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Vol 42 • Issue 29 • March 28 - April 3, 2013
carleton’s independent weekly - since 1945
Fighting for
accessibility pg. 4
cover by
Pedro Vasconcellos
INSIDE: Ryerson engineering students accused of hazing future frosh leaders pg. 6 ONLINE: A breakdown of Carleton’s finances
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March 28 - April 3, 2013
News Editors: Adella Khan and Inayat Singh • [email protected]
Students oppose Rick Ross performance
by Avery Zingel
An annual concert organized by
the Carleton University Students’
Association (CUSA) is under fire
for featuring rapper Rick Ross,
who raps a lyric about date rape in
a recent song featuring him.
In the song “U.O.E.N.O” by
rapper Rocko, Ross raps, “Put molly all in her champagne / She ain’t
even know it / I took her home
and I enjoyed that / She ain’t even
know it.”
Carleton student Kira-Lynn
Ferderber created a Facebook
group March 27, and around 535
students joined the group aimed at
getting CUSA to withdraw its support from the show.
The Student Federation of the
University of Ottawa (SFUO) also
denounced the decision made by
CUSA. While the concert—known
as “Pandamonium”— is usually
organized in collaboration with
SFUO, the union did not want to
be associated with the concert this
year and asked that CUSA not use
the Pandamonium name.
CUSA vice-president (finance)
Michael De Luca responded to
student discontent through a Facebook post of Rick Ross posters on
campus with the caption, “Haters
Rick Ross posters are plastered all over campus and tickets are still available at the CUSA office. || photo by Shamit Tushakiran
gunna hate.”
Sarah McCue, a member and
support worker for the Coalition
for a Carleton Sexual Assault Centre said it was “inexcusable” that
CUSA executives hadn’t taken an
official stand or issued a response.
The concert has prompted CUSA
public affairs councillor Dillon Black
to post their official resignation.
“I will not stand or represent
an organization that promotes and
sustains Rape Culture. I AM TIRED
of CUSA’s ignorance and avoidance
on issues that matter to students. I
am going to use whatever I have left
and actively stand against it,” Black
wrote on Facebook.
McCue said the solution was
“straightforward.”
“CUSA needs to pull its funding, or in the least respond to the
situation,” she said.
“Our constitution and our dis-
crimination on campus policy, or
what’s left of it, clearly states that
CUSA doesn’t condone any form
of sexism or violence like this. If
you respect women and you respect survivors of sexual assault
then you won’t pay to have someone come with students’ money
that is advocating for rape.”
CUSA president Alexander
Golovko couldn’t be reached for
comment, and his vice-president
(student life) Tomisin Olawale—
the executive responsible for the
concert— ignored repeated requests for an interview.
In 2007, CUSA cancelled a
performance by dance hall artist
Elephant Man after students opposed the lyric “Join our dance and
let’s burn out the queer man,” according to the Ottawa Citizen.
“When you normalize sexual
assault and you normalize violence in the way that Rick Ross
has done through his lyrics, then
people think it’s okay, and you
create a rape culture that we don’t
need any more reinforcement of on
our campus,” McCue said.
“When we know that campuses
are the second most common place
where sexual assaults happen,
and we know that one-quarter of
women between the ages of 18 and
24 will experience sexual assault,
then what are you saying to your
members?”
Some students wrote in the
Facebook group that Ross’ music
shouldn’t be censored.
CUSA is continuing to sell tickets for the event. q
For a collection of social media responses to the concert compiled by
Jakob Kuzyk, visit charlatan.ca
Student petitions for better accessibility
by Kirsten Fenn
What started as one student’s
personal frustration has turned
into a petition to improve accessibility on Carleton’s entire campus.
Since March 20, first-year student Nathan Bragg has gathered
over 500 signatures to petition that
housing services create a longterm plan to improve accessibility
on campus.
Bragg has cerebral palsy and
uses a wheelchair to get around. He
said he has faced several issues in
residence this year, including inadequate shower accommodations,
broken elevators, and miscommunication with housing services
about his needs for next year.
While the Rideau River Residence Association (RRRA) and
housing services have addressed
some of Bragg’s personal needs,
he said more can be done to improve accessibility for individual
students, and on campus as a
whole.
David Sterritt, director of housing services, said he is not aware
of the problems Bragg has been facing, and hasn’t received any other
complaints about accessibility.
“If the student comes to me—
and he hasn’t—we’d get the
problems fixed,” Sterritt said.
“Whether or not we need a petition
to understand what the problems
are, I’m not sure.”
Bragg faced issues moving around in residence. || photo by Pedro Vasconcellos
Bragg said the petition has become about so much more than his
individual needs.
Because he has some mobility
in his legs and can crawl around if
he has to, Bragg said he finds ways
to deal with broken elevators and
the inadequate shower bench in his
dorm room.
For future students who may
have more severe disabilities, dealing with those problems may not
be possible.
“One thing I know, having experienced a disability my entire
life, is that everyone experiences
it differently,” Bragg said. “I don’t
feel like Housing really under-
stands that.”
As one of the most accessible
universities in Canada, Bragg said
Carleton seemed like the perfect fit
for his needs. He said while many
of the services are great, there is
more the university should do to
live up to its reputation.
Some of Bragg’s ideas include
installing
accessibility
maps
around campus so students know
how to find accessible seating in
their classrooms. Bragg said many
of the lecture halls in the new
buildings do not have buttons to
open the doors, and should also be
improved.
“If you’re at this university
your disability should not affect
your academic potential,” he said.
“It doesn’t affect your academic
intelligence, and it shouldn’t affect
your ability to be part of the community.”
Broken elevators are also a
major problem which prevent disabled students from becoming part
of that community, he said.
Although all accessible dorms
are located on the ground floor of
residence buildings, and students
can get outside if their elevators
are broken, they cannot socialize
with friends on other floors, Bragg
said.
When it snows, using outdoor
ramps is a problem, especially
for people like Bragg who use a
manual wheelchair. Many people
with disabilities are also negatively
affected by the cold, he said.
Sterritt said elevators undergo
regular maintenance and are dealt
with promptly when broken.
On March 27, Bragg said he met
with attendant services co-ordinator Matthew Cole.
Cole said the university is in the
midst of an accessibility audit of
campus, which will address some
of the larger issues such as ramps
and door buttons.
“The petition hasn’t really
changed anything,” said Cole, except that they can address Bragg’s
individual concerns.
While there isn’t much they can
do to immediately address campus-wide issues, Cole said they
will take into account students’
concerns when they make changes
in the future.
But Bragg hopes his petition
will cause housing to look for proactive solutions before problems
occur.
“I know that Housing does
care,” Bragg said. “I’d just like to
see more communication, more
effort, and an acknowledgement
of the fact that they know these
things are going on and they are
actively trying to fix them.”
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Student not guilty
Holly Stanczak has the
details on a student who was
acquitted of manslaughter.
CP reporter wins grant
Julien Gignac spoke to Mike
Blanchfield, winner of thiis
year’s Travers fellowship.
The cost of pollution
Anne McKinnon reported on
groundbreaking Carleton
research that found the monetary
cost of vehicle emissions.
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GSA election sees 10 per cent voter
turn-out, passes $5 levy increase
Disqualification appealed
Grant MacNeil was elected as the new GSA president. || photo by Pedro Vasconcellos
Grant MacNeil was announced the new president of the
Graduate Students’ Association
(GSA) March 21, although results
have yet to be ratified by the GSA
council.
Around 10 per cent of the
graduate student body cast a
ballot, which is consistent with
previous years, according to
chief electoral officers Mohammadreza Ataei Naeini and Nyssa
McLeod.
It was the first time in
three years that the position
of president was contested, although MacNeil finished with a
solid lead over opposing candidate Ron Couchman, getting 219
votes, approximately 74 per cent
of votes on unspoiled ballots.
There were similar results in
the election of Maggie Simpson
to the position of vice-president
(operations), elected with a total
of 220 votes.
Two election violation notices
involving over-spending and
campaigning rules were handed
out to Couchman by the chief
electoral officers, according the
GSA’s website.
The referendum question that
sought a $5.00 per term increase
to the association’s levy was also
approved by 229 votes. The increase will result in $40,000 of
additional funds for the GSA,
according to current president
Kelly Black.
The electoral officers also
said that there were no election
appeals this year, and that the results will remain unofficial until
they are ratified at the GSA council meeting on April 12.
— Haley Ritchie
CU’s financial health
Yuko Inoue unravels
Carleton’s next financial year
with an infographic breaking
down CU expenses.
CFS defederation
Rachel Collier and Jakob
Kuzyk update our nationwide map of universities
trying to leave the CFS.
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Team United are the new winners of the second RRRA election following A New RRRA’s disqualification. || photo by Jakob Kuzyk
by Sammy Hudes
The Rideau River Residence Association (RRRA) remains unable
to reach an undisputed election
result, after winning slate A New
RRRA was disqualified and United
was declared the winner.
United, previously known as
Undivided, won the first RRRA
election, but the results were nullified after the disqualification of
slate Rez-Solution was overturned.
A new election was called in
which Rez-Solution, under the
name A New RRRA, won.
A New RRRA was then disqualified again, by the RRRA
constitutional board on March 25
over electoral violations, according
to current president Omar Bainto.
Bainto said the board made the
decision after hearing from United,
who argued A New RRRA had not
received adequate punishment for
its electoral violations.
“United . . . felt it was unfair
that after so many harassment
violations [and] serious violations
from not only the first election
but the second election, that . . .
the punishments [A New RRRA]
received in the form of fines were
not sufficient or severe enough,”
Bainto said.
Bainto said the board ruled that
A New RRRA’s multiple harassment violations were grounds for
disqualification.
“The board can’t be setting
precedents that teams can willingly break the rules and get away
with it and still go on to win elections,” he said. Bainto noted that
the board’s decision wasn’t unanimous, but declined to reveal the
vote count.
According to Bainto, A New
RRRA has the option to appeal the
board’s decision and said it would
take two-thirds of council to overturn it.
A New RRRA campaign manager John Mesman said he filed an
appeal within 24 hours, requesting
that it be heard at the next—and
last—RRRA meeting, but has not
heard from the constitutional
board yet.
Mesman said legal options are
still on the table if council votes
not to overturn the disqualification. He said his name had been
defamed throughout the election,
and that he felt the entire appeal
process has been “very one-sided.”
“If we’re not successful, I, personally will defend my character
and attempt to clear my name,
because it’s not appropriate at all,
especially in a student election,”
Mesman said. “This isn’t it for me.”
Mesman said he questioned
chief electoral officer (CEO)
David Valentin’s motives in taking up the position of CEO in the
first place.
Bainto said Valentin testified he
had changed his conduct during
the second election with regard to
disqualifying teams, instead imposing $50 fines for each “serious”
violation he handed out.
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Students conduct simulation for cycling safety
by Rachel Collier
Students from Carleton and Algonquin
College partnered with Ottawa police to
hold a cyclist-automobile crash test simulation at the National Research Council of
Canada on March 25.
After three failed attempts, the dummy
cyclist and car made impact.
The dummy, moving at roughly 25
kilometres per hour, struck the side of the
moving vehicle, providing an opportunity
for cyclist collision data collection.
Brigitte Babin, a fourth-year biomedical
engineering student at Carleton, said the
year-long project is an application of four
years of study, as well as a continuation of
a student’s project to gain more information
about cyclist collisions from last year.
Babin said although the project was already underway at the time, the death of
27-year-old Krista Johnson in a cycling accident on Bronson Avenue in September
encouraged the group project.
“It really reaffirmed that what we’re doing is important,” she said.
Alain Boucher of Ottawa Police Service
said he approached Carleton in the hopes
of facilitating the collision after seeing an
article about last year’s test dummy project.
“It’s a learning experience for all partners,” he said.
Boucher said that sometimes there are no
witnesses to provide evidence about collisions.
“There’s very little study done on collisions involving cyclists,” he said. “By
watching this occur, and by analyzing evidence, it will help us to investigate collisions
similar to this.”
Boucher said although the police will
need some time to analyze video footage
Carleton worked with Ottawa Police Service to learn about cycling collisions. || photo by Rachel Collier
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and evidence before releasing any data, he
is confident the simulation itself was representative of what would occur on a street.
According to the Carleton website, “on
average, there are 311 reported collisions
involving vehicles and cyclists each year in
Ottawa. Between 2007 and 2011, there were
1,556 vehicle/cyclist collisions, with 1,253
injuries and 12 fatalities.”
Last month, the City of Ottawa transportation committee unveiled proposals
to conceptually change Bronson Avenue.
Proposed changes included creating a buffer zone between cyclists and motorists,
increasing pedestrian and cyclist crossing
time, and installing new signs.
Although preventative measures are
being taken, Boucher said cyclist-vehicle accidents will inevitably occur.
It is in cases like those that police can
apply the knowledge they learned at this
simulation, Boucher said.
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Ryerson engineering society accused of hazing
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National Editor: Marina von Stackelberg• [email protected]
by Adrienne Martin
A video showing Ryerson
University engineering students
crawling through slush as part of a
seven-year “tradition” is being condemned by the school’s president.
Describing the incident as
“completely unacceptable” and a
misrepresentation of the school’s
“positive and supportive culture,”
Ryerson University president Sheldon Levy said the school does not
condone the event.
“There is no excuse for the completely unacceptable activities that
took place,” he said in a statement
released March 23.
Many are now calling the event
a form of hazing and initiation
after a video of the event surfaced
on YouTube March 21.
In the video, engineering students are seen crawling and
dragging themselves half-naked
through slush and ice. Former
frosh leaders armed with water
guns and snowballs egg them on
The YouTube video shows students crawling through slush and snow. || provided
and are heard yelling at students
“get down, get down!” At one
point, one of the leaders slaps the
behind of a female student before
telling her to “get down.”
CFS-BC expels UVic union
The Canadian Federation of
Students (CFS) B.C. chapter voted
March 9 to expel the University of
Victoria’s (UVic) undergraduate
union after two years of growing
tensions between the two groups.
The expulsion came right before
a referendum scheduled March
25-27 asking UVic students if they
wanted the University of Victoria
Students’ Society (UVSS) to remain
a member of the CFS-BC.
UVSS chairperson Emily Rogers said in a press release following
the expulsion that UVSS was “glad
to see the question of UVSS membership in CFS-BC finally come to a
resolution.”
“The majority of UVSS members felt that the works done by
the federation could be done independently,” Rogers said, adding
that UVSS supports the concept of a
united student movement, but costeffectiveness took priority.
“It just wasn’t a healthy partnership for us anymore,” she said.
The UVSS had been trying to
defederate from the CFS-BC since a
referendum two years ago indicated
that about 70 per cent of voters were
in favour of leaving the CFS. However, the referendum question did
not specify whether the term “CFS”
was meant to refer to the national or
provincial body. The B.C. Supreme
Court ruled in August 2012 that the
referendum results would only terminate the UVSS’ relationship with
the national body of the CFS.
In September 2012, a petition
signed by 10 per cent of UVSS members was served to the CFS-BC to
initiate the process of defederating
provincially as well, Rogers said.
“CFS-BC made the decision to
expel us because they knew that
the expense of a referendum they
would likely lose wasn’t going to be
worth the resources and would ultimately portray a bad public image
of their organization,” Rogers said.
But CFS-BC chairperson Katie
Marocchi said the organization terminated its relationship with the
UVSS because of UVSS’s unpaid
fees and decertification from the
CFS National in March 2011.
The issue started in the mid1990s when members decided to
increase the membership fee to $3 a
semester, Marocchi said
The UVSS failed to pay the
correct fee from 1994 to 1999, accumulating about $159,000 in
unpaid membership fees, according
to Marocchi. Various UVSS officials
have acknowledged the issue in the
past, however the organization’s
current leadership has not, Marocchi said.
“They’re refusing to meet their
obligations and it just left us with
no other choice but to expel them,”
she said.
But Rogers said CFS-BC hasn’t
provided them with documentation outlining these fees, saying they
have sent both formal and informal
requests multiple times over the
past year.
“We’ve heard rumours about
these fees for the last year but the
first number we saw was on the motion to expel us,” Rogers said. “We’d
really just like to know what we allegedly owe and why we owe it.”
Carleton University Students’
Association members are preparing
to circulate a petition to ask if students want to defederate from the
CFS. Rogers advised wording on a
potential referendum be as clear as
possible.
— Sammy Hudes
Organized by Ryerson’s engineering orientation committee
through the Ryerson Engineering
Student Society (RESS), the event is
held every spring for students who
want to become frosh week leaders.
In a statement given to the Toronto Star March 24, RESS said the event
was completely voluntary and a
way “to build school spirit and help
engineering students bond.” For
frosh week hopefuls, it’s a chance to
earn their “covies,” (a pair of engineering coveralls) to wear during the
upcoming fall orientation.
Although representatives from
RESS continue to publicly defend the
event and insist that it wasn’t a form
of hazing, some engineering students outside of Ryerson disagree.
“I would definitely consider that
to be hazing,” says Emefa Kuadey,
a third-year civil engineering student at Carleton University. “I
would have refused. I find it so
degrading.”
In light of the video, organizers of
Carleton University’s 2013 EngFrosh
said they encourage a “safe space”
environment in accordance with the
school’s human rights policy.
“We would like to make it clear
that EngFrosh does not engage in
any form of event similar to that
that was depicted in the video,”
organizers Emily LeMay and Jamie
Barresi said via email.
But despite the public backlash,
some students are still undecided
on the issue.
“It’s definitely hazing but it’s
definitely being blown out of proportion,” said Jack Agopian, a
fourth-year mining engineering
student at the University of British
Columbia, adding that other campus
groups engage in hazing as well.
Ryerson University executives
met with the leaders of RESS March
25 to discuss the incident and will
not be taking further action, according to another statement from
Levy.
“We have very strong policies
in place that have been invoked
immediately to deal with those involved,” Levy said. “Anyone who
contends it is ‘just fun’ or ‘builds
community’ has no place at Ryerson.”
RESS could not be reached for
Vet schools fight pet obesity
Over 80 million pets in the U.S. are overweight or obese. || photo by Pedro Vasconcellos
by Kirsten Fenn
Pet obesity is on the rise and
universities are training veterinary
students in animal nutrition and
teaching them to engage pet owners
in dialogue about animal health.
More pet owners are fattening
up their furry friends with junk
food, contributing to a “pet obesity epidemic,” according to the
U.K.’s recently released 2012 Animal Wellbeing Report.
The report, conducted by the
People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA), revealed that 56 per
cent of people in the U.K. who
own obese cats believe their pet is
a healthy weight.
Only three per cent of canine
owners could identify what the ideal
healthy weight of a dog should be.
At the Ontario Veterinary College at the University of Guelph,
veterinary students and professionals have been running the “Furry
and Fit” program to help obese pets
develop a healthy diet plan and lose
weight. The program has been running since October 2012.
Pets enrolled in the program
receive physical examinations, nutritional consultations, and participate
in hydrotherapy sessions, which involve exercising on an underwater
treadmill, said Bonnie Wakefield, a
veterinary technician at the school’s
animal nutrition centre.
Pets that have completed the
program successfully lowered
their weight and body fat index,
Wakefield said.
She said with obese pets becoming
more common, veterinary students
are trained in animal nutrition so
they can make good recommendations to misinformed pet owners.
James Anthony, a second-year
math student at Carleton University who owns a 26-pound cat
named Moritz, said the pet food
industry confuses owners about
what is really nutritious.
“Almost everything is marked
as healthy,” he said. Anthony said
Moritz has become lethargic and
oversleeps.
A proper diet is essential to the
prevention of other health problems,
such as arthritis, diabetes, cancer,
respiratory disease, and shortened
life expectancy, Wakefield said.
“We are teaching students to
look at medicine from a preventive
point of view and good nutrition is
a big part of this,” Wakefield said.
In the U.S., where approximately
80 million dogs and cats are overweight or obese, according to the
2012 National Pet Obesity Survey,
universities are focusing their resources on education and prevention.
This March, the University of
California, Davis campus opened
a revamped research building for
their veterinary school, which includes a nutrition research centre.
Tufts University opened the nation’s first obesity clinic for animals,
run by veterinary nutritionist Dr.
Deborah Linder, in September 2012.
The Tufts clinic offers a weight
loss program similar to the University of Guelph. It trains veterinary
students to prevent obesity starting
at a pet’s very first visit to a clinic.
Linder said while weight loss
can be confusing for pet owners,
she has seen happier, healthier pets
emerge from her clinic’s program.
“Obesity is completely preventable and treatable,” she said.
“There is more we can do and that
starts with education and public
awareness.”
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U.S. university narrowly avoids shooting
by Jonathan Duncan
A shooting was narrowly
avoided at the University of Central Florida (UCF) on March 18
when a student called police after
his roommate brandished a gun.
Arabo Babakhani, 24, told
university police that he was practicing guitar alone in his room
when a fire alarm made him open
his door to see what was going on,
according to the university.
When he did, he came faceto-face with his roommate, James
Oliver Seevakumaran, a 30-yearold business major, brandishing a
submachine gun. Babakhani then
proceeded to lock himself in his
washroom and call 911.
While there, he told police that
he had heard a “click or pop,” according to a police report. When
police arrived at the dorm room,
they found Seevakumaran’s body
on the floor, with a single gunshot
wound to the head, which they
said they believe was self-inflicted.
Police said a note left by Seevakumaran detailed his plans to
kill multiple people. It contained
items like “Dress to go out, Go to
[bar], get drunk,” which had all
been crossed out. The last two
items, “Pull alarm” and “Good
A window decorated after a shooting
massacre was avoided. || provided
luck and give them hell,” had not.
According to a statement made
by UCF police chief Richard Beary,
Seevakumaran had amassed an arsenal which included a .22 calibre
fully automatic MP5 submachine
gun with drum magazine and silencer, a .45 calibre handgun, hundreds
of rounds of ammunition, and four
homemade bombs which he intended to use on fellow students.
Police said they believe that
Seevakumaran had planned to use
the fire alarm to lure students into
the open, where he could detonate
explosives and fire upon them.
Documents released by the university show that Seevakumaran
was being evicted from his room due
to an unpaid account balance of over
USD $7,000. He had been receiving
messages from the university since
August 2012. The university threatened to apply late fees and re-key
his door. Seevakumaran had also
failed to register for any classes in
the winter term.
A statement from his family
says that Seevakumaran “was a
loner and did not have a history of
violence.”
Babakhani described his roommate as an anti-social recluse, in an
interview with UCF campus television show Knightly News.
“He always avoids eye contact.
When I see him out and about he’d
always walk around me instead of
by me, or if he did walk by me, he
would always stare off in another
direction,” Babakhani said. “The
only time he made solid eye contact with me was when he was
holding the gun.”
In the weeks before his death,
Seevakumaran had been trying
to raise donations for people with
autism. Emails provided by UCF
show that he had created flyers, and
was working with university employees to place a bin on residence
where people could drop off items.
The residence assistants (RAs)
in the dorms also keep records of
some of their interactions with students. The most recent, dated Feb.
19, 2013, said that Seevakumaran
had enjoyed a conversation with
one of the RAs, and that he was
“finding balancing work and
school so easy now that he’s been
doing it so long.”
Another, from Dec. 8, 2012,
reported that an RA hadn’t had
a chance to talk one-on-one with
Seevakumaran, but had seen him
around campus “always happy
and with friends.”
It is unknown what motivated
Seevakumaran, nor why he decided
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Features Editor: Oliver Sachgau• [email protected]
The Future of Language
Language changes. “Carpe Diem” becomes irrelevant while “YOLO” becomes famous. How does this happen?
by Hilary Thomson
If you were to travel to the future, would
you be able to understand what anyone was
saying?
What if you went back in time? Would the
language be different enough to make communication impossible?
Daniel Siddiqi, the assistant director
of the linguistics department at Carleton
University, is a specialist of words and sentence structure. He says that if someone
were to travel back in time 1,000 years,
the language they would find would be incomprehensible.
“If you went back in time you wouldn’t be
able to speak to anybody,” he says.
If the time traveller was less ambitious
and travelled back in time only 500 years
the language they would find would be much
easier to understand, Siddiqi says.
This is because it was around the year
1500 when people began to standardize language, he says.
Without standardized language, the
spoken word changes very rapidly, Siddiqi
says.
But the written word is by nature resistant to change, and because of this, the
evolution of the spoken word has slowed
of upward mobility.
The middle class was always
trying to do things the “right”
way and they placed a lot of
emphasis on the right way to
speak and write, Siddiqi says.
Siddiqi says this created what
is called the prescriptive tradition in the English language.
From the years 1500-1700
people began making up rules
for the English language and
writing them down, many of
which Siddiqi says are completely made up or borrowed
from other languages.
“Before the prescriptive
tradition it would have been
normal to write exactly what
you said,” Siddiqi says.
Inevitable change
Regardless
of
the
prescriptive
tradition,
Siddiqi says we still
change the way we speak
to make speaking easier.
“We have a need when
we are speaking to do it
”
It is important to realize that all languages are alive and like any live
organism, they change.
—Natasha Artemeva,
linguistics professor
down over the last 500 years, he says.
Siddiqi says there were a couple of significant changes around the year 1500 that
lead to the standardization of language.
Firstly, there was the printing press,
which made the written word more popular
and available to more people, he says.
Secondly, Siddiqi says, the rise of the
middle class played a role in the standardization of language because of their feeling
How
as fast as possible,” he says.
Siddiqi said the only thing that inhibits
this is our wish to also be as clear as possible when we speak.
Because of this we are always fighting to
make language as easy as possible and as
fast as possible, he says.
In order to do this, Siddiqi says we tend
to shorten grammatical words because their
meaning is fairly predictable based on the
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For example, “I am going” has become
“I’m gonna” to “Imma,” Siddiqi says.
Technological change
Natasha Artemeva, an associate applied
linguistics professor at Carleton, says our
speech also changes due to cultural and social factors.
She says the English language has adopted many new words over the past 20 years
because of the technological boom and the
creation of the Internet.
Words have had to be created for social
media such as Twitter, Facebook and blogs,
she says.
Artemeva says the meanings of some
words have also changed because of technology. For instance, the word “cloud” is
now used to refer to a kind of mass storage
on the Internet rather than just something
fluffy and white in the sky.
Social and political factors also change
the meaning of words, Artemeva says.
“We hardly ever use the word ‘queer’ to
mean ‘strange,’ or ‘gay’ to mean ‘happy,’”
she says.
“This is because of political, social, and
sexual movements that have used these
words differently.”
Some Canadian change
Lev Blumenfeld, the undergraduate adviser for Carleton’s School of Linguistics
says that the pronunciation of words also
change over time.
Blumenfeld says linguists are now studying a significant change in the way Canadians
speak which they are calling the “Canadian
Vowel Shift.”
He said Canadians have started to pronounce their vowels towards the back of
the mouth and low on the
tongue, while in contrast
Americans pronounce their
vowels in the front and at
the top of the tongue.
“You can see the difference when you say ‘mad’
and ‘mam,’” Blumenfeld
says.
Blumenfeld says the reason for this change is a huge
mystery to linguists.
Some theorize that it is
an effect of sociolinguistics,
where groups of people use
very subtle differences in
their speech to signal their
identity, but there is no way
to know for sure, he says.
The end result of changes
to language such as the “Canadian Vowel Shift” is that
eventually new languages
are created. However, this
takes thousands of years,
Blumenfeld says.
Artemeva says no one
should be upset about language change because it is
natural and normal.
“It is important to realize
that all languages are alive
and like any live organisms,
they change,” she says.
Many older people believe that the way
younger generations are speaking is somehow corrupt, Artemeva says.
However, as long as the people they are
talking to understand them, there is no
issue, she said.
Siddiqi says he feels much the same way
about slang.
Slang, he says, is just a new group of
words that is foreign to a group of people
and is not part of the standard language.
“Slang is just somebody saying, ‘we’re
old and stodgy and we don’t like the way
you young’ns talk,’” he says.
Siddiqi says eventually some of these
words will become accepted in everyday
speech, and the people who don’t want it
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We do not speak the same English
that was spoken 400 years ago and new
words are added to dictionaries every
year. There are hundreds of words that
have fallen out of use throughout history,
but there are specific qualifications for a
word to be “lost.”
According to Stephen Chrisomalis, a
University of Toronto professor who pens
the linguistics website, The Phrontistery
or “thinking place,” a lost word must
have a header entry in the Oxford English Dictionary, must have been used in
modern English, and may not be found
in its proper context on any readily accessible website.
Additionally, the word must be used in
a standard English variety rather than a
regional dialect or must not be a simple
variation in spelling from another word.
These words are found in extremely old
and rare books and must be used by at
least two authors before it qualifies as a
legitimate lost word, Chrisomalis said.
Such words include “bajulate,” which
means “to bear a heavy burden,”
“pamphagus,” which means ”to eat
everything” or “all-consuming;” and
“pudify,” which is “a cause for you to be
ashamed.”
A “philargyrist” is someone who loves
money, and “tussicate” is a lost word
for coughing. There is even old bar
slang found among the lost words, with
a “homerkin” being an old measure of
beer, and “stagma” referring to all distilled (or hard) liquor.
These words were used between 1613
and 1890 before they were completely
lost from literature and never seen again.
While it is maybe not in someone’s best
interest to sport a vocabulary of entirely
lost words, it would definitely be good
to know one or two to make your friends
“kench” or laugh loudly from time to
time.
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We should have to opt in to OPIRG-Carleton
While it is one thing to silence opinions, it
is another thing to force opinions onto others.
While I am not completely unsympathetic to
the causes Ontario Public Interest Research
Group (OPIRG) seeks to pursue, the existence
of a mandatory levy on all students completely
undermines their legitimacy as an advocacy
group regardless of how sizeable that levy is.
By default, OPIRG-Carleton receives a $6.84
levy from every full-time undergraduate student.
The ability of OPIRG-Carleton to promote
its ideas and opinions largely depends on this
levy. While it is not a hefty fee for the individual student, the funds from the levy are used
to subsidize opinions which students may not
necessarily share.
This imposed association with OPIRGCarleton and its campaigns equates to induced
speech. This is to say that by default OPIRGCarleton is entitled to preemptively define
our opinions and positions unless we actively
decide to disassociate ourselves from the organization. In an equal society, no individual
or group of individuals would have the elite
power to claim a right to define the opinions
of others without ever consulting the said individual.
The sword can cut both ways. I am sure
OPIRG would be on my side if there was an
organization which levied students to fund its
protests on abortion or gay marriage simply
because they ran contrary to their moral philosophy or religion. It is for that same reason
I believe it is in OPIRG-Carleton’s interest to
abandon the mandatory levy.
To make the case clear, the levy is mandatory. It is not an optional payment included
in our fees. An ex post facto opt-out does not
negate this fact. The levy takes advantage of
uninformed students who just come to Carleton to study and get on with their lives. Most
students are not even aware there exists an
organization known as OPIRG-Carleton. This
delegitimizes OPIRG-Carleton as a voice for
the 99 per cent. The fact that OPIRG-Carleton
resists replacing the opt-out with an opt-in
demonstrates that they recognize their failure
in convincing others to support their cause. It
Carleton would be better off without CUSA
demonstrates that OPIRG-Carleton concedes
that they are incompetent at engaging and
persuading the community with reasoned
discussions and academic discourse but must
instead manipulate and take advantage of the
uninformed in order to continue functioning.
Such practices are incompatible with the social
justice OPIRG-Carleton claims to promote.
The inaction of students to opt out does not
imply support for OPIRG-Carleton. For the
organization to become a legitimate voice on
behalf of students they should not be afraid of
the opt-in option. The organization will be far
more influential and their protests more meaningful if they were structured on the principles
of voluntary association and reasoned debate.
Their support would not be artificial but a
genuine reflection that their causes are winning over the hearts and minds of students.
The only way to change the world is to
change the minds of people, even if it must be
done one individual at a time.
— Ian CoKehyeng,
president, Carleton Students for Liberty
The CUSA executive is asking undergraduate students to vote to remove levies that help
fund the Ontario Public Interest Research
Group (OPIRG) at Carleton and an annual donation to the World Food Programme (WFP).
Their supporters have been smearing anyone
who speaks in favour of student groups that
work for a broader public interest. The savings
from cancelling these levies will be offset by the
planned implementation of a new $21 levy that
will increase every subsequent year.
I believe that the actions of the current
executive are poorly thought out, directed
by non-student interests, and will prove very
costly for future students. Carleton students
would be better off to defund and eliminate
CUSA itself than to pay for endless rounds
of lawsuits and self-aggrandizing displays
of arrogance and incompetence. Student fees
should not pay for people to swear at student
representatives, threaten employees, withhold
funding cheques, and pick fights with other
organizations on campus. CUSA fees are already extraordinarily high and include a $50
fee for the University Centre. The executive
have spent thousands of dollars that could
have been used on a student centre to cover the
costs of lawsuits. Perhaps we could keep the
service centres and get rid of the so-called representatives who appear to be working against
the interests of the great majority of students.
At the very least, this would save tens or even
hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees.
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Op/Ed Editor: Tom Ruta • [email protected]
Accessibility is worth the cost
Carleton is known as one of the most accessible campuses in
Canada, which is why many students with disabilities specifically choose our school. Though it’s nice to say we are accessible
on paper, it’s a different thing to actually follow through.
If able-bodied students take a look around campus, or ask
fellow students who have disabilities, they will see that our
campus is far from accessible. We need to challenge the ableism
on our campus. A disability does not necessarily mean someone
in a wheelchair. Many disabilities are not even visible.
For a university hailed as being accessible, we have a lot
to improve upon. Several old buildings, such as Renfrew and
Lanark residences, do not even have an elevator. Even worse,
brand new buildings, such as River, are missing simple things
like buttons to open doors. The new Lennox and Addington
residence has a single flight of steps on the accessibility floor that
requires students to take an elevator just to get to the tunnels.
All of these flaws could have easily been avoided in design and
construction. Having a new building with inaccessible flaws is
just unacceptable.
There are numerous cost-effective ways to make our campus more accessible, such as installing more automatic doors,
adding railings, putting up braille signs, or placing accessibility
maps around campus. And if old buildings need to be retrofitted, this should be done, no matter what the cost.
Carleton has made improvements. Southam Hall has a new
elevator and our library will be more accessible after construction. Great work is being done by organizations like the Paul
Menton Centre and the Carleton Disability Awareness Centre.
It’s up to everyone on this campus, both those with and
without disabilities, to pressure Carleton to make accessibility a
priority, no matter the cost. q
Let everyone see Warhol
A very rare Andy Warhol print was recently put on display
in the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) for the first time. You
can go see it Tuesdays through Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
for $9, or $7 if you’re a student or senior.
Although the gallery—like all major museums in Ottawa—
offers free admission for anyone on Thursday nights from 5-8
p.m. that’s quite simply not enough to make it cost-accessible.
There are several issues with this current system.
First, $9 is almost one hour of minimum-wage work, which
can often be more than people are able to pay.
Second, the gallery’s hours are restrictive. In a city full of students, business owners, and government workers, going to a
gallery before 5 p.m. is pretty much impossible.
Galleries and museums are struggling to get young people
through their doors and remain relevant, yet they’re creating
barriers to everyone getting in. If hours are set during times
when people have to work or go to school, no one will go. The
NGC needs to explore new options. If the gallery can’t afford to
create longer free hours or drop their price point, they need to
at least have longer daily hours and change the timing of their
free admission.
Attendance at the gallery is bound to increase if the hours
included times that people are actually able to go. Why not stay
open until 8 p.m. every night and give people the opportunity
to get out of class, or off work, and get there?
Similarly, Thursday nights aren’t a great night to have free
admission. But imagine Saturday nights where after grabbing
dinner in the market, you could impress your date with your
affinity for culture at the NGC instead of a movie.
Art is a critical part of any culture and there should be as few
barriers as possible to accessing and learning about it. After all,
what’s the point of having a Warhol print if no one sees it? q
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Boycott the glorification of rape
okay.
After all, if Da Boss raps about it, surely it isn’t that
big of a deal.
Some might argue that people already know rape is
wrong, that Rick Ross’ lyrics won’t ultimately have an
Though it’s definitely ironic, I can’t claim to appreciate effect on this. I think this is naïve.
The two teenage boys found guilty of raping an inrap music ironically.
As a feminist, it’s difficult to justify how I can enjoy a ebriated 16-year-old girl at a party in Steubenville, Ohio
genre of hip-hop that chronically objectifies women, both didn’t think their actions were wrong, at least not while
they were committing the crime. They took pictures, vidin song lyrics and music videos.
I don’t know why I think it’s acceptable to sing, “All I eos, and laughed about it.
Across North America, thousands of men and women
want for my birthday is a big booty ho” at the top of my
lungs. That statement, quite literally, refers to women as were sexually assaulted last year.
So clearly not enough people know, or care, that sexual
an object. But man, it’s catchy.
assault is wrong.
Rick Ross’ lyrics
I often roll my eyes at other feminists who decry the sexualization of are not harmless. He
women in art (because women are sexual beings), and I could turn a is perpetuating a very
blind eye to the objectification of women in art, guilt-ridden as I was. sick, and very real,
notion.
But I cannot stay silent on the glorification of rape.
This is why I feel
CUSA should uninvite Rick Ross to
Pandamonium.
In the two years
This week however, I had to re-evaluate my passivity that I have been a student at Carleton, much good has
been done in raising awareness about sexual assault on
towards blatantly sexist lyrics.
In “U.O.E.N.O.,” a track off of Atlanta rapper Rocko’s campus. CUSA, and other student groups, have been at
latest mix tape, Rick Ross raps about committing date the helm of this initiative.
Allowing Rick Ross to perform at a student event
rape. The lyrics are as follows: “Put molly all in her champagne/ She ain’t even know it/ I took her home and I could undo some of that success because it sends the message that CUSA’s stance on violence against women isn’t
enjoyed that/ She ain’t even know it.”
“The line” is vague and hard to pin down, and yet really that tough.
Words are a great starting point, but CUSA needs to
there is no doubt that these lyrics crossed it. Because of
this I feel that Rick Ross should not headline this year’s demonstrate through their actions that they’re serious
Pandamonium, the annual concert funded by Carleton about eliminating rape culture on campus. Allowing Rick
Ross to perform at Pandamonium at the height of this
University Students’ Association (CUSA).
I often roll my eyes at other feminists who decry the controversy implies the opposite.
As long as Rick Ross is headlining Pandamonium, I,
sexualization of women in art (because women are sexual
beings), and I could turn a blind eye to the objectification and many other Carleton students, will boycott the event.
of women in art, guilt-ridden as I was. But I cannot stay As a Rick Ross fan this was a disappointing conclusion to
come to, but there is a lot at stake here.
silent on the glorification of rape.
This is not a boycott against rap, or profanity in art.
I enjoy Rick Ross’ music, but this song is dangerous.
It implies that rape, specifically date rape in this case, is
This is a boycott against the glorification of rape. q
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Marina von Stackelberg
Layne Davis is a second-year journalism and
political science student who says Carleton students
should boycott Pandamonium as long as Rick Ross
remains the headliner.
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Carleton celebrates Brazilian popular music
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Arts Editor: Kristen Cochrane• [email protected]
Lectures and recitals brought the South American country to campus, Griffin Elliot reports
As part of a culture exchange with the
University of São Paulo, professor Álvaro
Faleiros and musician Evandro Gracelli
demonstrated the high points of Brazilian
popular music at Carleton on March 22.
Through the commercialized beats,
imitation country, naked women, and the
Justin Biebers of Brazil, the South American country has a very strong musical
heritage and tradition of impact-making
guitarists.
Faleiros, a professor of literature at the
University of São Paulo, chose artists for
his lecture who “illustrate the ways new
Brazilian music has taken.”
He says that the “lyrics of songs since
the ‘60s can be seen as poetry.”
Ottawa singer-songwriter and PhD student Rachel Beausoleil championed the
international culture exchange between
Carleton and the University of São Paulo.
“This is part of a project that’s funded
by the University of São Paulo, the project
is called Panamerica Canção and it is a cultural exchange where they are essentially
bringing their culture here to us and I’m
going to be going back there in September,” she said.
Beausoleil is currently completing a
PhD in cultural mediations with a specialization in Brazilian music at Carleton
through the Institute for Comparative
The noon-hour concert and lecture was held on March 22 at Carleton. || photo by Griffin Elliot
Studies in Literature, Art and Culture.
She has performed internationally and
plans on going back to Brazil next year to
lecture on Canadian popular music in accordance with the exchange.
“For me it touches on several aspects of
my whole life,” she said. “Part of this was
to present and to have raw data for my analysis.”
“Also, I am a jazz vocalist myself so this
is in conjunction with my performance interests.”
The lecture looked at the musical contributions of Brazilian guitarists from the
1940s to present day. It included Chico
Buarque, Caetano Veloso, José Miguel
Wisnik, Guinga, Victor Ramil, Lenine,
Romulo Fróes, and Chico Saraiva.
“We are trying to focus on the guitar
players that were also composers and also
related to the songwriting vein,” musician
Evandro Gracelli said.
Faleiros presented slides and gave an
insightful oration about the artist, then he
would turn the focus over to Gracelli, who
would play a sample on nylon string guitar while vocalizing an accompaniment.
The two invited Brazilian musicians
Beth Amin and Emilio Martins to help
demonstrate the dynamics of the music.
They also called upon Carleton music
department instructor Mark Ferguson and
local musician Rommel Ribeiro.
In addition to the lecture and recital,
Carleton also hosted a master’s lecture on
Brazilian jazz voice and songwriting by
Amin later that afternoon.
The presentation was given to a modest
group, many of whom are involved with
the music program at Carleton.
While attendees bobbed and nodded
with the rhythm, Faleiros and Gracelli
performed with an earnest love for their
music and culture.
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Northern art fest includes gallery-crawl with CUAG
hours, including CUAG.
“The CUAG is one of the best galleries
in the city to show contemporary works,”
Taler said.
Following the gallery-crawl, audiences
can take a shuttle to the NAC for a fashion
show and other performances.
An after-party at Club SAW will wrap
up the evening of art.
“As a student, I would be so happy to
have Northern Scene in my backyard, and
go and enjoy all this programming,” Taler
said.
“Expect the unexpected.”
The Northern Scene festival officially
kicks off April 25 and runs until May 4 at
the NAC.
q
by Michel Ghanem
Galleries from around the Ottawa-Gatineau area are jumping in at the opportunity
to participate in the National Arts Centre’s
(NAC) Northern Scene festival.
The Carleton University Art Gallery
(CUAG) will be hosting two simultaneous
exhibitions as part of the city-wide festival,
free from April 2-June 2.
Dorset Seen, in the lower floor of CUAG,
will present drawings and sculptures on
life in Cape Dorset seen through the eyes of
more than 20 artists.
Upstairs, Dawson Gold will focus on the
Klondike Gold Rush and the Yukon’s Dawson City. Audiences can expect a multimedia
narration of Dawson’s history and society.
CUAG curator Heather Anderson said
she is confident that the exhibitions will debunk myths about Northern culture.
“We were invited like many other public galleries in the Ottawa-Gatineau area to
partner up by presenting visual arts programming,” Anderson said.
As the curator for the Dawson Gold exhibition, Anderson was able to speak with
artists who had experienced Dawson City.
“Artists go there with this expectation
that they’re going to have some epiphany
or some great experience that will create
gold in the artwork,” she said.
“It’s exposure to a different culture —
looking at images through art is another
way to gain knowledge and perspective
on another culture.”
Without a dedicated gallery space, the
Ottawa-Gatineau area is dependent on
galleries able to host these visual exhib-
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A Ukrainian symbol
Curator Heather Anderson said she believes the exhibitions will debunk myths of the North. || provided
itions.
Education and community outreach
manager Fiona Wright is excited for what
is to come for CUAG.
“I think Inuit art is something that
[CUAG] really excels at — we have a lot
in our collection and showcase often,”
Wright said.
“Northern Scene is a really great opportunity to do that again,” she said.
“Ottawa has the largest Inuit population of any southern city.”
The gallery is set to display drawings
directly from Cape Dorset, artworks that
have been unseen in any other gallery.
SWARM is one of the highlighted
events nearing the end of the festival on
April 26, according to Northern Scene’s
associate programmer Laura Taler.
“We partner up with galleries around
Ottawa so that Northern Scene can have
a full compass of art and culture — that
can include music, theatre, and the visual
arts,” Taler said.
SWARM takes the form of a complimentary three-part, shuttled gallery-crawl.
The objective is to attend as many galleries as possible in a short window of four
Ali Rodriguez went to a
lecture at Carleton that
discussed the history of the
Ukrainian rushnyky and their
influence on architecture.
Is opera still cool?
Apparently. Emma Konrad
reviewed Opera Lyra’s
production of La Traviata, a
tale of love and loss that had
her in tears.
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Warhol print displayed at NGC until May 1
The print “Sleep” shows artist John Giorno in a deep slumber, Emma Konrad reports
A Warhol on the wall opens up some of
the newly renovated galleries at the National Gallery of Canada (NGC).
Andy Warhol was an American artist
best known for spearheading the pop art
movement in the second half of the 20th
century.
His more famous pieces include a
colourful print of Marilyn Monroe and
one of Campbell soup cans, but the print
currently on display is a little different
from those iconic images.
It is a close-up, black and white image
of American poet and performance artist John Giorno sleeping, aptly entitled
“Sleep” (1965).
The shot is interesting in its simplicity.
“There’s something much more subdued and minimal about this print,” the
NGC’s assistant curator of European and
American art Adam Welch said.
Warhol was inspired to make the film
Sleep, and subsequently the print, after
watching Giorno—a member of Warhol’s
entourage known as “Warhol superstars”
—sleep off a hangover. The print is a still
from the nearly five-and-a-half hour film.
“‘Sleep’ shows us a lesser-known
aspect of Warhol’s art-making,” NGC director and CEO Marc Mayer said in a press
release.
“Unlike his popular images of celebri-
It is alleged that Andy Warhol had a relationship with John Giorno. || provided
ties such as Marilyn Monroe, Jacqueline
Kennedy, or even Wayne Gretzky, here
Warhol shows real tenderness. We’re afforded a glimpse of Warhol as we don’t
often see him.”
And perhaps the tenderness derives
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allegedly one of Warhol’s early love interests.
The NGC was given the print in 2010 by
Marla and Larry Wasser.
It is a single still plucked from the film,
which plays alongside the print at the gallery, on loan from the Collection of the
Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.
And for Welch, the relationship between the print and the film is important.
“Warhol presented the film first. At one
point in the early 1960s he said he was giving up on art and going into filmmaking,”
he said. “So the film is the source.”
Welch also says that juxtaposing the
film and the print is an interesting way to
play with time.
“There’s this interesting temporal
thing going on. Five-and-a-half hour film
against a single still. A really long duration and a fixed image that was part of
Warhol’s project at the time and his interest in celebrity.”
And while the print was donated in
2010, Welch said the gallery chose to wait
on putting it on display until the post-war
galleries had been renovated.
“Rather than present the recent gift in
an old gallery setting, we wanted to wait
to borrow the film and to present it in a
new context,” he said.
Now the film rests in the newly renovated galleries of Pop, Conceptual and
Minimal art, alongside works by artists
such as Claes Oldenburg and Frank Stella.
The print will be on display until May
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Campus Style: Transition
Herd is the word
The Croods
Directed by Kirk De Micco and
Chris Sanders
Distributed by 20th
Century Fox
DreamWorks presents a
modern day adaptation of
cavemen in their newest animated movie, The Croods. A
young girl, Eep, longs to experience something new in life
but her father, Grug, keeps Eep
and her family sheltered out of
fear that something new could
be something dangerous. After
experiencing an earthquake,
Eep and her family are forced
to relocate and experience different things lead by a strange,
dashing boy named Guy. Voice
talents include Nicolas Cage,
Emma Stone, and Ryan Reynolds.
The aesthetics of the film
are nothing to marvel over.
They are what audiences can
expect from a 2013 animated
movie. However, the music
provided by Alan Silvestri is
both fitting to the images and
beautiful for the audience to
listen to. Silvestri’s music adds
life to the movie while helping
to carry the story.
The winning piece of the
movie’s skeleton, however,
is the character of Eep. A
fluffy-haired redhead with
unique facial characteristics
and a built body, she was designed to physically match the
strength of her personality, a
rare quality in female animated
characters.
A genius piece of comic relief in the movie is Guy’s furry
companion, Belt. He is both
adorable and brings laughter
to the audience.
The Croods is a splendid
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band the Yips’ EP release party
and show. She talked to the
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Australian band Northlane’s
latest effort, which he said is a
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Toronto funk outfit The Soul
Motivators ahead of their
show at Mercury Lounge.
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Men’s soccer team victorious on the ice
by Mohamed Suleman
The Carleton Ravens men’s
soccer team traded their cleats for
skates and sticks as they hit the ice
March 22 to take on the women’s
hockey team in a friendly game of
hockey.
And much to everyone’s surprise—and probably even their
own—it was the men who came
out victorious.
The final score was 6-5, with
second-year defenceman Michael
Calof stealing the show, scoring all
six goals for his team.
“It was a blast,” Calof said after
the game. “But I think they were
going easy on us a little bit.”
The men’s prowess on the ice
earned them plaudits from the
women’s team.
“I was really surprised,” Ravens
goaltender Eri Kiribuchi said. “I
was like ‘Whoa, are they really soccer players?’”
“I think we were [going easy on
them] in the beginning, but in the
end I was like ‘No I can’t take it
easy on them anymore!’” she said.
The men were left playing catch
up the whole game after forwards
Victoria Gouge and Ainslee Kent
got the lady Ravens ahead with a
pair of early goals.
The women’s hockey team lost to the men’s soccer team 6-5 in a friendly game at the Ice House. || photo by Shamit Tushakiran
At one point, the women led
4-1, but along with this year’s
Ontario University Athletics
MVP winner Andrew Latty for
support, Calof kept the soccer
boys in it by finding the back of
the net a whopping half-dozen
times.
He scored his sixth goal, the
game-winner, with just a minute-
and-a-half left in the game, roofing
a snap-shot into the top corner of
the goal to send his teammates on
the bench into a frenzy.
But it was Calof’s fourth goal
that was the pick of the lot.
After scooping up the ball—er,
puck—at centre ice, he expertly
stickhandled his way through the
zone to get himself one-on-one
with Kiribuchi. A sleek Patrick
Kane-esque deke later, and the
puck was nestled in the back of the
net.
“Looks like he should have
chosen hockey as his sport career
choice,” joked Shelley Coolidge,
the women’s head coach.
With a performance as impressive as this, will Calof be trying
out for the men’s hockey team next
year?
“I don’t think so,” he said with
a laugh. “I think playing one sport
is enough!”
Coolidge said the game was
a good opportunity for coaching
staff and players from both teams
to interact and have some fun.
“It was great to see our varsity
soccer and hockey players take the
initiative to plan the game,” Coolidge said.
“The better that they get to
know each other off-ice, the more
likely they are to take the time to
support each other in season, when
their schedules permit.”
For the women’s hockey team,
it’s back to business next week,
as they host Germany’s national
women’s team.
The exhibition game on March
31 will be something of a homecoming for Germany’s Sara Seiler,
who captained Carleton during
her three years in Ottawa.
“We are looking forward to
competing against Team Germany,” Coolidge said. “Our team
has continued to work on our defensive, individual, and team play
as our first priority.”
The puck drops at 3 p.m. at the
Ice House.
q
Women’s hockey losing four players to graduation
by Brandon Neville
On Feb. 23, Blaire Macdonald,
Stephanie Plourde, Kelsey Vander Veen, and Jessica O’Grady
played their last game for the
Carleton Ravens women’s hockey team.
The girls played against the
first-place McGill Martlets, losing a
heartbreaker 3-1 in the first round
of the playoffs. The women’s team
battled back after being crushed
9-0 by McGill in the previous game,
coming back strong in the second,
giving themselves a chance to extend the series, but came up just
short.
Each of the girls that are graduating from the Ravens women’s
hockey program are going in different directions, but won’t soon
forget their time playing at Carleton.
The girls all agreed that the
most memorable moment was a
game last season against McGill
when, for the first time in program
history, they defeated the Martlets
in a thrilling shootout 4-3.
“There was such an atmosphere
of pride and conviction that we
were unstoppable,” Vander Veen
said.
Plourde said she shared the
same feelings.
Vander Veen is working toward a career with the RCMP or
OPP, while Macdonald plans to
attend graduate school at Sheri-
dan College for marketing. She
wants to go into marketing or
public relations.
Plourde has one more year at
Carleton in civil engineering (but
her Canadian Interuniversity Sport
eligibility is up) and O’Grady said
she is not sure of her future plans,
taking things day by day.
Despite going in different directions, they said they have really
appreciated their time spent with
their teammates.
“Most of all, I’m going to miss
the camaraderie of the team. I
love the girls and I love the team
environment, which is why I’m
choosing a career that will allow
me to continue to be part of a
team,” Vander Veen said.
“I’ll miss my teammates the
most . . . without a doubt,” Macdonald said. “They were my
second family for four years and
I know that I’ve made lifelong
friends. They could always make
me laugh and were a great time
to be around. It hasn’t hit me just
yet that I won’t get to see them
everyday next year, but when
it does I’m sure I’ll shed a few
tears.”
“I’ll miss the girls and the competitive atmosphere the most. The
girls are great and I loved playing
with them,” O’Grady said.
“I’ll miss the team the most,”
Plourde agreed. “We have an
amazing group of girls. It has been
an honour and a pleasure playing
Stephanie Plourde (middle) will be moving on from the women’s hockey team this year. || file photo by Pedro Vasconcellos
with them.”
Each of these girls brought
something different and important
to the team.
“I bring passion and intensity
to our games and a drive to win,”
Vander Veen said. “I leave everything out there on the ice because I
know if I don’t I’ll be disappointed
in myself.
She was called a very versatile defenceman by coach Shelley
Coolidge, as shown by her hat trick
against the University of Ottawa
Gee-Gees earlier this year.
Coolidge praised the calm,
heads-up play of Plourde along
with her ability to play under
pressure.
The leadership and humour
brought by O’Grady as well as
her hands around the net will be
missed, Coolidge said.
“This was best demonstrated in
the shootout versus [the Gee-Gees].
[O’Grady] made stick handling
look easy,” Coolidge said.
Macdonald said she did her
best to bring determination and
hard work to the ice every night.
“I’ve never been the most
skilled player on the ice but I
work really hard,” she said. “I’m
competitive and don’t like losing
so I always did what I could to
win my battles and play well in
my end.”
“All four players have left their
mark and an impact with CU,”
Coolidge said. “They will make
their places easily in the work
force, and whatever organization
they end up with will have a quality person that will soon be their
CEO.”
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Seven Ravens moving on this year
by Christiana Altamirano
As the Carleton Ravens men’s
hockey team’s season came to a
heartbreaking end, so did some
of the players’ hockey careers as
Ravens.
Charles “Chuck” Carre, who
played defence for the Ravens, is
graduating from the Carleton civil
engineering program. Coming to
the team as a walk-on, over his five
seasons at Carleton, Carre got a
total of 15 points, but Ravens head
coach Marty Johnston said he was
“a big factor on our penalty kills.”
With Carre as a penalty killer,
there was also a penalty leader.
Shane Bakker, forward for the
Ravens, is graduating from the
psychology program. Five years
ago, he didn’t have a guarantee to
be on the team, Johnston said. But
with determination, he made it
and according to Johnston, became
an “all-time penalty leader [on the
team]” who got better every year,
with other teams “fearing him
physically.”
“Our coaching staff . . . just having those guys teach me for five
years really just helped me develop as a player,” Bakker said.
This season, Bakker broke his
leg, sidelining him for the majority
of the playoffs.
“They told me I’d be out for
six weeks, and then we had our
final game three-and-a-half weeks
into the injury,” Bakker said. “So I
wasn’t quite at 100 per cent, but I
felt like I was good enough to help.”
Bakker played in the last game
of the playoffs against the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières,
and brought grit.
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Over his time at Carleton,
Bakker racked up 48 points. He
recently signed on to play for La
Liga, a team in the South American
Hockey League in Eastern Ontario
and Western Quebec.
Ryan Berard, the Ravens’ cocaptain this season, played seven
seasons in the Ontario Hockey
League. Berard “came in as a highly sought player,” Johnston said.
Joey Manley, co-captain with
Berard, recalled their relationship.
“He’s a little bit more of a physical player than I am, you see him
hitting a lot out there,” Manley said.
“He’s a little bit bigger than me, so
that’s one difference there, but we
both saw eye-to-eye on everything.”
Over five years, Berard achieved
a whopping 122 points, and is described as one of “building blocks”
in the program by Johnston.
Berard moved on and is currently playing for the Orlando
Solar Bears in the East Coast Hockey League in the United States.
Michael Folkes was a transfer
from the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), and played
two years with the Ohio State Buckeyes before coming onto the Ravens’
roster in the 2011-12 season.
Player banned from
OUA for punching ref
A Nipissing University
hockey player was banned
from competing in any Ontario
University Athletics (OUA)
sanctioned competition earlier
this month after he punched a
linesman during a game.
Nipissing Lakers defenceman Brett Cook struck linesman
Nicholas Piché with an uppercut, after Piché had removed
him from a fight against a
Université du Québec à TroisRivières player, OUA executive
director Ward Dilse said.
It’s the first time in OUA history that a hockey player has
been given a sanction this severe, according to Dilse.
While fights or brawls in university hockey occur regularly,
the physical abuse of a linesman
does not, Dilse said.
“It’s certainly not something
that we see in hockey anywhere,
period,” he said.
Following the Feb. 23 incident, the OUA established a
two-member panel to review
what happened and determine
appropriate sanctions. Dilse
said the panel conducted interviews with Piché and Cook
as well as Lakers coach Mike
McParland and athletic director Vito Castiglione. They also
consulted with a number of
other hockey organizations, he
added.
“It was a very comprehensive process,” Dilse said. “It
had to be due to the severity of
the incident and because of the
significant sanctions that were
placed because of it.”
Nipissing University communications officer Bob Pipe
said McParland, Cook and Castiglione won’t grant interviews
relating to the sanction. In a
statement released by the university, Cook apologized for his
actions.
“What I did was wrong,
plain and simple,” he said.
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