Chronicle 35 14 Mar 2009 - Digilog at UOIT and DC - DC-UOIT

VOLUME XXXV, Issue 14
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Open house at UOIT
By Sarah Manns
Chronicle Staff
Photo by Robyn DePratto
REVIVAL SKILLS: Paramedic students Brian Matteson (left) and Matt Groulx compete to represent
the school at the national paramedic competition.
The hallways were crowded at
the University Of Ontario Institute
Of Technology open house on Feb.
28.
“It’s a chance for students who
are looking into UOIT to learn
about the programs, clubs and services that are offered,” said Andrea
Brown, admissions and recruitment officer for UOIT.
The event included information sessions on various programs,
which included a presentation by
the dean of a program. Students
and parents were given some
more information on the program
of interest and had the chance to
ask any questions, or state concerns.
There were tours, so everyone
could see all the facilities of the
school, as well as a pizza lunch.
There were various booths set
up, where students and parents
could ask questions regarding the
various programs, or activities and
clubs that students can become
part of, such as the rowing team.
UOIT T-shirts were also handed out.
According to Brown, the event
was a huge success.
“We had over 2,000 people attend. We had a huge team of ambassadors helping out; they are
Photo by Matt Bird
SKELETOR: Von Ramiro, a third-year science student,
smiles as he helps out at the UOIT open house.
New policy for
whistleblowers Region could say no
See UOIT page 2
By Matt Bird
Chronicle Staff
Ne’er-do-well’s beware: your
kind will no longer be tolerated at
Durham College.
A new whistle blower policy at
Durham will allow students and
staff to file complaints against
other members of the community
engaging in misconduct.
The policy was approved during a joint meeting of Durham and
UOIT’s board of governors. UOIT
has a similar policy already in
place, and the two are expected to
complement one another.
“This policy will help keep us
consistent with other colleges in
Ontario,” said Durham president
Don Lovisa.
“People with complaints have
a number of options,” said Lovisa.
“They’re made through my office
and can be made either anonymously or openly. We can make
assurances of privacy.”
He added that any grievances
directed at the president’s office itself should instead go through the
board of governors.
“These are not operating level
issues that would go through a student liaison,” said Lovisa. “These
complaints should be made up of
significant, inappropriate actions
and decisions on the part of members of the community.”
According to the policy, these
actions may include criminal offences, mismanagement of college or public funds and anything
endangering the health of the public or the environment.
Complaints and disclosures
may be directed to the president
or the chair of the board of governors in either a sealed envelope or
by email. Requests for meetings to
discuss the matter are acceptable.
Full details of the policy are available on the Durham College website.
to student building
By Edith Zikmann
Chronicle Staff
Dundurn’s multi residential
student building on Simcoe and
Niagara might not be built after
the developer’s request for tax
breaks was rejected at the first
open-door housing task force
meeting at Oshawa city hall
March 4.
In June council approved an
application from Dundurn Edge
Developments Inc. to build a
multi-unit residence at the corner of Simcoe Street and Niagara
Drive.
Set to open in 2010, the Dundurn project would have housed
more than 500 students.
Carlo Di Gioacchino said his
company, Dundurn, has asked
Durham Region for a deferral on
development charges totaling
to about $1.48 million over five
years.
Although the development
charges would be repaid with
interest, Di Gioacchino’s request
was rejected.
Di Gioacchino said at the
meeting that Dundurn is having
trouble arranging financing for
the village because of the economy.
The multi-unit student building was to be a pedestrian-oriented community with cafes and
restaurants.
The project will cost about
$27 million.
“I would like to get this done,
it’s been ongoing for three years,”
said Councillor John Henry, who
sits on the task force.
“We need to find a resolution.”
Regional council will consider
the matter at a meeting on March
11.
Henry remains optimistic for
students and hopes they can get
closer to finding a solution at the
March 11 meeting.
“Next week will be a big start
of that… it will allow us to bring in
more people that will look at the
university for what it is: an opportunity to build something new
that is different and will make
this city great again,” he said.
“The university is the next automotive industry of Oshawa.”
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March 10, 2009
CAMPUS NEWS
Talent with an eastern flair
By Jaspinder k Jassal
Chronicle Staff
For the third year in a row the
Indian Student Association held
the largest, brightest and most
colourful South Asian culture
show, South Asia’s Got Talent.
The event was held during Durham College reading week, Feb. 24
from 5 p.m. until 7 p.m.
The event was bigger then ever,
with UOIT having a larger population of South Asian students this
year.
The culture show allows all students, whether they are of south
Asian background or not, to showcase their talents.
“You do not have to be south
Asian, but you have to be able to
highlight the culture with whatever you decide to perform,” said
Nicole Sarvaria, president of the
ISA.
Performers for the show were
included based on their relevance
to the South Asian cultural talent.
It would also allow them to express themselves culturally.
The show included performances such as Bollywood dancing both classical and modern,
singing, and students playing instruments such as guitars and the
dhol (double sided barrel drum). It
also included a fashion show that
focused on traditional clothing
from all south Asian regions.
“This year we aimed to have
shorter performances that would
be attention grabbing and showcase the campuses brightest most
colourful South Asian talents,” said
Sarvaria.
As the event was held during
reading week as well as UOIT’s
busy midterm period, there were
some hardships faced by the ISA.
“There were many students that
were unable to perform their cultural acts,” said Sarvaria
This led to a small number of
acts being able to perform, but of
which were still strongly representative of the South Asian culture.
“Compared to last year, we were
better able to exhibit the diverse
south Asian culture that resides on
our campus,” said Sarvaria.
Sarvaria made sure to involve
first-year students. That way they
are better aware of what the campus has to offer.
First-year student Kamaldeep
Mudhar, who is also a member of
the ISA, was asked to be one of the
four emcees this year.
“Nicole had asked and I accepted,” said Mudhar.
Mudhar said he was nervous in
the beginning but managed to get
over it.
“I would definitely emcee at
the culture show at UOIT again, if
asked,” added Mudhar.
Even faced with hardships, Sarvaria and her team pulled off an
amazing show.
She said that she would host
the event at a more suitable time
next year, were there are no conflicts with student academic commitments (midterms).
“We would also like to include
more first-year students from all
three institutes on our campuses,
in years to come,” said Sarvaria.
Sarvaria has a lot of exciting
things planned for next year and
hopes it will be a hit. “ISA will be
planning a South Asian cultural
awareness week, where we will be
showcasing food and the nation
itself, as well as holding info sessions, in which we would educate
the student body on our culture,”
said Sarvaria.
The show definitely attracted
a lot of students. Furrukh Zaman
a student at UOIT, thoroughly enjoyed the event; he has been attending every year.
“The Culture Show was an excellent display of South Asia - its
pride, heritage, and culture. This
year’s show was shorter than
those of years past, but it certainly
achieved its goal of sharing the
richness of South Asian culture to
both South Asians and non-South
Asians,” said Zaman. If you’re interested, contact Sarvaria at isa.
dcuoit@gmail.com.
Photo by Jaspinder Jassal
BOLLYWOOD FUSION: UOIT student Divya Oommen Kakuzhyil performs a mix of
classical and modern cultural dancing.
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UOIT open
house attracts
new applicants
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kind of the face of the event,
as well as the support of lots of
faculty and staff. It was a very
well-done event.”
For one student it’s following
in his mother’s footsteps.
“I am looking into taking
Continuing Education. I came
here to look around. The architecture is really cool. Plus my
mom’s a graduate from here,”
said potential student Taylor Ellis.
His mom was very supportive of his decision. “I love it here.
I took a course her last year,
and it’s a really neat place,” said
Heather Ellis.
Others like the fact that the
school is close to home.
“The school is close to my
house, and I don’t want to live
in residence,” said Krista Herrington, potential student. “I
also heard really good reviews
about it.”
According to Brown, the
open houses have been held for
quite some time. “We do the
open houses twice a year, fall
and winter,” she said. “We have
done it since 2003, even before
UOIT opened.”
Brown said the event is ongoing and they are always planning for the next one. “The open
house grows according to how
UOIT grows,” she said. “We always have more applicants every year.”
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CAMPUS NEWS
March 10, 2009
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SA Chat Box gets silenced
By Jonnel Briscoe
Chronicle Staff
The SA Chat Box was supposed to allow
students to voice their opinions in a constructive manner, but some students used it
as a way to personally attack president Amy
England.
The Chat Box was taken down for the
second time because an anonymous stu-
dent used it as a means to insult England.
This isn’t the first time this has happened.
Last semester there were other comments,
also targeted at her.
England said it is likely that the Chat Box
won’t be up again unless they can find a way
to prevent this from happening.
Though the comments were demeaning,
England doesn’t feel bad for herself at all.
“I don’t feel sorry for me, but for the peo-
ple who have to read it,” she said.
She also stated that there is a student
who is afraid to run for president because of
what people will say about her. She had an
eating disorder and she is afraid it will send
her back into a “tail spin.”
The Women’s Centre is available to anyone who feels they need someone to talk to
in any situations, such as this one.
There is peer support and if adequate as-
sistance isn’t available you can be referred
to other community support workers.
The Chat Box was supposed to be for
freedom of speech in a tactful manner, said
England.
One of the comments made reference to
her weight.
“How is it acceptable for the first woman president to be made fun of about her
weight?” she asked.
Jonnel Briscoe asks...
How do you feel about the comments made about the SA president and
do you think, today, women in higher power are as respected as men?
Candice Neblett
2nd year Multimedia Design
Durham College
Oliver Fernandez
Personal Trainer
Durham College/ UOIT
“Women in power are frequently more
“People don’t need to get insulting.
attacked than men. And women don’t re- There’s ways of saying something crititaliate when those comments are made, cally. The role of women in general has
they just let it slide.”
been elevated and the fact that they are
women or not they are respected.”
Lindsay Percival
Lisa Dwomoh
English
Trent at Oshawa
“They took advantage of the Chat
Box. Those comments were unnecessary. I still think men think they are more
superior than women.”
3rd year Nursing
Durham College
“The comment was ignorant and rude.
I don’t think we are as respected but we
are slowly getting up there. It’s like saying we will never have a black president.
We will eventually get there.”
Solving Monroe’s death
By Asmahan Garrib
Chronicle Staff
Marilyn Monroe’s death may
still be a mystery, but Durham College’s educational developers are
up for the challenge of solving it.
As part of a pre-conference
session for the Educational Developers Caucus annual winter
conference, members of Durham
College’s Innovation Centre set up
a murder mystery to demonstrate
tools and techniques available to
curriculum developers.
“Marilyn Monroe’s death was
something lots of people know
about and it was easy to find information on,” said Ruth Rodgers,
teaching and learning specialist
in Durham College’s Innovation
Centre. “The murder mystery was
a vehicle for allowing educational
developers time to play with these
new technologies in a low-risk environment and have fun.”
Monroe’s death investigation
allowed participants to use the
web-based 3-D world Second Life,
timeline software and Creative
Video to gain information, Google
Docs, a free web-based word processor and spreadsheet, which
allows users to share and collaborate online.
“The final capper of the murder
mystery was in the simulation lab,”
said Chris Hinton, director of the
Innovation Centre. “We dressed
a simulation dummy like Marilyn
Monroe, lying in a bed dying, with
pills on one side and a martini glass
on the other. On her deathbed she
was able to give us more clues.
Using the information participants uncovered, they came up
with a hypothesis on what they
think happened, results which
they will share with others using
Google Docs.
“Good learning is hands-on,
active learning,” said Hinton. We
could have demonstrated these
technologies, but that would have
been a really dull day. Instead we
put them in the role of the learner
to help them experience the anxiety of the learner.”
Durham College hosted the
event on campus from Feb. 23
to 25, bringing together 102 educational developers from across
Canada.
The three-day conference, consisting of two pre-conference sessions, keynote speakers, poster
presentations and workshops,
shared tools and techniques to
maximize learning with faculty
and curriculum developers.
This year marked the first time
in EDC’s five-year history that a
college hosted the conference
without the partnership of a university.
“Durham College proved that
we have the resources, willpower
and desire to do it without a university,” said Hinton. “It gave us a
chance to showcase Oshawa and
our facilities. It helped put us on
the map and show what we have
to offer here.”
Every year educational developers gather to learn and discuss
new tools, strategies and technologies to facilitate learning. It also
provides an opportunity to share
knowledge, best practices, profile
development and discuss emerging issues.
Quality took centre stage as the
main topic of the conference, focusing on how to know if practices
are affecting the quality of education and how to measure the effects of the practices.
“Change management is what
we do,” said Hinton. “Technology
is changing, industry is changing,
students are different now than
they were five or 10 years ago. We
help people cope with change in
their profession.”
Student satisfaction surveys
and educator interviews are some
of the tools that help educational
developers measure the effectiveness of the tools and techniques
they implement.
“We help negotiate the change
and build the skills that faculty
need,” said Rodgers.
In two pre-conference sessions,
Photo by Asmahan Garrib
EDUCATORS GET EDUCATED: Ruth Rodgers shows off
the Education Developers Caucus’ new logo.
Durham College’s educational developers created fun activities to
demonstrate the changing tools
available to teachers.
Investigating Marilyn Monroe’s
death proved to be a fun and interactive vehicle to show participants
how useful new technology can
be.
The conference itself explored
methods to be a better education-
al developer, curriculum change,
how to use research to gather and
improve teaching and learning
and providing different strategies,
tips and tricks.
“The fact that you have 100 people from across the country coming to one place, shows the commitment for professors to teach
and grow on a continual basis,”
said Hinton.
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DITORIAL
Healthy eating: our responsibility
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“Stay active. Eat like a champion.”
This is the slogan for Nutrition Month®
held this March by the Dietitians of Canada.
For 27 years, a month has been dedicated
to promoting health and wellbeing for Canadians. This March the focus is directed
towards nourishing active lifestyles.
Is there a lifestyle more active than the
average students? After balancing classes,
assignments and studying, most students
have a host of other responsibilities from
jobs to family and friends to extracurricular
activities.
So many of us shove too much into too
few hours, get too little sleep and fuel our
bodies with highly processed fast foods and
energy drinks. We get caffeine addictions,
flu bugs that we just can’t seem to kick,
and weight fluctuations dependent on pub
specials and dollar beers. Many of us consider drunkenly swaying to the club’s hottest
beats, or running across campus to catch
the bus, our exercise for the week.
It’s no wonder that a survey published
in 2002 by the Journal of American College
Health found that 59 per cent of students
gain weight during their first year of postsecondary education.
We don’t treat our bodies the best and
yet we expect them to rebound quickly from
our punishment and carry us through the
next 50 years.
Many of us point our fingers at others
when it comes to poor nutritional choices.
On campus, that blame gets placed on
Chartwells dining services, albeit unfairly.
Truthfully, we have no one to blame but
ourselves for our poor choices. If one strolls
around campus on the hunt for a healthy
meal, Chartwells has done their part.
Chartwells understands that students
eat fast and work hard. They also realize
their duty is not only to provide healthy
options, but also to make nutritional literature available to hungry minds. Canadian
Food Guides and Nutrigrams, information
on popular nutrition topics, are available at
both the university and college cafeterias.
It’s easy to accuse Chartwells of simply
pushing the cheaper, quicker fast food options. After all, pizza slices, cheeseburgers
and French fries do dominant the cafeterias.
But if you look just a little closer, there are
plenty of healthy alternatives. There’s yogurt,
fresh fruit and salads. There’s the option to
substitute vegetable sticks, a salad or baked
potato for fries in meal combos.
Chartwells’ Balanced Choices program
ensures that healthy selections are made
available, visible and well promoted.
A glance around the cafeteria will show
the symbol on everything from sandwiches,
snacks and vending selections. It’s just as
simple to grab a bottle of water as it is a bottle
of pop, crunch on trail mix instead of chips,
or scarf down a sub rather than a burger. It’s
not hard to ask for no mayonnaise, choose
whole wheat instead of white bread, or deny
super size suggestions.
Chartwells has to continue to come up
with varied healthy options, and make them
as reasonably priced and accessible as
other fast foods, but it’s our responsibility to
choose them.
After all, according to a recent Dietitians
of Canada survey, 85 per cent of Canadians
admit their eating habits could use some improvement. That improvement can’t come
solely from putting healthful food on the
menu, but by making a conscious choice to
eat nutritiously.
So, this Nutrition Month®, feed your active student lifestyle and bypass the junk for
the healthier choices.
Amanda Allison
Think before you tip: your server depends on it
Dining out is one of my favourite things
to do. I love good food, good drinks and
good company. But until I recently started
working in the restaurant industry, I was
never really phased by how much of a tip I
left to the server, the one who was making
my experience an enjoyable one. Now, I
have learned how gratuity works and think
that everyone who dines out should know
the following facts.
The minimum wage in Ontario is $8.75,
but servers make $7.60 per hour, and there
is no law requiring restaurants to give servers regular raises.
So the seasoned server at your favourite place to eat out who knows your name
and drink off by heart does deserve a little
extra tip. $7.60 is on the high end of hourly
wages, thanks to the Ontario government.
In Michigan, the server minimum wage is
$2.65 an hour, and server hourly wages in
the states fall between $2 - $3.
While servers in Ontario do earn a decent hourly wage, scheduled hours aren’t
consistent.
Most server’s schedules only provide
start times. So when the server starts at
five, they go home when the restaurant is
Melissa
Bies
no longer busy, at management’s discretion. I’ve worked shifts as short at 45 minutes, and seen colleagues work less.
With the slow time of year (post-Christmas) and the economy seeing fewer and
fewer people choosing to dine out, average shift lengths are between two and four
hours (at least an hour of which is spent
completing cleaning duties, not serving tables). At $7.60 an hour, that doesn’t add up
to a very hefty bi-weekly paycheck.It’s the
gratuity that each diner chooses to leave on
the table that really gives servers income.
But another thing most diners don’t realize
is that servers usually share their tips.
At my restaurant, servers pay back three
per cent of what they sell on their shifts to
be distributed among kitchen staff, food
runners, hosts and hostesses. (For example, on a $50 bill, $1.50 is paid back). Three
per cent is a relatively average number for
the ‘tip out,’ as it is called, but I’ve heard of
some as low as two and as high as eight.
I agree this practice with since working
at a restaurant is truly a team effort, but no
matter how much gratuity is left, the server
still has to pay tip out. Which means, the
server has to pay for it out of his or her
pocket if no tip is left.
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A way to make bad situations better for
everyone is by asking to speak to a manager. Their job is to fix the situation, and
they will also probably discount your bill.
That way, you can still leave a few bucks for
your server so they don’t have to pay the
tip out on your bill, and your situation gets
rectified. It’s a win-win.
If you receive fantastic, personal and
timely service, allow your tip to reflect that.
In Canada the expected tip is 10-15 per
cent, but from the server’s perspective, 20
per cent says ‘I had a good experience, you
did your job well, and I’ll be coming back.’
This is the kind of positive feedback
everyone wants to get from whatever job
they work at.So I hope these little-known
facts about serving make you think twice
next time you receive your cheque at a
restaurant. It’s not a time to be cheap. If
you receive good service in a restaurant, let
your gratuity show it.
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CAMPUS NEWS
March 10, 2009
E.P.’s serves responsibly
By Alistair Lowe
Chronicle Staff
The public spotlight landed
firmly on restaurants and bars that
over-serve alcohol after the deaths
of three young men this past summer. They drove away drunk
from the Lake Joseph Golf Club in
Muskoka, crashing into a river.
In that case charges were filed
against Clublink Corp., Canada’s
largest owner/operator of highend golf courses, along with 16
employees and directors.
Could this happen at E.P. Taylor’s?
“There was a girl there one time
who was so drunk she didn’t remember me at all,” said Melissa
Nash, a first-year Dental Assisting
student. “I see her in the hallways
and wave and she doesn’t even
recognize me.”
“About 60 per cent of the people there are drunk,” she believes.
Nicola Tait, a first-year General
Arts & Science student said, she’s
been to the pub about 16 times
drunk and was still served.
“I think they over serve because
they don’t really pay attention to
how many drinks people really
have, probably due to the volume
of people.”
Will Ellis, the manager of the
student centre says, by law, the
bar staff must be trained in Smart
Serve, a training program designed
for people who serve alcohol to
serve it responsibly.
Over-drinking is difficult to
monitor, he said, because people
can drink before they come to the
bar.
However, he feels students
should be allowed to drink, but
they should drink responsibly and
not put themselves or others at
risk.
New
student
reps
needed
By Matt Bird
Chronicle Staff
Photo by Alistair Lowe
ARE YOU BEING SERVED: E.P. Taylor’s staff takes measures to ensure students don’t
drink too much.
In order to ensure this, E.P. Taylor’s has a campus walk program
where a drunken student will be
walked back to rez.
For off-campus students a taxi
service is provided.
“There is a manager on-duty
at all times to assist staff, “said Ellis. The manager will walk around
the bar to observe the patrons to
ensure people aren’t drinking too
much.
There are times when security
will ask a patron to leave if they’re
too drunk.
In some cases the student can
be banned. “We may say, ‘come
back in a month, you’re here too
much,’” said Ellis.
“We don’t want the student to
leave here with a bad experience,”
said Ellis. “If one person (E.P. Taylor’s employee) fails, we all fail.”
At the end of the day, if you’re
19 or over, you’re considered to be
an adult and responsible for your
drinking.
“Nothing is perfect,” concedes
Ellis, “but compared to other bars
we go above and beyond.”
Award winners share wisdom
2008 Research
Excellence
Award winners
visit UOIT
By Samantha Stewart
Chronicle Staff
The recipients of UOIT’s 2008 Research Excellence Awards presented their research to
students and faculty last Tuesday night.
The awards recognize excellence in research
done by UOIT’s junior and senior faculty members and were received in September of 2008.
Dr. Shari Forbes, assistant professor in the
Faculty of Science, and Dr. Scott Nokleby, assistant professor in the Faculty of Engineering
and Applied Science, were the junior faculty
recipients. UOIT’s senior faculty member was
Dr. Ibrahim Dincer, professor, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science.
Each gave a 15-20 minute presentation on
their research.
‘Global Forensic Chemistry Perspectives’
was the name of Dr. Forbes presentation, and
it came with a warning. Since she uses pig
carcasses to measure the decomposition of
proteins, lipids and carbohydrates in the body,
there were some disturbing pictures in her
slideshow. Pigs are used because they are perceived to be the most compatible to humans
in terms of how they decompose. Forbes even
has pigs at an outdoor research facility on campus donated by UOIT.
“Every environment is a research environment as far as we’re concerned,” said Forbes.
She studies how soil and vegetation, as well
as scavenging activity and submersion affect
decomposition. Forbes also uses fire investigation, chemical enhancement and entomology
(study of insects) in her research.
With fire investigation Forbes discovered
that the body creates an accelerant signature
on the skin, which is used to measure if any accelerant was used in starting the fire.
Dr. Nokleby’s research focused on Research
Activities of the Mechatronic and Robotic Systems Lab.
Dr. Nokelby ensures that “robots are not
here to take the place of humans, but to assist
humans in their endeavours. The purpose of
using robots is to remove humans from hazardous environments, improve quality and increase productivity.”
In the lab Nokleby has created a mobile
manipulator dubbed ‘Jasper’. A mobile manipulator consists of a moveable robotic arm
and a mobile robot base. By putting the two
components together the work area is infinite
as opposed to a fixed arm with a small range of
workspace. Nokleby is also looking at intuitive
control, meaning that the operator will only
have to control the arm, and the base will move
on its own as needed.
Another project of Nokelby’s is called the
omnibot. It has four fixed wheels that are controlled by changing the speed at which each
wheel moves. This application will be useful in
the transportation of hazardous materials or
possibly to help with the maneuverability of the
mobile manipulator.
Senior faculty member Dr. Dincer has concentrated his expertise in, Research Dimensions and Main Pillars of Sustainable Energy.
Dincer spoke about the seven main pillars
for sustainable energy and about his goal to
achieve global sustainability.
“I am always competing against myself,” he
said. “I want to deliver tangible outcomes.”
His research topics include looking at ammonia as a sustainable energy and H2 source,
geothermal-based assessment, using ammonia
fuel cells for transportation, solar hydrogen systems, and capturing CO2 from the atmosphere
and flue gases. Dincer also spoke about the
tremendous progression of nuclear-based hydrogen production and he hopes that by 2015
Canada will have a hydrogen-based society.
Dincer’s goals are to diversify energy options
so that the world doesn’t rely on a sole source,
and conserve energy and other resources. He
hopes that the introduction of a hydrogen
economy will be an integral part of the solution.
Need something on your
resume that won’t fail to impress an employer? Your
chance is coming up whether
you go to Durham College or
UOIT.
Elections for new student
representatives on the board
of governors for both schools
are coming up on March 18,
and nominees for the positions are needed.
The elections, carried out
online and voted on by students, will last until March
20.
“We want students in good
academic standing who have
the interests of the institution
at heart,” said Karen Spearing,
secretary to the board of governors. “The candidates must
be willing to vote at the board
level for the good of the institution, and not according to
their individual concerns.”
Board members will participate in the governing of
both schools, attending regular meetings and providing
input to board discussions.
UOIT has two spots to fill
as opposed to Durham’s one,
thanks primarily to the nature
of universities and UOIT’s
growing population.
“Historically there was
only one student governor on
the board at UOIT,” Spearing
said. “Because UOIT is a new
school there was a predominantly undergraduate population, and representation
for graduates was not necessary. But as the school aged,
our graduate numbers have
grown, and it was decided
that they needed somebody
on the board.”
Because this extra representative falls outside normal
procedure, she added, UOIT
candidates face additional
approval by a nominating
committee of six governors
before becoming a governor
themselves.
Nominees are expected to
attend a meeting on March
10 at 6 p.m. in the Student
Centre boardroom. “It will
coat-tail on the Student Association’s meeting,” said Spearing. “They’ll be confirming the
nominated candidates, explaining about campaigning
for the position and the duties of the student governors.”
Spearing noted the value
of the positions. “It’s a fascinating process and a good experience for any student willing to put in the extra time.”
Nomination forms are
available on Durham and
UOIT’s websites., and must
be submitted to the board office no later than March 10 by
5 p.m.
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Many trades in Durham Region
Third
edition
of skilled
trades guide
released
By Andrew Huska
Chronicle Staff
The Durham Region Local
Training Board launched the third
edition of its skilled trades guide
on Tuesday, Feb. 24 at the Durham
College Skills Training Centre in
Whitby.
Your Guide to the Skilled
Trades in Durham Region: The
Apprenticeship Process lists steps
for becoming an apprentice in
Ontario and information about 83
skilled trade jobs, such as cement
mason, roofer, plumber, tool and
die maker and welder, among others.
Each page has important information like potential wages, educational requirements, employment prospects and job descriptions.
“The guide will provide people
with the information of what’s actually involved with getting into an
apprenticeship,” said Sandy Smiles
a Tradeability Project officer with
the board.
“[It tells students] what they
have to do, where can they go for
help with getting into [trades].
“It’s going to tell them what they
should expect, and the major challenge is do they know what they’re
getting into, so by using the guide
it’s going to outline all that information for them.”
Smiles is the brains behind the
guide.
She worked since last summer
until December, compiling the
information from various Ontario
government websites.
“We started out on the guide in
the summer of 2008 when we had
our summer student working with
us, and we’ve been in the process
of editing and making sure the information is as accurate as possible right up until December,” said
Photo by Andrew Huska
TRADES EQUALS SKILLS: Tradeability Project Officer Sandy Smiles talks about the new skilled trades guide
coined “Your Guide to the Skilled Trades in Durham Region”. Behind her is Oshawa city councillor John Henry.
Smiles.
The guide can be used with
Tradeability.ca, a website run by
the training board.
The website allows people looking for a job or an apprenticeship
to post their qualifications and
make up a resume that would be
suitable for employers in skilled
trades.
It also allows employers to post
job openings.
“We’re continuing to hear about
the need for jobs in a skilled labour
force,” Smiles said. “Apprenticeship
plays a major part of that.”
Smiles explained that students
learn a lot more than sitting in the
classroom listening to someone
talk.
She said students absorb 90 per
cent of what they learn when they
are learning and working at the
same time.
“An apprenticeship reinforces
that learning on an ongoing ba-
sis, students have a better chance
of retaining that knowledge,” said
Smiles.
In 1999 the first version of the
guide was released.
Back then it was called the
Skilled Trades Catalogue, and
contained 47 profiles of regulated
trades in Ontario.
“The catalogue was intended as
a resource for those considering
their career options and also as a
reference for those providing career options,” Smiles said.
By 2004 the catalogue was renamed to its present name and it
added more information for the 68
trade profiles it contained.
Also, for the first time it listed
websites as a source of reference.
“We’re very happy about this updating of the skilled trades guide,”
said John Lewis, labour co-chair
on the Training Board. “It’s something we’ve worked on very hard.”
One major partner with the
Training Board is Durham College. The Whitby campus training
centre is, according to Durham
president Don Lovisa, “a jewel in
the college system.”
During the press conference
Durham president Don Lovisa
said that he was at a conference
in Toronto where the president
of workopolis.com explained the
desperate need of workers in the
skilled trades.
“There was a common theme
besides the economy,” Lovisa said
of the conference.
“The theme was the need for
skilled trades, and there was a fellow there from Workopolis, the
president of Workopolis, and he
talked about the 40,000 jobs that
are available on Workopolis.”
Afterwards Lovisa spoke about
the direct benefit of the guide for
the college.
“It provides information for
people,” Lovisa said. “Even after
so many years of having skilled
trades and apprenticeship programs there’s still a lot of misunderstanding about it.”
“We know that people go in to
the trades and make very good
money.
“They’re good careers, they’re
professional careers, they’re respected careers, and this book
really helps to describe those careers.
“And the more information we
can give to young people in one
document the better it is.”
The Training Board was incorporated in 1997.
Its mandate, according to its
website, is to provide labour information in the Durham Region.
As well as work with schools
and employers to provide a framework and recommendations for
training programs in the region.
The board launched Tradeability.ca in 2003.
DC paramedics duke it out
By Robyn DePratto
Chronicle Staff
On March 2, second-year students in Durham College’s paramedic program competed to be
one of the teams selected to represent the school at the National
Paramedic competition, which
will be held at the school on March
28.
Five teams of two were part of
the competition, designed to pick
the two teams that would represent Durham in the Primary Care
Paramedic (PCP) Student division.
“It’s designed to be a challenge
for things you don’t do on a regular basis” said Kevin Griffin, coordinator of the Paramedic program.
“They’ll get to do stuff they don’t
normally do”.
It was a five-part competition,
where the teams were tested in
both their academic and clinical
skills.
First-year paramedic students
had volunteered to help run the
in-house competition.
They did everything from acting
as patients to running the Laerdal
SimMan, an advanced computer-
ized patient simulator.
The first part of the competition involved looking at placards
with chemical symbols on them,
identifying them with the Canutec
manual, and answering questions
about them.
The second part of the competition used the SimMan, along with
the student volunteers, to simulate a multi-casualty incident that
could occur in the field.
Other students evaluated the
teams throughout the competition, using a system Griffin said
was much the same as the one the
school uses to evaluate them during classes.
Next was a scenario designed
to simulate a pediatric incident,
with a SimMan representing a
child who had swallowed a candy,
with a first-year student acting as
his worried mother.
After the simulated incidents
were over, the students were presented with 20 pictures, and given
one minute at each to identify
which symptom they displayed,
among other questions.
The final part of the competition involved a series of questions
related to the pediatric incident,
designed to test the students’
memories and observation skills.
At the end of the day, the two
teams selected in the PCP student
division were Matt Groulx and Brian Matteson, along with Andrew
Jenkins and Archie Castro.
They will join the Advanced
Care Paramedic team of Justin
Calder and Toni Ferreira, representing Durham on March 28.
For more information about
the competition, see their website
at http://www.paramediccompetition.ca/.
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Watch your savings grow tax-free
New account
will allow
students to
watch their
funds increase
By Krista Paxton
Chronicle staff
Together in the same sentence,
tax and free seem quite the oxymoron, but a new savings account
proves an exception to the rule.
The Tax-Free Savings Account
(TFSA) was introduced in the
2008 federal budget, and beginning this year Canadian residents
18 and over are eligible to open
an account where they can watch
their savings grow tax-free.
“The savings are tax-free in the
account, and you still don’t pay tax
when you take out the funds,” said
Shelley Sprague, account manager
at RBC Financial.
Those eligible can contribute
$5,000 annually and the investment can be made in the form of
savings, mutual funds or a Guaranteed Investment Certificate (GIC),
she added.
The TFSA differs from a regular
savings account.
It does not include bank machine access or online banking
withdrawals.
Also, funds must be transferred
by a telephone banking agent or
an account manager.
“If you have funds in the sav-
Photo by Krista Paxton
ALL SMILES: RBC Financial Account managers Sherri
Ward (left) and Shelly Sprague show their excitement.
ings area they earn interest like a
regular savings account, but the
account is not connected to your
bank card,” said Sprague.
She added that funds may be
withdrawn at any time if they are
invested in regular savings or mutual funds.
There are no service fees to activate or use the account.
However, if the investment is
locked into a GIC it cannot be accessed until the GIC matures.
Similar to a Registered Retirement Saving Plan (RRSP), the
TFSA is designed to encourage
Canadians to contribute to longterm savings.
“Both allow people to accumulate income tax-free,” said Geremie
Lacroix, senior accountant at Deloitte and Touche.
“The balance grows at a faster
rate because you’re not paying tax,
and it’s a long-term investment
that allows you to plan for the future.”
There is a difference between
the two.
TFSA is never taxed while an
RRSP is but only at retirement
when a person has dropped to a
lower tax bracket, added Lacroix.
Also it allows students to save
tax-free right away.
However the investment is not
deductable on an income tax return like an RRSP contribution.
The TFSA contribution limit is
$5,000 annually, while the RRSP
limit is 18 per cent of annual income up to $19,000.
Because students don’t earn
a high income, Lacroix recommends opening a TFSA only.
He said the TFSA is better suited to students because there are
no service or activation fees.
As well, the funds can be withdrawn any time without penalty.
This is provided though they
are not locked into a GIC.
Also any funds that are withdrawn from the TFSA are added
to the contribution total for the following year, added Lacroix.
For example if a person contributes $5,000 in 2009 and withdraws $2,000 that same year, the
contribution total for the following
year would be $7,000.
As well, any interest accumulated would be tax-free.
Even if the investment doubles
to $14,000 the account holder
would never pay tax on those
funds.
“Students should open an
RRSP when they hit the top of the
third tax bracket, which is around
$50,000,” said Lacroix.
“If you file a tax return every
year your maximum contribution,
18 per cent of income per year,
adds up.”
Meaning that student jobs do
not often generate high income,
and are therefore charged minimal tax.
After graduation, incomes increase, and more income tax is
taken from each paycheque.
Contributing to an RRSP allows
people to shelter part of their income until they reach a lower tax
bracket upon retirement.
Lacroix said the TFSA will not
likely replace the RRSP, it’s simply
an added measure to help people
save.
“You can also use a combination of the two to save,” said Lacroix.
“Invest in an RRSP, get a deduction on your income tax, and
use those funds to invest in your
TFSA.”
Receive money even if you don’t work
Filing a
tax return
is a good
idea for
everyone
By Krista Paxton
Chronicle staff
No job? No savings? No problem.
The April 30 tax deadline is approaching, and students who have
little or no savings or income can
still benefit from filing a tax return.
“A student may still want to file
a return,” said Geremie Lacroix,
senior accountant for Deloitte and
Touche.
“The student may be entitled to
receive certain benefits and credits, which will result in a refund.”
Students can receive a tax credit for rent or supporting a child.
Those 19 and over who earn
less than $38,500 can receive GST
credits that range between $90
and $60 and are paid in quarterly
installments throughout the year.
Credits from tuition and public transit are also available with
forms located on MyCampus.
Filing a return informs students
about new tax laws. For instance,
scholarships and bursaries are no
longer taxable, according to the
2006 federal budget.
Therefore, students who receive
these bonuses can pocket the full
amount.
Other non-taxable financial assistance includes loans that have
specific terms for repayment, such
OSAP or bank loans.
Any interest paid on a genuine
loan can be deducted.
Students who move to attend
college or university are entitled to
claim their travel costs.
Deductible items include a
moving truck rental, vehicle expenses as well as any meals consumed during travel.
To be eligible, students must
move at least 40 kilometres closer
to the school from their old address.
They also must qualify for a
bursary, scholarship or grant.
Accurate expense and deduction claims are important.
If students are tempted to under-report income or claim false
expenses to get a better refund,
they are committing tax evasion.
For this they can be fined or
imprisoned.
“To ensure anything is done
better, including minimizing the
amount of tax paid, individuals
must create a game-plan,” said La-
croix.
“Being organized is as simple
as getting a folder for each tax year
or binder with dividers, and putting all tax documents in chronological order.”
If not filing, it’s still important to
organize and keep tax forms and
receipts because any unused deductions can be carried over to the
following year.
Also the Canada Revenue
Agency can audit returns for up to
six years.
As well, the forms and receipts
prove legitimate claims.
Students must file if they owe
money to the government.
They can file with an accountant, online using tax program
software or utilizing the tax clinic
offered annually by UOIT.
The UOIT Accounting Association will prepare tax returns for
free.
However they will only provide
their servises to a limited number
of students on March 10 and 11.
The clinic is on a first-come
first-serve basis.
Appointments range from 9
a.m. to 5 p.m.
Students must earn less than
$30,000 a year to be eligible.
“Students already bear a heavy
financial burden, primarily being
tuition fees,” said Aneesa Shaik,
UOIT tax clinic representative.
“The tax clinic allows students
to reap the benefits of federal and
provincial tax refunds without a financial cost associated with it.”
She added that the clinic provides accounting students an opportunity to work with their peers
while practising tax return filing.
“This kind of organized effort
helps to promote teamwork, leadership and collective values,” said
Shaik.
For more information about the
tax clinic and necessary forms and
identification visit www.uoitaccounting.com.
Local gyms in Oshawa hold annual food drive
By Amanda Allison
Chronicle Staff
Giving to those in need shouldn’t just
happen around the holidays.
That’s why this month, Curves Oshawa
will be collecting non-perishable food
items.
This is part of the 11th annual Curves
food drive.
Last year, 5,168 pounds of food were collected at the Simcoe Street location.
“This year, we’re hoping to collect 5,500
pounds and beat last year’s record,” said organizer Kathleen Blackburn.
With 800 pounds of food gathered in the
first four days, that goal is well within reach.
“Last year we donated the goods to the
North Oshawa food bank. We try to keep it
in the community,” said Blackburn.
Curves Oshawa is also encouraging donations.They are doing this by waiving the
service fee for any new member who joins
between now and March 21.
As well, they must donate a bag of nonperishable groceries.
Food items can be dropped off at 1050
Simcoe St. N. during business hours Monday to Friday.
For more information, call Kathleen
Blackburn at 905-720-0814.
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DC/UOIT hosts C.E.R.T. competition
By Rachael Coombs
Chronicle Staff
Fake blood, cries of anguish and
simulated distress were all over
campus on Feb. 22, for the annual
National Conference of Campus
Emergency Responders student
competition.
Approximately 175 attendees
were present, with 21 teams (three
members per team) from schools
across Ontario and Quebec, as
well as judges and other participants.
Carleton University, which had
two teams in the competition, took
both first and second place.
Following close behind in third
place was McMaster, and in fourth,
Trent. Durham College and UOIT
were not allowed to compete,
because they were the hosting
schools.
The competition, which has
run for 11 years, allowed students
who have received their Campus Emergency Response Team
(C.E.R.T.) certification, to compete
for a trophy.
Competitors were thrown into
various scenarios with bleeding,
crying or unconscious actors,
where they were scored on their
performance.
The final scenario, which determined this year’s champion, was a
re-enacted scenario of the Virginia
Tech shooting. Actors and participants set up the campus fitness
centre gym to look like the scene
of the famous shooting.
While many might have a problem with this sensitive subject, it is
important that C.E.R.T. members
be able to respond effectively to a
scenario like this because it is possible at any school.
Although all the teams demonstrated high levels of skill, some
teams stood out and made it to the
final four. What makes a team a
cut above the rest?
Photo by Rachael Coombs
SAVING LIVES: A Campus Emergency Response Team member from Trent assists a victim while being judged.
“Communication as a team,”
said Mel Dell, media relations
for the N.C.C.E.R. “Each team has
three members, so if they choose a
person to lead, it will be more organized.”
Philip Baker, an Arts and Science student from the University of Guelph, agreed that while
communication is a key factor to
a great team, over time members
start to work seamlessly together.
He continued, “How a team
works within itself. It becomes
intuitive, you get to a point where
you can almost read their mind
and respond appropriately.”
The C.E.R.T. team is not all
paramedic students. Most C.E.R.T.
members are regular students
who just want to give back to their
school.
“I volunteered to give back to
the community,” said UOIT Commerce student, Matt Billy.
Giving back is the common
theme for most C.E.R.T. members.
“I think it’s a really great and
practical way to help out on campus,” said Baker. “I enjoy that I get
to help out every day.”
The competition allows C.E.R.T.
members to demonstrate their
skills and have fun as well, but
there is more to the competition
than fortune and glory.
“It’s all about the constructive,”
said Baker. “People come here to
learn skills.”
When the competition was
over, students returned exhausted
to their respective schools to sleep,
study and train. Many of them will
participate next year, which will be
held at McGill University.
C.E.R.T. certification trains
students to aid other students
on campus in medical or mental
health situations. Members of the
C.E.R.T. team give their free time
selflessly to help students in stressful and dire situations.
If you would like to become a
member of the C.E.R.T. team on
campus, call 905-721-2000 ext.
8743 or email them at CERT@dcuoit.ca.
If you are in an emergency situation or need assistance, call Campus Security at Ext. 2400 from any
phone on campus, and they will
alert the C.E.R.T. team members to
help you until EMS comes.
Got brains
and brawn?
By Amanda Allison
Chronicle Staff
Do you want to prove
you’ve got not only brawn,
but brains too?
On March 14, the Student
Association is hosting the
Durham College and UOIT
EMS Challenge asking participants to demonstrate both of
these talents along with the
ability to raise funds for charity.
Teams of five will compete
in this challenging fitness test
and game show-style knowledge quiz while fundraising
for the charity.
“The SA is hoping to raise
money for great charities,
promote physical activity and
friendly competition,” said
events programmer Scott
Toole.
Prizes, including a limo
ride and night out at the Toronto Raptors and possession
of the EMS Challenge Cup for
the year, will be awarded to
the winning team. Best of all,
the winners will have money
donated to the charity of their
choice, not to mention bragging rights.
For more information regarding this event, contact
the Student Association.
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Campus aid for the deaf
By Tabitha Olliffe
Chronicle Staff
Durham College is full of students of many different backgrounds and of course many different challenges, including hearing impaired students.
There are four different types
of hearing impairments and Durham College has a way of making
students with them comfortable in
a classroom setting.
Students, who are Deaf, with a
capital D, were born with a hearing
impairment but use sign language
to communicate. Students who
are Deaf use American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters in their
classes along with a note taker to
make sure that they do not miss
anything.
Each interpreter is hired from
the community and is on contract
for the time that the student is attending Durham College.
Students who are deaf, with a
lower case d, mean that they were
born with their impairment but do
not use sign language to communicate because they either use lip
reading or hearing aids.
Students who are deaf may be
able to use fm systems, which is
where a professor uses a microphone hooked up to a student’s
hearing aid or headphones so that
the student is able to hear.
If the students are able to lipread then they are welcome to do
By Paul Bates
Chronicle Staff
Photo by Tabitha Olliffe
HELPING THOSE LESS FORTUNATE: Willona Blanche, director of the Centre for Students with Disabilities and the Learner Support Centre, helps Durham College students who have disabilities get the help they need to succeed.
that in the classroom, meaning all
they need to use is a note taker.
Willona Blanche, the director
of the Centre for Students with
Disabilities and the Learner Support Centre at Durham College,
feels that communicating with the
professor is a great way to help the
student.
“Speaking to the professor, letting them know what the needs of
the student are and asking them to
face the student as much as possible (is a great way to help the student),” said Blanche.
There are also students at Durham College who are hard of hearing and are deafened, meaning
they are starting to go deaf. These
students are able to use the fm systems and note takers.
Durham College helps students
with all four of these hearing impairments every year.
“The most important part is
working with the student to find
out what their particular needs
would be,” said Blanche.
For more information on the
tools that DC offers students with
hearing impairments visit, the
Centre for Students with Disabilities at the Oshawa campus.
Health science students party
By Asmahan Garrib
Chronicle Staff
UOIT’s Health Science Students
Network hosted its first event on
Feb. 25, providing students with an
opportunity to socialize with other
health science students and get
advice from a current health care
professional in the community.
In addition to a guest speaker,
the gathering consisted of refreshments, the attendance of faculty
members, and a chance for students in the health sciences program to mingle with each other.
“I felt like nurses and med-lab
students had their own niches,
so I wanted to create our own for
all health sciences students, because it’s such a broad program,”
said Bayan Sleiman, a health science student, and creator and
president of HSSN. Sleiman felt
an outlet was necessary to provide
networking opportunities, careerrelated awareness and a social
atmosphere to provide a sense of
unity.
The faculty-based group, currently in its first year as an official
committee, is seeking SA ratification. They plan on hosting an event
once a semester with two health
care professionals from the community attending each gathering.
Linna Tam, an occupational
health therapist at Lakeridge
Health Centre, spoke at the event,
providing background on her field
and answering questions about
what its like to help people with
impairments or limitations participate in everyday life.
“The event was a great oppor-
Another
option for
General
Arts and
Science
students
The School of Communication, Language and General Studies is adding a new
option to their list of options
for General Arts and Science
students. The new option is a
full-time health sciences option.
In the past this has not been
offered as a full option. “It’s
not exactly something brand
new,” said Mary Blanchard,
dean of the school.
“We’ve always had two
streams for general arts and
science students. One is a
liberal studies stream and
the other is a health sciences
stream.”
The health stream was
originally designed for students who need a few credits
to get into the health sciences
field, dental sciences, paramedic or any other program
offered by that division of the
college, but it was never marketed as a distinct option for
the students.
In the past this has led to
overcrowded classes, and
even to students being turned
away from the program.
Now students will be able
to sign up even before the
year starts, which will allow
the classes to be designed accordingly.
“We won’t be as limited
in terms of the number of
students that we can take because we will be able to plan
in advance,” Blanchard said.
“We’ll also be able to promote it as a separate entity so
that way we can let guidance
councilors know and we can
also put it into the course calendar as a separate option.”
The school is currently in
the process of collecting testimonials from students who
have used this option of the
general arts and science program to enter into the health
sciences field. The school is
hoping to give credit to an existing program that is moving
into a new marketing option.
Idol’s Goudie
at E.P. Taylor’s
Photo by Asmahan Garrib
HEALTHY AND HAPPY: HSSN members Bayan Sleiman, Alyssa Higgison, Samantha
MacKinnon, Elizabeth Suen, Emma Pot, Zahara Jiwa and Lakeridge Health Centre’s
occupational therapist Linna Tam gather after HSSN’s first event.
tunity to get a chance to network
with professionals in the community for career opportunities,” said
Elizabeth Suen, an HSSN member.
With a health sciences masters program beginning this September, HSSN members want
students to know that they have
a representative from every year
who has been through the work,
the problems and the stress.
Anyone who wants to join
HSSN, send an email to HSSN.
uoit@gmail.com.
By Cotey Paterson
Chronicle Staff
Canadian Idol’s Rex Goudie is
playing live in concert at E.P. Taylor’s March 20.
Tickets are available at the Tuck
Shop in the Student Centre and are
$5 for DC/UOIT students and $10
for the general public. $2 of every
ticket will go to Skate4cancer.
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Anti-depressant use is on the rise
By Cotey Paterson
Chronicle Staff
Your stomach aches and you
can’t eat. You sleep most of the
day often missing school and
work. The word motivation fades
from your vocabulary. The stomach pain starts to reverberate to
the rest of your body until it consumes you, leaving you breathless.
It’s a chore just to inhale. You stop
talking to others and alienate the
people you once called friends.
And as your world gets smaller
and smaller, suicide begins to look
like a viable way out.
Depression can be tough. People feel they are weak for having it
and ashamed to let others know,
but depression is an illness like
any other and needs to be treated
as such.
“I find that the general public
wants to segregate mentally ill
people, politicians want to try to
forget about them and professionals don’t want to deal with them,”
said Dr. Albert Massabki, lead child
psychiatrist at the Lakeridge Mental Health Program in Oshawa.
He believes people fear their
own vulnerability to mental illness. “That’s why they have this
resentment and rejection of it.” According to Health Canada, about
eight per cent of Canadians will
suffer major depression or anxiety
at some point in their lives, and
about five per cent will face the
problem each year.
Annually more than seven per
cent of Canadians take at least
one type of psychotropic drug, like
anti-depressants or anti-anxiety
meds, according to the Windsor
Essex County Health Unit.
Depression and anxiety continue to be Canada’s fastest-rising
diagnoses.
“I don’t think more people are
depressed, although depression
has become the No. 1 disease in
Photo by Cotey Paterson
BIG BUSINESS: The use of anti-depressant drugs are on the rise as doctors are more
comfortable prescribing them becasue they have fewer negative side effect.
North America, which is about
20 per cent of the population –
so one out of every five people,”
said Massabki. “So maybe the
numbers show that it’s getting to
be more, however I think there’s
more awareness about depression
and more eagerness to treat it with
medication.” He believes people
just didn’t have the choice to get
help years ago, so they had to carry
on regardless of their ailment.
And with the new type of antidepressant, SSRI, the possible
side effects are not as common, so
“doctors were more comfortable
prescribing it more often,” he said.
One depression sufferer, a
19-year-old Durham College
student named Courtney, who
wishes her last name to remain
anonymous, has been taking antidepressants for about six months
and realizes the true potential of
the medication. “I started taking
them because I didn’t feel like myself – I was always tired and never
wanted to hang out with friends,”
she said. “Anything that went bad
in my life I would think it was a lot
worse.”
She used to cut herself to
ease the pain of depression, but
found help with medication, doctors, family and friends. “Now my
sleeping is back to normal, I am
a lot happier and I love to go out
and do things like I used to,” said
Courtney.
Being a psychiatrist, Massabki
relies heavily on pills to help his
patients, but acknowledges the
benefits of other treatments, like
one-on-one or group therapy,
which he refers to as cognitive
behaviour therapy (CBT). “Treating depression in youth and children is an important thing to do,”
he said. “It’s very essential to treat
depression in all ages and to treat
it effectively because it can lead to
a significant impairment in functioning later on if it’s not interfered
with.”
Massabki, who treats patients
aged four to 19, prescribes antidepressants to patients suffering
the illness regardless of age.
But medication doesn’t work
for everyone and no one should
expect a miracle cure when they
visit a doctor as depression and
the medications to treat it affect
people differently. “They (antidepressants) are not happy pills.”
The medication simply corrects a
chemical imbalance in the brain,
Massabki explained.
Anti-depressants are obviously
big business, raking in about $20
billion worldwide each year, according to Dr. Clay Tucker-Ladd,
a clinical psychologist, which certainly makes people leery about
the intentions of pharmaceutical
companies. We’ve all seen the Celexa, Effexor, Zoloft, Paxil and Prozac ads on TV.
“There’s no doubt that it’s a
question for everybody: is this a legitimate thing?” said Massabki. “As
a physician and a practitioner who
has prescribed medication over
the years and seen the results –
and I’ve seen the results of patients
not taking the medication and
relapsing and coming back to resume medication and re-stabilize
– I learned from my firsthand experience – not just what I’ve been
taught during medical school and
training – that the medication is a
helpful tool, but it has to be used
within the proper ethics of medicine.”
Wear the belt, lose the weight
By Jayme Quinn
Chronicle Staff
Shedding those unwanted extra pounds and
inches just got easier. There is a new fashion accessory that its creators say will help you loose inches,
prevent osteoporosis and strength your heart muscle to prevent a heart attack.
Dr. Craig Curphey and his wife Elda created the
Wellness belt after his mother passed away from a
hormone replacement therapy drug that was supposed to reduce the effects of osteoporosis.
.Curphey and his wife are both chiropractors in
Barrie Ont. and the majority of women who came
into their office were on drugs like Actinel and Fosamax, which are both forms of hormone replacement therapy. They were also unaware of the horrible side effects they cause.
“Their doctors were not informing them that
there were serious side effects to using these drugs,
and were more focused on the quick and easy prescription method,” said Curphey.
Even though Curphey told his female patients
what could happen to them if they stayed on these
drugs, they chose the pill instead of more weight
bearing exercise because the pills are more convenient and they didn’t have to do as much physical
activity.
So Curphey and his wife tried to think of a way
to help people increase their activity level to impact
their health and bone strength. Their original idea
was a weight vest. There were a few problems with
them though. They were hot, top heavy and not
very good-looking to wear as a piece of clothing.
“It had to be something fashionable that people
would want to wear, not look like the Batman utility
belt,” Curphey said.
The belt itself weighs anywhere from seven to
12 pounds, depending on the length.
“Even though the belt feels very heavy in your
hands, you can barely feel it when it is put on,” Curphey said.
“You’ll get a sustained workout that lasts all
the time you’re on your feet - doing chores, shopping, doing yard work, walking, going up and down
stairs, helping customers and so on,” Curphey said
on The Wellness Belt website. “Your body must
strain a little extra to accomplish those normal
daily activities. You’re actually ‘working out’ while
you’re not working out!”Although dieting is good,
Curphey said that just watching what you eat and
losing weight is also causing you to lose muscle,
which is not good for the bones and can make you
more at risk for bone fractures.
“With the Wellness belt, your muscles will be
built up so strong, you can say goodbye to osteoporosis,” Curphey said. Curphey recommends that
women who are pregnant not use the belt while
pregnant, but it is perfectly safe to lose the baby
weight while nursing.
According to the 50 testimonials on the website,
the belt has proven to work. One of the testimonials was Julie from Toronto who has had her Wellness Belt since June 2008 and has had great success with it.
“I had been doing the South Beach diet and
had plateaued for three weeks,” said Julie. “I started
wearing the belt periodically at first, but July 21st,
after vacationing, I got down to business. The rest
is amazing!!”
As of Feb. 1, Julie was down 51 pounds from using the belt and watching what she eats.
Another success story is very personal, it is my
mom. Her belt is doing wonders for her.
“I haven’t been losing any weight yet, but the
inches are flying off,” said Gayle Quinn, a house
cleaner from Orillia. “I can feel myself getting stronger and my back isn’t as sore when I am working.
As Dr. Curphey and his wife say throughout the
website and to their patients, “You have to use it, to
lose it!”
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Free world experience
By Cotey Paterson
Chronicle Staff
The Pangaea Cultural Show is
coming to the Durham College
and UOIT campus March 26 from
5-7 p.m.
The free event showcases a variety of performances representing different regions of the world
and is taking place in gyms three,
four and five of the campus health
centre. Guests can also taste various foods for $5, while quantities
last.
For more information on the
show, visit www.your-sa.ca or email dcuoit@sharecanada.org.
Advisory program
for immigrants
By Artem Boykov
Chronicle Staff
A free information session
regarding Durham College’s
new advisory program for internationally trained immigrants
will be held on March 13 in
room B299 at 10:30 a.m.
There will be a Powerpoint
presentation about what the
program provides to immigrants
who have education from their
home country. The sessions will
include one-on-one advising,
talking about available help in
Durham Region and exploring
academic options, and employment opportunities.
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Learning about Islamic religion
Islam is
one of the
world’s
fastest
growing
religions
By Lynn Wayling
Chronicle Staff
Islam – it may be one of the fastest growing religions in the world,
but it is also one of the most misunderstood.
The 2001 Census in Canada
identified two per cent of the
population as Muslim. At roughly
600,000 Canadians, that is a small
chunk of the estimated 1.2 billion
followers of Islam worldwide. But
consider that in the decade between 1991 and 2001, the number
of Muslims in Canada grew by 129
per cent – more than any other religious denomination in the country.
If the growth rate remains the
same, the number is sure to topple
the one million mark in 2011.
Because Islam is a religion typically associated with the East –
specifically the Middle East – not
many Canadians, or North Americans for that matter, know much
about the Islamic faith.
Last week (March 2-5) in the UA
West Atrium, the Muslim Students
Photo by Lynn Wayling
INKED-UP: Amy Anderson, academic advisor for Criminology, Justice and Policy Studies, gets inked with henna
by Irum Macci, a volunteer at Islam Awareness Week by the Muslim Student Association in the UA West Atrium.
Association (MSA) did their part
to try to inform UOIT and Durham
students and staff of Islamic faith
with information booths set up as
part of Islam Awareness Week.
A talk by Sheikh Alaa El-Sayed
was also scheduled for Wednesday night.
The talk is about the Prophet
Muhammad, commerce student
and MSA member Muhammad
Ahmad explains.
“This year we have one special
event, which is dedicated towards
raising awareness of Prophet Mu-
hammad…about his life, about his
biography, what was his message.”
The main focus (of the week)
is to raise awareness about Islam
and clear misconceptions because a lot of people have a lot of
misconceptions,” he added.
Some of those misconceptions
concerned the status of women
in the religion and the wearing of
the hijab (the head and neck cover
sometimes worn by Muslim women), as well as the origins of the religion and the role of the Prophet
Muhammad.
While trying to answers these
questions to the best of their abilities, volunteers also directed the
curious towards the many pamphlets available.
Some of the pamphlets on hand
dealt with the question of women’s
role in Islam, Jesus’ relationship to
the religion and the unfortunate
and false association of Islam with
terrorism – sparked by the Sept. 11
attacks.
Omar Noor, a health physics student, said that volunteers
running the information booths
randomly interviewed people
about Islam, asking them what
they knew about the religion. They
found that many did have misconceptions about Islam. But as Noor
points out, religion in general is a
precarious subject and misconceptions about every religion exist,
especially concerning the role that
religion plays as a source of hatred
and catalyst for war.
On that topic, Noor says, “If it
happens that some people misuse
religion, it’s not to do with the religion but with those people.”
Every faith united on campus
The fourth annual
Faith Mosaic brings all
religions together
By Edith Zikmann
Chronicle Staff
SHARE hosted its fourth annual religious based event Faith
Mosaic at UOIT March 4.
Students got together to contemplate what religion means to
them in a multicultural school.
Campus Church, Durham
Campus Catholics, the Muslim
Student Association, The Hindu
Student Association and the Ahmadiyya Muslim Student Association each presented slide shows
detailing their religious beliefs and
answered questions about their
religion.
“The purpose of Faith Mosaic
is to unite and bring together the
different faiths on campus. We
live in a city where it’s really hard
for awareness to go around about
how many faiths we actually have
on campus,” said Kiran Somjee,
president of SHARE.
“It’s so amazing that we can coexist on this campus,” she said.
Margaret Greenley, VP of student affairs, congratulated the
crowd for the turnout,
“What a great crowd we have
here this evening!” she said.
“We do value diversity and inclusiveness… and the best way to
do it is through education,” said
Greenley.
Somjee agreed. “This has been
the biggest, most organized event
yet, and it gets better and better
every year, so I think it went really
well today!” she said.
“I think that even something
like this where we have Christians,
Muslims and Hindus sitting in the
same audience, I think that shows
in itself how united we are.”
Photo by Edith Zikmann
SMILE: Students from Campus Church, Durham Catholics, the Muslim Student Association, The Hindu Student Association and the Ahmadiyya Muslim Student Association all together educating each other about their religions.
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Your new career starts here
Resume
and
interview
tips to
jump start
a job hunt
By Rachael Coombs
Chronicle Staff
The days of drinking until the
early dawn, living off loans and
sleeping ‘til noon are coming to a
close and it’s time to get ready for
the working world.
Although it may seem daunting
to face the infinite possibilities out
there in the job force, there is hope
if the process is done correctly.
To start, even before compiling the resume, get experience
before graduation. Anne Markey,
executive director for Canadian
Association of Career Educators
and Employers said that could be
participation in co-op placements,
summer work opportunities, involvement in campus activities,
and any other experiences that
could step up your experience
level a notch.
“Get as much experience as
possible prior to graduation and
maintain a B average,” said Markey.
Markey also said students
should be planning to learn about
and obtain preferred employment
by first year, so don’t procrastinate.
Another step to take before
sending out the resume is to get
to know the employer before they
know about you.
“Make sure you research your
potential employer,” said Frances
Marshall, employment counsellor
at the Community Employment
Resource Centre Oshawa. “Do
your qualifications fit with the organizational culture and its goals,
and are you physically and mentally up to the challenges offered
at the level of responsibility you
are applying for?”
Networking is an important
method of gaining success in
the world, so call old employers,
friends, family, etc., and see if they
can get your foot in the door. And
don’t be afraid of entry-level positions and work your way to the top,
because you may feel that you are
the bee’s knees but your potential
employer may not feel the same.
Now for the infamous resume,
there is the proper way to create a
masterpiece as well as failure.
“Make sure to keep it up to date,
list all of your skills, volunteer work
and create a clear layout,” said
Bonnie McDonald, employment
adviser at Oshawa Job Connect.
“But watch out for spelling, grammar and any other errors, because
employers won’t even look at your
resume if there are any.”
McDonald also said to highlight skills that focus on the job
and to inform the employer that
you are willing to go the extra mile
for them.
When going in for the interview
it’s not just what your resume can
do for you, but what you can do for
your resume.
“Dress well, be on time, keep an
appropriate level of eye contact,
shake their hand and know your
resume,” said McDonald.
Another tactic to use in the interview is to turn the discussion
around for a moment and ask the
employer what they are looking
for and what they want in an employee, said McDonald.
So, the interview went well in
your opinion and now you wait, or
do you? Remember, the follow-up
is just as important as the interview
because it lets employers know
that you take action and that you
are serious about the position.
“Be persistent but not abrasive
when following up on your targeted employers,” said Marshall.
“Remind them of your application
by email, fax, etc., and ensure that
they have received your information for the position you have applied for. Also, restate your qualifications and interest for the position.”
Marshall suggests asking by
phone or email to be considered
for any future opportunities that
they feel you are qualified for.
If going into this process alone
seems to be too much, there are
professionals who can assist you
along the way and help make the
process a lot easier.
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centre,” said Markey. “The professionals there can assist with all aspects of your job search.”
Job resources are all around
campus, so use them is another
way to start.
The Hired Career Services is a
good place for help because they
help students compile resumes
and give advice.
There is the Oshawa Job Connect Program with Bonnie McDonald in the Simcoe building,
where students and non-students
can meet with an adviser, and
learn about where to apply, what
process to take and where to begin when looking for a job. The
program also gives employers initiative by subsidizing $2/hour for
each student hired.
In the Oshawa community resource centre downtown, students
can talk to Frances Marshall and
gain knowledge on the job hunt.
Also, the government websites
for Canada and the province of
Ontario have tips and guidelines
that students may find useful on
their journey.
And although you may have
graduated with a major in advertising, sticking with an advertising
firm doesn’t have to be your only
choice.
There are many companies that
take different levels of experience
and education, so applying for the
ministry of environment or Kraft
Canada isn’t a bad idea because
they will need people of all different varieties.
Jobs with good prospects in the
Region of Durham are anything
to do with sustainable energy, advanced manufacturing, information technology, bioscience and
agriculture, as well as health and
wellness, said Marshall.
But remember money is nice,
but doing what you enjoy is the
biggest payoff.
“Do work you are passionate
about,” said Marshall. “Money isn’t
everything. The money comes
once you’re really good at something and like what it is you’re doing. Payback is good, but pay forward is even better.”
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Looking to quit smoking?
Why not start on Smoke-Free
day.
Leave the Pack Behind
will be hosting its second annual Smoke-Free day on Friday, March 13 from 9 a.m. to
1 p.m. in the UA East Atrium.
The event is aimed at making
our campus smoke-free for
one day and helping those
who want to quit or know
someone who wants to quit.
There will be games and prizes for those attending as well
as information to raise awareness about smoking.
Come out on March 13,
and help yourself or a friend
on the quest to quit smoking.
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Revisit
the past
at the
Maple
Festival
By Shenieka
Russell-Metcalf
Chronicle Staff
Photo by Sarah Manns
CHOCOLICIOUS: (From left to right) Carolyn Ellis, JoAnne Alexander, Lorne Coe, Noel Marshall and Linda Norris
hold up one of the many chocolate desserts at the VON chocolate luncheon.
Eating chocolate for charity
By Sarah Manns
Chronicle Staff
Chocolate, candy, auctions and entertainment were all part of the VON chocolate luncheon on Sunday, Feb.15.
It was the fourth year for the luncheon, held
at the Holiday Inn in Oshawa.
According to board president of VON Durham, Joyce Marshall, the event raised about
$10,000, which will go towards VON community programs and services.
According to Marshall, the silent auction
items came from more than 100 local Durham
groups, and consisted of over 100 items.
For some the VON luncheon has been a
great experience.
“I love helping people,” said first-year volunteer Wilma Jackson. “It’s a great organization. I
am fairly new to Oshawa and it’s a great way to
meet new people and become part of the community.”
For others, there’s something that keeps
them coming back every year.
“I have come for three or four years now,”
said Ailene Angus. “I enjoy it. You can’t get nicer chocolate or donate to a greater cause.”
People who attended could choose from
two tables of chocolate donated by board
members, and various businesses throughout
the region.
“The VON board truly appreciates the generosity of those who donate to our chocolate
lovers lunch every year”, said Marshall. “It keeps
people coming back every year. Guests are invited to make a donation and take home leftover desserts.”
Carolyn Ellis of KX96 was master of ceremonies for the event, and guests could listen to the
music of local singer and songwriter Roseanne
Solotarow.
Pink power to visit Vendor’s Alley
By Jayme Quinn
Chronicle Staff
Photo by Jayme Quinn
POWER TO THE PINK: Suzanne Clark stands in front
of Union Window with all the prizes for the Power of
Pink fundraiser.
On March 11 Durham College
and UOIT will be covered from
wall to wall with pink.
Power of Pink is back, and
bigger then ever. There will be 17
offices participating and competing in the event this year. The
three categories they will compete in are most funds raised,
most informative display and
most creative display.
“We also anticipate student
involvement this year,” said Suzanne Clark, one of the many
committee members helping run
Power of Pink.
The planning of the event has
gone well so far.
Media, both inside the school
and out, all have volunteers with
their duties.
Also volunteers with the committee have their jobs to do.
“Some offices have already
started their campaign with candy and bake sales,” Clark said last
week. “You can start to see the
blush of pink in some of the offices.”
Clark and the rest of the committee members have their own
special plans for the big day.
There will be two event kiosks,
one in the UA west atrium and
one in the Gordon Willey Building. They will be open from 7:30
a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
“The kiosks will have ballots
and pink ribbons for the event
draw, plus other ‘pink’ promotional items, breast cancer awareness literature and event schedules and directions,” said Clark.
New this year, a memory banner will be placed in vendor’s alley for people who have been affected by breast cancer.
Other booths in vendor’s alley
will include the Gala of Hope and
Lisa’s Beads.
With the help from students
and staff the Power of Pink committee members are positive they
will reach their goal for this year,
which will be well over $25,000.
Not only will the money raised
go to the Canadian Breast Cancer Association but half of the
proceeds will go to the Breast Assessment Centre, which will soon
be located at Lakeridge Health
Oshawa.
“We encourage everyone to
wear pink and denim on March
11 to show their support of the
Power of Pink event and to help
us create awareness of breast
cancer and early detection methods,” said Clark.
The Central Lake Ontario
Conservation will be hosting the Purple Woods 34th
annual Maple Syrup Festival
March 14 to March 22.
The festival will continue
on the weekends of March 28
and 29 and April 4 and 5.
The Purple Woods conversation area is located on the
southeast corner of Simcoe
Street and Coates Road at the
Oshawa/Scugog boundary.
“You can learn about how
the first nations made maple
syrup and how we make it today,” says Annette MacDonald, volunteer co-ordinator
for the Central Lake Ontario
Conservation Authority.
The general admission
cost for adults is $3, children
$2 (12 years and under), seniors $2 and a family pass is
$7 for two adults and three
kids.
“There’ll also be wagon
rides and each day there will
be something different,” said
MacDonald. “ There’s going
to be a list of events on the
website.”
‘
You can learn a
lot about how the
first nations made
maple syrup and
how we make it
today.
’
Annette MacDonald
Participants can discover
the pioneer schoolhouse and
horse-drawn wagon rides for
only $2/per person.
What maple syrup festival is complete without pancakes?
Hot pancakes will be
served daily from 10 a.m. to
2:30 p.m.
The pancakes will cost
$4.50 for three and a drink
for adults, and pancakes for
$3.50 for two pancakes and a
drink for kids.
The proceeds from the
pancake sales at the festival
will go to not-for-profit organizations.
“It’s going to be a family
fun day,” said MacDonald.
To find out more about the
festival, go to the www.cloca.
com/msf/.
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E
NTERTAINMENT
Pirates sailing the digital seas
Durham College-UOIT Chronicle
By Cotey Paterson
Chronicle Staff
Piracy has plagued every facet
of the entertainment industry for
a long time, whether it be music,
video games or film. The relatively
new – and free – way of downloading files through peer-to-peer programs over the Internet is responsible for a huge decrease in sales
across Canada and the world. No
longer are VHS and cassette bootlegs the industries’ biggest piracy
and copyright problem.
“Artists of any kind – no matter
what medium – take piracy and
copyright seriously,” said Meridith
Braun, public relations and operations director at Digital Extremes,
the game company responsible
for the famous Unreal series. “You
are basically stealing years of our
hard work by pirating games and
showing no respect to the work we
do.”
According to the Canadian
Recording Industry Association,
retail sales of CDs and cassettes
in Canada decreased by almost 30
per cent from 1999-2003. In 2005,
sales dropped four per cent.
As for the film industry, about
50 per cent of pirated movies
come from Canada, according to
a 2007 investigation by Twentieth
Century Fox. Not only that, but a
coalition of American media industry trade groups said in 2007
that Canada is a leading exporter
of pirated films and mod chips,
which allow gamers to play illegal
discs on their video game console.
“Both the film and music industries have had huge amounts
of money flowing through them
and that’s now disappearing – one
Photo by Cotey Paterson
ARR, ME INTERNET MATEYS: A vicious pirate plunders the internet of its treasure, just one of many internet users downloading software illegally online.
imagines it will really affect the cocaine market – due to illegal sales,”
said Gary Chapple, an animation
professor at Durham College. “It’s
affecting music more because
they’re easier to download.”
Many people feel the music and
film industries are worse off than
the video game business when it
comes to piracy.
“It’s simply easier to copy and
burn music or film over copying a
game which usually requires you
to mod your favourite console as
well,” said Rob Segal, a software
developer and co-founder of the
Toronto Independent Game Development Jam, an annual gamemaking event for game developers
in the Greater Toronto Area.
“Game piracy requires a constant sliding scale of complexity
to hack software that can always
be overcome with the latest game
patch,” said John Goodwin, coordinator for the game development program at Durham College.
“People will spend money in exchange for convenience, but if it’s
easy to steal and the mentality that
it’s free exists, people will continue
to file share.”
However, Braun feels “piracy is
basically the reason for one dying
segment of the games industry: PC
games,” which are easier to download and use as they don’t require
any hardware modification or special software.
She thinks the music and movie
industries need to take advantage
of new technologies as they have
typically resisted change in the
past. One important step is distribution, according to Goodwin,
March is the Season of Gems
Segal and Chapple.
“The issue here is not piracy per
se, it’s the distribution model,” said
Goodwin. “It is far too convenient
and commonplace to distribute
MP3 and video via peer-to-peer
clients and even black market CD
and DVD.”
Software like Limewire, BitTorrent, Kazaa and eMule are extremely easy to download and use
for most people with a computer
and Internet, turning almost everyone into an evil, swashbuckling
pirate.
“BitTorrent is a common method of distribution for these (illegal) movies, music and games,”
said Segal. “This is a great system
which is not being taken advantage of by those existing industries.
They could really do themselves a
favour by offering differing distribution methods like this.”
Regardless of the effect pirates
have on each industry, “piracy is
wrong”, said Chapple. “You can
complain about wealthy studios
losing money, but it also takes
money away from the creators –
and not just rich ones.”
It takes a lot of time and effort
to create the movies, music and
games we all love and “this effort
should be rewarded”, said Segal.
“Artists in general should be
paid for the product they create. It
costs millions per year to provide
the consumer with the entertainment they crave and that should
be valued,” said Goodwin. “Piracy
came from relatively innocent beginnings, but it’s rampant today.
Industries need to understand
that the distribution model is already there, it’s now about leveraging it legitimately and educating
the public at large.”
Afternoon
of integrity
By Krista Paxton
Chronicle Staff
By Khadija King
Chronicle Staff
The Light and Stone exhibit at
the Royal Ontario Museum continues to sparkle, with all sorts
of gems on display and various
colourful jewelry.
The collection belongs to Michael Scott, the first CEO of Apple
computers, and a private gem collector.
“Michael Scott was the first
CEO of Apple computers and has
a physics degree, is very interested
in colour and how light affects
gemstones,” said Dr. Kim Tait, curator for ROM.
The exhibit starts with plenty
of minerals like calcite and quartz
on display, where visitors can take
photos and watch videos that
teach how gems are created.
The main attraction is the where
the precious jewelry is on display,
from Michael Scott’s private collection. The theme for the collection was the emotional impact of
colours.
“Each case as you walk around
the room has a theme, such as em-
Photo by Khadija King
TORONTO ROCKS: A chunk of calcite displayed at the ROM’s Light and Stone exhibit.
eralds, rubies, sapphires, and garnets,” said Dr. Tait.
The collection not only shows
how light affects gems and the different colours they come in, but
they also show how gemstones
can be art.
“Some of the more popular
pieces are the Queen of Kilimanjaro, which is a tiara in the tanzanite
case, and Repose, a sculpted nude
male with a gold cloth draped
across him,” said Dr. Tait.
The exhibit is a part of the
ROM’s A Season of Gems, which
includes the Nature of Diamonds
exhibit. The exhibit will continue
until Nov. 15 2009.
The Student Association
and the Women’s Centre
present The People’s Integrity, an afternoon of dub poetry and dub theatre with D’bi
Young on March 18.
The workshop will begin
at 4 p.m. in the Athletic Centre boardroom G2021. Young
will delve into oppression
awareness, and explore gender, race, class, sexuality and
how those topics intersect
with the modern world.
Young is an African-Jamaican-Canadian visionary who
has performed and published
worldwide.
According to Young’s website, dub poetry emerged
from the experiences of
ghetto youth in Jamaica and
England in the late 1970s and
early 1980s.
To register for the workshop, visit www.SAwomenscentre@dc-uoit.ca before
March 16.
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Girlicious
comes to
Durham
Region
By Melissa Bies
Chronicle Staff
Pop group Girlicious is
bringing their flavour to Durham Region at the end of this
month.
The group will be putting a
show on at Johnny B club in
Whitby at the AMC plaza on
Wednesday Mar. 25. Tickets
to the concert are on sale for
$35 in advance or $45 at the
door.
Limited VIP tickets are
available in the upper level
for $70.
Girlicious is the product
of the reality show Pussycat
Dolls Present: Girlicious. The
show was based on creating a
pop trio by searching for singers and dancers across the
United States and Canada.
In the final episode, it was
decided the group would
consist of four members, and
the quartet of Nichole, Natalie, Tiffanie and Chrystina
was born.
March 10, 2009
ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
Make the most of every night,
not just your Friday nights!
By Krystin Spittal
Chronicle Staff
E.P. Taylor’s has entertainment for students every day of the
week!
“A lot of the time I have homework to do Friday, Saturday and
Sunday,” said Jessica Pires, a UOIT
student. “I’m down to party on a
Monday, but there is never anything to do.”
Shake up your usual Monday
night! E.P. Taylor’s has Big Mug
Mondays. Get any domestic mug
of beer for $5.50, and any imported beer for $6 between 11 a.m. and
1 a.m.
For a cheap Tuesday night out,
try Toonie Tuesday’s. All day long
any draught beer is $2.
Take your ladies out for $3.50
cocktails until 11 p.m. every
Wednesday. Wednesday night is
Traditions Pub Night for students
19 and over. Mixed drinks are sold
for $3.50. Pints sell for $4.
“I only work part-time since
I’m in school, so money is tight,”
said Lauren Hummel, a Durham
College student. “These cheap
cocktails are an affordable way to
get together with my girls once a
week.”
Get healthy with Healthier Living Thursdays. Try a healthy food
choice and save money from 10:30
Jason is
back on
the big
screen
By Ingrid Saravia
Chronicle staff
Photo by Krystin Spittal
BEHIND THE BAR AT E.P. TAYLOR’S: Part-time bartender at E.P. Taylor’s, Brent O’Hara, pours a $3.50 pint.
a.m. until 4 p.m.
Party hard on Friday nights at
Fantastic Fridays until the pub
closes. Bar shots and domestic
beer are $3.50.
Make the most of the week!
Friday 13th is Jason’s birthday and he’s back—meaner,
bloodier and more athletic
than ever.
Derek Meras, who plays Jason Vorhees, brought a breath
of fresh air to the psychotic
killer, who was getting slower
and more supernatural with
each of the dozens of sequels.
The new Jason is an athlete—
quick, agile and powerful. He
also is a bit more vulnerable,
he gets hurt and bleeds like
a human being instead of
the unstoppable terminatortype Jason of the last three
sequels.
If your idea of a good scary
movie includes an innovative
plot, A-list actors and a splash
of witty humour, then why
are you even considering the
new Friday 13th movie? Get
real.
Check it out, but beware of
hockey-related nightmares.
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Durham College-UOIT Chronicle
Hawks named OCCA winners
Humber
moves on
to CCAA
By Stephanie Pollard
Chronicle Staff
Humber College walked away
with gold, leaving Nipissing to settle for silver when the Hawks won
the OCAA volleyball championships 3-1 (25-16, 25-18, 17-25, 2519) on Feb. 28 at Durham College.
Both teams will move on to the
Canadian Colleges Athletic Association (CCAA) championship,
taking place at Nipissing University March 12-14.
Humber fans flooded the court
screaming and waving Hawk paraphernalia, including one poster
that read ‘rawk out with your hawk
out.’ One of Humber’s team captains, Landis Doyle, felt relieved
when the last point was scored.
“You believe that you’re going to get that last point but when
it finally happens it’s sort of like
you’re excited and it’s also like a
big weight off your back because
you’ve finally done it,” she said.
Photo by Stephanie Pollard
GOLD!: Humber Hawks players Kris Dowling (left) and Landis Doyle pose with the
OCAA Champions banner. Humber beat Nipissing University at the OCAA Volleyball
Championships on Feb. 28 at Durham College.
Algonquin
men win
The
Thunder
wins
bronze
By Michael Terminesi
Chronicle Staff
By Stephanie Pollard
Chronicle Staff
Sheer determination earned the Algonquin Thunder bronze medals at the OCAA
volleyball championships on Feb. 28 at
Durham College when they defeated the
Loyalist Lancers 3-2 (27-25, 21-25, 27-25,
26-28, 15-12). The atmosphere on both
sides was charged, with intense, long rallies, as each team was anxious to stay in the
lead.
Algonquin won the first set 27-25 although they had some trouble maintaining service and couldn’t put the ball on the
ground fast enough. The Lancers were able
to move into position more quickly and had
better control of the ball, but Algonquin
took advantage of Loyalist’s mistakes and
kept them from recovering. In the second
set both teams exchanged the lead and the
game tied 21-21. The Lancers scored the
last four points for a 25-21 win.
The third set seemed to belong to Loyalist until the Thunder came back fighting
and tied the game 22-22. Both teams again
struggled for a lead until Algonquin scored
two points, ending the game 27-25.
The Lancers came with solid defence
in the fourth set as Rebecca Ramsay made
Head coach Chris Wilkins couldn’t
have agreed with her more.
“It was a big relief. It was kind of
like someone just stuck a pin in me
and a whole bunch of hot air just
blew out. There’s a lot of relief.”
In the first and second sets both
teams were eager to take the lead
but the Hawks dominated, forcing
the Lakers to call a timeout within
minutes of the last one. Nipissing
looked outplayed until the third
set when Humber took a turn for
the worse.
The Hawks came out unsure of
themselves and Nipissing capitalized on their mistakes, sustaining
a strong lead. Humber couldn’t recover and the Lakers took the set
25-17. Head Coach Chris Wilkins
was able to explain why Humber
spiraled out of control.
“I think we were just scared to
succeed. In that third game we
were hesitant and we were like
‘we’re going to do this’ and we
just couldn’t believe that it was so
close, and I think we just kind of
tensed up there for a bit,” he said.
And Humber came back fighting.
The Hawks exploded into a
lead in the fourth set, sending balls
towards Nipissing with no reaction time. Humber fans who came
for the game chanted ‘one more
point!’ when the scoreboard read
24-17. A final kill was all it took for
the Hawks to walk away with gold.
Photo by Stephanie Pollard
WAIT FOR IT.. : Thunder players Heather Bannister and Skye Anderson wait for Loyalist’s serve on Feb. 28.
many digs, holding off the kill attempts
from Thunder players Melissa Grongier,
Skye Anderson and Ashlie Cormack.
The game went down to a crucial moment and Loyalist came though with a 2826 win, extending the game into the final
deciding set. The Thunder rocked Loyalist
with a huge lead at the beginning of the set,
Loyalist couldn’t keep up and Algonquin
won 15-12.
Algonquin head coach Everton Senior
was happy with the win and felt it was long
overdue.
“It’s a really good feeling to finally win.
We’ve been at the championships many
times in the past years and we’ve always
come away empty-handed,” he said. However, despite the win he felt his team could
have played a better game and acknowledged Loyalist as good competition.
“I don’t think this was particularly a
strong game for us, actually. I think we
made a lot of mistakes.
I think Loyalist competed really, really
well. They had a ‘never-say-die’ attitude
and I kept telling the girls that it’s obvious
they’re not going to give this to us and we’ve
got to start working for something.”
The Algonquin Thunder men’s volleyball team faced The Seneca Sting for
the 2009 Belair Direct OCAA volleyball
championships and were victorious in
claiming the OCAA gold medal.
Algonquin was able to sweep Seneca
off the court with a 3-0 win with sets of
25-15, 25-20 and 25-16.
In the first set, Algonquin started with
an early lead that Seneca could not recover from, ending in a 25-12 final.
The second set was a bit closer for
Seneca as Jason Hernandez and Danny
Mudford put forth quite an effort, but Algonquin still stayed on top to claim the
second set 25-20.
With Algonquin up two sets, Seneca
needed up pick up the points. They were
able to catch up from 17-10 to 18-16, but
Algonquin’s thunder rolled in and took
Seneca out of the game, placing them in
first and giving them a gold medal.
The men’s gold medal game ended the
two-day championship, but even though
it was hosted by Durham College, the
Durham Lords were unable to play due to
the loss against Mohawk.
“Overall, I was extremely proud of our
team,” said Gord Williamson, head coach
of the Lords.
“Our improvement over the last year
was outstanding, but having said that, we
are very disappointed about not playing.
In the game against Mohawk, we beat
ourselves. But we have a team of players
that can be stars on any given night and
that was our strength this season and will
continue to be our strength next year.”
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SPORTS NEWS
Ridgebacks lose four straight
By Paul Bates
Chronicle Staff
The Ridgebacks women’s hockey season is over, and the team is
probably relieved about it, especially since the final four games of
the season all resulted in losses.
The downhill run started Feb.
14, when the Ridgebacks faced off
against the University of Toronto
Varsity Blues and lost the game
5-1.
UOIT started the game controlling the play and making it tough
for Toronto to get the puck out of
their end. However, UOIT could
not keep the pressure up as the
Blues finally turned things around,
ending the first period one goal
ahead of the Ridgebacks, who
failed to score.
During the second period play
went back and forth. The Blues
scored another goal with two minutes left to go, but the ridgebacks
answered 43 seconds later when
Breanne Hadley scored a goal. Unfortunately, it was the only goal for
the Ridgebacks.
Going into the last period the
Ridgebacks were down by a single
goal and tried but failed to score
any more. However, the Blues did
not have this problem, as they
scored three more on their way to
a final score of 5-1.
Feb. 15 was no better for the
Ridgebacks as they played their
final home game of the season
against the Waterloo Warriors.
Waterloo scored three goals
on just 10 shots, which forced
head coach Gary Pitcher to pull
goalie Carleigh Taggart early in the
game.
The second period saw a completely different team as the Ridgebacks outshot the Warriors 12-6
The reward for all their hard work
Photo by Paul Bates
WEAK FINISH: UOIT forward Emily Bremer (right) slides the puck past Waterloo goalie Erica Bridgewater. Waterloo won 5-1.
was a goal from Vanessa Johnstone
on a power play.
The second period burst was no
help for the Ridgebacks, as Waterloo scored two more goals in the
third period to win 5-1.
The Ridgebacks had taken the
week off to try to regroup before
their final road trip of the season.
Feb. 21 saw the team travel to
the University of Western Ontario
to face off against the Mustangs.
The Mustangs were no nicer
to the Ridgebacks than any of the
other teams they played in the last
four games of the season. The first
period saw the play go back and
forth, resulting in several penalties but the Mustangs took the
lead when a rebound off Emma
Thompson was tapped in.
The Mustangs scored early
in the second on a power play to
make the score 2-0 over the Ridgebacks but this did not last long as
Melissa Findley scored the first
goal of the game for the team.
Just four minutes later the
Ridgebacks fell to a score of 3-1
when the team deflected a shot
into the goal.
Chrissy Tereshyn scored one
more goal for the Ridgebacks, but
Mustangs scored two more in the
third period to hand the Ridgebacks their third straight loss, this
time 5-2.
Feb. 22 was the final game for
the Ridgebacks and probably the
most intense game of the season
as the team faced off against the
Windsor Lancers.
The goalies were the stars of
the show for this game as Emma
Thompson stopped 40 goals, and
Windsor’s Jamie Tessier stopped
all 20 goals from the Ridgebacks,
keeping the game scoreless
throughout the entire game.
The shootout saw both teams
need five rounds to settle the
game.
This was not the case for the
Lancers as they scored in the fifth
round to win the game 1-0.
The Ridgebacks did not qualify
for the post-season as they finished
the year with a record of 3-23-1.
Second-year centre Rikki Palmateer led the team in scoring for
the second straight year as she had
15, bringing her two-year total to
29.
Vanessa Johnstone led the
rookies in scoring with 13 points.
This was not be the only good
things for the Ridgebacks season
as Emma Thompson took the
starting goalie position early in the
season while recording a .909 save
percentage on the year.
Lords give Fleming a thrashing
By Ryan Joseph
Chronicle Staff
“Hopped up off the bed, turned
my swag on, took a look in the
mirror said, what’s up, yeah I am
getting money, ohh,” sings Soulja
Boy.
Instead of hopping of the bed
and getting money like Soulja
Boy, the Durham Lords men’s
basketball team hopped onto the
Campus Athletic Centre court and
turned their defensive swag on.
As a result the Lords blew out the
Fleming Knights 92-59, on Feb. 13.
The 59 points is the second least
allowed this season.
In the first half with the home
crowd behind them, the Lords
came out with something to prove,
going on a 25-8 run in the first eight
minutes.
At that point a frustrated
Knights squad called timeout.
“The crowd gave us that extra
boost,” said Lords starting guard
Tyler Pelley.
After the Knights timeout, the
Lords continued their strong play
and cruised to the locker room
with a 45-22 lead.
The 22 first-half points is the
lowest allowed by a Lords oppo-
nent this season.
On defence the Lords attacked
the Knights trio of Neil O’Sullivan,
Jovain Wilson and Tony Duran
who torched them for 66 of 84
points in their first meeting on Oct.
29. The trio combined to shoot six
for 20 from the field for the first
half.
The Lords also broke down
their opponents’ supporting cast,
forcing them to shoot 14 per cent
from three-point range, and 20 per
cent from the field.
“We forced them shoot the ball
from three feet behind the threepoint line,” said head coach Desmond Rowley.
At half-time, Rowley advised
his team to keep their focus, and
not let up.
In the second half, the Lords
jumped out to a 15-3 run to extend
their lead to 35 points at 60-25.
After that the Lords put the game
in cruise control and won by 33
points. The crowd went wild when
the clock struck triple zeros.
“This was our best defensive
game of the season,” Rowley said.
Pelley said, he and his teammates finally listened to the coach,
and believed in themselves. “We
made the Knights work for 40 minutes,” he said.
The Lords forced the Knights to
shoot seven for 36 from the threepoint arch. They also made things
difficult for the Knights from the
field, holding them to 27 per cent
shooting.
With the blowout, Rowley had
the opportunity to use his whole
bench. He wasn’t disappointed by
their contributions as ten players
scored at least one point.
After the game, Rowley reminded his team to not take anyone lightly and focus on one game
at a time.
Pelley added his teammates
need to also take every practice as
if their last and stay focused.
Eric Smith led the Lords scoring attack with 17 points and 10 rebounds. Anthony Batchelor, who
was playing his final home game,
gave his fans a treat, scoring 14
points and grabbing 12 rebounds.
Evan Browne and Vick Warya
also played their final home games
with the Lords. They combined to
score 14 points. They were honoured, along with Batchelor, at the
end of the game. Tony Duran led
the Knights with 18 points.
Photo by Ryan Joseph
GETTING IT DONE: Nicholas Brown gets ready to shoot
a free throw against the Fleming Knights.
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SPORTS NEWS
Durham Lords defeat Loyalist
Lords
give the
Lancers
a 97-59
beat-down
By Ryan Joseph
Chronicle Staff
The Durham Lords men’s basketball team carried their momentum from the Fleming game and
defeated the Loyalist Lancers 9759 on Feb. 17. This is the second
game a Lords opponent has been
held to 59 points.
In the first eight minutes the
Lancers matched the Lords shot
for shot, and as a result they trailed
14-10. Lords called time out.
After the time out the Lords
got their defensive swag on like
the Fleming game and went on a
20-4 run to take a 12-point lead at
30-18.
However, Durham didn’t stop
there as they turned the game
into a track meet. They got into the
passing lanes and forced many
turnovers. Then they ran the Lancers out of their dome as they went
on a 21-7 run to take a 51-25 lead
at half-time.
The second half was much of
the same, as the Lords showed
the Lancers why they are march-
ing to the playoffs. They won by 33
points.
Durham finished the regular
season with a 16-4 record. This
year marked the Lords’ highest
winning percentage since the
1997-’98 season.
Anthony Batchelor played his
final regular season game with the
green and gold, ending a spectacular five-year career. He finished
his career leading the OCAA in
almost every offensive category,
scoring 1,833 points, and marches
into the sunset as the all-time leading scorer.
The only things missing from
Batchelor’s trophy case are an
OCAA provincal championship
and a national championship,
something the Lords hope to bring
back to Durham for the first time
since the1996-’97 season. He finished the game with 11 points.
Evan Browne also played his final game regular season as a Lord.
He led the team in scoring with 25
points on the night, which included going four for five from threepoint range.
He finished his career eighth
all-time in Lords scoring with 630
points. Browne also finished second all-time with 87 three-point
field goals.
Eric Smith capped off his outstanding freshman season, going
12 for 12 from the field, scoring 24
points. He also grabbed seven rebounds. Smith led all OCAA freshman in scoring with 18.3 points
per game, 197 rebounds and 348
total points.
Jeffrey Kwakye led the Lancers
scoring attack with 19 points
Photo by Ryan Joseph
GOING HARD TO THE PAINT: Lords guard Courtney Small gets maulled by his Lancer
opponents on Feb. 17. Lords won the game 97-59.
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Being bold, going for the gold
By Stephanie Pollard
Chronicle Staff
Nipissing University and Humber College went for gold while Algonquin battled for bronze against
Loyalist in the semi-finals of the
OCAA volleyball championships.
The finals took place on Feb. 28.
In the first game the Hawks
soared to victory in a 3-0 sweep
over Loyalist. Humber was in
complete control of the first set
and while they had some trouble
keeping service, Loyalist was outplayed and the Hawks had enough
kills, aces and blocks to win the set
25-8.
Loyalist came back in the second set and threatened Humber’s
lead but the Lancers fell just short,
losing 25-22. Humber’s domination came back in full force in the
third set and they crushed the
Lancers 25-14. Head coach Chris
Wilkins said experience is what
made Humber the better team.
“Some of their (Loyalist) youth
showed today,” he said. “This is
a new experience for them and
some of our veteranship showed.
We’ve been here a number of
times and we really draw on that.”
It was then time for the Thunder to
face Nipissing.
Algonquin had a rough start in
the first set with bungled rallies
and trouble with keeping service,
giving the Lakers plenty of opportunity to sustain the lead, ending the set 25-14. The second and
third set were the same as the first,
with Algonquin unable to keep up
with Nipissing’s skills, ending the
3-0 sweep 25-17 in both matches.
Nipissing head coach Marc LaRochelle said the Lakers came into
the game with no intention of going easy on the Thunder.
“We knew that Algonquin was
coming on strong,” he said. “They
played a good quarter-final match
against St. Clair and for us it was to
set up a good block and to try to
recycle some balls but it’s also to
put some pressure on their passers and I think we were able to do
that.”
Algonquin
represents
Ontario
By Patrick O’Connor
Chronicle Staff
The Algonquin Thunder men’s
volleyball team will represent
Ontario at the CCAA National
Championship in Fort McMurray,
Alberta.
The Thunder defeated Mohawk
in the semi-finals by a score of 3-0
and defeated Seneca in the finals
by a score of 3-0.
The team was led by championship MVP Ryan Debruyn and
Costa Solankis, as well as Charlie
Hamilton and Jonathan Sloane.
The stage is now set for the
Thunder to take on Keyano College at the CCAA Championship.
It will bring the season to an end,
with the exception of the All-Star
game being hosted at Fleming
College on Saturday, March 21.
Photo by Stephanie Pollard
SMILE, WE’RE GOING FOR GOLD: Humber Hawk Michelle Overzet poses with retired Lords coach Stan Marchut
when Humber beat Loyalist at the semi-finals on Feb. 27.
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Bad
result for
the men’s
soccer
team
By Andrew Huska
Chronicle Staff
Photo by Andrew Huska
COACH IN ACTION: Lords’ assistant coach Mario Bombino suits up for the soccer practice on March 4 at Durham
College. The Lords were winless in their tournament at Sheridan College on Feb. 14 & Feb. 15.
Two tournaments in as many
weeks didn’t spell success for the
Lords men’s indoor soccer team.
Durham dropped all three
games in the Sheridan College Invitational on Valentines’ Day, and
lost two and tied one in the University of Guelph tournament on
Feb. 28.
But even worse for the Lords,
they scored no goals in the three
games they played during the
Sheridan tournament.
But as head coach Stan Bombino said, it wasn’t for lack of trying.
“The one [tournament] in Sheridan, we actually played pretty
good,” Bombino said.
“The last game we fell apart
simply because the guys knew
they couldn’t go through, but the
first game was a very close game. It
was one-nil as I recall and we were
in it. The second game was again
a very evenly matched game and
the game’s only 25 minutes and
one goal makes a big difference.”
While the team may have
played well together, certain players brought a bit of extra consistency to the pitch.
“Our regular guy who’s a standout is Jason Walker, he’s always
been a great leader for us,” said
Bombino.
“He leads by example, and our
goalkeeper Andrew [Macleod],
he’s just fantastic. The game indoors is such a fast-paced game
that I wouldn’t be standing between the pipes, but he keeps us
in every single game. I would say
those two guys are our most consistent.”
The
Guelph
tournament
brought a little bit more success
for the team even though they
were grouped with some tough
competition such as the University of Guelph and George Brown
College.
“We came third in our group,”
said Durham’s assistant coach
Mike Hadden.
“The boys did well. It was a
tough group.”
Hadden said teams like Guelph
and George Brown are very good
schools from a soccer standpoint.
He pointed out guys like firstyear player Juliano Michaelides,
Blair Darlington, Ben Vander
Eyken and Jason Walker as standouts in the Lords’ games.
But the problem of goal scoring remains, as Bombino said the
team hasn’t had a legitimate goal
scorer in some time, even going
back to the outdoor season.
“We need to put the ball in the
back of the net,” Bombino said.
“Three games, no goals, this is
no good.”
Durham will compete in the
OCAA regional championships
today (Tuesday) in Oakville.
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Lords see-saw battle with Loyalist Lancers
By Ryan Joseph
Chronicle Staff
The Lady Lords made the playoff-bound Loyalist Lancers sweat
for 40 minutes, but were unable
to leave Belleville with a win. They
were defeated 60-57, on Feb. 17.
The ladies started off the game
strong, showing the Lancers that
they weren’t going to get an easy
game. As a result they jumped out
to a 13-8 lead mid-way through
the first half. A frustrated Lancers
team called time out.
After the timeout the Lancers
outscored the Lady Lords 15-7 in
the next five minutes to take a 2320 lead.
Things went south for the ladies
when guard Erin Emery picked up
her third foul late in the half, sending her to the bench.
The rest of the half was a seesaw battle, but the Lancers managed to take a slim five-point lead
at 26-21 at half-time.
The start of the second half did
go well for the Lords as Emery
picked up her fourth foul in the
first five minutes. However, she
stayed in the game because the
team had only seven players.
Things weren’t all bad for the
Lords because they trailed by only
at 28-21. The seven-point margin
was the largest by either team.
Mid-way through the half, the
game went back to a see-saw battle with the teams matching each
other shot for shot, and foul for
foul.
The Lords tied the game at 42
with 8:20 left in the game. A minute later they re-took lead for the
first time since early in the first half
at 44-42.
However, the Lancers didn’t
back down as they regained the
lead at 47-46 with 5:21 left. At that
point the Lady Lords called time
out. Afterwards, the Lords stepped
up their defensive pressure, forcing the Lancers into a shot clock
violation.
With the Lords leading 51-49,
Diane Bouder from the Lancers
connected on a three-point basket, giving her team a 52-51 lead.
However, the Lords knotted the
game at 52 after free throws with
1:25 left.
On the next possession the
Lancers drove down the floor and
scored to take a 54-52 lead. Then
the Lords were forced to foul the
Lancers twice to stop the clock.
The Lancers hit all of their free
throws to take a 58-54 lead.
Off the inbound the Lords
got the ball to Laura Tomek for
a three-point shot, but it was no
good. Again they were forced to
foul to stop the clock, but this Loyalist missed the free throws.
After a time-out the Lords got
the ball to Jessica Newton and she
nailed a three- point shot to cut
the deficit to 58-57. However, on
the next play Newton picked up
Photo by Ryan Joseph
MOVE!: Lords guard Jessica Newton tries to spin away
from her Loyalist Lancer defender.
her fifth foul to stop the clock. The
Lancers made the free throws to
take a 60-57 lead with 12 seconds
left.
On their final possession the
Lady Lords got the ball to Emery for the game-tying shot, but it
rimmed out.
“The Lancers made the shots
when it mattered,” said head coach
Tim Baulk.
”They showed why they are a
playoff team.”
Jill Leistra and Newton led the
Lords in scoring with 14 points
each. Leistra also grabbed 11 re-
OCAA recognizes athletes at banquet
Babcock was also pleased to see Durham ColBy Stephanie Pollard
lege as the focal point where teams East and
Chronicle Staff
West could come together and compete. Durham College President Don Lovisa congratuThe Durham Lords men’s and women’s lated both men’s and women’s teams.
volleyball team had reason to celebrate at the
“Your hard work, commitment to excellence
2009 Belair Direct OCAA volleyball champi- and teamwork has brought you here today, reponship banquet held at the Best Western in resenting the best collegiate volleyball teams in
Oshawa on Feb. 26. The banquet jump-started Ontario,” he said.
the OCAA volleyball championships on Feb. 27
Algonquin, Loyalist, Nipissing and Humber
and 28. The banquet also recognized accom- were the final four to make it to the semi-finals
plishments of individual players in the East and in the women’s division, while Fanshawe, SeneWest regions.
ca, Algonquin and Mohawk made
In the East, Mandi Doris, KrisYour
hard it for the men’s. The semi-finals
ten Conner and Jamie Mayer
place on Feb. 27 and the ficommit- took
were named OCAA first team work,
nals on Feb. 28, in the varsity gym
all-stars while Melissa Reinhardt, ment to excel- at Durham College.
Jeff Torraville, Matt Mahorn and
Although Nipissing ousted the
Jeff Silver were honoured as sec- lence and team- lady Lords in the quarterfinals,
ond team all-stars for the East work has brought Durham left the season with a
region.
you here
huge accomplishment. Doris beFor the West, Landis Doyle
came the OCAA all-time career
of Humber won OCAA womblock leader with 156, smashing
Ken Babcock
en’s player of the year and was
the previous record of 147 held by
named one of the top players
Tracey Smith of Niagara.
in the country. Doyle finished second, averagAll three lady Lords were disappointed they
ing 4.22 points per game (PPG) and she was didn’t advance but were happy with their overrecognized as the Canadian Colleges Athletic all performance during the season.
Association (CCAA) athlete of the month. She
“I think that we could’ve done better, but at
also co-holds the record for OCAA serving aces the same time, season’s a season and we did
of 13. Stefanie Hancock of Nipissing University what we could do,” Conner said. Doris agreed
was also named a CCAA All-Canadian. On the and was impressed how far Durham had come
men’s side, fourth-year right side hitter Steve in the season.
Pawelczyk of Mohawk was named men’s OCAA
“We pulled through farther than I thought
player of the year and an CCAA All-Canadian. we would actually,” she said. It will be the last
He led the league in scoring and holds second season for Doris, Conner and Reinhardt, as
place all-time in career aces. Ryan Talsma of they are graduating this year.
Redeemer was named CCAA All-Canadian as
Other winners were: OCAA women’s rookie
well.
of the year and women’s east rookie of the year:
Athletic director and tournament chair Ken Elise Vincent (La Cite); OCAA Men’s Rookie of
Babcock was MC for the night and expressed the Year award: Andre Leblanc; Women’s West
how excited he was to see healthy, fierce vol- Coach of the Year: Chris Wilkins (Humber);
leyball competition.
Women’s East Coach of the Year: Tony Clarke
“We’re glad you’re here, glad you qualified (Loyalist); Men’s East Coach of the Year award:
and certainly we’re looking forward to some Max Larrivee (Algonquin); and Men’s West
great volleyball over the next few days,” he said. Coach of the Year: Josh Westgate (Fanshawe).
‘
’
Winners of first team all-stars women’s East
Region: Ashley Cormack (Algonquin), Jennifer
Lenis (Trent), Meagan McLellan (Georgian),
Heather Bannister (Algonquin) and Clare
Weisser (Seneca).
First team all-stars women’s West Region:
Rachel Dubbledam (Humber), Leah Waxman
(Mohawk), Stefanie Hancock (Nipissing), Landis Doyle (Humber), Laura Hudson (Nipissing), Alex Steplock (Humber) and Elizabeth
Johnston (Mohawk).
Winners for second team all-stars women’s
East Region: Skye Anderson (Algonquin),
Mandi Buma (Loyalist), Elise Vincent (La Cite),
Melissa Groniger (Algonquin), Amy Hoskin
(Loyalist) and Kayla Cargill (Cambrian).
Winners for second team all-star women’s
West Region: Rachel Vanhartingsveldt (Mohawk), Kerissa Van Amersfoort (Niagara),
Jamie Voyvodic (St. Clair), Chantel Schutten
(Redeemer), Lindsay Knezevich (Sault), Christina Crozier (Nipissing) and Ashley Hummel
(Nipissing).
Winners for men’s first team-all stars East
Region: Charlie Hamilton (Algonquin), Jamie
Mayer (Durham), J.R. Sapienza (Seneca), Jonathan Sloane (Algonquin), Mike Hammond
(Georgian), Costa Solanakis (Algonquin) and
Joshua Neadow (Trent).
Winners for men’s first team all-stars West
Region: Paul Kembo (Humber), Steve Pawelczyk (Mohawk), Ryan Talsma (Redeemer),
Brad Douwes (Redeemer), Corey Cole (St.
Clair), Patrick Fishman (Fanshawe) and Jordan McTavish (Fanshawe) won the men’s first
team all-stars.
Winners of the men’s second team all-stars
East Region: Ben Cambridge (Cambrian), Yannick Mulder (La Cite), Brian Archibald (Seneca) and Peter Christian (Seneca).
Winners of the men’s second team all-stars
for West Region: Matthew Westman (Fanshawe), Andre Leblanc (Nipissing), Steve Regier (Niagara), Brendan Wong (Humber), Adam
Leblanc (Nipissing), Zac Schulz (Mohawk) and
Sean Lowe (Mohawk).
bounds. Emery and Tomek had
solid games for the short-handed
Lords, combining to score 23
points.
Leistra played her final game
with Lords, as she is graduating
this year. She finished sixth on the
Lords in all-time scoring with 430
points. The late Bonnie Slaughter
holds the record for Lady Lords’
points with 887.
“She will be missed because of
her commitment,” said Baulk. He
also said she never gave up.
Team Captain Ashley Visser,
who didn’t play in the game, will
be graduating this year. She played
her last game against the Fleming
Knights on Feb. 13. Visser is a great
leader, Baulk said.
Visser played soccer as well
and she was the team captain.
Sara Maybee and Britteny Denneny carried the Lancers scoring
attack, combining to score 41 of
the Lancers’ 60 points.
Going into the off season, Baulk
and his assistant Shawn McPhee
will be working hard to recruit
talent for next year and years to
come.
“We can’t recruit year to year
because the program will never
grow,” said Baulk.
The core of the Lady Lords
team is young and they are eligible
to return. Baulk will give the ladies
an off-season program to work on.
“If they don’t do their off-season
work, they will not make the team
next year,” he said.
UOIT
honours
athletic
success
By Lauren Thomas
Chronicle Staff
The third annual UOIT
Ridgebacks Athletic Banquet
is set to take place March 13
at the Trillium Trails Banquet
Hall.
The banquet marks the
third season the Ridgebacks
have spent in the Ontario
University Athletics program
and their first with the Canadian Interuniversity Sport.
The evening will kick off
with cocktails at 6 p.m., followed by the ceremonial
part of the Ridgebacks night.
Awards will be handed out to
athletes who excelled in their
sport and a year-end video
will also be shown.
UOIT athletes are asked to
RSVP to Scott Dennis, scott.
dennis@dc-uoit.ca.
The Trillium Trails Banquet Hall is located in Oshawa north of the Raglan Road
and Simcoe Street intersection.
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Women’s basketball finish
season on a high note
By Didier Kalonji
Chronicle Staff
Photo by Lauren Thomas
UOIT FALLS TO GUELPH: Ridgebacks assistant
captain Nathan Spaling and Kyle Wetering battle
fiercely for the puck against a Gryphons player.
The Lords women’s basketball
put on a great performance in
their last home game of the season. They spanked the Fleming
Knights 70-31 on Feb. 13.
The Lords’ run for the playoff
was over a few days before the final game. But it did not discourage
them from playing their best. They
defeated the Knights earlier this
season 68-34. So they were confident going into the game.
They were aggressive in the
first half, and attacked the basket,
which created a big lead for them.
The Lords looked unstoppable,
hitting shots from every angle of
the court, and finished the first half
with 34-16 lead.
Regardless of their early lead
the Lords did not put their guard
down. They came out aggressive
and kept attacking the basket,
which forced the Knights to foul
them. The Lords outscored the
knights 18-3 at the free throw line.
This win was a team effort from
the Lords, three players finished
with double digits points. Lords
guard Jessica Newton put on a
great performance for the home
crowd, as she finished with a
game-high 30 points. Ashley Visser recorded a double-double
Photo by Didier Kalonji
LORDS WIN: Durham Lords Kenesha StinchcombeBrown attempts to drive past a Fleming defender in the
Lords final home game of the season on Feb. 13.
with 11 points, and 11 rebounds.
Jill leistra added 10 points to help
the Lords breeze past the Knights.
“It’s nice to win the last game,”
said coach Tim Baulk. “We worked
very hard.”
Ridgebacks
Hockey heroes put on
hockey split
quite the show in Oshawa
final weekend
By Thomas Cranston
Chronicle Staff
By Lauren Thomas
Chronicle Staff
It was a busy final weekend
for the UOIT Ridgebacks men’s
hockey team who lost 5-4 to the
Guelph Gryphons and beat the
Brock Badgers 5-2.
Home advantage just wasn’t
enough for the Ridgebacks on
Feb. 13 as more than 500 fans
gathered at the Campus Ice
Centre for the overtime-game
excitement against the Gryphons.
It was, however, a monumental night for Ridgeback captain
Derrick Bagshaw, who scored
the men’s first ever hat trick.
Bagshaw opened the scoring
with assists from Mike Noyes
and Dustin Turner.
Ridgeback Josh Vatri scored
in the second period, netting the
only goal of the night not scored
by Bagshaw. Assists came from
Kyle Wetering and Nathan Spaling.
With 59 seconds left in the
third period Bagshaw pulled
through with an amazing goal,
assisted by Wetering, to take the
game into overtime.
Facing 40 shots on goal during the game, Ridgeback goaltender Jeff Dawson let a puck
sneak past him 2:32 into overtime.
At the Feb. 13 game fans took
part in the second annual Durham Dodge Chrysler Jeep Bursary Contest, where John Carlo
took home the $1,000 student
bursary.
After playing two seasons
as Ridgeback assistant captain,
Brent Varty was honoured at
the start of the Feb. 13 game to
commemorate his time as a key
component of the program.
Heading to St. Catharines on
Feb. 14 the men had a date with
Cupid and a 5-2 victory.
Trailing 2-0 going into the
second period, Ridgeback point
leader Vatri scored on the power play with an assist from TJ
Legge.
The Ridgebacks then had an
explosive third period, scoring
four unanswered goals, scored
by Vatri, Tony Rizzi, Whelan and
Wetering with assists from Bagshaw, Legge, Varty and Vatri.
The Ridgebacks ended their
season with a 7-16-5 record.
It looks like the Durham Regional Police Association may
have finally met their match, as
they were unable to contain a
team made up of former professional hockey players.
The Legendary Hockey Heroes,
employing several members of the
Hockey Hall of Fame, walked away
with a 17-10 victory on Feb. 17 at
the General Motors Centre in Oshawa.
The Oldtimers’ Hockey Challenge is an annual event that raises money for the Ontario Special
Olympics and other charities as
the hockey heroes travel across
Canada putting on a show and
competing against community
teams, allowing fans to watch a
spectacular show while contributing to a good cause.
Former NHL referee Ron Hoggarth and CTV and TSN sportscaster Rod Black shared hosting
duties while also being integral
parts in the game’s outcome.
The 151 Lloyd Chadburn Squad
of the Royal Air Cadets of Oshawa
played the national anthem. The
Black Ice Synchronized Skating
Club amazed fans during the first
intermission while the Durham
Regional Police Pipes and Drums
band entertained the crowd dur-
ing both intermissions.
The game was fun for the whole
family and more interesting components were added as the game
went on. The hockey challenge
had more excitement than that
boring event the NHL calls its allstar game.
Hoggarth went and sat in the
penalty box and called an unsuspecting Bob Probert to pay drop
him a visit. Probert, one of the most
penalized players in NHL history
with a career 3,300 penalty minutes, was in his “home away from
home”, according to Hoggarth.
A minor hockey tyke team took
over for the DRPS halfway through
the second period, with the game
tied 7-7. Hoggarth announced the
likes of Tavares, Crosby and Ovechkin were skating up ice whenever
the tykes had control of the puck.
Hannah, a tyke player, was granted
a penalty shot after one of the legends closed his hand on the puck
in the crease.
Hoggarth asked Hannah where
she was from. She said, “Canada”.
A surprise shootout shocked
fans midway through the third
period with former NHL forwards
Gary Leeman, Bernie Nicholls,
Dale Hawerchuk and then sportscaster Rod Black racing off the
bench towards the police goal.
Each player added some flavour
to their attempt. Hoggarth an-
nounced each participant with
their outstanding credentials and
number of goals they scored in the
NHL.
Leeman scored earlier in the
game, carrying the puck on his
stick like a lacrosse player from
one end of the ice to the other.
“Wow, look at this stick handling,”
Hoggarth commented as Leeman
skated up ice and threw the puck
in the net.
Leeman scored another dazzling goal, this time in the shootout, when he flipped the puck up
onto his stick and kicked the stick,
which launched the puck into the
top corner. Nichols and Hawerchuk both missed going five-hole,
leaving TSN’s Rod Black as the final shooter.
Asked when he last scored a
goal, Black replied, “The last time
the Maple Leafs won the Stanley
Cup.”
Hoggarth told Black to skate in
fast, go low and shoot five-hole.
Black, thinking creatively, turned
around, circled around his own
net to pick up speed as AC DC’s
Thunderstruck blasted throughout the arena. He took off over the
blueline and as he wound up for
a shot, he dove headfirst through
goaltender Billy Smith’s legs and
into the net.
Goal, as the crowd erupted in
laughter.
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Ridgebacks score a new head coach
By Paul Bates
Chronicle Staff
UOIT Ridgebacks will be going through
a major change in the next year of the OUA
hockey season.
Ken Babcock, athletic director for Durham College and UOIT, announced that the
new head coach for the Ridgebacks is former assistant coach Karen Nystrom.
“This move is part of the overall plan established from day one that would see Karen transition from her initial assistant role to
head coach after year two,” Babcock said.
Nystrom is not new to the game of hockey
or even to the Ridgebacks women’s hockey
team, as she has been one of the assistant
coaches for the last two years and steps up
to the head coach role, taking over from
Gary Pitcher.
“With the pillars put in place over the last
two years, coach Pitcher has left the program in a great situation to move forward,”
Babcock said. “Gary simply did an outstanding job putting together a competitive roster
of 22 eligible players from scratch… Two
years later the team is in a great position to
move toward contender status when our
student athletes move into their third and
fourth years of our program.”
Nystrom’s background in hockey includes three gold medals at the world
championships (1992, 1994 and 1997), two
trips to the finals of the 3 Nations Cup and a
Pacific Rim championship in 1995.
Nystrom was also a part of the 1998
women’s hockey team that won the silver
medal in Nagano Japan, after which she retired from professional hockey and moved
to coaching.
Nystrom also spent six years in the National Women’s Hockey League, where she
was not only league scoring champion, but
was also on the all-star team for all of those
years.
Her coaching career has seen her behind
the bench as assistant coach for the gold
medal U-18 team Ontario and Toronto Junior Aeros.
This will be Nystrom’s first time as the
head coach but Babcock sees the team going far under her leadership.
Photo by Paul Bates
A NEW COACH: UOIT Ridgebacks new head coach Karen Nystrom at
the press conference held at the campus ice centre
Great CanadianWrestling comes to Oshawa
By Paul Bates
Chronicle Staff
Wrestling fans in Oshawa were treated to another great evening of entertainment on
Feb. 20, this time at the hands of GCW.
The stars of the circuit joined together with a couple of major star of the business, the
Honky Tonk Man, a veteran with more than 30 years in the business, and Shawn Spears,
a relative newcomer to the business, who was making his first return trip to Ontario after
being cut recently from World Wrestling Entertainment.
The sell-out crowd was treated to such matches as:
-Rico Montana vs. Sexxxy Eddy
-RJ City & The Masked Serpents vs. GCW FLATLINERS
-Honky Tonk Man, Tyler Tirva and Josh Alexander vs. The House Of Virtue (Sebastian
Suave, Sterling Silver and Andrew Davis)
-Danyah and Anna Minoushka vs. Lufisto and PJ Tyler
-Hayden Avery and Shawn Spears vs. The House Of Virtue(Psycho Mike Rollins and
Steve Brown)
-Cody Deaner and Crazzy Steve vs. Otis Idol and Anthony Darko
One of the results that ignited fans was the second of two main events, which ended in
a no-contest after the referee was tossed out of the ring and knocked out.
Deaner and Steve had both Darko and Idol pinned, but the match was declared a nocontest when the referee regained consciousness.
The fans were made even happier when the Honky Tonk Man took time to take pictures with his fans and sign autographs.
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Durham Lords lose in playoffs
By Ryan Joseph
Chronicle Staff
The Durham Lords men’s basketball team went undefeated on
home-court during the regular
season. But their first loss came
in the playoffs against the Algoma
Thunderbirds 91-87 in overtime,
ending their season on Feb. 21.
The Thunderbirds took a 77-74
lead with less than a minute left
in regulation. On the next possession, Lords three-point specialist Evan Browne connected from
downtown to tie the game with
42.6 seconds left.
Anthony Batchelor hit two free
throws to give the Lords a twopoint lead at 79-77, but O’Brian
Wallace of the Thunderbirds tied
the game at 79.
Both teams scored on their
next offensive possession to tie the
game at 81 with less than 10 seconds left.
The Lords had the final possession of regulation time. Durham
got the ball to Browne, who dribbled away from the Algoma defence and fired a jump-shot from
the free throw line. The ball rolled
around the rim, hit the top of the
backboard, hit the rim again and
fell out.
“It was frustrating because it
was a good look,” Browne said.”It
was off by an inch.”
The crowd was ready to run
onto the court, but they had to return to their seats for overtime.
Overtime began with Lords
guard Tyler Pelley giving his team
a two-point lead. Vyron Phillips
tied the game for Algoma.
Smith and Batchelor scored the
Lords next four points, giving them
an 85-81 lead with 3:31 left. Time
out Thunderbirds.
After the timeout the Thunderbirds went on a 10-2 run to slam
the door on the Lords’ season.
The run was capped off by guard
Ryan Vetrie hitting free throws to
give Algoma the four-point win.
Photo by Ryan Joseph
THE SEASON IS OVER: Lord’s guard Dave Parks is looking to keep his Algoma Thunderbird opponent in
front of him on Feb. 21.
“Words can’t describe how frustrating the loss is,” said Batchelor.
Head coach Desmond Rowley
said the Thunderbirds out-played
his team and they hit shots, when
the Lords didn’t.
The Lords also struggled from
the free throw line, going nine of
20.
“We lost by four and missed 11
free throws,” said Browne.” If we
make them we win the game.”
In the first half it looked like the
Lords were going to blow out their
opponent, using a 26-7 run to grab
a 21-point lead 41-20 with 3:40 left
in the half.
However, the game took a dramatic turn in the Thunderbirds
favour. They went on a 16-2 run to
end the half, cutting the Lords lead
to seven points at 43-36.
“We gave them some life and
they answered,” said head coach
Desmond Rowley. Lords guard
Anthony Batchelor said the team
lost their intensity and the Thunderbirds gained theirs.
“We got too comfortable with
the lead and they hit a few shots,”
said guard Evan Browne.
In the second half the Thunderbirds opened on an 8-0 run, to take
their first lead of the game at 44-43.
A frustrated Lords squad called
timeout.
“I was trying to get them re-focused on our goal,” said Rowley.
For the rest of the half it was a
see-saw battle with each team battling for loose balls, taking charging fouls and hitting shots.
Smith led the Lords in scoring with a game-high 25 points,
and also grabbed eight rebounds.
Batchelor had a solid game with
18 points, which included three for
four from the free throw line.
Nicholas Brown was a force on
the offensive rebounds, grabbing
six. He finished with 12 points be-
fore fouling out in overtime.
Batchelor said he is proud of his
teammates’ hard work throughout
the season. “No one wanted a first
round exit,” he said.
Browne also praised the team
for never giving up all season.
Vetrie lead Algoma in scoring
with 21 points. He did most of his
damage at the free throw line, going 11 for 12. Wallace gave the
Lords defence problems from the
three-point arch, going five for
eight.
Rowley said he is going take a
break from basketball before planning for next year.
Sportsmanship versus steroids
Have you ever watched your favourite
hitter in baseball hit a home-run and wondered how they did it?
Did the league commissioner ensure
that players weren’t using steroids or Human Growth Hormones to gain an advantage over their opponents? Players are now
bigger and stronger, and as a result they are
hitting more homeruns.
Welcome to Major League Baseball.
Those of you who follow the MLB season
from April to October will know many star
players are suspected of taking steroids or
growth hormones during their playing days,
such as Barry Bonds who is the all time
home-run leader.
Steroids first became a hot topic in 1988,
when a Washington Post writer claimed
that Jose Canseco was great because he
used steroids.
At the time there was no testing or penalties for taking steroids. Canseco denied it at
first, but admitted it in his book called Juiced
published in 2005.
The book named many players suspected of taking steroids or hormones, such as
Mark McGuire, Rafael Palmerio, Jason Giambi, Juan Gonzales, Albert Belle, and Alex
Rodriguez.
However, baseball didn’t toughen up roid use, including Canseco, McGuire and
their penatilies for taking drugs until 2005, Rafeal Palmerio.
which I think was far too long. They knew
Canseco admitted his steroid use, but
steroids and hormones were a big problem. he also gave away names of players that he
Commissioner Bud Selig waited until the claimed, he injected with steroids. McGuire
problem got out of hand
and Palmerio denied
and U.S. Congress had to
their steroid use. Things
step in to deal with it.
changed when Palmerio
Ryan
On Feb.10, New York
was caught taking steroids
Yankees third baseman
during the 2005 season,
Joseph
Alex Rodriguez admitand therefore baseball is
ted to using steroids
investigating whether to
from 2001-2003, when
strip him of his 3000 cahe played for the Texas
reer hits.
Rangers.
After the congressional hearing, Senator
During the Ranger years he jumped from George Mitchell decided to do a little invest41 homeruns in his last season with the Se- gating on his own.
attle Mariners to 52 in 2001, 57 in 2002 and
In December 2007, the Mitchell Report
47 in 2003. He claimed he only used steroids was released listing 103 players that took
during those years, but how do we know he steroids. However these players couldn’t be
didn’t use in 2004 to ease the pressure of punished because they all used before baseplaying for the Yankees.
ball tightened their rules.
Rodriguez is not the only player using
Selig had an opportunity to catch players
steroids, Ken Caminiti admitted to steroids using steroids and give them a severe punduring the 1996 season, the year he won Na- ishment. But he waited too long and as a retional League MVP. He also admitted using sult he is dealing with the fallout.
throughout his career.
This goes to show that steroids has a maDuring the U.S. Congressional hearing jor impact on baseball. For baseball fans it’s
in 2005, former and current major league frustrating to know players had to resort to
players were subpoenaed to talk about ste- cheating instead of using their God given
talent.
These players are role models for young
children, and they are teaching them the
only way to make it in baseball is to use steroids.
In other sports such as track and field,
and the National Football League (NFL)
there are strict penalties for steroid use. In
track and field players who use steroid or
hormones are stripped of their medals. Just
ask sprinters Ben Johnson and Marion Jones
what happens when you cheat.
In the NFL players who take steroids are
suspended for four games for the first offense, eight game for the second offense and
third offense gone for the season and must
apply for reinstatement.
This just goes to show you that other
sports didn’t wait 17 years to crack down on
their drug problem.
In my opinion players who get caught for
taking steroids in baseball need to be suspended for the season. The commissioner
should also be someone who knows how to
deal with a problem and not let it snow ball,
Bud Selig that’s you man.
It’s time for baseball players to stop cheating, so fans like myself don’t worry if someone is using steroids to gain an advantage.
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