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An eclectic bunch
On-campus debate for
municipal election raises
questions over viability
of some candidates
KELSEY RIDEOUT
B
y now, the election buzz has
been spreading throughout
Guelph and most have
become aware that voting for the
municipal election is taking place
on Oct. 25. While many were
upset with the city’s decision that
the university won’t receive any
on-campus polling stations, we at
least managed to bring election
candidates to the U of G for
A Celebration of Diversity
Aboriginal Awareness
Week at U of G
ANDREA LAMARRE
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iversity and a rich cultural
mosaic are characteristics
that many of us would
associate with our country, our
city, and our university. Embracing
our unique backgrounds and
celebrating our differences is part of
what makes our society so vibrant.
Undeniably, Aboriginal groups
including First Nations, Métis and
Inuit are an important part of our
dynamic Canadian society and our
cultural heritage. Even so, there
are many misconceptions about
Indigenous culture in Canada.
Luckily for U of G students,
there is a stronghold of Aboriginal
culture and support right at our own
university, the Aboriginal Resource
Centre (ARC). A beaver resides
outside the otherwise unassuming
building in a traditional garden built
by a local Elder. Inside, the ARC
is a key resource for Aboriginal
students and a place for all students
to learn about Aboriginal culture.
ARC is home to a wide variety
of student services and events,
and from Oct. 18 to 22, ARC is
presenting Aboriginal Awareness
Week to the student body.
Aboriginal Awareness Week
is a celebration of all things First
a debate focused primarily on
student issues.
The debate entitled ‘Count
Yourself In! Participation Changes
Everything!’ featured all but
one mayoral candidate, (David
Birtwistle), did not attend, as well
as those running for city council
seats from Ward 5 – the electoral
district that the majority of students
reside in. Candidates answered
questions that the audience,
comprised of mostly students,
inquired about. Issues of concern
included bus transportation, the
Hanlon Creek Business Park
controversy and the casting of
a negative university perception
Nations, Métis and Inuit.
“Primarily, it’s about showcasing
and sharing Aboriginal culture,”
explained Cara Wehkamp, ARC
manager and student advisor. This
year, events included a session called
‘Aboriginal 101,’ where attendees
asked Jean Becker, University of
Guelph alumnus and present Elder
in Residence at Wilfred Laurier
University, anything they’ve ever
wondered about in terms of
Aboriginal culture and society.
“We try to be a welcoming
space and work with Elders
who understand diversity,” said
Wehkamp of ARC’s programming
beyond Aboriginal Awareness
Week events. Not only does the
centre recognize diversity among
Aboriginal groups themselves,
but it welcomes students with
no experience or background
in Aboriginal culture. In fact,
events like Aboriginal Awareness
Week reach out to the university
community at large.
Another exciting event at
Aboriginal Awareness Week was
a talk by Jessica Yee, Executive
Director and founder of the Native
Youth Sexual Health Network. In
light of the week coinciding with
Queer Identity week, Lee discussed
the concept of “two-spirit” identities.
And of course, another big draw
of Aboriginal Awareness Week is
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by local media. Their feedback
showed notable differences in the
candidates’ political platforms as
well as in their decisions to run in
this year’s mayoral race.
Scott Nightingale, a 29-year-
old mayoral candidate who was
born and raised in Guelph, put
forward his nomination for mayor
to gain experience but admitted
that he does not expect to win. Ray
Mitchell, the owner of a downtown
Guelph antique store, was even
more vocal about his low chances
in becoming mayor, but explained
see “ELECTION,” page 4
always the bannock; a scrumptious
baked or fried flatbread. Students
will have the opportunity on
Thursday, Oct. 21, to get a real taste
of Aboriginal culture while listening
to a local Métis man, Marcel Labelle,
explain the historical and practical
significance of the birch-bark canoe.
It’s important to note that
Aboriginal awareness is year- Megan Verhey
round through the outreach and Mayoral candidate Scott Nightingale was part of an on-campus all-
programming of the ARC. The candidates debate for the municipal election.
centre is a key resource for students,
helping to ease the transition from
home to school that so many first outreach and understanding,” said into Aboriginal culture through
year students experience. Wehkamp. Awareness Week to providing
“It was a hard transition The Aboriginal Resource Centre support to students year round,
and almost culture shock to be is clearly an important part of our the ARC is as welcoming as the
immersed into a non-Aboriginal campus community. From giving peaceful garden out front would
community,” said Danielle Printup, all students a unique glimpse suggest.
co-chair of the Aboriginal Students
Issues Index
Association. “The centre has
allowed me to participate in cultural
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and recreational programming, and
I have that sense of community that
I do back home.” SEA
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such as moccasin making and drum
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students, either.
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Going beneath the surface and discovering a disaster
Alanna Mitchell comes
to Guelph to discuss
her internationally
acclaimed book on the
crisis in the global ocean
KELSEY RIDEOUT
K
nown by many as the
‘Armageddon’ reporter,
Alanna Mitchell has spent
years as a journalist researching and
writing about some of the most
dire situations plaguing humanity
and threatening the earth’s ability
to function. Carrying with her a
curiosity that she best describes as
an “intense need to understand how
things work,”Mitchell felt compelled
to investigate the conditions of
the “true lungs of the earth” or the
planet’s global oceans. During her
talk that was hosted at Artisanale
Café on Oct. 18 by the School of
Environmental Sciences and the
Bookshelf, Mitchell discussed her
newest book entitled Sea Sick: The
Global Ocean in Crisis.
Once one discovers the life-
sustaining functions that are carried
out by the world’s largest bodies of
water, it’s nearly impossible not to
Understanding our youth who sleep without homes
Wellington-Guelph
Youth Housing Forum
enables discussion
about poverty,
homelessness and
housing for youth
KELSEY RIDEOUT
G
etting through university is
no easy task. It’s no doubt
that many students incur a
great deal of stress from the pressure
of exams, and often endure waves of
anxiety when it comes to ensuring
their tuition is paid for and their
cheques for rent went through. But
what if students had to manage
completing a degree without a
roof to sleep under at night? On
Thursday, Oct. 14, a diverse group
of people came together to discuss
the present housing needs for at-risk
youth in Guelph and Wellington
County. Students, social workers,
corporate representatives, and
youth themselves shared in their
experiences and spent part of the day
coming up with creative solutions to
providing adequate housing services
for youth who find themselves out
on the streets.
Debbie Bentley-Lauzon, a U of
G alumnus, who currently works as
the Executive Director of Wyndham
House. The local organization that
provides people aged 16 to 21 with
various support services including a
short term overnight shelter facility
Hayley Mullen Mitchell has brought to
Alanna Mitchell presented a lecture on her the public’s attention.
bestselling book, Sea Sick, written to spread These changes include
awareness about the crisis in the global ocean.
pay attention to Mitchell’s work.
The ocean covers seven-tenths
of the earth’s surface and makes up
for 99 per cent of the planet’s living but
space. Life on land is inextricably
dependent on the chemistry and
life of the ocean. Plankton, which
are tiny, microscopic organisms that
provide an essential source of food
for ocean life, produce half of the of Mexico’s dead zone that lasts
world’s oxygen. The ocean controls 17,000 square kilometers across the
as well as a long term overnight
residence, Bentley-Lauzon spoke
about the issue of poverty and
homelessness amongst youth in the
local context of Guelph.
“There’s lots of different pathways
to youth homelessness, so a lot of
the time it’s family breakdown and
they just can’t get along with their
parents,” said Bentley-Lauzon.
“There’s mental illness. There are
addictions.There are lots of struggles.
Poverty is an issue. Unstable housing.
Youth will surf on couches and hang
out with friends for a bit and then
they’ll end up on our doorstep.”
When students step outside the
confines of the university campus
and begin to explore Guelph a little
more freely,it becomes quite apparent
that there exists a great disparity in
income and quality of life within the
city’s youth demographic. Perhaps
you’ve found yourself walking after
class through downtown and begin
to feel perplexed by that feeling of
uncertainty when seeing someone
who is visibly homeless. Should
you give away your spare change?
Or should you just pass them
by? Bentley-Lauzon encouraged
students to inform themselves about
the services that exist in Guelph so
they can at least educate those who
may need it the most.
“When I see someone downtown
who needs something, I know
the services so I can say, ‘I know
there’s a youth centre on Douglas
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the temperature,
climate, and carbon
and oxygen cycles of
the planet. Without
the oceans, life as we
know it would cease to
exist. And yet Mitchell
explained how humans
have been treating
the global ocean (all
of the world’s oceans
combined) as a Mitchell explained how difficult it
dumping ground.
There have been
three major changes in
the global ocean that
an increase in acidity,
a decrease in oxygen
and an increase in temperature. It
may be difficult to imagine what
these kinds of changes translate into,
Mitchell provided some vivid
illustrations. For example, a decrease
of oxygen has caused over 400 dead
zones, areas in the ocean where there
is virtually no oxygen and barely any
life. Mitchell traveled to the Gulf
Street…they have hot coffee and
sometimes there will be a hot meal
and there will be someone to talk
to. You should see if they can help
you. Just knowing the services that
are available and being able to ask
if someone needs something can be
beneficial for others.”
Laura-May Culver, another U of
G alumnus and social worker as well
as Consultant and Counselor with
the Upper Grand District School
Board in Ontario, encouraged
students to become active in issues
surrounding youth and poverty by
initially understanding the place in
which they come from.
“In our education system,
generally anybody who makes it to
university is privileged, because they
went through a system that’s still
set up for the privileged few,” she
explained. “So if you’re graduating
from university, unless you did
everything in your power to make it
there and you’re a rarity, you’re likely
coming from a very privileged place.
So know your privilege and know
yourself. Know where your privilege
comes from, be honest and then use
your voice.”
Bentley-Lauzon commended
students for developing campaigns
and initiatives to bring to light some
of the issues facing at-risk youth in
the local community. Coming up
is ‘Trick-or-Eat,’ a campaign that
invites students to better understand
the issue of hunger within Guelph.
sea floor. The three major changes
in the global ocean have resulted
from vast amounts of carbon being
absorbed due to modern industrial
development.
As Mitchell captivated the
audience with her research and
stunning facts about the ocean’s
future, feelings of frustration and
even sadness appeared to envelop
the crowd of attentive listeners.
was to complete the book, describing
how she had at one point become
clinically depressed and unable to get
out of bed for a month. Eventually,
she awoke from a state of paralyzing
helplessness to one of profound
hopefulness. The mental shift
happened when she had an epiphany
after plunging 3,000 ft underwater
in a tiny submersible to see into the
depths of the ocean that no one had
ever seen before. While observing
a vibrant dance of mysterious life
within the darkness found at the
ocean floor, Mitchell discovered one
integral message, that “you simply
must choose hope.” She realized then
that guilt is not good for anything
except for being unproductive. To
solve issues as stark as the state of the
The Youth Housing Forum brought together members of the community
to discuss housing needs for at-risk and homeless youth.
Students participating in Trick-or-
Eat will go door to door in the early
evening of Halloween to collect
food for the Guelph Food Bank.
The event will raise awareness
regarding the 20,000 people who
are presently at risk of hunger in
Guelph, 25 per cent of them being
under the age of 15.
If you’re unable to make it out to
this event, maybe try implementing
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global ocean, it’s our positive energy
and open-minded attitudes that
desperately need to be harnessed if
effective, collaborative action is ever
to take place.
Just before the evening came to
a close, Mitchell was asked what
could be done from an individual
standpoint. Rather than telling
people what it is they should do,
Mitchell surprised the audience
by insisting that those who are
passionate about the crisis in the
global ocean turn inwards and begin
to better understand themselves if
they truly want to find the answers
that will guide them into being an
integral part of a resolution.
“It has to do with not having a
prescription,” said Mitchell. “I know
people would love to have a list of
things that they can do...but I think
that people here, everybody in this
room has a specific gift to bring to
this, a specific set of skills that he or
she could bring to this issue…Much
more than tell you what I think you
should do, I want to ask you what
you think you should do. I hope you
have sleepless nights worrying about
what you should do, and then I hope
you do something.”
Dean D’Souza
Bentley-Lauzon’s simple advice, and
encourage yourself to react with
positivity when you confront youth
in our community who’ve been
forced to enter homelessness at such
a young age.
“It doesn’t cost you anything
to be kind and sometimes it can
make a world of difference to
somebody who’s out there, at 16
or 17 on the streets.”
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Enduring midterm madness
Study techniques information she is studying.
students use to get “Writing things out helps me a
lot. I take in more if I write stuff
through a busy bout down,” said Vinson.
of the semester Another technique students use
is re-reading assigned text chapters
KIRSTI JUURAKKO and going over notes. Craig
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t’s that time of year again. Baird, a first-year English student
Now that we’ve given thanks, described how he tends to study in
and relaxed throughout a this way.
long weekend full of delicious “I just try and read over my
food, we’ve now returned to the chapters and go through all my notes.
less enjoyable season of writing Try and link everything together and
midterms. When it comes to make sense of it,” said Baird.
preparing for midterms and Getting recordings for certain
exams, all students have their own classes in which recordings are
techniques of studying. There permitted is another studying
are the ‘crammers,’ ‘the study-in- technique that Baird tends to
advancers,’ ‘the study-buddies’ and rely on.
of course there is always bound “It kind of brings in a fair bit
to be the procrastinating, ‘study- of studying where it’s like in class
all-I-can-in-the-eight-hours- again,” said Baird.
I-would-be-sleeping’ more last The environments that students
minute type of students. What like to study in often differ for
works for students and why does each individual. Some students
it work for them? like complete silence when they are
Sam Vinson, a fourth-year studying, while others like to have
biomedical student, explained how music blasting through their iPods.
she needs to put the pen to the Vinson uses another interesting
paper in order to wholly absorb the sound that she finds helps her to
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study better.
“Sometimes I turn a fan on so
it kind of, like blocks out all the
outside noises; that helps,” she said.
Some students insist on
isolation, either in their room or in
the library while others only study
in the presence of others. Why
do these various techniques work
for some students and not others?
There isn’t always a clear answer.
Perhaps students find techniques
that just click with their way of
learning or have learned studying
techniques that have provided
good results in the past. Baird can’t
quite recall why he studies the way
he does, but perhaps it matters less
how habits are formed and more
whether they work or don’t work.
“It’s just what I’ve been doing
forever,” said Baird.
The studying stereotypes of a
university student can definitely be
seen around campus at this time
of year. Right before an exam, one
can be certain to see numerous
students buried in their textbooks
and re-reading notes, their hands
often shaking from pre-exam
anxieties. These observations do
not classify all students though.
Some prefer to get as much sleep
as possible before a test. Vinson
explained that her brain needs
sleep to function, a fact that is
likely true to all of us.
When it comes to studying,
there is no one right or wrong way,
but the Learning Commons does
“ELECTION,”
continued
that his candidacy was meant to
give voice to a number of issues that
have been left out of local political
discourse. No one was able to gain a
good sense of why David Birtwistle,
a retired army officer, decided to run
for mayor, as he did not show up
to debate at all. And then there is
incumbent mayor Karen Farbridge,
who appeared to be the only
mayoral candidate actually gunning
for a victory in this election.
Given their different approaches
to the election, the debate that went
on could be best described as, well,
unusual. Nightingale often admitted
that he didn’t know the answer to a
question, but insisted he would learn
more about the issue and initiate a
discussion with others. Mitchell
routinely responded to inquiries
with unconventional responses
that began with “Since I don’t have
to worry about being elected...”
Birtwhistle of course, was nowhere
to be seen, while Farbridge was the
only one who answered questions
with that kind of cautious and
professional language that tends
to characterize the quintessential
Canadian politician.
After the election, some students
offer some suggestions to students
for making their study habits as
effective as possible.
According to their website,
they suggest that, “studying for
an exam should be more than just
a cramming session; successful
studying is an ongoing process that
begins with the first day of classes
and involves managing your time
and learning effectively.” Students
can also “review material regularly,
define the scope of the exam and
organize and integrate resources”
such as notes and textbook
left feeling somewhat defeated by the
candidates they have to choose from
for City Mayor. If two candidates
openly expressed that they likely
won’t become elected, and one didn’t
show up, does that suggest that only
one mayoral candidate is actually
taking this election seriously?
Anastasia Zavarella, Local Affairs
Commissioner from the Central
Student Association explained that
while Mitchell and Nightingale may
not think they’ll win, they still have
important points that are worth
listening to.
“I liked a lot of the content of what
Ray had to say. He’s the only one
talking about who doesn’t vote in the
election and why they’re important. I
guess what I got of what Scott was
saying is that he’s doing this to learn
about the process specifically and is
really focused on consultation. And
what he was saying when he said
‘I don’t know,’ would immediately
follow with ‘I’d have to talk to people,’
which doesn’t give us a whole lot to
go on, but it does display a modesty
and humility that doesn’t often come
across with politicians.”
And for those students who
feel disenchanted about whom to
vote for in the mayoral election,
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materials, in order to strive towards
better midterm results. Devising
and using techniques to recall
information and avoid forgetting
such as flashcards, diagrams and
memory tricks are also suggested.
Remember that at the end of the
day, one must study to learn. It is
said that the Holy Roman Emperor
Charlemange supplemented his
attempt to learn to read by sleeping
with a book under his pillow.
Charlemange never did learn to
read just proving that one doesn’t
often learn through osmosis.
Megan Verhey
An all-candidates debate for the
municipal election was held at the
U of G on Oct. 14.
Zavarella emphasized that there is
still a way for them to go out and
have their voices heard.
“If students don’t want to vote, I’d
suggest that they spoil their ballots,”
said Zavarella. “Rather than holding
your noses and checking someone
off on the ballot that you don’t
entirely feel comfortable with, say
what you’ve got to say about it. Talk
about the flaws of the process or
the fact that you don’t feel that you
would be appropriately served by
the candidates, but if you just stay
at home and don’t vote, then that’s
not telling anybody anything.”
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Critical Connections: A nation within another nation
The 20th anniversary of
the Oka Crisis
KELSEY RIDEOUT
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n Canada, it is estimated that
there are as many as 1000
unresolved Aboriginal land
claims on the government’s books
and several more that have yet to
be realized. Many of these claims
go back hundreds of years.
The end of September marked
the 20th anniversary of the Oka
Crisis, a highly profiled conflict
between the Mohawk Nation and
the Canadian government and
military. Through the insights of
Dr. Tom King, acclaimed author of
native fiction and professor in the
Department of English and Theatre
Studies, and Dr. Ed Hedican,
professor in the Department of
Sociology & Anthropology, this
edition of Critical Connections
provides students with a window
into the land rights conflict known
as the Oka Crisis. The aim of this
article is to bring attention to, and
spark discussion about, indigenous
people’s struggle for land rights.
A Brief Summary of Oka
The Oka Crisis was a land dispute
between the Mohawk nation and
the town of Oka, Quebec, that
began on July 11, 1990 and lasted
until Sept. 26, 1990. The crisis
emerged from a dispute between the
Mohawk community of Kanesatake
and the town of Oka. The town of
Oka was planning to expand a golf
course and residential development
onto Mohawk traditional land. The
land included a pine forest and an
ancestral burial ground. When the
town of Oka refused to halt its
development plans, the Mohawk
from Kanesatake set up a barrier
to block road access to the disputed
land. Armed Mohawk warriors
moved in and prepared to defend
their land. The mayor of Oka
refused to back down and turned
to Quebec’s provincial police force
to intervene with the Mohawk
protesters.
In keeping with the Constitution
of the Iroquois Confederacy, the
Mohawk people consulted the
women of the community, who
are seen to be the caretakers of the
land, as to what action should be
taken and whether weapons should
be used. The women decided that
weapons should only be used
defensively should police fire at
the barricade.
Events escalated when a police
emergency response team attacked
the barricade by deploying tear gas
canisters and flash bang grenades
in order to confuse the Mohawk.
No one is sure whether the police
or Mohawks opened fire with
gunshots first, but a 15-minute
gun battle commenced throughout
the peak of the tension. When
the smoke settled 31-year-old SQ
Corporal Marcel Lemay was dead.
As the conflict raged on,
Mohawks at Kahanawake joined
in solidarity with those from
Kanesatake and occupied the
Mercier bridge and other major
motorways leading to metro
Montreal. Racial tensions flared
and people became increasingly
frustrated with the traffic induced
by the occupation of the bridge
and motorways. An effigy of a
Mohawk warrior was burnt while
people chanted ‘savages’ in French.
At the time of the Oka Crisis,
the Premier of Quebec, Robert
Bourassa,used the National Defence
Act to send approximately 2,500
heavily armed Canadian soldiers to
Oka. The armed Mohawk warriors
dug-in and prepared to defend their
land rights.
After 78 days of an intense
stand-off, the Mohawk warriors
put down their guns and surprised
soldiers with their seemingly
impromptu decision to end the
confrontation. While Iroquois
leaders were told they would be
able to help manage an orderly exit,
this agreement was not honored
and dozens of Mohawk warriors
were instead arrested. Eventually,
after a great deal of pressure, the
mayor of Oka decided to cancel
golf-course expansion on Mohawk
disputed land.
It’s About Land
According to professor King,
at the root of the Oka Crisis, and
most Aboriginal conflicts, lies the
integral problem of land.
“Oka is the question of land.
And that’s what you have to
understand. This is a question of
land. It’s not about money. It’s not
about positioning yourself in a
particular way, economically. It is
about land, pure and simple,” said
King. “Who controls the land, who
owns the land, whose land is it.
And the rest of the questions that
go along with that are incidental.
Those are the questions that are
critical.”
Professor Hedican further
explained why accessing and
controlling land is most often at
the centre of Aboriginal conflicts.
“What Canadians don’t realize
is that there is a reason as to why
Aboriginal people are conducting
protests. They are based on sound
legal principles that there were
treaties that were signed with the
Canadian government that allow
us to live in the cities and towns
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that we live in that were at one
time Aboriginal lands that were
given up in terms of these treaties
for not very much. And not only
that, over the years, many of the
treaty obligations on the part of
the government were not lived up
to and further lands were taken
away in scrupulous means,” said
Hedican.
History Matters
King expressed the necessity
to become aware of the context
and history of the Oka Crisis, if
one is to truly understand what
happened.
“You can’t isolate Oka. You have
to look at the whole history if you
want to make any sense of it or else
Oka makes no sense whatsoever,”
said King.
The history of the Oka Crisis
dates back long before the 1990s,
all the way to 1717 when New
France gave away Mohawk
land to a Catholic Society who
never willingly handed it back,
creating ongoing frustrations that
eventually escalated into the stand-
off that was widely broadcasted
twenty years ago.
In attempting to understand
indigenous land struggles in
Canada, King urges students to
dig into the depth of the issues,
however difficult that may be.
“People in general really don’t
understand native history to begin
with, they really don’t, in part
because they don’t have time, they
don’t have much interest so when
these things come up, they seem
to come up just as individual little
blips but they really are part of a
very long continuum. This isn’t the
first time that native people have
protested the taking of land, and
it won’t be the last either for that
matter,” said King.
While understanding history
may be time-consuming, King
explained that it’s simply necessary
if one is ever going to appreciate
where conflicts truly stem from.
“I get sort of frustrated because
the history is a long one, fairly
complex, but nothing that anybody
couldn’t manage but nonetheless
there isn’t much understanding.”
Stagnant Policies
While the Canadian government
has some tools to respond to land
claim issues, policies have been
very slow to evolve.
“We do have a series of different
land claims commissions that have
been introduced by the Canadian
government but they only deal
with a fraction of the cases and the
cases that they do hear, the average
time they take to render a decision
is somewhere between 10 and 15
years so there’s a lot that goes on
during that particular period of
Soldier Patrick Cloutier and Mohawk warrior Brad Laroque face off
during Oka Crisis of 1990
time. It’s not an effective process,”
said Hedican.
The government instituted a
Royal Commission on Aboriginal
People in 1991 in the wake of the
Oka Crisis, although it appears
that little action has come from it.
Hedican explained why Canadian
politicians might not be taking
adequate action to deal with land
claims.
“We can only assume that if
somebody doesn’t do something
then they’re not interested in doing
it,” said Hedican. “In terms of
these people in government, the
politicians, they have constituencies,
and they know where the votes
are. The population of Aboriginal
people in Canada is relatively low
so it doesn’t have a great demand
in terms of government policy. It’s
only when there’s protests that reach
the news media, then they feel the
need to do something. So one of
the reasons is that their attention
is drawn elsewhere, there’s expenses
involved, and they may feel the
general public doesn’t really care
whether they do it or not.”
Moving apathy into action
If reading this article was your
first introduction to the Oka
Crisis, you may be inspired to learn
more about this and other land
claim conflicts. There are still many
people, however, who would rather
not go to such lengths. King feels
that a mentality in the Canadian
demographic tends to discourage
public participation in important
civic affairs.
“Let’s face it; most of us in
Canada don’t even follow politics,
which has an effect on our lives. I
mean the apathy among Canadian
voters is stunning, just stunning. So
can I expect that anyone’s going to
get excited about native matters?
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I’m not going to hold my breath.
But should they? Yes, they should,”
said King.
Hedican encourages students to
think a little differently about the
next native protest that they come
across.
“When Aboriginal people
protest, it’s because they have the
courage to complain about the
injustice that they are suffering,”
said Hedican. “And we should all
be complaining about injustice.
So actually Aboriginal protests
are doing us a favour, because
they bring to light the injustices
that exist in Canadian society and
the inequities. Often, Canadians
are just too quiet, and they
suffer injustices that maybe they
shouldn’t…So what I say is that we
all should be speaking out. What
happens when there’s injustices
in some parts of societies, there’s
injustices in other parts as well.”
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T
he University of Guelph is
renowned for many of its
leading academic programs,
especially its Doctor of Veterinary
Medicine degree offered at the
Ontario Veterinary College, the
oldest veterinary college in all of
North America. In early June, the
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Dr. Shane Bateman, Director of
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“Treating animals for cancer and
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are very common now to see
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hospital, and we sort of lost track of
the issue that about three quarters
of our graduates are going to be
going into private practice where
those types of things are not done
on a routine basis,” said Bateman.
“We really needed to provide
[students] with greater skills and
competence and confidence in
being able to do those routine,
daily activities of a veterinarian in
a small animal practice. And so…
[the] idea was to develop a centre
like this that is affiliated but is
somewhat independent from the
traditional teaching hospital so
we can provide within this facility
experiential opportunities for
students to do things.”
Bateman described the
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experience into the veterinary
program throughout the entire
course of the degree.
“In medical education, students
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patients really for the first time,” he
said. “We’ve pushed the envelope
by stretching that contact back
into the first year of the program,
so our first, second and third year
students will be also be spending a
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“We know from any sport or art or
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to learn it is to have opportunities to
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said Bateman.
Jillian Thatcher, a third-year
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Arts & Culture
Is something wrong with the audience?
Seeing is believing at
this week’s Zavitz Hall
art exhibit
ROLAND KWAN
T
his week’s Zavitz hall art
show is about reserved,
quiet art that doesn’t
make itself apparent in the very
beginning. However, it’s fair to
say you should feel uneasy when
you look at the exhibit itself, since
a good deal of it is supposed to
confuse the naked eye. Shaky
structures, erratic lines and faint
patterns provide the event, titled
“There’s something wrong with the
audience,” with a lot of things to
appreciate for seasoned art fanatics
and the general public alike.
“My work is general. It deals
with perception and in the last
couple of years it has been dealing
a lot with colour and perception.
I like to create images that
oscillate … so that you don’t know
which is the foreground or the
background,” said Bailey Govier, a
studio arts major in her fifth year
of study at Guelph.
Govier’s statement holds true for
The jukebox
Serafin Love’s Worst
Crime
PATRICK MCEACHNIE
C
anada is known for many
things. While we’re one of
the world leaders in indie
rock, hockey jerseys, and natural
resources, the territory comes
with a whole lot of stereotypes.
This is where Toronto based jazz
singer Serafin comes in. Touting
a healthy dose of traditional
jazz influence blended with
experimental elements, Serafin
is working hard to put Canadian
jazz on the map. Love’s Worst
Crime is Serafin’s third full-
length record, and features a
largely stripped down version
of modern day jazz. The band
(fronted by Serafin LaRiviere) is
an active three piece, using bass,
tenor sax, and vocals as the base
for every song.
While the writing and musical
talent is definitely present (and
vast) in this release, I definitely
wouldn’t deem it everyday
listening. Given the opportunity,
every member of Serafin’s band
proves their worth at one point or
another throughout the duration
most of her work since it makes clever
use of manipulating discrepancies
in human eyesight. Light, depth
perception, and distortion are all
elements she incorporates into her
pieces to give viewers a very unique
visual experience. Chances are you’ll
have to see this exhibit more than
once to get it. Even then, there are
no guarantees.
“[I think it came] … quite
naturally. The subject matter
which I was drawing it from came
first. And just by the nature of
that subject, which was a metal
telephone pole. I was walking
around and noticed the change in
the oscillation of the object itself
… and that idea just slowly made
its way into my work.”
Govier described her style as
“reserved and quiet.” Her choice
of medium is quite unique, since
she uses glossy paints with latex,
along with some masking tape.
Her choice of techniques for
creating her pieces draw influence
from artists Agnes Martin, Bridget
Ryan and Joseph Aubert.
Lately she has experimented
with white on white effects, and
the use of masking tape to help
of the album; talent is not the
issue here. Perhaps the issue is
accessibility. While Love’s Worst
Crime won’t be my go to album
on an autumn bike ride, it proves
itself to be a serious contender
for the soundtrack to my traffic
jam. There’s nothing as calming
as putting on a well written, well
thought out jazz record to calm
oneself down when it seems
the world is pushing down on
you, and Serafin is no exception
to that. In addition, the large
instrumental breaks and free jazz
influences make it ideal study
music. But then again, new and
exciting music is never without
its genre restrictions.
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create faint lines and patterns. The
narrow, sloping lines emanate a
source of instability and turmoil
that helps the main exhibit stride
towards the feel of anxiety it’s
going for, with the intention of
being thought provoking. Most
perspectives in her previous pieces,
including the current one, appear
similar to the ground zero view of
structures such as electrical towers
or construction sites.
“That’s an interesting point,
actually. Because if you think about
it, how long are these things built
to last?” said Govier.
In a nutshell, the show is meant
to help the general public develop
an appreciation of what society
has provided for us, and some
insight into what would happen
if it were to collapse. Most of us
take comfort in knowing that
there is always something there Marianne Pointner
for us. However, no one will deny Art student Bailey Grovier tries to make her audience nauseous with
that we fear change because it is her exhibit at Zavitz this week
alien, and because we are creatures
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which are all his versions of some
of the genres most prestigious
songs. This change in artistic pace
provides an essential break in the
flow of the album, and keeps it
from moving too fast to perceive.
If you’re a fan of jazz, or even if
you’ve never opened yourself to
the genre, then this criminally
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you to the forefront of the genre,
without missing a single ode or
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Arts & Culture
Fostering an unusually artistic relationship
Eduardo Kac uncovers
the connection between
art, biology and science
as part of the ASTRA
lecture series
JOSH DOYLE
“A
ny illusion you have when
you buy antibacterial
soap that you’re actually
dominating anything, is nothing
but an illusion,” Eduardo Kac
explained last Saturday, Oct. 16
at the OVC building. Kac was
invited to speak at the University
of Guelph as part of the ASTRA
lecture series, a succession of talks
put on by the College of Arts that
focuses on connections between
art and science. An ideal candidate
for ASTRA’s lineup, Kac uses
his art to push the boundaries
between biology and technology. A
contemporary artist born in Rio de
Janeiro and now living in Chicago,
Kac’s lecture provided an in-depth
summary of particular works he’s
contributed throughout the past
thirty years.
Kac’s work began with poetry,
gathering through experience the
influence that brought him to a
greater interest in what he now calls
“Bio-Art.”
“Its not so much a spark but a
continuum,” Kac said of his work’s
evolution. “From the early work
with language, to work in which
language becomes fluid, to work
in which there is interaction… but
language itself is absent.”
Kac’s interest in language and
communication led him to a project
in the 1980s that treated visual art
and language as a kind of online
jam session, an interaction partial
to contemporary musicians.
“I used video-phones, fax
machines and live television to
create artworks in which humans
would interact. It’s not the idea that
we’re trying to arrive at a specific
goal, or produce a specific form,”
Kac explained, emphasizing his
focus on the work as a space to
improvise and communicate.
“It’s really about that interaction,”
he said.
Kac’s interest in communication
soon took his focus away from
human interaction, leading him to a
branch of art that was, “not centered
on the human.” A project followed
in which Kac had communication
set up between a canary in Kentucky
and a plant in New York. The
canary’s singing was recorded and
played through speakers to the plant
cross-country, at which time the
plant’s responses were monitored
electronically. Kac admitted that the
idea of creating art not intended for
human appreciation was deemed
unusual, but sees the prevalence of
artistic action in animals as higher
than we might suppose.
“A gorilla in the Paris zoo makes
knots. This gorilla doesn’t use these
knots for anything at all, just makes
them and looks at them,” said
Kac, naturally relating the gorilla’s
creations to human sculpture. He
also referenced accounts of birds
that sing for no apparent reason
and listen to the songs of fellow
birds, contributing to a sort of non-
human concert.
“There is this idea that animals
don’t have abstract thought and
they don’t have language. But… the
reality is the non-human is a lot
more complex than that,” said Kac.
Kac went on to experiment
further with the distinction between
the technological and the biological,
finding it became more transparent
as his work evolved. In 1999 he
completed Genesis, in which he
took a phrase from the Bible and
made it into a living thing. He
began by transitioning the phrase
from Genesis 1:26 into Morse
code, which he then transferred
into genetic code. The code was
made into actual DNA, which
Kac incorporated into bacteria.
From online sources viewers could
mutate the bacteria with the use of
UV lighting. At the exhibit’s close
he translated the altered DNA
structure back into Morse code, and
finally back into broken English.
“When you think about this,
you went from digital text on the
screen, inside a living organism,
you altered it and then you came
out of the living organism, back to
text. Well that’s what we do with
computers. Input, processing, and
output,” said Kac.
One of Kac’s most recent
and celebrated works involved a
synthesis between his own DNA
and a petunia. “Edunia” as he calls
it, blending the names of both
parties involved, is infused with
Kac’s DNA only in its red veins,
presenting the image of a flower
that blooms with human blood
rushing through its veins. In 2009
he received the coveted Golden
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NICA award for Edunia.
Kac made clear last Saturday
his commitment to establishing
the connection between humans
and everything we co-exist with,
reminding his audience of the
surprising ratio of human cells to
bacteria in our own make up.
“We have about 10 trillion
human cells, and about 100 trillion
bacterial cells, all of us,” Kac said.
“Quantitatively we are more
bacteria than we are human.”
To call Kac’s work well thought
out would not do justice, and
he presents his ideas with great
confidence. Kac effectively
blurs the line between art and
experimentation; often showing
the experiment itself is the art. It’s
difficult to say what Kac’s next work
will constitute. It is likely though
that he’ll find some unique new way
to test the boundaries of art and
science, and continue making his
audience reconsider just how fluid
those boundaries are. Kac’s talk
provided the ASTRA lecture series
with yet another thought provoking
approach to this relationship,
providing our campus with perhaps
one of the most interesting artists
of the modern day.
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Arts & Culture
Guelph locals discuss the often forgotten art of storytelling
Hometown group
keeps tradition alive in
present day
JOSH DOYLE
Y
ear after year we see
television shows and
movies displaying well-
known faces across the screen for
all to see. They act out tales of
comedy and romance, fantasy and
suspense for the viewing pleasure
of the entire world. These media
outlets provide us with a constant
source of entertainment; always
there is something to watch and
to enjoy. But a correlation seems to
be developing between how much
film is reeled and how much time
we spend communicating; the
more we watch, the less we talk.
Oral tradition, which involves
the passage of cultural ideas and
stories orally from one generation
to another, sees increasingly limited
attention as technology becomes
a more effective and abundant
distraction. But combating this
trend are organizations in Canada
and around the world, who strive
through festivals and events to keep
alive what has throughout history
been a defining aspect of humanity.
The Guelph Guild of Storytellers
is just such an organization.
The Guild has been around for
over twenty years, and was started
to access the growing desire to
share stories more intimately, in an
age with so many voices.
Brian Holstein is an active
member of the guild. You can
find him at The Boathouse for
storytelling night one Wednesday
of every month, walking stick
in hand and fisherman’s cap at
a tilt. Holstein brings a unique
perspective to the guild and
the stories he tells through his
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Australian heritage. It was partially
this heritage that helped Holstein
find the guild when he came to
Guelph more than ten years ago.
“I heard there was storytelling
down at The Boathouse and I
went down there one night, and
I realized as a special-ed teacher
for the last 15 years, I was using
storytelling techniques. Plus I’m
an Australian and I’ve always
got a story to tell,” Holstein
said. Holstein feels certain that
storytelling is becoming more
noticeable in the community,
although the guild remains, “one
of the world’s best-kept secrets.”
Part of Holstein’s role is to
attract prominent tellers to come
share their work with the guild
every month, on top of the open
mic session.
“It was just a
love of story, a
love of listening.”
-Brad Woods
“We bring in tellers from all over,
different places,” Holstein said,
adding that he’s had no difficulty
gathering talented storytellers for
these events. Last week’s guest
teller was local talent Brad Woods.
Woods tells stories at festivals all
over the world, maintaining his
local presence by performing once
a month in town. He performs on
his own and sometimes with the
accompaniment of two musicians,
the three of them forming the
Great Wooden Trio. The Trio
will be performing downtown
Nov. 19 for the lighting of the
Guelph Christmas Tree. A solo
act last Wednesday, Woods took
time to share his experiences in
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Oct. 21 - 27, 2010
storytelling, and what initially
drew him to the art.
“[It was] just a love of story,
a love of listening I think. I
did a paper when I went to
university on Dan Yashinsky
and Helen Porter, they have a
great storytelling community in
Toronto,” said Woods.
Woods was invited to speak at
a festival by Yashinsky, where he
was exposed to a whole new world
of “getting up and telling stories.”
From there he questioned what he
could do differently than some and
better than others, finding success
before long.
Woods has arrived at a caliber
of storyteller that allows him to
travel with some of the world’s
best, which he admitted can be
intimidating at times. Though not
seen on television or in movies,
these fellow tellers are celebrities
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of a different kind, perfecting an
art that Woods and many others
hold great respect for.
“You go up there thinking I
hope I’m okay, I hope I fit in with
this crew, because these guys are
premier world’s best storytellers
and [then] you’re there and
they’re patting you on the back,”
said Woods, citing the support of
fellow tellers as a great motivator
in developing his craft.
Not everyone shares Wood’s
passion for spoken word. Though
the guild is a longstanding tradition,
it’s difficult to say what affect it
and other organizations like it will
have. As Holstein points out, there
are so many more accessible forms
of entertainment today.
“People would much rather
watch somebody else’s plight on a
reality show,” said Holstein. And
although the stories told at the
noon
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guild are truly engaging, the events
attract only a small population
of youth. But Holstein remains
hopeful, referencing Margaret
Mead’s advice to, “Never doubt
that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the
world. Indeed, it is the only thing
that ever has.”
Although the electronic age
is upon us, and the prospect of
sitting and listening to people
speak becomes increasingly
foreign, the art of storytelling
is not gone. In fact it may be
witnessing a rebirth. Groups like
the Guelph Guild and artists like
Woods are pushing to keep this
valuable tradition alive, using
any and all signs of success as
the incentive to keep going. The
only question now seems to be:
will tradition reach the next
generation?
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Arts & Culture

Never enough instruments for Toronto band
Sunparlour Players multi-instrumentalist… probably
play at e-Bar before in 1997. Rosie I met in Toronto
because we all live there now,” he
embarking on another said. Rosie handles the drums
cross-country tour and glockenspiel, along with
several other instruments that
JOSH DOYLE the group as a whole dabbles in,
“Multi-tasking is important
with us, because it makes you re-
evaluate the parts you’re playing
and what you’re saying. It makes
you simplify every line. It makes
you boil everything down to what
needs to be there,” he said. “It’s

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t’s likely that Guelph’s e-Bar
has never seen such a large
and diverse assortment of
instruments all played in one
set as it did last Thursday, Oct.
14. At least not since the last
time Sunparlour Players were
in town. A group of multi-
talented instrumentalists from
Toronto, the Sunparlours as
they refer to themselves, brought
glockenspiels, banjos, organ
pedals and keyboards to what’s
lately been the hottest concert
spot in town. Along with your
run of the mill drums and guitars
their trio entertained on multiple
levels, pulling their entire line up
into the equation at some point
or another.
“We tour with about 16
instruments, but we have it
figured out where we use them.
That’s the key, you have to use
them and they have to have
purpose, otherwise they shouldn’t
be there. And they shouldn’t
be a gimmick, they should
be needed,” said lead vocalist
Andrew Penner, explaining some
of the philosophy behind the
bands multi-faceted approach to
music. Like all three members of
the Sunparlour Players, Penner
has more than one role. Apart
from his vocal contribution
Penner plays guitar, banjo, bass,
and seemingly whatever else he
can get a hand on. He founded
the Sunparlours in 2005 as a solo
act, gathering fellow members
Dennis Van Dine and Michael
(Rosie) Rosenthal not long after.
“I met Dennis, he’s the bass
player, keyboard player, clarinet,
varying their inclusions from
song to song.
“Multi-tasking
is important
with us, because
it makes you re-
evaluate the parts
you’re playing
and what you’re
saying.”
-Andrew Penner
The band appropriately calls
their music both rock and folk,
creating a mixture of the two
styles that is impressive in just
how closely they can come
together at a Sunparlour’s show.
While they don’t escape the
twang and melody that folk
music is known and loved for,
they do it bigger and louder than
most, some tracks barely clinging
to their banjo chords as they
explode with the lively energy
of rock. The ability to transition
smoothly between various
genres speaks to the Sunparlour
Player’s musical talents, which
are reinforced by the way they’ve
effectively mastered their own
use of so many musical tools. The
group seems bent on covering
as much ground as possible, a
component of performance that
Penner sees as inseparable from
their artistic labour.
all about figuring out what needs
to be there, what earns a place in
the song. [Performing] live, the
fun part is trying to figure out
how to juggle it.”
This isn’t the first time the
Sunparlour’s juggling act has
taken them cross-country, the
group having toured for previous
records as well. This time around
their threesome is hitting the road
for nearly two months, heading
West before bringing things back
to Toronto to end the tour. Penner
seemed genuinely excited about
the prospect of touring, speaking
of the opportunities that have
come to their band on the road Hayley Mullen
in the past, some perhaps sooner
than expected. The Sunparlour Players let loose on banjo’s and keyboards last Thursday,
“It’s all an adventure right. It kicking off another Canadian tour
was a great way to tour Canada.
The first time we were playing to time’s. We’re lucky the three of us last Thursday, the feeling was
like, packed, sold out 200-500 get along very well. A big thing visibly mutual. The Sunparlours
seat clubs across Canada. And it for us as a band is to have no truly put their folk/rock claim
was unrealistic for a band for their drama, keep all that on the stage. to the test, even continuing play
first time across Canada. Usually That’s my key for life. Too much after breaking two guitar strings
you’re playing to 20 people in weird shit happens all the time during the encore. Devoted
Medicine Hat. Which will still anyway, and you have no control fan Lindsey MacDonald had
probably happen at some point,” over pretty much anything. So nothing but good things to say
said Penner. the few things that you do I like about the band after the show.
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ability to co-exist on stage “Once we get off the road in Sunparlour’s this time, keep
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those long trips. because we’ve toured so much. through town, accompanying
“Music gets really nutty,” said I’m sure we’ll still play Guelph the glockenspiel with drums and
Penner. “The situations you find once or twice. We like it here.” guitar, you might just as well by
yourself in go really weird at From the crowd’s reaction’s a ticket.

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Arts & Culture
A musician in motion
Gianna Lauren
stops in at The
Cornerstone to talk
about performing on
trains and writing her
album
SASHA ODESSE
G
uests at The Cornerstone
last Sunday, Oct. 17
had the privilege of
listening to Gianna Lauren, ethics
graduate at Carleton, manager of
a vegan and vegetarian catering
business in Ottawa, and musician
extraordinaire.
Although she comes from our
nation’s capital, musician Lauren
wrote her most recent album
following a rather spontaneous
move to the lovely but isolated
Halifax, NS.
Her album, Some Move Closer,
Some Move On, is a reflection of
that period of transition.
“All my songs [on this album] were
written in that period of motion.
[When I was] feeling disconnected...
feeling change. All the songs relate
to adaptation and new experiences,
What are you reading?
and maybe a broken heart or two.
It was a very therapeutic process to
have this ongoing project in a move
that didn’t really make sense,” said
Lauren of the album.
Describing her own music was
tough for Lauren, who felt that her
music did not fit easily into one
specific musical genre.
“My music takes on many
different styles, [everything] from
folk to gypsy jazz...
Usually [I would describe it as]
atmospheric rock music because I do
think about the atmosphere and the
presence of a song when I’m making
it,” Lauren said.
In her album Fist In A Heart
released in 2008, the atmosphere of
each song was especially important.
“We actually recorded it in a
church in Ottawa. It had a lot to
do with [being in] a moment, and
trying to bring in all the sounds [of
the location],” she said.
Similarly, Some Move Closer,
Some Move On, was recorded in
a variety of locations in Halifax.
Perhaps the most interesting being
her kitchen and an old abandoned
building.
A lot of her friends also contributed
Courtesy
Oct. 21 - 27, 2010
to the album, as well as her brother,
who flew in to Halifax from Ottawa
to play bass on the album.
“[It’s interesting because] my
parents are both scientists, but my
brother and I are both musicians,”
Lauren said.
Although she is currently on her
solo tour of Eastern Canada, Lauren
recently toured the country with
Windsor band Field Assembly on
a VIA rail gig. They pitched to VIA
that in exchange for free travel the
two would perform twice a day on
the train, as well as in city shows
along the way.
“Not everybody can do this, [you
have to be able to appeal to a wide
variety of people]. We did a lot of
covers: Elton John, Neil Diamond,
Fleetwood Mac... it was a lot of fun.
And you get to meet a lot of people
you never would’ve met [otherwise],”
said Lauren, reminiscing on a
65-year-old couple traveling Canada
for their anniversary, who were lucky
enough to witness the train show.
Having put on many great shows
in cities across Canada, Lauren’s
favourites so far being Quebec City
and Ottawa, she commented on
how the venue itself can contribute
David Sedaris,
Dress Your Family in
Corduroy and Denim
NICOLE ELSASSER
have read David Sedaris’ Dress
I
Your Family in Corduroy and
Denim before now. Several times
in fact. And if listening to it in audio
book form counts as reading, then I
am practically reading it every time
I go for a walk or do the dishes or
shop for groceries.
This is a lot of dedication to a
book.
But there’s something delightfully
infectious about David Sedaris.
Primarily Sedaris writes humorous
essays about his loved ones. When I
heard this for the first time, I wasn’t
sold on the subject matter. Why do
I want to read about somebody else’s
friends and family? The answer is
that the company that Sedaris keeps
is not your typical group of people
and their wild and eccentric antics
from the span of the author’s lifetime
will keep anyone with a solid sense
of humour laughing for the duration
of the book. It doesn’t hurt that these
antics are related by Sedaris’ unique
and distinct curmudgeonly voice.
Adolescent awkwardness and
crippling humiliation are Sedaris’
primary sources of material and
this continues to be the case with
this collection of stories. Sedaris
recalls a time he forced all his
Gianna Lauren hopped off the train long enough to play a
show at The Cornerstone last Sunday
to the success of a show.
“But [in the end] I guess it doesn’t
matter where you play, it’s the people
that make the night.”
Lauren’s musical talent, coupled
with the warm atmosphere of
The Cornerstone certainly made
Halloween chocolate, to which he
is severely allergic, down his throat
to avoid sharing any of it with some
neighbor children; the time, as a
young teen, that he was forced to
go to a young boy’s slumber party
and play strip poker while trying
to hide his then budding desire for
other men from his peers; the time
he was flattered when a popular boy
at school threw a rock at his mouth
and on and on.
And then there’s his family. They
are the kind of people you both
envy for their colour and thank the
heavens that you are not cursed to
know. After pouring through the
pages of any Sedaris collection, I
can’t help but wonder if it would
have been possible for him to
become such an extraordinary writer
with a normal run-of-the-mill
family. I’m guessing material would
have been harder to come by. While
he speaks of his family’s reservations
in being written about so extensively
in his work, Sedaris doesn’t hold
back when describing their lives and
idiosyncrasies. His father? Truthful
to a fault with his “inherited Greek
frugality” (read: he is cheap) being
his defining characteristic. His
mother, with whom it’s clear Sedaris
shares a special bond, drinking coffee
and smoking constantly interrupted
by moments of blunt hilarity. His
siblings, a collection of people you
would never expect to find sharing
the same genetic code making for an
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Sunday’s show a success.
“A lot of my songs are about being
in motion,” Lauren said before
beginning her set.
We’re just lucky that motion
led her to The Cornerstone last
weekend.
interesting childhood. And finally,
his partner Hugh, a man that seems
both perfectly and wretchedly suited
to the author.
These are the people that populate
the stories of Dress Your Family
in Corduroy and Denim and while
this cast of characters may seem
reminiscent of a circus, it is one
you certainly do not want to miss if
smart, sharp and bitingly hilarious
literature is your cup of tea.
And that is what I am reading.
Almost all the time.
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Sports & Health
Gryphon’s baseball takes home four awards as season wraps up
Two back-to-back
losses to rival Mustangs
keep Gryphons from
reaching post-season
ANDREW DONOVAN
A
fter finishing the past two
seasons with a combined
8-28 record, no one would
have thought a playoff run was in
the works for the “boys of summer,”
and if it wasn’t for a season ending
sweep by the Western Mustangs
on the closing week of the season,
the 6-8 Gryphons would have
booked their ticket to the show for
the first time in recent history.
While the agony of another year
without playoffs may loom in the
minds of players this off-season,
their heads ought not to be low, as
the team was awarded four awards
of achievement this past season.
Three players won awards and to
top it off, second year head coach
Matt Griffin was awarded OUA
Coach of the Year honours by his
fellow coaches in the league.
First baseman, Craig Howse
(Milton, ON.), finished with
Track and field athletes make due despite sudden Gryphon Dome closure
Varsity team adjusts on
the fly
SARAH DUNSTAN
L
ast Wednesday, the three-
week anniversary of the
Gryphon Dome closure
reared its ugly head, as varsity
teams and intramural athletes alike
still hope that the white behemoth
hasn’t closed its doors for good.
Upon learning that the company
who built the dome had gone
into receivership -- along with
allegations that some of their
domes had significant wind and
snow load bearing problems --- the
University of Guelph sprung into
action and called in a third-party
to assess the wind and snow load
bearing capacities of the Gryphon
Dome. Although the company in
question assured the school that the
Gryphon Dome was not one of the
Oct. 21 - 27, 2010
a .358 batting average, 13 runs adage is no different than what
scored and nine runs batted in. Griffin is doing with the Gryphon
Second baseman, Steve Fliescher baseball program.
(Brampton, ON.), finished fifth “Last year the team had nine
in the league with an outstanding rookies,” said Griffin. “There’s a
.431 batting average, which nicely transition period in the league
complimented his 13 runs scored and the x-factor coming into this
and 11 runs batted in. To round out season was those first-year players
the list was Josh Kennedy (Fitzroy coming into second-year and what
Harbour, ON.), who was third kind of impact they would be able
in the OUA for batting average to have for us this year.”
finishing with a .489 mark at the Coach Griffin knows that while
plate. Even more impressive are barely missing the playoffs hurts,
his .720 slugging percentage and there’s even more to look forward
.750 on base percentage. Kennedy to next season, aside from four
also went yard twice and finished OUA honours.
with 15 runs batted in and 13 runs “Knowing these guys the way I
scored. do, I’m optimistic that it’ll make
The second-year head coach these guys hungrier going into our
is optimistic about the future of workouts this winter and hopefully
Gryphon baseball and attributes we’ll come out next season with
the four awards to the progression that [loss] fuelling us and get over
of his team. that hump,” said Griffin.
“I think all of [the awards] It doesn’t take a baseball
combined are just a representation statistician to sit down and
of where we’re going and the fact pin-point generally where the
that we’re moving in the right Gryphon’s problems stemmed
direction,” said Griffin. from this season; it was evident
In everything we do in life, it is that the team lacked flare on
an understood reality that we must the defensive side of the ball,
build from the ground up, and this specifically pitching.
contained in the report on
which we need clarification.
We have brought in a firm
to do a full analysis of the
dome,” said Whiteside. “Until
that time, we felt it was safer
to simply close the dome. It
is a fairly good time for us to
do so, as most of the users can
still be outside.”
Although the burden of the
dome’s closure has been felt
by varsity soccer, football, field
Megan Verhey hockey and many intramural
The Gryphon Dome has been shut sports teams, the brunt of the
down for safety reasons affecting many suffering has been borne by
people campus wide. the Gryphons OUA gold-
winning track and field team.
faulty models in question, Associate Head coach Dave Scott-Thomas
Vice-President of Student Affairs, said that the dome’s closure has
Brenda Whiteside said that the been hard on the entire roster, but
university still felt it necessary to it’s the explosive athletes -- such as
conduct their own inquiry. long jumpers and those competing
“There are some questions in multiple events -- that have
Gryphons head baseball coach Matt Griffin.
Guelph’s starting pitchers Daniel
McMullan and Lucas Borges
finished 18 and 19 in league ERA
this season with 24 and 22 innings
pitched respectively.
Coach Griffin put it best, “it
came down to inconsistency in our
starting pitching.”
Griffin’s remarks relate to
been affected the most.
“This is the time of year that
we’d just be starting to move things
indoors,” said Scott-Thomas. “The
fact that it’s not cold has been a
blessing for us.”
Worst-case scenario, the team is
more likely to bus to a field house
located in Marden -- a mere 20
minutes away -- versus making
the trek to York University, which
would round out to about six hours
per practice. Although the facilities
at York are about three times the
size of the Gryphon Dome, the fact
that the university doesn’t manage
them means expensive fees that
deplete valuable team resources.
“Right now we’re looking for old
warehouses, barns, or horse stables
that we can practice in,” said Scott-
Thomas. “It’ll be a little cooler, but
we’ll have the space we need.”
On top of the dome closure,
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Gryphon Athletics
another old sports adage that goes
something like “offense wins games
but defence wins championships.”
Gryphon’s baseball is
undoubtedly looking up going into
their winter training sessions while
preparing for next season and as
far as it looks, the sky is clear and
potential is soaring.
Scott-Thomas is beginning to
receive buzz from recruiting
teams. With the athletic facilities
built for a 1950s male population,
Guelph lags far behind in the elite
training facilities present in other
Ontario universities deterring
future varsity track and field
athletes. However, after 14 years
of recruiting some of the nation’s
best varsity athletes, Scott-
Thomas remains confident that
talent will continue to flock to the
Gryphons’ program. Guelph may
lack the bells and whistles of York
and Western, but they remain the
only team without a field house in
CIS history to adorn themselves
with OUA and CIS gold.
“Making do with what you
have is part of Gryphon culture,”
said Scott-Thomas. “We don’t sit
at home and cry. We compensate
with attitude, and get at it!”
 A special breed of
basketball thrives at
the U of G
D
an Howse
loves
basketball.
Over the last
few years he
has played it
almost every day. The amount of
thought he has put into the game
of basketball rivals any player. But
Howse, a former U of G student,
is not a varsity basketball player.
Not even a little. He is however,
something distinctly different in
the U of G athletic community.
Howse is a special breed of
basketball player the likes of which
can usually be found in the main
gym of the W.F Mitchell Athletic
Centre between the hours of one
and three in the afternoon. Howse
is a pick-up basketball player.
“It’s really intense,” he said. “It’s
good basketball because you’re
fighting for a spot on the floor
for whoever plays well…everyone
plays like it’s playoffs in basketball.
Everyone is going all out.”
Anyone who’s spent a decent
amount of time at the U of G
athletic centre would be hard-
pressed not to notice the culture of
pick-up basketball being fostered
during the allotted recreational
basketball hours. Players of all ages
and level of skill gather to take part,
but according to Howse, most have
one thing in common.
“There are some less athletic
players than some other schools
[but there’s] a sense of community,”
said Howse. “I’ve played with some
of the most fundamentally sound
players I’ve ever played with in
pick-up basketball because they
The art of
PICK-UP
Justin Dunk and Nicole Elsasser
don’t have to worry about following
a system. They don’t have to worry
about being yanked by a coach. All
they have to worry about is doing
the little things, winning games and
keeping themselves on the floor.”
Howse started playing basketball
in grade 10, a little late by basketball
standards, as a way to deal with being
an awkward teenager. And while
this theory will remain untested,
Howse suspects that his years of
pick-up might have made him a
good enough player to compete at
the varsity level.
“When I first came to Guelph, I
definitely wouldn’t have made the
varsity team,” said Howse. “I went
to an open tryout and got smoked.
But over the last three or four years
… I wouldn’t necessarily say I could
go [right] in [a varsity game] and
play, but I think I can go in and give
them some good competition as a
defensive-minded player.”
While Howse takes the game
pretty seriously, there are plenty
of others who take part in pick-
up basketball for other reasons.
Ben Mesezi, a fourth-year student
at the U of G, plays pick-up for a
number of reasons, not the least of
which is the great workout it can
be; he prefers it to the monotony of
working out on a cardio machine.
“It’s different movements,” he
said. “You’re running, you’re cutting,
you’re jumping. It’s a lot of different
movements involved than just
running … it’s more intensity too.”
Howse appreciates pick-up
basketball for the variety it can
bring to a workout.
“I can’t do cardio in the gym
because it’s not intellectually
stimulating enough,” said Howse.
“From an actual physical standpoint,
[with pick-up] you’re working a lot
of different muscle groups at the
same time. Obviously it’s cardio,
but you’re also working on your
quickness, your strength…your
coordination.”
Darryl Fernandez, another avid
pick-up player and third-year U
of G student, likes playing a team
sport for the motivating element it
can bring to a workout.
“I push myself harder when
I’m out there because when I see
everyone else running, even if I’m
three games in and I’m dying, I’ll
still push myself to go harder,” he
said. “[When] I am on the treadmill
and I’m dying, I’m going to stop. [In
pick-up] I am fighting for my team,
not just for me.”
According to Fernandez and
many other regulars to recreation
al basketball, another real draw to
pick-up is the community that is
fostered there.
“It’s like a brotherhood almost,”
said Fernandez. “Everyone just
knows each other and you get to
have fun.”
But apparently no brotherhood is
without its conflicts.
Fourth-year Guelph student
Ryan Martin has seen a couple
disagreements in his pick-up days.
“I have seen some guys get into
it out here before, definitely,” said
Martin. “It goes without saying for
any sport, there is a certain level of
competitiveness that comes about,
some guys just take it more seriously
then others.”
Mesezi has also seen some
tempers run high on the court.
“It gets pretty intense sometimes.
I have seen a couple shoving
matches over a call, but I think we
always find a way to work it out,”
said Mesezi.
Howes views these conflicts
within the pick-up community
as an expected hazard that comes
when primarily guys gather to play
a competitive sport. According to
him, it’s primal.
“Guys are competitors and are
intense,” said Howse. “For a lot
of guys, they’re sort of past their
glory days already from an athletic
standpoint … An environment like
this is an opportunity to come out
and relive that sort of intensity.”
One could expect game-disputes
to get hairy without the watchful
eyes of a referee, but the pick-
up basketball players work past
any conflicts using the ball as a
determining factor when disputing
a foul call.
“You [shoot from] the three-
point line, if you make it, the call
goes in your favour, if you miss it
the call goes to the other team,” said
Fernandez.
This is not the only rule
difference in the pick-up version of
basketball.
“The scoring in pick-up basketball
versus referee basketball is different
because three point shots are worth
two and regular buckets are only
worth one,” explained Howse. “You
can also foul guys without having
to send them to the line and just
checking the ball up top [of the
three point line].”
Fernandez added, “You can’t
get fouled out, so there is a lot of
hacking. If you have an open layup
[other players] will just come and
ram you down because they know
they’re not going to foul out.”
With such a strong force of
pick-up basketball players in the
U of G community and a strong
men’s varsity basketball team to
boot, another interesting aspect
that can arise in a pick-up game is
how things change when Gryphon
varsity basketball players come out
to hoop it up with the pick-upers.
“They come out to have fun and
it’s probably not much of a challenge
for them,” said Martin.
Former Gryphon basketball team
member, Jay Mott, has played in
many pick-up games at the athletic
centre.
“As soon as the season ends we
usually all get in there and we play a
lot more because it’s a good way to
stay in shape,” said Mott.
In the face of players at the varsity
level, Howse explained that a lot of
the regular pick-up players want
to show the varsity guys that they
have some game too.
“I think a lot of us who
play everyday would relish the
challenge of being able to go
against the best guys in town
exclusively and really getting to
test your metal and just getting a
chance to see what you can do,”
said Howse. “I think for a lot of
people playing pick-up basketball
with varsity athletes gives you a
chance to feel like they’re on that
big stage which is a pretty special
feeling.”
According to Mott, the regular Even though Howse is currently basketball … it’s better than almost
pick-up game changes when the playing pick-up basketball in any other university campus I’ve
varsity players walk into the gym. Oakville, where he now lives as an been to,” said Howse. “With some
“If I am watching a game and I alumnus of the university, he points of the best pick-up players, they’re
come in and play in the next game, to certain aspects of Guelph pick- just focused on always making the
the guy that’s covering me on the up culture as unique. right play to win the game and
other team just plays that much “[Guelph is great] in terms of stay on the floor. That’s something
harder in an effort to show us that people coming out I would say is fairly unique to
he is as good as us,” said Mott. and in terms of Guelph.”
“They definitely do step up their the quality of
game. These guys try to think they
have something to prove.”
While the pick-up basketball
players may not play to the caliber
seen in OUA basketball, Mott
concedes that they do have some
skill to be seen.
“If you sit down and watch it,
you can tell they know what they’re
doing basketball wise. They may
not have finely tuned skills because
they don’t play as much as the
varsity athletes,” said Mott. “A lot of
[pick-up] guys try out [for varsity]
but it’s such a different level. When
we play pick-up, we’re almost not
going at full speed. When they get
to tryouts and stuff like that, they’re
just in shock at how much faster
and how much more physical it is.”
Varsity politics aside, Howse
believes that the university athletic
department has been kind to the
pick-up basketball faithful.
“The university [has been]
so welcoming to athletes and
always trying to give them a place
to play. It is really great for the
development of not just basketball
skills, but teamwork, leadership and
life building skills,” said Howse. “I
can go [play pick-up] any day of the
week in Guelph. I think it’s a really
valuable experience.”
Photos by
Megan Verhey
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Sports & Health
Men’s volleyball working to be champions
Gryphons look to
reload after some key
veteran losses
CATHERINE NORMAN
L
ast season the Gryphon men’s
volleyball team dominated by
making it all the way to the
OUA finals, and were just two points
shy of winning it all. The end of the
2009-2010 season also marked the
end of three Gryphon legends,
“Jono” Whitton, Gabriel DeGroot
and Andrew Bartram.
However, as head coach Cal
Wigston put it, “We lost three
players, however we’ve had guys
on the bench waiting for their
opportunity, and now they’re
stepping up to the plate.”
A player that will really shine this
year is co-captain, Jamie Stamler,
who Wigston characterizes as,
“a true professional and a true
athlete.” Stamler’s strength as a
player and passion for his team
were especially evident in his
smack-down performance during
the OUA finals last year, and
he will undoubtedly make great
contributions to the team.
With the loss of three veterans,
Wigston said this year the team’s
biggest challenge will be to develop
a team identity.
Last year the team hustled, and
this year they are looking for an
identity. The Gryphons have added
five freshmen to the team and
Wigston said they have a good
group of rookies. One of them being
a college transfer, Codey Forrest who
is projected to be the starting libero;
but Forrest and rookie, Patrick
Strzalkowski will be battling it out
for the position.
With the loss of last seasons
OUA Libero of the Year Gabriel
DeGroot, Wigston admits, “They
have big shoes to fill, but I don’t
expect them to feel as though they
have to fill them.”
No one can draw from DeGroot’s
legendary status, but we can be
rest-assured that Wigston will
help to foster an atmosphere of
professionalism and technique in
the new players.
Marc Wilson, a first-year rookie
on the team spoke highly about his
coach.
“[Coach is] doing lots to not
only improve the technical skills of
the individual players, but mainly
working on that bonding and making
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sure the whole team is focused and
that they all have the same drive.”
Wilson also mentioned that the
team is having some rough spots
with their performance due to the
loss of the older players.
“Personally it’s not the physical
skills, it was the fun and leadership
that they gave to the team,”
said Wilson. “The team has
been struggling in some of the
performance things, like passing.
But we’re cracking down and we’re
going to bust them out and we’re
going to win.”
It is without a doubt the Gryphon
men will find success this season,
and being able to share in the road
to success is something I encourage Rashaad Bhamjee
all Gryphon fans to be a part of. The Former Gryphon Gabriel deGroot will leave big shoes
team works to be a cohesive, united to fill this year.
front and they have many characters
on the team that add that extra will be great to see them play and exhibition games. Alberta has one of
“somethin’-somethin’” to the team. grow on the court this season. the top programs in North America,
There is the comedic Andrew Revie, The Gryphons are projected to and it is Wigston’s hope that the
who is always a pleasure to watch be a top-level team in the OUA for challenges it provided will help the
during the games with his iconic the 2010-2011 season, and Wigston team to improve its dynamics and
wool socks; the powerhouse, Jamie is positive that the team will make passing. French dramatist, Pierre
Stamler; the unmatchable hitter, playoffs. The Gryphons went Corneille said it best, “To win
Winston Rosser; the technical setter, away last week to compete in the without risk is to triumph without
Riley McAllister; and the strong University of Alberta Tourney where glory,” and I have no doubts that
presence of Kevin Stewart. There are the men encountered some expected these guys are going to pull through
many other dynamic players, and it challenges, losing three of their four with an action-packed season.
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Sports & Health
Gryphon women’s volleyball ready to rumble
Gryphons look to get
back to the playoffs
CATHERINE NORMAN
I
f you carefully watch Paul
Funk, coach of the Gryphon
women’s volleyball team
during a practice, his head bobs up
and down following the volleyball
as it bounces from girl to girl while
they lunge, run, dive to dig, and
kill the ball. A practice seems like
a regular season game and there
is a strong connection between
Funk’s commitment to the team
and their success is emanated in
his presence on the sidelines, and
in his coaching methods.
During the practice Funk states,
“Why is the first dig so important?
If the score is 24-23 and we are up
or down, we need a dig no matter
what. You all need to treat every
dig like it is going to win or lose
us the match, you need to be right
there to catch everything.”
Funk’s words are enough to
make anyone want to run out onto
the court to prevent the ball from
touching the court.
Throwing it down with Dunk: Football and breasts; somehow they go together
JUSTIN DUNK
P
ink, a great looking colour
on women, but most guys
wouldn’t dare add the colour
to their fashion repertoire for fear
of being called out by their buddies.
For the month of October, pink on
men, not just women, has become
a yearly ritual.
For those of you who don’t
know, the month of October is
Breast Cancer Awareness month;
31 days dedicated to the fight
against the disease that affects
women all over the world.
Football teams across the
OUA have taken the NFL’s lead
and are suiting up with pink
armbands, tape, and shoelaces to
show their support for the fight
against breast cancer.
I commend all players league
wide for taking the initiative to
support such a worthy cause. For
example the Gryphons football
team has collected all of the
money normally used to pay for
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This a great initiative by the
Gryphons, but is it really just an
excuse for the guys to wear pink?
I mean if you want to wear pink,
wear pink all year round. Make
it a part of your shirt rotation;
The Gryphons biggest challenge
last season according to Funk was
trying to get to playoffs because the
West division teams in the league
were so tight on points.
“[The girls] had to win their last
match to get into playoffs and it was
their 13th win out of 19 matches,
so that’s a pretty big challenge just
to get there,” he said.
The women pulled through
and made it to the OUA quarter
finals, but Funk said that while the
girls were happy to make playoffs,
“When we got there we let our
guards down, relaxed a bit and
were out before we knew it.”
While the loss may have been
a disappointment to some, it was
also an accomplishment for the
Gryphon women who had not
qualified for playoffs since the
2003-2004 season. Funk said that
the team has a different mind-
frame this year, and that the girls
have set their goals even higher.
The 2010-2011 season looks
promising with the team having
the largest number of returning
players in over six years and with
their starting line-up in tact.
Why not support breast cancer
all year round?
12 things, 12 thinks
1. I think even though the
Gryphon women’s field
hockey team lost their first
game of the regular season 3-1
to the Toronto Varsity Blues
they will still make it to CI’s.
Don’t worry girls; getting the
loss out of the way now will
take some pressure away for
playoffs.
2. I think the men’s lacrosse
team is gunning to finish an
undefeated regular season
Sat. Oct. 23, against Western.
The men have looked good
all season and Gryphon fans
hope the season ends with a
defeat of those purple ponies.
3. I think the men’s hockey
team looked impressive in an
8-1 thrashing of the UOIT
Ridgebacks over the weekend.
That scoring outburst could be
just what the Gryphons need
to start putting consecutive
wins together.
4. I think the men’s rugby team’s
pursuit of a playoff spot comes
down to this weekend against
the Toronto Varsity Blues.
The Gryphons must win to
secure a spot in the battle for
OUA supremacy.
5. I think Jacey Murphy is an
unstoppable force for the
Gryphon women’s rugby
team. Murphy scored six tries
Oct. 21 - 27, 2010
“It’s the most senior group in a
long time, and we’re fully expecting
to be in the playoffs,” said Funk.
The Gryphons have also added
six new recruits who are adjusting
well to the team dynamics and
who will be making contributions
during games this season.
Guelph’s exhibition season has
started on a positive note, having
taken home gold in both the
Ottawa tournament and in the
McMaster Mizuno Thanksgiving
classic. One of the team’s co-
captains, Kylen Van Osch said that
the team is excited.
“[We’ve] won two tournaments
already, [we’re] pumped. Everyone
is feeling better and more confident
on the court, we’re going to do
good things this year.”
Confidence was definitely one
of the key challenges last year and
it seems with so many returners
that there is an increased court-
sense, and no doubts that the team
will perform well this year, with so
many veterans to set good examples
for rookies. This will be Van Osch’s
final year with the team after five
years with the team.
to propel the team to the
OUA semi-final round.
6. I think that the men’s soccer
team still has a slim chance
at making the OUA playoffs.
Guys, where were all of these
goals earlier in the season? It
took the team eight games
to score, but in their last five
games they have scored 11
goals. I guess goal scoring
does come in bunches.
7. I think the men’s volleyball
team has a lot of work to do
after losing many key players
to graduation, most notably
OUA Libero of the Year,
Gabriel deGroot.
8. I think the women’s lacrosse
team is vastly improved from
a season ago, when they
failed to win a single game.
The Gryphons have won four
games this season.
9. I think that the football
Gryphons must cut down
on their ability to draw
the ref ’s attention if they
want to win in the playoffs.
Guelph was tagged for 184
yards of penalties against
the Windsor Lancers and
average 131 penalty yards
per game.
10. I think swim team captain
Chantique Payne is in mid-
season form already, after
winning three individual gold
medals in two OUA swim
meets over the weekend.
11. I think that the women’s
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sweet because it’s
exciting to almost be
done my undergrad
degree and also to
be a senior player
in the OUA. It’s
bitter because I love
playing volleyball
and I’m sad that
it’s my final year of
eligibility.”
The Gryphon
women seem to be
well underway with
two strong pre-
season tournament
wins under their
belt, a great
starting line-up,
and a strong team
dynamic. However
as Funk puts it,
“The only people
who win pre-season
tournaments, are Rashaad Bhamjee
the people who Current Gryphon women’s volleyball captain
win pre-season Kylen Van Osch in action.
tournaments.”
We can be rest-assured that he keep them focused on making it to
will keep the girls in-check and playoffs this year.
ice hockey team has been on 12. I think the Gryphon cross-
fire to start the season. The country team can compete
Gryphons have moved to with any other team in the
number six in the CIS top world. The Gryphons showed
10 poll and they look focused very well at the Bill Dellinger
on their goal of an OUA invitational in Oregon, which
championship even this early included some top ranked
in the season. NCAA cross-country teams.
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Sports & Health
Gryphons first Canadian team ever at prestigious event
Cross country team
faces top NCAA
competition
ANDREW DONOVAN
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he Guelph Gryphons
cross country team
participated at the
Dellinger Invitational in Eugene,
Ore. on Saturday Oct. 16, and it
marks the first time a Canadian
team has participated in what is
known as one of the biggest, most
competitive cross country races in
North America.
The tournament is hosted by the
prestigious running program of the
University of Oregon Ducks, and
the race took place at Pre’s Trail in
Eugene’s Alton Baker Park.
The Gryphons were in tough
against the nationally ranked
Oregon (2), Portland (8) and
Wisconsin (11). By the time the
men’s 8000m and the women’s
6000m races were completed it
was evident that the Canucks
were performing at par with the
Yanks; our women’s team placed
second overall with the men
placing third.
The University of Oregon’s
rooted history dates back over
50 years when Nike co-founder
Bill Bowerman coached at the
school from 1948 until 1972 full-
time. Bowerman’s “Track Men of
Oregon” won 24 NCAA individual
titles (with wins in 15 of the 19
events contested) and four NCAA
team crowns (1962,64,65,70), and
posted 16 top ten NCAA finishes
in 24 years as head coach, his
team also boasted 33 Olympians,
38 conference champions and 64
All-Americans.
Bowerman died in 1999 with
a net-worth of roughly $360
million dollars, but the success
Oregon has had in cross country
still lives on.
As far as individual
performances for the Gryphons,
the ladies were led by Rachel
Cliff who finished third with a
time of five minutes and nine-
teen seconds and on the men’s
side, Alex Genest finished eighth
overall.
Other notable mentions for
the women’s team were Courtney
Laurie, seventh, rookie Emily
Dreidger, 17th, slightly ahead
of teammate Samantha Beatie,
18th while Jess Vanhie finished a
Oct. 21 - 27, 2010 163.6
respectable 23rd.
On the men’s team their captain,
Kyle Boorsma finished 10th. Ross
Proudfoot, 14th, Allan Brett, 18th,
and Andrew Nixon, 28th, rounding
out their performances.
There was no glamour or awe-
inspiring story to tell in how the
Gryphons managed to grab a
seat in the coveted tournament
and when asked about it, coach
Dave Scott-Thomas said he got
on the phone with tournament
organizers and they said that the
team should come.
“There was no negotiation, as
soon as we started talking they were Gryphon Athletics
like yeah, okay, come participate.” The Gryphon women’s cross-country team at the Bill Dellinger
It should be noted that not just Invitational in Eugene, Oregon.
any team would have received such
a warm welcome from Oregon [Guelph’s] credibility.” event will take place.
organizers; coach Scott Thomas The Gryphons hope to ride The Gryphons biggest test on
knows that it takes a lot of years their wave of momentum into the women’s side is the McMaster
of building and solid finishes in the current CIS season where Marauders who are currently
competition to be regarded so they are scheduled to host the ranked atop the standings, while
highly, like Guelph is. OUA championships, in Guelph, the men’s most fierce competitor
“Our reputation is pretty good,” on Sat. October 30, and this will be the Windsor Lancers.
said Scott-Thomas. “We’ve got will mark the first time Guelph With a straight face coach
some good international class has hosted a championship Scott-Thomas exclaimed that
athletes and we have a number meet since 2004. Since that last he “wants to win...again” at the
of Olympians and world champ opportunity to host, Guelph has upcoming OUA championships
athletes here in our post-collegiate invested in a new course at the and expects to do so when the
program and that just helps your Arboretum which is where the time comes.
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Sports & Health
Living the pure life: Making the switch part II
LEIGH MCSWAN
C
ontinuing from last week’s
article, we are diving head
first into simple dietary
changes, which can help you achieve
your personal health goals more
efficiently. Whether you are looking
to lose weight, gain muscle, improve
athletic performance, or simply live
a healthier lifestyle, it is the little
changes you gradually implement
into your life which have lasting
effects and promote a change in
lifestyle, this is not about dieting.
This series is meant to be a long term
solution to becoming a healthier,
happier you!
This article will look at ways of
reducing sugar intake. Most people
don’t realize the amount of sugar
they actually take in. This is because
most of the sugar we consume is
‘hidden’ sugar. Meaning, it isn’t the
amount of sugar we are adding to
our foods, coffee or tea; it is the
sugar that comes pre-packaged in
our food. Pop, for example, contains
more sugar in one serving than is
needed for the entire day. One
medium Coke from McDonald’s
can contain up to 35 grams of sugar.
We all know that sugar in excess can
contribute to many conditions such
as diabetes, obesity, heart disease, it
can be depress the immune system,
and can contribute to hormonal
imbalances. So what are your
options if you’re trying to avoid
sugar? What is the best solution to
fixing your sugar craving without
compromising your health? The
answer is definitely skipping out on
white, refined table sugar, and here
is where you can make adjustments
to your diet, while still enjoying
your sweets.
Agave Nectar
According to allaboutagave.com,
Mexican-based and grown from
the same plant as tequila, agave
nectar has been used for thousands
of years by the Aztecs as a natural
food ingredient. It is known by the
Mexican community as “honey-
water.” One of the most health-
promoting properties of agave nectar
is its favourable glycemic index, a
measure of the relative impact that
foods have on our blood sugar. Foods
that raise blood sugar quickly trigger
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the release of the hormone insulin.
Agave’s sweetness comes primarily
from a complex form of fructose
known as insulin. Fructose is the
sugar that occurs naturally in fruits
and vegetables. The carbohydrate
in agave nectar has a low glycemic
index, which provides sweetness
without the unpleasant ‘sugar rush’
and blood sugar spike caused by
many other sugars. Agave nectar
is a delicious natural sweetener
that can be used moderately by
dieters, some diabetics, and health
conscious cooks to replace high-
glycemic and refined sugars.
Honey
According to whofoods.com,
pure, raw, natural honey was used
by Hippocrates, the founding father
of medicine, alongside apple cider
vinegar, as one of the only methods Courtesy
of treating illness and disease.
Raw honey is an anti-fungal, anti- actually a complex mixture of resins Removing one simple ingredient
bacterial, anti-viral alternative to and other substances that honeybees from the diet, such as white sugar
white table sugar. use to seal the hive and make it safe and replacing it with raw honey
The health benefits of honey like from bacteria and other micro- or agave nectar, is a great way to
all foods depend on the quality of organisms.Honeybees make propolis introduce a healthier lifestyle. Try
the honey. Raw honey, for example, by combining plant resins with their experimenting with these two
contains small amounts of the same own secretions which have been substitutes, you will be surprised
resins found in propolis. Propolis, shown to possess cancer-preventing with what you can make without
sometimes called ‘bee glue,’ is and anti-tumor properties. sugar, including your baking!
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Life
TV is for lovers: For want of a goddamn news anchor
go in a different direction-- and
who knows, maybe it will be with
another female anchor-- is more
desperation than anything.
First, a story. I grew up in a
DUNCAN DAYMYRON grand time, when Tahiti Treat
people gave a damn, certain types
complained that networks were
trying to “mom” the news broadcasts
by bringing in Diane Sawyer and
Couric, both anchors from their
morning and daytime talk-news
there are animals/children on your
show, and at least once in your career
you will talk about poop on national
television. People can relate to you,
but once they have seen you cower
in fear because Jack Hannah let go
Barbara Walters could make him
cry in three questions or less) but
even then, as soon as the cameras
are off he’s ruining everything. He’s
hosting SNL, he’s guesting on 30
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f the gossip rags are to believed,
and when aren’t they? Then
Katie Couric could be stepping
down as host of the CBS Evening
News come this spring, moving
back to her former post as co-host
of the afternoon marathon known
as the Today Show. While it’s still
just a rumour, there’s been quite a
bit of talk about it already, and with
good reason. Couric was not only
the first female anchor of the CBS
Evening News, but the first female
to anchor (not co-anchor) an
American evening news broadcast
ever. Her not remaining beyond
her original five year contract was
chalked up to gender in some circles
almost immediately, assuredly not
without good reason, but I think
what is causing CBS to want to
existed, people used payphones, and
American nightly news was still a
really big deal. Dan Rather, Tom
Brokaw, Peter Jennings. Each of
them began hosting their respective
news “telecasts” (as they were called
in the old days) before I was even
born, and each of them carried
on doing it until I was well out of
high school. The entirety of my
salad years. They were institutions,
their names absolutely synonymous
with news to just about everyone
with a television set. Then, within
a few years of each other, they all
disappeared from television, and
a frantic competition began to try
and find a suitable replacement.
At the time, a lot of fuss was
made over the influx of female
anchors. While I doubt most
programs in an attempt to bring in
fans of daytime talk programming
(people in hospital waiting rooms,
house cats and the unemployed)
like the View and Oprah, shows
that were (at the time) killing the
ratings while actual news shows
that talked about wars and the
economy struggled for people to
pay attention to them. Oh and also
the Internet happened. Basically, in
one fell swoop, everything changed
for everyone involved. The new
generation of news anchors was a
hugely important decision. Couric
not coming back means they realize
that maybe they did it wrong.
There is a certain public persona
that is created when hosting a daytime
talk show. You sometimes show up
for work in costumes, sometimes
of the falcon, they don’t really respect
you. When you spend your entire
career as a pair of shoulders and a
haircut correctly pronouncing the
names of foreign dignitaries, people
relate to you about as well as they do
a stock ticker, but they sure as hell
respect you. That is what makes a
damn good news anchor.
Prior to hosting NBC Nightly
News, Brian Williams had a modest
career on MSNBC. Basically about
18 people had heard of him before
he got his gig on NBC. Of the
three current network news folks,
he is the one who commands the
most reverence (and that isn’t a
gender thing because Lesley Stahl
could news anchor the shit out of
him, Christiane Amanpour would
beat him on Celebrity Jeopardy and
himself on Conan’s old show (he
could be doing it on Fallon now but
no one would know that). He’s not
being a goddamn news anchor.
Maybe I was spoiled as a child.
I actually got to see Peter fucking
Jennings read me the goddamn
news. But if Katie Couric has
to go back to cutting to elderly
tourists waving to the cameras
on Lexington Avenue with Matt
Lauer all afternoon, then I hope
that CBS can find a new Walter
Cronkite. Someone who no one has
yet heard of, who knows who Ban
Ki-moon is, looks really good in
navy blue business attire and likes it
when their hair doesn’t move. Then
maybe people will stop pretending
the Colbert Report is the news and
actually learn something.

Foodstuffs bakes a pie

of the most versatile, comforting
and loved food items around.
This moment of culinary
Recipe for apple pie
Inspired by Smitten Kitchen
validation is a great one but For the crust: For the pie:
eludes many who are intimidated 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1 1/2 pounds Granny Smith apples (about
NICOLE ELSASSER by one step or other on the road 1 tsp salt 3 medium)

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ew things are as satisfying
for a home cook then the
moment they pull a pie from
the oven and find that it looks
exactly as a pie should. You can’t
help but feel proud, like you’ve
joined the ranks of people whose
hands are capable of making one
to having the perfect pie cooling
on your windowsill.
I was one of these naysayers
once but found that by paying
careful attention to the steps of a
recipe and by going through the
motions slowly, I, too, could make
a pie worth bragging about.
2 tbsp sugar
8 tbsp all-vegetable shortening
12 tbsp unsalted butter cut into ¼ inch pieces
6-8 tbsp ice water
In a food processor or blender, pulse the flour, salt and
sugar until combined. Add shortening and pulse again
until the mixture has the texture of sand. Scatter the
butter pieces and pulse again about 10-12 times until
the butter pieces are about the size of peas. Pour the
mixture into a large mixing bowl. Pour the ice water over
the mixture and fold into the mixture. Press down on the
dough to ensure that it sticks. Add slightly more water if dough
it does not. Divide the dough into two pieces and form
them into two round disks. Wrap them separately in
plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least one hour and no
more than two days.
Nicole Elsasser wire rack and allow to cool for four hours.
2 pounds McIntosh apples (about 4 large)
1 tbsp juice and 1 tsp zest from 1 lemon
3/4 cups plus 1 tablespoon sugar
2 tbsp all-purpose flour
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
1/4 tsp ground allspice
1 egg white, beaten lightly
Put the oven rack in the lowest position and heat
the oven to 500 degrees F. Remove one piece of
from the fridge and allow it to come to room
temperature. Roll out the dough on a lightly floured
surface. Transfer dough to a pie plate by rolling the
dough around a rolling pin and then unrolling over a
pie plate. Ease the dough into the pan corners. Leave
the dough that hangs over the edge of the plate; place
the dough-lined plate in the refrigerator. Peel, core
and cut apples in half, in half again width-wise; cut
quarters into ¼ inch slices and toss with lemon juice
and zest. In a medium bowl, mix ¾ cup sugar, flour,
salt and spices. Toss dry ingredients with apples. Put
the fruit mixture and juices into the chilled pie shell.
Roll out the second piece of dough into a 12-inch
disk and place over filling. Trim top and bottom edges
to ½ inch beyond the pan lip. Tuck the edge of dough
underneath itself so it’s in line with the pan lip. Flute
edging or press with fork tines to seal. Cut three
slits on the top crust in the centre. Brush eggs white
onto the top of the crust and sprinkle evenly with
remaining 1 tbsp sugar. Place pie on baking sheet and
lower the oven temperature to 475 degrees F. Bake
for about 25 minutes and then lower the oven to 375
degrees F and bake for 30 minutes more. Transfer to
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Opinion
Loose Cannon: An endorsement of endorsements
GREG BENETEAU
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ampaigning for public office
is a tough and sometimes
lonely job. If you’re an
incumbent, an election requires
you to defend your record in office
against those who would seek to
tear it down.
If you’re new to politics, getting
elected can be even tougher. Not do
you need to prove yourself the more
qualified candidate, you also need
have a certain amount of popular
momentum on your side. Being
perceived as a frontrunner makes
voters think a little bit harder before
casting their ballot based solely on
name recognition.
When political candidates
go looking for endorsements,
what they’re really looking for is
momentum from influential people.
Open Content
Open Access Week
MICHAEL RIDLEY
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his is Open Access Week.
You may have noticed a
number of events on campus
celebrating and promoting this. My
guess is you didn’t. And while that’s
too bad, it’s not really a surprise.
Open Access is one of those
quiet revolutions we don’t notice
until it has completely changed
things around us. It’s a stealth
transformation. The idea is to
make the output of research
and scholarship (think books,
journal articles, research reports,
statistical data, etc.) freely
available to all. Simple.
Don’t we already do that? Isn’t
that what the library does? No and
sort of.
Here’s how it works: the university
pays faculty to do research and write
articles, they give those articles
away free to publishers, and then
Having a lot of endorsements is like
having an entourage of cool friends
– people will wonder what makes
you so special.
To my knowledge, there has
been only one major endorsement
made during the Guelph municipal
election, and it was notable only for
the controversy it caused.
After the Guelph Labour
Council released its “dream team”
list for mayor and city council, based
on “a review of past voting records
and an all-candidates meeting” as
well as a questionnaire, some of
the candidates stepped forward to
complain they had never even been
contacted by the Union.
There were some pretty notable
oversights. Jim Galatianos, a
member of the United Food and
Commercial Workers who is
running in Ward 3, said he never
received an invitation to the all-
candidates event.
Neither did Van Hellemond,
a Ward 2 candidate and former
the library pays the publishers to
get them back again in the form
of journals. Only those people who
are part of the university get to read
those articles. Nuts? Perhaps even
more crazy if you consider that
faculty salaries and research grants
are paid by the public purse. Our
dime. Is there a better way? Yes:
open access.
The basic formula is
straightforward: electronic
publishing + internet + no
subscriptions + community support
= open access.
Free is not actually, well, free. It
does cost to enable open access.
Someone has to pay for the editorial
boards, document preparation and
the various bits of IT that run
the servers and the networks. But
those costs are marginal and can be
covered in ways that don’t require
the user (the reader) to pay. Open
access isn’t free as in beer, more
like free as in kittens. There are
Oct. 21 - 27, 2010
President of the National Hockey
League Officials’ Association, the
union representing NHL referees
and linesmen.
This isn’t the first time the GLC
has been chastised for its record of
endorsements. During the 2006
municipal election, then-President
Terry O’Connor admitted that
the union only bothered to contact
“what we consider labour-friendly
candidates,” which amounted to
about two-thirds of the people
running that year.
Granted, endorsing an entire
slate of candidates is pushing
the influence game a little too
far, especially if you’re unable (or
unwilling) to give everyone a fair
chance.
Then again, an endorsement is
only as good as the reputation of
the endorser. If voters think that
an endorsement is well reasoned or
comes from a trustworthy source,
they’ll give it more weight.
Which brings me to my point.
obligations; someone needs to be
responsible.
In turns out that the economic or
public interest arguments in favour
of open access aren’t the most
persuasive. Putting an article in an
open access journal or repository
makes it widely available. This sets
off a hugely beneficial “network
effect.” The more work made open
access, the more it is read, the more
influence it can have, and the more
other authors are encouraged to
post their work in open access.
This is how innovation works.
Steven Johnson has written about it
in his wonderful new book Where
Good Ideas Come From (see his
TED talk at http://www.ted.com/
talks/). New ideas are built on
existing ideas. They scaffold because
they are open and available to
others. Others can riff off them. The
central requirement is “open”: open
networks. Open spaces. Open ideas.
Open access. Win-win-win-win.
The opnions expressed herein do not reflect
the opinions of The Ontarion
If the GLC can cobble together a
list of union-friendly mayor and
council, why shouldn’t the Central
Student Association Board, our
elected representatives on campus,
endorse a student-friendly mayor
and council? Heck, why not endorse
student-friendly members of
provincial and federal parliament?
The CSA Board has tried very
hard to be non-partisan in its
approach to politics, avoiding
endorsements of any kind during
elections (although they have posted
candidate statements online).
Pretending that the CSA Board
is not a political entity is, in my
opinion, part of the problem.
Students expect a certain level
of leadership from their elected
officials, and that includes making
decisions in their best interests.
Whenever Board members
vote, they are taking a political
stance, whether they choose to
acknowledge it or not.
Get-out-the-vote campaigns
What can you do? First, think
about the social and economic
advantages of barrier-free access
to more and more information.
Then act. Publish or post in
open access journals. Even if you
publish in a commercial journal,
most agreements now also permit
you to post your article in a local
repository - like The Atrium at
the University of Guelph (http://
dspace.lib.uoguelph.ca/) Best
of both worlds - prestige of the
high impact journal and freely
available through the open access
repository.
By the way open access doesn’t
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like the one currently underway
on campus fail to generate much
enthusiasm precisely because there
is a lack of leadership in identifying
who to vote for. Instead, students are
told to figure it out for themselves.
Before I’m accused of encouraging
university students to be mindless
sheep, I should point out that voters
are influenced by all kinds of outside
input, including pressure from
family members and peer groups,
attack ads, news reports, campaign
polls, or because they like the colour
of a candidate’s lawn signs.
If the CSA Board developed a
serious vetting process and voted to
endorse candidates based on their
commitment to students’ interests,
it would be arguably no worse than
other methods used to sway voters
during an election.
If such endorsements increased
student voter turnout, it might also
position the CSA as an influential
kingmaker in local politics – and
force politicians to pay attention.
mean giving up your author rights.
You don’t lose copyright, you don’t
lose control of your work. For help
with this, take a look at the library’s
scholarlycommunicationsite(http://
www.lib.uoguelph.ca/scholarly_
communication/) or the site focused
on this week’s celebration: http://
www.openaccessweek.org/).
Open Access Week. Write
something and set it free.
Michael Ridley is the Chief
Information Officer (CIO) and Chief
Librarian at the University of Guelph.
Contact him at mridley@uoguelph.ca
or www.uoguelph.ca/cio.
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Opinion
Between the Sheets: A Column of Sexploration

SONJA SWANSON
HAILY INGRAM
ERIN DE JONG

G
reetings fellow students
and welcome to Between
the Sheets, the new
Ontarion column dedicated to
chatting about sexuality! Before we
get into an actual discussion about
sexual health or sexual fun (which
we promise will start next week!),
we wanted to introduce ourselves
and tell you what we’re all about.
This column will consist of
three writers: Sonja, Hailey and
Erin all of whom are volunteers at
The Wellness Centre in the sexual
awareness group by the name of
NAKED. And before you ask, it is
not an acronym for anything, but
people do tend to give you funny
looks when you say you’re in a
group called NAKED. Perhaps
they assume that it’s a club for
nudists… Megan Verhey
We’ll talk about The Wellness
Centre after this issue but it’s good decide to skip Between the Sheets. mild-mannered of us rather than (“you should totally try out this Hailey Ingram is a second-year
to have some background on where Although as we said we will try to inform students about different thing I did the other day…”) that student majoring in Psychology and
we’re coming from. One of the most have something for everyone so things to think about and try. The will make you a little more aware minoring in Family and Child Studies.
important tenets of the Centre hopefully you all stick around! belief being that importance is of your own sexuality and human She is a member of NAKED as of this
is that we support an inclusive When someone tries to talk to placed on the novel or shocking sexuality as a whole. year but has always had a passion for
environment. This means that we students about sex there tends to be rather than providing information So we leave you with a few short studying and understanding sexuality
will try to include everyone in the two types of discussion: “The Fear to a large, diverse audience. profiles of who we are individually and is excited to be a part of ‘Between
discussion of sexuality whether they Tactic” and “The Shock Jock.” The But you may ask us: if you’re not and we hope to see you all back the Sheets.’
are queer, questioning, straight, etc. reader could be presented with an going to load your readers down here next week!
Even asexuality or choosing to overwhelming volume of statistics with statistics (like one in five Erin de Jong is a first-year
abstain from sex is a component of and facts about the horrors of Canadians have genital herpes) or Sonja Swanson is a first-year majoring in Biomedical Science. This
human sexual practice. Sexuality is sexually transmitted infections try to tell us what hybristophilia Masters student in Biomedical Science will be the first of hopefully many
a basic human right and experience (STIs) and the importance of is (the sexual attraction to people and did her undergrad in Biomed at years volunteering with The Wellness
so everyone should be able to join condom use in youth. Safe sex is who have committed a gruesome Guelph also. She was a member of Centre, and working on team
the conversation if they want to essential, but since everyone is aware crime, also known as ‘Bonnie and NAKED last year and continues NAKED. Sex is a part of our society,
and we’ll do our best to talk about how important is it, the message Clyde Syndrome’), then what are volunteering with the group this year. and by finding our own “sexual niche,”
topics that are significant for usually gets lost upon repetition: you going to do? Good question! She joined NAKED in the hopes of we can lead lifestyles that we can feel
everyone. STIs are bad so use a condom. We really want to have the same helping to promote the awareness of positively about. She is so excited about
We also realize that the topic of On the opposite side of the coin, kind of conversation that you might sexual health on campus and have this column and invites you to explore
sex doesn’t excite everyone. So don’t a riskier article will talk about have with your friends: slightly engaging events where students can the amazing topics we have planned
worry, we won’t be offended if we’re exceedingly kinky practices with scandalous with a nice smattering freely discuss sexuality. for you in the weeks to come.
too blasé with sexuality and you the intention to startle the more of facts and hopefully helpful hints
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not to necessarily tell students daily lives attending classes and some students to point to a grim election that you feel disenchanted
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Editorial Staff: instead to encourage them to students will have to go to their may not be entirely serious about your ballot by ripping it in half or
Editor-in-chief become engaged and understand local polling stations, which will becoming elected. This may have placing an ‘X’ across it, and you
Nicole Elsasser
News Editor why their vote matters. For the undoubtedly act as a deterrent to left the student body with an are welcome to write right on the
Kelsey Rideout municipal election on Oct. 25, casting their ballots. impression that incumbent mayor, ballot why it is you have chosen
Arts & Culture Editor the Central Student Association Then there’s the depressing Karen Farbridge, is the only viable not to vote for any particular
Josh Doyle can be commended for its hard reality of the limited choice for candidate to vote for as mayor. Of candidate at all.
Sports & Health Editor
Justin Dunk work in organizing a ‘Get Pissed mayoral candidate. Out of the four course, there are likely students For many reasons, Canadians
Copy Editor Off ’ outreach campaign, meant candidates running for mayor, two in support of Farbridge, ready to are increasingly choosing not
Sasha Odesse to convey to students that voting have openly admitted that they confidently check her name off to vote. The last federal election
Associate Editor is worth their time, as there exist have very little chance in actually on their ballots. But what about drew in a record low of only
Rachel Scapillati
decisions at the municipal levels becoming elected. At the age of students who simply feel that 59 per cent of Canadians who
Production Staff: that have direct implications 29, Scott Nightingale claims to be they are left without any mayoral decided to vote. But for those
Photo & graphics editor on their lives. But students may running for mayor to gain practical choices that they genuinely feel in students who do feel like voting is
Megan Verhey be feeling pissed off about this political experience, while Ray support of? an important civil right that need
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Layout Director as well. owner, has repeatedly expressed mayoral candidates apply to you be sure to squash any inclinations
Alison Tibbles It’s no wonder that this election that he has no chance in winning or speak on behalf of student of apathetic behavior and make
has been plagued by poor student the mayoral race, but that putting concerns, there is always the the trek out to vote at your local
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Business manager engagement. The city did next to forth his candidacy created a option of spoiling your ballot. polling station. Just remember
Lorrie Taylor no public campaigning to try and platform from which he could For those new to the voting that you always have options,
Office manager alleviate apathy and connect the openly speak his mind without game, spoiling your ballot is a and spoiling your ballot may be
Monique Vischschraper student body to election issues. having to filter himself. At the way to make a political statement a better route than ambiguously
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Crossword
Across 62. Bee band 23. Dog’s doc
1. Lyrical composition 66. Actress Ryan 25. Red Viking?
4. Insufferable one 68. Common songbird 27. Former Chinese ruler
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
8. Creep 70. Peter Pan pirate 30. Slave away
12 13 14 15 12. Best 71. Drives 32. Star Trek character
16 17 18
14. Helper 75. Showy flower 34. Clark Kent’s lady
15. Murder on the ____ 77. Cereal grass 35. In place of
19 20 21 22 23 16. Television predecessor 78. Uncool 36. Gin variety
24 25 26 27 28 17. Farm feed 79. Was in hoc 38. Secluded place
18. Swindler’s scheme 81. Vandyke, for ex. 40. Marvin’s home
29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36
19. Animal pouch 83. State 42. Full extent
37 38 39 40 41 20. Pole structure 84. Meteorologist’s device 43. Water sport
22. Critiques 85. Epics 44. Narcissist features
42 43 44 45 46 47 48
24. Amass 86. Desires 45. Salt Lake City state
49 50 51 52 26. Disable 87. Soufflé needs 47. Spiegelman comic
53 54 55 56 57
28. Took the reins 88. Humorist Brooks 51. Scottish isles
29. Warn 52. 6 o’clock program
58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 31. Incite Down 54. Mitigates
66 67 68 69 70 33. Tattles 1. Greek prophet 56. Blow or brow
37. Charged particle 2. Failed bomb 59. Witness
71 72 73 74 75 76 77
39. Author Chomsky 3. Project 61. Above, to a bard
78 79 80 81 82 41. Marsh bird 4. Fortified locations 63. Indifferent
83 84 85
42. Misleading 5. Grease 64. Picks up Tolstoy
46. Highland cap 6. Pepé Le Pew’s pitfall 65. Encountered
86 87 88 48. New (pr.) 7. Stave off 67. Jackson accessory
49. 90’s game 8. Reporter’s informant 69. Pen points
By Krystian Imgrund 50. Land parcel 9. French city 71. Shaw output
51. Criticize (in speech) 10. Talon 72. Unbridled speech
53. Oodles (2 wds.) 11. Adjusts clothes 73. Sign
55. Cabbage kin 12. Follow 74. Lurch

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Thursday October 21
SOFAM . Thursday at Noon
Concert Series. MacKinnon
Room 107 (Goldschmidt Room).
Admission FREE – donations
gratefully appreciated. Everyone
Welcome! This week: Henry
Janzen “Viola music from the
19th and 20th century”. www.
uoguelph.ca/sofam
The Friends of the Guelph
Public Library are seeking
donations of gently used books,
educational and entertainment
items for their 4th Giant Book
Sale, October 29-31. Donations
accepted until October 23 at any
Guelph Public Library branch.
Info: 519-821-5874 www.
friendsguelphlibrary.ca
U of G hosts “Guelph Voices
of Access,” a panel discussion
featuring scholars and community
members talking about the global
movement of making research
findings free and open. 3-5pm
at 10 Carden St. Space limited.
To register email: researchshop@
uoguelph.ca.
Friday October 22
Guelph Studio Performance
Classifieds
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LESSONS. Study with Guelph’s
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teachers. All styles & levels -
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PERSONALS
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ADOPTION? Can we talk?
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Series at Temple Studios. Doors
open at 7:30, show at 8pm. $10.
Tickets at the door. 42 Quebec
Street. 2nd & 3rd floor. www.
templestudios.ca or www.dtde.ca
Saturday October 23
Guelph Poetry Slam presented
by Guelph Spoken Word.
Featuring. FREEWILL THE
POET. 7pm at the E-Bar (41
Quebec St) $10. For More
information on what’s happening
in the Guelph Spoken Word
community, checkout: www.
guelphspokenword.com
Falun Dafa free qigong
instruction. Soothe the mind,
heal the body. All ages welcome,
no experience needed. 3-5pm,
UC 004. Info: Mai (519)823-
2422.
Tuesday October 26
Save a life...or 3! Canadian
Blood Services is looking for
donors at the University of
Guelph. Clinics held in PCH
October 26th, November 30th
11-6.
Falun Dafa free qigong
instruction. Soothe the mind,
SERVICES
Wondering if you’re going
down the right road for your
happiness & life contentment?
Need help with tapping into your
inner wisdom? Soul intuitive
readings & Reiki healing at low
rates for students. Email: heather.
isabela@gmail.com
Student of Colour Support
Groups (and Students from
Different Cultural Backgrounds).
Mondays: One on One support
10am-2pm, Discussion 3-5pm.
Tuesdays: One on One support
10am-2pm. Discussion group
2-3pm. Wed: One on one
support 10am-2pm. Discussion
group 5-7pm. Confidentiality
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ca or x53244.
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heal the body. All ages welcome,
no experience needed. 6:30-
8:30pm, UC 333. Info: Mai
(519)823-2422
Wednesday October 27
Kiwanis Sports Celebrity
Dinner, 6:30pm at the Italian
Canadian Club. Headliners:
MLB Pitcher ‘Spaceman’ Lee;
Women’s Olympic Hockey –
Sami Jo Small, gold medal goalie;
Men’s Special Olympic Sledge
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Blood Services is looking for
donors at the University of
Guelph. Clinics held in PCH
October 26th and November 30th
11am-6pm.
Thursday October 28
The Ontarion Annual General
Meeting. If you wish to be
involved and are not on our
membership list (posted on page
12 of this issue of the Ontarion)
contact: ontarion@uoguelph.ca
for registration and details.
Friday October 29
Friends of the Guelph Public
Library 4th Giant Book Sale, to
take place in former FastForms
building, corner of Massey &
Imperial Rds N. Guelph. Sale
times: Oct 29, 6-9pm; Oct 30,
10am-4pm; Oct 31, 12-4pm.
www.friendsguelphlibrary.ca
Sunday October 31
Booonanza “KHNG Halloween
Party!!!” Games, crafts, face
painting, costume contest,
pumpkin carving, haunted house,
pizza and more. Kortright Hills
P.S. Gym 3-6 pm. For more
information contact khng@
bellnet.ca
Thursday November 4
Guelph-Wellington Women
in Crisis Workshop Series ‘I’m
Missed Connections
Tattoo Parlour – Downtown
Guelph - w4m
Me: sitting with a friend inside
a tattoo place in Guelph. Flipping
through the binder thinking
about getting a small tattoo on
a whim. Brown hair, green eyes,
grey beanie. You: passing by the
tattoo place with a couple friends.
Buzz cut with chilly blue eyes. You
pressed cupped hands against the
window to check out the place,
and consequently checked me out.
You lingered a little longer than
normal, smiled and kept walking.
I can’t describe how that one
look made me feel. I got a small
heart tattooed on my right hip
dedicated to blue eyed stranger in
hopes that we will meet again.
Hello cute redhead – Starbucks
on Clair Rd – w4w
Venti half white mocha, half
cafe vanilla, ez ice, with 2 shots
pour appigato style (over the top)
with whipped cream and caramel
drizzle frappachino. That was
your order. Complicated, but I
dig it. Sorry I didn’t get to tell
you how beautiful your smile is
in person. I’m at Starbucks every
Sunday from noon till 3 working
27
Taking it Back – Because it’s
Mine’. This week: ‘Boundaries
and Power’. 38 Elizabeth St.
1-3pm. Contact: 519-823-5806
x233 or x300. Preregistration is
required.
Ongoing:
As part of the Guelph
Studio Tour 25th Anniversary
celebrations, you’re invited to
view the Past Members Show at the
Barber Gallery, 167 Suffolk St. W.
(ground floor gallery). October
2-31. Gallery hours: Mon-Fri.:
9-5:30pm, Sat: 9-5pm.
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre
Exhibit: ‘House Beautiful’ an
exploration of contemporary
society and its decadences.
Exhibit runs until October 31.
358 Gordon Street at College
Ave. 519.837.0010 info@msac.
ca | www.msac.ca
Guelph Civic Museum Exhibit
– Spirit of change: One Building
Tells the Story of Guelph.
Tracing the history of the second
oldest church building in Guelph.
Exhibit runs from June 12, 2010
– January 9, 2011. 6 Dublin St.
S. Open daily 1-5pm. guelph.ca/
museum.
in the corner table. Maybe see
you there?
UofGuelph – w4m
YOU STOLE MY HAT AT
ALISHA’S PARTY – I want it
back. But over coffee because
I thought you were pretty cute,
which is why I let you take it.
Word.
Halloween 2009 – m4m
I know this is a little late,
because this happened last
Hallowe’en, but I just found
Missed Connections now, so here
it goes. Last Halloween, you were
dressed as Danny Zuko from
Grease. You even have the little
greaser curl in the front. I just
had a pair of cheap devil horns
on from the party store that
I bought that day. We were at
Apartment 58. You were getting
hit on all night, but I never had
the courage to talk to you. You
were just adorable. This year, I am
going all out, dressing as Bleeker
from Juno (a little dated, I know,
but I look great in shorts) and
will return to Apartment 58 on
October 30th. I hope I will see
you there, Zuko.
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