UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY R VVOLUMEOLUME 5500 IISSUESSUE NNO.O. 1111 SSEPTEMBEREPTEMBER 0033 22009009 Cover photo and design by Chris Pedersen editorial ® SEPTEMBER 3 2009 Editor-in-Chief: Cam Cotton-O’Brien 403-220-7752 [email protected] News Editor: Katy Anderson 403-220-4318 City hall’s short-sighted graffi ti gaffe [email protected] Entertainment: Jordyn Marcellus 403-220-4376 [email protected] he City of Calgary Sports: Jon Roe 403-220-2298 takes a hard-line stance [email protected] against graffi ti. On at Opinions: Ryan Pike 403-220-2298 T [email protected] least four diff erent web pages, the City declares that it is “a Features: Sarelle Azuelos 403-220-4376 [email protected] crime that aff ects everybody” Photography: Chris ‘Doc’ Pedersen 403-220-4376 and that it ruins the “natural and [email protected] architectural beauty of a city.” So, Production: Ændrew Rininsland 403-220-2298 when a project was announced [email protected] to off er young artists the chance Illustrations: Jen Grond 403-220-2298 [email protected] to tag Shaw Millennium Park, Academic Probation: Brad Halasz 403-220-2298 it seemed Calgary was getting [email protected] interested in helping to promote a Three Lines Free: Vacant 403-220-2298 vital part of youth culture. [email protected] Two days later, they shut Business Manager: Evelyn Cone 403-220-7380 [email protected] it down when graffi ti was Advertising Manager: John Harbidge 403-220-7751 sprayed everywhere, not just [email protected] on the designated space. People Graphic Artist: Ken Clarke 403-220-7755 reacted, stupidly, by completely [email protected] vandalizing Millennium Park, Network Manager: Ben Li costing the city an estimated $60– Contributors Laura Bardsley • Brent Constantin • Travis Dandro 80,000 in clean-up fees. What’s Allison Drinnan • Jeff Guanezo • Rhiannon Kirkland Eric Mathison • Daniel Pagan • Alastair Starke more, the vandals — and that is Adriana Sveen • Tristan Taylor what they are, vandals — used Golden Spatula incredibly disparaging racial and Brent Constantin, the only new volunteer brave enough to check out production night. sexual epithets in anger over the closing of the project. Furor Arma Ministrat Room 319, MacEwan Students’ Centre Th is “payback vandalism” University of Calgary 2500 University Drive NW was, simply put, the fault of trying to get back at them. wrongly, that there is no point to a city that didn’t want to follow Calgary, AB T2N 1N4 General inquiries: 403-220-7750 all the stakeholders. Th e City Secondly, fault for the program's in even off ering youth additional through on a project that had http://thegauntlet.ca needed to think this through shutdown belongs to the spaces to try their wares. Graffi ti some hiccups to start off with and The Gauntlet is the offi cial student newspaper of the University of Calgary, published most Thursdays throughout the year by the a little bit better — instead of program's participants. Th ey were art has been set back by this a group of youths who reacted far Gauntlet Publications Society, an autonomous, incorporated body. Membership in the society is open to undergraduate students at the making Dave Brunning (a.k.a the ones who initially felt they vandalism, with images of John too extremely for their own good. U of C, but all members of the university community are encouraged Th eKidBelo) the sole person were allowed to tag everything Mar standing in the ugly, graffi ti- to contribute. Opinions contained herein are those of the individual writers, and do not necessarily represent the views of the entire responsible for oversight of the and not follow a very simple laden bathrooms in Millennium Jordyn Marcellus Gauntlet staff. Editorials are chosen by the majority of the editorial board. The Gauntlet is a forum open to all U of C students but may project. Th ey also shouldn’t have rule — keep it to the designated Park etched into people’s minds. Entertainment Editor refuse any submission judged to be racist, sexist, homophobic, libelous, or containing attacks of a strictly personal nature. We immediately reacted by cancelling area. If they had just followed Th ese images associate the reserve the right to edit for brevity. Grievances regarding the Gauntlet follow a three-step process which requires written decisions from the project only two days into that guideline the City may have art-form as childish vandalism, CORRECTION: the Editor, the GPS Board of Directors, and the Ombudsboard. The complete Grievance Policy is online at: http://thegauntlet.ca. The its implementation. Skaters and decided to keep the program something future artists who In a story last issue [“Solar Power,” Gauntlet is printed on recycled paper and uses new/old editor-based graffi ti artists are a group of going longer, off ering new spaces attempt to mainstream graffi ti art Noah Miller], solar decathalon proj- ink. We urge you to recycle/begin another year at the Gauntlet. Letter Policy youths who believe themselves up for art graffi ti. in Calgary will have to deal with ect manager Matt Beck was mistak- Letters must be typed, double-spaced and received by Monday at 4 p.m., and must include the author’s name, student ID number, telephone to be persecuted by “the man,” Instead, with the vandalism head on. Sadly, mainstreaming enly identifed as Matt Ulinski. Th e number and signature. Letters will not be printed if they include attacks Gauntlet apologizes for any inconve- of a strictly personal nature, statements that discriminate on the basis and the closing was obviously of Millennium Park, city hall graffi ti will probably take even of race, sex, or sexual orientation, or libelous or defamatory material. All going to be seen as “the man” and the public will only believe, longer in Calgary now. All thanks nience this may have caused. letters should be addressed to “Editor, the Gauntlet,” and be no longer than 300 words. The Gauntlet retains the right to edit submissions. Letters can be delivered or mailed to the Gauntlet offi ce, Room 319 MacEwan Students’ Centre, or sent by email to [email protected]. contents After the fall out from the City of Calgary’s graffi ti project, Dave Brunning and John Mar discuss the fall out and what happens next. Page 22. news opinions sports ap entertainment The shiny, new vet school What’s the deal with swine Fresh off a Hardy Cup win Racism uncovered in the Learn all about Sexxxy, is opening its doors, while fl u? Plus, a dissection of last year, the Dinos foot- Mac Hall food court. The the U of C’s orientation the U of C prepares for modern lit and Calgary ball team prepares for the Academic Probation team week theatrical tradition. H1N1. Page 4 urban culture. Page 11. season. Page 15. investigages. Page 20. Page 24. 4 SEPTEMBER 03.09 GAUNTLET Editor: Katy Anderson—[email protected] news October 2004 Then Provincial Learning Minister Lyle Olberg Vet school moves in to new home announces the U of C will have a veterinary school by After a year at Foothills, staff, students get comfy in Spy Hill diggs 2006. August 2005 Daniel Pagan The university announces Gauntlet News the faculty of veterinary medicine will open Sept. 2006. long with 90 head of cattle, University of Calgary faculty of September 2005 The Alberta govern- A veterinary medicine students ment announces now have a place to call home. $16 million for the faculty of veterinary Th e Clinical Skills Building opened medicine. its doors Aug. 24. Located at the Spy Hill campus, the building off ers the vets-in- October 2005 U of C faculty of veterinary training opportunities to play around medicine dean Dr. Peter Eyre with state-of-the-art contraptions, such resigns, criticizing the project as animal ultrasound machines and the for being rife with politics and pushing ahead without secure biodigester — a large carcass-disposal funding. unit. Th e CSB is designed for teaching The University announces the project will be pushed vet students clinical skills and provides back to fall 2007. hands-on work with animals on-site, with almost 100 hectares of land. June 2006 Dr. Alastair Cribb hired Th e CSB’s opening is the fi nal mile- as the new dean. stone in a long timeline. In Oct. 2004, American Veterinary Medical Association MLA and then Minister of Learning Lyle visits the U of C for a Olberg unveiled plans for a new vet- consultative visit. erinary school in Calgary, hailing it as Chris Pedersen/the Gauntlet October 2006 necessary in the fi ght against mad cow An announcement is made and avian fl u. Five years later, the CSB’s Spy Hill campus’ Clinical Skills Building and surrounding 100 hectares will offer U of C vets-in-training opportuni- that the opening of the vet opening has faculty of veterinary medi- ties to play around with state-of-the-art contraptions and work with animals on-site. school will be postponed until fall 2008. The province cine dean Dr. Alastair Cribbs “thrilled.” announces an additional “Th e building design process was gold Leadership in Energy and Environ- clinical skills of a veterinarian.” hospitals and clinics throughout Alber- $64 million for capital funding, bringing the total started in earnest in the summer of mental Design standard, which means it “I feel extremely privileged to be ta during our fourth year,” said Clancy. to $80 million. 2006, during a time of building chal- met certain standards for environmen- studying at Spy Hill,” said Clancy. “Th e For vet students needing a break from lenges in Alberta,” explained Cribbs.