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02 13.01,2005 NEWS ASSIGNMENT EDITOR » VIVIAN BELIK E-MAIL » [email protected] TELE » 786-9497 THE UNITER NEWS PRODUCTION EDITOR » DEREK LESCHASIN E-MAIL » [email protected] TELE » 786-9497 NEWS Tsunami Ripples at the U of W Global Citizens Remember Josh Grummett Beat Reporter

n Friday, spoke of how this disaster was January 7, a “ours, even knowing that oceans remembrance separate us”. service for Pagtakhan, and Axworthy, Photos by: Wade Andrew Wade by: Photos victims of the addressed the audience many December 26 times as global citizens, referring » Otsunami in Southeast Asia took to the Global College as a place in Eckhardt-Gramatte Hall “beacon of purpose”. at the U of W. Tables outside Differentiating between “not you the hall accepted donations or I, but you and I”, he said that for organizations working in we “care because it is our duty to the relief effort; inside, the care, according to the dictates of atmosphere was one of quiet our conscience.” The tsunami- respect. Issues of the day echoed affected regions were “shattered “you don’t have to in quiet conversations that were by disaster, [to be] shaped by be a millionaire— stilled when a candle at the human creation”, and that the just have a heart to centre of its candelabra was lit, concepts of “truth, knowledge, and Gordon MacDermid, Dean justice, freedom, and peace” pray to God to bless of Theology, took the lectern to have new meaning. the victims” Banda Aceh, Tsunami Survivor open the service. Three students—Harsh » In his address, U of W Dubey, from India; Tharangi the lectern, speaking of the then closed the service, with an Naucrates, an Italian organization president and vice-chancellor Hewawellage, from Sri Lanka; village nearest to his own— edge to his voice after noticing that helps preserve endangered Lloyd Axworthy spoke of a and Vassan Aruljothi, from Banda Aceh, close to the some early departures. sea turtles—she was previously “common circle brought Malaysia—next took the lectern, epicenter of the disaster. He Afterwards, Pagtakhan said on the Odyssey, a 3-year voyage together” to share their grief, each with a candle. Dubey spoke spoke of how “you don’t have to he considered the service to be to compile info on contamination and the rebuilding efforts, of of the “sad, tense, and worried be a millionaire—just have a “a golden opportunity to share in levels in the world’s oceans”. how this disaster is not so distant situation”, admirably keeping it heart to pray to God to bless the the grief of others”. He wondered “It’s awesome that we’ve from events in Sudan, from together as he walked over to the victims”. Aruljothi, too, l! it two how other universities were jumped on the bandwagon and Russian schools and refugees in candelabra and lit two candles candles, completing the responding to the tsunami, that we’re trying to help as much central Africa in recent memory, on either side of the central one. candelabra. MacDermid took the saying that new knowledge could as we can,” said Sookermany of of how those in tsunami-affected Hewawellage talked about how lectern, reading a portion of an arise from the convergence of the aid efforts in Asia. “It’s regions are “rebuilding not to the coastline itself of Sri Lanka e-mail from a Thai instructor at these efforts. going to be hard for the next old, but new models”, and how has changed, how a friend of her the U of W, then asked the The events in Asia have had a while, but I’m sure with the help, this event lets us reflect on the brother’s was the only one of his audience to stand in a moment of personal impact even on many we’ll be able to get through.” true meaning of human security. family to survive—“by hanging silent remembrance, to be people who would otherwise be True enough sentiments—and Dr. Rey Pagtakhan, Chair of on to a tree”—and her followed by the haunting fiddle removed from that part of the ones that echo across memories of the President’s Honorary appreciation of the Canadian music of Sierra Noble. He then world. Tiana Sookermany said the disaster, and the relief efforts Advisory Council of the Global DART team’s dispatch to her invited the audience to speak, that a cousin of hers, Rebecca and remembrance of the global College and Dialogue Centre, country. She, in turn, lit two asking for questions or Clarke, was in southern Thailand citizens here at the U of W. was next. In his address, he candles, before Aruljothi took comments—no one spoke. He doing “conservation work for the Local Group Prepares for “Beijing Plus 10” Jacob Serebrin Senior Beat Reporter

started quite small, it has grown One of the issues discussed at budgets assess the differing impact Human Rights Scale significantly. However, the group the summit was sexual and of a government budget on men has suffered setbacks, members reproductive rights; rights that and women. Gender budgets have n January 5, had hoped to get government many of the NGO delegates worry already been used in countries the United support and take out a bank loan in are being eroded. These fears such as Australia and South Nations order to start a business. were strengthened by an Africa. Platform Unfortunately, both these endeavors announcement made by the mostly According to DeGroot, “the for Action were unsuccessful. male and “oblivious”, according to budget is a powerful tool... Committee UNPAC is currently preparing DeGroot, American delegation. government budgets can either O(UNPAC) held an open house for the “Beijing Plus 10” conference In the words of Smith, “the US exacerbate women’s inequality or and presentations at their new which will be held in New York was probably going to reaffirm the promote women’s equality and we Maryland Street office. this spring and will asses the The Winnipeg non- progress made in the ten years governmental organization has no since the Beijing Conference. “The effort there will be to actual ties to the United Nations, According to UNPAC member but UNPAC takes its name from Muriel Smith, “the effort there [in the “Platform for Action” set out in New York] will be to get get reaffi rmation of the the UN’s Fourth World Conference reaffirmation of the Beijing on Women held in Beijing in 1995. platform and new issues UNPAC is “committed to equality, identified.” Beijing platform.” development and peace, articulated Smith, along with UNPAC in Beijing’s Platform for Action.” project coordinator Jennifer The UNPAC open house DeGroot, recently returned from a Beijing Platform for Action...but think our provincial budget could featured a presentation by Jane pre-New York planning conference they would reserve on reproductive be used a lot more effectively to Kagolo, an elderly women from in Geneva this past December. and sexual rights whereupon...the promote women’s equality.” Uganda. Several of her children The four-day Geneva conference, place erupted.” While UNPAC is not planning have died from AIDS, leaving which included two days of NGO Among the other issues to do a full analysis this year, they seven of her fourteen grandchildren meetings followed by two days of discussed in the NGO meeting hope to have one in the near future. orphans and in her care. government panels, drafted a were cuts to public services. DeGroot hopes that it will Kagolo, along with other women progress report on the countries in According to Smith, “when “encourage the Manitoba from her community in similar the European Economic governments cut them back it’s the Government to create a more situations, formed a group to look Community (which includes the women and children that suffer gender responsive budget” and after families affected by AIDS. United States and Canada). disproportionately.” promote awareness of how budget Members of the group contribute “We felt it was too important a The AIDS crisis was also decisions effect women. DeGroot money, which is then divided forum not to be at,” says Smith. discussed at the conference. Rates describes the gender budget as among the members based on who “We were there again to try and of HIV/AIDS are rising in women, “phase two” of the group’s “women has the most pressing needs. Group get the European community to especially among young married and economy project”, UNPAC’s members also make bags and other assess what progress has been women. continuing effort to promote handcrafts which are sold to raise made and what yet remains to be UNPAC has also begun work on economic literacy and education funds. While she says the group done.” a “gender budget project”. Gender among women. 13.01,2005 03 NEWS ASSIGNMENT EDITOR » VIVIAN BELIK E-MAIL » [email protected] TELE » 786-9497 THE UNITER NEWS PRODUCTION EDITOR » DEREK LESCHASIN E-MAIL » [email protected] TELE » 786-9497 NEWS World News Report Compiled by Derek Leschasin New Zealand— Scientists have released new 01 data tracing the evolution of a long-extinct giant eagle that once lived in New Zealand, the Times reports. 03 The eagles sported wingspans of up to three meters, and weighed as much as 04 fi fteen kilograms. Their main prey were giant Moas, fl ightless birds that weighed up to ten times more than their predators. With the arrival of man and the extinction 05 of the Moas, the species of eagles soon disappeared with the elimination of their main food source. DNA recently extracted from the birds’ skeletons has led geneticists to believe they are most closely 02 related to the smallest eagles known. South Africa— 01 Reuters reported on January 026 that Nelson Mandela announced that his son Makgatho had died that day from AIDS. In making the announcement, Mandela, who is active in the campaign against the disease, went against taboos in Africa which often prevent people from speaking about deaths caused by AIDS. It’s estimated that about 25 million people across the continent are infected. South Africa is home to 5 million people infected with AIDS, and as many as 600 people die Debate Continues to Spiral Over Fate of Waverly West of AIDS per day in that country alone. Vivian Belik News Editor Police are — Jino distasio, Acting director — WPG Institute Urban Studies Canada— warning the public to beware “If we don’t do Waverly 03of fake charities soliciting donations for victims of the tsunami West the sky isn’t going disasters in Asia, the CBC reports. The hile the focus Ontario Provincial Police have received tips to fall” that people on the east coast are being in the news last Photo by: Wade Andrew year was on targeted by emails from the “Tsunamis drawing people Disaster Help Fund,” but no such charity exists. to Winnipeg’s Meanwhile, legitimate charities report that downtown, local they are receiving record amounts of developers have been making plans to woo W money for relief efforts in Asia. them back to the suburbs. A list of registered charities can be found In order for the city to thrive and avoid a at http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tax/charities/ future housing shortage, land development menu-e.html agencies Ladco and ND Lea believe that Winnipeg must act fast to complete Waverly United States— West, a 10,000 home suburb in the south Staples, the offi ce supply western quadrant of the city. The proposed »Bill Clement City Councillor 04superstore, has pulled neighbourhood will house nearly 30,000 According to Ladco, Waverly West is a in the southwestern quadrant can go hand in its ads from “The Point,” a political people and is being touted by developers, “cash cow” and if the city continues hand with downtown revitalization, commentary program aired by the Sinclair and city planners alike, as the only solution restricting the supply of housing, it will specifically because both developments Broadcast Group, the International Herald- to the city’s dwindling supply of residential “drive up prices and encourage exurban “will cater to different markets”. Tribune reports. lots. sprawl”. Concerned residents, however, who Jino Distasio, acting director for the Staples was the target of an email Important players such as the provincial came to speak against Waverly West, were Winnipeg Institute of Urban Studies, agrees campaign launched by the activist group government, the Winnipeg Planning and not swayed by such arguments. Most that Waverly West “will not be taking home Media Matters. The company claims the Development Department, and the Winnipeg believed that another suburb would only owners away from the inner city” due to the decision to pull its ads was not politically Chamber of Commerce are standing shoulder further draw life out of the city’s downtown fact that “consumer preference right now motivated, but a response to customer to shoulder with Ladco and ND Lea, pushing and that the environmental, economic, and remains on the single family detached concerns. the city to move ahead with Waverly West. social costs were not enough to justify the home”. In Distasio’s opinion, however, the “The Point” has been referred to as The one thing preventing shovels from creation of another housing development. city should be trying to balance the types of “conservative propaganda” by leftist entering the ground thus far has been a “We are subsidizing outward growth,” development that it allows and should not be advocacy groups. During the election, Sinclair Broadcast Group, which owns 62 clause in Plan Winnipeg, the city’s blueprint expressed concerned resident Nelson solely focused on creating housing television stations nationwide including for all future development, which prohibits Morrison. “Seventy million dollars doesn’t opportunities in the southwestern quadrant. CBS and ABC affi liates, was criticized for the redesignation of all rural policy areas in just magically appear from thin air, it comes “If we don’t do Waverly West the sky its plans to air a documentary critical of Winnipeg from becoming neighbourhood from here,” he said as he pointed to his isn’t going to fall – I think there’s room for Senator John Kerry’s war record. The policy areas, unless there is a proven social wallet. other development in the city.” Distasio documentary was eventually pulled in and economic benefit of doing so. City councilor Jenny Gerbasi warned that views infill housing, the reuse of existing response to protests. On January 4 and 5, the mayor’s executive if Waverly West “is just another monolithic buildings, and the conversion of warehouses policy committee opened up the floor of city car-oriented suburb with a focus on driving as forms of alternative development as Somalia— According hall to both opponents and proponents of from one big-box retail to another, then “creative ways of dealing with the current to a report from the BBC, Waverly West to aid them in deciding we’re in trouble”. Gerbasi ventured that if housing demand” and methods for 05the African Union is whether an amendment to Plan Winnipeg is the project must go forward, it is essential “maximizing what’s going on in the city”. planning to send troops to the capital indeed necessary. For two full days, city that there is “collaboration between the If Waverly West is to proceed, Distasio city of Mogadishu in a matter of weeks. councilors patiently listened to nearly planners and developers with significant and others believe that it is crucial that both The force would be deployed in order to seventy different parties as they presented engagement from the public” and that it “be the city and the developers are held protect the new Somalian government, their case to the committee. done right the first time”. accountable to the people of Winnipeg such which is currently working out of Kenya Groups that are tied to the housing With the provincial government slated to that they build a high-density neigbourhood due to security concerns. Somalia has industry and who have an economic stake in receive a large profit margin from Waverly that is environmentally sensitive and takes been without a real government for over the project pointed to Winnipeg’s shifting West, Gerbasi feels that the government long-term social and economic costs into a decade, with rival warlords vying for housing market and increasing population as should be urged to “use a significant portion consideration. control over pockets of territory. an indication of the need for this type of of these profits to reinvest in older On January 19 the mayor’s executive The size of the force has not yet been development in the city. In addition to these neighbourhoods and the downtown.” policy committee will reconvene to make a decided, but the new President, Abdullahi claims, developers have stated that there is Ladco and ND Lea adamantly claim that recommendation to city council on whether Yusuf, has requested as many as 15 to 20 seventy million dollars of potential profit to “Waverly West will not ‘drain’ public money an amendment to Plan Winnipeg is indeed thousand troops. be made from Waverly West. away from the downtown” and that growth warranted. 04 13.01,2005 NEWS ASSIGNMENT EDITOR » VIVIAN BELIK E-MAIL » [email protected] TELE » 786-9497 THE UNITER NEWS PRODUCTION EDITOR » DEREK LESCHASIN E-MAIL » [email protected] TELE » 786-9497 NEWS Bomb threats postpone exams at York University Over 1,000 people evacuated after campus building targeted during fi nals Michael Sitayeb Excalibur (York University)

ORONTO need to strike between speed and (CUP) -- Two panic,” said Michael Markicevic, anonymous bomb head of security at York. threats within “We have to consider the minutes of each disabled people within the other disrupted building and make sure that they severalT classes, presentations and are able to safely exit, while at the exams at York University Dec. 8, same time other students don’t putting campus security on full always take the warnings alert. seriously,” he said. It took 20 minutes to evacuate “I am happy to report that well over 1,000 students from the over 1,000 people were evacuated university’s Curtis Lecture Halls, without injury.” Ross Building and Scott Library, Toronto police officers with many confused students reportedly yelled at students to unwilling to leave their exam come down from the roof decks of rooms. the Curtis Lecture Halls. Other

The first bomb threat was students stood in confusion inside Map From University the York Website called in at 1:22 p.m., followed by Vari Hall after seeing the locked » a second one a few minutes later, doors to the Ross Building. apparently by the same individual. Most students did not grasp the especially under the anxiety of an proceed with exams. for the safety of fellow York York security notified the Toronto urgency of the situation. exam day. The bomb threats were students,” said Markicevic. police and fire departments and “I didn’t even notice anything “Students really need to inform determined to be “hoaxes,” Six exams were cancelled and began a full evacuation of the when I passed through campus themselves of security protocols according to an official York numerous arrangements to hand- three buildings starting with the walk,” said biology student Jerome beforehand to understand why security log statement, yet the in or present assignments to target, the Curtis Lecture Halls. Liu. things are being done the way motives for the threats were professors were derailed. Students The size and scope of the “On my way back from the they are and to assist with the unclear. and staff had to reconsider their evacuation presented student centre, people were still rapid evacuation,” he said. “It’s “We just think it was someone plans to accommodate the unprecedented challenges. wandering dangerously close to very difficult to explain the rules trying to get out of their exam,” rescheduling of assignments and “Nobody started evacuating the building behind caution tape,” on the spot.” said Jaff, who missed a 2 p.m. exams. Not all of them were happy until two o’clock,” said kinesiology he added. All three buildings, as well as kinesiology exam in the Curtis with the delays. student Yael Jaff. Many students in the surrounding facilities, were Lecture Halls that day. Other Most exams were rescheduled Resistance from students surrounding area continued to do thoroughly checked by York students and staff echoed her for January to avoid conflicts with anxious to write exams, the sheer last minute studying for their security and Toronto police, and statement. students’ plans. size of the complex and people exams despite swarming groups of nothing suspicious was “This is one of the common The investigation into the bomb with disabilities created enormous police officers and fire-fighters. discovered. tactics used by people to escape threats is ongoing. hurdles for the evacuation. Markicevic admits getting By 4:30 p.m., students and staff their exams. It is a very serious - - - “Whenever we have a situation students to abide by warnings and began funnelling back into the criminal offence, and it shows With files from Aliza Libman like this, there is a balance we obey caution tape is a challenge, buildings, unclear about how to great discourtesy and disregard Tsunamis will come to B.C.: scientists Pacifi c Ocean earthquake would send waves crashing into west coast Bryna Hallam The Martlet (University of Victoria)

ICTORIA American Plate. This is similar to the size of (CUP) -- The Because the plates are so waves that did so much damage devastation large, these earthquakes are in Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka produced by among the world’s largest and and India. the tsunamis in often result in magnitudes above By the time waves reach southern Asia 9.0 on the Richter scale. These Victoria, speculated Stephenson, Vand eastern Africa has caused earthquakes often result in they would likely be between one many Canadians to look nervously undersea landslides and the and four metres high. As the to our long Pacific coastline and vertical displacement of water, water moved through the Straight ask: could it happen here? which in turn trigger tsunamis. of Georgia, the energy would “Yes,” confirmed Alison Bird, Megathrust earthquakes are dissipate and the waves would be an earthquake seismologist at the characterized by stronger and smaller. Geological Survey of Canada’s longer-lasting shaking than Stephenson maintains the best office in Sidney, B.C. “We are smaller earthquakes. There are way for people to prepare for a going to have a megathrust estimates the shaking in Sumatra tsunami is to be educated about earthquake sometime.” during the recent earthquake the phenomenon. There is evidence that lasted as long as seven minutes. “Education is going to be the megathrust earthquakes occur According to Bird, shaking biggest bang for the buck over every few hundred years. The inland and farther from the the next 10 or 100 years,” he last one to occur off British epicentre could last even longer said, noting while the outer coast Columbia’s coast was in 1700, but would be slower and less of Vancouver Island could have and stress is building for another. sharp. as little as 15 minutes warning of It is likely another earthquake Following an earthquake far a tsumami, Victoria would have will strike within the next few out in the Pacific Ocean, it could at least 90 minutes. hundred years, according to take hours for tsunami waves to “If you feel the earth shaking,” seismologists. As Bird points reach B.C. But the Canadian he said, “get away (from the out, the more time goes by, the Hydrographic Service predicts coast) and stay away.” more likely it is one will some communities along the west Receding water is another happen. coast of Vancouver Island could sign of a coming tsunami. “It could be tomorrow,” she be hit by huge waves with as Despite the risk of a megathrust said. “We can’t predict it.” little as 15 minutes’ warning. earthquake and a tsunami, Bird In a megathrust earthquake, Models show waves as high as points out the hazard in British one tectonic plate slips under five to 10 metres -- the height of Columbia is more from normal, another. The province is a three- to four-storey building - smaller earthquakes. susceptible because it lies along - would crash into the west coast “They’re a lot more frequent, the area where the Juan de Fuca of Vancouver Island, says CHS and they can still be damaging,” Plate is slipping under the North spokesperson Fred Stephenson. she said. 13.01,2005 05 UWSA

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TTAWA has played an important role — in education, has been sharply broader Canada Student National Research Council, (CUP) — If co-operation with the provinces reduced. The result of this Liberal Loans program; National Science and Engineering Canada is to — in supporting post-secondary neglect has been a 135 per cent - New measures to encourage Research Council, and the Social be competitive education through the funding of tuition increase over 10 years, parents to save for their Sciences and Humanities in the global university-based research and higher student debt loads, larger children’s education; Research Council. A Conservative economy of direct support for students and classes, shrinking numbers of - A Registered Lifetime government will ensure that these Othe 21st century we must have the their families through loans and faculty, and crumbling facilities. Savings Program that would bodies have sufficient resources best post-secondary education grants. While tuition fees increased allow people to withdraw to do their important work system possible. Perhaps more I believe that the federal and dramatically, the grant portions savings tax-free to pay for without political interference. importantly, we also need provincial governments, working of student loans have not kept major expenses such as These measures we have widespread access to quality post- in partnership, both have a pace. This has meant that the post-secondary or continuing proposed to help students and secondary education to ensure responsibility to ensure that no average debt burden on a education for themselves or their families with the costs of that we have better informed student who has the desire and graduating student ranges their children. post-secondary education, and to citizens, a richer culture and more ability to learn is denied a post- between $22,000 and $25,000 One measure the federal assist post-secondary institutions fulfilling lives. secondary education due to lack per student. government could easily directly (especially by supporting From a public policy of financial means. The biggest The Conservative party has undertake to help post-secondary research) are by no means a perspective our investment in barrier to post-secondary proposed several measures to students would be the removal of panacea. It will take years of post-secondary education is education today is the rising cost deal with these challenges in our the taxable status of scholarships, rebuilding to overcome a decade advantageous to the economy and of tuition fees. To address this policy statement and our platform bursaries and grants over $3,000. of Liberal inattention to post- society as a whole because challenge, governments will have in the last election, including: Students who earn this financial secondary education, and we university and college graduates to reassess the existing student - Working with the provinces help through their own recognize that the new make a higher than average loan system and deal with the to help overcome barriers to accomplishments should not be Conservative party still has to contribution to the tax revenues issue of increasing student debt access to the current Canada punished by having to pay higher refine its ideas in this area. Our upon which the rest of our social loads. Student Loans program; taxes. proposals on post-secondary services depend. The 15 per cent During the mid 1990s, the - Increase family income In addition to addressing the education — like the rest of our of adult Canadians who have federal Liberal government thresholds for loan eligibility needs of students and their policies — will be discussed and university degrees contribute 35 balanced the budget primarily by or even eliminating the families, we also have to address debated at our upcoming policy per cent of the taxes collected in reducing transfers to the provinces inclusion of parental income the needs of colleges and convention in March in Montréal. this country. Thus, the future of — including transfers for post- in assessing student loan universities as institutions. The It is our hope that students and our social safety net is inextricably secondary education. More applications altogether; Conservative party believes that faculty from across Canada will linked to building and maintaining recently, even as increased federal - Introducing income the best support the federal consult, observe, and participate a quality system of post-secondary dollars have been found for health contingent loan repayment to government can provide to the in this policy development education. and other areas (including give graduates more flexibility work of our post-secondary process so that the next Education is an area of advertising contracts and wasteful in repaying their loans; institutions is through Conservative government is one provincial responsibility in our firearms registries), the Canada - Redirecting funds from the independent, merit-based research that gives post-secondary federation, but since the Second Social Transfer, which helps the narrow Millennium granting agencies such as the education the attention that it World War, the federal government provinces fund post-secondary Scholarship program to the Medical Research Council, truly needs and deserves. 06 13.01,2005 CommentsCONTACT » Comments Editor » Daniel Blaike E-mail » [email protected] Tele » 786-9497 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The Uniter: A student paper hijacked by social activists Paul McCulloch

very week I pick is trendy at the time. What do nothing but her personal to the food services bid, and as a assumption that we are all up a copy of I mean by this? Well, for one, mouthpiece. Social activism has result was called the outspoken behind these initiatives 100% is the Uniter and anything on Bus Rapid Transit run so rampant at this school that I critic of the bid, outlines my point annoying as all hell, if they every week I is full of glowing praise. For wonder that we get any schoolwork exactly. The only people who had were to ask for people’s true am disgusted by another, the Uniter had almost done at all. I don’t see the voices really heard of the bid before it opinions -- instead of fudging the contents. I nothing but praise for the new and views of the students was pretty much done for discussion their facts and surveying only likeE to think of myself as fairly food services bid, but now is full represented at all. What I see is the were the ones pushing for change. the people who parrot their liberal-minded, and open to new of complaints and gripes about activists using the Uniter as their So once again I make the call, views back at them -- they things, but reading this paper (in what it has become. You made own personal pamphlet and the social activism has run unchecked would learn that a large number the words of an associate of mine) your bed, now lay in it. people who have opposing views, on this campus for far too long. of the people they believe are makes me feel like a fascist. All Second, I can’t seem to find an when they bother to try and change Change for change’s sake almost behind them do so only because I ever read is propaganda for issue where our UWSA president this, lambasted and ridiculed as always leads to disaster. Not that I they feel it is expected of them. the social activist issue of the does not have something to say backwards and stubborn. The fact am against change where it is truly hour, and any remarks about it about anything. Once in a while I that last year when I wrote a letter needed, but I am sick of the are in keeping with the view that get the feeling that the Uniter is to this paper stating my opposition activists running campus life. The

On the Nature of a Student Paper: A response to Paul McColloch Daniel Blaikie Comments Editor RESPONSES

educated. Therefore students are purchase the finished product that contributions cannot only be and then composing an article activists – excepting, of course, most appeals to me, and I do not financial. to reflect it. the incorrigibly ignorant, and the share in responsibility for the In order for me to present a Exchanging ideas, despite efore I begin essentially evil, that walk in our quality of products offered. diversity of opinion within the the pluralist myth, isn’t always there are a few midst – and further, that student As students of the University of Comments section of the Uniter, I an exchange of flowers and quick points I papers should therefore also be Winnipeg, we pay for the Uniter. need a diversity of contributors. I warm fuzzies wherein would like to activist. I am well aware that However, we do not pay on an have run weekly section ads and everyone’s views are given clear up. First, there are lots of well intentioned, issue-to-issue basis depending on written articles soliciting equal treatment, sometimes it I don’t pretend intelligent people who do not our satisfaction with the final contributions (count this among amounts to a contest of values. toB speak for my fellow editors. I associate with activism, or even product. We pay up-front with both them). No where has there been a The Uniter offers a forum in feel a particular responsibility to ‘the left’ generally. To suggest the a direct levy as part of our student caveat stating that contributors which that can take place, but reply to Mr. McColloch because contrary is as ridiculous as it is fees, and out of the general revenue must be self-proclaimed social you can’t win if you don’t step he has expressed dissatisfaction offensive. of our students’ association. We activists, but if these people alone into the ring. Those whose with the views and opinions — or So with that out of the way, we pay up-front, not for a product that present material for publication, views deserve to be heard in the lack thereof – expressed in the can proceed to the question at is guaranteed to be entertaining or their material alone will be Uniter Comment section are paper, and the Comments section hand; the nature of a student paper. satisfying to all, but for an published. those who take the time to put is where a presentation of various The Winnipeg Free Press and the opportunity to showcase the The Comments section in them on paper and send them opinions is meant to take place Winnipeg Sun have as their intellectual life of University of particular is a place for students in. Mr. McColloch has proven within the Uniter. Second, I would primary goal the production of Winnipeg students. What that and community members to throw himself capable, and I hope to like to reassure you, the reader — profit. They create a product and looks like in the end is up to us. ideas back and forth. My job, as I hear from him again. I also and Mr. McColloch especially — market it to Winnipegers who then Unlike with the Free Press and the see it, is to organize and facilitate hope to hear from others who that what follows will not be some either buy it, or don’t, based on Sun, our relationship to the Uniter that process, while contributing have something different to expounding of student-political whether or not they like the paper. is not simply financial. It’s regularly in order to get the ball offer than what they have heard doctrine to the effect that; Depending on how Winnipegers something we might identify with, rolling. I do not, however, see my in the pages of the Uniter thus activism is the result of a proper exercise their dollar-vote, these and hopefully, take pride in. job as including extensive polling far, be they left, right, or education and familiarization papers may change to better reflect Obviously, this has a lot to do with around campus to determine the otherwise. with ‘the facts.’ Students are our views. As a consumer, I the content of the paper, and so our majority opinion on a given issue,

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s we slide into the Winter term, Why is the professor so keen on this one? Why is sweet cash. A few buttons are pushed; they reach into Aries -The phrase ‘Purple monkey students everywhere are getting a little his/her name in it? Am I funding their golfi ng the little metal box and start to pull out some cold hard dishwasher’ will suddenly take on a whole anxious. Finally finishing their courses, vacations? I already pay their salary; must I also buy cash. You think you might get more than you originally new meaning, and an old lady in a pink receiving marked exams, and starting their books? Is the author a friend of my professor? expected; you may be able to buy some ketchup to go parka will bring good luck. These incidents may or may not be related, but either way, new classes that are fresh and exciting. These are questions we ask ourselves as we with that Mac and Cheese. you’ve got a bizarre week coming up. It’s a wild and exciting time, until you take the dreaded plunge; handing over our debit “Here you go, $18.50,” as a few bills and coin are Taurus – The Meaning of Life will come getA the bill. and/or credit cards for a quick yet painful “beep - handed to you. boop” as the magnetic strip is swiped. “No, that can’t be right. It’s a hundred dollar book,” to you in a fl ash this week. Unfortunately, We all get the dreaded letter and are slapped with “The like so many other things, by the time you’ve Winter Term Bill Blues”. Instantly, as if out of the heart of hell, But wait! The book store as a buy back program! you try to spit out as your chest starts to hurt again, “It found a piece of paper and a working pen, you get slapped with a “please pay $1400 by said date”. But I can sell the text from my last course, and I’ll at least is in perfect condition!” you will have forgotten it. we recover; we stand strong and face the terrible monster. have some money to buy a week’s worth of Kraft “Yes, isn’t it,” a smile is thrown your way as they try Dinner because I can’t afford anything else. You to rip the book from your cold, clammy, and shaking Gemini – Interestingly enough for a Money is found under the couch, loans are taken, and the Gemini (with the whole twin thing), you will light at the end of the tunnel is near; everyone feels a little confi dently stride to the table, set your book down hands. What happens next is a real shock. You throw be a total loner this week. Your friends will better. You come to school, and start some new classes, and say, “I’d like to sell this.” They smile, punch a few the money at the person behind the table; trying to completely ignore you, and will seize any hoping that you do better than the whole “Yeah, I studied for buttons on the computer, give her a quick scan and blind them with one of the coins so you can get your opportunity to not be around you, including say, “Sorry, this isn’t on our buy back list.” Two heart book back. But they just don’t seem to let go, and aren’t jumping off a cliff. You may try to tell Biology” fi asco which ended in you passing with a “C -”. Then yourself that you don’t really care, but we all suddenly, a new monster tears you apart like a fat kid on a attacks in one day is a little rough, but you feel a even phased by the toonie that whizzes by. know how you really feel. pie. tightening in your chest and your left side goes a little In the end, you lose. They have the book in their vile The dreaded text book; a thorn in the side of every numb. You blink, and the world begins to spin. You clutches, and you have $17.50 (you lost one of the Cancer – Don’t slouch, you slacker. You’ll blink again, grab at your chest and collapse onto the loonies in the fi ght) to your name. It’s over; there is turn into a hunchback. And stop cracking student. Your professor tells you that it is mandatory reading your knuckles, unless you want arthritis. and it is testable material. Strolling into the book store, fi nding table. nothing left for you. Yet again, you have been screwed Have you been fl ossing your teeth? They the specifi c book, having a myocardial infarction as you see “Oh! Wait, here it is,” the person at the table over. Paying outrageous tuition and text book fees, don’t tell you to do it for kicks, you know, it the $134 price tag, and slowly dragging yourself to pay for it says, “Sorry, it is on our buy back list.” Feeling a little having three heart attacks in one day, and you can’t really is important. better, you pop up from your daze and slide the book even get a decent price for your used text book. with your head hung low is a terrible experience we all face. Leo – You will lead a massively successful Why is this text so damn expensive, and why aren’t we over. After paying $97 for it a few months ago, and its Oh, but don’t forget to put your name in for the DVD revolution and will become a cultural icon in using the less expensive one that holds the same information? condition is near perfect; you are ready for some player. the process. Of course, you will remain friendly and down-to-earth, and when they start erecting statues in your honour and naming cities after you, you won’t let it get to your head.

Virgo – You will be abducted by aliens this week. While up in their spaceship, you will be surprised to learn that every alien stereotype is completely true, right down to the anal probes. Your discomfort will be offset by your fascination.

Libra – You are a lovable, cartoon-like animal. You have endearing fl aws that are brought out in hilarious circumstances every day, often accompanied by your characteristic catchphrase. Look into merchandising if you want to make easy money.

Scorpio – You will eat a crappy black bean dish this week. In order to avoid this unfortunate event in the future, I suggest that you start eating normal food, you hippie.

Sagittarius – The dreaded deadline is approaching. Are you prepared? God knows I’m not. Illustration by: Edward Cheung Capricorn – Get a job, you slacker. And if you think you can get through life on your poker winnings, you are gravely mistaken, my friend, because you are destined to lose everything to a Leo.

Aquarius – People will do unexpectedly nice things for you this week. And I don’t just mean holding the door. I mean bringing you large, spontaneous gifts, giving you credit for their miraculous discoveries, and the like. Don’t get too used to it, though. They’ll turn on you eventually.

Pisces – Despite a lack of musical ability or any real experience in the area, you will write a mega hit song this week. Sell it to XTina, and live it up off the royalties.

Janet Mowat HOW TO DEVELOP A SENSE OF HUMOUR TIP OF THE WEEK: Nothing is funny unless it’s at the expense of someone else. Therefore, don’t worry about offending people. No matter what you say or do, if it’s funny, people will be offended, because people are stupid. That’s just the way it is. 08 13.01,2005 FeaturesCONTACT » Features Editor » David Pensato E-mail » [email protected] Tele » 786-9497

CLASSIFICATION: NOUN GAMERTOPIA : FACEOFF SPORTSCARDS JOSH GRUMMETT

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Image by: Dave Pensato he place is a hole in the » That is, until my father got me hooked on wall—a neon sign hanging Magic: the Gathering and Dungeons and off the end of a strip mall Dragons: two of the greatest games to on Ness, spilling light explode through NorthAm, both available at across a back alley that Face-Off, with Gord above the counter turns black in the rain. laughing and hearty, and with Hope at the There’sT a door in the shadows beneath the cash register. I bought, and still buy, all my sign, presenting white wrought-iron bars, geeky paraphernalia from there—if you posters of Magic: the Gathering expansions stacked it all as high as you could, the and Dungeons & Dragons characters in a hardcovers would reach my waist and I’d be still marquee. Just beyond the door, you can leaning on copies of Dragon and Dungeon, see cardboard stand-ups of Wayne Gretzky, staring up at some Magic card eight inches Jeff Gordon, and Wolverine. above my head. Hope may not be there Step inside—the two walls opposing you anymore, and the counter may be level with are made of cards. The drywall disappears my waist and not my chin, but I still go behind twin armies of card displays, you can there, and still the stack grows. see the outlines of hockey players and other I’m now running a D&D campaign after- sports figures shaping the west wall while hours in the store’s back room. Rob, Gord’s fantastic creatures from Magic and Legend son, is in our group—if we need a copy of of the Five Rings line the north. A glance to Dragons 3.5 in all its gritty, neo-medieval the “Unattended Children Will Be Sold As Races of Destiny or the Eberron campaign your right reveals McFarlane figures, flourish; issues of Dragon, Dungeon, Knights Slaves” sign. No, this comes from setting, he can ring it up with a grin and a complete card sets, a shelf of Beanie Babies, of the Dinner Table; sourcebooks for every memories. Red vs. Blue quote. There’s a 7-11 within a and a glass case of rare Magic cards—all pen-and-paper game from Forgotten Realms When I was in Grade 6, and lived far dice throw of the store, and the 24 bus route overseen by a stand-up of Gretzky, wearing to Shadowrun and d20 Modern. Even— enough west to hear the Red River Ex from runs by every twenty minutes. It’s a tiny a Winnipeg Jets jersey, custom-made for the kneeling—prints for artwork from Rifts. the roof of my backyard shed, there came a gamertopia. store. You can see into a brightly-lit back I wouldn’t be too terribly surprised if the day when I had enough money to burn a hole At Face-Off, I can coast on my memories room: three brown tables and a motley array of Settlers of Catan games caught your in my pocket. Of course, this day was in the and tell campaign stories over games of collection of chairs, two freckle-faced kids eye; nor would I disapprove if you stared up ass end of October and rainy enough to rival Magic. I can drop by between classes to talk playing a WWE card game underneath a at Wayne in his Jets jersey, wondering, or Vancouver. Still, nothing would deter me shop with Rob or scan the rare cards. I can poster for the latest Magic expansion. down at the Mage Knight miniatures, from biking all the way up to Face-Off to lose myself in the esoteric mysteries of game Wander around the island in the middle curious. Clearly, Face-Off is the greatest buy a pack of cards. They were ‘collector’s mechanics, I’m the only regular with a black of the store, the island of card boxes, binders gaming store in Winnipeg. cards’ for some anime that I’d never seen nor trenchcoat without playing a Vampire— and sleeves; notice the bookstands. They’re This claim does not come from its heard of, but still. I’d bought cards from Face-Off is my FLGS, my favourite local the role-playing games: Dungeons and selection; nor the absence of mark-ups; nor Face-Off. I ruled. gaming store.

FEATURE ARTICLE EMBRACING A LIFE WITHOUT MONEY BEING A WANDERER, POSSESSING THE MINIMUM AND GETTING BY IN THE CITY

XANIA KEANE THE LINK CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY

ONTRÉAL (CUP) -- Covered with money. with a single bed sheet and “Progressively, it was a gradual thing, I sleeping on a carpeted floor, came to adopt this lifestyle, not having any Olivier wakes up and looks income, not having an apartment or a house, at the daylight streaming possessing only one pair of jeans or pants, through the skylight above only one shirt,” says Olivier. “I’ve been him.M He has just spent the night in the hallway living like this for two years, since the between two emergency exits of an apartment beginning of 2002.” building in downtown Montréal. With 25 years behind him, Olivier feels After taking a moment to daydream, he feels an no need to stress about money, saying the urge to get up from his bed and take a shower. He city gives him enough to live without it. walks down de Maisonneuve to Dawson College and “This desire of possessing almost nothing into the men’s locker room, pretending to be a and living a simple life, I always had it student. He cleans his body and leaves. Olivier then inside me, even when I was in elementary walks to Mont-Royal, treading slowly over the soggy school.” leaves, thinking about existence and enjoying the Olivier came to Montréal from Kigali, sunlight. Rwanda, as a political refugee when he was It is a few minutes past one o’clock. Standing on seven years old. an escalator at Concordia University, Olivier climbs “When I was in elementary school, we

Photo by: XaniaPhoto by: Keane towards The People’s Potato, an organization that had no choice but to attend some workshops

» offers free vegan food to students. After filling his about Catholicism. Learning about people belly, a student gives him a small light-blue square of like Jesus, St. Francis of Assisi, I learned paper. It is an advertisement for a cheap way to get that it’s possible to live just being a wanderer, one’s income taxes filed. possessing just the minimum. “Sorry, this isn’t for me,” he says with a French “In autumn 2000, I had income taxes, accent, giving the piece of paper back to the woman. Olivier is one of very few people who avoid living » Continued on the next page 13.01,2005 09 ISSUE Features Editor » David Pensato E-mail » [email protected] Tele » 786-9497

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2005/01/13 Features VOLUME 59 » Continued from the previous page FEATURE ARTICLE EMBRACING A LIFE WITHOUT MONEY BEING A WANDERER, POSSESSING THE MINIMUM AND GETTING BY IN THE CITY had an apartment and the things anyone who has an apartment possesses, a sound system, TV and all that stuff. I was in the car with a friend of mine. I said to my friend, who was looking for a TV, his was broken, I said, ‘Hey, let’s go to my place, I’ll give you my TV.’ And he said, ‘Come on, you’re crazy, why would you give me your TV?’ I said, ‘No, no, no, I’m going to give you my TV.’ “That was the first step. Then I started to give up all my things, and I found myself in the street a few months later.” He lives his life by simple rules: he doesn’t drink alcohol or use drugs; he’s a vegetarian; he doesn’t steal; he doesn’t own any form of identification. “I now volunteer three days a week at a hospital, enough time to feel as though I’m making a difference, but not enough time to make me feel like I’m working. “You will never see me performing anything to get money. If someone gives me money, I will accept it. I use money only to make phone calls, to rent or to go see movies at the theatre. If you give me a hundred bucks, I will go see a movie, rent a few Features movies and then give the rest away.” Learning to Forget Winter A major inspiration in Olivier’s life is the novel K-Pax. “Truly, if you really want to know who I am, you have to read the book K-Pax. Even me, sometimes I forget things about my A Winnipegger in New Z values or just lose the focus, but whenever I read that book I sort of find myself. It’s  a suitable holiday weird, but that’s the way it is. It’s like a soul mate, but it’s a book.” Olivier makes his way down Ste- BY PAUL WEDEL Catherine Street to Chapters. He visits the novel that he’s read countless times about an alien from a utopian world where everyone helps one another, where there is no greed Paul Wedel is from Winnipeg and is spending the year in New Zealand. Each week, he wr and no money. experience for Th e Uniter. Last heard from in early December, he talked about a typical day In order to survive without money, east ern-most edge of the world. Th is week he talks about experiencing Christ mas and New Ye Olivier depends on his friends. “I have this friend, Pablo, he lives in the environment far removed from his native Winnipeg McGill ghetto, and he works and everything. He let me stay in his apartment during the Christmas holidays for nearly a month because he went to visit his family in Spain. He left me his keys and the code on his phone to get the messages. I still have the code, and he lets me pick up messages. Pablo helps me; people sometimes invite me to stay in their places or allow me to wash my clothes in their apartments. I definitely rely on other people.” Olivier plans to live the rest of his life without money. “Money is not good for the spirit: money kills the spirit. I don’t see myself using big amounts of money to put together big projects. I believe that if something needs to be done, it will be done without money. It’s not so much the money that causes stress, if you ask me, it’s the things we do to get it. “Work, most of the work we do is very stressful. We have to perform; we have to be efficient like machines. Money transforms human beings into slaves and masters. That’s why I was never attracted to the work market.” After eating supper at a volunteer-run soup kitchen, Olivier goes to meet a student from India at a café on the corner of Berri and St-Catherine Street. Olivier has agreed to help him improve his French in exchange for help in English. He then goes down a small street in downtown Montréal. Entering the apartment complex from the emergency exit door on the side of the building that he leaves open, he finds the spot where his bed sheet lies. 010 13.01,2005 Features Editor » David Pensato E-mail » [email protected] Tele » 786-9497

hristmas in New Zealand is low-key. In the And I am already beginning to forget the winter. weeks approaching the 25th, the air becomes heavy Th ough emails from family and friends inform me and warm, and though the streets of downtown that it is forty below back home – forty below! Wellington are congested with pedestrian traffi c, Good God, Winnipeggers are tough – my body most faces are smiling. Women wear tank tops and mind have adapted and are getting soft. I and skirts; men are clad in shorts and designer t- catch myself complaining about cool stretches – shirts. Th e supermarket at the bottom of the hill has specials on only 17 above today! – to which Stevo exclaims: CHeineken, candy canes and lawn chairs. It is summer and it is “Harden up Canadians!” Christmas: this holiday is completely outside my experience. At eleven on New Year’s Eve, the three of us Our roommate, Stevo, explains that Christmas is not a big will drive around downtown in Stevo’s sister’s deal here, “We’ll just go down to my brother’s for a bar-b car. Th rongs of teenage girls and boys – they and a swim.” Th ere is no family gathering, no panic for are mostly girls, barely dressed – pass by our last-minute gifts, no pressure. Th ere is actual relaxation: a car on foot headed for Civic Square as we simple afternoon on the deck with a cold, green longneck, wait for the light. We see a woman no older a couple burgers, and a small gathering of folks from than 20 on the corner with a wedding veil England, Germany, New Zealand and Canada. On on her head surrounded by three fawning the deck, I crack open the red cooler, dig another friends. Th e bass from the P.A. at the Heine out of the ice and breathe slow and deep. So square rumbles through the frame of our this is Christmas. vehicle, and at that exact moment, Leigh and I agree to Stevo’s suggestion that we Our hopes of lying on the beach and swimming ride to the top of Mt. Victoria to watch on Christmas Day are dashed when large, but the fi reworks from above. non-threatening grey clouds roll into the bay. But that doesn’t stop Ruckus, Stevo and Mike, Th ere are more people on the hill the three O’Rourke brothers, from suiting up than we expected and we spend only and hitting the surf. Leigh and I will avoid fi fteen minutes looking down on the the salty, frigid water until two days later, city, which is fl anked by ocean on the when the sun arrives and the fi ne black sand south and the east. By half-eleven, is too hot to stand on barefooted, and all we’re driving back. We ring in 2005 the residents of Lyall Bay empty onto the with a cup of tea on the porch: a Zealand beach with umbrellas and children. We’ll suitable way to start the year. body surf on the 27th of December under a blue and yellow sky, play Frisbee in the wind, and when we get back, have a beer on the porch. We’ll notice the areas the sun-block missed and curse the ozone hole. ites about his y at the south- Year’s Eve in an

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PUBLIC DOMAIN SERIES THE ENEMIES OF BOOKS  Servants & Children

WILLIAM BLADES 1888

Library invaded for the purpose of dust ing.––Spring clean.––-Dust to be got rid of.––Ways of doing so.– –Carefulness praised.––Bad nature of certain books––Metal clasps and rivets.––How to dust .–– Children often injure books.––Examples.––Story of boys in a country library.

supervised and instructed, she is very apt to than girls, and have, naturally, no reverence for rub the dust into, instead of off , the edges. age, whether in man or books. Who does not Each volume should be held tightly, so as to fear a schoolboy with his fi rst pocket-knife? As prevent the leaves from gaping, and then wiped Wordsworth did not say:-- from the back to the fore-edge. A soft brush will be found useful if there is much dust. Th e “You may trace him oft whole exterior should also be rubbed with a By scars which his activity has left soft cloth, and then the covers should be Upon our shelves and volumes. * * * opened and the hinges of the binding He who with pocket-knife will cut the edge examined; for mildew WILL assert itself both Of luckless panel or of prominent book, inside and outside certain books, and that most Detaching with a stroke a label here, a pertinaciously. It has unaccountable likes and back-band there.” dislikes. Some bindings seem positively to _Excursion III, 83_. invite damp, and mildew will attack these when no other books on the same shelf show Pleased, too, are they, if, with mouths full any signs of it. When discovered, carefully of candy, and sticky fi ngers, they can pull in wipe it away, and then let the book remain a and out the books on your bottom shelves, EADER! are you married? would I advocate dust and dirt; they are few days standing open, in the driest and little knowing the damage and pain they will Have you off spring, boys enemies, and should be routed; but let the airiest spot you can select. Great care should be cause. One would fain cry out, calling on the especially I mean, say necessary routing be done under your own eye. taken not to let grit, such as blows in at the Shade of Horace to pardon the false quantity-- between six and twelve Explain where caution must be used, and in open window from many a dusty road, be years of age? Have you also what cases tenderness is a virtue; and if one upon your duster, or you will probably fi nd “Magna movet stomacho fastidia, si a literary workshop, Eve in the family can be indoctrinated with fi ne scratches, like an outline map of Europe, puer unctis supplied with choice tools, some for use, some book-reverence you are a happy man; her price all over your smooth calf, by which your heart Tractavit volumen manibus.” _Sat. IV_. forR ornament, where you pass pleasant hours? is above that of rubies; she will prolong your and eye, as well as your book, will be wounded. and is-- ah! there’s the rub!--is there a special life. Books MUST now and then be taken “Helps” are very apt to fi ll the shelves too What boys CAN do may be gathered from hand-maid, whose special duty it is to keep clean out of their shelves, but they should be tightly, so that to extract a book you have to the following true story, sent me by a your den daily dusted and in order? Plead you tended lovingly and with judgment. If the use force, often to the injury of the top-bands. correspondent who was the immediate guilty to these indictments? then am I sure of a dusting can be done just outside the room so Beware of this mistake. It frequently occurs suff erer:-- sympathetic co-suff erer. much the better. Th e books removed, the shelf through not noticing that one small book is One summer day he met in town an Dust! it is all a delusion. It is not the dust should be lifted quite out of its bearings, purposely placed at each end of the shelf, acquaintance who for many years had been that makes women anxious to invade the cleansed and wiped, and then each volume beneath the movable shelf-supports, thus not abroad; and fi nding his appetite for old books inmost recesses of your Sanctum-- it is an should be taken separately, and gently rubbed only saving space, but preventing the injury as keen as ever, invited him home to have a ingrained curiosity. And this feminine on back and sides with a soft cloth. In which a book shelf-high would be sure to mental feed upon “fi fteeners” and other weakness, which dates from Eve, is a common returning the volumes to their places, notice receive from uneven pressure. bibliographical dainties, preliminary to the motive in the stories of our oldest literature should be taken of the binding, and especially After all, the best guide in these, as in many coarser pleasures enjoyed at the dinner-table. and Folk-lore. What made Fatima so anxious when the books are in whole calf or morocco other matters, is “common sense,” a quality Th e “home” was an old mansion in the to know the contents of the room forbidden care should be taken not to let them rub which in olden times must have been much outskirts of London, whose very architecture her by Bluebeard? It was positively nothing to together. more “common” than in these days, else the was suggestive of black-letter and sheep-skin. her, and its contents caused not the slightest Th e best bound books are soonest injured, phrase would never have become rooted in our Th e weather, alas! was rainy, and, as they annoyance to anybody. Th at story has a bad and quickly deteriorate in bad company. common tongue. approached the house, loud peals of laughter moral, and it would, in many ways, have been Certain volumes, indeed, have evil tempers, Children, with all their innocence, are often reached their ears. Th e children were keeping a more satisfactory had the heroine been left to and will scratch the faces of all their guilty of book-murder. I must confess to birthday with a few young friends. take her place in the blood-stained chamber, neighbours who are too familiar with them. having once taken down “Humphrey’s History Th e damp forbad all outdoor play, and, side by side with her peccant predecessors. Such are books with metal clasps and rivets on of Writing,” which contains many brightly- having been left too much to their own Why need the women-folk (God forgive me!) their edges; and such, again, are those coloured plates, to amuse a sick daughter. Th e devices, they had invaded the library. It was bother themselves about the inside of a man’s abominable old rascals, chiefl y born in the object was certainly gained, but the just after the Battle of Balaclava, and the library, and whether it wants dusting or not? fi fteenth century, who are proud of being consequences of so bad a precedent were heroism of the combatants on that hard-fought My boys’ playroom, in which is a carpenter’s dressed in REAL boards with brass corners, disastrous. Th at copy (which, I am glad to say, fi eld was in everybody’s mouth. So the bench, a lathe, and no end of litter, is never and pass their lives with fearful knobs and was easily re-placed), notwithstanding great mischievous young imps divided themselves tidied--perhaps it can’t be, or perhaps their metal bosses, mostly fi ve in number, fi rmly care on my part, became soiled and torn, and into two opposing camps-- Britons and youthful vigour won’t stand it--but my fi xed on one of their sides. If the tendencies of at last was given up to Nursery martyrdom. Russians. Th e Russian division was just inside workroom must needs be dusted daily, with the such ruffi ans are not curbed, they will do as Can I regret it? surely not, for, although the door, behind ramparts formed of old folios delusive promise that each book and paper much mischief to their gentle neighbours as bibliographically sinful, who can weigh the and quartos taken from the bottom shelves and shall be replaced exactly where it was. Th e when a “collie” worries the sheep. Th ese evil amount of real pleasure received, and actual piled to the height of about four feet. It was a damage done by such continued treatment is results may always be minimized by placing a pain ignored, by the patient in the wall of old fathers, fi fteenth century incalculable. At certain times these observances piece of millboard between the culprit and his contemplation of those beautifully-blended chronicles, county histories, Chaucer, Lydgate, are kept more religiously than others; but victim. I have seen lovely bindings sadly colours? and such like. Some few yards off were the especially should the book-lover, married or marked by such uncanny neighbours. A neighbour of mine some few years ago Britishers, provided with heaps of small books single, beware of the Ides of March. So soon When your books are being “dusted,” don’t suff ered severely from a propensity, apparently as missiles, with which they kept up a as February is dead and gone, a feeling of impute too much common sense to your irresistible, in one of his daughters to tear his skirmishing cannonade against the foe. unrest seizes the housewife’s mind. Th is assistants; take their ignorance for granted, and library books. She was six years old, and would Imagine the tableau! Two elderly gentlemen increases day by day, and becomes dominant tell them at once never to lift any book by one go quietly to a shelf and take down a book or enter hurriedly, paterfamilias receiving, quite towards the middle of the month, about which of its covers; that treatment is sure to strain the two, and having torn a dozen leaves or so down unintentionally, the fi rst edition of “Paradise period sundry hints are thrown out as to back, and ten to one the weight will be at the the middle, would replace the volumes, Lost” in the pit of his stomach, his friend whether you are likely to be absent for a day or same time miscalculated, and the volume will fragments and all, in their places, the damage narrowly escaping a closer personal two. Beware! the fever called “Spring Clean” is fall. Your female “help,” too, dearly loves a being undiscovered until the books were acquaintance with a quarto Hamlet than he on, and unless you stand fi rm, you will rue it. good tall pile to work at and, as a rule, her wanted for use. Reprimand, expostulation and had ever had before. Go away, if the Fates so will, but take the key notions of the centre of gravity are not even punishment were of no avail; but a single Finale: great outburst of wrath, and rapid of your own domain with you. accurate, leading often to a general downfall, “whipping” eff ected a cure. retreat of the combatants, many wounded Do not misunderstand. Not for a moment and the damage of many a corner. Again, if not Boys, however, are by far more destructive (volumes) being left on the fi eld. 012 13.01,2005 Arts & CultureCONTACT » Arts Editor » Jo Snyder E-mail » [email protected] Tele » 786-9497 Our Best Bet: Montreal’s Malcolm Bauld Goes Solo Jo Snyder Arts and Culture Editor

alcolm Bauld broke up, but it’s a nice thing to do. have a band from Sudbury called grew up in We can put it on our web site. I the Statues that I will be collaborating Victoria, B.C. hope people see it, all the images with. Surrounded by a sort of sum up our band. musical family, Jo: How did you get hooked up Malcolm studied Jo: How is the solo project with Billy from Billy and the Lost pianoM at an early age. He moved to going? Is this something that you Grandmont Yannick Photo by: Boys? Montreal in 1995, picked up a have always been working on? » guitar, and became an important Malcolm: We met in Vancouver part of the music scene. In the last Malcolm: When I think back, I on tour in 2002. We played a couple fi ve years, his band, The Frenetics, have always been playing solo of shows with them. Then we toured Canada and the United shows, but never seriously, never hooked up with them again in States extensively, released an EP, consistently. So it doesn’t feel that summer 2004. They came to two stunning full-lengths and a 7”. new, but I have never sat down and Montreal. She [Billy] hooked up with After a disappointing tour said, ‘Okay this is what I am going a new drummer who I had known cancellation, The Frenetics have to do,’ which is what I have done. from one of his previous bands, and called it quits. While Canada has There is no big plan. I am just taking it was really a good time. They lost one of its best indie bands it step by step. The reason I am stayed here and then went out east ever, there is consolation in the doing the tour is because we [the and came back and stayed again. fact that Malcolm Bauld isn’t Frenetics] had a huge disappointment So we got to know each other a bit fi nished with music. In fact, he is when the European tour fell apart better and we kind of threw the idea starting his solo career. Billy Bragg this fall and I didn’t want to just sit back and forth and didn’t know if it and Joe Strummer are some here in Montreal for the winter and was really gonna happen, then we obvious infl uences; Malcolm’s feel down. I wanted to keep playing, both found ourselves in the position sound is dramatic and intense, well so I fi gured, if I did this tour, that where she had just released a played, well sung. His acute sense would sort of give me a chance to record and the band couldn’t really of folk melodies and smooth voice prove that it’s something I can do. tour right now, and she wanted to are enough to make a person tour, and then I had a record but weep. Jo: Are you going to start didn’t have a band anymore, that’s promoting yourself as a solo artist? why it’s sort of perfect. Jo: Are the Frenetics offi cially over? Malcolm: Yeah, absolutely. With help from the Rosewater Agency based in Winnipeg, Malcom Malcolm: Yeah, pretty much. Jo: Are you just going to release Bauld and Billy the Kid will be The thing is that we are trying to get your record on your own? touring Western Canada until mid- this video fi nished, our fi nal video, February. Malcolm will be playing for the song Journalist, which is Malcolm: No. I’m looking for a two shows in Winnipeg: Monday, kind of cool because a lot of label. I know that there’s a producer January 17 at the Dregs cafe is an Yannick’s photos are in it which we here that’s offered to work with me all ages show with Billy the Kid, thought would be a nice fi nal thing. this year so at least I know I have Doug McLean, and special guests. We are totally doing it ourselves. I that and we’ll see how it goes from Tuesday, January 18 at the Collective got people that I knew to do the there. I am doing some recording Cabaret (on Osborne) is 18+ with video. It’s been a long process before I go so I will have a CD to Billy the Kid and Doug McLean. getting it fi nished. It probably won’t bring with me. I am just trying to — Malcolm Bauld Don’t miss a set! There are plenty of get any play because the band fi nish as many songs as I can. I also songs to be heard.

A Mid Winter Night’s Dream: A Five Folk Travelling Road Show Jo Snyder Arts and Culture Editor

espite the cold, despite snow up JudyPhoto by: Maki

to our hips and » frozen eyelashes, Kate Maki and her friends are headingD out on the road for a tour. But this is no ordinary tour, it’s sort of special. It is a road show of sorts featuring ex-members of Canadian bands such as Royal City and The Guthries. Ryan Bishop, Nathan Lawr, Ruth Minnikin, Kate Maki and This way everybody is in it for Dale Murray are all solo artists themselves, but everyone is helping with their own records out. This each other out. Everybody wins is a tour, Kate hopes, that will showcase them all. “It’s to help promote everybody. As a solo artist it’s hard to tour with a band because it costs a lot. This way everybody is in it for themselves, — Ryan Bishop, Nathan Lawr, Ruth Minnikin, Kate Maki and Dale Murray but everyone is helping each other out. Everybody wins.” The group is calling the show, A fi rst time. I’m loving the variety and did it and it was really fun. You’re “Expectations? None. If I expect The show is January 19 at the West Mid Winter Night’s Dream, though not having to be the person with the warm in the car, and if you have something it won’t happen. I just End Cultural Centre. Tickets are $10. keep in mind that’s not the name of mic,” says Kate. some good boots and a coat and a want to go out and play the songs Kate Maki’s CD will be in stores on January 18. the band. Each artist will play their It seems sort of crazy to venture hat it’s good to get out and enjoy the and have as much fun as I can. It To learn more about the artists, check out: own songs as well as on each other’s out during the coldest months of the season. I think it’s an adventure. would be nice if people would take a www.ryanbishops.ca songs, sort of like one big switcheroo. year, but Winnipeg is a good There’s not a lot of people touring in chance and come out to see us.” The www.katemaki.com “Everybody is pretty multi-talented destination. We understand cabin the winter so if people are looking to show will ! be a full evening of folk/ www.nathanlawr.com and Nathan just taught me how to fever. “I like to snowboard. The go to a show there’s not a lot of roots music with drums, acoustic www.ruthminnikin.ca play the drums for his song so you mountains are beautiful,” says Kate. competition.” Conquer the winter: and electric guitars, bass, pedal www.theguthries.net know, I am going to give it my best “Last year Ruth and I did it and it’s a good attitude to have when steel, piano, organ, accordion, and I am playing some bass for the everyone said we were crazy, but we what lies ahead is so uncertain. harmonica and harmonies.

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here, it’s an embarrassment of basement does not include hot Shows, too, can be a grueling, your friends via phone, email, or Mike Lewis riches, and I fi gure we all take it for chocolate or rice crispy squares). though worthwhile, experience. actually yelling at them. The most granted how much amazing The spaces are generally quite These can take place almost popular method is postering. creative stuff goes on here.” small, with more than one object anywhere from reasonably well Postering is a process that s we saw last time, With this many bands, and only having to share the same space as established venues, to clubs where separates the “I’m doing this for musicians make so many venues, there can be a another, and usually at the same the toilet seats actually bite you the money” musicians from the “if I music because they certain amount of competition time. It sounds physically when you sit on them. Basement didn’t do this I’d kill myself” love it. Their within the scene. How bad it gets impossible but it’s all part of being parties are also an option. No one musicians. Speaking from personal passion gives them depends on the band. Some have in a band. It doesn’t help when the gets paid in advance, if they get experience, covering every light no other choice but been fortunate enough to have drummer has a huge kit, though paid at all. They phone and phone post in the downtown area can toA follow the calling of their supportive bands around them, excess fl oor toms can provide and eventually get a time slot on a take between 8-14 hours depending collective hearts. It’s either that or like Jahmeel Russel (Projektor) adequate seating in a pinch. The weeknight, or a weekend if they’re on how many other band members lose sleep over the regrets that who “just wants to see [his] friends three to eight (or more) musicians really lucky, though few are. help. And if we’re really lucky, idiots come with not doing it at all. As a and peers do well.” Not everyone cram themselves inside and The next stage is promoting won’t come along and tear them result, musicians have a number has that positive outlook proceed to slave away over hot said-gig (that’s right son, when down seconds after they’re taped of things to deal with in order to unfortunately. Egos can abound in amplifi ers to perfect the songs you’re a musician, a job is called a up. accomplish anything. this business and not everyone they bring to you, the li! stener. gig). This can include telling all of Once the word is out there, The music scene in Winnipeg is can keep them under control. preparing a set list is next. For huge. It may not seem like it at Every musician you know has at more on preparing a set list, see times, but there are more bands in least one story of a gig gone awry the movie High Fidelity, particularly this city than you could possibly due to a member of another band the section on mix tapes. imagine. At times it seems as causing problems. Fortunately, Getting the gear to the venue though everyone knows somebody even the most jaded can have a can be an exciting or shaming who plays in a band. We’ve got the positive, if maybe cautious, outlook experience depending on what metal scene covered with bands on the situation. Trevor Whatman kind of day you’re having. Cars are like Lyceum or the late Boldface (The Saucermen) has been out borrowed, amps and drums are Industry. All forms of rock are held playing for the last decade and loaded into trunk and vans, and up by bands like The Saucermen, feels that, while negativity between then carted to the ally behind Projektor, High Five Drive, and bands does happen, he enjoys whatever venue is having the show. Burnthe8track, to name a few. We seeing other bands become If you’re lucky, everything gets have punk bands like City Champs successful in Winnipeg and beyond loaded in, set up, and the shows and a whole slew of others. There as it will increase interest towards goes off smoothly. If you aren’t are actually parts of Winnipeg the rest of the city. In his lucky, things can break in transit, where punk bands are used as words,“Success allows for more gear can be ripped off from right currency. Singer/songwriter style artist! s to be seen by more people. behind you as you turn to walk music is also well represented here Support your fellow band.” inside the building, P.A. systems with the likes of Pat Keenan (a.k.a. All that being said, a lot goes can short out, giving a mix Captain Keenan). Funk has Moses into these shows that you usually consisting of soul-shredding Mayes, electronica has Querkus, just hear about in passing and then feedback instead of a little bass and random noise has Nagasaki forget about two seconds later. drum, or worse. Fondue. DJs abound, like DJ The average band practices two to During one particular show, my Hunnicutt. Rap even has a three times a week (sometimes band experienced the following: presence here, with groups like more) in a rehearsal space that half my drum set was knocked Farm Fresh and the innumerable may range from a cold, dank over by another band’s drummer, spin-offs from that particular warehouse space, to a deathly hot my bass drum pedal fell apart group. That’s only scratching the and somewhat soundproofed room mid-song, a guitar amp stopped surface. To quote Doug Mclean in a section of a building shared by working, the singer’s mic cut out, (The Pap! erbacks), “There’s so eighteen other bands, to mom’s much diversity and quality in bands basement (please note: mom’s » Continued on the next page 014 13.01,2005 » File Photo — Saucerman Arts & CultureCONTACT » Arts Editor » Jo Snyder E-mail » [email protected] Tele » 786-9497 » Continued from the previous page the drum monitor overloaded and proceeded to deafen me with a screech every time I hit my bass drum (which was a lot), guitars were dropped, the bass player cut his head open on one of my cymbals, and to top it off, only half the band was coming through the P.A. system. All this in just 45 minutes. Despite all that, we played four more times that week. Winnipeg bands are somewhat fortunate in that many of the venues in this city allow independent bands to play. Places like The Academy Coffee Co., The Pyramid, The Zoo, The Royal Albert, The Collective Cabaret, to name a few, are generally pretty friendly towards new bands. Like Trevor Whatman says, “It’s a great place to be if you’re just starting out.” Independent bands in Vancouver are less fortunate, as Niko Friesen (Motion Soundtrack) says, “Club promoters are all over the map here, some support independent music, some…. not so much. I’d like to see more venues take a chance on original music.” Audiences in Winnipeg have been described as everything from apathetic to discerning, refl ective, or engaged. And that’s easy enough to tell when there are only four people in attendance. To be fair, it’s not only Winnipeg. “Vancouver audiences can be pretty tough,” explains Niko. “You have to do well elsewhere before File Photo — Projektor — Shawn Stevens & Jameel Russel they really start to pay attention.” » People don’t seem to realize what a gift it is to live in a city with an active music scene. Sure, maybe not every band will turn you on, but Gossip at the Gallery some of them will. Tickets to these shows usually go for around fi ve bucks and you never know what you’re gonna get. It’s all part of the fun. Whitney Light Fortunately for everyone, there are those involved that are trying to change things for the better. Many Diana Thorneycroft of the musicians that have ossip. contributed to these two articles Everybody have many ideas on how to make does the music scene more accessible to everyone. Many feel that all- it. But ages shows would be the way to “gossip” go. Most shows are in bars and typically thus, no kids. Some all-ages shows Gcarries a negative are put on in venues such as connotation in our society, churches, dance halls, schools, etc. Winnipeg currently lacks a even though the opinions dedicated all-ages venue. Some that surface through this have suggested more festival-type mode of conversation events would give audiences the are key to developing a opportunity to see bands they standpoint on an issue. Tea and Gossip, a tandem installation by prairie-based artist Linda Duvall might otherwise not have heard. » Even something as simple as In my experience, talking getting to know other bands about something is often though it is interesting to note that convincing honesty of character Duvall has chosen an outside the genre you play in can the best way to realizing the story is based upon a real-life afforded in part by the intimacy of innovative presentation method go a long way towards building a one’s position in a debate. family crisis. the documentary interview format. to overcome viewer passivity solid community. With a tight Often, you don’t really know Three separate viewing stations The video clips fl ow smoothly, the network of like-minded people and the disconnect between the working together Winnipeg could what you think until you hear consisting of a television set, result of careful editing. The effect artist and public inherent in a be the next hot-spot. All it takes is yourself say it. This is the headphones, and sofas are set up is reminiscent of the myriad reality conventional art exhibition. a simple handshake and hello. This premise of Tea and Gossip, around the room. On the walls, TV programs that have gained Formally trained, Duvall began applies to musicians as well as a tandem installation by etched onto small plastic cards, tremendous popularity because her career as a photographer, audience members. Feel free to prairie-based artist Linda are hundreds of anecdotes from they offer viewers a window into talk to these people. There ! just but shifted her focus to like everyone else, for the most Duvall, on show now recorded conversations about the the (dramatic) private lives of performance-based, interactive part, and are surprisingly through to February 19 at situation. Duvall related the story strangers. We love a juicy story – it projects. Now, says Duvall, “I’m approachable. You’d be amazed at aceartinc. to approximately fi fty individuals, appeals to our voyeuristic usually present in the gallery how quickly things can come Duvall supplies the including professionals such as tendencies. Duvall effectively space. I’m there with cookies, together. audience with a unique legal workers and theologians, and harnesses the intrigue aroused by ready to gossip.” And, she adds, So, now you know what’s out opportunity to explore the asked them to respond. The discrete information to engage the “It’s more fun for me.” there, here’s how to fi nd out more. social dynamics of a family resulting clips of advice and audience in a meaningful You can’t nail it to the wall, working through an emotional opinion demonstrate a diverse discussion on societal ethics. but I would argue that you will Projektor www.projektormusic. and “ethically complicated range of attitudes concerning It is evident that each par ticipant certainly take Tea and Gossip com, High Five Drive www. situation concerning issues from abortion and adoption, helped to shape the outcome of home with you. highfi vedrive.com The misattributed paternity”. The to the nature of attraction and the project. Each brings his/her Saucermen www.thesaucermen. gallery space has been relationships. experience and judgment to their Aceartinc. is located on the com Moses Mayes www. transformed into a place to At each viewing station, the role, and each video presents a second-fl oor at 290 McDermot. mosesmayes.com General info learn the family’s story, hear same situation is presented but is slightly different “take” on the Gallery hours are Tues. – Sat. www.winnipegbands.com U of each member’s concerns, and portrayed by a different set of six situation. In the same way, Duvall 12-5 p.m. Tea and Gossip is on W radio www.ckuw.ca 95.9FM/ then sift through comments non-actors. The roles were not hopes the audience will recognize show in conjunction with The The Uniter/Stylus U of M radio made by outsiders. Unlike your scripted. Duvall simply asked that their own response, coloured Story of My Life, As Performed www.umfm.com 101.5FM/The typical gossip session, you participants to retell to the camera by their own perceptions of the By Sandee Moore, presented Manitoban READ THE don’t have to feel guilty talking the story as it pertained to their ethics involved, will be part of the by Winnipeg artist Sandee POSTERS behind these folks’ backs – role. The participants project a show. Moore.

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ttending the MTC’s current production of Much Ado About Nothing was more difficult than I would have hoped. Upon Aclaiming the tickets some days before I was informed that if I had not picked them up by a certain time on the day of the show they would be released to the general public. I thought this more than reasonable until I showed up at the box office at four forty-five (the show began at eight) and was told that the comp tickets were not yet available. I left and returned at five to receive the same answer. I was then forced orchard, a street, a courtroom, a graveyard, to leave to attend to other matters and so and so on. left my name with one of the ticket agents. The music for the show was a strange mix 95.9 FM CKUW Campus/Community Radio My worry turned out to be groundless, but I of Victorian and American civil war strains, wish I had been spared it. which brings me to the costumes. For some Ticket problems aside, the show itself was reason the director, Miles Potter, chose to Top 10 CD - Albums mostly clever and well staged. The actors cloth his actors in civil war uniforms, the January 1- 7, 2005 did a good job delivering the antiquated lines Yankees if it matters, and this choice appeals ! = Local content, * = Canadian Content in a lively way, though Scott Wentworth in to me as a novelty which is no longer new. the role of Benedick frequently clipped his The show didn’t exactly lose anything from LW TW Artist Recording Label words when arguing with Beatrice, probably this choice, but nor did it gain anything and as a result of trying to sound quick of wit. so a better choice could most certainly have 1 1 !Various Artists I’m Somebody Too Campfi re Keith James in the role of a Watchmen, been made. If the director had wanted to NE 2 Federico Aubele Granhotelbuenosaires ESL which is admittedly written as a clownish modernize the play then he stopped short of RE 3 *William Shatner Has Been Shout! Factory part, was far too hammy for my taste, the mark, and if he had any other intention 7 4 !Break Bread Break Bread ep Peanuts & C blowing the humor of the role all out of then it wasn’t clearly communicated. RE 5 *Various Artists Winnipeg Parks & Rec. Conifera proportion and detracting from the lines with Much Ado About Nothing plays at the NE 6 !Billy Rockwell Mod Parlour Orchestra Balanced his Jim Carrey-esque performance. MTC until January 29, though most students 3 7 *Stars Set Yourself on Fire Arts & Crafts The set was simple and elegant, though its will want to avoid it simply for the fact that 8 8 Interpol Antics Matador true strength lay in Scott Henderson’s a ticket will cost them a week’s worth of NE 9 Scissor Sisters Scissor Sisters Universal lighting, which, with the addition of a few groceries. Those uniforms don’t come 5 10 !McEnroe & Birdapres Nothing is Cool Peanuts & Corn scrims, turned it into a house, a church, an cheap.

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If you’ve never taken lessons 13.01,2005 017 CONTACTSports» Sports Editor » Leighton Klassen E-mail » [email protected] Tele » 786-9497 Love & Basketball Vince’s iPod Tune: Confessions HOME very hard most nights that he a triple-double, but something tells me donned the Raptors uniform. the Raps will be all right and back on January 7 Gee, there’s a surprise. And course in a couple years. After all, they yet he still leads all Eastern ARE in the Eastern Conference. Men’s and Women’s Forwards in voting. This MUST basketball be the same public that voted 24 second drill: Kobe’s jersey sales for Bush. When are people plummeted in December, finishing 72nd for Wesmen men 85 - Lethbridge 94 going to learn? Democracy the month, and yet still in the top ten for Wesmen women 77 - Lethbridge 59 doesn’t work. At the forward the year, suggesting consumers were fine position, the West has reigning with the rape trial, but will not accept the MVP Kevin Garnett and two-time Lakers having a mediocre NBA record… January 8 MVP winner Tim Duncan. The The Suns are on pace to equal the Jordan- Wesmen men 78 Calgary 74 East has Grant Hill and the Half Man led ’95-96 Bulls’ regular season record of Wesmen women 69 Calgary 55 Every Without a Conscience. That match-up 72 wins. Keep in mind the Suns finished second is a nightmare for the East, even if Vince only one win ahead of the last-placed week, Patrick decides he wants to put some effort in that Clippers in 2003. The Clippers! Last week AWAY Faucher breaks down the latest NBA news to night. I said the T’Wolves had already started to help sports fans university-wide through the (FYI—I almost didn’t write this article rest up for the playoffs -- they’re 3-8 in January 7-8 cold, NHL-less winter. 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Men’s basketball (2-8) vs Three Pointers Singe Wesmen Brandon (8-2) Team Opens Second Half of Season With Loss, Women’s basketball (10-0) vs Backfi res with WIN the Following Night Brandon (0-9)

“They’re just so athletic and they had a guy who shot 5-7 from the line, and that just really made things diffi cult for us,” Crook said. AWAY The Horns built on their lead, ending the fi rst half with a 53-38 lead. January 13 The Wesmen showcased signs of life in the second half after rookies Owen Toews and Men’s basketball (8-2) vs Ryan Roper gave the Horns a taste of their own medicine, nailing back-to-back shots from Brandon (2-8) downtown, cutting the lead down to nine with 9:13 left in the game. The Wesmen managed to Women’s basketball (10-0) vs chalk up points on two Lethbridge missed Brandon (0-9) shots with Erfan Nasajpour and Oliver Leslie stuffi ng baskets in, bringing the Wesmen within three, chasing an 80-83 Lethbridge lead with January 16 seven minutes to play. But Lethbridge managed to turn the dials Men’s Volleyball (4-6) vs B.C. (6-4) back in their favor, after the Wesmen offense suffered a late-game breakdown, missing two Wesmen player Ryan Roper key scoring drives and allowing Lethbridge to harness the game’s momentum -- a situation faces off against Calgary Dinos Crook said could have allowed the Wesmen to score of 78-74 -- a task completed through the take the lead. orchestration of a style the team exercised Photos Andrew Wade by: player Rakhwinder Brar “At one point we had two missed lay-ups during the Wesmen classic.

» and a free throw -- we make those two lay-ups “We just played the way we did during the and we’re ahead,” he said. “At the end, we just Wesmen Classic,” said head coach Dave Crook Monday morning. “We were pretty dissapointed Leighton Klassen Sports Editor made some mistakes.” Despite the effectiveness of Lethbridge’s with Friday night, but Saturday was a very shooting capabilities, the team’s defense were positive thing for us.” win to open the second half of the season. also fi ring on all cylinders, often orchestrating a Constructing a 10 point cushion going into “They were twelve for seventeen from the double coverage strategy on Erfan Nasajpour. the second half, the overlying determinant in three, and that certainly didn’t help our cause,” “They were playing all kinds of garbage the win could arguably be the productivity of Wesmen head coach Dave Crook said defense,” Crook said on their defensive 2nd year Matt Opalko. Combining for low he men’s basketball team disappointedly following the game. “A team strategy. “But what they did worked -- they numbers in points and time on the fl oor Friday night, Opalko played a key role in the offense may have taken a strip off shooting like that just isn’t going to help us out tried some zone, and then went to man-to- Saturday, scoring 14 points -- six of them from of any team that stepped in very much.” man.” Crook added that the effi ciency of Nasajpour and Dan Shynkaryk lead the the three point line. their path during the Wesmen Lethbridge’s shooting wasn’t matched by the Wesmen in points with 22, with Tony Richter “He just played awesome,” Crook said. “I Classic, but the fame was Wesmen, which was a contributing problem to scoring 14 and leading in rebounds with 16. talked to him Saturday about some of the evidently temporary and was the loss. things I wanted him to do and he really came out and played without hesitation.” washed out by the University of Lethbridge “We made a lot of mistakes,” he said. “We T Crook also noted Opalko’s role on the team, Horns, who handed the team their eighth shot 44 (percent) and just didn’t make our A Wake Up Call shots.” and how his play relates to the teams loss of the season last Friday night at the After the Horns’ Scott MacKinnon fi red off success. Despite a rather pitiful performance Friday Duckworth Centre. back-to-back three-pointers, followed by “We need him to play like that to win games night verses Lethbridge, the Wesmen managed Draining a total of twelve three-point shots teammate Ali Andeku adding another, the and when he plays like that, we win game,” he to bounce back with a win the next night, and shooting an impressive 55.2 from the fi eld, Horns posted a 24-16 lead halfway through the said. “He’s also a tough match (for opponents) upsetting the now 6-4 Calgary Dinos by a the University of Lethbridge cruised to a 94-85 fi rst half. because of his reach.” 018 13.01,2005 CONTACTSports» Sports Editor » Leighton Klassen E-mail » [email protected] Tele » 786-9497 Uzo Asagwara makes a break in the fi rst half in possessing a 34-21 lead going into the locker room. for it The second half started off with a bang for the Wesmen when Kate Daniels hit two consecutive three- Wesmen player Jenny Ezirim pointers to increase the Wesmen’s lead to nineteen. Then, with 3:53 left recovers the ball from a in the game and the Wesmen holding their biggest lead of the game by Calgary Dinos player twenty-two points after coach McKay rested her starters and gave the bench players some playing time. The key factor in the game for the Wesmen was unquestionably the play of their 1-2 combo in JoAnne Wells and Uzo Asagwara, who scored 24 and 20 points respectively, accounting for 64 percent of the WesmenWesmen StompStomp Wesmen’s points. Coach McKay was also quick to mention the play of Calgary, Remain rookie point guard Jenny Ezirim as a Calgary, Remain key contributor. “She’s one of the best rookies in UndefeatedUndefeated the country, and she’s doing great job fi nding JoAnne and the other players.” Jenny fi nished with 6 points 5 assists and 5 steals, while Heather Thompson had yet another solid game on the boards pulling down 12 Photos Andrew Wade by: rebounds and adding 7 points. The Photos Andrew Wade by: » leading scorers on the Dinos were

» Cory Bekkering with 16 points and Lethbridge,Lethbridge, NoNo Tanya Hautala with 15. Rhys Kelso The Dinos shot better from the fl oor than the Wesmen with a fi led ChallengeChallenge forfor ast Saturday night, down, but once we got into our goal percentage of 51 percent and the 9-0 Wesmen were groove it was only a matter of time.” 38 percent respectively, but looking to extend The game started off slowly for unfortunately for the Dinos, they only WesmenWesmen their regular season both teams -- the fi rst point of the shot a horrible 27 percent from the unbeaten streak game wasn’t registered until the charity stripe, while the Wesmen against the University eighteen-minute mark on a free throw shot 83 percent. Sheri Lamb doubt. ofL Calgary Dinos, and improve from the Wesmen’s Heather The Wesmen head to Brandon Rookie Jenny Ezirim showed the their record to a perfect 10-0. Thompson. The Dinos didn’t register next weekend for a two-game series crowd of 700 once again why she Like any high performance their fi rst basket until the sixteen- and although they are 10-0, coach t can be a coach’s worst cracked the starting line-up in her machine, the Wesmen needed a few minute mark. The Wesmen defense McKay has no worries about her nightmare in trying to fi rst year, by sinking 14 points, minutes in the fi rst half to get warmed was excellent in the fi rst half -- team getting over-confi dent or losing up and get a feel for their opponents. playing a zone defense that the Dinos sight of the big picture. prepare their team for a grabbing 2 rebounds and leading her But by 6:48 of the fi rst half, the couldn’t crack. “We have a veteran team and game against an obviously team down the fl oor all night. Wesmen took the lead that they “We tried to mix it up and change they know we have a lot of work and weaker opponent, at least “She’s the best rookie in the would never relinquish as they went the fl ow of the game,” said coach a lot of big games ahead,” she said, on paper. country. There’s no rookie like her in on to defeat the Dinos 69-55. McKay about her defensive strategy. noting if the team needed any ILast Friday night the University of the country, she does it all, she plays “I knew when we started the “Once we had our lead we went back incentive to keep up the hard work Winnipeg Wesmen, 9-0, played host defense, she can score, and she runs game we were the better team,” to the man defense.” they only have to look back to the to the University of Lethbridge the offense,” said McKay. commented head coach Tanya Just past the half-way mark, both previous two years, where they fi nished third last year and second Pronghorns, 2-7, in their fi rst league The modest Ezirim is just happy McKay, when asked when she felt teams started to settle down and the game was in control. “It took play a lot better basketball, but the the year before in the national action since before Christmas. After the Wesmen rallied after their slow about ten minutes for us to settle Wesmen were too much for the Dinos championship. a shaky start to the second half of start and came together to remain their season, which saw Wesmen undefeated. coach Tanya McKay holding her “In the start it was a little slow, breath, the Wesmen, led by fi fth-year but then we got our game together guard JoAnne Wells, downed 19 and we started playing like a team,” straight points on their way to their she said. ninth win of the season, defeating the With the exception of fi rst-year Pronghorns 77-59. guard Sam Breakenridge, who was With the game easily in hand over nursing an injury, all of the women the Pronghorns by halftime, leading saw signifi cant minutes of action 36-21, Wesmen coach Tanya McKay against the Pronghorns. While Wells was able to take a deep breath, rest led the team with 23 points, fourth- her starters, and give the younger year Melanie Talastas came off the players valuable experience on the bench in the second half and scored fl oor in the second half, which should 8 points, including two from the be an asset to the team come playoff three-point zone. Fifth-year forward time. Heather Thompson grabbed 10 “If you have a game like this rebounds, while second-year forward where you can get a [lead], and you Stefanie Timmersman found 11 can get everybody in, it strengthens rebounds. your team,” said McKay. “We’ve got Candace Thompson and Jessica to have our bench as strong as we Lynch led the Pronghorns with 13 can down the stretch, because if and 12 points, respectively. they’re not ready to play, then we’re Once the Wesmen took an not ready to win a championship.” insurmountable lead, McKay For the fi rst ten minutes of the uncharacteristically sat back stress- game the Wesmen played down to free on the bench and even shared a their opponents’ level, giving the laugh or two with her players. Pronghorns the hope of a possible The CIS second-ranked Wesmen’s upset. The Wesmen shooting was next action is Thursday, January 13 rusty coming off the break and the when they travel to Brandon to take Pronghorns managed to keep hold of on the winless Bobcats. The next a fi ve-point lead at one point. home action is Saturday, January 15 Then the reliable Wells took over, versus the Bobcats. In two games dropping nine straight points in the last November the Wesmen hoop, to begin the 19-point Wesmen outscored the Bobcats 141-75, run, including a nice three-point without JoAnne Wells and Heather basket by fourth-year Kate Daniels. Thompson. The fi nal outcome was no longer in 13.01,2005 019 ISSUE CONTACTSportsSports Editor » Leighton Klassen E-mail » [email protected] Tele » 786-9497 » 15

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honours. Opening the tourney with a Dan Verville nine-point victory over the Thunderwolves, lead by Nasajpour, who efore the holiday break, chalked up a team high 35 points was it seemed as if the followed by a scare in the semi-finals. Wesmen’s second half Down as much as 11 points with only would be as dismal five minutes left, they battled back and as the first. Dropping sealed the deal, winning 78-75 over the game after game, a Sun Demons, again Erfan leading the seeminglyB toothless offense took the way with 21 points. The Wesmen then court and didn’t produce the offense of course went on to win the tourney, numbers the coaching staff initially beating out the Huskies 83-78, with sought out to. Before the break, the Ryan Roper hitting a few clutch treys youthful squad -- playing a high-speed late in the affair and Nasajpour cashing game -- were lacking defensively and out with a triple double. These statistics having a hard time putting up points on clearly echo in Crook’s words before the the board. break. “It’s a different style from last year, “Obviously Erfan plays a huge role, mainly because of our personnel and not only does he get himself involved their creativity, it’s more my style of but others as well.” basketball,” said coach Crook before This tournament win was clearly a the break, expressing faith in their new team effort and could not have been style. “Obviously when you’re playing a won any other way. The Wesmen high tempo game there’ll be more second-half hopes have now been holes.” brightened, with a few wins under their Crook’s patience with the new system belt the proverbial holes that once has clearly paid off. During the break, existed are beginning to be filled. As led by Erfan Nasajpour, the Wesmen the Wesmen begin the second half, they strung together three brilliantly-played will use the success garnered over the games to win the Wesman Classic after break to start the new year on a high a ten-year drought of not taking top note. Two Bobcats Suspected of Drug Usage Craig Ebbers Brandon Quill (CUP)

wo members of the If the players are found to have failed Brandon University the drug tests, Canadian Interuniversity Men’s Bobcat Team are Sports (CIS) and Canadian Centre for suspected of drug usage Ethics in Sports (CCES) will suspend (Cannabis and Cocaine the players for up to two years. Metabolites) following an Les Berry, coach of the Men’s Bobcat incidentT in November of 2004. Basketball team does not expect this to While the future of the two Bobcats be a problem for the team, “I think that in question has not yet been decided, we have enough players that will the Athletics department expects to certainly be able to carry us forwards.” receive all needed information by the The tests were part of CCES’s end of this week, after which the need random or unannounced test program. and type of penalty will be decided. 020 13.01,2005