower end stagnating and the middle class shrinking, that seems to be accompanying this period of slow recovery is jeopardizing other aspects of our lives,” he said. “Adherents to ‘trickle-down’ economics have failed to produce any evidence that the wealth generated at the top of society has benefited those at the bottom.”

While it might seem that an economic recovery would increase social engagement, leisure time and cultural participation, the solution is not that simple unless “that recovery creates more opportunity for everyone.”

“The wellbeing associated with engagement in leisure and cultural pursuits does not simply require having sufficient funds to purchase recreational products and services,” said Smale.

“There must be the will among policy makers to ensure that such opportunities are available to all and that economic pressures do not bring about the decline of leisure, recreation, arts and cultural services, programs and other opportunities. It is through our social relationships in leisure, our time spent in meaningful pursuits, and our enjoyment of the people and the world around us that enrich our lives, bring us closer together, and defines our humanity, that matter.”

It’s important to understand that the CIW’s definition of wellbeing does not equate to general public happiness.

“Quality of life — or wellbeing — is a broader concept that includes both those things that are internal to us like our health, happiness and life satisfaction, as well as those things that are external to us that affect our quality of life, such as our social relationships, our environment, our communities and access to opportunities to enhance our lives,” said Smale.

“Happiness is really linked to just emotion and general life satisfaction, although many others treat it as equivalent to wellbeing, perhaps because it is a more familiar concept to people.”

Smale emphasizes, “Happiness is about emotion, whereas wellbeing is about flourishing in our lives.”

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The Hamilton Tiger-Cats announced on Tuesday that they’d be playing their 2013 home games in Alumni Stadium at the University of Guelph.

No matter how much pride we might feel about the McMaster Marauders’ dominant season, we’ll have to mix it with a little shame.

Our school could have, and should have, found a way to keep the CFL in Hamilton next year. Instead, the Tabbies will be sharing a field with this season’s Yates Cup runners-up.

McMaster represented the Tiger-Cats’ only hope of staying in Hamilton next season while they wait for the 2014 opening of their new facility, which will replace Ivor Wynne Stadium. The University made the decision in June that it wouldn’t host any games, forcing the franchise to look elsewhere for a temporary place of residence.

This wasn’t about money. The Tiger-Cats were prepared to take on the financial burden.

This wasn’t really about capacity either. Guelph’s stadium can hold 7,500 people and can be expanded to 12,000 to 15,000 seats. Ron Joyce Stadium at McMaster comes close, with 5,500 seats that can be expanded to 12,000 (some estimates suggested Ron Joyce could go as high as 17,000). But really, what does a little extra seating matter when your fans are in a different city?

TiCats management hopes that they can fill seats with a mix of diehard fans and a new crop of supporters from Guelph.

After all, why should Guelph fans be any less deserving of a CFL team?

Sorry, Guelph, but you are less deserving. Since the Hamilton Tigers and the Hamilton Wildcats joined forces in 1950, Hamiltonians have offered the team all the support they could ask for.

When the Tiger-Cats approached McMaster about playing home games on campus next season, the University needed to back up talk of community engagement by putting its stadium where its mouth was.

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But it turned out that McMaster didn’t mean the whole city when it talked about community. When the University made a sudden decision to end discussions with the team after six months of dialogue and shut down the possibility of holding the 10 or 11 Sunday home games on campus, they were looking out for Westdale. The bubble.

Granted, while they might be Hamilton’s team, the TigerCats aren’t Westdale’s team. Their fans of north-east Hamilton – a part of the city where most of the University’s students rarely tread – are blue collar. Pigskin Pete, the team’s unofficial fan-mascot since 1920, would seem out of place anywhere else.

(Pete has been represented by four different men, whose primary duties were to don a jersey, and sometimes a fur coat, and lead the iconic “Oskie-Wee-Wee” chant in the stands.)

But even if the Tiger-Cats aren’t Westdale’s team, McMaster needed to assert that it was Hamilton’s university. It didn’t.

So thank you, U of Guelph, for being Hamilton’s university when McMaster could not.

• Sam Colbert

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Attacks on the right need balance Re: “Repentance for credence” by Mel Napeloni [Published Nov. 15 in Opinions] I was excited to read an article critiquing conservatism, but having read this article over many times, I remain offended. I say this, yes, as a fiscal conservative, but also as a member of a democratic and pluralist society. From my interpretation, this article is suggesting that conservatives, and plurality, are wrong.

Now, I do not identify with anything that Mr. Napeloni has deemed “conservative,” but others may. I would also like to point out that from what I have learned in Political Science courses here at McMaster, Republicanism and Canadian Conservatism are very different. I think it is unfortunate that this article generalizes all conservatives into one extreme viewpoint. I have passed this article onto Liberals/NDP’ers, and they too see this article as offensive. Again, this article rejects the existence of multiple viewpoints.

Despite my criticism of the content, to me, it is not the primary issue. What bothers me more is that this article was published under McMaster’s name. I firmly believe in “Freedom of Speech” as outlined in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, but this article suggests that my fiscal conservative viewpoints are illegitimate, which contradicts these values. It serves no purpose but to say that if you do not agree with one individual’s viewpoint of how society should behave politically, then you are “among history’s parasites.”

My letter here is not meant to attack anyone, but to suggest that an attack is being made on my freedoms as a democratic individual. By publishing articles like these, it polarizes conservatives from liberals, who surely do not all hold these arguments as their own.

Healthy democratic conversations should be supported by our news media – we want students to participate in politics, and articles like these make it an unwelcoming invitation.

• Melissa Meyer

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Who killed Hip-Hop? Edwardo Lovo The Silhouette

Rumour has it that hip-hop is not dead, that it’s been buried alive, and if one presses their ears against the ground they can hear the sounds from the underground. Hip-hop emerged in its spirit as an art form; its voice was an artistic expression of marginalized people. At its present state hip-hop has lost that spirit for another - the spirit of capitalism. Its voice is sweetened with the honey of bourgeois consciousness.

Hip-hop’s transformation into a commodity reflects an almost invisible but very powerful force in the system imposed by advanced industrial society.

Industrial society imposes a technological order, a rationality that seems sensible - where the individual worker disappears from socially necessary but arduous labour in its mechanization - where individual enterprises are integrated into corporations to boost productivity and effectiveness - where free competition among unequally equipped economic subjects is regulated. All of this reflects the rationality behind technological progress, which has the promise of rendering individual autonomy possible.

“The technological processes of mechanization and standardization might release individual energy into a yet uncharted realm of freedom beyond necessity.”

However, with the advancement of this technological rationality comes a price.

Theorist Herbert Marcuse says, “Independence of thought, autonomy, and the right to political opposition are deprived of their basic critical function in a society which seems increasingly capable of satisfying the needs of the individuals through the way in which it is organized. Such a society may justly demand acceptance of its principles and institutions, and reduce the opposition to the discussion and promotion of alterna-

tive policies within the status quo. In this respect, it seems to make little difference whether the increasing satisfaction of needs is accomplished by an authoritarian or a non-authoritarian system.”

Non-conformity with the system, then, appears to go against rationality. Conformity is encouraged and develops a pattern of thought that rejects aspirations and ideas that do not conform with technological rationality — a pattern of thought which is essentially uncritical.

The art form of hip-hop was a vehicle for communicating the ideas, the emotions, and the aspirations of marginalized people which were repressed and stifled by the everyday reality — through hiphop, people found an outlet where one’s voice discovered the expression it hungered for. Hip-hop held up a mirror to the social reality of urban life, not refracting its light but reflecting its rotten core which reality has numbed us to in our daily lives.

Hip-hop set itself against society, pushing the concealed realities of racism, black poverty, and urban ills past the bounds of sanity into absurdity.

The rationality of the higher classes that everything is in working and established order was refuted by the ideals espoused by hip-hop.

Rappers such as Sticky Fingaz of Onyx expresses, in a single lyric, a poignantly distorted perception of reality: “They call me nigga so much, startin’ to think it’s my name.” Infused into his experience as a human is a sense of rupture from humanity — and though this isn’t a colonial situation, Theorist Frantz Fanon’s description of dehumanization of the colonized by the colonist is pertinent here. The oppressor (white people) has distinguished him/herself from the oppressed (black people) who bestialize the latter, which so much media in the ‘90s can testify to. This is what Sticky

Fingaz conveys with this lyric. Regrettably, articulation of the black experience in America is entirely lost in the millennium’s hip-hop.

Rapper A.G. paints a frighteningly vivid picture of poor urban areas — ghettos — in the song “Runaway Slave,” not to mention the powerful symbolism invoked by the song title. A.G. is “livin’ in the slums with the bums” where at every corner can be found a crack vial, drug dealers, crack-heads; where “babies are having babies” and “juveniles act wild.” These are ugly truths that hip-hop used to convey about poor urban areas mainly populated by people of colour, truths which have been substituted for dreams of riches that no one but a very few will be able to attain.

Hip-hop of the millennium has substituted the spirit of art with the spirit of capitalism. In songs such as J. Cole’s “Dollar and a Dream III,” Jay-Z’s “So Ambitious,” Lil Wayne’s “Make it Rain,” and Rick Ross’s “B.M.F. (Blowin’ Money Fast)” resentment at poor socioeconomic conditions, the wish for social conditions to be different in urban areas for the betterment of the community transforms into individualistic dreams of prosperity.

This ideology of prosperity that has taken a hold of hip-hop stems from the slow systematic transformation of social reality that advanced, industrial society has incurred on it. Few show interest in hip-hop that does not obsess with prosperity or materialism.

Hip-hop has been killed, and capitalism wedded to a technological rationality is the culprit, annihilating all opposition to it.

KAREN WANG GRAPHICS EDITOR

Under-workings of the underworld Mel Napeloni Opinions Editor

Our city is full of personality. The grime is there and the crime is there, but the depth of its struggles seethe with opportunity. While hope lingers, so does darkness.

Gentrification and poverty are two major issues occurring right now, especially in areas like Barton Street and major sectors of Main, King, Locke, and James. Despite these varying obstacles - plagued with economic and social fatigue - there is an ongoing aggravation of these difficulties, namely, the urban strife of homeless women. These struggles range from general homelessness and lack of resources to sex work and forced human trafficking.

A woman by the name of Mary Popovich is a notable example of council’s negligence for homeless women. She lived in the streets of Hamilton for years. She had with her a grocery cart that she used to stuff with whatever goods she could find. If you are a regular user of Hamilton transit, you will know exactly what I mean when I say women in rags with shopping carts are essentially commonplace. As for

Mary, she died of pneumonia and bronchitis in the middle of a street. This prompted the creation of a women’s shelter under Good Shepard, a national organization whose purpose is the building of nonprofit housing in cities.

This year, however, the shelter has had to turn away hundreds of women monthly due to capacity.

Homeless women are forced to either sleep on the city streets or find low-class hotels for dirt cheap, which are generally in very dangerous areas littered with threatening contingences.

CBC Hamilton interviewed Good Shepherd’s assistant director of programs, Katherine Kalinowski, about the issue of over-crowdedness. She said they make exceptions but that there’s only so much they can do. She concluded the interview with “I don’t think any night is safe for women.” A line for the ages.

An even scarier problem Hamilton faces, which is essentially immeasurable at this point, is forced prostitution. Some women of lower socio-economic statuses are constrained by a lack of viable options.

However, the complexity of trafficking here is astonishingly deeper than that, as some of it goes back to

underground drug markets. According to investigations conducted by Nicole O’Reilly of the Spectator, girls from middle-class families will fall victim to Oxycontin and prescription opiates, given to them by men involved in inner-city trade and trafficking. Younger men absorbed in the culture will date younger girls and force them into the lifestyle, usually through violent coercion and abuse.

When a fifth of this city is under the poverty line, what are we to expect of its social services and its ability to help and secure its citizens? Hamilton is a community like no other – untouched by sprawl, celebrated for their community ties. Some people breathe this city, like I do.

But sex trafficking is immeasurable, women continue to litter the streets in the cold and snow, girls as young as sixteen are indoctrinated and abused - so it doesn’t take much to realize there’s a problem despite the inarguable good.

This is systematic. This is bigger than street corners and drunken laughter that resonates in dark corridors of this city. It’s only a matter of time until debilitation turns into subversion unless something is done.

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The Silhouette • Thursday, November 22, 2012

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Karthicka Suthanandan

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Are program-specific events detrimental to student life?

HEADTOHEAD Karthicka: It’s that time of year, not the holidays, but the season of winter formals. There’s Fireball, Charity Ball, and so many more for all of the different faculties and programs on campus.

What does this mean for students? Well, it’s a great night out for sure with all your friends who you see every day in class, study with, and do projects with the same people you’re always with.

There is a habit in university to keep students in their specific programs, where they go to the same classes, are exposed to the same committees, and of course go to the same socials.

In consequence, there just doesn’t seem to be a lot of room to meet new people from different programs and all the diversity that comes with them, such as different ideas, passions, and even genders (for those female or male dominated programs).

This is particularly bad for student life because, while there is an abundance of students at this university, it becomes hard to find avenues to meet them. Sure, when you get started in a program, you’re bound to make some friends and they’re inevitably the people you’ll go to

socials with if you choose to. However, at a social that is not program specific, you can go with these same people and still get a chance to meet some new ones.

Plus, there’s always that one token student in a different program from the rest of their friends, the exclusivity of a formal can be a hindrance for that individual to be

“There just doesn’t seem to be a lot of room to meet new people from different programs.”

Karthicka

able to hang out with those friends.

On the other hand, an event like Charity Ball would be much better in promoting school spirit and unity for everyone on campus by giving students a chance to interact with people they would meet otherwise, and escape the clichés of their own

program.

Anmol: Before I even begin my arguments, lets address one of main issues in the discussion: I can concede that programs are inherently cliquey. Students become friends with those they deem to be likeminded, and these like-minded individuals often come from the same faculty.

While this may be due to an actual shared interest in the program of study, I’d guess it is more likely because you’re in the same classes, tutorials, and labs.

Additionally, while this may not be universal, many students bond over comparisons of their own program to another program, often reaffirming some narrow views in a textbook example of “groupthink”.

Thus, I understand how healthy university-wide social events can be. They create an environment that encourages mingling between all university students (even if you’re only really mingling with your own friends at your own table once you get to these events).

The situation at hand however, is not discussing whether university-wide events are healthy, but whether program-specific events are detrimental to student life, which I

believe they are inherently not. Let’s look at welcome week, where first year students are primarily exposed to events centered around their own faculty or program.

This is an essential experience as they can find upper year peers/ mentors to relate to, as these individuals have already travelled a similar path and can offer invalu-

“These events encourage being comfortable in your skin and with your own choices.”

Anmol

able advice on how to maximize individual success in that particular program (both academically and socially). Bonding at such a microscale would be more difficult (albeit, not impossible) between a welcome week representative and a student that are mismatched.

Additionally, program-specific events harbour a sense of camaraderie. These events encourage being comfortable in your skin and with your own choices as you share the event with others that have made the same choice. Essentially, “you’re not alone”.

This message might be more muddled at a university-wide event at McMaster, where you’re comparing your 100-person program to a 2000-person program and wondering whether you really should have gone the pre-med route like pretty much everyone else on campus. I can recognize the “vicious circle” argument that centers this debate.

Are students cliquey and exclusive, and thus hold program-specific events?

Or, do program-specific events make students cliquey and exclusive? I think the answer to both questions is “yes”, however I think program-specific events alone are not sufficient to make students cliquey.

Similar schedules/experiences contribute a lot more to cliquey behaviour, and program-specific events offer many advantages, a few of which I outlined above. They are not detrimental.

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Thursday, November 22, 2012 • The Silhouette

Feedback Is the Canadian government doing enough for Indigenous rights?

NATIONALISM

Too much of a good thing Are we a nation under hockey, or are we more than that?

Compiled by Mel Napeloni and Jessie Lu “No, they’re not. The Canadian government feels entitled to a land they don’t own.”

Rawan Disouky Biology II

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We should remember that a healthy, vibrant country means a diversity of interests and activities.

Rob Hardy The Silhouette

“Canada isn’t trying hard enough to help aboriginals. There is a solution, but I’m not quite sure what that is.”

Thanos Papapanagiotou Sociology III

“I wish I knew more about it because it’s an issue I think is very important.”

Amanda Kelly Engineering/Physics II

“They’ll never be doing enough. The first step is for the Canadian government to openly recognize they are occupiers of another’s land.”

Samira Sayed-Rahman Political Science IV

There are many ways to judge a society. This becomes an even tidier prospect if said society has their eggs in only a scant few baskets.

And when we talk about in which baskets we put our eggs, this simply means examining where the majority of Canadians are focused, what they are thinking about, and the proportion of energy they put forth into certain activities.

Right now, we are in the midst of a nasty NHL lockout, one of which is threatening to eliminate an entire hockey season. Since our remotes might be getting some lighter use these days, this is about as good a time as any to give some pause as to just how the hell we spend our time. Far from approaching this from a moralistic point of view, it still might give us pause to step back and really see how crazy we might be getting about all of this.

Hockey has always been a huge part of the Canadian culture; something is always in the background whether in the off-season or on.

Even those who don’t much care for sports know that The Maple Leafs are Toronto’s team and the Canadians are Montreal’s. Likely, most anyone would be able to point out the logos - symbols nearly as recognizable as the golden arches. For nearly a century, it is safe to say that the love of this sport has been inherently Canadian, and united most of the country in some strange way.

That being said, there is such a thing as too much of a good thing, when such a strong central focus is poured into what is really just a game played by ardent professionals. It’s understandable why hockey, or other sports in general, draw people in. For some it’s a genuine

love of the game, for others it’s keeping in that game as an active spectator when dreams of going pro finally die, and for nearly everyone who watches it’s just an easy past time.

What has been boggling the mind lately, however, is that this group of fans doesn’t amount to just a minor niche but is actually reflective of what has become an outright obsession nation-wide. And while this may be perfectly normal for a segment of the population, hockey mania is likely one of the top concerns of the average Canadian, eclipsing even that of political discourse.

The hockey arena today is built with the most modern infrastructure, composed of high ceilings, icy colours and choirs of voices singing anthems with an unflinching seriousness rarely witnessed otherwise. The domain of Hockey Night in Canada has become a presentday cathedral, hyped to the highest proportions of both patriotism and consumerism. With a stagnant economy and massive layoffs, especially south of the border where many of the teams are, most games are nevertheless stunningly packed to the rafters by the unerringly faithful.

Especially with the rise of social media, everyone has an opinion on the current disaster that is ensuing. The thing is it’s a disaster for those involved, if you can even call it that. That’s not to say that athletes shouldn’t be recognized for putting themselves on the line and making their owners rich in the process.

But how soon this dispute is settled doesn’t affect our own bottom line, so why do we care so much? Why are Canadians more interested in job negotiations involving hockey players rather than public teachers, where lowering job standards have a

much bigger impact on the average worker?

Like most guys, I would’ve loved to be playing pro sports like football, but when that doesn’t happen, life goes on. It may be exciting when your team wins or Canada gets the gold, but at the end of the day we have to realize we do not personally profit from this acclaim.

The typical “armchair quarterback” can get distracted by what others are doing, worrying more about someone else’s stats than his own. Does it matter how good a hockey team is even as the average Canadian slips further into obesity, a disease fuelled by their own inactivity?

Most of us can’t be in the pros, but there are still a lot of chances to be active yourself and directly impact your life and community rather than simply vicariously watch others have fun or live life. It’s a sad, silent and woefully incorrect implication that as we get older we don’t need to bother cultivating our own athleticism and stay competitive.

Perhaps, it’s this need that causes us to mistakenly plug into sport voyeurism, as we settle into the sedentary, complacent middle-class.

Some of the latest news has been that now beer sales have been suffering, too. Hopefully, this means that television viewership has also declined, leaving us to enjoy the great outdoors instead while putting some time aside for a more civic-minded life, at least until the puck finally drops again. We should remember that a healthy, vibrant country means not only a diverse citizenship, but a diversity of interests and activities - people actively working towards things such as social justice and preserving the halls of academia, lest we somehow slip back into some sort of neo-dark age.

Stop drawing on Earth’s resources Focus on living and leave the world alone “This debilitating dichotomy of us and them is problematic. The Canadian government is more invested in the interests of nonIndigenous people.”

Meaghan Langille Life Science IV

Mike Nickerson The Silhouette

The biggest news on planet Earth today is that the human family has grown to fill its habitat. While this situation effects every issue from economic stagnation to climate change, it is actually good news.

Realizing that we are now mature as a species clarifies the task of adapting to our mature state by creating a culture that acknowledges and works within planetary limits.

How do we get a society that has been growing for ten thousand years to realize that it’s grown up now and that more growth isn’t the most important thing we have to do?

A fundamental change has taken place in the relationship between people and the earth.

It requires an equally fundamental change in how we manage ourselves.

While humans had little impact on the Earth for hundreds of thousands of years, this has changed. We now affect almost everything on the planet.

There are only two laws in nature that we must obey to avoid a trial in the Court of Natural Selection. One prohibits drawing more resources than the Earth can provide. The other governs our tolerance to waste.

If our society can stay on the right side of these laws, our descend-

JAVIER CAICEDO MULTIMEDIA EDITOR

Instead of striving to earn and spend a lot, enjoy living to the fullest.

ants can enjoy secure lives long into the future. Enjoying living is a big part of the solution. Once we have the material necessities of nutritious food and comfortable shelter, we get far more satisfaction from the three L’s: learning, love and laughter, than from any material acquisitions. By focusing on living, rather than possessing, we could be having so much fun that we wouldn’t have time to harm the planet.

When we accept responsibility for our new maturity, our duty as good citizens will change.

Instead of striving to earn and spend as much money as possible, we will aim to live as lightly as possible on the Earth, to enjoy living to the fullest and to manage the world in ways that will assure successive generations their place under the sun.

It is a question of direction.

Nickerson is presently traveling with his book, Life, Money and Illusion; Living on Earth As If We Want To Stay and spoke at an OPIRG event on Wednesday, Nov. 21 at McMaster.

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The Silhouette • Thursday, November 22, 2012

Get invested in Steel City Respect for Hamilton means being aware of both its ups and its downs Ariel Garlow

The text trot KAREN WANG GRAPHICS EDITOR

The Silhouette

Scanning through an early November edition of The Silhouette, at least two articles brought to mind what I’d been musing on ever since I first arrived at Mac. Tutorials would start up for the year, everyone would introduce themselves, talk about their hobbies, their family, the city they were from. Ancaster, Burlington, Toronto or somewhere much further out of the area. What I realized is that very few of my classmates actually came from the city I was born in, and the city in which we all come to learn and grow here at McMaster. For a university in Hamilton, I wasn’t meeting very many Hamilton-born students. In many ways I think that speaks well of our campus, that students are willing to travel out of their way to get an education here.

At the same time, there’s a particular vibe I get from many of my peers about their feelings towards our Steel city. First, they often know little or nothing about Hamilton, its history, monuments and key features. This is something most people will readily admit as they ask me directions or ask about a certain bus route. Second, that they have no desire to learn about Hamilton and would rather continue to view it through their disdain as this “dirty city”.

“Ew, Hamilton is so grimy! I can’t wait until I’m done at Mac!”, “Haha, yeah, Hamilton locals are such creepy bums!”, “My mom expects me to take the Barton bus to school! Yeah right mom, what are we, beggars in the Great Depression or something?”

These are all real things I’ve overheard at my couple fascinating and educational years at this school. Which tells me one of the biggest reasons for the hatred or disgust of my home city – we’re just “too poor” for the elite students from neighbouring, wealthier cities. I’m pretty sure everyone knows that neighbouring cities view Hamilton as the slums, the grimiest part of Ontario.

I’m not sure if students coming from Ancaster or Burlington know what sort of reputation their hometowns have earned (Key Words: “Daddy’s Trust Fund”).

I thought about these things as I scanned the two articles, one on Committing to community and another entitled Who are our 1%? Income inequality seminar educates Mac about poverty,

Tyler Welch The Silhouette

BAHAR ORANG ASSISTANT ANDY EDITOR

both by Aissa Boodhoo-Leegsma.

And I know why my home has this reputation. Don’t think I’m ignorant to our grime, our stench, and our trash-filled alleyways. Don’t think I argue against all of the criticisms. Just because a few wealthy business-starters have swooped in to steel city with their theatre groups, organic smoothie bar slash vintage dress boutique, and their fair-trade artisan cheese stores with free Wi-Fi (a great deal of gentrification in the recent years) that doesn’t mean we’ve begun to garner respect from the elite. We’re still the city of dusty bumpkins to many.

But I ask those students, who despise and chuckle at the “gross Hamiltonians”, am I one of them? Am I a grimy little inchworm? “Oh no” they’ll say, “Not you, you’re different! You’re clean and intelligent and you’re going places!”

Ah, I see, I’m exempt. How about my mother?

How about my late grandfather or grandmother, surely they were this “Hamilton scum” you talk about? My best friend from fourth grade? My sister? How about my cat, is he “Hamilton scum” too?

What’s the dividing line between who’s “Hamilton scum” and who isn’t? If I came home every day in elementary school to my mom watching Jerry Springer and a plate of Kraft dinner, if I was raised by a single parent on welfare, now Ontario Works, and went to a soup

kitchen at Christmas, if I wouldn’t be able to even dream about post secondary without OSAP, if my can of beans comes from the food bank, am I the so-called poor dirty Hamiltonian you despise? Or, if you know me personally, am I another human being with ambitions, emotions - a heart, a mind?

I don’t want to be pessimistic about it, even if I’ve seen many failed attempts of students trying to be more humble, ranging from 5 Days Homeless For The Homeless rallies on campus which had a coffee machine and a DJ (note to students: if you’re trying to represent homelessness, you should know the homeless can’t afford dub step and dark roast) or even Occupy McMaster where the upper-middle class white male honours student chants “I am the 99%!”. I want to know that our students can connect with the community they live in without holding such pretensions. I want to know that even though many will never experience poverty, they will try their hardest to understand what poverty is like, and how widespread it is, in Hamilton.

To have some of my classmates see both the good and bad, to see real equality advocated, to embrace all this little smudge on the map has to offer. If there’s one simple thing I want you the reader to take out of all of this, it’s be aware of this community and become proud of your part in it.

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It’s 12:27 p.m. and you are speeding through hoards of young students on your way from MDCL to TSH for a 12:30 p.m. class. You think to yourself, “Of course, I’ll maximize my travel efficiency and cut through the Student Centre.

This way I can make it to class on time!”

Now, you’ve had trouble with this before. Getting from class to class can be tough during the lunchtime rush on campus. Another tardy and your prof might make some kind of snide or sarcastic remark upon your arrival. “Once again, Tom?” “Is your watch not working today either, Beth?” Imagine it.

You could never handle that kind of embarrassment - a terrible episode of public humiliation. This is your driving force as you weave in and out of nurses and engineers, duck under plates of pizza, and spin around briefcase-wielding faculty.

All seems well. You are nearing the stairs, only a few students and the Arts Quad stand between you and your successful pursuit of punctuality. Suddenly, the student in front of you slows down – he/she is trying to text and walk at the same time. You must slow your pace as well. You’re trapped in a prison of low-speed walking all because this guy/girl has been unable to master a simple skill - maintaining walking speed while simultaneously drafting and sending a text message.

I know, it is a vivid and horrifying image but sadly, thousands suffer from similar circumstances every year. Something must be done.

McMaster should construct some sort of training area or practice facility. This simulation venue would be created with similar characteristics of many Mac buildings - doors, walls, chairs, garbage cans and other students. A more advanced facility could even be set up to mimic situations with a higher difficulty level like food areas and bus stops. The idea would be to produce a benchmark of text-walking standards. Upon entry to McMaster, each student would be required to take a simulation test in each of the practice facilities - nothing too rigorous, just a replica of a simple, every day scenario. A student might have one chance at the first test and be allotted two chances on the more advanced test. If this student passes each round everything they can continue on with their education with no more thought or hassle.

However, not all will fare well. For some, this is a difficult undertaking.

For these students, a short training program would be compulsory.

This would be an amazing step in the right direction. Furthermore, a kind of infraction system could be implemented. Anyone who is found stalling others in the hallways a certain number of times would be required to take a refresher course on texting and walking.

Not only will this be an amazing way to relieve pain and suffering from the student body, but great for the local economy. We would be creating jobs - trainers for the practice facility, overseers to enforce the infraction system. The list goes on.

I am not suggesting anything too drastic or radical, just a simple solution to a common problem. Of course, this is just a thought - an off-the-cuff comment on an important issue. There will be more brainstorming. This is only the beginning.

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Thursday, November 22, 2012 • The Silhouette

Major funding cuts to Hamilton youth Our government is cutting corners in budgets no matter the cost Jaslyn English The Silhouette

On September 27, 2012 the provincial government cut the Ontario Ranger Program, a summer employment program for 17-yearolds to work outside in the provincial parks around Ontario.

The Ontario Ranger program has been going on for just under 70 years, and has approximately 15 camps across Ontario, employing over 300 teens as well as 45 supervisors every summer.

“My summer as an Ontario Ranger was one of my best. The experiences that I was lucky enough to have will stay with me for the rest of my life. It is unbelievable that such an incredible program was cut,” said Hilary Walton, a second year McMaster student who participated in the program in 2010.

This loss of youth programs is especially significant since unemployment rates for between 15-24 year old Canadians are currently soaring at double the national average.

Though the national average for unemployment, at 7.4 per cent, is currently lower than other countries in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which includes the Unites States, France, and Great Britain, our youth unemployment rate is one of the highest and was hit the hardest during the recent recession.

“The global economic crisis has hit youth very hard,” OECD employment division head Stefano Scarpetta told the CBC. “Governments should intervene quickly to provide adequate support to them.”

The lack of support from the government is evident when the testimonies of people who have participated in this program are taken into consideration, and what these same Canadians are now doing to try and stop the cutbacks from coming into effect.

“To fellow rangers, no explanation necessary. To those who aren’t, no explanation

possible,” wrote previous participant on the online petition to stop the end of the program, summarizing the incredible opportunity that programs such as the Ontario Ranger Program provides for our youth.

The closure of these camps coincides with the federal government’s closing of the volunteer program, Katimavik, which creates volunteer opportunities for young Canadians all across the nation. Over 30,000 Canadian youth have volunteered with this organization, since it began during Pierre Trudeau’s government in the ‘70s.

These programs highlight the ability of youth to give back to the community and

show them how to do so in a way unique to the programs themselves. In no other program can a group of 17-year-old girls canoe through northern Ontario and cut a government approved canoe trail through the wilderness. And, likewise, with Katimavik, where the volunteer opportunities are found only in this program, are young Canadians able to give back in a well-organized way that benefits society.

“Katimavik is an experience that can never be bound by a straight definition - it is a program where youth are given the tools to better themselves; to grow, learn, make friends and connect to new communities … while learning about and gaining a new perspective on the Canadian cultural and geo-

one third of the jobs for students that came from the main federal program, FSWEP, which fits post-secondary students with temporary employment.

Not only this, but because of the takeoff of tuition rates, less Canadian youth are in school than any other of the top five educated “first world” countries, including France, the United States, Germany and Italy, and is tied with the last, Great Britain.

The average student debt is $30,000 dollars, which converts to a sizeable down payment on a house or almost two extra years studying at an undergraduate level.

What this means, for all McMaster students, and those youth pursuing both educational and employment opportunities across Canada, is that, essentially, we have been forgotten.

With budget cuts across two tiers of our three-tier system, and a continuous loss of both jobs and educational opportunities for youth, it is incontrovertible that the needs of young Canadians are simply not being met on either the provincial or federal level.

With what even the federal governKAREN WANG GRAPHICS EDITOR ment’s budget admits as being an “uncertain for the host community. The program is a fis- job market” for those looking for first time cally prudent way of getting young people to employment, it is hardly an overstatement to become active, engaged citizens, but these ir- say that youth today need a helping hand inresponsible Conservative budget cuts will kill tegrating into the Canadian work force. The it,” Liberal MP Justin Trudeau said in a press lack of programs, like Katimavik and the Ontario Ranger Program, that give Canadians release about Katimavik cuts.

The only program that hasn’t seen any both insight into their selves and their work cut backs, is the cadet program under the ethic can only hinder the integration and moDepartment of Defense, which costs twice tivation of young Canadians into a society as much per month as the Katimavik project that continuously neglects them.

In a time where it seems as though our did.

“We know that this government doesn’t government is in a competition with itself to care about empowering or investing in our cut corners in budgets at every turn no matter youth,” Trudeau argued in parliament, while what cost to its citizens, it would seem appropriate if not necessary for it to throw a bone defending the program earlier on this year.

Through this lack of attention paid by the to its youth who has so often been refused on government, the past year has seen the loss of the steps of parliament hill. physical landscape,” claims the blog Spokes & Spice, one of the many online forms of petitioning the cutbacks.

The elimination of these two programs is just the tip of the iceberg in youth funding cuts. Across the country, both the provincial and federal governments are tightening the portion of the budget spent on programs dedicated to youth employment and community outreach.

“In defunding Katimavik, the Conservative government is ignoring its own evidence of the organization’s benefits to youth and Canadian communities. For every dollar the organization spends, about $2.20 is generated

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A series of scandals has rocked the MLB and its fans, leaving spectators in a state of uncertainty on the league’s future.

The MLB (Major League Bocce) has been alleged of aiding and abetting a Hamilton coach’s crime of forced medication.

Jerome Scaliano, coach of the Hamilton Rapscallions, has been allegedly sneaking injections of horse-grade steroids to his players in their sleep.

“I began to notice strange behaviour in my teammates and myself, as we got closer

to the playoffs. Players who couldn’t throw the jack if their lives depended on it were hitting five metres further than their best the next week,” said Antonio Gangola, forward boccino for the Rapscallions.

The Rapscallions were caught in a losing streak earlier this year, which suddenly turned around after the coach’s notable new training regimen took place, and subsequently won the domestic team seventeen straight boules.

“It’s completely absurd to think that I would juice my boys. We got where we are now by follwowing a strict schedule of long naps and utter secrecy,” said Scaliano.

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midst of investigating these claims, watching footage of prior bowls and testing players regularly for the perfomance-enhancing substance.

“We take all claims of steroid abuse seriously. If there is a coach in our league capable of breaking the rules to this extent, we would not be above banning him and his team from this glorious sport and league for life,” said Joe Patoni, chairman of the council.

Piling on to the steroid scandal are allegations that the chairman of the Integrity Council, Joe Patoni, has been harassing and taking advantage of the younger players in the league.

“Wait what? I thought this interview was about Scaliano! I don’t know anything about sexual abuse in this league. Get the hell out of my office,” said Patoni, in a suspiciously defensive tone.

A new ad-hoc council has been created to oversee the investigation of the Integrity Council, dubbed the Real Integrity Council, headed by interim chairman Luigi Langoso.

A new investigation has begun into allegations that the Real Integrity Council chairman Luigi Langoso has been abusing his position to “sell tickets to minors in exchange for pictures of [bocce?] balls.”

Langoso declined to comment.

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Mac takes Mitchell Bowl 45-6 over Calgary See B6 Thursday, November 22, 2012 Sports Editors: Brandon Meawasige and Scott Hastie Meeting: Thursdays @ 1:30 p.m.

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Can they do it again?

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career years in the absence of Quinlan’s usual number one target Michael DiCroce, who suffered a broken foot during training camp and missed the entire regular season.

Since DiCroce’s return against the Western Mustangs in the Yates Cup semifinal, Quinlan has had four receivers that are a legitimate threat to score.

Mac will have to emphasize the after all the drama and an exchange pass game in order to be successful of spectacular plays by both teams, against Laval, who has the nation’s the Marauders had won the Vanier number one rush defense in the country allowing only 57.8 yards Cup. This season, Mac is no such per game on the ground.

It will be a tough test for the underdog. This year’s Marauders are the best football team in the coun- Marauders who have struggled with try and last year’s top team, Laval, is numerous backfield injuries, seeing Christopher Pezzetta and Jimmy ranked number two in 2012.

Last year’s game will be a diffi- Hill miss significant time.

Both teams have stingy decult act to follow, but this game is set fenses, potent attacks and neither on a much different stage.

The 48th Vanier Cup will feature two powerhouse teams, a clash of the titans if you will.

The Laval Rouge et Or (11-1) are strong on both sides of the ball, ranked number four in the CIS on offense and second on defense. The Marauders (11-0) by comparison are ranked number two on offense and fourth on defense.

Weaknesses are hard to find on both teams. However, there is one notable mismatch. McMaster’s Kyle Quinlan is arguably the nation’s best player; his ability to both run and pass the football are unparalleled in the CIS. The Marauders are equipped with the second best passing offense in the nation - an interesting stipulation considering that the Calgary Dinos, who failed to score a touchdown against Mac in the Mitchell Bowl, were the number one aerial attack this year.

In contrast, Laval’s pass defense is ranked 13th in the country.

Rouge et Or head coach Glen Constantine will need to find a way to stop the numerous weapons in Kyle Quinlan’s arsenal.

Robert Babic, Bradley Fochesato and Dhalin Brooks each had

The Marauders will face a familiar opponent in the national championship game on Nov. 23 at Rogers Centre Brandon Meawasige Senior Sports Editor

It was the greatest game ever played.

This statement can neither be proven nor disproven; any other overtime championship win throughout history is undoubtedly comparable.

However, if you ask anyone who watched McMaster win the 2011 Vanier Cup over Laval by a score of 41-38, they will tell you that it was not an average three point overtime victory. The 47th Vanier Cup changed CIS football.

It was David against Goliath.

The storied Rouge et Or, who had won six national championships in 17 seasons, ranked number one in the country, travelled to Vancouver as the most dominating CIS team of the 21st century.

The fourth ranked Marauders had only been to the Vanier Cup game once, a 10-9 loss to the University of Alberta. That game was in 1967.

As underdogs, no one predicted that the Marauders would unseat Laval from the throne of Canadian Interuniversity football.

It took more than four quarters, but the Maroon and Grey did just that.

And they did so after winning nine games in a row - one of the more memorable playoff runs in recent history.

When kicker Tyler Crapigna kicked the winning field goal during double overtime, much like David’s slingshot, the Goliath of the CIS was defeated.

For the first time in history,

team has seen a challenge similar to last year’s Vanier match.

This will be the fourth matchup between the two, with the Rouge et Or slightly edging out the Marauders with two victories in their previous three meetings.

The old adage that the team who wants it more will win is not necessarily applicable to this game.

Laval is a program built on a winning tradition, and last year’s loss is undoubtedly entrenched in their memory.

For McMaster, winning the Vanier Cup last season was a welcome first.

That being said, to win the trophy for a second straight season would firmly place the program in the CIS history books. In addition, Mac could continue their already historical 21 game winning streak.

Friday night’s game is heavily

anticipated, and fans of both teams can attend more easily this year.

Toronto is a more feasible trip than Vancouver.

The excitement is evident in the ticket sales that have forced organizers to open the fifth deck of the Rogers Centre.

According to the CIS, ticket sales are approaching record-breaking proportions for the 48th Vanier Cup. By mid week the sales figure was nearing 30,000. The previous record of 32, 000 was also set at the Sky Dome in 1989.

This will be an important game for both schools, both teams, but most importantly, this game will be important for CIS football.

Broadcast on national television, kickoff will be at 7:30 on TSN and RDS. Certainly, more people will pay attention this time.

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The 48th Vanier Cup will feature a rematch of last year’s game between the Laval Rouge et Or and the McMaster Marauders. This time, there is more than just a trophy for the taking.

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B2 • Sports

The Silhouette • Thursday, November 22, 2012

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Mac’s losing skid reaches three games Despite losses, bright spots emerging for the Maroon and Grey

ELIZA POPE THE SILHOUETTE

The Marauders are looking for more consistent play from their younger players in order to get back into the win column as they aim for a .500 finish at exam break.

Scott Hastie

Assistant Sports Editor

Canada’s capital was not kind to the Marauders this past weekend.

Mac hit the road to take on the Ottawa Gee-Gees and Carleton Ravens. Despite dropping both games, it was a weekend of growth for the young team.

After getting run out of the gym against the Gee-Gees by a score of 82-55, the Marauders turned their play around for an impressive effort against the No. 4 Ravens. Mac lost to the CIS contenders 61-57.

It’s easy to look at the 0-2 away record and get discouraged, but head coach Theresa Burns thinks this is all part of the process of becoming a national contender.

“We’ve proven to ourselves that we can play with good teams,” said Burns. “But it’s all

within us. No one is going to bail us out.”

That belief came to fruition against Carleton, which was the first game of the season where the team played to their potential.

The narrative of veteran play being the fuel to this team on both ends of the court proved true, with Vanessa Bonomo, Hailey Milligan and Liz Burns putting together their best collective effort.

Saturday’s match against Carleton featured physical play from the tip-off. When the Laurentian game turned physical, McMaster collapsed.

But this time, the Marauders rose to the occasion and used aggressive play to jump out to a halftime lead. The toughness came at the right time from the right players.

“Our vets came out with that aggressive demeanor and that kind of game. Hailey, Vanessa and Liz’s play had a huge impact on us,”

Burns said of her experienced players.

Clare Kenney gave the Marauders solid minutes, establishing herself as worthy of the back-up big position. With four fouls in eight minutes against Carleton, Kenney is proving to be a physical presence in the paint for every second of play.

Consistency continues to be an issue for the season, but there’s one player who has blown away the Maroon and Grey coaching staff.

“Isabel Ormond has taken on a role that people in the program didn’t expect,” lauded Burns. “She competes harder than anyone I’ve ever coached. It’s almost freaky as a coach to watch.”

Ormond’s seen a minute increase this year and responded well after being propelled into a starter role. After averaging 13 minutes per game last season, Burns has upped the

second-year player’s floor time to 31.9 minutes per game.

It’s a lot of responsibility for a young student-athlete, but she’s responded well, posting averages of 10.5 points per game with a 44 per cent field goal percentage.

Coming off a game with solid veteran production and an emerging star, sights are set on the upcoming games rather than dwelling on the past.

The journey continues on Saturday Nov. 24, as the Marauders host the 2-2 Queen’s Gaels.

If the Marauders can put together a performance similar to the Carleton effort, the team could end their three-game losing streak.

Sam Hunt is expected to make her 201213 debut after recovering from injury. Tip-off is at 6 p.m. in Burridge Gym on Nov. 24.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

McMaster takes No.1 team to the limit Scott Hastie

Assistant Sports Editor

The rollercoaster season continues after a weekend of losses for the men’s basketball team.

Following a 82-64 dismantling from the Ottawa Gee-Gees, the players and coaches walked out from the locker room looking lost.

“After Ottawa … that was the lowest spot of the season,” said head coach Amos Connolly. “We felt like we didn’t give ourselves a chance.

We just didn’t compete.”

Friday night’s match at Montpetit Hall saw the home debut of an experienced Gee-Gees team, led by fifth-year guard Warren Ward.

An energetic crowd gave Ottawa a hop in their step, coming out with 8-0 run to start the game.

The run would essentially seal the game with the Marauders never looking like they could win after digging an early hole.

Two fouls in the first 25 seconds allowed McMaster’s Nathan McCarthy to step in to fill the void, and the second-year player put together his finest performance of the season.

McCarthy was the lone bright spot of the night, finishing with nine points, five rebounds and two impressive blocks.

The blowout loss to the OUA East rival did not hamper the team, as the young squad gathered themselves for the next game against the No. 1 team in the country.

Mac took the floor at the Raven’s Nest and put together their strongest effort of the season.

“Everyone left there upset with the loss, but very optimistic about what we saw,” Connolly commented. “It was a level of competing that you feel you can build on.”

The previous night was a team of unconfident play, settling for jumpshots and long threes.

But against Carleton, the Marauders stepped their game up and went head-to-head with the CIS champions, losing 100-88.

88 points is the most points the Ravens have allowed in an OUA regular season game since the 200405 season. The last team to come close was the Lakehead Thunderwolves, who hung 85 points on Carleton last year.

McMaster came out of the gates with intensity, looking to attack the paint.

For the first time all season, Connolly started McCarthy and Taylor Black.

The pairing would pay dividends, giving the Marauders length inside to defend Carleton’s big men, Thomas Scrubb and Tyson Hinz.

After a tight first half, with McMaster shocking the crowd with a first quarter lead, the Maroon and Grey found themselves starting the third quarter down nine to arguably the best team in the country.

Mac used defense to climb back into the game, forcing turnovers to allow transition buckets.

With a 45-40 scoreboard, the Ravens were forced to call timeout to refocus the team.

A revitalized Carleton squad came out of the stoppage looking to draw fouls and get their points at the line.

The referees rewarded their efforts with plenty of whistles and Carleton shot 16 free throw attempts.

With a large cushion, the CIS champs took their foot off the gas, allowing Black to step in and take over offensively.

JESSIE LU ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR

Rohan Boney has become a defensive stopper on a team full of players looking to find their role.

Through a mix of ball screens and pick-and-pops, Black went on an offensive tear. He finished the game with 23 points in only 16 minutes.

But the forward’s efforts started a Marauder comeback that would be put to rest by calm offensive execution from Carleton’s Phil Scrubb.

McMaster’s road trip may not have ended with victory, but it was

certainly a weekend of growth.

The team saw both of their big men have a standout performance for the first time all season.

For success going forward, the Marauders needed that to happen sooner than later.

Next up is a home game against Queen’s, who are going through an up-and-down season of their own.

After defeating the No. 7

Thunderwolves, the Gaels dropped their next game to the lowly Guelph Gryphons. Carleton transfer Greg Faulkner will look to continue his strong season for the Kingston, Ont. school.

Connolly will field Black and McCarthy again, hoping to use their size to get back in the win column.

Tip-off is at 8 p.m. in Burridge Gym on Saturday, Nov. 24.

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Thursday, November 22, 2012 • The Silhouette

KEEPING SCORE THREE DOWNS Scott Hastie

Assistant Sports Editor

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Take a step back and a sober look at the possible Vanier Cup attendance record. It’s awesome that people are getting excited for CIS football but it should not be taken as a sign of its popularity. Breaking a 23-year-old record is not a good sign for the league, especially given the increased TV coverage with the Score. Hopefully a large crowd raises some awareness for the league for the average sports fan.

I’m a fan of heckling in university sports. It brings people to the games, it creates a similar atmosphere to the professional level, and lets those bold enough to open their mouth feel like they impact the game. But the line is being crossed. Derogatory terms have been thrown out way too often at the games I’ve attended. They’ve been used in the silence of the game, during a free throw or before a serve. Schools across the OUA need to increase their presence at the games to keep things civilized.

The All-Canadian teams were announced for the 2012 football season on Wednesday, Nov. 21. There are some arguable nominations, but one All-Canadian nod deserves everyone’s attention. Kyle Graves, a fifth-year player for the Acadia Axemen, was nominated for both first-team punter and second-team quarterback…

Only in the CIS.

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B4 • Sports

The Silhouette • Thursday, November 22, 2012

MEN’S VOLLEYBALL

The OUA’s finest

By defeating Waterloo, McMaster takes sole possession of the No.1 in the province Laura Sinclair The Silhouette

The Marauders men’s volleyball team had an eventful weekend hosting the Guelph Gryphons on the evening of Friday, Nov. 16 and the Waterloo Warriors on the following Sunday afternoon.

The Marauders came out of both games victorious, but the victories did not come easily.

In the Friday night game, the Gryphons got off to an early lead.

The Marauders quickly retaliated, jumping out in front with the help of some strong serves from Jayson McCarthy, who had two aces in a row.

More key points for the Marauders were scored from Tyson Alexander who had three straight blocks. The Marauders won the set 25-22.

In the second set of the game, just when it looked like the Marauders were pulling away, the Gryphons took the lead.

After the Gryphons team constantly hit the ball out of bounds, the Marauders pulled away and ended up winning the set 25-19.

In the third set, the Marauders got up to a nine-point lead. The Gryphons eventually surrendered, with the score being 25-16 for Mac. The star of the game was McCarthy, who scored nine kills.

Despite the glory of remaining undefeated, Marauders head coach Dave Preston is not satisfied with just a win.

“Right now, our game isn’t

based on wins and losses, our game is based on our performance standard of our serving and passing and qualifications within our statistics,” said Mac’s bench boss.

Preston has high expectations and goals for his team that he believes have not been reached.

“We’re not meeting them all yet, so I don’t really have to say too much to the guys; the numbers will speak for themselves.”

The intensity was high at the Sunday afternoon game against the Waterloo Warriors, as both teams were 6-0 coming into the game.

The first set of the game was dominated by the Warriors early on, until the Marauders got their act together and returned blocks to get on the score board. The teams were very evenly matched, as the lead kept switching.

Following a timeout called by Waterloo, the Marauders kept their lead, but this would not last long as Waterloo came back to tie it up.

After some out-of-bounds hits by the Marauders, Waterloo got to a lead of 23-22. The Marauders tied the score, and managed to hang on to win the first set 25-23.

The second set saw a quality effort from both teams, with the players diving all over the court to keep the ball in play. The Marauders got off to the first lead, which never got higher than six points throughout the set.

Waterloo narrowed the lead to two points, and after an long rally between the two teams, Waterloo got to their first lead of the set, 19-18.

The Warriors kept their momentum against the persistent McMaster squad. Warriors won the second set 29-27, giving the Marauders their first lost set of the season.

The third set started off with a rally of almost a minute between the two teams, with the outcome of the point going to Mac. The Marauders continued to dominate the majority of the set, winning it 25-14.

The fourth set was dominated by the Marauders early on, as they got to a lead of six points over Waterloo.

The Warriors came back to lead after an unsuspected comeback to make the score 14-13. Their lead would never get to be more than two points.

After a timeout from the Marauders got ahead again, winning 25-23. The leading scorer of the game was McCarthy, with 16 kills followed by Mantha and Alexander with 10 kills. The player of the game was Austin Campion-Smith, who had 46 assists.

Coach Preston was happy about the experience gained for the Marauders in this exciting game.

“We want to make sure that teams play great against us, so that we can play great, and Waterloo did today so I was pretty happy about that,” Preston commented.

Next up for the Marauders is a trip to London to take on the Western Mustangs and Windsor to take on the Lancers in the attempt to remain the number one team in the OUA.

YOSEIF HADDAD SENIOR PHOTO EDITOR

Jayson McCarthy was Mac’s main offensive weapon this weekend.

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Sports • B5

Thursday, November 22, 2012 • The Silhouette WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL

Mac gets back on track with weekend sweep Alexandra Reilly The Silhouette

The McMaster women’s volleyball team had another busy weekend, playing a double-header on Nov. 16 and 17.

Both games saw the Marauders take on the competition with home court advantage, which proved to make a difference for the women in both of their matches.

McMaster began with a battle against the visiting Guelph Gryphons.

Right from the start, the women took control and it was evident they were not leaving any room for error.

The Marauders came out strong, combining many diverse angles of attack, which included kills from a variety of players along with strong defense at the net to help maintain the lead.

McMaster gained a remarkable 16-4 lead over Guelph and continued to pummel the Gryphons, eventually winning the first set 2511.

The second set was another easy battle for the Marauder squad as Guelph head coach called two time outs before the technical timeout.

The Marauders jumped on Guelph once again, taking the second set with a wide margin of 25-9.

After two of their best sets this season behind them, it was important for the women to maintain their focus.

Their momentum was slightly slowed in the third set as they allowed the Gryphons to take a 16-14 lead.

The Gryphons continued to gain a lead, moving the score up to 22-18.

After some back and forth from both teams and a close score throughout, Guelph eventually propelled to take the third set 30-28 over the Marauders.

Moving into the fourth set it was important for the Marauders to not allow Guelph back into the game.

They picked up their intensity once again and found their focus, jumping ahead 9-1.

At the technical timeout, Mac found themselves dominating the match with a 16-6 lead.

McMaster would continue to put pressure on the Gryphons and come out as the winners of the set, and the game, with a score of 25-16.

McMaster’s Kierstyn Bakker played her first game as a Marauder after transferring from the University of Manitoba, which is ranked third in the country for volleyball.

She was also the McDonald’s Big Mac player of them game.

Despite McMaster’s full team effort to pull out the win seeing stand out plays from Taylor Brisebois and Amanda Weldon, Mac also lost Alicia Jack in the match to a broken thumb.

Head Coach Tim Louks still is not sure of the details or extent of Jack’s injury, but described it as a “fluke.”

After a much-needed win at home against Guelph, the Marauders re-grouped for their Sunday match in Burridge Gym against the Waterloo Warriors.

McMaster got off to a much slower start than in their previous dominating efforts against Waterloo.

The first set saw McMaster make a few errors early on, which allowed the Warriors to jump slightly ahead with a 13-10 lead.

With an incredible effort from McMaster’s Shannon McRobert, the Marauders were able to pull ahead of the Warriors with a 19-13 lead.

Waterloo tried to recover, but with strong blocks and a good defensive effort the Marauders were able to take the first set 25-19.

The Marauders continued to struggle slightly in the second set as some small errors put Mac slightly behind right from the get go.

Poor passing and good blocks from the Warriors proved to be the deciding factor for the second set.

Waterloo was able to take advantage of the Marauders’ slow start and took the set 25-16.

The third set once again saw the Marauders fall behind early on, allowing the Warriors to take an early 13-8 lead.

The Marauders soon picked up the pace, nailing all of their serves to come back and gain the lead 14-13.

The Marauders soon gained a higher lead at 16-14 and continued to outscore the Warriors 9-1 to close out the final set 25-15 and bring themselves to a 2-1 lead in the game.

Waterloo was determined to extend the match and gain a win in the fourth set against the Marauders.

The Warriors took another early lead as they quickly jumped to

7-2 over the Marauders.

The service line proved to be a hot spot during this game for the Marauder squad as McMaster served to an 8-7 lead.

McMaster maintained focus and raised the pace of the game by gaining a 16-13 lead going into the technical timeout.

Shannon McRobert continued to be a difference maker in this match by extending the Marauders lead eventually helping Mac to pull out a win in the fourth set 25-20 to take the game three sets to one.

After the Marauders muchneeded double-header win at home, Head Coach Tim Louks was satis-

fied with the weekend performance.

“The players are competing harder in practice and creating some more consistencies,” said Louks.

“That coupled with reducing some of the unforced errors and taking care of the ball generally will start to shape things from a performance point of view.”

The women’s volleyball team is set to take on Brock this Saturday, and being that this is the only action the Marauders will see with the Badgers this season, it’s important that the Marauders dominate early on in order to get a much needed win. The game is set for 1 p.m. Saturday in Burridge Gym.

YOSEIF HADDAD SENIOR PHOTO EDITOR

The Marauders’ presence at the net gave them an advantage in their weekend matches.

YOSEIF HADDAD SENIOR PHOTO EDITOR

Taylor Brisebois (centre) is emerging as the main component of Mac’s attack.

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The Silhouette • Thursday, November 22, 2012

2012 MITCHELL BOWL

Dinos fossilized, Marauders fly Brandon Meawasige

With the Laval Rouge et Or winning the Uteck Bowl by a score of 42-7 earlier in the Senior Sports Editor day, it looked as though a rematch of the 2011 The McMaster Marauders are headed to the Vanier Cup final was inevitable.

Vanier Cup for the second straight season The 13th man was alive and well for the after beating the Calgary Dinos on Saturday Marauders as the Ron Joyce crowd made conby a score of 45-6. stant noise.

The Nov. 17 Mitchell Bowl at Ron Joyce Both quarterbacks in the Mitchell Bowl Stadium in Hamilton marked the first ever game are candidates for the Hec Creighton meeting between the two teams. trophy, awarded yearly to the most outstandA crowd of 5,442 packed the stadium to ing player in the CIS. watch one of the most anticipated matchups Calgary’s Eric Dzwilewski finished 10 of of the year in the CIS. 21.

Mac’s quarterback Kyle Quinlan took Quinlan, who will be taking his team to over the game in the first half despite strug- a second straight Vanier Cup game, with one gling early, scoring two touchdowns on the of his best games of the season, completed 25 ground and throwing another to receiver of 35 passes for 412 yards, three TDs. Quinlan Bradley Fochesato for 61 yards. After two also added 50 more yards and three scores on frames, the Marauders were up 24-4 over the the ground.

Hardy Cup champion from the west.

“He is one of the best I have ever seen at The visiting Dinos racked up a costly this level, he does it so many different ways.

97 yards of penalties in the first half, which The bigger the game, the better he plays. That helped Mac sustain drives has been his entire career and get into good scoring - not just once or twice. He It is a pretty special proposition. comes up big in the biggest gram; we talked about this The Marauders destages,” said Ptaszek of his fense neutralized the nasenior pivot. being our last game at Ron tion’s number-one offense, For the quarterback, Joyce for a lot of our senior holding Calgary to their and numerous other Maguys. It was a pretty special lowest halftime point total rauders, Saturday was their way to send it off. of the season. last game on the turf of Ron In the second half, the Joyce. There could be no Kyle Quinlan Marauders extended their better ending to that chapter.

Marauders Quarterback lead early. Quinlan scored “It is a pretty special his third rushing touchprogram; we talked about down to make the score 31-4 with 11:49 left in this being our last game at Ron Joyce for a lot the third quarter. of our senior guys. We came in and this was From that point, Mac never looked back. a brand new stadium and this program has “When this team goes all out, they are pretty grown so much. It is pretty special to send it good,” said head coach Stefan Ptaszek of his off that way for sure,” said Quinlan after the team’s performance. game.

Receiver Robert Babic had a strong third By the time all was said and done, Mcquarter, catching the ball six times for 95 Master had crushed the Dinos, not allowing yards in the frame. a single touchdown while scoring six times, Babic added a 31-yard touchdown early extending their winning streak to 21. in the fourth quarter for his ninth catch of the Only Laval, St. Mary’s and Western have game, making the score 38-4. ever consecutively repeated as national chamHe would finish with an outstanding 10 pions, and the Marauders have a chance to catches for 156 yards and a touchdown. join that exclusive company next week.

Drive after drive, Calgary could not seem The 48th Vanier Cup will be played on to penetrate the home team’s defense. On the Nov. 23 at 7:30 p.m. at the Rogers Centre in other side of the ball, the Dinos could not stop Toronto.

Kyle Quinlan and the McMaster air attack.

The game will be a rematch of the 2011 “The guys were doing the little things and final between the Laval Rouge et Or and the it came together as a full team effort offensive- McMaster Marauders. Last year, Mac won in C/O RICHARD ZAZULAK Kyle Quinlan led the Marauders by rushing for 3 TDs and throwing for 3 more in the 45-6 win. ly,” said Quinlan. double overtime by a score of 41-38.

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Thursday, November 22, 2012 InsideOut Editors: Sam Godfrey and Amanda Watkins Meeting: Thursdays @ 4:30 p.m.

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Amanda Watkins & Jamie Hillman Assistant InsideOut Editor & The Silhouette

Whether it’s excessive stress and anxiety from school, a crush on your best friend, or personal insecurities, everyone has a secret.

In response to this reality, the Student Wellness Centre has developed the “MacSecret” program. Based on the online phenomenon “PostSecret,” the initiative is going into its third year.

The program is designed around the sharing of personal secrets via hand-written postcards revealing anonymous concerns or insecurities. As outlined on the MacSecret posters, the goal of the program is to “raise awareness about the many challenges students face, and to provide an outlet to share these concerns openly, yet anonymously.”

“Having the anonymity is helpful when dealing with things that are more challenging to address,” explained Pearl Mendonca, a Wellness Education Coordinator at the Student Wellness Centre.

By offering MacSecret as an outlet of expression, students are able to open up about issues and ideas that they may not otherwise be comfortable sharing. In an effort to create a safe and comfortable environment, the Student Wellness Centre strives to offer services that cater to a variety of concerns, such as stress and life issues, mental health, relationships, academic concerns and identity struggles.

In discussing the values of the MacSecret project, Khadeeja Sheikh, a Mental Health Team Leader, expressed the rewards of the program. “The fact that students can share [these secrets], helps relieve stress…

We were surprised at how sincere the secrets were and [how the program] allowed them to write something really private.”

MacSecret has 10 locations around campus that provide blank postcards for students to fill out and boxes where they can be submitted. Currently, boxes are situated in Mills, Innis and Thode libraries, DBAC, SHEC, the north and west quad Residence Service Desks, the Student Success Centre, Student Accessibility Services and the SWC. The coordinators find it interesting that “depending on where the boxes are, the secrets are often geared towards those locations and who uses them,” said Melissa Fernandes, Wellness Education Assistant. For instance, the boxes in libraries often housed academic concerns, whereas boxes in residences usually held secrets about relationship struggles and identity crises.

The program was first run in the 2010-11 school year by the SWC. Despite the fact that the boxes and postcards were available for the entire school year, the program only received around 150 postcards.

This year, the coordinators are looking to change that and have more students submit messages about their concerns, fears and personal thoughts, as it is an effective way of expressing pent up emotions and stressinducing secrets.

The boxes have been available since Nov. 1 and will be up and running until the end of the month. Already in this month alone, the SWC has gathered around 60 postcards and are hoping to increase that amount exponentially as the month nears its end.

Once the cards have been gathered, the coordinators will be posting scanned secrets online via

the SWC’s Facebook page, and will be putting them up on their bulletin boards.

Similar to the initiative of PostSecret creator, Frank Warren, the Student Wellness Centre hopes that by displaying the secrets, students will be able to relate and connect to one or more of the secrets and help them understand that they are not alone in their struggle.

The organization also hopes to use the web, much like Warren, to make the postcards and ideas more accessible. The initial PostSecret website, www. postsecret.com, was developed in 2005 as “an ongoing community art project,” according to its webpage. But within two years, the site received over 2,500 postcards and became far bigger than initially anticipated. The site grew into a web-based community that allowed anonymous strangers to post secrets from all around the world without feeling judgment or alienation.

Initially, a comment section was enabled to allow viewers to connect to one another, but it was eventually removed as it defaced the original judgment-free mandate.

And even though many secrets are hard-hitting and stress-inducing, some deal with more trivial matters. As stated at his March 2012 presentation at Western University, Frank Warren revealed that the most common secret he receives is admitting to peeing in the shower.

The representatives from the SWC explained that many of the secrets they receive are usually related to mental health and academic concerns, but the project welcomes postcard messages of all natures.

So drop off your secret, and help yourself while helping others.

Cut out this postcard and submit a MacSecret of your own to the SWC’s campaign

KAREN WANG GRAPHICS EDITOR

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Thursday, November 22, 2012 • The Silhouette

C OLUMNS

LET’S GET QUIZZICAL

SEXandtheSTEELCITY

How far into the

friend zone are you?

Ana Qarri The Silhouette

Put your hand up if you like someone. Put your other hand up if they don’t like you back.

Now worm out of your seat and fall on the floor if “you’re great,” but they “just don’t see you that way.” Lay there.

Welcome to the Friend Zone. Our motto is, “You’ll never find love in this hopeless place,” and our favourite pastime is living in a constant state of denial. We like to wallow in selfperpetuated sadness, while making no efforts to leave this zone of obsessive behaviour and overly friendly gestures.

We’re usually found next to our close friend, being hilarious, throwing compliments around like they ain’t no thing, and being excessively pleasant in general.

Honestly, we’re a catch.

Firstly, as a representative of this very sad community, I would like to ask: Why? Why do you smile at us as if you aren’t thinking about making out under a tree somewhere behind Hamilton Hall?

Why do you ask us out to dinner if it doesn’t involve a shared spaghetti scene straight out of Lady and The Tramp? And finally, if we’re so great that you want to spend every waking moment with us and tell us about your whole life, why not just sweep us into your (perfect) arms?

The friend zone can be awkward, and this is an understatement. You try not to stare, but sometimes, you just have to. Don’t blame yourself. Staring at people is a compliment – a very creepy compliment.

You try to act completely unfazed when your hands touch, but that’s followed by the terrible realization that you probably aren’t a great actor. Your heart really needs to stop beating so loudly, and if your obsession wasn’t already tragically obvious, it probably becomes so when you reply to their texts within the nanosecond.

Finding yourself in the Friend Zone can be devastating. It’s a barren land, yet one thing remains: Hope.

Hope is the driving force of the Friend Zone. Hope is what

makes it so heartbreaking, so difficult to leave. If you find yourself in the friend zone, recall the myth of Sisyphus. You are Sisyphus pushing a rock up a hill, and when you’re almost there, when you think they finally want to hold your hand and share the weight, the rock falls back down to the bottom. And you push it up, again and again. It might be heavy, but you know you can’t stop.

KAREN WANG GRAPHICS EDITOR You still have hope.

The question is: Is hope good or bad? Is it okay to have hope in situations like this?

Of course, we regard hope as a great thing. Hope is perhaps humanity’s greatest tool – it is its motivator for change, a reason to live, to survive.

Yet the Ancient Greeks would like to disagree. They generally thought that hope was an evil. Hope is associated with expectation, which when unfulfilled can be devastating, especially if it occurs repeatedly. While Hope keeps you going, an excess of hope could leave you defeated.

It could lead to days (perhaps even weeks) of watching bad reality TV shows, eating buckets of ice cream and Nutella, and wiping your tears with No Name brand tissues.

So, in the end, it’s up to you. Hope or not, the Friend Zone rarely has any secret passageways to the Zone. Sadness is only temporary, but clinging on to possible scenarios, hoping that maybe another you in another universe is cuddling with the cutest human ever, will only prolong it.

The Friend Zone can be hard to understand. Its outcomes are never certain. It could make you upset and angry. It could hurt your feelings, or you could be one of the lucky few who manage to push that rock over the hill and come out victorious. Truth is, you’ll never really know until you try.

1) How do you know this “friend” that you speak of? a) You have a few classes together and you see them often (5) b) They live next door and your houses have a chummy and friendly relationship (4) c) You work together and spend your afternoons “discreetly” watching them from your desk (3) d) You’ve been friends for a few years and know them inside out (2) e) You don’t (1) 2) Your last text message from this person most resembled: a) “Hey how are you? What are you doing this Thursday?” (5) b) “Hi” (4) c) “I just had a question about that thing I was supposed to do…?” (3) d) “Find me! I’m having relationship problems” (2) e) “Leave me alone” (1) 3) If you were to sit together to watch a movie, how would the arrangement look? a) You would be next to each other on the same couch, your sexual tension almost burning a hole in the pleather covering (5) b) You would be next to each other, but on parallel couches (4) c) Surrounded by several mutual friends and separated by three or four acquaintances/ cock-blockers (3) d) Casually sitting in their basement eating oatmeal cookies their mom made (2) e) Sitting behind them in a movie theatre thinking about how ridiculous the back of their head is (1) 4) If you were to describe the person in question as an animal, what would they be: a) A dolphin: fun, playful and easy going their slick shiny appearance and fresh water habits make for an enticing persona (5) b) A corgi puppy: happy and excited, you can’t help but squeal when you see their bouncy behaviour and cheerful grin (4) c) A honey bee: hard-working and devoted to the cause; they hive the honey, and you keep hoping for some of their sweetness (3) d) A komodo dragon: unique and inspiring, they are an exotic and loving pet that you cherish deeply despite popular opinion (2) e) Just a dragon: mystical and mysterious, this fantastical beast often appears in your beastly fantasies (1) 5) When you’ve discussed the matter of this relationship with your friends, their responses include: a) “It’s a thing. Go for it. Do it. Now.” (5) b) “Invite them over; it’s worth a try.” (4) c) “You really aren’t getting any, go for it.” (3) d) You haven’t told them yet. Your best friend is your friend zone lover. (2) e) You don’t have any friends to tell. (1)

If you scored: Over 22: KA-CHING-GA! Well done friend; by keeping a distanced relationship and casual friendly conversations, you probably aren’t in the friend zone at all! Those moody and enticing text messages and your inevitable chemistry prove that this friendship could soon be shipping off to more romantic territories. But remember, since you aren’t the closest of friends let them know you’re interested with coy eye glances and casual arm grazing. Save the leg stroking for a later time though - that borderlines harassment.

Needless to say, flu season is here Yashoda Valliere

Student Health Education Centre

During the winter, we spend much more time in close contact with each other – crammed into HSR buses, cafés, or libraries – and to add to our woes, our immune systems are compromised by the stress of exams. As a result, a university at this time of the year can be a veritable breeding ground for the flu.

The flu shot is free in Ontario and is a vaccine for this year’s flu viruses. A vaccine contains inactive (“dead”) viruses, which are injected into your body so your immune system can learn to recognize their unique “ID tags” and form antibodies specifically targeted to them. Due to the high mutation rate of the flu virus, new strains emerge each year, and the flu shot changes accordingly.

Every February, the World Health Organization releases what they deem to be the three most common and dangerous strains for the year, and the new vaccines are made specifically for those three. Since there are only three strains of flu virus in your vaccine, it does not protect against every strain of the virus and there is still a chance that you could get the flu.

So why should you consider getting the flu shot? After all, you might be thinking, “I’ve never gotten it and yet I’ve rarely had the flu, so obviously the vaccine is unnecessary.” To understand how vaccination programs really work, you need to look at the bigger picture, beyond yourself. Vaccines

protect a large population through a principle called “herd immunity.”

For example, imagine you have five people in a row, and none of them have immune protection against the flu. If one person gets the flu, like a row of dominoes, a “chain of infection” is born. However, if one of them has been vaccinated, the chain of infection is broken by that person.

Herd immunity operates on this principle at a larger scale. If enough people in the population are vaccinated, then the chains of infection are broken at a relatively early stage, preventing massive epidemics.

If a high proportion of the population is vaccinated, then even those who are unvaccinated are indirectly protected – you can mentally picture them as being isolated in a “bubble” of vaccinated people around them.

If you’ve never been vaccinated against the flu and yet you haven’t gotten sick, you were in one of these protected bubbles, thanks to the vaccinated community around you.

In order for this indirect protection to be conferred upon vulnerable members, a certain proportion of the population must be vaccinated – this is called the “herd immunity threshold.” If the proportion of vaccinated people falls below the threshold, the “bubbles” might come in contact with each other – an infectious person could meet a susceptible person, and thus a new chain of infection would form. The herd immunity threshold for influenza is estimated to be greater than 60 per cent. If we all continue thinking that we don’t need to get the shot, we won’t meet the threshold,

and the vulnerable members of our community, such as infants and the elderly, will not be protected.

This being said, the flu shot isn’t perfect. It’s known to have side effects such as aches, fever, chills, cough and nausea. This happens because your immune system thinks that you have the flu, and it’s fighting against it. It’s understandable that you don’t really want to be dealing with all the side effects on top of November crunch season.

Or, you could be preventing a more serious bout of the actual flu from hitting you later in the winter. The cost-benefit analysis is up to you.

Another reason you might not want to get vaccinated are the horror stories of severe reactions. If you have an egg allergy you should avoid the shot, as the vaccine viruses are grown in chicken eggs. Rare adverse reactions do exist, but it’s important to remember that the media, in pursuit of sensationalist headlines, tends to give these cases a disproportional amount of coverage. Research has shown that the riskbenefit ratio for the general population is overwhelmingly in favour of vaccination.

At the end of the day, vaccination and anything else that affects your body is 100 per cent your personal choice. No matter what you decide, it’s good to have the facts to make an informed decision.

One last note: after the vaccination, your immune system takes about two weeks to build up enough antibodies to be effective – so if you decide to go for it, the sooner the better!

18-22: If Mohammed cannot go to the mountain…

Rejoice, rejoice, your position puts you only one small step away from the hopeful range of romanticism. It is evident that you have a friendly relationship with this person, you just need to take one big step forward and start speeding up the pace at which your love life is moving. Invite them over or casually bump into them in the student centre. You both seem to be quite willing for your relationship to develop, but someone needs to take the initial step in setting off the potentially Canada Dayworthy fireworks.

13-17: Tread lightly Your friendly working relationship makes your friend zone range teeter from one end to the next.

It is likely that this person is someone you work in close proximity with, which means you have to be careful not to rock the boat too much. They may seem hesitant but fret not. In the words of the wise Albus Dumbledore, “happiness can be found in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” So light up your charm, continue your pursuits of friend zone escaping, and the repetition of your efforts will eventually take effect. Hopefully.

If this doesn’t work out, just make like Dumbledore and throw yourself off a tower. Just joking, maybe just Albus your way out of there.

7-12: So close, yet so far away…

Oh honey, it’s sad to say, but you are so far into the friend zone at this point, you’re one step away from being family. Your relationship is scattered with awkward “you’re just like a sister/brother to me” phrases while you secretly pine away for them in the darkness and privacy of your bedroom. Although you are this far in, there is still hope for a relationship to blossom. Since you’re already so close, sit down and tell them how you feel, it’s probable that that’s a topic your friendship is strong enough to handle regardless of the outcome. Just don’t mention tales of what you do in the darkness and privacy of your bedroom - that could get really weird really fast.

6 and Under: Go home, just go home

Based on your responses, you seem like a bit of a stalker. If you really do like this person, go over and talk to them. Get to know them and don’t be a creep about it. You have the option of a fresh start and avoiding the friend zone completely.

Thursday, November 22, 2012 • The Silhouette

FASHION & FITNESS

InsideOut • B11

DERRICK YICK Second Year Arts & Science

Vest: Tristan $70 Shirt: Club Monaco $40 Pants: Obey $30 Belt: $75 Harry Rosen Shoes: Vans OTW $96 Watch: Nixon $260 Leather bracelets: Hollister $7 each Dog tags: Gift from parents JESSIE LU ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR

Break a sweat this winter with Zumba and hot yoga classes Aissa Boodhoo-Leegsma Senior News Editor

Fitness trends go in and out of fashion. Jane Fonda and Russell Simmons created an aerobics frenzy and Billie Blanks knocked us on our butts with his Tae Bo. The home exercise tape that focused on your individual performance was where it was at. But a whole new wave of fitness trends have reset where our fitness priorities now lie.

It’s no longer about just breaking a sweat. It’s about having fun while doing it, or looking sexy or reflecting on your daily life. Whatever it’s about, it’s definitely about more than just getting fit.

I was recently introduced to Zumba and hot yoga, both of which I am slowly becoming addicted to. When it comes to Zumba, it’s important to acknowledge that I was the first person to chide or mock my friends who initially jumped on the Zumba bandwagon. I was partially right; you can definitely take a Zumba class and end up looking goofier than your five-year-old cousin doing the hokey pokey, but just because your hips don’t lie (and move) as sexily as Shakira’s, that certainly doesn’t mean you should write off Zumba.

Zumba was first developed in the ‘90s by Alberto Perez, and became mainstream in the US in 2001. It was developed as a dance-fitness program that sought to integrate moves from samba, salsa, merengue and even Bollywood and belly dancing. My first experience with Zumba confirmed that it truly is a smorgasbord of dance styles rolled into one class.

My first class was packed with female attendees and as soon as the instructor and the music started booming, it was hard to not get into it. Zumba instructors are well known for their over-the-top energy and shouting that reminds you to have fun and let loose. While this ambience can be a lot at

first, the music is the best of soca and reggaeton and keeps you smiling through the surprising amount of soreness you feel after “getting low” so many times you’re about to fall over.

Still not convinced Zumba is worth a try? Baring the dance skills you will inevitably have picked up and the smile that will be plastered on your face as you leave the class, it is worth noting that most people burn between 500-900 calories during a one hour Zumba class. But really, as its motto states, it’s less about exercising and more about “joining the party.”

Maybe you don’t feel comfortable breaking it down publicly? Or maybe you just seek more serenity in your workouts?

Then hot yoga might be the exercise trend you should try out.

During my first time in hot yoga, I quickly learnt that it is completely acceptable and expected that by the end of class you will be dripping sweat from every pore.

Hot yoga is typically affiliated with Bikram yoga, a practice pioneered by Bikram Choudhury. Choudhury aimed to replicate the hot, humid conditions of India in yoga studios in order to increase the flexibility of participants while they moved through poses.

In hot yoga (specifically the Moksha variation) the room temperature is typically kept at 40 Celsius with 35 per cent humidity. While city-dwellers might gawk and compare this to an average summer day in downtown Hamilton, I would challenge them to exercise vigorously for up to 90 minutes in this weather.

Hot yoga provides participants with the opportunity to vastly increase or enhance their existing flexibility while also developing a significant amount of muscular strength required to hold poses for long periods of time. Hot yoga also promotes proper breathing techniques to enhance your workout and help you efficiently exercise.

So while you may be petrified of sweating profusely in a

room full of people, don’t worry, you’re not alone.

Seasoned pros cover their mats with towels to absorb sweat so they don’t slip and most people also bring a small face towel to wipe away those pesky pearls of sweat. The instructor’s soothing voice helps guide you through the exercises even when you just want to give up and fall over.

One of the best (and most crucial) parts of yoga is its focus on meditation and providing a calming experience for both your body and mind.

Hot yoga is no different, except the warmth provides a comforting environment for your body, especially in the winter. But in my experience I also found that while the heat is merely an external constraint, you are so focused on your practice and moving through the heat that it becomes very difficult for your mind to wander, and thus it is much easier to think and be in the moment.

If this seems too much like new-age mumbo jumbo for you, I would implore you to rethink your preconceptions of yoga. As students, we’re often totally immersed in campus life and constantly interacting with classmates, friends and housemates, but how much time do you truly have to reflect on yourself and your decisions?

So while you may not buy into the spiritual component, or may not be interested in increasing your flexibility, having a refuge from a busy, crazy world is something that every student could do with.

As the weather gets colder and we move closer to exams, it becomes easy to hide away in your house or the library and forget to exercise. But in the winter you should do just the opposite. You might not be able to exercise outside, but you can certainly find a way to get warmed up. My recommendation, join the Zumba party or sweat up a storm at hot yoga, either way, you’ll feel the heat.

Quick fi x to prevent bacteria-related diarrhea in hospital patients Mohsin Ali The Silhouette

It may be as simple as probiotics, suggests a study led by McMaster professor Dr. Bradley Johnston. His colleagues analyzed twenty randomized-controlled trials, totalling almost 4000 patients. They asked whether the use of probiotics—‘good’ bacteria found in yogurts, powders, or capsules—influenced rates of diarrheal illness related to the bacterium Clostridium difficile. Their main finding: new cases of C. difficile–associated diarrhoea in hospital patients was reduced by 66 percent, amounting to thirty-three cases prevented per 1000 patients.

This effect is significant given the burden of C. difficile on the healthcare system: it causes illness and death in hospitalized adults. In fact, almost half of all diarrheal illness in hospitals is associated with C. difficile, and it is a major concern for the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, too, who tracked 75 outbreaks in 47 hospitals from 2009–2011.

Dr. Johnston, who is also a clinical epidemiologist at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, echoes these concerns. He notes that a 2010 University of Ottawa study found one patient for every 10 infected by C. difficile died of the infection, and therefore “[m]inimizing or even preventing C. difficile among vulnerable patients is a high priority for making every hospital as safe as possible for all patients. It’s an important public health issue.”

Dr. Mark Loeb, division director of Infectious Diseases in the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster, agrees. As a co-author for the study, which was published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, both he and Dr. Johnston emphasize the importance of integrating probiotics into the diets of hospitalized patients. Older patients are especially at risk when using antibiotics, which deplete both ‘good’ and ‘bad’ bacteria, providing a niche for C. difficile to thrive.

Probiotics help reintroduce healthy bacteria, and though they are not a magic bullet, says Dr. Johnston, they are an effective, safe and relatively inexpensive approach to prevent C. difficile–associated diarrheal illness.

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Senior Editor: Nolan Matthews Assistant Editor: Bahar Orang

Contributors: Palika Kohli, Tina Cody, Michael Skinnider, Jasper Johar, Brody Weld, Alexander Sallas, Dominika Jakubiec, Maryssa Barras, Kieran Healey

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opening

The Great Bloomers This Ain’t Hollywood 9 p.m.

nov. 22

Diamond Rings This Ain’t Hollywood 9 p.m.

nov. 24

nov. 29

War Child Open Mic Night My Dog Joe 7 p.m.

Skyfall Westdale Cinema 9:45 p.m.

This is Hamilton...

Homegrown Hamilton 6 p.m.

art dec. 1

nov. 27

Craig Cardiff TwelvEighty 6:30 p.m.

Hitchcock The Central Park Five Rust and Bone

Art Beat Student Art Showcase Focus Gallery

dec. 14

nov. 24

Reuben and the Dark The Brain 10 p.m.

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Conduits Lee Skinner, Kearon Roy Taylor HAVN

until jan.12

nov. 22 nov. 22

Steve Aoki Hamiton Convention Centre 7 p.m.

nov. 30

(A villain chases James Bond and skis into a snow-blower, which then sprays red snow.)

Bond: “He had a lot of guts!”

Hypnotic Brass Ensemble This Ain’t Hollywood 9 p.m.

dec. 5

music

Breaking Black Nicole Collins McMaster Museum of Art

editorial

thursday, november 22, 2012

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music awards, hamilton style The Polaris Music Prize is a yearly award given to a Canadian artist for best album, as decided by a group of music journalists and broadcasters. The prize includes a cash award of $30,000, and this year it was given to Feist for her album Metals. This drives me crazy.

Even if Feist’s album wasn’t terrifically boring (it is), she has to be the artist, out all the people nominated, who needs money and publicity the least. Well, okay, Drake was also nominated, but Take Care is really great. So is Japandroid’s album Celebration Rock, which is like a stiff drink and all of the excitement and angst of being young distilled into musical form. Heck, I’d even prefer it if a band called Cold Specks had won, and I know nothing about them.

The Polaris Music Prize provides the opportunity to support a promising young artist so that they can maybe get a shot at paying their rent, and this year the award was wasted. What’s the purpose of arts awards ceremonies, anyway?

Hamilton’s own version of music awards, the appropriately-named Hamilton Music Awards, happened last Sunday, Nov. 18. When I first heard about it, I thought what you’re probably thinking now: “So what?” Well, I’ll tell you what. The Hamilton Music Awards are our antidote to the out-of-touch Polaris Music Prize.

The Hamilton Music Awards don’t come with a $30,000 prize, but they do support great local bands that are playing really close to you, this

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week, probably for five bucks. One of those great local bands, the Dirty Nil, won punk recording of the year for their passionately catchy single “Little Metal Baby Fists.”

“Mickey, the singer of the band Forgotten Rebels, was announcing the winner,” said Kyle Fisher, the Dirty Nil’s drummer. “But when he went to go say it he would cough, and he did it like three times, for way too long. And I was like, ‘Fuckin’ say it, man! My heart is pounding through my chest, stop doing this to me.’ And then he told us. And it was a relief.”

The Hamilton Music Awards are a refreshing antithesis to the bloated pomp of something like the Grammys.

“There wasn’t anything about business,” said Fisher. “It was a lot of congratulations, and then it became, ‘Let’s all party now.’”

“It’s different because it’s more about the community,” said Fisher. “Hamilton has such an intertwined music community, where punk bands hang out with folk people. There’s a lot of crossover and just a lot of friends. A lot of homies hanging left and right. I think that’s what those awards really stand for. The brotherhood of Hamilton music. And sisterhood.”

Other music awards could learn from our example.

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Nolan Matthews, Senior ANDY Editor

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the mcmaster museum of art takao tanabe: chronicles of form and place Canadian West Coast artist Takao Tanabe has gained acclaim as one of Canada’s most important and influential painters. Born in Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Tanabe has studied in Winnipeg, New York, London and Tokyo, which provided him with an opportunity to explore and master varied approaches to landscape painting. He has exhibited both nationally and internationally, and is represented in the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario as well as many other public and private collections. Although Tanabe is renowned for his paintings of the Canadian landscape, he started off as an abstract painter, experimenting with geometric shapes, flat spatial planes and bold colours. After 22 years of abstract painting, Tanabe decided to go in a different direction and began his career as a landscape painter.

Chronicles of Form and Place is the first ever retrospective exhibition of Tanabe’s work on paper, taken from his personal collection as well as works displayed in the Vancouver Art Gallery. The exhibition features drawings and watercolours from 1949 to the present, and includes more than 60 works never before seen by the public. The exhibition examines the artist’s career and influences from working and studying abroad. All of Tanabe’s works, including his drawings, prints and watercolours provide

an entry point into the many stages of study, experimentation and development.

In 1959, Tanabe travelled to Japan where he studied Sumi – a traditional style of brush painting. Sumi painting is characterized by the fewest possible brushstrokes representing the “essence” of an object. This inspired Tanabe to incorporate the Sumi painting technique into his own works of Canadian landscapes.

Tanabe’s trip to Japan was also an introspective journey in which he had the chance to rethink his relationship to Canadian culture, his artistic influences as well as the surrounding environment.

Tanabe’s approach to watercolour painting employs the Sumi technique he learned in Japan. Many of his watercolour landscapes appear abandoned and uninhabited with inhospitable conditions Tanabe attributes to life and its unpredictable and changing circumstances.

During an interview at the McMichael Art Gallery in 2007, Tanabe stated, “The West Coast has its bright clear days, where all is revealed, but I favour the grey mists, the rain obscured islands and the clouds that hide the details.

However much we desire order and clarity in all the details of our lives, there are always unexpected events that cloud and change our course. Life is ragged. The Coast is like that, just enough detail to make it interesting, but

not so clear as to be banal or overwhelming.”

Tanabe’s fascination with landscape led to a composition of prairie paintings, usually created in one session. His simplistic prairie landscapes connect to the coastal subject matter, sharing many aesthetic qualities such as long sweeping vistas, diminished human representation and an acute attention to the spatial relationship between land, water and sky. Tanabe’s Forest Drawings of the 1990s illustrate an awareness of light and the power it has to reveal and conceal a subject. The contrast between light and dark is magnified with the subtle use of colour to reveal the lushness of nature.

Tanabe’s retrospective of works is more than simply a portrayal of various landscapes.

Together all of his paintings and drawings contribute to and represent a rich Canadian culture dominated by lush forests, sweeping prairies and towering mountains. From the East to the West Coast, Tanabe’s portfolio of works presents to us a Canadian identity, one focused on the preservation of our beautiful landscape.

Chronicles of Form and Place is on view at the McMaster Museum of Art (MMA) until Dec. 8, 2012 in the Togo Salmon, Levy and Tomlinson galleries.

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nicole collins: breaking black The McMaster Museum of Art opened a new exhibition, Breaking Black, on Nov. 15 in their main floor gallery. Breaking Black is less abstract than the gallery’s previous exhibit, Conspiracies of Illusion.

The curator, Nicole Collins, professor at the Ontario College of Art and Design, chose alchemy as the theme of her show, with the idea that from something dark

and dead, such as charcoal, a new thing of value can be created, such as gold. Charcoal is a recurring medium; it is used in nearly every piece as pigment to represent the death of what was once alive.

This exhibition also treats viewers to some big names in the art world. It includes works from Louis Comtois and David Nash, as well as one surprising piece from an ancient Lucanian school.

Running along with Breaking Black at the museum is Mapping Iroquoia: Cold City Frieze, an interactive piece on stereotypical representations of First Nations people through history.

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Maryssa Barras, Silhouette Intern

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Humans I see fear, illusions, exclusivity, hypocrisy, deception, cynicism, separation, judgment, conflict, control, rigidity , seriousness, ingratitude, pride, blame, shame, weakness, conformity, competition, bound We want Love, Truth, inclusivity, honesty, trust, union , compassion, peace, gratitude, humility, forgiveness, honour, courage, equality, collaboration, free

• Jasper Johar

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best movie of the year?

Argo Starring: Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, John Goodman Director: Ben Affleck

thursday, november 22, 2012

Rarely is a film released with as much attention to detail, as much craft,or as much palm-sweat-inducing tension as Argo. Ben Affleck has done an incredible job turning the infamous “Canadian Caper” story into a masterful film. Every actor involved plays their parts perfectly.

The most impressive thing about Argo, though, is that every scene in the film means something. Every bit of dialogue and every second of film are so carefully planned that it results in an extremely solid movie that makes you think just as often as sweat.

The plot takes place in three main locations. Tony Mendez, played by Ben Affleck, is a CIA agent sent to Iran to free six American diplomats, who are hiding out in the house of a Canadian ambassador after Iran’s citizens effectively wage war on the USA. Mendez comes up with the brilliant scheme of disguising all six of them, and himself, as a Canadian film crew scouting locations.

The second part of the movie takes

place in Hollywood, and, for the most part, provides the comic relief. Makeup artist John Chambers and director Lester Seigel assist the operation by setting up a fake studio. The last part of the film takes place in Washington, DC, where Mendez’s spy agency is located; this is where the operation is organized. The fact that this film is based on a true story makes everything even crazier.

Even if you are unfamiliar with the original story you can easily follow along because every part of the film is perfectly paced.

Argo is the best movie of the year, and a serious Oscar contender. If you haven’t seen it yet, then either make your way to a theatre immediately or, in the words of Lester Seigel, “Argo fuck yourself.”

• Alexander Sallas

thursday, november 22, 2012

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TIP

’ve been listening to K-pop (south Korean pop music) for about three years now, but only recently has this genre hit the main stage here in North America. It seems that this new popularity can be attributed to PSY and the all-female ninemember group, Girl’s Generation. I’ve been so hooked on K-pop these past couple years that I started to learn the Korean language (Hangeul) and have recently applied to teach abroad in Korea after I graduate from McMaster this year.

However, I’ve got a huge problem with Canada’s current image of K-pop. Everyone around me seems to think Korean pop just sprang out of nowhere in the past couple months. So, I’m here to share some of knowledge about K-pop.

Korean pop is awesome and everyone should YouTube the artists I mentioned. And if you’re like me, this will act as a procrastination method so intense that you’ll end up with a far more comprehensive understanding of K-pop than your midterm material.

What is Korean pop?

Pop music that is sung in Korean.

Short answer: it’s not.

Long answer: Korean pop music in the last decade has become increasingly similar to North American pop music, with catchy lyrics, hot dance moves, fashion, and sex. You can think of K-pop as Katy Perry, Rihanna, N Sync, and Britney Spears all combined - but Korean.

For girl groups, you’re looking at Girl’s Generation, 2NE1, Brown Eyed Girls, Sistar, and Wonder Girls. For all male groups, Teen Top, Nu’est, Big Bang, Super Junior and Shinee all come to mind.

Girl’s Generation’s video “Gee” garnered 91 million YouTube views alone. To put this into context with a North Ameri can celebrity, Britney Spears’ “Till The World Ends” video received 105 million views.

Breaking into a music market where the language of the music isn’t your native tongue is obviously extremely hard.

If any of you have tried learning a new language past the age of infancy, then you are aware of the difficulties that come with language learning, so don’t judge. However, K-pop artists’ language skills have really progressed over the past decade thanks to Korea’s commitment to educational reform.

What does this mean? North America is about to start seeing a heck of a lot more Korean performers (or at least I hope).

• Kieran Healey KAREN WANG GRAPHICS EDITOR

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thursday, november 22, 2012

Album: Red Artist: Taylor Swift

Album: Former Lives Artist: Benjamin Gibbard

Album: Numbers Artist: Mellowhypes

Album:The Inner Mansions Artist: Teen Daze

I’ve been a semi-closeted T. Swift fan ever since her self-titled album first released in 2006. Usually, it’s only teenage girls who share my love for her, but with Red I’ve found that her demographic has suddenly changed.

No matter where you go, I promise you that someone will be (rather shamelessly) listening to Tee Swizzle.

Considering the difference in her sound on this album, it’s not so surprising.

With Red, Swift is experimenting, having approached different producers and by exploring new genres. “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” is possibly the catchiest tune of the summer, with sarcastic voiceovers that somehow sound endearing instead of annoying. “I Knew You Were Trouble” makes use of dubstep, while the title song “Red” includes an auto-tuned chorus. But perhaps the most relevant song is “22,” which begins with a hipster reference and continues along in an “I no longer give a fuck” vein.

And while there are the requisite Swifty ballads (“Begin Again,” “All Too Well”), certain ones are complimented by featured artists like Ed Sheeran in “Everything Has Changed” and Gary Lightbody in “The Last Time.” Swift said that the album title comes from all of her recent feelings, summed up in one passionate colour. But perhaps if you listen more closely, you’ll feel green-tinged envy, blue-hued tragedy and glowing yellow “Starlight,” too.

Achieving success with both Death Cab For Cutie and the Postal Service, it was only a matter of time before Benjamin Gibbard released a solo album. And now seems a more opportune time than ever, following his public break-up with Zooey Deschanel.

Those expecting to hear an earnest, heartwrenching album will be shocked to find Former Lives surprisingly upbeat. Complete with catchy lyrics and poppy tunes, you can’t help but tap your foot as you listen along.

Gibbard claims that Former Lives summarizes the past eight years of his life in a single collective experience. Though songs cover a range of topics, the album still remains a cohesive entity. “Bigger Than Love,” a duet with Aimee Mann, captures the hope of reigniting a dwindling romance, while “Teardrop Windows” personifies Seattle skyscrapers, pitting the Smith Tower against its nemesis the Space Needle.

One must question, however, whether Former Lives stands out amidst Gibbard’s previous work. In truth, he will forever be known as the front man of Death Cab For Cutie, and Former Lives has done little to change that.

Those who aren’t already fans of Odd Future may be unaware of MellowHype, one of the many sub-groups in the rap collective.

Though most have either jumped on the Odd Future bandwagon or sworn off anything associated with the group, albums like Numbers are deserving of a good listen from anybody with a fondness for hip hop.

The biggest improvement on this album from MellowHype’s previous two is Left Brain’s production. It’s been almost five years since his debut as a producer, and his progress with layering and beats has grown by leaps and bounds. Hodgy Beats, the rapper of the duo, is one of the more established rappers in Odd Future, and he makes this even more obvious on Numbers.

For those who never stopped loving MellowHype’s more traditionally dark and eerie tracks, give “Grill” and “Beat” a try. Songs like “Untitled L” and “Monster” remind me of the dynamic chemistry that separates this duo’s sound from their other groups in Odd Future.

The many guest spots keep the album varied, from Frank Ocean dropping in for a subtle but melodic chorus in Astro to verses from Earl Sweatshirt and Mike G on “P2” and “666.”

The Inner Mansions opens with “Heart of God,” a reflective, ambient piece that immediately sets Teen Daze’s latest record apart from the rest of his discography - it’s more evocative of Julianna Barwick’s ethereal vocal studies than Balearic house or disco. The soft, shimmering pads that mark the Fraser Valley-based producer’s style are still ubiquitous, but The Inner Mansions finds him substituting gauzy guitars for glo-fi funk.

Tracks like “Discipleship” are rhythmic exercises anchored by a four-on-the-floor beat that’s constantly being reinvented. Likewise, “Divided Loyalties” features layers of cymbals and hi-hats caked in hazy effects that mutate around a 4/4 kick drum.

Although “Always Returning” closes the LP on the same meditative note that is opens with, the mood of the album is undone by its disjointedness. “Spirit” dips into post-rock territory, while parts of “By Love” could be mistaken for Yanni. “Union,” the album’s biggest offender, resembles some of No Age’s less confrontational work.

It’s hard to fault Teen Daze for evolving musically, but The Inner Mansions is ultimately let down by its indecision.

• Brody Weld

• Michael Skinnider

• Tina Cody

• Palika Kohli

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