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WHAT A TOWN WITHOUT POVERTY CAN DO DECEMBER 01, 2005DECEMBER 01, 03 RESEARCHERS REEXAMINE MANITOBA’S GUARANTEED ANNUAL INCOME EXPERIMENT HEALTHY HOLES 10 WINNIPEG: ONE OF THE BEST CITIES FOR BODY PIERCING SECURING THE LANDSCAPE 13 ICELANDIC ART RESONATES AT THE PLUG IN GALLERY WHO WILL WEAR THE WHISTLE? 18 BLUE BOMBERS SEARCH FOR A NEW HEAD COACH THE UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG STUDENT WEEKLY WEEKLY STUDENT WINNIPEG OF UNIVERSITY THE ♼ December 01, 2005 The Uniter 02 VOL.60 ISS.13 CONTACT: [email protected] DECEMBER 01 2005 NEWS EDITOR: VIVIAN BELIK SENIOR EDITOR: LEIGHTON KLASSEN NEWS EDITOR: DEREK LESCHASIN UNITER STAFF UNITER NEWS E-MAIL: [email protected] E-MAIL: [email protected] E-MAIL: [email protected] Managing Editor » Jo Snyder 01 [email protected] Business Coordinator & Offi ce Manager 02 » James D. Patterson [email protected] NEWS EDITOR » Vivian Belik UN SUMMIT HIGHLIGHTS INTERNET GOVERNANCE 03 [email protected] NEWS PRODUCTION EDITOR » US Maintains control of ICANN 04 Derek Leschasin [email protected] SENIOR EDITOR » Leighton Klassen 05 [email protected] Derek Leschasin of the internet. website explains. 06 BEAT REPORTER » Whitney Light News Editor Seemingly in contrast with the above “The practical reality is that the [email protected] principles, the Summit failed to achieve ICANN board can’t help, but recognize BEAT REPORTER » Alan MacKenzie early 20 thousand participants gathered any change in the internet status quo: that the US retains ultimate control and 07 [email protected] the fact that the Internet Corporation for the ability to veto… US governmental in Tunis, Tunisia from Nov. 15-18 for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) positions are unquestionably factored FEATURES EDITOR » Lori Ebbitt 08 the World Summit on the Information – a non-profit private corporation - still into the decision-making process,” says [email protected] N Society, including representatives of the Canadian operates solely under the guidance of the Micheal Geist, Canada Research Chair ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR » Mike Lewis US government. ICANN assigns domain in Internet and E-Commerce Law, and a 09 [email protected] government. Among the issues discussed at the names and IP addresses, and controls Professor at the University of Ottawa. UN-sponsored event were the diffi culties in making the internet’s root servers which act as Interpress Service reported the SPORTS EDITOR » Mike Pyl 10 [email protected] information technology available to all, and the a master directory, the organization’s efforts of EU and developing nations at negotiations in the days prior to the 11 COMMENTS EDITOR » Daniel Blaikie future governance of the internet. Summit to try to obtain a resolution [email protected] towards creating a multilateral structure HUMOUR EDITOR » Matt Cohen Attendees at the Summit approved “The ICANN board can’t to replace or modify ICANN. However, 12 [email protected] two documents known as the Tunis the US was unwilling to agree to this, Commitment and the Tunis Agenda for help, but recognize that and the negotiations produced only a PHOTO EDITOR » Wade Andrew the Information Society. In addition to compromise solution – the creation of 13 [email protected] the US retains ultimate affirming such principles as the free a Forum on Internet Governance. This LISTINGS COORDINATOR » flow of information, and bridging the control and the ability to forum will have no coercive power, but 14 Nick Weigeldt [email protected] so-called “digital divide” between those will provide an outlet for discussion of with access to Information Technology veto” internet governance. COPY & STYLE EDITOR » 15 Melody Rogan [email protected] and those (mainly in the developing Geist says that while the EU and world) without, the documents several developing nations challenged DISTRIBUTION MANAGER » – Micheal Geist 16 affirmed the principles of “multilateral, the US, Canada failed to follow suit. Scott McArthur transparent and democratic” governance “On the internet governance issue PRODUCTION MANAGER & they’ve been closely aligned with the 17 GRAPHICS EDITOR » David C. Tan United States which I think is frankly [email protected] unfortunate. I thought that Canada… has often pushed for a multilateral approach, ADVERTISING MANAGER 18 » Ted Turner [email protected] and I thought they would have done well 786-9779 to have pushed for it here as well,” says Geist. Geist says he believes the Canadian THIS WEEK’ S CONTRIBUTORS government took the position it did Ben MacPhee-Sigurdson, Deniz Izzet, Ben Morris, because it has been satisfied with the Joel CoteSelig, William O’Donnel, Thomas Asselin, job ICANN has done thus far. But more Daniel Falloon, Kalen Qualley, Jon Symons, Sheri important, says Geist, is “to create an Lamb, Patrick Faucher, Sarah Hauch, Jaya Beange, Jessica Antony, Jill Johnson, Shane Gibson, Ben effective system of oversight that involves Snakepit, Iain Ramsay all governments, and one that doesn’t leave control to any single government, in this case the United States.” The Uniter is the offi cial student newspaper of the University Geist says he doesn’t believe the of Winnipeg and is published by the University of Winnipeg US will give up its unilateral control Students’ Association. 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We also reserve the right to edit for length or style. CONTACT US » General Inquiries: 204.786.9790 Advertising: 204.786.9779 Editors: 204.786.9497 Fax: 204.783.7080 Email: [email protected] LOCATION » Room ORM14 University of Winnipeg 515 Portage Avenue Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 2E9 COVER IMAGE Photo by: Ted Turner The Uniter December 01, 2005 NEWS EDITOR: VIVIAN BELIK SENIOR EDITOR: LEIGHTON KLASSEN NEWS EDITOR: DEREK LESCHASIN E-MAIL: [email protected] E-MAIL: [email protected] E-MAIL: [email protected] NEWS 03 RESEARCHERS EXAMINE THE EXCHANGE PUB TOWN WITH NO POVERTY EXPANDS AGAIN Whitney Light in New Jersey, rural areas of that there was a mere one percent Beat Reporter North Carolina and Iowa, Seattle decrease in work effort by men, and Denver, and Gary as part and a three percent decrease by nce upon a time, in a place of President Johnson’s “war on women. Those figures flew in poverty.” the face of theories that a GAI called River City, there But as economic tides would create a society of couch Owas a community where turned, the GAI plan fell out of potatoes. everybody was treated equally and favour. The Dauphin experiment What remains to be studied ended without the data ever are the health, financial, and nobody knew poverty… being analyzed. social effects of the three-year Now, however, a team of experiment. The new research, Although it may sound researchers from the Universities titled Town With No Poverty, like a fairytale, River City, of Manitoba and Winnipeg plan aims to answer these questions: code for Dauphin, Manitoba, to uncover the effects of the Did participants suffer less really did exist. From 1974 to GAI. Forget recently presented poverty during the GAI 1977, the residents of Dauphin their research proposal at a experiment? What would be the participated in the only Canadian colloquium at Health Sciences effects of less poverty? And, Photo by: Wade Andrew guaranteed annual income (GAI) Centre. how long would the effects last experiment. The Mincome Unlike in a welfare system, after the experiment ended? The King’s Head is set to expand into the building next door. experiment, as it is known, was The plan is to find out what one of five projects developed to happened to the residents of find out what would happen if “People believed Dauphin. Where are they now? Alan MacKenzie owners and they told him he’d people were promised a yearly How do they live? What has Beat Reporter be the fi rst to know when they’d minimum income. Would people we were just a happened to their children and be ready to sell. In March the still work? their children’s children? Forget couple approached Khanuja, The projects began during hair’s breath away and her colleagues expect to popular Exchange District saying they were closing due to the 1970s when “history was from creating a just determine much about a GAI personal reasons. changing in some fundamental f rom a det a i le d look at i nd ividua l, watering hole that started Khanuja said the cost of ways,” says Dr. Evelyn Forget, society” family, and neighbourhood-level A out as a 36-seat lounge in the expansion is more than the professor of Economics at the factors. 1988 will soon have almost 10 times $50,000 he was expecting, mostly University of Manitoba.