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VOLUME XXXIII, Issue 10
BIG AIR:
MASCOT MANIA:
Rail Jam at Dagmar
See PAGE 22
Ultimate Fight
See PAGE 2
DC, UOIT
students
slammed by
neighbours
By Andrew Moore
Chronicle Staff
Word of Durham College and
UOIT students throwing parties in
off-campus communities has made
headlines in Toronto.
On Jan. 23, the Toronto Star
published an article stating that
“loud parties, property damage,
drunkenness, pot-smoking, vandalism, threats, rowdiness, traffic and
parking problems, garbage and
overgrown lawns” are a few of the
reasons causing families to pack up
and move out from communities in
the area of Niagara Drive and Simcoe Street, just south of the campus.
“The Star put a negative spin on
the story and it’s unfair to students,”
said Student Association president
Evan Muller-Cheng. “The students
do a lot of good things for the community, but the Star doesn’t focus
on that.”
January , 2007
The article mentions that students new to the community are instantly being stereotyped as partiers
and pot-smokers, when some just
need an affordable place to live.
“I’ve got nothing against the
neighbourhood,” a homeowner on
Dalhousie Crescent told the Chronicle. He didn’t want to be named.
“Families are moving out and kids
don’t play on the street any more.
Some of these students are destroying the neighbourhood. I say some
because there are students that are
respectful.”
Driving along Dalhousie Crescent looking at the number of houses for sale, it’s hard to tell whether
families are moving out because of
students or property investors are
just doing their job. But homeowners are not pleased.
“I’ve lived here since these houses were built,” said the Dalhousie
homeowner. “Since I’ve moved in
I’ve had both neighbours move out.”
Spreading school spirit
Photo by Pavan Sandhu
GETTING PEOPLE PUMPED: Lord Durham joined the Durham College and UOIT
cheerleaders in promoting the all-star basketball game. See PAGES 25 and 26.
The houses that line Niagara
Drive and Dalhousie Crescent were
built six years ago, 31 years after the
college was founded in 1967.
“I just moved into a student
house and I haven’t really heard of
any complaints,” said Matt Vanwyk,
a third-year Multimedia Design student. “I’ve pretty much just noticed
older people shaking their heads as
people speed down the street.”
Steps have been taken by the
Student Association to ease the
situation. The SA has created the
Good Neighbour Guide, which will
encourage students to inform their
neighbours when parties or other
loud events will be taking place.
“We invest in community safety,” said Muller-Cheng. “Whenever
there’s a pub night or a campus
event we have police officers patrolling the areas to ensure safety.”
Also, the Town and Gown Com-
mittee, formed to provide peace
between the school and the surrounding communities, has offered
a package of solutions to help solve
any problems that occur between
students and homeowners.
Some of the suggestions include
a bylaw that limits the number of
bedrooms in a house being rented
to students, traffic lights at Simcoe
Street and Niagara Drive and an oncampus police station.
SA elections kick off Wednesday
By Pavan Sandhu
and Jocelyn Nespiak
By Jocelyn Nespiak
and Pavan Sandhu
Fraser McArthur is a fourthyear Chemistry student at
UOIT and is excited about the
possibility of becoming president.
“I have had the experience
with the Student Association,”
said McArthur. “And I have the
interpersonal skills, and the organization experience.”
He has been a deputy to
the VP Internal and dealt with
many issues like the women’s
centre, the food bank and bylaws. He was also the VP of
UOIT in 2004.
If elected, food service is an
area he will deal with. Because
this is a cultural campus McArthur feels students need choices in food selection. More open
space for students is an area
that he will also be active in.
Matt Fawcett is a third-year
Criminology and Justice student who is passionate about
becoming president.
“I am graduating so I am
more focused on providing
representation for students,”
said Fawcett.
He has been involved with
all levels of student life. He was
VP of UOIT last year.
“I want to open the communication between administration and students to bring ideas
about how to use space around
school more efficiently,” he
said.
When asked if he is nervous
about his chance of taking the
throne, he replied, “Fraser is
a great opponent. I’ve worked
with him before and I look forward to the competition.
Chronicle Staff
Chronicle Staff
Photo by Pavan Sandhu
DUKING IT OUT: Fraser McArthur (left) and Matthew Fawcett (right) are competing for
the post of SA President in upcoming elections. Voting starts Wednesday.
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January 30, 2007
CAMPUS NEWS
The Ultimate Mascot triumphs
By Jocelyn Nespiak
Chronicle Staff
Photo by Jocelyn Nespiak
GRIZZLY STRENGTH: Smokey the Bear, winner of the 2007 Ultimate Mascot Fighting
Championships at E.P. Taylor’s, proudly holds his trophy.
It was the final fight of the
three-day Ultimate Mascot Fighting Championships (UMFC) at E.P.
Taylor’s. Each athlete had trained for
years to be in these final moments.
But who would be left standing, the
Grinch or Smokey the Bear?
When Santa stomped on the
Grinch, almost knocking him out
during fight one on Tuesday night, it
seemed the Grinch would be packing his bag and heading back to
Whoville. But a urine test revealed
Santa had taken steroids, leaving
the Grinch grinning and waving
goodbye to old St. Nick.
“We don’t like drugs here,” said
Scott Toole, Student Association
events programmer.
Smokey won his first fight against
Puff the Magic Dragon in the battle
of the beasts. Although Puff ’s greatest strength is his fire-breath, it was
no match for Smokey. Since 1944
he’s been a member of the United
States Forest Service and a fire prevention educator. He knew exactly
how to put out the fire in Puff ’s belly.
Smokey put Puff in a chokehold,
forcing him to tap out.
The semi-finals revealed who
had trained the hardest, who was
the fastest and who was the smart-
est.
Although many students, like
Sian Combrink, believed the Beaver would triumph, Smokey was
an unstoppable force. Beaver’s tail
was torn from his body, leaving him
weak. The small crowd of 40 booed
and cheered as the referee counted
for the knock-out.
“I honestly thought the Beaver
would win,” said Mike, a Business
student at Durham College.
Inside E.P. Taylor’s on the final
night, it was quiet. Only 20 students
were present.
The bell rang. Smokey ran at the
Grinch, tackling him. The Grinch
pushed back. They struggled to push
one another to the ground.
Smokey had the advantage. He
weighed in at 275 pounds, while the
Grinch was 166 pounds.
During round three, the Grinch
fell to the floor. Smokey was using
his boxing skills to try and knock
him out. Finally the bell rang and
the ref announced the old Grizzly as
the new UMFC champ of 2007.
“Only you can prevent forest
fires,” Smokey said, accepting his
trophy.
Valerie Naylor, a commerce
student at UOIT, was the winner
of $150. She placed her bets on
Smokey the Bear.
“He had a bigger heart,” she said.
University receives $250,000
By Joshua Vanderstam
Chronicle Staff
Schneider Electric Canada announced Jan. 25 it would donate
$250,000 worth of equipment to
University of Ontario Institute of
Technology’s Engineering and Applied Science laboratories.
Items like programmable logic
controllers, human machine interfaces, relays, timers, and switches are
included in the bundle. Also safety
products such as light barriers and
safety mats will be implemented in
UOIT’s Mechatronics, Robotics and
Automation, and Power Systems
labs for student training.
The donation will also be used for
Integrated Manufacturing coursework and aid the university’s Capstone Design projects. The projects
need students to solve engineering
problems with design skills.
“Thank you from the bottom of
our hearts,” said an overjoyed Marc
Rosen, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering.
According to David Chambers
vice-president of Advancement at
UOIT, the partnership between Schneider Electric Canada and UOIT
has existed for about two years. Schneider Electric has contributed two
$25,000 donations in the past.
“They always do what they say
they’re going to do,” said Chambers.
The donations will continue to
provide student engineers and engineer technologists the resources
needed to reach their potential and
aid them in learning new skills.
In 2008 the Automotive Centre
of Excelllence will open at UOIT. It
will be an integral part of the UOIT
faculty of Engineering and Applied
Science. The research and develop-
Photo by Joshua Vanderstam
CHA-CHING: Michael Fisher, UOIT president Ronald Bordessa, Marc Rosen, David Chambers, Gavin deMello, Schneider
Electric president Gary Abrams and Julie Thrasher check out the $250,000 donation Schneider Electric made to the
university last week. The company has donated $50,000 in the past.
ment centre will have a wind tunnel, which will test vehicles under
weather conditions. In addition
there will be a four-post shaker to
measure a vehicles, ability to handle
under different road conditions.
“For Schneider Electric, the
costumers always come first,” said
Dr. Ronald Bordessa, president of
UOIT.
UOIT’s commitment to research
has given them millions of dollars in
grants and awards.
“Keep up the good work,” said
Gary Abrams. “We’re just happy to
be a part of it.”
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CAMPUS NEWS
Women’s centre to open
By Reka Szekely
Chronicle Staff
Photo by Chad Ingram
BRINGING THE BACON: Student Centre manager Will Ellis
barbecues some peameal at the SA’s Lumberjack Breakfast. Proceeds went to Project Cold Feet.
Project Cold
Feet warms up
Oshawa winter
By Chad Ingram
Chronicle Staff
Some of Oshawa’s homeless will
be having a warmer winter, thanks
to students at DC/UOIT.
Project Cold Feet, a charity drive
designed to put socks on the feet of
the less fortunate, held a five-day
campaign on campus last week. It
was organized by Students Against
Social injustice (SASI), in conjunction with the Student Association
(SA), Students for Humanitarianism, Action and Respect through
Education (SHARE), CrimeStoppers and other community groups.
“Project Cold Feet was originally
inspired 13 years ago by SASI member Jim Bell and his roommate,”
said SASI president Carolyn Saenz.
“They decided one day that they
wanted to help the homeless, so
they bargained with Canadian Tire
and Wal-Mart, went out, bought
socks and delivered them to the
homeless.”
Saenz, who volunteers at a shelter, said the number of people who
come in without socks is alarming.
“People donate jackets and hats,
but forget about things like socks,”
she said.
Donation boxes for both money
and unused socks were set up in lo-
cations throughout campus. Events
also helped raise money for the
cause, and its goal of $1,000.
“The SA agreed to donate the
proceeds of their lumberjack breakfast,” Saenz said. “We’ll also be selling glow-sticks at Wednesday’s pub
night.”
The SASI president directed
much credit to third-year Criminology student Holly Pelvin. Pelvin
wanted to run a sock drive of her
own, so she and SASI collaborated.
“She’s been the project leader
throughout this, and has really done
an excellent job,” Saenz said.
Local agencies Adelaide House
and Cornerstone will be the recipients of the socks, to be purchased in
bulk from Canadian Tire and WalMart.
“I hope that if we exceed our goal
of $1,000, we can use the rest (of
the money) to develop an outreach
component,” Saenz said, meaning
that students would actually go out
and deliver socks to people on the
street.
At press time, a tally had not
been made.
Saenz spoke of the social stigma
attached to homelessness, and the
need to remove it.
“Homelessness is not the cause
of a problem,” she said. “It’s the
symptom of one.”
A new women’s centre is set to
open in mid-February, providing
support and services for the entire
campus.
The centre will be located in the
portable behind the library, which
was previously used as a construction office. Campus clubs will share
the location with the centre.
Alisha Thornton, vice-president
internal and operations management for the student association,
spearheaded the campaign to create a women’s centre. It was initially
set to open next year, but when the
school offered the space, the SA
jumped at the opportunity.
With statistics showing that one
in three women experience gender-based violence, which includes
verbal, physical and sexual abuse,
Thornton believes a women’s centre
is an essential service for the campus.
“Every campus has one; it’s important to know there’s a place they
can feel safe 100 per cent of the time
or a place that has referral services,”
she said.
For the rest of this year volunteers
will staff the centre, with Thornton
spending as much time there as she
can. It will be open from 9 a.m. to 9
p.m., providing a big window for students to access the centre’s resources or to use it as a safe study space.
The centre will provide several
services.
“There’s definitely going to be a library, a resource centre and eventually we want a kid zone,” said Thornton, adding that the centre will also
play a big part in campaigns such
as Positive Spaces and the violence
against women awareness campaign that was organized by Students Against Social Injustice this
year.
Though some centres in Canada
are women-only spaces, here men
and women can use the service.
“There’s definitely going to be
space and support for progressive
Photo by Reka Szekely
HELPING HAND: SA VP Alisha Thornton spearheaded the
new women’s shelter, to open in mid-February.
men,” said Thornton. “We see them
as important allies.”
In future years, Thornton would
like to see a full-time member working at the centre. She’d also like to
see classes on faith and spirituality,
self-defence lessons and a female
mentoring program that partners
campus women with high school
students.
The centre will work closely with
off-campus community organizations, faculty and the school itself.
That includes supporting students if they need to approach the
administration with a problem.
Gary Pitcher, director of student
rights and responsibilities, said it’s
important to have a women’s centre
on campus.
“We know that learning takes
place in a classroom, but learning
takes place outside of that too, and a
women’s centre would be a big part
of that,” said Pitcher, adding that Jon
Sarpong, the diversity officer for the
school, will be liaising with the centre.
Sarpong previously worked at
the University of Toronto’s women’s
centre.
“I worked at the women’s centre for a few years and found that it
was a great place to gain information on the community’s needs and
to meet with different people,” said
Sarpong.
Alissa Paxton, a co-ordinator at
the women’s centre at Trent University, said she’s thrilled that Trent students in Oshawa campus will have a
centre because it’s difficult for them
to access the one in Peterborough.
“I think it’s great. We’re all students and we’ve had a lack of mobility and we haven’t been able to get
out there a lot,” she said. “I know a
lot of (Trent) students there who are
interested.”
Trent’s centre is celebrating its
20th anniversary this year.
No conclusion on broken panel
By Chad Ingram
Chronicle Staff
An investigation is still ongoing
into the glass panel that shattered
and fell from the fourth floor of the
UA building’s east atrium just over
two weeks ago.
“There’s nothing happening at
the moment,” said Ralph Aprile,
vice-president of facilities for DC/
UOIT. “They’re finished on site for
now, but as I said before (in a previous interview), it’s a long, drawnout process. I can’t say whether
we’ll know something in the next
week.”
The incident, which occurred
Sunday, Jan. 14, is reminiscent of
last February, when another panel, on the same floor of the same
atrium, shattered. The atrium remains closed behind wooden bar-
riers.
“The atrium will remained
closed until they can confirm that
this will not happen again,” Aprile
said.
The administration’s course of
action remains unclear.
“We’d just be guessing at this
point,” Aprile said, “and we can’t
afford to guess.”
No students were injured in the
incident.
KPIs put Durham College to the test
By Marilyn Gray
Chronicle Staff
Durham College students will be
completing KPI (key performance
indicator) surveys Feb. 5-16.
KPIs are a mandatory, in-class
survey that all students are required
to complete. Students will be asked
to rate their professors, the college
facilities, and services.
Since 1998, the Ontario Ministry
of Training, Colleges and Universities has required all colleges in the
province to participate in KPIs.
“We have 24 colleges across Ontario with all students participating
in it,” said Shelley Irving, project coordinator for the Durham College
office of VP Academic.
“It’s reflected in KPIs if students
are dissatisfied and if they are satisfied,” said Irving. “Student feedback
is extremely important for us to
evaluate our successes and to identify areas requiring improvement.”
In the past, Durham College has
taken steps to improve facilities and
services as a direct result of KPIs.
“Funding is related to our outcome,” said Irving.
Durham College has a separate
pool of funding for KPI-related improvements around the college, Irving says.
“Students have been telling us
they’re not happy with our gym,” she
said. “Now we’re fortunate enough
to be getting a new gym.”
Last year, Durham College was
ranked the overall number one college in the GTA for the seventh year
in a row.
The KPI report will be published
in April. A copy of each year’s report
can be found at the Oshawa and
Whitby campus libraries.
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Women’s centre a welcome addition
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In 1986, a group of students
camped outside a hall at the University of Toronto, demanding that
the school create a safe space for
women. A women’s centre was established as a result.
Twenty years later, most universities across the country have one,
and UOIT and Durham College will
as well, starting in mid-February.
And no one had to pitch a tent to get
it here.
The campaign for the centre was
initiated by the Student Association,
with the vice-president internal and
operation management, Alisha
Thornton, spearheading the project.
Initially, it was to open next year, but
when the school offered the portables behind the library to students,
the SA jumped at the opportunity.
Space on campus is at a premium and the SA should be commended for making the women’s
centre a priority.
Although hypothetically, every
space on campus should be a safe
space for women, the reality is when
a woman feels threatened or unsafe,
she’s vulnerable almost anywhere
she goes.
And it’s not just a physical safety
issue. The women’s centre will be
a space free from advertisements
that objectify women, such as those
plastered on walls across campus
promoting pubs and bars. Safe
study spaces are a key to academic
success.
The centre will have a strong focus as a service and will include a
resource library with information
about a variety of issues that affect
women, from violence to health issues to information about genderbased discrimination and harassment. It will also provide referral
services to a variety of community
organizations.
While similar information is available via other services, the centre
should act as one stop shopping for
students. It will also be open from 9
a.m. to 9 p.m., much later than other
services on camps. Because the centre will be located alongside other
student clubs, the resources will be
accessible to students just hanging
out or browsing.
The women’s centre will also
sponsor speakers and be a leader in
campaigns such as Positive Spaces
and violence against women awareness.
While some student groups
have worked on women’s issues in
the past, such as Students Against
Social Injustice and their violence
against women awareness campaign last November, running an effective campaign out of backpacks
and through e-mail is too difficult.
A women’s centre will provide the
flexibility necessary for organizing
campaigns, holding meetings and
providing information for those
who miss official meetings and happen to drop by.
Students looking to organize
events will no longer be at the mercy of the school’s scheduling department when trying to book a room
for a discussion. They won’t have
to meet in hard-to-find classrooms
with strict time constraints.
While some women’s centres in
Canada are closed to men, at UOIT
and Durham, both men and women
are welcome to volunteer and to
use the centre’s resources. In fact,
Thornton stressed that there will be
support for progressive men who
are important allies to the women’s
movement.
The project has received a great
deal of support from the SA, the administration and faculty members
and that’s an important first step.
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Now it’s up to students to volunteer and make use of the centre’s
services. A healthy and vibrant
women’s centre is an important part
of a healthy and vibrant campus.
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OPINION
Durham College-UOIT Chronicle
MLS benefits having Beckham
Move aside Alex Rodriguez and Tiger Woods,
North America has a new multi-million dollar super star on their hands who will reside in the hills
of Hollywood.
That’s right, David Beckham is
Byron
the latest athlete to sign with
Jung
a major league
soccer team.
The
MLS
and the L.A. Galaxy will attract many viewers by
acquiring Beckham, the most popular football
player in the world. They will also turn a large
profit having his name in the league, but this will
come at the expense of $250 million for a fiveyear contract.
It seems ridiculous offering an individual athlete this amount of money, but soccer in North
America has yet to take off in popularity and
bringing the top names into the MLS gives the
game a better chance of growing and appealing
to a new audience.
The MLS has created a rule where a franchise
is able to offer one player a sizeable contract in
comparison with other player contracts. A salary
cap is only mentioned in this rule after a certain
amount of money is spent on the top-paid athlete.
However, not every team has to go about signing
star athletes as the L.A. Galaxy did. Teams have
the option of managing their budget to draw a
more well-rounded group of athletes who are
willing to share similar wages.
With Beckham leading the way to North
America, other profile players like Fego and
Ronaldo have been mentioned to follow suit in
the big contract scheme. Beckham is currently
one of the top 10 paid athletes in the world, but
should he be?
Although a popular player among fans, Beckham is in the decline of his once magnificent
career. The former top scorer for Madrid is now
in his mid-30s and will end his soccer days with
the Galaxy. At this point in his career he is more
concerned about cologne and clothing endorsements than putting the ball in the back of the net,
which he seems to have had enough trouble doing in the 2006 World Cup. He is a pretty boy in
the world’s favourite pastime.
Love him or hate him, Beckham does put soccer on a bigger scale in the U.S. The Galaxy will
obviously do well financially with him, having already sold all season ticket shares. L.A. is not the
only franchise selling tickets with the welcoming
of their superstar. Several teams’ sales throughout the league have gone up since the news of the
former Real Madrid striker signing with L.A., including Toronto’s.
The Toronto Football Club has gone on to
sell nearly 50 per cent of its season tickets since
Beckham joined the league. Toronto declared its
membership in the MLS in October of 2005 by becoming the thirteenth team in the league. Since
then the team has gone on to sign 10 players, five
of whom are Canadian. They have not signed a
superstar like Beckham. Instead they look to be
going in the opposite direction by building a team
with younger, less expensive players like Maurice
Edu, the top draft pick in the Surperdraft, a draft
consisting of the top college and professional
players in North America
Although big names help attract fans for the
North American game, franchises still need to
be concerned about how well they can compete.
Toronto looks to have control of their spending
and may prove to be a major competitor in the
eastern division.
Whether you’re a soccer fan or a fan of pop
culture and your dream is to experience David
Beckham in person, the MLS seems to be making
the right move to gain fans. Proving to maintain
that fan base will be an interesting challenge in
a continent where football, baseball, hockey and
basketball are the top priorities.
More addicting than cigarettes
“Jane Thompson has requested to add you
as a friend, but before we can do that, you must
confirm that you are, in fact, friends with Jane.”
This simple
sentence
creates an
Amy
excitement
and eagerParrington
ness that is,
well, rather
pathetic.
For those who did not immediately recognize this sentence, congratulations, you are
one of the rare few who have not fallen into the
abyss of the rapidly growing network known as
Facebook.
Facebook was created as a social network to
help users further understand the world around
them, and to assist the spread of information between others, according to Facebook’s web site.
Facebook is an infant in the cyberspace world
compared to MSN messenger and e-mailing,
and yet it is difficult to find those who haven’t
heard of it or who are not already members. But
has the Facebook craze gone too far?
Facebook is like Lay’s potato chips. One
taste and you continue to go back for more until sheer willpower forces your hand away. It’s
addicting.
Some use Facebook as a way to reconnect
with high school friends, or to communicate
with existing friends, while others join as many
groups and add as many friends as possible.
And then there are those who join to engage
in the pointless and violating poking that goes
back and forth.
I have friends who sign onto Facebook as
soon as they have access to a computer, something I am also guilty of. So why is there such a
large movement towards the Facebook cult?
Perhaps one appeal could be that there is
something for everyone. There are groups on
hockey teams, old television shows such as Full
House, people who love the actor Colin Firth,
and a group for those who were children in
the ‘90s. If you cannot find a particular group
Facebook allows its users to create their own. A
quick search brings up groups such as, I Think
It’s Sad When Mufasa Dies In The Lion King,
Addicted To Grey’s Anatomy and Facebook is
killing my GPA.
Why are we joining these groups? They
have no purpose, except for the knowledge that
someone has the same interests as you.
According to TechCrunch, a web site which
profiles and reviews Internet products and
companies, 85 per cent of college and university
students have a Facebook account. Launched
in February 2004, Facebook now has over 14
million users, and is the seventh most visited
site on the Internet, according to ComScore, a
tracking device for Internet use.
As addicting and exciting as Facebook can
be, please do not let it control your life. Instead
of “poking” (contacting) your friends, writing
on their “walls” (message board), and joining
groups which are let’s face it, just plain stupid,
use a telephone to communicate like we did in
the ‘90s.
Finally, to all fellow addicts, please use Facebook as a network, and do not let your life revolve around it and your latest friend request.
Stay young and enjoy living life
It started at an early age when your much
older and stronger brother forced you to swipe
a sour lip candy from the corner store. It continued when you
placed your lips
on your first
Tania
cigarette and
even when you
Harris
allowed your
partner to touch
you for the first
time. Years have gone by and just when you think
you are too old to give in it creeps back into your
life, this time more powerful than before.
Peer pressure has followed us all throughout our lives, preying on our most vulnerable
moments and hoping that we will succumb to
temptation. Some of you may have been strong
enough to ignore the constant force to do something you didn’t want to do. However, I’m warning
you now, in case you haven’t found out on your
own, by the time you reach the age of 23 there is
one particular pressure that is very powerful. So
powerful in fact, that even the strongest of people
give in and end up walking down the isle before
they are ready.
According to a CNN poll in 2002, 63 per cent
of people between the ages of 17 and 23 were
seriously considering, or in favour of young
marriage. By December 2003, young marriage
gained even more support when its acceptance
skyrocketed to 84 per cent. It seems like our
society is stepping back into history and reliving the 1950s when exchanging vows at 20 was
expected and being single past 30 meant you
were a piece of rotting meat that nobody wanted
to touch.
The pressure to get married has always been
around, but as soon as you hit your early twenties
the pressure is more noticeable and much more
intense. It’s everywhere, in the newspapers, on
the television and even in your own household.
You are bombarded with the reminder that
you are getting old and time is rapidly running
out every week when the newspaper is delivered
on your doorstep. Within its pages, you are faced
with engagement announcements of people you
once knew, reminding you that you are no longer
a child, forcing you to think about marriage.
The worst pressure of all is the endless nagging from your family. I love you but I don’t care
if you were married with three babies by the time
you were my age, I’m not going to jump into marriage, or the sack for that matter, with just anyone
so back off grandma.
It’s difficult to ignore the pressure because,
let’s face it, nobody wants to be a disappointment
and end up a grumpy old maid who can’t be
bothered to shave her legs or pluck her mustache
hairs. But giving in and tying the knot with someone who makes you miserable can lead to a fate
worse than growing old alone with only the hairs
on your legs to keep you warm at night.
Take the time to enjoy your youth and the freedom single life brings and date a fireman, have
lunch with the delicious guy or girl who is sitting
next to you and flirt with the older gentleman
who may be balding but is incredibly gorgeous.
As a single young person this is your prerogative
and as hard as it is, don’t give in to the pressure,
no matter how many children your grandmother
had at your age.
Amanda
Gauthier
Oshawa
gains
respect
New GM
stadium
turns heads
across region
It began back in 1989, when
the completion of a world-famous stadium brought new
meaning to the word baseball.
The SkyDome, later renamed
the Roger’s Centre, with a capacity of about 60,000 seats,
enabled the public to come
together for sports games,
concerts and shows. Ten years
later, in 1999, the Air Canada
Centre opened. It has hosted
countless hockey and basketball games and has featured
concerts for the Dixie Chicks,
Shania Twain, Pearl Jam and
many others.
About seven years since the
ACC was born, another architectural event venue opened.
The General Motors Centre
is to Oshawa what the ACC
is to Toronto. Located in the
heart of the city, the massive
size of the building is enough
to convince the average citizen
that this place is a big deal.
Although it has only been
around since November 2006,
this newly added wonder is
likely to put the city of Oshawa
on the map as far as entertainment goes. It features family shows and children’s events
and is home to the Oshawa
Generals. The GM Centre has
also already hosted concerts
for big time stars like Tom
Jones and INXS.
Toronto is a great city with
tons to offer, but it is about time
that something like the GM
Centre came to Oshawa. With
a seating capacity of about
6,400, this addition to the city
is headed on a successful journey.
Oshawa is not the only city
besides Toronto with a stadium
designed for big-ticket events.
The TD Waterhouse Stadium
in London Ontario holds 8,000
seats and is home to the Western Mustangs of the University
of Western Ontario. In 2001,
the stadium participated in the
Canada Summer Games.
With the Tragically Hip
coming to Oshawa at the end
of this month, the GM Centre
has definitely brought Oshawa
to life.
6 The Chronicle
January 30, 2007
ELECTIONS 2007
Cast your vote for VP of UOIT
Candidates
selected
By Pavan Sandhu
and Jocelyn Nespiak
Chronicle Staff
As the candidates were announced, cheers erupted from
within the student centre boardroom. For some it meant an automatic win, for others it meant the
beginning of a week-long combat.
Fraser McArthur’s and Matthew
Fawcett’s eyes met. The battle had
begun. The Student Association
presidential seat is one of their
goals. It carries with it an expected
$27,500 salary. It brings experience
and opportunity. And opens doors
for the future.
Most positions are acclaimed,
leaving only two to vote on, including Student Association president
and VP of UOIT. This year there are
three candidates running for VP of
UOIT. They are: Nicholas Henderson-Todd, Chris Nelan and Angelo
Pineda.
Voting can be done online
through UOIT and Durham College
homepages and Trent students can
vote at www.sadcuoit.ca. There will
be voting stations set up in the west
atrium. Voting starts Jan. 31 and
ends Feb. 2, at 5 p.m.
Photo by Pavan Sandhu
FIGHTING STANCE: From left to right, Angelo Pineda, Nick Henderson-Todd and Chris Nelan are ready for battle. Who
will become VP of UOIT?
Angelo Pineda
Nick Henderson-Todd
Chris Nelan
Angelo Pineda is running for the VP of UOIT.
He is a second-year student in Information
Technology.
He has been a faculty representative for Information Technology and feels he has gained
insight into student issues.
“As a student I realize there are a lot of issues
that I want to deal with,” said Pineda. “I want to
implement a plan expressing needs through
student activism.”
Nick Henderson-Todd is running for VP of
UOIT. He is in his third year of Criminology and
Justice at UOIT.
“I was in the SA during college and I had a
blast. I definitely want to do it again,” he said.
He is experienced and is currently the residence adviser.
“I want to affiliate the school with larger organizations like the Canadian Federation of
Students,” he said.
Chris Nelan is in Concurrent Education with
Physics as his first teachable. He is running for
VP of UOIT.
“I want to represent the school with dignity
and respect.”
He is passionate about representing UOIT
and feels confident about his campaign.
“My opponents look like good standing guys.
I am sure whoever gets in will do a good job.”
Acclaimed to fame: new faces for SA
NAHEED DOSANI
DAVID ZEKUELD
Naheed Dosani is the VP of
internal Affairs. He is a thirdyear Biological Science student
at UOIT
“I am overjoyed. It was an
intense ride. I am honoured to
serve the students,” he said.
Dosani looks forward to
next year.
“I hope to build on the
strengths and diversity on campus and develop programming
that will help put the campus
on the map.”
David Zekueld is the faculty
representative for the school of
Energy Systems and Nuclear
Science.
He is in third year in the
Faculty of Nuclear Science.
“I feel good,” he said. “I am
very happy and excited.”
Zekueld hopes to get the
students in the school of Energy Systems more involved and
represent them on the student
association.
Photo by Pavan Sandhu
READY FOR ACTION: Left to right, Melanie, Eric, Naheed, Ian, David and Amanda are
pumped for the start of their term in the Student Association. Janine is absent.
MELANIE BARNETT
AMANDA DALEY
Melanie Barnett is the
school representative for Integrated Studies. She is a student
in the Office Administration
program at Durham College.
“I feel it’s my right, it’s an opportunity to volunteer and add
to my resume,” said Barnett.
She would like to see more
involvement by people of diversity and with disabilities in
these volunteer positions.
Amanda Daley is the Trent
faculty school representative.
She is obtaining a Bachelor of
Arts degree and is in her second year.
“I feel good, excited,” she
said.
She hopes to get Trent more
involved with the student community.
“I wanted to make a difference and get involved,” she
said.
ERIC DILLANE
IAN NEILSON
JANINE RODWAY
Eric Dillane is the VP of
campus life. He is a secondyear student in Criminology.
“I feel fantabulous with four
exclamation marks,” he said.
“I hope to make sure that students don’t just come here and
drive home.”
Dillane hopes to make more
clubs for students under 18.
Ian Neilson is the VP of Durham. He is a first-year Law and
Security Management student.
“My hope is to establish
Durham College as an identity,” said Neilson.
“With the university coming in we have lost our identity.
I want to show what we stand
for.”
Janine Rodway is the new
VP of Trent. She is a Psychology major and is currently in
her third year.
“It’s exciting. I’m a little nervous, but I feel good,” she said.
She hopes to bring wireless
access to Trent students and
wants to bring four-year courses to Trent at Oshawa.
The Chronicle
January 30, 2006
CAMPUS NEWS
Student wins Saturn by a key
Michael
Molnar
drives away
with grand
prize
By Mike Van Veen
Chronicle Staff
Michael Molnar was smiling as
he sat in his new Saturn Ion.
The Durham College Marketing student was the winner in the
Saturn Ion contest that the Student
Association has been running since
September.
He said he never expected to win
when he entered.
“The last thing I ever won was a
Kermit the Frog back in kindergarten,” Molnar said. “To actually win
something cool is pretty amazing.”
CKRO morning show host Craig
Roberston hosted the event, which
included an appearance by Team
Canada goalie Sammy Jo Small.
Durham College chief operating
officer Bev Balenko, who was filling in for president Leah Myers,
gave a brief introduction. She told
the crowd the contest was a first for
Durham.
“I’ve been at the college almost
30 years and we’ve never given away
a car.”
Small was on hand to draw the
qualifier’s names. She said the car
give away was a great idea.
“I’m excited to be here. This is
something we never had at school,
a car to give away.”
Small and Johnson drew six
names from the nearly 3,000 ballots
that were entered. Molnar, who had
his name selected three times before the final six were chosen, said
he had entered almost every day.
The six qualifiers were presented
with a key by Roy Richardson, vicepresident of Motor City Saturn, the
dealership that donated the car for
the draw. One of the keys the qualifiers were given would unlock the
door to the car. After three others
failed to open the door, Molnar said
he was excited.
“I didn’t want to get my hopes
up, but I was like, ‘come on, come
on’.” When he tried his key, the lock
clicked and Molnar pulled the door
open.
“Oh my god, I feel like I’m going
to be sick,” Molnar told the crowd.
He said he was going to use the car
to help his sister, whose car had recently been in an accident.
Student Association president
Evan Muller-Cheng said the planning for the event has been going on
for a while.
“This initiative was actually started last year, but we went full throttle
this year with help from our friends
Royal Bank, Roy Richardson and
Linda [Binns],” Muller-Cheng said.
Richardson was pleased with
how the event turned out and how
many people got involved.
“We talked to the students last
year about doing this,” Richardson
said. “This has been a good thing
for us. The idea was to encourage
Photo by Mike Van Veen
WE HAVE A WINNER: Michael Molnar sits in his brand new Saturn Ion for the first time,
enjoying his win and making plans on how he’ll use this car.
the students to participate in student union activities. As the college
and university grows, its important
that they get that sort of involvement.” He said he hoped the contest
Students will protest
raising of tuition fees
By Reka Szekely
Chronicle Staff
Thousands of students across
the country will take to the streets
next month to protest rising tuition fees.
The Canadian Federation of
Students (CFS), which represents
over half a million students in
Canada, is organizing a national
day of action on Feb. 7 as part of
their Reduce Tuition Fees campaign.
In Toronto, students from
across Ontario will take their message to premier Dalton McGuinty
by rallying at Queen’s Park.
“Obviously on Feb. 7, it’s going
to be a culmination of a lot of work
that’s happened over the course of
the semester in the form of a rally
that really takes our message to
the premier,” said Jesse Greener,
Ontario chair of the CFS.
Greener said he expects students from across the GTA to bus
in for the Toronto rally.
In Ontario, the Liberals froze
tuition fees in 2004, while the government evaluated the post-secondary education system, but lifted the freeze two years later with
tuition going up between four and
eight per cent last fall. That makes
Ontario’s fees the third highest in
Canada.
The CFS sees the rising cost
of post-secondary education as
a barrier to accessibility and says
public opinion polls show that
74 per cent of Ontarians feel cancelling the freeze amounts to a
broken promise from the government.
“Not only is post-secondary
education a lot more expensive
than it was for people like Dalton
McGuinty, it’s a lot more important for accessing the job market,”
said Greener.
On Feb. 7, students will meet at
King’s College Circle at the University of Toronto and then march to
Queen’s Park.
“We’ve got a standing invitation
to Liberal MPPs across the country
to join our campaign,” said Greener. “We’ll see if any of them will be
able to peel themselves away from
their boss and speak.”
At the same time, students in
cities across Canada will also be
asking their provincial governments to reduce tuition fees.
“So when students in Ontario
7
are at Queen’s Park, there will be
students in St. John’s, Newfoundland to B.C., and all points in between calling, for the same thing,”
said Greener.
Though Durham and UOIT’s
student association isn’t part of the
CFS, SA president Evan MullerCheng said he supports the CFS’s
efforts to reduce tuition fees.
However, they won’t be sending an official contingent to the
rally because they’re focusing
their attention on elections at that
point.
The CFS has also received support from several labour, unions
including the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU),
which represents full-time college
faculty and staff.
“We’ve been on record for
many years that we support the
long-term goal of zero tuition fees
in Ontario,” said David Cox, communications officer for OPSEU.
The union has donated $2,000
to the CFS campaign and plans to
send members to join the rally.
For more information about
the campaign, students can visit
http://reducetuitionfees.ca.
would introduce students to Saturn.
“I want younger people looking at
Saturns saying this isn’t a bad car, I
could drive that.”
Molnar was excited to have won
but wasn’t sure if he could drive the
car home because he couldn’t drive
a manual shift.
“That’s next. I’m going to wait until I bring it home first though.”
Minimum wage
finally reaches
$8 an hour
By Andrew Moore
Chronicle Staff
The Ontario government will be
increasing the general minimum
wage from $7.75 to $8 per hour on
Feb. 1. It is the fourth time minimum
wage has been increased in the last
four years.
The wage increases were phased
in over a four-year period so that
businesses were able to adjust and
stay competitive, according to the
Ministry of Labour. Also the increases will help employees who are currently making the minimum wage
and who need the money most.
“A quarter doesn’t seem like a lot,
but I guess it adds up,” said Shane
Austin, a first-year Fire Prevention
student. “As a part-time worker it
wouldn’t be enough to notice, but
for a 40-hour week I think it would
make a difference.”
The wage for students under the
age of 18 who work less than 28
hours a week will rise from $7.25 to
$7.50. Waitresses and liquor servers
will see an increase of 20 cents, as
the wage will go from $6.75 to $6.95.
Hunting and fishing guides will earn
$40 for a period of work fewer than
five consecutive hours, an increase
of $1.25 from the previous wage of
$38.75.
Before 2004 the minimum wage
had not been increased since 1995,
when it was increased to $6.85.
Since then it has been increased every year since 2004, in increments
of 30 cents except for this year when
it will be increased 25 cents.
“I make $8 an hour right now
working part-time, and it’s basically just spending money,” said
Julie Thorn, an employee at Shoppers Drug Mart at Harmony and
Taunton. “It’s definitely not enough
to support a family.”
Correction
In an article in the Jan. 23 issue of The Chronicle, the name
of Moreen Tapper was misspelled. The Chronicle regrets
the error.
8
The Chronicle
January 30, 2007
CAMPUS NEWS
Research and funding
information evening
By Elise Haskell
Chronicle Staff
This Jan. 31 the second annual
Student Research Connections Day
will be taking place.
The event invites all UOIT students to come to UA 1350 from 5
p.m. until 7 p.m. to learn about research opportunities on campus.
“There are three things we want
to do,” said Deborah VanOosten,
one of the event’s organizers. “We
want to get students excited about
research on campus, promote research opportunities and show
them what potential funding exists.”
The evening will last for two
hours and is designed to showcase
various scholarships and funding
available for students of all faculties.
Last year the first Student Research Connections Day was a great
success.
“We had 85 students last year,”
said VanOosten, but the only faculties being offered opportunities
were sciences. “This year we’re not
Uniting campus
with Faith
Mosaic Expo
By Valene Nicholas
Chronicle Staff
Photo by Elise Haskell
EVENT ORGANIZER: Deborah VanOosten prepares for
Student Research Connections Day.
so science heavy.”
“We have two awards for each
faculty this year,” said VanOosten,
talking about the research awards
that will be exhibited. “Students will
be told deadlines, application processes and what other scholarship
research is going on in our faculty
and those professors who may have
research employment for them.”
Dr. John Perez will give the opening remarks. Afterwards the awards
will be outlined and Susan Allward
will talk about other sources of
funding. To finish the evening off
those professors who have projects
of their own will have a chance to
talk to the students in attendance.
Afterwards pizza and light refreshments will be served. This will
be a chance for students to further
speak with professors about their
projects.
“If I see Otto Sanchez talking
and I’m excited, I can go up and
talk to him afterwards,” explains
VanOosten.
The night promises to offer inspiration to those students who want to
go beyond their classroom activities
and explore their field further.
Muslim, Christian, Ismaili, Baha’i
and Hindu students will reunite on
campus Feb. 7, for the second Faith
Mosaic Expo, held by Students for
Humanitarianism, Action and Respect through Education.
There are currently five Durham
College and UOIT religious clubs,
including Campus Association for
Baha’i Studies, Campus Church,
Hindu Student Association, Muslim
Student Association and Ontario Ismaili Students’ Association.
“We picked four common elements and each group is going to
talk about that element in light of
their faith,” said Faith Mosaic project leader Nicole Mastnak. Religious artwork will decorate the UB
atrium as club members talk about
the festivals, charity, art and origin
of their beliefs. Dancers, poets and
musicians will take part in the entertainment.
“Through Faith Mosaic Two, we
want to show how our differences
bring us closer together,” said Mastnak.
Durham College and UOIT
diversity officer Jon Sarpong will
speak about the importance of mutual respect regarding differing beliefs. Sarpong wants the campus to
reflect Canada’s well-known identity of tolerating and respecting other
religions and cultures.
“Something like Faith Mosaic is
important to show that on campus
we can share these identities peaceably,” he said.
Through his experience as diversity officer, Sarpong noticed the
majority of students do not discriminate, but rather are unaware
of other faiths’ rituals and beliefs.
“The issue is our ability to engage
people of different faiths and be
able to accommodate their necessities on campus,” he said.
S.H.A.R.E president Naheed
Dosani invites all students, faculty
and staff, whether they are believers
or unbelievers. He said it is important to discover what makes people
different.
“Post-secondary education is
about free flow of thought,” he said.
“It would be foolish to ignore that
we have such diversity. Instead we
should celebrate it.”
Faith Mosaic will run from 5
p.m. to 7 p.m. Refreshments and a
time to socialize will take place after speeches. Also, S.H.A.R.E. and
the participating religious clubs are
announcing a charitable project
that will benefit the campus community.
“Just the fact that we’re getting
these different groups around one
table and getting them to come
up with something positive is an
achievement in itself,” Dosani said.
CAMPUS NEWS
The Chronicle
January 30, 2007
9
Durham’s got
it growing on
By Amanda Gauthier
Chronicle Staff
Infrastructure in Durham
Region may seem to be falling
behind as the population is growing, but according to the region’s
manager of policy planning and
special projects, Roger Saunders,
Durham is standing tall.
With the addition of the General Motors Centre in downtown
Oshawa, population n the area
has increased. It has essentially
brought people to the city of Oshawa, as it is the home of the Oshawa Generals.
Mike Richardson, general
manager of the GM Centre, believes there is definitely a positive
change in the city thanks to the
stadium. He said many people
come to watch a Generals game
and are able to see how it ends, instead of leaving half way through
to cheat the crowd. Richardson
is proud that there are eight exits
from the centre and many parking spots available for public use.
The GM Centre brings many
new faces to Oshawa but along
with this benefit, comes the responsibility of the city to provide
necessary accommodations for
visitors.
“We are positioned to be able
to provide infrastructure when
it is needed,” said Saunders. The
manager also said that Oshawa
and Pickering are the key centres
for growth. Oshawa is Durham
Region’s largest community and
Saunders realizes that there is
room for growth as far as general
infrastructure is concerned. But
the Durham Region planning
department has not lost its focus
for other towns as well. Saunders
said Whitby and Ajax will also receive intense development.
The department is also planning to address the issue of traffic
in Durham Region. There is congestion around many parts of Oshawa, and Saunders said the plan
is to provide a more enhanced
transit system to relieve congestion within the community.
“It’s a matter of balancing to
make everything function efficiently,” he said.
Photo by Amanda Gauthier
UNDER DEVELOPMENT: Housing developments are
propping up everywhere around the Durham Region.
This is a shot of one on Taunton Road in Oshawa.
Photo by Shannon Dossor
THESE SHOES WERE MADE FOR WALKING: There’s a new walking group at DC/UOIT. The
group includes CAN fit PRO Kathy Phillips (front row, second from left) and co-organizer
Kelly Bailey (back row, right).
CAN fit walks through
By Shannon Dossor
Chronicle Staff
During the winter months it’s
hard to work out. You can’t go swimming or play outdoor sports. Now
there’s a way to stay active at school.
For the first time at Durham and
UOIT, there is a Wellness Matters indoor walking group.
The route was mapped out by
CAN Fit pro Kathy Phillips. The
group meets in the Gordon Willey
building near the reception desk
every Monday, Wednesday and Fri-
day at 12:10 p.m., although anyone
is able to do the walk at any time.
“This is the very first time we’ve
had this,” said co-ordinator Kelly
Bailey. “There will be a walking
group started at the Whitby campus
as well.”
So far there are between 15 and
20 participants signed up for the
group, and so all of them are females.
“The walk is set up for teachers,”
said Bailey. “But students are welcome to do the walk as well.”
The walk takes about 30 minutes,
and it worked out to be a mile and
a quarter long. “We walked 1,896
steps just now,” said Phillips. “You’re
supposed to walk 12,000 every day.”
Starting at the reception desk in
the Gordon Willey building, head
towards the South Wing, and green
arrows will direct the rest of the
route. Phillips also suggests stretching at the end of the walk instead of
before. “You have to get your muscles warmed up.”
To join, contact Kelly Bailey at
kelly.bailey@durhamcollege.ca or
ext. 2225.
10 The Chronicle
January 30, 2007
CAMPUS NEWS
A white winter finally arrives
This winter,
weather
has been
warmer
than usual
By Pavan Sandhu
Chronicle Staff
The much anticipated and long
overdue white winter finally hit Durham Region on Jan. 15. As people
left their homes they were greeted
with ice, hail, slush and the bitter
wind chill.
The blast of cold winter comes after North America and many parts
of the world experienced a month of
mild temperatures.
According to the U.S. National
Climate Data Center, December
2006 was the warmest December
since global surface records began
in 1880 for both global land and
ocean surface temperatures.
Before the snow and ice came,
the warm temperatures caused
chaos for many regional businesses
that rely on a cold and snowy winter
to make profit.
During December Lakeridge Ski
Resort operated on reduced hours,
with a limited number of runs
open.
“This has been the worst year
since 1990,” said John Tustian, area
manager for Lakeridge. “When you
lose Christmas you lose 30 per cent
of the income.”
With the latest blast of cold
weather and snow business has
picked up for Lakeridge.
“Skiers are definitely coming
out, the conditions are good,” said
Tustian. “We will never make up
for what we lost but we hope to do
well.”
Photo by Pavan Sandhu
ICY COLD: Max Goodman, a first-year Physics student at UOIT, is unhappy with the recent snowstorm. Here, he has to scrape ice off his windshield in the bitter cold.
The fresh snow and cold air were
a sigh of relief for many ski resorts
because cold temperatures are
needed to make snow. A minus-2 to
minus-6 temperature is needed to
make snow, however until recently
winter temperatures were seldom
below freezing, making snow production impossible.
The after effects of the sporadic
winter were felt by many workers
employed at winter businesses.
“We had to lay off 13,000 seasonal employees,” said Kellie O’Neil,
public relations specialist for Blue
Mountain Resort in Collingwood.
In a normal season Blue Mountain employs 17,000 people. The
layoffs can be partly blamed on the
warm winter.
Blue Mountain has offered pro-
motions to those with passes. Season pass holders are offered free skiing at four Intrawest resorts, including Whistler, Blackcomb, Panorama
and Stratton.
Apart from ski resorts, the warm
winter also affected regional businesses.
“We normally have a very good
season,” said Linda Todd, owner of
Spoiled Sports in Oshawa. Her business sells snowmobiles and relies
extensively on a snowy winter to
make some profit.
Todd said her business was
down about 80 per cent due to the
warm winter.
“Usually in a season we sell 6070 snowmobiles but this season we
only sold 15,” she said.
Warm temperatures also set
back fans of ice fishing during the
first few weeks of
January.
“We expect a two-three week
later start-up than usual,” said Jackie
Rocca, owner of Fish and Game
Getaways in Sudbury.
The late start-up is due to the high
temperatures. The ice needs to be
frozen at least four inches in depth
to support humans and 12 inches to
support vehicles.
The latest snow storm has frozen
the lakes enough to carry humans
and snowmobiles but the ice is still
too thin to carry vehicles or place
huts on.
“People are fishing for the first
time this season,” said Rocca. “It will
probably be another week before
the huts are out there.”
On a normal winter Fish and
Game Getaways are 75-100 per
cent booked.
“Last year we made approximately $1,500 - $2,000,” she said.
“The huts went out on Jan. 10 and
stayed out till March.”
While the lack of snow generated
a loss for Rocca, it was profitable
for Bill Wallace, owner of Oshawa
Airport Golf Club. Business was 10
times busier than normal in December and in the first few weeks of
January for Wallace.
“Since other golf courses were
closed for the winter, we benefited,”
said Wallace. “All the golfers came
here. Usually we close the first
snowfall and open in March, so it
was a bonus.”
The warm spell has been attributed to many factors. Jeoff Coulson,
a warning preparedness meteorologist for Environment Canada, said
it’s early to blame the four-week
warm weather on global warming.
“El Nino is partly to blame,” said
Coulson. “The water on the west
coast is warmer and this is affecting
the weather in Canada.”
“The last 20-25 years have been
the warmest,” said Coulson. “A winter like this could be normal by
2024. This is just a dress rehearsal of
what’s to come.”
The Old Farmers Almanac offers long-range weather forecasts
for the upcoming year. For southern
Ontario it predicts that winter will
be slightly colder than normal with
the coldest periods in mid-late January and early and late February. The
almanac predicts that the summer
will have unseasonably hot temperatures.
Britain’s meteorological office
predicts that there is a 60 per cent
chance that 2007 could surpass
1998 and become the warmest year
to date.
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Wiarton Willie’s ready for
winter weather prediction
By Marilyn Gray
Chronicle Staff
This Friday, thousands of people will be in Wiarton, Ontario to
witness the annual emergence of
a famous rodent from its burrow.
Groundhog Day is Wiarton Willie’s big gig. Since 1956, thousands
have waited anxiously in the cold,
every Feb. 2, to witness the famed
groundhog’s weather prediction.
Tradition states that if he sees
his shadow and retreats to his
hole, there will be six more weeks
of winter. Conversely, if he doesn’t
see his shadow and stays out, there
Photo by Chad Ingram
GAME ON: UOIT students play Cranium at the first annual
Faculty Cup on Wednesday.
Playing it
up at the
Faculty Cup
By Chad Ingram
Chronicle Staff
Dice were rolled and cards were
played, laughs were had and friends
were made at UOIT’s first annual
Faculty Cup.
It was held last Wednesday, from
2-5 p.m. at E.P. Taylor’s.
The competition was an afternoon of games, featuring euchre,
poker, go fish, president, UNO, Life,
Cranium and charades.
“It’s our first time, so we’re not expecting anything big,” said organizer and faculty rep Angelo Pineda, a
second-year Business Information
Technology student. “It’s a way for
people from different faculties to
meet, compete and get to know
each other.”
Approximately 40 students participated in the event, representing
the faculties of Business Information Technology, Engineering, Nuclear Engineering, Health Sciences
and Social Sciences.
Third year Engineering student
Jordon Ross tried his hand at the
poker table.
“I heard the nuclear engineers
we’re going to take it,” he said, explaining why he decided to participate. “I’ve knocked out four so far.”
“We didn’t have classes today,”
said Ashlea Colton, a fourth-year
Nuclear Engineering student. “So it
worked out pretty well.”
The day was just the first instalment of the Faculty Cup.
“Today is the first in a series of
events,” Pineda said. “We’re also
having a sports day next month.”
That event, to be held on an unscheduled date in February, will include, among other activities, dodge
ball and tug-of-war.
“It’s all about student activism,
getting involved,” said Pineda, who
is running for vice-president of
UOIT in the Student Association
elections.
In the end, the nuclear engineers
took home the prize.
“Boo-ya!” commented Nuclear
Engineering student Witty Lai.
However, that prize was pretty
intangible.
“Today is about fun,” Pineda said.
“It’s for the prestige, for the bragging
rights.”
will be an early spring.
Though this bizarre holiday is
celebrated only in Canada and
the U.S., its roots go much further
back than the founding of these
countries.
In fifth century Europe, the
Celts believed certain animals
had supernatural powers on the
day exactly halfway between the
Winter Solstice and the Spring
Equinox.
Similar traditions are found
in folklore from Germany and
France. It was believed that if
marmots and bears came out of
their dens too early, they were
frightened by their shadow and
returned to their burrows for another four to six weeks.
During the reign of the Roman
Empire, this tradition was adopted
as Hedgehog Day.
When Christianity reached
these areas, this pagan observance
was renamed Candlemas, the precursor to present-day Christmas.
After hundreds of years,
groundhogs like Wiarton Willy
are keeping the tradition alive in
North America.
The Wiarton Willie Festival
kicks off this Friday and lasts all
weekend.
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CAMPUS NEWS
Talents shine in cabaret
By Amanda Gauthier
Chronicle Staff
Singers, dancer, and even a Gollum impressionist took the stage
last Friday and Saturday nights at
Trent University’s Fame cabaret.
Kaleigh Fisher and Devon Nagle,
students of the university, hosted
the event.
An audience of about 100
gathered in the theatre for performance by Trent students who
have special talents. An opening
dance sequence got he show started and was followed by a greenpainted Maura Wingle-Land who
sang I’m Not That Girl, from the
Broadway production,
Wicked. Pianists tickled the
ivories to some classic songs and
all 10 members of the Trent dance
team performed three times
throughout the show.The Trent
University Fame cabaret also took
place on Jan. 26.
Speaker coming to
campus to motivate
By Luba Tymchuk
Chronicle Staff
Students have the chance to see
and hear a remarkable man who
will motivate students on Feb. 5.
Alvin Law, who uses his legs and
feet for almost any task, will be on
campus in the Marketplace Cafeteria at noon with a presentation for
students that challenges them to
believe that there is no such word
as can’t.
“He’s coming for abilities week
to motivate the students and show
different ways we can overcome obstacles,” said Scott Toole, events programmer for the Student Association. “It’s actually quite amazing. He
doesn’t have arms but is still playing
piano, drums, driving, and eating…
all with his feet.”
According to Law’s personal
website, he was one of the 13,000
babies born deformed in the early
1960s because of a morning sickness drug, Thalidomide. Law was
born with no arms and his parents
gave him up for adoption. Taken in
by an older couple, Hilda and Jack
Law, in 1960, he was then nursed
back to health and taught to use his
feet for hands.
Since 1976, Law has helped raise
money for charity. He also has appeared on telethons, media features
and been the subject of two awardwinning television documentaries.
He is now an independent professional speaker who has spoken
to over one million people in Canada, the U.S. and Australia. He has his
own communications business, AJL
Communications Ltd, and is also an
accomplished musician, broadcaster and fundraiser.
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DURHAM
COLLEGE
SUCCESS MATTERS
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NTERTAINMENT
Practically Hip play E.P. Taylor’s
Durham College-UOIT Chronicle
By Marilyn Gray
Chronicle Staff
Students who dropped in to E.P.
Taylor’s in the early afternoon last
Tuesday were treated to a free performance by The Practically Hip.
The band’s third performance
at E.P Taylor’s, their tribute to The
Tragically Hip was well received.
“This is a good crowd,” said Trent
Richer, bassist and founder of the
band. “Everybody is very friendly
and responsible.”
“The sound crew seems to get
better every time we come here,”
added drummer Nelson Toews.
For 10 years the Practically Hip
have been paying tribute to one of
Canada’s most beloved bands.
“We basically met at a jam night,”
said Richer of the band’s origins.
Ten years ago, he had been playing in a band that played a mix of
styles, including a few covers.
“Whenever we played a show the
fans were always yelling ‘Play The
Hip! Play The Hip!’” said Richer.
“I heard that cover bands get
treated better and play nicer places,”
he said. “So I called the agent we
deal with and he said ‘have I got the
singer for you.’”
The singer he was referring to
was Dean Hughes, who bears an
uncanny vocal and physical resemblance to The Tragically Hip’s frontman Gord Downie. “We knew he
was serious when he shaved his hair
Photo by Marilyn Gray
NO PRACTICAL JOKE: The Practically Hip playing at E.P Taylor’s, from left: John McKinnon, Nelson Toews, Dean Hughes, Trent Richer, Sean O’Brien.
off,” said Richer.
When what is now The Practically Hip met for the first time, “We
banged out a few tunes we all knew
and that was it,” said Richer.
The Practically Hip now plays
eight to ten shows a month. In the
summer, the band has played up to
seven shows in one weekend.
In the summer it can change,”
said Richer. “We’re a tribute to a
great Canadian band . . . Like Alice
Cooper and Halloween, they go
hand in hand.”
When a band member can’t
make it to a show, there are always
musicians from other bands willing
to sub in. “Sometimes our subs play
more than our regulars,”said Richer.
Toews joked that the band should
adopt something similar to the batsignal when they need someone to
fill in.
“In 10 years we’ve never missed
a show due to illness,” said Hughes,
adding that guitarist John McKinnon had the stomach flu but still
showed up for that day’s show.
Illness aside, members sometimes can’t make it to shows because of conflicts with their jobs or
other bands.
“Everybody’s got lives, they’ve
got jobs,” said Richer. “The average
pay for bands hasn’t gone up in 20
years,” said Toews. “When it starts to
become a living, you have to work,”
said Richer. “It’d be hard, just playing
in one band, to live off of.”
“Some guys are lucky, they can
write songs and get people to pay
for them,” he said.
“I could go get a factory job but
that would just drive me fucking
nuts,” said Richer. “We always wanted to do something creative, something different.”
When asked how much longer
they plan on playing together, Richer
said “As long as people like the Hip.
In 20 years . . . we’ll need wheelchair
access to the stage.”
Smith and son inspire in
The Pursuit of Happiness
Father like
son on the
big screen
By Valene Nicholas
Chronicle Staff
Sweat glistened across his face
and neck while sitting in the foyer of
Dean Witter Reynolds, a brokerage
firm in San Francisco. He was the
only black male among two-dozen
white businessmen, anxiously waiting. They wore suits and carried
briefcases. This man’s skin, hair,
jeans and grey bomber jacket were
speckled with white paint.
He carried nothing. His name
was called and he edged his way
into a boardroom for the interview.
Some would view this charade
as inappropriate or desperate. Others aware of his impossible circumstances would call it determination.
Will Smith stars as Christopher
Gardner in The Pursuit of Happyness, a film based on the true story
of Gardner’s struggle as a poor single father in 1981. Although mishap
upon mishap is woven throughout
the script, the plot focuses on Gard-
ner’s strength to persevere.
Gardner daily roamed San Francisco streets enticing doctors to buy
bone density scanners. Since they
were luxuries and not necessities for
clinics, sales were rare.
Linda Gardner, played by Thandie Newton, left Gardner and their
son for a better life in New York.
Bewildered five-year-old Christopher Gardner becomes accustomed
to snuggling with his father in public
washrooms, homeless shelters and
subway stations at night.
Gardner battles homelessness,
while fighting to become a stockbroker and take care of his son.
“Don’t ever let someone tell you
you can’t do something. Not even
me,” he told his son, played by his
real-life son Jaden Christopher Syre
Smith.
Casting director Denise Chamian did an excellent job in choosing
father and son to play the Gardners.
Smith’s past roles include a comical teen in Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, a
paranoid detective in I Robot or an
arrogant boxer in Ali.
In The Pursuit of Happyness he
has matured physically and emotionally. Smith reveals a serious,
protective, persistent character,
which is unrelated to his well-known
humourus side. His performance
resulted in two Golden Globe nominations for best actor in a dramatic
motion picture.
This was eight-year-old Syre
Smith’s first film. He plays a quiet
boy, but as the plot unfolds young
Gardner becomes more aware of
his father’s situation.
For example, while in a convenience store he told his father not to
buy him a candy bar, knowing they
had little money. Syre Smith adds
childlike innocence and humour to
the film.
Both Smiths could act naturally
as father and son. But every gesture
was believable as Gardner and son,
not Smith and son.
The film is filled with fast-paced
scenes of Gardner chasing buses
and pedestrians, and noisy brokerage scenes of flying papers, flashing
numbers and ringing phones.
Not all scenes are chaotic. Calmer situations take place when he is
with his son at shelters and soup
kitchens. Here viewers get an inside
look at the hidden challenges street
people face.
At times throughout the movie
pockets of laughter erupted from
seats. At other times soft sobs could
be frequently heard in the theatre.
The Pursuit of Happyness is not only
a great film displaying human perseverance – it also shows the reality
of how citizens can lose everything
and wind up on the streets with no
money, family or friends to help.
Photo by Josh Vanderstam
VAGINA MONOLOGUES BAKE SALE: Student Centre
manager Will Ellis purchases a treat from Erin Morrison and Andrea Milton.
Monologues down to 2
By Ryan Peterson
Chronicle Staff
Do you know what you’ll be
doing February 8?
Neither does Kiah Longo any
more. She was going to be doing
her cunt chant, as she will continue to do Feb. 9 and 10 as part
of the Vagina Monologues.
But the eighth performance
has been cancelled because of
room conflicts.
There’s a Trent geography class
in the room they had planned to
use and the show was set for 8
p.m.
“Will Ellis told us C113 was not
a problem (to get), so we didn’t
bother to book it,” said Andrea
Milton, one of the co-organizers
of the monologues.
However, Ellis, manager of
the student centre, set the record
straight, saying, “The room was
not available. Academics take
priority over non-academics. For
the first three weeks (of the semester) we can’t book anything
for sure.” This is because classes
are still being shuffled around.
Regardless, Milton said, “I’m
not overly happy about it. I’m
kind of disappointed.”
The cast tried to get into another room, but there were none
available.
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ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
How does it feel be to Time’s person of the year?
By Matt O’Brien
Chronicle Staff
Congratulations on finally making Time Magazine’s person of the
year!
You’ve now joined the ranks of
people like Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Bill Gates.
Now you can tell your family,
email old high school girlfriends, put
it on your resume, and tell everyone
in the world that you are Time Magazine’s person of the year…and they
can tell you the same thing about
themselves.
Time magazine decided to think
outside the box this year and make
You (meaning everyone, not just
you) person of the year for 2006.
Throughout 2006 the popularity
of Facebook, Wikipedia, podcasts,
MySpace, and YouTube, has exploded.
We as a population have taken
these sites, and Internet tools and
made them our own. We take time
out of our already busy days to plop
in front of a computer screen and
write book reviews, make movies
about our friends jumping off tool
sheds, and design complicated
MySpace layouts that could catch
the eye of even the most professional computer nerd.
Christine Shakespeare
First-year Graphic Design
Melissa Keefer
First-year Journalism
Kyle Holdbrook
First-year Police Foundations
Riley Leblanc
Third-year Business Marketing
“Huh?! I’m surprised they
didn’t have any better
ideas.”
“Great! It feels fantastic! Finally I’m recognized.”
“How much money am I
getting?”
“Feels f@!#ing great!”
And we do all this extra work for
absolutely nothing.
This is what Time has focused
on, the ability for the public to begin
“seizing the reins of the global media” and “working for nothing and
beating the pros at their own game”.
Just look at local indie band The
Ceramics. Lead singer Sara Giguere
is currently in third year of Music
Business Management at Durham
College and believes her band
wouldn’t be where they are today
without the aid of internet tools like
MySpace.
“Without the use of MySpace I
know that our band wouldn’t have
as many shows, contacts or basically
an outlet to reach a wider audience,”
said Giguere. She also stressed how
easy it is to promote recordings and
concert dates with MySpace.
So a tip of the hat to You. Enjoy
being person of the year, because
next year you definitely won’t be.
Bowmanville rock program big hit for musicians
Music program
plays out well
with aspiring
musicians
By Shannon Dossor
Chronicle Staff
Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, and Black
Sabbath are some of the bands that
can be heard coming from DF Music Studio in Bowmanville.
Since September 2003, Dave
Friedman has co-ordinated a Classic Rock Band program.
“I created the program for private
students I had that were interested
in playing with other musicians,”
said Friedman. “Most of the participants didn’t know other players with
similar interests who also played, so
I designed the program for people
interested in classic rock.”
During the ‘80s and ‘90s Friedman has performed in different
bands throughout Canada, including Ron Lasalle and The Eastside
Rockers, Steve Davey and the band,
Big Big Time. Along with studio guitar work for different artists, he also
did solo guitar performances, wedding performances and he accompanied vocalists. Friedman plays
guitar, bass, and banjo and does
vocals. Currently he is recording an
instrumental CD of Jazz and Classic
Pop vocalists.
Friedman runs two types of programs at the studio. One is the Classic Rock Program, phases one, two
and three. The other is called Open
Jam Session junior (ages 10 to 15)
and senior (ages 16 and up).
For the Classic Rock Program,
participants should have at least
one year of experience on their instrument. Each member receives
a book with a CD of the songs that
they will play. During weekly rehearsals, keys, chord progressions
and scales are discussed, although
90 per cent of the time is jamming,
and 10 per cent talking.
The program is 10 weeks long,
and each week focuses on a different topic. Starting by becoming familiar with the song, then solos are
assigned, and the last few weeks are
spent perfecting the songs all lead to
preparing for a concert. For $75, 10
one-hour sessions are provided.
“Concerts are held semi-annually in June and December at the
Baseline Community Centre in
Bowmanville,” said Friedman. “The
concerts begin with solo performances by students enrolled in private and semi-private lessons and
end with performances by the classic rock bands.”
The Open Jam session is a new
program that started in September
2006. For $10 per person, partici-
pants can jam for 90 minutes. Friedman supplies the rehearsal space,
drums, PA system and microphones.
Participants supply their own guitars, basses, keyboards and amps. If
guitarists are looking for drummers
or vocalists, Friedman tries to help
them find what they are looking for.
He also sits in if needed. Studio time
needs to be booked at least two days
in advance.
Friedman said, “The main objective for me is to see that all participants develop the ability to play
with other musicians – listening
skills, timing, dynamics, playing as
a group – and hopefully take this
experience when they go on to form
their own bands and become world
famous!”
Electronics at school big distraction for students
Homework
taking back
seat to MSN
and cell phones
By Shannon Dossor
Chronicle Staff
Beep, buzz, and ring are a few of
the sounds that distract student’s
every day.
Phone calls, text-messages, laptops, MSN, MySpace, Facebook,
iPod’s MP3 players and blackberries
are common distractions to the average student.
Walk around the school at lunch-
time. Go to the Marketplace, Williams, Tim Hortons, or the South
Wing where the couches are. You
will see people talking on cell
phones, text-messaging friends, typing to friends on msn, or just playing
games. Either way, this all means
that students are doing something
other than work. But with all of this
technology how can someone go
without a distraction?
When a student hears Sexy Back
playing from their pocket, it has to
be important enough to answer
during a lecture. Why else would
their friend call? Or when opening
a laptop to see your best friend (the
MSN man) you have to see what’s
new, change your display name, or
see if someone will talk to you when
you sign on.
Time to enter the World Wide
Web. Time to check... no not the
news. Not necessarily e-mail either.
MySpace of course! Who could
have left me a message? Did someone new add me today? Or someone could have left a new bulletin.
It goes for Facebook too, which is
basically the same thing, except for
the lack of hours spent on changing
your background, song, or theme.
Instead the time is spent on finding a friend from elementary school
that you haven’t talked to in 10
years. And although they weren’t
important enough for you to stay in
touch all these years, you might as
well add them, and see what they’re
up to... or not. They may just sit on
your list, and you still won’t talk to
each other.
Writing letters to friends went out
of style years ago. Why wait three
days to get a letter when you can receive one instantly through e-mail?
But now even e-mail has lost its glory. Using MySpace or Facebook, you
can receive messages instantly and
cut down on the repetitive “how are
you today?” It allows you to just get
to the point. Messages are short and
sweet, and make communication
quick. Just the way we like it.
Text messaging is another way to
communicate. Many people do it,
because it is instant. Except people
forget that actually calling a person
can be a lot faster than texting it. But
like everything else, it’s addicting.
Although few students need to
be available 24 hours a day because
something important might happen, we still are.
Students are so addicted to
technology that instead of having a
conversation with a person at the
next table, we type to them instead.
We watch for their expression, and
wait for a response. Why? Because
it’s less distracting to the class? No,
it can actually be more annoying to
hear someone typing than whispering. But maybe the conversation is
private. Maybe it’s some good gossip. Or maybe, just maybe, it is too
important to wait until class is over.
So we have to ask, “Do you wanna
go to pub 2nite?” Meanwhile you
just missed half your lecture covering what your test will be on next
week, and what chapters you have
to read.
Either way, the distractions will
just keep building and the availability of everyone will keep rising. But
don’t get too offended if you’re trying to get in touch with your friend,
and none of these methods work. I
doubt they’re ignoring you. Maybe,
just maybe, something important
came up.
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ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
Rise Against leave some behind
By big touring buses, which spew far more emissions than
a normal car.
During the Warped Tour, which Rise Against played this
year, the average distance travelled was 40,000 kilometres
per band.
Not only is Rise Against travelling in a bus, but 40 other
bands are as well. Now it may just be me, but that doesn’t
sound like Earth prevention at all.
According to the Green Learning website, an inter-city
bus trip produces .041 kg of carbon dioxide per kilometre,
per passenger. There are five members of Rise Against, and
they travelled an average of 40,000 km. So let’s let the math
Angst-filled teenagers will no longer turn to punk rock do the talking.
after they find out their musical heroes are hypocrites.
Five (members) times 40,000 (km) is 200,000 km. And if
Yes, that’s right, I’m talking about the world’s beloved Rise you times that by .041 you get 8,200 kg of CO2 released into
Against, who seem to be more popular than sliced bread at the air. And that’s just Warped Tour; imagine all the other
the moment.
tours they’ve done.
Preach, preach, and preach some more is what the band’s
Not only are all those buses creating excessive emissions
lyrics should say. I mean, it already does
throughout the world, but the band is
that, it’s just disguising its lyrics to make
also playing wooden instruments on
you gradually believe that you shouldn’t
stage.
Chris
eat meat, or that you should hate George
Maybe they want to tell us that the
Bush for Rise Against’s reasons.
dozen
drumsticks they go through evBracken
Rise Against is at the point where it is
ery night and their guitars are made out
preaching about individuality, and that is a
of plastic or even recycled plastic.
complete oxymoron.
Rise Against is a big believer in PETA
Punk music is all about individuality and being your own and vegetarianism. Well, first off let me state I am against
person. When your music starts to tell people what to eat, animal cruelty, but being a vegan is an option for everybody,
who to vote for, or what to believe, then that’s not individual- and no one should be told not to eat meat.
ity at all. That’s conformity, and last time I checked, conforWhere would North America be without agriculture?
mity is the exact opposite of punk rock.
Cows are there for people to eat. Cows eat, sleep, and shit
Don’t get me wrong, I like the way Rise Against’s songs as much as humans do, if not more, so are we going to turn
sound, but when it comes to what it sings about and their to cannibalism before we can eat cows? I think that counts
song’s meanings, it makes me despise the band.
as murder too.
In the most recent Rise Against video, band members
Everyone knows that we need trees to create paper, and
are in British Columbia and are surrounded by a field of cut I believe that is what bands use to create their CD booklets,
down trees. Earth preservation?
posters, stickers, and any other related merchandise.
They perform in front of thousands of fans every day all
The Sufferer and the Witness, Rise Against’s most recent
over the world, and you want to know how they get there?
Former punk
band preaches
in new lyrics
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release, has six pages in its CD booklet and it has reached 10
on the Billboard Top 200. Now that’s a hell of a lot of CDs.
CD sales are not made available to the public, but sources say Rise Against’s Siren Song For The Counter Culture has
sold 65,600 copies and The Sufferer and the Witness 44,350
copies. Once again let’s break out the calculator.
All together that’s roughly 109,950 records sold. And with
six pages per booklet in each CD, that’s 659,700 pages. Now
it doesn’t state online or in the CD booklets that the booklets
are made of recycled paper, so how many trees are being
used to print out all of those booklets? That’s not environmentally friendly.
People listen to music to have a good time, escape from
everyday life and find solace. I doubt they’re listening to a record because they want to be told how to live, what to think
of the government and what to eat.
So who are Rise Against band members to take that into
their own hands? Let people make their own decisions
and develop their own opinions. My guess is the only reason they’re singing about saving the Earth on this album is
because 9/11 has passed and the anti-Bush bandwagon is
falling apart. Maybe Rise Against’s next album will be about
religion, so they can actually preach from a steeple.
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ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
Black Stone Cherry
New-look
Dungeon sets revives southern rock
Rock n’ roll
high hopes
has manly
By Chris Bracken
Chronicle Staff
Teenage hangout The Dungeon is becoming like a hotel and
people are more than willing to
be locked up. Decent walls, usable toilets, and booths are what
fans could only dream of before,
but now it’s true!People who have
been to The Dungeon before
would be pleased to hear that the
pool table has been moved, there
are no holes in the walls and the
stage has been made bigger.
Now not only does the band
have room to move on stage, but
they’ll be performing in front of a
brand new The Dungeon logo on
the wall behind them.
The major reason behind the
newly revamped dungeon is that
the venue is under new ownership. Everyone say goodbye to
the old Dungeon, and say hello
to new Dungeon and owner Will
Neville.
“Before the renovations people would hang their heads when
they said they were going to the
dungeon,” said Neville. “Now
people hold their heads up high.
It’s a nice feeling.”
Will and his brother Josh said
the renovations have just begun
and there is much more to come.
“The renovations started in
November 2006 and we officially
owned The Dungeon as of Jan.
1,” said Neville. “Our re-opening
show was Jan. 6, 2007 and we
were still doing the renovations
on Jan. 5.”
Will, Josh, and their brotherin-law were the ones who completed the recent renovations.
The renovations will continue
until they can get the place open
seven days a week. Neville would
like to add a second bar in the 19plus section as well.
“When people are thinking of
what to do on a Saturday night
we want them to think of The
Dungeon without hesitation,”
said Neville. “But my main goal
would be to let Josh be the GM so
I can be owner, and we’d like the
place open seven days a week.”
You might notice a change in
faces as well. Neville has hired
new staff to get The Dungeon
back on its feet. New security was
hired to keep things in line at the
door as well as secure the outside
of the building.
“Kids used to walk all over this
place and treat it like a dump,”
said Chris Press, a security guard
at The Dungeon. “That’s not going
to happen when I’m around.”
Not only are things running
more smoothly around the venue
now, but better bands are starting
to come around.
At the re-opening celebration, bands like The Johnstones,
Cheap Suits, Skratch 3, Keepin’ 6
and more played and rocked the
house. On Jan. 13, growing music
sensation IllScarlett played with
Staylefish, The Next Best Thing,
and BasTiD SoNz performed.
“To have two huge weekends
in a row for us is huge,” said Josh
Neville.
“I would really like to see
bands like BigWig back to play
here. Hopefully if we continue to
clean this place (The Dungeon)
up and get it a good name again
those bands will come around.”
roots again
By Chris Bracken
Chronicle Staff
The words Southern Rock have
become re-defined. Thank the boys
of Black Stone Cherry (BSC) for
creating an album of songs that will
make you want to grab a beer and
rock harder than anyone has rocked
before.
The spirits of bands like Lynyrd
Skynyrd and The Allman Brothers
Band are still living on and it’s quite
noticeable in BSC’s self-titled debut album released July 21, 2006. It
combines sounds of Southern Rock,
Modern Rock and a hint of Metal.
However you want to describe their
music, BSC has found a winning
combination.
The opening track Rain Wizard
puts the listener in their place and
shows that they’re in for the ride of
their life. The piercing vocals that
open the song are only a preview
of what’s to come on the rest of the
record, and trust me, there’s more
where that came from.
The next noticeable song on the
CD is their first single, Lonely Train.
The music represents just that, it
sounds like a train is heading your
way and there’s no way to stop it.
A melodic breakdown towards the
end of the song takes the listener by
surprise and then brings them right
back to the heavy side of things.
Hell And High Water is the band’s
most recent single and according to
the charts on the AOL Music web
site, fans seem to be drinking it up.
The vocals that singer Chris Robertson displays sound like Chris
Cornell from his Soundgarden days,
and I highly doubt that anyone objects to that.
The chorus of the song says “If
you’re walking through hell and
high water, please don’t do it alone.”
The band strives to write positive
messages that anyone can relate to.
After listening to 12 hard Southern Rock anthems, you come to the
end of the CD and the track Rollin’
On.
This song brings a fantastic end
to the CD by being a good mix of
soft and heavy. The guitar solo to
end the song gives you the urge to
pick up that air guitar and play it in
front of those 300,000 fans screaming your name.
“And just like the season I’m gonna change,” sings Robertson in the
chorus of Rollin’ On. But for all the
listeners’ sake let’s hope that Black
Stone Cherry doesn’t change and
they keep bringing us the music that
people love and adore.
You can catch Black Stone Cherry performing at The Kool Haus in
Toronto on Feb. 10 with Hinder and
Canadian rockers Finger Eleven.
Even though their record is way beyond amazing, it doesn’t do them
justice after seeing them live.
Valentine’s is for rocking
By Chris Bracken
Chronicle Staff
For all you Durham College students who don’t have anyone to
share Valentine’s Day with, does
Propagana Entertainment have a
concert for you.
St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
2007 concert will happen at E.P.
Taylor’s on Feb. 9 and offers a slaying good line-up of performers.
Bands performing include headliners Mugshot, Farewell To Freeway,
Del Asher, With Blood, Sawmill Valley, and more.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and tickets are $5 in advance and $9 at the
door.
This is an all-ages event with a
19-plus section.
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Jam that rail!
By Bruce Bolton
Chronicle Staff
Big air, grinds and pure white
powder are what made up the first
annual Scotties Rail Jam.
Hosted by Dagmar Resorts on
Jan. 20, this ski and snowboard
competition had it all, from highflying flips to injured participants.
With more then nine obstacles, the
participants and the park staff, led
by manager Matt Burke, were busy
all day.
“We have been working hard all
week. Early mornings, late nights,
setting up new features, maintaining all the existing ones and making
sure everything is all good,” Burke
said.
Along with the busy park staff,
Scotties ski and snowboard shop
had employees organizing the
event. A.J. Bound from Scotties was
the man in charge of the day. He
organized the judging, which was
made up of a park staff employee
and two employees from Scotties.
The organizers were pleased with
the turnout of over 45 athletes and
hope to make it an annual event.
“We are just here to throw a free
event for skiers and snowboarders.
Mainly we are just here to have fun
and have a great time,” Bound said.
The contest saw four different
categories, including 15 and under
boarding, 15 and over boarding, a
girls category and a ski category.
All the categories had prizes for the
winners.
“The winner for the 15 and up is
going to take a snowboard. The skier
will take a pair of skis. The rest will
take some of the swag,” said Bound.
The big winner of the snowboard
in the 15 and over category was Jamie Corneal..
“In the morning I had a couple of
practice runs. I just started off with
some stock manoeuvres and then
stepped it up in the finals,” Corneal
said.
The park staff is looking forward
to what the season holds for the
next competition.
“The event went great. Everyone
had a great time. I will look forward
to the next one, which is on Feb. 17,
which will be slope style and also
hosted by Scotties,” Burke said.
Photo by Bruce Bolton
THEY WERE JAMMIN: A snowboarder during his run at Scotties Rail Jam hosted by
Dagmar Resorts on Jan. 21. The competition was fierce, involving over 45 athletes and
having serious prizes. “The winner for the 15 and up (category) is going to take home a
snow board,” said A.J. Bound, the man in charge of the day from Scotties.
Varsity lose it in tournament playoffs
Niagara and
Seneca
Invitationals
By Ryan Peterson
Chronicle Staff
Lords women’s volleyball lost in
the semi-finals at the Niagara Invitational Jan. 19 and 20.
Women’s volleyball has had a
good season to this point. They are
in first place in the central east division with a conference record of
10-1.
However, the women had a difficult time in the invitational. They
hit poorly and didn’t seem to have
concentration.
“Mentally we haven’t figured
out what it takes to win,” said assistant coach Shane Christopher.
“We’ve been there against Humber
and Nipissing, the best teams in the
province, but it’s not them that beat
us. It’s our own unforced errors.”
What the Lords did figure out
was enough to get them into the
semi-finals with a 2-1 record in pool
play.
Their first match was lost to the
Nipissing Lakers 3-0. But Durham
defeated Loyalist 3-2 in their second
match, and beat Redeemer 3-0.
In the semi-finals, the Lords
started off well against the Humber
Hawks, winning the first set 3-1. But
Humber responded aggressively,
winning the final three sets 25-12,
25-22, and 25-22.
Kristen Conner, setter for the
Lords, was named a tournament allstar.
“I feel honoured,” Conner said.
“But a lot of my team helped me get
in that position.”
Christopher said Connor “played
defensively and made good set decisions.”
In men’s volleyball, the Lords
came up short in the finals at the
Seneca Tournament Jan. 19 and 20.
The men lost to Redeemer University 2-1 in the final match of the
annual tournament, but other than
that played well.
Team captain Dave Crabbe led
the Lords in offence against Redeemer with 10 kills. Jamie Mayer
and Josh Bowen each had nine kills.
Leading up to the finals, the Lords
had a good first day in the two-day
tournament, beating Humber 2-1
and Loyalist 2-0.
The second day saw the Lords
continue to light up the scoreboard.
The men beat the Fanshawe Falcons 2-1.
With a 6-2 record the Lords automatically qualified for the semifinals where they polished off the
Nipissing Lakers 2-0.
The Lords have a lot to be proud
of, with two tournament all-stars
on the roster: Ryan McIntosh and
Mayer.
The men got a chance to settle
the score against Redeemer in nonconference action Jan. 29, but results
were not available at press time
UOIT Ridgebacks tame
Lions in 3-2 home game
By Jason Miller
Chronicle Staff
Photo by Jason Miller
OUR BARK BETTER THAN THEIR BITE: Ridgeback’s forward Melissa Bell led the ladies to a 3-2 victory over the
York Lions Jan. 7 at the Campus Ice Centre.
The UOIT Ridgebacks women’s
hockey club defeated the York Lions 3-2 in their first home game at
the Campus Ice Centre on Jan. 7.
With a crowd of 250 fans at the
Campus Ice Centre, the arena was
filled with excitement as the Ridgebacks prepared to defend their
home ice and avenge their 4-2 loss
to the Lions last October.
“For us to beat a team at their
level is a huge win for us,” said head
coach Gary Pitcher. “
The girls were pumped and there
was a large crowd so that kept us going.”
The energy in the building was
electric as the team came out of the
tunnel and onto the ice for the first
time in front of their home crowd.
“It was a great vision of what to
expect when the puck drops in, 07”
said assistant coach Scott Barker.
The first period was back and
fourth with both teams creating
some great scoring opportunities,
but the Lions opened the scoring on
a breakaway goal by Mandy Cole.
The Ridgebacks then took control of
the game.
In the second period, they outshot the Lions 16-6, taking advantage of the penalty trouble that York
found themselves in.
At 15:08 Melissa Bell scored on
a rebound in front of the net. Bell
showed great reaction, as the rebound shot right off the Lions goalie
and she was able to backhand the
puck into the bottom right corner.
The Ridgebacks’ first goal was set
up by centre Amy Moulton and defencemen Cheri Ostroski, who both
played solid all game.
As the game continued the Ridgebacks were gaining momentum as
most of the play was in the York end
and UOIT wingers took advantage
to create scoring chances.
One minute into the third period,
on a lead pass from Jen Jarvie, Chrissie Tereshyn flew into the York zone
and made a beautiful drop pass to
Bell, who rifled a wrist shot into the
top corner to give UOIT the lead, at
8:15.
York began to pinch and apply
pressure in desperation for the tying goal. Dorothy Aniuk picked up a
loose puck at the side of the net and
managed to tie the game at two for
the Lions.
The tenacious Ridgebacks were
determined to give the home crowd
something to cheer about, and with
three minutes left to go in the game,
Bell completed the hat trick on a bad
angle shot from behind the York net,
giving the Ridgebacks the victory.
“We have some great players,”
said athletic director Ken Babcock.
“It’s a big confidence builder that we
can play and win. Women’s hockey
is definitely taking off through the
roof.”
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SPORTS NEWS
Generals making a stand
By Bruce Bolton
Chronicle Staff
The Oshawa Generals are still on
fire, moving into fourth spot in the
eastern conference after the weekend of Jan. 19 to 21.
It was another solid weekend for
the Gens as they stole four out of six
points, in a weekend that saw them
play three games in three nights.
It was a weekend that saw the
team’s depth, as the second line of
Igor Gongalsky, Brett Parnham and
Dale Mitchell came to play.
“They (number one line) score
their goals and we have to do our
job too,” Mitchell said, about the second line’s big weekend.
Mitchell posted great numbers
with a hat trick and two assists in
Friday’s 7-5 win over the Windsor
Spitfires. He struggled during an
eight 8-4 loss to the Belleville Bulls
on Saturday. And on Sunday during
the 8-6 come-from-behind victory
over the Toronto St. Mike’s Majors,
he kept his hot streak going with two
goals and three assists.
“We wanted to salvage the weekend after being spanked last night in
Belleville. We had to come here and
get these points because these guys
(Toronto) are in the bottom of the
conference,” said Mitchell. “It should
have been an automatic two points
and not as close as it was.”
Head coach and GM Brad Selwood was happy with the two wins
but understands the team has some
work to do on the defensive side.
“It’s not pretty defensive hockey,”
Selwood said. “We have to bring our
lunch pail to work and work a little
harder along the walls.”
Stood up
by
Nigeria...
NBy Byron Jung
Chronicle Staff
With only one practice last week,
the D.C. men’s volleyball team was
disappointed Jan. 23 to find that
the Nigerian national team failed to
make their scheduled scrimmage.
The Nigerians are in Canada promoting their team by playing several
college and university teams across
the country. The reason they failed
to show was unknown to coach
Gord Williamson.
“We’re pretty disappointed they
didn’t show up,” said third-year veteran and middle Josh Bowen. “It
would have been nice to see a different team.”
Along with Nigeria, the Durham
Attack U-18 club volleyball team
was also supposed to play in a minitournament with the two teams, but
failed to show up because of high
school exams and several players
coming down with the flu.
Photo by Bruce Bolton
ON A ROLL: Dale Mitchell of the Oshawa Generals fights for position against
the St. Mike’s Majors defence. Gens won the game 8-4.
The team could not have pulled
off the successful weekend without
the solid play of their second line.
“I think Parnham’s line has really
played well, especially lately. We
have to get secondary scoring,” Selwood said.
Parnham was the number one
star in the win over the Majors with
two goals and one assist. Parnham
stands at five feet nine inches and is
not only the smallest player on the
Gens but one of the smallest in the
OHL.
“I’ve always been this size. It is
just something I grew up with. There
might be bigger and stronger guys,
but you just have to battle and outwork them,” said Parnham.
An interesting side note to the
weekend was the two players who
had letters on their jerseys. Igor
Gongalsky from the second line had
the A and veteran defencemen Peter Aston had the C, due to injures to
assistant captain Kody Musselman
and captain Eric Regan.
“Well, obviously Regan is a big
part of our team. He logs a lot of
minutes,” Aston said. “I guess with
him out we’re all going to have to
chip in.”
“They (Aston and Gongalsky)
have both been through it. They
are both veterans. They are both 20
years old.
They both come from winning
organizations. They both know
how to log a lot of minutes. I think
it was an easy decision,” Selwood
said. “When those guys get back, we
will have even more leaders in the
room.”
Lords lose
to the Sting
By Matt O’Brien
Chronicle Staff
The Durham women’s basketball
team’s winning streak was stripped
away by the Seneca Sting on Jan.
23.
The Lords had a rough time gaining momentum, and trailed the
Sting early in the game. Rookie Jill
Leistra suffered an ankle injury that
took her out of the game, and also
excluded her from the next game
against Humber College.
After the injury it was a slippery slope for the Lords, as they
still couldn’t make it happen on the
court, and the game ended with the
Lords losing 47-85.
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Raycroft: is he worth the dough?
By Mike Gokdag
Chronicle Staff
Since day one of the NHL season
the Toronto Maple Leafs have made
it clear who their number one goalie
would be
. Now just past the midway point
Andrew Raycroft still holds the job,
but not quite as securely as he used
to.
In the off-season there was an
abundance of quality free-agent
goaltenders, more so than in previous seasons.
The Leafs went out, traded away
top goaltending prospect Tukka
Rask, dubbed the next Mikka Kiprusoff, for Andrew Raycroft and furthermore signed him to a three-year
$6-million deal.
A questionable move but with
Justin Pogge waiting in the wings
the Leafs could afford it.
This year the Leafs are paying
Raycroft $1.8 million.
In comparison to other starting
goaltenders in the league Raycroft’s
salary ranks as twentieth of the 35
goalies who are starting or splitting
time with an NHL club.
Therefore Raycroft is being paid
a below average salary for his starting position.
His signing was a gamble by the
Leafs and thus far he’s looked like
both a goaltender who should be
demoted to the AHL and one that
ON FIRE: Raycroft answered his critics in an impressive performance against the Lightning on Jan. 17.
should be paid among the top tier
puck stoppers.
The strategy by John Ferguson Jr.
heading into the season was getting
Raycroft would be cheap. He was a
Calder Trophy winner as rookie of
the year and his season of mediocrity in 2005-‘06 could be blamed on
injuries.
Along with the $17 million spent
on the Leafs top four defencemen,
Ferguson figured even if Raycroft
wasn’t spectacular his defence
would hold the fort.
Unfortunately not many of JFJ’s
plans have panned out and the
Leafs are in the top 10 teams for
goals allowed.
On Jan. 17, the Leafs played their
most important game of the regular season against the Tampa Bay
Lightning.
The Buds were sitting four points
out of a playoff spot behind the
Lightning and New York Rangers.
Raycroft got the nod and he showed
up, making big saves at key moments against marquee players.
He stopped Martin St. Louis
and Vincent Lecavalier half a dozen times on high quality scoring
chances. Raycroft led the Leafs to a
huge win.
His mind-blowing performance
against the Lightning proved to Leaf
fans he could play and win.
Now Raycroft has to keep his
game at this level and turn the Leafs
season into a successful one.
Only when he gets the Buds to
the playoffs will Ferguson’s gamble
pay off and will Raycroft emerge as
a solidified number one goalie in
the NHL.
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SPORTS NEWS
Stars shine as Durham hosts
By Jason Miller
Chronicle Staff
Defence! Defence! That was the
chant from more than 1,000 fans and
players crammed into the Durham
College Athletic Complex to watch
the most talented male and female
basketball athletes from 20 colleges
across Ontario.
The athletic complex was transformed into all-star venue to host the
20th annual OCAA all-star basketball on Jan. 20. It was truly an all-star
weekend as Durham played host for
the second time in two years. Screams
erupted from the crowd as family and
friends cheered for their favourite
players from the west and east teams.
“It was a well-organized and exciting day,” said Oshawa resident John
Lewis. “It was a truly entertaining
package. It’s good to see the players
having fun, and taking time off from
school and serious play.”
These players, coaches and fans
came from as far west as Windsor
and as far east as Ottawa, to take part
in the day’s festivities. Samantha McConnell and Anthony Batchelor represented the Lords for the third time,
while Allison Chehowski made her
first appearance.”
Both games were won by the
east team, which seemed to possess
the better players. The women’s east
team spanked the west 79-64, but the
sight of the girls having fun captivated
the fans and coaches more than the
score-line.
“Its an honour for me to be playing
with the best in the province,” said the
east team’s top player Sara Maybee
from Algonquin. It feels pretty good.”
Danielle D’Ettore was the game’s
top scorer with 15 points and three
rebounds, while McConnell picked
up 11 points and eight rebounds.
“This is like a celebration for these
young women,” said west team coach
Ed Green. “They get to put their skills
on display so the fans can watch good
talent.”
It was a tighter game on the men’s
side but the east still managed to pull
away with a nail-biting 82-78 win
in the last minutes of the game. The
east player of the game, Odane Har-
ding from Centennial, had 15 points.
Batchelor finished with six points.
The day also had special events
such as the co-ed two-ball team competition and the electrifying threepoint shoot-out competition.
The shoot-out, won by Andrew
Turgeon of Algoma and Jeralyn Espiritu of Sheridan College, kept the
fans on the edge of their seats during
half-time breaks.
“I wanted to entertain the fans and
have fun,” said the women’s threepoint champion Espiritu. “It was exciting to come from behind to win. They
all make me feel like a star here.”
The day was not short of entertainment. When the players weren’t on
the court the fans were captivated by
the moves of the Fanshawe dancers
and the high-flying Durham College
cheer-leading team.
“We practised really hard for this,”
said Durham cheer-leading captain
Lisa Brown. “This was our first time
performing in front of the school. The
performance was awesome.”
The entertainment package was
topped off by the mascot competition, with performances from the Fanshawe Falcon, Lord Durham and the
winner from St. Clair College Tyler
Pelle. The mascots thrilled the crowd
with dance moves to old school and
new school beats.
“My plan was to get the crowd from
the start,” said Pelle, who won over the
crowd by handing out roses to the ladies while dancing to James Brown. “I
am a Durham person myself so I had
to represent.”The event was truly an
all-star success but it wouldn’t have
been possible without the co-operation of several departments such as
the Police Foundations and Sports
Management programs. It took six
months of planning along with the
help of over 70 people, including retired staff who volunteered to get the
job done. The event was broadcast
across the province by Rogers Television for the first time.
“We had an amazing host crew and
staff,” said Durham College and UOIT
athletic director Ken Babcock. “They
all helped to host a first-class event.
This is a great showcase of Ontario
basketball and we love hosting it.”
Photo By Jason Miller
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Photo by Reka Szekely
ALL-STAR PERFORMANCE: Top: Anthony Batchelor tied the all-star game via lay-up
with only a few minutes remaining. Bottom: The St. Clair Saint, winner of the
mascot competition, doing his dance routine in front of the Durham College faithful.
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The 20th annual OCAA
all-star game provided
excitement and quality
basketball for everyone
Photo By Jason Miller
WORK ETHIC: Samantha McConnell plays solid defence
while still racking up 11 points and eight rebounds.
Photo by Reka Szekely
Photo By Reka Szekely
JUMP BALL: Left to right, Pat Sewell, Dwight Taylor and
Odane Harding representing Fanshawe, Sheridan and
Centennial Colleges respectively.
THREE CHEERS: Durham cheerleaders show off skills in front
of hometown players and fans,
making all other players wish
they chose Durham College.
Photo by Jason Miller
HEART AND SOUL: Anthony Batchelor is always
running at 100 per cent as he picks up another
two points for the Eastern Conference.
Photo by Reka Szekely
ALL-STAR SUPPORT: Students filled the gymnasium for the OCAA all-star basketball game in support of their home-town players, and to watch the best of the best for women’s and men’s teams from across the province.
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