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The University of New Brunswick campus was a blur of bright red and bustling activity this weekend as 600 new students were welcomed to campus.

Orientation Week began on Friday when new students were dropped off to register, pick up their Orientation kits and begin their university careers.

The theme of this Orientation Week is The 2010 Olympiads, a modern take on Greek culture and fraternity/sorority traditions.

“We wanted a theme that was a little bit more mature than our most recent years. It’s something that everyone can kind of relate to, the whole Animal House (1978 movie), toga-type of deal,” Stephanie Lord, orientation chair for 2010, said.

Orientation Week officially took off on Friday night with Blast Off, a massive event to help students get to know each other

and start the week off big.The first full day of Orientation Week

has been traditionally reserved for Shine Day, a day of canvassing and fundraising for Shinerama. Shinerama is the largest post-secondary fundraiser in Canada and raises funds for cystic fibrosis research.

Hurricane Earl brought inclement weather to Fredericton on Saturday, pushing Shine Day back to Sept. 11 for safety reasons.

Though Shine Day organizers were disappointed the weather left a hole in the Orientation schedule, students made due. As Earl poured down on Saturday, hundreds of students slid down a makeshift slip and slide on the quad, popular music blasting loudly in the background.

On Saturday night, first year students did Togopalooza, a Greek-themed dance party, as well as a games night. The first half of the week was filled with traditional residence events and ice breakers.

Orientation Week is alcohol-free and

Lord said the events are meant to make people feel welcome.

The orientation chair said students generally have high expectations of university life and partying, largely because of how university is portrayed in popular media.

“It’s hard to meet those expectations, especially when liquor cannot be involved, but it was good. We had really good energy and we’re looking forward to the next set of events,” Lord said on Saturday afternoon in the midst of orientation fun.

The corn boil on Monday for new UNB and St. Thomas University students drew a crowd in the hundreds, as well as several booths from local businesses and politicians.

Matt Evans and Sean Bampton, two first year students from the residence community, came to sunny, Monday afternoon corn boil.

“(Orientation) has been pretty fun, I’m not gonna lie. I’ve met a lot of nice

people,” Evans said. “Everyone is really nice and they keep

us occupied all the time. You’re never bored here.”

Bampton praised the orientation and residence teams for their warm welcome and help while moving in.

“People helped us move in immediately. It was really good,” he said.

The pair said university was a great time so far, but jokingly noted that classes have yet to begin.

Rob Walton, a second year student on the Red Shirts orientation team, said he was enjoying welcoming new students to campus. He helped direct students on Friday evening.

“We’re trying to be really energetic and make it seem like UNB is a really good place so that they’re more comfortable because it’s a strange environment,” he said.

He said he was glad he chose to take on a leadership role in Orientation Week this

year.“I was actually talking to one of the

parents and they thanked me,” he said, adding that parents told him that first years would have been “lost” without their help.

Lord said there were Red Shirts stationed at every campus entrance on Friday to welcome new students to the community.

“There is a Red Shirt at every entrance, pretty much harassing them with signs and shouting and screaming,” she said.

“We are here to create a safe, social atmosphere for everyone to bond outside of their collective houses… It’s completely all-inclusive.”

Orientation Week continues with an international student campus and library tour at 4:15 p.m. this afternoon and the Freddy Beach welcome barbecue tomorrow evening at Officer’s Square. The week wraps up with Shine Day on Saturday, followed by a kick off concert featuring Marianas Trench and The Zolas.

UNB Student Health reformed after student initiative

The UNB Student Health Clinic has made several changes over the summer in response to major problems with the registration system that came to a head last year.

They replaced the old paper registration

system with an online registration and scheduling system that will make it easier to book an appointment.

Clinic Manager Patricia Eagan says this change will make the clinic run more smoothly once the new system is in full force. Prior to the new system everything was done manually.

“Now we’re able to take registration

and enter it into the system and it links you to your appointment that we’re booking for you. It will provide us with a wealth of information,” Eagan says.

The clinic is now taking bookings over the phone, another major change that will eliminate lining up at 8:15 in the morning in hopes of securing an appointment that day, although students are still welcome to

walk in and make an appointment. In an effort to harmonize the new

changes with the old system, the clinic is expanding its telephone hours so the students who are waiting have 15 minutes after the clinic opens to register before telephone lines open.

Eagan stresses the importance of being very specific about the reason for the

appointment when calling in. This will be necessary for staff to plan the correct amount of time to book the appointment for.

The clinic has also implemented booking into the next day to accommodate students who were unable

Hundreds of new !rst year students gather at Blast Off 2010, representing their houses and celebrating the beginning of their university careers. Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan

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Neville/Jones closed for renovations and rebranding

One of the university’s traditional residences is closed for the year.Neville/Jones House, one of two male residences on campus, is closed for the year due to a lack of students registering to live there. James Brown, executive director of Residential Life, Campus and Conference Services, said only between nine and 12 students were registered to live there for the 2010-2011 school year. Brown attributed the lack of interest in the house to the increasing popularity of co-ed residences.“The fundamental problem is not Neville/Jones, the problem is that our demand for all-male residence…The demand for residence is robust, but the demand for all-male, as opposed to co-ed, is down not only here, but everywhere,” he said. The residents originally registered to live in Neville/Jones were relocated to other houses or chose to live off campus. John Bailey was supposed to be the president of Neville/Jones house committee for this year, but will instead be living off campus. “Obviously in the immediate aftermath, I was pretty disappointed and still am kinda disappointed,” he said. “I’ve lived at home one year. I’ve lived in

residence. I’m pretty easy going. (I was) disappointed at !rst, but I’m hopeful we can still keep our traditions alive and it will return next year in some form and still be a pretty good place to live.” Brown said Residence Life feared a worse reaction than the one they received from Bailey and the incoming house committee. “John’s (Bailey) reaction was way more understanding than I’d feared. Generally speaking, people are devoted to their house. The idea that it won’t operate for a year is not good news. John took it very positively,” Brown said. The don of Neville/Jones who was supposed to govern the house this year will be taking on a position in the Suite-Style Residence. When Bailey !rst heard the residence would be closing his thoughts immediately jumped to the Neville/Jones Bed Push, an annual event hosted by the house in support of Women in Transition House. The organization is New Brunswick’s oldest shelter for battered women and children. Every year, Neville/Jones residents travel to Saint John on an October night and construct a bed !tted with wheels. The group then pushes the bed back to Fredericton. They raise money and spread awareness by canvassing throughout September and October. Since it’s inception in 1993, the event has raised close to $200,000 for Women in Transition House. "

The Bed Push is one of the longest standing house traditions on campus and Bailey has struck up a committee to make sure it isn’t broken this year. “As long as we keep the bed push tradition going, that’s pretty well the only thing I was worried about when they closed the residence,” he said. Bailey will be working with fellow students and alumni of the house to canvas and raise funds for the event. The executive director of Residential Life said they are willing to help Bailey and his committee where it is needed. “I think it’s fantastic. I mean, it was the !rst thing John and I talked about because it is a long fundraiser, but it’s a very popular one. It’s been a very successful fundraiser and we de!nitely wanted to !nd a way to give the house a year off, while still maintaining that tradition,” Brown said. Brown was adamant the house will be reopened in the future and said some changes are in store for the building in the meantime. “There’s no question, the house has a future as a residence for sure. There’s no plans to do anything other than give it a year off,” Brown said, adding that the residence is undergoing refurbishment to prepare it for students in the fall of 2011. Renovations include a new chimney, refurbished kitchen, and new paint. “We’re taking advantage of the fact that it’s of#ine for a year to refurbishment and we fully intend to offer it next year.”

New returning of!ce to engage young voters

“Be Heard.”That is the new slogan put forth by

Elections New Brunswick in an effort to engage the young electorate. One of the main pillars in this new youth outreach program is establishing a satellite returning of!ce in the UNB Student Union Building.

Meghan McGrattan, Elections NB’s youth outreach coordinator and former UNB student, explained how concern over the slipping voter turnout numbers forced Elections NB into action.

“Elections New Brunswick has made it a part of their mandate for this election and the elections to come to have youth outreach as a priority,” said McGrattan.

“In the 2006 election, the 18 to 24 (years of age) demographic only showed up at 50 percent and the 25 to 34 only showed up at 49 percent. When you consider certain ridings having upwards of 80 percent in the 50 to 60 demographic, it’s obviously a problem and a huge disparity between generations.”

This growing trend became too evident to ignore and Elections NB decided that opening up satellite returning of!ces on four campuses around the province would increase engagement and voter turnout in the younger demographics. The campuses include UNBSJ, UdeM, the UdeM/CCNB campus in Edmunston, and in the UNBF Student Union Building. This pilot project is the !rst time Elections NB has strictly targeted young voters and is pioneering change at the federal level, as some Elections Canada of!cials will be visiting to evaluate its effectiveness.

Megan Melanson, the returning of!ce’s clerk and UNB student, explained that the decision to put the returning of!ce on campus was to help eliminate the many barriers that young voters face including accessibility.

“That was one of the main reasons why we said let’s put the returning of!ce right on campus. Right where students are going to be every single day.”

Having the of!ce directly on campus eliminates transportation issues and

increases awareness. The of!ce also acts as a polling station from now until the election date, Sept. 27, and offers voters the capability of voting in their home riding if they wish to do so. The idea is to make voting as easy as possible for the electorate.

“Getting to the polls can be a big dif!culty,” said McGrattan. “I, myself, faced this problem in the 2008 federal election. I had to walk 25 minutes to get to the poll so I could cast my ballot. Students don’t always have transportation at our !ngertips. It’s not easy for us to get around.”

Elections NB, in conjunction with both the STU and UNB student unions, are emphasizing the necessity of having a returning of!ce on campus to revert the growing trend of lower voter turnout in the youth.

“It’s very important,” explained UNBSU President Shannon Carmont-McKinley. “It’s not only important to have a place to vote for yourself, but a place where you can vote in your home riding. That’s an excellent opportunity for students.”

The returning of!ce has paired up with the two student unions to not only promote the new of!ce, but awareness of the election and voting in general. There will be a number of events throughout orientation week and leading up to the election including a leaders debate held at STU on Sept. 24.

Elections NB has also utilized social media in an effort to garner more participation in voting. They are urging young voters to take part through the use of Facebook, Twitter, and a new viral campaign called “Y Vote NB?” in addition to their new slogan, “Be Heard”.

“Before now the Elections NB slogan has been ‘your vote counts’ and students are saying ‘I don’t feel like my vote is going to make a difference’ or ‘I don’t feel like my voice is going to be heard,’” explained McGrattan. “We’re putting the onus back on the students to say if we want our voices to be heard, that’s up to us to stand up to the plate and vote and make our voices heard.”

The of!ce is open Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and is available to everyone in the community.

John Bailey, originally President for Neville/Jones 2010-2011 house committee, sits in the lounge of the temporarily closed residence. Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan

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Safety of!cials advise taking it easy, watching what you drink, using the buddy system and protecting your drink for a safe night out. Mike Erb / The Brunswickan

It’s a common scene at the beginning of every school year: students stumbling around drunk, vomiting, yelling and doing things they’ll regret the following morning.

And a lot of these cases involve !rst year students.

There is no question why many !rst year students are prone to excessive drink-ing. Many are fresh out of high school, still reveling in their newfound freedom.

“The biggest problem that I see with student drinking, particularly with !rst year students who are new to the area and university life, is ending up in dangerous situations that they may not have a way out of,” said Megan Glenwright, the Drink Smart coordinator on campus.

Drink Smart is a student managed awareness group that provides students with information on alcohol related issues and promotes responsible drinking.

“A lot of new students may not know their limit, or ever have been drunk be-fore, leaving the opportunity for them to be coerced into things they would not do while fully aware or they possibly may even experience alcohol poisoning,” Glenwright said.

“…everything your mother told you was true,” said Bruce Rogerson, the director of Campus Security and Traf!c at UNB.

Using the “buddy system”, keeping valuables out of site, staying in well-lit areas, protecting your drink, and being aware of your surroundings are some important suggestions Rogerson has for having a safe night out.

Glenwright also provided students with a few tips.

“Some tips that I would give students to help them drink responsibly is to have a game plan for your evening,” she said. “Know what you’re drinking that night to avoid getting sick and don’t mix. Do not leave your drinks unattended at the

bar, or anywhere for that matter. Know how you’re getting home or where you will be staying and know who you are going to be with all night.”

Her !nal tip is to not drink and drive, or get in a car with anyone whose been drinking.

Another important thing that students should understand is UNB’s policy when it comes to drugs and alcohol.

“There is zero tolerance for using drugs and our policy around alcohol would be better understood if students would read the UNB Student Disciplin-ary Code. Our concern is with those who overindulge with alcohol and become intoxicated, verbally abusive, destructive, and combative,” Rogerson said, saying students should use the disciplinary code as a guide.

“Remember, our primary role is prevention and the protection of our students.”

Both UNB and Drink Smart offer

services to help students stay safe on and off campus: UNB offers both Safe Walk and Safe Ride programs, the UNB Security and

Traf!c of!ce is open around the clock for immediate assistance and Campus Police and security staff also conduct routine evening patrols.

Also, the campus is out!tted with security cameras in key areas on campus that are continuously monitored.

New Code Blue emergency phones were introduced this year and are situ-ated in strategic areas around campus and all campus pay phones have a direct line to the Security and Traf!c of!ce for immediate assistance.

Drink Smart organizes events throughout the school year and provides alternatives to drinking at some of the events that take place during the year. They also make presentations on alcohol-related issues to residences, groups and societies on campus at their request.

Currie Center; Structure going up smoothly

Returning students may have noticed some progress on the massive structure at the foot of campus since their depar-ture in April.

Construction of the Richard J. Currie Center, named for its chief benefactor and University of New Brunswick chancellor, Richard Cur-rie, began in 2008. The building was originally scheduled for completion earlier this year, but rocky conditions and a harsh winter slowed construction. Bob Skillen, chief advancement of!cer for UNB, said occupancy of the build-ing is “not 100 per cent clear yet.”

“We’re hoping to have construction substantially completed at or around Christmas time. Then... we’ll take several months to work out the bugs, test the systems, get the equipment in and I know for sure we’re going to be open in the spring,” he said. “There isn’t a de!nitive date yet, but it will be sometime in the spring of 2011.”

Skillen said the coming months will be a time of planning and discussion for those involved with the Currie Center to decide what the building can be used for when completed and how its of!cial opening will be commemorated.

Skillen said the administration is still unsure if the building will be used for the 2011 graduation ceremonies. "

The building has undergone a mas-sive transformation in the last four months. The outside is completely bricked and lined with glass on all four sides and the membrane for the top of

the building is almost complete.“Students will see a signi!cant dif-

ference. Internally, of course, all the walls are going up and there’s been a really signi!cant change inside as well,” Skillen said.

The chief advancement officer is still unsure how and when the build-ing will be of!cially introduced to the community. There is also the busi-ness of bidding farewell to the Lady Beaverbrook Gym as the site for the Varsity Reds basketball and volleyball teams to play. "

“The main gym, the LB gym, has ful!lled our role for the varsity sport teams for, well, since it was built, back in the 1940s, we’ll want to have some sort of thank you to the building, if you would like, for what it did,” Skillen said.

The Lady Beaverbrook Gym isn’t going anywhere, but the teams who once played inside it will be transferred to the new gyms in the Currie Center. The Currie Center will also be home to several high-tech Kinesiology labs and a !tness and lifestyle assessment centre.

Skillen said the Currie Center has already changed the UNB landscape.

“You can see it from across the river. You can see it when you’re coming across the train bridge. You can see it when you’re driving along Waterloo Row and (when) you come around the corner by the John Bliss water treat-ment plant and (are) looking up. You can also clearly see it from the cam-pus,” Skillen said, calling the structure “stunning.”

Dr. Eddy Campbell, President and vice-chancellor of UNB, said the opening of the Currie Center is one of the biggest events for students to look

forward to this year.“We’ll have to have some kind of

really nice opening ceremony to show it off, well, all of the community, our students, so that people will be inter-ested in it,” he said.

The cost of the building project, which is said to be one of the largest capital projects in Fredericton’s history,

is $50-million. Richard Currie has contributed in excess of $20-million for the centre.

Skillen said of!cials with the Currie Center are still campaigning for further donations and people looking to spon-sor areas of the building.

“We’ve had, in addition to (Currie), signi!cant support from our alumni,

as well as from various levels of govern-ment: the city, the province, the federal government. We still have a bit of a funding challenge we need to resolve by talking to the various partners,” he said, adding that the university hopes to have all of their !nancial support in place by the building’s grand opening.

The Richard J. Currie Center has undergone vast transformations since the exam period ended last fall. Construction is ongoing until December. Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan

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Getting to know the administration; Dr. Eddy Campbell

Dr. Eddy Campbell, President and vice-chancellor of the University of New Brunswick, said September is always an exciting time on campus.

“It almost seems like over night the campus goes from one state to being full of all these fresh, young faces eagerly awaiting the start of the school year. It’s very energizing and motivat-ing. I really enjoy it,” he said.

Campbell entered his !ve-year term as President of UNB in September of last year.

He said there are some big things for students, faculty and staff to look forward to this year, like the opening of the Richard J. Currie Center and the university’s 225th anniversary celebrations.

“We believe UNB is the oldest English language university in Canada and certainly one of the oldest public universities in North America and that gives us a very rich history and tradition. One of the things that we’re doing with the Celebration of Spirit campaign is recognizing what a great history we do have,” he said.

Campbell said UNB is also looking toward the future as well as recogniz-ing the past.

Organizing a strategic plan for the university is a process that has been ongoing since June, 2009. The strategic plan is a plan based on community input meant to guide the university in the coming years.

A strategic planning steering com-mittee of 30 people, complete with students, faculty and staff members, has been gathering information and input from the community for more than a year. The committee is drafting a strategic plan which they hope to have in circulation this fall.

The strategic plan is built on four “themes”: building on student success, building better research and graduate studies, building a better UNB and building a better province.

“Last fall we conducted extensive consultations in the university com-munity (with) faculty, staff, students and alumni. Then we spent quite a lot of time talking to people outside the university, government, non-govern-mental organizations, businesses, a wide variety of people with an interest in the university, asking them essen-tially ‘What do you want from what we hope you think of as your university?” Campbell said, adding that the com-mittee met with 27 different groups across the province.

The committee also surveyed the

Shannon Carmont-McKinley stands outside the student hub on campus. She says there is a lot for students to look forward to this year. Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan

campus community and received roughly 5,000 responses.

“There’s been an awful lot of input and, in a real sense, now our work is to boil down everything we heard into some kind of coherent plan for the uni-versity to help us decide where exactly we want to go over the next !ve years,” the UNB President said.

Though the university is developing a strategic plan to combat problems on campus, Campbell said there are still !scal problems within the university, notably the structural de!cit.

“In very straightforward terms, that simply means that our expenses are overrunning our revenues,” he said.

“This will be the second year of our three year plan to cope with that de!cit. Those challenges do remain and those are very tough. I wouldn’t want to downplay that.”

Campbell said he’s hopeful the strategic plan will help the university increase rev-enue to eliminate debt.

Campbell wanted all new and returning students to know that the university is a terri!c place and that New Brunswick itself is at a really interesting time in its history.

“My impressions of this place are really very positive and I’m really glad that my wife and my daughter and I found such a terri!c place to be,” he concluded.

Shannon Carmont-McKinley has been looking forward to September.

The President of the University of New Brunswick Student Union took office in May and has been working with her execu-tive and staff throughout the summer to get ready for the new school year.

Carmont-McKinley, who was vice-president academic last year, is in her fifth year of a bachelor of science in physics and chemistry.

The UNBSU President said the union has been planning all summer, notably for Orientation Week, events in advance of the upcoming provincial election and events for the alumni homecoming week the first week of October to commemorate the university’s 225th anniversary.

“Our fall is very, very busy. We’re work-ing on pulling off a tight, well-run year so that there are all kinds of things going on for students all the time,” she said.

Outside of special events, Carmont-Mc-Kinley said the UNBSU will be bringing back “the favorites,” like student agendas.

The Welcome Centre, the public hub for students to interact with the union, will also be selling general admission tickets to the

nearby Empire Studio 10 movie theatre at a discounted rate, as well as Student Price Cards, beginning this year.

Though planning is in the early stages, the UNBSU also has an idea for a State of the Union Address event, dubbed a “hilariously pretentious, kind of poking fun at ourselves” affair by Carmont-McKinley.

“I’m really excited. It’s an opportunity to get students to come out, to have some fun, to dress up, to drink some wine, and just expose (students) a bit to the Student Union. There will be some sort of address about the state of students in the province, or state of the union in the university, something to that effect,” she said.

“The whole event is just designed to be a lot of fun.”

Though the Student Union has a number of campus community events planned, it’s not all fun and games for the upcoming year.

The Union also plays a role in lobbying for student rights municipally, federally and provincially.

“Our two major focuses when we’re talking to any sort of external government group are our quality and access. We want to improve access to university. We want to touch on traditionally underrepresented groups, first generation learners, rural stu-dents, and aboriginal students,” Carmont-McKinley said, “furthermore, providing

everyone a system that is of the utmost quality, we are competitive both nationally and internationally as an institution.”

Carmont-McKinley said there have been financial challenges for students in recent years, saying that it can be difficult to be a student in an environment where everything requires money.

“We’ll continue to plug away at our lobbying with the government,” she said.

Within the university, the SU is pushing for a review of the Student Opinion Survey, an annual survey filled out by students evaluating their academic experience at UNB.

“It’s been going on for quite a while and we’re looking at pushing that (review) forward as soon as possible,” she said, add-ing that there are ideas to make the surveys more flexible for individual instructors and make them more useful for students.

“Students will be able to feel their opin-ion is worth something because it’s not just the generic questions that exist on the cur-rent instrument for that survey,” she said.

Carmont-McKinley wanted returning and new students alike to know that the UNBSU is there for students looking to get involved.

“If people are interested at all in partici-pating in what we’ve got going on, we’re here and we’re always eager to be interacting with students.”

Dr. Eddy Campbell sits in his of!ce on campus. Campbell is looking forward to a great year at UNB. Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan

The student voice; Shannon Carmont-McKinley

“Building a community of respect;” Harassment policy review

The University of New Brunswick recently drafted a new policy to respond to negative behaviour on campus.

The policy is for faculty, staff, and students and addresses discrimination, harassment and sexual harassment.

In January of 2009, Dr. Shirley Cleave, associate vice-president academic at UNB, was appointed to make a committee to review the existing harassment policy. The committee consists of 12 members representing faculty and staff, student groups including full-time, part-time, graduate and undergraduate students and university administration.

For Cleave, the policy review is about trying to create a positive environment for all by taking proactive measures.

“We must recognize that all rights have

responsibilities and if you expect to be treated nicely you need to treat other people fairly,” Cleave says.

UNB human rights officer, Mark Walma, says the old policy has undergone an almost entire revision.

“Existing policies are quite old and they’re not necessarily up to speed with the current best practices and expectations of the law,” Walma says. “(They) haven’t been looked at in quite some time and they should be reviewed to make sure they’re up to date and represent thinking in North America and reflect any changes in the law.”

Two years ago the university created the human rights officer position in response to a report that was received from a positive environment committee.

The committee has met regularly to review practices from other universities across North America. It has examined its own policies, welcomed community

feedback on current policies and created a new draft policy to meet university needs. It’s now being offered to the university community for feedback.

“That’s a really important part of the process because we want to make sure that everybody’s interests are covered,” Walma says.

There is a website that provides information on the draft policy itself (http://www.unb.ca/initiatives/harassmentpolicy/) and an email address set up to receive thoughts and comments (hrp@unb.ca).

There have also been town hall meetings held for community discussion. The next one will be held on Oct. 7 in the Senior Common Room in McConnell Hall at 11:30 a.m. and 4 p.m.

Walma says there will be enough of the group present to help answer questions and clarify the way people perceive positive and negative comments.

Walma says there is always hope that policies serve the needs of the people they are created for, but it’s also important to recognize what can be learned from a policy while it is in effect.

Another reason for the policy review is that the old policies did not cover general harassment or bullying in clear detail.

“Bullying is a hugely important challenge for people in the university setting. It wasn’t clear in regard to discrimination. We have to be clear that discrimination on its face is unacceptable in our community.”

Walma says there were also issues with the process of dealing with harassment itself.

“We want to make sure that any university member will be treated equally. We want to make sure a student who is alleged to have harassed someone won’t go through one process and a faculty member who is alleged to have harassed someone will go through a different one.”

Walma says the committee also wants to clarify that in a work environment it is a supervisor’s responsibility to identify and address harassment and discrimination.

“We really do want to hear student feedback,” Walma stresses. “Confidence in the policy is hugely important to the committee and one way you build confidence by people an opportunity to comment.”

Cleave feels the committee has done a great job of addressing the issues and creating a policy that is fair and practical. She says the critical part of it all is an efficient awareness-raising campaign and an education program.

“Changing the words on a piece of paper is not going to change behaviour,” Cleave says.

“I’m quite pleased with the progress the committee has made and I look forward to implementing the new policy and building a community of respect.”

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Students “shine” for cystic !brosis researchStudents are getting themselves mov-ing for a great cause this month. Shinerama is Canada’s largest post-sec-ondary fundraiser and raises money for cystic !brosis research. On September 11, 600 !rst year students will be par-ticipating in Shine Day, travelling across the city to canvas for the cause.

Shine Day, originally slated for last Saturday, will be taking place on Sep-tember 11 due to inclement weather brought on by Hurricane Earl. Lauren Vail, Shinerama director for UNB, said she met with a number of residence and Student Services of!cials on Thursday and the group determined Shine Day should be postponed for safety reasons.

“It’s been a disappointment for the residence community because they’re not doing anything today. There’s no activities planned until this (Saturday) evening. It’s kind of left a hole in the week,” she said.

“On the other hand, there’s been a good response that people are still going to come out and actually make it.”

Students will be dropped off at 64 lo-cations throughout the city.

Vail said postponing the event has its bene!ts.

“We’re supposed to have nice weath-er. I think it’ll be a bene!t because even if we lose people next week, we’ll still have a lot more than we would have had (last Saturday) for sure… I think it may work out in the end anyway be-cause (last weekend) was a long weekend and people may have been away. There may just be more people in the city next

week,” she said.Shine Day will be open to all members

of the university who wish to participate. Vail said Shine Day is a great way for new students to get to know each other. “I think it can be such a huge team-building experience for Orientation Week because you’re thrown into the city with 12 people that you don’t really know yet and you just get to spend the whole day with them and have a lot of fun goo!ng off and rais-ing money for a great cause,” she said. Vail said it also helps Frederic-ton residents see students work-ing together for a good cause. “I think it’s really important to show the city that students actually care about other causes and they actually care about raising money and helping people,” she said. Beginning on Sept. 12, students will be able to get rid of old furni-ture and appliances and pick some up, while raising money for Shinerama. In April of last semester, the UNB Student Union hosted their !rst ever Move-Out Madness event in support of Haiti relief. Next week, Move-In Madness will be taking over the Blue Room in the Student Union Building. " On Sunday, from 12 noon to 5 p.m., students will be able to bring furni-ture and appliances they no longer need to the Blue Room. From Sept. 13 to 15, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day, students can buy donated items for their homes or dorm rooms. On Monday and Tuesday, the UNB Student Union will also be ac-cepting donations for Shinerama. Vail said there are hopes the event will

raise $1,000 for cystic !brosis research. “That would bring us that much closer to our goal,” Vail said. This year, UNB is trying to raise $27,000 for Shinerama and Vail said, prior to Shine Day, they were already $4,000 in. “(Move-In Madness) is a really good initiative. We’ve been working with

the city all summer, trying to clean up the city and clean up College Hill, so that’s really important,” Vail said. In previous Septembers, the city of Fredericton has run into prob-lems with newly moved in students leaving discarded furniture on the streets. Efforts like Move-In Mad-

ness help keep this from happening. UNB has been participating in Shiner-ama for 37 years and Vail said Move-In Madness is a way to bring work for the charity outside of Orientation Week. If the event is successful, the Shinerama director is hopeful it will be carried on next year.

Students participate in last year’s Shine Day. The UNBSU hopes to raise $27, 000 for Shinerama this year. Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan

Faculty and staff have developed an idea-sharing tool to help students get engaged in their academic lives and succeed: the Student Engagement Wiki (SEW).

Ken Reimer, director of the Centre for Enhanced Teaching and Learning (CETL), says the instructors at UNB are interested in engaging their stu-dents.

“The SEW is a great tool so in-structors can see different strategies for using group work or encouraging discussion and trying to get more hands-on projects,” Reimer says. “It’s instructors sharing their own ideas by trying certain strategies and sharing how they worked. The wiki is open to people making comments and pick-ing up on that.”

Reimer says the wiki is off to a great start with about 150 articles, but he hopes to see it reach its potential with hundreds of thousands of ideas.

He de!nes student engagement as students becoming more connected to their learning experience. Rather than being the “passive recipient of a knowledge dump,” students are en-gaged in their own learning process. This way the process is much more student-driven.

He feels that, while some students would rather stay under the radar and walk away with a degree at the end of four years, most students want an enriched experience. They want their lives changed for the better and want to learn how to think in different and exciting ways.

“(Having) an active voice in their own learning on a small scale will en-able them to have an active voice in the world and hopefully this is the

start of that.”The CETL helped organize the

National Survey of Student Engage-ment (NSSE) that is administered every couple of years to !rst year and fourth year university students. It measures the level of student en-gagement so instructors can improve methods to increase it.

The NSSE is based on !ve main categories: academic collaborative learning, enriching educational ex-periences, student-faculty interaction, level of academic challenge, and sup-portive campus environment. The SEW is modeled on results of the NSSE.

For UNB, the SEW was born out of the H1N1 outbreak and relative student absences.

Janice El-Bayoumi of UNB’s Inte-grated Technology Services was act-ing director of the CETL at the time, and came up with the idea of using a

wiki for instructors to develop cours-es that students could be absent from and not be penalized.

“My hope is that people will be-come engaged and participate. For a wiki to be successful people have to participate,” El-Bayoumi says.“I just think it’s a great tool for all sorts of good information that will help UNB students be more successful.”

Sara Rothman, Student Develop-ment Coordinator, says the wiki is an exciting tool and will be helpful because there are not always oppor-tunities to come together and discuss ideas for improvement between col-leagues.

“Someone in engineering might not realize that someone in kinesiol-ogy has had great success with a par-ticular technique or something new they’ve introduced to their curricu-lum, so this gives us that opportunity to really share and broaden our dis-cussion bases,” Rothman says.

More information on the SEW is available at http://www.unb.ca/fredericton/cetl/teaching/student-engagement-wiki.html.

Ken Reimer, director of the Centre for Enhanced Teaching and Learning, sits before the Student Engagement Wiki. Mike Erb / The Brunswickan

Gettin’ wiki with it

to get in initially. They will be holding a certain number of appointments for the next day so physicians are still able to treat walk-in patients.

“All these things have been tested over the summer, so there’s going to be a little bit of an adjustment as well in the fall because you can only predict to a certain point,” Eagan says. “Even if (students) were unable to get an appointment that day, they walk away with an appointment time for the next day so they seem very pleased.”

Eagan says the reason the clinic did not book appointments too far into the future because they used to book six to eight weeks in advance and had a very high no-show rate as a result. A lot of appointments went unused and the clinic then introduced some uninsured fees, one being a missed appointment fee.

If students have a morning appointment and need to cancel it, they can email the clinic at shc@unb.ca by 8:15 a.m. or by 12 p.m. to cancel afternoon appointments; this gives the clinic enough time to reoffer appointments to other students. As long as students email to cancel, there will not be any fees.

Michelle Alexiu, an upper year law student at UNB, started a Facebook group last year that addressed the issues with the clinic and demanded that attention be paid and changes be made. The group is called “UNB/STU Student Health Must Change” and is still active with over 700 members interested in the status of the clinic. Alexiu, upon catching up on all the recent changes made in response to her efforts, was elated.

Eagan says the clinic did not take on any new staff to accommodate the changes, but instead redistributed much of the administrative work to her as clinic manager so the staff could be more hands-on medical. She feels they are optimizing their resources.

“I’m really glad to hear that no new staff needed to be hired, I love hearing about efficient results,” Alexiu says.

Another result of her efforts was the Student Advisory Committee for Counselling and Health, which includes members of the Student Union from both UNB and STU. Eagan says the first meeting went well and the committee will serve as a very good tool.

“It’ll give a chance for students to have some input and will provide a means for students to bring topics for discussion that they don’t understand or want to change.”

Alexiu says when she met with health officials in the spring she tried hard to make sure the issues she had were clearly presented and help come up with very clear and realistic solutions.

“I do think that what happened was sort of the perfect storm because from the students’ side we had a lot of well thought out possible solutions to the issue, but from the administrative side they already knew there was a problem and were starting to implement changes.”

She says students are welcome to offer constructive criticism to the Facebook group and to the students on the committee.

“(Eagan) is a fantastic woman doing a great job. It’s great that she didn’t have to conduct a lot of her own research which would have taken more time, and she was able to directly implement our issues and suggestions into revamping the clinic,” Alexiu says.

The clinic’s website will be undergoing a facelift shortly to communicate all the recent changes, but for now students can keep an eye out for the new website at the old address, http://www.unbf.ca/studenthealth/ .

Students should also watch for a Smoking Cessation Program funded by Health Canada that will be on campus in the fall, and for workshops addressing eating healthy on a student budget, healthy vegetarian eating and weight management.

Student activist excited to hear of change

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Bill Traer came to The Brunswickan in 1981. He liked it so much he never left. Way back in the dark ages, things were done differently. Copy had to be typed in on a large Compugraphic machine and output on photographic paper. The copy was then cut, waxed and stuck on the #ats manually. Layout took all night back then and many a page was printed crooked because one$s eyes were far too bleary to see

The mystery man behind our ads

Holy fuck, it’s Christian Hapgood MoneybagzThere are numerous facts about Chris-tian Hapgood that need to be brought to your attention immediately, the most important of which being that if you cross him, he will redesign the shit out of your face so fast that you will watch The Human Centipede and wish you were one of the dumbass kids in the Centipede.

All other important facts about Christian Hapgood will be dissemin-ated to you over the course of the next eight months through codes implanted in The Brunswickan’s design so subtly that they make the fold-pages-in-three bullshit from Contact look like a Walter the Farting Dog book.

That’s because Christian Hapgood doesn’t settle for Robert Zemeckis–Carl Sagan shit. He settles for #awless victories and drinks brands of cham-pagne so !ne that he once made Steve Jobs and Barack Obama !ght with their bare hands to see who had the most gall to beg Christian Hapgood for his friendship.

When he’s not busy settling for #aw-less victories, Christian Hapgood is known for his wit, intelligence, and abil-ity to charm members of any sex with the wink of an eye. He’s traditionally

been observed traveling with a pack of two dozen or so individuals vying for his attention. Applications to join this pack will be accepted at production@thebruns.ca. Except from you, Chris Cameron.

In addition to the traits mentioned above, Christian Hapgood is known for his marked excellence in the skill of newspaper design. It’s this skill that has earned him the right to redesign your fucking face if you cross him. It’s also this skill that has earned him the pos-

ition of production editor at the Bruns-wickan for the third year in a row. For more information on how awesome he is, just look at the fucking page in front of you and start crying fucking tears of joy already.

Christian Hapgood’s previous work has been awarded with a picture of a piece of paper being eaten by National Newspaper Award-winning designer Jason Chiu. On that piece of paper was written “The Jason Chiu Approval Award.”

straight. When The Brunswickan got its !rst computer in the late 80$s, it revolutionized the way design was done, saving many sleepless nights. Bill often admits to being Capitalist Pig-Scum and Proud of It. Since he sells all the ads for the paper this often comes in handy. Yes, he wants your money, preferably every week from a large color ad. He$s in every day so call him at 452-6099. Bill is known for getting more free beer

than anyone on campus, he$s even got a Lifetime Appreciation plaque from Labatt. He prefers Keith$s, Breakfast of Champions. Buy him one. Bill$s pet peeve. Anyone who send him ads done in Powerpoint and expects it to appear in the paper. If you$re walking down The Brunswickan$s hallway and hear someone laughing manically, it$s Bill, probably because someone send him an ad done in Powerpoint.

Hello UNB and readership of Fredericton! My name is Alex Duncan. I’m the Managing Editor for this amazing paper you’ve picked up. I’m responsible for making sure that The Bruns stays !nancially a#oat and that our production is in line with our values. We exist to bring you entertaining and informative news, printed weekly in The Brunswickan and posted regularly on our website at thebruns.ca. With the help of funding provided by all UNB students, we bring to you the oldest of!cial student publication in Canada to stands near you once again. On top of the funding students provide, we generate some funding on our own

through advertisement sales that helps provide the most enriching place to work on campus. With a team of creative, motivated employees and volunteers, we have a blast every week as we drink a lot of coffee, eat a lot of pizza, put together the paper, and learn a lot in the process.At The Bruns we have an open door policy in our of!ce – located in the SUB – and welcome all other students to join us in the creative process of making a newspaper. Whether you want to further your job prospects, learn about journalism, design, photography, or just want to have some fun, there’s a place for you on our team. Come by our of!ce any Wednesday at 12:30 to get started!

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I like beer (and the arts)These are a few of my favourite things: sour watermelon slices, cold beer on hot days – or any day after noon – and writing arts stories. Sounds cliché I know, but I’m serious. I’ve been writing for The Brunswickan since my second week on campus. It seems a little surreal walking around campus this Frosh week, entering my fourth and !nal year and knowing that I’ll be leaving this place and The Brunswickan soon. I don’t want to make this overly dramatic, or sound like a recruitment article in anyway, but I would like to let any new students to UNB know that writing for The Bruns has been an undeniably in#uential part of my university career. It has given me the

ability to learn about my community, talk to some artists that I’ve respected for years, and work with an impassioned and talented group of people. If you’re interested in writing this year write. Don’t second guess yourself, don’t put it off, simply write. On a lighter note, I’m looking forward to providing UNB students and readers across Fredericton with a diverse arts section this year. From music, to literature, to !ne art, to dance I’m hoping to cover anything and everything you could want to read about. If you have any ideas or comments for the arts section feel free to send me an email (arts@thebruns.ca) and let me know what you think. Have a good year UNB, I intend to.

Hey hey campus! Greetings from the online world of The Brunswickan. My name is Sandy and I will be your Online Editor for this year. Raised in the maritime city of Halifax, I am currently in my third year at UNB studying Mechatronics and I am also a proctor in Lady Beaverbrook Residence. I started volunteering at the Bruns as photographer in my !rst year and progressed to writing news in my second year. This season I’m in charge of the website (thebruns.ca), Facebook page, Twitter account and most anything digital. It will be a bit of a jump for me going from still photos to video, but I’m excited for the challenge of doing streeters and short news videos. I can usually be found at events around campus with my camera and recorder so feel free to come up and say hi.

Randy Ladychase revealed

The grammar policeI’m rather indecisive, but the decision to apply to The Brunswickan as its Copy Editor came surprisingly easy. I read about the position, asked about it, hummed and hawed, and said “why not, it couldn’t hurt.” I honestly never expected that I would even be considered for the position. I was someone without any experience writing for a paper, but I wanted the chance to prove to myself that I could do something like this. I was the kid that left high school not knowing what they wanted to do, fell into taking sciences, and later decided it was not for me. It was only this past year that I had realized that, all along, it was the arts I loved and not the sciences. So, here I am a fourth year student in the beginnings of an English major, editing for The Brunswickan, and I could not be happier.

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Campus Ministry

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Think you can make a difference? Only one way to !nd out. Swing by the of!ce and meet the 2010-11 Editorial Board (from left from to right): Christopher Cameron, Colin McPhail, Christian Hapgood, Alison Clack, Hilary Paige Smith, Alex Duncan, Kristen MacArthur, Andrew Meade, Sandy Chase, and Bill Traer. We have an open door policy - take advantage. Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan

Editorial BoardEditor-in-Chief • Colin McPhailManaging • Alex DuncanNews • Hilary Paige SmithArts • Alison ClackSports • Christopher CameronPhoto • Andrew MeadeCopy • Kristen MacArhurProduction • Christian Hapgood Online • Sandy Chase

Staff Advertising Sales Rep • Bill Traer Delivery • Dan Gallagher

ContributorsAlex Kress, Matt Belyea, Rob Williams, Cherise Letson, Josh Fleck, Brian Savoie, Amy Page, Mike Erb

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About UsThe Brunswickan, in its 143rd year of publication, is Canada’s Oldest Official Student Publication.

We are an autonomous student newspaper owned and operated by Brunswickan Publishing Inc., a non-profit, independent body.We are a founding member of the Canadian University Press, and love it so. We are also members of U-Wire, a media exchange of university media throughout North America.

We publish weekly during the academic year with a circulation of 6,000.

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the brunswickanElections NB, Student Health Clinic gets better; Reslife does not

Welcome back, UNB. It’s been a busy start to the 2010-11

year with almost too much going on around the university community. Here’s what got me cheering and jeering this week:

John Bailey: It’s not easy to hear that your residence, your university home, is being shut down. Trust me, I know. It was unpleasant experience when my faithful Bridges was reduced to only two #oors. As President, I was disheartened to learn that I was not getting any frosh to welcome and to have all the events I had planned be heavily reduced or erased

entirely. I know it sucks, John and Nev-ille/Jones. I feel for you. However, John was not fazed. Even though his house is closed for the year, he is still going on with one of the university’s most import-ant charity events, the Neville/Jones Bed Push. This young man will spearhead a campaign to ensure one of campus’ longest standing traditions does not fail the Women in Transition House. Now that’s charity at it’s !nest. Good for you, John.

Reslife: How do you think most people repay volunteers? You wouldn’t think charging them $50 would be an answer. Apparently, Residential Life thought it was appropriate. They will be charging The UNB Redshirts $25 a night (they will be charged for two nights) to stay in residence during orien-tation week. Essentially, they must pay to volunteer. Due to massive amount of incoming students, it can be a handful

for the house teams and HOC members and the Redshirts offer an invaluable ser-vice to orientation committee. That’s just plain not right.

Satellite Returning Of!ce: Elections NB has !nally addressed an issue that has been plaguing the electorate for some time now. The steady decline in young voter turnout warranted swift action and that’s exactly what the organization did. The incorporation of satellite returning of!ces at campuses around the province is a fantastic method of engaging young people to vote, while knocking down the obstacles facing them and raising aware-ness about voting at the same time. The utilization of social media to their ad-vantage seems to be working wonders as many people are asking themselves “Y Vote NB?” This was a problem that needed !xing and this is a great way to start.

Student Health Clinic: Kudos for

!nally ditching the backwards process of admitting patients. The new style, much similar to a normal health clinic, is much more conducive to students. Kudos to Michelle Alexiu also for harnessing the power of social media in order to ignite change. Her Facebook group “UNB/STU Student Health Must Change” garnered enough support to help move the process along and raise awareness about the serious issues going on at the clinic.

Young Voters: I have a question to all the young voters of New Brunswick that opt out of what is essentially their only chance to participate in democracy. Ser-iously? It takes hardly any time of your day anymore with various improvements around accessibility issues. There’s no reason not to participate, not be engaged, and not be involved New Brunswick pol-itics. This is your chance to make a differ-ence. So, get off your ass and vote.

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Harvest Jazz and Blues Festival supports local and regional musicians like Grand Theft Bus (pictured above). Thirty !ve per cent of the festi-val’s performers hail from all around the province. Sandy Chase/ The Brunswickan

A little sprinkle of fairy dust, a whole lot of talent

Every year for the past 20 years a little bit of magic descends on the City of Fredericton for about a week.

The soft drone of rhythm and blues #oats down the river, up the hill and across the city as thousands of people come together in downtown Fredericton to see some of the Maritimes and the world’s most talented musicians.

This year’s Harvest Jazz and Blues Fes-tival marks the musical institution’s 20th anniversary. In its twentieth year the fes-tival shows no signs of slowing down and the original founders could not be happier with how their brain child has grown up.

“We made it up as we went along. We wanted a downtown festival, we wanted a community based festival that supported live music and in particular live music from Atlantic Canadians,” says David Seabrook, one of the festivals founding members and its Musical Director for seven years.

The festival started as the brain child of Rick Hutchins – known as Hutch by his friends – explains Seabrook.

“At the time, 1990, the music scene in Fredericton had largely died off and was replaced by DJs spinning records in booths. Hutch’s vision was to reinvigor-

ate the performance aspect of live music in Fredericton by supporting local and Atlantic Canadian musicians.”

Since then the festival has grown in size but hasn’t lost any of its original character and spirit.

“Well, I think in many ways it’s the same festival just ampli!ed. Growing a festival to this size and this calibre in this community requires making the festival attractive to everyone in the community. And when I say it’s a community festival I mean that there’s a way for everyone to participate. Whether you want to go to one of the more expensive shows or one of the free shows in the park,” says Seabrook.

And Harvest Jazz and Blues has in-vested itself into the community more than some might know.

“A very serious part of our mandate is that we want to support music develop-ment in the province,” Seabrook explains.

Harvest has several programs working with children in the area. During the festival itself there is a instrument making area. In schools during the year they have a program called “Blues in the Schools” bringing musicians into the schools to perform.

And the support doesn’t stop with the kids. Seabrook says that 35 per cent of

the festival’s performers are from New Brunswick. The festival also has a Galaxie Rising Star Showcase and contest every year to support and promote young artists.

Not so long ago, one of New Bruns-wick’s brightest performers entered and won this showcase, helping to propel his career to its current state.

“Matt Andersen was the !rst winner of our Galaxie Rising Star Showcase when he played with a band called Flat Top. He progressed along the way playing Harvest shows and we sponsored him to go to the International Blue Challenge in Memphis, Tennessee,” says Seabrook.

Seabrook explains that while partici-pating in this challenge Matt Andersen became the !rst Canadian ever to win; beating out artists from 11 countries.

But it’s not just the quality of the artists that makes Harvest special, it’s the perfect blend of artist, audience, and location.

“One of the things that makes Harvest special is that we’re not a bit fairgrounds festival. We’re not putting 50 thousand or 80 thousand people in one space with a line up of bands. What makes it special is that you have this intimacy with these smaller venues. Even our largest venue only holds 1500 people. So, you have tremendous intimacy.”

The intimacy is a bonus for artists too.

With less glare from the public eye many festival performers have been known to join each other on stage for impromptu collaborations.

“Partly because of the scale of Harvest it’s a no risk scenario for artists to get up and just play together. You get that real joy of music and creation of music. I think that’s really where Harvest shines.”

Also, shining in the musician’s minds is the audience.

“When they’re touring bands tell us that these are the best audiences that they play in front of because everyone’s so en-thusiastic, knowledgeable and at the same time these artists are performing some of their best shows because of the audience. There’s a little bit of magic here.”

Harvest Jazz and Blues festival has become an institution in Fredericton. It continues to be a premier event every year in Fredericton and despite some upsets late in the game this year’s festival its future looks bright.

“Obviously, we were all disappointed when Greg Allman couldn’t appear this year, but we anticipate we’ll see him come back in the next year or two,” reveals Seabrook.

Harvest Jazz and Blues Festival starts Tuesday, Sept. 14 and runs through to the end of week.

The school year ushers in Harvest

Jazz

The eleven piece group Downtown Blues Band includes the founder of Harvest Jazz and Blues. Rick Hutchins and band leader, Paul Campbell, were among the 25 original musical acts in 1991. They remain with the band today and continue to light up the local scene with their unforgettable swing blues. With a whole assortment of instruments they swagger their way into the blue parts of the heart. Full of energy, enthusiasm, and mad beat, this team of local artists is a power house and archetype of what the Blues festival is all about. Band member Conrad Mead said, “The community and a fairly loyal following continue to turn out for almost everything we do”. This support is well deserved and 2011 might see the bands !rst international tour. “For the most part, we are all regular guys [and two girls] who have day jobs and this band has been more about the love of music and having fun. It’s been therapy for most of us.” Harvest bears a crop of talented and fruitful musicians, and the Downtown Blues Band cultivates that crop. The season is near and the moon is bright, so gather your appetite for the Downtown Blues Band. They will be playing at 12:00 p.m. on Friday Sept. 17.

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brunswickanarts12 • Sept. 8, 2010 • Issue 1 • Volume 144 brunswickanartsFalling leaves and rising stars

Elliott Brood Matt Andersen

Ever wonder what ‘death country’ might sound like? Well, if you’re curious head on over to The Galaxie Barracks Tent to see Toronto band, Elliott Brood. The three-piece, despite their odd self-descriptor, actually have more of an indie folk-rock sound with a little hint of blue-grass. Band members Mark Sasso, Casey Laforet and Stephen Pitkin played their !rst show back in 2002 and since then have seen a steady rise to fame. Over the past few years they have toured with bands like Plants and Animals, Wilco and The Acorn – who they will be playing with again Thursday night. In addition, their most recent album 2008’s Mountain Meadows received critical acclaim and was shortlisted for the Polaris Music Prize. When they played The Capital Complex in Fredericton last fall they turned the dark, bare-walled room into a good, old maritime kitchen party; handing out wooden spoons

and tin serving platters to the crowd to play along. If you’re looking to join the fun this time around and

get the hand clapping started head to the Barracks tent Thursday night to see Elliot Brood play with The

Acorn and local band, Share. The show starts at 8:00 P.M. Tickets are $14 for students.

Take a short drive up the River Valley and you’ll !nd the hometown of top blues performer, Matt Andersen. The Perth Andover native’s stage presence and vocals are top notch among New Brunswick performers. When this blues monster strums his six string, the crowd holds its breath. Andersen gives the audience a sort of “out of body” experience leaving them with their mouths dropped, smiling, and thirsty. He interrupts the world of melody with blues so deep that one should not go too close to its edge. He sits on the stage like a sun while everything slowly rotates around him. His awe-inspiring stage presence makes him the type of performer that makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand. His pure charisma, elegance, and modesty all shine through in golden light during a performance. Bob Mersereau, author of The Top 100 Canadian Albums said Andersen’s album Something in Between is “one of the best productions a Maritime artist has ever had.” There are no excuses to miss this one, he’s occupying multiple spots in the Harvest schedule on Sept. 16 and 17. Get ready to hold your beer cup between your teeth and do the maritime clap, because this man is a legend.

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Xavier Rudd

Looking for some good Maritime rock? Well, your hopes are answered. They may be moved to the big city now, but Antigonish natives, The Trews, are sure to bring their Maritime sense of fun when they come back to Fredericton for a full night of music on Sept. 17. The boys from Nova Scotia will be playing two bills on Friday at the Budweiser Blues tent. The !rst show will be played along with Hill Country Revue and ’90s hit-makers, Big Sugar. Afterward, the band will be serenading the crowd late into the night at the afterburner in the same Budweiser tent. Their !rst billing starts at 8:30 P.M. with tickets priced at $44.50. The Afterburner starts at 12:30 A.M. and costs $20.

Nearly everyone has heard of the sensation called Xavier Rudd. In his upcoming appearance in Fredericton, the Australian native is joined by his

GypsophiliaGypsophilia has a venue all to themselves on Friday night. This is !tting because their act is in a class of its own. This fresh batch of hipsters have a sound both that is both experimental and expanding. Violin, guitar, piano, and trumpet combine to interlace a dreamlike instrumental into the intellectual unconscious. Long time music publicist Heather

Kitching said “[Gypsophilia] spawned a mini retro movement in Halifax that saw fans showing up for concerts dressed in ’20s and ’30s garb.” This band has a way of challenging the traditional form of music by stomping through a variety of genres. They will lock onto any music lover, and treat them to a buffet of delicious sound. Gypsophilia plays at the Wilmont United Church on Sept. 17 at 8:00 p.m.

South African counterpart Izintaba to plant their roots in New Brunswick soil. Pinpointing the speci!c genre they dish out might not be that easy but at the base level its a mixture of folk and reggae designed to serenade young people and induce the need to groove. Koonyum Sun is the band’s !rst collective album and is a collaboration that represents the spiritual well being of both Rudd and Izintaba.

Rudd graces the stage with a variety of instruments to which he moseys in the middle of with a guitar on his lap. Bassist Tio Moloantoa and percussionist Andile Nqubezelo keep the rhythm alive as the audience fumes on. Rudd is as eccentric as he is spectacular, and his Canadian cult following is testimony to that. This upbeat and deeply connected band is a sure score for Harvest. They will be performing on Thursday Sept. 16.

Extracurricular ReadingSlow down, sit down, and cuddle up with some good reading material this fall.

I understand that come exam time your mind can only look at so much text without self-induced dyslexia. But, as the master of the half book, I see no problem in reading at your own pace - there are books I still haven’t finished from high school.

If you’re not well connected to a literary circle, then make an effort to do so. The benefits and rewards stretch far beyond the confines of this article. Until then, here are some books that might catch your eye for some on the side action. That’s right; you can cheat on your course texts for more attractive and better looking books. Don’t let prudence and moral rigour ruin what could be a spicy and fulfilling love affair.

Just don’t tell your professor.‘I &I,’ says Betty, one of the I&I’s

protagonists, ‘is Rastafarian for you and me”, and so is the title of George Elliot Clarke’s latest gem. I & I centres around a young boxer, Malcolm Miles and the details of his interracial relationship with his white lover Betty Browning. This sharply poetic narrative tells the tale of a Maritime couple who grip their interracial activities with extreme pleasure. The story begins in the 1970’s in urban Halifax.

Clarke’s language is youthful, hip, and hugely imaginative. Born in

Windsor, Nova Scotia, as well as being a seventh-generation “Africadian”, Clarke is inherently connected to the plot he weaves. When Betty moves away for school Malcolm follows. The two end up in a city where, “Corpus Anglos treat Hispanics like slaves,/ And the schools reject ‘race-mixing’:/ Complexion determines connection.”

But that isn’t the worst thing about their new found home.

“The sulphurous refineries stink up Corpus Christi/ So badly, it smells like Saint John, New Brunswick.”

Yes, Clarke hits close to home in this festival of words. So sit down and join the party, I & I is a definite intoxicant.

If you’re not turned on by the abstract dimension of Clarke’s work you might need something more straight forward.

The realm of non-fiction is dominated by world renowned scientist Richard Dawkins. To this day his most celebrated and talked about book is called The Selfish Gene. Now, if you’re a fourth year biology student avert your eyes and skip over the next paragraph.

Dawkins is an evolutionary biologist, and The Selfish Gene delineates a detailed account of evolutionary theory on the level of genes.

His use of clear metaphor functions in a way that makes his ideas accessible to those who don’t have a strong biology background. Without drawing too much

of a caricature, I will explain his main idea. Dawkins believes that the “selfish gene” is responsible for the survival of a species. In other words, our bodies are the temporary vehicles that transport genes into eternal life. It is our genes, who make the blueprint of our physical embodiment.

Genes are like an immortal coil who craft different survival machines to live in. This interesting take on evolutionary theory harbours great curiosity and excitement.

Okay, so you’re thinking these might be a little heavy at the time. Instead, you’re looking for something to flip through during an afternoon bowel movement.

I’ve got just the thing. Any collection of poetry by Charles

Bukowski is a good start. These true and honest accounts of a lifelong bum will keep you reading with a smirk.

Put it down and pick up Gordon Downie’s collection “Coke Machine Glow”. The lead singer of the Tragically Hip released his poetry with a solo album of the same name.

If you’re lucky enough to stumble upon it, pick up “The Kurt Cobain Journals”, a collection of Cobain’s diary entries. The first entry reads, “Don’t read my dairy when I’m gone. OK, I’m going to work now, when you wake up this morning, please read my dairy. Look through my things, and figure me out.”

There’s plenty to find out. So roll up your socks and get hunting.

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upcoming in fredericton.Mike Erb presents “Locals” @ The Playhouse Now – Sept. 28Gallery Connexion is bringing Mike Erb’s “Locals” to the Annex gallery at the Playhouse this month. The collection is a grouping of photos taken in and around Fredericton. The exhibition is running from now until the end of the month.

Royal Wood @ Charlotte Street Arts Centre Sept. 11, 7:00 P.M. – 10:30 P.M.Canadian singer/songwriter, Royal Wood will be visiting Fredericton this week. His style of pop music blended with folk and jazzy piano has gained quite a bit of notoriety in recent years. One of his songs, “Mirror Without” was even featured in an episode of ABC hit series, Grey’s Anatomy. Check out the Charlotte Street Arts Centre on Sept. 11 to see what everyone is talking about. Tickets are $20 in advance, $22 at the door.

Fredericton Afro Dance Class @ TBASept. 25, 10:00 A.M. – 3:00 P.M.The Maritime Centre for African Dance will be holding a dance class for all ages and all dance backgrounds on September 25. The class will teach partic-ipants how to dance in cultural styles from all across the continent including: Kenya, South Africa, Zambia and Nigeria. Tickets are $55. Location is TBA.

Sarah Harmer @ The PlayhouseOct. 30Sarah Harmer, award-winning, folk songstress, will be performing at Freder-icton’s Playhouse on the eve of Halloween this fall. Advance tickets can be purchased through the Playhouse for $32.50. Tickets purchased on the day of the show will be $37.50.

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WHO DAT?It’s Christopher Cameron, your Brunswickan Sports Editor for the next eight months. I hail from Halifax, Nova Scotia (well Lower Sackville technically, but I mean it’s close enough). I”m a former UNB Engineering/Business student, but that all began to change when I started writing for The Brunswickan in my second year. I decided to get away from the math and physics and head up the hill towards STU. I’m currently a Communications major and Journalism minor. As much as people have given me hell over being from STU and covering UNB sports, I don’t know if I can be ever truly be green and gold after spending my !rst two years here. A New Orleans Saints fan (before

the bandwagon) and Toronto Maple Leafs fan (there never has not been a bandwagon in a long time). Unfortunately, my own sports career has not been too successful. I’m pretty sure I had a lot of success early in life and it all ended after junior high, tapering off into high school. I curl, used to play basketball and soccer in high school, but have been playing sports video games since. It’s better I write about sports rather than play them. All that being said, If you are interested in writing about sports and stuff around town, drop me an email at sports@thebruns.ca or drop into the of!ce and say hello. I’m always looking for someone to talk sports with rather than do assignments.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then over the last few years at The Brunswickan I have written a short novel or three. They say some things never change, and the old adage holds true, that is if by never I mean since last year. Once again I am back at the photographic helm of your friendly neighbourhood student publication, The Brunswickan. I feel this may be an ideal time to introduce myself to our readership; I am Andrew Meade, Photo Editor of The Brunswickan for the 2010-11 school year. So, if you see someone poking around campus with a camera, or are wondering who took the photo that inadvertently ended up in the paper, it is likely yours truly. Now that we’ve all been formally introduced, don’t hesitate to stop by the of!ce and volunteer.

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Oh hey UNB. It’s HPSI love stories.

Reading them, writing them, hearing them, telling them. My world revolves around stories. I guess I picked the right profession.

My name is Hilary Smith and I’m your news editor for the year. I like my byline printed as Hilary Paige Smith, the middle name giving way to a host of page-related puns. If you recognize the name, it’s because I spent the last two years working as a staff reporter in the news section. I’m originally from Saint John, NB and I’m a third year journalism student at St. Thomas University. Don’t be alarmed that I’m not a UNB student, I’ve been working at The Bruns since before my first year of university. At this point, I know almost everything there is to know

about UNB.My favourite stories are about people,

expect to see a lot more features and profiles in the news section this year, on top of the hard-hitting news we all know and love.If you see me on campus, don’t hesitate to stop me and tell me your stories. I may or may not find them newsworthy. I can frequently be found working in The Bruns office, eating sour candy, baking cupcakes and mad dashing across campus to get to my next class. I want students to know what a great opportunity it is to write for The Bruns. There is truly nothing more exhilarating than the first time you see your name in print. Please volunteer, or I’ll flunk out of school.

This guy again?Well hello again, UNB. I’m back, but this time with a better pay and a fancy new title. However, I am the same loveable editor that spends his money at The Cellar on copious amounts of beer, while worrying himself bald that a mistake slipped through into the paper and I’ll be hung naked in the quad.

Oh, for those of you who don’t know me I’m Colin McPhail and I’ll be the Editor-in-Chief this year (wow that !rst paragraph really made things awkward didn’t it). This is my third year working with The Brunswickan – my !rst two being split between volunteering and being Sports Editor. I had an excellent time last year writing about UNB sports, but honestly the EiC desk has a much better view.

I look forward to serving you, the UNB and Fredericton community, by offering coverage from all aspects of university life thanks to my incredible staff and our wonderful volunteer cast. We’ll cry, we’ll laugh, you’ll slap me and then we’ll go get drinks - it’s going to be great.

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Women’s soccer continues to build

The Marathon of Hope celebrates 30 years

Women’s soccer was in action on the weekend playing two pre-season games at home. The Varsity Red’s lost 3-0 to UPEI Friday night fol-lowed by a 3-1 loss againt McGill on Saturday night. The will kickoff the regular season at home Saturday Sept. 11 against Mount Allison. Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan

Coming off their worst !nish in the past six seasons, the women’s soccer program is beginning to move in the forward dir-ection.

A sophomore !lled roster will look to be the answer to the post-season drought of four years. Head Coach Andy Cameron was happy with their play last season, stepping into starting roles on an injury plagued team.

“The goal is to make the playoffs this season,” said Cameron. “We played some very good soccer last year, but as you suggested we were young and made some costly errors. We are looking to build on that, but at times we had up to seven !rst year players on the !eld last season.”

Although having rookie players in key roles last season proved costly in their playoff push, Cameron knows the experience gained from the time on the !eld by his rookies was invaluable.

“Having a year of experience is huge for those players because it is a tremen-dous jump to go from summer club soc-cer to university soccer,” he said. “We are much more experienced this year and have as many as eight former Can-ada Games players from New Bruns-wick and other provinces from last year and !ve years ago.”

The three main recruits to join the program this season as !rst year play-ers are three Canada Games players from New Brunswick. Fredericton’s own Leandra Upton will join the Var-sity Reds, as will Gabrielle Doucet from the Bathurst area. The most important acquisition is Erika Ermen from Monc-ton. Ermen will be considered to !ll the starting keeper spot.

Even with the strong sophomore core returning from last season and the core of recruits coming in, Coach Cameron

cannot guarantee anyone a speci!c role with the team.

“The expectations go up each year as they go through the program, but no player is guaranteed roles coming into camp,” said Cameron. “With 33 players at the start of camp we will look to see what the best combination of players is. The objective is to put the best 11 play-ers on the !eld no matter what year.”

In weekend action the Reds dropped their !rst pre-season game of the season 3-0 to the UPEI Panthers. Saturday night they showed improvement losing 3-1 to McGill, with sophomore Varsity Red Robyn Potter scoring the lone V-Red goal.

Although they did not get a win Coach Cameron says that was not the objective for the weekend.

“The objective was not to get the win,” he said. “We were looking to get the right mix of players on the !eld to play good soccer. We were looking to prepare for our league opener against Mt. Allison. Although the ‘W’ always looks nice the best result would be to !nd the right mix of players and quality of soccer on the !eld.”

He continued by discussing the play-

ing time new players received in exhib-ition play.

“We played more players than nor-mal to get a look at them, especially the !rst year players,” said Cameron. “The ones we are looking to contribute in the opener will get a long look.”

The women’s soccer team will open the season on Saturday at 1 p.m. against Mt. A on Chapman Field.

Entering its thirtieth anniversary, The Terry Fox Run continues to bring par-ticipants back each year in support of what Terry Fox started in 1980. This year the Fredericton Terry Fox Run will take place Sunday, Sept. 19. This is an opportunity to join Canadians nation-wide to support the Canadian Cancer Society, a dream Fox began in his Mara-thon of Hope.

The Fredericton Terry Fox Run will begin at 2 p.m. with registration begin-ning at 1 p.m. at the Lighthouse on the Green. Since it began in Fredericton in 1998, this event has raised nearly $150,000 towards cancer research. Last year it raised nearly $42,000, with one individual raising over $26,000. Will Dickeson, UNB alumnus and Terry

Fox Run committee member for Fred-ericton, says this would be impossible without the help of volunteers.

“The story of volunteer help is com-pelling every year,” said Dickeson. “We de!nitely rely on grassroots. Individ-uals that do this aside from their day to day job in preparation for the run as well as the volunteers that come out to help with water stations, registration, or whatever it is are what makes this run the success it is.”

Terry Fox Foundation Provincial Dir-ector Onne de Boer echoes Dickeson in the affect the volunteers have both in Fredericton and nationwide. Every dol-lar donated to the run is 87 cents do-nated to charity.

“Volunteers are kingpins to the organization,” said de Boer. “There would not be a foundation without the volunteers, nor would we be able to give

the unprecedented 87 cents from each dollar donated. Everyone is important in making this a success and making it such a worthwhile cause to support.”

Unlike other runs, this run has no corporate sponsorship. When Terry began his run he did not want any cor-poration to bene!t from his run. He had his personalized Marathon of Hope shirt, with a plain pair of grey shorts, and plain white socks. He could not get away from wearing a brand name pair of running shoes, but believed this would ensure the event remained pure and donations came from the goodness of people’s hearts.

“This continues today,” said de Boer. “When Terry set up this foundation he had a vision of the run and keeping cor-porations names away from it was one of his desires, which has been honoured.”

Particular to the Fredericton com-

munity, committee member Dicke-son sees outstanding support from the UNB and STU campuses. Since 2003, when he began helping with the run, the university community has always played a major role in fundraising for the foundation.

“The current students are the people that are going to keep this run go-ing,” said Dickeson. “We see so much UNB red and STU green, you would be amazed. A van will pull up and the coach will get out with his whole team behind him. There are several teams from each university that help make a signi!cant difference in this com-munity’s run, aside from the numer-ous dorms that show up with an entire dorms worth of students.”

Dickeson continued on to say that it is not overstating when he says the greatest single source of support in Fredericton is

the student body.“Historically the role of the students

have played has been phenomenal for the Terry Fox Run,” he said. “The level of support we get from campus is extraordinary and we would not have near the number of participants we have without the students.”

If you are interested in volunteering or participating, information can be found at www.terryfox.org or you can call 1-888-TFOXRUN.

Nobody could express the true es-sence behind this great cause better than Terry Fox himself.

“We need your help. The people in cancer clinics all over the world need people who believe in miracles. I am not a dreamer, and I am not saying that this will initiate any kind of de!nitive answer or cure to cancer, but I believe in mir-acles. I have to.”

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Bombers up to the challenge NFL Kickoff: Brees vs Favre

Last year the AFL faced ques-tions concerning how a three team league would work out, but after a successful !rst season the league is back and now bigger and better. " " During the 2009 season, the even-tual Moosehead Cup Champion UNB Red Bombers struggled in their regular season posting a 1-3 record. The Bomb-ers stepped up their play in the playoffs making it past the Moncton Junior Raiders to face the undefeated UNBSJ Seawolves in the championship game. The Bombers defeated the Seawolves by a narrow 3-1 margin, with a !nal minute scare when the UNBSJ kicker missed a !eld goal wide to lose the game.

If the Red Bombers intend to be champions again this year, they will have to pull up their socks since the league is expanding. Joining the AFL this season are Holland College and Dal-housie University, pushing the league to a total of !ve teams. With the league expanding, having one more team than the AUS football conference, Commis-sioner Pat O’Brien has high expectations for the success of this season.

“I believe that the number of players that each team has will be great,” said O’Brien. “There were players in the stands last year who didn’t know how the league would fair, but now that they have seen the level of play, they will

probably be more willing to participate. Adding those teams makes the league more interesting.”

Preparing for an extended season and more teams, second year Bombers cornerback Brian Gilliland does not feel the weight of being reigning champions on his shoulders.

“There is absolutely no added pres-sure when you are trying to repeat as champions,” said Gilliland. “We have the talent on this team to win it all and I would be disappointed if we were not there in the !nals again. I am really looking forward to playing the Sea-wolves because I have played with a lot of their players growing up, so there has

been some friendly jawing going on.”The main concern defensive backs

coach Terry McIntyre has for the up-coming season is not knowing what to expect from the Dalhousie and Holland College offences.

“We roughly know what to expect from Saint John and Moncton,” said McIntyre, “but the expansion teams are different. Dal is the real wild card be-cause of the coaching staff they brought in, as well as, the numbers they are get-ting for try outs.”

The Bombers kick off the AFL sea-son on September 18 playing host to the Dalhousie Tigers at 6 p.m. on Chapman Field.

Last season’s Moosehead Cup Champion UNB Red Bombers will be back on Chapman Field looking to retain their title as champions. The home opener is Sept. 18. Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan

The much anticipated NFL season is just around the corner as the New Orleans Saints play host to the Minnesota Vikings Thursday night.

After !ve weeks of pre-season play, I cannot wait for the real deal when the starters play their regular role on the !eld and I’m not left wondering who Joe Webb is (Brett Favre’s back-up).

The rematch of last season’s NFC Championship game where the Saints stole the game in overtime to go to their !rst ever Super Bowl will not have that same ending this season I believe. After Favre had one of his best seasons in the NFL the decision was made to continue to continue his consecutive game streak with his 310th being played tomorrow night.

I do not even know what to say about this man anymore other than he is relentless. He had one of his best seasons last year, but at the end of last season he was barely able to walk off the !eld favouring an ankle injury. You would think that would have been it. Instead he got the surgery and is back on the !eld looking to take back what he believes was taken from him by the Saints.

Aside from Favre coming back for season 20, New Orleans has to face AP. Adrian Peterson is coming off the best season of season of his career and if last season any indication, he has no signs of slowing down. His 18 touchdowns in 16 games gives the Vikings their weapon on the ground with three weapons in the air in Sidney Rice, Percy Harvin, and Bernard Berrian. All in all, the Saints have some work to do if they

intend on leading of where they left off last season.

The cinderella team of last season is still being celebrated on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, I am nearly certain. Being a Saints fan since growing up around family from the states and a Leafs fan watching Hockey Night in Canada made the Saints win that much more exciting. It’s tough cheering for teams that have not done much in recent years, if you can call 1967 recent.

Nonetheless when my Saints hit the !eld tomorrow I’m afraid we may see the Super Bowl hangover take over and we may be in for a mediocre season. It may just be the Toronto Maple Leafs bringing negativity into my NFL expectations, but lets look at this further.

Drew Brees. That is basically all that needs to be said about the Saints offence. He is coming off by far the best season of his career, consistently improving over the last four with New Orleans. Although, having a star quarterback like Brees on top of his game is great, a supporting cast of “unsung heroes” (if you can still call them that) is what I believe will be the secret to their success if they are looking for it to continue.

A balanced attack both in the air and on the ground leaves their opponents wondering who to cover. On the ground Brees has Pierre Thomas and Mike Bell leading the way with Reggie Bush still playing a role in the background. In the air Marques Colston (1074 yards), Devery Henderson (804 yards), and Robert Meachem (722 yards) know how to set off the !reworks when called upon.

All those positives lead to the negative. Can they repeat their production on the !eld from last season. Stats says yes, but the history of former champions begs to differ.

Aside from the Saints being back on the !eld, I am looking to see how some stories will play out. Will Favre be able to keep up his strong play? Will the Saints crumble after lady luck stayed with them last season? The only way to !nd out is checking it out. I know I will be.

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Quick tips to beat the freshman !fteen

Brian buys smart and healthy

What usually starts as a joke between friends and family can easily become a reality. Amidst the jokes about living on your own, partying, staying up late, and eating whatever you want, many univer-sity students still seem surprised when they !nd themselves out looking to buy larger pairs of pants come April.

So while this is a known reality, you may be asking what sorts of things at-tribute to this or better yet, what can you do to avoid it?

There are a number of different fac-tors that attribute to weight gain in in-dividuals. The most common among university students are binge drinking, stress, irregular sleep patterns, and (of course) cafeteria food or poor eating habits.

For the majority of students a night on the town with friends sounds ex-hilarating. A few drinks now and then are !ne. The problem comes when you consume more than the recommended

number of drinks for a week, 14 for men and nine for women, in one night.

Alcoholic beverages are very high in calories. By the time you begin drink-ing at night you have most likely already consumed your daily intake of calories and then you are adding the drinking on top of that. Your body is more likely to breakdown the elements of the al-cohol you consumed and extra calories than the fat or sugar you have stored from breakfast or lunch previously that day.

This, however, is not true for every individual. Weight gain in conjunction to alcohol consumption has to do with gender, diet, habits, as well as genetics. It is not without the help of what you have eaten during the day that this weight gain can become a reality, but that does not mean starve yourself before going out for drinks though.

Meal hall is the one place where there is an endless supply of food at your !ngertips and although this may seem attractive the !rst few weeks, it quickly begins to lose its appeal. One of the big-gest causes of weight gain in university

students is not necessarily what they choose to eat, but how much of it they eat. Portion control is a huge factor in weight gain for students. When you !nd yourself going back for seconds or thirds, that is when you can get into trouble. This can cause your body to begin to crave more and your portions grow larger as the days go on.

Some small words of advice: If you are pressed for time, try !nding some-thing that you can snack on that will stay with you. A small bag of mixed nuts or dried fruits are a great crunchy snack to take the place of that bag of chips. Do not skip breakfast, the most important meal of the day. Breakfast gets your metabolism working and moving in the morning. You need food to fuel your brain, so even if it is just one piece of toast, make time. Lastly, monitor your portions. That piece of pizza you want on top off your burger and fries can wait till lunch tomorrow.

Gaining weight during your !rst year is not inevitable. All it takes is planning to ensure that you stop it from happen-ing before it starts.

I’ve got a full bank account and a tan; it must be back to school time. Un-fortunately, this also means a return to tuition fees, tests, and a winter weight gain. Since tuition fees are supposed to be !xed and hopefully no one has had a test yet, I might as well tackle the spare tire that many of us develop around our midsections come October.

So, how as students do we balance our tastes, our health and our bank ac-count? Unfortunately, there is no silver bullet answer. There are a few guidelines from which I go by that does help in se-lecting what you want to eat.

1. Learn to be "exible when it comes to brands and prices. With tight budgets and hearty appetites, we can’t be set on consuming name brand items when the

no-named or value brands can be 20 to 40 percent less in price. For instance, buying no name macaroni and cheese can often be a savings of 50 cents a box.

2. Pick the healthy option. There is usually a healthier, lower calorie option to many of the things that we buy at the grocery store. Many of us get stuck in a brand name rut that we carry with us from our homes, but if you want to get a head start in combating the inevit-able school weight gain, then making a switch is the easiest option. For instance, buying unsweetened applesauce instead of sweetened. It’s just as good, chunk-ier and contains half the calories. Also, check out Weight Watchers, Body Wise or Healthy Start breads. It’s the same bread with just slimmer slices and up to a 100 calories less per serving than trad-itional bread.

3. Buy fresh and buy local. ‘Tis the season to go to the market and reap

the bene!ts of our local farming com-munities. It’s hard to make a fatty meal from fresh veggies, whole grains, and locally made goods (just stay away from the sweet counters). The W.W. Boyce Farmer’s Market is not the only place to go buy local and fresh. Downtown we have Victory Meat Market and Sobeys as well; both of which offer local sections and plenty of fresh food.

In the end it comes down to making a !rm budget and a list of things that you are going to need when shopping at the grocery store. Self control and resisting chips and candy sections are a must when it comes to staying with in your budget and calorie goals. Pay attention and care about what you are buying and consuming is the only way to maintain your health, both mental and physical. Follow these tips and when head you home for the Holidays, it’ll be your wal-let that is stretching - not your waistline.

The freshman !fteen is a fear of most frosh. This can be prevented if you are aware as to the main causes. With food at your !ngertips and mom not there to tell you to eat your vegetables, it can all add up. Just follow a few friendly tips and you can avoid the !fteen. Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan

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More mature, better prepared Behind the bench with Dan McMorran

After a disappointing loss to UdeM in the AUS quarter!nals last year, the men’s soccer team will hit the !eld this season with added experience and depth.

The young roster of 2009, comprised of 18 !rst and second year players, is back along with promising new talent. Unfortunately, they did suffer a few loses with three of their key players not returning this year.

Missing from the roster will be team captain and three time All-Canadian Ken Morrison, keeper Matthew Lally, who started and played in almost every game for a !ve year period, and the reliable back in Karel Prickett.

Coach Miles Pinsent is not worried about the team this season, but will de!nitely notice the absence of what has been such a reliable core of players.

“Losing these players is obviously a huge loss for us,” said Pinsent. “Those aren’t shoes that you try to !ll. You don’t try to !nd another Ken Morrison, it just doesn’t happen.”

Although Pinsent knows !lling those roles will be dif!cult, he is excited with to see new recruits that are expected to make an immediate impact.

A key recruit acquired by the Reds this season comes from Cairo, Egypt. Yassin Chehab comes to the program looking to make an immediate impact on the !eld, but more importantly is coming to !nish his international business degree here after beginning with a UNB af!liated school in Cairo.

Also joining the soccer program as a high pro!le player, is Ryan Lauzon. A transfer student from McGill, Lauzon brings experience from last season’s CIS Championships to a squad lacking in

national experience.“He was the MVP in the semi-!nal

game in last year’s championships,” said Pinsent. “That in itself says what he brings to the table and that experience will help us tremendously.”

Expected to hold down the fort in goal will be rookie Aaron McMurray. The coaching staff believes the London, Ontario native will be ready to jump into the starting keeper spot with little issue.

After little rollover within the team, Pinsent is excited to see players take on more important roles and build a playing style to work with their skill set.

“We lost some players after last year that in the last four or !ve years our team has been built around,” he said. “It is time for some of these younger players to shine and take on a bigger role with the team.”

The men’s soccer program also

received news over the summer of their winning bid to host the 2013 CIS Men’s Soccer Championship. The following year the event will be hosted by UPEI, keeping the event in the conference for two seasons.

Coach Pinsent is excited to see his program play host to the best teams in Canada. Even with the guaranteed berth in three years he believes this year’s squad will make a strong push towards the national championship.

“Being able to host a national championship will be great for our program, the campus, the athletics department, and for the local soccer communities. It is going to help us to push the program forward, but we’re in it to win it this year for sure. Having the big event in the not so far future will help bring players here, but this season I believe we have one of the strongest squads in recent years.”

Men’s soccer, shown above during training, camp will open the regu-lar season at home Saturday againt Mount Allison. Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan

Entering his seventh season behind the men’s volleyball bench, Dan McMorran is the focus in the !rst edition of Behind the Bench.

A Varsity Red player from 1987-1993, McMorran was the recipient of the UNB Varsity Athletic Ring of Distinction as well as being named a CIS Academic All-Canadian in his !nal season in 1992-1993.

The former men’s volleyball captain discusses with the Brunswickan what he looks for when deciding on the team, some coaching techniques, as well as some fond memories since taking over the head coach position.

B: What do you look for in a player when deciding on your roster?

DM: Everyone at this level is looking for big, strong athletes as this is a fast-paced and explosive sport. " The ones that I’m most interested are the players who have that athleticism as well as having a little “edge” or “grit” to them in a competitive situation, not afraid to take risks, and who are committed to making both themselves and the team better both on and off the court.

B: What is your fondest memory as a V-Red coach?

DM: My fondest memory as a V-Red coach would be in 2008 after beating Dalhousie in Halifax in the !rst match of the best of three AUS !nals and getting a chance to win the AUS Championship in front of a packed and rowdy LB Gym. "The atmosphere was absolutely electrifying - it could also be considered my worst memory, as we lost a close one that still bothers me to this day.

B: Prior to a game what do you do to get your players prepared for the matchup?

DM: Game preparation is similar for most games. "We do some video analysis and detail how we are going to both defend and attack our opposition and then it’s a matter of execution.

B: A skill I have noticed a coach needs is being able to know when to call a timeout. How do you know when to call them and what do you say to get your team back in the game?

DM: Knowing when to call timeouts can be an integral part to the game. "I generally call timeouts in two situations: 1) to get us back on track or 2) to disrupt the #ow or streak of our opponents. "We don’t have a lot of time during these, so the comments are generally one or two speci!c areas that we want either to correct, improve upon, or adjust to.

B: Do you set goals for yourself as a coach?

DM: It varies from year to year, but I want to be better in certain areas from the previous year and continue to learn, grow, and improve. I can’t expect my players to do so if I’m not trying to do the same.

B: How do you gauge the success of your season aside from wins and losses?

DM: Wins and losses are de!nitely a huge measuring stick to a successful season, but it’s de!nitely not everything. "We take pride in whether we were successful as a team in the classroom in our academic goals, and in the community in any of the team community initiatives we participate in. " We also take into consideration whether or not individual players made strides athletically and academically as well.

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UNB wrestling takes on the world

Reds’ future faces: Taylor MacDonald

After !nishing second last season at the CIS National Championships, it may be assumed the goal is solely to win it this season. Although that is a goal, the UNB wrestling team has bigger goals in mind.

Coach Don Ryan stressed how his athletes are focusing on a national and international performance over the next few years.

“Our focus will be to prepare for Senior Nationals as a team and the chips will play themselves out (at the CIS na-tional championship),” said Ryan. “We would like to win, but that is part of our process this season. The athletes will be working hard, but getting ready for the !rst stages of the Olympic Trials, three weeks after CIS, will be important.”

During the university off-season the Black Bear wrestling club was pleased to see two of their top athletes compete on an international level. Shawn Daye-Finley, a third year kinesiology student, competed at the World Junior Cham-pionships in Budapest, Hungary during the summer. Although he lost his !rst match 1-0-1-1, Coach Ryan believes the experience will be exceptional for the program.

“He is coming back in his third year with the team and taking that experi-ence and sharing that with the rest of the program will help teach them things to elevate their skills,” said Coach Ryan.

Also competing internationally over the summer was Sam Stuart, a transfer student from the University of Western

Ontario. Coming from Western meant she was not eligible to compete on the university team until this season, but trained with the team last season. Stuart competed in Austria in an international women’s event during the summer where she !nished !fth. She followed that up with a fourth place !nish at the Canada Cup before returning to Fred-ericton to begin preparation for this season.

After a successful summer for the club, three athletes will be attending more international competitions in the upcoming months. Eric Feunekes of Fredericton and former Varsity Red Promise Mwenga of Moncton will be participating in the Commonwealth Games from Oct. 5-10 in Delhi, India. Both are expecting to have a successful trip and make their nation proud.

Ben Sayah will also be travelling out

of North America for the World Uni-versity Wrestling Championships in Torino, Italy. Sayah, last season’s CIS national champion, quali!ed last season and is hoping to make the podium in Torino.

Coach Ryan is excited to see athletes in the program having such large suc-cess, but is looking forward to making a push for the program’s !rst CIS Nation-al Championships and qualifying more athletes for international events.

“We lost two close matches in the third round and one in overtime to !n-ish second at the university nationals last season, so we should be able to !n-ish !rst this season,” he said. “The goal this season is also to have athletes pre-pared for the 2012 Olympic Trials. We will be focusing on our top kids for that and hopefully the programs success will continue on such a large scale.”

In the !rst installment of this season’s Reds’ Future Faces, The Brunswickan chose to sit down with women’s volleyball rookie Taylor MacDonald. The Bathurst native is a left-side player coming out of Volleyball New Brunswick’s Provincial Elite Program excelling not only on the court, but in the classroom as well. MacDonald received the President’s Scholarship for her academic achievements and will be pursuing a Bachelor of Science.

MacDonald discusses her reasons for attending UNB as well as what she brings to the Varsity Reds program.

Brunswickan: Were there any other schools looking at you for volleyball and what brought you to UNBF?

Taylor MacDonald: The only others schools looking at me for volleyball were Dalhousie University and UNBSJ. The fact that UNBF had a new sports facility being built with a !nishing date set for sometime this year was a big factor. I’ve seen pictures and it looks amazing. " Also, [Head Coach] John Richard was my provincial team coach in 2008. "I liked his style of coaching and knew that I would be able to work well with him. Receiving the President’s Scholarship and a UNB athletic scholarship also made my consideration for UNB stronger.

B: What have you done to prepare for the playing with the Reds?

TM: I played my fourth year of provincial volleyball and had the opportunity to go to nationals in Winnipeg. Playing against the best provinces in Canada really opened my eyes to the level of play and strong

competitors I would be dealing with next year.

B: What assets do you bring to the team on and off the court

TM: On the court, my biggest assets would be my natural athleticism, my power, and my willingness to learn. "Off the court, I bring support to all of my team members and a sincere attitude.

B: When did you !rst start playing volleyball and what got you into playing it?

TM: I started playing volleyball in grade six. My parents encouraged my older sister and me to pursue all athletic interests and after many years of participating in many sports, volleyball became my !rst love.

B: What successes have you had in your volleyball career thus far?

TM: The school based awards I received in my volleyball career range from Best Offensive Player to MVP. I also received the Female Athlete of the Year award this year. When the provincial team competed at the Eastern Championships in 2007/2008, I won the All-Star award and received another All-Star award this past fall at provincials for club teams.

B: What do you expect will be the biggest adjustment from high school to university level volleyball?

TM: The biggest adjustment from high school to university level volleyball will be the athletic ability and skills of all the athletes I will be competing against. There will be no weakest link on any of the teams. There will de!nitely be added pressure playing in front of more people because I’ll have bigger expectations for myself. It will take a while to get used to playing in front of big crowds, but I am looking forward to the change.

WOMEN’S SOCCER

MTA @ UNB1:00 P.M. @ CHAPMAN FIELD

MEN’S SOCCER

MTA @ UNB3:00 P.M. @ CHAPMAN FIELD

WOMEN’S SOCCER

UNB @ SMU1:00 P.M. (HALIFAX)

MEN’S SOCCER

UNB @ SMU3:00 P.M. (HALIFAX)

WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL

UNB @ BOWDOIN COLLEGE

7:00 P.M. (BRUNSWICK, ME)

WOMEN’S SOCCER

STFX @ UNB2:00 P.M. @ CHAPMAN FIELD

MEN’S SOCCER

STFX @ UNB4:15 P.M. @ CHAPMAN FIELD

The Black Bears wrestling club enjoyed success over the summer and looks to carry that forward into this season. Sandy Chase / The Brunswickan

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Did the Montreal Canadiens make a mistake trading Halak and keeping Price?the panel

the brunswickan presents

voice your opinion

I think it was a terrible move on the Canadiens part. Montreal and To-ronto are two of the hardest cities to play in when you are not play-ing up to snuff. Unfortunately Price is not and the Montreal media is on his case constantly. The Habs should have stuck with Halak and sent Price to a quieter market. They will learn the hard way.

I think it was the right move by all three parties. Halak gets to take over the reins of an upcoming, young team with no media pres-sure. Price, however, will not es-cape the media pressure, but with this comfortable contract that does not lock him in this market forever he could surprise the nay-sayers. As for the Habs, they enter a low risk venture with thepotential for a high return.

If you believe the RUMORS that Carey Price doesn’t care and does nothing but party and chase Mont-real women, it can’t be a good move. But they’re only rumors.

Carey Price can still be a top goal-tender, just not in Montreal. His poor play combined with the in-tense media attention ruined him in that city, and he should have been the once shipped off to St. Louis. Even if Halak fails to re-peat last year’s performance Price won’t return to form while wear-ing the bleu, blanc et rouge.

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Dr. T. Wayne Lenehan

Optometrists“Family Eye Care”

Dr. M. Michele LegerWave of talent hits SMA pool

After a quiet !nish to last year’s season at the national championship, the Varsity Reds women’s swim team made noise over the summer by bulking up their roster with six new recruits.

Six female swimmers were added to an already star !lled squad, with four of the six being close to or at CIS standards. Prince Albert, Saskatchewan native Brittany Harvey arrives at UNB having already achieved a CIS time in the 50m breaststroke, while backstroke specialist Marie-Pier Chasse was brought in to help round out the squad. The Montreal native’s backstroke is expected to strengthen the women’s relay team.

The only Nova Scotian swimmer this season is the well-rounded Jessica Leblanc from Yarmouth. Coach Paula Stewart is excited to have such a versatile swimmer on the team.

“What I like most about adding Jessica to the squad is she is a great all-round swimmer,” said Stewart. “We’re in need of having some [individual medley swimmers] to !ll out our

program so I’m hoping we’ll be able to train her IM and get her to !ll some spots there.”

Also joining the squad is Fredericton’s Kaitlyn Young, one of New Brunswick’s top prospects. Having ranked !rst in four races in her graduating class last season, Young is a strong addition to the team’s already powerful butter"y swimmers. Also secured over the summer was Chloe Johnson out of Medicine Hat, Alberta. Johnson is a well-rounded athlete with solid freestyle that compliments the squad well. Julianna Vantellingen from Ottawa is the !nal recruit to the women’s team bringing her freestyle speed in all races from sprint to distance.

The Reds will be missing Kara Arsenault, Kate MacDonald and Robyn MacIntyre after the three graduated this past year. Fortunately for the squad, MacIntyre will be able to share her knowledge as she rejoins the team this year as an assistant coach.

Overall when looking at the women’s squad, Stewart believes they are in a great position.

“Although we lost some of the

veteran swimmers and the maturity that comes along with that, there are some very strong people within the team that will recognize their roles as leaders and step up,” said Stewart.

Last year the Reds had four CIS quali!ers, Danielle Losier, Danielle Mersasty, Jennifer Acheson, and Jacquline Murchinson, all of whom are returning this season. Coach Paula Stewart believes that number will be on the rise this year.

“Every team goes through up and down results and I believe we’re going in the upward direction currently. We are swinging more to a CIS focus because I believe that is where we want to be and where we are with the team.”

After !nishing second in the conference last season, the women’s team will be looking to retain that position and push closer to Dalhousie, who have dominated the conference in recent years.

“Our overall focus is to compete and get on the podium as much as we can at AUS and if in two years we win an AUS championship, that would be great,” said Stewart.

Rebound season ahead for the RedsAfter the shocking elimination from last season’s AUS playoffs, the Varsity Reds men’s hockey team is looking to bounce back with an impressive 2010-11 cam-paign.

The Reds’ were busy this summer with off-ice move include the addition of Nick MacNeil, an excellent acquisi-tion from the Cape Breton Screaming Eagles of the QMJHL.

“Nick had a very good career in Cape Breton. He is a proven goal scorer with a big body,” said Head Coach Gardiner MacDougall.

MacNeil comes to UNB to join for-mer linemate Jordan Clendenning, who put up an impressive rookie season scor-ing seven goals, with 17 points in 22 regular season games.

With the departure of John Scott Dickson to the AHL and Alex Aldred back to Alberta, the V-Reds will need to embrace the young talent to put them

back into contention for the AUS title. With ten sophomores on the 2010-11 team, last year’s CIS Athlete of the Year, Hunter Tremblay, and team captain Kyle Bailey will continue to be looked upon as leaders.

After a season where questions sur-rounded the UNB goaltenders, both Travis Fullerton and Derek Yeomans will both be back tending the net. Coach MacDougall has no fear of having two number one goalies on the roster.

“Travis has played the majority of the playoffs and won a national champion-ship for us as a freshman,” said Mac-Dougall. “Derek is a fourth year guy and a senior guy. It’s a good opportun-ity for a team that has two proven goal-tenders. I think there is a competitive battle in that position, but that being said they get along very well.”

The Varsity Reds start a long Western Canadian trip in September in Calgary and split three games against the Cal-gary Dinos and the University of Al-berta Golden Bears. The Reds coaching

staff intends on using these games as an evaluation tool.

“The chance to start the season out in Calgary is a great opportunity. It’s been a long time since a UNB team has been out west. The priority is the hockey portion, but an added piece is the team building process,” said MacDougall. “The trips are a good chance for us to see some of the competition and meas-ure where we are at this point in the season.”

Coach MacDougall is optimistic that this year’s group can bring home the big prize, the national championship.

“We had 10 !rst year players on the team (last year); rarely do you get a second chance with the same group over again. Our goal as a hockey club is to show improvement in every step of the process.”

The team’s record from last year is hard to improve on, but they are look-ing for perfection. Last season, the V-reds went 27-1 and this year hope to make it 28-0.

The UNB women’s swim team bulked up their roster over the summer adding six new recruits. Cou-pled with returning stars, they will look to continue their success this season. Sandy Chase / The Brunswickan

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