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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31 Tijuana Yacht Club - Doors at 8 pm $5 Advance Tickets available from The Ox Store, The Mercantile, & Participating RRC Entrepreneurship Groups $1 from every ticket will be donated to Unicef! OCTOBER 23 2006 News in Brief
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Interested in becoming a student at RRC? Tempt yourself further by taking a pre- scheduled tour of the Notre Dame of Princess St. campuses. Tours usually last around one hour in which you will find out all about college life, courses, programs, services for students and how to apply. The tour covers all corners of the campuses to give you a great idea of what it's like to be a student at RRC and a \\\ heads up on how to navigate your way around. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Groups are limited to 25 and must be booked in advance. If you would like further information about RRC campus tours call Carolyn Burton at 632-2115 or Lisa James Turner Vogt at 632-2402 for booking or general questions.
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WELCOME HOME TROOPS! ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR After nearly two weeks in the trenches, a team of eight RRC students who volun- teered their time at the Canadian Maneuver Training Centre in Wainwright, AB were Amie Lesyk back in classes at the Princess St. campus on Oct. 9. In participation with the Canadian military, the students helped in the simulation arts@theprojectorca of a real Middle East war zone by contributing their journalistic talents to the roles of embedded, international and local reporters through television broadcasts and other military exercises. After what many of them say to have been a "life changing experience," Helen Cholakis, Meghan Batchelor, Melissa Martin, Dan Verville, Matt Wright, Andrea Collins, Brant Batterl and Sean McLeod are happy to have had the opportunity to go to Albertistan. LAYOUT & DESIGN EDITOR Welcome home guys! Lynsey Sable
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School shootings have been a recurring event gency procedures just yet. over the past few months. Between Sept.13 and Oct. Jesse Wilson, vice-president of 10, 2006, five school shootings have taken place in the the RRC Students' Association, United States and Canada, the closest in Montreal says, "[Our emergency procedures at Dawson College. The recent shootings have had are] constantly evaluated and have not been a mixed effect on students at the' Red River College proven ineffective." (RRC) campuses. Wilson ensures students there are procedures in Stephanie Lees, a business administration student place in case of an emergency, but explains the infor- at the RRC Notre Dame campus, feels safe while mation is not available to the public because it would at school. She credits her sense of security to the breach the level of security at the college. One thing fact that all of the shootings have taken place a fair Wilson can share is the goal of the procedures. distance from Winnipeg. "The objective of the plan is to minimize the "I might be worried if there was something that expansion of the threat...to vacate the area and get happened closer," says Lees. people to a no-danger zone. There are people in the But Tiana Lo Presti, a business administration college who will help until the proper authorities get to student at the Princess St. campus (PSC), already the scene." worries about something that could happen closer Security manager of RRC, Jim Dreyer, reminds than Dawson College. students that the college takes the safety of the staff "It's kind of scary. You can die at any moment and students very seriously. All security members went security guards are equipped with an without any warning...it shouldn't take a school to a recent meeting regarding the number of school shooting [at RRC] to make [security] changes." shootings this year. They decided there is no need to Emergency Preparedness Manual, which outlines what Hany George, a commerce CNI sales student at increase security actions to take in the case of an emergency. In addition to that, the PSC, agrees with Lo Presti. "There are [extra security guards] available on Darryl Nielsen, manager of Campus Services at the PSC, has "[Security] should re-evaluate their entire sys- short notice for a temporary basis if needed," says a background in risk control. Dreyer adds that if an emer- tem. They should be prepared at all times to expect Dreyer. gency were to occur, Nielsen would "work with security to help anything." Dreyer also points out that there are 50 cameras resolve any incident." But security isn't planning on changes to emer- at the PSC and 24-hour security at both colleges. All Develm It Andme hey may uo Mental Health A Top
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The sounds of music from a noon concert float By Devine [email protected] through Old Market Square, people walk up and down Portage Avenue, busses carry commuters downtown, and Portage Place Mall is bustling - it's the middle of Winnipeggers can breathe a the day, in the middle of the week, but come back in a sigh of relief. Earl Joey Wiebe, a 23- few hours and you'll get a very different picture. year-old mental health patient who "The decline of Winnipeg's downtown began escaped from ,custody while at the sometime after 1955 and became recognized as a Health Sciences Centre for psychi- community issue by the 1970's," says Hart Martin, 'a atric evaluation, has turned himself downtown advocate and real estate professional in a into authorities in Victoria, B.C. The recent interview with the Winnipeg Free Press (WFP). advent of his escape raising concerns "Since then, every civic and provincial government and about the incidence of mental health a few federal [governments] have made an open effort issues among young adults. to reverse the decline. Still, it seems, much is left to do." The Winnipeg Police Service It appears that the most important factor to reviv- issued a press release announcing ing downtown is to get people to live there. Wiebe's return to Winnipeg on "With people will come spin-off businesses to serve Oct.11. Wiebe was found not crimi- them," says Stefano Grande, executive director of the nally responsible for the murder of Downtown Improvement Business Zone (BIZ), in an his stepmother in 2000 and has since interview with the WFP on Sept. 15. The BIZ has been been a patient at the Selkirk Mental sponsoring bus tours to promote downtown living, and Health Centre. Grande says that people are noticing a change. "People Mental health disorders have are telling us they're absolutely impressed with what's a wide spectrum of conditions and going on in downtown housing development." diagnosis. The Canadian Mental Three multi-million dollar housing projects are Health Association (CMHA) website, currently under construction or in the early stages of wwwcmha.ca, lists about a dozen development. The Waterfront Drive project will give disorders. These are disorders such Winnipeggers a reason to move downtown, and will as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, provide new and affordable housing to residents who depression to phobias and OCD. wish to embrace urban life. According to a report from the Both civic and provincial government interven- Winnipeg Regional Health Authority tion is fuelling the momentum that Winnipeg seems (WRHA), 1 out of 10 Canadians over to be gaining. Mayoral candidates Sam Katz and Kaj 15 years old have reported symptoms Hasselriis are both citing plans to bring residents into of these disorders. That is approxi- downtown, and the city has over ten different organiza- mately 2.6 million people. tions dedicated to fixing the area. The Manitoba government is Many different programs are being put into taking progressive measures to create action to assist in the effort, including the provincial programs that support people with government's September announcement of additional mental disorders. One such program, funding to the University of Winnipeg. The funding CODI, is a Co-Occuring Disorder will go towards an expansion of the urban studies Initiative involving the WHRA, AFM program with a focus on the inner city. and Manitoba Health. The project Ultimately, it may be up to individual was created in response to the high Winnipeggers themselves to support the efforts of number of people with mental health government and business to restore our inner city. and substance abuse disorders. The WRHA reports that 1 in 5 children between Manager of Cake Clothing, Rebecca McCormack, In addition to the COIN, on Oct.13, Healthy the ages 9-17 have a diagnosable disorder and suicide agrees. Living Minister, Kerri Irvin-Ross announced that the is the second leading cause of death among young "Things are definitely getting better," she says as province is investing more than $7 million to improve adults in Canada from ages 15-24. community addictions and mental-health services she sees more people that don't live downtown coming "It is important to recognize the significance of for Manitoba youth. The funds will be divided into into her store. mental well being in young adults," said Bill Burrows Other projects such as the public space proposed outreach counseling services and programs, more from the CMHA. "The rate of mental health issues in the new Manitoba Hydro building, the restoration stabilization beds and more workers across Manitoba. of the Birk's building, and the Siloam Mission project "Focusing on a combination of areas including and addiction is considerably bigger than the general have been launched to help with issues of inner city prevention, intervention, outreach and facility-based public realizes." poverty and are all are endeavours that could make care helps us provide needed care so people can live significant improvements to the quality of downtown fulfilling, satisfied lives," said Irvin-Ross in a release life. about the funding announcemept.
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President The Class Representatives meet every month to address issues and concerns for their fellow class mates at the College. For more information on the Class Representatives, contact Michael Cochrane the VP Academic at Notre Dame or (204) 632-2474 Jesse Wilson the VP Princess at Princess Street. Michael The Student Advisory Board is the main body of students that guide the Students' Cochrane Association throughout the year. They are the main body that keeps the SA accountable to the students. To know who these students are and when the Board Vice President meets, visit the SA website www.rrcsa.com and click on the "Student Advisory Board" Academic link under the "Getting Involved" Tab. There you will find the student advisory board members and a tentative schedule of the board's monthly meetings. (204) 632-2477 The executive encourages you to attend the Class Rep and Advisory Board meetings which are public to students of the College. RRCSA Club List (204) 632-2480 • Aboriginal Languages Club Grad is Rad (Joint Baccalaureate Nursing) : Aboriginal Self-governance Club HSMSA (Hospitality program) Jesse African-Caribbean Club Malvoisin Catapult Club Wilson • Animal Health Technologists (AHT) Rebels Cheerleading Club • Circle of Voices RRC Fitness Club Vice President • Creative Communications Media Awards Simple Simon's Solutions Princess Street Club Technology Educators Students' Association Culinary Arts Club The Destroyers (Third Year Graphic Design) (204) 949-8466 • Diploma Nursing Grads Youth for Christ (YFC) • ECE Grad Club Up Coming Events • Oct 23 - Nov 3 • Club list includes clubs from both campuses. For more information on any of the • October 24th • clubs listed above, or information about starting your own club, please contact • Cr Avery Band Noon, Cave Lounge • • • Helena Herrera at 632-2480 or sa [email protected]. October 26th Spooky Kegger 3 - 7 PM, Cave Lounge (Pumpkin Carving Contest) kh,o‘dr„..,0‘01/40,„01kikikiktiktikAtikik ** $2.50 Bev's ** kspo ore NeN, 1/40; Ilicisitem in ; October 31st One Hellva Costume Party (Halloween Social) TYC 1/40 ik *Costume Prizes* korik Mexico %5 Advance Tickets available at the OX & the Mercantile C"tutr\e InV ez a vailable at ; spar 1/44r HAL.LowEEN socIAL SA OVViees - November 2nd ocroFER 31st TYC laesisert Psychic Dan Valkos b s. Free Readings) Noon, PSC Cafeteria Tkkets c° 1/40 lk Oet ober 30tit for Ikml.
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Harmony Broadcasting Winnipeg hip-hop radio station made, when they requested the station provide students working for him, he still considers 107.9 Corporation GM Frank Flava 107.9, because of com- logger tapes of its programming. After failing to a campus radio station. "I do believe we are a Capozzolo found himself plaints made to the commission provide the logger tapes and repeated requests for campus radio station, because we are waiting for in hot water at a Canadian that the station was not operating contact, the commission called- Capozzolo to the students to arrive for training." Radio-Television and in compliance with its licence as public hearing. The three person panel, some of whom were Telecommunications Commission an instructional campus radio Asked by the why he had failed to provide the now scowling in response to every word he spoke, (CRTC) hearing on Sept. 29. programming entity logger tapes when they were originally requested, asked Capozzolo why 107.9 was not meeting their The CRTC called on Previous attempts to contact Capozzolo (who was accompanied by a lawyer) appropriate amount of local and Canadian music Capozzolo, who operates Harmony by the CRTC had been seemed to struggle with the question. content. Capozzolo said that despite the fact he "When I was first told I was out of compli- runs every aspect of the station, it was not hig fault ance I had hoped this was an error, dismissed the that some on-air DJ's had not played the appro- STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS WORKSHOPS request (for logger tapes), and planned to contact priate amount of Canadian content. "I took my you (the CRTC). I run pretty much every aspect staff's word at face value," Capozzolo said. "I'm Career Exploration Workshops of the station, and got very busy," he said. now taking measures to ensure the appropriate November 10 at Notre Dame It was at this point Capozzolo stopped speak- • amount of Canadian content is being played." November 16 Notre Dame EVENING 5-7pm ing, sat silent for a few seconds, and then reached Despite the fact that no students work for into his pocket. Apparently, his Blackberry had November 24 at Princess 107.9, Capozzolo defended the claim that his gone off, and the message must have been so station sounds too commercial, as opposed to an Managing Test Anxiety important that Capozzolo only thought it fitting to instructional operation. break off in mid-sentence of -his explanation. After "I realize that we (107.9) sound like a commer- November 27 at Notre Dame the distraction had been dealt with, and the ques- cial station, and for that I make no apologies. The November 29 at Princess tion deflected, the CRTC panel continued on. programming decision was made to run the station Capozzolo attempted to defend the reason as a commercial entity, because that's where the Stress Management why he had violated the condition of his license to students were going to after their training." November 1 at Princess provide radio- broadcast training to post-secondary By the end of the hearing, Capozzolo admit- November 2 at Notre Dame students. - ted to every non-compliance violation in question. "I do not have any student training taking The CRTC will now review the testimony from the Learning from Textbooks place at this time," Capozzolo admitted. -"We are hearing in order to make a decision. It is expected November 1 at Notre Dame in the process of trying to establish connection that the CRTC will impose a mandatory order with Robertson College in order to obtain students on Harmony Broadcasting to begin operating in Memory Devices to come to Work at the station." complete compliance with its license conditions. Despite the fact Capozzolo currently has no November 7 at Princess November 8 at Notre Dame Test Taking Strategies Green Party: 'Less Work' November 21 and 28 at Princess November 22 and 29 at Notre Dame Shawn [email protected]
Procrastination Management You might be surprised to November 14 at Notre Dame learn there is a political party learn what the MGP is all about. November 22 at Notre Dame AFTERNOON at 3pm in Manitoba which is neither Many Canadians still believe in the stigma of the MGP, left-wing nor right, but rather - that the party is only concerned with environmental issues, when in fact it consists of so much'more. Recently the All workshops are held at 12pm unless noted — bring a party that says it stands up front for all people. This is the MGP has begun forming its new platform committee in your lunch! Workshops are free for students and the Manitoba Green Party (MGP), which the party discusses the agendas for the upcoming public. and recently The Projector year. Here, council members are assigned various was invited to speak with positions within the party, upcoming elections and Contact 632-3966 (NDC) or 949-8375 (PSC) or email Andrew Basham,.member- possible candidates are discussed, and the current [email protected] for locations and to register. ship chair and frontrunner and upcoming hot issues are identified ranging anywhere from peak oil and climate change, to the More workshops to come! for the MGP leadership, to proposed OlyWest hog plant. However, the MGP has also dedicated much of its platform committee on other sometimes non- environmental issues. These issues were focused on the simple -concept of how the MGP can improve overall life for Manitobans, with discussions includ- ing implementing ecological reading and proper fitness in schools, community health education, lower- "Works for ing post-secondary tuitions, assisting agricultural and organic farming communities and improving public safety. While some objectives are still in discussion, some me" current policies in the MGP policy summary may shock the average voter. One of the most stunning policies is reducing the standard work week from 40 hours to 32. "People are often overworked," says Basham. "They don't have enough time to really be members in their com- munity. If you're working all the time, where is the time for the democracy?" Now Hiring Research Interviewers Another policy of the MGP is the elimination of large- scale gambling, which in the eyes of the MGP, is based on appropriate government priorities. "The Manitoba government, in 2004, spent [approxi- Flexible Hours mately] $75 million dollars upgrading slot machines," says Basham. "Now could that $75 million dollars have gone to improving education at schools, increasing teacher's salaries? Growth Opportunities Instead that money went to feeding an addiction." Policies aside, if the MGP were in control, they would make a Benefits priority of re-evaluating Manitoba's current 200-year-old electoral process. "We need a 21st century election system, not a 19th century electoral system," says Basham. "It's time to get with the times." Basham says this ancient electoral process forces strategic voting, and simply put, it forces left-wing voters to support the Liberals or What works for You? NDP so the Conservatives can't gain power. Ipsos-Direct According to Basham, "[A new system would allow] people to vote based on their beliefs and their principals instead of the fear of the lesser of two evils." Perhaps the most important policy of the MGP is getting the pub- Visit our office at lic involved. Those concerned with any local issue, environmental or 175 Carlton, 2nd floor not, are encouraged to sign-up on the MGP website and get involved in positive change. Or Fax resume to 949-9371 "We maintain an email list," says Basham. "We let know people Online: www.ipsos-na.com/careers about events and general meetings." Email: HiringInterviewers.Winnipegaipsos-nA.com The MGP has about 340 members under its master list, but Basham says that he would like to see the numbers grow by 10,000. PROJECTING THINGS SINCE 1968 OCTOBER 23 2006 OPINIO EDITOR'S DESK There's a lot of pie-in-the-sky ideas being willing to hoist a picket in protest. talked about these days about how to deal with Obviously Winnipeg's need to shelter at-risk Winnipeg's nagging social problems — crime and families is urgent — proponents of releasing the CD[r poverty being possibly the most serious of them. homes for public use cite cases in which people Our leadership, both political and otherwise live in the worst conditions because there is say they want a city that cares about all of its nowhere for them to go. citizens. And yet, these home sit empty, under military Vessage And in the past six months alone, we've had watch. two hyped-up city summits that were supposed to In the case of these homes, the real irony is by melissa martin produce solutions at least partly to that end. that very rarely does such a perfect turnkey solu- We've seen tons of talk, but little action as a tion to a problem come about, on a practical and result of them. political level. For the past two years, nearly 200 quality, With amenities like transit, grocery stores Last summer, government-maintained family homes have sat and a quasi-community centre close to, or on I met a woman from Jasper. She was at The vacant at the virtually deserted Kapyong Barracks the site — Lipsett Hall contains a gym and a pool Forks, standing in line to buy a Sno-cone for her- young son.- It on Kenaston Boulevard. — one can't blame activists for wanting immediate seemed to her, she said, that everyday was Halloween in Winnipeg. These homes are wards of the Department action by the government to release the homes for Blame my boyfriend. With a face full of jewellery and an of National Defense, which seems reluctant a good cause until their ultimate fate is decided. to expedite their return to the public domain, Very little needs to be done to Kapyong to armful of tattoos, hegenerally turns heads... and, in the case of the despite the fact our tax dollars pay to keep them have it be a beacon of what our leaders say they woman from Jasper, loosens tongues. in good shape. want Winnipeg to be. "Winnipeg sure has a lot of freaks and peeks," she chirped The DND says it could take three to five We need to start telling our leaders to stop at my boyfriend,clutching her son's hand. "Did your parents beat years to transfer the land to the appropriate ignoring the solutions perched right under their you?" authority so they can be sold off noses, and to transform these houses into homes What's remarkable about the incident isn't the rudeness of her One wonders how that might change if the for people in need of them, not in three years comments, or that she made them in front of a child, but the fact issue became politically pragmatic to act on — but time, but now that they are fairly minor compared to what he normally hears. so far, the outcry has been limited to housing and Who really shows they care about Winnipeg? When put up to social sicknesses like racism, sexism, ageism and anti-poverty advocates, and a lone city councillor Think about that when you vote on Oct. 25. homophobia, discrimination against body modifications is a minor complaint. But it is very real: visible body mods (modifications) regularly What Dreams May Come prevent qualified applicants from getting a job. People with visible mods regularly experience derogatory comments and even out-and- out cruelty. I recall being on the bus, watching as a woman grabbed There is no sound and I am but a tiny speck found that: liberals showed slightly higher levels her child, announcing loudly that it "wasn't safe" to sit near a man in an endless black void. I then see something of nightmares than conservatives; conservatives undistinguishable and I know it's coming towards showed a higher level of lucid-dreaming--being with heavy facial piercings. me because it's getting bigger by aware they were asleep -- and Some say that people with body mods know what they're the second. I am swollen with "many liberals may be hanging getting into when they make that choice, so they can only blame fear as I realize what it is; a on the edge of mental well-be- themselves if doors are closed to them. Fair enough; but if you ex- giant, glowing, hollow three ing." tend that logic, you could say that a man who is fired for being gay dimensional circle rolling Well, I do have nightmares should blame himself for choosing to be open about his sexuality towards me. I start to run on occasion and yes, I'll be The latter is clearly a violation of the Charter of Rights and away but it's not doing the first to admit that maybe Freedoms; so why can't we offer the same respect of choice to those much good because there I'm hanging on to the edge of who are open about their choice to modify? is nowhere to go. When mental well-being. There is one powerful antidote to the poison of body-mod I look over my shoulder But lucid-dreaming? discrimination- mortality. it's now a giant, glow- That'd be like in Nightmare ing, hollow, square on Elm Street -- you could be In July, a friend took in this year's Canada Day celebrations in cube stomping in a dream and affect things • Osborne Village. In his online journal, he wrote that he saw a man towards me. I awake around you. If you were killed • with facial tattoos at the event. "Stupid," he said, "unless you're into gasping for my next you'd actually be dead, when negative comments and being ridiculed." breath and covered in sweat. What the hell was bad stuff happens you would try you're hardest Though it's not certain who that man was, there's a good that about? Am I a Liberal? to wake yourself up from inside your dream, and possibility that it was Jay Berezuk. In addition to his scarifications, Author and dream researcher Kelly Bulkeley you'd know the whole time you were asleep. implants, gaping earlobes, and split tongue, Berezuk had a face full has recently published his latest study on the dif- So what does this all mean? Well, if you're a of tattoos, and he was in Osborne Village that day. ferences between the dream worlds of liberal and boring person, you probably have boring dreams Berezuk wasn't into being ridiculed, and in the body-modifica- conservative people and quite frankly, it's just as and therefore you're probably a conservative. If tion community, he never was. A trailblazer and talented piercer, you would imagine. on the other hand you dream of having sex with According to Bulkeley, liberal minds tend to your best friend's wife, wear spandex and can turn Berezuk founded the city's first piercing-only shop and its first have more exciting and bizarre dreams involving back time by flying around the Earth at mach suspension team. Thousands of Winnipeggers (including my role playing, different sexual experiences and fan- speeds, then you're probably a liberal and should boyfriend) owe their most dramatic piercings to his expert hand. On tastic settings. Conservative's dreams on the other strongly consider investing in some Haloperidol. Oct_ 8, Berezuk died suddenly in his home of unknown causes. He hand tend to be, well, conservative. They dream So as conservatives wonder "am I living • was only 35. of realistic places and people they are familiar the dream?" and liberals wonder "is the dream • Berezuk's friends know what they learned from his short and with and rarely venture out of the ordinary. living in me?" I wonder "where the hell are those colourful life; but his passing also serves as a poignant retort to all The most interesting aspect of his research geometric shapes coming from anyway?" those who would deem body-mod choices "stupid." Choices can only be "stupid" if you live long enough to regret them, and no human being has that guarantee. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2006 Had Berezuk decided to Provencher Ballroom abide by mainstream rules of appearance...had he not tattooed Hotel Fort Garry - 222 Broadway RED RIVER COLLEGE his face, split his tongue...he'd Cocktails 6:00 pm Dinner 7:00pm still be dead. Only he would have ALUMNI DINNER died without having experienced 2006 Recognition of Distinguished things that for him, brought joy Alumni Award Recipients Gary Coleman, and spiritual fulfillment. David Bergen and David Garriock So to all those who would Entertainment by Jon Ljungberg discriminate against, or ridicule those with visible body mods, Tickets in advance $65.00 each remember this: at least they have or $520.00 per table chosen to get the most emotional, RED RIVER For ticket information contact: psychological, and spiritual COLLEGE enjoyment out of the time they ALUMNI TEL 204.632.2359 have with their bodies. I wonder E-MAIL [email protected] if those who criticize can say the same.
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PROJECTING THINGS SINCE 1968 OCTOBER 23 2006 FEATURES I Want To Believe
By Drew [email protected]
Maybe it's the inquisitive nature of Winnipeggers that makes us look to- ward the heavens to find magic and wonder in the night sky -- or maybe it's just the ever-pres- ent fear that bad weather is coming. Either way, many Manitobans claim to have seen unusual objects float- ing through the night and there have been so many reports in recent years that many Winnipeggers feel that the skies above our city are an active area for unidentified flying ob- jects (UFOs).
Whether or not we believe in call in UFOs, aliens or other paranor- Tommy mal activity, it seems that each Lee Jones and of us can think of someone that Will Smith the rare. we know who does believe or Men in Black? He said better yet someone who says Chris Rutkowski is not UFO that 60 per cent of they have witnessed something armed with the slick, black suits, researcher all cases, upon investigation, unexplainable. According fast cars, and larger than life Geoff Dittman. was shocked when he gazed to turn out to be misidentifica- to a poll conducted by UFO weaponry of Jones and Smith Rutkowski has interviewed the sky and saw two strange ob- tion. With some other cases, researchers across Canada, in their movies, however, he many people, investigated many jects floating toward him. One there are just not enough facts 10 per cent of all Canadians is armed with a bachelor of reports, and heard several stories of them changed direction and to draw accurate conclusions. believe they have seen UFOs. science degree specializing in as- about UFO encounters. He has flew away, but the other landed It is only between 3 and 5 per On the local scale, that would tronomy, a master of education studied UFO activity across on a rocky outcrop. Michalak cent of all cases that are truly translate to 100,000 Manitobans degree specializing in science Canada and extensively in our neared the disc-shaped craft unexplained, making encoun- who believe they have seen education and a genuine interest own province since the time he and reached out his gloved- ters like Michalak's (which is something unexplainable in our in expanding our knowledge of was a university student in the hand to touch its side. The also reviewed with pictures on prairie skies. the unknown. mid 1970s. - unusual aircraft was burning Library and Archives Canada's That's a lot of people. Rutkowski is one of the top The most unusual UFO en- hot and melted his glove. After website, www.collectionscanada. But what does a person do UFO researchers in Canada. counter he recalls happened to a being touched, the vehicle ca) extremely rare. when they believe they have He has published several books man in Falcon Lake, Manitoba, rotated until an exhaust vent It is because of the rarity seen something that could only on the subject of UFOs and in May 1967. Stephen Michalak, was facing toward Michalak. of truly unexplained cases that be described as a UFO? Do you his latest, "The Canadian an amateur prospector, was en- The vent blasted out a hot students like Deena Barrett are phone the police? Should you UFO Reports: The Best Cases joying his lunch after examining plume of gas which burned the sceptical of UFOs in our city. notify the mayor? Is it time to Revealed." was co-authored with a nickel deposit in the area. He surrounding vegetation as well Barrett is a nursing student at as Michalak's clothing. RRC's Notre Dame campus, 90060000000000000000006000000000 Rutkowski says, 'An and while she believes that Earth Students come join us in the 0 investigation was conducted might not be the only inhabited by the Canadian Air Force, planet in the galaxy, she says it's Aboriginal Student Support Centre the American Air Force, the not likely that aliens go on road trips to visit our city. Events/Workshops at Notre Dame (ND) & Princess Street (PSC) 0 RCMP and a host of others. 0 The conclusion of the air force "I do believe there are was that this event was unex- others out there, but there's not October 24: Video Presentation: 0 November 17: Louis Riel informative plained—they didn't have an enough evidence to make me Journey to 0 Nunavut - ND F209 display - PSC Atrium O idea of what really happened to believe that UFOs are coming to 0 October 26: Crafts with Elder Mae November 27: Community Kitchen - ND [Michalak]." 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It's 5:30 p.m. in the Red River College When investigating, Stefanyshyn meter, but can carry the added talent of and I couldn't go any further. I was just, Princess Street campus (PSC) library. doesn't carry a Bible, chant a series of contacting and conversing with the spirit literally, scared," he says. "I moved out There's not much going on in this part of sacred incantations or flick holy water at world. of the house the next day" the historic building, save for the sound unearthly visitors unprepared for a dose "When I work with a medium, I re- Later on, Stefanyshyn learned that of several computer fans and a one of our earthly reality. ally check them out. Because everybody's his past residence was home to a dis- steadfast student surfing the net. Greg Trading the traditional stereotype of a medium, which is kind of a weird turbed child molester in the 1940s who Stefanyshyn holds an electromagnetic Holy accessories and Wiccan-wear for a thing," he laughs. lured children into his home with candy field (EMF) meter up 21st century approach, "They have "And he would do it down into the library air. "When I work he uses instruments to prove to me in his basement. That was al- "What you're look- of fact as opposed to that they can "I started looking ways the most unsettling place. ing for," Stefanyshyn those of faith. In addi- get informa- That was the spot." explains, "are numbers with a medium, tion to the EMF meter, tion that isn't for them, I got not consistent with the I really check Stefanyshyn uses a digital readily avail- Reports of PSC Ghost room." camera, a temperature able anywhere. halfway down Spark Investigation He ventures them out. probe, a compass and Normally I'll forward, steps back. He night vision headgear go through fifty the stairs to the As for the PSC library narrows in on a corner. Because every- - a technological spread people before I Stefanyshyn would like to In a matter of seconds, so advanced it makes find one." basement, and I return, preferably with a me- the EMF's digital read- body's a paranormal research couldn't go any dium, at a time when the com- out bounces from four to seem almost normal. "That was puters and fluorescent lights one-point-nine, peaks at medium, which "With night vision, the spot" further." are off. Such electrical features eight and falls again. you can actually pick interfere with EMF equipment Stefanyshyn isn't is kind of a up the orbs as they're For our and make it difficult to take looking for faulty wiring, moving, if you're lucky ghost man, the accurate measurements. and he isn't searching for weird thing. enough to catch them at discovery of a haunted building's past There have been two unconfirmed studs in the wall. He's that particular time," he can be as liberating as it is disturbing. As reports of a spirit entity in the PSC li- measuring the electro- explains, scanning the a young bachelor, Stefanyshyn encoun- brary area — one from a Chilean student magnetic radiation flux density of what campus' historic Heritage Room with the tered what would change the direction of delegate visiting the college this summer, could possibly be a ghost. high-tech lens. "Other than that, we usu- his interests and career. and a student at came forward with her The PSC sits amidst some of ally pick them up with the photographs." "I was in a house that you could tale to The Projector after being alone in Winnipeg's finest architectural entities The "orbs" he speaks of appear in probably classify as extremely haunted. the library late at night. in the lovely and reserved Exchange photographs and on film much like you'd Not a very kind spirit, so to speak," he Luella Lontpajo is a library clerk District. Rather than tear down what imagine. A soft, glowing ball of light says. working the evening shift at the PSC. She were once derelict buildings, RRC's believed to be the soul of the departed One night before his eyes, what entertains the notion of a ghost. award-winning design celebrates what while in movement. It's important for began as missing cigarettes and other "It'd be interesting," Lontpajo could have been lost with one swipe of paranormal researchers like Stefanyshyn disappearing household knick-knacks smiles. a wrecking ball. Today, the campus is to clearly distinguish between orbs and transformed into the form of a full- She counters she hasn't seen any- blessed with a unique blend of historic dust particles, moisture beads and other fledged spirit. thing out of the ordinary in four years of elements and modern infrastructure. natural blob-like objects. "I never had good reception on my being in the bookstacks. According to Stefanyshyn and his After initially investigating a site, radio that I had. Then, all of a sudden it If spirits are a good thing, you could 30-plus years of paranormal experi- Stefanyshyn maps and researches the went crystal clear - I never heard it sound say Stefanyshyn remains optimistic ence, sandblasting 100-year old brick inflicted area. It's an extensive task in cit- so good," he says. "Then I could smell "In this area, it wouldn't surprise and installing overhead projectors aren't ies like Winnipeg, where street addresses perfume. A very, very strong perfumey me [if there was a ghost]. There were enough to render a building clean or new changed in the latter years of the 19th smell. At that point I kind of look up and buildings here before these buildings. "Ghosts or hauntings could be century. in the doorway there's just kind of a - not We're not far from where the first gallows attributed to a place, could be the build- "You have to go through it all and a glowing figure - but kind of an outline, were in Winnipeg. They were just over in ings, could be the grounds, something find out where this place was, and what and you could see it just looked like it was Market Square." that was brought in after, even an ob- lives did it cross," he says. illuminated, but not strongly illuminated.• ject," he says. "There's different reasons After securing enough background It was there for about half an hour." Visit Greg Stefanyshyn's website at www. these spirits hang around. Sometimes information to lead a full investiga- After the incident, Stefanyshyn lived ghosttoghost.ca, where you can buy tickets for they come back because it's a happy tion and making several site visits, with a routine parade of footsteps with- an up close and personal Hallowe'en tour of place. Sometimes it's people who don't Stefanyshyn brings back a medium to out owners and more missing objects. the historic Elmwood Cemetery. Also watch for know they're dead. Sometimes people interpret beyond what even the keenest One evening, he discovered every kitchen Greg on Global TV in the upcoming week as know they're dead and just ,come back to night-vision goggles can see. Mediums knife he owned had simply disappeared. he takes cameras into the very haunted Ramada visit, because apparently you can do that. are people with the natural ability to pick "I started looking for them, I got Marlborough Hotel. Sometimes it is a tragic end." up energy similar to that of an EMF halfway down the stairs to the basement, . . PROJECTING THINGS SINCE 1968 OCTOBER 23 2006 ARTS & CULTURE A Halloween To-Do List Halloween in Ir eg is a gathering of the insane. lanoris mixes of tastes and styles are incorporated into Halloween-themed events. 1 ins year, the weekend before Halloween u • 1 be raging uith horror flicks. punk rock and dubliscious sounds. Here 'S the-cream of the crop to check out in the IVinnipeg Halloween scene Beware - there will be lots of trouble to get into. Compiled by Arnie Lesyk. Ra a-w en e Ttor's k Ragga-ween is a perfect example of how varied and awesome Ro n' R II Night are your choices are for this Halloween. This show focuses on dub, ska Ah, Thor. It's perfect timing of course that Thor should be into town for our and reggae and is bringing heavy hitter King Django in all the way from Halloween weekend. For those of you who haven't had the pleasure, Thor New Jersey. Other acts on the bill are locals JFK and The Conspirators arid a self proclaimed "rock warrior" who apart from being a bodybuilder and Subcity Dwellers. The show is open to all ages with liquor available to the earning titles like Mr. Canada produces metal-opera albums and tours older ones. It's at the West End Cultural Centre on Friday, Oct. 27. Check with this stage show all over the world. Thor graces the Royal Albert out the myspace.com site under ragga_ween. on Saturday, Oct. 28 providing commentary on his film, Rock n' Roll Nightmare, which came out in the ever-glamorous year of S allo een 8 1987. Skalloween, a Winnipeg Halloween staple, is a mish-mash of punk, psychobilly and ska. This c'ix Pin s' New year's show is at the Fort Garry Community Evening H unti gs Centre on Saturday, Oct. 28 and features sev- eral bands. These are The Farrell Brothers, According to Judy Thevenot of Six Pines The Wedgewoods, Ten Too Many, SPRC, Ranch, this year's Evening Hauntings The Brat Attack, The Perms, Burden of are going to be scarier than ever. The a Decade and The Mouth-Boat. It's an Six Pines crew attended a convention all ages show, so it gets started early at earlier this year which helping them 6 p.m. jam a few new cards up their sleeve. Thevenot says that this event is a must-see and it is for mature audi- El is Ivi Elvis ences only. The Evening Hauntings will be running Oct. 27 and 28 in Okay so maybe it's not scary. But the the evenings. For more information, novelty level is tres high. According to check out sixpines.mb.ca. ticketmaster, it's the longest running Elvis tribute show in the world. The night sees Matt Lewis, Justin Shandor Wi nipeg Short and Brendan Paul shaking their stuff all over Pantages Playhouse's stage. Just F Im Ma acre from looking at these guys' pictures I Every Halloween one night is am practically swooning. I also found out dedicated to horror and bloodshed at that Winnipeg has its own rent-an-Elvis Cinematheque theatre. This year's Short service. Who knew? The Elvis Elvis Elvis Film Massacre is on Friday, Oct. 27 and show takes place Sunday, Oct. 29 at 7:30 features the wildest and weirdest in local horror p.m. shorts. All the hardcore horror fanatic filmmak- ers are sure to be shown at this festival and often Hall ween Furka- lic the crowd shows up in full costume. It's $6 regularly, $4 if you wear a costume. Check See The Projector's write-up on this event out the wicked poster at myspace.corn/win- which claims to be the only authentically nipegshortfilmmassacre. haunted Halloween party destination. Music will be provided by local DJ heroes Hunnicutt and Co-op. _4s for the actual day of Hallotheen itself you're best off checking out_your local watering hole (in my case it would be the Toad in the Hole). Or you can feast on some metal at venues like The Zoo. Either way put on some gore, hand out some Think you're in treats and do it up 11 inmPeg-style. li i WITH YOUR FEELINGS? Thursday, October 26 Cave Lounge, Notre Dame Campus
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Halloween is my favourite holiday. It acts as the explanation point in the sentences Get I .,/Ky of our socially acceptable identities. It's an excuse to show a side of yourself few By Britt [email protected] ever see. Halloween highlights people's personalities simply to have a good time Looking for an excuse to dress up this Halloween? There will be plenty of Halloween and share a few laughs. socials and parties for you to whip out your scariest, funniest, or most scandalous costume Remixes and mashups are perfect — you're probably a little too old for trick-or-treating - but if you're looking for something Halloween songs too — they take what's different than check out The Manitoba Museum's Halloween Funkadelic on Friday, Oct. familiar, dress it up, and sometimes trans- 27. form it into something almost unrecogniz- This unusual venue has the unique distinction of being the only party spot in the able. Former bassist and producer from Death city that is actually haunted. Professional mediums as well as a scientific paranormal researcher have verified'the museum's ghostly claim. From Above 1979, JFK and Al-P respectively, Museum staff report seeing multiple spirits roaming various parts of the building. take their knob-twiddling magic and release Security guard Rhonda Smith had a startling experience one night while check- some of the best viscous and filthy dance mu- ing the Urban Gallery. Around 4 a.m. on this particular night, Smith claims to sic ever. Like costumes accentuating people's have seen a woman wearing a long, old-fashioned dress with a bonnet hanging personas, MSTRKRFT's remix work radiates down her back. "She didn't look up at all, but I was scared out of my neon apocalypse throughout any of the original wits! As I walked towards her, she turned around real fast and disappeared," material they touch. she says. For those who prefer rock and are scared to cross the The Urban Gallery is being transformed into a ghost town for the techno threshold, check out the MSTRKRFT remix of Metric's Halloween event and will feature some of the museums most gruesome "Monster Hospital". This tune is far from a new release but it's collections to date. Holli Moncrieff, the museum's public relations manager, says that the items on display would include authentic post-mortem photog- one that freaks out dance floors worldwide. The remix keeps the • raphy, as well as some very disturbing things from the museums wet collection. original song's pop sugariness but adds a sticky layer of crunchy Moncrieff explains: "Wet collection means anything pickled in a jar so I'm sure you can imagine what synthesizer that's thick enough to chew. The metamorphosis that entails. A lot of disturbing things have been preserved for study over the years... things that used to be takes pop music and dresses it for a night of ghoulishly sweaty, alive." hands-in-the-air dancing. Check out mstrkrft.com and myspace. If pickled body parts and photos of dead people aren't your idea of a good time, boycott that part of com/mstrkrft. the event and tear up the dance floor instead. Get funky - or freaky - to the sounds of spinmasters DJ Co-op Last year a supergroup of indie-minded musicians (Win & and DJ Hunnicut as they play a mix of funk, soul, and house. Other parts of the event include airbrushed Regine of Arcade Fire, Beck, Buck 65, Feist, Syd Butler of Les tattoos and lessons in stage make-up techniques. This is apart from Halloween goodies and ghoul-themed Savy Fav's, Peaches, Chris Murphy of Sloan, Thurston Moore beverages. Moncrieff promises that "there will be tonnes of room to dance, so you won't have someone of Sonic Youth, Anna Waronker of That Dog, Karen 0 of Yeah elbowing you in the ribs of stepping on your feet all night." Yeah Yeahs and many more) got together and formed the North Dress the part and compete in the costume contest for you chance to win some high-end prizes like tat- American Halloween Prevention Initiative. too and body piercing certificates, an iPod, season tickets to the Bombers, and even a convertible rental. The group released a song called "Do They Know It's The event is for adults only. Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at the door. Halloween Funkadelic Hallowe'en", where all proceeds of the song are donated to supports Winnipeg Harvest, so they will be collecting donations of non-perishable food items. Unicity Taxi UNICEF. The song parodies the "misguided, somewhat patron- will be on call and lots of Unicity gift certificates will be given out during the evening, meaning many people izing attitude, and Western-centric worldview" of other benefits will be getting a free ride home such as Band Aid and Live Aid. Best of all, each guest The group satirically calls for the banning of Halloween — to leaves with a free goodie bag. end the scariest and most terrorizing night of the year. The social For tickets or for more inform commentary behind the lyrics laughs at the current climate of fear tion on the event call 988-062 smothering North America. At the same time, the song also raises or check out the website at is looking to hire... awareness for the annual UNICEF trick-or-treat tradition where manitobamuseum.ca. kids help kids. IMMOBILIZER INSTALLERS Buying the single is a fun, easy, and a rewarding way to make $50 to $85 per install. AUTOMOTIVE GROUP a donation to a worthwhile cause. 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The tide of terror that swept America An unwitting IS HER/ blonde walks into an abandoned house where the power has gone out, 5. Alien and a thunderstorm (1979) is raging outside. hbeknownst to The tagline the girl, her killer read, "In lurks in the shad- space no one ows waiting for can hear you her. You want to scream." Then
scream, "Don't go mum unknown liasounsrlosu in there!", but of 1111111amm11011 EU director Ridley course she always the influential horror Scott's film is does and to your 1. The Shining forces of evil and ends up being films in history. For about the crew secret delight she is subsequently (1980) possessed by the devil with ter- the first time in cinema, the of the Nostromo being picked hacked to pieces. rifying consequences. monster was a next-door neigh- off one by one by a superior life This year's crop of scary Jack Nicholson stars as Jack "People fainted in the bour, a person you worked with, form in outer space. movies about things that go Torrance, a writer who takes his theatres. Others vomited. In the guy behind the counter, not a "This Ridley Scott-di- bump in the night are descending family on a job to house sit a one unconfirmed case, a woman vampire or werewolf or other un- rected masterpiece of horror upon us in all their blood-drip- mountain top hotel during the had a miscarriage, just from believable figment of someone's and suspense is as scary as it ping, knife-wielding, flesh-eating winter off-season. As cabin fever watching a movie. Movies about imagination. No one had ever gets. Imagine you have some glory. But trying to choose the takes hold, Nicholson starts to serial killers and zombies are one seen this kind of brutality before little fucker attach itself to your greatest horror flick of all time, descend into madness and goes thing, but The Exorcist taps into in a movie theatre." - best-horror- face and when'it finally falls might be just as difficult as con- on a killing rampage. something else, that basic, primal movies.corn off and dies, your relief turns vincing yourself to take a shower, "Stanley Kubrick's maze of fear of the devil." into unimaginable agony hours alone at night, in a small hotel terror works on conscious and - builz-eye.com 4. Jaws (1975) later when another little fucker run by a man and his mother. subconscious levels, as his jarring bursts out of your chestwhile While opinions on the great- cutting and dissonant music help 3. Psycho (1960) The small island of Amity is you're still alive. That's just a est horror movies of all time vary, weave a disorienting tale of the being terrorized by a great white bad day. All the more terrifying and in fact, the very definition disintegration of family." In this Hitchcock classic, Marion shark in this Spielberg film. is the space setting of the film. of what is a horror film is up for - boxofficeprophets.corn Crane (Janet Leigh), is murdered "Some people say Jaws isn't Scott masterfully exploits our question, there do seem to be a by Norman Bates' mother, and horror. All I know is, 30 years natural anxieties about isolation few that pop up on "best horror 2. The Exorcist (1973) when three people come look- later, you still can't get me to go and desolation to create a genu- movie lists" consistently. ing for her, they find themselves into the ocean any deeper than inely horrifying experience." A little girl named Regan (Linda inside a nightmare. up to my ankles." - bullz-eye.com Blair) starts to experiment with "Psycho is one of the most - bullz-ge.com Bands that Slay a CO Beach or By Allison [email protected] (Th ipeg 3eac
By Holly [email protected] The shrieking of chain-saw- of Putrescence, says the artist that ing monkeys, scraping vocal reaps the most fear is DJ Fishead. More than twenty semis they take over everything" and, cords and vomit spews filled the Fishead is a Winnipegger who Kim Todd, the executive pull into Winnipeg Beach over- "it is a lot more work than we producer of Falcon Beach, audience's ears and fear filled spins a hardcore version of techno night and colourful false store thought." Adair quickly adds could not be reached for com- the bodies of the masses. In the called gabber. This includes fronts magically appear and in her view, "the incentives are ment, but according to Matt Halloween spirit, the band with samples from such artists as Slayer transform Main Street, as the worth it." Wright, a set designer for the the most fright-inspired sounds is and Metallica. words, Falcon Beach emerge Adair says she also notices show in 2005, Falcon Beach being hunted. A clear mission and "This guy spins the fucking on the historical water tower, her business neighbours fixing spent about $1 million during
a very strong statement: where records that tell people, you know yet again. up their facilities with , an in- the shoot. you can find Winnipeg's scariest what? Your life is shit - you have Winnipeg Beach is a crease in pride in their proper- "Most of the businesses band. always been a bunch of shit. quiet little Interlake town, ties, thanks to Falcon Beach's were happy we were there, as In a city-wide survey, rep- These records are being spun to situated on the banks of Lake presence. we injected a huge amount of resentatives from bands such as send you home. Fuck you, fuck Winnipeg, about 90 k.m. north Local resident,.Cheryl money into the local economy," of Winnipeg. There are not Cohan, doesn't pay much Lykeum, Mandatory Death, and you, fuck you. It's very hard fuck- says Wright, who explains that very many all-season businesses attention to the filming but says many businesses received a lot Kursk all supported Putrescence's ing music," says Alexander. in town because it is difficult to "the town receives very little of money for the use of their wild-card killer ideology as Drummer from local black the cultivate a living here. In sum- compensation for the use of facilities. reigning champ of fear. metal band Lykeum, Will Hill, mer, this sleepy town comes to the town," and that "[Falcon Our provinces' "spirited Mike Alexander, lead singer also feels DJ Fishead deserves life with tourists, who infuse Beach] compensates the set." energy", in turn, provides an from Putrescence says, "we are some recognition. "He fucking the local economy with the Cohan adds most productions alluring incentive for filming in men. We are people who are here rapes records, man," says Hill. finances necessary to keep the will pay for the u•se of these Manitoba's small prairie towns. to brutalize you, to sodomize Putrescence is a rough act town alive. In winter, the town things and "of course the town The perks of producing a show your face in the asshole," — it's an to follow. Their myspace.com site all but shuts down and it is could use cash or some sort of in rural Manitoba can be a tax ideology supporting the horror of defines their new CD, Dawn of difficult to buy a cup of coffee compensation." credit covering 40 to 50 per Halloween. the Necrofecalizer, as being "the after 2 p.m. In fact, most Beachers cent of labour costs incurred The effects of Falcon don't appear star-struck by "The first time I heard definitive soundtrack to using by the production company. Beach filming here have the Falcon Beach series taking For most Winnipeg Putrescence they were singing gloved fists to evaporate the very spurred mixed reviews from over their town for two months Beachers, this is good busi- about putting their enemies faces of poseurs while blacked out residents. Lisa Adair, owner of in summer. There have been ness. Perhaps with their extra through tree shredders, and it was drunk. Breakwater Cafe in Winnipeg disgruntled residents enraged money, they can scan their fucking awesome," says long-time It also says, "Diehards will Beach, says, 'just the activity over the blockage of their tax- new wide screen TV's for the fan Rachel Sansregret. feel compelled to completely around and the increase in supported streets, particularly familiar landmarks of their The mindset of this band is smash the Christ into a blackened activity, has increased sales in Main Street. After a screech home gone Hollywood. And violent and full of revenge, mak- mixture of tar, bone fragments ice cream and coffee." of tires and some profan- just as the local residents sprout ing them the perfect candidate for and facial hair upon blasting this Falcon Beach does a lot ity, the scourge usually ends. new desires to join all the smil- scariest band of the city. album with no remorse! Wimps of filming in and around the There have also been isolated ing actresses in designer bikinis, Although peers find fuck off, this is a forced feces Breakwater Cafe. It is the focal incidents of youth skateboard- their town is restored to its point of several of its episodes ers becoming disruptive during Putrescence the scariest, explosion upon the dance floor!" pre-Falcon Beach insipidness. • during the semonAdairgee.9 ifiltninpin the Nicinity of the After all, this is television. Alexander, unofficial spokesman :Enough Alitilga.10-.Ct :HE 3 • on to say, "when wen theey re Imre latti a0: ' 4 el II •
HEALTH, SPORTS & LIFESTYLES OCTOBER 23 2006 THE PROJECTOR a B S ess Suspecting Truth Through Subjective A Guide To Big Change Reality By Sean [email protected]
Given the abruptly recent onset of winter, Not every new business can afford a new `Relieve only what you many of us may be prepared to trade our building. Though it limits some ecological yourseY" test and judge to be bikes for SUVs and embrace global warming design opportunities, Berg says that taking as the heat wave of the future. The tempta- "an existing building and turning it green uses true." tion will pass. Ultimately, if the polar ice less energy," and provides the opportunity to - Buddha caps melt, it will mean the displacement of recycle old materials, much like Red River millions of crotchety geriatric Republicans College. In a few months my when Florida becomes submerged in water—a For structures already inhabited by sweet little apartment in blue state? By then, Canada will be looking businesses, there's the Building Owners and West Broadway will cost pretty sweet, so let's protect ourselves from this Managers Association of Canada's Go Green twice as much as it costs influx of conservatives by keeping on task and program. The Winnipeg Free Press featured now And before you tell combating climate change. this national environmental recognition in an me that it's illegal for the likely, we are all aware of the joy of Oct. 10, 2006, article showcasing the Royal price to go up like that recycling. It is arguably the most common Bank building at 220 Portage Ave. The – I know it is, unless you're way for us to reduce our ecological footprint. 40-year-old building received certification in A quick look around RRC will show you just May, but property managers estimate annual the owner promising to improve the whole building. how pervasive the choice to:recycle is – but utility costs have already been cut by $60,000. And since my particular suite is already immaculate, six hundred bucks a what about when we students become budding Much of these savings came from reducing the month buys me some new linoleum and a dishwasher. Turns out 600 bucks professionals and entrepreneurs? The benefits building's consumption of hydro by 8 per cent a month also buys me 65 cents worth of food, so I'll be doing my laundry of spreading our eco-friendly habits to future and water usage by 24 per cent. in the dishwasher just to render the fucking thing useful. business ventures can go well beyond preserv- Most importantly, there are increasing Past experience combined with this news brings me to my landlady. ing our outdoor hockey rinks. It can go to a opportunities for small and medium-sized She's a bitch. And not the normal kind of bitch, like every landlady. No. company's bottom line. businesses to experience the benefits of The kind of bitch I'd like to stuff inside my new dishwasher with dirty un- Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC) was being green. The Manitoba Chamber of derwear, except I won't, because dirty underwear deserves better company. built at the corner of Portage Avenue and Commerce recently published The Bottom So, do I know she's a bitch? Do I have proof for you? Does it matter? Donald Street over four years ago, but its Line on Climate Change: a Manitoba If I'm convinced my landlady deserves an ass-full of sparkling blue "green" status is still resulting in free publicity Business Guide. It is packed with a variety according to employee Ken Berg. of attainable solutions such as using compact JetDry, there isn't much anyone can say or do to prove me otherwise. In "That's who we are," Berg says. "We're fluorescent light bulbs, installing solar water the realm of me, myself, and I, the woman is a bitch, period. That's my environmentally conscious in all things we heaters, and planting trees to counteract car- truth, and regardless of right or wrong, is the only truth that matters to do." bon emissions. Throughout the guide, many me. MEC is the second retail store in tips and case studies connect businesses to a Subjectivism theorizes that perception creates reality, and beyond this Canada to receive 02000 certification: an wide network of supports as well as a variety perception-driven reality, there isn't much left. That isn't to say my land- environmental standard awarded by, the of private and public initiatives from across lady wouldn't exist if I didn't hate her. She's definitely a living, breathing, federal government. As well, the building Canada. biological organism, even if she was born from an angry rat mating with obtained LEED (a rating system in the world , It is a valuable source of information for a mud puddle. Subjectivist theory says there isn't a single, independent, of green buildings) Gold certification during all current and future business adventurers. perception-free reality you can gain access to if you're a conscious being. its construction. In addition to marketable prestige, Berg says MEC enjoys "60 per cent Apparently, the reality we have is filtered through conscious- or more annual energy savings," thanks to the ness - two lenses, so to speak. One lens stems from simple steps required to grab such endorsements. neuron-functions (red circle doesn't jive with blue square) and the other one uses complex experience (red wine doesn't jive with blue Curacao). So if everything we ever comprehend passes through both lenses, and if everything around us is our reality, then our reality has been subject to experience that may not be Corrupt Cop versus "right" to anybody but us. At the end of the day what we're left with are things we saw combined with how we saw them, and therefore true because we say so. Naughty Nurse Is all of this philosophical hoopla useful beyond winning your next argument? Will your friends be really impressed when you explain exactly why you're right? Past experi- By Andrea [email protected] ence tells me no, but hey, if all this is true, you wouldn't take my word for it anyway. Except the part about the landlady, because trust me, she's a bitch. Notice something miss- ing on campus every Oct. 31 – something of that was once'an integral part of every child's Winnipeg stu- Halloween experience? Remember when yoU dent, offered her own could go to school and see vampires, ghosts, excuse. "I don't want and werewolves roaming the hallways? For to wear a costume to many, it a far and distant memory, as there has school because, well, look a been a disappointing decrease in post-second- at the kind of costumes third- ary students costuming up at school. girls are wearing nowa- year business student It's not for lack of trying – Party Stuff days. I'd freeze!" at the University of Manitoba. sales manager and costume guru Marian According to Indeed, several women agreed that they Templeton says that young adults are some of Templeton, sales of would feel uncomfortable wearing their costumes her biggest customers. outfits leaving little to to school. But what about the students who aren't Despite what some may think, instructors the imagination, like wearing something revealing? aren't the problem either. In fact, most of the "Corrupt Cop" and Kiera Gilchrist, a third-year education student them welcome the idea of students donning "Naughty Nurse," have at the University of Winnipeg, speculated as to costumes. Kenton Larsen, an instructor at skyrocketed in recent why more students don't partake in the festivities. Red River College advocates for it "as long as years. According to her, "Not many people dress up and I think it's teaching can occur." the most popular costume because they don't want to put the effort into doing So where are students' hiding their this year is Goldilocks, it. I'm not dressing up because I don't want to get Halloween spirit? Goldilocks, Goldilocks! made fun of! But people should get into the spirit The majority of students polled admitted "There is an unspoken of Halloween before they're too old to do it," said said they like to dress up for Halloween, but code that on Halloween, it's Gilchrist. not in the classroom. One student noted that justified to dress (inappropri- Andrea Stutski, a first-year electronic engineer- "there are a few keeners here and there," but ately), so if the ladies have a ing student at RRC, agreed. "I think that people for the most part, students save their costumes revealing costume, chances are just really lazy...they suck," she says. for a night out. are they won't wear it to Faye Armstrong, a third-year University school," said Jessica Brant,
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• • • Magic On The Prairies •
By Derek JOryderek^[email protected]
On Nov. 19, Winnipeg, along they are right in line with other event. A full week of festivities is with its beloved Blue Bombers, Grey Cups. planned in various areas of the city ; will host the 2006 Grey "Do I think [ticket leading up to the game. Free events Cup. Anticipation prices] are too high? taking place during the Magic on the is mounting No, I don't. We've Prairies Festival include: the Grey • for the event, researched it — we Cup festival kick-off, the Manitoba but with ticket did some focus testing Hydro Grey Cup parade, a parka prices much groups on the pric- party at The Forks, and daily pavil- higher than ing of it. From the ions organized by each CFL team. that of regular football club's point of "This Grey Cup is all about season Canadian view, from end zone to end Winnipeg and it's about promoting Football League games, zone we are not out of line by any our city and people wanting to be If you want to see the latest in drama unfold in front of your means," Maslowsky said. outside to enjoy it. The Grey Cup will football fans support the very eyes, don't bother watching prime-time TV Just flip on event? "I think that's really an issue is more than the game that goes on. • the NFL on a Sunday afternoon. The 94th Grey Cup will in any event, what's the right This is being proud of who we are, First of all, let me say that I have no qualms with the NFL. be played at Canad Inns Stadium price? What's the affordable and what we are. This is our time to I think it's a very efficiently run league that continues to try for the first time since 1998, but price? Look at an NHL pre-season show the rest of Canada, and the rest to improve its product. But, I do however have problems with fans such as Lex Langston are out- hockey game. That wasn't even of the world, how great this city is." some of the players - and for some reason they all seem to be raged at the high cost of tickets. our team or a representatiohof Kent Pearce, a second-year • wide receivers. I really wish they would just grow up. "My wife and I were Con- Winnipeggers being involved in Masters of natural resource manage- ; Last week while being interviewed on The Drive with sidering going to the Grey Cup doing anything, and people came mein student at the University of •. Chris Myers and Sean Farnham on Fox Sports Radio, Oakland this year because it is here in out to support that event," said Manitoba and diehard Blue Bombers Raider wide receiver and captain, Randy Moss, said he "wasn't Winnipeg, but when we saw how Maslowsky, in reference to the fan, -says it doesn't matter how much even too concerned with football right now" and that he was much they are charging fortickets, exhibition hockey game played tickets: are to the G_ rey Cup — he's just "living life". at the MTS CentrebetWeen going. I said forget about that," Langston I understand that he's not getting the ball as much as said "I'm 'a big fan of the CFL, the Phoenix Coyotes and the "I think the prices-are in line he's used to but honestly, when the captain of a football club and especially the EdmontOn Edmonton Oilers in September. With:recent Grey Cups. It is Canada's .• says things like this publicly you know there's a problem. And With over 37,000.tickets premiere sporting event, so the high •. Eskimos, but for the cost of two while I'm sure some of it lies within Art Shell and the rest of tickets-we-can avoid the cold and already sold for the prices are to be eimected. I Probably the Raiders coaching staff; this still directly reflects on Moss MaslOwsky is pleased with the wouldhave paid more." entertain =ten or twelve friends for himself, as being the person he is the game in the warmth of our support the event is.receiving thus Pierce, who will be sitting in I don't care if he is the best receiver in the league physi- home." far. Of the 15,000 temporary seats the north end zone alongside ten cally, even if he's not getting the ball and he can't produce, he Tickets for theiig game start that were moved;into the south gf:his friends, is looking forward to still has to lead his team. at $93,85, for seats M the north: end zone for the ganie, only 6,000 the ganie as it will be his first time Another wide out with similar problems is Terrell Owens. end zone, and peak at $335.85; seats remain. attending the league championship. Although T.O.'s ego has always been a bit monstrous and con- for seats in the alumni lounge. -Maslowsky acknowledges "Tin really excited. This will suming (see him with the Eagles last season), his ego has taken Jerry Mailowsky, vice-president of that some people may view ticket be my first. Grey Cup. I've been a • on a new level in the Lon_estar State. After the. Cowboys loss marketing :for the Bombers said prices as high, but that there are hardcore fan of the CFL and the • to, the Eagles in Week 5, Owens spoke to media for 45 minutes he's content with ticket prices, as other ways to get involved in the Bornbers for years. To get to see after the homecoming game. He talked. And he talked. And my first Grey Cup in a football rich he talked, about his lack of a social life and how he's frustrated environment like Winnipeg will be with the team's current situation, among other things And he great. And if the Bombers are in it, wonders why everyone thinks he's back to being the same old look-out!" • T.O.? Maslowsky agrees that it would Maybe wide receivers are just inclined to always stir the be great to see Winnipeg playing in ; pot and cause a ruckus. Maybe it's just their personalities. Not the Grey Cup. He also notes that if • all wide receivers are like this, but it is a trend that seems to be he had control of things, the game growing. And while the antics aren't affecting team dynamics would feature one of the best rival- - yet, it will be interesting to see if T.O. and Moss grow up a bit ries in the league. "If I could pick before the end of the year. the two teams to play in it, I'd love it ; Hopefully they'll realize that the name on the front of their to be a Winnipeg vs. Saskatchewan ; jersey is more important than the name on the back. Grey Cup. This city would have to be • rebuilt on the Monday." • BL p, Set, Sp -Ke By Marta Almeida
Varsity sports at RRC changed lastyear, dynamic. around with them at age 12. after seeing their first Men's volleyball "He is young and very The sport has since remained a Book early & SAVE. Ask us for details. team in 20 years attack the court. RRC's positive. I couldn't ask for a part of his life. team, better known as the Rebels, debuts better attitude in a player." Excited to play for the Only available at the '06 season with a stellar roster, wel- The fact that Enns Rebels this year, Enns admits ::TRAVEL CUTS coming new volleyball setter, Justin Enns, towers at 6'2" doesn't hurt his original plan was to attend Canada's Student Travel Experts who is equal parts student and athlete. either. While trying out in the Red River College and con- September selection camp, dur- www.travelcuts.com centrate on getting his degree ing jump testing he reached up 1-888-FLY-CUTS (359-2887) Ryan Ratushniak, RRC's in Business Administration, in athletics director says a player like to a mountainous 11 feet. hopes to take over the family Enns is important to the team Ratushniak is looking carpentry business. It was only forward to see Enns develop after he heard about the Rebels, his volleyball skills by moving and missed the first tryout, that him around the court to power he went to see if he could make hitter. the cut. "He will be able to play a With an MVP award, and number of positions. With his a tier two club league provincial all around skill he will become a championship under his belt, multi-talented player." Enns credits his success to the . Beyond technical skill, discipline which the sport of Scott Miller, the Rebels team volleyball has taught him. trainer, points out that Enns "It's made me strive for tors wanted plays an important role on tougher goals in volleyball and Help Reduce the Wait List for a Big Brother the team mentally, by being in my life. It has really taught "outgoing and getting everyone me how to become a team fired up" with his attitude and player overall." energy. Being given the opportu- Enns credits his two older nity to become a power hitter Presently there are over 50 Little Brothers on the wait brothers, Andrew and Matthew, on the team is a challenge Enns . 1 Big Brothers Big Sister list due to a shortage of male mentors enrolled in the for teaching him how to play can't wait to face. of Winnipeg traditional Big Brothers Program. To find out how the game. "I look up to them, "I love hitting. It will give you can help, call 988-9200 or visit they've always been there, and me the chance to learn how to are like my two best friends." hit properly and try and excel at www.bigwinnixeg.cqm T first t‘intre Enns picked a something new." .1IIMa , 2.i*tall Was when '131ayitig alra.; HEALTH, SPORTS & LIFESTYLES OCTOBER 23 2006 THE PROJECTOR
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Many people have heard the strangers are filling their candies medical treatment." No one was to 22, says tainted candies are parents. That's why they bring tale — it's usually spoken of as with poison and ramblades arrested. always a concern for her. Each their kids here now instead of something that really happened before giving it to those precious The second incident in year, her children collect candy taking them out for Halloween to a friend of a friend. If it is little goblins. Winnipeg occurred in 2003, and in their River Heights neighbor- because they feel it's safer. It's told often enough, people come Tainted candy is a reality, it did not involve direct contami- hood. great for business." to believe it as truth. Common but extremely rare. In Winnipeg, nation of candy. Around 100 "I always make my kids lay As long as children go are the stories of the poodle in there have only been 2 actual wrapped toilet pucks were put out their candy so I can look out for Halloween, stories of the microwave or alligators living cases. in bags that were also filled with at it before they eat anything. strangers waiting to hand out in the sewers, but then there's the "On Halloween (2005), a treats. The bags were given to Anything not in a wrapper gets poisoned pixie sticks will be told. urban legend people share about. 12yearold girl in St. Mil col - various agencies, and handed tossed. If I see a candy apple, In truth it seldom happens. But Halloween. lected a Tootsie Pop mini sucker out to children. It was unknown it's the first thing that goes," said because of the power of legend, On Oct. 31, thousands of from an unknown address," said if this was a prank or an inten- Barker. children today believe they have Winnipeg children run through Sgt. Shelly Glover, then a spokes- tional incident. Dale Doucette, manager something far worse to fear than the streets, tricking and treating person for the Winnipeg police. At Sugar Mountain, a of Sugar Mountain, knows how a sore stomach from eating too themselves to fistfuls. of free candy "This candy had a small needle candy store on Corydon Ave., uncommon poisoned candy is, much candy. from total strangers. Burned into lodged in it which punctured employees and customers know yet she has seen a growing trend parents' minds are ideas that these the young girl's tongue, needing stories of poisoned candy. They of parents bringing their chil- have caused worries amongst dren dressed in costumes every parents. Halloween into her store to do A Ten Minute Exam Sugar Mountain shopper their trickortreating. Joanna Barker, mother to four "I have heard the tales of Could Save Your Life sons ranging in age from 11 poisoned candy. And so have By Michelle [email protected]
Every woman should get Day is to make it easier and more one, but not every woman does. convenient to be tested — however About 75,000 women in women need to know it's not the Manitoba between the ages of 18 only day they can, be tested. The and 69, or 37 per cent, have not test can be done at a doctor's had a Pap test in the last three office, community health clinic, or years, according to CancerCare nursing station (some may require Manitoba's registry data. an appointment). Pap Test Day is on Oct. 25. The test is primarily used Seventeen clinics in Winnipeg will to screen women for cervical be operating as walkin sites for cancer. A sample of cells is taken anyone wanting a Pap test. The from the cervix and checked for program, which started in 2003, abnormal cells. is an initiative by CancerCare Abnormal cells can mean Manitoba's Manitoba Cervical a variety of things. They could Cancer Screening Program. be caused by an infection, or it "It's held to increase aware- could mean that the sample was ness of cervical cancer, why it's not readable. It may also mean important to be tested, and make that cervical dysplasia cells are it easy for women to be tested present. Cervical dysplasia cells as most cervical cancers can be aren't cancer, but if untreated, prevented with early screening," can become cancerous. said Jean Sander, recruitment and The importance of health promotions specialist at prevention and screening ser- MCCSP. vices like Pap tests cannot be This is the first year that the stressed enough. According to initiative will be offered provin- CancerCare Manitoba, approxi- cially.. There will be 56 clinics mately 66 women in Manitoba Muse par outside of Winnipeg that will be are diagnosed with cervical offering tests, from Oct. 23 to cancer each year. Their website, 27. Each participating clinic will www.cancercare.mb.ca says, GIEy 0. SNP III law did operate as a walkin site for one "Most women who are diagnosed day, and like clinics in the city, with cervical cancer have never they will have varying hours of had a Pap test or haven't had one id tain MINE mess operation. in over five years." The intent behind Pap Test Willeets Wag Introducing The 11111 NINE Princess Grill Breakfast & Lunch I )ailv Monday to Saturday 3:00 Del. on N 1
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Men Are Equal Too wrong and very rude. If women The phasing out of Halloween? ISSUES WITH MEN AND ABORTIONS were not allowed to have abor- tions you better bet that you By Arnie Lesyk, Arts & Culture Editor By Dawn Hinchliffe would hear about it. Just because a man got a women pregnant Everyone hears people not. Just because she was born should not give her the right to Upon hearing rumours that take place are religious schools like talking about women and with the storage unit does'not take over a part of his life. He Halloween in public schools was ceasing Winnipeg's Immanuel Christian School. abortions all the time. Whether , mean she should have babies should have the choice to be a to exist, I felt it was my duty — as a "It's part of the popular culture," or not is it their right to have only because she is female. But father or not. die-hard Halloween junkie — to inves- says Spencer Clements, vice-prin- one or if its murder. On and what about a man? If he chooses not to be a tigate further. My immediate reaction cipal for Winnipeg's King Edward on, it never stops. This article, If a man's partner be- father then he should pay a fee was disbelief. They could not tear.this Community School. "It's not up to the however does not deal with comes pregnant and chooses to to the mother and then sign an wonderfully sinful holiday away from school," Clements says that kids tend to women and abortions, it deals keep the child why then should agreement not to interfere with the youngsters, could they? Do they be quite foaised on Halloween, so some with men and abortions. a man automatically become a the child's life ever. To never claim expect school to be entirely educational? class time is dedicated to a Halloween When a woman gets an father? What if he has reasons any parental or visitation rights, How could they? party where the kids dress up. abortion she might have many the same as a woman's for not ever. That would be fair and just. Well, the answer is that un- "We try to take popular holi- reasons to do so. She might not wanting to be a father. A man Not to mention the poor less you've already been stripped of days and use them to educate," says be financially ready or emo- should be able to abort the fathers whose girlfriends or even semi-sinful privileges due to religious Clements. One example he gives is tionally stable. Maybe she was title and responsibilities in the one-night-stands which abort a affiliations, then you and yours are in incorporating a Halloween icon, like a raped and does not want to same way a women can if he child without their say-so. These no danger of alosing Halloween within pumpkin, into science experiments. He carry the child to term. These wanted to. men are sometimes not even the public school system, in Winnipeg also stresses that costumes which might reasons are mostly accepted Nobody should be forced told if they got the girl pregnant. at least. be construed as violent or offensive are and it should be her choice if into doing something they 50/50 ownership or responsi- In several Winnipeg school divi- not tolerated. she wants to be a mother or don't want to do. That is bilities of the child does not start sions, Halloween has not been and is not This is the approach many outside of the womb. • an issue. Winnipeg elementary schools are taking. INTERNATIONAL INKJET REFILLS LTD. It begins at conception. • "There hasn't been anything that I Schools like Earl Grey, King Edward If the father of a child •• can recall," says Heather Demetrioff on and William Whyte. BUSINESS SERVICES wants the baby to be • the existence of the issue in Manitoba. "In most cases, the issue tends RED RIVER COLLEGE born, then he should „ Demetrioff is the associate director of to get dealt with on a case-by-case be able to compromise • the Manitoba Association of School basis," says Brian Ardern, president of STUDENTS/STAFF SPECIAL with the mother for • Trustees. "It's a decision that would be the Manitoba Teachers Association. made at the school division and on a "Certain parents will call the teach- STUDENT/STAFF CARD RE • UIRED her to carry the child ; to term. Then, in the ; case-by-case basis." ers and say they don't want their kid PRINT, COPY AND REFILLING same way as above, The concern surrounding involved. Schools deal with that kind of the mother would sign Halloween in public schools comes stuff." INKJET CARTRIDGE REFILLING & an agreement not to • from the diversity of students within a The other half of the Halloween classroom. Students abiding by certain phase-out rumours belongs to the NEW CARTRIDGES have any part in the • child's life and remain • religions like Judaism, but who still seeming lack of trick-or-treaters. Ardern $5.00 TO $12.00 anonymous. • attend a public school are often required says that it appears his neighbourhood Emotions sur- • to not participate in such holidays like of Fort Richmond is seeing fewer kids FOR ALL REFILLS BLACK & COLOR rounding abortions al- ; Halloween due to their beliefs. on Halloween. This, he says, could be ways run high, but until • Public schools in the State of attributed to demographics or possible FAST PRINT AND COPY abortions become equal •• Washington's Puyallup School District safety issues. Clements feels the same for both sexes, only half ; banned Halloween costumes and par- about his Fort Rouge neighbourhood. 8 1/2 X 11 COLOR .38 EA. of the real issues will ; ties in 2004 citing religious sensitivity If safety's the issue, it could be why 8 1/2 X 11 BLACK .05 EA be debated. Equality --to VViccans. This move was echoed some are claiming an increased flow does not just belong to •. by the Toronto District School Board of trick-or-treaters in family-friendly #6 —213 ST. MARY'S RD. WINNIPEG, MB R2H 172 women — men should ; in 2005 when a memo was sent out, Halloween destinations like Six Pines (AT THE RED TOP RESTAURANT MALL) have it too. • advising teachers to abandon traditional Ranch. Halloween celebrations. "I think it's the same as ever, if not PHONE: 204-237-0031 FAX: 204-237-0087 In Winnipeg, the only schools even bigger," says Judy Thevenot, who E-mail intlink(amts.net • where no Halloween celebrations even helps run Six Pines Ranch. 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