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PHOTO CREDIT: SANDRA ELFORD PHOTO- CJh:DJT: GREG WILLIAMS NOVEMBER 19, 2009 WWW.TH EMUSEONLI NE.CA NEWS Memorial elects a new permanent president
Soil scientist takes.. over for Loomis
has published 90 papers in BY CHELSEA HOWARD refereed journals. His editorial experience includes Associate he University Senate met Editor Positions with the Soil T on Nov. 17, along with Science Society of America board members from MUNSU Journal, the Canadian Journal to elect a new president of of Soil Science, the European Memorial University. Journal of Soil Science, and The official announcement Vadose Zone Journal." was made on Nov. 18 in the Board of Regents room. Gary Kachanoski 's accolades Kachanoski will be replacing include a 1997 induction into Christopher Loomis, president the Soil Conservation Canada pro tempore. Hall of Fame. He was also Kachanoski received a president of the Canadian PhD in soil physics from the Society of Soil Science in University of California Davis. 2000. He recently worked at the "He is a Fellow of both the University of Saskatchewan Soil Science Society of America as well as the University of in 1997 and the Canadian Alberta. He is currently the Society of Soil Science in 1999. editor of the Canadian Journal At the University of Guelph of Soil Science. he was also the Coordinator According to his biography of Extension and received on the Canadian Society of Soil a Distinguished Faculty Science's website, "Kachanoski Extension Award in 1992."
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would benefit the university's BY DANAI KUSIKWENYU student by increasing research opportunities and creating and he university took its first refining research prospects T few steps to developing a for students working at research plan that could lead Memorial. Memorial towards becoming a "This new research plan national leader in research. will help us define when and On Nov. 10, Christopher where and how we can develop Loomis, the president and research for the benefit of our vice-chancellor pro tempore, students and the benefit of the . )) launched the new research province. development plan and urged The first stage of the new the university community research plan will see students, to take an active role in the faculty, staff, schools, and developmental process. research centres discussing the This new research plan overall needs and strengths of was the result of a strategic current research at MUN and initiative passed and released how the university can take in Feb. 2007, which cited steps towards improving these research as one of the primary things. keys towards the university's The new plan will also look advancement. at external trends in research MUN hopes this new and opportunities at other research plan will raise the universities across Canada cachet of the university. and compare them to those at The main aim of the plan Memorial. will review research themes Greenwood also added and how they have been and that these findings will be will be developed to suit and discussed inside and outside support the university and the of the university in order to province in an effort to draw implement them for release in global opportunities. next summer. Vice-president of research «After Christmas we will Ray Gosine and vice-president then consult inside and outside academic Reeta Tremblay are the university on what we have both cited as leading this learned from this work, and ask new initiative, as well as the stakeholders to say what they academic deans and directors, think the university should who will al~o be a part of this be doing, and ask faculties, process. schools, and research centres Taking part as well is the to start to contribute to setting former vice-president of goals and objectives." research Kevin Keough and the director of the Harris Centre, For more information on Rob Greenwood. this new plan visit the MUN Rob Greenwood stated that research webpage: http://www. the new research proposal mun. ca/research!plan!.
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The commented in his acceptance International Student Resource given, Aishah Bakhtiar won The ISC President's award service to international speech on the warm welcome Centre (ISC) held its inaugural the Service to the International for exceptional service to students by a non-international he received from international International Student Awards Student Resource Centre the International Students student, group or society award students upon his own arrival Ceremony. award (officially entitled the Resource Centre was awarded went to Adam Kavanagh. to Memorial. The ceremony is designed "Sunshine Award"). to Tendai Nzuma. to recognize the contributions The International Student Award winners commented "Coming here was a big place of international students Committee award for dedication The award for service to on the contributions of for me too, and I guess the people I found the friendliest were a lot of the international students who are in this room now. Most of you guys are my friends. I'm really happy * this worked out the way that A it did a1ld I can have a lot of the experiences I've had now because of international students." Campus Enforcement ancl PattoiNeecls You! Lilly Walker, Dean of Student Affairs and Services at We are.ce>lled:ing toys to <.to nate :to the Salvation Army ... Memorial, also recognized the achievements of all nominees ,, which will be C\isttibuteq to 'less and award winners. the "Contributing is all about giving some of your talents and fortunate children ofout province. your wisdom and your energy and your leadership - and you have all done that in your own Pates fot collections begfn way. " Academic Excellence was November 16 ant! encl Decembet ~18 ~ awarded to Forbad Ahmad. International Student . Dtop boxes.ate locate~ at. .. Leadership Undergraduate Award was given to Rufaro CEP bffice in the Fadtdtties Magemenf. Bbilding, Makamure. The International Student Leadership Graduate Arts and Ac\minfsttation Main Lobby Award went to Suresh Reddy and the People's Choice award ,_ CEP Office on the 2nc1 Floot HSC went to Mohamed Hegazy. The night's top honour, ~~·;j, Fot mote infotmatiot1 call 737-8561 InternationalStudentofthe Year, . . was awarded to Guruchathram Ledchumanan. NOVEMBER 19, 2009 NEWS WWW.THEMUSEONLINE.CA Universities make ideal target for spammers Hacked accounts can send thousands of spam e-mails at a time .. then they'll send out a blast of determine whether thee-mails are BY ASHLEY GABOURY, CUP spam and then they'll never use legitimate or not. CENTRAL BUREAU CHIEF the account again." "Most of the time it turns out WINNIPEG (CUP) -Universities Ken De Cruyenaere, University to be some broken account that's across the world are facing a slew of Manitoba computer security co logged in from Nigeria, usually." of phishing scams, with both ordinator, says phishing attempts De Cruyenaere says that an students and staff falling victim are a daily occurrence at the U of account is shut down once it is to spammers who trick them into M and that, within the past month confirmed that it is spamming. divulging personal information, or so, there have been a few cases Hillman says that when SFU including university web mail user where both staff and students have introduced a new e-mailing names and passwords. replied to phishing emails with system, there was no mechanism Steve Hillman, an information their personal information. in place to restrict the number of technology architect at Simon He says that sometimes within e-mails sent per day. Fraser University, describes minutes the compromised account During this time, a number of e phishing is an attempt to get is logged into and sending spam to mail accounts were compromised persons' online ID and passwords thousands of web mail users. and without restrictions in place, to access their systems and can In order to prevent mass sent enough spam to lead the take on different forms. amounts of university accounts university to being blacklisted. He says that universities are being spammed, university IT According to Hillman, there are often the targets of phishing departments have a number of a number of sites on the Internet operations because they usually measures put in place including that monitor for spam being sent have vast e-mail systems, large spam filters and limits on the out. Ifthese sites detect too much data pipes and little restrictions number of emails an account spam from a particular source, it on outbound mail, and thus can can send out in a certain time is put on a list as an undependable send out thousands of messages period. source of mail. Other email hosts very quickly. "We have spam bulk mail can choose to follow this "blacklist" "Banking [phishing scams] filtering and if something looks and if they receive mail from any go after banking accounts and like bulk mail, we let the first 99 of the listed sites, they can choose passwords ... same with credit get delivered and then we start to reject it. PHOTO CREDIT: }AMES LEARIE cards. With universities in general, blocking it after that," said U of "In one case, we were blacklisted they're just after your e-mail M's De Cruyenaere. from Hotmail which actually set password. account so that they can then use "If it's coming from a University up lots of nasty e-mail loops ... It "Luckily the website didn't your e-mail account to send out of Manitoba account then there took us several days to clean that look like our own centralized According to Hillman, phishing spam," he said. is no blocking. That's why it gets mess up and for a while there were authentication site so it was schemes are so widespread that "They can tailor the message painful if a university account a lot of people not receiving their relatively easy to tell it was a "pretty much every university has to be relatively generic but to the starts spamming the university. It mail," said Hillman. phishing attempt," said Hillman. had to deal with it in one way or )) average student and even staff, it gets sent to potentially thousands He says that since limits on He says that other universities anoth er. looks official enough that they will of U of M IDs instead of just a e-mails sent were put in place, have reported phishing messages < BY SARAH RATCHFORD, "Canadians are ready, but CUP ATLANTIC BUREAU they need new leadership," he CHIEF said. Ignatieff pledged that his party would make Canada the FREDERICTON (CUP)- Liberal "greenest, most energy-efficient leader Michael Ignatieff told a country on the planet." room full of New Brunswick The presentation - being supporters last week that the given by the Liberal leader to new global economy means a room full of Liberal members Canadians need be innovative - had many negative points to to adjust to living in a "new say against the Conservative world." Prime Minister, including The federal Opposition leader the allegation that he believes spoke at the New Brunswick in "nasty politics, not good Liberal Biennial Convention government ... attack ads, and on the evening of Friday, Nov. non-stop politics of spite." 13 in Fredericton. His talk, he Ignatieff also called Harper's described in a serum earlier leadership "half the leadership that day, was aimed at providing at twice the price," and advised alternatives to Prime Minister him to "think again before you Stephen Harper's mode of borrow from your children." a man with clear principles and change in a hurry." with good representation from government. "Canadians deserve better, priorities, but if you look closer the University ofNew Brunswick, Ignatieff triumphantly walked and we will give them better." there isn't a promise he won't Bodechon did express Mount Allison University and through the room full of proud Along with initiatives aimed at break to stay in power." happiness at the turnout for the Saint Thomas University. supporters, all standing and environmental conservation and Youth Commission, however. clapping at his entrance. After job creation, Ignatieff addressed While many proud party He says his goal was to have 25 He said expectations were thanking the audience for their Canadians' education, stressing members showed up at the students come out, and he says exceeded for the event, and that warm welcome, he opened by the importance of "investing in speech, only a handful of youth the number reached twice that "the party is alive !l'and well." saying that in times of"challenge, learning so every new Canadian were spotted in the crowd. change and turmoil, Canadians doesn't have to struggle learning Brett Bodechon, anglophone always turn to [the Liberals]." one of our official languages." riding coordinator and head of The Liberals are also the Ignatieff said the Liberals' the youth commission for the current governing party in New goal is to create a "future of New Brunswick Liberals, said Brunswick. opportunity" with North, that while the weekend went la•Z .. gfwajlll.,.•iaie,....-~~ae,.. The federal leader told the South, urban and rural coming well for the party, he's concerned ..-e ...-,,la ...... lldile•.. it~g,..: crowd that Canadians are living together. about the lack of youth involved through not only a recession, "It will be a fight," he said, in politics today. .Fialrle HI AS • C 11!86• P4ly but a new global economy. He "and you bet I'm ready to fight "Youth are out of touch • .lftetlllly ...... • •• it!S spoke of enhancing the areas it. The country is falling behind, with what's going on," he said, of forestry, fishery and mining and the Liberals)) will not let it be "not only in their country to "bring Canadians through t h.at way. and province but in their " it." He said this "new world" is "What has Harper achieved communities. - ....._. different from the old, requiring in four years?" Ignatieff asked "There's just a lot of youth that I ~aiNiiDfiiiSrDatca us to grow accustomed to it. ~he crowd. "He pretends to be [are] not aware and that needs to NOVEMBER 19, 2009 WWW.THEMUSEONLINE.CA NEWS CASA spearheads 'national' survey Data will only be collected from five provinces, however .. BY LUCY SCHOLEY, THE Educational Policy Institute (EPI), research ethics board had concerns DALHOUSIE GAZETTE based in the United States. EPI with the project including its lack (DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY) will analyze the data and publish of scholarly research, says Henry. it in a report, but the students still She contacted Sharma, who told HALIFAX (CUP) -A national own the data, says Sharma. her EPI would get in contact with survey being conducted this Other student groups have her about her concerns. They month is hoping to generate hard partnered with CASA on never did, according to Henry. data to aid student associations' the initiative, including the The project launched, without lobbying efforts, though its scope Alliance of Nova Scotia Student STUSU. will only reach five provinces. Associations (ANSSA), the "I think it was a really rushed The Canadian Student Survey Ontario Undergraduate Student process and I don't think the is designed and run by student Alliance (OUSA) and the Council decision to fund that was done organizations, and is the first of Alberta University Students very openly or very accountably such project in the country. (CAUS). to members," Henry said. Unlike past confidential reports But although the survey's Sharma says the survey conducted through research website says the project aims «to launched quickly to gather data at groups like the National Survey publish national and institutional a time when students were more of Student Engagement, this level reports," the data will only likely able to participate. project will publicly publish its be obtained from 19 universities "The timeline was a little findings and the students will in five provinces. tight, but, I mean, each one of own the data. CASA is associated with 23 our student associations was «It's filling a void," said Arati student unions across the country, consulted," she says. Sharma, national director of the but 14 of its affiliated schools are But Henry says by the time Canadian Alliance of Student participating. The remaining five Sharma contacted her again, the Associations (CASA). «Canada universities in the study are not decision to launch the project had doesn't do a fantastic job of data CASA members. already been made. collection when it comes to post St. Thomas University's Student "We were consulted on secondary education. I think Union (STUSU) isn't participating whether the STUSU would like there's a real gap in the research because of several concerns to participate, not whether we "The problems they've faced in own students, and also "to have side of post-secondary education surrounding the project. thought CASA should spend student financial assistance and Dal students represented in that and the actual system." Ella Henry, STUSU's vice $3o,ooo on the survey," she says, the problems they face paying national data. We wouldn't want The voluntary survey launched president of education, says she's adding that CASA's budget can't back their debt or the views they to see them left out of reports that Nov. 9 and will remain open for still unclear about the project's cover that amount for a project. have on where money should be were being generated and going to . " three weeks. Members from details since she first heard about When asked about how CASA g01ng. be presented to everyone federally CASA-affiliated student unions, it from the executive director produced the $3o,ooo, Sharma "We want to put weight behind and provincially." plus a few non-CASA members, of the New Brunswick Student said to speak with the association's the advocacy efforts that we're The DSU decided to allocate a are participating. Each school Alliance. treasurer. He didn't respond doing right now," he adds. portion of its ANSSA fees to the must have approval from its "What we would really like is before this article originally went ANSSA is contributing $3,000 survey after it learned about it at respective research ethics board an explanation because it's very to print in Dalhousie Gazette, towards the project. The money an ANSSA retreat last August. in order to participate. The cost frustrating to find out, not from a Canadian University Press will help fund the survey's Dal students each pay $2.50 for each university is roughly CASA, but from conversations newspaper. implementation at the five towards ANSSA, amounting to $1,ooo. On top of those fees, with a different organization Mark Coffin, executive director ANSSA-affiliated universities. roughly $35,000 per year. CASA is putting $3o,ooo. towards that CASA agreed to contribute of ANSSA, says the decision to CASA is funding the remaining The DSU is hosting CASA's the project. this money and then after several partner with the project stems participation costs. Annual General Meeting this The Canadian Education phone calls and e-mails, not from the need to understand Rob LeForte, the Dalhousie week. The STUSU is planning to Project, a new Toronto-based have an answer as to where that issues concerning students as a Student Union's vice-president put forward a motion asking for education research group, is co $3o,ooo came from," she said. whole. education, says the DSU is financial and decision-making initiating the survey. The group The union might have "You hear a lot of anecdotal participating in the project to details about the process leading is a branch of the better-known participated, but the school's evidence from students," he says. uncover information about its up to the survey. Financial constraints leave some students homeless Some students have chosen 'ptirsuing a university education over having a safe place to live' the students chose to live on campus services has had to deal with [the affairs), explained that this creates BY SARAH PETZ, THE in lieu ofother housing arrangements situation] ... They're prepared to deal a huge stress for students in "It's really stressful [when] we're MANITOBAN (UNIVERSITY and why they chose to stop. He did with that though," said Danakas. general, especially for international really trying to help somebody and .. OF MANITOBA) confirm they were both international students. . [they] end up being referred to [ ... ] students. The spokesman said these to the residences," said Morphy. WINNIPEG (CUP)-As apartment situations don't usually become a "They're coming very late into the "[Residences] would actually go as vacancy rates in Winnipeg dropped Tripple said the students had had security issue, unless someone was game and having to quickly scramble far as saying 'Give us some time and below one per cent over the summer, their budgets carefully planned being disruptive in some way. for housing," said Morphy. let us see ifwe can convince a couple some ofthe city's university students out but when tuition at the school "However, officers from security Along with availability, cost and people with single rooms to double have been facing a dire shortage of increased this past fall, they were services are patrolling the campus location become the main factors up," he continued. affordable housing. left short. and if they make contact with that students deal with when looking While feei have increased at the In some extreme cases, students "Both chose pursuing a university someone who looks like they might for housing. school, appfications for bursaries have claimed to be homeless and education over having a safe place to be attempting to remain on campus "When you've got a low vacancy through its financial aid department attempted to live within campus live," said Tripple. for more than a reasonable time, they rate, it's obvious that people then have only gone up one per cent. The buildings at the University of John Danakas, a University would speak with the individual put up the costs of what they have numbers of emergency loan cases Manitoba. of Manitoba spokesperson, said as to what their purpose is on the to offer," said Morphy. are down in numbers. That's just a reality," said Sid Rashid, that cases like these are not very campus," he said. "Apartment costs go up, certainly In terms of student loans, the University of Manitoba Students' common. Residences generally fill up by for people having to rent their homes application process intimidates Union (UMSU) president. "In terms of situations that the beginning of the fall term at the in a tight market because there's some students and taking on debt Mitch Tripple, UMSU's vice might be an issue, beyond someone university, and once on-campus more demand than supply." according to Jane Lastra, director president of student advocacy, said studying and staying overnight ... housing is no longer available In situations where a student of the University of Manitoba's that he has met with two students they are few and far between." students must face the pressure of has been completely unable to financial aid department. who have admitted to being homeless "There have been occasions searching for affordable housing off find affordable housing, the "What I do when I'm counseling that had been living on campus. when individuals with some sort campus. administration has had to stretch students is say your education is an For the sake of confidentiality, of personal issue in their lives have Dave Morphy, the University of the space within residence, but that investment. You have to invest; that Tripple was not able to disclose why been found on campus, and security Manitoba's vice-provost (student space is practically exhausted. is my thing with students." KEL--TECH· Student Saver Program lAS Elf iNC~ 15% off all remanufactur•d Laser &Ink Cartridg•s 100% Guranteed or your money back Savings up to SOo/o of original Pr~uct .... ~------~~~~~~~--~~-~-:o';"":G",.._\1." _'$_~· .~.. ~----~~· ., ..t:: ·::· ·--t!l. •'ll .;Jill' .dlll .. ill • t &I' \WI'II'. .II ... "a .. J.'I'""""·~·~--~~~iSI"'CU··~·-·Il\1l'II'IP~:111~~~~~....,..~~-_"I'.--O-·- .....'-AIA'--·'1111-''II' ....''Il - · _ _,"ll'f.-."JP'P:,·~---~-~ ' NOVEMBER 19, 2009 EDITORIAL WWW.THEMUSEONLINE.CA The end is nigh, and I feel fine Reasons Why 2012 scares me about as much as Web Bot does BYSUSOYER the geomagnetic reversal that would on the Internet and makes predictions. destroy humanity. This theory is not It was created in 1997 by Clif High to ((It's the end ofthe world as we know supported by any scientific evidence. predict stock market trends, but it it and I feel fine." REM sang that The theory was started by Nancy apparently predicts future events as in 1987 but the world is, once again, Lieder, who claims that she was well. coming to an end. To be more precise, contacted by aliens, who implanted a In fact, it even claims to have the world will end on December 12, device in her brain, which they have predicted the 9/11 attacks on the World 2012- at least according to the 5123- been using to communicate with her. Trade Centre. And, according to this year-old Mayan calendar which ends In these communications, the aliens very advanced robot, there will be a on this fateful day. Strangely enough, have warned her about the destruction huge catastrophe in 2012. I feel fine. that's to come in 2012. Personally, none of these theories There are so many doomsday What I would like to know, is why make any sense to me, and I think that theories, it's hard to keep track. would such an advanced race need to the majority ofthe world's population According to one New Age theory, implant a device in an unknown? Plus, will either be out Christmas shopping, PlanetNibiru (also known as Planet X) astronomers say that the collision is not writing finals, or rushing to work will crash into earth in 2012. Another possible since an object this close to -kind of like in 1999. December 12, theory suggests that the Earth will Earth would be visible by now. 2012 will be just another day. Call me a undergo a geomagnetic reversal in 2012 Zecheria Sitchin, an author who cynic, but I don't believe that the world while yet another one talks about an believes that Nibiru is in an elliptical is about to end anytime soon. ominous planetary alignment. orbit in our own solar system, has set So why are we so obsessed with However, scientists have disproved the time for the last passing ofNibiru disasters, and apocalypses - and most ofthese theories. For example, the at 6oo BC. He has also calculated that whatever other doomsday theories still planning on delaying all mycredit none of us really live. By the time the planetary alignment in question is not Nibiru passes the Earth every 3,6oo are out there? What the hell is up with card payments until2012, just in case. future comes, it's too late and we are exclusive to 2012 but takes place over years, which means that its next visit all the end ofthe world movies like The If the world doesn't end, I'll just have lying on our deathbeds. a 36-year period, with a convergence won't be before year 3000. Day After Tomorrow and 2012? to figure out a way to pay back all that having already occurred in 1998. through countless pages of((MUN's doing something. Surely, ignoring sure everything's being handled achievements of students, faculty, fter reading the past couple awesome; we never do anything the facts can't be a step in the right appropriately? and alumni at Memorial. I think issues ofthe Gazette, Memorial A wrong!" I found something that direction. all of the research grants and University's official publication, I Worst of all, in that same issue caught my eye. awards are wonderful, and that came to one disturbing conclusion: Not only is MUN promoting they omit facts surrounding they promote a positive image for It's a sha.meless self-promotion It was a well-written, informative itself superfluously, but they're student enrolment and retention. the university. Memorial needs mechanism that ignores and omits article written by a student that was also misrepresenting the realities In the article, "Memorial enrolment something like the Gazette to facts on important issues, while aptly titled ((Promoting yourself" of serious issues. In Volume 42, figures climbing," the Gazette said celebrate its successes. But, when rarely ever reporting anything that practically jumped off the Number 5 published on Nov. 5, the that ((Memorial University has seen there isn't a balance between that might potentially portray the page. Although probably naively Gazette claimed that the university a strong increase in its enrolment positives an'd negatives - university in a negative light. unintentional, the student summed is ((managing through H1N1 this year ... [of] first-year students Its purpose appears to be to up the purpose of the paper in two pandemic." While yes, there are no (+2.6 per cent)." when the truth is ignored - create an imaginary world - a simple words, and publicly revealed known deaths among Memorial the reader of a publication is carefree, joyous land of happiness, their not-so-secret method of University students, a questionable While that is true, it failed to raise misinformed. success and perfection - where writing news. policy was enacted to ((protect" another startling counterargument: Only reporting what the nobody and nothing goes wrong; In that particular issue, those affected (and potentially Memorial University's alarming administration believes to be the sports teams never lose, and the MUNdays was reported as being affected) by the H1N1 virus. drop-out rate past the first year. The right, without accounting for the university's administration doesn't a ((highly anticipated" event. Anyone with a pea for a brain percentage of full-time, first-year overall opinion of the university, ever make any mistakes. Contrary to the university's beliefs, knows how to click a button online students enrolled in Fal12007 who is unhealthy. It is hypocritical of One problem there, though, there are arguably a high number and claim they've got H1N1, with returned to university the following the university to expect students Gazette - things do go wrong, and ofstudents who honestly don't care the result being no questions asked, year was So per cent. While one to challenge their own conceptual often. Thing is, when they do and about MUNdays - or MUN at all, and a deference - or with some fifth of students at Memorial drop frameworks ifthe university won't the Gazette decides that it's not for that matter. profs, an exemption - out after their first year, Queen's even question itself. in the university's best interest, Instead of brainwashing people from work or exams. University has a comparable The Gazette needs to communicate students, alumni, and faculty are with one-sided statements about What a great way to suck on the retention rate of95 per cent - losing both successes and failures to the painfully uninformed. Or they're how much people are interested tit of the system while honest, hard only one in twenty students. university community; otherwise, now sceptical to the point that in hermetically-sealed, forced working folk get no such luck. I This significant figure is all we're left with is something we they're not willing to read such celebrations such as MUNdays, guess doctors' notes are unpractical indicative ofnot only students' lack can't trust, a misrepresentation of quasi-propaganda. how about actually interviewing these days, so it should be just fine of preparation for post-secondary our university. Through this lack My tolerance for this reached a or surveying students on what they to place our endless trust within study, but also of the university's of trust, one begins to lose faith in breaking point when I found myself think? policymakers' decisions. Why inability to accommodate the need! the legitimacy of our university. in awe while reading Volume 42, The only way to improve school hasn't the Gazette - or, rather, of struggling students. And trust isn't something easily Number 4 ofthe Gazette published spirit and diminish student apathy MUN administration itself- asked Now don't get me wrong, I'm not earned back. on Oct. 15, 2009. 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Fuck shit up on a go forward basis. NOVEMBER 19, 2009 WWW.THEMUSEONLINE.CA OPINION No need to be cash-strapped this Christmas Mau111 diversifying your income around this time of year, too. Sell some OFF things that you no longer need now, or once again, if you have 8Y JAMES LEARI£ AND KEN a hobby or activity that can MACLEOD provide some extra income, put it to use. Try not to think of it What do' you think about as work because it's something you like. MUNSU's alleged poor Many stores are looking for spending habits? extra hands around this time PENNEY-WISE of year and are pretty flexible BY LESLIE PENNEY because they need the help. It may also lead to an opportunity to continue with the job after the e're creeping towards holidays are over. W December and everybody When it comes to your shopping has two things on their mind: habits, plan who you'll be buying Studying for final exams, and gifts for and how much you'll be Christmas holidays. spending on each person, and Second-year physics Christmas holidays mean make sure you stick to it. Christmas expenses like gifts, And, if at all possible, try not I think it's an inappropriate use of and party favours (and by party to make your purchases on your student's money. Its great that they favours I really mean a whole lot credit card unless you know you are doing concerts and stuff like of eating and drinking). can pay it off. There's nothing that but I think they need to do There's a good chance your worse than paying for your more market research to find out funds are running low and all holiday spending in July of the if they're going to get the money these expenses will cut into following year. back that they put into it. what little you have left. There's Avoid making impulse nothing worse than being cash in order to come out on top of your friends. purchases and, if you make any strapped at this time of the your class and save a few bucks This is usually cheaper than online purchases, make sure year. for more important stuff. buying gifts at the mall and that you know the exact cost for This week we'll look at a few Also, try to avoid randomly most people tend to appreciate it to reach your door; shipping things related to being broke going into stores. Don't go in it more. So think about what you charges often negate the savings around the holidays and a few unless you have to go in (i.e. can come up for this (hey, I can't of buying the product online. things to apply when you're grocery stores) and avoid going do all the work here). Finally, take a deep breath and experiencing the financial into stores that have things Another thing to try is to stay evaluate the next few weeks of the bust. that interest you. It's not safe to home over the next weekend or semester. Important exams and One thing to contemplate, send a man into Futureshop or two and save some money. Plan papers are in the near future so which ties in well with last Sportchek. Trust me. a weekend where you don't have try not to let finances cloud your week's column, is to eliminate The hardest part is when you to spend any money at all - I thinking and affect your work. your cable. are Christmas shopping for mean absolutely nothing. You just have to pace yourself and This may be easier said than others. A bonus to this is that it will your pocketbook. done. Look at it this way: The It's hard to curb your desire to bring out some creativity in you Only you know your finances, next six to eight weeks you will purchase things for yourself when as to what to do with your time, school, and extra-curricular be doing a lot of studying and you're shopping for someone unless you're going to study; activities, and ultimately you're writing papers, arid many of who's just like you. that's not creative, however, with the one who has to balance it you will be going home for the So, instead of going out to finals looming it is a great idea. all. holidays. So when you think the mall to buy gifts, why not Or just pick one weekend a about it, how much television improvise and come up with month to do nothing and save Penney-wise is a weekly column. will you really be watching over something creative? If you have your money. You'd be surprised E-mail your financial questions the next month or so? Maybe it's a hobby or a special interest, see at how much money you'll save. and column ideas to Leslie at one of those things you must do if you can whip something up for Maybe you can think about lpenney@mortgagealliance. Second-year general studies Sexy etymology I havent heard much on the topic but from what I heard it hasn't been the best. I haven't heard any ~.~ positive feedback about it -"' ,....--- ~ ,. .}.I... . Donatien Alphonse Fran<;ois, better known as the Marquis de Sade, was a wealthy member of the French aristocracy, a group whose decadence was best known for fomenting the monarchy-ending Revolution. SEX 2.0 His scandalous life was one of BY NATHAN DOWNEY sexual libertarianism and excess. Unfortunately, it was also one I haven't heard a lot about it, but checkered with sexual violence, the things I did hear it isn't eing a sex columnist gives me poisonings, and other deviances good, so I can't say mucll Ba rare opportunity to combine that ultimately resulted in his 1alliDut it b~ause I don't really two loves of mine: Talking about incarceration in some of France's ~.,.,,.. ... about it · sex, and words. Specifically those infamous institutions, including I scribble week after week for the the Bastille and Charenton. paper. I'm almost ashamed to De Sade was also a prolific admit that, in a geekier period of writer. His novels juliette and months. It took the Marquis de 18oos, describing their modern my life, it was a fond pastime of justine, lengthy missals outlining Sade only 13 days to write. Yeah, signifiers. Only time will tell mine to leaf through the Oxford unspeakable acts of sexual cruelty, that's where his head was. what terms our day and age will English Dictionary and look at the enraged Napoleon. Though they spawn. historical origins of words, their were published anonymously, Ancient Greece produced a etymologies. de Sade was imprisoned without poet, Sappho, who gave birth to I'm personally predicting Before you flip past this trial for authoring them. His the terms "lesbian" and "Sapphic." «Kanyewestish" will refer to rambling introduction (I mean, I masterpiece though, was a novel Sappho inhabited the Greek island a penis so small it requires an haven't said "cock" even once) I'd entitled The 120 Days of Sodom, ofLesbos, off northeastern Turkey. enormous ego to compensate for it. CCNLJntern like to raise the temperature a bit: never published until the early While her poems contained few, if "Coulterific" will obviously refer Some of the words we use to define 2oth century. any, overt references to modern to a dirty look of such magnitude it the Snoop Dogg concert, aspects of sexuality have, beyond It's an epic sexual odyssey, day lesbianism (remember, in induces permanent impotency. whatever stuff happens, they tried their titillating meanings, truly detailing the quest of four Sappho's day, Lesbians were her Whatever happens, the and students didn't go, its not the fascinating histories. libertines to experience the neighbours), they do contain rich wonderful world of words will first time its happened I'm sure. Let's start with one of the most ultimate sexual experiences. This description oflove and passion for move ever forward, giving sex With the bottomless bar tab, that's obvious: Sadism. sex-fest results in the torture, both genders. columnists several millennia in .what I hear corrUption runs "Sadism" refers to the (hopefully) and eventually, the murder, of 46 The noun "lesbian" and adjective the future interesting historical hereatMUN. consensual act of inflicting pain, victims over the course of four "Sapphic" first appeared in the facts to spout for themselves. NOVEMBER 19, 2009 WWW.TH EMUS EON Ll NE.CA NOVEMBER 19, 2009 WWW.THEMUSEONLINE.CA FEATURE 8W • immediate effect that MUN is BY JAMES MCDONALD somehow separate from the rest of St. John's and the province - ccording to the 2009 which are green and embrace A Maclean's university ranking,. nature. Memorial University is in the fifth spot for comprehensive studies, The campus has tremendous suggesting that the St. John's potential for developing natural based school of over 18,ooo environments and up-to-date students is providing a worthwhile architecture. The central parking education. It is known nationwide lot between the University Centre as a competitor in the arts, · and the Inco Innovation Centre, engineering, and medical fields, for exatnple, could easily be among others, and its activism turned into a manicured field groups and nne arts communities with benches, flora, and a gazebo) are unmatched. fit for summer studying and Why, then, do we have a fall concerts. The functionless) makeshift parking lot made of wood-paneled classrooms laden dirt? throughout the campus could be The website for Project transformed for the new decade Kaleidoscope~ a group dedicated with simple changes: Modern to improving the overall university seating, fresh coats of paint, and experience for undergraduate some TLC. And the exteriQrS students says "the aesthetic could be refinished to give visu.als character of...campuses plays an that all facuf:ties could appreciate important role in establishing (see the King George V building and cultivating the cultural on the East end of \1\later Street cllaracter ~f out institutions)c" for a great example). and any stnelent will know tHat Without much green space ot this statement is true. reason to be excited about many Students and faculty alike know places on campus~ students that Memorial is an accompli~hed flock to the Universit) Centre instifutian~ but that 1t~"S not ~ downtown St~ Jnhn's, or tlit visually pleas1 ng one. F~m the Avalon MaH rust togetawaytrom dat d henli>Stry and Educatwn the umeFouss rkexteri sand to th d ...... ~~, ...... ~ .,~· de ay1ng Intenors l\ h tu NOVEMBER 19, 2009 ARTS & CULTURE WWW.THEMUSEONLINE.CA MusicNL Conference and Gala big opportunity for local artists Weekend of Music and networking strikes the perfect chord BY RYAN BELBIN music management. what Power calls, "A corporate With the support of the machine that pumps garbage out round 200 local musicians departments of Tourism, the airways," these performers A and record industry Culture, and Recreation as proved that real songs are still professionals converged in St. well as Innovation, Trade, and at the heart of Newfoundland's John's last weekend for the 2009 Rural Development, this year's music industry. MusicNL Awards Gala, where conference marks the first time On Sunday evening, the newcomers The Once emerged as such international networking accomplishments of MusicNL the big winners of the night. opportunities were made members during the past year Since its inception in 1992, the available. were recognized at the 2009 Music Industry Association of Denis Parker, Executive Awards Gala. Held at the Arts Newfoundland and Labrador Director of MusicNL, and no and Culture Centre, the event (MusicNL) has been a key stranger to the provincial music included performances by host non-profit organization in the scene, was impressed with the way Phil Churchill's group The Once, province, providing funding for things unfolded. He recognized Shanneyganock, Chris Kirby, demos, tours, and recordings, as the tremendous opportunities Terry Penney, Dr. Zoo, Karla well as educational opportunities for artists to further their careers Pilgrim, The Monday Nights, for a diverse group of artists. at home and abroad. Kujo, Stone Rogues, Mike The annual MusicNL "It's been a marvellous McDonald, Amanda Squires, Conference and Awards Gala, weekend," he said as the crowded Jerry Stamp, and Colleen Power, held this year from Nov. 13 to 15 hotel bar resonated with the as well as an awards ceremony at the Delta Hotel, included panel sounds of some of the best for all genres of music and discussions targeted at emerging musical acts this province has for service to the local music musicians, networking and, like to offer all around him. industry. a true Newfoundland party, it The doors opened to the St. John's folk band The Once PHOTO CREDIT: FARAD CHOWDHURY had plenty of great music. public on Sunday, with the walked away with the rising star Mickey Quinn's came alive last CBC/MusicNL Songwriter's accolade, album of the year for Karla Pilgrim won two of year title, closing the evening Friday and Saturday evening, Circle. With just acoustic guitars their self-titled debut, folk/roots the awards she was nominated with an energetic rendition of with showcases by over 20 and a single mandolin, singer group of the year, and group of for, Female Artist of the Year "Way Over Yonder In The Minor artists, in styles ranging from songwriters Kalem Mahoney, the year. Visibly humbled by and Country Artist of the Year. Key. " Celtic to rock and everything Colleen Power, Mike McDonald, the recognition, the trio also Curtis Andrews was recognized "What a place to be a musician, imaginable in between. It was an Sherman Downey, Jerry Stamp, performed their heartbreaking as the male artist of the year, as living and working," said Andrew opportunity for these musicians Karla Pilgrim, Terry Penney, song, "Three Fishers" from their well as the instrumental artist Dale of The Once upon accepting to share and inspire their peers, and Gary French entertained the award-winning CD. of the year. SOCAN songwriter the band's fourth award. If this but also to turn the heads of audience by sharing the sincere, With a career spanning over of the year was country artist weekend is any indication, the provincial industry leaders and touching, and frequently funny four decades, Newfoundland Terry Penney for "The Town music industry of Newfoundland a dozen delegates from Ireland, stories behind their songs. rock and roll pioneers the Ducats That Time Forgot," while folk and Labrador is very much alive representing media leaders, Despite the business side of were honoured with a lifetime rockers Shanneyganock earned 3:nd ready to take on the world, music festival organizers, and the music industry becoming achievement award. the coveted entertainer of the one song at a time. Top Five Songs for the end of the wofld Essential playlist for the apocalypse as the Artist Formerly Known many crimes against sexual you spend pondering over lost BY GURUCH ATHRAM as Prince. The Purple one is a convention. This ultra-funky love and regret, tell them you LEDCHUMANAN That's great, it starts with bona fide musical genius, with a piece of tail has inspired thought they'd love you till the an earthquake. Definitely one seemingly endless capacity for everyone to Marilyn Manson end of the world but lied. ow that the 2012 movie is of the most ambitious titles in playing 16 musical instruments. to TV On The Radio and N out and it's pretty certain pop music history, the ultra Everyone from Lady Gaga to features a sexy funk riff that that we have about a couple influential Georgia-based MGMT wishes they could sell pretty much single-handedly 1. "The End" by The Doors. of years left on this rock, the band pretty much created the their kidneys for a quarter of gave birth to the Red Hot Chili Muse has compiled the ever mould for introspective, jangly this tiny man's musical ability Peppers. This is it, for when the angels important playlist for your songwriters and their cohorts and boot collection. of death rain sulfur down upon end of the world party; enjoy since the mid '8os. Plus, its us from the heavens and the yourself while you can. If you great sing-along chorus and 2. "Until T he End of the gates of Hell open up to invite disagree with this list, try to danceable riffs guarantee a 3· "Let's Dance" by David World" by U2 us, the damned and the non get in your complaints before good time. Bowie baptized wretches of humanity, the asteroids hit and the four If any of you are feeling nothing fits the bill like a 10- horsemen pass your house. 4· "1999" by Prince The Thin White Duke will particularly Catholic or minute elegy to sanity. Hope be safe during the apocalypse remorseful of past sins, there's you had a good ride; the end 5· "It's The End of The World No end of the world party for he is not of this Earth. He nothing like the Irish to make is only the beginning. See you As We Know It and I Feel would be complete without must be some alien dropped you feel guilty. For those quiet, on the other side. Fine" by R.E.M. the Artist Formerly Known to our planet in exile for his introspective moments that Perfect for back to school. GET UNUMITED TALK AND TEXT New location in TO 10 FRIENDS WITH A FAB TEN CHURCHILL SQUARE STUDENT PLAN wWw.easyconnectcommunications.ca NOVEMBER 19, 2009 WWW.THEMUSEONLINE.CA ARTS & CULTURE etin t his week we're off to see the Satire on war and peace as practiced by America and Britain Twizard, the wonderful wizard of animated podcasts, and believe it or not, the wizard's name is Karl interview, clearly out of his Pilkington. If you've had the joy depth and diving into panic. of already meeting Karl you must know his best buds Ricky Gervais The background for this comic and Steve Merchant have been drama is, of course, the Tony creating downloadable podcasts Blair government and Blair's that are filled to the brim with sidekick whisperer Alastair hilariousness. Campbell, his press secretary When they're not busy doing and wily manipulator. Played podcasts with Karl, they can be with acerbic precision by Peter found writing and starri~g in hit CINEMA SERIES Capaldi, the role is menacing TV shows like The Office and BY MILDRED PIERCE and delicious. Extras. The word on the street As critics have pointed out, In is that these podcasts are about hy this stunning satire the Loop is not so much about to wind up in a HBO animated W never made it into wider a moment in history as it is series, but once again the Internet circulation beats me. Anyhow, about the recurring politics of is one step ahead and already has you can catch it at the next power, as alive in 2009 as they animated videos. MUN Cinema series screening were in 2003. The title indicates and it's well-worth getting the film's emphasis on how KARL'S TOENAILS excited about. In The Loop is information gets circulated, a brilliant satire starring some how rumours get started, and Tags: karl pilkington ricky of our favourite Brits and how they're fanned. Also how, gervais stephen merchant karl's American actors. It's directed ultimately, wars develop out of toenails testicles by Armando Iannucci and is a gossip, paranoia, and the petty http://www.youtube.com/ fitting and timely antidote to all personal politics of human watch?v=ohAoYLmbS8I the debates about war and what interaction. Big catastrophes it's good for. grow out of small-mindedness. ;. I think I love Karl best when he Absolutely nothing is the The inmates are not only explains his ideals of the world answer, of course, but In the running the asylum, they are and how things ought to be. In this Loop takes us deep into the responsible for everything. particular video we get to see one corridors of power where The plot is as thick as a of Karl's many utopian dreams. decisions about whether or not government document, but This time he's looking to improve to go to war in the first place what's really important is the the human body and discussing were generated. The glaringly banter and wit in the dialogue. with his famous friends topics like competent British minister In a world where no one is to should the testicles have a rib cage of international development be trusted, the use of language surrounding them or would they Simon Foster (Tom Hollander) is critical. The film is, in other be better off located somewhere tells the BBC, "War is words, about spin and the else? Check this one out for the unforeseeable." doctors that provide the juice. surprisingly unconventional This incomprehensible A special bonus is James responses. observation starts ·a cataclysm Gandolfini (The Sopranos) as of mutterings and speculation. a U.S. general with bulk and ANIMATED MONKEY NEWS! Foster says this in a heated bravado. Indeed, the full UK climate of anxiety about and U.S. cast is superb, riffing Tags: Ricky Gervais Karl whether or not the UK should lines off each other with the In the Loop is first-rate Pilkington Steve Merchant invade some vaguely identified timing -of a Swiss watch. The entertainment, a highly In the Loop plays Thursday, Monkey News Funny country in the Middle East. lines zing by with hilarious enjoyable film about a rather November 191h, at Empire Studio http://www.youtube.com/ Having put his foot in it, the results. This is a thinking grim reality. Never has so much 12 in the Avalon Mall. Tickets watch?v=cpmdAnOCUN4 minister only escalates the person's satire, about as smart made been made of such little go on sale at 6:00pm, showtime crisis when he does another and sharp as a razor blade. characters. is 7:00pm. Monkey News is a popular segment from the podcasts where Karl would tell a highly imaginative and completely unbelievable story involving a monkey, or more often than not, a chimp. Here we have one of many of these stories. This one involves a chimp working away, building buildings for a construction company and one of the workers is getting wise to the fact that one of them is not like the other. By the end of this we even get to understand the "true" meaninj of a rather old saying. KARL PILKINGTON -A TRUE BATHROOM STORY Tags: Karl Pilkington Ricky Gervais Stephen Merchant http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v-BGYixOYTmj4 Beautiful illustrations and a , comic book style speech balloons grace our presence in this video for the retelling of a story from Karl Pilkington's childhood. We are able to see little Karl getting into a fight in the school bathroom when he was just seven years old. Unlike the other two YouTube picks, this one does not have any ofthe audio clips from the original podcast, but it's still perfect, maybe even more desirable after hearing the story from the monkey's mouth first. Madam Internet's YouTube Picks of the Week is a weekly column. Sendyour suggestions to [email protected] om. NOVEMBER 19, 2009 ARTS & CULTURE WWW.TH EMUSEON Ll NE.CA Chicl destruction through sheer luck. only the elites of society could 2012 After piecing together a series even consider buying them. Starring john Cusack, Chiwetel of clues about the impending Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Oliver fate of the world, including an This selection method does re Platt, Thandie Newton, Danny encounter with a wonderfully occur as a topic of discussion and Glover, and Woody Harrelson realized radio DJ and conspiracy anxiety throughout the film. The Sony theorist (Harrelson) Jackson is main concern it raises is, how do 158 mins forced to reconcile with his ex you choose who lives and who Rated PG wife, her new husband, and his dies? Do you draw names out of estranged children in an effort a hat or do you allow a laissez BY DANITA BURKE to save his family. faire system of competition? The film does have some 012 brings a science fiction and The characters' personal negative points. It is shot with 2 conspiracy twist to the end emotions and struggles are well differing camera styles that are of-the-world movie genre and fleshed out, such as Adrian distracting at times. No one style breathes new life into it while Helmsley (Ejiofor), an American is used consistently throughout movies like I Am Legend and The scientist whose friend from India the movie. This is especially Day After Tomorrow have played warns him of the strange and distracting when the camera up the doomsday theme. destructive changes occurring in style changes despite the lack With great graphics, the Earth's core. After notifying, a change in scene. The Mayan compelling performances, studying, and monitoring the folklore that the movie is based and the integration of ancient situation on behalf of the United upon is referenced, but not legends, 2012 is an excellent States government, he is forced explained in much detail. action movie. It focuses on the to choose between potentially Overall, this was an excellent Mayan calendar which stops saving his father and betraying movie that had some laughs to at 2012. It also follows the lives his country's national security. lighten the sombre theme. Well of many different characters The movie highlights the balanced, with a strong cast and leading up to the destruction of capitalist nature of our society. plenty of action, 2012 is a movie the earth. The method of selection for that will make you think, now Struggling novelist and father survivors is primarily through that the end is near. Jackson Curtis (Cusack) stumbles first come, first serve ticket upon the truth of the world's purchasing at a price so high that 3.S out of 4 stars Arrr you ready for rock n' roll radio? Renegade DJs rock the boat in Pirate Radio. delivered to them each week. testament to the strong acting Pirate Radio The DJs are artists, delivering throughout. Starring Rhys I fans, Philip Seymour monologues that are inspiring and A film about rock music would be Hoffman, Nick Frost, Bill Nighy, and uplifting, while glorifying rock nothing if the music weren't superb. Kenneth Branagh music. The character of each DJ is At times, the-movie plays out like Alliance wonderfully defined, such as The a series of vignettes, with '6os rock 129mins Count (Hoffman), who believes music playing throughout. If you're Rated14A that dropping F-Bombs on-air is a fan of The Who, Hendrix, or The liberating, or Dave (Frost, from "Hot Rolling Stones, you'll like this film a BY ALEX MUGFORD Fuzz"), an unlikely candidate for the little more. ladies' man. When things get sticky, the DJs rate Radio is a rock and roll fairy Everyday boat life is juxtaposed fight with vigor and you feel the fight Rtale. In the '6os, rock music only with the government minister trying build within them. Like Mel Gibson's got 45 minutes of play on the BBC to take Radio Rock off the air; he's inspirational speech in Braveheart, per day. A group ofrogue DJs intends a person you'll soon learn to hate the Count offers the same type of to save rock and roll by setting up not just for his attempts at ruining speech where you feel like standing "Radio Rock," a rusty fishing trawler something good, but for taking the up and cheering; it's one of the best in the waters offthe coast ofEngland screen time away from the brilliant scenes in the film. to broadcast rock music 24/7. characters on the boat. Some of the This film is extremely fun to However, the government thinks more memorable scenes are when watch. Pirate Radio is one ofthe best rock is the Devil's music and only for the virginal Carl tries to woo a young movies of the year. I hope it does not junkies and troublemakers. Luckily, girl or simply the highly entertaining get buried by other gargantuan titles they aren't technically breaking banter between the DJs when they're which are currently in theatres. It's the law, so they send government not on-air, which is the beating heart destred to become a cult classic. It's minister Dormandy (Branagh) to ofthe film. one of those movies that defines a find some sort ofloophole in the law Curtis, with many characters and one After being expelled from school, his You'll learn to love the characters in period in history and encapsulates so they can strap a pair of concrete overall plot that encompasses them mother hopes that he will learn some record time. They'll either make you that feeling we all get when we crank boots to Radio Rock. all. The film's introduction has Carl morals from his time on the boat, smile from their cuteness or laugh up the tunes. For those about to rock The film takes the same approach (Sturridge), an 18-year-old kid that is which is a hilariously spectacular out loud with their ridiculousness. the boat, we salute you. as Love Actually, one of the last brought to the boat to be placed in the mistake. 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It Rock his most candid), the band is Unfortunately, it doesn't even may be injected with pop rock self-described as the Tom Cruise seem like Bon J ovi is trying steroids, but Richie Sambora BY RYAN BELBIN of the music business. The boys to prove themselves anymore, still knows how to play guitar from New Jersey are pretty much instead releasing an album and Jon Bon Jovi's pipes are on Jovi's eleventh studio the band every.one loves to hate, that has catchy hooks but little still capable of delivering a huge Brelease, The Circle, is not a even though the Lost Highway lasting impression. chorus. full-circle return to their earlier tour was 2oo8's biggest draw for Although few songs stand out, The Circle is not Bon Jovi's glam metal sounds, but it is not concertgoers. "When We Were Beautiful" and most memorable album, nor a reissuing of Crush or Lost What has made Bon J ovi such "Learn to Love" are Bon Jovi's it is a reinvention of the band, Highway either. 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' "I \..._ J Editor's note: We.foun.d this comic by a mie:rowave in the UC.Tfxou drew it, we're ~b begging you to ct..une and drawfor us. "'' n~ed you, and you rule. BY MARK GALWAY NOVEMBER 19, 2009 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY WWW.THEMUSEONLINE.CA Oil and Ice tour rocks MUN Journalists teaq1 up to share insights on the Arctic and Alberta's tar sands the Arctic throughout history. BY JONATHAN COMEAU Struzik suggested we are not triking photographs and simply experiencing a natural Sstartling stats dominated the warming trend similar to those lecture theatre Thursday night as in the past, but that, "We are the two renowned Canadian authors, main drivers, ofthe warming taking Ed Struzik and Andrew Nikiforuk, pace.l visited MUN as part oftheir cross He says melting of all current country speaking tour, Oil and sea ice would increase sea levels Ice. by 70 metres. Even a fraction of The tour is sponsored by WWF this increase would result in the Canada, and will touch down in displacement of countless people 10 cities across the country this and animals, destroying habitats month. forever. Struzik took to the podium first Before turning over the floor to after a brief introduction by One his colleague, Struzik suggested we Ocean Executive Officer, Gordon identify more biologically relevant Slade. areas in the Arctic to protect from The award-winning author and future disasters. photographer described the nature "We need to invest in science," ofthe arctic landscape through his he said. "The Arctic is not easily stunning photographs of ice fields, understood." polynyas, river deltas, wildlife, and Contributing to a warmer Arctic native peoples. is our use of hydrocarbon energy Canadian journalist and author, Andrew Nikiforuk, addresses questions from the audience following his lecture at Struzik's photos portrayed a sources, which was addressed MUN. beautifully isolated and unspoiled in the second half of the lecture. PHOTO CREDIT: JONATHAN COMEAU locale-characteristics he warned Nikiforuk transported the captive per cent more emissions are released "We're stuck in the sand and we may soon be lost when future audience from the Arctic to the Norway saved over $330-billion to produce oil from bitumen than don't need to be there." technologies successfully harvest "magic sand pile" known as the by putting away 90 per cent of its from light oil." He also added, "It natural gas reserves frozen in the Alberta tar sands. oil revenues in a pension fund. takes 12 barrels of water to produce Ed Struzik is an eight-time arctic ice. These natural reserves consist of Unfortunately, Nikiforuk indicates, one barrel of bitumen." Much of winner of the Science in Society The face of the Arctic has a mixture of sand or clay, water, Canada has yet to adopt such a this water ends up in tailings ponds Award and author of several arctic continued to change in recent and bitumen-a highly viscous model. He also argues that over along with carcinogenic waste from themed books, including his latest decades. Signs ofcurrent warming hydrocarbon mixture. 18,ooo refinery jobs are exported the extraction process. endeavour, The Big Thaw. trends are hard to ignore: melting Bitumen must be upgraded to to the U.S. when Canada could be Andrew Nikiforuk has won glaciers, disappearing sea ice, and crude oil before becoming a useful refining its own bitumen. Nikiforuk warned that the seven National Magazine Awards thawing permafrost. However, energy source, and also requires Environmental issues abound in market for the Alberta's tar sands and a Governor General's Award preserved tree trunks on Axel refining for transportation by extracting heavy oil from the tar could collapse as new technologies for Non-Fiction in 2002. His latest Heiberg Island, Nunavut, and pipeline. sands. are developed in the near future. book, Tar Sands, takes a hard look at fossils of beavers, black bears, and ((The era ofcheap oil is over," said "It's an Earth-destroying The timeline is uncertain, but the the impacts of exploiting Alberta's badgers, paint a warmer picture of Nikiforuk. business," said Nikiforuk. "Over 200 possibility of such a collapse is real. dirty oil. Stripped-down science: Making that quantum leap It's not rocket science; it's quantum mechanics MAINTAINING EQUiliBRIUM assumption in 1900 that the energy the electron does it adopt a specific teleportation (unfortunately, on here. BY DR. JON of light emitted from particular location. This idea challenges our not in the Star Trek sense), and Feynman most certainly objects could only occur in a view of reality. the pinnacle of cryptographic understood QM, but gets to the he great physicist, educator, discrete fashion. Because there isn't some schemes. heart of the matter during one Tand bongo player, Richard He made this assumption to underlying property to The great thing about QM is that of his lectures at MIT: "Do not Feynman, once said, "I think I can fit experimental data, and wasn't measure-just a combination you can delve into its philosophical keep saying to yourself, if you can safely say that nobody understands aware at the time of its far-reaching of all possibilities-it's hard to implications without getting hung possibly avoid it, 'But how can it quantum mechanics." consequences. Five years later, get your head around. On top up on the math. You don't need to be be like that?' Nobody knows how And this is coming from one of Albert Einstein hypothesized that .of that, Heisenberg's famous a quantum physicist to appreciate it can be like that." the great thinkers of the twentieth light itself was quantized. That is, uncertainty principle says that for that something different is going century, not to mention Nobel light was made up of individual certain pairs of properties, like Prize winner for an extension of packets of energy called photons, position and momentum, we can't the theory. He might be right, and not just waves as previously simultaneously measure both with but I'll still try and sum up over thought. In addition to light, high precision. a hundred years of work in a few scientists would come to view all That's QM in a nutshell. It's a hundred words. matter as having wave and particle mathematically intensive theory, Quantum mechanics (QM) arose characteristics. That means you and but the real fun comes in the to explain observations that just I have a characteristic wavelength form of gedanken, or thought didn't jive with Newton's classical ourselves; it just turns out to be experiments. Consider the curious physics, which provides detailed extremely small (~1o - 37 m). This case of Schrodinger's cat. descriptions of such things as wave-particle duality, as it is known, Imagine a cat in a box that forces, acceleration, and motion is one of the cornerstones of QM. contains a radioactive substance of objects. In 1927, the Schrodinger equation within a special device. If just a Calculating a baseball's was born. In a sense, solving this single radioactive atom decays maximum height and total distance equation leads to a description ofthe within the device then a hammer is travelled after a good heave falls universe. It takes a wavefunction triggered breaking a vial ofpoison, under the realm of classical the description of the state of the killing the poor cat. According to physics. system-and calculates properties QM, the cat exists in a superposition t When looking at the properties of that system, be it energy, of alive and dead states. of really tiny things like electrons or momentum, position, and so on. When we make an observation atoms, scientists were at odds with Interpretation ofthe wavefunction by cracking open the box, this Newton, even though his laws of is where things get a little hairy. superposition is broken, and we motion worked exceptionally well For example, let's consider find the cat either alive (hopefully), in most cases. measuring the position of an or dead. So goes QM. Graduates of this two ..year post-degree program at UPEI QM, like other paradigm electron, which seems like an easy This was Schrodinger's attempt to may team French at all levels .and in many contexts .. shifting theories, is fascinating for enough task. illustrate the apparent paradox that 80%of the program is delivered in French. scientists and non-scientists alike Well, maybe not easy, but surely arises from QM on a macroscopic .. because it contradicts our intuitive with all the technology that exists scale. Competing views of QM to understanding of the world. today it should be possible. 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NOVEMBER 19, 2009 WWW.THEMUSEONLINE.CA CIS scholarships under review Flexible model may stop UBC from defecting to NCAA BY REBECCA LINDEL allow Canadian universities to CIS student athletes need to THE UBYSSEY (UNIVERSITY give free rides for key players. It keep a 60 per cent average, be OF BRITISH COLUMBIA) would still limit the total amount enrolled in three classes during the of money available per sport, season, and gain 18 credits each VANCOUVER (CUP)-Canada's however. year to be eligible to play sports. university sports league is looking For example, a basketball To earn scholarships, athletes to change its scholarship rules to program could have a scholarship need an 80 per cent average out allow full-ride awards for student budget of $30,000 under the of high school and at least a 65 athletes by next year. proposed model, and they would per cent average at the end of the "The principle is to keep the have to determine how many full first year. Students beyond their best student athletes in Canada," ride scholarships were offered out first year must keep a 65 per cent said Clint Hamilton, president of of that pot. average, with the exception of Canadian Interuniversity Sport The University of British Ontario, which requires a 70 per (CIS) and University of Victoria's Columbia (UBC) has been one cent average. director of athletics. "Currently, of the key players in initiating the Hamilton said any proposals to the scholarship situation is such review and have long considered change the eligibility rules would that it's limiting our ability to do making the jump into the NCAA doom any other changes to failure that. because it would give the school when the CIS membership votes "Financially, we are not able to more financial flexibility. UBC on them in June. compete with our counterparts gave out over $500,000 in athletic "I don't believe at this point across the line in the NCAA." scholarships this year, but have that there is an appetite to want to The maximum amount of award argued that they are unable to keep lower the academic requirements PHOTO SUBMITTED money CIS athletes are eligible for the best local athletes in Canada that are on the books as part of a is the cost oftuition and ancillary due to scholarship restrictions. more expanded financial offering it would also raise the level of NCAA. fees. Meanwhile, the American While it would help Canadian in terms of scholarship," Hamilton play. "One very important positive National Collegiate Athletic schools retain talent, UBC's said. "A Canadian student athlete elements is the scholarship Association (NCAA) league offers athletic director Bob Philip said Philip said that even if should be able to study in Canada flexibility . . . If that report additional funding for residence flexibility isn't enough - the league scholarship rules do change, and have the same opportunities. comes back and it's a favourable and living expenses, making it needs to rethink scholarship there's no guarantee UBC would Why should they have to go to action with respect to eligibility an attractive option for talented eligibility rules as well. close the NCAA door. the States?'' for scholarship and flexibility for Canadian athletes. "We think they should adopt The NCAA is an important Still, UBC's vice-president scholarships ... that would be a CIS is exploring what Hamilton the NCAA rule and the NCAA brand for athletes and playing in of students Brian Sullivan said positive influence that UBC will calls "a flexible scholarship rule says if you are eligible to play the American league would help it would be an important step take into account when deciding model." This model would remove sports, you are eligible to receive attract the best Canadian athletes towards resolving some of the whether or not to apply for NCAA the per-student cap, which would an athletic award," Philip said. to UBC, Philip said, adding that issues pushing UBC towards the membership," Sullivan said. Hogan and Forbes named Subway Athletes of the Week wimmers Dayna Hogan and female athlete of the week added two more personal bests Major: Pre-engineering three first place finishes in the SDavid Forbes have been for her performance in the finishing third in the 1oom som Butterfly, som Backstroke, named the Memorial University Sea-Hawks dual meet against Backstroke and som Freestyle. David Forbes is the male and the som Freestyle. Subway athletes of the week for the University of Lethbridge Hogan and her teammates athlete of the week for his Adding to his point totals, the week ending November 1y Pronghorns in Alberta will be back in the pool this performance in the Sea-Hawks Forbes placed -third in the recently. weekend when they take part dual meet in Alberta against 1oom Butterfly, and added Female Athlete of the Week In a very close meet that came in the AUS Invitational hosted the University of Lethbridge points for a third place 1oom down to the last event, Hogan by Dalhousie. Pronghorns. Backstroke. The Sea-Hawks Dayna Hogan led the way for the 'Hawks, Forbes was the leading scorer will hit the water again this Team: Women's Swimming finishing first with two personal Male Athlete of the Week for the Sea-Hawks in a meet weekend when they take part Major: Engineering bests in the 2oom IM and 40om that was decided in the very in the AUS Invitational hosted Freestyle events. Along with David Forbes last event. Forbes dominated by the Dalhousie Tigers. Dayna Hogan is this week's two first place finishes, Hogan Team: Men's Basketball the sprint events taking home NOVEMBER 19, 2009 WWW.THEMUSEONLINE.CA MUN swimmers lose to Lethbridge again BY CHRIS BALLARD and J;Iogan who led the way with two first-place finishes. Rogers held the best times in both the oth men's and women's swim wom and 50m freestyle events teams were in on the road this B and set personal bests in both past week, taking on University events. of Lethbridge Pronghorns in Alberta. The men were also out west The women's team got off trying to avenge their loss to to a fine start with a win in the Pronghorns from earlier their opening race, the 4x10om this season. freestyle relay. Lethbridge was The men started their meet able to pull even and overtake in much the same fashion as the the lead after several strong women, as Jon Furlong, David performances in the four 1oom Forbes Adam Harvey and Tim individual events. Rusted pulled together to win Keeping the women's the 4x1oom freestyle relay to hopes alive for Memorial was start the day. sophomore Dayna Hogan, who The men swam well and led would come up with big victories the meet for most of the day. The in the 2oom individual medley Sea-Hawks claimed the 40om and the 4oom freestyle. freestyle, with Rusted touching The Sea-Hawks also swam the wall first. very well in the 50m free as Forbes came through with Kelsie Rogers, Kelsey Alexander three victories of his own, and Hogan placed one, two, and owning the 50m events. Trailing three, putting the Sea-Hawks by three points heading into the just one point back heading into last event, but couldn't hold on the final 4x10om medley. as Lethbridge completed their Another strong Lethbridge weekend sweep of the Sea event put them ahead for good, Hawks, beating Memorial 57- finishing Memorial by a final 47· score of 56-48. Both teams are preparing for Despite the loss, Memorial saw the Atlantic University Sport some spirited efforts from many Invitational, to take place next team members, including Rogers week at Dalhousie. MUSE ARCHIVES Victories scarce as Tigers maul Sea-Hawks on the road• Team.s combine for win against Dalhotisie BY CHRIS BALLARD win the game. After Dal botched two The strong rebounding effort led to a free throws, Brittany Dalton had to nail dismal scoring effort by the Sea-Hawks, Women a three-pointer to tie the game but it with only two players able to hit double wouldn't drop, leading the Dalhousie digits in points, Ante Samodol with Both men's and women's basketball Tigers to a victory and a weekend split, 12 points and Robbie Habib with 10 teams took on the Dalhousie Tigers this taking Sunday's match 70-67. Cailin points, compared to Tigers' top scorer past weekend. Crosby was the leading scorer for the Simon Farine, who led the way with On Saturday, Nov. 14, the women's victors with 17 points. 21 points. team was eager to take to the court The women's team will take to the Sunday saw more of the same for against the Tigers, seeking retribution court at home this weekend and will Memorial, with Simon Farine tearing against the team that knocked them defend their 3-1 record with games on it up on offense once again. Potting 36 out ofthe playoffs the year prior. Vicki Saturday and Sunday against Saint points, Farine was named the Subway Thistle led the way for the Sea-Hawks Mary's at the Field House. Player of the Game for the second with 17 points, leading them to a 68- consecutive game. Memorial played 63 victory and a three-game winning Men better offensively on Sunday with Jason streak to start the season. Thistle was Shepherd netting 18 points and Robbie named the Subway Player ofthe Game On Saturday evening, it was the Habib adding 17 points. for the Sea-Hawks. men's turn to take to the court against The Sea-Hawks return home to host On Sunday, it was Dal's tum. Dalhousie. Thanks to a balanced attack the Saint Mary's Huskies this weekend Trailing heading into the last and a huge rebounding advantage, the at the Field House, with games on both minute, Memorial saw a chance to Tigers outlasted the Sea-Hawks 83-62. Saturday and Sunday. ... (-:11stf>n1er .App,rccia.t.ion.J?.ay Frida\:.... 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