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2 News 7 Editorial 8 Comment 14 Features 16 Science 19 Culture 23 Arts cover image 30 Sports Photo by Rob MaCeachern U of M Events Ph o t o b y Ha o Ch e n Sept. 19 S e p t. 2 2 Sustainable Tourism U of M World Cup Soccer in Uganda Monday is your last chance to register for this free, for-fun soccer tourna- Students go hungry in If you've thought about travelling in ment. Register at the information Africa or the economics of tourism in desk in Frank Kennedy or find more the Third World, check out this lecture information online at the Bison Australia and Canada by U of M prof Michael Campbell at 3 Sport and Active Living website. p.m. in Conference Room A (room 238 U of M food bank use increased by 38% of the Investor's Group Athletic Centre. Find it! In the library Learn how to locate books and all Morgan Modjeski, staff end-of-year report, the food bank dis- According to the University of Jazz Masterclass of the other shortcuts that the U tributed a total of 799 hampers in the Regina vice-president (operations and An amazing free show of all that U of M of M libraries have to offer. This is ccording to the London year 2007-08 from September through finances), Craig Fink, students at the Music has to offer: featuring Yemenite only the first of many workshops Telegraph, Australian universi- March, and 578 hampers in the year U of R are also having some problems jazz vocalist Michal Cohe. Location held over the course of the term, Aties are officially distributing 2006-07. In total, in the 2007-08 year coming up with funds for food. TBA, check umanitoba.ca for updates. for more information contact food to students who cannot afford 1,651 people were fed. “ Obviously with rising rent, with [email protected]. the price of groceries. When asked if some students would rising food costs and with rising tuition The Telegraph reported that “The starve if it were not for the U of M that amount [of ] student loans is going University of Technology and Sydney food bank, Stone replied, “I think some as far as it used to,” said Fink. University have begun providing regu- of them might, in terms of ones who Two programs are provided at the lar free breakfasts for the first time this had difficulty getting to other food U of R, the communal cupboards and VOLUNTEER NOW! semester as students struggle to survive banks.” the good food box, provide students the city’s rental crisis and soaring food Transportation downtown is a huge who cannot afford food. costs.” task for some students, said Stone. The good food box is a box that Email your favorite U of M students are also look- “For students that are in and around students can buy for $10, $15, and $20 ing for support, as the University of campus it’s obviously a very conve- — getting more food in the box than editor or drop by the Manitoba food bank has seen a 38 per nient way for [students] to access food they would at the grocery store, said cent increase in users in 2007-08, com- if that’s the need and there definitely Fink. office to learn more pared to 2006-07. is a need.” Stone continued, “Students At the U of A food bank fed roughly about how to volunteer. Hampers range in side from a single obviously have a huge debt load, taking 1,800 people, 58 per cent of which person hamper to a three-person ham- a lot of student loans out to cover the depend solely on student loans as their OR, even better, check per, said Barry Stone, acting director of cost of university, what they get from primary source of income, said Lauren out the volunteer sec- student financial aid and awards. student loans is barely enough to keep Prince, Director of the University of “The food bank is a joint program them going [. . .] buying food is a dif- Alberta Food bank. tion of our website! between the U of M through the office ficult thing for them.” The University of British Columbia of student affairs and the University of The University of Manitoba was not and Victoria also have food banks set Manitoba Students’ Union,” said the the only school with students who have up to supply students with food when U of M food bank web site. trouble supporting themselves when it they themselves cannot afford it. www.themanitoban.com/volunteer According to the U of M food bank comes to the grocery bill.

How did you enjoy your U1 experience? Did you find that U1 helped or hindered your en-  toban talkback trance into your faculty of choice? ashley gaboury

Taniya Biswas Chris Adams Ivan Garcia Elizabeth Priest Iian Ho third-year Science first-year U1 fourth-year Science first-year U1 fourth-year Engineering

“I enjoyed my U1 experience. It did “I’m liking it so far. The whole “I found my U1 experience very “I think [U1] will help me because “Going through U1 before going to help because I kind of got a feel for experience is a lot bigger than helpful to get around campus right now I don’t know what I want engineering didn’t affect me at all. what university life would be like. high school. I don’t think it will and to know where everything is to do. I’m taking just taking a bunch I’m still going to be graduating on Even outside of a faculty, you got a help or hinder. I have a fairly but it didn’t affect my decision of random courses and I’ve found time and I took the same courses as feel for classes, grading schemes, decent idea of what I want to do of what faculty I was going into.” that I took courses that I would everybody else who went through how profs respond to students so I think I would be taking all never have thought of taking in high direct-entry. The only thing I couldn’t and large classroom settings.” the same [courses] regardless.” school. I found that they’re really do was take six courses but I interesting and that it will help me wouldn’t take that many because in my faculty choice next year.” that’s stupid and I had fun in U1.” Vol. 96 No. 6 September 17, 2008 WWW.THEMANITOBAN.COM News Editor: Morgan Modjeski and Ashley Gaboury Contact: [email protected] / 474.6520 NEWS 3

Federal government funds new Bombers Stadium to $10 M and $25 M research pro- be built at U of M grams Ashley Gaboury, Staff

he construction of a new Bomber sstadium on the University of Vanier scholarship gives 500 TManitoba Fort Garry campus grad students $50,000 was confirmed during halftime at the Bison homecoming game on Sept. 13. Morgan Modjeski, staff local research tanks,” said Deteiller. David Asper announced the $150 Deteiller stated, “It’s really targeting million plan that will consist of a new n Sept. 5, the federal govern- world-class leaders [in research] from CFL-sized stadium, refurbishment of ment introduced two new pro- outside Canada that we would like the current Bison stadium and the con- Ograms to enable more students in Canada which means training of struction of a separate fitness facility to to get involved with research while Canadian students by the best research- replace the “Gritty Grotto.” attending Canadian universities. ers in the world.” Asper confirmed that a letter of The Canada Excellence Research The selections committee for both intent has been inked between his Chairs (CERC) program and the the Vanier CGS and the CERC company Creswin Properties Ltd. and Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship program will consist of a number of the University of Manitoba. (Vanier CGS) have been put in research experts from Canada and “What we’re talking about is tak- Ph o t o b y Te s s a Va n d e r h a r t place put in place by the Natural around the world. These selection ing this campus to a whole new level. Asper said that the redevelopment Dobie is particularly excited by Asper’s Sciences and Engineering Research committees will be the ones deciding There will be a trio of new or refur- of Polo Park becomes a key aspect to new project. As part of the project, the Council (NSERC) and the Canadian on who will receive this funding. bished facilities,” said Asper. the success of the U of M project. He Bison football team will be able to use Institution for health research, reported University of Alberta assistant dean According to Asper, the first portion would not comment on what he plans the stadium and all of its facilities. Lab Canada. of research and professor of cell biology of the project will be the construction to construct at the Polo Park location. “In one fell swoop, the University of Jim Prentice, Minister of Industry and neuroscience, Teresa Krukoff, said of a new CFL-sized football stadium. “Polo Park becomes the driver, then Manitoba is about to become a leader said that he is “proud to announce that the scholarships are an opportunity The location for stadium has been the proceeds and whatever revenue you in having the best recreation, training the launch of two new government to recruit international and Canadian designated as the field between the can get from Polo Park pays for this.” and athletic facilities in the nation. It initiatives dedicated to global excel- students to Canadian universities. intersection of Chancellor Matheson According to Asper, there are many will be absolutely second to none. I am lence in research and to strengthening “These doctoral students will, in Dr. and University Cres.. benefits to building the stadium at the extremely excited about the possibilities Canada’s ties to the global supply of turn, contribute in a meaningful way “[The current Bison stadium] will U of M campus rather than Polo Park and opportunities that this announce- talent and ideas.” to the development of research-driven also be refurbished as part of the or Point Douglas. ment offers and, hard to believe, speech- The CERC program will distribute knowledge and advances in our society,” deal. This stadium [the current Bison “The ground is much more stable less about the commitment by David $10 million to 20 chair holders over the Krukoff said. “The program as a whole stadium], will also be inflated with a and you can dig a deeper hole. The [Asper] not only to Bison football but period of seven years. The Vanier CGS, will increase the profile of Canadian bubble for use on a year-round basis, bowl here will be between 25 and 30 to the University of Manitoba and the when fully functional, will reward over graduate programs within Canada and including the track and the field.” feet deep as opposed to between eight community at large.” 500 Canadian and international doc- abroad, and will encourage excellent Asper said the third portion of the and 10 feet that we were proposing for Barnard said that in order for the toral students with a three-year scholar- students to choose graduate programs $150 million plan will be the construc- Polo Park. That results in significant construction of the new stadium and ship valued at $50,000 per year. at Canadian universities.” tion of a world-class fitness facility that cost savings.” the renovations of the existing one to According to Christian Deteiller, Graham Cox, national chair of the will open to university students, ama- These savings result from less sta- take place, there is much that has to professor of chemistry and advisor to graduate caucus for the teur athletes and the community. dium height above ground and there- be done within the university. the vice-president (research) at the Canadian Federation of Students This deal will succeed, according to fore less construction materials will “To play in 2010, shovels must go University of Ottawa, the CERC pro- (CFS), said that, “The money [received Asper, because it calls for a significantly be needed. into the ground this fall, which means gram will make a difference when it from the CERC program] should be larger investment of private sector funds. University president David Barnard we have a lot of work to do.” comes to improving Canada’s ability spread out to as many researchers as Asper has said that he is prepared to said he is confident that this project According to the Winnipeg Free to obtain world class researchers. possible instead of being lumped into a commit $100 million to the project. can move ahead. Press, Asper was waiting until the City “I see this excellence chair as a small group of researchers who will be He has also asked the provincial and “This development will be trans- announced plans for Bus Rapid Transit opportunity to strengthen further the doing more research than teaching.” federal government to contribute $20 formational in terms of significantly (BRT) to U of M before announcing areas were we have strength [. . .] and When asked about the Vanier CGS and $15 million respectively. expanding public access to our main the letter of intent. Mayor Sam Katz are compatible with the orientation Cox said, “[The CFS] definitely like In his proposal to build the stadium campus. It will also allow us to maxi- said last week that BRT to U of M the government is giving [. . .] If we the idea [. . .] it’s delivered according at Polo Park, Asper promised $40 mil- mize potential synergies between our would be completed “in time for open- can bring 20 absolutely outstanding to enrollment trends instead of being lion of his own, and called for another football, sport, active living and other ing day.” researchers from all over the world in targeted around commercializable type $40 million from both the provincial related programs.” Canada, that would have an impact on research.” and federal governments. Bison football head coach Brian 30% of students enroll in u1 for 2 years Ashley Gaboury, Staff 3,112 students enrolled in U1 during after their first set of marks and if (USC) pioneering such programs. Friedman said that students that the 2000-01 period, 68.2 per cent took they’re not having much success we Dan Friedman of USC said that take University 101 have higher reten- only one year of U1 while 27.8 per cent call them in and ask ‘Why aren’t you the university has a multi-faceted pro- tion rates and higher GPAs. uring the fall of 2006, the completed courses in two years while doing well? What’s getting in the way? gram called the First Year Experience Blais said that overall, U1 has been University of Manitoba had enrolled in U1. Is there anything we can do to help?’ So Program. It includes any program at the a major success in creating a smooth D1,952 students return for a sec- Blais said a variety of reasons that’s the Early Warning program.” university that interacts with first-year transition for students into first year ond year in the University 1 faculty, account for the remaining percentage Others include a program specifi- students. One of these programs is a university. Prior to U1, certain faculties according to data from the Office of of returning U1 students. cally for Bison athletes, an introduction course known as University 101, much were seeing a 50 per cent drop out rate Institutional Analysis (OIA). Of this “I like to call it ‘Life gets in the way.’ to university courses, called Arts 1110, like the U of M course Arts 1110. for first-year students. number, 1,474 were full-time students You know, you broke up with your boy- an aboriginal student program and a “We have had our first-year seminar “What the faculties are getting [with and 478 were part-time students. friend and you didn’t show up for your mature student program that is in its on this campus for 36 years and so it’s the creation of U1] are students who Christine Blais, U1 director, there exams so you blew your first-year GPA. first stages. the oldest course like it in the nation know what they want to do. Some of are a variety of reasons that may Even students coming in with a 90 per Blais also said that mature students, [. . .] in terms of the modern day form the reasons why students do so badly account for students remaining in U1 cent averages can blow their first year. many who are part-time, make up a of a first year seminar that concept is because they don’t know what they for a second year. It’s not because they can’t study, they’re large percentage of U1 students that was reborn at the University of South want to do. They change their mind According to Blais, U1 came into lonely or they are too busy partying and return for a second year. Carolina.” halfway through, they get bad grades place 10 years ago as a method to don’t realize that there is work involved Mature students are accepted on the Friedman said that the course fos- or they didn’t have the prerequisites increase the success rate of first-year here [or] there are family issues that get basis of their age and therefore some ters dialogue between students and fac- to begin with. That’s just a recipe for students. She also said that because in the way. Quite often by the time may not have completed high school. ulty and creates a sense of belonging disaster.” U1 has been in place for 10 years, an you hit university you are part of the “You could have quit school at amongst the student body. Blais said that U1 allows students academic review must take place at adult family. You can pretty well name grade nine and come in as a mature “Overall, students reported that it to take their time in figuring out what this time. it because it’s such a transition time student. They’ve never studied, they was a very valuable experience because they want to do. The report is called “Time to growing up.” don’t have any background and they it helped them get initiated into their “When you major in first year and Completion” and according to Blais According to Blais, for the 6,000 U1 probably don’t know how to put an new culture and environment. It gave you bomb out, you think ‘I’m fin- it examines how long students remain students on campus today, there are six essay together. What we’re trying to them that sense of belonging by allow- ished for the rest of my life,’ whereas if in U1. At this time, the review is still advisors and one coordinator to assist do is reach these guys.” ing them to meet a group of friends you’re in University 1, you just transfer in draft form. with any issues students may have. The University of Manitoba is the because we keep the courses small [. . those credits to something else [. . .] Although the report cites data from Blais said that one of the many pro- only university in Canada with a first- .] it’s a place where they can get to know so when you apply to the faculty you 2000-01, it remains relatively the same grams U1 offers its students is the Early year program like U1. Blais said they other first-year students very well and really, really want to get into, you’ve as the 2006-07 data provided by the Warning program. are more common in the United States, that they have a voice so they feel like got what you need.” OIA. 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First cohort of physician news briefs assistants begin studies Morgan Modjeski, staff ending June 30 to reach $36.9 billion.” in the institution’s computer system U of M prof to become member to eight (per surgeon) thanks to the It also noted that the endowment might be facing some hard times and Morgan Modeski, staff of Royal Society of Canada incorporation of physician assistants. fund is overseen by the quasi-inde- hard time. he province of Manitoba has pro- According to Oswald, this increase Dr. Diana Brydon, Director of the pendent Harvard Managenment Co., The student, Mansour Moufid, has vided $3.24 million in funding in surgeries has cut the wait-time for university’s Centre for Globalization which has a new interim president, been charged with “mischief to data Tto the University of Manitoba to orthopedic surgery in half. and Cultural Studies, has been In December, president Mohamed and unauthorized use of a computer,” provide the province with a new physi- Currently 12 students are taking awarded one of the most prestigious El-Erian was succeeded by Harvard said Wired Campus. cian assistant master’s degree. part in the program. awards a Canadian is able to receive, Business School professor Robert According to the Ottawa Citizen, The physician assistant program, Sarah Clarke, program director being inducted into the Royal Society Kaplan. the student faces up to 20 years in according to a release from the of the physician assistant education of Canada. The AP said that Jane Mendillo took prison. University of Manitoba, “will provide program, said that this program will According to a release from the over as the news president of Harvard Wired Campus also stated, “The a new annual stream of highly trained provide the Manitoba Health Care University of Manitoba, “The RSC, on July 1. AP also stated that, “the security breach came to light last health professionals who will comple- system with a number of flexible and now known as the RSC: Academies university funded about a third of its week when campus officials received ment duties traditionally performed highly trained professionals, all capable of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of operating budget and provided $321 a pseudonymous, 16-page letter list- by doctors.” of working in several medical careers. Canada, was founded in 1882. It is the million in aid to students last year from ing the network-account names and The new assistants will perform a “We certainly hope the ultimate out- highest academic accolade available the endowment.” passwords of 32 students. The note went number of “minor” procedures includ- come will be exporting a relatively high to Canadians and only those, in the on to describe how the passwords were Student says he was trying to ing patient exams, ordering diagnostic level of [flexibility] [and] able to provide words of the society, ‘whose intellectual pilfered with the aid of a program that help, faces time for ‘assistance’ tests prescribing needed medications a wide range of healthcare providers out achievements have been exceptional captures computer keystrokes.” and treatments. into the health care system in a fairly through a body of publications, intel- A student at Carleton University in Moufid goes to court in October, According to Minister of Health short time frame.” lectual endeavors or creative activities Ottawa who was trying to show flaws said Wired Campus. Theresa Oswald, “This physician assis- The program was made possible exhibiting original contributions in the tant education program is nationally in 1999 when Ken Brown, the past arts, humanities or sciences, as well as groundbreaking academic innovation registrar of the College of Physicians in public life,’ shall be let in.” and will enhance both the breadth and Surgeons of Manitoba, and Bill This will be the U of M’s 40th New student discipline bylaw and depth of our capacity to deliver Pope, the current registrar, revised the contribution to the Royal Society of progressive medical education in the Manitoba Medical Act, making sure Canada. faculty of medicine.” that physician assistants were able to Brydon says “her goal is to assess passed, expected to change Oswald also stated, “This is the first work in Manitoba healthcare. and develop ways in which research of its kind in the nation — it’s always According to Clarke, “The inter- into globalization and the analysis of Equal punishment for equal nice to be the first and the best, when est and support from physicians in cultural practices can contribute to there is national and international Manitoba has been enormous.” furthering trans-cultural understand- offences not included competition for health care human She continued, “[The government] ing and interdisciplinary collaboration, Tessa vanderhart, staff dents receiving inconsistent penalties resources.” are not going to make that kind of com- both within Canada and abroad. As for the same offence. Even though the first physician mitment unless they are fairly confident globalization increases, her work gains he University Senate passed a new Berry said that the committee assistant students have started being that there is going to be a place in the ever more importance,” said the U of student discipline bylaw on Sept. attempted to assign equal punishments trained at the U of M this year, they healthcare system after they finish [. . M release. T3, updating policies dating back for equal offences, but has not been have been able to work in Manitoba .] they’re an economical approach to to 1978, according to committee chair able to, and will not before the bylaw Harvard is rich, not surprising since 1999. addressing healthcare shortages.” Tom Berry. is implemented. According to Oswald, the results of Clarke also stated that the more According to the Associated Press Berry, a U of M mathematics profes- He added that the Committee on the physician assistant program have physician assistants that graduate will (AP), Harvard University’s endow- sor, said that the new bylaw’s improve- Student Discipline presents a report already showed positive effects. An provide more jobs as more doctors want ment fund has almost grown to US$37 ments include: an appeals process for every year, and said that every year a example of the positive affects could be to get involved. million. students who miss their hearings due to senator cites an example of two wildly found at the Concordia hospital, centre The physician assistant education The Massachusetts University has extreme circumstances; clarification of different punishments for similar of excellence for orthopedic surgery, program is located on the U of M’s been declared the “nation’s wealthiest the difference between suspension and offences. But, Berry said, straighten- where the amount of surgeries being Bannatyne campus in the Pathology university.” A release by the AP said, expulsion; inclusion of privacy laws; ing these punishments out might not performed has gone from three a day building. “[Harvard’s] endowment earned an 8.6 and inclusion of the Graduate Students’ be possible. per cent return during the fiscal year Association in the appeals process. Berry “One of the things that you recog- also said that the new bylaw attempts to nize about this is that there are a lot of deal with “double jeopardy” situations, competing groups here — the Faculty when a student taking a class in a faculty of Science doesn’t necessarily agree other than the one they are registered in with the Faculty of Arts, who doesn’t could result in two punishments. necessarily agree with the Faculty of Other than these changes, the bylaw Engineering. And none of them neces- is the same one vehemently opposed by sarily agree with students.” UMSU last year. The new bylaw also adds punish- UMSU president Jonny Sopotiuk ments for alcohol and substance abuse, said that this year’s UMSU executive which Berry said pertained mostly to had “a very strong working relation- residence students. ship” with the committee to get the Sopotiuk also said that part of bylaw passed. UMSU’s conciliatory approach was to Ài>Ì “We’ve had quite a lot of talks within ensure “This wouldn’t head in the dir- UMSU [. . .] and we saw that the process ection of some of the Ontario codes of wasn’t working.” conduct.” In the spring, the University *ÀˆViÃtÊ He added that UMSU also sought to of Ottawa passed a student code of con- pass the new bylaw because appeals of duct that inspired months of student ÊvœÀÊ1ʜvÊ Ê-ÌÕ`i˜Ìà the old one were being pushed back by protests, before revoking it in August. the University Secretary’s office — “not The U of O code punished students good for students.” academically — such as with suspen- Sopotiuk said that students have sion or expulsion — for non-academic “good representation” on the Local crimes off campus. Discipline Committees and University Berry said that the student disci- Discipline Committee, where discipline pline bylaw only touches on non-aca- appeals are heard. demic offences such as alcohol and Sopotiuk said that UMSU is push- harassment. ing for other changes to be made before “As far as I’m concerned, the student the bylaw is implemented. Currently the discipline bylaw doesn’t deal with it, the committee chair can decide not to hear police do.” an appeal of under $500; Sopotiuk said Berry said that before the bylaw is Berry has agreed to change it to $250. put into effect, the university would Adobe CS3.3 Microsoft Offi ce 2007 EndNote X2 He added that UMSU wants stu- hold information sessions to inform Design Standard** Professional Plus** dents to be notified when punishments students and faculty of the changes for Students are levied against them. Currently, stu- — and how to implement them. -ÌÕ`i˜ÌʈVi˜ViÊÜˆÌ Ê“i`ˆ> -ÌÕ`i˜ÌʈVi˜ViÊÜˆÌ Ê“i`ˆ> *
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New benefits for UMSU Health and Dental plan Opt-out deadline

Ashley Gaboury, Staff

he UMSU Health and Dental plan has newly added benefits Tthis year. Students will see five new changes to this year’s plan. UMSU president Jonny Sopotiuk said these improvements will come at no additional cost to students. UMSU works with the National Student Health Network (NSHN) that negotiates student health benefits with GreenShield Canada. According to Sopotiuk, NSHN will occasion- ally make suggestions regarding plan changes, coverage shifting or new benefits that can be added. The new benefits include coverage added for services from a registered psychologist, Gardasil vaccination coverage, added coverage for natur- money in the UMSU Health and to decide whether that’s something The deadline to purchase family deadline is Sept. 17. opathic care, massage therapy, athletic Dental Plan and as a result the price they wanted covered.” coverage is Oct. 1. Students who chose to opt-out therapy and physiotherapy, coverage of the plan will not increase. Sopotiuk said the Health and Last year, approximately 10,000 once they have paid for both their fall added for wisdom tooth extraction UMSU is also looking for added Dental plan benefits students, espe- students (of 26,832 enrolled) chose and winter terms will see the Health (basic oral surgery) and coverage eye care coverage. cially students with families of their to opt-out of the UMSU Health and and Dental plan fees subtracted from added for dental restorative services. “I think one thing that we’ve talk own. Dental plan. UMSU expects the same their winter term fees. Students who “Some of the additions to the plan about or we’ve found is with eye cov- “For a lot of students it’s been a huge number of students to opt-out this chose to opt-out once they have were things we saw that weren’t cov- erage and eye glasses. So that’s some- saviour for quite a number of claims year. paid for only their fall term will be ered last year and a lot of students thing that the Health and Dental plan that come through, especially for a lot This year, students who chose to required to pick up a reimbursement were looking for. So those were all will be looking into this year to see if of our students who do have families. opt-out were not required to include check in the cashier’s office once the added without increasing any costs it is a widely needed service and how Opt-in for family coverage had been the Health and Dental in their tuition fall revision period is over. Students to the general student body.” much that would cost. If that were the huge, helping them out and relieving payment. Instead students were able will not be able to opt-out once the Sopotiuk said these improvements case [if there would be an increase in some of the stresses that come along to deduct the fee from their tuition deadline has passed. were made possible with existing cost], to bring that back to students with huge medical bills.” and pay the balance. The opt-out BE REPEATEDWILL NOT TH UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA THIS YEAR! 30 STUDENT SPECIAL ENDS SEPT

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U.S. election will affect Canadians: policy expert NAFTA changes to alter Ontario, poor U.S. economy to hit Sask. hard, analyst predicts

Wendy Gillis, 100 politically inclined students, fac- Free trade topics concerning and consider the political relations as a whole, tend to support. CUP Central Bureau Chief ulty and community members. Canadians include labour rights, between the two countries. Of course, as with most issues in Béland has studied in France, the the environment and improved dis- “What about war and peace? I Canada, regionalism is a factor. So ASKATOON (CUP) — Public United States and Canada to obtain pute resolution. In provinces like mean, look at what happened with while Quebec might lead the country policy expert Daniel Béland is his PhD in political sociology. Now Ontario, there is hope a renegotiated the Bush presidency in Iraq,” he said. in supporting the exclusion of reli- not quite sure how the adage he shares his knowledge about the NAFTA could re-invigorate declin- “If you look at the rhetoric of the two gion from politics, many Albertans S American political system and, more ing industries. candidates, you can see that McCain might support a party led by religious, goes. Is it: “When the United States of America sneezes, Canada catches a importantly, about what the Obama- That is a possibility, but there are has a much bolder approach [. . .] social conservatives. cold,” or the other way around? McCain face-off means for Canada complex factors affecting industry, he seems like someone who is more Further to that, whoever wins in Either way, neither country is liv- — no matter who wins our own fed- and prone to use violence.” the U.S. will affect different prov- ing in a political vacuum. As such, eral election. NAFTA cannot necessarily fix Obama’s take on foreign policy, inces in unique ways. Canada will undoubtedly be affected One of the most obvious topics in everything, says Béland. on the other hand, is one with which While the poor state of the by the outcome of the U.S. presiden- this discussion, he says, is the North “It’s dangerous to say that NAFTA many Canadians associate. While American economy will inevitably tial election in November. American Free Trade Agreement — will control all of the economic prob- McCain has a more unilateral affect all of Canada, Béland says That is why the Montreal native — the trade block between the U.S., lems in industrial places like Ontario,” approach, Obama’s multilateral- Saskatchewan — a province that and current contender for a Canada Canada and Mexico in place since he said. ism falls closer in line with typical relies on trade more than most oth- Research Chair position — was 1994. And although Béland says Canadian ideals. ers — will be among the worst hit. at the University of Saskatchewan While McCain has indicated no Obama’s tone towards NAFTA in Also, a Democratic victory in the So with all of the various permu- last Thursday with his presentation desire to touch NAFTA if elected, the last six months has become more U.S., or what Béland calls a “blue tations and combinations resulting “Beyond Bush: the policy implications Obama has stated he will re-open it conciliatory — structured on discus- shift,” would likely inspire a green from both countries being in the of the 2008 presidential election.” for discussion in the name of improv- sion and partnership — the U.S. is shift up north. midst of federal elections, there are “We watch American television, ing industries in states hit hard by still an economic superpower. “It will be a pressure on the multiple potential consequences and we visit there, sometimes we have unemployment, such as Ohio and “We can’t forget that this is a very Conservatives, even if they are zero guarantees, he says. relatives there; changes south of the Pennsylvania. powerful country, [and] that bargain- elected into a majority government, That is, except, according to that border can have influence in Canada But re-opening the trade agree- ing with the U.S. is tough,” he said. to do something about the environ- old adage, possibly one: it seems we’re in terms of how people see the world, ment is not necessarily bad news for “Opening NAFTA is always risky.” ment,” he said. all going to end up sick. and many of the trends that begin in Canada. In fact, it’s what 52 per cent But Canadians need to think A Democratic win would also the States head up to Canada,” said of Canadians want, according to a beyond NAFTA when considering equate a greater separation of religion Béland, who spoke to a crowd of over recent Angus-Reid poll. the effect of the election, Béland says, and politics — something Canadians, Women’s coffee habits don’t UBC student denied entry to Canada affect caffeine jolt: study American UBC student issued an exclusion order at U.S. border after getting arrested last spring Everyone gets a buzz from caffeine, but habitual users have higher heart rates Stephanie Findlay, the Ubyssey “They immediately brought up the Gehring said. stuff with the RCMP and KnollAid,” Stefanie Ratjen, VP external of the community. (University of British Columbia) Sean Steels, the Gateway he said. Alma Mater Society, UBC’s student (University of Alberta) “When we were designing our ANCOUVER (CUP) — Brian Gehring was one of the 19 protest- union, said: “Right now we’re trying study we had to use people in our Gehring, an American student ers arrested last April at KnollAid 2.0 to find out more information about class and there were only five guys,” V at the University of British — a student-organized demonstration what the Canadian Border Services DMONTON (CUP) — Hudson said. Columbia, has been denied entry into that turned ugly. is actually saying regarding his lack Research from the University “The other thing is there’s so much Canada for a year by the Canadian Gehring says he was detained at of access to Canada, and we’re trying E of Alberta on the effects of research that’s done using only male Border Services Agency. the Blaine, Washington border cross- to figure out what happened to take caffeine shows that whether you’re a participants, so we were a group of Gehring was arrested last spring ing and taken to a private interroga- appropriate legal advice.” habitual user or just need the occa- [nearly] all girls who were thinking: at KnollAid — a protest to protect a tion room and then a smaller booth Ratjen, who was also arrested in sional pick-me-up, caffeine still pro- ‘What happens when women drink coveted green space at UBC. for extensive questioning. The entire the spring protests, says that based vides the kick you need to make it coffee?’ We thought there might be “I got to the border and they process took about three hours. on the information presented by her to that 8 a.m. class — at least in the a difference and that a step into the instantly detained me, got me inside, “They didn’t care at all about what lawyer, the arrest “should not happen case of females. future would be to see if they respond took my cell phones. They said that I said,” said Gehring. because the charges have not been The study, which originated as an differently.” they were searching for some incrimi- After working in Yosemite pressed.” exercise to increase students’ practi- The study concluded that regard- nating evidence,” said the fourth-year National Park in California for the UBC spokesperson Scott Macrae cal experience in professor Michael less of consumption habits, coffee physics student. summer, Gehring was making a com- says the university is not in a position Kennedy’s undergraduate kinesiology provided an increase in mental alert- mute Wednesday from his home in to comment on the incident. course, yielded sufficient evidence ness and a calming effect on heart Seattle to UBC. As he had on his two He did, however, note: “The uni- to warrant publishing, explained rate. previous crossings, Gehring went to versity doesn’t provide information Megan Hudson, a U of A master’s The group has yet to perform a volunteer@the- the border without a student visa. He to authorities about students.” student in physiotherapy. comparable study on men. says in the past he had been able to RCMP Sgt. Dan Wedland says “We knew that Michael was But even without being able to manitoban.com apply and receive a student visa at decisions about who can enter a severe coffee addict,” Hudson make comparisons between genders, the border. This time, however, was Canada are made by the Canadian laughed while explaining the origins the study raises another health issue: different. Border Services Agency, and that of the study. it appears that making a habit of Once his passport was scanned by there is a limited role for the police As a student in Kennedy’s class the boost isn’t without its potential the border agents, he was immedi- to play. last year, Hudson was a contributor drawbacks. ately detained and brought into ques- Wedland says the Agency has in its development. “The one thing that was interesting tioning, culminating in Canadian access to all police databases across The study used a sample of is that the habitual caffeine drinkers, customs agents issuing an exclusion Canada. 20 undergraduate women — 10 people that were having caffeine on order that completely bars Gehring The Agency could not comment habitual drinkers and 10 occasional a daily basis, had a slightly higher from entering the country for one on Gehring’s individual case in accor- drinkers. blood pressure to start,” Hudson year. dance with the Privacy Act. In a single morning, researchers said. This was the first time Gehring Gehring says he was told his only measured their blood pressure, heart Coffee affects adenosine recep- had attempted to enter Canada since option was to appeal to the immi- rate, level of alertness and ability to tors, says Hudson. In the heart, these his KnollAid arrest. Gehring believes grations marshal in Seattle. He is perform a mental stress test both receptors play a role in regulating he has been targeted as guilty before concerned the appeal process may before and after drinking 350 mili- coronary blood flow. his trial, the date of which is still be slow and that he’ll be unable to letres of coffee. “It seems that at the same time that pending. receive his permit in time to complete The study used only women for blood pressure was going up, heart “I just don’t understand why his degree this academic semester. multiple reasons, from practical rate was coming down. So to main- they picked me out of everyone else “This is crazy,” he said. “I wish I restrictions to a desire to reverse tain cardiac output — that was the [arrested at the KnollAid protest],” was in Vancouver.” gender-biased trends in the scientific response we were getting,” she said.

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Editor-in-Chief Tessa Vanderhart [email protected] / 474.8293 Ban the Bears on Broadway Managing Editor Rob MacEachern [email protected] / 474.6535 Ben wrote an editorial and watch out, he brought his thesaurus with him Advertising Coordinator Omar Al Ramlawi [email protected] / 474.6535 Ben Clarkson, staff Our supervisor demanded Schwetz remove the image of Marx and he was eventu- Editorial f you’re like me, you have an iota of good taste ally replaced with the unnamed Russian man News Editors Morgan Modjeski and Ashley Gaboury and hate the Bears on Broadway. That’s all that exists today. So the censorship scandal [email protected] / 474.6520 Iit takes. An iota of good taste. They are the began and Marx was once again banished to Comment Editor Michael Silicz cross-section of what city officials and politicians his obscurity, not because he is evil but because [email protected] / 474.6770 think of as art, cuddly and cute, harmless and he made an unpleasant political statement. A Features Editor Teghan Beaudette aesthetic, mind-numbingly stupid. Almost all political statement that could in some way offend [email protected] / 474.6770 public art in Winnipeg is indicative of this truth; and no one in a progressive society wants to Culture Editor Ben Poggemiller the Bears on Broadway are just the pinnacle of offend another person right? The irony is that the [email protected] / 474.6529 our city’s evil. mural’s overall theme was that of civil unrest, the Arts & Entertainment Editor Chelse McKee When I was offered a job with the now- general strike of 1919, which cannot be divorced [email protected] / 474.6529 infamous West End Biz this summer teaching of its political overtones. Sports Editor Ajitpaul Mangat kids how to paint while painting a mural I was The major failing of all injured parties [email protected] / 474.6770 excited, excited because I thought that I could involved in this situation was to speak out Copy Editor Laura Blakley at least contribute a piece of public art with about the censorship. Either Ms. Schwetz was [email protected]/ 474.6770 integrity. You can imagine my dismay at the telling the truth about her honest mistake Science & Tech Coordinator Trevor Bekolay bureaucratic hoops that I had to jump through or she remained silent, and for the benefit of [email protected]/ 474.6770 just to get the city to look at my designs. I dis- her employment edited her own freedoms of covered the reason good art doesn’t get made on capitalist entity demolished the communist’s speech. I do not sit in judgment if it is the lat- Design walls isn’t because a lack of good artists trying, expression to the benefit of all “free” citizens. ter, because later in the summer, I myself was Design Editor Kevin Doole but rather a system designed to frustrate and I was allowed an interesting perspective asked to change certain elements of my mural [email protected] / 474.6775 deter any artist who has any ambition. into the conflict as a fly on the wall employee which contradicted my original overtly anti- Graphics Editor Ben Clarkson What I mean by that is that Winnipeg’s whose own mural was only a block away from nationalistic subject matter for the benefit of [email protected] / 474.6775 public art system demands an artist makes no the interested cameras of the media squawking a paycheque. Photo Editor Karen Asher statement towards anything besides multicultur- over censorship. Now the question is asked, why The conclusion is that those with the [email protected] / 474.6775 alism (code for aboriginal art) and local heroes wasn’t this a bigger deal? Why was there two money control our speech. If we don’t say (code for aboriginal art). The entire history of days of coverage on an infraction against the something they like we may suffer unpopular Reporters mural art is based off of political statement and Charter of Rights and Freedoms? It’s because consequences. So we align ourselves to make News Vacant public awareness. It is the integration of freedom of how Schwetz dealt with the censorship and paintings of hockey players or editorials without Features Vacant of expression and freedom of speech. It is every- our mutual employer. the word “fuck” in them. We like getting paid. Culture Vacant thing our country is supposed to be. In the planning stages she just had a pic- I love it personally. So the money goes to the Arts & Entertainment Vacant The events that transpired this year ture of Karl Marx in the middle of her design. painter who doesn’t have a conflict of interest. Sports Vacant between one mural painter and the West End Her official story to the media was that she had Want a mural about happy beavers? They won’t Biz prove that we have no such liberties. no idea it was Karl Marx — which I will not offend anyone. Sure! People who have something What I am talking about is Karl Marx. comment on, however the rest of us at the office, to say, an agenda, are difficult and bothersome Volunteer Contributors You may have missed it this summer with your save the administrative staff of the West End Biz, to the great absurd machine that is the money Stephen McCreary, Dean Jensen, Corey King, tree-planting, your partying and your dead end recognized it immediately as Karl Marx. The side of local government. Brendan Salakoh, Troy Unrau, Jen Robinson, Wal-mart jobs, but Winnipeg was host to the amazing thing is that not a single bureaucrat So with a population of outspoken artists Tricia Caldwell, Diane Eros, Matt Abra, Leah last stance of communist murals. While I held recognized him as Karl Marx until the mural dissipated the yes men of painting fill their void. Werier, John Titley, William O’Donnell, Patrick the same position as the artist, Kelsey Schwetz, was being painted and only then because people That is how an idea as truly awful as the Bears Gratton, David Klaponski she stirred the pot by having Karl Marx smack on the street would walk by and comment on on Broadway becomes a reality. Not due to the dab in the middle of her painting and there the inclusion of Marx. 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Stephen McCreary was finally agreed that aid would be allowed into the country. had only been in Ottawa for a cou- Sadly, what Ignatieff likely took away ple of days when the worst natural from this whole fiasco is that a disaster I disaster in Burma’s history, Cyclone in which thousands of people died can Nargis, hit the country. Although the be used as a political tool to score a few official death toll stands at 146,000, points during question period, and that some sources say the number could be our military is just a device used to help as high as 1 million. the image of politicians. Our Conservative government The real lesson here is that regimes immediately pledged $2 million in aid, such as the Burmese military junta including $500,000 to the Red Cross should not be allowed to exist at all. for relief efforts, with more aid to come. Had Burma been a functioning democ- Getting help into the country was com- racy, aid would have been delivered plicated by the ruling Burmese military quickly, saving potentially thousands junta, which has been known to mur- of lives. der dissident citizens by the thousands, NATO troops are operating in recruit child soldiers as young as 10 Afghanistan and Iraq to ensure that years old, employ forced labour, and jail oppressive regimes similar to the one in their political opponents. The junta did Burma are not allowed to take footing not warn its citizens of the imminent and debacles such as cyclone Nargis can disaster, and refused any outside aid, be avoided in the future. Ignatieff was appearing to not realize the devastation originally for the Afghanistan mission, of the cyclone. Some aid was allowed Il l u s t r a t i o n b y Be n Cl a r k s o n but now he calls for our troops to come in, but it never reached disaster vic- Responsibility to Protect (R2P) is vate donations made to relief agencies The international community was home by a set date whether the job is tims — it was stolen and hoarded by a recently developed and somewhat operating in Burma. Prime Minister doing everything it could, short of done or not. Ignatieff was for the war in the junta. controversial concept that is often used of Thailand Samak Sundaravej went to sending in military troops, to help the Iraq until the summer of 2007, when he While tens of thousands of people as a political wedge rather than a tool Burma on May 11 to pressure the junta people of Burma. By insisting that was decided that since the war wasn’t going died in the streets, and world govern- to help people. It dictates that states to allow aid. United Nations Secretary not enough, Ignatieff was actually sug- so well, he was no longer for it. He then ments, private relief agencies and the bear the responsibility to protect not General Ban Ki-moon urged the junta gesting that we take military action. got up on his high horse and declared UN pressured the junta to allow aid, only their own citizens, but to act on an to allow aid in “without hindrance.” Not only would it be a logistical the Americans “incompetent.” the Liberal Party of Canada decided international level as well when govern- Over 45 countries committed millions nightmare to send in troops to fight an When Dion loses this election, it was prime time for some political ments fail to protect their own people of dollars in aid, sent thousands of relief oppressive military regime in a coun- Liberals will be looking for a new grandstanding. from crimes against humanity. workers, and pressured the junta to try that had just been devastated by a leader, and Ignatieff tops that sad list Often oddly considered the “coolest Natural disasters don’t invoke R2P, allow aid to reach Burmese citizens. natural disaster, but we would be going of prospects. head” on the loser-side of the House although a legalistic argument could Trying to appear compassionate and it alone, as the rest the world had no Our military is a source of national of Commons, Michael Ignatieff stood be made that by refusing aid to its citi- paint a picture of the Conservatives interest in sending in troops. pride. Our soldiers bravely help defend up on May 12 and questioned why the zens, the junta was committing crimes doing nothing at all, Ignatieff once When presented with the option of our country and spread democracy and government was not handing over more against humanity. again stood up in the House on May military action, United Nations Under- Canadian values around the globe. money that would never reach the disas- The House of Commons condemned 14 and repeatedly asked why we were Secretary General for Humanitarian They deserve to be respected, admired, ter victims. Ignatieff also brought up the Burmese government’s response in a not honoring R2P. It was explained to Affairs and Emergency Relief and praised. They do not deserve to be the “Responsibility to Protect” doctrine, resolution passed unanimously on May him, a little more slowly each time, that Coordinator John Holmes put it best: treated as an illusory device whenever asking if Canada was now “committed 9. On May 15, Bev Oda announced everything possible was being done to “I’m not sure that invading them would it is convenient for politicians. to action” in Burma. that Canada would be matching pri- help the people of Burma. be a very sensible option at this particu- Did Ignatieff really want our troops lar moment. I’m not sure it would be in Burma? For that matter, did Dion helpful to the people we are actually want our troops in Pakistan? Did trying to help.” Layton want our troops in Darfur? Supplies and people eventually did These are simply not the type of people get into Burma, and it was thanks to we can afford to have making these diplomatic measures and talks, not types of decisions. thanks to militaristic political oppor- Stephen McCreary is a founder of tunism. Ki-moon met with junta leader the University of Manitoba Campus General Than Shwe on May 21, and it Conservatives.

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Election is a warmup for Halloween dressup And ‘we the people’ are the clowns that made it so

Corey King, Volunteer Staff screw us, then we cast our vote hop- After you’re done at the grocery ticians run on a campaign that offers tions are turning into with increasingly ing (if we are inclined to care) that store, Google “former Canadian prime short-term “quickie” solutions, for if vague platforms built on arguing that e sure not to blink or you our choice is the in line with everyone ministers” and gaze at every person they can’t change something within every other leader is an idiot? might miss the upcoming elec- else’s choice. The nature of this ritual who has ever been elected into our a couple of years they risk losing the Don’t blame the politicians, for the Btion. No, not the U.S. election brings us to the fundamental flaw of highest office. Notice something: like next election. fault is our own. (as a Canadian I can’t seem to avoid the democratic process — the fact that celebrities, they’re all varying degrees Most people are under the impres- If history had shown that these the American presidential marathon). it’s impossible for it not to become a of decent to look at. This may mean sion that the majority of politicians types of strategies were ineffective in No, I’m referring to our own election, popularity contest. one of two things, either that aestheti- are lying scumbags, yet strangely most capturing the votes of the citizenry, which has a campaign that ends in Go to your closest grocery store and cally challenged people are no good at people seem to lack the understanding then they would have been abandoned take a stroll down politics, or that people in general are no to realize it’s our self-serving, glamour- years ago. one of the check- good at choosing their politicians. driven culture that made them that I would have liked to write an arti- The nature of this ritual brings out aisles. Notice What’s my point? My point is that way. When democracy doesn’t work cle complaining about those crooks us to the fundamental flaw of all the candy bars in order to get your vote politicians (often or always), it’s because of the in Ottawa and indeed that is what I the democratic process — the fact and magazines must act in a manner that appears population that’s doing the voting (or was planning to do, but since I’m not that it’s impossible for it not to screaming for acceptable to the general public. This allowing the votes to be tallied inac- running for office, I decided to do your attention, is why no politician will admit to being curately.) If a politician could turn this the honest thing and point out who become a popularity contest notice that the vast nude in the shower until a large nudist country around but needed us to go the real crooks are: we the selfish and majority of those voting block is formed. through years of hardship before we’d shockingly naïve citizens of this nation, mid-October, meaning politicians magazines are plastered with celebri- Contrary to many cynics, I don’t see the payoff, we’d boot that person who time and again prove that they’d only have to dodge the issues for little ties, new diets or sex tips blended care- believe evil is a prerequisite for becom- out of office at the drop of the word like a charming lad to give them a tax over a month. Or is it that most of us fully with the occasional hint of advice ing a politician. In fact I believe most “recession.” break before we’d like to fix our foreign are unaware of the issues making it on how to save your money (leaving politicians are well-meaning and basi- Have you noticed what a circus the policies, education system or health impossible to vote based on them in out the tip about not wasting money cally good people. What causes them American election has turned into? care system. the first place? on magazines). Those magazines are do to the absurd things they do is the With a campaign of “change” versus On Oct. 14 everyone over 18 who indicative of what sells to a large major- same thing that keeps sweatshop labour “change,” both parties use symbolic Corey King would like to vote but he is a Canadian citizen gets the oppor- ity of our citizenry, which means that prevalent across the world — we the imagery like the small-town cowboy figures that regardless of what he does tunity to do the democratic dance. many people who vote may very well people, due to our own desires, force or the urban man of the world, all in the population is going to get what We listen to a few party heads talk, choose their leaders like they choose them to be Mickey Mouse or else we an attempt to grab votes. Have you they deserve, for that is the nature of we decide who sounds least likely to their media sources: narcissistically. won’t elect them. This is why most poli- noticed the circus the Canadian elec- democracy. Elected Business Managers: UMSU’s Failure to be a Student Union

‘Don’t eat at Aramark — eat at Degrees!’ seen as a conflict of interest? “Don’t eat Troy Unrau at Aramark — eat at Degrees!” There is hope that UMSU can once espite the fact that more than again become a strong students’ union half of UMSU’s $10 million as it was in the distant past. They first Dbudget is devoted to the opera- need to take a step back from their tion of UMSU businesses, as a union $10 million dollar budget and think UMSU has been ineffective at tack- about down-sizing. UMSU should ling any real issues on campus. The spin off their businesses so that they current arrangement of passing the remove themselves from their conflicts buck to the Canadian Federation of of interest and their distractions. Once Students (CFS) on lobbying issues, all they do this, they should argue for a the while earning a buck from those strong free market on campus, ending same students who use their business exclusivity contracts with Pepsi and the services, is not what most would define BookStore, as well as fighting against as having a strong students’ union. If the contract with Aramark. We ought UMSU wonders why election turnout to see real grocery stores operating on is so low, perhaps it could have to do campus to serve the student body as a with the actual product that UMSU whole, and especially those living on delivers, which amounts to little more campus. We ought to see restaurants than the operation of a number of busi- and bars opening on campus that serve nesses on campus. to bring people together in a number of These days, our student union keeps different environments. I’ve got noth- itself busy operating the UMSU Copy ing against Wise Guy’s, but there is Centre, the Answers booth, Degrees room for more than one variety of (that restaurant upstairs), IQ’s (pool social hangout on campus. hall), GPA’s (convenience store), Perhaps once UMSU divests itself Archives (the used book store) and a of these distractions, we can have a number of other student services that Il l u s t r a t i o n b y Be n Cl a r k s o n politically active students’ union that may or may not break even at any given can pinpoint a few mistakes that the Manitoban, UMSU was attacked lying against the exclusivity contract, we can be proud of — one that works time. It hasn’t always been this way, UMSU have made that caused them for doing nothing, while the SSA is UMSU was laughed out of the public to improve the university rather than however. to weaken. praised. Then UMSU made their fatal consultations. to weaken it. A decade ago, UMSU fought Previous to 1998, the campus librar- mistake: they emulated the SSA by So what does UMSU do to improve As an anecdote: I’d like to give successfully skyrocketing tuition at ies charged five cents per copy, a fee bringing in their own copying busi- the campus food services situation these kudos to our new vice-president (stu- the U of M by staging sit-ins at then- that one could reasonably expect would ness rather than forcing the university days? Well, they heroically operate a lit- dent services) for getting MTV Canada Premier Gary Filmon’s office. At the cover the costs of paper, toner, copier down to five cents per page. down to the campus to cover our time, UMSU’s budget was nearer to servicing, and so forth. Faced with bud- By taking a position of non- By taking a position of Orientation Week festivities. Things $4 million per year, and with only two get troubles, the university does what confrontation, UMSU began like this may help our dead-last stand- elected executives compared to today’s it does best: try to find new sources down the path it walks to non-confrontation, UMSU ing in the Maclean’s surveys. Now if five (though three paid directors were of funding. The libraries boosted the this day. created what they are today we can only find a way to have said also on staff). UMSU was powerful, copying price to 10 cents per page. UMSU has continued festivities without spending $35,000 and the U of M wasn’t finishing dead Panic! Outrage! UMSU does noth- down this slippery slope, even as tle restaurant that is somehow exempt of student money. last in Maclean’s campus rankings. ing. Instead, it is the Science Students recently as last year. Aramark — the from Aramark’s exclusivity agreement. Troy Unrau is a fourth-year geophysics Well, something happened to Association (SSA) that acquires some campus food service provider with Do you think that UMSU has the student and co-president of the Society of UMSU; and while it is difficult to pin copiers and starts to offer five-cent an exclusive contract to deliver food power to call a boycott of Aramark Earth Sciences and Environment Students. down the precise turning point, thanks copies out of their student lounge, a services on campus — had their con- while they run their own restaurant? He ran for UMSU president with the to the archives of the Manitoban we practice they still do to this day. In tract up for renewal. Instead of ral- Does anyone think that this may be Clean Slate campaign last year. Vol. 96 No. 6 September 17, 2008 WWW.THEMANITOBAN.COM

Comment Editor: Michael Silicz Contact: [email protected] / 474.6770 COMMENT 11 Drop books, not bombs! Startling statistics about the 9-11 attacks

Michael Silicz, Staff

t is hard to believe that seven years have passed since the attacks of ISept. 11, 2001. Yet what is much harder to believe are the alarming sta- tistics that have emerged from a recent WorldPublicOpinion.org poll about the Sept. 11 attacks. The opinions gath- ered from this poll are both shocking and abhorrent. Of the 17 countries polled, only majorities in nine countries believe that “al Qaeda” was responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks. To put it bluntly, just barely half of the countries surveyed believe that Osama bin Laden and his umbrella terrorist group attacked the United States on Sept. 11, 2001. This bizarre state of world opinion should be a cause of alarm for policymakers and concerned citizens of democracy everywhere. In the recent poll, the following question was asked: “As you know, on September 11, 2001 the United States was attacked. Who do you think was behind the 9-11 attacks?” Respondents were then allowed to answer the ques- tion in an open-ended manner. The answers given were then recorded into Il l u s t r a t i o n b y Be n Cl a r k s o n five different categories: “al Qaeda,” 31 per cent of Jordanians believed that committed the 9-11 attacks. Attacks Upon the United States, there but to believe that the 9-11 attacks were “the U.S. government,” “Israel,” “other” Israel was responsible for the attacks. These statistics should set off alarm are still countless people who advocate performd by anyone but al Qaeda is or “don’t know.” Any answer that fit 56 and 57 per cent of Chinese and bells. That so many people across the that bin Laden’s terrorist group was taking the issue way too far. Despite the al Qaeda category (bin Laden, Indonesian citizens responded “don’t world believe anyone but al Qaeda not responsible for the attacks. How the overwhelming evidence that 19 men Islamic extremists, etc.) were coded know” to the question. The countries struck the US on Sept. 11, 2001 is can this be? in four planes attacked America, it is as such, while other answers (“Arabs,” that responded correctly by identifying disturbing. In much of the world The answer is simple: anti- alarming that so many people believe “Saudis,” or “Egyptians”) were coded as al Qaeda as responsible for the attacks (and especially in places where both Americanism. that the “new Pearl Harbour” is noth- “other.” The survey’s margin of error is in the included Kenya (77 per cent) and the United States and democracy are It is one thing to question the path ing more than a modern-day burning only three to four per cent. Nigeria (71 per cent), with Germany, most opposed), there seems to be a of American foreign policy following of the Reichstag. Thus, seven years after the Twin France, Russia, Britain and Italy all correlation between those who dislike 9-11. From entering Afghanistan with We live in strange times. That less Towers collapsed, it is appalling that in close pursuit. America, and those who believe that al the world’s collective consent, to wag- than 50 per cent of people do not much of the world still subscribes to On the average of the 17 countries Qaeda was not responsible for 9-11. ing a dubious and costly war in Iraq, believe al Qaeda attacked that United conspiracy theories. surveyed, the statistics were as follows: The world is rife with conspiratorial America’s relations with the rest of the States on 9-11 should send shivers down Some of the more shocking results 46 per cent believe al Qaeda perpe- explanations for the 9-11 attacks. From world have certainly deteriorated. Yet one’s spine. If history is so subjective are as follows: 23 per cent of Germans trated the attacks, 15 per cent believe movies like Loose Change, to the popu- the blunders of U.S. foreign policy are in other countries, perhaps we should surveyed believe the U.S. government the U.S. government did, seven per lar Internet website 911Truth.org, there no excuse for so many people across the stop dropping bombs and start drop- was behind the attacks, as did 30 per cent believed Israel attacked the US, abound alternative hypotheses as to the world to have any doubt that al Qaeda ping history books instead. cent of Mexicans and 15 per cent of those 7 per cent believed some “other” did, perpetrators of the attacks on America. was behind the 9-11 attacks. surveyed in Russia, Italy, and Ukraine. and a whopping quarter of all people Yet despite the bipartisan findings of Disagreeing or criticizing George Michael Silicz is the Comment Editor of Forty-three per cent of Egyptians and sampled simply “did not know” who the National Commission on Terrorist W. Bush’s foreign policy is one thing, the Manitoban. Free speech isn’t free The high price of an open dialogue is hearing ideas we don’t like

Joe Howell, The Strand Soon after, the Canadian Islamic had so much not been at stake. to: our ability to debate and discuss the If we decide we’re going to start Congress (CIC) filed multiple human It is vitally important to a free and issues of the day. We are not impres- regulating the expression of opinion ORONTO (CUP) — Hear no rights complaints with the Canadian democratic society that media outlets, sionable children, and simply being — and the freedom of it is far from evil, read no evil. That’s the mes- Human Rights Commission, the large and small, are unfettered in their exposed to an unsavoury point of view guaranteed in this country, unlike the Tsage human rights commissions Ontario Human Rights Commission dialogue and scope, regardless of how will not suddenly fill us with hate. U.S. — how will we decide which opin- across the country gave Canadians (OHRC), and the British Columbia unpleasant or sensitive the topic, and Reading the rantings of a Holocaust ions make the cut? Is railing against when considering the Canadian Islamic Human Rights Tribunal (BCRT). The an indictment from the BCRT (which denier is unlikely to make you think obesity acceptable? How about pro- Congress’ case against Maclean’s maga- CIC alleged that Steyn’s article and 17 has yet to hand down a verdict) would that the Holocaust never happened. moting atheism? Is a poster labeling a zine earlier in the summer. others printed in Maclean’s promoted take this away. Hearing the crackpot views of 9-11“tru- cigarette a “stupid stick” exposing me, The true question at the heart of Islamophobia. The particulars of the case do not thers” probably won’t make you think an avid chain-smoker, to contempt? the matter was simple: should media Although the first two eventually even matter, since it never should have that Bush orchestrated the whole thing. Right now, those opinions are accept- outlets be allowed to offend, or even declined to hear the case, the OHRC been heard in the first place. Exposure to Steyn will not turn you able, but there’s that old cliché about “incite contempt,” against a group of condemned Maclean’s anyway. For the record, I have little appe- neo-con. the slippery slope. people in the course of covering tough In B.C., however, the CIC got their tite for Steyn’s scaremongering, and Is someone lying about you? Then Of course, you don’t have to side issues? day in court. And so, for nearly a week, I frequently find his writing worthy try suing them for libel or slander. But with me. To paraphrase Ice-T, if we Because the lazy days of June seem lawyers for the two sides argued back of reproach. However, I fully support a human rights challenge is a simple agree on everything, only one of us is so long ago, I’ll recap quickly: In and forth about freedom of speech and his right to say what he wants, and admittance that you don’t like their thinking. So if you feel otherwise, send October 2006, Maclean’s published freedom from discrimination, while Maclean’s right to keep publishing him. opinion, and would rather stick your a letter to the editor, or write an opinion an article by Mark Steyn called “The media outlets across the country went I also support the right of advertisers head in the sand to avoid it than try to piece to the contrary. Go blog about the future belongs to Islam.” to town deriding the “kangaroos” pre- to pull out of the publication, and for challenge it on an intellectual level. need for restrictions on speech. On the cover, rows of women clad in siding over the trial. offended readers to find their commen- We must work to expunge distaste- Hey, while I might hate what you black burkas stood silently. In the piece, Andrew Coyne, national editor tary elsewhere. More than anything, I ful opinions by demonstrating their have to say, I’ll certainly defend your Steyn referred to “threats like Islamism,” of Maclean’s and former Manitoban support the CIC’s right to engage in ridiculousness, not preventing people right to say it. “the followers of the badland’s radical Editor-in-Chief, live-blogged the pro- thoughtful or heated debate by way from having and expressing them — imams settl[ing] the metropolis” and a ceedings with even more venom than of response. that only gives those same opinions variety of other inflammatory things. usual. It all would have been great fun, For that’s what it all comes down more power. 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Religion and GPA www.sshrc.ca/web/about/about_e.asp). Stephane Dion's carbon tax scheme. Jessica Stewin wrote a comment An ennobling mandate, indeed, and He aptly uses the metaphor of a seesaw in the Manitoban titled “Save Your well worthy of government assistance. to describe how increased tax on fossil Soul and GPA.” I really appreciate her Why, then, has a significant proportion fuels will offset income and corporate enthusiasm and motivation to write of the recent increase in funding been tax cuts. But what, he says, if it suc- this comment, but I profoundly dis- awarded to researchers operating in the ceeds? We'll be right back to square agree with the premise of the com- Faculties of Law and the Asper School one! It's somewhat indicative of his idea ment: “Religion can be another tool of Business? of the relative importance of the issue of for you to boost your GPA.” This Is it a prudent decision on the part the environment that he fails to grasp argument is supported by citing two of SSHRC to direct funding resources that one thing will have changed - we quantitative research studies, but what towards research with outcomes of con- won't be churning out emissions at about all the arguments that are criti- siderable benefit to the private sector? an unsustainable rate any longer. The The Gloves Are Off! Every cal of religion? One argument offered More particularly, these awards pro- proposed tax regime isn't permanent - by Frederick Nietzsche suggests that duce a “trickle-down effect” in terms of that's why it's called a "shift"! Douche for Themselves! modern Christian society is ill, and we graduate student assistance (monetary Benjamin Grant must rise above it. To him, Christians and otherwise)as well as departmental This is probably the only are taught that they are individuals prestige. How unfortunate, then, that opportunity that you have . . . filled with sin and hope instead of a scholarship originating in the Faculty of Re: Meat Vs. will and genuine awareness of one’s Arts is deemed unworthy of assistance Vegetables: A bid for of Industry (obviously) dismissed self. This lack of self awareness and from the very governmental agency equality by Matt Abra Layton’s plans for a moratorium on numbness might have contributed to charged with funding research in the oil sands development, claiming some a higher GPA, but what is the worth social sciences and humanities. I find this entire article to be rather sort of economic Armageddon would of an extra 0.144 on our GPA when we The various scholarly disciplines ridiculous, but I will focus on a few rain down upon us if such an initia- end up with no soul? Why do we need contained in the Faculty of Arts do points. First of all, in response to the tive were to be enacted. Herr Prentice a fourth church at school? Should the more than merely confer undergrad- comment about a vegetarian diet failed, however, to elaborate on how church, an institution associated with uate and graduate degrees each year. diminishing our natural resources: in such an Armageddon would differ politics, be an influential force in a Collectively, they expound the virtues fact our planet could easily support Dean Jensen, Volunteer Staff from our current stagnating economy, secular institution in the first place? of a liberal arts education and provide us all with its resources; it is the meat which is second only to Italy for lowest Without acknowledging views criti- a basis on which a democratic society industry that causes a shortage. It takes s you all know, Prime Minister economic growth rate last year within cal of religion, the author’s argument may flourish. One wonders how Dr. an average of 7 pounds of grain to pro- Steve Harper recently called the G8 nations at a paltry 0.8 per cent. is not critical and her methodology Jayas (associate vice-president/research duce one pound of meat. If that's not Aa federal election. Fingers are When Steve and Co. took over the is not developed enough. The author at the University of Manitoba) can inefficient, I don't know what is. Not to pointing every which way, and we are reigns of power in 2006, that number does not discuss the statistical signifi- applaud this allocation of funding mention the fact that animals farmed only into our second week of the month was resting at a comfortable 3.1 per cent. cance behind her findings, and dis- when he indicates that the value of for food use up more than half the long campaign. The airwaves are likely That’s pretty shitty, Steve! I reckon if cusses correlation between variables the social sciences and humanities rests drinkable water in the United States. to get murky with the runoff of bullshit you delivered these numbers to one of as causation. Moreover, it is not clear on their asking of “tough questions” Next point: Why don't we try living in Steve and his hillbilly friends are going your oil-lords back in Calgary, oh, say if the “0.144” increase in GPA is for and “investigation of alternate models the hunter-gatherer era of 10000 years to spew in their mad frenzy to snatch 20 years ago, then you’d have been every year or cumulative throughout to deal with a variety of social issues”. ago? Well, we're not living in that era. up all the filthy little votes they can, to on your ass in no-time flat, and not the student’s full period at the uni- Can one expect this clarion call to be Maybe we needed meat to get by then, say nothing of the opposition parties. cruising around Ottawa in your gas versity. In addition, the student’s area fulfilled by faculty located in a School but we certainly don't now. And lastly, Big on Uncle Steve’s platform is guzzling motorcade of SUVs and 10 of study is ignored and is not clear if with an avowed dedication to “provid- in response to the suggestion that we the fact that he isn’t a Liberal. Much passenger vans! the 0.144 increase is for specific or all ing the best business education any- (the vegetarians) let you (the meat eat- of what I’ve read regarding Harper’s Former Dehcho First Nations majors. Furthermore, although it might where” (italics added; Dean Grantham, ers) live in peace: I don't call causing the campaign platform seems based, essen- Grand Chief Herb Norwegian, how- be true that “students who attendant Asper School of Business)? death of thousands of animals a year tially, on the fact that he isn’t Stéphane ever, seems to agree with Layton’s view religious ceremonies were . . . more sat- Shaun Mulvey M.A. (Manitoba) peaceful. I don't think I'm better than Dion. Steve has been letting everyone on development within his area; as I’m isfied with their schooling,” what about anyone else, but I certainly do think know that if Dion is elected, the Liberal sure Herr Prentice would, if he were their satisfaction with life in general? that I'm making some better choices, leader will reinstate the ol’ seven per forced to permanently relocate down- Finally, how could one argue that, “the Re: The Green Shift including the choice to eat a cruelty- cent GST and do away with the stream from the uninhibited petroleum secularization of campuses may not be Just Got Shiftier free diet. I request that you please stop Conservatives’ popular $1,200 a year initiatives in northern Alberta. “If you to the advantage of students at all?” Do using metaphors about "balance" to child-care benefit. Both these warnings have candidate from the federal parties I have to remind you about the stun- I'm not certain Stephen McCreary justify your culinary selfishness. are bullshit, pure and simple. Harper coming to your door,” he said during a ning facts behind the Nordic countries, fully understands the purpose of Lianne Lavoie and Co. are also making a scene regard- conference on northern water quality like Sweden that have some of the best ing the Liberal’s “Green Shift” policy, in N.W.T., “you need to be putting welfare programs, and yet are the most painting it, (erroneously once again) the water issue right up front and tell- secularized states in the world? Instead THEMANITOBAN.COM IS LIVE as a “tax on everything.” ing them exactly how you want water of arguing for a herd mentality like “a This last accusation is a very clever dealt with. This is probably the only church at school,” we can argue for way of distracting the voting public opportunity that you have.” a place where students can meet to After months of waiting, our brand-new website is up and from the fact that the Conservative Personally, I know how I like my expand their social capital, share their at 'em. Visit www.themanitoban.com for all of the same (minority) government has done water: potable. However, after pota- coping mechanisms during high stress great content as in the printed paper, or find extra stories, ABSOLUTELY SWEET FUCK ALL ble water has been used to extract times at school, and talk about more in regards to climate change, envi- petroleum from the bitumen sands in welfare benefits for fellow students and more creative writing, podcasts, slideshows, and blogs! ronmental degradation or anything around Fort McMurray (four litres of our Canadian community as a whole. remotely connected with improving which is required to produce one litre Fadi Ennab, Check daily for News updates, or read our contributors' the environment within which we of useable petroleum,) it is no longer Master’s student in Sociology, University all reside. In fact, they have done the fit for consumption and is relegated of Manitoba blogs. Daily News podcasts, as well as weekly Arts and complete opposite. They have slashed to shoddily built tailing ponds, where Sports podcasts, are available for download or subscription funding to environmental programs migratory birds by the hundreds are — no paper required. and initiatives, all the while green poisoned every year. An education for life lighting land-rape on a massive scale in Perhaps this is an issue Uncle Steve This letter is a response to the recent Alberta’s oil sands at break-neck speed, would like to address. However, I doubt announcement of additional SSHRC Or submit a You-Review: counter-review something your as in Imperial Oil’s $8 billion oil sand he’s likely to do so. In the words of his funding at the University of Manitoba. initiative that was rushed through ear- nemesis Dion, “He’s afraid to debate Notwithstanding the glaring fund- read in the Manitoban, or something we missed. If we lier this year. honestly, but for once he will have to so.” ing disparity between NSERC and like it, we might just ask if we can print it. Register as a NDP leader Jack Layton singled out I wouldn’t hold your breath, Stéphane! SSHRC, the allocation of scarce fund- member of Themanitoban.com and you can comment on Imperial Oil’s recent proposal in Fort If there’s one thing Bubba Steve is good ing resources to researchers located out- Smith, N.W.T., after flying low over at, it’s getting out of telling the truth. side the Faculty of Arts appears rather articles — much easier than writing a letter to the edi- the mess that is northern Alberta’s oil This is indeed, as Herb Norwegian so suspect. According to the SSHRC web- tor — or rate them and tell us what you like. Plus there sands. “The federal government has succinctly pointed out, “probably the site, the social sciences and humani- are polls and online-exclusive contests — right now we're responsibilities that it is refusing to fol- only opportunity that you have” to ties provide a vital service in that they low through. We’ve got fisheries, we’ve tell Steve-fucking-Harper what you produce “knowledge and understand- giving away a futon. got transboundary air issues, we’ve got think of him. Tell your friends: Oct. ing [to]inform discussion on critical aboriginal health issues. The list is quite 14 Canadians have the opportunity to social, cultural, economic, technologi- long of federal responsibilities, and Mr. fry one big fucking pig. I, for one, can’t cal, environmental, and wellness issues” Whatever you're looking for, TheManitoban.com has it. Harper’s walking away from it,” Layton wait to hear the bastards squeal. and “provide communities, businesses So check us out today! That's . . . told a very receptive crowd. Dean Jensen doesn’t eat meat, but he and governments the foundation for a www.themanitoban.com. Jim Prentice, the Tories’ Minister cannot wait for the pig roast! vibrant and healthy democracy” (http://

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Cheaters Sometimes Prosper Why psychopathy is on the rise

Matthew Jewkes, the Ubyssey think psychopath,” Woodworth says. He believes tory in a sort of grand vision sense, as a struggle tion of the model-T, sought to raise wages, cut that because most of the research to date has been to find mechanisms to regulate co-operation on prices and increase production of his product. t is literally the stuff of nightmares and horror on prison samples, the results are skewed. Those the larger scale,” said Wilson. The Dodge brothers, both minority stockhold- movies. Charming and often powerful, they who end up in prison are, after all, the failed Society has always depended on social co- ers in the Ford Motor Company, sued Ford for Iseduce you to get your guard down. And then, psychopaths. operation to succeed. Even in the “free market” not putting the interests of the shareholders first. without a second thought or any trace of remorse, “For me what is almost even more scary is the of “unbridled competition,” people depend on They won, and the court decided that a business they are able to cold-bloodedly thieve, rape or successful psychopaths who are out there still com- references as to their character to be freely given must be organized primarily for the profit of the murder you. Robert Hare, UBC’s world-renowned mitting a lot of those crimes,” Woodworth says. from one employer to another — a strong mecha- stockholders, and cannot place the community professor emeritus of psychology, goes so far as to Since psychopaths thrive in large, chaotic situa- nism to ensure reputation. or its employees first. The board of directors can- say that while they look and sound exactly like tions, and love situations where power and wealth Of course, the larger a society gets, the more not decide to reduce profits in order to benefit us, they are functionally a different species from are easily achievable, psychopathy might have a regulations are required to maintain cohesion. the public. human beings. And seven years ago, Hare esti- profound effect on the many large hierarchies that Wilson has studied Calvinism extensively in Governments, of course, have recognized this mated that up to one in one hundred Canadians form the basis of our society. terms of its origin in Geneva. Wilson posits that for a long time, especially in the wake of the work- is one of these people: psychopaths. “All psychopaths are potentially criminals. All Calvinism provided strong mechanisms of social ers’ abuses of the industrial revolution. To make matters worse, Hare recently remarked are harmful,” Woodworth says. “The ones who are cohesiveness — regulating co-operation in a city “The tradition in both England and North in a keynote address to a conference of criminal most intriguing are the ones we can’t get our hands struggling to maintain cohesion. On those terms America beginning in the 1930s was to say, ‘let’s justice professionals that today’s society is becom- on. They haven’t committed an explicit crime, or it succeeded fantastically, providing mechanisms leave this corporation as it is, let’s keep it psycho- ing more and more conductive to psychopathic at least not one they’ve been caught for. They’re up of governance that were transparent, checked pathic and driven by its own self interest, but behaviour. Moral standards, reflected in television there in society, high up in businesses, law firms. and balanced and what we’re going to do is put external restraints and politics, are glamorizing and normalizing what Even the higher you get up in academia, on its behaviour, what we’re going to do is put is abnormal predatory behaviour, allowing psycho- the higher your psychopathy levels the psychopath on a leash, so to speak, through pathic behaviour to flourish more than ever. start to go. The higher you get up government regulation,’” said Bakan. The story of psychopathy made the front page in organizations where you have a One of the biggest trends over the past 10 years of the Vancouver Sun, a comment on the ongoing lot of power, the more you tend or so has been talk of corporate social responsibil- interest and the lack of wide-spread understanding to find psychopaths.” ity. The Economist recently ran a story claiming of psychopathy in today’s society. “These environments even that most businesses believe that corporate social An unexpected profile reward psychopaths for some of responsibility is a vital part of doing business. Psychopaths aren’t necessarily the people we their key core traits. If they can Bakan, who spoke with a number of corporate expect, says UBC assistant professor Michael keep them in check and not get managers while making his film, believes that this Woodworth. caught committing any sort of idea is only skin deep. “Psychopaths don’t have a background with conventional antisocial behav- “If a corporation says appearing to be socially pronounced amounts of child maltreatment or iour, then these traits can actu- responsible is good business because customers like an overuse of drugs or alcohol or any of these ally serve them quite well.” it, workers in our company like it, so there will other things that often lead to general antisocial The ideal corporate leader, be good morale in our company, and people will behaviour. For true psychopaths you’ll often find after all, might share quite a buy our products. In that strategic sense corporate they had quite regular upbringings.” few traits with psychopaths. social responsibility is perfectly lawful.” “A psychopath is an individual who has a pro- Self-focus, willingness to bend “The danger I see in corporate social responsibil- pensity to prey on others for their own gain. And rules and aggressive dominance ity is that when you talk to people in the corporate what makes them particularly intriguing is that would come quite easily to a world, it is surprising how often they drew an they not only often display a number of antiso- psychopath. equation between corporate social responsibility cial or problematic behaviours, they also have a And would likely be and deregulation. They said ‘look, we’re socially lot of intriguing interpersonal deficits as well as rewarded by corpo- responsible now. You can trust us. And therefore emotional deficits. They don’t interpret emotions rate management. you don’t need to regulate us.’” such as guilt or fear the same way that others do; Many people A self-regulating corporation is even more of they don’t respond to emotional stimuli. They in some very suc- an incredible prospect when one considers Hare’s are cunning and manipulative. They are narcis- cessful places data: the bigger and more powerful a corporation sistic, have a grandiose sense of self worth, and are could very well gets, the more the people at the top are likely to pathological liars.” be psychopathic. be psychopaths. In Hare’s 1993 book called Psychopathy Without And their suc- largely effective But even for those who are not psychopathic in Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths cess might not at preventing social the high levels of corporations, the very structure Among Us, he quotes one specimen’s memories: end there. cheaters. of the organization has an effect on those working “[My] mother, the most beautiful person in the “Psychopaths have Social regula- within them. world. She was strong, she worked hard to take care a ‘cheaters’ strategy tion, of course, is a “There is a gap between the way people are of four kids. A beautiful person. I started stealing when it comes to double-edged sword. as individuals and what they are required to do her jewellery when I was in the fifth grade. You reproduction, their In Calvinist Geneva, within the framework of the corporation. People know, I never really knew the bitch — we went behaviour, in terms of lots of numerous people were seem to be able to compartmentalize their moral our separate ways.” sexual partners, trying to knock up as many executed for heresy, while others were fined or life. That they can be quite decent people in their Woodworth continues, “A psychopath wouldn’t women as possible and then invest as little to no jailed for inappropriate dancing or gambling. normal family and community lives, but when care less about social rules. Wouldn’t in the slight- time makes sense in terms of spreading their seed In the modern day, with our enormous govern- they’re within the corporation, they become opera- est pause at social norms or expectations. The as efficiently as possible,” Woodworth says. ments running society, and our often-times ever tives for its amoral goals,” said Bakan, who makes only reason they might act with any semblance While their behaviour is quite disturbing, given larger corporations running our economy, fewer a comparison to hockey. When hockey players of normality is to achieve their goals or personal that there is research to suggest that psychopathy decisions are made by individuals, while more and get on the ice, they leave their normal day to day gain. Psychopaths have defining impulsivity. But has a genetic component, psychopaths fit quite well more are being made by organizations. However, morality in the locker room. People will play quite what we find is that for more serious crimes such into the mould of extreme social cheaters. Joel Bakan, professor of law at UBC and author dirty, slashing, tripping and checking, and will as murder, they actually show a lot of planning of The Corporation, would argue that psychopathy generally receive no more than a few minutes in and premeditation, and there appears to be a real Big picture still serves as a useful tool in understanding how the penalty box as punishment. instrumental aspect to their behaviour.” Group co-operation among organisms is not groups work. “We’re not sure if it’s because they realise the that unusual in the biological world; it is an effec- “As legal entities, the modern corporation is, as Everyone else stakes are so high, or if it’s just that they take so tive strategy. Our cooperation as a species allowed far as the law is concerned, a person. That is one Woodworth and the rest of the scientific com- much pleasure in it that the planning is part of us to spread humankind around the planet, but of the fundamental legal characteristics of it and munity don’t believe that there is much that can be the process. In terms of Maslow’s hierarchy of co-operation is a hard process to achieve and is vul- is then imbued by the law by an operating prin- done to treat psychopaths. Profiling, monitoring needs, psychopaths are really stuck down on that nerable to predation from within. If one member of ciple that it must always serve its self interest. So dangerous offenders and learning more about them lower level.” a group begins to exploit other members, then the the idea that corporations are made in the image seem to be all that can be done at this point. benefits provided by co-operation evaporate and of human psychopaths is quite literal [. . .] we’ve But for the rest of us, there are things we can do More interesting more efficient co-operatives will out-compete them. created [an] institution that is incapable of being to prevent being exploited by social cheaters. than simple murder Groups therefore effectively depend on trust and genuinely concerned about anybody but its own “We can change the nature of the corporation, Horror movies and modern television shows internal regulation. “Gossip, reputation, strongly- and its shareholders interests.” and change the way we do business,” says Bakan. like Dexter portray this classic view of psychopaths enforced social norms — these were the tools that You don’t have to look very far to see examples “Co-operatives and public purpose corporations — the antithesis of what we expect from human allowed co-operation and prevented cheaters,” says of that. Corporations are driven to reduce their generally act in a way that has some level of respon- beings. Often charming, normal-looking people, David Sloan Wilson, a professor of biology and costs and increase their revenues by doing what- sibility towards society as a whole. Or we could unable to form social connections and interested anthropology at the University of Binghamton in ever they have to do. The other interests, be it deepen and widen the regulatory structures that only in their own impulsive pleasures, be they New York. “Of course, these things only work in environmental or health, are called externalities are designed to protect the greater communities murder, theft, rape or manipulation. small societies, the kinds of places where everyone by economists meaning that they are outside of from being marginalized as externalities,” says However, while impulsive and prone to crimi- can keep tabs on everyone else.” the corporation, they don’t need to be considered Bakan. nal behaviour, many regard violent clinical psycho- However, as societies grew, word-of-mouth by the corporation in making its decisions. “If we want to move toward an economy that paths as being just the tip of the iceberg. became less capable of regulating people, leading One example of this cited by Bakan takes place actually respects social interests or embodies moral “If you think of a blood thirsty murderer, who to more potential for social cheating. in the early days of the corporation. Henry Ford, values and is democratic in how it functions, then I kills and rapes dozens of people, you immediately “You can look at the majority of recorded his- having achieved great success through the produc- think we have to be moving in these directions.” Il l u s t r a t i o n b y Ke vi n Do o l e Vol. 96 No. 6 September 17, 2008 WWW.THEMANITOBAN.COM Features Editor: Teghan Beaudette Contact: [email protected] / 474.6770 FEATURES 15 How I spent my summer vacation A Toilet Ranger’s tale Dean Jensen, volunteer staff

There is very little that beats waking up as the sun rises over a steaming cold, calm-as-glass lake, walking out into the brisk morning air, enjoying a hot cup of organic coffee as you make your way, somehow nicely refreshed after a night of drinking, to work. All around, birds are a-chirping, squirrels running this way and that, rabbits are chewing on juicy leaves in the middle of empty, cracked roads. Maybe a deer, an old person or a bear is walking silently down the road ahead of you, enjoying the calm before the storm of a tourist filled sticky hot summer day. Anyone you happen to pass has a smile on their face, and waves, or is stumbling home on their walk of shame from wherever they ended up after the bar last night and so doesn’t look at you at all, but stares, instead, at the ground. This was how most of the mornings this past summer presented themselves to me around a quarter to eight. The only problem with the scene was that four days out of five, I was scrubbing the stinking shit out of filthy public wash- rooms not twenty minutes later. I spent my summer this year working as a Federal Student Work Experience Program for Parks Canada, where I Ph o t o b y Ca m e r o n Bu l l o c h did maintenance at the Wasagaming during the winter, so if you are think- in staff housing or had somehow found for almost everyone. you, a Whitehouse Mountain Man’s Campground in Riding Mountain ing of applying this coming year, make a place early in the season to rent. It Some of the best times I’ve had (that Breakfast will clear any last pesky ves- National Park. Riding Mountain, sure you do so by Christmas. By the is certainly worthwhile to be a keener I can remember) have been working tiges of a previous night’s excesses away which celebrated its 75th anniversary time I got my call in May to schedule in this regard. in Riding Mountain National Park right quick. this year, is about three hours north- an interview, I had long given up on With 43 national parks in Canada, and this past year was no exception. This past year was the first year west of Winnipeg, or an hour north working outside of Winnipeg. It only Manitoba is home to only two. Add With only two bars in the surrounding I’ve ever seen where most of the busi- of Brandon up Highway 10, and has came after making many calls of my to that the fact that Riding Mountain area, the Southgate and Beach Club, a nesses within the Park were actually been my summer home for most of my own to inquire about the status of my (along with Banff, Jasper, and Prince couple lounges, a huge student-aged short-staffed. Many of my friends and twenty-five years. The Park is about six application, just over a week before the Albert, among a few choice others) had population, and none of your standard acquaintances were working two full times the size of Winnipeg, with over long weekend, when my work term businesses and residences within the urban distractions, there is almost no time jobs, as demand for workers was 800 permanent residences within the would begin. Park before policy changed to actively shortfall of excuses to party hard, boon- so high. If you’re sitting here cursing in-Park town site of Wasagaming and When applying for the FSWEP oppose development within National dock style. You may actually be forced yourself for staying in Winnipeg all an increasing number of cabins and positions, I filled out a lengthy online Parks, and the ability to work, live and to scrape for excuses not to. summer, but aren’t really committed full time residents just outside the Park, application form. Then, selected the party inside one for a summer becomes Clear Lake, which Wasagaming to moving far away next year, I sug- in and around Onanole and the RM places I’d be interested in working in. something of a blessing. Nowhere else sits on, is a great lake to swim in, to gest you at least check out the options of Park South. These positions are all over Canada, that I’ve worked, lived, or traveled to, boat on or just to sit and enjoy a cold of working in one of our province’s In previous years, I’d slung pizzas so if you are looking for a change of did I come so close to nature, with the beverage beside. With most of the in- most beautiful areas. Unbelievable to get through the summer months, scenery, you can apply for positions in warm arms of material comfort just a park business a stones’ throw from the surroundings, a great work experi- and while enjoyable (especially if you’re virtually all government service areas short stumble away. water, a quick dip on an unbearably hot ence, and two seventy-five beers with looking for a summer of next-to-no with the click of a half dozen or so but- When applying for a student posi- day is never really out of the question. a goddamn good chance of getting responsibilities and cheap drinks), I’d tons. The downside of this is that your tion, I hadn’t really cared which one Hung over? Those waters, which even laid every Tuesday night, folks. What say I’ve had my fill, and then some of application is only one of hundreds, if I was given, so long as it was in the Margaret Laurence has raved about, do you say? line cooking and the vile debaucheries not thousands, of others that are being Park. While the position I ended up are the best hangover cure I’ve come associated with kitchen life. Working considered. with (commonly referred to as Toilet across yet. If somehow they don’t cure for Parks Canada, I figured, would A major problem Riding Mountain Ranger) was less than ideal, it still be a welcome change and, as I was faces in hiring students from outside offered a chance to work outside, gen- told many times over the course of the of the immediate surrounding area is erally unsupervised, most of the day summer, a “good way to get your foot that housing is at a premium. This will and to meet a score of random people in the door.” undoubtedly be the biggest impedi- from across the country whom I’d oth- The door in question would be ment to any student looking to work at erwise probably never have. Some of that of the mighty Canadian govern- a National Park. While staff accommo- my coworkers are right now studying ment, employer of bureaucratic masses, dation does exist for a reasonable rate, to become dentists, petroleum engi- nationwide. While Parks Canada hires the space is extremely limited, with neers, RCMP officers, teachers and scores of FSWEP positions every sum- people often putting their names and scheming business magnates. Others mer (Riding Mountain had somewhere deposits down at the close of one sum- will become park employees, natural- in the vicinity of two dozen, by my mer season, in preparation for the next. ists or conservation officers. Regardless, rough estimates this year, which is While there are some other random one is thrown into a mix of people with significantly down from other years), cabins, suites and trailers for rent, the whom you might not share a lot of there is room for advancement. With rent isn’t cheap and they are snapped common ground, but (generally) fun experience and some post-secondary up pretty quickly. Some commercial is had, and things work out. education, a plethora of positions are businesses also offer staff accommo- If you are not interested in building Drake Centre (Asper School of Business) – Fishbowl posted annually. Many of my cowork- dation, but not many, and generally a career in the government, or beef- September 29, 30 & October 1 ers, both older and younger than myself, not cheap. ing up your resume with government- 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. held MPSO4 positions, meaning they This is where I lucked out. My stamped letters of recommendation, are unionized, very well paid and offer grandparents had maintained a cabin and are merely looking for a place Student Union Building (University Centre) full benefits. I’ve also known many in Wasagaming since well before I was to make some cash, party hard and October 2 & 3 people who were hired as students born, and though my grandparents are get laid, that not only isn’t Winnipeg, 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. out of high school, who have “risen long gone now, I still have access to a but is unparalleled for its biodiver- the ranks” to positions as high as Park family-owned place to crash. Many sity, beauty, and heritage, there are Warden or Superintendant. students who work in the Park share many private businesses within the However, such things are not gen- similar stories of luck or happen know Wasagaming area. From the epitome erally in the mix for first-timers such someone somehow who has. However, of rural prairie class to the right down as myself. This year I was hired rather based on personal experience, at least and dirty (and the somewhat sketchy), late in the game. Most hiring goes on half the Park staff I worked with were there are many to choose from and one Vol. 96 No. 6 September 17, 2008 WWW.THEMANITOBAN.COM Science & Tech Coordinator: Trevor Bekolay 16 SCIENCE Contact: [email protected] / 474.6770

Book review: Blink Pop science with a point examines split-second decision-making

Jen Robinson of our judgments and decisions are neous information (like the “packaging” rapid, uninformed and rely on uncon- associated with consumer goods and n academia, the popularization of sciously processed information. In this people) misleads us and confounds our science is often viewed with the type author-proclaimed “intellectual adven- ability to make proper judgments. Iof disdain I normally reserve for ture story,” we learn that we humans Gladwell impressively synthesizes things like The Family Circus or Anne are masters of “thin-slicing” — the relevant research and entertaining Geddes (pioneer of the cute-babies- ability to make astoundingly accurate anecdotes in drawing conclusions in-flowerpots movement). However, judgments in a split second, and with about the nature of human decision- popular science books help to make limited information. making. Although it can be shock- important (even revolutionary) ideas The book is packed full of inter- ing to learn about all of the ways accessible to the general public and esting and entertaining examples of our decision-making and seemingly stimulate interest in science. More thin-slicing, such as a tennis coach’s rational cognitive processes are flawed importantly, they convey fascinating eerily infallible ability to predict double or biased (and in ways we can’t even tidbits of information to help you look faults, art critics who can correctly tell seem to become conscious of, never- smart amongst your peers. Or maybe that a particular piece is fake even after mind control), Gladwell’s articulate yet that’s “look like a dork amongst your scientific testing has shown otherwise down-to-earth prose somehow softens peers”; I’m not sure. It’s a fine line. (but without knowing why) and a fire the blow. According to Malcolm Gladwell’s chief’s seemingly psychic ability to Blink is one of the most intellectu- latest book Blink, which deals with the suddenly call all firefighters out of a ally accessible pop science books I have human tendency to make snap judg- building minutes before the floor col- come across, and contains numerous ments based on little to no information, lapses into the flames below. references for further reading. It really we tend to size people up just a few Yet more numerous than examples is worth picking up; after all, scientists seconds after meeting them, and once of accurate thin-slicing are examples shouldn’t get to have all the fun. we do, our opinions are very resistant of when thin-slicing goes awry. In to change. In one study described at both the business and social arena, Excerpt from Bl i n k Il l u s t r a t i o n b y Ke vi n Do o l e length in the book, students rated the tall, white men receive more positive “There are lots of books that tackle world, I think we pay too much atten- way police officers are trained, the effectiveness of a professor after watch- assessments than individuals from the broad themes, that analyze the world tion to those grand themes and too way couples are counseled, the way ing a two-second video of her lecture opposite categories (in fact, an extra from great remove. This is not one of little to the particulars of those fleeting job interviews are conducted, and on with the sound turned off. Amazingly, inch of height is associated with an them. Blink is concerned with the very moments. But what would happen if and on. And if we were to combine all students did not change their ratings extra US$789 of salary per year, on smallest components of our everyday we took our instincts seriously? What of those little changes, we would end of that same professor after taking her average). Consumers are willing to pay lives — the content and origin of if we stopped scanning the horizon up with a different and better world. course for an entire semester. We might more money for ice cream if it is in a those instantaneous impressions and with our binoculars and began instead I believe — and I hope that by the as well get those course evaluations over pail than for the same ice cream in conclusions that spontaneously arise examining our own decision making end of this book you will believe it as with as soon as classes start. a box. 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The Large Hadron Collider: calm down people, seriously The link between fear and scientific breakthrough

Trevor Bekolay, staff high-speed collisions will produce black holes and “dark matter” particles that y the time this article is printed, could destroy Earth. the Large Hadron Collider The lawsuit has sparked widespread B(LHC) — the world’s largest and media coverage, causing many to be highest-energy particle accelerator — skeptical of the safety of the LHC — will have been operating for a week. It’s so much controversy that CERN (the not operating anywhere near full power European Organization for Nuclear yet, but even as it starts ramping up to Research, the group behind the LHC) full capacity, I want to ensure everyone created the LHC Safety Assessment that anything they might have heard Group. On its website, the group notes, Il l u s t r a t i o n b y Be n Cl a r k s o n about the LHC destroying the world “whatever the LHC will do, nature has tradicts passages in the Bible. Martin in its wake, Sputnik lifted us into the breakthroughs were mainly sensational- is flat-out fiction. already done many times over during Luther, the father of Protestantism, is future.” ized by media outlets, in this case, gov- What is the Large Hadron Collider? the lifetime of the Earth and other quoted as saying, “when a man wishes to The fear he refers to was not only the ernments were heavily involved. John It’s a massive scientific tool, consisting astronomical bodies.” CERN maintains be clever he must [. . .] invent something initial fear that Sputnik was a weapon, Hamre, deputy secretary of defense at of a 27-kilometre tunnel built 100 that physicists not involved in the LHC special, and the way he does it must but the terrifying thought that Russia the time, said “The Y2K problem is the metres underground, straddling the experiments have deemed the LHC safe, needs be the best! The fool wants to had done something that Americans electronic equivalent of the El Niño and Switzerland-France border. Two beams and will monitor the experiments taking turn the whole art of astronomy upside- could not. Russian science and tech- there will be nasty surprises around of particles — either protons or lead place at the LHC for safety concerns. down. However, as Holy Scripture tells nology had proven, in this case, more the globe.” ions — are fired in different directions The hysteria surrounding the LHC is us, so did Joshua bid the sun to stand advanced. And during a Cold War that Again, the effects of the Y2K bug around the circular tunnel, guided by far from unique. The history of scientific still and not the earth.” It seems to me was more about intimidation than actual were, on the whole, positive. Many old extremely powerful magnets. With each breakthrough is wrought with other that the church feared wide acceptance firepower, the U.S. felt threatened. computer systems were upgraded or lap, the beams gain energy, eventually examples of baseless public outcry as a of heliocentricism. The heretical theory We know now that Sputnik wasn’t replaced with more robust ones. MIT coming extremely close to the speed result of fear. In fact, there seems to be would cause the populace to question a weapon. And we’ve seen that the fear professor Rae Zimmerman claims that of light — at which point, the beams a common narrative running through the validity of the Bible as a source for instilled by losing the distinction of the Y2K bug had an impact on the relief will be made to collide. These collisions much of the history of science: some- knowledge. being the first to successfully launch a effort after the attacks of 9-11. “System emulate the conditions shortly after thing interesting happens (or is about to Interestingly enough, even though satellite only helped the U.S. in the long redundancies developed in anticipation the Big Bang, and will help physicists happen), people get scared, it happens heliocentricism is almost universally run. The field of aerospace technology of a Y2K glitch that never came helped answer questions that have plagued us anyway and everyone benefits. Even the accepted (modern geocentrists do exist) moved forward at a breakneck speed the city’s transportation and telecom- for decades. The LHC represents an fear that is generated can be a positive the Bible is still one of the most influ- after the launch of Sputnik. In July of munications sectors provide an impres- extremely exciting time in the state of influence in the end. ential books in the world. Accepting 1969, only 12 years after the launch of sive level of service in the wake of the science and technology worldwide. heliocentricism benefited astronomers, Sputnik, Neil Armstrong first stepped enormous devastation,” reported Lois Heliocentricism The excitement in the scientific com- who were able to better explain the uni- on the moon. “The warmth of shared Slavin after a lecture by Zimmerman. munity, however, has not spread to the In the late 16th and early 17th century, verse, and did not harm the spread of experience was remarkable, given the The big LHC bang general public as smoothly as many Galileo Galilei defended heliocentricism, Christianity in Europe. origins of the space race in an atmo- had hoped. Treatment by the media the controversial theory that the sun sphere of fear and belligerence,” Wilford The LHC is looking to become Space exploration has been skewed by a lawsuit filed on was the centre of the solar system, first noted in his article. another example of this narrative. March 21 this year that argued that the proposed by Nicolas Copernicus and Voyages off of our familiar planet Ironically, it was that period of rapid Reuters reported on Sept. 10 — the LHC poses a threat to the safety of the refined by Johannes Kepler. It is almost and into the unknown void of space advance that should have inspired the day the LHC was switched on — that entire earth. comical in its obviousness to us now, but have sparked much controversy and most fear. I suppose for most, the a 16 year-old girl in central India com- “In layman’s terms, CERN is asking at that time it was a revolutionary idea fear. memory of being second-best to Russia mitted suicide as a result of doomsday all of mankind to play a game of Russian and resulted in Galileo being publicly The 1957 launch of the Russian satel- trumped that. If anything, it seems that predictions by many Indian news chan- roulette,” said cosmologist Luis Sancho. admonished by the Catholic Church. lite Sputnik scared the pants off of the the only thing that supersedes the fear nels. Officials and witnesses note that “This they propose to do in order to fos- Galileo spent the last years of his life United States. On the 50th anniversary of technological advancement is some thousands are flocking to temples and ter the career goals of a few thousand under house arrest. of the launch of Sputnik, New York other fear — much as we saw during observing fasts in a bid for salvation. specialists.” Sancho and fellow plaintiff His crime was heresy, as a heliocen- Times writer John Noble Wilford wrote the Second World War, when mortal Am I saying that legitimate fears Walter Wagner claim that the LHC’s tric model of the universe directly con- an article titled “With fear and wonder fear spurred many firsts, like synthetic should not be addressed by the media? rubber and penicillin production, and Certainly not. It is, in large part, the the atomic bomb. media’s job to search for matters of Science fiction author Sylvia Engdahl public concern where they exist. But recognizes the role fear plays in science the way those messages are delivered advancement. In her essay “Achieving must be carefully considered. human commitment to space coloniza- Fortunately, North America is tion: Is fear the answer?” she writes, “I delivering these messages more respon- have long suspected that it is fear, rather sibly. The vast majority of articles with than apathy, that has been holding the doomsday-related headlines eventually majority back — not conscious fear, but conclude that there is no real cause for the stirring of an unconscious recogni- alarm. But people skim; they see the tion that the universe is very much vaster, headline and it becomes water-cooler and more scary, than most people like conversation. It spreads much like a to think. [. . .] Paradoxically, fear may rumour, despite the availability of cor- be the answer both to why we haven’t rect information. progressed in space and how we can Whether it’s a survival instinct or a motivate a push outward. For the dan- penchant for morbidity, it seems that ger we face is real. One way or another, these doomsday predictions quickly whether or not terrorists employ dan- take hold with people not because of gerous technologies or asteroids strike the media or the scientific community, Earth, to remain confined to our home but because we are innately interested forever would mean our extinction.” in things that would mean our demise. And when “knowing your enemy” The Y2K bug means having a non-trivial knowledge The Y2K bug is not itself a scientific of particle physics, it should come as no breakthrough, but came as a direct surprise that people are scared. result of the technical breakthroughs If history does indeed repeat itself IT’S TEXT TIME that brought computers from million- and the LHC is another example of the dollar behemoths to ubiquitous devices same sequence of events that heliocen- Now at the U of M Bookstore found in everything from airplanes to tricism, space exploration and the Y2K toasters. The media reaction to the pos- bug have roughly followed, then we Pick up all your important texts – and every other sibility of those devices failing, on the should optimistically look forward to Rogers service – with one easy stop. Right off the shelf! other hand, was a classic collection of the benefits that we reap. The LHC is Visit the U of M Bookstore today. “what if” scenarios that had the public exciting. This is our generation’s walk- so scared that the U.S. government’s ing on the moon; the discoveries made Year 2000 Council was taken very possible by the LHC will forever change seriously. how we see the universe. We’re going to In the end, the worst casualties on see it clearer — and who knows what Jan. 1, 2000 were 150 slot machines at a interesting things we might find when Delaware race track. And while other we uncover the universe’s secrets. ™ Trademarks of Rogers Communications Inc. used under license ã 2008 Rogers Wireless.

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The Oxford comma tory hallucinations while at work. In Has this ever happened to you? You 1998, this percentage was .05. receive an essay back from your his- • The bathrooms, portable toilets tory professor and there are millions and outhouses in and near the beer of red marks striking out commas and Synapse Snacks tents of Munich during Oktoberfest adding others in. Yet, you used the process .84 liters of urine for every liter comma in exactly the same way in an Source: Gullible.info of beer sold. English paper, and it was not returned • Between 2001 and 2007, the with the offending marks. What gives? amount of fruits and vegetables con- Well your two professors may have sumed in ‘smoothies’ has increased differing ideas about the utility of the 873 percent. Almost a Oxford comma. The Oxford comma • It takes 47 percent more energy to thought is the one that comes after the second make ice with a consumer-level auto- Will O’Donnell last item in a list. For example, in the matic ice maker than it does to make list, “Apples, oranges, and bananas” ice using old fashioned ice trays. Kurt Cobain once declared "Nature the comma that comes after oranges • People who set their clocks more is a whore". To me this raises the ques- is the Oxford comma. If you remem- than 3 minutes fast are 75 percent more tion; 'who is man enough to please her?'. ber back to grade school, your teacher likely to be late for an appointment My money is on Smokey the Bear. would have informed you that this than those people who keep their was absolutely unacceptable. You were clocks properly adjusted. When a CD skips it's hardly ever taught time and time again that it was, • Tommy Chong, of Cheech and out of joy. “Apples, oranges and bananas”. So Chong fame, can solve Rubik’s cube which is the correct version? Basically, in under 35 seconds. There's nothing funny about a dead it is up to you to use your personal • The 3M company used the name clown. Unless it was hit by a speeding discretion. Throughout Britain it is “Stick-em-ups” during early develop- clown...that's pretty funny. common practise to use the Oxford ment for the product now known as A rabbit with no paws came up to comma, whereas in North America it Post-Its. me and asked why he was so unlucky. has received little attention or acknowl- • The Association of PC Peripherals Before I answered I had some questions edgement. It might be a good idea to predicts that by 2010, 80 percent of of my own. contact your professor about their mice and 60 percent of keyboards will A major con of being a cold-blooded stance on the Oxford comma if you be wireless. person is I have to wear a balaclava receive multiple marks on your next • 2.8 percent of office workers who everywhere I go. The pro, I no longer paper. work 50 or more hours per week have have to fill out forms when I want to reported experiencing visual or audi- withdraw from the bank. Vol. 96 No. 6 September 17, 2008 WWW.THEMANITOBAN.COM Culture Editor: Ben Poggemiller Contact: [email protected] / 474.6529 CULTURE 19

CREATIVE WRITING PAGE! he Manitoban Fried Brains and Sam: how to have lucid now features dreams: and remem- Ta creative Notes from purgatory’s hardest working chump writing page pub- ber you, my moon lished on the third As transmitted through Corey King I think she went to a better place. But Wednesday of each who can say? Maybe she abused her students. for Lisa Arden Ann Caldwell month. Submissions t was just another day at God’s grand con- Regardless, there wasn’t much time to think can be any style. veyor belt. Forms to fill out, people to fry. about it. There was a long line today. A whole Since it will only be Tricia Caldwell ‘You know you’re dead right?’ I asked a lot of dying going on. one page, please “I try to keep submissions under 400 words to 58-year-old grade school teacher. Her name was The more they breed the more they die. allow for multiple works, if you want your entire not important; like pigs on a farm, it’s best to They don’t care; it’s not their job to sort it all 1. piece to be printed. If you choose to submit ignore their names. One can’t get attached in out. i lift to my lips longer works, like a short story or play, an this business. I flipped a light switch, creating a groaning a cold cup of water excerpt will be printed on the page with the She nodded that she knew she was dead. which usually came with the conveyor belt that i might find my voice entirety of the piece on the Manitoban website. ‘OK,’ I sputtered. ‘Any thoughts before your dragging another person along for final inspec- Occasionally, the creative writing page will judgement? Try to get a few good points in tion. The 12 watt light above his head flipped that i might find my slumber feature one longer short story. The deadline for submissions for the September creative with the big one before I have to push this big on, bringing him back to life for his final in the early hush of morning, ambition writing section will be Thursday, Sept. 11. After red button?’ interview. no longer clouded by fatigue. that, submissions will be published the follow- She shook her head no. His name was John Doe. His parents ing month after they are received. Get writin’. Just before I pushed the big red button I must have had a lack of creativity or a sense Reality Check #1: noticed she held in her arms a portrait of her- of humor. I suspect Mr. Doe lacked both. i can breathe underwater. self when she was in grade school. Goofy look- Nothing about him was of note other than his Gilded Age, ing kid. Anyway . . . I can’t know what that silly name. That’s why I made note of it. Lord 2. meant. How can anyone know such things? I knows I have to note something. when i find my hands in a dream Gilded Cage scarcely believe God knows, because if he did ‘Any final words?’ i quiet inner dialogue why would he need me to make notes? It’s not ‘I need to take a shit,’ he fidgeted. and pocket them inside of me. Tricia Caldwell worth thinking about. I had a quota to fill so I ‘Mind the straps please. I’ll send you to pressed the button. someone who can fix that up for you right i see Carlos Castaneda! and Her record on the hula hoop She didn’t fuss. Most people fuss and make away.’ touch tongue to roof of mouth. was 2,000 spins a senseless racket, which does nothing but I checked the box beside his name indicat- he tells me, “alright now. recharge.” and she collected disposable chopsticks make my day tougher. For her it was good. I ing that I had seen him and that he hadn’t got- that she kept wrapped in a silk cloth think she’d had enough. I pushed the button ten stuck in some gears or something along the Reality Check #2: embroidered with Chinese Dragons. and the light hanging from the ceiling-less void way. Then I pushed the big red button. I didn’t my legs are butter as i run. (that she stole from her Mother’s closet) went out, her body vanished. much care for Mr. Doe.” 3. Each morning she whittled her belly i search dream signs. to an appropriate dimension Pork, beer bread and summer vegetables the unwavering intent of song for a girl who played piano (the afterglow of your words) and divided Math Olympics’ decimals make for a cheerful funeral at a pace akin to the kiss she gave her Daddy trickle in with sunlight’s haze. each night before bed. Diane Eros 1. Preheat oven to 350° F i walk through walls, white 2. Combine dry ingredients, add cheese and and melting in cohesion. Her weekends were devoted ck! Summer’s almost over. onion and stir until they are coated with to chores and private tutoring Let’s all storm the farmers’ market, flour. Add the beer and Dijon and stir until Reality Check #3: and if she stayed refined she was awarded Abuy what we can, and stuff ourselves silly smooth. this is my home, but it sounds like yours. a trip to the market for a small tin bowl before the season is really over. Peppers! Tomatoes! 3. Pour into a buttered bread pan and smooth of sheep-gut soup Eggplants! Zucchinis! Leeks! Potatoes! It’s fresh, the top of the loaf with wet hand. Bake for 45 4. that she sipped next to the toffees. bountiful and almost absurd in its variety. The minutes, or until golden. i visualize where i want to be: hot garden days of a Manitoba August culmi- warm breath and childhood canopy And each day at school nate to a point of no return — so much produce alive in your backyard Pork cassoulet she fulfilled her class cadre obligations that I tend to panic. What will we do? It’s your and practised Chinese composition fault, Manitoba, that our gardens are so damned Ad a p t e d b y Ma r g a r e t We bb f r o m a r e c i p e b y of true blue hypnotic suggestion. as she peered through classroom windows prolific. Ch e f Da v i d Ch r y s t i a n i yell, “INCREASE LUCIDITY!” at the high school girls with eating disorders Lucky for us, most of summer loot can be • Apples to Oysters and step further into the dream. who were let out early on Fridays. stored well into the winter months. Besides, we had • 1-1.5 kg pork shoulder lots of time to eat. The early summer was for peas • salt and pepper Reality Check #4: Her chances of being accepted and lettuce and August was for corn. We’ll have • 4 slices of bacon, cubed and fried my feet are floating off the ground. to a top university were lofty squash and pumpkins in the fall. And for winter? • 1/3 lb butter and her Daddy was so proud My mother sent a letter last week threatening me • 2 cloves garlic, minced 5. that she would marry a dignified man with death by mashed potato when I come home • 1 carrot, chopped at last I see you there: and attain a successful career so that she could for Christmas. • 1 onion, diced your hair grown, your belly shrunk. buy a modest apartment in the city. Here are two recipes that are great with fresh • 1 stalk celery, chopped the smoke between your lips vegetables that you’ll find right now at the market: • 3 bay leaves And each evening before dinner Onions, carrots and celery. The first recipe is for • 3-4 springs fresh thyme a film of white noise. she washed her hands 3 times: a quick and easy beer bread with onions. The • 1-1 1/4 cup dry navy beans, soaked overnight it soothes me, murmurs, “i’m alive” once for her Mother, once for her Daddy yeast in the beer means that the loaf pretty much • ½ cup dried mushrooms (Webb’s recipe rec- and “if only time could forget time.” and once again for her Nana makes itself. ommends wild mushrooms — black trum- who has lived in the suite upstairs The second recipe is a pork cassoulet, adapted pet, chanterelle or porcini — but I used dried Reality Check #5: since the murder of her Grandfather. from a book by Margaret Webb, Apples to Oysters. shitake) i smile, teeth crumble to the floor… It’s in her chapter about Manitoba pork. As I write • 1 small can tomato paste (156 ml) Her home had one television this, the pork and beans are in my belly, happily. • 2 cups chicken or vegetable stock 6. and she was allowed to watch the News Both the bread and the cassoulet are comfort . . . i lift with my fingers a pen for 45 minutes on Sundays foods, warm and rich. It is a welcome supper for 1. Preheat the oven to 375° F to capture you before sunrise, but with a basket of salty rice crackers the fall, or a cheerful funeral for the summer, 2. Rub the shoulder roast with salt and pepper, to you fade before my chance to say and cups of green tea made weak depending on how you see it. taste, and place in a deep casserole or roaster. for the failing of her Nana’s abdomen. Place in oven, uncovered, for 15 minutes or “i never even wanted to stir.” until just braised. Remove roast from oven (this premature awakening Quick beer, cheese, and onion bread And each night before bed and reduce oven heat to 300° F. was already enough) she scribbled in a lock-and-key journal Ad a p t e d f r o m Lu c y Wa v e r m a n ’s r e c i p e f o r 3. In the meanwhile, melt butter in a frying pan, where she explored (in poems and pictures) “Be e r Br e a d ” i n t h e Globe and Mail (Ma r c h and add garlic, carrots, onion, celery, bay leaves Reality Check #6: her dreams to marry a foreigner 15, 2008) and thyme. Fry until the vegetables are just it was never me who was falling. and live in a breathing countryside tender. Add bacon, beans, mushrooms and of fishponds and blossoms… • 2 cups all purpose flour tomato paste. Mix well, and pile into casserole • 1 cup whole wheat flour or roaster, with the meat. Pour the stock over • 1 tablespoon sugar the meat and bean mixture, cover, and roast for …and each morning before rising • 1 teaspoon salt 2-3 hours, depending on weight of the meat. she took 2 extra minutes under blankets • 1 tablespoon baking powder 4. When the meat is cooked through and the to sing the “the East is Red” • 1/3 cup finely sliced onion beans are tender, remove from oven. Let stand, because freedom is not always liberating • 1 cup New Bothwell cheddar cheese, grated covered, for 10 or 20 minutes. Before serving, for people who grew up • 1 bottle Fort Garry Pale Ale tear the meat into shreds (it should pull apart in a stable socialist society. • 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard easily). Serve pork with its beans and veggies in deep bowls, with bread. Vol. 96 No. 6 September 17, 2008 WWW.THEMANITOBAN.COM Culture Editor: Ben Poggemiller 20 CULTURE Contact: [email protected] / 474.6529

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The ‘meatatarian’ saga: douche vs. bully Eat meat or don’t, whatever

Trevor Bekolay, staff The simple-talking patriotic church- going anti-intellectual seems to be the hen I first saw Wendy’s’ new majority of Americans, if the last two commercial in which a rela- U.S. elections are any indication. But Wtively normal looking guy instead of trying to whip their country claims to be a “meatatarian” which is into shape, the right-wing is rebranding a “personal choice,” I couldn’t help but those people as having “small town be a little bit annoyed. “You’re eating values.” The meat and potatoes diet the fucking bun! And probably some (hold the potatoes) seems to be the next lettuce!” I screamed at the TV. It didn’t trait to add to the list. matter. His smugly satisfied expression I’m a vegetarian. Well, not really, I would not change. eat fish, which makes me a pescetarian. I was annoyed in general at this It doesn’t really matter, as I only abstain concept of the meatatarian. It’s clearly from eating meat for health reasons. designed to poke fun at vegetarians — But in my experience, even passing on a no use denying that. That it is lauded steak because it makes my stomach hurt to be a “personal choice” makes that is far from a pleasant social experience. pretty clear. The big difference between I can’t go to a family gathering without the two “lifestyles,” though, is that my Uncle Tom trying to slip some meat only eating meat is super unhealthy. I on my plate and saying “It’s a veggie could quote some studies or whatever, steak, hur hur hur.” It’s not, and it’s not but I think the point would be driven funny. It’s just stupid. Meatatarianism home better if you just try eating only is that bully trying to trick you into meat for a week. Give it a shot. See eating meat. how you feel — but note that I was So, you could say I’m against it. But not legally the person that compelled in doing my thorough research on the you to do it. subject, I consulted with www.urban- Even worse than the cardiac con- dictionary.com to see the definition of sequences is that the term meatatarian a meatatarian, and found an epic two- reeks of the same kind of redneck elit- page rant. It began: “The people who call themselves The term meatatarian reeks of the this, who think same kind of redneck elitism as they are saving the environment proudly noting that you don’t by ‘saving vegeta- get all that “math stuff.” bles for those who course.” such an air of douchebaggery that I’m I hope you can learn from my mis- will eat them’, or Do I sound like that? I really hope starting to see why people are turning takes. The food you eat or don’t eat ism as proudly noting that you don’t bringing down the production costs not. I mean, the author goes on to make to meatatarianism. should not be a significant part of your get all that “math stuff.” There seems of vegetables as meat-eaters, are not a great point, that the amount of food That’s when it hit me. I’m play- personality. to be a misconception that because only flat-out wrong but immediately that goes into feeding a cow is exponen- ing right into Wendy’s’ hands. This Vegetarian douches, just relax. Yeah, your group is large and popular, you brand themselves as never having taken tially larger than the food we get from meatatarian thing is just viral marketing, it sucks that the world doesn’t under- get to feel good about being part of it. a post-secondary institutional science that cow, but the whole discussion had designed to anger liberal douchebags stand that we’re better off not eating like me and illicit a round of high-fives meat. But reminding everyone around from conservative bullies. The biggest you of that fact during every meal gets loser here is me for further popularizing old shortly before the first time. this moronic ad campaign. Meatatarian bullies, just quit So this is the last you’ll hear me talk it. Actually following your “dietary about it. From now on my response choice” is going to put you in an early University of Manitoba to the Wendy’s commercial shall be grave, and picking on vegetarians is the response we should be giving all like egging the short bus: it’s just not Security Services Department advertising: apathy. cool, bro.

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Shining the light on Gordon Reeve University of Manitoba sculpture professor unveils his newest public art project

Leah Werier front of the Law Courts Building on of light for his newest addition to York St. The stainless steel structure Winnipeg, his most recent public art ordon Reeve, a professor at is comprised of three legs and soars project titled Agassiz Ice. Located on the the University of Manitoba, up 15 metres in the air, allowing its Portage Avenue side of the Assiniboine Ghas been inspiring students modern form to catch every beam of Park footbridge, this sculptural spec- in the School of Art for over 30 years. light. The sculpture is a massive work, tacle is visible from the banks of the Gordon’s amazing work goes beyond yet it is so beautifully balanced that it Assiniboine river. his classroom, where he teaches stu- can be moved by the viewer’s touch. Agassiz Ice looks like three sparkling dents of his knowledge and love of Reeve has also worked in other artistic glacial peaks rising from the ground. sculpture. Reeve is one of the predomi- mediums, such as film. He created a Constructed out of stainless steel — nant visionaries in Winnipeg’s diverse documentary titled, Moment of Light a favoured material of Reeve — the community of artists. in 1992, about the Royal Winnipeg sculpture is five metres at it tallest peak Winnipeggers may recognize Reeve Ballet’s former Prima Ballerina Evelyn and weighs 2,000 kilograms, which from his public work of art titled Justice, Hart. adds to its massive presence. The con- a massive sculptural feat located in Reeve is receiving his moment tours form a wave-like effect and the stainless steel is hand-polished with a swirl-like pattern that adds depth and texture. Reeve has worked the indus- only after the structures were moved child could return to the piece years trial material into delicate waves. The by commercial trucks and cranes and later as a teenager or an adult, and try structure evokes the pristine chunks installed that his work was complete. and fit into this same spot. One could of glacial Lake Agassiz, which once The piece was erected with a brief see how much they have changed — covered the city of Winnipeg. ceremony on Thursday, Aug. 28 of and how Agassiz Ice remains virtually Reeve won the commission from this year. At this brief ceremony Reeve unchanged. the Winnipeg Arts Council’s public invited the crowd to come, feel, explore His project has strong historical art program. His proposal was selected the sculpture and walk through the reference, and also carries a deeper from a shortlist of five artists, from spaces between it. Children gleefully meaning. Reeves wants his piece to Ontario, Manitoba and Quebec. climbed and slid over the small section represent what a beautiful physical Chelse McKee, staff I shook my head and repeated the Reeve has worked on the project since and ran between the two larger ones. environment we live in, and like the title. “Framosa Road.” he won the commission over a year ago. Reeve pointed out to me a small glacier itself, there is more than is It was Winnipeg Folk Festival ’07 I had caught the lead singer’s atten- Creating this project required skill cove in the sculpture where a child apparent on the surface. Underneath and I was so excited because one of my tion now. and patience, but Reeve’s final test could ease themselves into. The cozy the surface of Agassiz Ice, there are 10 favourite bands, Jay Crocker and the The saxophonist repeated his ques- was transporting this piece from the space blocks out the busy world cement piles that will allow this work Electric Apes, were about to hit the tion. I shouted out “No!” Finally the workshop where it was built to its final surrounding creating a very special to last — creating a legacy it rightfully stage. I had tactically manoeuvered my singer jumped in and said “I do think destination at Assiniboine Park. It was environment. Reeve explained that a deserves. little lawn chair up to the front, now you mean Eramosa Road and let’s hit sitting comfortably in the shade. it guys!” I sat red-faced and speechless Soon the band was playing their for the rest of the show. How could set and I’d never been so excited. They they mishear me when I was so close? were just as amazing as I had antici- After the show, I rushed home and Into thin air pated and the improvised instrumental checked the band’s CD case just to see section was inspiring. Now all that was the title of the song and yes, despite my The 12th annual writers’ fest begins this week needed to make it the perfect show for arguments, the band was correct in the Chelse McKee, staff editor at literary magazine Prairie Fire, She added that with late-night read- me was my favourite song “Framosa name of their own song. So now, when- Mark Morton, currently a professor at ings and poetry jams, the festival is Road.” ever I hope to request a song of a band s the Thin Air Winnipeg the University of Waterloo, and Robyn hoping to draw in a younger crowd. I sat for a good majority of the show I tout to love, I always double-check to International Writers Festival Maharaj, director of the Manitoba Of course, she said, another draw is the slowly clenching my hands into little make sure I know the title. Abegins its 12th year, Charlene Writers Guild, have since gone on to nearly free ticket prices — she lowered fists trying to work up the courage to Diehl, director for the festival, is excited other ventures. prices after her inception in 2003. yell out my request, silently hoping they Think you have a great concert memory or about the new inclusions of the fest and Diehl joined the organization in She lowered ticket prices, she said wouldn’t need my goading to do it. But celebrity encounter? Why not tell us about the classics she’s loved. 2003, immediately giving the festival recalling when she was a single mother of course, I was needed. So with what it for a chance to win a prize and get- “I always say we all loved being read the permanent name of Thin Air. with two kids and only being able to little might I could muster, I quickly ting your own slice of publication fame? to when we were little and [when] we Another addition Diehl made afford one ticket for the festival. called out the song title. I had caught Send your 200-300 word memory to arts@ this year was the “The ticket prices were beyond me.” the saxophonist’s attention. themanitoban.com with the subject line “We all loved being read to when inclusion of lecture Now many of the shows are free, “Eramosa Road?” he asked. “Memories.” we were little” — Charlene Diehl series, which will like Nooners and Afternoon Book Chats. include discussions The shows that have ticket prices are a learned how to read ourselves, we on food borne disease, aid in Africa and reduced price of $12 or $10 for students. thought ‘ugh, you know being read how to live creatively by a variety of As well, there are also $35 passes which to is for little kids’ [. . . but] the magic writers from non-fiction to poets. cover access to eight shows. For the of being read to doesn’t go away,” Diehl Very few workshops are offered, in francophones, the festival offers two said, explaining the allure of the fest. favour of readings by authors. French literary stages, as well. Thin Air, which began in 1996, is “I want to know what that writers Writers this year include Miriam a week-long festival promoting writ- have to say about [their books],” Diehl Toews, Rebecca Rosenbloom, Andrew ers with events like public readings, said, adding that making the festival Hood, and former Manitoban copy professional development courses, and about workshops would be too hard editor Saleema Nawaz, among many, a lecture series, a new inclusion this to organize. many others. year. There is a professional development Diehl explained that when the fes- course though, entitled “Writing for The festival runs from Sept. 21-28. tival began, it was only a few events the Screen.” Attendees would have the Passes and tickets can be purchased at spread out over a weekend but has since opportunity to speak with three experi- McNally Robinson or the Winnipeg evolved into a one-week event with enced screenwriters and workshop their International Writers Festival office at approximately 75 writers. own works. The tickets are $20. the ArtSpace building, 624-100 Arthur Diehl added that there are no plans Diehl said that despite the success St.. For more information or reservations to expand the number of authors of the festival, university students please call the Winnipeg International because that would mean expanding don’t seem to take advantage of the Writers Festival office at 927-7323. the days of the festival, which she has readings. no plans to do. 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John Titley theatre starting in elementary school. professor at the U of M. Ivan explains His father, an employee of the Prairie his attraction to this show came from ollywood, Manitoba is a profile Theatre Exchange, enrolled Ivan in working with Smith himself, being of the many fine people involved introductory acting classes from grades involved in the early stages of the play Hin the University of Manitoba five to eight. with initial readings and discussions. Film and Theatre departments. “It was a good experience. I just In Photograph, Ivan plays a priest Ivan Henwood made his first ever wasn’t dedicated enough to try and investigating his own death. When appearance on stage last year in the audition for anything.” Black Hole Theatre production of Ivan maintains that he has always Favourite musician? Landscape of the Body by John Guare. been “patron of the arts” but his love Will Oldham Directed by Jennette Heinrichs, Ivan for the theatre did not translate into Favourite director? performed in three different roles as an actual audition until his first year of Robert Altman the masked man, the dope king and theatre at the University of Manitoba Favourite writer? the bank teller. Also included in his in 2006. However, after auditioning Raymond Carver acting credits is the starring role in for every Black Hole production dur- Favourite film? a University of Manitoba short film ing his first year, Ivan’s first success Shortcuts called Human Resources, directed by did not come until his second year of Favourite word? Jorge Requena, which was an official theatre, his three roles in Landscape Perpendicular? . . . Let’s selection at the University of Winnipeg of the Body. go with asunder. Film Festival. “I couldn’t have asked for a better Ivan was born in Regina, Sask. and production, a better role. Just the fact moved to Winnipeg shortly after he that I had three small roles [. . .] It asked what the play is about, Ivan was born. In terms of his education, wasn’t overwhelming, just overwhelm- laughs and said there is “no right Ivan describes himself as a “horrible” ing enough.” answer [. . .] I guess I would say it’s student. Currently Ivan is involved in a new about a man investigating his life.” “I didn’t do homework once. At all. show, The Only Known Photograph of The man Ivan is talking about Not once in 12 years of school.” God — a brand new play written and is Thomas Merton, a 20th century Ivan became first involved in the directed by Robert Smith, a theatre Catholic writer and Trappist monk. The question at hand during the play is the mystery surrounding his untimely death, taking place “the moment after he dies but before he goes to Heaven Full Battle or Hell.” Ivan admits his reluctance to call this moment purgatory comes from his own ongoing challenges of finding can Rattle his character and the inner workings Ivan Henwood Ph o t o b y Jo r g e Re q u e n a of the play. never felt like I had a grasp on the char- The Only Known Photograph of Godis Another new film about the Iraq war Ivan says that he tries “not to bring acter until the moment the production a St. Paul’s Players production, running himself into the role,” but that his went on stage [. . .] it’s three stages at the Black Hole Theatre in the lower Teghan Beaudette, staff troops provide. own “physicality” at times will find really, it’s the words and the physical level of University College Sept. 23-27. To The film hits its stride when it is its way onto the stage. Ivan explains stuff, which I try to grasp as early as reserve tickets call (204)474-9581. Overall: 6.9/10 nearly three-quarters finished. We his rehearsal process is about finding possible, and then it’s trying to find Subject Matter: 5.7/10 begin to find ourselves invested in the the character. out who this character is and why their — With files from Jaclyn Kozak Heart: 8.2/10 role players who are seeking American “All the roles I’ve ever had [. . .] I’ve doing what they’re doing.” Style: 6.8/10 citizenship and the troops who will be deployed shortly to face real, rather ver 4,000 American soldiers than simulated risks. have died or been reported By far the best sequence in the film Odead, fighting U.S. President comprises the last 15 minutes when the George Bush’s war on Iraq since it com- troops discover they will be deployed to menced in March of 2003. Since then, Iraq immediately after the simulation countless documentaries have been is complete. They have a few days to produced on various aspects of the con- gather their belongings and say good- troversial and highly charged issue, for bye to their girlfriends, wives and chil- example, Gunner’s Palace in 2004. dren. The film works with our idea of Perhaps the tamest aspect of the reality and the flexibility of the concept Iraq war selected by documentary film- but ultimately returns to an emotion- makers for immortalization in film is ally saturated, very real situation. chronicled in Full Battle Rattle, which As the troops are sent off to Iraq, gives viewers a thorough inspection with no promise of their safe return to of an elaborate training facility in their wives and children, the movie pro- California’s Mojave Desert. vokes contemplation of a war which is The facility is designed to recre- easily buried in headlines, in favour of ate small towns in Iraq, populated newer, more sensationalized stories. with dedicated role players, of whom In this emotional ending with approximately 20 per cent are refugees familiar scenes of children hugging or landed immigrants from Iraq. The men in uniforms, the film gains a players act as citizens, mayors, police greater emotional relevance but loses chiefs, and insurgents, in a hyper-real- its unique neutral look at the men’s istic training exercise that lasts several training experiences. The film instead weeks. The general idea, and most seems to take its own stance on the interesting aspects of the facility, can be war, at this point, and neglects its ear- summed up in less than one paragraph, lier intentions in favour of those more but directors Jesse Moss and Tony accessible to a mass audience. Gerber saw, somehow, the inspiration The film, for a documentary, has a for a feature-length documentary. relatively high production value and The film starts off with a high-inten- exhibits the skill of both directors sity action sequence, which sets the to develop characters within a doc- viewer up for a gripping and fast-paced umentary format. Full Battle Rattle view, certainly not what they thought is worth viewing if you have special was in store. The film slowly develops interests related to the war on Iraq or characters and gradually examines all military efforts, but beyond that the the efforts that went into recreating the film offers very few unique viewing Iraqi desert. The film benefits from the opportunities. personalities and personal struggles of Full Battle Rattle will be playing at the role players and the comic relief the Cinematheque until Sept. 20, 2008. Vol. 96 No. 6 September 17, 2008 WWW.THEMANITOBAN.COM Arts Editor: Chelse McKee 26 ARTS Contact: [email protected] / 474.6529

Right brain vs. left brain Computer graphics in film

Chelse McKee and Trevor Bekolay, staff

In a battle of right brain versus left brain, Trevor Bekolay, Science and Technology Coordinator and Chelse McKee, Arts and Entertainment Editor, debate the latest issues of science and arts.

Chelse: So we’re discussing com- puter graphics in film. I’m against them. Trevor: I’m for them. Now I’m curi- ous, give me an example of computer graphics in film that is horrific and terrible. C: I Am Legend. The zombies at the end were such overkill. The com- puter graphics exaggerated the mouth of the screaming zombie to the point of making it unbelievable. It threw the film from actual into fantastical, which eliminated the whole objective of what they were doing with the film’s plot. That’s why I have a huge problem with computer graphics. I mean, I’m fine with computer graphics when they do shots that you could never get from a camera and it adds to it but when it distorts the realm of reality, which I think cinema is based in, that’s when I think computer graphics begins to crazy explosions, they’re now able “hey, how can we actually make this a “Well, this is what’s available, so this is towards this idea of traditional things corrupt the film. to do that without destroying a city. possibility.” If you looked at Be Kind, what it’s going to look like.” are better because they’re more real T: The only thing that computer Computer graphics should enable a Rewind, it was amazing how these C: I’m trying to think of what else and newer things that are created with graphics do is enable writers to fulfill writer to be able to write whatever they amateur filmmakers in the story used we can talk about. We’ve sounded so technology are worse because they’re feel like. their imagination, like piano keys using smart up Chelse McKee: I think computer C: But at the black and white hands being the actual to this Trevor Bekolay: The only thing that same time, com- piano keys. That’s what it should be point. graphics begin to corrupt the film puter graphics about, is the creativity of cinema rather With computer graphics do is enable writers almost seems like than just right away going for computer computer to fulfill any vision they might have any vision they might have, so if they an easy way out rather than the direc- graphics. graphics, want some retarded car chase with tor using their creative minds to say T: I see that point and maybe it is a they seem to be overtaking the films not “real.” If it looks the same to us, director’s discretion and whether they now. They seem to be overwhelming what’s the difference? The other point go for that. I don’t see a problem with the film to the point of what’s real and I wanted to make is doing computer computer graphics being another pos- what’s not. It seems to be redefining graphics shouldn’t look like computer Nicola & Spice Road Bellydance sibility. To say that traditional meth- what cinema actually is. So it might just graphics. For example, one of the films ods of visualizing something are more become computer cinema. It’s almost with the most computer graphics is Fun, friendly entertainment for all occasions. creative than computer graphics is a an uncomfortable zone of ambiguity. Forrest Gump and that’s not a film Spice up your next event! bit harsh. You can do a lot of creative It’s similar to a discussion I’ve just heard you’d think would use a lot of com- XW things with computer graphics. where the question was “Is filmed the- puter graphics. Lord of the Rings, the Introductory to advanced belly dance C: Like? atre film?” So it becomes, if a film is shots were really memorable. A lot of T: (laughs) If a writer comes up with mostly shot with computer graphics, that film is good because it’s natural classes, starting September 16. a creative vision, being able to fulfill is it still a film? and it has this amazing New Zealand www.nicola-bellydance.com that visionwith a technique that they T: Are you saying that something environment but all those things were can tinker with, rather than saying like Toy Story isn’t a film? It’s all going enhanced by computer graphics. If [email protected] (204)957.7520 you’re doing it right, it shouldn’t be obvious that it’s been faked.

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Listening in 

Keith David, perhaps This album is a When Rod Slaughter Ice Cube best known as the Tuesday Bloom throw-back to when Novillero croons, “The printed Raw Footage voice behind Spawn Tuesday Bloom music was boring. A Little Tradition word sucks for inflec- and Goliath from I was initially tion/there are too Lench Mob Records / 2008 Unsigned / 2008 Mint / 2008 Gargoyles, begins this really excited about many things we rely album with an omi- reviewing a local on the person’s face/it Ra t i n g Ov e r a l l : 5.7/10 Ra t i n g Ov e r a l l : 2/10 Ov e r a l l r a t i n g : 8/10 nous promise of dev- disc. I really was. I’ve turns out to explain,” Heart: 7/10 Heart 3/10 Heart: 9/10 Originality: 6/10 astating flows to come Originality 1/10 heard some amazing Originality: 7/10 it’s impossible to Catchiness: 4/10 from Ice Cube. David’s Catchiness 2/10 records from local Catchiness: 8/10 ignore the parallel: deep tone commands artists. So when I that he is remark- attention and made my ears perk up as if Childs from The picked up Tuesday Bloom’s self-titled debut I was pumped. ably able to imbue meanings into the lyrics he sings. Thing tells me something badass is coming, I listen. How horribly disappointed I was. Novillero’s third album is A Little Tradition, both How let down was I when the tepid tune “I Got I am going to preface this review by saying that some literally and figuratively: it goes a long way to con- My Locs On” barely kicks into a weak drum machine people will love this music. I just don’t know them nor do tinuing to define Novillero’s wholehearted rock sound, beat followed by a feeble lyrical mixture of promo- I want to. It is Christian rock in the most bland and unin- with sprinklings of other traditions, such as the less- tion for Locs sunglasses. The opening song has no teresting way. I am not slamming it because it’s Christian, than-subtle mariachi influence on “Paco Rabame.” aggression or innovation to it. One minute into that’d be callous and ignorant. No, I am slamming this A Little Tradition also reprises Keri Latimer’s (of this record and a promise is already broken. record because it’s boring and embarrassing to listen to. local band Nathan) lyrical participation in Novillero. Her The very next tracks improved thematically. “It takes The music initially sounds like a slightly less char- beautifully reedy, multitonal voice lends an artistically a Nation” seems to be a mild homage to Public Enemy, ismatic version of Kelly Clarkson’s recent material. The robotic subtext to “Daydreams & Distractions” — add- but Ice Cube cannot compare to Chuck D on this track. thing that really drags this record down is the cliché ing a layer of complexity that fits the song perfectly. “Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It” and “Hood Mentality” “Christian” lyrical content that resists any depth. The A Little Tradition also represents a step up from have a nice enough ironic charm in the lyrics that talk songs are carbon copies of what one would hear on any the band’s previous efforts in terms of musical depth. about the mistakes black youth make when trying to awful Christian station. Although they resist the urge Though Novillero’s members are experienced musi- escape their neighbourhoods and when they do escape. to chant every possible pseudonym for Jesus, they also cians, the bass and percussion on this album are notice- Throughout the album, the beats are heavy on fail to branch out and cover any ground that hasn’t been ably more intricate than in past, perhaps due to the early ’90s influence, as if trying to recapture some of covered extensively by every band in their genre. addition of drummer Jack Jonasson. A Little Tradition Tupac Shakur’s magic. The lyrics are largely attacks The disc only really contains eight songs seeing how is also a little slower — perhaps as a result of its on ignorant attitudes towards “gangsta” life. several songs are repeated only in French, which I felt depth — with fewer get-up-and dance songs (“Lost Ice Cube returns to his traditional themes of street almost a relief because I didn’t need to listen to them Possibilities” is a notable exception) and more songs life and the troubles people like him faced grow- again. The album, however, is excellently produced which that deserve to be listened to through headphones. ing up and now. Tracks such as “Cold Places” are is impressive. While it may be slick and radio-ready, it And Slaughter’s lyrics more efficiently than ever make encouraging to hear because they avoid the “money fails to be any more than a group of young musicians the political personal, trapping life in minutiae and mak- and bitches” raps that are clogging the arteries of who think they need to sing songs about Jesus without ing broad extrapolations into tongue-in-cheek jokes. modern rap and steer closer to his NWA days. saying his name. Just like every other Christian band. I find myself stretching for criticisms on this album, Having mentioned NWA I should say that Cube is still a Steer clear of paying money for this. Go buy Pedro and if I have to make one it is this: that it took three fair distance from where he used to be in this industry (and the Lion’s It’s Hard to Find a Friend instead if you want a years to come out. This local band is on one of the hot- with his street credibility) but at least he’s using his celeb- quality, rocking, genuine “Christian” album to listen to. test labels in the country, and I don’t doubt that A rity leverage to get out a few good messages amongst what — Ben Clarkson, staff Little Tradition will break new ground for Novillero. is largely a pretty redundant assembly of songs. — Tessa Vanderhart, staff — William O’Donnell, volunteer staff Mother Superior a study in woman-ness, aloneness, success of U of M writer tessa vanderhart, staff stories and two novellas, ordered the collection — almost like chapters rather than something to be expos- with great care. in a novel — or the imagination put ited; shared womanness allows entry The stories ease into desperation in to each and every character. into complicated characters, and in by way of the title namesake's sto- What Mother Superior is most only a few short pages the reader icism, caring for her alluring room- remarkable for is its deft exposi- can understand them as she could Mother Superior: Stories mate as she carries a Baby Duck tion of "female" — unfortunately her dearest friends. Freehand Books / 2008 baby. so rare in great writing. With nine Perhaps that is what is most Saleema Nawaz And the stepwise process lets her characters and many more mothers, shocking about Nawaz's work: she bring readers into darker and more sisters and neighbours, Nawaz finds has made the visceral real and palat- hopelessly complicated situations shades and types of femininity not able. She has created aesthetic and Overall rating: 8.5/10 than otherwise might be possible, catalogued elsewhere. But more than enjoyable baubles of fiction from Originality: 9/10 culminating in "The White Dress," that, she imbues each character with the bottom of human experience, Heart: 9/10 a study in otherness, confusion and a beautiful, rank, and true idea of the worst parts of just bearable lives. Technique: 9/10 universal childhood experiences. The womanness — even the children. Perhaps it is not a stretch to say that dissonant and in some ways disagree- Each character, viewed through this Nawaz has created some form of able "Sandy" is rendered resplendent lens, is at once understandable and chick lit with a soul — writing that in comparison with the stories and complex, the epitome of a woman- is female, sometimes disempowered, oan won't get an abortion." other characters that surround her; girl-slut-nun stereotype, but above desperate and, in the end, incredibly So begins Mother Superior, a by understanding some of Nawaz's all striving for her own place. moving. "Jcollection of short stories by characters, even the details of a life Nawaz is a former Manitoban In a literary world full of canned Nawaz will be in Winnipeg to read Saleema Nawaz. as "other" as possible for most readers Copy Editor and U of M alumnus, femininity — the product of male from Mother Superior on Sept. 23 at With each story, Nawaz ratchets are rendered clear, and the smallest and I am definitely in danger of gush- writers as much as of some bestsell- 8:30 p.m. at the CanWest Performing up the family ties, the scar tissue, subtleties are desirable — Nawaz ing over this collection because of it. ing god-awful female writers and the Arts Centre (MTYP). Her first novel that unite and divide her characters. adds a craveable mystery to all char- But Mother Superior is notable not very idea of "Chick Lit" — Nawaz will be released this fall. The collection comprises seven short acters, even the most reprehensible. only for the care put into ordering manages to use femininity as a tool

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Best of Fest The films to watch from the Toronto International Film Festival

Patrick Gratton documents Orson Welles, played by caused by war as three naked soldiers The film’s title references the Italian Ceylan begins making the movie a film debut performer Christian McKay, emerge out of the water, bordering the city where Firth relocates in hopes of noir. As we progress, there is much he 2008 Toronto International during his 1937 production of Julius burning city of Sabra. They eventually coping alongside his two daughters more lingering underneath the sur- Film Festival has come and gone, Caesar at New York’s Mercury theatre. dress themselves and walk the streets of and longtime friend Barbara, played face, revealing a tale without a moral Tonce again taking the city by Linklater brings joy to the screen with the city reduced to a burning inferno. by Catherine Keener. Winterbottom, compass, where everyone, despite their force. Despite the inability to attend ease, transcending to an earlier period Waltz with Bashir is a touching, yet much like a grand pianist, paces the best intentions, secures their damned the prestigious gala screenings, or of film free of sin, where tongue-in- disturbingly frank experience, one film in a silent manner, building a cre- fate. Winner of the directorial prize at rather because of it, I drew my TIFF cheek humor was suitable for all ages. which will reaffirm a forgotten belief scendo towards an inevitable climax. this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Three attention towards the independent fare. — that there is still potential for wiz- Mastering the material, Winterbottom Monkeys is practically silent. The film Here are, as presented, the top four best Wa l t z w i t h Ba s h i r ardry among filmmakers. fills most of the film’s silent demeanor finds its beauty in silence, as well in flicks I screened at the fest. Dir: Ari Folman with a subconscious feeling of dread. long, grandiose, but never ponderous From its very first shots, depict- Ge n o v a In hindsight, the film works best as a shots. It’s an incredibly subtle picture Me a n d Or s o n We l l e s ing a pack of bloodthirsty hounds Dir: Michael Winterbottom throwback to the American in foreign but also heartbreaking. Much of the Dir: Richard Linklater rampaging the streets of an Israeli Much like Linklater, Michael territory cautionary films of the late film’s success is attributed to the cin- As if he hadn’t proven himself time metropolis, Israel native Ari Folman’s Winterbottom has built a career on ’60s or early ’70s. ematographer Gökhan Tiryaki, whose and time again, maverick filmmaker animated/documentary Waltz with his chameleon-like filmmaking. After selected shots can only be described as Richard Linklater, has proven that he Bashir is a mesmerizing piece depict- achieving comedy in Tristan Shandy: Th r e e Mo n k e y s jaw-dropping. Ceylan and his ensemble, might be the most versatile American ing the haunting of war and its effects A Cock and Bull Story and thrills in A Dir: Nuri Bilge Ceylan both on and off the screen, all succeed filmmaker. With a filmography rang- decades later. Mighty Heart, Winterbottom proves By far, the best film I saw was Nuri in producing one of the year’s finest ing from MTV-produced School of The autobiographical film about himself once again by directing his Bilge Ceylan’s Three Monkeys (English title). masterpieces. Rock, to the bohemian Before Sunset, Folman’s inability to remember his attention towards the act of mourning Linklater now adds British period piece service in the 1982 massacre at Sabra in Genova. to his extensive resumé with his latest is, in its own right, a haunting cin- Colin Firth gives the film its centre film Me and Orson Welles. ematic experience, one which will test with a solid performance as a grieving Headlined by pop sensation Zac your moral code. The most profound father dealing with the sudden death IS YOUR FACULTY THE Efron (High School Musical), the film sequence demonstrates the eerie feeling of his wife, played by Hope Davis. BEST? THE MANITOBAN RECOMMENDS Upcoming events in winnipeg Tessa Vanderhart Is it the worst? Or is it completely unknown? The Manitoban is seeking submissions re- The Honeybuckets 1 Sweet and semi-arid local indie pop, quite good in my humble Mondragon // Sept. 19 lated to all faculties and departments for the // $notsure opinion. In theirs — according to their Myspace — like “Getting Oct.15 Faculty Wars supplement. eaten alive by a concrete candy-man.” Re:Birth of Goodform Did you land a great summer job related to 2 Indie dance party with Mike B. Hexes & Ohs (so hot) and the Lo Pub // Sept. 18 // $5 Golden Dogs. your degree? Is there an excellent program that no one knows about? We'd love to hear NathanTheir Key Principles was one of my favourites last from anyone who is interested in speaking 3 year, and they appear to be playing two sets at the Times this Times Change(d) // Sept. 19 // $not sure evening — two for your money? up about their faculty. For a list of story ideas, or for more information, contact Fea- 4 Souvenirs tures Editor Teghan Beaudette at features@ A trio of documentaries based on the City of Winnipeg’s archives, Cinemateque // Sept. themanitoban.com. dealing with labour, flooding, and the city’s fleeting progress. 19, 7 p.m. // Free

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Ann Walton The Folk Exchange, 211 Hortons. 10 Local singer-songwriter is sure to stoke your folk fire. Bannatyne // Sept. 19, 8 p.m. // Tix $12 in advance/$15 If you have questions you'd like to have Baghead asked at the forums but won't be able to at- Honorable What’s “mumblecore,” you ask? Cabin fever, too much liquor, Cinemateque // Sept. mention 19-21 // $6 tend, e-mail [email protected]. murder, paranoia and hilarity, is what. A black comedy for the indie set.

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David Klaponski when forms of violent behavior, such the game is one thing, these linemen as fighting in hockey or bone-crushing are often confronted with an opposi- ports are fun. I love them. But hits in football, is accepted by the com- tion that desires, if possible, to crush as an active participant on many munity, the likelihood of aggression them on every play. Steams and sports, I tend to accept increases and so does the likelihood While interviewing a trio of defen- a certain level of misunderstanding of excessively violent behaviour. sive players, I listened especially closely between the people involved. People Growing up playing many different to what defensive lineman Wyatt Jacobi are going to disagree on base levels and sports, I learned how to channel my had to say about aggression. He says sometimes never even try to listen to aggression in a positive manner; by that while aggression may benefit him opposing viewpoints. Particularly in harnessing and controlling my adrena- in a football game, it should still be sport, this lack of empathy leads to line via the different sports I played. If channeled and harnessed in the proper many conflicts, some of which can turn channeled poorly, my aggression would manner. violent. Athletes often feel wronged by lead to penalties, fouls, social fallings- Linebacker Riley Shogan added other teams, and spectators often have out with my teammates and a loss of that sometimes football is an entirely resentment for fans of opposing teams. respect of fans and coaches. If chan- separate thing from your daily life: While this type of behaviour can often neled properly, it would lead to goals, “Problems in my life don’t necessarily lead to bonds between people on the victory and respect. Although I am not translate into football [. . .] if anything, same team or community, conflicts are that violent a person by nature, there it’s subconscious.” I guess this makes bound to arise, and often do, taking are still moments in a soccer or hockey good sense. If you are really focused the negative form of violence. game when I want to crush someone in a game, nothing else matters. “You You do not have to look too far back with a big hit or smash a ball really are not thinking about what happened to find examples of excessive violence hard. Since I am not sure if it is just me to you last week in your life when you in sports. Famous outbursts include who feels this way, I went to find out see a guy crossing in front of you on NHL player Marty McSorley’s hockey if some of our local Bison athletes ever the field.” stick attack on Donald Brashear, and experience these same feelings. Sports psychologists try to draw a French footballer Zinedine Zidane’s Bison quarterback John Mackie distinction between aggression, which head-butt heard round the world. Both was the first to point out that not all is seen as a negative emotional response instances, which are not sanctioned by positions in football require aggressive to certain situations, and assertive the rules of the game and are seem- responses. Positions like quarterback, behaviour, which is a positive focus ingly vicious in nature and intent, offer kicker, and to a lesser extent receiv- of aggression. And though it does not examples of how aggression can take ers, do not normally need too much really matter which words you use to negative forms. aggression, because they require a lot describe poorly focused aggressive Some question whether these inci- of precision and concentration. He emotion it is obvious that there is a for the annual Labour Day football know the reason it happened, ’cause I dents are isolated ones, where indi- pointed out that the defensive line and difference, and I would say that most game, and they will tell you just how play football, I understand the game, vidual players simply lose control of offensive line are the ones who exude athletes learn the differences between true this really is. The animosity and I hear fans behind me yelling and their own emotions. Others see the the brunt of the violent behaviour in acceptable behaviour and unacceptable between Saskatchewan Roughrider getting angry, and they got it so back- culture of sport itself as encouraging a game and would probably have to behaviour pretty quickly. fans and Blue Bomber fans, which wards. It’s like they’re so off with their these violent behaviours. Studies have deal the most with negative aggressive While many athletes learn to focus pervades the city throughout the week- comments, they’re angry for no reason even shown that in some instances, actions. While being pumped up for their energy in a positive fashion, vio- end, runs wild and leads to a number and for the wrong reason.” lent behaviour amongst spectators has of fights and violence. I have even Sports often act as a conduit for Be�honest�now,�when�was�the been a consequence of them not having heard stories of policemen standing natural testosterone-driven tendencies, positive avenues to release their aggres- idle, a couple metres away, while Blue which stem from a prehistoric mode last�time�you�saw�your�dentist? sion. Large-scale fan riots and hooli- Bombers fans received “beat-downs” of aggressive behaviour. Sports keep ganism are widely seen in all kinds of from Roughrider fans. It is almost as if kids off the streets, provide an out for Talk�to�Dr.�Gill�about�all�your�dental�needs. spectator sports. While many fans get this type of behaviour becomes socially children linked with gang activity and She�provides�a�full�range�of�treatment�focusing great pleasure out of cheering and sup- acceptable and even natural in the san- focus people on something that is both porting their favorite teams, emotional guine atmosphere of a football match. organized and seemingly better than on�the�comprehensive�delivery�of�dental�care. moments can often turn sour. Sometimes there is not even a other forms of violent behaviour. So, • Air�abrasion�dentistry • Crown,�Bridge�and�Cosmetic�work • Tooth�whitening • Monitored�sterilization�techniques Dr.�G.�K.�Gill Psychologists have conducted many logical reason for this violent behav- while some might say that violent con- • Convenient�hours • Nitrous�Oxide�Sedation�(laughing�gas) studies that demonstrating that watch- iour. Bison wide receiver Terry Firr tact sports lead to a cathartic response • Fuly l trained�staff • Accepting�new�and�emergency�patients 452-7000 ing violent contact sports can actually explained his recent experience at a encouraging more violence, I would say Visit�us�on-line�and�meet�our�team�at: increase a spectator’s readiness to be Winnipeg Blue Bombers game: “I love that it is much better than the alterna- www.cor-dent.com • 929�Corydon�Avenue aggressive. Ask any Winnipeg Blue being at a Bombers game, something tive, where rage and aggression reign Bombers fan that has been to Regina happens, I know what happened, I free without healthy and focused goals. Yes,�we�accept�the�University�Student�Dental�Plan! D E N T A��L C E N T R E So next time you watch a sporting event, try to exert your emotions in positive fashion. Don’t be a downer, getting angry — instead, join in on all the fun.

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people lose weight by cutting down is, as every part of your body is made types of fat. their carbohydrate intake. In actuality, up of it. Proteins also maintain mus- Good fats, such as polyunsaturated, carbohydrates are extremely important cles, organs, skin and blood, assist in monounsaturated and Omega-3, are for your body; you just need to know energy metabolism and cell processes found in soft margarine, oils, avocados, which kinds to avoid. Carbohydrates and defend the body against disease flax, nuts, seeds, olives and fatty fish (i.e. are most important because they are via the immune system, according to salmon, mackerel and herring). Bad your body’s primary and best source Healthcastle.com. fats, which include saturated and trans, of energy. Proteins are made up of amino acids, are found in butter, lard, fatty meats The best kind of carbohydrates can of which there are 22. As a result, the (i.e. bacon, sausage, hot dogs and pep- be found in whole-grain breads and proteins found in the food we eat are peroni) and foods made with partially cereals, vegetables, fruits, legumes, categorized as complete or incomplete hydrogenated oils. These latter foods nuts and milk products. The kinds to proteins; the latter supply the body with should, therefore, make up a very small avoid (according to Slimfast.ca) are the all forms of amino acids, whereas the portion of a healthy diet. ones found in soda and candy, because former do not. Complete proteins are Vitamins, and minerals they are purely sugar with little of the found in meats (i.e. beef, lamb, pork, Step 2: Nutrition 101 nutritional value and minerals found poultry, fish, shellfish), eggs, and milk Vitamins, and minerals are impor- Ajitpaul Mangat, staff minerals and calories. What are the dif- in the former, healthy types of food. products. Incomplete proteins are found tant for your body because they aid in ferent types of macronutrients? Which Be carfeul not to overdo it, as an excess in grains, fruits, and vegetables. growth, and development. Significantly, he Manitoban wants to make foods are they found in? Why does of carbohydrates leads to an excess of But, vegetarians and vegans need the body cannot store all vitamins, and you, the University of Manitoba your body require these macronutri- calories, which can lead to obesity if not fret, for the right combination of minerals, so it is important intake them Tstudent, as healthy, both mentally ents? What do the different kinds of the calories are not used by the body plant proteins can provide the human on a daily basis. and physically, as possible. So we are run- vitamins, nutrients, and minerals do for through physical activity. So eat the body with all 22 forms of amino acids. The main food sources are brightly ning a health and fitness series entitled “12 your body? How many calories should right types of carbohydrates in modera- For instance, rice and beans, milk coloured fruits and vegetables. Other Steps to becoming a healthier student.” We be consumed in a day? All the answers tion, and work out regularly in order and wheat cereal, and corn and beans, good food sources include: dark green continue this series by looking at the basics can be found here: that those carbohydrates turn into when combined, are sources of com- vegetables, low-fat meat, fish and low- of nutrition, so you can make informed necessary energy rather than unnec- plete protein. fat dairy. Foods to avoid are those that Carbohydrates choices about what you eat. essary fat. are high in sugar and fat, meaning junk Fat Once you have chosen a gym and Carbohydrates have become the food (i.e. ice cream, candy, and potato Protein begun working out, you need to fuel black sheep of macronutrients as of Fats may seem like your body’s and corn chips). your body with the right types and late, ever since many different quick- It cannot be understated how biggest enemy, but in fact they are an If you are ever unsure of the vitamin, amounts of macronutrients, vitamins, fix diets began promising to help important the macronutrient protein essential part of a healthy diet. The and mineral content of a food, this good they do for your body is long and information can easily be found on staggering: they provide energy during accompanying labels (a process that will endurance exercise, they are essential be explained in detail in “Step 4”). components of cell membranes, they For more information about recom- help in the absorption of fat-soluble mended daily intake of vitamins visit vitamins like Vitamins A, D, E and Health Canada’s website: http://www. K, and they act as shock absorbers for hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/nutrition/reference/ bones and organs. In addition, certain table/ref_vitam_tbl-eng.php types of fats, unsaturated and Omega-3, Calories decrease the risk of heart disease and assist in the growth, development, and The body needs calories to provide it function of the brain, respectively. with energy. Like vitamins, and miner- However, with the good comes the als, the amounts of calories found in a bad: obesity (fats contain nine calories food are always provided on the accom- per gram, which is more than twice panying labels. Ultimately, the amount the number provided by carbohydrates of calories you should be consuming in or proteins, according to Adam.about. a day is proportionally related to the com), so more than any other macro- amount of time you spend partaking nutrient, it is important to know which in physical activity. Bisons foods provide the body with the best Uncensored With Blake Zawada The ‘rights’ stuff

Ajitpaul Mangat, staff and later, playing the same position for role, he has worked towards rewarding the Transcona Nationals. Bison athletes with everything from he Manitoban will be closely fol- The right to the limelight, the parties and socials to awards and schol- lowing several Bison athletes from touchdowns, the fame, a running arships. But Blake is concerned with various different teams, as they back receives, he gave up, along with rights on a grander scale. Which is Tseek to succeed both on and off the field, a $30,000 “Chancellor’s Club” schol- why in the past he has been involved in in a weekly column entitled: “Bisons arship to attend the University of Holocaust awareness efforts and is cur- Uncensored.” This week we continue our Calgary and an opportunity to start rently involved with the Human Rights series with the first instalment featuring for the Dinos, in order to live out his Museum being built in Winnipeg. He fifth-year Bison football fullback and dream of playing with the Bisons hopes to give those who lack rights, the special teams player, Blake Zawada. and for head coach Brian Dobie, rights they deserve. Bison football player Blake Zawada who immediately converted him to In this way Blake’s football career is concerned with “rights”: his own, his fullback. A position that receives no thus far has been instructive. He teammates’ and yours. And he wants limelight because it is played in the has learned that just because your you to know about it. trenches: away from the glare of the head coach recruited you, does not Blake loves the fact that football cameras and fans, where it gets really mean you have the right to start on gives him the right to hit people, and physical and really mental. offence, as much of Blake’s time with not only get away with it, but also be All this is just fine with Blake the Bisons has been spent serving as rewarded for it. Blake also loves the because it allows him to aid his team- the back-up fullback. He has also fact that football is such a psychologi- mates in making big plays; whether it learned that being defending Vanier cally challenging sport; every play is be on offence, where his blocks spring Cup champions does not give you the different, and therefore he has to accu- running back Matt “Mr. YouTube” right to win another, as demonstrated rately read and react to diverse defences Henry for long runs, or on special by his team’s 28-0 loss to the University all within a few seconds. This striking teams, where he does the same for of British Columbia Thunderbirds on combination of “the physicality and kick-returners. Sept. 13. mental aspects of the sport” is what On the field Blake Zawada cher- But Blake and the Bisons do have he cherishes about football. ishes the right to be the guy behind the right to dust themselves off and Blake has these rights because he the scenes, because off the field he lives get right back up, which they most plays fullback and special teams for the and thrives in the spotlight. certainly will attempt to do. A journey University of Manitoba Bison football Off the field, Blake fights for the towards redemption that you can fol- team. A right that he dreamed about, as rights of his fellow student athletes, as low right here with Blake via “Bisons a little kid, first while playing running co-chair of the University of Manitoba Uncensored.” back with the Crescentwood Grizzlies, Athletes’ Council (UMAC). In this Vol. 96 No. 6 September 17, 2008 WWW.THEMANITOBAN.COM Sports Editor: Ajitpaul Mangat 32 SPORTS Contact: [email protected] / 474.6770 Coming home A Sports Editor’s odyssey

Ajitpaul Mangat, staff some of my Manitoban colleagues. Some fans sat Late 19th century thought, particu- astonished, not t was 10 a.m. on a breezy, overcast larly Victorian literature, was preoccu- making a sound, and overall dreary Saturday morn- pied with the idea of progress. What for they could not Iing and I was alone. Well, apart does it mean to progress? How can recognize the team from a few dozen soccer fans, a pitch progress be determined and measured? in home colours. full of competing soccer players, and For instance, any given society at a Other fans booed, for the end zone of belonging to the victor, or “unbe- reminds us of this importance. my dependable moleskin notepad, I certain moment, more often than not, — home sweet home — was supposed longing” to the loser. It is both physical, So, although they had just played in was alone. Or, at least I felt alone. I likes to believe that they are modern to be the Bisons’ territory, not the like a football field, and emotional, like their annual Homecoming game, the was away from home, and if home is and advanced, as compared to the Thunderbirds’. Still other fans began a win or loss. It is both movement, like Bison football team, ultimately, learned where the heart is I was at that moment past, which is typically characterized to leave the stadium, for this was no a drive in football, and settlement, like this weekend that it is possible to come sorrowfully both roofless and loveless. as barbaric and archaic. We, as a society, longer the Bisons’ University Stadium; the spiking of a football after a punt home without ever reaching home. This But I hoped I would find home, or at have even had the audacity to coin their home (field advantage) had been return touchdown. I also learned as, alone, I made my way least that inimitable sensation of home, the term post-modern, as if modern snatched away. Such is the substance of sport; it home from University Stadium. sometime during my time at University is not advanced enough to describe Game. Set. Match. The Stadium, where I was about to experi- ourselves. Thunderbirds would, ultimately, win BISON FOOTBALL GAME PREVIEW ence a soccer match (between the home However, progress can only be accu- the game by a 28-0 score line. team Bisons and visitors University rately measured if there is an ending, Walking on the sideline, as the game Date: September 19, 2008 of Regina Rams), tailgating (in the a finish line, or a home base to prog- ended, the Thunderbirds cheered and Time: 8pm CST parking lot) and the main event: the ress towards. Whereas in society this embraced extra hard, while the Bisons Location: Foote Field, Edmonton, Alberta annual Bison football Homecoming notion of an ending, finish or home is walked and grimaced extra softly. Such TV/Radio: Shaw/UMFM game (versus the University of British only figurative, in sports this notion are the feelings of finding home (the Manitoba Alberta Columbia Thunderbirds). is concrete and tangible. Baseball has Thunderbirds) — recognition, belong- Bisons Golden Bears My sorrows were intensified by the a home plate towards which base run- ing and (happy) ending, and losing calm, friendly and sociable demeanour ners must circularly advance; soccer home (the Bisons) — anonymity, 8th Rank unranked of the crowd around me. They all has a goal line that must be penetrated searching and dejection. 1-2 10-2 seemed to know one another, and yet, with a ball; and most clearly football Such is the importance of home. W-L there I sat secluded. The conversations has an end zone that must linearly be It represents tradition, like an annual 42 Points For 45 were all the same (insert individual reached. Homecoming game. It is a threshold, 77 Points Against 57 player’s name for “so-and-so”): It should come as no surprise then like an end zone. It can impart feelings “Your so-and-so is such a great that football, one of the most modern player.” of sports, originated in the latter-19th BISON WOMEN’S SOCCER GAME PREVIEWS “Is so-and-so starting today?” century when the world, in this case “Are so-and-so’s parents here as America, sought a clear indication that Date: September 6, 2008" Date: September 20, 2008 Time: 1pm CST Time: 1pm CST well?” it was advancing forwards, upwards Location: McMahon Stadium, Location: McMahon Stadium, “You and so-and-so should come and onwards. Watching a football team Calgary, Alberta Calgary, Alberta over for dinner sometime.” gradually drive down the field in small TV/Radio: None/UMFM TV/Radio: None/UMFM And “so and so” it went on. As it increments is like watching a micro- Alberta Manitoba Saskatchewan went on I felt farther from the comforts cosm of advancement and progression. Pandas Bisons Huskies of home — recognition, belonging and The crowd boos when their team fails unranked 6th unranked ending — until a larger, European- to advance, and it cheers when their Rank Rank accented, jovial-looking character team reaches the end zone — home 1-2-1 W-L 4-0-0 W-L 1-2-1 appeared. He did not seem to be one sweet home. 4 Points 12 Points 4 of the player’s parents, but everyone As we made our way from tailgating 3 Goals For 11 Goals For 6 either knew him or at least wanted to to University Stadium, my thoughts 7 Goals Against 1 Goals Against 16 know him. The questions and answers instinctively drifted towards the current fired from around the crowd, but one Bison players, who would be mentally stood out: preparing for the Homecoming game. ”Where are so-and-so and They were literally coming home — to so-and-so?” their home stadium, their home crowd, “She’s working and he’s in the Czech and their home comforts, after a devas- Republic.” tating 37-17 road-loss to the University The Czech Republic! of Calgary Dinos. And they would be Politics class: Once a “bridge” connect- looking to drive the ball home, into ing the west to the east that toppled the end zone, and score points, which eastward. they did so easily last season, to move Hockey history: The birthplace of forward from last week’s loss and away Jaromir Jagr, his novel European style from the spectre of last season’s Vanier of play and his anachronistic mullet. Cup victory. Additionally, there was Drunken backpacking memory: the added pressure of the team’s alumni for your love. Where I once (mouth agape, equally coming back home to watch the mod- repulsed and fascinated) saw a stripper ern version of Bison football. pull a four-metre string from a place The football game was much bet- you don’t normally keep string. ter attended than the earlier soccer Now, he is a long way from home, match. With University Stadium full I thought. On second thought, maybe of boisterous fans hoping for a home- we are a long way from his home. team victory. However, they were It did not take long before the left disappointed in the first half, as Bisons slotted the ball home to go the Bisons were unable to penetrate up by a 1-0 score line; veteran mid- their opponents’ end zone. Luckily, fielder Stephanie Rurak found, with a for the faltering Bisons offence, their long, searching pass, teammate Caley defence held strong not allowing the Miskimmin, who scored just four min- Thunderbirds to score a touchdown utes into the game. either. Instead, they forced them to For the rest of the game the visit- settle for field goals. So, at half time, ing Rams looked out of sorts, never the Thunderbirds led by 9-0. DESIGN BY GEMMOLOGIST threatening the home net, and were Eventually the end zone was crossed, LISA MALBRANCK lucky to not concede another goal, as but it was not the Bisons scoring a many Bison chances, including a Karli touchdown, it was the Thunderbirds. WHERE STYLE MEETS LUXURY Colpitts (of “Bisons Uncensored” fame) On a punt return in the fourth quarter, EXCEPTIONAL DIAMOND PRICES - ONLINE header that hit the crossbar, just missed Thunderbird Spencer Betts received the 1705 Corydon Avenue Winnipeg Manitoba the target. ball near the sideline, and cut laterally 488.9813 www.diamond-gallery.com With the home team comfortably across the field, before making a few winning at home, during the first would-be Bison tacklers look silly, as match, I continued contemplating the he quickly progressed 98 yards to the meaning of home, as I tailgated with end zone. Vol. 96 No. 6 September 17, 2008 WWW.THEMANITOBAN.COM