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GLISH LA EN NG S U A’ A W G A E T S T Volume 73, Issue 4 | Sept. 13–19, 2012 T O U F D E O Engaged & N Y T T I underage N S E pp. 12- R W E V S 13 I P N A U P E E R H T Sperm count? p. 7 Outside looking in p. 19 Folk yeah: the festival in review p. 10 GET CONNECTED JOIN CARLETON’S GRAD SCHOOL Support and Excellent Services Programs Global Outreach You Mentorship Caring Community Engaged Research Capital Location Faculty of Graduate and graduate.carleton.ca Postdoctoral Affairs 3 LETTERS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Kristyn Filip | [email protected] | (613) 562-5261 Changing the world GLISH LA EN NG ’S U A A Got something to say? W G Re: “Scared for the future” (Opinions, Sept.6.) A E T S T T O U F D This week on E O N Send your letters to Y T T I N S WHILE YOUR ARTICLE started out sounding as if it could be an E R [email protected] W E V S I P N A U P E E interesting take on how children are being negatively aff ected by R H T thefulcrum.ca something—Technology? School? Music? Movies? 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Th e ombudsman is an impartial party not employed by the corporation who has the power to investigate and pursue a resolution on your behalf. 5 NEWS EDITOR Andrew Ikeman | [email protected] | (613) 562-5260 Mayor to host youth summit City to invite local youth to have a say in municipal decisions Andrew Ikeman | Fulcrum Staff riers,” said Fleury. “We are looking for dent, is excited to see the new summit the participants and also for the city staff come to Ottawa. he mayor of Ottawa to come together, and then come back “It’s a gateway,” said Campbell. “It’s is opening up the with fi ve to 10 very tangible things we doors of City Hall can implement.” In the lead-up to the summit, the “ and giving the mayor is also holding a photo contest “We want to get people, T called Youth Pic Ottawa, and is asking French, English, from all city’s youth a chance to have their voices heard local young photographers to take pic- demographics, from [the U of tures they believe best represent the city. O], Carleton [University], La by their local government. Th e photo contest will be facilitated by Cité [Collégiale], Algonquin Mayor Jim Watson will be Child and Youth Friendly Ottawa, and the submitted photos will be displayed [College], people in high hosting a youth summit on in City Hall on the day of the summit. school—a full range [of Friday, Oct. 12, open to all “[Youth Pic Ottawa] is designed to students].” youth between the ages of engage young people to take a picture of 16 and 25. The summit is what they think their Ottawa represents,” [being] able to tell the very heart of the said Watson. “It is a creative way to get administration in this city what exactly modeled after last year’s young people—through their lens and [needs to be] done to help things and to seniors’ summit that was their eyes—to tell us what they think of have things fi xed.” chaired by the mayor. Ottawa. It could be a picture of a home- Watson also emphasized that the less person on Rideau Street, or the Cen- summit is meant to bring together young “Th e purpose is really straightfor- tennial Flame on Parliament Hill, or people from all over Ottawa, and will ward: we want to try and engage young hopefully serve to better the relationship people from all spectrums of life,” said between the city and its youth. Watson. “Street kids, student council “ “We want to get people, French, presidents, rural kids, people in the ur- “[Youth Pic Ottawa] is designed English, from all demographics, from ban core… and fi nd out how we can do to engage young people to [the U of O], Carleton [University], La a better job of meeting their needs and take a picture of what they Cité [Collégiale], Algonquin [College], expectations.” think their Ottawa represents.” people in high school—a full range [of Th e mayor has named ward 12 coun- students],” said Watson. f cillor—and University of Ottawa alum- their friends at a restaurant—it’s really up ni—Mathieu Fleury as the honorary to them what they think best represents Registration for the summit, which is chair of the summit. Fleury is looking their view of Ottawa.” limited to 200 participants, opened on forward to hearing what the youth of Ot- Students at the U of O will be able to Sept. 10. You can register at ottawa.ca/ tawa have to say. attend the conference and give their in- youth and submit photos to cayfo.ca. Th e “Th e idea is for us to better understand put on the state of the city. Sean Camp- event will be broadcasted live online, [youths’] needs, and what they see as bar- bell, a fourth-year honours history stu- illustration by Mathias MacPhee and the Twitter hashtag is #ottyouth. HESA releases university research rankings U of O fourth in science and engineering Jesse Mellott | Fulcrum Staff oft en. “It can be quite diffi cult to have access n a recent report by to research that is done in your language the Higher Education of choice or language of study,” said Tai- va Tegler, external commissioner of the Strategy Associates Graduate Students’ Association of the (HESA), the University University of Ottawa. “A lot of the mate- I rial that is being used will be in English, of Ottawa ranked fourth and unfortunately that is a reality and a in research in the science barrier to our francophone students. It and engineering faculties, can be a restricted choice, and a strategic and 20th in social sciences choice, to further advance your academic career.” and humanities. Meanwhile, Dean Claude Laguë of Th e report, entitled “Measuring the U of O’s faculty of engineering said Academic Research in Canada: Field- he was very pleased with the U of O’s Normalized Academic Rankings 2012” fourth-place ranking in science and en- accounts for the discrepancy between gineering.