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Richard Catangay-Liew expectations on himself. The two News Editor @Richardcliew talked about failure often. Tran couldn’t help but hold himself to Evan Tran’s infectious smile could certain academic standards, many transcend an entire room. of which he didn’t achieve. Tran’s delightful and quirky grin He had setbacks, but never dis- that stretched from ear to ear when- cussed them with his friends at ever he unfurled it is what those school. He thought it was “shame- around him remembered him for. ful” for his friends to see him like The signature beaming sign of af- that. Tran gave them no indication fection, which seemingly never left of who he really was or how he Tran’s face, was a glowing reminder would truly feel. of the generous and caring person That attitude, the embarrassment Tran was known to be. To class- of knowing when you need help, mates and the campus community, is what Tran’s family is trying to Evan is remembered as a jokester overcome. They see the tragedy as and someone who was positive and a learning experience, not just for happy all the time. them, but also for others who may But that was just one side of who find themselves in a similar - situa he was. tion. Society is bred to think that Tran battled with depression and people can’t talk about their sad- mental health issues ever since ness, slumps and struggles, and the he was 15 years old. He never ex- family sees their openness follow- pressed those feelings to his class- ing Tran’s death as an opportunity mates or friends, but when he was at for preventing further tragedies and home, where he felt most comfort- keep the mental health conversa- able, he was sad and melancholic. tion going. There were no warning signs for his “For others, how many of them friends at school. didn’t have that opportunity to have His oldest sister, Vanlee Roblee, this sort of outlet?” Angela Tran didn’t know about his “surreal” asked. “To be given that opportu- double lifestyle either. nity to make a positive change, why wouldn’t we take it?” “We want to bring something “We want to take away positive to his death,” Vanlee Roblee added. “We want to honour him.” the stigma from mental While Tran didn’t seek help from health and suicide.” his friends, he always offered his as- sistance to them. Cindy Lu Cousin of Evan Tran When Students’ Union Vice-Pres- ident (Student Life) Vivian Kwan ran After Evan would put on a bubbly in the SU elections last year, none of personality at the university, she re- her volunteers showed up one day membered him coming home and — except Tran. He taped Kwan’s questioning why his brain wasn’t posters to billboards, approached working properly. He couldn’t for- random students to give them her mulate any memories while study- flyers and vouched for her support ing. Something that should’ve taken on social media. He even reminded Remembering Evan Tran A memorial is planned for Evan Tran at Dinwoodie Lounge on Oct. 21 at 6 p.m. Supplied him two minutes to read took him her to eat three times a day, as ap- half an hour. petites tend to get lost on the cam- said. said. “That’s sometimes a harder Connelly-McKinley Funeral Homes He sought help. Tran took pre- paign trail. “We want to take away the stigma piece than having the services avail- are also expected to be overcapacity, scribed medications and regularly “He was like, ‘Hey, just let me from mental health and suicide,” Lu able. What we need to help message Tran’s brother-in-law Colin Roblee saw a psychologist. He tried to over- know what you need and I’ll do it for said. “It does happen. It’s a real dis- is to say, ‘We all struggle.’ There’s said. come his bout with depression, but you,’” Kwan recalled. “And then he ease, and it’s not an easy fix.” no shame in reaching out when you Tran wanted to improve other’s he was unsuccessful in trying to just started taking up duties. Dean of Students Robin Everall struggle. So when you struggle, this mental health through his actions save himself. “It was just really heartwarming. I called Tran’s family. The family is what we have to offer you. Please on campus. When those at the On Saturday, Oct. 18, Tran was could never forget that.” made it known that they were using use it.” viewing and funeral reminisce on reported missing. He was last seen Kwan was eventually elected his suicide as a learning experience, That’s why a large crowd is ex- Tran’s life, Roblee hopes the suicide leaving for the university to study with Tran’s help. One of the most and Everall told them that was why pected at a campus memorial for doesn’t sully his memory. and was scheduled to meet his par- prevalent items in the Student Life she requested to meet with them as Evan on Wednesday, Oct. 21 at Din- “We want to change people’s per- ents at the Golden Rice Bowl restau- portfolio is mental health. Kwan ad- well. woodie Lounge from 6 to 9 p.m. ceptions. We don’t want people to rant at 7 p.m., but never showed up. mits that mental health initiatives One of the speakers at the event is think he took the easy way out,” he After Roblee and her husband, Co- are long-term projects, but Tran’s Tran’s close friend, William Lau. said. lin, posted pictures of Tran to Face- death and his family’s willingness “We want to bring Tran’s reach on campus went be- For Vanlee Roblee, she’ll never book while urging others to spread to be open about preventing future yond volunteering. He was elected forget being in the emergency room the word, a flurry of social media suicides could create the awareness something positive to his as a representative on the univer- when Tran was born. She even posts ensued. But after a visit to that these battles need right now. death.” sity’s Students’ Council and General named him. Evan meant “little war- Roblee by the police, the search was Tran knew about the mental Faculties Council. He was also an rior.” Vanlee Roblee called off. health services offered on campus Sister of Evan Tran active participant in various student Tran may have lost his fight with Despite his prolonged battle with and used them. Kwan wants to im- groups, including the Stollery Youth depression, but his sister Angela mental health issues, Roblee was plement an evaluation process on The university can appear “cold” Committee, where he met Lau. Tran said she thinks he would be still in “complete shock” when she the services to see how the SU and and “institutional” when it comes to Lau felt an instant connection to proud to see what he’s done to cre- found out her brother had commit- university can improve each area. tragedy, but suicides impact Everall Tran. They clicked right away, as ate awareness on the issue of men- ted suicide. “Clearly, for Evan, he used the and the U of A deeply, she said. Tran they both were at an event to take tal health. He never wanted to in- “We were aware, but maybe just services, but what’s missing?” Tran was well known by the Dean of Stu- photos, had wide-framed glasses convenience anyone, so he might not how bad it was,” she said of his asked. “We don’t know, so hopefully dents office as he volunteered for and spoke Chinese. Both of them feel conflicted with the impact he’s depression. “Honestly, if I knew, we can start working and see what their mental health initiatives. He are also known for their dual radi- made, just might surprise him, and I would’ve stepped in. I would’ve we can do better. If we have more was a moderator for the University ant smiles even make him smile. said, ‘you need help now.’ But it’s students equipped with skills to of Alberta Compliments website “If I had to describe his role on “He was a complex individual and hard, because you’re navigating identify crises, that might be a great and had undergone mental health campus, he would be a servant had these two lives,” she said. “I want something where you don’t want help. assistance training. But even then, leader,” Lau said. “He always put these two lives to coincide. I want to escalate a situation that may not “Evan was always smiling, but you he didn’t get the help he needed. others first, and was extremely people to understand that you have require it.” never know what’s really under- What mental health services work humble. He put this heart into your good side, but you have your Angela, Tran’s second oldest sis- neath and inside.” for others didn’t work for Tran. making things better for other warts as well. That’s what makes a ter, said the pressures he faced in Tran was afraid of being judged “Post-secondary institutions are people and was a real giver. He’d person a person. I always saw him university were internalized and and criticized, which is why he was all challenged not only in how to just be there for others.” when he was happy. As much as he kept hidden from his friends at afraid to reach out. His family want provide those mental health ser- His viewing (Saturday, Oct. 24 was capable of joy, he was also capa- school. Tran, like many university to learn what others can take with vices, but in helping people reach from 6 to 9 p.m.) and funeral ser- ble of extreme sadness. It’s OK to be students, put unrealistic academic them as tools, his cousin Cindy Lu out to them when they need to,” she vice (Sunday, Oct. 25 at 11 a.m.) at open and have both sides.” news 4 thegateway www.gtwy.ca October 21, 2015 Canada Votes 2015

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau will lead the Liberal Party of Canada majority government after being elected on Oct. 19. Andrej Ivanov – The concordian Student leaders react to federal election results News staff Canada, and we’re not seeing that.” make of the rest of the province go- Election night, volunteers and Now that the election is over, @gtwypolitics In an election that saw more than ing mainly blue. democratic enthusiasts on campus, Khinda and Hanwell pointed to the 68 per cent of eligible voters in the “I saw a quote about how none of ended with viewing parties in Dew- upcoming lobby week as the next Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party of country cast a ballot, 73 per cent vot- us are living under a Conservative ey’s and RATT. major event to prepare for, both at Canada was elected to form a ma- ed in the U of A’s Edmonton-Strath- Government now, even though we The Canadian Alliance of Student the UASU and CASA levels. jority government with 184 seats cona riding, electing the NDP’s Lin- have a lot of Conservative MPs in Al- Associations (CASA), an organiza- “If students truly came out [to after gaining significant ground in da Duncan. berta” Khinda said. tion designed to synchronize stu- vote] in big numbers, and I think Eastern Canada, the Territories and There were several races that came SU VP (External) Dylan Hanwell, dent organizations and advocate on they did, there’s going to be some British Columbia, J. Trudeau and his down to a small number of votes. who led the national Get out the their behalf to the federal govern- pressure on the new government to Liberals ousted Stephen Harper’s Khinda pointed to her home con- Vote (GOTV) campaign said he’s ment. As CASA’s Director-at-Large, make those changes,” Khinda said. Progressive Conservatives, who stituency of Edmonton-Mill Woods, waiting to see is the election demo- Hanwell said he is looking forward Though she said the federal gov- managed to win only 99 seats. where Conservative incumbent Tim graphics. Leading up to the elec- to the Liberals putting tax credits ernment is involved in university in In an almost complete reversal Uppal was ousted by Liberal Amar- tions, about 4,000 U of A students into low-income and middle-in- a more hands-off way than the prov- of the 2011 election, Tom Mulcair’s jeet Sohi by a mere 80 votes. pledged to vote in the campaign. come grants for students, which is ince, Khinda pointed to the federal New Democratic Party fell to 44 Along with the GOTV, Hanwell orga- something the CASA has been lob- level as key in attracting research seats. This figure was less than half nized the advanced polling stations bying for. dollars. of their 103 seats won with the late “I’m pretty shocked. in SUB, where about 3,000 students “The federal government is re- Jack Layton as leader, which saw I don’t think anyone cast their ballots last week. sponsible for many loans and them form the Official Opposition expected such a big “Hopefully (the federal govern- “This is a different grants,” Khinda said, “as well as han- party. ment will) realise that students and party, its a new leader dling immigration and citizenship As Trudeau moves into the driv- liberal majority.” youth across the country were peo- for international students. Since er’s seat in Ottawa, the PC party an- ple that voted for them, and they ... different things will be there is no post-secondary minister, nounced that Stephen Harper will Navneet Khinda owe at least a portion of their suc- possible.” there are many government minis- resign his leadership. President, Students’ Union cess to the younger demographic,” tries we have to work with.” he Bloc Quebecois won and un- Hanwell said. Dylan Hanwell This year, U of A students have Vice-President (External), Students’ Union precedented 10seats in their home “Some of these ridings were super Though the original goal for seen major turnover in leadership province. Green Party Leader Eliza- close,” Khinda said, “So I’m really GOTV was 7,500 pledges, Hanwell “We hope that (the Liberals) put at three different levels: institu- beth May retained her single seat in glad students voted. I think having said he’s “still happy” in reaching it in sooner rather than later,” Han- tional, provincial, and federal. This Saanich-Gulf Islands. these close races and the want for 4,000 students. well said. amount of change is “incredible,” “I’m pretty shocked, I don’t think change really got people excited Students who pledged to vote Khinda added that she’s is look- Hanwell said. anyone expected such a big Liberal about voting.” were reached on Monday over email, ing forward to the reallocation of “This is a different party, it’s a majority,” Students’ Union Presi- Khinda said that though the three phone, and text with reminders to education and textbook tax credits new leader. We’ll probably have to dent Navneet Khinda said. “I think non-conservative wins in Edmon- vote. Making those phone calls was to up-front grants, which she said change some of the ways that we ap- a lot of people expected the ‘Orange ton will get some people excited, actually a really exciting part of the the Liberals had as part of their plat- proach government,” he said. “Dif- Wave’ in Alberta to be reflected in she said she wasn’t sure what to campaign, Hanwell said. form. ferent things will be possible.” Political science prof reacts to ‘surprising’ results in federal election

Jamie Sarkonak vote, I expected it to be more like 35-36 the hands of the leader of the govern- and quite important to them. pect there’s a good chance it won’t Staff reporter @swagonak per cent, and I expected it to be a mi- ing party, and I think we’re at risk of even happen while Justin Trudeau is nority. not seeing politics change as much as Q: Do you foresee any challenges Prime Minister, but we are moving in Steve Patten is an associate professor many of us would like to see it change. with legalizing marijuana? that direction. in the Department of Political Science. Q: Your thoughts on having a mi- A specialist in Canadian political par- nority as opposed to a majority? Q: What will a Liberal majority A: I don’t expect it to happen very Q: What do you think Trudeau ties, public policy and democracy, Pat- mean for life in Alberta? quickly. I think what we’ll see quickly meant by “Sunny ways?” ten spends his time both researching A: Well there’s two immediate is putting in place a clear, decrimi- and teaching. Party system change — thoughts. One is that this is a false ma- A: For the people of Alberta, the re- nalization of marijuana, which is just A: I don’t remember exactly what he a recurrent theme in this year’s politi- jority. The Trudeau Liberals got around lationships that the Trudeau govern- changing what happens to people said, but the thing that really stood out cal land 40 per cent of the vote, but they got ment builds with the provinces and who are arrested with marijuana. But in this is in his acceptance speech was 50 more per cent of the seats. So the with our big cities (are) very important. legalization requires some real solid when he talked about positive politics Q: What was your reaction when number of seats is actually not in line His plans to spend more and invest policy work on what approach to take and diversity … Let’s just hope this the results came in? with the way Canadians voted. I was more in infrastructure is an opportu- on growing and selling. There’s an positive politics is really a new style also hoping that if we had a minority, nity for our mayors to work with the awful lot of detailed policy questions that Liberals can be pleased with, but A: I was surprised, like most people it might force Justin Trudeau to com- Federal government to advance proj- that need to be followed though. So so could New Democrats and so could … I didn’t expect (the Liberals) to do promise to work towards cooperation. ects in transportation, social housing, I wouldn’t really expect that sort of Conservatives even if they don’t agree as well as getting 39-40 per cent of the False majorities put so much power in and other things that are quite vital thing to be happening quickly. I sus- with the policy direction. thegateway www.gtwy.ca Volume 106, Issue 13 news 5

UofA Students get FREE admission to Ice inspector Meet the crew that runs and maintains the Clare Drake Arena. Jamie Sarkonak Campus Careers: Clare Drake Arena Conference

Jamie Sarkonak break from office duties when Zam- Q: What’s the most rewarding Staff Reporter @swagonak boni schedule dictates. thing about working at Clare Within the framework of the Zam- Drake? Home Games The morning facility check, not caf- boni schedule, staff work on outside A: We get to watch the (Bears and feine, is what wakes Clare Drake tasks, such as leaving the facility to Pandas) grow up. When they’re here, *Valid ONEcard must be presented Arena supervisor Monty Wood up in buy parts, or performing mainte- they come in as a first year … And the morning. Now in his in his 27th nance on PAW exercise machines. then when they leave they’re classy at the gate upon entry to the event. year at the University of Alberta and The only time of the year where people. And to even see the alumni his 16th at Clare Drake, Wood’s daily regular arena duties are paused is now — one of the Golden Bear alumni routine is instinctual. right before finals, Wood said. The is the Edmonton Oiler’s goalie coach. Wood arrives at Clare Drake Arena guys at Clare Drake are responsible Other ones have obviously had vary- at 8 AM after dropping his kids off for setting up the 3,000 desks in the ing degrees of success, but they come at daycare and school. The morn- Pavilion, Main Gym, and Education in young, naïve. Seeing them grow up ing starts with a routine check of the Gym as the end of the semester. is pretty cool. premises. He goes through the facil- The usual shift finishes up at 4:30 ity, checking on everything. Leaky p.m. in the middle of varsity prac- Q: What’s the worst damage taps? None this morning. Burnt out tice, which run from 3 until 7 p.m.. that’s ever happened to the fa- lights? There’s one on the second The evening staff then takes over, cility? floor. and oversees the evening intramu- A: There’s one dressing room where Wednesday morning is particu- rals. there’s a hole in the washroom stall larly important for maintenance du- The evening staff work the ice door cause somebody kicked it with ties. The weekly ice thickness read- as intramural teams cycle on and their skate. ings must be taken, advertisements off the rink. During games, main- on the boards changed out. Every tenance checks Clare Drake for the Q: What do you look forward to few Wednesdays the arena crew will little things. Are the right doors most at work? clean the glass, which will never be locked? Yes. Has a disgruntled player A: Being able to be here for hockey completely clear. The outside glass is damaged the locker room? No. games. You’re basically being paid to always victim to handprints, and the The Zamboni floods the ice one watch hockey. inside is always being beaten up by last time after intramurals and re- flying pucks. It’s one of those things tires to its garage on the West end of Q: What’s your relationship official online you always need to do, Wood said. the arena. A couple of grease points with hockey? “Every day is kind of packed, but are attended to, and then it’s put A: I’ve played the game my whole life. we don’t think of it in those terms,” away until the next day. Refereed for 25-plus years. I was fortu- merchandise store Wood said. “We come to work and The last little machine to work nate enough to be a linesman at the CIS go, ‘Okay, what do we have to do to- that evening deals with the rough level for six or seven years. Hockey’s a day?’” ice in front of the bench, ravaged by great game, it’s a Canadian game. After the morning check, the Zam- the day’s skaters. Closely resembling boni schedule is what governs the a push-lawnmower, the edger’s only Q: What’s the funniest mishap staff. The schedule dictates when its blade is oriented almost verti- you’ve ever had to deal with? arena staff must “flood,” or resur- cally, to shave down ice against the A: I don’t know that it was humorous face, the ice, which has to happen boards. to me, but we use steam to melt the between each skating group. The arena staff leave at 1 a.m. The snow in the pit (the Zamboni) dumps During the day, Wood’s time is cycle restarts in seven hours. into. And this was quite some time spent at his desk under the stands “(Clare Drake) is a neat old build- ago. One of the past employees left of the West end of the arena. The ad- ing,” Wood said. the steam on all night. So when we ministrative grind at the arena is like “You know, there’s times where came in in the morning, we were liter- that of any other, non-hockey job. you wish for a variety of reasons that ally squeegeeing the walls of the entire Wood double-checks timesheets, co- we could have something new and building cause it was raining. Like, ordinates with the accountant, and shiny … But it wouldn’t be the same the front lobby — that whole area was fires off a few emails. Wood gets a feeling. It’s a grand old place.” raining, it was just water.

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@BearsandPandas Jamie Sarkonak news 6 thegateway www.gtwy.ca October 21, 2015 Is former SU President Kusmu one of Canada’s smartest? University of Alberta alumnus and Students’ Union leader to participate as a contestant in CBC’s Canada’s Smartest Person program Mitchell Sorensen Staff reporter @sonofamitchh

A familiar University of Alberta face will soon be on CBC, under the lights. Alumnus and former Students’ Union President and Vice-President (External) will appear on Sunday, Oct. 25’s episode of Canada’s Smart- est Person, a CBC show tests more than just trivial knowledge. “It’s a really cool show in that it tests multiple intelligences,” Kusmu said, “They set up these bizarre, ridiculous challenges to test how strong you are in the six different kinds of intelligence.” The show test competitors on linguistic, logical, social, musical, physical and visual skills. Kusmu was quick to credit his undergradu- ate experience at the U of A for preparing him for the show. With a double honours degree in econom- ics and political science, Kusmu was also involved in the Musician’s Club on campus. “I think the university experience can help you work on all the intelli- gences you have,” Kusmu said. “Even going out and partying worked on my physical abilities, with dancing Intelligent Alumnus Petros Kusmu will appear on CBC’s Canada’s Smartest Person. Christina Varvis and whatever.” Though Kusmu will be the second the show is. Beyond that, it’s a mat- Toronto and participate in the com- being very diverse in terms of age will return to London to graduate. U of A alum to appear on the show, ter of enjoying the ride.” petition. and background, as well as being After that, he will be moving to Cal- he said even speaking with Braden Rather than applying to be on the “For me, it was cool to prove to my great to compete with. gary for a position with Deloitte. Lauer, who won the show’s inaugu- show of his own volition, Kusmu re- younger self that intelligence isn’t Although he hasn’t been able to “I’m going to be a business strat- ral season, did little to prepare him. called the CBC contacting him to be just book smarts, and it’s not static,” reveal to anybody the results of his egy consultant,” Kusmu said. “My “He and I chatted before the show,” on the show. After a long dialogue Kusmu said. “I remember watching episode, Kusmu said keeping the se- process was essentially asking my- he said. “His advice was basically to between the two sides, Kusmu made shows like Jeopardy! as a kid, those cret hasn’t been difficult. self ‘what can I do that’s as close as cross your fingers and go for it.” the decision to put in an application, shows perpetuated the idea that in- “I’m perfectly fine keeping it all possible to being SU president with- Kusmu pointed to the variety of and was accepted to appear on the telligence is reciting facts, when it’s under wraps,” Kusmu said. “My out being in office?’” the show’s challenges as making it show. more than that.” family and my girlfriend are all ex- Kusmu admitted that moving particularly difficult to prepare for. As he was in the last months of Kusmu also recalled that the show cited to see what happens, so it’s go- away from Edmonton would be dif- “You can try and prepare yourself completing a master’s degree at strives to portray intelligence as not ing to be special.” ficult, but said it was time to start a by watching other shows,” Kusmu the London School of Economics, only multi-faceted, but as some- Having completed his Master’s, new chapter in his life. said. “Really it just shows you how Kusmu took some time off from thing that anyone can possess. He Kusmu is working at an Edmonton “If anyone needed to move on gut-wrenching and nerve-wracking working on his thesis to travel to pointed to his fellow contestants as startup until December, when he (from the U of A), it was me.”

Year of 52skillz celebrates trying new things List of Robinson’s 52skillz 1. How to Burning Man Mitch Sorensen 2. How to dumpster dive Staff reporter @sonofamitchh 3. How to be a less shitty room- mate For Stephen Robinson, exploring 4. How to be stoked at any time of caves and driving go-karts with for- day mer pro racers have been part of the 5. How to scare a bunch of people day-to-day in the past year. 6. How to drift in super shitty cars As the creator of the 52skillz blog, 7. How to rappel down the side of Robinson set out last fall with the goal a bridge of learning a new skill every week 8. How to propel flaming metal ob- for a year. Documenting the process jects at things via weekly videos and blog posts, the 9. How to build an electric scooter 52nd skill went live on Robinson’s with a drill website on Oct. 14. 10. How to do a barrel roll in a “I had this massive list of things I plane wanted to do and never followed up Series of skills Stephen Robinson learned new things over one year. Supplied 11. How to float in a sensory depri- Supplied on,” Robinson said. “I had no one to vation tank hold me accountable to finishing stuff, would have the most lasting effect wasn’t the only thing he learned. 12. How to urban exploration 32. How to Viking part 2 so I created the blog to make sure I fol- on him, Robinson said his experience “After the Rube Goldberg machine 13. How to affordably race rally 33. How to build a motorized gui- lowed through.” surviving in the Amazon was above project, I can MacGyver anything 14. How to ski for free (and prove tar pick Robinson said that he, like many the rest. now,” Robinson said. “Give me paper a point) 34. How to be metal people, accepted finishing their work “I went into the Amazon rainforest clips and a hot glue gun and I can 15. How to open a banana 35. How to attract fewer women or school day and watching TV in- for three days with a machete, a guide make anything.” 16. How to turn your house into an 36. How to build the deadliest stead of doing “super amazing shit.” and a backpack,” Robinson said. “That Future entries on the website will instrument weapon in Bolivia According to him, it is social account- one gave a lot of perspective in terms focus on in-depth learning on specific 17. How to build a synthesizer 37. How to get out a a Bolivian jail ability that pushes people to do new of appreciation through deprivation.” skills, though he said he had many 18. How to moonwalk across Costa 38. How to survive in the amazon and exciting things. Skill #52 posed the biggest chal- ideas, Robinson knew where he wants Rica 39. How to play a recorder at After a year of learning new things, lenge for Robinson, as it involved con- to start. 19. How to pole dance 6088m Robinson said his first few weeks of structing an enormous Rube Goldberg “One of the things I definitely want 20. How to drink fast 40. How to open a beer with any- not doing the blog have been some- machine that would serve as a journey to do is become a zombie survival ex- 21. How to do standup comedy thing what uncomfortable. through the year and other 51 skills. pert,” Robinson said, “so stay tuned 22. How to turn your car into a 41. How to harvest beats from the “I’ve been going a bit stir crazy,” “I’d imagine that 200 to 300 hours for that.” tank farm Robinson said, laughing. “It’ll be nice went into that thing,” Robinson said. “I When asked about how others can 23. How to write and perform a 42. How to milk a cow to not have a weekly deadline to hit, was really lucky that my buddy’s par- start learning in the same way he did, song 43. How to race go karts but it feels like my kid is leaving the ents let me use their shop, I couldn’t Robinson gave the example of the skill 24. How to ski without a ski hill 44. How to live in your car nest.” have asked for a better place to do it.” that made him the most nervous. Ac- 25. How to magic 45. How to juggle Robinson pointed to a trip to Detroit Entering the fifth year of a psy- cording to Robinson, he would never 26. How to have the best six 46. How to make apple sauce when he explored abandoned build- chology degree, Robinson said that have gotten on stage to do stand up months of your life. 47. How to pun like Horatio Caine ings as the most fun he’s had this year. there are many ways that learning in comedy without his support network. 27. How to turn vegetables into 48. How to cave He called climbing into the city’s vari- the classroom can apply to the out- “I think it’s important to find what instruments 49. How to climb Everest ous abandoned churches and apart- side world. Promoting the series and interests you, then get some friends 28. How to build a guitar for $10 50. How to build an app ment complexes, “one of the last true marketing meant using the skills he together who will make sure you do 29. How to Viking 51. How to do a backflip forms of exploration.” gained in his psychology classes in a it,” Robinson said. “That’s how you do 30. How to cook a steak 52. How to build a Rube Goldberg In terms of the experience that practical way. However, psychology new things and get stuff done.” 31. How to break down a door machine thegateway www.gtwy.ca Volume 106, Issue 13 advertisement 7

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editorial comment Many precautions to take before legalizing marijuana

LEFT-WINGED FOLK REJOICED WHEN IT WAS ANNOUNCED THAT Justin Trudeau, leader of the Liberal Party, is the new Prime Minister of Canada. Supporters are celebrating the optimistic campaign promises, including lower taxes, more infrastructure investments and a prom- ise to launch an inquiry into the thousands of missing and murdered indigenous women. But a promise that has many hippies and stoners especially stoked is the promise of legal marijuana sometime in the near future. So how long until there’s a dispensary in every McDonald’s? Unfortunately, probably not anytime soon. The decriminalization while we wait for legalization should lighten the “War on Drugs’” eco- nomic strain via the prison system. But in the interim there is a lot that needs to be discussed before weed can and should be easily accessible. From how much to tax it, to personal plants, to approving more large- scale producers, there are significant details that need to be discussed. Something that is absolutely necessary to the legalization process is more thorough studying of how varying amounts of THC and other psy- choactive components in the bloodstream affect the brain’s function- ing. There are numerous of neurological changes that happen when you get high and just a few major ones are reduced multitasking ability, reduced attention span, and reduced fine motor skills. These impaired mental functions make a lot of simple tasks difficult. So if simple tasks become hard, complex tasks like driving become significantly less safe. With the ability to drive (among other tasks) becoming unsafe when high, the most important issue regarding legalization is making sure people don’t drive impaired. Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) estimates that between 1200 and 1500 drunk driving fatalities occur each year — this number can’t go up if the number of people driving high goes up due to easy accessibility and lack of education about mari- juana. I can’t count the amount of times I’ve heard “I drive better high.” The same was said about alcohol before the huge backlash against drunk driving. We don’t need a string of impaired driving-related deaths to adaire beatty & josh greschner spawn the necessity of a reaction like that of the MADD. Marijuana is already looked down upon as a negative substance by many, so don’t give those people another reason to want it pushed back into prohibi- letters to the editor tion. Driving drunk is becoming increasingly socially unacceptable as the years pass. Driving high needs the same taboo. ers or motivates one person certainly Unfortunately, awareness and public opinion is not the be-all-end-all from the web may not do the same for another, and Don’t base legislation off solution to keeping people from driving high. There also needs to be nobody is under any obligation to of school shootings a way to detect THC in the bloodstream when people are stopped and You can’t reclaim “slut” associate themselves with a term like suspected of driving high. The threat of injuring another person (or (Re: Sex Column: Sluts against “slut” if it makes them feel uncomfort- (Re: University warns that campus yourself) isn’t enough to keep everyone from getting behind the wheel Harper, by Pia Arenata, Oct. 14) able. Essentially, what I’m getting at is shootings aren’t limited to US schools, when intoxicated. Breathalyzers and penalties aren’t the perfect solu- that we cannot generalize or blanket by Kate McInnes, Oct. 13) tion, but the threat of losing a license is what keeps many from driving I find this extremely troubling. You what empowers or liberates others, home after too many drinks at the bar. THC breathalyzers are being can’t reclaim “slut” as something and especially not in a country as Even in the US, lightning has killed researched, but more funding to decide if they are really the most effec- empowering. It’s not “fun”. It doesn’t diverse as Canada. more people since 1985 than school tive method of detection are the best. work that way. We need to stop shootings have. If we’re going to legalize, a system like the one established to deter- finding excuses to objectify and Hailey Seriously, this could indeed happen mine safe levels of blood alcohol content needs to be implemented, and subordinate women! via web anywhere but it is such a fantastically fast. Impaired driving is a problem. Put the money saved from the strain In the pursuit of getting rid of one of rare occurrence that people do not prohibition put on the prison system into finding a quick and reliable the most sexist political leaders in Cambodia voluntourism need to live in fear of it, or base all our way to detect THC in the bloodstream, along with awareness about the human history, we are resorting to is hogwash laws around preventing it. dangers of high driving. calling women sluts? Sending nude (Re: Free the Children’s voluntourism photos of women to men as some priorotizes emotional experience Kieran Chrysler sort of “female liberation”? I’m sure over efficient aid, by Josh Greschner, Dave Davidson managing editor via web there is a better way, in the name of Feb, 24, 2015 women’s rights, to get people to not microtorial comment vote conservative. I diagree with Cole. Thus As someone who volunteered in a I might dissociate myself Alex Cambodian orphanage with IVHQ, I via web can attest that the volunteer work had from him? A word on voting for (Re: Burlap Sack: Hilary Clinton, by little to no actual benefit for the kids. Cole Forster, Oct. 13) Yeah, no, you can Me being there didn’t get them the the Libertarian Party nutrition, health care, or education Reclamation of a term that has pre- that they need and deserve. Instead Are you kidding us Cole? Bye. I didn’t know there was a Libertarian Party until I saw the name on the viously been used in a derogatory they got an under qualified English ballot. I read the platform and actually didn’t mind it. They’d do away manner, and using it in a positive one, teacher who spoke zero Khmer, who with gun laws, they’d enforce property laws so that land-owning indi- is actually a potent way for those who built emotional connections with daniel viduals would be less likely to be screwed by big oil, they’d repeal Bill it may have been used to describe neg- the kids before abandoning them ARTS iv C-51 and they’d increase immigration. The economic policy sounded atively to feel empowered and in con- after 3 weeks to return to a middle like a violent affront to my university-standard sensibilities, but at the trol of their identities. For example, class Canadian household, propagat- Letters to the editor should be sent same time, hearing the poetry of “economic” terms affects something “queer” is a term that had previously ing a monthly cycle of abandonment to [email protected] (no deep within my own nature. Economics 101 was an profound emotional been used to degrade members of the by well-intentioned whites people. attachments, please). experience. Hopefully being the opposition party will smarten up the LGBT community, and in recent years, Realistically, I damaged the economy The Gateway reserves the right to Conservatives and they’ll finally scrap Reform Party tactics, because has been reclaimed as an inclusive by taking away a job from a Khmer edit letters for length and clarity, and having only two options for federal conservative parties, and one of term that individuals/groups use for person who could have actually bene- to refuse publication of any letter it which is a fundamental contradiction of terms, is morally repulsive. identification as members of the LGBT fitted the kids. I hugely regret the trip. deems racist, sexist, libellous, or oth- community or possessing any type of erwise hateful in nature. The Gateway Josh Greschner non-binary gender identity or sexual Nicole Richard also reserves the right to publish let- opinion editor orientation. That said, what empow- via web ters online. thegateway www.gtwy.ca Volume 106, Issue 13 opinion 9 Making sense of suicide without blaming the university

directed at the university, which, it was said, doesn’t offer enough student mental health services. While this may be the case, the Matti real problem is the gorge. No Thurlin amount of signage or beckoning opinion writer or money can fix this. Last week, my prof opened class We should stop with the Peer Support Centre webpage on the projector. The fol- blaming institutions (...) lowing chat, which was delivered and start looking toward incredibly well and concisely, rendered the room into darkness ourselves as students, — if only for one second — before friends, colleagues. the lecture carried on, as is proce- dure. We should stop blaming insti- The person who tries tutions — which can only do so much with their means — and to kill herself doesn’t start looking toward ourselves do so out of quote as students, friends, colleagues. This means we should engage ‘hopelessness’ (...) (The more with one another on a face- person) will kill herself to-face level; i.e. we should not assume that those who need help the same way a trapped will seek it out themselves. As person will eventually ashley truong university students, this is in- In his novel Infinite Jest, David same window just checking out tween saying, “just be happy” and credibly hard to do, given the aca- jump from the window of Foster Wallace describes why: the view; i.e. the fear of falling “get help, call the line,” which is demic battleground on which we a burning high-rise (...) remains a constant. The variable a phrase we seem to reiterate me- sweat daily. It is incredibly hard it’s not desiring the fall; “The so-called ‘psychotically de- here is the other terror, the fire’s chanically. The amount that we to look out for one another — and pressed’ person who tries to kill flames: when the flames get close yell from the sidewalk is danger- this is sad, but true, because the it’s terror of the flames. herself doesn’t do so out of quote enough, falling to death becomes ously underestimated. game is rigged such that individ- david foster wallace ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract the slightly less terrible of two According to the CMHA, once ual well-being outperforms car- infinite jest conviction that life’s assets and terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; depression is recognized, getting ing for others categorically. debits do not square. And surely it’s terror of the flames. And yet help “can make a difference” for Despite this, those on the side- Our campus conversation on not because death seems sud- nobody down on the sidewalk, 80 per cent of people, who will walk should take the first step, mental health seems to have hit denly appealing. The person in looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ then return to day-to-day activi- even if it’s into a burning build- the same point as gun laws in the whom Its invisible agony reach- and ‘Hang on!’, can understand ties. Thus it looks like the prob- ing. If you notice something USA. To paraphrase President es a certain unendurable level the jump. Not really. You’d have to lem can be solved if people with wrong, the responsibility has Obama: tragedy is becoming rou- will kill herself the same way a have personally been trapped and depression simply get help. But become yours to follow through, tine, and so is our response. trapped person will eventually felt flames to really understand a “getting help” doesn’t equate to even if that requires losing X per- There is, however, a distinction jump from the window of a burn- terror way beyond falling.” “having access” to programs and cent on some assignment that between the issues of gun regula- ing high-rise. Make no mistake support: there’s an ocean-wide you’ll ultimately forget about, say, tion and mental health. Gun regu- about people who leap from burn- In 2008, Wallace took his own gorge in between, if you have two weeks later. Fine, maybe four lation is fairly straightforward to ing windows. Their terror of fall- life while fighting depression. We such an illness, which is called weeks. The assumption has to be fix. Regulate guns. Mental health, ing from a great height is still just know well that one cannot be sim- actually taking the step. that nobody will help except you; on the other hand, is incredibly as great as it would be for you or ply “poked” out of depression. Yet, I read a reaction on Facebook that you’re the only other person difficult. me standing speculatively at the I struggle to see the difference be- last week. The criticism was within miles. St. Albert-Edmonton voted for a puppet in favour of experienced MP

need to take a stand that we’re not going to read these talking points that are written by PMO staffers and we’re not going to vote like trained Cole seals” and a man who is every bit the Forster aforementioned pinniped, and they politics columnist settled on the latter. A small tragedy occurred this week; a bona fide Shakespearean fall from (St. Albert-Edmonton greatness. In 2014 Maclean’s bap- MP Michael Cooper) has tized Brent Rathgeber the Member of Parliament who “Best Represents indicated he is opposed Constituents” in their Parliamentar- to a woman’s right to ians of the Year awards. He was a have an abortion in all vociferous critic of the Conservative Party and a true people’s politician circumstances. in the riding he served. But on Mon- day, the independent fiscally-con- I mean, Rathgeber published a servative, socially liberal MP who book essentially cataloguing the had represented St. Albert-Edmon- parliamentary indiscretions of Mr. ton for seven years was replaced by Harper and his crew. He was the voters in favour of Michael Cooper, best of both worlds for constituents; a party pawn destined for nosebleed demonstrating conservative convic- seats in the House of Commons. tions while questioning the status Rathgeber, having formally ended quo. And for some reason on Mon- his relationship with the Harper day people voted by party and not by government in 2013, ran without at- person. Their interests were being taching his name to a political party presented to Ottawa by a local law- and paid the price with voters on yer, and now Ottawa’s interests will election day. be presented to constituents by a lo- To me it appears the constituents cal lawyer. of St. Albert-Edmonton either voted Canadians elsewhere might under a misapprehension or were have envied Rathgeber as a mere willfully resistant to logic on the choice on the ballot, but Cooper’s 19th. How could a fair (admittedly healthy victory sequestered that conservative) riding turn its back envy straight away. Now instead of supplied - www.brentrathgeber.com on a politician who simultaneously an independent voice in the capital, of the party designation next to the website, “Cooper has indicated he is Rathgeber was a sensible, level- deconstructed the misgivings of the residents of St. Albert-Edmonton candidate’s name, Michael Cooper opposed to a woman’s right to have headed, thoughtful MP who left Harper government and remained will have to be satisfied knowing has some rather extreme views on an abortion in all circumstances — the Conservative Party when they true to principle during his tenure as their MP is a puppet of whomever topics we as a society have made including those in which pregnancy wanted to boss him around. For the an MP? The disgraceful reality is that succeeds Stephen Harper as leader up our collective mind about. Local is caused by rape or the health or life people who elected him to repay electors in the Edmonton suburb of the Conservative Party. And that’s journalist David Climenhaga writ- of the mother is at risk.” That’s be- his courage by replacing him with had the choice between a man who not the worst of it. Whether they ing on Rabble.ca noted that accord- yond the pale even when compared a rookie party-cheerleader is a very said, “(I) think legislators like myself were aware of it or not, or only aware ing to the Campaign Life Coalition’s to politics south of the border. disheartening turn of events. NO

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PAIN No NoGAIN

anna campbell Your generation is entitled, lazy and miserable. Argh!

an everyone-gets-a-participation- school is just too expensive? This these “mentally ill” people when they energy drinks? While we’re at it, sticker primary school. This is the isn’t a communist society, we believe complain about having panic attacks stop eating too. Grab some instant real world. in social Darwinism here. If you can’t and suicidal ideation. These people noodles and eat them raw out of the Do you think you’re going to have compete, you hate capitalism and obviously just haven’t tried to be bag, you’ll save time cooking and you Daniel free time when you get out of post- you’re spitting on the graves of all happy. And if trying hard is just too can eat while you’re studying. Plus, Decker secondary? Get real. You’re going to your ancestors who fought in the much work, they can go to the Coun- it’s the cheapest food money can buy, opinion writer have a boss demanding your atten- Cold War. selling and Clinical Services in SUB, so now you can cut back on those tion while you sleep, a nagging sig- where the power of psychology will pesky job hours. The only exercise Midterms are upon us again, and the nificant other, and a dozen kids that (W)e believe in social fix them. They’ll be completely cured you need is walking to your classes. effect throughout campus is obvious. always need something. Don’t want in seconds and can run straight back Sure, you’ll have health problems in Students are binge-watching that hot kids? Don’t want a relationship? Too Darwinism here. If you to their essay/exam/lecture triath- a few decades, but do you really want new show on Netflix, grabbing a nap bad. Training for the work-a-day of- can’t compete, you hate lon. So listen up teachers, don’t let to live in this mean, oppressive world wherever they can and hanging out fice life is the point of post-second- your students use this as an excuse to that you keep whining about? I didn’t with friends as stress relief. But wait ary. This is Canada, and you’d better capitalism and you’re get out of assignments any longer! think so. a second: wouldn’t the biggest stress be dreaming about your white picket spitting on the graves But you have all these resources Now that I think about it, what relief be buckling down and, you house in the suburbs and a commute and you still can’t keep up. You’re makes you think you have the right know, doing some schoolwork? to an office job. of your ancestors who working right up to the deadlines, to stop and read this? The previous, The time to get blackout drunk So yeah, you’d better be volun- fought in the Cold War. constantly studying, and you still less entitled generations were too with your friends is over. “Relaxation” teering, and it’s easy for everyone to can’t get everything done in time. busy walking uphill both ways in is a word you should’ve forgotten in work their way up a club to get that But some people really can’t keep No wonder this generation’s going the snow, and if you don’t think that kindergarten. You paid how much coveted leadership experience for up, they’re “mentally ill!” My parents down the toilet. Look, the answer is makes logical sense you need to put money to be here and you think you the endless scholarships that no one called that “lazy people making ex- simple: stop sleeping. Why else do away this article and pull out a text- get to have fun? Post-secondary isn’t applies to. You have a job because cuses.” There’s no reason to listen to you think they invented coffee and book. Three ways high school didn’t prepare me for university

I have friends smarter than I the hefty IB science courses and am who helped me enroll in the the hard calculus classes, all so high school classes I wanted before they all that I could completely change filled up and lighten that load my mind and (shout out to Model Akanksha from eight classes to five. I hadn’t United Nations) realize in grade Bhatnagar even finished my diplomas and I 12 I wanted to do a Political Sci- opinion writer was already messing up univer- ence major — and who knows, sity. two years from now I might not - I love learning. I don’t love the even be doing that. I wish that + - test-taking part of learning, but I What studying really someone had told me in high A love learning. I could spend hours entails school it’s okay to just not know. university in a lecture, absorbing all the in- formation about political philos- After already writing five mid- So if I’m being honest, high ophy and the stock market. terms, I realized after just one school was pretty much useless Yet every year, students enter midterm that my study method in trying to set me up for uni- university unprepared. What is it doesn’t work. So really, I’ve just versity. It taught me basics that that these students are lacking? spent three years of my life mas- don’t even apply to a university High school teachers are sup- tering a studying method just so lifestyle. I’ve constantly been C posed to give students a founda- I could crumple it up and throw spoon-fed all the information I tion for entering university, but it out. I’ve realized the transition needed to ace those diplomas, ? it’s not happening. Either teach- from just memorizing terms to but the bigger picture was lost, ers preach the irrelevant, or at actually having a comprehensive and now that I’m here nothing worst, spread misinformation or understanding of all the concepts is spoon-fed. Nonetheless, I’ve scary stories like ‘In university is a lot easier said than done. In learnt that’s almost the beauty of you won’t be able to ask for help!’ high school all the notes were university, a place where you can anna campbell Of course, now I know that isn’t printed off for you, making miss- redesign yourself and leave be- true. ing a day not the end of the world. hind your high school self. So here are top three things I Missing a single hour and a half wish I learnt in high school be- lecture of Gordon Lee’s Econ fore coming to the University of 101 class is practically missing three Alberta: a whole year of information. All this personal accountability was lines What BearTracks is not something that high school emphasized but really should #3LF free I feel I’m speaking for about 90 have. Got something that you need to get off your mind? Either email us at [email protected], tweet @threelinesfree, or message us at per cent of the first year popula- www.thegatewayonline.ca/threelinesfree tion when I say that I had little It’s okay to not have a plan to no idea about how BearTracks joey richards (BATS) such a nice day today maybe not to etlc to ed and it goes in this huge works. In the summer, I regis- High school preaches having a club sandwiches; not seals tomorrow though ?¿?¿?¿ loop wouldnt that be sick? tered for an English class, a Polit- plan of where you want to go in Raise your hand if you have ever BASEball Alone on the plain, I stand and ical Science class, and six others life before you’ve even figured been personally censored by the why isnt there any good mexican watch as we vote, Goodbye to in Fall semester. I thought eight out how to find your locker after Gateway from 3FL. food on campus Harper classes was considered a full your first Social class. I spent a Mulcair really sucks or bbq i just want some ribs or some- The sex column is rowdy. I like it. course load like in high school. lot of my life thinking I was go- more clubs should give out free thing Haiku for Harper: I added them to my schedule ing to be an engineer. I was going food on campus so i can mooch off what if we built a tram like they Trudeau’s my long lost dad that left builder, and I thought that was to design something amazing for them and pretend to join them but have in airports that just moves my mom what an asshole that. Little did I know, there was space travel and become the first never show up people like from hub or tory to ccis What happened to album battles? an “enroll” button. Thankfully, woman to land on Mars. I took thegateway www.gtwy.ca Volume 106, Issue 13 opinion 11 Indecision clouds your vision

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ashley truong UAlberta Confession needs an archive Josh Greschner Confession has developed some- recently came into the office and opinion editor thing like an editorial standard: told a story about witnessing editors funny observations are generally put in the 80s throwing out Gateway ar- A few years ago, UAlberta Confession on Chitter while the Facebook page chives (the reason why our in-office emerged as the unofficial student proper features numbered confes- archives go back to only 1957 even voice of the University of Alberta. sions that have lately been earning though the newspaper was estab- The Facebook page started as a consistently high number of likes. lished in 1910). The scant Confes- something of a free-for-all in which Student organizations including The sion archives presently available to anyone could post virtually anything Gateway would do good to pay atten- students and the public is subject to they liked. There were miscellaneous tion to the admirable online pres- a similar process of erasure. Those comments, student concerns, advice ence Confession has built. in the future inquiring into the 2015 for timid males that suggested, more Compared to Confession, The student consciousness would have often than not, to simply “talk to Gateway has a much more sophisti- incomplete information if they only her.” Anecdotes about the absurdi- cated archive. Accessing our archive looked at The Gateway. ties, banalities and glories of the uni- for material prior to 2013 is, for the Whether they’ve wanted to or not, Application Deadline: versity experience followed. Michael most part, easily navigable online UAlberta Confession has become Chow and Kyle Sutton made names and is best used in conjunction with culturally significant and should Oct. 30, 2015 (by 4:30 p.m.) for themselves across campus with our extensive hard copy archive that have at least an improved archive. alumni.ualberta.ca/scholarships their bizarre and lewd comments. dates back to 1957, with a few from A long-term project that Confession Debates interrupting the frivolity the 40s. The Confession archive is should consider is building a sepa- attracted both calculated, insightful scattered, inconsistent and beyond rate searchable website organized Note: you must submit a separate form for responses and irreverent sarcasm. a certain date, virtually non-existent by dates featuring all posts since It’s not as if Confession usurped except for a few popular posts. Try- the page started. Obviously an eas- each award. An original transcript from the The Gateway, but we must re-con- ing to access old Confession posts ily navigable archive would be tre- Registrar’s Office is required to apply. ceptualize our role on a campus that involves scrolling down the page ad mendous work for volunteer admins communicates online. The Gateway infinitum and communicating with who run the page, but if the page’s remains the source for interview- admins. Although they are cordial, popularity continues (20,199 likes based articles, structured 500-650 trying to tell someone about an old as of Oct. 21), selling ads and hiring word arguments, local stories, satiri- random comment is a highly inef- employees to organize and allow full cal experiments etc. Beginning as a fective method. access to Confession content could space encouraging open access to There is a more significant issue at be a possibility. Current and future comments like our Three Lines Free, hand. A former Gateway volunteer students deserve as much. opinion 12 thegateway www.gtwy.ca October 21, 2015 Twentysomethings Separating Fantasy & Reality Written by Josh Greschner

In the Dec. 2, 1990 issue of the New York Times, four proportions. The proliferation of fantasy movies and has showed throughout the past decade that fanta- months before the release of his book American TV shows in the past twenty years has been spectacular. sies, fabrications, conjecture and heavy bias often Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis wrote an essay called Game of Thrones features different characters each on constitute the evening news. But as far as our genera- “Twentysomethings: Adrift in a Pop Landscape.” their own quest for the Iron Throne within a world tion concerned, the evening news, like print media, is Examining popular contemporary movies, television of unearthly creatures, awesome landscapes and, becoming an obsolete format. Twentysomethings now and music, he argues that his generation of twenty- most importantly, ferocious violence. The show’s obtain information from endless social media feeds in somethings was “basically unshockable,” adding “cul- gore and mutilation are lurid and realistic. It seems multiple formats ranging from traditional evening ture doesn’t play the same role in our lives that it did that extensive research has gone into showing how news snippets to op-eds and essays. We can readily for previous generations: to liberate, break boundar- blood would actually course from a slit throat and view multiple perspectives on a single topic from the ies, show the unshowable.” what pulling a tongue through the wound would most informed experts in the world. 25 years later, we are the inheritors of Ellis’ “twenty- actually look like. We seek to portray the unrealistic In spite of the constant banal distractions of something” culture. While applying Ellis’ bleak view as realistically as possible. BuzzFeed, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Vines, the of his own generation’s pop culture to our situation is Exposure to extreme violence isn’t inherently bad. internet does what the pop culture of Ellis’ generation certainly justified, our situation seems to offer more Except for the most disturbed among us, twentysome- failed to do: to liberate and break boundaries. We can hope. things can for the most part distinguish between fan- see unedited videos of Walter Scott being shot in the In many ways, there is little difference between tasy and reality. Video games approach the quality of back by police; we can witness ISIS beheadings. We his twentysomethings and us. We have been equally TV and movies but the former give the user control. can experience reality without the intervention of bombarded by images, TV shows, characters, prod- Conjuring tanks out of the air in Grand Theft Auto network television. Unlike Ellis’ unshockable twenty- ucts. Divorce rates haven’t changed while hyphen- and utterly disregarding a representation of human- somethings, reality can shock us. ated surnames and scattered families persist. ity shows how deeply yet innocuously we can indulge With the multiplicity of available perspectives and a Twentysomethings today, like their progenitors, lack these fantasies. heightened media awareness, the current generation coherence: in many ways, we are as clueless and inde- There are problems when we take as reality the of twentysomethings has the potential to be better cisive as Ellis claims his generation to be. assumptions that undergird fantastic narratives. informed of and engaged with the realities of the world It’s not too broad a generalization to say that we Superhero plots in TV shows and various movies than had the previous generation, while allowing our harbor more economic anxiety than the previous gen- that blend hard-hitting drama with planet-smashing fantasies to split off and develop as they will. eration. Prices have increased at a higher rate than destruction have experienced a strong resurgence. This is assuming that we don’t confuse fantasy with have wages. Earning post-secondary education is A common feature of The Avengers movies (some of reality. ISIS’s strength is its ability to cast themselves hardly optional, students and parents struggle to pay the highest grossing of all-time) is the villain’s objec- as the shadowy, barbaric, self-evidently evil in order to tuition in the wake of its exponential rise, industries tive: either to annihilate Earth or alter it for the worst attract American (Canadian) attention. Military his- demand highly specialized skill sets and colleges sac- beyond anything recognizable while killing as many torian and journalist Gwynne Dyer explains that ter- rifice tenets of liberal arts education to adjust accord- people as possible. The heroes’ task, while difficult to rorism is “the weapon of the weak,” a quick, effective ingly. The irony that university is the place that teaches achieve, is straightforward: to keep such change from means of attracting followers. ISIS makes its videos, ethical principles while its own business model con- happening. The unequivocally, self-evidently evil vil- promotes them heavily American citizens interpret tradicts them would be delicious if it wasn’t so bitter. lain is a shadowy Other that hardly needs to be under- ISIS as a self-evident evil that needs to be eradicated. Post-education, jobs and pay are unfulfilling and stood. Manifestations of the superhero movie narrative con- it’s a struggle to maintain our parents’ lifestyle. This superhero narrative applies very easily to mili- tribute significantly to justifications for invasion. In Intuitively, campaigns to expose and erode the mental tary contexts. After 9/11, the Bush administration and truth, military intervention from the hated American health stigma materialize because depression in its the media cast roles latent in the American conscious- army intensifies pre-existing animosity between them various forms seems so widespread — there’s little ness although the Iraqi situation had been previously and citizens of countries affected by war. Civilian sense exerting effort to hide the ubiquitous. ignored: the villain, Saddam Hussein, threatened casualties are many, causing people disaffected by the The 80s ideal of financial success is satirized by innocent Iraqi citizens who needed to be saved by excesses of a military superpower to join small, fer- movies such as Wolf of Wall Street and many twenty- a hero, the U.S. Army. Chris Kyle became Captain vent fundamentalist groups. somethings are disillusioned and cynical toward eco- America. Our perpetual exposure to this superhero ISIS’s rhetorical techniques, while horribly violent, nomic aspects of the American (Canadian) dream. narrative allows military roles to be cast with hardly must be understood. Twentysomethings are affected Distance grows between us and Wall Street, causing a second thought, and the villain becomes whichever by decapitation videos, but we have the means to con- spontaneous, unproductive, Facebook-promoted pro- purported barbarians are in vogue. sider complexities and assess the situation rather than tests. We don’t know what we want — we just know The major difference between now and the 80s is instantly flash the Bat-Signal. We can keep our fanta- what we don’t want. the internet and our news consumption, or in other sies and realities separate. The internet has made the Our reality alternates between the distressing words, our access to social reality. Jean Baudrillard world such an interesting place that indulgent pop fan- and the dull and we seek distractions of fantastical emphatically declared in the early 90s and Jon Stewart tasies, while amusing, are hardly needed anymore.

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University of Alberta students who balance military and post secondary Written byRichard Catangay-Liew

Jim Dorrance never really liked commissioned they earn the commissioned officer rank. They are Jones values the sense of doing something for his officers. also guaranteed the career they choose, Sergeant Ryan country as much as he values education. He wanted He saw commissioned officers, who require a uni- Sebo, a Canadian Forces recruiter, says. to complete his degree, which taught him the basics of versity degree and more managerial and leadership “It’s one of — if not the most — secure occupation development, and what constitutes Canadian society. positions, rise through the Canadian military ranks choices you can make in Canada,” Sebo says. “We will But he can’t get over what people think of him when he quicker than a more experienced and knowledgeable give applicants insight into different occupations. We tells them he’s in the Canadian Forces. non-commissioned member (NCM) would. It was an are not trying to force anyone to take a specific path.” “People kind of look at you weird, and even think attitude that’s typical among NCMs, the tradespeo- Sebo, who has been in the Canadian Forces for the less of you at times,” Jones says. “People in our genera- ple and operators of the military who do more “dirty last 10 years and having worked at the Regular Force tion, for whatever reason, don’t see service as a viable work,” as they tend to view some commissioned offi- Recruiting Centre in Edmonton for the last year, says or honourable thing to do. cers as “cocky” and difficult to respect. high school students visit the centre daily with ques- “Their first response is, ‘Oh, but you’re smart.’” Jim, an NCM, held the rank of Chief Warrant Officer, tions about what the military can do for them, and Despite their misguided conceptions about the mili- which was a “big deal” to his son, Sean, who always if completing a university degree while enlisting is tary and its perceived “meathead” personnel, Jones wanted to follow in his father’s footsteps. worth it. Students much like Sean. believes he enlisting in the Canadian Forces Primary In kindergarten, Sean and his classmates were asked Sean’s tuition, books, lab fees and student fees are Reserves was the smart decision. what they wanted to be when they grew up. Of course, covered by the military. He doesn’t need a part-time University and the military are an “interesting jux- Sean penned and coloured a drawing of his dad outfit- job like his friends do, and considers his academic taposition” for Jones, and to him they’re fun in their ted in his Canadian Forces uniform. schedule much easier to balance than other students. own, very different ways. But in 2013, Jones left the “That’s what I always wanted to be,” Sean says, “I wake up at 7 a.m., have breakfast, go to class, do military. He was in a dark place mental health wise, looking back. “My dad always took me to the base. homework and watch TV,” Sean says of average Fall and even saw himself slacking off during training He worked in the armoury and he drove tanks so he and Winter semester. “I barely have to do anything.” activities. Right now, Jones is focused on finishing his always let me inside and start them up. That just sort But his summers training at Saint-Jean Garrison in political science degree in April 2015 and maybe start- of made me fall in love with the whole atmosphere.” Quebec are much different. ing a master’s program at the U of A. He’s also re-sub- Trips to the gas and diesel scented tank silo and He would wake up at 5 a.m and be in class by 5:30. mitted an application to rejoin the reserves following flipping switches to start up the armoured vehicles Sean and his peers were taught the history of impor- convocation. His reasons to re-enlisting in the forces “wowed” the five-year-old Sean. He vividly remembers tant military battles and studied various military and may sound pathetic, he admits. laughing so hard the first time he climbed into a tank battle procedures. They would then endure intense “I want to make a difference,” Jones says. “It’s as because of how “cool” it was. physical training and have just seven minutes to complicated and simple as that. I think that service In the summer of 2014, he decided to enlist in the shower and change back into uniform. A stark con- is an honourable thing, but I feel like if our genera- military as an NCM, much like his father. trast to the 400-seat psychology lectures with a pro- tion appreciates it enough, its incumbent on you to do He was was shocked when Jim convinced him to go to fessor who you barely have any personal interaction something to help them realize that.” university and take the commissioned route instead. with. Sean Dorrance feels the same way. He wants to use “My parents convinced me that I shouldn’t waste “We get yelled by our commanding officers at a lot,” his psychology degree and apply it to his fascination being smart, and that I should get a good education,” Sean says with a light chuckle. “That’s always interest- with mental disorders such as post-traumatic stress Sean says. “And if (the military) is going to pay for it, ing.” disorder and how the mind works. He also wants to why not?” The tight schedule is all too familiar for political sci- learn and understand how the mind works in battle To become an officer in the Canadian Forces, appli- ence major Dave Jones, as well. Jones enlisted in the situations. cants must have a university degree that relates to the military right after high school in 2009. Cramming For students in the Canadian Forces, the military occupation they choose when enlisting. Occupations for midterms may seem slow compared to the daily is more than just deployment to Afghanistan, firing that officers own require high academic standings and routine in the infantry. C7 assault rifles and shooting projectiles from highly extensive leadership training, and include jobs such as “You never have enough time,” Jones says, recall- armoured vehicles like the tanks which introduced bioscience officer, electrical and mechanical engineer- ing his time training. “It’s a structural design to make Sean to the army 15 years ago. ing officer, legal officer, medical officer and pharmacy you deal with stress and how to make decisions when “People usually don’t understand what the military officer. New recruits begin their journey as cadets and imposed under pressure. It’s like there was always a is all about,” Sean says. “We do so much more than just once they graduate from their university program, sort of game being played with you.” war, and people don’t seem to realize that.” arts & culture 14 thegateway www.gtwy.ca October 21, 2015 A & C Editor Phone Jonathan Zilinski 780.492.5168 Email Twitter [email protected] @jonneedstwitter rts & ulture Volunteer A C Arts meetings every Wednesday at 4pm in SUB 3-04 fashion streeters compiled & photographed by Jiaming Wei

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supplied-ed ellis Beyond Therapy prescribes hefty dose of absurdity

production. meet their outrageous psychiatrists theatre PREVIEW If the play’s characters were to be Stuart and Charlotte, played by described in one word, it would be Corben Kushneryk and Kristen Beyond outrageous. But the reason they are Padayas respectively. From the outrageous is the flawless commit- animalistic advances of Stuart to the Therapy ment that the actors had through- awkward gestures Charlotte uses to out the production. The characters’ remember words, the audience can WHEN Running October 15-24, 2015 emotions are conveyed through feel safe to laugh at them from the WHERE Timms Centre for the Arts, their movements that, while un- ‘other side,’ where we are not their University of Alberta natural, are so extreme they dra- patients in real life. written by Christopher Durang matically enhance the comedy of The atmosphere of the production the play. transports the audience back to the DIRECTED BY Glenda Stirling The insane portrayal of the char- early 80s, complete with music and STARRING Graduating BFA Acting Class of 2016 acters effectively reflects director dancers during scene changes. The Stirling’s vision for the produc- set was surprisingly complex given $12 for students HOW MUCH tion: to convey the absurdity of real the number of times it needed to life situations that we are unable be changed. However, this did not Kim Stone to see the comedy of until we are take away from the production at arts & culture writer “safely on the other side.” Specifi- all. In some cases the way the ac- cally, while Carmen Nieuwenhuis’ tors changed the scene added to the Studio Theatre’s 2015/16 season portrayal of the neurotic Prudence, comedy of the production. opens with a hilarious exploration who is seen drinking large quanti- The costuming choices reflect the of the absurdity present in everyday ties of wine and falling onto the nature of the production as well. The experiences that is often taken for floor or nearby couches as a result brightly coloured, and in the case of granted. of tense situations, seems absolute- Charlotte, often eccentric clothing Beyond Therapy, written by Chris- ly ridiculous, the character is also mirrored the plays extremely lively topher Durang, follows troubled strangely relatable. mood. This mood was very clearly Manhattanites Prudence and Bruce The rest of the characters may not felt by the audience, who reacted to as they try to find love with the help be as relatable, but they are all just the production in an equally lively their psychiatrists, who appear even as entertaining. It is impossible not manner. In many instances it felt gateway: Describe your outfit and where each more unstable than their patients. to laugh at the frequent emotional that the audience’s reactions were As if the characters’ personalities outbreaks of Bruce, played by Jor- part of the show itself. piece is from. weren’t enough, Bruce’s lover, Bob, dan Sabo, which are uncomfortably With its comedy and absurdity, Kharlova: Jacket from Forever 21, scarf from Zara, further complicates the situation. hilarious. Beyond Therapy provides a strong While the plot itself is not ridicu- However manic these two opener to what is sure to be an dress from Bershka, shoes from Aldo, hat from lous, Studio Theatre certainly push- characters appear, their actions excellent season from Studio H&M, knee socks from Ardene. es the limits of absurdity with this are somewhat justified once we Theatre. gateway: Why do you think fashion is important? kharlova: I think it’s very personal. It’s all about how you feel. Whether the song or a rainy day put you in the mood for an outfit, you try to express your feelings through fashion. thegateway www.gtwy.ca Volume 106, Issue 13 arts & culture 15 GatewayGateway

BOOK REVIEW Literature Literature a very real fear for women in to- gain a sense of how Matis deals Matis has this incredible abil- Aspen Matis day’s society and Matis’ memoir with the events she goes through ity to cause you to be sucked into Girl in the Woods sheds some light on how truly dif- but there is also an interesting her mind and you understand her Published by: William Morrow ficult recovery can be when it is view of how others perceive her every thought. Her rational and too often glazed over. Matis does story. She encounters someone train of thought through each and not write this as a trauma story on her hike that is ignorant of her every experience allows you to live but as an incredible success sto- past and her feelings who makes what she lived even if you have ry that empowers people to find very unexpected comments. As a nothing to base these experiences Eryn Pinksen their own way of bursting through reader you become aware of how on in your own life. The connec- arts & culture writer the wall that is their insecurities this issue is poorly understood tion you feel to Matis is powerful and breathe fresh air on the other by so many and you feel the same as you go through her journey of Aspen Matis undergoes a trau- side. tightening as Matis when she re- self-discovery. She was scared, as matic event that occurs far more Any university student can pick veals, “[my] shame was unearthed, she says several times but Matis than is openly spoken of as she up this novel and instantly con- alive. The tightening in my chest, explains her process and how her was sexually assaulted on her nect to Matis’ thoughts and fears the wish to fade away like a shad- fear and her “recklessness became second night in college. This is as a first year. Not only do readers ow in diffused light.” [her] salvation.” BOOK REVIEW

Jon Ronson You’ve Been Publicly Shamed explores someone that has done something sider. However, Ronson’s writing is So You’ve Been a new form of shaming, through wrong. The massive network of also littered with humour, and the social media, that is perhaps even- Twitter provides people with ap- book reads easily as one complete Publicly Shamed more damaging.. proval from thousands of others narrative although it is composed of Published by: Riverhead Books Jon Ronson, whose other works fo- who believe the same things as many different smaller stories and cus on psychopaths and extremists, them, giving it the power to do great research. turns his attention to how the abil- things, or to tear a person apart. So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed Kim Stone ity of social media platforms to give Ronson’s book follows the ac- analyzes both the reasoning behind voices to otherwise voiceless people counts of multiple people that have the current “renaissance of public arts & culture writer has made villains out of everyday been victim to brutal shaming on- shaming” and the effects it has on The notion of public shaming Twitter users. line for offences as small as a tact- those involved, making a convinc- evokes images of 19th century pub- Of course these people don’t see less joke. His description of these ing statement about the extreme lic humiliation in the form of the it that way. These everyday social people following their shaming is negative impacts well-meaning in- stocks and pillory, a process that has justice activists feel proud and even at times tragic, showing the effects dividuals can have using 140 char- fortunately died off. However, So excited when they can take down that online interactions don’t con- acter comments.

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When you’re invited as your would cost at Liquor Depot—such With midterms piling up all around carbonated 700mL father’s plus one to a fancy work is the vino life. you as the semester progresses, you’re of shitty Limoncello. function, free alcohol is one of When the waitress brought me no doubt looking for a way to kick- The worst aspect of the first things that comes to my wine, I knew I was in a good start your studying. Some people Four Loko is that mind. So this weekend when place. This Zinfandel is a deep red choose coffee, some take straight caf- long-lasting finish, I attended a giant paid-for at the core, and semi-translucent feine supplements, others just snort taking up residence d i n n e r , I w a s o b v i o u s l y p r e t t y on the rim. On the nose, you find Adderall off their TA’s ass. In a world on your tongue with stoked about the promise a strong but pleasant tinge of of stimulants to keep your study- the same resilience of a boundless wine list. black cherry and oak. Your first ing on track, one solution will turn as cough syrup. Now, everybody knows sip will be a gorgeous mix of your stomach more than that D- you Please, for the that when you attend cherry, raspberry and blueberry just pulled in calculus: Four Loko love of God, pick a dinner event paid by with a hint of smoke and spice. If Lemonade. literally any other work, you should never this doesn’t sound intriguing for This revolting concoction com- method to boost be the jerk who orders you, let me tell you: it’s freaking bines the sweet taste of lemonade your studying this the most expensive wine delicious. Perhaps it was the with the brutal impact of malt liquor semester. Four Loko on the menu—instead, be fact that I wasn’t paying for it, or to bring you the Frankenstein’s mon- is an ill-conceived the jerk that orders the maybe the fact that I drank far ster of beer. Not only will it energize experiment into the second-most expensive. more of it than I should have, but you with its high sugar content, it will extent people will This is exactly what I this wine is lovely. Picture it as knock you on your ass with its 8% go to get drunk. This did, and I ended up with the alcohol-version of Leonardo ABV. If that sounds terrible to you, half-juice half-beer Ravenswood Vintners DiCaprio: it’s handsome, from you probably hold the majority opin- travesty will knock Blend Zinfandel. Of California and even if it hasn’t ion. you down faster course, in the end they won the National Wine Award One the nose we have overwhelm- than you can say, “I probably charged the (the Oscar of Winemaking), you ing notes of syrup, lemon, and rub- don’t know why they same amount for a 9oz know that it’ll be good no matter bing alcohol. The taste brings more of felt the need to make glass as an entire bottle what. the same; burning down your throat the can camouflage, and tasting as if someone simply it’s already douchey enough.” arts & culture 16 thegateway www.gtwy.ca October 21, 2015 Sick of the same Halloween routine? Here are our remedies

Arts & Culture Staff though he swears he can handle it. group commentary Admission is $20 at the door, $25 Have nothing to do this Halloween? on Halloween weekend. They are We can fix that! The options of cool open Thursday through Sunday, things going on during Halloween as well as all of Halloween week. is only limited by your imagination. I’d suggest going with a buddy (or Don’t waste the one night a year five), and prepare to be scared! – where you can dress like a total slut Jessica Jack and have nobody say anything bad about it. Check out The Gateway’s Egg your asshole neighbors recommendations for the best activities for this Halloween Do your pesky neighbors think season. you’re bat shit crazy? probably. Now’s the time to get back at them Scare the shit out of trick or for throwing salty looks every time treaters you back out of your driveway. So what you trapped their house cat Too often young adults rely on in a porcupine trap? That stupid alcohol to make it through the end cat was shitting all over the porch. of October. Drowning their autumn Hit up your local grocery store for woes in cheap beer and forgetting some eggs, but make sure it’s at the true spirit of Halloween. I’m least a week in advance to make talking about scaring children. sure you don’t look like a complete It’s rare to find university students degenarate. Halloween night with a true passion for scaring provides the perfect cover for any anyone, let alone children. Buck foul deed. feeling extra bitter? the trend of letting kids escape Throw in a roll of toilet paper or two. another year without ruining a Cold feet? pay a few kids in full size pair of costume pants. Wait in chocolate bars and they’ll gladly the shadows for any children to terrorize anyone for you. You’ll approach your door, and as soon as have your own personal army –Jon they begin to chant “trick or treat” Zilinski release a bloodcurdling howl. It won’t matter what your costume Corn Maze is, what matters is that those kids now have a great story to tell their When Halloweening in YEG, friends and a new found love for there is nothing more token-prairie- Halloween. –Joshua Hickmore thing-to-do-in-the-fall than go to the goddang corn maze. Go out and make new Yes, the one in Edmonton is closed friends illustration by giselle boehm because a few people died, but that doesn’t mean you can’t go have fun at There’s no better time than Halloween curfew, which means Prairie Gardens in Bon Accord! There Halloween to make new friends. Trick or Treating that you can haul your candy home Deadmonton Haunted House is nothing more ass-numbingly It’s the easiest night of the year and then hit up a bar or a costume frightening than attempting to to approach a group of people I don’t care if you’re six, sixteen, party, still floating on your sugar You might tell me to speak for navigate out of a maze in pitch dark, in a bar and immediately strike or twenty-six, the best thing to high. Who knows, maybe you myself, but this is the time of year with weird noises all around you. up a conversation. The flashy do on Halloween is to go trick- could even convince someone to where even the most terrified of the If that wasn’t enough, there are costumes, festive drunkenness, or-treating. It’s the one day out come home with you by telling scaredy-cats (AKA me) don’t mind a a plethora of haunted houses, and general high spirits make of the year when you can dress them you’ve got free candy. jump-scare here and there. So, for all dark pathways, and hayrides that for the perfect social lubricant. up like a maniac without people you adrenaline junkies out there who can jump-scare to rival the best Personal judgment is toned way thinking you actually are one and *Disclaimer: Please do not kidnap want a change from horror movies horror movies. This is completely down on Halloween; people are go door-to-door begging for free or ask children you do not know to and bar hopping, Deadmonton aside from the fact that you’re in much more willing to openly candy. There’s literally no better go trick or treating with you. That House is for you. Located in the old Bon Accord, where it is not just express themselves. So be free, way to spend October 31st. If you would be beyond weird, and very Paramount Theatre, creator Ryan acceptable to be under the influence be yourself, dress up as exactly feel weird about doing it at this out of line. We don’t want anyone Kozar promises a haunted house that of your substance of choice, but who you want to be and go make age, here’s an easy fix: offer to to end up in prison because they “is not what you’re expecting, and encouraged. some kick-ass new friends this take a child trick or treating in took this too literally Neither The what you’re expecting, you times it Admittedly, it is a bit of a trek out Halloween, you won’t find a better exchange for half of their candy.* Gateway nor I condone abduction by a thousand.” It’s recommended to the maze itself, but you won’t chance until next Halloween rolls The best part about it is that most in any way, even if it’s for the sake of for 12 and up, so don’t go bringing be disappointed if you go.–Mitch around. –Jason Timmons neighbourhoods have an early Halloween candy. –Rachael Phillips your eight-year-old cousin, even Sorenson

Jon Zilinski arts & culture editor cut with a marker to make a cool design, or freehand it depending 4. Carve Carefully Halloween and Jack-O’-Lanterns are on how confident you’re feeling. synonyms with each other come Oct. Whatever you decide, make sure Use a decent blade, whether that is 31. Nothing looks more awesome you cut a big enough hole in the top. a steak knife, chef’s knife, or even a than having an army of these sitting Once that’s taken care of, get all of machete. Whatever your tool, make on your porch. If you’ve never carved the seeds and nasty stringy shit out sure it’s sharp; otherwise you’ll have a pumpkin before, don’t stress. Here’s of there. This can be accomplished a better chance of messing up a cut. our simple guide on how to make a with a variety of kitchen utensils, but Make sure you have a small blade Jack-O’-Lantern either a wooden spoon, or large soup as well if you’re planning on tricky spoon will do the best. details. The most important thing 1. Pick your pumpkin to keep in mind while hacking away: 3. Draft your design take your time. Seriously you’ve Go get your pumpkin at any gro- come this far, spent probably an hour cery store, farmers market, back- Whether it’s a pumpkin-carving prepping and now you’re going to alley pumpkin dealer, or whatever template, or you’re drawing by hand, rush? Find your chill, and if you do you want. If you’re ambitious and don’t take your design too seri- mess up, it’s okay. The kids who come planning to create an intricate ously. Intricate details take forever by your house are going to think it’s design, get a bigger pumpkin. Now and patience may be wearing thin awesome regardless. is the perfect time to get carving, the since you’ve already probably spent people who started in September are a good portion of time scooping out . Get lit probably screwed since pumpkins pumpkin guts. Not to mention, you’ll only have a shelf life of about two probably get really pissed off when Once that bad boy is all carved weeks. Make sure to pick a healthy you realize that the infamous Jose up and ready to go, insert a small pumpkin with a consistent color the Bautista bat flip carving you saw on tea light from the top and light it entire way around. It should sound the internet, is actually a lot harder up. Make sure to keep your Jack-O’- hollow when you knock on it. to carve then you thought. Go with Lantern away from any flammable something simple and fun like a tra- areas, especially leading up to your 2. Scoop the guts ditional spooky face, or a marijuana residence. Last thing anyone wants leaf now that the Liberals have a on Halloween is a careless trick or Scooping guts is easily the worst majority. Pro tip: for the perfection- treater accidentally burning your part of the entire process, so get it ists out there, use a dry erase marker place to the ground. Once you have a over with first. Find a spacious area instead of a permanent. That way if safe display set up for your pumpkin, to start your process, and scalp that you make a mistake, you won’t have relax and marvel and the beautiful pumpkin. You can either mark your to flip your pumpkin to start all over. work of art you’ve accomplished. thegateway www.gtwy.ca Volume 106, Issue 13 arts & culture 17 Spooky themed flicks Drinking with a twist Shaylee Foord specifically a Halloween movie, Jessica Jack 3. Would You Rather: Here’s a arts & Culture writer it’s definitely a spooky one. Listed arts & Culture writer Halloween twist on this classic as an “Iranian Vampire Western” game. Instead of using the typical Happy (almost) Halloween! There on IMDB, this black and white film Halloween season forces us to con- would you rathers, like would you are people who will say that Hal- is set in a fictional oil town called sider the ultimate question: as Uni- rather never have Internet access or loween is a kids holiday, but those Bad City. Not only is it a genre- versity students, can we still enjoy have Nicholas Cage always be within people are doing it wrong. Tricks, bender, but also completely flips Halloween to the extent that we one metre of you (thanks, Buzzfeed), treats, and a little bit of fear are the script on typical scary movie did as kids. Even though it might make them Halloween related. Some timeless. In honour of the best gender roles. The main character seem impossible during midterm ideas if you’re stuck: Would you time of year, enjoy some of the (referred to only as “the girl”) is season, the answer is YES! This is rather turn into a zombie or have best spooky movies out there! This the kind of skateboarding cool-girl the time of year that we have a val- your best friend turn into a zombie? list combines cheese-ball horror, that everyone want to be friends id excuse to dress up and get our Would you rather eat raw pumpkin beautiful scary scenes, and cute with, and watching it makes you drink on. So, here are our Top 5 guts or not have any Halloween costume fun. Enjoy! want to paint your nails black and drinking games with a Halloween candy this year? The group with the listen to the Bee-Gees. Some parts twist. (Please drink responsibly) most unpopular opinion has to take 5. Halloween (1978): Slasher drag on a little long, but the gor- a shot/take a drink. flicks are the only genre of movie geous dark atmosphere makes it 5. Scary Movie Shots: We all that are simultaneously terrify- totally worth it. know the classic drinking game 2. Bobbing for Apples: This one ing and boring as hell. This can where you take a drink or a shot will take a bit more effort and be be attributed to a very real fear of 2. The Addams Family (1991): when something happens in a substantially messier, but you will serial killers, and a general dislike This one almost made it all the way movie: each time The Dude has have hilariously fun results. Sepa- for predictable movie tropes. Still, to number one, for the sole reason a White Russian in The Big Leb- rate your group into two teams. In _Halloween_ seems like compul- that Wednesday Addams is every owski, each time Cady references an open area (preferably away from sory viewing. Maybe it’s the bad spooky girl’s idol. There’s no bet- Africa in Mean Girls. Take this your Mum’s fancy china), set up two writing, bad acting (except for Ja- ter excuse for showing up under idea and apply it to scary movies! large buckets full of water on a table mie Lee Curtis – she transcends dressed to a costume party than: This is perfect if you are looking (add a drop or two of red food colour- bad scripts), 70s gore, or the cult “This is my costume. I’m a homi- for some low-key fun. Take a drink ing or some fake eyeballs to make it following that led to nine sequels. cidal maniac, they look just like each time you scream, each time a creepier). Fill them with apples, and Whatever it is, you should prob- anyone else.” Love for Wednesday character goes upstairs to escape have a race to see who can get the ably watch this movie just so you aside, _The Addams Family_ is ac- when they should be running out- apples out of the bucket the quick- realize how many pop culture ref- tually just a great family film, with side, each time a character says est. Losing team has to take a shot. erences you’ve been missing until some important lessons hidden “I’ll be right back”, etc. now. under all the macabre humour. 1. Ring of Fire/Sociables: Here’s Besides, Morticia and Gomez are 4. Wrap the Mummy: Things how to spice up the classic game of 4. A Nightmare Before Christmas ultimate #relationshipgoals. you’ll need: a lot of toilet paper . You’ll need a deck of cards and an (1993): What better concept for a and all the drinks. Separate your empty plastic cup. Arrange the cards movie than one that combines the 1. It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie group into two teams. Pick a per- face down in a circle around the two best holidays into a musical? Brown (1966): This is it. The num- son on your team to be the mum- empty cup. Each person will grab a This is the ideal flick if you’re feel- ber one Halloween movie ever cre- my. Everybody else has to be the card and have a task to do based on ing a little bit witchy, but have also ated. To be honest, though, Charlie wrappers. The goal is to wrap your the corresponding number. Feel free already had Christmas carols on Brown and the Peanuts gang could mummy in toilet paper head to to keep the classics like waterfall, blast for months. Beautiful anima- be celebrating almost anything, toe. Whichever team finishes last and thumb master, but liven it up tion, catchy songs, and general Tim and it would still skyrocket to the has to down their drink. A word of with “categories” (Halloween mov- Burton wonderfulness all make top of any list I write. If Charles M. advice, pick the shortest and teeni- ies, scary movie villains, types of this a movie that defies seasons. Schulz created “It’s Tuesday, Char- est person. There is less to wrap, candy) and Halloween themed ques- lie Brown”, I would watch it reli- and a better chance that you won’t tion master Be sure to fill the plastic 3. A Girl Walks Home Alone at giously every week. Nothing better be the one downing your rum and cup with your drink if you draw a Night (2014): Even though this isn’t than those little goofballs! coke! King.

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Zach Borutski replaced by backup Brad Baker in sports editor @zachsprettycool the second half, who was 10 of 15 for 65 yards, while also scoring It definitely wasn’t the way the the Bears’ only touchdown of the University of Alberta Golden Bears game. football team wanted to come out The Bears troubles on offence of their bye week. didn’t just extend to quarterback, After losing 39-21 to the UBC as Ed Ilnicki tallied a season low Thunderbirds before the break, the 70 yards on 14 carries, while Ty- Bears repeated the feat this past lor Henry was the team’s leading weekend, losing 54-10. receiver with a modest 53 yards on The first quarter was decidedly seven catches. light on scoring, the only points Overall, the Thunderbirds out- coming courtesy of a Thunderbirds gained the Bears 552 yards to 298, field goal, as they stymied the Bears and Morris acknowledged that on defence, forcing two punts and they’d have to be a lot better to get an interception. The Thunderbirds a win against the Manitoba Bisons left entered the second quarter next week. leading 3-0. “First and foremost, I would say The second quarter was where that our compete level has to come things really started to unravel, as up,” Morris said. the Thunderbirds scored 21 points “We’ve got to be able to show up to break the game open. Brandon and compete and match their in- Deschampes got the scoring going tensity level on the field.” for the T-Birds, converting on a The Bisons themselves are com- one-yard run early in the second. ing off a high scoring 49-46 victory Then, the Thunderbirds flexed over the Regina Cougars, and cur- their defensive muscle, as lineback- rently sit at 4-2, the same mark as er Stavros Katsantonis scooped up the Thunderbirds. The Bears will an Ed Ilnicki fumble and rumbled be in tough, as they go from facing 61 yards for the touchdown, put- the Thunderbirds’ last ranked of- ting the Thunderbirds up 17-0. fence to facing the Bisons’ second After the Bears got on the board ranked attack, which is averaging with a field goal, the Thunderbirds 543 yards per game, led by quar- promptly responded with a five terback Theo Deezar. play, 75-yard drive, capped off with The Bears will also have to con- quarterback Michael O’Connor tend with rookie running back throwing a 35-yard touchdown Jamel Lyles, who gave them fits last pass to Alex Morrison. The score at tough t-birds The Bears have lost both their games against UBC this year. kevin schenk game, rushing for 121 yards while the half was 24-3 in the Thunder- also adding a punt return touch- birds’ favour. being 54-10 for the Thunderbirds. Brandon Deschampes who was O’Connor’s totals weren’t as down. It was more of the same in the Head coach Chris Morris said his their downfall this week, rushing impressive as the previous week It’s a tough matchup for the second half, with Deschampes do- team simply didn’t measure up to for 176 yards on 16 attempts, also against the Bears, but he was solid, Bears, and Morris stressed the im- ing the majority of the damage, the effort put forward by the Thun- racking up three touchdowns. passing for 214 yards on 14 of 22 portance of a good game plan. busting out for 68 and 32-yard derbirds. Morris said that the Thunder- attempts with one touchdown. “As coaches, you try to put the touchdown runs in the third quar- “Overall, I would say our com- birds didn’t do anything different O’Connor spread the ball around kids in a position where they can ter. Marcus Davis added a 20-yard pete level wasn’t where it needed than normal, but the Bears made on offence, with Marcus Davis anticipate what’s going to hap- run of his own before the quarter to be to compete with a team like some mistakes that helped the being the only receiver with five pen,” Morris said. was finished, making the score UBC,” Morris said. Thunderbirds’ rushing attack. catches. He totaled 63 yards receiv- “Preparing our kids for the oppo- 47-3 Thunderbirds heading into “We need to fight very hard to “It wasn’t some masterful scheme ing, but also racked up 95 punt re- nent is the starting point and the the fourth. compete in this conference, and they came up with, it was just basic turn yards, helping him finish with ending point for what we’ve got to Davis piled on a punt return when we forget that, we get beat football that we didn’t deal with,” 158 total yards. do this week.” touchdown in the fourth quarter, like that.” Morris said. On the Bears side of the ball, With the win, the Thunderbirds while the Bears finally got on the In their game before the bye “(We made) some really base, quarterback Ben Kopczynski com- officially clinched a spot in Canada board, when backup quarterback week, it was Michael O’Connor fundamental mistakes that we pleted 15 of 20 passes for 117 West playoffs, while the Bears play Brad Baker scored on a one-yard beating the Bears with his arm, shouldn’t be making at this time of yards, with no touchdowns and their must win game against the touchdown run. The final ended up but it was fifth-year running back year.” two interceptions, before being Bisons on Friday, Oct. 23.

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK WRITTEN BY Jamie Sarkonak Q: How does a cross-country team feel com- actually haven’t seen that movie but I’ve pared to a hockey team? heard the quote enough times. A: My running teams have all been less dys- Q: What’s the funniest thing that’s ever functional than my hockey teams. Maybe it’s happened to you on a run? just because you don’t have to rely on each A: One time I was doing some hill repeats, other as much. Like on a hockey team, people so I was breathing pretty heavily coming up would often just get mad at each other, to the crest of the hill. And so a trail kinda maybe the forwards think the defence are runs sideways on top of it. And so as I came doing a bad job, and the defence just really over a guy was just staring at me, he was want the forwards to back check. Whereas like, ‘I heard you coming and I thought you with cross-country I feel we just do a better were a bear because of all the panting.’ I’ve job of working together — it’s usually a gotten that a couple of times pretty good team atmosphere. With some I get comments about the running shorts Mark Lawley of the team sports, you come together when I use sometimes. Because they’re often Engineering 4 you really need to but in between there’s a pretty short. I’ve had people drive by and Hometown: Fort McMurray lot of bickering sometimes. yell, ‘I can see your ass!’ And I’m just like, Team: Cross-Country Q: Have you ever had someone say to you, ‘Thanks … I don’t think you can.’ I kinda just “Run Forrest, Run”? go with it. At least it’s funnier than ‘Run A: That’s the most annoying thing ever. I Forrest Run.’ christina varvis thegateway www.gtwy.ca Volume 106, Issue 13 sports 19

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Cam Lewis 2015 Toronto Blue Jays fondly, be- who eventually jumped ship and Despite the fact they traded away It’s a game and it editor-in-chief @cooom cause they did a damn good job of went to Boston before being re- the majority of their prospects at bringing baseball back to Canada. placed by John Gibbons again. the trade deadline to bolster their should be fun: With a swing of his bat, Jose Bautis- We were told time and time chances of going on a playoff run, ta reminded Canada just how great The 22-year playoff again that this would be the year. the Jays boast a nice group of both Regardless of what happens, it’s been baseball is. It had been a long, long This free agent signing would young and veteran talent who are a hell of a ride. time since Canadian baseball fans drought is over: push us over the top, this trade under team control for the fore- Even when the team wasn’t doing have had anything to cheer for. In was what we were looking for, or seeable future. well, they provided us with a lot of the early 90s, the Blue Jays were I’ve been watching the Blue Jays this prospect would step up and They managed to acquire Josh ridiculous memories. Kevin Pillar be- at the top of the baseball world. since I was nine years old. Before make it happen — but it never hap- Donaldson and Troy Tulowtzki via came superman and seemed to make They won back-to-back World Se- this year, the only time I had ever pened. Finally, this year, it did. At trade without having to give up a highlight catch every single game. ries Championships in 1992 and experienced them in the play- the beginning of the season, if you arguably their best young pitch- Liam Hendriks, a career minor leaguer 1993, stealing the most American offs was when they won the 1993 had told me I would get to watch er in Marcus Stroman, and they from Australia, came into a game at thing next to apple pie away from World Series as an infant. Unfor- the Blue Jays play in the playoffs, I were able to hang on to both Ro- Fenway Park in Boston and struck out our neighbours to the south and tunately for me, I can’t remember would have taken it in a heartbeat berto Osuna and Aaaron Sanchez, the meat of the Red Sox order with the making it something of our own. those days, so I had to take every- without even thinking because which makes up for the losses of bases loaded to preserve a victory. The Along with the Jays, we also had body’s word for it when they told the concept seemed so farfetched. promoting prospects like Dan day before, they erased an 8-1 deficit to the Montreal Expos and a wealth me the back-to-back World Series The team spent the first half of the Norris and Jeff Hoffman. Besides, the same Red Sox in the second inning of minor league franchises such as teams weren’t just clever propa- season teetering around the .500 the Jays sold the farm in 2013 to win 13-10, giving a hint of what this the Edmonton Trappers, Calgary ganda created to lull me into a mark, finding new, creative ways when they went “all in” the first team was all about. Justin Smoak hit the Cannons, Vancouver Canadians, false sense of reality that the Blue to lose games despite owning the time, and Alex Anthopolous man- first ever grand slam by a Jay in Yankee and Ottawa Lynx as mediums for Jays could actually somehow win a best run differential in baseball. aged to restock the prospect shelf stadium, Marco Estrada almost threw us to enjoy a warm summer night championship. Then, suddenly, at the trade within a matter of two years with a perfect game, and Marcus Stroman with a game of baseball. A lot of things have happened deadline, it all came together. phenomenal scouting through the healed a torn ACL in just a few months After that, though, it all came since the last time this team was They brought in Tulo and Revere draft and the international free to make it back in time for the playoff crashing down. The Expos packed good. To put it in perspective, we to shore up the defence, Price to agent market. Who knows, maybe run.It was great. up and moved to Washington went through a few weeks of Kim push everybody back a spot and Sean Reid-Foley or Connor Greene Over the last few months, I’ve wit- and became the Nationals, and Campbell, a decade of Jean Chre- make the pitching rotation legiti- could be as good, if not better than nessed the birth of a lot of new Jays like dominoes, the minor league tien, a few years of Paul Martin mate, and Mark Lowe and LaTroy Dan Norris was when he worked fans. Sure, you can call them bandwag- franchises closed shop, leaving and then the reign of Stephen Hawkins to transform a dumpster his way through the system. oners, but to me they’re people who nothing but empty stadiums in Harper as our Prime Minister be- fire of a bullpen into one of the best Outside of David Price, nearly have captured why baseball is so great. their rearview mirror. The only tween playoff berths. In baseball in the game. Every single night, it the entire veteran core of this It’s a slow, confusing game with a lot of thing that was left from the glory terms, we saw Roger Clemens, seemed like the Jays were going team will be back next year. Hell, rules where a bunch of really weird, and days of baseball in Canada was the Jose Canseco, Roy Halladay, A.J. to win. We went from watching a Price could still be re-signed, but unpredictable stuff happens. There’s Jays who swung and missed for 22 Burnett, Carlos Delgado, and Ver- team that could sock a few dingers even if he doesn’t, Donaldson, also a lot of breaks where nothing will years straight, never coming close non Wells all come and go without and hopefully out-slug the other Tulo, Encarnacion, Bautista, and happen for a really long period of time, to making the playoffs and ignit- a hint of October baseball. team to the occasional victory to Martin will all be back to form which leaves a lot of room for aimless ing the country like Joe Carter did We went through a revolving watching possibly the most domi- the most potent lineup in baseball conversation, but can also create nail when he took a Mitch Williams door of managers, starting with nant team seen in years. once again next season. Along biting suspense. It’s really hard to en- fastball over the left field porch Cito Gaston, who was followed with them, we’re also watching capsulate while baseball is so great, but in the ninth inning of game six to by Mel Queen, Tim Johnson, Jim They’ll be good again Kevin Pillar, Devon Travis, Ryan if you really want to know, I suggest you win the 1993 World Series. Fregosi, Cookie Rojas, Buck Mar- Goins, and Dalton Pompey bud go back and watch the seventh inning Here we are now. The Jays are tinez (yeah, the guy who does the next season: into solid players. It may seem of game five of the American League in the American league Champi- play-by-play), and John Gibbons like they went all in for a do or die Divisional Series. That’ll pretty much onship Series and it feels like a before Cito rose from the dead for I really don’t think we’re going season, but in reality, this group sum it up. dream. Whatever happens from a couple years. After he finally re- to witness the beginning of anoth- can and should be competitive for If you’re new to all this,stick around here, we should look back on the tired for good, we got John Farrell er 22-year run of futility next year. years to come. next year — it’ll be a good time. thegateway www.gtwy.ca Volume 106, Issue 13 sports 21

Pandas v-ball open season with sweep Seeking Mitch Sorensen in league play.” TRU’s attacks. Keying in on the staff reporter @sonofamitchh Though they were without two Wolfpack’s Iuliia Pakhomenko, the Warehouse Data Entry Clerk starters in Casault and Stroud, Pandas managed to silence the arm employees for a warehouse If you asked Pandas Volleyball their replacements stepped up 6’3” Ukrainian import with solid Head Coach Laurie Eisler what her admirably to fill their shoes. defense and blocking. Though they starting lineup was going to look Kirsten Peters poured in 10.5 managed to grind out a straight- The successful candidates will have excellent warehouse and like at season’s end last year, it points from Casault’s outside spot, sets victory, there was more bad computer experience. Our client is looking for people who have would likely bear no resemblance and Gbemisola Olutogun added news for the Pandas at the end of specific experience with receiving, picking, maintaining inventory to the squad that took the court last an identical figure from Stroud’s the third set. and strong data entry skills. Successful Candidates must be weekend. middle position. With the score at 23-23, first year available various shifts, Sunday to Friday with day (8:00am – With injuries to All-Star outside outside Tessa Hill went down with a 16:00pm) or afternoon (16:00pm – 24:00) shifts. hitter Meg Casault and middle Jess knee injury, forcing Eisler to make Stroud, as well as the departure of “In Canada West, you a triple substitution at a key point middle Dione Lang and right side have to take it a weekend in the match. In the end, the Pan- Interested applicants please send your resumes to Josie Doerfler at the end of last sea- at a time, and the most das managed to close out the set to son, a new-look Pandas roster took the tune of 26-24, and Eisler was [email protected] to the Savile Centre floor. Despite important opponent is quick to credit her squad’s depth this, the Pandas still managed to the one in front of you.” for the win. close out two match wins against “[Our depth] has really been test- the Thompson Rivers University laurie eisler ed this year,” Eisler said. “We’ve pandas volleyball coach Wolfpack. been dealing with a lot of adversity. Friday’s match was a tightly con- We have two great first years, and tested affair that saw Pandas fourth “We’ve got a lot of fight in our it’s great to have the ability to go year outside and first time starter team,” Janssen said, “we’re not go- deeper into the lineup if need be.” Karly Janssen lead her team to a 3-1 ing to give up just because we might The Pandas will get a much- win. The Edmonton native pound- lose a couple points. We don’t have needed bye next week, as their ed 16 kills and added six digs. The to depend on one player, everyone banged-up team will get a chance Pandas edged the Wolfpack in hit- on this team provides something.” to recover. However, Eisler says ting percentage, as well as mini- Saturday’s match saw the their focus is already on their Oct. mizing errors to eke out a win in Pandas settle into their new roles, 30 and 31 meetings with Mount the hotly contested match. as team error counts plummeted Royal University. “We had a really good preseason and the Pandas played much “We just want to win,” Eisler said, and practiced a lot against other tighter volleyball. Outhitting TRU “in Canada West, you just have to teams,” Janssen said. “But coming by a margin of 0.260 to 0.115, take it a weekend at a time, and the into this is a different kind of vol- the Pandas also managed to get most important opponent is the leyball, there’s different pressure their block on many more of one in front of you.”

punishing pandas The Pandas got off to a hot start. mitch sorensen starting strong The Bears started 2-0 this year. mitch sorensen Volley Bears spike Wolfpack, start year 2-0

Mitch Sorensen got a chance to really get into a had the opportunity to play in here staff reporter @sonofamitchh rhythym.” has been nothing but beneficial,” Saturday saw the Bears keep their Walsh said. “It’s really an honour As their 2014-15 CIS Champion- momentum rolling, with a 3-0 win. to have your name up there with ship Banner was unveiled, the Holding Gunter, the former CIS all the great U of A setters from the Bears Volleyball team were looking Player of the Year, to only 13 kills past.” to start another great season at last and Eikeland Rod to only four. That, With the loss of Right Side Kevin weekend’s home opener series in addition to outhitting the Wolf- Proudfoot, Nickifor, as well as fifth Winning Friday and Saturday, pack to the tune of 0.253 to 0.316, year outside Ryley Barnes will be the volley Bears confirmed their ensured a straight-sets victory. expected to shoulder much of the No. 2 CIS ranking with two domi- offensive load for the Bears. Also nant victories over a talented Wolf- expect sophomore outside Alex Mc- pack squad. “Some of the guys who Mullin to see far more court time in On Friday, a back and forth bat- haven’t played many Proudfoot’s absence. For Danyluk, tle saw the offensive combination his players have adapted to the new of TRU’s Brad Gunter and Daniel matches got a chance got roster very well. Eikeland Rod combine for 39 kills. a chance to really get in “I think all good teams need Though no set was decided by more the rhythm.” depth,” Danyluk said, “it gives your than four points, the Bears main- guys a chance to be really pushed in tained a monumental .407 team at- terry danyluk practice. It also makes players ready bears volleyball coach tack percentage. This, in combina- when they get their shot.” tion with TRU’s 4.0 team blocks to With a strong recruiting class the Bears’ 11.0, sealed the victory “A guy like Gunter demands including middle Mason Fairless, for the U of A. more attention, that’s pretty clear,” libero Brandon Zukowski, and left Fourth-year outside hitter Ryan Walsh said. “But they have a bunch side Carter McIntyre, Danyluk said Nickifor led the team with 21 kills, of good players that you have to he hopes his program will be strong as well as a .500 hitting percent- worry about too. At the core of it, for years to come. age. Setter Brett Walsh had another you have to shut everyone down.” “You can see these guys have a re- great performance, as his 52 assists Walsh ran up 38 more assists, ally good head for the game,” Dany- tied him with Bears great and now putting him into sole possession of luk said. “They all have the right at- Assistant Coach Brock Davidiuk for first all time in Golden Bears vol- titude, and we really like all of these most all time in a Bears uniform. leyball. When asked about the re- new guys.” “All in all, I think it was a good cord, Walsh was quick to credit his The Bears will get a bye next week, first step,” Head Coach Terry experience for bringing him to this and will have two weeks to prepare Danyluk said. “Some of the guys point. for their Oct. 30 and 31 matches on who haven’t played many matches “The amount of matches that I’ve the road against Mount Royal. diversions 22 thegateway www.gtwy.ca October 21, 2015

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