ISSUE 122006/11/30 VOLUME 61 INSIDE 02 News 06 Comments 08 Diversions 10 Features 12 Arts & Culture uniter.ca 17 Listings » 21 Sports N THE WEB O [email protected] » E-MAIL E 12 U SS I L. 61 L.61 vo 2006 30, NOV NATIONAL DAY OF REMEMBRANCE 02 WOmyn’s centre prepARES AS DEC. 6 APPROACHES DENT WEEKLY U THE WRONG SPIRIT FOR A SLOGAN 10 MANITOBA MESSES WITH NOMENCLATURE INNIPEG ST INNIPEG W F BRIDGING THE GAP O 14 DIE FLEDERMAUS IS AN ALL AGES OPERA ERSITY V NEAR RECORD-BREAKING WIN NI U 21 WESMEN-SPARTAN WEEKEND RECAP HE T ♼ November 30, 2006 The Uniter contact: [email protected] 02 NEWS UNITER STAFF NEWS EDITOR: RICHARD LIEBRECHT SENIOR REPORTER: DEREK LESCHASIN NEWS EDITOR: WHITNEY LIGHT E-MAIL: [email protected] E-MAIL: [email protected] E-MAIL: [email protected] MANAGING EDITOR News Jo Snyder » [email protected] BUSINess MANAGER James D. Patterson » [email protected] Is atmosphere pollution the NEWS ASSIGNMENT EDITOR Richard Liebrecht » [email protected] answer to global warming? News PRODUCTION EDITOR Whitney Light » [email protected] University of Winnipeg, agrees. “I’m skeptical about atic,” says Blair. COMMENTS EDITOR Ben Wood » [email protected] KSENIA PRINTS any large-scale, purposeful changes to the atmo- And it would be costly. BEAT REPORTER sphere to solve another problem to the atmo- Undetermined is from where such vast DIVERSIONS EDITOR sphere.” While he notes that the idea might work amounts of sulphur would be collected, and what Matt Cohen » [email protected] theoretically, it should not be used unless as a last effect that harvest would have on the earth. olluting the environment just might be the resort. “[Sulphur] also gets distributed around the ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR solution to global warming, according to Releasing such huge amounts of sulphur globe, and who knows what the consequences of Mike Lewis » [email protected] PPaul J. Crutzen, a Nobel Prize-winning sci- might prove more destructive than beneficial, even that are,” Blair adds. entist. Spraying enormous amounts of sulphur into if it were to halt global warming. According to the NASA’s testing of the plan does not worry LISTINGS COORDINATOR Nick Weigeldt » [email protected] the air would halt the Earth’s rising temperatures. World Heath Organization, sulphur and other pol- Bennett. The idea received unexpected support at the UN lutants already cause approximately 2 million “NASA does a lot of things; it doesn’t give it SPORTS EDITOR Conference for Climate Change, held Nov. 6 to 17 deaths a year. “Sulphuric precipitation kills crops any credibility.” NASA is, in fact, looking at other Mike Pyl » [email protected] in Nairobi, Kenya. And NASA is already evaluating and fish, and inhaling it damages the respiratory similar plans. its implications. system and leads to heart and lung problems,” says Perhaps it is not surprising that NASA was COPY & STYLE EDITOR If Kyoto Protocol goals are not reached by Bennett. quick to take Crutzen’s idea seriously. The United Brendan Johns » [email protected] 2012, Crutzen recommends that an estimated 10 States, the world’s biggest contributor to Greenhouse million tons of sulphur be released into the air. The Gas emissions and, consequently, global warming, PHOTO EDITOR layer of pollutant would create a protective shield may perceive it as an easy solution. Blair believes Natasha Peterson » [email protected] reflecting solar radiation away from the Earth and We’d continuously have that if the plan was approved, the US would have to help lower global temperatures by almost a degree a deal with the entire global community. SENIOR REPORTER Derek Leschasin » [email protected] year. This process would replicate the effect of a vol- to inject sulphur compounds “The US is not the owner of the atmosphere. canic eruption, particularly the eruption of Mount It’s a common resource. We’re dealing with a pur- STAFF RepORTER Pinatubo in 1991 in the Philippines. into the stratosphere, where poseful addition of risky materials to the strato- Kenton Smith » [email protected] The UN conference received Crutzen’s plan sphere. The politics of that would be incredible,” with a luke-warm response. The conference’s goal they would stay up for years.” he says. BEAT RepORTER was to deal with action plans following the Kyoto Some view Crutzen’s plan as an attempt to Ksenia Prints » [email protected] Protocol’s expiry in 2012. Many encouraged test- –DANNY BLAIR, raise alarm, suggesting what might be necessary if ing of the plan‘s theory, but the general opinion was U OF W PROFESSOR OF GEOGRAPHY GHG emissions are not lowered. Crutzen himself BEAT RepORTER Michelle Dobrovolny » [email protected] that it should not be carried out until all possible has said the theory was mostly meant to alert policy outcomes are considered. makers. Blair agrees. PRODUCTION MANAGER & GRAPHICS EDITOR John Bennett, a senior policy advisor with the Blair also warns of changes to precipitation “Maybe they’re purposely bringing out these Sarah Sangster » [email protected] Sierra Club of Canada, rejects the so-called global patterns, which might lead to droughts and floods. futuristic responses to get people’s attention.” haze proposal. Also in Crutzen’s plan, in order to preserve the Certainly most will agree that it is not the last “There is no credibility to this whatsoever,” positive effects, the spraying process would be re- resort options that people should be concentrat- THIS WEEK ’ S CONTRIBUTORS he says. “There is no easy fix other than altering our peated every few years. ing on. lifestyles and dependency on fossil fuels.” Bennett “We’d continuously have to inject sulphur “As a strategy, we should take seriously re- Aaron Epp, Kevin P. Gabel , Daniel Falloon, Thomas Asselin, believes we are already experimenting with the en- compounds into the stratosphere, where they ducing GHG emissions, and the Kyoto Protocol is a Scott Christiansen, Rhys Kelso, Brooke Dmytriw, Matrt Urban, vironment enough through the continuance of pol- would stay up for years…. A commitment to that good start… We should address the problem at its Aaron Elkaim Vincent, Micheal Banias, Kristy Rydz, lution. kind of long term project that may or may not pro- source,” says Blair. Cameron MacLean, Janette Martens, Patrick Faucher, Sam McLean, Julienne Isaacs, Tim Raffy, Josh Boulding Danny Blair, a geography professor at the duce significant amounts of cooling is problem- The Uniter is the official student newspaper of the University of Winnipeg and is published by Mouseland Press Inc. Mouseland Press Inc. is a membership based organization in which students and community members are invited to participate. For more information on how to become a member go to www.uniter.ca, or call the office at 786-9790. Womyn’s Centre prepares for The Uniter is a member of the Canadian University Press and Campus Plus Media Services. 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SENIOR REPORTER Canada, women outnumber men nine to one as letter attacking feminism, before committing sui- victims of domestic assault, and three times as cide. CONTACT US » many women were killed by their spouses than One of the legacies of the Montreal Massacre General Inquiries: 204.786.9790 espite gains that society has made to- men. Perhaps even more worrisome, a 2006 report has been an enduring push for stricter gun control. Advertising: 204.786.9779 Editors: 204.786.9497 wards the equality of men and women, by the same agency noted that less than 10 per The controversial Liberal gun registry stemmed Fax: 204.783.7080 violence against women remains an cent of sexual assaults are reported to police. from this debate—a debate re-opened with the Email: [email protected] D issue. Dec. 6 is the anniversary of the 1989 kill- “The only blood that a womyn should election of the Conservatives. Initially pledging to LOCATION » ings of 14 women at Ecole Polytechnique de shed is her menstrual blood,” is the slogan used eliminate the costly program, the Conservatives Room ORM14 Montreal. It will serve, as in past years, as a by the Womyn’s Centre this year. In connection have since only enacted funding cuts and a one- University of Winnipeg 515 Portage Avenue day on campus to raise the issue of sexist vio- to that sentiment, Ross said that an art exhibit year amnesty to unregistered gun owners. Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 2E9 lence, and remember those women who lost will be shown in the glassed displays behind the The shooting spree by Kimveer Gill at their lives. Centennial Hall escalators. The art was created Dawson College in Montreal in Sept. 2006 brought The U of W Womyn’s Centre is organising a with real menstrual blood, and placed alongside the Montreal Massacre back into the public spot- COVER IMAGE number of events around the anniversary this year facts about the violence women face.