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March 6, 2007 | Volume 46 No. 7 ProPro TemTem le journal étudiant de Glendon | Glendon’s student newspaper A Light in the Darkness HPV Vaccine: Benefi cial or Dangerous? | P4 L’artiste de Glendon se confi e | P12 Graffi ti Goes Clean | P14 De l’argent pour Glendon, mais pas pour les étudiants | P15 Clinton and Obama Step into the Ring | P11 2 EDITORIAL | PRO TEM March 6, 2007 EDITORIAL Glendonʼs student newspaper PRO TEM Pro Tem est le journal étudiant du collège Glendon. Publié pour la première fois en 1962, c’est la plus vieille publication de l’Université York. En plus d’être gratuit, Pro Tem est le seul Get Involved journal bilingue en Ontario. As a full member of the Canadian University Press, we strive to act as an agent of social change and will not print copy deemed racist, sexist, homophobic or otherwise oppressive. with Pro TTem!em! Éditrice en chef/Editor-in-Chief Tia Brazda Éditrice en second/Assistant Editor Ashley Jestin Éditeurs de section/Section Editors Nouvelles Politique La vie au campus Clara Wille Ashley Jestin Kaitlyn Chambers Dear Readers, Talk Back Creative Writing Metropolis After having written what feels like a dozen editorials, we Laura Scrivener Hannah Renglich Tia Brazda have nothing left to say. The editorial has now been reduced to Entertainment Arts & Culture Reviews idle weather chat. With Gore having recently won an Oscar for Jacinto Wong Sarah Maharajah Juan Llamas Rodriguez a global warming fl ick, and Front Street closed due to falling sheets of ice from the CN tower, we now know for sure that hell Photographe Design/Layout Édition francophone Irena Kramer Jennifer Rong Gabriel Rompré has frozen over. This year, during what we normally refer to as Jacinto Wong winter, we’ve been from the tropics to the North Pole in little over a few months (except backwards. Where the hell was the snow at Contributors/Collaborateurs Christmas?) Audrey Alix Ran Lewin Now as each day we nearly break our legs on our trek to Marissa Baratta David Morris Shona Bracken Keith W. Morris the bus stop, (Tia’s already sprained a wrist) we can only hope Lisa Chiapetta Mark Nichols that the groundhog was right and we will soon be delivered from Eden Consenstein Ana-Maria Oroianu this arctic hell. As long as the weather gods don’t have any more Kamal Farmaly Tina Ritas tricks up their sleeves, it will surely be imminent. Yes, this year’s Lidia Giosa Jessica Toals Tim Hilliard Pier-Bernard Tremblay weather has been so downright creepy that we are consumed by Claire Lacey superstition. (Is global warming trying to keep up with the media spin? It’s just happening so fast.) Sure it was hot last month, stormy last week and cold right now but the mayhem doesn’t Volume 46, No. 7 March 6, 2007 change the fact that you are likely swamped with papers that you Cover Image courtesy of www.sapros.com have no interest in doing. Hang in there, the year’s almost done. Please respond to what you read in the pages of Pro Tem. As soon as the leaves turn green and the sun shines, you’ll be like, Saisissez la chance de réagir à ce que vous avez lu dans Pro Tem. “Sigmund who?” For now, read Pro Tem and forget about it. Contact Us/Contactez-nous: Your favourite or not-so-favourite Editors, Éditrice en chef: [email protected] News: [email protected] La vie au campus: [email protected] Tia and Ashley World Politics: [email protected] Arts & Culture: [email protected] Création littéraire: [email protected] Métropole: [email protected] Reviews: [email protected] Photographer: [email protected] D114 Hilliard, Glendon College 2275 Bayview Ave North York, ON M4N 3M6 Phone 416-487-6736 • Email [email protected] Web site www.yorku.ca/protem Visit us in our offi ce at Hilliard D114. We are open Monday - Th ursday 12am-4pm Visitez notre bureau à Hilliard, D-114 Nous sommes ouvert du lundi au jeudi de 12h à 14h Les lettres addressées au journal peuvent être éditées au niveau de la clarité ou du contenu. All copy appearing in Pro Tem is at the discretion of the editorial team. PRO TEM | TALK BACK 3 le journal étudiant de Glendon ADVERTISEMENT 6 mars 2007 �������������������� ������������������ ������������������ ���������� ����� ������������������������������������������������������ �������������������������������������������������������������������� �������������������� �� ��������������������������������� �� ����������������������� ���������������������������������������������� ���������������������� ������������������������������ ����������������������������� 3712-UO-8X10-sosc-A.indd 1 22/11/06 09:34:47 4 NEWS | PRO TEM March 6, 2007 NEWS Glendonʼs student newspaper The DarkDark SideSide ofof StarbucksStarbucks CoffeeCoffee The battle for fair trade continues between Ethiopia, Starbucks, and Oxfam. by Jessica Toal Th e recent battle between the farmers see only about 10% of $88 million in extra revenue. WWorldorld Coff ee sells a fair Government of Ethiopia and that, about $1.40 per pound. Due to media scrutiny and trade brand of Las NubesNubes coff ee conglomerate Starbucks Th e goal of the Fair Trade cam- pressure from fair trade supporters, Coff ee. FForor everyevery pound over the trademarking of regional paign is to make sure that coff ee Starbucks recently announced that sold, one dollar is donated coff ee blend names has re-ignited farmers earn a living wage. Fair they would not oppose Ethiopia’s to the FFisherisher FFund,und, which the crusade for fair trade coff ee. trade supporter Oxfam recently eff orts and would in fact double in turn supporsupportt the co- Ethiopia is ranked among the stepped in when Starbucks tried to the amount of coff ee bought from operative. poorest countries in the world. Africa in the upcoming fi scal year. YYouou can fi nd fair trade Th ey are however, very rich in their York University is voicing its coff ee at the GlendonGlendon BistroBistro largest national export-coff ee. Th e “Th e goal of the Fair Trade opinion on the fair trade debate. in the AAthleticthletic ClubClub,, as wwellell population of 75 million, 50 per campaign is to make sure York’s Faculty of Environmental as occasional selections in cent of whom are living under the that coff ee farmers earn a Studies has partnered up with the cafeteria. BeyondBeyond this, poverty line, relies on international living wage. ” Timothy’s World Coff ee to help YYorkork does not off er much trade to make a living. fund and foster the economic opporopportunitytunity for students to Th e amount for which compa- sustainability and growth of a co- supporsupportt the fair trade campaign. azygeek.net l nies like Starbucks sell their high- block the Ethiopian government operative in the Las Nubes region MMostost of the coff ee sold at the end specialty coff ees is far more from trademarking three of their of Costa Rica. Th is co-operative food establishments in GGlendon’slendon’s than the amount that farmers in coff ee brands. Oxfam claims that is made up of mostly small coff ee YYorkork HHallall is not fair trade. “I feel Ethiopia are receiving in exchange. trademarking these names would farmers who all abide by the as though bbyy not off ering fair trade their opinions as consumers,”consumers,” says Starbucks sells some of their Ethio- allow the country to have bet- economic and social demands of coff ee on campus, the university Renee Rocheleau, a second year pian specialty coff ees for as much ter control over wages and would the fair trade system, but are also is being hypocritical and is not student. as $26 a pound. Ethiopian coff ee bring the government a projected able to reap the benefi ts. Timothy’s giving students the power to voice Is Gardasil the New Vioxx? Merck, the creators of the against immunization have proven dangerous and recalled arthritis vaccines to be useless or ineff ective, Preventing the spread of the human papilloma virus and drug Vioxx—the drug that is dangerous to the body, and coun- dangerous vaccines. estimated to have caused up to ter-productive in immune system 140,000 heart attacks in the US development. Th e Australian doc- by Tina Ritas alone within a 5 year span and umentary Vaccination: Th e Hid- increase a patient’s risk of heart den Truth exposes some unknown trauma by 34%—have yet another truths about vaccines, such as the drug on the market. Th e vaccine misleading statistics that lead us to Gardasil is already mandatory for believe that vaccines are eff ective. sixth grade girls in Texas, which Despite many such arguments, it is stated to protect young women is still widely believed that vaccines against the sexually transmitted are a safe and eff ective way to pre- human papilloma virus (HPV). vent illness. Furthermore, the fact Currently, 20 million people that Merck put thousands of lives are infected with the virus, which at risk in just a few years by plac- is connected to some types of ing the dangerous drug Vioxx on cervical cancer. Th e drug has seen the market makes the safety of the a lot of negative feedback since its HPV vaccine questionable. release in June 2006, where there Natural medicine suggests that, have already been 82 cases of much like cancer and other illness, severe adverse reaction following HPV is completely avoidable, and the administration of the vaccine. many contracted cases actually Many advocacy groups say that clear up without treatment. Proper it is useless and dangerous, that diet, exercise, limit of environmen- it violates human rights and that tal stressors and toxins, exposure it is an unnecessary expense to to fresh air and sunlight, as well as taxpayers.