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VOLUME XLI, ISSUE 17 APRIL 15, 2014 Reel Music hits a high note Raechel Bonomo local bands rocked the stage for The Chronicle indie night while across town rhymes were spit at the hip- he annual Reel Mu- hip show. The concert, includ- sic Festival rocked the ing bookings, sponsorship and Tstage earlier this month ticket sales, was organized by at Durham College and with the second-year students. larger events came even bigger “The festival prepares and success. shows us what we want to The Reel Music Festival do,” said second-year student, LV DQ HYHQW SXW RQ E\ WKH ¿UVW Graeham Barker. and second year Music Busi- The students say the festival ness Management students at is a growing experience as indi- Durham College. The theme of viduals. this year’s event was ‘Get Reel’, “We get to know who we ZKLFK H[HPSOL¿HG WKH LGHD RI are,” added Karly Mohamid music in the real world. also in her second year of the The festival is in its 14th year program. and has grown to encompass The second-year students several aspects and genres of are also split into groups men- music. Under the wing of pro- tored by Sutherland. fessors Marni Thornton and Funding was critical for Tony Sutherland, the event the event’s success. Students went on without a hitch. were given $1,500 to start and There were three primary acquired additional funding events over a four-day period: Raechel Bonomo through sponsorships and tick- Prescription 2 Rock, Songs Re- et sales. This money was used vealed and multiple concerts 7:,671·6+287 Local band Brave Bohemia rocks out in downtown Oshawa. for prizes, decorations and oth- that wrapped up the event. er expenses. Prescription 2 Rock involved “We look at the capacity of four conferences given by in- year. get everything done for the think about what they would the venues, how we’ve done in dustry professionals, each con- First year students also or- events.” said Tori Simmons- go through from the time they the past and how much money ference focusing on a different ganized a song writing compe- 0F&UHDD¿UVW\HDUVWXGHQW leave their house to the time we think we can generate based genre of music. First year stu- tition called Songs Revealed. Thornton ensured through- they leave the event, what are on publicity,” said Sutherland. dents were responsible for se- Lauren Toyota, Much Music RXWWKH\HDUWKDWWKH¿UVW\HDU they going to experience? That Sponsors included local curing the speakers including VJ and graduate of the MBM students were on the right track to me is a good method to make radio station 94.9 The Rock, host Dave Russell, guitarist for program, hosted the event. The in regards to the planning. sure you catch everything.” Smokes Poutinerie, The Keg, the Guess Who (1993-2000) students had the responsibility “I make sure that they are The festival concluded with Monster Aesthetics and TD and organizing the event. The of going through the submis- thinking critically,” she said. a two-day concert held at dif- Canada Trust. According to genres were rock, metal, hip- sions and choosing competi- “One of the things I often say ferent venues throughout Os- Sutherland, each year the stu- hop and R ‘n’ B, and country. tors who had the opportunity to them is to think of the event hawa. Similar to Prescription dents plan to make the event Thornton said there was a to perform original songs live IURP VWDUW WR ¿QLVK IURP WKH 2 Rock, each show celebrated “bigger and better”. This year 10-15 per cent increase in at- in front of the judges. point of view of different stake- different genres of music. On more bands played and overall tendance compared to last “We all work as a class to holders. So if you were a guest, Friday night at Wasted Space, attendance was higher. SA results produce fresh crop of faces Emily Saxby SA President Ryan LePage, a day of the count. The Chronicle third-year Criminology and “The count is done. You won Justice student at UOIT. by a long shot,” LePage said A host of fresh faces were LePage ran against three one text-message read from a welcomed to the 2014-15 Stu- other candidates and won with vote-counter before the SA’s dent Association boards on 43 per cent of the votes. press release was posted. March 28 after three days of 7KH XQRI¿FLDO UHVXOWV DUH “I went to bed Thursday elections on campus. on the SA’s website. Votes are night and I was unsure,” LeP- Returning SA members QRWRI¿FLDOXQWLO$SULOZKHQ age said. “I didn’t know I’d win sealed only two out of the 13 po- the current SA board members E\VXFKDVLJQL¿FDQWPDUJLQ´ sitions available on the boards. hold a meeting to approve the According to LePage, he got Out of the 10 board member results. Approval is based on almost 300 votes from the poll- positions, four were elected and tidying up campaign mate- ing station set up at UOIT’s six were uncontested. Unchal- rial and submitting an accurate downtown campus where he lenged positions are granted to campaign expense report. attends classes, which accounts the single candidate who ran. Even though results are un- for approximately one-third of All three executive member po- RI¿FLDO WKDW GLGQ¶W PDWWHU WR the ballots cast in his favour. Emily Saxby sitions were elected, which in- LePage’s friends and support- LePage ran his campaign clude the president, vice-presi- ers who blew up his phone with with a slate called Students 6$785161(:3$*(Ryan LePage, third-year Criminol- dent of college affairs and vice- congratulatory messages while Unite that had 10 other ogy and Justice major at UOIT, hopes to unite students as president of university affairs. he was working his shift at the the new president of the Student Association. Among the newcomers is Real Canadian Superstore the See Newcomers, page 3 2 The Chronicle April 15, 2014 Campus DC alumni share wisdom with students in the pit Jenny Gordon ILLUSTRIOUS ALUMNI: From left, Russ Montague, CEO of Shirt Punch; Don Lovisa, president of Durham College; and Ian Ball, president of McEwen Mining. Jenny Gordon gram; it is now three. The Chronicle His business, Shirt Punch, is panding the company’s gold “When I started at Durham unsure of his career. based on pop culture and has mine in Mexico. College I was two points from “I was your typical, fade into Life is full of surprises, and been on the rise since 2011. The key ingredient, they being on academic probation,” the background guy,” he said. when they come, hold on for a His shirts have geeky logos. agreed, was taking what they Ball said. “It was the tough love For Ball, he was inspired by ride. That was the message from Some are of Star Wars, Star knew and being passionate that led me to mature.” his classmates. two Durham College alumni on Trek, and Doctor Who. His about it. Montague said the L-wing “(A classmate) was always April 3 during a session called company also hopes to start a “Everything I learned here was his sanctuary, like it is now curious. He always had these “Alumni in the Pit” sponsored new toy line, he said. is the basis for what I do now,” for most artistic students. questions, and he always talked by the Marketing and Adver- Ian Ball was in the Market- said Montague. “Going through the pro- to the teacher after,” he said. tising programs. ing program until 2002 and Ball explained to the stu- gram, it lets you touch a little Not only the teachers, but his Russ Montague and Ian Ball continued at Ryerson Universi- dents that he never sent Gold bit of everything,” he said. peers also motivated him to are both CEOs of their compa- ty where he graduated in 2004. Corp.’s CEO a resume at the “With a little bit of knowl- success. nies and have made it big. These days, he is president time he was applying. edge, you’re actually fearless,” Ball and Montague both Montague attended Dur- of McEwen Mining Inc.– a po- He kept in contact with he added. have contributed to the Dur- ham’s Advertising program sition he has held for the past the CEO as much as he could Montague was the student ham Region community to help when it was still a two-year pro- year – and is planning on ex- through email instead. who didn’t have a plan, and was students. LGBTQ violence Karen a victim of a homophobic Edwards attack in 2009 for being in- The Chronicle volved with her high school’s Gay-Straight Alliance. A documentary and study Wright was attacked from by a UOIT professor who also behind and kicked to the works as a hate crime expert ground by three people wear- with Egale Canada has re- ing masks. vealed that 64 per cent of “I was so scared. I didn’t LGBTQ students feel unsafe tell anyone, when I went to at school. the hospital I told them I Barbara Perry, associate fell,” says Wright. “I didn’t Emma Nicholls dean of Social Sciences and even tell my parents.” Humanities at UOIT, teaches Chair of Durham College’s POLLING STATIONS: Domenika Zdravkovska (left) and Caroline Alman work the LQWKH¿HOGRIGLYHUVLW\ Pride committee, Mikki polling station near the gym. She was inspired when she Decker, says she has trouble found this was the only cat- understanding arguments egory of hate crime in which about the LGBT community statistics were going up, not stemming from religious SA voter turnout higher down.