The Argosy, October 19, Vol. 147, Iss. 6

NEWS

ARTS & CULTURE

SPORTS

OPINIONS

Longhouse built on campus (Pg. 4)

ET residents coffeehouse (Pg. 7)

Field hockey continues to grow (Pg. 12)

Pride must centre queer voices (Pg. 14)

Here and queer since 1872

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COVER: LOGAN MILNE, SOME PLACE IN SACKVILLE, HOOKED RUG, 2017.

October 19, 2017 Vol. 147, Iss. 6

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EDITORS: EMMA BUSH & MAIA HERRIOT | OCTOBER 19. 2017 | ARGOSY@MTA.CA

PRIDE

Mt. A hosts annual Pride Parade Sackville’s celebration of the LGBT2Q+ continues to grow in inclusivity

THURSDAY, OCT. 19 Matinee Pops Concert Convocation Hall, 10-11 a.m.

NB Medicare Registration Library Lab 314, 2:30-3:30 p.m.

Disabled Relationships Owens Art Gallery foyer 7-8 p.m.

Sackville Film Society: Beatriz at Dinner The Vogue Theatre, 7:30 p.m.

A Pops Spectacular!

Convocation Hall, 8-1 p.m.

Trivia Night at Ducky’s Ducky’s Pub, 9:30 p.m.-12 a.m.

FRIDAY, OCT. 20 A Handmade Assembly Owens Art Gallery, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

Erik Edson: Other Stories Owens Art Gallery, 1-9 p.m.

Second Annual Mt. A Model United Nations Conference (Oct. 20-22) David Harries: Mind the Borders Convocation Hall, 6-7:30 p.m.

No Homo(Sapiens) 30A Lansdowne St., 9:30 p.m.

AS THE PRIDE PARADE EXPANDS, SO DOES THE DISCUSSION AROUND WHAT THE CELEBRATION SHOULD LOOK LIKE IN THIS DAY AND AGE. LIANG CHAOYI/ARGOOSY

MAIA HERRIOT News Editor On Oct. 12, students, faculty and community members gathered in front of the Mount Allison Chapel to celebrate Sackville’s third annual Pride Parade.

The first speaker was Melody Petlock, Mt. A’s SHARE (Sexual Harassment and Assault Response and Education Services) advisor.

She spoke on how far the Sackville community has progressed since she first began working for the University in 1997. Four years ago, the only acknowledgment of pride was a flag raising: “I remember rainy days when there were a dozen of us around that flag.… It’s amazing to see a rainbow of people out there, so many you can’t even pick out the faces,” said Petlock.

Rev. John Perkin used his platform as a speaker at the parade to acknowledge the oppressive and discriminatory role that the Christian church has often played in the fight for LGBT2Q+ rights. “Religion has a lot to answer for in terms of supporting the rather binary division of the world into ‘them’ and ‘us,’ ” said Perkin.

He directly addressed a passage in the Bible that is often cited as proof that Christians should condemn homosexuality, the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah. Perkin argued that the actual sin was “not being hospitable to others and refusing to respond to cries of the poor and needy.”

Perkin also spoke on how important discussion is to generate understanding and compassion, saying he is receptive to all conversations anyone would like to initiate: “I’m open to following the example of Eldon Hay, who was an outspoken advocate for gay rights, who was always open to the individual in front of him.… It’s in conversation that we nurture a sense of being people, together.’’

Janet Hammock, Mt. A professor emeritus and LGBT2Q+ activist, was then invited to speak. She too touched on the passing of Rev. Hay, the significant impact he had on her life and his efforts for the queer community, saying, “He worked tirelessly behind the scenes to change the minds of religious leaders, government officials, church congregations and, most important

of all, ordinary people.” She then led the crowd in a moment of silence “in remembrance and thanks for the life, love and spirited advocacy of Eldon Hay.” Seth Winward, co-president of Catalyst (Mt. A’s support and advocacy group for sexual and gender minorities and their allies), was next to speak. He spoke on the history of pride events in North America and the importance of remembering those who made it possible for pride events to evolve from protests to celebrations.

Windward cited the Stonewall riots of 1969, violent demonstrations by the queer community in protest of police raids, as the beginnings of the movement that is now a parade: “Today, the meaning of Pride has shifted, from fighting the norms of a system to celebrating our differences from those norms.” In conclusion, Winward said, “Today we celebrate who we are and how far we’ve come.

Tomorrow, we get back to work.”

The crowd proceeded to turn their attention to the flagpole and began to cheer as the Pride flag rose.

Ron Atkin, deputy mayor of

Sackville, closed the ceremony with well wishes and support from the Sackville community, and asked participants to keep Eldon Hay in their thoughts as they started the walk down to city hall.

As the MASU organizer of this year’s Pride, Emma Miller said, “I was thrilled to see so many students, staff and community members actively showing their pride. The planning process was a little hectic, however having Matt Pryde [Sackville’s manager of recreation programs and events] and the Town of Sackville provide their assistance and support made for a great event.” She expressed her appreciation for all those who came out to show their support.

Many of those in attendance expressed their hope that the Pride Parade in Sackville will only continue to grow. The idea that the fight for LGBT2Q+ rights is not yet over was a common thread through all of the speakers. Petlock closed her speech by saying, “We have to keep going, we have to keep coming out and showing our support. We have to keep making our campus, our community and our world a safer place.”

SATURDAY, OCT. 21 The Heart & Pocket Revue: Crafters Market Sackville Legion, 9 a.m.

Looking Vibrant // Wine Lips Thunder & Lightning, 10:30 p.m.

Adults reading things they wrote before they were adults, Ducky’s Pub, 7:30 p.m.

TUESDAY, OCT. 24 Faculty Council Conservatory of Music Band Rehearsal 004, 4-5:30 p.m.

Strasbourg Student Abroad Info Crabtree 304, 5:30-7:30, p.m.

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 25 Rosencrantz and Gilderstern Are Dead Motyer-Fancy Theatre, 8:00-10:00 p.m.

Presents: The Improv The Pond, 9 p.m.-12 a.m.

DIVERSITY OF PARTICIPANTS AND INVOLVEMENT OF SACKVILLE BUSINESSES GROW WITH EACH PASSING YEAR. LIANG CHAOYI/ARGOSY

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Three down, three to go for MASU elections

MASU election brings in three new councillors, three positions remain open for applications LILY FALK News Reporter On Oct. 2 the student body elected three new councillors to the Mount Allison Student Union (MASU).

Olivia Bizimungu was named firstyear councillor and Laren Bedgood and Aminah Simmons were elected as councillors-at-large. Voter turnout was reported to be normal, however, half the councillor positions remain open. The Argosy spoke with the new councillors about their visions for the coming year.

Bizimungu, a first-year student studying a bachelor of science, wanted

to make an impact on student lives. “I really wanted to get involved here at Mt. A, and I had done a lot of different committees and organizations in high school,” she said. Bizimungu is passionate about inclusion: she is the diversity representative for Campbell Hall and a member of the Black Students’ Union.

Councillor-at-large, Bedgood, hopes to strengthen the connection between off-campus students and the MASU. “There’s a bit of disconnect between off campus students and the MASU. They seem to only serve students who live on campus,” said Bedgood. “We need to get more

upper-year students in the councillor positions. There are still three open.”

Bedgood is also concerned about accessibility on campus. Her interest was sparked after being temporarily unable to use her arm after surgery earlier this semester. She found that many of the automatic door buttons did not work on campus.

Aminah Simmons, councillorat-large and Thornton House social chair, wants students to know that the MASU is a good way to get involved in their school community.

“You become a part of a team that helps find solutions for bettering our campus. You get to be a part of

something that benefits us all,” said Simmons.

“When I have an issue with something I like to find solutions, not just complain about it. Sitting on council not only allows me to be a part of a team that helps find solutions for issues that I may face, but issues my friends and classmates face as well,” said Simmons.

When asked about why there are councillor vacancies, MASU president, Sara Camus said: “Mount Allison has a very involved campus; most students are very involved with clubs and/or societies on top of their studies. Being a MASU

councillor is a sizeable amount of work, as there are weekly/biweekly council and committee meetings.”

She encouraged anyone interested in student government to run for the remaining positions.

Both Bizimungu and Bedgood mentioned that they were surprised at the low voter turnout for the election.

However, the turnout was average for Mt. A at 25.64%.

There remain many ways to participate in the student union this year, either as a councillor-at-large, a yearbook editor or an operations committee member.

RECONCILIATION

Longhouse constructed by elders and students Building Indigenous spaces provides essential educational pathways toward reconciliation

LEFT: ELDERS TAUGHT THE STUDENTS THE SYMBOLIC SIGNIFICANCE OF EVERY ASPECT OF THE LONGHOUSE. RIGHT: THE GROUP COLLECTED ALDER SAPLINGS FROM THE FOREST. LAYLIA BENNETT/SUBMITTED

AMELIA MACDOUGALL FLEMING News Reporter This past weekend, Mount Allison students and local elders built an Indigenous longhouse in the academic quad to visually represent reconciliation. Part of Decolonizing Methodologies, a third-year sociology course taught by Prof.

Chris George, this event provided an opportunity for the students to learn Indigenous teachings from local elders.

The building process began on Friday, Oct. 13, when elders Gkisedtanamoogk and Miigam’agan came to campus to speak with students about longhouses and their cultural significance. A longhouse is a narrow building created by tying saplings together. The elders explained that longhouses serve many roles in Indigenous communities, and are often used for community and family gatherings.

That evening, the class joined the elders to search the surrounding forests for birch saplings with which to construct the longhouse. However, because there were more alder saplings available to be harvested, the elders decided to use them instead of birch.

Early the next morning, the students and elders went to the harvesting site, where a ceremony was conducted to honour the saplings before they were harvested and transported back to the academic quad. There, joined by elder Ron Tremblay, the participants began building the longhouse.

The building process involved cleaning the saplings, tearing coloured fabric, preparing twine and digging holes in the ground. While the longhouse was built, the elders shared the teachings of the longhouse, explaining that every aspect of the longhouse – from the colour of the ties to the order of their placement – carried a different teaching.

For the students, building the longhouse provided a valuable learning experience about land-based practices in Indigenous cultures.

“I HAVE SO MUCH LOVE AND RESPECT IN MY HEART FOR EVERYBODY WHO PARTICIPATED” “[One aspect of the class] was getting out on the land and connecting with Indigenous processes and Indigenous knowledge, Indigenous ways of learning and passing on knowledge, and trying to introduce our class (which is predominantly non-Indigenous) to Indigenous ways of learning and knowing,” said

George. “[These] ancestral ways that have been around for so many generations are marginalized and not fully practiced; [learning about them] is the point of reconciliation.”

After completing the longhouse, the class and the elders shared conversation and a meal in the Mawita’mkw, an Indigenous gathering space in the student centre.

Following the meal, the group went back to the building site and entered the longhouse, where there was a smudging ceremony. Before leaving, everybody exchanged hugs and thanked each other for their contributions to the weekend.

Laylia Bennett, a student in the class said, “I have so much love and respect in my heart for everybody who participated in this longhouse building experience – it’s been a really special few days and it’s been a really valuable learning experience and I am really thankful to have had this opportunity.”

Originally, the idea was to construct the longhouse and tear it down at the end of the day. During the building process the students realized that they wanted to have a representation of their experience seen by the community. They decided that the longhouse should be left up for the entire coming week.

While students are welcomed and encouraged to spend time in the longhouse, the class requested that students not bring alcohol or drugs near the structure and that community members enter through the east entrance nearest the library.

Treating the longhouse respectfully is an act of reconciliation that all members of the Mt. A community and beyond are responsible for participating in. Hailie Tattrie, a student taking the course, said, “I hope this is going to be a source of education for a lot of students and that everyone recognizes the importance of it.”

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SENATE

Senate approves fall reading week, reviews enrolment and online teaching evaluations

EMMA BUSH News Editor The most recent senate meeting was held on Oct. 10. The meeting focused most heavily on attracting incoming students, the year of Indigenous Action, fall convocation, the fall reading week and the new teacher

evaluation forms.

In terms of student numbers, Kim Meade said that this year only 604 students started at Mt. A, as opposed to the previous year’s 641. This year there was however a 9 per cent increase in applications and a 11 per cent increase in offers from last year.

“We had projected an uptake of 700

[students, and] we certainly fell short of what we expected in the projection based upon those applications and offers,” said Meade.

Surveys were put out to students who had accepted and later declined their offers to Mt. A. The university will be analyzing the data to better understand what influenced students to go elsewhere.

Meade also underlined the importance of the open house, saying, “From survey results I’ve seen so far it is probably the most influential factor in determining a student’s choice to attend Mt. A.” Robert Campbell acknowledged the speakers, visitors and presenters for the Year of Indigenous Action so far. “The Mansbridge summit was fantastic, it was on the Indigenous theme and there was a great flag raising ceremony . . . we’re off to a bang!” There will be two more instalments of the President’s Speaker Series the week of Nov. 20.

Campbell then brought up the newly established James Rogers Student-Athlete Awards: “There was an announcement of $1 million endowed for our student athletes and their development.” These awards will be available in the 2018-19 school year.

Campbell referenced further

governmental work of raising tuition, saying that there will tentatively be a province-wide 2 per cent increase cap on tuition over the next four years.

Adam Christie spoke on the future implementation of the University’s first Latin American exchange program in Chile, emphasising that “last year this was a priority for us [as a University].”

On behalf of the ad hoc committee, Kiera Stel motioned that senate continue the week long fall break attached to Remembrance Day as it has “a positive impact on mental health and academic performance,” according to both students and staff. Despite Campbell opening this topic to the floor by saying, “This caused a certain amount of debate and disruption back in the day,” the motion was approved without discussion.

Finally, talk turned to the contentious new forum for teacher evaluation forms. Jeff Ollerhead said that, “[The] old system will not be used regardless of what we do.”

According to Ollerhead the changes were necessary due to developments in the University’s collective agreement.

“With eXplorence Blue we’re licencing what we were supposed to do,” said Ollerhead.

This assertion was met with much

frustration. Owen Griffiths said, “I think what you’ve done, quite frankly, has created a problem where none exists.” Librarian Laura Snyder expressed concern as to dropping student participation with the new online model.

However, not all senate members felt this way. Stel said that as a student she appreciated the online forum and that a pilot project of an online forum last year had been more convenient for her.

Rachel Howlett, vice-president academic affairs, added that MASU had been consulted about the change over the summer and that they also supported the online forum. “Students are nervous about handwriting on forms, so [being] online gives [them] the benefit of [being] anonymous,” said Howlett.

Dean of sciences Amanda Cockshutt also provided a positive response, saying that she had taken part in an online evaluation pilot project for years and had received responses in the 86 per cent range: “that average is higher than when I did them on paper years ago.”

Feelings about the new forms remained mixed upon adjournment of the meeting.

TECHNOLOGY

Teacher evaluations move to online platform Forms will be available through a third party system instead of the previous paper format EMMA BUSH News Editor Teacher evaluation forms have been moved from paper to an online format. The forms will be available through a third party in Montreal called eXplorance. Though the forms themselves have not changed, the altered platform has received mixed reviews from faculty members.

Although the University could have continued to use Moodle for the evaluation forms, much manual work would have been required. The new survey platform provides a software tool that automatically performs the necessary tasks.

Mt. A will be utilizing their evaluation platform, Blue. According to the eXplorance website, “Blue [is] an all-in-one evaluation platform that puts ‘being better’ at the forefront,… comprehensively measur[ing] needs, expectations, knowledge, competencies and skills and provid[ing] advanced reporting and analytics.”

Jeff Ollerhead, professor, provost and vice-president of academic and research affairs, explained the three reasons behind the change in platform: convenience, environmental friendliness and “[compliance] with our current collective agreement.”

On Sept. 13, faculty members met to discuss the updated medium in a presentation led by Toni Roberts, educational technology consultant and part-time faculty member.

Politics and international relations professor James Devine expressed his support for the change, saying, “This is the third university I have been with through this process [of moving] from paper to online and I actually haven’t noticed any difference in the response [of students in evaluation forms].”

Amanda Cockshutt, dean of science, agreed with Devine: “Oh, [the online system] is so much better than the paper, miles better.”

However, not all faculty members were as receptive to the change.

Biology professors Matthew Litvak and Diana Hamilton joked about students getting overwhelmed by all of the forms available in one place and getting confused and mixing up responses for different classes.

Roberts also addressed past questions regarding security: “This is more secure in the sense that in transit the data is secure. It’s a secure website.” In fact, the data is ultimately stored on another server that is separate from the web server, which means it cannot be accessed from the web.

“We expect there will be less issues

with privacy and data integrity than the system currently used,” said Ollerhead. Additionally, because the servers are in Canada, “it’s under Canadian law and the chances are somewhat reduced of illegal trolling, I am told,” he continued.

Ollerhead also referred to concerns about the location of the company.

Being in Montreal, he said that some people may feel that “it’s out of [our] control. But in fact, currently all of [Mt. A’s] data is at UNB, all of our servers are there…. Moodle is at

UNB.” The University uses these nonlocal servers in order to reduce overall costs.

The University’s contract with eXplorance transfers responsibility of information back to Mt. A, so that all information is owned by the University and is not at the hands of the third party company.

“It won’t impact faculty members … but it could offer some other possibilities [for them] down the road,” said Ollerhead.

If all goes to plan, the new

evaluation forms will available in November 2017. “I can’t guarantee that all students will be using it because there are still some difficulties,” Ollerhead said. “But I imagine the majority of students will be using the system.”

There will be a new dashboard in Moodle where students can access the interface, so students may not even notice that they are leaving Moodle. “It will be really simple and easy. Everyone will know how to get there,” Ollerhead said.

STUDENTS AND FACULTY HAVE HAD CONFLICTING REACTIONS TO THE SERVER UPDATE. SARAH NOONAN/ARGOSY

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FROM THE ARCHIVES

SHEILA BERRIDGE Former Reporter From the archives brings you old news today. As time passes, the news we report on changes, as does the way we report on it. Conversely, we’ve been covering some of the same issues since 1872. Students in residence will have to contend with many fire-safety briefings and drills this year. This 1975 incident in the basement of Hunton House may make everyone a little more grateful for the endless lectures.

Thurs. Jan 20, 1975: vol. 103, issue 13.

The smallest of fires can be startling, even frightening, but a fire which results in a residence full of smoke merits grave consternation. On Wednesday at approximately 3:00 p.m., one of the dryers in Hunton House caught on fire which resulted in billowing clouds of smoke in the basement, stairwells and floors. One student on third floor emerged quietly from his room and was unexpectedly confronted with a smokey wall so dense that he could not see across the hall to the door opposite him.

Luckily, no one panicked! A group of boys who had been playing ping-pong at the opposite end of the residence quickly grabbed the nearest fire-hose (water-filled) and traced the smoke

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to its place of origin. They discovered that a dryer was, in fact, on fire.

Because the boys looked before they leapt, they remembered to disconnect the electricity, for water used to douse an electrical fire could’ve spelled disaster.

In the meantime, however, residents on the other floors were not certain of the source or the seriousness of the fire. They pulled the alarm only to discover that those in the residence weren’t functioning properly, due to

A GROUP OF BOYS WHO HAD BEEN PLAYING PINGPONG . . . QUICKLY GRABBED THE NEAREST FIREHOSE . . . the electrical disconnection. Everyone quickly evacuated the building via the fire escapes, the fire was put out and no one was hurt.

The issue, however, is not what happened but what could have happened. It is conceivable that

someone with less calm could have easily acted upon impulse and sprayed the fire directly with water.

It is the contention of this reporter that water extinguishers are a little too antiquated for residences with so many electrical appliances, (washers, dryers, stereos, etc.)

The Department of Buildings and Grounds did not fail to look into the issue. They examined the dryer and discovered that the fire did not result from faulty wiring in the machine itself. “The clothes in the dryer,” Ken Munro suggested, “could have had something in them such as matches.”

He admitted however, that the owner of the clothes in the burning dryer was not a smoker. Perhaps something else in the dryer did cause the ignition.

Certainly if an electrical committee ascertained that the fire had no electrical source, it did not. This still does not alleviate the problem of other electrical fires, however.

How can such fires be dealt with in a building which does not have proper equipment? Ken Munro stated that the office of Student Affairs was looking into the issue. How long will it take them to act, however? Perhaps this article will elicit a little feedback.

Thanks are in order to the boys in Hunton House who saved their residence from an imminent inferno.

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SARA RIPLEY IS A FOURTH-YEAR HONOURS STUDENT IN THE DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS.

“The past two summers I have been fortunate enough to work in Mainz, Germany at the Johannes Gutenberg University under the supervision of Dr. Dave Hornidge. The title of my project is Tracking Studies Using GenFit for the MUon Scattering Experiment. I am essentially using the GenFit software to examine how various detectors will track scattered and incident particles from the upcoming MUon Scattering Experiment (MUSE). The MUSE will consist of simultaneous electron- and muonproton scattering in order to hopefully aid in solving the Proton Radius Puzzle (PRP). The PRP is based on the fact that when one measures the proton charge radius via elastic electron-proton scattering or electronic hydrogen spectroscopy, the result is significantly different (over 5σ) than if one were to use muonic hydrogen spectroscopy. I am incredibly excited to participate in an experiment as such, seeing as the PRP is one of today’s most recognized unresolved problems in physics.”

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This Week in New Brunswick Moncton will host a meeting on Nov. 9 in response to deaths of right whales in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Various scientists, Indigenous groups and fishermen and boatmen will take part in an effort to prevent future deaths.

A nationwide warrant has been issued for 27-year-old Issac Moffat-Swasson, from Listuguj, Quebec, who has been reported as sighted north of Miramichi, NB. The founder of the Canadian Wild Turkey Foundation is calling for the initiation of a NB turkey hunt similar to that in Maine.

There have been increased sightings of the reportedly aggressive birds.

A Woodstock couple has been charged with importing restricted firearms at Maine Canada Border Services for two semiautomatic rifles and magazine beyond legal levels.

Slimy sculpin is proclaimed “fish of the future” by UNB associate professor and researcher Michelle Gray. She says the fish are a good species for the monitoring of river health.

NB government extends Medicare to international students possessing study permit and evidence of full-time study.

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MOVIE REVIEWS

Sharp Reviews: ‘The Witch’

EDITOR: ALIX MAIN OCTOBER 19, 2017 | ARGOSY@MTA.CA

COLUMN

The woods contain horrors – and wonders. Embrace them to live deliciously.

DEREK SHARP Columnist Happy Spooktober, dear reader! In the spirit of October and celebrating all things spooky, I’ve decided to forego the Vogue’s offering this week to review what is, in my opinion, a modern spooky classic.

The Witch is a deeply disturbing tour de force of acting, directing and writing. It easily earns its label as a horror movie, but it stands as distinct from the horror genre. There is little in the way of loud-noise jump scares, which are so common today.

Instead, The Witch gets under your skin with its mood and disturbing imagery and then slowly turns up the tension.

The Witch relies largely on the bleak and authentically dire situation that a family finds itself in, making it a sort of social horror movie. Although, there is a sequence early on that diverges from this, which is truly, brutally horrific. As I alluded to earlier, it’s not terrifying in the the traditional glitzy, highly scripted, jump-scare

way that is so commonplace in the genre today. Instead, this sequence – and the movie by and large – presents itself so clearly and realistically that it’s hard not to be disturbed. It’s easy for realistically depicted horror to go too far and numb the audience, but luckily, The Witch uses the shock factor sparingly and incredibly effectively. The film doesn’t often go for a straight scare but when it does, it does it well.

The Witch is set in early 17th century New England. It centers on a Puritan family that has been exiled from the colony for – depending on who you ask – either the sin of pride or religious differences.

Regardless, the family is forced to live in the woods entirely on their own, which they are glad to do.

Unfortunately, the godly life is cut short when one of the children is kidnapped by the witch of the wood.

The plot is a slow burn, but by the end it manages to be touching, pitiful and horrifying all while intelligently navigating themes of grief, family, masculinity, femininity and puberty.

THE PLOT IS A SLOW BURN, BUT BY THE

END MANAGES TO BE TOUCHING, PITIFUL AND HORRIFYING

The main criticism that I can level at The Witch – and this is something that I myself love – is that it is rather inaccessible to a casual viewer. The characters speak in 17th century English; they sound more like Shakespeare than us. Luckily, the actors are incredible and deliver the lines as perfectly as you could hope, making the dialogue easier to comprehend. However, it can still be an obstacle to enjoyment for those unwilling to indulge in the dialogue.

I appreciate that it adds another layer of authenticity and artistry to the film, but I can easily see how many would find it obnoxious.

Visually, The Witch does an impressive amount with a muted colour scheme. It manages to effectively underscore the repression and tension the characters feel without distracting from the onscreen activity.

The Witch isn’t for the faint of heart. It’s heavy and frightening. It stays with you for days after you’ve seen it. The dialogue and plot are imposing and, to the casual viewer, unwieldy. But if you’re willing to go in and take it seriously, The Witch is an experience like no other.

The Witch is on Netflix for those willing to brave the woods.

TINA OH Columnist Content warning: sexual assault, rape and violence against women, femmes and non-binary people.

In light of the grotesque sexual assault and abuse stories from numerous women in Hollywood, Harvey Weinstein is a symbol of the fundamental all-powerful white male assailant. Co-founder of Miramax Films and the Weinstein Company, Weinstein stands among the elite men’s club of one of the most dominant industries in the world and has at least 39 allegations of sexual harassment, assault and rape against him. The total number of allegations is currently unknown, as women continue to come forward on a daily basis since the publishing of a New York Times article on Oct. 5 that brought mainstream attention to his long history of enacting sexual violence. Among the victims are Hollywood’s most famous: Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow and Rose McGowan. There are 37 (and counting) other names of victims whose stories will not receive as much attention as theirs. And then, there is us.

The vast majority of women will never know justice for the violence that has been perpetrated against them. There are women of colour who are grossly fetishized and have been historically forced into labour camps to be comfort women for the imperialist state. There are nonbinary people, trans women and femmes of all bodies that face greater

intersectional gender-based violence like transmisogyny. Gender-based violence is systemic and falls heavily on the feminine and genderqueer spectrum. It is pertinent that conversations on sexual assault must be intersectional to include other systems of violence that are built to uphold each other: racism, imperialism, white supremacy and colonialism.

Violence against women, femmes and non-binary people is not unique to cities, certain industries or certain bodies. It is everywhere. It is here in Sackville, where a false image of idyllic rural blindness shades our perspective of how triggering it can be for women, femmes and non-binary people to walk down its unlit streets or how the university-regulated bar has had a recent history of tainted drinks.

Do not be fooled by the quaint ivycovered brick buildings and saltwashed boardwalks. This place has seen the same violence as anywhere else. It was Sackville where I came home to my apartment at three in the morning to the door ajar and an unfamiliar man inside. It was Sackville where I was followed home in broad daylight by two men in a slowly moving car, taunting me out their window.

Trauma does not have to be recounted to deserve attention. Our voices should be enough. To the men reading this, you must do better.

Believe us. Do your part and act on this violence. Interrupt the norms of the patriarchy that embody toxic masculinity and racism. Be a feminist killjoy.

TO THE MEN

READING THIS, YOU MUST DO BETTER.

Correction:

Last week, it was erroneously printed that the Riotous Film Society is affiliated with Mount Allison University. The Riotous Film Society is independently run. The Argosy apologizes for this and any other inaccuracies.

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Stellar performances at ET Coffeehouse

From folk to jazz, Edwards and Thornton played host to music that was out of this world

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RYAN KARIMI Contributor Last Saturday night, Tweedie Hall was filled with the hustle and bustle of musicians trying to cram in lastminute practice before the EdwardsThornton Coffeehouse. Through the noise, one could pick out saxophones, acoustic guitars and, much to my surprise, bagpipes.

After Edwards president Graeme

Zinck gave the one-minute call, attendees and performers filed to their seats. Co-MCs and childhood friends Talon Simon and Thunder Nevin took the stage, where they showcased their easy chemistry by exchanging quips and jokes throughout the night.

At one point, Talon began a knockknock joke.

“Who’s there?” Thunder replied.

“Ach,” Talon said, with a wry smile.

“Ach who?”

Thunder was promptly handed a napkin. Before long, they introduced the first act of the night.

The Sharks, an instrumental quartet, took the stage. They began with a high-energy arrangement of Seven Nation Army, followed

by Chameleon, a funky jazz classic featuring melodic trumpet and baritone sax solos. After The Sharks’ act was a ukulele arrangement of Travelin’ Soldier by the Dixie Chicks, and then a moving cover of the

traditional Scottish song The Parting Glass.

Next up was Clare Maguire, a lifelong performer and recent songwriter who performed three songs: My Love Goes Free, Olivia and an original titled Rosemary and Thyme. “It’s about missed opportunities!” she exclaimed about the last. She then jumped into a bittersweet piano-driven piece about a former love, singing “You were almost mine, rosemary and thyme.”

“She’s talented. She plays the ukulele, she plays piano,” said

attendee Manley Liu about Maguire.

“When she sings, you’re just mesmerized.”

When asked about her performance, Maguire said that “sometimes it’s nerve-wracking, other times there’s just a nice, calm energy around the room. I think coffeehouses are a lot more chill, so [performing] wasn’t too bad.”

Narissa Gallant performed a stunning a cappella cover of Hushabye Mountain and an impromptu encore of the Irish ballad Danny Boy. Tyson Miller impressed the audience with an original titled Back Home Memories, a vocal and acoustic guitar piece with a folksy feel. Other performances included a bagpipe solo by Matthew Mora and a powerful rendition of Times Are Hard For Dreamers, during which a few members of the audience began waving their cellphone lights in lieu of lighters. Sadly, the trend did not catch on.

All in all, the event struck an interesting balance between rehearsed and impromptu. The pieces were clearly polished, yet a sense of ease and comfort permeated the room. It was clear these musicians were skilled, but also here to have a good time.

The Mt. A Jazz Septet closed the coffeehouse with a funky cover of The Chicken. After the performances, guests were invited to attend an ETthemed party in Gracie’s and the Pond.

“It was crazy to see so much talent in one spot,” said Nevin after the event. He mentioned that he particularly enjoyed the Septet’s “really crisp music.” As he quipped earlier on stage, the event was truly out of this world.

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Alumnus hosts commedia dell’arte workshop Il Dottore, Pantalone and Arlecchino walk into a theatre...

PERCY MILLER Contributor

Students tried on emotive masks and explored old Italian archetypal characters in a fun-filled Saturday afternoon. The 15 students ranged from first- to fourth-year and came from many different departments.

“As someone who doesn’t often partake in theatre, this workshop was engaging and a good introduction to commedia dell’arte,” said Logan Doyle, a fourth-year cognitive science student.

Paul Griffin, who is this year’s J.E.A. Crake Grad-in-Residence, graduated from Mt. A with a degree in English, religious studies and philosophy. He then completed a bachelor of education at Mt. A. During his time at Mt. A, he was heavily involved in all aspects of the theatre including carpentry, lighting,

stage management and acting.

After graduation, Griffin trained for about 10 months in commedia and went on to be a part of several professional shows that were done in this style of theatre.

Originating in 15th-century France, Italy and Spain, commedia dell’arte consists of highly exaggerated acting, precise movements and engagement with masks.

Within this tradition are seven key character archetypes, including “the well-meaning but unintelligent servant; the lovers; the greedy, lecherous master and the sly trickster,” said Griffin, “which are all archetypes you can see in any comedy show today.”

Students selected masks and freely explored any characterizations that came forward. Following this exercise, Griffin instructed the group on the traditional physicality and

“YOU MUST COMMIT

YOUR ENTIRE ENERGY OUTWARD THROUGH EVERY PART OF YOUR BODY”

vocal intonation of each character.

For example, the trickster character uses a raspy voice and moves in a very angular and agile way.

“As someone who is following a career in comedy I must never forget commedia dell’arte is mother of all comedy,” said Erik Garf, a fourthyear drama student. “My mask, the trickster, was not one you could hide behind. You must commit your entire energy outward through every part of your body.”

After playing with the characters, the students split off into small groups to perform short scenes called lazzis. These scenes provide actors with simple scenarios (the trickster has stolen the master’s money, for example) but require the actors to improvise dialogue.

“This experience was a unique way of engaging in character work,” said third-year political science student Emma Shipman. Griffin noted near the end of the workshop that he was “impressed by the group’s ability to take direction and apply it so quickly.”

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elay for Life

Students and town residents participate in relay for cancer research Over $17,500 raised for the Canadian Cancer Society at the 15th annual Sackville Relay for Life

by Ally Myers

Live music and dance routines animated the academic quad last Friday, Oct. 13. Over 100 university students and town members gathered in front of the campus library to take part in Sackville’s Relay for Life. The relay is a fundraising and awareness event to remember those we have lost and those who are still fighting battles against cancer.

This year marks the fifteenth annual Sackville Relay for Life and the event’s first ever 5K fundraiser run.

Participants warmed up for the activities with dance routines led by Mt. A’s varsity dance team. Musical performances by students followed, including Mt. A’s pep band, the cast of NO MISSTAKES and awardwinning hip-hop artist Wolf Castle. Local artists RA Lautenschlager and the Terrio Sisters also played.

Ontario-based band Formed Ability, with Mt. A alumnus Odum Abekah, flew here for the event.

By the end of the evening, just under $18,000 was raised, which has been donated to the Canadian Cancer society for cancer research and supportive services for cancer patients.

Why are you running?

Emma Doucette

Tara Stokes

Why are you running?

Why are you running?

“My family has a lot of cancer in its history, with three grandparents, three great grandparents, and aunts and uncles too.”

“I’m running because my sister just received news that she’s in remission of stage four ovarian cancer, so I’m supporting her as well as my aunt who was a survivor years ago”

Why do you think this event is important?

Why do you think this event is important?

“Raises awareness, raises money, to find the cure.”

“It’s really important to raise awareness for cancer and to celebrate all the survivors because of what they had to go through”

Allen’s speech for Cathy, his wife.

“Cathy had a plaque at home, and she lived by it each and everyday, and I quote ‘Success is making a difference to the lives of others. Happiness is watching them grow because of it.

Make a difference.’”

Photos by Gillian Hill

The Drew Crew Why are you running?

“We get together as a group from the Drew, and it started off as in memory of one of our co-workers that had past away and it just continued on since”

Why do you think this event is important?

“To raise money for cancer research “

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SERIAL FICTION

Small Town, Big Mystery Chapter 3: A Hero is Born

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MARIA DIME Columnist Dawn broke, casting beams of light through the thick fog that hung about Lincolnshire. The townsfolk tossed and turned in their beds, their dreams infiltrated by images from the previous day’s horror. They saw strange things: lederhosen-clad men covered in blood, walking schnitzels begging for adoption, planes

smashing through their roofs.

Ralph hadn’t even tried to sleep.

He’d spent the night wandering, appreciative of the secrecy of the fog as he tried to walk off the past day’s trauma. To his surprise, he found himself at the foot of Falcon Crest Cliff, a small mountain that looked out over Lincolnshire. The sky was getting lighter by the second, and it was only ten minutes to the top, so he hiked up. Sitting on a bench, he

watched as the fog began to lift and the eastern light came across the wetlands to strike the rooftops of his home town. Some place, this town of lovers and ne’er-dowells.

He saw the Old Methodist Church on First Street, white steeple keeping careful watch over the town. First Street ran east-west,

and housed the town’s two-block business district, with the church at its centre. It sputtered out to houses, then eventually to farmland in either direction.

He remembered his father’s stories of a time when class had brought the two sides of town – east of the church and west of the church – into bitter conflict.

“BY THOR’S HAMMER, I WILL BRING YOU JUSTICE.”

As his eyes scanned the town, the sight of Old Piney lifted Ralph from his meditation, and images flashed through his mind. The military plane, the body, the crowd, hundreds of people screaming at him for an answer. John’s beard, how should I know? Ask the damn narcs!

Ralph knew the town’s investigation would fail, though.

Dr. Hiskez, Lincolnshire’s sole doctor and police officer, was an incompetent enforcer of the law, and had too much on his plate to conduct a serious investigation. And even if the investigation were to happen, the military would smother it before it took its first breath. No, he knew there would be no justice for Herr Hansel.

Ralph hadn’t known him personally, but everyone around town knew who he was – it was impossible not to. His campaigns for cooperatively owned renewable energy sources, his legendary Oktoberfest parties, his annual public solo performance of Handel’s Messiah – Herr Hansel had been a Lincolnshire institution.

He stared at Old Piney as he pondered, and, although he’d later swear it was his imagination, for a second he thought he saw an ethereal figure, floating in agitated circles around the treetop. “Justice,” Ralph whispered to himself. “Justice must be wrought.” Then it dawned on him: he, Ralph, would be shepherd to the flock. It all made sense. He was the one in the tree, he was the first to see the dead man’s face, and he would be the steward of justice.

He stood, and stepped up onto the bench. The fog had lifted, the town below him lay fully revealed, and a beam of light broke through the trees to land on his chest.

“Mark my words, Herr Hensel.

By Thor’s hammer, I will bring you justice.”

DRAMA

Hamlet’s secondary characters take centre stage

An inside look at Motyer-Fancy’s first show of the season JENA MCLEAN Arts & Culture Reporter What do you get when you cross coin-tossing, a travelling troupe of gender-bending actors and Hamlet?

You get Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, running next week at the Motyer-Fancy Theatre.

In anticipation of opening night, I sat down with Decima Mitchell, the show’s director and Motyer-Fancy’s resident designer, to learn more about the production.

“I have loved this show since I first read it a number of years ago,” Mitchell said. When the opportunity arose to direct, the choice was easy.

She said, “I had this play in the back of my mind, and I thought, ‘Wow, I really want to see this thing in production.’ ”

Stoppard’s script follows Hamlet’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern – also called R and G by Mitchell and her cast – as they attempt to make sense of their situation. While Hamlet plots revenge against the king, the men interact with the court of Denmark to figure out the motives of those around them, the schemes they’ve been roped into and their identities.

“They seem not to know why they’re there other than the superficial summons to come because the king wants their help,” said Mitchell. “As soon as they pull away from those situations, it’s ‘Whoa. Who are we?

What are we doing? Do you know?

I don’t know. I can’t remember. Can you remember?’ ” This confusion, present in R and G’s first appearance in Hamlet, is amplified in Stoppard’s script and Mitchell’s casting decisions. “The

king is always confusing them, Hamlet confuses them. They are confused, they answer to each other’s names. That confusion about identity is expanded triple-fold when you put three pairs of actors in that role,” said Mitchell.

I was able to experience this confusion for myself during the cast’s first full run-through of the show. Kylie Fox and Thunder Nevin began, wearing hats to distinguish Rosencrantz from Guildenstern as they flipped coins and pondered philosophy. They passed their hats mid-scene to Jake Marchand and Molly Stott, a pair that amplified the confusion and asked large questions.

The third pair, Gabriel Christie and Carol Schumaker, were frantic and aggressive, especially in comparison to their predecessors.

These pairs might be comprised of

individual actors, but they function as units. Another Rosencrantz or Guildenstern has occasionally stepped in to read alongside a different partner in the case of absences. This has truly highlighted each pair’s chemistry for Mitchell.

“It probably started with casting, but they’re building relationships with that particular R and that particular G and when somebody else steps in it changes and it doesn’t seem as organic for some reason,” she said.

Another element Mitchell is particularly excited for is the group of tragedians. While they are typically more reserved in Hamlet, they appear in Mitchell’s production as “a really strongly choreographed group.”

These actors non-verbally confront Rosencrantz and Guildenstern with the concept of death, while also providing metatheatrical

commentary.

“One of our tragedians, Jane Rempel, is a very talented movement person. She’s had years and years of dance training and so she agreed to do the choreography for the tragedians,” Mitchell said. At the rehearsal I attended, Rempel led them as they collectively honed “dancey deaths.”

The show is certainly comedic, but Mitchell describes it as “a deep and profound tragedy – the tragedy of living.” While the show has Elizabethan roots, “it’s also very true to our lives. We mix our stories up and we don’t always know what we’re doing or why we’re doing it, so it’s a kind of distillation of the confusion of living, basically.”

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead runs Oct. 25-28 at the MotyerFancy Theatre.

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Eckhardt-Gramatté returns to Mt. A On Saturday, Oct. 28 at 7:30 p.m., Brunton Auditorium will play host to soprano Alexandra Smither, one of Canada’s most promising young vocalists. Smither was the top-ranked performer at the 40th annual EckhardtGramatté National Music Competition (E-Gré). In her Sackville recital – part of a five-concert tour in Canada and the USA – she will be joined by pianist Trevor Chartrand.

Named for Canadian composer Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté, the E-Gré is one of the most prestigious contemporary music competition for emerging Canadian performing artists in piano, voice and strings. The past competition prizewinners form a who’s who of noteworthy Canadian musicians, including pianists Jon Kimura Parker and Angela Cheng, vocalists Ben Heppner and Hugh Russell, and violinists Jasper Wood and James Ehnes.

In the summers of 2015 and 2016, Trevor Chartrand acted as a music director for the Franco-American Vocal Academy in Périgueux, France.

Chartrand is also a passionate recitalist in both vocal and chamber music, with performances in Canada, the United States, Europe and Australia.

Chartrand recently obtained a doctorate of musical arts in collaborative piano from the University of Michigan.

Regarding her E-Gré competition experience, Smither says, “It is our duty as performers to facilitate and encourage the creation of new music, as well as to program it in interesting and engaging ways. Audiences are incredibly open to experiencing new repertoire, so we must have the drive, curiosity and commitment to create inspiring and irresistible new experiences for them.” A highlight of her Sackville recital is the 2017 E-Gré-commissioned work Malfunctionlieder, a multimedia vocal piece by Canadian composer Nicole Lizeé. The performers will also present songs by Berio and Messiaen, as well as vocal sets by contemporary composers Ana Sokolović, Charlotte Bray and Vivian Fung.

Tickets are available at the door ($10 adult/$5 senior) or through subscription to the concert series offered by the department of music.

Admission is free for students. For further information call (506) 364-2374 or email music@mta.ca.

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From sacred to folk: the Elora singers do it all

Ontario’s critically acclaimed chamber choir presents a dynamic program to Sackville audience

THE ELORA SINGERS IN CONCERT. THE ELORA SINGERS/SUBMITTED

ISAIAH YANKECH Contributor

ALEXANDRA SMITHER AND TREVOR CHARTRAND MARGARET CRAIG/SUBMITTED

The Elora Singers, led by conductor Noel Edison and accompanied by pianist James Bourne, delighted a full audience in Brunton Auditorium during the second stop of their Canada 150 Maritime Tour. The chamber choir, including singers from the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir’s professional core, performed an engaging and diverse program, ranging from compositions by J. S. Bach to Canadian folk songs.

The first half of the performance consisted of sacred works while the second half featured folk songs from across Canada. The repertoire showcased the ensemble’s versatility to perform different choral genres in German, French, Latin and English.

In two selections by Bach, Lobet den Herrn, Alle Heiden and Cum Sancto Spiritu (Gloria from Mass in B minor), the ensemble did an excellent job of bringing out each individual vocal entry throughout the intense polyphonic movement: It was clear that the choir was having fun with the complexity of these two works.

“Edison’s conducting was masterful, precise and emotional; one can tell that his conducting presence provides an expressive influence over the choristers’ and pianist’s performance,” said first-year organ student Gibson MacMillan.

In the first half, numerous works were sung in English by Arvo Part, Eric Whitacre, Healey Willan and Timothy Corlis. In the works by

Willan and Corlis, also Canadian composers, it was evident that the choir’s strength in conveying the text made each work more dramatic and convincing.

Her Sacred Spirit Soars by Whitacre, written for double choir in canon form, presented a continuous thick, warm wall of sound and harmonies, enhancing changes in momentum: The choir produced an impressively full sound for only having 20 singers.

In Immortality by Corlis, the choir had a nice balance between the

“THEY WERE COMPLETELY BLENDED AND IN TUNE: WHEN THE COMPLICATED AND DISSONANT HARMONIES RESOLVED, THE EFFECT WAS A STUNNING SOUND.” low and high registers, even when individual voice parts were singing at the very extremes of their respective ranges.

“Corlis’ Immortality left me with goosebumps,” said first-year voice student Adele Marsland. “They were completely blended and in tune: When the complicated and dissonant harmonies resolved, the effect was a stunning sound.”

Selections from Ruth Watson Henderson’s Five Ontario Folk Songs opened the second half. The first selection, The Maggie Hunter, is based off of the traditional Kingsfold hymn tune, and the choir sang with distinctive differences in articulation and intensity from verse to verse. The choir lived up to Edison’s description of “fun and evocative” in their playful performance of the next selection, Poor Little Girls from Ontario.

Contrasting to the Ontario folk songs, both coasts of Canada were represented through arrangements by Larry Nickel: Old Lady Rose by David Baker talks about the eponymous B.C. ship, featuring a contented, flowing melody. Fogarty’s Cove by Stan Rogers, which is set along the shores of Nova Scotia, has a more upbeat melody led by the lower voices.

The concert concluded with popular compositions by Harry Somers and pleasant arrangements

by Lydia Adams and Jonathan Quick. The choir sang through the rhythmically challenging Si j’avais le bateau and Feller From Fortune

by Somers with confidence, while making the text light and humorous at the same time.

“The choir’s blend was phenomenal, and the group’s expressions were very coherent and clear,” said third-year voice student Emily Steers.

The Elora Singers will conclude their 11-day Canada 150 Maritime Tour with a final performance in Dartmouth, NS, on Oct. 21.

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WELLNESS CENTRE

Social media ≠ social life

Excessive time spent online can negatively effect student mental health

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CLUB TEAMS

Women’s field hockey continues to grow in membership and funds Though only five years old, the club team boasts many dedicated players

KATHLEEN MORRISON Columnist We live in a culture where it is normal to mindlessly scroll through social media feeds during times of idleness – like when we’re sitting on the toilet or waiting for toast to pop. Many of us already know that this habit does not support our overall health. In fact, there is research confirming that social media can trigger feelings of social isolation, be addictive and have a negative effect on mental health.

There is a distinguishable link between addiction to social media and mental health issues, according to a study conducted at McMaster University in 2016. This research also found that 48 per cent of university students could not control their use of social media, 29 per cent had difficulty controlling their use of instant messaging and 42 per cent were found to be dealing with mental health problems due to an overuse of the internet. These data suggest that students at Mt. A, who fall under the same age demographic, might have similar struggles with social media usage and its effects on health.

The same study by McMaster University found that the more time that students spent on social media sites, the more socially isolated they perceived themselves to be. This suggests that comparing yourself to others while scrolling through social media can deflate your mood and have a negative effect on your mental health.

Third-year student Kiersten Mangold agrees with parts of the

48 PER CENT OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS COULD NOT CONTROL THEIR USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA results of the McMaster study. She said that “social media is good in small doses” and noted that when she goes on her phone she mindlessly opens a social media feed like Instagram.

All of this being said, social media has value when it is used appropriately and in moderation – it keeps us connected over long distances, allows us to stay updated on events that happen in friends’ lives and helps us make new connections with individuals we may have never met otherwise. It is important to take breaks from staying connected; it may make you feel better.

THE FIELD HOCKEY TEAM TAKES TO THE FIELD IN FULL DAYLIGHT: A RARITY FOR THE HARD-WORKING EARLY RISERS. SECOND-YEAR ROBIN KIERSTEAD PLAYED SWEEPER THIS SUNDAY. AVA BERRY/SUBMITTED

KEIFER BELL Sports Reporter The lights over Alumni Field turn on before sunrise three days a week.

While most students on campus sleep, dreading waking up for an 8:30 a.m. lecture, over a dozen field hockey players’ alarms go off at 5:30 a.m. Waking up this early is crucial, to ensure that they are at the field for 6:15 a.m. practice. Being a club team, it is hard to book time on the turf because the varsity sports teams have priority. Therefore, the field hockey team bites the bullet and practices before dawn.

Field hockey has only been on campus for five years, but progress has been made every year. Since it is a club, they don’t get funding like the varsity sports teams. The team gets money from fundraisers, grants and donations. This year, they finally got enough money to purchase real field hockey nets.

“We’re super grateful. We’ve had a lot of support recently. The athletics department and Pierre Arsenault have been great to us,” said Ava Berry, who has been playing for the past three years. “Every year we’ve gotten more serious. Even though it’s a club, it’s still an actual sport.

Commitment has gone way up, even just since last year.”

Julia Bland, a third-year student and the current head coach, also commented on how committed the team is. “We practice at 6:15 a.m. three days a week and we still have

high attendance, which is great,” said Bland in an interview. “The girls work so hard in practice; we have a lot of first-year players. It’s really exciting to see them improve.”

Like many players on the team, Berry had never played field hockey before coming to Mt. A. Growing up playing soccer and hockey, she decided to go out and try the new sport. She has played for the past three

years since originally trying it in her first year. She encourages others to do the same, and try out the sport even if they don’t have any experience.

Bland and Berry commented on how a goal for the team next year is to host a real game with referees now that they have nets. The next step would be getting proper lines on the field.

The season ends with their last

tournament next weekend. However, they have an indoor tournament in March in Fredericton that is co-ed.

With the club continuing to grow on campus, the exec is hoping to have more players join in the near future.

If you are interested in trying field hockey, you can contact the club at fieldhockey@mta.ca. No experience necessary!

THE FIELD HOCKEY TEAM ATTENDED SACKVILLE’S THIRD ANNUAL PRIDE PARADE. MTA FIELD HOCKEY/SUBMITTED

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Today’s leaders should forge pathways from barriers

THE REV. JOHN C. PERKIN Columnist There seems to be a lot of sabrerattling in the world these days, which is troubling because it’s not actual sabres that are being rattled: it’s ballistic missiles and nuclear warheads. I was thinking about this as I was mowing my lawn, which includes the path that connects my back yard to my neighbour’s.

Between my house and my neighbour’s lies a tract of unused land covered in weeds, wild shrubs and trees, creating a clear separation

between our homes. In my first summer there, I was out mowing one morning and decided to make access to my neighbour’s yard a little easier. With my garden machete, I cut through weeds and shrubs to create a path as far as the trees. Later that day, I wondered in true Canadian fashion if that was acceptable, as the land is my neighbour’s, but soon after, I heard a gas-powered brush cutter at work.

When I went outside, I saw the rest of the passage had been cut through the trees, providing a convenient path from one backyard to the other.

Over the years, my neighbour

and I have used that path countless times to our mutual benefit. We are completely different people: he has no university background, and university is almost all I have known; he knows how to survive in the woods with ease, and the only thing I know about wilderness survival is that I should wait patiently for my neighbour to come and rescue me.

I have hauled my mower up to my neighbour’s shed numerous times for repairs, as he can fix any engine.

He has often come down to seek my advice and counsel when he hits a rough patch in life. We have delivered

chocolate cake to him, and he has delivered fiddleheads and apples to us. He works on my household items, and I work on his soul. He’s a Search and Rescue volunteer, and when search and rescue becomes search and recovery, he comes down the path so I can debrief him.

We talk, drink coffee, canoe and snowshoe together, and in many ways look after each other. The path has remained in place over the course of almost twenty-five years, and we use it when we need to, and sometimes when we don’t.

I was thinking of that path, mutually created and shared, and how it provides access for conversation and mutual assistance.

I know it seems a little idealistic, but maybe the world needs more paths like that, not just between people but between nations. Instead of tweeting at each other and rattling sabres, maybe leaders could be speaking with each other, and using their weapons to cut through brush and other things that divide – there is a biblical image about turning spears into pruning hooks, after all. I would like to see more pathways, both real and metaphorical, in the world, as I look out on it through stained glass.

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Homelessness within the LGBT2Q+ community must be addressed

There is a side to being a young LGBT2Q+ person that is rarely discussed, and that is the struggle of homelessness. Between 25 and 40 per cent of young homeless people in Canada are LGBT2Q+, and similar statistics exist in the United States.

So why the hell hasn’t anyone talked about this at a pride parade for the past 10 years that I have been attending them? Why is there so much focus on marriage rights, or the right of transgender people to wear uniforms in far-off lands, while so little attention has been given to the urgent and potentially life-saving need for housing?

The reason is simple. The LGBT2Q+ movement is, for the most part, integrated in the liberal order. Part of this order is the idea that our collective discrimination will be abolished by our capacity to be non-threatening to a certain set of mainstream values. The fact

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that “gay” has become something of a commercial brand (as proven by the amount of sponsors pride parades get in major cities) explains why mainstream LGBT2Q+ organizations will never focus on one of the most brutal manifestations of queer misery: homelessness. It is a serious misconception to imagine homophobic people as being white losers from rural areas, and not the multi-cultural board of a real estate firm that makes money off apartments and houses, whether they’re empty or not.

There are 1.3 million empty houses in Canada, enough to house every homeless person in the country.

Meanwhile, we are still hearing stories of frostbitten homeless people closing their eyes for one last time in downtown Vancouver, or someone being burned alive in a makeshift shelter in Toronto. Homeless deaths, which include many LGBT2Q+ deaths, are already in the dozens this year in Toronto alone, the only Canadian city to keep track of its homeless population’s deaths.

For anyone who wants to be serious about ending discrimination based on sexual orientation, the way to address this problem is clear: homeless people must be relocated to empty housing units for free. Tenants must organize to defend their rights and impose rent reductions on landlords. The LGBT2Q+ movement must accept its responsibility in the

political struggle of ensuring decent housing for everyone. And let me be clear – we must not resume our methods of patient lobbying and wait for the state to take action.

Stonewall wasn’t a garden party.

Empty apartments and houses can and should be occupied; rent strikes can and must be organized.

These actions have clear political consequences.

Pursuing them sufficiently means burning all bridges with corporate and “respectable”

members of the queer community.

It means that Pride must stop being a parade and become a confrontation of the state and of capitalism. It also means that the LGBT2Q+ movement must accept that the fight for housing is bigger than the queer milieu. Only through the recognition that human dignity is for all can our emancipation be meaningful. The only viable option for queer liberation is through radical transformation of the current society.

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PRIDE

Queering Pride: demanding queer futures

Sackville Pride must centre queer voices and reject its acceptability politics

CARA MACKENZIE Contributor Full confession: two years ago, at Sackville’s first Pride Parade, I gave a speech. It was nothing radical nor memorable. I write today to change my tune. My activism, my queerness and my politics have changed so profoundly from that moment that I no longer know the person who was so happy to be accepted at Mount Gay. I now understand that queerness is more than sexuality or gender identities. It is an all-encompassing, dynamic, political-personaltheoretical outlook centred on rejecting, challenging and changing mainstream understandings of bodies, relationships and politics (this is still much abridged). When I

found my queerness, I shed every part of me that felt like it was seeking to conform for straight approval. This is what Sackville Pride needs: to find its queerness.

This year’s Pride had many shortcomings: a problematic history lesson on Pride, continued police/ security presence and a questionable focus on celebrating allyship. These pose serious obstacles to Sackville’s Pride ever becoming queer and must be challenged.

During the speeches, a highly abbreviated, whitewashed and linear history of Pride was told. The narrative of linear progress (“look at how bad things were and how far we’ve come, we can marry!”) is harmful as it ignores the plurality of queer existence and resistance that has and continues to defy homonormative standards of “progress.” This story also neglected to pay tribute to the lives of trans and queer people of colour like Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera and Storme DeLarverie who we have to thank for giving us our riot-turned-parade.

Perhaps that negligence was purposeful to avoid drawing attention to the fact that our parade was (still!) lead by police. This is a direct offense to not only our aforementioned

Stonewall forbearers, but also to those in our community and around the world who experience dually oppressive racist and homophobic police violence. As queers we need to stand in solidarity with groups like Black Lives Matter against the police state.

I would like to preface the following critique with this: I have the utmost respect for the late Rev. Eldon Hay and his contribution to the community. However, as an actual queer person, I was thoroughly offended at a straight white man being the focus of so much of this year’s speeches. There is a time and place to pay respect to allies, but this was neither. Pride is about centring the queer community. It’s about acknowledging our pain, giving us visibility, hearing our stories. The A in LGBTQIA2S+ does not stand for ally. During the moment of silence, I remembered those lost to trans/ homophobic attacks this year.

As university students we are taught to be critical. As queer people we need to be leading the way to better futures, demanding more of everything. We cannot allow ourselves to stagnate in liberal acceptability politics. We are the dreamers who must move away from archaic institutions and

ideas into our full and fabulous queer potentials. Sackville’s Pride is not yet

completely corporate and as such has that potential, we need only unleash

SACKVILLE PRIDE MUST RECOGNIZE INJUSTICES BOTH PRESENT AND HISTORICAL. SARAH NOONAN/ARGOSY

ENVIRONMENT

Energy East was cancelled, and I promise that’s good news Pipeline projects present major environmental risks that are not worth the economic returns

LAUREN LATOUR Contributor Thousands of new jobs and national energy independence were promised to New Brunswickers and all Canadians when plans for the Energy East Pipeline first emerged in 2012. The pipeline proposed by TransCanada Corp was to carry 1.1 million barrels of bitumen (nearly solid, tar-like oil) daily from Alberta to terminals in St. John. The project would have been the largest capacity oil pipeline in North America.

Analysts speculate that the pipeline was cancelled for market-related reasons and the National Energy Board’s recent decision to factor upstream and downstream emissions into its project evaluation. Thanks to the years-long efforts of Indigenous peoples and front-line communities, Energy East would have been the first Canadian project of its kind to undergo this analysis. Previously, the only emissions calculated for a pipeline were those from transporting

bitumen from point A to B. As a result, calculations were incredibly inadequate, failing to illustrate the entire horrific Hieronymus Boschlike picture.

Should global temperatures increase beyond 1.5 to two degrees celsius above pre-industrial levels, it’s been accepted that the 7 billion people on this planet would face catastrophe (though maybe not by those five guys who hold half the world’s wealth). Considering we’ve already experienced an increase in temperatures by one degree, the last thing we need is a pipeline carrying 1.1 million more barrels of the world’s most energy-intensive oil to market every day. The catastrophic global warming that scientists have warned us about since the ‘90s is already here, with the last few months bringing devastation from hurricanes Harvey and Irma, forest fires in BC and California, and deadly heatwaves across the globe.

If this doesn’t scare you, and your concern rests with the economy, note that cited market-based reasons for the cancellation are entirely accurate.

There isn’t the market for tar sands oil in 2017 that there was in 2012. The price of oil has dropped to critically low levels; compare today’s price of $50 per barrel with 2012 prices of $110, and it’s easy to understand why TransCanada is no longer super keen to invest $16 billion dollars in the project. With auto manufacturers like Volvo, Land Rover and GM

announcing emissions-free fleets by mid-century, and nations like France, Germany and China banning fuelcombustion engines in the coming decades, there isn’t market demand for new infrastructure when typical lifespan for a pipeline stretches into decades.

Although concerns about job losses and energy independence seem legitimate, they fail to reflect the truth, as the majority of jobs created

by Energy East were temporary, and 85-90 per cent of the bitumen

reaching St. John was destined for foreign markets. Though the oil carried by the pipeline wouldn’t have contributed to the nation’s energy independence, increased support for renewables would. As of 2014, there are already more Canadian jobs in renewables than in the tar sands. In addition to sheer numbers of employment opportunities, professions in wind and solar energy are far less likely to result in labourer illness than those in the fossil fuel industry. With renewables forming

the bedrock of the future economy, green sector careers can employ labourers for decades to come.

TransCanada pulling the plug on this project was good news, whether we’re considering social, economic or environmental factors. This pipeline was too costly, and its cancellation frees us to move into a future where renewable energy, safe jobs and the wellbeing of peoples on the front lines of climate change are prioritized.

EMPLOYMENT IN CANADA’S RENEWABLE ENERGY SECTOR INCREASED BY 37 PER CENT FROM 2009-2014.

SYLVAN HAMBURGER/ARGOSY

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LAST WEEK’S ANSWERS

BREAKING NEWS

The truth behind the chicken burgers What the grill station doesn’t want you to know “I DIDN’T ASK FOR THIS” & “BRING OUT YOUR DEAD” Columnists WILL TRAVES Columnist Wuz poppin gang, it’s ya boy Trill, back at it again with tha fresh tips.

Sorry about no Trill’s Tips last week – I spent most of last week drunk, hungover and bursting at the seams with turkey, so all I was able to write was illegible scrawlings. Anyway, I’m back and this week I’m answering a question one of my good friends asked me: “How can I get a good night’s sleep?”

I realize most of you are self-diagnosed insomniacs, so I figure these tips will be helpful for lots of people.

Without further ado, let’s hop into it.

Tip 1: Try closing your eyes. This one probably slipped right by most of you. Ever notice how when you wake up, your eyes have to open?

That’s because your brain closes your eyes when you sleep! This stops you from rubbing your eyes up against your pillow, which could cause damage to your precious peepers.

A pro-tip for falling asleep is clos-

ing your eyes for your brain. It’s one less thing for that wrinkly boy to think about, which means it can focus on getting a good night’s sleep!

Tip 2: Get a friend to help. What else are friends for? There are so many ways they could help out, from hitting you in the head with a lead pipe to chloroforming you, or even suffocating you with a pillow just long enough for you to pass out from lack of oxygen. All of these are great options and true friends will be happy to help you out.

Tip 3: Drink six quarts of sleepy juice (dark rum). You may not have known this, but your friend Trill is a sailor by blood. True mariners have known this trick for ages and I’ve graciously decided to share it with you, so put it to good use.

Just put a couple (six) bottles of sleepy juice back and you are 100 per cent ready for a good sleep!

OK guys, hope you all sleep well tonight. I’m going to sign off here – sweet dreams, xoxo, Trill.

Welcome, dear readers. We have ascended from our hole in the ground as our not-so-friendly extraterrestrial visitors have blasted off in their purealcohol fuelled rockets. This week, we thought we would expose a story on a crucial topic that we have been hinting at for the past few articles.

If you’ve been attending classes lately, you may have noticed there is always that ONE person in every class who will NOT STOP COUGHING. You tell yourself to feel sorry for them as you recall how the Plague hit you last year, but eventually your temporary sympathy wears off and you just want them to just SHUT UP ALREADY! We get it, people, you’re sick. Get some chicken noodle soup or something. However, you know where you shouldn’t get your soup from? The five-star eatery we call Jennings. (Nice segue, right?

Fun fact: the guy who invented the Segway died in a freak Segway accident. Coincidence? I think not.)

Judging by the lines, approximate-

ly one million students go to break bread (to go with their frickin’ pasta) every day. Jennings holds a special place in the hearts of students living in residence, as it’s the only place where they don’t have to pay to eat.

Technically, they’ve already paid (a lot) for their food, but we don’t like to remind them of that ☹. Jennings is a staple on this campus, but things are not as they seem. Every year, like clockwork, the Sackville Plague returns (like the Jedi, but a lot less welcome) to wreak havoc upon the student population. It begins with a sniffle, which becomes a wheeze, which becomes a cough, which becomes an uncontrollable spiral of death (RIP to that one kid in my math class). You know what else is like clockwork? People eating at Jennings. Coincidence? Or conspiracy?

What better way to ensure that people get sick than through their food? That’s the thing about humans; they need to eat (Up to four times per day, if we’re talking about me on a day Jennings has garlic fingers for late night). And when students are so infected that they become too weak to make it to meal hall, they

provide “sick meals.” Why? To keep them sick? Or maybe to test how the University’s virus is interacting with its hosts? Trust us, we’re in microbiology with Prof. Clark.

Even those who choose to avoid the wrath of Jennings are in for a nasty surprise. Remember those inaccessible tunnels running deep beneath the heart of the Mt. A jungle? What better system for releasing airborne toxins? And with so many planes flying over Sackville, WHAT ABOUT THE CHEMTRAILS?! While you are in Sackville, you cannot run and you cannot hide from this localized plague.

After reading this information, you may be left wondering why this is occurring on the campus of Maclean’s top-rated undergraduate university (Better luck next year UNBC).

A few columns ago, we exposed the Illuminati on campus; a secret society like that would have many uses for a docile, complacent population, just like the one annually created by the Plague. Or perhaps there is something else out there, something unknown to our readers as of right now, waiting for a prime opportunity to strike. Stay tuned, sheeple.

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