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WHY DO WE STILL CALL IT THE GHETTO?

SparQ brings innovation to the heart of campus Studio moves location to improve Queen’s student creativity J ordana G oldman Assistant News Editor After being empty for two years, the first floor of Carruthers Hall is lively once again with students turning innovative new ideas into tangible products.

SparQ Studios, originally located in the Integrated Learning Centre (ILC), has moved its studio to the former Gordon Vogt Studio Theatre. The space had been empty since the Drama Department moved to the Isabel in 2014.

The studio, which is part of the Queen’s Innovation Connector (QIC), serves as a community-oriented space — called a makerspace — where people can gather to develop product prototypes at a low cost with the support of the studio’s resources.

Greg Bavington, executive director of QIC, said there were two things QIC wanted to achieve in moving SparQ Studios to Carruthers Hall.

The first is to create a “street presence”, meaning a greater presence on campus and in turn greater visibility to students.

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Art exhibit promotes discussion on rhetoric – page 8 COMPUTING

On the bending edge of technology Queen’s Human Media Lab introduce first flexible smartphone M ikayla W ronko Assistant News Editor The Human Media Lab (HML) at Queen’s University has gone viral on YouTube once again with 800,000 views on a video of the first-ever flexible, wireless, full-colour and high-resolution smartphone.

See SparQ on page 5

The smartphone, named ReFlex, incorporates multi-touch functions with bending gestures, allowing users to operate applications by bending and physically manipulating the phone.

HML, a Queen’s research laboratory that specializes in Human-Computer interaction and user interfacing, has been working on developing a wireless flexible smartphone since 2004. After 12 years of development, HML has deemed the ReFlex smartphone ready for commercial use.

ReFlex’s bend feature is made possible by two types of bend input mappings, position-control and rate

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contro,that allow the phone to sense and simulate forces from interactions with the user. When using applications on the phone, a user experiences highly realistic physical simulations — such as the phone recoiling while playing Angry Birds.

Dr. Roel Vertegaal, a professor at Queen’s and the director of HML, told The Journal that no other company or university has created a fully operational wireless smartphone with twisting screen. Previous versions of a flexible smartphone have always been heavily tethered to a computer, he said.

“If your phone is so thin that it’s going to bend when you sit on it, you might as well make that a feature ... you can use that bend as an input feature.”

Vertegaal said ReFlex’s ability to bend allows users to access a third dimension and realistically interact with the 3D objects on the phone.

Though the project had been ongoing since 2004, Vertegaal said a barrier to the phone’s creation was the unavailability of flexible screen technology. HML waited 12 years until they received their first flexible screen from the U.S. military.

See Flexible on page 5

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Racial diversity remains elusive among faculty members

Don’t make assumptions It takes one man to about my ethnicity drive a racecar, but a team to build one

The first black Canadian Survivor relays for graduate: the man who cancer foundation saved Queen’s

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Friday, February 26, 2016

Panel discusses religion and reproductive rights in Ghana Weekly seminar takes on theme during Black History Month E rika S treisfield Lifestyle Editor Whether religion is compatible with sexual and reproductive rights in contemporary Ghana was the discussion Thursday night as part of a seminar series hosted

by Studies in National and International Development (SNID).

Coming from distinct professional backgrounds, panel members provided unique perspectives on gender, sex and religion in the developing country.

SNID, a weekly seminar series that’s been running since 1983, hosts Canadian and foreign academics to discuss issues related to local, national and global development.

Thursday’s panel discussion included Professor Jean Allman, director of the Centre for Humanities at Washington University; Kuukuwa Andam, Ghanian Lawyer; Dr. Sylvia Bawa, professor in Sociology at York University; and Daniel Asante Boamah, a PhD candidate at Queen’s.

Professor Allman described religion as a barrier for sexual and reproductive rights in

contemporary Ghana.

“A lot of the main line churches and the evangelical churches are actually taking very strong stances against women’s rights, and against sort of sexual rights,” Allman said.

“I think there’s a strong feminist presence [in Ghana] that’s very schooled and strategic.”

Event coordinator and SNID co-chair, Marc Epprecht, said he put the event together in the hopes of bringing awareness to lesser-known issues in Ghana.

“The issues in Ghana resonate throughout the continent,” Epprecht said.

“Sometimes these panels talk about Africa as one big place, but I think we just heard Ghana as one small country that is really diverse. I think, personally, it is good for Canadians and Queen’s students to start thinking of Africa as the differentiated continent.”

It’s also no coincidence that the event took place during Black History Month.

“Ghana has a very special place in African history,” Epprecht said.

“In Black history, it was the first Black country to gain independence from the colonial power. And then the first president was a major voice for Pan-Africanism.”

Ontario’s new budget to cover tuition for post-secondary students M ikayla W ronko Assistant News Editor

Top: Daniel Asante Boamah.

Bottom: Kuukuwa Andam.

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Post-secondary students from lower income houses will soon be paying little to nothing to attend universities and colleges in Ontario.

On Thursday, the Ontario government introduced an Ontario Student Grant to offset the financial burden of university and college students. The province will provide grants large enough to cover the entire tuition of college students whose annual

family income is less than $50,000.

University students will also be provided with an increase in financial aid, although they aren’t guaranteed to have the entirety of their tuition paid for.

The change was unveiled along with the new Ontario provincial budget as an initiative to get more low-income students to enter post-secondary education. Further details concerning the grant program will be released in the coming months.

The change, projected for 2017, will

reportedly allow post-secondary students to borrow up to $2,500 more each year.

The projections made by the Ontario government are based on whether the federal government delivers on their promises of student aid. The federal government has promised to remove tax credits on educationrelated goods and services in favour of funding the Canada Student Loan Program.

The Journal will be reporting on the new budget and its effects on students in greater depth .

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FEATURE

EQUITY

Beneath the skin of faculty diversity Hiring targets aren’t the be-all and end-all for equity efforts R amna S afeer Arts Editor

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hile Sarah Saeed, ArtSci ’19, has only been at Queen’s for under a year, she says she’s already tired of the lack of diversity among her professors.

“All my friends have noticed,” she said. “All of them.”

For Saeed and her friends, there are few observations as disheartening as the inability to see themselves represented in their faculty.

The lack of diversity has been on the minds of administration, faculty and students for years, but the issue is systemic and one that has continued to impact racialized students and culture at Queen’s in persistent ways.

However, it appears there’s no hiring target that’ll provide a long-term solution. Filling a quota of non-white professors doesn’t necessarily foster deeper discussions about the experiences of racialized faculty members.

The University has acknowledged the issue in the Diversity, Anti-Racism and Equity (DARE) Report, which was published in 2009 as part of an effort to streamline the University’s diversity-oriented goals.

The report’s long-term recommendations described the University’s goal to “actively recruit and retain racialized and other faculty from underrepresented groups.”

After a female professor of colour left her teaching position due to alleged experiences of racism, with five other faculty members following suit, Queen’s asked the Senate Educational Equity Committee (SEEC) to conduct a study in 2001 on the experience of minority faculty members.

In 2004, York University Professor Emerita Dr. Frances Henry wrote an analysis of the study’s finding in the report “Systemic Racism Towards Faculty of Colour and Aboriginal Faculty at Queen’s University”.

Her report, known as the Henry Report, was telling. When respondents were asked if they felt that their colleagues treated them with respect, 75.4 per cent of white faculty agreed, while 62 per cent of non-white faculty agreed — with more than a 10 per cent difference between the responses.

When asked if the University

supports diversity, 55.8 per cent of white respondents agreed, while only 34.8 per cent of minority of faculty agreed — a 21 per cent difference.

Traditional Values It’s almost impossible to discuss potential solutions for the lack of diversity before looking into the extent of the problem. Although the way it manifests itself at Queen’s is, in Henry’s words, a unique “traditional university culture,” the problem spans far beyond this campus.

Dr. Armand Ruffo, an Aboriginal writer and recently hired associate professor in English, said he’s aware of the problem, but he believes it’s not an isolated issue.

The professor, who specializes in Indigenous literature, said he didn’t expect diversity coming in.

“There aren’t a lot of minority faculty,” he said. “At the same time, coming from another university … it’s the same. It’s a systematic issue across the board, as well as a function of where the university might be located.”

Dr. Barrington Walker, a Black associate professor in History who specializes in Black Canadian history, immigration and race, agrees.

“By no means is Queen’s an anomaly,” he said. “There’s no one easy answer for why these things happen — a lot of it is due to the inherent conservatism of the institutions.”

Walker said there’s been a lack of sustained effort to diversify faculty and staff at Queen’s, despite previous spurts of attention.

“There have been periods where it’s been an institutional priority, but over time, they’ve been an anomaly.”

Walker said the traditionalist nature of universities is a major reason for this lack in continued discussion.

“Universities are very old institutions — many in Canada are actually older than Confederation,” he said. “Universities, by nature, are loathe to make radical changes.”

The pushback against equitable hiring occurs primarily with the people at the top of the administrative hierarchy, Walker added.

“Often the pushback will come that going out and making hires specifically targeted to increase

diversity is at odds with the principles of excellence.”

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process of tenure can stall with, based on her experience as a the change in curriculum and racialized student and her studies teaching practices. of race theories.

Students and a “[Tenured faculty] continue “A lot of professors of colour Eurocentric Curriculum teaching what their area of are checking their environments speciality is, and there isn’t room and investing effort into making Though Queen’s is a particular to hire anyone for non-European accountable spaces,” Melton said. example of “traditional” values history because they can’t hire “Students who are aware of their permeating many aspects of the anyone else teaching it.” marginalization and don’t have university — despite years of those professors can really miss out gradual progress — Dr. Frances The misconception about a on that.”

Henry said the issue is bigger than potential solution The last area of the Queen’s alone. That said, the racial representation conversation concrete effects on students are Once the need for diversification — and perhaps the most often underestimated, according among faculty has been significant — is what steps to Henry. acknowledged, the question need to be taken to initiate Speaking to The Journal, Henry shifts — how can the University lasting discussion. said a lack of faculty diversity move forward to devise Melton believes being critical can greatly affect the mentality potential solutions? of past diversification efforts of students.

Irene Bujara, director of the is a significant part of moving “In the first instance, there is Human Rights and Equity Offices towards a solution. According to of course the effect on racialized said there are steps being taken her, when it comes to questions students and Aboriginal students, at Queen’s to address the racial of diversity, students, faculty and who take classes and don’t see representation of faculty. administration need to understand themselves in those classes or at the “The Equity Office works with what they’re asking for. head of the class,” Henry said. the Senate Educational Equity Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology Dr. Sarita Srivastava said asking whether the faculty at Queen’s is “diverse” is not the right question to ask.

“So often, the conversation begins and ends with how many ” people of colour are there in a particular department. It needs — Kara Meltron, to go much deeper than that,” Gender Studies Masters student she said.

“It’s so easy to ask about She said it’s helpful to be able to Committee (SEEC) to develop the numbers … but we need to ask identify with a fellow minority in a tools necessary to address broader about why we care about diversity, predominantly white community. systemic issues, and works with the what we mean by ‘diversity’?

“There is that immediate Employment Equity Framework Melton agreed. She emphasized identification with somebody who working groups to address diversity that having conversations about looks like you. It’s very important goals related specifically to what diversity means should be a for students, and becomes more employment equity,” Bujara wrote prolonged first step before looking [important] as the student body in an email to The Journal. for potential solutions. is diversifying. It’s not happening The progress hasn’t always The discussion about solutions quickly enough [at universities],” been easy and there are reasons in terms of adding racialized people Henry said. why diversification is slow going, to the faculty, Melton said, is very She said the first step in Bujara says. different than the kind of talk we diversifying the classroom to reflect “The challenges to reaching this should be fostering — which is global diversity and intersectional goal are very complex and include about how the University can work experiences is adding more availability of diversity within diligently to alleviate the systematic non-Eurocentric courses in the specific disciplines, slow growth erasure of certain people from humanities and social sciences. and turnover in the workforce, academic spaces.

Racialized students, according to and geographical isolation from “I think we should be very Dr. Henry, are negatively affected larger centres,” she wrote. hesitant to think that it’s just about when white professors continuously “Institutional strategies getting bodies in the room and teach subject matter relating to supported by the most senior not about developing a system the cultures and histories of their levels of an institution are critical of knowledge exchange that respective communities. to success and this is what values a multitude of knowledges Several of the faculty members Queen’s and the Equity Office are and knowledge producers,” interviewed agreed that non-white currently undertaking.”

Melton said. faculty and subject matter that falls Kara Melton, a Gender Studies “Those overlap somewhere but outside a Eurocentric, “Western” Masters candidate, said students in the way these conversations are worldview should become more marginalized communities miss the frequently taken up is numerical, common and accessible. support system that accompanies and that’s not the full answer.”

However, Henry said the access to professors they identify

“So often, the conversation begins and ends with how many people of colour are there in a particular department. It needs to deeper than that.

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Friday, February 26, 2016

Incoming AMS council looking ahead LWT’s team discusses the day they were hired and their goals moving forward

From left, back row: Liam Dowling, Emma Jones, Bianca Balazic, Caitlin McKeen. Front row from left: Leo Burns Scully, Francis Campbell, Leandra Keren, Greg Kurcin, Michael Judd, Leah Brockie.

V ictoria G ibson Assistant News Editor On Feb. 9, the AMS executive-elect — Tyler Lively, Dave Walker and Carolyn Thompson — announced their newly-hired council of directors and commissioners.

The selected candidates, who hail from a variety of schools and faculties, have begun to transition into their roles. They’ll officially begin on May 1.

Commissioner of Academic Affairs Leah Brockie, ConEd ’17 Leah Brockie said she was “floored” when she got the call from Lively, Walker and Thompson and heard she’d been selected for Academic Affairs Commissioner.

“I couldn’t stop shaking, and then I just called my dad,” she said.

This year, she served as Senator for the Arts and Science Undergraduate Society (ASUS), the Student Senate Caucus Chair, a Queen’s Female Leadership in Politics executive and Queen’s Model UN (QMUN) executive.

Brockie says one focus for her in the coming year will be fostering a relationship with the new provost, Benoit-Antoine Bacon. Bacon is set to begin a five-year term this summer.

Lively, the current Academic Affairs Commissioner, has begun Brockie’s transition training. She said the steep learning curve will be the most difficult part of the job.

“But I’m ready to take it on.”

Commissioner of Social Issues Leandra Keren, Comm ’17

thing I’m most excited for, which is to of kicks all this off.” engage with all the students on campus and hear their experience of oppression,” Commissioner of Municipal Affair she said.

Francis Campbell, ArtSci ’17 “Representing [every issue] is really difficult, but I’m also really excited to learn Francis Campbell grew up in Kingston, so from them and hear what they have to say.” municipal affairs are close to his heart.

“I’ve seen Queen’s evolve from an outside Commissioner of Environmental Affairs perspective. This role is an inside look, and Liam Dowling, ConEd ’18 being able to affect change at a municipal level,” he said.

Liam Dowling was standing in the middle Campbell has served as a co-chair for of a hallway when he picked up the phone QMUN as well as the Chair of the ASUS and learned he had been hired. He says he advisory board and the director of the may have alarmed nearby students with his newly-opened SparQ studios on campus. sudden excitement.

“I’m most excited to build those Dowling has been involved in the AMS ongoing relationships with City councilors for two years as an Arts and Sciences representative. He previously served as an editor for B. Ed Spread, the Education faculty newspaper, and as an Orientation leader for the Concurrent Education Frosh Week.

He said his experience as a Biology student has led him to care deeply about environmental affairs. The Commission of Environment & Sustainability is still fairly young in the AMS, he said, and there’s still a lot of growth needed.

“It’s very important moving forward that we look at how individual students at the university can benefit from the environmental commission, and how we can advocate for their needs both on an external and internal basis.”

He said his task ahead is to expand the commission and see “how it can really benefit students in the greater Queen’s community.”

Commissioner of Campus Activities Greg Kurcin, ArtSci ’16

Leandra Keren said she had to contain her excitement in CoGro after being offered the Greg Kurcin prompted laughter from the Social Issues Commissioner job. other council members when he spoke about “I called my mom right after,” she said. his job offer.

Keren has focused on supporting other “I asked [Lively, Walker and Thompson] if students during her time at Queen’s. She’s I could call my girlfriend,” he said. held various positions in the AMS Mental Kurcin has been heavily involved in Health Awareness Committee (MHAC) and ASUS Orientation Week, as a Gael, an the Peer Support Centre.

Orientation Chair and Academics Chair.

She also kickstarted and co-chaired He has also has volunteered at the Peer AuthenticallyU, an ASUS group dedicated to Support Centre and eventually became their the promotion of positive body image and marketing coordinator. eating disorder awareness.

Alongside those commitment, he worked She said this position has exposed her for Walkhome both as a service staff and a to the various problems that Queen’s community outreach assistant manager. students face.

“I’m really excited to foster a positive “So, I’ve become really passionate environment for people, so they can feel [about them].” comfortable and happy about getting She said she hopes to tackle the creation involved,” he said. of the sexual assault centre on campus this Kurcin admitted that it will be a challenge coming year. Her biggest challenge, however, to work with the enormous number of will be handling the day-to-day social issues groups involved with the commission, but facing students at Queen’s, she said. says he’s looking forward to it.

“My most challenging thing is also the “I’m excited for Orientation Week. It kind

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and the district associations to keep a positive relationship going with Queen’s,” he said.

He said that it’ll be important to foster positive relationships in the community and balance the needs and wants of students and the Kingston community.

In terms of his job offer from Lively, Walker and Thompson, Campbell said his experience wasn’t unlike his colleagues.

“Except, I don’t think I was shaking,” he added.

For full profiles on each of the AMS council members, including directors, see www.queensjournal.ca/news

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SparQ unique among universities, Bavington says Continued from front page

3D printers are among the tools available through SparQ Studios.

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Flexible phones could hit the market in three years Continued from front page

According to Vertegaal, the ReFlex team consisted of himself, Masters students, PhD students and a post-doctorate student.

“The students are responsible for a lot of the building of the phone, the apps, the experimentation of the phone, the empirical work, helping write the paper, and all the scientific work.”

When asked about the reception to ReFlex, Vertegaal said he wasn’t sure if people were going to care about bending phones. He joked that ReFlex has had two to three more likes than he’s ever had on a Facebook share before.

Though a video of the ReFlex phone has gained 800,000 views on YouTube, Vertegaal said the phone is only HML’s third most viral invention. Its paper phone and paper tablet demonstration videos gained more than two

million views each.

“It wasn’t quite as much as a surprise as Paper Phone, but it’s also much slicker and closer to production. It’s the first one with true apps and fast motion, colour video and all that.”

Vertegaal estimates that wireless flexible smartphone technology could be in the hands of consumers as soon as 2019. He added that the video of ReFlex on their YouTube channel is actually five years old and the phone is basically product-ready.

“I think we’ve put it to the point now where we need to stop and business needs to takes over.

It’s a smooth enough as a prototype that it’s clear now that it can go into production,” he said.

“I’m proud that we’ve basically taken it all the way from paper prototypes with projection to the real thing.”

safety training, members receive access to all machinery and 200 grams of material for 3D printing.

Francis Campbell, the director of SparQ Studios, said the studio is designed to be easily converted to a presentation space.

StudioQ holds weekly Wednesday workshops alternating between technical presentations, such as learning

to use the 3D printers, and nontechnical presentations, such as pitching ideas.

“Our hope is that if we have general students coming in to these workshops, we can show them the rest of this space such that they might become a member and develop their own products or prototype in the studio,” Campbell, ArtSci ’17, said.

Secondly, to ensure that the studio is on “neutral turf ” — meaning in a building that hasn’t been traditionally associated with a faculty, school or an academic program that could make it feel less welcoming to other students.

The new location has increased equipment inventory, made SparQ Studios more visible to the public and offers more physical space in the studio.

“I can’t even imagine what might come out of this in the next five years,” Bavington said.

The concept for SparQ Studios emerged during the first summer of QIC (then called the Queen’s Summer Innovation Initiative, or QSII) in the summer of 2012.

Bavington said they began to notice a need for a space that enabled students to quickly and cheaply mock up or build their ideas.

“As we were starting the cohort in 2013, a group of four students said there should be a makerspace on Queen’s campus and we said, ‘We will give you a room and $5,000 — build one’. And they did.”

Since then, Bavington says the Greg Bavington (left), executive director of QIC, and Francis Campbell (right), QIC has bought around $50,000 director of SparQ Studios. worth of equipment.

“We have some very generous and visionary alumni, a very supportive University administration and the provincial government has stepped up quite • 3D printers a bit too through the Ministry of Research and Innovation,” he said.

• 3D scanners The makerspace provides • Circuit board mill accessible and affordable ways for students to transform an idea into a • A smaller, more precise version of a CNC tangible product. mill for wood using a computer to design “We have had QIC students make everything from beer, to • Circuitry backpacks, to cricket based flour, • Traditional fabrication tools to sunglasses, to jewelry, to medical device sanitizers, to portable phone • Photography studio chargers,” Bavington said.

• Sewing machines in a smaller To become a SparQ Studios member, there’s a fee of $30 per connected room term or $50 for two terms. After paying the fee and completing

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EDITORIALS

The Journal’s Perspective

You can’t put a price on free speech, unless you’re UAlberta I

f you’re going to block freedom of expression on a university campus, you’d better have a more believable reason than an inflated security fee.

Eleven days before their scheduled on-campus protest, UAlberta Pro-Life — a student group that protests against abortion — had to cancel because the university imposed a $17,500 security fee.

The group has added this fee to their ongoing lawsuit against the University of Alberta, which claims that the university failed to uphold their freedom of expression at a similar protest last year, where their signs showed graphic images of abortions were covered by counter-protestors.

The club’s president defended the protest, stating, “The entire

point of university is to engage with controversy in a respectful And while it’s well within the and thoughtful way.”

Displaying disturbing images university’s rights to charge them to make a point is neither a security fee, as they do with all groups, the amount is questionable. thoughtful nor respectful.

On the one hand, the large The president’s argument that the upsetting nature of these security fee could be justified. The images should also make us group’s protest last year caused question the morality of abortion quite a ruckus, and a similar is nonsensical. Basing morality commotion this year would result on appearance would make in increased security costs. abortion just about as immoral as But on the other hand, the open-heart surgery. magnitude of the fee is entirely So if this group wants to use stopping the protest. And there’s deliberately provocative practices, something wrong about that.

Any way you slice it, slapping a they should be expected to pay for the consequences when people clearly unfeasible, and unexplained, fee on a student group is shady and are provoked.

However, regardless of implies an ulterior motive.

It’s difficult to justify the drastic the popularity of their stance, anti-abortion groups have a leap in cost from last year’s $225 legal right to protest in Canada. fee to $17,500, which makes this

as a way to entertain ourselves.

The majority of pickup lines and messages don’t warrant a serious reply, if any reply at all.

But, one day, someone sent me a heart-eyed emoji next to a single word, “Asian.”

I sarcastically applauded nna aria i his observation.

He then asked why I sounded annoyed. It had been intended as a compliment, he said.

Someone’s preference for a certain ethnicity doesn’t mean the people of that race should be flattered by the fact.

When someone generalizes me and others like this, they’re assuming certain things about me When I think of a racist, I picture that are based off of assumptions someone throwing insults at a and prejudice — even if it doesn’t certain ethnicity. I didn’t realize always appear that way. racism could be disguised in the Yet here I was, expected to form of admiration — until I feel praised because, just in case I started using Tinder. didn’t realize, I’m Asian. Not even More times than I can count, a specific type of Asian. Just Asian. men on the dating app have tried Unfortunately, beneath my to start a conversation by pointing appearance, I know so little about out that I’m Asian. Usually these Asian culture that I’m actually a conversations start with a one-liner little ashamed that I didn’t spend like, “Oh look, a cute Asian.” the time to learn more.

For the most part, my friends I grew up in Toronto. My and I use my Tinder account parents moved four times

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look like a targeted use of the university’s power to shut down an unpopular protest, not a genuine desire to ensure student safety.

So, while there may not be an outright denial of the group’s right to protest, they’re getting in the way to an inordinate degree.

Moreover, the university can’t have been unaware that this group has a tendency to paint themselves as martyrs for free speech — and that by extension the administration would be painted as oppressors of

student voices.

Even a superficial look at past activist movements is enough to illustrate that what’s an unpopular opinion at the time shouldn’t necessarily dictate how we judge their protest tactics or treat their right to protest.

It does no good for the University of Alberta to counter poor tactics with an even poorer excuse.

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Edmonton student unfairly punished Exposing racism shouldn’t lead to punishment.

A high school student in Edmonton was suspended from school after she took a screenshot of a Snapchat she received and posted it on Twitter to condemn its racist content.

The Snapchat was a picture of black students in a school hallway with the words, “Get out of my way n****rs” typed across it.

The school asked the student to take down her Twitter post, and then suspended her for making an inappropriate post on social media.

If anything, this student should be recognized for taking a stand, and not sweeping a racist attack on her fellow students under the rug. The person who should’ve been punished is the student who took the Snapchat in the first place.

But there’s no news of the school disciplining the student in question.

Meanwhile the student in the Snapchat feels unsafe and asks her father to drive her to school.

It’s despicable that a student feels scared to come to school, especially without any redress by the institution.

In adhering too closely to policy, administrators sometimes don’t exercise discrimination on whether their decisions are correct or not.

Technically, this student did post something inappropriate on social media, but the context in which she did so makes all the difference.

Educators are supposed to be role models for students who are young and impressionable, and this suspension sent absolutely the wrong message.

Using social media to call someone out isn’t the same as a verbal confrontation. Anyone can chime in, and it stays up forever. In light of these students’ young age, there may have been a better way to address racism than immortalizing it on the Internet.

But there’s no way this student is going to learn how to confront racism effectively if she’s simply sent home from school.

The bottom line is that making racist comments is far more reprehensible than calling out those comments, regardless of the way in which she did it.

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within the city before buying a house in the suburbs for me to attend high school. I was your average Torontonian.

But in a country that prides itself on being multicultural, these subtle forms of prejudice go uncontested. It’s easy to recognize overt racism, but it’s not as easy to condemn racism when it’s subtle and unacknowledged by most.

We’re ignoring red flags that appear in the generalizing language we use to describe diversity. This same apathy contributes to incidences of inadvertent racism.

As well as discouraging conspicuous racism, we should pay closer attention to racism when it’s less obvious.

Ignorance leads us to continue to make clumsy remarks that seem mundane and innocent, but are in reality carpeting a subtle form of social inequality.

I’d rather not receive a compliment at all, than be told that I’m appreciated based off an inaccurate assumption about who I am.

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Recognize the real value of your summer job

Look beyond salary while deciding where to work come May Adam Davis, ArtSci ’18

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ith the end of the school year fast approaching, students face another challenge: summer employment. This is perhaps an even greater factor in determining the kind of career we’ll pursue.

At this time of year, we have one question on our minds: Do we take a job for the money, the career prospects or the experience?

Unfortunately, many of us face the reality of not being able to land that dream internship, or take that low paying job for the sake of an amazing experience.

Even so, most students won’t make enough money over the summer to support themselves for the following eight months.

With that being said, it’s better to look to the skills and experiences a summer job might lend you, rather than solely the income when deciding how to spend your break.

A colleague of my mother’s recently told me that her daughter had landed an unpaid internship Adam Davis credits his job as a summer camp counselor with the development of important life skills. SUPPLIED BY ADAM DAVIS at the UN in New York for the summer.

While I was struck by the difficulty of achieving this prestigious position and the amount of hard work that must have gone into accomplishing this, something else hit me.

An average student could never afford to take such an amazing opportunity. While having this on your resume could vault you over have important responsibilities at a summer job they fully enjoy, still be out of the question for the competition and into a critical in programming and caring while making less money and many students.

Both the UN intern and I have position for your future career, for the campers, I’m employed decreasing their self-sufficiency.

Another question: What career had to make calculations about only from June through August, it’s not realistic for everyone.

Students with similar dreams which doesn’t provide sufficient prospects am I furthering by what we value the most in our of working for the UN, but income to support myself for a full working at a summer camp while summer jobs. But, perhaps more others in the same field of interest importantly, both of us have been with a lower socio-economic school year.

Thankfully, with the help are landing more relevant jobs and able to realize the value of taking background, won’t necessarily have the resources to make these of my parents who are able to internships that may appear more summer positions we enjoy.

Unfortunately, the reality is that support me, I’ve been able to keep impressive on a resume? dreams a reality.

While I personally believe not everyone can afford to take the Looking at my own experiences working this same job for the with summer jobs, I’ve been past four summers and have that I’ve learned many important job they want.

For some, income is the most life skills from being a camp fortunate to work as a camp some incredible experiences.

Looking at my job at camp, counselor — try being responsible important criterion, while others counselor at the same camp that you might ask whether it’s possible 24/7 for a cabin full of eight value work or life experience.

I attended since the age of nine.

So, what job should you While I do get paid and for the average student to work year olds — this type of job may

Although I haven’t made as much money from my summer job as I could have elsewhere, the experiences I’ve had will stay with me for life.

take? While income generation is obviously an enormous part of a decision to take a summer job, the reality is that most of today’s summer jobs for students don’t completely satisfy our financial needs anyway.

It may be true that a particular position can deliver a couple thousand dollars extra to your bank account (and that’s no small amount), but in the grand scheme of a four-year degree, students are still strained for money.

The realities of available summer jobs suggest that we’re better off taking a position that delivers more in the way of incredible experiences or advancing career prospects.

Because despite our worries about our financial futures, chances are we will have debts to pay off anyway.

Our time in university presents us with perhaps the greatest amount of variety and opportunity for employment, so take advantage of something truly unique. A time in our lives when this option is available again may not appear any time soon.

Although I haven’t made as much money from my summer job as I could have elsewhere, the experiences I’ve had will stay with me for life. Skills such as patience, tolerance, level-headedness and communication are all things I’ve learned as a camp counselor.

So when it comes down to it, what do you value most? Maybe you value some peace of mind that you’ve done your best to protect yourself from looming student debt — and that’s definitely something to be proud of.

However, try thinking about less quantifiable measures of a summer job, and you might find that these are the things that you value the most, and will stick with you for life.

Adam Davis is a second-year Political Studies major.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR of humanity that is able to unify and dying. Grief is about loss. students, the faculty, the nation. Any loss. Marriage, job, health, We can connect and engage in home, independence, dignity, Good Grief Queen’s Regarding the article meaningful and respectful ways spirituality, language. Have you lost “Aboriginal courses are relevant to regardless of race, colour, creed anything lately? We Aboriginals students, so make them a priority” and sexual orientation when we have been losers for a very long (January 8). examine grief. time, but I can tell you one thing, There is a way to introduce The funny thing about grief is we have never lost our sense of Aboriginal content that will work that it is the one human condition humor. We may not always share across all faculties. A humanities that we all experience, yet often it widely, but for many of us, it course, a prep course for the don’t recognize. The crazy thing has kept us alive. We are healing real world, a good look at grief about grief is that it is powerful and getting stronger, but Canada is course — Good Grief, the enough to convince us we broken. What could be better than Missing Link. are crazy when in fact we are not. healing together?

True. Expanding learning about Grief is not only about death Healthy grief is not passive.

Indigenous peoples is essential for the Canadian education system and Canada. What is needed is that universal element Feb. 11, 2016

My Mohawk mom was born in 1929. She was damaged and numbed for what her life was like in her formidable years, but she built me strong and sent me forward with instruction to think my own thoughts and to walk tall through my years. She taught me about grief — ineffable and deep — the kind of grief that goes to your grave. There is nothing good about that kind of grief.

We all have stories. It is time that we walk together and talk together to close the gap that has for so long

divided us.

Let’s learn about grief. Good grief — that missing link that can connect us and lead to not only a greater understanding of Indigenous peoples of Canada, but of all peoples of Canada.

Queen’s University, you could consider introducing Aboriginal content by first examining grief.

Respectfully written by Jan Mishriky, in memory of my mother and in memory of Patricia Monture, a Haudenosaunee woman having received her Honourary Doctorate from Queen’s, her Alma Mater, so many moons ago.

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ARTS Canadian author Michael Winter’s novel Minister Without Portfolio explores the protagonist’s hardships after his return from an army-affiliated contractor job.

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Coming of age on the East Coast Michael Winter’s Newfoundland-based novel makes it to the Canada Reads shortlist A nastasiya B oika Features Editor Michael Winter’s Minister Without Portfolio — one of five books selected for the Canada Reads 2016 shortlist — presents the intricate beauty of one man’s personal story.

The novel follows the transformation of Henry Hayward from a rootless and broken state to a point where he finds connection to the land and the people around him.

Having left his home in Newfoundland after a breakup to seek a “dangerous life” as a contractor with the Canadian military, Henry returns with a different objective — to

make things right at home by putting down roots and taking over the responsibilities of a fallen comrade.

In his novel, author Michael Winter doesn’t shy away from describing the messiness of life and the human condition.

The protagonist is shown in both positive and negative lights. The author highlights the hardships Henry endures and the mistakes he makes throughout his life, as well as the repercussions he then faces.

Winter’s at his best when he’s weaving the story line of an individual’s experience with a view of the tight-knit coastal lifestyle.

Using intricate family histories, the

author illustrates the complexities of small town living and shows the willingness of individuals to help one another, using Hayward’s journey to describe the nature of life along coastal Newfoundland.

With Henry as his lens into the life of the people around him, Winter provides readers with a connection to the protagonist and the setting.

The character was born and bred in Newfoundland, but becomes disconnected from the land and the people before experiencing a turning point in his life.

This, in a way, makes him an outsider.

His journey to become an integral part

of the community allows the reader to follow along and gradually become accustomed to the people, the land and expectations that surround Henry in his journey.

Winter’s unusual writing style, which builds dialogue into the text without the use of quotation marks, takes some getting used to. But it’s a worthwhile adjustment.

By the end of the novel, you’re wholly invested in the fate of Henry and the community as a whole, leaving you with the urge to experience the East Coast lifestyle by getting in your car and riding east until you hit the ocean.

MUSIC

One man, two sounds Lead singer of Operators Dan Boeckner juggles two bands, each with new music in the works S tephanie N ijhuis Photo Editor Operators and Wolf Parade songwriter and performer Dan Boeckner has been busy.

Both bands have new music in the works, and he says his newest Operators album will have a “trippier and heavier” sound.

Throughout his career working with many bands (Wolf Parade, Divine Fits, Handsome Furs), Boeckner’s sound has continued to develop a more experimental vibe, which will likely be featured in Operator’s newest album Blue Wave which is slated for release on April 1.

“The EP, was cleaner and less guitarcentric. The album is kind of a result of touring with the band and sort of reintroducing guitar into the mix,” Boeckner said. “Sonically, it’s a lot more aggressive than the EP.” Operators is Boeckner’s latest project.

The band includes a more electronic sound than his previous musical ventures.

“Between the time that Handsome Furs broke up and when the Divine Fits record was released, I really pushed myself to get better at programming and sequencing,” he said. “I could use this as a tool to paint a

picture that I wanted to.”

Boeckner says the new Operators album is a painting of “a dread-filled psychedelic world.” Although still hailing from the genre of indie rock, Boeckner’s songwriting and performing for Wolf Parade is quite different.

Wolf Parade recently announced that they were returning from their hiatus with new music and plenty of shows. It’ll be a busy time for Boeckner, but he says it’s just a way to “flex different muscles”. “[Wolf Parade and Operators] are just two different expressions of what I want to get out artistically,” Boeckner said. “With Operators, I sing all the songs. With Wolf Parade, 50 per cent of the set, I get to lay back and just shred on guitar.”

There’s also a large difference in the venues the bands frequent. Wolf Parade has already been confirmed for many large-scale music festivals this summer, including Wayhome and Osheaga. It’s quite a different atmosphere than the intimate bar settings that often host Operators.

“Operators is a new band, so we have to do boots on the ground kind of work. You go and play every club and you play right on the floor in front of people and you just play your ass off,” Boeckner said. “It’s almost like

Operators’ newest album Blue Wave is set to release April 1.

trench warfare.”

Despite these differences, Boeckner has the same goal while performing with all of his musical ventures.

“First and foremost, you’re an entertainer.

But you want people to come and feel something and enjoy themselves and have an experience they can’t consuming music in any other way,” he said. “But then also, you want to transmit a feeling to them and hopefully they get that and hopefully they react to it.”

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Boeckner’s projects can attract different crowds. But no matter what types of people are in the audience, Boeckner believes the best shows are the ones where he can share his art and incite a reaction.

“When you feel an intangible sense that the audience is on the same wavelength as you. It kind of goes beyond just you talking to people and have everybody agree with you. It’s more tangible and organic,” he said.

“I feel pretty lucky that I get to do it.”

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The GHETTO art installation is set up in the Fireside Lounge at The Common Ground, hoping to creatively push the boundaries of what we know as “ghetto”.

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Getting to know GHETTO Retail-style art installation hopes to challenge our perceptions of the term “ghetto” K ayla T homson Digital Manager Over the next three weeks, the fireside lounge in the Common Ground will be taken over by what appears to be a retail store. But the mannequins wearing ornate dresses, bottles of perfume and handbags are actually part of an art installation.

The exhibit, called GHETTO: A Retail Art Installation, opened on Feb. 23 with a discussion panel beforehand. The panel was hosted by AMS Social Issues Commissioner Alex Chung and exhibit artists, Rodney Veal and Brian DaLuca, from Dayton, Ohio. The exhibit will be open for three weeks.

GHETTO is intended to force viewers to consider what the word “ghetto” actually means and inspire

discussion about the installation.

The exhibit was first opened by DaLuca and Veal at the University of Dayton, where DaLuca works.

According to the panelists, the social landscape at the University of Dayton is comparable to Queen’s.

The student housing area surrounding Dayton is often called the student ghetto, according to the artists, much like the housing area surrounding Queen’s. The panel also noted that only five per cent of the Dayton student population are visible minorities.

Chung said there are definite similarities between the social climates at Dayton and Queen’s. “[Queen’s minority population is] not five per cent, but it’s pretty low. And so language carries a lot of significance for our environment and the climate it creates as well,”

FILM FESTIVAL

KCFF revives the movie theatre experience Five things to look forward to at this year’s festival N atanya L evine Contributor Why do we watch movies? We watch them because we get to experience a new walk of life for a few hours or enjoy a piece of art.

We get to lose ourselves, and we get to find ourselves. We get to learn.

A film festival combines all of

these by selecting a series of films with a variety of themes and styles.

This weekend’s Kingston Canadian Film Festival (KCFF) will feature award-winning films along with local films, short films and other entertainment events.

In 2001, KCFF was founded

by Queen’s student Alex Jansen.

Sixteen years later, the festival is

Chung said in an interview. “And I think we’ve failed to recognize that a lot of the time.”

The exhibit is designed to mimic a store. All items are designed and displayed as if they were on sale and visitors are invited to touch, listen to and engage with the art.

GHETTO is intended to force the viewers to consider what the word “ghetto” actually means and inspire discussion about the installation.

A catalogue lies in one corner for visitors to flip through.

Music blares loudly, and the lights and colours create an immersive experience.

As visitors interact with the exhibit, they learn more about the term “ghetto” by reading various statistics about ghettoized communities.

It’s intended to spark an still going strong and has branched out to cover other mediums than film and appeal to audiences other than film enthusiasts.

Personally, I’m not always a huge fan of movies. Two hours is often too long to hold my attention on the screen. But I’m excited to see the works created by my fellow Kingstonians and Canadians, so here’s a few specific things that I’m looking forward to at this weekend’s KCFF. Student films This year, the Focus Film Festival challenged Queen’s students to create a film on the chosen theme

emotional response from the viewer and start a conversation about the word.

A black and white dress sits in the middle of the room, with red lace trailing down the side and the star of David resting on the bodice.

This piece is titled Detained.

The price of the dress is labelled as $11,000, with reference to the 11 million lives lost during the Holocaust.

Veal said the piece epitomizes the exhibit.

“It’s like people see it and they rush to it because it has this simplicity, but it speaks to something really deeply disturbing at the same time.”

It’s clearly a controversial piece. But Veal and DaLuca say it’s intentional — they want to spark a reaction from visitors.

“I’d ask people to think about it who are challenged by it,” DaLuca said. “Why respond? Why react in that way? […] We’ve got a card, holler at me. Let’s have a conversation about it.”

An emphasis on starting conversations about the term “ghetto” carries on throughout

the exhibit.

A notebook sits by the entrance prompting visitors to sign their name and leave a comment about the installation.

The artists plan to adapt and grow the exhibit as they receive feedback from the places they visit to hold the exhibit.

“A student here talked about the Aboriginal voice in this … if that means somebody here feels that another element should be created before we [continue to another location], we’re going to add a new dress. We’ll add a purse. We’ll add something,” DaLuca said.

The Academy, a piece intended to represent lower-quality clothing brands, includes t-shirts that represent the student housing area in Dayton and the one here at Queen’s. The collection will expand as GHETTO travels to new places.

Veal and DaLuca aren’t sure where GHETTO will land next, but DaLuca said they plan to continue the discussion.

“If somebody says … ‘Hey, bring it to us. We need it. We want it. We’re curious,’ we’d say absolutely.”

— numbers — in a mere 72 hours.

The winning films — Easy as Pi, Tuning In, and Linger — will be screened at the Kingston Canadian Film Festival as part of their Local Shorts Program this weekend.

There is no shortage of young filmmakers in Kingston, and as a fellow student, it’s exciting to see my friends and neighbors up on the big screen.

accessible, attendance at festivals has declined.

“People, myself included, watch movies in different ways now,” KCFF Festival Director Marc Garniss said. “It’s not enough these days [to screen films].”

To combat this, the festival won’t just be showcasing 23 feature films and over 40 short film screenings. It’ll will also be hosting bands (Les Breastfeeders from Montreal), comedians (including Scott Thompson and K. Trevor Wilson), interactive video game exhibitions and workshops.

At the festival, they’ll all come together and tie in through

Music, interactive gaming and comedy Festivals can attract a variety of visitors, especially when they screen a diverse selection of films.

But as movies have become more

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the common Canadian cinema.

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Documentaries I love documentaries. I would always rather watch something real and relevant to my life. This year, KCFF is opening with a documentary called Driving with Selvi — the story of a young Indian bride who escapes the confines of her marriage to become the first female taxi driver in southern India — and will continue to offer documentaries throughout the weekend on a wide range of subjects.

Hurt, Guantanamo’s Child, and The Messenger are just three of the films playing this weekend that are, might I say, stranger than fiction.

Networking events The weekend will feature networking events for students interested in working in the film industry.

The “Breaking In” event, which will be held in Goodes Hall on Friday, is an informal opportunity for student to interact one-on-one with the festival guests. The event begins with the guests talking about themselves and what they do.

After that, attendees can meander through the room and talk to whomever they please.

Garniss said the event isn’t specific to film students. Guests include directors, managers and agents along with various cast and crew members from the films. The event offers a range of people to talk to, and it’s an easy opportunity to approach guests involved in filmmaking.

Some of the cast and crew for each film will also be available for Ethan Hawke stars in Born to Be Blue, which will showcase at this question and answer sessions after weekend’s festival. the screenings.

Kingston’s unconventional theatre venues Besides a few events at the Isabel Bader Center on King St., the festival occurs mainly on Princess St. with films shown at The Screening Room, The Grand Theatre and City Hall.

Although going to the movies is no longer a formal event, setting up an impromptu theatre in City Hall and The Grand Theatre is enough to make us get out of bed, put on some real clothes and enjoy a movie in a place we haven’t yet experienced.

Tickets are $12 for a film, $8 for students and all the workshops are free. Even if festival passes are sold out, rush line tickets are available 20 minutes before each film on a first-come, first-serve basis.

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Queen’s Formula SAE Team on right track as they build racecar for international competition J ane W illsie Editorials Editor

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ot many students get to go 0 to 100 km/h in 3.2 seconds.

But if you go into McLaughlin Hall, turn right and go down the stairs, you’ll find a bewildering labyrinth of machinery, guarded by an authoritative sign that demands that all who enter wear safety glasses. Welcome to the fast lane.

The Queen’s Formula SAE Team is an engineering design team that builds formula-style racecars to compete in three annual international competitions.

Besides designing and building the vehicle, team members drive it in timed events — at breakneck speeds.

“You feel everything. It’s nothing like a road car. You feel every single bump, and every single turn,” Robert Teseo, lead of vehicle dynamics, said.

“We’re faster than Ferraris,” Bogdan Mateescu, director of operations, added.

The cars themselves take over 10,000 hours to build.

“From the conception of the design to the actual finished product ... a lot of it isn’t exactly easy work,” Teseo, Sci ‘17, said.

But he says the team always has each other’s backs.

“It’s not your boss telling you to do something,” he said. “It’s your buddy saying, ‘Ok, let’s do this.’”

Queen’s competes in two SAE-sanctioned events each year in Michigan and Nebraska and one sub-SAE competition, Formula North, in Barrie.

These events have the sound of every car

Shan Mufti works in the Formula SAE shop.

team has to adhere to a huge rulebook lover’s dream.

“Teams from all over the States, some that specifies how almost every component European teams, are all in the middle, all of the car is built to protect drivers from their cars side by side, with all of our gear, poor workmanship.

Despite their cars’ consistent high quality, working on our cars,” Technical Director the team has had some close shaves at Shan Mufti, said.

According to Teseo and Mateescu, the competition. Last year, on the team’s first day of competition, their drive shaft — the German teams are especially intense.

But before a car even gets to competition, integral part that connects the engine to it goes through a testing and data collection the wheel — broke. Luckily, the team had phase at Shannonville Motorsport Park thought to make a spare the day before.

“These things happen, and you have where the team practices driving and the car’s components are tuned and analyzed to to account for them happening,” Teseo said. “Because something will always go make sure it’s as fast as it can be.

“It’s fun to drive, but it also takes a toll on wrong. And you just pray, you just make sure your body because it’s so aggressive,” Mufti, that it’s not something that’s going to hurt the driver.”

Sci ‘17, said.

The potential for parts After feeling relatively “It’s fun to drive, falling off is why each car comfortable driving but it also takes a goes through an intense for the first time, Mufti was surprised when his toll on your body technical examination before the team is allowed teammates suggested they because it’s so to compete, including now try it in second gear. aggressive.” tilting it on a 45 to 60 degree “That was a lot more angle to make sure nothing fun,” he said.

But for Teseo, he didn’t — Shan Mufti, Sci ‘17 leaks out. “[The judges] even notice his speed the first time he practiced on one of these track really know their stuff. And they will tear you apart if you don’t,” days — there was too much going on.

“I didn’t even want to try it in second Mufti said.

The competition itself is a series of static gear the first time,” Teseo said. “That was just way too much power. Every time I put (design) and dynamic (racing) events that my foot on the gas, it would just spin out. It each team is scored on.

The last day of the competition is the was nuts.”

Some of the team’s graduates have gone endurance event — the most grueling part on to become professional drivers, including for both the car and the driver. The event Dalton Kellett, Sci ‘15, who now drives in involves two drivers doing 10 laps each for a total of 22 km. the Indy Lights racecar series.

“A lot of teams, the car is fine for a couple During the construction of the car, the

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laps, but the real test of it is whether your car is overheating by the end ... or the driver is really uncomfortable,” Teseo said. “[For] any team — even the best teams — something will go wrong.

Every time.”

“When you fix it, it’s all worth it in the end. But when it goes wrong, you have a mini-heart attack there for a minute,” he said.

The static events include a cost analysis, as well as design and business presentations.

“You treat this as a chance to build a car that would target automotive enthusiasts,” Mateescu, Comm ‘17, CompSci ‘18, said.

“You know your target market is someone around the age of 30 to 40, who has disposable income and is a track enthusiast.”

The team’s members fit the last criteria to a T. “I had a huge passion for cars when I was a kid,” Mufti said. “Here you can actually design, build and test your own product, which is really insane. It’s not stuff you can do outside of school, or a team like this.”

“I grew up in Qatar, which has a fairly decent street racing scene,” Mateescu said.

“Basically, I’m really passionate about cars, and I can’t wait to drive this thing.”

According to Mateescu, the team receives ample support from the administration, alumni and corporate sponsors.

“You can’t go on the Internet and Google ‘How to manage a Formula team,” Mateescu said.

“For me and for everyone on the team, we are very grateful for the support that we have from people who understand what we’re trying to do here.”

From left: Teseo, Mateescu and Mufti pose behind the 2016 car’s frame.

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Gaels fall in third game of first round M att C hristie Staff Writer Men’s hockey saw an end to their promising season this past weekend, after they suffered a critical 4-3 loss to the UOIT Ridgebacks.

Their fall in game three of the first round of the playoffs makes the Gaels the first winter varsity team to end their season.

For head coach Brett Gibson, there wasn’t an issue of his team producing, but rather that some key players were absent due to injuries, including Spencer Abraham, Andrew Wiebe, Patrick Downe and Slater Doggett.

“Unfortunately, injuries became a major reason we are out in the first round,” Gibson said. “We were down to nine forwards and four defence. You can’t play with the intensity and effort that is needed to win with that little bodies.”

Queen’s went into the third and final game of their playoff series tied 1-1 with UOIT, after both games prior advanced to overtime.

After a quick start by the

Ridgebacks, Jesse Stoughton found an opening past Gael Kevin Bailie to put UOIT up by one. Eric Ming, unwilling to let his team fall behind, scored on the power play to knot things up. Following the first intermission, Queen’s was unable to take advantage of the power play, allowing UOIT to score a short-handed goal, setting the score at 2-1.

Darcy Greenaway delivered for Queen’s and tied things up. Ming, coming off his first goal of the post season, jumped back into the play, firing the puck into the back of the net once again to put the Gaels up by one.

The Ridgebacks took advantage of the hometown ice, answering with a pair of goals in the third to advance to the OUA Eastern Conference semi-finals. The Gaels finished with an impressive record of 17-7-4 in the regular season, but were oddly stronger on the road this year than at home, with an away record of 10-4.

“Our mentality on the road is different than at home, and it will be addressed at the start of

Joseph Luongo finished his four years at Queen’s with the playoff loss.

next year with our new leadership group,” Gibson said.

The Gaels have taken large strides this year, especially with program development, and although the regular season may be over, Gibson is looking forward to the off-season, especially when it comes to recruiting new talent.

“It’s all about who is going to put the effort in this off-season to secure their roster spot, because there is always a hungry incoming class looking to make a mark,” he said.

Sunday’s game was a last for five graduating players — Joseph Luongo, Taylor Clements, Andrew Wiebe, Yannick LaFlamme and Patrick McGillis. With five positions to fill, the Gaels may have a different look come the 2016-17 season.

“I am really going to miss the five graduating players,” Gibson said. “This is the hardest part about coaching at this level. I always say they come in as boys, and leave as men. These five have become great men.”

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WRESTLING AND WOMEN’S RUGBY

Best of both worlds

Gill Pegg star on rugby field and OUA champion on wrestling mat A dam L askaris Sports Editor It’s rare that an athlete takes on two varsity sports, but for the final year of her undergrad, Gill Pegg was up for the challenge.

Having already been a women’s rugby CIS silver medalist and First-Team All-Star this past fall, Pegg recently added an OUA gold medal to her trophy case for wrestling in the 82 kilogram category two weeks ago.

On the rugby field, Pegg’s developed a reputation as a standout defensive player, but it was only recently that she picked up a secondary sport.

Beginning wrestling training at Queen’s last spring for the first time since high school, Pegg admits she had her reservations about adding a second varsity sport to her schedule.

“I was nervous coming to competitions because I knew it’d been such a long time since [I last] wrestled,” she said. “I went into it just confident in myself as an athlete.

Luckily it turned out for the best for me.”

Pegg continues on this upcoming weekend at the CIS championships at Brock University,

as the only Queen’s athlete represented.

But while her wrestling campaign has been successful, managing two varsity sports in one school year comes with it challenges.

“I don’t really get a break,” she said. “My body starts taking a toll.”

“[With rugby], if you’re having a bad day, they’re there to help you up ...

With wrestling, you can turn to your teammates, but there’s not so much they can really do ... it’s really all on you.”

— Gill Pegg Her wrestling career began after she transferred away from Eastview Secondary School to Barrie Central Collegiate Institute to play for a more competitive rugby team.

It was at her new school that she discovered wrestling for the first time, and developed an

Pegg tackles an Acadia player in the CIS quarterfinal this past fall.

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affinity for the sport.

She finds that one of the biggest differences between the two sports is the team focus of rugby compared to the individuality of wrestling. “[With rugby], if you’re having a bad day, they’re there to help you up. You’re all going for the same outcome,” she said. “With wrestling, you can turn to your teammates, but there’s not so much they can really do to help you push through your match. It’s really all on you.”

But for all the two sport’s differences, there are some undeniable similarities and benefits to playing the two together.

“Contact is definitely a big aspect in rugby and in wrestling. I found it transferred really well, especially tackling,” she said.

“The quickness of wrestling helped in rugby, being quick to my feet, being fast in breakdowns.”

Pegg said once she returned to the wrestling mat, it wasn’t long before she redeveloped her skills.

“It was kind of like riding a bicycle. The moves came back to me. It was muscle memory at that point.”

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Daniel Cassese, @DCassese26: “Which Gaels team has the best chance at a deep run in the postseason?”

With a second-place finish in the OUA this year, we believe men’s volleyball is poised to make the deepest run in the post-season.

In their last 10 games, the men’s volleyball team sits at 7-3, winning nine of their last 11 sets. Despite a poor match up against McMaster this year — the second best team in Canada — the Gaels boast one of the most well-rounded squads.

Led offensively by Marko Dakic, who is fifth in the OUA in kills and third in hitting percentage, the Gaels have become one of the most efficient attacking teams.

They aren’t too bad at defence either, with Ivo Dramov ranked fifth in the OUA in digs per set, and Scott Brunet leading the front line of defence with over one block per set.

Overall, their deep roster and their all-around play gives the team the best chance of coming out on top.

Spencer Belyea, @SpencerBelyea: “Which teams have overachieved/ underachieved relative to their start of season expectation?”

At the beginning of the year, if you were to say men’s basketball would be three games above .500, with only two games left in the season, many would have doubted you.

After losing their star player from last year, Greg Faulkner — 19.8 points, 6.8 rebounds per game — the team was left with major gaps on offence. Not to mention

that the team was in the bottom half in most defensive categories, leaving observers to wonder what would be done with the Gaels basketball program.

But in his fifth year at the helm, Coach Stephan Barrie finally has the team playing his kind of basketball, starting with Sukhpreet Singh.

The fourth-year guard is second in the OUA in points per game (22.6), shooting an efficient 47 per cent from the field.

Combined with a more complete team effort on the defensive end — the Gaels only allow 74 points per game, six less than last year — Queen’s is poised to survive and advance in the OUA playoffs.

Nick Faris, “Where does “Gaels” rank among OUA team names?”

Gee-Gee’s, Paladins, and Lancers are all silly names. Varsity Blues is lazy, while Lions, Mustangs, Badgers, Golden Hawks, etc., aren’t particularly inspired, as they’re mostly just animals.

The Voyageurs and Thunderwolves get points for being most creative. Which probably places the Gaels somewhere around third and fifth place, though removing “Golden” from most of the branding knocks Queen’s down a few spots.

Commenter Malcolm Butler-X-Gladwell, “If you theoretically matched up the best Queen’s football team of all time against the worst NFL team of all time, how much would the Lions win by?”

Probably at least 100. The CIS has some quality talent, but at the end of the day, NFL players are professionals for a reason. End

of story.

Tom Hunter, @PuckDontLie: Does having an OHL team make it harder for the people of Kingston to have an interest in the Queen’s hockey team?

There are many barriers to having stronger interest in hockey at Queen’s, but I’m not sure the Frontenacs are one of them.

Rink location has always been an issue, with the Memorial Centre a 20-minute walk from campus. From my own experience, Queen’s students aren’t usually the ones filling up the K-Rock Centre. Instead, it’s mostly locals.

And many other cities in the OUA have universities and OHL hockey teams, so it’s not exactly a unique situation.

Joel Meloff, @Jmeloff: “Which winter season Gaels varsity athlete would you consider most valuable to his/her team?”

Starting in 22 of the Gaels 24 games this year, Caitlyn Lahonen of women’s hockey has been a constant thorn in the sides of teams across the OUA — boasting the most saves in the league (601), as well as the second best save percentage and wins.

Whether it was her 32 saves in the 2-1 win against Toronto on the road or 36-save shutout win against Laurentian, Lahonen has been pivotal to the women’s hockey team finishing third in the OUA. For their team to continue their hot play into the post season — with four wins in their last five games — Lahonen will have to be at her best.

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Beyoncé’s “Formation” isn’t perfect, but it’s empowering T arreisha A gard Contributor After releasing the music video for her latest single “Formation”, Beyoncé has gotten her fair share of both praise and criticism.

Critics quickly took to their respective platforms to condemn Beyoncé’s latest track, calling it anti-police and needlessly political.

And there’s no doubt that “Formation” is politically-charged — as it should be.

Today, racism persists: from rampant police brutality against Black men and women, to Black communities deprived of basic necessities, to Black bodies being exploited and poorly represented by the media. Beyoncé has every right to use her platform to bring the issues faced by the Black community to the forefront.

That being said, I recognize that

Beyoncé, like most entertainers, has a personal agenda. I’m not ignorant to the coded messages embedded in the new single. I too can criticize Beyoncé for her own exploitation of “Blackness”.

The use of colourism, a form of discrimination based on shades of skin tones, is evident in the music video. While Beyoncé dons her blonde tresses and revels in her privilege as a self-described “yellow bone” (a Black woman with a lighter skin tone), she surrounds herself with Black women with darker skin and afros.

The colourism that’s used in the music video reinforces a hierarchy based on skin color, where Beyoncé, with lighter skin, is positioned in the forefront of the action and the women of a darker skin tone are set in the back. While Beyoncé can’t help that she has lighter skin, she could have taken the necessary

steps to ensure racial balance in the video, as that’s what continues to plague the Black community. Sorry Bey, “Formation” isn’t flawless.

But while I have my personal gripes with the track, I’m not here to join in on the rhetoric that aims to undermine Beyoncé and the movement to empower the Black community. Mainstream media has that covered.

Instead let’s look at the bigger picture.

Art is political, and “Formation” is a political statement that needed to be made.

Contrary to what some may

think, Beyoncé’s homage to the Black Panther Party and Malcolm X isn’t promoting violence.

She’s saluting those who fought for justice.

Beyoncé is calling for the Black community to take up social and political arms by means of leadership and education to make progressive change. “Formation” is a call for unity. A call for Black women (and men) to stand together and continue to progress against all odds. “Formation” is a plea to create a better future for the younger generation of Black children. Beyoncé calls for

the Black community to stand together and slay social and political systems that continue to oppress members of the Black community — to slay the racism that continues to deprive Black people of equal opportunities within society.

As a Black woman, “Formation” is a song that empowers me. It reminds me of why I need to continue to work toward progressive change in my community. It’s a reminder that the plight of those before me wasn’t in vain. Their voices will be heard and the change will come.

BLACK HISTORY MONTH

Robert Sutherland’s lasting legacy K ailun Z hang Assistant Lifestyle Editor Robert Sutherland’s enrolment at Queen’s was and continues to be a significant part of the school’s history. As someone who’s remembered not only for surpassing Canadian milestones, but saving Queen’s during a crucial financial crisis, Sutherland is among the university’s most notable alumni.

Born in Jamaica, Sutherland received a degree in Classics and Mathematics from Queen’s in 1852. At a time when slavery was still extremely prominent in the United States, he became the first person of colour to graduate a Canadian university. To provide some perspective, Sutherland

came to the country and began his undergraduate studies the same year that Harriet Tubman, famous for helping slaves escape through the Underground Railroad, fled slavery.

Sutherland enrolled at Queen’s in 1849, only eight years after the university was founded.

During his time as a student, Sutherland received 14 academic awards. Upon completion of his undergraduate degree, he pursued law and eventually became the first known black lawyer in North America.

Through apprenticeship and examination and attending Osgoode Hall Law School at York University, he was called to the bar in 1855. It’s said that throughout his career, he helped many former

Robert Sutherland Hall on Union St.

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the alumnus. slaves who escaped to Canada operating budget.

Today, other mementos of It’s believed that Sutherland’s seek freedom and opportunity in bestowment is the only time Sutherland’s legacy remain on their new home.

Sutherland passed away of that this has happened — when campus. Among them include pneumonia a short 21 years after a contribution from a private the Robert Sutherland Room in he completed his undergrad. His individual matched a Canadian the JDUC, the Robert Sutherland life marked many firsts for Queen’s, university’s yearly expenditure. - Harry Jerome Entrance Award Canada and North America. But At the time, it was the largest given to black students entering even after his death, his legacies amount one person had ever given their first year, as well as the Robert lived on — particularly the ones he Queen’s. The financial support Sutherland Fellowships, which left on Queen’s. helped get a fundraising campaign were established in 1992 to attract In 1878, the University found off the ground, which eventually more visible minority students to itself in exceptional financial pulled the university out of graduate school programs. Finally, in 2009, one of the most notable distress, with a potential takeover its pit. by the University of Toronto Queen’s principal of the time, acts of recognition occurred looming overhead. The school George Monro Grant, ordered at the request of students when got its salvation after Sutherland a large granite tombstone to be Queen’s renamed the School of left his entire estate to Queen’s erected on Sutherland’s grave. It Policy Studies building to Robert in his will. It was worth around remains in the Toronto cemetery Sutherland Hall.

“May his devotion to his alma $12,000 — a value of about well over a century later as a $260,000 today — and was equal token of Queen’s everlasting mater not pass into oblivion,” reads to the institution’s total annual appreciation and connection with a plaque inside.

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STUDENT LIFE

Let’s talk about sex SEX Talks event breaks down stigma in open discussion M adeline H einke Contributor A week and a half ago, I went to hear a panel of guys talk about intimacy, sex and relationships.

I had no idea what to expect. Sex isn’t the simplest of topics to discuss — no matter your gender, sexual orientation or preference. But for the panel of guys who openly discussed their views on relationships and sex in front of an audience of strangers, I applaud you.

The SEX Talks, a TED Talk-style event, put on by Residence Life and facilitated by the Sexual Health Resource Centre (SHRC), focused on topics related to masculinity, such as gender performance in and out of the bedroom. Attending the event as a self-identifying female gave me new perspective on the anxieties many male students bear.

The first speaker, Adam Boone, discussed the anxieties and myths that come along with sex in university. Even though he was speaking from a male’s perspective, it was all very relevant. Everyone has different expectations about sex coming into university, either from the media or other myths, which caused him and surely others to have fears surrounding the notion of sex.

A source of these myths comes from the lack of communication between partners — an issue all too common for relationships.

“I get the sense that the conversations we have about sex are not the open and honest conversations we need to be having,” Adam James, another panel speaker, said. “Especially when it comes to difficult topics like masculinity and how it affects our

intimate relationships.”

As the talks went on, the open communication broke barriers between the panel and attendees of the event, especially when it came to the topic of body image. It’s a double standard to say that guys don’t struggle with maintaining a perfect body, but it’s definitely something that didn’t occur to me before this event.

In actuality, all of us have an image that we’re constantly shaping ourselves to look like. These images don’t necessarily represent who we are, but rather who society wants us to be.

“There isn’t one image of man or what it is to be a man. It is just as manly to be vulnerable, compassionate and caring and this is just one alternative,” panelist George Konstantinidis said, adding that it’s important to challenging these expectations as we encounter them.

As the talks were wrapping up, I felt myself relating more and more to the speakers. Even though the topic of masculinity was the main focus of the event, the lack of communication, media myths and pressures of socially-constructed gender roles have universal relevance.

Events like these foster an open environment where we can start being honest and real about sex through discussion, instead of giving in to the myths and expectations that stem from miscommunication.

I learned that it’s time to be honest; everyone struggles with issues that go along with gender-image, sex and relationships. It’s only when we start to break down the stigma and start having honest talks that we’ll be able to benefit from future healthy relationships.

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Why I relay for cancer One student’s battle with leukemia

E mma M aclean Contributor

But while my story has a happy passion and enthusiasm I saw as The worst treatment I had to Cancer didn’t end for me after endure was Asparaginase, which I was cured, I carried anxiety ending, a lot of cancer patients people came together for such an important cause. were needles that injected chemo with me for years afterwards. I don’t have one.

When I came to fter months of bruising, pain directly into the muscles of my grew up obsessing over Queen’s, I was thrilled to and sickness the doctors con- legs. They were incredibly painful staying healthy and cluded I had cancer. It was two and I struggled to walk for days avoiding germs. When Today, I’m a third-year Concurrent find a Relay for Life event afterwards. I was a pretty stubborn my immune system was Education student, and it’s because I here and I’ve been involved weeks after my sixth birthday. ever since. Relay for Life I vividly remember the day kid; I avoided wheelchairs, hospital compromised, normally wasn’t alone in this fight. has become incredibly when my parents brought me to the gowns and Band-aids as much as harmless germs were life important to me because children’s hospital in Ottawa to be I could, but the wheelchair was a threatening. Pneumonia Cancer is something that it’s my way of continuing the fight resulted in a week stay in the tested. The doctors told my parents necessity after my injections. hospital on IV antibiotics. touches us all. Two out of five against the horrible disease that I had acute lymphoblastic I felt unsafe without my Canadians will develop cancer took my friends and family, like leukemia and I’d have to hospital mask and gloves in their lifetime and one in four Tori and Kim. endure two-and-a-half years of Tori was diagnosed with intense chemotherapy.

Cancer didn’t end for me after I to protect me from the Canadians are expected to die I lived in the hospital for was cured, I carried anxiety with germs that we encounter from it. Cancer can affect anyone, neuroblastoma a year before me which is why I participate in Relay at the age of six. Neuroblastoma every day. the first month until I was able me for years afterwards.

I’m incredibly lucky: for Life events, in memory of all is a horrible childhood cancer to fight off infections without I have no long-term side the friends and family I lost due to with very poor survival rates. the help of an IV. I was then put Tori endured difficult treatment, effects from the daily this horrible disease. on an experimental protocol, Relay for Life is an overnight including rounds of chemo, surgery, As a result of the research done rounds of chemotherapy I took for which was based on periods of during my treatment, patients two-and-a-half years. Cancer is no event that raises money for the a stem cell transplant and radiation. intense chemotherapy.

The Christmas after her ninth Because I was young when I now only need to endure two longer something that I need think Canadian Cancer Society. I was received my diagnosis, I didn’t Asparaginase treatments compared about on a regular basis, though it’s introduced to this initiative in high birthday, her family switched their school and was blown away by the focus to keeping her comfortable a large part of who I am today. fully comprehend what was ahead to the 12 I needed. and that January her battle finally of me. came to an end. Together, Tori One of my most traumatizing and I were the poster kids for a memories was when I needed an fundraiser in Ottawa and we used MRI. I had just gotten my ears to bake every Wednesday in the pierced and I was very excited kitchen at the hospital. about it all. I soon found out I Kim, another friend of mine, couldn’t wear earrings in the scan was a strong and brave teenager and I was worried that the holes who battled cancer for several years. would close up.

High school was an incredibly When the MRI was finished, I different experience for her as it ran out of the room as fast as I was for me, and she never got to could so my nurse and my mom walk across a stage and receive could force the earrings back in. a diploma.

Cancer had already taken my hair I relay for them as well as my and I didn’t want it to take my ear other friends and family who’ve piercings too. battled cancer.

During chemo, I had to grow As a cancer survivor I relied up fast. I knew medical jargon on a community to support me before I knew my multiplication through the most difficult of times tables, so I remember that it was — including my parents, brother, hard to relate to other kids. grandparents, family, friends, I was part of a dance class at neighbours, teachers and the the end of my treatment, but the amazing doctors and nurses at the other kids didn’t understand why children’s hospital in Ottawa.

I had no hair. They thought I Today, I’m a third-year had head lice and stayed away Concurrent Education student, from me. I knew that what I was and it’s because I wasn’t alone in going through wasn’t normal and this fight.

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