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Bike thefts 3
Fear of the unknown 16 Sports superstitions 21
Volume 47 Issue No. 10 October 27, 2014 theinterrobang.ca
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New Continuing Education business course
INTERACTIVE
FRANCIS SIEBERT
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Fanshawe College’s School of
Continuing Education will be offering a new communications course
starting this week.
The new business course, Effective Communication and Human Relations, will help students
strengthen relationships, manage
stress and handle fast-paced work
environment. The course will also
give students leaderships and communication skills.
The course is being offered in
collaboration with Dale Carnegie Training, which offers courses
based on the teaching of American
author Dale Carnegie, famous for
his book from 1936, How to Win
Friends and Influence People.
“Dale Carnegie, as an organization, is very excited about the partnership with Fanshawe College,”
said Thomas Otley, senior vice president of Dale Carnegie Training.
“This relationship with Fanshawe
College is the first in Canada, and
so this Canadian partnership, we
believe, is going to be to the hub for
numerous relationships to come.”
He says that the relationship between the organization and the college will equip countless lives with
the abilities and the skills to be
even more successful in their life in
their career.
“The single most significant
thing about this partnership is that
there’s visionary leadership at Fanshawe College,” he said.
While Dale Carnegie Training
courses have been offered in Canada before, it is the first partnership
between Dale Carnegie Training
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Police encourage students to stay
safe and have fun this Halloween.
Increased
police patrol
on Halloween
FRANCIS SIEBERT
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Thomas Otley, senior vice president of Dale Carnegie Training and Gay
Lima, Fanshawe College’s vice-president of academic. Starting this week,
Fanshawe’s School of Continuing Education will offer a new communications course in collaboration with Dale Carnegie Training.
and a Canadian post-secondary institution.
“We’re very proud of this praetorship between Dale Carnegie and
Fanshawe,” said Gary Danner, a
strategic results partner at Dale Carnegie Training.
Danner will be teaching the
course at Fanshawe.
“I’m a grad of Fanshawe from a
few years back, and I believe this
is going to beneficial for both Dale
Carnegie and for Fanshawe College,” he said.
The classes start on October 28
and will be held every Tuesdays
from 6 to 9:30 p.m. until December 16. The course will also be offered in the winter term. The cost is
$1,725 plus HST. For more information, contact Shannon Toshack
at 519-452-4400 ext. 4510 or visit
tinyurl.com/dale-carnegie-training.
London Police Services (LPS)
will increase patrol on Halloween,
which falls on a Friday, as well as
the day before and after the holiday,
according to LPS media relations
officer Const. Ken Steeves.
No specific neighbourhood or
area will be targeted, he said.
While there haven’t be any major incident on Halloween in recent
years, Steeves says the recent nice
weather and the fact that the holiday falls on Friday are reasons behind the increase patrol.
“Halloween is a time to have
fun,” Steeves said. “We’re encouraging everyone to have fun, do so
responsibly.”
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Kerrie McKenzie
...this is gonna sound
ridiculous... But ladybugs
Kai Mortensen
Howard The Duck
Melyssa Mayo
Whales
Chelsea McMullan
Centipedes
Kayla Chan
Public bathrooms
Imre Krizsan
Clowns definitely especially
zombie clowns
David Gurman
Going to writ ..
Cops shave heads for Cancer
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The Secure Bicycle Compound is the most secure place for students to
lock their bikes on campus, and it’s only $5 per term.
If you like it, put a lock on it
FRANCIS SIEBERT
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Campus Security Services has
identified an increase in bike thefts
at Fanshawe College’s London
campus, according to a Campus Security Services media release.
There have been nine bike thefts
on campus since September.
Special Const. Brent Arsenault of
Campus Security Services recommends that students use U-shaped
locks to secure their bikes. He advises against chain and cable locks
as they may prove to be inefficient.
He says students should take a
picture and record the serial number, make, model, size and colour of
their bikes as it will make it easier
for police to identify if ever stolen.
He also suggests engraving initials
onto a concealed area of the bike.
It won’t look good when John
Doe gets caught riding a bike with
someone else’s initials engraved on
it, he said.
Arsenault also asks that students
not be dismissive of suspicious
activities around campus – if you
see someone cutting a bike lock,
he says, call Campus Security Services.
“We haven’t had any suspects or
information come forward at this
point in time, so we’re encouraging
students to report all information
that they can,” Arsenault said.
Fanshawe also has the Secure
Bicycle Compound, located just
outside D cafeteria. For $5 per term
and a $20 deposit, students can lock
their bikes inside the fenced compound. The compound is guarded
by a camera, and it is also a designated area for smokers, so there are
always people around.
For more information about the
Secure Bicycle Compound, contact
Facilities Operations & Sustainablity at 519-452-4401.
Over 20 members of the London
and St. Thomas Police Services,
Fanshawe College and Western
University campus police gathered
with members of the OPP at Masonville Place for a new haircut on
October 18.
Cops for Cancer is an annual
fundraising charity, which included
silent auction items like tickets to
a pre-practice with Leafs players at
the Air Canada Centre and the added bonus of seeing officers shave
their heads for charity.
The event is in its 11th year and
Fanshawe campus police have participated in four.
The event has raised almost
$125,000 according to Krista
Kankula, fundraising co-ordinator
with the Canadian Cancer Society.
Special Constables Brent Arseneault and Luke Edwards were at the
event, with Arseneault DJ-ing and
Edwards getting his head shaved.
“My mom lost her battle in 1998,
so I do this event for awareness and
out of respect for my mother and
anyone still fighting,” Arseneault
said.
Special Const. Edwards also had
personal reasons for the head shave.
“My mom was diagnosed five
years ago with non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, which is similar to leukemia
but in the Lymph nodes,” he said.
“She’s been in remission for three
years so I do this for her.”
The event also provided in-community experience for Fanshawe
students in the Police Foundations
and Paramedic programs who
helped with donation collection
throughout the day.
Second-year student Jeremy VanBommel also participated as part of
Vanessa Willems
Terrified of birds
Mariann Sawyer
Failing. Or Toronto pigeons.
Kathryn Quirk
Small spaces, Raccoons,
Bee’s, Wasp’s, this list could
go on forever
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Fanshawe Special Const. Luke
Edwards shaved his locks for Cops
for Cancer, a charity fundraiser for
the Canadian Cancer Society.
the College’s Student Auxiliary unit.
He said the event was a way for
him to connect with people, showing how community policing can
help the public, while remembering
family lost to the disease.
First-year Police Foundations student Taylor Normandeu volunteered
after seeing a friend’s mother diagnosed with breast cancer.
Her friend participated in a local
head-shaving event and the action
sparked Normandeu into volunteering. She also said she thought the
event was a good way to help in the
community.
The clippers and stylists who
made the event possible were Brittany Hillier, Angela Sebekos, Nicole
Nettleton and Meghan Boyd from
The Cut Above – the salon, which
has been participating for 11 years
now.
With a $1,000 cheque from regional branches of National Bank
and more than $17,300 raised before
silent auctions closed, Kankula said
the event had been pretty successful
so far this year, while also acknowledging those in Blue.
“I want to give a general thanks to
the officers for their 11 years and all
who participated.”
Tabby Van Vliet
Clowns, spiders, people in
mascot costumes
Cassandra Gagnon
Midterms
Sara Hopkins
Raccoons! Especially the
ones in the cities that are no
longer afraid of humans
Jade Ivy Willow
Honestly? Taking a number 2
is my biggest fear of life
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NEWS
Wayne Hoffman mentalist and illusionist
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Over 200 people came to the advance poll on October 16 to vote. How
many will come out on October 27?
Voting made easy on campus
STEPHANIE LAI
INTERROBANG
Residents across London are
casting their votes on October 27 in
the municipal election.
The area in front of Oasis will turn
into a polling station on that day, but
according to City Clerk Cathy Saunders, Fanshawe wasn’t originally on
the city’s radar to be a station.
“[Fanshawe] was not our first
choice,” said Saunders. “On election
day it’s only people who live in that
ward [that] can vote in that location.
I’m not sure that people who do not
go to Fanshawe will necessarily be
comfortable going to Fanshawe.”
It was a poor voting turnout that
originally kept Saunders skeptical
about putting a poll on campus.
“In 2010 the turnout at advance
polls at Fanshawe [were] very
poor,” she said. “I think we only
had 40 students vote.”
Fanshawe Student Union President Matt Stewart was determined
to have it on campus.
“Over the summer we only had
60 people in residence out of a possible 1,200,” said Stewart. “We still
had 30 people out to vote, which
I’m pushing as a 50 per cent voter
turnout.”
“We got [voting stations] back,
we’ll just be under a watchful eye.
That’s why I’m pushing so hard
for this election because obviously
having an election poll sitting here
on campus both [for the advance
poll] and October 27 is going to be
beneficial for students.”
Stewart hopes the convenience
factor of having a poll on campus
will help with turnout.
“If you have students that are
having to walk 10 minutes to go to
a voting station, no one’s going to
go,” he said. “If it’s sitting outside
of their favourite eatery on campus
then it’s going to be right there in
their face.”
This is the first time Fanshawe
will be a voting station in Ward 3
for a municipal election.
Stewart says the FSU has been
taking baby steps toward encouraging students to come out to vote
like drafting a letter, which proves
residency for residence students.
“We’re printing out letters for
anyone [in residence] who’s over
18 and we will be putting it in their
mailbox and also sending it out electronically,” he said. “[It’s a good
idea] because students in residence
can’t vote and they don’t have utility bills even if they wanted to.”
“Elections for students in this demographic is about convenience.”
Saunders revealed that advance
poll voter turnout totaled 220.
Stewart’s hoping for 400 after voting on October 27.
“He better have a pretty good
turnout,” said Saunders with a
laugh. “He promised he would.”
“I’m not going to say we’ve already made our goal,” he said. “I’m
not going to back down from the
hard work I’ve put behind this …
I’m not going to back down even if
we get 500. The more voters we get
out the better.”
STEPHANIE LAI
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World-famous mentalist and illusionist Wayne Hoffman will be
making a stop at Fanshawe College
on October 29 to share with students his freaky ability.
“I’m coming to rock your campus,” he said.
Hoffman started off doing magic
as a child, even getting paid to perform as a teenager. When he started
studying psychology in university,
he started adding a new element to
his magic show.
“I noticed that people enjoyed
mentalism more than magic,” he
said. “They looked at illusions as
just a trick but when I did the psychological stuff everybody was intrigued by it.”
“Eventually the majority of my
show became mentalism and psychological stuff – mind reading if
you will.”
Hoffman says he’s always been
naturally intuitive.
“As a kid I thought I was just
lucky,” he said. “I realized I was
reading people … I think really
more so than suddenly learning that
I had the ability it was more of a
learned ability. I trained in order to
do it.”
He incorporates sociology, statistics and interrogation techniques.
“You find patterns in human behaviour,” he said. “You’ll notice if
you use a certain inflection and ask
a question a certain way that this
type of person will typically answer
this.”
He admits he sometimes gets it
wrong, however.
“I am [wrong] sometimes,” he
said. “I’ve had people tell me that
actually makes it better because
if I were to get it 100 per cent of
the time then it would clearly be a
trick.”
“My audience is very forgiving
and I just move onto the next one
… Being wrong is part of being a
successful mentalist.”
When he comes to Fanshawe
though, there’s no telling what to
expect. Just don’t think rabbit out
of a hat.
“It’s going to be fun and upbeat,”
he said. “But people are going to
leave scratching their heads saying,
‘How the hell did that just happen?
What is life?”
“I’m going to crush people’s
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He does the impossible. Wayne Hoffman is a mentalist and illusionist and
he’s coming to Fanshawe to blow your mind on October 29.
sense of reality too.”
Hoffman says he gets a number
of reactions from his audience too.
“I’ve seen it all,” he said. “I want
people to yell and scream and say,
‘WTF’ and everything in between,
but I’ll get people where their jaw
will drop and they won’t move.”
“If you see something that breaks
the laws of reality, you should be
stunned.”
He’s even seen people run out of
the theatre.
“The phrase I hear the most is,
‘mind blown.’”
Get excited to see Hoffman, Fanshawe. You’re just his type of audience.
“Everyone that’s coming wants
to have a good time, otherwise they
wouldn’t be there,” he said. “The
energy is always upbeat … When
you’re at a university [or college]
everyone’s there to party and that
fits my style perfectly.”
He knows his job is done when
he sees the first reaction from his
audience.
“Hear the first gasp or have two
people look at each other eyes wide
open just stunned,” he said. “You
can tell in an instant as soon as you
hit the stage and you perform, that
moment when the audience – you
just know they’ve left reality.”
There are no rules.
“If you come to this show, you
have no idea what’s going to happen and I promise you, your world
will be turned upside down.”
Hoffman will perform at Forwell
Hall on October 29 at 8 p.m. Tickets
are $5 and are sold at the Biz Booth.
For more information on Hoffman, visit his website waynehoffman.com.
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Yellow Umbrella Project shades students
from stigma
LIFESTYLES
JAMES DUSTEN
INTERROBANG
The FSU, in association with
the Canadian Student Alliance,
launched the second year of the
Yellow Umbrella Project in Forwell
Hall last Tuesday.
Ending the stigma surrounding mental health and starting the
conversation about mental health
on college campuses are the project’s main goals. These goals are
depicted in the emblematic yellow
umbrella that provides shelter for
students from mental health stigma, enveloping them in its hopeful
and happy hue.
The campaign can be engaged on
Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram
using the #CSAYUP or #FSUYUP
hashtags.
In Forwell Hall, students were encouraged to stop and talk about mental health and share their thoughts,
both positive and negative.
Positive thoughts were written
on a bright yellow banner for others
to read, whereas negative thoughts
were written on yellow balloons,
which were filled with helium and
released Tuesday afternoon.
Jessica Brook, VP External and
Academic Affairs for the FSU and a
member of the promotions team for
the Yellow Umbrella Project, explained the importance of sharing.
“Students have so many positive thoughts, so let’s write them
on [the banner] so that people can
see them,” Brook said. “If people
are having a bad day, they can look
at the wall and maybe it will help
brighten them up.”
“[The balloons allow students to]
release their negative thoughts, get
them out of their body [and] relax.”
Students were also given the opportunity to release their stress by
walking a bubble wrap catwalk, an
activity that didn’t fail to put a smile
on the poppers’ faces and filled Forwell hall with a pleasant crackling
sound throughout the morning. Promotional stress balls and buttons
were also given out to students to
combat stress and help keep the Yellow Umbrella message alive.
Brook highlighted the importance
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Students shared their positive thoughts for others to enjoy in Forwell Hall during the Yellow Umbrella Project
awareness campaign last week.
of the services offered at the college tions; the Addictions Center helps couraged to visit the FSU Office
to help those with mental health is- students dealing with substance, (SC2001) to share ideas for the next
sues: Counselling and Accessibil- gambling, and other addictions; and awareness week; volunteer oppority Services (F2010) provides free the Testing Centre provides assis- tunities are also available through
personal counselling to students tance to students with disabilities in contacting Anthony Sawyers, VP
Entertainment (FSUEntertain@fandealing with issues such as stress writing tests and assignments.
The Yellow Umbrella Project shawec.ca) and Cheriss Marson, VP
management, relationship difficulties, underachievement in school, will return next semester, and any- Internal (FSUInternal@fanshawec.
and specific mental health condi- one wanting to get involved is en- ca).
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ARTiculation: When the
sensory system fuses
with art
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ARTiculation
AMY VAN ES
I’ve written a bit before on cross-genre artists. Not visual artists who use two mediums
like paint and collage, but artists who have
embraced more than one form of art.
I think I so astutely cited Justin Timberlake – who doesn’t love NSYNC and Black
Snake Moan? But I’ve recently come across
something more impressive than JT’s iron
clad talent. It’s called sensory substitution,
and it’s going to blow your damn mind.
Sensory substitution is basically converting an experience felt through one sense, to
another so that anybody can access it. It’s
just like translating a foreign book to English
so that we can enjoy it… except the languages are our senses.
I got to researching this through the discovery of a place called the VibraFusion
Lab, which is on Clarence Street right beside
Grooves.
Although this technique has been put to
use for other fields of study like medicine,
VibraFusion is particularly concerned with
the use of vibration in the arts, and proudly
writes that it is “the world’s first artists workshop, presentation centre, and education lab
for exploring vibrational art for the body” on
the company’s website.
On LondonFuse, contributor Nicole Borland wrote about a recent experience attending an event at VibraFusion and being handed
a pair of earplugs “not to block out the sound
but to buffer the vibrations felt right to your
inner ear because these are not ones we’re
used to hearing at such intense volumes.”
Translating sound to vibration for accessibility purposes isn’t the only avenue that
this sort of work is being worked with. It’s
also being explored creatively as a form of
conceptual art.
Audiolodge, a London-based sound art
collective, developed a technique called Audio Cartography, where they transpose various visual descriptions of sound onto geographic maps.
Sensory substitution is a real mind-bending
concept to grasp. Suddenly, your five senses
aren’t attributed to body parts anymore.
You know when you’re sitting at home and
think about pizza so hard that you can actually taste it? Or when you see a spider crawling
on the ceiling and can feel them crawling all
over you?
The mind-body connection is a profound
area of study that we’re just scratching the
surface of, but from what we’ve learned so
far, there’s no telling where deeper exploration could take us in many industries, including the arts.
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Rob Ford’s years of babysitting his brother might make it impossible for voters to take Doug
Ford seriously in a leadership role.
Voters in Toronto roll the dice
VICTOR DE JONG
INTERROBANG
Cities in the province are on the cusp of a
municipal election to determine who will get
to fill the seats at City Hall, and few races
are being as closely watched as the one in
Toronto.
Despite his frequent and ongoing media
blunders, Mayor Rob Ford implemented
an admirable number of campaign pledges
during his term. As the negative press stacked
up, Ford’s popularity actually rose through all
of the conflicts. Until the announcement that
he was stepping down, there was a real possibility that the beleaguered incumbent mayor
could win another term.
Without the former mayor, the race quickly
came under the control of mayoral candidate
John Tory who had been consistently ahead
in the polls throughout the campaign.
There isn’t anything flashy or controversial
about John Tory and that could be contributing to his popularity with voters. Toronto has
a history of electing colourful leaders who
spend almost as much time ducking scandals
as they do in city council meetings.
Tory has a history of public service as a
councillor for the city, but his real appeal may
rest in simply not being a Ford. Barring any
public relations catastrophes, Tory should
find himself ahead by a comfortable margin
when it’s time to count the votes.
Although the incumbent mayor was still
making gains on the front-running John Tory
at the time of his withdrawal, Doug Ford was
Cover Credit:
Matt Van Lieshout
unable to capitalize on the momentum after
taking his brother’s place. Doug seems to
lack the flair that made Rob’s more boorish
qualities seem endearing to the voters and as
a result, he hasn’t had the voter base to make
a substantial run for the top job.
Years of being his brother’s unofficial
babysitter have fostered a perception of Doug
that will make it nearly impossible for people
to see him in a leadership role.
Bringing up the rear is former city councillor Olivia Chow, long time Toronto politician
and former wife of the late Jack Layton who
led the NDP party to great popularity. In the
last couple of weeks, Chow has shifted her
message to one that could have changed the
course of the entire campaign if it had occurred sooner.
By accusing the current front-runner, John
Tory, of being a conservative, she can effectively equate his platform of fiscal conservativeness with the leadership style of Rob
Ford. The claim is hard to refute given that
Tory actually led the Ontario Conservative
party half a decade ago, but it’s unlikely to
give Chow the traction she needs to make up
the huge gap in support.
The city of Toronto has rolled the proverbial dice on several of their mayors in the past
two decades but they may be ready for what
appears to be the safe bet. It has been a pleasure to watch and we wish them all the best,
but it looks like October 27 will be the final
night of the Ford show.
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THE OTHER PRESS
NEW WESTMINSTER — Men’s Health
magazine published an article online on October 6 titled “The Secrets to Talking Sports
with Any Woman.” The article, an advice
column, spoke about how “she sees the game
differently than you [men].” It continued on
to mention how “most women don’t care
about stats” but instead only care about stories happening within the players lives.
It provoked public outrage from men and
women alike, with Twitter users calling the
article misogynistic and sexist. In response,
Men’s Health issued a public apology and
promptly deleted both the article and their
tweet promoting it.
While the article may no longer be accessible, its message remains, along with an
inaccurate view of female sports fans. It’s
common to portray a male sports fan and his
friends going wild over touchdowns while
eating chicken wings or pizza, but rarely are
women seen as similar sports fans, with maybe a few exceptions from How I Met Your
Mother and The Big Bang Theory.
Why is this?
My mother and I are avid fans of the BC
Lions. We watch the games, discuss the
plays, and talk about the stats. Whenever we
attend a football game, there are just as many
women in the stadium as there are men. And
during the last game we attended, we overheard the women sitting next to us talking
about incomplete throws. Most women don’t
care about stats? I don’t think so.
Not only is this article and media portrayal of women’s relationship with sports insulting to female fans who pledge so much
support to their favourite teams, it’s an insult
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Women are sports fans too
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Candis Bross, Matt Van Lieshout
Sarah Watts
Ranjini Chakravorty, Victor De Jong, James Dusten, Nauman
Farooq, Pam-Marie Guzzo, Bobby Foley, Eshaan Gupta, Cody
Howe, Preston Lobzun, Joel Luxford, Jane Miniﬁe, Hai Ha
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Rundle, Marty Thompson, Amy Van Es, Andrew Vidler, Joshua
Waller
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Sports aren’t just for men, the fairer sex can
be fans too.
to women who choose careers surrounding
sports. Many women here at Douglas College are enrolled in sports science programs.
Every country that has sent athletes to the
Olympics has sent female athletes, with the
United States sending more women than men
during the 2012 Summer Olympic Games.
Let’s not forget the women who work behind
the game, such as sports reporters, coaches,
and general managers.
Megan Greenwell, a senior editor who
works for ESPN Magazine, was one of many
professionals insulted by the Men’s Health article. On Twitter, she criticized Men’s Health,
saying: “hi @MensHealthMag, you don’t
know me, but I run @ESPNMag’s annual analytics issue. [A]lso, I have a vagina!”
To add insult to injury, the article was
written by Teresa Sabga, a woman. I’m fairly sure that she, along with female sports
professionals and fans alike, cares about the
stats. So why write an article putting down
women in relation to sports when Sabga herself is a woman who has sports involved in
her everyday life?
It may be true that not all women care for
sports, but many of us do. To Sabga and the
world, females matter – both on and off of
the sidelines.
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LIFESTYLES
Putting ‘bud’ in
Ombudsperson
SPORTS&LEISURE
EDWIN BARAHONA
OFFICE OF THE OMBUDS
Here at the Office of the Ombuds, we hope that everyone is settling into their academic calendars
and we wish you the all the best as
you start your fall midterm. Many
students are unfamiliar with a key
person at Fanshawe College, Greg
Hessian, also known as your Ombudsperson.
The Office of the Ombuds plays
an important role in the lives of
students throughout their academic
careers, yet many students are unaware that this office exists on their
very own college campuses.
The few Office of the Ombuds
across North America have an appointed individual who promotes an
impartial, confidential and unbiased
support to assist students in seeking
resolution on matters ranging from
academic grade appeals to educating students on how to approach
academic tribunal matters, in the
event their concerns are brought to
a higher judicial platform.
The few Ombuds offices across
North America have an appointed
individual who promotes an impartial, confidential and unbiased
support to assist students in seeking
resolution on matters ranging from
academic grade appeals to educating students on how to approach
academic tribunal matters, in the
event their concerns are brought to
a higher judicial platform.
Some students may think, “If the
Ombudsperson does not act on my
behalf, what benefit is there for me
in a (insert pressing matter)?”
The intention of the Ombuds
Office is to act as a resource for
students seeking support when it’s
most needed.
Instead of digging through the
overwhelming paragraphs of policy students can go online to www.
fanshawec.ca/ombuds and fill out
an Online Intake Form to set up a
meeting with Greg. If your issue
surrounding an Academic Appeal
OPINION
[email protected]
Loving a partner who deals with mental illness is worth the challenge.
Visit Fanshawe’s Ombudsperson
Greg Hessian, who is here to help
students with academic policies.
has fair grounds for an appeal, this
office can inform you of the necessary steps to resolve your issue(s).
The Ombuds office can be valuable to students and less than 20 per
cent of Canadian post-secondary
institutions provide their students
with an Office of the Ombuds.
Ontario has nearly 60 combined
universities and colleges and out of
these, only 18 Ombuds offices are
active.
Luckily, for the students of Fanshawe College, the one out of 18
active offices in Ontario, is here at
this institution.
Your Ombudsperson acts with
your best interest in mind, and
given the right circumstances, the
aforementioned oversight would
not have gone unnoticed while supporting you along the appeal process.
Greg is your acting Ombudsperson who sees fairness when it needs
to be recognized, and students when
they need to be heard.
The academic semester is in full
swing; if you have any issues or
concerns, feel free to visit Greg,
your Ombudsperson, in T3016.
NEWS
CREDIT: HALA GHONAIM
When your partner has the blues
BROOKE FOSTER
INTERROBANG
The FSU’s Mental Health &
Wellness Awareness Week may
have passed, but it’s still important
to keep mental wellness in mind
throughout the year.
Albert Ramos (name changed to
protect his partner) is a first year
student in Fanshawe’s Social Service Worker program. He is also in
a relationship with a woman who
battles with depression. He wanted
to share their experiences together.
It took his partner a while to talk
to him about what she deals with.
“She would talk about the pills
she was taking and I asked her what
they were for,” Ramos said.
“One day she had a low moment
and she finally told me that she battles depression and we just talked
about it.”
He and his partner have been in
a relationship for about a year and
live together. Because one of them
has a mental illness, their daily lives
tend to look different than most
couples.
“We have great conversations
and there’s usually lots of laughter,”
he said. “But when she has a bad
day we just have to work harder.”
Ramos talked about what a bad
day for the couple looked like.
“She just couldn’t stop crying
and nothing that would normally
cheer her up worked,” he said. “It
led to her wanting to be alone so she
could cope with it. I didn’t understand and felt really unwanted.”
“You can end up feeling unwanted and helpless in a relationship
where one partner has a mental illness.”
It’s helpful to have a routine or
a plan for when your partner does
have low moments. Ramos sings
to his partner and tries to make her
laugh. They have a routine for when
things are really bad.
“‘Broken robot’ is kind of like
our code [phrase] when she’s feeling sad,” he said. “It started when
she had her first bad day in front
of me. I think she was crying over
a dead bug, and I jokingly said I
‘broke her’ so I held her in my arms
and just let her cry it out.”
“I ask her how she is feeling and
what I can do to help. If she wants
to talk, I just listen. It’s not about
me; it’s about helping her.”
Mental illness can put a strain
on the relationship. At first, Ramos
wasn’t sure if he could handle the
hard times.
“My love for her overcomes those
doubts and tough times,” he said. “I
won’t walk away just because she
faces this illness. I want to be there
when she is finally able to live with
it, pill free and fully happy.”
When things get tough, Ramos
remembers the Elton John song, “I
Guess That’s Why They Call it The
Blues.”
The lyrics “But more than ever,
I simply love you more than life
itself” ring true for him and his
partner.
“You need to always remember
the love you feel for that person,”
he said.
“She has that hope that I’m here
not just as boyfriend and best friend,
but also as support. No matter what
happens between us, she knows I
will always be there by her side.”
Dating someone with depression
takes a great amount of patience
and love.
INTERACTIVE
LIFESTYLES
Nintendo Quest : 30 days. 678 games.
BROOKE FOSTER
INTERROBANG
London local, Jay Bartlett and his
crew piled into a van with the goal
of collecting every official game
released for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
Bartlett travelled over 10,000
miles across North America to find
all 678 classic Nintendo games. Oh,
and he only has 30 days to do it.
The idea started as a dare from
Bartlett’s lifelong friend and filmmaker, Rob McCallum. The boys
saved every nickel and dime they
could and eventually turned the
dream into a documentary.
Members of The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) Club, McCallum and Bartlett started work
on a film called Nintendo Quest.
“We took a film crew, we took a
van and went across North America
twice,” he said. “We were going to
game stores, pawn shops, friend’s
houses and to anyone who was
selling NES stuff. “It was the most
fun time I’ve ever had and also the
most stressful.”
Bartlett did all of the purchasing
himself.
“I had to use all my own cash,”
he said. “We did a Kickstarter fundraiser, which was quite successful.
That was just for the production of
the film. I had to save my butt off to
buy the games.”
There are rules to the quest. McCallum made sure the task of collecting wouldn’t be easy on Bartlett.
“There are so many shows out
there like American Pickers and so
[McCallum] decided to add fuel to
the fire and said, ‘OK well you have
to do it in 30 days,’” Bartlett said.
He also can’t make any online
purchases or interact online.
“I had to just travel to different
shops and stores to find each game.”
Bartlett’s adventure had its bumps
in the road. He was tasked with
finding every NES game, including the rare ones. He found himself
buying some games for reasonable
prices and others for incredibly
unreasonable prices. They didn’t
travel on schedule often times and
dealt with having games sold out or
scooped by other collectors.
There were good moments
though. They had their chances to
talk with gaming legends. Billy
CREDIT: BROOKE FOSTER
Jay Bartlett signs movie posters for
fans at Forest City Comicon.
Mitchell dubbed the gamer of the
century, Mr. Activision Todd Rogers and Call of Duty game designer
James Portnow are just a few of the
big names seen in the film.
Bartlett didn’t give any spoilers,
so we don’t know if the boys were
successful or not. “If I told people if
we were successful, they might not
want to watch it.”
You’ll have to watch the film to
find out if Bartlett makes his goal of
finding every NES game released.
There is no official release date,
but the film is anticipated for early
2015. Visit the NES Club at twitter.
com/TheNESclub for more info and
to find links to the trailer.
LIFESTYLES
What’s your Fanshawe story:
Codie Taylor – Law Clerk
CODY HOWE
INTERROBANG
Fourth-semester Law Clerk student Codie Taylor chose Fanshawe
College for a more academic reason than most students; its proud
friendship with the Institute of Law
Clerks of Ontario (ILCO).
“The ILCO is a professional
association providing continuing
education, fellowship and networking for its members. Fanshawe is
a recognized school meaning, I do
not have to complete any exams in
order to be considered for membership,” Taylor said. “My completion
of the Law Clerk program as a recognized institution means I am automatically considered for membership when I apply.”
Currently Taylor is a student
member.
So what do future employers like
to see on resumes besides proper
name spelling and grammar? Reputable schools that are affiliated
with reputable organizations like
the ILCO.
Taylor’s sharp grasp on how to
become successful has already been
proven in this win-win situation,
but his long term career vision has
just begun.
The 22-year-old Hamiltonian
recalls a day in second semester,
where an idea sparked the light bulb
above his head.
“My idea is to create an organization called ‘Labour Education
for Students,’” he said. “My organization would help to educate
college and university students to
learn about their legal rights in the
workplace.”
“Far too often I see students who
are taken advantage of by their employer simply because they don’t
CREDIT: CODY HOWE
Codie Taylor plans on using his
knowledge from the Law Clerk program to start his own organization
to help students in the future.
know the law. I wish to change that
and I am hoping to put this idea into
action after I graduate from the Law
Clerk program.”
Taylor is only in the early stages of his plans but he has a rough
sketch of his overall goal.
“The organization’s clientele
would be students who are attending college and university in the
province of Ontario [and will] educate in subject areas ranging from
occupational health and safety to
the employment standards act,” he
said. “The mission of Labour Education for Students is the belief that
student workers need to be protected, we need someone to stand up
and say, ‘I am here to help you.’”
“That is exactly what I believe
and exactly what I intend to do.”
Taylor will be graduating the
Law Clerk program in December
and looks forward to starting his
Labour Studies program in the fall
of 2015.
CREDIT: EDDIE CAMPBELL
Jack the Ripper revisited:
From Hell graphic novel
Rating: 3/5
One of the most quintessential
cold cases that everyone knows by
name is the legend of Jack the Ripper. Focussing on one particular theory that has since been discredited,
Alan Moore’s graphic novel From
Hell provides a complex, politically intense, gory mystery perfect for
any late Halloween night. But lacklustre art significantly lowers the
enjoyment of this particular read.
The story is based on the Whitechapel murders of 1888, better
known as the Jack the Ripper case.
If you’re unfamiliar, a serial killer
murdered five impoverished prostitutes, luring them in with grapes
(a delicacy at the time) before
slashing their throats and mutilating them after death. Theories and
suspects were numerous, but none
were ever confirmed and the killer
was never caught.
Kele’s new album Trick is the
treat you’ve been waiting for
NICK REYNO
INTERROBANG
Is Alan Moore’s graphic novel From Hell worth picking up for a spooky
Halloween read?
BRITTNEY MACDONALD
THE OTHER PRESS
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If all that sounds familiar, then
you might have watched the 2001
movie From Hell starring Johnny Depp, which was based on this
comic series. But believe me: the
graphic novel is quite a bit different
and far better. The main difference
is that the story focuses more on the
Ripper himself, rather than the romance or investigation.
The art by Eddie Campbell was
the only problem I had with this
book. I wanted more than anything
to see the grit and darkness that is
so synonymous with this legend.
Instead I got pen scribbles in the
vague shape of a face, and panels
where the foreground and background are oftentimes impossible to
distinguish from one another.
I rarely ever say this, but this is
one graphic novel where I hope to
find a literary adaptation. I’d recommend this to any horror fan who
can look past the art.
Rating: 5/5
Four years ago Kele Okereke,
lead singer of the popular indie rock
band Bloc Party, embarked on his
musical journey into the electronic dance scene. Where his initial
solo album The Boxer was marked
by prevalent Bloc Party influence,
leaving it with a resounding choppiness, his latest effort Trick, released
October 14 is a highly authentic
ambient house experience that
bears no hint of his previous band.
Electronic dance music is not
usually my forte, but after listening
to the opening track “First Impressions” I fell in love with this album.
Trick features the silkiest, warmest
bass textures I have come across in
my lifetime.
They seem to fill the room with
an ambience that resonates through
you.
While too much bass presence
can over power a song, Kele’s higher vocal register cuts through the
soft rhythms and provides a crisp
higher end to his music.
This luscious range gives all of
the songs on Trick a huge sound
that is reminiscent of dance clubs
and driving through the city in the
early hours of morning.
Unfortunately it isn’t all good
news for this album.
With such a diverse sound that is
carried so heavily by the bass, you
need to listen to this album on headphones that are equipped with a
deep bass end. Taken from personal
experience, if you listen to Trick on
dinky little laptop speakers, it’s going to sound completely washed out
An album not to be listened to on a laptop – Kele’s Trick is a treat.
and soulless.
Play this album through your Dr.
Dre headphones or your car speakers and you won’t be disappointed.
The final thing I noticed about
this album is that it is largely without hooks. A hook is the part of a
song you usually type into Google
when you can’t remember the name
of a tune.
This has both pros and cons for
the album.
On the downside, this is not
something I will walk down the
street whistling. Tracks seem to fall
into each other and the whole album
blends together as one song. On the
CREDIT: KELE
upside, this is a record to which you
can easily listen from the beginning
to the end in one sitting.
It may not be memorable, but it
never fails to captivate every time I
play it through. In fact, I find this to
be a benefit to the record, however
unintended it may be. The vapid aspect of the songs keeps this album
novel listen after listen, and I can
testify that with over 20 plays on
my iTunes in a week – it still makes
me get up and dance when I play it.
This record would be an excellent
addition to your Halloween party
playlist.
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LIFESTYLES
Creating a classic monstrous look
SPORTS&LEISURE
BEAUTY BOY
JOSHUA R. WALLER
[email protected]
Most Halloween costumes nowadays are laced with scandalous
outfits and sex appeal, which is fun
for nightclubs and bars but there are
only so many times you can be a
sexy nurse. We are starting to lose
the real creative aspect of Halloween, which is transforming yourself
into an entirely different person or
creature.
Try getting inspired by some of
Hollywood’s classic horror monsters, which are some of the most
iconic makeup looks of all time.
Since these monsters (such as
Dracula, Frankenstein, the Mummy
etc.) were created such a long time
ago, they didn’t have all the technology and prosthetics as we do today so artists had to use the power
of highlighting and contouring with
various paints to create these monsters. These means these looks are
affordable, and with enough practice are achievable to recreate.
Here are some tips and tricks to
create a classic monster look.
The best types of products to
use are face paints by brands such
as Mehron, Ben Nye or Kryolan as
they are very blendable and easy
to apply. If the base colour of your
creatures face is very pale or has
a tint of colour, such as green for
Creature from the Black Lagoon,
you can mix some of the paint into
your foundation.
This will make the base comfortable to wear and longer lasting.
Powder it liberally. I recommend
powdering after every different colour of paint you apply to prevent
smudging.
To make the face look more sallow and sunken in, you need to
OPINION
Every Halloween people do their
best to come up with unique and
sometimes terrifying costumes. But
what can be even more terrifying is
what is lurking hidden in the makeup and face paint used to give those
costumes their final touch.
Known carcinogens like lead,
coal tar dyes and formaldehyde
and endocrine-disruptors like parabens can be found in almost all
conventional cosmetic products.
Even some products claiming to be
“non-toxic” can still contain heavy
metals such as lead.
This does not just apply to products directed at women. Men, you
also need to be aware of what is
lurking in your own products.
These chemicals can have a number of different impacts on human
and environmental health.
Carcinogens cause cancer and
neurotoxins can impact brain development in children and memory in
adults. Exposure to neurotoxins has
also been shown to lead to intellectual disability, epilepsy and dementia in adults.
Endocrine-disruptors have a wide
range of negative impact on human
and environmental health. Exposure in humans has been linked to
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NEWS
CREDIT: HAI HA NGUYEN
Cold Fear’s deadliest catch isn’t crab, but it’s definitely got angry claws.
CREDIT: SAMANTHA FREEMAN, YUKA CHAN, MELISSA STINCHCOMBE, TUNI MAJEWSKI AND JOSHUA WALLER
Examples of classic monster looks created by makeup artists in London,
including the writer.
do contouring, and not your every
day beauty contouring. Using dark
taupes or even blacks will create the
best ghastly shape.
For the contours of the cheeks,
bring the contour downwards to
make it look sickly – especially for
Dracula. Classic monsters usually
have a very defined jaw bone as
well, so bring the contour a little bit
onto the face to get that slimming
effect.
When contouring, keep the beginning point very strong and then
blend it outwards or else the complexion will start to look muddy.
To enhance the contour, use an
off white paint to highlight the
areas beside the contour. For the
contour of the cheeks, apply the
highlight on top of the contour,
approximately the area where you
would apply your blush. This will
heighten the effect of the optical
illusion you are creating with highlight and contour.
For any smaller details such a
stitches, scars etc. use a fine tip
brush to get an exact look. If you
aren’t very good at free handing,
create stencils of the shapes you
need and then fill them in with the
desired colour. Always make sure
the face is powdered before you
start applying the small details.
This year for Halloween, try doing something different. Try creating a vintage horror monster and
let your creativity run wild because
sometimes it’s best to stick to the
classics.
The scariest thing this Halloween
is what’s hidden in your makeup
AMANDA RICHMAN
INTERROBANG
learning disabilities, ADHD, physical deformations in babies, cancers
and infertility.
In the environment, endocrine-disruptors have been known
to cause feminization of males
and masculinization of females.
Male frogs have been shown to be
producing eggs in waters with a
high-concentration of these chemicals.
The Dirty Dozen is a list of toxins commonly found in beauty and
body products. Read the label and
make sure none of these names appear on it:
1. Coal Tar Dyes – P-Phenylenediamine followed by five digits
2. DEA/MEA/TEA – Diethanolamine monoethanolamine
3. Ethoxylated Surfactants – Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Ceteareth,
oleth
4. Formaldehyde – DVDM hydantoin, quaterniums, imidazolidinyl
urea
5. Fragrance – parfum, phthalates
6. PEGs – Glycols
7. Petrolatum – Mineral oil
8. Parabens – benzoic acid, propyl
ester
9. Triclosan – commonly found in
hygiene products
10. Talc – commonly found in cosmetics and powders
11. Cyclomethicone/siloxanes –
dimethicone, cyclomethicone
12. Toluene – methylbenzene, butylated hydroxytoluene, toluol
So this Halloween, do what’s best
for your health and the environment,
and choose to use toxin-free products. You can easily make the switch
permanently with all of your body
and beauty products.
There are many places in London
where you can find a healthier and
natural alternative to conventional
cosmetics.
Jaydancin: You can visit Fanshawe’s weekly farmer’s market
where Jaydancin has a booth. This
company provides hand-made, natural and organic skin care and cosmetic products. The store is located
at 2454 Main St.
Purdy Natural: This company
specializes in soaps, lotions, makeup, and muscle and skin balms. The
store is located at 1010 Dundas St. E
Homeopathy London: Located
in the Covent Garden Market, this
company has many different brands
of natural and toxin-free cosmetics
to choose from.
For more resources and links,
please visit lovethelabel.ca.
If you would like a tip card listing the Dirty Dozen, please email
[email protected].
Seven materials for a
last-minute costume
INTERACTIVE
THE SHOPPING BAG
HAI HA NGUYEN
[email protected]
Halloween is a fun time of year
where you can show off your creativity, dress up, get free candy and
party hop in your awesome outfit.
Some people are enthusiastic and
plan out costumes a month in advance, while some of us don’t realize it’s Halloween until the party invites come in and it’s the day before.
People can be amazingly creative
with their costumes, especially the
special effects makeup. But some
people just go for the bare basics
like putting on some ears and to get
it over and done with.
Whether you’re putting together an intricate costume or literally
throwing something together fast,
this list is meant to help you think
outside the box when buying your
costume.
If you don’t want to buy a $50
costume or want to flex your creative muscles then this list will give
you some ideas for quick and easy
materials to use this Halloween.
White bed sheet
Obvious right? But not for the
typical toga costume that you may
be thinking about but with a couple
of safety pins and scissors you can
recreate Kim Kardashian’s wedding
dress. Just add some lace and make
it backless.
Lace fabric
Any colour, depending on the
look you want. It can certainly add
an element of sexiness to any outfit.
Coloured contacts
This could go with your amazing
special effects makeup and complete the look for anything from
zombie, to clown, to werewolf or
vampire.
Sparkly cream eye shadow
Another cosmetic product but if
you wanted to have the most shimmer and shine with stay, the color
and consistency of a cream eye
shadow will last for an ice queen or
metallic looks you want.
Fake blood
If you need a lot of fake blood, it
would be better to make your own
than have to buy it. All you need is
cornstarch, water, food colouring,
chocolate syrup and flour to thicken.
Mix all the ingredients together, use
mainly red food coloring but add
blue and green to intensify and darken the mixture. The chocolate syrup
also helps to darken the mixture.
Chunky and tacky accessories
In real life, accessories in moderation is perfect, something that is
suitable for our personal taste. For
Halloween, you have to commit to
a character so choosing a big accessory that represents the character is
key. Don’t be afraid to wear that big
emblem, spider or heart necklace.
Dry shampoo/hairspray
Whether you’re going to wear a
wig or your own hair, the hair is a
huge part of the character. Assuming you go with a scary character,
dry shampoo will help give you the
texture of a disheveled look and an
excess amount of hairspray will
hold it in place.
Halloween is one day of the year
where you can dress however you
want. People may still judge, but
it’s for fun. Hopefully some of these
ideas get some creative ideas flowing for you.
LIFESTYLES
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LIFESTYLES
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Spookstravaganza: Itchy thumbs edition
GAMING THE SYSTEM
ESHAAN GUPTA
Yes, you’ve played and been terrified by the demons of Silent Hill,
and we’re all very proud of you for
it. But good horror games do exist
outside of Resident Evil and even
Amnesia. And boy will these scare
your pants off.
Five Nights At Freddie’s
(2014, PC)
As if Chuck E. Cheese wasn’t
terrifying enough, with ugly mascot characters and ball-pits with
unidentifiable, undesirable liquids
dredging the bottom, Five Nights
At Freddie’s takes things to the next
level, by having those animatronic
mascots stalk you and snuff your
lights out for good. Gameplaywise,
it’s similar to games like Night Trap
and The Experiment (eXperience
112), but far more compelling. At
$5 and ignoring its reputation for
being idiot YouTube gamer bait,
it’s definitely better than renting out
Dead Space for the nth time again.
The Suffering
(2004, Xbox, PS2, PC)
I’ve never quite had the chance to
talk about The Suffering. Good horror games with an original premise
are far and difficult to find, but that
quest ends with The Suffering. A
haunted house is scary enough, but
when those unrested souls wandering are those of murderous psychopaths wandering the hallways of
Abbott State Penitentiary, you’ve
really got to take on the role of protagonist Torque, to hack-and-slash
CREDIT: DARKWORKS
Cold Fear’s deadliest catch isn’t crab, but it’s definitely got angry claws.
your way out of this prison hellhole. The game’s nightmarish creatures, designed by Stan Winston
(of Jurassic Park and Terminator 2
fame), will haunt your dreams forever, where no shiv or revolver can
protect you.
The Blair Witch Project Volumes
(1999, PC)
You either love or hate The Blair
Witch Project for good reason. You
were likely drawn into the mythos
and left disappointed or thirsty for
more. If you aren’t a fan of “less is
more” and really want to dive into
the myths behind the creepy town of
Burkitsville, the Blair Witch game
trilogy is your best bet, set a good
60 years before the films (remember the sequel, guys?). Be warned,
while the story will draw you in,
the gameplay is iffy and best, and
painfully annoying at worst, adopting the fixed camera angle style of
Resident Evil to lesser effect.
Cold Fear
(2005, Xbox, PS2, PC)
Cold Fear definitely isn’t the
best horror game you’ll ever play.
But the cold shoulder it received
from the gaming public, with less
than 70,000 copies sold, is unfair.
Not a lot of games allow you to
play a special agent investigating a
Russian tanker caught in one of the
worst storms imaginable, but Cold
Fear lets you take on the role of
Tom Hansen, blowing up the heads
of mutant mercenaries, with a competence that gives you a solid eight
hours of entertainment.
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Creating a fresh wound can be easy and painless with makeup.
LISA KELLY
INTERROBANG
Pick up a nomination form in SC2001 and have it
completed by Tuesday, October 28th, 2014
Questions or concerns? Please contact
Matt Stewart, CRO, at [email protected]
Creating a realistic wound is
much simpler than it sounds, and
can be done with make-up you already have. To create a realistic
wound you will need:
- Clear lash glue
- Black and purple eye shadow
- Black gel liner
- Red lipstick
- Clear lip gloss
Step One: Draw wound outline
with lash glue. You can use the glue
residue that often gathers around
the cap to create dimension, which
will make the wound more realistic.
Allow at least one minute for the
glue to dry before continuing.
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Step Two: Dab and blend purple eye shadow over the lash glue
to create a bruising effect. You
can also blend purple eye shadow
around your eye to create a “black
eye.” Using the black gel liner, trace
a line around the lash glue outline.
Step Three: Fill in the outline
with red lipstick. For more variety
of color, try using two different
shades of red lipstick. Once you
have reached your desired shade
of red, use a brush to dab black eye
shadow around the edges of your
wound to create texture.
Step Four: Fill in your wound
with clear lip gloss to create a
“fresh” wound look. Now you’re
ready to scare.
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She’s got a scream that can pierce the night sky and she can convince you
to open up her cage.
Don’t mess with a scarer…
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…Or she’ll laugh at you?
Fanshawe student Lisa Kelly has
a part-time job of scaring people at
Kustermans Family Farm’s Haunted Trail in Mount Brydges.
The corn maze’s story features a
farmer whose kidnapped daughter
was never found and whose wife
committed suicide in the barn out
of depression. The farmer goes crazy and starts killing anything on his
farm.
While Kelly herself doesn’t like
scary movies, she says she still enjoys her job.
“I can’t stand anything scary at
all, but I love scaring people,” she
said. “The hardest part of the job is
not laughing at people when they’re
scared. But it’s a really good acting
role because you have to stay in
character.”
Kelly plays a farm customer who
has been kidnapped and locked in a
cage by the farmer.
“I bang on the cage and I scream
at [customers] to let me out,” she
said. “That’s my thing.”
Kelly got the job when Kusterman’s sent out a newsletter looking
for actors.
“You get paid to scare people –
obviously I’m going to try for this,”
she said. “When I showed up [to
the audition] they looked at me and
I’m this cutesy fashion girl and they
were like, ‘You’re not going to be
able to do it.’”
“They were very surprised such a
psychotic scream could come from
me.”
The hardest part of the job is trying not to crack up, Kelly said.
“There was a group of high
school girls and I scared the crap out
of them,” she said. “I started laughing, so I [had] to make it seem like I
was getting hysterical – hysterically
crying to mask the fact that I was actually busting a gut at these people.”
It may be a part-time gig, but
with pressures of school piling up,
she says it’s been a good way to get
some release.
“It’s nice, especially for my program, which is a graduate program
– to have something to do every
day … it’s nice to go out and have a
good time,” she said. “And to have
that added bonus of getting paid to
have fun.”
It sounds like fun and games for
people who work there, but Kelly
admits she’s had a scare or two at
work.
“The scary thing is the corn,”
she said. “When the wind blows
through it … it seems like there’s
someone near you.”
“Sometimes there will be lulls
in between when people are walking through, so you’ll just be sitting
there and there’s scary music… so
you hear scary music and it’ll seem
like someone’s coming near you and
it’s not a customer and you’re just
like, ‘I’m going to die right now!’”
But what is there not to like about
this gig?
“I just find it very humourous to
scare people,” Kelly said. “I have
that weird humour where I enjoy
stuff like that … I find it hilarious
when people scream. It’s a fun job.”
The Haunted Trail runs until October 31. Visit the farm’s website at
kustermans.ca for more information.
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Marvel Comics’ character Deadpool is just one of the many options there are for costume ideas.
Making this Halloween the geekiest
G33K LYFE
ANDREW VIDLER
With Halloween just around
the corner the last minute scramble for a Halloween costume is in
full swing. If you’re anything like
me, you’re only just realizing that
you’re going to need one soon.
Fortunately for us, the realm of
geekdom provides an almost countless number of ready-made costume
ideas that are sure to make you
recognizable in a pinch. From the
terrifying to the heroic, these properties are guaranteed to provide a
good number of the costumes you
will see this year.
Doctor Who
Another year, another outfit and
more proof that the Doctor is the
only guy on television whose clothes
I am concerned about. The longest
running on show has always proven
to be a widespread source of many
costumes, ranging from the highly
recognizable to the completely obscure. The tweed suit and bowtie
of Matt Smith’s Doctor have been
replaced with the severe black and
white of Peter Capaldi, and while it’s
far less recognizable than his prede-
cessors, you are sure to see quite a
few of them on the streets this October 31. If you don’t want to don the
uniform of the Time Lord, then take
your pick of the widest variety of
iconic monsters available: Daleks,
Weeping Angels and many others
are bound to been seen prowling
through your costume party.
The Walking Dead
Yeah sure there’s nothing unique
about a zombie costume, but zombies are hardly the biggest concern
for the intrepid band of survivors
from the hit AMC show. If this is
your inspiration for your costume,
you can get mighty creative, terrifying, and push the boundaries of
taste. Dress as Hershal with a sword
in his neck or a one-handed zombie
Merle, or just toss on a filthy white
T-shirt and carry an axe as a PTSD
Rick Grimes. The possibilities are
endless. With the popularity of the
show at such an insane level, it’s
sure to be a popular choice this
year and you’re going to want your
choice to be something different. Or
just be boring and be a regular zombie – that works too.
Game of Thrones
If you hadn’t heard of Game of
Thrones yet, then congratulations
on being defrosted and welcome to
2014. The most popular thing in television since The Ed Sullivan Show
is also the source for some of the
most elaborately detailed costumes
ever conceived for the small screen,
and provides Halloween goers with
approximately a million choices for
the end of the month. Is it going to
be cold? Then grab some furs and
a giant shield and go as a hearty
Northman or wildling, get your
sleaze on with a pointy goatee and a
couple of whores as Littlefinger, or
just toss on an overelaborate dress
and go as one of several noblewomen of the harsh old queen Cersei or
the sultry queen-to-be Margaery
Tyrell. If that’s not to your taste, get
warm, toss on a blonde wig and join
what is sure to be a long procession
of Daenerys Targaryens with a trio
of dragons in tow.
Comics
Sure making this one section is
cheating, but I could have filled
the paper with comic book inspired
costume ideas if I decided to divide
everything by title. A quick glance
at movies and television in the last
couple years proves that superheroes and their opponents are all
the rage right now. Not only can
you find a last minute individual
costume, but with the rising popularity of teams like the Avengers or
Guardians of the Galaxy, you can
put together the perfect group costume as well.
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The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Popularizing the “found-footage” style
present in recent productions like Cloverfield
and Quarantine, this film terrified audiences
with its gritty production and playing on the
imagination. It’s simple but effective use of
props, the terrifying psychological assaults,
and the unseen nature of the film crew’s
stalker is one of the reasons as to why this
is one of the most successful independent
movies of all time.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
Tobe Hooper’s classic slasher film popularized
the distinct features of the horror sub-genre,
namely, the use of a common power tool
for gory slayings and a horrifying brute
that pursues his victims with fierce tenacity.
The movie was remade in 2003 though the
original still stands a monumental title in the
history of horror films.
Saw (2004)
An independent horror film that explored the
morality of a diabolical man whose murder
victims are people deemed unappreciative
of life and must go through torturous puzzle
traps to survive the game. While the acting
is not that good, the movie makes up for it
by strapping viewers down with an intense
thriller-horror experience.
28 Days Later (2002)
Acclaimed British director Danny Boyle
busted the zombie cliché with this postapocalyptic horror film and gave a refreshing
new look on the subject through its focus
on the human condition and social-political
issues in the aftermath of a devastating
epidemic. Its gritty film style set in the
quarantined island of Great Britain changed
zombies from the mindless and slow paced
corpses to fast moving humans overtaken by
a virus that consumes them with bloodlust.
The Mist (2007)
While not perfectly executed, The Mist is a
notable Stephen King adaption that stands
well on its own two feet. It’s a story that
puts audiences in the position of being
more fearful of the inhabitants inside the
supermarket turned prison than the strange
monsters outside. Religious tones glide over
the top of the plot and morals are put into
question when decisions have to be made
amongst the growing tension between
restless shoppers.
Begotten (1990)
Notorious for its film style where each minute
of film took about 10 hours to produce it’s
two-tone black and white style, Begotten is
an experimental film tip toeing on the edge
of surrealism. It indirectly tells the story of
Genesis through horrifying visuals and little
amounts of sound. Because of its strange and
fringe nature, this is one of those films where
you’ll either like it or hate it profusely.
Poltergeist (1982)
With a reboot in the works for 2015, it’s
worth checking back on the film that
sparked urban legends surrounding its
production and is remembered as a
classic of the genre. The film portrayed a
family bond amidst a supernatural crisis
triggered by their house that was built over
a cemetery.
Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Though not necessarily horror, the film
does take a lot of elements from the genre.
Blending horror with crime fiction, this film
draws upon some of the vilest serial killers
and creates an atmosphere that leaves
you at the edge of your seat. The film’s
notorious character, Hannibal Lecter, makes
his mark.
A
lot of what makes Halloween so scary as children is the folklore
behind it: the stories that we were told by the campfire, or under a
sheet fort in our bedrooms. Ghouls hiding under our beds and ghosts
watching us from in the walls. And in our adulthood, the film industry has
made them come to life, reigniting in us the fear of the Halloween monsters.
Brant Thompson, local horror film aficionado and graduate of Western
University’s Film Studies program, explained a bit about two of Hollywood’s
biggest stars – zombies and vampires.
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Drawing on his knowledge from his film studies,
Brant Thompson has explored the realm of vampires
and their unique role in cinema.
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The origin of Zombiism has its roots dug as deep into the ground as
the graves they rose from.
In Haiti, the act of zombifying a person was to abolish their personal
will, and are said to have been created and used as personal slaves.
There were two ways to do this:
and everybody was trying to figure out why it happened,”
Thompson continued. “With zombie films, everybody is shooting
everybody else, so the industry backed away from that sort of stuff.
People wanted to go to the movies and feel good, they didn’t want to
go and see this bleak film.”
But now, zombies are back in full force, and with a vengeance.
“[There was] the voodoo aspect of it, where you have the priest casting a
spell and turning somebody into their slave. And there was also the more
realistic version of hard narcotics. The idea is that there was a drug that
would actually make somebody appear dead, and they’d keep them and
use them for hard labor,” said Thompson.
“Hollywood mainly stuck with the voodoo part, they didn’t go with the
narcotics because it’s not as glamorized,” he explained. “The first movie
was called White Zombie in 1932, and it was about a guy who had
somebody as a slave, trying to insulate the woman that he thought was
beautiful and wanted to be his own.”
The way zombies were represented in cinema has changed a lot
over the years.
“I was reading a book not that long ago with the trend broken down by
decade,” said Thompson.
He relateed the popularity of zombie flicks and their subjects with major
world events: “It was definitely being influenced by what was going on in
the world.”
In the ‘70s, after George A. Romero’s game-changing release of Night
of Living Dead portrayed zombies in control of their bodies, not just as
drones, a resurgence of films began.
“Zombie and apocalyptic themes are gaining cultural
currency today because they speak to the very real fears
that are intrinsic to humanity,” said Andrew Stracuzzi, a
Popular Culture professor at Fanshawe. “To me, zombies
serve one primary function – they amplify and
anthropomorphize cultural and social anxiety.”
Thompson recalled that Romero wrote a
remake of Night of the Living Dead in 1990 and
added a line that exemplified what zombies are.
“The girl says, ‘They are us and we are them’
and that’s where everybody’s fascination with
zombies comes in. They are the closest
‘monster’ to us.”
“Unlike the myth of a vampire or
werewolf or other magical creature –
zombies are grounded in our fears of
ourselves. In fact, most versions of a zombie
depiction attribute their creation to some
kind of folly by man – usually a nuclear disaster,
a deadly virus, or an accident by one person that
causes a contagion to spread. We caused it and are now
forced to confront it,” Stracuzzi further explained.
“[With] the Vietnam War, people didn’t trust the government because
they were putting these newscasts out about what was going on and they
started to not believe it. Night of the Living Dead prominently features,
throughout the movie, a TV in the farmhouse that they’re holed up in
that’s giving these news reports and they don’t really know what’s causing
the zombie apocalypse.”
“When [Romero] did his sequel Dawn of the Dead, it was set in
a shopping mall, and it was sort of about the idea that we’ve
consumed everything else, all our natural resources, everything. Our
consumerism used so much that we’re literally consuming ourselves
now,” said Thompson.
“The ‘80s was the horror craze. There were so many slasher
films, so studios were just grabbing any kind of monster
that they could make a horror movie out of.”
Cinema (and other media) is often a reaction to the sentiment of the
population. Our future is increasingly uncertain, and our generation
is recognizing the deep fear of impending disaster.
“The ‘90s was really interesting. There was such a
slow-down. We had Columbine happen, for example,
Zombie movies are terrifying because they’re an exaggerated
version of a world we could be slowly creeping towards.
On the topic of vampires in cinema, Thompson
clarified some of the major differences between
vampires of early film projects to modern day.
“F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu is interesting. It seems
like everything has gone full circle when you’re
talking about film. Vampire movies usually have two
elements. You see Nosferatu as the prim and proper
gentleman. He welcomes people into his home,
very articulate and when he turns into a vampire his
fingernails grow and he becomes a creature of the
night. Everywhere he goes he brings the plague with
him, which is what they are alluding to.”
This traditional vampire dominated the cinema
for a good chunk of the 20th century and became
a staple movie monster amongst his compatriots
Frankenstein, The Mummy and The Werewolf. This
stayed static until the closing decade of the century.
“After that you see people wanted to
branch out. You either had the prim
and proper gentleman like Bela Legosi
or some recent remakes like Gerard
Butler in Dracula 2000. Then you have
‘90s where vampires branched off into
creatures like in Blade where they’re
these things that hide out in alleyways
and suck people’s blood.”
By this point you had two very different
monsters. One was a villainous
gentleman and the other being a beast
that shares the same bloodlust as a
horde of zombies.
“We’ve come around now where they’re
kind of trying to merge it back together
where they’re a Count at one point and a
creature at another,” said Thompson.
Though they share their similarities, vampires are
distinct in nature. They take less careless actions and
are not as easily duped as most monsters are. They
are quite powerful in their ability to fly or shape shift
but they are also flawed by nature.
“I remember reading a lot of stuff about there
being a lot of crossover with werewolves. As far as
vampires go, they try to set them apart as being
leeches. It’s also a predator-prey thing where we are
their food. They’re trying to put them as the ultimate
human at the top of the food chain. Even then they
have some severe weaknesses and they need us to
survive.”
In a metaphorical sense, vampires can stand in for
many things. As most horror goes, the fear of the
unknown is often explored through these characters
and creatures. They can also allude to other things
as Thompson continues,
“In the ‘80s it was an interesting time. Vampires
became a representation of the AIDS epidemic.
When AIDS came in and blew up, vampires became
a representation and their teeth for example would
stand in for things like needles.”
Vampires are largely a Western world phenomenon
though they also appear in other cultures. Anime
(Japanese animation) has a romanticized fascination
with these beings. Movies such as Vampire Hunter D
produce vampiric characters that the audience feels
sympathy with. Their hunger for blood is seen more
as a tragic flaw rather than a tool of terror.
“In anime they’re seen as a beautiful woman or guy
but when they become a vampire their clothes rip,
face contorts, this massive jaw comes out with crazy
teeth.”
So what spooks us about these creatures exactly? Is
it their organized attacks on humans during the night
or is it something more specific?
“We have a definite fear of stuff like needles.
Someone piercing your neck with teeth is terrifying.
Vampires are usually shown creeping into your
bedroom at night when you’re most vulnerable.
It’s also an infection aspect, they bite you and you
become sick,” said Thompson.
“Even up to the ‘90s decade (where vampires
became more beast than human), they have plans;
they have set ideas on how they will come about
their goal. They’re master strategists.”
The road for vampires in cinema has taken many
different roads. Some vampiric elements seep into
crime-drama fiction where notorious killers engage
in vampire practices. Others will mix in science
fiction or fantasy to create an intensive backstory to
support the vampire creatures as a major influence
on the plot. Though terrifying to some, bloodsuckers
have also been the subject of parody that overlaps
with the comedy genre.
“The big comedy ones are Abbot and Costello
meets Frankenstein. Dracula is kind of the leader
and the brains of the operation,” Thompson said.
And as time goes on, our fascination with vampires
still exists. An offshoot of Goth subculture produced
people that follow the vampire lifestyle (with strict
outlines of what is acceptable of course). We will
occasionally see people engage in LARPing (Live
Action Roleplaying) once in awhile under the
fictional personalities from the ‘Vampire’ series of
role-playing games. The novel series turned movie
franchise, Twilight, showed that vampire fiction
transcends, ages and can also be the subject of
interest for people who aren’t typically into the
horror genre.
“You definitely saw a resurgence with Twilight. The
romanticized version has made a cyclical return
to the suave vampire. It’s just been updated from
wearing a cape to wearing Abercrombie and Fitch.”
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Zombie hoard takes over Victoria Park
SPORTS&LEISURE
BROOKE FOSTER
INTERROBANG
Victoria Park was filled with zombies on October 20. But don’t start
hording canned food and weapons
just yet. The invasion was a demonstration by a horror survival roleplay group called Dystopia Rising
as part of a Forest City Comicon.
About 30 people dressed in zombie and hunter costumes made their
way to the park with handmade
weapons. The swords, axes and
sticks used to hunt the zombies are
called boffers. They were completely safe and made from PVC pipe
and covered in foam.
Dylan Rowe, leader of southern
Ontario’s Dystopia Rising chapter,
said it was a good experience.
“This is a really good escape,”
Rowe said. “It’s fun it’s stress free
and it gives a bit of an adrenaline
rush.”
The group regularly gets together to take part in role-play games.
Once a month, they trek to a campsite that has been set up in preparation for the zombie apocalypse.
“You set up, sign in and then the
game starts,” he said. “Sometimes
you get the feeling of real fear. But
when it gets too much, since this
is all for fun, the staff will tone it
down.”
Everyone picks and creates their
own character from a number of
different professions and strains.
There are many different kinds of
zombie hunters and many different
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Role-play group Dystopia Rising filled Victoria Park with zombies during a demonstration to attract new players. Leader Dylan Row and a new member
fight off a zombie during a demonstration.
kids of zombies. Each character has
different abilities and skills.
“For new players, we run a game
where they are clearing roads and
come across the campsite or settlement to ease them in and for them
to get a feel for the game,” Rowe
said. “At the start, your character
is not completely helpless but they
aren’t the kind of person that goes
around crushing zombie heads together with your bare hands.”
A team of writers creates the sto-
ry lines in advance.
“In our last plot there was a mad
scientist creating psychic zombies,”
he said. “We had to find his lab, find
him and destroy the zombies.”
During the entirety of the weekend the players work as a team to
complete one detailed plot. Often
times, story lines need to be continued over multiple events.
Rowe said that every player is
unique and has different reasons for
joining the group.
“I got into role play because I just
wanted to try it,” he said. “I wanted
to get into something new and I figured it would be a good way to meet
people.”
Many of Dystopia Rising’s players are former military members
who have posttraumatic stress disorder. Rowe said the game is found to
be extremely therapeutic for them.
“You would think that putting
someone with that kind of problem
in this situation would harm them,
but it does the exact opposite.”
When zombie characters attack,
hunters use their weapons to defend
themselves. The game is action
packed and thrilling.
The crew is currently in the process of moving to a more suitable
campsite, but the next event is expected to take place mid-November.
If you are interested in getting involved, check out Dystopia Rising
North’s Facebook page at facebook.
com/groups/dystopiarisingnorth.
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Putting together a costume
on a shoestring budget
LISA KELLY
INTERROBANG
It’s the night before Halloween…
or in most cases, the day of, and you
haven’t even thought about a Halloween costume yet. Payday isn’t
until next week and you have about
$20 to come up with a creative costume that will win you the coveted
$1,000 prize at Cowboys Ranch.
Fret not, dear friends, costume
designer and owner of The Naughty Gypsy Laura Hubbard shares her
tips for putting a costume together
on a budget.
Here are seven tips for creating a
costume without breaking the bank:
Duct tape is your best friend.
It comes in so many different colors and patterns, and you can make
anything with duct tape: your main
outfit, accessories, boots, crowns,
and so much more.
Thrift stores. Whether it’s value
village or goodwill, second hand
stores are a gold mind for putting
together costumes. Often you will
find vintage items or items from a
specific decade for super cheap.
Your parents or grandparents
closets are a goldmine for free
costumes. Scour their closets for
clothes from different decades,
nerdy glasses, and funky accessories.
Upcycle and recycle. Get creative, and use items from your recycling box, garbage, or clothing
donation pile, to create a unique and
interesting costume
Have a costume swap. Organize
a costume swap in your residence.
Tell everyone who has a costume to
bring it in. Leave a costume, take a
costume.
YouTube – the possibilities are
endless! Use YouTube for everything from making a cardboard long
sword, to Jack Skellington makeup.
YouTube has tons of do-it-yourself tutorials that show you how to
make just about anything for free,
or relatively inexpensive
Concentrate on one piece each
year. If you have your heart set on a
specific cosplay character that you
want to copy, but can’t afford to do
it all at once, concentrate on one
piece each year until your costume
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Who says looking good has to cost
an arm and a leg? A Clark Kent
costume can be recreated easily.
is complete. Don’t be afraid to use
second hand stores or pre-packaged
costumes to fill in the game as you
create your masterpiece.
Here are some quick DIY costumes:
Clark Kent
You will need:
- Black pants or skirt
- A white button up blouse
- Nerdy glasses
- A superman shirt
- Suspenders (optional)
Bill Cosby
You will need:
- A bright geometric print sweater
- A profound love for Jell-O
Mrs. Doubtfire
You will need:
- Woman’s clothes (borrow from
your mom/grandma
- Baby powder for your hair
- Don’t forget the lemon meringue facemask!
Bank Robber
You will need:
- Black pants or skirt
- Striped top
- Black toque or face mask
- Money bag
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- You will need:
- A white tee shirt
- A black sharpie
- “Who cares” attitude
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Who thought it would be possible to grade a movie lower than C? Low-budget, Z-grade movie Redneck Zombies
is a work of art to behold.
Spookstravaganza: B-grade
movies you need to watch
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ESHAAN GUPTA
Have you run your Halloween
staples ragged? Poltergeist or The
Shining are scary, sure, but there’s
only so many times you can digest
the same without asking for more.
If you’re willing to sacrifice quality
for entertainment value, the wonderful world of B-grade movie horrors can give you more laughs than
chills for the season. You’ll likely
spot these classics at your local
thrift shop’s VHS bin.
Waxworks (1988)
Sure we already had a wax-museum-themed horror film with the
Vincent Price scare masterpiece
House of Wax (1958), but Waxworks was a lot less ‘murder people
and use their corpses to repopulate
a wax display’ and more Night at
the Museum sans Ben Stiller plus
more ‘80s perms. It’s corny, hi-
larious and has John Rhys-Davies
(Sallah from Indiana Jones) as
a werewolf display come to life.
What more could you ask for? Well
if you really do want more, the saga
continues with Waxworks II.
Critters (1986)
Despite the insistence of the
filmmakers, Critters has still been
slapped with the reputation of being a rip-off of Gremlins, what
you rented at Blockbuster when
they were fresh out of tapes for
The New Batch. The movie (and
its three sequels) are actually pretty
different from Gremlins (choosing
“aliens from outer-space,” instead
of questionable Chinatown myth as
an origin story), with their scuzzy
little crawlies remaining grotesque
throughout.
Leprechaun (1993)
Probably most famous for starring
a not-yet-famous Jennifer Aniston
whom we’re all glad really turned
around. Unfortunately, we can’t
quite say the same for little person actor Warwick Davis (Wickett
the Ewok from The Empire Strikes
Back) who stars as the murderous
leprechaun for not just this movie,
but for all five increasingly bad sequels. Whether or not the idea of an
unusual monster is something you’d
like in a horror movie, the sheer stupidity of a leprechaun serial killer
will keep you coming back.
Redneck Zombies (1988)
Troma Studios, who brought
you delightful low-budget classics
like The Toxic Avenger and Trey
Parker and Matt Stone’s Cannibal!
The Musical, gives you its lowest-budget Z-movie (literally) with
Redneck Zombies. Redefining direct-to-video by being shot entirely
on actual videotape, the idiot plot
involves idiot rednecks drinking
“highly toxic experimental chemical warfare nuclear waste” (did
I mention they brought on several
scientific committee members as
fact-checkers?), turning into zombies, and generally wrecking havoc among select groups of amoral
teenage ne’er-do-wells, like any
other good horror-comedy.
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Fear of
the
unknown:
SPORTS&LEISURE
Local horror stories
ALLY JOL
INTERROBANG
On the east side of Highbury Avenue, north of Dundas Street and
south of Oxford Street East, dwells
London’s old Asylum for the Insane (LAI), standing since November 1870.
The original main hospital building was torn down in 1975. The last
remaining weathered and old discoloured brick buildings that are the
infirmary, horse stables, recreation
hall and the Chapel Of Hope still
lurk on the grounds behind St. Joseph’s Regional Mental Health Centre, with boarded up windows and
a hair-raising historical vibe that
draws you in closer and closer until
you find yourself standing face-toface with fear.
Fear of the unknown.
It’s rare to find anyone who has
actually been given the opportunity
to see what the inside of the abandoned building looks like since the
old structures have been closed off
to the public, but luckily an anonymous source who was offered an
“off the record” tour of the facility by the maintenance supervisor
in 1998, posted his experience on
explorationproject.blogspot.ca and
revealed that it was a decision he
regretted “almost immediately.”
“The imagery that comes to mind
when inside is at times, gruesome,”
said the source. I was not a ‘believer’ in the supernatural, until that day.
Inside the old building, there are
noises, sounds, things that I could
simply not ‘explain away.’”
“There is a sadness that you are
hit with upon entering,” he said.
“It stays with you the entire time.
The basement consists of draconian
cells made of thick steel bars and
old stone. There are still (at that
time in ‘98) metal fixtures on the
walls that were once used to chain
patients to the walls. The top floor
has a large boarded up area on the
roof, that can be seen from the out- made it impossible to masturbate
side that was utilized for sunlight without pain and injury
It wasn’t until after Bucke died
as that was the room in which lobotomies were performed. And in 1902 that the third and following Superintendent Dr. George A.
many other surgeries.
Another anonymous source
ad- McCallum
LETTERS
TO THE recognized
EDITOR the need for
mitted that she had [email protected]
inside trained nurses and established such
training at the LAI.
the Q Building this year.
“Murders, sexual abuse, border“I actually managed to get inside with a group of my friends,” line atrocities were committed on
she said. “They didn’t exactly clear human beings in those buildings,”
out the building, there’s still some said the source. “From patient upon
equipment. The moment you get in- patient, staff upon patients, and
side you feel like you want to leave. patients upon staff. Even the old
horse stable that can be seen from
It’s got an unnatural feeling to it.”
Back in the 19th century, poorly Highbury Road had horrific stories
paid untrained attendants were re- attached to it. He [the maintenance
sponsible for the treatment and care supervisor] had heard stories, first
of patients. As a result, institutional hand, from doctors and employees
violence, wrongful confinement, who had worked there before him.
and surgical experimentations and I did not doubt this man. His intent
other institutional atrocities often was not sensationalism.”
“The supervisor had been there
took place.
Ever heard of the saying that for decades. The things he had seen
“idle hands are the devil’s play- with his own eyes in our ‘modern
things?” Well you could almost times’ were enough to turn stomsay that the property’s 300 acres of achs. He was one of the first peolandscaped grounds were based off ple to see the results of the patients
that had decapitated another in
this premise.
The land that the asylum was the 1980’s. Remember that?” The
built on is a significant reminder source said.
Brad Howard, a local Londonof the approach that the second superintendent Dr. Richard Maurice er, recalls the beheadings from his
Bucke had in regards to his belief in youth.
“Years ago, my dad worked there
the therapeutic benefits of labour on
as a psychiatric nurse’s assistant and
patients’ health and rehabilitation.
However, Bucke was part of the it was a Halloween night and I know
absurd surgical experimentations that somehow one of the patients
that took place in asylums across had gotten a hold of a bread knife.
Canada. He believed in the theory You know, one of those serrated
that there was a direct relationship bread knifes? And going through
between masturbation and insanity. the rounds they found one of the
It is known that he had performed patients with their head nearly cut
over 200 controversial experimen- off from this woman using the bread
tal gynaecological surgeries on knife on her,” Howard said. “And
female patients due to the theory they used to hang themselves in all
that a women’s mental health was the apple trees and all that.”
LAI has officially made the numintimately linked to her reproducber one spot on my list as the creeptive system.
In males, he treated masturbation iest – yet interesting – place in our
by surgically inserting a silver wire city.
through the patient’s foreskin which
OPINION
CREDIT: AMBERLIE BANKOFF
The self-titled EP from Crystal Sister is as fearless as it is listenable. She
marries indie with mainstream with ease.
Crystal Sister talks about
art, love and her new EP
BOBBYISMS
BOBBY FOLEY
I write about random things a lot.
I write a lot about random things.
Throughout history, the modern
advances that have been made by
accident are astounding. The world
of music is no different, and without even realizing it we enjoy the
sounds of happy accidents in our
favourite albums all the time.
That said, the way that Crystal
Sister – the moniker of Los Angeles-based Sonya Bender – marries
lo-fi indie chill with mainstream
pop nuances is certainly no accident. Bender and producer Daniel
Luttrell, another songwriter known
for his work with Sky Ferreira, collaborated to fuse the genres on the
eponymous EP, which was released
independently on October 3.
Comprised of three songs – including “Inside My Heart” and
“Take My Hand,” the latter of
which was named Track of the Day
by UK tastemakers Killing Moon in
September – the EP is a fresh and
potentially addictive listen, the result of what Bender describes as a
life inspired.
“I’ve been making music my
whole life,” Bender said, who has
lived in L.A. since she was 17. “I
grew up in a musical family that
really encouraged me to sing and
express myself. I was just always
surrounded by interesting, creative
people that really fostered my interest in art – like playing guitar with
my dad growing up, he taught me
a lot when I was young about the
craft of songwriting.”
Bender made the decision a few
years ago to step back from live
performances to focus on writing
and composing new music. That
focus was complemented when she
met Luttrell by chance, and the two
quickly found a musical chemistry.
“It was one of those random
meetings, we hit it off from the beginning,” she said. The two shared
influences in retro ‘80s pop and
found inspiration in some of the
technology and recording techniques of landmark pop albums of
decades past, employing authentic
drum machines and similar gear on
the album.
“[Luttrell] and I had a similar
taste and vision as far as the kind of
music we were interested in making,” she said. “We got to talking
and sharing music, it was so organic
– we both loved fuzzy, reverbed-out
indie stuff, but also really loved
mainstream pop. That’s where
this music started, with the idea of
bridging those two sounds.”
The self-titled EP examines love
and relationships in a very personal
way – Bender admits that the songs
were inspired by one individual,
and the music is reflective of many
different facets of the relationship
that transpired. Although the sessions became pretty raw emotionally, they resulted in an EP that is as
fearless as it is listenable.
“It was an interesting experience
for me, because the whole thing
was strange – sort of half-unrequited and half-realized,” Bender said.
“I had never been so inspired by a
person or event as much as I was
with him. When Daniel and I were
working on the EP, it was extremely raw, but I don’t really know another way, I live with my heart perpetually on my sleeve.”
Of the long-awaited release date,
Bender admits to conflicting feelings of excitement and anxiety.
“It was extremely liberating,
even just the day that we put the
music on SoundCloud, because I
had wanted to share it for a long
time. But it’s also terrifying – just
having that out there for everyone
to hear and view, love or judge ...
it’s a weird combination.”
“Mostly I’m excited, I worked
really hard on this music and I love
it, I want it out there,” she affirmed.
“Now that everything has come to
fruition, it’s interesting to look back
– this music helped me to move on,
and if I’ve taken anything away
from the experience, it’s that sometimes someone can serve as a creative muse and that’s enough.”
For more on Crystal Sister and
her new self-titled EP visit crystalsister.bandcamp.com or follow on
Twitter @crystalsisterxo.
And for more of the latest music
news, album streams and artist profiles, follow this column on Twitter
@fsu_bobbyisms. Happy Halloween everyone. Be safe out there. I’m
out of words.
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When gods play dice with the universe
PAM-MARIE GUZZO
INTERROBANG
CREDIT: SONDER
Another EP to take a listen to – Sonder’s Yours To Take gets this reviewer’s seal of approval.
From under the counter:
Sonder – Yours to Take
PRESTON LOBZUN
INTERROBANG
London’s hardcore scene is surprisingly not as large as you would
think but that doesn’t mean it lacks
in its musical output. I’m fortunate
enough to have been exposed to it on
multiple fronts, including its faction
of bands that have stemmed from its
very active metalcore scene.
Over my relatively short period of
time living here, I’ve seen some of
these bands grow and develop their
own sound that distances themselves
from the negative connotations of
metalcore in favour of something
that lacks clear definition.
It’s hard to discuss this kind of
music without using technical terms
to describe different genres but I believe it is very important given the
current state of hardcore and heavy
metal today.
To fill you in briefly, metalcore
are both of these genres super imposed on each other, taking the intricacies of metal and mixing them
with the aggression and intensity
of hardcore punk. Metalcore developed in the ‘90s with bands like
Converge, Hatebreed, Earth Crisis,
Judge, who have since become huge
icons that redefined both genres in
the ensuing years.
Since these groundbreaking
bands began, the genre has become
extremely broad in definition and
inclusion with Atreyu, Killswitch
Engage, As I Lay Dying, etc. that all
have had massive commercial success with their introduction of melody and occasional clean singing.
Metalcore has since become
defined by its emphasis on breakdowns and though it has dipped
slightly in popularity, it is still enjoyed thoroughly by its fanbase.
So with this in mind, we can listen to Sonder and consider it to be
a metalcore release though the band
has very much distanced itself from
that label since it last released music over a year ago.
Sonder dives into the subconscious, climaxing in the epic “Madness/Gravity,” which features King
Pin frontman Bob Calwell before
unleashing one final breakdown at
the end of “The Comedown.”
Sonder pushes through slowly,
relaxing on faster tempos and focusing on heavy hits and grooves
throughout most of the EP.
The production quality of the
EP itself is also fantastic, being
recorded at extremely comfortable
looking “Sugar Shack” with Simon
Larochette who has been the engineer for many recent releases in
London.
A band that comes to mind quickly when listening to this EP is certainly The Chariot, which, with
slightly more noise, achieves similar effects on the listener and it’s no
doubt that Yours To Take is probably influenced by this band.
So whatever your niche is in the
mountains of metal/hardcore bands
that exist out there, I surely believe
that Yours To Take’s EP is an enjoyable one and I am personally excited to see what comes next. You can
listen and download for free at their
bandcamp page (yourstotake.bandcamp.com).
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There’s a conflict we all experience at some point in our lives. The
pull between who those we love
want us to be and who we dream
of becoming. It can tear us apart, as
brutally as Lisa, as we try to balance
pleasing our families and our hearts.
In The Book of Life, Manolo
(voiced by Diego Luna) struggles in
this well-known battleground, while
trying to charm the love of his life
and save his town at the same time.
The story – especially the first
half of the film – has a certain lack
of originality.
There are a large number of parallels to Beauty and the Beast, including the background bimbos making
fun of the girl who reads, and Joaquin (Channing Tatum’s character)
coming across very much as a Gaston with slightly more soul.
Some of the more climatic scenes
also suffered from this lack, with
portions looking almost like an exact play-by-play of Final Fantasy
VII: Advent Children. While it’s important to remember that the movie
was made for children, it can leave
an adult viewer being reminded of
a movie that he/she used to know.
The Book of Life did have a beautiful and original animation style,
with worlds that were vibrant and
thematically appropriate. The character designs, especially for the
gods Xibalba and La Muerte (who
were excellently voiced by Ron Perlman and Kate del Castillo), were
incredibly detailed and unique.
Even secondary characters that
were seen only for moments had an
obvious level of care and artistry
that one could only wonder at.
The characters also benefitted
greatly from genuinely amazing
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voice acting, especially by Tatum.
Despite the problems with his character, the nuance of emotion and
slight hesitation on certain lines betrayed a depth that the writing alone
failed to convey.
Joaquin was brushed off early,
made out almost as just another obstacle at times, and this was really
a disappointment as he was so easy
to sympathize with, being the one
character who was flawed enough
to seem real.
There were also some very nice
touches done with the music. While
many of the songs used were wellknown pop, Gustavo Santaolalla
managed to give each a Mexican reinterpretation, some of which were
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almost better than the originals. The
score made for the film specifically
was touching and added something
intangible that was missing from the
rest of the much-rewritten script.
The worlds created in The Book
of Life were truly amazing with an
amount of detail and dedication that
one wished had gone into the writing. The Mexican Day of the Dead
is a celebration of life and an honouring of the dead, going back thousands of years, and the holiday was
shown in all its glory in the movie.
Getting past the odd juxtaposition
of an unoriginal story in a wholly
original animation style may be difficult, but the world and characters
make the effort worthwhile.
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LIFESTYLES
Aries (March 21 - April 19)
It takes longer to do something
than it does to delegate it. Return
phone calls and send email messages right away. If you’re ready to put
your plans on hold, there’s plenty of
time for helping others.
Taurus (April 20 - May 20)
Get an idea of the game that’s being played before you jump into it.
Someone’s style, whether genuine
or counterfeit, says much about the
person who has adopted it. Soon,
you may need to choose a side.
Gemini (May 21 - June 20)
Your brain is your sexiest feature,
especially when someone gets you
talking. You’re allowed to generate
without following through. There’s
too much bounty for you to commit
at this early stage.
Cancer (June 21 - July 22)
The world is bewildered when
you shout your fantasy from the
rooftops. Having others laugh is
almost worse than getting them
angry. Cancer might need to come
out of their shell, but you do it with
more practicality and less drama.
Leo (July 23 - August 22)
In the words of the Firesign Theatre, ‘I think we’re all bozos on
this bus.’ Everyone’s a clown these
days. You’re on a personal mission
to teach society how to laugh at
itself. Celebrate instead of simply
mocking.
Virgo (August 23 - Sept. 22)
While your gift might feel like a
curse, others really appreciate what
you do for them. One of these days,
you’ll have time for yourself, but
right now the Universe has other
plans. Smile and look as if you care.
1. In 1967, Australia’s Prime
Minister, Harold Holt, decided to
go swimming one day and was never seen again.
2. Scientists found that 15 per
cent of matter in the air at subway
Libra (Sept. 23 - Oct. 22)
Diversity brings you a wide
range of happy choices. You make
new friends through a shared experience. A deep current rises to the
surface, pointing the way for all
who can see it.
Scorpio (Oct. 23 - Nov. 21)
The view from the edge bores
you when you can’t go any further
outward. Turn and face the light for
now. Work with what you have. In a
few days, the impossible will seem
attractive again -- and maybe even
possible.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22 - Dec. 21)
Rather than trying to recapture a
little piece of the past, move ahead.
The audience has scattered and
gone home. Any changes that you
make now should be for you and
you alone.
Capricorn (Dec. 22 - Jan. 19)
A sudden change in the cosmic
weather upsets everyone’s plans.
An innocent social situation becomes unstable. Despite your desire
to stay out of it all, you could find
yourself in a leadership position.
Aquarius (Jan. 20 - Feb. 18)
You’re treated to a walk in the
clouds. The landscape of ecstasy
is familiar, as though you retain
the memory of it somewhere in the
back of your mind. Your lover is
probably here with you.
Pisces (Feb. 18 - March 20)
You might have to ask permission for what you hope to do. Try
using logic before you opt for an
emotional appeal. As a final resort,
skip the despair and head straight
back to the drawing board.
stations is human skin, from areas such as heels, belly buttons, armpits, and rear ends.
3. The colours red, yellow and orange are not recommended for use in kitchens if
you’re trying to lose weight as they
are known to stimulate appetite.
4. The reason why old books
have such a distinct smell is because
hundreds of organic compounds in
the pages break down over time and
release chemicals that smell like almond, vanilla, and grass.
Sudoku Puzzle
puzzle rating: very hard
Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 grid contains
the digits 1 through 9. That means no number is repeated in any column,
row or box. Solution can be found on page 21.
Across
1. Old fashioned letter opener?
5. Headline from recent Interrobang
issue: “___ emphasizes importance of
mental health and wellness”
8. Ascap alternative
issue: “SAC ___ results
13. “Tootsie” Oscar winner
16. Black eye
18. “___ on Down the Road”
19. Figures of speech?
21. Renaissance fiddle
issue: “___ dollar textbooks an alluring, illegal option”
25. Borodin’s “Prince ___”
26. Had too much, briefly
27. “___ homo”
29. Diamond stat
30. Puncture sound
31. Gangster’s gun
32. Bundle
33. “Are we there ___?”
34. Carpenter, at times
36. Goals, e.g.: (abbr.)
39. Song ender
41. small garden plot
42. “East of Eden” director Kazan
43. “So ___!”
45. Cat calls
46. “___, vidi, vici” (Caesar’s boast)
47. “Come Back, Little Sheba” wife
48. Balloon filler
49. Put the whammy on
issue: “Comic-Con coming to ___
October 20”
52. “Happy Birthday” writer
54. “Yikes!”
59. “I Love a Parade” composer
60. Evaluated
61. Gray of “Gray’s Manual of Botany”
62. Bunk
63. Sounds of reproof
Down
1. Calendar month (abbr.)
5. Every day, one per cent of the
world’s population is served at McDonald’s.
6. Warner Brother’s hated the
name Beetlejuice, and urged Tim
Burton to change it to something
clever. Burton jokingly suggested
calling the movie Scared Sheetless,
and was horrified when the studio
actually liked it.
7. HBO passed up The Walking
Dead because they thought it was
too violent. They also passed up
Breaking Bad and Mad Men.
8. Heath Ledger asked Christian Bale to actually beat him for
the interrogation scene in the Dark
Knight.
9. While pumpkins are typically orange, they can also be green,
white, red, gray, and even blue.
10. It’s bad luck to leave a house
through a different door than the
one used to come into it.
11. Pirates believed that piercing
the ears with such precious metals
as silver and gold improved one’s
eyesight.
12. In 2000, the KKK adopted a
stretch of highway near St Louis,
the MO government responded by
renaming the road the “Rosa Parks
Highway.”
13. In 2006, an Australian man
tried to sell New Zealand on eBay.
The starting price was $0.01 AUD
and managed to reach $3000 before
eBay closed the auction.
14. New Google employees are
called “Nooglers”, and are given
a propeller beanie cap to wear on
their first Friday.
15. According to a 2014 study,
one in 10 Americans think HTML
is a sexually-transmitted disease.
16. There’s a children’s book titled Where Willy Went detailing the
adventures of a sperm.
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34. Athletic supporter?
issue: “Senators set their sights on
students with ___ initiative”
37. Food sticker
issue: “He ___, she said, nobody said”
40. Refrain from singing?
42. Site of a 1953 conquest
43. Special attention, for short
44. Ado
45. Appearance
48. Rocket stage
49. Daughter of Zeus
51. Times to call, in classifieds
52. “Wishing won’t make ___”
53. Pain from a sticker?
issue: “___ election results
56. The Tigers of the Southwestern
Athletic Conf.
issue: “Senators ___ their sights on
students with new initiative”
58. Drapers’ measures (abbr.).
Solution on page 21
2. 1969 Peace Prize group (Abbr.).
3. 1920s touring car
4. Diatribes
5. Cries of disgust
6. 1982 title role for Meryl Streep
7. Burma’s first P.M.
8. Roar
9. ___ Hari
10. First
12. ___ II (razor brand)
issue: “Grads get Googled at ___”
15. Become a member
17. Strengthen, with “up”
20. 12th graders (abbr.)
21. Like Santa’s cheeks
22. Falco of “The Sopranos”
23. Kind of list
issue: “Comic-Con coming to college
___ 20”
27. Bavarian river
issue: “People with intellectual disabilities ___ learn through CICE”
29. Keep out
32. Plural of 41 Across
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Sleater-Kinney: the best band you’ve never heard
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THE PEAK
VANCOUVER — Never mind
the Sex Pistols; forget the Ramones.
When it comes to punk rock, there
never was a better band than
Sleater-Kinney.
Two guitars and a drum set is all it
took for three women from the rainy
Pacific Northwest to take the world
by storm, one killer guitar lick and
passionate, no-holds-barred vocal
at a time. Before Carrie got famous
as one half of the Portlandia team,
before Janet did triple time drumming for Bright Eyes, Stephen Malkmus, and Quasi, before Corin had
two kids and went solo – before all
of that, we were blessed with just
over a decade of music from the
greatest band you’ve never heard.
It’s true, Sleater-Kinney came
from the same riot grrrl roots as
groups like Bratmobile and Bikini
Kill. They held true to the DIY ethos
and punk spirit of those groups long
after they’d graduated from those
ranks and made it to the big leagues,
but the trio always had too much
to say to be tied down to any one
movement. They could claim fans
among all disciplines – metalheads,
punk rockers, indie kids and bearded folksters – and they borrowed
from all genres in turn, making for
a sound that was peerless then and
hasn’t been matched since.
It wasn’t just about sending a
message and making noise doing
so, though Sleater-Kinney were
pretty much unmatched on both
those fronts. There was also plenty
of tenderness there, a beating heart
behind all the steel wool. “One
More Hour,” maybe their best track
(maybe), is the ultimate breakup anthem sung from both sides at once,
hinting at a brief romance between
singer Corin Tucker and guitarist
Carrie Brownstein.
Tucker’s impassioned vocal delivery, one of the band’s signatures
(that voice!), kept their approach
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INTERACTIVE
CREDIT: MAX HILL
A punk-rock band that changed this writer’s life. Will Sleater-Kinney change yours too?
unique in its raw emotionality, and
Brownstein and Weiss’ uncommon
rhythm section never let up once.
Of course, it doesn’t hurt that the
band never overstayed its welcome.
That Sleater-Kinney’s career was
short and sweet only adds to their
legend; it’s no hyperbole to say they
never made a bad record. Seriously.
Trying to argue over their best LP
with a fellow fan is next to impossible – I mean, how do you choose
between the gnawing punk of Dig
Me Out and the savage Bush-era indictment of One Beat? What about
the messy pre-Weiss assault of Call
the Doctor, or that noisy behemoth
of an epilogue, The Woods?
In flagrant disobedience of the
punk rock rulebook, Sleater-Kinney’s sound only got louder and
more immediate with each record
– all of their records are great, but
none are laid so bare as their final
one, and the career-ending tour that
accompanied The Woods is still the
zenith of Sleater-Kinney’s already
astronomical achievements. This is
a group that went out on top, unwilling to see itself fall into anything
close to obscurity or mediocrity.
Maybe that’s why their music
still hits so hard today. Listening
to these records now – and surely
again, once Sub Pop re-releases
them in the recently-announced remasters due in early October – the
aural assaults packed into every vinyl groove are still felt as palpably
as they were a decade ago or more.
Some bands live on trying to recapture their glory days, and others fizzle out before they’re really able to
make a mark.
Very seldom has a band like
Sleater-Kinney come around, and
for them to have left us such a
wealth of amazing, pulse-pounding,
fucking life-affirming music is only
a testament to how well they still
deliver, almost 10 years after their
untimely demise.
LIFESTYLES
The lies sex education taught me
BRITTANY MACDONALD
THE OTHER PRESS
NEW WESTMINSTER (CUP)
When I was in high school I trusted
that the education I was receiving
would be based on facts, especially when it came to important matters like sex. Unfortunately as I got
older I discovered that a lot of stuff
I learned in “sex education” just
wasn’t true. So I’m here now to put
your worries at ease, if you were
worried about sex at all – which,
given our young adult age demographic, you probably are.
The hymen myth. The hymen,
otherwise known as the “maiden
head” is a thin membrane that covers the opening of the vagina. In
ye olden times, as well as in some
more oppressive countries and lifestyles, people would check to make
sure the hymen was intact in order
to ensure that a girl was a virgin before marriage, or they would check
after the wedding night to see if
there was blood on the sheets. The
blood comes from the hymen being
broken or popped; hence the term
“popping your cherry.” Nowadays
the hymen doesn’t play a major role
in sex ed. Basically all I was taught
was that it existed, was delicate,
and could be broken in any number
of non-penetrative ways, such as
biking or horseback riding.
Now for the truth: the hymen
does not cover the opening of the
vagina, at least not completely. The
hymen is a membrane that covers
only the top portion of the vaginal
opening. This is why you can still
be a virgin with an intact hymen,
and menstruate. The size of the
opening varies, some girls aren’t
even born with a hymen at all, and
others can retain it even after sex.
Also that whole thing about the
blood? Not necessary! The hymen
is extremely flexible and can be
stretched to accommodate sexual
activity during foreplay, without
any need for it to be “popped” or
broken. And it’s definitely not a
marker of virginity.
The oxytocin myth. I went to a
fairly progressive high school, so
I never experienced this particular
miseducation, but I do know many
who have. Oxytocin is a hormone
released during child birth that helps
mothers bond with their children. It
is also released during sex in both
partners to help with pair bonding
and social recognition. In abstinence-based sex ed. programs, the
teacher will inform the students that
after sex the release of hormones
will result in over-attachment, especially in women. The lesson is that
for women, casual sex doesn’t exist.
I don’t think I really need to
point out where the lie is here – I
mean, this myth was constructed to
blatantly deny or restrict feminine
sexuality in order to slut-shame and
scare students into not having sex.
So here are the facts: yes, oxytocin is released during sexual contact (not intercourse specifically).
But the amounts are negligible and
only increase during a prolonged
relationship. So someone going out
for a one-night stand will receive
significantly less oxytocin than
someone in a committed relationship. Oxytocin is also not something to be feared; in fact, studies
now show that it might have a correlation with both the male and female orgasm.
So there you have it: a couple
myths busted. I think it’s important to note that the current guidelines according to the BC Teachers’
Federation do not stipulate that a
teacher must be formally educated
in sexual health in order to teach
it. Also, the current guidelines emphasize age appropriateness, which
is never specifically defined within the guidelines themselves, and
is instead left to the educator or
the school’s discretion. What this
means is that if a high school or
community believes that it is never
appropriate to teach teenagers about
certain elements of sexual health,
then they don’t have to – which is Fanshawe hosted its first Comic-Con on October 20. The event brought in
probably why there is so much mis- vendors from near and far held a cosplay contest to give students a taste
information going around.
Forest City Comic Con.
SPORTS&LEISURE
21
Lightning Watch: Can Superstition ain’t is the way
Lightning strike thrice?
OPINION
JOEL LUXFORD
INTERROBANG
MARTY THOMPSON
@martythompson
[email protected]
With the 2014/15 National Basketball League of Canada season
upon us, the London Lightning will
not be defending champs for the
first time in its history. The Lightning, two-time NBLC Finals champions, lost its bid to three-peat in a
hard-fought semi-final series with
the Windsor Express. That series
went seven games, culminating in a
very eventful final game.
While geographic location certain plays a role, this rivalry has
been built over the past two seasons
through many hard-fought games.
Step by step, we have a look at
why this season opener is going to
be just as heated as the last number
games these teams have played.
While Windsor has only been in
the league for two years, the team
has continually had a great backcourt. In a league where guards are
so important, Windsor has always
had skill at that position.
Whether it is Darren Duncan or
Stefan Bonneau, the team always
matched up well with London.
Though Windsor has always had
the upper hand at this position, it
has recently lost its veteran presence at guard, as both Bonneau and
Duncan have left the team.
Bonneau and Duncan were important pieces when Windsor won
the title last season. They grinded
down London up until Game Seven at the WFCU Centre in Windsor,
where they crushed the Lightning –
advancing to the final.
London has more than five players returning to the team this year, a
pretty high number considering the
amount of turnover in this league.
These players will be looking to get
one back on a Windsor side who
ended up winning the NBLC title.
Finally, the league’s most physical player turns out to have a connection to both teams. DeAndre
Thomas, who was allegedly cut
by London two years ago for not
losing weight, was quickly picked
up by Windsor, and has since been
frustrating teams throughout the
league.
Standing at 6 ft. 8 in. and weighing over 300 pounds, Thomas has
managed to get under the skin of
London – especially during that last
game.
Thomas famously confronted a
number of Lightning players and
coaches before Game Seven, eventually leading to the eviction of
London Free Press reporter Morris
Dalla Costa, which managed to garner national media attention.
The London Lightning and Windsor Express kick off the NBLC season when they play each other at
Budweiser Gardens on November
1 at 7 p.m.
Many of us do it. Sometimes we
may not even notice it. We pick a
four-leaf clover for good luck or
avoid stepping under a ladder, and
who isn’t guilty of chanting that
famous childhood verse “Don’t
step on a crack or you’ll break your
mother’s back.”
Whether we believe in superstitions or not they are all around us.
With Halloween just around the
corner it might be interesting to
look into superstitions within the
athletic world.
Throughout sports history many
athletes have taken superstitions seriously.
Sammy Sosa patented his double-chest tap then kiss to the sky
to celebrate his home runs. Jason
Giambi would wear a golden thong
to break out of a batting slump and
Steve Nash still blows a kiss before
every free throw.
Superstitions are sometimes so have to wear a wristband on the
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common in sports that they are rare- same arm in the same place every
single game.”
ly noticed.
Almost every athlete has some
In basketball it is common to see
players bounce the ball before tak- personal quirk that they believe
ing a foul shot. This common prac- gives them an edge. I remember feltice is actually a superstitious way low broomball players who would
of achieving good luck. The same never wash their equipment all year
can be said about baseball players because they didn’t want to lose
jumping over the foul line as they their mojo.
“Some people just need their rituhead on to the diamond. Although a
common routine, this too started as als and routines,” said business stua superstitious way of gaining luck. dent Jesse Eyssen. “I can see how
A few Fanshawe students had they can help you focus mentally on
some things to say about their take the task at hand.”
I was amazed, and entertained,
on superstitions in sports and if they
have ever participated in any kind by all of the superstitions and rituals
Fanshawe students participate in.
of rituals.
When you’re out for Halloween
“When I played for Holy Cross,
we would say a prayer before every this year you may want to be on the
game,” said Brody Luis, a former lookout for superstitious activity.
midfielder for his local high school. Don’t let that black cat cross your
“When I think about it now, I path. Who knows, it may just bring
actually did do some weird stuff,” you some bad luck.
said Michael Gaudio, a former high
school basketball player. “I would
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Sunderland stunned in 8-0 hiding
PREMIER LEAGUE
PONDERINGS
ANDREW VIDLER
@OfHouseVidler
There’s nothing quite as painful as watching your team on the
wrong end of a hiding, and I’m not
simply talking about a bad loss.
But the rare occasion where your
team looks like it doesn’t belong
at the level it is, nothing goes right,
and everything that the other team
touches turns into absolute gold.
It can be a day-ruining punch to
the gut for supporters and a potentially season defining blow to morale for the players. Sometimes they
can even be pointed to as the cause
of managers losing their job.
These results are so significant
at this level simply because of how
rare they are. There is no bad team
LIFESTYLES
that is in the Premier League simply to make up the numbers. All 20
clubs had to earn their position and
work hard to keep it.
Which leads us to last weekend
and the fixture between Southampton and Sunderland. One team,
which has started the season extraordinarily well and another that
has kept losing games, all the while
managing to only concede seven
goals in seven games.
At least it was that low until the
team travelled south and managed
to concede eight in a single match,
including a couple of own goals
that would look at home on any
season’s highlight reel and looking
only slightly more effective than the
elementary students I used to coach.
In response the club made the
rare – but not entirely unprecedented – move of reimbursing the
admission cost for the entire travelling supporter contingent. It was
an apology of sorts from the players
and management for stepping onto
the field and giving such an abject
performance, and really the only
thing they could do.
The league damage is done.
Whether or not this result has any
further implications in the rounds to
come remains to be seen, but without a doubt this will be one of the
biggest beatings of the year and one
Sunderland’s supporters won’t be
forgetting anytime soon.
In other news around the league,
Queens Park Rangers joined Sunderland in putting the ball twice
through their own net against Liverpool.
Sergio Aguero of Manchester
City helped himself to four goals
against Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal had Danny Welbeck to thank
for a draw again Hull City as they
struggle to keep pace with the leading pack.
CREDIT: COURTESY OF FANSHAWE ATHLETICS
Ryan Pflanzner in a game against Wilfrid Laurier University. The men’s basketball team will play at home next on
November 1 against Redeemer Royals.
22
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FALCON CORNER
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MEN’S SPORTS
Upcoming Home Games:
Basketball
November 25 - Redeemer vs. Fanshawe - 3 p.m.
Volleyball
October 25 - Mohawk vs. Fanshawe - 3 p.m.
NEWS
Basketball
OCAA West Division Standings
INTERACTIVE
Team
GP
W
L
PTS
Sheridan
1
1
0
2
St. Clair
1
1
0
2
Cambrian
0
0
0
0
Fanshawe
0
0
0
0
Humber
0
0
0
0
Mohawk
0
0
0
0
Redeemer
0
0
0
0
Sault
0
0
0
0
Lambton
1
0
1
0
Niagara
1
0
1
0
Volleyball
LIFESTYLES
Team
GP
MW
ML
PTS
Cambrian
1
1
0
2
Redeemer
1
1
0
2
Fanshawe
0
0
0
0
Humber
0
0
0
0
Mohawk
0
0
0
0
Niagara
0
0
0
0
Sheridan
0
0
0
0
St. Clair
0
0
0
0
Boreal
1
0
1
0
Conestoga
1
0
1
0
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Upcoming Home Games:
LETTERS
TO THE EDITOR
Basketball
[email protected]
November 1 - Redeemer vs. Fanshawe - 1 p.m.
Basketball
CREDIT: NAUMAN FAROOQ
Lamborghini saleswoman Heather Ballentine moonlights as an accomplished singer and showcased her latest
album The Cat’s Meow. The Lambo parked outside was just the cherry on the top.
Team
GP
W
L
PTS
Sheridan
1
1
0
2
St. Clair
1
1
0
2
Cambrian
0
0
0
0
Fanshawe
0
0
0
0
Humber
0
0
0
0
Redeemer
0
0
0
0
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Charity, a new Lamborghini
INTERACTIVE
and Heather Ballentine
Sault
0
0
0
0
Lambton
1
0
1
0
Niagara
1
0
1
0
Volleyball
NAUMAN FAROOQ
INTERROBANG
The art of selling cars often requires some singing and dancing,
but Lamborghini’s top sales specialist in Ontario takes it to a whole
new level.
On any workday, Heather Ballentine can be found selling exotic supercars at Grand Touring Automobiles, Uptown Lamborghini store in
Vaughn, ON. However, she is also
an accomplished singer who has
had her music featured in numerous
TV shows and films.
On the evening of October 15,
Ballentine performed live at Lula’s
Lounge in downtown Toronto, celebrating the upcoming release of her
latest album The Cat’s Meow. This
album was recorded by Grammy
winning producer Pete Anderson
and features retro country, rockabilly and big band and swing style
music.
The event also benefited the
Brandon’s Eye Research Foundation, a volunteer organization that
supports patients and research for
potentially blinding vision disorders. Apart from direct donations,
10 per cent of all proceeds from
the sale of merchandise at the event
were also donated to this charity.
Last but not least by any means,
let’s not forget the automobile involved with this event, the 2015
Lamborghini Huracán LP 610-4,
which featured a custom red velvet
wrap provided by event sponsor
Sekanskin. This mid-engined exotic sports a 5.2L V10 that produces
610 hp, sent to all four wheels via
a seven-speed, dual-clutch gearbox.
Lamborghini claims the Huracán
can sprint from 0 to 100 km/h in
just 3.2 seconds, and top out at over
325 km/h. The 2015 Lamborghini
Huracán LP 610-4 is on sale now,
with a base price of $260,990.
Team
GP
MW
ML
PTS
Cambrian
1
1
0
2
Redeemer
1
1
0
2
Fanshawe
0
0
0
0
Humber
0
0
0
0
LIFESTYLES
Mohawk
0
0
0
0
Niagara
0
0
0
0
Sheridan
0
0
0
0
St. Clair
0
0
0
0
Boreal
1
0
1
0
Conestoga
1
0
1
0
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“We want to do something special for the students of Fanshawe and at
the same time create engagement and increase their curiosity about the
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Twee Brown. They are excited for the students to see the building as the
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“The students will see how much effort and thought went into the design
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Situated on the corner of Oxford and First Streets, this new residence is
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