Where are the men in ECE?

Camosun moves ahead with Indie rockers Wolf Parade sexual-misconduct policy return to Victoria 2 VIEWS February 15, 2017 student editor’s letter open space Featuring: features Excess consumption must stop camosun’s student voice since 1990 Opening up the latest issue of Nexus to the middle spread to find JAYDEN GRIEVE our complaints about poverty echo CONTRIBUTING WRITER Next publication: March 1, 2017 invigorating, text-heavy features, as they have been of late, truly makes inside our empty vaults. Deadline: 9 am Monday February 20, 2017 me proud. Features are the peak of our plotline, the face of the paper Materiality is a spectre, pos- Name for me one good reason (literally), and, occasionally, the entities responsible for the grey hairs in sessing our body without our to shatter ourselves at work per- Address: 3100 Foul Bay Rd., Victoria, BC, V8P 5J2 managing editor Greg Pratt’s beard. 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Why waste any- Publisher: Nexus Publishing Society perspective. of one’s possessions begins to fill thing when life is so short it’s al- NEXUS PUBLISHING SOCIETY This issue’s feature is about men in Early Childhood Care and Educa- their mortal glass until their cup ready practically over? Reassess STUDENT BOARD MEMBERS tion; features writer Quinn Hiebert has written another one to remember. runneth over… and onto the table… what you think you need. There is Matt Gadd Turn to page 6 for the lowdown. and all over the floor. no denying that there are things that Jayden Grieve Speaking of our writers, if you want to get to know them a little better, Is it the American dream that you need. The extent, the extrava- Patrick Newman we’ve started a new column—Know Your Writers—where Nexus writers has suggested we buy until there is gance—these are what need to be Lynn Wohlgemuth answer a few questions that might be burning in your mind, such as what nothing to buy? I think most have reconsidered. Jennifer Wyatt drew us to journalism. Check it out on page 12. realized that the American dream Work less and buy a smaller MANAGING EDITOR Camosun College is moving ahead with their new sexual-miscon- is an ornamental cherry—fruitless house. Don’t buy things you will Greg Pratt duct policy; check out page 3 to get the scoop on that. And once you’re STUDENT EDITOR done with the issue, don’t forget to head over to our website to read our Adam Marsh web-exclusive stories, which are added regularly; see page 10 for a listing Don’t buy things you will never think about WEB EDITOR Mason Hendricks of some recent ones. again. Do things that you will have a hard time We’ve almost made it through winter here. There have been dark STAFF WRITER not thinking about every second for the rest of Adam Boyle times, light times, and everything in between. No matter what, keep on FEATURES WRITER keeping on. your life. Quinn Hiebert Until next issue, we hope you enjoy this one. As always, you are more STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER than welcome to write us at any time if you’ve got something that pertains Jill Westby to students that we should know about, look into, and write about. despite its beauty—that encourages never think about again. Do things ADVERTISING SALES Adam Marsh, student editor the instinctual acquiring habits of that you will have a hard time not Greg Pratt [email protected] our populace. thinking about every second for the 250‑370-3593 There are things—physical rest of your life. Experience. We are FREE Media (national) things—that will bring happiness, our biggest limiter. [email protected] 780-421-1000 but if an objective spyglass is turned Fruit is not ornamental, and it CONTRIBUTORS flashback to Mt. Material it becomes obvious is not meant to just sit decoratively Sean Annable that those things make up only a on our tables; fruit is meant to be Jordyn Goodwin 25 Years Ago in Nexus dusted snowcap. devoured. Jayden Grieve Buying is second nature to us. You can touch everything. Un- Patrick Newman it from a design perspective. Sorry Calista Pearson We’ve been told, despite our know- fetter yourself. Go, do, be; these ’bout that. Amber Peckham ing better, that physical things are all as important as have. To Wha…?: The Camosun College Finlay Pogue will make us happy, and we are buy a plane ticket costs as much as Matt Smith Business Network had a humorous slumbering in rising bathwater. buying an oversized Buddha statue, Felicia Santarossa column of sorts published this issue Too long have we ignored our bet- but buying the ticket is what would Aaron Stefik called “15 ways to deal with stress.” ter judgment in our health and in make Buddha happy. Amongst the silly ideas was num- Something on your mind? If you’re a our habits; we are buying to buy, You do not learn from things, ber 9, which was probably not the Camosun student, send Open Space scrambling for Tickle Me Elmos you learn from experiences. I am funniest thing ever printed in our submissions (up to 500 words) to and embroidered signs that say not berating you with anger; I am inky pages: “Leaf through National [email protected]. “bless this mess” while listening to begging you with everything. Include your student number. Thanks! Clip-art catastrophe: The story Geographic and draw underwear on “Lead in Carey water exceeds ac- the natives.” Sure thing. ceptable limits” in our February Camosun College fever: Let- All editorial content appearing in Nexus is property of the Nexus Publishing Society. Stories, photographs, and artwork 17, 1992 issue talked about how ter-writer Yvonne M. 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How do you feel about the quality of instruction at Camosun? by Adam Marsh

EMILY WOOD BRIANNA QUINSEY MAIA GRISCH GRAHAM WRIGLEY NICK HOLLAWAY REXX CURRAN “I think it’s great. I’m in the “I feel really good about “I really like it. The “It all comes down to the “I feel the quality is good. “Sometimes the teaching Nursing program and all it. I’ve been here for two teachers are very nice and professor or the instructor, I’ve had no problems with quality can be hit or miss. of the teachers are really years; the amount I knew relaxed and lenient with really. Some of them fly it.” Some teachers are really nice and really supportive, when I came here versus assignments; they’re very through the material a on it and then others, I and you can just tell that now is totally different. understanding of mental- little too quickly when they have a hard time going to they’re in it for the students’ The instructors are really health problems.” don’t really understand their lectures.” success.” engaged; they’re really who the students are that passionate, because you they’re teaching.” get to actually interact.” nexusnewspaper.com NEWS 3 community Camosun gets feedback on new sexual violence policy

Yates agrees that the feedback —from students and outside par- “Those that came gave us incredible thought ties—has been incredibly import- and are spending a great deal of time giving ant. She says that the guidance the college has received from outside some thoughtful feedback to it, pointing out parties has helped to make those where there may be gaps, where things might working on the policy aware of what it needs to address. work, and what the college can and cannot do.” “We’ve got to be inclusive when JOAN YATES we talk about this,” she says. “In CAMOSUN COLLEGE terms of students, faculty, and staff it’s about what they need from this policy. But from the external community it’s also some guidance be gaps, where things might work, given to those working on the draft on this issue; what we need to be and what the college can and cannot has played a big role in shaping the aware of, what language we use, do. This kind of conversation is document. and what’s the nature of this issue. incredibly helpful to us and helps “It’s been a living document, The external support has been in- us further understand this.” definitely,” she says. “There have credible, since we don’t have all Camosun College Student So- been extensive changes based on the answers, but there are folks in ciety external executive Rachael student feedback, and all the feed- our community that have a lot more Grant attended the first of the two back, really. That’s part of what I answers than we do. We want to do meetings; she says that the sessions really appreciate about this pro- this really well from the beginning weren’t just for the policy itself, but also to look at how education fits in to the conversation. “It’s been a living document, definitely. There “I thought the first session went have been extensive changes based on student JILL WESTBY/NEXUS really well,” she says. “It’s a part of Camosun vice president of student experience Joan Yates. the overall consultation process that feedback, and all the feedback, really.” ADAM BOYLE the first feedback session, held on has been undertaken so far and is a RACHAEL GRANT STAFF WRITER January 24, went smoothly. different format for folks to access. CAMOSUN COLLEGE STUDENT SOCIETY Camosun College is moving “There weren’t a lot of people, There were several tables set up and ahead with its drafting of a new sex- but there was some very deep and it was an opportunity for open dis- ual violence and misconduct policy. broad discussion,” says Yates. cussion of not only the policy itself, cess—nothing is set in stone, and and have a policy that meets the As part of this process, Camosun “Given the nature of this issue, but for education and resources that that the folks who are developing needs of individuals and is in place recently had community feedback that’s what we expected. Those that should be built around the policy this all have a very open mind when for a long time.” sessions, where students and others came gave us incredible thought and when it’s implemented.” it comes to the consultation that’s In accordance with provincial could make their voices heard. Ac- are spending a great deal of time Grant says that there have been being sought out. When feedback legislation, Camosun’s new Sexual cording to Camosun vice president giving some thoughtful feedback changes to the draft throughout the is given, it actually translates to Violence and Misconduct Policy will of student experience Joan Yates, to it, pointing out where there may process so far, and that the feedback change.” be implemented in May. NEWS BRIEFS

Camosun offers new other English-language-teaching Union, according to emails shown maximum of $50,000 to design their heading a conversation around the companies; through the agree- to Nexus. This is the latest in a idea. The submission deadline is 4 creation of an affordable space for live event program ments, Camosun will take new long line of events creating dissent pm on March 30; for details, visit arts in Victoria. The space would Camosun College is offering a students directly from these com- between the national student or- victoria.ca/popupsquare. include rehearsal areas, offices, new program, Live Event and Au- panies. Camosun brings in more ganization and BC member locals storage, and room for set building. dio-Visual Technician, in September than 1,600 students a year from (search “Canadian Federation of Local groups want oil The DVBA has created a survey of this year. The course focuses on overseas, with most students com- Students” at nexusnewspaper.com companies to pay up for companies to fill out about the photography, video production, ing from a few countries; through to get caught up). The CFS was also 50 groups from across British construction of this space; if you’re lighting, live and recorded sound, these agreements, the college hope recently in Ottawa to campaign Columbia have signed off on a involved with an arts organization, and camera and video production. to get students from more countries. for free post-secondary tuition in letter to municipal governments in go to surveymonkey.com/r/CTT- The 10-course program is estimated Canada. BC asking for Big Oil to pay their B6V5 to give feedback. to cost $14,450, which includes an Canadian Federation Victoria looking share of environmental and cli- -ADAM MARSH off-campus internship. See camo- of Students anger mate-change costs. Victoria’s West sun.ca for more details. Selkirk student union for creative ideas Coast Environmental Law was one Got a news tip? Email [email protected] to Camosun to bring in The Canadian Federation of from public of the groups that signed the letter. fill us in. more international Students (CFS), to which all Camo- The City of Victoria wants ideas Conversation sun College students belong—and on how to make Centennial Square Want to be a news writer? No students pay fees—recently showed up un- more inviting to families and kids. about art spaces in experience necessary! Email us or Camosun College has entered announced at Selkirk College in The city is seeking creative ideas Victoria begins stop by our office (201 Richmond into agreements with International Castlegar to talk to students without from qualified teams and people; The Downtown Victoria Busi- House, Lansdowne campus) today! College, Global Village, and four telling the Selkirk College Students’ the winner gets $5,000 as well as a ness Association (DVBA) is spear-

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MASON HENDRICKS WEB EDITOR “One afternoon I was supervising a group of If you’re in Criminal Justice at kids in arts and crafts—one girl, seven boys. I Camosun College, you’ve probably read Gordon Cruse’s Juvie, which is looked around and thought to myself, ‘Gord, a mandatory text in the program. you are the only person in here who hasn’t Good news for those who liked what they read: Cruse—a local author killed someone.’” and former juvenile detention guard GORDON CRUSE of 26 years—has a new book out, AUTHOR called Handcuffed by History. In this book, he delves into the lives of young offenders as they get some have went into what I would me away. Some of the torturous older, examining what they have call a mainstream kind of lifestyle, lifestyles they had to live when they done since they were in juvenile and some of them are surprisingly were kids might have contributed detention. He also addresses issues accomplished.” to their decision-making. One kid relating to the criminal justice sys- Cruse has been a foster parent said to me, ‘My dad used to really tem, a shortage of social workers since 1973, so he has lots of experi- be rough and hard on my mom. She needed to assist vulnerable youth, ence with social workers and other was a really heavy lady and he made and his time spent working as a foster parents. However, he admits her climb up a steep, rocky hill in the juvenile detention guard. And the that he was a bit thrown off by some winter to take drugs up to a meth lab Camosun connection continues: of the interviews he conducted for that was hidden up in the trees.’” proceeds from the sales of Juvie Handcuffed by History; some of Cruse witnessed firsthand both and Handcuffed by History provide the interviewees had committed the good and the bad sides of young bursaries, in memory of Reena Virk horrible acts of violence and were inmates during his time as a juvenile and Kimberly Proctor, to Camosun telling Cruse their tales. In an at- detention guard. He has watched students. tempt to write about these youth with a warm heart as some of these Cruse says that most of the inter- offenders from an understanding inmates blossom into product- views he did for the book were in point of view, Cruse heard dozens ive and law-abiding members of Western Canada and, although he of anecdotes and details of the sad society. tried to find women to participate, upbringings that some of the inter- “Some of these people, they’ve all are with men. viewees endured as children. done some pretty amazing things “It’s a fairly sensitive subject; “These people committed all after leaving juvie,” he says. “It’s it means something to them to be kinds of crimes, from shoplifting a not all a gloomy picture. I thought in the book, and they’ve told me chocolate bar or a sweater to mur- the most important thing I could do that,” says Cruse. “In their words, der,” says Cruse. “One afternoon, when I was at juvie was just to listen these people tell me what path their in the late ’90s, I was supervising a to the kids. I got called a few nasty life has taken since leaving young group of kids in arts and crafts—one names, and occasionally I would offender status and the crimes of girl, seven boys. I looked around and have to break up a fight, but the their teen years. About two-thirds of thought to myself, ‘Gord, you are the bottom line is where are they now, PHOTO PROVIDED the young men are able to turn their only person in here who hasn’t killed what happened to them, what effect Gordon Cruse examines the lives of young offenders in his new book. lives around; some are still in jail, someone,’ and that fact just blew has life in the centre had on them?” know your profs Camosun’s Tika Brown on chocolate, shopping, and learning

camosun’s student voice since 1990 ever happened to you as a teacher here? The relationships that I’ve cul- tivated with our learners and col- leagues. Oh, and the gym; I love Camosun student? the gym! Want to write for a 6. What’s the worst thing that’s ever happened to you as a teacher here? newspaper? It has, so far, been a really posi- tive and enjoyable experience for Join us. me. Camosun really is a great place to work and I feel very blessed to have the opportunity to make an JILL WESTBY/NEXUS impact on student learning and Camosun College Dental Hygiene prof Tika Brown. No experience experiences here. ADAM BOYLE in the Dental Hygiene diploma STAFF WRITER program. This is my third year at 7. What do you see in the future necessary! Know Your Profs is an ongoing Camosun College. of post-secondary education? series of profiles on the instructors Hopefully, more of everything at Camosun College. Every issue 2. What do you personally get that’s of benefit to our learners. we ask a different instructor at out of teaching? If you’re interested in Camosun the same 10 questions Fulfilment and a sense of mind- 8. What do you do to relax on volunteering at an in an attempt to get to know them ful, purposeful work. the weekends? a little better. Popcorn and movies! Also, I award-winning student This issue we caught up with 3. What’s one thing you wish sneak in a little bit of shopping—it newspaper, stop by our Dental Hygiene prof Tika Brown to your students knew about you? may be becoming a problem. talk about chocolate as a food group, That I learn just as much from offices at her possible shopping problem, and them as they do from me. 9. What is your favourite meal? Richmond House 201 her love of the gym. Chocolate… it’s a food group, 4. What’s one thing you wish they right? on the Lansdowne campus, 1. What do you teach and how didn’t know about you? email long have you been teaching at That I learn just as much from 10. What’s your biggest pet Camosun? them as they do from me. peeve? [email protected], I teach clinical and theory cours- Dishonesty and a lack of or call 250-370-3591. es, periodontology, and nutrition 5. What’s the best thing that’s integrity. nexusnewspaper.com LIFE 5 health Naked bungee jumping to promote mental-health awareness

“If I was in the hospital with a broken leg I would probably post it on Facebook and tell all my friends. But when I was in the hospital, in the psych ward, I didn’t want anyone to know.” ROBYN THOMAS MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS ADVOCATE

ual symptoms,” he says. “It was taken as seriously as other kinds terrifying. I was delusional, I was of illnesses or injuries. She will be hallucinating, I had problems with jumping, although she won’t be cognition and organized thinking… doing it naked—she finds bungee It was a scary time, because lots of jumping and public speaking fright- weird stuff goes through your head, ening enough as it is. She will also and you can’t even trust your per- give a speech about mental-health ception of reality. I’m doing lots of awareness and assistance; for her, public speaking, where I talk about even giving the speeches is con- the things that I’ve been through.” quering a fear. Robyn Thomas is a first-year “I think it’s a lot easier to talk jumper and mental health aware- about physical health,” she says. KARA UDELL A participant from a previous year bares it all and jumps for a cause during the Naked Bungy Jump for BCSS. ness advocate who will be speak- “For example, if I was in the hos- ing at the event. She sometimes pital with a broken leg I would MASON HENDRICKS more apt to be reaching out for help, our humanity comes forward, and volunteers for the Stigma Free probably post it on Facebook and WEB EDITOR which has created more need for ad- we can shine a light on the fact that Society, where she speaks to ele- tell all my friends. But when I was Bungee jumping is a way to con- equate assistance,” says Meredith. we have more in common than not. mentary-school, high-school, and in the hospital, in the psych ward, I quer fears. Bungee jumping naked “There is stigma out there. I think I have also had depression run in my university students. She became didn’t want anyone to know. Bungee is a way to conquer more than one stigma lives where people are fear- family, so mental-health issues are involved with the cause after having jumping definitely freaks me out a fear—and, at an upcoming event, ful, when we hear that mental health no stranger to my family and many her own recent brush with men- bit. Talking about my mental-health it’s a way to raise awareness for affects one in five people. Definitely folks that we know.” tal-health issues. struggles is something that I think mental health issues as well. just taking the time to listen to a First-year Camosun Psychology “I had my own experience with is fear-conquering enough. Public British Columbia Schizophrenic person creates a different space student Cameron Webster volun- psychosis a year ago,” says Thomas, speaking and presenting on mental Society (BCSS) administrative where humanity can be embraced.” teers for the BCSS and has partici- “so February 18 is a memorable date health is something that I do now coordinator Hazel Meredith, who Although she herself has not pated in the event in previous years. for me, because that’s when I was quite a bit, so I’m slowly getting helps manage the naked bungee personally struggled with men- “People come to jump, they released from the hospital last year. more comfortable with it.” jumping event at WildPlay Ele- tal-health issues, Meredith has come to spectate, they come to It was just a really dark time where I ment Parks in Nanaimo, says it’s certainly felt the ripples of mental speak, and some people come to do didn’t feel hopeful that I would ever about embracing fear, working hard illness, as it has affected her own all three,” he says. recover, so I thought it was kind of Naked Bungy Jump for BCSS against stigma, and making sure family. Webster has dealt with schizo- cool timing, too. I really just want to Saturday, February 18 that the organization is reaching out “I have lost members of my phrenia; he was hospitalized in the share my story and inspire people to to Monday, February 20 to folks who maybe didn’t think that family to suicide,” she says. “It summer of 2014, and it still affects be able to come forward and be able WildPlay Element Parks, recovery was possible or that help really touches so many more people him to this day, although now he is to talk about it.” Nanaimo was available. once you share your story, and once taking medication and is in a more Thomas also believes there is a 35 Nanaimo River Road “I think we’ve been making you do, they are usually more apt to stable condition. certain stigma attached to mental wildplay.com some great strides, and people are share theirs, and—lo and behold— “I still sometimes have resid- health, and that it is perhaps not literature Author Lee Maracle brings her beliefs to Victoria

cause they live in Salish territory and “Instead of the settler adapting to the new it would be good to have the original country, we had to adapt to the settler who took point of view,” says Maracle. “Nor- mally, when you move to another our country, and we’re hoping to change that country, you pick up the original over time.” language and culture that’s there; that’s not what happened in our LEE MARACLE AUTHOR case. Instead of the settler adapting to the new country, we had to adapt to the settler who took our country, sun as part of the Open Word: as well as a book of poetry, Talking and we’re hoping to change that Reading and Ideas event. She has to the Diaspora, also from 2015. over time.” been publishing books consistently “Memory Serves is really a ser- Lee says that she is proud of the since the ’70s, and Maracle says that ies of speeches that I’ve done over work that she has done and that she she first visited Camosun when she time,” says Maracle. “We thought has been able to see change over was 19 years old; this time around, they made a good response to col- time, which isn’t always easy. she will be reading from her newer onialism, and a good picture of “I believe in everything I’ve said, material. Stó:lō philosophy.” or done, or written,” says Maracle. “I’m probably going to read Maracle has spent plenty of “You are a little stone in a quiet pond from my new work, Celia’s Song. It’s time travelling the Salish territory, and your ripples go out no matter about this double-headed serpent which covers all of Vancouver Island who you are.” PHOTO PROVIDED and the struggle between the split and spreads down into Montana Author Lee Maracle will be reading for several nights in Victoria. Open Word: Readings and mind,” says Maracle. “It’s a novel and Washington. She has been Ideas with Lee Maracle JAYDEN GRIEVE I’m what I call a sovereign Stó:lō taking place in Stó:lō territory.” described as a walking history book, 7:30 pm Tuesday, February 28 CONTRIBUTING WRITER woman,” says Maracle. “I live my Though known more for her a skill she currently applies as an Open Space Lee Maracle is one of Canada’s life in a certain way, as did my grand- fiction, Maracle has also written instructor in the Indigenous Studies most prominent aboriginal writers. mother, my great-grandmother, my a number of non-fiction books, program at the University of Toron- 4 pm Wednesday, March 1 An active activist, she has travelled great-great-grandmother, and her in which she discusses her vast to. She is hoping to be able to teach Camosun College, Room 234, across Canada, written many books, mother, who was the princess of knowledge of aboriginal history and the people who live in the territory Wilna Thomas Building and proven that if you’re dedicated peace for our nation; my children issues. She says she will be reading a little more about Salish history. 7:30 pm Wednesday, March 1 you can make your voice heard. live this way.” from her new nonfiction book, “I would like them to get an idea Open Space “I live my life as I live my life. Maracle will be visiting Camo- Memory Serves, published in 2015, of who we are as Salish people, be- openspace.ca 6 February 15, 2017 FEATURE Where are the men? The ongoing gender problem in early childhood education

here’s this idea that something is inherently wrong with a man who wants to work with children. But to work with children, a male in early childhood education (ECE) must accept that he will be making LACK OF DIVERSITY Tless income and know that he will be working in a field that isn’t viewed as respectable by some. While he will be valuable in his field, society often sees the role of an early childhood educator as unnecessary. There’s s it stands now, diversity in ELC isn’t the norm. Camosun College offers priority seating for those with indigenous no doubt: his skills and abilities will be undervalued. ancestry and teaches students to be inclusive, but the industry continues to be filled with white females. Considering the patriarchal society we live in, it’s a bit hard to believe that a male would need to break into a A “They really want to be inclusive,” says Butler. “They’re like, ‘You need to be inclusive,’ and they teach you predominantly female field. But that’s exactly what men have been doing. Registered dental assistants, nurses, how to be inclusive. But I remember sitting there and being like, ‘Our program in and of itself is not inclusive. There’s only and early childhood educators are just three examples of careers that are still considered “women’s work” despite one male here in the program. There are no male teachers, and there are not a lot of teachers of colour represented in the a gradual increase in the number of men joining their ranks. faculty in this program. This is a program run by all females, all white, and all of them [from a] middle-aged demographic.’ Our society being what it is, men bring credibility with them. And that means jobs like ECE aren’t “women’s But the program itself was teaching how to be inclusive; I got my specialization in inclusive care. It did teach inclusion, it just work” at all; they’re respectable career choices. With talk of unions, a demand for an increase in wages, and a more didn’t practice what it preached. At the same time, it probably couldn’t. There are just so few male ECEs that there probably rough-and-tumble style of play, men are changing the face of while keeping it what it always was—nurturing. weren’t enough male ECEs who then went back to school, got their master’s, and were able to teach at Camosun, to be fair.” But if men in ECE are so important, where are they? Eryn Krieger is a second-year ELC student; in his first year in the program, two male ECEs spoke with his class. Krieger is hopeful that times are changing, but he says that the lack of men interested in joining ECE is disheartening; he, for ex- ample, is the only male in his program. “Unfortunately, myself, I haven’t had any experiences with younger students that were interested, or younger men that are interested in joining the program,” says Krieger. “I’ve only met people who have already graduated. I think it’s kind of a commentary. Not all of my friends are necessarily your stereotypical males; I think a lot of them would be perfectly suited to the job and would make great educators, but I think there’s such a huge economic stress on them, and a lot of social stigma GETTING PAST GENDER NORMS and stereotypes that they probably don’t feel comfortable in confronting and challenging.” Krieger says that ECE is not something that very many males are encouraged to look at when trying to figure out a career, adthusiasm” may not be a widely used word—and it’s definitely a made-up word—but the men who exude which he says is a social problem. He feels there are many benefits to males being in ECE. dadthusiasm genuinely love being around their kids. These positive male role models are unafraid to show “Crime rates, recidivism rates, just how it would affect society if we did have positive male role models for children—I “Doff pictures of their kids, tell stories, and just generally gush. They rush home to support sick partners or think it could change a lot,” he says. “And I think a lot of countries in the world already know that, and that’s why they do children and take an equal part in raising their kids. So why is it so hard to believe that there are men out there who would spend a lot of their money on early childhood programs and making sure they’re quality programs. They know there are like working with children? economic benefits to it, there are social benefits to it, there are cultural benefits to it. There’s no reason that you wouldn’t Camosun College Social Science chair Daniel Reeve says that he associates the primary values of ECE with children want to invest in that. I can’t think of a reason not to.” having a balanced—and varied—perspective on what it is to be nurtured and cared for. Camosun ELC program leader Enid Elliot agrees that there are benefits to having men in the field. “I know there’s a fair bit of research that suggests that children need to see caregivers who identify as male or female “For children, it’s wonderful to have men working with them, partly because it’s just wonderful to have a different kind who are nurturing and mothering,” says Reeve. “And it’s especially important for children to see typically male characters of energy,” says Elliot, “and I think we could probably talk about all the different issues around gender roles and things like as nurturing and loving, because that has long-term benefits for the children. I think it’s important, in terms of socialization, that. But as it is now, children need to have a diversity of relationships, and I think men can offer perhaps a different type for children to see adults—of whatever gender identification—as caring, nurturing, loving, playful. You know, whatever of relationship, or a different perspective on the world.” quality you need for children to be raised in a healthy way. Not just one gender-identified group, but from a variety of them.” Elliot says that she doesn’t think people understand how difficult it is to be a good early childhood educator, and that the Local early childhood educator Steph Butler, who is a recent graduate of Camosun’s Early Learning and Care (ELC) lack of understanding contributes to a lack of respect for the line of work, as well as the low wages early childhood educators program, says that even though there are advocates for men in ECE, there are a lot of reasons why men would shy away get paid. She says that she wishes she could take people to well-run programs and show how an early childhood educator from the field. has to be thoughtful, flexible, creative, and energetic… and also how it’s not just women who can do it. “I’ve talked to other male ECEs,” says Butler. “Not that I knew them—it’s just because, over the years, Camosun stu- “I think people think it’s babysitting,” says Elliot, “which is really, I think, a dismissal of children and their amazing dents have brought up the subject of gender in the field of ECE, and there are three or four of us that can always come in abilities and their intelligence. To just assume that anybody can do this job, and that somehow it’s also innate in women and out, and I’ve been a staple. I’ve got their viewpoints of why there’s just so few. One of the things is it’s never really an that they can do it, as opposed to men? I’ve been doing this over 40 years, and I find it discouraging at times that people option. No one really goes, ‘Oh, yeah—you can be an early childhood educator.’ I remember when I was younger and I did would assume that.” career and personal planning, it never came up. The things I got were police officer, janitor, and teacher. But nowhere in there was early childhood educator.” Butler says that even though most of the men he’s talked to over the years love kids, few of them considered becoming an early childhood educator. “SOMETHING MUST BE WRONG WITH HIM.” “All my friends that are dads love their children,” he says, “and, literally, were like, ‘Yeah, given the choice, I would take pat leave and let my wife go to work, so I could hang out with my son or daughter.’” ne big obstacle stopping men from wanting to become early childhood educators is the wages. The lower pay Traditional gender roles teach children different things. Girls are taught to be nurturing, submissive, and quiet. Boys for what has historically been women’s work means that men are less likely to sign up for the job. Elliot says are taught that they are entitled to what they want—and to hide that they have any emotional capacity past anger. So is it Othat might change if the wages go up a bit. impossible for men to be nurturing, caring, and loving? Reeve sure hopes not. “I mean, they shouldn’t be low for women, either,” says Elliot, “but I think maybe women are more used to that.” “I think not only is it totally possible, it’s vital and extremely important that children are raised by men or women or Elliot also points to the aforementioned stereotype that if a man enters this line of work, his motives should be questioned. whatever their gender identity who demonstrate a variety of characteristics,” says Reeve. “I’m not so quick to identify “I don’t think it’s so prevalent now, but I think maybe in our society, we have a bit of suspicion of men who might want characteristics with gender, and I’m not quick to replicate those in my children. It’s important for young children to have to work with young children, and we don’t want them working with babies and toddlers and there’s a worry about that, experiences with men and women in a variety of emotional capacities. It’s important, especially I think for young boys, to although we have a couple of wonderful men in child care who have worked with infants and toddlers. But on the whole, have the capacity and the environment to express a wide array of characteristics that maybe traditionally were associated I think there are probably social and economic factors that work against men in our field. The perception is, ‘What is he with being ‘girlish,’ but that construct is not meaningful anymore.” doing, working with children? Something must be wrong with him.’” Reeve says that it’s important to liberate our kids from the gender constructs that we’ve made as a society, and he hopes Considering that the first five years of a child’s life are fundamentally important in the development of a child’s brain that with men entering ECE we’ll become more aware of some of those constructs. and future abilities, having a diverse group of people for children to look up to—and relate to—is important. When asked “I think we’ve made progress in allowing women to play hockey. I don’t know if we’ve made as much progress allowing what he gets out of working with younger kids, Krieger says that although it sounds cheesy, it’s the joy of learning. boys to experience activities that were traditionally gendered,” he says. “What I’m trying to avoid saying is, ‘Yes, you need “The children are always pointing stuff out to me that I had no clue about,” says Krieger, “just things that they’re pas- men in there so they can teach these kids to be rough-and-tumble.’ You do, but that’s not the only quality that men can and sionate about—say, dinosaurs, or different types of trucks, like a cement mixer and how that works—stuff that I don’t even should bring to the table.” think about, every day, that they’re so passionate about. They really just remind me how to look at the world with curiosity, and the love for learning that they naturally have, which I think is what we need to cultivate, especially as educators. I think it’s just helping them figure out what they’re passionate about and finding out how you can extend that for them.” The role of an early childhood educator is vital, and it’s encouraging to see men slowly entering the field. Early childhood educators work closely enough with children to spot behavioural challenges and learning difficulties. An increase in the number of men in ECE means that children might get the opportunity to test their physical capabilities a little more often, and it gives men someone to talk to. It can help break down gender stereotypes and traditional gender roles. It can show the children of today that men can be sensitive and that work doesn’t have to be so segregated. And it can give men the chance to see the world through the eyes of a child—a chance that women have long had as early childhood educators. FEATURE nexusnewspaper.com 7

Story by Quinn Hiebert, features writer Where are the men? Illustration by Matt Smith/Nexus The ongoing gender problem in early childhood education

LACK OF DIVERSITY s it stands now, diversity in ELC isn’t the norm. Camosun College offers priority seating for those with indigenous ancestry and teaches students to be inclusive, but the industry continues to be filled with white females. A “They really want to be inclusive,” says Butler. “They’re like, ‘You need to be inclusive,’ and they teach you “They really want to be inclusive. They’re like, how to be inclusive. But I remember sitting there and being like, ‘Our program in and of itself is not inclusive. There’s only ‘You need to be inclusive,’ and they teach you one male here in the program. There are no male teachers, and there are not a lot of teachers of colour represented in the faculty in this program. This is a program run by all females, all white, and all of them [from a] middle-aged demographic.’ how to be inclusive. But I remember sitting But the program itself was teaching how to be inclusive; I got my specialization in inclusive care. It did teach inclusion, it just there and being like, ‘Our program in and of didn’t practice what it preached. At the same time, it probably couldn’t. There are just so few male ECEs that there probably itself is not inclusive.’” weren’t enough male ECEs who then went back to school, got their master’s, and were able to teach at Camosun, to be fair.” Eryn Krieger is a second-year ELC student; in his first year in the program, two male ECEs spoke with his class. Krieger STEPH BUTLER is hopeful that times are changing, but he says that the lack of men interested in joining ECE is disheartening; he, for ex- CAMOSUN ALUMNUS ample, is the only male in his program. “Unfortunately, myself, I haven’t had any experiences with younger students that were interested, or younger men that are interested in joining the program,” says Krieger. “I’ve only met people who have already graduated. I think it’s kind of a commentary. Not all of my friends are necessarily your stereotypical males; I think a lot of them would be perfectly suited to the job and would make great educators, but I think there’s such a huge economic stress on them, and a lot of social stigma and stereotypes that they probably don’t feel comfortable in confronting and challenging.” Krieger says that ECE is not something that very many males are encouraged to look at when trying to figure out a career, which he says is a social problem. He feels there are many benefits to males being in ECE. “Crime rates, recidivism rates, just how it would affect society if we did have positive male role models for children—I think it could change a lot,” he says. “And I think a lot of countries in the world already know that, and that’s why they do spend a lot of their money on early childhood programs and making sure they’re quality programs. They know there are economic benefits to it, there are social benefits to it, there are cultural benefits to it. There’s no reason that you wouldn’t want to invest in that. I can’t think of a reason not to.” Camosun ELC program leader Enid Elliot agrees that there are benefits to having men in the field. “For children, it’s wonderful to have men working with them, partly because it’s just wonderful to have a different kind of energy,” says Elliot, “and I think we could probably talk about all the different issues around gender roles and things like “I think there are probably social and economic that. But as it is now, children need to have a diversity of relationships, and I think men can offer perhaps a different type of relationship, or a different perspective on the world.” factors that work against men in our field. The Elliot says that she doesn’t think people understand how difficult it is to be a good early childhood educator, and that the perception is, ‘What is he doing, working with lack of understanding contributes to a lack of respect for the line of work, as well as the low wages early childhood educators children? Something must be wrong with him.’” get paid. She says that she wishes she could take people to well-run programs and show how an early childhood educator has to be thoughtful, flexible, creative, and energetic… and also how it’s not just women who can do it. ENID ELLIOT “I think people think it’s babysitting,” says Elliot, “which is really, I think, a dismissal of children and their amazing CAMOSUN COLLEGE abilities and their intelligence. To just assume that anybody can do this job, and that somehow it’s also innate in women that they can do it, as opposed to men? I’ve been doing this over 40 years, and I find it discouraging at times that people would assume that.”

“SOMETHING MUST BE WRONG WITH HIM.” ne big obstacle stopping men from wanting to become early childhood educators is the wages. The lower pay for what has historically been women’s work means that men are less likely to sign up for the job. Elliot says Othat might change if the wages go up a bit. “I mean, they shouldn’t be low for women, either,” says Elliot, “but I think maybe women are more used to that.” Elliot also points to the aforementioned stereotype that if a man enters this line of work, his motives should be questioned. “I don’t think it’s so prevalent now, but I think maybe in our society, we have a bit of suspicion of men who might want to work with young children, and we don’t want them working with babies and toddlers and there’s a worry about that, although we have a couple of wonderful men in child care who have worked with infants and toddlers. But on the whole, I think there are probably social and economic factors that work against men in our field. The perception is, ‘What is he doing, working with children? Something must be wrong with him.’” “There’s a fair bit of research that suggests Considering that the first five years of a child’s life are fundamentally important in the development of a child’s brain and future abilities, having a diverse group of people for children to look up to—and relate to—is important. When asked that children need to see caregivers who what he gets out of working with younger kids, Krieger says that although it sounds cheesy, it’s the joy of learning. identify as male or female who are nurturing “The children are always pointing stuff out to me that I had no clue about,” says Krieger, “just things that they’re pas- sionate about—say, dinosaurs, or different types of trucks, like a cement mixer and how that works—stuff that I don’t even and mothering. And it’s especially important think about, every day, that they’re so passionate about. They really just remind me how to look at the world with curiosity, for children to see typically male characters and the love for learning that they naturally have, which I think is what we need to cultivate, especially as educators. I think it’s just helping them figure out what they’re passionate about and finding out how you can extend that for them.” as nurturing and loving, because that has The role of an early childhood educator is vital, and it’s encouraging to see men slowly entering the field. Early childhood long-term benefits for the children.” educators work closely enough with children to spot behavioural challenges and learning difficulties. An increase in the DANIEL REEVE number of men in ECE means that children might get the opportunity to test their physical capabilities a little more often, CAMOSUN COLLEGE and it gives men someone to talk to. It can help break down gender stereotypes and traditional gender roles. It can show the children of today that men can be sensitive and that work doesn’t have to be so segregated. And it can give men the chance to see the world through the eyes of a child—a chance that women have long had as early childhood educators. 8 ARTS February 15, 2017 music Wolf Parade return to where it all began with new EP

“We’re a lot more grown-up from when we started, a lot more experienced.” ARLEN THOMPSON WOLF PARADE

Parade released a couple of EPs on experienced,” says Thompson. “I their own before their first album, think everyone’s a lot more confi- Apologies to the Queen Mary, was re- dent in what we’re doing. We kind leased by Sub Pop Records in 2005. of found a process for songwriting “Victoria is a great city to wood- that worked really nicely. I think we shed, to develop your thing,” says were really able to put together a Thompson, “but it’s a really hard really great group of songs.” place to develop your career because With back-to-back shows this you have to take the ferry every month—including three nights in time you want to leave the island to Vancouver, followed by two here play somewhere. Montreal is great in Victoria—and plenty of side because you’ve got so many big projects for all band members, cities close by: Toronto, New York, including Thompson’s two-man Boston, Philadelphia. In Montreal, project Anunnaki, Thompson and when I first showed up, the city the other members of Wolf Parade wasn’t really happening. We had have no intentions of slowing down. friends, the Arcade Fire, and we “We have some festival shows were playing shows with them and through the spring, we’re finishing PHOTO PROVIDED Camosun alumnus Arlen Thompson (third from left) is returning to town with Wolf Parade. watched them really blow up. It was off the record, we’re doing some pretty amazing, and we watched touring this summer, we’re doing PATRICK NEWMAN titled EP in early 2016 (yes: fourth be a good time. Dan came out from that whole city transform in a lot the Vancouver and Victoria shows,” CONTRIBUTING WRITER self-titled EP). Montreal and we just jammed a little of ways. We were in the right place says Thompson. “We realized that After a six-year break, BC-born/ “For quite a while everyone in bit and talked about a few things, at the right time.” when we came back together again, Montreal-bred indie rockers Wolf the band was kind of spread over and if we could do it again what we’d Wolf Parade have put in years of we needed to give the west coast Parade are returning to Victoria. For the four corners of the earth,” says want to change. Then we started hard work to make their new record, some love. It’s going to be a lot of drummer Arlen Thompson (who Thompson, who currently lives in making music again and it felt good which they’re looking to release this fun playing Sugar for old friends was in the University Transfer pro- Nanaimo. “Spencer [Krug, key- so we decided to get back into it.” summer. They’re also working with and family.” gram at Camosun in 1999, when he boardist/vocalist] lived in Finland While the band members began producer John Goodmanson, whose also penned some Nexus articles), and Dan [Boeckner, vocalist/guitar- playing in different bands in Vic- previous production credits include Wolf Parade proximity and timing played a large ist] lived in San Jose. Spencer moved toria, it wasn’t until they met in albums by Hot Hot Heat, Sleater Saturday, February 25 (sold out) part in the band reuniting, recording back to the island, so now with three Montreal that their friendships Kinney, and Pavement in the past. Sunday, February 26 new material, and touring again of us on the island it made sense that and musical careers took off. After “We’re a lot more grown-up $29.50, Sugar Nightclub after the release of their fourth self- if we were going to do it, this would forming in 2003 in Montreal, Wolf from when we started, a lot more sugarnightclub.ca art Cooking and dancing form unlikely alliance in new performance exhibit

dancing ability and his cooking that zone and to lose it. His sense of skills into a show that enchants the timing is amazing; I’ve never seen audience. anyone that can do something so “When we approached Tony, perfectly on the first attempt.” he said, ‘Oh, I’ve always wanted During the performance, Chong to put these disciplines together.’ prepares a dish that the audience can What this allowed was to ask Tony come and taste after it’s finished. As to basically forget about dancing with most cooking, senses play a at first, and we got him to chop for significant role; Navab says that hours to see where things could one second the audience will just become playful. That’s the energy be sitting there and the next they’re of the show. The playfulness is the hit with the overpowering smell of craziness of the rituals; the insan- ingredients, which is all timed with ities that might be in the action the show itself. don’t come from the stage but from “Tony is actually making a dish everyday action. Tony has been that the audience then rushes on- really great at being able to control stage to consume,” says Navab. these boundaries.” “The multisensory aspects of the With routine practices like cook- show are huge. You have this strong ing, it can become hard to produce point in the piece where you have a show that doesn’t seem staged or garlic and onion and a type of sauce scripted. Plus, simple things like that hits the audience in a strong chopping, boiling, and seasoning way. They’ve been watching for PHOTO PROVIDED can become robotic actions and can about 40 minutes and then suddenly Practices of Everyday Life: Cooking brings together art, dance, and cooking in one performance. seem boring to some. Navab feels they’re hit with this strong, familiar, ADAM BOYLE along by visual media prompts and says Navab. “That means there’s that Chong brings these actions delicious smell. This is all timed so STAFF WRITER large moving projections. a intersection where sometimes to life and grabs the audience’s that the sounds and the visuals that Cooking is great. The smells, Composer Navid Navab says everyday life becomes playful, and attention well. go with it really immerse you into taste, and presentation of a dish can that he hopes that this performance then we can suddenly transform it “As the audience, you don’t feel this environment.” go a long way, working together to is able to transform the boringness from its mundaneness and impro- like he is performing playfulness,” bring the art of cooking into day- of everyday life into something vise new ways of being and living.” says Navab. “As soon as you sense Practices of Everyday Life: to-day life. exciting. For Practices of Everyday Life: someone is performing playfulness, Cooking A new art performance, Prac- “As the title suggests, it’s about Cooking, Navab enlisted the help of it feels staged. At some point Tony 8 pm Sunday, February 26 tices of Everyday Life: Cooking, everyday life and what’s happening professional dancer and chef Tony becomes so playful that he almost $11, Open Space combines two popular art styles— in everyday life and packing it with Chong, who, according to Navab, becomes violent, insane, or ritual- openspace.ca dancing and cooking—and is helped potential for improvisational play,” seamlessly brought together his istic. Tony’s really able to go into nexusnewspaper.com ARTS 9 music Local conductor brings Beethoven’s humanity to Victoria FELICIA SANTAROSSA CONTRIBUTING WRITER Local conductor Yariv Aloni “To hear this music scoffs at the idea of calling a com- live, it’s something poser “dead.” After all, their music irreplaceable; it’s is alive, he says. As the musical director of the Victoria Chamber bigger than life, Orchestra (VCO), he will be con- bigger than anything.” ducting what he calls “timeless music” here in town on February YARIV ALONI 17, when he brings Beethoven’s CONDUCTOR music to locals. “It never gets old,” he says about Beethoven’s work. “No matter how old it is and how many times you’ve already done a few of the German played it, it’s as if it were written composer’s works and unanimously yesterday; it’s always fresh. The decided to keep going. music is incredibly alive and to hear “I felt there was such a feeling it live, it’s something irreplaceable; in the orchestra of achievement,” it’s bigger than life, bigger than he says, “and I said, ‘I think I want anything. For us, the players, to able more.’” to be in it and produce the sound is It’s easy to think that people the most thrilling thing.” would become bored playing the This is Aloni’s 23rd year con- same artist’s music over and over ducting the VCO; at this event he again, but Aloni says that’s not will be conducting what he says the case. are two very different symphonies. “It’s the humanity of his voice, Aloni says the iconic fifth symphony the sheer humanity in all aspects,” is relentless and one of the hardest he says. “It’s incredibly complex, symphonies to conduct, since the and simple. The feelings are so instruments are playing all together profound. You have all the emotions PHOTO PROVIDED Conductor Yariv Aloni calls Beethoven’s compositions “timeless music.” for nearly the entire piece; he says like you have in any great music, but the second symphony has a bit of a it’s on such a profound level. With being able to hear, so the results are not so much what I want,” he says. Beethoven’s 2nd Symphony rebellious side to it. Beethoven, you have hundreds and unbelievable.” “If I’m able to help them bring the in D and 5th Symphony in C “[It’s Beethoven] kind of testing hundreds of pages of revisions and When it comes to those results, best out of themselves, they don’t Minor the water,” says Aloni, “seeing how notes and ideas and crossovers and the task for Aloni isn’t so much really play for me, they play together. 8 pm Friday, February 17 much interruption and a rebel he sometimes an incredibly violent way about creating what he wants to I’m there to help them do that and $15 for students (free for music can be.” of erasing something without even hear as it is about guiding the or- to inspire them and to focus them. students) The choice to take on Beethov- erasing it. You can feel the struggle chestra through the piece. I just help them achieve it, so it’s First Metropolitan United en’s symphonies happened almost of how to make it the best, and of “It’s thrilling when the orches- really their achievement, which is Church (932 Balmoral) by fluke, says Aloni. The VCO had course his own life struggle of not tra really comes together, but it’s the real celebration.” victoriachamberorchestra.org review New Music Revue

Gracie a one-woman success those who wish to listen to provoca- tive music. as it rose, and the light of the moon -Jordyn Goodwin as darkness fell. While the per- formance itself was relatively quiet outside of Beaudoin’s voice, the use of sound and music in the show was incredibly effective for seamless scene transitions. Betraying the Martyrs The set itself was simple. At first The Resilient it seemed a little distracting from (Sumerian Records) the performance and at times felt 4.5/5 Le Trouble a touch unfitting to the theme of Paris-based deathcore band Making Matters Worse the play; however, Beaudoin made Betraying the Martyrs’ third full- (Indica Records) excellent use of the space provid- length, The Resilient, is fierce and 3/5 ed to convey her story, so the set electrifying. appeared to fade away as the play Riddles of political statements Making Matters Worse is the progressed. She often made use of find their place in the lyrics while first full-length album from Mont- simple hiding places on the stage to beckoning an intense emotion real-based pop band Le Trouble. stow things away and out of sight within the listener that wills them I didn’t expect much as I began from the audience until it was ne- to listen further. Lyrically, the album listening to the first song on the cessary to pull them out. Through is profound; the instrumentation is album, “How Was I to Know,” as it her acting and the use of light and astounding, weaving it all together takes a long time for the lead singer sound, I could really envision each perfectly. to kick in, something I didn’t like scene she described. By the end My personal favourite song is very much. But I was surprised by of it I could barely notice the set DAVID COOPER “The Great Disillusion,” with its the later songs, especially “What behind her. Gracie is a solo show that compels, thanks to Lili Beaudoin’s performance. heart-wrenching lyrics that are Do You Want from Me,” which has Beaudoin gave a stellar per- pumped with adrenaline through a unique pop sound. “Anywhere AMBER PECKHAM The unique perspective of the formance onstage. Her character the poignant vocals. Another fa- but Here” and “Fistful of Glitter” CONTRIBUTING WRITER character made for a very compel- showed a unique perspective on a vourite is “Lost for Words.” had awesome beats as they started. Going into Gracie at the Belfry ling story. Beaudoin made excellent controversial topic. The one-woman Unfortunately, some songs, Making Matters Worse is a pop Theatre, I didn’t expect a single use of the space in the theatre to show that is Gracie is certainly such as “Unregistered,” lack a di- album, but I can hear some rock and actress to be capable of holding project her voice to the audience in worth a watch for the experience verse vocal range. This shortcoming indie influences as well. The songs the attention of an audience for a very powerful way. that Beaudoin provides. in variety can be seen in a few other generally have a head-bobbing a full 90 minutes. However, Lili The production itself was well tracks as well, but overall the album groove, but they do start to sound Beaudoin’s enthusiastic and believ- put together. The use of lighting makes up for it. similar after a while. Although the able performance of Gracie—a girl with Beaudoin’s performance Gracie The Resilient is undoubtedly vocals didn’t have much range and growing up in a polygamist society helped convey the sense of time Until Sunday, February 19 worth a listen, although a few parts are slightly out of key, the fast beat in Bountiful, BC—did just that, passing, the feeling of seasons Various prices, Belfry Theatre felt slightly repetitive. Regardless, made up for it. and more. changing, the warmth of the sun belfry.bc.ca I highly recommend this album to -Calista Pearson 10 EVENTS/COMICS February 15, 2017

what’s going on by adam boyle

of Nature. The three films cover three Tuesday, February 21 bc.ca/events/spark-to-flame for different First Nations groups across to Sunday, March 12 more info. Canada who are all fighting for caus- es. Admission is by donation; the Taking off with a friend Saturday, February 25 films will be screened at the BCGEU Taking Off, a new comedy play about and Sunday, February 26 Hall at 2994 Douglas at 7 pm. See a middle-aged, middle-class mom victoriafriendsofcuba.wordpress. wanting to get away on vacation with Love like a red rose com for more info. her friend, is coming to the Belfry Victoria Mendelssohn Choir is Theatre. Visit tickets.belfry.bc.ca looking to sing away the cold this Thursday, February 16 for tickets and belfry.bc.ca for more season with some romantic songs. to Sunday, February 26 information about the play. If you’re interested in having people serenade you, the choir will be at St. Mozart’s magic Thursday, February 23 Peter’s Church on February 25 and Pacific Opera Victoria will be pre- 26. Tickets are $20 and are available senting Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Victoria was good at at Russell Books, Ivy’s Bookshop, a tale of love, comedy, and magical hockey too and other locations. For more info, music, at the Royal Theatre. This Once upon a time Victoria won the email [email protected]. performance includes some of Moz- Stanley Cup. You heard that right: PHOTO PROVIDED art’s famous classical compositions. Sunday, February 26 Share your thoughts on Camosun’s newest building on February 20 and 27. our city won the cup. The Victoria Tickets are between $25 and $135 Historical Society is presenting the Innovating the Until Thursday, February 23 secretaries. Tickets are between and are available at rmts.bc.ca. talk “When Victoria Won the Stanley grooves of India $10 and $14 and can be bought at Cup” at the James Bay New Horizons Monday, February 20 Juno-winning artist Kiran Ahluwalia Get high ticketrocket.co. Centre; admission is $5. If you’re Have you ever wanted to sing? The and Monday, February 27 interested in this event, visit victor- is performing at the University of Victoria’s Farquhar Auditorium this Gettin’ Higher Choir is looking for Until Saturday, March 4 Speak up iahistoricalsociety.bc.ca, and check new additions to their troupe this out nexusnewspaper.com for our month. Ahluwalia’s music combines spring season. All voices welcome; From utopia to dystopia Want to share some thoughts on web-exclusive story on this event. Indian grooves with Saharan desert no audition necessary. The choir will Local artist Neil McClelland has Camosun’s future health sciences blues and western jazz. For ticket be recruiting until February 23; for Everything Is Being Perfected, a new building? Come check out some Saturday, February 25 information, visit tickets.uvic.ca; designs for the planned Interurban full dates, times, and locations, visit exhibit showcasing his latest work, Igniting musical spirit see more details on this and other gettinhigherchoir.ca. up at Deluge Contemporary Art until building and ask questions at these events at uvic.ca/auditorium. March 4. For more info, check out two sessions, which are open to Spark to Flame 2017 is coming to Until Saturday, March 4 deluge.ca. students. The first one is from 10 am the Alix Goolden Performance Hall Tuesday, February 28 to 1 pm on Monday, February 20 in on February 25. Spark to Flame is a Starting the next phase Get secretarial Thursday, February 16 rooms 320 and 321 at Campus Cen- classical music concert that features New country band Nice Horse will The Age of Arousal, a play set A night of social justice tre at Interurban; the second is from students of the Victoria Conserv- around the 19th-century women’s 9 am to 12 pm on Monday, February atory of Music performing alongside be playing at the Save-on-Foods suffrage movement in London, is The Victoria Friends of Cuba is 27 in room 151 in the Library & Learn- professional musicians. The concert Memorial Centre on February 28 as coming to Theatre Inconnu this hosting a social justice film night, ing Commons at Lansdowne. See will feature several soloists as well part of their tour with Canadian icon month. The play focuses on three screening Cloud Makers, The Last camosun.ca for more info. as larger bands. Tickets are $6.65 Tom Cochrane. For more info, visit sisters who are new to a school for Stand for Lelu, and The Great Laws online or $5.25 in person; see vcm. nicehorsemusic.com.

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1. “Toronto’s USS return to second home Victoria,” February 1, 2017 2. “Gracie a one-woman success,” February 8, 2017 3. “Playing to win: post-Gamergate, gaming is no longer a man’s world,” February 1, 2017 4. “It’s always the season of the witch in Victoria,” October 23, 2012 5. “Two spirit: beyond sex and gender,” April 2, 2014

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Victoria Film Fest movie reviews! We sent our movie critic Finlay Pogue to the VFF to review a whack of movies. Head over to nexusnewspaper.com to see what he has to say. nexusnewspaper.com COLUMNS 11

Dearest Reader by Aaron Stefik Calculated Thought by Sean Annable A proposal: the battle of the bathrooms has only just begun Personal information is a commodity

Dearest Reader, Our generation is very educated, mere access to online services is It is well understood that the Our war will be a bitter one, I concede, and a but we also face a tougher job mar- fair compensation for the use of our ket than our parents did, so, it’s information. ever-mighty marching feet of the venture not won but for the valiant fighting spirit feminist movement have traversed a befitting that we should learn how Ethical questions were raised long and unsteady ground through- of our legions of iron-hearted soldiers, amongst to make sound financial decisions recently after reports that both out the preceding decades. The vic- whom the only sexual orientation accepted is in a changing economic landscape. the Brexit “leave” campaign and tories of suffrage and legal gender Since many say we are entering a Donald Trump’s presidential cam- equality long behind us, the most justice. new knowledge economy driven paign hired Cambridge Analytica, noble endeavour has fallen to our by information, I’d like to shift the a UK firm that specializes in data generation’s finest and bright- conversation from matters of money analytics and audience targeting. est to find new enemies, and to that any reference to the supposed organize a sit-in of the bathroom to the value of information. Using a branch of psychological defeat them. This they have now existence of one gender or another stalls. Though the fear has been done long and proudly, but be not must first be expunged from our raised that the former forces may complacent, dearest reader! That society, should we hope to achieve lack the proper equipment to com- selfsame abhorrent scourge whose true equality. plete their mission, I am told that If we are willing to accept a world where our heel first ground unthinkingly the Our war will be a bitter one, I their sheer fortitude will more than online activities are tracked and monetized, we high-minded spirit of the feminist concede, and a venture not won account for this. The sole obstacle cause remains rooted deeply, as but for the valiant fighting spirit of of objection raised to our plan of need to ask ourselves if mere access to online some noted writers have recently our legions of iron-hearted soldiers, attack concerns the fear that an services is fair compensation for the use of our observed, in the heart of Camosun’s amongst whom the only sexual insufficient number of our feminist own society. orientation accepted is justice. We forces still constrain themselves to a information. I write, of course, of the den of shall begin the new campaign with single expression of gender, that we inequity which remains in the form an assault upon what enemy-oc- could divide our forces as planned of the vast majority of the college’s cupied territories remain, sending for the assault. bathrooms. To be sure, a handful of our troops of either gender into the One engagement is not the war, CBC’s Marketplace recently study known as psychometrics, our establishments of bodily relief washrooms of their opposites in and the latter will be one of attrition, aired a story where the producers the firm uses a data model that can have been liberated from the gender protest of the foeman’s exclusion- it must be admitted. But be it as- developed a daily horoscope app predict personality profiles based binary, by the hand of our ever- ary policy. Our female forces will sured, Mary Wollstonecraft herself that was free to download, with all on peoples’ digital footprints. It’s ready social soldiers, but is this yet conduct a full frontal assault on the would beam with pride at the battles the usual permissions requested unclear what role they played in sufficient? Surely, logic must follow, urinals, while our male troops will we have chosen. from standard apps, and later the success of these campaigns, showed users what information but it’s noteworthy that the Cam- they had given up. It was unnerving bridge University model—which The Bi-weekly Gamer by Adam Boyle to see that participants had shared Cambridge Analytica’s model is their texts, phone logs, locations, based on—can reportedly predict What Super Smash Bros. needs and photos without their knowledge someone’s answers to private, per- to the creators of the app. sonality-based questions better than Flashback to 16 years ago: example—top esport, huge viewer figure out what the largest events in It’s not just apps that peek at our that person’s partner could, using Nintendo has just published the base, and a solid foundation for the scene are or what player is worth data and sell it. Facebook, Google, only data from 300 Facebook likes. second title in its Super Smash the competitive scene. Switch back watching. What the game really and Microsoft do it; credit-card What was the value of this kind Bros. series, Super Smash Bros. to Melee and you have a growing needs for it to take off and provide companies sell our purchasing of information for Trump’s cam- Melee. Ring any bells from years esport and a growing viewer base, a stable starting point for its future information. It’s up to us to fight paign? Depending on the sources, past? Melee has over these 16 years but hardly any structure or founda- is a proper league system. for transparency. If we are willing the number is between $5 million become one of the most beloved tion at all. Players are signed on to Now this doesn’t just apply to to accept a world where our online and $15 million. The data, however, “have your friends over and beat teams like in any other game, but Melee; the other games in the Smash activities are tracked and monet- was all kindly donated by folks like the snot out of each other” games there are so many tournaments go- Bros. series also have this issue. If ized, we need to ask ourselves if you and me. of all time. ing on at once that you have players the series hopes to last among the Surprisingly, this game—and constantly scattered across North other game giants, someone some- series—has stood the test of time America at these events. where will need to set up a proper and has evolved into one of today’s This isn’t only a problem for the league for the players, be it singles or top esports. players who have to travel constant- doubles match-ups. As a game that camosun’s student voice since 1990 As I did research into the com- ly; it’s a problem for the viewers who holds great nostalgia for me, seeing petitive Melee scene, I discovered hardly ever have a single stream to something like this in place to help You draw Submit samples to: Nexus, a fatal flaw that could prevent the watch or a noticeable tournament keep the series strong would be a 201 Richmond House, series from staying at the top of the to pay attention to. It’s also why very nice gift from Nintendo— or comics. Lansdowne campus, or email tables in the upcoming years. Take I haven’t covered the game for so from some of those rich tournament [email protected] a game like League of Legends, for long, as it’s near impossible to even organizers.

To See or Not to See by Finlay Pogue The Player a film about filmmakers making films

“meta”: a piece of art, literature, device to draw the viewer in further. appreciate what Altman has done are this way, so inventive that every theatre, film—anything—that is Examples of this include Deadpool with this picture. minute with them brings some- self-referential, self-conscious, (2016) and the abominable Sausage For example, in the opening thing intriguing and new. These about its own existence. Party (2016), where, in absence shot, the roving camera eavesdrops are generous films, films that are so In the art world, there’s Andy of direction, message, ideas, and on a pair of men discussing the bril- alive they can’t help but share their Warhol’s pop-art “Campbell’s Soup laughs, the filmmakers turned to liance of Orson Welles’ own open- idiosyncrasies with the audience. Cans”; literature has Miguel de Cer- making fun of themselves—their ing shot in Touch of Evil (1958)—an It’s worth noting that these vantes’ Don Quixote; in film, there’s medium and their characters—and immensely complicated three-and- movies are all in the meta strain of Robert Altman’s The Player (1992). other celebrities, leaving the viewers a-half minute virtuoso shot. filmmaking, with Annie Hall and But what is vital to note is that asking themselves why they should Altman then proceeds to extend Pulp Fiction drawing attention to the Altman, like the great artists before bother watching a film when even its his own opening shot to the eight- editing structure of films, andBeing him, uses the meta aspect in his film creators didn’t care about it. minute-plus range, and you can’t John Malkovich drawing a parallel not for cheap laughs or celebrity The Player is much more closely help but smile at its superfluousness between the voyeuristic tendencies cameos but because the story needs related to Adaptation (2000), where and at its technical brilliance—and of the cinema and spying on John it. Without it The Player would the filmmaker/writer team was so at no point does the audience feel Malkovich by being inside his head. merely be a ’90s crime film, and not full of ideas that they couldn’t help like Altman is taking a shortcut or Perhaps The Player’s greatest the dashingly clever, enthralling, but loop the story back to their own referencing the past because he’s drawback is that to really appreciate elbow-nudging work that it is. reality—a practice that implicates out of ideas in the present. its intricacies one must be willing to Like most good things, though, the audience in a surprisingly im- The greatest films are the ones do the research—to watch the films meta’s reputation for being edgy or mediate way. In that vein, The Player that feel as though they’re so full it references—and be aware of its The Player clever has been severely tarnished— is so dense with references—verbal of ideas that you could watch them great, winking intelligence. 4/5 so much so that some would sug- and visual—that it demands not again and again and never quite This is a film made by a film- gest meta is no more—by feckless only that you watch it multiple plumb their depths—Annie Hall maker about filmmakers making In art there exists the now-well- screenwriters and directors who times, but also that you watch its (1977), Being John Malkovich films. It knows what it’s doing, and documented phenomenon of the lean on it as a crutch and not as a influences; in doing so, you will (1999), and Pulp Fiction (1994) all it asks is that you keep up with it. 12 PUZZLES February 15, 2017

february 15, 2017 issue word search contest Find the hidden Nexus and win The theme for this issue’s word search is... this issue. We took a bunch of words that were based on stories in this issue to create this puzzle. From Beethoven to consumerism, from naked to wolf, it’s all here, and it shows what a diverse and interesting issue this is. As an added bonus, one of the words below does not relate to a story in this issue. If you can figure out what that word is, come in to the office and get yourself a freeNexus T-shirt. Find the words on the left in the puzzle on the right; as always, stop by the Nexus office (Richmond House 201, Lansdowne campus) if you complete this puzzle to pick up a prize. Have fun! U B O X E A V T W D W V J R L E U S A L B U Y S W Y I P C S BEETHOVEN BETRAYING V N N E B E T R A Y I N G D S BUNGY CHILDHOOD E G V F U E Y B G N I K O O C CONSUMERISM R Y Z I O T D O H L X Z M O Q COOKING EARLY Y T E L R H V U D E K A N H N EDUCATION ENVIRONMENTAL D I C A T O E H C O R S Z D E EVERYDAY JUMP A P M U J V N P D A U W V L Z LIFE MARACLE Y B G X Q E Y M C M T H K I Y GREG PRATT/NEXUS MARTYRS G F P E V N J L E W X I F H H Let’s see if you can find this copy Last time around, the issue was NAKED of the last issue of Nexus, which hidden behind a display case on the PARADE V Z G S W O E R E N B G O C T we hid somewhere at Camosun main floor of the Young Building. RECONCILIATION R E C O N C I L I A T I O N N College’s Lansdowne campus. This time around, it’s a bit tougher. SEXUAL The first person to find this copy Who will find this issue’s hidden TROUBLE of the paper and bring it in to our Nexus? Happy hunting, and bring WOLF E G L C U S U I P A R A D E H C F J N M K F A P X I L L X S office wins themselves a free prize! it to us once you find it! U L L R L F F D Z A U Q Y Y B know your writers Nexus student editor Adam Marsh gets honest

dent on her struggle with mental health, and I had to ask her for details regarding her self-harm (instruments she used, how it made her feel to cut) and her stay at Eric Martin Pavilion. She was very trans- parent, and it was rewarding, but my heart was pounding the entire time. It’s interviews like that that make me so proud of what we do here.

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