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2007/11/080 ISSUE L VO ♼ Sports Listings Arts & Culture Editorials News U 9 ME 62 November 8, 2007 The Uniter contact: [email protected] 02 NEWS UNITER STAFF Ne w s Ed i t o r : St a c y Ca r d i g a n Sm i t h Ne w s Ed i t o r : Ks e n i a Pr i n t s E-m a i l : n e w s @u n i t e r .c a E-m a i l : n e w s p r o d @u n i t e r .c a Managing Editor News Jo Snyder » [email protected]

Business Manager James D. Patterson » [email protected] Ex-hostage encourages students PRODUCTION MANAGER Melody Morrissette » [email protected] to promote peace Photo Editor Natasha Peterson » [email protected] James Janzen Copy & Style Editor Beat Reporter Jacquie Nicholson » [email protected]

NEWS ASSIGNMENT EDITOR Stacy Cardigan Smith » [email protected] aving spent four months as a hostage News Production Editor in one of the world’s most volatile Ksenia Prints » [email protected] regions, James Loney knows better thanH anyone that nonviolence can be dangerous. COMMENTS EDITOR Still, he recommends that students and other Ben Wood » [email protected] peace-loving citizens get involved. The Ontario peace activist visited Winnipeg Arts & Culture Editor Whitney Light » [email protected] two weekends ago to talk about peacemaking and his experience as a hostage in Iraq. Loney Listings Coordinator spoke before a packed house at Augustine Kristine Askholm » [email protected] United Church, after the Catholic-sponsored social justice conference that initially welcomed Sports Editor him to the city rescinded their invitation on the Kalen Qually [email protected] » grounds that Loney is openly gay. In an interview with the Uniter, Loney offered further insight Beat Reporter James Janzen Jenette Martens » [email protected] into his life as an international peace activist. “It was a journey into it,” said Loney. “It Imprisoned in Iraq for 118 days, Loney remains undeterred from peace activism. Beat Reporter was largely a result of my university studies that I Cameron MacLean » [email protected] came to see that the world wasn’t exactly the way Even though Loney has experienced the beliefs who will support you, he said, “to share it was presented on the NBC nightly news.” dangers that accompany such radical peace the joy and sorrow and the pain that sometimes Beat Reporter He also pointed to his Christian upbringing Dan Huyghebaert » [email protected] activism firsthand, as one of his three co-hostage come along with it.” as the groundwork for his nonviolent beliefs, colleagues was tragically murdered before their Loney explained that this type of work is which pushed him to believe in the possibility of Beat Reporter release, he cautiously encourages others to take unlike war-making, which requires the strong a “radical solidarity with outsiders.” These ideas James Janzen » [email protected] up the task. and able bodies of young people. landed him a job with Christian Peacemakers “This is something that needs come out “Peacemaking can be done by everyone Teams, an international organization that of a person’s deepest freedom,” he said. “Yes, from all walks of life,” he said. attempts to counter violent activity simply by it can be scary to do something like CPT . . . The options also do not end with on-the- t h i s w e e k ’ s contributors “getting in the way.” CPT has sent teams to many but unless we’re willing to take risks, we cannot ground peace activism. of the world’s most unstable places, including C. Jordan Croswaite, Graham Podolecki, Brad Penninton, make changes.” “If you’re a writer you can write for peace. Chechnya, Columbia, Palestine, and Iraq. Jo Villaverde, Patrick Faucher, Aaron Epp, Tom Llewellin, Loney offered words of support for If you’re a singer, sing for peace. If you’re a Loney was on his third trip to Iraq with Mikale S. Fenton, Kenton Smith, Kathleen Gallagher, university students interested in conflict and mother or father, teach your children about CPT when he and three others were kidnapped Renee Lilley, Stephane Christie, Dennis Vrignon-Tessier, peace studies. peace. There are as many ways to make peace as in Baghdad in 2005 and held for 118 days. David EisBrenner, Alex Garcia, Curan Faris, Ashley Buleziuk “It’s an amazing choice of work,” he said. there are people.” His first visit was in 2003, before the “The work of peacemaking, of trying to make Loney, who has publicly forgiven his captors The Uniter is the official student newspaper of the University of American-led invasion had begun. Winnipeg and is published by Mouseland Press Inc. Mouseland change in our world, is vital, exciting and and refuses to testify against them because he Press Inc. is a membership based organization in which students “The war was coming and I felt sick about and community members are invited to participate. For more meaningful.” does not want them to face the death penalty, information on how to become a member go to www.uniter. it,” he recalled. “I felt going to a peace rally just ca, or call the office at 786-9790. The Uniter is a member of the Yet it is a long struggle and significant is the program coordinator for CPT Canada. 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Mouseland Press Board of Directors: Emily Walker, Annika Friesen, Kyle McLean, Mary Agnes Welch, Rob Nay, Nick Tanchuk, Ben 4th yr Criminal Justice / 2nd yr English 1st yr Education Wickström (chair), Dean Dias, Daniel Blaikie, Vivian Sociology Remembrance of the It’s a time to reflect on what we have, Belik, Brendan Sommerhalder, Brian Gagnon A time to remember why we veterans who risked their and how we’ve gotten it – through need peace, which should be lives and served our country the sacrifices of others who came For inquiries email: [email protected] the focus instead of glorifying to create a better world. before us. It gives me inspiration to war and those who participate fight for my rights and values in my Cover Image in it. own way. Brenden Sommerhalder, Tom L., Ashley Buleziuk, 4th yr Psychology 2nd yr International 4th year degree of intro courses Dan Donaldson Since I’m too young to Developmental Studies A fashion statement: The poppy, remember the event, the day is It has become a tokenized that’s all. I think the true meaning from the series Art Imitating Life a historical tribute to remember celebration where nobody of the day is becoming more and Imitating Art now showing at Ace Art that we are free and we don’t actually thinks about what more lost amongst our generation, experience war in our country. war really means. who haven’t experienced sentimental losses themselves. photo courtesy of the artist contact: [email protected] The Uniter November 8, 2007 NEWS 03 UWSA refuses voter apathy review despite low by-election turnout movement, costs and benefits associated with Cameron MacLean continued membership in the Canadian Beat reporter Federation of Students, as well as the overall political culture of the UWSA. According to Jacks, the commission he votes have been tallied and the was unnecessary, because there are already results are in! mechanisms in place which are designed to After an almost invisible election engage students and to evaluate the UWSA campaignT with no contested positions, 219 and the CFS. out of a possible 9018 voters cast a ballot in Also, the new board of directors had a last week’s UWSA by-election, once again number of strategies to raise the profile of the raising the issue of student apathy. UWSA on campus which they wanted the But the UWSA recently voted down a opportunity to try. suggested review of campus elections. “Lots of people, it’s not that they’re

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on on definitely an awareness [issue],” said Jacks.

from Monday Oct. 29 to Thursday Nov. 1 — r only four of which had candidates running “It’s not so much creating a student- for them. Came funded commission on apathy, when the UWSA is already a student-funded Two positions remain vacant. Matt Molnar says the UWSA should seriously examine the issue of student apathy. For the record, the new directors are commission meant to talk to students and to Jonathan Niemczak (LGBT* students’ approach students,” he added. Molnar still believes the commission is a director), Stephen Milner and Sean McMullen campaign as much as they could have.” general meeting, Molnar, who was chief good idea, and that the UWSA is “afraid” of (student living co-directors), Andre Tardiff Other factors include the fact that it was elections commissioner last year, proposed what it might report. and Chelsea Duszak (science students’ co- a by-election and not a general election, there to set up an independent commission to “With a 2 per cent voter turn out… directors), and Margaux Miller (recreation were no executive positions up for grabs, and examine the issue of student apathy. it seems obvious that their “new” ways and and athletics co-director). all positions were uncontested. The original motion was obstructed by “new” methods are nothing but the old ones, With a turn-out rate of roughly 2 per On the plus side, four important then-president Kate Sjoberg. gussied up,” he said. cent, this year’s by-election received an even directors’ positions have been filled. But as It was reintroduced at the UWSA board In the future, Jacks suggested that the lower turn-out than last year’s. the new directors settle into their jobs and get of directors meeting this past June, only to be current board of directors might take a more A number of factors contributed to down to business, thoughts once again turn defeated by a tie-breaking vote from president active role in encouraging students to run for the low voter turn-out, said chief elections to the question of what is to be done about David Jacks. positions. For now, the UWSA will carry on commissioner Maria Laureano. student apathy towards campus politics. The proposed commission sought to with four new directors, and without 98 per “One criticism… is that the UWSA If Matthew Molnar was given free reign, examine the lack of student involvement in cent of the student vote. didn’t push it enough,” she said. “Another we may have had some answers. the electoral process, apathy of students with one is that the candidates themselves did not Earlier this year at the UWSA annual regards to involving themselves in the student Shooting at Empire no deterrent for students

Stephanie Christie Wyatt acknowledges that an increased presence in police happening to them.” downtown is crucial at this time, but also points out that the more The Edmonton Police Service reported 444 violent crimes people that spend time downtown, the safer it will be. for a total of 75,914 residents in their downtown between January he safety of Winnipeg’s city core is once again being called “We need to get people shopping and working downtown,” and March 2006. into question after a recent shooting at the downtown said Wyatt. “It makes the community a safer place.” While some believe that increased security may be the nightclub, Empire Cabaret. It is the latest in a string of According to CrimeStat, statistics compiled by the Winnipeg answer to ensuring a safer downtown, it may be a difficult thing violentT attacks at downtown bars in the last year. Police Service, most crime downtown has actually been dropping to measure. On Oct. 21, around 2 a.m. shots rang out inside the this year. Increasing police presence in the area and the use of metal Exchange District establishment, injuring four bystanders. The number of homicides to occur in the downtown area totaled detectors and security cameras may help to deter those looking to This shooting follows closely behind incidents at nearby bars eight from Jan. 1 to Oct. 21, down from 10 last year. The number being weapons into nightclubs, but it may not have an effect on Desire and Alive, and has some thinking twice about heading of sexual assaults in the same area totaled 104 out of 352 city wide people’s actions outside of the establishments. downtown for a night out. occurrences, also down from 145. Five hundred and thirty-four Wyatt stressed the importance of the continued development Brian Timmerman, director of operations at the Exchange robberies were reported out of a total of 1,652. of downtown and the need for young people to get involved. However, these statistics fail to translate the significantly “If you look at Europe and North America, cities that higher concentration of people in the area. folks enjoy going to are places that have a vibrant downtown,” “I’m not going to live my “People forget said Wyatt. “It is up to the life scared.” —Breanne that 70,000 to young people to make that Armstrong, U of W student 80,000 people happen.” are downtown District BIZ, understands that perceptions of downtown may be every day,” said negatively affected by these incidents but says these perceptions Timmerman. should not deter people from spending time in the area. “Most “The Empire has been in business for several years and has people never had an incident like this before,” said Timmerman. go He also pointed out that it is uncommon for incidents home like this to happen inside an establishment. In similar instances fine, with other nightclubs in the area, the altercations have occurred with outside. nothing “Something usually precipitates the situation,” said bad Timmerman, “and it is extremely rare that innocent people ever are hurt.” University of Winnipeg student Breanne Armstrong spends a lot of time downtown and says that while safety is a concern, it is not something that will stop her from spending time in the area. “There are measures in place to make [downtown] safer,” said Armstrong, who credits the Downtown Watch as one of the organizations working to make downtown a safer place to be. While Armstrong said she takes precautions, like making e r son sure to carry a cell phone with her at all times, she is not going to t let her concern interfere with her decision to come downtown. “I’m not going to live my life scared,” she said. asha Pe asha t

Russ Wyatt, city councilor for the Transcona ward and a N chairman of the Downtown Development Committee, invited fellow politicians, business owners and the public to come to the The Empire shooting was the first of its kind downtown, while crime in the area declined. Empire less than a week after the shooting. November 8, 2007 The Uniter contact: [email protected] Ne w s Ed i t o r : Ks e n i a Pr i n t s E-m a i l : n e w s p r o d @u n i t e r .c a Ph o n e : 786-9497 04 NEWS Fa x : 783-7080

Local Winnipeg’s Press Club adjusts to reality News Briefs Compiled by Graham Podolecki Joe Kornelsen, Graham Podolecki SON

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s it approaches its NA AFFORDABLE HOUSING 120th anniversary, UNITS open for visitors Canada’s oldest press clubA is adapting to trying Representatives from all three levels of government were on hand for the opening financial times by remaking of 12 affordable housing units in the Spence itself to attract new members Neighborhood on Oct. 26. With a grant from the and regain some of its former Winnipeg Housing and Homelessness Initiative, luster. The Winnipeg Press Stephanie and Travis Unger bought two houses Club has moved all its historical across the street from their own house and exten- belongings from its basement sively renovated both. location to a two-room office in “The federal and provincial funding cov- the Marlborough hotel. ered $320,000 and the rest of the funding was “[The basement location] provided by us in sweat equity,” Stephanie Unger was becoming financially said. unviable,” said club president “We wanted to live in this neighbourhood Deborah Thompson. and do our part for inner city renewal and basi- Although much smaller, cally be good neighbours.” Thompson said the new location One of the houses was a five-unit rooming costs one-sixth the former house, which the Ungers converted into five self- venue’s rent, saving the historic contained apartments called Cozy Rooms. The club from closing entirely. other house was renovated but remained a seven- Yet Winnipeg’s journalistic The Winnipeg Press Club, once the hub of journalism, has been teetering on the brink of closing for years. unit rooming house. The Spence Neighbourhood community seems to have Association selected the Ungers’ project out of already given up on the press club. many proposals. difficulties; along with rising rental costs, its “We’re trying to find a new medium, [and] Duncan McMonagle, a teacher at Red River “We could say that what the Ungers did, attendance fluctuated. It was additionally there is a potential to support a whole new College’s Creative Communications program, that’s a model for what we would like to accom- isolated by the relocation of the Winnipeg Free membership we’ve never had before,” Thompson and Executive Editor of the Winnipeg Free Press plish in the West End,” said Don Miedema, the Press from downtown in the 1990s. said. from 1993 to 1996, thinks the press club’s time Spence Neighbourhood Association housing co- McMonagle said that along with the club’s McMonagle contends the club tried to has passed. ordinator. A further $850,000 to be invested in the main clientele moving with the newspapers to reach out to the Creative Communications “If it doesn’t have a bar or event space, the West End was promised by the government rep- the suburbs, member interest really declined department, giving presentations and offering press club is dead,” he said. resentatives at the opening. when smoking was banned in bars. Thompson free memberships, but few have taken up use Founded in 1888, the Winnipeg Press hopes to try and gain new membership by of the facilities. He feels that it offers nothing Club was the first of its kind in North America. Labeling our booze running focus groups that could “see what unique to attract students. It offered a pub-like setting for journalists, members would like.” The groups “would tailor “The King’s Head is closer,” he added, “and Winnipeg North MP Judy Wasylycia-Leis marketers, and public-relations people to gather, the event for the market, rather than hope that much more student-friendly.” brought forward a motion in Parliament Oct. 25 with its social events showcasing a variety they would come.” Thompson said the club is considering demanding the placing of warning labels on al- of media celebrities from the famous to the Thompson said more speakers will be moving to a more convenient location but coholic products. The labels will warn of the dan- infamous. The club even served as the centre of featured in the year before the club’s 120th currently is simply searching for better places to gerous effects of drinking and driving and drink- a bootleg operation during prohibition. anniversary. But McMonagle doubts that would stage their events, notably Beer and Skits. ing’s potential health consequences, hopefully re- It achieved international acclaim with benefit the club, pointing out that press clubs all inforcing public awareness campaigns about it. Beer and Skits, an annual showcase of rowdy, around North America are closing. He argued if Beer and Skits’ 2007 edition is scheduled for This builds upon a 2001 motion calling for labels satirical acts. Running since 1934, the event still the National Press Club in Ottawa, which has Nov. 9. at the Marlborough. warning of the dangers of drinking while preg- plays to sold-out crowds. The club continues hundreds of journalists around it every day, is in nant. Although it passed, subsequent govern- to award local journalists with such awards trouble, “what chance does the Winnipeg Press ments have not enforced it. as the President’s and the Erik and Jack Wells “Canadians overwhelmingly support the Club have?” Foundation awards. use of warning labels to bolster other education The club is hoping to spark new interest by Recently, the Press Club experienced efforts about alcohol,” Wasylycia-Leis said in a appealing to the rising blog community. press-release. “[This] motion is yet another effort on their behalf.”

Owls get financed

The provincial government singled out tall grass prairies and burrowing owls as priorities on their preservation list in recently announced grants totaling $400,000. The Sustainable Development Innovations Fund will fund 28 proj- ects throughout the province, stated a media re- lease. Winnipeg’s Henteleff Park, located on 40 acres along the Red River in south St. Vital, will receive $24,160 to restore native prairie vegeta- tion on formally cultivated land. The funding will also add to species diversity in Henteleff, which was designated a park in 2002. The Tiger Hills Conservation District, located in southwestern Manitoba, will also receive $5,150 to help re- cover endangered wildlife, specifically the -bur rowing owl. contact: [email protected] The Uniter November 8, 2007 NEWS 05 Biofuels stir up controversy International

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a ment deemed unlawful N recent University of Winnipeg panel OTTAWA, Ontario: The Canadian questioning biofuels brought to light Security Intelligence service violated the the controversy around ethanol, the constitutional rights of an Al Qaeda sus- supposedlyA environmentally-friendly and pect, according to a Security Intelligent province-favoured fuel. Review Committee report to Parliament. On Oct. 17, a crowd of about 150 gathered The violation led to the suspect’s self-in- crimination and release to American au- in Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall to listen to four thorities. experts debate the pros and cons of biofuels at a According to the Canadian Press, panel entitled “Biofuels: Solution or problem?” the committee decided Mohammed Biofuels such as ethanol are trumpeted Mansour Jabarah, a Canadian citizen, as an environmentally conscious alternative to was arbitrarily detained by the Canadian Security Intelligence Services in viola- natural gas and are a renewable source of fuel. tion of his Charter rights. In detention, he Although there is more than one type of biofuel, was not provided legal counsel and sub- ethanol was the one primarily discussed at the sequently admitted his guilt in a plot to panel. bomb American and Israeli embassies in Ethanol can be produced through the Singapore and Manilla. Jabarah was apprehended in Oman extraction of alcohol from various plants, such in 2002 and transferred to the United as corn, sugarcane, switch grass, and cattails. States after he could not be charged with Corn has proven so far to be the most viable a crime under Canadian law. Jabarah has local source. Ethanol could boost up the prairies’ economies pleaded guilty in the United States to nu- if produced from corn- but it could also cut into food supplies. merous acts of terrorism. He remains The advantages to using a renewable source behind bars awaiting sentencing. of energy like ethanol are vast, stated Dr. David Levin, associate professor in the department for the production of ethanol would lead to Loney also stated that Gary Doer plans to Olympics too much for of biosystems engineering at the University of massive food shortages and could potentially implement the California Emissions Standard, China’s computers Manitoba. cause disturbances in the corn economy. making Manitoba the first provincial government Levin explained cellulosic ethanol releases BEIJING, China: Tickets for the The production of ethanol, biodiesel and in Canada to do so. Beijing Olympics went on sale last week, 90 per cent less greenhouse gasses into the other renewable sources of energy recently Overall, Loney described the plans as and the high demand for them caused the atmosphere than the fossil fuels we use today. garnered a substantial amount of support at the moderate. Chinese computer system to crash. A total While the price of ethanol is currently higher provincial level. “I don’t think there will be much noticeable of 1.85 million tickets were made avail- able for the opening and closing ceremo- than that of fossil fuels, Levin believes that as Science, Technology, Energy and Mines impact on the public,” he said when asked how prices for oil continue to escalate, they may soon nies and all of the sporting events. Minister Jim Rondeau stated in an Oct. 4 press the emissions standard will affect Manitobans. The website received 200,000 de- be on a level plane. release that “along with wind, geothermal and “[The CES] simply requires car mands per second in the first hour of But not everyone is convinced. hydroelectric power, biofuels are a key part of manufacturers to lower [the] average mileage sales. The sales telephone line was tied Ken Sigurdson, member of the National our clean-energy strategy.” equivalent impact of new cars being sold in the up all day and more than 2 million people called in the first hour. The Associated Farmer’s Union, strongly opposes ethanol’s Shaun Loney, director of energy policy state,” he said, stating this can be achieved in implementation in Manitoba. This panelist Press reported 9,000 tickets were sold in for the provincial government, presented the various ways other than switching fuels. two hours via the Internet and in person at argued that producing ethanol would be less idea that the implementation of ethanol and Loney emphasized the idea of promoting Bank of China locations. The committee environmentally friendly, and would end up biofuels in our province would be not just renewable sources of energy and energy decided to temporarily halt online domes- costing more than extracting fossil fuels. environmentally friendly, but a boost to our conservation, saying ethanol could be a useful tic ticket sales until Nov. 5. China will offer more than 7 million Sigurdson also stated that the use of corn rural economies. means of moving towards an even more efficient domestic and international tickets for the lifestyle. Beijing Olympics. Loney also credited Manitoba with “rank[ing] first in Canada now two years Toilets pose major running in the area of energy efficiency.” world problem While the panelists may have differing DELHI, India: The city hosted an in- views on the possible benefits and harms of ternational toilet summit tackling the issue biofuels, all agreed that energy efficiency that 2.6 billion people do not have access in Manitoba, while potentially better to hygienic toilet facilities. Over 40 coun- than the rest of Canada, still has room for tries participated in the summit. improvement. This improvement must BBC News reported that more than 700 million Indians do not have toi- come from all sides, with everyone pulling lets with efficient disposal practices. The together to achieve the common goal of a United Nations hopes to see the global fuel and energy efficient world. toilet issue resolved by 2025 as a part of its millennium goals. According to Sulabh International, one of the NGOs behind the summit, proper sanitation is a major challenge in Asian, African and South American countries. Establishing west- ern-style sewage systems is a very expen- sive undertaking in the developing world.

Western influence lethal for Guarani culture

FORTIN MBORORE, Argentina: A rural, indigenous village imposed a curfew on its young people and banned Western vices after two youth suicides. The village’s cacique, or traditional leader, imposed the restrictions after the deaths, citing white influences have infringed on the Guarani culture. According to the Christian Science Monitor, Salvino Moreira banned alcohol, drugs and even radio in an attempt to re- integrate Fortin Mborore youth back into their culture and families. The village, located near the Argentinean, Brazilian and Paraguayan borders, has been quite vulnerable to so- cials ills due to population fluctuations based on its location. The Guarani of Fortin Mborore live near the major tourist destination of Iguazu waterfalls, making a living off the tourist industry. November 8, 2007 The Uniter contact: [email protected] Ne w s Ed i t o r : Ks e n i a Pr i n t s E-m a i l : n e w s p r o d @u n i t e r .c a 06 NEWS Ph o n e : 786-9497 Fa x : 783-7080 Suspicious notes discovered in washroom at Wilfred Laurier University

Oct. 24 as he was about to leave a second-floor After wrapping them up in a paper towel, population is female. [The writer] could be Dan Polischuk washroom. Lye took the sheets to Laurier Safety and talking about anyone,” he said. The Cord Weekly (Wilfrid Laurier Uni- Sitting on top of the waste bin were Security. While Lye agreed that the situation is “not versity) approximately six “crumpled-up lined sheets of Rod Curran, director of WLU Safety easily traceable” and that it doesn’t necessarily foolscap paper,” said Lye. and Security, said a report has been written up warrant a “public broadcast” on campus, he The papers contained “quite detailed” about the notes but that the lack of leads in the does believe some sort of investigation should descriptions of various women on campus — situation makes further investigation difficult. be done. ATERLOO (CUP) – Disturbing some including names. Looking at the notes, Curran said that not “If something happens to come from this, notes discovered in a men’s “They included which classes they took all them even contained the names of the people at least you know some background to it, if it washroom late last month appear but also religious preference, if they were they described. did develop into something further,” said Lye. Wto target women at Wilfrid Laurier University. sexually active, if they had a boyfriend and their “Seventy-five per cent of the student Matt Lye, a fourth-year sociology and ‘insecurities,’” he said. women’s studies student, made the discovery on

Students denied loan information

Jaela Bernstien and Mike Hayes, Benedict explained. “Everywhere in this contract it recommends “Instead of reducing the sky-high interest UWO Gazette (University of Western This is a problem for students trying to borrowers extend their repayment period to rates, so people can pay off their contracts faster, Ontario) calculate how much of the balance is interest, reduce their monthly owing amount,” Benedict they’d rather extend the contract and have principle or service charges. said. people pay more interest,” he added. The problem is compounded since ONDON (CUP) – Recent reports show students’ files are often passed from collection that students who require information agency to collection agency, he said. about their own student loans are being “It’s very frustrating for borrowers because Lforced to file Access to Information requests. they don’t know who’s holding their file,” “We’re in this bizarre situation where a Benedict said. borrower cannot find out from the agency that’s David Simmonds, a vice-president with holding their loan what they owe,” said Julien the students’ union at the University of Western Benedict, founder of the Coalition for Student Ontario, said that students are becoming Loan Fairness (CSLF), said. frustrated. Since 2004, 127 borrowers have filed “We hear from students constantly that access requests. the maze of paper and documentation in the The original intent of AI requests was student loan system is burdensome,” he said. to “provide a right of access to information Simmonds also said that the the National in records under the control of a government Student Loan Centre (NSLC) needs better institution.” Some students are questioning why customer support when dealing with students. this has become a necessary step to see their own He said a certain level of customer files. satisfaction is necessary to maintain a healthy Benedict said that the issue arose once a contract. student defaulted on their loan and the file was “We can assume that the emotional distress passed to a collection agency employed by the caused by not getting the emotional support government. necessary can attribute to defaulting.” “Borrowers should always have access to In its contract with the government, which an up-to-date balance ... They should not be was obtained by CSLF through a freedom of paying collection agencies that cannot collect information request, a higher incentive is placed this information.” on continuing a loan than ensuring customer Students can get a balance from the satisfaction. collection agency, but never a breakdown, contact: [email protected] The Uniter November 8, 2007 UWSA By-Elections EDITORIALS 07

Ma n a g i n g Ed i t o r : Jo Sn y d e r Editorials E-m a i l : e d i t o r @u n i t e r .c a Creative Cities, Creative Communities

Downtown is the blight of Winnipeg, take 2 The University of Winnipeg has at- tion” which seems to have all of its Internet tempted to play its part. However, the Spence mention during Murray’s term as Mayor. I Street renewal project is still a glorified bus haven’t been to London, Ontario recently to corridor from which the Uniter office self- see if their commission has been a success, ishly enjoys more than our share of fumes but they’re on the right track, or at least their coming through the ventilation system. collective heart is in the right place. So what Some of the negative reaction to Mur- are we going to do in Winnipeg? Hopefully ray’s criticism of our current mayor and his not re-elect a mayor whose only defense to plans for the city is, to say the least, short- constructive criticism is incoherent blunder- sighted. We should be embracing the ideas ing. A common defense for Sam Katz is that of someone with passion and vision rather “cleaning up the streets” is the highest prior- than shitting on them in favor of someone ity, but lots of great cities with healthy urban who shaves cash off the backs of ball players centres still have crime. Building new, and making a blue-collar living. Not to mention a maintaining existing, cultural infrastructure myriad of other distasteful attributes. in this city is a bigger priority. The city of London, Ontario did a study and how this approach is a key principle in JO SNYDER two years ago to assess what it would need to creating spaces where people want to be from MANAGING EDITOR make London a more creative city, having the For a local and ongoing discussion about day-to-day. But there is one more interesting prescience to understand that this creativity urban politics check out http://blog.uwinnipeg. element to this debate, and it centres around could be translated into economic growth. ca/ChristopherLeo/ t seems like a good time to re- having a university right down town, like we The closest thing I could find in Winnipeg iterate this debate about our do: vibrant cities are not just about having was some talk about a “Creative Cities Coali- city, in light of former mayor great buildings with cafés and apartments, Glenn Murray’sI recent visit. The Sunday small businesses, but they are also about debate with Mayor Sam Katz over the state of housing and nurturing ideas. the city left Murray reinforcing his vision for Glenn Murray visited the University of this city. This dream is one of a bustling and Winnipeg campus earlier this year to talk cutting edge urban centre, with rapid tran- about the importance of funding education sit, a vibrant arts community, cool places to and keeping the tuition freeze. One of the live and eat, and innovative jobs that retain angles he took was that vibrant cities foster, and attract young people to the city–-not and are fostered by, knowledge-intensive to be ageist, but rather to stimulate positive industries like film, publishing, information growth for decades to come. technology, new media, etc. These industries Last week I drew a distinction between rely on the ability to stimulate, grow, and citizens and consumers. Citizens are individu- retain an educated class. And I hope we als who make decisions in the interest of bet- don’t all shudder at the idea that there is an tering society as a whole, while consumers are educated class, because there is, and keeping more concerned with what’s better for them it in the city is one solution to the decay we’re as a customer of products. I talked about experiencing. how James Howard Kunstler incorporates this mindset into healthy and vibrant cities

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Co m m e n t s Ed i t o r : Be n Wo o d Comments E-m a i l : c o m m e n t s @u n i t e r .c a Free pizza? Fuck yeah!

(including tip). Bear with me arts students, the Support, so it’s obviously not that important. would be a hit because who doesn’t like cold David Eisbrenner numbers are almost over. After consulting my Daycare? Kids love playing with cardboard pizza? Donations to student groups wouldn’t favourite Texas Instrument, the daily cost of boxes, don’t they? Just give them the pizza be missed, because the students could just sell this pizza lunch would be $15,817. Sound like boxes and they’ll occupy themselves until the their pizza for 100 per cent profit. hat’s your favourite kind of pizza? a lot of dough? (Sorry!) Well, the total price day is over. Oh, and student participation and If we’re talking two toppings, I’ll for the year (around 160 school days) would be You’re itching to throw another one at me, engagement would be at an all-time high! go with mushroom and pineapple, $2,530,720. But don’t worry; remember I said I can tell. Go ahead, my plan is solid. Oh, all Everyone loves pizza. And if they don’t, they’ll ‘causeW pineapple makes the world go ‘round. I had a plan. the jobs the UWSA provides? Those people can learn to. Take that, elections with two per cent With a rumbling stomach, I devised the Quick and to the point: get rid of the all work in the new UWSA Cookhouse of Za! voter turnout! greatest plan this school has ever seen. Screw UWSA. Okay, maybe we could keep the name (See, I said the name could stay). It’s a business Or we could scrap the pizza and have beer the Duckworth expansion and forget about the up on the wall, but if we want this pizza plan guaranteed to succeed, and it could employ instead. Think of the dividends we’d get by health plan—this is going to change your life. to work, we’ll have to make sacrifices. Their people from the community, too! (Nobody returning all those bottles! Free pizza for everyone—all year. annual budget more than covers the $15,817 can say the UWSA would lose its community- So next time you’re told to vote, think No joke. I’ve crunched the numbers and per day and really, free pizza is better than mindedness) Every service the UWSA offers about the options we have; ponder how you we could do it easily without paying a penny. anything else they do, right? And after all that, would be improved by the pizza plan—the food can best be served as a student and consider Well, without paying a penny more. there’ll be nearly $800,000 left to buy us each bank would get a lot of leftovers (it’s not like what would improve your student life. Mull it Okay, so the plan. The estimated number a McCain cake before exams, and a little extra everyone will be on campus every day), which all over and utter these two words: order up! of students on campus tends to fluctuate, so for treat for Reading Week. the purposes of this plan I’ll go with last year’s I know, I know, numbers (which are higher than this year’s) of somebody’s going to 9,304 students. I’m a guy who likes his pizza, mention the health so based on my stomach I’ll say we need at plan. Hey, if you’re least two slices each. If you want more, bring eating regularly, who a snack. I will. really cares if your visits Number-crunching time. Based on to the chiropractor are current discounts in the city, we can get the covered? pizza at 85¢ per slice (though I’m sure we could Service groups? get a bigger discount on an order for 2,326 I haven’t used Peer pizzas), so that works out to $1.70 per person

Season’s greetings from Stephen Harper Rosh Hashanah cards just a misguided attempt to win votes

they got the names and addresses Dave Shore of Jewish families from public The Cord Weekly (Wilfrid Laurier directories obtainable through any University) Jewish-Canadian citizen. Many Denis Vrignon-Tessier cities have lists of Jewish residents circulating around synagogues and ATERLOO (CUP) – Jewish community centres. During Rosh Hashanah Harper technically did nothing last September, Canada’s wrong by accessing them. A Jew WJewish community found something trying to track down an old friend strange in their mailboxes: a greeting could have done the same. card for the Jewish new year from No one has outright said it, but Stephen Harper. I take offence to likening Harper to Even though I’m Jewish and Hitler. my family never received one of the Comparing the mailing of government’s greeting cards, it seems Rosh Hashanah cards to anything shady the Conservatives would let holocaust-related gravely trivializes everyone know they have a list of a profound and horrific historical who’s Jewish by mailing them. event. Harper is by no means Still, Harper did nothing persecuting the Jews by sending immoral by sending out Rosh them holiday greetings. Even hinting Hashanah greetings. It was however, at it is absurd and irresponsible. hopelessly misguided. But I still don’t support his Much of the criticism stems from action, as the card sending gesture allegations that Harper’s collection of seems insincere and politically the data was illegal. No government motivated. Only areas with a high documents such as driver’s licenses concentration of Jews were targeted or taxation forms require people to to receive cards, suggesting it was disclose their religion. Only on census an effort to gain voter confidence in forms do citizens have to provide that those ridings. information, which can only be used Rosh Hashanah is a time Jewish by Statistics Canada and would be families gather together and celebrate against the law for Harper to access. the new year, not a time to make a The prime minister’s office says political pitch to people. contact: [email protected] The Uniter November 8, 2007 COMMENTS COMMENTS 09 Traffic signal synchronization: increased efficiency or in Winnipeg has yet to be seen. Since the rapid step toward bringing the costs of services and stalling on mass transit? transit project appears to be in limbo and the infrastructure under control.” a certain point, is less pollution being emitted TSS craze is sweeping across major cities, it If TSS generates increased auto-dependency, Denis Vrignon-Tessier than if the vehicle were idling? To find out, one wouldn’t be surprising if Katz were genuinely we may not gain control of the costs mentioned could pore over the details and comparisons of persuaded that TSS might be an alternative to by Leo. These costs are in large part brought about which traffic signal type minimizes pollution mass transit when it comes to managing the flow by expenditures in new road construction, road n Oct. 2nd, the city of Winnipeg un- more. However, such studies may miss the point of people in the city. repair and servicing an ever-expanding suburban veiled its first phase of synchronized entirely because other factors are at play in this In opposition to this idea and the many city ring, designed to accommodate yet more cars. traffic lights, publicized by Mayor Katz equation. officials who support it, Karen Atkins, quoted in That is to say, promoting transit and other forms asO being an important step in “improv[ing] traf- the Austin Chronicle, believes “if people think this of transport as the means to minimize pollution, For example, if TSS was fully integrated fic progression all along this major high-volume and traffic was then free flowing, wouldn’t this is the magic bullet and it’s really going to take care reduce commute times, foster a more compact/ route and reduc[ing] vehicle emissions.” At first newly liberated artery attract more users? It is of our congestion problems, then they are really economical city, is more strongly associated with glance, such a proposition seems reasonable. If not only possible, but also very likely since kidding themselves…light synchronization will environmental and economical sustainability cars are rolling instead of stopped and idling, they analogous traffic improvement strategies (i.e. not supersede [mass transit].” than the implementation of a potentially costly should get places faster and pollute less. This situ- new road construction) designed to alleviate While not directly related to the debate and useless TSS system. By promoting TSS, ation seems plausible, but it only reflects a short traffic, become congested a short time after surrounding TSS, politics professor Christopher the city is shining light away from ideas that term “solution” to a systemic transportation prob- construction. What may ultimately happen is Leo’s blog on urban issues deals with similar not only need immediate attention, but also lem—a problem that will only worsen if the un- that roads outfitted with TSS will become so themes: how to address transport problems hold more merit in the realm of sustainable derlying causes are not addressed. Worse yet, such clogged with vehicles that traffic jams might by supporting transit systems. Leo claims “the urban transport: active transportation and mass “solutions,” modest as they may seem, may exac- develop in spite of the sophisticated system. Also establishment of an efficient, modern transit transit. erbate automobile dependence while they simul- worth noting: how does one synchronize traffic system [i.e. rapid transit] would be a critical taneously shift the public’s attention from more lights in a grid? sensible transportation plans (e.g. mass transit). In light of these plausible scenarios and My first point is in regards to traffic unanswered questions, Mayor Katz greenwashes signal synchronization (TSS), an oft-promoted TSS with the conventional slogan, “it’s solution to traffic problems and a way of environmentally friendly.” Given the purported reducing pollution. Michael Vandeman, Ph.D. traffic management benefits and pollution offers some interesting counterpoints against reductions of TSS, Katz may see this initiative the argument for TSS. These can be found on as a justifiable strategy to delay implementing the website Asphalt Strawberry. Vandeman raises better transit or avoid dealing with the mass questions about the pollution output actually transit issue altogether. In the meantime, produced by vehicles: if speeds are increased past progress on the first phase of bus rapid transit

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On the one hand, you There are also a number of major -non-gov minds of Canadians, partly because of the grand- admit that the large majority of conferences you at- ernmental organizations, such as Doctors Without mothers. Just as contrast, in March of ‘06 there tended during your time with the UN turned into Borders, Save the Children, World Vision, and were between three and five grandmother groups these sort of “speak-a-thons” or “talk-a-thons” that, OXFAM, who really do lovely work and I have no in Canada. In August of ‘06, when we brought the and I quote, “give credence to the proposition that if difficulty giving them support. hundred African grandmothers to the International you talk about something for long enough, the illu- Ben Wood AIDS Conference with 200 hundred Canadian sion will be created that progress is being made.” On For example, the world is preoccupied, in some grandmothers, there were between 25 and 30 grand- the other hand, however, you continue to give prior- extent, with sexual violence and the terrible things mother groups. As of today, there are 181 grand- ity to the UN, or other international institutions, in that are being done to women in Darfur, Northern tephen Lewis, a former politician mothers’ chapters across the country and they have raised close to $3 million in 14 months. That’s an as- and leader of the Official Opposition with tonishing force; it is like a social movement. So in the Ontario NDP, is a prominent figure, “I think the celebrity S truth, for the first time ever we have actually hired not only in Canada, but across the world. Lewis was a development officer—someone who can oversee leadership we are seeing is simply filling a Special Envoy to former UN Secretary-General fundraising and finances because it strikes us as the Kofi Annan, CBA’s Author of the Year in 2005 for the vacuum in the absence of real political leadership.” time to do that. his book, Race Against Time, and a former deputy executive director of UNICEF. U – That is really interesting. There now seems dealing with issues such as poverty, hunger, or gender Uganda and especially the Eastern Congo. And A passionate and driven individual, Lewis is to be a shift from a reliance on governments to pro- representation. Do you see it as beneficial or detri- even though the Security Council has its debates, currently a co-director of AIDS-Free World, the vide support for these types of issues, to the individu- mental to work with these institutions? Is there a very little is happening. There just isn’t the capac- chair of the board of the Stephen Lewis Foundation, als who, maybe out of frustration, maybe out of mo- balance you found? ity internationally, somehow, to mobilize to pro- and is co-chair of the Leadership Programme tivation, take it upon themselves to provide support. tect these women who are subject to the most unbe- Committee for the XVII International AIDS This is a really unique aspect of the work youare SL – Well, it is terribly interesting. I think that lievable, unfathomable, unimaginable assault, be it Conference. His work focuses on the HIV/AIDS crisis in Africa, and seeks to help those suffering A with this disease and bring it to the attention of po- n litical leaders, non-governmental organizations, and ur i t students. He even stresses the strong role of grand- aBains mothers, who he understands to be a very strong, in- telligent and influential force, both in Canada and Africa. The Stephen Lewis Foundation commits itself to the issue of HIV/AIDS in Africa by mobi- lizing support from individuals and assisting grass- roots organizations that feel the same concern Lewis expresses throughout this interview.

Lewis will be in Winnipeg on Nov. 12 as key- note speaker for the 10th anniversary celebration for the Manitoba chapter of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Uniter – In what ways, do you, or the Stephen Lewis Foundation, find and mobilize support? Have you found certain ways work better than others or have you found any unique ways, especially consider- ing an issue that may be hard for some people to come to terms with or envision a possible solution to?

Stephen Lewis – It’s been really surprising, and I wish I had an easy answer for you. There isn’t an answer for that question. We have now received, and I’m using that verb advisedly because we have not solicited for money, about $27 million between three and four years, and it has come from about 60,000 individual Canadians from across the coun- Lesotho — Stephen Lewis at MSF clinic in Morija, Lesotho. try, in every corner of the country. We have not received that large of an amount of money from corporations, foundations or the Canadian gov- doing. You are right in saying there is a very personal these “talk-a-thons” ultimately, are both destructive rape, sexual violence, mutilation, amputation—just ernment—actually, virtually nothing from foun- aspect that the foundation has. and self-serving and I have very little use for them a scourge of horrors. dations, very little from corporations and virtually to this day. But some of the agencies have very pow- nothing from the government—because Canadians SL – It is interesting, curious, and encourag- erful representation on the ground; they have very Interestingly, it’s someone like Eve Ensler, have been so generous to us, and it has been quite re- ing, indeed. There is just no question in my mind strong relationships with the government and they the woman who did the Vagina Monologues, who markable. And I think it’s because the foundation that, never mind the foundation, the public is way are capable of doing very good work, so you can’t came back from the Eastern Congo and wrote very has a profile and I get an opportunity to speak quite ahead of the government. The public feels these write them off entirely. What really happens is that powerful words, which then circulated through the often. Each time I speak somewhere there is some issues far deeper than the government does. the headquarters tend to be deficient and the people Internet and through journals. Her NGO, V-day, is association with the foundation, even if it is only in in the field, on the ground, tend to be remarkably raising money, so my own foundation immediately the introduction—which is as it should be because I U – This idea is one that struck me when I was helpful and committed. responded and gave money to the one hospital that don’t want to overdo it. reading your book, Race Against Time. You seemed is trying to repair the damage that has been done to contact: [email protected] The Uniter November 8, 2007 FEATURES 11 the women. As well it looks as though Eve will re- ceive additional funds to expand and others will be able to enter and do more work than before. All of this was generated by a dramatist jour- nal from outside rather than major united agen- cies inside. The way in which these things are driven

by the outside until the institutions come to their 2003on, senses is so interesting. The capacity to move things rt from the outside is terribly important.

U – Clearly, in all of these issues, and especially Ba r enda in the work you are doing with HIV/AIDS in Africa,

there is this underlying notion that these countries WFP/B are attempting to develop and this is seen as a very positive thing. However, there is the counter argu- ment that development can be understood as a very negative term, especially when it is using the West and Western states as its referent. How do you un- derstand development? Do you see it as more of a pos- itive or negative term? Or, is this simply a useless se- mantic argument?

SL – No, it is a very real debate, especially if you look at the development in South America where the model they have chosen is very Western capitalist-based. On the other hand, there are other countries that are trying very hard to shake free of the international trading regiment to provide fair- ness instead of discrimination. They are fighting to get rid of the debt; they are fighting to remove the conditions imposed on them by the IMF and the WB. They want to develop towards a different model, which is far removed from the colonial in- dependent status. And, probably has more regard for the public sector than is true of most of the G8 countries.

U – Recently, there has been a growing interest among civil society in these international affairs, in these events, in these wars. Rock stars are getting into it, there is a rise in youth interested who are using the Internet to spread awareness, even down to celebri- ties that you see on the cover of People or US Weekly. It seems that with this growing interest there come these superficial campaigns to attempt to alleviate poverty or world hunger in one fell swoop. How do you feel about the commodification of these issues? Live 8 for example, was meant to raise awareness, and that is it. Which, I suppose, can be better than nothing, but do you think that awareness, no matter how it is created, is good and can lead to change? Or do you see these campaigns as doing more harm than good, for not fully understanding the complexities of the problem?

SL – I’m not sure they do harm because I am inclined to believe that any raising of awareness is Zimbabwe — Stephen Lewis holding a baby. useful. On the other hand, they can be pretty empty and pretty inconsequential in the grand scheme of things. The Vanity Fair covers, I thought, came as these things seriously. Tony Blair was a complete nally reflects the proportion of World GNP that the however, you discovered that there were costs for close to doing harm as anything. Imagine putting write-off—it was all posturing and assembling. U.S. should be giving. They have agreed to get rid of books, registration fees, or parent-teacher associa- George Bush or Condoleezza Rice on the cover as if He was much more interested in being the foreign the nonsensical abstinence stuff. They also agreed to tions that were not included in the eliminated fees. they had been doing anything of contribution—of minister of the United States than he was in being take seriously the foreign aid target of 0.7 per cent. And these hidden costs had to be dealt with before serious contribution—to dealing with the AIDS the leader of a serious effort to combat poverty They are not totally committing themselves to get- you could achieve a substantial increase in access to pandemic. It was really revolting. And that was the and disease. ting there but at least they are not dismissing it. education. To what extent to you think this paral- ultimate commodification. It was the reductio ad They signed it; it is in writing. It is not just hand over lels the larger issue of debt relief? There is growing absurdum of the commodification argument. And Now, if Hilary Clinton wins, and Gordon the heart, bullshit rhetoric. These are documents in support for Africa’s debt, in whole, to be called off, in there are also people who, quite understandably, are Brown is there, and you get a relationship that is writing that they are going to have difficulty dis- a belief that this would ‘level the playing field’ and very critical of Bono and what he does. Brown and Clinton rather than Blair and Bush, you avowing because they have now got major NGOs all create a great opportunity for Africa to strengthen may see a shift in both the rhetoric and the perfor- over them. In fact, I think they did it because of the itself. However, does this ignore the social and politi- I understand those arguments but I want mance. I think that Brown can bring both Sarkozy work being done on the ground in New Hampshire cal problems that underpin and even increase a coun- to put it in a different context. I think the celeb- and Merkel onside. And if that happens then it will and Iowa, and if they are not onside of these issues try’s debt? Do you think this is a good approach or rity leadership we are seeing is simply filling the be a different kind of G8 for the next three or four they can suffer in the primaries. does it ignore the natural inequalities of the market vacuum in the absence of real political leadership. years and that is a more optimistic one. system that have been created in a way to benefit us There is a tremendous campaign going on in in the West? the grassroots in the U.S. that most Canadians aren’t aware of. It is not Bono and his group doing the SL – The impetus towards debt relief is pick- “There is just no question in my mind work, but it is being done by Global AIDS Alliance, ing up steam. The level of debt relief has been dis- by Results, Act Up, and a number of other organiza- appointing given the promises made at Gleneagles that…the public is way ahead of the government. tions. There is a group called Global Justice, which in July 2005. There have been 14-18 countries that The public feels these issues far deeper than the government does.” consists of students in universities right across the have experienced a good measure of relief but it was U.S. They are a very powerful student organization thought that it would be two or three times that and they are all over the place harassing candidates number. So there is still a tremendous battle to be I genuinely believe if there were political leadership, and elected members. There is some hope there, that fought and there is a lot of momentum being ap- these celebrities wouldn’t count for very much. They For example, all of the Democratic presidential the American political system, when it recovers from plied. Most of the countries that receive debt relief receive tremendous prominence. There is a great candidates of consequence—Richardson, Edwards, Iraq, may have some more informed leadership. are using whatever savings it engenders for poverty deal of public notoriety given because there are no Obama and Clinton—have all signed a pledge indi- reduction—that is the general understanding of other counterpoints. cating that they will raise the amount of money the U – Throughout your book, you described sit- debt relief. Again, it is like everything else. You are U.S. gives for AIDS, tuberculosis, and Malaria to a uations where you were attempting to eliminate never going to change the market system overnight, Up until now, until the emergence of Gordon total of $50 billion by 2013. That means it will rise school fees in hopes that this would lead to greater but you may be able to alleviate some of the human Brown as the Prime Minister of the United from $3 billion a year, which is what Bush is doing, access to education. In one instance, President Kibaki suffering and deprivation. ■ Kingdom, we have had no one in the G8 who takes to $10 billion a year. That is quite a jump and it fi- of Kenya eliminated school fees. Beyond these costs, November 8, 2007 The Uniter contact: [email protected] 12 ARTS & CULTURE

Ar t s & Cu l t u r e Ed i t o r : Wh i t n e y Li g h t Arts & Culture E-m a i l : a r t s @u n i t e r .c a Mother of their amazing luck bold. He kept using the word `brash’ to describe how the album was going to sound.” Guldemond said Redekopp brought a vision of low-fi and hi-fi fusion to the recording. They Aaron Epp wanted it to sound raw, gritty, and live, but also Volunteer Staff “orchestrated and thoughtful,” Guldemond said, noting the use of piano, trumpet and clarinet throughout the disc. yan Guldemond of Vancouver’s Mother The quintet, rounded out by vocalist Mother has his own mother to thank for Debra-Jean Creelman, bassist Jeremy Page, and the way his band’s debut CD, Touch Up, drummer Kenton Loewen, released the CD Rturned out. earlier this year on Last Gang Records. It’s a Mrs. Guldemond read an article about diverse collection of songs. The band uses their singer-songwriter duo Tegan and Sara and saw pop and indie rock sensibilities—the Pixies that their producer, Howard Redekopp, lived ingsen are an apparent influence—and incorporate in Vancouver. She urged her son to contact Ell elements of jazz, bluegrass and new wave. It’s

Redekopp, but Guldemond, the band’s singer avid all held together by the sound of three voices D and guitarist, thought it would be presumptuous weaving in and out of harmony and shared to do so. He wanted to appease his mother, Mother Mother will rock the Pyramid on Nov. 9. leads. however, so he wrote Redekopp’s name on the “We just started stacking different vocal nearest piece of paper, a poster for one of his lines on top of each other and picking the ones band’s upcoming shows, and promptly forgot the show. A month later, the club’s head chef was written on her band’s poster. that worked,” Guldemond said of the unique about it. was taking old posters off the wall. He noticed “The rest is history,” Guldemond said. singing parts. “[It] evolved pretty quickly from Guldemond’s sister Molly, who also sings “Howard Redekopp” scrawled on the back of the The chef gave the band’s demo to Redekopp, ornamenting an existing vocal line to actually in the band, took the poster to the country club Mother Mother poster. Curious, he approached and Redekopp met with Guldemond shortly writing specifically for three voices.” where she worked and put it up to advertise Molly and asked why his brother-in-law’s name thereafter. “Our crossing of paths was very The band has been on the road most of serendipitous.” this year. They’re planning on recording their Redekopp, who has also worked with second CD in February, and once again, they’ll The New Pornographers, wasn’t so sure about be working with Redekopp. Maybe next time working with Mother Mother at first. Guldemond will take his mother’s advice right “It was a little too prim and proper, away. and a little too nice,” Redekopp said of the “She’s a pretty hip lady,” he admitted. “Not demo the band gave him. “Yet the lyrics and like the skinny jeans and the new wave hip… undercurrents that were happening seemed to More like the jazz and the books hip.” The Uniter Fashion Streeter is an ongoing documentation of creative fashion in suggest otherwise.” “He was apprehensive about making a soft, See Mother Mother at the Pyramid Cabaret Nov. Winnipeg inspired by the Helsinki fashion blog www.hel-looks.com. Each week will rootsy album,” recalled Guldemond. “But [he] 9 with The Most Serene Republic and Dragonette. feature a new look from our city’s streets and bars in an attempt to encourage indi- still wanted to nurture the acoustic, folk quality Visit www.mothermothersite.com. vidual expression and celebrate that you are really, really good looking. Want to show of the music while doing something current and off your style? Contact [email protected] SON R T E E P ASHA T NA

Jennifer Rempel

“My stye is really girly. I like to add a touch of pink in all my outfits. I always like to wear big necklaces and I can usually be found in ballet flats.” contact: [email protected] The Uniter November 8, 2007 ARTS & CULTURE 13 Music, batons, and communal showers Folk Fest photography exhibit opens at the Folk Exchange

Tom Llewellin Volunteer Staff

n A Birds Hill View, viewers get behind the lenses of the talented volunteer photography crewI of the Winnipeg Folk Festival to find surprisingly diverse images. Professionals young and old, semi-pros and freelancers, each offer their own take on a different facet of the four-day celebration of musical diversity. They run the gamut from grainy, gritty portraits of musicians utterly lost in the joy of performing, to shots of “folkies” watching their reflections in a mud puddle. The free exhibit opened on Nov. 1 and continues until Dec. 15 Breathing Tent (detail, 2007) by Bob Tinker. at the Winnipeg Folk Exchange, the festival’s year-round live performance venue kitty corner from Market Square. finicky process of taking good portraits of flower-printed clamshell mirror, disposes of why it works so well as a whole. The setting isn’t quite gallery-like, as the prints moving subjects that much easier; bumping, his beard at the communal showers. Each photographer has their own take on simply hang on the wall of a well-lit venue, jostling and strange lighting is a challenge for David Landy, a member of the crew exactly what it is that gives the festival the but it is planned to be a semi-permanent photographers at some of the smaller venues. for over 30 years who passed away in 2004, infectious vibe that draws people from all exhibit. Denis Buchan, a portrait photographer, stands out. His stark, grainy portraits of over the continent and the world to Birds “It’s been in the planning stages for is in fine form with his black-and-white prints festival icons like Billy Bragg take the clock Hill Park. Folk Fest aficionados will enjoy years,” said Karen Press, the festival’s public of crowd-pleasers The Duhks and Corb Lund, back a few years, and bring out the soulful perusing the enviable collection of mementos. relations coordinator. “The space needed who gaze out, dewy-eyed, from the shelter of spirit of the festival. The uninitiated may find new reasons to something permanent in it, and the archives the stage on the thousands of people before It’s evident that each photographer make checking out Folk Fest next summer’s have thousands upon thousands of pictures.” them with scarcely a waver. was granted equal opportunity in this show. priority. The festival’s current six photographers Bill Clarke’s part of the show offers a There’s no star, which is precisely the reason were given free reign to choose the prints glimpse of the festival’s background happenings. for the show, and most of them are from The campground’s famous fire-dancers twirl the last two or three years. In that time, their batons, and masses of people shrouded digital technology has made the extremely in darkness twist and lunge. A man, using a

Release (2007) by Lisa Waldner. November 8, 2007 The Uniter contact: [email protected] 14 ARTS & CULTURE Banishing the figment Nirvana journalist Azerrad speaks about new Cobain documentary C r edi t : Wya tt

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t’s been 13 years since the death of Kurt Cobain and his impact on music still resonates, though the details about who he wasI may be blurry, if we ever really knew at all. About A Son is a unique documentary about a musician. But more than that, it paints an honest portrait about the man behind Nirvana. Many notions circulate about Scene from the documentary film KURT COBAIN ABOUT A SON – A Film by AJ Schnack A view of Lake Washington from Kurt Cobain’s former home in Seattle, WA. It was in this home that most of the interviews in the film were conducted. Filmed in September, 2005. Cobain wanting less fame and more privacy, being a junkie and being unhappy, but Michael Azerrad debunks these myths through a smooth things in the film that contradict the standard Kurt Cobain and his wife Courtney Love Cobain on another level. It explains his narrative, spoken by Cobain himself, that takes wisdom about him. He was a complicated contacted Azerrad to ask him to write a book musical genius, ambitions, and parts of his us from the beginning of his life almost right guy, much more than the cartoon cut-out about Nirvana. The interviews took place character that, as for most people, can only be to the end. ‘Kurt Cobain’ of the popular imagination.” between Dec. 23, 1992 to March 31, 1993, revealed through the things he was drawn to, “Part of the idea of About a Son was to Azerrad, an author and music journalist, and the book Come as You Are: The Story of not what he said. demolish the idea that Kurt wanted to remain has interviewed Cobain more than any Nirvana was published Sept. 1, 1993, six “The first bands he listened to were understated,” said Azerrad. “As he mentions other writer. Concerned about the amount months before Cobain died. These interviews the likes of Queen, Creedence Clearwater several times, he wanted to be famous, and he of negative press they were receiving, make up the entire dialogue of the film. The Revival, and Cheap Trick, not to mention the wanted to lead an exciting life. He says a lot of uninterrupted audio clips of Kurt Cobain are Beatles, Kiss and Aerosmith,” said Azerrad. more of his speaking voice and perspectives “These bands not only assiduously courted than anyone has ever heard. fame and fortune, they proudly reveled in it The film’s visuals illustrate Cobain’s once they attained it. It’s crucial to note that words. Footage of his hometown Aberdeen, these bands formed Kurt’s first conception of cafes in Olympia, and shots of the streets what it was to be a rock musician. It was only of Seattle all help to place the viewer in his much later, when he went to the college town shoes. We don’t see Cobain’s face until the end of Olympia, Washington, in his late teens and of the film and we don’t hear any music from early 20s, that he was introduced to the idea the band. And that’s the beauty of it: Nirvana that being a rock star was not something to doesn’t steal the show. be desired. He aspired to the sophistication “We never intended to use any Nirvana of the people who were telling him that, even music in the film,” said Azerrad. “That was the after it became abundantly apparent that his idea from the start. Nirvana’s music is heavily artistic vision utterly dwarfed theirs.” freighted with associations and memories. We About A Son is thoughtful, beautiful, and wanted to take that off the table, and allow meditative, a refreshing documentary about the audience to experience Kurt as a man, not one of the most important music figures for as ‘Kurt Cobain, rock icon.’” this generation. The musical score tells the viewer about

Credit: Wyatt Troll Courtesy: Balcony Releasing

Scene from the documentary film KURT COBAIN ABOUT A SON – A Film by AJ Schnack A young boy plays inside the Seattle-Tacoma Airport Filmed in March, 2006. Ar t s & Cu l t u r e Ed i t o r : Wh i t n e y Li g h t E-m a i l : a r t s @u n i t e r .c a contact: [email protected] The Uniter Novermber 8, 2007 Ph o n e : 786-9497 Fa x : 783-7080 ARTS & CULTURE 15

Jazz virtuoso Lerner Have song, will travel returns for CD release

Mikale S. Fenton different genres, including creative taste of the region’s music had come has composed and played music her through her extensive travel. Volunteer Staff improvisation, klezmer and 20th when she was just an infant and her entire life, Lerner says she has only “I have a lot of tools to interpret century classical. father had a radio show dedicated really reconnected with the music the music the way I feel, because you An award-winning performer to Jewish music. But although she of her culture in the last five years, know, I’m not really a traditional and composer, she has played player,” Lerner said. “My biggest orld renowned with the best of the best, touring inspiration for this CD was when I musician, pianist and and performing with a myriad of started going to Eastern Europe and former Winnipegger W artists both across Canada and hanging out with musicians, playing Marilyn Lerner isn’t what you’d call a internationally. In 2004, she and and teaching there.” traditional player. She’s a captivating guitarist Sonny Greenwich recorded She stresses how important artist, celebrated globally for her Special Angel, which was awarded travel is for all artists because not unique sound and exhilarating Outstanding Jazz Recording at the only does it expose one to various performances. Although she was Western Canadian Music Awards. people and styles of music, it also born in Montreal, her career partly She also composed “Birds are presents opportunities to play with developed in and has left a lasting Returning,” the first contemporary different artists and for different impression on Winnipeg’s jazz scene. jazz recording to come out of audiences. On Nov. 14, Lerner is back in town Cuba. In 1994, at the Montreal Creating Romanian Fantasy for a one-night-only performance at International Jazz Festival, Lerner represented a “coming home” for the Rose and Max Rady Community was awarded the SOCAN prize for Lerner. “I think in a way the circle Center. She’ll be unveiling her latest best Jazz Composition. comes back, since both of my CD, Romanian Fantasy, a work The independently produced parent’s families come from there. It inspired by her Eastern European Romanian Fantasy is a collection was a physical return to that place, heritage and travels. of solo improvisations on Eastern to re-envision the music from where

Lerner’s roots are in classical www European Jewish music. It’s I am now,” she said. music, after which she moved particularly significant for Lerner, .ma New jazz appreciators and into jazz and world music. She is r i l demonstrating the full circle that l yn connoisseurs alike are sure to find consistently reinventing her sound, e r

her music has come. After studying ne some enjoyment in Lerner’s rich and and her music is motivated by r . ethnomusicology in university, it c genuine work. Tickets are $20 and her travels, to everywhere from om was Lerner’s heritage that initially are available through radyjcc.com. Montreal to Cuba, from the U.S. to drew her to Eastern Europe. Her first Europe. Today her work spans many Marilyn Lerner

On perversion

something perverse in the act of though the camera is our eye. Thus our identification with the act of sexual dramas of Lynch’s Blue The Pervert’s watching film. it teaches not what to desire, but watching. Velvet, to Zizek in the same room, Guide To Cinema Are we scopophiliacs? Does how. Zizek shows, for example, With fascinating technique, offering a running commentary (2006) watching film show us how in an analysis of Vertigo, how the filmmaker Sophie Fiennes on the fantasy and reality of sexual The Pervert’s Guide relationships. Zizek and Lynch, in Directed by to desire? , viewer is invited to voyeuristically recreates the sets and scenes of Sophie Fiennes a journey through the desire observe Madeleine in the same the films that Zizek analyzes, fact, seem closely related by their mechanics of film, insists that it way the detective does. We become with Zizek imposed in the scene. infamously difficult work: Lynch Cinematheque Nov. 12-15, does. Cinema invites us to see as distanced watchers, titillated by Viewers jump from the bizarre for discontinuous and fractured 7:00 p.m. narratives; Zizek for arcane and esoteric theory. There is an uncanny understanding that comes from this kind of juxtaposition. Zizek explains Lynch as much as C. Jordan Crosthwaite Lynch explains psychoanalysis. Volunteer www Throughout the film, . t an odd tension presses. Zizek he p

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t m watch that which is both revolting as The Pervert, guiding us through l and compelling? the tortuous psyche of cinema. With cheap tricks and As the film’s star, Zizek excitedly heavy theory, The Pervert’s Guide theorizes about cinematic classics, to Cinema is both a dizzying from Chaplin to Hitchcock to exposition of film theory, and Lynch. According to Zizek, we are a bold confrontation of the all perverts. The film elaborates mechanisms of desire within the thesis that, as viewers of film, cinema itself. we become voyeurs—there is Zizek on Bodega Bay, November 8, 2007 The Uniter contact: [email protected] 16 ARTS & CULTURE

ARTS BriefS Writer wears two hats Author and editor Doug Whiteway Compiled by AARON EPP starts term at Public Library Ly l

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The sixth edition of the Shorter Oxford r mysteries typically have. You can English Dictionary has eliminated the hyphens hang lots of interesting things on a in 16,000 words, the BBC reported late last he Winnipeg Public good strong backbone,” month. Many of them are two-word compound Library has appointed a Whiteway said. nouns. Fig-leaf is now fig leaf, pot-belly is now new writer-in-residence Whiteway wrote his novels Tfor the 2007/08 term. Aspiring pot belly, and pigeon-hole has finally achieved under the name C.C. Benison for authors or previously published one-word (or is that one word, or oneword?) several interesting reasons. “I thought writers can submit a manuscript I’d like an identity separate from the status as pigeonhole. The blame has been put, to Doug Whiteway, who will be non-fiction-writing me. There’s also at least in part, on electronic communication. reading and providing constructive a tradition of pseudonyms in the In our hectic lives, we no longer have time to feedback. The public library mystery genre. And there’s a bit of reach over to the hyphen key while writing e- hires an established author every marketing involved. My editor in mails. Data drawn from a wide range of pub- year who is available for such New York suggested I pick a name lications taken in 1961 and 1991 suggested consultations. from the Bs or Cs because, shelved a five per cent decline in hyphen usage over Whiteway has worked as a in a bookstore, they would more journalist at the Winnipeg Free the three decades. Of the hyphen, Shorter OED likely be at eye level. `Whiteway’, Press and as an editor for Canadian editor Angus Stevenson said, “It’s starting to alas, would be at someone’s ankles,” history magazine The Beaver. Whiteway said. look a lot like something your grandmother He’s also penned four mystery The man who proclaims to might write.” novels (one of which takes place wear two hats seems to keep one in Winnipeg) under the nom de hat for Doug Whiteway, editor New tipi unveiled at the plume C.C. Benison. and journalist, and one for C.C. Clearly Whiteway brings Manitoba Museum Benison, fiction author. plenty of experience as a writer Doug Whiteway is the writer-in-residence Both Doug Whiteway and and editor to his new position. The Manitoba Museum officially opened this Fall at the Winnipeg Public Library. C.C. Benison are encouraging In a written statement for its new tipi in the Grasslands Gallery on Nov. writers to submit their work. the Winnipeg Public Library 1. The old tipi had deteriorated so badly it page, then, with those clips, went to Carleton Whiteway’s term began Nov. 1 and newsletter, Whiteway describes himself as University in Ottawa for a postgraduate degree. continues until June. Submission guidelines are needed replacing, and the new tipi is the only “wearing two hats, either of which may be And the rest is history—or some reasonable available at wpl.winnipeg.ca/library/contact/ traditional style Dakota tipi on display in a useful in covering a balding pate, but both of facsimile thereof.” writer.asp. Writers should also submit a cover Canadian museum. Members of the Hall family which may be useful in helping writers in their After earning his journalism degree in letter describing their writing background, of the Sioux Valley Dakota First Nation cre- journey, whether they aspire to be published, 1977, Whiteway worked as a journalist and name and contact information. leave a legacy for family and friends, or work ated the tipi cover, and the cover was painted editor through the 1980s and 1990s. Then he Most writers need someone to help them through personal problems or challenges.” As to represent the lodge of Wambdi Wicasta, or tried his hand at fiction. Whiteway was drawn stay on path. Whiteway said it best: “Ideas are all writers can attest, it’s important to have Eagle Man, Elder Solomon Hall’s Dakota name. to the mystery genre, he said, because that is easy, execution will kill you.” someone experienced in the publishing Solomon is a spiritual leader of the Wambdi world review your work. And it’s even more Wiwanyag Wacipi, the Eagle Sun Dance, held important to have someone read your work at Sioux Valley Dakota Nation. His wife Mary who’s been an editor. sewed the tipi cover, and Solomon and other Fate seems to have called Whiteway to family members assisted with the project. For be a journalist. He had initially intended visiting hours and other information, visit www. to get his Masters in comparative religious manitobamuseum.ca. studies, but after reading what was then a dismal religion section in the Winnipeg Tribune, Whiteway turned to writing. Energy drink scholarship “I wrote a letter to the editor telling supports Canadians him that his church page stank and that what he needed was me,” Whiteway said. Ottawa rapper Brockway Biggs and Fillmore “He bit. I began contributing to the church Street Brewery have created a new set of inter- national scholarships for students. First prize is $1,750, second prize is $500, third prize is $250, and the fourth to tenth prizes are mer- chandise. Fillmore Street Brewery’s Positive Intellectual Motivated Person “Upgrade Your Life” Scholarship contest allows students from all disciplines, with no grade point average re- strictions, to compete in an essay and photog- raphy competition on the topic of how the stu- dent plans to upgrade his or her life through education, hard work, creativity, heart and phi- lanthropy. Scholarship application forms are available at www.letitloose.com. All applica- tions must be received no later than Mar. 3, 2008. Not bad, coming from a company that markets an energy drink called Pimp Juice. contact: [email protected] The Uniter November 8, 2007 Ar t s & Cu l t u r e Ed i t o r : Wh i t n e y Li g h t E-m a i l : a r t s @u n i t e r .c a Ph o n e : 786-9497 ARTS & CULTURE 17 Fa x : 783-7080 Hardcore outro

only sure thing is that, like a lot of people born demo CD they recorded last year. where we can support ourselves and come home Coda are ready to missionary parents, he’s got some issues to For his part, Peters seems just as excited to with money, instead of going into debt,” said to hit the studio work through. be working with Coda as they are to be working Barchuk. “If you can travel, see different parts Now the band is getting ready to record its with him. of the world, and not be in debt for it, I think debut full-length. Recording begins next month, “Their music is non-generically structured,” you’re doing okay.” and Coda hope to release the disc in February. Peters said when asked what he thought when For Coda, it would seem, the new Aaron Epp Ex-Undecided guitarist John Paul Peters, known he first heard Coda. “It’s down and dirty, and I songs, local shows and debut CD are just the Volunteer Staff for his work with Comeback Kid, will produce like when things are down and dirty.” beginning. and engineer the CD. After the CD is released, Smoljanovic said, “He has a lot of experience, and he comes the plan is to tour and hopefully create a huge See Coda at The Zoo Nov. 9 with JAW, In n addition to the tip, how many concert from a scene with a lot of energy,” said Barchuk. hype in Canada and possibly the U.S. Transformation and Amid Valhalla. Visit www. tickets do you leave your waitress? The band got to know Peters when he mixed a “It would just be nice to get onto tours myspace.com/codatheband. At the back of a dimly lit Corydon IAvenue café, Mike “Small J” Smoljanovic and Scott Barchuk, guitarist and bassist for PRESS PHOTO Winnipeg’s Coda, are trying to answer that question. It’s just one of the many decisions you’ve got to make when you’re in a rock band and promoting a show. “I think that’s what we bank on the most, is our live performance,” said Smoljanovic, whose band plays The Zoo tomorrow night. “Realistically, if someone really doesn’t like our music that much, they’ll still enjoy the show.” That’s not to say the band isn’t confident in its song writing abilities, though. If anything, Coda is more confident than ever. Formed in 2002 by Smoljanovic and brothers Casey and Kevin Gooch (who play the keyboards and drums, respectively), Coda solidified their line-up with the addition of vocalist Tim Stade in 2005 and Barchuk earlier this year. “It’s wicked,” Smoljanovic said of the line- up. “And everything we write is different, but it’s still Coda, you know? I think we’ve finally found our sound now.” If the turnout at a recent Halloween show is any indication, it’s a sound that is earning them a loyal following. In their music, Killswitch Engage-like riffs and System of a Down-like time changes meet slithering bass lines and driving keyboards to create music that is equal parts progressive and hardcore. Stade half-screams, half-whines lyrics about God knows what—the Coda: first a record, then the world.

A Saskatchewan story Theatre Projects opens season with successful drama

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actor playing Marten. It’s a success: Blais never Lei f tretching Hide, the newest production makes a wrong step. Due credit must also go from Theatre Projects Manitoba, is to director Arne MacPherson who, with Blais, another confirmation of the quality successfully incorporates elements of mime Sand vibrancy of Winnipeg’s theatre scene. The and clowning into the performance as comic play, which premiered Nov. 1, is the second in a relief. This could have gone disastrously wrong. series that playwrights Dale Lakevold and Darrell Instead it enhances the production and is really a Racine are writing on Canadian aboriginal testament to the underlying strength of the play; culture and history. Stretching Hide beautifully it can support such comic interludes without presents the material by locating its elemental losing its way. drama. Also a stand-out is veteran actor Hauff as In other words, the play isn’t simply Albert, who oozes loathsomeness and yet is not ‘about the Métis.’ Its focus is the larger themes: incapable of generating sympathy. The entire cast, generational transition, and the sometimes near in fact, is notably strong. If there is a weak link, futility of attempts to break away from cultural, it is supporting player Paula-Jean Prudat, who at community, ethnic, and blood ties. times seemed to be somewhere else altogether. Frank Ducharme (Ryan Cunningham), a Overall, Stretching Hide marks a promising young Métis lawyer, returns with his sweetheart Eric Blais plays Marten in Theatre Projects MB’s Stretching Hide. start to the season. Clara (Daria Puttaert) to his remote childhood home in northern Saskatchewan. His father Stretching Hide will be performed at the Albert (Thomas Hauff) owns most of the land in to be more tied to the past than he ever realized. that his word is worthless to the authorities. Winnipeg Contemporary Dancers’ Studio at the community, and doesn’t let locals like Sandy This comes as a revelation to Clara, who receives Meanwhile, Marten seems to know more 211 Bannatyne Avenue until Nov. 11. Scott (Jan Skene) and her mentally handicapped an ominous warning: “You marry a Métis, you about the shooting than he lets on. And just what For ticket info call 989-2400 or visit son Marten (Eric Blais) forget it. Albert wants marry the dead.” is the secret Sandy keeps that, if revealed, would www.theatreprojectsmanitoba.ca. his son to take over the land, but Frank has his Then a deer is found illegally shot, its antlers most certainly drive Clara away from Frank and own plans. Unfortunately, in trying to break taken, and Frank is suspected of poaching. this hotbed of rivalries, grudges, and sins from away from his father’s legacy, he reveals himself Fingers point towards Eugene (Jonathan Fisher), the past? another local, who angrily denies it but realizes Given the challenge inherent in portraying November 8, 2007 The Uniter contact: [email protected] 18 ARTS & CULTURE ARTS & CULTURE cd REviews BOOK REview

Chuck Klosterman IV: SEAN BROWN DIE MANNEQUIN A FINE FRENZY A Decade of Curious People Ready Fire Aim Slaughter Daughter One Cell in the Sea Independent How to Kill Music Virgin Records and Dangerous Ideas By Chuck Klosterman On his debut I know you Except for a few Paperback Edition Scribner full-length, Winnipeg shouldn’t judge a additions by Nicklas 432 pages songwriter Sean book by its cover, Sample, Gus Black Brown sounds confi- but I thought this and Lukas Burton, Aaron Epp dent, urgent, and rele- might not apply to vocalist Alison Sudol vant. Sonically, Ready Die Mannequin’s wrote all the lyrics Fire Aim wouldn’t be out of place next to your Ryan second EP, Slaughter Daughter. The CD cover pic- and music for A Fine Frenzy’s debut album One Adams or Foo Fighters records. But Brown’s sound is tures two ornamental ceramic cats with a Value Cell in the Sea. Sudol, who performed all of the If pop culture criti- unique, and it sets him apart from the many cookie- Village tag taped to each of their sides, and I songs on the album, draws her musical inspira- cism was rock guitar play- cutter bands out there. Most striking on Ready Fire hoped the music would prove just as intrigu- tion from Aretha Franklin and Coldplay, and liter- ing, Chuck Klosterman Aim is Brown’s songwriting ability. Each song has ing and playful. Track one delivers. “Do it or Die” ary classics such as C.S. Lewis inspire her lyrics. would be Eddie Van its own distinct flavour, from the driving indie-rock immediately has you grooving in your seat to its Her voice is nice and clear and her songs are quite Halen. Just as Van Halen’s of “Only Human” (which features The Weakerthans’ pop rock melodies and on-the-verge-of-yelling pleasant, fitting nicely into the background. And guitar work made people Steve Carroll on guitar) and “Here and Never Gone,” lyrics. Track two is still upbeat, but slightly less herein lies the problem. It is all very nice, with- to the calypso-inspired “Oh Life” and the more re- appealing. Most of the lyrics say simply, “I want it, out being fresh or exciting. A few tracks do stand stand up and take notice strained, introspective tunes such as “A Better Way.” I want it, I want it…I need it, I need it…,” which out, however, such as “You Picked Me” and “Almost when his band released Although it’s diverse, the album is cohesive too. The is surprisingly catchy. Give it a week and it’ll turn Lover,” mostly because the lyrics are wonderful. their first CD in the `70s, quality of the musicianship is remarkable: interest- into one of those irritating songs that linger in the Sudol writes like a poet, using numerous images Klosterman’s writing has made avid followers of people who ing and unique lead guitar lines weave throughout, back of your head. The Toronto band unfortunately and metaphors. Overall, unfortunately, the album usually ignore bylines. (Fans of his work have been labeled the result being a multi-faceted sound. At the same loses their energy over each track following. By fades into the background much like white noise. the Cult of Klosterman.) time, the rhythm section keeps the intensity level up, the time you get to “Open Season (Raw Bootleg),” The 35-year-old journalist came to prominence as a even on the album’s slower moments. Fans of smart, the last track, the sound is as painful as nails on Kathleen Gallagher catchy and driving rock may have a new favourite a chalkboard until you can reach the stop button. 2.5 out of 5 senior writer for Spin magazine from 2002 to 2006. In ad- with Sean Brown. But, given the negative nature of the lyrics, maybe dition to interviewing bands for the magazine, he also wrote that’s the point. the columns “### Words from Chuck Klosterman,” “Rant Curran Faris and Roll Over,” and “My Back Pages.” He still has a regu- 4 out of 5 Ashley Buleziuk lar column in Esquire, and has written for GQ, The New York 3 out of 5 Times Magazine, and The Washington Post. Although he is best known for his writing on music, he has also written about sports for ESPN.com. Klosterman has published three other books: Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto, and Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story. If Klosterman were a rock star and those books were his first three albums, then Chuck Klosterman IV is his box set: it includes hit singles (previously published articles and columns with new intro- ductions, footnotes and hypothetical questions), alternate takes (longer versions of previously published articles), rar- 95.9 FM CKUW Campus/Community ities (columns from early in his career when he wrote for Radio Top 10 CD – Albums a paper in Fargo, N.D.), and an unreleased track (a semi- OCTOBER 31-November 6, 2007 autobiographical novella he began writing in 1999 when he ! = Local content * = Canadian Content RE=Re Entry NE = New Entry was a film critic for the Akron Beacon Journal). Chuck Klosterman IV should be required reading for anyone interested in rock music, sports or popular culture. Klosterman’s writing is laugh-out-loud funny and incred- LW TW artist Recording label ibly insightful. Consider “The Amazing McNugget Diet,” a 1996 column that details a week during which Klosterman 1 1 !Weakerthans Reunion Tour Anti/Epitaph ate nothing but Chicken McNuggets. (Keep in mind, this is 3 2 gaudi + Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan dub Qawwali Six Degrees eight years before Super Size Me hit theaters.) No doubt the 2 3 !Details Draw a Distance Parliament of Trees piece was written mostly to entertain (and it does—“these meals are soul darkening,” might be my favourite line from Volunteer for The Uniter 5 4 !Various Artists Manitoba Music Independent the book), but Klosterman also uses it to make a point about 6 5 Caribou Andorra Merge our North American obsession with “the desire to acceler- Tired of having other people write the 7 6 !Paperbacks An Illusion Against Death Parliament of Trees ate every element of our existence” and “devour the largest news? volume of gratification before it kills us.” Previously pub- 4 7 *Stars In Our Bedroom Arts & Crafts Like sports but don’t totally feel like lished profiles on Radiohead, Wilco, Val Kilmer and Britney 9 8 *Sadies New Seasons Yep Roc playing them? Spears are also excellent and intensely readable.

You know who the hottest non-main- 14 9 !Vav Jungle Pap Rock Vav Jungle People who enjoyed Klosterman’s other books won’t be disappointed with his latest offering, and for those who stream band in Canada is? nE 10 Jennifer Gentle Midnight Room Sub Pop have yet to read his work, it’s an excellent starting point. Klosterman’s cult is easy to join. He won’t make you wear Email [email protected] to sign up. Nikes or drink the Kool-Aid. You just have to read and get ready to laugh. Listings Co o r d i n a t o r : Kr i s t i n e As k h o l m Want to submit your listing to Uniter Listings? Email your listings to [email protected] contact: [email protected] The Uniter Novem, 2007 E-m a i l : Listings@u n i t e r .c a Deadline for submissions is Wednesday, eight days before the issue you’d like your Ph o n e : 786-9497 listing to first appear in. The Uniter publishes on Thursdays, 25 times a year. @ Fa x : 783-7080 LISTINGS uniter.ca 19

FROM OUTRAGE TO ACTION HUMAN RIGHTS WORKSHOP SERIES Ses- sions include An Introduction to International Law, Beyond Letter Writing, Corporate Social Responsibility, Refugee Claimants in Winnipeg, Racial Pro- ON CAMPUS filing in Canada, Activism 101. Until Dec 6. Free admission. Space is limited – priority will be given to those who register for all six sessions. To register contact Louise at [email protected] or call 475-4565.

2008 STUDENT ENTREPRENEUR COMPETITION celebrates the commit- ment, determination and achievements of student entrepreneurs. Through EVENTS this annual program, ACE and CIBC create a platform for young business leaders to network with like-minded students, showcase their business on a regional and national stage to top executives and leading entrepreneurs, receive relevant training and leverage valuable mentorship opportunities to UWFSA SPEAKER SERIES Health in the Philippine Barangay: What about Kurt Cobain: About a son accelerate the growth of their business. Nominations and self nominations Gender? UWFSA, in cooperation with ANAK, welcomes Dr. Tuula Heinonen, are being accepted through the ACE website, www.acecanada.ca, and will Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Work, U of M 6 p.m. Thurs, Nov 8, close on Dec 7. The competition is open to full-time students at Canadian this week at Cinematheque free admission. U of W Room 3M65. Email the University of Winnipeg universities or colleges who are running their own businesses. FILM Filipino Students’ Association at [email protected] for more information.

BEST STUDENT WRITER AWARD The National Magazine Awards Foun- CINEMATHEQUE 100 Arthur St. Kurt Cobain: About a son playing Nov 9 & R.A.W.C.S. (RHETORIC AND WRITING, COMMUNICATIONS FOR STU- dation (NMAF) is now accepting applications for the 3rd annual Best 11 at 7 p.m., Nov 10 at 9 p.m., Nov 12 at 9:45 p.m. Desperate Pleasures: 8 DENTS) Meet ‘n Greet Fri, Nov 9, 4-6 p.m. 3rd floor Graham Hall. We are Student Writer award. Full-time, post-secondary students who have new Wpg Film Group Shorts playing Nov 9 at 9:15 p.m., Nov 10 at 7 p.m. a student association begun by Rhetoric students. We want to provide a published a non-fiction piece in a Canadian consumer or- univer All Kindsa Girls: The Real Kids documentary playing Nov 11 at 9:15. The physical and intellectual space, and social opportunities, for Rhetoric and sity magazine in 2007 are eligible. The winner will receive $1000 and Pervert’s Guide to Cinema Nov 12-15 at 7 p.m. Helvetica Nov 13-15 at 9:45 affiliated faculty students. (i.e: Linguistics, English, Sociology, CRS, Creative tickets to the National Magazine Awards gala next June. Visit www.maga- p.m. Communications, etc). And to encourage enthusiasm for, and understanding zineawards.com for more information. Deadline is Jan 11, 2008. of, the Rhetoric, Writing and Communications Department and the opportu- GLOBE CINEMA Portage Place Now playing: Sleuth, Michael Clayton, The nities it offers. Come prepared to discuss what RAWCS! can do for you! Talk Darjeeling Limited. Call 69-GLOBE for details. RAWCS! Shop! Meet your fellow RAWCS! Stars!

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THE UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG NDP CAMPUS CLUB Annual Gen- eral Meeting Wed, Nov 14 in room 3M50 at 12:30. If you are inter- ested, or want more information, email us at [email protected] THEATRE & DANCE

GITANJALI KOLANAD IN “A FLOWERING TREE” Presented by India School OPPORTUNITIES of Dance, Music & Theatre. Enter a magical realm of contemporary dance and theatre with a traditional East Indian edge as Gitanjali tells an ancient folk-tale about a woman who turns herself into a tree which blossoms with intoxicatingly fragrant flowers. Fri Nov 9, 7:30 p.m. at the Centre Culturel Wintersleep Franco-Manitobain, 340 Provencher Blvd. Tickets: Adults $15, Student/ KAPATID IN-SCHOOL MENTORSHIP PROGRAM Partnering university Senior $10. To reserve call Pamela 256-7812 or Julie 336-0484. www. students with Filipino new comer high school students as in-school men- indiaschool.ca tors. Weekly Mon-Thurs from 4-5 p.m. Learn how to become eligible for the UWFSA Bursary. To volunteer email the University of Winnipeg Filipino CONCERTS STRETCHING HIDE A young Métis lawyer introduces his fiancé to the chaotic Students’ Association at [email protected] for more information. Nov 8 at the Pyramid with the Wooden Stars life of his community one July long weekend. That weekend his law practice and his personal life are threatened when he’s accused by the provincial U of W FILIPINO STUDENTS’ ASSOCIATION GENERAL MEETINGS Mon, Nov game wardens of poaching a deer for its antlers. Nov 1-11 WCD Studio 211 12 & 26 Free Period (12:30-1:20) in room 2C10 WINTERSLEEP w/ WOODEN STARS Thurs, Nov 8 at the Pyramid. Tickets at Bannatyne Ave. Tickets: adults $20, seniors $17, students $15 at 989-2400. Into the Music, Kustom Kulture and Kitsch on Broadway COUNSELLING & CAREER SERVICES EVENTS Thurs, Nov 8, 9-6 (hourly TRANSFORMATIONS presented by Young Lungs Dance Exchange Nov 15, sessions), International Student Volunteer Opportunities, Room 0GM09– CUFF THE DUKE w/ LAND OF TALK Thurs, Nov 8 WECC. Doors 7:15 p.m. 16, 17 at 8 p.m. Matinee Nov 17 at 3 p.m. WCD Studio / Theatre 211 Ban- CRC. Four-week summer volunteer projects in conservation (endangered Show 8 p.m. Tickets $12 in advance on sale now at WECC, Ticketmaster, Into natyne Ave. All Seats $15 Reservations 774-9634 or ntorresgarner@hotmail. species, rainforest regeneration), or humanitarian areas (building homes, the Music, and Music Trader com teaching children English, hospitals). Volunteer in Australia, New Zealand, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Thailand or Croatia. www. THE MOST SERENE REPUBLIC w/ DRAGONETTE and MOTHER MOTHER Fri, MANITOBA THEATRE CENTRE 174 Market Ave 942-6537. Until Nov 10: Our isvonline.com for more information. Fri, Nov 9, 12:30-1:20 p.m., Physical Nov 9 at the Pyramid. Tickets $12 advance / $15 door, available at Into the Town Therapy (U of M School of Medical Rehabilitation), Room 2D11 - Duckworth Music, Kustom Kulture and Kitsch on Broadway Centre. Thurs, Nov 15, 11:30-1:00 CGA Manitoba Certified General Accoun- tants, Room 0GM09-CRC. Hear about Canada’s most respected accounting A GALA ROCKIN’ FUNDRAISER FOR BRENT “GUITAR” PARKIN Feat: Swing education program. Admissions process and career opportunities at www. Sonic Jazz, Prairie Swing & Good-time Blues w/ Greg Leskiw, The Swag Surf, cga-manitoba.org/cga/index.aspx Twang & Rock, Sensations w/ Chris Carmichael, Ken McMahon, Bernie Thies- LITERARY sen, The Six Stringers Blues, Jazz & Rock Extravaganza fear. Terry Barnett, COUNSELLING & CAREER SERVICES FREE WORKSHOPS Tues, Nov 13, J.P. Lepage, Greg Lowe, Larry Roy Slidin’ Clyde Roulette, Clayton Sample. 1:15-2:15 p.m. Strong Interest Interpretation. Wed, Nov 14, 12:30-1:20 p.m. Sun, Nov 11, Pyramid Cabaret 176 Fort St. Doors 7:30 Showtime: 8. Silent Successful Interviewing. Tues, Nov 20, 1:15-2:15 p.m. Resume and Cover Auction, 50/50, Door Prizes. Advance Tickets $15 at Windsor Hotel, Into The 2007 PRAIRIE FIRE PRESS – MCNALLY ROBINSON WRITING CONTESTS Letter Writing. Wed, Nov 21, 12:30-1:20 p.m. Managing Exam Anxiety. Wed, Music, Times Change(d) High and Lonesome Club, Royal George Hotel Bliss Carman Poetry Award - Judge: Barry Dempster, Short Fiction - Judge: Nov 28, 12:30-1:20 p.m. Job Search Strategies. All students, alumni and staff Bill Gaston, Creative Non-Fiction - Judge: Mark Anthony Jarman. $6,000 in are welcome to attend and must pre-register by calling 786-9231. GWAR w/ special guests HORSE Mon, Nov 12 at the Pyramid. Tickets $35 prizes. First prize in each category $1,250, 2nd prize $500, 3rd prize $250. plus tax at Ticketmaster and Soul Survivors Body Art in Osborne Village Deadline: Nov 30. For information contact 943-9066, [email protected], or UPCOMING INFORMATION BOOTHS INFORMATION BOOTHS Wed, Nov 14: check out our web site for guidelines at www.prairiefire.ca. Winnipeg Police Service, Riddell Atrium THE DUHKS Nov 15 and 16, West End Cultural Centre. Doors 7:15 Show 8 Tickets $17 in advance at WECC and Ticketmaster. WINNIPEG WRITER DOUG SMITH RELEASES NEWEST BOOK Big Death: LIFE WRITING WITH SHERRY BAILEY Sat, Nov 17 10 a.m.-4 p.m., room Funeral Planning in the Age of Corporate Deathcare. Nov 13 at McNally 3M50 U of W. This workshop will focus on the various forms of life writing - A NORTHERN CHORUS Sonic Unyon’s A Northern Chorus with special Robinson (Grant Park), at 8 p.m. Journal/Diary, Memoir/Autobiography, Essay and Letter - along with practical guests Sortie Real Fri, Nov 16 at the Royal Albert Arms. Admission is $7 at ideas on how to begin. For this workshop, participants are asked to submit the door, Show at 10 p.m. MCNALLY ROBINSON GRANT PARK Nov 8: Eleanor Hildebrand Chornoboy samples of their life writing not later than two weeks before the workshop– launch of Faspa with Jast Snack with Company, 7 p.m. John Weier reading maximum five double-spaced pages. $30 WC members, $50 non-members. THE FACULTY FOLLIES’ CD RELEASE with Johnny Riverboat. Nov 16, 10 from Under The Wings of Africa, with musical accompaniment, 8 p.m. Nov To register email [email protected] or call 786-9468. p.m. at Wise Guys on Campus 10: Bill Stenson & Susan Stenson On The Page: Writing Exercises That Work, 10:30 a.m. Nov 12: Anne Le Dressay reading & signing, Old Winter, 7 p.m. LOOKING FOR A GREAT IDEA FOR YOUR TERM PAPER? The Experiential $5BLOOD DIAMOND Presented as a fundraiser to sup- Green TaRA, musical perrformance & signing of her new urban-roots CD, Learning Program offers research topics to students based on the needs of port a school in Mobai, Sierra Leone by Friends of Af- Global Baby, 7 p.m. Nov 13: Colleen Jones, signing Curling Secrets, 12 p.m. our University and local community. We partner with offices on campus and rica, a Canadian non-governmental organization formed to help Doug Smith, launch of Big Death: Funeral Planning in the Age of Corporate non-profit organizations working towards social justice and environmental the child survivors of Sierra Leone’s civil war. Tues, Nov 13, 7 p.m. at the Deathcare, 8 p.m. Nov 14: Dennis Foon reading of his new play, Kindness, sustainability. These projects range from helping refugees settle in Winnipeg, Park Theatre, 698 Osborne. Tickets $10 available at the door or by calling 7 p.m. to protecting our waterways from environmental degradation. Current pro- 284-7011. posals are listed on our website for your consideration, at www.uwinnipeg. MCNALLY ROBINSON PORTAGE PLACE Nov 8: Lorraine Mayer reading & ca/index/sus-student-initiatives. Interested? 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WINNIPEG ART GALLERY 300 Memorial Blvd. 789-1760. Warhol: Larger $5 at door. Participatory discussion, sacred music and food. All welcome! than Life, until Jan 6. John Hartman: Cities. Into the Collection: Will Gorlitz, until Nov 8. Around Here: Scenes of Manitoba from the Historical Collection, LAST CALL AT THE COPA UKRAINIAN ZABAVA Presented by Melos Folk COMEDY until Nov 10. Inuit Games, ongoing. Into the Collection: Highlights of His- Ensemble. Sat Nov 17 at The Copa Banquet Centre 2685 Main St. 8 p.m. torical Painting From 15th century panel paintings to Post-Impressionism, Tickets: $10. Featuring The D-Drifters and The Ukrainian All-Star Band. ongoing. THE WINNIPEG IMPROV FESTIVAL at the Gas Station Theatre. Thurs, SKYWALK CONCERTS & LECTURES A co-presentation of Wpg Public Li- Nov 8: Night of local improve featuring Stephen McIntyre and the “king’s brary, the U of W and Virtuosi Concerts Inc. All events take place from 12:10 of short form improv” ImproVision. Fri, Nov 9: Encore presentation of the to 12:50 p.m. in the Carol Shields Auditorium, second floor of the Millennium live improvised movie. featuring Alistair Cook (President of the Canadian Library, 251 Donald St. Admission is free. Nov 8: Love Songs from Italy by Improv Games) and Dave Morris of Vancouver’s Instant Theatre. Sat, Nov Ritmo Misto – Vito & Maria DeStefano 10: Birthday party for Outside Joke, currently on their 5th year of improvising together and CRUMBS, who are on their 10th year of traveling the world MILLENNIUM LIBRARY EVENTS Nov 19: Out Loud Author Reading spreading the good word of prairie improv. with Dennis Cooley, 7 p.m. Nov 26: Ad Lib Creative Writing Workshop with Jamis Paulson, 7 p.m. Nov 27: North End Photography with award-winning SOAP SCUM PRODUCTIONS presents Space Quest, an improvised space documentary filmmaker John Paskievich, 12:10 p.m. For more information comedy on Mondays at the Park Theater 698 Osborne St. at 8 p.m. Tickets about any of these events, call 986-4294. are $5 and available at the door.

ATTENTION ARTISTS OF ALL DISCIPLINES AND COMMUNITY GROUPS The Winnipeg Arts Council Public Art Program invites applications for WITH ART, a program for collaborative art projects between community groups and artists in The Western States Winnipeg. Artists working in all art forms such as visual, performing and literary arts, and community groups from diverse sectors who have a history work- ing together are welcome to apply. Please see our website for full eligibility criteria and application requirements and for any further information. Dead- BARS, CAFES & VENUES line is Dec 3. Call Tricia Wasney at 943-7668 or visit www.winnipegarts.ca. part of Neilfest Nov 8-10 at Times Changed for full details.

FREE INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS CLASS An opportunity to meet with other students and Canadian friends while learning English and the Bible. Elim Grimhaven ACADEMY BAR & EATERY 414 Academy Rd Nov 8: Mercy Mercy CD re- Chapel 546 Portage Ave at Spence St. (enter from rear parking lot) Sundays new Polaroid photographs by Gordon Arthur lease party Nov 9: Le Dou Nov 10: Bill Dowling, Brenda Neiles and Marcel noon-1:30 p.m. For information call Val & Veda Chacko 257-1670. Desilets Semai Gallery TRANS DAY OF REMEMBRANCE Tues, Nov 20, 7 p.m. The Red Road Lodge, GALLERIES ACADEMY FOOD DRINKS MUSIC 437 Stradbrook Nov 8: Greg Lowe trio then (formerly the New Occidental) 631 Main St (the corner of Logan and Main). 90’s Dance party Nov 9: BUMP Nov 10: Hillbilly Burlesque Nov 12: Open Mic A day to remember and commemorate those who have been killed because with Little Black Dress Nov 13: Karaoke with Kayla Luky Nov 14: Quinzy nights of their gender expression. Following the Candlelit Vigil, there will be refresh- ments and a celebratory Gender F*#! Dance Party! This is a free all ages NAME YOUR PRICE ANNUAL ART AUCTION at the Forum Art Institute, 120 THE CAVERN 112 Osborne St. Nov 10: Local rock powerhouse Knuckleduster event. All are welcome! Eugenie St & Tache Ave, 235-1069. Fri, Nov 30, 2 - 8, Sat & Sun, Dec 1 & celebrate their tenth anniversary. First thirty people will get a CD sampler. 2, 10 - 4. New this Year! - 50 small paintings for $50 each. Many fine artists have created original works in acrylic, watercolour & sculpture in a variety ELLICE CAFÉ & THEATRE 585 Ellice Ave Nov 10: Thx-Grooves. of styles & sizes for you to choose from. Free - all welcome - browsing en- couraged, door prizes, free parking and wheelchair access. Visit us at www. KING’S HEAD PUB 100 King St. Every Sunday: All the Kings Men forumartinstitute.ca VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

MCNALLY ROBINSON GRANT PARK MUSIC Nov 9: Marco Castillo (Bossa A LABEL FOR ARTISTS is currently accepting submissions for our next Nova, samba). Nov 10: Taste of New Orleans (jazz). Shows at 8. exhibition Homage to Picasso. We are looking to salute Pablo Picasso by CAN YOU SPARE 2 HOURS TO HELP THE ALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF showing works by you that have his influence. This can be collages, paint- MCNALLY ROBINSON PORTAGE PLACE MUSIC Nov 9: Adley (contemporary MANITOBA? Volunteers are needed to tag (request donations from Safeway ings, drawings, sculpture or photos. If you wish to participate please email & folk) Shows at 6:30. Shoppers and provide them with a sticker and a brochure), for a 2 hour [email protected] or phone 772-5165 to make drop off arrange- shift on Sat, Nov 17. We are currently in need of approximately 100 more ments. We ask that all works be labeled with name, title, and contact info. OZZY’S 160 Osborne Downstairs Nov 16: Bionic, High Watt Execution, Trig- volunteers and would like to call on you to assist us by tagging at your local Paper works should be framed. ger Effect, with guests. Safeway Store. Please help us to remember the 18,000 Manitobans living with Alzheimer’s disease or other dementias by volunteering your time, or by ACEARTINC 2nd floor, 290 McDermot Ave 944-9763 PYRAMID CABARET 176 Fort St. Nov 9: The Most Serene Republic w/ making a donation at your local Safeway. Visit us online at alzheimer.mb.ca Dragonette and Mother Mother, tickets $12 advance / $15 door, available or call Lori at 943-6622 ext 211 to sign up as a volunteer. GRAFFITI GALLERY 109 Higgins 667-9960. Not-for-profit community youth at Into the Music, Kustom Kulture and Kitsch on Broadway. Nov 11: Brent art centre. Until Dec 6: Drawing Attention. Parkin Benefit. Nov 12: Gwar w/ special guests Horse, tickets $35 plus tax NEEDS CENTRE FOR WAR AFFECTED FAMILIES is looking for volunteers to at Ticketmaster and Soul Survivors Body Art in Osborne Village. Nov 16: DJ work with immigrant and refugee children and youth. The Needs Centre pro- KEEPSAKES GALLERY 264 McDermot Ave 257-0374 Non-profit art gallery. Tittsworth w/ DJ Dave Nada, Nutty Klub DJs and Twenty Twenty, advance Tix vides accessible services and programs to children/youth from the ages 5-18. Handmade art, pottery, candles, cards, paintings, photography. at Cocopod (875 Corydon), Music Trader and online at ticketworkshop.com Programming includes arts, crafts, music, computer skills, employment, educational and EAL activities. For more information, contact Jodi Alderson, GALLERY LACOSSE 169 Lilac St. 284-0726 Studies in Contrast feat. the REGAL BEAGLE 331 Smith St. Nov 9 & 10: Crosstown. Every Wed at 9 p.m. Volunteer Coordinator at 940-1265 or email [email protected]. work of Michael Cox, Jim Corbett, and Terry Lacosse. The Marlborough Men. Thurs at 9 p.m. Shandra and Jason. TEEN TOUCH Manitoba’s youth focused helpline Teen Touch is accepting ap- PLATFORM CENTRE FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC AND DIGITAL ARTS 121-100 ROYAL ALBERT ARMS 48 Albert St. Nov 16: A Northern Chorus, Sortie plications for online/telephone helpline volunteers. We provide training that Arthur St (Artspace) 942-8183 Real. equips you with skills to answer confidential calls on our 24 hour helpline. This opportunity provides a flexible schedule and allows you to work from OUTWORKS GALLERY 290 McDermot Ave 949-0274. Totem: a member SHANNON’S 175 Carlton St. Nov 8: Adrien Sala Nov 9 & 10: Velvet Lounge your home. For further information or to apply contact Christine at 945-0088, and friends’ exhibition featuring artists’ varied responses to the concept of Nov 14: Katie Murphy [email protected] or visit our website www.teentouch.org. Our next totem. Nov 2-24, open Wed to Sat 12-4 p.m. or by appointment. Contact training will be held on: Nov 24, 25 and Dec 1, 2 at our offices, 800 Portage 949-0274 or email [email protected]. TIMES CHANGED HIGH AND LONESOME CLUB 234 Main St. Nov 8, 9 & Ave from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Due to confidentiality concerns you must be 10: Neilfest featuring the D-Rangers, the Western States, the Swag, Damon 18 to apply. PLUG IN INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART 286 McDermot Ave Scratch- Mitchell, and more, 10 p.m. Nov 11: Jam with Big Dave Maclean. Nov 14: ing the Surface: The Post-Prairie Landscape feat. 19 Winnipeg artists. Until Bradley Boy and County Boys. LOOKING TO WORK WITH CHILDREN/YOUTH? The International Centre Nov 17. (406 Edmonton St) needs volunteers to work with recent newcomer chil- WEST END CULTURAL CENTRE 586 Ellice Ave Nov 8: Cuff the Duke w/ Land dren and youth from the inner-city in the following programs: 1. Sports SEMAI GALLERY Basement Corridor 264 McDermot Ave 275-5471 Until Nov of Talk. Nov 9: The Locust w/ Despised Icon and Child Abuse. Nov 11: Blue Club - Tuesdays from 5-7 pm @ Victoria Albert School/Central Park 2. After 30: Grimhaven by Gordon Arthur. Hours: Tues-Sat 12-6 Sky Addicts, Les Jupes. Nov 14: Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper School Education (ESL) – Wednesdays from 5-7pm @ 511 Ellice Ave. 3. Youth Empowerment (cooking/art classes) – Fridays from 5-7:30pm @ URBAN SHAMAN 203-290 McDermot Ave 942-2674. Until Nov 10: Rock- THE ZOO Osborne Village Inn 160 Osborne St. Nov 9: Coda, Rise for Order International Centre 4. Youth Leadership Training (team games, volunteer/ stars & Wannabes, video and installation feat.Warren Arcand, Kevin Ei-Ichi (Toronto), with guests. job skills) – Saturdays from 1-5pm @ UofW For more info, contact Si il: deForest, Skawennati Fragnito, and Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay. [email protected] or 943-9158 ext. 285 To apply contact Marsha: [email protected] or 943-9158 ext. 260 URBAN SHAMAN GALLERY & MANITO AHBEE FESTIVAL PRESENT CON- VERGENCE featuring 12 artists from across Manitoba. 73 Princess St (Urban BE A VOLUNTEER LITERACY TUTOR WITH FRONTIER COLLEGE! Work with Shaman’s Satellite Gallery) until Nov 23. Hours: Tues-Fri 11-5, Sat 12-5. COMMUNITY EVENTS children, youth and adults in schools and community centres around the University of Winnipeg. The commitment is one hour per week through the VAULT GALLERY 2181 Portage Ave Gallery hours 11-5 Tues-Sat school year. Call 253-7993 or email [email protected] for more information. Literacy is an essential skill in today’s world. 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- demonstrated leadership qualities - be a lay man or woman of any The Roman Soltykewych Music Scholar- FOREIGN GOVERNMENT AWARDS: Christian denomination who is enrolled ship ($500) is available to applicants Countries- Chile, Colombia, Korea, UNIVERSITY - successful completion of at least 30 in a recognized Canadian theological (individual or group) determined to Russia and Philippines. Awards are credit hours in pursuit of an under- school pursue further studies in the field of available to Canadian citizens for gradu- OF WINNIPEG graduate degree. Recipients will likely be Ukrainian choral or vocal music. ate studies or research abroad at the in the second or third year of a 4-year or - pursuing a graduate or undergradu- master’s, doctoral or post-doctoral level. Honours degree program. ate degree in theology or theological The Anna Pidruchney Award for New For most countries, applicants must studies in preparation for ministry in the Writers ($1000) is available annually to have completed a first degree or, for INTERNAL AWARDS: - pursuit of one of the focus areas of the Canadian Church a novice writer for a work on a Ukrainian post-doctoral fellowships, a Ph.D., by Global College Institutes Canadian theme. Submissions for this the beginning of the tenure of the award. Note: This bursary is not intended for year’s award must be in English. Applications must be submitted on-line UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG INTERNAL - proposed program of study or activity those preparing for ordained ministry. via the website, www.scholarships.gc.ca AWARDS: in selected international institution Wm. & Mary Kostash Award for Film Please note that the governments of must be for university credit. Should Applications are available in the Awards and Video Arts ($1000) is offered to THE UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG Italy, Japan, The Netherlands and Spain recipients wish to participate in an Office in Graham Hall. a novice writer for a work promoting TUITION BURSARY PROGRAM 2007-08 also offer awards to Canadian graduate international practicum or work Ukrainian Canadian identity through the students. The embassies of these placement, arrangements must be made Deadline: November 15, 2007 medium of film, video or multimedia This bursary program has been devel- countries in Canada are responsible for with a University of Winnipeg academic (i.e. d.v.d) oped for the 2007-08 academic year to the administration of their respective department to grant degree credit for the GIL PURCELL MEMORIAL JOURNALISM assist students, primarily those in their scholarships. practicum. SCHOLARSHIP FOR NATIVE CANADI- Applications are available from URDC. first year of university study, who are ex- ANS: Phone (780) 497-4374 or email periencing financial difficulties because Deadline: January 28, 2008 for awards Special consideration will be given to [email protected] of tuition costs and books and supplies beginning academic year 2008-2009 applicants under 25 years of age who The Gil Purcell Memorial Journalism expenses. Financial need caused by Scholarship for Native Canadians is now elect to self-identify. Application and Deadline: November 30, 2007. MANITOBA STUDENT AID PROGRAM living expenses may also be considered being offered by the Canadian Press. all supporting documents should be (MSAP) in exceptional circumstances. submitted to The University of Winnipeg Valued at $4000, the purpose is to NEADS: EQUITY THROUGH EDUCATION Global College 1W01, Wesley Hall - 515 encourage aboriginal Canadians to enter AWARDS: DID YOU KNOW..... 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To be eligible the ism in Canada. - demonstrated commitment to the student must meet the following criteria: Deadline: December 15, 2007 community NovemberOctober 25, 8, 2007 2007 The Uniter contact: [email protected] 22 SESPCORTSTION

Sp o r t s Ed i t o r : Ka l e n Qu a ll y Sports E-m a i l : s p o r t s @u n i t e r .c a Buzzer beaters and Bison beat downs Wesmen basketball puts together solid weekend

“Our youth and inexperience fifth year Matt Opalko drained a showed,” said Wesmen Coach Tanya three-pointer at the buzzer to cap off H agan

McKay following the loss. the victory. r

McKay’s squad did respond to “Tonight, it was just awesome to evo r T Kalen Qually the loss, however, as they played the hit that shot against the Bisons,” said AND Brad Pennington Bisons two days later at the Investors Opalko. Group Athletics Centre. The Wesmen Opalko wasn’t the only hero of scored a decisive 86-59 victory over the game, though. Erfan Nasajpour he Duckworth Challenge the same Bisons team that handled scored a team high 18 points, as started sour on Nov. 1, with them just two days prior. Home court well as recording eight rebounds and the women’s basketball team seemed to be a weakness in this home- five assists. Coach Dave Crook was fallingT to the Bisons 68-49, but it and-home series. In the second game, incredibly pleased with his team, as ended incredibly sweetly thanks to Dawna Wright (22 pts), Amy Ogidan well as the outcome. “It was a great Matt Opalko’s game winning buzzer (16 pts), and Caitie Gooch (14 pts) win for us,” said Crook. “We battled beater that helped the men’s team to a led the Wesmen to an impressive right to the end and [Opalko] made a 73-72 victory. turnaround performance. Winnipeg big shot and we won the game.” The women’s team did not even shot an impressive 54 per cent The Wesmen continued to roll kick off the Duckworth Challenge from the field. into the Bison’s home gym, winning in style: the Bison ran up a 33-21 The men’s team, however, did 72-60 at the Investors Group lead by halftime, and even though their part salvaging the opening Athletics Centre. Nick Lother was the the Wesmen made a charge late in night of the Duckworth Challenge. Wesmen’s top player, putting up 20 the game, the deficit simply turned They found themselves trailing the points, six rebounds, and five assists, out to be too great. The Wesmen’s Bison for much of the game, falling as well as three three-pointers. Randie Gibson, who scored 10 points 18-9 after one quarter then 36-28 at After a great closing game in the in the loss, received the Duckworth the half. But following an opening weekend series, McKay hopes to keep Challenge MVP for Winnipeg, while second half run of 9-2, the Wesmen the women’s team rolling into next the Bisons’ Tessa Klassen, who racked were immediately back in the game. weekend when they face the Regina up 20 points, received Duckworth From there it was a battle until the Cougars in Regina. MVP honours for Manitoba. final moments of the game, when Coach Diane Scott leading the troops against University of Manitoba.

The rivalry continues at the Duckworth Challenge Wesmen-Bison feud intensely historic

many years and there is no better way both schools. I can remember in my first year matter how you look at the rivalry between to showcase this rivalry than with the here at the University of Winnipeg seeing the University of Winnipeg and “that other Duckworth Challenge. The stage is perfect: shirts in the book store that read, “Friends school,” there’s no denying the strength that Brad Pennington two cross-town rivals facing off in both men’s don’t let friends go to the U of M.” I’m sure is deeply embedded in this rivalry which will Volunteer Staff and women’s basketball and volleyball. that not every student feels this way, but once continue for as long as the two campuses “It’s about history,” said women’s you attend your first game against the Bison, continue to exist. basketball coach Tanya McKay. something deep down takes over and this “It’s always a good game,” said Matt Speaking of history, this year’s challenge rivalry becomes a part of you, if only for one Opalko, who would go on to sink a dagger n the world of sports, games between has also been a celebration for the man who night. into the Bison at the Duckworth Challenge. rivals are the most intense and exciting the building is named for, Henry Duckworth, “I played here from 1986 to 1991 and When the Bison come here for their next games of any season. The same is true who is celebrating his 92nd birthday. Wesmen blood runs through my veins,” said game at the Duckworth Centre, this rivalry forI a rivalry that exists right here in the The Duckworth Challenge always seems Coach McKay. will once again come to life as people fill the city of Winnipeg between the University to bring a lot of fans to the stands, which only It is pride that is at stake when these seats and players come face to face, filling the of Manitoba Bison and the University of adds to this rivalry as students fill the seats to two rivals meet, and it is that very pride that air with electricity as two cross-town rivals Winnipeg Wesmen. cheer on their respective teams. brings out emotions that take over each and fight for pride. “There’s nothing like it,” said Wesmen “The Duckworth challenge is a big event every player, creating some of the most intense With more thoughts on the rivalry, player Randie Gibson, who received because we’re playing Manitoba,” said men’s games one could ever hope to see. coach McKay said, “You’re either a Wesmen Duckworth Challenge MVP honours for the basketball coach Dave Crook. “It’s such a huge rivalry and it doesn’t or a Bison, and when the ball is thrown up women’s basketball team. Now this rivalry isn’t limited to sports; always make for pretty basketball but it and tipped, it’s game on.” This is a rivalry that has gone on for it is alive in many students and faculty from makes for an intense game,” said Crook. No

contact: [email protected] The Uniter November 8, 2007 SPORTS 23 Love & Basketball

Music à Playlists à Love & Basketball another boring finals appearance. COMPILED BY Kalen Qually 1. Common – I used to love H.E.R. 3. Kanye West – Everything I Am From the signing of the Big Ticket to the Patrick Faucher drafting of Wallyworld, and through the tragic It feels weird to say that anything from Toronto needs to inflate its ego, but that’s VoluntEer Staff death of Malik Sealy and the loss of five draft Bonds threatens to keep picks following a shady deal for an average exactly what the Raptors need to challenge himself out of the Hall Joe, I’ve always embraced the Timberwolves. the Celtics for the Atlantic Division crown and to push deep into the playoffs: a Kanye- According to espn.com, Barry Bonds will ’ve been having an affair for almost a But after trading Garnett to the Celtics for sized swagger. Plus, they’re playing on the boycott Cooperstown if the baseball Hall of Fame month now, and it’s starting to get a five players who are worth less than a Coolio CBC this year. How much bigger can you get decides to display his record-breaking homerun little messy. I find myself spending more record, I can’t help but feel betrayed. Yes, than the CBC?! ball with an asterisk. “I won’t go. I won’t be part andI more time with my mistress. Sometimes, Garnett had to go, but the T’Wolves didn’t of it,” Bonds said in an interview with MSNBC. I even bring her to the home I share with my have to settle for picking up random weeds 4. Puff Daddy / Faith Evans “You can call me, but I won’t be there.” The as- first love, and we visit all the same spots from that grew in the Garden. — I’ll Be Missing You terisk would denote the possible illegitimacy of when I fell in love the first time. Worse yet, the record due to Bonds’ suspected steroid use. every now and then when it gets really heavy 2. LL Cool J – Mama Said Knock You Out Portland’s Greg Oden: out for the season The man who bought Bonds’ 756th and sweaty, I tend to mix the two of them Last year, the Phoenix Suns were on a (right knee surgery). Ouch. homerun ball, Marc Ecko, had an online poll to up. collision course with the NBA Finals… until 5. N.W.A.. – F*ck tha Police decide what to do with the ball, ultimately de- That’s right. I’ve been wearing my iPod Robert Horry careened Steve Nash off course ciding to brand it with an asterisk. Bonds called while warming up for my basketball games and into the scorer’s table. The Suns won the Over the summer, the FBI reported that Ecko, “an idiot,” and also said, “I don’t think you (take that Vince Carter!). I’m a pig, I know, game, but Amare and Diaw were suspended NBA referee Tim Donaghy had bet on games, can put an asterisk in the game of baseball, and but I can’t stop thinking about the potential for “leaving the bench” after the incident. including ones he had officiated. If the name I don’t think that the Hall of Fame can accept an ménage-a-trois. So I’m going to usher in this Rather than listen to the preacher from the sounds familiar, he also refereed the game asterisk…You cannot give people the freedom, year’s NBA season by paying homage to the Deep Blue Sea, the boys should listen to their that turned into the infamous Brawl at The classics on my iPod. coach, Mike D’Antoni, who says “I think Palace of Auburn Hills. Gangsta, or just “a the right to alter history. You can’t do it. There’s we’ll just try to sit down next time,” if they sucka in a uniform?” no such thing as an asterisk in baseball.” (espn. intend on preventing the Spurs from making com)

AAA Toledo Mud Hens offer deal to A-Rod

Scott C 27-13 .675 Another team has joined the Angels, Jo V 25-15 .625 Giants, Dodgers, Cubs, and Red Sox in the Alex Kalen Q 23-17 .575 Rodriguez sweepstakes: the Toledo Mud Hens. Tom A 23-17 .575 NFL PICKS Dan V 23-17 .575 According to SI.com, the Yankees’ Triple-A af- Steven K 21-19 .525 filiate has offered A-Rod a minor league con- 2007 Gridiron Gurus tract in response to a passing remark made by Hank Steinbrenner to the New York Times after Rodriguez opted out of his $252 million con- Tom Asselin is the co-host of the Ultra Game #2: Philadelphia Eagles tract. Steinbrenner said, “Does he want to go Mega Sports Show and is also the defending NFL @ Washington Redskins Game #4: Dallas Cowboys into the Hall of Fame as a Yankee, or a Toledo Picks champion. @ New York Giants Kalen Qually is the Sports Editor at “Honestly, these teams have disappointed Mud Hen?” The Mud Hens then took the initia- the Uniter, appears regularly on the Ultra Mega me this year. They’ve both been inconsistent and “Whenever I’m looking for reasons to justify tive to find out for themselves. The club even my pick, I love (just LOVE) seeing that my team is Sports Show, and is a former NFL Picks champ. seem to be falling further back of the Cowboys and created a Hall of Fame plaque for Rodriguez de- Steven Kotelniski is a regular contribu- coming off a bye week. It gives me more confidence Giants in the NFC East. It’s possible that Andy picting him in a Mud Hens hat. tor to Uniter Sports, a rookie to NFL Picks, and a Reid’s personal problems are even catching up to the and it makes my pick automatically justified. Well former Fantasy League Champion. team as they continue to slide. Washington is play- guess what? The Giants are coming off a bye week. Jonathan Villaverde is a long time foot- Man shot by hunting dog ing decent football, but they make way too many Don’t worry, that’s not the only reason I’m picking ball player, first year NFL Picks member, and reg- them. This is a division rivalry and anything can An Iowa hunter is currently in hospital re- ular contributor to Uniter Sports. mistakes to seriously contend. Jason Campbell Dan Verville is a contributor to Uniter doesn’t seem to be ready to be an elite quarterback happen. Oh, you’ve heard that one before? How covering from a shotgun wound to the leg. Sports and is making his first appearance in NFL quite yet. The Redskins beat the Eagles in week 2 about the Giants’ insane pass rush, Eli-to-Burress, According to espn.com, James Harris was shot Picks this season. in Philly, so I don’t see why they won’t do it again, and a six-game winning streak?” in the leg when his dog stepped on his shotgun. Scott Christiansen is a rookie to NFL —Kalen Qually especially since it’s at home where they’re 3-1 this Harris was hunting with a group when he shot Picks and is also a contributing member of Uniter season. The Redskins should win but I can’t prom- Sports. Tom picks: Giants a bird, and when he went to get it, he put his ise that it will be pretty.” Kalen picks: Giants gun on the ground and crossed a fence. As he —Scott Christiansen Steven picks: Cowboys crossed the fence, his hunting dog stepped on Jo picks: Giants the gun, firing over 100 pellets into his calf from Tom picks: Redskins Dan picks: Cowboys Game #1: Jacksonville Jaguars Kalen picks: Eagles Scott picks: Cowboys about three feet away. (espn.com) @ Tennessee Titans Steven picks: Eagles Jo picks: Eagles “This AFC South match-up has some poten- Game #5: Indianapolis Colts Fernando Alonso Dan picks: Redskins tial. In a division where the Indianapolis Colts will Scott picks: Redskins @ San Diego Chargers and McLaren Split undoubtedly finish first and the Bengals will finish “Both teams are coming off tough losses. The Following much conflict between Formula last (more than likely), these two teams are playing Game #3: Cincinnati Bengals Chargers defence got torn apart for an NFL record One’s McLaren racing team and one of their star for second place. The Titans have looked great all @ Baltimore Ravens 296 rushing yards last week by Adrian Peterson of drivers, Fernando Alonso, they have announced season, and are coming off a decisive win against the Vikings. Tom Brady tossed up 3 touchdowns that they are parting ways, according to espn. the Panthers. And while Jacksonville had a less “We can talk about the Bengals’ under- against the Colts defense in a comeback win that com. “Since I was a boy I had always wanted to than stellar game against the Saints last week, with achieving but that has been talked about enough. the whole world watched. The whole world also Gray throwing three interceptions, look for them The Ravens at 4-4 are a team that is battling inju- drive for McLaren, but sometimes in life things watched this Colts team compete against the best to come out strong against the Titans and steal one ries. Meanwhile, the no-defense Bengals just got do not work out,” Alonso said in a statement team in the league for 3.5 quarters, which is some- from them at home. Jacksonville by a bunch.” torched by Marshawn Linch and the Bills. Instincts about the split. Alonso is a two-time F-1 cham- thing the Chargers were unable to do. The Colts —Dan Verville tell me to pick the Ravens here but I have a weird pion, winning for the first time at 24 years old. feeling the Bengals can do it in this one. So I have should win this game easily.” Alonso publicly criticized McLaren fol- Cincinnati winning here 21-17.” —Steven Kotelniski Tom picks: Titans lowing the loss of the points championship to Kalen picks: Jaguars —Jo Villaverde Steven picks: Titans Tom picks: Colts Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen, claiming that McLaren Kalen picks: Colts Jo picks: Titans Tom picks: Ravens lost the points championship for themselves. Steven picks: Colts Dan picks: Jaguars Kalen picks: Ravens “McLaren lost and Ferrari did a better job than Jo picks: Colts Scott picks: Titans Steven picks: Ravens Dan picks: Colts anyone else,” said Alonso. It is no secret in the Jo picks: Bengals Scott picks: Colts Dan picks: Ravens racing world that Alonso did not get along well Scott picks: Ravens with McLaren teammate Lewis Hamilton, who he tied for second place in the points standings with. (espn.com) November 8, 2007 The Uniter contact: [email protected] 24 SPORTS Wesmen ruin Bisons’ Comeback Men’s v-ball team wins both games in home and home series

25-19 as Schellenberg, who finished with the Jo Villaverde game-high 20 kills, and Andrew Town, with

Volunteer Staff 15 kills of his own, put on a show. However, H agan

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the cross-town rivals. T “We made mistakes. The Bison team he number four ranked Wesmen made some good plays as well,” commented men’s volleyball team (3-1) head coach Larry McKay. dominated the Bisons (0-2) for the For the next two sets the Bisons Tfirst five sets on Friday and Saturday, but showed a lot of fight. Great digs and strong Manitoba fought well after that. Winnipeg’s counterattacks had Manitoba mount a club took the first game in three straight sets comeback winning the third and fourth sets (25-21, 26-24, 25-23) that had this year’s 25-21 and 25-23. Duckworth Challenge end in a tie. In the “It’s not rocket science,” said McKay. second game the Bisons came out to play, “They just made a few better plays and as it was a much more interesting five-set also put us in a little bit more of a deficit thriller with the Wesmen on top 3-2 (25-23, situation than we were [on Friday] and we 25-19, 21-25, 23-25, 15-12) in front of the weren’t able to scramble out of it enough and home team crowd. make enough of a comeback.” The Wesmen flexed their muscles However, it looked like Schellenberg Friday at the Investors Group Athletic would have none of it. He took the game Centre, beating the Bisons in three straight into his own hands and kept pounding at sets. Middle Justin Duff led the team the Bisons’ hopes to win as the Wesmen took with 15 kills, followed by Alan Ahow and the deciding set 15-12. Ben Schellenberg with 10 and nine kills “That’s what he’s there to do. So when respectively. our team gets down and our team needs “[Friday] we finished out that 3rd set,” someone to look to get the offence going, said Schellenberg, “The good teams win that I’m going to look to Ben pretty much every 3rd set and we did that [Friday] and we were time,” said Setter Dustin Addison-Schneider, a good team.” who led the game with 47 assists. The game at the Duckworth Centre on Winnipeg’s next match-up is against the Saturday turned out much the same. The Alberta Golden Bears, who they beat in the Bisons would come out strong in the first national championship last year, at home in two sets but the Wesmen were just too good. Andrew Town follows through on a kill against the Bisons. the Duckworth Centre on Friday, Nov. 9. The Wesmen easily took those sets 25-23 and Wesmen beat the Bisons 3-2 on Saturday.