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OUA limits Homecoming football games to two weekends Change in schedule an attempt to limit number of commuting students to Homecoming parties

M att S cace Sports Editor Students looking to travel for Homecoming parties across Ontario will have just two weekends to do so in 2019-20, with the OUA moving to curb Homecoming crowd sizes.

Rather than spreading out Homecoming events over five to six weeks, Ontario University Athletics (OUA) has scheduled football games over a two-week time period. Universities across the province and the OUA primarily made the decision to limit the number of students travelling from outside schools.

Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo have their Homecomings scheduled for Sept. 28 while Queen’s, Western, and McMaster’s respective festivities will take place on Oct. 19.

“It is [universities] hope that this will make an impact on the amount of students that travel to other campuses for their homecomings,” CEO of

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Kingston police combat human trafficking Queen’s group Love146 partners with police to raise human traffic awareness R aechel H uizinga Assistant News Editor From shuttling victims along the 401 to predators using Snapchat and Instagram to target girls as young as 12, human trafficking is no small problem in Ontario.

According to Statistics Canada, there was a total of 865 human trafficking victims in Canada between 2009 and 2016, with the number of reported incidents steadily increasing since 2010.

For this reason, Kingston Police partnered with local organizations to support the second annual

Human Trafficking Awareness Day on Feb. 22, and warned the community in a press release that day that Kingston is “not immune to this deplorable crime.”

In a phone interview with The Journal, Sgt. Brad Brooker of Kingston police said, just like any other crime, many human trafficking cases go unreported.

“Unless it’s being reported to the police, it’s hard to gauge the actual scope of it,” he said. “However, we’re sure there’s human trafficking occurring within Kingston.”

Since the first Human Trafficking Awareness Day in 2018, Kingston police and other community organizations have expanded education to high school students and have struck an anti-human trafficking awareness group.

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the OUA Gord Grace told The Journal.

“That’s what this is really about.”

Principal Daniel Woolf told Global News he expects the change to help solve the number of issues the Kingston community has faced from homecoming festivities—but doesn’t believe it will be the solution.

“It’s not going to fix the problem ,but I think it’s actually going to minimize the number of occasions on which there can be parties on multiple weekends with a lot of out-of-towners,” he told Global.

Grace said the core difficulties of making the change were maintaining the structure of past Homecoming games. Every year, the OUA’s football schedule is determined by the previous season’s results—the league’s top-six teams are required to play each other, while the bottom five must play one another.

In addition, teams have protected dates, alongside “marquee matchups,” which are games such as Queen’s vs. Western—a rivalry that spans decades. Grace said these parameters made scheduling difficult, however

they eventually came to a consensus on suitable schedules for each team.

“We’ve been very cooperative to make this happen so we don’t expect any issues to come back to us on this,” he said. Grace added conversations around making this change began in May of 2018.

In 2018, Kingston Police reported approximately 10,000 students gathered in the University District.

This past summer, Queen’s and Kingston introduced the University District Safety Initiative (UDSI), which stipulated that receiving a ticket in the district during Frosh Week, Homecoming, and St. Patrick’s Day comes with a mandatory court date.

While the UDSI aimed to control student behaviour, the OUA’s decision is an attempt to control crowd sizes, which have continued to grow each year. Grace said the decision hasn’t been met with any backlash thus far.

He expressed hopes that the OUA’s decision will assist municipalities in managing Homecoming crowds.

“We hope it’s successful and it makes an impact.”

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City Council to vote on declaring climate change emergency Kingston to decide on motion passed in Vancouver, Halifax

A 2017 study published by the City showed a 32 per cent greenhouse gas emissions drop since 2011.

Luca Dannetta Contributor

act quickly, effectively, efficiently.”

The motion follows the example of other Canadian At its first meeting in March, cities, such as Vancouver and Kingston City Council will vote Halifax, who’ve both pledged to on a motion calling the city to become carbon neutral by 2050, declare a climate emergency. as well as larger population The motion seeks to “officially centres like Los Angeles declare a climate emergency and London. for the purposes of naming, In an email to The Journal, framing and deepening our Mayor Brian Paterson expressed commitment to protecting our support for climate action, but economy, our ecology and our wasn’t definitively supportive of community from climate change,” the motion. according to Trillium District “I think the better approach Councillor Robert Kiley and will be for City Council to Williamsville District Councillor establish climate leadership as a Jim Neill. strategic priority and then work “We have to tell it like it is: on developing practical ways to climate change is an emergency,” further reduce our greenhouse gas Kiley tweeted on Feb. 22. “Naming emissions,” Paterson said. it gives [Kingston] the reason to According to climate projections

The Aesculapian Society will join the SGPS in September.

News in Brief Aesculapian Society to depart from AMS, join SGPS Last week, medical students in the Aesculapian Society voted to become a member society of the SGPS.

Effective Sept. 1, 2019, the Society will depart from the AMS and join the SGPS. In an AMS statement released Thursday, AMS President Miguel Martinez expressed his gratitude for the Aesculapian Society’s many

published on the City of Kingston’s website, major changes in weather patterns in the coming decades could impact residents by 2050.

“I believe we can work together as a city, and as a community, to develop strategies to establish Kingston as a leader on this important issue.”

—Mayor Bryan Paterson

Kingston climate projections predict a 50 per cent increase in average rainfall and the incidence

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of freezing rain, and an increase of days per year with a temperature over 30 degrees celsius from four to 30.

The city of Kingston warns that potential effects of these changes could include increased risks to public infrastructure, major public health concerns, and threats to local biodiversity.

Kingston has moved to address climate change action. In 2014, the City adopted the Kingston Climate Action Plan (KCAP) which set the goal of reducing carbon emissions by 15 per cent before 2020 and by 30 per cent before 2030.

According to climate studies published by the City, Kingston’s 2017 greenhouse gas emissions showed a 32 per cent drop from 2011 levels. This puts Kingston

well ahead of the targets set for Canada in the Paris Climate Agreement. An additional 2018 study published by researchers from the Universities of Waterloo and Guelph recognizes the KCAP as the best municipal climate change plan in Canada.

Kingston aims to continue to actively pursue climate change efforts, according to Paterson.

“I believe we can work together as a city, and as a community, to develop strategies to establish Kingston as a leader on this important issue,” he said.

City council is expected to vote on the motion on Mar. 5.

future,” he said.

Aesculapian Society President Rae Woodhouse and Senior Affairs Officer Courtney Leach also provided a statement to the AMS. “The Aesculapian Society is very grateful for the many positive years that we have spent as a member body of the Alma Mater Society. We sincerely appreciate the services, opportunities, and advocacy that the AMS provides to the students of Queen’s University,” the statement read. “We are certain that the AMS will continue to do wonderful work in the years to come, and we look forward to collaborating in joint endeavours as a member of the SGPS.” —Raechel Huizinga

Bunisha Samuels will serve as the Commissioner of Social Issues, and David Bath will be the Commissioner of External Affairs.

Alexia Henriques has been hired as the Commissioner of Campus Activities, Scott Schrempf the director of clubs, and Bronwyn Greenhalgh the director of human resources.

Director of Sponsorship and Alumni has been given to Chauntae De Gannes, and Zachary Slater will be the director of information technology.

Former Golden Words editor Brendan Robson will be the director of communications.

President-elect Auston Pierce stated the incoming executives are excited to work with their team in an AMS press release.

“In the coming weeks we will work closely with our outgoing counterparts to ensure an efficient transition period,” the press released state. “Our team is very eager to begin advocating for and working in the best interests of all Queen’s students.”

—Raechel Huizinga

2019-20 AMS senior management hired

years of membership and medical student representation.

“We recognize and appreciate all their hard work, look forward to continuing communication with the Aesculapian Society, and wish them the best with their optimistic

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Incoming AMS executive Auston Pierce, Jessica Dahanayake, and William Greene have hired the Society’s 2019-20 senior management team.

Lucas Borchenko will serve as Secretary of Internal Affairs,

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Queen’s librarian heading to Harvard Martha Whitehead appointed as vice-president, university librarian for Harvard library Raechel Huizinga Assistant News Editor After 15 years working at Queen’s libraries, Martha Whitehead will pack her bags and head for Harvard library this June.

Whitehead, who will serve as Harvard library’s vice-president and University librarian, said she’s “really excited” about her recent appointment.

“Harvard is such an attractive place,” she said in an interview with The Journal.

“I’m excited about the academic world that’s there—it’s incredibly rich.”

As well as serving as the Roy E. Larsen librarian for Harvard’s faculty of Arts and Science, Whitehead will be in charge of running 25 libraries and leading more than 700 staff members.

“It’ll be a big change,” she said. “I’ll miss Kingston, I really love [it], I love the whole walkability of it. There’s just so many great places and things to do here, but I think I’ll enjoy that whole area around Harvard as well.”

Over the past several years, Whitehead has advanced Queen’s libraries into the digital landscape by making resources accessible online. She also helped increase the amount of services available across all libraries, and improved publishing and copyright advisory programs.

She cited the Inquiry at Queen’s undergraduate research conference as one of her proudest achievements.

“Keeping the library at the centre of the academic and research mission has been something I’m proud of,” she said. However, she’ll miss the people the most.

“We have great people working across the library system,” she said. “They’re all really dedicated to working with our students and faculty. That’s the favourite thing.”

Whitehead added she’ll also miss the student atmosphere.

“I’ve worked with so many great students,” she said. “There’s a real energy and community spirit. I hope I’ll find something similar at Harvard, but it’s definitely the feeling of the Queen’s community as well as my colleagues.”

At Harvard, however, Whitehead will be able to interact with all of the school’s faculties and collaborate with other universities like Yale and Columbia.

“I’ve just been thrilled by the breadth and the depth of that academic world,” she said. “It’s just incredibly rich. Working in the library world as I do, you get to interact with all the different disciplines, and I find that really exciting.”

Whitehead also plans to continue the “critical role” Harvard plays in the global digitization of library materials.

“The thing that’s really interesting and attractive about the Harvard library is they have these extraordinary collections that are really the pride and joy of the academic community,” she said. “It’s just vast, and I’m looking forward to continuing to really celebrate and care for those collections.”

Before Whitehead leaves in the summer, she will spend time transitioning Michael Vandenburg, who’s currently an associate university

Whitehead has been at Queen’s for 15 years.

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librarian, into the University keep in touch. librarian position.

“I will really miss Queen’s,” she said.

Vandenburg will serve as Queen’s “I wasn’t looking for a new opportunity. interim University librarian They knocked on my door, and I while the University searches for was thrilled [...] but I really, really enjoyed Whitehead’s replacement. my time at Queen’s and all the people Whitehead, despite taking off for a I worked with.” new life in America, said she hopes to

What you need to know from February’s Senate meeting

Bus pass fee remains mandatory, admin welcomes provincial Homecoming changes claudia rupnik

Assistant News Editor During the Feb. 26 Senate meeting, the University expressed plans to support student enrollment next year through direct communication and financial support programs.

The Provost’s official recommendations for the University’s response to the reduction in tuition revenues are still pending.

However, preliminary recommendations have been made to the Principal and will be presented to the board this weekend. Comprehensive updates about the university’s response will be made available to Senate at the next meeting.

“The Provost doesn’t determine what the responses will be, the provost recommends to the principal what the responses will be,” Vice-Principal (Academic) Tom Harris said at Senate.

Additionally, the University said it was taking proactive steps to help students with financial need following the cuts to OSAP, beginning with contacting students directly. Harris added Administration is looking at their own financial support programs to determine where adjustments can be made to better support students, but no specific details

were presented.

“The Office of the Vice-Provost of Student Affairs will be contacting students with the highest financial need through email this week to start a discussion with those students, rather than waiting for them to come to us,” Harris said.

While the administration is waiting for more information about the student activity fee, Vice-Provost and Dean of Student Affairs Ann Tierney will be meeting with student society executives this week to discuss the changes.

Principal Woolf also affirmed student bus passes will be categorized as a mandatory student fee.

“The bus pass seems like a small issue, but is in fact a big one for the AMS, SGPS, and the municipality,” Woolf said.

Homecoming Schedule

Ontario University Athletics (OUA) and the Council of Ontario Universities (COU) announced homecoming football games and celebratory events across the province will be confined to two weekends in the Fall semester.

Principal Woolf explained this change came at the request of the police association, and is designed to limit “the rotating

[homecoming] schedule going across five or six weekends,” wherein students attend homecoming events at other universities than their own.

“We know from our experience at Queen’s and more recent experience at Guelph, Laurier, Waterloo, McMaster, and particularly Western, that this issue has been growing,” Woolf said.

“The Office of the Vice-Provost of Student Affairs will be contacting students with the highest financial need through email this week to start a discussion with those students.”

—Tom Harris, Vice-Principal (Academic)

Woolf believes the changes are “a moral victory” for the University and align with Kingston’s University District Safety Initiative.

Martha Whitehead leaves for Harvard Harris announced Vice-Provost (Digital Planning) and University Librarian Martha Whitehead will be departing to serve as the vice-president and university librarian at Harvard.

“It’s an incredible recognition of her trajectory, thoughtfulness, and leadership, and I know they will benefit from her experiences,” Harris said.

Associate University Librarian Michael Vandenburg will continue in his acting role until June 2020, at which point the hiring process will be discussed with the principal designate.

Other Announcements

Senate approved the introduction of a MA and PhD in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies in the Department of Film and Media, effective Sept. 1, and a Graduate Diploma (Type 3) in Water and Human Health, Beaty Water Research Centre, effective May 1.

The Senate also approved major modifications to the Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (BBCS) field in the Department of Psychology’s graduate programs, effective April 1.

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Black History Month events conclude Clubs’ efforts highlight the impact of Black Canadians Ellen Nagy Contributor While Black History Month has ended, student clubs are aiming to keep its message relevant.

Since Jan. 27, Queen’s campus hosted events spotlighting the valuable presence of Black identities on campus. Queen’s Black Academic Society (QBAS) and African Caribbean Student Association (ACSA), worked together to bring the events and awareness to students.

Meanwhile, on Feb. 9, the University Club hosted Janice Miller, the High Commissioner for Jamaica to Canada. Miller spoke about perseverance, professionalism, and the past and present of Black identity and culture.

Other events hosted included dance workshops, film viewings, and culinary experiences highlighting the value of African and diaspora communities.

While working to bring these events to fruition, QBAS brought an online dimension to Black History Month through the #IAmRobertSutherland campaign.

“Our goal is to honour significant Black Canadians whose images, legacies, and efforts have gone unnoticed in our history,” said QBAS Administrative Officer Dayna Richards, in an email to The Journal.

The #IAmRobertSutherland campaign

featured inventor Elijah McCoy, first female publisher in North America Mary Ann Shadd, author Josiah Henson, activist Rosemary Brown, and Queen’s alumni and lawyer, Robert Sutherland.

The campaign highlighted the achievements and resilience of Black President Martinez addresses Assembly. individuals. It also demonstrated the lack of recognition of Black culture and identity within conceptions of the Canadian past and present.

“The reality is that Queens is a predominantly white institution and if it weren’t for the efforts of [ACSA], [QBAS], and a few professors and humanities courses, Black history in general would either be non-existent or severely watered down,” Richards said.

She added that while the University does provide courses available in the Faculty of Arts and Science that specifically focus on black contributions in given fields, QBAS and ACSA’s work is different.

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AMS Assembly outlines cuts and restructuring

Equity Affairs Manager.

Martinez said one thing the Society considered when making cuts to the Social Issues Commission was “the impact those services are having and what they’re actually doing,” as well as whether other clubs or university services were doing “the same thing.”

While hours were reduced for certain Raechel Huizinga & positions, nothing was cut from the Office Claudia Rupnik the Secretariat. For example, the Judicial Journal Staff Affairs Manager position’s hours were reduced from 25 to 15.

Student Choice Initiative cuts “Following the recent events of myself CORRECTION and changes from this past year, the Judicial Affairs Office will now fall under the Secretary, The article “Flip the Script returns for second The article “Canada’s misuse of AMS President Miguel Martinez provided removing its direct correlation, direct link year” published on Feb. 14, contained a Indigenous art” has been removed a presentation to Assembly on Thursday to the [AMS] executive,” Martinez said. He number of unacceptable inaccuracies. from our website as it did not meet outlining the changes to the Society following added this will create an “arm’s length from It incorrectly stated there was a decline The Journal’s standards for verification. the Student Choice Initiative, which allows the executive.” in registration; the University of Windsor The piece’s commentary was founded on students to opt-out of non-essential fees.

More general changes include moving funded the program instead of assisted it; incorrect information and gave readers an Following the Society’s restructuring the Assistant Clubs Director from a salaried Lotan expressed accessibility as an issue; overall impression that was not supported earlier this month, numerous positions, position to a volunteer position. that the program is offered exclusively to by evidence. For those reasons, we have committees, and programs have Martinez said the Society’s corporate first-years; feedback responses suggested a elected to retract the article and remove it been dissolved. side will face significant reductions in high-school program and registration was from our website.

Among the changes were the Academic management opportunities. being held on March 9 and 10. “ Readers with questions or concerns and Municipal Affairs commissions being “This solves two issues,” he continued. “It can contact the Editors in Chief at journal_ combined into the Commission of External solves the issue of the fact that we can’t afford editors@ams.queensu.ca.

Advocacy. Several cuts were made within to pay all these managers anymore, but that commission, including the Boys and it also solves the issue of not having Girls club of Kingston, the Breakfast Club, the enough people to be the manager on duty.”

United Way Committee, the Kaleidoscope He said these will be replaced by a club, and the Provincial Advocacy Committee. supervisor position.

Martinez added the Society is currently “We were already moving in that reconsidering its status in the Ontario direction before the Student Choice Initiative, Undergraduate Student Alliance (OUSA) however the Student Choice Initiative was YOU’VE EARNED YOUR CREDENTIALS. and will likely bring that to discussion at the kind of the cherry on top,” he said. next Assembly.

Martinez also said the Operations Within the Commission of Campus Officer will have more decision-making Activities, cuts include the Recreation power for services to make them It’s not just graduation, a job interview, or internship.

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Assembly to take a stance on the issue.

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1940s era anti-Semitism crept onto campus As other universities posed restrictions, Queen’s quietly limited Jewish enrollment in ’40s Samantha Fink Features Editor

During World War II, Canadian campuses faced the anti-Semitism streaming out of Europe.

Compared to the Nazis’ overt anti-Semitism, more subtle forms existed in Canada. Domestically, Jews were excluded from many country clubs, summer camps, and even public parks.

When asked how many Jews would be allowed in Canada after the war, Canadian immigration officers stood in solidarity against it.

“None is too many,” one unidentified immigration officer infamously said, inspiring the title of Irving Abella and Harold Troper’s book, None is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe 1933–1948.

According to the authors, between 1933-48, Canada allowed less Jewish refugee immigrants than any other developed country.

Where Queen’s stood

Universities in Canada echoed these anti-Semitic sentiments, even before Hitler’s rise to power.

At the time, Queen’s was at a crossroads. Without the large Jewish communities of Toronto and Montreal, less Jewish people applied to Queen’s. However, as Canadian universities in larger cities placed limits on Jewish student enrollment, many of these students turned to Kingston.

In 1926—13 years before World War II began—McGill University instituted an informal ban on Jewish students from outside Quebec.

For Québécois students, the Faculty of Arts general admission requirement at McGill was a high-school average of 60 per cent.

For Québécois Jewish applicants, this requirement was a 70 per cent average in 1929, and rose to 75 per

cent in the 1930s. In the Faculty of Medicine at McGill, Jewish students weren’t to exceed 10 per cent of admissions.

The University of Toronto’s medical school also held Jewish students to higher admission standards as late as the 1960s. And in the United States, schools such as Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, and Yale were also instituting Jewish quotas.

At Queen’s, Principal Robert Charles Wallace noticed an increase in Jewish students.

In the 1938-39 academic year, 2.44 per cent of students had been Jewish. By 1943-44, that number rose to about nine per cent.

The number of Jewish students was rapidly increasing, and the overall decline in enrolment as some students went off to war made the trend more pronounced.

In 1943, Wallace held a meeting with the Board of Trustees to address this increase in Jewish enrolment.

Many of the Trustees echoed McGill and U of T, suggesting Jewish enrollment numbers needed to be controlled, according to Queen’s historian Duncan McDowall. They believed Jews were trying to take over academia, and a quota system would be a step in the right direction.

One of these people was Everett A. Collins—a Trustee and donor whose portrait hung in Richardson Hall until 2009. In a 1944 letter to Principal Wallace, he wrote, “Individually, [Jews] appear quite acceptable but in the mass one cannot help but think sometimes that Hitler was right.”

Queen’s set up a joint Trustees and Senate Committee in 1943, designed to “consider the problem created by the rapid increase in the number of Jewish students,” according to

historian Frederick Gibson in Queen’s University Volume II 1917-1961: To Serve and Yet Be Free. The Committee was in charge of considering ways to solve the problem without contradicting Ontario’s 1944 Racial Discrimination Act. In the end, the Committee decided that the institution of a quota would be “inappropriate” during wartime, Gibson noted.

J.M. MacDonell, Chairman of the Board, wrote in a letter to Principal Wallace that a restriction wasn’t the answer. However, he could “not contemplate with equanimity, say 25 [per cent] of our student body Jewish. Though I do not feel proud or content with such a statement.”

One Trustee, D.H. Laird, suggested that university officers conduct personal interviews in Montreal with Jewish applicants from Quebec, after which they could select “a certain number of Jews, and refuse the others.”

But Principal Wallace considered conducting interviews with only Jewish applicants suspiciously prejudiced, and thought it could eventually result in charges of discrimination.

Instead, Queen’s changed its admission requirements to require senior matriculation standing of all applicants—meaning all applicants were now required to complete Grade 13.

Quebec had no Grade 13, which meant the province’s Jewish students unable to attend McGill were deterred from applying to Queen’s.

“I have seen no way as yet, except raising in standard all round, which would have some effect, but would confessedly not meet the

whole problem,” Wallace wrote.

“But I think that is the only thing we can do.”

Inclusion of Jewish faculty, however, was a different story.

Until 1938, Jews were hired only temporarily, for one or two terms at a time.

The Dominion Statute of 1912 declared that Trustees were expected to “satisfy themselves of the Christian character of those appointed of the teaching staff.”

In 1938, that pattern broke when Ben Kropp joined the faculty as the first Jew to be granted a long-term contract. As Queen’s tried to restrict the number of Jewish students admitted during wartime, Jewish faculty members secured employment at Queen’s for the first time.

Across the country, universities—including Queen’s—accepted students with high standing. But only Jewish students with exceptional qualifications earned the same acceptance.

Life for Jewish students

Despite the meetings, no problems concerning Jewish people were mentioned in The Journal during wartime years, and for the most part, Jewish people integrated into the rest of the student body, according to McDowall.

Because of the number of Jewish students attending Queen’s as a result of McGill and U of T’s restrictions, the first campus Hillel House—a centre for Jewish students on university campuses—opened in 1940.

Alfred Bader, a Jew who’d escaped from Vienna, helped create the centre. After family in Montreal sponsored him to escape to Canada, he was turned away

Queen’s set up a joint committee of Trustees and staff to “consider the problem created by the steady increase of Jewish students.”

from McGill but accepted at Queen’s.

Never forgetting Queen’s generosity in his time of need, he became one of the school’s most generous donors.

However, even in one of the most welcoming atmospheres for Jewish students during the war era, Queen’s campus still faced anti-Semitism.

Jewish medical student Ben Scott felt the effects in the late 1930s. According to McDowall’s book 1961-2004: Testing Tradition, an anti-Semitic professor failed Scott in his oral examinations, holding his graduation back one year.

In the same vein, in 1955, local Jewish residents Harry and Ethel Abramsky donated money for a Physiology building on campus.

The University accepted the donation, but kept the plaque of their name behind the doors, not bringing it outside until 1974.

In the ’80s and ’90s, Queen’s became more culturally diverse.

Arts courses began including more perspectives, and a Jewish Studies department was created, including a course on the Holocaust.

Queen’s has come a long way, but its past isn’t separate from the anti-Semitic world of the 1940s.

The Nazis created a genocide in Europe aiming to solve what they called the “Jewish question.”

Across the Atlantic within the same time period, in a 1944 letter to Principal Wallace, Chancellor Charles Avery Dunning—the namesake of Dunning Hall—wrote, “Thanks for your note regarding the Jewish question” at the time of the enrollment discussions.

Evidently, there were many possible answers.

What matters is that the question was asked in the first place.

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Capay case highlights prison culture of human rights violations

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While the ethics of solitary confinement are a long-standing debate, Canada’s approach to confinement is a pressing point of contention.

In 2012, Adam Capay, then 19, was charged with first-degree murder in the death of a fellow Thunder Bay District Jail inmate. As a result of his crime, Capay spent 1,647 days in solitary confinement in a prison the Ontario Human Rights Commissioner called the worst she’s ever seen.

This case highlights the urgent need to reform Canada’s jailing system and its treatment of prisoners.

Under the United Nations’ Mandela Rules, prisoners shouldn’t be confined to their cells for 22 hours a day without meaningful human contact for more than 15 days. But, considered a threat to himself and other prisoners, Capay was held in a Plexiglass cell for 23 hours daily over more than four years.

Lights were never turned off in Capay’s soundproof structure. He was given one hour daily to leave his cell to shower and

walk in the prison yard, and received less than 11 hours of mental health support from the prison in his four-and-a-half years of administrative segregation.

According to Public Safety Canada, administrative segregation differs from controversial solitary confinement because it’s meant to protect high-risk inmates from a prison’s general population.

However, rather than protecting him, Capay’s segregation led to him self-harming and unable to differentiate night from day. His ability to speak and his memory degenerated.

If Canada believed in basic human rights for its prisoners, none of this would’ve occurred. Our country has a tendency to only protect rights for those we deem deserving. The belief that human rights are negotiable depending on a person’s social situation undermines those rights by definition.

Our correctional system is based on a fundamental belief in reformation, but we can’t continue to claim our correctional process is rehabilitative if it punishes

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certain—often disadvantaged—groups more than others. This is particularly stark for Indigenous prisoners like Capay scarred by years of abuse by a family with residential school experience.

Though Canada doesn’t have an overly high incarceration rate, systemic issues plague our correctional system. Over one-quarter of our federal prison population is Indigenous, and Indigenous individuals are disproportionately punished through solitary confinement.

Our country needs to better acknowledge the systemic wrongs and injustices it’s inflicted on those Indigenous individuals. We would further benefit from non-governmental supervision to verify that human rights standards are being met in correctional facilities.

When Canada violates prisoner human rights and marginalizes certain groups, it undermines our criminal punishment system as a whole. And these short-sighted standards can’t wait to be fixed.

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Mainstream feminism’s advocacy for equal gender rights is important, but it lacks sufficient recognition that no two women share the same experiences.

Today’s “white feminism” exists without consideration of the other forms of oppression impacting women, whether as a result of sexual orientation, race, culture, religion, or ability. It represents only the experiences of cisgender, middle-class white women.

In Canada, white feminism dominates conversations about the gender wage gap.

It highlights the discrepancies between men and women’s pay, but doesn’t discuss the fact that Asian, Black, and Latina women

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A 2011 study titled “Canada’s Colour Coded Labour Market” by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives reported that for every dollar non-racialized women make, racialized women earn 88.2 cents.

Where women struggle to gain equality relative to their male counterparts, women of colour find themselves falling behind other women. This can occur because of their race, ethnicity, or religion—intersections of their identity outside of gender.

Full-time working women earned an average of 75 cents on every dollar earned by men in 2016. This is a problem in and of itself. An intersectional lens, however, accounts for the several identities, and, by extension, forms of oppression that impact women.

It allows us to look deeper into pervasive feminist issues.

For instance, women of colour experience harassment like white women—but that harassment can often also be racially motivated. This is an example of intersecting forms of repression, where the experience of being a woman is further complicated by racial identity.

In 2017, Quebec’s Bill 62 banned individuals receiving public services from wearing the traditional niqab and burka.

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For Muslim women, this isn’t just a race issue—it’s a feminist issue.

The National Post reported in 2017 that women wearing religious coverings in Quebec were subjected to verbal and physical abuse.

They weren’t being targeted because they’re women. They were being targeted because they’re Muslim women.

For some women, issues of race and religious discrimination largely factor into their workplace experiences. Whereas a white woman’s ideas are often taken at face value, a woman of colour struggles to find a seat at the same table as her colleagues.

This isn’t to devalue the experiences of white women. The experiences of all women need to be highlighted to effect change towards equality.

But today’s dominant feminist narrative fails to account for the simple fact that women of colour, gay women, transgender women, and physically disabled women, among others, need their own narratives at the forefront of the conversation.

For mainstream feminism to influence change, it must grow to encompass the experiences of all women—and from all intersections.

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OPINIONS

Your Perspective

Vaccination is a matter of fact, not debate The anti-vaccine movement denounces scientific progress and the concept of evidence based discussion Ashuthi Kanneganti, NURS '19 Typically, evidence is required when making a claim—but not when it comes to the anti-vaccine movement.

The debate on the efficacy and safety of vaccines has been endless and, more importantly, unnecessary. When considering it’s been repeatedly established that vaccines work within the scientific community, anti-vaccine movements set an inherently dangerous precedent.

Choosing not to “ vaccinate your child can result in the death of someone else’s.

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A vaccine is the injection of a disease’s causative agent, which results in the formation of antibodies without actually giving rise to the disease itself. These antibodies serve to protect you from becoming infected when a virus later tries to infiltrate your immune system and cause bodily harm.

The validity of vaccines has been proven time and again through the eradication of past epidemics. For example, smallpox was a virus that caused a horrific number of deaths as recent as the early 1900s. Through vaccine administration, the World Health Assembly officially declared it eradicated 1980.

Our generation hasn’t experienced the fear and terror that surrounded smallpox, making the process of getting vaccinated easy to write off. But three out of 10 people who got smallpox died from it, and those who survived usually sustained severe scarring.

The anti-vaccination movement was built on the foundation that the ability to merely have an opinion is enough to establish its legitimacy.

It perpetuates every opinion as equally rational despite refuting evidence presented against it, and is subject to consequences extending beyond making a choice to be vaccinated.

People who have a compromised immune system or

who lack the ability to mount an adequate immune response to an infectious agent, may not be able to receive certain vaccinations.

These are people such as the elderly, pregnant women, infants, and those who are HIV positive.

Their immune systems are disadvantaged, thus the causative agent in vaccines can lead to them developing the disease they were supposed to be protected from. However, if everyone who’s healthy enough to get vaccinated does, then those who have a compromised imune system can avoid contracting the disease from those around them.

When a parent chooses not to vaccinate their child on the basis that it’s their choice, it fails to hold logical or compassionate reasoning. Choosing not to vaccinate your child can result in the death of someone else’s.

If this makes you feel uncomfortable, good. It should.

These are the dark consequences of the anti-vaccine movement, and they need to be acknowledged.

With the scientific reasoning behind vaccines long established, examining the ethical issues of its protest today tips the scales in favour of vaccines even more.

A common anti-vaccine argument is that vaccines cause autism. Having established that vaccines are key to the prevention of devastating diseases, a foul implication comes along with anti-vaxxers using autism as reason for not vaccinating their children: they’d rather their child suffer illness or death of a preventable disease than dare to have autism.

This adds a layer of falsehood to the anti-vaccine argument which is furthermore discriminatory.

In today’s society, the opinion of an immunologist with 30 years of experience is held to the same level of esteem as a mommy blogger who embraces the ill-informed musings of Jenny McCarthy.

When placed in contrast with one another, this comparison is objectively ludicrous—but unfortunately, it’s the reality we must confront to create change against the anti-vaccine movement.

Anti-vaxxers were named

Ash argues the anti-vaccine movement damages the health of the population.

a top threat to global health in 2019 by the World Health Organization (WHO)—and for good reason.

The anti-vaccination “movement was built on the foundation that the ability to merely have an opinion is enough to establish its legitimacy.

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This is a damaging movement that’s spiralled out of

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control, fueled by misinformation and pseudoscience. It places the lives of our society’s most vulnerable in jeopardy.

Schools have started taking action against anti-vaccine ideals. Last Tuesday, Region of Waterloo Public Health officials issued approximately 6,000 suspensions on the grounds of students not having been vaccinated.

Though this is certainly a valiant effort to combat the resurgence of vaccine-preventable diseases, it shouldn’t have to come to this.

This amount of energy shouldn’t be expended on something that has a definitive answer and

been repeatedly validated through scientific evidence.

There’s a reason why experts exist—they’re the most knowledgeable in their field of work, and, as a result, are likelier to have the most well-informed opinion regarding the issue.

We should listen to these people, understand what they have to say, and keep it with us. More importantly, we must not amplify the voice of those who choose to speak before they listen.

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Arts BAND PROFILE

For new album, rockers Said the Whale went home

Indie band and Mother Mother to play the Grand on Monday Said the Whale will be opening for Mother Mother at the Grand Theatre on Monday, Mar. 4.

Nick Pearce Editor in Chief A recipe for Dad Rock: marriages, engagements, children and the great outdoors.

Said the Whale checks all the boxes, but it never gets tired.

When they take the stage opening for Mother Mother at the Grand Theatre on Monday, the indie rockers are likely to prove that.

Their latest album, Cascadia, is a grounded, acoustically resonant record. The layered synths and personal turmoil of their previous album-turned-experiment 2017’s As Long As Your Eyes Are Wide are largely gone. The replacement is a separate peace: the title track is a sincere tribute to eye-watering Beach Boys harmonies; the band is more likely to pluck a piano key

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than a computer’s.

“It’s a return to our roots,” frontman Tyler Bancroft told The Journal over the phone. “That was really just because we did the sonic experiment on our last record and we wanted to sit down and do what feels natural to us.”

Making the record, the band retreated to guitarist and vocalist Ben Worcester’s cabin on Gambier Island, where they recorded a generous share of the album’s music. It seeped into their songs.

Bancroft said the band eschewed the last record’s “bells and whistles” and brought the songs to their “original form—like sitting down and playing them on an acoustic guitar.”

With song writing duties split between Worcester and Bancroft, the songs are autobiographical,

underlayed with lush, complimentary arrangements spotlighting the guitars and pianos.

One album standout, “UnAmerican,” is a fitting pop-rock tribute to David Bowie’s sardonic late-career single, “I’m Afraid of Americans.” Said the Whale’s Trump era update retains Bowie’s smirking tone, complete with the thumping, industrial backbeat.

A phone call inspired this jump to American politics. On the call, Bancroft could hear the water lap around Kevin Drew of Broken Social Scene as the seminal musician took a bath. Drew was relaxing in the tub, discussing the idea of collaborating as a producer when Bancroft remembers him saying “you know what, just write a pop song.”

Bancroft hung up, thinking,

“Okay, Kevin wants to hear a pop song,” he told The Journal.

“Un-American … [was] kind of a buzzword at the time being thrown around by Donald Trump,” Bancroft said. “He’s describing all of these things that are kind and decent and lovely things, and he was calling them un-American. So I was kind of thinking, ‘Well if these are un-American, then I want to be un-American.’”

“The idea of it is just being a good person.”

Wellness, in nature or personally, is an undercurrent of the record. Cascadia shares a name with the bioregional name for the Pacific Northwest and a minor West Coast independence movement encompassing British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and sometimes California.

Whether it’s the album’s final song and love letter to their cabin recording studio, “Gambier Island Green” or the ocean in “Cascadia,” evergreen forests and the Pacific are threaded through the album.

“We’re a band from Vancouver, [and] we’ve always kind of worn that on our sleeves,” Bancroft said.

“There’s always a nature song on a Said the Whale record. This one happens to have a few extra nature songs.” It’s a signpost for the natural calm of the band’s song writing process, made easier with experience. It’s the sound of coming to a rest. “[Nature is] really easy to take for granted,” Bancroft said. “But we try not to now in our older, wiser years.”

page and saw there was one week until the Local Shorts deadline closed.

The concept for wyd? came out of looking for something I could film on my laptop, in my bedroom and entirely by myself within a day.

To me, the piece aims to show how exhausting it can feel to achieve the bare minimum of social interaction, which in this case amounts to answering a text and making myself look slightly more tanned.

the odd one out.

know a single post doesn’t have to it steers the piece away from define you. total darkness and highlights the light-hearted element of how How did you choose the song for ridiculous the whole situation is. the film?

A lot of wyd? is tied to how I felt about body image growing A: I was thrilled when Grace up, namely the belief that my life [Guest], who’s also a student here would be immeasurably better and a wonderfully talented friend once I had a six-pack and broad of mine, blessed me with shoulders. I feel lucky enough permission to use her song in this now to be in a place where I can short. The lyrics do a great job see how misguided that was and of mirroring the theme of how make something that highlights exhausting these digital personas the absurdity of thinking you can are. I asked her to use this song in only get the girl if you look like The particular because her voice just Rock. Very, very few of us look like sounds so lovely with the guitar The Rock.

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Queen’s filmmaker to debut at Kingston festival

A Q&A with short film creator on social media and technology Alexandra Mantella Staff Writer Disclaimer: Josh Granovsky is a member of The Journal’s editorial board. This interview has been edited for style and clarity.

This weekend, Josh Granovsky’s short film wyd? will be presented at the Kingston Canadian Film Festival. Filmed on his laptop, Granvosky, ArtSci ’20, is shown editing a seemingly casual photo of himself to send to a romantic interest, only for his efforts to be rejected.

He’s one of two Queen’s student’s whose work has been selected to screen at the festival.

Can you tell us a bit about the piece?

A: Firstly, I’m really excited and grateful to KCFF for giving me a platform to share this piece. I’d never made a short film before, but I stumbled upon the KCFF submissions

Why do you think that editing photos of ourselves has become so synonymous with social media use?

A: I think social media affords us with so many easy opportunities to edit ourselves that if you don’t take advantage of them, it feels like you’re missing out. There’s a mindset that if Instagram makes it a 20 second process to slap a few flattering filters on a picture and come up with a rap lyric caption, why wouldn’t you want to capitalize on that?

Since it’s so accessible and popular, filtering yourself can seem like the norm and leaving yourself unedited can make you

What does this film say about how technology impacts human connections?

A: I believe it’s very possible to create genuine relationships through technology, but I’ve definitely felt pressure in the past to only put my best self forward in my online interactions. I think the short reflects that by showing this guy who wants to send a casual photo of him doing nothing to a girl he likes—as we all do at one point or another—but only feels the confidence to do so once he gives himself Jon Hamm’s eyes and Tom Holland’s arms.

What does the rejection at the end of the film mean for you?

A: With the ending, I wanted to give a quick reminder that even though we spend so much time working on our posts and photos, it can ultimately mean nothing.

The nature of social media means I can blindly scroll past 20 posts that took someone hours to write, or I can spend a day agonizing over a robot who tweets facts about space. It can be depressing, because our work can fall flat on its face, but also comforting to

Josh Granovsky in wyd?

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FILM PREVIEW

Kingston film is poetry in motion Who is Bruce Kauffman? bridges filmmaking and literature Ellen Nagy Staff Writer Who is Bruce Kauffman?—a new film set to premiere at the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts on Friday— brings literature beyond the page.

The project, which was first conceived two years ago, has its roots in the Skeleton Park Arts Festival. Inspired by the film LIVE in Kingston’s tribute to the local music scene, the film aims to bring Kingston’s poetry community to the big screen.

The film is an anthology, providing a string of short films that create a tableau of the

Kingston poetry scene, featuring individual artists and local figures. “We have presented this film in a way that really gives a unique way to access poetry,” director and producer Greg Tilson said.

Tilson paired filmmakers and poets together to bring a new kind of life to the ideas behind the written word, activating poetic imagery through film.

At the heart of this project is the title feature on Bruce Kauffman.

A Kingston-based poet, his work is meditative, challenging the reasons behind what we think, believe and feel. Given his work and role in Kingston’s poetry community, he’s earned the esteem

Wild Rivers will be returning to Kingston on March 6.

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Who is Bruce Kauffman? will be premiering at KCFF this weekend.

of his peers.

“For the past year and a half, a film crew has been following him around Kingston to represent a day in the life of what he does. He’s very much dedicated most of his life to the poetry community, and that’s where his heart is,” Tilson said.

Tilson paired filmmakers and other contributing poets together,

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Wild Rivers reunites with Kingston Ale House to host Queen’s alum on Mar. 6 Jasnit Pabla & Matt Scace Journal Staff

For Wild Rivers frontman Khalid Yassein, a show in Kingston means returning to his alma mater as an outsider, and then feeling like he’d never truly left.

The Toronto-based band formed while Yassein and vocalist Devan Glover were students at Queen’s. Since then, their relationship with their Kingston

shows have been a pivotal part of their personal and musical experience.

On Mar. 6, the band will take the stage at Ale House and play the second-to-last show in their Far Departed Tour. The tour comes on the heels of their recent single release, “Moving Target.”

The single, a follow-up to their fa s t - p a c e d E P, Eighty-Eight, slows it down. Led by Yassein harmonizing with Glover, an

electric guitar accompanies the song’s soft piano, giving life to one of the song’s first lyrics, “Pick up the phone / I’m coming in

[“Moving Target”] marks a slight departure, folding a contemporary sound into their folk identity.

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believing the story they could tell through blending two different mediums would have a stunning effect on audiences.

There are a number of contributors from the Queen’s community, including: Queen’s National Scholar in Indigenous Literature, Armand Garnet Ruffo, music professor and professor of Composition and Theory, John Burge, and Emeritus Professor in the Department of Film and Media, Clarke Mackey.

“I was honoured to work with artists of this calibre. It was a once in a lifetime experience to be part of such a large collaborative project with so many talented and often underground artists in Kingston.”

Tilson said.

The filmmakers intentionally built off the messages and ideas embedded in the featured poets work, setting their ideas

in motion through visuals and sound. Representing their work through film enables audiences who would’ve been otherwise intimidated to cultivate for viewers new to the poetry scene.

“We’re trying to merge [poetry and film] to make it easier for people to come sit down and for seventy minutes and take a look at how these amazing filmmakers interpret these poems […] then see how you interpret them yourself.”

“Our job is to try and help share those stories and the enjoyment and inspiration that we’ve experienced,” Tilson said.

Who is Bruce Kauffman? premieres Friday, March 1 at The Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts, doors opening at 8:15. Tickets can be bought at the doors, through the websites of the Kingston Canadian Film Festival and Who is Bruce Kauffman?

strong and soft.” It marks a slight departure, folding a contemporary sound into their folk identity, while staying true to their roots.

The lyrics—primarily written by Yassein—have depth and sincerity reflected in their unflinching honesty. It’s not a surprise, as the music is a direct product of Yassein’s life.

“We were on the road a bunch last year and ‘Moving Target’ was the message to the other person in a long-distance relationship,” Yassein said in an interview with The Journal. “I was up at 4 in the morning, and then finished the song.”

Prior to “Moving Target,” Yassein said the band began to change their recording style during the production of Eighty-Eight.

In a contrast to the production of their 2016 self-titled album, the EP incorporated denser arrangements that included the whole band. Song writing transferred from something Yassein passionately pursued individually, to a team project.

“The song ‘Howling,’ we all wrote together,” he told The Journal. “Songs are coming from a couple different places now and that only makes them better.”

For Yassein, the experience of touring has increased the band’s comfort playing live shows, matching their concerts’ growing scale. When first starting out, he admitted the band tended to pressure themselves more during performances.

“We’re traveling with a

sound person and just the scale of our touring has increased,” he said. “We’re comfortable now

The experience of touring has increased the band’s comfort playing live shows, matching their concerts growing scale.

and we can have fun with it.”

The first leg of their tour kicked off in January, with a stretch of shows in the United States.

A tour highlight for Yassein was a small, intimate show played in Portsmouth, Virginia. With an audience of about 100 people, the band traded stories and conversation with the crowd while introducing their music.

In contrast, a show at Toronto’s Opera House appears to the be the band’s biggest as a headliner, introducing a new phase of their career.

Meanwhile, Kingston music fans’ have the chance to rekindle their love of Wild Rivers in the first week of March, and Yassein hopes to give them an opportunity to experience new songs, while reminiscing with the old. “[Kingston] has an important place in the band’s history,” Yassein said.

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Sports PLAYOFFS

Three varsity teams falter early in playoffs

Women’s hockey—below Men’s basketball—Pg.11 Women’s basketball—Pg.12

Men’s and women’s basketball and women’s hockey ended their seasons over Reading Week.

Women’s hockey fails to return to U Sports Championships in three-game series against Ryerson Matt Scace Sports Editor In playoff hockey, a single goal can be the difference between elation and heartbreak.

This past Sunday, the women’s hockey team endured the latter,

falling to the Ryerson Rams in overtime of game three of their opening playoff series.

“When your hearts are as big as they are on this team, it makes it more painful when it’s ripped out of your chest,” Head Coach Matt Holmberg told The Journal in his office Tuesday morning.

The Rams spoiled the Gaels’ plans of playing on the national stage after reaching the U Sports Championships for the past two seasons—in 2017, they qualified by way of hosting the tournament.

In 2018, a run to the OUA Finals earned them their spot.

Holmberg said the series didn’t come down to a coin toss, but was “quite literally that close.” Ryerson outscored Queen’s 6-5 over the series’ three games and 12 periods.

It was perhaps symbolic of the regular season’s standings, in which the Gaels’ 44 points edged

MEN’S HOCKEY

Gaels one win away from OUA Final Queen’s wins game one of conference final in overtime Jasnit Pabla News Editor Following a 3-2 overtime win against the Carleton Ravens on Thursday, the men’s hockey team will head into game two of the OUA Eastern Conference final on Friday with a 1-0 series advantage.

Queen’s took the first period, with a goal from forward Jaden Lindo propelling the team to a 1-0 advantage heading into the second.

Despite several key chances from the Ravens, Queen’s held on to their one-goal lead until the final frame.

Carleton eventually took advantage of their home ice and tied up the game early into the third period. With 13 minutes left on the clock, Gaels forward Duncan Campbell put one past the Ravens goaltender—but the visiting team struggled to close out the game, with Carleton tying the score at 2-2 with 40 seconds remaining.

The game turned to overtime,

which saw Lindo seal the win following a feed pass from captain Spencer Abraham a minute into the frame.

With a 1-0 series lead, the Gaels have can move onto the Queen’s Cup final Friday night if they beat the Ravens a second time.

Playoff progression

Queen’s opened the playoffs on Feb. 13 against Concordia at home. A narrow 3-2 win in game one left the Gaels with the advantage heading into game two of the series. Looking to sweep the series, they travelled to Concordia’s rink with a game plan and the intensity to see it through successfully.

“Concordia was an unbelievable opponent, they’re probably one of the most skilled teams in our league,” Head Coach Brett Gibson told The Journal. “We had to play a specific style in order to beat them and I think the guys executed that perfectly.”

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out the Rams’ 43.

In game one, Queen’s found its way to an early 2-0 lead—the largest lead they’d hold throughout the series. Despite giving up two quick goals in the second period to tie the game, forward Alex Maw struck the back of the net with 50 seconds left to give Queen’s a 1-0 series lead and a chance to close the series in Toronto.

“I think that set the tone for the whole series. It was obvious it was going to be a close series,” Holmberg said.

In game two last Saturday, the Gaels looked severely outmatched on Ryerson’s home ice, getting outshot 59-30 in a 2-1 double-overtime loss. Getting pelted with 24 shots in the first two periods, graduating goaltender Stephanie Pascal turned aside all but one attempt, allowing a goal midway through the second period.

“While everyone was aware Ryerson was going to play desperate […] they did take it to us at the beginning,” Holmberg said.

The Gaels tied the game with an early goal in the third period from defenceman Nicole Posesorski, and the teams fought into a second overtime frame, backed by strong goaltending on both ends. While Ryerson outshot Queen’s 12-6 in the two overtime periods, Holmberg saw Queen’s inch closer

to Ryerson’s level as the game went on.

“When I reflect—and this doesn’t blame any players—but when I look back on the chances we had in overtime in game two it’s like, ‘Wow, we could’ve avoided game three,’” Holmberg said. “But that’s hockey.”

With four and a half minutes remaining in the second overtime, Ryerson snapped the puck past Pascal to send the series-decider back to Kingston the following day. Both teams had less than 16 hours to recover, with Saturday’s game finishing near 11 p.m. and Sunday’s starting at 2:30 p.m.

In the series deciding game, much like the night prior, both team’s goaltending kept the game at a tie. Despite Queen’s holding a 1-0 lead for most of the second and third periods, Ryerson forced overtime with a goal in the final five minutes.

In a back-and-forth overtime, Ryerson capitalized with 10 minutes left, firing the clincher over Pascal’s left shoulder.

“Hockey being a game of inches, that shot could’ve gone over the net or hit the crossbar, but it found its way into [the] top shelf, and that was it,” Holmberg said.

Putting a bow on their 2018-19 season, the Gaels are saying goodbye to five instrumental graduating

players: the aforementioned Pascal, captain Addi Halladay, assistant captains Katrina Manoukarakis and Caroline DeBruin, and defenceman Abby LaFreniere.

Holmberg, despite still reeling from the loss himself, hopes his departing players look past the loss to Ryerson and focus on their achievements with the team, which included their two trips to the national championships.

“When that sting fades a little bit and [they’re] able to reflect on the totality of their careers, they’ll be able to be quite happy to see what they’ve achieved on-and-off the ice here,” he said, alluding to the contributions his graduating players made surrounding the program’s culture. “I found the unity— the singular unity on this team—was incredible.”

With their entire defensive core returning—as well as promising goaltender Makenzy Arsenault—and a significant portion of their offensive lineup, Holmberg’s optimistic his group will maintain their strong, team-oriented culture as he heads into his 11th season as head coach.

“I’m hoping [players] saw how powerful that can be, and those stepping into those leadership roles can continue to carry that torch,” he said.

Skill on both ends showed in the game. After finishing the third period tied 4-4, the Gaels pushed hard for an overtime winner, but couldn’t find it until double overtime. Scoring within minutes of the period’s opening whistle, forward Liam Dunda finished off Concordia with the game-deciding goal, winning in a 5-4 and sweeping the series.

Over Reading Week, Queen’s travelled to Ottawa on Feb. 20 to kick off the second round of their playoffs against the UOttawa Gee-Gee’s.

“Coming into the second round against Ottawa, we knew we were up against a really good opponent,” Gibson said.

On Ottawa ice, the Gaels earned a 3-2 win that propelled them back home for game two, where they suffered a 5-2 upset loss.

Game three of the series saw aggressive play on both ends as the two teams fought to secure a place in the Eastern Conference

final. The game, which occurred on Feb. 24, included over 10 goals scored, six of which came in the third period.

Despite going up 3-0 early,

“That’s the best thing about coaching: nothing goes according to plan and you have to be ready for anything,” he said. “I think I did a good job of calming our bench down and refocusing after a crazy two and a half minutes.”

The Gaels’ defense held strong against the Gee-Gee’s attack, and would go on to win 6-5 to advance into the third round of the playoffs—and a chance to compete for the Eastern Conference final.

Moving forward, Gibson hopes to see his team maintain their intensity and desperation in tough situations. He believes the Gaels’ commitment to winning has played an integral role in their progress thus far.

“You play 28 games in the season for the opportunity to play for the Queen’s Cup, that’s what I tell my guys,” he said.

“There’s not one guy that’s not willing to block a shot, there’s not one guy who isn’t willing to take a hit.”

“There’s not one guy that’s not willing to block a shot.”

—Brett Gibson

UOttawa erased the Gaels’ lead by the first minute of the third period. Trading goals to bring it to 4-4, Queen’s forward Jared Bethune scored two goals in 51 seconds. While Queen’s gave up a goal 17 seconds after going up 6-4, they held on for the game’s final nine minutes.

Gibson watched chaos ensue from the bench after the win, but saw value in the experience.

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Pair of Gaels sport maple leaf, compete internationally over reading week Fitzgerald finishes third, MacDougall withdraws due to illness as Canada places first Makenna Fitzgerald (left).

Matt Scace Sports Editor Kingston and Trinidad and Tobago have two very different climates, especially in February. It’s something a faction of the women’s

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cross country team now knows all too well.

On Feb. 16, first-years Makenna Fitzgerald and Brogan MacDougall, along with Queen’s Assistant Coach Brant Stachel, helped Canada

sweep the podium at the North American, Central American and Caribbean (NACAC) Cross Country Championships.

Fitzgerald placed third while MacDougall withdrew after coming down with the flu.

“It was super nice to get out of the snow,” Stachel, who served on Canada’s coaching staff at the championships, told The Journal. Leaving Kingston, which

Gaels bounced from playoffs after 80-63 loss to Carleton Queen’s bids farewell to four graduating seniors, optimistic for next season

Second-year John Milkin.

Aleena Yusufazi Staff Writer

Despite squeaking through the first round of the OUA playoffs, the men’s basketball team’s season ended last Saturday with an 80-63 loss to the Carleton Ravens.

In the Gaels’ first game of the playoffs against the Laurentian Voyagers, the teams were even for much of the contest. Each team took turns with the lead, eventually going down to the wire when Queen’s sealed a 73-72 victory by way of a thrilling game-winning shot with three seconds left on the clock.

This past Saturday’s game against the Ravens—Canada’s top-ranked team—proved far more difficult. Carleton didn’t lose their lead even once, keeping the Gaels at bay as they shot 34 per cent from the floor, and cruising to a comfortable 80-63 win.

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According to third-year forward Harry Range, when the playoffs rolled around the Gaels had been playing some of their best basketball all season. Two weeks prior to their first-round matchup versus Laurentian, Queen’s earned an overtime win over the nationally-ranked eighth UOttawa Gee-Gees.

“We were peaking at the right time. We came together and that showed during the playoffs.

We didn’t back down from anyone,” Range said. The playoffs were a set of two tough games for the Gaels—they’d lost their previous season game to Laurentian, and Carleton swept the team outright in the two games they played.

Fifth-years and graduating players Jaz Bains and Tanner Graham showed tremendous effort in their final games donning the tricolour. Bains

was strong on offense with 49 points in both playoff contests, complemented by Graham’s 25 combined points.

Earlier this week, Graham and Bains were named OUA All-Stars on the second and third teams, respectively.

Beyond Bains and Graham, two other Gaels bid farewell to the men’s basketball program after their team’s loss to Carleton: Jesse Graham, Tanner’s brother, and guard Matt Elcock.

“Each guy in their own way helped us push the program to new heights,” Head Coach Steph Barrie said of his departing senior players. “We will miss each one no doubt, but they left lots of lessons and examples for our younger guys to follow. If they do, we will be in good shape.”

Despite the early postseason exit, the Gaels have overcome much of the adversity presented to them this season, dealing with injuries, player rotation, and game plan strategies as playoffs approached.

“We went through a lot as a team and as individuals, but I felt that it was a great season. We showed a lot of resiliency and were successful, which is a testament to the character of these guys,” Range said of the past season.

“I am hoping we can build on the foundation the athletes before us have left. We have a lot of the right pieces, we just have to get better every day.”

For Range, this year’s campaign is a season the team can build off looking ahead to 2019-20—including a deeper run through the playoffs.

“The culture here is unlike any other,” Range said. “I believe we’ll be back in the playoff scene next year and hope to do just as well, if not better.”

was well below freezing at the time of the group’s departure, Stachel and his team were welcomed by over 30 degree weather.

While the race had numerous world-class athletes competing, Stachel said it was a tune-up for the World Junior Cross Country Championships on Mar. 30 in Denmark.

“Overall, it was a cool experience for the athletes to get that international travel experience before World Juniors,” Stachel said. “For our crew here, [World Championships are] an ‘A-goal,’ whereas [NACAC] was a ‘B-goal’ to make sure they can handle international travel.”

For Fitzgerald, who’s only been running competitively since the beginning of the 2018-19 school year, it was her first time racing abroad. Behind teammates Taryn O’Neill and Charlotte Wood, she finished six seconds off first place despite falling mid-race—her time was 22:14 in the six kilometre race.

“Her poise was definitely way beyond her developmental years in the sport,” Stachel said. “It’s super fun to watch her elevate to that level.”

An experienced coach—Stachel headed last year’s FISU team in Switzerland and was recently named Athletics Ontario’s coaching coordinator—he knows the common thought processes for a runner competing on international grounds for the first time.

“Every time you get a young athlete who’s new to the sport and representing Canada for the first time, there’s always

those nerves,” he said. “They’re wondering, ‘Do I belong, am I at the level everyone else is at?’ And [Fitzgerald] handled it like a true champ and a veteran.”

Canada’s men’s team also finished first at the championships, sweeping the top three spots in the 8km under-20 race, although none of its racers hailed from Queen’s.

Alongside the under-20 races, Canada’s senior women’s team represented the country at NACAC, finishing second overall with Queen’s alumni Claire Sumner placing 13th. The six-woman team included Olympians Natasha Wodak, Genevieve Lalonde, and Katelyn Ayers.

Stachel said their presence was a unique opportunity for the country’s younger runners to interact with high-profile veterans.

“All the junior women could talk to them and really ask them questions to see how they operate,” Stachel said. “From a learning perspective, it was really cool to see what three Olympians do to prepare for the same race that you raced.”

Fitzgerald and MacDougall are in the latter stages of their training, with the World Junior Championships four weeks away. The Championships, which featured over 100 athletes from across the globe in 2017, will see similar numbers when they take the start line in Aarhus, Denmark later this month. “[NACAC] is a good precursor to worlds when there’s way more people on the [start] line and you’re trying to look for some familiarity as you get into the race,” Stachel said.

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Gaels fall to York in first round of OUA playoffs Lions end Gaels’ season in tight 76-70 win Maggie Gowland Assistant Sports Editor Last Wednesday, the York Lions ended the women’s basketball team’s season in a dramatic, late-game 76-70 win in the OUA quarterfinals. The loss marked the second consecutive year in which the Gaels were bounced from the first round of the postseason.

In an interview with The Journal, Head Coach Dave Wilson said the end of a season isn’t always sad, contrary to popular belief.

“Most of the time, if you think about it, very few teams end on a win [in the playoffs],” he said.

“It’s the style of loss that becomes the mitigating factor.” When asked what style of loss his team experienced against the Lions, Wilson bluntly replied, “Not good.”

Against York, the Gaels were up by two points at halftime.

Neither team’s lead ever exceeded

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Women’s basketball lost in the quarterfinals for the second straight season.

six points throughout the back-and-forth affair.

Despite heading into the final frame up 56-54, Queen’s couldn’t keep pace with York to close out their first-round matchup on top.

The Lions managed to outscore the Gaels 22-14 in the fourth quarter—firmly overtaking the lead with just 1:16 left in the game—to snag a 76-70 victory.

Coming off their first win against the Carleton Ravens since 2014-15 a week before the postseason, the Gaels also snuck past the nationally-ranked fourth Ryerson Rams to win 74-70 in Toronto on Feb. 16.

Against Ryerson, the Gaels trailed behind by a margin of six points until the end of the third quarter. In the final seven minutes of the game, the Gaels pulled ahead to beat their second top-10 team in as many games.

But their optimism was short-lived.

After beating the Ravens and the Rams, Wilson thought his team had turned the corner.

“To me, the critical element to why we were able to beat those top-10 teams was how we finished the games, and we finished the games stronger than the [opposing] teams,” he said.

Men’s, women’s squads begin playoffs Saturday OUA quarterfinals home for men against Guelph, away for women at Western Maggie Gowland Assistant Sports Editor After clinching playoff berths, both men’s and women’s volleyball teams will play in the OUA quarterfinal games this Saturday.

The men will host the Guelph Gryphons (8-9) while the women will travel to take on the Western Mustangs (14-5) in their bid to make the OUA Final Four.

Men’s volleyball Ending their season on an eight-game win streak, the Gaels managed to finish atop the OUA East last week.

After two resounding straight-set wins against Trent (0-16) and RMC (2-15), the Gaels were awarded home court advantage over the Gryphons

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for Saturday’s match. The last time Queen’s lost a game before embarking on their win-streak was a 3-1 defeat to Guelph on Jan. 18.

First-year Head Coach Gabriel DeGroot told The Journal that he feels “just fine” about the match-up despite their recent history with Guelph.

“That game was obviously the first back after Christmas, so I don’t think we were back to full match shape. And playing on the road—that’s a tough home court advantage,” DeGroot said of his team’s away loss to Guelph at the turn of the New Year. “We weren’t quite as prepared as we needed to be.”

This time around, though, the Gaels will be ready. DeGroot’s seen significant improvement since the aforementioned loss, racking up wins against highly ranked conference rivals such as Ryerson and University of Toronto.

“The guys worked extremely hard to get themselves into first place and put themselves in a situation where we [play] the fourth-place seed from the west [Guelph],” he said. “Having earned that is going to put us in a really good position going into playoffs.”

If Queen’s wins Saturday’s matchup, they’ll host the OUA Final Four the following weekend.

The Gaels’ ultimate goal is dethroning the McMaster Marauders (15-2) in the OUA Final, who’ve won the past six

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York, Wilson added, ended up doing the same thing Queen’s had done in their previous two games—the only difference was the reverse of roles.

“It was neck-and-neck throughout the entire game,” Wilson said about the game against York. “[In] the last three minutes, our execution was very poor and their execution was very good.”

The Gaels’ loss was similar to last season’s playoffs, which saw Queen’s fall to UOttawa 74-63.

The loss was the first time they’d failed to get past the quarterfinals since 2012-2013.

Regardless of their postseason early exit, the Gaels’ season marked several highlights for Wilson, who capped his 37th season as head coach of the team.

His first was beating Carleton—an achievement only his fifth-year players had seen.

It was Queen’s first win over the Ottawa-based side since the OUA championships.

Last year, the Marauders swept the Gaels in straight sets in the OUA gold medal game.

In their earlier meeting this season, the Gaels beat McMaster in five sets—with a 15-13 score in the final set. “[Beating McMaster] was a huge confidence boost for us because I think now, going into playoffs, we know we have to execute, we know we have to play our best,” DeGroot said. “But we also know that we can beat everyone that we could be put up against this year.”

With the end of the season, second-year Zane Grossinger secured second in the OUA for assists per set at 10 per game.

Meanwhile, fourth-year Zac Hutcheson reached a career high and OUA second-best 266 total kills for the season. Queen’s led the OUA with 871 total kills on the year.

As the Gaels have found their footing this season, DeGroot said a lot of his team’s success could be credited to their offense.

“We’re running four offensive options all the time and it’s pretty hard to defend us right now,” he said. “That piece has probably made the most significant change in our second half and has provided a ton of success.”

“Being able to execute and play the way that we kind of planned all year—it was cool to see that all happen this second semester.”

Women’s volleyball

Coming into the playoffs

2014-15 season.

“Getting that one off of [our] back was very big for our players and the coaching staff,” he said.

Next came their win over the nationally-ranked fourth Ryerson. “Taking care of that game was also a highlight,” Wilson said.

“The kids can start to feel really good about all the work that they’ve put in and see a return for their investment.”

Finally, seeing fifth-year Marianne Alarie reach the 1,000 career-point mark was a highlight for Wilson, as both Alarie and fifth-year Maddie Morris graduated.

This season’s roster, which boasted 12 first- and second-year players out of a possible 17, saw steady improvement as the year wore on, capped with the Gaels’ takedown of Carleton and Ryerson. Wilson said rookies learn more from upper-years than they do from the coaching staff, and the lack of veteran support on his team this season may have held them back from fully developing.

With the majority of players returning as upper-years in 2019-20, Wilson’s optimistic his team can buck the trend of first round playoff exits next season.

“We knew that it was going to take a little bit longer to get to the level we thought we could get to,” Wilson said. “To me, what a lot of people don’t recognize is that it’s not so much that we have [more athletes] to teach.

It’s that we have fewer veterans to help teach.” on a six-game win streak, the women’s volleyball team (136) have momentum going into their OUA quarterfinal bout against Western.

Winning their last three regular season games in convincing straight-sets against the RMC Paladins (1-16), Lakehead Thunderwolves (1-17), and Trent Excalibur (1-16), the team appears to be peaking at the right time.

In an interview with The Journal, second-year Head Coach Ryan Ratushniak said his team feels good coming off their recent string of victories.

“We’ve been playing very confident and very well lately,” Ratushniak said. “We’re confident in our serving game and [our ability to put] Western in trouble with our serving and block defense.”

As well, Ratushniak said the Gaels are confident with their offense, which leads the OUA in kills (894). They also sit 10th in the league for digs—a testament to their ability to stay attacking despite pressure from opposition. Even though they played a string of onewin teams to end their season, Ratushniak has liked what he’s seen from his team to cap off the regular season.

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INTERVIEW

Russian Doll’s

Rebecca Henderson

on her biggest Netflix role

The Canadian-born actor talks authenticity, timelines, and overalls Henderson stars as Lizzie on Netflix’s new hit show.

Tegwyn Hughes Copy Editor Thanks to her portrayal of an authentic lesbian character, Rebecca Henderson’s latest TV role has catapulted her onto the screens—and into the hearts—of viewers everywhere.

Netflix’s newest hit show, Russian Doll, follows Nadia Vulvokov (Natasha Lyonne), a woman who dies at her 36th birthday party only to wake up and relive the day over and over again. Henderson plays Lizzy,

Nadia’s friend and a professional artist, who attends the party with her girlfriend and supports Nadia as she repeats the day.

One thing in particular stands out about Henderson’s character Lizzy: her sexuality is the least interesting thing about her.

According to Henderson, “playing fully formed people” is something she always strives to do. “I would never play a part and not fully believe that I was that person,” she told The Journal over a phone interview earlier this week.

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“I felt like when I put on [my character’s] overalls and […] glasses that I was that person.”

Russian Doll succeeds in depicting fleshed-out LGBTQ+ characters. This authenticity shines through Henderson’s portrayal of Lizzy, who helps Nadia piece together her multiple-timeline experiences.

She never questions what her friend is going through and always remains steadfast, supportive, and kind.

The role was unique for Henderson, as Russian Doll co-creator Leslye Headland is

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her real-life wife and protagonist Lyonne is a longtime friend. Since Henderson has collaborated with friends for onstage productions in the past, she found working with her wife provided similar support and challenged her sense of worth as an actor.

“There’s a level of pressure,” Henderson said. “When you audition for things, you really feel like you earned the role. In this instance, with Leslye, my wife, and Natasha, I hadn’t auditioned.

So when I got to set I was a little bit like, ‘[Lizzie’s] like this! Is that okay, everyone?’”

More pressure resulted from Russian Doll’s constant jump between timelines, as similar

scenes were filmed again and again in the same locations. For Henderson, however, the filming process was smooth.

“Leslye and Natasha really just knew [the details of the script],” she said. “They’re really brilliant, and when they were birthing the show they just knew […] We would show up and they would tell us exactly where we were.”

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Meeting Jennifer Aniston in a UFO The Journal’s dream interpreter analyzes a dream about identity and growth

I’m Meryl Sleep, Queen’s resident dream interpreter. I analyze dreams in an effort to decode the symbols in each Queen’s student’s subconscious. Today’s dream involves allergic reactions, high school reunions, and possible aliens.

My dream took place in my high school atrium, where an alumni science fair was occurring—already a red flag because I dropped science in the tenth grade. Out of nowhere, my head began shrinking and a new one grew around it that looked like an exploding balloon having an allergic reaction.

Once my hands went through the same process, my old vice-principal determined I had a virus.

Everybody in the atrium hopped onto a UFO, formed a circle and took turns being scanned to see if they were the disease’s root. I stood next to Jennifer Aniston, who I don’t have any particular ties to other than casually enjoying Friends.

After a while, they found the virus’ source and I was cured. I celebrated by going to the gym, where I ran into my grandmother and tried to explain the ordeal.

My dreams are typically

mundane, so I’m dying to know what any of this means.

Please help!

Dear Dreamer,

From one dreamer to another, it’s unsettling when the content of your dreams strays from its normal course.

However, the diversion provides a great opportunity for reflection about what’s happening inside your subconscious.

When analyzing dreams, it’s important to remember they are reflections of the dreamer’s emotional state and life experiences. The definitive meaning of a dream can only be known by the dreamer, since they have the full context of their lives to determine what’s being represented.

While your dream may seem like a disorganized collection of images without a unifying theme, a few major symbols guide the narrative. For starters, representations of high school signify insecurity and vulnerability, suggesting there’s some uncertainty in particular

areas of your life.

Next, you mention your current head shrunk and was replaced by a new one. Since the head is the source of your personality and way of thinking, the growth of a new head suggests a change in identity. The initial shrinking of your current head can be seen as the loss or suppression of your current identity, so that a new identity can prevail.

A shift in identity can be positive or negative. In comparing the experience to an allergic reaction, it seems the change in your identity came as a surprise, and you may be viewing it

negatively. Are you undergoing any major personal growth?

Alternatively, do you feel that you are under-prioritizing your own identity for a different version of yourself?

Additionally, your dream featured appearances from a few specific people. Dreaming of celebrities is typically a benign representation of your own aspirations. Do you desire to work in the film industry? If so, Jennifer Aniston is probably a manifestation of your career goals.

The presence of both your former vice-principal and your grandmother suggests you have a desire for validation from respected authority figures in your life. As you make decisions concerning your future, do you feel the need to compare yourself to other people or consider the opinions of others?

Beyond the individual symbols, I noticed your dream tracks a complete journey, which begins when you contract a virus and concludes with your recovery. This could be demonstrating that you’ve recently

experienced a difficulty, but you’ve successfully overcome the obstacle.

It’s particularly interesting that the virus was thought to have come from one of your peers, as this suggests the presence of toxic people or negative influences in your life.

Think about whether you’re experiencing any distrust in your current relationships.

The dream seems to symbolize that you’re entering a period of transition, where you’re trying to balance your personal ambitions with the desire to please friends and family.

Sweet dreams!

—Meryl Sleep

Are you dying to know what your latest dream means? Email journal_lifestyle@queensu.ca with a 100-150 word description to find out.

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Watching my brother fight a life-threatening illness Spreading awareness on babesiosis Liv Neilson Contributor For three and a half years, I’ve watched my little brother miss out on high school friendships, relationships, and work opportunities, all due to a crippling and life-threatening illness.

In the summer of 2015, I was getting ready to move hundreds of miles away from Detroit for my first year at Queen’s when my 14-year-old brother, Uri, was unknowingly bitten by a black-legged deer tick and suddenly fell gravely ill. My terrified parents took him to doctor after doctor, eventually numbering more than three dozen—none of whom could diagnose him properly.

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Liv’s brother, Uri (right), contracted babesiosis from a deer tick.

tests, mold tests, allergy panels, special diets, and a multitude of drugs. They even tried natural remedies, like acupuncture, essential oils, and breathing exercises. For the first two years of Uri’s sickness, until he was finally diagnosed correctly, his disease went untreated.

Babesiosis, a rare and sometimes fatal disease, isn’t tested for in common clinics.

It’s an elusive blood disorder caused by a speck-sized insect—the deer tick—and was just classified as a disease in 2014. As a result, most medical professionals don’t know what it is.

While highly similar to malaria, both symptomatically and as a blood infection, it isn’t mosquito-borne. The Babesia parasite is transmitted through the black-legged deer tick—the same vector for Lyme disease—and attacks red blood cells in humans and other mammals.

Right now, Uri is suffering a relapse and my family is told that it’ll be a long recovery.

His symptoms range from fatigue, fever and chills, to intense nausea, stomach pain and a sensation of extreme and persistent pressure on his skull.

He spends his days in white rooms filled with needles, tubes and doctors’ reassurances that his next treatment may be the one that heals him. He hasn’t attended a normal school in years.

I hope to shed light on this horrible

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and relatively unknown disease that’s taken over our family and robbed nearly four years of my brother’s life. He hasn’t attended a normal school in years. I advise Queen’s students and their families to exercise caution this summer when hiking through heavily wooded or rural areas, wetlands, or even in your own backyards.

While most commonly contracted in the Northeastern United States, the range of the deer tick is spreading—which can also account for the myriad diagnoses of Lyme, a much more common and closely-related offender.

It’s important to check your skin often, and if you do spot a tick, to immediately pluck it out with tweezers. Generally, tick bites do not become infectious unless the tick has been latched on for more than 24 hours. If you aren’t sure how long it’s been on your skin, or are starting to feel ill, be sure to seek medical attention. As a preventive measure, you can also buy certain chemical repellants for your clothing and skin.

But most importantly, it pays to be alert.

Uri was perfectly healthy at the time of the bite and hadn’t been in the Northeast.

It can happen to anyone.

It’s strange to look back on my own high school years, spent performing onstage, going to prom, getting my driver’s license, and doing all of the things that high schoolers are supposed to do—and waiting to watch him do the same.

But he’ll never experience these things.

Uri is weird, smart, and honest to a fault. He makes offbeat jokes, plays electric guitar and too many video games, and won’t do anything he isn’t passionate about.

He hopes to one day be a programmer or a chef. In many ways, he’s a typical 17-year-old. Except this disease, for now, has ruined his life.

Also in this week’s issue:

Tri-colour Sex Diary: A series of unfortunate men

The Journal’s March 2019 horoscopes

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Nothing brings me more joy than listening to music. I’ve never had a knack for playing instruments and my vocal range is limited to the “Cha-Cha Slide,” but my true skill is being able to listen to music at all times of the day.

Even though I enjoy a wide range of genres, my music knowledge from childhood was limited to radio hits and whatever my older sister brought home from HMV. My parents weren’t diehard fans of any particular artists, and their parents hadn’t been either. Car rides to school were dominated by FM radio or endless listens to albums by Rihanna, Usher and Avril Lavigne. I’d buy—or illegally download—the top songs on iTunes each week and loop them until I was fluent in their lyrics.

While I was always content with my small pool of culturally relevant songs, it wasn’t until I got Apple Music that I realized how much good music from the past was waiting for me.

[I]t wasn’t until I got Apple Music that I realized how much good music from the past was waiting for me.

For each music purchase I made growing up, I had to be careful not to exceed the monthly allowance my parents set—and to make sure my dad didn’t get too many copyright infringement notices from LimeWire downloads. This limited the amount of music I could download and discouraged me from taking a chance on buying something I didn’t already know I liked from hearing it on the radio.

When I first signed up for Apple Music, I freaked out knowing I had access to the most popular music of the past few centuries. If I want a crash course in Motown, I can search up a ready-made playlist of the era’s biggest hits. If I’m looking to relax, I can listen to a compilation of the most calming songs in history. And if I don’t know what I’m in the mood for, playlists will spring up each week tailored to my listening patterns.

Whereas my old playlists contained songs released over the span of a few years, I’m now able to regularly listen to songs released in different decades, all back-to-back. I’ve discovered many of my favourite artists by exploring the depths of Apple Music, like Anita Baker, The Bee Gees, or even some Destiny’s Child deep cuts that passed me by growing up.

Now that I’ve been using Apple Music for a few years, these benefits aren’t as regularly apparent to me as they once were. I’m still forever grateful to music streaming services for giving me a key to the world’s song library and deepening my love for music more than I thought possible.

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Bringing my family’s hopes, dreams and fears with me to Queen’s Managing expectations as the first member of my family attending Canadian university

Jasnit’s parents moved to Canada from India in the ‘90s.

Jasnit Pabla News Editor

When I stepped onto my first university campus in 2016, my family came with me and never truly left.

Seated in our beat-down pick-up truck, my hopeful mother and father shared my confusion navigating Queen’s on move-in day as we searched for West Campus.

Moving my luggage into the top floor of the building, I watched my mother and father’s expressions turn from curiosity to fear. My residence, which I would call home for the next eight months, was much too foreign for their comfort—more than Canada when they first arrived.

“Are you sure this is okay?

Is this what you expected?” they asked.

They riddled me with questions to ease their discomfort, but I didn’t necessarily have answers as a spry first-year new to Kingston.

My father resorted to wandering the residence’s hallways to find the building’s emergency amenities. He returned with pleas that I stay in contact regularly and let them know if anything felt off or wrong.

When they left West Campus, my mother wept silently on her way out—thinking it was out of my purview—and my dad cried on the drive home. They called me three times from the truck.

To me, my parents’ fears weren’t irrational. Neither of them had ever experienced a Canadian post-secondary institution.

My parents moved to Canada

from India after getting married in the mid ’90s, with my mom arriving in 1994 and my dad two years later. My father’s college degree wasn’t transferable and my mother hadn’t completed her post-secondary education.

I consider them the toughest, strongest, and smartest people I know.

When I received my acceptance letters from Queen’s and the University of Toronto, my whole family cried. Nobody knew what the next four years would hold, but my acceptances were an indication that my future would have something more than what my parents had to fight through.

I’d have a say in how I wanted to live.

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[M]y [university] acceptances were an indication that my future would have something more than what my parents had to fight through. I’d have a say in how I wanted to live.

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I believe children of immigrant parents are never truly desensitized to their parents’ experiences. I’ve watched my parents work tirelessly to provide my brother and I with the option to buy the same things as our peers. They wanted to provide for us, even if that meant tending to an 18-wheeler transport truck at night in the dead of January, or wearing a cast because long hours of ticketing in a warehouse were

straining my mother’s wrist.

At no point in my childhood did either of my parents tell me I couldn’t have something, and that’s how I developed the belief that I had to give back.

For myself and other first-generation Canadians, giving back comes in the form of working hard in school and surpassing academic expectations. I also pushed myself to help pay for my degree by working all throughout high school. But my acceptance to Queen’s was the greatest gift I ever could have given them.

Since my first day, my university career has been about experiencing new things with my family. When I have exams, get a job on campus, or write an article for the student paper, my biggest fans are waiting at home to hear all about it, and spread the news among extended family and even their friends at work.

They’ve regularly admitted unfamiliarity with Canadian universities means they don’t know how they can help me in certain situations, like looking for internships or career-advancing opportunities. Even so, I’ve always felt supported. When I need assistance, I’ve found the services and resources I need to continue moving forward.

While I feel comforted by my family’s constant support, their anxiety has never escaped me, either.

Often, I find it difficult to reassure them that everything is okay, and I realize that most when I haven’t spoken to them in several days. I can often

clearly hear in their voices that they’re worried.

One evening, my father called me to ask if I felt safe on campus and wanted to know whether my class schedules allowed me to come home before sunset. I didn’t understand why he’d asked these questions until he told me about some reading he’d done earlier that day. News of statistics surrounding sexual assault instances on Canadian campuses worried him, and his young daughter was on a campus he didn’t know nearly well enough.

I assured him he’d raised his daughter to be more than capable enough to handle herself, even if that meant lying through my teeth about my own fear.

I felt responsible for settling their fears and knowing what was around me. I spent evenings locked in my West Campus room attempting to achieve the highest possible academic results I could, and traded my summers for work to share the burden of paying for my education.

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Like other children of immigrant parents, I worked hard to show my parents how indebted I felt to them—and still do.

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The things I did were always in the interest of my family, and then myself. Like other children of immigrant parents, I worked hard to show my parents how indebted I felt to them—and still do.

Education is a privilege, but

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my experience made it feel like a reward. It was a reward to me and continues to be something I work towards, but it was also— more importantly—a reward to my parents.

Their pride and happiness when I share my experiences gives me more motivation than just thinking independently about my own future. I want to make them proud because they deserve to see their hard work come to fruition.

I know my experiences aren’t unique, but it can sometimes feel that way surrounded by students who may be rungs in a family university dynasty. I used to think about what it would be like had my parents experienced university in this country and been able to help guide me through the process.

But I can’t imagine who I’d be without this part of my identity, and I know I’d be nowhere near as strong as I am today.

I hope my parents feel the same way, because while they believe their insecurities are capable of harming their children, they’ve only done the opposite.

I came to Queen’s with my family, and continue to carry the hopes and dreams of others in my backpack to class every day. They may have driven away on move-in day, but this experience hasn’t been solitary.

My family is a team, and I wouldn’t have made it this far emotionally, academically, and intellectually without them.