Issue 21, Vol 141, The Brunswickan

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The Brunswickan

Volume 141 Issue 21 • Canada’s Oldest Official Student Publication • UNB Fredericton’s Student Paper • Feb. 27, 2008

60th Annual

Ron Buist tells all

Red&Black Revue

One-on-one with the man who brought us ‘Roll Up the Rim’ News, page 4

Beautifully Herbal Aeriol Liera offers a unique assortment of chemical-free beauty products with her line, Sanctuaerie

Arts, page 14

The old man rant Dave Evans on Subway etc.

Opinions, page 6

UNBSU 2008 ELECTION The Presidential Debate

UNB will be more than just a host school when they kick off the CIS Championships at the Aitken Centre

by Naomi Osborne

by Mitchell Bernard

I’m sure that every Frederictonian has ventured out, at least once, to the Boyce Farmer’s Market on a Saturday morning to explore the vast varieties of delicious treats, jewelry, and neat things you can’t find at the malls.

And Aeriol Liera knows better than anyone how important it is to offer alternatives to everyday commercial products – in particular, beauty and skincare products. She has been a vendor at the market for the past nine years.

Her business is called Sanctuaerie Botanicals, and is a line of herbal health and body care products that are chemical and cruelty-free. Liera makes 70% of all her products and buys the rest from a chemist in Ontario.

Liera, an herbalist, creates everything from essential oils and clay salts, and offers everything from lip balm to decongestants to aromatherapy soaps.

She was inspired to begin making these products soon after she moved from British Columbia to Fredericton ten years ago.

“I took for granted that I could buy chemically-free products right off the shelves in the stores in B.C. [In New Brunswick] I can’t, so that motivated me to make my own products and start this business,” she explained.

The best thing about her organic products, she adds, is that they don’t fill your body with unwanted chemicals.

“There are chemicals from the products people use that stay in the body and build up over time,” said Liera.

“The body doesn’t flush these toxic chemicals out, so when people reach the age of 50 or 60 they start getting strange illnesses.”

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Student Union Presidential candidates see Sanctuaerie page 16 squared off last Friday.

by Sarah Kellerman

Ashley Bursey / The Brunswickan

Sanctuaerie products can be found at the Boyce Farmer’s Market every Saturday morning.

V-Reds take AUS Women’s Volleyball Championship

“What can you do for me now?”

That sentiment seemed to be widespread among the students that filled the SUB cafeteria on Friday afternoon, as Student Union presidential candidates Bethany Vail and Artigas Cruz took centre stage in the SU Candidates Debate.

Vail, who serves as the current VP Academic, and Cruz, current Science Rep, presented their campaign platforms while responding to questions from moderator Jennifer McKenzie, The Brunswickan’s Editor-in-Chief. Questions were either e-mailed to the Editor, written by The Brunswickan staff, or submitted by members of the debate

audience.

Both candidates were given the opportunity to make opening statements before the debate turned to direct questions. One candidate would be asked a question, and the other would later be given time to respond.

The candidates faced questions on how they would make UNB more fun and exciting for students; how they planned on getting students more involved with student athletics (both Varsity and otherwise) and how they planned to make UNB more energy sustainable.

Some of the major issues tackled included a discussion about what each delegate would bring to their role of president, their vision of the Student Union, methods to combat perceived student apathy, tuition costs, and the proposed bus pass.

The candidates agreed that there was no need to have the Student Union buy the SUB back from the University and also agreed that better communication with students was needed, but had different way

of achieving this. Both spoke of wanting a more energized Union Bethany through a day to celebrate UNB and more involved councilors.

Artigas planned for a more active Student Union - more involvement in charities, more face time with students, and more events, including tickets to Varsity games.

The debate was not well attended, and other than a few students close to the stage, most seemed rather ignorant of the importance of the debate. McKenzie encouraged bystanders to become engaged on more than one occasion, but aside from a small group of interested students near the stage, there was not much concern shown for the candidates.

Attendance fluctuated throughout the hour-long event, though it appeared that most spectators were there to support one of the two candidates.

Thomas Caines, a third year Arts student, said the lack of interest speaks volumes about the plight of the Student Union.

“The fact that people were there and couldn’t be bothered to pay any attention is cause for great concern,” commented Caines.

“Bethany and Artigas presented themselves incredibly well and were able to articulate their positions strongly. However, it could be argued that [the debate] was nothing more than a wasted effort by the candidates.”

CHSR re-broadcast the debate immediately following the event on the air.

The debate was only open to presidential candidates and not candidates running for executive positions.

Voting for the Student Union positions opened on Sunday, February 24 at 12:01 am and runs until 11:59 pm Friday, February 29.

Voting is done online through eservices, though the Student Union has voting booths with laptops on campus.

Questions about the election can be directed to the Chief Returning Officer at cro@unb.ca.

The sound of screeching sneakers will fill the Lady Beaverbrook Gym and the Aitken Centre this week as the UNB Women’s volleyball squad prepares to host the upcoming CIS Women’s Volleyball Championships.

This will be the first time in 20 years that a team from the Atlantic Canada will host the national finals.

In addition to hosting, UNB is fresh off their AUS championship this past weekend. The Reds defeat Saint Mary’s 3-2 in a thrilling final Sunday afternoon, marking UNB’s 18th Atlantic conference title – the most of any team in the conference.

“They are real excited,” said Coach John Richard. “We found out a few years ago that we would be hosting the championship, so everyone is well prepared. The girls are pretty excited to be playing in the championship.”

Richard was pleased with his team’s play on the weekend, and he feels his team is adequately prepared for the next task.

“It was real important to get banner. Obviously, we wanted to win our way into CIS championships. We have talked all year about it so it was good to win our way into the championship.

We will continue to build from there,” said Richard.

The Varsity Reds will have a busy week in preparation for the tournament.

A full list of events is scheduled from Wednesday through to the conclusion of the tournament on Saturday evening.

Coach Richard knows his team will have to stay focused on their play and continue to play strong.

“Times are tough right now. We didn’t get back until late Sunday night; we will obviously be taking [Monday] off. We play our first game on Thursday.

It will be difficult to prepare with all the distractions and with the banquet during the week,” said Richard.

Eight teams from across the country will compete in this year’s national finals.

Rankings for the tournament are as follows: (1) University of Alberta, (2) Université de Montréal, (3) University of Calgary, (4) University of British Columbia, (5) Université de Sherbrooke, (6) McMaster University, (7) University of New Brunswick, and (8) Saint Mary's University.

UNB’s win over Saint Mary’s helped the Reds boost their rankings for the tournament, but rankings have little significance in a single-elimination tournament.

see Volleyball page 12

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Lights, camera, action?

NB Film Co-op wants to have a blooming television industry but a lack of professionals makes it rough going.

by Lauren Kennedy

The New Brunswick Filmmakers’ Co-operative provides workshops, mentors, and on-set training to anyone who wishes to pursue a career in the television or film industry. Since New Brunswick is the only province that does not have its own successful television series, the thought is there and the film co-op would like to make it a reality.

The film co-op partnered with the department of Post-Secondary Education, Training, and Labour to get this project on the go. The main goal of the program is to ensure the existence of a well-trained crew and personnel to help foster growth in the province’s film and television industry.

“Our depar tment invested $196,000 over two years to assist the NB Film Co-op in developing curriculum leading to the advanced training to meet the growing and evolving labour market needs of this industry,” explained Elaine Bell, of the PSE communications branch.

LeBlanc explained that because the co-op contributes so much to the identity of the province, this idea for the television project was seen as a good thing in the department’s eyes.

“The extent of our involvement is that NB Film Co-op made the proposal to us, and based on the strength of the proposal, the decision was made to invest in their project,” she explained. “The nonprofit, charitable nature of the NB

Film-Co-op and its contributions to the cultural identity of the province were also taken into account.”

“Diplomatic Relations” is the name of the project onto which the co-op is embarking. Cat Leblanc, of membership services for the coop, explains more about what the project is all about.

“The internal production, Diplomatic Relations, is a three-part series which tells three different stories in 15-20 minutes each, which all occur at the same table at different points in the night set in a 24 hour restaurant scene,” she described. “Each story begins with an incident at the restaurant and then we flashback to events of the recent past which led up to that particular incident.”

In order to pull off a series like

“The development of the industry in the province would get a real boost with an indigenously conceived and executed project such as this.”

- Tony Merzetti, Executive Director NB Film Co-op

this, many different professionals are needed in areas such as lights, sound, screenwriters, technical people, etc. This year, about 15 students will receive a certificate in their specific area of training this spring. In addition to the 15, 20 crew people will have received mentorship on the project in fields such as hair, make-up, and wardrobe.

For the past year, students have been in the classroom learning theory, whereas in the second phase,

practical work will be issued using the technical equipment the program offers.

Tony Merzetti is the executive director of the Film Co-op and feels that students can benefit in many ways from the program besides just getting a degree.

“They get mentored by professionals in a real world setting and the students get to demonstrate their abilities to mentors who work in the industry. The co-op works closely with the UNB film program, providing equipment and instructors and 14 present and past students from UNB are working on the series now,” he explained. “This is a wonderful opportunity to help those students make the transition into the film industry.”

As Merzetti points out, getting a job in the film/TV industry is as much about who you know as the skills you have. Personal referrals are key to success.

“These people the students work with are people who could potentially recommend them to be hired on shows in the future,” he said.

As for the future of Diplomatic Relations? At this time, Merzetti and his crew are eager to complete the editing of the shows and potentially have them debut at the Silver Wave Film Festival this fall.

“In terms of a regional or national broadcast, we will certainly be talking to broadcasters about the project to make them aware of what is going on and the great work preformed by the dedicated crew and cast,” he said.

Merzetti says he would love to have it developed into a regular series that is shot in the province, but unfortunately, the co-op is not set up to do such a thing.

“The co-op is not set up to undertake such a project, but if a producer or production company decided to run with the project and make the pitches to broadcasters and get it launched, that would be fantastic.

The development of the industry in the province would get a real boost with an indigenously conceived and executed project such as this.”

News Shorts

Another use for YouTube: Solving crimes

by Bruns News Department

Mary Poppins lied?

In one of the most famous musical numbers in Disney history, Mary Poppins, played by Julie Andrews, sings the song “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” to her beau, Bert, played by Dick Van Dyke.

About a minute into the song, Poppins turns to Bert and says, “You know you can say it backwards, which is Dociousaliexpilisticfragicalirepus.”

Upon closer inspection, Robert Rawich, an ABC news reporter, decided to take a look at this and realized that in fact, when Poppins turns to Bert and says that line, she in fact lied.

As Rawich reasons, when she says Dociousaliexpilisticfragicalirepus, you should be able to reverse the word and hear the actual word, “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.”

That is not the case.

When you reverse the word, what Poppins actually spells looks nothing like “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.” It actually reads “superilacigarfcitsilipxeilasuoicod,” which is not even close to the real thing.

Mary Poppins.

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than the award.

Moncton-based hair stylist Paul Leblanc created the variation of the long page-boy hair cut and never thought it would create this much buzz.

"It brought a lot of attention; it wasn't really expected when we did that, but it definitely helped the character so much and it made such a statement that everybody is talking about it," he told CBC in an interview.

NB hair designer creates Oscar winning ’do “No country for Old Men” won four awards at the Oscars, including best supporting actor. Javier Bardem won the title but it seems his hair in the film created more talk

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The NB RCMP have never used YouTube to help solve a crime until recently.

Footage taken by a surveillance camera from a home in Albert County shows a man throwing liquid from a gasoline container onto a building and then lighting it on fire.

Mysterious fires and shots have been seen and heard in the community and police are turning to the latest in technology to capture the criminals.

Police hope that by posting on a site like YouTube, the video can be seen by many different people in hopes that someone will recognize the man.

Ground Zero, a place where people can grieve As of September 11, 2001, the site where the New York Twin Towers once stood became known to the world as Ground Zero.

Even today, the 16 acre hole in the ground surrounded by ruins and rubble is a must-see site on every tourist’s visit to New York City.

In 2006 alone, more than 5.6M people visited the site, and that number is expected to double once the memorial and museum are created by 2010.

Visiting a site like this is now known as “grief tourism,” a relatively new term to describe traveling to a place where there were terrible or tragic events.

rUNBuddies bowl for a cure Money raised from the bowl-a-thon goes toward the CIBC Run for the Cure

by Tony von Richter

The Kingswood bowling lanes are usually busy on Friday nights with people coming to relax and have some fun, but this past Friday, people were bowling not only for fun, but for a cure.

The rUNBuddies, UNB's entry in the CIBC Run for the Cure, held the first Pink Bowl-a-Thon at Kingswood on Friday night and according to team captain Nicola Cassidy, the event was a huge success, with more than 32 participants raising over $3,100 for the Run, scheduled for October 5. The event's top fundraisers were Nancy Spencer and Mary MacKeracher.

Cassidy credits much of the event's success to team organizer Trish Eagan.

"She outdid herself by gathering a staggering amount of prizes, including an iPod, and everyone went home

with something," said Cassidy, praising Eagan.

Although the team participated and raised funds with the Varsity Reds Pink Basketball Game and the Lady Dunn fashion show, this is the first official event for the group this year and they hope to hold ten fundraising events prior to October's run to commemorate this being the tenth anniversary of the Fredericton run site.

While Fredericton has had a site for Run for the Cure for the past ten years, this will be the third year for the rUNBuddies team as they were only formed in 2006 when Cassidy and Heather Smith decided to try to merge UNB's teams and fundraising efforts into one large team.

The result of their efforts was the rUNBuddies team, which has had over 150 members for each of the two runs they have participated in and has raised over $49,000 so far. In fact, the fundraising efforts of the team earned them the 2006 and 2007 CIBC Corporate Spirit Award for raising the most money in the corporate team category.

Cassidy explains the mandate of the team is to raise funds for the fight against breast cancer and raise aware-

ness of UNB's commitment to help in this fight.

The fight against breast cancer is important to the rUNBuddies team for numerous reasons.

"1 in 8 women in Atlantic Canada are diagnosed each year and that statistic is too high to ignore," says Cassidy.

"Many team members have had either a personal experience with the disease or their friends and family have. We have several survivors who are the reason we do what we do."

The next official event for the team will be this April when team members will take part in a massive bottle drive.

The team is looking for residences and students that would like to participate or even donate their empty bottles.

Before the bottle drive, individual team members will be hosting their own fundraisers such as bake, craft, and ice cream sales, and one team member is making stained glass dream catchers with part of the proceeds going to support the team's fundraising efforts.

For more information on the rUNBuddies and their upcoming events or for information on how to join the team, check out the team's website at www. runbuddies.unbf.ca.

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One year ago: How Aitken House saved itself Brian Beaudette discusses the last hectic year at Aitken House, which was put on the chopping block last February

by Josh O’Kane A year ago last week, the proctors of Aitken House found out there would be no more Aitken House to proctor.

By that Saturday night, at the house formal, word had spread to many house residents. Sunday evening, the residents held a pep rally with students from across campus as well as alumni, protesting the proposed closure of Aitken at the end of the school year.

In an interview with The Brunswickan that Monday, February 26, 2007, James Brown stated that for the upcoming school year, “At a minimum, I have to close two residences.”

With Jones already closed at that point, he needed to pick a second one.

The idea was proposed that the other choice should be based on proximity to existing office buildings, in such a manner that it would become the new home to Student Services.

The residence that best fit those needs was Aitken House.

Residence enrollment has declined in recent years, prompting such closures in order to recoup the $90,000 a year it takes to run a building.

Jones House was closed temporarily for such reasons in June 2006, and was officially rededicated to become UNB’s new Student Services building in September 2007.

If it weren’t for the fight put up

by Aitken’s residents, alumni, and friends, that Student Services building could have been Aitken.

That fight put a lot of pressure on Brian Beaudette, who had just been elected as house president. The day after the house formal, he was alerted

Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan

Brian ‘Trooper’ Beaudette, left, recently passed Aitken’s presidential reigns to Simon Pearn. by some friends from Lady Dunn Hall that his house was to be closed.

“I didn’t believe them at all,” says Beaudette. “I ran home to my don’s room. He was sitting on his chair. I asked what was going on and he acted like he didn’t know. I asked for the real story, and he told me about James Brown’s plan. I said, ‘What can I do?’

He said, ‘do what you can do.’”

That day, Aitken representatives went to every house, gathering supporters for a pep rally to be held that evening. They then held a meeting with James Brown at McConnell, who explained the situation.

Brown said last year that he left the meeting willing to revisit his de-

cision. However, budgets continued to be drafted that left one building closed, and the house was left with few answers.

“We organized a team of students and alumni alike to combat against it and do everything we could do to stay open,” says Beaudette of the next step. “We had a few conference calls with the alumni and came up with ideas. We approached James Brown personally about the situation.

“He was very open about it and gave his side of the story, but it looked like they weren’t going anywhere from there.”

Beaudette says he saw a ray of light after meeting with Brown, Angelo

Belcastro (then VP Academic), and Jane Fritz (then Associate VP, now Acting VP Academic). Evan Green, the outgoing president of Aitken, as well as Beaudette, stayed in Fredericton over their March Break for the meeting. Fritz’s reaction was largely positive, says Beaudette, but there still appeared to be many hurdles ahead.

There were times during that winter term where spirits were low, he says.

“We always do a house picture at the awards ceremony,” he explains.

“No one was smiling.”

A UNB Board of Governors meeting was held on the last day of classes.

Though no answer was given before

Sustainability at UNB: Studentspromotefiresafety Reality or pipe-dream? in off-campus housing

by Becky Graham, Marc Girard, Melissa Fulton Sustainability: A buzz word, or an achievable goal for UNB? Before we tackle that quagmire, we ought to develop a functional definition of sustainability. For the sake of brevity, let’s just say that sustainability at UNB would mean reaching a state where our practices are neutral, causing no negative consequences to the environment around us and where we are leaving no ecological footprint (since we're already on the buzz word bandwagon). Now that we’re all on the same page, another question presents itself. Why is it important? Well, in case David Suzuki’s voice hasn’t found its way into your head yet (trust us, it’s unsettling), we’ll give you a few quick facts. The arctic ice is declining (bad news for our polar bear friends) and could see its first entirely ice-free summer by 2040. And it’s not only the coke commercial celebrities that are in trouble; more than a million species face extinction as a result of climate change and the consequent loss and change of habitat and ecosystems. From a human perspective, roughly 100M people live within three feet of sea level and can already attest to the devastating effects of climate change.

These are daunting challenges to say the least, and it's easy to be overwhelmed, but we have a sneaking suspicion that the UNB community has a little more gumption than that. Based on facts presented in a campus sustainability audit, presented in 2004, there are plenty of improvements we can make starting right here on campus. For example, as of 2004, UNB did not purchase any paper with recycled materials. This is a problem since paper use is expected to increase 50% by 2010. Milk is the only local food product offered on campus, meaning that everything else fol-

lows a food transportation chain requiring huge amounts of fossil fuels. In 2002-03, only 3.9% of the approximately 160 kg of waste produced per campus community member was recycled. These aren’t the actions of the informed and active campus community we've seen that can push a bed from Saint John to Fredericton or polish everything in our fair city until it shines for a worthy cause.

Greening UNB is nevertheless a huge challenge. Thankfully, there are plenty of us who enjoy a good challenge. The ENVS 4002 class is designing a campus sustainability plan. We, the authors of this article, are part of that class. Our role is to engage the community while our other classmates work on more tangible issues like energy, water, waste, and food management.

Our collective mission is to make UNB sustainable, as defined above.

Concordia, Waterloo, and other campuses may be well ahead of us, but UNB sits in a unique position to make significant advances. We have a city that wants to go green, wonderful natural resources by any urban standard, an Environment and Sustainable Development Research Centre on campus, and many community members who are willing to work at this common goal.

We are inviting you to help by sending us an e-mail at engage@ unb.ca or by joining our Facebook group, “University of New Brunswick Fredericton Campus Sustainability Project” and speak your mind. Let us know how you think UNB could become more sustainable.

The academic community is aware of the plight of nature, and understands the importance of supporting those institutions that have chosen the path of sustainability. In addition, the degrees we all plan to carry will command that much more respect coming from a leading university in modern issues, as opposed to one lagging behind.

by Sufi Mohamed The Brock Press (Brock University) ST. CATHARINE’S (CUP) -- Fire safety in students’ off-campus housing has become a serious concern for many students.

Brad Clarke, Brock University Students’ Union’s Off-Campus Housing Officer, has teamed up with the town’s Chief Fire Prevention Officer, Jim Waycik, to try and bring some awareness to the issue.

Both agree that students looking for off-campus housing need to have easily accessible fire prevention information.

Clarke and Waycik both have a number of different resources at their fingertips and together hope to offer students some helpful tips to avoid having their homes burn down.

According to Waycik, residential fires are the most common type of fire, so fire safety is an important life skill that a lot of students are lacking.

"It is extremely important. Young people are careless and get a little carried away," said Caron McIntyre a student at Brock University.

According to the Office of the Fire Marshall, "Cooking is the number one cause of home fires in Ontario and it could be as simple as leaving a pot on the stove."

Waycik said that candles top the list when it comes to endangering homes.

Fires may erupt spontaneously and "should be kept one metre away from any combustibles."

When cigarette butts are left unat-

tended, they can become hazardous when the ashes, still burning, lie on the ground. It is highly recommended that students use ashtrays and keep an eye on any fallen ashes.

Electrical equipment and the electrical wiring of the home may also pose a serious fire hazard. Waycik said that homes with certified and qualified electrical wiring have safety codes that provide details about fire safety. Homes without such codes present the risk of unwanted sparks.

Space heaters are also prone to accidents involving combustibles and easily enflamed objects such as furniture, curtains, and paper. Waycik suggested that keeping space heaters one meter away from any of the aforementioned materials.

Social gatherings, he added, are notorious for getting out of control. According to the Office of the Fire Marshall, the host must "encourage guests to smoke outside" and not light any candles anywhere at any time in a party.

Smoke alarms are the most important feature in a home in preventing fires and they should be checked regularly.

According to Waycik, everyone living in the home should make two fire escape routes and practice them.

If students don’t feel that a house is fire-compliant, Clarke noted, there is nobody forcing them to move in.

There is a "consistent over-supply of off-campus housing," said Clarke.

"Supply definitely exceeds the demands.

Students shouldn't feel pressured to take housing if it is unsafe. They should look for a place they're happy with."

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Smoke alarms are the most important part of domestic fire prevention.

then, Aitken was given 15 minutes to make their case before the Board.

That morning, a march-up was organized, where the men of Aitken and companions from Lady Dunn, Tibbits, and Harrison headed to the Wu Conference Centre and welcomed the members of the Board with handshakes and warm greetings.

Two alumni, as well as Beaudette, made their case to the Board that day.

Beaudette says that once the presentation was made, John McLaughlin stepped forward and spoke to say that Aitken would remain open for another year, on the grounds that the campus would be surveyed later to determine the best location for a

Student Services building.

Jessica Stutt, SU President at the time, broke him the news after he left. Beaudette could hardly keep his composure.

“I don’t drink,” he says, “but I told the boys that would drink a beer if we were open... I walked back over to the guys with Artigas [Cruz], and there was a whole group of them around us.

I looked over at Phil [Nelson], who I had made the deal with. I said ‘Phil, go get me my beer.’

“The guys went nuts.”

“No one wanted to go out to the club; they all wanted to spend the time in the house reflecting on the entire year. That was one of the highlights of my life, and for a lot of peoples’ lives.”

The good news did not end there: James Brown stated in a September issue of The Brunswickan that Aitken House would remain open next year, removing the fear that the house’s deal was only a year long.

Regardless of guarantee, Beaudette says that Aitken has since been striving to show their positive influence on the community.

“When we came back, we knew we were coming back. We were looking forward to frosh week big time; we wanted to make a good impression to the university and the community, and trying to get rid of bad stereotypes. We came back in frosh week, and we were off to a good start. We won Shinerama, we won the Amazing Race. We had the frosh really into the house, and they knew about the situation that had happened prior.”

Beaudette has just passed the presidential reigns to Simon Pearn, who will see Aitken into its 2008-09 year.

His tenure in the house is not over yet, though – he has been selected to return to the Aitken next year as a proctor.

Aitken House celebrated its 50th anniversary last month, and looks forward to an ongoing position in the UNB residence community..

“It’s been 50 years in the making,” says Beaudette. “Here’s to 50 more.”

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Rolling up the rim for success Former Tim Hortons’ Director of Marketing reveals the story behind the company’s accomplishments

by Tony von Richter

In the annals of Canadian business, few firms have transcended their nature of simple corporations to become a part of Canadian culture. Tim Hortons was one of those success stories, and the company's former Director of Marketing, Ron Buist, was in Fredericton last Thursday to speak at the Canadian National Institute of the Blind's Vision Dinner fundraising event.

While serving as the Director of Marketing for 24 years would be impressive enough on its own, Buist has another item on his résumé that's just Tony von Richter / The Brunswickan as impressive.

Buist was the keynote speaker for the CNIB’s Vision Dinner at the Fredericton Inn this past Thursday.

He invented the “Roll Up the Rim” that you usually win something. People I've ever known." According to Buist, said to me once 'Ron, that idea you've campaign.

Buist says the idea came to him after like that, that you have an opportunity Joyce's greatest strengths are his vision, got is one of the dumbest ideas I've ever a trip to the printers when he found out to win something. The famous line is foresight, and his ability to motivate his heard. I'll take 500 of them and give it a try,'" says Buist. he could print under the blank rim at the 'I never win anything; all I ever win is employees. a …,' but you win something. It's very "He's a good motivator. He's a perThat willingness to try new ideas top of the coffee cup.

"It's something rather unique I guess, easy to play, there's no difficulty to it, son who motivates by making sure it's could be one of the reasons why the never been done before," says Buist. and I defy you to hold the cup in your worthwhile working with the company; company became so he takes pride in it. Takes considerable well ingrained into "I was looking at the manufacturer of hand and not roll it up."

Buist says the promotion wasn't pride in the storeowners and one of the Canadians' collecpaper cups to try and come up with some idea of a contest and something intended to become the visible part of things he teaches you is really they're the tive consciousness. that wouldn't double the cost of the Canadian culture that it has, rather it ones that make the company work and However, Buist paper. Roll Up worked that, because all was started because the company had he's quite right. Without their coopera- thinks there is anwe had to do was change the printing three goals in mind. "One was to reward tion, there just wouldn't be a Tim Hor- other reason.

"I think what happlates, change the message, and we could our current customer base, second was tons, so it worked very well for us."

Many credit Joyce and Buist for tak- pened was because they print underneath the rim of the cup. It's to be able to attract new customers, so basic that I had thought someone else and the third was to be able to increase ing Tim Hortons from the mere 79 started with so little fiwould have thought of it, but nobody sales of the product, which in this case stores when Buist started in 1977 to nancially. Initially they'd over 2,000 when he retired in 2001, take the money from one else had by that point. Just roll up the was coffee."

Although he has found fame for but he's quick to point to the often over- store and roll it back into rim, there’s an answer underneath and creating the Roll Up campaign and looked real estate department headed up getting another one started. away you go."

To keep the costs down they It is this type of story that led CNIB serving as the Director of Marketing by Henry Svazas. for Tim Hortons, Once Svazas acquired the real estate, opened up in smaller areas, to ask Buist to speak at their events last week.

“It’s nice to Buist didn't actu- Joyce would go out and find the fran- like smaller cities and towns. ally begin his career chises and then Buist would step in and That meant they had a pres"We thought he had be a Symbol with the company, the company would begin to develop the ence in communities where an interesting story of Canadian as he was working Tim Hortons brand in that market. some of the most exciting to tell about a prodwith Black's CamBuist explained the branding strategy things that happened was uct and how it was pride, but I era Stores when he by saying that rather than going out and a Tim Hortons donut shop developed and how it’s become a cultural don’t think I became aware of the blitzing the marketplace with advertis- being open in the middle of icon," said Duncan can say from position through an ing to generate as much awareness and the night." article in Marketing interest as possible, the Tim Hortons "When the company grew Williams, Service and my side of magazine. product had to be refined and work- and they could afford to go Operations Director of After reading the ing within the stores before customers into higher cost real estate Nova Scotia, PEI, and the desk that article, Buist called flooded in and experienced it for the (when they could afford to go New Brunswick for there was the company and first time. into the bigger cities), usually CNIB. "We thought According to Buist, the real reason for what happened was the kids that the business commu- ever any real was hired within three weeks – not the rise of Tim Hortons wasn't due to grew up with Hortons were also nities in Fredericton, ‘let’s hang with a contract or the efforts of himself, Joyce, or Svazas; going into the cities, so it drove Moncton, and Saint the flag on a complicated ne- it was the individual store owners that it that way."

John would really like "I think that's what it is, it's nice an opportunity to hear this.’ What we gotiation or hiring made the difference.

"One of the reasons for the great suc- to be a symbol of Canadian pride, his story and hear the wanted to do process, but with a handshake from the cess of Tim Hortons is that it's not just but I don't think I can say from my Tim Hortons story." was eat and head of the com- a matter of coming up with ideas, it's a side of the desk that there was ever Buist found the arrangement with CNIB sell product.” pany himself, Ron matter of it being accepted by the store any real 'let's hang the flag on this.'

Joyce. owners. That's your key. Ron Joyce had What we wanted to do was eat and somewhat ironic as, - Ron Buist "It was on a the talent to get the storeowners really sell product." unbeknownst to the handshake. Ron working with him. That's what makes Since retiring in 2001, Buist has current staff, he used to record books on tape for the organiza- met with some of the other fellows on it work, because it was the store owners written a best-selling book (Tales staff and talked about me, came out who pushed to get things done, had the from Under the Rim: The Markettion years ago. ing of Tim Hortons) and now is a About to enter its 22nd year, Buist from the meeting, put out his hand, interest in them."

That relationship with the store own- member of the National Speakers credits the longevity and success of the and said welcome to Tim Hortons. That Roll Up promotion to its ease of entry started a 24-year career. We had faith in ers was so strong that many were willing Bureau. each other I guess." to utilize ideas and concepts that they While Thursday's speaking engageand the high odds of winning.

That faith is still evident today as didn't necessarily agree with. ment is what brought him to Frederic"It's a very interesting promotion.

"I think one of the best compliments ton, he admittedly has a soft spot for the One of the main reasons it succeeds, Buist calls Joyce "remarkable" and which sometimes people overlook, is "one of the most astute businessmen I've ever had was one storeowner that city, as local publisher Goose Lane Ad-

ditions released his book. He says that jumped up on my luggage cart, turned over the years with Tim Hortons, he has the luggage all around and helped me fallen in love with Atlantic Canada, and get it out of the door.”

“That’s something you can’t buy: the believes that it's the Atlantic Ocean that people of the east coast I find are very unites the region.

"The ocean is the common thread. great. My family immigrated to this If you have something go wrong, country in 1834 and they happened to immigrate to Nova like a horrific plane crash that happens “I think one Scotia, so I’ve kind of taken over their tartan in Eastern Canada, of the best and like it,” said Buist. everybody stops, It's clear when speakthey open their compliments ing with Buist that he doors, they open I’ve ever remembers his time their fridges, they had was one with Tim Hortons say 'take my home, take my house – it's store owner fondly, and is thankful for the opportunity to yours.' They don't that said work for the company lock the doors, they agreed to so many years just invite people in. to me once ago on a handshake That is a unique ‘Ron, that with Ron Joyce. It's thing. Very, very idea you’ve also clear that even unique."

Buist said that he got is one of though he and Joyce are at times largely credexperienced a fracthe dumbest ited with the rise of tion of this Eastern Canadian hospitali- ideas I’ve ever the company, Buist has another theory. ty first hand during heard. I’ll "To my mind, the last week’s speaking take 500 of secret of Hortons has tour. them and give been the cohesiveness of franchisees and man“I was checkit a try.’” agement. We work toing into one of the gether. It never was hotels here. It was - Ron Buist an ‘us or them’ thing. one of those single We worked together, doors that swung open and my luggage got stuck in the and made an awful difference. It really door. A man of about my age was going has.” the other way, put everything down,

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UNBSU VOTES 2008 Presidential Candidate Interviews

vote feb. 24-29 in your e-services

Artigas Cruz for president

I have a passionate for it. I’m graduating in April; I’m coming back for a sixth year because I love this school. I have years of experience. I’ve been on House Committee, I’ve been President of Aitken, Science Rep. on the Student Union Council, and this year I’m the Eco Commissioner.

I’ve been involved, I know the people. I know the issues and I know what goes on. I have the skills to make the Student Union relevant to students again.

2. What are your top priorities?

Number one, and I’ve said this before, is communication.

Students don’t seem to care and you can see it in voter turnout. No one votes because they don’t know what the Student Union does. It’s a sad fact because the Union does so much for students and it’s time that students know that. So my number one priority is to get our message out to students, and making them realize what we do for them. Another issue that is close and interrelated is UNB pride. We’re Black and Red; everyone should be proud to be Black and Red. Proud to be a UNB grad. We have amazing school programs, amazing professors, amazing sports, and amazing clubs and societies. There has got to be some pride behind that.

3.What are your goals for next year?

One of my first goals that I’d like to have done before the summer is having a clear definition for each Student Union position laid out. Each position then knows what they have to do, and what they should do. It will help to make each position more relevant. I want to take the summer to really work on the plan for next year, including our advertising and communications plan, making sure we have a plan to get our message out. I want to have better interaction with students.

Next year I want to see more charity events. I read today that one quarter of the Fredericton population are students.

We’re a huge chunk, and I want to raise our profile.

4. One of the complaints about the Union is that it is all talk and no action. What is your plan to remedy that?

That comes down to a leadership thing. I’m not saying people in past leadership positions were bad - they’ve been very good. I think they’re amazing. I’m a good leader; I’m very good at getting people involved. I love to meet people and talk to people. My personality and my style is out there.

One of my goals this summer is to come up with a plan so when students get here, everything is in their face. I want the Union to be in their face.

5. What makes you different?

If you asked 100 people that question you’d get 100 different answers. Have you ever seen the commercials that are entirely black and white and there is that one yellow balloon, or the one red leaf? I want to be the yellow balloon or the red leaf. I don’t want to be black and white. I want to stand out, above and beyond. I am determined and relentless in what I do and what I want to achieve.

vote feb. 24-29 in your e-services

for president

1. Why should you be President?

One of the main things that I think needs to happen is that we really need to begin earlier and that's what I've been saying all along. If I'm elected, I'm going to begin on March 1. What I found this year is that a lot of people had a lot of great ideas and a lot of people had a lot of great goals that they wanted to do, but I found it was very individual and that there wasn't really a cohesiveness amongst the Student Union as a whole. My number one priority is to start right away, start on March 1. What I mean by “start” is to start talking with the other councilors, the other people who are elected, and really get them engaged and really get their ideas and create a vision together for the Student Union.

2. What are your top priorities?

To really engage the student population, and that's by a number of different means. That's by, as I said, getting the councilors involved and getting them knowing what they need to do early. Also, I'd really like to find a form of media to communicate with the students.

3. What are your goals for next year?

I really believe the Student Union needs to have a vision and long-term goals and this isn't something that I plan on creating all by myself. That's why I'm talking about beginning on March 1 and getting the other executives that are elected together, getting the new council members together, and collectively everybody create a vision and a goal, and long-term for the Student Union. I don't believe it should be from the top down.

4. One of the complaints about the Union is that it is all talk and no action. What is your plan to remedy that?

Starting on March 1, by actually starting to get things done as soon as you are elected, by having those two full months of transition so that by May 1, everything is in place and you already know everything, instead of starting your transition on May 1 as has happened in the past. Then we can actually do things and get things done. I know that people have the best of intentions when they get elected to get things done, but they don't know how to properly implement it and they don't know how to organize their ideas. I believe that I already have a plan to do this so that next year, we'll be able to get things done – like bring in concerts and engage students.

5. What makes you different?

I think there's a number of things that makes me different.

I am very passionate about this university and this has been probably the best time of my life; working for the students and being able to see the impact and the positive impact of what I've been doing for students for the past few years. For example with the Book Buy-and-Sell, this year with the help of the volunteers and the workers, we raised the amount of money back into students’ hands from $20,000 to $60,000 and that was just absolutely amazing, and the great feedback that students have given me. One girl told me she dropped off 21 books and she sold them all and she made over $600.

She said that she never would have been able to do that by herself. Stories like that inspire me and keep me going.

UNBSU VOTES 2008

1. Why should you be President?

Bethany Vail

February 27 • 2008

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Comments & Letters My ballot for change The Bruns editor picks her candidate

by Jennifer McKenzie I’ve been at UNB for five years now. I spent a couple of years involved with the Student Union, and now I’m the Editor-in-Chief at The Brunswickan.

After a few years of Student Union executives just meeting the status quo, I think that UNB needs change. Students, like me, are eager for someone to shake things up.

I wholeheartedly believe that Bethany

Vail is a competent, experienced individual who would do very well as Student Union President. She would maintain the workings of the current Union, and I think she could even improve upon it.

Bethany would, without question, make a good Student Union President.

But Bethany isn’t the difference-maker the Union – and the students – need.

For that reason, I am supporting Artigas Cruz in the Student Union election.

Simply put, Artigas Cruz is real.

He isn’t like anything the Union has seen recently and possibly ever. He is loud, boisterous, and at times, a little out of control. You can always pick him out of a crowd, and if you can’t, he’ll surely find a way to introduce himself.

Artigas will bring a new level of

excitement to a Union and a university that desperately need it. He will get students involved and breathe life into this campus.

Artigas represents change – and that is exactly what the Student Union needs right now.

UNB students are now faced with a great opportunity. This is a can’t lose election, with two fantastic candidates.

One will maintain the status quo. The other will set new standards of what UNB is, and could be.

If you are among the many who want to be excited about this campus, I urge you to cast your ballot for Artigas Cruz.

He is, without a doubt, the best man for the job.

The old man rant an opinion from Dave Evans

There are some times in life when having a choice can be good. Like when I go to the drug store for a bottle of Pepto-Bismol and remember I’m too cheap to buy the brand name stuff, so I buy the stuff that’s a buck cheaper and has the suspicious foreign language on it. But there’s also a time when having too much choice becomes a damn hassle. Like when I go to Subway, and they ask me a million different questions about how I want my sub made. I mean, come on, I didn’t expect the Spanish Inquisition. Back in my day, you went to Subway and the only options you had were mayo or mustard, and white or whole wheat bread. Why the hell would I want all those useless spices on my sandwich? And if I wanted some sort of fancy super-bread, I’d go to a real deli, where the bread is always soft. If a company’s slogan is “eat fresh”, I shouldn’t have to get bread that’s always hard and crusty on the ends. I heard that Subway was started by a kid in university; looks like he must have majored in complete horseshit.

Stanford has the right idea on student debt Mugwump by Tony von Richter

Recent announcement to remove tuition for certain students is a great step forward

Tuition: We all hate paying it and just about everyone agrees that it's far too high (and unfortunately not coming down anytime soon) but everyone accepts it as sort of a necessary evil, something that's required if a university is to function.

Even though everyone accepts it, tuition obviously acts as an entrance barrier, something that restricts interested and qualified students from attending university as they cannot afford it. Recently, the government has tried to ease the financial burden of students by eliminating the parental contribution from student loans, providing $2,000 to first-year students and providing $10,000 for university graduates still working in New Brunswick after five years.

It's great that the government is trying to allow more prospective students to enroll in university, but even with their attempts to ease student debt there is still a long way to go, and many people still cannot afford to attend a post-secondary institution.

However, last week, California's Stanford University announced a plan that is a huge step forward for

increasing accessibility of a post- accessible. secondary education by dropping Of course, there is opposition to tuition requirements for students the new program with critics calling with household incomes of less it a "handout" and claiming that than $100,000 and also dropping rather than allowing more people room and board for students with to get a university education, it household incomes of less than will lead people to do just the op$60,000. posite and try and stay under the Some have suggested that the $100,000 limit imposed by the plan is simply because the univer- program in order to earn free tusity posted ition. a 22% in- “We are committed While I cercrease in tainly don't to ensuring their enagree that this that Stanford dowment program is a asks parents fund (which handout I can now totals see the reaand students to $17.1B) as soning behind contribute only such a statesuch a large fund may ment, howwhat they can have resultever it doesn't afford. No high ed in calls make any sense school senior from politithat a family cians to rewould intenshould rule duce tuition tionally lower out applying to costs. their earnNo matStanford because ings in order ter the reato get free tuof cost.” son for this ition, especially new initia- – John Hennessy when gaining tive, it is a Stanford University President entrance to an great thing elite school for stusuch as Standents. Stanford President John ford is extremely difficult, no matter Hennessy has an attitude that the financial costs associated. should be shared by all university In an ideal world, we would have administrations when he said, "We a post-secondary education system are committed to ensuring that similar to some European nations Stanford asks parents and students in that schools charge no tuition for to contribute only what they can af- their services, however I don't see ford. No high school senior should that happening in North America rule out applying to Stanford be- for a long time to come, if ever. cause of cost."

What Stanford's plan should As great as it is, Stanford's plan accomplish is it will make more isn't perfect as it only applies to un- universities try and create innovadergraduate students (which make tive ways to decrease student debt up less than 50% of the university's and permit more students to attend student population), but hopefully university. their new program will force other Is it likely to happen? No, but schools with comparable budgets to innovation and change have to start adopt similar programs and make somewhere and what better place a university education even more then right here at UNB?

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Academic Pitfalls: Who to turn to Bethany’s Briefing by Bethany Vail VP Academic

Our four year journey through this university experience is often filled with ups and downs. Most come to university for more than just academic reasons.

Students come here for life experience, to be on a sports team, to break out of the high school mould, and for many other reasons. But even the most studious and academically minded of us can run across academic pitfalls as a result of circumstances beyond our control.

As I have written previously, I serve on the Senate Student Standings and Promotions Committee (SS&P), where academic offence and appeal cases are heard from students. Recently, I was surprised to hear a graduating student say they had never heard of an exam deferral before. The process to obtain help does exist at UNB, but it is not always clear to students where to turn when one of those pitfalls pops up along your academic journey.

There are many crises that can arise during a student’s time at UNB. Perhaps an unforeseen illness causes you to miss classes for a prolonged period of time, causing you to miss assignments, midterms, or even exams. Maybe you got a midterm result that you felt was marked unfairly? Or perhaps you were even reported for cheating on a midterm or plagiarizing a term paper? In any of these cases, what do you do?

For exam deferrals, you will be directed to the Registrar’s Office, where a medical note will be required. You should also notify your professor, or ask the Student Advocate, Wilfred Lang-

maid (langmaid@unb.ca) to do so for you. For appeals and academic offence cases, you will most likely need to build a case that will go before SS&P. In any case, the first two points of contact for a student who is in an academic crisis is either the Student Union Vice President Academic (currently myself), or Wilfred.

The information you will be given will essentially be the same, but it depends on individual preference.

Wilfred has worked with Student Affairs and Services on campus for eight years and knows the procedures from the Undergraduate Student Calendar very well. He is a great asset to students in guiding them through the process of an appeal. It is not necessary but it is highly recommended that a student work with the Student Advocate to present their case to SS&P. If you would like to hear the information and perspective from a peer, you are more than welcome to seek the aid of the Student Union Vice President Academic. Your information is kept confidential and you have the advantage of speaking to a student who has seen cases on the committee and knows what you need in order to present a solid case.

As listed in the Undergraduate Calendar, every student who has been reported as cheating has the right to defend against the allegation. Typically, with the aid of the Student Advocate, a student will write a letter to SS&P outlining their perspective of the events of the reported academic offence. They will then have the chance to appear in front of the committee to explain further and answer any questions. The committee then decides whether the reported academic offence is valid. If it is, subsequent repercussions follow, as determined by the committee working within the calendar regulations.

Students also have the right to appeal grades for pieces of work or final grades for a course. You may also appeal if you are about to be asked to withdraw from the university due to a GPA of lower than 1.0 in any given year or less than 2.0 for any two years. (You are placed on academic probation for one year if your GPA falls below 2.0.) Grounds for

appeal includes medical illness, compassionate reasons, and other extenuating circumstances beyond your control.

Medical illnesses include extended illness, hospitalizations, documented learning disabilities, and more. Compassionate grounds pertain to other reasons such as a death in the family, severely disruptive relationship difficulties, and others.

In order to submit these “standing” appeals, the committee requires that the student write a letter with a detailed explanation that sets out the grounds for the appeal. Supporting documentation will normally be required. For example, a letter from your family doctor detailing your prolonged illness would be considered primary documentation, which is usually considered the most legitimate. A letter from a parent detailing the same would be considered secondary documentation, but might carry less weight. The letter from the student must clearly dictate what remedy the student seeks. For example, if you are about to be asked to withdraw from the university due to a GPA that consistently falls below 2.0, the remedy request will most likely be permission to stay at UNB on academic probation for another year. With regards to appeals on grades, a student may ask for a remedy of a “W” to appear on their transcript (if they have not yet finished all of the course work, including the final exam) or the # (“pound”) notation (if they have completed all of the course work when submitted the appeal).

A more detailed explanation of student appeals can be found in the Undergraduate Calendar. Another terrific resource for students is the Student Advocate’s website, which is found under the Student Affairs and Services page (http://www.unbf.ca/studentservices/ studentadvocate/index.html). It clearly outlines the steps that students should take and puts them in direct contact with Wilfred. Students have many rights and remedies available to them in time of need, and only need to know where to look for the information or who to ask.

Hopefully now that is clearer.

Comics & Funnies What the Fur? - (CUP)

Tamara Hecht (Excal)

Geese - (CUP)

Eugene Belianski (Excal)

Lacking info on Polar Dip Dear Editors, ... I work downtown, and have a habit of picking up a copy of The Brunswickan on a regular basis. Today I looked at the issue for Feb. 20, and was interested in the lead story - about the Polar Dip. ... however, I have one quibble with the writer/reporter, and/or proof reader/editor. Nowhere in the story neither the cutline for the art nor in the copy - is the 'water' which was chosen for this event ever identified or located.

Is it an outdoor pool of some kind on campus? is it the St. John River? is it a pond on someone's private residence?

I couldn't tell from the photo, and the story didn't say. ... this is not a big deal for me, nor I suspect, for many others. But it is a big deal when it comes to news writing.

That kind of information should have been in the top paragraph, or at least in the top third of the pyramid (if that is the style of journalism you use). ... at any rate, I enjoy reading 'The Bruns' and wish you all the best for your future and that of the paper. david f watts

Fair Trade Coffee Dear Editor, Just a quick note to let your readers know that there is in fact a second location on campus offering Fair Trade coffee. The Graduate Student Association's beloved Windsor Castle Bar located in Alden Nowlan House at 676 Windsor St. (behind the UNB Bookstore) offers a variety of Fair Trade brews as well as more traditional alcoholic beverages.

Never been there? Why not drop by and cozy on up to a cold one. Just tell the bartenders I sent you, they'll treat you right.

Sincerely, Carl Burgess

Prime Time Gym Hours Dear Editor: As a student at UNB, there’s a good chance you’ve been to the UNB gym at one time or another. Like myself, you’ve probably experienced a time where you were refused entrance, or asked to leave in the middle of a workout, because “Prime Time” hours were in effect. I don’t know what the rest of you think, but I believe that for the amount of money we pay to go to this school, we should be able to use the gym during all operational hours without paying additional fees. The other day, in the middle of an intense workout, and I noticed one of the gym desk employees walk into the room. I thought she was

just coming to check out the gym and make sure everything was all right, but right after I finished a set she approached me. She informed me that because of the ‘Happy Hearts’ program about to take place, I had to leave. To say the least, I was frustrated, and expressed this to her. As I was leaving the gym and observing the people walking in, it was obvious that the Happy Hearts program was for seniors. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a big fan of seeing people of all ages going to the gym and putting the effort in to stay fit, and I understand that they are paying members. But let me ask you this: why couldn’t I have shared the gym with them? I don’t believe there should

be set times for any specific activity. We should be able to use the gym when we have the time during the day, and not have to wait for a designated time to do so. Like most students, I’m pressed for time and money, and I don’t want to pay for a prime time pass when access shouldn’t be limited to certain members during certain hours. As a busy student, I find I have very little time to even get to the gym on a regular schedule on top of class, homework, and a part time job; waiting for prime time and other programs to end is just time I don’t have. As a body builder, this is a problem I’ve consistently had for that past few years. In order to reach my goals, I need to work out daily, but I’ve found it’s becoming increasingly difficult to do so. I would just like someone to explain to me why the gym isn’t accessible to all students, for no extra fees, during all operational hours. Or at least, what benefits Prime Time offers to students and gym frequenters, because I surely can’t see any.

Mike Miller

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question, make it a good one

by Bernard Rudny, The McGill Daily (McGill University) MONTREAL (CUP) -- As a person whose most spiritual act of the day is muttering “Sweet Jesus, I need coffee,” I should've known the “If you could ask God one question, what would you ask?” posters around McGill weren’t intended for me. Still, that didn't stop me from pondering the question and then deciding to stop by the What Would You Ask? get-together with hopes of chatting with the big guy himself.

Before making my way down, I took a gander at the meeting's website to see just what were the common questions people ask. While some were incredibly profound, others were just as useless.

What’s the point of asking why bad things happen to good people? Even worse, why ask God if he’s a figment of your imagination? If you only get one question, you’re better off asking “Where can I get some half-decent pizza in Montreal?” By answering your question, God proves he’s real and as an added bonus you no longer have to

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eat the baked cardboard everyone serves in this city.

Asking God if he’s imaginary probably doesn’t make a great impression either. Good manners are important, especially when you’re talking to someone who smites on a regular basis and there are few worse ways to start a conversation than “Are you for real?”

So what’s the best strategy when posing questions to deities? Well, being omniscient means you know all the winning lottery numbers for this week, next week, and the week after that. If you don’t need financial advice, God can help you with your personal life.

Chatting up someone at the bar is so much easier when you're armed with the greatest pick-up line ever.

But I didn’t have the chance to ask any of these questions at the meeting.

Despite all the publicity, God was a no-show. Instead, he sent a man named Kirk Dunston who had plenty to say about his existence and the meaning of life, but completely ignored my request for stock tips. So even if there is a God, it looks like I’m on my own when it comes to paying back my student loans.

The

Question: What would you do for a Klondike bar?

Whatever is necessary Adam McDowell

Klondike bars are those ice creams right?

Christian Hapgood

Pay about $2.50 David Rabinovitch

Go streaking Davin St. Pierre

What wouldn’t I do?

Doug Estey

Lick the floor of The Cellar Keely Wallace

Ask Mike Vick to walk my dog Nic Pharo

Some of the girls in this bar Patrick Sharkey

I’d vote Danielle Tudor Scott Leslie

Dieting shouldn’t mean deprivation

by The Charlatan editorial staff The Charlatan (Carleton University) OTTAWA (CUP) -- The word diet seems to have unfortunately become synonymous with deprivation as restricting food intake has replaced the idea of getting healthy. A diet should mean eating smarter, not less.

Recent fads like Atkins and South Beach are appealing because they're easy, but they get people into the dangerous mindset that it's not what you eat that's important, it 's what you don’t. Instead of focusing on things you need to cut back on, the emphasis on controlling food intake should be on the nutrients you consume.

Fad diets are fads for a reason — they come and go because for the most part, they can’t stick for a long period of time.

In the short-term they can be effective, but in the long-run they can lead to yoyo dieting which is incredibly stressful on the body, especially the heart.

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V-Reds and Tommies lock horns

This Battle of the Hill is for a trip to the AUS finals

by Brian Munn

After waiting on the winners from the first round of the AUS playoffs, the UNB Varsity Reds and rival St. Thomas University Tommies are squaring off in what promises to be a heated series.

The reigning University Cup champion Varsity Reds, who have topped the CIS Men’s Hockey Top 10 rankings for all 15 weeks of the season, closed out the regular season in impressive and recordbreaking fashion when they became the first team to lead the national media poll from start to finish since the Alberta Golden Bears in 2003-04. They also set new AUS single-season records for most wins in a season with 26, and most points in a season with 53.

The Tommies reached the second round on the power of a decisive victory over St. FX in the best-of-3 quarterfinals, which STU wrapped up on Sunday night with a 4-0 win at the LBR. Matt Seymour had three points in the game, including two goals, while Matt Davis played brilliantly to shut down the X-Men offense. STU jumped out to a 1-0 series lead with an overtime win last Wednesday, before dropping a 4-2 decision in Antigonish on Friday.

The V-Reds swept the season series against the Tommies, highlighted by an 8-3 thrashing of STU on Halloween.

Over the four games this season, the Varsity Reds outscored their cross-campus rivals 21-9. Mike Ouzas picked up the victory in all four decisions.

This series marks the first time in over five seasons that the College Hill rivals will meet in the playoffs. And while UNB has dominated their competition all season, this is far from a sure-thing for the Varsity Reds. STU has played tough against UNB all season, holding the Reds to one-goal victories on two

occasions – a 3-2 shootout win on November 16, and a 4-3 win at the LBR late in the season.

The best-of-five series kicked off at the Aitken Centre last night, and will shift down the hill for a Friday night game at the LBR. Game three will go Sunday night at the Aitken Centre, while games four and five, if necessary, will go on Tuesday and Wednesday of next week.

The other semi-final series features the Université de Moncton Aigles Bleus, who swept the Acadia Axemen in the opening round of the playoffs, and the St. Mary’s Huskies, who had a first-round bye thanks to their secondplace finish.

For the second straight year, Nationals will be played at the Moncton Coliseum, which means that regardless of the outcome of that series, Moncton will have the host position at CIS Nationals.

The tournament kicks off on Thursday, March 20, and the semi-finals and finals will be broadcast on Rogers Sportsnet on March 22 and 23.

V-Reds Results Friday, February 22nd Women’s Hockey Moncton – 8 UNB – 1 Women’s Basketball Dalhousie – 54 UNB – 58 Men’s Basketball Dalhousie – 80 UNB – 71 Saturday, February 23rd Women’s Basketball Dalhousie – 64 UNB – 58 Men’s Basketball Dalhousie – 86 UNB – 78 Women’s Volleyball CBU – 1 UNB – 3 Men’s Volleyball Dalhousie – 3 UNB – 0

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The bad blood between STU and UNB is bound to boil over during the best-of-five series, the first playoff meeting between the teams since ‘03.

Road to Repeat:

Sunday, February 24th Women’s Volleyball SMU – 2 UNB – 3

Upcominig V-Reds Events Tournaments Women’s Volleyball CIS Championships February 28th – March 2nd @ UNB Women’s Basketball AUS Championships March 1st – 2nd @ Acadia

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Quarterfinals (Best of Three) Game 1: STU – 4, UNB – 3 (OT) Game 2: UNB – 4, STU – 2 Game 3: STU – 9, UNB – 3 STU wins series 2-1

Semifinals (Best of Three) Game 1: UNB – 8, STU – 5 Game 2: UNB – 4, STU – 3 (3OT) UNB wins series 2-0

Semifinals (Best of Three) Game 1: UNB – 4, STU – 2 Game 2: UNB – 5, STU – 4 UNB wins series 2-0

Semifinals (Best of Three) Game 1: STU – 6, UNB – 2 Game 2: UNB – 2, STU – 1 (OT) Game 3: UNB – 7, STU – 0 UNB wins series 2-1

Semifinals (Best of Three) Game 1: UNB – 5, UNB – 3 Game 2: STU – 2, UNB – 1 (OT) Game 3: UNB – 4, STU – 1 UNB wins series 2-1

Women’s volleyball major awards announced

by Hunter Gavin

With the AUS Women’s Volleyball Championships taking centre stage at St. Francis Xavier University, league coaches got together to select the major award winners and the conference allstar team.

Melanie Doucette, the Varsity Reds setter, has been named the Atlantic University Sport Most Valuable Player for the second time in her career. Doucette, a Fredericton native, led the conference in assists for the third consecutive season, averaging 10.05 assists per game, and appeared in all 79 sets this year for the V-Reds. The AUS Rookie of the Year

in 2004-05 and the league's MVP in 2005-06, Doucette was also named a first team all-star for the third time and was also a second team selection in her freshman year.

Doucette will now be considered for the CIS Player of the Year Award, which will be handed out in Fredericton on Wednesday night. No Atlantic player has received the award since 1981-82, when Dalhousie's Karen Massen won the award. Doucette and Carla Mason (1994-95) are the only previous UNB players to have won this award.

Other major award winners include Kerri Smit of the St. Mary’s Huskies, for Rookie of the Year; SMU's Christena MacRae, the 2007-08 Libero of the Year; and Université de Moncton’s Aigles Bleus Head Coach Monette Boudreau-Carroll, the 2007-08 Atlantic

conference women's volleyball Coach of the Year.

The Thérese Quigley Award nominee is Kristine Levesque from the Université de Moncton. Levesque, a fourth year middle blocker from Grand-Sault, NB, was last year's Atlantic University Sport Player of the Year and is a three-time conference all-star.

The Thérese Quigley Award is presented annually to one nominee from across the country that best represents the balance between athletics, academics, and community service.

“Kristine is a special athlete. Her dedication, work ethic, and her overwhelming desire to compete has made her an indispensable part of our team,” commented Head Coach Monette Boudreau-Carroll.

“She exemplifies all the outstanding

In a class of their own The Fifty Mission Cap by Brian Munn

Pretty much anyone who has played hockey in New Brunswick has heard, at some point in time, of Blacks Harbour.

It’s a poor fishing village on the Bay of Fundy, and is home to some of the most loyal hockey fans going.

But the reason they’ve heard of Blacks Harbour isn’t because of the fishing industry or the great crowds that pack the Fundy Arena every Saturday night for the Silverkings games.

People know about Blacks Harbour because it’s back woods. The fans are ignorant, and the players are classless.

Fans throw things at officials, and when opposing players are in the penalty box – which is often, thanks to the horrific refereeing – the fans will send their children to heckle the players.

Don’t believe me? Check out YouTube. But I’ve seen it.

In fact, I’ve lived it. I grew up playing hockey in Blacks Harbour. I learned to skate there, and made some of my best friends on that ice. But now, when people ask where I grew up, I’m embarrassed to tell them.

Until last night, I thought Blacks Harbour was in a class all it’s own. Then I checked out a Tommies game.

STU wrapped up their first-round victory over the St. FX X-Men on Sunday night with an impressive 4-0 victory. Matt Davis was spectacular for the Tommies, while Matt Seymour scored twice.

The win was fine, but the way the team carried themselves, holding a 3-0 lead in the third, made them look like jokes.

I’m not attempting to remove any

blame from St. FX, as a well-placed butt-end proves they deserve some.

And certainly, the referee was far from in control of the game.

But when your captain beats on the glass in the penalty box to provoke the other team, you’ve stepped beyond the competitive spirit. You’re classless.

Especially in the playoffs, discipline and sportsmanship are of the utmost importance. Holding a 3-0 lead late in the game and then having a player deliver a vicious “pitch-fork” spear to the opposing team demonstrates neither of those.

I’m not going to point fingers and say it’s the coaching, or that it’s any specific players. But as I watched the Tommies’ disgraceful win, I was embarrassed to be a STU alumnus.

Gritty play is fine – hard hits and scrums after whistles are part of the playoffs – but there’s a difference between grit and class. And if you play your home games at the LBR – as exemplified by the belligerent vagrants in the crowd – the latter is obviously not mandatory.

qualities this award represents. Her passion for excellence in the classroom and on the court makes her a great ambassador for our team, the university, and our conference.”

The UNB Varsity Reds highlighted the AUS First-Team All-Stars, with Doucette and Erica Hay of Sussex, NB, representing the AUS champions. Other all-stars include Moncton’s Kristine Levesque, Sasha Wilkins of Memorial, and SMU Huskies’ Ashley Wicks and Janesse Boudreau.

UNB’s Jill Blanchard, the 2006-07 AUS Rookie of the Year, leads the list of Second-Team All-Stars. She is joined on the squad by Chantal Richard and Rachelle LeBlanc of Moncton, Christie Estabrooks of Acadia, Brianne Walsh of Cape Breton, and Sarah Chalker of Memorial.

Wrestling CIS Championships March 1st – 2nd @ Calgary Friday, February 29th UNB @ STU 7:00pm @ LBR Sunday, March 2nd STU @ UNB 7:00 @ AUC Tuesday, March 4th UNB @ STU * 7:00 @ LBR (* if necessary) Wednesday, March 5th STU @ UNB* 7:00 @ AUC (* if necessary)

V-reds Athletes of the Week

Heidi Mouris Women’s Volleyball 5th Year BSc.Kin. Moncton, NB

Nick Cameron Photo courtesy of The V-Reds

UNB setter Melanie Doucette won her second Atlantic MVP award.

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Tony’s ticket adventure: Well worth the wait View From the Sidelines by Tony von Richter

The second the alarm went off, I began to have second thoughts.

It was 7 am, and I was waking up early to go stand outside in the cold with a bunch of people I didn't know.

But before I could really process what I was doing, I was up and ready to achieve

my noble task: Front-row wrestling tickets.

That's right, wrestling tickets.

As you may have heard, World Wrestling Entertainment is returning to New Brunswick after a five-year absence with shows in Moncton, Saint John, and Fredericton this May. So who would be willing to get up so ridiculously early on a Saturday to spend hours in sub-zero temperatures just to get tickets to something they've seen on television a thousand times?

Well, just as wrestlers are strange and colourful characters, so too are wrestling fans. And they come in all sorts.

First, you have the lifer. This guy’s been watching wrestling for 40 years, is convinced that it was better in the

“old days,” and that today’s crop of wrestlers don’t even compare to the old stars. This guy thinks Ric Flair is the greatest person to have ever existed.

Unless you’ve got hours to kill, avoid talking wrestling history with the lifer.

You could be trapped for hours.

Next you have the easily identifiable kids, usually seen wearing a John Cena t-shirt or a Rey Mysterio mask. They’re incredibly excited and animated, to the point of annoying everyone around them.

The little kids haven’t caught on yet that this stuff is fake, so spend their time talking to their friends about the latest episode of SmackDown. They’re a harmless group, and can even make a bad show better with their excitement

for the product.

Finally, there’s the stereotypical wrestling fan: the guy who is constantly yelling out catchphrases and making stupid, uninformed statements while everyone around is embarrassed to be associated with him. They are the ones that give wrestling fans a bad name, and make society think we’re all belligerent idiots that should be avoided at all costs.

Knowing full well the sort of people I could expect to encounter, I arrived at the Aitken Centre and took the spot in line my brother had been holding for me.

Within two minutes, I knew an older gentleman who looked like he had witnessed the early 20th century title run of Ed “Strangler” Lewis, and he began to

discuss the exploits of former WWF star the Ultimate Warrior while his younger friend loudly chimed in that it was too bad that Warrior had died due to years of steroid abuse.

I tried to ignore the inaccuracy of the conversation going on (for the record, the Ultimate Warrior isn’t dead, he’s a retired hardcore right-wing conservative) by reading the fantasy baseball magazine I brought with me for such an occurrence.

Despite the rough start, it eventually became an enjoyable experience – well, as enjoyable an experience it could be when your feet are ice cold – thanks to the other people in line, including the guy at the head of the line who showed up at 11:30 Friday night to get tickets. Not

for himself, but for his wife and kids.

After spending two hours standing around freezing, I finally made it up to the ticket window and was ready to purchase my front row tickets. At this point, the cold weather and the lack of sleep were about to be worth it – except there weren't any front row tickets left.

Or second row, or third row. After all the waiting, I got tickets in the front row off the floor, right behind the VReds bench.

Even though I didn't accomplish my task, was it still worth it?

Absolutely. Even though it was cold, I was exhausted, and the crowd of wrestling fans was kind of annoying, the end result made it a Saturday morning well spent.

V-Reds not content with host spot, now ranked 7th

Ryerson Rocks

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Varsity Reds goaltender Terri Ryerson was named as an AUS Second-Team All-Star over the weekend, the lone UNB player to be named as an all-star. The third-year student from Hamilton, Ontario had a 7-10-0 record for the V-Reds, posting a 3.25 GAA and a .906 save percentage and making a league-best 531 saves.

Despite having a spot solidified in the CIS championship tournament on their home court, the Varsity Reds wanted to win their way into the tournament. “the win puts us ahead of Saint Mary’s. But in reality ... [the AUS Championship] was more about confidence,” commented UNB head coach John Richard.

from Volleyball page 1 “The win puts us ahead of Saint Mary’s. But in reality, there are only eight teams left in the country and all teams are great. [The AUS championship] was more about confidence.”

Tournament action will kick off on Thursday when the defending national champion, the Alberta Pandas, face Saint Mary’s at 1 pm.

The V-Reds will face the Montreal Carabins at 8 pm in their first match of the tournament. The Carabins went 18-3 in their regular season, before knocking off the Sherbrooke Vert & Or in the QSSF conference finals.

UNB will look to fifth year left-side attacker Heidi Mouris to continue her strong play. Heidi was selected Player of the Match both Saturday and Sunday, and was named the Championship Tournament MVP. In two matches, she

had 47 kills, 62 points, and 22 digs.

"Heidi had her best weekend of her five-year career this weekend when it mattered a lot. Late in the final, she was so aggressive offensively. It made it extremely difficult for them to defend her [and it] opens things up for our other players. [I’m] so glad she finished her AUS career in such style," said Richard.

UNB entered the AUS championships this past weekend as the top seeded team.

In their first match, UNB defeat Cape Breton University 3-1 to earn a birth in the championships.

“We were very tight against CBU early, added to the fact I thought they played outstanding both Friday night and against us, so I was really pleased with our ability to finish that match 3-1. Some of our top players came up with some big points when it mattered especially in the fourth set,” said Coach

Richard.

Set scores were 26-24, 28-30, 25-14, and 25-20.

On Sunday, the Reds clawed their way back after dropping two of the first three sets to win the AUS championships.

After three sets decided by two point margins, the Reds stepped up their play and took the final two sets decisively.

Set scores were 23-25, 25-23, 28-30, 25-15, 15-8 for the Reds.

“I thought we played real well on Sunday. We played our best match of year, but it wasn’t easy,” said Richard.

“The final was exactly what a final should be – well played by both teams.

The top players on each side played as the top players, and to win we were forced to come up with our best offensive team effort of the season. For us to have 74 kills and hit .347% as a team really spoke to how well we needed to execute to win that match,” said Coach Richard.

2008 CIS Women’s Volleyball Championship Schedule Participating Teams (1) Alberta - (2) Montreal - (3) Calgary - (4) UBC (5) Sherbrooke - (6) McMaster - (7) UNB - (8)Saint Mary’s Thursday, February 28th

Friday, February 29th

1:00pm – Alberta vs. Saint Mary’s 1:00pm – Consolation Semi-final #1

Saturday, March 1st 2:00pm – Fifth Place game

3:00pm – UBC vs. Sherbrooke

3:00pm – Consolation Semi-final #2

6:00pm – Calgary vs. McMaster

6:00pm – Championship Semi-final #1 7:00 – Gold Medal Game

8:00pm – Montreal vs. UNB

8:00pm – Championship Semi-final #2

4:00pm – Bronze Medal Game

The Brunswickan does not publish on Wednesday, March 5 due to the March Break.

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Arts & Entertainment Not your average guitar hero World-renowned guitarist, Tali Roth, brings her special brand of music to Fredericton

by Mitchell Bernard The phone would cut out intermittently as she continued to apologize. “I’m so sorry. This is crazy!”

In the midst of a snowstorm in New York, students from the prestigious Juilliard Pre-College Division were calling their teacher, Tali Roth, to see if classes were cancelled that day. “[The snow] is getting me ready for my trip to Canada,” laughed Roth.

The world-renowned guitarist will be making her first performance in Canada this Thursday, in Fredericton.

“I have relatives in Canada so I’ve been there many times. But I’ve yet to perform there so I am very excited,” said Roth.

The performance will include the world premiere of STU Professor Martin Kutnowski’s “Prelude and Fugue for Guitar”.

“Martin and I met back during my performance at Carnegie Hall in 2001.

We have been trying to get together for the last seven or eight years. I am very excited to come,” said Roth.

The Israeli-American guitarist has a noteworthy record to date. After studying with some of the world’s most influential Latin American guitarists, Roth earned a Master of Music degree from the Juilliard School.

And her awards repertoire is equally impressive. Roth captured many honours throughout her career, which include top prize in all categories at the Twenty-Third Master-Players Music and Conductors Competition in Switzerland. Other notable prizes

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Tali Roth will perform in Fredericton on February 28 in McCain Hall. include first prize in the Israeli National Guitarist Competition, and the New York Artist International Competition Award.

The prizes are a reflection of the hard work and dedication Roth has put into her music over the years. It was in her early teens in Israel where she first discovered the guitar. When asked to describe her initial experiences with a guitar, Roth pauses briefly to reflect.

“I just love the way it felt in my hands.

The way you could touch it with your fingers and the sounds it made,” said Roth.

Roth has made music a lifelong career.

From practicing her scales and slurs everyday, to teaching students the gift

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she has, music has been the centerpiece of her life. But if she weren’t playing music as a career, what would the guitar virtuoso be doing?

“Probably a tennis player; I was pretty good,” said Roth. “I also like biology and criminology. There are a variety of things that I like that I could be doing.”

“Tango Nuevo”, a CD with the music of Astor Piazzolla, is Roth’s latest release. The arrangements were recorded as a trio, which includes Humberto Ridolfi on violin and Pablo Aslan on bass. Playing music alongside dancers is Roth’s latest passion.

“I like to change things up every two years. Right now, my love is to perform

with tango dancers,” said Roth.

Her releases have allowed Roth to grace many great stages over her career span. She has performed as a soloist throughout the United States, Europe, and Latin America. But which performance was her most memorable?

“I performed in El Salvador once [in 2003 with the El Salvador Symphony Orchestra, German Caceres conducting]. There was just something romantic about that evening,” said Roth. She went on to note that many young children who did not have the money to pay for tickets were allowed to attend for free. Many children asked for her signature following the recital and were grateful for the opportunity to see the recital. It was a night she will always remember.

But Roth is not only a performer – she gives back to music by teaching students at the Juilliard School Pre-College Guitar program. She is also an adjunct professor at New York University.

“I love to watch students learn and grow,” said Roth. “You have to understand each student, though. Not everyone can become a professional so you have to learn each person individually and what they are capable of. Then you can try to bring out the best in them.”

Roth will attempt to shed her knowledge of the guitar to aspiring music students when she teaches a master class on Wednesday and Thursday, 5-7 pm, in the Music Recital Room, McCain Hall 101 on the campus of St. Thomas University.

What will Roth teach at these classes?

“Everything I know,” she said. She may not be able to teach all her skills in a class, but Roth will attempt to teach students the techniques and emotions in the Latin American guitar style.

Roth's solo recital will take place on Thursday, February 28 at 12 pm in the Music Recital Room in McCain Hall on the STU campus. The performance is free of charge. Roth’s residency in Fredericton is in conjunction with Latin American Guitar Week.

bruns.arts@gmail.com • February 27, 2008

Staying afloat

by Christian Hapgood

“Flogging Molly”, one of the few famous Irish-American punk bands to sweep the world, is set to release a fourth studio album, “Float”, on March 4 from SideOneDummy Records. A booming seven members well-versed in different instruments like the accordion, concertina, piano, tin whistle, uilleann pipe, mandolin, mandola, tenor banjo, five string banjo, as well as the classic guitar and drums, make this band very unique and nearly impossible to imitate.

With the new album, the band has many expectations to live up to from die-hard fans. They live in the shadow of the Dropkick Murphys, arguably the most popular of the Irish-American punk phenomenon and a household name for people who like the genre. The real question is whether the Flogging Molly’s new album meet these high expectations?

Well, yes and no. While we can always use a new Irish-punk album, I doubt fans are ready for this change in pace

by Flogging Molly. As most bands do, Flogging Molly has matured in its genre, and it has unintentionally changed their fan base from punk to old school Celtic.

“Float” takes on more traditional Irish music, and in doing so, slowly loses the punk identity that catapulted the group to international fame and charmed punk-rockers everywhere. It seems as though the only thing keeping this band from entering the realm of pure Irish

even kitchen party worthy).

The third song on the album, Float, is a perfect example of the new traditional feel of the band. The song is basically a four-chord progression played several times with a slightly more interesting chorus, including accordion, violin, and, as the song nears its end, drums. Expecting a new hit single from this band, I am again disappointed as I have not been impressed since “Drunken Lullabies” on

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Flogging Molly’s latest release, “Float”, drops on March 4

the “Rock Against Bush” compilation – a rowdy, rollicking tune that played up the band’s Irish sensibilities as well as their punk roots.

Despite the change in pace, Flogging Molly has produced a more musically complex album than before. That said, technical expertise is not going to take the place of raw, explosive energy for most old-school fans of the band. I wouldn’t recommend this album to anyone who thinks they’re going to hear something as raucous as “I’m Shipping Up to Boston” by the Dropkick

“While we can always use a new Irish-punk album, I doubt fans are ready for this change in pace by Flogging Molly” music is the slightly fast pace and the pounding drums, which don’t appear nearly enough in songs that sound like they may have the potential to become great (songs like the title track aren’t

Murphys, but it’s still a must-listen for Flogging Molly fans – just don’t get too hyped up, because Float might let you down.

One game to rule them all The Final Score by Dan Hagerman

Lord of the Rings Online (PC) OK, you’ve caught me, I used the same headline for this review as I did for a preview of this game a year ago.

But you have to admit, it’s a pretty awesome headline. And, just like a year ago, it still applies.

Lord of the Rings Online is one of those online-only RPG games dubbed a MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game). But, unlike a lot of similar games, it’s firmly rooted in the books of Tolkien, which gives its story and characters a lot more resonance with me than with other games of the sort. The creators of the game worked very diligently to ensure that even the fussiest of LOTR fans will not be disappointed. Since the game is based on the books of the series and not the movies, you can expect to see a lot more of the people and places that you may have missed in the films.

Gameplay: This is pretty much what makes or breaks these kinds of games. The game takes a lot of its inspiration from World of Warcraft in design structure, but takes away a lot of the things that I personally didn’t like about WoW. For instance, a lot of the “carrot-on-a-stick” kind of progression for your character is greatly diminished. The game puts more emphasis on completing quests than on mindlessly killing the same monsters over and over again.

Another cool thing that Lord of the Rings Online brings to the table is its utilization of quests and things to do that have absolutely nothing to do with combat. Your character can get rewards just for finding all of the noteworthy farms in the Shire, for instance. Or, again in the Shire, you can run mail back and forth between the post offices, all the while avoiding “nosey hobbits”. In fact, one of the side jobs of the games,

Lord of the Rings online gets nine out of ten rings... and has some pretty sweet graphics. farming, involves nothing but planting seeds and reaping the benefits. It’s easy to do, and there’s something classy about farming your own pipe-weed and smoking the results.

Lord of the Rings Online might not stray too far from the standard formula in the combat department, but it does do a few things differently. When you’re attacking in groups, sometimes little buttons will pop up that you can press.

Certain combinations of these will cause boosts to your party that can take down those pesky Barrow-wights in no time.

When creating your character, you can choose from the standard Elves, Dwarves, Hobbits, and Men, and are able to customize your facial features a bit as well. From there, you have your choice of classes depending on your race, which again is pretty standard for this sort of game. But again, having this all take place in an established world that you can explore to your liking is just plain awesome.

Graphics: Since I’ve recently upgraded my computer, I can pimp out my settings to the max on this game, and it looks awesome. The detail on the characters is fantastic, the towns look exactly as I pictured them in my head, and the vistas from the Shire to Thorin’s Halls and beyond are all breathtaking.

That being said, I suppose on lesser computers than mine, the graphics could be considered a little taxing. I’ve spoken

with a few people that said the game did not look that great, but they also admitted that their computers were on the old side as well.

You can even choose your character’s “mood”, be it happy, sad, mischievous (my personal favourite, as it involves the arching of eyebrows), angry, and much more.

Sound: Again, the developers didn’t skimp on the quality from their sound. All of the music sounds appropriately Lord of the Rings-y no matter where you are. From the light-hearted tunes of the Shire to the downright creepy melody in the Old Forest, everything just sort of fits into place.

Another fantastic addition to this game is the inclusion of player-generated music. You can choose from a variety of different instruments (for a fee for the instruments and training, of course), and then play music straight from your keyboard. I still can’t play much beyond Mary Had a Little Lamb, but I’ve seen people play tunes from the Lord of the Rings series of films, and for the truly nerd-core out there, some group of people had actually orchestrated renditions of popular game music from Portal to Zelda to Mario and much more.

Is Dan Addicted?

Probably not. I enjoy playing these sorts of games only when I have a few people I know to play them with. And even then, my attention span is so short

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that I’m unlikely to ever be accused of playing this game over doing something else.

But, on the other hand, I’ve been having so much fun farming my own pipe-weed. And I’m a big fan of exploration as opposed to fighting (some would say I’m a lover, not a fighter), so the ability to just wander around exploring Middle-earth is so cool.

The Final Score: After having played through a lot of the full game as opposed to the buggy beta I played last year, I can see some definite improvements. And, as a bonus to players, every few months they release free content updates that let you do more things. The most recent one, in addition to the usual addition of quests, allows you to customize your hair and wardrobe.

LOTRO is actually a mix of everything that I’d want from this sort of game. And, because I got in on a holiday offer, I only have to pay 10 bucks a month for it, which is usually cheaper than many other competing games.

And, on a side note, the types of people who play it seem to be on the whole more mature than those I’ve seen frequenting other popular MMORPGs. On the whole, this is probably a game I’ll be playing for awhile to come, because there’s a lot to do and it’s fun to do it.

9 out of 10 Rings

Arts & Entertainment

Issue 21 • February 27, 2008 • 15

Industrial disco

by Ashley Bursey

It’s not quite Goth and it’s not quite Shiny Toy Guns, but Holophonic Porno’s eclectic mix is pretty close.

The Fredericton band incorporates catchy synth, purring vocals, and guttural growls for an entirely new music experience. Tonella Roy, cofounder and lead singer, has a killer voice and a huge vision for a band that could easily squeeze into the electronica-rock scene of Montreal. Here, she chats to The Bruns about Vampire Freaks, Obsession, and singing in church.

The Brunswickan: So how did “Holophonic Porno” begin?

Tonella Roy: It started off in a different direction. It was more like A Perfect Circle kind of vibe, not quite so dancey as it is now...[Think Shiny Toy Guns] and the direction that band is going, the dance disco thing. It opened up a different door for where we're going, not to copy that style, but to go in the dance/electronica direction.

But we're still into Nine Inch Nails, the industrial movement, so we just took it in that direction. It's not to say it's going to always be in this style, but for this album, “Obsession”, that's definitely the direction.

B: And how did you come up with

the name?

TR: James [Gauthier, the band's cofounder] came up with that. He was talking to a potential drummer, way way before we had done any of this new material, and James said, it's kind of like an orgasm for your ears. Porno for your ears... Holophonic porno! As soon as he said it...previously, it was going to be Aesthetic Theory, which did fit because we were doing more downy, pondering rock, not as highenergy. But then the name just didn't fit...and Holophonic Porno was kind of glossy and shiny. It's kind of down and dirty but glossy.

B: I noticed on your website that the link for Vampire Freaks is right next to the link for CBC. TR: (Laughs) I kind of have this dark Goth thing going on, I am more than anyone else in the band. But Vampire Freaks is a really great site for getting to more alternative youth, it's got a ton of members...it's like the gothic punk MySpace, so it's good for reaching that audience. I know a lot of people who are like, 'Vampires, what?' And we talked to the CBC a bit at the ECMAs. B: So what's the CD like?

TR: It's called Obsession and that does put it in a nutshell. The lyrics of the CD seem to take a direction of...over-thinking things; everything, relationships, status in life, government situations, to the point where

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Holophonic Porno play the Capital on March 1 with Stereo Airing.

it becomes a problem. Actually, I went to see a concert and I was just kinda looking at people and the way that they were perceiving [everything around them]. It was a Marilyn Manson concert, and the way people were obsessing over an icon, and the single focus that people can get into and not ever deterring from that one thing and failing to see the other sides of life, like Marilyn Manson as a person and not an icon...I'm like that. I'm one of those all out or nothing people. I find it hard to find a balance.

B: You're into piano and voice.

How'd you start singing?

TR: I started off in church. (laughs) I sang a lot in church when I was younger, and that was more or less my background in music, which I'm thankful for...and then I sort of moved out of the confines of religious structure with music. It seems to all be ten years behind, more or less, so when I was younger it gave me that foundation.

B: What's your live show like?

TR: Well, we had our debut show not that long ago at Boom! and it was great. We packed the place. There was no more room to be had. It was really high energy, for sure, because the music is so in-your-face. It's definitely not a 'sit back and drink your beer' kind of show.

B: So what’s next?

TR: We want to start setting up a tour. We really want to push it to the level...I have some contacts in Montreal, so we'll try to do a loop.

We have projects set up in a timely period. ...want to get the album out there, getting online sales up, and generating some interest...the Maritimes is not our focus. Even though it's in the plan, I feel like there's a lot more out there, and in order to push your music and yourself and your audience to another level, you have to look beyond where you are...especially for the kind of music we're doing. I think people will dig it. It's not indie rock at all, but it does appeal to them. I've talked to some people who I thought wouldn't like it because they're into the easygoing hippie rock stuff....and they liked it.

Monday Night Movie Series No Country for Old Men

March 3, 2008, 8 pm

“No Country for Old Men”

Tilley Hall, room 102

With “No Country for Old Men”, the Coen brothers have found a perfect match in Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy’s novel; their adaptation of McCarthy's praised novel is a staggering masterpiece. In this almost impossibly faithful adaptation, the film takes place in a small Texas border town in 1980. Sheriff Bell (a never-beenbetter Tommy Lee Jones) has ruled the land for years without the use of a gun, but a new brand of reckless lawlessness has taken over his town.

Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) is an innocent everyman with a devoted wife, Carla Jean (Kelly Macdonald), but when he stumbles across a drug deal gone deadly and finds two million dollars, he's determined to keep it for himself. There's only one problem: He's being pursued by one of the most amoral, evil psychopaths that the big screen has ever seen.

Wearing an absurd haircut and brandishing a pressurized weapon that is used to murder cattle, Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem) creeps forward on his mission to track Moss down and return the money to its rightful owners to save his own skin. As the tension mounts, the body count begins to rise, confirming Sheriff Bell's inability to battle this new wave of modern brutality. The most striking thing about the Coen brothers' thriller is their masterly use of silence to create an almost unbearable level of tension.

Cinematographer Roger Deakins is once again at the top of his game,

beautifully capturing this stark and lonely world.

The well-rounded cast is clearly excited to be part of such a stellar production – particularly Bardem, whose Chigurh is a freakishly mysterious monster, and is certain

to haunt viewers long after the final credit has rolled. In a career filled with striking achievements, this might very well be the Coen brothers' finest. It is filmmaking at its best.

Dave and Sean talk about CDs...

by Dave Briggs and Sean Horsley

Chris Koster “Sex, Love & Morality” Sean – I can tell by the sleeve that this guy thinks he’s a cross between Bono and Jesus.

Dave – This guy sings about girls more than Avril Lavigne sings about boys.

Sean – Yeah. And he thinks he’s Prince.

Dave – Apparently, he plays all his own instruments, but it sounds like he never learned how to play any of them.

Sean – Prince would bitch-slap this guy.

Dave – I couldn’t even get through the whole CD. Sean – I could barely get through the first song.

Dan Politano “Staring With My Eyes Closed” Sean – This CD smells like patchouli.

Dave – I think Phish are rolling in their grave.

Sean – Bro, I don’t think Phish are dead yet.

Dave – God dammit. Then it was all just a dream.

Sean – I think I’ve had that same one.

Dave – The one with Skud Missiles and Burning Man? Sean – That’s the one. I’m freakin’ out, man!

Polly Paulusma “Fingers & Thumbs” Dave – I think I heard this ten years

ago when it was called Lisa Loeb.

Sean – Why do all hot chicks with acoustic guitars sound the same?

Dave – Because they all wanna be Janis Joplin but they can’t figure out how to drink gin.

Lenny Kravitz “It’s Time For a Love Revolution” Sean - Oh goodness. Not again, dude!

Dave - Dude, what is it?

Sean - That clown Lenny Kravitz has released another record.

Dave - Damn it. I thought that dude washed up years ago?

Sean - No such luck, dude. He’s still rocking his bland ballads and lame attempts to rock.

Dave - I noticed he still plays every instrument on his records. Doesn't that dude know he's not impressing anyone?

Sean - The only good guitar work this chump has ever done is letting Slash play on a song.

Dave - Slash shreds.

Ben’s Brother “Beta Male Fairytale” Sean – This is the lamest thing I’ve ever heard. Ever.

Dave – Five dudes and not one drop of testosterone.

Sean – These guys make N’Sync look like the Legion of Doom.

Dave – I put this CD in my toaster because I thought it would make better toast than it does music.

Sean – What’d it taste like?

Dave – Protein.

MGMT “Oracular Spectacular” Sean- You know when you are talking to a music nerd and they try and name off some really obscure band in hopes of stumping you?

Dave- Yeah, because if they do, that means they win and now own you.

Sean- I think these guys were probably one of those bands. Well, before Pitchfork started popping boners for them.

Dave- Probably. Of Montreal toured with them, so they would hardly be obscure in the music geek world now.

Sean- That's why I only listen to World music. Nobody knows shit about it and I get a sense of superiority.

Dave- Kind of like the people who "don't watch TV"?

Sean- No, those people are just dicks.

Meg Hutchinson “Come Up Full” Sean- I got about two songs into this hippie love fest before flushing it down the toilet.

Dave- Really? You know, I've heard of people suggesting these dramatic gestures as a way of sticking it to the man, but nobody ever goes through with it.

Sean- I don't front.

Dave- Apparently.

Sean- Do you know any good plumbers?

Dave- No, why?

Sean- To fix the thousands of dollars worth of damages Meg Hutchinson has caused to my septic system.

Arts & Entertainment

16 • February 27, 2008 • Issue 21

Red and Black and Revue’d all over The 60th Annual Red and Black Revue charmed audiences on February 24 at the Playhouse

by Bruns Arts Department

From Arrested Development spoofs to nasal fluting to a Ryanocerous, the Red and Black Revue may have been all about the talent, but it was the hosts that really stole the show.

Chris Nyarady and Ryan Drost started out slow but won the crowd over with what pretty much everyone else was thinking. “Welcome to the Goth Red and Black Revue,” Nyarady droned an image of the event’s logo appeared on screen. He pulled out a depressing poem to read to the crowd, but Drost quickly corrected him – “It’s 60th, not Goth!” – and the disagreement eventually escalated into a fullout emcee battle, resplendent with a dance-off and funny-hat contest.

But it wasn’t just the hosts’ show, despite their gimmicks (surprisingly funny) and jokes (many were improvised, drawing laughs from the crowd). With 10 acts and dozens of talented students taking the stage, the show filled The Playhouse with cheering friends and family. Perhaps it was not the best venue for some of the hand-clapping, head-bopping acts, which could have bumped up the energy levels in a more interactive atmosphere, but the theatrical pieces worked well on the proscenium stage.

The show began with a vaguely prom-themed opening number featuring loosely choreographed dancing sequences to “1 2 3 4” by Feist. It was not the most upbeat way to start off the show – a higher-energy number

Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan

Trevor Hanson tickled the ivories at the Playhouse with his rendition of Great Balls of Fire. would have set the stage for the rest of the performances – but the hosts jumped onboard to kick it into higher gear almost immediately.

The first performance of the night was one of eight musical acts, “Thank You for Listening”, with a rock song that transitioned into a rousing rendition of Clapton’s “Layla”. The band, made up of Hayes Parrott, Dave Lipsett, and Adam Garland, was followed by a Lilith Fair-esque duet of Sarah and Kaylee, who harmonized on “Hey Hey”. Both acts have played around Fredericton and received a warm response from the crowd.

Trevor Hanson spurred the crowd with his version of “Great Balls of Fire”. It was his third time in the show, having returned to UNB for a PhD in engineering. He’s a veteran of local talent shows and the Red & Black was no different, with Hanson playing piano and singing along to the Jerry Lee Lewis favourite.

For the fourth act of the night, a three-piece musical theatre rendition of “Take Me or Leave Me”, from Rent, brought Melanie Lambert, Keely Wallace, and Bethany Vail to the stage.

Wallace’s role as lead songstress was the first truly breathtaking performance of the evening; the vocalizing was dynamic and fresh, although a

little more energy could have really shot the rendition through the roof.

The trio was followed by the UNB Dance Club, who are in their first year. With 14 dancers from UNB and STU, they performed a piece that stole tidbits from jazz, ballet, and modern dance. The two lead female dancers were extraordinarily talented, with fluid movements and a dramatic interpretation of what could otherwise have been an awkwardly choreographed piece. Powerful and flowing, the dancing really made this piece exceptional.

Billy Fong and His Beautiful Ensemble (made up of Fong, Erin Keating, Colin Davis, Emily Cochrane, Tyler Lombard, and Mike Marshall) was one of the most intriguing acts of the evening. Fong’s three-act song, “Hayley’s Nightmare”, went from fun to somber to a rollicking good time, and the group was vaguely reminiscent of the Tom Fun Orchestra – tight and talented, despite the slightly disconcerting tambourine playing.

A brief interruption brought a Black and Red Revue favourite back to the stage – it was “Anne Murray”, who was rumoured to be discovered at a Revue years ago. Appearing to help Nyarady become a better host, she performed a touching rendition (also

known as a lip-synch) of Kenny Loggins’ “Danny’s Song”. It worked; although Drost was mysteriously absent from the stage during the performance (and came back wiping off lipstick and makeup, but that’s a different story), the audience loved the self-proclaimed “1970’s Anne Murray”.

“Sexy Ska”, an original composition by Joe Savage (“suh-VAAAG?” the hosts wondered) is a third-year student who loves to rock out, skapunk style. It’s tough to pull off such an offbeat style of music as a solo act, but Savage took over the stage, dancing and singing and getting the crowd worked up to love his special version of ska.

The breakout performance of the night was, without a doubt, the Hangmen Crew. Billed as a surprise act (maybe the hosts lost their scripts?), the Crew is made up of Mike Corey, Cavin Chan, Kyle Gartshore, and Daniel Blais, a foursome of B-boys from Fredericton. Über-skilled and easily four of the most talented dancers in the province, they started their act with a Frankenstein-does-the-robot performance, featuring simultaneous beatboxing and locking. The storyline – doctor creates dancer – was illustrated by the beatboxing of one of the guys as he helped his creation

Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan

The UNB Dance Club performed at the Red and Black Revue on Feb 24. come to life, and punctuated with impressive dance moves (“Discobot, go!”). Followed by a freestyle and solo performance including a freakishly impressive leapfrog, the crowd loved every minute of the Hangmen Crew, and not to mention the following dance-off by the hosts, who determined, ultimately, that they “both suck at this.”

“Desolation and Lies”, an original composition by The Towers, a group comprised of Angelyn McNeil and Ryan Keenan, was the next-to-last act of the show. The most technically complex and musically advanced piece of the evening, this group was tight, talented, and engaging.

To finish the evening off, a round of Sociable is always a lot of fun – and

that’s what just the audience got with The Tyler Lombard Band, comprised of Lombard, previous performers Billy Fong and Mike Marshall, and Jeremy Freeze. “Sociable”, an original composition, started off with an evening at the Crow in Halifax, and continued to drinks, Mary Anne, and a night of revelry. The song, which sounded much like the Irish Descendents or any other down-home Celtic-Canadian band, was a kitchen party just waiting to happen.

The show ended with a countrystyle dance sequence (with everyone in red and black, of course) and a further rendition of Sociable. Raise your glass to UNB for another Revue well done!

“Small, manageable, and pure”

Ashley Bursey/ The Brunswickan

Several varieties of essential oils for massage, body, and bath, created by Sanctuaerie Botanicals in Fredericton.

from Sanctuaerie page 1 Liera’s website, www.sanctuarybotanicals.com, offers a link to a report by the Environmental Working Group that further explains her position on the matter, as well as a list of the potentially harmful products contained in most makeup.

And Liera’s trying to cover all the bases with her own products, carrying scent-free, water-based nail polishes, tooth powder that works to cleanse teeth and freshen breath, and her sea salt scrub has customers raving that it will leave skin smoother than ever.

Most of her customers seem to be in their early twenties; this may be because young people today are more health-conscious than ever, due to a barrage of information on how to stay healthy and look young. And with the growing spurt of environmental consciousness and many opting to go green, all-natural products are flying off the shelves – for women and men, both of whom love Liera’s unique packaging and low prices.

Liera also says that she receives interest from female customers who are around 40-50 years old, mostly because these women are at the age where they want to preserve their skin and keep looking healthy. Customers seem to like her eye cream because it is designed to take away wrinkles, even years after they have already formed.

The one product that intrigued me the most is her organic lipstick.

Each one is made with pure plant oils, butters, herbal extracts, and natural earth pigment colours.

In Liera’s research, she has found that a person who uses lipstick on a regular basis will consume as much as six tubes of it during their lifetime. She says the chemicals in the makeup stay in your body for a long time, because they are hard to digest. Her own product is a more viable alternative, offering all-natural products the human body can easily break down if ingested.

Instead of mass-producing the products, like any major store does, she is dedicated to always providing fresh products for her customers. As

such, she makes small batches of the products when she is low, so she can guarantee they are always new.

“When you make mass products as they sell in stores, you have to put a bunch of preservatives in them because they have such a long shelf life,” said Liera.

Liera admits that she doesn’t see her business ever becoming a multimillion dollar company, but that’s fine with her. The best way she can describe her business is, “small, manageable, and pure.”

She adds that she has always had a passion for chemical-free products, and says she could never imagine a day when those products were no longer produced. “My worst nightmare would be if they ever stopped making those products that I love,” she says.

Aside from being a vendor at the Farmers Market every Saturday, Sanctuaerie Botanicals is also her own, private business. She sells some of her products on line as well, at www.sanctuarybotanicals.com.