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VOLUME XXXIII, Issue 12 february , NOT ALL KISSES: The LAZY LEGZ: Breakdancer bloody truth behind overcomes adversity and Valentine’s day busts a move See PAGE 14 See PAGE 6 Down with tuition Fake IDs see student charged By Matt O’Brien of Student Rights and Responsibili- Chronicle Staff ties for the college and university. Pitcher sent an e-mail out through MyCampus regarding the situation, 19-year-old Business student asking students to hand in any fake at UOIT has been charged IDs. Th e e-mail has had limited re- A with fraud for selling fake sponse. Pitcher has received a list of IDs over the past year. students suspected of owning fake National defence cards for Ca- IDs and will be contacting them if nadian armed forces, LCBO BYID the IDs have not been handed in. cards and driver licences were con- “Th ere’s a concern if you use it. fi scated after it was discovered that You could be subject to prosecu- a student was creating and selling tion,” said Pitcher. “We’re asking these IDs on his university-assigned students to co-operate and just turn computer. in the cards.” “Investigation has been going on Pitcher has also informed mem- for about a month. Basically the in- bers of the SA regarding the issue formation was on a leased comput- and they are taking necessary steps er from the college that he turned in to bump up security. for servicing,” said Detective Kath- “Gary Pitcher informed us about erine Denton, one of the constables the issue regarding IDs and strongly in charge of the investigation. advised we stop accepting BYID More than 500 pieces of ID were cards,” said Brandon Alexander, sold since last January, and the po- the food and beverage manager at lice and military are urging anyone EP Taylor’s. “We still accept IDs like who has purchased a fake ID to turn driver’s licences and we have an it over to the local authorities. aid that our staff use called Digital “We had a few people from the Doorman that they scan licences University of Toronto that had mili- into to check to see if they’re fake,” tary IDs that have called in,” Denton he said. “We take away about 10-20 said. fake IDs a week.” Denton also emphasized that Mark Jackson of Pickering is fac- anyone who submits an ID will not ing three charges of forgery and one of unlawful use of a military certifi - Photo by Reka Szekely be charged. Possessing such IDs is a criminal off ence but the police are cate. “We were pretty good on him be- THEY’RE NOT GOING TAKE IT: Ontario college and university students gather on the giving people a chance to submit the IDs now instead of being caught cause we could have charged with lawn of Queen’s Park last week to protest high tuition fees. Thousands of students with them in the future. him with forgery for at least 300 braved the cold last Wednesday to let the provincial government know they’re not “We were made aware of it and pieces of ID. Instead we charged happy with current tuition fees, and want them reduced to 2004 levels. For more we called the police because we felt him for each type of ID he had,” said picutres and the full story, see STUDENTS on Page 2. it was serious enough to call the po- Denton. lice,” said Gary Pitcher, the director -with fi les from Reka Szekely Th e results are in: Team Unity sweep SA elections ing the last week fi lled with debates, By Pavan Sandhu speeches and rallies, they now wait- and Jocelyn Nespiak ed nervously in the Student Centre Chronicle Staff lounge. Some paced back and forth. Faw- t was Friday night. Th e results cett sat quietly playing a game on of the 2007 Student Association XBOX. McArthur sat with his sup- Ielections were in for the few po- porters, Team Unity. sitions not fi lled by acclamation. Will Ellis, Student Centre manag- Dustin Grant and Michael Sey- er, stepped out of his offi ce. Fawcett mour aspired to represent Durham pressed pause. McArthur stood up. College on the Student Board of Chief Returning Offi cer Joanne Governers, while Lisa Grande, Rick Hamawi and Evan Muller-Cheng, Majury, Dwayne Duke Palmer and current SA president, walked to- Christopher van den Berg aspired ward the boardroom with the re- to represent UOIT. sults. Th ey asked the candidates to Nicholas Henderson-Todd, Chris follow. Nelan and Angelo Pineda battled Muller-Cheng and Hamawi cap- for the chair of VP of UOIT. tured the attention of the room. But the campaign that stirred up “Most of you had similar issues, the most attention was the battle be- everyone has a consensus here,” Photo by Jocelyn Nespiak tween Matthew Fawcett and Fraser said Muller-Cheng. “Everyone is GETTING ASSOCIATED: The new SA executive poses outside E.P. Taylor’s. They are McArthur for the presidential seat. here for the students.” (from left): Eric Dillane, Melanie Barnett, Chris Nelan, president Fraser McArthur, Na- Although the candidates showed heed Dosani, Niyati Tredevi and Amanda Daley. Three reps are missing from the photo. confi dence and determination dur- See WINNERS Page 11 2 The Chronicle February 13, 2007 CAMPUS NEWS Students demand lower tuition By Reka Szekely “It starts with one, being me right Chronicle Staff now, but I would suspect next year, hopefully we’ll get more out,” he It was a sea of maroon signs as said. over 2,000 students from across the Muller-Cheng said next year’s SA province rallied at Queen’s Park last executive is going to very active and Wednesday, chanting slogans like, he hopes they’ll carry on the mo- “We don’t want no mac’n’cheese, so mentum from this year. Dalton reduce the fees.” With her car loaded with pas- Th ey were part of a national day sengers, it took Laurentian Univer- of action organized by the Canadian sity student Kayleigh Heathcoat two Federation of Students (CFS), ask- hours to drive down from Barrie ing provincial governments across because of bad weather. She was the country and the federal govern- excited to be there, despite a couple ment to reduce tuition fees. of bumps along the way. In Ontario, the students were “I got pulled over and got a ticket, looking for a tuition freeze, followed so it was worth it,” she said laugh- by a reduction to at least 2004 rates. ing. Dalton McGuinty’s Liberal govern- At Trent in Peterborough, the ment allowed tuition fees to begin student association arranged for rising again last fall after freezing buses, and about 175 students went them when they fi rst came into down to Queen’s Park. power. Scott Dempsey, president of Th e students met at King’s Col- Trent’s student association, said he lege Circle at the University of assumes his school will keep raising Toronto, which is just a couple of tuition fees as much as the govern- blocks from the legislature, and ment will allow each year. then took the long route to their ral- He added that if any Trent stu- lying point, marching up St. George dent in Oshawa wants to get in- Street, across Bloor and then down Photo by Reka Szekely volved with the campaign, they can Bay Street. STUDENTS UNITED: Protestors from as far away as Sudbury converged on Ontario’s leg- call his group. At the legislature, Ontario chair islature and demanded that Premier McGuinty reduce tuition to 2004 levels. “If they’re ever looking for help for the CFS, Jesse Greener, used an with something like that, we’re al- over-sized version of a petition page ways around,” said Dempsey. “We In addition to Greener, there the group. “We know what needs which is too much for families. He to represent the 50,000 signatures could have stopped had people were several speakers at the rally, in- to happen. First we need to freeze pointed out that in recent years, the the CFS had collected asking Mc- wanted to come. We could have cluding provincial NDP leader How- tuition fees, then we need to start to government in his home country of Guinty to reduce the fees. maybe stopped on the way.” ard Hampton and Sid Ryan, Ontario reduce tuition fees.” Ireland has eliminated tuition fees “We have signed petitions, we One small group of about 15 Uni- president of the Canadian Union of In an interview before his speech, for post-secondary students. have faxes that have gone to the versity of Toronto students brought Public Employees (CUPE), which Ryan said tuition fees aren’t just an While the largest contingent at government, we have students who a diff erent message to the rally. Th ey represents about 10,000 university issue for students, but for their fami- the rally came from Toronto schools, have voted on their campuses, we have no problem with tuition fees workers. McGuinty and Progressive lies as well. students from across the province have overwhelming community as they are and they were protesting Conservative leader John Tory de- “We’ve got 225,000 members in made the trek, including one group support, and yet, this government the CFS’s use of student funds for clined the CFS’s invitation to attend. Ontario, most of them earning aver- from Sudbury. refuses to listen,” said Greener, who the campaign. Hampton, joined by the NDP’s age wage between $35,000-$40,000,” Durham College and UOIT’s of- believes high tuition fees are a bar- “What they’re doing right now is post-secondary critic Rosario Mar- he said “My members cannot aff ord fi cial delegation to the protest was rier to accessibility.