CASA says copyright change hurts our education, pg 4 Sept. 17 - 23 , 2010 Judge wants homophobes to be free free comfortable, pg 7 143-02 Dal student morphs into flock of frightening females, pg 8 School Spirit Will football bring the fans back? Cover Illustration by Daniel Rotsztain September 17 - September 23, 2010 • Joel Tichinoff, Editor in Chief [email protected] Bethany Horne, Copy/Online Editor [email protected] Laura Conrad, News Editor Samantha Durnford, AssistantNews Editor DSU Weekly Dispatch [email protected] Hilary Beaumont, Features Editor Mark Your Calendars for Upcoming Events [email protected] Katie Toth, Opinions Editor Hot Tub-Beach Party at the Grawood!!!!!! staff. [email protected] Rebecca Spence, Arts Editor Friday, September 17 Erica Eades, Assistant Arts Editor Summer may be over but we’re not ready to throw in our beach wear just yet! Come [email protected] Dylan Matthias, Sports Editor out to the Grawood’s first Fusion Friday of the Semester! 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Editor-in-Chief a player is someone who wins read some books, we throw some a part of it. Admit it, we like Dal. Ask yourself when was the last and loses; if we couldn’t be parties and then we move on with It’s no accident that there is a time you were together with a large Winning isn’t everything but does beaten, if the outcome was never our lives being able to say we went connection between universities group on campus not because you anyone play to lose? Do we ever in question, then the purpose of to Dal without thinking any more or and sports in North America. were in the same class or the same just play for the sake of playing? the game is defeated. As players, less of ourselves because of it. We One is dedicated to training the year or the same residence or the We can’t help but want to succeed we will always try to win, but try study at a fine, long-established, mind, the other to training the same bar. When do we ever get in anything we do. There’s nothing with the understanding that the respected institute for higher body and both contribute to the Arts students, Science students, wrong with losing. A proper attempt is all we are entitled to. learning, why make a big deal out development of character. It’s hard Medical students, Engineers, loss is taken not as failure but to If we understand that the primary of it? School spirit; can we really be to imagine that if universities did alumni, administration, societies imply a need for improvement, it purpose of sports is to try, to do our expected to pay homage to some not support athletics programs and faculty together in one space presents an opportunity, a reason best regardless of the outcome, non-physical, intangible idea of that students wouldn’t create their together? That is, when does our to be better than we were. A win is then winning and losing become emotion and character dedicated own based around the campus community truly gather around confirmation of that improvement, secondary. If we accept that there to the presumption that there’s community. It’s impossible to have one common cause? a win justifies the effort of training will be wins and there will be losses, something special about this place so many young people together Will football alone bring with accomplishment. It is proof of that best and worst are relative, and, by implication, us? Well, why in one place without them getting back Dalhousie spirit? No. But ability, of capacity for excellence. then we are left with the question not? together to be active and have a new football will provide an A win reminds us that all our goals of how we play the game, how we We do. We wear DAL on our fun sooner or later. It’s also no opportunity, a space for the and aspirations are within reach, test the quality ourselves against clothes, we know our colours are accident that the schools with the entire Dal community to gather that we too have a claim to victory successes and failures, gauge Black and Gold.