Cover Illustration by Aaron Manczyk 143-14 free Jan. 7 - Jan. 13, 2011 fictions January 7 - January 13, 2011 • Joel Tichinoff, Editor in Chief [email protected] Bethany Horne, Staff [email protected] Samantha Durnford, News Editor [email protected] DSU Weekly Dispatch Katie Toth, Opinions Editor Mark Your Calendars for Upcoming Events [email protected] Rebecca Spence, Arts Editor Erica Eades, Assistant Arts Editor Sex Toy Bingo & Deal or No Deal staff. [email protected] Wednesday, January 12 Dylan Matthias, Sports Editor [email protected] Come out and enjoy a night of debauchery, with your chance to play bingo for sex toys. Abram Gutscher, Photo Editor The game begins at 9:00pm and you must be 19+ to attend. [email protected] Jonathan Rotsztain, Art Director We will also be testing out a new game night based on the popular hit TV show Deal or [email protected] No Deal! Three students will compete for a chance to win a $1000.00 prize! We will also be hosting this game during Thursday Night Trivia on Thursday, January 13. contact us. www.dalgazette.com The SUB, Room 312 Fusion Friday featuring DJ Sticks 6136 University Avenue Friday, January 14 Halifax NS, B3H 4J2 General Inquiries Come see internationally known DJ Sticks for only $3.00! The show begins at 9:00pm 902 494 1280 and you must be 19+ to attend [email protected] Advertising Inquiries Dal’s Got Talent Ben McDade, Ad Manager 902 222 1160 Wednesday, January 19 [email protected] Come out and see what your fellow students and colleagues have to offer! There is no cover charge for the show and this is a wet/dry event! the fine print. The Gazette is the official written record of its staff. Views expressed in the Streeter feature Dalhousie University since 1868 and is open to are solely those of the person being quoted, and Open Mic participation from all students. It is published not The Gazette’s writers or staff. 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Views expressed in the letters to the editor, the authors. Editorials in The Gazette are signed Overheard at Dal, and opinions section are solely and represent the opinions of the writer(s), not performing! More details for this event will follow so keep an eye on the DSU website those of the contributing writers, and do not necessarily those of The Gazette staff, Editorial and Dispatches in the Gazette for more information! necessarily represent the views of The Gazette or Board, publisher, or Dalhousie University. Grawood Specials and Regular Programming Open Every Monday through Friday for lunch from 11:30am - 1:30pm Open for dinner Wednesday through Friday from 5:00pm – 9:00pm. Join us for Wing Nights every Wednesday night from 5:00pm to 9:00pm. Wings are only 30 cents!!! Come try our Burger, Fries and a Draft special for just $5.95 every Thursday from 5:00pm - 9:00pm. Why not stay for Trivia night? The Grawood hosts an exciting game of Trivia every Thursday starting at 9:00pm, so come out and test your knowledge! If you have a big appetite, join us for our Bottomless Pasta special every Friday! All you can eat pasta for one low price! Join us on Facebook at The GRAWOOD Campus Pub Stay connected with the DSU through Facebook + Twitter Facebook: Group and Page – Dalhousie Student Union Twitter: www.twitter.com/dalstudentunion Check us out on the web www.dsu.ca • January 7 - January 13, 2011 3 from the editor from the editor E-mail Joel at [email protected] from the editor. Joel Tichinoff Editor-in-Chief FictionWe tell stories. Our world is full them. vision for Facebook was “eventually, a “the right of people to freely access story is the personal story of Julian Some we tell to others, some to layer underneath almost every electronic information” and how “the more Assange. The allegations against ourselves. Some are true, some are not. device. You’ll turn on your TV, and you’ll freely information flows, the stronger Julian Assange, the Wikileaks editor- Stories tell us something about our world see that fourteen of your Facebook societies become and how access to in-chief who became the target of an and shape the way we understand it. At friends are watching “Entourage,” … information helps citizens to hold their international manhunt based on sexual *The Gazette* we tell stories too; we tell You’ll buy a brand-new phone, and governments accountable, generates assault allegations, took a twist when the story of this city, of our school and of you’ll just enter your credentials. All your new ideas and encourages creativity” details of the case against him were its students; their ideas, their opinions, friends—and perhaps directions to all while visiting China. In November leaked to the public along with creepy us on follow what they cared about and what they the places you and they have visited the Nobel Peace prize was awarded love letters from his days as a university didn’t, what they won and what they recently—will be right there.” The privacy Liu Xiaobou, a Chinese citizen who student. The man who had used the @dalgazette lost, what happened and what didn’t, policy decisions made by Zuckerberg resisted government censorship. The internet to humiliate the world’s most and what they had to say about that. and the operators of Facebook affect announcement was met with the powerful organization, found himself @gazetteopinions We’ve told this story for a long time, and over 600 million people; if Facebook wide acclaim of liberal democracies as exposed and his privacy just as in our upcoming Archives Issue later were a country it would rank third in and condemnation from the Chinese vulnerable to the public eye. @gazette_arts this month, we hope to share some of population behind India and China. government. Yet it was Hillary Clinton's In a world where mighty institutions those stories from the past with you. This For the 600 million Facebook users, the State Department that lead the calls lose their right to secrecy, so do week we revive our past in a different networking site is the primary interface for Wikileaks to be shut down. What individuals. way by publishing a modest selection between them as private individuals happened? —JT LSAT MCAT of student-written fiction in our paper. and their controlled public identity. A final point of interest in the Wikileaks Once *The Gazette* regularly published On Facebook we can choose what GMAT GRE short fiction and poetry written by information about us can be known, and students and it is somewhat a point of who can know it. In a sense, our public Preparation Seminars pride that our paper published the early identity is a created one, a version of writing of famous Canadian authors like ourselves that we are comfortable with. • Complete 30-Hour Seminars Lucy Maude Montgomery and Hugh A fiction? We feel entitled to our right • Convenient Weekend Schedule McLennan while they studied here. to control information about ourselves. The news tells a story objectively, about We already share our favourite TV shows • Proven Test-Taking Strategies an external reality, fiction tells stories and places we've been, will we draw the • Experienced Course Instructors subjectively, dealing with an internal or line when Facebook can share what TV • Comprehensive Study Materials created reality. The notion of mixing we're watching or where we are in real fiction with the news no doubt ruffles time? • Simulated Practice Exams feathers of purists on both sides, and To use a Facebook analogy, the leaked • Limited Class Size yet events in the past few months have diplomatic cables were the equivalent of given new reason for us to think about Wikileaks posting unflattering photos • Free Repeat Policy the relation between fiction and the of the State Department and making • Personal Tutoring Available media in a different way.