Cover Illustration by Aaron Mangle 144-01 free Sept. 2 - Sept. 8, 2011 INTERACT AT e Frosh Issue Frosh e Your first week need-to-know first week Your Everything aboutcampussports, pg15 Learn howtothinkinclass,pg7 Dal welcomesDattaback,pg 5 September 2 - September 8, 2011 • Dylan Matthias, Editor-in-Chief [email protected] Erica Eades, Copy/Arts Editor [email protected] staff Katrina Pyne, News Editor WELCOME TO DAL EVERYONE!!! Torey Ellis, Assistant News Editor [email protected] If you are looking for fun things to do on campus be sure to check out the inside Leilani Graham-Laidlaw cover of the Gazette each week for the DSU’s weekly list of events. Opinions/Online Editor [email protected] You can also check out our website at www.DSU.ca Leslie Gallagher, Assistant Arts Editor for events, society resources, student advocacy services, [email protected] Ian Froese, Sports Editor grant information and much more! [email protected] Angela Gzowski, Photo Editor Here is a list of upcoming events that you will want to mark your calendars for: [email protected] Jonathan Rotsztain, Art Director ROARientation [email protected] September 4 -7 Ben McDade, Business Manager [email protected] We know all you first year students will want to come out and show your tiger pride at the contact us DSU’s annual orientation week. This year promises to be full of exciting events. There will be a www.dalgazette.com variety of games, shows and even parties at the Grawood! And don’t forget our annual Shine The SUB, Room 312 Day taking place on September 7! 6136 University Avenue Halifax NS, B3H 4J2 902 494 1280 For more information on scheduling and events visit our website at www.showyourstripes.ca or contact Jamie Arron, your DSU Vice President Advertising Inquiries Aaron Merchant, Ad Manager of Student Life at [email protected] 902 449 7281 [email protected] First Class Bash Thursday, September 8 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 participation from all students. It is published not The Gazette’s writers or staff. This publication Come celebrate the first day of classes with the DSU and Signal Hill weekly during the academic year by the Dalhouse is intended for readers 18 years of age or older. at the Grawood! Gazette Publishing Society. The Gazette is a The views of our writers are not the explicit views student-run publication. Its primary purpose is to of Dalhousie University. All students of Dalhousie report fairly and objectively on issues of importance University, as well as any interested parties on Tickets are $5.00 at the door and you must be 19 years or older to attend. and interest to the students of Dalhousie University, or off-campus, are invited to contribute to any to provide an open forum for the free expression section of the newspaper. Please contact the Doors open at 9:00 pm. Be sure to come early as this is always a sold out event! and exchange of ideas, and to stimulate appropriate editor for submission guidelines, or meaningful debate on issues that affect or would drop by for our weekly volunteer meetings every otherwise be of interest to the student body and/ Monday at 5:30 p.m. in room 312 of the Dal SUB. or society in general. A “staff contributor” is a The Gazette reserves the right to edit and reprint Dalfest member of the paper defined as a person who has all submissions, and will not publish material September 8 - 10 had three volunteer articles, or photographs of deemed by its editorial board to be discriminatory, reasonable length, and/or substance published in racist, sexist, homophobic or libellous. Opinions three different issues within the current publishing expressed in submitted letters are solely those of year. Views expressed in the letters to the editor, the authors. Editorials in The Gazette are signed Come out to the DSU’s official welcome back party! This year Dalfest is a three day long event Overheard at Dal, and opinions section are solely and represent the opinions of the writer(s), not full of games, live entertainment, free food, fireworks and of course a beer tent! There is also a those of the contributing writers, and do not necessarily those of The Gazette staff, Editorial FREE Bedoiun Soundclash concert!!! necessarily represent the views of The Gazette or Board, publisher, or Dalhousie University. Be sure to check out www.DSU.ca for a complete list of event details or contact your Vice President of Student Life, Jamie Arron via email at [email protected] Society Fair Wednesday, September 14 We will be hosting our annual Society Fair in the McInnes Room of the SUB. The event will begin at 11:00am and will finish up at 2:00pm. This is your chance to come out and meet new people with similar interests and get involved! To register for a table please email Holly, your Society Coordinator at [email protected] Society Training Day Saturday, September 17 Society Training day will take place on September 17th from 9:00am - 2:30pm in the McInnes room. This is a mandatory training day for all societies and at least 1 executive must be present. You will find a registration form onwww.DSU.ca under the Society Resources/Leadership & Involvement tab. Please complete this form and submit it to room 222 of the SUB by 2:00pm on September 14th. Stay connected with the DSU through Facebook & Twitter Facebook: Group and Page – Dalhousie Student Union Twitter: www.twitter.com/dalstudentunion from the editor E-mail Dylan at [email protected] from the editor Dylan Matthias Editor-in-Chief How not to become a zombie Or: Welcome to Dal; good luck Dylan Matthias more—ask the returning students) four years than one unending frosh Editor-in-Chief years to fi nd some direction. Four week. There are 17,000 Dal students years to try things out. Similarly, we and sometimes we need to remind Welcome to Dal, your frosh pack (or have one year and 24 issues to learn the Dalhousie stratosphere that we're newsstand), and the very fi rst Dal how to work our editing process, to not just tuition money and alumni Gazette it contains. Thanks for pick- try and fi ll our website, and to pro- funding. ing us up. duce something with meaning to So if you're not a zombie, Hi. By way of introduction, we're both us and to you, the student body. prove it. Let a rolled-up Dal- your campus paper. Your very own By issue number two coming out housie Gazette be your campus paper. Introductions are next Friday, we'll have received our weapon. We have all kinds tough, annoying and there are other usual compliment of letters claiming of uses—and a lot of empty things in your frosh pack (or news- that our friendship is over, that the pages sometimes. If you've stand), so I'll only do this once: wel- Gazette doesn't represent you, Sexton got something you want to come, good luck, and have fun. If campus, Halifax, or contain enough tell the world, here's your you're a returning student: welcome zombie comics. And then it gets all chance to do it. You're back, good luck, and have fun. This bitter and legal, and you won't even here to learn how, after all. editorial's aimed at frosh. The rest show up to our AGM so we get quo- And prove that there are of you probably already know where rum. people paying that tuition, The Streeter is (page 10). Nobody wins like this. It's like sign- not just “Bold Ambitions.” We have a lot in common. As a ing up for a course with that awe- So I think we have a lot paper fi lled with journalism students, some, amazingly funny prof, then to offer each other. Want we often come across as zombies. As not showing up more than a third of to be friends? Uh...um... fi rst-year students, you often come the time. So let's do better: you've got maybe you might want across as zombies. We miss dead- four years to make stories happen at to, you know, come over lines, you miss deadlines. We're a Dal. We want to know about them to our place? Eat some fairly attractive place to advertise and and tell everybody. pizza? Around 4pm on so are you (welcome to the coveted See, people our age get passionate Monday would work. We 18-35 bracket!). about a great many things. With me can crash on the couch and But as you pick apart your fun- it's soccer, journalism and creative tell some stories. We live in filled-yet-perhaps-slightly-predict- writing. So I started covering lacrosse the SUB, just up the stairs on able frosh pack (yes, you got con- for the Gazette and three years later the third fl oor, and down the doms), it's worth remembering that I'm running the Gazette, writing hall to your left. we have one other thing in common. an AUS soccer blog, and taking an Welcome, good luck, and have You're not just future hosts for the advanced fi ction workshop. That's fun. See you on Monday, Sept. 5 at “Bold Ambitions” fundraising cam- a story of sorts.