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Vancouver Island University • Student Press Vol 44 • Issue 13 • Mar. 20 – Apr. 02 • 07 • • 11 • • 20 • JUSTIN TRUDEAU MET WITH SPIRITUALITY ON TAP MARINERS IN SUPPORT IN NANAIMO HABEMUS PAPAM, THE POPE’S NOSE, AND PEDOPHILIA A MINUTE Trudeau was met by several hundred sup- Assumptions about religion are unhelpful and VIU’s men’s basketball team are CCAA na- st porters at Nanaimo’s Port Theatre for his ignorant, especially for 21 century–students tional champions! The M’s defeated Holland first public appearance since former as- living in a so-called information age. College 77–70 last weekend, led by a 34-point tronaut Marc Garneau withdrew from the performance from Brandon Jones. leadership race. , THE NAV Vol. 44 Issue 13 •Contents• NEWS SPORTS & FEATURES ARTS ENTERTAINMENT • 03 • Editorials • 09 • • 15 • • 19 • • 05 • How missed periods can lead Jean-Paul De Roover Around the Rink to bone loss, infertility, and the World Parrot Refuge opens up end of athletic careers Fishing season in Nanaimo a new wing for senior parrots • 16 • • 10 • Sam Raimi and James Franco: • 20 • • 06 • Oz the Great and Powerful Photo survey Vancouver Whitecaps off to Iron Chef Rob Feenie promising start announces new VIU culinary Morningstar Herbalist Renaissance Art and the An- cient Philosophers: A Study in award program Stephanie Mills offers natural Mariners in a Minute living in Nanaimo the Representation of Ideas • 07 • • 21 • • 11 • • 17 • CFS-BC votes to expel Liew brings home University of Victoria Spirituality on Tap Oz the Great and Powerful Nationals silver Students’ Society Habemus Papam, the Pope’s nose, and pedophilia: • 18 • Lions’ Harris, Lulay, Buono in Nanaimo last week Liberal leadership hopeful how stereotypes and slang The Vancouver Opera’s Justin Trudeau met with misleadingly shape our understanding of The Magic Flute • 22 • support in Nanaimo spirituality and religion Odds and ends • 08 • • 12 • Horoscopes CFS campaign cites unfair discrimination against Oh, the places you could go! potential LGBT blood donors • 14 • Weekly weird news roundup The importance of being awkward Lavender Earl Grey shortbread cookies Roll Call Gareth Boyce Ashwani Sinha Meagan Dyer Taralyn Cooper Amanda Key Editor-in-Chief Production Manager President Sports Editor Graphic Designer [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Kaitlyn Till Emily Olesen Lynne Williams Délani Valin Jeremy Unrau Senior Copy Editor Graphic Designer Associate Editor News Editor Bookkeeper [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Christine Franic Mady Ritzker Zoe Lauckner Jake Buhrig Jennifer Fink Art Director Copy Editor Business & Ads Manager Arts Editor Web Editor [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Darian Hart Ad Sales [email protected] The Navigator welcomes reader contributions Guest Contributors All submissions must be original work of the author. Editors reserve the right to refuse submissions, and Sara Grover Jenny Aitken (CUP) to edit for space or clarity. To submit, check our <www.thenav.ca> or email <[email protected]> Mathew Snowie Caitlin Olesen Letters to the editor should be no more than 400 words in length. The Navigator does not pay for letters. BJ Bruder Shane Belbin (CUP) Opinions expressed in the Navigator are expressly those of the author and/or artist and do not Sarah Sandford Shandi Shiach (CUP) reflect the views of the Navigator staff. Délani Valin Tamu Miles Leah Myers Timothy Lewis Jennifer Fink 900 Fifth Street • Bld. 193, Rm. 217 • Nanaimo, BC V9R 5S5 • T: 250-753-2225 • F: 250-753-2257 • 02 • Vol. 44 • Issue 13 • Mar. 20 – Apr. 02 • THE NAVIGATOR THE NAV EDITORIALS Gareth Boyce Health and Editor-In-Chief A Wellness at VIU the Navigator conversation So, let me tell you about a recent adven- stopper ture of mine. Last week, you may have seen Coca Cola vending machines replacing old Pepsi vending machines across the campus. Like many people who have perfected This led me to ask the question: VIU wants the art of procrastinating, I spend a lot to be a healthy campus, and VIUSU man- of time on YouTube. I love YouTube: aged to ban bottled water last year, how cats, science, music, and so on—it’s a does signing a new contract with Coca Kaitlyn Till time suck. One thing that doesn’t suck Cola adhere to VIU’s goals? The answer has Associate Editor my time is leaving comments. There kind of blown me away. the Navigator are a few reasons why: As part of the University’s master plan, 1) YouTube comments rarely result in there will be a Health and Wellness Centre where VIUSU is currently located. What reasonable conversation. Sure, I think that most people go into them with the does this mean for students? Hopefully it would mean better, easier access to health right intentions, but all it takes is one troll jumping in accusing other users of and wellness services. Exactly what those services will be is hard to say at this point, being “gay virgins” for responding the way they do to whatever video they’re as the current Health and Wellness Desk, located in bldg. 200, is rarely attended by viewing. Then things devolve and Godwin’s Law (the longer an argument lasts a staff member. When I went up there on Thursday, Mar. 14—a day where, accord- on the Internet, the more likely a comparison to Hitler or the Nazis will be ing to VIU’s website, there should have been someone at the desk from 10:30 a.m. made) proves accurate yet again. to 12:30 p.m.—there was no-one there. 2) I can never get a handle on the format or the logic behind the format of This proved annoying; especially after spending an hour or two talking to VIUSU the comments section. As far as I can tell (and I never delve particularly far into and others on campus about where this Health and Wellness Centre is located. I was this exploration, see #1) there is no logical threading or way of sorting com- originally sent to the fourth floor of bldg. 180, but they sent me to bldg. 200. And ments. Additionally, when I try to click to view more, it often skips up and I then I also heard that it might be in the gym. So I went to the gym after bldg. 180 have to re-read the vitriol I’ve just been over to get to the new stuff. There’s very and found that while there was a desk there for health and wellness, there was no- little motivation to figure out how the comments actually work. one available at the time. Another possible option was the Health and Safety Office, And this brings us to problem #3… which is located in the bottom of bldg. 360, and quite difficult to find if you’re not 3) When I do feel compelled to post a comment, YouTube makes me go sure what you’re looking for. through the motions of looking at how my account would work with my real What does all of this mean? Well, it seems to mean that VIU may not be as name attached to it. They then ask if I would like to change my user name to concerned with health and wellness as I had previously been led to think. So a deal my real name and make it very difficult to avoid doing so. The first time I went with Coca Cola should come as no surprise. But if this is the case, why is there a through this, it took 10 minutes to navigate through the options to figure out new Health and Wellness Centre planned when no-one seems to know their current how I could avoid attaching my full name to my account. YouTube did a great location or what it is they actually do? job of disguising the option, making it look like they were politely asking while Well, what should a Health and Wellness Centre do? I think it should deal trying to shove me through that door of using my real name. The second time with health and wellness in any form, whether that be counselling services, sex- this happened, the button to refuse was easier to find—whether because You- related services, healthy food choice services, or anything else that may relate to Tube changed to make it more obvious, or if I was just a little more with it to health or wellness. When I was at the gym, I noticed posters advising students figure it out, I’m not sure. on how to improve their health—through cutting out sugars, drinking more There are plenty of YouTubers out there (just look at the trolling comments water, eating healthier, etc. Great! Those all sound like things that a health and and there is a certain correlation between anonymity and asshattery—asshat- wellness centre should deal with. Not only that, but those posters adhere to my tery usually comes from anonymous usernames, but anonymous usernames don’t own thoughts: sugary beverages are not healthy. necessarily equal asshattery) who have managed to keep their anonymous user- So, why the deal with Coca Cola? Does it just come down to money? God, I names, and they certainly comment. So it can’t be that difficult—either that, would hope not, but I would probably be wrong. VIU is a business when it comes or they just routinely click through the would-you-like-to-use-your-real-name? right down to it—this isn’t the correct time or platform to be discussing whether spiel.