The Carillon Volume 55, Issue 20

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Feb. 12 - 27, 2013 | Volume 55, Issue 20 | carillonregina.com

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arts & culture

Creating Barriers.

6 From ancient civilizations to today's modern-world, human beings continue to build walls to separate and divide. In his latest book, Marcello Di Cintio tells the stories of the people living in the shadows of these divisions.

The Notscars.

7 The oscars are bullshit. But don’t worry, the Carillon staff has assembled their own categories for Oscars so you can, you know, actually be entertained. Page 7 for the Shenanigans.

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Rinkerrendum.

14 Having a rink mere feet away from me at all times would pretty much be a dream come true. I guarantee I would learn to stop in no time; I’ve already mastered going backwards.

And by mastered I mean, I only kinda look like an ugly ducking.

The best kind of failure.

16 The City of Regina is screwed up. Let’s face it. We’ve got poverty, HIV, and god damn Quance Street. But what will it take for citizens to wake up and be pissed beyond government ignorance. Paul Bogdan suggests letting the city get so irreversibly awful that people can’t ignore it anymore.

kristen mcewen sophie long kyle leitch braden dupuis

marc messett emily wright

contributors this week lauren golosky rikkeal bohmann paige kreutzwieser kris klein dan sherven michael chmielewski

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the manifesto

In keeping with our reckless, devil-may-care image, our office has absolutely no concrete information on the Carillon’s formative years readily available. What follows is the story that’s been passed down from editor to editor for over forty years.

In the late 1950s, the University of Regina planned the construction of several new buildings on the campus grounds.

One of these proposed buildings was a bell tower on the academic green. If you look out on the academic green today, the first thing you’ll notice is that it has absolutely nothing resembling a bell tower.

The University never got a bell tower, but what it did get was the Carillon, a newspaper that serves as a symbolic bell tower on campus, a loud and clear voice belonging to each and every student.

Illegitimi non carborundum.

A disproportionately small number of women are becoming CIS coaches. We explore why this is, and what can be done to bring gender equality into the game on page 13. Also, next week is Reading Week, so we won’t be publishing. Go sleep or something, you newspaper leeches!

Happy break, everyone.

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News Editor: Taouba Khelifa carillonnewseditor@gmail.com the carillon | Feb. 14 - 27, 2013

Finally, gender neutral washrooms two years of planning creates 10 gender neutral washrooms on campus rikkeal bohmann contributor The University of Regina will finally be getting gender-neutral bathrooms, thanks to UR Pride.

After two years of campaigning, discussions are now at the phase of choosing the locations of the bathrooms on campus.

Gender-neutral washrooms are not a new thing, especially to universities across the country.

Recently, Dalhousie University created 29 gender-neutral bathrooms. Queens, Carleton, McGill and the University of Victoria all have gender-neutral bathrooms, among many more.

“The premise of the washrooms would be that anyone, regardless of their gender identity, or sexual orientation ... has access to this space. Literally anybody that finds a washroom uncomfortable to use can use it. It is meant to be an encompassing space,” said Leah Keiser, executive director of UR Pride.

Harassment that often occurs in bathrooms was one of the main points for creating these genderneutral spaces on campus.

“There’s a lot of harassment that happens in washrooms for folks [who] aren’t filling gender expectations or presentations in those washrooms, and that creates

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a really hostile and unsafe environment for folks who honestly just want to pee and get on with their day ... There’s a lot of people just holding it, which isn’t making an educational facility accessible for everybody,” Keiser explained.

Keiser, herself, is frequently a victim of the harassment that occurs from gender-specific bathrooms.

“We have a lot of personal stories around here … Quite fre-

quently I get harassed in the women’s washroom. More or less the whole, ‘umm are you supposed to be in here?’ kind of conversation, and I’m like holy shit, can I just pee? You’re worried about me harassing you? Can I just use the washroom once without being harassed? That would be great. Thanks. That’s a pretty typical experience for me using the washroom here,” Keiser said.

Gender-neutral bathrooms are

helping to open up discussions that were previously unknown, not thought about, especially when it comes to the troubles that binaries in gender create.

“I think it means another educational opportunity for a lot of folks here at the University who hadn’t thought of some of the inherent problems perpetuated by a gender binary,” Keiser said.

“When we talk of a gender-neutral washroom, we’re not just talk-

ing of a toilet, we’re talking about an entire series of inaccurate notions of what gender should be.”

10 washrooms around campus will be changed to gender-neutral washrooms with new signage made up to go with them. The largest push back UR Pride has faced so far was the issue of what was legal, in terms of the number of gender specific bathrooms a public institution needs. While UR Pride has no intention of turning all public washrooms into gender-neutral spaces, Keiser states only a few need to be to give people options. UR Pride and the U of R have been working closely with each other to make this idea a reality. Keiser is very positive about the working relationship the two share, and the victory they have accomplished together.

“A large section of the population can now use the washroom. It demonstrates a great working relationship between UR Pride and the University body as a whole … we have a lot of victories working closely with the University,” Keiser said, “unveiling of genderneutral washrooms across campus [will be] pretty soon.”

Creating global citizens International Development Week educates, celebrates, and looks at the future kristen mcewen news writer With the deadline for the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) only a mere two years away, it’s tough to say whether or not the goals will be met.

In 2000, eight goals were set at the United Nations headquarters to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, achieve universal primary education, promote gender equality and empower women, reduce child morality, improve maternal health, combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases, ensure environmental sustainability and develop a global partnership for development.

The expectation for MDG 1 – eradicate extreme poverty - was to reduce overall poverty to 15 per cent by 2015. According to the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) website, this goal will still be met.

However, this does not necessarily mean that all regions will meet this expectation.

For example, research done by CIDA shows that the rate of poverty will be 38 per cent in subSaharan Africa by 2015.

While the goal for eradicating poverty will be met by some regions come 2015, there are still

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MDGs that are much further away from their goals.

The expectation for MDG 3 “eliminating gender disparities in primary and secondary education by 2015,” has yet to be met.

According to CIDA, 96 girls were enrolled for every 100 boys in primary school in 2008. In 1999, 91 girls were enrolled for every 100 boys.

While we face many problems in our own societies, the Reginabased organization Saskatchewan Council for International Cooperation (SCIC) reminds us that our actions have an effect on other parts of the world. The best way to begin to combat these issues is by being aware.

“SCIC focuses more so on rais-

ing public awareness,” said communications and fundraising officer Brandon Bertram. “What we do more specifically is getting the people of Saskatchewan more aware of the Millennium Development Goals and why they’re important, what’s the spirit behind them, what are the keys to success, and what are the possible failures.

“We’re all wondering what’s going to happen after 2015, which is where a lot of the conversation is at these days,” said Bertram. “In some regions, and some goals, there’s been tremendous success but I mean there’s still a lot of poverty in the world, there’s still a lot of environmental degradation, there’s still a lot of people who

don’t read, kids not going to school, still a lot of people getting HIV and malaria and things like that.”

Bertram said it is a challenge to get the message out about international issues.

“It’s difficult, especially when you’re trying to compete with a Coca-Cola ad. It’s difficult to try and keep people’s awareness for long enough because these aren’t really simple issues. They’re really complicated and the more you learn about them, the more complicated they become.”

However, events like International Development Week bring awareness to international issues.

Since 1990, International

Development week has celebrated the work people and organization do internationally to make the world a better place – from organizations building schools and water wells, to developing programs like micro-financing, to increasing gender equality and literacy.

International Development week kicked off at the University of Regina on Feb. 4 with a panel discussion formed by students.

The week also housed a film screening, poetry slam, and a Global Citizen Award Gala to honour the work of some activists in the community.

“We have allies all over the province where people believe in the same things we believe in,” Bertram said. “We’re trying to get people all over the province engaged and aware of the ways that our lives intertwine with the lives of poor people around the world because we are really intertwined – the way we shop, the way we make decisions, the way we support the kind of things we’re interested in and the things we give our attention to – that supports a global system and that global system impacts people ... We need to be aware of our impact on that system and how our time and energy is playing a role in other people’s lives, that’s really a big part of what SCIC does.”

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Money in the bank Two researchers win $1.2 million in grants dietrich neu editor-in-chief Two University of Regina professors have come out as winners in a nationwide race for funding.

Both Nick Carleton and Mohan Babu have been awarded $1.2 million in grants for two health research projects at the U of R. Carleton received $467,499 to research chronic pain, while Babu received $785,135 to research mitochondria. Both grants are part of the Canadian Institutes for Health Research’s (CIHR) yearly grant competition, which doles out approximately $240 million every year to over 14,000 health researchers in Canada.

“This funding is a testament to the excellent research being conducted at the University of Regina,” said Dennis Fitzpatrick, U of R vice-president of research.

“Our university is conducting world class research that is making a difference in people’s lives around the world.”

The CIHR’s Operating Grants Competition is highly competitive, with 4,577 applications and only 485 grants awarded.

Saskatchewan universities won a total of $2.3 million this year.

“We are really excited that the University of Regina was able to get the funding that it has,” Carleton said. “The process is incredibly competitive. I think we did fantastic as a province, and certainly we did really well as a university.”

Computer software that can reduce chronic pain

New evidence is mounting that software, which resembles a computer game, can now help reduce chronic pain and symptoms of Fibromyalgia.

Carleton, an associate professor of psychology, will receive $467,499 over five years to use this software to study its effect on Fibromyalgia patients. The disorder causes chronic pain all over the body, and there is no known cause or cure. In a pilot study, the software proved to reduce symptoms in patients by up to 30 per cent after they used the program for a few minutes each day.

“There is a lot we know about the psychology of pain now, that we didn’t know even five years ago,” Carleton said. “Pain is a complex phenomenon. Pain is not simply ‘there is a nerve firing in

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my fingertip and it causes me to feel pain in my brain.’ We know that it is associated with symptoms of avoidance, fear and anxiety.

“We also know that people can feel different intensity levels depending on what they are paying attention to. For example, you’ll hear stories of people coming out of a sporting event, looking down and realizing that they are injured, and that’s the first time they feel the pain. This doesn’t mean that the pain isn’t real, it just means that the pain is being experienced differently.

“For people with chronic pain, over time pain starts to change the way they think about pain.”

According to Carleton’s pilot study, researchers in the United States have used computer software to observe that people with chronic pain automatically react negatively to pain-related words.

Carleton and his team have adapted this software to change this dynamic, using a similar program to change the automatic reaction and reduce the pain.

“The results have been very encouraging,” Carleton said.

The software also has the potential to be used over the internet, meaning patients could have unlimited access to the treatment at home for free.

The CIHR’s grant will allow Carleton to conduct a full study, which is essentially the same as the pilot, but on a much larger scale. The study is expected to get underway this fall.

Carleton’s team still needs to assess how long the results last, and whether or not it will also help reduce physical disability. If the study is successful, it can potentially revolutionize the treatment of chronic pain.

“In an ideal world, I would like to see enough evidence that we can have Health Canada, or at least the provincial health systems, provide this type of program to anybody who needs it,” Carleton said. “I think it will reduce the overall symptoms they will have. It is not going to cure things, but it could provide a relatively inexpensive, non-pharmaceutical way to provide some additional relief to some of these people who are suffering.”

Laying the Groundwork

Not a lot is known about how mitochondria, can cause diseases when they become dysfunctional.

Mitochondria are often called “cellular power plants” because of their crucial role in generating the energy that its host cell re-

quires. They are contained within every cell in the human body.

The CIHR awarded $785,135 to Babu, an associate professor of biochemistry, and his research team, to study a number of mitochondrial diseases. Because mitochondria serve a wide range of crucial cellular functions, any dysfunction within the cell usually causes cancer and neurodegenerative disorders.

“Over the past decade, researchers have been trying to pinpoint the actual causes of some of these diseases,” Babu said.

“Worldwide, about 1 in 10,000 people are affected by mitochondrial diseases, especially infants.”

Babu’s lab is monitoring the interactions between mitochondrial proteins and genes to create what he calls an “interaction map,” which will have mapped over 700,000 interactions when it is finished.

“We can go in and observe how these proteins are cross-talking, which is vital information for further study,” Babu said.

The team is first observing mitochondrial interactions in yeast, which are 80 per cent conserved (similar) to human mitochondria.

As the data on mitochondria is collected, Babu’s lab will create a vast network of information that will allow future graduate stu-

dents and scientists to conduct more specific research.

According to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, almost every breakthrough in our understanding about the human cell cycle and human cancer has come from studying yeast.

“I strongly believe that this kind of study will create a lot of breakthroughs,” Babu said. “We will create the interaction map, but one person cannot explore the endless possibilities that will come from this data. This information will give the community the chance to use the data we are generating, and that way they can use that to make important discoveries.

“I am confident this will be a success because the people in my lab all have sufficient expertise,” he continued. “We have been working in this area of study for the last decade. Everyone knows what they are doing; it is just a matter of getting it done.”

This specific project was already underway before the CIHR awarded Babu’s lab additional funding. The team is already 20 per cent complete, and expect to publish several papers over the next four years.

“ This funding is a testament to the excellent research being conducted at the University of Regina. Our university is conducting world class research that is making a difference in people’s lives around the world.”

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current affairs

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Love shouldn’t hurt Sticks and stones may break bones, but words can hurt also

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Abuse is more than just physical abuse, it can also be verbal and emotional abuse as well lauren golosky contributor [CURRENT AFFAIRS] - It’s February: a month characterized by the chocolate and candy hearts of Valentine’s Day. It’s a month when couples celebrate their love for each other. Yet, not all couples have a healthy relationship. An estimated seven per cent of women in Canada face domestic violence from a partner, a number that is hard to pinpoint considering it relies on victims and survivors to self-report.

But not all of these women have bruises to hide, and not all of these women face imminent physical threats.

Instead, they are in relationships where emotional abuse is rampant; they are cut down and manipulated. At the worst of times, some are stalked and are forced to change their phone numbers when their partner refuses to leave them alone. In some instances, things even escalate to physical violence, like pushing and shoving.

One girl who is trying to break this cycle is Julia Dima. Having recently ended a turbulent relationship, she is now able to identify the pattern of manipulation and emotional abuse she experienced, and recognize it as domestic violence.

But this wasn’t always the case. Like many people, Dima thought domestic violence was only physical violence.

“When I was a kid, what I thought domestic abuse meant was that you physically injured your partner, like you punched them or you hit them,” she said.

“When I saw screaming matches,

I just assumed it was an argument and I thought, ‘that’s not domestic abuse.’

“When I started to look at what was defined as an unhealthy relationship, and it was in high school that I actually started to look at this, because they would have some charts up and they would define things like obsessive behaviour, accusations, manipulation, putting the other person down, calling them stupid.”

Dima’s definition of domestic abuse began to change when she found herself in a relationship where manipulation was the norm. Although the relationship started out relatively normal, she quickly found herself living in fear – the biggest indicator of an abusive relationship.

“If I contradicted him or if I suggested something that he had done wrong, he would blow up,” she said. “He would never hit me, but he would yell at me; he would ignore me; he would sleep on the couch instead of sleeping in bed with me.”

Her boyfriend would belittle and manipulate her. He would come home drunk and tell her he didn’t care about her. He would threaten to leave her. Dima often found herself thinking of ways to get out of the relationship.

“I felt like I was trapped in that home, and every time we would have one of these blow out fights, I would start to look at apartments on Used Regina, but if he came near my computer I would readily close all my tabs and hide what I was doing because I was afraid if I said I was leaving then he would threaten me,” Dima said. “I was pretty scared and I felt like I was in a prison closer to the end of the re-

lationship. The whole time, I could leave if I wanted to; I just didn’t know that I had that power, that ability, to do so. I felt like I was stuck there because I loved this guy.”

People can get blinded by their love for another person, but what’s troubling is that some people get so blinded that they begin to take all the blame. When their partner acts abusive towards them, they accept the blame as if they did something wrong.

“I had a huge mentality of blaming myself for everything that he did, and finding a way that it was my fault,” Dima said.

Domestic abuse is more likely to occur among younger women.

Statistics Canada reported that it is most prevalent among women ages 25-34 years old. But, these numbers are often underestimated because of the fear or stigma associated with reporting.

“I’ve known a couple high school girls who have gone so far as to change their phone numbers and change schools because an exboyfriend won’t leave them alone,” Dima said. “This is abuse, and in high school, girls who step aside of it and want to gossip about other girls call it drama and they trivialize it.”

That appears to be the problem with emotional abuse. It is even more unreported than physical violence. It leaves no physical, tangible marks. In high school, an unhealthy relationship may just fuel gossip, taking away from the seriousness of the matter.

“But the reality is,” Dima added, “girls and boys are being raised to think that these are normal parameters for a relationship, including me, because I grew up thinking it was okay, it was my

fault.”

Because emotional abuse doesn’t carry the tangible tell-tale signs, it is even harder for those being abused to get the help they need. Dima says help and support is available, if you know where to look.

“There are women’s centres, and if I went into the women’s centre today and said, ‘listen, I got out of a bad relationship and I just

Getting Out of Abuse

1. Tell someone: Leaving an abusive relationship can be difficult, but know that there is help out there, and that you are not alone. Find a trustworthy friend, or a service centre, and ask for help. There will be people who support you through any issues or questions you have.

2. Do it your way: Each person will have their own way of getting out of an abusive relationship. Some will just leave, and never look back.

Others will prepare a

need someone to listen to me,’ there would be a support group there.”

[Full disclosure: Julia Dima is the production manager for the Carillon.]

methodical plan and take it one step at a time. There is no right or wrong way to get out of abusive relationship. What is important is that you leave safely.

3. Ask for help: There is no shame in asking for help.

Leaving an abusive relationship can be scary and lonely, so seeking out help and building a support network can help make things better. Many organizations can help you start over, look for a new home, organize your financials, search for a job, and so on.

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Q&A

Divide and conquer A one-on-one with Canadian author Marcello Di Cintio taouba khelifa news editor [Q&A] – Building walls to divide people may sound barbaric, but it is a phenomena that has withstood the age of time. To this day, nations continue to build walls that divide and separate lands, families, and villages. Fascinated by this historic, yet present-day practice, Calgary born and raised writer Marcello Di Cintio explores life behind the barriers in his newest book, Walls: Travels Along the Barricades. A graduate from the University of Calgary with a degree in microbiology and English, Di Cintio has turned the world into his laboratory, where he often travels to investigate the cultures and traditions around him. The Carillon spoke with the author about his latest book, and the building of these barriers.

The Carillon: What interested you about walls?

Di Cintio: I’ve been to Israel and Palestine in 1999, before the wall [was built]...But when I returned to the region in 2004 ... [I found a] 40-foot concrete barrier with a sign that said, ‘Peace Be With You’... and to me it was shocking.

I had read about the wall but to be standing in the face of it...it was really something else. After seeing that, I did a little bit of research, and Israel isn't the only one putting up these walls. We’ve been doing it forever, as a human species, and we’re doing it even more now. That last bit was interesting to me...We are supposed to be living in a high tech world there’s no walls to economics, no walls to communication, even [in] culture there’s no walls; the same songs we hear in Calgary we hear in Algiers. There’s no borders.

Even stuff that we fear, terrorism, is a borderless phenomena. Yet at the same time that we have all this digital borderlessness, we are building the most ancient, basic, and medieval structures.

The Carillon: Do you think these walls are more than physical barriers, but have a figurative meaning behind them?

Di Cintio: My first thought was that I was going to...write about what these walls meant. What was their figurative, symbolic meaning? Do these walls represent ancient hatred? Do they rep-

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resent racism? Do they represent fear? But, when I started to travel, I realized pretty quickly that for people who live in physical proximity to these things, the walls aren’t symbols. They’re walls.

They’re these physical barriers that separate them from where they want to be. Only us, standing so far away from them, have the luxury of talking of these things as symbols. For people they affect, they’re not symbols at all.

The Carillon: You make an interesting point in your book, differentiating between the word wall, and the word fence. Can you elaborate on this?

Di Cintio: I think naming is very important. For example, the East Germans, who built the Berlin Wall, it was illegal to call it a wall.

They called it the ‘anti-fascist protection bulwark,’ a very soviet, cold-war type of name. The Israelis don’t call their wall a wall, either. It’s a ‘separation barrier’ or ‘security fence.’ The word ‘wall’ suggests something villainous.

There’s something bad about a wall, and there’s something less bad about a fence. As I say in the book, a fence is a place that separates you from your neighbor, with white pickets, and you can lean over it and borrow a cup of sugar. The barriers that I went to write about, even when they’re not ... physically walls, behave as walls. They don’t let anyone go through. They are restrictive, and they are oppressive. The word fence does not encapsulate that.

The Carillon: Is there any resistance to these walls?

Di Cintio: I think it’s human nature to resist a wall. When we’re kids, we see a door that’s marked ‘Keep Out,’ and at the very least we’re going to touch the doorknob. We’re attracted to that idea.

I saw resistance all the time.

Whether it was orchestrated and organized resistance, especially in Palestine where you saw demonstrations against the wall, or whether it was on a very person to person level, where I met lots of people who somehow physically subverted their walls: the African guy who climbed over the barbwire fence, the Mexican woman who tunneled under through the sewage drainage pipes underneath the US-Mexico border, three men crossing a mine field in the Western Sahara. Those are the

greatest stories that I saw.

And then, the other one too, which I think is really interesting the artists who somehow subvert the walls, by transforming them into something else through art.

My favourite [is a] guy in Arizona who’s a musician, he plays the wall. He plays it with drumsticks, he bows the barbed wire with a cello bow, and he makes these weird recordings of what the wall sounds like. He says, ‘what I’m doing is kind of crazy ... but so is the wall itself.’

human compulsion seems to be to tear them down. In honour of those people who I’ve met who did do that – who subverted (the walls, or) who are working tirelessly to either take the walls down physically – because of them, the walls will eventually come down.

As long as those resisters are still out there, then those stories will continue to be told. All the places I’ve visited were sad

The Carillon: What was your experience like being inside these walled societies, but also having the opportunity to leave, and be walled out?

Di Cintio: The bulk of my focus was on the people who the wall was specifically built for.

However, if you look at the IsraeliWest Bank wall, for example, the Israelis who live far from the wall, which are most Israelis, they support it. They believe the wall is protecting them, it offers this sense of ‘security’.

I talked to this guy on the USMexico border – he lives right on the border, he sees people come over all the time – men, women, children, and he made this joke, and he says, ‘you have some lardass in Dubuque, Iowa who’s just watching TV and he sees a picture of this fence and thinks, ‘that’ll stop the migrants from coming.’ It might stop a fat slob like him, but not some motivated Mexican worker trying to come up.’

But, it struck me midway through these travels how, in a way, I was betraying the whole process - the fact that I could go through all these walls. As a Canadian, I was able to pass wherever I wanted to go ... I was taking it for granted, just kind of weaving back and forth throughout these lines, when the people who lived there either couldn’t physically do, or [were] absolutely terrified to do.

The Carillon: You make a beautiful point in the book saying, “Walls can’t stop stories from being told,” can you tell me more about this.

Di Cinitio: I didn’t know how to end the book; to be optimistic or pessimistic. Even though this seems to be a human compulsion, to build these [walls], the greater

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places, places of emotional and physical pain, but I was so inspired by those people working so hard to take those things down.

Those stories will get out.

Di Cintio will be visiting Regina on Feb. 26, 7 p.m. at the Artful Dodger to talk about his recent book.

a&c A night at the Notscars

A&C Editor: Paul Bogdan aandc@carillonregina.com the carillon | Feb. 14 - 27, 2013

The movies that really should be getting awards kyle leitch, paul bogdan, edward dodd the worst movie critics ever

It’s everyone’s favourite time of year to make a super big deal about something they probably won’t even watch because it’s actually pretty damn boring. That’s right, it’s time for the Oscars.

Every news outlet seems to have their predictions out, and we at the Carillon have made a list of the most award-worthy films of the past year. /PB

Best Disappearing Act in Hollywood: Rick Moranis Seriously, what the hell happened here? It seemed like only yesterday that we had Dark Helmet and Vinz Clortho. But those are fastfading memories of one of the most underrated comedians of all time. We miss you, Rick. /KL Most Anticipated Film of 2014: Arrested Development Does anyone else find it kind of ironic that, as a lead up to the feature-length film, the next season of Arrested Development is going to be released exclusively on Netflix this year? /KL Best Crazy Lady: Helena Bonham Carter Helena Bonham Carter wins the award for her role in Les Miserables by playing the only character she

seemingly knows how: in this case, Mme. Thénardier, but more generally, an insane and aloof female supporting role. You won your award; go do something else. /PB Best Foreign Actor: Tom Hardy What? This dude was actually speaking English? /KL Best Beard: Christoph Waltz This is more of a sentient being than an actual beard. /KL

Most Desperate for an Award: Daniel Day Lewis We get it, man. The Academy loves tragic historical figures. Take your statue and sit quietly while the grown-ups talk now. /KL Most Bad Movies Contained in One: Movie 43 This is as close to the Oscars as this thing’s ever going to get. /KL

Longest Time Between First & Last Film in a Franchise: Die Hard (1988-2013) If John McClane doesn’t die in this one, we riot. /KL A Throwaway Oscar for Quentin Tarantino: Ben Affleck Oh goddammit. /KL

We’re Sick of This Zombie Shit: Warm Bodies Seriously, can we move on from the zombie genre now? Pretty

please? /KL

Best Crossover Potential: Hotel Transylvania & Twilight A close second was Anna Karenina and Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters. /KL Best Original Screenplay: Zero Dark Thirty & Django Unchained (tie) Trololololol. /KL

Worst Parenting: Mama (from Mama) Killing folks, terrorizing homes, and being a general nuisance – this movie is the living embodiment of in-laws. /KL

Best Remake: Battleship This was a difficult decision, as we weren’t sure that Battleship constituted what we would call a “movie,” but we’ve been assured it did run in movie theatres.

Remaking our childhood board game into something people would willingly pay money to watch is no easy feat. /ED Best Superhero Movie: Lincoln Suck it, Evil Dr. Slavery. /PB

Best Documentary: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 48 frames/second breaks the barrier between looking like you’re actually there and literally having Gandalf slay goblins right in front of you. /PB

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Most so-Raven movie: The Raven This’s pretty Raven. /PB Biggest Lie in Film: We Have a Pope YOU LIARS. /PB

Devil Inside I get all warm and fuzzy inside when I see a good depiction of Lord Satan on screen. /KL

Best Depiction of Religion: The

Shot through the heart The most gruesome violence against the heart in film kyle leitch arts writer Isn’t Valentine’s Day great?

Spending time with your significant other, eating overpriced chocolate, smelling dyed roses that cost twice as much as they ordinarily would, and have half the shelf life – sorry, you’re single?

Well, disregard everything I just said. Valentine’s Day sucks.

You’re surrounded by sickeningly sweet couples amidst corny decorations of fat-assed angels with bows and arrows. Kinda makes you want to lash out against all things love, huh? Well, luckily, I’ve got you covered. In honour of your hatred of commercialized love, I bring you the seven most gruesome acts of violence committed against the human heart in the history of film. Grab some overpriced chocolate, and have some fun this Feb. 14. (Spoilers ahead – you’ve been warned).

Suspiria

This 1977 Italian exploitation film is usually more infamous for the final moments in which the head witch, Helena, is stabbed in the throat, causing her lair to erupt

into flames. What most people forget is the violent double-murder from the very onset of the film, in which the dancer, Pat Hingle, played by Eva Axen, is stabbed in the chest and then in the still-beating heart no less than a dozen times before she is pushed out of a window and hung. Yech.

The Big Lebowski

Kill Bill, Vol. II

The Bride (Uma Thurman) is finally face-to-face with Bill (David Carradine). After some tense words, Bill and the Bride have a pretty sweet-seated sword fight before the Bride delivers the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique. Now, the thought of your heart exploding in your chest is pretty horrifying, but it’s made worse by the nipple twister that makes up point number five.

Boogeyman II

If it weren’t for the popularity of the Saw franchise at this time, most people wouldn’t have seen this movie that Tobin Bell costarred in. Instead of a paranormal entity, the Boogeyman is nothing more than a serial killer in this sort-of sequel to the 2005 film.

In a particularly gory display, the

was, it still had some cool visuals, a lot of which seemed to influence Pan’s Labyrinth a few years later.

Amongst the cool visuals was the shish kebabing of a heart with a sword by the mental imagining of a Catholic schoolgirl. I couldn’t make up a scenario like that if I tried.

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Boogeyman stabs Darren (Michael Graziadei) in the chest with a wrist mounted rib-spreader, opens his chest, and removes his still-beating heart.

Full Metal Jacket

Stanley Kubrick’s film about the horrors of the Vietnam War is memorable for a lot of things. If you’ve ever seen the movie, you’ll remember a lot of those things involving Lee Ermey. In the final moments of the film, Vincent D’Onofrio’s character, Pyle, guns Ermey down with a high-powered rifle. The scene was shot in super slow motion, so you could enjoy every bloody spurt from the

gaping wound in Ermey’s chest.

Evilspeak

What’s the only thing more horrifyingly violent than having someone punch through your breast plate, and crush the still beating heart in front of your face? Clint Howard’s teeth, that’s what.

The Cell

Okay, let’s be honest: a lot of people probably used the tape from VHS copies of this film as emergency ass wipe instead of actually watching it. As bad as the movie

Now, this one isn’t on the list so much because of the actual heartviolence, but because of who the violence happens to. After Walter and the Dude fend off a trio of money-grubbing German nihilists in the parking lot of a bowling alley, mild-mannered Donny suffers a massive heart attack. In the words of the Stranger, “I didn't like seein' Donny go.”

Well, there you have it. If that’s not enough to make you feel at least a little bit better about being single this Valentine’s Day, then nothing will. Hop on Netfilx, and enjoy gratuitous amounts of mindless violence this Valentine’s Day. Failing that, I suppose you could always console yourself with overpriced chocolates and delicate roses.

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Hallmark Holiday Don’t let the pairs make you feel bad for being single i’m not angry kyle leitch arts writer Being that this issue happens to come out on Valentine’s Day, I thought that I might take a brief moment to speak to the following large corporations: Hallmark, Russell-Stover chocolates, and innumerable jewelry stores and fresh cut flower distributors around the world.

Saint Valentine is widely believed to be a third century Roman saint who was martyred on Feb. 14 in Via Flaminia in the north of Rome. Little else is known about Saint Valentine, like whether he is actually one saint, or two saints that share the same name. English antiquarians have even debated the origins of Saint Valentine’s Day as a holiday.

Alban Butler and Francis Douce, who realized that Saint Valentine is pretty damn obscure, suggested that Valentine’s Day was created as an attempt to take the place of the pagan holiday of Lupercalia – lord knows the Christian faith has never hijacked a holiday before.

It has only been since the High Middle Ages that Saint Valentine has been associated with the idea of “courtly” love at all.

Domnei, or the idea of courtly love, was a medieval European conception of the expression of

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Ugh, I hate love and happiness. adoration. Generally speaking, domnei was practised in secret, between members of the nobility, and almost never between a husband and wife. Again, because of the lack of documentation of its very existence, many historians even argue the existence of domnei at all. In fact, many historians believe that the idea of domnei is nothing more than a 19th century romantic invention.

I’ll leave a brief pause for all of

that information to sink in. Good?

All right. Now, Hallmark, RussellStover and jewelry and fresh cut flower distributors: given all of this information, what in the blazing blue hell does any of your over-priced, under-quality, massproduced, red-tinted schlock have to do with either the idea of Saint Valentine or courtly love, you thick headed, fat-assed, softpenised, gesticulating, neannitwits?!

Your derthal

commercials and products and endless advertisements make single folks feel bad for being single, and you make couples feel bad because neither person in the couple could ever attain the “perfect” idea of pseudo-love presented by your company and their “fine” products.

So, in short, all of you single swingers, hopeless romantics, and others suffering through this holiday: grab a burger, then snuggle

on the couch. Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music, and never forget that you come from a long line of truth-seekers, lovers, and warriors. And to all of those companies that take advantage of poor fools on this day, I hope that Cupid fires his arrows right through the middle of your twisted, black hearts. But I’m not angry. Honest.

Sexperts You’re probably not doing one elizabeth hames The Ubyssey VANCOUVER - There’s a perception among high school seniors and undergrads that anyone having regular sex is swimming in orgasms and euphoric sex hangovers. But, in the non-romcom world I like to call “reality,” sexual encounters during the teen years and early adulthood are often awkward, uncomfortable or forgettable.

That’s especially true on university campuses, where the majority of students have a sexual history dating back a couple of months at most. On average, Canadians trade in their v-card at around 17 years of age, and less than a third of those between the ages of 15 and 17 have had sex at least once, according to Statistics Canada. But by the time those teens reach college age (18 to 19 years old), about two-thirds report having had sex at least once.

Those numbers spike dramatically as students enter into young adulthood: approximately 80 per cent of 20 to 24 year-olds have had sex.

All these numbers suggest that the majority of students lose their virginity during their undergrad. So unless you’ve been in a relationship for a while, you’re probably not having sex with an expert. And the approximately two-thirds of boys between the ages of 14 and 17 who watch

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Number one sex tip: cut those god damn toe nails. Nothing kills a boner like getting scratched by an overgrown foot knife. pornography may have a slightly embellished view of what sex is like.

That being said, there’s a way to achieve more sexual gratification with even the greenest of undergrads: tell them what you want, and be specific.

Unless you’re having sex with a complete sociopath, most people get pretty turned on by a partner who can describe in explicit detail how they want to be fucked – especially during a heated bout of

foreplay. Moreover, sharing your own desires with your partner can encourage them to reciprocate, effectively making the experience all the more enjoyable for the both (or all) of you.

Following a study of 115 undergraduates, the study’s authors, Jennifer Montesi et. al., found that “being able to openly communicate with one’s partner is important for the development of intimacy … and sexual satisfaction.”

The study, which explored the effects of social anxiety on sexual satisfaction, concluded that talking openly with partners about “sexual topics” is the key to better sex for even the shyest of bedmates. As an added bonus, those who overcome their bashfulness in the bedroom may also find that their anxiety in other social situations is eased, say the study’s authors.

These conversations don’t necessarily have to include smut

speak, although that kind of language is certainly acceptable. It can be as scientific or erotic as you want, but the most important thing is to be clear. Ambiguity may just lead your partner astray and could cause some very awkward moments.

Also, it’s important to understand that sexual expertise is quite a sensitive topic for most young people; everyone wants to be a sexual champion, though few are.

Choose your words carefully and make sure you don’t seem accusatory or disappointed.

Precise phrases like, "I like it when you touch my __" or "It feels good when you do 'x' with your 'y' are a lot more effective than, “Ew, that’s so irritating,” or “I’m never going to come if you keep doing that.” And although it can be tempting to slap someone who’s poking your sexy parts like an elevator dashboard, try to restrain yourself.

For some people, even saying the words “stroke” or “lick” out loud can be anxiety-inducing. But you can always show if you can’t tell. Demonstrate on yourself the way you want to be touched, or alternatively, guide their hand with your own.

Lastly, remember that it’s near impossible to teach someone a subject you know nothing about.

Take some time during study breaks to fool around solo and learn what areas of your body are most pleasure inducing.

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Don’t be that guy Being nice isn’t a get-into-bed-free card ryan bromsgrove

Arts Radar Feb. 15 Pass the Hat The Club Donations Doors at 8 Feb. 16 Rah Rah w/Dan Crozier The Mercury $10 at the door Doors at 8 Chic Gamine The Artesian $15 adv/$20 door Doors at 7 Enslaved, Pallbearer, Ancient VVisdom, and Royal Thunder The Exchange $20 advance Doors at 7 Feb. 21 JJ Voss w/Shandee Noble The Artful Dodger $10 adv/$15 door Show at 8 Feb. 22 Sarah Slean The Artesian $32 adv/$37 door Doors at 7 Justin Rutledge The Exchange $15 advance Doors at 8 Feb. 23 Lunacy, This Dog Must Die, and Electric Mother The Exchange $10 advance Doors at 8 Contaminate, Backlash, Rebuild/Repair, and FPG The Exchange $10 at the door Doors at 8 Feb. 26 Cécile Doo-Klingué Creative City Centre $10 at the door Doors at 7:30 Feb. 27 Zachary Lucky w/Danny Goertz The Club $10 at the door Doors at 7:30

The Gateway EDMONTON - This is an open letter to all the self-described “nice guys” out there, and one that I can sum up in three words: knock it off.

You know the type. They’re always that shoulder to cry on.

They’re always there to listen.

Their heart is five-sizes bigger than other guys’, but gosh darnit, they always end up in the dreaded “friend-zone” because girls are dumb and only date assholes. These guys then complain about how much of a bitch that girl is for not reciprocating their feelings. We all know at least a few people who seem to be stuck in the zone.

No. Just no. The “friend-zone” is nothing but an invention of the nice guy to explain why he doesn’t get the sex he (wrongly) feels he’s entitled to.

Unfortunately, what these nice guys don’t understand is that you’re not actually entitled to coitus. In order to embark upon the adventure of having a sexual relationship with a partner, it’s not enough to just be nice. Your personalities have to click on a deeper level than simply “I keep bringing you roses – why aren’t we fucking?”. Reciprocated sexual attraction helps too.

Basically, what you need to understand is that girls are more than simply objects you’re entitled to fuck after meeting a certain degree of niceness. You don’t get to just fill in a checklist.

Bought her dinner? Check.

Listened to her complain about her ex? Check. Held her hair while she drunk-vomited all over your car? Check. Achievement Unlocked: Right to Fuck.

What you need to understand is that women are human beings capable of deciding for themselves who they’re going to have sex with. You’re not trapped in the “friend-zone” – like having a friend is such a terrible thing anyway – you’re just not compatible enough with the girl for a relationship. And that’s just for now, too. There are plenty of times when good friends turn into something more.

And you know what? If you really, truly are a nice guy, and you’ve been there for some girl for all her life, and she does, genuinely, exclusively date bona-fide assholes, then her judgment sucks and she actually doesn’t deserve you.

But, that’s giving most of these “nice guys” way too much credit.

Thanks to the Nice Guys of OKCupid Tumblr, we can actually get a glimpse into the minds of these poor, misunderstood gentlemen. They complain about girls never sleeping with them despite how nice they are, while also espousing such opinions as yes, women must always shave, and yes, there are situations where a woman is obligated to have sex with you.

If you’re a nice guy permanently stuck in the friend-zone, take a good hard look at yourself and your attitude towards women. The problem is not that women won’t date you; the problem is that you are a misogynistic human being hiding behind an invented excuse as to why you aren’t getting sex you feel entitled to.

And if a woman wants to be your friend despite your dehumanizing opinion of her, count yourself lucky.

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Yeah, fuck you man.

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On the brink of a déjà vu High HIV rates in the province leave many demanding harm reduction strategies taouba khelifa news editor Saskatchewan doesn’t rank first in many things, but studies show that we have the highest HIV rates in all of Canada – and the number is growing.

According to the Ministry of Health, the province reported 186 cases of HIV in 2011, up eight per cent from 2010. On average, 2011 saw an estimated 19.6 HIV cases per 100,000 individuals in Saskatchewan. The national average that year was 7.6 cases per 100,000 Canadians.

HIV can spread through blood-to-blood contact. One of the most reported risk exposures to the virus is through sharing of needles and other drug paraphernalia that has contacted blood.

About 76 per cent of HIV cases in 2011 reported injection drug use as their main exposure to the virus.

While these numbers are shockingly high, many question what can be done to reduce HIV rates amongst drug users in the province. Harm reduction strategies, some say, may be the answer.

Harm reduction, or harm minimization, refers to public health policies that are designed to reduce the harmful consequences of high-risk activities, such as drug use. These policies are aimed at reducing harm for both the drug user and the overall community.

As part of the Faculty of Arts annual Woodrow Lloyd lecture series, Vancouver-based activist and community organizer, Ann Livingston, spoke to a Regina audience on Wednesday Feb. 6 about her work in bringing and implementing harm reduction strategies to Vancouver, and the effect that this has had in building solidarity with drug users in the area.

Lloyd Legacy

The Woodrow Lloyd lecture series is an annual event hosted every winter by the University.

Aimed at bringing the campus and community together, the series features a national or international scholar, writer, thinker or activist who speaks on current social and community issues relevant to Saskatchewan.

A former provincial Premier and Minister of Education, Lloyd played a formative role in developing Saskatchewan’s education system, and was an important individual in establishing the Regina Campus on College Avenue. Throughout his life, Lloyd believed that university and education held an important role in creating social change and

healthy communities. The annual lecture series celebrates this idea, allowing Lloyd’s legacy to live on.

Despite the series’ success, however, many academics and community members have been disappointed with the speakers chosen for the lectures in the past two years.

“If we’re thinking of the legacy of [Lloyd], it should be somebody that’s working in the area of education, public health, social justice. Those should be the things that that person is doing. It shouldn’t be anyone who is engaged in hate mongering, or anybody who is engaged in hate speech. It should be somebody who speaks with the community, not speaks at or about other communities,” explained U of R professor Michelle Stewart.

Last year, committee members invited Canadian academic Margaret Somerville to speak on the role of health care and religion. Known for her controversial stance against abortion, and strong opposition to same-sex marriage, many felt that Somerville did little justice in creating the healthy community the lecture series promoted. Prior to this, the committee invited Canadian politician Preston Manning, best known as the founder of the Reform Party, which later merged into today’s Conservative Party of Canada.

“He isn’t oriented towards social justice ... and his mandate, as far as I can tell, is certainly not grassroots in terms of community.

It’s a top-down approach,” University professor Darlene Juschka said, referring to Manning. “This isn’t just any old speaker series. This actually has a very definite focus, and that focus is community and well-being of the community. Health and social justice themes are big aspects of that.”

Disappointed in how the lecture series evolved over the past two years, Stewart and Juschka decided to join the organizing committee in 2012, in hopes of reestablishing the true purpose of the series. After consulting with faculty members, Livingston was chosen as the 2013 Woodrow Lloyd lecturer.

VANDU

As a co-founder of the grassroots group Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU), Livingston has dedicated a majority of her life working to improve health care for people who use illegal drugs on a local, regional and national level. Her work in advocating for policies that can empower drug users to seek their rights as citizens has not been

VANDU

VANDU works to help end the high number of deaths caused by intravenous drug use. easy, but for Livingston, doing something was better than watching Vancouver's HIV rates skyrocket, and seeing drug users overdose daily. Action was needed, and harm reduction strategies helped mobilize the community to push for better healthcare for drug users.

While Vancouver and Regina may be many miles away, Regina is currently on the edge of a déjà vu – what was once an HIV epidemic in Vancouver has now become an HIV epidemic in the Queen City.

HIV rates became a major concern for British Colombia in

1997, when death rates from the virus went up to 350 deaths per year. Seeing a dormant provincial government, Livingston and other local community members formed VANDU and began engaging in civil disobedience by providing drug users with clean

the carillon | Feb. 14 - 27, 2013 needles, or creating spaces for the safe injection and use of drugs. “[Civil disobedience is] more like ignoring the law, and taking action to save the lives of your neighbors and friends,” explained Livingston. “I think that people do this because there’s an obvious fundamental justice that’s being violated, and there really are well researched life-saving health initiatives that they know about that could be implemented, [but] are being withheld from people, who then are damaged or die as a result.”

Instead of a top-down approach, where the government or privileged individuals control the organization, VANDU operates through a very grassroots bottomup approach. The group is made up of a general membership of close to 2,000 Vancouver area drug users, and is operated based on the recommendations and needs of this general membership.

“This method will always work [because] the actions are owned by the actual victims of the social inequality, and not made up by more privileged organizers who are puzzled that the oppressed are not eager to march in their parade,” said Livingston.

Through this model, the users are able to take charge and create the programs they believe will help them, and fight for the rights and policies they want to see implemented.

With the collective work of the user groups, British Columbia was able to see the rate of new HIV diagnoses decrease in 2011, reaching the lowest point they have ever been at 6.3 cases per 100,000 population. A main impetus for the decrease has been credited to the decline in new diagnoses among injection drug users.

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That’s not the case. People just don’t understand harm reduction... so there’s misconceptions about it,” Slywka explained.

For instance, a 2012 survey conducted by the University of Saskatchewan titled “Taking the Pulse” asked Saskatchewan residents if they felt that HIV/AIDS was a problem in the community.

Of the 1,750 respondents, 60 per cent of individuals disagreed that the province had an HIV problem.

Ignorance may be bliss, but as HIV rates in Saskatchewan continue to increase. Slywka says education is key to mobilizing individuals and creating a change.

VANDU, she points, is a great example of an organization that this province can learn from.

Misconceptions

Opposition towards harm reduction programs is not just a Saskatchewan problem.

Livingston noted that VANDU experienced similar forms of resistance, and continues to face

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Saskatchewan and HIV

With an increasing number of HIV cases in the province, Alicia Slywka, education and outreach coordinator at AIDS Program South Saskatchewan (APSS), says not only is HIV a huge issue, but Saskatchewan is far behind the other provinces in funding and applying grassroots harm reduction strategies.

“Saskatchewan has the highest rates of HIV right now in Canada. We have double the national average.

I think Saskatchewan is very far behind other provinces, and behind BC, and there’s a lot that we can do to improve it. Yes, our programs are good, but I still think there’s a whole bunch that needs to be done in order for things to be reversed, and for HIV rates to go down,” Slywka said.

Currently, APSS runs a needle exchange program through their office and the Regina Public Health Region. The program provides clean needles to drug users, reducing the risk of users sharing needles, or injecting with dirty syringes. While the needle exchange program is one harm reduction strategy in Regina, Slywka says public ignorance and lack of education has led to a lot of opposition.

“There is harm reduction programs happening, but there’s huge resistance to them in Saskatchewan...The government does not like us [and] there’s some pretty vocal people that don’t like us as well ... [Some say that] harm reduction and providing people with needles puts more needles

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resistance, both from authority figures and from the public.

One place this resistance and ignorance stems from, says Livingston, is the failure of the media to portray drug users in a positive and honest light.

“We have to realize is that we have been insanely brainwashed.

I don’t watch TV much now, but they always show the clever, wonderful detective grabs this conniving, skinny, roughed up junkie, and slams him against the wall, and asks him for information.

Then, he’ll sell out all his friends.

We’ve had this ingrained into us,” she said.

Instead of creating these negative narratives, Livingston suggests a lesson in open-mindedness, and a course in testing personal perceptions.

“It’s kind of surprising and shocking to people that drug users have the right to obtain, prepare, and ingest drugs. But, if this sentence bothers you, you can say ‘the right to obtain, prepare and ingest wine,’ and you can see it’s a perfectly logical and normal sentence if you use wine. So, if the drug thing bothers you, you’ll

have to get over it,” challenged Livingston.

Beyond just [challenging] these negative narratives, she points that the VANDU model allows for drug users to gain autonomy, and share their stories and lives with society at large. Instead of media and governments creating the narratives of the drug user, the users are able to write their own personal narratives.

“It’s such a privilege to work with people who have such an isolated life. They’re extremely vulnerable, and they let me be a part of their life. To see their courage, most people would be weeping at the thought of trying to get through one of the days that they face. It is rough. I have a lot of admiration and I put that forward to them, and it goes a long way to treat people,” Livingston said.

Resisting the Resistance

While Livingston has been advocating for more social acceptance and public understanding around drug use and harm reduction strategies, she says the biggest

barrier to success has been the law.

Instead of treating the HIV rate and drug problem in the province as a public health issue, British Columbia, like Saskatchewan, continues to treat the problem as a legal issue.

Law enforcement in Vancouver has been going on a ticketing frenzy, says Livingston, giving tickets to users for the most minor offenses - from jaywalking to expired bus tickets. Even worse, she says, the province has started building private prisons, the “new homes for the poor.”

“We did experiment with private prisons in Ontario once, and they found that the recidivism and the cost effectiveness was poor, but now we’re going fullblown back to it. I think it’s just meant for some billionaires to make some more billions,” argued Livingston.

But, building private prisons and declaring a war on drugs is not the answer, Livingston explains. Most drug users in jail are there because of minor procedural offenses - failure to appear in court, breach of probation - and not because of serious criminal

charges. Instead of locking users up, Livingston calls on communities to challenge the public discourse, and work towards patiently treating drug users instead.

“The prison system is not about public safety. This whole idea of dehumanizing people and saying that we have so much crime...the drug war is used as a way to jail people...The irony of it is if you take people and destroy their family life, and their fabric.

These are the kinds of damages that cause the roots of addiction,” she said.

Resisting the resistance, a motto that Livingston lives by, revives the purpose and legacy of the Woodrow Lloyd lecture series.

At the 1951 Canadian Education Association Convention, Lloyd said that, “Education needs courage. The very fact that education, if it is vital, leads to purposeful change, indicates the need for courage on the part of those who lead, because even purposeful change is always opposed. It is opposed by those who do not understand.”

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ROUNDTABLE

Say good-bye, and good riddance to fifth-years

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All three of the hot pink jersey girls won’t be here next year. Dang.

braden dupuis, paige kreutzwieser, kris klein, autumn mcdowell this week’s roundtable

Many fifth-year athletes are playing in their final games as Cougars. Out of the graduating players, who do you think is most likely to return as a future coach at the U of R?

Dupuis: My God. I’m so fucking glad it’s almost reading week. Just when things are starting to pile up and I’m about ready to bash my head in with a brick, the clouds part and there is a ray of hope. I love you reading week.

Can’t wait to get my read on.

Kreutzwieser: I should give a disclaimer – this consisted of me going on the internet and finding out what fifth-year students are in the faculty of Kinesiology. Therefore, I have come to the not-so-educated conclusion that Paige Wheeler might stick around.

Klein: Look how many times have I told you I don’t go to Cougar games thus I don’t know any of the players! Some people just don’t listen these days.

McDowell: I could picture Russ Nielsen coaching the men’s hockey team in the future. He has all of the qualities that make a good coach: leadership, skill, mustache, drinking ability, and he’s definitely old enough.

Would you be in favour of getting a hockey rink on campus? If yes, would you be willing to take a tuition increase to pay for it?

Dupuis: Yeah, sure. Why not?

This university’s already got nineand-a-half fingers up my wallet’s butt; might as well make it an even 10. But, seriously you guys, we’re so close to reading week I can taste it. In my mind I’m already eating home-cooked meals in my underwear and ignoring my dad’s drunken ramblings about his new boat.

Kreutzwieser: Not overly if it means I have to pay more in tuition. I’d rather pitch in money to help our faculties that are actually in dire need of financial support.

However, that being said, for a curling rink with a bar I would.

Klein: Yes, yes, yes and no, no, no. Look, I pay enough for my schooling already. I could just easily get an ATV with a blow and a hose and go soak the green. Boom problem solved.

McDowell: I can confidently say that I would live there. Seriously, I would spend an ample amount of time in that rink, and at the bar that they plan to attach; I hear the working title is “Cougar Town”.

That sounds wonderful. Not to mention, I bet more than five fans would come to the games, since residence kids have nothing better to do than walk five steps from their incredibly small, horrible smelling apartments to enjoy some puck.

Do you think the Regina Pats can make a miraculous run at the playoffs this year, or will it be another early summer?

Dupuis: Don’t you hate it when your profs assign a whole shitload of homework due right after reading week? Isn’t that just the

worst? As if I wanted to spend reading week fucking reading.

Am I right, bros? I just want to wheel broads and catch big air and celly hard while I snort drugs with all my sweet bros. #coolguy #brolife #brolo Kreutzwieser: Does Jordan Eberle still play for them? I kid.

Klein: You’re funny. I like you, but your crazy.

McDowell: I can confidently say that it will be another early season exit for the Blue and White. I wish I could say that Regina would be getting playoff action for the second year in a row, but the Pats have been bitten by the injury bug over and over this season, and I think it’s going to be too late to recover now. Please God, let them not be mathematically eliminated early … again.

With a shortened season, who is your dark horse to win the Stanley Cup this year?

Dupuis: Isn’t reading week just the greatest? I like it so much, I’m considering just going on a permanent reading week. I could just live in my parents’ basement and eat home-cooked meals in my underwear for the rest of my life and listen to my dad’s drunken ram-

blings about – oh God kill me now.

Kreutzwieser: I’ve failed massively on my resolution to watch the NHL, and after realizing that San Fran doesn’t have an NHL team, so I can’t jump on that city’s 2012-13 pro sports team band wagon, I’m going to go with the Bruins. Are they even considered a dark horse?

Klein: The Calgary Flames. No but seriously it could be the Leafs .... Ha, sorry, I couldn’t keep it together.

McDowell: I’m going to take the Tampa Bay Lightning as my dark horse this year. Some of you are probably bitching right now about how Tampa is third in the Eastern Conference so they can’t be a dark horse. Well, let me tell you something imaginary people that I am arguing with. Tampa Bay didn’t even make the playoffs last year, so STFU. If you could make any professional athlete your Valentine this year, who would you pick and why?

Dupuis: Kobe Bryant and Ben Roethlisberger team up to star in this year’s must-see rom-com adventure, “Mandatory Valentines.”

When both stars are convicted of less-than-noble crimes, their punishment is that they have to get married...to each other! This Valentine’s Day, Kobe and Ben are finding out the hard way the true meaning of “taking one for the team.” Rated NC-17.

Kreutzwieser: If you would have asked me when I was 13, I would have said Mike Bibby (embarrassing) and about 3 years ago it would have been Derek Jeter (equally as embarrassing). But today, on a whole different criteria, I'll choose Joe Mauer - he's attractive and I'm single.

Klein: Ben Scrivens!

McDowell: Okay, this isn’t an athlete, but since I made up the question, I can say whatever I God damn want as the answer, so I pick John Tortorella. I would really like to go toe-to-toe with him, and I’m convinced that I am the one media person in the world he couldn’t get mad at. And if he’s not available, Sidney Crosby.

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Male Vs. Female A look at gender inequality in university coaching positions autumn mcdowell sports editor In an unofficial report conducted by the Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) on Jan. 25, 2013, which looked at staff directories from all 54 universities included under the CIS roster, out of 480 head coaches, 408 of them were male.

While most people would say that the dramatic numbers speak for themselves, and that the issue of gender inequality at universitylevel coaching positions is black and white, not everyone feels the same way.

“I would not agree with the statement that there is gender inequality in coaching positions at the CIS level,” said Tom Huisman, CIS Director of Operations and Development. “That might be equivalent to saying there is gender inequality in elementary school teacher positions. It might be a bit misleading of a statement.”

However, statistics don’t lie, and the disparities become even more glaring when examining male teams with female coaches.

According to the same report, out of the 72 coaching positions held by women in CIS, there are only two female head coaches of men’s sports teams. Still, people are skeptical.

“I don’t know if I can qualify it as an issue,” said Michel Belanger, CIS Manager, Communications and Media Relations. “However, looking at numbers, it’s hard to argue that there is, indeed, an inequality between the number of male and female head coaches in CIS.” With just 11 per cent of head coaching positions currently held by females in the CIS, there have been many hypotheses as to why the statistics are so low. One common idea is that female candidates are simply not as qualified to coach at university as men are.

“Do women have an equal opportunity to those coaching positions? I believe the answer is yes,” said Huisman. “Are there equal numbers of qualified female candidates applying for CIS coaching positions as men? I believe the answer is no.”

Although there are no rules that discourage women from applying for university coaching positions, Larena Hoeber, a Kinesiology Professor at the University of Regina, believes that there are a variety of reasons for the deflated presence of female coaches in universities.

“Part of it is about gender ideas about leadership,” Hoeber said. “Part of it is assumptions about who is more qualified and recognizing the assumption that, although I don’t necessarily agree with this, but the assumption that men would have more opportunities to be involved in sport, and be more knowledgeable technically.”

When the University of Regina’s men’s hockey team was hiring a new head coach last spring, out of 36 applicants, zero females applied.

Even if a female were to have applied for the position, while theoretically she would have been considered for the position, the

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odds of her actually securing that job are unfortunately slim.

“In reality, there is no female that I know that is working at a high enough level to get that position,” said Dick White, Athletics Director at the U of R, and member of the coaching search committee for men’s hockey.

Anytime a university decides to select a female to be the head coach of a men’s team – a situation that is considered a “tough decision” – both the school, and the new coach have to be prepared for backlash, something that Hoeber believes may keep women from even applying for coaching positions in the first place.

“I think that in some cases, I don’t know how many women feel like putting their name in the hat for that,” she said. “So, not to say that they’re not interested in coaching, but I think there is a self-selection going on beforehand to say, ‘it’s not worth it,’ or ‘I won’t get it.’”

Not only do knowledge, experience, and self-doubt play a role in the coaching selection process, but Hoeber also says gender roles may also be a determining factor during hiring.

“Clearly, there is also an issue about the domestic responsibilities and how it is very difficult if you are female and taking on a leadership role like that, that if you do have kids – and not everyone does – when you coach, the practices often conflict with that,” she said. “Men, for the most part, I don’t want to paint an entire brush with that, but they have someone, usually, who takes care of the kids so they don’t have to make that tough choice.”

Huisman, who has been admittedly critical about the suggested issue of gender inequality, has his own ideas on what distinguishes male and female applicants during the hiring process.

“Rather than view the issue strictly on the basis of the current coaching demographic, which

would be a fairly narrow view, one must also look at the pool of candidates available,” he said.

“Much work and research on this has been conducted by groups like the Coaching Association of Canada, including the demands and requirements of being a professional coach, which can explain some of the disparity in the number of female coaches relative to male coaches.”

While no one seems to agree on the specific cause for such drastic disparity between male and female coaches, it should come as no surprise that everyone has different ideas when it comes to a solution to both attract and recruit more females to university coaching positions.

But for White, the solution begins with increasing female qualifications.

“It starts in the developmental process, not at the highest level,” said White, who served as the CIS President from 2007-09. “One of our biggest problems that we have at the CIS level, and I have experienced it [at the U of R] as well, is that if we post a position for a women’s team, we don’t get anywhere near enough qualified female applicants.”

White believes that one solution may be to place a greater emphasis on developing females at the assistant coach position, so that they gain valuable experience and eventually compete with men who apply for the same positions.

“Our female athletes have made it very clear to us that they want us to hire the best and most qualified coach available, male or female,” White continued. “We have had many good women’s coaches, but there is really a lacking of qualified applicants, as far as experience when it comes to hiring for a women’s team, we need to create more qualified women.”

Hoeber also suggests that speaking with current athletes, and implementing the possibility of future coaching positions early

on can help minimize the discrepancies over time. However, while this may be a step in the right direction, it’s not a perfect plan.

“Sometimes, part of the problem is that we tell male students or athletes to think about [coaching], but I don’t think they do that as much with female athletes,” she said. “There is a women in coaching program set up through the National Coaching Association to try and get more women to be mentored with other coaches, there are things out there, but at the local level it is challenging.”

Even with increases in female qualifications and coaching programs, Hoeber is skeptical that the results would be anything significant.

“I don’t think it would make massive differences because I still think if a female thought about going into coaching she is still going to face the issue of feeling like perhaps at the hiring process maybe she isn’t qualified enough, is she going to be accepted and having to make tough decisions about kids? It’s coming, but it is not massive changes. In coaching we don’t have a lot of visible, high profile women in those positions,” she said.

While some people, including Huisman, still believe that regardless of the statistics, the CIS is a place where gender equality is encouraged. But when the numbers are separated by such extreme amounts, unless something drastic is done, the possibility for future changes in coaching positions looks grim.

“I believe CIS institutions are among the leaders in Canada for providing support and employment opportunities for female coaches,” said Huisman. “Can CIS as a collective do more in that regard? In this and many other areas, the answer is yes.”

“ I would not agree with the statement that there is gender inequality in coaching positions at the CIS level. That might be equivalent to saying there is gender inequality in elementary school teacher positions. It might be a bit misleading of a statement.”

Tom Huisman

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Rink referendum revisited Still hope for University of Regina campus rink

What do you think about a hockey rink on campus?

“I think if there was a rink on campus that would be awesome. I play a lot of Hockey on my own. I would definitely support it.”

Ronnie Later

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I would live there if I could.

braden dupuis sports writer Nearly seven years after the project was stalled due to a student referendum, a campus rink at the University of Regina remains high on the list of administrative priorities.

“It’s one of those projects everybody agrees would be a great idea and we’d really like to do it,” said Craig Chamberlin, dean of the Faculty of Kinesiology and Health Studies. “But you know, when they decide on the capital priorities, we fall behind a little bit right now with the College Avenue campus and the new residences being seen as higher priorities, but it’s definitely on the list. It hasn’t dropped off the radar at all.”

In 2006, students voted against a $15-per-semester fee increase to help fund the project, with 63.4 per cent of students saying no to the proposed increase.

The project has been in the works for more than a decade now, with plans drawn up and informal commitments to move forward in place, but nothing being set in stone.

“When I first came here – and I’ve been here 11 years now – we were very close at that point in time,” Chamberlin said. “We did a fair amount of planning using the company that built the CKHS, and so it’s all sitting there ready to go...we’ve kept those plans, and the concept has not really changed – a two-sheet rink with about 1,500 seats for spectators, [and] multiple changing rooms and facilities.”

The proposed designs, to be built on “Field 5,” between the CKHS and the tennis courts, would also include a student lounge or a “restaurant/bar like facility in between the two sheets of ice,” Chamberlin said.

But, of course, the project cannot move forward without the proper funding in place, or as Chamberlin puts it, half-jokingly, “somebody to come along with 25 to 30 million dollars.”

“I mean, really that is it,” he said. “There’s nobody around here saying absolutely you can’t move forward with it, but you

know, we can’t move forward until we have the money to do it.”

And since the students voted against an increase in student fees to help fund the project, the administration has been left to explore other avenues, with little success to this point.

“The referendum came and went and the students were clear that they didn’t want a fee put on, so after that referendum I spent a bit of time checking into alternative ways of funding, and haven’t come up with anything useful at this time,” Chamberlin said. “If the students came to me and said you know what, we’d love to support this and such, I’d be thrilled to hear that, but we take the results of the referendum seriously, and said OK, we’ve got to look at alternatives, and that’s what we’ve been doing.”

According to U of R Student’s Union President Nathan Sgrazzutti, there has always been a bit of conversation among URSU executives about the possibility of pursuing an on-campus rink, and if there was enough student support for the project, a second referendum could be a possibility.

“We can technically referendum for anything,” Sgrazzutti said. “The decision then lies in the students’ hands as it is up to them if the project is to be initiated. If there is student support, I will be obligated to offer up the request for financial aid to the project.”

But in today’s stringent financial climate, Sgrazzutti realizes that asking cash-strapped students to pay for capital projects may not be the fairest of propositions.

“Students have and always will have tight budgets,” he said.

“Asking constantly for more money from them does not bode well, especially during the university-wide ‘belt-tightening’ that is going on.”

Currently, the U of R rents space at the Co-operators Centre, including changing rooms, offices for the coaches and even a weight room.

While Chamberlin said the partnership between the university and the Co-op has been great to this point, the lack of an oncampus facility presents a major

drawback for Cougars hockey.

“It still disadvantages the student athletes having to be off campus, not being able to connect in with the things we do here in terms of training and such, and it keeps the coaches away from campus a fair amount as well,” he said. “[The Co-op Centre] has been very good to us in terms of providing a schedule that we could live with, but it would be really nice to be able to sort of map out your own practice times and game schedule... without that control, there’s always a worry.”

Both women’s hockey coach Sarah Hodges and men’s coach Todd Johnson agreed that it would be beneficial for their teams to have an on-campus facility.

“Oh absolutely,” Johnson said, noting that one of the biggest benefits may be an increase in fan support. “You have the dorms that are right there, the majority of student housing is all around the university, and you know, if it’s walkable to go to a hockey game instead of driving or taking any kind of transit, it’s just easier, and I think the support would be higher.”

It would also help in ensuring his players make it to practice on time, Johnson said.

“Practice always is between four and six, and some guys have class until four o’ clock, so obviously they show up late,” he said.

“As a coach, sometimes it’s frus-

trating that players are late because of that, but those are things we can’t control, and obviously if a rink was on campus that would be something that we wouldn’t have to deal with.”

Both coaches also noted that having an on-campus facility might help attract new recruits to the school’s hockey programs, both of which seem to be making strides towards improvement.

But in the end it all comes down to the financials, to which Chamberlin is certain the University won’t be able to do on its own.

“My guess, it would be a partnership kind of approach to it,” he said. “Perhaps a public/private type partnership or something like that, or the city and ourselves and the provincial government moving forward. Something like that would really make this go.”

While it’s been nothing but informal talks and hopeful optimism to this point, Chamberlin is confident that the project could break ground within the next five years.

“Right now, the priority really is the College Avenue campus and the new residence, which is very important to this university, and very important to the students as “I hope the rink well,” he said. is not far behind those projects, and one that we can move forward on fairly quickly.”

“ It’s one of those projects everybody agrees would be a great idea and we’d really like to do it.”

Craig Chamberlin

“I would not support it, because I would never use it. I think it would be a waste of my money. I think the majority of students here wouldn’t get any use out of a hockey rink. It is $15 that I could spend towards other things, like lunch at The Owl.”

Eric Bell

“I would support it because we already pay fees for the FLC (Fitness and Lifestyle Centre) and it would just be another activity, and we would have intermural hockey as well. And it would all be here on campus, and it would be easier to get more fans here I think.”

Shalane Haselhan

“It totally depends of the variables and how much it would cost. But in terms of just the idea of having a rink on campus I think that would be a great idea. It depends on how much it will cost, but I think that if it is like $5 a semester then yeah, sure.”

Kate Nimegeers

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Track domination Cougars continue impressive competition season paige kreutzwieser contributor Capping off their regular season, the University of Regina track team dominated once again last at the Regina weekend Fieldhouse.

Rookie Joy Becker is a perfect example of how the Cougars have been a force to reckon with all season, and this weekend was no different.

With a 5.95 metre long jump, Becker took home first place, while also crushing the CIS standard of 5.73 metres – the distance needed to qualify for Nationals.

Becker’s longest jump prior in the season was 5.67 metres. Not only did she jump almost 30 cm more, she was only 1 cm short of the 5.96 metre Cougars record.

On top of all of that, she also had a personal best this weekend in the 60-metre sprint with a time of 7.90 seconds – an event that she hasn’t focused on this season, but due to injuries on the team, coach Bruce McCannel suggested she run.

Fresh out of high school, the university athletic atmosphere was unfamiliar for Becker, but the increased training regime and new indoor environment have only helped her improve. Becker attributes her family, friends and teammates to much of her success.

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“It was just such a good vibe this weekend, so it helped being in that energy,” she said.

Alongside Becker, Lex Ewen (long jump), Chantelle Labrecque (weight throw), Shelby Sander (triple jump) are all Cougars who recorded season bests in their events at the Fieldhouse as well as season best times for three 60-metre hurdles athletes – Ian

McLellan, Dustin Steininger and Kaishan Aravinthan.

If you didn’t think that list is already long enough, add Matt Johnson, third-year runner on the team, to the record breaking list this season.

Not only did he break the U of R 1,500-metre record at the Golden Bear meet in Edmonton with a time of 3:57.61, he bested

himself by shaving off some time with a 3:57.06 at Bison Classic in Winnipeg.

However, Johnson feels his glory will be short lived when fellow runner, Kelly Wiebe, takes to the track at the Canada West Championships in the 1,500 metre.

“It's kind of the reality,” he said. “Kelly is on a whole different

level than everyone else. He is a world class athlete.”

Nevertheless, Johnson is pleased with his performances this season and is ready to place second behind Wiebe in the 1,500, and to hit the CIS standard for the 3,000-metre as well.

“I've been very happy. Things have been going exactly how I have been planning and wanting them to go,” explained Johnson, who came off an injury ridden cross country season.

Like Becker, Johnson gives praise to his teammates for much of his success this season.

“Having [Adam Strubey] on the team brought everything to a whole different level, which really helped my training,” he said.

“Just having someone who pushes you that extra little bit has been a highlight of my season.”

The Cougars have the fortune of hosting the Canada West games this Championship February, from the 22-23 at the Regina Fieldhouse.

This is an excellent opportunity for our student body to go out and support one of our most successful teams on campus. And, judging by the season our track and field athletes have been having thus far, you’re sure to experience some high-class performances.

Dead on arrival: Rivalries I just want guaranteed entertainment, that’s all what the puck? autumn mcdowell sports editor

Whether it’s Bruins vs. Canadians, Crosby vs. Ovechkin, or Pats Vs. Warriors, rivalries are an essential part of hockey. Or at least, they used to be.

What happened to the days when you would look forward to the back and forth, high scoring, blood shedding battle between rivals? God, I miss those days.

The closest thing we have to a rivalry as of late is everyone in the world vs. the Leafs, and even that one is getting old because the Toronto is somehow doing good this year. In fact, I recently saw a Toronto fan sporting a hideous Kessel jersey, walking the streets of downtown Regina, without the bag over their head. In the words of Gord Miller, “Can you believe it?”

Hockey fans used to mark the days on the calendar when the Bruins and Canadians would square off in an epic original six battle, now all we have is a 2-1 game with no fights and little action – literally, that was the game story from Feb. 6 when the two teams squared off. Check it if you don’t believe me.

Even the player battles are seemingly non-existent. The Crosby vs. Ovechkin rivalry that was in full force five years ago is

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Everyone loves hockey fights. Everyone. all but extinct now. Seriously, can you even call it a rivalry anymore?

Crosby has the Olympic Gold and the Stanley Cup rings in his repertoire. Ovechkin did win the Calder Memorial Trophy for top rookie back in 2005 when the two entered the league during the same year due to the lockout, which still haunts me to this day, but what have you done for me lately, Ovie?

Even international hockey battles aren’t the same anymore.

Canada vs. Russia has been a classic rivalry since the 1972 summit series when Canadians almost lost their hockey identity, but even that has lost its zest, dying a slow painful death right before our eyes.

Need I remind everyone of a little thing I like to call “The 2010 Olympics”, when Canada got gold and Russia got sixth. A bunch of you are probably whining about how Russia is close to Canada, if not better, at the World

Juniors, but to those of you I say, relax, and stop acting like I said bomb on an airplane.

Even locally, gone are the days when the Moose Jaw Warriors vs.

Regina Pats caused a sellout at the Brandt Centre. I remember going to a Warriors/Pats game and had to resort to standing room only.

The booze was flowing, punches were being thrown, and the game was almost always a down-to-thewire finish. It was magical.

So what makes a good rivalry,

you ask? Well, for starters, it takes a certain degree of hatred between two teams, or players. Then, preferably some bad blood going back decades. Add to that games that are guaranteed to be high scoring, evenly matched, and have high degrees of physicality and excitement, and you’ve got yourself the beginnings of a rivalry.

Did I mention that during the best rivalries one person is definitely leaving the game with less teeth than they came in with? Is that so much to ask? Seriously, the last time a guy lost his teeth in the NHL was when Patrick Kane skated into his own teammate during practice while he was chewing on his mouthguard in that annoying way he does. You know what I’m talking about.

Anyway, serves him right, but I would much rather it was a right hook to the mouth, or slap shot that knocked those chicklets loose.

It appears as though the days of the good old fashioned hockey rivalries are behind us, but I won’t let this one go down without a fight.

If it’s wrong that I want more games to feel like I’m watching the Charleston Chiefs vs. the Syracuse Bulldogs, then I don’t want to be right.

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Failing to victory Let’s build this damn stadium.

When news surrounding the proposed stadium was first circulating, I was vehemently opposed, but I now see how wrong I was. This is a project the City of Regina should be – nay – needs to be pursuing.

But, I’m probably opposed to the public-private partnership (P3) funding of the new waste water treatment plant, right?

Nope. The municipal government is doing the right thing with this too.

And what I mean by “doing the right thing” with these proposed projects is that in fact they are doing them wrong – but they are doing them wrong enough.

Think of the worst things about this city: urban sprawl, transit, lack of public consultation on large projects, and ugly surface parking lots spring to mind. All of these things, as terrible as they might be, are still functional albeit minimally. It might be poorly planned in terms of aesthetics and function, but you can still navigate your way through Quance Street; it might take you 45 minutes to an hour to get anywhere you need to go if you’re taking the bus, but you still can do it; our roads may be pockmarked with potholes, but there aren’t entire two-lane sections of road washed out. The terrible things about this city aren’t terrible enough; they all still find a way to hobble along like a three-legged puppy, but with all of the tragedy and none of the cuteness.

These two major projects the city is undertaking are directly linked insomuch as a failure regarding either, but hopefully both of, the stadium (the finishing touches on the delusion of Regina as a legitimate, major metropolitan centre) or the new waste water treatment centre (an essential component to the well-being of the city) will be disastrous enough to stimulate actual change in Regina.

The only way to stop failing is to fail harder, to fail so hard the people will come together and chorus, “We will fail no more.” Clearly, without drastic action the city will continue down its path of being a spilled big city. Complete, catastrophic failure is the only thing that can change Regina. We went to the polls – nadda. We protested at city council – nothing. We wrote bitchy things about it in alternative

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media – zilch.

The case that privatization of something as essential as water (you know, that stuff you need to live) is bad is not a difficult case to make, but that’s another longwinded editorial in itself. The case that building this stadium is a bad idea is also not difficult to make, but that’s also not why I’m writing this. Quite likely, either (and potentially both) of these projects will go horrendously awry. Nevertheless, we need to continue pursuing both projects precisely because they won’t succeed.

I mean, if the people of this city are willing to privilege giving a home to their football team instead of the actual people in

this city without homes, imagine how pissed they’ll be when that football team doesn’t have a home, or when they have to wait to move in to their new home, or when their new home costs substantial amounts of money more than what was forecasted – not to mention the fact that some of the actual residents in this city might not have homes and our water prices could go through the roof. This is the motivating tragedy required to actually change this city.

With the hopeful failure of this stadium and inevitable shitstorm that is the new P3-funded water treatment plant, people will be forced to call for change. People

can’t ignore soaring water prices. People won’t ignore a failed delivery on anything to do with their beloved Riders. Even if you find yourself against both of these large projects, just nod and go with it because failure of this magnitude might be the last hope we have of trying to fix this city.

We’ve all been pretty fired up about these things, but let’s just take a minute to relax, maybe grab a case of beer, and let this unfold.

paul bogdan arts editor

Treating symptoms I support Students Against Austerity (SAA), but their target is completely wrong.

Much of the vitriol of SAA in Regina has been directed against the administration, and while there is certainly blame to be placed there for their decision to allocate funds away from Arts and Sciences, their decisions are a symptom of a deeper disease.

The reality is Thomas Chase and Vianne Timmons have limited options in what they can do to save programming. They can raise tuition or they can find corporate donors to fund programs. Cutting administrative positions and salaries will not solve anything.

Both of these options are absolutely awful for students and society at large, but they are the only options the university itself can take. They are especially awful because there is no good reason the government is not properly funding our

post-secondary education in Saskatchewan.

To put our situation in perspective, Newfoundland is killing us at post-secondary funding. Newfoundland, who was traditionally a have-not province much like Saskatchewan, is now destroying us and the rest of Canada in terms of funding universities.

There is no “Saskatchewan Advantage” for students when we are at a disadvantage to Newfoundlanders when it comes to postsecondary funding. And yet, students say nothing.

We have been co-opted into the strategy of the administration. Much as I accused the administration of before Christmas, we now seem content to manage the decline of the university rather than actually do anything to save it. The consultation with the university has morphed from something useful into a “participation trap” in which we have already admitted the necessity of

austerity and now simply wish to force austerity onto someone else.

With the provincial budget coming up very soon, we are at a critical juncture. We can seriously make a fundamental change in government policy if we are willing to stand up for it. At this time, we should not be wasting energy uselessly scorning Timmons and Chase, but constructively lobbying the government.

More leadership from Students Against Austerity, or even from URSU, in demanding better from the government would be seriously welcome. Unfortunately, as it stands, students seem content to yell at Vianne and Tom than to write a letter or organize a demonstration against the government who is holding the purse strings.

If we are actually interested in curing the disease the university is suffering from, we must treat the cause, not simply the symptoms.

We have been co-opted into the strategy of the administration. Much as I accused the administration of bef ore Christmas, we now seem content to manage the decline of the university rather than actually do anything to save it.

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Revive the presses Newspapers need to adapt to the changing world or they will die

Arthur Ward

Uh oh, a bunch of Carillons piled up in a story about dying print media gives me the jitters.

In an age of ever expanding avenues of news consumption, the grandfather: print journalism, is slowly dying.

More or less, people no longer read newspapers. This is probably because they’ve become an archaic waste of time. Long, long ago, before you and I were born, they were the only game in town. Ever taken a history class? Journalists used to really be able to disrupt the political game from the outside. Now they’re lucky to even have someone read something they’ve written past a headline.

Is this due to our generation being a living influx of attention deficit disorder?

No, your grandma is wrong – it stems from the print journalism industry’s refusal to adapt to an increasingly technology-driven world.

I am aware of the journalism community’s presence through social media outlets as well as their online capacities evident in the introduction of online newspapers, however, this is not the focus of my assertion. Nor am I saying that the newspaper medium, itself, needs to be scrapped, but rather I wish to draw attention to the reality that the style of writing news-writers employ in drafting newspapers is unpalatable and consequently obsolete.

Ever heard of Twitter? I can get the same story some journalist stayed up writing all night the minute it happens – and I don’t have to read two pages, or go through the process of obtaining and leafing through some clunky atlas-sized collage.

“But Dan!” you’re saying, “Twitter doesn’t give you the same level of depth that a newspaper does!”

That’s completely valid, and I agree wholeheartedly, but most people. Just. Don’t.

Care.

Why do Wal-Mart and McDonald’s enjoy such unbridled success despite being widely recognized as offering low quality products and abysmal customer service?

Because they’re so damn efficient. The majority of North America’s populace is willing to forgive qualitative shortcomings so long as the companies and products in question are reliably fast, cheap, and easy – like Twitter.

The only reason newspapers enjoyed such success for so long is because they were the fast, cheap, and easy version of the news. After all, they were distributed a solid twelve hours before the televised evening news, and radio focused on news that wasn’t necessarily as localized. But the reality is, newspapers will never be back on top in the same manner they once were.

What better way to stimulate this truth-bringing than by transf orming the newspaper into a combination of reporting and commentating? The newspaper will serve as the epicenter and platf orm f or the community’s thoughts.

With that said, I understand that the objection whispering from the back of your mind is that there are people who want the level of depth that traditional print journalism will always provide better than Twitter.

I think you’re on to something.

What print journalism needs to do in order to survive is to stop seeking so many writers interested in news reporting, in favor of writers interested in news commentating. The simple truth is that people reading newspapers in the present day are interested primarily in their depth – something alternative news sources like Twitter lack. This needs to be capitalized on.

I don’t want to be misconstrued on this point. By no means am I advocating the removal of the news section from newspapers – they are newspapers, after all.

Rather, I’m advocating the implementation and expansion of opinionated, commentary-style writing on the very issues that the news section reports. I would never wish to do away with the journalist’s mandate to provide accurate, unbiased accounts of world affairs to the public. I do, however, wish to see the newspaper resurrected.

The people who are still reading newspapers today are interested in the issues reported because they believe they should be defused in the best manner possible.

Furthermore, they read news articles to gather knowledge on the events they report in an effort to deepen their understanding of them. Why do they do this? Because they believe a greater understanding of the issues will equip them with a greater capacity to reason as to how those issues should be resolved.

Taking this into consideration, it is evident that the shift to a newspaper based heavily on news commentary will play right into the hands of the current newspaper audience. The convergence of ideas that the re-envisioned newspaper will embody will stimulate its audience by injecting an interactive dimension that is lacking in the

existing brick-wall-personality of the current (fact and statistic dominated) newspaper.

We’ve already explored the notion that the readers of newspapers like to think about the issues they address – that’s why they read them in the first place. Naturally then, it can be inferred that they like to discuss the issues that the articles address with other well-informed individuals. This stems from a desire to convince others that the manner in which they believe the issues should be handled in is the best way. It is through the clash of opinions that this type of discussion generates among individuals that brings truth to all involved.

What better way to stimulate this truthbringing than by transforming the newspaper into a combination of reporting and commentating? The newspaper will serve as the epicenter and platform for the community’s thoughts. This cortex of societal commentary will percolate in the minds of its readers and resultantly keep them coming back for more. Hell, it will even transcend its pages by procuring discussion about the figures that write as opposed to merely the text at hand. “Can you believe that column Dan wrote last week? Told you he’s a crackpot.”

Simply put, print journalism is bleeding out. Now is the time to revive it by pushing it to focus on the depth that its audience craves. The best way to achieve this end is by adding commentary on the reported events from well-reasoning, opinionated writers. This adaptive shift will boost newspaper sales as well as resurrect the political prominence of the newspaper as it once again becomes a platform for community critique, discussion, and change.

dan sherven contributor

the carillon | Feb. 14 - 27, 2013

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Refine and refocus You might have noticed recently that we here at the Carillon have been awfully hard on the administration of this university.

In light of the APR, and with talks of merging entire faculties to free up further efficiencies, it’s really hard not to blame us.

Though, after some evaluative soul-searching, we feel that maybe the wrong entities have received almost all of the blame.

Quite frankly, for as much shit as we’ve been piling on Vianne Timmons and company, we should have been piling even more shit on the provincial government.

Before you dismiss this editorial as more Wall-bashing nonsense, I ask you to consider the following: in what province does a post-secondary institution have to get on all fours and beg for a 4 per cent funding increase, only to be told to create a disaster contingency plan in which the university is given a 2 per cent increase to funding, or no increase at all.

It is this same government that killed a multi-million dollar earning film tax credit to stick it to the provincial NDP, but then turn around and freely lend out $80 million to the construction of a shiny new sandbox for our “dearly beloved” Saskatchewan Roughriders. A stadium, I might add, that saw record numbers of people protesting its very existence. Although a referendum on the questions could not be held, the thousands of people willing to break out of apathy to oppose a motion should not be taken lightly.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: if any government has a proven track record of mismanaging money, especially to the degree of our current provincial government, then it’s probably time to reevaluate said government. If Brad Wall wants

to keep cutting cost-effective programming to be replaced with what will no doubt be vacuous black holes on our tax dollars, then maybe Brad Wall should resign his post, hmm?

But, since we know that scenario will never come to be, we, as a collective student body, need to break out of our own apathy, and start asking the right groups the right questions. Vianne Timmons’ forums and Tom Chase’s slides do not hold the answers that we need to salvage this institution. We need to begin asking the government officials why the province is funding a stadium in any capacity while the province’s universities face gross under-funding. We need to ask government officials why this university needed to formulate a plan in which it might not receive any funding increase at all.

We, the students, need to rise up, and show the “right and honorable” jackals in the legislature that higher education means something just a little bit more than being a rig worker or a potash miner.

The mailing information for your local MLA is not hard to find. This is a call to arms: inundate their offices with letters, emails, and telephone messages. Let them know that if the University of Regina is going to crumble by their hand, then it is that same hand that we will use to drag them down to hell with us.

In some European countries, the typewriter had to be registered as a dangerous weapon. Let’s show the province why.

kyle leitch arts writer

Heh heh, boobs It seems our society is not as mature as it should be.

On Feb. 5th , Marilyn Manson brought his tour to Moose Jaw, and supporting him was a band by the name of the Butcher Babies.

This band highlights a present crisis in the metal scene and the larger patriarchal culture in which we live. The Butcher Babies explain it best themselves: “We can’t go balls out – so we go tits out! When girls are perceived as sexual or outspoken, they get labeled sluts, but we embrace those qualities and bring them to our music as well. Butcher Babies is true slut metal: We’re doing what we want, how we want.”

On this point they are completely right, it’s normal for men in the metal scene to play without shirts on, and nobody thinks twice, but if women in any genre or any walk of life do this, they are judged and/or objectified.

I had heard of Butcher Babies a year or two back, and at that time I wasn’t a fan of their music and I was annoyed by what I perceived to be near nudity as a gimmick to draw fans. I thought that selling this sexual image took away from their music, so I didn’t listen to them again.

Then when I saw them live opening for Marilyn Manson, my opinion of them changed on both counts. Firstly, the music they’ve written since I last heard them was much better and secondly, during the show in Moose Jaw they remained fully clothed.

So I thought they stopped the gimmick and focused on the music to build a real base of fans. They have indeed focused on the music, but they have not stopped the being topless on stage, as the aforementioned quote was from January 2013. What I failed to see was what they were truly trying to express, and this was made clear to me when some in the Moose Jaw crowd

started yelling, “take your shirts off” and “show us your tits.” These demands are horrible but commonplace in the metal scene with not just this band but any band with female members. Immediately, both female singers replied angrily and quickly put the misogynists in their place, and continued the show.

After that I finally put myself in their shoes. How hard would it be for me to play the music I love in my band if I was always judged and discriminated by my gender alone, not by any other criteria?

Ultimately it will never happen to me.

This proves my fundamental point, society and the metal scene is not ready, is not mature enough, to handle this type of artistic expression, and to further prove this, look at some online comments on most Butcher Babies videos or news articles.

This band traveled a long way to Moose Jaw just to be objectified by the metal scene here, as they surely experienced in other places, and it makes me ashamed of a metal community I consider myself a part of. It’s perplexing and frustrating that musicians that try to improve themselves and go on tour to showcase their art would be treated in such a way, and sadly I don’t see a change coming anytime soon.

michael chmielewski contributor

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“Do I have a date for Valentine’s Day? Yes. February 14.”

That is from a meme called Schrute Facts – a series featuring the character Dwight Schrute from NBC’s The Office with hilarious buzzkill humour - and it expresses exactly how I feel about Feb. 14th.

As Dwight so obviously points out, it’s just another day. However, this “just another” day reminds those of us who are single that we are alone, or those of us who are in a relationship that the amount of money spent is a direct relation to how much our relationship means.

I’m not trying to sound too pessimistic about love, but Valentine’s Day should just not exist. This is for the benefit of everyone.

It would be one less day for single people to be disappointed and at the same time giving people in a relationship the choice to ignore it.

Because we all know what happens when your partner forgets (aka: ignores) Valentine’s Day. Cue the Psycho horror music.

But, how can you even forget or avoid such a day? It’s everywhere in February. It’s the unavoidable elephant in the room. A massive, pink, fluffy elephant holding a heart.

I went grocery shopping and what’s right there at the front doors, but stands filled with chocolates, cards, flowers, and teddy bears. You name it – if it’s pink, white, or red, shaped like a heart and made of chocolate or filled with sugar, you can buy it.

But, this torture isn’t just subject to shoppers. It’s all over the internet, too.

Pinterest, my beloved Pinterest, I wish you would not exist for the month of February.

Although you have taught me how to effectively fishtail braid and that high-waisted, coloured pants are popular, all you have

done this month is remind me that I am single. So, thank you, Pinterest, for rubbing it in my face that making those deliciouslooking heart shaped red velvet macaroons means I will be eating all of them to myself ... alone.

For all of those who think I probably just hate Feb. 14 because I am single, you’re wrong. Hate is an awfully strong word, but over the years I have just come to realize we, as a society, expect too much from one another for such a silly day.

Sure, there is some history behind this day, but Feb. 14 truly has zero association to anything whatsoever. It is just a day to use cheesy Hallmark cards, bouquets of expensive flowers and uncomfortable lingerie to tell someone how much you love them.

But, since this day isn’t going away anytime soon I just have to remember that being alone on Valentine’s Day is no different than any other day of my life. Sigh.

paige kreutzwieser contributor

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the carillon | Feb. 14 - 27, 2013

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Five suggestions from your loving production manager on how to make the most of your reading week

So Reading Week starts Saturday. For those of you vets who have suffered a couple winter semesters, you know exactly what to do this week: fuck all. For you first years, I’ve provided you a small guide for how to have a kick ass reading week. You can tweet your reading week suggestions @the_carillon as well.

But be warned, if anyone says “read”, I will straight up punch you in the face.

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Don’t DO burritos. Just eat a shitload of them. Burritos are fantastic. And while you’re on a week long break, you can only offend yourself with your unbelievably bad gas.

My suggestions for the best way to gorge yourself on endless hours of TV are Dr. Who, Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead, Community, and Archer.

If you don’t already watch these shows, you will thank me for enlightening you.

Stock up and munch out.

Whether you’re single or not, shit is always better 50% off, and it’s a week long holiday.

You’re going to need something shameful to eat while you watch 216 hours of TV.

In the midst of all your decadent slacking off, you might feel shitty about being such a lazy asshole. Reading Week is a great time to get out and help, something most of us can’t do while literally drowning in homework. Carmichael The Regina Outreach, Humane Society, and Habitat for Humanity are often looking for help.

Try something new. Like knitting or woodworking or jumping out of bushes to tell strangers underwhelming news. University sucks the creativity out of us. Take the break to try something cool that nobody can give you an arbitrarily numbered grade for.

the carillon | Feb. 14 - 27, 2013

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