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HOW TO ... PHOTOGRAPHY, NOV. 5 AND 6 THE Please recycle this Thursday, November 1, 2012 newspaper when you are NAIT Volume 50, Issue 9 finished with it. YOUR STUDENTNUGGET NEWSPAPER FOR 50 YEARS, EDMONTON, ALBERTA, CANADA SOCCER TEAMS OFF TO NATS Stories, pages 8, 11 INSIDE: COMICS: Page 22 CONwisDOM: Page 24 Editorial: Page 5 Entertainment: Pages 14-26 Photo by Chad Steeves Horoscopes: Page 24 WHY SO SERIOUS? The “Joker” was one of an estimated 14,000 fans who descended Hot Single: Page 25 on the first Edmonton Comic and Entertainment Expo Oct. 20-21 Mouthing Off: Page 20 at the Edmonton Expo Centre. The event attracted comic book/ video game/anime/science fiction/metal fans for the chance to see News & Features: Page 2-4 exhibits, get autographs and attend workshops. Story, page 17. Sports: Pages 6-11 2 The Nugget Thursday, November 1, 2012 NEWS&FEATURES City testing online voting sible way to guarantee that people won’t, oh one reason and one reason only – people are put monitoring webcams in everyone’s com- I don’t know, let their kids vote for them. lazy. puters … do I smell a conspiracy? Now I realize I am coming off a bit strong If they don’t care enough to go to the I talked to a few people about this and here but what does calm me down is that we polls, why would they go online to do it? students seemed to have a pretty general are not jumping into this head first. If anything, this is giving the people who consensus, giving me responses like, “If The “Jellybean Internet Voting Elec- didn’t care enough to educate themselves I wasn’t going to vote to begin with, this tion” as they are calling this mock election, on the topic to begin with a chance to voice wouldn’t make me.” has been happening since Oct. 22 and goes their crudely placed opinions in the prettiest Even when I brought up the topic in a through Nov. 2. looking candidate. Which, mind you, is not large group and asked if they would partake The way they are judging this is based always the best candidate (contrary to popu- they all shouted “no way!” Connor Cosaro on how many registrants they get to vote. lar belief). So in general, I have deduced that people Assistant Issues Editor If people sign up to vote that gets noted as Another con of this situation is, let’s just are both willing to remain apathetic and not I’m not going to lie to people, all I know support for the system. say you get a registration code. Well you willing to change the way they vote. about politics is what I learned in Grade 12 As the City of Edmonton says on its don’t care about voting, what do you do The City of Edmonton, or “city of test- Social Studies class. Even at that, some of it website, the mock election is “designed to with the code? Toss it. Who picks it out of ing” as I have come to call it, has been is kind of fuzzy. test Internet voting technology and will help the trash? Little Johnny Jr. who wants to be subject to many tests involving police and However this topic of “online voting” the city to determine if the online voting an adult like mommy or daddy. voting. has been going around for a while and I system meets the city’s needs for voter pri- Well, what does he do with that, (since We even have our fair share of govern- really don’t see how this is practical or vacy, security, auditability and usability.” he knows how to use a computer, smart little ment conspiracy and idiocy. probable at all. Realistically, does anyone Outcomes will be provided to City cookie) he votes! Now you have kids voting, I’m interested to see how things work expect this system to work? Council in January. which we cannot regulate anymore because out for us. Look at it this way; there is no pos- I’m very much against this system, for we don’t have any officiators. Unless you Only time will really tell. Four-medal haul for Team NAIT By NICOLE MURPHY in the Culinary Olympics. in Erfurt Germany from Oct. 5-10 and the “As a child, I always wanted to be a chef Growing up in the Philippines, Francis Every four years, the best chefs from NAIT Culinary team returned with two gold but in high school I changed my mind and Flores learned to cook from his grandmother around the world compete in the IKA World and two silver medals in the event, which started to upgrade for architecture, but before and never imagined he would one day win gold Culinary Olympics. This year, it was held attracted 45 countries and 2,000 competi- I went in I thought to myself, ‘where would tors. With only four NAIT students included, I rather work? In an office or more hands on I asked Vinod Varshney, coach and manager work? Work with food, which I love of course, of the NAIT Culinary Team, how the com- or not.’ Food won,” said Flores. “Food is my petitors were chosen. first love.” “Students were selected on a very competi- After making the decision to follow his tive basis,” Varshney explains. “We have cook- heart, Flores looked into different schools for offs starting with 24 students and then 12, then Culinary Arts. He chose NAIT because of the six and, finally, four are chosen.” competitive culinary team, having no idea that The four selected were Francis Flores and this choice would pay off as it has. Ashley Broad, who went on to win gold in their When asked to describe how he feels about competitions and Jayden Kresnyak and Philip his success in one word, all he could utter was Robidoux, who took home silver medals. “speechless.” These students gave up weekends and even- Flores is a second semester student with a ings for the past six months to prepare for com- very bright future. His big dream is to work at a peting with professionals around the world. Michelin restaurant. This is Varshney’s third Culinary Olympics Flores had humble beginnings in the Philip- and with new students every two years, he and pines, but with his genuine love for food he is the Culinary staff have a lot to teach in a short destined for greatness. amount of time. Congratulations to all who competed! These four students did not compete against Coach Varshney wants all the medal winning other students; they competed against profes- students to know that “we are very pleased sional chefs from around the world. For gold- with the student success. You worked very hard facebook.com winner Culinary student Francis Flores, the for the past six months and the proof is in the The NAIT team opportunity helped solidify his life-long dream. pudding.” The Nugget, your friendly student newspaper, needs enthusiastic staffers. Pay for part-time work. Contact Claire Theobald [email protected] Thursday, November 1, 2012 NEWS & features The Nugget 3 An eventful campaign them while watching CNN, The Daily Show with Jon The vice-president challenged and mocked Ryan The Nugget Stewart, The Colbert Report or even Saturday Night several times with a smirk on his face and seemed to Room E-128B Live. take control. Some saw it as mocking and condes- 11762–106 Street My family and I watch a lot of news, both local cending, but Biden definitely helped the president out Edmonton, Alberta and international. Come election time, after his less than ideal performance a T5G 2R1 whether Canadian or American, we do week earlier. Production Office 471-8866 find time to get together and watch. At the second presidential debate, www.thenuggetonline.com We noticed that this year the the atmosphere was more town-hall Editor-in-Chief debates had a bit of a theme to them. like and was held at Hofstra Univer- It’s almost like this year’s debates sity on Oct. 16. Claire Theobald DAVID ADOMAKO-ANSAH were sponsored by the letter “B.” Moderator Candy Crowley made [email protected] Issues Editor I’ll admit I was unable to catch the some Republicans mad when she fact- Issues Editor There are only five days left until the United first debate that took place Oct. 3 at the checked some of Romney’s points. David Adomako-Ansah States presidential election. University of Denver. From the major- The real zinger of the night was when [email protected] Currently, President Barack Obama (Democratic ity of people I talked to and the many Romney told the audience about his Assistant Issues Editor nominee and 44th President of the United States) is tweets I went through, I gathered that “binders full of women.” hoping to get re-elected for a second term. Obama came up short, not taking his It wasn’t until the next day when, Connor Corsaro articles.businessinsider.com The POTUS and his vice-presidential running chances to really slam Romney on again, I saw the many memes, Face- [email protected] mate Joe Biden are up against Repub- things like his com- Mitt Romney book status and trending topics about Sports Editor lican nominee and former governor of ments about the 47 per cent of Amer- binders full of women, that I saw how much that Evan Degenhardt Massachusetts, Mitt Romney and his icans that would vote for the President statement got people out of their seats and onto their [email protected] running mate, Paul Ryan.