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University rankings give
Guelph top grades
Guelph is still one of
the best
Susannah Ripley
Victoria Martin
Unbeknownst to the Gryphons at the moment this photo was taken, Guelph would go on to capture the
OUA title for the twelfth time in the 17 years it has been competed for.
Gryphons bleed red, black and OUA gold
The Gryphons women’s
rugby team claims
OUA championships
at home for fourth
consecutive year
Sasha Odesse
The past Saturday Oct. 29, the
Gryphons women’s rugby team
battled the McMaster Marauders
in front of a large home crowd,
settling for nothing less than OUA
gold. Neither the frigid weather,
the injury of Jacey Murphy nor
the opponent could deter them
from their goal. Their reward: the
OUA championship banner and a
spot in the CIS Championships at
Trent University.
Adding to their success, head
coach Colette McAuley was
awarded OUA Coach of the Year.
McAuley, who happened to be
“on the call when she heard
the news,” (the same call that
announces the OUA players of
the year), said the award was
“unexpected” but that she was
“very honored” to receive it.
If winning the OUA championships and the Coach of the Year
award wasn’t enough, the Gryphons had the added excitement
of playing and winning in front of
a home crowd.
“It was nice. It was so nice. We
had a great turnout at the home
game and there’s no better feeling than winning at home, that’s
for sure,” said McAuley.
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The rankings are out, and the
University of Guelph has passed
with honours. Last week brought
both the Maclean’s University Rankings and The Globe
and Mail’s Canadian University
Report, and Guelph was placed
near the top.
In the Maclean’s rankings,
U of G maintained last year’s
fourth-place ranking in the
Comprehensive category. The
university also earned third place
in the reputable survey, as well as
receiving top marks in research
funding and library acquisitions.
The Globe and Mail report,
which uses letter grades, gave the
university an A for both campus
atmosphere and environmental
commitment. Overall, Guelph
topped the rankings in eight categories. The report highlights
the university in an article on
campus sustainability.
“Students tell us they come to
Guelph because of our reputation
for being a caring, learner-centred university with a first-class
academic program and a strong
residential environment,” said
president Alastair Summerlee in
a press release. “It’s gratifying
to have our students give us top
marks in those very categories
year after year in the University
Report Card. It tells us that we
are doing our job of making the
Guelph learning experience personal and unique.”
Despite this year’s success, the
administration is not complacent.
“We are always looking to
improve what we do at U of G
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Loblaw creates sustainable seafood plan
Steph-Marie Szenasi
On Oct. 27, Paul Uys the vicepresident of Loblaw Sustainable
Seafood Initiative, joined students at the University of Guelph
for a guest lecture. Loblaw is currently the largest food retailer
in Canada, and created popular
food brands such as “No Name”
and “President’s Choice”. They
serve roughly 14-million Canadians every week. Loblaws is
also the dominant seller of seafood in Canada. Due to Loblaws’
dominance in the food sector,
Uys has realized they ought to
be responsible and accountable
for protecting and sustaining
the environments from which
they draw from, and has vigorously incorporated sustainability
into the Loblaw business model.
In 2007, Loblaw was targeted by
a national Greenpeace campaign,
which denounced the destructive fishing practices that Loblaw
macleans CONTINUED
with the resources we have,” said
Charles Cunningham, assistant
vice-president of communications and public affairs. “For
example, you will note that we
have made a considerable investment in upgrading our playing
fields this year and that may be
reflected when students evaluate
our recreational facilities next
year.”
The Maclean’s survey judged
universities on 13 criteria within
the general themes of students
and classes, faculty, resources,
student support, library, and
reputation. The survey also
divides universities into three
categories:
medical/doctoral,
primarily undergraduate and
comprehensive. The University of
endorsed. Loblaw was selling 14
out of 15 red listed fish that are
at risk of extinction. At the time,
there was no uniform policy that
required Loblaw to label their fish
species as “farmed” or “wild”.
Consumers were relatively uninformed, and Greenpeace was able
to bring attention to these issues
with large banners covering
Loblaw stores.
Uys stated that 49 per cent
of consumers understand what
sustainable seafood is and 51 per
cent of the Canadian population remains unaware. Loblaws
began its progressive sustainable sourcing of seafood in all of
its products, including pet foods
and health products, by 2013.
Loblaw identified that they offer
2,500 products containing fish,
and purchase these fish products
from 250 suppliers. The company
is seeking rigorous certification
under the Marine Stewardship
Council (MSC).
Guelph is considered a comprehensive university because it is
research-intensive, has a variety
of both undergraduate and graduate programs, and does not have
a medical school.
The Globe and Mail rankings
are based on a survey of 33, 000
Canadian undergrads. There are
19 categories ranging from quality of teaching to infrastructure.
This year the newspaper chose
not to collect information on
university food services, to the
detriment of U of G (which consistently received a top ranking in
this category in past years).
As this year’s graduating high
school students begin applying to university, the University
of Guelph will be an attractive
choice.
Marianne Pointner
Beyond this, Loblaw supports
the development of credible
aquaculture certification. Aquaculture can be understood as fish
farming. Loblaw suppliers must
also be certified to MSC standards in order to fit their new
Sustainable Seafood Model. Uys
commented on the need for more
transparency within the process of their new initiative; they
plan to keep consumers informed
of the large decisions that are to
be made. Uys spoke about bycatch in the industry and the
poor labeling system used to
separate products that use sustainable practices and those that
don’t. Uys commented on the
need to create a set of official
and federally recognized labels
so that consumers are better
informed and can trust the product labels. Currently, there exists
over 350 sustainability labels on
food products. What do “ecofriendly”, “dolphin-friendly”, or
Pilot blamed for death of Russian
hockey team
“dolphin-safe” really mean?
“The question of by-catch…
you can target one species but
you might be catching something
else,” said Uys. “Just because
tuna products are “dolphinsafe”, it does not mean they are
reducing by-catch of seabirds,
other fish, and plants. By-catch
is also rarely used and is often
thrown back into the ocean.”
As the lecture morphed into
a discussion between students
and Uys, questions arose regarding Loblaw’s true intentions.
Uys remained clear that it makes
practical sense for Loblaw to
become certified and sustainable
as they depend on the future of
fisheries for their products.
“Big businesses are realizing
they must organize themselves
around sustainability,” Uys said.
“As fish become more and more
scarce, the prices rise…this is a
double edged sword.”
Worth a shot?
It’s flu season again on
campus
Beth Purdon-McLellan
Despite the controversy, the university’s Health Centre remains
adamant that the flu shot is the
right move for students in the
upcoming months.
“We’re very supportive and
strongly recommend the flu
shot, particularly for people who
are living in residences,” said
Lynda Davenport, director of
Student Health Services.
It’s free, and it is offered at a
convenient location on campus.
Students may feel like there is no
point to the flu shot: they might
not even get sick, or worse, there
is a chance that they will catch
the flu despite having gotten the
shot. However, Davenport says
that students are more at risk for
contracting the flu because of the
student lifestyle and close living
conditions that often accompany
academic study.
“For people who are living,
studying and working in the
type of community that students
generally are in – most of them,
even if they’re not on campus
– are living in housing with
other people,” said Davenport.
“[They] are studying with other
people and working on projects
together.”
While students may maintain that their immune system
is working fine, the stress of
coursework and exams can take
its toll on how our bodies are able
to protect themselves.
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“This time of year is always
when everybody’s stretched
with their academics, so not
necessarily sleeping and eating
and doing all the good health
things that they might otherwise be able to manage,” said
Davenport. “So we really do
recommend [the flu shot] to
students.”
It’s important for students to
know that the “flu” does not
mean simply not feeling well. If
you are feeling nauseous or sick
to your stomach, chances are
it is a Gastroenteritis infection
rather than influenza, which is
an upper respiratory infection.
In an effort to boost student
participation, the Health Clinic
has posted a schedule on its
home page, and has also communicated to students through
the CSA. The speed at which flu
strains mutate means that the
vaccine needs to be taken every
year, but the number of students only goes up when there is
a flu outbreak like the H1N1.
“It’s hard to know what to tell
people because the vaccine does
change every year, but basically the message is the same,”
said Davenport. “Influenza can
cause significant loss of work
and study time for people if you
get sick. I mean, recovery time
for influenza is typically around
seven days. And for a student to
be out of commission for seven
days at this time of year, or even
the early winter, you know, in
a semester system can be detrimental to their studies.”
Russia and hockey fans all over
the world were devastated when
on Sept. 7 a plane containing
Russia’s professional hockey
team crashed in Yaroslavl, central
Russia. Of the 44 people that died
in the crash, 36 were members
of the Yaroslavl team and coaching staff. The tragedy was felt in
Canada as Canadian coach Brad
McCrimmon, New York Rangers
player Alexander Karpovtev and
Vancouver Canucks player and
Slovak team captain Pavol Demetria were among the deceased.
An investigation has revealed that
the crash was caused by a piloting
error rather than the mechanics
of the plane. Apparently the pilot
had accidently applied the brakes
during take off, causing the plane
to rise too steeply. (The Globe
and Mail)
Forensic archeology aids Ottawa
murder investigation
Police called in an archeologist to
conduct a “slow dig” at the previous home of serial killer Camille
Cleroux. Cleroux , 56, is suspected for the murder of two of
his spouses, as well as his 64-year
old neighbor. Police believe that
the murders took place over the
last 20 years. When excavations
began, police found dried blood
under the carpet. The slow dig
will take place in the backyard
of his town house in Ottawa.
After his 14- hour interview
with police, Cleroux confessed to
the murder of his neighbor, but
refused to reveal the location of
the other bodies. (National Post)
Wikileaks founder to be extradited
After being charged with serious sexual offenses, Wikileaks
founder Julian Assange will be
extradited to Sweden after loosing his appeal in British courts. He
is accused of raping and molesting two women in Stockholm.
Assange denies these charges,
saying that they have been set
up in an attempt to undermine
his organization. Wikileaks is an
organization that publishes classified information, and claims
that by making information
available to the public the organization is upholding their freedom
of speech and expression, as
stated in article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The British Court system does
not agree with Assange’s claim
that he has been made a political
target. Assange will be extradited
to Sweden within the next few
months. (CBC)
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Scientifically Inclined: The haunting Triassic Kraken hypothesis
Arielle Duhaime-Ross
Every once in a while, a story
comes along that it so imaginative,
so haunting, that you feel less the
scientist and every bit the dreamer.
This is one such story.
During the Triassic period,
Ichthyosaurs (Shonisaurus popularis), giant marine reptiles
measuring up to 45 feet in length,
were amongst the top predators
of the sea. In the 1950s, worldrenowned palaeontologist Charles
Camp discovered nine Ichthyosaur
fossils laid out in a most peculiar
fashion, in what had once been the
sea floor, in Nevada’s Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park. The skeletal
articulations of the fossilized beasts
indicated that they were deposited
at the site soon after their death.
Studies demonstrated that these
animals did not die in a single
catastrophic event but rather in a
sequential and unrelated fashion.
In addition, a very high proportion of the bones were broken,
hinting at the possibility that the
deaths were far from accidental.
Finally, the bones seemed to have
been rearranged in an interlocking
fashion, creating multiple circular discs with “almost geometric
regularity”, like pieces to a puzzle.
When well-known palaeontologist Dr. Mark McMenamin took
a look at these fossils, he saw a
pattern that no one else had seen
before, birthing the Triassic Kraken
hypothesis. According to McMenamin, the culprit was none other
than the legendary “Kraken”, a 30
metre long squid-like or octopuslike cephalopod, which would
have rearranged the bones to
resemble a giant cephalopod tentacle complete with sucker-discs.
In essence, he hypothesized that
the “most intelligent invertebrate”
to have ever lived was the author of
the world’s first self-portrait.
These findings stirred up quite
the controversy at the 2011 Geological Society of America’s
annual meeting in October, with
many scientists in attendance
calling the Triassic Kraken hypothesis extremely far-fetched. Other
hypotheses had been put forward
since the Ichthyosaur death assemblage’s discovery, including death
by phytotoxin poisoning, but none
has caused this kind of reaction
within the scientific community.
“When you consider that all
other explanations for the Ichthyosaur death assemblage have
failed, the plausibility goes up. It is
currently the leading hypothesis,
and none of the critics so far has
proposed a fatal or even relatively
significant objection” replied
McMenamin when asked about the
skepticism with which his hypothesis has been greeted.
The behaviour he describes,
where the Kraken would have
drowned the Ichthyosaurs and
dragged them down to its hiding
place, is not unheard of. Contemporary species of Giant Octopi
are known to wrestle with large
prey, such as sharks, and drag
them down to a hidden feeding
area. Unfortunately, other than
this possible self-portrait, there
is no other evidence of this giant
cephalopod having existed. This
is to be expected, however, as the
soft-tissue that makes up these
invertebrates does not fossilize
well. McMenamin’s only hope of
proving this animal’s existence
would be to discover the squidpen, the hard internal structure
that supports the mantle cavity.
If his proposal is accepted,
McMenamin hopes to return to
Nevada with a British filmmaker to
continue his search for more evidence of the Triassic Kraken. In the
meantime, the professor of geology
at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts will be working on two
Sarah Dunstan
The Kraken hypothesis suggests that even the ancient 30-foot long
cephalopod needed room for self-expression.
papers, one regarding the hypothesis and the other describing the
geological site.
There is nothing new about a
scientific hypothesis being greeted
with doubt. Science has advanced
thanks to daring members of its
community who have ventured
beyond the realm of the probable
in order to push the limits of the
pre-established notions we guard
fiercely and sometimes to a fault.
Even if Dr. McMenamin’s hypothesis turns out to be a misguided
dreamer’s fantasy, it will have
served its purpose by lighting fires
under competing palaeontologists,
compelling them to dig deeper (no
pun intended) in order to explain
the mysteries of Earth’s past and
the dwellers therein.
Arielle blogs about science at
www.salamanderhours.com
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PJ’s restaurant goes green
Guelph develops
sustainable restaurant
practices
Beth Purdon-McLellan
PJ’s restaurant is already a
unique feature at the University of Guelph, but it’s about
to get a whole lot greener.
The student–run restaurant
is going sustainable as one of
the many initiatives that fall
under the University of Guelph
Sustainable Restaurant Project (UGSRP). PJ’s is part of
the School of Hospitality and
Tourism Management (HTM),
and provides an opportunity
for students to gain hands on
experience in what they’ve
learned in their program.
Bruce McAdams, a professor within the HTM program,
had the initial vision for the
sustainable restaurant project.
He received a $15,000 grant
from the university’s Learning Enhancement Fund to
make sustainability part of the
course curriculum. PJ’s restaurant is the perfect opportunity
to experiment because the
financial risks that make “real
world”
restaurant
owners
hesitant to implement changes
aren’t there. Mike Von Massow,
an assistant professor with the
HTM program, worked with
McAdams to hold a panel discussion on Oct. 26 where
leading figures from the sector
met to discuss different aspects
of restaurant sustainability.
“In order
to reduces
waste, you
have to
know what’s
contributing
to it.”
“A lot of restaurants are
small businesses,” said Von
Massow. “And sometimes you
can’t take risks, and sometimes
you’re just too busy to know
what your opportunities are
and so we have an opportunity
to say, here are some things to
think about.”
Attention is being given to all
areas of the restaurant, from
food sourcing to food preparation. There is, of course, a
focus on local and sustainable
produce. For example, the fish
that PJ’s uses are not only being
fished sustainably, but also are
“nuisance fish”. Taking them
out of the eco system helps
counter their potential threat
as an invasive species. However, PJ’s is also looking at the
fundamental use of resources
within the restaurant business:
energy use and water audits are
monitored to make the preparation of food more sustainable.
“We see this as an opportunity to say, ‘well what can
we learn from other people?
What can other people learn
from us? How can we help both
the students that we’re training and the industry to think
about this’,” said Von Massow.
“The reality is, it’s important,
people care about it, and in
many cases, it can save them
money.”
The restaurant is also hosting other research projects for
sustainable restaurant practices. One of the projects run
by Von Massow looks at one of
the final stages of food production – plate waste.
“Some of [the research
projects] aren’t highly glamorous,” said Von Massow. “What
doesn’t get finished on a plate
gets thrown out…On average,
research says that plate waste
Victoria Martin
PJ’s lunch menu offers a tasty and ethical selection.
is about 10 per cent, about 10
per cent of food that goes out
comes back and gets scraped.”
The project weighs each
plate before and after they
are served to figure out which
items are being sent back. The
project helps estimate which
menus items are contributing
to waste based on daily sales.
Managers don’t need to change
everything, but helps them
understand what elements of a
meal people aren’t enjoying.
“In order to reduce waste,
you have to know what’s contributing to it.”
It goes to show that for sustainability, what seems like
a small step can make a big
difference.
Entrepreneurship: the business of employing yourself
Andrea Lamarre
Have you got what it takes to start
a business? According to Rachel
Jones, a University of Guelph graduate and entrepreneur, you just
might. Recent trends in unemployment reflect a large number
of recently graduated students
without jobs. In light of this phenomenon, Jones and others have
turned their critical thinking skills
and initiative into careers, breaking
into the world of entrepreneurism.
“With the way the economy has
been going, it’s a really scary time
in society,” said Jones. “One of the
things I’ve been hearing over and
over again is that, in Canada, the
largest number of unemployed are
the recently graduated. These are
people under 30 that have degrees,
that went to university. They’ve
been trained, and now they cannot
get a job.”
While starting up a business
based solely on a passion or a skill
might have you wondering about
the true value of your university
experience, according to Jones, the
skills learned in university transcend the topical.
“Out of all of the things I learned
at university, I love that I learned
how to do my research. I learned
my critical thinking skills,” Jones
explained. “The skills that I learned
at University are life skills. I learned
how to meet deadlines, I learned
how to get the job done, I learned
how to work under pressure […]
The things that you are doing in
University will have a huge impact
on the rest of your life, whether
you actually use that cell-bio or
physics course or not.”
But how do you put your critical thinking and time management
skills into practice and build a
business from scratch?
“There are a lot of resources out
there. My best advice is to find a
mentor and ask them,” said Jones.
“A mentor is your best resource.
Whenever you do something,
you want to ask the person that’s
already succeeding at it what they
did, how did they got started.”
In the world of entrepreneurism, she continued, it is important
to know your strengths, and play
to them.
“Entrepreneurship is something
that anyone can do,” said Jones.
“But only if you’re using your
skill set […] It’s recognizing where
your talents are, and then finding
something in the world that has a
problem that you can solve- finding your niche, so to speak.”
“What you’re doing right
now is creating your
world five to 10 years
from now. So, always
be open to learning and
keeping your eyes open
for opportunities”
–Rachel Jones
Jones emphasized that your
education is not a drawback. In
fact, whether or not you are putting your degree to direct use, the
knowledge learned through higher
education can help to set you apart
in the world of business. Learning
the power of hard work is a critical
skill often acquired in post-secondary studies, and one that could
make the difference between a
dream and reality in business.
“In this economy, it does not
take money to make money, it
takes work,” said Jones.
Finally, Jones spoke to the need
to stay grounded, open-minded
and optimistic.
“What you’re doing right now is
creating your world five to 10 years
from now,” said Jones. “So, always
be open to learning and keeping
your eyes open for opportunities”
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Frat Guys in High Heels?
Delta Upsilon
Fraternity runs “Walk
a Mile” event.
Tyler Valiquette
On Tuesday Nov. 1, dozens of
volunteers marched on campus
in a united gender movement to
be part of the solution in ending
gendered violence - in high
heels. The “Walk a Mile in her
shoes” event is an international
men’s march to stop rape, sexual
assault and gendered violence.
Frank Baird created this movement back in 2001. Since then
“Walk a Mile” has happened all
around the world, and on Nov. 1
the University of Guelph played
host to the march.
The Delta Upsilon Fraternity
organized the event. The frat
is one of the oldest fraternities in Canada and encourages
“the promotion of friendship,
the development of character,
the diffusion of liberal culture
and the advancement of justice,” according to Nick Longo,
vice-president of public relations with the Delta Upsilon
Fraternity.
The fraternity worked alongside
other organizations on campus
to ensure its success, including
Women in Science and Engineering, the criminal justice and public
policy department, SAFE in association with the Wellness Centre and
the Pi Beta Phi Sorority.
“We hope to
lead by example,
encouraging other
men to respect
women’s rights and
equality.”
In high heels, the frat members
and volunteers marched from the
Cannon, through the residences,
back down to the University
centre, and finally to the Brass
Taps. They accepted donations
while also handing out information on women’s rights, statistics
on abused women and information
on resources available for victims
along the way. Wearing high heels
was a first time experience for
some of these guys for sure!
When discussing why the Delta
Upsilon fraternity chose to run this
event, Longo explained that members of the fraternity were appalled
when they “discovered that one in
four women that graduate university have been sexually assaulted.”
“We modeled our event after
the Guelph Women in Crisis event,
Take Back the Night,” said Longo.
“We had to do our part to raise
awareness of how significant this
issue is.”
The fraternity decided to support
the Guelph-Wellington Women
in Crisis women’s shelter with its
fundraising endeavors. They aim
to raise $1000 through this march.
All donations will go directly to the
shelter.
Longo, along with his other fraternity brothers, stressed their
fraternity values as they geared up
for the event.
“We are not an animal house full
of womanizers; we are strongly
committed to making an impact in
our community,” said Longo. “In
a society with such liberal standards of behavior, we hope to lead
by example, encouraging other
men to respect women’s rights and
equality.”
To learn more about gender
equality and ending gendered violence visit, my.care.org
Marianne Pointner
Delta Upsilon Fraternity struts their stuff during ‘Walk a Mile in Her
Shoes’ to raise awareness on sexual assault and gendered violence.
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Opeth plays devil’s advocate
Swedish group drops
signature death metal
growls, challenges fans
Tom Beedham
Mapping a setlist around an
album that’s vocally removed as
far as possible from expectedyet-unnerving
death
metal
growls on Devil’s Night might
not be the most conventional
move for a Swedish metal group
to take, but echoing Nietzsche
and singing “God is dead” in your
opening song seems wholly in the
spirit of a night dedicated to the
disruption of authority. Shattering preconceptions, expectations
and other results of idolization
is just the direction Opeth took
with their September 2011 release
Heritage, and it’s the formula
they delivered at the Guelph
Concert Theatre on Oct. 30.
Well known for singer, guitarist and creative director Mikael
Åkerfeldt’s gripping death metal
growls, Opeth’s tenth studio
album omits some of the band’s
more recognizable characteristics in favour of a progressive
rock sound, still managing to
guide listeners to some of the
darker recesses music can bring
them.
It’s not even an entirely new
direction that the group has taken;
their 2003 album Damnation also
forewent the growls in order to let
acoustic sounds flourish.
“Opeth’s fans have been tested
before. Damnation, which is
totally calm, this one is way more
intense than that one is in comparison.” Opeth guitarist Fredrik
Åkesson said. “And a lot of old
fans like that album. Even though
they might be a bit orthodox death
metal if you put it that way.”
The band is also remarkably
lighter on tracks like “The Throat
of Winter” and “Patterns in the
Sky,” lighter artifacts in the Opeth
back catalogue that are helping
the group deliver the show they’re
currently touring with a more
linear sonic continuity.
That’s not at all to say that the
group is scrapping their heavy act.
“It doesn’t mean that this is
forever, you know?” Åkesson
said. “On the next tour […] we
definitely need to play some of the
heavier shit.”
The vocal digression was
decided on partly to accommodate a feeling on Åkerfeldt’s part
that his growls had reached their
pinnacle, but it’s also a mark of
the songwriter’s maturity.
“Mikael needed to do something different because he took
that death metal thing to its peak
and he needed to do something
fresh instead of the band repeating itself” Åkesson said. “When
Mike told me the approach for the
new album—that there wasn’t
going to be any growl—at first
I was like, ‘Wow, are you really
sure about this?’ but when I heard
the stuff, there wasn’t really
much room for any growl in these
songs.”
At their Guelph performance,
the death metal detractions
were met by some impatience
on the part of the group’s fans.
When the crowd begged
between tracks for growlladen numbers like “Godhead’s
Lament,” Åkerfeldt responded
only in question.
“Does your ticket say we take
requests?” he teased, as if ragging on his fans for failing to
accept the major premise of
their Nietzschean opening song,
“The Devil’s Orchard.”
With Halloween hours away,
the group played a dark and
heavier rendition of a set thick
with tracks from their new
album, overall an experience
that allowed concertgoers a
significantly longer listen than
they were afforded when the
group last played Ontario at
Heavy TO back in July.
Katie Maz
Opeth’s September 2011 release Heritage sees singer, guitarist and
creative director Mikael Åkerfeldt drop his signature death metal
growls, a feature he has also checked on the band’s present tour.
Opeth is now finished their
North American tour and has
ventured back to Europe for further touring of their new album.
For a complete interview with
Fredrik Åkesson, visit www.
theontarion.com.
List Service: three drastic
music departures
Tom Beedham
Crass: Penis
Envy
When
Crass
recorded
their 1981
album
Penis Envy, they wanted to
achieve an authentically feminist
album. In order to do this, they felt
it was important to feature only
female vocals on the album. While
Crass’s main vocalist Steve Ignorant watched from the sidelines
(on the record sleeve, he was still
referenced as “not on this recording”), this album saw Eve Libertine
and Joy De Vivre scream and rant
about institutions like marriage
and sexual repression.
Katie Maz
A teeming horde of fans clad in zombie attire hungered after Ill
Scarlett while they headlined the CSA’s Zombie Prom event in
Peter Clarke Hall on October 28.
Death
Cab for
Cutie:
Codes
and Keys
Notably
less guitar-centric, and a lot more upbeat,
this is probably the closest thing
we’ve got to a Death Cab for Cutie
pop album. The group seemed to
drop the emo atmosphere present on Something About Airplanes
and We Have the Facts and We’re
Voting Yes in favour of something
they could listen to when on the
road between tour dates without
risking falling into a glum philosophical mopefest.
Kanye West: My Beautiful Dark Twisted
Fantasy
Yeezy’s media controversies were
probably the best things to happen
to him, and not in the way that “all
publicity is good publicity.” The
attention to concept on MBDTF is
cranked up in a way that it never
was on The College Dropout, Late
Registration or Graduation. The
same attention to themes of excess
and celebrity is also markedly
focused in Ye’s collaborative effort
with Jay-Z, Watch the Throne.
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Album review: Florence + the Machine, Ceremonials
Duncan Day-Myron
Within the first minute of Ceremonials’ opening track, “If Only
For a Night”, it’s easy to pick up
on so much of what makes the rest
of the album as interesting, original and engrossing as it is. Distant
pianos give way to frontwoman
Florence Welch singing about
dreams she’d had of strange, surreal ghosts, quickly developing
from soft and subdued into her
distinct siren’s wail, with runs,
trills and leaps intact.
Welch’s use of the ethereal,
mysterious and macabre to evoke
the Gothic and Romantic recurs
throughout the album in a way
that seems as close a conscious
nod to Kate Bush as she could give,
and while the ghost of Bush lingers
throughout the album, Welch’s
influences are mined from a wider
variety of sources: from melodic
baroque pop, to blue-eyed soul, to
psychadelia and back again.
The band’s greatest asset is
Welch’s soaring voice, as she
sings with the kind of theatrics
and bombast that few of her contemporaries dare attempt. It’s
handled deftly by encore producer
Paul Epworth, who alternately
lets her loose, sparse vibrato
shine with little accompaniment,
or surrounds and buries it under
layers of itself or thundering tribal
drums. Epworth only produced a
handful of tracks of Florence + the
Machine’s debut Lungs, and with
him at the production helm for the
whole record this time around, it’s
those tracks he produced for the
band’s first record which turned
out to be the most telling of the
direction Welch’s music would
take. While the GAP ad garage
rock of “Kiss With A Fist” made
a name for her, it has, thankfully,
been abandoned altogether at this
point.
What is likely the greatest
strength of Ceremonials, especially compared to Lungs, is its
consistency. Lungs suffered by
being little more than a series of
unorganized, disparate songs that
served to showcase Welch’s staggeri1ng voice and didn’t achieve
much else. This was compounded
by both the long roster of producers and songwriters, as well as a
revolving door of backing musicians serving as “The Machine.”
Ceremonials pares this down
greatly. The recording band was
less erratic, Epworth is the only
credited producer, and there are
far fewer contributing songwriters– the majority of the songs
are credited solely to Welch and
Epworth, or Welch and Isabella
Summers, her keyboardist and
dark horse songwriting companion, who has contributed as a
setting up speakers to appear at the
conference.
Operating under the premise
that “a globalized, digitized media
environment has truly become,
in Shakespearean terms, a “brave
new world,”” the conference
strived to show how new media
are changing the way Shakespeare
is being understood, and in the
process transforming understandings of history, culture, and media
itself.
Featuring three panels, the day
involved discussions about topics
like Shakespeare after 9/11, Iranian adaptations of Shakespeare’s
work, Facebook as a environment
for discussion about Shakespeare,
early 1930s radio representations
of Shakespeare, and more.
Although she was scheduled to
make an appearance and read from
her paper “Shakespeare: Bard of
Hindustand – A Semiotic and Cultural Perspective,” Surabhi Modi
of India’s Lucknow University,
absence illustrated just how crucial
funding was to the facilitation of
the conference.
“It was unfortunate, she sent
her regrets and we tried to accommodate as best as we could, but
unfortunately we couldn’t work
the tech out in time,” Kaethler
explained.
However, there is also a book in
the works that will gather essays
like the ones presented at the conference, and Kaethler suggested
that hopefully she
will end up being a
part of that.
Apart from the
three panel discussions,
the
event’s afternoon
programming
presented the conference with two
plenary
sessions.
The first, provided
by Anthony Del Col,
Conor McCreery,
and Andy Belanger
was on Kill Shakespeare, a graphic
novel
adaptation
that pits some of the playwright’s
greatest heroes and villains against
one another.
The second plenary consisted of
a screening of Mickey B, an Irish
adaptation of Macbeth set in an
operating
maximum-security
prison and starring actually prisoners that were currently serving
time for what were mostly life sentences. The screening was preceded
by opening remarks about the film
from director Tom Magill, who
also answered questions after the
screening.
“It was really important for us to
have artists instead of just having
a scholarly conference about how
Shakesepeare has been appropriated
and adapted.” Kaethler explained.
“It was a bit better to have artists
and creators talk about that as well
songwriter on the best tracks on
both albums. The result is a far
more focused, cohesive record.
The sophomore slump is a
devilish trap for most emerging
artists, especially those who skyrocket to the levels of commercial
success and critical adulation
that Florence + the Machine did.
But by narrowing her focus and
going with what worked best
from the first album, the group
has managed to avoid the kind of
disappointment second albums
usually bring. Instead they’ve
accomplished that rare feat: surpassing their debut in every way.
Measuring the bard
Tom Beedham
The brainchild of Daniel Fischlin,
the University of Guelph’s research
chair and early modern professor
as well as the founder and director of the Canadian
Adaptations
of Shakespeare Project, Outerspeares, a daylong conference about
Shakespeare took place in the U of
G’s Peter Clarke Hall on Nov. 1.
Fischlin, alongside U of G PHD
students Mark Kaethler and Mauricio Martinez, and Georgetown
University PHD student Jessica Williams, organized the event. The four
divided duties contacting potential
sponsors to receive funding and
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as scholars speaking on what’s been
done at the same time. That was the
best kind of conference we could
have asked for.”
“We’d love to have another one.
We really hope to have this again,”
he said. “It was a tremendous success in my mind and the conference
organizers’ and pretty well anyone I
spoke to who came.”
Sponsors included the Canadian
Adaptations of Shakespeare
Project, the Central Student Association (CSA), the School of English
and Theatre Studies’ (SETS) visiting speakers committee, School of
Language and Literatures (SOLAL),
The Better Planet Project, and the
College of Arts. Their partnership allowed the conference access
to guest speakers, AV equipment,
catering, and more.
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On the Saturday of
Halloween weekend,
Dan Mangan filled the
pews of Dublin United
Church with material
from his new album,
Oh Fortune. His
encore featuring the
track, “Robots” was
a particular hit, as
the whole audience
stood up to sing
along with him.
Kaitlyn Linnemoller
Struggling to hear The Magic Flute
Divinus C. Caesar
“Rather than a problem with the
centre, I think the problem was
just that this was their first performance of the piece there.”
The Magic Flute was written for a mass audience, but it
can often be performed dreadfully seriously. Opera Kitchener’s
production did not make this
mistake.
The opening moments of this
production did not bode well,
with the first two minutes or so
of the overture sounding flat and
lacking in energy. Luckily, the
orchestra soon found its form and
performed well throughout the
rest of the evening.
Post-overture, the opening
song began similarly worryingly,
near inaudible from where I sat.
I damned the River Run Centre
a little in my head, assuming a
problem with the acoustics of its
design, and considered leaving.
This problem too proved shortlived, as Tamino (Jeffrey Boyd)
adjusted his volume by the end of
the song and the rest of the cast
maintained that level throughout. Rather than a problem with
the centre, I think the problem
was just that this was their first
performance of the piece there.
Papageno (Jay Stephenson)
carried the bulk of the comedic
weight, and proved the crowd
favourite. His acting was hammier than the rest of the already
hammy cast, which is in line with
the piece, but I found myself less
than enthusiastic about anything
he had to say. (I would have preferred the comedy in general
delivered less with a wink to the
audience and more deadpan.
It felt like if someone tripped a
pre-arranged “BOING” sound
effect may have been played.)
This was countered by his strong
singing voice. His duet with his
wife-to-be Papagena (Jennifer
Elisabetta Fina) was his highlight,
and maybe the highlight of the
whole show, aside from anything
involving the Queen of the Night
(Teiya Kasahara).
The Queen was dominant
whenever she took the stage,
and Kasahara handled one of the
most difficult parts in all of opera
well. Disappointing in that part
is a very easy thing to do, and
she easily avoided that fate. She
justified attendance on her own.
Her daughter Pamina (Jennifer
Carter) also sang well, though
she was underused in many ways
(take note, Mozart).
The producers of this production did not take the opportunity
to remove some of the more
misogynist and racist aspects of
the opera. This wasn’t a purist
production, the only person in
the audience likely to drop their
monocle in shock over changes
was me, and I’m predisposed
toward monocle-based shock
expressions. The misogyny at
least was defused by the laughter
of the audience (a lyric explaining
that women need to be controlled
by a man lest they overstep their
bounds drew the loudest and most
sustained laughter of the night).
The racism was more resilient, if
less pervasive. What did serve to
lessen it was the casting of a white
man (Shane Glabb) in the role of
Monostatos “the Moor”. Casting a white man in the place of a
black man isn’t usually the route
to solving race issues, but here it
was better than nothing. Monostatos gives a speech explaining
his need to rape Pamina while
she sleeps crediting it to his worship of her whiteness that would
have been difficult to watch with
a person of colour in that role.
Better yet, the scene could have
been excluded, or even not written in the first place (again, take
note Mozart).
Overall, I enjoyed the night,
including as it also did an
extremely prescient description of the next night’s Penn vs.
Diaz UFC fight provided by two
women in their 70’s sitting beside
me.
Triple perspective
Despite claims,
Threespective
artists are unified in
exploration of the past
Divinus C. Caesar
While all three artists showcasing work during Zavitz’s
display of Threespective denied
a unifying theme to their show,
each dealt with approaches to
recording the past.
Patrick Beh’s works revolved
around food, but were characterized by their approach
of preserving the past as nonnegotiable fact. Each piece made
a claim on authenticity, whether
by employing actual preserved
food or photocopies, or through
explanations linking them to
cold fact. A menu full of sketches
and descriptions of everything
Beh had eaten while on a trip
to New York was housed in the
actual menu casing taken from
the restaurant he ate at. Even an
acrylic painting of bacon, eggs,
and toast, which appeared initially out of place, turned out to
be of “the most common food
that was served” during a stay at
Algonquin Park, linking it back
to the factual documentation
and preservation approach.
Mark Ferkul’s pieces used
the written word for comedic purposes, but in a way that
highlighted the unconscious distortion present in written claims
to veracity. His first piece was a
blow up of an office missed call
note, documenting a clearly
joking message regarding lost
virginity: “A lady called – she lost
her virginity in your office, have
you seen it?” This conscious distortion led the mind to thoughts
of the role of memo-writer as
intermediary between recipient
and the event being recorded,
and opened it to explore the
theme of unconscious miscommunication and distortion.
Another
piece
compared
Ferkul and Marcel Proust’s
answers to the same questionnaire, which highlighted the way
in which much written—supposedly factual—documentation
doubles as communication and
signaling about the author. A
third piece, a notepad with
“What are you looking at? Nothing much.” painted across it
seemed meant to continue the
critique of written factualism to
the point of nihilism.
Paul Chartrand was most
upfront in presenting his work as
an exploration of the past, especially by route of memory. His
nature-based pieces explored
magnification and exclusion in
memory, and by placing these
beside a “separate” focus on
psychedelic mushrooms made a
strong link between distortion
by memory and delusion. Three
sketches of the leavings of campers from different locations were
designed to run together in a way
Marianne Pointner
that pointed to the liberties our
mind takes categorizing memories, with edges running off into
white to represent incompleteness and exclusion in memory.
Magnifying glasses throughout
reminded that memory not only
excludes information, but also
magnifies the significance of that
which remains.
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Guelph band drops new album
Lifestory: Monologue
return with Drag Your
White Fur—Make it
Grey
Ryan Turner
Guelph’s
own
Lifestory:
Monologue, a long-running posthardcore experimental group has
made a tremendous and roaring
comeback with their long awaited
full-length album Drag Your
White Fur, Make it Grey.
The blame for the wait can be
partially put on some restructuring issues the band went through
in 2009.
“We had a quite a few songs
written within the year after the
last release, they just never materialized into a full length,” bassist
and singer Jay Reid said. “When
our guitar player Jordan [McLean]
quit in 2009, we had to start this
long, tedious process of trying
people out, seeing if they could
write with us, which set us back
quite a bit.”
“It was just always more important for us to be able to play live
than any other option,” he added.
Within these ten tracks the band
has found that rare space between
artistic integrity and accessibility
that many bands struggle to find
their entire career. Noticeably absent are the
nine-minute opuses, front man
Richard Nuttalls’ previous allusions to never-ending happiness
and former guitar player/singer
Jordan McLean’s cooing and
“aweing” in the band’s choruses.
Instead, the band opts for shorter,
more poignant, and accented
songs which veer closer to pop
territory (note: form, not top 40)
than they ever have before. This
is highly noticeable in the tracks
“Thornberry” and “The Sound
That Love Makes” which adhere to
a basic verse-chorus structure but
still pack an emotional punch akin
to later material by Brand New or
Thrice. The album’s opener “Drag
Your White Fur” is the gentlest
moment on the record but subtly
sets the mood and leads perfectly in
to the second track “Make it Grey.”
The song starts with a Sigur Ros/
Explosions In The Sky type intro,
which then explodes into a heavy,
largo paced, backbeat-laden rock
sequence. The outro eclipses the
song with Reid and Nuttall charging, “isn’t the comfort worth more
than the minister’s words?”
This marks the first time this
group has expressed such a
vulnerability regarding personal religious beliefs and
similar coming-of-age allusions are made throughout
the entire record.
Another highlight is “Candles,” which details what this
band does best; draw the listener in and crescendo with
emotive lyrics and extremely
loud layers of guitar, drums
and keyboard.
Additional praise should be
given to LS:M’s rhythm section, as
the band takes a cue from many
long broken up post-punk groups
(At the Drive-In, Further Seems
Forever) by syncing up the bass
lines and drum patterns for tasty
grooves and large accentuations
that give the whole album a great
sense of feeling and space.
“Lessons,” the album’s closer,
is by far the moodiest and darkest song on the record. It sees the
band lean closer to the realm of
“heavy” music than they ever have
previously.
“[The darker lyrical content]
reflects us getting older, not being
so naïve anymore, and dealing
Chris Payne
Guelph locals Lifestory: Monologue are set to drop their first fulllength album Drag Your White Fur, Make it Grey on November 8.
with the “adult” things,” Reid
said. “The title [of the album] is
kind of a reference to that concept
of growing up and letting go of
your younger self.”
Unfortunately, with the good
comes the bad. As solid as this
album is, there are a couple
tracks that could have benefitted from further pre-production
or revamping. The album has an
extraordinary starting and middle
section but some tracks towards
the end fall flat in comparison.
The album is likely to appeal
to a wide spectrum of listeners,
Reawakening a Sleeping
Beauty
Remixing the remix
Duncan Day-Myron
Mashing up traditional sounds
with big beats is common practice for Guelph-based producer
Andrew McPherson, better recognized as Eccodek, an act that
draws from influences as wide
and reaching as the equator.
That said, his group has taken
a new direction with its live
performance, currently touring Remixtasy, a 14-track remix
album that features the group’s
songs as artistically embellished
by other musical acts, Guelph
got a taste of it at the eBar Oct.
27.
Some might find the challenge
of relearning one’s own songs as
artistically developed by others
to be an incredibly daunting
task, but for McPherson, it just
makes sense.
“People think of a DJ going out
and playing his mixes on a dance
floor. It’s just like, well, why
can’t a live band go out and play
remixes?” he told The Ontarion
the night of his group’s Guelph
performance. “It’s kind of a
weird cerebral exercise”
In order to relearn the tracks,
the group gathered for an initial listening session where they
picked out the tracks on the
album that would work. Afterwards, the individual members
branched off to develop their
own parts. After five rehearsals
For 10 days, beginning on Nov. 14,
the theatre studies department will
be mounting a production titled
Rose, based on the classic fairytale
Sleeping Beauty. Prof. Jerrard
Smith is directing the production,
and spoke with the Ontarion about
his plans for the production.
O: Could you tell me a bit about the
source material you’re working from?
JS: It’s the Sleeping Beauty legend,
story, tale, whatever, and it predates Disney, it predates the
Brothers Grimm, it goes back to
some really old stories from Italy
and France. That source material was taken by a writer, Robert
Coover, who made it into a short
novel called Briar Rose, and it
really deconstructs the whole
story and retells it over and over
again. It’s very cyclical. I’ve taken
that novel and adapted it into a
stage play by adding dialogue,
and by adding images. That’s
basically where it came from.
O: Does it differ a great deal
from what people might know
as the Sleeping Beauty story?
JS: Yes and no. It is the same story.
Girl gets pricked by a spindle, and
falls asleep for 100 years, and is
awakened by a handsome prince,
but that’s about where it stops.
And then there’s a lot of dark
and a lot of erotic overtones to it.
We’re really playing with those.
O: Were there any challenges so
far in adapting this to the stage?
JS: It’s been really fun; we’ve
got a great cast and a great stage
manager. The process has been
going really well. It’s big. It’s a
big build for the production crew
and as usual we’ll be down to
the wire, but I think it’s going
to be great. It’s fun, it’s funny,
and we’ve had a good time putting it together, and I think that
will show when it’s on stage.
O: Did you have any specific
vision? Is it going to be traditional?
JS: No, I wanted some levels. I
wanted some interest. It’s a castle,
but it’s a pretty abstract castle.
Basically, it’s just platforms,
entrances, exits, and we need a
screen for projected images.
O: Is there any of the creative direction led by students?
JS: There’s some. Although I do
design everything, within that
there’s flexibility in terms of interpretation of designs, and I certainly
welcome the students’ input in
production and in the acting class.
It’s been a fairly collaborative
process.
Tom Beedham
and some “remixing of the
remixes” to accommodate some
of the less duplicable complexities of their remixed tracks, the
group arrived at the act they’re
presently touring.
“I just love remix culture” he
said.
The group’s been touring the
present act through Toronto,
Peterborough, and Waterloo
since September, when they
also played a very music busy
Guelph during its annual Jazz
Festival.
“I just
love remix
culture”
– Andrew
McPherson
While the band enjoys opportunities to play club shows,
McPherson revealed that his real
passion is with the summer festival season. Eccodek has played
Hillside three times, and the
group played a massive Canada
Day celebration in London,
England’s Trafalgar Square to a
old and new. There are sure to be
comparisons to other melodic/
experimental/post-hardcore/
ambient bands (Alexisonfire, La
Dispute, Envy) but these comparisons are unfounded and rather
lazy. This band possesses an accessibility and emotive catharsis that
the bands mentioned above have
struggled to find but is evident
from the first note of DYWF,MIG.
Lifestory: Monologue is playing
an upcoming show at the E-bar
with Brighter, Brightest. Check
their Facebook page for more
information.
massive crowd of 5,000 alongside musicians like Dan Mangan,
Jully Black, Hawksley Workman, Sarah Harmer, and The
Canadian Tenors.
McPherson says he’d love
to do a more extensive tour of
Europe.
“I think they get what we’re
doing over there more than
North Americans do. It’s no diss
on North Americans, there’s
just a much broader sense of
multiculturalism over there I
think, or just a longer history of
it,” he said. “It’s nothing to be
speaking a different language
within five hours in a European
country, just driving in any
direction.”
McPherson expressed his
gratitude for the warm reception his project has received.
“We started this thing ten
years ago, and it’s crazy to
think you could do this kind
of weird vibe for a completely
mostly white-bred community
and yet appeal to people’s sense
of globalism for ten years,”
McPherson said. “And people
just keep coming out. Crowds
are younger.”
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The sunshine vitamin
Shorter days mean
less natural access to
vitamin D
Andrea Connell
Of all the vitamins and minerals a body needs for good health,
vitamin D may be the coolest.
Known as the sunshine vitamin,
Vitamin D is the only vitamin
naturally created in the human
body through exposure to sunlight. When the sun’s ultraviolet
rays hit the body, cholesterol in
the skin is converted to natural
vitamin D.
During the summer months it
is easy to expose our bodies to the
sun. Warm weather equals less
clothing and more outdoor activity for longer periods of time.
In June, around the time of the
summer solstice, daylight lasts
for more than 15 hours. However,
for those who don’t go outside
often or keep their bodies protected from the sun, it is more
difficult to manufacture enough
of the vitamin.
Why is vitamin D so important?
According to Health Canada, “the
vitamin is essential for development of strong bones and teeth
by aiding in the absorption of
calcium. Too little can cause a
decrease in calcium and phosphorus levels in the blood. This
leads to calcium being pulled
out of the bones into the bloodstream leaving bones at risk of
becoming weak. Severe vitamin
D deficiencies can cause rickets
(softening of the bones) or osteoporosis (fragile bones).”
The lack of sunlight in Canada
during the winter months impairs
the body’s ability to manufacture
vitamin D and may leave some
wondering if they should supplement their diet. The Health
and Performance Centre’s lead
dietician Lisa Armstrong knows
how necessary vitamin D is for a
healthy diet.
“It is important to include
vitamin D-rich foods into
your diet daily,” said Armstrong. “The advice contained in
Canada’s Food Guide recommends that all individuals over
the age of two consume two
cups (500ml) of milk or fortified soy beverages every day, to
help meet calcium and vitamin D
recommendations.”
Health Canada recommends
adults between the age of 19 and
50 should get a minimum of 600
international units (IU) of vitamin D per day. The Dieticians of
Canada recommends egg yolks,
milk (read the label to see if vitamin D has been added) and fish
as good food sources of vitamin
D. For example, a tin of waterpacked white tuna contains 60 IU
of vitamin D and canned salmon
has 10 times more than that.
Incorporating these foods into
your diet is a simple way to boost
your vitamin D intake over the
winter months. To find out how
much of the sunshine vitamin
is contained in other foods visit
dieticians.ca.
Daylight savings time ends this
weekend meaning the clocks
“fall back” one hour. Although
that much coveted extra hour of
sleep will be welcomed on Saturday night, it also means the sun
will set around 5 p.m. on Sunday
evening.
Winter is coming.
Canadians know the drill – it’ll
be cold and grey. However you
can take action to combat the
lack of sunshine. Take advantage
of the daylight that is available
and get outside for 15-minutes
at lunchtime. Look up at the sun
and smile at the fact your body is
creating its own vitamin D.
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Gryphons volleyball’s sights
set on OUA top three
Duncan Day-Myron
The Gryphons men’s volleyball team played their first two
games of the season at home on
Oct. 28 and 29. The first game
was a victory for the Gryphons,
winning 3-1 against the Ryerson
Rams, while they lost the second
0-3 to the McMaster Marauders.
While the game against Ryerson was the first game of the
regular season, it wasn’t the
Gryphons first game against
Ryerson so far this year. They
played two games at the Ryerson Tournament on Sept. 30 and
Oct. 2.
Unfortunately, they lost both
of these games, but for head
coach Cal Wigston, those games
were more about the opportunity to learn than just to win.
“We played our rookies, and
we didn’t start our regular
lineup all the time,” said Wigston of the preseason games. “We
didn’t want to show them too
much while we were at their
tournament, because we knew
we had them first game.”
With five first years on a
team of just 16, it’s important
to get the players on the court
together.
“Chemistry is very, very
important so for our guys to get
playtime together and touches
together is really good,” said
Wigston. “This year we have
a good crop of rookies. We’ve
got some guys that will make
an impact right away. We’re
starting with five new guys on
the floor this year. It’s always
difficult when you do that
because the chemistry’s not
there yet. It takes a while to
build.”
The first regular season game
against Ryerson was played
mostly by some of the team’s
veteran players, and it showed
in the team’s victory. The Gryphons had a strong start, but
lost it in the second set. They
built up a lead, but lost it at the
10 point mark, keeping the set
almost tied until the end when
Ryerson took it. They made
up for it with the last two sets,
gaining and maintaining their
lead for both sets, eventually
taking the game 3-1.
“That’s something that we’re
really working hard on is getting that lead and playing with
the lead and going for it,” Wigston said of the game.
The team is on the road for
their next few games, before
coming back to play the Queens
Gaels, last year’s OUA silver
medalists, on Nov. 11.
“McMaster,
Western
and
Queens are the three best teams
in the league, and that’s who
[we need] to beat,” said Wigston. “We have the number three
on the back [of our warm-up
t-shirts]. That number three
symbolizes some of the things
that we need to do this year, and
number one is that we want to
finish top three in the OUA. And
we believe that is totally doable”
Rashaad Bhamjee
The 2011 OUA women’s rugby Champions.
rugby CONTINUED
Only at one point in the game
was the home crowd subdued,
when OUA MVP Jacey Murphy
went down.
“I was a little worried obviously, because [Murphy] never
gets injured,” said McAuley. “It’s
always a bit nerve-racking as a
coach to see how the girls will react
and if people will step up or if they
will fall apart. It was really nice to
have a veteran team and they just
stepped up, did their job and filled
in the gaps. It was fantastic.
Five minutes after Murphy went
down McAuley was confident that
“the girls would pull it off.”
Murphy, who sustained a bad
sprain, will hopefully be recovered and ready in time to play in
the CIS championships that begin
this Thursday Nov. 3 at Trent
University.
The Gryphons will compete with
the defending national champions,
St. Francis Xavier, as well as Laval,
Trent and Lethbridge for the highly
coveted national title.
“[The CIS championships] has
a grueling, grueling schedule for
rugby,” said McAuley. “What
we’ve done is we have good depth
this year, which is fantastic. [We]
did a lot of combinations, so that
we can rest people when we need
to and put people in and the level
of play will never go down, which
is pretty rare. Guelph has done a
good job at working hard and just
getting comfortable with everyone
instead of just the people they’re
used to playing beside.”
Even with the tougher competition, McAuley is confident that the
girls will medal again this year, and
possibly better their bronze from
last year’s CIS.
“I think that we have the horses
to do it for sure,” said McAuley.
“We just need to play our game and
concentrate and we control the
pressure.”
Marianne Pointner
Winston Rosser, Conner Cressman and Greg Houston (l-r) helped
lead the Gryphons men’s volleyball team to a victory at their home
opener against the Ryerson Rams.
S u pporti ng the food Why Trick or Eat is more
important than ever
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The numbers are in and once again Guelph remains the number one
contributor for Meal Exchange’s Trick or Eat. University students collected
a whopping $70,498 worth of food donations, and over $6000 in online
donations. The actual mass of the food collected was 35,249 lbs, with the
estimated cost of two dollars per lb.
The total was less than Meal Exchange had originally hoped to
collect, however the decrease could be attributed to the fact that this
year Halloween was on a weekday and many students had night class
while Trick or Eat was taking place. Meal Exchange hopes collection bins
at Zehrs and No Frills will help them top up their numbers. The bins are
new this year, and will be set up until Nov. 3. Participants can expect
an increase in the total of monetary funds raised as Loblaw Companies
Limited has committed to match every dollar donated online.
“I don’t know what it is about Guelph, but we are the epitome of
how student run meal exchanges should work,” said Brittany Skelton,
coordinator of Meal Exchange Guelph. “We’ve been going for so long,
we’re always used as the example for other schools that are starting out.”
Students who registered for Tick or Eat began to assemble at the
UC at 4:30 p.m. to sign in. Approximately 1,100 students participated
in the event, making it the biggest volunteer initiative in Guelph. The U
of G students showed their Halloween spirit and got creative with their
costumes. The UC was filled with all kinds of look-a-likes, from Poseidon to
Pokémon.
After being assigned a Trick or Eating route, students made their way
to a fleet of buses that took them to their respective neighborhoods.
Shopping carts and boxes were set up at the drop-off locations for
students to deposit donations while en-route. By 8 p.m., the shopping
carts were so full many students had to be careful they did not tip them
over while traveling over sidewalks. Trucks driven by volunteers picked up
the shopping carts and food at the end of the night.
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The results for the collection were impressive in more ways than
one: they show how enthusiastic the Guelph community is about the
cause. People who call Guelph their home use Trick or Eat to show their
appreciation for the community.
“I’m really passionate about it because I like that it engages so many
students from different walks of life and the issues of food security,” said
Skelton. “I think it gives them the opportunity just to give back a little bit.
It’s insane the impact that you can have just by volunteering two to three
hours of your time one night a year.”
For Guelph, Trick or Eat is more than just a donation. It is an event that
brings all members of the community together. The majority of the time,
students at the university can live in the “campus bubble”. Trick or Eat is a
way to bridge the gap between students, and the community that makes
their university experience possible.
“Hopefully [we’ll be] informing the residents of Guelph about it,” said
Taylor Campbell, a first year criminal justice student. “Even if you don’t
have anything for it this year, maybe be prepared for it next year. And
giving them an idea of what it’s all about.”
It’s not just the students that are on board­– many of the Guelph staff
and faculty support the event as well.
“One of our teachers as part of our program has a community
engaged learning aspect of the course,” said Caitlyn Brown, a first year BA
student. “Basically she just wants people to get involved, and we thought
that Trick or Eat would be a good way to give back, and well as class
participation.”
Trick or Eat is gaining a life of it’s own, and is transforming the
traditionally spooky holiday into one of giving. Many students mark
Trick or Eat on their calendars and look forward to collecting as much
food as possible, giving back to the community, and of course, the giddy
excitement of Halloween that they probably will never outgrow.
Photos by Marianne Pointner.
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Carlton
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Guelph’s Hunger Count
Trick or Eat may be full of the spirit of giving, however, there is a more
sinister side to this event. There is a reason for such a large push to collect
food donations: the numbers of people using food banks is increasing.
Food Bank of Canada has released in their “Hunger Count” for 2011, that
since the recession in 2008, food bank usage has increased nationally by
26 per cent. Four per cent of people accessing the food bank are students.
The trend has made its way to Guelph, and the CSA Food Bank is
struggling to meet the demand. As of September, the Food Bank had
received as many clients as they had served in the previous year, and the
numbers will most likely go up.
“We’re unsure of the specifics of how the future looks, but I think
we can be certain that demand won’t suddenly go down next year,” said
Laura Simon, CSA Food Bank coordinator. “It is probably reasonable to
expect another increase.”
What is perhaps more disturbing, is that in an attempt to provide
relief for its students the Food Bank has gone through its yearly budget.
“We are unable to keep up with the growth,” said Simon. “As of the
end of September, we’d spent just over $30,000 of our $49,000 budget
and with the forthcoming December rush, it’s conceivable that our
funding could be exhausted by the end of the semester.”
Since the number of students accessing the Food Bank doesn’t seem
to be declining, the CSA has tried to collaborate with other organizations
fighting for food security. That is why this year Meal Exchange is trying to
direct its online donations from Trick or Eat to the CSA Food Bank.
“This is the first year there’s been a push to have a strong partnership,”
said Skelton. “I think what stopped us before is that we focused on the
city food bank because it has the larger demand…But this year I want
to work more in partnership with the CSA because we are a student run
organization, so we can’t ignore the needs of students.”
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However, the agreement between the CSA Food Bank and Meal
Exchange has not been finalized. It has been difficult to arrange the
transfer of funds because the CSA Food Bank is not a registered charity.
It operates independently of the Guelph Food Bank as an extension
of the university and receives substantial support from the portion of
student fees that go towards the CSA Food Bank. This has given the CSA
Food Bank a certain amount of freedom in terms of creating fundraising
projects. However it has also created certain barriers in receiving
donations.
Meal Exchange has been careful to distribute donations from Trick or Eat
equally among its associate organizations.
“I’ve done my best that I’m not trying to cut one out and focus more on
the other,” said Skelton. “I’m just trying to balance where we focus.”
The Guelph Food Bank will still receive all the food donations. If the CSA
does qualify for donations from Meal Exchange, they will receive the online
monetary donations
Although the CSA is grateful for any kind of donation, monetary
donations give them the flexibility to meet the needs of their clientele.
“The tendency, if you collect food specifically, is that you get certain
staples,” says Derek Alton, CSA local affairs commissioner. “You’ll get a ton
of KD. One of the great things about the CSA Food Bank is that, in terms of
food banks, we have really good quality food. We have lots of produce that
people can buy. Which is not common for food banks to have that same
level of produce that we do. The downside is that it’s more expensive.”
The CSA Food Bank is caught in a balancing act: how do they provide
the relief that students need without compromising their health? So far this
year, they have been unable to provide the quality service with the amount
of resources that were adequate for previous years.
“We’re looking into long-term partnerships that can provide some
stability to the Food Bank, Meal Exchange being a perfect example,” said
Simon. “I am hopeful that this relationship will be ongoing.”
The future partnership between the CSA Food Bank and Meal
Exchange is still being established, but the two will likely pair up for upcoming fundraising initiatives. While Trick or Eat is a fun way for students
to experience Halloween, it provides a significant amount of relief to the
Guelph community. Hunger is an ever-growing issue, and Meal Exchange
and the CSA Food Bank hope that the level of involvement and generosity
will continue throughout the year.
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Toronto gives Gryphons a taste of the blues
The Gryphons field
hockey team lost to
the U of T in the OUA
championship game,
settling for silver
Sasha Odesse
After suffering a tough loss to the
University of Toronto in the gold
medal match on Oct. 30 the Gryphons are regrouping for the CIS
Championships in Calgary.
Amid the bitter sweetness of
winning the silver but losing
gold, the team must also prepare themselves for their next
opponent, the Calgary Dinos as
well as prepare their bags for their
flight out only two days after the
OUA Championship game.
“We’re scrambling at the
moment, because we fly out at 7
a.m. [on Nov. 1] so the bus will be
here at 4:30 a.m. and I’ve also got
to pick up exams for players who
need to write them while we are
away,” said head coach Michelle
Turley.
Going into the CIS championship, Toronto will take the top
spot, with UBC second, Calgary
third, Guelph fourth and Alberta
in fifth.
“On Nov. 2 all of the teams get
an hour to practice on the field,
and then the tournament starts
on [Nov. 3]. We play against Calgary first and then Toronto again
in a rematch of the OUA championship,” said Turley.
Their first match should be an
interesting one, as Calgary is an
unknown to the Gryphon team,
who have never played the Dinos
before.
“Sometimes [not knowing
anything about your opponent]
is a good thing because they
don’t know anything about you
either,” said Turley. “We have
a better record then they do
going in, but Calgary has a slight
advantage over us, it being their
home field.”
Adding to the challenge are the
water-based surfaces that the
Dinos play on. As there are no
water-based fields in Ontario,
the experience will be a new one
for some of the players who are
accustomed to playing on turf
grass.
“[On water based surfaces,] the
ball moves that much faster and
you’re skills have to be so tight,
and you have to be very technically sound,” said Turley. “All
we really need to do is carry out
our game plan and that’s what we
failed to do in the game against U
of T.”
The team’s goal to win OUAs
was debunked, but their second
goal, to qualify for the national
championships
is
certainly
coming true in Calgary this week.
“When we go out there we
need to recognize that we have
nothing to lose and hopefully we
turn it around like U of T did last
year– we beat them in the OUA
championships, but they won the
CIS championships,” said Turley.
If there is one thing Turley is
positive about it’s the Gryphons
fate at CIS.
“There is absolutely no doubt
in my mind [that the team will
medal at the CIS Championships],” said Turley. “That’s our
goal, and we’re aiming for gold.”
Marianne Pointner
Gryphons Athletics
The Gryphons Field Hockey team with their OUA silver medals.
Gryphons forward Brittany Siedler fights for ball possession with a
Waterloo Warrior. Siedler received the 2011 OUA player of the Year
award for the third consecutive year.
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Guelph Equestrians tread new ground
The University of
Guelph Equestrian Club
opened its semester
with a Western Ride
Divinus C. Caesar
This past Thursday, Oct. 27, the
University of Guelph Equestrian club (UGEC) held its first
show of the semester. The event
took place at Jake Circle K, a
riding stable owned by Katherine Wilcox just 15 minutes from
campus.
Ten riders were eager to
demonstrate their skills in
Western-style horse riding, and
to mingle with other Guelph
horse enthusiasts.
Western riding is a popular
riding style descended from
Spanish Conquistadors via the
cowboys of the American West,
and has become one of the two
main competitive styles.
“This show was focused on
games of skill,” said organizer
Julia Higginson. “And consisted of four divisions which
tested different aspects of Western riding. It was a Halloween
themed event with ribbons and
Halloween treats.”
Some participants also belong
to the competitive Western
Intercollegiate
Horse
Show
Association, and will be competing this weekend in New
York State. This is the first year
Guelph has sent a Western riding
team, and members took advantage of the opportunity to take
in some more practice before
the event.
UGEC also fields three other
competitive teams that compete in the English discipline in
Ontario and New York State.
A second Western Intraclub
show will be held on Nov. 18 at
Jake Circle K, and the club will
be organizing carpooling for the
event. Higginson is hoping to
spur more interest in the sport
and hopes for new members.
UGEC will also be holding a
Hunter Intraclub Show for English riders the same day at Old
Orchard Farm.
julia Higginson
The University of Guelph Equestrian Club held its first show, a Westernstyle horse riding show, on Oct. 25 at the Jake Circle K stable.
Hockey: just add water
A look at Guelph’s
Underwater Hockey
Club
Chris Muller
Underwater hockey is a game
that situates the sport of hockey
in an unlikely setting. Replace
skates with flippers, helmets
with snorkels, and ice with water
and you’ll end up with one of the
more unconventional sports being
played here at the University of
Guelph.
The Underwater Hockey Club
rents the pool in the athletic centre
on Monday and Thursday nights to
practice and play this very unique
game. The rules of the game loosely
follow those of hockey and soccer.
You use a stick about the size of a
spatula to move the special puck
and referees elect to grant a team
offensive possession as compensation for being on the receiving
end of a foul. Personal fouls result
in two-minute penalties, where
players must be out of the water
for the duration. The net is an aluminum trough with beveled edges
and a goal is scored by sliding the
puck over the edge and into the
trough. The game is not designed
to be overly aggressive, but by
looking at the players’ knuckles,
there’s sufficient room for physical play in the sport.
The club here at the university
consists of about 20 people. This
obscure sport has also made the
world stage with annual international championships.
“We don’t have any ridiculously
high-level people coming out, we
just take people in that are interested in it … and have fun with
it,” said fifth year club leader Liz
Johnston.
She also states that the focus at
most levels of underwater hockey
is having a good time – the competition takes a backseat to just
enjoying the game.
“You’ve got to be weird to
play this game,” she said. An
unconventional game requires
unconventional players.
“We’ve got a lot of characters
here,” she added.
Many of the members of the
club have been a part of it for
their entire university career, and
are convinced that underwater
hockey is here to stay.
The club often travels as far as
Michigan for tournaments and
exhibition games, and visits the
Hamilton Club regularly for additional practice. You can contact
the Underwater Hockey Club
at uwh@uoguelph.ca. They’re
always looking for people of all
ages and varying athletic abilities.
Gryphons Get Best of Badgers in 5-0 Victory
A recap of the
Gryphons men’s
hockey game against
Brock
Justin Nasielski
On Thursday, Oct. 2, the Guelph
Gryphons (2-4) men’s varsity
hockey team were host to the
Brock Badgers (3-4) at the Gryphon Center. The two teams last
met in a preseason game in the
Steel Blade Tournament in St
Catherines where the Badgers
beat the Gryphons by a score of
4-0.
The Guelph Gryphons started
net minder Andrew Loverock
of Elmvale, Ont. Loverock had
33 saves in the Gryphons first
shutout win of the season. Brock
started goaltender Kurt Jory of
Brandon, Man., who allowed
three goals on 19 shots. Jory was
replaced in the third period by
Adrian Volpe of Burlington, who
allowed two goals on just nine
shots.
The Gryphons scored their first
goal of the game on the power
play coming at 9:02 into the first
period when Matt Lyall finished
off a pretty passing play in front of
the net from Andrew Merrett and
Nathan Martine. The game would
remain 1-0 until defenceman Pat
Campbell scored the Gryphons’
second power play marker on a
shot coming from the blue line.
In the third period, the Gryphons took over, dominating the
Badgers by scoring three straight
goals. At 2:53 Pat Campbell scored
his second of the game with an
assist coming from Ed Gale. The
Gryphons scored their fourth goal
of the came coming at 10:06 of the
third period. Philip Teri put the
shot past the Badgers net minder
as he streaked down the left wing
boards. The goal was assisted by
Barrett Brock and Michael McInerney. Guelph would score one
more late in the third period to
put the game away and ensure
the victory for the Gryphons.
Their next home game will take
place Thursday Nov. 3 at 7:30p.m.
at the Gryphon Center.
Brittany Haughton
Whether you’ve played before or not, the U of G Underwater Hockey
Club is always looking for new recruits
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Gryphons soar to gold
Both the men’s
and women’s cross
country team take
home the OUA
championship banners
Sasha Odesse
This year marks the seventh consecutive year that the Gryphons
cross country team has swept the
podium and taken home both
OUA Championship titles. For
the women’s team, this was their
eighth consecutive year, and for
head coach Dave Scott-Thomas,
this was certainly another proud
moment.
“These are really positive teams
and they’re very tough. Coaching
is about a lot of different facets
but it’s surely a lot more peppy
when you’re dealing with people
that are hungry and energetic and
positive all the time, and that was
this group,” said Scott-Thomas.
“[I’m] very proud of them for how
they’ve raced. It was a great view
watching them hoist the trophies
and the banners up again, and
hopefully we’ll keep doing it for a
long time yet.”
On the men’s side, Gryphons
Andrew Nixon and Ross Proudfoot took home the gold and silver
medals respectively, with fellow
Gryphons Alex Genest in fourth
and Aaron Hendrikx in sixth.
Although the women’s team
also finished first as a team, Tamara
Jewett from the University of
Toronto would steal the gold from
Genevieve Lalonde and Andrea
Seccafien who finished with the
silver and bronze medals. Carise
Thompson also of the Gryphons,
placed fifth.
For bronze medalist Seccafien,
this was an important race. Not
only was it a tough run right
down to the last 40 m, with the
bronze medal up for grabs and
three runners in contesting for
it, but as Scott-Thomas said, “[It
been] an interesting journey for
[Seccafien]. Going down to the
NCAA and then not enjoying that
experience and coming back and
having to sit out and rebuild. I
think this was a real validation for
her that she made the right choice
and is in a healthier environment
for her and a place where she can
perform even better then before.”
For the team and for ScottThomas, sweeping the podium is
nothing new, but for Nixon and
Proudfoot this was the first time
medaling at OUAs.
“It was great to see Nixon and
Proudfoot step up ‘cause that’s
the next generation for us. For
them to punch through and go
first and second and then know
we’ve got another two to three
years out of those guys running for the Gryphons is good. It
means we’ve got a quality front
end guys for a few years yet,” said
Scott-Thomas.
The victory, however, doesn’t
mean a rest period for the Gryphons who were back for their
shake-out run the morning after
OUAs. Not you’re typical shakeout run though.
“I mean, shake-out for us­,” said
Scott-Thomas.” The [team was]
doing anywhere from 16-22 km…
just not pushing it very hard.”
“We had a saying at OUAs and
that is the second you cross the
line, recovery starts and preparation for CIS starts. You don’t want
to take away from the moment of
success they’ve just had, but you
also have to respect that there’s a
bigger target two weeks down the
road and that’s the main thing for
us,” said Scott-Thomas.
“We will not take our foot off
the gas. Once [the CIS championships are] done in Quebec City then
we can look back and reflect and
that’ll be a night where they can
stay up and celebrate a little bit if
we pull it off.”
at the game to pump up the
team, they were also there to get
themselves psyched up for their
own championship game as part
of the field hockey team.
“[We] wanted to get pumped
up for our game tomorrow,” said
McLean.
“They’re another successful
team,” “[and we] gotta support
our fellow Gryphons,” added
Gordon and Baxter respectively.
When posed with the question, do you think the women
are going to win tonight? Baxter
replied “looks like they’re doing
pretty good so far, so I’d put my
money on it.”
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the women’s rugby OUA championship match were out in the
cold dressed up in Gryphon gear,
wearing homemade headbands
and Gryph-coloured face paint
to support the women’s rugby
team as they battled for gold.
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Beth’s Craft Corner
17
Weekly Dog
Make your own vinyl
bowl
Beth Purdon-McLellan
For those of you familiar with
second hand shops, you probably
know that almost every rummage
store has a crate of records for you
to flip through. Unfortunately,
I find that the quality of vinyl is
hit or miss, and when it comes to
selection, it’s usually a miss.
However, the good thing about
vinyl is that there is a lot of it
around. More importantly, it is
extremely cheap. For the everyday crafter, it doesn’t matter if the
record is scratched or warped. Next
time you see a box of musty records
sitting at the side of the road, pick
them up if you enjoy making the
crafts from this column. Guaranteed, there will be more vinyl crafts
in the future.
This week: make your own vinyl
bowl. This craft may seem intimidating, but it is actually extremely
easy.
How to make it
Preheat your oven to 150 F. While
you are waiting, place the bowl
upside down on the baking tin
so that the bottom of the bowl is
facing the ceiling
You will need:
An old vinyl
An oven safe bowl
Access to an oven
Oven mitts
A baking sheet or pizza pan
When the oven is heated, place
the record on the bottom of the
bowl. Place the pan, bowl and
record in the oven.
Leave in the oven for five minutes, or until the vinyl is soft.
Marianne Pointner
With the oven mitts, remove the
tray from the oven. Gently press
the vinyl to the sides of the bowl.
You may have to make folds in the
vinyl for it to follow the contours
of the bowl. Make sure you hold
the vinyl in place for a minute or
two while it cools and hardens
into place.
When it’s cool, simply take it
off the bowl, and you have your
very own vinyl bowl.
David Renaud
There’s two kinds of people in the world: those who hide from the
sun in front of a fan or air conditioner, and then there’s this champion
who knows that a summer spent not sitting outside and eating some
watermelon off of a spoon is a summer wasted. Ah, the good old days.
Sex geek: Movember, your prostate and you
Shireen Noble
Before the Halloween parties
have been cleaned up or rotting pumpkins disposed of, men
around the country bid adieu
to their top lips for a month.
No, this isn’t a statement on
personal grooming habits or a
misguided attempt to pull off
the hipster look, but instead a
campaign to raise money and
awareness for prostate cancer.
Ladies and Gentlemen, it’s
Movember.
The way Movember works is
that men can sign up through
their official website (movember.ca) and pledge to grow
their mustaches throughout
the month. In turn, people can
support their efforts financially.
I get that it sounds kind of out
there, but last year alone Canadians raised more than 22-million
dollars to support education and
awareness of prostate cancer,
and to fund research into a cure.
It also serves as a way to educate
men about prostate cancer.
But is prostate cancer actually
a big issue, or is this just a way
to keep lips warm as the temperature drops? Prostate cancer
is definitely a big issue– it’s
estimated that one in seven men
will be afflicted with prostate
cancer. That’s more than 25,000
cases a year. If it’s detected and
treated in the early stages, it’s
90 per cent curable. Unfortunately, it doesn’t always have
many (or any) symptoms in
the early stages, and often isn’t
caught without regular screening. Research shows that men
aren’t always so good about
routine screening, so it can
progress to the later stages relatively undetected. In that case,
the prognosis isn’t as good.
(Bottom line: gentlemen, see
your doctors.)
Anyhow,
in
honour
of
Movember, I’m going to be
focusing on men’s sexuality for
the month of November. And
what better a place to start than
with one of those questions that
I don’t remember ever being
answered in my high school sex
education: what is the prostate
anyway? What does it do?
There’s lots of physiology
we could go into, but basically the prostate (which is
located around the urethra) has
a couple of main functions. One
is that it controls urine flow.
It also produces a fluid that’s
part of a man’s ejaculate. In the
some circumstances where the
prostate needs to be removed
(which might be necessary if
it’s enlarged or in some cases
of cancer), there’s a very high
rate of erectile dysfunction.
Even though doctors can preserve some of the function, the
surgery usually changes a man’s
erectile experience.
Over the past several years,
sex toy companies have also
realized that the prostate is a
source of much sexual pleasure,
and many prostate stimulators have entered the market.
Men can actually orgasm from
prostate stimulation alone, and
stimulators come in varying
sizes and shapes. The leading
comparison out there is that
the prostate orgasm is to men
what the g-spot orgasm is to
women. While it’s not nearly
as widely talked about as prostate cancer, the prostate does
play an important role in men’s
sexual pleasure.
Which brings us back to
Movember. Prostate cancer
is a big deal for men, and
despite some of the disagreeable aesthetics (let’s face it, not
everyone can rock that look)
it’s a novel approach to raising awareness and funds. Check
out movember.ca to support the
cause.
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Potent potables: Everybody let’s take shots
Motiongames, how
do they work?
Duncan Day-Myron
So you’re out with your friends
celebrating, and you want to
have a shot. On TV, they can just
walk up to the bar and ask for “a
round of shots” and bam, there
they are. In real life, there’s
always the follow-up questions,
most importantly, what kind
of shot do you want. If you’re
like me, the decision to drink
an ounce of sweetened highly
flammable liquid isn’t always
something that is preceded by a
lot of forethought. I don’t want
to have to think about this decision, or I’ll probably change my
mind. So here’s a good list of
drinks to know. Most importantly, these are drinks you
can likely order at any bar. You
never want to be that person (or
with that person) who asks for
a frozen bunny nugget or some
other obscure, complicated
shooter they read about on the
Internet, which is supposed to
taste like cereal milk or M&M
Minis or who knows what else.
B-52 A layered shot of coffee
liqueur (such as Kahlúa, Tia
Maria or Bolivar), orange cognac
or liqueur (such as Grand Marnier or Cointreau) and Irish
cream (such Baileys, Carolans or
Panama Jack). The shot separates
into layers due to the different
densities of the ingredients. All
the taste of a flavoured latte, but
with a bit more kick.
Kamikaze Traditionally a lowball
cocktail, a Kamikaze is a mix of
vodka, triple sec and lemon or
lime juice. In a glass, it’s generally served without ice and
drank like a martini. But it’s
short list of ingredients make it
easily transferable to the shot
Marianne Pointner
glass. It is generally equal parts
vodka and triple sec, with a few
drops of lemon or lime juice
squeezed in right before you
drink it. Great option if you
don’t want anything too sweet.
Polar Bear Another sweeter
option for those who are on the
lookout for that. A Polar Bear is
the shot version of the Grasshopper, a bright green cocktail
with origins in New Orleans.
It’s a mix of crème de menthe
and crème de cacao, mint and
chocolate flavoured liqueurs
respectively. Tastes like a Girl
Guide Thin Mint– that is to say
absolutely delicious.
Lemon Drop Either one of the
simples shots or one of the more
involved ones you can order.
Lemon Drops are always based
around vodka shaken with ice,
but the lemon part is variable.
Either the shot glass will be
rimmed with wedge of lemon
and then coated with sugar, like
the rim of a Caesar is with celery
salt, or a lemon wedge will be
dipped in sugar, which you
then bite into after drinking the
vodka. Ice cold is the nicest way
to drink vodka, and the sugar
and the lemon offset the alcohol
burn quite well.
Blow Job One of the most complicated shots to drink, but also
one of the most fun and one of
the most delicious. A Blow Job
is equal parts amaretto and irish
cream, so it is sweet and creamy.
It’s topped with whipped cream,
and the customary way to drink
it is without your hands. Put
them behind your back, lean
forwards, grab it with your
mouth and go to town. It’s not
always pretty, but it’s worth it.
Prairie Fire What you get when
you order a Prairie Fire isn’t set
in stone. It is always a combination of a strong liquor and a
hot sauce. Most places tend to
go for tequila and Tabasco, but
it isn’t out of the ordinary for
some bars to default to American whiskeys like Jack Daniels,
or other, hotter sauces. A Prairie Fire is as much about macho
posturing as anything, but the
combination does tend to work
quite well. A good way to drink
tequila without the rigmarole
of the lemon and salt.
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It wasn’t that long ago that playing
a video game meant sitting back in
your couch with a remote in your
hand, barely moving a muscle other
than the ones in your thumbs. But
as the technology has become more
advanced, it doesn’t need to be that
way any more. All three of the major
consoles on the market today have
options that go beyond, into a more
immersive, active video game, and
each of them work in very different
ways.
The pioneer of these was the
Nintendo Wii, which capture’s
the player’s motion through its
Wiimote. The Wiimote uses a combination of technologies in order to
register player movements, as well
as orienting the controller in space,
including accelerometers and infrared detection. The remote uses an
ADXL330 accelerometer within the
remote itself, which can register
movement on all three axes. This is
combined with an infrared sensor
placed on top of the television,
which has 10 sensors on it which
point in different directions, allowing the position of the remote in
relation to the sensor to be gauged.
The PlayStation Move, a peripheral for the PlayStation 3 console,
uses a specialized remote like the
Wii, but with very different technology. The remote is lit with a
light-emitting diode (LED) and,
through the use of a camera attached
to the console, can be tracked. The
brightness, size and shape are all
invariable, and the camera can use
that information as it films to orient
the controller in three dimensions.
Kinect, the motion-gaming
add-on for the Xbox 360, manages
to allow the player to interact with
the game without any additional
controllers. Like the Wii, a combination infrared sensor– a CMOS
sensor, like many cameras use for
autofocus– and camera is placed on
top of the television. Using both the
data from the camera and from the
infrared sensor, Kinect can track
movement in three dimentions
using a 3-D scanning system called
Light Coding. This allows for gesture
and facial recognition by the software, and allows for movements to
be captured and interpreted in real
time by the game without the need
for any handheld peripherals.
As technology develops, games
get more immersive, and every
major gaming system is jumping
on board. While they’re all heading in the same direction, they’ve
all taken very different methods to
get there.
A different technological mystery
will investigated and explained
each week in “How do they work?”
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19
FASHION Moustache styles for Movember
Jessica Avolio
Movember is the annual event of
growing a moustache to support
and raise funds and awareness
for men’s health. If you are planning on participating this year,
consider your options. There are
a wide variety of different styles
that are far more interesting
than your typical ‘stache. I suggest you read the following and
gather some ideas, and possibly
try one of them out this year in
your journey to support men’s
health.
According to the World Beard
and Moustache Championships,
there are six sub-categories of
moustaches. The first category
is Natural, where the moustache is styled without any
aids. The second is the Mexican, which is big and bushy
and extends 1.5 inches beyond
the end of the upper lip. Next is
the Dali (named after Salvador
Dali), which is long and narrow
and points or curves upwards.
Fourth is the English moustache
which has very long whiskers
that are pulled to either side and
stick straight outwards. Fifth
is the Imperial where whiskers grow from both upper lip
and cheeks and then are curled
upwards. And the final category
is the Freestyle, which classifies
any moustache that doesn’t fall
into the other categories.
Other specific styles of moustaches include the Fu Manchu,
which has long whiskers pointing downwards, and typically
hangs down past the chin. The
Handlebar moustache is bushy
and has small upwards-pointing ends. The Horseshoe, also
known as a biker ‘stache, has
vertical extensions from the
corner of the lips downwards
to the jaw line resembling and
upside-down horseshoe. The
Pencil moustache is straight
and narrow, as if drawn on the
face by a pencil. There is also
the Chevron, which is quite a
popular favourite among older
gentlemen and is wide and thick
and covers the top of the upper
lip. The toothbrush is another
that is thick and shaved to sit in
the centre of the upper lip, and is
most commonly associated with
Hitler who ruined this ‘stache
for every man. The last example
is the Walrus, which is big and
bushy and hangs over the lip.
Maybe you will be inspired by
the endless options for moustache styles and try one out for
yourself. Or maybe you will
take the classic route and keep
things simple. Either way, the
whiskers on your face will make
a statement (good or bad) and
show your personal support for
a good cause.
marianne pointner
Ascot or cravat? Finally
Divinus C. Caesar
Technically, the cravat is a category name which includes
in it the Ascot, the necktie, the bowtie, and even
absurdities such as the band
or atrocities such as the bolo.
Modern usage is not technical
and the cravat has come to refer
to what is otherwise called the
“casual Ascot”, the wearing of
which almost certainly marks
one as a macaroni.
The cravat, as a term, was
born on the battlefields of the
30 Years War, named after the
neck-wrappings worn by Croatian mercenaries. Louis XIII so
loved the efforts of these soldiers
who helped him triumphantly
neither win nor lose the war that
he named the wrapping after
what he assumed their nation
to be called. In its original form,
it resembles a bib or something
a child would dress themselves
in and disappointingly claim
to be a pirate. Today, it is a silk
scarf worn under the shirt, tied
loosely around the neck. Imagine a man in a smoking jacket,
then imagine he’s even more
of an asshole, and you’ll find
yourself picturing him wearing
a cravat.
The Ascot is a short and fat
necktie. Not much more to
it than that. Often the lower
part of it is hidden under a
vest, making it indistinguishable from a regular necktie, its
true identity a delicious secret
known only by its wearer. It’s
named after the Royal Ascot
horse races, where for men it
was required attire, be they
prince or pauper (no paupers
allowed). You won’t be going to
the Royal Ascot races, but Ascot
manufacturers claim it is also
standard for weddings taking
place during the day, worn with
a waistcoat (according to waistcoat manufacturers).
All this is muddied by the practice of referring to the Ascot as a
“dress cravat”, and the casual
Ascot/cravat as a “day Cravat.”
Do not fall into this practice,
and make a point of correcting “friends” who misuse the
terms this way. Further, watch
Charlie Huang
for any situation where you
come across the term “doggy
Cravat.” There are such a bewildering array of doggy neckwear
going under this name that the
term tells us nothing of use
other than that the neckwear in
question is not a collar. Take the
time to intervene in these situations and identify the piece of
doggy clothing with the form of
human neckwear it most closely
resembles, e.g. “doggy bowtie”,
“doggy bolo”, etc.
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w w w. t h e on ta r ion . c om
When it comes to career job search
Wayne Greenway
I had a call the other day from a
young woman who wanted me
to help her to prepare a cover
letter and resume for a position she was very excited about.
As soon as I read the job advertisement and checked out the
company website, I knew she
was in for a disappointment.
Her expectations were far too
high.
As we talked, Mary discovered
she was a little afraid of planning her future. She had always
done extremely well staying
flexible. Her plan was to apply
for interesting positions on line
and in the newspaper. However,
most career experts would say
that using this approach would
make Mary’s chances of finding
her ideal career job slim.
It takes most professionals
about six months engaged in a
highly organized search, on a full
time basis, to find a new career
job. The complex and demanding nature of the task makes the
need for effective career planning extremely important. In
a competitive job market, one
has to be very strategic in their
job search. Most jobs listed on
the web or in the newspaper are
filled almost as they are advertised. One has to tap into “the
hidden job market” - the jobs
that are not posted online or
advertised and usually found by
systematic networking.
In interpreting the results of a
2011 survey conducted for Adecco
Staffing US, Joyce Russell, EVP
and president of Adecco Staffing
US said, “The students who succeed are those who proactively
put themselves out there and
build relationships by networking
with professors, working closely
with university career centers,
actively connecting with alumni,
and capitalizing on real-world
job experience through internships and temporary work.”
These processes are impossible
to achieve without a well thought
out career plan.
Getting a start on a career plan
involves knowing your strengths,
areas you need to develop, your
values and the kind of environment where you will be
successful. It is about finding
those unique areas where your
career passion and your strengths
intersect.
If you, like Mary, have avoided
this kind planning, ease into it by
thinking of other aspects of one’s
life where similar kinds of planning seem routine. For example,
many would think nothing of
planning a canoe trip or finding
out how to get to a friend’s house
in another city. Career planning
is just a more complex version
of the same process. Look for the
end-point and work backwards.
to Toronto can be understood as
an attempt to translate the creative, heterogeneous spirit of an art
project like Tuyen’s into a political
process.
On the other hand, mainstream
analysis of the Occupy Together
movement has been marked by a
dramatic albeit predictable failure
of the imagination. Mainstream
media has criticized the movement’s decision-making processes
for being “disorganized,” or identified its absence of hierarchical
leadership as a weakness, when its
openness and comparative inclusivity are among the major reasons
for the brisk rise of its popularity. In an important article on the
movement’s relation to race and
the occupation of Indigenous
land, Harsha Walia argues that, as
opposed to characterizing Occupy
Wall Street and its antecedents as
a leaderless movement, “it might
be more honest to suggest that We
Are All Leaders.” This idea, that
the power to make choices about
how people live can and should be
more widely distributed than it is
at present, is beyond the comprehension of the pundit class.
Witness
the
commonplace
argument, put forth for example
by The Star’s Chantal Hébert, that
the Canadian flank of Occupy
Together had its chance to affect
political change during the multiple elections that have taken place
in the last year and therefore ought
not to exist. Among the more
glaring weaknesses in Hébert’s
article is her assertion that those in
the movement opted not to vote, a
claim she supports by noting that
many in the movement are young
and that many young people do
not vote. But she offers no evidence that those participating in
the occupations belong to the segment of youth who did not vote
nor does she give more than cursory consideration to the many
reasons one might abstain from
voting. Hébert also posits that the
entire movement rejects any and
all engagement with current legislative mechanisms even though
this issue is being fiercely debated
within Occupy Together. And
she makes the highly debatable
assumption that one cannot work
for short-term improvements
within existing structures while
simultaneously working outside of
them to create their replacement.
What’s most striking, however, is
the underlying presumption she
gives away in her comment on
the NDP’s upcoming leadership
vote: “For anyone who cares to
do so, having a say in the selection
of the next federal leader of the
official Opposition is only a membership card away. Little could
more change the internal dynamics of a party and its policy choices
than a massive injection of new
members.” According to the intellectual rules governing Hébert’s
analysis, it is inconceivable that a
political movement might long for
more than (the perhaps impossible
goal of) making the current parties
more responsive to the broader
population, that many may desire
to fundamentally alter the way in
which decisions are made about
how their resources are used, what
service they provide to whom and
under which conditions, what
they produce and how these goods
are distributed. Such a politics is
one Hébert and others in the pundit-ocracy are either unwilling or
unable to imagine.
Consider also the oft-made criticism that Occupy Together has yet
to provide a viable alternative to
the existing system. Commentators arguing that the movement
offers no solutions badly overstate their claim. Those desperate
for proposals that can plausibly
be realized in the short-run can
find them in criticisms of the way
today’s world works. When, for
example, someone in the movement complains that RBC funds
the Alberta Tar Sands, the solution is implicit: stop funding the
Tar Sands. A longer view, a more
visionary one, being put forth by
many in Occupy Together is that
“the process is the message.” This
is to say that the decentralized,
direct approach to decision-making adopted at the movement’s
general assemblies could offer a far
more equitable approach to determining how we ought to relate to
the planet and to each other than
the way such questions are currently settled. To the makers of
official opinion, however, this is
the stuff of fantasy, as their European equivalents centuries ago said
about those who thought hereditary monarchy could be improved
upon.
It is true, of course, that Occupy
Together has not offered a concise,
five or ten point plan for how to
change the world. In part this is
because the movement is dynamic
and shaped by a plurality of voices
and because its participants recognize that resolving multifaceted
social problems in a truly participatory manner is necessarily a
complicated process—as it happens, sound-bite discourse is
among those features of our politics
which Occupy Together wishes to
discard. So this is another instance
of elite opinion misidentifying one
of the movement’s strengths as a
weakness.
None of this is to predict that
Occupy Together will necessarily
succeed in making any changes to
the existing political-economic
system, let alone at building
another one. This movement is still
in its infancy. To have a chance to
succeed, Occupy Together should
continue to experiment with a new
political language, perhaps even
new categories of thinking. For
those as yet unsatisfied with the
movement’s relative lack of specific proposals, keep in mind that,
as Tuyen says about her art, Occypy
Together is thus far a “gathering of
voices and longings that summed
themselves up into a kind of language, yet indescribable.”
Occupy together
The language of
longing
Greg Shupak
Early in the occupation of Wall
Street, David Graeber characterized it as a re-awakening of the
radical imagination. One way to
conceptualize the imaginative
dimension of the Occupy Together
movement is to think of it as analogous to an art project undertaken
in Dionne Brand’s 2005 novel,
What We All Long For. Tuyen, one
of the main characters in the book,
goes around asking Torontonians
what they “long for” and these are
then transcribed in various languages onto a piece of cloth that
becomes part of an installation.
Occupations of financial districts
from Madrid to New York to Tokyo
This article originally appeared
on this.org
Greg Shupak is a writer, an activist and a sessional instructor at
the University of Guelph.
editorial
1 66.9 ◆ november 3r d – 9t h, 2011
Motivations for moustaches
We are on the cusp of the eleventh month of the year twenty
hundred and eleven.
Newsprint copy writing convention says that year should
have been written out for you in
Arabic numerals, but I spelled it
out.
In Canadian tradition, the
advent of the eleventh month of
our calendar year has long meant
one phenomenal certainty, and
that is the widespread adornment of red poppies—a symbol
perpetuated in remembrance
for fallen soldiers that fought for
things often taken for granted.
This tradition is so deeply
respected that our culture has
adopted protocols for dealing
with situations such as those
experienced by poppy pins that
have fallen from their lapelgranted grace only to be trodden
below our feet on sidewalks and
other lowly territories.
There is an unwritten law
that says we are to treat such
fallen replica flowers in a similar
manner as we would our ground
brushing country flags. These
disgraced decorations should
be seized up and discarded like
dead batteries: they no longer
function in fueling our urge to
display our respect.
There are even circles so dedicated to this respect symbol that
they debate when and how long
it is appropriate to decorate oneself with a poppy, lest the origin
and the meaning of the symbol
should be lost to obscurity.
In the year twenty hundred
and eleven, there is another phenomenon certain to be expected
of the Canadian November.
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Marianne Pointner
The Movember moustache
began spreading its earnest
handlebar tentacles in Australia
and New Zealand in 1999 when
its founders—a group of Adelaide, Australia men—thought of
growing out their crumb catchers for the month of November
in order to simultaneously raise
research money and awareness
for the treatment of men’s health
issues like prostate cancer. In
recognition of the cause, dusters have been brushing across
Canada as well as Cyprus, Czech
Republic, Denmark, Greece,
Israel, South Africa, Spain, the
United Kingdom, and the United
States since 2007.
Last year, Canada’s Movember
funds topped those of all other
countries—including Australia—
bringing in $19,169,908, with
118,630 men taking part.
But in the year twenty hundred and eleven, the phrase
“Movember” might not always
be invoked to refer to a movement about prostate cancer
awareness.
Let’s face it: the moustache
hasn’t been a culturally fashionable facial accessory since Tom
Selleck was a relevant actor, and
even that’s up for debate. His
monumental ‘stache is now celebrated on blogs and Tumblrs for
what’s recognized as an ironic
presence in a world that has for
the most part turned its back on
upper lip bristle.
Despite the lip tickler’s lacking popularity, the past few
Novembers have seen increasing amounts of people citing
Movember as motivation for
growing
moustaches,
often
unbeknownst of the intended
significance
behind
the
movement.
It is entirely valid that such
activity can be recognized as
beneficial to the authentic
Movember cause in that it augments the movement’s buzz.
That said, it would be regrettable if the potential detriments
of such vacant claims went
unchecked.
Call these instances of vanity
projects or weak attempts at
irony, but the bro mo’ is losing
its meaning.
Going back to my refusal
to observe copy etiquette, I’ll
concede that I should have
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taking intentional transgressive
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taking transgressive measures.
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Alternatively, cancer awareness is. Prostate Cancer Canada
estimates that 25,500 men will
be diagnosed with prostate
cancer this year, not including cases that go undiagnosed
due to failure to attend annual
check-ups.
Movember borrows its function from the fact that moustache
cultivation is not common practice. When the citation of the
original movement is invoked
without reference to its specific
aims, its intended meaning suffers dilution.
Let’s make an effort to inquire
about and perpetuate the original meanings of symbols, lest we
forget.
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42- A mouse!
43- Philosopher Kierkegaard
44- Female sovereign
45- Bad review
46- Greek God of Shepperd’s and
Flocks
48- Operatic soprano
51- Affirmative vote
52- Rectangular gem
54- Stage plays
59- Dutch cheese
60- Biblical verb
62- Author Calvino
63- Commedia dell’___
64- A shivering fit - often a precursor to malaria
65- Ridge
66- Ticked (off)
67- Singer Sedaka
68- A Turkic ethnic group
Down
22- An amorous glance
24- Tolkien ogre
26- Ring of color
27- Finery
31- Agent
32- Mature
33- Difficult question
36- Sticky stuff
39- Basic currency of Papua New
Guinea
40- Gem
41- Injure
Across
1- ___ Grows in Brooklyn (2)
6- License plates
10- Actress Turner
14- Drunken
15- Oil-rich nation
16- Farm team
17- Grammarian’s concern
18- American legal rights org.
19- Legal claim
20- Pulsates
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1- Adjoin
2- New Age musician John
3- Back
4- As a result
5- Piece of hardware with a ringshaped head
6- Acapulco aunt
7- Sacramento’s ___ Arena
8- Hood-shaped anatomical part
9- Arboreal bushy-tailed rodent
10- Move with a bounding
motion
11- Like some symmetry
Last Week's Solution
12- ___ lift? (2)
13- Actress Heche
21- Hindu honorific
23- Lecherous look
25- Escapade
27- Leaf tool
28- Actress McClurg
29- Greasy residue
30- According to
34- Be in debt
35- Actress Berger
36- Greek goddess of
the earth
37- City near Provo
38- Old Dodge model
40- Variety of red apple
41- Attila, e.g.
43- Ad word
44- One who questions
45- Like Yankee Doodle’s cap
47- Barrett of Pink Floyd
48- Nucleus of a regiment
49- Playing marble
50- Phase
52- Defeat
53- Sewing case
55- ___ boy!
56- Trading center
57- Inter ___; amoung other
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58- Fly
61- Norse goddess
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Thursday November 3
Thursday At Noon Concert Series.
♫♫ “celebrating over 40 years
of music making” ♫♫. Concerts
start at 12:00p.m. Thursdays in
Mackinnon room 107 (Goldschmidt room). Admission free
– donations gratefully appreciated. Everyone welcome!
Friday November 4
UofG is participating in the “Get
Swabbed!” National University
Challenge. With only the swab of
your cheek, you could be the one
match that saves a life. 8am-8pm
in the UC Courtyard.
The Festival of Moving Media
presents two films at Ed Video
Media Arts Centre. 7pm - ‘Roadsworth: Crossing The Line’ and
9pm - ‘Abel Raises Cain’. Tickets $8, at door only. The Festival
of Moving Media takes place Nov.
3-6. www.festivalofmovingmedia.ca
Saturday November 5
Opening Reception of “Beyond
Landscape”:
Clive
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Free admission. Exhibit runs
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Monday November 7
“The Struggle for Human Rights
and Citizenship in Iran: the Case of
the Baha’i Minority” a public talk
with Geoffrey Cameron, M.Phil.
5:30pm in MACK 232.
Service at 9-9:20am with the
Royal Canadian Legion, Colonel
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234. John McCrae Public School
Remembrance Assembly at 10:3011:30am. McCrae House open
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Invisible Children Documentary.
Invisible children works to stop
children being forced to be soldiers
in Uganda. Come to a screening
of their documentary, “Tony” in
War Memorial Hall. Members from
Invisible Children will be there to
speak. Admission free, screening
begins at 7pm.
Friday November 11
Remembrance Day Acitivities at
McCrae House. Remembrance
Saturday November 12
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre
- Beyond the Frame Art Auction
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Gourmet Food at 5:30pm. Live Art
Auction at 7pm: Featuring a stunning selection of over 45 works by
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