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the FREE October 26, 2017 reflector www.TheReflector.ca One MRU entrepreneur is making it big with a micro coffee shop (Pg. 3) MRU When a laptop just isn’t enough, Men’s check out these cutting-edge pieces of technology hockey (Pg. 6) appoints new The spookiest movies to binge watch this captain Halloween (Pg. 15) (Pg. 9) News Editor Anna Junker news newseditor@thereflector.ca Bored of ‘board’ games? Put your game in a box! A profile on Meeple Keep: Calgary’s newest board game invention Lexi Wright Staff Writer support,” says Mulrooney. separate compartments to With their love of board store individual pieces, and games stemming from since push game tiles to the top of they were children, Mort and the box. Mulrooney were inspired to In addition to designing their create Meeple Keep simply product, Mort and Mulrooney from their own personal have had to learn the ins- experiences. and-outs of marketing, which “We would go to play board they say has been the biggest games with our friends and challenge. found ourselves lugging boxes “Business for us, is learning and boxes of our favorite everything we don’t know. games. It was seriously There’s been a ton of learning impractical, so we thought, curves, especially with how can we make board game figuring out a website and boxes smaller?” says Mort. our Kickstarter campaign, but Meeple Keep was created at we’re excited to finally have the Protospace, a community-based ball rolling,” says Mulrooney. space in Calgary that offers Although Meeple Keep has independent entrepreneurs only been designed for one access to workshop space and game so far, if the storage The Meeple Keep box is strategically designed to organize all your playing pieces into the educational tools. case proves successful, Mort smallest possible space. There are separate compartments to store individual pieces and “A meeple is a small figure and Mulrooney will more push game tiles to the top of the box. Photo by Lexi Wright used as a playing piece in than likely design boxes to some board games, which is accommodate different games. The oldest board games called Carcassonne, creators Ed more organized for open public essentially where Meeple Keep “I have a love of so many were mounted directly on Mort and Matthew Mulrooney gaming events. got its name. ‘Keep’ because board games and a hate of so thin wooden boards, hence have high hopes for their new “Board gaming is going we’ve designed a place to safely many board game boxes. This the name “board game.” But product. through such a renaissance, store your game and ‘Meeple’ is just the first of many we hope two Calgary inventors are Calgary’s increased especially in Calgary. The because of the playing piece,” to create,” says Mulrooney. challenging board game ideals popularity of board games board gaming community has says Mort. Meeple Keep is planning to with the invention of Meeple has led to the development of been so receptive. We actually The Meeple Keep box is fully launch their product to Keep, a board game storage several board game cafes. The went to two conventions this laser cut and strategically the public in late October. box. Hexagon Cafe in particular, year, FallCon and the Calgary designed to organize all your Designed originally for the supports the idea of Meeple Comic and Entertainment Expo playing pieces into the smallest tile-placement board game Keep to help make board games — it was amazing to see all the possible space. There are even Meeple Keep takes traditional board game Carcassonne and Matt Mulrooney and Ed Mort are regular customers at Hexagon Board Game Cafe in cuts it down to one-eighth of the size of the box. Photo by Kensington, Calgary. You’ll often spot them playing Carcassonne from their personal Meeple Lexi Wright Keep. Photo by Lexi Wright /CTOBER sTHEREmECTOR 3 More coffee for the students MRU student set to expand coffee business Yassin Mansour Contributor Ryan Wenger achieved his dream of running his own business when he opened the first location for Barrow Espresso, but he is about to branch out to more locations. Wenger opened the first location of his coffee shop, Barrow Espresso in the Bissett School of Business in Mount Royal University on Sept. 8, 2016. “It’s always been a lifelong dream of mine to run my own business, and it took a while to get to where I am today, but I can’t believe we’re actually opening and operating and I’m doing it,” said Wenger. Wenger wanted to start a coffee shop because of his love for coffee and the coffee industry. “I love the conversations that happen around coffee, I love what happens when you put a coffee shop in a place, how it could ever imagine, just these pilot project in the EB building November 2017, Barrow really looking [forward] to it. builds the community and it little grab-and-go places. It’s to see if a café is viable in the Espresso is set to open a second It really means growth for the brings people together,” said something that I really wanted space’ and the rest is history.” location in the new Riddell business and another place Wenger. to bring back,” said Wenger. Wenger is currently a student Library and Learning Centre, where I can really exercise my He has worked in various To help him on this venture, at MRU, where he is studying and Wenger could not be more education.” cafes from Alberta to Sydney, Wenger had a collection of old Business Management with a excited. The new location is set to be Australia. coffee equipment that he had minor in Entrepreneurship. “It is the most exciting thing bigger and better with more “[Sydney] is where I really rebuilt it in his basement. “It’s great because I’m also that has ever happened. It is selection on the menu and learned to make great espresso He chose the MRU location able to use a lot of my education the best opportunity ever. I longer hours. fast and efficiently,” he said. to be the first one because he in a practical, applied basis was really surprised when I Wenger is also looking to It was in Sydney where he found a cart in the school that right here on campus which submitted the proposal that we open a third location, not on got the idea of making a micro- he saw would be a good fit for I think is really rare and have been selected to run the campus, but close by in Marda cafe. his idea of a micro-shop, but something that I really value,” café over there,” said Wenger. Loop. “[They] are these tiny little was not able to buy it. he said. “It’s really rounding He also understands the As for the future of the coffee shops that just produce “They said ‘no you can’t buy out my entire education.” responsibility that comes with current location in Bissett, the best quality coffee you it, but we’re thinking of doing a At the beginning of the new location. Wenger is unsure of whether it “There will be growing is staying. pains to go through, and it “It is scheduled right now [will] probably not be the as a move, but we are working smoothest thing ever, but to to maintain this location in have the opportunity, we’re [Bissett].” rtheeflector Reflector Publications Society of Calgary 2017 Annual General Meeting Tuesday, October 31, 2017, at 12:00 noon Reflector Office, Z002 (basement) Wyckham House Members of the Reflector Publications Society will be presented audited financial statements for review and approval, will be asked to appoint auditors for the next year, and will be asked to elect two (2) students at large who will sit as directors on the Reflector board of directors. For information on Student at Large nominations, contact The Reflector at 403-440-6268. Please visit our website at www.TheReflector.ca Ryan Wenger, creator of Barrow Espresso, posing next to his micro-cafe in the Bissett School of Business Building at Mount Royal University. Photos by Yassin Mansour for more information and details 4 THEREmECTORs/CTOBER THE Reflectorial: Mental health services to stay on campus REFLECTOR #metoo Correction to article regarding mental health funding for MRU October 26, 2017 If you logged onto Facebook or Amy Simpson Twitter this month you probably saw the hashtag #MeToo. For Contributor Issue 1, Volume 56 survivors of sexual assault and The Reflector published an they can be identified better by with only one, even if the college harassment, it’s been both a EDITORIAL STAFF: article last month titled, “Mental people in the community such with seven has a smaller student Publishing Editor: Kennedy Enns rallying cry to change the way Health Supports Could be as Alberta Health Services or body. Managing Editor: Ivar Bergs we currently deal with the Moving Off Campus by 2020,” Calgary Communities Against “I think the misinterpretation News Editor: Anna Junker treatment of survivors as well based on concerns the Students Sexual Abuse.” came from comparing our Features Editor: Amber McLinden as a painful reminder of what Association of Mount Royal SAMRU’s president student numbers with Arts Editor: Colin Macgillivray yourself and others have been University (SAMRU) expressed Shifrah Gadamsetti, said the other institutions and their Sports Editor: Dan Khavkin through. After over 50 different regarding the recent funding misinterpretation was mostly due announcements,” said McElary. Photo Editor: Andi Endruhn Layout Editor: Robyn Welsh accounts of sexual assault were announcement from the Alberta to the lack of clarity surrounding Gadamsetti corrected the Web Editor: Jolene Rudisuela brought against Hollywood film government.