LEARN TO RUN! OCT. 7, 15, 21, 28 – SIGN UP AT NAITSA.CA THE Thursday, October 3, 2013 Volume 51, Issue 6 NAIT YOUR STUDENT NEWSPAPERNUGGET FOR MORE THAN 50 YEARS, EDMONTON, ALBERTA, CANADA CITY GOALIE GETS A CHANCE Ty Rimmer impresses Oilers, story page 8 INSIDE: Editorial: Page 7 Entertainment: Pages 14-27 Horoscopes: Page 19 Photo by Jesse Kushneryk Let’s make-up! Hot Single: Page 16 Nugget Sports Editor Lauren Fink and Enter- Mouthing Off: Page 17 tainment Assistant Editor Chris Figliuzzi take a break after Chris, a complete novice, applied her News & Features: Page 2-6 make-up. More pictures, page 20. Sports: Pages 8-13 2 The Nugget Thursday, October 3, 2013 NEWS&FEATURES Don’t sweat smallI’ve had enough. Unlessstuff your job is literally life and our position in life, the difficulty is we’re doing more. Where the average adult works a job and has their death, there should be no reason why it needs to come certain community or family obligations, we can add with you when you leave work. Don’t forward your school to that equation. End- e-mail to your phone and lessly we’re told by people avoid going in on your days that being this busy is only off. Enjoy your down time temporary, but unfortunately and demand it. Get away life after school is becoming and step away from the hus- more like life in school. tle and bustle of our lives. If As a society we’re work- you take that time away you STEPHAN SUTCLIFFE ing more than we ever have. will find yourself working Assistant Issues Editor Even when we leave the harder at work and actually @StephanAlexand office we take our work with getting more done that you If you haven’t got to this moment in the semester us on our phones and tablets. did before. And when you’re you’ll be there soon. It’s the moment during school At first it seems like a good at work take breaks and do when you realize either you have taken on too much idea to have access to your something you enjoy and or maybe you’ve figured out you have more free time work e-mail and files but then when you take breaks get out than you thought. All of us would, of course, love to be you find yourself answering of your work environment. in the latter situation but very few of us are. e-mails on Saturday while out We work hard in school and that’s OK because that Personally and possibly like many of you, I took for lunch with your friends. www.buyrealmarketing.com on too much. So what to do now – you can’t just add It is possible that the most Too Much? hard work should pay off another hour to the day. You need to figure out a way detrimental thing to our soci- with work out of school. But to make it work and the best way to do this is by organ- ety is that we’re being overworked. Less work is being if your life after school begins to feel like it did when izing almost everything you do and really enjoying the done when we’re actually at work and our social lives you were in school, change that because as much as down time that you have. The little bit of comfort that are almost nonexistent outside of discussing what we’re told that life isn’t always fun and they call it I can give you is that you’re alone, and almost every- show you’re trying to catch up on. We always seem work for reason, which is for suckers. Have fun, love one in school feels the way you do. It’s just a reality of to be playing catch up, at work and at home. Frankly, life and never let the little things get to you. Fort Mac battles drug problem By JARED CARVALHO that it was hard to control the issue since tion Fort McMurray. Even with the com- career there. Companies like Suncor, For many students at NAIT the a vast majority of people that go through bined efforts of the substance abuse pro- Syncrude and Cenovus Energy have chance of working in Fort McMurray are Fort McMurray are there for work and gram of the community and efforts from excellent drug policies and go out of pretty high. Why not, right? There is job then leave at the end of their rotation. outside municipalities, the issue still their way to protect their employees. security and you get paid really well. Pinpointing an origin for the drugs can remains serious. These programs are some of the Yeah, you have to put in some be nearly impossible. Fort McMurray may have this dark steps being taken to make sure Fort long hours but when you get to come The issue was at its worst in the shadow of substance abuse but that McMurray can control its ongoing drug home you can live the good life. Fort mid-2000s when to many, drugs were shouldn’t deter you from pursuing a problem. McMurray is a classic case of a boom as easy to get as pizza. This town. The sheer number of people who sparked many employers to go through the town is absolutely tre- start implementing manda- mendous at any given time. Since the tory random drug screen- small community has a great many ings for employees that people flowing through it every day, it work in and around the city. has the typical boom town problems. Also, the overall commun- The streets aren’t designed to han- ity of Wood Buffalo estab- dle the traffic and permanent housing is lished a number of rehabili- expensive. And there is another problem tation and substance abuse that has arisen, one that isn’t conven- centres. tional but makes sense considering the Fort McMurray today circumstances. Fort McMurray has an eased off in its drug appe- issue with substance abuse. tite but remains high on The problem started when the boom the list of communities in Fort McMurray was in its infancy. with substance abuse prob- Well paid people would pile into work lems. Efforts from cities camps with nothing to do. Drugs like like Edmonton and Calgary cocaine, crack, heroine, meth and mari- have also helped stopped juana became readily available to pass the flow of drugs to the the time. The problem grew as the town community. Calgary police boomed. More people showed up and seized $1 million worth of drug trafficking became a pretty lucra- drugs on Wednesday Sept. www.edmontonsun.com tive business. The community found out 25 with their likely destina- A $750,000 drug and money seizure in Fort McMurray last December. Thursday, October 3, 2013 NEWS & FEATURES The Nugget 3 Online management Flickr, Google+, LinkedIn, Twitter, Tumblr how the progress is coming along on the The Nugget and YouTube. It’s an easy way to make your new Spiderman movie from director Marc Room E-128B own personal page – and it’s an even eas- Webb’s account. Or, I could meet some- 11762–106 Street ier way to network and explore other profes- one in the same city, with the same inter- Edmonton, Alberta sionals in your field of interest. ests, who I would have otherwise never met. T5G 2R1 Much like other social media platforms, It interests me to hear what these people, Production Office 471-8866 About.Me enables users to add tags to their among others, are saying. www.thenuggetonline.com own profile, which makes it easier to find These people who have become ever- Editor-in-Chief similar-interest people. For example, you popular online have spent incredible Nicole Murphy can tag marketing, advertising, law or pretty amounts of time perfecting their online skill. SARAH STILWELL much whatever else floats your boat. Learning a new form of social media takes a [email protected] Online Editor Better yet, on About.Me you can even while, but creating your own voice (“brand”, Issues Editor @sarah_stilwell hide them on your page. You will still be if you will) is something that takes years to Josh Yaworski Social media is a hobby within itself; “tagged” with those interests and will show achieve, if ever. [email protected] it takes a generous amount time to under- up when users search those tags but they Those who abandon or forget about their Assistant Issues Editor stand it and to figure out what you’re doing. won’t be visible to anyone looking at your accounts are facing an uphill battle. It takes Stephan Sutcliffe Unfortunately, it doesn’t take a lot of time page. time, effort and a voice to create a well- [email protected] The key to staying on the social media maintained online social sphere and it can be to fall off the social media sphere. When it Sports Editor comes to social media, you get out what you bandwagon is finding people with related intimidating to try to get back into it. If you put in. interests, even if they’re in a different coun- are in a social media slump, I highly recom- Lauren Fink Many social media savvy profession- try or live a completely different lifestyle. mend searching for other people who share [email protected] als agree that in order to have a successful I could go for hours on Tumblr to see your interest; even though you may have to Assistant Sports Editor account, accounts must be niched and main- what Eva Chen, Editor-in-Chief of Lucky dig deeper than following Miley Cyrus or Kyle Harris tained.