Volume 45 Issue No. 4 September 17, 2012 www.fsu.ca/interrobang/ 2 NEWS Volume 45 Issue No. 4 September 17, 2012 www.fsu.ca/interrobang/ @ZackDodge We just hosted our first game of FSU SKATE. 16 of our finest skaters on campus put on a great show! Thanks to all who participated #fanshawe @fanshawesu Thanks to all those who have been visiting FSU.ca. More events & photos to be posted soon.... and the chance to win Metric tickets #fanshawe @emillysantoss I made the fanshawe falcons varsity volleyball team.. SO HAPPY!!! @theartsproject Welcome back Western and Fan- shawe Students. Looking for artistic/ alternative events outside the school “bubble”? Check us out @cadenceweapon about to rock fanshawe college in london, on yaaaaaaaaa @johnabreu CREDIT: FSU STREET TEAM you know what would be awesome? Hey Rosetta! headlined the Fanshawe Student Union’s Orientation concert in the SUB courtyard September 11. if Fanshawe College had a place for random musicians to grab instru- 10 Things I Know About You... ments and just play stuff, at any time @jenniferpilgrim My 20min wait in line for subway at Channer seeks Dairy Queen fanshawe was worth it :) lol Julien Channer is in his second Justice, CAKE, Beck. 7. What was your first job? year of Computer Systems 4. What is the best piece of An underpaid paper route. @mfhowson Technology and said about him- advice you’ve ever received? 8. What would your last meal The new @yoyosyogurt location self, “I like to be the tallest per- “It’s never too late to go back to be? across from #fanshawe looks amaz- son in the room.” school.” A steak dinner followed by an 1. Why are you here? 5. Who is your role model? entire Dairy Queen ice cream cake. ing! Yogurt is so yummy :) To get an education that will turn I don’t believe in role models. 9. What makes you uneasy? into a job. 6. Where in the world have you Answering questions about @FSU_FINANCE 2. What was your life-changing travelled? myself. Still recovering after the awesome- moment? British Columbia, the United 10. What is your passion? Getting engaged to my fiancée. States, Cuba, Bermuda, England, Video games and computers. ness of the @heyrosetta show last 3. What music are you currently and I hope to do a lot more travel- Do you want Fanshawe to know 10 night. Confetti and sparklers, amaz- listening to? ling. Things About You? Just head on ing! #seeds over to fsu.ca/interrobang and click on the 10 Things I Know Visit the Biz Booth @morgaanaashley About You link at the top. for ticket information Just staple gunned a card to a magi- cians face?! #maythefroshbewithyou #freakingout #onlyatFanshawe @FanshaweProbs KIOSK QUIZ The fanshawe intramural leagues starting soon strap the skates cleats WHEN ARE HEALTH and runners on fanshawe #mucka- 6(59,&(6 '2&7256n ndgrind OFFICE) WALK-IN TIMES @raachelveleema FOR STUDENTS? Drop by th loooove having party animals acrosss e Welcome Kiosk w your answer. Five winners will bith the hall #funshawe e selected from correct entries and we’ll notify winners b @FanshaweFalcons y email. The Welcome Kio sk (between the Kobe or LeBron have nothing on our Bookstore and the Libra ry) is open all year between 8am and 4 guys tonight pm, Monday to Friday. PRIZES SPONSORED B Y CHARTWE LLS sweet tweets CREDIT: SUBMITTED of the week Julien Channer has done some travelling and wants to do more. 3 Volume 45 Issue No. 4 September 17, 2012 www.fsu.ca/interrobang/ NEWS Ontario student aid goes online to reduce lines DARRYL GALLINGER THE LANCE WINDSOR (CUP) — Ontario’s student financial aid service is going digital. The Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP) is, for the first time, transferring funds to post- secondary students electronically instead of requiring them to wait in long lines at their institution’s financial aid office. Marian Doll, director of Student Awards and Financial Aid at the CREDIT: MARKETINGMEL.COM Over half of the Canadian student population aged 15 to 24 couldn’t find University of Windsor, said this a job this past summer. will afford administrators more time to help students. “As opposed to going through the monotonous process of releas- ing loans every day, we’ll be deal- CREDIT: HENRY YE/THE UBYSSEY Student job market not ing more with students who have a tution they’re attending, and even mate, students should see the funds problem that we have to deal with.” on to graduate or post-graduate start to flow into their bank hot this summer Doll said her office handles 130 studies. accounts without ever having to to 150 requests from students per Once the MFSAA has been step foot in here.” ERIKA FAUST average employment rate for sum- day regarding financial aid. processed, students continue to Reitsma said he would like to Around 50 per cent of full-time stu- INTERROBANG mer 2012 for students aged 15 to apply yearly for OSAP. The funds see the government releasing funds If you had a job this past sum- 24 was 47.9 per cent (down from dents at the University of Windsor will transfer to the university when before the school year begins to apply for OSAP annually. mer, consider yourself lucky. last summer’s rate of 49.1 per classes start, tuition will be deduct- help students pay for their books The summer of 2012 had some cent), meaning over half of the stu- Travis Reitsma, an English ed from that amount if the student and other necessary expenses. undergraduate student, said of the of the lowest rates of student dents in that age group spent sum- has agreed to that, and any remain- “I’ve gone into October - some- employment on record, according mer 2012 without a job. changes, “It’s great that they’re ing amount will be transferred to times into late October - (before finally entering the 21st century. to Statistics Canada. Students aged 15 to 24 who did the student. receiving OSAP funds). It’s never From May to August each year, manage to find a job this past sum- They should have been doing this Doll said she hopes that funds reliable; you never know when for the last decade.” Statistics Canada’s Labour Force mer worked an average of 24.2 will reach students sooner as a you’re going to get it.” Survey looks at labour market hours each week. To accomplish this, OSAP has result. Undergraduate Bailey McCoy introduced the Master Financial information about Canadian stu- The job market is tough for “That’s the goal,” she said. “If agreed that some students need dents aged 15 to 24 who were in everybody province-wide; Student Aid Agreement (MFSAA), the system can support what (the their OSAP right away. a lifetime loan contract. As long as school full-time in March and plan Ontario’s unemployment rate in financial aid office) needs to do in “They could pay off their school to return to full-time studies in the August was eight per cent. the student doesn’t allow more a very short time frame … I’m a lot faster, get their living expens- than two years to elapse between fall. For the survey’s full findings, going to say seven business days, es done … and just focus on their The survey found that employ- check out tinyurl.com/statscan- full-time studies, the agreement which is a fairly conservative esti- school work.” will follow them to whatever insti- ment rates declined for students of jobssummer2012. all age groups this summer. The Fanshawe’s getting active, you should, too STUART GOODEN Check out page 9 for a full list of INTERROBANG the events, as well as where and The Fanshawe Student Union is when they’ll take place. cutting the ribbon for its very first There is no formal sign-up or Get Active Fanshawe Week. The registration. To participate, simply events taking place this week show up. Games include soccer- include a long list of games that baseball, capture the flag, an adap- will surely get your heart pumping tion of Angry Birds and water bal- and your adrenaline flowing. loon dodgeball. Tory Holmes is the FSU’s VP of Holmes said he understands how Internal Affairs, and he said that tough going to college for the first the week is going to be a great time can be for many students. opportunity to have fun and meet “Everyone who’s been at college your fellow Falcons. “It’s an for a few years remembers what awareness week to get students out first year is like and how scary and of their dorm rooms, out of the nerve racking it can be to be at classroom, out of their houses, and school … having fun breaks down just get outside in a social and fun those barriers.” atmosphere,” he said. “They can The best thing about Get Active be doing a healthy activity that will Fanshawe Week is that anybody get them running around, tired out, can join; you don’t have to be a and (it’s) also a good chance to track star or student athlete to make friends along the way. What come out. “It’s not geared towards we’re going to strive for is student athletics in any way,” Holmes said. participation, that’s the main “This is something for the demo- thing.” graphic … interested in coming The events will take place out and having fun.” So, basically, throughout the week, some during everyone. the days, but most after class by Simply put, Get Active the patch of field at D-Sub Fanshawe Week should definitely Courtyard, and out in the larger be on your to-do list.