the queen's journal, issue 11

student life

Powwow points to problems InsIdePlanned Pitfalls

AMS services budget for controlled deficits during summer months.

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armed with education

Features looks at students who balance military training with studies at Queen’s.

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towards a Palestinian state

Dialogue examines recent UN bid for Palestinian statehood.

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Kleenex artCRYBABY exhibit explores the fragility of the human body with tissues.

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could be richQueen’s student advances to semifinals in Kick for a Million contest.

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breaKing down dancePostscript looks into Hip-Hop culture at Queen’s.

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Activism

Annual conference doubles in sizeHealth and Human Rights Conference addresses HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa

Participants at the fifth-annual Educational Powwow on Saturday at the Agnes Benidickson field celebrated diversity amongst Aboriginal communities.

photo by justin chin

By Katherine Fernandez-Blance and darienne lancasterJournal Staff

The fifth-annual educational powwow was celebrated on Saturday, focusing on promoting diversity amongst Aboriginal communities, although the theme isn’t one always seen at Queen’s, said Four Directions Aboriginal

Student Centre Director Janice Hill. “You would never know, by

walking through the Queen’s campus that there are Aboriginal students here,” she said.

Hill said just over 100 students at Queen’s have self-identified as Aboriginal.

“We can find the status students through the Registrar’s office,” she said. “That’s only because they may be receiving some sort of funding.”

It’s much harder to find numbers on Aboriginal students who don’t identify as such, Hill said.

“A lot of people feel that there’s a stigma attached,” she said. “It becomes a judgmental thing for students … There’s a lot of subtle racism at Queen’s.”

Hill said there’s a stereotype that all Aboriginal students receive a free postsecondary education.

“They think if you’re Aboriginal,

your education is paid for automatically, and that’s not true,” she said.

Queen’s administration has developed a number of initiatives to try and increase enrolment of Aboriginal students at Queen’s, including the Aboriginal Council and the Aboriginal Access to Engineering Program — which is still in development.

By Meaghan WrayAssistant News Editor

For the first time, Queen’s Health and Human Rights Conference offered free admittance to its delegates after $16,650 in sponsorship by Queen’s departments, Schools and organizations was provided to the conference. This marks an approximate $4,000 raise compared to last year.

The weekend-long conference was in its 11th year and drew 320 delegates. On Friday and Saturday participants attended sessions relating to maternal health and gender inequality in sub-Saharan Africa, with a particular focus on the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Conference co-chair Harrison Banner said removing the attendance cost allowed more students to register.

“We’ve been very lucky with [sponsorship] and we just thought it would be much better to make the conference free, so that there was no financial barrier to anyone who was interested,” he said.

In previous years, the conference would have cost $15 to $20 to attend, covering the costs for a keynote speaker and food.

Capacity was capped at 320 delegates this year, up from 150, Banner said.

“Just this past year we were awarded the Queen’s Human Rights Initiative Award which … was a big deal in terms of getting the name out there to the people of Queen’s,” he said.

The Queen’s Human Rights Initiative Award is annually awarded an initiative that made contributions to advancing equality and human rights on campus.

Banner said medical students have traditionally run the conference, but more efforts were made to recruit students from

other faculties to help. An interdisciplinary conference,

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rector election

Rector election policy revisedBy Katherine Fernandez-BlanceNews Editor

When students elect a rector this month, the AMS and the Society of Graduate and Professional Students (SGPS) will use separate ballots for the first time.

“It will be one election, that each society will facilitate … for their society,” SGPS President Jillian Burford-Grinnell said. “The voting period will be the same.”

Traditionally the AMS has facilitated rector elections because of a 1981 contract between the AMS and the SGPS — then known as the Graduate Student Society.

Burford-Grinnell, MA ’11 and JD ’14, said the new policy outlining the concurrent elections has been in the works for a few months.

“The SGPS, myself and our speaker, we prepared several drafts and then forwarded it to the AMS to go through their various bodies,”

she said. AMS Assembly passed the

policy on Sept. 29. The policy will be brought to SGPS Council for approval next week.

Under the new policy, SGPS members will be able to vote for a rector on the SGPS website or with paper ballots.

“It makes sense for our members to vote in a way that’s consistent with how we conduct our elections,” she said, adding that she hopes the

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Surplus expected for the first time since 2007 Common Ground beats budgeted summer deficit by $16,000, while TAPS runs above-average deficitBy savoula stylianouAssistant News Editor

If high sales continue, Common Ground will beat its budget and come in at a $2,000 surplus by the end of the year.

This would be the first year since 2007 that the AMS food service has had a surplus.

Despite this, Common Ground incurred a $58,000 over the summer — a figure that’s $16,000 better than was projected in the service’s annual budget.

Common Ground head manager Sam Guertin said when she made the budget in May, she projected the business would suffer a $74,000 deficit over the four summer months.

“Last summer, we were busy for the month of May and June and then we faltered off because high school students were out of school,” Guertin, ArtSci ’11, said.

“But, this year I don’t know where the people came from in July and August, but we ended up doing a couple thousand more than last summer.”

Guertin said she budgeted for a slight surplus this year and that the $58,000 deficit would be eradicated by the end of the year.

AMS Hospitality and Safety Services director Gracie Goad said when Common Ground first moved from the JDUC to the Queen’s Centre, the Board of Directors gave the service a five-year timeline to chip away at its over $100,000 deficit.

“This is year three and for us to say that this year we’re predicting a surplus is to say, ‘You gave us a five-year timeline, but we actually did it in three’,” she said.

Goad said all AMS services are budgeted to have a controlled deficit for the four summer months due to the decrease in students on campus.

“Every year, we re-evaluate whether it’s worth staying open or whether we should shut down. We would still have to pay rent on the space, even if we were shut down,” she said.

Goad said that the reason Common Ground is doing so well is because it’s more established than when it first moved to the Queen’s Centre.

“People now know where Common Ground is and people now appreciate the product that we’re delivering,” she said.

The other student-run food service, the AMS Pub Service (TAPS), which includes Queen’s Pub and Alfie’s, always incurs a larger summer deficit than CoGro,

Goad said. “What we’re projecting is about a $90,000

deficit and $50,000 of that is due to costs that we can’t control, like space allocation and administrative charges,” she said.

The TAPS deficit was higher than usual this summer due the closure of QP for renovations in May.

“We closed to re-do the floors and that

involved ripping out the old subfloor and putting in new subfloor and then putting in the oak floor on top of that,” she said.

Goad said TAPS is projected to make $1.5 million in revenue by the end of the school year, while CoGro is projected to make $1.1 million in revenue.

Common Ground head manager Sam Guertin said the AMS food service had improved sales this summer compared to last summer.

photo by justin chin

“ Every year, we re-evaluate whether it’s worth staying open or whether we should shut down. ”

— Gracie Goad, AMS hospitality and

safety services director

Professor quits over parking

On Aug. 29, professor Dan Middlemiss from Dalhousie University quit his job over a parking pass.

Middlemiss, a political science professor, waited in line for over an hour before he was told by staff that he couldn’t buy a $260 annual parking permit that day because they were sold out. He immediately resigned.

The University currently has 2,000 parking spots available for more than 20,000 faculty, staff and students.

Commuters may park on campus with a pass, but due to overselling, the spots are often filled up early in the morning.

According to the Dalhousie Gazette, last year spots were oversold by 915 passes.

An annual parking spot sells for $1,200 to $1,400 and only one third of applicants receive them through a random draw.

Dalhousie approved a Campus Master Plan in Oct. 2010 that includes $250 million of campus renovations. It doesn’t leave room for the creation of large parking lots as they don’t promote sustainable transportation.

Middlemiss told the Dalhousie Gazette on Sept. 14 that his journey could take up to two hours by bus and that he doesn’t have the option of biking on the highway.

Middlemiss’s resignation ended a 31-year-long career just nine days before a new school term began.

— Catherine Owsik

frats and sororities bannedMembers of the Carleton University Greek Council were banned from recruiting members in campus residences on Sept.13.

The Greek Council is a club that includes the six fraternities and six sororities at the University.

The Charlatan reported that as part of

the ban, members of the Greek Council cannot gather in large groups in residences or cafeterias while identifying themselves as part of a fraternity or sorority.

The decision was made in the middle of rush week — a week dedicated to the recruitment of new members.

The week usually involves knocking door-to-door in residences to promote to first-year sign-ups.

This year, complaints from students were received by the student affairs office when loud knocking from recruiters continued the entire afternoon on the Monday of rush week.

The Greek Council may continue to recruit members and congregate at other campus locations.

— Catherine Owsik

uBc enacts non-academic discipline

The University of British Columbia’s (UBC) Vancouver campus is planning to implement a policy to deal with non-academic offences committed by students.

If the policy is enacted, a committee of UBC students will deal with on-campus misconducts as well as off-campus misconducts when students are acting as representatives of the University, the Ubyssey reported.

A similar policy was enacted at the UBC Okanagan campus in fall 2009.

The committee will only act within their jurisdiction of events directly related to the school. For example, students that participated in the Vancouver Canucks riot on June 15 wouldn’t be judged by the committee.

— Catherine Owsik

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By Janina EnrilEAssistant Features Editor

Of the 528 Canadian Forces members studying full-time at Ontario universities, 23 go to Queen’s.

For every two months of service in the Canadian Armed Forces, a student is subsidized for one month of education.

Tuition and books are paid for up front by the student who receives a reimbursement cheque for every course passed.

Cpl. Jeff Cho joined the Canadian Armed Forces in 2007 when he couldn’t afford to pay for his second year of undergraduate education at York University.

“It was one of the reasons I thought joining the army was perfect for me,” said Cho, who’s stationed at Canadian Forces Base Kingston with the Joint Signals Regiment.

After five years of training with the Armed Forces, he enrolled at Queen’s as a part-time student last year.

“Would I recommend people to join the military to get an education? Definitely not,” he said. “It’s not just a job.

“If your priority is not to get the job done and support the mission, you’re going to clash with the culture and expectations.”

Cho is currently enrolled in correspondence courses at Queen’s in hopes of getting a bachelor’s degree in psychology. He said applying to a university other than Royal Military College (RMC) was a struggle with military bureaucracy.

“My friends who applied to take courses at RMC were approved in under a month, whereas I had to go back and forth for almost a year to justify why I would be going to Queen’s instead of somewhere else,” he said. “Because they’re going to be reimbursing you later, it’s easier to stay within the military structure.”

In military terms, Queen’s is

demarcated as a civilian university because of its separation from the Armed Forces.

Other schools are more flexible than Queen’s in helping students balance military training with distance studies, Cho said.

RMC accepts mail-in assignments from students who have been unexpectedly deployed.

He added he’s been able to take four courses with his demanding work schedule. Cho’s work with the Joint Signals Regiment can cause him to be deployed on a moment’s notice.

“I work my full day then have to manage studies, exams and all that stuff on my own,” he said. “It’s difficult to take certain courses if professors can’t accommodate your schedule.”

This semester he was forced to drop all of his courses in anticipation of a late-October overseas deployment.

Despite the administrative hurdles, Cho said he’s glad to be at Queen’s.

“I wanted to get an education that wasn’t through the military,” he said. “I’d like some parts of my life not to be engrained in that.”

Having a university degree is mandatory for corporals like Cho to become commissioned members of the Armed Forces. Commissioned members are officers or captains who specialize in a certain regiment.

Officers and captains can either be promoted from within the ranks through the University Training Plan Non Commissioned Members (UTPNCM) or through direct entry from the general public.

Cho is planning to go the UTPNCM route, which would require him to pursue full-time university studies at Queen’s and attain a degree. Corporals applying to UTPNCM are assessed based on the specialization of their degree, a general aptitude test administered by the Canadian Forces and leadership experience in the field.

His UTPNCM application isn’t the sole reason Cho wants to pursue full-time studies at Queen’s, he said.

“Right now I’m missing out on the university experience,” he said. “The most important things you learn aren’t what you learn in the classroom, right?”

He said right now it’s difficult to transition from a daytime military lifestyle to nights as a student.

“I’ve got other things on my mind when I’ve worked a full day preparing for deployment,” he said.

Cho was diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) a few years ago, a condition he said was the culmination of a long-term battle with depression.

He said shifting his mental focus from the Armed Forces to academics has helped him to cope with the mental stress.

“I don’t know what it is,” he said. “When you put on that uniform it doesn’t matter what state you’re in, but when you get home ... it all hits you.”

A 2002 report on mental health in the Canadian Armed Forces estimated that 20 per cent of its soldiers suffer from PTSD.

Associate professor Alice Aiken also works with PTSD patients at

the Canadian Institute for Military and Veteran Health Research (CIMVHR) where she’s director.

The institute is a network of 19 Canadian universities dedicated to researching health issues that occur with military personnel.

It’s co-directed by Queen’s and RMC. They deal with a diverse set of health issues that are faced by veterans, returning soldiers and soldiers who are in garrison.

“When people come back with a physical injury, it’s very clear that they have a physical injury. Those are the known injuries,” Aiken said, “Mental health injuries often don’t show themselves right away, or they take time.

“Sometimes the mental health injuries aren’t known.”

Mental health issues including PTSD are among a variety of occupational stress injuries that soldiers can suffer from.

Like Cho, Aiken used military education subsidies to fund two of her four degrees.

“The agreement was that they subsidized three years of education for me, and I owed them back [four years of service],” Aiken said.

Aiken decided to pursue more schooling and completed her master’s and PhD in rehabilitation science at Queen’s on a

part-time basis. As an associate professor with

the School of Rehabilitation Studies, Aiken said she often speaks to students about her experiences in the navy.

Her physiotherapy students sometimes get the chance to examine solders from the Kingston base at Aiken’s request. Treating soldiers is a unique experience, Aiken said.

“[As soldiers], they’re typically very fit and very motivated to get better,” she said. “So they’re almost an ideal patient population.”

Edward Woolley was in his first year at Queen’s in 2009 when he decided to transfer to RMC.

He considered a subsidized degree program through the Armed Forces while at Queen’s, but instead opted for full-time schooling at RMC.

Woolley said he felt lost in his large first-year classes at Queen’s and RMC’s close-knit community of students was a better fit.

“I bought into what the military sells: doing something meaningful and exciting,” Woolley said. “I thought, let’s go for it.”

— With files from Terra-Ann Arnone

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Student soldiersOntario has the largest number of students whose education is subsidized by the Armed Forces

Cpl. Jeff Cho is balancing a full-time job at the Joint Signals Regiment in Canadian Forces Base Kingston with distance studies at Queen’s.

Ontario students make up the majority of those who receive education subsidies from the Canadian Armed Forces.

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service fee extendedStudents who have an outstanding balance owed to the University by Sept. 30 have been given an additional month before late fee service charges will apply.

“The fees are still due,” said Associate University Registrar Andrew Ness, adding that the extra month is due to problems with the SOLUS system.

“There’s been so many changes in terms of processing that I wanted to make sure that people have enough time to pay their outstanding fees,” Ness said. “This is no different than … any other kind of administrative process.”

The decision was made on Sept. 28.Normally, any unpaid balance owed to

the University would be charged interest at a prime rate, which the Bank of Canada

determines at the end of each month. A University-determined rate of three

per cent is then added to this amount, and the figure is divided by 12 to determine the monthly service charge applied to late accounts. Typically, this number sits around 0.5 per cent of the amount owed.

Those receiving student loans have already been granted automatic deferral of payment until January, so this change won’t affect them at all, Ness said.

While most Queen’s students pay their fees on time, a small number don’t, he said.

“If you need to sort this out … it gives you the opportunity to do that without being assessed a fee,” he said.

— Katherine Fernandez-Blance

NEWS IN BRIEF

Change was logisticalpolicy will make voting more accessible for SGPS members.

The rector is the only position that is appointed by the entire student membership.

AMS President Morgan Campbell said the new policy doesn’t change the AMS’s involvement in the election process.

“It just brings the SGPS into the system that the AMS has always been running,” Campbell, ArtSci ’11, said.

The change is solely a logistical one, Campbell said, adding that she doesn’t think

it will affect voter turnout. “This election will very much be a trial,” she

said. “We’re now working together so that we basically will approve all the campaign materials jointly, approve the nomination packages jointly.”

Nominations for the rector require 800 signatures of support from Queen’s students. They are due by Oct. 12 for the campaign period that begins Oct. 14.

The election will run from Oct. 25 to 26.

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Additional sponsors this yearmultiple perspectives that touch on health, but also incorporating human rights and development.

“That’s sort of the mindset we want,” he said.

Delegates included students from the University of Ottawa, Ryerson University and McMaster University.

Ilana Landsberg-Lewis, executive director of the Stephen-Lewis Foundation, was the keynote speaker of the conference this year.

After being involved in the Foundation for eight years, she created the Grandmothers to Grandmothers campaign in 2006, which supports African grandmothers caring for children orphaned by AIDS.

“The dimensions of injustice, equity and inequality are so profound and so symbolic of all that’s cockeyed in this world that it’s really fundamentally distressing and unbearably enlightening all at once,” she said to the audience on Friday night.

Landsberg-Lewis’ main focus of her keynote address was vertical transmission — the transmission of the HIV virus from mother to child during pregnancy, labour, delivery and breast-feeding.

She said it’s a preventable problem but it’s not sufficiently addressed by the international community

and organizations like the United Nations.

According to international HIV/AIDS charity AVERT, when a woman with HIV/AIDS breastfeeds her baby, the likelihood of transmission can increase by up to 20 per cent.

“Prevention of vertical transmission should have been easy, and instead for the past decade in Africa everything has stagnated around the lack of urgency in the response,” she said.

Landsberg-Lewis said in 2008, for every child born HIV-positive in North America and Western and Central Europe combined, there were 800 newborns infected in Sub-Saharan Africa.

“It’s really an outrage to think that the drugs are known and

available,” she said. “The value of a life, these little lives, seems to be determined by geography and, dare I say it, by race and ethnicity.”

There is a lack of understanding surrounding the way in which gender inequality is at the epicentre of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, she said, adding that there is little or no focus on women as individuals.

“In the most invidious and devastating of ways, the AIDS pandemic is going to show the danger of being female in this world,” she said. “Gender inequality, discrimination and the lack of adequate accessible healthcare for women all too often conspire to end women’s lives and devastate children.”

Ilana Landsberg-Lewis, executive director of the Stephen-Lewis Foundation, speaks about HIV/AIDS at the conference Friday.

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Attendance decreases by half


Hill said current initatives aren’t enough.

“[Aboriginal students] don’t see it as a welcoming environment,” she said. “I can count the Aboriginal faculty on one hand and still have fingers left over.”

Hill said it’s the University’s responsibility to turn out educated leaders.

“People who graduate from Queen’s go on to become leaders of this country. It will be good for the leaders of this country to

understand Aboriginal people and their issues,” she said.

The powwow saw performers, many of whom traveled across Ontario to gather at 6 a.m. for the Sunrise Ceremony.

“We wanted to take the opportunity to educate people,” Hill said.

Spectators, mainly local community members, are often unfamiliar with the many Aboriginal communities’ traditions showcased at the powwow, she said.

“I’d like people to know that Aboriginal people in this culture have a lot to share,” Hill said.

“This acts as a doorway for people to come and ask us about our ways and our indigenous knowledge.”

Typically, the event draws more than 100 performers and 1,000 spectators, but this year numbers fell by half.

Hill said this was largely because of Saturday’s inclement weather and the fact that other powwows were occurring in Ontario that weekend.


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I suffer from a recurring earworm infection. It’s not a

parasitic insect, but a pop song, stuck deep in my head. The affliction is

common in our society where we’re constantly inundated by repetitive music, but I’m so often struck that I can only describe it as torment.

Once I have a catchy riff playing in my head, I can rarely do anything else. Chores and tasks are ultimately ignored.

It took 15 years for me to realize that the catchy melody included as a demo track for my old Yamaha synthesizer was actually an instrumental remix of the Rick Astley song “Together Forever.”

While it’s impossible to prevent the occasional earworm, I’ve found that there are steps you can take steps to lessen the suffering.

Theoretically, the best way to avoid getting an earworm is to live as a hermit on a remote mountain.

This is an unrealistic option for most. You can also devote your life to the avoidance of new music, but even just walking down the street exposes you to a potential drive-by shooting of songs blaring from a random car.

None of these preventive measures will help you once you get an earworm. The only true cure for earworms is to track down the whole song and listen to it repeatedly until it’s memorized in its entirety, as opposed to knowing only the catchy section that tends to loop indefinitely.

Once you can remember the whole song, whenever the earworm reoccurs, the song actually ends. Because the worst earworms are the songs you can’t identify, the severity of the earworm is

dependent on the media.Radio stations are such bad

offenders that they should be considered a public health hazard. Unlike the TV, which displays the name of the artist and the song in its music videos, the radio just assumes knowledge of songs.

If you don’t have the ability to sing your earworm out loud — so that those around you can identify the song — then there is basically no way to track the song down. You’re left stranded in a sea of crazy.

There is however still hope for closure. Like me, you might be able to find out the name of the song years after it has ravaged your sanity. When a song finds its way into the deepest part of your brain, you don’t want to be together forever.

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New Democrat Mary Rita Holland would make

the most effective Member of Provincial Parliament for Kingston and the Islands. Though she lacks the years of experience of Liberal incumbent John Gerretsen, Holland’s approachability and knowledge of student issues make her a stand out.

With nine votes of a possible 19, the Journal endorses Holland for the Oct 6. Provincial election. John Gerretsen had eight votes from the editorial board.

This compares to one vote for Green Party candidate Robert Kiley and zero for Rodger James, candidate for the Progressive Conservative Party. There was one abstention.

Holland’s relative inexperience isn’t an insurmountable weakness, and she deserves the chance to prove herself at Queen’s Park. She shows a genuine concern for the riding and would be highly receptive to the concerns of her constituents.

One major student issue in this election is how to effectively combat rising tuition rates. The NDP plan for a tuition freeze is the best proposal brought forward.

It’s a plan that would prevent annual increases from crippling students who budget carefully for their education. Accessibility should be the focus of education

policy — something that has been recognized by the NDP platform.

Holland spoke to the problems of students graduating with severe debt, and argued that the freeze is superior to the Liberal plan of a tuition reduction. Liberals want to cut tuition by 30 per cent, or an average of $1,600 per university student.

If tuition continues to rise each year, the benefits of the Liberal plan will eventually be swallowed by cost increases. The $1,600 grant only applies to undergraduates, ignoring graduate students. Students who come from families with an income of over $160,000 a year would also be exempt. This is troubling considering the fact that not all families help to subsidize the cost of a university education.

Though Holland’s platform offers the best option for students, one of its flaws is an elimination of privately-funded research. It’s both unrealistic and unnecessary for research to be solely publically funded.

University departments are fully capable of keeping their corporate sponsors at arm’s length while conducting accurate studies.

Platforms are fickle, and it’s not likely for politicians to follow through on everything they promise. For that reason, it’s important to have someone who’s familiar with the riding’s issues and is ready to tackle the challenges that will undoubtedly arise.

Gerretsen has proven his ability after serving Kingston and the Islands as MPP for 16 years. He’s aware of the special relationship between Queen’s University and Kingston, and has familial and personal ties to the University.

He said it’s important that Queen’s expand its teaching space and mentioned his role in recent town-gown achievements including the new medical building and the development of the J.K. Tett Centre.

When questioned on the issue of international student funding, Gerretsen avoided any political language and gave a sharp answer on the subject. He said it’s imperative that students be exposed to a diverse array of people and is starkly against the Progressive Conservative plan to reduce funding for international students.

The charismatic Robert Kiley of the Green Party has an intimate knowledge of the problems facing Queen’s students, but policy points failed to stand out in comparison to Holland and Gerretsen.

Kiley said that the Green Party has run of the mill platform points with regards to everything but energy. He was right. He should be commended for his sincerity.

PC candidate Roger James showed a fundamental lack of knowledge in regards to the issues

facing Queen’s and Kingston. He spoke of his long and successful career as a businessman, but refused to field questions that covered areas not mentioned in the Conservative platform.

Refusing to deviate from the PC Changebook, he kept quiet on all questions regarding rising tuition costs. James also made international student funding an unduly large issue, and said Conservatives want to cultivate current students rather than draw more to Canada.

Given the PC Party’s neglectful stance on student issues under Tim Hudak, a Conservative government would be the least desirable outcome in the provincial election.

None of the four candidates could name the current AMS President and all but James could name the Queen’s principal. For candidates claiming a desire to engage with Queen’s students, this was disappointing.

While no candidate was without faults, the NDP’s Mary Rita Holland is best suited for the position of Kingston and the Islands MPP.

The Journal’s editorial board interviewed the four candidates running to represent Kingston and the Islands on Oct. 2. Candidates were given 20 minutes each.

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Mary Rita Holland by a hairThe Journal’s editorial board endorses Kingston and the Islands NDP candidate Mary Rita Holland

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on Friday sept. 23, President of the Palestinian authority Mahmoud abbas handed United nations secretary General Ban Ki-Moon an official application for recognition of Palestine based on 1967 borders.

according to a sept. 18 BBC-Globescan poll, only 21 per cent of countries surveyed oppose the Palestinians’ desire to gain Un recognition as an independent state.

despite this, almost nothing will come of it.

the U.s. has already stated it will veto the bid in the security Council. the only positive outcome, then, would be for Palestine to maintain its observer status with voting rights in the General assembly.

It’s truly remarkable to see apologists for the most reactionary government in Israeli history disparage the Palestinian bid at the Un. the current Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin netanyahu, only began to support a two-state solution after Barack obama’s June 2009 speech in Cairo, egypt. obama spoke of his desire to mend U.s. relations with the Muslim world.

the Palestinian state netanyahu now supports is a fragmented, de-militarized one where the Israeli army will patrol and therefore control Palestine.

It was netanyahu’s intransigence and the U.s. refusal to be an honest broker of peace that prompted the Palestinians to turn to the Un in the first place. netanyahu’s settlement “freeze” — aimed at restarting peace talks with the Palestinians — was a complete sham that continued settlement construction in contested east Jerusalem, the future capital of a Palestinian state.

When offered $3 billion in arms — thus doubling U.s. aid to Israel — in exchange for a renewed settlement freeze, netanyahu refused. In fact, the Palestine Papers — a trove of documents recovered by al Jazeera in January 2011 that have since been largely forgotten — revealed that Palestinian negotiators were willing to give up almost everything for some sort of peace with Israel.

the hard truth is that this Israeli government will not give up an

inch of Palestinian territory. It was Bill Clinton, not an arab statesman, who told Foreign Policy Magazine last week that “the netanyahu government has moved away from the consensus for peace” and that it “just won’t give up the West Bank.”

In fact, just after obama called for a Palestinian state on the 1967 lines in May 2011, netanyahu came to Washington and publicly humiliated the President during a televised meeting in the oval office, citing the 1967 borders as “indefensible.”

Unsurprisingly, there was no outburst by the republicans who profess to love and stand up for america. Instead, netanyahu received 29 standing ovations when he addressed Congress less than a week after his oval office meeting.

Putting Israeli sentiments aside, the U.s. needs to consider whether a Palestinian state would be in its interests.

the answer would be an overwhelming yes. the Palestinian question is dear to the hearts of arabs across the Middle east and Muslims generally around the world.

at a time when the U.s. is attempting to rebuild Iraq, win in afghanistan, navigate a troubled relationship with Pakistan and keep to the right side of the arab spring,

recognition of Palestine aligns with the american national interest on every level.

In 2010, Gen. david Petraeus, perhaps the most respected military man in america and current CIa director, said quite bluntly during an address to the senate armed services Committee that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was “fomenting anti-american sentiment” due to “a perception of U.s. favoritism for Israel.”

In fact, unconditional support for Israel violates longstanding U.s. policies.

It has been official U.s. policy since 1967 that the West Bank and Gaza strip are occupied territories, seized by force and not part of Israel. Under International Law, forcefully acquiring a territory is illegal; thus making east Jerusalem, the West Bank, the Gaza strip and the Golan heights inadmissible as part of Israel.

It’s therefore not only unjust and reprehensible that Israel is building settlements in annexed territory but is akin to colonizing these territories — creating “facts on the ground,” as Israeli politicians have called it, to tilt diplomatic concessions that might occur decades into the future. Would backers of Israeli policy support americans moving to Baghdad and Kabul, creating settlements and displacing Iraqis and afghans?

despite some similarities, it’s worth differentiating the policy positions of Israel and the U.s. Israel’s netanyahu opposes Palestine’s Un bid for statehood simply because he opposes any truly independent Palestinian state that is not under the military control of Israel.

the U.s., on the other hand, opposes the Un vote in good faith because it wants to see real independence come from continued negotiations between Israel, Palestine and other regional stakeholders.

america’s stance raises some serious questions. If the U.s. supports a Palestinian state, why have they refused to take a balanced approach to the region? Why has the U.s. not pressured Israel to accept the arab Peace Initiative — a 2002 peace proposal put forth by the arab League that would see every arab country normalize relations with Israel in exchange for an end to the occupation?

It’s because of the powerful Israel lobby described by political scientists John Mearsheimer and stephen Walt in their 2007 book The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy.

the lobby uses the media, members of Congress, effective lobbying in Washington and support for presidential candidates to ensure the U.s. maintains a completely uncritical approach to Israel and that material support continues to flow.

It’s a shame that the U.s. will veto a resolution seeking self-determination for the world’s last colonized people. I applaud the Palestinians for finally having the courage to act in their own interests and advance their cause for independence.

It took 34 years of occupation to finally seek redress in the Un as a first step towards statehood.

the arab spring has finally come to Palestine.

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In defence of statehood bidDespite U.S. opposition, United Nations recognition of a Palestinian state would be an important step towards independence and peace with Israel

Omer Aziz, ArtSci ’12

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas holds a copy of the letter requesting Palestinian statehood on Sept. 23 at UN headquarters in New York City.

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Into the depths of WildlifeWildlife’s new album reflects the freedoms and inevitable restrictions that come after graduation

Royal Wood self-produced, arranged and played most of the instruments on his past albums. For The Waiting, his latest album, he invited Pierre Marchand to produce three of the tracks.

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Pumped up kingRoyal Wood gives Kingston fans a sneak peek of his upcoming album this week

Andrew McPhail sewed hundreds of Kleenex together to create clouds beneath a plane. The Kleenex represent the overwhelming grief McPhail experienced on a flight.

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Next issue musical plaitBraids much-anticipated debut album Native Speaker was released in January.

the lovers have itWe Were Lovers’ debut single “We’ve Got It” has a Stevie Nicks meets the Cure flavour. The band comes to Kingston ahead of their Spring 2012 debut album.

rough real estateBlue Canoe Productions presents the award winning play Glengarry Glen Ross, the tale of four real estate agents who use any means necessary to sell undesirable property.

By Mathieu Sly Contributor

A blanket of hand-stitched Kleenex floats beneath an airplane in Andrew McPhail’s new exhibit at Union Gallery. CRYBABY tells of McPhail’s experience on a transatlantic flight when a fellow passenger died of a heart attack.

Although McPhail’s work is a product of personal experience, it speaks of a relatable emotion: sadness.

In his artist statement found in the exhibit’s brochure, McPhail said the mass of Kleenex represents clouds and his overwhelming grief. The statement highlights how the artist draws upon personal experience in his work and begs the

question, is McPhail the crybaby?As is the case with most

installation art, the work itself occupies the space in unconventional ways and demands audience experience.

The high ceiling and neutral colours of the gallery allow CRYBABY to draw the viewer into reflection.

McPhail’s control of the light in the space seeks to emulate the view from a plane, looking out over stretches of clouds. The miniature Kleenex airplane, held together by artificial tears, is emphasized by a spotlight. Two small floodlights create the illusion of a sunset.

It’s almost an out-of-body perspective.

The contrast between tragedy

and the visual softness of the work suggests a certain comfort in sadness.

“The pathos of grief, the frailty of the body and the terrible humour of our being alive are, I hope, comunicated through this work,” McPhail says in his statement.

Since 2009 McPhail has focused on solo exhibits including CRYBABY. The Canadian artist is based in Hamilton and most of his work reflects his HIV status.

In recent years, McPhail has focused the majority of his time creating a “large, lace-like veil” made of 60,000 Band-Aids, called “all my little failures.”

CRYBABY is on display in Union Gallery’s Main Space until Oct. 28.

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By Caitlin ChoiAssistant Arts Editor

Dean Povinsky wasn’t about to let surgery keep his band, Wildlife, from their most extensive cross-country tour to date.

The guitarist and lead singer tore his Achilles tendon on stage during a July performance in Ottawa and has since undergone two surgeries. He said members of the band were all moving around on stage and he can’t remember what really happened.

“People who haven’t seen us

before, they obviously don’t notice the difference in performance,” Povinsky said. “[But] I can’t help but be affected mentally just because I’m used to running around the stage like crazy and I have a cast that I have to be in so I can’t move around too much.”

The Toronto band is back in Ontario, after weeks of touring in B.C., Alberta, Chicago and Minneapolis. They’re scheduled for 42 shows across Canada and a few in the U.S. The set list features tracks from their debut album Strike Hard,

By Caitlin ChoiAssistant Arts Editor

Royal Wood’s cover of Foster the People’s “Pumped Up Kicks,” posted to Youtube in June, sparked an unexpected reaction from fans. The singer-songwriter recorded the track on a whim, but has since released an EP of cover songs.

“I’ve never been a cover song guy, I’ve never really recorded them, I’ve never really performed them and I was surprised by the response,” Wood said. “Fans kept

suggesting songs that they wanted me to cover next.”

The video experiment turned into the five-song Cover Sessions EP. Wood picked the songs from fans’ online suggestions.

“I have to be able to really feel it,” he said. “You can’t fake that.”

“Nothing bothers me more than someone’s cover song that sounds like karaoke and they’re just singing over top of what already exists.”

The Cover Sessions EP is See Alumni on page 10 See Under on page 10

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Comfort in tearsAndrew McPhail’s new exhibit reflects the solace in grief


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Nim versus nurtureProject Nim shows a group of scientists attempt to teach a chimpanzee language by raising him like a human

Herbert Terrace claims Nim’s longest sentence was 16 words long, when he signed “Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you.”

By Parker MottStaff Writer

Film: Project NimDirector: James MarshDuration: 93 minutes

It’s the story of a baby taken from his mother at birth and raised in the Upper West Side of New York City. Except the baby is a chimpanzee.

The documentary, Project Nim, uses 1970s footage of a group of scientists who raise a chimp as a human in hopes of teaching him how to communicate.

In 1973, behavioural psychologist Herbert Terrace at Columbia University adopted two-week-old Nim Chimpsky. Terrace wanted to use Nim to

challenge linguist Noam Chomsky’s theory that only humans are capable of language.

Nim was raised in a middle-class household with two parents, seven siblings and a dog. Stephanie LaFarge acted as his mother, even breastfeeding him.

Nim started learning sign language at three months, eventually mastering approximately 125 signs. But Nim is still an animal, resulting in nerve-deep bites to caretakers’ arms and faces.

Four years into the experiment Terrace believed he had ample data and there was no sense putting caretakers in further danger.

The rest of the story is mostly melancholy with Nim ending up in a cage on a ranch.

Project Nim’s main fascination is that the audience can never

understand Nim’s true feelings. The film is built off interviews with Nim’s instructors, who state how Nim must have felt.

Director James Marsh uses real footage from the project and dramatic re-creations featuring actors and animatronics. These propel the narrative and compensate for obsolete footage.

It’s an entertaining, yet sorrowful story. But, Project Nim should’ve avoided emotional climaxes and engaged in more of a critique of the experiment.

Since the documentary isn’t from Nim’s perspective, there are biases in this documentary that should have been acknowledged.

Project Nim is playing at the Screening Room until Friday.

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Young Diamond. The album was released in

Canada in November 2010. It’s purposefully raw. Most of the tracks were recorded live off the floor.

“The goal of the record was to try and capture the live sound of the band, Povinsky said. “We wanted to have a certain rawness to it and then pair that with the studio creativity.”

Plans for release dates in the U.S. and the U.K. are ongoing.

The five-man band started recording the upbeat alternative-rock album in August 2009. For Povinsky, Strike Hard, Young Diamond is about the period in his life after he graduated from Queen’s with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2005.

“It’s about being young and the things that you do and the decisions that you make when you’re careless and carefree and you don’t have any restrictions on your life,” he said. “Then the acknowledgement that that part of your life doesn’t necessarily last forever.”

The band works with a reoccurring aquatic theme on songs

like “Stand in the Water” and “Sea Dreamer” as well as a photo of a beach on the album cover.

“It’s a metaphor for adventure and it’s a metaphor for the unknown and it can be a means of going somewhere,” Povinsky said. “But at the same time it can represent the darkness and the depth of things people don’t understand.”

The upcoming show at the Mansion will be Wildlife’s second time playing in Kingston.

Despite their status as Queen’s alumni, Povinsky said the band’s members haven’t always been welcome.

“I was banned from the Grad Club for about a year,” he said, adding that Wildlife hasn’t been able to book a show at the campus bar. “I don’t know if that’s over anything unsettled.”

Povinsky said he was banned in 2003 from the venue for “something involving a

fire extinguisher.”Grad Club manager Virginia

Clark has been responsible for booking live shows at the venue for 11 years. She said she doesn’t remember the incident.

“There have been a lot of incidents with fire extinguishers,” Clark said.

Wildlife plays a free show at the Mansion on Oct. 13 at 10 p.m. with Hollerado and the Pack AD.

available for free at Wood’s upcoming shows during his Sneak Peak Tour. His set list features the intimate pop-ballads from his past five albums plus a preview of material from his unreleased album.

Songs from his latest album The Waiting mirror a turning point in the singer-songwriter’s life.

“It was the most personal only in that I didn’t cover anything up in metaphor,” Wood said. “I was just getting married and I buried my grandparents and other friends had had their first kids and there was very much a dichotomy of life going on.”

Before The Waiting, Wood self-produced his albums. He said getting married opened him up to the idea of letting other people in.

“My art is the most personal and passionate … other than family and loved ones,” he said. “So to let someone in to that world was a very big deal.”

Dean Drouillard and Pierre Marchand worked as producers on the album. Wood is working with Drouillard on his upcoming album.

The tour debuted Sept. 18 at the West End Cultural Center, an intimate not-for-profit art venue in Winnipeg.

“I didn’t want to waste too much fanfare or press or energy behind a really big tour,” he said, adding that he can stick to small venues because he’s not booking to promote an album. “It would just be about the song and about the lyrics and that’s a perfect showcase for new material.”

Royal Wood plays the Octave Theatre at 711 Dalton Ave. on Friday.

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“ It’s about being young and the things that you do and the decisions that you make when you’re careless and carefree and you don’t have any restrictions on your life. ”

— Dean Povinsky, on Wildlife’s debut album

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By Benjamin DeansAssistant Sports Editor

TORONTO — Queen’s student Nick Green’s quest for $1 million is still alive. The fifth-year Engineering student advanced to the semifinals of the Kick for a Million challenge after defeating 56-year-old Brockville businessman Mike Tompkins at Toronto’s Rogers Centre.

During halftime of the Toronto Argonauts’ loss to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on Saturday night, Green converted a 20-yard field goal that barely cleared the uprights.

“I didn’t think it was in until the refs put up their hands,” Green, Sci ’11, said.

After the two men missed their first two attempts, Tompkins made a kick from 15 yards on his third attempt. Green one-upped him from 20 yards to win.

During practice earlier in the day, Green and Tompkins regularly converted field goals. But practice was in an empty stadium and 20,000 fans watched the actual contest.

The contestants spent about two hours working with former Argonauts kicker Lance Chomyk on Saturday afternoon.

“These guys really have a once-in-a-lifetime chance,” Chomyk said.

At the end of the practice, Chomyk asked Green to complete a 20-yard field goal before the break. Green missed the attempt.

Green said nerves were a factor in his first two kicks of the competition.

“At first, it wasn’t as nerve-wracking as I thought,”

Green said. “But then I missed the first field goal by a foot … that really shook my nerves.”

In the second round of kicks, Tompkins missed wide right from the 15-yard line and Green wasn’t even close from 20 yards out.

“The second kick was just terrible,” he said. “I really had to calm myself down, which is kind of hard to do in front of a crowd that big.”

In the third round, Tompkins’ 15-yard conversion put pressure on Green. Green opted to kick from 20 yards to avoid entering an

overtime round where the furthest kick would win.

“We didn’t do a distance kick in practice,” he said. “I figured I could kick 20, but I didn’t know if I could kick further than him if it came down to it.”

He travels to Hamilton on Friday for the contest semifinals. Green will face 51-year-old Greg Wilson from Calgary.

Green prepared for Saturday’s competition with Gaels kicker Dan Village last week and said he plans to continue those training sessions before the semifinals.

By LaBiBa Haque Production Manager

The men’s rugby team’s perfect season came to an end in London on Saturday with a 13-7 loss to the Western Mustangs in front of a Homecoming crowd. With the win, the Mustangs improve to 5-0 and stand alone at the top of the OUA standings.

Captain Dan Moor said Western’s fans were an added challenge.

“They generated some excitement out of it,” he said. “It affects part of the game.”

Moor said windy and wet field conditions slowed the team down. Slippery footing affected the Gaels’ ability to break away from the scrum.

The Mustangs opened the game, scoring early in the first half. They added a penalty to lead 8-0 at halftime. The Gaels responded with a try from fly-half Liam Underwood early in the second half, but a communication mistake in their own zone cost them a chance at a game-tying try late in the game.

“In the last 25 minutes we were in their goal line three to four times but we couldn’t pop one over,” he said, adding that his team didn’t spread the ball wide enough to use their speed on the wings.

“We obviously wanted this one pretty bad, unfortunately we kind of came up short,” he said. “It’s going to be an important lesson for us.”

With the loss, the Gaels fall to 3-1. They visit the Royal Military College Paladins on Friday.

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By Benjamin DeansAssistant Sports Editor

TORONTO — The football team escaped Toronto with a narrow 13-6 win over the University of Toronto Varsity Blues on Friday.

The Gaels fumbled twice and punted 13 times during the rainy encounter at Toronto’s outdoor Varsity Stadium.

“A win is a win,” quarterback Billy McPhee said. “Did we play great? No, but we played good enough … to get a victory.”

Wide receiver Boris Isakov scored the Gaels’ only touchdown off a blocked Varsity Blues punt halfway through the third quarter.

Kicker Dan Village was good for two field goals, making him the Gaels’ all-time leader in career field goals with 48.

“[It’s] awesome. Something to look back at after the season though,” Village said.

With 1:43 left in the fourth quarter, the Varsity Blues tried to score a touchdown on third down from the Gaels’ three-yard line. But Varsity Blues quarterback Andrew Gillis fumbled a snap to end the drive.

The Gaels were outplayed Friday night, but their stingy defence and Isakov’s lucky touchdown allowed them to get away with a win.

With starting back Ryan Granberg out with a knee injury, the Gaels’ offence struggled. The running game tallied 120 yards on 31 carries and quarterback Billy McPhee connected on seven out of 21 pass attempts for 91 yards.

“It wasn’t anybody’s best outing,” head coach Pat Sheahan said. “Just enough to win.”

The Gaels’ defence was also hampered with injuries as defensive linemen Johnny Miniaci and Osie Ukwuoma and linebacker Stephen Laporte all left the field during the game.

“Just about everything that could go wrong did,” Sheahan said. “[But] it was a great character win for the team. Adversity reveals character and the guys hung together. If we can get a bit more precision, we’ll be fine.”

The Gaels improve to 3-2 on the season, moving into a tie for fourth in the OUA. The team travels to play the 4-1 Windsor Lancers next weekend. If they win, the Gaels can move to second and secure a bye week in the playoffs.

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Gaels grind out winFootball team barely wins in Toronto

kick for a million

Queen’s student advancesNick Green makes 20-yard field goal on last attempt to win quarter-final of Wendy’s Kick for a Million challenge

Nick Green attempts a kick during the Wendy’s Kick for a Million quarter-finals at the Rogers Centre on Saturday night.

The football team overcame injuries and rain to win 13-6 against the University of Toronto Varsity Blues in Toronto on Friday night.

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Loss in LondonMustangs feed off their Homecoming crowd to win 13-7

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the hard road

Sports editor Gilbert Coyle assesses women’s rugby’s loss to McMaster.

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easy win

Women’s soccer defeat the Carleton Ravens 2-0.

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still slumping

An injured men’s soccer team lost again on Saturday.

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“ A win is a win. ”— Billy McPhee,

quarterback


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By GiLBerT CoyLeSports Editor

A 5-3 loss to the McMaster Marauders at West Campus on Saturday means the previously-undefeated women’s rugby team has a near-impossible route to the national championships in November.

With only one game left in the regular season, the Gaels will likely finish in second place behind the Marauders in the Russell division — the OUA’s Eastern conference. This means they’ll have to beat the first place team in the Shiels division — the Western conference — in the OUA semifinals to qualify for nationals.

They’ll face the Guelph Gryphons, a team who’s outscored opponents by a total of 339 points in four games this season to clinch first place in the Shiels division. They’ve been Ontario champions in four of the past five seasons and haven’t lost a game against OUA opposition since 2007. Last season, they beat the Gaels 54-5 in the OUA finals.

“We’re super disappointed,” captain Susan Heald said. “We all had the semifinal against Guelph in the back of our minds when we were playing that game.”

The loss shouldn’t come as a major surprise — the Gaels may have been 3-0 before Saturday, but they’ve underperformed all season. It took a last-minute try from rookie Bronwyn Corrigan to beat the Brock

Badgers (1-3) at home two weeks ago. They were sloppy in their win against the York Lions last weekend. And they could only score three points at home on Saturday against McMaster.

The Marauders squad was looking for revenge. Last season, the Gaels won 15-14 in Hamilton to clinch first place in the Russell division. They went on to beat the Waterloo Warriors in the OUA semifinals en route to a fifth-place finish at the national championships. The Marauders lost 39-0 to the Gryphons and didn’t qualify for the nationals. Only the two OUA finalists qualify for the tournament.

It felt like a playoff game on Saturday. The teams combined for only eight points in a physical battle with very few scoring chances. Most of the game was spent in the middle of the field.

“Every single ruck was like a fight to the death,” Heald said.

The Gaels struggled to deal with high winds, playing far more cautiously than in previous games this season. With the wind behind them in the first half, the Gaels carried the play, but could only score off a penalty conversion from Corrigan to lead 3-0 at the half.

“Going into second half, I had a feeling that we didn’t score as much as we needed to in the first,” Heald said. “We definitely

the loss shouldn’t come as a surprise — the Gaels may have been 3-0 before Saturday, but they’ve underperformed all season.

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Back on trackWomen breeze to 2-0 win over CarletonBy emiLy LoweContributor

Inclement weather was the women’s soccer team’s toughest opponent in the Gaels’ 2-0 win over the Carleton Ravens at Richardson Stadium on Saturday.

“It was a miserable day with miserable conditions,” head coach Dave McDowell said. “[The team] did a good job of handling the wind in the second half.”

The Gaels coasted to victory in the second half after two first-half goals in the early minutes of the game. Captain Kelli Chamberlain scored her fifth goal of the season in the 11th minute and defender Mikyla Kay added a second in the 34th, giving the Gaels a 2-0 lead at the break.

The win over the Ravens was important for the team after a tie against the University of Toronto Varsity Blues last weekend ended the team’s six-game winning streak last weekend. The victory keeps the

team in first-place in the OUA East.McDowell said the

disappointment against the Varsity Blues had a positive effect.

“It was a good reminder for the girls,” McDowell said. “If you go through a season where you don’t get those wake up calls, maybe you get them in the playoffs.”

Saturday marked defender Brienna Shaw’s second game back from injury that saw her miss the first eight games of the regular season. Shaw separated a shoulder and fractured a rib at the FISU Summer Universiade in Shenzhen, China this summer.

Shaw’s return means she’ll be in the lineup for her team’s game against the second-place Ottawa Gee-Gees on Wednesday. The Gaels beat the rival Gee-Gees 1-0 last month in Kingston — their first win against the Ottawa team since 2009. The 8-2-1 Gee-Gees trail the 8-0-1 Gaels by three points in the OUA East.

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Injuries kept seven starters out of the men’s soccer team’s 4-2 loss to the Carleton Ravens Saturday afternoon at Richardson Stadium.

The Ravens scored two goals in 16 minutes. Striker Pat Zanetti pulled the Gaels within one with a goal in the 22nd minute, but the Gaels quickly surrendered a penalty kick to the Ravens.

The Gaels are now fourth in the OUA East with a 4-3-1 record. The Ravens lead the OUA East with an 8-2 record. Striker Sam McHugh led Carleton with a hat trick.

The Gaels beat the Ravens 2-0 in Ottawa in their first game of the season on Sept. 7. Captain Jordan Brooks said his team didn’t have the same intensity on Saturday.

“Today there were times where we just seemed flat,” he said. “It was almost like we didn’t want to put in the work to win the game.”

Before Saturday’s game, the Gaels hadn’t given up more than two goals in any game this season. Team captain and star defender Joe Zupo was sidelined on Saturday with a head injury. But Brooks said the poor defensive outing wasn’t due to injuries. Midfielder Peter Christidis and winger Andrew Colosimo are other notable injuries.

“There are plenty of excuses we could make,” Brooks said. “But we have a deep enough team that everyone knows they’re expected to perform well.”

Head coach Chris Gencarelli declined to comment to the Journal after the game.

Assistant coach and former captain Mike Zanetti said the Gaels need to stay focused for 90 minutes to beat top opponents.

“We had a couple of mental lapses early on,” he said. “We can’t have little mistakes like that if we’re going to compete with teams like this.”

Zanetti said he has confidence in his squad’s ability to rebound despite recent struggles. The team has only won once in their last five games.

“It’s such a short season,” he said. “It’s just all about peaking at the right time. We still think we can make a deep run into the playoffs.”

The Gaels travel to Toronto next weekend to face the University of Toronto Varsity Blues and the Ryerson Rams. The Gaels lost to the Blues and tied the Rams at Richardson Stadium last weekend.The Carleton Ravens celebrate their second goal in

front of Gaels midfielder Nick Pateras at Richardson Stadium on Saturday.

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men’s soccer

Home lossRavens score early and often against depleted Gaels roster

Guelph awaitsplayed it too safe.”

The Marauders immediately took advantage of the wind in the second half, scoring early to take a 5-3 lead. The Gaels responded by controlling much of the play and holding most of the possession, but they couldn’t score in Marauders territory.

“We were just basically playing ping pong across the field and not making any yards,” Heald said.

“We missed opportunities when they were there.”

The Gaels will likely beat the University of Toronto Varsity Blues next weekend to finish 4-1 on the season. They’ll be favoured to win their OUA quarter-final match. But they won’t beat the Gryphons dynasty.

The whole season revolved around Saturday’s game. The Gaels needed a win to return to nationals. That’s not going to happen anymore.


Gaels winger Riley Filion holds off a Carleton Ravens defender during her team’s 2-0 win on Saturday.

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By Jessica FishBeinPostscript Editor

Breaking is one genre of dance that attracts a surprisingly small number of female participants at Queen’s.

Olivia Margie, ArtSci ’14, is the only girl in the Queen’s club KinetiQ — a breaking performance crew.

“The guys are really nice and don’t treat me differently,” she said.

“It would be better if there are more girl breakers, but it’s still a good experience.”

While Margie only started breaking in the winter of last year, she said she’s observed a definite gender divide.

“Maybe it’s because of the strength required … boys are naturally stronger than girls and inclined to work out more heavily.

“But I don’t really know why there are less girls because it’s still a creative dancing expression.”

Margie said she’s benefited from being amongst male dancers.

“They’ve developed their own styles and I learn from it,” she said.

After joining the breaking club in the winter of last year, the members asked her to join the performance crew.

“I definitely hated having to perform at first because of all the attention on you, especially if you’re the only girl people, can pick on you after,” she said. “But the guys are really encouraging.”

Margie said she’s hopeful about breaking gaining more female participants.

“It could change, and it’s probably different depending on the circles you’re travelling in. In a big dancing community there are probably more girls doing it, where breaking’s more popular,” she said.

“More girls would start if they knew you can just start when you know nothing, and you improve when you work at it.”

Charles Gao is this year’s KinetiQ president. He said the talent of B-girls, or female breakers, doesn’t disappoint.

“I have personally seen some amazing female dancers, and gender inequality [in breaking] is only reflective of gender inequality in society at large. I like to think of B-girls as resisting the status quo, that girls can get down like the boys do and express themselves as equals,” he said.

“[Famous] B-girls Bonita and Feenx come to mind as girls who maintain their femininity, but can hold it down in the cipher [dance battle].”

Breaking itself isn’t a commonly known sport, Gao said. The genre evolved in New York City in the 1970s and was originally referred to as breaking or B-boying by its proponents. For this reason, the media’s popularization of the term break-dancing is offensive for

many breakers, Gao said. Gao, Comm ’12, learned how

to break in his first year at Queen’s.“Almost no one comes to

Queen’s knowing how to B-boy,” he said. “The only prerequisite is that you have a B-boy mentality when you dance.”

Gao said breaking has changed his life.

“I was trying to find something new to do and I’ve always kind of wanted to do it, but in the suburbs there was no one to teach me,” he said. “Now it’s an integral part of me.”

According to Gao, there are four main moves in breaking: toprock, downrock, power moves and freeze suicides.

Top rock involves dance steps that a breaker does from a standing position. Downrock is when the dancer uses their hands as well as their feet on the floor to move. Power moves require the breaker to use their upper body strength as they spin the rest of their body in a circular motion, while freezing involves the suspension of movement in any variety of complicated moves.

“It’s really intricate and there’s a lot of structure to it,” Gao said.

“When I started, I was really skinny

and didn’t have much muscle … I took like a year [to learn],” he said, adding that he turned to Youtube to perfect his style.

Breaking moves borrow from many different types of dance styles. For example, the flare is a well-known breaking move that borrows from gymnastic styles.

“It’s the one where your legs are just swinging around and you balance with your hands,” Gao said, adding that it takes more than physical strength to excel in breaking.

“It’s combination of your determination to push and improve your body, how well you treat it, and who you have teaching you,” he said. “People that I’ve taught the same moves to have picked them up in as quickly as two months.”

Breaking classes at Queen’s are geared towards recreation, Gao said.

The KinetiQ club practices in a studio at the ARC for four hours per week. The club has 35 members.

“We always start off with a bunch of people, and some people aren’t sure if they want to do it,” Gao said, adding that people tend to drop out as schoolwork picks up.

Gao and the six other members

of KinetiQ performance crew teach classes to club members.

Like all sports, Gao said he engages in warm ups before practicing with his crew.

“There are of course injuries that occur, just like in any sport,” he said.

Wrists, toes and thumbs are most commonly injured.

“It’s very rare for someone to seriously injure themselves,” Gao said.

While breaking stays true to its original form, Gao said, this isn’t the case with all hip-hop dance.

“In a lot of modern hip-hop dance, they try to combine all the styles. It may look cool and they perform it very well, but there’s a lack of acknowledgment of the history of dance,” he said.

KinetiQ aims to educate its members on the history of hip-hop, Gao said.

“We try to promote a kind of original street dance style,” he said. “When you know the exact names of the moves you’re doing and where they came from, it has more meaning.”

The Flow Dance Club also draws from hip hop and encourages participants to express themselves creatively.

When I attended a Flow class, the first thing I noticed was that each dancer sported a pair of brightly coloured running shoes. When I asked whether the shoes were a mandatory part of a flow dancer’s uniform, I was told they were optional, but important.

“Its part of the attitude that comes with being a hip hop dancer,” Cassie Jackman, Flow

co-president said.The club started at Queen’s

in 2007.“It was started because

dancers wanted a club that wasn’t just class-based —something that was more of just an outlet for freestyle,” Jackman, ArtSci ’12, said.

According to Jackman hip hop incorporates freestyle or improvisational moves, unlike in ballet or jazz.

“It’s not arranged by levels and is open to everyone,” she said.

“The choreography is usually at an advanced level, but taught at a slower pace.”

Judging from the swiftness and complexity of the dance moves, I beg to differ. The Flow dancers casually plowed through a routine to Keri Hilson’s “Gimme What I Want” using impressive choreography they apparently learned briefly last week.

“There’s more top 40 music,” Jackman said.

As a result of the hip hop dance community’s inclusivity,

Jackman said the participants in her classes have become close friends. Each class can have up to 50 participants.

“We have socials and we’re all so close. Because there are no levels, there’s no competition and no trying to be the best in the class,” she said.

Dancers in a Flow Dance session use hip hop and freestyle in their technique. Flow Dance practices take place in ARC studios throughout the school year. photo by corey lablans

InsIde Flow dance

“ It’s a combination of your determination to push and improve your body, how well you treat it and who you have teaching you. ”

— Charles Gao, President of KinetiQ

Flow offers five classes a week, with classes starting from $55 for a full year. — Jessica Fishbein


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