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Men’s rugby team looks to rebound after huge loss.page 11

Hawks soar over Condors

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the 14th annual festival attracts a crowd.pages 6 & 7

Word on the Street

Diverse music getting exposureBY JACK PARKINSON

Space music, debuting composers and university partnerships were all part of the announcements for the 2014-2015 Numus season at the Huether Hotel on Sept. 20.

Numus is an organization devoted to giving exposure to what they call “new music.”

“It’s music by living compos-ers in the traditional Western classical style,” said artistic director Kathryn Ladano.

Founded in 1985 by com-poser Peter Hatch, Numus has always tried to give the average person an alterna-tive to large concert halls and centuries-old music.

Ladano joined Numus as a board member in 2006 and has held a handful of posi-tions since then. In November 2013 she took a position as interim artistic director but has agreed to stay on for the next couple of years.

On Sept. 20, Ladano and organization president Charles Morrison announced the schedule and tone of the 2014-2015 concert season. It will feature about a dozen con-certs, but changes a lot from the formula of previous years.

This season Numus plans to offer three distinct series for listening: one will focus on established artists and styles (called the “main” series); the second on more experimental and improvi-sational music (the “mix”

series); and the third will showcase student compos-ers from Wilfrid Laurier University (the “university” series).

Traditionally, Numus offered a single series of concerts and no discount for repeated attendance. In recent years the organization

has started offering a num-ber of different subscription plans.

“We want to give people options,” Ladano said.

“I know that people are busy and sometimes they want to attend but can’t commit to dates. That’s fine.”

This is Ladano’s first sea-

son directing Numus and she wants to make it memorable. Part of her plan to make the new season interesting is to incorporate the work of past artistic directors. Each previ-ous director will oversee one show in the coming season, which Ladano thinks will show off a wide range of influ-

ences and styles.“We host mostly Western

music, but Western compos-ers often have international influences,” she said.

Tickets across all concert series range from $5 to $30. Full information can be found at numus.on.ca/tickets-con-tact/.

PHOTO BY JACK PARKINSONNumus president Charles Morrison and artistic director Kathryn Ladano pose for a photograph after announcing the 2014-2015 concert season at the Heuther Hotel on Sept. 20.

BY IAN MCBRIDE

Conestoga Student Inc.’s annual Toga Party was a hit with students yet again.

Two hundred and seventy people attended the sold-out event, which ran from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. on Sept. 18 in the Sanctuary. CSI event programmer Samantha Schwier said, “It’s the same as last year. It always sells out. It’s what works, so why change.”

DJ Denim provided the music for the night, which was uptempo and kept students danc-ing right until the end.

Some students were creative with their toga outfits. First-year recreation and lei-

sure student Ryan Meevis was decked out in a teal bedsheet that featured objects such as stars. He talked about the originality of his clothing. “I went to Value Village, I found it and I didn’t just want to wear white,” Meevis said.

There was a good mixture of students who were wearing plain white togas and students dressed in more vibrant attire. I asked Carol Stares, CSI student welcoming and aware-ness team leader, if she tried to co-ordinate with her friends when choosing her outfit.

“We all decided that we were going to wear togas,” she said, adding, “It enhances school spirit.”

toga party is always a huge success

PHOTO BY IAN MCBRIDECSI’s Toga Party had 270 people in attendance. Bedsheets were the material of choice at the event.

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Now deep thoughts... with Conestoga College

Random questions answered by random studentsIf you could talk to anyone in the world, alive or dead, who would it be and why?

“Luke Bryan. He is equivalent to God”

Kayla Arias,first-year

community and criminal justice service

“Neil deGrasse Tyson ... I feel like it would be the best enlightening experi-ence of my life.”

Lindsey Miller,first-yearbio tech

“Christoper Hitchens ... He is the most famous antitheist ... I think he is a pretty cool guy.”

samantha Ramirez,first-yearbio tech

“Bruce Lee ... He died early. I feel like he would have a lot to say. He was a pioneer in fitness and martial arts.”

sean Labbe,first-year

business administration marketing

“My grandfather ... He lived with me my whole entire life and was like a second father to me.”

Ryan Rego,second-year

police foundations

Smile Conestoga, you could be our next respondent!

Count on Counselling ServicesBy NATHAN BROWN

Every first-year student experiences the same thing, stress, but what resources are there that students can uti-lize to make their school year easier?

Conestoga College’s Counselling Services offers a wide variety of programs and services to students, ranging from counselling sessions for stress, to helping them cope with mental health issues such as depression and anxi-ety.

“Stress is a thing that everyone is affected by,” said Marshal Chanda, a counsellor at Conestoga. “There’s a wide range of things that we deal with.”

Chanda said the vast major-ity of students coming into the counselling services are trying to deal with stress.

Students at the college are shown a video on their first day of orientation, describing what Counselling Services is all about, and how staff sup-port students.

Some students hear about the department in other ways.

“I heard about the services from someone who works for the school’s campus security,” said Devin Mueller, a first-year nursing student.

In addition to stress, the Counselling Services video tells students help is avail-able for those struggling to adjust to college, home sick-ness or being in a post-second-ary environment.

“I used the school’s coun-selling services first semes-ter last year,” said Meghan Thain, a second-year biotech-nology technician student. “It helped me deal with the stress at the beginning of the year.”

Counsellors at the Doon, Waterloo, Guelph and Cambridge campuses help stu-dents cope and deal with any problems, such as relationship issues, financial pressures and

personal concerns. “If there’s ever a case out-

side of our realm that we don’t have expertise in, we link up with someone in the community, so the students aren’t left empty-handed,” Chanda said.

KW Counselling and Mosaic Counselling are two outside resources that coun-sellors would typically refer students to. These local agencies provide counsel-ling support to anyone in the area, with bookings or walk-in services.

“Mental health is becom-ing a bigger issue nowadays,” Chanda said. “We get more and more students in each year.”

The department provided tips for students on how to de-stress this school year. They are:

1. Sleep. It’s important for students to maintain a regular sleeping pattern and get a good night’s rest. If you are well rested, you are able to tackle the day’s stress more easily.

2. Physical activities can help you relieve tension, thus alleviating stress.

3. Good nutrition is also important. Having the right food in your body can help give it the boost it needs throughout the day.

4. Leisure. Students should find time throughout their busy schedule to have a chance to sit and relax and breathe.

Counselling Services also hosts a variety of workshops, groups and events through-out the year for students, such as the Performance Anxiety Group, to help stu-dents overcome their fears of presentations and to help “change self-defeating thoughts.”

Students can learn more by visiting their counselling office or by going online to www.conestogac.on.ca.

If students need immediate help they can call Good2Talk at 1-866-925-5454, a 24-hour phone service for post-second-ary students.

PHOTO By NATHAN BROWNMarshal Chanda, a counsellor at Conestoga College, looks through information pamphlets that students can utilize at the counselling office at Doon campus.

summer HAs FALLeN WITh ThE LEAVES

PHOTO By RAcHEL ROyNur Baayoun, a Kitchener resident who is shown walking through a puddle and fallen leaves, is unhappy that summer is over and fall is upon us.

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Humpty Dumpty had a great fallBY KALI CAUDLE

It was raining eggs at the Cambridge campus Sept. 18, but it wasn’t a pre-Hallow-een prank. Instead, students were dropping eggs from the second storey as part of mechanical engineering technology professor Henry Kastner’s fifth annual Egg Drop Competition, for the problem- solving and design class. Ten groups competed, each receiving one egg, with one extra egg being dropped as a test.

“The purpose of the chal-lenge is to evaluate the pro-

cess of very few instructions, to how do we get something that protects the egg from breaking when it hits the floor,” Kastner said.

The students, in groups of three, were given the assign-ment on Sept. 11, and had one week to design, buy materi-als, test and construct their devices.

Kastner said in past years students had a wide variety of materials to choose from. Most groups used parachutes or helium balloons, so he eliminated those options.

This year the students were given a list of 10 materials

to choose from including cot-ton balls, cardboard, masking tape, newspaper, Saran Wrap and straws. The groups had to choose a minimum of three materials. The devices had a size restriction, where no side could measure more than 30 centimeters.

The goal of the challenge was to have the lightest device successfully take the egg from the second storey to the atrium floor’s bull’s eye without cracking.

After successfully dropping the egg from the second floor, students were able to par-ticipate in a bonus round. The

device was then dropped from the third floor. If successful groups received an additional five marks.

The challenge was worth 10 per cent of the student’s over-all grade. The marking had two components – the compe-tition and the analysis report, both worth 50 per cent each.

According to Graem Paterson, a second-year mechanical engineering tech-nology – robotics and automa-tion student, the two most popular materials used by the 10 groups were masking tape and cardboard followed by the second most popular items,

cotton balls and straws. Group 9, consisting of Tyler

Cressman, John Balsillie and Brian Ferguson, won the com-petition portion, but the anal-ysis report winner was yet to be determined at press time.

When building the protec-tive devices, there’s some-thing next year’s students should consider.

Dylan Wakutz, a second-year mechanical engineer-ing technology – robotics and automation student, said to keep it simple.

“If you make it more com-plex, there’s more room for failure,” he said.

Print girl in a digital worldBY CoDY MUDgE

Chances are that even if you are a first-year student at Conestoga you’ve visited the library at some point during your tenure. In fact, it’s tough to walk by the library and find it to be the quiet, calm and mousey auditorium you see in the movies. Contrary to the clichés, Conestoga’s library is a bustling amalga-mation of traditional printed content directed at specific program needs and computer systems designed to address any research requirement.

Libraries are becoming increasingly focused on dig-ital content and expanding their offerings in the electron-ic space. This is merely the latest evolution for something that has been with humanity since the infancy of civiliza-tion. The first great civili-zations on our planet were founded in Mesopotamia and one of the ways historians

determine this is that they had, you guessed it, a vast

library. The great ancient Library of Alexandria is a prime example of the loss of cultural knowledge as it became the victim of a fire set by Julius Caesar in 48 BCE. The decline of the Islamic Golden Age is said to have been started by the loss of the House of Wisdom in Baghdad when the Mongols sacked the city. However, most of these institutions have survived until today thanks to their flexibility and adaptability.

“There’s a perception that information on the Internet is easy to access and all that we need,” said Trish Weigel-Green, the manager of infor-mation literacy and resourc-es at Conestoga’s Library Resource Centre (LCR).

Weigel-Green advises stu-dents that a simple Google search may not always yield the best results and that library staff, like herself, can open up a new world of pos-sibilities. The information is

out there, she said, you just need to be shown where to look.

Part of what makes a library great is that some of the work is already done for you. If you could avoid having to fil-ter through the sources on a Wikipedia entry and instead go directly to the source, would you? This is where the LCR can help.

Conestoga’s library, like most other academic and pub-lic libraries, has shifted its focus to digital content when-ever possible. This is a trend that has emerged over the last decade as the robustness of the Internet and electronic hardware has exponentially increased.

“We buy and focus on digi-tal content whenever we can. That’s where we believe the future is heading and how we can best serve students,” Weigel-Green said.

It should come as no surprise that libraries are adapting

to survive in a digital world just as they’ve adapted in the past. Surviving religious persecution, regime changes, the whims of monarchs, the printing press and the rise of literacy (by offering popular content alongside academic), these institutions are tough. Libraries were the original Netflix, where you could go to access a breadth of con-tent that would be far beyond what any average individual could hope to amass.

Just as libraries revolu-tionized the average per-son’s access to information throughout history, so too has the Internet changed how we access and think about information. These two forces now combine to give the students of today an unprecedented amount of access to the information they need to succeed.

“We’re here to provide stu-dents with the opportunity to explore,” Weigel-Green said.

Photo BY CoDY MUDgETrish Weigel-Green, a Library Resource Centre staff person, wants to help Conestoga stu-dents discover a more focused corner of the Internet.

Photo BY NAtALEIgh MCCALLUMBrenda Warner, a School of Business and Hospitality program co-ordinator, votes on the proposed OPSEU/Colleges collective agree-ment at the Doon campus on Sept. 23. Sixty-one per cent of fac-ulty from Ontario’s 24 colleges who cast a ballot voted in favour of the new three-year deal.

Photo BY JUstIN ForDShannon Glachan, a Conestoga business graduate, explains her First Generations kiosk to Manmeet Singh, a first-year small business venture student, at the Get Involved Fair Sept. 17. The event helps students connect with meaningful opportunities on campus or in their local and global communities.

students enCOuRAGed TO GET InvOLvED new AGReement FOR COLLEGE FaCULTy

Page 4 s SPOKE Monday, September 29, 2014COMMENTARY

In April, someone asked the Toronto Public Library to ban the children’s book Hop on Pop because he or she thought it encouraged children to use violence against their fathers. This isn’t the first time some-one has wanted a book to be banned, and it won’t be the last.

Some of these requests have been granted. Just last year, a library in Florida banned the book Fifty Shades of Grey due to its sexual content. Also, Frankenstein was banned in South Africa in 1955 because some thought that some of its material was obscene and indecent. Some people can see the rationale behind these requests, but other requests are just plain silly.

For example, when the Harry Potter books first came out, people wanted to get rid of them because they believed that they were teaching kids witchcraft. What these people have to remember is that it is fiction, not real.

There is actually one ban that I totally agreed with. It involved the book Rage, which was written by my favourite author, Stephen King. It’s about a disturbed

teenage boy who brings a gun to school and holds an entire classroom hostage.

The book was released in 1977, and has been linked to several school shootings in the 1980s and ’90s, with police officers finding the book in some of the shooters’ belong-ings. They concluded that the shooters were inspired by the book to do what they did.

King himself felt uncomfort-able about this and allowed his book to fall out of print. I don’t blame the author for

this as he apparently didn’t want to see anyone else get hurt.

On the other side of the coin, there is one requested ban that I find to be ridic-ulous, and that is people trying to remove To Kill a Mockingbird from high schools.

When I first heard about this, I thought that it was because of all the racial slurs in the book, but then I found out that it was because peo-ple were upset due to it hav-ing the word “whore” in it.

Out of all of the profound words in the book, it is “whore” that they’re upset about?

High schools shouldn’t ban the book because I think that everyone should have a right to read it because it teaches you a good lesson about how you shouldn’t judge people by the way they look.

Some of these bans are rea-sonable, but some are just uncalled for. I believe that people should stop being so nitpicky and just enjoy the books for what they are because that is the whole rea-son authors write them in the first place.

Ban book banning

BY MARYSSA MCFADDEN

Ontario students have paid the highest tuition fees in the country for the sixth year in a row according to a report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA).

Released Sept. 10, the report looked at trends in tuition and compulsory fees in Canada since 1993 and estimated fees for each province for the next four years. They also ranked the provinces on affordability for median- and low-income families.

An article on the Canadian Federation of Students’ website further proves this; it states undergraduate stu-dents pay 29 per cent more than the Canadian average while graduate students pay 41 per cent more.

The federation, the largest student organization in the country, provides a voice on provincial and federal issues for more than 500,000 students.

The article also said, on average, tuition fees in Ontario have increased by five per cent annually.

While these statistics are for university tuition, college students don’t want the same high fees to eventually affect them.

Reza Moridi, Ontario’s minister of training, colleges and universities, commented on the report by the CCPA, saying Ontario students often end up paying less than students across the country because of the loans and grants available to them.

However, in a Sept. 10 Toronto Star article, it said even with the financial help, a student living at home with a family income of $80,000 would still pay one of the high-est net tuitions in Canada.

Students are also required to start making loan pay-ments within the first six months after graduation. Those payments are expected to come in whether stu-dents have found a secure job or not.

“While students are going deeper and deeper into debt each year, they won’t be contributing to the economy. They’ll be focused on making payments,” said James Clancy, National Union of Public and General Employees’ (NUPGE) national president.

The Canadian Federation of Students said if changes are not made and the price of education continues to grow, many students will have limited possibilities, if any, for furthering their education.

This is of great concern, not only for university stu-dents, but for college students as well.

The views herein represent the position of the newspa-per, not necessarily the author.

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Monday, September 29, 2014 SPOKE s Page 5NEWS

New app puts college on grid

Beating THE FrEsHman 15

PHOTO BY CaSSiE TulECkimatt O’Loan, an electrical construction maintenance student, beats the Freshman 15 by choosing water instead of pop. For video, see www.spokeonline.com.

BY JuSTiN FORD

Ever wonder how you can meet and connect with fellow students on campus? Well, there’s an app for that.

No, it’s not Tinder. It’s called Campusgrids. It’s an app created by students, for students. It allows stu-dents to engage with their classmates and connect with other students on campus. The free app was originally released earlier in the year in Ottawa, but is now ready for launch across schools in Canada.

“You always want to meet other students,” said Campusgrids’ chief oper-ating officer, Tedy Tadi. “You can join the volleyball group, or just connect stu-dents together and break the ice.”

Campusgrids isn’t your com-mon school app. It doesn’t just show bland calendars and timetables, and it does more than simply inform students of upcoming events. Once a student downloads the app, it

connects them with students from their campus who have similar courses, interests and hobbies.

The creator and chief execu-tive officer of Campusgrids, Elias Fares, hatched the idea back in 2012. He was tired of sifting through college calen-dars and Facebook feeds to find out what was going on around his campus, so the Carleton University gradu-ate came up with an app to connect students with similar interests.

In a Sept. 3 article in Cascade, the student-run newspaper at the University of the Fraser Valley, Fares said, “Campusgrids is more of a social app. There is more

interaction between the stu-dents.”

It’s Campusgrids’ goal to provide a social platform that is user-friendly and free. The app offers every student unlimited access to the appli-cation’s services.

Another feature within Campusgrids is its ability to sync up students in the same program. Once a stu-dent adds his or her classes to the app, other students on the app with the same classes can link together, and even hold virtual class dis-cussions.

The app can be found eas-ily in the App Store and the Google Play Store. Simply type in “Campusgrids,” then download it for free. Conestoga College students who download the app will be instantly connected.

“People always want peo-ple around them,” Tadi said. “We’re trying to make them get to know each other through the app and build relationships with groups of friends.”

“You can join the volley-ball group, or just connect

students together and break the ice.”

— Tedy Tadi

Campusgrids connects students

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Book lovers take over KitchenerBY BetH CrOuSe

Blustery conditions and gloomy clouds didn’t stop book lovers from venturing out for the 14th annual Word on the Street book and maga-zine festival held at multiple venues across Kitchener on Sept. 20.

Whether you were looking for a fun family outing, a chance to hear guest authors such as Gail Vaz-Oxlade, or to peruse multiple vendors, Word on the Street had some-thing for everyone to enjoy.

Despite a rough start to the day, the sun managed to make its way through the clouds and with it, people of all ages came out to check out what was happening at the many locations around Kitchener.

“If the weather holds out, there will be thousands of people,” said Leslie Cooney, one of many book vendors in attendance. “As a company, this is our eighth or ninth year coming. It’s important

for us at Chapters to do com-munity events because big businesses are often seen as uncaring but we aren’t. It’s important for us to come show our support for local events.”

Rebecca Rourke, one of the vendors from Chapters, explained why Word on the Street is so important.

“Literacy is important for everyone, but also you can see there’s a real sense of commu-nity behind this event.”

Rourke, who was attending the event for the second time, said Word on the Street is also a great event for kids.

Both Cooney and Rourke agreed that as a community, literacy is a major focus and attending events such as Word on the Street helps encourage everyone to enjoy books.

Multiple vendors set up free activities and crafts for chil-dren outside of Kitchener City Hall, and musical entertain-ment was provided by popular children’s entertainer, Erik Traplin.

Word on the Street volun-

teers Valentina Acuna and Monica Ha agreed with Rourke saying, “Word on the Street helps to promote liter-acy, but also gets people away from technology and back to books.”

Authors in attendance for this year’s event includ-ed Lesley Livingston, Gail Gallant and Sam Sutherland. At Civic Square in front of Kitchener City Hall, special guests read-ing to children included Kitchener Mayor Carl Zehr and Miss Oktoberfest Tara Hebblethwaite.

New this year was The Word on the Street Bites. Participating cof-fee shops, restaurants and the Kitchener Market itself housed authors, poets, blog-gers, workshops and more which added a tasty option to this year’s lineup.

“My kids and I love to read and because it’s a book fes-tival, it seemed appropri-ate that we come,” Sasha Gruetzmacher said.

Leslie Cooney (left) and Shanya Meadows, book vendors from Chapters, check out a few of their own books on display at the Word on the Street book and magazine festival.

Popular children’s entertainer, Erik Traplin, performs for eager kids at the festival.

Kitchener Mayor Carl Zehr reads to children at the event outside Kitchener City Hall.

The Youth Adult Panel, featuring authors (seated, left to right) Eve Silver, Lesley Livingston, Caroline Pignat and Gail Gallant, prepares for questions at the Waterloo Region Record stage.

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Gail Vaz-Oxlade, one of the many authors, spoke to a huge crowd at the Word on the Street book and magazine festival inside Kitchener City Hall. Even book vendor Rebecca Rourke couldn’t resist the lure of a

good novel.

Michelle Purchase and her daughter Violet stop to make a button at one of the free children’s activities hosted by the company Let’s Read.

Rebecca Rourke (left) talks to a potential customer about the books she’s selling at Civic Square in Kitchener.

Children’s entertainer and songwriter Erik Traplin begins a perfor-mance outside of Kitchener City Hall at Word on the Street.

Vendors fill King Street in Kitchener for the annual celebration of books and literacy.

Photos by Beth Crouse

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CSI OfferS many services for students

PHOTO BY Kali CaudlE sabarinth Balasubramanian, a first-year enhanced nursing prac-tice - gerontology and chronic illness student, takes advantage of the free binding at the conestoga students inc. service hub at doon campus. other free services they offer include scanning, fax-ing and laminating. Black and white photocopies cost 15 cents and colour photocopies or documents cost 30 cents each.

PHOTO BY NiCOlE NEMETHerik Hoekstra, a first-year television broadcast student, is looking forward to the cambridge Zombie Walk and the new monster club at the vault. for video, see www.spokeonline.com.

PHOTO BY alEx riEsErick taylor rips out some blues riffs at the Preston music festival on sept. 20. for video see www.spokeonline.com.

PHOTO BY CarMEN PONCiaNOstudents can join the english conversation Partner program and help students improve their english. visit www.spokeonline.com for video.

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dedICated rOSeS continue to groW

PHOTO BY jOsH KENNEdYPink roses bloom in the garden at conestoga college. the rose bush was planted in memory of the 14 women killed during the ecole Polytechnique de montreal massacre on dec. 6, 1989.

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KOI Fest has best year yet BY MATT HOWELL

Celebrating its fifth year, KOI Fest surpassed all expec-tations despite bad weather and last minute venue chang-es.

Over 100 bands performed over the Sept. 19-21 event at eight different venues, including at an outdoor main-stage. Part of King Street in Kitchener was shut down for the festival that drew peo-ple from all over the prov-ince. Show organizer Cory Crossman said this was the biggest KOI Fest yet.

“We added a third day of bands, a comic book (fea-turing King KOI), a charity drive, food truck vendors and KOI Con, which enlightens people about the music indus-try,” Crossman said.

KOI Fest, which has had its share of weather problems in the past, had a lot of last minute changes to endure. Saturday night headliners, Every Time I Die, were sched-uled to play the mainstage, but with negative weather reports coming in, they were switched to back-up venue The Wax. Bad weather and changes of venue did not darken the spir-

its of the almost 5,000 fans who came out on Saturday.

Josh Correia, a second-time KOI Fest attendee, said he had an amazing time. “Chaos reigned when Every Time I Die hit the stage. I mainly came to see them, Counterparts and Foxy Shazam,” Correia said.

This event could not have gone as smoothly as it did without the help of almost 100 volunteers. Dan Sommer, a second-year volunteer, said, “It’s a good way for fellow music lovers to support music and their community.”

KOI Fest surpassed past years in not only attendance, but the sheer volume and tal-ent of the bands that played. Friday night, which was free to everyone, saw rock vet-erans Danko Jones tear up the stage. Every Time I Die, Chiodos, Four Year Strong, Mad Caddies and Miss May I headlined Saturday, while Sunday saw the main-stage filled with estab-lished Canadian bands like Silverstein, Protest The Hero and U.S.S.

The festival is also a chance for smaller bands to get their music out to the masses.

PHOTO BY MATT HOWELLLead singer Eric Nally and drummer Aaron McVeigh of Foxy Shazam tore up the mainstage at KOI Fest in Kitchener on Sept. 20.

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Add some excitement to your life by going on an adventure. Be independent and accept new opportuni-ties.

Don’t miss the opportuni-ties that arise in front of you, take them while you can. They will bring you good fortune. This week be ambitious.

Don’t follow the crowd, cre-ate your own path. You never know where life can take you. This week be independent.

You are known to be indeci-sive. Trust your gut feeling and take a chance. What could possibly go wrong?

A big change is headed your way. Embrace it with open arms. Accept the things you can’t change. This week be adaptable.

Let go of your controlling side, you don’t need to be admired to be empowered. Be open to others. Your way isn’t the only way.

You are known to be help-ful. Some people around you aren’t as observant. Offer your wisdom and guidance.

The stars have spoken.

Horoscope Week of September 29, 2014

You are known to be impa-tient. Focus on one task at a time. Think before you act.

Your dependable attitude will come in handy. Someone close to you needs reassur-ance. Listen closely and pro-tect them.

Try to control your jealousy toward others around you. Be open minded to new ideas and opinions. Watch your stubborn streak, for the sake of others.

Break out of your comfort zone and make new friends. You’ll be surprised to find who’s waiting for you. This week be hospitable.

You’re constantly build-ing other people up. This week try to focus that ener-gy toward yourself and take that big step you’ve been putting off.

Useless FactsOh Cliff!

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Fill in the grid with digits in such a manner that every row, every column and every 3x3 box accommo-dates the digits 1-9, with-out repeating any.

Cats have over 100 vocal sounds; dogs only have 10.

It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up.

Mailing an entire building has been illegal in the U.S. since 1916 when a man mailed a 40,000-ton brick house across Utah to avoid high freight rates.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

Johnny Appleseed planted apples so that people could use apple cider to make alcohol.

Monday, September 29, 2014 SPOKE s Page 11sports

Rugby team looks to rebound after sobering lossBy Jordan Johnstone

The Conestoga men’s rugby team faced utter defeat at the hands of powerhouse Humber College on Sept. 21. The Condors could not hold off the offensive onslaught unleashed by the Hawks and were unable to fire back with offensive scoring strikes of their own, falling 65-0.

“It’s a sobering experience facing a club like that,” said

men’s rugby head coach Kyle O’Neil. “It’s a tough bite for the boys to get beat like that today, you just have to keep moving forwards.

“That’s sports, that’s why we play.”

The team fared better at the start of their season, streamrolling over Mohawk College in their season open-er on Sept. 10 at Riverside Park in Cambridge. The Condors outmatched Mohawk

and did not allow a try en route to a 25-3 victory. Greg Dawksins, Brandon Innis, Daivd Stummph and Michael Sullivan led the team to vic-tory, scoring a try each.

Only four days later the Condors travelled to Orangeville to play Georgian College. It was a hard fought match, which saw Innis and Sullivan continue their scor-ing streak with a try each. However, Condors would

eventually fall to the Grizzles 33-24.

The Condors have two road games in which they hope to rebound. The Condors will play against Sheridan on Oct. 4 and look to give Mohawk another thrashing on Oct. 9. They have a chance at redemption against Georgian at home on Oct. 19.

“Keep together, keep work-ing hard and what we have to focus on is winning the next

three games,” O’Neil said.Meanwhile, the Condors

women’s rugby team is off to a 1-1 start. On Sept. 9 they pounded Mohawk in their home opener 63-5, with Rebecca Matejin leading the way with four tries. But, their winning streak was short-lived. They travelled to battle Seneca on Sept. 18, but got shut out 27-0.

The women’s team will also travel to Sheridan on Oct. 4.

photos By Jordan JohnstoneAlex Trait attempts a tackle against Humber College on Sept. 21 at Riverside Park in Cambridge, the Condors’ home field.

The Condors rugby team tackles a Humber College player. The Condors lost 65-0 to the powerhouse Hawks.

Above, a Humber player goes up for the ball with the help of his teammates during a lineout.

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