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DSU Councilors Wanted: The DSU is currently recruiting for a number of positions. We are looking for two members at large (one must be a graduate student) to sit on council and two Senators (again, one must be a graduate student) to sit on Council and the University Senate. Councilors must attend the DSU council meetings every second week, and Senators must attend both the DSU Council meetings and the University Senate meeting every two weeks, as well as sit on a couple of Senate committees. We are also looking for a Council Secretary who is responsible for taking minutes at out council meetings. This position pays $75 per meeting. Lastly, we are looking for a Sexton Campus Office Manager and a Sexton Campus Entertainment Director. Both of these positions are paid an honourarium for each of the fall and winter terms. For information or to apply for any of the positions above please drop off a cover letter and resume to Chris McCluskey in room 222 of the SUB or email him at [email protected] by September 22 at 5:00 pm.
Society Shopping Gala (formally 'Society Fair'): There is only one day in the Fall term when shopping in Halifax won't leave you frustrated and bankrupt: 5 September 21 t, 2006, when students and members of the Dalhousie Community are invited to stop by the FRIDAY, SEPT 22, $8 Dalhousie Student Union Building to ushop" for a society to join. Society Shopping is a chance for THE NOVAKS +guests societies to strut their stuff to prospective members; it's also an opportunity for you to 'shop' for SATURDAY, SEPT 23, $6 societies you would like to get involved with. 1a1a Kilh lha una 1 + llultlllt& + lu~&um flaua + AU If lr11n If you would like to reserve your society a table at the Society Shopping Gala email Chris Ide at [email protected]. To cover the cost of hosting the event there is a $15 fee for each table reservation ($26.40 if you require electricity).
Grawood: The Grawood kicked the year off with two great events last week. On Thursday September 7th we had the DSU' s First Class Party with Signal Hill playing to a packed house. Friday the sth, Risley Hall hosted a residence night with The Stance playing to another full house. Next week we have a couple of great bands coming to the Grawood. On September 20th Dog's Day and Mardeen will be performing. Cover is $2 and the show starts at 9:00. If you would like one of two pairs of free JIY 1\AltOr ~ SO ItKIN tickets to the Dropkick Murphys show this Saturday, UIRECTiil) UV 'fED D\ I"S 'l A September 16th in the Mcinnes room email Chris 1' UtRING <\IUM BIL\Zlllll McCluskey at [email protected]. Tickets will be given to the first two individuals that Chris receives an email from.
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Pizzas *For a limited time only News Editor: Reid Southwick Assistant News Editor: Dawn MacPhee Contact: [email protected] Engineers Without Borders lobbies to advance foreign aid bill DAWN MAcPHEE Assistant News Editor A humanitarian activist group is calling on members of Parliament to support a bill that would make the government accountable for its foreign aid commitments. Engineers Without Borders (EWB) has launched a national pe tition campaign that aims to collect 15,000 signatures by Sept. 15, just four days before Bill C-293, known as the Development Assistance Ac countability Act, is debated in the House of Commons. "Currently, there are no laws that govern how our aid is being spent, "There Is a growing need for a greater, more objective and more varied range of student support, especially In residence,• says Bronwen White, co-spokesperson for the Student Support Group. but it's necessary because I think a lot of times our aid is being spent in other ways," says Rosalie Hanlon, co-president of the Dalhousie chap Support group to work ter of EWB, which is lobbying Nova outside Scotia MPs. "I really do believe that the Canadian public has been cry of university, student union ing out for accountability." REID SOUTHWICK know that someone is there for them Under Bill C-293, Canadian de Rosalie Hanlon, co-president of the Dalhousie chapter of Engineers Without Borders, says the News Editor and someone does care," she says. velopment assistance must meet humanitarian activist group Is lobbying Nova Scotia MPs to vote In favour of the Development Chris Ide, DSU vice president Assistance Accountability Act. 1o1• cxm, " three requirements: poverty reduc I\ group of Dalhousie students has (internal), says that while the union tion, consideration of the perspec .Ll.rormed a support network that supports any effort to help students, tives of the poor and fulfillment of THE DETAILS: GETTING THE BILL THROUGH aims to ensure students feel safe the support group would be more national human rights commit and connected to the Halifax com effective if it joined forces with the ments. Introduced in May 2006 by The legislative process can be kind of confusing- the diagram below munity, a service that organizers say campus government. Liberal MP John McKay, the bill should help you figure it out. is needed on campus. "It would be a great initiative would also form the Advisory Com Bronwen White, the co-spokes for students to work with the DSU mittee for International Develop person for the Student Support to create a common front," he says. ment Cooperation to allow further Group, says the group operates in "We take the same stances. We have review of foreign aid concerns and dependently from the Dalhousie anti-harassment policies, we don't decisions. Student Union (DSU) and university tolerate anything that goes against The New Democratic Party has administration, allowing students to the student code of conduct and we signalled that it will vote unani feel like they belong to a community have a disciplinary committee. mously in favour of C-293, but 75 that doesn't have to conform to the "And the more support we have Liberal and Conservative MPs must policies of the traditional governing from our members the better." also support the bill for it to pass structures on campus. The Student Support Group's ef through Parliament. "I just feel that residence life and forts to promote its services across Nova Scotia Conservative MP campus life is perhaps not meeting campus were stalled early this Gerald Keddy, one of 11 provincial the needs of students," says White. month when the university's hous MPs targeted by the Dal-EWB cam "There is a growing need for a great ing office refused to allow members paign. He says he agrees with the er, more objective and more varied to hand out literature in residences. premise of C-293 and plans to re range of student support, especially "The important thing to remem view it more thoroughly before the in residence." ber is that residences are students' House returns to sessions on Sept. The group, White says, acts as a homes and are separate from the 18. link between the student body and a public property on campus," says "We quite frankly need some wide range of services available on Bonnie Neuman·, Dal vice president type of monitoring system so that and off campus, from sexual harass (student services). ''I'm sometimes if we send a million dollars of aid ment counselling to organic food not even allowed to hand out infor to dig a well in Africa, we want to markets. She says group members mation to students in residences." make sure that it's not buying Mer are a "a visible and vocal presence" Despite the setback, White says cedes Benzes for bureaucrats," says Source: Engineers Without Borders Canada C-293 Action Kit on campus, wearing white arm the support group continued to Keddy. bands on their left arms to signal reach out to students during orien He says Canada has done a poor Brian O'Neill, program officer upcoming vote. their membership and handing out tation week, which she says is a cru job of managing its foreign aid over for Oxfam Canada in the Maritimes, "It's also a matter of once again their e-mail addresses so students cial time for frosh to learn about the the past decade. says Bill C-293 is long overdue. bringing to the government the can contact them for help. services that are available on cam "You can look at Canadian dol "There is a problem of severe whole issue of accountability, which White stresses that group mem pus and throughout the city. lars spent in the Middle East, for poverty in the world, and we have to was one of its election pledges," bers don't provide professional ser White says the support group instance, and we've got examples address poverty first and foremost says O'Neill "We're [calling for] ac vices, although some are trained to will continue to be active on cam of kids' colouring books in Pales tin in our spending on official devel countability in every area, including do so, but rather serve as liaisons to pus and is accepting more members ian schools that advocate suicide opment assistance," says O'Neill. official development assistance." the broader professional commu every day. bombing," says Keddy. He says he's He says he will contact Nova Scotia nity in Halifax. happy to spend aid money in Pales MPs this week to ensure they will be To sign the online petition, visit "We're there to provide a net To contact the Student Support tine, but not for those purposes. in the House of Commons for the http://www.playyourpart.ca work and make sure that students Group, e-mail [email protected] II-IE FLJIC>N SIC>RE 5730 V<:>LI.,g Str~~t l-l~lif~>< 4-54--9029 Uni-Briefs DAL BRIEFS their alleged support of the foreign when the student council could New box office to open In SUB terrorist group, the Liberation Ti vote to reintroduce tobacco prod The Dalhousie Student Union gers ofTamil Eelam (LITE). ucts on campus. says it may launch a new ticket The four men, whose academic booth for on-campus events at the disciplines range from electrical en Students oppose award for gay rights information desk in the SUB. gineering to computer science, were supporter DSU VP (Finance and Opera taken into custody for conspiring to Some students boycotted Car tions) Chad LeClair says students provide support and resources to leton University's convocation cer will be able to use cash, debit and LTTE, which is committed to estab emony last spring to protest the credit cards at the box office to pay lishing an independent Tamil state Senate's decision to award an hon for events such as concerts, ski trips in northern Sri Lanka. orary doctorate to a supporter of and Student Appreciation Night. He The men were also "caught in gay rights. says the booth would cut down on an undercover sting operation at Reuven Bulka, a rabbi and com the costs of selling tickets for larg tempting to purchase a large num munity leader, is affiliated with the er events, and the debit machine ber of surface-to-air missiles, mis California-based National Associa would make buying tickets for sile launchers, and hundreds of tion for the Research and Therapy smaller events more convenient. AK-47 automatic rifles," says U.S. of Homosexuality. Some student Attorney Roslynn R. Mauskopf. groups say Bulka shouldn't be eligi The FBI has arrested another ble to receive the honorary law de seven suspects in connection with gree the university awarded him be CANADIAN CAMPUS SHORTS LTTE, three of whom are Canadian. cause of his ideological views. The Finding student housing at UofC a tight Thirukumaran Sinnathamby, one of groups are now lobbying Carleton's competition the four suspects from the Universi administration to review the degree The booming housing market in ty of Waterloo, is the first Canadian nomination process. Calgary, Alta., has made the search to be released on bond. The remain University president David for rental accommodations increas ing men are waiting for possible ex Atkinson says a person's beliefs ingly difficult for university students. tradition. shouldn't prevent them from re Kevin Clark, president of the ceiving an award that is unrelated Calgary Real Estate Board, says the UofA student union committee face dlarges to these-beli-e . number of residential units sold per The University of Alberta Stu day is much higher than usual. dents' Union Executive Committee SOUTH OF THE BORDER The University of Calgary stu will appear before a disciplinary re Two separate robberies take place dent union's off-campus housing view board to face charges of illegal within 20 minutes near Brown campus website traditionally advertises tobacco sales. Two students from Brown Uni roughly 350 listings during the early The student union's audit com versity in Providence, New England, part of September. But the site cur mittee alleges the campus bar, Pow were robbed in separate incidents rently features just over 100 posts, erplant, continued to sell tobacco on Sept. 9. says union president Emily Wyatt. products following a campus-wide At 12:45 a.m., a male suspect The competition to find quality Masonry workers help a crane operator remove the copula from the ban on all union-run businesses. confronted a student and demand accommodation has also allowed chemistry building in the quad on Aug. 17. Dalhousie has earmarked Vice President (Operations and ed his cellphone. 1Wo other men landlords to place restrictions on roughly $600,000 to restore the building as part of a broader effort to Finance) Chris Cunningham says he then joined the suspect and told the listings. Wyatt says the majority of invest in maintenance projects on campus. The university currently faces wasn't aware tobacco products were student to empty his pockets. The the posts ask for females or mature about $350 million in deferred maintenance costs, a problem many crit still available when he came to office three suspects fled the scene with students, leaving young males out ics say tarnishes Dal's reputation. on May 1, the same day the ban came the student's phone and wallet. in the cold. into effect. But he says the oversight Nearly 20 minutes later, two The availability of residence Pat Macisaac, project leader for facilities management, says Coastal only resulted in $64 in sales, which men approached a student and de Restoration and Masonry Ltd. is replacing the windows and repairing the housing is also in decline, with wait he says pales in comparison to the manded his/her cell phone at knife lists ranging from 100 to 300 de mortar-based material between the stones on the south and west faces of $38,000 in revenue the union will point. The suspects then fled in a the chemistry building. The project is set to be completed in mid-Octo pending on the building. lose as a result of the ban. four-door vehicle. ber, says Macisaac, and masonry crews will begin restoration of the north The new regulation came into Authorities have not identified and east faces of the building next year. Arrests link UofW grads to tenorist group effect after 60 per cent of students the suspects. The FBI and RCMP have arrested voted in favour of a campus-wide Built in 1913, the building has never been repaird, says Macisaac. three University of Waterloo gradu tobacco ban last April. The rule will Sources: The Gauntlet, Imprint, The ates and one returning student for remain in place until April 2007, Charlatan, The Gateway and The Tomorrow's Professionals Apply Today! 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These games were far THE COVENANT MOVIE Is like lliglzlander meets Dawson's Creek from competitive and I was definite meets the boring plot-developing parts of Underworld. ly not there to make a living. There are regulated rules in any STILL GOING DRINKING EVERY NIGHT AFTER FROSH WEEK IS OVER card room, but I believe there is a What's more fun than lying to your friends and then showing them how they got played? Nothing wrong with a victory lap. wholly different set of procedures for playing poker with your buds. Since this variety of poker deals less with drunkenly and tastelessly answer, showing them how they got played? 50 CENT AND PARIS HILTON ARRESTED FOR DRIVING ERRATICALLY strangers, competition and life-alter "Your mom and your sister cudclling Exception: If Angry Guy has al Add Lindsay Lohan and it can be a benefit concert for the people ing amounts of cash, and more with together!" More upsetting to your ready had a few too many, leave it be. they've run over. pre-drinking, having fun and acting buddy will be when, instead of flip a fool, the home game is a different ping over pocket queens as expected, Don't: Play for more than $10. Did A FAKE DOCUMENTARY ABOUT KILLING THE PRESIDENT beast from the "competitive" version. you turn over pocket threes (also you know if you multiply any num 6 Suddenly Britain is living inside Michael Moore's wet dream. With that in mind, I'd like to present known in the poker world as "crabs"). ber by nine and then add the sum a few general guidelines for a relaxed Exception: Don't do this if you're of the digits of the product you get SHINERAMA LLAMA SHITS OFF SHINE DAY and chilled-out night of gambling. the Angry Guy when you're drunk. a number that's divisible by nine? ., Really hard to say when you're drunk. You know who you are. Yeah, so $10 is a magical number Don't: Talk about what you would've like that. Whenever people put more had if you'd held onto your hand. Don't: Tell someone they suck. If we than $10 on the line, some kind of I CANJET CRAPPING OUT Not only does this influence the didn't suck, we'd be good, which mental explosion occurs and sud Do you have any idea how expensive CAN fuel must be? decisions of the people currently means that we'd be out on the In denly, they play like it's life or death. involved in the hand, it also rates ternet or at the casino making some Keep the stakes to beer money, not 8 SCAMMING FROSH PACKS FROM THE DSU Please, please pay us. highly on the Nobody Cares Scale. real money at this game, instead of gear money- and definitely not all And that scale is more important sitting in a damp basement cramped yearmoney. PARIS HILTON CD'S VANDALIZED IN LONDON RECORD STORES than the thermometer. between eight guys "smart" enough Exception: There is no exception l() Too bad scratching the CD couldn't even make it sound uglier. Exception: If you would've to ditch their girlfriends for the af to this rule. Even Donald Trump flopped quads or better, than gush ternoon to be in said basement. This starts spazzing if he plays for $20. ing about it is OK. Also, if you keep is really not new information. mentioning what you would've Exception: If they actually do re Do: Wear sunglasses. Dude! How do hit throughout the entire night as ally suck and don't know it, tell them. you expect to have fun with your part of a running joke that's getting buddies without blacking out as laughs, then that's OK, too. But even Do: Show bluffs, no matter how small. much stimuli as you possibly can? Dane Cook would have a hard time Although this will probably cost you That way, you're so focused on hav HOT1 &fNOT making that joke funny. pots in the future to a thinking poker ing fun that you're basically like the player, the price of humiliating your black hole of fun. Borat WoH Blitzer Do: Get drunk. Although this height good friend right there on the spot Exception: If, by some chance, it's ens your chance of violating the previ is almost worth it. Remember, you're not absolutely always sunny in Cools Last week Sobriety ous rule, it's well worth the risk for the not playing for money, you're play ville- of which you are a permanent hilarity that ensues when your buddy ing for fun. And what's more fun resident - then maybe, just maybe, nna Fey Greta Van Susteren asks you, "What do you got?" and you than lying to your friends and then you can leave the shades at home. Obtaining a collection of degrees Jobs that pay money Radio killed the video star Tattoos Taboos }EN BOND The Danger Mouse and Banksy's prank Ashton Kutcher's pr.tnks Staff Contributor have discovered podcasting. Yes, Entourage Refenlng to your group of friends as "the cn:w" I just now. It took me six months to figure out iTunes, so I suppose it's Class partldpatlon marks Having an expensiYe session of sleeping-In not that surprising that I'm only just dipping my toe into the seemingly Uncle Ben's Pannesan and Butter Rice Condoleeu.a Rice endless wellspring of online radio episodes. Dane Cook "Diddy" Personally, I don't see much use in trying to figure out too much about "the machine," as I call it, DISCLAIMER because I'm still waiting for the Views expressed in the Hot or Not feature. Top 10 listing arc solely those of the contributing writ· Luddite revolution to come upon ers. and do not neressariJy rcpre~ent the views of 11re Gazette or its staff. us. Mark my words, the quill and inkwell shall make a stunning resur I've heard the most fantastic and gence one of these days ... fore. It's given small-town bands the most ridiculous debates on CBC national exposure, Canadian bands While I'm waiting for that to Podcastlng, instead of killing the radio, has made it more relevant. I Jr.. "l klran 1 and some of the best and worst happen, I might as well enjoy what international exposure, and has let local music on CKDU-FM. I feel traditional radio stations play with CBC Radio 3 and the like have to a local online radio show the other music and all types of personalities, that because of it, I'm much more their programming to a greater de offer. It's been through listening to day. As the for the Dead Cat on a DJ without a fast-forward button. Sure, in touch with my country's music gree. these podcasts that I've begun to Pole Show spun basically whatever one can simply turn it off or change scene. It's a revolution in how we get see something truly spectacular he wanted or whatever his friends the station, but that's not the point. 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NRog 11. Rag Wlrt and tnt Moblul dealgo •• trad mftti VIO 0 TOR OR D T ll Saturday, Sept. 16 at One World Cafe (2412 Agricola St.), 3 pm Wednesday, Sept. 20 at The Grawood, 9 p.m. A Cure for Vegoraphobia: A Vegan Dining Guide. Book Launch ft Dog Day with Marden and Husand & Knife Heavy Blinkers Trio & )enn Grant. · Editors picks of the week -..~ The Comic Bookshops! 5262 Sackville Street between Market & Grafton downtown Halifax st ra ngeadve nt u res. com Caledonia recorded its second album In a dingy basement studio in Oayton Parlt, which it will launch Sept. 16 at the Marquee. 'Rata! Andronowsk1 Peach-coloured hand-painted danger geese beware Caledonia's waiting to bum the dty down MEG HASEK-WATT diversity, with everything from the course of a year for four-day record Arts Contributor sweet folk song "Automatic" to "City ing sessions in a dingy basement is Burning," which Gates describes studio in Clayton Park. orth end. Sunday night. Bottle as "an intense little number inspired "We came out of the studio real N of wine. Steve Gates. by the Clash to get some angst on izing that this is really what we want The lead singer of Caledonia is the go." to do with our lives," says Gates. "We discussing the finer points of the Over the last two years, the band didn't want our music to be just an hand-painted, plucked "danger has received its share of industry obnoxious hobby that takes up half goose" on his peach-coloured golf recognition, recently inking a dis our time." shirt when "Belongs to You" comes tribution deal with Fontana North/ The band hopes the new record on the radio. Hearing his band's new Universal Canada and playing ing will help it deepen its fan base in single broadcast for the first time, events such as the East Coast Music Canada and open doors in the U.S. Gates laughs and starts to reminisce Awards. and Europe. Caledonia is already about a show Caledonia played at Caledonia successfully toured booked to play the Nemo Festival in Stage Nine in July when the crowd much of Canada supporting its first Boston and will kick off a Canada erupted into a sing-along. album, Lost Balloons. Since then, the wide CD release tour in October. "It was pretty amazing when that band has further refined its sound to At Caledonia's local release party happened. It's something that's just the eclectic mix of post-rock, Jamai Sept. 16, tickets will be $2 cheaper started to happen," says Gates. "Peo can ska and 70's Brit-pop heard on for audience members who dress up. ple seem to be really responding to Waiting to Burn. Vintage formal attire - feathers, fe the new material." "This recording is definitely doras and fishnets- is standard fare Caledonia, an indie-rock band a departure from the alt-country for the discount, with one exception. that has recorded and performed we've done before," says Gates. "But "If you happen to have a peach together since 2003, has amassed a I think the people that enjoyed our coloured golf shirt with a hand cult-like following in Toronto and first album and who have seen us in painted, plucked danger goose," Halifax, where all the band members concert will understand where we're Gates says, "You can ride for free." attended Dalhousie. Zac Crouse going with this." plays bass for the band, with Steve Recording Waiting to Burn was Caledonia plays on Sept. 16, at the Reble on drums and Ian Brent be difficult for the band. With its mem Marquee, with special guests , Carmen Townsend & the Shakey Deals and hind the keyboard. bers spread across the continent ]enn Grant. Tickets are $101$8 with The band's forthcoming EP. Wait from the Yukon to Mexico, the group vintage formal attire. ing to Burn, showcases Caledonia's only met every four months over the LocaiCro Mark Buckley I Arts Contributor came to be labelled "Haligonian." manner that one might regard as This narrowed classification of a refined Dr. Jekyll -to those who local music, however, is irrelevant have grown fond of Mr. Hyde. in light of new bands such as punk Flying Kites With Mice offers a rock trio the Bad Motels, which number of songs that capture the breaks free of the limiting and volatile nature of the band's sound. dated stereotypes of how Halifax Though this is perhaps most evi dent in "Slow Side," "I Don't Want" bands sound. The Bad Motels established and ''What You Need To Know," the itself as one of Metro's most engag standout track is the undeniably ing live acts- the band's energy catchy "Just Because I Don't Care." Drawing on influences from The Bad Motels is rivalled only by the undivided attention of its audiences. the Velvet Underground, the Flying Kites With Mice An unfortunate consequence of Buzzcocks, Fugazi, and the Brian acquainting oneself with a band at Jonestown Massacre, the Bad In the mid-1990's, while the a live performance is that its studio Motels have fashioned an album "Seattle Scene" boomed in the U.S., effort sometimes falls short of the that's inarguably a very impressive Halifax bands such as Thrush Her ALWAYS $8 FOR 2 LITRES OF first impression. Flying Kites With catalogue of work by a band well mit, the Super Friendz and Sloan Mice portrays the Bad Motels in a deserving of praise. developed a distinct sound that FRESH GARRISON DRAUGHT LocaiCro Stage Presence: A the Porcelain Gods, has evolved Audience Reaction: A and matured since its inception a Sound: A few years ago and its fan base has Get-It-On-Ability: A- increased significantly. The atmosphere of the event lent the band presence. The venue Their Majesties played a great was intimate, with delicious food show at their CD release concert provided by Mat Dunlap and Dave last Thursday night. Ewenson of CKDU's Let's Get Baked. Though the band hadn't These details, combined with mounted a stage since April, it Their Majesties' attempt to engage sounded well-rehearsed and tight. the audience in a personal way at The band members' anecdotes each show, allowed members of were humourous and the little hats the crowd to feel as though they they wore were charming. were part of the experience, rather The band, formerly known as than passive viewers. SAMAN JAFARIAN confirmed for Aug. 30. When the was meant to run with an inter Arts Editor reporter called band member Tim view with Comeback Kid, which is Brennan at the pre-arranged time, opening for the Dropkick Murphys When asked, many artists will nobody picked up. Nor did anyone at Dal. say the worst part of their job is pick up for the next two hours. But the Comeback Kid Q&A had dealing with the press. Long series Following that fiasco, there to be published one week later than of interviews are taxing, questions were numerous e-mails back and intended, without the correspond repetitive and the process often forth with the band's very helpful ing Dropkick Murphys piece- a seems more trouble than it's worth. publicist. delay that also resulted in a fairly While there is certainly validity Finally, an interview was paltry arts section last week. to these complaints, occasionally booked for 1 p.m. on Sept. 12- I can appreciate that things Winnipeg based Comeback Kid launches a national tour Sept. 16 and hopes to increase its Canadian fan base the reverse is also true. Most bands two days after the normal deadline come up, and the Murphys' publi are usually quite considerate and for this issue. But on that morning, cist was very accommodating when cooperative. But a reporter or edi the publicist e-mailed The Gazette The Gazette had to reschedule in tor does, unfortunately, encounter to cancel the interview- Bren the middle of August. behaviour from the other end of nan had told the publicist that he But, given that this is a band Q&A with the spectrum. couldn't do the interview because that will play on campus this week, Take, for instance, the three he'd be rehearsing that day. one would have hoped that its week ordeal of trying to book The Gazette accepted such a members wouldn't have acted like an interview with the Dropkick late interview date only because such douche bags to the university Murphys. The interview was first the Dropkick Murphys' interview paper. 'I'wice. - ~~~~~~~ ---"-~-~--~-- Comeback Kid SAMAN JAFARIAN does punk mean? Arts Editor Neufeld: I think purJk music is differ omeback Kid will kick off its ent to everybody. I mean, punk is Ctour with Bad Religion and the just a word. Dropkick Murphys Sept. 16 in the To me, at first, it was this differ Mcinnes Room at the SUB. Vocal ent kind of rebellious music that I ist Andrew Neufeld answered some felt I could relate to growing up, and Stressed out vvith questions on touring, fashion and it's definitely something I feel I can emergency supplies. relate to now. But now that it's come school vvork? Maybe into popular culture it feels like it's GazeHe:What's life like on the road? just become this word that people itls your reading. throw around, like "OK, cool, punk." Neufeld: It really goes two ways. I don't like labels. Sometimes Sometimes when you're at home you have to use them as descriptive all you want to do is be on tour, but terms out of necessity, but I much then when you're on tour all you can more prefer music with substance Are you in college or university and struggling think of is how nice it would be to be or something that I can relate to, or to read - it's not that you can't read, but it shouldn't be at home. music that makes me feel a certain I think it all depends on the mood way. And sometimes that could be as tough as it is. It should be more enjoyable. It should be you're in and how wherever you are punk music. easier to absorb. It's holding you back and you know it. is going. We Jove being on the road. These tours that we've just been do GazeHe: In terms of popular culture, ing have been unreal and we can't it seems as though what was histori Research proves our SpeiiRead program works-with powerful really get enough of it right now cally stereotypical punk fashion is results. Our program is not tutoring. It is an intensive, becoming increasingly popular. Is GazeHe: You have a break in touring this problematic to someone who comprehensive program that develops reading skills in October and November. Is this to grew up with it? logically and without guesswork. record your new album? Neufeld: I don't know. I can go two Neufeld: In October we're breaking to ways with it. On the one hand, I think Call us and find out how our program for university and college keep writing our new record. In No it might take some of what is special vember we go to the Blasting Room about it. It used signify I belonged to students will help you with your studies. So by the time you in Colorado to record our new album. a certain sort of group. graduate you have changed more than the letters after your name. We're actually doing some pre-produc Now the mainstream has taken a tion at home this weekend as well. huge interest in punk and hardcore and when it becomes a product and Call us today and find out more. GazeHe: There was a significant dif a money-making thing, that's when (902) 453-4113 ference between the sound on your it becomes problematic. But I think first and second albums. What will that as long as honesty and passion Sarah Arnold, Director the third one be like? are still there behind what you're www.spellread.com wearing that it's fine. information@hfxlearn ing-spellread .com Neufeld: I think the differences be tween the two were really subtle. GazeHe: Finally, you're stranded on Our second record was a little more a desert island. What do you bring punk-rock than the first one, which with you? ~)/ was a little bit heavier. With this new record a Jot of the Neufeld: Oh, a hard one. First, my Our mission: new stuff is just heavy and thrashy, girlfriend, Bonnie. Second, it's a skilled, confident readers. but we have some more melodic desert island, so there's no electric SpeLLRead punk songs too. I think we're just ity, so an acoustic guitar. A sleeping mixing it up more on this record, bag with a pillow built in so that only trying things out a little more and counts as one item. Two changes of Halif:~arntno making it more diverse. underwear. Does that only count as ~CentreJ one item? And a book. But I can't GazeHe: "Melodic punk songs" seems choose the book right now. That's a bit counterintuitive. What exactly too tough. You can't watch movies in the dark Atlantic Film Festival preview to help you find your seats Bum Baby Bum Anu]indal decline. The film ultimately brings for. Staff Contributor the broadcast and record industries The painterly Spanish director under scrutiny. has always written strong roles for or the past few years, autumn has Before the Music Dies boasts in women, such as those in All About Fbrought relief to brain-numbed terviews and performances by El My Mother and Talk to Her. But this movie-goers after the exhaustion of vis Costello, Eric Clapton, Calexico, time around, the cast is entirely fe spring trailer anticipation and the Erykah Badu and Dave Matthews, male. ensuing summer blockbuster let among others. Volver is loudly touted as direc downs. Those who sweat with anger at tor Pedro Almod6var's best film yet. This is largely due to the fact that manufactured mainstream pop and And, given the quality of his previ the fall season is the festival season, American Idol may find vindication ous works, that's saying something. The 80's when the triumvirate of the Fringe here. This is also the chance to see SAMAN JAFARIAN I Arts Editor Festival, the Pop Explosion and the Penelope Cruz - whose Spanish SusAN ZAKAIB I Arts Contributor Atlantic Film Festival (AFF) empties The Elementary Partides language output has proven to be a the pockets of poor, culture-hungry Sept. 15,2006 greater testament to her acting abil To celebrate Thanksgiving last year, the two of us created the ultimate students in Halifax. 9:20 p.m. @ Empire Theatre, Park ities than her Hollywood films - as 1980's mix CD. At first we tried to make up a CD of only "good" songs. But as anyHaligonian intelligen Lane Mall she was meant to be seen. That didn't work at all. tsia will attest, it's usually well worth $10 The beauty of the 80's is that the really bad songs are equally as impor the cost. This year doesn't look any Adapted from Michel Houelle Honourable Mentions: tant as the good ones- there's something so wrong that it's right. And so, different. becq's Atomised, director Oskar Roe How to Eat Your Watermelon in White rather than the predictable two sides of a mix tape- one good songs, one So, while it's difficult to make hler had his work cut out in trying Company (and Enjoy It) bad-we have them all intermixed as much as possible. definitive recommendations - half to deliver the humour, neuroses and Sept. 17,2006 It is the 80's, after all. of the fun is discovering a movie - postmodern malaise of the brilliant 12:05 p.m. @Empire Theatre, Park here are some picks from the many, French cult novel intact onto film. Lane Mall Guns 'N' Roses - "Paradise City" many films exhibited at this year's Both the novel and movie cen $10 Queen- "Another One Bites the Dust" AFF. tre around two half-brothers con The Clash - "Rock the Casbah" nected by little other than their hip The Journals of Knud Rasmussen OMD - "IfYou Leave" Atlantic Shorts Series pie mother. Bruno is a sex-obsessed Sept. 14,2006 Eurythmics- "Sweet Dreams (Are Made ofThese)" Sept. 18, 20 & 23, 2006 school teacher, while Michael is an 7 p.m. & 7:05p.m. @Empire The Bon Jovi -"Living on Prayer" Empire Theatre, Park Lane Mall awkward and abstinent molecular atre, Park Lane Mall Cyndi Lauper - "True Colours" $10 scientist researching a way for peo $15 Wham! - "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" Aside from the Atlantic Film ple to mate asexually. Sonic Youth - "Kissability" maker's Cooperative annual screen What more could one need? The King Madonna - "Vogue" ings, the Atlantic Shorts category is Sept. 17,2006 The Cure - "Pictures ofYou" the place to see home-brewed, At International Shorts Series 9:30 p.m. @ the Oxford Theatre Duran Duran - "Hungry" lantic Canadian filmmaking talent. Sept. 17, 2006 $15 Fugazi - "Margin Walker" While no one will love every Empire Theatre, Park Lane Mall Michael Jackson - "Billie Jean" film - they tend to vary widely in $10 each Lunacy The Smiths - "How Soon is Now" content and quality - every genre Like the Atlantic Shorts, these Sept. 20, 2006 The Police - "Roxanne" is represented here, so everyone showcases offer the most film for 9:30 p.m. @ Empire Theatre, Park Pixies - "Monkey Gone to Heaven" will find something to write home the least amount of money, as well Lane Mall Soft Cell - "Tainted Love" about. as the enjoyment of watching a di $10 Run DMC - "It's Tricky" rector take on the challenge of tell U2 - "Bullet the Blue Sky" Before the Music Dies ing a compelling story in a very Norman Mclaren Retrospective Sept. 20, 2006 short period of time. Sept.20,2006 9:25p.m. @Empire Theatre, Park In the International Shorts, how 7:05p.m. @Empire Theatre, Park Lane Mall ever, one sees various perspectives Lane Mall $10 beyond their own. $10 Gazette Part documentary, part music showcase, writer/director Andrew Volver Shapter and producer Joel Rasmus Sept. 18, 2006 For more information on the At Volunteer Meetings lantic Film Festival, visit www.atlan sen explore the landscape of con 7 p.m. @the Oxford Theatre Every Monday at 5:30, Room 312, Dal SUB temporary American music in an $15 ticfilm.com or pick up the AFF guide attempt to understand why it's in The film I crossed my fingers at Park Lane Mall. Tomorrow's Professionals Dalendar & Qassifieds Apply Today! [email protected] I [email protected] Apply On-line! 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Atlantic University Sport (AUS) con Here's a breakdown of who's up ference as the 2006 circuit opens against who: Sept. 16 at Universite de Moncton. The men's team is in good form, Halifax Mooseheads: despite the departure of two stand Up front, Ryan Hillier, Bryce out runners. The women's team ros Swan and Jacob Voracek should be ter remains largely intact with no the top scorers. losses of key competitors. Hillier, a New York Rangers draft phia Flyers draftee has been solid Head coach Dan Hennigar says pick, has great speed and a scoring in the past and Moose need the it's too early to make any predic touch. Swan, an Anaheim draft se netminder's strong play to continue tions for the women's season, but lection, is a power forward who can this season. he expects things to come together also find the back of the net. down the stretch. Hockey scouts say rookie Vora Cape Breton Saeamlng Eagles: "I think we'll be stronger at the cek is an explosive scorer similar to James Sheppard, Chris Culligan [Canadian Interuniversity Sport] former Moosehead Ladislav Nagy, and Cam Fergus should lead the level," says Hennigar. "We've seemed who's now a Phoenix Coyote sniper. team in terms of offensive produc to move up across the board." At the AUS level this year, the Ti John Corbit are back this season IfVoracek lives up to his billing, the tion. Janice Ashworth, Caroline Mc gers will battle St. F.X. for top spot, and will be high-level runners, says three forwards, who will likely form Sheppard, the Eagles' captain, is Innes and Janie Astephen form the and Hennigar says the X-Women Hennigar. the Mooseheads' top line, will be a a high-energy power forward with top trio ofreturnees, says Hennigar. have stepped it up just as much as In 2005, Jewer was one of the lethal combination. unlimited talent. The Minnesota Astephen has progressed steadi Dal. top performers at the CIS cham The Moose have a deep blue line Wild prospect enjoyed a breakout ly over the last few years. The gradu "On paper, once again, they pionship. Hennigar says the MBA all around, but Andrew Bodnarchuk season in 2005/2006 and the coach ate student had a breakthrough sea have a stronger team than we do student knows how to time things and Luciano Lomano should lead es will look to Sheppard to generate son in 2005 and trained hard over and we'll just be working hard to right. the rear guards in terms of ice time offence and take charge on the ice. the summer, he says. narrow that gap throughout the sea Hennigar says Algar has trained and offensive production. The Eagles will count on Fergus Mcinnes, a law student, was one son," he says. over the summer and should be a Bodnarchuk is a smooth-skat to score 30 to 40 goals this season. oflast year's top runners and will be On the men's side, the team lost strong competitor. ing and skilled defenceman. The The over-ager's leadership is also a a great team leader this season, says Paul Chafe and Matt Sheffield, but Corbit spent part of the off-sea Boston Bruins prospect will be the must for the team to compete. Hennigar. Hennigar says there's a lot of poten son training in Europe and the third team's quarterback on the power Culligan is best known for his Ashworth was an AUS and CIS tial, despite the departure of the star year runner is looking to wreak hav play and he'll log a lot ice time in on-ice vision and playmaking abil cross-country standout for the last runners. oc in the AUS, says Hennigar. even-strength play and short-hand ity. The veteran forward has an of three years but Hennigar says his The men's team has finished in The coach also brought in Rus ed situations as well. fensive touch and he'll be invalu star runner might not get into top the top five in Canada over the past sell Christie and Ross Jacobs. He ex In Lomano, the Mooseheads able on the penalty kill. form until the nationals this No few years. Hennigar says there's pects Christie to step in right away have a steady, stay-at-home de On the blue line, JC Sawyer and vember. Last summer Ashworth speculation that the Tigers might and Jacobs to improve over the fenceman. The fourth-year blue lin Oskars Bartulis will be the top rear biked across Canada and Hennigar slip out of the top spots, but says course of the season. er will be a mainstay on the penalty guards. Both are offensively minded says that while she's fit, she's not it's hard to say where the team will Hennigar says it's hard to re and his leadership ability will be in and don't hesitate to join an attack. running fit. finish. place Sheffield and Chafe, but the valuable to his teammates. Ondrej Pavalec was the league's Hennigar says he's excited to "If everybody runs their best Tigers are a solid squad. Finally, Jeremy Duschene will top goaltender in 2005/2006. The have new recruits Manny Glover, race, we could surprise a lot of peo "I think we should be roughly anchor the Mooseheads in the net. Atlanta Thrashers' prospect will Carolyn Schlosser and Becky Reeves ple," he says. equivalent to last year if everybody Great goaltending is essential to give the team a chance to win when join the team this season. Robert }ewer, Chris Algar and comes up on the day." win championships. The Philadel- things aren't going well. Athletes of the week COMPLINE is a medieval sung monastic Service. Quiet and meditative, SOCCER in a darkened Chapel. Huck impressed the coaching starr as she played 90 minutes in both the 1-0 \vin in Saturday's season opener Allow the chant to against St. F.X. and Sunday's 2·0 loss to Cape Breton. Her contribution over the weekend playing two different form the background positions has solidified her in a starting position with for your private praying, the Tigers this season. Huck is a first-year commerce student from Hatchet Lake, N.S. or you can join with the voices. Either way, come and experience it every Monday, RYAN HAUGHN SOCCER Tuesday and Wednesday evening during Term. Haughn scored the go-ahead goal in Saturday's 1-0 season opener win over the X- Men and continued to show strength despite falling 2-0 to the Capers on Sun· 9.30 p.m. in the King's College Chapel, day. His outstanding effort in this opening game of the off Coburg Road. AUS conference is sure to be a sign of great things to come for the seasoned veteran. 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