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UTM protests police shooting Walkout held in honour of Michael Brown, shot down by police in Missouri HASHIM YUSSUF UTM students gathered in front of the Davis Building for a rally last Wednesday in support of Michael Brown and other victims of police brutality.

Brown was a black teenager who was shot and killed while unarmed by police officer Darren Wilson in the United States on August 9.

The controversial circumstances in which he was killed and the resulting civil disobedience have caused outrage both in the U.S. and in Canada.

“I’m a fourth-year student and this is the first time I’ve seen something like this,” said Lakeisha Ferreira, who was satisfied with the event’s turnout.

Approximately 200 students attended the walkout, according to UTMSU VP equity Melissa Theodore.

Theodore spoke about the reason UTMSU held the rally. “We thought it was imperative that we stood or walked in solidarity with Mike Brown, his family, and his

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he is still getting paid and will be paid indefinitely. They are also paying extra security guards to protect him. Once again, institutionalized racism reigns.”

Like many students, incoming firstyear Tiffany Williams visited UTM over the summer for a campus tour.

Little did she know that her visit would win her over $7,000.

Student Housing & Residence Life hosted a “Take a Tour” contest this summer with a grand prize of a free room on residence, which according to the department’s website is a value of $7,424—the cost of the room alone, not including wireless internet, a laundry card, and other fees.

After Williams had finished touring the school, her tour guide led her and her family to the residences on campus. “When I was leaving, my tour guide told me about the contest and asked if I wanted to enter the draw,” said the business management student.

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Protestors at UTM were not met with the same opposition as those down south. community in Ferguson against anti-black racism, police brutality, and the militarization of police,” she said.

Asked why she felt that Wilson should be immediately arrested— instead of relying on the American justice system—Theodore said,

“This was a murder. Brown was unarmed; he was not a threat. Brown was shot at least six times. Being black is not a crime.

“Wilson is being protected by the justice system,” she continued. “In a town hall held on Tuesday night in Ferguson, it was confirmed that

City draws international students MENNA ELNAKA “We want you to feel at home. Secondly, we want you to stay. If you like Canada, and you like Mississauga, we would love you to stay with us,” said Mayor Hazel McCallion in the third annual International Student Welcome to Mississauga event in the Council Chamber.

The event was held last Friday at the Mississauga Civic Centre.

According to Susan Arming, Mississauga’s director of economic development, around 80 students attended the event from 20 different countries around the world.

The event was hosted by McCallion, UTM principal Deep Saini, and Jeff Zabudsky, president and chief executive officer of Sheridan College.

The purpose of the event, besides welcoming the new international

More welcome than ever Perfumes, free hot food, tables, and attractions—there was more even in the cool weather than last year.

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Transparent, not invisible Some of the bodies on this campus could really do with more freedom of information, for all our benefit.

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The rundown is here.

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International students, who made up about 20% of UTM’s population last year, at the Civic Centre. students, was to provide information about Mississauga and the services that are available to international students who live and learn in the city.

McCallion gave a speech in which she elaborated on how students represent the future of the countries to which they come. She also said she considers the students

citizens of Mississauga, and expressed her desire for them to feel at home.

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Streetsville prix fixe led to an odd encounter with an Italian waiter, but a pizza I couldn’t not finish.

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Varsity Blues hand York their butts on a plate in a record-setting homecoming victory downtown.

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Food, games, and fun at a bigger Welcome Week

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Students milling around on the first day that free food was given out.

NICOLE DANESI ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR Students were welcomed back to campus last week with a range of events hosted separately by UTMSU and the Department of Student Life.

Now in its second year, the Department of Student Life hosted a variety of events and activities on a grander scale than last year’s Welcome Week events, which only featured student services on campus.

“We thought it was a valuable event for not only new students coming to the university but also [for] those

that are returning in being oriented or reoriented with the campus,” said Zoya Tahir, a Student Life campus experience leader, and one of the main organizers of the festivities.

“Part of the feedback we received last year was that students wanted a greater reason to interact with the different groups,” Tahir added. “This is due to a few reasons: some students are shy, others are unsure of what is happening, and only a minority know what is available for them.

Thus, by making it more interactive this year we wanted to target those first two groups.”

As part of the Student Life festivi-

ties, the programming featured tours of the Hazel McCallion Academic Learning Centre as well as an opportunity to snap a selfie with Jimmi, the Career Centre mascot, participate in a library scavenger hunt, and create custom buttons.

“We have seen quite a bit of turnout at all the activities taking place this week,” says Tahir. “A popular one has been the writing activities hosted by the English & Drama Student Society. Students had the opportunity to drop by their booth this week in the Davis Meeting Place to take part in a creative writing contest, a writing prompts exercise, and a chance to

September 5, 11:03 a.m.

Medical Call Campus Police responded to a medical call in regards to a person who was injured while running for a Mississauga Transit Bus. Medical treatment was refused.

September 8, 8:15 p.m.

Medical Call Campus Police assisted a person who was feeling ill. ECSPERT and Ambulance attended, the person was transported to Credit Valley Hospital for further evaluation.

September 6, 1:18 p.m.

Call to Service Campus Police came across a water leak in the William G. Davis Building.

The source of the leak was located and the problem rectified.

September 10, 11:36 p.m.

Personal Safety Concern Campus Police along with the Residence Life Staff assisted a parent who was concerned about the well-being of a student.

These reports are those that have been released to The Medium and do not necessarily constitute an exhaustive list. build their own story.”

UTMSU participated as well by hosting their Welcome Week featuring roughly 100 student clubs, the first pub night of the year, and a variety of activities, including an inflatable bouncy castle, games, and prizes.

According to Francesco Otello-DeLuca, UTMSU’s VP campus life, this year’s event turnout was much greater than the previous year’s.

“It was a no-brainer to have this event again,” said Otello-DeLuca. “It is an amazing opportunity for students to see what UTMSU, clubs, and societies have to offer. We are pleased to provide an opportunity for every

club and society to reach out to students and build on their membership.”

Lisa Caballero, a biology and chemistry student, saw improvement in this year’s festivities. “The energy is really good,” said Caballero. “In previous years I didn’t really care too much for Clubs Week [its former name].”

The week of festivities closely followed Welcome Day, held on September 2 for first-year students.

Welcome Day was hosted jointly by the Department of Student Life and UTMSU, welcoming more than 1,400 first-year students to campus.

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A residence like the one that was won this summer.

Winner continued from Cover According to Beth Spilchuk, assistant director of Residence Administration, the contest has existed in one form or another for at least four years.

To enter, students were required to complete a ballot, successfully complete their residence application by June 13, and, of course, take a tour of the residence.

“I couldn’t believe that I actually won the contest,” Williams said of her reaction when she found out the news. “I was excited and it made me feel like I was meant to be at UTM. My parents are over the moon too.”

Besides providing an incentive for students to apply for a room in the

school’s residences, the draw also served as a medium for the Department of Student Housing & Residence Life to collect student feedback to help inform future marketing campaigns.

“We were able to get some great feedback on why students are interested in residence as part of this contest, which will be used to make changes to our marketing and branding,” said Spilchuk.

Spilchuk was unable to confirm whether the contest would be held again in the future, as the department has not started planning their future marketing campaigns.

She noted that this year, all firstand upper-year students who had

applied for residence by the June 13 deadline were given a room. Students who applied after the deadline were placed on the waitlist, and can expect to get offers as more rooms become available due to other students’ cancellations.

First-year students are normally guaranteed a room on residence as long as they apply on time, but upperyear students are given rooms based on a “reapplication score”, which is mainly determined by the applicant’s most recent annual GPA, but also includes the applicant’s discipline record and the completion of experience programs such as rezONE and utmPLUS.

Prima Debnath 1st year, CCT

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I think people are just doing it for fun without knowing the purpose.

People are focusing more on doing the challenge instead of donating.

Julien Michaud 2nd year, forensics

Arasp Nakhaei-Sarbdani 1st year, psychology

It started with good intentions and just became a fad.

I think it’s a good cause; you temporarily feel what ALS is like.

Outgoing Mayor McCallion helps Two hundred walk out host city’s welcome at Civic Centre against police cruelty There were a number of motivational speakers at the event, including a local candidate for city council in Ward 8. One student gave a spoken word performance. The students then went on a march around campus chanting, “No justice, no peace!” and the now famous chant “Hands up, don’t shoot!”

Theodore also said that the chief of the Ferguson Police Force should be fired because in response to public demands for an apology and Wilson’s arrest, “[The protestors] were met with tanks, rubber bullets, and tear gas.”

UTM Campus Police Service manager Robert Messacar said, “I think it’s great when students get involved

in something they believe in.” He could not comment on the shooting because the investigation is ongoing, but added, “I believe that anytime there is a police shooting there should be a completely independent investigation, such as we have here with the Special Investigations Unit. I do not, however, know what processes they have in Missouri.”

“I was kind of ignorant of the whole situation,” said student Tiara Carrero.

“But after hearing the speeches of those directly and indirectly affected by the problem, and attending the rally, I was inspired.”

The rally was held as part of the Hands Up Walk Out movement, which has the same aims. It was endorsed by a number of UTM clubs and societies.

New sculpture installed near Mississauga City Hall

Women call for investigation into indigenous deaths

Hearing delayed for student accused in U of T stabbing

The fourth doctor in Sierra Leone died of the Ebola virus on Saturday.

Hours earlier, the World Health Organization said it could not help transfer Dr. Olivia Bucket to Germany for treatment. Over 300 health workers in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone have contracted the virus, and the WHO reports that almost half of the workers have died.

A new 3,500-pound sculpture has found its home in Mississauga’s Community Common Park, near City Hall. Named The Contemplating Child, the steel sculpture features a stick-figure of a child seated with its head in its hands in a contemplative pose. The work was created by Ferruccio Sardella and was opened for public display on Friday,

Aboriginal women across Canada are taking selfies while holding signs asking #AmINext in a campaign calling on Prime Minister Stephen Harper to launch a public inquiry into aboriginal women who have been murdered or have gone missing. Holly Jarrett launched the campaign after her Inuit cousin from Halifax was killed this year.

The bail hearing for the 21-year-old student accused of stabbing a U of T prof was delayed on Thursday so the accused could undergo a mental health assessment. Xiao Yue Zhou, an international student from China, was arrested on Wednesday after stabbing Sean Uppal, a math lecturer, in his office.

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“We want you to take advantage of the services that we offer you and just feel that you are entitled to just as much as a student resident of Mississauga.

We want you to know that you’re welcome here and we want to offer you every opportunity to participate in all the activities that are going on in the city of Mississauga,” she said.

Professor Deep Saini spoke as well.

“Together, we are providing among the best quality education you’ll get anywhere in the world,” he said in reference to Sheridan College and the University of Toronto.

Saini also mentioned that UTM has alumni in 184 countries, leaving only about four or five countries

without alumni. “Students become ambassadors for our institution, for our city, for our progress, and for our country,” he said.

Making reference to the welcome event, which was originally McCallion’s idea, Zabudsky asked the students to reach out and embrace the community, saying that the community will provide opportunities for the students.

Students later commented on how the event made them feel welcome, comfortable, and pleased with their decision of coming to Mississauga.

“It helped me because I didn’t know much about the city,” said Victor Teles, a first-year UTM student from Brazil. “And it was great because I got to meet many people from abroad.”

UTM also hosted its first International Students’ Welcome Week last month, coordinated by international student development officer Elvis Ibrahimovic, who served in the role from April to August.

A recent Toronto Star article reported that international students can pay “three to four times as much” in tuition as domestic students, and although universities receive less assistance from the government to educate an international student, they can more than recoup the difference through higher tuition. Last year, U of T also proposed a five-year plan to increase international arts and science students’ tuition by over 50%, according to an article in The Varsity.

U of T lecturer returns one year after uproar over comments

Ebola kills fourth doctor in Sierra Leone, many still suffering

David Gilmour, a lecturer who came under fire last year for controversial statements concerning female, homosexual, and non-white authors, has returned to teaching literature at U of T. Gilmour caused outrage last year after saying in an interview that he only taught heterosexual male writers, among other comments.

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Time for better union accessibility

Editor-in-Chief Luke Sawczak editor@mediumutm.ca

A little more effort or will ought to be put into making needed information findable

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I remember a few quarrels involving our student union and St. George’s about the contract that determines the exchange of student fees between them—it was a bit of a theme last year, actually, the fact that our money flows first to UTSU and then, in a high but unknown proportion that the two unions repeatedly refused to disclose, back to UTMSU. Towards the end of the year the precise figures were requested, mostly by downtown groups who considered it unfair that we at UTM can vote in downtown affairs despite our money not staying there.

The unions became bizzarely tightlipped. It’s our contract, they huffed.

Would you expect to see a contract between two parties?

Well, yes, if it concerns my contribution as essentially a shareholder then I do. Besides, this is exactly the same argument these folks use when requesting documents from the admin, which is often equally unwilling to share. For example, UTMSU was given a copy of the Chartwells contract last year and a number of lines had been censored, and they raised a small outcry. This wasn’t in students’ best interest. But hiding their own contract apparently was.

Who knows if that will ever be released. Currently I’m perusing a series of emails from the Student Society Summit Review, a meeting of a few groups who have concerns about the admin’s recommendations made to student societies at the end of last year, and the pace seems to be that of a continent. Bureaucracy is a great way to say “no”.

But anyhow, when I say “accessibility”, I don’t mean only the intentional denial of access to documents but also the denial that stems from mere incompetence (and apathy about rectifying the matter).

For example, if you’ve visited good old utmsu.ca lately, you’ll see that it’s more or less unnavigable. Fireworks explode in the background. Pages’ URLs are a random number determined by kabbalah. The sidebar links change on every page. One of them has links to both “Student Centre Expansion Referendum” and “Student Expansion Centre”, the latter of which urges you to contact president Chris Thompson (2012/13) and includes a 2011 proposal that happens to be astonishingly badly edited. The staff pages are outdated. The latest bulletin board post is from January.

This makes it difficult for new students to research the biggest student group on campus, but worse, some important documents are straightup not to be found. The latest board meeting minutes I can find are dated July 2013. The latest AGM minutes are from 2012. Those are crucial for understanding and tracking the decisions that can have far-reaching consequences for the services we get and the fees we pay. This is embedded in the union’s own policies and bylaws, which stipulate more transparency.

UTMSU was given a copy of the Chartwells contract and lines had been censored, but they also hide their own.

Moreover, we at The Medium have a mandate—and are paid—to find and analyze this information for the student body’s good. (It may often be dry, but one or two news items crop up now and then.) Not only has the union been lackadaisical, but their lackadaisy is an impediment to us. We have two measures available to us: ask

the execs to release documents, which often yields a “yes” and no result, and writing pieces like this one.

Of course, I’ll qualify that. As journalists we realize that we have to go out and get information; it won’t be handed to us on a platter. And we realize that not everybody opens up when asked for information that could reflect poorly on them. Sometimes it’s surprising to see just which players won’t, like the administration, the national newswire, or our own Campus Police, who just this week said there were reports of incidents that they wouldn’t give us to put in print. Don’t get me wrong; those folks are great and generally cooperative.

But now and then a barrier comes up. Someone will be eagerly telling us about a development, but when we ask what it cost, for example, they’ll frown and tell us that it isn’t relevant to the story. (I beg to differ.)

And sure, we all have our reasons.

But it’s unfortunate when those who claim to be allies are, by design or not, impenetrable.

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Maninder Chana’s take on real Islam The award-winning director discusses the peaceful message of Little Terrors, also reviewed this week MARIA CRUZ A&E EDITOR Maninder Chana is an awardwinning writer, director, and actor whose latest film to be released, Little Terrors, deals with an American boy recruited by terrorists in Delhi to bomb a U.S. embassy. The film was completed two years ago and released this week. The Medium sat down with Maninder Chana to speak with him about his latest piece.

The Medium: What was the first thing that attracted you to the film?

Maninder Chana: The reality of the situation. We did the film a couple years ago but everything that’s in the film is paralleled from today’s headlines. There was a universal spirit to the story. I have a journalism background as well, so I’ve seen a lot of things you’re not really supposed to see. There are just tons of things from my background that I pooled into this. There was a lot that I probably could bring to the film and to find an understanding of Islam, even if it’s in the basic sense.

TM: Why was it so important for you to take on a film like this?

MC: It was a challenge. It was a challenge from a storytelling perspective. There’s also something that I thought from an outsider’s perspective—because I’m Muslim— that I could probably say about the

A glimpse from Little Terrors into the harsh world of the terrorist recruits. religion that someone inside of it couldn’t, because Islam equals terrorism to a lot of people. The defence that Muslims have is “We’re a religion of peace”, but they never go beyond that; they never explain why it’s a religion of peace. So I thought by juxtaposing the sayings of Muhammad, I could show that this was the saying of Muhammad, and here’s a bastardization of Islam. That way, without preaching too much, you get a sense that this is really being manipulated for the benefit of people who basically want power over other people.

TM: There was great insight into both sides of the story, not only with Samih but also with Steve. What were your biggest challenges in accurately portraying both sides?

MC: When Daniel Pearl was beheaded, which was one of the things I brought to [the film]—was that you never got to know the journalist, you never got to know Daniel Pearl or that character. It was really about the outside events of that. I really wanted to bring a heart to the character that this is a living breathing human being and it’s a kid who is really brought up in a culture

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we’re brought up in that can be easily manipulated when he has no other choice. I wanted to juxtapose that kind of storyline to it and just trying to keep the other side as well because I felt that if I didn’t bring the bastardization of why these people believe what they believe and what they use in terms of bombings and different events and mistakes that have been made by the American side, it wouldn’t be fair.

TM: How was it working with child actors on a movie that dealt with such heavy content?

MC: It was hard. It’s a difficult

thing to bring children from a halfculture to a half-not-culture. It was a bit of work […] they were newcomers. Most of them had theatre background, but it’s a very different thing. I gave them exercises, a little thing that we called “sense memory exercises”, to kind of build out each scene and bring something new to it. Also to connect that to real things in their lives and bring real emotion to the characters. It was a bit of a process and I think the first couple of days of shooting they realized the seriousness of what they were doing and they realized the work that I’d given them was really beneficial and they popped after that. It’s a bit of work, and India is also a daunting place to shoot. It was 20 consecutive days of shooting and it was not a super-professional crew, as I’m used to.

TM: Given things that are happening in today’s headlines, do you think it would be harder for people to digest the film now?

MC: I don’t think so. I think it’s probably more beneficial that people see the film now than a couple years ago when people felt that things were kind of dying down. They were never dying down, but we were withdrawing from the situation.

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Breathless over The Leftovers’ last showing After an incredible first season, HBO’s newest addition proves its worth all over again in the finale MARIA CRUZ A&E EDITOR The Leftovers has been up against some serious competition since joining HBO programming. With shows like Boardwalk Empire, Game of Thrones, and True Detective, HBO has been pretty jam-packed with fantastic shows for years. And considering that Sunday Night Football airs the same day as The Leftovers, it had to do its best to earn a spot among TV’s elite.

I have been watching it religiously every Sunday and I can tell you that this show has had no problems proving its worth. The Leftovers follows the lives of several people in the town of Mapleton as they try to cope with the devastating loss of their loved ones.

After the disappearance of two percent of the world’s population— known as “The Sudden Departure”— the world split into two groups: those trying to cope and those who joined Guilty Remnant. Guilty Remnant is a cult consisting of those who aban-

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Guilty Remnant have made their terrible plans known from the start. doned their previous lives, took a vow of silence, and believe that God’s judgement is coming.

The show follows the lives of the Garvey family: Kevin (Justin Theroux), who is the chief of police and is dealing with the disappearance of

his wife, Laurie (Amy Brenneman), who left to join Guilty Remnant, and his two children, Jill (Margaret Qualley) and Tommy (Chris Zylka).

Jill is a brooding teenager trying to deal with the loss of her mother and Tommy ran off to be the errand boy

for Holy Wayne (Paterson Joseph), a “healer”. The show also follows Nora (Carrie Coon), who lost her husband and two children during “The Sudden Departure”, and her brother Matt (Christopher Eccleston), a preacher who’s a close friend of the Garveys’.

The finale kicks off with Kevin in a cabin in Cairo with Guilty Remnant leader Patti lying dead on the floor after she killed herself. In an SOS call to Matt, he arrives at the cabin and agrees to help Kevin bury the body in the woods.

Meanwhile, Christine abandons Tommy upon discovering that she wasn’t the only one to bear a child of Wayne’s. She leaves the infant in a bathroom stall, forcing Tommy to take care of her.

Back in Mapleton, Laurie and Jill sit in the Guilty Remnant house.

Meg (Liv Tyler) is scribbling on her notepad to Laurie requesting that the group still be allowed to carry out their horrific Memorial Day stunt.

Laurie agrees and Meg leads the members outside.

Cut to Nora waking up and walking into her kitchen where she sees lifelike mannequins of her family exactly where they sat before they departed. She glances over their faces and begins to sob.

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10 years: worth the wait Death from Above 1979 returns with The Physical World

MARIA CRUZ A&E EDITOR Craig Cardiff Love Is Louder (Than All This Noise) This is an album inspired by a project that Canadian singer Craig Cardiff started for his concertgoers. For the past few years, Cardiff has been passing around a book called “Book of Truths” to those who attend his concerts. The book is meant for people to spill their feelings and put things onto paper that they might not have been able to put into words. The album, which was released last year, serves as a response to all of the truths that Cardiff read in the book.

On his website, Cardiff says, “I didn’t realize it at first, but this collection of songs is just really to help people be okay and to let them know

to just wait until tomorrow, stay here and push on through.

“Every song has that kernel of hope and joy, even if it’s not apparent at first,” he adds.

The Ontario-based folksinger’s latest album is broken down into two discs: one with instruments and one without. I have to admit that I like the instrumental disc a little better than the other, though they both have a good, calming sound.

The entire album has a nice coffee shop vibe that reminds me of Phillip Phillips. Some of the standout songs for me are definitely “Lenny Bruce Lee”, “Boy Inside the Boat”, and “Love is Louder”.

With the colder weather finally here, Love is Louder (Than All This Noise) is a good album to put on while you sit in a cozy sweater with a mug of tea and a good book.

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Death from Above 1979 announced they were reforming in 2011.

MARIA CRUZ A&E EDITOR Death from Above 1979 is back, baby. It only took 10 years, but all good things are worth the wait.

Now, when I say “good”, that’s an understatement. I mean that their new album is so good that I want to sit and listen to it for days until I inevitably overplay every song of the album.

The Physical World is their first album to drop in a decade due to the band’s breakup in 2006. Fans were not to be stopped, though, and great

music always finds a way to the ears of music junkies as the band’s debut album, You’re a Woman, I’m a Machine, continued to sell despite their split. The duo reunited in 2011 and fans have finally been graced with a new album.

Even if Death from Above 1979 doesn’t initially sound like a band you’d normally listen to, this album is bound to change your mind. The first track to drop off this album was “Trainwreck 1979”, and it left me begging for more. I expected it to be one of the first few songs in the album, but it was number seven on

a 35-minute album with 11 songs. In any case, both the first and second halves are intense and enough to drive anyone to start headbanging… or something a little more low-key for someone like me, such as foottapping. My personal favourites on this album would be “Cheap Talk”, “Virgins”, and “Trainwreck 1979”.

The bottom line is that The Physical World is not something you should be depriving yourself of. This great album marks the return of one of this generation’s best bands, so, you know, get on that. MMMMM

How a terrorist is made

Accuracy is key in art

Little Terrors proves that it’s not like other films of its genre

Square Plumb and Level exhibits architecture KATHELENE CATTELL-DANIELS ASSOCIATE A&E EDITOR

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Child recruits are taken to the terrorist camp.

MARIA CRUZ A&E EDITOR Possibly the first movie to ever show the other side of terrorism, Little Terrors tells the story of American boy Samih (Armaan Kabli), who is recruited by terrorists in Delhi to bomb a U.S. embassy. Once his time comes, though, Samih is sent to a Muslim house where the man harbouring him tries to talk him out of it.

The film follows Samih as he is brought to the terrorist camp along with three other recruits, and how they’re taught that their mission is an honourable one. Aside from Samih, one other child recruit is brainwashed into believing that his death will earn him a spot in paradise and that he is doing the right thing.

Directed by award-winning director Maninder Chana, Little Terrors

does not shy away from showing audiences the horrific reality of terrorism and the brainwashing of young recruits. One of the more disturbing scenes shows the four boys being fitted for their vests, and the youngest member is too small to fit into his vest properly. Chana does an incredible job of not relying on the violence of terrorism to reveal its true horrors.

Little Terrors’ use of children is not the only thing that makes it stand out from other films with a similar plot.

Films that focus on the act of terrorism don’t usually show audiences the other side of things. Movies like Argo, Air Force One, and Die Hard don’t often accurately depict both sides, instead portraying the “terrorist country” as nothing more than that. Despite all the positive reviews of Argo after its release, the film was also called out on its portrayal of

Iran. Radio personality and famed Canadian writer Jian Ghomeshi, of Iranian descent, called Argo a “deeply troubling portrayal of the Iranian people” and pointed out, “Virtually no one in the mainstream media has called out [the] unbalanced depiction of an entire ethnic group, and the broader implications of the portrait.”

Little Terrors does not portray an entire race of people and their country as the enemy. Because of the inclusion of the Muslim family Samih stays with, audiences are shown an entirely different side of the country and its people.

Little Terrors is an incredibly eyeopening film about the world of terrorism, the recruitment of children, and how a country can be and is distinct from its horrors. It’s a great piece of cinema and definitely worth watching… twice. MMMM

What must it be like to look at a house and say, “I built that”?

Listening to artist Diane Daniels’ speech at the show opening, I learned that her father, Harry Cooper, taught himself to build houses by reading about how it was done and hanging around construction sites. Through this experience, Daniels was exposed to the vocabulary used in architecture, which she translated into art.

At first glance, I thought the Square Plumb and Level exhibit was going to be about math. That confused me because I generally assume that art is the opposite of logical/ mathematical thinking. I was proved wrong, however, by another point Daniels made in her speech: accuracy is key, both in building houses and imagining art.

Hamilton Artists Inc., the gallery currently hosting Square Plumb and Level, is an intimate space perfectly suited to the installations presented there. The space allotted to Daniels’ pieces are enough to avoid overcrowding without being so much as to leave stretches of blank wall. The pieces cannot be ignored, drawing the viewer in to contemplate plumb lines hung perfectly from pulleys in the ceiling, or oversized blueprints of the house Cooper built, where he later raised his family in Ancaster, Ontario.

My favourite piece was called “And They’re All Made Out of Ticky Tack”.

The piece consists of a row of 12 or

so small black boxes mounted at eye level that seem like jail cells, each with a piece of cage-like mesh covering the front window. Each is painted gold on the inside and illuminated with a tiny bright light. In each box is a wooden house designed around a concept like the uncomplicated lines a child might use in drawing a home. The houses are painted bright solid colours, and my favourite detail about the work is that in each piece of mesh, one square has been stretched a little wider than the others, making a spy hole into this supposedly perfect but actually very limiting world.

I was proved wrong by a point Daniels made in her speech: accuracy is key, both in building houses and imagining art.

To me, And They’re All Made Out of Ticky Tack is about conformity and how desire for sameness can be articulated in architecture. I’m thinking about the suburban housing divisions where rows of identical houses fill what was once forest or farmland, supposedly fulfilling a desirable ideal. But no one knows what goes on inside any house, no matter how pretty the outside is, and no one tries very hard to break the mould.

Square Plumb and Level runs at Hamilton Artists Inc. until October 4. Visit theinc.com for information.

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Steering clear of the typical plot The F Word is a fun little rom-com debating the age-old question of men and women being “just friends” MARIA CRUZ A&E EDITOR It’s pretty tough to find a romantic comedy that doesn’t disappoint audiences with a typical plotline and B-list actors, but The F Word succeeded in putting a fresh twist on an old genre.

The film focusses on the friendship between Wallace (Daniel Radcliffe) and Chantry (Zoe Kazan) and deals with the age-old question of whether or not guys and girls can be “just friends”. It begins with Wallace, a med school dropout, sitting on the roof of his sister’s home (where he currently lives) as he deletes a message from his ex-girlfriend almost a year after she cheated on him.

He attends a party with his friend

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The F Word perfectly captures the struggle of crushing on your taken friends.

(Adam Driver) where he meets the lovely—but taken—Chantry.

They agree to be friends, but this eventually proves more difficult

than either one of them expected it would be.

What’s great about this film— besides its cute humour and good

cast—is that The F Word shows the reality of having crushes on your taken friends and whether it’s unethical to keep in contact with

them if you want to date them.

Straying away from the typical rom com plot in which they admit their love for one another with some grand gesture in the last 20 minutes of the movie, this flick is relatable. Pretty much anyone our age can understand exactly where the characters are coming from.

Radcliffe and Kazan are absolutely wonderful together. Both actors are funny and down to earth off-screen and are all the more loveable on it. Seeing two very similar people who share a stifled love for one another also makes the story all the more painful (but lovely to watch).

The F Word is a definite date flick, but is also just a great little movie if you appreciate cute cinema. MMM½

Chana offers viewers The Leftovers’ both ends of the stick brilliant finale Chana continued from page 5 (MC:) Terrorism is continuing to be never-ending because [it’s] a tool and you can’t fight a tool. You can’t have a war on terrorism; it’s almost oxymoronic, in a sense.

Terrorism is a weapon people use to win something; it isn’t a war you can go against. I think it’s probably a stronger film in light of what’s going on now in terms of what it can say. I think it’s important in that whole realm to know that at the end of the day this is a small fraction of people who’ve manipulated Islam for their own benefit and the majority of Muslims in the world are kind, gracious, and humanitarian. I think it’s an important film today.

TM: Given the mature content in the film and everything that’s going on today, are you expecting any controversy to be thrown your way?

MC: I hope not. I’ve actually had a friend of mine reach out and say this film’s coming and look out for it because I hope a lot of Muslims actually go out and see the film. I think it’s something that nobody’s kind of told their side this way and I hope that they gravitate towards

it and get behind it.

TM: What was the most difficult thing for you accomplish in the making of this film?

MC: What it always is: getting your shots and getting your days and getting your story. Murphy’s Law works overtime on a film set.

It’s where it lives and breathes. You fight for every shot, you fight for everything that you can get. Ca-

“I think what I want people to get out of the film is a sense of understanding of what Islam is versus the bastardized version of what Islam is.” nadian films don’t look like this film. You got these epic shots, and you see it through somebody else’s eyes, but you always know what else you could have gotten.

In India it was tougher because you don’t have the same mentality that you have here. Here, you ask somebody to get you something and there’s 10 people who will go run and get it. There, it’ll “be done

soon”. “Somebody will do it.” And then you find yourself screaming.

Then it becomes crazy. I never shouted so much in my life, and similar directors say they had the same experience. I made sure also that I brought a Canadian-American–style cinematographer with me.

TM: What is the message you hope people will take away from a film like this?

MC: That’s a question I keep getting asked. I hope it’s understanding and I hope it’s not what I said earlier—that Islam equals terrorism. I hope it’s a film that [shows that] deep down we all want the same thing, we all want a connection. Unfortunately, some kids connect to the wrong things, but we all want a connection to our fellow man. I think what I want people to get out of the film is a sense of understanding of what Islam is versus the bastardized version of what Islam is. Islam doesn’t equal terrorism. I gave Samih four different father figures and they kind of represent four different ideas that are going on in Samih’s head.

It’s trying to showcase a multitude of different versions of Islam and letting you decide.

Leftovers continued from page 7 As Matt and Kevin drive back into town, they stop at a diner along the way and discuss the departure. Kevin tells Matt that he believes he is responsible for his family falling apart.

As he heads into the bathroom to compose himself, Kevin can hear someone mumbling to himself from a stall. He opens the door to find Wayne near death holding a gaping wound on his stomach. Wayne asks Kevin to make a wish upon confiding that he may be a fraud. But if he isn’t he can grant Kevin anything he wants. Kevin obliges and Wayne grants him his wish and then dies.

As Kevin and Matt make it further back into Mapleton, the find the town in ruins. They find Meg and another member bloodied and tied to a pole. Kevin asks what they did and he tosses a notepad to Meg. She scribbles, “We made them remember,” thereby revealing what their plan was: to leave lifelike mannequins of departed family members in the houses of their grieving families.

The Guilty Remnant house has been set ablaze by the time Kevin makes it there. He turns to catch Laurie being dragged out of the

house by an angry townsman. Kevin punches him to the ground and tries to calm Laurie down, who is screaming and crying. She screams, “Jill!” and points to the burning house, prompting Kevin to raid the house and find his daughter passed out on the floor. He carries her out and as Jill wakes up, Kevin shoots Laurie a death stare for having brought her into the cult in the first place.

We cut back to Nora who is still sitting with her family. She proceeds to write Kevin a goodbye letter and the episode comes to a close as Nora reads her letter aloud. Laurie is walking aimlessly through the town.

She stops at the river and a car pulls up behind her. Laurie whips around and sees Tommy come out of the car. Kevin and Jill walk hand in hand back to the house where Nora is dropping off her letter. She then sees Christine’s abandoned infant in a car seat on the porch. “Look what I found,” says Nora, and smiles as Kevin and Jill arrive.

This show is beyond amazing, and “The Prodigal Son Returns” was a perfect end to the season that left just enough story for an already renewed second season. MMMMM

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Finding her worth in her work UTM alumna Rumeet Billan opens up to students about how she launched Jobs in Education ANDREEA MIHAI Last Tuesday, social entrepreneur Rumeet Billan, president of Jobs in Education and twice named one of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women by the Women’s Executive Network, spoke at the UTM Alumni Association’s first Backpack to Briefcase presentation of the year, titled “Labels, Limits and Leadership”.

In the cozy atmosphere of the MiST Theatre, which was filled with the smell of fresh pizza, Billan opened up about her struggle with feeling adequate as an undergrad student, how her involvement in the community enhanced her career, and the value of experience in shaping who she is.

Billan shared for the first time how she got a 33% on her first university test, a mark that came as a shock after getting straight As in high school and made her question whether she was smart enough for university. The experience forced Billan to self-reflect, and she realized that she needed to take responsibility for herself and adapt

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Failing her first university test taught Billan how fortunate she was to have the gift of education. her studying for university. Billan is passionate about education, and founded Jobs in Education, now one of Canada’s largest job boards, while she was still an undergraduate at UTM. According to statistics at the time, 80% of small businesses

went bankrupt within a year or two. “Three weeks after I started my business, my competitors were offering the same service for free.

Why pay for something if you can get it for free?” Billan said. She feared how easily and quickly she could lose her business and real-

ized that she needed to make Jobs in Education stand out from its competitors.

Billan shared that as a first-generation immigrant to Canada from India, her parents always told her and her siblings that they came to Canada to offer their children a

good education, and made sacrifices for that to happen. Billan wanted to be able to give the gift of education in the same way her parents had given it to her. As a result, Billan came up with two bottom lines for her small business: profit and social impact.

Billan shared a quote from Umair Haque: “What is it that breaks your heart about the world? It’s there that you begin to find what moves you. If you want to find your passion, surrender to your heartbreak.”

Billan showed pictures of oneroom schools in Africa—bare walls covered in holes, four students to a bench, all sharing one book—and asked the audience to compare that with their own memories of their grade schools. In its first year, Jobs in Education built a primary school for such children. Billan pointed to one boy in a threadbare uniform in the pictures, and explained that to go to school, the children needed uniforms, which meant school was still inaccessible for orphans.

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An Italian take on the Taste of Streetsville Month-long event allows diners to enjoy a three-course meal at Streetsville restaurants for $30 MADELEINE BROWN FEATURES EDITOR After three years I did it: the Taste of Streetsville. Each year I promised myself or made a date with friends, and each year I managed to forget or back out. (I’m a terrible person, I know.)

The Taste of Streetsville is an annual event for which participating restaurants in Streetsville (“the village in the city” just a 44N bus ride away) offer a $30 prix fixe menu with proceeds from every meal this year going towards the redevelopment of the Emergency Department at Credit Valley Hospital. “Just a Taste” menus at select small restaurants and bakeries provide a similar set menu deal for anywhere between $5 and $10. Think Toronto’s Winterlicious or Summerlicious, Streetsville-style. It runs from now until October 5.

After salivating my way through each participating restaurant’s menu in the Medium office, I take my fellow editor’s advice and settle on Goodfellas Wood Oven Pizza. Despite having eaten my way through most of Streetsville’s culinary offerings, I’ve yet to make my way to Goodfellas.

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Goodfellas’ delicious thin crust pizzas bring authentic Italian fare to Mississauga’s north end.

Upon arriving at the restaurant, I mistake the valet parking at the front door for the pedestrian entrance. The attendant takes no notice. Once I finally make my way inside a middle-aged, enthusiastic yet clearly experienced Italian waiter greets me. Without giving the hostesses a chance to consider where they might put me, he takes me to his section. It’s apparent he’s

trying to sit me without upsetting that night’s reservations or the opportunity to take in large groups.

He places me at a low table running along the counter dividing the kitchen from the dining room. If I sit up straight I can just see the team of chefs tossing thin-crust pizzas into their infamous wood oven. It’s awkward, but I like the idea of an “almost chef ’s table” and the table

itself is wide enough to accommodate my dinner date: French grammar homework.

My waiter’s quick to get my order and rather abruptly asks, “Do ya want any wine?” Flustered, I place my order and embarrassedly request a simple glass of water. Their Taste of Streetsville menu offers two choices for each course as well as an option of tea, espresso, or cappuc-

cino to finish. I order the insalata mista to start, followed by the Margherita pizza. I’ll choose my dessert afterwards.

The ambience is everything you’d want from an Italian restaurant.

There’s a fun, exciting energy. It’s packed with groups of four or more.

The waiters joke with one another and the kitchen throws out dishes in a symphony of china plates smacking the marble counter and dinging services bells. I’ll admit that while I adore dining alone, I feel a bit lonely seeing all the hustle and bustle around me.

My waiter is happy to chat, though. He asks me, “What’s your background?”—a question I realize I’ve never been asked before, given that I’m a small round-faced white girl. He goes on to tell me I’m good-looking. (If only he weren’t old enough to be my father!) He explains the hospitality program he graduated from in Italy and proudly exclaims that he speaks five languages. Finally, and thankfully, my first course arrives and our conversation ceases, at least for the moment.

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Fast and furious service add to the Goodfellas’ ambience Pizza continued from page 8 The salad is a step up from average. True, it’s not your typical iceberg lettuce with tomato slices and red onions. It’s your almostas-tired spring salad mix with cherry tomatoes and (almost all) pitted black olives. The cherry tomatoes make me sad, particularly when I reflect on the beautiful, meaty Ontario tomatoes I ate this past week for lunch. As a kind of apology for the boring assortment of vegetables, it’s doused in huge glug of olive oil and balsamic vinegar. I spot the other prix fixe menu starter option—three Arborio rice balls—sailing out of the kitchen and I half-wish I’d ordered them instead. While I’m certain I could make a better salad at home, I know I’m not one to regularly whip up Italian arancini.

As I’m just finishing up the crostini that accompanied my salad, my eager waiter throws down my pizza, proclaiming, “Perfect timing.” (I beg to differ.) He grinds a sprinkling of pepper over top and brings me a spicy red pepper condiment.

I remember my reason for choosing Goodfellas: the pizza.

My dear Margherita pizza with her charred thin crust, fresh torn basil leaves, and shards of mozzarella smiles up at me. I enjoy every moment of ripping chunks of her and garnishing her with that delicious spicy condiment. Endless waiters bring half-eaten pizzas to the counter beside me and package them up for overstuffed guests. I promise my Margherita I won’t let her go unfinished. (I respect her too much to do that.)

My dear Margherita pizza with her charred thin crust, fresh torn basil leaves, and shards of mozzarella smiles up at me. I promise her she won’t go unfinished.

My waiter congratulates me as he swoops down for my empty plate and prompts me for my dessert order. I take his advice and choose the Sicilian cannoli. He adds that they’re easy to package up and take home—as if he thinks I’m not capable of finishing them.

Within a few minutes, three deli-

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cate pinky-sized cannoli arrive.

These cute little crispy pastry shells are stuffed with ricotta and topped with chopped pistachios.

They’re nestled in what I think is a thick chocolate sauce, but is in fact just a good old dollop of Nutella.

I’d say they’re an improvement over the salad, but certainly not overwhelming.

I ask for a tea, to my waiter’s disappointment—he assumed I’d want a cappuccino. I notice my section has filled up since my arrival an hour ago. Shortly thereafter I ask for the bill. It’s $33.90 after tax and I give a 10% tip. As I leave, I overhear that it’s a 45-minute wait for the next free table.

I cross the street and pass the valet parking attendant, who has been joined by an accordion-playing busker, to catch the 44S home.

I’m pleased with my Taste of Streetsville experience. Definitely a deal, despite the unreliability of the meal itself. That said, I’d happily return to Goodfellas (with some company) for its humorous yet energetic service and that fine, fine pizza.

I will return, my dear Margherita.

Each week The Medium chats with a UTM professor about one of their favourite recipes.

I first found out about Professor Teresa Lobalsamo, lecturer in the Department of Language Studies, upon discovering my dream course, “Cucina Italiana: Italian History and Culture through Food”.

(Of course, in four years it’s never fit into my timetable!) However, developing this column finally provided me with the opportunity to chat with Lobalsamo, even if it wasn’t as a student in her course.

She chose to share her recipe for

an Italian classic, the frittata. She credits its creation to necessity, “Frittatas came about during war times when food was rationed and what was available was never wasted,” she explains. “Despite the scarcity of ingredients, a person could gather enough (or use leftovers) to put together this simple, filling, and delicious all-purpose meal.” She notes that all you really need is eggs; you can mix in other ingredients depending on your inventory. It’s clearly a recipe made for students.

...Just when you thought your fridge was empty: la frittata SERVES 2 INGREDIENTS • 2 or 3 small potatoes • 1 onion (or ½ by preference) • 1 clove of garlic, minced (optional) • pinch of chives (optional) • 4 eggs • Parmesan cheese, grated • parsley, finely chopped METHOD 1. Sauté the potatoes and onion in a skillet over medium heat until golden brown. Optional: Add the minced garlic or chives to the skillet at this time.

2. In a separate bowl, beat the eggs

and add in the Parmesan cheese and parsley to taste.

3. Pour the egg mixture over the sautéed potatoes and onions. Keep the burner on medium to high.

4. If the eggs have not solidified, place the skillet into the oven on broil to dry the mixture. This will ensure that the frittata will not come apart when it’s time to flip it.

5. Remove the frittata from the oven and cover with a dish big enough to cover the entire mixture. Flip the mixture onto the plate with as much culinary flare as possible and ecco la frittata!

No fear for first-years New transition program for students on or off the campus

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utmFYE is a unique offering for first-years that was developed by current upper-year students.

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Billan sends student representatives to oversee her sites abroad.

Billan continued from page 8 The next year, Jobs in Education made it possible for orphans to attend school by funding programs for textbooks and uniforms. Billan explained that systematic challenges such as tribal rivalries, politics, and fear of rape kept villagers from going to postsecondary schools, which are located only in the cities, resulting in a lack of qualified teachers in rural areas. This led Jobs in Education to develop and build a teacher training centre in rural Kenya.

Jobs in Education, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, has built three primary schools in Africa and South America, contributed to the Canadian

organization Breakfast for Learning for a year, and provided over 60 scholarships for students in Peru, Ecuador, and Kenya.

Billan said that her circumstances had changed and that she is no longer able to go abroad to visit her initiative sites, something that’s very important to her, so she teaches leadership courses to empower her students to go instead.

In her course, Billan and her students discuss how no two people will interpret an experience the same way because they are shaped by their previous experiences. Our interactions shape our lives, said Billan, and the labels we place on ourselves or on others limit the perception of our capabilities.

KIMBERLY JOHNSON A lot is new at UTM this year: new buildings, new bus shelter, new pathway, and new students—and for those new students, a new first-year transition program. UTM First Year Experience, or utmFYE, is based on research that indicates that students who are more involved in their school are more likely to succeed in their post-secondary careers. The pilot program, which puts first-years into small groups led by successful upperyear students (the “campus experience leaders”), also incorporates seminars on university life, such as midterm season, mental health, and academic services, and provides opportunities to engage with the UTM community.

The utmFYE program replaces rezONE. It’s what CEL Laura McCallum calls a “more holistic approach”.

Unlike previous programs, which

stress academic success, utmFYE also includes seminars on professional communication and financial awareness and organizes events with faculty and community outings. It’s all to help students “take the skills learned [in the classroom and seminars] and physically apply them,” says McCallum.

The campus experience leaders are another unique aspect of the program.

Unlike many previous programs, utmFYE was designed over the summer by upper-year students who worked on campus.

“Over the summer, students worked to develop a curriculum that was relevant to incoming students, based in higher education research, informed by previous assessments of the program and in consultation with many of the services available to students on campus,” says Jessica Silver, the Department of Student Life’s stu-

dent development officer for orientation and transition.

“The program contains information that the senior students felt was pertinent for new students to know,” adds CEL Abisola Olaniyi.

The program will run the entire academic year. It will include the previously mentioned seminars and incorporate campus engagement events every other week—for example, going to the Get Experience Fair and other cultural and athletic events. This is done “in the hopes that in their second, third, and fourth years, [students] will freely join clubs, groups, and societies because they’ve seen the benefit of getting involved”, says McCallum.

First-year students can get involved by registering online at both utm. utoronto.ca/student-life/orientationtransition/FYE and on ROSI. Registration closes on September 21.

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Varsity Blues: homecoming heroes U of T holds Argo Cup in 70-0 game against rivals York U, sets record for margin of victory ADAM PENKUL As the clouds hung over Varsity Stadium in downtown Toronto, the Varsity Blues took on the York Lions in the annual Red and Blue Bowl game.

Both teams came into the game looking to kick-start their seasons after going winless in their first two games.

The opening minutes of the first quarter were very back-and-forth, with neither team able to get their offence going. Possession changed multiple times and both teams were penalized repeatedly. Things looked bleak for the Blues when York’s Hussein Hazime registered his leagueleading fourth sack on Blues quarterback Simon Nassar. However, U of T continued to push and were able to open the scoring halfway through the quarter with a 9-yard dash by Lukas Gavac. The Varsity Blues kept the pressure on York, and Gavac found himself on the scoreboard again three and a half minutes later when he ran the ball into the end zone from 37 yards out. Toronto was relentless and managed to score again with a minute left in the quarter when Kevin Bradfield found a hole in the defence and ran 47 yards to the end zone to end the quarter with a 21-0 lead.

U of T kept up its inspired offence during the second quarter, and Gavac kept his hot streak going by scoring his third touchdown of the game after a minute and a half of play to give Toronto a 28-0 lead. Toronto sustained the pressure and nearly scored again two minutes later when Bradfield was taken down four yards

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A single UTM player earned four touchdowns in the game and rushed for 179 yards. outside of the Lions’ end zone after a 45-yard run. Despite their good positioning, Toronto failed to score after a spirited York defence blocked Gavac from tying the Argo Cup record of four touchdowns on the first two downs, and wide receiver Michael Kanopoulos could not get a hold of the ball in the end zone on the third down, forcing a turnover. Nevertheless, the Varsity Blues tasted blood and would not be denied with seven minutes remaining, as Ashton Rochester punched the ball in from one yard out to put the Blues up 35-0.

York’s offence began to look more organized after that, but although they earned several first downs, they could not keep possession in their half of

the field. But Toronto refused to let this faze them or to reduce the pressure. With three minutes remaining in the half, Eric Hewitson kicked a field goal, and then York were forced to concede a safety to give Toronto a hefty 40-0 lead at the half.

The Blues’ foot was on the pedal, and they didn’t let up when the teams returned after the half. This is a football program that has been trending upward over the past couple seasons and the team looked to finally come into their own, tapping into a previously missing ruthlessness and swagger that allowed them complete control over their opponent. It was no surprise, either, that U of T’s next touchdown came from Gavac, his

fourth touchdown of the game and the last score of a quarter that ended with the Blues’ 50-0 lead.

York was forced into conceding two early safeties during the fourth quarter, which Toronto followed with back-to-back touchdowns from firstyear running back Divonte Smith to make it 68-0. Toronto held strong in defence and forced York into a final safety with a minute remaining in the game. The game closed out quietly and the crowd gave a resounding cheer when the final whistle was blown to give Toronto a 70-0 win that secured the 45th annual Argo Cup. The victory was felt by both the players and the staff of the Varsity Blues, but they aren’t getting ahead

of themselves. “[This was our] first win of the season, we’re just getting started,” says Stone Sousa, a first-year student at St. George. “We definitely have excitement growing in the locker room now—the program is moving in the right direction. Now we just have to take it week at a time, one play at a time, and work hard every day of practice, and hopefully we can get a win next week.”

When asked about tying the Argo Cup record of four touchdowns, second-year criminology major and UTM student Lukas Gavac didn’t hesitate to praise the rest of the squad.

“It was a great team effort; we came together as a team today,” he said. “I was really satisfied with the team performance, because I couldn’t do anything without them. We showed that we had more potential than in the first two games. We really believed in what we were doing and we’re more confident now that we can see what we can do.”

“The most important thing is to try to build off of this [win],” added head coach Greg Gary. “We have to try and just get that next win, as opposed to just thinking about what the record is going to be in the end. Today we had a lot of success doing a lot of things, but next week we’re going to have to execute a little better if we’re going to get the win.”

The Toronto Varsity Blues currently sit eighth in the OUA standings, and are looking to repeat their win next week in London against the Western Mustangs.

Sports clinic sees UTM readies, aims, fires 50% non-students Archery Club draws the bowstring for its first full year on campus JASON COELHO SPORTS EDITOR Tucked away near the hallway that connects the main gym and Gym C, the Sports Clinic is a common sight for those who walk past the control desk of the RAWC. But not everybody is familiar with how it works.

Since September 2008, the RAWC has shared its fairly fancy renovated space with the privately owned clinic, which has found a way to generate foot traffic by offering a wide variety of services for both student and professional athletes. Over the years the clinic has grown in the types of services it offers, expanding to meet the changing needs of the public.

Megan Provost is a registered physiotherapist at the clinic with a background in handling sportsrelated injuries from her time at the University of Western Ontario, where she worked as an athletic

trainer for the varsity women’s volleyball team. Provost indicates that the clinic is looking to shift its main goal from simply treating an injury to preventing a recurrence.

“A big part of our role is secondary prevention,” says Provost, who is one of six physiotherapists working at the clinic’s UTM location. “It’s an incredibly important piece that we like to emphasize, even after a minor injury.”

The focus on educating the client after the injury has become standard practice in the hopes that athletes will understand the potential severity of a second injury. Although the clinic has not been directly affiliated with UTM or any of its teams for the past six years, UTM’s new membership in the OCAA will lead to certain teams being placed under the care of the clinic’s therapists.

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The archers will practice every Monday from 8 to10 p.m. in Gym C. JASON COELHO SPORTS EDITOR The UTM Archery club will be shooting for the bulls-eye every Monday night in Gym C from 8 to10 p.m., and you don’t need to be Katniss Everdeen for the odds to be in your favour. “The club aims to introduce archery to any

interested participants with no experience, and offers individual practice times for experienced shooters,” says club president Rebeeyah Jabeen.

Jabeen became involved with the club after noticing the demand among UTM students at the beginning of the 2013/14 school year. “We were astounded. Over 140 people at

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UTM were interested in the creation of [the club],” she said. Jabeen and the rest of the executives of UTM archery worked on getting the club approved

by UTMSU and the Department of Student Life in order to received funding.

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The Sports Clinic has been on campus since September 2008.

Clinic continued from page 11 Besides the standard physiotherapy and athletic therapy offered in treating sports-related injuries, the clinic has branched out into fields that have not always been considered integral to an athlete’s recovery. Osteopathy, acupuncture, and homeopathy are recent additions that were requested by students and the general public.

One of the more notable services is a focus on mental health. “We do have a sports psychologist who comes in on request,” says Heather Marchment, an athletic therapist who has been with the clinic since it opened at UTM. “[Sports psychologists] deal

with post-injury and concussion work as well as just general issues for things as minor as a mental block that may prevent an athlete from reaching their goal.” The sports psychology sessions

“We thought we were going to get mostly students when we started, but it’s been fairly even up until this point.” are catered to each athlete based on evaluations that determine the “psychological skillset” of the individual.

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parents and pursuing a specific set of goals, athletes have found success in their mental game in order to help support their physical play.

At the moment, the clientele who use the clinic is split between students and non-students. “I’d say it’s fiftyfifty,” says Marchment. “We thought we were going to get mostly students when we started, but it’s been fairly even up until this point.”

With UTM officially gaining varsity status, the clinic will likely see a rise in student clientele this school year, whether they need recovery services or just a tune-up. UTM students also receive discounts on certain services provided by the clinic.

The club was eventually approved and began running in January, making this school year the first full year of UTM archery in recent history. The club will offer demonstrations and one-on-one coaching for the more inexperienced players, with certified NCCP coaches to go over the basics, including safety procedures and proper shooting techniques.

One of the coaches is second-year student Brandon Xuereb, who discovered his interest in shooting arrows after watching Lord of the Rings at age 11. Xuereb’s involvement in the club came about through Cat Criger, the aboriginal elder at UTM, who informed him of Jabeen’s plans to start the club. “Since the last time such a club existed on campus was more than 15 years ago, I was more than happy to help give the sport a new, revived look,” Xuereb said. His focus at the moment, for beginners especially, is completely directed towards safety. Once the basic training requirements are met, the coaching staff, which includes Tessa Lehmann, Nataliya Mushchenko, and Waleed Aumeerally, will work to refine the form of all of the archers and introduce new challenges, such as targets or balloons.

The club ran two summer sessions

in mid-August with UTM summer students, which acted as a trial run for students and the executive team on how to organize the sessions during the year in order to cater to each archer’s needs. Last Monday, the first session of the school year saw a turnout of about 60 students, most of them beginners.

Jabeen discovered that there remains some more work to be done before the club officially gets the ball rolling. “After our first practice, we realized there were so many people who were beginners and that the coaches would have to repeat the rules and proper techniques continuously until things settle down,” she said. As a result, the Department of Physical Education has partnered with the club for “Learn to Shoot” sessions that will run during the next few practices. The club will divide the gym into two halves in order to accommodate both the experienced and inexperienced archers, allowing both to hone their skills. “These [Learn to Shoot] sessions will be for beginners who want to learn archery for the first time and a fee of $5 will be charged for non-members,” Jabeen added. The funds collected from these sessions will go towards purchasing more equipment.

A yearly membership fee for the archery club is $30.