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Sept. 11–17, 2008
Letters
Frank AppleyardEditor-in-Chief editor@thefulcrum.ca
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What about improv?
Re: Comedy in the Capital (Arts, Aug. 21)
HIS LEER IS in response to inaHassannia’s article “Comedy in theCapital.” I noticed that there was nomention o the ast-growing improvscene in the nation’s capital in herarticle, especially since the orma-tion o the award-winning troupeInsensitivity raining, which DanielHarris wrote on in the
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lastyear, teams regularly get togetherand battle it out in addition to havingrecurring shows. Te boys o Insen-sitivity raining perorm a two-hourshow, reminiscent o
Whose Line is it Anyway?
every Sunday night at theBytown avern (292 Elgin St.). It is anabsolutely hilarious and interactiveshow. Tey also have been known tohost workshops, flm comedy sketch videos, and won an award or theirshow
Naked Famous People
at thissummer’s Ottawa Fringe Festival.Made to Measure/Some Assembly Required as well as Crystal Basementand Crush Improv round out Ottawa’sscene. Each team brings a dierentdynamic to the table and all are very enjoyable to watch. Improv in Ottawais on the rise, so I eel that it was very important to correct the initial over-sight o not including these deservingteams in ina’s original article.
Jessica RashotteU of O alumna
Keeping the ‘Canada’ inCanada’s University
I WAS QUIE thrilled to attend [theSept. 6] ootball game against York and see our boys on the feld com-pletely dominate. Yet I le the gamewith a bitter taste in my mouth. As asecond-year student I have very ondmemories o last year’s 101 Week as Iattended most events and I had one o the best weeks I have experienced yetin lie. Tere was not a single issue thatbothered me with the constant cheersthat included every swear possible orthe many sexually suggestive momentsthat occurred. Tis was all done in unand guides judged and knew whereour comort levels were and when toback o. With such ond memories o 101 Week I was excited to see that theootball game included all the acultiesin 101 Week to help support our team.Tis is where my excitement was in-terrupted however by a young woman,who chose to show some leadership by running down in ront o the crowd tolead in some o our cheers. Now I ammaking the assumption she was not aguide, but I may be wrong. I could nottell because o the horrible t-shirt shewas wearing. She was wearing quite thepatriotic looking Canadian ag on hershirt but with a massive black X drawnthrough it. On the back o her shirtwas the message, “I AM A SEPARA-IS! ON OC. 14 VOE BLOC QUE-BECOIS!” Now it takes a lot or me toget angry, but this display is unaccept-able. First o, this is a 101 Week eventin which we bring our newest studentsto show them “Canada’s University”, orso we claim. Now this seems strangeto me, having someone running to theront o the crowd wearing a shirt thatcompletely contradicts the message o our proud university. Next we are noteven located in the only province thatcan vote or this political party, so I seeno need in why it needed to be worn toa ootball game. Tis is a week o cel-ebration o certain individuals startinga new page in lie and political beliesshould not be brought into this situa-tion.I am well aware o ree-speechlaws, but political correctness andree speech only go so ar beore be-coming ridiculous. I a student wantsto come celebrate our university by cheering, then by all means do it. Tisto me seems like it is a slap in the aceor the very message our university stands or and proudly uses to en-courage new students to join us. I orone would still like us to be known as“Canada’s University” and be proudo it. I you are a student here andpromote messages such as this thenmaybe you should think again what values your school holds.
Michael Read Second-year humankinetics student
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Censorship, the SFUO,and the CFS
EARLIER HIS WEEK at Fedstock,the Student Federation o the Uni- versity o Ottawa (SFUO) welcomedfrst-year students and encouragedthem to be involved in student poli-tics. But minutes later these samepeople told me I had to hide my peti-tion regarding their decision to makethe U o O a prospective member o the Canadian Federation o Students(CFS), because I had not receivedtheir stamp o approval.My petition was simple enough.It stated that the SFUO should haveconsulted the students o the Uni- versity o Ottawa beore joiningthem in prospective membershipwith the CFS, and it demanded thatthey revisit their decision. One o the members on the SFUO told methat their decision was “all aboutdemocracy”. As partial membersin the CFS, the SFUO will allow areerendum on ull membership.But this reerendum itsel will costthousands o dollars rom student’sincidental ees. Prospective mem-bership means more than just areerendum—it means that the CFSis welcome on our campus to runtheir campaigns. Beyond that theCFS will have a direct role in themanagement and administration o the reerendum. his is an organiza-tion that has routinely aced seriouscorruption allegations speciically in regard to student elections andreerendums. Whether giving usprospective membership in the CFSis equivalent to promoting democ-racy is a matter o debate—a debatethe students should have a voice in.I encourage students to make uptheir own minds about the CFS—allI’m saying is that students shouldhave been consulted about whetherwe should have become prospectivemembers in the CFS.I thought universities are sup-posed to be arenas o open dialogueand thoughtul debate; and yet, roshweek activism was met by censorship.I this is what prospective member-ship in the CFS looks like, I want nopart o it.
Daniel GilmanTird-year history student
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News
Emma GodmereNews Editornews@thefulcrum.ca
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by Emma GodmereFulcrum Staf HE SEP. 14 meeting o the Board o Administration (BOA) o the StudentFederation o the University o Ot-tawa (SFUO) can likely expect debateon a set o three by-law and constitu-tional amendments to be proposed tothe Canadian Federation o Students(CFS) at their November semi-annualgeneral meeting.Ryan Kennery, a Faculty o Artsrepresentative o the BOA, has put to-gether three potential amendments tothe national student lobby organiza-tion’s constitution, aiming to improvetheir inclusion o bilingualism and as-pects o their reerendum campaigns.As prospective members o CFS,“[the SFUO gets] a vote, a voice atthe table, [and] the ability to afectchange,” Kennery said.he irst o his proposals includesextending the bilingualism require-ments to not only the national chair-person o CFS, but also the nationaldeputy chairperson and the nation-al treasurer. I the executives cannotprove their second-language proi-ciency ive weeks beore the generalmeeting where they would assumetheir respective roles, according tothe proposed amendments, theirpositions would be declared vacant.“I want to make sure that we holdall elected members on the CFS to thesame standard we hold our executivemembers,” said Kennery.Kennery’s other two proposals sur-rounding membership reerendumswould ensure campaign teams aresubject to equal spending limits andseek to change the period o timenecessary to pass beore a memberassociation can hold a de-ederationreerendum. As it stands, member as-sociations must wait 24 months aer joining beore they can potentially hold a vote to leave CFS.“Say the SFUO and its studentswere to join in March 2009. Wecould not even legally look at the is-sue even until March 2011,” Kennery explained.SFUO President Dean Haldenby expressed his support or BOA mem-bers proposing changes they wouldlike to see in the makeup o CFS.“I think that that’s a really goodthing, and that it’s really positive,”said Haldenby. “It’s one o the thingsthat I denitely said would be a goodthing i we were prospective mem-bers—that i we saw weaknesses incertain things, we’d be able to changethem.”Te concept o jumping right intoprospective membership with CFSseems to resonate across the BOA.“I agree with Ryan in that it’s im-portant to have the SFUO be active inthis year even beore we go to reer-endum and to take a leadership role[to show] that we’re serious about theorganization,” said BOA Faculty o Social Sciences representative Amy Kishek.“I disagree with having thempresented sooner [though], just be-cause I’ve seen the timeline,” saidKishek.“Te CFS meeting isn’t un-til the end o November. Tere’splenty o time i we address it at theOctober 5 meeting and I, person-ally, would appreciate that, to takemore time to look at [the proposedamendments].”Kennery hopes to hold a vote onthe motions at the Sept. 14 meeting.o do this, he requires the supporto a two-thirds majority o the boardto hold the vote, or else it must waituntil the October meeting. Since theCFS national executive requires up tosix weeks to add subsequent agendapoints or their semi-annual generalmeeting, he intended to present hisamendments as soon as possible inorder to orward them to CFS in timeor the late November meeting.“We [won’t be] sitting in the cornerthere because we’re the new guys,”Kennery said o the SFUO’s potentialas prospective members at this up-coming CFS meeting. “We have theability to be players.”
Putting prospective membership to use
BOA to debateCFS constitutionalamendments atnext meeting
Ryan Kennery, pictured here at the July 27 meeting of the BOA, plans to introduce three amendments to the CFS constitution and by-laws at the board’s Sept. 14 meeting.
photo by Frank Appleyard
U of O supports students’
fi
ght for lower tuition fees
by Emma GodmereFulcrum Staf IN A VOE that garnered the majority o mem-bers’ support, the University o Ottawa’s Senatepassed a decision at their Sept. 8 meeting toallow and support students to take part in theCanadian Federation o Students (CFS)-runprovincial day o action to lower tuition ees onNov. 5.U o O President Allan Rock, who chaired themeeting held at abaret Hall, explained that theSenate’s decision would enable students to par-ticipate in lobbying activities by asking proes-sors not to schedule exams on Nov. 5 and notto penalize students or missing class i they aremarked or attendance.According to the motion, “i an exam or as-signment must absolutely be held on Nov. 5, stu-dents will be allowed to write a deerred exam.Te Senate will take responsibility to inorm, by e-mail, all proessors, students, and support staf about this motion.”Te on-campus organization o the Nov.5 campaign alls under the responsibility o Student Federation o the University o Ot-tawa (SFUO) Campaigns Organizer MichaelCheevers, who was pleased with the gesture o support rom the U o O.“It’s a lot o progress, I think,” said Cheevers,who also holds a seat on the Senate.“Not only that, but to have two administra-tors, the president and the vp academic actually deending the motion vis-à-vis a student, that’samazing,” he said.Joseph Wesley Richards II, a newly electedstudent on the Senate who brought up theissue o the campaign’s validity to Rock andVP Academic Robert Major, and who votedagainst the motion, expressed that this partic-ular demonstration unairly receives specialtreatment over any other cause students may want to lobby or.“We, as a university, should not give preer-ence to one cause or another,” he said via e-mail.“For me, human rights concerns are rankly o greater importance; people’s lives are at risk ver-sus I have to pay more or my tuition.”At the meeting, Major brought up the 2006compromise between the Senate and that aca-demic year’s SFUO executive, where studentsattended the day o action while not cancellingclasses altogether, as the SFUO had desired.Major explained that events that classes arecancelled or, such as University o Ottawa Day,which sees local high school students spend-ing the day on campus, come “ew and ar be-tween”.Richards, however, was rm in contendingthat students should not be permitted to skipclass to take part in the lower tuition lobbyingactivities.“Simply put, I just believe students musttake responsibility or their academic lives,” hesaid.
Senate permits studentsto miss class onNov. 5 day of action
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