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Referendum fate will
be decided on Friday
DANIEL BITONTI
A judge will decide by week’s
end whether a referendum on
continued membership in the
Canadian Federation of Students
(CFS) will take place on the
University of Guelph campus
April 7-9.
On Tuesday, the national and
provincial components of the
Federation appeared before a judge
of the Ontario Superior Court of
Justice to address accusations that
they both had acted in self-interest
and bad faith when they denied
Guelph student petitions seeking
a referendum.
Because CFS and CFSOntario (CFS-O) are separate
organizations, Guelph student
organizers had sent petitions to
each organization in September
and October of 2009. Both
components have their own set of
concerns regarding the petitions
that were submitted.
CFS-O outright denied the
petitions back in February. The
referendum process with the
national petition had come to a
complete standstill in the past
three months.
Lawyers representing the CSA
argued on Tuesday that it was a
right of students to be able to vote
on their national representation.
“Membership is the only
opportunity in [the CFS] bylaws
where students have individual
opportunity to effect change,” said
Sandra Barton, one of the lawyers
representing the CSA.
CFS and CFS-O’s argument
against holding the referendum
is that the original petitions were
not completed properly in the first
place. The CFS-O also argued that
the petition sent to them was not
submitted on time.
Lawyers for the CFS argued
that the right to determine the
process used to verify the names
on the petition lies solely with the
national executive. Their primary
complaint is that they were not
made part of this process and were
asked to accept a verification of
the names, which was provided
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China censors, Google
bails
Internet giant Google has
decided to redirect Google China’s
visitors from google.com.cn to
google.com.hk, the Hong Kong
version of the site. The move
follows a wave of hacking attempts
directed at Google in January from
unknown individuals within China.
Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, all
owned by Google, are unavailable
in China, but Gmail, Google Maps,
and a few other Google services
will still be provided to Chinese
consumers. Google claims that
China interferes with the workings
of the search engine, something
that has been going on since
Google China was established in
2006, and China is inconsistent
with the company’s value of free
speech. The next step will likely be
a total blockade of google.com.hk
by the Chinese government. (CBC
News)
“Mommy
Bloggers”
gain cash, community
Rashaad Bhamjee
On March 24, in the University Centre courtyard, students wrote what
community meant to them on hand cutouts. The event was as part of
Hunger Awareness week.
Students get a look at homelessness
‘5 Days’ participants
come up short in
donations, but not in
heart
JOSH DOYLE
If you noticed a sudden influx
of homeless people on campus last
week, you’re not the only one. From
March 15-19, four University of
Guelph students participated in a
campaign to raise awareness and
money to benefit the homeless.
The catch? They had to be
homeless themselves for five days:
sleeping outside, never leaving the
campus and eating only donated
food.
“Going into this campaign, I
knew that by Friday at 5pm my life
would be back to the way it was,”
said Ally Rogin, a University of
Guelph student who participated
in the 5 Days for the Homeless
campaign. “I knew if I got sick or
needed to go home because things
got too tough, I had that option.
Not all of us are that fortunate.”
The event kicked off last Sunday
with the understanding that all
participants would sleep outdoors
on campus, have no access to
technology, and eat only what they
were given by the generous. Luckily
for them, people here like to help.
“There was an overwhelming
amount of support from the
community. It was great to see how
many people were appreciative
about what we’re doing and
encouraging us to continue,” said
Rogin.
The participants were also
fortunate to have nice weather
during their five days being
homeless, which Rogin and her
fellow participants report was the
easiest of their many challenges.
“Last year’s campaign [had] the
participants sleeping in minus 15
degrees. Although the nights were
cold, we were more prone to heat
stroke than hypothermia this year,”
explained Rogin.
The warm weather may have
If people are
reluctant to donate,
it may be that
they cannot see the
impact that their
donations have…
We hope to have
opened people’s eyes
to the problems
experienced by
homeless youth.
Ally Rogin
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Thanks to the Internet and
social media, a few successful
“Mommy bloggers,” as they are
affectionately known, now make
six figures based on product
endorsements,
brand-based
contests and advertising each
year. Although most mothers that
blog share daily life experiences
online simply to connect with
other mothers and deal with the
sometimes-isolating process of
child rearing, a small group have
turned their online ventures into
something highly profitable and
culturally significant. A recent
five-city tour of a conference
entitled “Bloggy Boot Camp”
has served to promote the trend
among young professional women.
(New York Times)
String of suicides spurs
efforts
to
promote
mental
health
at
Cornell University
Rashaad Bhamjee
U of G student and participant
in 5 Days for the Homeless
Four U of G students were homeless for five days on the U of G campus
to raise awareness. They were not allowed to leave the campus, they
had to sleep outside, and they could only eat donated food.
been easier to deal with than
snow, but don’t think this year’s
participants had an easy time with
their sacrifice.
“The hardest part of the
experience was being dependent
on others. We take for granted the
amount of freedom we have to
make our own rules,” said Rogin.
The event was started by
business students at the University
of Alberta in 2005 in order to
help ease the burden faced by
homeless people. It has since
received international attention and
involvement. So far this year, $173,
144 has been raised through the
event; $3,532 of which was raised
in Guelph. This, however, is far less
than Guelph participants wished to
contribute, amounting to only 47
per cent of the $7,500 goal.
According to Rogin, the
participants hoped for better.
“If people are reluctant to
donate, it may be that they cannot
see the impact that their donations
have,” she said. “We hope to
have opened people’s eyes to the
problems experienced by homeless
youth.”
Even in this day and age, a
common question still posed about
the homeless is, “Why don’t they get
a job?” The assumption, of course, is
that getting a job is quite easy.
A quick look at today’s
employment climate tells us that
getting a job is actually far from
easy, and without access to a shower
or a safe place to sleep at night, it
becomes nearly impossible.
“If this campaign increased
awareness and provided hope and
refuge for some of these young
people, I think we did an amazing
thing,” Rogin said.
A second-year student at
the highly competitive Cornell
University in Ithaca, New York
took his life by jumping from a
bridge near campus on March
11. The next day, another student
followed suit. These deaths
brought the number of suicides
in the past month at Cornell to
three and the total this academic
year to six, causing the university’s
mental health services director
to declare a public health
emergency. Cornell’s president,
David Skorton, has garnered wide
praise for his efforts to train all
university employees, including
janitors, residence assistants,
and administrators to recognize
symptoms of depression. He has
also placed daily full-page ads in
the campus newspaper that read,
“If you learn anything at Cornell,
please learn to ask for help. It is a
sign of wisdom and strength.” The
message seems to be hitting home:
it has been written by students all
over campus in chalk, including
on the bridge where some of the
deaths occurred. (CNN)
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Earth hour approaches, but does it matter?
A look at how one
hour affects energy
use broadly
ALDIS BRENNAN
On Saturday March 27 at
precisely 8:30 pm Eastern Standard
Time, hundreds of millions of people
around the world will be turning off
their lights and appliances for Earth
Hour. The event was conceptualized
by the World Wildlife Fund and
began in 2007 when Sydney,
Australia shut off many of its nonessential lights. In the following
years, more than half the countries
around world signed on to the
initiative, accompanying Sydney by
dimming their lights as well.
The purpose of the international
event is somewhat divided, with
some people arguing it is about
reducing the amount of energy
used, while others use the hour to
promote the larger concern of global
warming in its entirety. Emily Pong,
a member of Guelph Students for
Environmental Change (GSEC),
does not believe that these two goals
are mutually exclusive. She defines
the purpose of Earth Hour as having
both immediate and future aims.
“Earth Hour is a global event
aimed at increasing awareness and
consciousness in energy use,” said
Pong. “Participants are asked to
turn off their lights and unplug their
energy-using appliances, for an hour
on March 27. The long-term goals
are for people to reduce their overall
energy consumption.”
While Pong supports Earth
Hour and believes it to be a
worthwhile cause, she is skeptical
about its actual effectiveness.
“I think it is effective in reaching
a very large audience and engaging
those who don’t care [or] are
oblivious to their environmental
impact,” she said. “I think the
event may be somewhat effective
It’s Earth Hour, it’s like
be environmental for
an hour and then go
drive your Hummer.
If they’re going to put
all this effort into a
campaign then why
not make it a campaign
that offers practical
advice for saving
energy.
Nate Goegan
U of G student
in increasing awareness about and
action against energy consumption,
however without a constant or more
regular reminder of the issue, most
people probably don’t change their
habits until Earth Hour happens
again the following year.”
This view represents a common
Julia Shonfield
On March 27 at 8:30pm, U of G students will be turning off all electrical appliances and lights to raise
awareness about energy usage and its effect on the environment.
criticism of Earth Hour: it does not
go far enough. The argument is that
spending an hour in the dark does
not excuse someone for consuming
excessive amounts of energy for
the rest of the 8764 hours of the
year. Nate Goegan, a student at the
University of Guelph, is one of these
critics.
“It’s Earth Hour, it’s like be
environmental for an hour and then
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go drive your Hummer. If they’re
going to put all this effort into a
campaign, then why not make it a
campaign that offers practical advice
for saving energy,” he said.
As an organization, GSEC
supports the idea of a more
widespread and longer-lasting
initiative
combating
wasteful
energy use and is working actively
to attempt to reduce the amount of
superfluous energy used on campus.
“GSEC wants to encourage
everyone to reduce their energy
consumption year-round,”said Pong.
“We recognize that one night is not
enough to make a lasting impact,
so we’ve talked about organizing
more regular Earth Hour events
and speaking with different building
managers on campus to reduce their
lighting use, especially during the
day.”
Despite the brevity of Earth
Hour, GSEC is still supporting and
promoting the event all over campus
this week. This includes various
visual reminders such as posters and
also Earth Hour kits which contain
candles as well as activities that can
be done in the dark. According
to Gillian Maurice, the U of G
sustainability
coordinator, the
university will also be participating
“The residence cafeterias will
be dimming their lights, and all
staff and faculty will be receiving a
reminder e-mail on the Thursday
and Friday to make sure all their
controllable area lights are turned
off for the weekend,” said Maurice.
The most poignant feature
about Earth Hour, however, is not
the involvement of universities,
corporations, or skyscrapers; it is
rather the assurance that close to one
billion ordinary individuals around
the world can make a difference.
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CSA and CFS court
hearing
Hunger on the U of G campus
Meal exchange and
the CSA Food Bank
raise awareness about
hunger in Guelph
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by Guelph University, after
signatures had bee collected and
sent to them.
“The fact that we have been
shut out of the verification process
and are now being told that we
have to accept the verification
process without our input is, in
fact, bad faith on the part of the
applicants,” said Gordon Douglas,
a lawyer for the CFS.
According to the CSA,
the process undertaken by the
university had been accepted by
the CFS at other universities.
Lawyers for the CSA argued that
it was in bad faith to require new
verification criteria on the petition,
especially criteria that had not been
outlined in CFS bylaws. The CSA
lawyers argued that hiding the
criteria made it nearly impossible
for any petition organizer to meet
them.
NICOLE ELSASSER
From March 22 to 28 on the
University of Guelph campus,
Meal Exchange is partnering with
the Central Student Association
(CSA) Food bank for Hunger
Awareness Week. Hoping to spread
understanding about poverty and
hunger issues on campus and in the
wider community, the weeklong
campaign features a diversity of
events, each addressing a different
hunger issue.
Asking your friends to
buy food is not a very
socially acceptable
thing to do, so hunger
is usually something
that is under the radar.
A lot of times there’s
a stigma attached to
hunger.
With a report and files from Danielle
Webb, Ontario Bureau Chief of the
Canadian University Press
Yvonne Su
education and promotion
coordinator for Meal
Exchange
According to Yvonne Su,
the education and promotion
coordinator for Meal Exchange,
many people still don’t realize that
hunger is an issue facing students
at the University of Guelph.
“A lot of times you’ll hear about
international hunger but not about
hunger locally or in students,” said
Su. “A lot of students are running
out on their meal cards right now.
It’s kind of a way to link onto that
and make them realize that food
is precious, that not everybody has
money to buy food.”
Among the events taking place
was a screening on March 23 of
the documentary Food Inc, a film
that deals with the politics of
food production. Another muchanticipated event is “Cooking on
Rashaad Bhamjee
As part of Hunger Awareness Week, an “X’ marked one in five chairs in the University Centre cafeteria to
remind students that one in five of people in the community go hungry.
a Budget” where the manager of
the Bullring, Kristina Lindsay,
will hold a cooking workshop in
Lambton Hall residence on March
25, teaching students how to make
meals without breaking the bank.
Krista Kermer, the coordinator for
the CSA Foodbank, is particularly
excited about this event because of
her knowledge of what the average
student is working with when it
comes to kitchen appliances.
“The idea [of the workshop]
is using as little pots and pans
that we can because not everyone
can afford a crock-pot or a slow
cooker or something like that,”
said Kermer. “They use like a
basic pot or a basic pan and make
something that can be altered to
fit all different diet needs. It can
be vegan, it can be vegetarian,
and if you add some ground beef
you can make something that’s
omnivorous. But also it’s fairly
nutritious as well. She’ll be making
a stew, or more like a chili, and a
stir-fry using stuff that is readily
available and fairly cheap to use.”
Kermer explained that at the
workshop, attendees will be given
recipes for foods they can easily
and cheaply prepare, as well as the
estimated costs for the dish and
the best ways to buy ingredients.
“With [something like] spices,
it’s really easy to pick them up for
a couple of cents at the Bulk Barn.
If you’re a good shopper, you can,”
said Kermer.
Kermer advises visitors to the
Food Bank to make large batches
with simple ingredients, rather
than spending all of their money
on individual and often overpriced
microwaveable dinners.
“Sometimes I’ll have students
who come into the Foodbank and
say, ‘there’s nothing here,’ [because]
often people are very addicted to
the fast, one-minute Michelina’s
servings that you can pop in the
microwave and leave,” said Kermer.
“However there’s some points
where I see that we have lentils, we
have beans, we have rice. You could
make a chili right now…If you do
have time, like a couple of hours,
you can always freeze it later and it
can be a quick instant meal and a
lot of times something like a stew
contains quite a bit of protein and
it will keep you full more than a
small [microwave meal] will.”
If there remains skepticism
about whether hunger is a problem
in Guelph, Su points out that one
in five people in the community
deal with hunger related issues, and
because of the nature of poverty,
most people suffer silently.
“I think hunger is usually an
invisible issue. If you can’t eat lunch
or dinner, you’re not going to go
around telling your friends about
it,” said Su. “Asking your friends
to buy food is not a very socially
acceptable thing to do, so hunger
is usually something that is under
the radar. A lot of times there’s a
stigma attached to hunger.”
With files from Daniel Bitonti and
Greg Beneteau
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Why accents are so sexy?
Psychology
prof
says there’s rhyme
and reason for our
attraction to accents
DAN HOWSE
It’s happened to all of us. It
might have been a bartender
listing off drink specials. It might
have been a professor introducing
themselves to the class. It could
have simply been a stranger
apologizing for bumping into
you.
Whoever it was, wherever it
was, the result was the same—
they opened their mouth and
something unexpected came out.
Not in terms of what they said,
but how they said it—that person
had an accent. And chances are
you were drawn to it.
From the pronounced Irish
brogue of Colin Farrell to the
soft Spanish lilt of Penelope
Cruz, most of us have probably
had crushes on celebrities from
foreign countries. However, the
mystique of an accent is not
limited to aiding the already
beautiful and famous. As anyone
who has ever traveled abroad or
met foreigners visiting Canada
can tell you, accents typically
increase a person’s attractiveness.
There are many hypothetical
reasons for this increased
attractiveness: It could be the
modern day manifestation of
an evolutionary preference for
a wider gene pool. It could also
be the result of seeing gorgeous
movie stars with these accents and
then subconsciously associating
their physical beauty with their
pronunciation
and
dialect.
However, Saba Safdar, a University
of Guelph psychology professor,
feels that while these arguments
may be valid explanations for our
increased attraction, this increase
might just be a manifestation
of a more general trend—our
attraction to the exotic.
“It is wanting to be the
otherness,” Safdar explained.
“It is wanting something that is
less common in the immediate
social environment and finding
that more attractive and more
desirable.”
According to Safdar, this
preference is not limited to what
we hear.
“For the Japanese, having
wider eyes and lighter skin colour
[is considered more attractive],”
Safdar said. “For the westerners,
getting tanned is considered more
attractive.”
Of course, this attraction to the
exotic is not necessarily a naturally
occurring process. In India, for
example, there has been a history
of trying to make one whiter
to blend in
cadence of her own and dating
a British man, Safdar seems an
excellent candidate to personally
attest to the power of accents in
dating.
“Hearing that voice was very
different f rom my everyday
interactions,
so
accents, what we’re looking for
might be almost just around
the corner.
It is wanting to be
the otherness. It is
wanting something
that is less common
in the immediate
social environment
and finding that
more attractive
and more desirable.
Saba Safdar
U of G psychology professor
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dominant
class, leading Safdar to conclude,
“there might have political roots
for these preferences.”
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exotic,” she said. However,
while she cited the accent as a
point of attraction, it was only
one of many factors that drew
her towards him. Even for
those of us that have always
been intrigued by foreign
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“Personally, I think accents
are a very sexy thing,” said fifthyear political science student
Ben Janzen. “For a long time, I
imagined the dream girl. She’d have
a Spanish accent. But I’m totally
satisfied with my current girlfriend
and she doesn’t have an accent.
It’s not the be all and end all.”
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Juried Art Show
This past weekend, the Juried Art Show saw its 42nd year. As one of the longest running student art shows in Canada, JAS 2010 was a success thanks
to curators Miles Stemp, Darryn Doull and a slew of enthusiastic volunteers.
Jurors Lorna Mills, Gareth Lichty and RM Vaughan had a tough job choosing winners out of the hundreds of undergraduate student entries that took
up every nook and cranny in the Zavitz building.
The interesting part about JAS is its focus on the undergraduate student. Being student installed and operated, jurors and faculty members praised
everyone involved for taking part in something so unique and worth while.
Sharing first place at the top of the top 10 were Liam Sanagan’s Untitled and Vicki Dziuma’s Vanna White Completes 1 km 42 times.
Top 10
10 - Aislinn Thomas Eater Compatibility Portrait #1: Rod, Peggy, Aislinn, Zachary, Katie
09 - Stefan Herda Shots!
08 - Olivia Bidzinski Rainbow Waist
07 - Liam Sanagan Untitled (Space #3)
06 - Gin Murray Self-Portrait as a Knitter
05 - Ben Arbor The Kill Floor
04 - Patrick Kryzanowski Jurassic Park
03 - Alison Hendricks Pregnant Men
01 - Vicki Dziuma Vanna White Completes 1 km
42 Times
Honorable Mention
10 - Darryn Doull Untitled (CCTV Zavitz)
09 - Miles Stemp Nightlight (Wall Effects)
08 - Donna Willard Transparent Thoughts 4
07 - Aislinn Thomas Nice
06 - Anna Kovler I Hate Doull
05 - Darryn Doull Germain Gardens, Sarnia Ont.
04 - Laura Simon Monstrous Moonshine
03 - Dan Frawley Burden
02 - Anne Rawn Comma, Come On
01 - Patrick Kryzanowski Triangle
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MAR. 25 - 31, 2010
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Hooligans and whores!
Curtain Call’s Reefer
Madness hits all the
right notes
DUNCAN DAY-MYRON
For 53 years now, Curtain Call
Productions (CCP) has been the
go-to source for musical theatre
on campus. Initially performing
plays and musical numbers
about campus life, since 1993
the company has moved on to
performing full-scale Broadway
musicals during College Royal
weekend. This year the company
brought the cult documentaryturned-musical Reefer Madness to
the stage.
The musical retains some of the
cautionary themes of the original
documentary with a Lecturer,
played by the fantastic Tim Clarke,
who introduces the show as a
parable of young Jimmy Harper,
whose life was ruined by marijuana.
The story unfolds with scandal
upon scandal: from murder, to
orgies, to baby selling.
It is far from a morality play,
were tight, and, probably most
importantly, the humour was
intact.
The performance had a fairly
large cast, with half a dozen people
sharing the stage and a musical
number on a few occasions, but
each of the performers worked
well off of one another. It was
a very cohesive, well-rehearsed
performance.
Clarke— as the Lecturer, Mr.
Poppy the soda jerk, and President
Roosevelt— hit each role with
the perfect balance of sincerity,
lunacy and menace. When Clarke’s
Lecturer opened the play with
the title song, “Reefer Madness,”
he had enough enthusiasm and
presence to assuage any doubts
anyone in the audience might have
had about the production.
Chanelle Ouellet, a veteran
of last year’s production of Fame,
played the role of Mae, the
proprietor of the reefer den. Mae
is an important character but not
a major one, and in less capable
hands, could have been a mere side
note, but Ouellet belted her songs
What’s the point of doing
theatre if it’s going to be easy?
I want people to come and be
surprised that we’re doing this.
Brian Cunha
producer, Curtain Call Productions
though. The criticisms of marijuana
that the source material posited
satirized to the point of absurdity
and comedy. And that’s what
made it so great! It was certainly
a consideration for Curtain Call
during the selection process last
spring.
“We were really looking
for something new, something
different,” said director Adam
Pellerine. “A lot of the stuff that
comes up is where the student
body is and how we can relate to
them and what we can do. Reefer
Madness is something that came up
because of the political climate.”
“I think it’s important to look
at the subject matter of Reefer
Madness and what it represents.
It is a moment in time where we
can take risks and try to break
boundaries. I wanted to […] get
people thinking out of the box, and
I think that’s important,” continued
Pellerine. “We wanted to show that
musical theatre can have meaning.
It can have a message.”
“What we created was
everything that we wanted it to be,”
said Pellerine of the production.
He has every right to think
so. The company accomplished
something noteworthy. With only
two-and-a-half short months to
prepare and rehearse, the show
was one of the best of CCP’s
recent history. The satire was never
heavy-handed, the performances
to the rafters and made them count.
More than anyone else, she made
the entire thing seem effortless.
All in all, there wasn’t an off
performance in the bunch. The
two leads, Eric Da Costa as Jimmy
Harper and Gillian Henry as Mary
Lane, had enough naïveté for their
puppy love to be convincing, but
not so much that it felt at all apart
from the satire.
But a certain special kudos
has to go to the entire cast for
one special reason: the orgy. After
taking his first hit of sweet, sweet
marijuana, our Jimmy is instantly
caught up in a world of sin and
debauchery, where the ensemble as
well as some of the leads took to
the stage in their underwear.
“It’s something that I thought
was important,” said Pellerine on
the scene. “I wanted to capture the
raw sexuality that it represented.
The idea of the show is that pot
makes you this crazy sexual person,
so we wanted it to be the best
sexual experience someone could
have.”
“We had naked rehearsals and it
was a process of getting everybody
comfortable. There was definitely a
fine line and we had to make sure
that everyone was comfortable,”
Pellerine continued. “We were
communicating a lot between the
cast and the exec and we tried to
make something that was good for
everybody and everyone was happy
with.”
Performances aside, another
reason this production was so
successful could be due to a different
approach from the Curtain Call
Productions executive.
“The process this year with
Curtain Call has changed a lot […]
We’ve tried to be more professional;
we’ve tried to model ourselves with
professional theatre,” said CCP
president Brian Cunha.
“We want to expand, we want
to be bigger, more professional,”
Cunha said. “But it’s difficult
because our budget is relatively
high compared to other clubs but
compared to other theatres or
theatre companies, it’s terribly low.
This year we had a lot of funding
from the CSA, which was good.
They were very supportive this
year.”
One of the changes was putting
more advertising behind auditions,
which ended up quite successful
for the company.
“We ended up getting 130
people auditioning, which is quite
substantial for a cast of 25,” said
Cunha.
In their advertising for
auditions, CCP also made an
effort to pull from the Guelph
community, rather than just the
campus.
“This year we talked about
wanting to open it up to the
community a little bit more. We
Christine Cerullo
Top: Eric DaCosta as Jimmy Harper pulls a gun on Marc Hardwood’s
pot dealing Jack while Chanelle Ouellet watches.
Bottom: DaCosta holds his dying lover Mary Lane, portrayed by
Gillian Henry.
are interested in being a university
theatre company but we also wanted
to expand it and have different
sources,”
Cunha
continued.
“[Although] the only people that
does not go to this school are Tim
[Clarke], the lecturer, and Eric da
Costa, Jimmy Harper.”
Although his future with CCP
is as yet undecided, Cunha does
have ambitions for the future of
the company.
“Next year we’re talking about
maybe a drama or perhaps a show
that’s very well known but difficult
to produce because we want a
challenge. What’s the point of
doing theatre if it’s going to be
easy? I want people to come and be
surprised that we’re doing this.”
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Campus talent on the Mainstage
Mainstage Productions
shows RUR at the
George Luscombe
theatre
JOSH DOYLE
Inside the intimate space of
the George Luscombe theatre, a
brightly coloured stage inspired
attention. With its bright green
walls and orange corridor, it
reminded me of an early episode of
Star Trek. Large projection screens
filled the empty walls, illuminating
everything in the scene and
complimenting the shows themes.
RUR
(Rossum’s Universal
Robots) is this year’s Mainstage
Production,
adapting
Karel
Capek’s 1921 play that is noted for
introducing the term “robot.”
Company actors in beige
overalls moved mechanically
across the stage, performing all of
the menial tasks we humans do,
but as robots. Their costumes were
not robotic, and at first seemed
too modest for the science fiction
portrayal I understood this years
Mainstage to be. It became clear
soon after that these were not
robots in the traditional sense, and
that costume design was one of
the finest points of the play.
Right away, the show thrust
itself at the audience. Lead actor
Nick Nahwegahbow burst through
the corridor generating an energy
he retained throughout the night.
As the ambitious Domin, leader of
the robot production factory, his
character’s confidence formed the
backbone of the play and helped
the others along in making strange
events believable.
The play begins with Domin’s
romantic seduction of a pretty
human rights activist, Helena,
played by the talented Kaya
Bucholc, as her plans to shut down
the factory backfire, and leave her
as a permanent resident.
Much of the opening is spent
with Domin as he explains the
workings of his robot factory,
making he and Helena the only
two characters on stage after
Helena’s conservative servant
Emma exits. The audience begs
for human presence, and the
quirky management staff delivers,
providing not only comic relief but
human interaction as well. Their
unit of four scientists moves about
like an excitable gang of 60-yearold school children, all eager to
please their new guest and master’s
lover.
This all male quartette may
have been a masculine overload
in other productions, and director
Jerrard Smith’s choice to have the
majority of these male characters
played by women was a good one.
Their portrayal of old men had
them bouncing about the stage
with an energy old men rarely
show, and made their scenes the
most entertaining of the night.
The play makes a sudden move
from light-hearted humor to
sullen robot Armageddon, leaving
you wondering where things went
wrong. Fortunately, strong acting
pulls the audience through this
confusing moment of script and
we come out the other side without
much insult.
The real trouble starts when
people stop having children, as
robots “do everything” and leave
no need for human work, or
reproduction. This is where the
The audience
begs for human
presence, and
the quirky
management
staff delivers,
providing not
only comic relief
but human
interaction as
well
repercussions of paradise are felt.
The play borders on preaching
humanity, but gets off without
seeming like a lecture by showing
instead of telling. The story relays
the message, and the movement
on stage makes you forget you’re
being taught.
RUR’s dark second half
hungered for a love story, as Domin
and Helena’s distant affair lacked
romance. It tries to answer this
call in the end, by robots no less,
as the twosome’s petty bickering
and stubborn love for one another
reminds the audience that we need
argument and emotion like we
need air.
The end of RUR is perhaps
tied up too nicely, as the pair of
Adam and Eve-like-robots present
themselves more or less as human,
skipping off to repopulate the
earth. The other remaining human,
Alquist, the only scientist who did
not selfishly pursue the dream of
Jerrard Smith
Helena and the robots, from left to right: Shelby Vilneff, Kaya Bucholc, Josh Marentette, Jennifer Alterio
run through a rehearsal of RUR.
cheap labour through robot slavery,
happily accepts these two lovers as
a solution to humanity, remarking
on their biblical reference before
sending them on their way. His
performance saves the ending
from an emotional vacancy by the
robots, which speaks for the whole
play. Strong performances by
actors and stage crew alike helped
the mediocre script, making for a
production that is nonetheless well
worth seeing for its campus talent.
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Featured artist:
Maryse Larivière
Maryse Larivière’s practice can
be described in two categories:
photo-conceptual performance
and Pavilion Projects; to which
you might reply, what is a Pavilion
Project? I’ve never heard of that
medium before. It’s not a medium,
it’s something that Larivière
started in Montréal with coorganizer Robin Simpson in 2003.
With this project, the duo are arts
and culture facilitators, working
with a wide range of intellectual
facets. They have organized art
and music performances, held
exhibitions in various art spaces
and non-art spaces (convenience
stores, OddFellows restaurant or
in a defunct arcade for example)
and are publishing the Montreal
Art Map
Through Pavilion Projects,
Larivière and Simpson have been
prolific cultural producers. They
have produced exhibitions within,
not only their city of origin,
Montreal, but throughout Canada
(including Guelph’s Fine Art
Department’snewestdevelopment,
the Guelph Goodwater Project in
Toronto). Recently they have been
invited to do their thing abroad in
France.
With regards to Larivière’s
practice,
she
majored
in
photography at Concordia where
she did her BFA. Her own work
uses her keen eye for image creation
and places her photographs in the
realm of performance. With this,
she creates beautiful images that act
as reference for her performances.
Her work is also very funny; it’s a
subtle humor that is only revealed
after some visual and mental
digging.
In Framboise, a young male
stairs off into the middle ground
blankly poised in deep thought,
yet he has a raspberry jammed up
his nose and no shirt on. His bare
chest coupled with the domestic
interior and casual demeanor hints
at an intimacy between subject and
artist. These signifiers indicate
some sort of romantic connection
and casually playful, spontaneous
art creation. It’s completely absurd,
though not Monty Python absurd,
more of a Bill Murray absurd.
Larivière’s recent works have
taken the form of an ongoing series
of performances written for her by
other artists with the series titled
Pour Vous. In English, the title
means “for you all” informally but
when directed at the single person,
it caries romantic connotations.
These nuances bring a more
personal emphasis to the work
and allow the viewer to approach
it and become more familiar with
the subject. The work also takes
the form of a poster advertised well
after the event has occurred¬ – if
there is even an event at all. With
this strategy, Larivière creates hype
around something that may be
over or never actually happened, a
beautifully tongue and check mode
of disseminating information. It
also removes the emphasis on the
event and directs our attention to
the poster; something we are not
used to because posters function as
information givers.
-Miles Stemp
Top to bottom:
Framboise
M, Pour Vous, D.
Porter de Femme
Pour Vous
SHE & HIM
VOLUME TWO
Like an addict chasing that first
high, Volume Two by She & Him
tries hard to recreate the magic of
Volume One. Fortunately, unlike
most sequels, Volume Two doesn’t
fall too far behind its predecessor.
This is partially owing to the fact
that Volume One was never all that
original to begin with, so using the
same tricks for a follow up album
with the title Volume Two is only too
appropriate.
She & Him are one of the few
bands deserving of the somewhat
arbitrary categorization of “indiepop,” which is often used to refer to
“popular independent” music. In the
most snobbish sense of the terms,
they are distinct. While popular
indie music could refer to just about
anything that is not on a major label
(even then it gets fuzzy), indie-pop
is a specific genre with a number of
further specific sub-genres. Indiepop/Twee-pop/C86 emerged as a
counter-counter-culture to British
punk-rock, in the late 1970s in that
it was so overtly sweet and innocent
that it made the average teen want
to puke. At the same time it was the
perfect sarcastic rebellion.
She & Him might sound more
like country-pop than quintessential
indie-pop as it was known in the
‘80s, but they fill a similar niche for
those who are sick of angst-filled
revolt.
The couples’ music is clean,
easy listening with predictable oldfashioned song structure, and even
though She & Him cross genres,
they keep it simple. Furthermore,
Deschanel provides an alternative
feminine figure to the GaGas and
Beyonces. She’s a feminine figure
who isn’t afraid to sound vulnerable
or shy, but with a bit more maturity
than Taylor Swift. It’s an odd mix:
perfectly clichéd and yet quite
refreshing.
Her songs tend to have a “time
capsule” quality as if they were
written in any decade 40 plus years
ago. Subsequently Matt Ward is
her equal in instrumentation and
production and is looking more
Robert Downey Jr. than ever these
days. The duo is clearly not above
covering a tune they like, as there are
two covers on each volume. Volume
Two includes NRBQ’s “Ridin’ In
My Car” and an impeccable cover of
Skeeter Davis’ “Gonna Get Along
Without You Now.” It’s gravitating
to think that these covers and related
artists must have been inspiration
while writing, which may give
you the sense of where Deschanel
and Ward’s influences come from.
Seemingly, unless you happen to
be familiar with those songs, you
wouldn’t be able to tell the difference
between them and Deschanel’s own
writing. In other words, Volume
Two flows easily from front to back
with no disruption.
Deschanel and Ben Gibbard
(Death Cab For Cutie) may be the
cutest newly weds in contemporary
music, but for some reason there are
no guest appearances by Gibbard.
Perhaps they’re too modest for that
sort of “PDA” or maybe they’ve
decided to save it for the next Death
Cab album. In any case, head over to
NPR.org for a free stream of the full
album, which was kindly available
prior to release.
Notable Tracks: “Thieves”, “Me and
You”, “Home”
Listeners May Also Enjoy: Linda
Ronstadt – Simple Dreams, Camera
Obscura – My Maudlin Career
Next Sound Check: MGMT Congratulations
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Health problems from toxic skies a myth?
U of G professor
debunks air pollution
with new study
SARAH DUNSTAN
A study by University of
Guelph economics professor Ross
McKitrick has made arguments
that challenge previous research
acknowledging the negative effects
of air pollution.
McKitrick, in collaboration
with Gary Koop from the
University of Strathclyde in
Glasgow, Scotland, and Lise Tole,
from the University of Edinburgh,
analyzed air pollution rates from
11 Canadian cities over a 20-year
period.
“A lot of studies only look at
a single city, and for a very short
period of time,” said McKitrick
“A single city might only have six
months worth of data.”
This means attention to
variables, such as smoking rates,
isn’t considered, because there is so
little data to work with.
The researchers found no
evidence that air pollution affected
hospital admission rates or time
spent in hospitals. They did,
however, determine that smoking
and income levels directly affected
one’s respiratory health.
McKitrick’s study employed a
technique called Bayesian Model
Averaging to analyze the data.
“Bayesian Model Averaging
evaluates
every
possible
combination of data variables,
and assigns a weight to each one
based on how much support it gets
within the data,” said McKitrick.
“You end up with a set of results
that captures everything.”
McKitrick’s choice of model
was carefully calculated as to avoid
‘cherry-picking.’
“A lot of times, someone will
publish one set of results based
on one model, then someone else
takes the same data and runs the
analysis a bit differently and comes
up with entirely new results,” he
explained. “If there’s a particular
set of results you want to find, you
can choose to find it by choosing
the model that you’re using.”
Though such studies are largely
handled by epidemiologists, as
an environmental economist,
McKitrick looks at a variety
of policy issues, particularly
regarding energy supply. Although
McKitrick had previously spent
time assessing the social costs of
air pollution, his involvement in
the new study came about through
simple curiosity.
“I’d heard a few years ago this
claim that there were about 5,000
deaths and 17,000 hospitalizations
in Ontario each year due to air
pollution,” said McKitrick.
Due to technological advances,
such as catalytic converters on cars
and scrubbers on smokestacks, air
pollution rates are now quite low
compared to the 1960s and 70s.
McKitrick resolved to apply the
model used for the study to air
pollution during the 1960s and
1970s.
“I got a hold of the model
that was used to produce that
claim for the Ontario Medical
Association, and it turned out that
the numbers it gave back were
truly implausible,” said McKitrick,
“Somewhere between 75 and 100
per cent of deaths would’ve been
due to air pollution.”
McKitrick said that although
the study’s data possessed merit, the
model neglected key factors, such
as fluctuations in socioeconomic
status and smoking rates over time.
Hans Thoursie
Socioeconomic status has a large
effect on hospitalization rates,
because many poorer families can’t
afford healthy foods, and having
to work more hours to support
themselves means less time for
exercise and resting. However, the
situation can go both ways.
“Some high income families
experience ill health because
they’re working too many hours,”
said McKitrick.
Pucks clash with snorkels in ‘breathtaking’ sport
Guelph’s underwater
h o c ke y c l u b i s
attracting considerable
student interest
MIKE TREADGOLD
Sports synergies are not at all
uncommon, whereby two activities
are combined to form a completely
new sport altogether. Frisbee golf
comes to mind, as does the everpopular phys-ed pastime from grade
school: soccer baseball.
And, in Guelph, another sports
synergy has captured the interest of
many students: underwater hockey.
Underwater hockey is not
new. It was invented in England
in 1954, as a recreational means of
developing the breathing capacity
of divers. Teams of six players are
equipped with masks, snorkels,
flippers, specially-crafted foot-long
sticks – often made of plastic – and
a lead puck, weighing nearly one
kilogram, allowing it to travel along
the bottom of a swimming pool.
Three-metre troughs – that serve
as nets – are placed at opposite ends
of the pool, with the objective being
scoring goals. There are no goalies
and ‘shooting’ the puck is done with
a flick of the wrist, a technique that
also allows the puck to be raised off
the bottom of the pool.
Brittany Haughton is the
president of the Guelph Underwater
Hockey club and has been dedicated
to the sport for the four years of her
university career.
“In my first year, I was looking
for something to keep myself active.
I’ve always liked swimming, but I
found that just doing lengths was
Brittany Haughton
Underwater hockey equipment consists of snorkel gear, a short plastic stick and a lead puck. Controlling one’s breathing is critical to
gameplay.
boring,” said Haughton. “I happened
to come across underwater hockey
through a friend and I came out,
gave it a try, and I loved it.”
The Guelph team, which
has existed since the early 1980s
and was recently featured on the
Discovery Channel’s Daily Planet
program, is primarily developmental,
allowing first-timers an opportunity
to try out this innovative sport, while
providing opportunities to play in
larger tournaments.
“The biggest limitation when
you first start playing is holding your
breath,”said Haughton,who estimated
her average time under water to be
between 30 and 40 seconds. “From
personal experience and based on
what others have told me, it takes
about a month [of playing] to get your
breath hold up to where you can dive
to the bottom of a pool, do something
useful with the puck and then go back
up to breathe.”
Timing your breathing is a
huge factor in underwater hockey,
knowing when to dive down and
anticipate the play, and when it is
a safe opportunity to go up for air.
Substitutions occur throughout the
game, with team sizes often varying
between 10 and 15 members.
The game is played in pools
that vary in depth and design;
however, the Gold Pool at the W.F.
Mitchell Athletic Centre on campus
was constructed with underwater
hockey in mind: seven feet deep in
all locations, with 90-degree angled
corners at the edges and large glossy
tiles on the bottom, allowing for
easier puck movement.
The trademark event of each
year is the Annual College Royal
Tournament, a 51-game series
that was played in the Gold Pool
last weekend. Teams from all over
North America came to Guelph
for the College Royal tournament,
including clubs from Michigan,
Georgia and Illinois, in addition to
other Canadian clubs from the likes
of Hamilton, Peterborough, Calgary
and Montreal, where the skill level is
particularly high.
The club plays twice per week, on
Monday and Thursday nights from
10:00 - 11:00 p.m. Participants are
given a free initial tryout to decide
whether or not this catchy and
intriguing sport peaks their interest
and helps channel their inner
dolphin.
C
ollege Royal is a huge event. Every year since 1925, this student run open house brings large numbers of people from in and around
Guelph to our beautiful campus. This year, over 30,000 people visited the university to take part in the 12-day-long exhibition.
College Royal is an event that is totally Guelph. From the livestock show, to the photography contest, College Royal is a chance for
students at the University of Guelph to show off their work and their interests to throngs of interested people.
The most impressive aspect of the event is in the planning and execution; the entire exhibition is student run and operated, with over 3,000
volunteers helping out in a wide variety of ways. With hundreds of volunteers doing a seemingly endless amount of tasks, there is definitely
something for anyone to enjoy.
One of the highlights from College Royal is the always exciting dog show, where the partnership between dog and trainer are tested on skill,
teamwork, performance and attitude.
The logging competition also gathers huge crowds on Johnston Green every year. This event is made up of a number of exciting games
including log roll, pulp toss and cross cut saw. Each event acts as a test of skill and brawn, showcasing a unique series of sports that always
provides plenty of laughs and an impressive display of athletic ability.
The arts community is also an important niche within College Royal. This year with Curtain Call Productions’ adaptation of Reefer Madness,
and the 42nd annual Juried Art Show, the viewer with culture on their agenda was not disappointed.
As the largest university open house in North America, College Royal was a success this year, showing the community at large our worth
here in the Royal City.
The pancake
breakfast and
flipping contest was
a major draw in the
UC courtyard all
weekend .Pvwhoto by
Christine Cerullo
Children of all ages
were attracted by
the chance to ride
pedal powered
tractors around
a track outside
the landscape
architecture
building.
Above: The Wildlife Club displayed birds of prey as well as other
animals at their exhibit. Photo by Julia Schonfield.
Left: Food science students made milkshakes at the Guelph Food
Technology Centre.
The horse category is one of six at the livestock show. Others included sheep, swine, cattle
and ducks.
Left: Six teams went
head to head in a tug
of war on Johnston
Green on Sunday.
Right: Dogs of all sizes
and types were present
in the Dome during the
dog show on Sunday.
Below: Synchronized swimmers of all ages
demonstrated their sport in the athletic centre pool
Left: The square
dancing competition
in the athletic centre
included many teams,
including the College
Royal organizers.
The lumberjack
competition
pitted teams
against each
other in six
events held on
Johnston Green.
Below: The Department of Geography’s natural
disasters theme included a volcano demonstration
every half hour
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MAR. 25 - 31, 2010
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Competitive lifeguarding team makes a splash
Club sport requires
athleticism and the
ability to make fast
judgments
DAN O’KEEFE
When you first think about
it, lifeguarding doesn’t sound like
a sport, but rather an important
profession that is critical for public
safety at pools and beaches.
However, this sport has
been around for a long time,
once featured as an Olympic
demonstration sport in the 1900
Games in Paris. First-year student
and Guelph team member, Josh
Tremblay, recalls the competition
held at Guelph earlier this school
year, similar to the events held
here about 30 years ago.
Guelph’s team, coached by
Patrick King and Chantique Payne,
and captained by Véro Taylor,
Nathaniel Trotter, Michelle Irvine
and Pamela Ritchie, did better
than expected this year, placing
seventh among nearly 20 teams at
the provincial championships, and
fifth in the overall points race. The
team consists of approximately a
dozen students, whose dedication
drives them to practice three
times a week from the beginning
Nathaniel Trotter
Participants in competitive lifeguarding have both their physical and mental capabilities tested across a number of events. The ability to make
quick judgments is essential for success.
of September until the end of
February.
The competitions are divided
up into two styles of events:
technical and physical.
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The technical events include
priority assessment, water rescue,
and first aid. In priority assessment,
the lifeguards enter a situation and
must assess which victims need
assistance first. The teams have
two minutes to prioritize, rescue,
and perform basic treatment.
The water rescue event
is
essentially
lifeguarding;
participants have four to six
minutes to observe and assess
a situation, and then treat the
victims accordingly. The first aid
event poses a complex situation
and requires the team to assess,
prioritize, and treat the victims.
The first aid situation is where
the creativity of the organizers can
really show.
“There have been some crazy
[events], including plane crashes
and caves,” said Tremblay, recalling
situations posed to participants in
the challenges.
One particular event stood out
in Tremblay’s memory. There was
an 18-minute event at Waterloo
that took competitors all over the
campus.
Tremblay recalled one of the
most creative and interesting
situations,
which
occurred
during the First Aid finals at the
provincial championships last
year. It was fairly standard with
the assessment, prioritizing, and
treatment. Then, one of the team
members had to call 911, but the
emergency phone was hidden
in a person’s pocket. The phone
was eventually located and the
paramedics were called. Shortly
before time was up, the paramedics
actually arrived and took one
victim for treatment. After they
left, another individual came in
to report that the paramedics had
dropped the victim and worsened
their condition. On top of that,
one paramedic had twisted their
ankle and the new individual was
hyperventilating, and both needed
treatment in addition to the victims
that the situation began with.
The physical events are very
similar to the events that were once
part of the Olympics. Four-person
teams compete in a variety of
different relay events. The obstacle
relay is a 50m swim with a barrier
that must be negotiated.
The technical
events include
priority
assessment,
water rescue,
and first aid.
In priority
assessment, the
lifeguards enter
a situation and
must assess which
victims need
assistance first.
The mannequin relay consists of
the team members swimming 25m
with what Tremblay describes as a
40-pound “plastic orange guy.”
In the medley relay, all four
members perform a different task,
consisting of four 50m segments.
The first segment is freestyle
swimming, followed by swimming
with fins, which are very large
and stiff flippers. Next is freestyle
swimming with a rescue tube, and
the final segment calls for the
fourth person to tow the third
person with the rescue tube while
wearing fins. There is also the line
throw relay where the first team
member pulls in a rope line, throws
it to the second team member, and
rescues them. The second member
then rescues the third, and the
third rescues the fourth.
The line throw is also done as
an individual competition. The
competitors only have to rescue
one person in this event by pulling
in the line, throwing it out to one
victim, and pulling the victim
in. Guelph’s own Sarah Monaco
won the individual line throw
competition at the university
championships.
For scoring, the participants are
graded by judges. The scores range
from zero to three, and the criteria
for the marks are based on the
Canadian National Lifeguarding
Standards. A score of zero is given
for not attempting to rescue a
victim. Two points are awarded
for a rescue equal to the national
standards. An above-par rescue
earns three points while a sub-par
rescue earns one point.
The university championships
take place shortly after reading
week and nearly 20 teams
attend from across the province.
With the volume of teams, the
championships are divided into
preliminary and final rounds.
“[The preliminaries are] all
basic skill, with nothing hidden,”
said Tremblay.
After the preliminaries, the
teams are narrowed down to eight
qualifiers for the finals.
“[In the finals], the organizers
always get creative, so the final
events take longer, but are worth
more points,” added Tremblay.
The Guelph team was very
happy to have qualified for the
finals in every event this year,
which is quite a feat for the smaller
team.
The team is small, but successful.
They have excellent leadership and
potential. Guelph will be hosting
the first event of the 2010-2011
season, which will hopefully be
sanctioned, and worth points in
the overall standings. The bright
future of the team shows that
they are anything but dead in the
water.
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IN FOCUS
Ah, that’s it?
For the most part,
sexual dysfunction
in young men is all
in the head (brain)
DANIEL BITONTI
If you’re a sexually active young
man, the situation might not be that
unfamiliar: you’re with your partner,
you’re both feeling frisky, Boyz II
Men is playing in the background.
Then, when your partner is ready for
you, you just can’t get it up.
And you can only blame it on
the booze so many times.
Then, of course, there are the
times when you’ve become the very
unpopular two-minute man.
“I was just so turned on by you –
I couldn’t last,” you tell your partner,
panting heavily as you fall back into
the pillow.
If
you’re
basing
your
understanding of sexual dysfunction
off of television ads, issues like
ED (Erectile Dysfunction) only
affect wealthy men with a bit of
distinguished grey.
In reality, it’s a lot different.
“It could be intermittent, but
it is very common, whether we are
talking about erectile dysfunction
or concerns about premature
ejaculation,” said Dr. John Aquino,
a physician who specializes in men’s
health.
In 2006, Dr. Najah S. Musacchio,
a fellow at Children’s Memorial
Hospital in Chicago, discovered
that 13 per cent of college-aged
men surveyed for a study reported
suffering from ED; 25 per cent
said they could only hold on to the
erection till the point of putting
on the condom. The young men in
the survey who described a history
of sexual dysfunction also said they
didn’t discuss this problem with
their health care providers.
But Dr. Aquino has numerous
young clients frequenting his clinic,
saying he believes that younger men
are now more willing to deal with
the problem than in years gone by.
“Today, I’ve already seen two
guys in that age group,” he said. “I
think it’s pretty evenly split in the
guys I see. Premature ejaculation is
something I think they can put up
with or ignore, but with ED, they
can’t really [ignore it]. A lot of times,
it’s both [issues] together.”
Part of Dr. Aquino’s job is to rule
out any physical issues in patients
and then work on the associated
psychological issues.
Recent research suggests that
ED is a vascular disease. If a man
has a vascular dysfunction, it’s going
to show up in his penis long before
it shows up in his heart. The penis
is one of the only places in a man’s
body that shows men a vascular
function.
But ED in young males is still –
most often – a psychological matter.
Aquino says that regardless of how
it starts, sexual dysfunction always
ends up being partly psychological.
“Just having the problem one
time sets you up for a psychological
issue, so it makes the problem
worse,” he said. “Most of the time, it
is more of an anxiety condition, but
that’s not to minimize it…that’s a
huge thing. Your mind is one of the
most important sex organs you have.
So, if that gets out of whack, that’s a
big deal.”
The results can be a romantic
nightmare. There is denial, when
a man starts convincing himself
that he isn’t into sex, instead of
confronting his problem. Aquino
says that younger men just shy away
all together. They stop socializing
and don’t talk to women, because
they are afraid of what it could lead
to.
“Guys start avoiding relationships
altogether, and that’s pretty tragic in
a way,” Aquino said.
Aquino suggested that even
young men should take the approach
of, ‘what is good for your heart,
is good for your penis,’ so regular
exercise and a balanced diet are key
tools in tackling sexual dysfunction.
He suggests keeping the stresses in
your life under control and to get
enough rest. For ED, he also isn’t
opposed to prescribing drugs for
young men.
“Often, what people need is a
few good experiences under their
belt, and then they are off to the
races. I get them to relax, but I don’t
hesitate if they are game to start
something like Cialis to get them
going,” he said. “What they need is
a dose of confidence.”
In terms of premature ejaculation,
Dr. Aquino says men should
approach sex in a way that will lead
them to a better awareness about
how sensitive and how stimulated
they are.
Courtesy
“I don’t think thinking about
baseball is a good approach to
premature ejaculation,” Dr. Aquino
said, referencing the many suggested
Internet home remedies. “It might
get a guy two seconds longer on a
given night, but it ultimately makes
the problem worse in the long run.
“The issue is not being very good
at knowing how stimulated you are
in relation to where your orgasm
is…your threshold,” he continued.
“We’re trying to keep you below the
point [Point of no return]. What we
want you to do is pay attention to
your body to learn the relationship
between where you are and where
that line is.”
For both ED and premature
ejaculation, another general piece of
advice is to stay relaxed, as anxiety
is simply counterproductive. Early
communication with a partner is
important, because it removes some
of the pressure that men place on
themselves. Lastly, Dr. Aquino says
to not ignore the problem. The faster
you take care of it, the less likely it
will spiral out of control.
impact of former Gryphons head
coach and current Winnipeg Blue
Bombers special teams coordinator
Kyle Walters.
Maver has had a stellar career
with the Gryphons, hitting 57 of 74
field goal attempts, accounting for a
Gryphons record 290 points scored,
along with an impressive career
punting average of 41.8 yards.
former NFL kicker Steve Christie,
and another week in Phoenix, AZ
with American coaches, working on
perfecting his craft.
A chance to kick and play in the
CFL would be a dream come true.
“I really like kicking, as goofy as
that sounds,” he said. “I just really
want to play in the CFL.”
Maver is currently ranked as the
nation’s seventh-best draft-eligible
prospect by the CFL scouting
bureau heading into the 2010 draft
on May 2, and was the only kicker
invited to the E-Camp.
In front of CFL scouts, Maver
lived up to his reputation, hitting on
18 of 20 field goal attempts.
“ I was a little nervous the day
before [the E-Camp], but as soon
as I got on the field, I become really
calm and it felt pretty good,” he
said.
If the rankings hold true, Maver
could join former Concordia kicker
Warren Kean as the only kickers to
be chosen in the first round of the
CFL draft in the past decade. Maver
is well aware that he must continue
to improve his game in order to
excel in the pro game.
“At the next level, [CFL teams]
are expecting every kick to be
made,” said Maver. “When you are
on the field, it is your job to make
the kick.”
For the love of kicking
Gryphons
star
kicking his way to
the CFL
JUSTIN DUNK
For those of you who don’t know
– and most of you probably don’t –
one of the top kickers in Canada has
played for the Gryphons football
team for the past four years.
Kickers are often forgotten, and
do not attract much attention. They
are often stereotyped as not being
‘real’ football players. All they do is
kick a ball, right?
But, kicking a ball has been the
focus of Rob Maver’s athletic career,
and it just happens to be a critical
aspect in the kind of three-down
football played in Canada.
A kicker can have a huge impact
on a football game, which may
go unnoticed to the casual fan. A
top-flight kicker can change field
position, pin opponents deep in
their own end of the field, and put
valuable points on the scoreboard
when offensive drives stall. These are
just a few of the reasons why many
Canadian Football League coaches
and scouts are salivating at the
thought of adding Maver to their
special teams unit.
Yes, we are talking about a kicker;
the same guy who stands alone on
I really like
kicking, as goofy
as that sounds. I
just really want to
play in the CFL.
Rob Maver
Rashaad Bhamjee
After establishing himself as one of the nation’s top kickers, Rob
Maver nears his dream of playing in the CFL.
the sidelines during a game, barely
breaking a sweat, only running
on the field to kick the ball before
returning to the sideline.
Regardless of all the stereotypes
about kickers, they do have an impact
on the final score of a game. Maver
works tirelessly on his kicking skills,
similarly to any other player on the
team, and has seen his skills improve
over his time at Guelph.
“One of the things that I feel was
key to my success here at Guelph
was having a coach (Kyle Walters)
that was so mindful of special teams,”
said Maver, about the positive
Gryphons kicker
He has continually thrived in
all aspects of the kicking game and
hopes to continue his success at the
professional level.
Maver has been working hard to
ensure that his CFL dreams come
true. In preparation for the CFL’s
Evaluation camp, which took place
in Toronto from Mar. 12-14, Maver
spent a week in Bradenton, FL with
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MAR. 25 - 31, 2010
SPORTS & HEALTH
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Honouring yet another outstanding group of Gryphons
On
tarion
MIKE TREADGOLD
At the end of the Fall semester,
the first edition of the ‘Golden
Mikes’ were handed out to
some very deserving Gryphons,
recognizing their accomplishments
in athletics from September through
December. With the varsity season
now complete and the department’s
Intercollegiate Awards Banquet
coming up on April 8, Speak into
the Mike will take this time to hand
out the second series of ‘Golden
Mikes,’ along with a few honourable
mentions.
Male Athlete of the Half
Year – Kyle Boorsma: Boorsma,
a fourth-year track and field
athlete, won double-gold at the
CIS championships, placing first
in both the 1500m and 3000m
events, after a very strong overall
season. Honourable mentions:
Jay Mott (basketball), Andrew
Ford (swimming), Gabe deGroot
(volleyball)
Female Athlete of the Half Year
– Chantique Payne: A third-year
swimmer, Payne was a runner-up
for this same award in the Fall. Gold
medals at both the OUA and CIS
championships capped a brilliant
season for the explosive butterfly
and freestyle specialist. Honourable
mentions: Rachel Cliff (track and
field), Sarah Peirce (track and field),
Dayna Kanis (hockey)
Rashaad Bhamjee
Gryphon men’s volleyball coach, Cal Wigston, made several difficult,
yet rewarding playoff decisions.
Male Rookie of the Half Year
– Thomas Kiriakou: There were a
number of outstanding first-year
Gryphon men; however, Kiriakou
burst onto the scene as a centre on
the men’s hockey team and went
on to win OUA Rookie of the
Year, leading the Gryphs in scoring
with 32 points, and centring one
of the league’s most dangerous
lines with Ed Gale and Kris Belan.
Honourable mentions: Jake Jagas
(wrestling), Jason Diston (track and
field), Tim Priamo (hockey)
Female Rookie of the Half Year
– Genevieve Lalonde: Another
runner-up from the Fall, the firstyear runner picked up CIS Female
Rookie of the Year honours in both
cross-country and track and field
and is ranked third in the country
in the women’s ultra-competitive
3000m distance. Lalonde took
bronze in the 3000m at the OUA
Championships, to go along with
numerous other medals throughout
the year. Honourable mentions:
Danielle Skoufranis (hockey),
Bethany Flemington (swimming),
Erinn Bickle (volleyball)
Gryphon Coach of the Half
Year – Cal Wigston: Wigston
led the upstart Gryphon men’s
volleyball team to the OUA Finals,
where they were defeated by
Queen’s in an epic five-set match.
The Gryphons mastered the role of
underdogs throughout the playoffs,
taking down favoured Windsor
and McMaster before falling to the
Gaels. Wigston was also the brains
behind inserting Jamie Stamler into
the lineup off the bench against
McMaster in the semi-finals, a
move that baffled the Marauders
and keyed the Gryphons comefrom-behind win. Honourable
mentions: Dave Scott-Thomas
(track and field), Rachel Flanagan
(women’s hockey), Don Burton
(swimming)
Best Performance in Final
Game as a Gryphon – Jay Mott:
Concluding his five-year career as
a Gryphon, Mott went out in style
against the Brock Badgers on Feb.
20, scoring a career-high 41 points
and adding 11 rebounds in an 8664 win. A dedicated athlete, Mott
finished the season in the top 10
in league scoring, earned an OUA
second-team all-star nomination and
reached the illustrious 1000-point
plateau.
Game of the Half Year – OUA
men’s volleyball semi-finals: After
dropping the first two sets against
the first-place McMaster Marauders,
the Gryphons executed a miraculous
comeback, winning the final three
sets en route to a five-set upset over
the league leaders, sending them to
the OUA Finals.
Team of the Half Year – Men’s
track and field: Two national
championships in the past three
years and another feather in the
cap for Guelph’s famed running
programs.
Stinker of the Half Year – Brock
– 81, Guelph – 44: 2009-10 was a
rebuilding year for the Gryphon
women’s basketball team, who had
their fair share of lopsided defeats.
Injuries and inexperience limited
the team; however, look for major
improvements heading into next
year.
Blowout of the Half Year –
Guelph – 9, Brock – 0: The men’s
hockey team hit their stride in the
second half of the season, unleashing
their high-octane offence on the
rest of the league. The top line of
Kiriakou, Belan and Gale combined
for seven points in this one.
Quote of the Half Year: “I’ll
always be loyal to Guelph and cheer
for Guelph. It was an unbelievably
opportunity to get back and coach
there. The most difficult part of this
was to walk away from the [players]
and the relationships that I’ve had
over the last few years.” – Former
Gryphons head football coach Kyle
Walters, shortly after being hired by
the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in the
CFL.
LIFE
Sexposure:
Consent and the Dance Floor
AISLINN WYATT
A few weeks ago, one of the
excellent volunteer groups within
the Wellness Centre, SAFE
(Sexual Assault Free Environment)
conducted a consent awareness
campaign. They handed out
t-shirts emblazoned with their
slogan, “Consent is Sexy” on which
participants tried to get as many
signatures as possible. SAFE also
had paper shirts at their information
booth, on which people could pledge
that “Consent is, indeed, very sexy”.
Consent is one of the most
important aspects of partnered sex,
but is not often discussed. There is a
prevailing sentiment among North
Americans that sex should happen
spontaneously, and therefore, explicit
discussion about sex is something
most people tend to shy away from.
Consent is something that needs to
be confirmed, not assumed, and the
only way to do this is by talking.
Many people believe that
not saying no means yes, and
that consent is implied as long as
someone doesn’t tell you to stop.
This is a dangerous assumption to
make, since a partner could very well
be nervous, or feel like they cannot
speak up. If we all ask for consent,
we’re all given the opportunity to
give consent. So speak up!
SAFE outlined four “excuses”
that society tends to fall back on
when it comes to a violation of
consent: Inebriation, Intimacy,
Dress and Relationships. “He was
drunk,” or “but they got me so
horny,” or “she was dressed like a
slut,” or “he’s my boyfriend, I can
always have sex with him,” are the
sorts of things someone falling back
on these clichés might say. I’m going
to dismantle them one by one.
Inebriation: A person who is
intoxicated cannot consent to sex.
If someone is smashed, they are in
no state of mind to make a decision
about sex. Also, just because you
might be drunk doesn’t excuse you
from violating someone’s consent.
There is no “blaming it on the
alcohol” when it comes to sexual
assault.
Intimacy: If someone has
consented to say, kissing or oral sex,
this doesn’t mean that it’s a clear goahead to take things further. Prior
intimacy doesn’t excuse not gaining
consent for further intimacy.
Dress: Just because someone
is dressed in a sexy way does not
imply they automatically consent
to sexual behaviour. People dressed
sexy are not “asking for it”: what
you should be asking for is their
consent.
Relationships: Even in a
long-term relationship, such as a
marriage, it’s important to confirm
that you have your partner’s consent
before sex. Even though you might
have sex every day, it’s always within
a partner’s rights to say no to sex,
and it’s not within a partner’s rights
to demand it.
It is not just sexual intercourse
that requires the affirmation of
consent. In my 18th century
literature class, we’ve been studying
the etiquette of the dance, when the
process of asking a woman’s hand to
dance a minuet was ritualized and
of grave social importance. While
this stuffiness would be a bit out of
place in a downtown Guelph club, I
still think there is something to be
learned from the past.
The culture of the student bar
dance floor isn’t one conducive
to asking for and giving (or not)
consent. They’re loud, dark and
crowded with (often drunk) people,
making any sort of conversation
difficult. This has led to a situation
of retroactive consent: someone will
be approached on the dance floor
without being asked, or sometimes
even forewarned, and it’s up to
them to get themselves out of the
situation should they not want to
be in it.
This situation is so incredibly
backwards! I don’t know how the
change would be implemented, but
something needs to change. No
more having to scurry away from
unwanted touches: how about we
ask first if the object of our desire
wants to be touched? Making eyecontact first is a good step forward,
but in my perfect world, there’d be
something more along the lines
of the 18th century balls: asking a
partner to dance.
I’m interested in what you have
to say on the topic of consent.
Send your opinions, questions and
thoughts to [email protected]!
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161.10
improves its palate
Earth Hour
GINI BEAUMONT
This coming Saturday marks
another event where people will
make the smallest amount of effort
to show off their obvious concern
for the environment. It’s another
time when people who are trying
to make larger, positive changes for
the environment get overshadowed
by the more popular, but negligible,
efforts of those only willing to do
less.
Yep, Earth Hour. Yay!! The
one-hour of one day where people
switch off their lights to show their
concern about climate change.
Apparently billions of people
even gather around to watch huge
monuments like the Eiffel Tower,
the Empire State Building or the
Symphony of Lights in Hong
Kong turn out their lights, too.
Meanwhile, they’ve left their porch
light on, their stereo plugged in,
and hey, maybe even their toilet
running at home.
This hurts my brain because
this event has gotten so popular,
having hundreds of thousands of
fans and attendees on Facebook
and earthour.org, all because it is
something simple to do to make a
bold statement about your interest
or distress over the changing
climate.
Guess again, it doesn’t.
One hour, out of the 24 in a day,
or the basically incalculable amount
that you have conscious control over
in your lifetime, is trifling. And yes,
it is simple to flick that switch and
sit in the dark or by candle light,
waiting for the minutes to tick
by when you can then again use
electricity. But it hardly does much,
even with ‘billions’ participating, or
saying they will participate.
I have a better idea. How
about this: turn your lights off for
an hour everyday, or two hours.
“Impossible,” you say? I say, “You
did it once. Success. Now actually
do something that matters.” Or how
about other simple things, more
than once a year, that with billions
doing them, also more than once a
year, may actually amount to a small
change. Things like unplugging
your electronics on the wall and
turning off your powerbar, drying
your laundry by air or putting on
a sweater instead of turning up
the thermostat. Simple, right? But
enough little tips, that is a whole
other article all together.
Back on Earth Hour, I asked my
ever-introspective housemate about
it, thinking he’ll be brazen on the
topic. But even as a hippie-hater,
his insights again astound.
“Earth Hour is a doubleedged sword. It's one of the best
events for raising environmental
awareness. Alternatively, it is abused
by companies and cities [that]
advertise their commitment to
Earth Hour while media attention
is high, and revert back to weak or
nonexistent environmental policies
for the remaining 364 days of the
year.” Agreed, the main idea behind
Earth Hour is ‘doing something,’
while raising awareness. But
anyone who thinks that this is good
enough, can then be directed to
Stuff White People Like’s article
#18, titled “Awareness.” Putting
aside the potential offence the term
“white people” could bring about
(“Being Offended” being article
#101), and using it as a global
thought, this article so-coolly puts
raising awareness into perspective.
“Raising awareness is awesome
because once you raise awareness
to an acceptable, arbitrary level, you
can just back off and say “Bam! did
my part. Now it’s your turn. Fix
it… Because, the only challenge
of raising awareness is people
not being aware. In a worst case
scenario, if you fail, someone doesn’t
know about the problem. End
of story.” Point, proof, comment.
Raising awareness does not solve
the problem, and most often the
true source of the problem is not
even addressed.
Moving on though, my
housemate does have praise for
Earth Hour. “That being said, the
ability of cities and corporations
to capitalize financially from
an environmental event may be
exactly what the world needs.
Market-driven capitalism and
environmentalism are too often
viewed as mutually-exclusive when
this doesn't have to be the case.
Earth Hour can set the precedent
for this type of interaction.” Fine,
this could lead to something good.
But how long will that take? And at
risk of being labeled an alarmist I’ll
add, “Do we have that long?”
Hating on Earth Hour aside,
as you flick that switch this
Saturday, I’ll ask you to strike up
the conversation, “Is what we’re
doing here, in this hour, enough?
If we really care, why wouldn’t we
do more?” And for that last little
zinger, I’ll just say, “Forget Earth
Hour, how about an Earth Life?”
NICOLE ELSASSER
The ubiquitous palate. We all
have one, and yet when reality
show chefs talk about someone
having a ‘sophisticated palate,’
few know what they are talking
about and even fewer know how
to achieve the aforementioned
palatal sophistication. There are a
few things that a person can mean
when referring to a ‘palate’ and I
have come to think that the true
definition is a combination of all
of them in one way or another.
The first, and perhaps the
most misguided definition of a
great palate, is simply a person
with refined taste. Someone who
eschews all peasant food in favour
of the gourmet. An individual who
not only eats caviar, foie gras and
black truffles, but also prefers them
on a day-to-day basis to the fodder
that makes up the common person’s
diet. In a way, an appreciation of
fine things can indicate that a
person has a sophisticated palate,
but generally this is a product of
their good palate rather than the
definition itself. Someone can
certainly have a fine palate and
delight in said ‘peasant food,’ just
as a person can have the palate of
a philistine and eat expensive food
for the sake of appearance.
The second, and arguably
most important component to a
sophisticated palate, is the ability
to taste a dish and immediately
recognize what is contributing to
its flavour. This could mean picking
out anything from spices, herbs, oils
and vinegars as well as occasionally
recognizing techniques used in the
cooking process. Along with this
ability, people who have incredible
palates can point out areas for
improvement in dishes and
recommend various changes like a
need for salt, or even provide advice
about better flavour combinations.
The last component to what
makes for a sophisticated palate,
at least in my opinion, is a strong
sense of taste memory. With one
bite of a particular dish, let’s say
pizza, someone with a good palate
is able to consider that particular
pizza in relation to every other
pizza they have had. By tasting the
dish in perspective, they are able to
survey it and place it in a spectrum,
recognizing how that particular dish
compares to the worst, the best and
everything in between. They might
do this as well as pick out why it is
better or worse than others.
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The popular belief that each section of the tongue represents a
different type of taste (1. Bitter, 2. Sour, 3. Salt, 4. Sweet) is widely
being considered a myth, and doesn’t do justice to the explanation of
what a palate is and how to improve your own.
So with this multifaceted
explanation of what makes up a
palate, there are things one can
do to improve one’s palate and
bring it closer to the level of those
very impressive reality show chefs.
Firstly, stop smoking. While there is
some debate as to exactly the effect
that smoking can have on your
taste and smell sensitivity, most
scientists agree that cigarettes take a
toll. Many smokers, upon quitting,
report an increased ability to taste
and smell within days of their last
cigarette. Also, and this should go
without saying, if you are bent on
improving your palate, now would
not be the time to pierce your
tongue. Enough said.
Possibly the most enjoyable
way to improve your palate is
to throw yourself into the food.
Experiencing new flavours, textures
and entire cuisines is crucial for the
education of one’s palate and should
be undertaken with a childish
enthusiasm, though without a
child’s discriminating food tastes.
The next thing you can do to
improve your palate is to practice
mindful eating. All too often I find
myself eating while working on my
computer or with my nose buried
in a book. This will not help my
burgeoning palate along at all.
The best thing to do is to eat
at a table, slowly, with thought and
consideration about what you taste.
Chew each mouthful of food slowly
and contemplatively and, if you
are lucky enough to have a dining
companion also committed to palate
development, discuss the dish you
are enjoying: what you like about it
as well as how you would improve
it.
So now, because you are all
desperately committed to achieving
palatal sophistication, go to the
nearest market, select a perfectly
ripe piece of fruit (pay for it), slice
it and then eat it slowly and alone.
Concentrate, consider and enjoy.
With that under your belt, you’ll
be well on your way. Be sure to send
a postcard when you finally get there.
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MAR. 25 - 31, 2010
LIFE
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breaking into a possibly intimidating aspect of culture. Any­
thing that might overwhelm and seem impossible to "get into,"
Ontarion editors will seek to demystify and make the transi­
tion from neophyte to connoisseur a simple one.
If you’re at all like me, the
minute that the ground shows
signs of green in the spring is a
good day. Time to dig out the
old sticks and find a range – the
season is back.
Maybe you haven’t had this
feeling before, but you do have
interest in getting into a sport
that is loved by many. I’m going
to tell how to get into golf.
Before telling you how to
o get
into golf, I’ll start by dispelling
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a few myths and misconceptions
tions
surrounding one’s initial interest
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in golf.
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patient person, perhaps you
should try another hobby. Like
many other skill sports, golf
requires patience and the ability
bility
to accept that for the first little
while, you won’t likely be any
good.
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range and mindlessly beatingg the
h an
crap out of a range balls with
river
overpriced and oversized driver
will provide virtually no real
benefits, other than being a way
er.
to exhaust some pent up anger.
Now, what to do.
When you’re first startingg to
learn to golf, don’t put too much
nsive
stock in ridiculously expensive
equipment that you may never
use enough to justify the price
tag. You can find a capable and
low-cost set of clubs at a used
melly
sporting goods store, your smelly
dpa’s
neighbour’s yard sale or grandpa’s
garage. Clubs doth not makee the
golfer.
While I am critical of mindless
hacking, driving ranges still serve
an effective purpose. If you’re new
to golf, don’t start on a course –
start on the range. Learn
how each club
works and
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your craft at the local country
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where
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critical.
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drive, when you finally made
contact? Try to replicate that
same swing, over and over again.
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of engagement are learned with
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few to
keep in mind:
Don’t drive a cart on the ggreen
(the place where you putt). Park
nearby and walk over.
Talking or making noise while
someone else is taking a shot is
frowned upon. Save the trash
talk and chatter for after – have
you SEEN Tiger freak out on
cameramen?
If you happen to knock out a
chunk of the ground while taking
a shot, replace your divot.
Playing a little slow? Let the
group behind you play through –
there’s no shame in doing so and
we’ve all been there. And, if you’re
getting frustrated, just pick up
the ball. Learning to play is more
important than your early scores.
Most of all, enjoy yourself.
Getting pissed off only worsens
your swing, not to mention your
experience. Have a beer – but
not 20 – it’ll loosen you up and
make it a social activity, instead
of a job. The rest will come with
practice and experience and golf
is a fantastic way to spend a nice
day.
THEONTARION.CA
ARIES
LIBRA
Get ready to have your hot buttons
pushed this week! You have a very fiery
temper, and someone who is well aware
of your short fuse will tangle with you
on Tuesday. Remind yourself not to let
anyone manipulate you. On Thursday
the Sun in assertive Aries squares
intense Pluto and you’ll need to dig a
bit in order to locate your inner strength.
Don’t worry. You’ll find it. On Saturday
you’ll be in a restless mood and unable
to sit still.
This week you’ll make a schedule and
actually stick to it! You’re longing for a
regular routine and a sense of security
in your life. On Monday Mars sextiles
Saturn in Libra and you’ll establish
more order in your life. You’ll tune in
to your spiritual side on Saturday when
the Moon in your sector of metaphysical
activities trines profound Pluto. You may
check out various religious organizations
in your area and join a group that shares
your personal belief system.
TAURUS
SCORPIO
You’ll be very productive this week, Bull!
On Monday you’ll put aside your mellow
self and kick into high gear when Mars
sextiles industrious Saturn in your sector
of daily activities. You’ll expend a bit of
elbow grease cleaning your residence
and tackle paperwork with gusto. A legal
issue crops up on Thursday. If you don’t
want to get a parking ticket, observe all
the rules of the road. Family issues rear
up on Saturday and a relative will need
assistance.
Make sure you don’t close your eyes to
reality this week, Scorpio! You’ll see only
what you want to see in a certain situation
in your life on Thursday. Make an attempt
to be honest with yourself when the Sun
in forthright Aries squares Pluto, your
ruling planet. You’ll make a new list of
goals for yourself on Sunday when the
Moon enters your sector of hopes and
dreams. Feel free to think big and include
all of your aims and aspirations.
GEMINI
On Monday you’ll put on your scholarly
hat, Twin, as the Moon in clever Gemini
trines Neptune in your zone of higher
learning. You love to learn new skills and
you adore increasing your brainpower.
You’ll enroll in an adult education
course this week. Don’t give up the ship
on Friday. You’re involved in a difficult
situation, but you’ll find a solution very
soon. You need to slow down on Sunday
and take it as easy as possible.
You’re the most idealistic person on
your block, Centaur, and you know that!
However, this week you’ll discover you
need to do more than just wish upon a
star in order to achieve your heart’s desire.
On Monday you’ll combine action with
thought. Make sure you’re very wary
when you interact with an associate on
Saturday. The Moon opposes deceptive
Neptune in your communication sector
and you’ll be faced with someone who
has a false tongue and is deceitful.
CANCER
CAPRICORN
The changeable Moon rules you, and
your feelings ebb and flow, similar to
the tides of the ocean. On Monday the
Moon squares erratic and unpredictable
Uranus and you’ll be extremely moody.
You’ll find it hard to stick to your
schedule due to your restlessness. You
will come out of your shell on Saturday.
You may decide to reach out to a close
associate and confide all your secret
thoughts. Make sure you don’t start to
doubt yourself on Sunday.
Avoid getting yourself into dangerous
situations this week, Capricorn. You’re
usually very safety conscious, but you’ll
throw caution to the wind on Monday.
Don’t send text messages while driving.
Home issues will come into play on
Thursday. You’ll need to take out a
hammer and nails and start fixing
up your residence. You’ll realize it’s a
mistake to allow negative thoughts to
cloud your thinking on Sunday when
the Moon opposes Jupiter in your sector
of the mind and imagination.
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LEO
You enjoy being the center of attention
whenever you walk into a room, Lion!
However, on Tuesday you won’t be as
sure of yourself as you normally are.
The Moon squares stern Saturn in your
zone of communication and you’ll find
it hard to talk to your associates. Your
normally sunny disposition will return
to you by Thursday and you’ll be back in
the swing of things. On Saturday you’ll
give serious thought to what you value
the most in life.
AQUARIUS
VIRGO
PISCES
You’ll say goodbye to the past once and
for all this week, Virgo! On Wednesday
you’ll decide to toss your memory book
away and begin to concentrate on your
present circumstances. You may decide
to become a pet owner on Saturday.
You love animals and your heart tugs
whenever you see a photo of a dog or cat
that needs to be rescued. Be sure you’re
ready for the responsibilities of pet
ownership before you bring one home
with you.
You’ll be uncharacteristically stubborn
this week, Pisces. Usually you go with
the flow, but on Monday you’ll be
very dogmatic regarding a particularly
hot topic. Do your best to consider all
viewpoints before you alienate a close
associate with your inflexibility. Don’t get
discouraged on Friday. It’s true that you
aren’t making progress as quickly as you
would like in an endeavor. Consider if
you’re setting the bar too high for yourself
when the Moon opposes excessive Jupiter
in Pisces.
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Don’t procrastinate on Monday. You’ll run
into trouble if you put off an important
project. Remind yourself that a stitch in
time saves nine, and take out your sewing
kit when see a big hole in your sock. You’re
normally very logical, thanks to your Air
Sign, but on Friday you’ll be teeming
with turbulent emotions. A former foe
will reenter your life, as the Moon in your
zone of adversaries is quincunx your ruler,
Uranus. Keep your cool!
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19
CATHLEEN’S CORNER
What’s really going down at the Shore
CATHLEEN FINLAY
When I asked Toronto Star
television critic Rob Salem what
he thought about the MTV reality
show, Jersey Shore, he said that it
was “an indisputable sign of the
coming of the apocalypse.” Salem
compared it to slowing down on
the highway to catch a glimpse of a
horrific accident; he said, “You just
can’t help yourself, you have to watch
it, but you’re glad that it’s not you.”
Salem isn’t alone in his critique of
the show – Lisa Kudrow of Friends
fame has been quoted as saying
on the success of Jersey Shore: “It
makes me cringe that despicable
has become the biggest craze in
entertainment.”
On top of that, since the show
first aired in December 2009 several
organizations have come forward to
publicly oppose the show, including
Italian American groups and the
communities of Seaside Heights in
New Jersey.
But why all the bad press? Why
are people so revolted and offended
by an MTV show?
The show isn’t much different
from most other MTV reality
pursuits. It follows a group
of
outrageously
egocentric,
materialistic,
and
arguably
unintelligent 20-somethings around
as they drink, fight, and tan.
But, what is different about
Jersey Shore is the role of ethnicity.
The characters on the show are all
intent on being the perfect ‘guido’ or
‘guidette,’ and it is this which makes
the show so interesting.
During the first episode, DJ
Pauly D said, “I was born and raised
a guido. It’s just a lifestyle, it’s being
Italian, it’s representing family,
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friends, tanning, gel, everything.”
Sammi Sweetheart also described
what she aspires to be: “A guidette
is someone who knows how to
club-it-up, takes really good care
of themselves, has pretty hair, cakes
on make-up, has tanned skin, [and]
wears the hottest heels.”
The show has become so amusing
to viewers because of the casts’
earnest desire to emulate something
that seems so unappealing to most
people. Most North Americans do
not share “Snookie’s” ultimate dream
to “move to Jersey, find a nice, juiced,
hot, tanned guy, and live [their] life.”
According to the show, the
perfect ‘guido’ involves the emphasis
of a number of things:
1. Wealth – This explains DJ
Pauly D’s decision to permanently
brand his body with a Cadillac
symbol.
2. Sculpted Body – What would
Mike ‘The Situation’ be without his abs?
3. Tanned Skin – Pauly D
insisted, “I got a f---ing tanning
bed at my place, that’s how serious
I am about living up to that [‘guido’]
lifestyle.”
4. General Appearance – Ronnie
has said, “The bank account could
be low, but you always have to look
good, always have to get a haircut
always have to have new sneakers,
always have to look fresh.”
5. Hair – This accounts for
Pauly D’s 25-minute hair procedure
and Sammi Sweetheart’s hair
extensions.
6. Sexual Prowess –As seen with
Mike ‘The Situation’s tireless quest
to ‘smush’ girls.
7. Having a Tough Side –
Sammi’s insistence: “I’m the sweetest
bitch you’ll ever meet, but do not f***
with me.”
What lies under the surface
of these characteristics, and the
history which has informed them,
is something that has received little
attention by the media.
The
Italian
American
immigration story is the ultimate
tale of the American Dream. Many
Italians immigrated to America with
humble beginnings, and through
their own determination and hard
work, were able to provide a good
life for their family. This show and
its exaggerations of leisure time and
money are reflections of a desire to
reaffirm their socio-economic niche
within society.
University of Guelph English
professor, Jade Ferguson, insists that
a show like this could not have been
made if it featured only African
Americans or Asian Americans.
“People who still are fighting
discrimination on a serious level like
Latinos or blacks could not have a
show like this,” Dr. Ferguson said.
Ferguson continued: “Jersey
Shore is entertaining because it’s
non-threatening. It doesn’t threaten
white privilege, it doesn’t threaten
family values. They’re not wading
into anything that challenges
norms.”
“It’s the ‘not-quite white’ that’s
intriguing to people. That also makes
it less threatening as well, because
it is still a form of whiteness. The
show is playing around with these
things, but not actually challenging
anything.”
Rather than dismissing the show
as “despicable” television, perhaps
we should be considering why Jersey
Shore is so popular and what it says
about our society today.
Come May, filming for season
two will begin in the new location
of Miami Beach where, no doubt,
the GTL (Gym, Tan, Laundry)
phenomenon will continue.
L OOSE CANNON
Falling into the Coulter trap
GREG BENETEAU
Few people would relish the
opportunity to hoist up Ann
Coulter as a poster child for free
speech.
But thanks to the circus
surrounding the right-wing media
pundit’s planned appearance at
the University Ottawa – scuttled
by a protest and concerns for
Coulter’s safety – that’s what we
got. So I’m running with it.
There was little question as to
the academic value of Coulter’s
speech. People got a taste of
her “ideas” at the University of
Western Ontario on Monday, the
day before she was scheduled to
appear in Ottawa.
It had all the trademark
commentary one expects from an
incendiary pundit. Her routine
was so well-worn it was almost
comical to watch.
“There are only two things
gay men can’t do,” Coulter mused
on same-sex marriage. “Number
one, get married to each other.
Number two, throw a baseball
without looking like a girl.”
Gay marriage? Canadians
are so over it, Ann. Gays in our
country are too busy excelling in
business and politics to learn how
to throw properly.
Coulter later said that
Muslims barred from air travel
should take “flying carpets”
instead. A 17-year-old female
Muslim student later professed
during question period that she
didn’t have one.
“Take a camel,”Coulter replied.
Wow, those 60s stereotypes still
got zing!
Coulter’s shtick is always the
same, whether she’s ranting in a
book, on FOX News or in person.
She insults and antagonizes in a
particularly cruel manner while
contributing little to political
discourse.
Sadly, the most important
part of Coulter’s speech – her
insistence that liberals use political
correctness and intimidation to
silence opposing views – was
proven correct by her reception at
the University of Ottawa.
First came the pre-emptive
warning from Vice-president
Academic and Provost François
Houle, who sent an e-mail
reminding Coulter that “our
domestic laws, both provincial
and federal, delineate freedom
of expression (or “free speech”)
in a manner that is somewhat
different than the approach taken
in the United States.”
“I therefore encourage you to
educate yourself, if need be, as to
what is acceptable in Canada and
to do so before your planned visit
here,” Houle wrote.
He was careful to add that
“what may, at first glance, seem
like unnecessary restrictions
to freedom of expression do,
in fact, lead not only to a more
civilized discussion, but to a
more meaningful, reasoned and
intelligent one as well.”
Judging from his comments,
Mr. Houle has never actually
heard Ann Coulter speak.
Civilized and reasoned aren’t in
her repertoire.
She is, however, quite
intelligent. She knows exactly
how to maximize exposure for
her particular brand of smut. That
includes playing on the passions
of the strong left-wing presence
at Canadian universities.
They
didn’t
disappoint,
showing up en masse to disrupt
the Ottawa lecture. In the end,
Coulter’s bodyguards determined
it was unsafe for her to proceed
and cancelled the talk. Now
there’s talk of a human rights
complaint.
And so ends the Coulter saga.
A Rush Limbaugh clone in a skirt
managed to get herself shut out of
a university campus, something
that hasn’t happened at Harvard,
Yale or any other institution of
higher learning she had visited.
Coulter achieved a masterful
performance in the media,
without ever opening her mouth.
Yet some tried to turn the
embarrassing ordeal into a
victory.
“On campus, we promise
our students a safe and positive
space,” one Ottawa student
protester said. “And that’s not
what (Coulter) brings.”
If that’s what students at U
of O are promised, they’re in for
a rude shock on graduation day.
In the real world, there are no
protections from being offended,
insulted or generally subjected
to Coulter-style haranguing, nor
should there be.
Helped along by student
unions, university campuses in
this country have become almost
womb-like in their desire to
maintain harmony at all costs.
Generally, that means stifling any
political expression to the right
of NDP territory. I doubt any
conservative figures in the U.S.
would pass muster.
We didn’t get to hear Ann
Coulter, but she still got her point
across.
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MAR. 25 - 31, 2010
OPINION
THEONTARION.CA
ACADEMICS AGAINST APATHY
Decades of struggle
Dr. Nonita Yap’s
conviction to end
unjust cor porate
practices and improve
conditions around
the world
KELSEY RIDEOUT
Dr. Nonita Yap is a professor
at the School of Environmental
and Rural Design, and teaches
courses such as Industrial Ecology,
Environmental Impact Assessment,
and Disaster Planning. She studies
the role of technology and policy
as they influence environmental
sustainability.
Her
research,
volunteer
and
professional
activities have taken her to close
to 20 countries. Nonita recently
participated in a panel discussion
at an on-campus event regarding
relief efforts in Haiti, speaking on
the complex issue of rebuilding.
Kelsey Rideout: What barriers
have you come across, in aiming to
change environmental conditions
and corporate practices?
Dr. Nonita Yap: One is greed,
insatiable greed. It’s actually
amazing that there are people and
groups who have made so much
money, and yet there’s not enough
somehow. One of the sweatshops
in Haiti that makes pinstriped
suits that sell for over $500 a piece
in New York, just re-opened after
the earthquake. A New York Times
article describes a woman who
works in this sweatshop. For eight
hours of works she gets $3.09.
She does hemming, and if she
finishers 60 sets in a day, she used
to get $2.60 as bonus. After the
earthquake the bonus was reduced
to a dollar and some. Now, it
boggles the mind, why would it be
reduced? You would think people
are more generous, but actually it
was reduced to less than half.
I do think though that in the
final analysis, we consumers are all
responsible for corporate behavior...
I don’t think corporations would be
so aggressive if they did not think
they could get away with it.
KR: What do you hope will
result from your work and efforts?
NY: Well I’m self-centered.
I just feel good knowing that I
am trying my best. In terms of
actually bringing about lasting and
important changes, I think the
problem is too big. But you need to
continue because there are always
opportunities for achieving a bit
of change. There was for example
a project I was involved with in
southern Africa, a four-year project
funded by CIDA…It was just
around the end of Apartheid, and
there was a lot of anger against
South African whites. So in each of
the training courses, I required that
there had to be a session on conflict
management. In my course on
cleaner production, for example, I
could sense resentment and distrust
towards the white South Africans
among the training participants,
but at the end of two weeks, people
sharing rooms actually became
friends. It was a matter of getting
to know each other to be exposed
to each other. I don’t think the
resentment was banished, but it was
a beginning. It felt good to actually
see those instances, where people
overcome their prejudices, or at
least give each other the benefit of
a doubt.
KR: How can academics
overcome this disconnect between
academic theory and practical onthe-ground change?
NY: I think exposing students
to community work, that’s one
way. I always used to say to my
students, ‘how can you do research
overseas when you haven’t knocked
on doors here? If you do not know
how difficult it is to knock on doors
here, you’ll have lots of surprises
overseas.’ So I’ve always asked
students to get involved here as well,
Rashaad Bhamjee
Dr. Nonita Yap is a professor at the School of Environmental and
Rural Design. Her research, volunteer and professional activities
have taken her to close to 20 countries.
volunteer with a women’s shelter,
be involved in something that can
give you a taste of the challenges of
community entry…the news about
business students at the university
going homeless for five days…
that’s the kind of exposure I am
talking about.
KR: What would you say to
a tired university student who is
beginning to feel that academia
cannot lead to any real form of
change?
NY: First of all, I think you have
to always remember the future is
yours. The mess that my generation
leaves is yours to clean up. You have
no choice. You have to be involved
in shaping your future. You can’t
give up because you will be the ones
to suffer…Students have to vote.
Students have to be involved in
politics. Otherwise decisions will
be made for you.
KR: What are some ways
to
transform
ambivalent
attitudes into action, concern or
compassion?
NY: It is very difficult. Change
is very difficult. Just try to change
family members. Try to change
how your brother, your sister, your
mother, your son, your daughter
does things. And you can see how
difficult it is to change someone
who is not even related to you. I do
think that change can come only
from extreme adversity, and even
then it’s not certain. I think people
change when something really
dramatic happens. But of course
look at Haiti, the elite in Haiti seem
to be impervious to the tragedy,
so I don’t know. I think personal
exposure is certainly one way…to
see people struggle for the most
basic of needs … for food and water,
to see children struggle for pencils,
for books and shoes, things that we
take for granted…if you go to a
country where you’re not allowed to
protest, you will appreciate taking
the time here to write a letter to the
newspaper here.
KR: What inspires you to keep
going?
NY:
Two
people.
My
grandmother and my son. My
grandmother
lived
hand-to
mouth, but she was always out
helping people. She brought me
up and never once in my entire
life do I recall her saying, ‘there
is no food tonight’. There was
always something to eat at the
end of day, it could be just soup,
some vegetables, but she never
complained. She allowed us to be
children, free of worries, in spite of
abject material poverty. She was
a sharecropper. When there was
a harvest, we would help in the
harvest, get a share and that would
be what we lived on. She would say
“I’ll be gone for the day,” and we’d
ask her where she’s going. “I’m off
to the next village” and she would
be going to advise and counsel
some people, usually families who
were having trouble. She wasn’t
paid…and she had nothing, no
assets. But she was very highly
respected in the village. She was an
incredible woman.
And now my son… he changed
us. He really believes that his
generation can change things. So
you know, you want to kind of
hope for him. After Copenhagen,
he was really disappointed, and he
realized that it has to be a longerterm struggle. He said we have
to be in education, we have to
look at changing consumers. He
was in Africa for seven months,
volunteering in an orphanage, and
it really changed him…I say the
youth should go. Not even overseas,
go North and learn from the
native communities, work with the
homeless in our cities, learn from
them.
OPEN CONTENT
The Chief Librarian rants
Come on, it’s called
a garbage can!
MICHAEL RIDLEY
Ok, this is a rant. Think of it
like the Rick Mercer rants. It goes
on and on. I’m walking around as I
speak it; as I rave on. Except I’m not
in some alley in Toronto. I’m walking
around the floors of the Library. I’m
seeing students at computers, in
discussions, writing, reading, typing,
talking. And this is all good. And as
Chief Librarian I should be happy.
And all should be right with the
world. But it isn’t. I’m not happy;
in fact I’m pissed off. This shouldn’t
be, but it is. I’m walking around and
I’m seeing students but I’m also
seeing ….. garbage. Cups, paper,
food, wrappers, crap. I’m also seeing
lots of garbage containers; some for
recycling, some for other garbage.
There doesn’t seem to be a relation
between the garbage and the places
to put the garbage. The garbage is
everywhere; only sometimes is it in
the containers. And so I’m pissed
off. We decide to let food and drink
into the Library. Students like it.
Eating and studying go together.
We like to make studying more
effective. Besides, we like food too.
But garbage is unsightly. And it can
smell. And it attracts bugs. Yuck. We
still think food & drink & studying
are good so we work with Custodial
Services to clean the Library. They
complain to me about the food
policy but they like students too.
They tell me about trying to clean
carpets, pick up food, keep the
Library in good shape.
And I tell them about my
favourite food stories. Like the
student we discovered on the
third floor in one of the individual
carrels. We found him because the
smell was …wonderful. He had
staffed. It’s hard to keep up. And
so far I haven’t even mentioned the
washrooms. Don’t get me started on
the washrooms. We can do this; we
There doesn’t seem to be a relation
between the garbage and the places
to put the garbage. The garbage is
everywhere; only sometimes is it in the
containers.
his electric wok plugged in and
was happily making a stir fry. Yum.
Sort of. Eating is one thing; playing
Gordon Ramsay in Hell’s Kitchen
is quite another. But back to the
folks in Custodial Services. They
do their very best; they are short
can agree to be good to each other.
It’s easy. Eat, drink, study … and
put your garbage in the containers.
Clean up after yourself. And if you
are lucky we are going to catch
you. The cleaning staff are wearing
special t-shirts to remind you of
how important this is. They will be
handing out free coffee coupons to
you if you are spotted putting your
garbage where it belongs. Redeem
your coupon and you will be entered
into a draw for an iPod (courtesy of
Custodial Services). And, yes, I too
have spilled an entire cup of coffee on
the Library’s carpet. Shame. Shame.
The Custodial Services staff had
words with me. So come on folks.
This can work. We can continue to
allow food and drink in the Library.
But we are going need your help. If
it works, maybe one day I’ll even get
my dream of a Wine or Shooter Bar
in the Library … just kidding.
Michael Ridley is the Chief Information
Officer (CIO) and Chief Librarian
at the University of Guelph. Contact
him at [email protected] or www.
uoguelph.ca/cio.
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ANDREW T
OPINION
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KNOWS SOMETHING ABOUT DINOSAURS
What’s the deal with vlogs?
ANDREW T
Good Morning Angels,
So today I’m in a bit of a funk
that I don’t know how to get out of.
Why? Because I’ve been thinking
about Vlogs all day. Ugh. Vlogs. The
name even disgusts me. If you were
in this room right now, you’d see me
grimacing. I want to puke in my
mouth. It’s the worst.
For those not in the know—and
I really don’t believe there are any of
you out there reading this that aren’t
in the know about what I’m talking
about—vlogs are video blogs. Ergo,
vlogging is video blogging. And,
to be frank, I don’t get vlogs. To be
more frank, I understand why people
would want to make a vlog, but I
don’t really get why people would
watch them. To be the frankest, I
think vlogs are dumb things on the
Internet. Wait…let me clarify:
I appreciate instructional vlogs,
where some lovely person shows me
how to make my own root beer, or
teach me how to shred solos on my
ukulele, or give me science lessons
about space and neutrons and the
future. That’s cool. It’s like having
my own private teachers that I can
doing a good job.
But you want to know what
represents someone doing a bad job?
Vloggers who just make diary videos
about their life and their “good time”
and “hardships.” Maybe it’s because
I’m an uncaring person, but I don’t
care about what those people say.
I’m not interested in their lives.
There is nothing that they will say
that will make me want to watch
them. Honestly, the only time I’ve
even given someone’s video blog
half a notice on Youtube is because I
thought they were hot. If that makes
me shallow, fine. I’m not proud of it.
It was a waste of time anyways.
And this brings me to
Chatroulette. For those of you not
in the know—and again, I don’t
know who you would be. You all
seem like the kind of people that are
all about ‘the know’—Chatroulette
is an Internet thing that randomly
links you with another webcam
user around the world to you can
meet and chat and do whatever. It’s
completely random, so sometimes
you’ll get a doctor who just wants
to share a diagnosis via webcam,
and sometimes you’ll get a doctor
showing his or her private bits. It’s
a mixed bag, to say the least. So,
I’m sorry/not sorry to say that I
haven’t yet tried Chatroulette. Why?
Because I just don’t like strangers
that much. If I wanted to meet
someone I didn’t know at random,
I’d talk to people on the bus. I don’t
do that. I walk to school instead. I
avoid the bus.
But, you know, I don’t avoid
the Internet entirely. The same way
that I find value in taking the bus
places (like the big movie theater,
am I right? That place is so far away.)
there is some fun stuff happening
on Chatroulette. Like all of the
musicians streaming live concerts
to whoever checks in. That’s cool.
They’re getting new fans, one rando’
at a time.
But otherwise? Unless you
really feel a need to meet someone
you don’t know, I see Chatroulette
being an opportunity for people to
show off to unsuspecting strangers
about their lives. Vlogs are like that.
If you run a diary vlog, you’re just
showing off your life, or how witty
your opinions are, or just the fact
that you may indeed be hot. Where’s
the substance? Where is the beef? I
need the beef. Chatroulette has got a
lot of meat on it…
P.s. Whenever I say ‘Vlog’ I think
about how ‘Blog’ is just a shortening
of ‘Web Log’ and that maybe ‘Vlog’
could be shortened ‘Vampire Log.’
That would be the craziest forest
ever.
and author Alan Dershowitz writes:
“The basic evil of South African
apartheid, against which I and so
many other Jews fought, was the
absolute control over a majority of
blacks by a small minority of whites.
It was the opposite of democracy.
In Israel majority rules; it is a
vibrant secular democracy...Arabs
serve in the Knesset (Parliament),
on the Supreme Court and get to
vote for their representatives, many
of whom strongly oppose Israeli
policies.”
Benjamin Pogrond, a South
African writer and activist in the
struggle to end apartheid, writes
that Jewish and Arab babies are born
in the same delivery rooms, with the
same facilities, attended to by both
Jewish and Arab nurses and doctors
in Israel every day.
On March 1, 2010, Michael
Ignatieff, leader of the Liberal party
and respected academic, spoke out
against Israel Apartheid Week
with a strongly worded editorial
in the National Post. He declared:
“International law defines ‘apartheid’
as a crime against humanity.
Labeling Israel as an ‘apartheid’ state
is a deliberate attempt to undermine
the legitimacy of the Jewish state
itself.
Criticism of Israel is legitimate.
Attempting to describe its very
existence as a crime against
humanity is not.”
The actions of the government
of Israel are not always right; indeed
every democratic country does
things it should be criticized for. But
describing Israel as an apartheid state
is ignorant and manipulative. Using
a volatile term such as ‘apartheid’
to describe a multi-dimensional
conflict demonstrates a lack of
understanding of how day-to-day
life functions in the democratic state
of Israel.
The other main tactic of antiIsrael activists is to promote the BDS
(Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions)
movement. The word ‘peace’ never
appears in the divestment and
sanction petitions, which makes
it very clear that the intent of this
campaign is not to resolve the
conflict but to delegitimize Israel.
Peace in the Middle East will
come only from direct negotiations,
not through misguided boycott or
divestment campaigns. Campaigns
such as this are aimed solely at
the destruction of Israel and do
nothing to promote any kind of
reconciliation. Even after Israel
withdrew from Lebanon in 2000
and the Gaza Strip in 2005, these
campaigns continued, further proof
that a lasting peace is not part of this
agenda. The singling out of Israel
for special treatment, while ignoring
real cases of genuine human rights
violations in places like China and
Sudan, is further proof that the sole
focus is the delegitimization and
destruction of Israel.
Israel wants peace. The majority
of Israelis wish to live in peace with
their Arab friends and neighbours.
Israel has already achieved this with
Egypt and Jordan.
But that being said, day-today life in the Middle East is not
conflict ridden. Israel strives to
be a nation that seeks innovation,
diversity and prospects for peace.
It’s time the that the dialogue on
North American campuses reflect
the realities in the Middle East, not
convenient buzz words that do not
suit the situation.
Courtesy
But you want to know what represents someone doing a bad job?
Vloggers who just make diary videos about their life and their “good
time” and “hardships.”
be hot for (and I got it bad). For
years I’ve been watching Comic
Book Club on Youtube, which is a
talk/review show about comics. I
also do like serialized Internet shows
like Wainy Days or The Guild. And
while I may not be a huge fan of
The Guild, I still value its presence
online. To me it represents someone
A misguided buzz word
HALEY GOTFRID
Let’s play a little round of
everybody’s favourite TV game
show, Jeopardy.
This country invented cell
phones, the Intel chip, cell phone
voice mail systems, and instant
messaging.
This country is a democratic,
pluralistic nation that has one of
the largest gay pride parades in the
world.
This country has made major
contributions to medicine, by
developing CT scanners, MRI
systems and medical lasers.
This country has opened its
doors to immigrants from around
the world, even airlifting Ethiopians
and Russians to safety when they
faced discrimination.
Give up?
The answer: What is Israel?
The tiny country is one of the 100
smallest countries in the world. Few
people know about the countless
technological,
environmental,
medical and security related
innovations that Israel has brought
to the world. Israel is the only
democracy in the Middle East and
one of the most advanced countries
economically in the entire southeast
Asian region. It is a country where
Jews and Muslims, Christians and
Druze, and countless other groups
live side by side and contribute to
the thriving economy and vibrant
democracy.
More often than not, the
media focuses on the conflict in
the Middle East while neglecting
not only the economic but also
the political and social successes
of Israel. In doing so, they create
a one-dimensional perception of
Israel and the Middle East which
in turn creates an atmosphere
where overly simplistic buzz words
are perpetuated. Unfortunately,
‘apartheid’ is the current buzz word
du jour. This emotionally loaded
term is inappropriately applied
in order to conjure up horrifying
images of another time and place
where a governmentally enforced
system of racial discrimination
and subjugation permeated South
Africa - so much so that Blacks
and Whites could not live, work
or perform day-to-day activities
together. World renowned lawyer
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MAR. 25 - 31, 2010
EDITOR'S PAGE
The Ontarion Inc.
EDITORIAL
Hunger is a problem. But not for university
students, right?
So it’s Hunger Awareness
Week at the University of Guelph.
It’s hard to deny that as soon
as we hear the words ‘hunger
awareness,’ our minds are filled
with images of public service
announcements
featuring
footage of hungry children in
the developing world. We think
hunger is far away; it’s not. Not in
Canada and not in Guelph. And
certainly not on the University of
Guelph campus. It doesn’t affect
university students, right?
If there’s any lesson that
something like Hunger Awareness
Week can teach us, it’s that while
an invisible issue, hunger affects
us locally, without a doubt. The
focus of the weeklong event,
a partnership between Meal
Exchange and the CSA Foodbank,
is to raise awareness about the
effects of poverty and hunger
locally. This is an admirable goal,
considering the impression that
seems to be shared by many on the
U of G campus that hunger is not
a serious issue facing university
students.
One in five people in our
community deal with hunger
related issues. This is a fact and
the coordinators of Hunger
Awareness Week placed a large
‘X’ on the back of one-in-five
chairs in the University Centre
cafeteria to act as a reminder to
students of this fact while they go
about eating their lunches. They
are raising money for a breakfast
program to ensure that Guelph
community children have food
to eat and a proper start to their
day. They are running a workshop
to teach students how to cook on
a budget. These are all wonderful
ways to raise awareness about
hunger and poverty issues among
students and the community. But
at the Ontarion, we feel that there
is a larger issue at work here.
Hunger is an invisible issue,
mainly because poverty is
stigmatized. It is to the point
where someone in a difficult
financial position is hesitant to
admit his or her need, for fear
of judgment. This sentiment is
echoed by representatives from
both the CSA Food Bank and
Meal Exchange. Because for some
students asking a friend to buy
food for them is not a socially
acceptable behavior, many find
it difficult to ask for help in this
way even from the social services
designed to provide this kind of
assistance. There is a misplaced
sense of shame for some people
when admitting they struggle with
such a basic need. This stigma
makes it easy to forget that there
are so many others in the same
boat, barely scraping by, and others
struggling with taking that extra
step and seeking out assistance.
Krista Kermer, the program
coordinator for the Food Bank
on campus told the Ontarion that
close to 600 students access the
resources available to them at the
Foodbank, but many others either
choose not to get help or don’t
know enough about the Foodbank
to seek it out.
Hunger is an issue everywhere.
It affects university students, as well
as community members in Guelph.
Now is a particularly difficult time
of the year for students financially
and is a time when many students
make use of the Food Bank’s
resources. This week, an Ontarion
editor, still struggling to catch up
from the financial drain of tuition,
books, and rent, turned to the food
bank for help to ensure that they
didn’t go hungry. This editor faced
no judgment and got the food
they needed to make it through
the week. Not just cans but fresh
fruit too. There are no fees to use
the CSA food bank. They ask you
no prying questions. They are open
and available. More people need
help in this way than you think.
But perhaps you don’t need
the resources that the food bank
has to offer. Maybe you have
more than enough money to buy
food to eat. The best thing to do
is consider the message of Hunger
Awareness Week, recognize that
food is precious, and be thankful
that you can afford it. Then, give.
Give your time, give food, and give
by working to eliminate the stigma
around poverty. The person who
could benefit from your efforts
could be your roommate, your
classmate, or your friend.
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was ‘Life Week’ on campus. As
pro-choice women, we think it’s
fine that a group on campus took
it upon themselves to showcase
life. However, we were fairly
disappointed with the showcase in
the University Centre on Tuesday
and the way it may have made
women that have had the difficult
experience of having an abortion
feel. We think that no one on
our campus, or anywhere else, has
the right to make anybody feel
guilty about a personal decision.
We are unhappy that this was
allowed to take place in the UC
Courtyard. We strongly believe
in freedom of expression but we
have a problem when this freedom
conflicts with the right of women
to feel safe in their environment.
We think everyone is entitled
to their own beliefs and are glad
that in Canadian law no one is
supposed be able to tell a woman
what to do with her body. We have
nothing against the campus group
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I would like to congratulate
the library on its acquisition of
HDTVs for use as bulletin boards.
It takes a brilliant and innovative
institution to look at a chalkboard
and think ‘hey, you know what?
For six or seven hundred dollars
I could get us something just like
that.’ It is good to see that in
these times of economic restraint,
when the library can’t afford
to keep normal hours during
winter break and closes early on
weekends, that high definition
bulletin boards are not outside
the realm of fiscal possibilities.
Doug Howat
On March 17, the House of
Commons passed a NDP motion,
139-136, which would require that
any request to prorogue parliament
longer than seven days be put to
vote in the House of Commons.
Prorogation or the suspension of
Parliament has traditionally been
used to adjourn the House of
Commons at the end of a majority
government’s legislative agenda.
Recently,Harper’s Conservative
minority government has used
prorogation to avoid a confidence
motion and an inquiry, which is
setting a dangerous precedent
for future governments.
The
Prime Minister is the individual
selected by the Governor General
to govern our nation. The Prime
Minister may only govern if they
have the confidence of the House
of Commons.
Therefore this
motion would be an extension of
this requirement.
This motion would increase
power to the House of Commons
and the Members of Parliament
elected by the electorate. This
motion would also apply to
majority governments as well as
minority governments. Chretien
requested prorogument in 2003,
to delay the Auditor General from
releasing the Adscam findings.
Eventually, in 2004 he give the
Prime Minister position to Paul
Martin after a caucus revolt
consumed the Liberal Party.
In other words,a Prime Minister
cannot hide from the inevitable
and must be held accountable to
the House of Commons and the
people of Canada. Our system
of government has been built
on a written constitution and
unwritten conventions. Because
of this sometimes small laws are
required to ensure everyone plays
by the rules of convention. This
NDP motion is a step in the right
direction to curb the powers of the
Prime Minister and preserve our
democracy.
Shayne Sangster
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Across
1- Beastly
6- Letters, e.g.
10- Counterfeit
14- Hawaiian greeting
15- ___ boy!
16- Colombian city
17- Middle East rug
18- Capital of Shaanxi province,
China
19- Slaughter of baseball
20- Level
21- Self-generated
23- Writing space
25- Slovenly
26- Annoy
27- Guides
29- African sir
32- National symbols
33- Draft org.
36- Floe
37- Proclaim noisily
38- Beams
39Brown-capped
mushroom
40- Fleshy
41- Nucleus of a regiment
42- Silk cotton
43- Assn.
Down
1- Unadorned
2- In play
3- Mends a shoe
4- Rational
5- Sweet potato
6- State of confusion
7- Arguing
8- Golfer Aoki
9- Tongue
10- Perfumes
11- Capital of Vietnam
12- For all to hear
13- Young girl
21- Hunky-dory
22- Finishes
24- Song syllable
27- South American ruminant
28- Tombstone lawman
29- Telly network
30- Itty-bitty
31- Dadaist Jean
32- Bungle
33- Downcast
34- Leb. Neighbor
35- Compass dir.
37- Heavenly
38- Fashion industry
40- Hammer end
41- Dernier ___
42- Curd stuff
boletus
44- Interlocks
47- Waste little by little
51- Pretended
54- Ascend
55- Siouan speaker
56- Bloodsucking insect
57- Chip dip
58- Juniors, perhaps
59- Employs
60- European viper
61- Blunted blade
62- Songbird
63- Ages between 13 and 19
43- Metal-bearing mineral
44- Bullwinkle, e.g.
45- Bar, legally
46- Rock
47- Bottle
48- São Paulo feature
49- Ruhr city
50- Brings up
52- Ingrid’s “Casablanca” role
53- Ale, e.g.
57- Convened
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MAR. 25 - 31, 2010
CLASSIFIED & COMMUNITY LISTINGS
COMMUNITY LISTINGS
LASSIFIED
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
Ontario, N1H 3T0.
Rural Landscapers Needed!
Planting small trees on farms
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Room - $280 per month,
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VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
Volunteers are needed to help
sort, move and deliver food
(purchased with Skip-A-Meal
money) to the 19 local agencies
that support those in need in
our community. Delivery Day,
March 27. 8am and/or 1pm.
Info: [email protected].
T HURSDAY MARCH 25
SOFAM presents University
of Guelph Jazz Ensemble with
conductor Andrew Scott at
Manhattans Pizza Bistro and
Jazz Club, 951 Gordon St..
519 767-2440. 8pm. $2 cover
at the door. www.uoguelph.
ca/sofam/1k_specialevents
Meal Exchange presents
Hunger Awareness Week:
Cooking on a Budget. 7pm in
Lambton Hall Games Room.
Learn how to cook a cheap
and healthy meal Free. Info:
[email protected].
FRIDAY MARCH 26
SOFAM presents University
of Guelph Concert Winds
with Conductor John Goddard
at Harcourt Memorial United
Church, 87 Dean Ave. Tickets:
Adults $10, Student/Seniors
$5. 8pm. www.uoguelph.ca/
sofam/1k_specialevents
Rainbow Chorus Dance, 8pm12am, Guelph Place Banquet
Hall, 492 Michener Road
(north of Hwy 7 or Woodlawn
Rd. in the Guelph Auto
Mall). Buffet lunch, cash bar.
Tickets: www.rainbowchorus.
ca, call 519-836-0860.
SATURDAY MARCH 27
CJ Munford Centre presents
their fundraising Masquerade
Ball, March 27 at the Delta
Hotel, 6:30pm-12 am. Food
included. Tickets: $35/Early
Bird, $40/door. Wear a mask
to win a prize. Info or tickets:
contact Josh at x56911.
Fund-raising social event,
8pm at the Bullring. Proceeds
to
Guelph-Wellington
Alzheimer Society.
Great tunes, food, prizes! All
welcome. Advance tickets:
$20. Contact 519-822-0973
or careerfi[email protected]
TUESDAY MARCH 30
Blood donor clinic in Peter
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