As of January 1, colleges and univer-sities in Ontario will no longer be able to sell tobacco on their campus-es as a result of a move by the pro-vincial government to adopt stricter regulations on smoking. The prov-ince’s “Smoke-Free Ontario Act” will also make it illegal to smoke on bar and restaurant patios, playgrounds, public sports fields, and other recre-ational areas.

According to the Ontario gov-ernment’s website, the new regula-tions are part of the province’s aim to reduce youth access to tobacco. Selling tobacco will be prohibited in buildings owned or leased by post-secondary institutions or student unions that are used for education programs, recreation, or residence services.

The National College Health As-sessment survey results from spring

2013 found that 10.8% of UTM stu-dents had smoked a cigarette in the last 30 days.

Chad Jankowski, health education coordinator at the UTM Health and Counselling Centre, said that these results were consistent with the find-

ings of both the Canada-wide refer-ence group, which found that 11.6% of Canadian postsecondary students had smoked in the last 30 days, and the Ontario group, which found that 11% of students in the province had.

He added that the percentage of

UTM students smoking tobacco us-ing a water pipe—a hookah—in the last 30 days was 4.6%, which is also consistent with the provincial (4.1%) and national (4.2%) results.

Asked if there were places at UTM where tobacco is currently sold, Fe-

licia Phan, UTM’s campus program coordinator for the Leave the Pack Behind program, said no.

Jankowski added that U of T’s Smoking Policy of 1995 already pro-hibits tobacco sales on campus. The policy states, “Cigarettes, tobacco, and other tobacco products will not be sold on premises occupied by the University of Toronto.”

However, tobacco may be ob-tained in other ways.

“There are ways to get not ille-gal tobacco but tobacco that’s been rolled on its own—not sold in com-munity stores,” said Rovina Girn, a nurse at the HCC. “I haven’t really heard any of my patients, at least, tell me that they take part [in] that.”

Currently, smoking is not allowed on covered or partially covered pa-tios in Ontario. With the new regu-lations, smoking will not be allowed on any bar or restaurant outdoor pa-tios, with the exception of the uncov-ered patios by a branch of the Royal Canadian Legion.

Bring back the deadDo we need to update the classics if “he was not of an age, but for all time”? And even if yes, how?Medium Opinion, page 4

UTM becomes the DenA former Dragon visits campus to share his insights on entrepreneurs and investors.Medium News, page 2

She shoots, she scoresCampus group writes, directs, and performs a play, all for the benefit of the outgoing Hurricane Hazel.Medium Arts, page 5

What all’s after Con Hall?We follow up with three grads from the class of 2014 on what life is like on the other side of the curtain.Medium Features, page 8

Two birds with two stonesHas UTM ever been so successful in a pair of soccer championships all at once? Probably not.Medium Sports, page 11

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Students prepare for town hallUTMSU Commission Meeting strategizes issues to raise at forum this week

UTMSU’s fifth Commissions Meet-ing last Tuesday focused on the upcoming UTM Town Hall and of-fered students a chance to bring up their concerns prior to raising them with university administration on Wednesday.

At the meeting, UTMSU’s execu-tive director Walied Khogali encour-aged students to attend the town hall and raise issues that concern them. He said that the administration has the responsibility to respond to stu-dents’ needs, and in the event that students are not satisfied with the answers given by the principal or dean, the town hall will provide them with an opportunity to ask for clarification.

Nearly 100 people attended the

Principal’s Town Hall held last March, of whom Khogali claimed only about four or five were students.

Khogali also noted students’ com-

plaints that when their questions were submitted in advance, the ad-ministration was able to prepare their answers and read them out at

the town hall rather than discussing them with the students.

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November 14, 2:06 a.m.Noise ComplaintCampus Police investigated a noise complaint from a townhouse unit. The occupants in the unit were cau-tioned and advised to be keep the noise level down. November 14, 10:40 a.m.Medical CallCampus Police attended the RAWC regarding an injured female. The fe-male was transported to hospital for further medical treatment.

November 14, 11:00 a.m.MischiefA vehicle in parking lot 8 had one of its tires intentionally punctured. Campus Police and Peel Regional Po-lice are investigating.

November 14, 11:07 a.m.Theft Under $5,000Campus Police investigated the theft of money from a wallet that was found in the Instructional Centre.

November 15, 2:44 p.m.Medical CallCampus Police attended a townhouse unit regarding an injured female. The female was transported to hospital for further medical treatment.

November 15, 7:00 p.m.Trespass To Property ActTwo males attempted to enter the RAWC by fraudulently using a T-Card. The males were banned from using the RAWC until further notice.

November 17, 12:24 a.m.Controlled Drugs & Substances ActA complaint was received regarding the smell of marijuana near a town-house unit. Campus Police found no persons in the area.

November 17, 2:55 p.m.MischiefCampus Police investigated a report of mischief to a vehicle in parking lot 8.

November 17, 4:45 p.m.Medical CallA call was received regarding an in-jured male. The male was transported to hospital for further medical treat-ment.

November 17, 5:20 p.m.Disruptive BehaviourTwo people were arguing in the li-brary. Campus Police separated the parties and directed them to keep the peace.

These reports are those that have been released to TheMedium and do not necessarily constitute an exhaustive list.

Students can contact the UTM Campus Police at 905 828 5200, Peel Regional Police at 905 453 3311, or Crime Stoppers at 1 800 222 8477.

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This year’s Countdown to Success featured Bruce Croxon, a former investor on CBC’s Dragons’ Den.

UTM’s third annual Countdown to Success event hosted business mo-gul Bruce Croxon last Thursday eve-ning in the newly opened Innovation Complex.

Hosted by the Institute for Manage-ment and Innovation and sponsored by the Chartered Professional Ac-countants of Ontario, the event drew over 275 students to hear Croxon speak on entrepreneurship, the state of Canadian business, and his advice on how to make it in business.

An entrepreneur and cofounder of Lavalife—a dating website he sold for $176 million in 2004—Croxon is the owner of several Canadian spas and has recently cofounded an in-vestment company called Round13. Perhaps most recognizably, however, Croxon is a former Dragon on the hit CBC show Dragons’ Den as a start-up company investor.

Hugh Gunz, the institute’s director, invited Croxon to speak about his entrepreneurial origins, his advice on

how to spark innovation within insti-tutions, and his time as a Dragon.

“I had to think about it long and hard,” said Croxon of his experience on Dragons’ Den, in spite of the great opportunities he said the show gave him over his three-season run.

According to Croxon, fellow den member Arlene Dickinson warned him of the celebrity that came with

signing onto the gig. “You can’t walk through an airport or go for a coffee without someone saying, ‘Hey, I got a great idea!’ ” said Croxon. “I never got comfortable with that part.”

Croxon also offered advice to bud-ding entrepreneurs looking to kick-start their own venture.

“There are a lot of ups and downs

and there [are] a lot of painful les-sons,” he said. “Being attached to what you are doing and being pas-sionate about doing it is going to get you through a lot of tough times.”

Before the keynote, UTM alumnus Dario Di Censo (1988) was awarded the UTM Alumni Award. Di Censo is a CMA as well as the former president and current treasurer of the Alumni Association.

The annual Countdown to Success has previously hosted CBC’s Amanda Lang as well as current Dragons’ Den investor David Chilton.

“We generally choose the speakers based on their business background and also their celebrity status,” said organizer Donna Heslin of the IMI. “We want to educate and engage and also provide a great opportunity for student networking with our alumni and community partners.”

The event also featured several busi-ness- and career-related vendors and was followed by a networking session.

CPA Ontario has sponsored the event all three years so far and has made a commitment for five.

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Another nurse at the HCC believes there is no problem with persuad-ing people not to smoke indoors, but says this new legislation could be taking away the rights of people who smoke, since it takes away almost ev-ery place where they can smoke.

“I wholeheartedly agree with tak-ing it out of inside places, but out-side, it’s not as clear of a picture,” she said.

In regards to how she thinks stu-dents will react to this legislation, she added, “We have difficulty getting them to go the 36 [feet] away from any door. So I’m really not sure how successful we will be keeping them from smoking outside at all.”

Girn said the impact of the legisla-tion won’t be significant at UTM be-cause the only patio the new law ap-

plies to is at the pub. She also thinks that the legislation will be more rel-evant to those under 18, not univer-sity students.

Phan held similar views.“From what I’ve seen on campus, I

do not think that this legislation will significantly impact UTM students,” said Phan, noting that smokers are seldom seen smoking on the Blind Duck patio or on the sports fields. “For young adults in general, I think this legislation will just further help protect non-smokers from second-hand smoke when they are sitting on off-campus patios, in sports fields, playgrounds, et cetera.”

Although Jankowski agreed that the legislation will not have a signifi-cant impact on students’ “day-to-day experiences” at UTM, he said that smoking is not as common on cam-pus as students perceive it to be.

He noted that the NCHA found that while 76.6% of UTM students said that they had never smoked, the students polled thought that only 6.6% of their fellow students had never smoked.

Similarly, the survey found that UTM students think that only 16.5% of students have never tried shisha, whereas in fact 81.8% of UTM stu-dents have never tried it.

“These misperceptions about to-bacco use on campus are ones that the Health and Counselling Centre, particularly our Leave the Pack Be-hind team, are trying to challenge,” said Jankowski. “We know that stu-dents can feel pressured to conform to what they perceive to be ‘normal’ behaviour on campus, so by raising awareness of the true norms on cam-pus, we’re helping students to make healthier choices.”

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No, because it’s harmful.

I think it should because it’s legal and people can get it off-campus anyway.

It shouldn’t be legal. The more you do to restrict these things the better.

No, it is a highly addictive substance that as a campus we should not promote.

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Ex-president Zardari safe while explosion at hotel leaves 12 injured

Former Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari is reported to have been stay-ing at the same London hotel where an explosion left at least 12 people injured on Friday. Sources say that Zardari was outside when the explo-sion occurred at the Hyatt Regency. Police report that the gas explosion happened in the hotel’s kitchen. Six people have been taken to hospital.

Source: The Nation

Shovelling begins in Buffalo after storms pour over 2m of snow

Over 300 Buffalo residents took to the streets on Saturday to help shovel out their neighbours’ houses after a historic snowstorm last week left hundreds stuck inside their homes. The storm is reported to have caused at least 12 deaths. The three-day bliz-zard began last Monday and poured 2.1 metres of snow over the city.

Source: Toronto Star

Muslim sect launches nationwide campaign to stop ISIS

A Muslim community has launched a Canada-wide campaign against ISIS and radicalization among youth. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at be-gan its campaign called “Stop the CrISIS” with an event at York earlier this month featuring discussion on how to counter radicalization. The campaign will move to Brampton on Sunday.

Source: Brampton Guardian

Act of kindness goes viral after photo posted on Reddit

A photo of a note left on an Edmon-ton student’s car by a stranger has gone viral after being posted on Red-dit last Thursday. The note mentioned that the driver had left the vehicle’s lights on. The writer left an exten-sion cord and battery charger for the driver along with instructions to charge the car’s battery. The photo has received over 1,500 comments online.

Source: CBC News

Canada announces $200m funding for veterans’ mental health

The Canadian government has an-nounced that it will spend $200 mil-lion toward addressing mental health issues among veterans over the next five years. Among the projects the government proposes to fund is a new Halifax centre to examine and treat veterans suffering from mental disor-ders. The government announced the pledge in Halifax on Sunday.

Source: Globe and Mail

Khogali also mentioned that at the last year’s town hall, UTMSU president Hassan Havili—who was then VP part-time—brought up the need of having a heated bus shelter on campus. Havili had a petition signed by over 1,000 students.

When Havili presented the peti-tion at the town hall, he was told by the administration that a proposal was already in the works for larger, heated bus waiting areas.

Topics students raised at the commission meeting included food services, fall reading week, study space, and parking issues.

Students expressed continued displeasure with the food prices on campus, and UTMSU VP external Ebi Agbeyegbe said that there are several meetings taking place with the administration to express the students’ dissatisfaction. He said that by April there should be new food services on campus.

In response to the fall read-ing week issue, VP equity Melissa Theodore said that students would have to choose between starting the academic year one week early or having a December break that’s four

days shorter if they wanted a week off mid-semester.

Regarding the study space prob-lem that students brought up, Kho-gali mentioned complaints that non-UTM students use the campus library. However, instead of re-stricting non-UTM students from coming to the library, he suggested that the university keep its class-

rooms open along with the Presen-tation Room and the second floor of the Student Centre so that students could have access to more space, es-pecially during the exam period.

Other concerns included the in-sufficient number of lockers avail-able on campus. VP internal and services Bryan Chelvanaigum said that some of the lockers had to be removed due to construction. He

said that UTMSU will try to get more lockers.

During the meeting, Monica Scott, a career outreach consultant from the UTM Career Centre, told the students about the services available at the Career Centre, such as information on the opportuni-ties their degrees can offer, resume-writing tips, workshops, and prac-tice interview sessions.

Scott also said that a “Get Hired Fair” would be held in January.

Toward the end of the event, Ag-beyegbe mentioned current and up-coming UTMSU events, including the free breakfast on Wednesdays and a multicultural week scheduled for the first week of the winter se-mester, as well as UTM’s Got Talent also in January.

The UTM Town Hall will offer students an opportunity to express their concerns and suggestions for improving the campus and ask questions of the administration directly, including Principal Deep Saini.

Principal’s town halls take place once a semester. Wednesday’s town hall will take place at Spigel Hall in Davis from 2 to 3 p.m. The next one will be held in March.

Tuesday’s Wireless Wearable Health Tech Symposium, held in the Inno-vation Complex, featured visits by several important businesspeople who made presentations on wearable technology in health and medical contexts.

Organized by Jayson Parker, a UTM lecturer in medical biotechnol-ogy, the conference featured keynote speaker Ann Cavoukian, the execu-tive director of Ryerson’s Privacy and Big Data Institute.

Cavoukian spoke about the issue of privacy in wireless and wearable devices and promoted the concept of “privacy by design”, which encour-ages tech designers to set privacy-friendly features in devices as the

default settings. Cavoukian said that this practice would provide financial benefits for companies as well, such as fewer lawsuits and more customer satisfaction.

Parker spoke about the regulations on the wearable technologies used in medical contexts and possible in-vestment strategies. He encouraged investment in low-risk medical de-vices, such as insulin pump software, as opposed to high-risk medical de-vices, such as pacemaker software. The higher-risk devices are those that have higher requirements for valida-tion and greater costs, and hence may not bring an investment to fruition.

“The risk of the product is im-pacted by claims and the target user group,” Parker explained, adding that ideal targets for investment are out-

patient products and products whose purchase cost can be covered by in-surance.

The symposium also featured two panel discussions, each moderated by Parker. The first panel included representation from Siemens Hear-ing Instruments, GE Healthcare, Medtronic, Ernst & Young LLP, and TELUS Health, among others. The VPs and CEOs of these companies answered questions concerning the future of wearable technology and possible obstacles.

The second panel, consisting of representation from Celestica, Ryer-son, Cortex Design Inc., the Ontario Brain Institute, and VMware Canada, among others, discussed the chal-lenges of making big data a relevant opportunity for both the public and

private health sectors. Colin Foster, a senior Health

Canada officer, also gave a presenta-tion on the classifications of medical devices as set out in Health Canada’s Medical Device Regulatory Frame-work.

With this symposium, Parker hopes to make understanding of the regulations on wearable technologies more accessible.

“Right now it is only really acces-sible by looking at very specific docu-ments at the FDA, so we’re looking to provide a roadmap for designers and what the implications are,” he said. “You can negotiate with [the resolu-tions]—you don’t go and check off boxes and say A, B, and C. So we’re aiming to clear up some confusion.”

“We hope people walk out here

saying this is doable and we should start thinking about our business de-velopment strategy and creating low-risk products,” Parker added.

Though Parker said that currently there is no wearable device he wants to own, he is working on his own wearable that tracks food consump-tion. “That’s a wearable I would buy and use,” he said.

The conference also included talks by Joseph Cafazzo, senior director and centre lead at the University Health Network, and Tom Barker, chair of Digital Futures Initiative at OCAD University.

The event was held in partnership with Life Sciences Ontario and the Research Innovation and Commer-cialization Centre.

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Not easy to update the classicsWe should pay attention to Ezra Pound’s “Literature is news that stays news”

A lot of the media I know as “classic” comes from my parents. It’s the books I was given to read later in childhood, the cassettes sitting under the phono-graph (incongruence, and a handful of VHS tapes, or at least rumours of them. It’s Shakespeare, Dickens, and the fantasy of George MacDonald, but also our own Stephen Leacock and Robertson Davies; the prog rock of Jethro Tull and the folk-ish songs of Bruce Cockburn; stuffy but wise old movies like 84 Charing Cross Road, and ones that nearly predate my par-ents, like A Man for All Seasons.

When I read an article like the one in features this week on “the problem with the literary canon”, my knee-jerk reaction is defensiveness about these works. How can our English profes-sors suggest that we need to move on from great works? Bunch of hacks... and so on. But after the initial emo-tional reaction comes more reflection.

The first thing I noticed is that my list of classics includes recent and Ca-nadian artists. Many of the names I love are not known across the world. And although I intellectually concede, at first, that they probably don’t stand up to the best, that concession doesn’t diminish my appreciation for them—and it also raises the sneaky question, “Aren’t all the classics originally just contemporary local creators who are recognized later?” And what I mean by this is that I recast my canon, too,

both adding new ones and failing to hold on to the old (like Austen, who somehow never had much shelf space in our house).

And I’m all for adding new voices to the canon of dead white guys, if not throwing out a lot of the work. One of my favourite examples is Wide Sargas-so Sea, which I was introduced to in my only real English lit course and re-cently reread. The book is a beautiful response to the colonial assumptions the author saw in Jane Eyre, but it doesn’t dislodge Jane Eyre. In fact, the earlier classic contextualizes the latter. Other works that originate from dif-ferent cultures in the first place don’t need complements from the Western canon—although they raise interest-ing questions about where they fit in. Are we updating the “Western” can-on, which seems unlikely if we mean we’re including very different cul-tures, or creating a new world canon? (But isn’t it a bit of an illusion if we mean the English versions?) What if we still had distinct canons that were unaware of each other, but promoted that meta-knowledge in the readers instead, who should be encouraged to delve into each in turn? As with lan-guage, taking the time to learn others’ ways of communicating doesn’t have to mean overriding parts of your own. Or perhaps the analogy doesn’t apply. Like I said, only one real lit course.

My point is that although the can-

on is always being updated, there’s no straightforward way to ensure that the process is helpful, even following great principles like “add diversity”.

Even when I read the professors’ opinions that what speaks to a gen-eration’s values becomes canon, with the implication that we can naturally gravitate to the new classics, I’m not so sure. Our generation has some very odd dynamics. Take, for example, the fact that when Jeff Bezos created Am-azon, he had human editors reviewing and picks the books that appeared on the front page. But they were gradual-ly replaced with software that guesses what you’re likely to enjoy reading. This creates a risk of exposure only to more of what you already know, which is the opposite of literature’s project. Similarly, you’ve no doubt noticed that algorithms for determin-ing what’s popular are subject to the snowball effect: what’s “rich” in atten-tion only gets richer, on the logic that if the first 50 people who saw a post didn’t like it, there’s no point display-ing it on the timelines of the next 500. And vice versa. Even the news works like this: if you see something trend-ing on Facebook, you’re fairly sure to hear it later on the radio and TV.

Which is kind of scary. Holding up a mirror to a generation’s values is healthy; holding a mirror up to itself is just feedback and becomes the am-plification of noise.

The article’s bottom line, though, I agree with. We need to read inten-tionally, not automatically, more now than ever—to remember that there are other ways to let something into your life than to see it on a news feed.

In fact, one way to be healthily countercultural is to actually dig up the old works and read them for our-selves. I remember a course in which Chet Scoville said it doesn’t matter about your degree, you’re not educat-ed if you haven’t read The Iliad. I still haven’t; but in that same course I read a 2,400-year-old dialogue of Plato’s that deeply affected me—and became what I’d recommend to those looking for a fuller education. It’s not a matter of which classics we read (or listen to, or watch), but of encountering works that challenge us.

After all, the deserving classics did that. Not just being new but staying new is a better criterion.

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Hazel McCallion’s musical sendoff

November 30 will mark Hazel Mc-Callion’s last day in office after 36 years of being Mississauga’s es-teemed mayor. Watching McCal-lion mingling and taking selfies with students after the show She Shoots! She Scores!, I concluded that all the arm-twisting she has done between Ottawa and Queen’s Park has been a fountain of energy (rather than a sponge). McCallion has been especially involved in the growth and expansion of UTM: walk past the library and she is the learning centre’s namesake.

The evening began with a perfor-mance in CCT1080 by eight very talented Theatre and Drama Studies students. The show told the story of McCallion’s travels from the Gaspe to Toronto to Streetsville, where she first became mayor and began lob-bying for the creation of the city of Mississauga. The guests were enter-tained with four music and dance numbers, two of which were com-posed specifically for She Shoots!

She Scores! by Patrick Young and Anthony Bastianon. The lively and energetic songs were interspersed with scenes based on the premise of a drama workshop on Hurricane Hazel, in which the students and

their professor re-enact memorable moments from McCallion’s time in office and play a trivia game. The only student who takes any con-vincing when it comes to enthusias-tic participation is Stuart Hefford,

who ended up in this workshop by mistake; he thought he was attend-ing a meteorology lecture.

After the performance, Young, who wrote the book for She Shoots! She Scores! and is the artistic direc-

tor of Theatre Erindale, thanked the extensive cast, musicians, crew, and support team for the produc-tion. Young made it look easy, but after speaking with him at the re-ception, I learned just how much work, time, and research goes into creating a show like She Shoots! She Scores! While Young wrote most of the script, he also told me that much was left up to the cast. Parts of the play were “something [he couldn’t] write”, which lead to the opportunity for the director and ac-tors to contribute to the script.

Principal Deep Saini also spoke immediately after the performance, calling it “wonderful” before speak-ing about the university’s close re-lationship to McCallion, whom he then introduced to the audience.

McCallion’s speech focused on Mississauga’s youth. “I can’t think of any event as touching as this one,” she commented. “When the young people do something, it al-ways touches me.”

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Local bands climb to the Summit togetherSecond annual Sound Summit raises over $1,400 to donate to Sick Kids Hospital

As a horde of eager students braved the biting winter winds to catch the second Sound Summit at the Blind Duck, the lights were dimmed and what was once an ordinary space transformed into a venue.

Advance tickets were half-price, but even the tickets that became available when the doors opened last Thursday at 9 p.m. were still an affordable $10—and the first 50 at-tendees got a free drink with their ticket. But each of the approxi-mately 225 attendees was given free T-shirts and miniature containers of Play-Doh as they were launched into the crowd. The $1,425 in pro-ceeds went to support Sick Kids Hospital in Toronto.

Half an hour after the doors opened, indie pop electronic band Valley opened the show with a few crowd-pleasers and a few origi-nals. Valley, whose five members hail from Oakville and Burlington, sound like they draw influences from the likes of the Arkells, Hans Zimmer, and Phil Collins. As the lights flashed on the stage and walls, the crowd really got into the groove.

River Groves, a four-member ga-rage punk indie group with roots in Mississauga, was the second to hit

the stage. The band reminded me of Billy Talent, the Hives, and DFA 1979. They performed a set of origi-nals, including their most recent single, “Mexico”. Devoted fans and others in the audience sang along to their favourite songs.

Odd Ones (the band formerly known as J’nai) seized the energy and turned it up a notch. The Mis-sissauga band comprised four mem-

bers, with lead singer Jeanette Rica-sio being a recent graduate of UTM. The progressive alternative pop rock style shows the influence of Paramore and the Pretty Reckless. They performed a few covers, in-cluding Billy Talent’s “Devil on my Shoulder”, as well as a few originals, and electrified the stage with a fun and loud presence, incredible guitar solos, and strong vocals.

Morakoza, formerly known as Go Diana, finished the night on a high note. The band accurately described their style as “true party rock… mixing atmospheric, textured gui-tars with hard club rhythms and electronics”. The four Mississauga-born musicians’ music mellowed down the night with a unique mix-ture of voice, keyboard, and beats.

By around 1 in the morning, the

Sound Summit winner was picked through crowd response. An ex-ecutive from CFRE announced the bands in playing order, with a listen for which band received the most enthusiastic applause.

Morakoza won the grand prize of a $200 Long & McQuade gift card, $140 worth of L&M rental vouch-ers, and a $100 gift card to Entripy. Runners-up Valley, River Groves, and Odd Ones each won $120 worth of L&M rental vouchers and a $50 gift card to Entripy.

This is Sound Summit’s second year, organized by ICCIT Council and CFRE with help from Resi-dence Council and UTMAC, and drew students from our campus as well as from St. George, and even a few parents.

“I had always wondered why we didn’t have a concert, so I just de-cided to begin organizing it my-self,” said Ray Khan, the president of ICCIT Council. He brought a “two-page proposal” to CFRE and “ever since then, CFRE and ICCIT Council [have] worked closely and the concept has evolved to so much more than originally intended.”

Marian Penetrante, the council’s public relations director, said the event would be one of their major events next year as well.

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The Sound Summit drew a crowd of over 200 people.

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McCallion at her 90th birthday in the RAWC. Medium staff were not allowed to photograph the show.

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TDS honours Mayor McCallion

The reception with drinks and snacks afterwards was beautifully presented and well-attended. I took the opportunity to speak with the director of She Shoots! She Scores!, herself a graduate of the joint UTM/Sheridan Theatre and Drama Stud-ies program.

Melissa Jane Shaw described the rehearsal process: ideally, she said, a show will see one hour rehearsal per

minute of show time. In this case, though, the 35-minute performance was brought about after only eight hours of rehearsal. This was espe-cially restricted by the various mu-sic and dance requirements, which take more effort to choreograph and perfect than other scenes. Shaw ex-pressed her gratitude for the hard work the whole team put in. “I’m proud of them,” she said.

Fourth-year TDS student and cast member Brittany Miranda echoed

Shaw’s sentiments. From the cast’s perspective, She Shoots! She Scores! was a very positive experience, she said, in which everyone was dedi-cated to their work even outside of rehearsal time.

She Shoots! She Scores! was a suc-cessful parting gift and expression of gratitude to Hazel McCallion. It may be true that we’re seeing Mc-Callion’s final days in office, but definitely not the end of her influ-ence on this campus.

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Bahari’s nightmareRosewater depicts journalist’s kidnapping

Imagine being barricaded in a bar-ren concrete room for five months. No contact with anyone but a man whose only job is to break you. Nothing to do except talk to your delusions. All this for the crime of bearing witness.

Maziar Bahari faced this reality as a journalist detained by the Ira-nian government in Jon Stewart’s new movie, Rosewater. The film, based on Bahari’s autobiography, documents his time spent in soli-tary confinement in a Middle East-ern prison.

It only seems natural that Stew-art would have a hand in the big screen adaptation, considering his show’s hand in the story itself. An interview done by The Daily Show’s “foreign affairs correspondent”, Ja-son Jones, led to Bahari’s arrest. Questions like “Are you a spy?” followed by non-denying answers from Bahari, mixed with footage he shot of Iranian officials’ responses to peaceful protests, sparked the government seizure.

Despite Stewart’s light-hearted satirical background, this film de-viated immensely from his usual tone. The story took an organic and realistic look at the tyrannical political system in the Middle East and the civilian reaction to political injustice. Being limited to a 10’-by-7’ box for the majority of the movie allowed the acting to shine through and captured sensitive movements, such as Bahari’s (Gael Garcia Ber-nal) descent into madness.

This subtle approach to not-so-subtle content also appears in the way the film portrayed torture. In-stead of explicitly showing physi-cal punishment, Stewart decided to leave it looming in the air.

However, one of the biggest com-plaints moviegoers had was the use of English as the main language. When I talked to people after the show, one man commented that the film would have been more power-ful had it been shot in Persian, the native language of Iran. I suppose this was a sacrifice of authenticity Stewart made in order to have the film and its messages about gov-ernment abuse, the importance of journalism, and the will of the hu-man spirit be more accessible to a wider English-understanding audi-ence.

Thought-provoking and inspir-ing, Rosewater is definitely worth the visit to the TIFF Bell Lightbox (the only theatre playing the film in Toronto at present).

ARIANA LONGLEY

An interview done by The Daily Show’s

“foreign affairs correspondent” led to

Bahari’s arrest.

Soul in a wide-brimmed hatBob Dylan may not be “Forever Young”, but he’s still got it

I don’t even know how to explain to you what it was like seeing Bob Dylan in concert. Last Monday, I took a girlfriend of mine and we went to the Sony Centre in Toronto to see a legend. My mother and her boyfriend were unbelievably kind enough to send me there with in-credible seats for an early Christ-mas present.

The theatre itself was very small and intimate. The stage wasn’t dolled up or adorned with anything other than a microphone and a handful of instruments. The lights were kept relatively low the en-tire night, keeping the atmosphere very relaxed. But towards the end of the concert, the lights suddenly changed and shone on the curtain behind Dylan and his band to cre-ate the effect of standing directly under rain—which was pretty darn cool.

No opening act. Nothing to let the audience know he was coming. All of a sudden, after 20 minutes of chattering, the audience erupted when the guitar first strummed and the lights were dimmed. Out came Dylan in a white shirt, light tan suit, and of course, his signature wide-brimmed hat. He looked like the hero in a Western. He sauntered onto the stage and the night began

in earnest.Now, I know that there are quite

a few people who hate on Dylan’s newer (should I say older?), raspier voice. Don’t get me wrong, of course it sounds different from what it did decades ago, but Dylan can and did still totally rock a concert.

When it came to songs like “Scar-let Town” and “Duquesne Whistle”, which were on his latest album, the quality of performance didn’t really change. The raspy quality was there

on Tempest and it was obviously there in concert. But I have to say that the live version of “Duquesne Whistle” (my favourite song on Tempest) was actually amazing. He clipped some of the longer notes so he didn’t have to strain his voice and the result was wonderful. It was my favourite performance of the night.

When it came to older songs like “Love Sick” (Time out of Mind, 1998), “Spirit on the Water” (Mod-ern Times, 2006), and “Forgetful Heart” (Together Through Life,

2009), I think he still nailed them. Because these songs were on the albums made in recent years, I ex-pected his voice to sound pretty much the same as in the studio ver-sions, which it did. Now, his more well-known songs like “Simple Twist of Fate” (Blood on the Tracks, 1975) differed more much from their originals, but that doesn’t mean they were poorly done. I liked the smokier versions of his classics and watching the audience get so into his performances made it that much more enriching.

Easily my second-favourite per-formance of the night was his en-core. During “Blowin’ in the Wind”, a man started doing an interpretive dance in the middle of the aisle. He kept going until ushers brought him back to his seat and told him to sit down. Three times. But he kept going in his seat and because he was quiet all night, I am choosing to be-lieve that he got really excited and just wanted to start dancing. And that made me equally happy.

What can I say? There isn’t enough space in The Medium for me to properly convey my aston-ishment at having seen the Bob Dylan live. It was an honour to see him before he hung it up and I can confidently say that his concert was more important than my future wedding (unless I get married to Bob Dylan).

MARIA CRUZA&E EDITOR

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This year of Dylan’s Never-Ending Tour wraps up on December 3 in New York City.

A man started doing an interpretive dance

in the aisle until ushers brought him back to

his seat. Three times.

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Support for students’ artVisual Studies Student Society brings back the art sale

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Students were coming by all week to pick up a piece of student-made work.

Stockpiled with student art, the De-partment of Visual Studies Student Society’s annual art sale took place on campus each afternoon last week. Migrating from IB to the Davis Building, the DVSSS set up a table full of photos, abstract pieces, and watercolour paintings to raise mon-ey for the society.

When I arrived on Friday, I was the only one taking a look through the portfolio on the table. The first few pages were full of smaller pho-tographs and abstract pieces that

looked like tacos, as far as I could make out—though that could just be the Spanish in me talking.

Towards the end of the portfolio, I started to see larger watercolour paintings, like a giant pink flower and a nice painting of an owl. Some of my favourites were from a collec-tion called “Anxiety” that featured only text that read, “You know me better than that”, “You’re just like ev-eryone else”, “You don’t mean that”, and “I don’t know how to respond to you”. I’m not sure what I loved about them so much, but if I wasn’t stuck with a student budget, I might have purchased one.

The table was also full of larger prints in little piles as well as a tiny box full of at least 100 cut-out pho-tos selling for $2. Behind the two students manning the table—one of whom was selling some of his own art—were poster-sized pieces of the same artwork featured in the portfo-lio. The majority of the pieces were selling for $2 to $10.

I wound up leaving empty-handed, but before I left, two more students arrived and were sifting through the art. Regardless of how many pieces were sold in the end, it was pretty great to see students sup-porting students.

MARIA CRUZA&E EDITOR

Krueger’s backNickelback returns with eighth album

I wonder how many people will stop reading after they find out this is an article about Nickelback.

No Fixed Address, the Alberta-bred band’s eighth studio album, was released last week, having received fairly average ratings from critics like Billboard, who gave the album 3/5 stars, to the less-than-average USA Today rating of only 2/4 stars. These mixed mediocre ratings reflect a handful of the band’s past albums, such as the ones associated with Dark Horse and Here and Now.

Now, I understand that some people don’t like their musical style, or their morals—or lack thereof. But saying “they smell funny” (I’m look-ing at you, Maria Cruz) or saying that “they suck because they’re Nickel-back” isn’t a good enough reason to hate them. I’ve just about had it with these Nickelback haters who have zero substance to their argument.

In my opinion, Nickelback is not a bad band. Their songs are fun to listen to and they’re not meant to be

taken seriously. Their music shouldn’t be analyzed under a microscope. The upbeat, amusing lyrics perfectly em-body the Canadian band’s roots. And with No Fixed Address, lovers of the band will see that if you give the band a chance, their music can be enjoyed.

The first thing I noticed about the album was that its first song, “Million Miles an Hour”, was nostalgic be-cause it brought back the gritty hard rock of Nickelback’s earlier days. The song jumped out at me and I was im-pressed and surprised by how good the song was. What I also liked is how the album didn’t contain sappy romantic songs like “Far Away”, but it stuck to its pure rock genre.

I’d be lying if I said all the songs on the album were great, but along with the first track, “The Hammer’s Com-ing Down” is one of the best songs of the album. With crisp lyrics and the sound of an acoustic guitar juxta-posed with the electric, the song rep-resents what I see the band stand for: unique rock music that’s not heavy metal like Metallica or soft rock like Bon Jovi. Nickelback has a distinct sound, and that sound is emphasized and enhanced on this album.

The album has new songs that are similar to past albums, whereby fa-miliar messages about togetherness, nostalgia, women, and good ol’ rock and roll are present. For those who are always willing to enjoy a great jam session, in the words of Here and Now’s second song, “Bottoms Up”!

MMMM½

CHRISTOPHER ANTILOPESTAFF WRITER

Nickelback is not a bad band. Their songs are

fun to listen to and they’re not meant tobe taken seriously.

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A literary canon for our generation What’s the point of reading literary classics if they aren’t representative of today’s society?

What is a classic?When presented with this ques-

tion, I thought of Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, the works of Shake-speare, Homer’s The Odyssey, and Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol or Oliver Twist. These are stories I know, not because I’ve read them, but because I’ve talked about them. I’ve seen adaptations and have studied them in an endless ar-ray of English courses. To me, this is what a classic is: a story archaic in every sense, yet so insightful that its themes and explorations of the human condition are as poignant today as it was in the time it was written.

What makes a classic—what books we as readers collectively decide are classics—is subjective, but when I proposed the question to English professors Chester Sco-ville, Alexandra Rahr, and Chris Koenig-Woodyard, they agreed on two things. First, its standing has to have endured time, and second, its values have to be important to a modern readership.

It’s for the second reason that what we consider the classic canon seems to be in flux. Some of the titles we consider important texts vary from generation to generation. Rahr put it this way: “The classic

canon varies because it’s defined by what we take seriously. We [as a generation] find out of a text what we need from it.”

Koenig-Woodyard also stressed the cultural component of a canon.

“One has to read a series of compan-ion texts alongside [the classics] to understand the ways in which books are turned into classics—the way in which social, institutional, political, and ideological forces play roles in

shaping the cultural reception and historical status of a book,” he says.

He cited the example of Jane Austen, arguably one of the world’s most recognized authors, point-ing out that Austen’s work was not well-read in her day. It was during the 1950s that her writing grew in prominence and was increasingly taught at the secondary and post-secondary levels. Austen remains relevant, Koenig-Woodyard says, because “if Austen holds a kind of mirror up to her society in late 18th-and early 19th-century Eng-land, when we look in her mirror we have to reconcile our image along-side those she presents: she has les-sons about love and relationships that still resonate with us.”

If a classic is important because it holds a mirror up to our genera-tional values, then why is it often a less-read book? “We’re answering the question of what makes a story great in new ways,” says Rahr in ref-erence to what she calls the “crack-ing canon”.

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UTM professors explain that classics are defined by their timelessness and values.

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The long and winding road from hereThree members of the class of 2014 discuss what life is like after crossing the stage at Con Hall

My three greatest fears in life are E.T., hockey nets, and graduation. The last of these haunts most undergrads. I’m assuming is the majority of us have been in school almost our entire lives. Even when we had the opportunity after high school to immediately join the workforce and enter the “real world”, we chose higher education.

As I, along with the rest of the class of 2015, approach the end of the first term of our final year, suddenly the freedom we dreamed of from behind piles of textbooks and at the back of lecture halls doesn’t seem so exciting. There are thousands of considerations and this freedom is too… well, free-ing. It’s like one of those “choose your own adventure” books, but you’re forced to make your choice in front of an audience of parents, friends, and professors. What if you start off on the wrong path? What if your next step seems to take forever to materialize?

In these final weeks of the term, I chatted with three recent UTM grads about life six months after entering the “real world”. While each took different yet traditional routes that included

work, graduate school, and travelling, each shared similar sentiments about finishing up and moving on.

MATT SPADAFORA ENGLISH & PWCSpadafora’s post “The Truth about Life after University” on his blog, Matthew John Writes, served as the inspira-

tion for this article and very neatly summed up each and every one of my anxieties. Following a one-month trip across Europe, he chose to move home and head straight into the work-force: a retail position at Chapters. “It was my only option. I’m such a big procrastinator,” he says. He adds that he didn’t apply to graduate school in

his final year at UTM and wanted to give himself a year at least in order to “motivate [himself] to make change”.

For Spadafora, life after undergrad holds no surprises. He says he knew he wasn’t going into graduate school or an internship. A discovery he made, one that I’m sensing I’ll make as well, was that university goes on

without you once you’ve crossed the stage at Convocation Hall. “[Univer-sity] is more contained than you real-ize until you’re outside of it,” he says.

What does he miss about UTM? “Being forced to write because of my program” and “a schedule on my own terms”—unlike work, where you receive the schedule a week in ad-vance and you have to shape your life around it. It wasn’t until graduating that Spadafora realized that the rela-tionships with people we meet and so-cialize with in university can have ex-piry dates. However, he does still talk to many of these people and they con-tinue to positively influence his life. He quickly warns me, though, that graduation is by no means the “end”, and he believes that expectation will dissipate as you move along in your life. He certainly doesn’t miss going to class, the constant responsibility, and not eating properly. “It’s hard, but inevitable. Being 21 or 22 is a part of life when you’re in transition, but you have to go through it,” he says. “You’ll feel lost at first, but there are plenty of people who graduated alongside you that feel the same.”

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Is it surprising to think you might actually miss UTM when you finally get out of here?

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Waking up to caffeine addictionBecoming addicted to caffeine is as simple as ordering that one triple venti no-foam latte

It’s that time of the year when the lineups at Tims, Starbucks, and Sec-ond Cup get longer than usual, with students opting for that extra large rather than large cup. Some of us may not even consider themselves coffee drinkers, but that can of Red Bull or Monster becomes so appealing dur-ing exam time.

Whether it’s cold or warm, each of those drinks has one key ingredient: caffeine. It stimulates our brain and “wakes” it up, so we can do more tasks throughout the day. That comes with consequences: addiction and desensi-tization.

CAFFEINE & THE BRAINMany parts of the brain have recep-tors with multiple functions. For sleep and alertness, these receptors react to a molecule called adenosine. Throughout the day, we accumulate adenosine, and become more tired. When enough receptors fill up with adenosine, our brain tells us to go to sleep. As we sleep, the adenosine is cleared.

Caffeine shares a similar shape to adenosine, so when we drink that Tim Hortons double double around 6 p.m., caffeine blocks the receptors and prevents drowsiness. Our brain stays awake and we can fit more cram sessions throughout the night.

But the brain adapts to this lack of fatigue by creating more adenos-

ine receptors. This means we start to need to take more caffeine to keep us alert—the start of an addiction.

HOW ADDICTION STARTSAt the same time, caffeine stimulates our body in other ways. It increases adrenaline, a hormone that speeds up our heart rate, increases blood flow, and opens up the airways in our lungs. It also stops another hormone, dopamine—associated with happy feelings—from being reabsorbed into

the brain, which means you tempo-rarily feel happier. Actually, caffeine and cocaine have a similar effect on the brain in terms of their effect on dopamine, although caffeine is not as aggressive.

Caffeine addiction starts when it begins to affect dopamine levels. The more exposed the brain is to dopa-mine, the happier we feel. This is why when someone stops drinking coffee after a few weeks of excessively drink-ing it, she feels withdrawal symptoms.

Dopamine levels begin to decrease and fall back into its normal range, so we don’t feel as perky as we did with that warm cup of coffee.

CAN CAFFEINE KILL?There is a lethal limit to caffeine. However, the human body is filled with several tricks that prevent us from reaching a caffeine overdose. They found that approximately 150 mg per 1 kg of someone’s body weight can kill someone. To put it in perspec-

tive, if someone weighs 70 kg (154 lbs), they would need 14 g of caffeine to kill them. There’s about 200 mg in a medium Tim Hortons coffee, which means you’d need about 70 cups of it to reach that dose. Even the 260 mg in a tall Starbucks cup would require over 50 cups. And the human stom-ach can’t hold that volume.

But in any case, even before hitting four grams, the brain can begin to hallucinate and become hyperactive.

OPTIONSYou can try to escape caffeine ad-diction by quitting cold turkey or by slowly weaning yourself off of it.

Many doctors recommend gradu-ally reducing caffeine intake, as it can be harder to focus, be productive, and be happy if you quit cold turkey. Although it takes longer to be clean, the withdrawal symptoms aren’t as se-vere and the body doesn’t go through much of a shock.

The best rates for a reduced caffeine intake as you quit are approximately:

Coffee: quarter of a cup each day (drinking the same brand through-out)

Energy drinks: half a can every two days

Caffeinated pop: a can or half a bottle every two days

The occasional coffee or caffeinated drink doesn’t hurt the body, but like everything we take into our bodies, moderation is key.

Exams are tough, but an addiction is even harder to beat.

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It’s actually healthier to slowly wean yourself off caffeine rather than go cold turkey.

The future belongs to you

CORNELIA AUDREYTHEATRE & DRAMA STUDIESAudrey moved to the big city after wrapping up her four years at UTM and entered “the biz”. She’s kept her-self busy with independent films and a commercial. However, she’s also put-ting in hours as a waitress at Jack As-tor’s and a marketing and promotions position, raising the funds to travel and film a documentary with another recent UTM grad. “I want to do the-atre and acting along with humanitar-ian work,” she says.

The documentary will feature inter-views with women around the world to discover what happiness means to them and how they achieve it. They’ll fly to Hong Kong, Thailand, Cambo-dia, Vietnam, Laos, Malaysia, Indo-nesia, Australia, and New Zealand. The two started planning the trip and saving money a year in advance. She advises other students consider-ing travelling on graduation to make a game plan. “Work in any field that pays during the summer, because it comes down to money,” she says.

For Audrey, life after graduation is more uncertain than she expected. She describes the first summer as a “roller coaster”. She believes this un-certainty is particularly true of those graduating with arts degrees. “There’s no direct path. You have to go from day to day and one audition at a time,” she says.

Like Spadafora, she misses the sense of community in her program, neighbourhood, and work, as well as the parks near Sheridan and UTM. “Thankfully, there’s not a lot I don’t miss,” she says. “I really liked it. I guess I don’t miss the homework and the lack of things to do in Mississauga.”

She advises current students to take opportunities and to keep people in their networks. “Cherish the time with your communities and friends,” she says. “Make time to talk to pro-fessors, who can support you upon graduation.” For Audrey, who stresses the adage “Work hard, play hard”, it’s what you do outside of the classroom that you’ll remember.

DANDI YANGPSYCH & ANTHROI spoke with Yang over the phone as she walked home from lecture. She’s working towards a Master of Educa-tion at OISE in student development and student services in postsecond-ary education. The choice of program was a natural for Yang, who worked in residence and at summer camps as an undergrad and expected to go on to grad school. But as she was applying, she wasn’t certain whether to take a year off. “My parents helped me make the decision,” she says. “They said I should at least apply so I didn’t have any regrets.”

Yang describes grad school as a “half-step into life”.

“You’re doing school, but you have

time to look around and free time to be part of life,” she says. The great-est shock was just how difficult the job market is, and you really do, as Drake put it, start from the bottom. She’s currently doing volunteer work related to her studies, but thanks to a scholarship, there’s no rush to find work—although she says she’ll start looking.

“I didn’t feel like I was contribut-ing in undergrad—there was a lot of memorization,” she says. “Here there’s a whole new type of learning. It’s a lot different. I feel like I’m contributing to the conversation and applying myself. I have no regrets.” But Yang misses the UTM community. She loved the small campus, the ability to schedule classes back-to-back, waking up 20 minutes before class and still making it on time, and the small class sizes in psych. Like Audrey, she appreciates living in a bigger city with less isola-tion and more food options.

Yang concedes that most fourth-years are usually thinking, “I just want to get this over with.” But she warns that it’s important to think about the future.

“Once you walk out, you’re an adult. Think about what you want to do when you still have your profes-sors, academic advisors, the HCC, and other support systems. Plan ahead,” she says. And she doesn’t just mean for more schooling: “If you want to let life take you wherever, at least make that choice.”

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Tradition lives hereUTM’s Aboriginal elder spends a weekend in residence

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Attendees participate in the Saturday afternoon drum teaching workshop.

The Aboriginal Elder in Residence weekend, an event held by Resi-dence Life that lives up to its name, took place earlier this month. The purpose of the weekend is for stu-dents to interact through tradi-tional teaching and activities that let them experience Aboriginal culture.

The event started with a tradi-tional Aboriginal dinner, which for the last few years of this event has been classic Chinese takeout. The kick-off dinner encouraged partici-pants to get to know each other and prompted discussion about the idea of identity in community.

The Aboriginal elder in resi-dence and our campus’s traditional elder is Cat Criger, a First Nations person. He is Cayuga (Guyohkohn-yoh in the original language), one of the Haudenosaunee (People of the Longhouse), also known as Six

Nations or Iroquois. For more than 16 years, he’s worked as a tradi-tional teacher and healer in the Na-tive and multicultural community in Canada, the U.S., and Wales. At U of T he is a traditional teacher at the First Nations House and the standing elder for the Council for Aboriginal Initiatives.

Being the traditional indigenous Aboriginal elder through the De-partment of Student Life, Criger has been involved with the week-end-long event since its creation. He usually invites other members of the Aboriginal community to take part as well.

This year’s guests included Eddy Robinson, the founder of Morning-star River, a Toronto Aboriginal-based Aboriginal cultural consult-ing and traditional song and dance company, and Cindilee Eckert-Flagg, an education administrator for the Fort Erie Native Friendship Centre.

According to Jenna Menzies, the community development coordi-nator for Residence Life, a few of the standout events of the weekend were the “Women’s Full Moon Cer-emony” on Saturday night featuring Eckert-Flagg and the “Drumming Circle” featuring Robinson.

“The Sunrise Ceremony was also a very refreshing way to begin a Sat-urday morning,” added Menzies.

This particular event was attend-ed by 32 students.

“I was able to experience some-thing that opened my eyes to a whole new type of learning,” said one of the student participants.

“It was much more hands-on and got me focusing on how [our Cana-dian history] was affecting me. Not only did I learn about the ritual and why specific things are done but I also learned about the Aborigi-nal community, as Cat spoke a lot about stories and other rituals, cer-emonies, and traditions.”

SAMINA SULTANA

Rahr points out that there’s a senti-ment that many students, regardless of their discipline, have identified as “the problem with the literary canon”: the fact that they establish and live in conventions.

By contrast, Kevin Mahiri, a medical student at Western, argued that while he valued literary compe-tence, he felt that students needed to “expose themselves to not just accepting literary conventions, but different perspectives”.

Scoville felt that while it was a problem that students weren’t read-ing the titles typically considered “classics”, the bigger issue is that the canon actually isn’t changing enough. ”The question of what classics you’re talking about may depend on your point of view. In a multicultural society and univer-

sity, one can’t rely on only the same list of must-read texts now that our predecessors did a century ago,” he says.

If this seems hard to reconcile with the observation that the stu-dent’s conception of the “classics”

does change, that’s the problem. While the canon in literary circles is being updated, many people out-side the ivory tower accept without question the canon Koenig-Wood-yard calls “the canon of dead white

people”. The values of our increas-ingly diverse culture are changing. We tell stories in different ways and consider different things great.

This is Rahr’s concern. For her, the problem isn’t whether we’re reading classics, but whether we’re creating a well-read citizenry. What one gains from reading a classic is how to really read; that is, to dis-sect and analyze what we’re reading rather than racing through to finish the story. Arguably, a true classic does precisely that. It forces us to slow down.

What we read, and why we read it, is changing. But what shouldn’t change is reading in this intentional way, especially in a quickening and increasingly distracted world. We need classics, old or new, to be a tool in understanding both our lan-guage and the state of our society and humanity.

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Read more to read better

“In a multicultural society and university, one can’t rely on only

the same list of must-read texts now

that our precessors did.”

I personally have never held a dinner

party. That said, I’m a diehard fan of

Come Dine with Me (the British origi-

nal as well as the Canadian remake)

and my favourite icebreaker question

is, “For your last supper, who would

you invite and what would you eat?”

However, student life doesn’t exactly

scream dinner party. I’ve debated

starting my own supper club, but busy

and regularly changing schedules, fi-

nances, and a lack of friends who like

cooking anything besides spaghetti

and tinned sauce have squashed this

dream.

However, I remain firm in my belief

that students should have one “fan-

cy” recipe in their back pocket. And

“fancy” by no means entails difficult.

In fact, if a certain situation arises—

like a date with a special someone, a

break-up and “I’m sorry” meal with a

special someone, or just a plain old

“occasion”—the last thing you prob-

ably want to do is spend hours craft-

ing a Michelin star–worthy meal. It

wasn’t until Magda Walczak, assistant

clinic coordinator at the Sports Clinic

(in Davis beside the RAWC), shared

her lemon chicken recipe that I finally

uncovered a student-friendly, dinner

party–worthy recipe.

“It was given to me by my mother-

in-law and I like it because it’s really

simple, but tastes delicious,” she

says. “The chicken is moist and the

lemon sauce is perfect without any

extra seasonings to it.”

I agree completely, having been fed

a similar version of this dish by my

French host mother over the summer;

nothing makes classic chicken bet-

ter than a spoonful of cream. Follow

Walczak’s suggestion to serve it with

rice and simple veggies and, by golly,

you’ll have a meal that probably out-

shines half the dishes on Come Dine

with Me. Let’s put it this way: whip up

a batch of your own “(Not Your Aver-

age) Lemon Chicken”, set the table,

and call me over. I promise I’m a well-

behaved dinner date—even if I do get

a bit grouchy after my 8:30 p.m. bed-

time.

(Not Your Average) Lemon Chicken

MAKES 4 SERVINGS

INGREDIENTS

• 4 chicken breasts

• 2 lemons

• 2 cups (500 ml) 35% or whipping

cream

METHOD

1.Dip the chicken breasts in flour and

brown in an oiled frying pan over me-

dium-high heat.

2.Squeeze the lemon juice out of the

lemons into a bowl, making sure to

discard any seeds that may fall in.

3.Add cream (straight from the carton

and not whipped!) to lemon juice and

mix together.

4.Put chicken in an oven-safe glass

dish and pour lemon and cream mix-

ture overtop.

5.Bake at 350 F (180 C) for 45 min-

utes and serve over rice.

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Blues inaugurate Goldring with a winMen’s basketball team earn 13-point victory over Nipissing at the centre’s grand opening

On a cold Friday night, students flocked to the newly opened Gold-ring Centre for High Performance Athletics for its grand opening game.

The facility, built this year for the Pan-American games, is also the new home of the Varsity Blues men’s and women’s basketball and vol-leyball teams, among other sports. Although it was finished in early November, the Goldring Centre had its official opening on Friday night, during the Blues men’s basketball home opener against the Nipissing Lakers.

Both teams came into the game looking to rebound from losing re-cords. The Varsity Blues (1-3) were going into the game in third place in the East Division, and Nipissing (0-2) was looking to move up from fourth in the North Division. The atmosphere in the new centre was very excited as the teams took the court.

The game began at a very fast pace, with both teams playing a very strong defence. Both teams turned the ball over several times and missed multiple chances before Nipissing opened the scoring 1:40 into the game.

Toronto was playing well but

struggled to score until 4:19, when Devin Johnson got a quick layup and foul to get Toronto on the board. This sent the Blues on a 10-point run that gave them an early 10-5 lead.

The scoring picked up, with both teams going back and forth, but nei-ther team was able to build a solid lead. Nipissing ended the quarter with a couple of baskets to finish with a 16-12 lead.

The second quarter picked up on the momentum of the first, with

both teams continuing to go back and forth. Neither team led by more than four points, and the lead changed six times in the quarter. The teams went up and down the court very quickly and both were very ag-gressive in the paint. As the first half wound down, the scoring slowed down, and it ended with Nipissing leading 30-29.

As the second half began, both teams came out ready to fight for the win.

The half started with both teams shooting three-pointers and a couple of fast breaks, but neither team was able to pull away. Halfway through the quarter, Toronto found a rhythm and took the lead with a 6-0 run, only to see Nipissing respond with a run of their own to stay within one point at 47-46.

But the Varsity Blues would not let up, and they finally built a lead in the last three minutes with a 10-3 run. Denis Ankrah capped off the

quarter for the Blues by shooting three points with seven seconds left in the quarter to finish 57-49 for To-ronto.

Ankrah started the final quarter with another one of his five three-pointers of the night, and Toronto picked up where they left off. The crowd was very excited as the Blues took control of the game on offence and defence. Even so, as the game wound down, the teams lost inten-sity.

The Lakers made a late push, but Toronto’s lead was too wide, and the game ended with Toronto getting the 72-59 win.

Denis Ankrah put in a fantastic performance, shooting nine of the 10 field goals and five three-pointers.

“I just try not to miss shots,” said Ankrah, a third-year kinesiology major. “I know I’m a big part of this team—when I’m playing well we usually play well. So I try to contrib-ute in any way I can.”

Ankrah believes that the Blues’ shooting made the difference in the second half. “We know we have good shooters, and in the first half our shots weren’t falling, but in the second half we started to get more,” he said.

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Two championship wins in two daysUTM breaks records in Div 1 and tri-campus men’s soccer under coach Robert Brown

In the span of two days, UTM won two championships in Division 1 and tri-campus men’s outdoor soccer. This marks the first time in the history of UTM that both titles have been won in the same year.

To add to this remarkable feat, both teams earned their victories under the guidance of coach Robert Brown.

“It is very special to me to win both of these championships,” said Brown, who will be the head coach of the UTM men’s soccer team at the OCAA level.

Brown has done it all when it comes to UTM soccer. In 2007 as a student, Brown played for UTM, win-ning the Division 1 title for men’s out-door soccer, the last team to do so un-til this year’s squad. Being a coach at UTM since 2008, Brown has had the privilege to break a series of records in his time as coach. The tri-campus men’s soccer team has now won back-to-back championships, another first in UTM’s soccer history. Brown states that his confidence in both of his teams’ ability to win was evident

from early tryouts. “Obviously, it’s my goal at the beginning of each season to win the championships,” he states. “I felt very confident that we put to-gether two very strong teams and that we had a chance to be successful in both leagues.”

Though championship games tend to be more nerve-wracking than

most, Brown did not foresee the way each final would play out. Both of his teams played extremely close matches that ended up being decided in the second frame of extra time by a single goal.

For Jacob Monaco, a second-year finance major and goalie for the Divi-sion 1 squad, the extra time was par-

ticularly tense. “As a keeper in extra time, there is an even greater amount of pressure to perform,” he said. “Be-ing the last line of defence, one slip-up would cost us the game.”

Despite the nerves, Monaco felt calm in the final minutes as the mo-mentum shifted in his team’s favour, giving them a boost to score the

game-winner and beat New College A 2-1. “When we finally scored and got the win, there was a huge sigh of relief knowing all of our hard work paid off,” he said.

The tri-campus game was a little more even; after 90 scoreless minutes, both UTM and St. George Red went into the extra frame in search of the only goal that needed to be scored. Luckily for UTM, that goal came from central midfielder Eddy Dabire.

The situation may seem eerily fa-miliar for UTM fans who watched last year’s championship game unfold. How so? A year ago, it was Dabire who scored the game-winning goal in extra time against the same team to win the tri-campus championship. The game-winner came with about 10 minutes into the extra-time half as UTM received a free kick outside the box.

“I requested a near post cross from free kick taker Johar Fikiri-Chap-man,” said Dabire. “Sure enough, he delivered a great ball and I was able to header it past the goalie for the game winner. It was an amazing feeling.”

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JACK KRIST/PHOTOThe men’s Division 1 team poses for a photo after their 2-1 victory over New College A.

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Third-year forward and UTM student Manny Sahota drives to the net against the Nipissing Lakers.

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Bringing it all back home to CanadaThe Eagles’ Sam Dumcum reflects on his athletic achievements and his journey to UTM

“Life works in interesting ways,” says Sam Dumcum, reflecting on his un-conventional journey to UTM. This fall, Sam became a full-time student.

Having spent six years in south-ern California as part of the U.S. Marines and the U.S. duathlon team while attending MiraCosta College in Oceanside, California, Dumcum saw his journey take an unexpected turn when he finally felt it was time to return to his home province of Manitoba.

And yet less than a month after returning home to Steinbach, Mani-toba, he found himself on a plane to Toronto.

Strange as it may sound, the rea-sons were clear to Sam. “I met one of the most dynamic, intelligent, and beautiful women I had ever met,” he said.

After meeting his wife—now his wife of six years—and work-ing through various jobs, Dumcum started his own media and promo-tions business in 2012. His desire to build his business is what brought him to UTM. “It was obvious that I needed to up my skills,” says Dum-cum, a digital enterprise manage-ment major.

While school is his priority, run-ning is his passion, a constant that has stayed with him despite the ev-er-changing variables in his life.

“In a sense it was the accessibility of running: a pair of shoes and away you go,” says Dumcum, contentedly.

Growing up, Dumcum’s family moved around a lot, and his choices of sports varied from place to place. His main sport, figure skating, even-tually lost out to his newfound love of running, but Dumcum credits his time in figure skating with instilling a high compete level in him that fu-els his running.

At the moment, Dumcum is one of the runners on the first incarna-

tion of the UTM Eagles cross-coun-try team. Since finding a passion in running, Dumcum has built an impressive list of credentials that would make him a valuable asset to any running squad.

Living in both Canada and the States has allowed Dumcum to compete for both countries at high levels. He has competed as an un-der-23 junior elite triathlete, which required over 23 hours of training a week, while working a part-time job and going to school. For those unfamiliar with triathlons, this is a competition involving three cycles of swimming, cycling, and running

The opportunity to compete na-tionally and eventually go pro was within reach, and although he did qualify for multiple national and world championships, the intense commitment became too much to keep up without full sponsorship.

The intensity of training for these triathlons began to take its toll. “I felt like I was on the edge of physi-

cal and mental collapse all the time,” recalls Dumcum. After a traumatic head-on collision that forced him to take a break from competition, Dumcum reevaluated his goals and found ways to balance the compet-ing aspects of his life. Dumcum be-lieves beyond question that he was at his peak performance between 2004 and 2006.

During that time, Dumcum shift-ed from triathlons to duathlons, a similarly staged competition in-volving cycling and running. After finding help through coach Chris Maund, who changed aspects of Dumcum’s routine with focus on the mental and physical side of training, Dumcum made it onto the podium in 2005 and 2006 as champion of the U.S. duathlon grand prix. Not only did he achieve success in athletics, qualifying for the world champion-ship team, but Dumcum also gar-nered academic successes, landing on the dean’s list at his college.

His experience makes him more

than qualified to compete at the OCAA level for UTM, and Dum-cum is excited to help his new team-mates achieve the same level of suc-cess.

Running has the interesting dual-ity of being both an exercise and a sport. For those who run as exercise, running is the endgame. But it’s a different story for those who run in a competitive setting.

After Dumcum’s extensive train-ing, his understanding of running has encompassed a broader spec-trum to include both physical and mental aspects, giving him the necessary mental tools to cheat his body into performing even when it doesn’t want to comply.

“For me, mental is the biggest part of the game,” he says. “If my head isn’t in it, I’ll run around cam-pus instead of running 10k in Erin-dale Park.”

The difficulty for many who run, whether for exercise or when train-ing for a marathon, is having the

motivation to start. Dumcum con-siders self-motivation one of the most important tools a runner can have in getting out the door. “It doesn’t matter how good your gear is—if your head isn’t in it, you’re beat before you even hit the trail,” he says.

If Dumcum does feel lethargic, his headphones or a well-deserved treat at the end of his run can get him going.

“Sometimes I run in the rain because it makes me feel competi-tive and hardcore,” Dumcum jokes. “Finding whatever gets you out is the most important tool you can have.”

Dumcum cites a talk he heard by Olympic gold medalist Simon Whit-field, who revealed his own tricks to get himself to run. “For him, listen-ing to podcasts makes a 50-minute run not seem like a run—he’s just listening to a podcast,” he says.

Despite his successes and his desire to continue training, Dum-cum’s relationship with running is a strange one. “Eighty percent of the time I hate running,” he reveals. “I know 50 km a week is a lot of time to spend doing something you hate, but I love competing, and even more, I love winning—even if win-ning is only doing better than I did last time.”

He says the “runner’s high” he feels post-run makes his efforts worthwhile in the short view, but it’s his inherent competitiveness that keeps him coming back for more.

After three meets and one OCAA provincial championship under his belt this fall, Dumcum will be able to focus on school while also com-pleting offseason training with the cross-country team.

The team will be spending the next few months working with per-sonal trainers at the RAWC and using the indoor track to build strength and speed in preparation for the 2015 season.

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Dumcum, a former U.S. duathlon grand prix champion, has competed for both Canada and the U.S.

UTM’s new soccer dynasties

UTM’s soccer victories bode well for the school that will be upping the ante come 2015 with competi-tion at the OCAA level.

“It is really an exciting time to be in the soccer program at UTM be-cause we are only going in the right direction,” says Brown.

Varsity program coordinator Jack

Krist considers this the golden age of soccer at UTM, noting that our campus also won an OCAA extra-mural coed soccer tournament at Humber to make it three titles in two days.

“This is the perfect time for the move to varsity and the players and coaching staff have worked very hard for this,” says Krist. “The deci-sions ahead for Robert Brown will

be even harder as he looks to select our first-ever OCAA varsity team. With many excellent players from the tri-campus, division, and even the UTM Campus Rec leagues, I do not envy his task.

“However, I know that the soc-cer program is in great hands with our coaches and the dedicated and hardworking athletes at UTM,” he adds.

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Blues dig heels in at new digs

Head coach John Campbell, who’s entering his second season with the team, knows there’s still a lot of work ahead for the players.

“It’s going to be a real challenge,” he said. “We’re a team with a small margin for error, so we need to play the best we can.”

Campbell thinks the support they

receive from fans is key. “It was a great atmosphere for our players to play [today],” he said. “The crowd was not only large, but engaged, which helped the players lose some of their nervous energy.”

The Varsity Blues women’s bas-ketball team also played spectacu-larly in their earlier game against the Nipissing women, thrashing the Lakers 73-23.

The men’s squad is now 2-4 af-ter a 64-67 loss to the Laurentian Voyageurs on Saturday. After back-to-back home games this weekend, the team will go on a short road trip, playing two games against Carleton and Ottawa next weekend and then breaking until the new year.

The Blues will play their next home game on January 7 against Ryerson.

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