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The Runner RoundupA brief run around the latest news from the world of Kwantlen and beyond.
Nineteen Kwantlen students were recognized for their leadership and community service on March 29 at the university’s Surrey campus. The 2012 Celebration of Leadership and Ser-vice reception celebrated the contributions of Kwantlen student leaders.
This was the first year year for Kwantlen’s Student Life and Community Division Awards which recognizes students with the Contribu-tion to Student Life Award and the Giving Back Citizenship Award in the amounts of $500 and $1,000 each, respectively.
Fourteen students received the Contribu-
Kwantlen gives back
Design graduates showcase work
tion to Student Life Award: Muhjah Abou-saleh, Michael Chang, Samuel Chin, Andrea Danyluk, Ashley Doyle, Iman Ghahremani, James Grange, Aadil Jesani, Kritika Kanotra, Debbie Langtry, Cassie Plotnikoff, Devon Richards, Sheridan Taylor and Manpreet Up-pal.
The Giving Back Citizenship Award was awarded to seven Kwantlen students who volunteered outside of the university: Mi-chael Chang, Charlene Chen, David Dryden, David Warren Koyanagi, Debbie Langtry, April Nicholls and Anna Smith.PHOTO COURTESY OF KWANTLEN
On Monday, April 16, the culmination of four years of hard work finally came to frui-tion as the graduating class from Kwantlen’s Interior Design program presented their fi-nal projects to friends, family and industry. Among the graduates is Carolyn Cuthbert whose final project focuses on a youth cen-tre for Richmond.
As a graduate of Hugh McRoberts Sec-ondary School, Cuthbert found her niche by creating a conceptual project around the historic Gulf of Georgia Cannery in Ste-veston. As a young person who grew up in a suburb, and with two younger brothers, Carolyn saw the need for a gathering place for young people.
“I wanted to create a place where youth could meet, relate to each other, and of course stay out of trouble,” said Cuthbert.
With the cannery as her backdrop and inspiration, she created a youth centre that
would preserve the historical structure while creating a modern, youthful design within. The conceptual driver for the design was the folding and unfolding of origami. This concept influenced the planning, vol-ume development and ultimately sculpting of interior space.
“My interest in interior design and ar-chitecture stems from my desire to leave an impression on those that come into contact with my designs,” explained Cuthbert.
Upon graduation from Kwantlen Poly-technic University this spring, Cuthbert hopes to pursue her master’s degree in ar-chitecture. Until then, she will continue her work as an interior designer with a local restaurant chain.
Cuthbert and her colleagues in the inte-rior design program showcased their final projects on Monday, April 16 at the Archi-tectural Institute of BC.
A SNEAK PEEK AT KWANTLEN INTERIOR DESIGN STUDENT, CAROLYN CUTHBERT’S FINAL PROJECT.
I MATT LAWMEDIA EDITOR
Transportation is a hot button issue in British Columbia, and for Canada’s fast-est growing city, the debate is picking up speed.
Results from the 2011 national census show that Surrey’s population grew at a rate three times the national average, which means there are a lot of commuters hitting the streets.
Increased vehicle traffic, full busses and poor transit service are making many resi-dents south of the Fraser River wonder if there is a better option.
The answer, says Peter Holt, a member of the Valley Transportation Advisory Com-mittee (VALTAC), may lie in a system more than 100 years old and already in place.
Holt, who previously served as head of the Surrey Board of Trade and chaired the Lower Mainland Chambers’ Transportation Panel, believes that existing rail lines should be utilized to improve transportation in the entire south of Fraser region.
Holt and VALTAC have focused their advocacy efforts on connecting communi-ties, from Surrey to Abbotsford and as far as Hope, through the redevelopment of a Light Rail Transit (LRT) system.
“For us it’s about connecting south of the Fraser communities as opposed to just increasing the volume flows on the hub and spoke that flows into Vancouver,” said Holt.
By creating a sustainable transportation network, said Holt, these communities will be able to enhance their economic develop-ment, combat urban sprawl and create more pleasant surroundings at transit nodes.
The original Interurban Rail system was built in 1910 and ran streetcars from down-town Vancouver right into the suburbs. Passenger services continued on sections of the rail line until the 1950s. As cars be-came more affordable, commuters opted for the convenience of their own vehicle rather than taking a train.
In 2012, this trend continues. According to the latest census data, of the 468,251 resi-dents in Surrey 156,610 regularly commute by car while only 20,040 use public transit.
“If we continue to grow at the rate we’ve
been growing, the residents are going to get very, very frustrated,” said Holt.
There are other options to an LRT system but Holt believes that developing the exist-ing rail lines would be both cost effective and reduce congestion on the roads.
“Rapid rail is very expensive,” he said. “Skytrain is $120,000 per metre. Every five metres of rapid rail capital cost would be a bus. So, every kilometre is 200 busses.”
But adding more busses to the streets would not necessarily help the problem of congestion either.
“More busses on the road will actually choke back the flow that that road is capa-ble of taking. And if you are going to grow the population like you did in Surrey in five years by 73,000 people, something has got to give,” said Holt.
VALTAC’s vision is to develop a rail line that commuters would be able to board near the Scott Road SkyTrain station. The route would pass through Nordel Crossing, Surrey’s industrial sector and on to Newton Centre. It would then continue through the Sullivan area to Cloverdale where it would pass the Kwantlen Polytechnic University
campus before heading to Trinity Western University and further out the valley.
According to Holt, this would require only six kilometres of new rail line and would cost close to 25 per cent less than a rapid transit system such as SkyTrain.
“VALTAC’s position was although it wasn’t perfect in its route, it actually joined a lot of the communities together,” he said.
Despite the potential positives of bring-ing an LRT passenger rail line to the valley, the task has met many political road blocks in the past.
In 2007, when Holt sat on Surrey’s com-mittee to discuss light rail with TransLink, the idea was given a flat tire.
“TransLink patently refused even to dis-cuss the rail line,” said Holt.
While Holt admits he is not sure why TransLink was unwilling to discuss the idea of light rail, he does believe it is part of a larger political problem.
“Our mobility south of the Fraser, over 25 years, has been compromised by execu-tive decisions out of the premier’s office, and this is NDP or BC Liberals, it doesn’t matter,” he said.
Holt states that because of a lack of po-litical power by mayors south of the Fraser, the region’s transportation infrastructure has fallen terribly behind – but this may be changing.
Mayors from Surrey, White Rock Ab-botsford, the Langleys and Delta met for the first time on April 5 as the South of Fraser Mayors’ Committee to discuss ways of con-tinuing to improve the region. Light rail was one of the items on the table.
“That was the point of getting together and having some of those discussion be-cause everyone supports at-grade rail which is very important south of the Fraser,” said Mayor Dianne Watts who supports the use of existing rail beds but admits some of the routes may not be viable.
This meeting was promising for Holt, who believes that collective action is the only way to improve transit in the region.
“If we can get the mayors to all act to-gether and demand, and I mean demand, that this is what we want, then I think there is a potential that this could start to happen within 10 years,” he said.
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TRANSPORTATION
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Existing Rail lines in Surrey and the Fraser Valley may provide a cost effective solution to improving transportation throughout the entire region. MATT LAW/THE RUNNER
PROTEST
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I ARSHY MANNTHE UBYSSEY (UBC)
VANCOUVER (CUP) — A small protest elicited a strong reaction from security at the University of British Columbia’s Alma Mater Society (AMS) Student Union Build-ing (SUB) last week.
A group of about half a dozen students were told they would be arrested if they continued to hand out leaflets protesting the Canadian military presence in Libya.
“I feel like our perspective is really being actively silenced by security,” said Arielle Friedman, one of the students at the pro-test.
The protest was taking place in front of a Canadian Forces booth at a job fair being held in the main concourse of the SUB.
An AMS security guard at the scene
confirmed that they had told the students to stop handing out the leaflets or else face arrest.
“If you don’t stop doing it, that’s when I said you have to leave the building and if you do not leave the building and stop handing out leaflets then we will have to use other force to get you to stop,” she said.
The security guard went on to say that because of AMS policy, if the protestors wanted to hand out leaflets, they would have to make a booking with the AMS.
“It’s not about their cause, we have nothing against that. It’s [the] policies right now.”
According to one of the recruiters, the protestors were handing out leaflets to peo-ple who were trying to get information from the booth. This made it difficult for people to get to the booth itself, and also clogged
up the hallway for people that were trying to pass by.
“We told them basically that if they didn’t give us space for people to come to our booth, that we would talk to security. So we did,” said Corporal Evan Clark.
Friedman said that the protestors had told AMS security that they would move elsewhere in the SUB in order to be less in-trusive, but that security insisted they could not hand out leaflets anywhere in the build-ing.
“They clearly said anywhere in the Student Union Building. We offered to ac-commodate, to make the hall passable for people,” she said. AMS security declined to comment on the event or their policy around leafleting.
Clark, who is a BA student at UBC, said that this was his first time recruiting for the
armed forces.“We’re not by any strech of the means
professional recruiters,” he said. “We’re just part-time soldiers.”
He said that the protestors were peace-ful, but not pleasant, to the recruiters.
“They weren’t really aggressive,” he said. “They weren’t shouting or pushing, they were just a little antagonistic, trying to say things to get emotional responses.”
Clark went on to say that although this was his first time recruiting, he wasn’t sur-prised by the protest.
“When the Canadian Forces is in the pub-lic, we do come up with people that protest various things, and we’re the target of that sometimes, justly or unjustly,” he said.
“When you’re wearing something like this,” he said referring to his uniform, “you’re a target, for good or bad.”
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vol. 4 issue 15 | April 17, 2012 | page sevenwww.runnermag.ca | The Runner EDITORIAL
IMATT LAWMEDIA EDITOR
The Canadian electoral system is miles be-hind if it wants to engage the youth vote. The system of paper ballots and liver-spot-ted talking heads resonates more closely with geriatrics stuck in the Dark Ages than it does with tech savvy 18-24-year-olds.
If Canada really wants to get youth to exercise a right that people in other coun-tries are fighting for with their lives, we need change.
Canadian youth are no less passion-ate than those who took a stand in Tahrir Square. Nor are they the apathetic loafs the silver-haired generation dub as lazy.
The problem lies with our politicians and our archaic model of an electoral system.
President Obama was able to engage vot-ers of all ages. He showed passion, thought-fulness, forward thinking and offered hope for change.
What Canadian politician has done any of these things in recent years? Canada saw a glimmer of hope in Jack Layton’s Orange Crush, but was dealt a blow shortly after.
When politicians show they are fighting for a better Canada and not the prize for best vocals during Question Period, youth — and all voters — will respond.
The physical act of voting needs as much of a face lift as our politicians’ personalities. Until we have a system where technology is utilized to bring the voting process to the individual, voter turnout will continue to decline. Canada needs an electronic vot-ing system that youth can access by simply pausing their game of Angry Birds and log-
ging in on their smart phone or computer. Of course, we can’t neglect the debate
of complete electoral reform either. A move to a system of proportional representation may just give everyone a feeling that their vote does make a difference.
People bemoan the drop in youth votes of the past several decades, but it is not just youth who have become disenfranchised with the electoral system. A study done by Simon Fraser University after the 2011 election shows that there has been an over-all drop in the number of registered voters exercising their democratic right. Is this de-cline a result of a slowly vanishing sense of patriotism and national connectedness that held strong — not just Canada but around the Western world — following the Second World War when voter turnout was at its peak?
Perhaps.The war years united Canadians, but our
continually fragmented and divisive politi-cal system has forgotten that we are a na-tion that reaches from coast to coast to coast and represents people of all ages.
But those lazy, good-for-nothin’, high-fa-lutin’ younguns don’t get a free ride in the “why aren’t they voting” debate.
In 2011, Elections Canada estimates that just 37.4 per cent of voters aged 18-24 showed up at polling stations. This is the lowest turnout of any age group.
The electoral system is a two-sided coin. Youth complain their voices go unheard in parliament. It’s true, but the harsh reality is that they are not making their voices heard in the system that we have – broken as it may be.
If you change it, votes will comeThe growing disconnect between politicians and Canadian youth is a sign of a stagnant political culture in drastic need of a shake-up.
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Lying motionless in my sleeping bag, I listen to a foreign world waking up around me. A group of people walk past my opaque win-dow, casting soft shadows along the egg-shell walls of my small room in the Hostal Chaska Wasi. I arrived in Ollantaytambo, the staging ground for those hiking the Inca Trail, late the night before on a bus packed with pale-skinned sweaty tourists. Percy, our Peruvian guide, had ushered us through ancient cobbled passageways to the adobe hostel that would provide the last real bed before we embark on the 45 kilometre trek through the Andes.
I had never stepped foot in a place so an-cient. The narrow streets of the 15th century Incan city nestled along the Urubamba River holds more history than all the other cities I had ever visited combined. The dusty stone buildings serve as some of South America’s oldest continually inhabited homes. Sur-rounded by sheer cliffs, it is easy to see why Ollantaytambo became a short-lived
stronghold for the Incan resistance against Spanish conquistadores during 1530s.
The sound of Percy’s voice echoes through the hostel as he bangs on doors and shouts “wakeup call” in what can only be described as a suave Spanish accent. I pack my gear quickly, loading everything but my equipment for the day in a purple duffle bag to be carried by our porters. Controversy surrounds this seemingly innocent occupa-tion in Peru. In the past, many porters have been forced to carry unimaginable loads for tourists wanting the Inca Trail experience. In more recent years, regulations have been put in place which limit the load a porter can carry to 25 kilos, but many companies still disregard this rule. I pack my bag light just to be safe.
I force open the warped wooden door of my room to warm morning light and the smell of pancakes and fried eggs — a welcome scent when a four-day trek is just hours away.
The small kitchen is full of puffy-faced, bleary-eyed people. Percy had dubbed us a family — a rag tag group of Brits, Ameri-
cans, Finns, French and even some fellow Canucks — all about to embark on a sacred pilgrimage.
“OK family, it’s time to go,” announces Percy as he comes bouncing into the small room. He launches into a description of the day with all the exuberance of someone be-ing paid to drag unsuspecting tourists to their doom.
He leads us through the narrow streets of the city as we haul our gear to one last bus ride. I run my hand along the smooth stonework of the city; the walls have been worn to an almost pearl-like sheen from hundreds of years of civilization. The Inca masons built this city from rock and roll, literally. Spending days in the mountains, the Inca would pour water into cracks in the rocks and wait for it to freeze and cleave boulders from the mountainside. The mono-lithic stones would be sent tumbling down the slopes where they would be transported back to the city and worked by hand to fit perfectly into place.
We launch our duffle bags to Percy, who, it seems, has launched himself onto the top
of the bus with the youthful prowess of someone much younger than 45. He ties the bags down while singing a tune in Spanish and not so subtly checking out the women in our group. As if on cue, an elderly wom-an hobbles into our midst, thrusting small bags of green leaves toward us.
“Coca, coca,” she insists. We accept the bags and offer a few Soles,
the Peruvian currency, in return before we climb onto the bus.
The trip winds through farm fields and narrow dirt roads lined with huts of ques-tionable structural integrity. Garbage litters the roadside and the banks of the Urubam-aba River, the result of seasonal flooding and a lack of any garbage management. The ride is short and my excitement begins to take over as the bus rolls to a stop in a deserted dusty parking lot. Our family files out into the sun and proceeds to queue in-side a series of metal gates as we wait to be allowed into the historical Machu Picchu Sanctuary – essentially a national park. It is like entering a different country. Our pass-ports are collected by uniformed officials
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and our permits inspected. One by one we are admitted to the trailhead, a dusty piece of gravel path that looks nothing like the National Geographic specials I had watched at home. Our family gathers on the other side of a bridge crossing the Urubamaba. Percy pulls us into a circle where we are given a motivational speech about team-work and pacing ourselves. At the end, we put our hands in the middle and throw them up with a cheer – we are off.
My first steps along the fabled Inca Trail are a shock. The sacred route is lined with small homes and a high-voltage power line runs parallel to the trail atop a steel tower. It’s not long before we begin to pass locals on the trail; a woman with two children, a man riding a department store mountain bike and another carrying what looks like a satellite TV box. This portion of the trek, I suppose, is like walking through a suburb on our way to the wilderness – a fact none of the brochures mentioned.
Percy soon has our family circled around a large boulder as we take our first break. He uncurls his fist to reveal several of the tiny leaves the old woman had sold us.
“These are coca leaves,” he says. “They are powerful and will help you along your journey. Let it sit under your tongue and let the juice absorb.”
We each take a few leaves and slip them into our mouths. I cannot help but feel a little dangerous as I suck on the bitter source of one of North America’s most deadly drugs. Coca is an important crop in Peru and many parts of South America. The leaves do not hold the same narcotic power as the refined form, which must be processed chemically to produce cocaine. Coca has been chewed and used in tea for hundreds of years for its medicinal purposes and effects as a stimu-lant. For a pack of gringos searching for the Peruvian experience, however, coca is used to help combat altitude sickness and add a little excitement to the day.
We make our way along the rolling ridg-es overlooking the Urubamaba Gorge. The sky, it seems, is a deeper blue in the Andes. Smog and haze that we have become so ac-customed to in big cities is a distant memory here. As we march along the trail, the faint sound of a train chugging its way along the valley bottom drifts up the canyon – its cars filled with tourists taking the path more travelled to Machu Picchu, no doubt.
Our hike is interrupted as teams of por-ters wearing matching uniforms appear out of nowhere from behind us. They whip past in a colourful blur as they run to the first campsite. For a wage of just $15 American
dollars a day, the porters are the real heroes of the Inca Trail. Many prefer to hike (or run) in sandals despite being offered more appropriate footwear by the companies that hire them. Some are just teenagers while others are in their 50s and 60s. Regardless of age, the tourists are put to shame and we cheer whenever a team of them pass.
Our first night’s camp is in a small Quechuan village called Wayllabamba. We are greeted with congratulations and clap-ping from our porters who have already set up camp and prepared a lunch of fried fish and rice. The day’s hike was only 12 kilometres but we inhale the food as if we had been walking for days. Snow-capped mountains and terraced fields growing po-tatoes surround us as we lay in the grass letting our feet rest and our lunches digest. It is a serene setting, the kind I was looking for on a trek rated as one of the top five in the world. I begin to drift off to the sound of chirping birds and the rustle of trees in a gentle breeze. The sun casts a fiery glow across the mountains as it slips from view.
The next morning we wake to tubs of hot water and pungent coca tea brought to our tents. The family meets for breakfast and a description of the day’s hike. It will only be 11 kilometres to the next camp but it is the toughest day of the trek. The trail zigg zaggs as it climbs more than 1000 metres to the highest pass on the Inca Trail. Lost in the clouds, Huarmiwañusqa, or more ominous-ly known as Dead Woman Pass, stands at a mere 4,215 metres above sea level.
I make sure my coca is easily accessible as I pack my bag for the day. We shoulder our backpacks and begin the climb out of the valley. It’s only a matter of minutes be-fore our porters have caught us again. They pass silently as they focus on hauling our gear to the top of a mountain, literally.
Someone once said it is the journey not the destination, but whoever it was had clearly not hiked Dead Woman Pass. As the trail breaks free of the tree line and spills into the open alpine tundra, I begin to feel as though the coca leaves are a lie. I need something stronger. Perhaps the chemically reduced cocaine would be more appropri-ate in this situation. The journey begins to feel like I am hiking Mount Everest. I take two steps and stop to take four breaths. One foot in front of the other is all I can manage. I begin stuffing wads of coca into my mouth hoping that sheer volume will overcome any affects of altitude. Our family quickly deteriorates into roving packs as the strong leave the weak behind. I bring up the rear as I struggle to catch my breath. Hiking in
the Andes is a strange feeling I can only lik-en to attempting to walk up a flight of stairs when you have fever of 104 and a chest cold that threatens to force your lungs out through your mouth each time you cough.
After four hours of agony we crest Dead
Woman Pass and slump exhausted onto the ground. Clouds swirl around us as Percy congratulates us for making it this far.
“OK family, I will tell you why this is called Dead Woman Pass,” says Percy as he calls us over to the group.
“I do not have a fancy story of a woman dying here. It is simple, really. From the val-ley below, the mountain looks like a woman lying down. That is how it became called Dead Woman Pass.”
I felt robbed. All that work and story time at the top of the mountain is a brief description of a rock’s visage. I didn’t have time to grumble, however, the family was back together and we still had to descend the other side.
Day three of the Inca Trail becomes a les-son in bodily functions. Apparently, as I am told, altitude sickness can cause severe di-arrhea, vomiting and a cacophony of other wonderful symptoms, of which I seem to have developed them all. The 16 km hike turns into a game of seeing how far I can shuffle before running into the bushes for another violent eruption of Montezuma’s Revenge. By the time I arrive at the final campsite the sun is setting and I can hardly
walk. I spend the night chugging Gatorade and wondering if I will live to see Machu Picchu.
The 4 a.m. wakeup call comes all too early. Today’s hike is short, just six kilome-tres to the prize of arriving at one of the new Seven Wonders of the World. But the goal is to get there fast. Hundreds of hikers are pre-paring to bear down on Machu Picchu and Percy wants us to be there first. We throw our gear together and jog to the park gates which open a 6 a.m. Our family is the first one there and we sit restlessly waiting for the park officials to let us through. A lineup forms as other groups arrive behind us – it begins to feel as if we are staging for a race. I wait anxiously, worried that I will not have the strength to keep up with what is clearly going to be a sprint to the finish.
The park officials might as well have fired a starting gun when they opened the gate. We surge through and rush along the narrow stone pathway. I stumble along try-ing to keep up with the pack. I begin to fall behind as my family pushes onward try-ing to stay ahead of the other groups. The pace is quick; not quite a jog but I certainly have both feet off the ground at times. The first set of stairs almost kills me. I climb up them like a ladder and pause at the top to catch my breath. The competition quickly takes advantage and passes me while I am down.
I force myself up and continue along the trail through thick forests and over moun-tain ridges. Before I realize what is happen-ing the dense jungle disappears and I am standing on an ancient ruin overlooking a cloud covered valley. Banks of grey mist drift along the ridges below.
“Family, you are at the Sun Gate,” says Percy. “Below us is Machu Picchu, it is only a little further.”
I peer down into the valley to see the ghostly shadows of Machu Picchu below. It must have been quite a site when American explorer Hiram Bingham first brought the citadel to the world’s attention 101 years ago.
We descend through the clouds follow-ing the route of the Inca as we make our way to the final point in our journey. Our family stops on the final ridge above Ma-chu Picchu as we pull out cameras and take turns photographing each other with the lost city as our backdrop. After the photo ops, the group splits up as we head in dif-ferent directions to explore the ruins. I stay behind to sit on a smooth stone and drink in the scene. The view is awe-inspiring.
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BURLESQUE
ISARAH SCHUCHARDCONTRIBUTOR
She struts on stage, each step fluid and methodically planned out.
Letting her coat spill onto the floor, with one swift movement she takes off her bra to reveal glittered nipple pasties.
Preferred to be called by her formal stage name, Miss Fitt attends univer-sity by day, and performs as a burlesque dancer for Pandora and the Locksmith by night.
Fitt managed to obtain an associate’s degree in psychology at Kwantlen, before attending UBC for her bachelor of phsy-chology.
A professional dancer since the age of 18, it came as no surprise for Fitt to stum-ble upon the art of strip tease.
Fitt discovered the burlesque world through fellow singer, Burnaby Brix who was already involved in the art.
As well as singing, go-go dancing, cabaret, and performing in a number of cover bands, Fitt’s dance career has en-abled her to experience and learn things she wouldn’t have been able to do other-wise.
One of the many opportunities that has been presented to Fitt includes a per-formance for the Malaysian royal family, which she describes as one of the craziest karaoke parties she’s been to.
Growing up as a very extroverted show-off-type person, Fitt says, she finds the art of burlesque to be an empowering experience.
With its liberating undertone and strong sense of female empowerment, burlesque has become an art form that celebrates womens bodies in every age, ethnicity and shape.
Although a sex-positive feminist place that rejects oppression, Fitt explains, this risqué and unconventional art has public-ly received a vast spectrum of reactions.
If not expecting to see Cher and Chris-
Student by day, dancer by nightBurlesque is a sex-positive, feminist activity says local burlesque dancer and Kwantlen student.
Burlesque offers opportunities to explore the creative self, says Fitt. SARAH SCHUCHARD/THE RUNNER.
tina Aguilera strutting in glitter embroi-dered bustiers, some people find watch-ing a performer strip down to nipple pasties as something they may not be able to, “know what’s appropriate, how to re-act, [or] how to take it,” says Fitt.
In the art of burlesque, one could con-nect the conventions of the art to that of a strip club, where empowerment and a positive, healthy view of the female body is rarely associated in the same mind set.
Admittedly, Fitt confides that while some performers wish to separate their artistic image from that of a stripper, there is a sense of freedom that also might be associated in the a strip club.
In associating conventional stripping with a shameful act ultimately one would be, “buying right into the oppressive, pa-triarchal society we do live in,” Fitt ex-plains.
Performing and creating to reject op-pression, Fitt, along with the colourful group of artists and feminists, has formed into a community from one of the most liberated and warm of audiences.
The true burlesque junkies and those who just want to experience the highs and liberation of it all, embrace the art-ist’s, – both new and seasoned – to en-courage and to truly support the thought and belief of female empowerment.
Fitt encourages them to observe, take classes, workshops, and to explore their own creative capabilities and definitions in life as she has in experiencing the un-derground and taboo world of glamorous strip tease.
Although she acknowledges that some conservative aspects of society might dis-approve, to her burlesque is a wholly pos-itive experience. “It’s awesome, it’s beau-tiful, and [I’m] proud of it,” she says.
Miss Fitt performs with Pandora and the Locksmith every second Tuesday of the month at Vancouver’s Guilt and Co.
VINYL DUST-OFF
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ILLIAM EASTERBROOKSENIOR FEATURES WRITER
4/5 RECORDS
Pearl Jam was the biggest band in the world in 1994.
Their previous record, 1993’s Vs, had become the fastest selling album in history (despite boasting no music videos in an era crazed by MTV), and the band — especial-ly lead singer Eddie Vedder — had become overnight icons.
Vedder felt swept up by the hoopla, un-able to deal with the stardom thrust upon him.
Vedder wanted Pearl Jam to grow mod-estly, on their own terms, like Fugazi or the Pixies.
Given the rush of stardom and the neg-ative implications that sometimes come with it — loss of privacy, being labeled as “selling out,” crazed fans (Vedder had a female admirer crash her car at 60mph into the iron gate outside his Seattle home), and constant media scrutiny — Pearl Jam felt the need to break away from the main-stream.
Vitalogy is Pearl Jam’s breakaway al-bum.
On Vitalogy, production was stripped to an almost murky sound. Raw, edgy, experi-mental.
And like Vs, no music videos were made to promote the album.
In the age of compact discs, Vitalogy was initially released only on vinyl, a move that would further distance them from the limelight.
Pearl Jam was trying to alienate itself from the mainstream by further circum-scribing their reclusive stance — to obtain an exclusivity, as it were, to be by them-selves, with the hope of developing a core fan base (something they would continue to do until the mid 2000s). The album cover and notes — a beautiful colour booklet — were taken from a 1920s medical book of the same name, and featured depictions of strange and archaic medical procedures,
Vinyl Dust-off: Pearl Jam’s VitalogyLliam Easterbrook – sonic archaeologist – brings you his latest finds from excursions into ancient record bins.
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instruments and ruminations spliced with Vedder’s cryptic lyrics.
Kurt Cobain was quoted as saying that Pearl Jam wasn’t truly “alternative” be-cause their songs contained prominent leads and ‘70s-inspired anthem rock.
Pearl Jam seemed to take this to heart because Vitalogy features faster, more punk-focused tracks that revolve heavily around riffs and rhythm instead of the lead-focused material of their earlier albums.
“Spin the Black Circle” is frenzied punk rock about the ritualistic nature of play-ing vinyl, while “Not For You” is Vedder’s dark rhythmic ode to the authoritarian record companies trying to capitalize on Grunge and the Seattle scene.
Fast songs are juxtaposed with slow ee-rie numbers like the macabre-psychedelic “Tremor Christ” and the reflective “Im-mortality” — a song Vedder wrote after he learned of Cobain’s suicide. “When I first
found out, I was in a hotel room in Wash-ington, D.C., and I just tore the place to shreds,” Vedder said at the time.
If releasing the record on vinyl and refusing to make music videos weren’t enough, the album also contains several experimental tracks.
“Satan’s Bed” is a sardonic, funk-tinged romp about making deals with the devil: “Never shook Satan’s hand, look see for yourself you’d know it if I had, that shit don’t come off/ I’ll rise and fall, let me take credit for both/ jump off a cliff, don’t need your help so back off/ I’ll never suck Sa-tan’s dick...again, you’d see it, you know, right round the lips,” Vedder sings imp-ishly.
The Tom Waits inspired “Bugs” features a rampant accordion with Vedder mum-bling about bugs “on my skin” and “in my room.” He asks, “Should I join them?” And if that wasn’t enough, “Hey Foxymophan-
dlemamma, That’s Me” — the most dis-turbing song on the album — was created using a continuous loop of recordings from patients from a psychiatric hospital.
Vitalogy is Pearl Jam’s most garage-fo-cused, experimental album.
At a time when they could have reigned as rock gods, they chose to shun the whole industry and make an album that is stag-geringly idiosyncratic.
Pearl Jam can still sell over five million copies of this frantically-paced, at times insane, and unashamedly sincere album, which ultimately speaks volumes about the band’s cult-like following, and even more about a time in music when art and conviction triumphed over image and am-bivalence.
Play It Loud. Play It Proud.
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INTERVIEW
IJACOB ZINNCONTRIBUTOR
Shane Clark, one of the two guitarists of 3 Inches of Blood, seems entirely at home with-in the Rickshaw Theatre’s crimson walls overlooking a line-up of metalheads down East Hastings Street.
The Victoria-based band has had success throughout British Columbia, with a loyal fanbase and a sell-out crowd waiting to get inside.
He kicks up his feet out-side the venue’s washrooms and casually discusses the band’s themes of ancient his-tory and mythology that are rampant in the band’s dis-cography.
“It’s more just the escapist vibe that we have,” he said of the lyrical content. “It’s the same as seeing a movie or reading a book. It’s taking you away for a story.”
Throughout the inter-view, he scratches his gnarly beard, which closely resem-bles the facial hair of the Vi-kings, wizards and pirates that vocalist Cam Pipes sings of. While Clark’s outward appearance may frighten small children – he joked that mothers take their children aside – he and his bandmates are five cool-headed guys. They write songs about fantasy because reality isn’t as inter-esting and they don’t have a message to push.
“There’s bands who have that social or political or even religious agenda that they want to tell people,” he said.
“I’m not knocking it, but it’s not where we’re coming from, not what we’re into.”
It’s mere hours before their Vancouver stop on the Metal Alliance Tour and the rest of the band is doing soundcheck in the background.
With seven bands on the line-up – rang-ing from hardcore punk to Christian death metal – no subgenre is left untouched on this outing.
“A diverse bill is interesting for the fans too,” said Clark. “Seeing a bill that’s, like,
Cannibal Corpse and six bands that sound like Cannibal Corpse gets kind of boring.”
Furthermore, the band is touring on a new album, Long Live Heavy Metal. Influ-enced by British steel and Bay Area thrash among other genres, the disc hits as hard as their last four, giving long-time fans a solid dose of double-kick and electric riffage. It features Part IV of “The Boiling Sea” epi-sodic swashbuckling tale, a rock ‘em sock ‘em hockey anthem and an acoustic instru-mental with a flute part that sharply con-trasts the album’s other 11 tracks.
“I’ve always been a fan of cool interludes within albums,” he said, citing examples from Metallica, Black Sabbath and Overkill. “It’s really good to just have peaks and val-leys within your record.”
One of the stand-out songs is “Leave It on the Ice”, a hockey song that rivals An-vil’s “Blood on the Ice” and is a little louder than Stompin’ Tom Connors.
It may not be the Hockey Night in Cana-
da theme song, but it ought to be.“At first I was like, ‘eh, a hockey song’,
but it fits in really good for the echelon of our songs involving battle and brother-hood,” said Clark, who by the way is a fan of the 1982 Vancouver Canucks.
As for the rest of the album, Clark said things just fell into place.
Pipes’ Rob Halford-like falsetto vocals make the band’s sound reminiscent of Ju-das Priest, with “Metal Woman” showing signs of “The Hellion” and “Leather Lord” carrying the same energy as “Painkiller”.
Having performed in Vancouver exten-sively the past few years, the band skipped classics like “Deadly Sinners” and “Destroy the Orcs” in favour of new tracks like “Dark Messenger”.
But no matter what they play, the home-town crowd is sure to do as Clark hopes: “I expect them to go nuts and hurt themselves and have a great time.”
3 Inches of Blood talks fl utes, folklore and fans
REVIEW
JACOB ZINN/THE RUNNER
ICHRIS YEESENIOR CULTURE WRITER
If there’s anything you should know about Toronto band Eight and a Half’s label, Arts and Crafts, it’s the love its roster has of col-laboration.
Chalk it up to one Broken Social Scene. It seems that a lot of bands on Arts and Crafts have some connection to the Torontonian supergroup; in fact, the label was started to promote Broken Social Scene’s sophomore album, You Forgot It in People.
Eight and a Half is no exception. The band consists of veteran Broken Social Scene drummer Justin Peroff and Dave Hamelin and Liam O’Neil of the recently disbanded The Stills, keyboardist and singer, respec-tively.
This is Peroff’s first musical project out-side of Broken Social Scene, for whom he had been drumming ten years. Eight and a Half had been simmering as a side project for Peroff since 2009, but it was only after Peroff, Hamelin and O’Neil found them-selves back in Toronto that Eight and a Half started working toward their self-titled de-but, Eight and a Half, which dropped April 10.
At first glance, Eight and a Half’s debut is a dead-ringer for post-In Rainbows Ra-diohead. This is not necessarily a bad thing. Arts and Craft’s press release for Eight and a Half quotes Now Toronto’s review of Eight and a Half’s debut show in February - “Eight and a Half sound like what Radio-head could be doing, if only they weren’t so terrified to write a pop song.” Now Toronto got it half right – the throb and pulse of such songs as “Scissors” and “Go Ego” is every bit as tuneful as anything the Oxfordshire-born band has released presently, their feel sparse at times, yet surprisingly inviting.
Something of The Stills’s and Broken So-cial Scene’s sensibilities – romantic, some-times sentimental, sometimes dream-like – can be found in the rest of the album, starting with “Took a Train to India” and climaxing with “Walked into Diazapene,” the sedated, boring haze of “Oh, My Head” the only real misstep. Fortunately, Eight and a Half closes quickly, with “My Forevers” evoking the pastoral ambience of Eno’s An-other Green World – a delightful coda to a generally decent album.
Eight and a half not afraid of going pop
REVIEWS
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ISANA SOHELCONTRIBUTOR
New York Times best-selling author, Tatiana de Rosnay hit the shelves this March with her new book, The House I Loved. It is “an absorb-ing new novel about one woman’s resistance during an époque that shook Paris to its very core.” The protagonist, “Rose Bazelet is de-termined to fight against the destruction of her family home until the very end; as others flee, she stakes her claim in the basement of the old house on rue Childebert, ignoring the sounds of change that come closer and closer each day.” Beautifully written, the book holds the readers attention until the very end. The book is heartwarmingly emotional and as one reads, the characters come alive allowing the reader to glimpse at old Paris and enjoy its charm. The novel is a wonderful account of love, compassion, and strength. Quite sim-ply, if you are going to read a book, then let this be it.
ISANA SOHELCONTRIBUTOR
Susan Cain stole the hearts of many intro-verts out there with her inspiring TED talk on the power of introverts in a world that is filled with extroverts, while on tour for her book, Quiet. Her book maintains that “at least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer lis-tening to speaking, reading to partying; who innovate and create but dislike self-promo-tion; who favour working on their own over brainstorming in teams. Although they are often labeled “quiet,” it is to introverts that we owe many of the great contributions to society – from van Gogh’s sunflowers to the invention of the personal computer. The book is an essential read for all introverts. Our world, as it is, is mostly dominated by the extrovert culture, and Susan Cain brings to
IKATYA SLEPIANCONTRIBUTOR
The second season of Game of Thrones, based on George R. R. Martin’s series, pre-miered on April 1. The premiere episode was titled “A Song of Ice and Fire.”
For those who didn’t raptly watchthe first season, the series takes place in a world that is divided into two continents; Westeros and Essos.
Westeros, also called the Seven King-doms, is divided into north and south, and further divided by “the Wall” at the upper reaches of the North, above which civiliza-tion ends.
The Wall is manned by the Night’s Watch, who bear allegiance to no House but are sworn to protect the Seven King-doms.
These Seven Kingdoms of Westeros are ruled by a king in the south who sits on the Iron Throne. In the first season, this was Robert Baratheon.
The north is ruled by Eddard Stark, Lord of House Stark. Essos, the eastern continent, is where the children of the mur-dered Mad King live in exile.
These are Viserys III, with an all-con-suming obsession for getting the Iron Throne back and his sister Daenerys, whom he marries off to Khal Drogo of the Dothraki to secure an army, but all he se-cures is a “crown” of molten gold.
Clearly, season two has a lot to live up to. However, if the first episode is any sign, there is nothing to worry about. Robb Stark, Eddard’s son, is continuing his cam-paign and has declared himself king.
Mad Men is back
Quiet is an essential read for introverts
The House I Loved a heartwarming,
emotional journey
Game of Thrones season 2 a lot to
live up to
ICONNOR DOYLECONTRIBUTOR
Recently, AMC’s Flagship program Mad Men returned to it’s Sunday night time-slot. The show, famous for it’s dissection of the world of advertisement in the’60s, has been hyping its return with (what else) a series of seductive ads announcing that style, debauchery, deception, adul-tery and jealousy are all finally back.
The show distinguishes itself from most for its novel-like storytelling, its at-tention to wardrobe and design, and its engaging, meticulous development of its characters.
The creators have done a phenomenal job thus far of making every character seem human; unlikable characters are not necessarily bad character, and vice versa. Unlike one of AMC’s other popular shows, The Walking Dead, which follows a group of supposedly relatable people that won’t
stop making the audience hate them, Mad Men’s cast is mostly comprised of bad people that the viewer gradually begins to feel more and more sympathy for.
Even characters like Pete, whose squashed-bug expression is so punch-able it inspired a website, petecampbells-bitchface.com, has become so endearing to viewers, despite his underhandedness, they’ve deemed him “everybody’s favor-ite little shit.”
Recently, my brother, who only knew the show through the highly stylized commercials that have been running non-stop, every few minutes on AMC, told me that all he wanted in life was to “be Don Draper.” For a second I was confused by this concept. Why would anyone want to be the petty, two-faced, sexist, ass that is Draper? Sure, there’s tons to like there, but Don Draper is in no way the ideal person to model yourself after. Then, of course, I realized that all my brother saw was the devilishly handsome, mysterious, capable Draper you see in the commercials.
It turns out Mad Men’s advertising is as effective as the fake ads on the show.
Draper really is good, isn’t he?
Stannis Baratheon, the late king’s broth-er, has also declared himself king. Mean-while, the current king, Joffrey, who is not really Robert Baratheon’s son but is instead the product of incest between Jaime Lannis-ter and his sister, Robert Baratheon’s wife, Cercei, is swiftly establishing himself as a cruel ruler with a potent sadistic streak.
And in Essos, Daenerys may have lost her husband and her son, but she has not lost the will to fight and she has gained her dragons.
Life grows ever more perilous across the lands. And all the while, winter is coming.
light the amazing ideas and inventions intro-verts have brought to the world, such as: the theory of gravity, Chopin’s nocturnes, Peter Pan, Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm, The Cat in the Hat, Charlie Brown, Schindler’s List, E.T., and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Google and Harry Potter, to list a few. An inspiring read, and definitely an answer to many ques-tions, Susan Cain grips the readers attention from the very beginning.
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FASHION
ILAURA COLLINSCONTRIBUTOR
The sun’s out and school is coming to a close, which means it’s time to get your wardrobe ready for spring and summer.
The drop waist dress has returned, echo-ing a ‘20s feel. This style works great if you’re tall, and will elongate your torso.
Add some chunky platform shoes or a cork wedge sandal to dress this piece up for those summer nights out.
This season the cropped blazer is a great pick to add some interest to jeans and a tank top.
With shorter sleeves and a shortened torso, this piece is waist-defining and will slim any silhouette.
Try this blazer in one of this season’s pastel colours, like lavender, peach, blush pink or light teal.
If you’re a fan of pattern, then head out on a hunt for florals. As flowers begin to pop up in the garden, they will on clothes.
This is a very versatile pattern, and can be found on short to floor-length dresses, blazers, tops and even pants.
Don’t go overboard with this pattern, and only stick to one floral piece per outfit, making that the focus of your look.
Try a sheer button-up tank in this warm-er weather.
This piece will be sure to add a little edge to your outfit. The button-up sheer is great worn tucked into jeans with a pair of heels to give you some height.
Try this shirt in a classic black or an off-white, and you’ll be sure to have a go-to outfit this season.
Colour is always huge as the weather warms up, but this year it’s all about putting the emphasis on your bottom half. Brightly coloured jeans are hitting every store, and the options are endless. From fuchsia to tie-dye, you’ll be sure to find a pair that fits your comfort level.
Don’t be afraid to be a little bold and pair some orange bottoms with a floral shirt.
You’ll be making a fantastic statement.For the finishing touches, gold jewellery
is a must. Look for long, dangly earrings, chunky
gold rings and shiny gold bangles. Protect your eyes with a pair of retro-
style sunglasses in either a classic brown or a bright shade of peppermint green.
Will write for clothes: brighten up your outfi t with the change in weather
A sheer button-up (pictured above) keeps a light, airy feel for the summer months while complementing bold colour like these mosaic sunglasses (left). MITCH THOMPSON/THE RUNNER.
STARS
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(CUP) — Puzzles provided by BestCrosswords.com.
Used with permission.
Across 1- Martini’s partner; 6- Commoner; 10- Hor-
rors!; 14- Choreographer de Mille; 15- Accent; 16-
Make-up artist?; 17- Chimes; 18- Entr’ _ ; 19- Big
do; 20- Conical native American tent; 21- Causing
horror; 23- Actress Peeples; 25- Author Rand; 26- “A
Hard Road to Glory” author; 29- Invitation letters;
32- Biblical mount; 37- USN rank; 38- Chip in; 39-
Optimally; 40- Cause light to pass through; 43- Add
fi zz; 44- Caspian Sea feeder; 45- Edge; 46- Passover
feast; 47- Old Dodge model; 48- IRS IDs; 49- Attor-
ney’s org.; 51- Writer Hentoff; 53- Highly productive;
58- Started; 62- Bunches; 63- Sup; 64- Eat away;
65- Decant; 66- Cornerstone abbr.; 67- Negatively
charged particle; 68- Bluesy James; 69- Foot cover-
ing; 70- The house of a parson;
Down 1- All ears; 2- Arch type; 3- Break, card game;
4- Greek goddess of the moon; 5- Japanese im-
migrant; 6- Egyptian deity; 7- Bananas; 8- Snare;
9- Drunken; 10- Minnesota’s St. _ College; 11- LP
player; 12- Bust maker; 13- Acapulco gold; 22- In-
fuse; 24- “L.A. Law” lawyer; 26- Take the role of;
27- Carousal; 28- Accumulate; 30- Letters on a Car-
dinal’s cap; 31- Soft palate; 33- Son of, in Arabic
names; 34- Approaches; 35- John of “The Addams
Family”; 36- Units; 38- Stellar; 39- At full speed; 41-
Not for a Scot; 42- Coffee container; 47- Uncouth;
48- Breastbones; 50- Waits; 52- At right angles to
a ships length; 53- Scheme; 54- Defeat decisively;
55- Other, in Oaxaca; 56- A big fan of; 57- Give up;
59- Enter; 60- Brouhahas; 61- Branta sandvicensis;
62- Big brute;
SMART ZONE
KESSEL RUN IN 81 — BEN HORNE
Nobody talks about Weekend at Bernie’s anymore.
You should really do something about that.
The pen is mightier than the sword but strangely
not the banana.
It’s time to start listening to your mom. You are
fucking cool.
Wear spanx today, even if you’re a dude.
Ride the SkyTrain nude. It will be fun, I promise.
Wagga Wagga (the un-funniest horoscope ever).
Next weekend will be epic so remember to control
your bladder.
Start a Cee Lo Green fan club. Why? Because that
guy is awesome.
Listen to your inner voice. Eat a hot dog.
Facebook invitations are great but you may go blind
if you play with them too much.
PISCES Feb. 20 - March 20
CAPRICORNDec. 22 - Jan. 20
AQUARIUSJan. 21 - Feb 19
VIRGOAug. 24 - Sept. 23
SCORPIOOct. 24 - Nov. 22
SAGITTARIUSNov. 23 - Dec. 21
CANCERJune 21 - July 23
LEOJuly 24 - Aug. 23
GEMINIMay 21 - June 20
ARIESMarch 21 - April 19
LIBRASept. 24 - Oct. 23
Kick a hipster. Seriously.
Consider the ham sandwich as a possible symbol
of your greatness.
TAURUSApril 20 - May 20
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