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E-mail Joel at [email protected] from the editor. Joel Tichinoff Editor-in-Chief By other means Who wins in the battle between defence and education? Joel Tichinoff elders, for those with responsibilities. of apathy, we fail to mobilize ourselves Editor-in-Chief As Bank of Montreal economist Tim and when decisions are made, young O’Neill, advisor to the Nova Scotia people are too small a voice at the table, government on the future of universities, if they’ve bothered to show up at all. We say that war is the continuation of recently put it in a CBC interview: War happens when the wheels of politics by other means, and politics “People who are 35 years old with a economics and politics grind to a halt. the continuation of economics by small family are dramatically different When push comes to shove. At that other means. War, for all its horrors, is than an 18-year-old who is single and point, young people have no choice the quickest way to force a transfer of fancy free.” but to be involved, un-informed or not, power, recreate order, and produce real It’s no problem to acknowledge and, although we didn’t do the decision- change. Yet the burden of waging war the “dramatic” differences between making, we inevitably end up getting has always fallen to a group traditionally a 35-year-old and an 18-year-old, but the most shoving. absent from the waging of politics and labeling of young people as “fancy The federal government is currently economics. free” is a problem. Not just because this moving towards the purchase of 65 new Mike Roache Young people are rarely aware of is how we are perceived by the rest of warplanes, which will cost Canadians the means by which they are exploited. society, but, more importantly, this is too $16 billion. These are to replace a Like many exploited groups, their LETTERS, COMMENTS & RESPONSES often how we perceive ourselves. current fleet of warplanes that recently exploitation is grounded in a limited We don’t care because we tell underwent a $2.6 billion upgrade. [email protected] participation in political and economic ourselves we shouldn’t. For the most How many Canadian lives does $18.6 decision-making. What sets young part, young people willingly keep billion in fighter-bomber jets save? people apart from other groups ourselves uninformed and uninvolved. Average student debt in Canada is wandering the basements of the halls of What’s worse, those young people $18,800. power is that young people, en masse, who are informed, are involved and Why is it that when young people are are powerless almost by choice. want to make change are left to beg for needed to fight and die the full resources We tell ourselves that we’re young for concessions from their power-holding of the country are put at their disposal, a good time, not a long time. We eat elders. yet when we try to prepare ourselves to up the myth that youth is the time to be There is great work done by young live good lives we are told to go to the free from all but the most immediate activists but in general, as a demographic bank? and selfish concerns; that big ideas and and a force for change people our big decisions are best left to those who age punch far below our weight. Out -JT ‘know better,’ that worrying is for the POSTGRADUATE CERTIFICATES

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Dal from above. Change is in store • • • Photo supplied by the Campus Master Plan Samantha Durnford Both Burt and Lamb believe this concerns of a different nature. He says Assistant News Editor Campus Master Plan is crucial to the the new residence would be built where development of the university as a the new Gradhouse now sits. The university is getting ready for some whole. “We want to make sure this building big changes. With the release of the final “I don’t think, in our climate you can (the Gradhouse) stays here. We just Dalhousie Campus Master Plan, a large have a good university without good got it,” says Snow. “With what they’ve scale overhaul of public spaces and space,” says Burt. “If you don’t have a invested in this place, I don’t think they’re university buildings is underway. physical environment that is exciting, going to tear it down, but I’m not worried Ken Burt, vice-president of finance vibrant, and inspiring, it’s going to be about next year. I’m worried about five or and administration points to a stack of difficult to attract the quality of student ten years from now.” papers about eight inches high that is and faculty required to run a university. The proposed residence will have 300 piled behind his desk. So (this plan) is absolutely critical.” beds. As Dalhousie enrolment continues “Background studies were done," Some students share the to grow, more rooms are critical. he says. "An awful lot of work went into administrations excitement about Burt says residences are strategically making the plan." the changes. Others, however, have important to the university because The master plan, outlining the concerns. more than 50 per cent of students are framework for re-vamping and Hannah McNutt, a third-year history from outside Nova Scotia. He expects rebuilding campus, has taken just and English student, says she thinks the the percentage to increase to 60 per over two years to complete. It outlines campus overhaul will be positive. cent. wheather it's worth it for Dal to keep a “More group work spots are needed,” Under this multi-purpose residence, building and renew it, or to tear it down she says. She also doesn’t think the $600 there will be office space and they’re and start over. million price tag is too much. hoping for two levels of underground Overall, when this plan is finished, Dal “As long as it makes significant parking. According to the master plan would have spent about $600 million. changes and benefits everyone, it’s really an estimated 11 per cent of Dalhousie However, the Board of Governors not that much money at all.” students and 39 per cent of staff & faculty has not approved $600 million worth of Tareq Abedzadeg, a third-year, agrees drive to work on campus, meaning projects yet. Right now, only $100 million with McNutt. there’s a need for almost 2, 000 parking dollars of funding has been approved. “I think the plan is positive because spaces. You can see these changes popping up it will better represent Dal as a place The campus plan hopes to take into all over campus. to learn,” he says. “New technology account a sustainable future. “The Mona Campbell and the Life and new buildings will bring in more As of Nov. 1, Dal will switch from Sciences Research Institute are together students, which is a good thing.” burning bunker oil to natural gas to heat about $100 million worth of work,” says Some students seemed concerned and light campus. This conversion is Jeff Lamb, assistant vice-president of with the price tag of the project as a “absolutely huge,” says Burt. facilities management at Dalhousie. whole. He says it will save money and help our The plan includes a lot of things all over Waleed Kadray, a fourth-year history carbon footprint. He says a $33 million campus. A re-structuring of University major, thinks Dal needs to conserve remodel of the LSC, to be completed by Avenue to create bike paths, more money, not spend it. March 1, is also shrinking the university's learning hubs, a new multi-purpose “That $600 million could go towards total carbon footprint. residence building, and an upgraded lower tuition,” says Kadray. “Saying they “You don’t see a lot of it, but the Dalplex are all part of the bigger picture. want to raise tuition, they should spend lighting has been replaced; the air “We have a $200 million deferred the money elsewhere.” handling system replaced; roof and maintenance bill,” says Burt. “So, a lot He says that he’s afraid the money will windows; electrical system replaced,” of the buildings that we have that we’re be coming from students’ pockets. says Burt. The LSC building was built in using just aren’t worth fixing.” “This money needs to come from the early 1970s. He refers to a facilities condition index somewhere, is it going to come from Lights have also been replaced at (FCI) that measures the cost of fixing students? Where else will it come from?” Wickwire field that are cheaper and the building to the cost of replacing But every student consulted said they consume less energy. gazette poetry the building. Preferably, a building on can see that campus is aging. So what The changes to University Avenue campus should have a 10 per cent will happen first? would promote active transportation on FCI measure. Right now, the Glengary “We’ll take down Eliza Ritchie Hall, campus by making the North lane car- is back. residence has a 50 per cent FCI, and build a new fitness facility, move the stuff free. Studley Gym is practically toppling over in from the Dalplex and then we will have “We have a long way to go but at least with a 51 per cent FCI. Overall, Dalhousie a completely upgraded fitness facility,” we’re addressing the problem and really is at about 15 per cent FCI for its entire says Burt. that’s all we can do,” says Kent.” SUBMIT YOUR POEMS campus and the master plan aims to get The new residence is set to be built on The master plan is intended to be this number lower. LeMarchant Street, across from Risley carried out over the next 10 years. While “The campus master plan helps Hall. But some students have a problem all the construction and funding have not [email protected] us prioritize these repair or replace with this location. yet been approved, the plan provides a projects,” says Burt. Eric Snow, president of the Dalhousie framework for the future. Association of Grad Students has some • November 4 - November 11, 2010 5 news Homecoming loses money Dallaire praises Dal for innovation DSU alienated by Alumni planners Project launched in Halifax will focus on youth engagement

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Organizers say Homecoming was a mixed success. • • • Photo by Abram Gutscher Laura Conrad “The book will be there as a reference, Governor Mayann E. Francis welcomed News Editor along with the information on the the audience, followed by former child Torey Ellis One of the members of the band, website,” he says. “Essentially, the first soldier Ishmael Beah. Staff Contributor Zedfoo, was stopped at the Canadian step is to inform … if you join our force, “What affected me is still affecting On Oct. 26, Romeo Dallaire declared border by passport issues, and couldn’t we will provide you with the information hundreds of thousands of children war at Dalhousie University. Although DSU president Chris Saulnier play Saturday night. and we will hopefully energize you. around the world,” Beah told the The retired lieutenant general and says that the homecoming celebration Nevertheless, Hannah Dahn, VP Become engaged, as young activists, audience. “We must put in laws that Liberal Senator was here to launch Zero this year was a “mixed success,” the Student Life, says that the show was to stop these conflicts that are based on apply to everyone equally.” Force, a movement that asks people student union potentially lost thousands “really successful.” At the council using your peers as instruments of war.” Equality was also a point Dallaire to “enlist” to end the use of children as of dollars on the events. meeting, Dahn said the union is looking In comparison with his first book, touched on when he spoke to the soldiers in conflicts around the world. Saturday’s LMFAO concert in the into paying the band a reduced rate for Shake Hands with the Devil, Dallaire says audience. Dallaire, who witnessed the failure of McInnes room was sold out days before their performance. he feels more optimistic about his new “There isn’t one of us that counts humanity during the Rwandan genocide it happened, but a revenue of $29,375 The rest of the Homecoming events, book. more in the face of humanity than of 1994, talked to The Gazette about from ticket sales for the LMFAO and Saulnier said in council, were planned by “(I now have) a target that I feel anybody else,” he says. “We are talking why it was important for the movement Sloan concerts was not enough for the the Dalhousie Alumni Association. is going to prevent conflict, so I feel about children who are just as children as to begin at Dal. DSU to break even on their spending. He feels that the association optimistic,” he says. “Because of the our own.” “We have been working with other The DSU’s budget for a Fall Fest was disengaged the student body by hiring flexibility of youth, I really feel we will be Dallaire’s book is now available at universities to advance the research, but approved before the university decided Zed Events, an event planning company able to reduce the number of conflicts in book stores everywhere. Dalhousie’s the one that demonstrated to host a Homecoming weekend. That owned by Robert G. Zed, a member the world.” “The book is meant to be a troubling the most innovative and concerted money, combined with the headliner of the Alumni Association, to plan the The Ondaatje auditorium was packed reference,” he say. “We are among the interest in the project,” he says. “It wasn’t budget earmarked for bringing big weekend. with attentive listeners on the night of the 11 most powerful nations in the world. just the department or the professors. bands to Dal, added up to around Although, Saulnier says, the planning book launch. Nova Scotia’s Lieutenant We can’t sit back anymore.” This place vibrated, and so that’s why $20,000. corporation created an event that we came here. We could have gone to However, on organizing and would appeal to alumni, the campus other places, but this place was the most producing the concerts (paying for environment needed a different responsive.” staffing, promotions and security), approach. FREEDOM! MONEY! TRAVEL! According to Dallaire, there are Saulnier says that the student union spent “We weren’t really plugged in,” says currently an estimated 250,000 child well over $50,000. With sponsorship Dahn. “If students don’t have a good soldiers, many younger than 10. Through ...WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT? coming only from the President’s Office, homecoming while they’re students, the Child Soldier’s Initiative and his new this resulted in a net loss. they won’t be involved as alumni.” Zero Force campaign, Dallaire hopes great britain . ireland . france . germany If the executive spend more than Jim Wilson, incoming president of the to recruit 2.5 million activists in support $10,000 of student union money on Alumni Association agrees with Dahn: austria . australia . new zealand . usa of ending the use of child soldiers. He anything, the expenditure needs to be “Engaged students create engaged hopes that, aside from signing up to japan . china . south africa . thailand approved by council. alumni,” he says. support the campaign, young people When challenged by senate He was surprised that the DSU will become actively involved in the representative and DSU councillor Ben felt alienated from the planning of cause. Wedge at the Oct. 27 council meeting Homecoming. “I certainly hope they “The aim is to get (students and about shortfalls in Homecoming didn’t,” he says. “We simply needed youth) to become activists. We provide revenue, the student union executive more horsepower and expertise. The the information, but we expect them said that the loss would be paid partially DSU certainly were involved.” to engage themselves not only locally, by the Frosh headliner budget. The rest Wilson also agrees with Saulnier in but overseas,” Dallaire says. “A big would need to come out of the DSU’s classifying the long weekend as a mixed part of this is for the youth to go into savings, or the university will need to success. “We did very very well in certain the field, and feel and see and smell help out. events, and other events could have what’s happening to their peers in these Saulnier says that it is too early to figure been better attended,” he says. countries. Then, to bring that back and out the exact losses, although he does “We have to try to re-engage alumni,” continue their activism. say that “a portion of our sponsorship he continues. “Sometimes it’s hard to “It’s meant to be very interactive. It’s funding for the events fell through.” get people out for the first one.” not about just signing up to a little event. However, he will not disclose the details “It’s a building year. The fact that we We expect you to be engaged, we of sponsorship agreements. even did it—I mean, you build it, and expect you to be advocates, we expect The DSU was in charge of planning they will come.” you to want to go out there and get your the Sloan and LMFAO concerts, but Wilson adds that he has received boots dirty.” encouraged students to attend the no negative feedback from those who Along with beginning the new Alumni Association-organized tailgate attended any of the events, although campaign, Dallaire also launched party and football game. he acknowledges that any “naysayers” his new book at Dal, They Fight Like “It was okay,” says second-year likely wouldn’t have gone to the events Soldiers, They Die Like Children. Dallaire student Emily Murrell, who attended the in the first place. says the book intends to serve as an party and football game. The party was For next year, he says, the focus is educational tool in support of the global sparsely attended. The footbal game on getting more sports teams and TO DISCOVER ALL OF YOUR WORK ABROAD OPPORTUNITIES movement. was sold out, the revenue of which went societies involved in Homecoming to VISIT TRAVEL CUTS IN THE STUDENT UNION BUILDING, to Dal Football. bring in larger student participation, and LOWER LEVEL OR CHECK OUT WWW.SWAP.CA Even the sold-out DSU-hosted organizing it for earlier in the year, to take LMFAO concert hit major snags. advantage of milder weather. 6 November 4 - November 11, 2010 • news

environmental justice. David Bush, one of the organizers and a Gazette writer, news briefs says he hopes the conference will Overhauling the provide a space for more discussion of Violence, Faith, and Peace Student Union Building “bigger, strategic issues.” The event will be wheelchair In a council meeting on Oct. 13, accessible, lunch will be provided and Dalhousie Student Union councillors childcare will be available upon request. heard a proposal by the University The event is pay what you can, although administration for major changes to the there is a suggested $10 donation. The Student Union Building. These changes deadline to register for the Solidarity A multifaith panel and discussion could affect food services, as well as an Halifax conference is Wednesday, expansion of the building itself. Nov. 10. For more information, email The expanded SUB would go out to [email protected] on the eve of Rememberance Day where the Gradhouse used to be. The proposal would also require the student Dal students union to give up control of the food secretly filmed services in the building. If the proposal Recently, Dal Security sent out an email is accepted by the DSU executive, the to students warning them to be careful of Wednesday November 10, from 7-8:30 pm project will not be completed until someone who has been filming women September 2013. The DSU councillors without consent. The videos, posted on are currently in the process of reviewing YouTube by a user called LeggingSpy, Rm 303 of the Student Union Building a formal draft of the proposal. focused on women wearing leggings, sometimes with the camera being Conference for aimed up their skirts. radical Solidarity Police believe the camera was hidden On Sunday, Nov. 14, an all-day from sight, most likely in a book bag or Panelists include: conference will be held at the Italian camera case. Cultural Centre at 2629 Agricola Street. The videos have since been removed The conference is called Solidarity Rev. Brad Close, Christian—Christian Reformed from YouTube, but not before they Halifax, and its purpose is to gather received thousands of views. Security community members concerned about continues to urge students to use Dr. S Swaminathan, Hindu the lack of solidarity in the community in caution and report any suspicious times of economic difficulty. behaviour to the security office and the The conference will also feature Rev. Adrian Fish, Buddhist—Soto Zen police. discussion on relationship building, and improving communication in order —Laura Conrad Imam Syed Muhammad Shah, Muslim—Shi'a to better address issues of social and News Editor

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opinions gazette opinions welcomes any opinion backed up with facts, but we don’t publish rants. E-mail Katie at [email protected] to contribute. opinions. Katie Toth Opinions Editor Give to the rich, steal from the poor Stand up for women Dal community must struggle for inclusive community Britain’s austerity targets Robin Hood Julie Sobowale the Centre joined the Black Ribbon change is to get involved. That includes Opinions Contributor Coalition to protest the Halifax Regional taking responsibility. We the Dalhousie School Board’s (HRSB) 2003 decision to community, particularly women, must Recently the Dalhousie Women’s Centre remove the race relations coordinator remember that this is our Centre. We as (DWC) has come under criticism for position. The case eventually went to the a group need to be engaged if we want disruptions in keeping the Centre open Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission to make a change. and lack of volunteer commitment. (NSHRB) in 2006, which found there was We need the Centre more than While I cannot predict what the future a human rights violation. ever. The so-called 'Sleepwatcher and holds for the DWC, I do know what we Another case that struck me was the recent posting of YouTube videos need: more voices in the conversation. the staff’s involvement with Pandora, invading women’s privacy are disturbing. I’ve worked as a DWC volunteer for a Nova Scotia feminist magazine. We still need to fight to make Dalhousie the past two years. My most notable Published in the early 1990s, the paper University an inclusive, supportive contribution has been my evaluation of was nearly shut down when a human environment for women and men. DWC advocacy and policy as highlighted rights compliant was filed against them The best way to affect change is to A statue of Robin Hood defends Nottingham, England. • • • Photo by Ian Britton in my report at the end of the summer. for failing to print a letter from a male come together and speak out. The Leilani Graham-Laidlaw £6,500 to £7,000 ($10,600 to $11,400). The Gazette reported on the DWC’s reader. The Centre became a part of recent DWC membership meeting in Current Affairs Columnist The other alternative being presented struggles in an Oct. 8 article, “Dalhousie the Coalition in Support of Pandora and September was helpful but we need to is a "graduate tax," where 2.5 per Women’s Centre fights to stay open.” staff members helped coordinate public move forward. The only way for this to The British government is selling cent of any student's salary would be I’ve also heard a few rumours floating relations during the two-year ordeal. The happen is if people are willing to stand Sherwood Forest. Whether or not automatically taken by the government around about poor DWC leadership magazine stayed open and the NSHRC up and be leaders of the DWC. Robin Hood, Little John, and Maid for 20 years after they graduate. No and Centre operations. The only way to found no human rights violations. The Centre will hold its annual general Marion existed, I'm fairly sure they'd be matter how much they make, no matter move forward is to speak out in public These cases demonstrate how meeting on Nov. 8 at 6:30 p.m. in the horrified with all the foreign millionaires' what they studied. and confront any issues we have about our Centre can make an impact in Student Union Building. Where we playgrounds that will be popping up While the average tuition for an running the Centre. our community. The coalitions were go from here will be decided at the over the next few years in a forest that's undergrad in the U.K. is still a little higher The staff completed significant work successful because of their shared meeting. I encourage all who care about been protected by British law since 1215. than the current Canadian average of in the past in fighting for human rights. commitment to fighting oppression. the Centre to attend. If we want the The Tories are starting to take austerity $4,942 (up to $5,138 in 2011), it doesn't Centre volunteers have been involved Our Centre contributed to that effort. situation at the DWC to improve, we measures a little too far. Britain, they say, mean that we should turn a blind in residence workshops, marches and The purpose of my report was must participate in creating a stronger, is so mired in debt that they're willing to eye to drastic tuition increases and letter campaigns. The most impressive to discuss policy issues but to also more inclusive Centre. sell out Robin Hood's home, along with ridiculous austerity measures that are cases I came across in my advocacy encourage women to participate in Julie Sobowale is a DWC volunteer and about 925,000 acres of public land—half barely justified by a fear-mongering review was the Centre’s work with the the management and operation of former Editor-in-Chief of the Dalhousie of the total held by government. government. Black Ribbon Campaign. In this case the Centre. The best way to provoke Gazette. Worse, they say the government is The debt-to-GDP ratio in Britain is 64 so far in the hole that they are slashing per cent, meaning they owe that percent university budgets by 40 per cent. This of how much the country made that will mean more than just a decrease in year. It sounds like a terrifying number: Less caring, more beer pong tweed jacket sales to tenured professors. it’s 24 per cent over what Britain calls Students should let smart people do the voting It's not just across-the-board cuts. Most their sustainable level. Yet the US's ratio of the cuts are targeted at humanities is 71 per cent, and Japan's at 194 per Nick Wright make the conscious decision not to vote. leaders for the next year. programs and science programs that are cent—and you don't see them selling Satirist Few of us are capable of keeping up Oddly enough, I have never actually not economically productive enough. off Mount Fuji and half the countryside. with mundane issues like current affairs. managed to meet anyone who has Gordon McOuat, who was a research Britain’s debt doesn't justify a massive My editor Katie Toth is always bringing Thus, we instead choose to give that participated in this ritual. I tried to find fellow at Cambridge and now teaches sell-off and such huge cuts, especially you down by going on about one thing responsibility to those who are better someone who had participated in the at Halifax's University of King's College, since the jump in debt is mainly or another. equipped to make the decisions which election, but a quick survey outside of described this decision as a catastrophe. attributable to a passing economic Recently, she was in some sort of panic affect our lives. the McCain building made me realize "If you look at any of the indicators, recession (lower tax revenue, higher over this thing called the O'Neill Report. Let’s look at the statistics. Students are, just how scarce the people who follow pure science itself is both noble and a unemployment payouts) and a one- According to Toth, if the government for the reasons I stated above, one of DSU elections really are. I am positive, civic duty ... it has consequences that time bank bailout. The overall trend in were to act on the suggestions outlined the lowest voting blocks in the country. though, that they do exist, and that are much wider than merely economic Britain over the past ten years has been by O'Neill, my tuition would go up or People who do vote are much older and they—much like the elderly—are much funding. So to think that it all is about a decrease in debt, and a rise in debt something like that. I concede that wiser than us, and thus better at deciding better at making electoral decisions for bottom line, like a corporation, is not based on specific, temporary causes increased tuition would be a bad thing; what is best for us all. The largest voting me. necessarily accurate." won't be fixed by shifting the debt I would have to readjust my budget block in the country is, in fact, the elderly. You see, voters are the sacrificial He notes that while "there's probably burden to students. to include fewer nights at the Palace, Obviously, such a generation is much lambs of our age. One might even go a lot of crap in science … (and) a fair bit There's really nothing terribly alarming and God knows I hate to miss a foam better equipped to choose candidates so far as to call them Christ-like. They in the humanities," the decision of what about Britain's financial state. Thus, party. Unlike Toth, however, I am not who will work in the best interest of take it upon themselves to interpret the qualifies as ‘crap’ is being based not Cameron's government, which was particularly worried about this situation students. facts through their own views and then on enrolment rates, societal values, or elected at the height of recession fear, coming to pass. I am protected by a Now, this isn't to say that all students apply those views through voting in research, but on whether bankers see has turned to drawing out fear-based guiding political philosophy which I don't vote. In fact, there is a small cadre order to make sure the best candidate any ‘economic output’ in a program. politics to create the support necessary would like to share with you. of brave (and most likely socially inept) gets picked. Those of us who don't No, I don't quite understand how they're to cull programs and properties. Back I call my philosophy voter responsibility. nineteen to twenty-somethings who vote are dependent on these saint-like measuring that either. home, it's not something I'd put past This means that I hold the voters—one do. To them, my heart goes out. These beings, and I would just like to take this Decreasing funding also means that Harper, despite the fact that Canada's of which I am not—responsible for students, aside from making the hard opportunity to thank them. most British students' tuition is going debt-to-GDP is expected to be under making the decisions which I simply am decisions so I don't have to, also keep My response to Toth's fears of the to jump, and the government will be 30 per cent this year. too busy to be bothered to make. what is known as ‘student politics’ alive. O'Neill report, or the privatization of able to destroy the current system of A temporary jump in British debt is not Hey, as students, our lives are pretty I have recently heard of a mysterious healthcare, or the off-chance that for tuition caps. There's a set level which enough political justification to sell out full. We have to spend most of our organization called the DSU, or absolutely no good reason we might British students are expected to be Robin Hood or students, and the fear time reading books, writing papers, Dalhousie Student Union. Although go to war with China or some other such able to pay, and that cap changes yearly created by the politicking necessary to organizing beer-pong tournaments, its workings are a mystery to me, I do nonsense, is this: We, the uninformed in accordance with inflation, a pretty pass these cuts is almost scarier than the and keeping up on the latest and most know that they keep our best interest and apathetic masses, don't need to sensible system that sees students spectre of rising student debt or the loss obscure musical trends. With all this protected from all those out there who worry. We have voters to protect us by paying up to £3,225 ($5,253 CAD). If of a national treasure. essential activity, how could we possibly may wish to do us harm. I know that electing representatives that reflect their the government and certain university McOuat's suggestion? be expected to keep up with things like every spring they hold a mysterious ritual views. I'm sure that they know what's presidents have their way, the average "A bunch of young Robin Hoods “current events” or “politics”? This is called an ‘election’ in which the chosen best for me better than I do. cost (not the cap, note) could go up to should come up and steal it back." the reason that I believe so many of us few who know of their ways select our 8 November 4 - November 11, 2010 • opinions Big grants, e Sex Collective presents: small potatoes Welcome to China! Let’s get it on. Can the RRFB recycle what Different cultural approaches to sexuality can be enlightening O’Neill threw in the trash? cent of respondents had changed the research design, methodology or results due to pressure from a funding source, according to a Canadian Federation of Students 2009 membership advisory on whistleblowers. That same advisory notes that 40 scientists wrote a collective letter to the journal Science, in which they said that matched funding requirements (in which university funding is expected to be matched by a corporate sponsor) were “eschewing scientific excellence” Katie Toth by forcing researchers to constantly Opinions Editor commercialize their work. This pressure will increase if strings-attached grants are the only growing source of research On Oct. 25, the Resource Recovery funding. Fund Board, an arms-length provincial When we we create programs that crown corporation, announced the focus on the bottom line, we create RRFB Student Grant Program. This grant shoddy science. finances student projects that research and develop ways to identify “new O’Neill does not make a opportunities for problematic materials recommendation as to whether policy currently in the waste stream,” according makers should mandate universities Why should spoons have all the fun? • • • Photo by Abram Gutscher to a recent media release. to engage in applied or theoretical Niko Bell not an instantaneous emotion. In fact, problems, and keeps ties of friendship The board manages the Resource research. He does take the time to The Sex Collective the Chinese concepts of “dating” and close. Recovery Fund, a Department of suggest that taxpayers may well have a “falling in love” are indistinguishable, End the war of the sexes the Environment fund devoted to right “to expect more tangible benefits both encompassed by the enigmatic Pressure to date is very low in Chinese reducing, reusing, recycling and from this research than the satisfying of The Chinese approach to sexuality phrase “talking about love.” high schools, where most energy goes recovering resources. The board has academic curiosity.” is largely unenviable. The rapidly In the tragic Chinese folk tale into studying. While Chinese teenagers set aside finances to encourage and Unfortunately, O’Neill seems to think developing nation has found itself in a commonly seen as the oriental may not get the advance practice that support those academics whose work that the reason professors and faculty frightening gap: traditional systems of equivalent to Romeo and Juliet, the some Canadians do, they do have in waste recovery will “create some struggle for academic freedom is so they marriage and family are falling apart, but more sensible Zhu Yingtai takes three many more years to build friendships real opportunities for the business can smoke a pipe in the drawing room safe and sane alternatives are slow to years to gradually fall in love with her star- free of unnecessary sexual tension. community,” as Bill Ring notes. Ring while looking at old dinosaur bones pick up the slack. Sex before marriage crossed lover, not one night. Teenagers often hang out in groups of is the Chief Executive Officer of the together. That’s simply not the case. is still publicly unacceptable in China, Unfortunately, growing pressure to mixed gender, and have close friends of Resource Recovery Fund Board, and he Academics want to follow “the but marriage age is rising and young have sex combined with resistance to the opposite sex without any romantic hopes that this program will “support paths towards which their curiosity couples are having sex anyway. Young sex before marriage, along with other undercurrents. This sets the stage for universities and students.” and experience lead them” not only people receive little to no guidance factors, is pushing dating time in China positive cross-gender friendships later I respect the RRFB for creating student because they have some sort of hard- from their parents or schools, and the down and divorce rates up. In Canada, in life, as well as romantic relationships research opportunities with a sustainable on for esoteric knowledge, but because taboo is strong enough that even friends however, we can take advantage based on friendship, not just attraction. focus. However, I’m concerned about the kind of creativity that breeds good, avoid the subject. Even if Chinese of comparatively low pressures for It takes a family to raise a baby what it means in the wake of Tim O’Neill’s accurate research is often stifled when teenagers had enough time away from marriage to take it slow and make sure Although slightly outside the realm Report on the University System in Nova researchers must work to make their their crushing school workloads for we like where we are going. of the romantic relationship, it would be Scotia, which emphasizes a series of project more commercial. sleepovers, the topic of sex would likely Boys can be pretty, too amiss if I did not mention the involvement recommendations on how to streamline When we aim for market applicability never come up. A sharp looking Chinese guy is not of the whole extended family in raising expenses in the system. rather than quality, the market receives a A recent study by the national family complete without his fedora, layered Chinese children. Chinese parents are As these grants are made available, mediocre product. Nobody wins. planning commission discovered that and styled hairdo, argyle vest, neon not expected to become complete the Department of Education is I support the work of the RRFB nearly half of sexually active Chinese windbreaker, sequinned jeans, and caregivers in a vacuum. They usually simultaneously considering O’Neill’s and their decision to make academic women prefer the morning after pill knock-off Sketchers. Young Chinese receive the strong support of their proposed cuts to postsecondary work which pertains to their mandate to other methods of birth control. The men often take fashion as seriously as parents, who participate in caring for the education. It looks like we’re moving into a budget priority. They’ve created an Emergency Contraceptive pill, available women, and have real fun expressing baby and easing the middle generation a supply-and-demand framework for exciting opportunity for intelligent, over the counter in China, is not individual style. Men’s clothing is also into parenthood. our universities. ambitious young minds. intended as a method of contraception refreshingly free of stereotype. China’s In the era of the one-child generation, Tim O’Neill’s ninth recommendation But our minds deserve more. We and can cause serious harm to current king of hip-hop, for instance, this sometimes leads to the infamous in his report is to “encourage more deserve the kind of stable postsecondary reproductive health if misused. Ninety regularly appears wearing anything “four-two-one syndrome:” four research, technology transfer, and funding that allows us to complete our five per cent of respondents also said from sweater vests to sparkly pink grandparents and two parents piling commercialization.” While O’Neill does undergraduate degrees or follow our that they had used a “feminine wash,” muscle shirts without losing his cool or their love, pressure and expectations on not suggest that grants be earmarked academic pursuits. many for the purpose of preventing manliness. When Canadian men can do one little head. With the gradual easing for applied research, the RRFB’s I asked Bill Ring where he was finding sexually transmitted infections. Not only the same, this will be a freer and flashier of the policy, however, grandparent programme does seem to have similar room for student research in the is douching completely ineffective, it is country. support will hopefully return to being end goals. Resource Recovery Fund’s budget. also detrimental to general health. Compliments are okay an unconditionally positive aspect of the If general university funding is cut while “It’s always a problem,” Ring Before marshalling too much Canadians often shy away from talking Chinese family. these hand-picked funding schemes for responded with a laugh. “But we enlightened pity, however, it is good directly about physical attractiveness, The Chinese have been hooking up commercially viable projects proliferate, identified that this was something we to remember that the Chinese world hiding behind the cliché that “what since, as their saying goes, a time when researchers must constantly chase should start budgeting for, and … we bit has also got a lot right. There are many matters is on the inside.” While what the rest of us didn't know which trees to the next commercial opportunity the bullet on it.” aspects to relationship-building where should matter is up for debate, the pick fruit from. So, let’s take a route of rather than pioneering academic (and Then, and only then, can we research we would do well to learn from the Chinese openly recognize that mutual respect instead of riding the pity train. applicable) ideas. How can a university garbage to our hearts’ content. Nova Chinese and their careful, romantic physical attraction is an important part of Who knows? Our romantic lives might give its researchers the background Scotia’s Department of the Environment pragmatism. The following are a few a relationship. just flourish like a plum blossom in they need when there are no tenured can put aside a few hundred thousand worthwhile cultural imports. In China it is not uncommon to spring. faculty participating in the community dollars to hire student research. So why Date with care and discrimination directly tell someone you think he or or keeping up-to-date on contemporary can’t the Department of Education The Chinese typically date with the she is good looking, as long as you have Niko Bell is a bachelor of journalism scholarship? put aside the kind of real money that goal of marriage, and so are unlikely to been introduced and are in a casual honours student at the University Project-related grants can also will make research and education waste time on a painful or unfulfilling setting. Some westerners, especially of King’s College. He is currently pressure students to steer their work sustainable? relationship. The dating process is seen women, find this creepy. In Chinese spending an academic year at Nanjing toward results that appease their funding These sorts of private grants must as a slow, careful vetting process for a circles, however, it clears the air and lets University after placing in the finals of sources. That’s when corporate funding be a layer of icing on a well-made future partner, and dating for upwards everyone know much more clearly who the prestigious international Chinese for specific projects becomes another cake. Otherwise, education might look of five years before marriage or children is into whom. More importantly, giving speaking competition “Han yu qiao” problem. A recent survey of researchers pretty, but it will be stale, tasteless and is seen as a virtue. Most importantly, compliments on a regular basis makes (Chinese Bridge). in the United States found that 15.5 per impossible to digest. falling in love is often seen as a process, people feel good, fights body image • November 4 - November 11, 2010 9 rugby photo album

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arts&culture arts covers cultural happenings in Halifax. E-mail Rebecca or Erica at [email protected] to contribute. arts&culture. Rebecca Spence Arts Editor Forgotten landscapes All Superfantastic things New work by Colin Lyons showcases must come to an end the decaying structures of Atlantic Canada Halifax alt-rockers announce their Nick Laugher unprecedented attention to detail: the doors and windows, lying dormant in Staff Contributor tiny building exhaling a sombre, almost the pre-dawn light. After this exposition break-up, exclusive to the Gazette macabre, air as it glares in contempt of his work, Lyons’ pieces will become Morbid clouds of erosion—splits and at the world that has left it behind. performance pieces: dying and decaying cracks in the foundation of human Utilizing the haunting desolation of bit by bit like the forgotten edifices they existence— appear steeped in a the abandoned Atlantic, Lyons’ pieces so delicately mirror. While some will mentality that mourns the slowly dying possess an unsettling prescience. Witty wither slowly and silently, others will be monuments of our surreal, synthetic and sharp enough to draw blood, they forced quickly into dilapidated obscurity world. Colin Lyons' exhibition Industrial are self-contained vessels by which we by chemical baths. As the tiny creations Monuments is a brilliant microcosm for can explore the crippling experiences of begin to evoke, far too realistically, the the utter frailty of our constructed lives. solitary, sinking hearts. future of our filtered, pasteurized and Crafted out of zinc and copper, Pieces like “Canada Maltage” processed society, their tiny windows Lyons' work consists of tiny, terrifyingly possess a surreal and formidable voice, allow us a beautiful view of our misdeeds realistic replicas of dilapidated industrial bouncing from wall to wall, begging to and lack of attention spans. buildings, reflecting our own confused be heard. Lyons’ work is a wake up call for a relationship with technology with Pieces like “Dow Brewery” and “New world content to sleep away the days— stunning poignancy. Lyons, who City Gas Co.,” consisting solely of paper literally and figuratively—while the true received his bachelor of fine arts from and ink, are true testaments to Lyons' triumphs of our civilization crumble into Mount Allison University and is currently dedication to the beauties of truth and obscurity, become obsolete, or simply pursuing a masters in printmaking at the despair. Clearly crippled, the foundations fail to hold our attention. University of Alberta, traverses the murky shimmer, delicately balanced between If you'd like to get in line to wave shadows of obsolescence with miniature decay and creation. The ink and paper goodbye and eulogize the past in the models of nautical and industrial Atlantic sculptures capture the essence of form of truthful tiny buildings, Colin Canada. temporality, encapsulated in their tiny Lyons’ exhibition Industrial Monuments Complex pieces such as the zinc broken windows. runs until Nov. 19 at Gallery Page and plate “Shewing Cork Works” display an The real genius of Lyons’ pieces is Strange. quietly tucked away behind those tiny Thirty-day yoga Mind, body, and soul challenge is worth it

The Superfantastics are ending on a high note. • • • Photo supplied Sagar Jha that Places to Roam explores themes of Staff Contributor change and transition, as the musicians are facing a huge shift in their personal With a U.K. tour and a second full-length lives. "I don't want to sound like we are Bending over backwards in the pursuit of sweet abs and serenity. • • • Photo by Samantha Durnford album under their belts, it might seem releasing the album and playing the like Halifax indie pop-rock group The break-up,” he says. “I feel like it's time for Samantha Durnford drips from absolutely everywhere on a pro-yogi. I’m in this to de-stress, calm the band to run its course.” Assistant News Editor your body and you leave with soaked my mind, and become a better person Superfantastics are on the verge of super-stardom. But the dynamic duo has “I always see bands try these things clothes in dire need of a shower, some from the inside. where they undergo huge changes in people may find this uncomfortable. Hot yoga can be said to help with decided to split and will be playing their The heat is set to 37C and the humidity last show on Nov. 6 at The Seahorse. identity,” adds MacDonald. “I guess a lot in the room reaches about 78 per cent. During class, you’re encouraged not stress, depression, and insomnia. of those times I feel like maybe instead to wipe the sweat away since sweat is a Practicing deep breathing calms the Despite the group's recent No, this isn’t a sauna. Fifty people are momentum, the band recognized of making those changes it might be a about to start their hot yoga class. natural way of cooling your body down. mind and the body. Since I’ve begun better idea to start new.” This year, the 30-day Moksha yoga, not only are my abs shaping up, that it was in need of a change. “I think Everyday about 100 people come what happened is we both moved Neither member has confirmed a new to Moksha Yoga Halifax on Dresden challenge has brought out more people but my mind seems to have settled into project as of yet. than in the past. Classes are often very one spot. Suffering from general anxiety, on but maybe we hadn't realized that Row to participate in the 30-day Yoga we had moved on,” says guitarist and The Superfantastics started out Challenge—30 yoga classes in 30 days. full and a sticker system is put in place I have a better time sleeping, focusing, with MacDonald teaching Stephanie for everyone to keep track of their days. and haven’t really felt stressed since I’ve vocalist Matthew MacDonald. “After I’m one of these dedicated people who that realization, it was kind of done. (We) Clattenburg a couple of drum have decided to spend the next month At press time, it’s Day 18 and everyone begun this challenge. techniques. But it evolved into doing the challenge has gotten to know Although the continuous days of might as well close that book and open doing hot yoga. a new one.” something much bigger. “We started a I got into hot yoga about a year ago each other. We talk in the change rooms, yoga are starting to catch up with me, band without meaning to start a band,” help each other find a water bottle, and the teachers encourage you to take the Their latest album, Places to Roam, and have since been hooked. According features a heavier sound with catchy says Clattenburg, sounding relatively to the Moksha Yoga website, “the heat seem to have our own spots in the classes at your own pace. Sometimes I nostalgic. “With every step we took I hot room. We’ve definitely become just sit and focus on my breathing rather drum beats and guitar riffs. It was allows for deeper, safer stretching and produced by Rick White who was "like was always excited. I’ve always dreamed promotes detoxification of the skin, more of a community, connected not than doing poses I’m not in the mood to to play in a band that sounds like this.” only through our commitment to the do. You’re really encouraged to make having a third set of ears and a voice of blood and muscles through sweat.” suggestion in some ways,” according Continuing to reflect, Clattenburg After a class, your body feels much more challenge but also through practicing each class your own. says she has no negative memories from together on a daily basis. I strongly recommend hot yoga to to MacDonald. “We're really big fans of open, relaxed, and at ease. Not only are Rick's earlier work but we didn't know their four years together. there body benefits, but your mind as The mental benefit of the challenge is anyone and everyone: even guys. Em- “It's always nice to end on a positive almost more appealing than the physical brace your man-hood and sweat it out! him very well,” he adds. “(He) turned out well is more calm and energized. to be a really cool and laid back guy.” note,” she says. “I mean, we still get Hot yoga isn’t for everyone. As sweat challenge. I’m not in this to lose weight, Everyone should try it at least once. along. We're still friends.” get sweet abs (well, kind-of), or become MacDonald says it is only appropriate • November 4 - November 11, 2010 13 arts&culture Sarah Harmer reunites Paying tribute to Alex Colville AGNS exhibit celebrates the Maritime artist’s life and work with old friends Madalyn Hamman, of the War Art Program in Europe. He capturing them in moments of everyday Arts Contributor returned home to Canada in 1945 where life, including the personal ones. he continued to work as a war artist by To begin a painting Colville sketches In celebration of his 90th birthday, the painting the sketches he made overseas. it out first. One of these sketches on Art Gallery of Nova Scotia is holding an His earliest commercial exhibits were display is Three Girls on a Wharf (1953); exhibition of the works of Canadian artist offered from the National Gallery of it demonstrates Colville’s process of Alex Colville. On display are paintings Canada in the 1950s, as well as the experimentation with shape, space and and prints that reveal his distinct take Newville exhibit in New York. Since then, levels before starting to paint. on the Maritime landscapes, as well as he has traveled worldwide to various Open space is an important factor subjects of the people and animals in art exhibitions to represent Canada, in his scenic works, as there is often a his life. Colville is recognized as a realist and has had many achievements for his solitary figure in the midst of a beautiful, painter, but is even more so recognized work, which have included honours from but desolate landscape. Colville uses the for his talent to create remarkable scenes the Order of Canada. space surrounding the figure to create out of the ordinary aspects that one finds Overall, his works are not just a familiar yet lonesome atmosphere in daily life. representations of Canadian culture, but that can be as liberating as it can be Colville was born in Toronto in 1920, also representations of his experiences unnerving for a viewer. The same can but he is hailed as a great artist of in life and his inspiration for what he sees be said with his use of contrast between Atlantic Canada. He moved to Amherst around him. light and shade, as well as the muted with his family in 1929, at the age of In his works on display, Colville takes colours that set the tone perfectly in nine, where he grew up and eventually inspiration from the scenery around each of his paintings. left to study at Mount Allison University. his home in Nova Scotia. His family The Alex Colville exhibit runs until Upon graduation in 1942, he enlisted members and animals he owns are January 2011. in the army and became a member also important subjects for him, often arts&culture. online

Acoustic and solo tears at the Rebecca Cohen. • • • Photo by Michael Cestnik Meriha Beaton with her guitar. First, she played a “sad @gazette_arts Staff Contributor dog song,” and dedicated it to a dog that just passed away. For the first time in four years Canadian “This one’s for Lenny,” she explained. musician Sarah Harmer returned to During her acoustic songs, all that Halifax last Friday, to play for fans at the could be heard was Harmer’s voice and Rebecca Cohn. Cracking jokes and guitar. The audience was lulled into a telling stories in between songs, Harmer somber trance by Harmer’s intimate made her audience feel as if they lullabies. were sitting in their living room, simply “Let’s keep in a melancholy frame of listening to their very talented, Juno- mind here, “Harmer said softly before award winning friend. beginning the last of her acoustic songs, Opening for Harmer was Joey Wright, “because the band’s going to come out a Jacob Dylan-like singer-songwriter. here soon and we’re all going to get Accompanied by a woman playing slide chipper and happy again.” guitar, Wright played a set of folk-infused Harmer proceeded to play a song she songs from his upcoming album Hatch. hadn’t performed in years. She became His smooth, mellow voice prepared so moved by this re-discovery that she everyone for Harmer. was choking up by the end of the song. “Good evening everyone,” greeted Wiping away tears as her band returned Harmer warmly as she walked on stage. to the stage she laughed over the fact She immediately broke into “One that she made herself cry with one of her Match,” a catchy song from her new own songs. album Oh Little Fire. She followed by The rest of her set continued with playing “Around this Corner”, a song happier, more upbeat tunes. At one from You Were Here. The rest of her set point, she stopped to tell a corny joke to followed the same order, going back the audience at their request. At another and forth in time, playing songs from point, she explained the story behind both older and more recent albums. her song “Washington,” which detailed Although she played mostly her a road trip she mistakenly turned down own songs, Harmer performed a song to attend the inauguration of Barack written by her friend called “Silverado.” Obama. On a whim, the slide guitarist for Joey When Harmer finished her set, she Wright accompanied Harmer. received a standing ovation from the “It’s okay, I didn’t even write this song. audience. The applause urged her to We can screw it up,” joked Harmer, as return to the stage for an encore, in she began to play. which she played “Lodestar” and “The The first half hour of the concert, Hideout,” two favorites from You Were Harmer played faster, more up-beat Here. Another standing ovation ensued, tunes. Assisted by her band, which which resulted in a second encore, in included a keyboardist, bass and which she played her classic “Basement electric guitarist and a drummer, Harmer Apartment.” pumped up the audience with a During “Basement Apartment,” powerful, electric sound. Harmer created a feeling of unity within Halfway through, however, the band the audience. Her fans left the concert left the stage, leaving Harmer to play serenely happy, just as anyone would three acoustic songs accompanied only be who spent the evening with an old friend. 14 November 4 - November 11, 2010 • arts&culture stage. flicks. 7 Stories Never Let Me Go Caroline Elias staying true to the novel. This is probably Managing to find not only the emotional Lots of Laughs Staff Contributor due to the fact that Ishiguro played an angst that filled the book, he also creates intricate role in the production of the a real character that the audience can Caroline Elias of showing the coming evening. movie. The opening scene of the movie relate to. Although lacking in chemistry Staff Contributor With only five actors, each doubling Grade: B+ Never Let Me Go, based off of Kazuo immediately captures the attention of with both of his female counterparts, he up on characters, the play was laugh- Ishiguro’s best-selling novel, came out the viewers, and the movie manages to captured the essence of Tommy and out-loud funny. Its humour lies in the fact last week in theatres. This movie tells capture the feeling of long England days brought it to life on the screen. Grade: B+ that none of the characters seem to care The play 7 Stories, by Morris Panych, the story of Kathy (played as an adult that is apparent throughout the novel. Carey Mulligan also provided us with that this man is about to commit suicide. tells the story of a man (played by Tom by Carey Mulligan), Tommy (Andrew The entire movie is cast in a low light, a good performance. She was neither They are all much too preoccupied with Barnett, who was Hamlet at Neptune in Garfield) and Ruth (Keira Knightley), emphasizing the hesitant nature of the too emotional nor cold, and she was their own lives and stories. 2000) on the ledge of a seven-story high three friends growing up in a post-WWII story. sympathetic to the audience. Although Each of these stories in themselves building. He contemplates jumping, England. In this alternate reality England, While I’m not sure why Keira Knightley I don’t think it will win her an Oscar, she brings up questions of importance, and it when seven different people living in the medical science has mastered the art of has taken to acting in book-inspired did a competent job depicting Kathy. is because of that that the play manages apartment building pop their heads out cloning humans and breeding them for movies (like 2007’s Atonement), she does Though I’m not sure if it is worth to not dwell too much on the lack of and tell him their stories. organs. The main characters are three a better job here than she has before. going out to see in theatre, it is definitely information about the man himself. The set, designed by Ken MacDonald, clones. The story follows their lives in this Perhaps she is finally getting the hang of something to rent on DVD and watch on Between the 100-year-old woman and was well made: it shows the façade of an world, and what it means to be a donor. it. Knightley is an easily believable Ruth, a cold Saturday night. The topic itself is the man that keeps trying in vain to kill apartment building, with seven windows, Although the book is ultimately a jealous, bitter girl. thought provoking and does justice to his wife, the audience is captivated by each presumably leading into a different better, this movie does a remarkable job Whereas Knightley was bearable, the fabulous novel. apartment. The set itself is slanted, so the different narratives. The actors did a Andrew Garfield was superb as her lover. theatre-goers should aim to snag one great job playing a variety of roles, and of the middle-theatre seats rather than it’s truly an enjoyable way to spend an poem. And teaches him a way to make, He will leave the others behind the front rows. With clouds and blue sky evening. A conscious slumber seems to take. And be shown the life he dreams of. painted across the set, the changing of 7 Stories is playing at the Neptune Awoken from a mid-day nap, He can’t wait for this to begin. time was marked by the appearance of Theater until November 14th. e Child The boy is greeted by a fist. Thrilling to think, poor child of sin! stars; it was a simple and ingenious way A conscious slumber seems to take, He falls into a state of sleep As years pass and the boy grows old, And would not, for the world, awake. As pounds of love thrust in and out - He learns that he will never leave Thrilling to think, poor child of sin! His fragile mind falling in and The world that has become his home. tunes. It was the dead who groaned within. Out of the skin about to break. And so he decides to fight back. -“The Sleeper,” Edgar Allan Poe Far too young to understand this, Pushed one day by their constant Elvis Costello A boy, he sleeps in the attic - He hides within a made up world, shrills, Unlike the rest, he’s kept alone, One he struggled to quickly make, As the man comes to touch his skin, Far from the watchful eye to see. And would not, for the world, awake. He thrusts a tool, fashioned from National Ransom He toils in webs and draws in dust As day turns to night he listens wood, In hopes to make the time flow past. To the family dinner below, And dives into the spilling flesh. It was the boy who crawled from sin. Peter de Vries trading his synths for strings on “Jimmie Laughter haunts him while he’s awake And thanks them for returning home. Staff Contributor Standing in the Rain” before quickening As spiders tease his ticklish flesh. The ones he wishes to soon meet. It was the dead who groaned within. up his acoustic guitar picking on the It’s sleep he wants, which comes and One glorious day they will find —Jenna Harvie goes, The boy in need of kisses, kin. Grade: B merrier, folk-inspired “Slow drag with Elvis Costello’s music is still just as angry, Josephine.” cynical, honest, and eclectic as it was Later on, “You Hung the Moon” has back in 1977. At 56, he’s still singing Costello doing his best Frank Sinatra about “working every day, paying off the as dark lyrics contrast starkly with docile national ransom” with clear conviction string arrangements and Costello’s and all the necessary hooks. lullaby-like vocals to particularly alluring National Ransom isn’t so much a step effect. The result is a haunting ballad in any new direction for Costello as it is that’s somehow equal parts melancholy a 16-track treatise on everything he has and soothing, and would fit snugly ever been good at. Although he never alongside any of Tom Waits’s best quite manages to reproduce the magic bawlers. of early singles like “Radio Radio” or Unfortunately, National Ransom loses “Watching the Detectives” here, the momentum near the end. Even though album has many memorable moments the second half is fairly consistent despite and all the stylistic adventurousness that the throwaway “Spell that you Cast,” the you could expect from a good Costello record’s spirit is noticeably diminished record. after 11 tracks. The album’s 62 minute The first track, “National Ransom,” play time will also test most listeners’ is vintage Costello in full-on rock n’ roll patience. mode with synthesizers, pounding National Ransom is definitely a drums, and the requisite political rants. worthwhile Costello album despite its But, never content to stay in one place occasional missteps, and shouldn’t be for long, Costello slows the tempo, overlooked by either long-time or casual fans.

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THE OLD BRIDGE -Angus L. MacDonald Bridge – Halifax / Dartmouth, NS how we get there from here, or, vice-versa. city’s signature, writ large – all old boy fl ourish & ponce. everyone, riveted. a green monster, horned. drawn bows, arrowing skyward. some poor man’s amusement park ride; fl accid coaster. (grid-locked at dusk, mid-deck’s the apex of some harborsunk ferris wheel, the view all carnival: dark puddle & sparkle & glitz.) a suicide’s fi x. should moon, fog conspire – it’s low-slung constellation, at night. look, from just past the basin, our eyes are high-wire, blown pupil, acrobats toeing the slack-roped narrows atlantic-ward; the span a drunken parabola, a grand balance pole. it’s our innocence, lost; the steely slow arc of knowing, of coming across some unwanted knowledge. disbelief, its path. the suspension of just that. that toll. —Matt Robinson • November 4 - November 11, 2010 15 sports

sports sports covers athletic events and topics relevant to Dalhousie and the Atlantic region. E-mail Dylan at [email protected] to contribute. sports. Dylan Matthias Sports Editor Ian Froese “Yes, it is disappointing. We have the competition. “If it was this windy on an Staff Contributor opportunity to go to a couple races in average practice day then we wouldn’t Men can't race at AUS Ontario or British Columbia this season,” be going out on the water, we would A three-peat was not in the cards for he said, “but it’s much more expensive stay in and do dry land training. But it’s rowing championships Dalhousie at the Atlantic University for us that we don’t have the ability to go regatta and you’ve got to deal with what Rowing Championships. In fact, it was there.” The Canadian University Rowing you have been given.” St. FX benefit from bad conditions never feasible. Championships are this weekend in St. FX boosted their commanding St. FX cleaned house at the fourth Victoria. lead in the final medal race, the novice and competition problems annual regatta last Saturday at Lake The women did compete in women’s coxed four, with their two boats Banook in Dartmouth, claiming 28 meaningful races toward the AURC the sole competitors in the sprint. Cox points, far above their closest competitor, standings. In the senior women’s coxed Nicole Sancuriter steered her side to Memorial, with six points. Dal finished 4, Dal’s squad finished their time trial of first with a time of 6:15:48, 61 seconds third, earning five points. the 4.3 km course in 21:16 for first. St. faster than the other St. FX boats. The The event was stacked in favour of St. FX was 15 seconds off the pace as the Antigonish school was awarded 15 FX. Although there were morning time second university finisher. In the medal points for their showings. trials involving at minimum one university round, St. FX turned the tables, winning “I think our crews did well,” said St. squad in the numerous divisions, only the 1000 metre sprint with a time of FX co-head coach Erica Underwood. three categories were capable of 5:26:58, whereas Dal were 13 seconds “A lot of our crews are novices, too, holding a final with at least two post- behind. Corresponding to their final so I’m happy with what they showed secondary teams. St. FX had four boats rankings, the teams earned 10 and five today.” in the medal contests in comparison to points, respectively. Though Dal only had five points Dal’s two contenders. In the senior women’s single, Dal’s to show after the regatta, Murray The 12 men rowing for Dal, for representative did not have the chance celebrated the women’s results. instance, were incapable of competing to better her second place showing in “I’m definitely pleased with their in any medal races as point-based the time trial as she failed to cross the performance. From the start of the races were only available for women. finish line. Greer Gallant became a victim season we’ve had two girls that have This is partially because other Atlantic of the windy conditions that helped only done the learn-to-row program, universities are more established in their this fall’s incarnation of the Really Chilly and one of them wasn’t even going to women’s programs than their male ones. Rowing Regatta earn its title. race this weekend, but because another “I’m definitely disappointed they “My oar caught the water awkwardly,” was sick we had to throw her in a boat,” didn’t get the opportunity,” said co- said Gallant. “I was leaning to the right, he said. “Just based on factors like that head coach Dan Murray. “We only got the wind was coming to the right and it’s impressive that they did as well as to compete in two regattas this year and it just caught the boat like a sail and it they did.” the other one wasn’t a scholastic regatta. flipped right over. I couldn’t stop it.” Considering the time trials and medal We didn’t have anyone to compete Her disqualification gave Memorial’s races, Dal unofficially concluded the day against all season.” Kierstein Van Gulick an uncontested and their season with four first place The sentiment is shared by Niko six points. She was the only Memorial showings, five second place results, one MacLellan. He was in a number of athlete to participate in a medal event. third place and two disqualifications exhibition races but none of them “These were not ideal rowing against post-secondary and non- Dal rowers brave the cold and choppy waters last Saturday. • • • Photo by Sara Frost contributed to the final point total. conditions,” Gallant said after the day’s university crews. Cross-country win double championship Gorman, Schlosser capture gold Susan Sobey Gorman in a race earlier this season. went into this weekend confident and Sports Contributor “I could hear the screams from the X excited to compete as a team, and it crowd cheering Connor on and telling showed on the day. They fought hard for Last weekend at the AUS Cross Country him this was his race, his championship, every point out there." Championships at St. FX, the Tiger his medal, and his banner, and I just Next up for the Tigers will be the CIS teams claimed their first double victory couldn’t let him have that satisfaction,” championships in Sherbrooke, Quebec since 2004. said Gorman, who earned his first AUS on Nov. 13. The women’s team, who are On the women’s side, Dalhousie cross-country first-team all-star nod. “I currently ranked ninth in the country, will continued their undefeated season by kicked it up another gear and took back be looking to compete with the best in besting defending champions St. FX 25 my lead to take first place. Crossing Canada, says Hennigar. to 33. the line in first was a very satisfying “The women's team is a seasoned The 5 km race was led by fifth-year and experienced team and they are veteran and 2009 CIS second team headed into the CIS champs with the all-Canadian Caroline Schlosser. The “I could hear the intention of contending for a top spot. Tiger captain, who was second at last “These girls have a wide range of year’s Championship, claiming her first screams from backgrounds and each come from individual AUS title with a time of 18:03. their own individual histories of success The win earned her the AUS Female the X crowd.” as runners,” said Hennigar. “What MVP award. impresses me most about this particular Following closely behind Schlosser, group is how well they have embraced and joining her on the AUS first-team all- experience.” the team concept and how much they star list are Jessica Belliveau (third), Cara Also on the AUS first-team all-star list care about each other’s success.” Groves (fourth) and Gina Stewart (sixth). for the first time are Bruce Russell (sixth) The men’s team, who only briefly Stephanie Bennett (11th) rounded out and Josh Coyle (seventh), who have cracked the CIS top 10 earlier this the Dalhousie point scorers. made huge improvements in the past season, will mostly be looking to get The Dalhousie men won their AUS year. Other point scorers included Adam experience at the national level. banner in a closely contested race with McGregor, whose ninth place finish “Competing at CIS will be a good St. FX, winning by only 5 points. earned him AUS male rookie of the year, step in the development of this very Captain Dan Gorman led the pack, and fellow rookie Jacob Moore, who young men’s team,” said Hennigar. “We earning his first individual AUS title and finished closely behind his teammate in had two rookies in the top 10 at (AUS also the AUS male MVP award with a 10th. championships) and four of our top five 10 km time of 33:37. It was Gorman’s Head coach Heather Hennigar was guys are in their first or second year, so finishing kick in the last 400 metres that named AUS coach of the year. they need the experience of competing sealed the win, battling St. FX’s Connor “I am very proud of how the teams with the best in the country to know MacGuire, who narrowly defeated handled themselves in a Championship what's out there.” environment,” Hennigar said. “They 16 November 4 - November 11, 2010 • sports AUS soccer playoffs have arrived Tigers lacrosse to host Dal women make their playoff lives difficult league championships Dylan Matthias to nationals. That might give them an from Simon Lesage that gave Dal a Sports Editor edge. penalty and got Lesage sent off. Reigning champs looking to capture On paper, UPEI should really have no If Dal can beat Moncton—and they They should have beaten Memorial. difficulty with the winner of the St. FX– have the ability to do so—a match-up third title in as many years An undefeated team against a winless SMU game. They are, unquestionably, with Saint Mary's will await. Dal beat team. This should have been easy—but the better team, boasting an attack SMU last time they met and looked Ryan Lum Whoever the Tigers play in the semis, it wasn't. led by Tessa Roche who is leading the pretty good doing it. That awful 6–1 Staff Contributor the statistics favour a Dal win. During the The Tigers’ loss last weekend to the AUS in scoring for the second straight memory still lingers, but since the 2–0 regular season, the Tigers won all games Seahawks means Dal lose their edge year. Ali Goodman has been excellent win over SMU the Tigers have turned With a 12–11 victory over St. Mary’s they played against both Mt. A and over the undefeated UPEI Panthers as a rookie and Chanelle Roy hasn't their season around, playing two solid Huskies last Sunday, Dal lacrosse Acadia, outscoring them a combined heading into AUS playoffs. The effect is conceded a goal since Sept. 18. games against St. FX and beating UNB propelled itself to the top of the league 73-17. Without any injuries to hinder huge. That goal, though, came against SMU and Memorial. The Tigers are coming in standings and into prime position for them, Griffiths says his team is feeling In first place, where Dal would have in a 1–1 draw. The Panthers have also strong to these playoffs and could easily next weekend’s Maritime University Field confident going in. finished with a couple of wins over MUN, drawn with St. FX 0–0 this year. The irony cause some upsets. Lacrosse League (MUFLL) championship “We just have to keep playing the their semi-final opposition would have of all this is if Dal had beaten Memorial, St. FX will have to be very careful with tournament to be held at Wickwire field. kind of game we’ve been playing: very likely been either Saint Mary's or UPEI would be playing Cape Breton, the winner of UNB and Cape Breton's Battling neck and neck with St. Mary’s aggressive but smart. We have to play St. FX, with Acadia having an outside who they beat 2–0 in Sydney. game—likely it'll be the Capers. There for league supremacy over the past that way even when we have the lead.” chance if they were to beat Cape Breton. UPEI are through to nationals are rumours of chemistry problems at month, the win squeaked the Tigers The MUFLL championship weekend Finishing second, Dal will likely get Cape regardless, but they might want a little CBU, but then, if the X-Men's visit to two points ahead of the Huskies on the kicks off Saturday, Nov. 6 at 12:30 p.m., Breton in the semi-finals. revenge on St. FX for stealing the AUS Wickwire was anything to go by, there season, giving them the bye to play the when the SMU Huskies take on the St. FX For a team that fell apart at the semi- banner last year. might be some chemistry problems in fourth-place contender, to be decided X-Men in the first semi-final. The second final stage last year, a match-up with an Antigonish, too. UNB have had their this weekend when the Mount Allison semi-final will be at 3 p.m. between the under-achieving but still very dangerous Men's Tigers have an easier path own frustrations this year, as well. It Mounties play the Acadia Laxmen. Dalhousie Tigers and the winner of the Capers team is not a good thing. Finishing third was a good move for the could well be that the representative in The other semi-final will feature SMU fourth vs. fifth play-off. The Tigers beat Cape Breton 2–0 at Tigers' men's soccer team. the finals from that side of the bracket is and the St. FX X-Men, two very capable There will be an awards banquet on Wickwire, but the Capers were without It's doubtful, of course, that they whichever team doesn't self-destruct in squads who split victories the two times the Saturday evening, time and location scoring threats Alyssa Budhoo and planned the season that way. But, a game they should otherwise win. they met this season. to be announced. Sunday will feature Sabina Solymar. The match-up should despite a poor season by their standards, AUS get just the one spot at nationals “I wouldn’t put odds on either of the league annual general meeting at 9 be a good one for spectators, but it the Tigers are a trio of winnable games this year, so Dal will have to beat St. FX, those teams,” said Tigers coach Rob a.m. and then the championship game could be Dal's most difficult game of the away from a berth at nationals. likely, in the final. Of all the teams in AUS Griffith. “They’re equally talented and at noon. All games will be at Wickwire year. The key in this year’s AUS playoffs is to that have tried, Dal have come closest whoever wins is going to be a challenge field. In order to reach CIS nationals at UPEI, avoid the rampaging St. FX X-Men, who to upsetting the X-Men, drawing them for the team they face in the finals.” Dal must make the AUS final. If UPEI also are ranked number one nationally, for as 0–0 at Wickwire in a game Dal probably make the final—and they likely will— long as possible. Dal can do this quite should have won. then Dal would go through regardless of easily. It won't be easy for the Tigers. If there extra coverage online the result in the final. If UPEI are upset by It does mean an extra game for was a time for Tyler Lewars to break out, St. FX or Saint Mary's, then Dal have to Dal—the third-place finisher misses this would be it. win the banner to qualify for nationals. out on the semi-final bye. The Tigers The X-Women and Huskies should will have to play Moncton in Moncton, Catch live-blogged AUS women's put on a good show tonight (Nov. 5). which could be difficult given the Aigles- soccer action with sports editor Dylan They're evenly matched, but it's hard Bleus passionate fanbase and the draw Matthias starting at 3 p.m. today (Nov. to discount the success St. FX had last Moncton held Dal to at Wickwire earlier 5) at dalgazette.com. Dalhousie play at 5 match reports, live blogs and more year, upsetting the Tigers and heading this year—a draw that might well have p.m. tomorrow (Nov. 6). been a win if not for a last-minute mishap Weekend Preview Men's hockey Teach English return home to must-win games Dylan Matthias place this weekend in Wolfville and Abroad Sports Editor Moncton. Sports editor Dylan Matthias will be live-blogging the women's Last year, the Dal Tigers men's hockey games on dalgazette.com amoung team played 12 games against the big other places. All games will be live- three AUS hockey programs: Acadia, blogged, starting with St. FX and Saint SMU, and UNB. They went 1–8–3 in Mary's at 3 p.m. today. Dalhousie play TESOL/TESL Teacher Training those games, earning five of a possible against either Cape Breton or Acadia Certification Courses 24 points. This year, they've beaten tomorrow at 5 p.m. For a full preview, see Acadia once, but it's safe to assume the above. • Intensive 60-Hour Program Tigers won't get much from those 12 Acadia and Mount Allison will meet in • Classroom Management Techniques games again this year. Sackville on Saturday at 1 p.m. in football • Detailed Lesson Planning That makes the games against in what should be a fairly even game • ESL Skills Development Moncton, St. Thomas, UPEI, and St. according to Armaan Ahluwalia on page • Comprehensive Teaching Materials FX crucial. Those are the teams Dal are 17. The game is on EastLink TV. • Interactive Teaching Practicum fighting for the remaining three playoff The AUS basketball season doesn't start until Tuesday (Nov. 9) at Dal, when • Internationally Recognized Certificate spots. The Tigers next four games are against Moncton and St. Thomas, at the Axemen and Axewomen come to • Teacher Placement Service home this weekend (Nov. 5 and 6) and in town at 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. in the Dalplex. • Money-Back Guarantee Included Fredericton next weekend (Nov. 12 and The defending champion Cape Breton • Thousands of Satisfied Students 13). Capers women's team has a chance Simply put, Dal must win these to pick up eight points this weekend OXFORD SEMINARS games. Without those 12 games, Dal in Newfoundland, where they take on 1-800-269-6719/416-924-3240 can only get 32 points. It took 21 last year Memorial. www.oxfordseminars.ca to make the playoffs. In other words, Dal The Tigers’ women's hockey team can afford to lose just six of the 18 games host the powerful St. FX X-Women against the smaller teams in AUS. These on Saturday afternoon at 2 p.m. in games are valuable. The Tigers play Memorial Arena. X are undefeated to St. Thomas Nov. 5 at 7:30 p.m. and start the year. Dal aren't, and are in fact Moncton at the same time on Saturday, struggling mightily to put up some wins. both at Memorial Arena. A turnaround seems unlikely, but upsets Also worth watching in AUS hockey are always fun to watch when they this week is the match-up between Saint happen. Mary's and UNB, two University Cup Women's volleyball are also in action contenders. They meet in Fredericton this weekend, heading to Antigonish Nov. 5, but the game will be streamed and Sydney in need of some points. live on SSN Canada. Did we forget your game? Let us know: The AUS soccer championships take [email protected] • November 4 - November 11, 2010 17 sports AUS Football Men’s playoff s start Nov. 6 basketball Armaan Ahluwalia their progress this year, which has seen Staff Contributor a dramatic turnaround for the Mounties, who finished 4–4. They will be lead by lose to The AUS football regular season has quarterback Jake Hotchkiss and running come to an end. back Matt Pickett. They also have the The Saint Mary’s Huskies have won veteran leadership of Gary Ross, the all- Ottawa in the AUS division title again. The Loney time AUS leader in catches. Bowl will be making another stop at Their defence has been their Achilles Huskies stadium. The playoffs are set to heel this year, allowing a lot of yards from preseason start Nov. 6. the pass. The season did not go the way it was Acadia has managed to pull off some Close game expected, with many surprises along the miracle wins this year. This Axemen team way. is at best mediocre and will be lucky to ends 72–69 The Huskies were expected to roll make it out of the semi-final. They have over the competition and easily win the a good quarterback in Kyle Graves and AUS, but a bad start to the season kept they’ll depend on him. Their defence everything much closer. has been good against the pass, but has The Mount Allison Mounties and been weak against the rush. Acadia Axemen will face off in the semi- The Mounties ability to run the ball with final game in Sackville this Saturday. The Matt Pickett gives them an advantage winner of that game will go on to face over Acadia. Acadia’s defence will have the Huskies in Halifax Nov. 13. to hold against the run. “It all came down The Huskies started the year 0–3, but Whoever plays against the Huskies managed to turn it around, finishing will have to deal with Micah Brown, to the last shot.” with a 5–3 record. In those five wins they Craig Leger and Devon Jones. Not to destroyed opposing teams with their mention the electric Jahmeek Taylor and offence and their strong defence. a stellar defence. Mount Allison will look to build on

Dal's Rob Nortmann is blocked by Daniel McCarthy as Will Yengue and John Atkinson look on. Dal beat the Guelph Tigers hockey take Gryphons 86–62 last Saturday in their other game of the weekend. • • • Photo out X in shoot-out by Abram Gutscher Arfa Ayub advantage of the momentum, scoring Natasha White Dal’s inside. Dal’s help defence either adding a put-back for two more points. Staff Contributor his second 19 seconds after the penalty Sports Contributor came too late or came too much. Heading into half-time Dal had a expired. St. FX coach Brad Peddle Overcompensating for the gaping 36–30 lead. After going up 12 early in the Brad McConnell was the hero for the pulled goalie Joseph Perricone. See if you can follow this preseason middle, four Tiger defenders collapsed third, Dal inexplicably lost focus and the Dalhousie Tigers last Saturday night, Before the second period was over logic: Dalhousie men’s basketball beat in, only to have the driving Gee-Gees Gee-Gees pounced. Dal saw their lead scoring in regulation and in the shoot- the X-Men would get on the scoreboard, Saint Mary’s handily, winning four of five stop and pop or kick it back out to arch. evaporate in a two-minute span mid-way out to give the Tigers a much needed cutting the lead to two on a Brennen scrimmages. SMU barely beats Ottawa Ottawa’s waiting Johnny Berhanemeskel through the third. The game became a 4–3 victory against the St. FX X-Men. Wray goal. 89–88, therefore Dal should beat Ottawa benefitted from the kick-outs, draining wee bit chippy by the end of the third, Despite the 48–27 shot total, it was a The momentum from the late easily, right? four threes. when double technicals were called on close game. second period goal would carry into Wrong. This time the travelling Ottawa Dal’s Simon Farine had another Tiger Will Yengue and Gee-Gee Warren Dalhousie jumped out to an early third. Spencer McAvoy would score on Gee-Gees had luck on their side, edging strangely sub-par performance, coming Ward, who exchanged shoves under 2–0 lead less than five minutes into the a one-time slap shot that got past the the Tigers 72–9 in last Friday’s match-up. out of the first half with only three Ottawa’s basket. Ottawa’s Gautier also game. Dal’s Dan Joyce scored first, just blocker of Disher and Phil Mangan tied Gee-Gees head coach James points and finishing with 12. Fellow added an undisciplined technical with 25 seconds in. Dalhousie would then the game 3–3 35 seconds later. Neither Derouin had his team armed and ready starting guard Juleous Grant also under three to go in the game. score the second as well, capitalizing team could muster much for the rest of for battle. had a lacklustre game, contributing “He’s a fifth year, he should know on the power-play with a goal by the period and the game would go into “This is a big win for us. We have just five points to the losing cause. better than that,” said Derouin. defenceman Brett Thebrege. overtime. huge respect for (Dal head coach However, centre Joe Schow continued It all came down to the last shot. Dal The second period saw the X-Men Dalhousie brought on the pressure in John)Campbell. His team is always well to show off his range, hitting some pretty had possession with 14.9 seconds to go, come out strong with two great chances overtime but X-Men replacement goalie prepared defensively. They handled our bank shots from outside. Hustle player down by three. Farine broke free to hit on slap-shots from the point. Dal goalie Bryan Gillis made two great cross-crease regular game, so we had to go to the of the game goes to Tiger Sandy Veit a baseline three. Rimmed out. Rebound, Josh Disher would make two great saves saves to keep the game alive. drive and dish.” who hit a 15-footer from the baseline. back to Grant for another three attempt in a row, to keep the 2–0 lead intact. Brad McConnell would score the Gee-Gees guard Luc Minani and Veit would follow-up on the next trip to tie the game. Rimmed out. And that’s After killing a Nick Croft hooking winner in the shoot-out, low blocker centre Louis Gautier paired up for 38 down the court, ripping the ball out of how it ended. penalty, Dan Joyca would take side. of Ottawa’s points, with Gautier owning a rebounding Gee-Gee’s hands and

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Energy Continued from page 1 ing carbon nately, even if everyone carpooled ment to fully support the region. provide us with less carbon depen- ciety our demand for resources based fuel, there would still be a huge use of Once transits systems are updated dant transportation and energy. and production of waste is taking almost ev- carbon fuel and would only result and functional, they can reduce So both the large solutions and the up too much space. And that is ery day of in a small change of the countries the number of single occupant cars small solutions come down to us. something our generation needs to the year. footprint. e second more in- on the road, therefore reducing the We are soon going to taxpayers change. is is a depth solution is twofold. First, carbon foot print of cars. and we will be the ones making the problem improvements and development of According to the website, there are e second part of reducing our big decisions. We have lived with a n y o n e the transit systems in cities and ur- multiple sectors that are consid- carbon footprint is the reduction an environmental conscious our The logo of the Center of can see if ban areas and suburbs would have ered in the calculation including, in carbon based electricity. e entire lives. We are the generation sustainable Economy they com- to be made. is would increase carbon, food, goods and services simple solution to this problem is that is going to have the knowledge mute in to ridership and reduce the number and housing. e highest section the reduction of energy use at the and the power to change things. school from Dartmouth or Bed- of cars on the road. For example, for Canadians is the carbon section customer level. ere are many We can’t a ord to live like our par- ford for example. according to the course notes from or in other words our electricity industries, businesses and house- ents or our grandparents just be- CPST 3030, in Toronto’s city cen- and fuel demand. e two major So what if people started car-pool- holds that are still not turning o cause it is the easy way. We need tre less than half of the people own sectors that produce our carbon ing? It would reduce the number lights when not needed, and have to stop the vicious cycle and start a car. Due to the extensive transit footprint are transportation and of cars on the road resulting in less many electronics in “sleep mode” taking responsibility for the planet. system, people do not need a car electricity. Currently, Canada is tra c, more available parking, re- that are still using a lot of energy. as they can use the go-train, the As noted before taking responsi- very carbon based fuel dependant, duction in gas money (if you split ese “quick  xes” are the  rst step subway, busses and street cars. e bility does not mean changing our and that needs to change in order the bill), and a lower carbon foot- to reduce the ecologic foot print. system there is also on time and lives completely. It means small for us to change our total ecologi- print. However car-pooling may However, these quick  xes still re- reliable. is encourages public changes, like taking the bus, or cal footprint. mean sacri ces to the user. Car- quire an e ort from the customer. I turning o lights. It means creat- poolers would have to schedule transit. personally do not use compact  u- First transportation will be exam- ing pressure to the government to themselves to arrive to school and Unfortunately, not all cities have orescent light bulbs even though I ined. Canada is a very car-centric make bigger changes. And most leave with the other users. If you such a system. Halifax for example know that they are better for the country. We also have very high people can only do that much, were the driver, you couldn’t just most people commute in from the environment because I  nd them numbers of commuters who trav- however as engineers, we are lucky. leave school early if your lab was surrounding areas and the typical annoying. People leave computers el to an urban area to work and We can help with the solution. As cancelled. You may have to get up method of transport is by car. is on, lights on, power cords pluged then return to more rural areas we begin our careers we should al- early to pick up the other members may be in relation to the transit in and so on because it is just the to live. is means that the roads ways consider the environmental of your carpool. Perhaps these system in Halifax. e metro buses habit we have created. But once are clogged with cars full of one or impact of any project we work on, reasons are why more people don’t exist, however they are rarely on again, are little habits and minor two people in cars that are burn- and our education has prepared us use carpooling, but the bigger time. In fact they are o en about annoyances worth  ve earths? for that. question is: two to  ve minutes early, which is e bigger solution is to create is it worth even more frustrating when you Laziness should not be an excuse energy sources that are not car- for our global footprint, and nei-  ve earths? are trying to plan to catch a bus. bon dependant, and that use our Also, the entire system needs ma- ther should habit or lack of fund- Unfortu- renewable sources. Cross coun- ing. Small changes may be an- jor updating and capital invest- try there is the possibility of using Sexton Campus Events noying at  rst, but if everyone many di erent forms of renewable contributed then there would be a Looking for something to do? Not spend- energy, such as concentrated so- huge impact. Having a lower eco- ing enough time mingling with other lar in the south of Saskatchewan, logical foot print does not mean faculties/disciplines? en check out some hydro electric in most parts of changing the way we live com- of these events. the country, tidal power on the pletely; it just means making small east coast, and wind power on all adjustments to our lifestyles so ursday, Nov. 4 the coast lines and high altitudes. Formula SAE presents “Town Heroes” and that we have something to enjoy in e implementation of all of these the future, and so that we can leave “Actors and Architects” at the T-Room. $3 sources would be a huge cost; how- something for future generations. cover. 8pm ever they would produce green en- Editor's note: A few of us took this 15% OFF WITH STUDENT ID! Friday, Nov. 5 ergy that would limit the carbon dependency of the country. test to check it out, and received Vegetarian options with fresh produce purchased daily Engibeering in the Design Commons, 1:30- scores ranging from 2.83 to 3.7. We 4:30. $2.50 drinks ere are solutions to these prob- agree that the test is imperfect in 5677 Brenton Place Liquid Lounge in the Exhibition Hall, lems that we must face as a genera- methodology, but it's worth check- Across the street from Park Victoria and the NSLC tion. e bigger solutions (transit, 6-8pm ing out. e NS Power website has renewable energy sources etc.) some tips to save energy too, if you DEGS vs. MBA Trivia, T-Room, 9:30PM $2 require two things, the  rst being cover want to save some cash on your en- money and the second being po- ergy bill! Wednesday, Nov. 10 litical pressure. e government is e Sextant is published by the Industrial Engineering Night at the T- responsible for the capital spend- ing needed to encourage major Dalhousie Sextant Publishing So- Room ciety and aims to represent all of Speed Dating, live music by “Jane’s Party” environmental changes to happen. In order to do so, money needs to the students studying and living $3 cover be raised by the tax payers, and on Sexton Campus. ursday, Nov. 11 this is something people do not Editor: Ben Wedge Remembrance Day ceremonies, various want. Unfortunately, the mind- Assistant Editor: Shani Blankrot locations in the HRM. e student societ- set at this time is that “my money Treasurer: Elizabeth Croteau ies will be at the Grand Parade Square. is my money” is more important If you have any concerns about than the idea of environmen- Does your society have an event on Sexton the paper, please email sextant@ tal consciousness. is thinking dal.ca and we'll arrange to meet Campus? Send an email to [email protected] needs to change to move forward and discuss them. and we’ll post it here! with major reworks to systems to Apparel - Belt Buckles (Bronze, Silver and Gold toned), Keychains and T-Shirts! EngiBEERing every Friday a ernoon in the Design Commons! Wear a sweater vest for a free beer! In the Name of Allah Most Merciful, Most Forgiving The Dawgfather is pleased to announce the winners of the annual THE DAWGFATHER I L❤VE YOU BACK DAY

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