the carillon The University of Regina Students’ Newspaper since 1962 Mar. 7 - 13, 2013 | Volume 55, Issue 22 | carillonregina.com cover The City of Regina has been on the staff a relentless revitalization project for the past few years, in other editor-in-chief dietrich neu [email protected] words, screwing up everything. business manager shaadie musleh The latest project laden with [email protected] production manager julia dima controversy is the demolition [email protected] copy editor michelle jones and rebuilding of Connaught [email protected] elementary school. Read about news editor taouba khelifa [email protected] the plans on page 6. And you a&c editor paul bogdan [email protected] have a lovely day. sports editor autumn mcdowell [email protected] op-ed editor edward dodd [email protected] visual editor arthur ward [email protected] ad manager neil adams [email protected] news arts & culture technical coordinator jonathan hamelin [email protected] news writer kristen mcewen sophie long a&c writer kyle leitch sports writer braden dupuis photographers olivia mason marc messett tenielle bogdan emily wright Growing together. 4 Con-no more. 6 Regina’s Seedy Saturday Continuing Regina's heritage contributors this week regan meloche joel blechinger jordan palmer brought together experts, gar- of tearing down its heritage, michael chmielewski paige kreutzwieser kevin chow deners, local business owners, the Board of Education voted and organizations, all looking to tear down and rebuild the forward to the start of spring 100 year old Connaught the paper and the planting season. School despite outcry from THE CARILLON BOARD OF DIRECTORS Gardening is more than just the community. Dietrich Neu, Kent Peterson, Edward Dodd, Ed growing food, its about grow- Kapp, Tim Jones, Madeline Kotzer, Anna Weber ing a community. 227 Riddell Centre University of Regina - 3737 Wascana Parkway Regina, SK, Canada, S4S 0A2 www.carillonregina.com sports op-ed Ph: (306) 586-8867 Fax: (306) 586-7422 Printed by Transcontinental Publishing Inc., Saskatoon The Carillon welcomes contributions to its pages. Correspondence can be mailed, e-mailed, or dropped off in person. Please include your name, address and telephone number on all letters to the editor. Only the author’s name, title/position (if applicable) and city will be published. Names may be withheld upon request at the discretion of the Carillon. Letters should be no more then 350 words and may be edited for space, clarity, accuracy and vulgarity. 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All except be running for a position with In keeping with our reckless, devil-may-care image, our of- fice has absolutely no concrete information on the Carillon’s for one sport, in which nei- URSU. The slate “Students for formative years readily available. What follows is the story that’s been passed down from editor to editor for over forty ther the men's nor the Students” seems to get that years. women's team made the play- even though their name is ter- In the late 1950s, the University of Regina planned the con- struction of several new buildings on the campus grounds. rible. No, wait, that’s just a ter- One of these proposed buildings was a bell tower on the aca- offs. I'm not going to name demic green. If you look out on the academic green today, the first thing you’ll notice is that it has absolutely nothing any names: volleyball. rible name and I can’t get over resembling a bell tower. it. Anyway, here’s some advice The University never got a bell tower, but what it did get was the Carillon, a newspaper that serves as a symbolic bell photos if you’re a candidate. tower on campus, a loud and clear voice belonging to each and every student. news Dietrich Neu op-ed Edward Dodd Illegitimi non carborundum. a&c Paul Bogdan cover Dietrich Neu sports Emily Wright News Editor: Taouba Khelifa [email protected] carillon news | mar. 7 - 13, 2013 ‘Pollock not asked to resign’ Controversy surrounding vice-president’s resignation dietrich neu editor-in-chief Sgrazzutti said. “It looks good that the position isn’t filled, it looks good that the administra- tion didn’t ask her to resign, but in the grand scheme of things this University of Regina President, has no impact on the budget prob- Vianne Timmons, has said that lems of this university. The real Barbara Pollock was “absolutely issue here is how much money we not asked to resign,” by university are spending on these raises, year- administration. after-year. Pollock, who served as the U “The only reason Barb of R’s vice-president of external stepped down is as a PR move be- relations for over a decade, sur- cause they’re backed into a cor- prisingly resigned last week to ner.” pursue other professional av- President Timmons has de- enues. President Timmons has nied accusations that Pollock was said that Pollock’s position will pressured in any way to resign, not be filled. In the interim, or that her resignation was related Pollock’s responsibilities will be to the IPAC-CO2 controversy that redistributed among the staff and made headlines several weeks the remaining vice-presidents – ago. who will report directly to “This was not a public rela- Timmons. University of Regina tions move by any means,” The news comes after months Timmons said. “This is something of student groups and U of R fac- tion very carefully that becomes such as the University of Regina on toes of course, was to look to that we will be doing all the time. ulty members raising concerns vacant, and I am doing the same. Students’ Union and CFS the person who already has an- When a position becomes vacant about “bloated” administrative I’m going to take this as an op- Saskatchewan, have hailed the de- other path in life to travel down. we will examine the position and costs in the face of a looming portunity to look into the entire cision as a victory for students Personally, I believe that Barb was see if we can distribute things dif- budget crunch. Admin salaries external relations area and see if across the province. Despite uni- the one who said, ‘Maybe I should ferently.” cost the U of R approximately $44 we are being as efficient as we can versity statements to the contrary, be the one that goes.’ But, I think “It is unfortunate when some- million in 2011 – a statistic that within it.” many students across campus be- that everyone knew that someone one like Barb moves on that peo- has often overshadowed the Timmons noted that she did- lieve this was a calculated move to was going to have to leave.” ple characterize it in a way that provincial government’s decision n’t necessarily think there was “fat appease the masses. University administration be- doesn’t honour the contributions to slash millions from post-sec- to be trimmed” in terms of admin- “It is a huge win for us,” said gan to receive tremendous pres- that they have made to this insti- ondary budgets. istrative and faculty positions, but Nathan Sgrazzutti, URSU presi- sure from student groups after tution.” “I am waiting to see what the that the U of R simply has to take dent. “I think that the vice-presi- CBC Saskatchewan made their provincial budget is like,” the opportunities to do what they dents knew that someone was salaries public on Dec. 10 of last Timmons said. “I have asked fac- can. going to have to leave. The easiest year. ulty to look into every single posi- Student-run organizations, way to do that, without stepping “Strategically, this move is smart,” Leading the way forward Women taking more seats in politics rikkeal bohmann the ratio is under the 30 per cent change continues to move for- contributor mark that identifies as having sig- ward. First elected to City Council nificant representation. Though in 2003, Bryce says change is on its Canada is increasing its female way. representation in politics, the “Women are out in the work- South Korea began to break away country sits 52nd in the world for force, of course, and that’s chang- at the gender gap in politics female representation in political ing people’s outlook on women. Monday, Feb. 25, when the coun- office. When I was elected to city council, try elected its first female presi- According to the United I was the only woman on council, dent, Park Geun-hye. Park is the Nations, the worldwide average but for the past couple of other daughter of the country’s former of women make up only 19.5 per terms, there has been one other military ruler, Park Chung-hee.