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2007/01/11
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The university of Winnipeg student weekly JAN 11, 2007 vol. 61
Issue 14
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02 UNiversity acts on Promise
10 Back to school tips
12 Leave your cold loins at home
21 The 2006 Uniter Sports Awards!
Theatre and film students look forward to new building
making money on used books, maybe
Rocky horror heats up mtc
All that is scathing and biasED in sports reporting
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CanWest Gives U of W Theatre
Students a New Place to Play
for lighting and sound, with total costs projected
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Ben Wood [email protected]
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at $5.5 million. Department Chair Doug Arrell
says the entire building will also be made more
student-friendly.
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Matt Cohen [email protected]
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“They will have much better facilities to
learn in and rehearse in. It’s quite a student-cen-
ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR
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tered decision that we have made,” Arrell says.
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LISTINGS Coordinator
Nick Weigeldt [email protected]
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From what I’ve heard
SPORTS EDITOR
Mike Pyl [email protected]
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from most students, they’re
just happy to have a new
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building. At this point, I
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Natasha Peterson
SENIOR REPORTER
Derek Leschasin
don’t think we care where the
money comes from.”
–Katherine Supleve
STAFF Reporter
Kenton Smith
Third-year Theatre student
Beat Reporter
Ksenia Prints
“There will be three new lounge areas through-
Beat Reporter
Michelle Dobrovolny
out the building, which is a huge improvement on
our current arrangement. There are going to be
far better washroom facilities, lockers, and better
PRODUCTION MANAGER & GRAPHICS EDITOR
Sarah Sangster [email protected]
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conditions for people acting in the shows, with
new dressing rooms and showers, and a backstage
green room area. All that is going to make every-
this week’s contributors
body, especially the students, much more comfortable.”
Kristy Rydz, Brooke Dmytriw, Erin McIntyre, Dan Huygebert,
Aaron Epp, Sepher Cadiz, Daniel Falloon, Brad Pennington,
Josh Boulding, Scott Christiansen, Kalen Qually ,
Brendan Sommerhalder, Kate Sjoberg
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CanWest is providing the funds to fully renovate the Theatre building on Colony Street.
tional 900 students who are not majoring in theatre, but taking courses in the building. Since its
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Michelle Dobrovolny
“We don’t have a building right now that is
establishment in 1982, the program has been
representative of how strong our program is... The
steadily growing, with enrollment increasing by 87
Beat Reporter
fact that we have such an amazing program now
per cent over the past 5 years. The program is now
in such a horrible building says a lot. I can’t imag-
one of the largest in the country, offering 90 differ-
ine how great it will be after the renovations.”
ent courses in drama and production. Prominent
hanks to a holiday gift from CanWest
The current theatre building at 400 Colony
graduates include actress Tina Keeper and direc-
Global Communications, the University
Street, purchased in 1999 with a $3.525 million
tor Larry Desrochers, co-founder of the Winnipeg
of Winnipeg’s Department of Theatre
donation from the Manitoba government, is in
Fringe Festival.
and Film should have a fully-renovated facility by
sad shape, and is lacking in even basic structures
early next year. Leonard Asper, president and CEO
for a theatre department.
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LOCATION
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University of Winnipeg
515 Portage Avenue
Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 2E9
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Renovations to the building are planned to
begin May 1. Portions of the building will be ready
of the Winnipeg-based media giant, announced a
“We’re the only program in Canada to not
for use for the Fall 2007 term, and the entire proj-
$3 million donation on December 12 that will go
have a stage,” says Supleve. “If we can get a proper
ect is set to be completed by January 2008. The
towards upgrading the theatre building.
theatre building, it will just be amazing.”
new building will be called the CanWest Centre
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Arrell estimates that the department’s student body numbers roughly 400, with an addi-
theatre
student
Katherine
Supleve says the money is hugely needed.
Renovations to the building will include a
for Theatre & Film. Supleve says the benefits of
120-150 seat theatre, as well as labs and studios
CanWest’s donation outweigh any kind of concerns about having a corporate brand on the new
building.
“From what I’ve heard from most students,
they’re just happy to have a new building. At this
point, I don’t think we care where the money
comes from.”
The contract signed with CanWest includes
sections that will prevent the corporation from
interfering in the management of the program.
Arrell says that he feels satisfied that the artistic freedom of faculty and students will be respected.
“It’s a fact of life that we have corporations
Gondolas in Venice
supporting us here. In an ideal system, maybe this
Photo: Whitney Light
that our interaction with CanWest has been ex-
isn’t the way things should be, but I have to say
tremely good. We fundamentally have the same
goals,” says Arrell. “They are very interested in our
producing excellent theatre and film students, because the media world needs these graduates.”
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January 11, 2006
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Crime watch in Cyberspace, or Hi-Tech Bullying?
Local man takes action on neighbourhood thugs into his own hands
Ksenia Prints
Beat reporter
W
hen a quiet residential street in
West Kildonan fell victim to one
too many vandalism and graffiti incidents, a discontented homeowner decided
to take action. Curtis Webb installed a hidden
camera in his back alley and launched a website, winnipegtheft.com, to post the pictures
and widely expose the offenders. In this open
forum, Curtis and other viewers share stories
and information about the mostly underage
culprits, which become available to all interested.
The website opened on December 11,
after Webb’s house was spray-painted for the
fourth time. “It is trying to curb some of the less
serious crime in the community,” he explains.
“I’m not saying we can stop crime or “tagging,”
but we can definitely curb some of it.”
The site draws on community effort to
address the vandalism problem. ““I figured if
members took a vested interest in the safety of
our community and shared the information,
we could solve our own problems,” Webb says.
He believes the reason behind the rampant
vandalism is the anonymity offenders enjoy,
which the site tries to eliminate.
In his opening post on winnipegtheft.
com, Webb explained just what information
his neighbours should share regarding the
graffiti offenders: Their “picture, name, where
they live, phone number, who their parents
are, where their parents work, and even what
school they go to.” No last names appear.
Is this a violation of the privacy law? “I
haven’t published anything that directly identified any of these, and all the information I’ve
used is already on public sites… I also got it
from multiple sources,” says Webb, who adamantly insists the offenders were already
largely known in the area, and no unverified
information was posted. “It’s more like hi-tech
gossip for the community,” says Webb.
Kirsten Kramar, a sociology professor at
the University of Winnipeg and an expert on
Criminology, disagrees claiming winnipegtheft.com is illegal.
“If he’s posting people’s names and accusing them of having committed a crime,
he’s liable for libel and several litigations,” says
Kramar. It can also be seen as endangering
the children by exposing them to disgruntled
neighbours whose houses have recently been
spray-painted.
“Throughout history, certain individuals
have always tried to take matters into their own
hands, but they’re not professionally trained to
do any of these things… He’s not police, judge
and jury,” Kramar says. “[It] won’t do anything
to address the root problems of crime, it just
looks at the manifestation of a social problem.”
To stop winnipegtheft.com, a civil lawsuit would have to be filed by the families of the
children exposed on the site. If the police were
to come across the site, they could also act. But
the best hope of stopping winnipegtheft.com
and its violation of children’s rights lies with the
web provider, says Kramar.
“There’s an inherent risk when you try
to prevent anything in society,” says Webb of
the chance he will be prosecuted. “In my case,
social embarrassment is the worst… If I have
violated something, there will be consequences
for me.” He is not worried, as the “the internet
in itself is not regulated very well.”
The cops have their
hands full, young offenders
were just getting slapped on
the wrist… we’re trying to
take a little bit of the load
off the cops.”
–Curtis Webb
Kramar insists the only viable solution
against neighbourhood crime is reporting it to
the police. “There’s lots of different things the
police can do if the kid is 12 or 15, and the educational system and parents can be involved...
but there’s no quick-fix solution, which is what
people like that always want.”
Webb has long given up on the police.
“The cops have their hands full, young offenders were just getting slapped on the wrist…
New Rules Take Confusion Out of Organic Foods
Derek Leschasin
News Editor
A
new label — ‘Canada Organic’ — will
soon be appearing on organic products in Canada.
Many consumers are baffled by the current array of labels and advertised claims —
even unclear on the term ‘organic’ itself. But
with Federal Minister of Agriculture Chuck
Strahl’s announcement on December 22
that brand new regulations for organic food
labeling across Canada have been approved,
at least some of that confusion seems set to
fade away.
“We’ve done consumer surveys... and
they continue to tell us that the consumer is
confused,” says Paddy Doherty, Coordinator
of the Canadian Organic Initiative Project,
an industry group that pushed for regulation. “They often don’t realise that the government isn’t controlling (organics), and
they don’t know the difference between ‘organic’ and ‘certified organic’ and ‘natural’.”
The new regulations dictate that after
a 2-year transition period, the Canadian
Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) will oversee a mandatory national labeling system.
Organic food producers will be forced to
comply with a minimum set of criteria for
declaring their food ‘organic’.
Prior to this arrangement, certification
had been voluntary, with certifying agencies
following different sets of guidelines. British
Columbia and Quebec were exceptions,
with provincial regulations in place.
“There were products on the market
that were calling themselves organic, and
the consumers didn’t feel that they were
true organic products,” says Michel Saumur,
National Manager of the Canada Organic
Office, a department of the CFIA.
The CFIA describes organic foods as
produced in a system in which “Soil fertility is maintained, animals are raised in a
manner appropriate to their behavioural
requirements and synthetic fertilizers and
pesticides are not used.”
The mandatory certification creates
two types of organic products. The first type
includes products with at least 70 per cent
organic ingredients, which must be certified
to claim the name ‘organic product’. They
must also list which ingredients are actually organic. The second type includes only
products with 95 per cent or more organic
ingredients, which are permitted to use a
new ‘Canada Organic’ logo.
“That’s what people call the ‘true’ organic products,” says Saumur.
Products with lower percentages are
not legally permitted to be labeled ‘organic’,
though organic ingredients within them
may be listed as such.
Certification will be carried out by already-existing agencies, which will have to
comply with the regulations and are subject
to the supervision of the CFIA. Inspectors
from the agency will also periodically carry
out inspections, Saumur explains.
Perhaps surprisingly, this regulation
comes at the behest of the organics industry itself.
“The organic industry... got organised,
and bothered the federal government until
they did it,” says Doherty. The regulations
There were products on
the market that were calling
themselves organic, and the
consumers didn’t feel that they
were true organic products.”
–Michel Saumur
CFIA
were developed after extensive consultations between the federal government, producers and importer/exporters.
“The producers, the manufacturers, the
exporters and the importers, felt that there
was not a clear, level playing field for their
products on the market, because there was
misrepresentation and fraudulent products... we’ve dealt with those problems,”
says Saumur.
It’s not clear how many producers have
got away with bending the meaning of the
term ‘organic’, if any have at all. Under the
voluntary system, a certain volume of complaints could have moved the CFIA to investigate under Canada’s labeling laws, but that
never occurred, says Saumur.
“There’s no study on that. It’s all hearsay.” Saumur explains.
For now, compliance with the regulations will be on a voluntary basis, until it becomes mandatory in 2008.
we’re trying to take a little bit of the load off the
cops.”
Addressing Child and Family Services
is seen as “overstepping your boundaries,”
but parents are still a source of hope. In cases
of verified identities, Webb will confront the
family with the information.
Webb hopes that shame and peer pressure from being exposed on the website will
lead some of the offenders to confess. He offers
them 10 days of community service in the
area for a clean record in the neighbourhood,
a better alternative than being chased by an
angry West Kildonan resident.
“It’s going to get to the point they will be
chased down the back alley,” warns Webb. “This
isn’t escalating it, but trying to stop it before it
gets any worse.”
Kramar points out that forcing one kid to
erase graffiti won’t help prevent it. “Other kids
in the community have nothing to do,” she
says. “If the community provided places and
opportunities for kids to express themselves,
that is a solution.”
Webb, on the other hand, views the website as the first step on the road to a tighter and
safer community. “It won’t stop unless something is done… Now that it’s up, I might as well
keep it going.” He wants to see other communities joining in, or starting similar initiatives.
“When you start caring about your fellow
neighbours, communities start to change for
the better,” he says hopefully. “I’m looking for
social reform, there has to be a better way than
there is right now.”
January 11, 2006
News Editor: Derek Leschasin
Phone: 786-9497
Fax: 783-7080
NEWS
World
News BriefS
Compiled by Brooke Dmytriw
Winter Fun Day Kicks Off U of W’s 40th
PHOTO: RICHARD LIEBRECHT
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PERQUIN— El Salvador is capitalizing
on its twelve-year civil war, which ended in 1992,
and incorporating its guerrilla history into a growing tourism industry. The war ravaged much of the
countryside and the locals of those poverty-stricken
areas are attempting to profit from the violence.
The former rebel movement, the Farabundo
Marti National Liberation Front (FMNL), had its
headquarters at Perquin and now ex-guerrillas are
leading tours and treks into the mountains to visiting tourists. The Museum of the Revolution was established in the city, displaying such memorabilia
Children enjoy snowman-building as part of the U of W’s 40th Anniversary kick-off.
from the FMNL as combat plans, photos, weap-
Current and next year’s incoming students will have a chance to enjoy some parties, along with events targeted at alumni
and more for the community. Events from
now until April vary from a U of W-sponsored Moose game coming up on Jan. 17,
which leads into the UWSA’s Sno Week carnival at the end of January, to a Human
Rights Conference in late February. Chantal
Kreviazuk, a graduate of the UW Collegiate,
will play a fundraising concert for the
University also at the end of February, along
with a Bonnycastle lecture by Bill Pace.
March will see a spring pow-wow and a
“Plan your Winnipeg” youth workshop.
The crux of events will happen at the
start of next academic year, from Sept. 1316, on what is being called Homecoming
weekend. Though specific events have yet
to be formally announced, the University’s
Charter Day, the actual anniversary of the
University, falls in those days.
Charter Day will mark 40 years since becoming an official University, but the educa-
ons and uniforms. The Associated Press reported
the government is welcoming the initiative, seeing
the endeavor as positive for both the economic and
Richard Liebrecht
psychological recovery of the country.
News ASSIGNMENT Editor
El Salvador is the first country in Latin
America to launch a tourism industry based around
a civil war. Since 1996, El Salvador has produced
$1.7 billion through tourism. Most come for the
country’s beaches but more are taking an interest
in El Salvador’s war-torn past.
PARIS— Investigators into the murder of
a prisoner by his fellow cellmates believe the murderer likely ate some of the victim’s body parts. The
killer informed investigators he removed his cellmate’s heart and consumed it. The victim did have a
large wound to the chest, however when examined
by the coroner, the heart and its membrane were
intact. According to Reuters, the autopsy did reveal
that part of the lung and portions of muscle around
the rib area were missing. This is the second cannibalism case in Europe publicized in less than
a year. A German court convicted Armin Meiwes
to life in prison after he killed and ate a consensual victim.
MONTREAL— EBay closed an auction
on its website for one of the first Order of Canada
medals because it violated company policy. The
S
nowman-building contests and sleigh
rides made for an unusual but very
seasonal Fun in the Winter Sun kickoff event, held on Friday as part of a yearlong engagement to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the University of Winnipeg.
The family-friendly focus of the day’s events
hinted at whom the University hopes will be
a part of the anniversary.
“It’s a chance to showcase the kind of
excellence we have in education, opening
the university up to the community. It’s a
chance to hold some special events that will
really advance the university’s presence in
the community,” says Dr. Lloyd Axworthy,
president of the University.
Dozens of toddler and elementary-aged
kids filled the usually empty Riddel cafeteria that afternoon to catch a magic act by PJ
Pajamas and chow down on free pizza, slurpees, and do-it-yourself iced cookies. The
more senior student crowd also got their
share from the day, with the slurpee machines chilled in time for lunch and a pancake breakfast that morning courtesy of the
UWSA. Those who cared to venture outside
in the unseasonably warm and wet weather
hopped on a country-style horse drawn
sleigh ride around Spence neighborhood, or
played in the spirit of Canada’s gold winning
Junior team in the UWSA-sponsored hockey
tournament benefiting the United Way.
Levi Foy, programming coordinator for
the UWSA, sits on the planning committee
for the events, intending to make sure current students will be engaged in the anniversary.
“The [University’s event planning]
committee was really receptive to any kind
of ideas that I had put forward on behalf of
the UWSA; their questions were never hostile. It has a really good feeling,” Foy says. “It
will be interesting, but it wont be terribly relevant for most students. For first or second
year students, it will be like ‘hey, this is cool’;
they can turn around in five years and say: ‘I
was there for the anniversary.’”
For first or second
year students, it will be like
‘hey, this is cool’; they can
turn around in five years
and say: ‘I was there for
the anniversary’.”
–Levi Foy
tional institution is actually 136 years old. U
of W’s roots date back to the 1871 establishment of Manitoba College. One of U of W’s
signature buildings, Wesley Hall, takes its
name from Wesley College, started in 1888.
The University of Winnipeg Charter turned
what had become the combined United
College into a university.
anonymous owner selling the medal awarded to
Quebec historian Gustave Lanctot is now attempting to auction the medal via email. EBay said they
closed the auction early because it went against their
policy of selling government property. Bidding had
reached $15,100 US for the medal. The owner paid
$45 CAD at an estate sale, reported the Canadian
Press. The medal, which was awarded to Lanctot
in 1967, is unlike the Order of Canada medals received by other recipients, which are produced by
the Royal Canadian Mint.
HALIFAX— Video captured on a bystand-
er’s cell phone has brought about the resignation
of Nova Scotia Human Resources Minister Ernie
Fage. The video records pictures of the Minister at
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the scene of a car accident in Halifax. The media
reported that contrary to Fage’s account, he did not
follow proper procedure regarding the collision but
waited a week to report the accident. In addition,
three witnesses at the scene allege Fage left with
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the smell of alcohol on him. The Canadian Press
reported no charges have been filed against Fage,
but the incident further weakens the credibility of
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the Tory government.
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not realizing he was the Minister, after Gamble saw
Fage rear-end a car in front of him and leave the
scene. Nova Scotia’s Motor Vehicle Act, like most
provinces’, requires the drivers involved in vehicular accidents to exchange names, personal information and registration numbers. If damage to the
vehicle can be assessed over $1000, the accident
has to be reported to the police within 24 hours.
Deadline for resumes is Jan. 30 2007.
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January 11, 2006
NEWS
UW Buying up
neighbors, plans on
massive expansion
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Local
News BriefS
Compiled by Kristy Rydz
and Richard Liebrecht
Richard Liebrecht
News ASSIGNMENT Editor
UW is buying share in a large block of neighboring property confirmed Winnipeg Free Press
The Forks Receives International
Tourism Recognition
reporter Nick Martin last week, on leaked information from President Lloyd Axworthy. The purchase begins a vast new expansion plan that could
see the University more than double in size.
The University spent $4 million to buy a 25
per cent share in 3 buildings, partly paid for by
unidentified private donors with the rest being
covered by a mortgage that Axworthy said will be
paid for using rental proceeds from the newly acquired properties.
The Greyhoud Bus Terminal, its attached
parkade, and the Rice Financial building were
all included in the purchase. While it doesn’t give
UW enough control over any facility to immediately expand, the article noted Axworthy hopes
to gain full control over the bus depot’s valuable
space immediately next door to Manitoba and
Bryce halls. The University is also looking for a
private sector partner to join in purchasing the
The historic meeting of the Assiniboine
and Red Rivers, better know as the Forks to
Winnipeggers, has received the international
Phoenix Award. The award is presented annually
by the Society of America Travel Writers (SATW), a
group known for their high standards who describe
our pride and joy as, “Winnipeg’s top tourism attraction, with more than 4 million visitors annually,
after a $33 million renovation and refurbishment of
the 56-acre site and buildings.”
The award was earned thanks to The Forks’
preservation of native culture along with the incorporation of an amphitheater and skate park.
Nominated by former Winnipegger Bea Broda
Connolly, the chairwoman of the Canadian chapter of (SATW), the Forks was one of seven recipients in 2006 but the only one to be agreed to unanimously by members.
Holiday Inn hotel tower at the corner of Colony
and Portage, hoping to turn the hotel into student
housing.
When combined with stated aims to take
Café Serving up Some Twang
– 100.7 FM Gets a Make-over
over at least one floor of the Bay building, the
purchase spaced could turn UW’s modest urban
block into a 6 block-long spread that would range
from the Bay building to the new science complex set to be constructed one bock west of the
campus on Portage Ave.
The expansion is in accordance with a new
development plan Axworthy put forward after
disregarding the one in place since before his
term and president.
In an article on Saturday, both Mayor Sam
Katz and Minister of Advanced Education Diane
McGifford endorsed the broad vision, saying
Axworthy has their support and, they believe, can
get the job done.
Watch for more on UW’s latest move in upcoming editions of The Uniter.
If 2006 didn’t hold enough excitement with a federal election, ongoing wars,
and TomKitten, 2007 promises to be a slightly warmer and even more thrilling ride.
We asked resident Nostridamus what they think will be the topic of talk in 2007.
There’s a new cowboy in town. Meet Hank,
who ‘plays everything country.’ Hank FM, the newly
revamped 100.7 FM radio station, was launched
December 28, 2006, with an exclusively countryoriented play list.
The original station was launched in 2002,
as an oldies station called The Breeze. Shortly after
purchasing the station over a year ago, Newcap
Radio, based in Newfoundland, decided that the
Breeze had turned cool. Café 100 was soon established becoming known for its’ adult alternative tunes.
The station’s current switch to a mixture of
hot new songs to old school classics provides
competition for Winnipeg’s QX 104.1 as well as
the Native Communications Inc (NCI) 105.5, as
up until now they were previously unchallenged
in the field.
First Nation turns away FROM
UNIVERSITY; TO TRAIN OWN
SOCIAL WORKERS
Ryan McDonald, Theatre and Film – I don’t
think Global Warming will be an issue this year yet.
Obviously, it’s a constantly increasing issue, but its not
gonna reach any vast new height this year. Its kind of a
slow process…you aren’t going to see a crazy amount
of big storms this year.”
Kennedy Wychnenka, 3rd year Criminal Justice – “What I’m thinking is more
pressure on the government on Kyoto, the
emissions, and the environment. However, I
think they’d win the election.”
Toshi, 1st year Kinesiology – “I think America
doesn’t give up on Iraq…to get oil. I’m concerned
about what will happen after Hussein [his execution].
I don’t know what that video of his execution will
mean.”
Kris Wajsowicz, 3rd year Computer
Science – “The biggest issue arising will be
the environment. You read everywhere about
it…that we are going to see big changes in the
next 50 years. It’s just going to get bigger and
bigger as time progresses.”
Hiro, 4th year Anthropology – “[I’m concerned
with] the relationship between North Korea and South
Korea; there’s still the nuclear thing. I think there could
be another missle test.”
CBC Manitoba reported last week that the
Dakota Ojibwa First Nation will stop taking graduates of university social work programs, such as
U of M’s, in favour of trainees from an aboriginal
institution.
Yellowquill College, located near the
University of Winnipeg on Assiniboine Ave, will
soon launch a two-year diploma program catering
to the single First Nation. Hopes are the program
will train more Aboriginal social workers to work
with Aboriginal families.
The coordinator of the new program at
Yellowquill singled out U of M as the particular
source of frustration, saying the University refused
to make changes to their program to address conditions specific to Aboriginal communities.
The Chair of the University’s Faculty of Social
Work said the U of M program is recognized as a
top program in the country for Aboriginal peoples
and communities. He is concerned about the level
of skills developed in a diploma program compared
to a degree.
The launch date of the Yellowquill program
had not been announced by press time.
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Editorials
Managing Editor: Jo Snyder
No such thing as revenge
Modern technology teaches us an old lesson
Jo SNYDER
MANAGING Editor
M
aybe it was the Christmas season
and we’re all still bubbling over
with a little too much holiday joy,
but I’m not buying the collective moral outrage
expressed at the hanging of Saddam Hussein,
at least not whole-heartedly. However, George
Orwell and Christopher Hitchens saved me
from what could have been purely a reactionary rant. And for the record, if Hitchens
shows disgust at something then you know it
must be corrupt.
The issues surrounding Saddam’s holiday hanging confront Western moralists with
more than a few conundrums. Egyptian
President Hosni Mubarak, among many others,
said the timing of the hanging made Hussein
a martyr. Likely, given the polarity of views in
the Middle East, Hussein would have been a
martyr to many anyway. Further, timing would
not have persuaded those looking forward to
his death to feel sympathy had they a chance
to think about it.
However, Christopher Hitchens, in Slate
magazine, framed it this way: “The timing—
isn’t anyone in the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad
paid to notice this kind of thing?—was explicitly designed to rub every kind of humiliation
into Iraqi Sunnis. It profaned their observance
of the Eid ul-Adha holiday, while gratifying
the Shiite fundamentalists whose ceremonies
begin one day later. To have made the butcher
Saddam into a martyr, to have gratified one
sect, and to have cheated millions of Iraqis
and Kurds of the chance for a full accounting—
what a fine day’s work!”
Compelling, no?
What is our theory of justice and how
do we perceive revenge? Let’s be perfectly
clear, I’m not supporting capital punishment.
However, a conversation with a colleague made
me wonder exactly where I stand on this issue.
She proposed to me that had an individual assassinated Hussein out of personal vengeance
for the loss of a family member, or something
like this, it would’ve been understandable. But
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what, she asked, is the role of the state? I replied
with a simple, “to protect its citizens.” Revenge?
Justice? Would having Hussein sit on trial for
ten years been more satisfying for the families
of his victims than his abrupt hanging?
It’s not that Saddam didn’t deserve to die;
it’s more like we are uncomfortable with that
type of revenge. In Orwell’s essay Revenge is
Sour, he recounts a young Jewish boy kicking
the swollen, bludgeoned feet of a captured S.S.
soldier. It turns his stomach to see, not that
there was something this man didn’t deserve,
but it arrested any sense revenge could make
when seeing it enacted so mercilessly. He said,
“Who would not have jumped for joy, in 1940,
at the thought of seeing S.S. officers kicked and
humiliated? But when the thing becomes possible, it is merely pathetic and disgusting.”
He goes on:
“Properly speaking, there is no such
thing as revenge. Revenge is an act which you
want to commit when you are powerless and
because you are powerless: as soon as the
sense of impotence is removed, the desire
evaporates also.”
Only in hindsight, when vision is 20/20,
can people see that it isn’t satisfying to punish
an enemy. Maybe this is because of our humanity, or the moral piety that we like to think
we have. In Lancaster County Pennsylvania
this past fall an unthinkable crime was committed on a small Amish community. Their
children were lined up and killed executionstyle by a milk truck driver. It was a murder for
which any mother would want to seek the most
horrific revenge. But it makes sense to me that
the Amish, when face to face with their enemy’s
family, chose the route of forgiveness. There is
no doubt in my mind had the attacker lived
they would have done the same thing. They
had the freedom to choose their actions. It’s
also in their nature and part of their faith to forgive. Orwell clarified this for me again when he
said, “Somehow the punishment of these monsters ceases to seem attractive when it becomes
possible: indeed, once under lock and key, they
almost cease to be monsters.”
I guess the question is, did a cell phone
image of Saddam’s hanging illuminate his hu-
Letter to the Editor
The Road to Damascus
Dear Editor:
I read, with growing fascination,
Kenton Smith’s interview with Councillor
Jenny Gerbasi on the proposed demolition
of certain properties on Albert Street (The
Uniter, Dec.7, 2006).
Ms Gerbasi has become the leading
exponent of “saving” these structures. One
wonders when the councillor was last on
the Road to Damascus. In 2001 she voted
to demolish the Eaton’s building. You’ll remember it: massive red brick and limestone,
Shorts & Clichés
perfectly maintained, Chicago-style edifice
on Portage Avenue.
Now she has seen the light, hallelujah, and is prepared to lead the crusade to
“save” the dumpiest, crappiest properties in
The Exchange.
Fascinating.
Yours truly,
C. Hugh Arklie
Environmental Studies
manity enough for North Americans to say,
“I feel sorry for Saddam Hussein.” And, “I
can’t help but feel sympathy at the loss of a
life.” These, and many other similar quotes
were posted on the New York Times Reader’s
Comments from articles written last week.
People have said right to my face, “He’s still a
human being.” I think we were softened by the
images. Our rage subdued by his vulnerability
in a noose, the details of what he wore that day
and what he ate.
The last and most potent quote from
Orwell, and this should be more than enough
to compel you to read the essay yourself, reinforces the need for us to assess our actions
and our reactions, written or otherwise, hopefully before mistakes are made: “Unfortunately,
there is often a need of some concrete incident
before one can discover the real state of one’s
feelings.” I still don’t feel sympathy for Saddam
Hussein. However, it is a sad state of world affairs when the state sanctioned revenge on a
dictator resembles that of the dictator himself.
It’s a little “eye for an eye”, don’t you think?
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The Return of the Moustache
The Conservative party increased its rank by one
this week, but nobody in the media has been looking at
this as a victory for Stephen Harper.
That’s because the Liberal defection of MP
Wajid Khan to the Conservatives, pushes the NDP’s
Jack Layton out of obscurity and back into the ‘Balance
of Power’ seat.
The waters have been turbulent for
the Dippers in the last few months. First
there was a narrow escape when Former
NDP premier Bob Rae was defeated in his
bid for Liberal Leader of Canada. A stone
faced insider for the dippers suggested
that had Rae won, the potential result in
Ontario would be similar to Walmart’s affect on small business.
The next potential blemish was the eyebrow-raising
second place finish of the Green Party’s Elisabeth May (to
the NDPs fourth place) in December’s London North byelection. The result suggests, despite the back peddling
of the NDP, that the environmental platform of the Greens
is slowly chipping away at least some growth potential
for the party.
The return to the balance of power position notes
a momentary passing of these dark days. Look for Jack’s
rag-tags to no doubt push the environmental agenda
prompting concessions from now stoic looking Conservatives, just as the dipper did with Paul Martin’s first
budget. Of course this will allow the NDP news coverage,
which they will use in an attempt to push the Greens out
of their progressive turf.
In fact, environmental policy is the new black these
days. So expect more marketing from everybody. More
green scarves and political symbolism like dogs named
Kyoto, more stories about breathless childhoods, and
more real-time blogs of canoe trips in Whitehorse. It will
be the battle for the most sincere Federal Environmental
Policy (in return for your vote). All of this to lay a claim on
the new “most important issue pressing Canadians.”
“If you see a bandwagon, it’s too late.”
– James Goldsmith
Letting the Lobbyists Decide
It may seem rather odd, given the ubiquity they
possess in the political landscape, but one should wonder why Winnipeg’s mayor would include a group like the
Canadian Taxpayers Association ( CTF) in a commission
to help bring $53 million in tax cuts without cuts to service (if it is even possible).
My initial reaction, aside from the raised eyebrows
and a dumbfounded, “WHOA?” was that this was some
sort of political payback.
Obviously Mayor Sam would be happy for some
FIPPA work that the CTF provided during the last civic
election. That same FIPPA work helped Mayor Sam Katz
remove critics, like Donald Benham, and secure a majority of votes in council. Certainly smells like patronage to
me, considering there is little if any real policy options
having been suggested by the CTF in the past.
The CTFs track record is one of creating media
sound bites and spinful press releases containing words
like “bogus”, “pork-barreling” and “cooked books” not
providing political support to remove taxes while maintaining services. Simply put, a resume consisting of
press releases denigrating anything considered the leftwing or even moderate, criticizing perceived bureaucratic
fat, doesn’t make a group capable of making decisions on
managerial efficiency within government.
Yes, they are effective at calling for tax cuts, uncovering bureaucratic wages, and effectively using communication theory to criticize policy until they get their way,
but much of it is a performance akin to Nellie Olson from
Little House on the Prairie.
It takes a lot more to engage a long term fiscal strategy that deals with overwhelming infrastructure and fiscal deficits, not to mention downtown decay, than simply
sitting back and spitting out one liners like “we need jobs,
not ***insert progressive policy here***.” But perhaps I
miss the point.
Perhaps the mayor is trying to keep those with the
most capable vocal cords close to him. If it is, that’s one
savvy move, but make no mistake the only one it will hurt
is the people of this city.
“Be willing to make decisions. That’s the most
important quality in a good leader.”
– General George S. Patton
The Uniter
January 11, 2006
COMMENTS
Comments
Comments Editor : Ben Wood
A New Year’s Resolution for Canadian Students
Ben Fine and Josh Scheinert
pressure. In short, we are moving closer to putting UN
This is where we come in. Our government an-
peacekeepers on the ground to strengthen civilian pro-
swers to us. We just need to be heard. Students know
tection.
how to organize and mobilize; we do it on our cam-
We are at a critical moment. It is time that
puses every day. We’re experts at writing letters, sign-
ne of the dominant narratives of the 20th
Canadian students en masse join together to pressure
ing petitions and getting our message out there. This in-
century was that of humanity’s collective fail-
our government to take concrete steps to bring about
stance should be no different. From Victoria to St. John’s,
ure to stand up to evil. In its face of global in-
an end to the killing in Darfur. After four years of inac-
it’s time Canadian students speak as one national voice
difference, however, one group of people consistently
tion, over 200,000 dead and millions displaced, we need
demanding a real response to the Darfur crisis.
raised its voice to demand justice: students.
to take a stand. Never again means never again.
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The narrative of the 21st Century is being writ-
Am I a hack?
No way, I am
Time Magazine’s
Person of the Year
Sepher Cadiz
October 1956: Hungarian students march down
Canada can and must take on a leadership role
ten as Darfur is at a crossroads. As students we have
the streets of Budapest triggering that country’s revolt
in ending this crisis. On the diplomatic front we can
a critical role to play in shaping history. Either Darfur
against Soviet rule. 1960s, the American South: white
help jump-start a multilateral mission to protect civil-
will start to live again or it will continue to perish. Let
students from the North partake in “Freedom Rides” in
ians. Our CF-18 aircraft could help enforce a no-fly zone
us fight for change as hard as students have before us.
W
an attempt to de-segregate busses in the racist South.
to prevent Sudanese aircraft from bombing villages as
For if we don’t, and Darfur dies, a part of our human-
for all the university late fees that could’ve been
Late 1980s, around the world: students help lead an in-
they aid the Janjaweed militias. Financially, our aid dol-
ity dies with it.
avoided, all the New Year’s resolutions that were
ternational boycott against apartheid South Africa, crip-
lars can provide critical support. It’s time we come out
“A
pling its economy and helping bring down the regime.
and commit; we have the capacity to lead.
New Year’s
Resolution
for
ow! I’m the person of the year.
Looks like Time Magazine are finally
praising me for being the biggest
procrastinator in town. I am being praised
Canadian
made in June. For all the calls I have returned days
Students” is being published in over two-dozen
later and for all the “I’ll do that later because I work
student newspapers in all provinces and both official
best under pressure” comments. All of that pro-
languages.
crastination has finally paid off because look at me
Fast forward to 2007, Darfur. Its endless grave-
Acting on that capacity is simple. The prime min-
yards are evidence of crimes against humanity. Burned
ister needs to pick up the phone, rally his government
out villages are becoming permanent reminders of
and world leaders to join in implementing a strong
what has thus far transpired under our watch. The faces
multinational force on the ground to protect civilians.
Ben Fine, the Executive Director of STAND
of refugees tell stories of unspeakable horror.
To this point he has not been nearly vocal enough—
Canada (Students Taking Action Now: Darfur) is a stu-
Screw you Brangelina, Youtube guys,
But, for Darfur, the tides have been turning.
and we are seeing the results of inaction. But politi-
dent in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of
Tom from myspace, Iranian leader Mahmoud
World leaders and celebrities alike are speaking out. UN
cians do not act without a reason. If the prime minis-
Toronto. Josh Scheinert, STAND Canada’s Advocacy and
Ahmadinejad, George Bush, and all the rest who
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called the situation
ter is going to pick up the phone he needs to see that his
Communications Director, is a student at Osgoode Hall
are written about because I, Sepher the almighty,
“unacceptable.” The UN Human Rights Council held a
constituents demand more—that Canadians demand
Law School. www.standcanada.org
have claimed the thrown. Believe it or not, Time
special session on Darfur. Sudan is starting to feel the
leadership.
now; I’m on the front cover of Time Magazine as
person of the year!
Magazine’s person of the year is me...in a way.
What a rip off! With all the media who-la-la of
Increase Access to Education
who will be the Time Magazine’s 2006 person
Heights WASPs, or Sudanese refugees, or Crees from
of the year, they settled for me. I say me be-
Peguis, or a farm near Morden, or single parent fami-
cause they really mean all the media junkies. The
lies, or are raising children ourselves, or are coming to
people who have the time to post up their opin-
school later on in life, or are part of the over 15 per cent
ions, feelings, or just good ol’ fashioned Jerry
Kate Sjoberg
the very least room and board) for post secondary ed-
of Winnipeg families that live below the poverty line, that
Springer-ish entertainment for other people like
UWSA President
ucation to be a real possibility. Our parents’ parents are
we’ll all be better off if everyone has a chance to earn a
‘you’. You are the person who refuses to watch the
largely 2nd generation Canadians who grew up on new
post secondary education.
TV after a long day of work and decide to write
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farms or in Winnipeg’s North End, who served the war
It is also the recognition that nothing short of a
fluff in hopes to one-day win such an award.
’m lucky to have parents who want to and have
effort, who recognised the importance of education for
comprehensive, intergovernmental effort will meet the
They say it’s a revolution that we are ready
been able to help me out throughout my time at
their children’s future.
needs of Canada’s post secondary education sector and
for. I agree in the sense that we have
the University of Winnipeg. This scenario is fairly
This recognition was, and is widespread. We all
its students of increased funding, and lower tuition.
become our own media. We email, videotape,
uncommon of my friends from high school. Most have
understand that having a post secondary education
The Day of Action is our opportunity to show govern-
and write all the raw materials that do not
taken out loans from family, private or public sources, to
impacts everything from the job you are able to hold,
ment this united message, made all the more strong by
get censored. I mean, what is more cred-
attend; some managed to pay for school completely on
to your quality of life, to the health of your community,
the range and complexity of each of our individual sto-
ible than a soldier in Iraq who videotapes
their own while living at home. Yet for all of us, post sec-
to the democracy of the place in which you live. These
ries. Over the weeks leading to the Feb. 7 Day of Action,
footage of his lifestyle as a solider? Nothing. That
ondary education was the expected and natural follow-
understandings are common. The means that myself
I encourage you to share your stories and opinions on
is as good as it gets! And who brings this? “You”.
up to high school graduation. We all have mostly waspy,
and to a large extent my friends from high school have
access to education through The Uniter and in the hall-
”You” are the soldier in Iraq, the executer in the
Jewish, or agnostic parents who have gone through uni-
access to, however, is much less common.
ways as we spread the word about the Day of Action, and
mask, the child in the crowd, the boyfriend of
visit reducetuitionfees.ca to witness students across the
a hot girlfriend, the customer at the comedy
country prepare for this important day.
club, the cop who arrests movie directors, ev-
versity, some with professional status. Not so coinci-
Our work on tuition fees and access to education
dentally, we also all had enough financial support (at
is this recognition. That whether we come from River
erybody! Including me. Of course, it’s fun telling people that “I” am Times Magazine’s person
Sentence or vengeance?
us believe that this is the proper and most effective way
that this is the only end we can see?
of the year. On a closer note, I truly believe that
But maybe we were only so lucky as to have one
the title belongs to another. Who? The Time
How justice could be delivered to a man who was
person that is easily identified and labelled as the es-
Magazine person of the year should be, the liar.
responsible for so many atrocities, so much death and
sence of terror. It is so much easier to allow yourself relief
Yes, the liar is the instigator of everything that
Ben Wood
torture is very difficult to determine but it surely cannot
when the one person who has been attached with every
is going wrong today. The liar is the person
Comments Editor
be by death itself. I will admit that I am very fortunate
image of our opposition, is dead.
who is responsible for all the unnecessary
of dealing with dictators and the ideas we oppose.
to not have lived in a country subject to his rule. But
It would be beyond foolish to let our thinking con-
deaths over seas. The liar is the manipulator of
still, it is not as if attached to his death were his ideas,
tinue along this path. There are atrocities in every part of
power who uses other minds already corrupted by
he hanging of Saddam Hussein clearly shows
his actions, or his malicious kind of rule. There still exist
the world that can no way be linked back to one person.
different liars. The liar is the corruptor of religion.
that it was just as unnecessary as the deaths
people that are capable and willing to perform the same
To ignore the part every person has played in any
The liar is the smiling devil who hides nuclear
he imposed during his rule but also sends the
actions as he did. We cannot attribute to him all the evil
number of these events and cast judgement and death
weapons in his back yard. And the uttermost worst
warning that this solution should not become the trend
in the world in order to fool ourselves into thinking the
upon just one person does not leave us better off.
aspect of the liar is that you really don’t know if
of our times, to become so blind to reality as to believe in
world is now a better place. These horrors will still exist.
However, this case is not the only example. In re-
the liar is actually telling the truth or if the honest
this definition of justice.
I think that we need to reaffirm that notion within our-
gards with the conflict in Iraq many have called horrors
man is telling a lie. The liar cannot be stopped.
selves so that we may see that this was not the right sen-
upon George W. Bush, maybe out of hatred, ignorance,
I say the liar should be Time Magazine’s
the ruthless dictator it somehow is able to provide long-
tence and so we may learn how to properly deal with
or even in a strong belief that the removal of this one
2006 person of the year. So is this a cop out or
lasting comfort to those affected by his rule, that this is
these situations.
man would unravel the mess we protest. It is clear that
a perfect example of procrastination that resulted
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Still, we are led to believe that by taking the life of
a leap in our fixation of the abolishment of the ambigu-
What is to prevent more conflict, sparked by
the removal of Bush from power would not alleviate any
indecision? Who says that the editors of a fine
ous concept of terrorism. Leaders from countries such
Saddam’s hanging, to occur in the Middle East? The
of the tensions in Iraq so why would we allow ourselves
reputable magazine such as Time are people who
as Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Italy and Switzerland
ethnic and religious strife still exists and now this event
to think this with Hussein? These leaders are arbitrary in
do not procrastinate? Yes, that is what they are,
among others have denounced this sentence as a step
might only work to perpetuate the violence.
that the conflicts and ideologies that surround them will
they are procrastinators who work best under
still exist without them so how then would their death
pressure and this time, they couldn’t meet their
serve anything beyond revenge?
deadline! Weather you believe me or not that is
backwards in the road towards a peaceful and stable
To say that justice was delivered would be such
Middle East. They have warned that the political conse-
fallacy. Those who had to suffer under him or those who
quences of such a barbaric sentence should have been
felt any effect of his actions cannot now erase their minds
To repay death with death, to seek restitution, jus-
what happened! So screw you time magazine
thought through.
of their terrible and haunting memories. His death does
tice, or hope in revenge, to be so naïve as to believe that
person of the year. Now its’ time to find myself
Attached to the noose seems to be displays of joy
not allow for the erasure of his rule from history or of the
there exists an exchange of lives among the dead with
a nice spot and a tube sock, it’s the only way I
over a more peaceful world, of the end of an era of evil,
unnecessary and cruel deaths he imposed. What func-
the living, that we can get back our old lives, friends or
know how ‘screw’ myself unless there is another
or a new beginning all of which are blind to their own
tion did his sentence serve beyond another death to add
family if we provide the body of another person, seems
way. Bah if there is I’m sure I can find it; I am the
narrow scope. More importantly, some efforts will have
to the toll, beyond vengeance? Have we become so inept
all too barbaric as to exist within our society.
person of the year! No lie.
January 11, 2006
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Diversions Editor : Matt Cohen
Straight Faced
MATT COHEN
DIVERSIONS Editor
iPods come and go, but scars last a lifetime.
For me, this year was “cheque in a card
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year.” This has to be one of the most impersonal
he holidays are finally over. I have to
presents you can get. It’s the gift that says, “I
admit that this is my favorite time of
could have given you cash, but why not let you
year. Another ten months until we have
go to the bank instead?” I did however, put the
to hear another Christmas Carol is something
money to good use. It’s surprising the deals you
to celebrate. I had a good holiday season, but
can get at the mall the day after everyone has
I find that Christmas was a lot more fun as a
bought their gifts. Boxing Day actually comes
kid. This is mostly due to the fact that you got
from an old British tradition called “rush to ex-
presents you could play with right away. You’d
change your gifts as soon as humanly possible
wake up early and tear open your gifts to find
even if it means fighting through thousands of
remote control cars, toy soldiers, and Lego. As
people instead of waiting a week until the lines
an adult, you lose that luxury. Waking up early
calm down.” The day was later called renamed
on Christmas morning and opening a waffle
Boxing Day in recognition of the beating your
iron loses some of the holidays appeal.
wallet takes over the holiday season.
I’m not a religious person either, so for me,
Of course, New Year’s always closes off the
the Christmas has always been a time where
season. With drink in hand, we resolve to be a
you buy thoughtful gifts for other people just
better person, to exercise more, and to improve
to have them give you presents slightly worse
our faults. Of course this reflection is done at
than something you actually wanted. For exam-
the peak of intoxication and the resolution
ple, last year I wanted an iPod but received an
rarely lasts more than a week. So as we emerge
ePood instead; a Czech knock-off that needs a
from a month of turkey and chocolate, resolu-
universal plug adapter to charge. I appreciated
tions in full swing, remember — only another
the gesture, but it heats up after twenty min-
348 more shopping days left until we have to do
utes and burnt my hand several times. I guess
it all over again.
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thousands of years, they are seen as wine’s
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original creators. New World wines are coun-
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wines are much more fruit forward and those
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earthier notes play second fiddle. New World
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wines are also affected by terroir, but it usu-
Argentina, etc. These countries adopted wine
ally remains hidden, or is over shadowed by
making from the Old World and use their
the fruit.
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of art. The wine maker is an artist and coaxes
$11)—This is about as New World as it gets.
the beauty out of the grapes with the help
It has a cool eye catching label, and is made
of nature. Essentially, the tools are modest.
for a new age crowd. A big helping of fruit in
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Used with permission.
LAST PUZZLE'S SOLUTIONS
Across
Down
1- Egyptian deity
5- Playthings
9- Hanging loosely
14- Language of Pakistan
15- Extent of space
16- City in Nebraska
17- Side
18- Knocks lightly
19- Word with panel or energy
20- Village near the Matterhorn
22- Locate
24- Leers at
26- The French word for “no”
27- Ringlike formation
30- Not quickly forgotten
35- Similar
36- One who has something coming?
37- Insult
38- Transgression
39- Ceded
42- Before
43- Soviet news service
45- Charge per unit
46- Humiliate
48- Toothless
50- Located
51- Cereal grass
52- Staggers
54- Privileged
58- The month of May
62- Modify
63- Chess piece
65- Billy ___ had a hit song with
“White Wedding”
66- Fungal infection of the skin or nails
67- Poker stake
68- You can’t catch fish without them!
69- Severe
70- Undesirable plant
71- Movable barrier
1- Fool
2- Hammock holder
3- Purim month
4- Hillock
5- Gossip
6- Use a soapbox
7- “Sure thing”
8- Disrespectful back talk
9- Capital of Massachusetts
10- Quantities
11- Festive occasion
12- Steps down to an Indian river
13- Dextrous, lively
21- Awry
23- Accustom
25- Refuge
27- Class of Indian society
28- Greek epic poem
29- Wash lightly
31- Helper
32- Pertaining to the small intestine
33- Suckle
34- Avarice
36- Warmth
40- Angry
41- Loiter
44- Meddling person
47- Temporary stitching
49- Plaid
50- Having a peak
53- Engage in histrionics
54- Solid oils
55- Mine entrance
56- Turbine blade
57- Sketch
59- Thought
60- Feminist Lucretia
61- Otherwise
64- Washington bill
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FEATURES
Features
Need to Turn Your Used Textbooks Into Cash?
The Inside Scoop on Getting the Maximum Return
in January, you won’t receive 50 per cent.
However, if you wait until September to
sell your book, you’ll have a better chance
at selling your book for a higher price. Your
best bet is to talk to the representative at
the booth and figure out your best option.
ADVANTAGES: Quick cash. You’ll get paid
for your textbook on the spot, and your
worries are over. Also, 50 per cent is not a
terrible return for a book if it only takes you
a couple of minutes to get it. Great option
for starving students who would like to eat
supper TONIGHT.
Photo: JO SNYDER
Petrified Sole sells used books for students at a 20/80 per cent profit share. It is by far the best options for
students, but can sometimes take the longest.
Brenden Sommerhalder
F
or many students, the only thing
worse than having to read a text-
tractive alternative to buying new. Bottom
line, do some research and get your book in
early for the best return using the Pet Sole.
The Pet Sole staff are also able to help you
with some of these decisions.
book is having to buy a text-
book. The bank account of the average full-time student at the University
of Winnipeg donates approximately
$350 per term to textbook publishers,
with totals sometimes $600 or higher
ADVANTAGES: The Petrified Sole will
take care of the customer service side of
selling your book, so all you have to do is
drop it off and set a price. You can usually
get a pretty fair return using the Pet Sole.
depending on course selections. While
some titles might be handy to hang
onto, others become overpriced doorstops. Luckily, there are lots of options
to trade your pictures of 17th century
art for dollar bills. Here are some suggestions.
DISADVANTAGES: It may take a while for
the book to sell, so those of you who need
immediate gratification may grow impatient waiting. There’s no guarantee that
your book will sell, or even if it will be accepted by the store.
Petrified Sole
Beyond Words Bookstore
The Petrified Sole is a non-profit used
bookstore located in the Bulman Students’
Centre (room 0R05). The Pet Sole will accept
your used textbooks and sell them on consignment for whatever price you set them
at. The Pet Sole keeps 20 per cent for operating costs, leaving you with a full 80 per
cent of the selling price.
Beyond Words is the University of
Winnipeg’s official bookstore located on
the first floor of Centennial hall, which carries all textbooks required for classes. Along
with a third-party textbook buyer, Beyond
Words will buy your used textbooks.
Beyond Words itself does not buy the books
back, but the third-party textbook buyer
sets up as booth across from the Info Booth
on certain dates, which are listed on the
Beyond Words webpage linked through the
University’s main page or on pamphlets
available at Beyond Words.
TIPS: Like selling anything, selling textbooks is competitive and driven by supplyand-demand. If there are too many of the
same title already in the store, the chances
of your book selling decrease. The Pet Sole
also reserves the right to refuse your book
if they have too many on-hand. The desirability of you book also depends on its price
and condition. If there are other copies
of your same book for sale at the Pet Sole,
check what their prices are. If your book is
in better condition than most of the other
copies, you can stand to set your price on
the higher end. If it’s seen better days, you
might consider asking for a lower price.
Make sure you know what the price of the
book is new, and be sure to stay enough
below that so that your used book is an at-
TIPS: As a rule, the third-party textbook
buyer does not pay a whole lot for used
textbooks. However, Beyond Words has an
agreement with them that if the textbook
you are selling is going to be used again for
the next term, they will pay you 50 per cent
of the price of the same book new. Find out
if your book is being used for the next term.
If it is not, you may not be out of luck. Some
courses only run in the Fall term, and some
only run in the Winter term. If, for example, you are attempting to sell a book for
a course that is only held in the Fall term
DISADVANTAGES: While 50 per cent isn’t
bad, you might be able to do better if you’re
more ambitious about getting more cash
for your book with some of the other methods. Also, if the book is not being used the
next term, be prepared to endure a very significant loss.
Posters/Signs
You’ve probably seen them all over
the place, and they are a good tool for selling your used textbooks. Create your posters and get them UWSA approved at the
Info Booth. Be prepared to pay a 5 cent per
page environment levy, and also take note
that there is a 15 poster limit. Then, post
the news that you’re selling your textbook
around the University, keeping in mind
the poster policy (found also at the Info
Booth).
TIPS: Selling 10 textbooks? Don’t list
them all on one page. Students’ attention
spans are short (at best), and having them
look through too many titles on a page
won’t help your cause. Instead, make two
posters with 5 titles on them each. List your
selling price, and if it’s a really good deal,
show a comparison between your selling price and the price of the same book
new. Put your phone number or email address on small strips at the bottom that can
be torn off so that people can contact you
later. Add the name of the course that the
book is being used in, as that can be used
to catch a potential buyer’s eye as well. Put
some of your posters up in the hallways relevant to your books (if they’re psychology
books, post some in the psychology hallway). If you’re putting a phone number as a
method of contact, try to make sure to put
one which has an answering machine so
you don’t miss opportunities.
ADVANTAGES: Lots of visibility, and you
set your price.
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January 11, 2006
FEATURES
Internet
Considered as having the widest reach
into the homes of potential buyers, the internet is also a great option for selling used
textbooks. While the ever-popular eBay
Canada is one such option, there are some
websites tailored more specifically to the
purpose of selling books. Amazon.ca, for
example, will sell your books on a consignment basis. They keep a $1.50 charge and
15 per cent of the selling price, but otherwise the service is free. You may also choose
to use local newsgroups to sell your book.
TIPS: Although this one is fairly
straightforward, there are a couple of
things you can do to make sure that your
book sells. First, make sure your price is
fair considering other prices on the internet for the same book. Know what type of
currency other sites are selling at – if a site
is selling a book for $10 but it is in USD, you
can still fairly get away with charging $12
CDN for the same book. Also be sure to include pictures of your book when possible,
as some consumers would rather match
your picture to the book they need rather
than match ISBN’s or edition numbers.
ADVANTAGES: Fairly high success rate
given the high visibility.
DISADVANTAGES: Some people are willing to sell their books for very low prices on
the internet, so it may be difficult to sell your
book for a much higher price and therefore
get substantial return. Depending on where
you sell your book, you may charged with
the task of shipping your book. Be sure to
Photo: JO SNYDER
DISADVANTAGES: If making posters and
posting them around isn’t for you,
then the disadvantages are fairly obvious.
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Staff restacks bookshelves at Beyond Words after a busy first week back to school.
take this cost into account when you set
your price.
currently no policy governing chalkboard
usage (unless of course the content is inappropriate)! There’s no substitute for good
old-fashioned innovation.
Innovation
These are tried and true methods for
selling textbooks. Consider thinking up
some ways in which you yourself may have
been persuaded to buy something, and
apply it to selling your textbook. Word of
mouth works wonders. Find out what classroom a class is in that requires your textbook, take some chalk with you, and before
the class starts, write on the chalkboard that
you have the textbook for the course available for X dollars, and sign with your email
address. Chances are fairly decent that
you’ll get a message the same evening. An
official of the University stated that there is
Some last notes on selling textbooks,
timing is everything. Start your advertising
before classes start when people are searching for the textbook, as well as around exam
time when students decide it would be a
good idea to actually read the chapters. Try
to keep your textbooks in good condition to
maximize their resell value. If the textbook
you’re trying to sell is an edition or two older
than the one a class is currently using, find
out from the professor if the edition you
have is still acceptable. If it is, include that
information in your advertising. Happy selling, and remember: one student’s used textbook is another student’s cheaper way out!
January 11, 2006
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ARTS & CULTURE
Arts & Culture
Arts & Culture: Whitney Light
Let’s do the Time Warp again
MTC stages The Rocky Horror Show
Staff Reporter: Kenton Smith
of the nervous crowd raised their hands. They
were then invited to stand and as a group “pop
their cherries” by clapping their hands over
their open mouths. The crowd responded surprisingly well. Understandably, debauchery
from afar is acceptable but personal space with
pushy ushers is more of an issue.
The show itself was also full of such com-
Erin McIntyre
promises and balances. The usherette who
Volunteer Staff
sings the opening number wore a backless (and
assless) dress. But she was the only nudity in
T
the entirety of the show, when several other
he Rocky Horror Show means differ-
moments in the play could have squeezed in
ent things to different people. It can
some t & a. Clearly MTC was not about to back
represent artistic freedom, sexual ex-
down from the legacy or core of Rocky, but was
perimentation, or even, some would say, glo-
not about to take it to a new and even raunchier
rified immorality. But can a show that pushes
level either. A decision probably well made.
limits and aims to shock conformists succeed
The cast was excellent. Adam Brazier was
in a world where Britney Spears has publicly
flawless. His wide range, smooth voice, and
decided to veto panties? At the Manitoba
even smoother demeanor made him a divine
Theatre Centre, a “mature” venue, words like
Frank-n-Furter. Riff-Raff, played by Steven
“fresh,” “exciting,” and “avant garde” flood out
Gallagher, sang only a few lines but made every
of the mouths of audience members and staff
one count. He pumped out electrifying energy,
alike. But, after 35 years, is Rocky still wild?
channeling his inner rock star. The straight man
For most MTC patrons, Rocky, played
of the show, Brad, played by Ron Pederson, was
by Gerrad Everard, fulfilled their worst night-
the ultimate anti-thesis to the sexually charged
mare. That’s not to say that middle aged, middle
Frank-n-Furter. He blurted his lines in pieces, a
to upper class men and women interested in
style reminiscent of William Shatner (Star Trek?
small talk and hors d’oeuvres don’t have a wild
Transsexual aliens? A coincidence, I think not).
side. But Rocky was one step too far for many.
Magenta, played by Alison SomerVille, was the
Tension overwhelmed the theatre as interac-
standout of the female leads, owning her every
tive ushers started moving through the red
scene with a raw confidence that translated
velvet seats, sniffing men in suits and giving lap
well onstage.
dances to random, horrified elderly women.
Gerrad Everard played Rocky and fit the
Clearly some audience members were
role well with his chiseled body and excellent
aware of what they were getting into—and
comedic timing. And he successfully main-
came prepared in fishnets, boas, sequins and
tained an air of innocence in a theatrical world
general fabulousness. Despite invitations to
of taboos. By far the best moment was when
dance the Time Warp, however, only a handful
Rocky asked Janet for some lip gloss and then
stood up, most of which sat back down before
put it on his nipples— he was still naïve in the
the song was over. For diehard Rocky fans, the
eyes of the audience.
atmosphere may have been a little disconcert-
Rocky won’t be a shocker for all who
ing, but all part of the thrill that comes from
attend. But if you want a good show, glitter,
shocking others.
cheeky costumes, fabulous singing, and a hilar-
Obviously, when MTC chose Richard
O’Briens infamous work for their musical,
ious story line, with the added chance of a free
lap dance, this show is sure to please.
they were aware that their target customers
Photo: BRUCE MONK
Adam Brazier and Christine Rossi
would need some warming up. To this end, a
The Rocky Horror Show plays at MTC
cast member introduced the show and asked
Mainstage until Jan. 27. Tickets by calling
who was a Rocky “virgin.” At least 95 per cent
942-6537.
Words of power
Ksenia Prints
says Butler. In response, artists moved beyond
Beat reporter
creating and into publishing, running galleries
and other administrative tasks.
Local artist Paul Butler
uses a simple, strong message
Vancouver in 2006.
The artist’s dual identity is something Paul
Butler is familiar with. His othergallery.com is
This change in job descriptions has posi-
a commercial nomadic gallery through which
ower to the Artist is the exhibition of
tive and negative effects. One negative is some-
Butler and thirteen artists take their works to
a single work: a light box displaying
times the loss of an original voice. Power can be
different galleries in Europe and North America.
that inspiring message hangs at the
seen as both a celebration of the artist’s increas-
Butler carries the bulk of the administrative
end of a hallway. Considering that this hall-
ing power, and a warning of what can come from
work in this project.
way constitutes the entire Semai gallery, the
all the administrative commotion.
P
until Jan 20.
“My art is social,” he says. “The adminis-
exhibit may not sound like much. But accord-
The space and materials used in Butler’s
ing to creator Paul Butler, Power is a much-
piece are not accidental. “[Semai gallery] was ap-
needed reminder to remain true to one’s per-
propriate for me because it’s a non-profit, artist-
“Coming from a city like Winnipeg, we
spective at a time when the artist’s role is ex-
run gallery,” says Butler. Takashi Iwasaki, the gal-
don’t get that traffic, so it exposes us to an inter-
panding beyond the studio.
tration has now turned into my medium.” He
sounds pleased about it.
lery’s owner, is himself an artist who highlights
national audience,” Butler says about othergal-
“I’ve done it for myself, but then I decided
the fact that artists have “the power to shape the
lery.com. “It has broken down all barriers.”
I wanted to take this idea of the artist being in
environment.” He exemplifies the shift in roles
Butler disagrees with the notion that his
control of the community… instead of just
Butler had in mind. The awkward space lends
gallery has a slight air of easy-approach-con-
adapting,” Butler explains. “It’s a very minimal
an intimate air to the show, as the viewer steps
sumerism about it, and can be seen as the Wal-
text piece, just a statement.” But it’s one that car-
into a tunnel that draws him to the light box, the
Mart of the art world. “I have accepted that
ries much weight as artists are made vulnerable
message.
there’s a commercial side to the art world, and
to outside pressure.
Power to the Artist shows at Semai gallery, basement corridor of 264 McDermot Ave.,
The light box itself is important, empha-
I don’t feel 100 per cent positive about it all the
“We depend on a lot of people to repre-
sizing the meaning of the words. It is made of
time… But this is how I’ve unconsciously de-
sent us, so we’ve fallen into this mindset where
junked light boxes that Butler recovered. A dif-
cided to explore it.”
[others] decide whether we have a valid point,”
ferent light box was exhibited once before in
Photo: NATASHA PETERSON
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January 11, 2006
ARTS & CULTURE
Shortbus keeps eyes wide open
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the film’s racy skin.
There is an element of camp to it, both in its
narrative and visually, with New York playfully animated throughout the film. Perhaps we are not
meant to take everything at face value. Shortbus
Dan Huygebert
plays out in a fantasy world, with sex bridging the
Volunteer Staff
gap between reality and dream.
Mitchell approached this film as an ensem-
T
ble, with the players not only willing to bare all
here’s been a lot of talk about Shortbus.
on camera but also contribute story-wise to their
In Canada, the controversy surround-
characters. One storyline of a depressed gay man
ing John Cameron Mitchell’s new
who records his every move seemed a carbon
film involves former MuchMusic VJ Sook-Yin
copy of the documentary Tarnation, on which
Lee’s decision to appear in some very graphic
Mitchell was the executive producer. The result-
sexual scenes.
ing interwoven story lines are a bit vague, but the
Like Mitchell’s previous effort Hedwig and
film provides good emotional closure, and we feel
the Angry Inch, however, the film does not shy
with the characters despite the never ending dis-
away from that subject matter. Yes, it’s about sex
tractions.
and yes, it does contain some sexually graphic
The film reminds me of a sketch in Monty
scenes. But the sex is not about arousal, it’s about
Python’s Meaning of Life, where businessmen
human emotional connection. It is also about
searching for meaning are constantly distracted
New York between 9/11 and the blackout. It is
by hats. Mitchell’s philosophy of orgasm as enlightenment is a tad simplistic, but Shortbus is an
also pretty funny.
Lee plays Sofia, a sexual therapist, or as she
honest and rewarding look at sex, life, and all its
likes to call it, a “couples counselor.” She prefers
distractions.
that title because she is “pre-orgasmic.” In other
like the 60s, but with less hope,” says the club’s
and impersonal. But Shortbus is less erotic, and
words, Sofia has never experienced an orgasm.
proprietor to Sofia when she first encounters the
more human. Here “voyeurism is participation.”
Two clients, a gay couple looking to expand their
orgies in her search for the elusive Big O.
Here people are clumsy. They laugh and even sing
monogamous relationship, tell her of a club called
It is interesting to contrast these orgy scenes
in the film’s most hilarious scene. But the sex at
Shortbus, a salon for the “gifted and challenged.”
here with Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut. Both films
times can be so much that it proves to be a dis-
It’s a place where orgies are commonplace. “It’s
show sex from a voyeuristic point of view, masked
traction to the heart of the story that lies beneath
Boot soup, gap teeth, and blues
Shortbus plays at Cinematheque Jan. 12-18
at 9 p.m.
ARTSBriefs
Compiled by Jo Snyder
Punk Rock meets American Idol
A pop singer is only as good as the songs they
Dan Huygebert
Volunteer Staff
O
nly Les Blank can make a documentary about garlic.
And it’s not just about
garlic. The music in his 1981 feature
Garlic is as Good as Ten Mothers runs
the gamut from flamenco to zydeco.
He interviews local Berkeley restauranteurs about cooking and Nosferatu director Werner Herzog about vampires.
The hippie scene at Berkeley takes credit
for the resurgence of interest in garlic
in the 70s, using it as the backbone of
its organic farming roots. The film also
claims garlic’s medicinal benefits and
its repulsive properties on not vampires, but something of significance to
Manitobans: mosquitoes.
Garlic is just a taste of the rich film
history behind Les Blank. Fiercely
independent, creative, and possessing an amazing eye, Blank has spent 45
years making documentaries that re-
flect his three passions: music, food, and
film. These interests transcend cultures
and bring people together, and this is reflected in his work. Blank himself will be
at the Cinematheque on Saturday Jan. 13
to introduce Garlic as well as four other
of his landmark films.
The Blues Accordin’ to Lightnin’
Hopkins is one of the best blues documentaries you will ever see. Blank’s 1970
short shows the legendary Texas bluesman playing at an outdoor barbeque as
he sings, plays guitar, and jives his way
through music history.
While the title sounds odd for
a documentary, 1987’s Gap Toothed
Women follows the anxieties and the
trials and tribulations of front toothchallenged women who are confronted
with modern notions of acceptance and
beauty in an era where self-worth is increasingly equated with beauty.
German filmmaker Werner Herzog
appears again in a double feature evening, Burden of Dreams and Werner
Herzog Eats His Shoe. In the latter,
Herzog fulfills a bet made with the fledgling filmmaker Errol Morris (Gates of
Heaven). He promised Morris that he
would eat his shoe if Morris ever made
a feature film. Herzog indeed munches
on his shoe, cooked for 5 hours in a pot
of garlic, as an inspiration to other filmmakers, all the while rambling philosophically about film and his desire for
a full scale war on television.
Burden of Dreams, from 1982, is
Blank’s most well known. Shot on location in the Amazon, it is the account of
Herzog’s ambitious attempt to shoot his
epic Fitzcarraldo. The shoot was plagued
by an unstable political climate, plane
crashes, and sick stars. The film resembles Hearts of Darkness (released 9 years
later) where the director
embarked on a journey that parallels the main character of his film. While
Fitzcarraldo is about an Irishman’s attempts to establish an opera house deep
within the Amazon, it calls up the Greek
myth of Sysiphus, who had to carry a rock
to the top of the mountain. Herzog is interviewed at length, but there is
no attempt to speak to any of the
actors involved (especially Klaus
Kinski, who, like Dennis Hopper,
is hard to judge whether he is
acting or just crazy). Nonetheless,
Blank’s documentary is one of the
most important films about film
ever made and shows Herzog’s
obsession with articulating his
dreams in film.
sing. And this newly invented maxim has never been
more true since the legendary Mike Watt announced he
will appear on American Idol star Kelly Clarkson’s new
record. Mike Watt is an idol himself among punk rockers, having played in such inspirational groups as The
Minutemen and Firehose. According to pitchforkmedia.
com, Watt will only appear on Clarkson’s record as a
studio musician, has previously known nothing about
her career, and has no plans to be in a backing band.
Who knows, maybe the record will be the greatest thing
ever. The very least to hope for is song titles with proper
English grammar.
Ride a roller coaster with
the Red Hot Chili Peppers
No, you don’t get to ride the coaster with the band
themselves, but you can hear the frantic sounds of the
eclectic group calming your nerves as you plummet to
the ground. The Chili Peppers now have a soundtrack
to a ride at Disneyland. And not just any ride. Space
Mountain! Spin.com reports that the ride will feature
the Chili Peppers’ cover of Stevie Wonder’s “Original
Ground.” California Screamin’, the longest steel-looping rollercoaster in the world, will play “Around the
World.” Ryan Hewitt, who has worked with the band
for years, remixed the songs especially for the rides’
particular twists and turns. Maybe they’ll use a Chili
Peppers song in the washroom too, so when you get off
the ride you can have a soundtrack to throw up to.
Dustin Diamond Sex tape…?
HA HA HA! Gross!
Many of us remember the innocent after
school teen comedy Saved by the Bell. Well, take everything you loved about Screech and try your hardest to keep it at the front of your mind. The New
York Daily shattered all of our innocence when they
reported that Dustin Diamond was caught in a sex tape
The Blues Accordin’ to
Lightnin’
Hopkins,
Gap
Toothed Women and Garlic is
as Good as Ten Mothers plays
at Cinematheque Jan. 13 at
7 p.m.
Werner Herzog Eats His
Shoe and Burden of Dreams
plays at Cinematheque Jan. 13 at
9:15 p.m.
released on the internet. Not only is the story gross,
but it unfolds pathetically, not unlike our beloved
dork Screech. Red Light District Video agent David
Hans Schmidt says that Diamond had made the tape
to sell. Diamond says that it was made on a dare and
not intended to be seen by anyone. Apparently in the
video Diamond administers the “Dirty Sanchez” to two
women. Wow. Gross. The conflict will, at the very most,
give the washed-up actor some headlines, and at the
least, make us all wonder what we saw in that show
in the first place.
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ARTS & CULTURE
Photo: CLAY MERCREDI
Heavy Echoes
HCE play at The Zoo in Osborne Village Friday Jan. 12
Aaron Epp
Volunteer Staff
H
CE
vocalist/guitarist
Matt Laberge doesn’t
hesitate to give his opinion on why his band’s new CD,
Echoland sounds so different
than its 2001 predecessor, How
to Break Out of Prison.
“Prison had three extra
people involved in the writing
process who shouldn’t be let near
the tools used to make music.”
Drummer
Matt
“Sours”
Powers is a little more diplomatic. “HCE has a different lineup now, so we have a different
sound. Echoland is more the
kind of music that Matt and I
wanted to write and play.”
Two years have past since
HCE finished recording Echoland
and the band is finally ready to
release the CD on Winnipeg’s
Reversed
Records
tomorrow
night at The Zoo. So what took
so long?
After How to Break Out of
Prison the once five-piece band
went through a number of lineup changes. By 2003, the band
was a three-piece, with Roger
Arsenault on bass. The trio
began recording Echoland in
2004 with producer/engineer
Rob Shallcross, using Shallcross’
portable studio.
Recording was completed
later that year, but the tracks
stayed on Shallcross’ hard drive
for over a year while the band
waited for Shaun Thingvold
(Strapping Young Lad, Lamb of
God) to mix the songs and Greg
Reely (Front Line Assembly,
Fear Factory) to master them in
Vancouver. Thingvold and Reely
mixed and mastered the CD beginning in early 2006, which
in itself was a lengthy process.
Thingvold would mix a song,
and send it to the band via the
Internet. The band would listen
to it, write extensive notes on
what they wanted changed, and
send the notes to Thingvold,
who would then tweak the mix
until the band was satisfied.
“It was such a silly process,”
says Powers.
“But, it was worth it to have
those guys doing the mixing and
mastering,” adds Laberge.
“Yeah, for the way the CD
ended up sounding, it was worth
it,” says Powers. “It was definitely frustrating waiting around
so long, though.”
“Rob was really good at reminding us that the wait would
be worth it,” says Laberge. “‘Who
do you think you are?’ he’d ask us.
‘Some bands have to wait three
years for this kind of stuff!’”
Recorded in empty office
spaces, various basements, and
a few closets, Echoland is a tensong CD of music written by
Laberge and Powers that’s hard
to classify. The band has been
described as “melodic, filthy, abstract, and viciously heavy.” They
list Mike Patton, the Melvins,
the Pixies, Portishead and The
Beatles as influences. Their
sound may at times recall such
bands as Deftones, Nirvana and
As I Lay Dying, but HCE have a
sound that is all their own.
Armed with a bass player
who is relatively new to the
band—former Epptide bassist James Wilkinson—HCE are
looking forward to releasing the
CD and playing live more often.
Their live shows are something
they take just as seriously as
their CDs.
“A live show should be a piece
of art,” says Laberge. “We’re not
really into detaching ourselves
from the music in between songs
to amp the crowd up. It’s about
staying in the vibe of the music,
and not breaking that trance. It’s
so shitty to say, but if you come
to an HCE show, you should
expect the unexpected.”
“I don’t even know what to
expect,” says Wilkinson. “Things
just happen. I was at a show once
before I joined the band, and
Matt [Laberge] ended the set by
puking into a Garnet amplifier.
“So, you really can expect the
unexpected.”
HCE release Echoland Friday,
Jan. 12 at The Zoo, with special
guests The Nods and Pretty Train
Crash. The show is at 10 p.m.,
and tickets are $5 at the door.
You can visit the band online at
www.myspace.com/hce.
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January 11, 2006
ARTS & CULTURE
cd REviews
THE MAHONES
BOOK REview
RUM RUNNER
Take No Prisoners
15
THE SHANKS
Guns at Cyrano’s
The Valley of the Shadow of The Shanks
Consumption
By Kevin Patterson
Random House Canada (400 pages)
The Mahones have
If you like your
The Shanks’ sound
been making music since
punk raw and unrefined,
is surprisingly big given
forming
Kingston,
then this is for you. This
they are merely a
Ontario in the early 1990s.
is not Simple Plan crap.
bass and drums duo.
On this, their seventh re-
It’s not glossy, and con-
Unlike some popular two
lease, Finny McConnell
tains some pretty poor
pieces out there, like
in
Reviewed by Kenton Smith
If it’s true that
writers should stick to
and company bring their
production values. It’s
Death from Above 1979,
Pogues and Clash inspired celtic garage punk music to pre-
also a throwback to late 70s working class English punk
The Shanks have a remarkable amount of melody. Many
dictable levels. Their website also hails The Replacements,
where the vocals and choruses are gruff and unseasoned.
of their songs, like “Bridge of Sighs” and “Lazurus-
Consumption reveals
Husker Du, and The Who as influences. It’s pretty damn good,
Add a hint of Albertan country, bluegrass and a bit of celtic
style”, have a Strokes influenced style. There is a driving,
first-time
what they know, then
novelist
but if you are familiar with their music this disc does not bring
and you have Calgary’s Rum Runner. It’s fast, rough, simple
bouncy melody that is popular with bands like the
Kevin Patterson to be
anything new. The title track can be ripped from any Clash
and restless: it’s what good punk should be.
Strokes and The Killers. Take that sound, add some
the recipient of mixed
distortion, subtract any other instruments or backing
blessings.
album, minus the political bravado the Clash were known for.
It’s followed by “The Amsterdam Song”, a return to the tradi-
The first song is “The Punks are Due on Maple Street”,
a criticism of the punk scene
tional upbeat celtic we have all come to love the Mahones for.
that Shane MacGowan of The Pogues declared dead in
They also slow it down a few times, most notably in the sweet
1977. In fact, every song has an introductory quote, ranging
and mellow “A Little Bit Of Love”.
from MacGowan to Voltaire to F. Scott Fitzgerald. The social
But the Mahones are more of a party band, and their
consciousness continues in tunes like “Hollywood Gods”
songs are all either about drinking, love, or a combination
and “Discourse on the Canadian Interpretation of the Irish
thereof. They also throw in a couple of old Irish standards this
Pub” (a parody on intellectualism and those damn commer-
time around, “Nancy Whiskey” and “Whiskey in a Jar”.
cial “Irish” Pubs—as if Tavern United is a pub).
Take No Prisoners is a good introduction to Canada’s
Not only can these guys rock, but they have a sly
answer to The Pogues, but if you are familiar with their work
sense of humor to go with it. (Stumble Records, http://www.
it’s the same old, same old. (Stumble Records, www.myspace.
vocals, and you have The Shanks. (Head on a Plate,
A doctor who
www.herecometheshanks.com)
Jo Snyder
actually spends a great
deal of his time practicing up north, Patterson drew upon life experience that most
novelists can at best only obtain second-hand. At the same time,
however, judging by his portrait of place, that Patterson achieved
a book out of his arctic tenure may be poor compensation for
the ordeal.
The story concerns a young Inuit girl named Victoria, who
at age 10 becomes ill with tuberculosis and must be quarantined
rumrunner.cjb.net/)
away from her northern Manitoba-dwelling parents. Years later,
com/themahones)
Victoria returns to her childhood home to occupy a new state of
Dan Huyghebaert
Dan Huyghebaert
limbo: now possessing only a broken command of her people’s
language, and a worldview that encompasses far more than could
ever be understood by her parents, Victoria may still be Inuit, but
an irreparable fissure has cracked open between herself and
her people.
Meanwhile, the same people also now find themselves sit-
TEDIOUS MINUTIAE
uated in an alienating state of in-between, as food supplies dwin-
Or: Ineffectively Detailing One’s Cultural Consumption for the Uncaring Installment 2.14
rely upon what limited fortunes outsider influence brings, Victoria,
dle and more and more families come off the tundra to work the
mines of white men’s companies. Unable to be self-sufficient or
her family, and her people must try to survive, body and soul, in
an unforgiving world.
Baby: the final countdown Read: Chris Adrian, The Children’s Hospital (first 150ish pages)
While some of Patterson’s prose remains a bit precious,
his language often flows with grace. Some passages achieve a
near musical quality in their structure and rhythm, weaving evocative moments. Patterson can do plot, too, showing an equal gift
Ben MacPhee-Sigurdson
[email protected]
hospital, one of their many parkade muggers will
book? In brief: it’s about a children’s hospital
for tight narrative. The first thirty pages encompass a span of
take it instead. Hm.
secretly built by an angel-inspired architect that
years (between two separate sets of characters no less, sepa-
becomes an arc when the rest of the world is
rated in geography and situation) that could easily have comprised the bulk or even entirety of a whole other novel. Like the
I wrote this column on the first day of 2007,
Oh yeah, and because there’s a surgery
washed away by rain. The hospital is filled with
even though it likely won’t see the light of day for
involved, I get to wear “scrubs”. I can’t wait to
sick children, interns and doctors, a couple of
will happen next, and after the densely packed events of the
at least a week and a bit. However, it looks like
get in the green outfit, proceed into the operating
angels, and a replicating machine. Jemma, the
novel’s beginning, one realizes how wide open he has left the
the lady’s going to be having a baby in a couple of
room, and then promptly pass out at the sight of
protagonist haunted by past family tragedies but
days, and I’ll likely be staying at the hospital with
blood. Maybe I’ll be able to get my hands on a few,
not by the billions of lives lost in the flood, will
her for the proceeding few days.
uh, ‘cc’s of painkillers.
likely be of some specific importance later in
ble young hunter finds himself suddenly lost in the wilderness at
the text.
sunset. Such scenes convey the unforgiving nature of the tundra,
best storytellers, Patterson fires the reader’s curiosity as to what
possibilities.
Patterson is also good at gripping the reader with quick,
unexpected developments, such as when a decidedly incapa-
where death forever looms over one’s shoulder.
The fact that a) I know when the baby will ar-
But really, I don’t have any right to complain.
rive and b) that the lady will be in the hospital for
I don’t think sporting a few extra ‘sympathy
Maybe once I’ve finished the book I can look
a few days can mean only one thing—the damn
pounds’ is grounds for any sympathy. After all, I
back with some sort of insightful reflection, but
kid hasn’t turned and will be entering this miser-
didn’t carry the kid around for nine months before
for now I’ll say it’s a stunning, convincing and
able world via a c-section. Imagine a parallel
being admitted to the hospital, put on an IV and
thoroughly gripping chunk of prose. Because I’m
parked Lincoln Continental in a small car parking
having a kid cut out from my midsection. Let’s
sure I’ll have SO much time to read once the kid
spot, then imagine having to do a 73-point turn to
not even discuss the potential for a catheter or an
comes along.
get said car to face the other direction. Uh huh.
enema. I’m getting woozy just thinking about it.
Bursting with fascinating lore about life in the north,
Consumption is probably the best thing I’ve encountered along
such lines since I read Farley Mowat’s Lost in the Barrens as a kid.
On the other hand, the author’s love of arcane knowledge eventually becomes distracting, working against the novel. Patterson
certainly knows his subject and shares much that is interesting
in and of itself. But while he was able to get away with such divergences in the nonfiction The Water in Between, a novel makes
different demands. The end result is that the dense passages of
medical lore that comprise almost the final quarter of the novel
Speaking of parking, I guess I have to figure
Oh, and speaking of hospitals, and chil-
preemie: [email protected]
out where I’m going to park my damn car for three
dren, I’m currently about 150 pages in to Chris
breech: tediousminutiae.blogspot.com
days at the hospital that won’t cost me thousands
Adrian’s The Children’s Hospital (McSweeneys,
of dollars. Although I guess if I don’t give it to the
2006). How can I even begin to explain this
constitute a narrative fracture at a point where Patterson should
really have been pulling the strands together.
But Consumption is an achievement, confidently handling its subject matter and the complexities of human behaviour.
It observes its characters and their situation with the discerning eye for specifics and contradictions that good fiction requires.
What’s missing is a navigation of story as strong as the navigation of geography.
January 11, 2006
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The Uniter
ARTS & CULTURE
On art and intuition
Photo: R. Moreau, courtesy of the Musee Rodin, Paris.
Canadian art critic launches new anthology
Loie Fuller Fire Dance 1900
Aaron Epp
Volunteer Staff
W
hat is intuition? How can
a state of intuition be accessed? Those are just two
of the questions behind a new anthology of essays edited by Jennifer Fisher.
Fisher is an assistant professor
of Contemporary Art, Canadian Art
History and Curatorial Studies at York
University. She will be in Winnipeg
tonight for the official launch of
Technologies of Intuition at McNally
Robinson Grant Park.
In the introduction to the book,
Fisher writes, “the fulcrum of this book
focuses on artistic practices involved
with accessing a state of intuition.
The state is at once the product of cer-
tain knowledge, the content of what is
known, as well as a process, or way of
knowing.”
The book’s twenty-five contributors “present a diversity of practices
that use intuition in their methodology: mediumship, divination, shamanism, communications with the dead,
automatic writing, clairvoyance and
meditation.” So how did the idea for
the book originate?
“Not much work has been done on
the concept of intuition,” says Fisher.
“It’s kind of up-for-grabs in the world
of academia. I’ve always been interested in looking at it in a critical way
with academic rigour.”
This fits in with one of Fisher’s
main areas of research, namely the
aesthetics of the non-visual senses. She
chose the contributors from people
encountered during her twenty years
as an arts and culture critic in Canada.
Only one of the essays was written by
a man. The others were all written by
women. The reason for this, says Fisher,
is two-fold.
“I write on all aspects of art, but
I’ve always been interested in feminist
art. I wanted to explore feminism in
particular with this project. Women’s
intuition is a part of folklore and hearsay, so I was interested in doing a theoretical investigation of it.”
The second reason is that the book
is a co-publication involving Fisher’s
own DisplayCult imprint, YYZBOOKS,
and Mentoring Artists for Women’s
Art (MAWA). The latter is a Winnipegbased feminist organization that, according to its website, “encourages and
supports the intellectual and creative
development of women in the visual
arts by providing an ongoing forum for
education and critical dialogue.”
Technologies of Intuition includes
local contributors Bev Pike, Tricia
Wasney, both of whom are artists, and
Serena Keshavjee, Assistant Professor
of Art and Architectural History at the
U of W.
The book addresses the fact that
the term “intuition” has been marginalized in art theory and criticism.
Fisher believes this is mainly because
what is present and can be seen is favoured more than what can’t be seen.
“I’m interested in intuition because it’s beyond words,” she says.
“If it’s beyond words, how do you talk
about it? I think this book aims to
make conscious what is normally unconscious.”
In an interview Fisher conducts in
the book with artist Marina Abramovic,
Abramovic says that “the real task for
this new century is to figure out how
to enter [a spiritual state] and maintain it.” Fisher says that Technologies
of Intuition is, in part, an attempt to
answer the question of how one does
that. At the same time, says Fisher, “It’s
a big question. This book is only a be-
ginning that raises a lot more questions.”
Jennifer Fisher and MAWA will
launch Technologies of Intuition at
McNally Robinson Grant Part Thursday
Jan. 11 at 8 p.m. Admission is free. You
can find out more about MAWA by logging on to www.mawa.ca.
From Technologies
of Intuition:
“We’re not just sleeping—the
body, of course, is sleeping, but the
spirit is not just wandering, the spirit
is learning. That’s why very often
when we awaken in the morning,
we awaken with all kinds of ideas.
Especially people who are creative—the artists, the musicians, the
inventors, the intuitives—we learn
how to really work with that energy.
So some people may call it pure intuition, others may call it psychic, others
may call it spirit. There is a difference
when we acknowledge spirit. We’re
talking about mediums working with
actual spirits. But all people have
some psychic ability; all people also
have spirit guides. My experience
is that the more intuitive—the more
creative—a person is, the less that
person realizes when he or she is in
the altered state much of the time. So
when you are designing, acting, doing
your film work, or inventing—whatever it is you are doing in the creative
field—to be able to do that you have to
be able to focus. That kind of focussing
is what we call being able to work
with the spirit.”
–Dr. Marilyn Rossner in Valerie
Lamontagne’s essay “Spiritualist Embrace.”
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who are alumni of the University. A
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associated homecoming celebrations. Submissions of contemporary
work in various media are sought.
Interested artists must contact University Art Curator Jennifer Gibson
NO LATER THAN Feb. 1, 2007.
AROUND TOWN
CONCERTS
TELE, ALVERSTONE, UNIVERSE Jan. 13, West End Cultural
Centre, 8 p.m. Tickets $8 at WECC.
EMILY HAINES Jan. 14 Garrick
Centre, 8 p.m. Tickets $23.50
through Ticketmaster.
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LISTINGS @ uniter.ca
ART’S BIRTHDAY Presented
by Video Pool Media Arts Centre
Jan. 19 at Club Desire, 8 p.m. $2
with Art’s Birthday costume or $10
without. In honour of Art’s Birthday
2007 Video Pool will celebrate 100
Years of Radio Broadcast with live
art, a sound buffet, a vintage video
game lounge and radio broadcasts
on CKUW 95.9 FM.
LES LOUIS BOYS Jan. 19 Centre
Culturel Franco-manitobain, 8 p.m.
With guests Les Vieux-Loups, La
Bardasse. Tickets $20/$10 students
at Envol 91 FM or call 233-4243.
MATT MAYS WITH THE MUSEUM PIECES Jan. 23 West End
Cultural Centre, 8 p.m. For “When
Angels Make Contact” Tickets $15
in advance at Ticketmaster, WECC,
Into the Music, Music Trader/$20 at
the door.
HINDER W/ FINGER 11, BLACK
STONE CHERRY Jan. 23 Burton
Cummings Theatre, 7:30 p.m.
Tickets $29.50/24.50 through Ticketmaster.
KID KOALA Jan. 23 Collective
Cabaret, 9 p.m. With DJ Font
Crimes, DJ Rob Vilar. Tickets $20
through Ticketmaster.
THE WESTERN STATES CD
RELEASE AND BAKE SALE Jan.
26 West End Cultural Centre, 8 p.m.
Tickets $10 at Ticketmaster, Into the
Music, Music Trader.
DIANA POPS Jan. 26 The Folk
Exchange. Tickets available for $15
at the Festival Music Store (211
Bannatyne Ave) or $17 at the door.
COMEDY
TOAD IN THE HOLE / THE CAVERN 112 Osborne St – Comedy at
the Cavern. Every second Wednesday. Next event: Jan. 24.
THE KING’S HEAD PUB 120 King
St – King’s Head Half Pint Variety
Hour, Tuesdays at 9 p.m. Jan. 16:
Variety. Jan. 23: Improv.
LAUGH RIOT Local comics take
a crack at breaking the ever-cynical
crowd at Mondragon.
FILM
CINEMATHEQUE 100 Arthur
St.Jan. 14, 2 p.m.: Cabin Fever
presents free films for kids: Duma by
Carroll Ballard
ELLICE CAFÉ & THEATRE 585
Ellice St 975-0800 Neighbourhood
theatre and restaurant. Free movie
nights Monday – Wednesday.
PARK THEATRE 698 Osborne St
478-7275 Neighbourhood theatre
and venue. Jan. 12: Friday Night
Fright with The Exorcist, Rosemary’s
Baby, The Shining, starting at 7:30
p.m. Jan. 15: Waiting for Guffman
at 7 p.m. Jan. 17: Fantasia at 7 p.m.
Jan. 19: Dirty Harry Series starting
at 7:30 p.m.
THEATRE, DANCE &
MUSICAL PERFORMANCE
EMILY HAINES
Metric frontwoman Emily Haines
strikes out on her own and plays
the Garrick on Jan. 14.
The Uniter
THE GRIND First Thursday of the
month at Ellice Café & Theatre (585
Ellice Ave) The Grind, a venue to encourage and develop performers and
their ideas through the presentation
of scenes, sketches, monologues,
spoken word, short film, stand-up
and music in front of a live audience.
7p.m., $4.
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BLACK HOLE THEATRE For tickets and reservations call 474-6880.
Jan. 18-21, 23-27: Rosencrantz and
Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard for the MTC Master Playwright
Festival.
CERCLE MOLIÈRE 340 Provencher Blvd.Tickets available at 233-8053
or visit www.cerclemoliere.com.
MANITOBA THEATRE CENTRE
174 Market Ave. Tickets available at
942-6537. Until Jan. 27: The Rocky
Horror Show.
MANITOBA THEATRE CENTRE
WAREHOUSE 140 Rupert St.
Tickets available at 942-6537. Jan.
18-Feb. 3: The Real Thing.
PRAIRIE THEATRE EXCHANGE
Third floor, Portage Place. Call 9425483 or visit www.pte.mb.ca. Starting Jan. 25: Daniel MacDonald’s
Macgregor’s Hard Ice Cream and
Gas.
STOPPARDFEST 2007 featuring
the works of Tom Stoppard. Running
at various locations from Jan. 18Feb. 4. StoppardPass is on sale now
for $59, call 942-6537.
WINNIPEG CONTEMPORARY
DANCERS 204-211 Bannatyne
Ave. Tickets available at 452-0229.
Jan. 25-27: Susie Burpee with
original music by Christine Fellows and John K. Samson. Tickets
$22/18/15.
GROUNDSWELL
CONCERT
SERIES presents A Manitoba
Songbook with six Manitoba composers, four world premieres and the
homegrown soprano and guitar duo
of Charlene Pauls and Ian Hodges.
Jan. 12 at 8 p.m. at Eckhard-Grammatte Hall, University of Winnipeg.
Call 943-5770.
MANITOBA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Call MCO at 783-7377
or pick up tickets at McNally Robinson or Ticketmaster. All concerts
begin at 7:30 p.m. at Westminster
United Church. Next concert is on
Jan. 17.
WINNIPEG CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY International Artist
Concert Series: Thibault Cauvin
solo recital Jan. 27 at 8 p.m. at The
Manitoba Museum, Planetarium
Auditorium. Tickets $15/10/5 and
available in advance at 667-5250 or
775-0809 or at the door.
THE WINNIPEG SINGERS Call
989-6030ext1 or visit www.winnipegsingers.com.
WINNIPEG
SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA Concerts almost
weekly during the winter. Call
949-3999 or visit www.wso.mb.ca.
LITERARY
McNALLY ROBINSON GRANT
PARK Jan. 11, 7 p.m.: Launch
of Experience, Research, Social
Change-Methods Beyond the Mainstream, second edition. Jan. 11, 8
p.m.: MAWA presents the launch of
Technologies of Intuation, edited by
writer and curator Jennifer Fisher.
Jan. 16, 8 p.m.: MCO presents Jane
Glover, author of Mozart’s Women.
Jan. 17, 7 p.m.: Nathan Town signing copies of Ned Stapleton and the
Wrath of the Death Gods. Jan. 18, 8
p.m.: Pamela Leach and Cate Friesen
sign and talk on The Ursula Franklin
Reader: Pacifism as a Map.
MCNALLY ROBINSON PORTAGE PLACE Jan. 18, 12 p.m.: A.P.
Fuchs signing Axiom-man. Jan. 18,
7 p.m.: Hostelling 101.
SPEAKING CROW OPEN-MIC
POETRY First Tuesday of the month
at Academy Bar & Eatery.
AQUA BOOKS 89 Princess St The
Stone Soup Storytellers’ Circle,
veteran Winnipeg storytellers,
meets for storytelling once a month
LJanuary
istings Coordinator: Nick Weigeldt
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Phone: 786-9497
on Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. Next get
together is on Jan. 13. All are welcome. ideaExchange: Aqua Books,
in conjunction with St. Benedict’s
Table, is pleased to present our
award-winning monthly conversation series dealing with issues of
faith, life, theology and pop culture.
art, thereby reinforcing and emphasizing the educational mandate of
the University. Opening Jan. 18: Don
Reichert: ‘On the Rocks’.
SEMAI GALLERY Basement Corridor, 264 McDermot Ave 943-2446.
Until Jan. 20: ‘Power to the Artist’ by
Paul Butler.
available at the Festival Music Store
(231-1377), or at the door. Jan. 19:
Dan Frechette. Jan. 26: Diana Pops,
$15/$17.
GALLERY 803 - 803 Erin St 4890872 Local artists featured. Until
Jan. 27: Winnipeg Group Show.
OUT LOUD is an open mic opportunity for you to give your words
voice. Every two weeks a special
guest will kick off the evening after
which the mic is open for your words
of any genre in five minutes or less.
Third Thursday of the month at the
Millennium Library at 251 Donald.
Sign up is at 7 p.m. Open mic at
7:50 p.m. Free. Jan. 18: Poet Sally
Ito performs.
GALLERY LACOSSE 169 Lilac St
284-0726 Tues-Fri 10-6, Sat 10-5.
Neighbourhood gallery.
UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG’S
ARCHIVES AND HAMILTON
GALLERIA 4th and 5th Floors,
Centennial Hall, University of Winnipeg. Until Jan. 26: Photographer
Tyrrell Mendis captures the history
of places of worship in his solo exhibit ‘Testaments of Faith: Manitoba’s
Pioneer Churches’.
GIO’S 155 Smith St. Wednesdays:
Karaoke. Thursdays: Bump n’ Grynd.
Fridays: DJ daNNo dance party. First
Saturday of the month: Womyn’s
night. Q-Pages Book Club, 5 p.m.
URBAN SHAMAN 203-290
McDermot Ave 942-2674. Contemporary Aboriginal art. Until Mar. 3:
Linus Woods’ solo exhibition.
KEEPSAKES GALLERY 264
McDermot Ave. Musical Keepsakes:
Live music every Saturday evening.
AD LIB is an evening of improvestyle word games. Every night is
guaranteed to be different and full of
laughs. From round stories to fridge
magnet poetry, from opening lines to
creating new endings, there’s no limit
to the places these games – or your
writing – can go. First Thursday of
the month at the Millennium Library
at 251 Donald at 7:30 p.m. Free.
WRITERS’ COLLECTIVE presents two writing workshops: ‘Help,
I’ve fallen into a children’s story and
can’t get up!’ on Jan. 20 from 10 a.m.
– 4 p.m. Join Anita Daher for a closer
look at opportunities available, and
how to best turn your writing interests into publishing success. Room
2C10, University of Winnipeg. Cost
non-members. On Feb. 10 from 1
– 4 p.m.: ‘Submitting a Manuscript’.
Increase your chances of publication
by finding the perfect publisher,
and presenting your manuscript
in an appealing, professional way.
Room 2C10, U of Winnipeg. Cost
non-members. To register for one or
both workshops contact the WC at
[email protected] or
by calling 786-9468.
GALLERIES &
EXHIBITIONS
IN PLAIN VIEW Winnipeg Studio
Tour 2006 A group of Winnipeg
artists have organized two weekend
self-guided studio and gallery tours
to take place on the weekend of Dec.
2 & 3 from 12 noon to 6 p.m on
these days. Visit www.inplainviewwinnipeg.com for info.
ACE ART INC. 290 McDermot St
944-9763 Tues-Sat 12-5. Until Feb.
24: ‘Episodic’ by Donican Cumming.
ADELAIDE MCDERMOT GALLERY 318 McDermot Ave 9873514. Contemporary art.
THE ANNEX GALLERY 594
Main St 284-0673 Tues-Sat 12-5.
Contemporary art.
ARTBEAT STUDIO INC. 4-62
Albert St 943-5194. Communitybased contemporary art.
ART CITY 616 Broadway Ave 7759856 Mon 5-8 ,Tues-Fri 4-8, Sat
12-4. Featuring high quality artistic
programming for kids and adults.
THE EDGE ARTIST VILLAGE
AND GALLERY 611 Main St.
Contemporary art.
FLEET GALLERIES 62 Albert St
942-8026 Mon-Thur 8:30-5:30, Fri
8:30-5, Sat 9:30-4:30.
GALLERY 1C03 Centennial Hall,
University of Winnipeg 515 Portage
Ave 786-9253 Mon-Fri 12-4, Sat 14. The Gallery provides the campus
community and general public with
opportunities to learn about visual
GALLERY ONE ONE ONE Main
Floor Fitzgerald Building, School of
Art U of Manitoba 474-9322. Showing and collecting contemporary and
historical art at the U of M. Jan. 18
– Mar. 9: Kathleen Fonseca.
GRAFFITI GALLERY 109 Higgins
Ave 667-9960. A not-for-profit community youth art center, using art as
a tool for community, social, economic and individual growth. Until
Jan. 12: In conjunction with Label
Gallery, ‘‘Good Ol’ Hockey Game: A
look at the Canadian Pasttime’.
HIGH OCTANE GALLERY, OSBORNE VILLAGE CULTURAL
CENTRE 445 River @ Osborne
St 284-9477. Local community art
gallery.
KEEPSAKES GALLERY 264 McDermot Ave 943-2446. A non-profit
gallery promoting handmade art,
crafts, pottery, cards and more.
KEN SEGAL GALLERY 4-433
River Ave 477-4527 Tues-Fri 10-6,
Sat 10-5. Showcase of original
contemporary art.
LA GALERIE at the CENTRE
CULTUREL FRANCO-MANITOBAIN 340 Provencher Blvd
233-8972 Mon-Fri 8am-10 p.m.
Sat-Sun 12 p.m. - 10 p.m. Until Jan.
21: Brigitte Dion, ‘Virage’.
LA MAISON DES ARTISTES 219
Provencher 237-5964 Mon-Fri 9-5.
Until Jan. 16: ‘Mouvance’, a collaborative art project by two Quebecois,
Gilles Prince and Yvon LaFontain,
and two Manitobans, Michel Saint
Hilaire and Nathalie Dupont.
VIDEO POOL MEDIA ARTS
CENTRE 300-100 Arthur St 9499134. Contemporary media art.
WAH-SA GALLERY Johnston
Terminal, The Forks. Aboriginal
artwork.
WAYNE ARTHUR GALLERY
186 Provencher Blvd 477-5249.
Gallery for Manitoba-based artists.
Until Jan. 27: ‘Through Fixed Eyes’
– the photography of Dan Harper.
WINNIPEG ART GALLERY 300
Memorial Blvd 786-6641. Wednesdays: Art for Lunch. 12:10 p.m. – 1
p.m. Until Jan. 21: Peter Winkworth
Collection of Canadiana: Vast New
Lands – Canada’s Northwest. Until
March 25: Mammatus – An Installation by Max Streicher. Until Apr. 22:
Antler Into Art.
WOODLANDS GALLERY 535
Academy Rd 947-0700.
BARS, CAFES & VENUES
ACADEMY BAR & EATERY 414
Academy Rd. Jan. 11: Serena Postel
and Lisa Marie Kruchak. Jan. 12: MB
Songwriters’ Circle. Jan. 13: Nicole
Byblow ‘Unabashed’ CD Release
Party with Don Amero, 8 p.m. $5.
Jan. 20: Doug Edmond.
LABEL GALLERY 510 Portage
Ave 772-5165 Tues-Sat 12-5.
Volunteer artist-run non-profit art
centre showcasing works of community artists.
THE CAVERN / TOAD IN THE
HOLE 108 Osborne St. Tuesdays:
Three Piece Madness. Second
Wednesday of the month: Comedy at
the Cavern. Jan. 12: The Wind-Ups.
Jan. 13: The Perms. Jan 20: National
Monument w/ English Moccassins.
MANITOBA CRAFTS COUNCIL
EXHIBITION GALLERY 214
McDermot Ave 487-6114 Tues-Fri
11-5, Sat 11-4. Contemporary arts
and crafts.
CENTRE CULTUREL FRANCOMANITOBAIN 340 Provencher
Blvd. Tuesdays: Le Mârdi Jazz.
MARTHA STREET STUDIO 11
Martha St 772-6253 Mon-Fri 10-5.
Showcasing the fine art of printmaking.
MEDEA GALLERY 132 Osborne
St 453-1115 Mon-Sat 10:30-5, Sun
1-4. Until Jan. 20: ‘Collection of
Works’ by gallery members.
MAWA - MENTORING ARTISTS FOR WOMEN’S ART 611
Main St 949-9490. Supporting
women artists at their new home on
Main Street.
OUTWORKS GALLERY 3rd Floor
290 McDermot Ave 949-0274. Artist-run studio and exhibition space
in the Exchange.
OSEREDOK GALLERY 184 Alexander Ave E. 942-0218. On now:
‘Simply Serendipity’.
PLATFORM (CENTRE FOR
PHOTOGRAPHIC AND DIGITAL
ARTS) 121-100 Arthur St 942-8183
Tues-Sat 12-5. Photo-based media.
Until Feb 23: Jennifer Vosacek’s
‘Hole in Amsterdam’.
PLUG-IN ICA 286 McDermot Ave
942-1043. Until Feb. 17: Sarinder
Dhaliwal’s ‘Record Keeping’.
COLLECTIVE CABARET / DIE
MASCHINE CABARET 108
Osborne St. Thursdays: Good
Form, Indie Club Night, $3. Hosted
by DJ Font Crimes and Rob Vilar.
Fridays: Punk/Hardcore Night w/
Fat Mat & Scott Wade. Saturdays:
Goth/Industrial Night. Jan. 13: Ham,
Velodrome, The Fops. Jan. 19: None
the Wiser. Jan. 20: Valhalla.
ELEPHANT & CASTLE PUB 350
St Mary Ave. Thursdays at 8p.m.:
PubStumpers. Sundays: Student
night with live entertainment. Jan.
14: Grant Davidson. Jan. 21: Half
Mast.
ELLICE CAFÉ & THEATRE 587
Ellice Ave. Neighbourhood café and
theatre showing films and showcasing local talent.
FINN’S PUB 210-25 Forks Market
Rd, Johnson Terminal. Tuesdays:
Ego Spank, 10:30 p.m. Wednesdays:
Guy Abraham Band.
FOLK EXCHANGE 211 Bannatyne
Ave. Traditional Singers’ Circle
(third Monday of each month, $2 at
the door). Drumming Circle (fourth
Monday of each month, $2 at the
door. Folk Club (first Monday of each
month, $4.99 at the door). Tickets
for all Folk Exchange concerts are
HEMP ROCK CAFÉ 302 Notre
Dame Ave. Local and touring acoustic and punk shows.
KING’S HEAD PUB 100 King St.
Tuesdays: The Original Comedy of
the Kings Head. See Comedy for details. Sundays: All The Kings Men.
Jan. 11: The Freaky Circles. Jan. 12:
Machine. Jan. 13: The Braggarts.
Jan. 19: Guy Abraham Band. Jan.
20: Rubbersoul.
MONDRAGON
BOOKSTORE
AND COFFEEHOUSE 91 Albert
St. Political bookstore and vegan
restaurant hosting readings, speakers and concerts. Wednesdays:
Wobbly Wednesdays.
OSBORNE FREEHOUSE 437
Osborne St. Mondays: The Cool
Monday Night Hang, 8 p.m. First set
followed by a jam session. Acoustic
Night every Tuesday and Thursday
evening beginning at 8 p.m.
THE PARK THEATRE 698 Osborne St. Mondays: Monday Night
Football on the big-screen, free
admission. Fridays: Riverview Club,
5 p.m.. Jan. 11: Star Blown Apart, 7
p.m. Jan. 13: River City Hum, Blue
Sky Addicts. $5, 7 p.m. Jan. 15:
Improv troupe Always George.
PYRAMID CABARET 176 Fort St.
Wednesdays: New Wave w/ DJ Rob
Vilar. Thursdays: The Mod Club.
Sundays: Search 4 RA NRG.
REGAL BEAGLE 331 Smith St.
Tuesdays: Hatfield McCoy. Wednesdays: Open Mic Nite. Weekends:
Blues. Jan. 11: Jason & Shandra.
ROYAL ALBERT ARMS 48 Albert
St. Jan. 12: Red Blanket, Domenica.
Jan. 13: Think Don’t Pray, Putrescence, BTLIC, Kursk. Jan. 20: The
Gorgon, Red Blanket, DADADA:
LAZERS.
SALSA BAR & GRILL 500
Portage Ave. Thursdays: Urban
Hip Hop. Fridays: Salsa/Top 40.
Saturdays: Salsa. Sundays: Reggae
and Calypso.
SHANNON’S IRISH PUB 175
Carlton St. Sundays: Nate Bryski.
Mondays: Jeremy Williamez. Thursdays: 80s Night. Jan. 13: George &
the Class of ’84. Jan. 19: River City
Hum.
TIMES CHANGE(D) HIGH AND
LONESOME CLUB Main St @ St.
Mary Ave. Sundays: Blues Jam with
Big Dave McLean. No cover charge.
Jan. 11: Campfire Night. Jan. 12:
The Perpetrators. Jan. 13: Cam
Penner and Romi Mayes. Jan. 18:
Sixth Anniversary Celebration with
Adrian Sala and The Little Buddies.
Jan. 19: Andrew Neville and The
Poor Choices, Stonypoint. Jan. 20:
The Perpetrators and The D-Rangers.
Jan. 21: The Whisky Awards hosted
by Big Dave McLean, John Scoles
and special guests. Jan. 23: Matt
Mays with The Museum Pieces. Jan.
26: The Western States CD Release
and Bake Sale.
WEST END CULTURAL CENTRE Ellice Ave @ Sherbrook St. See
Concerts for details. Jan. 12: Cities
I’ve Never Seen, RomanceToCast, A
Life Less Ordinary, Stolen Signature,
Black Rose for Broken Hearts, $5.
Jan. 13: Tele, Alverstone, Universe,
8 p.m., $8.
Winnipeg’s wastewater improvement
with speakers Mike Shkolny and
Nick Szoke of the City of Winnipeg
Water and Waste Department. Jan.
17, 12 p.m.
WEST END
Local rockers Alverstone team up
with Tele and Universe on Jan. 13
at the West End Cultural Centre.
WINDSOR HOTEL 187 Garry St.
Tuesdays: Jam with Ragdoll Blues.
Wednesdays: Jam with Big Dave
McLean. Jan. 11-13: B-Man & The
Chickenhawks. Jan. 18-20: J.P.
LePage.
WOODBINE HOTEL 466 Main St.
Historic downtown hotel bar.
THE ZOO / OSBORNE VILLAGE
INN 160 Osborne St. Thursdays:
New Band Showcase – No Cover.
Jan. 11: The Zoo, Grease Junkies.
Jan. 12: HCE CD Release, The Nods,
Pretty Train Crash. Jan. 13: The
Harlots, burnthe8track. Jan. 19: Torn
Into, Damascus, Downfall, High Five
Drive, Asado. Jan. 20: Igor & The
Skindiggers.
COMMUNITY
EVENTS
(see also On-Campus Events)
SKYWALK CONCERTS &
LECTURES 2006/07 Wednesday
Lectures: Leading teachers and
researchers from the University of
Winnipeg will inform, engage and
challenge you on topics of broad historical, political and scientific interest. Thursday Concerts: We present
a showcase for some of Manitoba’s
finest musicians - from jazz to folk
and classical to contemporary. Free
admission, Carol Shields Auditorium, 2nd Floor Millenium Library
downtown, 12:10-12:50 p.m.
“WE ALSO HAVE IDEAS FOR
SOLVING OUR PROBLEMS!”:
Indian Male Sex Workers, Empowerment & the Politics of Community
Participation. International public
health scientists increasingly recognize the HIV-vulnerability of
Indian “men who have sex with
men” (MSM). As a consequence,
those who identify as MSM have
become a significant focus of STIintervention projects throughout
India. Guest Speaker: Dr. Robert
Lorway, International Centre for Infectious Diseases. Jan. 12, 12 p.m.
- 1 p.m., Dr. Betty Havens Seminar
Room (R060 Medical Rehabilitation
Bldg.) 771 McDermot Ave., Health
Sciences Centre. All are welcome to
attend. Free Admission.
DRAMATIC READING: FRONTRUNNERS tells the story of a
group of young Aboriginal runners
who were selected to carry the
ceremonial flame to the 1967 PanAmerican Games in Winnipeg and
covered 800 kilometres, right up to
the stadium door, only to have the
torch handed to a white runner for
the final leg before the assembled
crowd. Thirty-two years later, when
Winnipeg hosted the Pan Am Games
again, the surviving members of the
group were invited to finish what
they started and delivered the torch
into the stadium at the 1999 Games.
By playwright Laura Robinson. Jan.
12, 1 p.m. in Room 200, Education Building, U of Manitoba. Free
admission.
WINNIPEG COUNCIL OF WOMEN GENERAL MEETING Presentation at the Paddlewheel Restaurant
at The Bay downtown over lunch on
HAVE YOU EVER BEEN A
VICTIM OF POLICE MISCONDUCT? Copwatch Winnipeg is
a group of community volunteers
concerned about incidents of police
harassment, violence and brutality in
our city. We are creating a database
of police misconduct so we can begin to hold the police accountable.
Come out and share your story with
us! Wednesday, Jan, 17, 4 – 8 p.m.
at West Broadway Community Centre, 185 Young Street, Snacks and
Beverages Provided! Saturday, Jan
20, 12 – 4 p.m. at Mamawi Centre,
94 McGregor. Join us for a Potluck
and Story-Telling Sharing Circle! All
information will be kept confidential
unless you request otherwise. For
more information contact: [email protected].
HOSTELLING
INTERNATIONAL Jan. 18 at 7 p.m. at
McNally Robinson Portage Place.
Join us for Hostelling 101, an
informative evening hosted by Hostelling International. An experienced
traveller will be here to answer all
of your travel and hostelling questions.
DOCUMENTING
SOCIAL
CHANGE: Processes and Outcomes from 16 Years of Study of the
Winnipeg Family Violence Court.
Guest Speaker: Dr. Jane Ursel,
Sociology Dept., U of M. Jan. 24,
12 noon, Private Dining Room, University Club, University of Manitoba.
Everybody Welcome. Admission
$4.00 (includes lunch). Registration
is required. To reserve your seat,
contact Kimberley at 474-9020.
ANNOUNCEMENTS &
OPPORTUNITIES
DO YOU LIKE WORKING WITH
NEWCOMER CHILDREN? Do
you believe you can change our
community? If you said yes, consider volunteering with some of our
programs. The Citizenship Council
of Manitoba Inc. International Centre
is looking for student volunteers to
help new arrivals to Canada learn
English and feel welcome in our
country. Opportunities exist for
volunteers to give their time and
support to the Centre’s Immigrant
Children and Youth Programs
including Sports Activities for
Newcomer Kids, Empowerment with
the Girl Guides, Newcomer Buddy
Welcome Program and our After
Class Education Program. If you’d
like to help out, contact Si-il Park at
943-9158ext 285 or 688-1941.
LOOKING FOR WAYS TO GIVE
BACK TO THE COMMUNITY,
develop new friendships, make a
positive impact and lasting influence
in people’s lives, and volunteer within a multi-cultural community? The
Immigrant and Refugee Community
Organization of Manitoba (IRCOM)
has exciting volunteer opportunities
for you with after-school programs
for kids who live at IRCOM with
the purpose of developing healthy
friendships and exposing them to
new experiences in Canada. Criminal Record Check and Child Abuse
Registry Check required before
beginning volunteer work. Contact
Evelyne Ssengendo at 943-8765 or
email at [email protected] if you
are interested in volunteering or
have any questions.
THE HEART AND STROKE
FOUNDATION OF MANITOBA
needs 6,300 volunteers for its annual
door-to-door campaign during Heart
Month in Feb., 2007. HSFM hopes
to raise almost $800,000 and warm
hearts all over Manitoba during
the month-long event. Much of the
funding HSFM receives comes from
volunteer-based events like Door-to-
Listings Coordinator: Nick Weigeldt
Phone: 786-9497
Fax: 783-7080
Door. Ninety percent of funds raised
stay in Manitoba to support the
Foundations mission “to improve
the health of Manitobans by preventing and reducing disability and
death from heart disease and stroke
through research, health promotion
and advocacy.” To volunteer for the
door-to-door campaign, or any other
Heart and Stroke Foundation event,
visit www.heartandstroke.mb.ca/ or
call toll free 1-888-473-4636.
THE LATE LUNCH SHOW Attention independent artists and
producers! Beginning September 15,
2006 at 1:00 p.m. Arts and Cultural
Industries Manitoba (ACI) presents
the Late Lunch Show, a series of
9 fabulous workshops designed
specifically for the self-employed.
With topics ranging from Healing
Through the Arts to Financial Management, each hour-long session
provides an opportunity to connect
with professionals, network with
other independent artists/producers,
and gain valuable knowledge about
the cultural industry. Registration
is $5.00 and includes a delicious
lunch, so call 927-2787 to reserves
your spot today.
ARE YOU INTERESTED IN A
CAREER IN FILM? Manitoba¹s
growing film industry is looking for
people who are hard working, selfmotivated, and have strong communication skills to become members
of Manitoba¹s film crew. To learn
more about working in Manitoba¹s
expanding film industry, attend a
free Monthly Information Session
the first Wednesday of every month
from 5:30-6:30 p.m. at Film Training
Manitoba, 100-62 Albert Street. For
more information call 989.9669 or
visit www.filmtraining.mb.ca.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Artists Pages in Aceart’s annual
PaperWait (Volume 8) The Winnipeg
Folk Festival and Folklorama are two
of the largest festivals of their kind
in North America, making Winnipeg
the folk capital of Canada. With this
in mind, PaperWait Volume 8 will
have a series of artist’s pages that
explore the impact of folklore on
the contemporary visual arts scene.
In particular, Aceart is looking for
artists whose work engages in the
theme of contemporary urban myths.
Works should articulate a search for
modern-day allegories and narratives, with respect to rethinking or
imagining contemporary folklore.
lease submit electronic submission.
Please include: up to 10 jpeg images
of proposed work, CV (max 2 pages),
and 250 word artist bio/statement.
Send submissions to program@
aceart.org. Deadline Jan. 31.
The Uniter
January 11, 2006
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AWARDS & FINANCIAL AID: INFORMATION
UNIVERSITY
OF WINNIPEG
INTERNAL AWARDS:
BURSARY APPLICATIONS:
Application forms are now available
in the Awards office located in
Graham Hall or at Student Central in
Centennial Hall. Bursaries are small,
supplementary financial assistance
awards, normally $300 - $750 in
value. In order to be considered,
you must prove financial need and
you must be making satisfactory
academic progress (i.e. maintaining
a “C” average). Because funds are
limited, not everyone who qualifies
will receive a bursary. Many of our
University of Winnipeg bursaries are
available to our students in any year
of their program. Return completed
applications to the Awards office in
Graham Hall. Deadline date: Jan. 31,
2007.
EXTERNAL AWARDS:
SHASTRI INSTITUTE MOUNT
ALLISON UNIVERSITY SUMMER
PROGRAMME:
The Shastri Institute and Mount
Allison University are pleased to
announce the Summer Program in
India. Students who have completed
two years of undergraduate study
and have completed a substantial
component of India Studies coursework, or have a particular academic
interest in Indian Studies may apply.
The total cost of this programme is
$5945 which includes application
fees, tuition, airfare, room and
board, materials, health and field
trip costs. Provide a statement of
purpose no longer than 300 words
outlining how this program will
benefit you, an official transcript
of all post-secondary studies and
a complete application form. Applications are available by visiting
our website www.sici.org. Deadline:
Jan. 15, 2007.
SOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL
OF THE AMERICAS FELLOWSHIP
AWARD:
The Fellowship Award may be
awarded to any women who:
•Resides in the Northwest Region
of Soroptimist International of the
Americas
•Is established in business or one
of the professions.
•Conducts her business or practices her profession
•Holds a Bachelor’s or Master’s
Degree from an accredited college
or university.
•Presents a plan of worthwhile
post graduate study at an accredited
college or university leading to an
advanced degree or to enhanced
standing or competence in her business or profession.
•Provides such other information
as the Fellowship Committee may
deem necessary.
•Soroptimist members and their
immediate families are not eligible
for any Soroptimist monetary awards
available to the public.
Applications are available in the
Awards office located in Graham
Hall.
Deadline: Jan. 15, 2007.
CANADIAN BUREAU FOR
INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
(CBIE):
Export Development Canada International Business Scholarships
(EDC) created these scholarships
through its Education and Youth
Employment Strategy, because
international trade is critical to
Canada’s economic prosperity.
EDC will offer 25 scholarships to
undergraduate students enrolled
in Canadian universities. Selected
applicants will receive a $3000 cash
award and a possible four-month
work term with mentoring from
leading industry experts at EDC’s
head office in Ottawa, worth approximately $10,000. To be eligible:
• be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident
• enrolled in full-time studies at a
Canadian university
• be in 2nd or 3rd year of an undergraduate business or economics
program
• returning to full-time undergraduate studies in business or
economics for the 2007-2008
academic year
• keenly interested in international
business and considering a career
in this field.
• evidence of leadership potential,
competency in teamwork and academic achievement.
Complete the on-line application.
Go to www.edc.ca/cbie.
Deadline date: Jan. 22, 2007.
SOROPTIMIST FOUNDATION OF
CANADA GRANTS FOR GRADUATE
STUDIES
The Soroptimist Foundation of
Canada annually offers several
$7,500 grants to female graduate
students in Canada to assist them
with university studies that will
qualify them for careers that will
improve the quality of women’s
lives. Examples include but are not
limited to: proving medical services,
providing legal counseling and assistance, counseling mature women
entering or re-entering the labour
market, counseling women in crisis,
counseling and training women for
non-traditional employment, and
positions in women’s centres. To be
eligible you must meet the following criteria:
•A female
•Canadian citizen or landed immigrant
•Accepted registrant in a graduate studies program (Masters or
PhD) or professional program at a
similar level (medicine, law) in an
accredited Canadian University, at
the time of the application deadline
(Jan. 31).
For more information go to their
website or email scholars@datatel.
Deadline: submit online at www.
datatel.com/dsf by Jan. 31, 2007.
•Pursuing a course of studies
which will lead to a career mainly
of service to women.
Students who have completed at
least two years of post-secondary education and are currently
enrolled in a program that has
application to the dairy industry are
eligible to make application for this
scholarship. Two scholarships of
$2000.00 will be awarded. For more
information email [email protected].
Applications are available on-line at
www.dairygoodness.ca. Deadline:
Jan. 31, 2007.
•Intending to spend a minimum
of two years in such a career in
Canada.
•Intending to use the award for
academic studies in the academic
year following receipt of it.
•Contributing to your community
through volunteer service.
•Needing financial assistance.
Applicants may apply in either
English or French. Applications
are available in the Awards office
located in Graham Hall. For more
information contact Heather Menzies, 1204 – One Evergreen Place,
Winnipeg MB, R3L 0E9. Deadline:
Jan. 31, 2007.
THE DATATEL SCHOLARS
FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIPS:
The University of Winnipeg is a
new Datatel client institution and
as such, Datatel is offering unique
scholarships ranging in value from
$1,000 to $2500 to students from
our institution.
• Datatel Scholars Foundation
Scholarships – for outstanding
students currently attending eligible
Datatel client instituitions.
•Returning Student scholarships
– for outstanding students currently
attending eligible Datatel client
institutions, who have returned to
higher education after an absence
of five years or more.
•Nancy Goodhue Lynch scholarships – for outstanding undergraduate students majoring in Information Technology related curriculum
programs at eligible Datatel client
institutions.
Application Process:
The Datatel Scholars Foundation online scholarship application process
is as follows.
1. A student attending an eligible
Datatel client institution may apply
via the online application form between September 1, 2006 and Jan.
31, 2007. (NOTE: applicants must
submit their completed application
with two letters of recommendation
by Jan. 31, 2007 in order to be
considered for nomination.)
2. The scholarship administrator
from each participating Datatel client institution reviews, evaluates,
and nominates applicants between
Feb. 1, 2006 & Feb. 15, 2006.
3. Nominated student applications are forwarded to the Datatel
Scholars Foundation review committee for final evaluation and award
determination in the spring.
MARITIME DAIRY INDUSTRY
SCHOLARSHIP
CANADIAN HARD OF HEARING
ASSOCIATION:
The purpose of this award is to offer
financial assistance and recognition
to hard of hearing and deafened
students registered in a full time
program at a recognized Canadian
college or university, in any area
of study, with the ultimate goal
of obtaining a diploma or degree.
Two awards of $2000 each will be
granted. Applicants are requested to
read the criteria for eligibility and to
provide all the information required
to complete the application. Applications are available either in
the U of W Awards Office located
in Graham Hall, or on-line at www.
chha.ca/. Deadline: Jan. 31, 2007.
ROYAL BANK ABORIGINAL
STUDENT AWARDS:
Value: Five students will receive
$4,000 for education expenses to a
maximum of four years at university.
Eligibility:
• a status Indian, Non-status
Indian, Inuit or Metis
EXPLORE BURSARY TO STUDY
FRENCH:
Come to Trois-Pistoles French Immersion School and receive a credit
in French from The University of
Western Ontario. Choose between
one of two five-week sessions:
•Spring May 14-June 15, 2007
•Summer: July 9 – August 10,
2007
You qualify if you are a Canadian
citizen or permanent resident and
enrolled as a full-time student
(minimum 60% course load).
Applications available on the web at
www.myexplore.ca. More information can be found at tpistole@uwo.
ca or by phoning 519-661-3637.
Deadline: February 28, 2007.
THE ROBIN COSGROVE PRIZE FOR
INNOVATIVE IDEAS FOR ETHICS
IN FINANCE:
This prize worth $20,000USD is
open to young people, aged 35
years or younger, from throughout
the world. It will be awarded for
creative papers setting out projects
or proposals for innovative ways
to promote ethics in finance and
banking, especially in emerging
markets. Entries for the competition
for the Prize are invited to address
the subject of Innovation Ideas for
Ethics in Finance. Submit your paper
electronically in English or French.
Further details can be found a www.
robincosgroveprize.org.
Deadline February 28, 2007.
Surfing for more Dollars?: Try
these websites for more possibilities! These two sites will lead you
through Canadian based scholarship
searches.
www.studentawards.com
www.scholarshipscanada.com
• you are a permanent resident/
citizen of Canada
• you can provide proof of acceptance (with transcript of marks)or
are already attending a university
or college listed in the Directory
of Canadian Universities, in a discipline relevant to the banking
industry (e.g. business, economics,
computer science)
• you maintain a full course workload leading to a recognized degree,
certificate or diploma
• you are in need of financial assistance to pursue your education
Process: An independent committee
of aboriginal academics reviews all
applications and makes its final selections based on each individual’s
financial need. In addition, recipients
who indicate an interest in pursuing
a banking career are considered for
summer and postgraduate employment at RBC.
Apply on-line at www.rbc.com and
send your documentation to:
RBC ROYAL BANK ABORIGINAL
STUDENT AWARDS RBC Royal Bank
330 Front Street West, 10th Floor,
Toronto, Ontario M5V 3B5 Fax: (416)
348-6455
Deadline: Jan. 31st 2007.
MANITOBA STUDENT AID
PROGRAM (MSAP):
DO YOU KNOW… you can check the
status of your student aid application, find out what documentation
is still outstanding, update your
address information and much more
on line? Go to www.studentaid.gov.
mb.ca. Link to MySAO to log into
your existing account.
DO YOU KNOW… Manitoba Student
Aid staff can be on campus on
Fridays from 1 – 4 p.m. To meet
with a representative, you need to
set up an appointment time. Come
to Student Services to book an appointment or phone Tanis Kolisnyk
at 786-9984.
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sports
Joining Draward on the all-star team was Jeff
Faschauner of Tec Voc, Justin Roper of Oak Park, and Neil
Olukoya and Jarred Ogungbemi of Garden City.
Wesmen Impress in Christmas Tournament
Sports Editor
Call it the “Spirit of Christmas” or call it a coincidence, but head coach Dave Crook certainly wouldn’t mind
a little karmic boost as the Wesmen men’s basketball team
begins the second half of their schedule.
Two seasons ago, the Winnipeg limped to a brutal 1-7
start heading into their month-long December break. But on
a Dec. 30th night that saw Winnipeg subsumed in a dreadful blizzard, Erfan Nasasjpour and his teammates captured
the Wesmen Classic championship, the Christmas tournament staged annually by the athletic department. And while
they were certainly not mistaken for a John Wooden-era
UCLA Bruins outfit, they finished the regular season with
a late playoff run in finishing 6-14, respectable given their
miserable start.
Fast-forward to the 2006 edition and you would have
found a 4-6 team relatively dissatisfied with their first half.
However, the Wesmen rose to the occasion again to hoist
the championship trophy—in an evening where the city
was blanketed in 36cm of snow.
While reports that Mother Nature wears black and
red are purely speculative at this point, Winnipeg ran the
eight-team holiday gauntlet to emerge as the winners of
the 40th edition of the Wesmen Classic. The home team
captured the title Dec. 30th with a convincing 91-72 taming
of the nationally-ranked (no. 9) Brandon Bobcats.
The Wesmen began the tournament two days prior
by defeating the SAIT Trojans (Alberta Community College
Conference) 81-71, and the next day, having hung on 73-70
squeaker against the Manitoba Bisons in the semifinals.
Even though the tournament is simply a series of glorified exhibition games with no importance in the Canada
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What a Classic!
Mike Pyl
January 11, 2006
West standings, Crook feels strong play in December is
sharply correlated with future success later in the year.
“When we play well in this tournament, it comes because we’ve had a good break, we’ve practiced well, we
play good basketball (in the tournament), we come out of it
playing good basketball,” said Crook who, having assumed
coaching duties at U of W in 2001, has now won the tournament twice. “That’s what we wanted to do—we wanted it to
catapult us into the second semester.”
“It’s important to play good basketball. Winning is a
bonus. It’s more about coming here and playing the way we
need to play and that’s what we did. You play good basketball, you win games.”
Crook credits his team’s improvement in the less
glamourous aspects of the game as key factors contributing to the Classic win.
“We defended pretty well all tournament long,” said
Crook. “And I thought the thing we really did well was we
really rebounded well. That was critical. We got our kids
much more active. We did a good job on the glass in all
three games.”
Wesmen point guard and the CIS’ leading scorer
Nasajpour was named the tournament’s MVP having averaged 24.3 points over the three contests, and fourth-year
post Dan Shynkaryk joined him as an all-star. Little surprise there, as those two have been carrying the squad all
season. But what has Crook excited is the improved play of
the supporting cast.
“Will Bergmann was huge (in the final),” said Crook
of the fifth year reserve post, who far exceeded his season
average of 2.9 ppg by dropping 14 points and seven rebounds off the bench in the final when starter Ivan Saric got
himself into early foul trouble. Speaking of Saric: “He’s just
getting better all the time, doing so many things. Blocking
shots, rebounding, being active.”
The Wesmen Classic also saw the emergence of
rookie guard/forward James Horaska as one of the first
players off the bench. His defining moment came with the
scored tied at 70 in the semifinal versus Manitoba. With 28
seconds left, Horaska made a key steal and converted the
layup that ultimately led to the Wesmen’s three-point win.
In the championship game, he played a key role in 16 minutes of burn.
“My confidence is building every game,” said the
rookie out of Oak Park. “With a finish like (in the semifinal)
it just boosts your confidence so much. It ups your level of
play and it came at the right time.”
Despite Horaska’s improved performance, there still
remains a fierce competition for minutes at the wing position, a healthy problem the squad has faced all year. If anything, it was exacerbated further by the return of fourthyear guard Matt Opalko during the Wesmen Classic, who
had been out since October with a combination of a thumb
and hip injuries.
“I don’t know if it’s settling itself,” said Crook of the
logjam. “Horaska was good all weekend, so we went with
James. It could have easily have been Josh (Sjoberg) or
Peter Lomuro.”
Silver Heights Routs Garden City,
Wins High School FinaL
Paced by eventual tournament MVP Kevin Oliver’s
20 points, the Silver Heights Huskies took it to Garden
City in the high school final of the Wesmen Classic, defeating them soundly 74-52. The Huskies relied on quick
ball movement and an inside-outside game with 6-foot7 centre Riley Draward to overwhelm the guard-oriented
Fighting Gophers.
“We had to work them hard on defence,” said
Draward, who was named to the tournament all-star team,
“and try to make them turnover the ball and get stops, as
well as lots of passes on offence to break them down.”
“We needed to play together and we ended up
doing it.”
The 2006 Uniter Sports Awards
Continuing with this tradition, Uniter Sports would like
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James Horaska (right) assumed a key role
in the Wesmen’s championship.
Recipient: Winnipeg Blue Bombers SB Milt Stegall
After falling to repetitive injury during the regular
season, our main-man-Milt of the (almost) renowned Winnipeg
to honour our lasting memories of 2006. And I’m not
is in any GM’s job description. Needing a lackey to help oper-
the Nuggets was thrown to the ground while going up for a dunk
Blue Bombers (almost) completed his career. Once again,
talking the obvious contenders—no room for Steve Nash, the
ate his team his way, Wang promoted his BACKUP GOALTENDER
as Denver was routing the Knicks. Melo’s actions garnered a 15
number 85 (almost) helped the struggling offense of the Prairie
Edmonton Oilers, and the Italian national soccer team here.
Garth Snow into the position. When asked about this move,
game suspension which means a $640,096.50 loss in salary to
club (almost) make it into the Eastern final which (almost) led
Instead, we heap accolades on what really makes professional
Wang responded that Snow “really impressed me with his pas-
Anthony, who will return to the court on Jan. 20 at Houston. The
to the Grey Cup at home and (almost) got Stegall a prize that
sports fun—the controversial, the bizarre, and the obscene.
sion and his knowledge” about the GM position. Not surpris-
entire brawl was deserving of a Best Fight Award, but was over-
he fancies, a Grey Cup ring. Along with this (almost) amazing
ingly, this prompted the resignation of former Islander great
shadowed by the amazingly cowardly acts of Carmelo Anthony
accomplishment, Milt (almost) finished his career in the CFL
Award: Most Obnoxious Media Whore
Pat LaFontaine, realizing he wanted no part in this sideshow.
and his right hand. But who can blame him for his actions, as
by (almost) breaking the record as the all-time leading touch-
Presented by: Mike Pyl
And with good reason. Before the season started, the Wang-
Melo was only standing up for his teammate? The only thing the
down receiver in the history of the league. Not bad consider-
Recipient: Indianapolis Colts’ QB Peyton Manning
led “management group” (including the aforementioned Mike
Knicks players needed to be upset about was their poor play in
ing the team (almost) had a coaching staff meltdown along
Milbury) inked goaltender Rick DiPietro, he of 143 career games
that game. But that is a completely different story—there’s no
with (almost) losing their quarterback, Kevin Glenn, late in the
Most blame the Colts’ second half struggles to an NFL-
and a sub .500 record, to a 15 year, $65 million dollar guaran-
denying Anthony’s deserved props.
season as well. Runner-up: the Canadian men’s Olympic hockey
worst run defence. Sure, it’s been atrocious. But it’s not like
teed contract, giving teammate Alexei Yashin’s ten year deal
this is new in Indy—last season aside— they’ve always been
from some company in the loony bin. Stay tuned for the latest
Award:
brutal. However, in the past, their offence has always been good
in the train wreck that is the New York Islanders. You won’t be
Petition Based in Upstate New York
enough to overcome it. But in the past, Peyton Manning ded-
able to turn away.
Presented by: Daniel Falloon
Award: The Courtney Brown Award for Most
Recipient: FixTheLogo.com
Puzzling Draft Selection of a Defensive End
Honourable Mention: VoteForRory.com
Presented by: Mike Pyl
icated himself to being an elite QB, not whoring himself out
team, for (almost) making it to a medal round in the Torino
Best
Hockey-Related
Internet
Winter Games.
to the first (and second, and third, and fourth…) company to
Award: The Todd Bertuzzi Memorial Award
come calling looking for an endorsement. This season, it was
for Most Outstanding Sucker Punch
rare to go more than one commercial break without seeing the
Presented by: Brad Pennington
“six-five, 230 pound quarterback, laser, rocket arm” shoving cell
Recipient: Denver Nuggets forward
Sabres logo was leaked, has garnered over 31,000 signa-
For those who are scratching their heads wondering who
phone plans down the viewers’ throat: Sprint, DirecTV, Gatorade,
Carmelo Anthony
tures in an attempt to convince the Sabres to wear, well,
the heck is Courtney Brown: EXACTLY. Brown was the number
anything not bearing the logo. For good reason, too. While
one overall pick in the 2000 NFL Draft, having been selected
Recipient: Houston Texans rookie Mario Williams
The petition, started in the summer after the new Buffalo
ESPN, MasterCard, Reebok—sorry Peyton, commercials are no
award
the actual jerseys themselves are stylish and attractive,
over Jamal Lewis, Brian Urlacher, Deltha O’Neal, and Tom Brady.
for Most Outstanding
the logo in the centre of it has been compared to
His career first with the Cleveland Browns, and now with the
Award: Most Inept Management
Sucker Punch of
numerous unflattering things which, according to the
Denver Broncos, is befitting of a true draft bust—underwhelm-
Presented by: Nick Weigeldt
2006 goes to none
petition,
slug.
ing statistics, plaguing injuries, and a tendency to seemingly
Recipient: New York Islanders
other than Carmelo
Sluggish can hardly describe the play of the Sabres,
disappear on the field. Mario Williams appears destined for a
Honourable Mention: New York Knicks’ GM
Anthony
the
however, as the team has come out flying, having reg-
similar fate. Having passed on Reggie Bush, Vince Young, and
Isiah Thomas
Denver Nuggets for
istered a league-leading 63 points as of January 7. An
Matt Leinart among others in one of the more talented draft
his “brave” punch
honourable
VoteForRory.com
classes in recent years, the Texans, who don’t forget finished
Anyone in upper management who steadfastly stuck by
and run on Mardy
campaign, which is currently attempting to secure
6-10 this season, saw the player they hoped would be the next
Mike Milbury as their NHL general manager should have their
Collins of the New
Vancouver Canucks’ seventh defenseman Rory Fitzpatrick a
Reggie White put up an uninspiring 4.5 sacks. Making matters
head checked anyways, but the craziness on Long Island with
York Knicks. This
starting spot in this month’s All-Star Game in Dallas.
worse, Texan fans will be reminded of this boneheaded pick
the Islanders really began when Milbury was promoted within
came following a
the organization. Bring in a Stanley Cup-winning GM, only to fire
melee that ensued
Award: (Almost) Man/Woman/Team of 2006
Titans, who figure to keep Houston locked in the AFC South
after J.R. Smith of
Presented by: Josh Boulding
basement for the foreseeable future.
him forty days later for, ostensibly, making hockey decisions, as
SI.COM
substitute for your lack of playoff success.
Needless to say, Anthony was thrilled
to accept his Uniter Sports Award.
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twice a year over the next 10 when they play Young’s Tennessee
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Wesmen break out offensively in victory over Bisons
Stars Shynkaryk and Nasajpour step up after last-second
Daniel Falloon
The proposed pipeline, such as the one inset,
figures to offer little to Minerul’s on-field
performance.
Romanian Keeper Offered
for Gas Pipeline
A second division Romanian soccer
team has offered one of its players for the betterment of its town’s economic development.
Cornel Rasmerita, president of the Minerul
soccer club and mayor of the city of Lupeni,
has offered to sell his star goalkeeper,
Cristian Belgradean, to the first division
club Jiul, provided the club’s owner pays for
the construction of a gas pipeline in Lupeni.
“I know our keeper is wanted by a number
of top clubs, but I am willing to let him
go to Jiul if the club’s owner makes an
investment in a gas pipe that my town
needs so much,” said Belgradean.
Jiul had yet to respond, but the exchange
of players for goods is not without precedent in Romania. Previous transactions
include the swapping of players for half a
pig, two sets of goalposts, and a crate of
wine (TheStarPhoenix.com).
When a Doped-Up Slugger
Hits a Juiced Ball…
The 1998 McGwire-Sosa home run
chase has already been tainted by alleged steroid use. Now, the MLB-issued
Rawlings baseballs are under fire.
Universal Medical Systems Inc., a computer imaging company, is charging that the baseballs used during the
‘98 season had a larger rubberized core
and a synthetic rubber ring, including
Mark McGwire’s record-setting 70th. The
study tested 35 baseballs from that year.
“Examining the CT images of Mark
McGwire’s 70th home run ball one can
clearly see the synthetic ring around
the core — or ‘pill’ — of the baseball,”
said UMS president David Zavagno.
“While Mark McGwire may or may not
have used illegal steroids, the evidence
shows his ball — under the governing body of the league — was juiced.”
“The synthetic rubber ring of the modernday baseball, in this case that of Mark
McGwire’s prized 70th home run ball,
acts as both a spring and a ‘stop’. Much
like a sling shot pulled back 10 or 20
degrees farther than normal, the subsequent restitution or rebound allows
an object to fly faster and farther.”
Bob DuPuy, MLB’s chief operating officer,
dismisses the charges, saying the core of
the ball has remained unchanged since
Rawlings became the official supplier in 1977.
“All of our balls are subject to rigorous quality control standards and testing conducted by Rawlings,” DuPuy
said. “No changes have been made
to the core of the ball through the
entire time they have manufactured it.”
This year marks the first time Mark
McGwire has been placed on the Hall of
Fame ballot, with results soon to be announced (ESPN.com).
Wesmen To Add Former
High School Standout
The
2004
AAAA
Provincial
Championship MVP, Cam Hornby, has
committed to the Wesmen men’s basketball
team. We are very excited to have Cam join
the Wesmen. He is a hard nosed, skilled
athlete who will raise our level of play in the
years to come,” said head coach Dave Crook.
In his final season at Glenlawn Collegiate,
the 6-foot guard averaged 27 points,
10 assists, and four steals. The year
prior, he had led the Lions to the provincial championship in being named MVP.
Following his high school career, Hornby
redshirted for the South Dakota State
Jackrabbits as a freshman. He will suit
up for the team starting Nov. 27, 2007, in
accordance with CIS rules that mandate
transferring players are ineligible for one
calendar year (Wesmen.ca).
The Winnipeg Wesmen are a consistent team this
year —if only in their inconsistencies.
Fortunately, in Saturday night’s 75-56 win over
the Manitoba Bisons, the Wesmen attack was a whirling
dervish in the second half, scoring 46 points, following
an anemic offensive showing in the first half, where the
Wesmen fell behind by as many as ten points, as well as
a late-game offensive collapse in Thursday’s 75-74 lastsecond loss to the same Bisons.
“I thought that defensively, we’d been really strong,”
said head coach Dave Crook. “The problem wasn’t defensively. I thought we guarded well. They were on pace for sixty
points, but we were on pace for fifty or sixty ourselves,
and that’s not enough to win a game. So at halftime, we
talked about all offensive stuff.”
“We talked about how we needed to stretch the
floor. We talked about sharing the ball. We talked about
how when we were going inside, we were getting really
good results out of it. We were getting some inside-outside touches, and we had to continue to do that, and it paid
off,” added Crook.
Dan Shynkaryk led the Wesmen in the early
going, scoring the team’s first ten points, en route
to leading all scorers with 26 points, in addition to
seven rebounds. Erfan Nasajpour and Matt Opalko took
over for Shynkaryk in the second half, with Nasajpour
having laid in 14 points to go with nine each of as-
sists and rebounds, while Opalko hit 16 points on a sizzling six of seven shooting. Myron Dean and Darcy
Coss each scored 12 for the Bisons, while Sean Landry
and Isaac Ansah chipped in 11 and 10, respectively.
When a player is hot, like Shynkaryk, Nasajpour and
Opalko all were at various points in the game, Crook
himself does not necessarily slant the offense to that
particular player.
“We leave the decision-making in Erfan’s hands.
He’s just making the smart decisions, they’re sharing the
ball, and they’re doing good things.”
“Erfan, statistically, didn’t have his best game,
but he played very, very well, did lots of good things,
made some big steals, made some good passes, and
then when we needed him, bang, bang, he hit two threes
that were the knife in the heart. Those were big, big
shots. That’s what he is; he’s a big time player.”
The shots Crook referred to occurred halfway through
the second half, giving the Wesmen leads of 52-43 and
57-43, respectively, and effectively burying the Bisons.
As displayed by the statistics, Opalko burst
out in his second regular season game back
from injury.
“We’re 7-1 when he’s in the lineup. He’s
a difference-maker. We need him on the floor he does so many good things for us,” said Crook.
The Wesmen began Saturday night’s match sluggishly, spotting the Bisons a 27-17 lead. However, the
Manitobans proceeded to fall harder than their balancechallenged forward Myron Dean tripping over the foul
line. The Wesmen proceeded to quickly tie the game at
27, and were only down 31-29 at the break, at which
point both coaching staffs likely considered scouting
the “Shoot for Pepsi” line for some offensive talent.
Whether or not the Wesmen were motivated by
revenge for Thursday’s loss, Pepsi, or maybe both,
in the second half, they displayed the true potential of their attack, and evoked one of their finest offensive performances this year, all the while holding the Bisons to a measly 25 second-half points.
The second half flew almost as quickly as the Wesmen, even
for Crook, as displayed when Nasajpour was still on the
court with the Wesmen well ahead with time winding down.
“Sometimes you look at the clock and it’s twelve [minutes
to go], and then you look back and it’s four. I had no idea
Erfan had been out there that long. As soon as I saw it, and
the game was over, they got their kids out, we got our kids
out, and that was it.”
In contrast to the Wesmen’s comeback Saturday,
Thursday night’s loss displayed some later-game heroics on
the part of the Bisons. The Wesmen wasted a twelve-point
halftime lead, letting the Bisons back in the game, leading
to Isaac Ansah’s winning foul shot in the waning seconds.
Shynkaryk led all Wesmen with 19 points, while Nasajpour
and Saric hit 17 apiece. Ansah paced the Bisons with 23,
aided by Brian Crowe’s 21 and Coss’ 18. The win
strengthened the push for the playoffs, both in regaining
the advantage over the Bisons, now 4-8, that had been
lost, while also gaining a share of second spot in the
Great Plains Division with the Cougars with a 5-7 record.
The Brandon Bobcats, meanwhile, sit comfortably in first
with a 10-2 record.
The One That (Almost) Got Away
First Game of Duckworth Challenge a Treat
Scott Christiansen
Volunteer Staff
“What a game!”
These were the first words uttered from the mouth of
the Wesmen women’s basketball coach Tanya McKay following Thursday night’s victory against the Manitoba Bisons.
Surely the coach’s wonder was shared by all those who witnessed the nail-biter at the University of Manitoba, which
saw the Wesmen squeak out an 83-81 overtime win. This was
the first game of the 16th annual Duckworth Challenge, the
popular home-and-home series between the Wesmen and
Bison basketball and volleyball teams.
The game started slowly for the Wesmen, with much
of the offensive load being carried by third year guard Jenny
Ezirim. Her eight first quarter points kept the game close.
Ezirim finished with 27 points and was named player of the
game.
“She just stepped it up. She played really calm and
under control,” gushed teammate Uzo Asagwara of Ezirim.
“She’s our leader on the floor and she did her job”.
A 9-0 Winnipeg run to start the second quarter shot
the Wesmen to a 28-21 lead. A cold Bison offense, scoring
only 12 points in the second quarter, gave Winnipeg several
opportunities to pull away, but could only manage a seven
point lead at halftime. Wesmen coach McKay felt they were
acting, “hesitant, still coming off Christmas, and still discovering as a team” as reasons why they couldn’t bury their
struggling opponents.
The Wesmen lead quickly evaporated at the beginning
of the second half, with the Bisons tying the game at 44 after
only four minutes of play. It was then that Uzo Asagwara
came to life after a sluggish start. Her three pointer at 2:30
left in the third quarter catapulted the Wesmen to a 54-48
lead. She finished with 25 points for the
game along with seven rebounds.
The teams then exchanged small
spurts of momentum, with the result
being a consistently slim Winnipeg
lead. However, with only minutes remaining in the game, Bison guard
Michele Hynes hit two key threes to
give the U of M a 72-67 lead. But with
some clutch shooting from Jenny Ezirim
among others, the Wesmen fought back
to force overtime, avoiding what would
have been a devastating loss.
In the extra frame, it was
Wesmen Stephanie Timmersman and
Nicki Schutz who took control of the
PHOTO: NATASHA PETERSON
game, scoring four and five points respectively. Timmersman was also responsible for several key rebounds.
1700 fans, yielded an even more promising result for the
One of these led to the final basket of the game which was
Wesmen. A masterful 34 point performance by star guard
Schutz lay-up with six seconds remaining. Timmersman’s
Uzo Asagwara propelled Winnipeg to a relatively easy vicexceptional overtime play, after a previously quiet perfortory over the Bisons. The 82-64 win bumps their record to
mance, turned out to be the difference.
8-4, while the rival Bisons slip to 6-6. The Wesmen continue
“She got boards, she was playing defense and she
their run for the playoffs by heading west for games against
stepped up when she should have,” remarked McKay of
Saskatchewan and Alberta.
the fourth year guard. “She did the right things at the right
time”.
This game was a stepping stone
for the Wesmen women. Getting a win
after some mid-game turmoil will
surely help the young team as they
move forward through the second half
of the season.
The second game of the
Duckworth Challenge, held Saturday at
the University of Winnipeg in front of
PHOTO: NATASHA PETERSON
Pekerinsaat.com
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Sports Editor: Mike Pyl
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Fax: 783-7080
Every week hundreds of thousands of
fans spend hours scrutinizing the week’s
THE PANELISTS
Dustin Addison-Schneider is the starting setter for the Wesmen men’s volleyball team.
most pivotal matchups. They scour websites, watch the sports networks’ tickers
Mike Pyl is The Uniter's Sports Editor and founder of the paper’s NFL Picks.
at the bottom of the screen, dial pricey 1-
Kalen Qually is a regular contributor to Uniter Sports, and NFL Picks defending champion.
900 numbers, all in search of the particu-
Dan Verville is a columnist with Red River’s Projector, as well as a regular voice
on the Call-Ups, which can be heard Wednesdays at 7pm on 92.9 Kick FM.
lar insight that will guarantee them a big
payday. Well, look no further.
Nick Weigeldt is The Uniter’s very own Listings Coordinator.
Each week we preview five of the
If NFL football is your Sunday religion,
team of analysts will show you the way.
(As to which way is anybody’s
guess.)
Game #2: Philadelphia
@ New Orleans
“The New Orleans Saints have been nothing
short of amazing all season. Underrated from the
beginning, the Saints have overcome all odds to
clinch a first round bye in the playoffs. Although
the surging Eagles have been on a roll down the
stretch, injuries in their secondary will allow the
offensive firepower of the Saints to dominate this
game. This won’t be much of a match even though
it would be nice to see a former CFL player, and
underdog, Jeff Garcia take his team to the Super
Bowl.” – Dustin Addison-Schneider
Addison-Schneider says: New Orleans
Asselin says: Philadelphia
Pyl says: New Orleans
Qually says: Philadelphia
Verville says: Philadelphia
Weigeldt says: Philadelphia
Game #1: Indianapolis @ Baltimore
Game #3: Seattle @ Chicago
“So Manning and Co. easily dispatched
Kansas City at home in the AFC South wildcard.
Big deal. I know their usually uninspired run defence actually shut down Larry Johnson and
didn’t allow a first down in the entire first half, but
remember, it’s the Chiefs. It wasn’t the Baltimore
Ravens who are currently riding a four game win
streak into the divisional playoffs. While it appears
that this match up is offense versus defense, it’s
actually not. The Ravens have a potent offense
themselves. With Steve McNair at the helm, who
seems to be reliving his glory days with the Titans,
it will be the battle of the passing game as he’ll
go head to head with Manning. Will the running
game even matter? Maybe. I give the edge to Indy
in that regard with their Addai/Rhodes combo but
it won’t be enough. Watch Indy’s playoff woes
continue in 2007 when they play in Baltimore.” –
Dan Verville
“The Rex Grossman situation has played out
a dozen times throughout the season, with everyone but coach Lovie Smith questioning Rex’s abilities. On several occasions Grossman went into a
game with his ‘job on the line’ but, guess what?
He’s still the starting quarterback. I don’t foresee
Grossman feeling the effects of any added pressure, merely the pressure of starting a playoff
game. And with that I honestly see the Bears’ defense keeping the Seahawks offense in check the
whole game. The Bears need only to stick with the
winning formula of smart passing and running the
football as the Seahawks defense is inferior and
their secondary banged up.” – Kalen Qually
Addison-Schneider says: Indianapolis
Asselin says: Indianapolis
Pyl says: Baltimore
Qually says: Baltimore
Verville says: Baltimore
Weigeldt says: Baltimore
Addison-Schneider says: Chicago
Asselin says: Chicago
Pyl says: Chicago
Qually says: Chicago
Verville says: Chicago
Weigeldt says: Chicago
2006 Uniter NFL Picks Playoff Bracket
We igeldt (4)
A-Sch ndr (5 )
Game #4: New England @ San Diego
“In games that I don’t have much of a
vested interest in, my allegiances tend to lean
towards the side of the underdog, mostly
for the sheer drama of it. However, in New
England vs. San Diego, is it possible to
really call the Patriots an underdog team? I
don’t think a team that’s won 10 playoff
games and three Super Bowls in the previous
four playoffs can be realistically considered an underdog, in which case both my head and my heart
are leaning towards the Chargers. Not only do
they have their vaunted offense with the ultimate
weapon in LaDainian Tomlinson (and seeing his
record-breaking season continue would be drama
enough), but an underrated but effective defense
led by second-year quarterback-killer Shawne
Merriman and his league-leading 17 sacks this
year, plus an air about them to get the job done.
Tom Brady, Asante Samuel and the rest of the
Patriots will meet and lose to the next mini-AFC
dynasty on January 14.” – Nick Weigeldt
Addison-Schneider says: New England
Asselin says: San Diego
Pyl says: New England
Qually says: San Diego
Verville says: New England
Weigeldt says: San Diego
Pyl (2)
MTS Wesmen Classic
Thursday, December 28
SAIT 71
Wesmen 81
Friday, December 29
Wesmen 73 Manitoba 70
Saturday, December 30
Brandon 72
Wesmen 91
Thursday, January 4
Manitoba 75 Wesmen 74
Saturday, January 6
Women’s Basketball
(8-4, 1st in Great Plains,
unranked)
Memorial University Tour
Thursday, December 28 Memorial 70
Wesmen 60
Friday, December 29
Wesmen 69 Memorial 67
Saturday, December 30 Memorial 71
Wesmen 64
Thursday, January 4
Saturday, January 6
Women’s Volleyball
(1-10, 11th in Canada West,
unranked)
University of Toronto Invitational Tournament
Friday, January 5
Wesmen 3
York 1
(14-25, 25-22, 25-21, 25-22)
Wesmen 3
(25-20, 25-19, 25-8)
Waterloo 0
Saturday, January 6
Montreal 3
Wesmen 0
(25-21, 25-19, 29-27)
Toronto 3
(25-16, 25-20, 25-23)
PLAYOFF MATCHUP #1
Wesmen 0
Sunday, January 7, 2007
Wesmen 3
(25-22, 25-22, 25-17)
York 0
(Margin of victory in parentheses):
** Wesmen capture bronze medal
Weigeldt: Baltimore (7), Philadelphia
(3), Chicago (10), San Diego (14)
A-Schneider: Indianapolis (10), New
Orleans (14), Chicago (7), New England (3)
Men’s Volleyball (4-3, 7th
in Canada West, no. 4 CIS
Coaches’ Poll)
PLAYOFF MATCHUP #2
Verville: Baltimore (9), Phildelphia
(3), Chicago (7), New England (3)
Qually: Baltimore (3), Philadelphia
(7), Chicago (6), San Diego (10)
PLAYOFF RULES
Asselin (1)
Men’s Basketball
(5-7, 2nd in Great Plains,
unranked)
** Wesmen capture championship
league’s juiciest matchups of the week.
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The Score
Thomas Asselin is co-host of the University of Winnipeg’s only sports radio talk show, the
Ultra Mega Sports Show, broadcasting every Monday at 4:30 p.m. on CKUW 95.9 FM.
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January 11, 2006
SPORTS
NFL Picks
Verville ( 3)
The Uniter
1. Winners will be determined based on record.
2. Margins of victory to be used as a tiebreaker.
COMING UP
WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL
Home – Thompson Rivers – Jan. 12 (6:00) &
13 (7:30)
MEN’S VOLLEYBALL
Home – Thompson Rivers – Jan. 12 (7:30) &
13 (6:00)
MEN’S BASKETBALL
Away – Alberta – Jan. 12
Away – Saskatchewan – Jan. 13
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Away – Alberta (no. 4) – Jan. 12
Away – Saskatchewan (no. 5) – Jan. 13
January 11, 2006
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