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Red River College’s Student Newspaper September 23, 2013 Visit us at theprojector.ca NEWS ARTS & CULTURE sports & lifestyle atheist bus ads..........................p.6 COMBINING COFFEE AND BOMBER V. ROUGHRIDER FANS.....p.15 ARCHITECTURE.............................p.8 Pedal to the Medal P. 14 pg.2 NEWS 23/9/2013 THEPROJECTOR.CA EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Rebecca Rodeck Meg Crane Elianna Santos [email protected] Janet Seniuk Strike delays Christine Vetus NEWS EDITOR Eva Wasney Danelle Cloutier [email protected] FRONT PAGE PHOTO Meg Crane international ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR Larissa Peck RED RIVER COLLEGE [email protected] P110-160 Princess Street Winnipeg, MB R38 1K9 students’ visa SPORTS & LIFESTYLE EDITOR www.rrcsa.ca Natasha Woloschuk Phone: (204) 947-0013 [email protected] Fax: (204) 949-9150 LAYOUT EDITORS WHO WE ARE applications Holly Beraro The Projector is the ofcial newspaper of Red Braiden Watling River College and is published by the Red [email protected] River College Students’ Association (RRCSA) JORDAN POWER, CONTRIBUTOR every second Monday. Opinions expressed in MULTIMEDIA EDITOR The Projector do not necessarily reect those Danielle Da Silva of the students’ association or Red River [email protected] College. All material is herein copyrighted to Red River College can’t match universities’ solution The Projector, ADVERTISING DIRECTOR its contributors, and the RRCSA. More than a dozen international students Bryan Meng, a recruitment officer in the Guy Lussier hoping to study at Red River College international education and administration [email protected] WRITE FOR US (RRC) have missed the first weeks of department at the college, said many Anyone can write for The Projector, and Red COLUMNISTS River College students are encouraged to classes due to a strike that slowed down of the delayed students can’t start their Graeme Coleman contribute. Simply pitch or submit an article visa application processing. programs later in the year. Sara Shyiak to the appropriate section editor or join our For months the federal government and Many require extra language training Janessa Wirth contributors’ list. Though we will consider the Professional Association of Foreign before beginning their studies. Amy Simoes all submissions, due to space restrictions, The Projector cannot guarantee that all CONTRIBUTORS Service Officers (PAFSO) union have been “From those students in particular, we articles received will be published. If you Meg Dudeck negotiating the contracts of foreign service received a lot of deferred requests,” the wish to respond to something you’ve read in Ashley Field this issue, letters to the editor can be emailed officers in charge of approving visas. In recruitment officer said. “They couldn’t Elizabeth Fraser to [email protected]. To ensure your chances July, 150 PAFSO members withdrew their make the start day of the language Marshal Fries of being published, letters should strive Trevor Hnatowich services at 15 of Canada’s visa application programs. They need that first, before to be around 150 to 200 words in length. Molly Karp centres, including those in Beijing, Delhi, they start at the college.” The Projector reserves the right to edit all Elan Levine submissions for length, as well as stylistic, Sao Paolo, and Mexico City. According to Meng, the college enrolled Jesse Marks grammatical, and legal guidelines. The Martha Terffa, the international students’ 180 international students this year but 10 Alexandra Martin Projector also reserves the right to reprint Riley McDonald commissioner at the Canadian Federation to 15 of them have not yet arrived because submissions at any time, in both written and Michael Obendoerfer of Students-Manitoba (CFSMB), said of the delay in approving visa applications. electronic formats. The Projector will not Emily Ormonde publish content that it deems to be racist, Manitoban universities have come up with While there are more international Dustin Pernitsky sexist, or otherwise prejudiced. a temporary solution. students at the college this year than last, Zach Peters “Because of the strike, and the delay on 15 missing students could affect the college Brittany Paulhus Jordan Power visas, the universities have been working and its community financially. together to give students more time to Meng said that Canadian students also come here,” she said, adding that many benefit from learning with international students want to make Winnipeg their peers. “They come with different cultural or life experiences,” she said. home. “On top of the money value, we emphasize “They bring culture to Winnipeg and there’s more students living Delayed students will have their the international students’ study downtown. International students are often more willing to live acceptance extended, allowing them to experience,” he said. “We want to bring central.” begin studying in the winter semester if them over to learn English and enjoy our According to a document published by PAFSO, it’s demanding the they receive their visas. facility but we also want domestic students government for equal pay for equal work. It said other federal Terffa said that as the international to learn from the international students. professionals with comparable jobs received between $3,000 and students’ commissioner she couldn’t There’s lots of communication there,” $14,000 per year more than foreign service officers. comment on the strike, but did support the said Meng. “I think domestic students Citizenship and Immigration Canada has posted a warning to universities. enjoy working with and learning from applicants on its website, telling them to “anticipate delays.” While Manitoban universities may be international students.” The federal government announced in its 2013 Economic Action able to push back the start date for Terffa also emphasized the benefits of Plan that $44 million over the next two years would be used to international students affected by the having international students to study at improve citizenship processing. strike, RRC cannot. Manitoba schools. PHOTO BY JORDAN POWER THEPROJECTOR.CA 23/9/2013 NEWS pg.3 APP MAKES SPYING ON Want to BOYFRIEND Volunteer? Volunteer Manitoba invites students to visit community organizations at our annual EASY Volunteer Fair ELIZABETH FRASER, BEAT REPORTER Wednesday, October 2, 2013 “Boyfriend Tracker” lets partner 10:00am - 2:00pm secretly view location and texts, Notre Dame Campus, Building C and listen to phone calls For more information on this event and volunteering in your community, please visit our website Cell phone apps have made it easier for people to keep tabs on their significant others. “Boyfriend Tracker” has recently been removed from ROBERTELYOV the Google Play app store. The app was designed for girls to spy on their boyfriends. In just two months, the app received over 50,000 downloads from iPhone and www.mbvolunteer.ca smartphone users in Brazil, reports the Associated Press. Users discretely installed the app on their boyfriend’s phone. It then sends updates on their partner’s location phone screen.” useful for everyday users. and forwards duplicates of text messages sent and She recalls her ex-boyfriend setting up fake “It’s pretty powerful and saves a lot of time,” received. Similar to a pocket dial, the app also allows a Facebook accounts under a different name to said a spokesperson for MindSea. “It provides so user to silently call their partner’s phone to listen in on stay in contact with her. much info that it makes life a lot easier.” conversations. Hall would constantly block her ex-boyfriend But the app company advises people to be smart The app is not available in North America, but people are on her cell phone, but he would find a way with technology and use them with caution. worried that an app like this could find its way to Canada, to stay in contact by getting a new phone “The minute you feel you have to download making it easier to digitally stalk. number. He would often call and send text an app like that [“Boyfriend Tracker” App] you Winnipegger Samantha Hall met her boyfriend at Stereo messages. should break up with him,” she said. Nightclub when she was 18. The couple dated for a year “Social media is dangerous for relationships, “You need to define the good apps from the bad and a half until Hall broke things off. Her ex-boyfriend it can mess up so many things, especially your apps.” continued to stalk her at her workplace and find out head,” said Hall. through friends where she was. Regardless of what happened, Hall refuses to Hall’s ex-boyfriend would also harass her using give up her iPhone and continues to use apps technology like social media and cell phones. like Facebook and Instagram. “Social media has made stalking so much easier for people App developers like MindSea in Halifax, Nova since it has become so open,” said Hall. “You never know Scotia who make apps for businesses across if the real person is actually behind the computer or cell Canada, including Winnipeg, say apps are the POLL Do you use apps to help solve life problems? (i.e. to stay healthy) 71% YES 29% NO Find the next poll at: facebook.com/RRCProjector Photo by: Lindsay Rowan Food Bank Contact Us! The Food Bank is sponsored by the Students’ Association and is operated by a student Food Bank Coordinator. Students, along with their dependents, who Notre Dame Campus need extra food on a regular or casual basis can fill out a request form to (204) 632-2375 receive a hamper. Hampers are available every two weeks. Request forms can Room CM20 be found at the Students’ Association office and must be filled out by the Tuesday prior to every food bank day. Exchange District Campus The food bank pick-up will be at both the Notre Dame Campus Trailer and (204) 949-8475 Exchange District Campus in the Massey Building.