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Lea Foy
A group of Mount Allison students partying for a good cause. Shinerama brought in $16,722 in one day.
Shinerama rises
to the occasion
Mount Allison's campaign continues to
exceed expectations
Noah Kowalski
Editor in Chief
Looks like even rain cant block out
the Mount Allison shine. Sporadic
rain showers and heavy gusts of wind
didnt keep hundreds of Shinerama
volunteers from hitting the streets of
Sackville, Moncton, and Amherst.
I couldnt believe the sheer
amount of people who came out
for Shine Day, says Liz Kerrigan,
Shinerama Coordinator. We had
close to 500 volunteers out, which is
amazing considering how dreary it
was outside.
She says that her most important
message is for students to know what
you are doing, think ahead and plan
ahead and always have safer sex. If
you havent guessed, were talking
about Sue Johanson, an eighty-year-
old Canadian writer, public speaker,
registered nurse, and sex educator.
Johanson visited Mount Allison on her
nal tour as a part of 2010 Orientation
week activities. She covered all topics
and had no restrictions. Before her
show, Johanson took a few minutes
to sit down with Kate MacDonald for
e Argosy. Below is a transcript of
her interview:
How did you gain interest in this
profession?
I never think of it as a profession.
I ran a birth control clinic for kids
in 1970 and realized these kids were
having a lot of sex. ey didnt know
what they were doing so I decided I
wanted to go back to university and
get my credits so I could teach. I
started teaching at high schools and
then got into radio, purely by accident,
and then television, again purely by
accident, and then began writing
books and articles for McLeans and
Chatelaine. And then along came
American TV and the American
channel, Oxygen. is was just for
Americans no Canadian callers...
at went nuts so we did that until
two years ago. By now my teaching
changed from high schools to
Colleges and Universities. en two
years ago, the American channel was
sold to NBC and they changed the
rules, as they are prone to doSo we
said: we have been at it for seventeen
years so thats it. And now we stick
with colleges and universities.
What do you think is your most
important and crucial message for
students?
For students, know what youre
doing, think ahead, plan ahead,
TALKING, page 9
Kate MacDonald
Argosy Contributor
e Mounties learn sex from Sue
While the nal fundraising total is
still being calculated, Kerrigan notes
that the Shine Day eorts raised
$16,722.65 alone, bringing their total
to $28,000, shattering their goal of
$20,000. While Shine Day is the
biggest one-day fundraiser, events are
held throughout the summer to bolster
fundraising eorts. e Shinerama
committee held a number of pub
events, bottle drives, bar blitzes,
and a Down to Your Shineys event
where committee members gathered
donations to ride the Crystal Palace
rollercoaster in their underwear.
e day started with a free
breakfast at Jennings Meal Hall for
all Shinerama volunteers. ey were
then split up into various groups and
spread out to thirty-six dierent sites
in Riverview, Moncton, Dieppe,
Sackville, and Amherst.
Unlike past years, Shine Day
coincided with Homecoming at
Mt. A. Shine activities took place
from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm with the
Homecoming festivities kicking o
at noon.
It turned out to be not a problem
at all, says Shinerama site leader
Erik Fraser. All the sites were
lled, everyone had a great time, and
judging by the amount of money we SHINE, page 3
All the sites were lled,
everyone had a great time,
and judging by the amount
of money we raised, the event
was a huge success.
Erik Fraser
Shinerama Site Leader
raised, the event was a huge success.
Kerrigan agrees: It wasnt easy,
but I think it was worthwhile. Our
Sackville sites did amazing this year
and part of that seemed to be the
trac coming in for the homecoming
game.
Volunteers at the various sites
around Sackville seemed to agree
with Fraser and Kerrigan. I think its
a good idea, says second year student
Danya Dziedzic. Well already have
more people here for Homecoming.
Fraser added one particular
anecdote that summed up his Shine
After being elected to the position
of president of the New Brunswick
Student Alliance (NBSA), SAC
President Samuel Gregg-Wallace
has spent the summer lobbying
New Brunswicks political parties
to address issues of post-secondary
education (PSE) in the upcoming
election on September 27.
Representing over 16,000 students
from six campuses across the province,
the NBSA is active in lobbying for
student interests at the provincial level
of government. With the upcoming
election, Gregg-Wallace has been
busy meeting with leaders of the
Liberals, Progressive Conservatives,
NDP, and Green Party to ask them
to consider important student issues
and include them in their political
platforms.
e NBSA is focusing on the issues
of accessibility to PSE, the ability for
students to complete their degree, and
ease of access to attain jobs after PSE,
says Gregg-Wallace. e NBSA
has six major recommendations for
the 2010 election, outlined in the
recently released lobby document
available on the NBSA website. ese
recommendations center around
lowering interest rates on student
loans, addressing the underfunding
of New Brunswick universities,
expanding accessibility to the Timely
NBSA pushes student
issues at NB elections
Rachel Gardner
Political Beat Writer
NBSA, page 3
SAC President lobbies, post-secondary
education onto party platforms
All New Brunswick
political parties have been
responsive to the NBSAs
recommendations, but only
two parties have released
their ocial post-secondary
education platforms.
Samuel Gregg-Wallace
SAC President
Completion Benet Program,
instituting appropriate evaluation
systems of student nancial support,
and improving access to PSE through
early outreach programs, including
mentorship, tutoring, and merit- and
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Sackville welcomed two new shops in town this
summer, both located on Bridge Street. Enigma
Comics and Hazels Bless your Heart Quality
Used Clothing and Design are as dierent as
they are unique.
Enigma Comics opened on Canada Day, and
is co-owned and run by Kirk Dollmont and his
wife Sabrina, an Anthropology student at Mount
Allison. Originally from Edmonton, the couple
and their two children relocated permanently
to Amherst, Nova Scotia in 2007 after spend-
ing some time traveling in Europe. When they
learned about the availability of commercial
space in Sackville, the two jumped at the oppor-
tunity to open up a shop.
Enigma holds an array of products, which
include Role Playing Games (RPGs), Collect-
able Card Games (CCGs), board games, comics,
graphic novels, and a number of other accesso-
ries. We are a Game Workshop stockist, which
is the largest mini war game series in the world.
Game Workshop produces tabletop games such
as WarHammer 40k, WarHammer Fantasy,
and their newest, Island of Blood.
Enigma also carries Heroscape and Dungeons
and Dragons miniatures as well as game manu-
als such as Players Handbook, Dungeon Mas-
ter Guides, and Monster Manuals. According to
Dollmont, the store also carries card games in-
cluding Magic the Gathering which, with over
six million players in the world is understand-
ably the most popular CCG.
[Comic shipments] come in every Wednes-
day, Dollmont explained. Furthermore, the store
also accepts special request of individual custom-
ers. Once the desired comic titles arrive and they
are put in a drop box, which can be collected at
the customers convenience. ere are too many
titles on the market, but we try and get in what
people will like.
Enigma tries to carry as many titles in com-
ics and graphic novels as possible, some of which
include, but are not limited to: 5 Days to Die,
Robot Fighter, e Curse of the Mutant, e
Brightest Day, Dead Pool, and Waking Dead.
He also explained that the lack of video games
in the shop was deliberate due to his own per-
sonal ethos. Videogames lack social interaction,
he states, and he believes RPGs and CCGs can
facilitate greater social exchange since they al-
low individuals to spend time with one another
whilst still enjoying the game. We run demos
all the time and all are welcome, Dollmont ex-
plained. As for the name of the shop, when asked
about it, Dollmont simply replied, thats the
question isnt it?
Argosy Contributor
Anahid Chujunian
Engima and Hazel: catering to Sackvilles niches
Expansion of new businesses on Bridge Street
Further down the street, located directly
across from the Scotia Bank, is Hazels Bless
Your Heart Quality Used Clothing & Design.
e shop, which opened May 1, is owned by
Tammy Savoie, a Sackville local, and managed
by Mt. A student Miriam Lapp. Tammy states
she has always wanted to own her own business
in Sackville, and having grown up shopping in
thrift and consignment shops was inevitably in-
spired to open up Hazels. ere is a need for [a
thrift shop] here and there is a niche for it here;
I wanted to create something with some artistic
character, she explained.
Although the shop is tiny, do not be fooled by
its size. Hazels is certainly well stocked and full
of treasures. We have something for everyone
right down to babies, Savoie elaborated. e
store carries womens, mens, and youths cloth-
ing, accessories, as well as plus sizes. e clothes
are mainly consignment, meaning the proceeds
of the various articles sold are split between the
store and the consignee. However, Savoie, along
with Lapp, continues to embark on bargain hunt-
ing adventures to bring back pieces for their own
shop. Ive been collecting pieces in my basement
since November so when we opened we were
fully stocked, the owner explained.
When asked about the stores name, Lavoie
explains that the shop was named after her great
Aunt Hazel, a name carried by her own daughter.
As for Bless Your Heart, the other portion of
the stores name, thats what she always used to
say to me as she gave me a big loving hug, the
owner reminisced.
ere is a need for [a thrift shop]
here and there is a niche for it here;
I wanted to create something with
some artistic character.
Tammy Savoie
Owner of Hazels
Bless Your Heart
Kirk Dollmont, the co-owner of Engima, hopes the focus on interactive table top and
card games will encourage social interaction and exchanges among his clients.
Lea Foy
Hazels store owner, Tammy Savoie, and manager, Miriam Lapp, poses in front of the store.
Anahid Chujunian
The Argosy www.argosy.ca
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NEWS
Fraser added one particular
anecdote that summed up his Shine
day experience. A big rig parked on
the street nearby. e driver walked
in the store and when we asked for
a donation, he said, Ill get you on
the way out, Fraser explains. On
the way out, he stopped, handed us
a twenty dollar bill, and thanked
up for everything we were doing.
He let us know that his girlfriend
has cystic brosis and it was then
that we all realized why we woke
up at 7:00 am to do Shinerama.
Vice-President of International
and Student Aairs Ron Byrne
points to the work of Kerrigan
as the key for success. e work
by the Shinerama Coordinator is
key and once again, we have seen
Kerrigan show the dedication and
leadership that is required to get
everyone behind the cause.
Shinerama is Canadas largest
post-secondary school fundraiser.
It began in 1964 and now
encompasses over sixty dierent
universities across Canada and
around 35,000 students. In 2009,
Shinerama campaigns raised
$988,069 for the Canadian Cystic
Fibrosis Foundation. Cystic brosis
is the most common fatal genetic
disease aecting Canadian children
and young adults. Currently, there
is no cure for the disease.
Shine day raises money for CF research
Continued from cover
Quran burning aborted
Controversial Rev. Terry Jones of
Florida notied NBC's "Today" on
Saturday that he and his congrega-
tion would not go through with their
plan to burn copies of the Quran.
e burning was slated to take place
at 6:00 pm on September 11th, the
ninth anniversary of the attacks on
US soil by the al-Quaeda militant
Islamist
group. e much publicized plan
resulted in protests in the Muslim
world and has led US President
Barack Obama and US Army Gen-
eral David Petraeus to call for its
cancellation.
Tolerance spreads in Botswana
e government of Botswana has
passed an amendment to its Em-
ployment Act that will bring an end
to employment termination based
on sexual orientation and HIV or
AIDS status. Liberal commentators
in the country are calling this a posi-
tive
step as HIV and AIDS are highly
stigmatized in the workplaces of
Botswana.
Body of Venezuelan Governor
Lara located Venezuelan governor
of Guarco state William Lara was
found dead in the Paya river in Ven-
ezuela on Saturday after his car left
the road and plummeted into the river.
Governor Lara's long history of pub-
lic service includes time served as the
president of Venezuela's National As-
sembly and as Information Minister
to President Hugo Chavez. His body
was located after a relatively brief
search. As of Sunday there were no
suspicions of foul play.
FARC rebels strike again
After an attack staged against a po-
lice barracks in close proximity to the
Columbia-Ecuador border, the police
accused the Marxist-Lenist Revolu-
tionary Armed Forces of Columbia
(FARC) of the deaths of eight Co-
lumbian police ocers and the injury
of four others. ese eight deaths in-
crease the number of Columbian po-
lice killed by FARC to twenty-eight
since Juan Manuel Santos became
president of Columbia in early Au-
gust. Recent FARCs operations, along
with the rebels alleged use of Swedish
weapons originally intended for Ven-
ezuela, have contributed to precarious
relations between Columbia and its
neighbours.
Near miss in Balochistan, Pakistan
A bomb was detonated in the home of
Balochistan's minister of nance Mir
Asim Kurd Gailoo in Quetta, Pakistan
on the ninth of September. Four ser-
vants and a bodyguard were killed, but
the minister was not harmed, having
just departed for his oce moments
before. No group had yet claimed re-
sponsibility and as of Sunday there has
been no indication of whether this at-
tack has any connection to
the recent political scandals in the
Pakistani government or if it was
staged in response to the govern-
ment's handling of the devastating
oods that have ravaged the country
since late July.
Future release of misguided hiker re-
mains unknown
Iran has delayed the planned release of
American detainee Sarah Shourd, who
was hiking with two other US citizens
in Iraqi Kurdistan when they strayed
into Iranian territory. e three were
arrested and were accused of espionage
by Iranian authorities. ey have been
detained since July 2009. e United
States has denied allegations of spying
and has demanded the immediate re-
lease of Ms. Shourd and the other two
hikers. Ms. Shourd is reportedly in ill
health.
Japanese Ambassador summoned to
smooth out dispute
e government of China summoned
Japan's ambassador for the third time
in a week after the seizure of a Chi-
nese shing trawler and the arrest of
its captain o the waters of the Di-
aoyu Islands last Wednesday. Follow-
ing a chase and collision between the
Chinese trawler and two Japanese pa-
trol boats, the captain was arrested for
"obstructing ocers on duty." Ten-
sions have arisen due to the disputed
ownership of these islands. Currently
the islands are claimed by China, Ja-
pan, and Taiwan (Republic of China).
Julie Cruikshank
is Week in the World
A weekly miscellany compiled by Scott Green
need-based nancial assistance.
e NBSAs current priority is to
get the parties to respond and make
PSE a vital part of their platform.
When asked by the e Argosy which
of the four parties have been the most
responsive, Gregg-Wallace responds
that all New Brunswick political
parties have been responsive to the
NBSAs recommendations but only
two parties have released their ocial
post-secondary education platforms.
Gregg-Wallace states that these two
parties (the Liberals and Progres-
sive-Conservatives) have expressed
interest in changing the Timely
Completion Benet, committed to a
long-term completion program with
the universities, and recognized that
Continued from cover
NBSA President Gregg-Wallace lobbying hard for student
issues during the 2010 New Brunswick election campaign
e NBSA is focusing on
the issues of accessibility to
PSE, the ability for students
to complete their degree, and
ease of access to attain jobs
after PSE
Samuel Gregg-Wallace
SAC President
there are programs, particularly bur-
saries, , that need to be expanded. All
of these are changes that reect New
Brunswick student needs. However,
according to Gregg-Wallace, neither
of the parties have taken a stance on
two of the most pressing issues for
the NBSA: interest rate reductions on
student loans and expanding access to
non-repayable grants.
To make sure student issues are on
the forefront, students must vote, says
Gregg-Wallace. In the NBSA alone,
there are 16,000 students. Voting is
the most visible and tangible way to
ensure that these voices are heard. In
the last provincial election, just under
5,000 people voted in the Tantramar
region. Gregg-Wallace emphasizes
that if all Mount Allison students
voted for one candidate, that person
would win.
SAC Review: What we missed during those lazy summer days
Political Beat Writer
Rachel Gardner
1. e new executive transitioned into
the new year as they went through
a short boot camp to learn about
university and student governance.
e executive reviewed the past years
events and goals, and then set out
goals for the upcoming years events.
2. In May, SAC President Sam
Gregg-Wallace and VP External Af-
fairs Mark Kroeker were elected to the
positions of President and Secretary of
the New Brunswick Student Alliance,
respectively.
3. Gregg-Wallace and Kroeker at-
tended two conferences held by the
Canadian Alliance of Student Asso-
ciations (CASA), one hosted in the
Atlantic provinces at UPEI in Char-
lottetown, PEI. At these conferences,
the general assembly, made up of
twenty-ve schools, agreed on re-
search and lobbying priorities, and
approved a budget for the upcoming
year.
4. Gregg-Wallace and VP Aca-
demic Nathan Walker drafted and
submitted a document of recommen-
dations to both the faculty and ad-
ministration in regards to the Mount
Allison Faculty Association contract
negotiations. Recommendations in-
cluded the mandatory submission of
student evaluations when professors
are being evaluated and/or consid-
ered for tenure or promotion and the
mandatory selection and appointment
of a voting student member to search
committees at the time of hiring a new
faculty member.
5 After Mount Allison University
recently awarded an honourary degree
to Heather Reisman, who has ties to
the Israeli military, Gregg-Wallace
looked into hosting an academic dis-
cussion over the Israeli and Palestin-
ian conict and investigated how the
university selects candidates for hon-
ourary degrees, and on what basis they
are chosen.
6 LEAP (Landlord Energy Assess-
ment Program) kicked o this sum-
mer as the rst initiative supported
by the newly-instituted Green Invest-
ment Fund. Developed by second-year
Mount Allison student Emily Mann,
the program provided a free service
to landlords and did an assessment of
each of their propertys energy usage.
Mann provided cost-saving tips and
connected landlords with government
programs to reduce energy usage and
make the rental property better for the
environment.
7. Gregg-Wallace proposed a
twelve-month completion program to
the university administration to as-
sist members of student government
in completing their schooling in a
timely and cost-eective manner. ey
recommended that students on the
executive, who often take a number of
summer courses to complete their de-
grees in the typical four years, be able
to complete thirty credits in the twelve
months in which their term occurs.
ey hope that this will allow more
students to get involved in student
government.
8.e SAC will unveil their new
website on September 16, including an
updated housing website and rebrand-
ed logos. SAC members have addi-
tionally connected into social media
sites, including Twitter, Facebook, and
a personal website, allowing students
to connect with them more easily and
keep them up-to-date on student ser-
vices and events.
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NEWS
Last ursday, the Liberal and
Progressive Conservative (PC) parties
released platforms emphasizing
the importance of reform in post-
secondary education (PSE) and
student issues.
Liberal leader Shawn Graham
has promised to lower the cap
on student debt from $26,000 to
$24,000, increase the tuition tax
rebate program from $20,000 to
$25,000, and create a new program to
help students nd jobs in the public
and private sectors after graduation,
reports the Times Transcript.
Additionally, he has promised to
create further partnerships between
universities and community colleges,
more training opportunities, and
more accessibility for aboriginals and
persons with disabilities, reports the
Times. Many of these changes reect
demands from the New Brunswick
New Brunswick parties release post-secondary education plan
Liberals and PCs highlight post-secondary education in party platforms
Political Beat Writer
Rachel Gardner
Student Alliance, of which Sam
Gregg-Wallace, Mount Allisons
SAC President, is the president.
Tory leader David Alward has
promised to make a variety of changes
to PSE in the platform released last
week. e students, the business
communities, and the institutes
themselves, will all be involved in
changes we make to strengthen
our existing eorts to build a world
class post-secondary education
system, said Alward in a recent press
release on the PC website. e PC
party has responded to a number of
NBSA recommendations, pledging
to increase accessibility to the New
Brunswick Timely Completion
Benet, invest an additional $3.5
million in bursary money for lower
income families, establish four-
year rolling grants to universities
and colleges, and ask universities
to commit to a four-year tuition
schedule.
New Brunswick citizens are
still waiting for the NDP, Green
Party, and Peoples Alliance of New
Brunswick to release their platforms
regarding PSE.
NB Premier, Shawn Graham and PC leader, David Alward pledge to invest in initatives that would promote greater access to higher education.
Internet Sources/ Globe and Mail and Flickr
Bad blood: court decision sparks controversy
Ontario judge rules ban on gay blood donors is not discriminatory
Justice Catherine Aitkins of the
Ontario Superior Courts ruling on
ursday to uphold the Canadian
Blood Services (CBS) policy of indef-
inite deferral stipulated a ban on gay
men from blood donation. e ruling
came from a negligence case against
Kyle Freedman, a gay, sexually active
Toronto man who failed to accurately
report his sexual history on a CBS
questionnaire when donating blood
between 1990-2002. While Freed-
man had challenged the CBS under
the Canadian Charter of Rights and
Freedoms equality provision, Judge
Aitkins ruled that the policy is an issue
of public health and that the agency is
too far away from the government to
fall under the Charters jurisdiction.
According to Globe and Mails re-
port, several groups including profes-
sors, doctors, and gay rights activists
have raised concern with the ruling,
warning of a Charter-free zone. Bruce
Ryder, a law professor at York Univer-
sity, said that Judge Aitkins assertion
that the CBS falls outside the Charter
because it develops its own screening
process is irrelevant. e core of the
matter, Ryder articulates, is that CBS
[as a] body is implementing a govern-
ment program, and as such, the deci-
sion sets a dangerous precedent that
could allow the government to avoid
Charter responsibilities.
Others troubled by the ruling say
CBS policy, which was introduced
in 1983, is out of date and no longer
justied. Dr. Mark Wainberg, head of
the McGill University AIDS Centre
explains that the current policy was
justied in the past when high HIV
prevalence rates existed in the gay
population and no tests were available
to screen for the infection; he says now,
science has improved and screening
is highly accurate. According to the
Globe and Mail, Public Health reports
that over half of Canadas HIV posi-
tive population are men who have sex;
with a HIV prevalence rate of close
to ve and a half per cent, gay men
represent a high-risk group. However,
Wainberg highlights that the majority
of gay men (more than ninety-four per
cent) are HIV negative; the ban then
eectively limited a number of healthy
potential gay donors.
While similar lifetime bans exist in
the U.S., Germany, and France, other
countries such as Australia, Sweden,
and Japan have one-year deferral poli-
cies for men who have had multiple
homosexual relationships. In an article
published in the Canadian Medical
Association Journal, Wainberg asserts
that Canada should follow a similar
model where gay men who have been
in year-long monogamous relationship
can donate blood, which is the current
CBS policy in place for heterosexual
individuals.
e national director of media re-
lations at the CBS, Ron Vzina, has
responded by saying that while they
are open to changing donor policy,
the ban will remain in place until a
medical consensus has been reached
on the issue. He explained, Patient
safety comes rst and we wont make
any policy changes that would put the
blood supply at risk.
Argosy Contributor
Rebecca Che
Internet Sources/MSNBC
BE A PART OF HISTORY. WRITE FOR THE ARGOSY.
Professional groups and gay rights activists voiced opposition towards courts ruling on blood donation.
The Argosy www.argosy.ca
5
NEWS
Feds open up additional two billion dollars in student loans
Last-minute legislation extends national lending limit
Emma Godsmere
CUP Ottawa Bureau Chief
OTTAWA (CUP) Mike Dunn
could make a modest down payment
on a house with the amount of money
he currently owes in student loans to
the Canadian government.
According to the notice that I got
from the student loan people, I owe
a total of $28,548 in federal student
loans and an additional $3,450 in
provincial loans to the credit union
here in Charlottetown, the recent
University of Prince Edward Island
graduate said in an email.
is year, in order to nance
an overseas law school education,
Dunn has taken out over $16,000
in a combination of eighty per cent
loans and twenty per cent grants and
scholarships. About half of that total
gure has, once again, come from the
Canada Student Loans program.
While his debt load even for this
year alone is a large one to bear,
its possible the political science and
philosophy grad may not have been
able to access the federal loans at all
this September.
In August, Human Resources and
Skills Development Minister Diane
Finley realized the government was in
danger of breaching its pre-legislated
student loan-lending limit of $15
billion. In order to avoid hitting the
ceiling and losing the legal authority
to dispense loans to Canadian students
this September, Finley used an order-
in-council an administrative
decision approved by the Governor
General to extend the limit by
two billion dollars to ensure eligible
students received appropriate loans
this fall.
According to government
documents, some 50,000 students
could have been aected and would
have had to nd other means of
nancing their education this
September.
e economic downturn resulted
in a ten per cent increase in student
loan demand, from 20082009 to
20092010, as more students decided
to begin or continue post-secondary
education, an HRSDC spokesperson
stated in an email.
Despite those statistics, the
department was still only prepared to
near the fteen-billion-dollar limit by
20142015, according to an annual
report on the Canada Student Loans
program, tabled in the House of
Commons in June.
Dave Molenhuis, Canadian
Federation of Students national
chairperson, is concerned with the
ministers decision to extend the
national borrowing limit.
is has essentially sped up the
inevitable with the loans-based
nancial assistance system; were here
four to ve years before the system
predicted us to be, he said.
Weve got bad policies that exist
out there which are begetting more
bad policies ... its unfortunate that
the best solution to this issue that
the government can come up with
is essentially trying to sweep the
problem under the rug.
Dunn, while appreciative of the fact
that he was able to receive his loans
this fall, could not decide on whether
the governments decision was a
responsible one or not.
Im not sure the current funding
system for students is the best route
overall for Canada to take, he said.
Molenhuis emphasized that MPs
will need to do more to prevent such a
situation from occurring again.
What this shows us is that there
will have to be, sooner than we
thought, actual legislative changes
made to the Student Financial
Assistance Act and it will have
to be made in Parliament if we are
to continue to rely on a loans-based
nancial assistance system, he said.
In the order-in-council documents,
HRSDC proposed that a longer-
term solution, which could include
legislation, would ultimately be
required.
Internet Sources/ CUP Newswire
Report nds female faculty earn less than men
Key factors: Lack of women involved in sciences, familial responsibilities
Rebecca Vasluianu
The Cord (Wildred Laurier
University)
WATERLOO, Ont. (CUP) Wom-
en are still bringing home less money
than their male colleagues, and the
classroom is no exception.
An August 10 Statistics Canada re-
port summarizing the full-time fac-
ulty salaries for universities across the
country in 2008-2009 has revealed
a stark dierence between the pay of
male and female professors across the
board.
Every institution listed in the docu-
ment, regardless of how its wages
compare to other schools, awards more
dollars to full-time men a category
incorporating deans, full professors,
associate professors and assistant pro-
fessors than full-time women.
At Wilfrid Laurier University, in
Waterloo, Ont., full-time male fac-
ulty get paid $111, 453 on average
while females receive $99,688 on aver-
age. Other institutions across Canada
display a more drastic contrast: the
University of Toronto awards men
$139,612 while paying women only
$119,250.
According to Jim Butler, Lauriers
vice-president of nance, the dier-
ence across the country cannot be at-
tributed to only one factor. However,
he mentioned that it is important to
consider the contrast in each faculty
separately.
You have to make sure youre com-
paring apples to apples, Butler said.
He noted that more men are generally
found in the sciences, whereas more
women tend to work in the arts and
social sciences.
At Laurier, this distribution seems
to be accurate in some departments.
Within the schools chemistry depart-
ment, for example, males hold sixteen
out of nineteen full-time positions. In
contrast, males occupy only eight out
of twenty-two full-time positions in
the English department.
is is signicant, he explained, be-
cause positions in the sciences tend to
pay more because faculty can just as
easily go work in the private sector
with the degrees they have earned.
is makes university salaries more
competitive with positions such as
doctors or chemical engineers.
Judy Bates, president of Lauriers
faculty association, also attributed the
gender dierence to the skewing of
males and females in specic depart-
ments.
I think Im correct in saying in
physics and chemistry, and areas like
that, there are more men and that men
are earning a lot, so that would raise
the median for men across the board,
whereas there are more women in arts
where the salaries tend to be lower,
said Bates.
She also noted the familial respon-
sibilities women face as a factor con-
tributing to their lower salaries.
ere are still problems of women
trying to combine their academic and
familial responsibilities, said Bates.
Women are often later coming into
the profession and have more dicul-
ties getting tenure because of their
mothering duties.
Bates explained that this is a key
problem because professors who
have been in the profession longer or
achieve full-time status sooner will
generally make more money due to
pay increases over their career.
Because of this, women facing de-
lays such as pregnancy and child rear-
ing have more diculty attaining the
same salaries as men.
Helen Ramirez, a womens stud-
ies professor, agreed that women face
familial commitments that can make
it more dicult for them to progress
through the ranks.
When a part-time faculty member
is granted a tenure-track position, they
are given two years to produce work
that demonstrates that they should be
granted tenure, she explained.
Its not a job where you just come
in and sit from one until ve or eight
until four, Ramirez said, adding these
professors are expected to produce re-
search as well as serve on committees.
It takes over your life and because
the structure of the family has not
changed, its still constituted in a way
that we expect women to do the ma-
jority of the work, she added.
Ramirez also stated that faculty
members who bring in research grants
and money for the university are more
likely to progress through the ranks.
e studies that receive funding are
mainly in the sciences, though, and
because women are scarce in those
departments, they are less likely to re-
ceive those grants.
On top of the institutional demands
hampering the eorts of female fac-
ulty members, Ramirez explained that
ideological biases pervade at each level
in university and society, making it
dicult for women to be considered
legitimate.
We dont associate women with
being knowledge-bearers or with pow-
er. In fact, we dont like that equation,
said Ramirez.
What girds the whole thing is the
idea that women are not smart enough
and we want to perceive smartness as a
masculine trait.
As a result, she continued, female
faculty members are held under huge
surveillance because there is doubt
as to their competency as leaders and
educators.
Internet Sources/ CUP Newswire
A Canada Student Loans Program report tabled early this summer estimates the average student will
require close to $20,000 in loans to cover general expenses for a year by 2025.
Survey, female faculty members paid less than their male colleagues.
FEATURES September 16, 2010 features@argosy.ca
Tired of the mainstream news source?
How about learning about what's
happening in the world through
stimulating and thought-provoking
independent lms? e Mount Allison
chapter of Cinema Politica has got the
perfect answer for you.
Cinema Politica is a media art,
not-for-prot organization. Groups
exist on university and high school
campuses and in towns and cities
across Canada and internationally.
ere are currently over thirty
active Canadian Cinema Politica
groups. ey show independent
political lms and videos by
Canadian and international
lmmakers. e organization
is based out of Montreal and is
completely run by volunteers and
is nancially supported through
donations, university fee levies,
and help from the Canadian
Council for the Arts.
eir website describes their
mandate as to promote, disseminate,
exhibit and promote the discussion
of political cinema by independent
artists, with an emphasis on Canadian
works. It goes on to state Cinema
Politic is a project rooted in the
belief that diversity and plurality in
culture, media, and the arts builds
stronger publics and leads to increased
democratic practices by engendering
social inclusion and participation while
educating audiences. Mark Achbar,
the director of the Cinema Politica
Corporation says, Cinema Politica
successfully delivers independent art
to the eyes and ears of the public.
Cinema Politica tries to feature
lms that focus on issues not covered
by or included in mainstream media.
e Sackville/Mt. A chapter of
Cinema Politica screens lms on
Monday evenings at 7:30 pm in Avard
Dixon, room G12. Rachel Gardner, a
Mt. A student involved with Cinema
Politica, says "the best feature of
Cinema Politica is its support of
independent political lm, and its
wi l l i ngnes s to stand up
against political or corporate pressure."
Last year Cinema Politica chose
to show the lm "e Coca-Cola
Case" outlining the human rights
abuses the Coca-Cola Company was
making in Columbia and Guatemala.
Coca-Cola tried to pressure Cinema
Politica to not show the documentary
in universities and even threatened to
sue. Cinema Politica did not give in
to the pressure and screened the lm
anyway. "You've got to admire passion
like that," Gardner stated.
e viewing of "e Coca-
Cola Case" at Mt. A even inspired
the formation of a new campus
organization called "Coke-Free
Mount A."
Mount Allison Cinema Politica
showed their rst lm of the 2010-
2011 school year on September 13.
e screening was co-hosted by the
Mount Allison group EcoAction.
e documentary, Dreamland,
looks at how corporate powers can
gain control over small communities.
Using Iceland as an example, directors
Pornnur Guonason and Andri
Snaer Magnason, look at the
governments choice to build
Europes largest dam to provide
inexpensive electricity to an
aluminum smelter in the
eastern part of the country.
is decision comes as
part of a plan to help the
country out of its devastating
economic situation. e lm
asks the question of what
we are willing to give up
in order to gain renewable
energy sources through an
investigation of the dark side of
green energy.
As is Cinema Politicas policy
all lm screenings at Mt. A are
done through a pay-what-you-can
donation, with a suggested donation
of two to ve dollars. e next Cinema
Politca viewing at Mt. A will be of
Slingshot Hip Hop on September
27, all are welcome and encouraged
to attend. For more information visit
cinemapolitica.org or visit the M.t A
Cinema Politica facebook page.
Mount Allison Cinema Politica
kicks o new year
Exercise your political brain on Monday nights
Hannah Saunders
Features Editor
by Rolley Chair Master
For froshand the cave-dwelling
upperclassmenthat dont know,
Mount Allison is known to be a
sex school. Not because were sexual
deviants or anything, but were
not really a drinking school, nor a
drug school, and our parties only
rock based on what society/team is
running it (shout out: Chemistry
and Rugby). erefore, by process
of elimination, we fall under sex
school. Plus, you know, we really like
sex.
Perhaps its due to the Sackville
bubbles active destruction of
long-distance relationships, the
New Brunswick winters, or the
wonderfully skewed gender-ratio,
but we enjoy mounting our fellow
Mounties.
For frosh the sex-life may not be
new, but Mountie sex certainly comes
with its own rules and nuances that
this article will attempt to outline.
Location, location, location
ere are three main student
destinations in Sackville, each with
their own pickup demographic.
e Pond (formally, the Pub) is
usually a reliable stop-by bar for
friends going out. People may not
stay there all night but theyll likely
stop by for a drink and see if theres
anything worth staying for. ats
why youll often see the prowlers
of the Pond keeping a watchful eye
and tend to act like seagulls; diving
aimlessly into the huge multitude of
people waiting to get a drink, hoping
to grab an interested eye and hook
them in with a quickly purchased
beverage.
Being at Uncle Larrys is like
being an elk in running season:
large groups of shaking females
with distended hindquarters being
haplessly mounted by condent
males displaying their heavily gelled
antlers with pride. Of course Uncle
Larrys can also be a wonderful
location for a wholesome evening of
fun and quality friend time. ere,
ass covered.
Duckys isnt a great pick up spot;
its a place to bring friends or a
date. Its more of an upperclassmen
waterhole and makes for a great
spot to make some new friends. A
few beers with your date/friend with
benets might still bring about a
lovely evening of drunken sex, but
dont expect much more.
e Pick Up
Just have a good time. ere are
plenty of other theories on how to
hook-and-mount in a night, but they
largely blow. Some of the truly bad
ones somehow stay around, however,
and thus merit a written warning for
frosh.
First, you know you're hitting on
a football player if he ever so casually
mentions his practice or work out
hours and buttons it with a line that
roughly translates to "I'm kind of a
big deal." Don't knock the sports
community so quickly, however,
since those muscles are good for
something and they tend to have
wonderful stamina.
A standard 'get to know you'
conversation piece is asking what
you're majoring in. Do not, do
NOT, DO NOT have a one-night
stand with someone in the same
department as you. You WILL
have a class with them again and
professors can sense sexually charged
awkwardness. ey will force you to
do a lab or research project together.
It's how they have fun and, really, can
you blame them?
If you're striking out all night,
patience becomes the key and
eventually the thinning herd will
force a radical change of tactics by
everyone remaining and suddenly it's
a whole new night that can only be
described as a couple's game of tag.
In the end, however, just have
a good time. Pay for the odd drink
(whether you're a guy or girl), be
fun to be around, and make sure
the person you're with is fun to be
around too. e sexual energy just
shows up after a while and then the
only barriers are where to go and how
to deal with the next day.
e Act
For the virgins reading this, a word
of advice: do not have your rst time
with a one-night stand. If you want
to get laid and learn the ropes of sex
but don't want to be tied down, just
date for a while and then amicably
break up once you've both gured out
what you're doing in the sack. ere's
nothing worse for either party then
all the nerves and energy that comes
with a one night stand take home,
then being compounded by the
pressure of a rst time.
Plus, boys, you will not be
performing your best work, and do
you really want that performance
to enter the bar gossip ring? Girls,
the rst time is a whole thing that
most guys can't even comprehend.
You need complete control of that
situation and a one night stand will
simply not give that to you.
As for sex advice, that's what this
whole column is for so stay tuned
in the coming weeks. Just do what
Sex with Sue told you and you'll be a
truer Mountie in no time!
Cinema Politica Preview
Slingshot Hip Hop, September 27
Slingshot Hip Hop braids together
the stories of young Palestinians
living in the West Bank, Gaza and
inside Israel as they discover Hip Hop
and employ it as a tool to surmount
divisions imposed by occupation and
poverty. From internal checkpoints
and Separation Walls to gender norms
and generational dierences, this is
the story of young people crossing the
borders that separate them.
Jackie Salloum / USA, Palestine /
2008 / 90 min / Arabic with English
subtitle
Cinema Politica, Sackville
Internet Photo/ Cinema Politica
Internet Photo/ Cinema Politica
The Argosy www.argosy.ca
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FEATURES
In Numbers....
17, 200, 000
People aected by the ooding nationwide
1, 200, 000
Homes are detroyed or damaged
10, 916
Schools have been damaged
1,600
People conrmed dead to date
As monsoons arrived in Pakistan
over a month ago, the country was
devastated by a series of oods. Today,
it continues to rain endlessly causing
severe casualties in aected areas.
About a third of the country has
been aected by this catastrophe, an
area greater than the size of England.
e number of people aected are
more than the 2004 South East
Asian Tsunami and the 2010 Haitian
Earthquake combined.
Bridging the gap in Pakistan
Millions are still desperate for help after oods devestated the country
Faisal Islam
Argosy Contributor
I was in Pakistan when it all
happened, so my family and I decided
to buy and deliver goods to the camps
personally. We wanted to access the
victims that were in most need, but
the ooding made them impossible
to access. e camps were located on
whatever land had been spared by the
water. As we picked a spot to distribute
the goods, we were overwhelmed by
the number of people that gathered
without any organization just so they
could get food to get through the
day. Sadly, what we had brought was
nothing compared to the number of
people in need. I remember reading
an interview of a ood victim that
summed up the situation at these
camps.
First we were poor but had honour.
Now we are beggars and have no
shame.
Realizing the gravity of the
situation we decided to focus solely on
gathering funds from our friends and
family while leaving the transportation
to professionals. Unfortunately, after
a few weeks of campaigning the
donations ran dry and the dreaded
feeling of helplessness came back.
I could tell you all about the shortage
of clean water or the one billion dollars
worth of loss of agricultural goods, but
right now Im choosing to address
something that should concern us all.
What makes all this suering even
worse is the shameful lack of aid from
the international community as well
as Pakistans rich elite. e more I try
to gure out the reason for the lack of
aid, the more I think about Pakistans
deteriorating image as a corrupt
terrorist-breeding nation. Pakistanis
themselves are contemplating on
whom to trust with their donations,
as corruption is the rst thing that
comes to mind when thinking of the
federal government. On a positive
note, well-known and trusted civilians
and organizations have stepped up
to get the job done. As for the West,
however, there is not much sympathy
left for Pakistan. What some dont
know is that even though a lot of
terrorist organizations may be based
in the country, Pakistan has lost the
most soldiers and civilians in the
world while ghting the War against
Terrorism. Although it may not seem
like it on TV, many Pakistanis despise
the militants as much as the West does.
With that being said, the
international community needs to
come to terms with the fact that if the
void in aid is not lled in time, the
militant groups will step in to provide
relief to the aected communities like
they did after the 2005 earthquake.
After that earthquake, there were
various reports of missing children
in areas where organizations like
UNICEF could not reach due to
lack of funding. In those towns the
madrassas (so-called religious schools)
proudly advertised how they had taken
in many newly orphaned children that
had nowhere to go. ese jihadi-linked
charitable organizations have been
very eective at providing aid in times
of crisis. Approximately two million
children presently are provided with
free shelter, food and limited education
by these schools. ere is a danger that
these same charities will step into the
void and gain credibility in the face of
the governments incompetence.
is time, it is again the lower
classes that have been aected the
most. A majority of this class was
settled close to the rivers and canals
that helped them irrigate the crops
they lived o. Most of these rivers
have now joined to become big lakes.
As much as this matter should concern
us as human beings, it is also up to us,
the privileged, to use our vast resources
to ll the void so these children can
get the education they deserve.
Kindly bring your donations to
this Saturdays Farmers Market for
the Flood Relief Work done by the
Canadian Red Cross at or go to www.
redcross.ca or www.unicef.ca to donate
online.
Our courage may well sink; but we
have passed the Rubico, and there is
no turning back. So our little Argosy
has left the harbour, and will brave the
threatening billows.
So began the rst editorial in the
newly established Argosy. 135 years
ago, the members of the Eurhetorian
Society at then-Mount Allison
Wesleyan College in Sackville,
New Brunswick decided that [the
society] should; immediately and
henceforward, have a printed organ.
at printed organ, e Argosy,
started o as a monthly publication
for the all-male institute. It contained
features such as editorials, personals,
and advertisements.
e infant publication even
included a section titled Sackvilliana
which contained witty anecdotes from
life in Sackville. e section quoted a
puzzled junior as quipping Professor,
what does Tacitus mean by saying that
only virgins marry? Dont men marry
at all?
e rst issue also mentions that
a female student, Grace A. Lockhart,
had been recently named an honourary
member of the Eurhetorian Society.
Lockhart would graduate later that
year and become the rst woman
in the British Empire to receive a
bachelors degree, earning a bachelor
of science and English literature.
roughout the years, e Argosy
has remained a mainstay on the Mt.
A campus. It has survived through
fourteen university presidents,
two world wars, and a number of
on-campus res which drastically
reshaped the Mt. A landscape.
By 1914, it had morphed from
Happy Birthday Argosy!
Mount Allisons independent, student run newspaper celebreates its 135th birthday this year
Noah Kowalski
Editor in Chief
e objects of e Argosy
are, as heretofore, to give
expression to the views
of the Students of Mount
Allison on college questions,
and to furnish subscribers
with local and general
college news.
Argosy Editorial, 1875
a monthly publication to a weekly
newspaper. In 1938, it joined the
Canadian University Press (CUP), a
co-operative of university newspapers
from across Canada. e Argosy has
seen staers serve on the board of
directors for CUP, as well as work in
senior sta positions such as National
Bureau Chief.
e Argosy was also one of the
rst student newspapers to declare
autonomy, making it independent
from both the SAC and the university
administration. Autonomy has given
the paper the freedom of the press,
free from any censoring restrictions
from any group on campus or outside
inuences.
e Argosy has also produced
a number of well-known
Canadian journalists including Ian
Hanomansing and Michael Grange.
Without a formal journalism program,
it has served as the training ground for
hopeful young journalists in Sackville.
With the evolving demands of a
twenty-rst century audience, e
Argosy has moved from an exclusive
print-based media to an online
presence as well. Argosy.ca was
launched in 2000 on the forefront of
the Internet revolution. e website
has allowed thousands of readers from
all over the world to stay up-to-date
on the latest Mt. A and Sackville news.
While the face of e Argosy has
continued to change, the mission has
been constant since those early days in
the late 1800s. As the editors wrote in
the 1876 edition of the Eurhetorian
Argosy, the objects of e Argosy
are, as heretofore, to give expression
to the views of the Students of Mount
Allison on college questions, and to
furnish subscribers with local and
general college news.
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September 16, 2010 features@argosy.ca
FEATURES
Have you ever wanted your academic
life to mean something beyond the
classroom walls, or for your hard
work to do more than gather dust
on your professor's shelf ? Have you
ever been interested in studying
interdisciplinary topics like global
health, poverty alleviation, or
environmental conservation more
in depth? Have you ever wondered
where the critical discussions
on campus about things like the
earthquake in Pakistan, Canada's
stance on foreign aid, and UN
peacekeeping abuses went?
is year, Mount Allison is
welcoming an entirely new addition
to answer these questions and more -
the Centre for International Studies
(CIS). As a joint student-faculty run
centre, CIS aims to take academic
studies out of the classroom and
concretely apply them to global
issues.
"CIS fullls its goal of putting
academics into action in a way that
has never quite been done before at
Mt. A," commented CIS co-Student
Coordinator Sasha Van Katwyk.
"CIS lls the gap between the
critical, theoretical content we learn
in class and the practical, concrete
application of that material on
international issues," he elaborated.
CIS also encourages a wide discussion
of issues across disciplines, including
the Sciences, Humanities, Social
Sciences, Commerce, and Fine Arts.
"is year is particularly exciting
because it is our founding year; there
is lots of room for students to take
initiative and help us build up the
Centre," Van Katwyk added.
While CIS is focused on the
global scene, this does not mean
that domestic issues are out of the
picture; students can analyze local
and national topics as long as they
connect them to the international
level in some way. Students can even
possibly earn credit for the work they
do with CIS by creating Independent
Study courses, or applying for
experiential learning credit.
CIS will be pushing the
international envelope in a number
of other ways, including regularly
hosting a mix of high-prole
speakers, faculty, and on-the-ground
professionals to bring active critical
debate on international topics
and trends. Furthermore, the CIS
website has a comprehensive list of
internationally-focused internship
and volunteer opportunities related
to the UN, health, human rights,
the environment, and more to help
students themselves enter the eld.
CIS is introducing a completely
new way to apply academic studies
to global topics, via working
groups. Students can create or
join these working groups to carry
out a concrete project (such as a
simulation, paper, talk, creation of a
new resource, etc) on an international
issue as part of an interdisciplinary
team. Individuals can carry out their
own concrete projects as well, or
contribute to working groups for a
specic project.
To help students highlight their
hard work, high-quality papers can
be submitted to the CIS database
or be published in the Atlantic
International Studies (ATLIS)
Organization peer-reviewed
academic journal. In addition, there
are opportunities for students to
present their research projects to
others at conferences or talks.
A nal way CIS is working to
increase international engagement
on campus is through this column.
If there are events happening on
campus that address a global issue,
you will be able to nd a critical
background analysis of the topic
here. Everyone, including faculty,
students, sta, and campus groups,
is welcome and encouraged to
contribute to this column.
If one of the above initiatives
caught your eye, or you would like
to know more, visit the CIS website
at www.cismta.ca. e CIS Student
Coordinators can also be contacted
via email: kelly.e.oc@gmail.com
(Kelly) or smvankatwyk@mta.ca
(Sasha).
Academics in action at CIS
Kelly OConner
Argosy Contributor
It was on August 5, 2010 that the
collapse of the San Jos copper-gold
mine took place, trapping thirty-three
people. e underground mining roof
gave way, blocking the miners almost
700 metres from the surface.
It wasnt until two weeks later on
August 22 that engineers created a
irty-three trapped in mining disaster
Rescue mission for trapped Chilean miners steadily underway
Vanessa Million
Argosy Contributor
fteen centimetre-wide borehole that
would reach the thirty-three men. e
engineers were genuinely surprised
when the drill bit came back to the
surface and had a note attached to it.
e note stated, "Estamos bien en el
refugio los 33" (e thirty-three of us
are ne in the shelter).
e discovery of the miners marked
a day of celebration for the families
who had waited endless nights to
discover the fate of their loved ones.
When the men were found, family
members planted thirty-three ags on
a nearby hill and sang Chiles national
anthem.
Despite the breakthrough of nding
the miners, the excitement slowly wore
o after it was realized that it would
take months to remove the miners
safely from the tunnel. e diculty is
not in making a large hole; the hard
part is the amount of solid rock to cut
through to reach the workers so far
underground.
Upon reaching the miners, obvious
health concerns arose. Psychological
strain is one of the biggest concerns
along with basic needs. ere is fear
that in such an isolated environment,
cliques may develop and some
individuals would get more supplies
than others. Also, it is not uncommon
for small problems to be blown out
of proportion in such a stressful
environment.
In spite of the traumatic experience,
the workers seemed to come together
to survive for as long as they could
when the mine collapsed. Food that
was only supposed to last for two
days was rationed to last for almost
two weeks, giving tiny proportions to
each individual. e miners utilized
the vehicles that were down in the
tunnel for light and managed to use
a backhoe to dig a channel to retrieve
underground water. e miners have
been divided up into groups in order
to develop a safe, systematic way of
living within the tunnel. Certain
individuals have been given important
roles such as distributing food or
medicine rescuers and doctors realize
the importance of keeping the miners
occupied.
Rescuers are using the original
hole, created to make contact with the
miners, as a way of food transportation.
A long hose is pushed through the
tunnel that can bring small capsules,
also known as doves, down to the
miners - carrying food, water and
other necessities.
Experts who study these specic
isolated events strongly recommend
that the miners remain in steady
contact with the outside world. After
a month of being underground, the
miners were able to have short video
chats with their families.
e area around the mine site has
been given the name Camp Hope,
where family members and visitors
pray for the safe rescue of the miners.
e current rescue of the miners
is rapidly underway. Since the Plan
A rescue mission that was said could
take up to four months, two others
have been adopted. Plan B is making
decent progress so far, using the Strata
950 drilling rig to dig down about 688
metres. is plan requires workers to
continually remove the debris that is
falling with the tools they have access
to down in the mine, which is a full-
time job.
Finally, Plan C may possibly
cut the rescue time by two months.
Rescuers will cut a small hole that will
decrease the distance to 597 metres
to access the miners. Once the hole
is completed, it will be widened using
a dierent drill bit to about ninety
centimetres. When the hole is widened
and secure, rescuers will send down
a small metal cage that will lift the
miners one by one. Plan C is suppose
to begin operation on September 18,
the countrys Independence Day.
So far, the outcome of this event
has led authorities to crack down
on unsafe mining operations within
Chile. Since the event, eighteen mines
have been closed and about 300 more
are expected to shut down as well.
Meanwhile, the families of
the miners and the international
community continue to watch and
wait for the safe rescue of the miners.
e best circumstance that can be
wished for at this point is that the least
possible amount of complications will
arise as the rescue missions progress.
Internet Photo/ UPI
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The Argosy www.argosy.ca
9
FEATURES
is past week someone asked me why
I chose to do my honours in political
science. I had what I thought was a
pretty simple answer for that; politics
is everything. To some this may seem
like an extreme statement but when
you start to break down the things that
make up your life, it is easy to see how
much political decisions aect how
you live your life.
Politics and government have a say
in how much things cost, where we
can live, and how much we pay and
will continue to pay to be at Mount
Allison. Your ability to go to the
emergency room, and how long you
will have to wait is decided through
politics. What dangerous pesticides are
lingering on your fruit and vegetables?
Politics. It decides what you get for
your student loan and how and when
you have to pay that back. Politics is
something everyone should follow
because government has the ability to
make decisions that can greatly alter
your life, for better or worse.
I am going to take this opportunity
to draw everyones attention to the
upcoming New Brunswick election.
While many of us may not be from
New Brunswick, if you are over
eighteen by September 27 and have
lived in the province for forty days, you
are eligible to vote in the upcoming
election.
Now whether or not you are
planning to make Sackville or New
Brunswick your permanent home,
rough Stained Glass
Rev. John Perkin
University Chaplain
Everything about nothing
Why you should be taking an interest in politics
Hannah
Saunders
Features Editor
practice safer sex, and never let sex just
happen. Safe sex is an oxymoron. e
only safe sex is no sex at all or sex by
yourself. e minute you involve other
people, you have to practice safer sex
sex with a condom. Plus knowing
your partner and knowing if they
have screwed around and had a pile of
partners before you. inking ahead
is not something females are good
about. Females dont stop and think:
inking ahead, okay, were going to
the dance, then to the pub, then are
we going to have sex? Are we going to
have sex? If so, what can I wear that is
real sexy? Knowing what youre doing
is thinking: okay, if were going to have
sex, I better get some condoms so that
I am prepared. Never let it just happen,
it happens so often in clinic where kids
get a positive pregnancy test and say: I
didnt know it was happening. ink
ahead, plan ahead, know what you are
doing. In other words, dont have sex
unless you are very, very clear on what
is involved in it.
What are you most surprised by
when you talk to students?
In some areas, I am shocked by the
lack of sexual education. I think sexual
Radical fundamentalism is alive
and well, and making the world a
worse place in which to live. On
the anniversary of 9/11, people
around the world, and especially in
the US, will remember the terrorist
acts that emerged out of an extremist
radical Islamic fundamentalism,
that combination of a literalistic,
obsessive religion and nationalistic
political ideologies that react against
pluralism, diversity, and change of
almost any kind.
And on the ninth anniversary of
that day, observed this past weekend,
America was subjected to the threat of
homegrown radical fundamentalism
at the hands of Terry Jones, pastor
of a small independent pentecostal
church in Florida. Fundamentalism
is met with fundamentalism. Two
negatives do not make a positive.
It is increasingly important to
recognize fundamentalism in its
many forms, and to resist it without
resorting to its own tactics. My
father often reminds me of a
conversation I had with him about
fundamentalism, and how I had said
that fundamentalism was a growing
force in the world that needed to
be reckoned with. We need to
recognize fundamentalism, and its
ability to engender fear and hatred,
and in extreme forms, violence. He
remembers this, as we had held
this conversation by phone on the
evening of September 10, 2001.
ere are many forms of
fundamentalism around our world;
in North America, Christian
fundamentalism is not currently
committing acts of terror of the order
of the destruction of 9/11, and yet it
manages in other ways to foster fear-
mongering, hatred, and mistrust,
while completely misrepresenting
the religion from which it emerges.
Surely its threat is more insidious
than terrorism, seen in acts such
the threatened public and showy
burning of the sacred text of another
religion. It seems more than a little
ironic that Joness church is called
the Dove World Outreach Centre.
ere seems to be little outreach, and
certainly none in the cause of peace,
usually symbolized by the image of
the dove.
Fundamentalism is a term that
emerged in the early twentieth
century to denote a group of
Christians who shared a particular
literal reading of the Bible and
resistance to changes of an
increasingly diverse and progressive
culture. In the last decade, it has
more commonly been used to
describe the blending of religious
exclusivism with literalism, resistance
to change, radical nationalism, and a
desire to establish religious law as
the dominant cultural expression. It
is present, for instance, in Judaism
in Israel, in Christianity in North
America, and in Islam in Asia. It
does not seek to understand, to
accept, to relate to others, but to
confront, engage, and ultimately to
destroy the other.
Jones goal in burning copies of the
Quran, whether he recognized it
or not, was in part to demonstrate
a willingness to destroy a religion
he sees as in opposition to his. And
this in an America in which the
struggle for tolerance still continues,
with as many as seventy per cent of
Americans suggesting, in a recent
poll, that the Islamic Community
Centre of New York should not be
permitted to be built.
More than just tolerance,
understanding, and acceptance must
be our goal. We need to realize
that just as the Florida church of
Terry Jones does not represent
all Christianity, radical Muslim
organizations do not represent all
of Islam. In seeing church beside
mosque and synagogue beside
temple, we begin to build the
bridges of communication and
understanding, of acceptance and
mutual concern.
We need to move beyond the
fundamentalisms that drive people
apart, and see a world in which
religion is not just tolerated, but
accepted, understood, and celebrated
in all its rich diversity. I want to see
the world as belonging to all of us, as
I look out on it through stained glass.
chances are you will be here for at
least four years while at Mt. A. It is
important to vote and get your say
in for what you want your time in
Sackville to look like.
Candidate debates are taking place
on September 16 on campus in the
Brunton Auditorium at 7:00 pm. Take
this opportunity to get informed about
whats happening in this area. Dont sit
back and let someone else decide for
you what your government will look
like. You have the power of the vote, so
use it. September 27 is Election Day
and voting only takes a few minutes
of your time, but can make a big
dierence in what New Brunswicks
future and yours will look like. As my
teacher once said it, if you have time
to eat on Election Day then you have
time to vote.
Talking sex with Sue
Continued from the cover
Most females dont know
when they are horny. ey
dont stop and think God,
oh yeah, shes pokey, oopsie, I
am wet, oh la la, Im horny.
Guys know; they get an
erection and they know.
Sue Johanson
Sex Educator
education should begin in grade three.
In other areas, I am delighted with the
cool kids who have done their research
and know what they are talking about,
they are responsible kids.
Have you ever had a question
that you were too uncomfortable to
answer?
No. But, I will not answer personal
questions. How old were you when
you had sex for the rst time?
who cares? Questions like that are
stupid and I get frustrated, we got
to nd some way to pre-lter those
questions.
How do you think sex and
sexuality has changed since you
began working?
I began working in the end of the
hippie generation so what shocked
me was that these were hippies. Make
love not war! ese are the parents of
the kids that when I started working
were so tight-ass, but these mothers
were having sex and smoking pot all
over the place. What happened along
the way? I am also surprised by the
number of kids involved in anal sex. It
terries me because they dont know
what they are doing and its high-
risk behaviour. I am still surprised by
the number of pregnancies. ey are
not as high and Canada is one of the
lowest because we have better sexual
education, not great sexual education,
but better. Sweden and Germanys
education is better than ours. e US
is way down for sex ed.
What do you think the future
holds for sex and sexuality?
I want sexual education to begin in
grade three. I want anatomy physiology
taught in grade three. We shouldnt
wait until grade nine when girls have
their menstrual period and gure they
are dying or have cancer. Lets start
in grade three and spend more time
talking about relationships and love.
Love is really tough to talk about. Lets
talk more about sexual arousal. Most
females dont know when they are
horny. ey dont stop and think God,
Oh yeah, shes pokey, okay, oopsie, I
am wet, oh lala Im horny. Guys know;
they get an erection and they know.
We dont. We dont pay attention to
our body. We deny it because nice girls
dont get horny.
Do you feel ones gender makes a
dierence when it comes to sex?
I feel sorry for guys in that respect
because we dont do a good job
educating our sons e expectations
that males have of themselves are
something that I work hard to try and
put down that they have got to be
good lovers. at is ridiculous.
Sue just did a taping a few days ago
for is Hour Has 22 Minutes and it
is coming out soon, so stay tuned. Also,
visit: http://www.talksexwithsue.com/
index2.html for more information.
Dont forget to always practice safer
sex. ink, plan, know. Do your
research and do not hesitate to ask for
help if you are unsure. Stay safe!
Johanson visits Mount Allison on her nal university tour
Hannah Saunders
Left: Sue Johanson and Kate MacDonald before Johansons show
during Orientation Week 2010. This is Johansons nal Canadian tour.
ARTS & LIT September 16, 2010 arts@argosy.ca
Mira Le-Ba
Arts & Lit Editor
New schedule
welcomes new
dancers
New advanced ballet and belly dancing
lessons
ere is nothing more exciting than
slipping into a fresh pair of ballet
slippers, except for, of course, slipping
into a new school year
dance schedule.
D a n c e
Soci et y
classes are
starting this
week, and are
certainly starting
o with a bang.
Dont worry,
they will still
be oering
the same
o l d ,
c l as s i c al
d a n c e
f a v o r i t e s .
I n t e r e s t e d
participants will still have
the chance to engulf yourself
in the wonderful styles of
lyrical, hip-hop, and jazz.
Added to the wonderful
mix this year, however,
are new ballet and belly
dancing lessons. ese
additions to last years
curriculum will hopefully
result in an exceptionally
year of movement.
is years dance society executive
is a nice mish-mash of both new
and returning faces. Last years co-
Brunton Auditorium was bustling
Friday, September 10 as students,
faculty, and community members all
gathered for the third annual Faculty
Gala Concert. In the lobby, music
students dug out their cameras for
group photos, while others added to
the steady hum of conversation before
the show. Once inside, the music
departments tight-knit community
shone. As the rain poured outside, the
relatively small auditorium provided a
warm and inviting place to enjoy the
show.
Each staff member came to the
stage and was greeted with abundant
applause from their students. From
the slinky rumba to a soft sonata
from the guitar and violoncello, the
performances were excellent.
Just before intermission, Mr. Peter
Groom, as baritone, gave a beautiful
performance with Sleep Now, Op. 10,
No. 2 by Samuel Barber. Grooms
voice carried to all corners of the
auditorium with perfect pitch. His
every word was articulated and
presidents, Christin Clarke and Dani
Green, are as excited as ever to be
returning to Mount Allison and the
dance community.
e great thing about dance society,
and what separates it from the other
dance clubs on campus, is that it is truly
tailored to accommodate everyone.
All types of dancers at all levels are
welcome and encouraged to come.
As usual, they are oering classes at
both the advanced level and beginner
level. So, if youre looking into trying
something new, or if youve been
studying dance for
years, dance
society has something for you!
Green encourages everyone to
keep dancing! and to take as many
classes as possible this year. Green
says, is year we have some new,
great teachers, along with some from
the past. I am positive that they will
all do an awesome job and have some
great choreography to oer to the
students of Mt. A. Clark is equally
as thrilled as she states that this is her
fourth year being involved with dance
society [and is] hoping to make [her]
graduating year the best!
ere is no doubt in my mind
that Mt. A will be showcasing the
works of some amazing dancers and
choreographers throughout the year
through dance society.
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his facial expressions depicted the
emotion of the haunting lullaby
perfectly. The piano accompaniment
by Stephen Runge was exceptional,
complimenting Grooms range and
volume. Runge performed in a total of
eight pieces throughout the show and
all were fawless.
Exiting the auditorium, the audience
members were humming the melodies
and bobbing their heads to the fnal
piece played by Copper Ferreira and
Stephen Runge. All in all, it was a
wildly successful night for the Mount
Allison music department.
Anna McLean
Argosy Contributor
MONTREAL (CUP) e route
to being widely read can be long and
sweet or short and arduous but,
according to the senior editor of
Coach House Books, its almost easier
for writers to publish their rst novel
than their second or third.
ese days theres a sort of fetish
for rst novels and a hunger for new
voices, says Alana Wilcox.
A one-time author herself, she barely
has time to read for pleasure, let alone
write.
I think the process of having
written and having published a book
denitely helps, she continues. I
think it makes me more and less
sympathetic; its hard to be edited,
so it makes me, in some ways, more
gentle in how I do it and also more
demanding because I know they can
do it.
With self-publishing on the rise, the
role of editor is starting to resemble
that of a curator, she says.
You know the way music geeks
choose their albums by label? I think a
lot of book nerds choose their books by
publisher, says Wilcox. So, if youre
looking to submit your manuscript
somewhere, you take a look at your
bookshelf and see whos published the
books that youre most interested in.
Coach House publishes fteen
books a year out of the thousand or
so manuscripts that are submitted.
More often than not theres more than
fteen good manuscripts in the pile,
says Wilcox, which means she selects
books based on personal preference
and what has the potential to sell.
en again, she says, you can never
predict how well a book is going to
sell. . . . Our best seller of all time is a
book of avant-garde poetry. We didnt
see that coming.
What people read in their spare
time isnt necessarily what they
feel they can sell, acknowledges
Rebecca Strong, the face and
name behind the Rebecca Strong
International Literary Agency in New
York. According to Strong, literary
agents are a must for writers hoping to
turn their afternoon hobby into their
day job.
e book publishing process can
really bash you on the rocks. My job is
to navigate a new writer through those
channels to a safe harbour, Strong
says, between negotiating licenses for
books overseas and meeting with her
stable of aspiring authors.
If youre going to bypass agents,
there has to be a very good reason
for it, she continues. Most of the
larger publishing houses that I deal
with really dont look at unsolicited
submissions.
If Strong has any tips for aspiring
authors who want to get published on
their own, she suggests nding a writer
whos already been published in the
area theyre interested in writing and
see how they did it its as easy as
checking out the acknowledgements
page of their book.
Self-publishing is risky, but it doesnt
always come without its rewards, says
Strong, citing e Shackby William P.
Young as an example. e book gained
attention by strong word of mouth
and heavy promotion by Christian
radio. Young went on to sell over a
million copies without the need for a
publisher.
e fact is, if youre within a
community and you nd your readers,
I think thats the most important
thing, Strong says. So as long as you
have a great story, I dont really think
it matters which platform you publish
in rst.
Getting published
What it takes to get immortalized in print
Christopher Olson
The Link (Concordia University)
Internet Photo/CUP Newswire
The Argosy www.argosy.ca
11
ARTS & LIT
On Friday, September 10 the Owens
Art Gallery hosted its bi-annual
exhibition of Fine Art faculty and
technicians' work titled e ings
that Drift Apart. Students, Mount
Allison Faculty, and members of the
Sackville community were given a
chance to see just what the Fine Arts
department has been up to. e event
Looking for the unexpected
Jennifer Musgrave
Arts & Lit Writer
began with opening remarks from
Dr. Jennifer Harris, a strong visual
arts supporter who set the mood for
the evening with both humorous and
moving remarks.
Using an egg timer to keep on
track, (having been carefully advised
that speeches be kept short) she told
everyone of a student remark made
her realize that professors really didn't
know how much students gossiped
about them. She viewed this exhibition
as a chance for students to take a real
look into the lives of their professors,
the people who train them, and what
exactly theyre up to. is was followed
by an interesting tale of a man who,
tired of his nosy friends, decided to
invite them all to a dinner party. e
only catch was that he had lled his
Students and community look through art at the inner lives of faculty
medicine cabinet to the brink with
marbles so hed know exactly who had
let their curiosity get the better of them
rst. Harris told this story because she
believed that in a way everyone there
at the exhibition was doing the same:
looking for something unexpected,
only to nd something beyond the
unexpected, in Harris words.
Certainly the exhibition lived up to
expectations as dozens of interesting
pieces of various shapes, sizes,
and forms could be viewed. Some
noteworthy pieces included Anne
Lea Foy
If youre a music student, doing a
minor, or have simply always been
an interested, but cautious lurker
then youll still want to learn whats
happening in the music department
this year. As always, the department
has many projects to work on which
include the Faculty Gala as well as
their bi-annual New York eld trip
which includes visits to operas, music
theatre performances, and even a
chance to look behind the scenes at
the Metropolitan Opera.
One of their bigger projects for this
year, however, will be the Symposium
on Robert Schumann for his 200th
anniversary. e Symposium will
consist of concerts put on by faculty
and students as well as a presentation
on his life and works. Cynthia
Dale, a Canadian music theatre star
from Stratford Ontario, will also be
involved in the Music department this
year, putting on a concert as well as a
master class with the drama and music
theatre students. ere will also be a
new addition to the music department
faculty as sabbatical replacement
Brooke Dufton will be helping teach
voice students as well as put on some
opera workshops.
Another major project for the Music
department this year will be nishing
the fundraising for the renovation of
the Brunton auditorium. One of the
ways in which money will be raised will
be through an adopt a seat method in
which donors will give money to this
fundraiser and forever have their name
placed on one of the new seats in the
auditorium. I am very positive that we
will get these [fundraisers] nished,
commented Dr. Elizabeth Wells, head
of the music department. In addition
to new seats Wells explained that
they are planning to have the oors
redone and are looking into installing
a sound loop to aid those with hearing
disabilities.
ere are always classes going on
which can integrate students from
other disciplines. Last year Dr. Wells
put on an interesting course titled:
Music and Dierence which many
members of the local community sat
in on. It involved discussion topics
ranging from Lady Gaga to female
body imagery in music, said Wells.
is particular course will be available
again next year as well as many other
courses in music theatre that often
integrate drama students, particularly
for performance projects.
Wells said that they are very
interested in developing things that
can be open such as the Music and
Dierence course; We love people to
come by!commented Wells. Of course
there are many ensembles, bands and
choirs that one can get involved with.
Other than that, if you simply just
love to hear the music there are always
many student recitals and faculty
concerts going on throughout the year.
With such a busy year lined up, make
sure you get out and explore what the
music department has to oer!
Kovals Window Shopping which
consisted of a video screen playing
various pictures taken of window
displays with the reection of actual
windows in them, as viewers shopped
in their own way while transxed by
the lm.
Dan Steeves works were also
amazingly beautiful, as they were
large prints of scenes containing
architecture, nature, and people all
with painstaking detail and emotion.
Jerry Ropson presented a piece which
utilized mixed media (a large amount
of which was black tape) to create the
silhouette of a mountain and several
black balls all assembled near the base
of it. Accompanying this was (among
other small pieces) a large sheet of
paper containing columns of sayings
[Everyone is] looking for
something unexpected, only
to nd something beyond the
unexpected
Dr. Jennifer Harris
Department of English
one often hears in regular speech such
as, you always say that, but, or One
in every eight. Other quotes included,
climbing to the top of the mountain,
which was placed at the very top-
middle column.
Karen Stentaford also displayed
some extraordinary photographs
containing exquisite layers and spaces
such as the images of an apartment
complex next to a chicken wired rock
face. Stentaford also incorporated
suburban backyards all connected by a
telephone pole into his artwork. Other
artists who displayed their art in this
exhibition included Chris Down, Erik
Edson, Leah Garnett, Paul Grin,
addeus Holownia, and Adriana
Kuiper (who also coordinated this
event). e evening was extremely
well attended by many students and
faculty. Community members alike
were certainly able to nd something
beyond what they were really
expecting.
Lea Foy
Concerts, symposiums, and
fundraisers
Whats happening in the Music department this year?
Jennifer Musgrave
Arts & Lit Writer
Lea Foy
OP/ED September 16, 2010 opinion@argosy.ca
Labour Day in Canada has its origins
in an 1872 printers strike in Toronto,
Ontario. Members of the Toronto
Printers Union had spent three years
asking that print shop owners reduce
the working day to nine hours. Union
members nally demanded a nine hour
working day or a strike would ensue.
e owners, led by prominent Liberal
politician and Toronto Globe owner
George Brown, atly refused. Print
workers followed up on their threats
and went on strike on March 25th,
1872. On April 14th, Torontonian
workingmen marched through the city
accompanied by marching bands and
a quickly swelling crowd of curious
onlookers, which reached an impressive
10,000 people. George Brown and his
fellow capitalists reacted by having 24
of the strike leaders arrested under a
1792 law that designated unions as
illegal conspiracies against free trade.
Brown underestimated the popular
currents against him. In Ottawa, his
great rival (and then Prime Minister)
John A. MacDonald delivered a speech
praising the bravery of the strikers
and condemning the barbarous
laws that bound laborers. is was
a huge victory for labour, and over
the next two decades, workingmen
demonstrated proudly in the streets
unmolested by their antagonists, and
in 1894, the government of John
ompson declared Labour Day an
ocial holiday. at years Labour Day
procession in Winnipeg stretched for
ve kilometers.
Labour Day is presently known by
most Canadians as a Monday o in
September whose purpose is to make
the summer last just a little longer:
the sacrice and bravery of early
labour advocates barely register. And
at rst glance, it seems hard to blame
them: union membership in North
America and worldwide is at a nadir
compared to the heyday of the 1950s
and unions are widely despised (for
dierent reasons) by both sides of the
political spectrum: conservatives for
the ineciency they foster (Canada
lost 2.2 million working days to strikes
in 2009, the most in the world) and
liberals out of a sense of betrayed
idealism and frustration with their
inherently politicized nature. However,
unions today are vitally important and
Canadians would do well to remember
why they were necessary in the heady
19th century days of untrammeled
laissez-faire capitalism. Id argue,
honestly, that we need unions now
as much as we ever did, says James
Rosenzweig, a reference specialist at
the University of Washingtons Special
Collection Library, Its not as though
corporations are getting smaller or
easier to control -- its not as though
they are becoming more transparent
or more interested in the welfare of
workers (as opposed to the bottom
line) Unions ought to be held to
high standards, as you want them to be
-- thats very reasonable. And unions
can be stupidly intransigent from a
policy wonks view -- for example,
its easy to be pissed at teachers
unions for defending the jobs of bad
teachers. But remember, thats like
being pissed at Goldman Sachs for
handing out bonuses to people who
screwed the economy. e desire to
dismantle unions because of their
stupidity would be like saying that we
should dismantle corporations and
Laurent Carbonneau
Argosy Submission
Labour Day revisited
go back to single proprietorships. It
would certainly stop stupid teachers
unions, and it would end Goldman
Sachs. In both cases, though, it
would also destroy the foundation of
Western prosperity -- the ability to
take advantage of economies of scale
to produce with astonishing eciency.
Better is to approach regulation
wisely, knowing that corporations
and labor unions are both necessary
(perhaps sometimes necessary evils),
and seeking to use their mutually
destructive self-interests to hold them
in tension.
Labour Day does not celebrate
the excesses and bureaucracy of the
modern union. It calls on Canadians
to remember the workers who fought
for the right to organize that rich
capitalists had allocated themselves a
century before. e workingmen who
fought for unionization had very little
in the way of resources to back them,
and their victory is a testament to their
will and spirit.
Hatred is of the most powerful
emotions. It can dene or destroy a
culture. Nazi Germany was created
using hatred of non-Aryans and
was destroyed because it hated other
nations. It is clear that hatred holds
sway over the minds of people.
In todays world it can seem like
Muslims and Christians are in a
contest of who can hate the other
more. Scratch that: throughout their
history it seems that Muslims and
Christians have held a contest to
determine who hates the other more.
From the Muslim conquest of Spain
to 9/11, the two religions have been in
a struggle powered by hatred. is can
end, but only if we will it to.
Park 51 or e Ground Zero
Mosque that has been proposed to
be built two blocks from the site of
Ground Zero is not actually a mosque,
but an Islamic Community centre.
It is in this way that opponents of
the construction of the mosque are
misinformed. A YMCA is no more a
church than Park 51 is a mosque. Park
51 would include a bookstore, a tness
centre, and a prayer room. We have
nothing to fear from Park 51; I dont
know about you, but I did not see an
Improvised Explosive Device centre
on the list of Park 51 features.
e opposition to this mosque is
based on hatred. Since 9/11, a culture
of hate toward Islam has developed
in the United States. is hate is
misguided in that it was radical
Islam that brought down the twin
towers and took those 3,000 lives, not
ordinary Muslims. Osama Bin Laden
and his band of radicals were to blame.
It would be comparable to a radical
Christian group committing mass
murder and blaming the local Baptist
church for it. It is akin to racism.
To prevent the construction of
this community centre would be an
indirect victory for radical Islam.
Osama Bin Laden would, if he
could, prohibit all religions except
for his version of extremist Islam. For
Western democracies to begin to limit
religious freedom, in any shape or
form, would be to become their own
enemy. We cannot allow ourselves
to become like radical Islam at any
cost. We must ght terrorism, but we
must not ght it with oppression. Just
as it was wrong to intern Japanese-
Canadians during World War Two in
an attempt to ght Japan, it is wrong
to limit religious freedom in the name
of the War on Terror.
Misinformed hatred
John Trafford
Argosy Submission
Todays Canadian government, with
virtually unlimited informational
resources at its disposal, makes
decisions and determines policy with
the help of many actors. Various
Government of Canada Departments,
Agencies, Crown Corporations,
and Special Operating Agencies are
mandated to assist the government in
a non-partisan and apolitical manner.
So, what if the prime minister doesnt
want to hear what these professional
and educated individuals have to say?
What if their recommendations are
not in sync with what the government
thinks is best for Canadians?
In recent years, the response has
been full-edged confrontation, which
translates into resignations, rings, or
non-renewal of terms.
e Chalk River nuclear reactor,
which created two thirds of the worlds
medical isotopes, was shutdown in
November 2007 for safety upgrades.
is had the ill eect of creating
a worldwide shortage of medical
isotopes. As a result, the minister
of natural resources swiftly red the
chairperson of the Canadian Nuclear
Safety Commission, Linda Keen. On
the surface it may seem like appropriate
repercussions. However, it was Keens
job to ensure the safety of Canadas
reactors, not whether or not the world
would have enough medical supplies.
e ageing reactor has been in service
since the 1960s and didnt even have a
back-up cooling system. Nonetheless,
the minister questioned her leadership
and the prime minister branded her a
Liberal partisan. It must have been
bittersweet for Keen when the Chalk
River facility was ultimately closed for
repairs in 2008 and 2009 because of
radioactive leakage.
is summer, the Conservative
government axed the long-form
census prepared and distributed by
Statistics Canada. It was removed
because of the apparent intrusion in
to Canadians private lives and the
threat of jail time. After the minister
of industry implied that Canadas chief
statistician, Munir Sheikh concurred
with the decision, Sheikh was forced
to resign. e decision to scrap the
long form census was met with intense
criticism by religious groups, medical
ocials, and a plethora of minority
and ethnic groups. International
agencies even expressed concern over
the changes and the potential negative
eects, such as neglecting to address
the needs most vulnerable. is
blatant meddling by the government
has caused high prole civil servants,
Harper versus civil servants
In Canada, arms length may be closer than you think
John A. W. Brannen
Submissions Editor
including former chief statisticians
and governors of the Bank of Canada,
to insist on the complete independence
of Statistics Canada. It is safe to say
this will be a hot button issue when
parliament resumes this fall.
One must remember, the majority
of individuals managing these agencies
have the advantage of being experts in
their elds and decision-making based
on best practices and long term trends.
Crucially, these individuals are outside
the sphere of partisan politics, insulated
from the topsy-turvy of the electorate.
ese civil servants can assess issues
without the hassle of contending in
elections or appeasing political parties.
In spite of this, time and time again
they are being thrust into the political
limelight. is unhealthy interference
by the government is distracting
civil servants from their jobs and
undermines their judgment. Above
are only two instances; there are many
similar stories regarding the RCMP,
Veterans Aairs, various commissions,
and even members within the
government. Im not nave and realize
that the bureaucracy is by no means
incorruptible. However, looking at
the growing list of resignations and
rings, my suspicion is that this is a
government that has an unmalleable
agenda; a guise that Canadians stand
to benet from these decisions. As
the chorus of disenchantment and
frustration grows, it appears that
the Conservatives have forgot that
meeting the needs of the electorate
requires listening to the electorate.
To become the enemy is not a
victory but a loss. Radical Islam
must be fought; however, peaceful
Muslims must be allowed to practice
their faith free of bigotry. Hypocrisy
is rampant in the ranks of the people
who oppose the construction of Park
51. Liberty cannot be protected by
limiting a religion whose vast majority
of adherents are peaceful and have
nothing to do with terrorism.
Ultimately, the opposition to Park
51 is misinformed and hateful. Hate
and misinformation cannot be allowed
to dominate public opinion. Modern
day liberal society is better than that.
e opposition to this
mosque is based on hatred.
It is akin to racism.
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We all grow up somewhere. Where you
grow up and who you grow up with
aects your outlook on life. When I
was young, I grew up in small prairie
towns. All those places were in the
middle. Some would say the middle
of nowhere, while others would say in
the middle of bliss. Potato, putahtah.
ese places were also very close to
the middle of the continent. When
I moved to Sackville, I had suddenly
moved to the edge, but it was a good
edge: the edge of opportunity, the edge
of new ideas, the edge of the land and
the sea. But you could say that my
perspective on life comes from my
background in the middle. e truth
is that the middle isnt just a place
on a map: its a state of mind, and a
conscious choice to avoid extremes,
stereotypes, caricatures, and spin. So
dont come here if you want punditry
and rhetoric. Im aiming for balance.
Balance is one of the few things left
thats still extreme.
When I was just entering double
digits, I was in range of a radio station
from North Dakota, which played
the endless Rush Limbaugh show in
the morning. Although I tend to side
with the group that says the prairies
are the middle of bliss, I admit that
theres not always a ton of things
going on. So, on long car rides, or
when I was just bored, I listened to
Rush as he systematically demolished
President Clinton, day after tired day.
I remember hearing a three hour rant
about pregnant chads in Florida. In
general, the comedy value was much
higher than the political commentary.
Although it wasnt typical playground
banter for ten-year-olds, I thought
it was fun. It was certainly more
interesting than Duck Duck Goose.
Although political satire is hardly
new, more and more folks are getting
their political commentary from
people like Jon Stewart, Stephen
Colbert, and Glenn Beck sources
that mix hysterics with serious
messages. ere seems to be a big
market for those who spin jokes with
politics. e Sun newspaper chain in
Canada has achieved success mostly by
refusing to pay homage to the CBCs
sacred cows. Its fun to read, and thats
the selling point, the same way Rick
Mercer is fun to watch.
Martin Wightman
Argosy Submission
Sun TV News: a new down in Canadian television?
So, I have to say Im a bit excited
for the launch of Sun TV News. Set
to launch on January 1, 2011, the
new TV station is going to try to
bring balance to the Canadian media
world, which, so they say, has suered
from a persistent left-wing bias. As
mentioned above, I agree with the goal
of creating balance. I hesitate to agree
that Sun TV News will accomplish
that, because no one media outlet will
single-handedly provide balance. But
the more voices on the playground, the
merrier. Right?
Well, maybe. But not everyone likes
new voices.
I think the reason that Sun TV
News is drawing so many splashes
of vitriol is that it has already been
dubbed Fox News North by those
eager to discredit it. In Canada,
associating something with America
is the rst step in destroying public
condence. e format, to be sure, is
similar to Fox News, but its not fair to
equate the two, at least not yet.
It would be silly to believe Sun TV
News will be the saviour of Canadian
media. And it would also be silly to
think that it will cause the death of
rational thought in Canadian political
discourse.
If you are more likely to fear the
latter rather than expect the former, I
have a blessing and a caution for you.
If you dislike Sun TV News because
it seems to be getting special status
in the licensing process, good on you.
I am not in favour of fast-tracking
a particular bid to the CRTC just
because someone has connections to
the right people. On that score, Sun
TV News has some hard questions
to answer perhaps it is their rst
opportunity to show that they are
really about hard talk, and not spin.
However, if you dislike Sun TV
News because of its projected political
agenda (*cough* Margaret Atwood
*cough*), tough luck. We have freedom
of the press here in Canada, and its not
our job to silence a particular opinion.
If you dont like it, you wont be forced
to listen. I have been in places where
that kind of freedom doesnt exist, and
its not enjoyable for very long. Sure,
freedom of speech leaves us open to
some extreme opinions, but so long
as the loud voice on the playground
isnt allowed to dominate, the extreme
opinions will eventually be weeded
out. ere comes a time when no one
wants to play Duck Duck Goose
anymore.
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Photos by Jessica Emin
Question of the Week: What do you think of the
plan to build a mosque near ground zero?
Nicholas
Savoie:
Everyone has
there own
opinions and
beliefs so I dont
think its a bad
idea
Gabby Reid:
Its bittersweet in a
way
Madeleine
Northcote:
Its totally appropriate.
is situation has
been blown out of
proportion and is
being used by right
wing politicians to
divide the left
Marcel Dupuis:
Personally I dont
think its a good
idea, having been to
ground zero myself.
I doesnt t the
environment right
now.
WINNIPEG (CUP) As a female,
I lack the ability to grow a moustache.
No, not that bit of ne hair that
women have along their lip. Not even
if that lip hair is of the darker variety.
What Im talking about is a serious
stache, the kind that grows thick and
lush and comes to rest just above the
mouth, your upper lips best friend and
neighbour to your nose.
Quite frankly, I have no desire to grow
a stache of my own. Rather, I am
fascinated by the male celebration of
the moustache and the many forms it
can take.
My interest with this particular
male behaviour was recently piqued
when my boyfriend decided he would
grow a moustache. He put o shaving
for a few weeks until just recently
when he decided it was nally time.
One razor and ten minutes later and
he was sporting his very own stache
of the horseshoe variety, I would later
learn.
When he nally emerged from the
bathroom in all his moustache glory,
I was skeptical to say the least. His
brother, on the other hand, couldnt
have been more thrilled. Many high
ves were to be had while the two
discussed its level of badassness.
e moustache and my boyfriend
were imagined in a variety of tting
scenarios back alley ghts, pick-up
driving and the like. ey agreed that,
with this moustache, my boyfriend
would be the envy of all his male
Whats the deal with the moustache?
A woman contemplates the male fascination with the stache
colleagues the next day. I just rolled
my eyes and secretly hoped that the
moustache would only be making a
brief appearance.
Its ability to generate excitement is
not limited to my boyfriend and his
brother. A single Google search will
yield millions of results for the word
moustache. ere are even entire
organizations of both the serious
and ironic variety whose entire
existence is based on the moustache.
According to its website, the
American Mustache Institute works
to protect the rights of, and ghting
discrimination against, mustached (sic)
Americans by promoting the growth,
care and culture of the mustache (sic).
Moustache hysteria knows no
bounds, aecting countless men across
the globe. is notion is reinforced
by the existence of the World Beard
and Moustache Championships,
an event that has been held across
Europe and the United States since
1990. For years, men from around the
world have entered this championship
to strut some of the most elaborate
moustaches there ever were.
Perhaps the most extravagant
celebration of the moustache is
Movember when men across the
world grow moustaches during the
month of November in order to raise
awareness about prostate cancer. In
2008, Movember raised $2.4 million
for Prostate Cancer Canada.
Delving further into the subject of
moustaches, I have learned that there
are dozens of ways one could style
his moustache. ese variations far
outnumber the ways in which I can
think to style the hair on my head
which has signicantly more hair than
any man could expect to grow on his
upper lip.
Some of the more familiar styles
include the horseshoe, which is grown
down along side the corners of the
mouth. is style is not to be confused
with the handlebar, the ends of which
are curled upwards. e moustached
man could also sport a pencil, a Dali
or a Fu Manchu. e possibilities, it
seems, are endless.
Indeed the moustache has made
many well-known appearances
throughout history. Hitlers toothbrush
moustache is infamous; in fact, the
inch-wide bit of hair is no longer an
acceptable choice. Stalin chose to
wear a well-groomed version of the
walrus, a fuller style that droops over
the corners of the mouth while slightly
obscuring it.
Other well-known moustaches
include that of Tom Selleck, made
famous during the days of the 1980s
television series Magnum PI. It is the
moustache your moustache wishes it
could be.
I simply cannot wrap my head
around what makes the moustache
something to revere and aspire to.
Instead, I see the moustache as a home
for lunch crumbs rather than a sign of
pure badassness. It doesnt do anything
for me; its just some hair on your face
that has been wrangled to your upper
lip. I cant appreciate the time and
eort it takes to get a full and lush
moustache.
It could just be that the moustache
is over-hyped, a pointless frenzy
stirred up by the guys who wear them.
But then again, maybe its because I
cant grow one and maybe, Im secretly
a little bit jealous.
Ashley Gaboury
The Manitoban (University of
Manitoban)
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New Friends
We had an adventure last weekend
lled with outdoor adventures and
Texans. Lets have that tequila Bop-
It party soon.
Philosophy Hottie
Beneath that cute exterior is a
budding Wittgenstein. While I
dont understand those philophizing
rhymes, they sure sound impressive.
I cant wait to have you drop some
more knowledge on me.
Plaid God
I met you at a party during
Homecoming and I must say, you are
the nest of the bunch. at plaid
sure looked damn ne on yo body,
but I bet it would look better on my
oor. See you around, tiger.
Dear Drunk Dude at Duckys
Please stop talking loudly about how
great you are. My friends and I were
NOT interested and no, we werent
ignoring you to be cute. Please grow
up.
Gorgeous @ Georges
I saw you at the concert on Friday
night. You were with a group of
friends and I was with mine. But I
wish we could have spent the night
talking to each other. eres a
concert this weekend at the Bridge
Street tentsee you there?
Dunk My Tank
I saw you soaking wet at Homecoming,
and wanted more. We locked eyes
right before you plunged into an icy
tank of water. When you emerged,
your neon clothes were plastered to
your svelte, broad-shouldered body,
and I was smitten. Maybe we could
both go dunk together sometime.
Athletic Stunner
To the athlete that smiled at me on
the stairs: sorry if I was staring, but I
couldnt take my eyes o you. I hope
to see you again soonmaybe next
time we can do more than just smile.
Reconnection
Its great seeing and talking with you,
but I cant help but want more. We
were hot and heavy in rst year so
Im wondering if we can rekindle the
ame before convocation, before its
too late.
Sexy Senator
Avast, ye sexy stud! Your New
England preppy look really oats my
boat. Im prepared to come aboard
and let you be my rst mate.
Giddy up!
Looks like theres a new sheri in
town. Youre just in time because
this outlaw wants to show you how
naughty she can be. No need to ash
your badge, unless you want to...
Ainslie Moss and Lea Foy
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September 16, 2010 argosy@mta.ca
CENTREFOLD
Homecoming has been a North
American tradition for over a century.
It is the celebration of the return of
alumni to their university, college, or
high school. Homecoming events are
traditionally scheduled around a football
game, although some schools base
their homecoming around a variety of
dierent sports team.
Homecoming generally takes place
over a weekend with a series of traditional
events including parades, barbeques,
dances, rallies, and even a homecoming
court.
e origins of homecoming are
debatable. In 1909 and 1910 Baylor
University and the University of Illinois
held events comparable to modern
homecoming celebrations. However, the
NCAA, Jeopardy!, and Trivial Pursuit
have recognized the University of
Missouri as having the rst homecoming
game in 1911, when they encouraged
their alumni to attend a football game.
Homecoming weekends in Canada
have a shorter history than those in the
United States. e biggest homecomings
in Canada take place in Ontario at
Undergraduate students at Mount Allison
University are not hard to come by. Students
who want to be a part of a successful band
are not that uncommon either. To nd four
former students who are a part of the same
group that has won six ECMAs to date, as
well as has been nominated for a Juno and an
MMVA? Well then youve got no place else
to look than In-Flight Safety.
e current members of this maritime
band are Glen Nicholson (2003), drums,
Brad Goodsell (2003), bass guitar, John
Mullane (2000), guitar and vocals, and
Daniel Ledwell (2002) who has played the
keyboard, the guitar, the mellotron, and the
glockenspiel as an In-Flight Safety musician.
Currently based out of Halifax, they are
classied as a Canadian indie rock band; they
met as undergraduate students at Mt. A. ey
released their rst album, Vacation Land, in
2004 followed by e Coast is Clear in 2006,
and We are an Empire, My Dear in 2009.
eir music has been featured in everything
from a Dell Computers commercial, a Chuck
episode on NBC, and Degrassi: e Next
Generation.
On Saturday, September 11 Mt. A added
its name to In-Flight Safety and e Band
Before Time's lists of recent venues,. With a
green room in the Hunton House academic
lounge and the stage set between Bennett
and Hunton, the location could not have
been better. Homecoming spectators could
easily take in not only the football game of
the year but also some incredible musical
talent.
e venue helped to lend a more
intimate feel to the show; the stage was
huddled between the two buildings. e
weather was typical for Sackville; both of
the bands, having been to the town before,
were not surprised by the gusting wind and
occasional rainy patches. e spectators
who braved the weather were sheltered only
by the buildings, but were treated with an
up-close and personal concert with two
amazing bands.
e Band Before Time opened the
show boasting their own original rock/
indie/folk/reggae sound. is down to
earth, ve-man band hails from Halifax,
Nova Scotia and has travelled to Mt. A
before. is time they were met with the
same general praise. Before the show, Mt.
A student Anna Doucette got to sit down
and play a friendly game of Cranium with
them. When asked what she thought of the
band and their music she raved, "Amazing
music and amazing guys, so much fun!"
In-Flight Safety took to the stage to
perform for the gathering of both Sackville
locals and Mt. A students. eir playlist
was a crowd pleaser and had the audience
listening with smiles on their faces. e
toe-tapping rhythms that the band had
HOMECOMING 2010
Familiar faces awe with
award-winning sound
In-Flight Safety hypes up Mountie fans
to oer gave o a true Halifax vibe, bringing
out an East Coast alternative indie rock sound
with their own unique twist. Mt. A student
Jessie MacInnis was invited up on stage to play
the tambourine during one of the numbers.
Having been a fan for quite a while, MacInnis
was one of only a few spectators that knew all
of the words to each and every
song. A bashful MacInnis
said, to have had
the chance to get
up on stage with
them was just
incredible. ey
were all really
nice guys and
their concerts
are always full
of energy. It
was awesome
for them to
have had the
oppor t unit y
to come back
to Mount
A l l i s o n
after so long
to give such
a great
show.
Hanna Saunders
Features Editor
Kate Prosser
Argosy Contributor
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