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ticket holders, says Gragg. Local hotdog vendor suing CKDU Weagle, however, understood that he would provide hotdogs to Radio station, contractor disagree on terms of anyone attending the picnic and be reimbursed shortly thereafter. catering summer picnic Former CKDU volunteer Ryan Delehanty attended this year’s picnic. He was not one of the 24 ticket holders to visit Weagle for free food, but after hearing about the ticket system, he found it strange when he was handed a free hotdog and drink. “They had a tip jar for dona- tions, so I just dropped the money I would have spent in there,” recalls Delahanty. Weagle disagrees with the radio station's assessment. He says the Steven Weagle. t
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Rally against transphobia inspired by Dal student's complaints Jessica Dempsey overwhelmed by support Ian Froese because she is transgender. believes it was not sufficient. Since Editor-in-Chief After composing herself in then, a different employee called front of nearly 100 support- her by her former name and, most The words were right there on the ers, Dempsey read her prepared recently, another Aramark worker cue cards she held, words she had speech. She said her decision to go asked Dempsey if her breasts are redrafted time and time again to public was not solely for herself. real. make them perfect, but Jessica “I am not going to hide any- The outpouring of support Dempsey was still at a loss for more. I decided to take a very since the media reports has been what to say. public stand for myself and many flattering, she said. Dempsey The silence would have been others, like me, who are not being didn't know this rally was being awkward, if not for her audience's heard,” she said. organized until she saw it on Face- Almost 100 students rallied last Thursday. t
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the night and marching 40 kilo- “It’s a real privilege for the metres out of the city near a ravine Atlantic community to be able to to shallow empty graves, where have access to hear him speak,” hundreds of people were merci- says Naomi Rosenfeld, the direc- lessly shot and covered with earth. tor of Jewish student life at the Those who remained were forced Jewish Students Association in into a nearby ghetto. Atlantic Canada. “To see the room “You don’t know what hun- packed and standing room only ger is,” he said, tearfully describ- with predominantly Dalhousie ing the ghetto. “I hope you never students is amazing because this know. People lying on the streets really was for them to educate the starving to death—you can’t even student population.” imagine.” Riteman ended his four decades He recounted the horrifying of silence in 1989 to speak in New week where he and nearly 100 Brunswick following the emer- others were crammed into a small gence of Holocaust denial rhetoric freight car as they were taken to from people like Malcolm Ross. the Auschwitz-Birkenau death “A lot of people just don’t know Reitman attracted more people than the Scotiabank auditorium could handle. t
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accomplishments. platform while disassociating the Polling data indicates that those party from its more radical legacy. !e anatomy of the NDP's failure who “tried out” the party in 2009 It’s designed to remove the scare shifted to the Liberals, while core factor from a left-leaning party Darrell Dexter’s people-pleasing path NDP support remained more or by considering all angles of party less steady. But that doesn’t tell perception. As Dan O’Connor, the that pleased no one the whole story. That story being former premier’s chief of staff told a cautious, centrist Darrell Dex- the authors, “there are no sacred dropping from a commanding 31 ter ran a neo-Liberal government cows.” to a quivering seven. Forget that exactly the way he planned, and This pragmatic approach has the outgoing premier won’t be it alienated the supporters he proven to work. Blair ended 18 allowed to sit in the House. counted on. years of conservative govern- Instead, consider the seats they ment in the U.K. with his New managed to win. Dexter’s New Left Labour party. Doer, meanwhile, Of the seven seats still under That Premier Darrell Dexter slowly transformed a party fresh NDP control, not one of the can- favoured a centrist approach to off monumental rejection in the didates enjoyed even a six per social democratic reform was not 1988 election into “Today’s NDP,” cent margin of victory. In Chester- an accident. The man who called accompanied by a decade in the St. Margaret’s, Denise Peterson himself a “conservative progres- Premier’s chair which the party Rafuse squandered her 20 point sive” never hid his preference for still holds. cushion from 2009 and squeaked cautious governance. This was not Success with this plan requires a by with a less than 150 vote vic- limited to the leader—it perme- delicate balance of pragmatism to tory. In Sackville-Cobequid, Dave ated the party. woo swing voters while maintain- Wilson watched his 45 point vic- Jared Wesley and Michael ing enough traditional ideology tory in 2009 (65 per cent of the Moyes of the University of Mani- to keep the party base engaged. popular vote) dwindle to 85 mea- toba have written a yet unpub- If Stephen Harper’s political suc- sly ballots. lished paper called Selling Social cess has taught Canadian politics Crumble? Collapse? Catastrophe?
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in Nova Scotia. When polling for the involvement of all three major party. to end corporate bailouts, and it’s the core vote, but they lost large the Progressive Conservatives parties. They were not set up for With these factors alone, an NDP government.” swaths of their support. prior to 2009, he often asked the success. though, a more resilient gov- The unwavering dedication to question, “Does the prospect of an ernment may have been able to a balanced budget and spending Now what? NDP government scare you?” The swing vote: Red is bounce back. Governments have cuts angered the base. This sen- So, the government fell. Was the The answer was, consistently, the new orange come back from worse: so why the timent is summarized by a June electorate more prepared for a “yes.” In 2009, the PCs used this Still, a government in Nova Sco- monumental collapse? 2012 letter written by Lars Osberg true social democratic govern- in their playbook, creating a web- tia hasn't been held to only one Coletto suggests the NDP's par- and Molly Hurd and signed by ment than Dexter thought? Did site called “Risky NDP.” As Butler mandate in 131 years. What made ty's identification outside of Hali- 59 party members. It asked, on a party founded on new ideas run says, “I would have thought that this one different? A major reason fax was too weak—people histori- behalf of “supporters who have out of them? These are the ques- the first thing he [Dexter] would was the NDP's massive failure to cally don’t see themselves as NDP, worked for, and donated to, the tions the party needs to answer. want to do is show people, you retain those who are tradition- which helped contribute to the NDP through many past elec- The critical question, as Cam- know, we’re not scary. And that, of ally uncommitted to a particular weak party organization outside tions,” why they should continue eron asks: “is there a reason for course, is what he did.” party. of the big city. Voters who didn't to support the party. “Because we the party to exist?” This pragmatic approach is David Coletto, founder and have a personal connection to the are now trying to see the point.” In the short-term, voters nowhere clearer than in the party CEO of Abacus Data, says the NDP were likely to wonder why decided there is no reason for the platform. The NDP cut down a NDP lost the election “not they should support a party whose party as it stands today. 100-page, 71 idea platform in 1999 because it was a Liberal-lite party, sameness had become apparent. In the long-term, party estab- to a four-page, seven commitment but because it wasn’t what [the Beyond the swing vote, though, “IF THE NDP IS lishment must set priorities for document in 2003. By 2009, the voters] expected.” the party base was dejected. Sure, what will be a slow return to cred- party platform was a two-page Butler agrees. “The electorate they still came out to vote, but NOT A PARTY ibility. First and foremost, their leaflet including vague—vague looked,” he says, “and said ‘well, they didn’t do much else. focus has to be on re-establishing but costed—promises such as “live what’s different about them? OF CHANGE IN the base. If they hope to continue within our means” and “create They’re behaving just like every- Sitting this one out down a centrist path, Cameron secure jobs.” body else has done.’” Silver Donald Cameron—a jour- NOVA SCOTIA, says, “What you will see is the Louise Carbert, political science The roots of this perception nalist, author and political activ- departure of its core members in professor at Dalhousie was not are easily exposed. $304 mil- ist who has been closely associ- WHY SHOULD droves.” surprised by Dexter’s governance lion to the Irvings in forgivable ated with the party for nearly four If the party decides the centre based on her observation of previ- loans, lower corporate tax rates, decades—opened his doors to a THOSE WHO is the quickest way to win gov- ous NDP election cycles. investment in old-economy pulp- canvasser in September. For the ernment, they will see people “I don’t think they turned out and-paper jobs, $65 million in first time he told them, “No, I will WANT CHANGE like Cameron, Majka and the 59 any more to the centre than I education cuts and a broken not put up a sign.” He would not signees of the letter tact left—an expected them to be,” she says. election promise to not raise the canvass, he would not become a SUPPORT IT?” opportunity the Green Party won’t The government inherited a fal- HST played unfavourably with poll captain—all he would do was let slide. If the New Democrats tering health care system, a stag- the swing voters whose supposed vote. “And this was the experience shift left, they’ll face the same old nant economy, decaying labour anxieties Dexter hoped to soothe. right across the province—even The letter spells out the govern- questions that have historically industries in rural Nova Scotia A party traditionally associated the canvassers I spoke to agreed ment’s record of tax rate pledges, badgered the party magnified by a and a broken-with-no-easy-fix with high ideological standards they were reluctant to be there.” spending cuts to education and poor record in government. electricity dilemma—all of which misplayed their hand by ostensi- The problem for Cameron health care, and, of course, corpo- There is no easy way back from they knew or should have known. bly abandoning them. was not the cautious approach— rate loans. It ends with the ques- this collapse, and it will take seri- Additionally—as if the situation The party was too focused “conservative progressive” came tion: “If the NDP is not a party ous and honest inquiry to find the was not unfavourable enough— on “what we need to do to get as no surprise. “I just don’t think I of change in Nova Scotia, why right path. When or if they find it they were rocked with an expense reelected” to ever truly govern, ever saw the progressive,” he says. should those who want change remains to be seen. scandal that disproportionately says Chris Majka, a long-time “Imagine, opposing parties are support it?” fell on the government despite rank-and-file member of the saying get rid of this government The government may have kept

and archives. larger libraries are struggling to The information gathered will stay alive. Some publishers have Future of Canadian libraries be turned into a report, and sub- stopped selling books to librar- mitted to a peer review, as well ies because of the small financial as circulated by the RSC to both gain. and archives discussed federal and provincial ministries, “If libraries are trying to be a Sabina Wex University of Alberta’s chief down with trying to make it boards of education and the asso- public good and provide access, News Contributor librarian Ernie Ingles argued through the fiscal year.” ciation that consulted in these regardless of somebody’s abil- that putting materials from com- Froese-Stoddard believes that discussions. ity to pay, whether a student or a “The vision of a young, soon- member of the public, we can’t do Masters of Library Information munity archives into provincial the Council of Nova Scotia ones might be better to ensure Archives helps small commu- to-be practitioner, in a school, that if we can’t acquire materials,” Science (MLIS) student Alison in the [Dalhousie] LIS program, she said. Froese-Stoddard believes stories their availability for future gen- nity archives thrive, but that no erations. But Bedford’s Scott national level supports them. In is every bit as powerful,” Ingles Despite all these facts, the can keep community archives said. MLIS students at the talk all alive. She and others discussed Manor House volunteer archi- writing her thesis on sustaining vist Warren Ervine suggested community archives, she dis- “You have as much as respon- expressed a desire to remain in related issues at the Royal Soci- sibility to write that letter as does the field, hoping to solve these ety of Canada’s (RSC) “The Status the donors of these materials like covered that Canada is unique knowing where their archives in its emphasis on community the provincial archivist, as does problems. and Future of Canada’s Libraries the Library and Archives Can- “I got into this because I was so and Archives” on Nov. 8. are, and wouldn’t want the mate- archives rather than getting bits rials to be moved to a provincial of information from government ada. And perhaps, I would sug- fascinated in community histo- The talk featured a panel of gest to you, you might be listened ries,” said Froese-Stoddard, “and experts but audience participa- archive. archives. “I see vision, particularly in vol- RSC plans to have similar dis- to more than them.” I am so interested in the people tion was encouraged for discus- Dalhousie librarian Donna of Canada and in stories.” sion, questions and advice. unteers,” Froese-Stoddard said. “If cussions across the country on only we could stop being bogged the future of Canada’s libraries Bourne-Tyson sees how even the opinions gazette opinions welcomes any opinion backed up with facts, but we don’t publish rants. Email Sam at [email protected] to contribute opinions Sam Elmsley Opinions Editor

means that some couples, or ran- dom couplings, are going to be trusting that the guy behaves by !e pill, for men? pulling out in the nick of time. The second issue is simple: hi, Why we should be supporting male contraceptives I’m Jackson Haime, proof that the pill doesn’t work flawlessly. Acci- dents happen, and people can have their lives thrown off by the arrival of a happy accident. Real- istically, we need to take every precaution to make sure the uni- versity lifestyle doesn’t bring responsibilities that we are not ready to handle.

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When studies are announced that male birth control is close to being a reality, I think we should be all for it. Much of the sex at uni- versity could result in pregnancy, so there should be a way for both sides to be ready for an encounter without needing to worry about the other not being properly pro- tected. A second argument for male birth control is that we are totally dependent on women to protect “themselves” from getting preg- nant. Whenever two people are getting in bed with one another, the girl gets asked if she is on the pill. Meanwhile the guy reaches into his wallet (and oftentimes the girl keeps the condom on her person). It’s a one-sided arrange- ment, and it’s just not very fair. At the moment, the best option for male birth control seems to come from several research teams who are developing a reversible shot that renders a man sterile between 10-15 years at a time. If Don't look so shocked: male birth control is a good idea. t
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Nov. 15 - Nov. 21, 2013 opinions 9 An education The university as social commons Will Pearson University is taking on the Opinions Contributor role of the social commons for today’s young people. This would If you’re middle or upper class, or be a great thing, except for the you aspire to such a title, you’ve fact that it’s so bloody expensive. probably been to university. This What this means is that young is nothing new; higher education people are effectively paying to has always been one way social hang out with each other. Uni- and economic disparity has been versities are cashing in on young reinforced. But this is not only people’s social impulse. They’ve because university gives you the ingeniously managed to commod- skills to succeed—in many ways, itize this impulse, because there it doesn’t. It’s a social phenom- is no other space in society where enon as well: university is where young people can come together the wealthy youth gather, just like and interact on the same scale. sports bars are where the jocks This is why university is marketed gather. Universities are as much as much as a lifestyle as it is an a social institution as they are an education. But what would it look academic and economic one. like if there was a social commons I’ve been in university for that wasn’t privatized? almost six years, and the number of students I’ve encountered who are there for purely social reasons “YOUNG Schedule some sleep this holiday season. t
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I’ve been pre- me that our compulsive secular facility shutdowns when trying to pretty hot place to make out. tending to go to the University practices of late have begun clos- “LEARNING further one's education; learning Now I have this sense that of King’s College for about a year ing the gaps between holidays. does not function independent social institutions experience mis- now (never mind that I’m also What was once regarded as reli- of time, and an objection I raise sion drift when a society’s needs paying tuition at Atlantic School gious observance of largely Chris- DOES NOT to a dead week in the middle of a aren’t met. Consider public librar- of Theology). I use their library tian and State calendar landmarks semester is the destruction of aca- ies. What were originally meant as almost daily. I attend their cha- has become a calculated integra- FUNCTION demic momentum. houses of study and quiet reflec- pel services and occasional special tion of respite into our collective Still, we cannot escape from the tion have become social hubs. lectures. I’ve made friends there. consciousness. We all seem quite INDEPENDENT limitations of our physical bodies, They’ve become a refuge for the I’m even the treasurer of their comfortable with this shift; no and momentum is only useful if homeless and de facto daycares (I student choir society. All without question, our high-stress popu- OF TIME” harnessed. To be frank, I missed think this is a great thing, by the ever enrolling. And I remember lace needs to be told when to rest. half my classes in the week lead- way). Societies learn to get out of admiring the people that did the Some universities have fallen Speaking specifically to our own ing up to Remembrance Day out institutions what they need to get same sort of thing when I was a into step, opting to mirror spring case at Dal, I think extending the of frustration and exhaustion, out of them, even if they weren’t fee-paying member of the Trent break with a fall break, the idea winter break is popular among and in this I know I am not alone. designed for that reason. Librar- University community in Peter- being that midterms are often a my peers who seek to reconnect The allocation of holidays is an ies have become a refuge for the borough. milestone of fatigue for students. with family and friends, especially important step to managing the homeless and de facto daycare Universities provide an excel- An academic calendar is much those whose holiday locale is not energy levels of students, but it is centres because there are no bet- lent infrastructure for meeting easier to manipulate and man- in the Maritimes. Furthermore, a bandage that may be missing the ter such places around. And this is new friends, launching a move- age than a state calendar, but the many students appreciate the point when it comes to maximiz- what has happened to universities. ment, or falling in love – but that’s precedent is an important one income opportunities afforded by ing student output and effective They’ve become social centres for really not something that you that academia chooses to sup- a longer break from school, espe- action. our culture’s youth because there’s should pay for. So don’t. port: that our considerations for cially in the holiday season when Reliance on holidays for rest nothing better around. structuring a calendar are best retail stores are experiencing high and recreation forces the body to served by a behavioural analysis demand and many requests for take a break, yet we cannot afford of those most affected by it. Dal time off from permanent staff. to engage with education with any @dalgazette has a different answer than some It seems to me that we are hold- less than our best. Put simply, I @gazetteopinions institutions. In lieu of a fall break, ing on to a notion that the cre- worry we teach our bodies to func- US @gazette_arts Winter Break was extended; with ation of holidays is more than tion at extremes when the healthi- T Remembrance Day falling on a simply throwing a bone to busy est approach is one of balance. TWEE @dalgazettesport Monday, giving students Nov. 12 and stressed students. The alloca- @dalgazettephoto

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Let’s take a step back, for delib- ranked school in the country for included hot yoga sessions at eration’s sake, and think critically. drinking and getting laid. Take Moksha on Dresden Row, sexy In Halifax and underage We can start by shedding some that news as you will—some of bingo, and a Halloween “Trick or Drinking, or not, shouldn’t alienate stereotypes. you readers will cheer, and others Eat” food drive. It’s too easy to see this debate as will try not to barf. Persaad also says her orga- a hallowed dichotomy: either you If you didn’t know this as a new nization’s main goal is for stu- imbibe and buy into the party- student coming into Dal, well, dents who are like-minded to live hearty lifestyle, or you don’t. you’ve probably figured it out by together and rely on each other Labeling our fellow students as now. for social support. “squares” or “straight shooters” on When students choose to drink the one hand, or “frat boys” and as their extra-curricular activity, “ratchets” on the other, is awfully “COME ON that’s what they’re seeking in their misguided. It risks corralling the friends, too. And there’s nothing student body into two segregated wrong with that; I’ve made some and confrontational blocs, some- IT’S NOT THE of my best friends and connec- thing that reveals itself fairly obvi- tions over a pint. ously in university residences. BREAKFAST Still, the party mentality Come on— it’s not the breakfast remains strong with some. When club. CLUB” I asked her what she thought Somewhere in this murkiest about Dal’s reputation, Persaad of middle grounds should be a As long as the bouncers at bars told me that students coming here nuanced and thoughtful outlook around town keep monitoring expecting to drink will always suc- on how to consider and respect lineups, though, underage stu- ceed at that, because they’re per- each other as fellow students. dents have to look for alternative petuating the lifestyle they came Whatever side you fall on, the decision to drink or not shouldn’t stereotype the University is where people come nocturnal activities. here to find in the first place. other choice. t
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Vaughn Pearson windows allowed me a wonder- side claimed victim after victim Staff Contributor ful view of the city. I was feeling as people gave up on getting into pretty good. I had an autographed the convention, inside, nerds of all There had to be food somewhere. vintage Japanese Star Wars poster shapes and sizes rejoiced in nerd- I was scanning the third floor of in my satchel, along with an edi- vana. With all-star guests the likes the World Trade and Convention tion of My Little Pony Monop- of which this city has never seen Center, Hal-Con 2013’s central oly (don’t judge me), and a cam- at a comic convention, interactive hub. Costumed attendees milled era loaded with pictures of some events ranging from model paint- about all around me, stopping to incredible cosplayers. My con ing lessons to “Learn to Write oblige photo requests or discuss- experience wasn’t even halfway Vulcan” sessions, question and ing costumes with other cosplay- over and I was thrilled with my answer panels, podcasts and an ers. People always heading some- day. incredible amount of shopping it where. Maybe the lecture on My But then I looked outside and was no surprise that Hal-Con had Little Pony and “brony” culture on was reminded that I was a mem- drawn record numbers of attend- the second floor, or the Warham- ber of the lucky few who could ees. mer tournament preliminaries, or make such statements. Everyone inside was having fun, maybe they were off to get a pic- Outside, in the Parade Square, but when attendees realized leav- ture taken with Billy D. Williams several hundred of my nerdy com- ing the upper floors would mean of Star Wars fame. I just wanted patriots stood in the cold being almost certainly never returning, to eat. After a long day of shop- pelted by a cruel mixture of snow instead of going downstairs for ping, indulging in nerdgasm after and hail. They were waiting for some shopping in the free access nerdgasm, and rubbing elbows refunds. area, they remained upstairs, not with a few celebrities, I needed Shortly after noon on Sat- wanting to miss a single event some grub. urday, Nov. 9, the Halifax Fire they’d waited so long to attend. Department was forced to declare Not even shop vendors could the World Trade and Conven- leave the building, forgoing food “SEVERAL tion Center “at capacity.” This and rest so they could keep their meant nobody else was getting stands open and not be forced to HUNDRED OF in, no matter if they had bought leave. a day pass, just shown up hop- Upon returning on Sunday ing to purchase one at the door, or the lines were shorter, the atmo- MY NERDY paid through the nose months in sphere less tense. But there was advance for the deluxe weekend an air of exhaustion about. Most COMPATRIOTS “Warp Speed Pass.” notably affected were the ven- One woman, dressed as a dors, completely spent. One artist STOOD IN THE Starfleet science officer, whis- I visited Friday, who had engaged pered to a friend she’d heard the me discussing her hilarious comic COLD” building was already 1,000 peo- book Everyone’s a Centaur was ple past capacity. Her friend said now quiet, absent minded, and At the far end of the third floor, she’d heard from one of the volun- almost dismissive. Who could my companion and I—respec- teers it would be six hours to get blame her after toughing out over tively dressed as Navi and Link into the main convention hall if 12 hours without a proper meal One of Hal-Con's more lavishly garbed patrons. t
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Mary’s then organized and pre- Dal prof speaks at Hal-Con sented Kill All Humans, which focused on robots. The Meaning of Monsters expounds on common horror elements Hal-Con attendees positively received Kill Them All, and with Sabina Wex the first gothic novel, The Castle of is what the dominant culture fails ence fiction authors such as Sam- a talk this year, Haslam sees that Staff Contributor Otranto. MacFarlane spoke about to do,” Haslam said, “understand uel Delany and China Miéville, people outside the university are the monstrous horde of Lady the other and open up to commu- and Arrow, the TV show based on interested in what it does, and Dalhousie English professor Gaga’s fans. nication in interesting ways.” the Green Arrow. He often sports vice versa. Haslam believes that Jason Haslam addressed how the Haslam was inspired to speak a Firefly shirt. many people have a false percep- zombie is a symbol of the fear of about the zombie as the embodi- “I think that science fiction, the tion that the university is sepa- the “other” at The Meaning of ment of the fear of the other “ALL ABOUT fantasy, the gothic, all these non- rate from the rest of the commu- Monsters panel at this year’s Hal- because recent blockbuster film realist things, are all about chal- nity. By taking material from their Con. World War Z’s used the zombie CHALLENGING lenging our perceptions of what classes, his fellow presenters and “[Monsters] are popular and to symbolize the dominant cul- it is to be real, of what is real,” he he are bringing the university to address a lot of social and politi- ture’s bigotries. In the movie, the OUR said. “And I think often what we the real world. cal issues throughout the period zombies eventually destroy a wall think of is real is simply our own “I think that something Hal- of the modern age,” said Haslam. outside Jerusalem (it and North blinders, our own inability to per- Con shows is that there are these He recruited Dal English pro- Korea are the only places that PERCEPTIONS ceive beyond the end of our own interrelations that culture, both fessor Julia Wright and Mount haven’t succumbed to the zombie nose.” the enjoyment of it and the study Saint Vincent English professor pandemic) and take over the city. OF WHAT IT IS Hal-Con’s director of design of it, are things that are significant Karen Macfarlane to speak along- Haslam also addressed that standards, Travis Whalen, con- to not just the social fabric, but to side him on the panel. The Mean- zombies almost never speak, TO BE REAL” tacted Haslam last year about the enjoyment of people’s lives.” ing of Monsters was his second unless to say “brains,” or ask for creating a panel of professors to yearly Hal-Con panel. more paramedics so they can eat Haslam had never attended speak about a Hal-Con-related Wright spoke of the haunted them. Hal-Con before he was invited to subject. Haslam and other pro- house, going all the way back to “Maybe the image of the zombie speak at it, but he is a fan of sci- fessors from Dal, King’s and Saint 14 artsculture Nov. 15 - Nov. 21, 2013 t

Interview with a cosplayer Getting into the art of cosplay

Meagan Wiederman the attention, sure, but more Arts Contributor importantly the interaction,” notes DeLuca, “I’ve gotten the Nathan DeLuca appeared last chance to meet most of my friends weekend at Hal-Con in hand- cosplaying.” made armour, styled in his ren- DeLuca specifically crafted his dition of Kaidan Alenko from armour when he began cosplay- popular video game Mass Effect. ing. Kaidan Alenko’s armor is the Even more impressively, DeLuca first full suit he’s ever hand-made. helped organize a group of 15 peo- ple cosplaying as various charac- ters from the game. “Just getting the armour built “YOU and organized is ambitious,” he says. SHOULDN’T DeLuca is not alone. People of all sorts gather at Hal-Con, clad in BE LIMITED costumes or casually dressed, to check out the many guest speak- BY ANYTHING: ers, performers and booths. The convention ran last weekend, but NOT RACE OR Nathan DeLuca takes a breather between cover shots. t
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Zoe Doucette Yes… “Orc.” “It’s earthy, a little ashy. It Assistant Arts Editor It is possible for you to smell almost has a scent of beet. It’s like Grishnak or Radbug, like very orc-like, but still in the Eau de Orc a dirty, filthy orc who has never realm of a perfume—it’s not REVIEW: Recovering nerd Zoe Fans are always looking for ways heard of a bath or a washing unwearable. It still smells better to breathe their chosen object of machine. than Axe.” Doucette tries smelling like RPGs, obsession to life, be it dressing Intrigued, I decided to try out a I dot a small amount of the oil in the garb of a jawa, or learn- 5ml bottled of BPAL’s Orc on my on the inside of my wrists. Once so you don’t have to ing to speak Klingon. But one roommate and boyfriend. it’s on, Orc loses some of the dimension that often gets over- Upon first cracking open the grime, and the watery, creamy looked in making the fantasti- bottle, Orc smells dirty, like lay- cucumber floats over a punch- cal real is smell. Imagine how ers of abattoir sludge that have ing, liquorice spice. It fades into much easier it would be to LARP dried and caked into greasy, acrid a sweeter, harness-shop smell, (“live action role play”) your way hide armor. The listed notes are horsey and leathery mixed with through the dead marshes with “grey courgette (as in cucumber), anise. a whiff of sulphurous mud, or to musk, leather and vetiver,” the While Orc isn’t a conventional gather information from the local roots of a grassy plant alleged to smell, it is exactly what you’d bar-keep with the thick smell of smell like smoky trees. want and expect for the scent of dwarven ale wafting through the “I don’t like it,” Andrea says. a grey-green troll-man. Grassy air. Cult perfumers Black Phoe- “It smells like Friar’s Balsam, and oily, Orc’s fresh roots and nix Alchemy Lab have crafted a like that shit you put on a canker? moldering leaves would enliven set of RPG themed fragrances It smells like really bad spruce a table-top RPG game, bringing help summon the world of Gary gum. The person who would the scent of the beast hackle-rais- Gygax and Dave Arneson into wear this is a pagan at a sum- ing-ly close. If you must wear it our own. moning circle. You could prob- on a date, leaven with a drop of BPAL’s scents cover the races, ably smell it through the sweaty flowery Elf oil and get those half- classes, alignments and every- leather of her corset.” orc pheromones going. day objects of D&D life, with per- Graeme’s reaction is more pos- fume oil blends like “Evil,” “Pala- itive. "It still smells better than Axe." t
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Mind-bend theatre Into Halifax’s first Outlier Film Festival

It starts with ‘p’ and ends in ‘ography’ Joelline Girouard Sex Columnist “research” (i.e. browsing inter- net forums) is the equation that watching porn is some form of Your friends watch it. Your brother cheating. Even in the context of a watches it. Your sister probably committed relationship, porn isn’t watches it, too. That bro who sits bad by default. The general con- in front of you in lecture? He defi- sensus is that there’s no need to be nitely watches it. No, I’m not talk- worried unless your consumption ing about Duck Dynasty (those negatively impacts your sex life. beards are mystifying, though). Nope. I’m talking about porn. The first thing I have to say about the butts and boobs on your “PORN COULD computer screen is this: they are for everyone. So you’re a super- ACTUALLY straight-macho-guy, but you like A still from The Act of Killing. Just a typical day at the falls. t
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Email: [email protected] to get involved sports sports covers athletic events and topics relevant to Dalhousie. Email Benjamin and Daniel at [email protected] to contribute sports Benjamin Blum Sports Editor David Sharpe embarks on new Olympic pursuit Dal athlete goes online to raise money for the 2016 Olympic Games

Graeme Benjamin Russell, who believes amateur receives will be split between him- Staff Contributor athletes need a better way to self and the pool to cover the extra connect to the public for fund- cost for analysis during training. ing. Russell contacted Sharpe in “We have some money, but we Dalhousie swimmer David Sharpe late August and asked him if he need a bit more,” he says learned several important les- would be interested in conduct- Pursu-it creates incentives sons during his successful quest ing a campaign. Sharpe agreed, for public donations through a for a berth in the 2012 Olympic and after researching what Pursu- user-designed system of rewards Games. Foremost among them it was all about, he knew it was a and givebacks. In other words, was the realization that a trip to great opportunity. if someone donates a certain the Olympics doesn’t come cheap. amount of money, Sharpe will Set to make a return to the Games provide them with something in in 2016, Sharpe knew he needed “AS AN return. to find a different method to help “For example, if someone gave fund his training. AMATEUR me $100 then I’ll send them a The fifth-year swimmer has signed national cap,” he says. “Or started a Pursu-it campaign, ATHLETE, if they give me 300 dollars then which is a way for amateur Cana- I’ll coach them for a swimming dian athletes to connect to public lesson.” funding. His campaign launched THERE’S NOT The largest donation he has on Oct. 25 and will span a three- received so far is $400 from a sup- month period, during which MUCH MONEY plies company. Two weeks into his Sharpe is required to raise $7,500. campaign, Sharpe is 15 per cent of He says the money will help FLOATING the way to his final goal. cover travel, living and coaching Another event integrated with Swimmer Sharpe is expanding his fundraising network. t
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A look at the past, present and !e future of Dal athletics Water What are your What did you thoughts on the men's Who's your prediction Cooler think of Dal's and women's hockey to win the next performance during teams so far this year? championship for Dal the fall playoff (the teams have a and why? season? combined two wins)

Women’s cross-country won their They don’t have a rink, so what can you Swimming has the next AUS champion- championship with an outstanding really expect from teams that don’t even ships on schedule. I don’t think either Dal team. They had amazing depth, did a have the basic necessities to be competi- team is at the point where anyone else from great job throughout the season and tive? The fact that the women’s team was the AUS can make a serious challenge to Kit Moran really pulled through at AUS. The able to recruit so many first-year athletes their titles. Acadia and Mount Allison are DSU athletics commissionaire, men’s team has been slowly rebuilding is astounding. I think we will see the wom- growing threats to the men’s and women’s varsity alumnus since their last championship win in en’s team gel a little in the coming months. teams respectively, but neither school can 2010. They had a couple rough years, There are definitely some wrinkles that really match the depth and top-end tal- losing to the X-Men by 20-30 points, need ironing out, but what else did Dal ent of the Tigers. Dal has dominated AUS but I’d say that the rebuilding they expect when they ditched the arena? swimming for 15 years, and I can’t see it have been doing is finally paying off. changing this year.

All in all I found it to be a little disap- I think that this was about as bad a start as Aside from the usuals in swimming and pointing. There were several teams in everyone expected. The hockey teams were track and field, one of our soccer teams Justin Hartling position to walk away with a cham- far from the strongest at any point, but is likely our next champions. Dalhousie Local sportscaster, pionship and they mostly faltered. now after the hazing scandal last year Dal- is strong in soccer and that's not likely to inventor of the ‘beer koozie’ Though the football club and men’s housie has become a non-entity for some change any time soon. soccer raised some eyebrows, the future recruits. If anybody was expecting women’s soccer team not completing better than this, they were delusional. the threepeat actually shocked me.

I feel bad trying to answer this ques- It's hard to tell a team to step their game I don't mean to be going for the safe bet tion because, despite working for the up just because, but it's no secret big team but my limited history of covering sports campus paper with a great sports sports are expensive. With no wins and no for the Gazette made me immediately think section, I couldn't hope to list all the home rink to boot, I wouldn't be surprised of women's volleyball. It's lame, I know, Kristie Smith sports that have played. If only to shift to hear hockey might be facing the axe and uninspired, yes, but they're great and I (B[FUUF
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the offensive zone, draining the clock, as X-Men defenders tried in vain to strip the ball away. Six minutes left on the clock became four minutes by the time Duane Davis fired his fifth goal of the game from the slot to tally Dal's 15th marker of the match and virtually seal the victory in their favour. His third consecutive champi- onship was just as sweet as the first two, said Davis. “Every year we get new kids in, we get new challenges,” he said. “It's a new experience every time.” The Tigers went undefeated in the regular season, claiming all eight contests by a combined score of 142-55. They beat Mount Allison 17-4 in the semifinal. “To go undefeated in the regu- lar season and not lose on cham- pionship weekend, it's a pretty special feat in our league. They're ranked up there as one of our best teams for sure,” said Dubreill, a former team member. Dal last suffered defeat on Sept. 12, 2012 when they lost to Saint Mary's by a point. Dubreill handed the game ball The Tigers are getting used to posing for celebratory photos. t
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AUS. The paint play for Acadia is son was the DJ Williams show clearly their strong suit. However, on the Island and if the Panthers AUS men’s basketball season preview with solid play from the 2 and 3 remain one-dimensional, they Just like Sports Illustrated, only sustainably developed positions, no team can double- will be another middle of the road team down low, allowing Klas- type of team. A great performance sen and Rhys Larry to dominate. from Ofori could help this team Though this team has a lot of new beat the Axemen or the Capers. recruits who will have to fill out He has the most experience in the the bench, they will be learning paint and the Panthers need Ofori from seven mature players who to take the next step this season. understand what it takes to go to nationals. Could be the best team 3. CBU Capers to come out of the AUS in some How do you replace a player time, but the gap is closing. like Jimmy Dorsey? The honest answer is you don’t. The Capers Player to Watch: Owen Klassen are going to be a much different This guy is a stud. No question team than they were last year, about it. He can put any team on despite only losing two players, his back and lead them to success. due to Dorsey’s departure. It’s Some say he is the best player in going to be up to coach Matt Skin Canada and expect nothing less and veteran players AJ Geugjes, but absolute domination from Meshack Lufile and Sean McCor- Klassen on his farewell tour. mick to alter this team offensively. By no means is this impossible, 2. UPEI Panthers but how is this team going to fare The Panthers have been knock- against one-on-one looks when ing on the door of the AUS elite opposing defenses don’t need to for the past three seasons and it’s double team Dorsey? There are looking like they may be poised to plenty of reasons to be optimistic break it wide open. The team has in Caperland (a coach who won had back-to-back 13-7 seasons the AUS best head coach award and will need to improve on the in his first season, a group of play- road (6-5 last season) to enter this ers that know what it takes to win upper echelon. The road to the and a great lot of recruits), but The race for AUS supremacy could be tighter this year. t
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4. Saint Mary’s Huskies will be expected to play no. 5 in can rain threes, if Traboulsi can 7. UNB Varsity Reds 8. Memorial Seahawks This team is going to be exciting the post often this season. Halpin develop a more consistent game UNB didn’t provide a lot of excite- Memorial managed one win last to watch. Coach Jonah Taussig is the type of player who may not he will become an AUS all-star. ment or promise last season. After season, beating St. FX by just four likes his team to play an exciting, be great at anything but is good providing little hope for their fan points after a huge fourth quar- above-the-rim style of basketball. at everything. You may be pull- 6. St. FX X-Men base for a turnaround, this team ter. Very rarely did the Seahawks This was evident when the Hus- ing your hair out one minute and The X-Men are going to be a com- may be bottom dwellers again. even provide a challenge for many kies almost took out powerhouse the next jumping with excitement pletely different team this sea- The Varsity Reds have two solid of the teams in the AUS, routinely Carleton in the preseason. This because of him. son. They graduated the leaders guards in Daniel Quirion and losing by 25 points. Though they team will be better this season in every major offensive category Javon Masters, who could both go consistently started the same with healthier and more experi- 5. Dalhousie Tigers (top two scorers, top rebounder off for 30-plus points against the five, only Vasilije Curcic regularly enced point guard play. The team The biggest difference for the and top assist man). However, middle of the pack teams in the stayed on the floor for over 30 struggled mightily after losing Tigers this season is behind this team has assembled seven AUS. With little to no real threat minutes. This is a program that starting PG Brian Rouse last year the bench. Rick Plato, who had new recruits who will be looking in the middle though, the Varsity has won 10 games over the past to injury, but he’s back for the sea- coached the Mount Saint Vin- for playing time. In order for this Reds will be depending on their five seasons, so don’t be expecting son. Of course you can’t talk about cent University men’s team to team to be successful, Coach K perimeter game to beat oppo- a miracle coming from the Rock the Huskies without mention- several national appearances, must take advantage of an abso- nents. If this team finds their hot this season. ing Harry Ezinebe, the fifth-year brings a hard-nosed approach to lutely huge team (six players over streak at the right time they could player who attacks the boards so basketball. This team will con- 6’6”) and hope that some young- surprise some people, but it’s safer Player to watch: Vasilije Curcic ferociously he has earned the nick- tinue to grind out games defen- sters step up for this team. After to keep expectations realistic for This team’s lone bright spot is name “Air Ezinebe.” A major con- sively. Offensively, the team will 17 seasons of winning records, this this team. Curcic. He is a steady, maybe cern for this team will be the play rely heavily on AUS second team season could easily spell their sec- not great, presence that can help in the paint. There is no proven all-star and fifth-year player ond straight losing season. Player to watch: Daniel Quirion focus this team’s offence. He is not player down low after key depar- Simon Marr. As long as this team Quirion may be the definition of on par with Owen Klassen, but he tures this offseason. The Huskies can remain strong up the mid- Player to watch: Shane Coupland a streaky player. Some nights he is a good player who is always try- are an athletic and exciting team, dle there is no reason to expect a Some readers may remember can absolutely take over a game, ing hard to win games. He could but I can’t see them being a top- drop off compared to last season; Coupland as a huge contributor driving the lane and draining easy develop into one of the best if his tier team until they show us some- if anything, this team is poised to for the X-Men when they went buckets from the line, but other team situation doesn’t drag him thing special. climb the ranks of the AUS. on their run at the 2012 nation- nights he just disappears. If given down. als. Last season though, he barely the right amount of touches, and Player to watch: Riley Halpin Player to watch: John Traboulsi registered a blip. With Rodrigo if the entire team can be more Though streaky, Halpin can be a Maybe not the flashiest player Madera providing his using steady consistent this season, I feel force down low and he is going to on the Tigers roster, but when paint presence and the rest of the Quirion could be a second team get his chance to prove it with the this team played its best ball last team virtually unknown, Cou- AUS all-star. departure of Kevin Thomas. Riley season he was the guy that was pland needs a return to form to is naturally a power forward, but clicking. A tough defender who thrust this team into contention. By Ian Froese and Chris Parent Who is your favourite superhero?

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FRIDAY, NOV. 15 Zumba fundraiser, hosted by Lecture: Mini Law School: Fundraiser: World Vision Dalhousie Children’s Wish Catastrophe and the Law - 30 Hour Famine. Main Society. 2-4 p.m. at the Dalplex. Community Recovery After headquarters at Room 316 in A Disaster, by Jamie Baxter, SUB. Begins at noon and ends Women’s basketball: Dalhousie Schulich Fellow, 7 p.m. in Rm starts 6 p.m. Nov. 16. vs. Acadia, 6 p.m. at the 204, Weldon Law Building Dalplex “Development Depression”, Concert: Are you inspired? - hosted by I.D.E.A.S., 1:30-3:30 Men’s basketball: Dalhousie vs. Dalhousie Wind Ensemble. p.m. at the Grad House. Acadia, 8 p.m. at the Dalplex 7:30 p.m. at St Andrew’s United “Spiderman” “Superman” Church. Julia Bolzon Mike Pye Lecture: Nova Scotia Provincial MONDAY, NOV. 18 Catholic Christian Outreach 2nd-year commerce Politics, from Halifax-Chebucto Brass Recital, 12:15 p.m. in the THURSDAY, NOV. 21 missionary MLA Howard Epstein, 3-4:30 Arts Centre, Room 406 Lecture: Biochemistry & p.m. in Henry Hicks, Political Molecular Biology Seminar - Dr. Science Lounge. TUESDAY, NOV. 19 Michael Ladomery, 4-5 p.m. in ESL Workshop: Oral Theatre D, CRC Building. Cookie Decorating with the Communication for Grad Italian Society, 6-8 p.m., SUB Students, 4:30-7:30 p.m. in the Halifax Planetarium Show: Room 224 Mona Campbell, Room 2109 Comet ISON and the Winter ($20) Sky, 7:15 p.m. in Dunn Building, Women’s volleyball: Dalhousie Room 120 ($5) vs. University of Moncton, 6 WEDNESDAY, NOV. 20 p.m. at the Dalplex Lecture: “The Pyramid of FRIDAY, NOV. 22 Potential: A Fresh Look at the 29th Annual Dalplex Christmas Men’s volleyball: Dalhousie vs. Irreducible Needs of Children,” Craft Market, 12-9:30 p.m. in University of Moncton, 8 p.m. at by Dr. Gordon Neufeld, 9-11 the Dalplex Fieldhouse ($5, or the Dalplex a.m., Killam, Room 3616 $10 for weekend pass)

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Violence against women is a entered an Engineering class women in Engineering. remember the Montreal Massacre topic we’d all rather not discuss, Each year on Sexton Campus, 14 during the week of December but it continues to be an issue separated the men and women of young female Engineering students 2nd - 6th throughout Sexton in society. This is a topic very the class. He claimed that he was light a candle; students share their Campus, with the candle lighting infrequently discussed on the ceremony on December 6th at Engineering campus due to the to shoot nine women, killing six. their reactions, and everyone 6:30pm in the Alumni Lounge. All low female population, but each He continued through the halls remembers the names of the 14 students, faculty and public are year on December 6th we take of École Polytechnique, shooting a women who died that day. welcome. For further information, time to remember the Montreal total of 24 people, all women – 14 The Dalhousie Women in or to volunteer, please email Massacre at École Polytechnique died and 10 were left injured. All Engineering Society will be [email protected]. WRITE. GET PAID. in 1989. On this day, Marc Lépine but two of these students were hosting a variety of events to 100-200 words = $15

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Last week, Petroleum Engineering challenges faced by the world we live climate change by the end of this of us graduate with. What I am student Ahsan Umar wrote of in. Unfortunately, if we dedicate our century. In 2009, all UN Nation calling for is a shift in our thinking 600+ = $35 “The Next Champions of Oil Play”, degrees, our life’s work and entire Member States signed on to a safe about these industries on our celebrating newly proven oil and departments of our post-secondary limit of 2 degrees Celsius for the campuses and a shift in where we Picture of the Week, gas reserves in Africa, Alberta, the institutions to the furthering of limit of global warming, above pre- focus our intellectual capital. There Arctic, and South America. It was the fossil fuel industry, we are industrial levels; after 2 degrees, are departments, faculty and labs Comic, Abstract = $20 noted that these new discoveries perpetuating a problem, not solving the climate quickly runs away on Sexton that do fantastic work. equate to increased job prospects to increased temperatures of 4 However, this shift in the Sexton SUBMIT: in the petroleum engineering sector. Canada Code of Ethics states degrees, 6 degrees, or greater. campus ethos is made particularly Truly, if you live in Canada and are that a professional engineer shall: According to the BP World Energy [email protected] a graduate of nearly any engineering “Hold paramount the safety, health Outlook, there are over 2,800 Gt of funding received by our departments discipline, the oil and gas industry has and welfare of the public and the potential CO2e emissions in the are from corporations such as a place for you. However, if you look protection of the environment...”. known reserves of the oil, gas and Imperial Oil, Syncrude, Suncor, and, at the way in which the fossil fuel Therefore, would it not be wiser coal industries worldwide. However, especially at Dalhousie, Shell Canada. industry operates on engineering to focus our intent and intellectual if the global climate is to stay below The move to a more responsible The Sextant is published by the campuses, it is clear that the ability capital toward energy systems that the 2 degree threshold, only about energy future, and the cleaning up Dalhousie Sextant Publishing of our institutions to be leaders in do not compromise the ability of 410 Gt CO2e can be released. This of the wreckage of our current Society and aims to represent renewable energy technological future generations to lead socially is to say that over 80% of the known irresponsible system, will necessitate all of the students studying and innovation is severely compromised. and environmentally healthy lives? oil, gas and coal reserves must stay all of the innovation and engineering living on Sexton Campus. If you It is this kind of innovation that is The United Nations’ in the ground if the civilization we prowess that we can muster. I look have any concerns about the needed, now more than ever, to Intergovernmental Panel on Climate know and love has a chance of forward to the end of the disabling paper, please email sextant@ move us toward a system of global surviving into the 22nd century. dal.ca and we'll arrange to meet ecological sustainability. month. The report laid out, in no The economic reality we live in on Sexton campus, and believe that, and discuss them. As engineers, we are touted as uncertain terms, that if we do not means that no individual engineer by working together to make this Editor-In-Chief: Brett Ziegler the “problem solvers of the world”. act to drastically reduce carbon is to blame for working with an oil Assistant Editor: Richard Wile We are trained to come up with emissions, we will experience a and gas company, especially with the true innovation and address the Treasurer: Nikheel Premsagar solutions to the technological runaway system of catastrophic amount of student debt so many major issues of our time.

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