Humber Et Cetera Vol. 51, No. 05

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FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 2015

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Hawks women win eighth championship Andy Redding SPORTS REPORTER

The quest for eight is no longer up for debate.

The Humber women’s volleyball team won the OCAA Championship for the eighth consecutive year, sweeping Durham College 3-0 in the gold medal game at Redeemer University College.

Humber breezed through the championship, like much of the season, only losing two sets along the way.

“It’s pretty special,” said Humber head coach Chris Wilkins. “As we sat there in the last time out it gave us time to reflect. It never gets old winning like this, that’s for sure.”

Being the seven-time defending champions, Humber came into the OCAA Championship as the prohibitive favourite, leaving the opponents happy with a second place finish, said Durham head coach Tony Clarke “They’ve been here before, they’re well coached,” said Clarke. “I’m happy with what we did. I’m very proud of our girls.”

Led by the recently

crowned OCAA women’s volleyball player of the year and All-Canadian Thalia Hanniman, the Hawks finished off an undefeated OCAA season with a gold medal.

“I just can’t stop smiling right now, it’s a pretty unreal feeling,” she said.

Hanniman was a dominant force throughout the gold medal game. She broke a 21-21 tie in the first set with four straight serves for the win. She finished the game with 16 kills and a championship MVP award to add to her resume.

While this was Hanniman’s fourth OCAA title, others on the team were experiencing the sweet taste of gold for the first time.

“I was pretty nervous at first, coming to a team that’s won the OCAA’s the last seven years,” said first year player Brittany Vanderlaan. “As a rookie setter I felt I was under a lot of pressure because the previous setter was really good, but it’s been an unreal experience.”

The Hawks will take little time to celebrate this OCAA Continued on page 16

ANDY REDDING

Humber Hawks women’s volleyball team wins eighth provincial championship last Saturday at Redeemer University College.

Free HSF tax clinic set to help students

Anti-discrimination policy for transgender welcomed at Humber

Jennifer Berry

Katie Pedersen

LIFE REPORTER

The Humber Students’ Federation is hosting its free annual tax clinic from March 16, where certified Canada Revenue Agency volunteers prepare and file students’ tax returns.

But when it comes to managing finances, ignorance is not bliss, according to HSF’s accounting coordinator Laura Goldhaber.

Goldhaber said there needs to be a level of planning and awareness in money matters and that’s where many students falter.

“It’s really important to be realistic and it’s really important to know how much mon-

ey you have to spend. You just need to be aware. It’s very easy to turn a blind eye to your finances and where your money is going,” she said.

TD Bank Financial Group consultant Sean Pereira echoes Goldhaber’s words, saying students need to hold themselves accountable. Additionally, he cautions against high interest rates, especially for those borrowing money outside of government loans.

“If you have to get loans for student debt, make sure the interest rates are as low as possible and that you have some sort of payment-free period after you’ve taken your loan,” said Pereira.

Students may have a rude awakening once they gradu-

NEWS REPORTER

JENNIFER BERRY

Free consultation on filing

ate and have to manage their own money.

“Honestly, I haven’t thought about any of that stuff. I’m a lazy guy, I just let my parents do everything,” said Brandon Indardeo, 21, a first-year Computer Network Support Technician student.

Continued on page 12

Hadley Bird says he’s got problems with his parents.

"I'm going to go straight to personal here — my parents are not accepting of this at all," said Bird, a week before he was scheduled to start his testosterone transition.

The 21-year-old is a transgendered student studying Advertising and Graphic Design at Humber College.

He says his mother refuses to call him by his new name and pointedly refers to him as female.

Although his family may not support his gender identity, his school now will,

thanks to the detailed Gender Diversity Policy that became effective Feb. 10 by Humber's Centre for Human Rights, Equity and Diversity.

Under the previous policy, discrimination against someone's sexual orientation was not tolerated. Now, discrimination against someone's gender identity is also condemned.

"We have to think of sex and gender as two different things," said Jordan Orford, president of Beyond the Rainbow, a student-governed group at Humber that says it provides, "a safe, inclusive, confidential and friendly environment for LGBTQ+ students and allies."

Jessica Bowen, advisor for Human Rights, Equity and Diversity at Humber, said the process has been thorough.

"There's been an extensive consultation process with both internal stakeholders at Humber and then external stakeholders as well," she said.

The policy provides clear definitions for terms like "cisgender," "psychological harassment," and "reasonable accommodation." It also outlines how the public should respond in very specific situations like proving gender, using washrooms and reporting violations.

Continued on page 3

Humber Et Cetera

2 – News

March 6, 2015

Toronto pedestrian safety issues still a major civic concern Eric Wickham

REXDALE/N.ETOBICOKE REPORTER.

Vehicles in Toronto killed 51 pedestrians last year while many more were left with serious injuries.

Dylan Reid, co-founder of Walk Toronto, an activist group focused on pedestrian safety, said the winter offers new safety concerns to pedestrians.

“Walking is a way of getting around that is open to anyone, it’s immediately accessible,” he said.

He said walking in the city is more than just a means of travel.

“Walking makes cities come to life, it’s how we see the city,” said Reid.

Reid said that reducing the default speed limit to 40 km/h would help prevent pedestrian fatalities. He cited New York City’s success with a similar reduction of default speed.

Toronto Ward 25 Councilor Jaye Robinson, chair of the Public Works and Infrastructure Committee, proposed the implementation of a road safety plan for the City of Toronto.

“We’re not trying to reinvent the wheel, we’re just trying to find a plan that works for Toronto,” said Mike Varey, executive assistant to Robinson.

These safety concerns for pedestrians are also present on Humber North campus.

Rob Kilfoyle, Humber’s director of Public Safety and Emergency Management, said because of the construction at Humber North, there are a number of risky areas for pedestrians.

“Out front where the new bus loop is being constructed, that’s a quite challenging area to navigate,” he said.

“We have clearly defined and delineated walk areas on campus, we have crosswalks at major intersection areas. We encourage people to follow the walkways and the sidewalks,” he said.

Although Kilfoyle couldn’t recall a pedestrian accident happening on campus, he is aware of several in close proximity to the school.

He said the new bus loop is under construction to take bus and pedestrian traffic off Humber College Boulevard. The loop is expected to be complete for the fall 2015 semester.

KAELEIGH PHILLIPS

Automotive design student Jack Morris works on an electrical car that will fit into a quarter footprint of a Ford F-150 truck.

Designing cars of future Sustainability is core value among Humber automotive design students working on lighter, fuel efficient, cost effective vehicles Kaeleigh Phillips ENVIRONMENT REPORTER

Humber College boasts the only Automotive Design program in the country and it is strongly focused on using sustainable technology.

Environmental responsibility is a priority for the program, teaching students the importance of creating sustainable vehicles for future consumers.

The longevity of a vehicle and number of materials it takes to create a product are two im-

portant factors to consider in the design stages, said program coordinator Patrick Burke.

“It addresses how designers can up front assess how their products can make an environmental impact,” he said. “The material, manufacturing, transportation, use of the product, and disposal five stages, called life cycle analysis. It was introduced to the program about four years ago.”

Industrial Design student Jackson Wyatt, 25, took use of his industrial design experience at Humber to create a product featured on CBC’s Dragon’s Den. “Automotive design is always looking at ways to reduce waste,” he said. “The current third year project is to fit four cars in the footprint of a Ford F-150 pick-up.”

Wyatt said that the Indus-

Settle For Love takes honest path to dating Amy Wallace

GENERAL ASSSIGNMENT REPORTER

Online daters usually select their best photos and highlight their positive traits when creating their profiles.

Settle for Love, however, is a free online dating site that takes a more upfront approach. In addition to highlighting their good sides, users are encouraged to share their imperfections.

“I’m funny, loyal and a good listener,” a profile might read. “Cons” may include “unemployed and shy.”

Users are encouraged to upload some of their less flattering photos, such as women posing makeup-free.

Founder David Wheeler experienced frustration with dating sites.

“I felt like everyone is trying to sell themselves as opposed to really be themselves,” said Wheeler, in a phone interview.

Wheeler and business partner Jacob Thompson said they noticed a need for truth telling in traditional online dating, and the site was launched in 2013.

“We all have imperfections, so we thought why not make a site that’s about honesty so you can find someone who loves you for who you are,” said Wheeler.

“Anything that draws people together based on similar compatibility is a good thing,” said online dating expert and matchmaker Carmelia Ray. “To be transparent about these qualities I think is really great.”

AMY WALLACE

Settle for Love invites users to create honest profiles that juxtapose declaration of positive and negative traits.

The candid nature of Settle for Love allows users to eliminate dissimilar matches. “I’ve had people say that they don’t want to meet a uber-ambitious person, or a gym buff because they’re not interested in that stuff,” said Ray. Being introverted, for example, may be considered a negative trait; so two intro-

verts would be able to discuss this shared experience.

“In my experience, people tend to inflate and exaggerate their traits,” said Ray. “If men are going to exaggerate anything, they typically lie about income and height, whereas women typically lie about weight and age.”

Honesty will triumph in the search for love in the long

trial Design program is always looking towards the future and sustainable design is the future.

“Cars are massive and weigh a lot,” said Burke. “They have a lot of source material. They recycle the tires, the batteries, the copper and iron in the car.”

Designing with sustainable practices in mind is cost-effective for producers and an attractive feature for contemporary consumers, Burke says.

“When hybrid cars first came out, they were cute and targeting an urban audience,” said third-year Automotive Design student Jack Morris, 20.

“Chevy is now making them and now they are getting more rugged.”

Morris listed several new sustainable technologies gaining popularity in the auto industry including the new ecoboost, a direct fuel injection system to generate more power, for trucks, hybrid engines, and Harley-Davidson is even making an electric bike model.

Fourth year automotive design student, Zaib Mahmood, 25, is crafting his final year thesis project with sustainability in mind.

“I’m designing a two wheeled vehicle balanced by a Segway. It is designed for South Asia. The purpose is to be more ecological because it’s battery powered, and gas cost is very expensive in South Asia,” Mahmood said.

“One thing about sustainability is that it offers a more holistic approach to design.

You see how design responds to global awareness. It isn’t the cure-all but you can minimize the implications on the environment,” Burke said.

run, Wheeler said.

“When people have that encouragement to be a bit more honest they are more likely to put it out there because they see that everyone else is doing it,” said Wheeler.

“Then it helps people to bond more.”

Isaiah Littley, 30, a firstyear Sustainable Energy and Building Technology student at Humber College, had success using the popular dating site Plenty of Fish.

“I found that when I was reading some other profiles, they all seemed kind of the same,” said Littley.

“When I was looking at profiles I was looking at someone who was being more honest or something unique about them that stood out. It’s important to be honest from the beginning, if you’re not being honest it will eventually show later on, then you will have wasted all of that time if you’re not compatible,” he said.

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March 6, 2015

News – 3

ENVIRONMENT

HSF election raises sustainability issues across North campus Candidates asked to use fewer campaign posters as Humber ups environmentalism Allie Langohr LIFE REPORTER

IAN BURNS

A group of protestors gather at Queen’s Park to protest the province’s plan for changes to sex-education curriculum.

Proposed sex-ed curriculum leads to protests but many are on board Critics say children will be ‘sexualized’

lice investigation into alleged bribery during the recent Sudbury by-election.

Jeremy Appel

CITY HALL/QUEEN’S PARK REPORTER

Premier Kathleen Wynne’s introduction of a new sexual education curriculum for Grades 1 through 12 has caused raucous debate at Queen’s Park.

But most of the noise was confined to the lawn outside Ontario legislature. Social conservative groups, including the vehemently anti-abortion Campaign for Life Coalition (CLC), gathered there to protest the updated curriculum on Feb. 24.

Michele Choma, a Social Service Work instructor from Humber College, says the changes are long overdue but questions their timing.

She finds it suspicious the new curriculum was unveiled in the midst of an Ontario po-

Every province in Canada has modernized its sex-ed curriculum with the exception of Ontario Mike Schreiner

LEADER OF ONTARIO GREEN PARTY

Choma said she thought change to the sex-ed curriculum was something needed but there was limited consultation with parents. “(It limits) the caliber of the document,” she said. “There's also no attention given to how you explain this to children with learning difficulties (and) special needs.”

The Ministry of Education

released a fact sheet for parents, outlining the changes being made by grade level.

Students will now learn to identify genitalia in Grade 1 and respect the opposite sex in Grade 5. They will learn about combating homophobia in Grade 7 and preventing sexually transmitted infections in Grade 8.

Mike Schreiner, leader of Ontario's Green party, agrees the updated curriculum is well overdue.

"I'm in favour of updating and modernizing the way sex education is taught to our children," he said. "It follows the recommendations the Green Party has supported, but more importantly it follows the recommendations that parents, educators, teachers and experts in the field have all recommended.”

He fears the Liberals will fold under pressure, as former premier Dalton McGuinty did

in 2010, when the last attempt at an update was made.

Schreiner admits his position on the curriculum's content is essentially identical to the government's at this point.

"Every province in Canada has modernized its sex-ed curriculum with the exception of Ontario, so it's about time we catch up with the other provinces," he said.

Social conservative critics like Campaign for Life Coalition project manager Jack Fonseca said the new curriculum serves to "sexualize children."

"There's a lot of really kooky stuff that is not science-based, not fact-based and is really just political," he said.

Choma sees no merit in this claim.

"It doesn't endorse sexuality at all. I really have to question the thoughts behind someone sexualizing (the curriculum)," she said.

Humber can boast for being the first Ontario College to receive silver rating in sustainability, but it’s time to go for gold.

Humber’s 2014 to 2019 Sustainability Plan gained steam this week with posters popping up around the school encouraging awareness and participation in maximizing Humber’s sustainability. In 2013, the college won silver in the sustainability tracking assessment and rating system (STARS).

“The energy and paper use reduction campaign is aimed at creating awareness of how much energy and paper we consume as well as providing tips for reducing consumption,” said Amelia Velasco, acting manager of Sustainability at Humber.

The Sustainability Plan lists the six highest priorities for reducing the campus’ footprint as recycling and waste management; sustainable transportation; energy and climate change; green buildings and landscapes; water use; and purchasing and ethical sourcing.

Walking into The food emporium at election time, however, tells a different story.

Besides passing Humber Students’ Federation election campaign posters along the wall and on every pole on the way to the emporium, the eating area has dozens of

identical posters hanging side by side.

Presidential candidate Patrick Millerd said sustainability at Humber is very important to him.

“Humber is a microcosm of the grander scale,” said Millerd. If elected, Millerd plans to make use of an online forum, a procedure that he feels is sustainable.

“You don’t need to host giant forums where coffee is served, you just go online and do it. And the form itself is set up to be sustainable because I don’t need to be the one who monitors it,” said Millerd.

Presidential candidate Ahmed Tahir, currently vice president of Student Life and member of Humber’s Sustainability Coordinating Committee, also views sustainability as a top priority.

“It’s a very important thing not only currently, but for our future as well,” said Tahir.

“Posters, while they do serve a purpose, I don’t think they’re the best way to get people’s votes,” he said. “I know other student unions that put a cap on the number of posters you can print, which is something I think we should look into in the future for HSF. “The most important thing I do as a candidate is, while I do post a few posters, I don’t go crazy with it,” Tahir said. “I think quality is more important than quantity, and I think talking to people is the most important thing you can do.”

The reduction of campaign posters coincides with the initiatives of the Sustainability Plan.

DIVERSITY

Transgendered student says Humber policy a step forward Continued from page 1

Katie Pedersen NEWS REPORTER

Bird said he was impressed by the detail in the policy.

“It listed some scenarios I’ve experienced with teachers (like) not using pronouns or (changed) names,” he said.

“I’ve had a couple teachers where it’s just a slip up, no big deal, but I’ve had another

prof who consistently gets it wrong, consistently calls me ‘she.’”

Jordan Orford, president of Beyond the Rainbow, a student-governed group at Humber that says it provides, “a safe, inclusive, confidential and friendly environment for LGBTQ+ students and allies,” said the policy will give trans students something to fall back on rather than leaving

them in the “ambiguous grey area.”

Although this policy is a step forward for the trans community at Humber, Bird says people need more education about trans people to get from “tolerance” to “acceptance.”

“It’s not taught in sex-ed, so where are you going to learn it?” he said. “It’s like this elephant in the room

It’s not taught in sex-ed, so where are you going to learn it?... It’s like the elephant in the room and everyone ignores it.

Jordan Oxford

PRESIDENT OF BEYOND THE RAINBOW

and everyone ignores it. If we would just give it a little pat on the trunk or a peanut or something it would go away and everyone would be happy.”

Bird said he hopes the policy will spark conversation.

“Even if it just starts controversy, even if that just gets them talking, then they can start to learn and be educated,” he said.

KATIE PEDERSEN

Hadley Bird, 21, is a graphic design student at Humber.

He says Humber’s new policy will raise awareness.

Humber Et Cetera

4 – News

March 6, 2015

Legal Aid access for students out of reach to most HSF looking to forge new deal for service Laura DaSilva NEWS REPORTER

Humber students seeking legal advice on campus should prepare to be bounced around the halls before eventually being left out in the cold to fend for themselves with Legal Aid Ontario pamphlets in hand.

Up until earlier this school year, Humber Students’ Federation funded free 15-minute consultations with a lawyer, but the service is temporarily unavailable.

It’s almost as though you need to be homeless to access Legal Aid. Alan Shanoff

LAWYER/HUMBER PROF

Odin Von Doom, vice president of Student Affairs North, said this is based on contractual issues, not due to any lack of desire to provide legal aid.

“We’re looking at what we can do in the interim for the remaining two months of the school year, and what we can do long-term to provide better service,” he said.

“Right now, students would be referred to community clinics around them,” said Sieu Moi Ly, services director for HSF. Students carrying the weight of landlord-tenant issues, employment rights disputes, or criminal charges on their backs, do have options to

obtain free legal advice.

One service Ly suggested is advicescene.com. Students can post anonymous questions about legal problems and have them answered by lawyers in the GTA who have joined the site.

An Et Cetera reporter tested the efficiency of the site by posting a question on a landlord issue, and another about a friend from another country seeking immigration advice in hopes of attending Humber next year.

Within a couple of hours, four different lawyers responded with helpful links to government agencies that could steer this student in the right direction.

Another resource is Student Legal Aid Services Societies (SLASS). It is funded

by Legal Aid Ontario, and operates out of Ontario's six law schools. With the supervision of full time lawyers, volunteer law students provide legal advice and represent clients.

Alan Shanoff, lawyer and professor at Humber, said the eligibility requirements to obtain legal aid in Ontario are very tough.

“They need to be revisited. It’s almost as though you need to be homeless to access it,” he said.

He said Humber students not having access to any type of legal aid is really no different than any other person in Ontario.

Von Doom and HSF are currently exploring ways to help meet the high demand of students seeking legal advice, and hope to have something implemented by Sept. 1.

“We are looking into hiring a lawyer, and possibly opening a legal clinic,” he said.

MATTHEW PARISELLI

Ellen Newman is in her first year of the two-year Funeral Service Education program at Humber. She cohosted a Death Café in Halton Hills on Feb. 24, to explain issues surrounding death and end-of-life issues. The cafés are now a global phenomenon.

Death Cafés help people deal with life’s end Matthew Pariselli NEWS REPORTER

Ellen Newman and Marion Willms are reveling in the aftermath of gathering with a group of strangers to enjoy coffee, tea and cake while discussing death at Toronto’s Mount Pleasant Cemetery.

They said the regularly scheduled Death Café breathed life into their day.

Death Cafés were introduced in 2011 by Jon Underwood, a middle-aged family man based in London, England. The aim of the Cafés is “to increase awareness of death with a view to helping people make the most of their lives,” according to the official website.

Newman and Willms met while studying in the Contemplative End of Life Care program at the Toronto Institute of Traditional Medicine. They’re so inspired by the concept of

Death Cafés that they’ve decided to launch their own branch in Halton Hills.

Newman, a first-year student in Humber’s Funeral Service Education program, said Death Cafés are gaining popularity and attracting attention.

She said people are interested in talking about death, but their efforts are met with resistance in most circles.

Fast-forward to a chilly Feb. 24 evening when the women hosted their second Death Café in Georgetown’s Devereux House in Halton Hills.

As was the case in their first Café in October 2014, the event elicited passionate dialogue.

“We sat in tables of four and there was great conversation,” Newman said. “People were surprised that two hours had flown by so quickly and they were still very deep in conversation.”

Newman said people are uncomfortable talking about

Toronto police change technology on scanners Journalists say it will hamper their ability to report on crime Veronica Appia

CRIME/SECURITY REPORTER

Toronto Police Services said last Tuesday they have made the switch to encrypted digital technology from analog radios.

The encryption technology will provide Toronto officers with more privacy, said Henri Berube, coordinator of Humber College’s Police Foundations program.

“There is a lot of stuff that is discussed on a police radio that you don’t necessarily want the public to hear,” said Berube.

Sometimes officers will have to give sensitive information

over the radio, he said.

“The fact that it’s being broadcast publicly is a potential violation of people’s privacy rights,” Berube said.

At the same time, however, the move makes news reporters’ jobs an impending nightmare.

“It seems like a disaster for us,” said Kevin Donovan, an investigative reporter and editor at the Toronto Star.

Donovan says reporters will have to rely more on fire and ambulance scanners.

“There is going to be a lot less immediate knowledge of what police are doing, that’s for sure,” said Donovan.

Berube said when he was a police officer there were concerns that people were listening to the police scanner and reacting to it.

death.

“People are uncomfortable talking about death,” she said. “Having a Death Café is about having a safe place to come and talk about it,.”

Willms, a registered nurse, said her goal in co-hosting the Halton Hills’ Death Café was to explore a topic that people generally prefer to bury.

“I wanted to do something very practical about opening up the conversation about death in our society, and doing a Death Café is one way to do that,” she said.

One aspect of Death Cafés

that Newman is particularly fond of is the variety in discussion that each Café gives rise to.

No Death Café is like any other.

Topics range from end of life care, choices and options that are available regarding death, how to prepare for one’s own death or the death of a loved one, and even the afterlife.

This is one point touched on

by Chara Adema, a first-year student in Humber’s Funeral Service Education program who attended a Death Café in Toronto’s Junction area.

“I was surprised by how many people talked about their religion and how their beliefs impacted how they viewed death and the afterlife,” she said. “Conversation steered to what a funeral is, and what people would want to do at their own funeral one day.”

Newman also emphasized that Death Cafés are not to be confused with bereavement support groups or counselling.

“The police are always cognizant that what they do is in the news and has to be reported,” said Berube. “Where the problem used to occur was when you’d get what we call, for lack of better terms, ambulance chasers.”

Encrypted radios are contrary to community policing, but necessary to ensure public safety, said John Irwin, a Justice Studies professor at University of Guelph-Humber.

“It’s a justice thing,” he said.

“It’s security mindedness versus complete openness.”

Tony Smyth, a videographer from CBC News, said that the cops will get to decide what is newsworthy or not under the new system.

He said before encryption, the media would arrive at the scene early enough to interview witnesses, but under the new system, the scene will probably be secure and the witnesses will be on their way to the station to give their formal statements.

It’s about having a safe place to talk about death.

Ellen Newman

FUNERAL SERVICE STUDENT

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March 6, 2015

BizTech – 5

Campus WiFi bad, but improving From 50 access points a decade ago to 1200 today, still not enough Ryan Durgy

BIZ/TECH REPORTER

Students are using more technology than ever and expect a wireless connection that can withstand the demand of their devices.

Ryan Burton, Director of IT Planning and Client Services with Information and Technology Services, said a number of changes have been implemented recently to improve Humber’s WiFi network.

Burton said these changes include adding capacity to the network to handle more concurrent connections and adding more wireless access points.

“People are coming now with a smartphone, a tablet, and a laptop,” he said. “We’ve gone more with a density model to ensure that there is sufficient coverage,” Burton said.

“Last year, we had up to

45,000 unique devices connected to the WiFi network each week,” Burton said.

“On a typical weekday we have up to 9,000 devices connected.”

He said there were only 50 wireless access points around campus 10 years ago, which are antennas that send out wireless signals to devices nearby to get Internet access.

Burton said there will be around 1,200 wireless access points across campus this year.

Taylor Erdie, a first-year Event Planning student, said her WiFi connection on campus is okay, but residence is a different story.

“It’s really slow. You don’t get it in a lot of places in residence,” Erdie said.

Erdie said she can connect to the WiFi in her room because she is right across from the lounge.

“I find that definitely when you go further down the hall and you’re in other people’s rooms you don’t get the Wifi as good. So I end up having to use my own data if I want to go on the internet because I can’t go

on the school’s WiFi,” she said.

“When I’ve had problems trying to connect I give up and get frustrated and just throw my Ethernet cable in,” Erdie said.

Erdie said she had to purchase a plan with Rogers so that she could have stronger WiFi connection within her room.

Burton said residence is connected to the same Humber WiFi network but only in common areas, not in individual rooms yet.

“There’s a desire on residence’s behalf to expand WiFi coverage and they are currently looking at how they might choose to fund that going forward,” he said.

Burton said he understands why students would want wireless coverage in their individual rooms but it’s the residence’s decision about whether this will happen.

Richard Harknett, a second-year Heating and Air Conditioning student who also works for the IT Department, said he uses the WiFi

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Wireless access points, like the one above, are located across campus to connect students to the WiFi network.

network to connect his tablet, laptop, phone, and gaming devices, usually without issue.

“There’s a weak connection in the L-Building,” he said.

“But other than that I haven’t had any issues.”

Burton said there is an e-form on the IT Support Centre website for students to report a “dead-zone” on campus where a stronger signal may be needed.

Students looking to connect

to the network while waiting for their bus to show up may have to wait a little longer.

Burton said the IT department has considered putting wireless access points outside; but right now there isn’t funding for it because it is not a priority, although that may change.

Erdie said she’s lucky if she gets the WiFi connection while outside and often has to use the data on her phone to

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connect to the Internet.

“I think it would be beneficial if they did have a stronger connection out there so people could maybe check bus schedule times while they’re waiting,” Erdie said.

“I don’t think we will get to a point where we say ‘done’,” Burton said. “It will get to a point where I think it will stabilize and then we’ll be looking at what’s next for the network in order to make sure that we’re servicing the needs of the students.”

EMPLOYMENT

TJX panel gives tips on handling job interviews Nicole Williams BIZ/TECH REPORTER

Students learned important skills and what to avoid when interviewing for a job at last Tuesday’s TJX panel and workshop at Humber College’s Lakeshore campus.

TJX Canada, which owns Marshall’s, HomeSense, and Winners, hosted the event, which aimed to teach students how to ace their interviews with employers. The workshop and panel were part of a five-year strategic partnership Humber College has with the firm.

Tiffany Forde, a second year Bachelor of Commerce Fashion Management student, said she appreciates having events like this.

“Because I’m coming into my final year, which is a work placement, I’m always on the lookout for what might be available, and how to be successful in that work placement,” said Forde.

The workshop, led by Teresa Gabriele, the senior talent acquisition specialist for TJX,

aims to help students navigate their way through job postings, and ultimately the job interview.

“It’s a job finding a job,” said Gabriele. “There’s a war on talent out there. With so many talented people look-

It’s a chance for anyone who wants to develop their skills and knowledge in retail markets.

Antoniette DiMarco

HUMBER BUSINESS SCHOOL

ing for jobs, it’s important to make yourself stand out.”

One way to achieve this is to be informed about the company you’re applying to, said Gabriele. That could mean reading what companies are saying about themselves through job postings and social media, or even visiting the location of the job in person.

It’s also important to give

meaningful answers during the interview itself.

“Employers want to not only know how you can handle yourself in difficult situations, but they also want to know that you can validate your answer with personal experience,” said Gabriele.

Antoniette DiMarco, manager of the Humber Business School Placement Centre, said it’s all about giving students the tools they need to succeed after graduation.

The five-year partnership began in 2013, and was facilitated by Alvina Cassiani, dean of The Business School.

As part of the partnership, TJX provides Humber students with employment and internship opportunities as well as having an active presence on campus.

“They come on campus quite a bit. Many students, especially Fashion Management students, are eager to be a part of the events. It’s a chance for anyone who wants to develop their skills and knowledge in retail marketing,” said DiMarco.

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Teresa Gabriele, Jaclyn Manley and Natalie Sturino (l to r) are a part of the Talent Acquisition department at TJX. They answered students’ questions about interviews for employment.

Allison Scully, the Work Placement Advisor at the Placement Centre, said events like this happen all the time, and that they have a Retail Management Grad Program coming up in just a couple of weeks.

“It’s important for us to give

(students) as much opportunity as possible, and to allow them to obtain the information they need, whether it be about interview skills inside the classroom or other platforms,” said Mary Anne Myers, a Business Degree placement advisor.

“Events like this allow stu-

dents to be able to ask actual industry professionals what they want to know. It allows them to take away more information than they could anywhere else,” she said.

“Ultimately, we’ve been very fortunate with our partnership with TJX,” said DiMarco.

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March 6, 2015

EDITORIAL

Students can take entrepreneurial path Finding a job is a top concern for post-secondary students. Generally, as a society, we like to believe that the best course of action is for a young person to find an occupation they enjoy and let everything else fall into place. But the reality is the job market, like any market, runs on supply and demand and its current state is such a concern for students and their parents that high schoolers are trying to make post-secondary decisions based on where the job market seems to be heading.

Jobs are so central a social concern that they are the basis of political platforms. Between the municipal, provincial and federal governments, the job market receives heavy subsidies in the form of educational programs, employment

incentives, financial incentives for job creators and much more.

But governments also invest a lot into incentivizing new businesses. Given this, and in the face of a still-sluggish economy, more students should look into entrepreneurship.

There are programs set up by schools, organizations and different levels of government that will aid anyone looking to start a business.

Humber College specifically has an Entrepreneurship 101 free lecture series presented by HumberLaunch and the entrepreneur innovation organization, MaRS. The weekly lecture series introduces people to the basics of building their own business and it culminates in a competition where participants enter their

business plans for the chance to win $15,000.

Starting a business can be a daunting undertaking. It’s understandably perceived as carrying a lot more risk than seeking a job. But with the job market in many sectors being as shaky as it is, the security of a nine to five job is diminishing and there are a lot of ways aspiring entrepreneurs can mitigate the risk of a new business venture.

Like the job market, there are government programs that will allow new businesses, which meet certain criteria depending on the program, to receive money for their business or receive tax breaks. Also, depending on what your business is you could be employing other people and thus reap the rewards of the

aforementioned job creation incentives for employers.

We can continue to pour money into the job market, and we should, but only to a degree. A lot of these programs take tax dollars and use them to at least partially fund the salary of another individual. That’s a short-term solution; a bandage.

Whether it’s through more investments into new businesses or a greater focus in schools on the entrepreneurship side of a given industry, students should be empowered to forego the traditional nine to five lifestyle. There is a heavy focus, especially in post-secondary education, on learning how to be employable, but maybe we should be teaching students how to become employers instead.

Sex-ed update takes us back to creationism debate

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lthough it’s been almost 100 years since the end of the Scopes Monkey Trial, the issues surrounding teaching evolution in public schools is still rearing its head.

No, it’s not taking place in Georgia, where Congressman Paul Broun used the bully pulpit as chairman of the House of Representatives science and technology committee to denounce evolution as “lies from the pits of Hell.”

It came up last week in the Ontario Legislature, during the debate over the recent changes to Ontario’s sexual education curriculum (previously addressed in last week’s Et Cetera). In a riposte to Education Minister Liz Sandals’ assertions that some in the Progressive Conservative party would ban the teaching of evolution in school, Tory MPP Rick Nicholls shouted, “That’s not a bad idea,” leading to rolled eyes from fellow Tories and incensed (and somewhat bemused) reactions from New Democrats and Liberals.

In response, a federal MP from Alberta also announced his lack of belief in evolution.

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MPP Monte McNaughton pictured with wife, Kate, and daughter, Annie, is an Ontario PC leadership candidate who has made opposition to Ontario’s sex-ed curriculum a central point of his campaign.

Americans have struggled with the topic for some time, with the concept of evolution being legally protected in U.S. textbooks after the Epperson v. Arkansas decision of 1968, and in 2005 the pseudoscientific concept of intelligent design was largely drummed out of U.S. schools.

This is not an issue that has gained much headway in Canada.

The opinions of federal MPs are thankfully irrelevant due to the fact that the federal government has no say over educational policy.

The PC party is in the throes of a leadership race, where one candidate, Monte McNaughton has made his position clear (he is against changes to sex ed in schools – although he has not elucidated his opinion on evolution), with others

being mushy on the issue.

Would the Progressive Conservatives ban the teaching of a concept that has been backed up with so much science that even the Roman Catholic Church, which did not officially vindicate Galileo until 1992, accepts it? Or would the Biblical theory of life creation be the only accepted theory in the science curriculum?

Thomas Jefferson’s concept of a wall between church and state has come under attack in the United States but still holds true in Canada.

It should be expanded to include a wall between church and school (publicly-funded Catholic schools aside, which should be taken private altogether).

Ontario is in desperate need

of an opposition party that can present a fiscally conservative alternative to the Liberal record, and such “bozo eruptions” only ensure a Liberal government in perpetuity. It needs to clarify its position, not only on the issue of evolution, but its stance on social issues in general.

Social conservatism does not appeal to most Ontarians – it has been repudiated repeatedly at the ballot box. The “theory” of evolution is scientific fact – and, frankly, is compatible with the concept of a higher power, which many theologians have come to accept.

So, as the PC Party moves towards its leadership convention, it needs to finally decide what kind of party it wants to be.

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OpEd – 7

How my hair changed my view of beauty

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s a child I wanted to be a lot of things but most of all I wanted to be pretty.

It’s no easier for girls today. With apps like Tumblr and Instagram that make them hyper aware of how they look, it’s hard to be happy with themselves. Altered or Photoshopped images are a big part of the issue. Girls see images of those “perfect” human beings and think, “why can’t I look like that?” not knowing the images have been heavily retouched most times.

As a society we teach girls that the most important thing is to be beautiful, and to constantly strive to be beautiful. We ignore the fact

that we’re actually hurting ourselves and we never really stop to ask who we’re doing it for and why.

Naturally, we all want to look and feel our best; but why wax, get Botox and eat bland diet foods if you don’t like it?

In elementary school all I really wanted was long flowing hair like all the other girls in my grade. I begged my mom for a chemical relaxer, a deep conditioner texture that stays on the hair for a short period of time and does all sorts of bad.

Oh, and if that shit gets in your eye, kiss your sight goodbye.

So my mom got me the box relaxer. I sat on the toilet seat while she applied it to my hair. I left it in for a while, and let me tell you, it burned the hell out of my scalp. It felt like Hades. The best part was that I hadn’t even come close to the time the instructions said to wash it out. My mother warned me that if I washed it out beforehand my hair would still be kinky curly. So of course I stood in front of my microwave watching the timer while tears ran down my cheeks. I blame all those horrible home box perms for a dramatic loss of brain cells.

I finally washed it out, and it continued to burn even afterwards, which is normal for a perm. It actually takes a neutralizing shampoo to deactivate the chemical reaction.

I could instantly feel the difference,

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“I begged my mom for a chemical relaxer, a deep conditioner texture that stays on the hair for a short period of time and does all sorts of bad.”

and once I dried my face I could see the difference as well. My hair was pin straight down my back. It was everything I wanted and more.

My hair was on fleek, and I made sure everyone noticed.

So I became addicted to relaxers until my hair just couldn’t take on more perms. A professional stylist (not my mother) confirmed that my hair looked like scarecrow stuff-

ing, brittle and stringy. I learned a lot more about my hair once she cut it all off. And I actually loved my asymmetrical bob.

When I went to school things were never the same. The rumours of the guy in the fifth grade who apparently wanted to ask me out died down; the date never came to fruition. I’m pretty sure I spent a whole afternoon listening to the

Pussycat Dolls song “I Don’t Need a Man” (because at that time Drake was still on Degrassi, not a 6 God) and was left to mourn on my own.

He dated almost every other girl in our grade, but I’d never regret what I learned about perceived ideals of beauty.

Comfort is queen! As much as I thought there was something wrong with me back then, I learned that there actually wasn’t. It was a hard journey struggling with my natural hair but now I’ve embraced it. It’s not only a beauty problem it’s a cultural one as well. I never had anyone to teach me how take care of my hair, only how to fix it. Today I follow Pinterest boards and YouTube channels that discuss natural hair.

These channels motivate me to treat my hair the way it needs to be treated (with deep conditioner treatments every two weeks).

Before I focused on how to work against my hair, trying to manipulate it so it would be straight. It’s not horrible but the better method is to stretch my hair so that every day I’m not straightening with heating tools. I also learned that my hair was always breaking off because it was so dry. Moisturizer is my best friend.

The moral of the story is love yourself, be yourself, and don’t let society tell you who you should be.

I still learn more about my hair and my comfort level with it every day.

Fear of criminal charges stops citizens from intervention in crimes

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ART DIRECTOR

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o protect and serve; that’s what we count on our law enforcement officers to do. But why is it common to face lawsuits and jail-time for helping them out when they’re too late to save someone’s life?

If you’re walking down the street and see someone in danger, you should be able to do whatever is in your physical and mental power to protect that victim without fear of legal action against you. Citizens should be honoured for their bravery the same way officers are, not thrown in a cage and shamed for it,

as has happened to many.

The level of respect law enforcement workers or members of government receive for heroic actions makes sense; it means they are doing their job. Some citizens feel they have a responsibility to respect and protect each other but there’s fear instilled in our society that prevents us from doing so.

Even though police are fighting to protect people and to hold the line between right and wrong, it’s problematic that there hasn’t been any consideration towards creating laws that could make it less hazardous for a citizen to perform similar actions when proper enforcement is not present. In many cases, intervening to prevent an assault can even be considered a crime.

If it’s legal to citizen arrest, why can’t you citizen-protect? Who really walks around with a pair of handcuffs all day thinking to themselves “oh I’m going to witness a crime today?” That would be closer to vigilantism, not the level of bravery it takes to stop a crime in progress.

Moreover, you’re only allowed to stop someone and hold him or her under citizen’s arrest while you wait for an officer, much like a security guard – but what does that really do if they escape? It doesn’t do any justice,

because they’re free, roaming the streets, looking for their next victim, all because it was a citizen that caught them rather than an officer.

If it’s legal to citizen arrest, why can’t you citizenprotect?

The time it takes for an officer to respond to the call of a crime in progress could cost a life. If we were all able to stand up for our fellow citizens without fear of punishment, that life could be saved.

If a person was walking home from work one day and saw someone being brutally assaulted and took it upon themselves to break up the situation, they would be considered a vigilante and charged criminally for it, but if an officer was there at the right time, he would probably get a raise.

While it’s technically legal to intervene, to an extent, most people will not because they fear their actions might escalate to the point of a criminal charge.

As someone I used to know was

walking home from work one day, he saw a woman in an alley being brutally assaulted and raped and couldn’t stop himself from stepping in. No one should ever have to stop themselves from stepping in in a situation like this. He acted on his instincts and went to the rescue of the woman in distress. There were two assailants and one of him, so naturally, he had to use more force.

As a large man who was at the time also worried for his safety, he applied the amount of force he felt necessary and this resulted in the later deaths of the two men who were assaulting this innocent woman.

He’s still sitting in a jail cell to this day, separated from his two young children and wife, who’s now left alone to support their family.

His life will never be the same – he’s now seen as a murderer, while any police officer would be considered a hero, and that’s just wrong.

It’s disturbing that this dispensation of justice seems so dependent on the status of the one who intervenes. When Parliament Hill sergeant-at-arms Kevin Vickers shot Michael Zehaf-Bibeau down, as he ran towards the Parliament buildings wielding a gun, after murdering Cpl. Nathan Cirillo at his post in front of the war memo-

rial in Ottawa, Vickers was hailed as a hero and subsequently named Canadian ambassador to Ireland.

Of course, I have the utmost respect for what Vickers did and as an Ottawan was deeply sorrowed by the events of that day and will be forever grateful that no one else was harmed. But it begs the question: if I had been in front of the Parliament building that day and shot Zehaf-Bibeau, would I have been charged and maybe even gone to jail, rather than being honoured? If I shot down someone running at a group of citizens with a gun, would I be considered a vigilante and spend the rest of my life in prison?

Any person capable of saving a life should have the right to do so, whether they have a badge on their chest or not. That’s not to say that people should be roaming the streets fighting crime, but if you’re there at the right time, you should be able to protect your fellow citizen without a serious fear of legal action, no matter your status.

Where the line between right and wrong is drawn seems vague and conditional. It’s not right that someone is sitting in a cell right now for saving a woman from getting raped and possibly murdered, but he is, and that’s not right.

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Humber Students’ Federation board rewo Election controversy in 2014 saw Tim Brilhante summarily disqualified in favour of a candidate who was rejected at AGM Christina Romualdo NEWS REPORTER

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ime heals all wounds.

That’s the position the Humber Students’ Federation is taking with respect to this year’s executive election.

As many students will remember, last year’s election ended with presidential incumbent Tim Brilhante being disqualified from the race less than 24 hours before results were announced.

In government, they don’t have a ‘re-do’ of an election just because they don’t like who was voted in.

Ercole Perrone

HSF EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Brilhante had been leading the race, with more than 2,400 students voting for him.

Five days later, at an emotional Board of Directors meeting, Brilhante brought up his disqualification and asked for the chance to appeal the decision. He argued because his removal from the race meant he was no longer considered a candidate, he was not afforded the right to appeal.

Brilhante’s request to appeal was ultimately denied.

His disqualification raised many questions about the rights of candidates and the protection of students’ votes once a candidate is ousted from the race.

As such, the Humber Students’ Federation faced the issue of how to avoid repeating such controversial events in the future. The Governance Review Committee (GRC), a sub-committee of HSF’s Board of Directors, was tasked with finding a solution to that particular dilemma.

Current Board of Directors chair Eric Collings was

hawn Manahan, left, addresses a Humber Students’ Federation candidates gathering. Manahan, who is running for HSF president again this year, because presid

one of four voting members that met throughout the summer to evaluate the organization’s governance documents.

“We look at everything, not just the Elections and Appeals policy. Every year, every

policy gets reviewed,” said Collings.

The committee consulted with a lawyer on several changes and reworded certain policies to be more in line with the Federation’s constitution.

The biggest changes came

down to wording in the Elections and Appeals policy.

“What you’ll notice if you were to compare the specific elections and appeals policy from last year to this year is that we took out ambiguity, we tried to make it far more

clear in terms of what was in and out of scope with respect to the activities of a candidate,” said HSF Executive Director Ercole Perrone.

North VP of Student Affairs Odin von Doom said

the HSF “looked into the grey areas” of the election policy.

He said the committee aimed to put together more definitive rules to strike a balance between being too strict and too lenient.

One of the key changes

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orks policy after election debacle last year that the rights of voters and candidates were being protected,” said von Doom, who sat on the committee as a non-voting member.

Perrone stands by the way HSF moved forward from the controversy.

“Certainly, it wasn’t anything that we were happy about or proud of, but at the same time we didn’t want to make any knee-jerk reactions because of a single incident that transpired in the past eight years,” he said.

Perrone said the HSF did the right thing by stepping back and reviewing the election process.

For returning students, the key to moving forward is learning lessons. Presidential candidate Ahmed Tahir said

“If you look at any big corporation or organization, the AGM is there to say, do you recognize the results or not.”

Ercole Perrone

HSF EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

CHRISTINA ROMUALDO

dent-elect last year after the summary disqualification of incumbent Tim Brilhante but his victory was narrowly overturned at Annual General Meeting.

to the policy was a direct response to last year’s annual general meeting (AGM).

The contentious and abrupt end to Brilhante’s campaign meant that runner-up, Shawn Manahan, was proclaimed the presi-

dent-elect of Humber’s student government.

At the HSF AGM, students voted 90-89 against the motion to accept the results from the presidential race, leaving both Manahan and the Federation in the lurch.

The GRC responded directly to this by tightening up the language around that procedure, also known as ratification of election.

“Technically speaking, if you look at any big corporation or organization, the AGM

is there to say, do you recognize the results or not,” said Collings. “(The person elected) got the job regardless.”

He said that, in government, you don’t have a “re-do” of an election just because they don’t like who was voted in.

“That has been adjusted and now the board will report the results of the election to the members,” he said.

Ultimately, the goal was to act in the best interests of all those involved.

“We wanted to make sure

last year’s election taught him two things.

“First, it helped our organization in terms of redoing our policy,” he said. “But, it also taught me that when there’s something worthy of their time to come out, apathy doesn’t exist.

“Students are more than willing to come out and stand for something,” he said.

For new students, the updated policies are the only evidence of last year’s controversy.

“I didn’t even know about it until you brought it to my attention,” said first-year student Josh Welsh, who is running for VP Student Life for Lakeshore.

On the whole, Welsh agreed with the committee’s concern to protect students’ votes.

The executives “are elected from the students by the students. Having anyone else to interfere with that is not really fair,” said Welsh.

At HSF’s all-candidates forum, held at the North campus student centre on Tuesday, the debate was lively, civil and courteous. Last year’s problems were not invoked.

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March 6, 2015

PHOTOS BY KATIE JONES

A group of students practice yoga in the Humber North campus library as part of four day stress relieving Recess event this past week.

Yoga, massage at library de-stress event Katie Jones A&E REPORTER

The four-day Humber event Recess in the Library is known to help students de-stress.

From March 2 to 5 Humber’s North campus library teamed up with the First Year Experience program and the International Centre.

One of the series of events, known as Massage on Wheels, aimed to help calm students with an offering of massages, yoga and the opportunity to make homemade stress balls.

“This is the first time we’ve ever worked together to build an event and we thought it was a great opportunity to do a joint partnership,” said Aliya Dalen, a Business and Hospitality, Recreation and Tourism student, experienced librarian, and one of the chief organizers of the event.

“We also tried to get other student

support and services involved. We have Humber Athletics helping us, Public Safety working with us, and the Aboriginal Centre,” said Dalen.

The recess was intended to give students a break from their busy schedules and find some time to relax.

“I think it’s a great way of having that bit of relief and I think it’s important to the overall experience of school,” Dalen said. “I think we ask a lot in terms of writing papers and exams, there is a lot of work involved, so it is nice to give a little bit of fresh air to the heavy work load.”

Mobeen Sheikh, the president of Humber’s Good Deeds Club, said, “I think it’s really good that the faculty is organizing such an event. They realize that students can have some break downs, I can have them when there’s a lot on my plate.”

“So when I have a little bit of time to get together with some people that I haven’t met yet and know we all share

Lakeshore Interpretive Centre invites community Corey Brehaut A&E REPORTER

People have lots of ideas for interpreting Humber College’s new Interpretive Centre.

Humber faculty and Lakeshore community members met to discuss the direction of the Lakeshore Grounds Interpretive Centre last Sunday at Lakeshore campus.

“I think that this is a space that’s going to be a celebration of Etobicoke Lakeshore,” said Tara Mazurk, curator of the new Centre.

The gathering was in a spacious, high ceilinged room adorned with murals and concept paintings of the new Welcome Centre. For the afternoon of discussion, the tables had markers and white paper with the words Aboriginal History, Civ-

Yoga is a great thing that anyone can do, regardless of your skill level, your age, anyone can do yoga to the best of your ability.

Alice Sulman

REGISTERED YOGA INSTRUCTOR

KATIE JONES

Students unwinding with back rubs for Massage on Wheels at library.

an interest in de-stressing, I think it is a great way to get together and release some anxiety,” Sheikh said.

ic Engagement, Environment, and Mental Health written on it.

It started with an address from Mazurk in which she said the Interpretive Centre will be part of the school’s plans for a new Welcome Centre. Its purpose is to acknowledge and engage the history of the Lakeshore area including its origin on Native land and time as a psychiatric hospital, she said.

Mazurk opened the topic of what the centre should focus on to a group discussion with Lakeshore residents and community group members after that. The paper on the tables had the five themes writ-

Alice Sulman is a registered yoga teacher who teaches at Humber Athletics. She is also an Aca-

Our community’s never had an opportunity to showcase ourselves like this.

Terry Smith

FRIENDS OF SAM SMITH PARK

ten on them and specific ideas were added with marker.

Some of the ideas were about beautifying the Lakeshore grounds with butterfly gardens and naturally growing herbal medicine. Others focused on having events such as

demic Advisor at the University of Guelph-Humber.

Sulman said she believes yoga can help reduce stress, get blood flowing and the mind centered.

“Yoga is a great thing that anyone can do, regardless of your skill level, your age, anyone can do yoga to the best of their ability,” she said.

“You just go to the limit of your own body and take tiny steps to stretching each day. Being mindful of making time for yourself .”

oral history and storytelling, reducing the stigma of mental illness and celebrating multiculturalism.

“Our community’s never had an opportunity to showcase ourselves like this,” said Terry Smith, a member of Friends of Sam Smith Park, a community group dedicated to preserving green space in the area.

Next steps are to research the suggestions from the open house, meet with community organizations and create an event strategy for the next five years, Mazurk said.

“We really want the community to be proud of it,” said Wanda Buote, principal of Lakeshore campus.

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Humber theatre takes auditions on road Nationwide tryouts to be made available for people who want to join performance program Charlotte Morritt-Jacobs A&E REPORTER

This spring, Humber’s Theatre Performance program will open its doors to applicants nationwide during a first ever cross-Canada audition tour.

Two full-time Humber faculty members will be traveling to audition sessions in Toronto, Vancouver, Winnipeg, and Halifax.

Each year, anywhere from 400 to 600 aspiring actors audition for Humber’s Theatre Performance program.

Competition will intensify this year with the national tour as class sizes are expected to stay the same.

Only 34 to 36 applicants will make the cut said Paul DeJong, program coordinator for the Theatre Performance program.

Auditions have been opened up coast to coast to highlight cultural diversity, which reflects the program’s vision, he said.

Unlike other Ontario theatre school applications, which only last an hour, Humber auditions are a day-long affair.

Humber faculty members want to spend a full day with applicants getting to know one another and discussing the program.

This offers applicants an opportunity to decide whether the program fits their education criteria, DeJong said.

The fullz day includes one hour of orientation and a written essay application to assess language skills.

After this, students break into two groups. One group does a voice and movement workshop, while the other group forms a physical theatre

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Grace Thompson, left, and Ashleigh Genrick-Moss, practice for a Humber Theatre Performance program work.

creation workshop.

Students can expect to do rigorous unconventional improvisation training as they prepare to perform their monologue, DeJong said.

“More than anything, applicants should come prepared to play and show their spontaneity” DeJong said. “We aren’t looking for polished performers. We are looking for potential students who are passionate about the world, curious about training and have a desire to push the theatrical envelope.”

Applicants are not restricted to

perform a contemporary or classical monologue. They’re encouraged to write and perform their own pieces.

Grace Thompson, a second year Theatre Performance student, said she chose Humber because of the audition process.

“I wanted to go to a school where I could create my own work. I wasn’t interested in going to a theatre school that was strictly text work.

The other schools I auditioned for were more text focused,” she said.

Many Humber theatre students expressed their concern over the

Breen film an ode to Toronto Mahnoor Yawar A&E REPORTER

If you film it, they will come, at least the first couple of times.

Writer and director Gregory Breen learned that soon after launching a crowdfunding campaign for his debut feature film The Long Night last spring.

“We crowdfunded my thesis film (Steven Myerschmidt Bites the Big One) and for (my previous short film) Clara. We weren’t hoping for as much money, and it was a new experience for friends and family, so they were way more willing to contribute,” the Humber grad said.

The campaign to cover The Long Night’s production costs raised just

under half its intended goal of $15,000.

Despite a significantly smaller budget, Breen and his team managed to pull off their elaborate ode to Toronto with only minor logistical issues.

The Long Night is the story of a young Irish immigrant in Toronto who runs afoul of a local drug lord.

He becomes intimately involved with the seedy underbelly of the city as he is sent on a subsequent pickup mission over the course of one night.

“It is a love letter to Toronto, but not a cinematic impression of it like Woody Allen does with New York,” Breen said about the film. “We wanted to show the city we love but also explain its faults.”

An Irish native, Breen graduated from both the Film and TV Production advanced diploma pro-

gram and the Bachelor of Applied Arts at Humber College. Much of the cast and crew had worked with him on previous projects at Humber and beyond.

“Greg has a really great vision.

He has a real gift for translating something from paper to screen,” said actress Cheryl Poirier who plays the lead’s Canadian cousin in The Long Night and co-hosts a podcast with Breen called Explicit NonSense.

“He’s the craft, I’m the colour.” “(Film) is a collaborative medium by its very nature,” Breen said of working with strong collaborators in the process of bringing his vision to screen.

“If I weren’t interested in that kind of collaboration, I’d be writing

lack of diversity and voices in theatre schools.

Thompson said she felt many schools rely too heavily on accepting a certain “type” of person rather than welcoming applicants that bring different styles of theatre from other cultures.

Samantha Nonan, a second year Theatre Performance student, also cited her audition as a positive experience and said she was less nervous for her Humber audition than she was for other auditions.

“I was less afraid to audition lat-

er on in the day because we had warmed up with the workshops.

Other schools made me feel intimidated with the strict atmosphere and I felt all alone,” she said.

It is up to the person who is auditioning to make the most of what they bring to the table as in performance and energy as an actor, Nonan said.

Auditions for Humber’s Theatre Performance program will be held at North campus, Vancouver, Winnipeg and Halifax until May 16.

It is a love letter to Toronto, but not a cinematic impression of it like Woody Allen does with New York.

Gregory Breen

WRITER AND DIRECTOR THE LONG NIGHT

novels or something.”

The Long Night also marks the first feature film for his co-executive producer and editor Rob Freeman, who is immersed in the post-production process.

“It was a stressful three weeks of shooting. We compressed 11 locations and 15 shooting days (into a short period of time),” said Freeman.

Freeman said, however, the chal-

PHOTO BY MAHNOOR YAWAR

lenges of the process are part of what makes filmmaking a unique experience.

“If it were easy, everyone would be doing it,” he said.

The Long Night is currently in post-production with a limited release expected this summer.

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March 6, 2015

FINANCE

Students struggle to earn and learn Christine Tippett LIFE REPORTER

Shalini Soosaipillai wakes up at 6:15 a.m. each Thursday, trekking an hour downtown on public transportation to go to her special needs childcare internship for eight hours and then travels another hour back.

It sounds tiring, but it’s what many Torontonians do every day.

The day doesn’t end there for Soosaipillai, a third year Family and Community Social Services student at the University of Guelph-Humber.

She then spends another few hours working on campus, sometimes until midnight to get schoolwork done in a peaceful setting away from her seven roommates.

“I can’t study at home because I have seven other roommates in the house so the Internet is too slow,” Soosaipillai said.

Soosaipillai isn’t alone. Many Humber students work part time while attending school.

Christine Colosimo, a Humber career advisor, said she understands why students need to work, but also wants them to keep in mind why they’re working.

Soosaipillai works 21 hours a week at Humber’s Career Centre and has placement 16 hours a week at Centennial Infant and Child Centre, a preschool for children with special needs.

That’s not to mention the 15 hours of class a week, the many hours she spends on campus staying on top of her schoolwork and the time she puts in as a member of the executive team for the Best Buddies club.

Soosaipillai works hard to help pay for school, but the effort she puts in pays off.

She has enough money saved up to pay for her fourth year of university

and loves the work she does outside of class.

“Since I’ve been working for a while now I can pay off my fourth year with the money I’ve made,” she said.

It’s tough to stay on top of schoolwork while working part-time, but Colosimo said the key to success is time management.

“Those are the most successful students, the ones who can stay really organized,” she said.

Hannah Simpson, a first year Police Foundations student, works 15 to 20 hours a week and feels overwhelmed daily.

She has class three days a week and works the other four days. She wishes she could work less but that’s not an option.

Both of her sisters are also in school, and her dad recently had to take a couple months off of work due to an accident.

Those are the most successful students, the ones that can stay organized.

Christine Colosimo

HUMBER CAREER ADVISOR

Simpson said it hard to find time to study but does the best she can by planning ahead and reaching out to Humber instructors for help.

She said working more makes her more productive.

“I always look at my work schedule ahead of time and go through my agenda to figure out what assignments I have due and I always plan accordingly,” she said.

Simpson finds it very helpful that Humber instructors are always available and willing to help as well.

CHRISTINE TIPPETT

Family and Community Social Services student Shalini Soosaipillai, 20, can feel overwhelmed but loves her job at Humber Career Centre.

She’s among many who balance a tight schedule of class and work.

Annual tax clinic spurs student financial planning Continued from Page 1

Goldhaber recommends arming oneself with knowledge, particularly when it comes to income taxes.

“I would say do your research,” said Goldhaber.

“A lot of people are intimidated by taxes and the CRA, which is understandable when you’re not exposed to it, but once you start to understand the system, it’s really not hard, it’s really not complicated, and the CRA is not out to get you,” she said. That’s where HSF can help.

In addition to the annual tax clinic, students can book a free budget consultation online year-round. The goal of the consultation is to look at the student’s income and expenditures to come up with a budget that will allow them to live within their means and avoid consumer debt.

“A lot of students are graduating with large amounts of OSAP debt and the last thing you want on top of that is credit card debt,” said Goldhaber.

For some students, finances are strained not only from tuition but the cost of supplies. This is the primary concern for Devon Ross, 20, a second-year student in Humber’s Visual and Digital Arts program.

“Constantly buying new supplies is the biggest strain on my budget,” said Ross.

Pereira says the most common mistake is spending beyond their means.

“You want to try to have the least amount of debt or monthly expense as possible. It’s not really about how much you make, it’s about how much you spend,” said Pereira.

But it’s not all financial gloom.

“I think it’s important for students to understand that this is a temporary time in your life where you’re going to have to be strict about your money. You work hard, you get a job and you can pamper yourself later on,” said Goldhaber.

HSF’s tax clinic runs from March 16 to 27 on an appointment and drop-in basis.

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Life – 13

HEALTH

Right foods can balance blood sugar, energize for whole day Nadia Monaco LIFE REPORTER

SHAUN FITL

Smoking will only be permitted beyond the painted yellow line outside residence building to protect non-smoking students from second hand smoke.

Smoking farther from residence Humber to strictly limit habit to designated areas outdoors on campus Shaun Fitl LIFE REPORTER

Not many people like breathing in a cloud of cigarette smoke.

Humber residence staff will now document people smoking too close to residence.

The $50 smoking fine is not new and “smoking is only permitted outside the residence in designated areas… beyond the yellow painted lines,” said Residence Life Coordinator Meaghan McNeil, quoting the

residence code of conduct.

However, residence staff has “tightened up” on the regulation because of concerns about their community’s quality of life on campus, said McNeil.

“We were hearing from students that they were having to walk through a huge cloud of smoke to get in the building,” said McNeil.

The issue goes beyond momentary unpleasantness.

“Negative health effects of second hand smoke include lung cancer and other lung diseases,” said Dr. Teresa Loucks-Gray, a radiologist at Brampton Civic Hospital, who cited emphysema and bronchitis as two examples.

However, “it can be difficult to es-

tablish whether a patient, a nonsmoker, who gets lung cancer got it from exposure to secondhand smoke or for other reasons,” said Dr. Loucks-Gray.

A lot of people find smoke irritating and some can feel ill after inhaling even a bit.

Promotion of healthier living spaces is important to residence staff and the added firmness on the smoking regulation demonstrates they have concern for the people in their community, McNeil said.

“This was affecting students with medical issues and just wasn’t creating the environment we wanted to have coming in the door to our community,” she said.

McNeil is confident students

Humber Spa has professional oversight Christina McAllister LIFE REPORTER

There are pros and cons to offering services managed and performed by students.

Pro, the services are exponentially cheaper.

Con, the services are not performed by professionals with years of experience.

The Spa at Humber College is managed by students in the Cosmetics, Esthetician and Spa Management program.

Yet because of how well supervised the students are, Humber Spa manager, Antonietta Perretta, says she trusts the facility over traditional spas.

“The great thing is that they have lab technologists that are in the room, three professionals that

are full-time and we also hire a few part-timers ” Students in the first year have no direct contact with clients but perform procedures on models they recruit, said Perretta.

“Every student will be tested before they work on clients until they offer service at an expertise level,” she said.

Students begin performing procedures on paying customers in the second year of the program.

“These are graduating students,” she said. “By now we are confident in the students.”

Students begin to perform more invasive procedures in the fourth semester, such as microdermabrasion, Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) laser treatment, chemical peels and laser hair removal.

Contrary to popular belief, these

treatments do not have to be performed by medical professionals.

In Ontario, estheticians do not require certificates to perform any esthetic service, said Perretta.

Perretta said she is more inclined to trust a spa at an educational institution over professional spas.

Perretta said the presence of a lab technician guarantees the procedures will be performed at professional levels.

First year Humber student in the Spa Management and Esthetician Program Natasha Mohammed said she is nervous to begin practicing invasive procedures on clients.

“You don’t know how people are going to react,” she said, “It’s like customer service but it’s people’s beauty in your hands.”

Mohammed said this stems from her fear of pain; she does not feel

will follow the regulations with the added incentive and also because of their empathy towards others.

“I think they recognize that not many people are a fan of cigarette smoke, even people who do smoke… it’s not enjoyable to have to walk through that to get into your home,” said McNeil.

“The farther away you are from somebody who is smoking the less chance there is of you getting second-hand smoke,” said Julia Logozzo, a first-year Justice Studies student at University of Guelph-Humber and on-campus resident.

Logozzo doesn’t think the regulations are a significant inconvenience to smokers.

Every student will be tested before they work on clients until they offer service at an expertise level.

Antonietta Perretta

HUMBER SPA MANAGER

comfortable inflicting pain on clients with invasive procedures. But she confident because of the guidance she receives from her instructors.

The clientele at The Humber Spa is split evenly between Humber students and employees, said Assistant Lab Technician Amber Pastor.

Pastor said the most popular procedures performed at The Spa are laser hair removal and microdermabrasion.

The Tim Horton’s line on campus could be shorter if students began eating healthier instead of drinking coffee to stay awake.

Coffee and energy drinks may provide an instant energy boost but experts say it is possible to stay awake and feel revitalized by drinking enough water and eating the right foods.

Holistic nutritionist Mirna Sharafeddine said drinking water is number one on the list for staying energized.

Sharafeddine said eating fruits and vegetables that have higher water content, such as cucumbers and watermelon, are great options as well.

She said balancing blood sugar levels are key to maintaining a good energy level.

“This starts in the morning…with breakfast that has a good source of protein, anything from eggs to hemp seeds,” Sharafeddine said.

Kristi Waddell, 23, a student at Humber College in the child and youth worker program understands the importance of drinking water to keep the body functioning properly.

She said she drinks a minimum of three litres of water per day.

Waddell said she is conscious of what she eats and makes sure to get the right balance of fruits, vegetables, protein, and grain products.

“I make sure to get a minimum of seven hours of sleep per night in order to stay energized throughout the day,” said Waddell. “I also try to get a minimum of 30 minutes of exercise a day.”

She admits to enjoying her coffee in the morning to get her day going but will only have one to two cups throughout the day and does not drink energy drinks.

Sharafeddine said eating food with high fibre like sweet potatoes and cherries helps maintain good energy levels. Also high vitamin B foods such as quinoa, beans and legumes.

People need to nourish the brain and nervous system with healthy fats like Omega 3s, such as avocados, almonds, olive oils and coconut oil, Sharafeddine said.

Sharafeddine recommends eating foods with probiotics, such as yogurt, to support digestion as well as foods that support the liver in order to metabolize the nutrients put into the body. Liver supporting foods would be ginger, artichoke, and dark leafy greens.

Catherine Devos, a holistic nutritionist, believes green smoothies are a fantastic way to keep the body energized.

“It sets you off with energy for the whole day,” Devos said.

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14 – TheGoods

March 6, 2015

HOROSCOPES by LUCY SKY JAN. 20 – FEB. 19

AQUARIUS

Having an open mind in life is important. Be it for your personal life, or just in general, make sure not to close your mind to new things. You could miss out on something really great.

PISCES

MAY 21 – JUN. 20

GEMINI

Risk may be your middle name, but maybe you should take a break from all the risktaking in the upcoming weeks. You never know.

CANCER

SEPT. 22 – OCT. 22

LIBRA

You’ve been questioning yourself lately and while that isn’t always a bad thing, you have no reason to right now. You’re doing great, keep it up.

SCORPIO

It’s your month and what a month it’s been. The stars seem to have aligned in your favor, but don’t get too used to it. It’s not going to last forever.

“Not quite. It’s the first time doing them this year but I plan to consult my parents.”

ARIES

Home is where the heart is and being far from it can take quite the toll on someone. It’s time for a visit!

APR. 21 – MAY 20

TAURUS

While you don’t need to explain yourself, you may want to make sure you have some back up when you go forward on your next few excursions, or they may not end the way you planned.

JUN. 21 – JUL. 22

JUL. 23 – AUG. 22

AUG. 23 – SEPT. 21

To say the least, you haven’t been having an easy time lately. Things will start looking up in the coming weeks though, so don’t stress too much.

Something big is coming. Be it good or bad, strap yourself in.

You might not be quite ready for this one just yet.

Love is in the stars for you this week. Whether it’s a significant other, a family member, or your best friend.

Someone is going to make you feel just as special as you deserve to feel every day.

LEO

VIRGO

OCT. 23 – NOV. 21

NOV. 22 – DEC. 20

DEC. 21 – JAN. 19

Someone asks you what you’ve been up to and you find yourself saying “oh same old, same old, ya know?” That can get tiring, so break out of your shell and do something new.

It’s been a rocky road to where you are now, but you got there on your own, so be proud of yourself. Don’t ever let go of what you’ve worked so hard for and remember, all you need is you.

Change isn’t your favourite thing, but it’s in your best interest if you want to accomplish the goals you’ve set for yourself.

QUOTED: DO YOU FEEL COMFORTABLE DOING YOUR OWN TAXES?

“I haven’t been educated to do so. My father does it because he’s self employed and I haven’t reached that point where I feel like I have to.”

MAR. 21 – APR. 20

FEB. 20 – MAR. 20

“I’ve been doing them for four years now. Before, I got them done at H&R Block but it’s just cheaper to do them online yourself.”

SAGITTARIUS

CAPRICORN

TO THE NINES

Tosin Stacy Ijatoye Mitchell Ber, 21 Media Foundations

SCHOOL DAZE

Esther Adebamiro, 21 Business Administration

David Uveges, 24 Design Foundations

COMIC BY JORDAN BIORDI

19 Early Childhood Education

Shirt:Urban Heritage Pants: Urban Heritage Beanie: Urban Heritage Boots: Sketchers Tosin said she came to Humber to study Early Childhood Education because she loves kids and wants to know how they think and why. Her fashion inspiration comes from Chris Brown and her own personal taste.

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March 6, 2015

Sports – 15

Basketball veteran Bewley hits finale Mathew Hatley SPORTS REPORTER

ALI AMAD

Humber North’s Kate Vindis stands poised to take her penalty during the shootout in final of UTM tournament.

Co-ed extramural ends in shootout Ali Amad

SPORTS REPORTER

Humber North’s coed indoor soccer extramural team was only a penalty kick away from victory, but finished just wide in the final of the winter extramural tournament hosted by University of Toronto - Mississauga last Friday.

Humber had a strong presence in the eight-team intercollegiate tournament, with both Humber North and Lakeshore teams easily navigating the group stage to reach the knockout rounds. They faced off against each other in a hotly contested semi-final for the right to play Wilfred Laurier University-Brantford for the title.

Humber North would prevail after first year Business Management student Thier

Nunguwenimana, also a varsity cross-country team member, scored the game-winner with under a minute left on the clock to break Humber Lakeshore’s hearts.

“It was tough luck,” said Humber Lakeshore coach Stephanie Raines.

“We lost in the semis which is unfortunate, but Humber North is a good team,” she said. “They’re our main rivals so I think we gave it our all.”

Nunguwenimana’s goal followed a momentary mental lapse by Lakeshore’s defenders that ended with the ball in the net.

“We just didn’t get there fast enough,” said second year Lakeshore player Mark Grzesowski. “It was missed communication and a really fast shot and that’s that.”

The deadly tandem of

Nunguwenimana and Kate Vindis was particularly lethal for Humber North, as they combined for nine goals in the tournament.

“I think Thier’s awesome,” said third year University of Guelph-Humber student Vindis. “We worked well as a team out there and he kept hooking me up for shots.”

Vindis scored crucial goals three games in a row to take Humber North to the final and she would save her best for last. Wilfred Laurier University-Brantford scored early to take charge of the game until Vindis saw her opportunity.

Alone and unchallenged near the net, Vindis volleyed spectacularly into the top corner. It was a moment of brilliance the team desperately needed to take the game to extra time and penalties.

A tense and nail-biting shootout saw Humber fail to convert on any of their attempts after Laurier scored with their very first attempt to hand them the victory.

Both Humber teams had lots of positives to take from a tournament that made up for its lack of glamour with hardfought intensity.

Humber North coach José Caro, a fourth year Psychology student at University of Guelph-Humber and varsity soccer team member, said his players don’t get the recognition they deserve.

“People may say extramurals is not competitive but it is quite competitive,” he said.

“We practiced pretty hard and did a good job. We have a lot of talent for an extramurals team and I’m proud, I’m very proud of them,” Caro said.

The old sports adage that there is always next year simply doesn’t apply for Humber’s point guard Chad Bewley.

Bewley is in his final year of postsecondary eligibility after three years at York University and a pair of seasons with the Hawks.

But for Bewley, it‘s just business as usual.

Hawks team mate Tyrone Dickson said no one shows as much passion for the sport as the charismatic Bewley.

“His hunger for basketball is crazy. He plays every day,” said Dickson.

The team’s season could come to swift end if the number one seeded Hawks suffer defeat in their first knockout game against Lambton College today.

The team is still upbeat about its chances and Humber’s Gibson Eduful hopes they can enjoy a few more games with Bewley leading the way, because Bewley’s Humber story ends when the Hawks season ends.

“Chad’s a great captain.

Whenever things aren’t going as planned, Chad’s usually the one bringing us back together,” Eduful Said.

Confidence is not something that is missing from Bewley as he keeps his mind focused on the provincials ahead.

“Size and depth are our key. We feel we are the best team in the country. Now we just have to play the games to prove it,” he said.

Bewley’s story began playing postsecondary ball for York University and reminisces about his time with the Lions.

“York is a really big school and it’s had some big time players,” Bewley said.

The humble veteran is quick to acknowledge those that have helped him along the way. People including York’s alumni point guard Tut Ruach, who is now playing ball for KFUM Nassjo in Sweden.

“Tut was one of the vets when I first came in and he’s really helped me grow as a basketball player,” said Bewley.

The journey of transferring from York to the smaller Humber is one that Bewley has not travelled alone and he singles out the Hawks’ varsity co-ordinator, James Depoe for his efforts.

“I’ve had so many different levels of support but James has had a huge impact on our team and me specifically,” Bewley said.

Bewley hopes his name after Humber is one that will still continue to grow.

“Just like every wide-eyed basketball player, I want to play pro. I’m ready to push myself as hard as I can to get there. Besides that, it’s in God’s hands,” he said.

Bewley will eventually lose the fight against the Humber clock but he insists the blue and gold will always be a part of him.

“Humber feels like family to me and I’m going to enjoy every last step of it,” Bewley said.

Women’s soccer gets to indoor regional finals Alexandra Martino SPORTS REPORTER

The Humber women’s indoor soccer team stamped its ticket to the provincials Monday, finishing first in its tournament pool at the OCAA regional finals.

The day had its share of peaks and valleys for the team, according to forward Stefany Santos, a third-year Travel and Leisure student.

“We started slow but were able to pick it up despite the fact we’re missing a few players because of injuries,” Santos said.

The slow start did not stop Humber from winning

its first game of the day easily over St. Lawrence College-Cornwall.

In their second game, the Hawks dominated possession and outshot Fleming but suffered from inaccuracies and rushed play at the net.

“We kept attacking and tried getting a goal but couldn’t,” said Santos.

Humber was down 1-0 after the first half against Fleming.

“It was an unlucky shot that went in but we just had to take our time and stay positive,” said Mauro Ongaro, assistant coach of women’s indoor soccer.

The second half saw the Hawks playing catch up and rushing the ball to Fleming’s net but their attack was matched by strong defense.

“Their goalkeeper played a very good game and the defense was strong but I think we were able to pull through,” said Vince Pileggi, Humber’s head coach.

Humber finally equalized in the last five minutes of the second half making it past Fleming with a 1-1 tie and staying in contention for provincials.

Humber returned to form in the final game against Centennial College.

The raucous Centennial

sideline was quickly silenced after Humber capitalized on a corner kick to open up the scoring.

Humber would stand their ground offensively and secure their spot atop their regional pool with a relatively easy 4-0 victory.

The women’s indoor soccer team now has the provincial championships in sight and knows what needs to be done before they take the trip to Ancaster.

“The goal is always to win at provincials, but we’re going to spend the next couple weeks preparing and getting our girls healthy so we’ll be ready,” said Pileggi.

ALEXANDRA MARTINO

Alora Walcott makes a move on the Fleming College defenders to get a shot on net at OCAA regionals last Monday.

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March 6, 2015

Women’s volleyball headed to nationals Continued from Page 1

...gold medal, and then the focus turns to rectifying not having won a medal in the past seven years at nationals.

“We’ll share a few fruits and juices tonight, then we’ll get right back at it,” said coach Wilkins.

The Hawks now set their sights on the National Championship in Longueuil, Quebec, starting March 12.

“We’ve left a little bit on the table the last few years,” said Wilkins. “But I think this team has a shot to do it.”

Humber enters nationals as the sixth ranked team in the nation, but feels they’re better than that, Wilkins said.

“I think this is a top three team in the country,” said Wilkins. “If we work as hard as we did tonight, I think we’ll have a good shot (at the gold).”

Compared to her past Humber OCAA Championship winning teams, this one has a special feel to it, said Hanniman.

“We work hard and I’m really excited to go to nationals,” she said.

ANDY REDDING

Humber Hawks women’s volleyball team won its eighth consecutive OCAA championship last weekend to advance to Canada-wide competition.

Hanniman tops OCAA honours Hawks volleyballer is Player of the Year, captain of top team Katherine Green SPORTS REPORTER

Humber reigns supreme and takes home the top hardware yet again.

Fourth year chief hitter Thalia Hanniman, of Pembroke, Ont., has earned plenty of accolades during her Humber volleyball career, but none as prestigious as the OCAA’s highest individual honour.

Ontario coaches named All-Canadian Hanniman as the OCAA Player of the Year at the 2015 Provincial Championship Award’s Banquet held in Burlington, Ont., on Feb. 26.

Humber’s captain and top recipient succeeds former Hawk’s superstar Kelly Nyhoff who took home the same MVP award in the previous two seasons, and it marked the fourth time a Hawks’ female volleyball player won player of the year in the last five years.

Hanniman currently ranks first in the OCAA for overall points per set and fourth in

the nation for kills averaging 3.55 a set, making her a standout presence in every game of Humber’s undefeated record.

Despite this impeccable attack record, the three-time All-Canadian modestly reveals that she didn’t anticipate her name was going to take top spot amongst Ontario’s best.

“I hoped for it because I worked hard all year, but I didn’t really expect the award at all,” Hanniman said.

In true captain form, the three-time All-Canadian attributes her success on the court to the performance of her teammates.

“We have a lot of bangers on our team,” said Hanniman. “With all our big hitters and with our hard work as a team we looked good (in the 2014-15 season).”

Humber’s Athletics Manager Jim Bialek and fellow Humber varsity community have no problem expressing their pride in the Humber volleyball star. Bailek praises Hanniman’s ability to be the dynamic attacking edge the Hawks’ formula needed in prior years.

“Humber has produced the top middles in the province

if not the country,” he said.

“What Humber has lacked was a real consistent outside hitting presence. And what Thalia is able to bring is a real outside hitting presence.

“Now we have weapons all over,” said Bailek.

Head Coach Chris Wilkins is known for his staff ’s ability to develop players into some of Canada’s most elite assets in the sport of volleyball. In Thalia’s case, he admits it comes down to her intense drive and work ethic.

“I knew she was going to be good, but I had no idea she

I knew she was going to be good, but I had no idea she would develop to become this good.

Chris Wilkins

HEAD COACH WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL

would develop to become this good,” he said. “It was nice to see with her work ethic how she pushed herself to be better with every year.

“First year she was a role player coming off the bench, and next year she got herself

Varsity operation team at work behind scenes Jessica Reyes SPORTS REPORTER

KATHERINE GREEN

Thalia Hanniman was named the MVP of the OCAA Championship tournament while leading the Humber Hawks to a record-breaking eighth consecutive provincial gold.

to start, and then the next year she was an all-star, and then by this year she was an All-Canadian and player of the year,” said Wilkins.

The women’s volleyball team now looks towards a gold medal finish at Nationals, a feat that’s eluded them time and time again. But onlookers recognize the squad has ironed out its wrinkles, and with Thalia at the helm of this big-hitting team, a CCAA Championship may be within reach.

“The bottom line is Thalia has been able to increase her presence in every game because the team has become stronger at more positions on the court,” Bailek said. “And this will make all the difference at the National stage.”

Duaine Bowles is the man behind the cheering crowds and pumping music at Hawks varsity home games.

Bowles, head of Humber’s varsity operations, says it takes about two hours to set up the party for home-games.

Depending on the event, if it’s indoor or outdoor, it can take up to 15 people to get everything ready.

“As soon as the doors open I tell my staff that we need to make sure that everything is 100 per cent ready to go, “ Bowles said. “The music is pumping, and you’re walking into an event, not just a game.

“We don’t spend too much money, as far as our game set up goes. We already have a lot of the stuff in house,” he said.

Humber’s booster association, Hawks Nation, greets fans coming into the gym and hands out swag.

Matthew Bukovec, small forward for the men’s basketball team, says the Hawks Nation creates a lively atmosphere with free popcorn and an opportunity for one fan to win a pair of house seats and

dinner.

“The only thing they should improve on is getting the crowd to be more involved by chanting ‘defence’ to create a momentum for an advantage for us,” Bukovec said.

Fraser McKeown, a second-year business student at Humber, said he’s been part of the varsity operation team since September 2014 and is enjoying it.

McKeown said some of his duties are to set up the stands, keeping score and ensuring a safe environment for everyone during all indoor games.

“It’s definitely worth looking into or at least applying for. It’s a good job to have while you’re in school and (need) flexible hours,” McKeown said.

Students who want to be part of the varsity operations team must be a full-time students available to work Tuesday to Thursday evenings and occasionally weekends.

“We don’t discriminate.

I have hired from just about every department within Humber College and Guelph Humber over the past two years,” Bowles said.