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Nov. 5 - Nov. 11 , 2010 5 - Nov. Nov. free free 143-09 Like lambs to the slaughter Editorial, pg 3 Child soldiers fi ght back, pg 5 Exclusive: Superfantastics say goodbye, pg 12 Cross-country captures gold, pg 15 Cover Illustration by Sydney Smith November 4 - November 11, 2010 • Joel Tichinoff, Editor in Chief [email protected] Bethany Horne, Copy/Online Editor [email protected] Laura Conrad, News Editor Samantha Durnford, Assistant News Editor DSU Weekly Dispatch [email protected] Hilary Beaumont, Features Editor Mark Your Calendars for Upcoming Events [email protected] Fusion Friday Katie Toth, Opinions Editor Friday, November 5 s t a ff . [email protected] Rebecca Spence, Arts Editor Spend your Friday night at the Grawood! This Friday there will be a DJ and no cover! Erica Eades, Assistant Arts Editor You must be 19+ to attend. 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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.